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I don't know about VeriSign, but Thawte does a real investigation before issuing a code signing certificate. They look up government documents, require you to send over company documents, call your notary, CEO, president of the board, things like that. If I recall it well, the first time it took about two weeks or so. If they say you're you, you are.
Renewal, OTOH, is much easier. Basically you just click the buy renewal button and hand over the money.
Apple has broken compatability a big way bunch of times - in the switch to Power, the switch to OS X, the switch to x86. Carbon Cocoa Pink Black Red. If I was a Mac developer, I'd be going NUTS.
No, if you'd be a Mac developer, you couldn't be any happier. After every switch, you can sell your almost-same app again. And nobody will even blame you for it. It's the end users who are tormented. Apple seems to be one of the very few IT companies able to get away with it.
How about they wanted to keep their data on their servers and not your servers?
Exactly, that can be a very powerful driver. I write data analysis software for big pharma, and they generally won't even consider any system that requires that even one bit of data leaves their network. I wouldn't either, if I'd just spent hunderds of millions on research generating those bits. We hardly ever sell anything without an NDA. So, good luck trying with a hosted service there...
Many other organisations just don't trust a hosted service for anything important because it can become a business continuity liability. How do you know for sure that the provider even makes backups?
Nobody is forcing you to buy a $30 printer that needs $30 ink cartridges. Next time, spend a little more and buy a Kyocera. On my old FS-1800, a ~$60 cartridge is good for ~20,000 B/W pages. In real life, not just 'on paper'.
That necessarily wouldn't include your z/OS and other license fees of course. Because that'll probably be a few times as much -- per year. You didn't really think you can run a mainframe for that pocket change, do you?
An Icy Box NAS1000 at my local retailer is 150 eur, which includes 21% VAT. It's a compact, decent looking alu box for a single 3.5 inch disk. The name is somewhat deceptive, it does not talk Gbit Ethernet, just Fast Ethernet and USB2. I have no idea how it performs, but it is bound to perform mediocre at best, due to the 100Mbit interface.
You shouldn't look at the thermal design power to estimate average power consumption in a SOHO NAS, because the CPU will be idle 99.99% of the time. Look at the power consumption in deep sleep mode.
The page you link to are not regular Pentium 4s, these are embedded versions. They may be lowest-power bins harvested off the regular production runs. The thread was about old PC's, and you won't (yet) find many 90nm Pentium 4s in those, let alone embedded low-power versions.
Once you've put a regular Pentium 4 into a PC with a motherboard, memory, network, disk, fans, and a very inefficient power supply unit, it'll be over 150W, even when idle. If you intend to use that exclusively as a SOHO NAS 24/7, then your garden-variety 20 Watt, $150 dedicated NAS will pay back itself in about a year by lower power consumption alone, never mind it being more environmentally friendly, taking up less space, and making less noise.
Someone who "unlocks the keys to understanding" of the data in a relational database is not called a relational database programmer. There is an entire active CS research field specialized in this task, it's called 'relational data mining'. The theoretical foundation is inductive logic programming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_logic_prog ramming). The Wikipedia article contains a link to the freely downloadable book of Dzeroski and Navrac, which is a good start.
Interesting. How much does it cost per user? Last time I enquired for a Rational product (Rose), it cost an arm and a leg. I guess for Clearcase probably a foot and a hand disappear into Microsoft's pockets for the Office file format and versioning code licenses.
You can learn where the lanes are. Just drive around with a car with a Galileo receiver and store the coordinates. You can either use a professional driver who's paid to drive accurately in the middle of the lane, or just average (1) the data generated from a bunch of non-professional drivers. Exclude data from people who crashed:-). If you pay commercial types who travel a lot a small bonus each month to put a little box on their dashboard, the bulk of the data will be cheap. You'll still need to hire a few pro's to fill gaps in your map, but total cost can be quite low.
A large country like Germany has (CIA world fact book) 230,735 km roads; that's about 5000 man hours (or something in that order of magnitude) to map it all. Of course, you'll need to solve a huuuuge Traveling Salesperson Problem first:).
(1) It'll be it a little trickier, for you don't want to record the middle of two lanes for example, but I think it can be done.
Nuclear is not on demand. You can't start it up in half an hour or so to meet peak demand like you can with a gas turbine. It is very reliable for base load tough.
Wind is best combined with gas turbines for that very reason. You can turn off some of the turbines when there's enough wind. Like another post already mentioned, it's a trade-off between added capital and operating cost and saving some gas.
