Thanks for the info on the robots.txt file. Knowing that, it's clear that these companies just want a part of the money google is earning by providing the search capabilities.
It is a Cable network, so they may not have actually had to upgrade the hardware to the home at all. I live in Germany and my speed is 32MBit (speed tests put it at a pretty consistent 30MBit) via Cable. It was recently upgraded without any hardware changes on my end, so maybe that's what happened in Japan. If you're talking DSL to fibre, that's a different story, of course.
That should tell you how far away from Conservative the elected Republican representatives and Republican leadership are from the people they are "representing".
Actually, the set of republicans are doing exactly what the people they are "representing" (oil, big business, special interests, etc) want. They are just not doing what the people want.
If you're worrying about what the heap is doing, then Java (or C# or any managaged language) is not the right tool for the job. Sure, it's nice to know what it's doing, but it's completely irrelevant to the task.
About 6 months ago there was a large study done on what programming languages and skills were found most in the want ads in the US (I can't remember who did it or where I saw it). Java was first by a large margin but C# was growing faster on a percentage basis.
I can say that at our site, our linux system, which runs our most criticle applications, is far more reliable than our small windows network. And, it was alot cheaper. But that's the real world.
... $30,000 represents 6% of the total cost. Over the course of ten years, the cost of acquiring and maintaining certification, assuming your expenses don't go up at all, represents an average of 1.5% of your total expenses.
Interesting that you neglect to include the 5k yearly fee in your calculations, which changes the number from $30,000 to $80,000.
That's a signficant barrier to entry.
Also interesting that you assume that personal costs are $100,000/year.
When someone bends numbers to such an extent, on one hand to make one number look as small as possible and, to further their argument, to inflate another number as much as possible, you have to question the validity of their argument in the first place.
Seriously, if you don't have $30K to pony up for the certification, what are the odds that you've spent the necessary money to ensure full compliance with all aspects of relevant legislation?
30k is alot of money. In our shop we have regulatory requirements with respect to watch lists, credit cards and so on. Fulfilling those duties cost significantly less than 30k.
25k + 5k/year is a barrier to entry to keep the big boys protected from competition, nothing else.
I don't know what's wrong with this guy. I've installed Linux in our shop on over 60 PCs without any problems. No special commands or knowledge needed - I just took the defaults.
Now we have another guy who sets up new machines (I work remotely). He is a Windows user but not a fanatic. I showed him one install and he's been doing it since without any problems.
I find it amazing that Windows-fanatics always seem to have problems with Linux when trying to "prove" Linux is bad. Everyone else has no problems.
Re: Are cops never allowed to be in a devious mood?
Good point, but the case here is about whether the jury believed the cop's story, because there was no other proof. His statements seemed to support the defense's position and provide reasonable doubt about the veracity of his story.
I thought one of the pillars of our judicial system was reasonable doubt. If there is no proof other than the word of one person, is that enough?
These cruisers all have (or should have) video cameras which would go a long way to proving the claims made and keeping honest officers honest.
If you can't prove the guy had a gun, the word of an officer should not be enough to convict. Video, witnesses, etc should really be required. That would probably cause some criminals to get off free who were really guilty, but it's better to have a few guilty people get off than to wrongly convict innocent people, IMHO.
re: Programmer for Microsoft: "Damn I got coder's block. Time to find something useful inside the linux kernel."
A little off topic, but, since you mentioned it, I ran into a website yesterday running.NET code, which produced a traceback message. It looked exactly like a java traceback message except the names had been changed slightly. Sounds like someone at MS borrowed alot from Sun.
When you look closely at the shuttle, hubble and the mars missions, the US still has done some very awesome stuff since 1969. Nothing has the low orbit payload capacity of the shuttle, nothing compares even closely to hubble and the US is the only country to have soup-to-nuts mars missions (launcher, etc).
How is Linus any more of an inventor? He coded an operating system. Just because it's more work doesn't make it more of an invention. The "inventor" title should be reserved for people who come up with novel solutions of a new category.
but still involved with Falcon with both a consulting gig and a separate code collaboration agreement
We are currently using MySQL/InnoDB and are converting the code to move to PostgresSQL because our tests show it faster in our highly transactional environment. We'd love to stay with MySQL but Falcon is too far out and too uncertain about it's capabilities.
What are the expectations for Falcon in a non-Web transactional environment?
Well no, the ultimate dream of every nerd is to have a threesome with Jessica Alba and Natalie Portman (petrified!) with hot grits down their pants, but I'm sure the retiring early thing is a close second.
When you retire with a billion dollars you can most certainly fulfill the threesome dream.
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Thanks for the info on the robots.txt file. Knowing that, it's clear that these companies just want a part of the money google is earning by providing the search capabilities.
I was thinking the same thing. Isn't this free advertising for newspapers?
It is a Cable network, so they may not have actually had to upgrade the hardware to the home at all. I live in Germany and my speed is 32MBit (speed tests put it at a pretty consistent 30MBit) via Cable. It was recently upgraded without any hardware changes on my end, so maybe that's what happened in Japan. If you're talking DSL to fibre, that's a different story, of course.
