I would think that filtering cool/cold air and processing it for removing the humidity would still cost much less than actually colling to lower temperature hot air. If the air is too cold like Canadian winters, you will actually recycle the air within the data center and just heat up a bit the small incoming air from the outside to get ride of the humidity.
But I am not an expert in the field. Numbers would need to be crunched to see how effective that is.
Québec has among the cheapest electricity in the world and could remain competitive for the long term because its power is almost exclusively generated from hydro. Check the chart for relative prices:
Usually, the cheap tuition only applies to citizen of the country, not foreigners. In Québec, Canada, tuition is something around $3000 per year I believe. For a foreigner, it is at least 5x-10x more. My country/province does not subsides the education of foreigners, nor do I believe any other country would do.
What would happen to free (libre) software when its copyright expires? Does it go public domain? Can the GPL be discarded and the code be used in closed, proprietary software? I guess, but I would like to have your thoughts about this.
Obviously, you have never had to setup a wireless card on a laptop with Linux... Believe me, for most cards, Ubuntu does not help and you have to dig down in the CLI to try to get things working.
They know their business, but they are betting on the future, not the present. They are betting on potential future customers that do not have existing strong software requirements, like the businesses you described earlier.
Beside, don't you find it ironic that IBM only supports Lotus Notes on Ubuntu, but all its Rational tools (including ClearCase) on SLE[DS]/RHEL? Where is the rational there? Thier tools are mutually exclusive because now.
BTW, Dell can still sell their systems to these corporations, but I can tell you that the drive would be reinstalled with SLED or RHEL. After all, if Ubuntu supports Dell's computer well, chances are the other distros too.
I do hope that Rational tools will be supported soon on Ubuntu... I prefer that distro.
I am suggesting that for some big international corporations working in technology where most desktops are at the hand of engineers, chances are that tools supported only on SuSE and Red Hat are limiting the choice of distributions (I can tell from experience).
And these corporations are early adopters of Linux on the desktop. The other early adopters are governments and some odd corporations which probably do not have these requirements.
I agree that the day Linux will have >10% of the desktop market, what you state will be right. But to get big technical corporations (which are early adopters) to move to Ubuntu, the tools vendors need to support Ubuntu.
And yes, ClearCase is installed on all desktops of engineers, including Windows, Solaris and Linux. And engineers make the vast majority of the employees.
Sorry, but you are partially incorrect. Some big large enterprises use Linux on the desktops (not all desktops, just a very very small percentage, windows being on 99% of the desktops) and they choose SLED. The reason: ClearCase is supported on SuSE (and Red Hat) but not on Ubuntu. Ubuntu is therefore eliminated at the bat regardless all the advantages it might have.
Many corporations only go with SuSE and/or Red Hat simply because some proprietary software are only supported on these distributions.
Yep, here is a description of Opto-isolators: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opto-isolator Thank you for the information, I learned something today.:) The advantage of these is that if there is an electric problem on one of the networks, the other will remain untouched.
There is an easy solution for solving this. Have a read-only device that sends signals from the avionics/pilots network to the passenger's network. That device can only transmit one way. Think of it like a laser on the avionics/pilots network transmitting data to a light receptor on the passenger network. This way, no hacker could never get access into the avionics/pilots network, while the pilots and some avionic systems could transmit messages/signals to the passengers.
Of course, the device should be electronic and cheap, not built with a laser as I suggested; I used this example only to make the picture easier to understand.
Are both network connected to the Internet? If so, then your admin network could be compromised. And like Spazmania (174582) suggests, if the modem is hacked, there is a compromised. Granted, chances are that someone will actually try to hack your small hotel is low... There is more money to be made by attacking more lucrative targets.
In an ideal world, I would agree with you. But finding a CEO which knows and make use of Linux must be practically impossible. If it wasn't for James Whitehurs, Red Hat would have a hard time finding someone else from the outside. Of course, you can always pick someone from the inside, but you reduce substantially the pool of people who have CEO qualities.
Yes, but then again, all your competitors will suffer from the same effects, leveling the playing field. You will probably get more support contract from local companies. If this happens, you should plan some partnership with remote competitors.
