I'd imagine the cost has to be comprised of a few factors.
1. How many man hours were spent to keep services available 2. Cost of actual flow of income if it was interupted (contacts, sales, etc) 3. Cost required to protect against next wave. This could be to hire another person on staff, additional software, contractors for a few days, etc.
There could be more, but those are the first that came to mind...
I talked to friends in a few different large companies. They weren't really affected last time I talked to them. They were able to put in place some spam/virus filters and on they went. So I don't know about this one the "true" impact because on that same note I noticed smtp mail bouncing all over the place wednesday afternoon.
I'm kinda' glad there's no formal process to rate the impact of the virus. We would start to see competitions to see who could make the new record for the most outages on the internet.
While each voyage had scientific and/or monetary justifications, they only became clear in retrospect and were in any event secondary to the experience and the human achievement.
Thats a good point. I think there are several things in life that people are drivin to do for unknown reasons except for the fact that they're going into the unknown. It's easy to look back and see that it was a necessary step to get to where we are now, but the one doing the initial feat is typically called crazy and/or stupid. But fast forward a few decades or centuries and that person has lead the way for millions. Another example is Joan Rivers. Do you really want to know what she would look like in 20 years had she not had all that plastic surgery? She'd be on our TVs whether she had done it or not...
someone will have to design a power plant that will reliably survive EDL
Uh, are you serious? So there's no other way to successfully land on mars besides parachuting, inflating airbags, and bouncing to a complete stop? Talk about someone taking the phrase "stop, drop, and roll" to the next level. Common.... I'm sure we've all played Moon Lander? What happend to all those skills from the early 80s?
Notice on this website of the actual raw footage from the most recent panoramic picture from opportunity.
See the pictures that have large squares missing? Well, Nasa is taking out the spots where martians get in the frame. They really don't want to start mass hysteria. Can ya' blame em?
I really wish that people like you actually spent some time on checking out linux's alternative desktops, and learning them. They won't look like Windows 95; yes, they will be hard to begin with; but then, your desktop experience will easily be better than either windoze or that macos thing.
Well, I'd have to say my favorite desktop on Linux was either Afterstep or Window Maker. Those really had some innovative things going on and I really saw a lot of potential with those. Once KDE / Gnome kinda' became the norm I didn't really find linux to be nearly as interesting from a GUI perspective.
EXACTLY. Until OSX there has not been a laptop I could use for all my hobbies and still be able to take it into the office and do work on it effectively with my co-workers.
I tried to use Linux as my desktop for almost an entire year. I spent more time updating libraries and patching my system then I spent using the thing. And for what? Just to use a GUI that is looking more and more like Windows 95?
I REALLY wish the Linux community would give up on the Desktop and focus on making Linux the best server platform out there.p>
Linux has way to many distros and every single one of them has everything in a completely different location and different way of making things work. The applications for Linux show this problem. You can tell each developer is working with a different GUI, different distribution, etc.
I think the solution would be if they let a specific tree of Linux or a specific Distro go under a BSD license and let someone do to Linux what Apple did to BSD.
Linux will always be CLOSE to perfect with the GNU License. With a BSD license I could see someone having a business model to actually perfecting linux. Nobody has any incentive to make linux perfect until they have a true business model. I know RedHat is doing well, but this is only going to last so long. There are HUGE loop holes around RedHats business model. Nobody yet has tried to go around Redhat's business model. Their day will come.
Right now Novell, IBM, and a few others are investing millions into Linux. If Linux ends up showing its true colors in the next few years, this funding will get pulled immediatly as all those companies end up with egg on their faces.
Somehow I'm a little less than impressed. Not necessarily with the workmanship, mind you, but with the concept design and ultimate implementation.
I would complete agree with your assessment.. Just looking at the "end result" it just makes me think, "Huh?". So they were able to stuff a PC into the case of an old mac. It appears they not only raped an old mac, but they also have wasted several pieces of pizza.
They said they used 25 pieces of pizza. Medium pizzas generally have 8 pieces. Larges have 10. Their picture of their pizza looks like it has 6 or 8 pieces. I can't see how you get 25 pieces out of those numbers without having to throw some away.
Don't people know there are STARVING DEVELOPERS in India?
So is "silver" even a necessity to CPU cooling? If people are purchasing this compound because it is "99% silver" and place it inbetween the CPU and the heatsink, isn't there more at stake here? I mean what if there were damaged CPUs due to the usage of this compound instead of one with 99% silver? Shouldn't they be paying for more than just re-emburse you for your bunk tube you paid for? What about the bunk CPU that it fried?
Countless times I have been stumped unable to compile a program I was writing or lost trying to finish up a program. The program keeps growing in lines, but I still never finish. I find if I goto sleep in those situations, I wake up with fresh ideas and a means to an end..
I can remember doing that more than ever back when I was 13 programming with TurboC++ for my WWIV BBS. These days I use other methods to keep me on track, but I still find it happening.
