TCO and the OS's have very little to do with each other. I agree with you that it is all in the tech people you have working. At my company it is just the opposite we have 3 times the unix staff, and run critical apps on both OS's, and our Mainframe group is even larger. The NT people in our group come from many different areas, and have worked on many different OS's, but all are qualified (they don't have MCSE's but do know what they are doing), and this is what makes thing run well. Get crappy techs and you will spend more time fixing problems due to incorrect configuration, or shortcuts people take, because they are either to busy or don't know how to do it right.
In fact the biggest problem is that there are not enough people in our *nix group, and since they don't understand how do it right the first time, so you wont have to fix it later, they end up in a never ending cycle of correcting problems instead of doing it right the first time, and then going onto the next without having to worry about it.
They even make jokes about having to reboot NT every day, but the funny thing is they are rebooting their *nix systems every day, instead of correcting the problem and letting them run longer.
1) You are wasting my time by driving to slow in front of me.
2) You are wasting my time by writing a check at the grocery store check out line.
3) You are wasting my time by putting me on hold to wait for tech support.
4) You are wasting my time by not having enough employees working at the Motor Vechicle registration line.
5) You are wasting my time by thinking that I am going to waste 10 hours to go to court to get $10 bucks back. That isn't even work 15 min of my time.
Hell I waste very little time deleteing spam, they should make laws for bigger wastes of time first, than for spam.
I hardly think spam is the big problem for individuals here. Give the ISP's so power to sue for use of their equipment, don't waste my time. And even this will just push spammers to some other country.
I would have to agree this is getting into the whole issue of people kill people or guns kill people. Outlook and VB scripting runs many useful things, guns can be used for hunting or protection. But let the wrong people use either and you can have a big problem. It is very simple. So would you rather use Lotus 123 or Excel to calculate your budget for the year, both will get the job done. Its just like a bb gun and a 45. Using a bb gun you might eventually kill something small, but a 45 will get it done al lot quicker.
Your milage may very.
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I don't see this as a problem. In my Physics classes at school we had open everything except the person next to you. This was because if you didn't know the material, then looking it up would waste valuable time and you wouldn't finish the test. Getting a bad score.
Granted in some classes this could cause a problem, but I think that most teachers understand that and have created their tests in ways that if using these open methods they will not help you get a good score on the test. I remember not finishing a test due to this issue but I spent a few to many minutes in the book looking for help on the last question, but was unable to find everything that I needed to finish it in the given time.
Just thinking that these things actually help without looking at how the tests are administered doesn't give you enough info on how it will affect a person taking the test.
The system was put in for ramp metering, therfore it has already been paid for. The computers already exist, and just using this data in a different way is for more accurate then guessing about cell phones which would require a large amount of computational resource, since it trying to recognize images from signals, sort of like voice recongnition. Therfore using cell phones is a boneheaded idea, for some areas, it is probably not very accurate, and there is cost in setting up the cell phone system. If the infrastructure exists already using it to give good data is not expesive at all.
Actually before MnDot ended serving their page and let the StarTribune do it. MNDot had a great java script map that you could click mouse over any 1/2 mile strip and get the speed in 5mph increments. Also since this was originally put in the roads to help with metering onramp lights. You could also click on any one of the ramps and it would tell you the wait time on the ramp. One other plus on the map you could see where all the cameras were and click to view them, then you could do your own traffic reports.
But those days are gone, due to extra bandwidth, and now there is only the simpler StarTribune's map.
Here in Minnesota we were smart enough to put sensors under the roads, and these are all hooked up to MDOT, Minnesota Department of Transportation. No need for a gunkulator when a simple sensor will do the trick. See for you self.
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TCO and the OS's have very little to do with each other. I agree with you that it is all in the tech people you have working. At my company it is just the opposite we have 3 times the unix staff, and run critical apps on both OS's, and our Mainframe group is even larger. The NT people in our group come from many different areas, and have worked on many different OS's, but all are qualified (they don't have MCSE's but do know what they are doing), and this is what makes thing run well. Get crappy techs and you will spend more time fixing problems due to incorrect configuration, or shortcuts people take, because they are either to busy or don't know how to do it right.
In fact the biggest problem is that there are not enough people in our *nix group, and since they don't understand how do it right the first time, so you wont have to fix it later, they end up in a never ending cycle of correcting problems instead of doing it right the first time, and then going onto the next without having to worry about it.
They even make jokes about having to reboot NT every day, but the funny thing is they are rebooting their *nix systems every day, instead of correcting the problem and letting them run longer.
1) You are wasting my time by driving to slow in front of me.
2) You are wasting my time by writing a check at the grocery store check out line.
3) You are wasting my time by putting me on hold to wait for tech support.
4) You are wasting my time by not having enough employees working at the Motor Vechicle registration line.
5) You are wasting my time by thinking that I am going to waste 10 hours to go to court to get $10 bucks back. That isn't even work 15 min of my time.
Hell I waste very little time deleteing spam, they should make laws for bigger wastes of time first, than for spam.
I hardly think spam is the big problem for individuals here. Give the ISP's so power to sue for use of their equipment, don't waste my time. And even this will just push spammers to some other country.
I would have to agree this is getting into the whole issue of people kill people or guns kill people. Outlook and VB scripting runs many useful things, guns can be used for hunting or protection. But let the wrong people use either and you can have a big problem. It is very simple. So would you rather use Lotus 123 or Excel to calculate your budget for the year, both will get the job done. Its just like a bb gun and a 45. Using a bb gun you might eventually kill something small, but a 45 will get it done al lot quicker.
Your milage may very.
I don't see this as a problem. In my Physics classes at school we had open everything except the person next to you. This was because if you didn't know the material, then looking it up would waste valuable time and you wouldn't finish the test. Getting a bad score.
Granted in some classes this could cause a problem, but I think that most teachers understand that and have created their tests in ways that if using these open methods they will not help you get a good score on the test. I remember not finishing a test due to this issue but I spent a few to many minutes in the book looking for help on the last question, but was unable to find everything that I needed to finish it in the given time.
Just thinking that these things actually help without looking at how the tests are administered doesn't give you enough info on how it will affect a person taking the test.
just my two cents worth.
The system was put in for ramp metering, therfore it has already been paid for. The computers already exist, and just using this data in a different way is for more accurate then guessing about cell phones which would require a large amount of computational resource, since it trying to recognize images from signals, sort of like voice recongnition. Therfore using cell phones is a boneheaded idea, for some areas, it is probably not very accurate, and there is cost in setting up the cell phone system. If the infrastructure exists already using it to give good data is not expesive at all.
But that cost is already there if your city uses metered ramps as in MN, then it is just free info from there on.
Actually before MnDot ended serving their page and let the StarTribune do it. MNDot had a great java script map that you could click mouse over any 1/2 mile strip and get the speed in 5mph increments. Also since this was originally put in the roads to help with metering onramp lights. You could also click on any one of the ramps and it would tell you the wait time on the ramp. One other plus on the map you could see where all the cameras were and click to view them, then you could do your own traffic reports.
But those days are gone, due to extra bandwidth, and now there is only the simpler StarTribune's map.
Here in Minnesota we were smart enough to put sensors under the roads, and these are all hooked up to MDOT, Minnesota Department of Transportation. No need for a gunkulator when a simple sensor will do the trick. See for you self.
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