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by gouranga 14y ago
Are we talking ARM or Intel. If its the latter, I expect the price to be higher as Intel windows 8 tablets are an order of magnitude more useful than an iPad. ARM? No chance. Either that or they don't want to compete with the iPad...
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by gouranga 14y ago
That'll be because the UK government aren't compliant yet as a whole. ICO are useless. They bend over and take it every time.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Surface to air missiles!
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by gouranga 14y ago
Back in '01 (the good old days), we had volume prices of $40 for Xilinx parts which were big enough to get a PowerPC CPU in it.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Also, the medium on which the software is delivered is not the problem either. It's just information after all. The problem is accurately emulating the software in software which is easier achieved by emulating the harware in hardware :)
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by gouranga 14y ago
Perhaps we should start using CardBus and PCI-E based FPGA cards and go for hardware simulation rather than software emulation? Performance is far easier to achieve there. The devices aren't exactly expensive either.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I was looking at this the other day. My other half does a lot of knitting. Some interesting stuff: Knitting markup language: http://www.knitml.com Knitting is an acceptable LISP: http://wetpixels.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/knitting-is-accep
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by gouranga 14y ago
OIL was pretty much on the ball though :)
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by gouranga 14y ago
They don't support VBA directly. I've always used Excel to publish result data to a spreadsheet rather than the entire thing. Data collection is done using InfoPath so you get the following workflow: [www:InfoPath Office 365] -> [dt:Ex
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by gouranga 14y ago
Interesting - genuinely didn't know about that. Thanks for the pointer! :)
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by gouranga 14y ago
Don't lock then. You can have transactions through the reservation pattern and operation ordering without locking.
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by gouranga 14y ago
It's not a church or religion. It's where you find technology's athiests (engineers) solving business domain problems rather than working out how best to represent them in a relational way and bend them to get what they want. I feel you are
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by gouranga 14y ago
It is when you consider WSUS which allows staged deployments of patches. Oh and group policy which allows browsers to be controlled heavily. I rather like Chrome but as with other browsers, in controlled corporate environments there is no c
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by gouranga 14y ago
Nope - databases cache chunks of ready to serve but not yet processed data, not precalculated business logic outputs and resolved rules. Every time you hit them, they cost cycles, IO (the real killer) and RAM. The database is very restricti
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by gouranga 14y ago
This is one of the reasons corporates still use IE. Its easy to control and QA for stuff like this. Heads roll when 1500 people can't work.
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by gouranga 14y ago
you really bought the marketing then. The code is always frigged for the benchmarks and you're not going to get anywhere if you try and replicate it yourself without half the vendor ops team being in site. Basically, its packaged bullshit.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Indeed. We have 400+ page documents in the system and they all work nicely :)
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by gouranga 14y ago
Via COM. Technically any language with a COM or DCOM bridge will work fine. lispworks has one and there is a route via the CLR here: http://weitz.de/rdnzl/
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by gouranga 14y ago
Harder yes, but not impossible.
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by gouranga 14y ago
WRT to Linux, all the Office web apps work on Linux quite happily. We tend to give senior people access to windows machines with Office 2010 Professional Plus on and relegate support staff to Linux machines with Office web apps (in Chrome).
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by gouranga 14y ago
That's not a major issue.: You can use Office 2010 web apps FREE from a SkyDrive account and openly collaborate with people or you can pay $20 a month per seat for Office 365 and you will get Sharepoint and ALL Office 2010 desktop apps. The
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by gouranga 14y ago
That's what Sharepoint is for :) Also Word/Excel 2010 have excellent change management tools which integrate nicely with mercurial and SVN built in (under review changes). You have to frig a couple of command line switches to get it to work
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by gouranga 14y ago
Two reasons: 1. TPC-C is a vendor sponsored cock measuring competition that noone other than marketing people take seriously. 2. Most people scale out rather than scale up so it's pretty much irrelevant as it considers monolithic computing
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by gouranga 14y ago
NOTE: this is NOT a troll. I know a great tool for the job. It works fine with source control and allows documents to be diffed and merged. The editor is 100% offline as is the product or it can be 100% online at will. No need to push chan
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by gouranga 14y ago
No the only reason people stop is that they read the highway code and therefore agreed a set of conventions to work with other people. The law (Road Traffic Act 1988+) is the enforcement of such a thing and is a separate problem. With rega
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by gouranga 14y ago
That would be amusing. Especially considering Microsoft's prominent take-down of botnets recently. Perhaps they just assumed control over them...
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by gouranga 14y ago
Fucking logical pedants. Less not stopped is logical and correct if you consider the individual. If you read the comment again, it does not exclude other drivers so the logic is correct. The comment was not inclusive. Perhaps I should clar
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by gouranga 14y ago
Hell yes! Marcus Povey for mayor! This is one of those things that just annoys the hell out of me.
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by gouranga 14y ago
It's bad enough with traffic lights [1]. If you take them away, then it's like an idiot free-for-all out there... [1] http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=854_1337054851
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by gouranga 14y ago
That really makes me want "arrrrr.pirate"

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