Sure, I'll just run out to the 40 or so client sites within a 75 mile radius that all my employees are working onsite at, and double check their laptops. Then, I'll go visit the employees that are working at home. Of course, I'll drive the two hours to our remote office, to check all desktops and laptops there... I'll get right on that...
Weekly updates is more than good enough. MS Only pushes updates out Monthly anyways. If they do occasional do an out of order patch, I make it a higher priority. This bug was patched 2 MONTHS ago by MS. Weekly or bi-weekly patches mean all of your computers should be fine.
Yes the panels will drop in cost, but you are forgetting that Electric bills are going to go UP in price over the same time. 10 years from now, he can generate the same amount of power, and save more money than he does today.
Of course, those that wait will have a MUCH quicker payback, since their equipment goes down in cost, and rates go up. But then again, you probably don't own a computer, do you? Cause there is always one that is faster/cheaper coming in another few months. Sometimes you just gotta jump in.
I used to work at a small college. They didn't teach classes in Office applications, they taught classes in Office 2007. They taught intro to MS Word. The teachers, (who attended all sorts of MS training for free) didn't think there was a difference. They got PISSED when I suggested to students that couldn't afford office to try openoffice. MS gave our entire campus all the software we needed for less money than we gave the local bus service so students could ride the city bus at a heavy discount. This was at a 2 year college that had more technology per capita than most schools in the state. Hell, our main "Operating systems" class covered Windows 2003, 2000, and XP. The teacher got upset when the students came to me (I was network admin) and asked for Linux, so I handed them Ubuntu's live cd's... Why would we want to use something that's free, when we get to use something so valuable, for free. they thought MS was obviously a better value!
More importantly, if they split AMD into fabs and design, what happens if their FAB company doesn't have the lowest bid to mass produce their chips? What happens if Intel submits the lowest bid?
Don't forget Citrix (XEN). Apparently, only one VM software will survive this year. And its the VM software that is newest, and only comes with MS Windows Server, 2008. Apparently, everyone is upgrading their Server OS this year..
They have a history of easily folding to law enforcement, which makes me uneasy about hosting corporate stuff online.
Actually, I remember google being the ONLY web search company that stood up to the DOJ when they wanted all search data from a random sampling of users. The DOJ was arguing the constitutionality of some "think of the children" legislation about blocking on the internet...
I can't wait to see what happens when our economy takes such a nosedive, and unemployment becomes rampant that companies start moving jobs here since our labor is so much cheaper than china, india, taiwain, etc...
You haven't worked government, have you? The server isn't a core 2 duo. Its a P2 450, that they purchased with grant money in 1999, and haven't been able to replace. It runs NT4, with a website in either cold fusion, or ASP. but either way, it was written with a "Idiots guide to $LANGUAGE" book in hand, And of course, MS SQL Server 6 is running as the primary database, on the same machine.
Or, its a quad core, quad processor system, with 16GB of ram, running either cold fusion, or ASP, with MS SQL server 6 running on the same machine.
The "IN THE 40 YEARS SINCE TMI WAS DESIGNED) is a key part most people overlook. It was designed in the 60's! There are only 3 other things that were designed in the 60's that are still in use today (off the top of my head, i'm sure that there are many more). Bridges. (see colapsing interstate infrastructure) LSD. and Unix. hmm...
I've heard of Intel doing this for "critical power" systems that take forever to come back up after a power outage(and when your making hundreds of CPU's a minute, those costs in lost production get really high). The problem with the flywheel systems is you have a huge loss in the motor to turn the wheel, and the generator to power the equipment. Basically, you pump something like 1.5kW, and end up with 1kW on the other side. The power loss makes them incredibly expensive for all but the most important stuff.
And this is just for freight rails. We can start looking at passenger rails again when Amtrak starts making a profit. Sadly, they will never make a profit, but why don't people say the same thing about their airports? ie, I'll start paying for runways and terminals when the airlines lower the costs, and actually make a profit, or for that matter, I'll pay for new highways when they make a profit. Amtrak isn't allowed to purchase the Tracks it runs on, so it runs as a 'second class train' on the rails, and has to wait for every other load. The tracks follow what was laid out many, many years ago, not taking into consideration changes in population and growth.