Great, thats all we need.. more saturation in the gaming consoles.
THE XBOX has cheapened the gaming experiance. Before games would MOSTLY be released either for one platform or another (ie. playstation, gamecube, dreamcast, etc..).. Ever since the XBOX everyone is making cross platform games for all consoles making games not use only specific instructions to one platform making the game push the console harder. Instead they're doing the 'best for all the worlds' solutions.
I hope XBOX continues to loose money so we could have just our Nintendo and Sony consoles. x86 was never ment to be a good gaming console. If you want to play PC computer games, get a PC...
Several years ago mentioned that windows will look more and more like unix every version. I would imagine they would go with a similar implimentation on the backend eventually.
I work with a group that has to automate all kinds of system operations. Both Unix and Windows. I find the windows guys complaining about simple things all the time.
An example would be that there are several things that don't kick off or operate properly in windows until someone logs in. So you can't just schedule a task like you could in 'cron' and expect the same results. So they have to physically log into hundreds of machines every day after they've been rebooted to make sure the tasks will run corretly.
When you purchase an Album from Itunes, where exactly does your money go? IF you don't know, why are you throwing money down the toilet? Afraid of getting arrested? Are you paying because you are a coward?
Uh, I think most people know exactly where the money goes. For a $0.99 song apple gets $0.30 to cover bandwitdh and server charges, about $0.65 goes to the labels and $0.05 goes to the artists. Of course the last two things vary depending on the contracts signed for each artist.
The more money labels make from the selling of music online, the more money they will be able to kick back to the artists in the end as new contracts are written up. Until the labels see big changes in the cash flow, things will stay the same.
Total music sales will continue to slump, and piracy will continue to run rampant until the industry offers a legal alternative which is free of DRM and hardware/software lock-in. eMusic was a nice try - next time give it a shot with popular bands - they're all on Kazaa anyway, so what do you have to lose?
First of all, there are plenty of "ME" out there. I am first mostly lazy, secondly make enough money where $0.99 doesn't really take me very far these days, and lastly lazy. With iTMS I have enjoyed the freedom of sampling songs that I have never heard (nor never wouldn't have heard) and buy a song or two every day that will stay in my music collection forever.
Kazaa sure has a LOT of music out there. But it is not in a quick accessible format like the iTMS. I can search, sample, and buy hundreds of songs very quickly. Each and every song is complete and prefectly encoded to my satisfaction. I don't have to download entire songs just to see if I like them or even see what genre the songs fit in. I don't have to screw with too many people downloading from one person and sit "in a line" to get the song. I don't have to worry about only getting 10kbytes/s while my connection is 100kbytes/s.
With iTMS I can find things quickly, easily, without a hitch at the cost of only a few bucks a day. Thats cheaper then some people's smoking habbits. It's something I will have around with me always, sitting on my iPod, etc..
A quick comment on the iTMS vs Napster/Others.
A feature that a lot of people overlook that I have found quite pleasing is the integration of your purchased iTMS songs with iMovie & iDVD. I don't believe Microsoft's WMA stuff is able to integrate into their "Movie Maker" program. With iMovie I can just drag purchased songs onto tracks, same with iDVD..
I think Napster must be sinking. I received spams from them offering several free tracks if I were to sign back up with them.
I tried out napster for a few days. I felt it was a pathetic attempt at copying the iTMS. Things were sorted incorrectly and information was scattered around making it almost impossible to find anything I really wanted. And to top it off they're spamming me...
I know it doesn't allow Private Parties to sue, but I have affiliations with a smaller company that is an ISP for other ISP's. They have like 8 OC48's. Would THEY be able to sue people due to spams I receive through their network?
Hopefully things will change before _that_ fear comes true.
Fortunately for you, things will change by the time you graduate. ALL the CS and Engineering jobs will be located in India or some highly populated eastern country. There will be no telemarketing jobs due to the do not call registry to help people with degrees pay for going back to school for another degree. And lastly we are going to have rolling blackouts crossing our country every few hours due to PITA wanting US to suffer, not the helpless animals.
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I'd imagine the cost has to be comprised of a few factors.
1. How many man hours were spent to keep services available
2. Cost of actual flow of income if it was interupted (contacts, sales, etc)
3. Cost required to protect against next wave. This could be to hire another person on staff, additional software, contractors for a few days, etc.
There could be more, but those are the first that came to mind...
I talked to friends in a few different large companies. They weren't really affected last time I talked to them. They were able to put in place some spam/virus filters and on they went. So I don't know about this one the "true" impact because on that same note I noticed smtp mail bouncing all over the place wednesday afternoon.
I'm kinda' glad there's no formal process to rate the impact of the virus. We would start to see competitions to see who could make the new record for the most outages on the internet.
HAHAHA... that is great..
Notice the use of OSX in the screen shots...
Notice on this website of the actual raw footage from the most recent panoramic picture from opportunity.
See the pictures that have large squares missing? Well, Nasa is taking out the spots where martians get in the frame. They really don't want to start mass hysteria. Can ya' blame em?