I believe that your solutions are much more expensive than batteries... I wish we could make use of them more often, but price is a big damping factor.
I have seen plenty of batteries in my life, few water towers and I have never seen a modern flywheel.
Easy to solve. Your solar panels are not touching the roof but are hold in place on the corners only. Air flows between the roof and the panels, evacuating 80-90% of the heat by convection and/or wind.
I worked for Esp Media as a consultant, in 2000. Located in Montreal, we built the company with 7 software writers in about 6 months (there was more staff for administration and marketing though). Technically, it worked great. But the sales were lousy and Esp Media lost its funding with the dot com bubble burst. Still, one of my best work experience ever.
Correction, the open source Realtek driver (r818x) is broken. I cannot get my Realtek to work with it. Nor does it work with the latest version of the Windows driver and multiple versions of ndiswrapper. The r818x driver is on Ubuntu's blacklist (/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist) because of its sad state. Seams that the open source driver is not supported anymore. I strongly recommend people not to purchase Realtek based cards.
There are many more I could list if I wasn't too lazy to check for references on the web. "Le temps d'une paix", "Les filles de Caleb", etc...
Oh... You are talking about ENGLISH Canadian productions. You seams to put all Canadians on the same boat. To be fair, English Canada does produces "Little Mosque on the prairie", also original and IIRC, exported.
Granted, for some reason, it is very hard to convince English Canadians to watch Canadian made shows and even more, Canadian movies. However, in French Canada, in most recent years localy produced movies beat the American movies at the box office, like "Bon cop, bad cop" and "Nitro":
Please, when it comes to Canadian culture, be specific about which language you are talking about. Slashdot is read internationally and we should not generalize about Canadian cultures when there are three main ones (English, French and Aboriginal).
Sorry to correct you, but the temperature of the room will practically not change, unless the LCD faces a window.
If the LCD background is white, the light will eventually hit an object of your office and most of it will be absorbed. By absorbed, we mean converted to heat. The remaining light will be reflected to another object that will absorb again. And this continues until there is no more light.
Only light escaping your office through a window will prevent increase. Granted, because of reflection, there will be more light of the LCD that will eventually hit a window when using a white background than a black one, but for practical purposes, the quantity of energy lost will be very, very small. As a percentage of total energy lost to heat, the difference between using a white background versus a black background will be minuscule.
As a rule, no energy is created nor lost. And most forms of energy degrade as heat.
It takes time to catchup, but Ubuntu becomes more and more viable for the Desktop. Mark digs Linux and understand what needs to be done. But it takes time to develop is vision. Be patient.
Ugh... Why is it so hard to find DAB devices? I want DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) on my radios along with FM... They still build radios with cassette players, but no DAB. Nobody cares about cassette players anymore but people would love DAB if it was available.
I agree with your comment. My comment is a rebuttal to their 'To user the desktop metaphor is dead' view which sounds like englobing everybody. The desktop is not dead for an important part of the user base that need to work offline either full time or occasionally. Beside, I like to own my data, so I have a problem having my data saved on an external server and I bet I am not alone.
I am convinced that there is demand for their product. I am not convinced that it is THE solution for modern computing.
Often I use my laptop in the subway. Guess what? No internet access. So how would I perform my work with such a paradigm? What about when you go to your country house, in the woods? To user the desktop metaphor is not dead when offline.
I agree with you that MS products are better than OO.org products. OO.org would do better if they put less resources on PDF exporting and more on GUI design and features. I get the impression that they are only building a PDF generator. At each version release, I have the impression that the main feature coming out is always about better PDF support, over anything else.
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I would think that filtering cool/cold air and processing it for removing the humidity would still cost much less than actually colling to lower temperature hot air. If the air is too cold like Canadian winters, you will actually recycle the air within the data center and just heat up a bit the small incoming air from the outside to get ride of the humidity.
But I am not an expert in the field. Numbers would need to be crunched to see how effective that is.