There is also the double edged sword where people want amtrack to work like a metro rail system, and stop at every little town and cow farm, and then they seem to want it to run quickly. Nobody seems to care that their town of 10,000 doesn't have direct flights to the opposite side of the country. But man, I want to be able to take Amtrak from chicago (which would be a few hour drive, or bus ride for me) to Seattle in less then the current 48 hours.. that is insane. IF they had it less then 18, I would probably take it every time I went home. (since they have so much legroom, I can easily sleep through the night on them..
You are correct, however, sometimes you don't want to know about bad algorithms.. or more accurately, you don't want your enemies to know that you've cracked their codes.
Sometimes, things are just politically sensitive.. ie, We cracked the code, realized that country X placed a spy into country Y, we notified country Y, and the spy for country X had a tragic accident...
I've had a pain in the ass time doing dual monitors. Not to mention, one of my monitors can pivot (rotate) 90 degrees.. (its nice to see 2 whole pages of text when your typing on a "long screen", instead of a widescreen) but last time I looked, there is no easy way to adjust that either..
no, this is an emulator. Wine Is Not an Emulator. You would have to have a purchased and installed copy of Windows. You would have to load up all of windows, and its services. Wine is an app, that loads just the bare basics needed.
But the CHOICE is the important part. I don't care if they offer linux, Open Solaris, freeBSD, or even Darwin, its great to see that OEM companies are realizing that having a choice is a good thing. We've seen what happens when there is only one choice. OpenSolaris will only get better on laptops over time with this. Because it is "Open" it will drive competition (and hopefully share new features) with linux. This will drive having more compatible hardware, and better drivers, and companies will realize its nice to not send a chunk of every sale to MS.
One annoying little feature of XP updates... You can choose to apply updates and shutdown, but you can't choose to apply updates and restart when you go to the shutdown menu. There are many times I'm heading to a meeting or whatever, and wouldn't mind it downloading, installing, and restarting, all ready for me when I come back. I don't want to come back and have to boot it up.
As another replier posted to your comment, Flash is one of the plugins that does not work. Flash works fine on your desktop, as long as its running an X86 (or increasingly, an X64 processor) but not if your running an ARM, RISC, or any other low power architecture processors that are starting to gain in popularity. They are binary, and are not necessarily compiled for other architectures as easily as linux can be. (Ubuntu now supports ARM processors, btw)
yet still no interoperable IM client that can use a Web cam worth a damn. I keep seeing those netbooks, with a camera, running linux, and wonder what people do with them? I've used Ubuntu as my main desktop for years now, but I still hop on my wife's Vista Laptop to do video chats over MSN Messenger. Its quick and painless. I got one program to show video (amsn) but no sound, and the video was choppy as hell. People have been begging for video support for ever... Now that I moved 2000 miles from my family, I can understand why.
You just gave me the best idea ever to replace jobs. Hire Chef Gordon Ramsey, of Hells Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares fame. He has no problem telling you that your finely crafted and prepared dish makes him want to vomit, and call the police on you for attempted murder. He's great at reducing people to tears! And, they could make it part of a reality TV series, to increase brand awareness even more!
Thats just how government works. If your facing a budget shortfall, do you lay off some people that do manual data entry, and maybe hire a programmer to automate it on a quick contract, possibly cut some small programs that only effect a small percentage of the taxpayers, or do you THREATEN TO LAY OFF 2/3 OF THE HIGHWAY PATROL, SO YOUR CHILDREN WILL NOT BE SAFE!!!!
Which one do you think gets voter attention? I agree, its shitty. Oregon did do that a few times. In the east part of it where I lived, the nearest cop might be 4 hours away. Sure changes your thoughts on gun ownership...
There was trouble tracing a problem with a person in our DB at a college I used to work in. They were listed in the system twice. Same Name, birthday, address, marital status, and age. In fact, the only difference was the social security number and gender. One had taken a few classes, one was full time. We spent forever tracking down the problem, assuming someone created a typo when they created the student record, then thought to call the phone number listed as their phone number (yep, same number) and they both came in. Husband and Wife were both named "Leslie" (Not common for a man, but not unheard of) both were born on the same day, in different states, and had been married for 25 years with children also attending the college. That day taught me a reminder I still keep around about jumping to conclusions. Sure, your 99.999% sure, but that leaves 1 out of 100,000, and someone has to be that one...
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Sure, I'll just run out to the 40 or so client sites within a 75 mile radius that all my employees are working onsite at, and double check their laptops. Then, I'll go visit the employees that are working at home. Of course, I'll drive the two hours to our remote office, to check all desktops and laptops there... I'll get right on that...