My thoughts exactly. With that kind of education level, it's no wonder he things such powers would never be abused.
Yeah man! Verizon is such a powerful company they would never get taken downfds983217#@~ End of carrier..
I didn't get it at first, but that is classic!
That should tell you how far away from Conservative the elected Republican representatives and Republican leadership are from the people they are "representing".
Actually, the set of republicans are doing exactly what the people they are "representing" (oil, big business, special interests, etc) want. They are just not doing what the people want.
If you're worrying about what the heap is doing, then Java (or C# or any managaged language) is not the right tool for the job. Sure, it's nice to know what it's doing, but it's completely irrelevant to the task.
About 6 months ago there was a large study done on what programming languages and skills were found most in the want ads in the US (I can't remember who did it or where I saw it). Java was first by a large margin but C# was growing faster on a percentage basis.
Netcraft has a compilation of the most reliable hosting providers and Windows 2003 is found only once in the top ten - the rest are Linux and FreeBSD.
That may explain why microsoft uses Akamai Linux servers to deploy updates.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/reports/performance/Hosters?tn=february_2009
I can say that at our site, our linux system, which runs our most criticle applications, is far more reliable than our small windows network. And, it was alot cheaper. But that's the real world.
... $30,000 represents 6% of the total cost. Over the course of ten years, the cost of acquiring and maintaining certification, assuming your expenses don't go up at all, represents an average of 1.5% of your total expenses.
Interesting that you neglect to include the 5k yearly fee in your calculations, which changes the number from $30,000 to $80,000.
That's a signficant barrier to entry.
Also interesting that you assume that personal costs are $100,000/year.
When someone bends numbers to such an extent, on one hand to make one number look as small as possible and, to further their argument, to inflate another number as much as possible, you have to question the validity of their argument in the first place.
Seriously, if you don't have $30K to pony up for the certification, what are the odds that you've spent the necessary money to ensure full compliance with all aspects of relevant legislation?
30k is alot of money. In our shop we have regulatory requirements with respect to watch lists, credit cards and so on. Fulfilling those duties cost significantly less than 30k.
25k + 5k/year is a barrier to entry to keep the big boys protected from competition, nothing else.
I don't know what's wrong with this guy. I've installed Linux in our shop on over 60 PCs without any problems. No special commands or knowledge needed - I just took the defaults.
Now we have another guy who sets up new machines (I work remotely). He is a Windows user but not a fanatic. I showed him one install and he's been doing it since without any problems.
I find it amazing that Windows-fanatics always seem to have problems with Linux when trying to "prove" Linux is bad. Everyone else has no problems.
Re: Cops are in it for the power.
I know some and I would say that most are good people but the few that aren't have been given way too much unchecked power.
Re: Are cops never allowed to be in a devious mood?
Good point, but the case here is about whether the jury believed the cop's story, because there was no other proof. His statements seemed to support the defense's position and provide reasonable doubt about the veracity of his story.
I thought one of the pillars of our judicial system was reasonable doubt. If there is no proof other than the word of one person, is that enough?
These cruisers all have (or should have) video cameras which would go a long way to proving the claims made and keeping honest officers honest.
If you can't prove the guy had a gun, the word of an officer should not be enough to convict. Video, witnesses, etc should really be required. That would probably cause some criminals to get off free who were really guilty, but it's better to have a few guilty people get off than to wrongly convict innocent people, IMHO.
re: Programmer for Microsoft: "Damn I got coder's block. Time to find something useful inside the linux kernel."
A little off topic, but, since you mentioned it, I ran into a website yesterday running .NET code, which produced a traceback message. It looked exactly like a java traceback message except the names had been changed slightly. Sounds like someone at MS borrowed alot from Sun.
That's one small step for man, though.
When you look closely at the shuttle, hubble and the mars missions, the US still has done some very awesome stuff since 1969. Nothing has the low orbit payload capacity of the shuttle, nothing compares even closely to hubble and the US is the only country to have soup-to-nuts mars missions (launcher, etc).
How is Linus any more of an inventor? He coded an operating system. Just because it's more work doesn't make it more of an invention. The "inventor" title should be reserved for people who come up with novel solutions of a new category.
Actually, Linux coded an Operating System kernel.
but still involved with Falcon with both a consulting gig and a separate code collaboration agreement
We are currently using MySQL/InnoDB and are converting the code to move to PostgresSQL because our tests show it faster in our highly transactional environment. We'd love to stay with MySQL but Falcon is too far out and too uncertain about it's capabilities.
What are the expectations for Falcon in a non-Web transactional environment?
Isn't Falcon was supposed to become the default engine?
Well no, the ultimate dream of every nerd is to have a threesome with Jessica Alba and Natalie Portman (petrified!) with hot grits down their pants, but I'm sure the retiring early thing is a close second.
When you retire with a billion dollars you can most certainly fulfill the threesome dream.
Even Anti-Virus software only works on known viruses or virus patterns.
I remember vaguely seeing something about providers which quarantee the privacy of your data in writing.