Québec has among the cheapest electricity in the world and could remain competitive for the long term because its power is almost exclusively generated from hydro. Check the chart for relative prices:
http://www.hydroquebec.info/grandesentreprises/tarifs_avantageux.html
Here is sample calculation for a contract with more than 12 consumption periods with no running-in:
http://www.hydroquebec.com/business/moyen/tarifs_rod.html
Usually, the cheap tuition only applies to citizen of the country, not foreigners. In Québec, Canada, tuition is something around $3000 per year I believe. For a foreigner, it is at least 5x-10x more. My country/province does not subsides the education of foreigners, nor do I believe any other country would do.
What would happen to free (libre) software when its copyright expires? Does it go public domain? Can the GPL be discarded and the code be used in closed, proprietary software? I guess, but I would like to have your thoughts about this.
Obviously, you have never had to setup a wireless card on a laptop with Linux... Believe me, for most cards, Ubuntu does not help and you have to dig down in the CLI to try to get things working.
For the rest, you are right.
They know their business, but they are betting on the future, not the present. They are betting on potential future customers that do not have existing strong software requirements, like the businesses you described earlier.
Beside, don't you find it ironic that IBM only supports Lotus Notes on Ubuntu, but all its Rational tools (including ClearCase) on SLE[DS]/RHEL? Where is the rational there? Thier tools are mutually exclusive because now.
BTW, Dell can still sell their systems to these corporations, but I can tell you that the drive would be reinstalled with SLED or RHEL. After all, if Ubuntu supports Dell's computer well, chances are the other distros too.
I do hope that Rational tools will be supported soon on Ubuntu... I prefer that distro.
I am suggesting that for some big international corporations working in technology where most desktops are at the hand of engineers, chances are that tools supported only on SuSE and Red Hat are limiting the choice of distributions (I can tell from experience).
And these corporations are early adopters of Linux on the desktop. The other early adopters are governments and some odd corporations which probably do not have these requirements.
I agree that the day Linux will have >10% of the desktop market, what you state will be right. But to get big technical corporations (which are early adopters) to move to Ubuntu, the tools vendors need to support Ubuntu.
And yes, ClearCase is installed on all desktops of engineers, including Windows, Solaris and Linux. And engineers make the vast majority of the employees.
Sorry, but you are partially incorrect. Some big large enterprises use Linux on the desktops (not all desktops, just a very very small percentage, windows being on 99% of the desktops) and they choose SLED. The reason: ClearCase is supported on SuSE (and Red Hat) but not on Ubuntu. Ubuntu is therefore eliminated at the bat regardless all the advantages it might have.
Many corporations only go with SuSE and/or Red Hat simply because some proprietary software are only supported on these distributions.
Yep, here is a description of Opto-isolators: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opto-isolator :) The advantage of these is that if there is an electric problem on one of the networks, the other will remain untouched.
Thank you for the information, I learned something today.
There is an easy solution for solving this. Have a read-only device that sends signals from the avionics/pilots network to the passenger's network. That device can only transmit one way. Think of it like a laser on the avionics/pilots network transmitting data to a light receptor on the passenger network. This way, no hacker could never get access into the avionics/pilots network, while the pilots and some avionic systems could transmit messages/signals to the passengers.
Of course, the device should be electronic and cheap, not built with a laser as I suggested; I used this example only to make the picture easier to understand.
Are both network connected to the Internet? If so, then your admin network could be compromised. And like Spazmania (174582) suggests, if the modem is hacked, there is a compromised. Granted, chances are that someone will actually try to hack your small hotel is low... There is more money to be made by attacking more lucrative targets.
In an ideal world, I would agree with you. But finding a CEO which knows and make use of Linux must be practically impossible. If it wasn't for James Whitehurs, Red Hat would have a hard time finding someone else from the outside. Of course, you can always pick someone from the inside, but you reduce substantially the pool of people who have CEO qualities.
The MP3 patent will expire in the coming years. By then, mp3 will be essentially open, thus giving no significant advantage to ogg.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3#Licensing_and_patent_issues
Yes, but then again, all your competitors will suffer from the same effects, leveling the playing field. You will probably get more support contract from local companies. If this happens, you should plan some partnership with remote competitors.
I believe that your solutions are much more expensive than batteries... I wish we could make use of them more often, but price is a big damping factor.
I have seen plenty of batteries in my life, few water towers and I have never seen a modern flywheel.