The highest efficiency gas turbines, STEG installations, can be less flexible, depending on the steam consumer's needs.
Hmmm, they did over 40,000 business transactions in the first 15 minutes. I'd guess a little link from slashdot isn't going to bother them. The general press - worldwide - wrote about them today and their site was still up.
Well, it was a little slow when I looked, but I forgive them:) .
Indeed, the next version of Windows will invariably:
* be way more secure
* be rock solid, BSOD-free
* not require so many reboots
* have tons of new features and components
A least we got a few new features...
Well, to be honest they're doing quite well considering they've got to provide near-perfect backwards compatiblity to those decade-old Win32 binaries out in the field and face resistance to change from a multi-million user base.
Reminds me of the driver for our HP G95 that wouldn't spontaneously exit on system shutdowns. It caused Windows to stall like forever before it finally decided to give up. Not funny if some systems take eons for a reboot, especially if they run Windows. After I found out I replaced it with a plain PCL driver for all but the one user that needed the scanner functionality. It paid off in far less system crashes, too.
The Linux users were not much better off: they occasionally got garbled prints due to the hacked-together driver (IIRC HP didn't provide one). Red Hat had half a dozen choices of drivers but none was solid.
It isn't just near, it is already here. In Belgium at least you can choose between two large ISPs (one DSL and one Docsis) offering digital TV. At the Docsis one you can get a wider selection of channels than plain old analog CATV - 40 channels -, plus 40 optional subscription channels and on-demand pay-per-view shows. The 40 basic channels are priced at 12,39 EUR per month all in.
It's all digital up to the set-top box in the living room, which converts it to plain old PAL, so the end user keeps using his analog TV.
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I don't know about VeriSign, but Thawte does a real investigation before issuing a code signing certificate. They look up government documents, require you to send over company documents, call your notary, CEO, president of the board, things like that. If I recall it well, the first time it took about two weeks or so. If they say you're you, you are.
Renewal, OTOH, is much easier. Basically you just click the buy renewal button and hand over the money.
No, if you'd be a Mac developer, you couldn't be any happier. After every switch, you can sell your almost-same app again. And nobody will even blame you for it. It's the end users who are tormented. Apple seems to be one of the very few IT companies able to get away with it.
Yeah, I also propose a moratorium on feeding you for 10 years then see how it affected "the maintenance of bodily functions".
Exactly, that can be a very powerful driver. I write data analysis software for big pharma, and they generally won't even consider any system that requires that even one bit of data leaves their network. I wouldn't either, if I'd just spent hunderds of millions on research generating those bits. We hardly ever sell anything without an NDA. So, good luck trying with a hosted service there...
Many other organisations just don't trust a hosted service for anything important because it can become a business continuity liability. How do you know for sure that the provider even makes backups?
Nobody is forcing you to buy a $30 printer that needs $30 ink cartridges. Next time, spend a little more and buy a Kyocera. On my old FS-1800, a ~$60 cartridge is good for ~20,000 B/W pages. In real life, not just 'on paper'.
That necessarily wouldn't include your z/OS and other license fees of course. Because that'll probably be a few times as much -- per year. You didn't really think you can run a mainframe for that pocket change, do you?
That was not including the HDD.
An Icy Box NAS1000 at my local retailer is 150 eur, which includes 21% VAT. It's a compact, decent looking alu box for a single 3.5 inch disk. The name is somewhat deceptive, it does not talk Gbit Ethernet, just Fast Ethernet and USB2. I have no idea how it performs, but it is bound to perform mediocre at best, due to the 100Mbit interface.
You shouldn't look at the thermal design power to estimate average power consumption in a SOHO NAS, because the CPU will be idle 99.99% of the time. Look at the power consumption in deep sleep mode.
The page you link to are not regular Pentium 4s, these are embedded versions. They may be lowest-power bins harvested off the regular production runs. The thread was about old PC's, and you won't (yet) find many 90nm Pentium 4s in those, let alone embedded low-power versions.
Once you've put a regular Pentium 4 into a PC with a motherboard, memory, network, disk, fans, and a very inefficient power supply unit, it'll be over 150W, even when idle. If you intend to use that exclusively as a SOHO NAS 24/7, then your garden-variety 20 Watt, $150 dedicated NAS will pay back itself in about a year by lower power consumption alone, never mind it being more environmentally friendly, taking up less space, and making less noise.
