Why not? There is little change from one revision to the next. In fact, one large, often quoted cost of the textbooks is the shipping costs. Another is printing costs. Another is storage. (our college didn't like to buy back books that weren't used the very next term, since they didn't have anywhere to store them) How much do you think it costs to ship 500 calculus textbooks to a college? One would think with no expensive full color printing and binding, along with almost no distribution or warehouse costs, the price should be a small fraction of what it was.
Heck, without the bookstore marking up the cost to pay for their costs (office space, salaries, etc) and no distribution and storage costs, you really just have a author, some marketing and IT costs for distribution, and of course, editing and proof reading.
Well, I figured if they were asking about Duke Nukem, their technology savvy would be limited. Of course many OS's could run on it, although process scheduling would be interesting to see..
I was attempting to give a smart ass answer, to a smart ass question.
PS, yes, I can imagine a Beowulf cluster of these. In fact, I think that's kind of the point...
No. Only Windows Server DataCenter editions support this number of CPU's.. they don't include DirectX in DataCenter edition. In fact, only "signed hardware" will install. So getting you fancy video card, or Soundblaster 64 to work on it would be impossible.
In other words, whether hard or electronic copy, when you "buy" a book, you're really just licensing it, to put it in the words you used. There is no "bought."
Except that when you are done with a physical copy of a book, you can give it to a friend, or let someone borrow it. In fact, you can go to a central repository in most towns, and "borrow" all the physical books you can read. If they do not have a book that you would like, they will often try to order it for you! Heck these "libraries" have not just books, but many times movies, music, educational videos, etc. The publishers have always hated this.. Licensing digital copies is a nice way to make sure that everyone pays every time they read or use something.
Because this is a school district. Administrators are only aware that two kinds of computers exist, Word and Macs. Yes, I typed that right.
Now the IT department probably knows.. and probably screamed "Out of the two, please let us go Macs, or we'll go through the roof in overtime removing viruses" so they went with the that one.
If its a fair plan, why doesn't the school just use the savings from what would otherwise purchase Textbooks, or other instructional tools? Since really, the computer is just a new age textbook, or beaker.. Its a tool to help you learn.
My install of chrome (64bit) on Ubuntu 10.04 (64bit) had some weird flash glitches, till I manually installed Adobe Flash 10.0.45 (64 bit) for linux from the Adobe labs.
Your right! He should of put aside Health care reform, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the economy, and focused his efforts on reigning in homeland security. When you get down to it, its the single most important campaign promise he made!
Efi has been around much longer than Itanium. Look at old Sun Workstations. Kind of nice to install the drivers in the BIOS, and be done with it. I remember having to boot to EFI, to load an EFI update. It had 2 save locations, similar to Cisco. if the upgrade fails, then boot from the other one.
Not really. Their is no blood to freeze, and no spine to jam up the pipe. They would just leak back out the top. In fact, with the near freezing temperatures, their heart would be in its most ideal temperature zone. Putting them under that kind of pressure would just cause them to make up new features,and dump them on engineering anyways.
Sex offender registries have gotten way, way out of hand in the US. kids that sent other kids pictures of their parts are now on lists, and can never, ever be near children again. It will haunt them the rest of their lives, can't live near schools, show up on job searches, neighbors will see them on the sex offender registries, etc.
Some states, they retroactively put people on the lists that have already served their time. Sometimes, it was kids that had a birthday, and they were just a few days too old to be doing things with their bf/gf, sometimes it was people drunk, urinating in public.
Yet when you think of Sex Offender registries, you think of creepy guys in vans. Some people are trying to speak up against this unfair (and sometimes unconstitutional) treatment, but nobody listens, because in the public's mind, those people are all murderers that drive vans, and prey on kids.
If you have never been tagged by a speed camera, what do you care, in your mind, your a law abiding citizen, and those are the dangerous speeders..
If Limewire is smart, they will not try to argue this amount down. they should keep letting the lawyers demand 1.5 trillion. It will help shine light on how excessive and non-realistic the penalties are.
Exactly! If the home cable modem user goes over their monthly maximum, there is no reason at all to disconnect them. Just drop them to 256k/s or something until the start of the next cycle. They can still access the internet, but slowly. But there isn't as much profit opportunity in that for the provider.
You know.. the thing that bugs me is, if ATT gave a shit for their customers, if you have the $15/200MB plan, and you go over your limit, they would, for that month, charge you the $25 for up to 2GB total. Instead, it looks like they charge you $15 for another 200MB (or $30 for 400MB).
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Why not? There is little change from one revision to the next. In fact, one large, often quoted cost of the textbooks is the shipping costs. Another is printing costs. Another is storage. (our college didn't like to buy back books that weren't used the very next term, since they didn't have anywhere to store them) How much do you think it costs to ship 500 calculus textbooks to a college? One would think with no expensive full color printing and binding, along with almost no distribution or warehouse costs, the price should be a small fraction of what it was.
Heck, without the bookstore marking up the cost to pay for their costs (office space, salaries, etc) and no distribution and storage costs, you really just have a author, some marketing and IT costs for distribution, and of course, editing and proof reading.
Well, I figured if they were asking about Duke Nukem, their technology savvy would be limited. Of course many OS's could run on it, although process scheduling would be interesting to see..