Weekly updates is more than good enough. MS Only pushes updates out Monthly anyways. If they do occasional do an out of order patch, I make it a higher priority. This bug was patched 2 MONTHS ago by MS. Weekly or bi-weekly patches mean all of your computers should be fine.
Yes the panels will drop in cost, but you are forgetting that Electric bills are going to go UP in price over the same time. 10 years from now, he can generate the same amount of power, and save more money than he does today.
Of course, those that wait will have a MUCH quicker payback, since their equipment goes down in cost, and rates go up. But then again, you probably don't own a computer, do you? Cause there is always one that is faster/cheaper coming in another few months. Sometimes you just gotta jump in.
I used to work at a small college. They didn't teach classes in Office applications, they taught classes in Office 2007. They taught intro to MS Word. The teachers, (who attended all sorts of MS training for free) didn't think there was a difference. They got PISSED when I suggested to students that couldn't afford office to try openoffice. MS gave our entire campus all the software we needed for less money than we gave the local bus service so students could ride the city bus at a heavy discount. This was at a 2 year college that had more technology per capita than most schools in the state. Hell, our main "Operating systems" class covered Windows 2003, 2000, and XP. The teacher got upset when the students came to me (I was network admin) and asked for Linux, so I handed them Ubuntu's live cd's... Why would we want to use something that's free, when we get to use something so valuable, for free. they thought MS was obviously a better value!
More importantly, if they split AMD into fabs and design, what happens if their FAB company doesn't have the lowest bid to mass produce their chips? What happens if Intel submits the lowest bid?
Don't forget Citrix (XEN). Apparently, only one VM software will survive this year. And its the VM software that is newest, and only comes with MS Windows Server, 2008. Apparently, everyone is upgrading their Server OS this year..
They have a history of easily folding to law enforcement, which makes me uneasy about hosting corporate stuff online.
Actually, I remember google being the ONLY web search company that stood up to the DOJ when they wanted all search data from a random sampling of users. The DOJ was arguing the constitutionality of some "think of the children" legislation about blocking on the internet...
I can't wait to see what happens when our economy takes such a nosedive, and unemployment becomes rampant that companies start moving jobs here since our labor is so much cheaper than china, india, taiwain, etc...
You haven't worked government, have you? The server isn't a core 2 duo. Its a P2 450, that they purchased with grant money in 1999, and haven't been able to replace. It runs NT4, with a website in either cold fusion, or ASP. but either way, it was written with a "Idiots guide to $LANGUAGE" book in hand, And of course, MS SQL Server 6 is running as the primary database, on the same machine.
Or, its a quad core, quad processor system, with 16GB of ram, running either cold fusion, or ASP, with MS SQL server 6 running on the same machine.
with government, its always one or the other...
FYI, my Linksys, flashed with DD-WRT (an older version, from a few years ago, can't remember) is what provides my IPv6 connectivity at my house.
The "IN THE 40 YEARS SINCE TMI WAS DESIGNED) is a key part most people overlook. It was designed in the 60's! There are only 3 other things that were designed in the 60's that are still in use today (off the top of my head, i'm sure that there are many more). Bridges. (see colapsing interstate infrastructure) LSD. and Unix. hmm...
I've heard of Intel doing this for "critical power" systems that take forever to come back up after a power outage(and when your making hundreds of CPU's a minute, those costs in lost production get really high). The problem with the flywheel systems is you have a huge loss in the motor to turn the wheel, and the generator to power the equipment. Basically, you pump something like 1.5kW, and end up with 1kW on the other side. The power loss makes them incredibly expensive for all but the most important stuff.
And this is just for freight rails. We can start looking at passenger rails again when Amtrak starts making a profit. Sadly, they will never make a profit, but why don't people say the same thing about their airports? ie, I'll start paying for runways and terminals when the airlines lower the costs, and actually make a profit, or for that matter, I'll pay for new highways when they make a profit. Amtrak isn't allowed to purchase the Tracks it runs on, so it runs as a 'second class train' on the rails, and has to wait for every other load. The tracks follow what was laid out many, many years ago, not taking into consideration changes in population and growth.