You've not tried NetBeans lately.
Don't worry! Anyone stealing the slashdot.org name to redirect users to his own server will surely be slashdotted at once.
Someone who "unlocks the keys to understanding" of the data in a relational database is not called a relational database programmer. There is an entire active CS research field specialized in this task, it's called 'relational data mining'. The theoretical foundation is inductive logic programming (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_logic_prog ramming). The Wikipedia article contains a link to the freely downloadable book of Dzeroski and Navrac, which is a good start.
You are clearly a terrorist! The squads are already on their way to arrange your permanent vacation at Guantanamo.
Well, apparently the fact that they are not executable has not prevented that damage was incurred by releasing them without sufficient QA.
Repeat after me: I will not release untested software, be it an executable, data, a bit string, or any string of symbols whatsoever.
Interesting. How much does it cost per user? Last time I enquired for a Rational product (Rose), it cost an arm and a leg. I guess for Clearcase probably a foot and a hand disappear into Microsoft's pockets for the Office file format and versioning code licenses.
Start here:)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Transit_(Internet
and follow the links, especially peering and Tier 1.
Once you know the basics, browse/search the NANOG list to learn more:
http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/
Pentium processor + 5 = Processor X.
Fit to run OS X?
You can learn where the lanes are. Just drive around with a car with a Galileo receiver and store the coordinates. You can either use a professional driver who's paid to drive accurately in the middle of the lane, or just average (1) the data generated from a bunch of non-professional drivers. Exclude data from people who crashed :-). If you pay commercial types who travel a lot a small bonus each month to put a little box on their dashboard, the bulk of the data will be cheap. You'll still need to hire a few pro's to fill gaps in your map, but total cost can be quite low.
:).
A large country like Germany has (CIA world fact book) 230,735 km roads; that's about 5000 man hours (or something in that order of magnitude) to map it all. Of course, you'll need to solve a huuuuge Traveling Salesperson Problem first
(1) It'll be it a little trickier, for you don't want to record the middle of two lanes for example, but I think it can be done.
Nuclear is not on demand. You can't start it up in half an hour or so to meet peak demand like you can with a gas turbine. It is very reliable for base load tough.
Wind is best combined with gas turbines for that very reason. You can turn off some of the turbines when there's enough wind. Like another post already mentioned, it's a trade-off between added capital and operating cost and saving some gas.
The highest efficiency gas turbines, STEG installations, can be less flexible, depending on the steam consumer's needs.
The point of biodiesel is converting solar radiation energy into chemical energy. How are you going to capture a lot of light with a vertical tank?
I'd rather have a component that has a large area in the plane perpendicular to the sun rays in my solar energy plant.
Hmmm, they did over 40,000 business transactions in the first 15 minutes. I'd guess a little link from slashdot isn't going to bother them. The general press - worldwide - wrote about them today and their site was still up.
:) .
Well, it was a little slow when I looked, but I forgive them
Corporate social security? In a way it is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
Indeed, the next version of Windows will invariably:
* be way more secure
* be rock solid, BSOD-free
* not require so many reboots
* have tons of new features and components
A least we got a few new features...
Well, to be honest they're doing quite well considering they've got to provide near-perfect backwards compatiblity to those decade-old Win32 binaries out in the field and face resistance to change from a multi-million user base.
Reminds me of the driver for our HP G95 that wouldn't spontaneously exit on system shutdowns. It caused Windows to stall like forever before it finally decided to give up.
Not funny if some systems take eons for a reboot, especially if they run Windows. After I found out I replaced it with a plain PCL driver for all but the one user that needed the scanner functionality. It paid off in far less system crashes, too.
The Linux users were not much better off: they occasionally got garbled prints due to the hacked-together driver (IIRC HP didn't provide one). Red Hat had half a dozen choices of drivers but none was solid.
It isn't just near, it is already here. In Belgium at least you can choose between two large ISPs (one DSL and one Docsis) offering digital TV. At the Docsis one you can get a wider selection of channels than plain old analog CATV - 40 channels -, plus 40 optional subscription channels and on-demand pay-per-view shows. The 40 basic channels are priced at 12,39 EUR per month all in.
It's all digital up to the set-top box in the living room, which converts it to plain old PAL, so the end user keeps using his analog TV.
You mean the embedded market that needs a chip that can fill a 10Gbps pipe with a choice of IPSec or SSL traffic all on its own?
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