I tried to use Linux as my desktop for almost an entire year. I spent more time updating libraries and patching my system then I spent using the thing. And for what? Just to use a GUI that is looking more and more like Windows 95?
I REALLY wish the Linux community would give up on the Desktop and focus on making Linux the best server platform out there.p> Linux has way to many distros and every single one of them has everything in a completely different location and different way of making things work. The applications for Linux show this problem. You can tell each developer is working with a different GUI, different distribution, etc.
I think the solution would be if they let a specific tree of Linux or a specific Distro go under a BSD license and let someone do to Linux what Apple did to BSD.
Linux will always be CLOSE to perfect with the GNU License. With a BSD license I could see someone having a business model to actually perfecting linux. Nobody has any incentive to make linux perfect until they have a true business model. I know RedHat is doing well, but this is only going to last so long. There are HUGE loop holes around RedHats business model. Nobody yet has tried to go around Redhat's business model. Their day will come.
Right now Novell, IBM, and a few others are investing millions into Linux. If Linux ends up showing its true colors in the next few years, this funding will get pulled immediatly as all those companies end up with egg on their faces.
They said they used 25 pieces of pizza. Medium pizzas generally have 8 pieces. Larges have 10. Their picture of their pizza looks like it has 6 or 8 pieces. I can't see how you get 25 pieces out of those numbers without having to throw some away.
Don't people know there are STARVING DEVELOPERS in India?
So is "silver" even a necessity to CPU cooling? If people are purchasing this compound because it is "99% silver" and place it inbetween the CPU and the heatsink, isn't there more at stake here? I mean what if there were damaged CPUs due to the usage of this compound instead of one with 99% silver? Shouldn't they be paying for more than just re-emburse you for your bunk tube you paid for? What about the bunk CPU that it fried?
Countless times I have been stumped unable to compile a program I was writing or lost trying to finish up a program. The program keeps growing in lines, but I still never finish. I find if I goto sleep in those situations, I wake up with fresh ideas and a means to an end..
I can remember doing that more than ever back when I was 13 programming with TurboC++ for my WWIV BBS. These days I use other methods to keep me on track, but I still find it happening.
Great, thats all we need.. more saturation in the gaming consoles.
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THE XBOX has cheapened the gaming experiance. Before games would MOSTLY be released either for one platform or another (ie. playstation, gamecube, dreamcast, etc..).. Ever since the XBOX everyone is making cross platform games for all consoles making games not use only specific instructions to one platform making the game push the console harder. Instead they're doing the 'best for all the worlds' solutions.
I hope XBOX continues to loose money so we could have just our Nintendo and Sony consoles. x86 was never ment to be a good gaming console. If you want to play PC computer games, get a PC
who cares...
Several years ago mentioned that windows will look more and more like unix every version. I would imagine they would go with a similar implimentation on the backend eventually.
I work with a group that has to automate all kinds of system operations. Both Unix and Windows. I find the windows guys complaining about simple things all the time.
An example would be that there are several things that don't kick off or operate properly in windows until someone logs in. So you can't just schedule a task like you could in 'cron' and expect the same results. So they have to physically log into hundreds of machines every day after they've been rebooted to make sure the tasks will run corretly.
Apple's mail client already can organize email by THREAD. It's very useful.
The more money labels make from the selling of music online, the more money they will be able to kick back to the artists in the end as new contracts are written up. Until the labels see big changes in the cash flow, things will stay the same.
Kazaa sure has a LOT of music out there. But it is not in a quick accessible format like the iTMS. I can search, sample, and buy hundreds of songs very quickly. Each and every song is complete and prefectly encoded to my satisfaction. I don't have to download entire songs just to see if I like them or even see what genre the songs fit in. I don't have to screw with too many people downloading from one person and sit "in a line" to get the song. I don't have to worry about only getting 10kbytes/s while my connection is 100kbytes/s.
With iTMS I can find things quickly, easily, without a hitch at the cost of only a few bucks a day. Thats cheaper then some people's smoking habbits. It's something I will have around with me always, sitting on my iPod, etc..
A quick comment on the iTMS vs Napster/Others. A feature that a lot of people overlook that I have found quite pleasing is the integration of your purchased iTMS songs with iMovie & iDVD. I don't believe Microsoft's WMA stuff is able to integrate into their "Movie Maker" program. With iMovie I can just drag purchased songs onto tracks, same with iDVD..
I think Napster must be sinking. I received spams from them offering several free tracks if I were to sign back up with them.
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I tried out napster for a few days. I felt it was a pathetic attempt at copying the iTMS. Things were sorted incorrectly and information was scattered around making it almost impossible to find anything I really wanted. And to top it off they're spamming me
I know it doesn't allow Private Parties to sue, but I have affiliations with a smaller company that is an ISP for other ISP's. They have like 8 OC48's. Would THEY be able to sue people due to spams I receive through their network?
No..