Basically, think of the tags that are at the bottom of slashdot articles. You can tag them with things like PATRIOT ACT, or EFF, or whatever, and in theory, its going to help you search slashdot and get more relavant articles in your search. Now, when you add that capability to the unwashed internet masses, you see things like story tags with "No" or "itsatrap" or whatever crap people think is funny, which is funny, but ruins its main purpose of helping people find information. Multiply that by the number of non-technical people using the internet (since slashdot has a tech-minded crowd, and knows they are breaking it) and you see where the real problem becomes..
For paying that much money for a company that gives its core product away for free!? MySQL made a bit of money through support contracts, but now they have a lot more zeros to account for when they pay the bills.
This isn't MySQL's fault. If someone wanted to pay me 3million for my piece of crap car, I would sell it for half that, so they thought they were getting a bargain, but how could Sun justify paying that much?
You can negate the costs your describing by having the PC wake up a half hour before you come in, using WOL packets.
We had a huge decrease in costs where i worked shutting off the PC's. We had classrooms with 30 PC's. Shutting them off at 8pm every night, and starting them up a half hour before classes started the next morning (vi WOL). Not only do you get the savings of power from the PC's, but you also don't have the AC running at night, since the machines are adding heat to the rooms. In fact, we started going crazy, and shut off all heat and AC at night, except the server rooms, of course, and had them kick on an hour before the buildings opened. (during winter, the thermostat was set at 45deg to keep from freezing at night) HUGE powersavings. 12 hours of the day you're heating or cooling empty rooms!
Social Security buys Billions and Billions in Treasury bonds every year for this exact reason. Currently, more money is coming in, then going out, and they hold it in trust. However, congress likes to "borrow" against that money, and give an IOU, so thats going to bite us in the ass too.
My understanding is that Ion drives also need a ton of time, as their acceleration is like a giant curve. It would not be suitable for countering things in anywhere near real time.
IE, a probe might take a month to get to the moon, but only 2 months to get to mars, etc.. (I know, my numbers are way, way off)
I was in Maui in October for a week. Another couple attending the same wedding, but staying at another hotel had to sign a form agreeing to be charged $150 for running the AC in their room, while they were not there. Yes, the hotel fines them that much if they forget to turn it off! Seems electric prices are through the roof in Maui, and the hotels are getting tired of eating the costs.
Thank you for your most agreeable post, I can't help but find it funny when people think NAT is a firewall. They seem to think that IPv6 will make their computers directly accessible from anywhere in the world... At my last job, I had a/24 network of routable IP's assigned. I didn't use NAT, but because I had a proper firewall (or hell, even a basic firewall), only about 16 were potentially reachable, and only on the ports i explicitly allowed. NAT IS NOT A FIREWALL! anytime you open a direct connection (like say, with UPnP) you are going straight through your NAT connection, and it can be used to attack you...
Of course, the lawyer doesn't work for his best interest, the lawyer works for the colleges best interest, they are paying him. And come on, the GP, telling a COLLEGE STUDENT to go talk to a lawyer.... How can they afford one? Maybe if their school has a legal department, they can have some students or faculty help them out..
The kind of life where you could be transported from the battlefield, with its limited facilities, to a large, fully equipped hospital to patch you up, then woken up. There is a reason Darpa is funding him. Many soldiers die of reasons that they would easily survive in a hospital, with access to an unlimited supply of the best doctors. (unlimited because you can simply wait in that state until the doctor has helped other patients before you.)
Yeah, I had flashbacks to 2000. I remember setting something up (I think it was portsentry) that would put ip's in the hosts.deny file after too many bad logins, or was it hitting too many different ports on my PC? (probably both)
Yes, and Macs, which advertise up the wazoo, have stores dedicated to, and is a brand that every kid over the age of 10 can identify by name, logo, or just the color of the headphones someone is wearing, only has 8 times the market share of linux.
That 1% sounds pretty good to me. (wonder what happens when they take "enterprise" computers out of the mix....
But then you have to factor in the people that do things like setup firefox to report its running IE6 on Windows XP to get web pages to display correctly (remember when MS would send broken CSS Pages to non-MS browsers a few years ago?). And 4 million SubNetbooks is nothing. Think about how many windows desktops have been sold, over the last 5-6 years that are still being used! (and you can get the EEE PC with XP on it)
you have the "windows guide to networking" definition of Class. Class != subnet mask. Classes are quite a bit different, and millions of times larger than you are thinking.
For example, the Class A network is: 1.0.0.1 - 126.255.255.254 Thats around 2Billion hosts, if i'm not mistaken
You still have the same amount of "shares" or bonds, or whatever you had before (in fact, you have more, cause you didn't do something silly like stop contributing to your 401k, right?) I get so tired of hearing things like this. Are you retiring right now? Then it hasn't changed. Like when you own stocks, and they drop. You only lose the money if you sell them while they are down.