I was attempting to give a smart ass answer, to a smart ass question.
PS, yes, I can imagine a Beowulf cluster of these. In fact, I think that's kind of the point...
No. Only Windows Server DataCenter editions support this number of CPU's.. they don't include DirectX in DataCenter edition. In fact, only "signed hardware" will install. So getting you fancy video card, or Soundblaster 64 to work on it would be impossible.
In other words, whether hard or electronic copy, when you "buy" a book, you're really just licensing it, to put it in the words you used. There is no "bought."
Except that when you are done with a physical copy of a book, you can give it to a friend, or let someone borrow it. In fact, you can go to a central repository in most towns, and "borrow" all the physical books you can read. If they do not have a book that you would like, they will often try to order it for you! Heck these "libraries" have not just books, but many times movies, music, educational videos, etc. The publishers have always hated this.. Licensing digital copies is a nice way to make sure that everyone pays every time they read or use something.
My Wife's 3 year Old Ideapad came with Veriface.. Doesn't seem to like it when its low light, or she has glasses on. It got uninstalled pretty quick.
Because this is a school district. Administrators are only aware that two kinds of computers exist, Word and Macs. Yes, I typed that right.
Now the IT department probably knows.. and probably screamed "Out of the two, please let us go Macs, or we'll go through the roof in overtime removing viruses" so they went with the that one.
If its a fair plan, why doesn't the school just use the savings from what would otherwise purchase Textbooks, or other instructional tools? Since really, the computer is just a new age textbook, or beaker.. Its a tool to help you learn.
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your Sig.
My head, spinning...
My install of chrome (64bit) on Ubuntu 10.04 (64bit) had some weird flash glitches, till I manually installed Adobe Flash 10.0.45 (64 bit) for linux from the Adobe labs.
Your right! He should of put aside Health care reform, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the economy, and focused his efforts on reigning in homeland security. When you get down to it, its the single most important campaign promise he made!
I've seen pictures of it, and it looks like crap. I have a nice 21" Viewsonic CRT monitor, running 1024x768
Couldn't agree more. I'm on our migration team for moving our 6000 employees to windows 7 (by Christmas!). It is much faster, and more stable.
Of course, when I go home, I use Ubuntu, cause on the same laptop, its just unbelievably faster and more stable than Windows 7.
That and I work on computers all day. When I get home, I don't want to work on my computer, I want to use my computer..
Efi has been around much longer than Itanium. Look at old Sun Workstations. Kind of nice to install the drivers in the BIOS, and be done with it. I remember having to boot to EFI, to load an EFI update. It had 2 save locations, similar to Cisco. if the upgrade fails, then boot from the other one.
Ghost has also used WindowsPE as an option for several years now, which will boot on EFI, just like Vista and windows 7.
Or, that local owner could get so fed up, that he switches to an Exxon, or Chevron station, or whatever.
And if several stations in your region start switching from BP, then thing really, really start to add up.
really, your argument is about as silly as "but my vote only counts as one, so why vote" or whatever..
Not really. Their is no blood to freeze, and no spine to jam up the pipe. They would just leak back out the top. In fact, with the near freezing temperatures, their heart would be in its most ideal temperature zone. Putting them under that kind of pressure would just cause them to make up new features,and dump them on engineering anyways.
Because its dangerous to identify with criminals.
Sex offender registries have gotten way, way out of hand in the US. kids that sent other kids pictures of their parts are now on lists, and can never, ever be near children again. It will haunt them the rest of their lives, can't live near schools, show up on job searches, neighbors will see them on the sex offender registries, etc.
Some states, they retroactively put people on the lists that have already served their time. Sometimes, it was kids that had a birthday, and they were just a few days too old to be doing things with their bf/gf, sometimes it was people drunk, urinating in public.
Yet when you think of Sex Offender registries, you think of creepy guys in vans. Some people are trying to speak up against this unfair (and sometimes unconstitutional) treatment, but nobody listens, because in the public's mind, those people are all murderers that drive vans, and prey on kids.
If you have never been tagged by a speed camera, what do you care, in your mind, your a law abiding citizen, and those are the dangerous speeders..
I think the police department having a commercial domain (.com) is more than telling of their priorities...
Why towns and governments keep using .Com domains is beyond me.. there is state.us (like il.us) and .gov domains for this purpose.
If Limewire is smart, they will not try to argue this amount down. they should keep letting the lawyers demand 1.5 trillion. It will help shine light on how excessive and non-realistic the penalties are.
They probably have lots of tapes, and backups. the data was not harmed, it was safe, it was just not available.
Exactly! If the home cable modem user goes over their monthly maximum, there is no reason at all to disconnect them. Just drop them to 256k/s or something until the start of the next cycle. They can still access the internet, but slowly. But there isn't as much profit opportunity in that for the provider.
To a point they do. If you go high enough, your cost per KWH starts dropping.
You know.. the thing that bugs me is, if ATT gave a shit for their customers, if you have the $15/200MB plan, and you go over your limit, they would, for that month, charge you the $25 for up to 2GB total. Instead, it looks like they charge you $15 for another 200MB (or $30 for 400MB).
Way to go the high road, just like the airlines..
Obama can have my root passwords only from my cold, dead, brain.
Terry, its good to hear your out of jail! Sorry about that whole mess with the city of SF...