There is also the double edged sword where people want amtrack to work like a metro rail system, and stop at every little town and cow farm, and then they seem to want it to run quickly. Nobody seems to care that their town of 10,000 doesn't have direct flights to the opposite side of the country. But man, I want to be able to take Amtrak from chicago (which would be a few hour drive, or bus ride for me) to Seattle in less then the current 48 hours.. that is insane. IF they had it less then 18, I would probably take it every time I went home. (since they have so much legroom, I can easily sleep through the night on them..
You are correct, however, sometimes you don't want to know about bad algorithms.. or more accurately, you don't want your enemies to know that you've cracked their codes.
Sometimes, things are just politically sensitive.. ie, We cracked the code, realized that country X placed a spy into country Y, we notified country Y, and the spy for country X had a tragic accident...
and of course, why do you go to start to end?? why do you go to shutdown to restart?
I've had a pain in the ass time doing dual monitors. Not to mention, one of my monitors can pivot (rotate) 90 degrees.. (its nice to see 2 whole pages of text when your typing on a "long screen", instead of a widescreen) but last time I looked, there is no easy way to adjust that either..
no, this is an emulator. Wine Is Not an Emulator. You would have to have a purchased and installed copy of Windows. You would have to load up all of windows, and its services. Wine is an app, that loads just the bare basics needed.
Yah but two anecdote's don't make a parable... right? Not without a car analogy....
But the CHOICE is the important part. I don't care if they offer linux, Open Solaris, freeBSD, or even Darwin, its great to see that OEM companies are realizing that having a choice is a good thing. We've seen what happens when there is only one choice. OpenSolaris will only get better on laptops over time with this. Because it is "Open" it will drive competition (and hopefully share new features) with linux. This will drive having more compatible hardware, and better drivers, and companies will realize its nice to not send a chunk of every sale to MS.
One annoying little feature of XP updates... You can choose to apply updates and shutdown, but you can't choose to apply updates and restart when you go to the shutdown menu. There are many times I'm heading to a meeting or whatever, and wouldn't mind it downloading, installing, and restarting, all ready for me when I come back. I don't want to come back and have to boot it up.
As another replier posted to your comment, Flash is one of the plugins that does not work. Flash works fine on your desktop, as long as its running an X86 (or increasingly, an X64 processor) but not if your running an ARM, RISC, or any other low power architecture processors that are starting to gain in popularity. They are binary, and are not necessarily compiled for other architectures as easily as linux can be. (Ubuntu now supports ARM processors, btw)
yet still no interoperable IM client that can use a Web cam worth a damn. I keep seeing those netbooks, with a camera, running linux, and wonder what people do with them? I've used Ubuntu as my main desktop for years now, but I still hop on my wife's Vista Laptop to do video chats over MSN Messenger. Its quick and painless. I got one program to show video (amsn) but no sound, and the video was choppy as hell. People have been begging for video support for ever... Now that I moved 2000 miles from my family, I can understand why.
You just gave me the best idea ever to replace jobs. Hire Chef Gordon Ramsey, of Hells Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares fame. He has no problem telling you that your finely crafted and prepared dish makes him want to vomit, and call the police on you for attempted murder. He's great at reducing people to tears! And, they could make it part of a reality TV series, to increase brand awareness even more!
They have monitors that have white? Mine is only green text on a black background.
Thats just how government works. If your facing a budget shortfall, do you lay off some people that do manual data entry, and maybe hire a programmer to automate it on a quick contract, possibly cut some small programs that only effect a small percentage of the taxpayers, or do you THREATEN TO LAY OFF 2/3 OF THE HIGHWAY PATROL, SO YOUR CHILDREN WILL NOT BE SAFE!!!!
Which one do you think gets voter attention? I agree, its shitty. Oregon did do that a few times. In the east part of it where I lived, the nearest cop might be 4 hours away. Sure changes your thoughts on gun ownership...
There was trouble tracing a problem with a person in our DB at a college I used to work in. They were listed in the system twice. Same Name, birthday, address, marital status, and age. In fact, the only difference was the social security number and gender. One had taken a few classes, one was full time. We spent forever tracking down the problem, assuming someone created a typo when they created the student record, then thought to call the phone number listed as their phone number (yep, same number) and they both came in. Husband and Wife were both named "Leslie" (Not common for a man, but not unheard of) both were born on the same day, in different states, and had been married for 25 years with children also attending the college. That day taught me a reminder I still keep around about jumping to conclusions. Sure, your 99.999% sure, but that leaves 1 out of 100,000, and someone has to be that one...