I lost $40k a few months ago when I sold my house because of a slumping housing market if I look at it one way, or I sold my house for $35K more than I bought it for 4 years ago if you look at it another. But hearing people complain about the value of their house dropping so much, when they have no intention of selling their house, is a little silly. (and actually, its a benefit, call your local tax appraiser, and make them come out and lower the value of your house, you'll pay less in taxes...)
Partly because I don't want license management to become a headache as the business grows. This i the biggest factor for me favoring open source solutions. I remember calling our MS Rep, and a few others, 3 people gave me 3 different answers about how to license MS SQL Server. (per processor, or how many seats). Total pain in the ass. Its funny, but I've never seen a TCO calculation take into consideration how much time and money you have to spend to ensure that you are in compliance. For larger companies, its almost impossible to ensure two employees didn't buy some off the shelf software and install it.
One thing I have always thought was interesting, was that MS doesn't write/sell any software to track licensing compliance themselves. I used to think that was a mistake on their part, but after hearing/seeing how much it nets them in audits, it was a genius move on their part!
Iridium was a satellite phone provider. They spent Billions getting satellites into orbit, to provide phone service anywhere in the world. They were incredibly expensive, and their phones were clunky, so only government and oil companies were really interested. They went bankrupt, and sold all their assets for a couple of dozen Million dollars.. Literally a fraction of the money that they had spent. Now, they cost something like $1/min, and have some tiered plans, and some other services. I have thought a few times about buying one for emergencies only, because I used to drive through large areas without service (hours at a time in backcountry Oregon). Because the other company got the assets so cheap, they are doing okay. I have a feeling that something similar will happen to satellite radio. They will be able to drop their prices substantially.
Most dump it underground, where it is eventually filtered right back into the wells and rivers you drink from. Many still dump the treated sewage into rivers or other large bodies of water, where it eventually evaporates and falls as rain, or enters an underground aquifer.
Besides, just think of all the water content you get from your food. That lettuce was surrounded by animal poop and/or nasty chemicals for fertilizer, and then irrigated with water, soaking right through the poop into the lettuce.
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Basically, think of the tags that are at the bottom of slashdot articles. You can tag them with things like PATRIOT ACT, or EFF, or whatever, and in theory, its going to help you search slashdot and get more relavant articles in your search. Now, when you add that capability to the unwashed internet masses, you see things like story tags with "No" or "itsatrap" or whatever crap people think is funny, which is funny, but ruins its main purpose of helping people find information. Multiply that by the number of non-technical people using the internet (since slashdot has a tech-minded crowd, and knows they are breaking it) and you see where the real problem becomes..
For paying that much money for a company that gives its core product away for free!? MySQL made a bit of money through support contracts, but now they have a lot more zeros to account for when they pay the bills.
This isn't MySQL's fault. If someone wanted to pay me 3million for my piece of crap car, I would sell it for half that, so they thought they were getting a bargain, but how could Sun justify paying that much?
You can negate the costs your describing by having the PC wake up a half hour before you come in, using WOL packets.
We had a huge decrease in costs where i worked shutting off the PC's. We had classrooms with 30 PC's. Shutting them off at 8pm every night, and starting them up a half hour before classes started the next morning (vi WOL). Not only do you get the savings of power from the PC's, but you also don't have the AC running at night, since the machines are adding heat to the rooms. In fact, we started going crazy, and shut off all heat and AC at night, except the server rooms, of course, and had them kick on an hour before the buildings opened. (during winter, the thermostat was set at 45deg to keep from freezing at night) HUGE powersavings. 12 hours of the day you're heating or cooling empty rooms!
Social Security buys Billions and Billions in Treasury bonds every year for this exact reason. Currently, more money is coming in, then going out, and they hold it in trust. However, congress likes to "borrow" against that money, and give an IOU, so thats going to bite us in the ass too.
More free than your Tivo!
My understanding is that Ion drives also need a ton of time, as their acceleration is like a giant curve. It would not be suitable for countering things in anywhere near real time.
IE, a probe might take a month to get to the moon, but only 2 months to get to mars, etc.. (I know, my numbers are way, way off)
I think its more of a testament to the Indiana DMV. I know in my state, nobody feels like smiling after waiting in line at the DMV!
I was in Maui in October for a week. Another couple attending the same wedding, but staying at another hotel had to sign a form agreeing to be charged $150 for running the AC in their room, while they were not there. Yes, the hotel fines them that much if they forget to turn it off! Seems electric prices are through the roof in Maui, and the hotels are getting tired of eating the costs.
couldn't your Legis, CAP, and TapCalc sit on your terminal services while you lean on the vendor to produce native binaries...
Thank you for your most agreeable post, I can't help but find it funny when people think NAT is a firewall. They seem to think that IPv6 will make their computers directly accessible from anywhere in the world... At my last job, I had a /24 network of routable IP's assigned. I didn't use NAT, but because I had a proper firewall (or hell, even a basic firewall), only about 16 were potentially reachable, and only on the ports i explicitly allowed. NAT IS NOT A FIREWALL! anytime you open a direct connection (like say, with UPnP) you are going straight through your NAT connection, and it can be used to attack you...
try having an impromptu video conference with a customer...