Easy to solve. Your solar panels are not touching the roof but are hold in place on the corners only. Air flows between the roof and the panels, evacuating 80-90% of the heat by convection and/or wind.
FYI, Google is not to first company that tried to put an ad sponsored cell phone on the market:
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http://www.allbusiness.com/marketing-advertising/
I worked for Esp Media as a consultant, in 2000. Located in Montreal, we built the company with 7 software writers in about 6 months (there was more staff for administration and marketing though). Technically, it worked great. But the sales were lousy and Esp Media lost its funding with the dot com bubble burst. Still, one of my best work experience ever.
Correction, the open source Realtek driver (r818x) is broken. I cannot get my Realtek to work with it. Nor does it work with the latest version of the Windows driver and multiple versions of ndiswrapper. The r818x driver is on Ubuntu's blacklist (/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist) because of its sad state. Seams that the open source driver is not supported anymore. I strongly recommend people not to purchase Realtek based cards.
What do you mean that Canada is always copying from the US? What about "un gars, une fille", exported around the world? http://www.mcc.gouv.qc.ca/publications/culture_que bec_eng.pdf
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Or about Just for Laughs Gags, also exported around the world? http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-4797
There are many more I could list if I wasn't too lazy to check for references on the web. "Le temps d'une paix", "Les filles de Caleb", etc...
Oh... You are talking about ENGLISH Canadian productions. You seams to put all Canadians on the same boat. To be fair, English Canada does produces "Little Mosque on the prairie", also original and IIRC, exported.
Granted, for some reason, it is very hard to convince English Canadians to watch Canadian made shows and even more, Canadian movies. However, in French Canada, in most recent years localy produced movies beat the American movies at the box office, like "Bon cop, bad cop" and "Nitro":
http://lcn.canoe.com/lcn/artsetspectacles/cinema/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGA
Please, when it comes to Canadian culture, be specific about which language you are talking about. Slashdot is read internationally and we should not generalize about Canadian cultures when there are three main ones (English, French and Aboriginal).
Sorry to correct you, but the temperature of the room will practically not change, unless the LCD faces a window.
If the LCD background is white, the light will eventually hit an object of your office and most of it will be absorbed. By absorbed, we mean converted to heat. The remaining light will be reflected to another object that will absorb again. And this continues until there is no more light.
Only light escaping your office through a window will prevent increase. Granted, because of reflection, there will be more light of the LCD that will eventually hit a window when using a white background than a black one, but for practical purposes, the quantity of energy lost will be very, very small. As a percentage of total energy lost to heat, the difference between using a white background versus a black background will be minuscule.
As a rule, no energy is created nor lost. And most forms of energy degrade as heat.
Mac is fantastic because of one guy: Steve Jobs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs
Now since a few years, Linux as its own "magic" guy: Mark Shuttleworth http://www.markshuttleworth.com/
It takes time to catchup, but Ubuntu becomes more and more viable for the Desktop. Mark digs Linux and understand what needs to be done. But it takes time to develop is vision. Be patient.
Ugh... Why is it so hard to find DAB devices? I want DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) on my radios along with FM... They still build radios with cassette players, but no DAB. Nobody cares about cassette players anymore but people would love DAB if it was available.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_audio_broadc
http://www.cab-acr.ca/drri/index.shtm
I agree with your comment. My comment is a rebuttal to their 'To user the desktop metaphor is dead' view which sounds like englobing everybody. The desktop is not dead for an important part of the user base that need to work offline either full time or occasionally. Beside, I like to own my data, so I have a problem having my data saved on an external server and I bet I am not alone.
I am convinced that there is demand for their product. I am not convinced that it is THE solution for modern computing.
Often I use my laptop in the subway. Guess what? No internet access. So how would I perform my work with such a paradigm? What about when you go to your country house, in the woods? To user the desktop metaphor is not dead when offline.
I agree with you that MS products are better than OO.org products. OO.org would do better if they put less resources on PDF exporting and more on GUI design and features. I get the impression that they are only building a PDF generator. At each version release, I have the impression that the main feature coming out is always about better PDF support, over anything else.