Yeah, but imagine how much faster you could hit your 5GB bandwidth cap on your "unlimited" data plan. Hello iTunes Video rental!
Of course, the lawyer doesn't work for his best interest, the lawyer works for the colleges best interest, they are paying him. And come on, the GP, telling a COLLEGE STUDENT to go talk to a lawyer.... How can they afford one? Maybe if their school has a legal department, they can have some students or faculty help them out..
The kind of life where you could be transported from the battlefield, with its limited facilities, to a large, fully equipped hospital to patch you up, then woken up. There is a reason Darpa is funding him. Many soldiers die of reasons that they would easily survive in a hospital, with access to an unlimited supply of the best doctors. (unlimited because you can simply wait in that state until the doctor has helped other patients before you.)
Yeah, I had flashbacks to 2000. I remember setting something up (I think it was portsentry) that would put ip's in the hosts.deny file after too many bad logins, or was it hitting too many different ports on my PC? (probably both)
Yes, and Macs, which advertise up the wazoo, have stores dedicated to, and is a brand that every kid over the age of 10 can identify by name, logo, or just the color of the headphones someone is wearing, only has 8 times the market share of linux.
That 1% sounds pretty good to me. (wonder what happens when they take "enterprise" computers out of the mix....
But then you have to factor in the people that do things like setup firefox to report its running IE6 on Windows XP to get web pages to display correctly (remember when MS would send broken CSS Pages to non-MS browsers a few years ago?). And 4 million SubNetbooks is nothing. Think about how many windows desktops have been sold, over the last 5-6 years that are still being used! (and you can get the EEE PC with XP on it)
you have the "windows guide to networking" definition of Class. Class != subnet mask. Classes are quite a bit different, and millions of times larger than you are thinking.
For example, the Class A network is:
1.0.0.1 - 126.255.255.254
Thats around 2Billion hosts, if i'm not mistaken
Class C is: 192.0.1.1 - 223.255.255.254
For reference:
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2002/IPaddressing.asp
You still have the same amount of "shares" or bonds, or whatever you had before (in fact, you have more, cause you didn't do something silly like stop contributing to your 401k, right?) I get so tired of hearing things like this. Are you retiring right now? Then it hasn't changed. Like when you own stocks, and they drop. You only lose the money if you sell them while they are down.
I lost $40k a few months ago when I sold my house because of a slumping housing market if I look at it one way, or I sold my house for $35K more than I bought it for 4 years ago if you look at it another. But hearing people complain about the value of their house dropping so much, when they have no intention of selling their house, is a little silly. (and actually, its a benefit, call your local tax appraiser, and make them come out and lower the value of your house, you'll pay less in taxes...)
??? Why aren't you asking why it wasn't prevented with the newest civil liberty destroying monitoring?
Partly because I don't want license management to become a headache as the business grows. This i the biggest factor for me favoring open source solutions. I remember calling our MS Rep, and a few others, 3 people gave me 3 different answers about how to license MS SQL Server. (per processor, or how many seats). Total pain in the ass. Its funny, but I've never seen a TCO calculation take into consideration how much time and money you have to spend to ensure that you are in compliance. For larger companies, its almost impossible to ensure two employees didn't buy some off the shelf software and install it.
One thing I have always thought was interesting, was that MS doesn't write/sell any software to track licensing compliance themselves. I used to think that was a mistake on their part, but after hearing/seeing how much it nets them in audits, it was a genius move on their part!
Iridium was a satellite phone provider. They spent Billions getting satellites into orbit, to provide phone service anywhere in the world. They were incredibly expensive, and their phones were clunky, so only government and oil companies were really interested. They went bankrupt, and sold all their assets for a couple of dozen Million dollars.. Literally a fraction of the money that they had spent. Now, they cost something like $1/min, and have some tiered plans, and some other services. I have thought a few times about buying one for emergencies only, because I used to drive through large areas without service (hours at a time in backcountry Oregon). Because the other company got the assets so cheap, they are doing okay. I have a feeling that something similar will happen to satellite radio. They will be able to drop their prices substantially.
Most dump it underground, where it is eventually filtered right back into the wells and rivers you drink from. Many still dump the treated sewage into rivers or other large bodies of water, where it eventually evaporates and falls as rain, or enters an underground aquifer.
Besides, just think of all the water content you get from your food. That lettuce was surrounded by animal poop and/or nasty chemicals for fertilizer, and then irrigated with water, soaking right through the poop into the lettuce.
Thats really the key of this all. The cookie prevents it from showing you ads. It does not stop the DPI, and tracking.
I think its much more that were dependant on China buying our Treasury notes, or else we would literally be bankrupt.