So does the whole group get an A, if they have some rock star who knows the material cold while 4 of the other students contribute absolutely nothing, and should have normally failed the exam?
That's no different than one person doing their homework and letting their friends copy it.
Would I still get the $25 if I installed it and then did the majority of my surfing with IE/FF and occasionally surfed with Chrome, as there's probably some Terms of Service that requires a minimal amount of usage.
I wonder how much money I could make if I created hundreds of VMs and installed the plugin in those...
We have 15k RPM drives because we need to move the sector to which we want to read/write at quicker to the actuator head. The slowest point isn't the transfer of data from head to platter, but a) moving the actuator arm and b) waiting for the correct sector to come around.
I'm not sure how much performance benefit using lasers could help since access time (moving the mechanical arm) is still on the order of ms.
All networks are hostile until proven otherwise. The solution is an encrypted tunnel back to a secure network. VPN or SSH tunneling are both easy to set up and use.
So what do you recommend to the average traveler that doesn't have corporate VPN/ssh tunneling? Is there a solution for mom/dad/grandma/grandpa who are traveling with their iPad/laptop. Or even going to Starbucks etc..?
We would like to assure the public that these experiments have been conducted with appropriate regulatory oversight in secure containment facilities by highly trained and responsible personnel to minimize any risk of accidental release.
Why does this remind me of all the stories where some contractor walked out of a "secure $organization facility" with highly sensitive data/source code/credit_card numbers etc...?
Should we be surprised when we read a story one day that says that some Chinese researcher walked out the door with a container of some highly contagious strain of Ferret Flu...
While your point sounds good from a consumer perspective, from a publisher/author's perspective it doesn't work out so well.
Even notice that in college often the text books are written by the professor's themselves, and they can dictate that every year the newest version is to be used. Thereby killing off the used market for the previous version. A digital version could make it trivially easy to kill off the previous version with massive profits since nobody has to pay for printing and shipping of tons of paper.
This isn't about some little guy making a Calc 101 book and getting UCLA's freshman class to use it, but about making it cheaper for publishers to get the same content into the student's hands for a lower cost (not necessarily a lower price).
Publishers and authors of textbooks hate used books because they don't get any additional revenue. Which is why you'll see your standard freshman class books change every other year. How does Calc 101 change every year? The author changes one example replacing X with Y, and then can rev the book and get another $45 in revenue.
With an eBook with DRM, they'll make it so while the book might not cost $45, every student will be forced to buy it 'new' every year.
I don't understand why the government officials that are funding/sponsoring this crap aren't forced to go through all the scanners and such.
Why do they get to fly on private jets and such without having to go through the same invasive searches as the rest of us.
Someone should make all of congress and the executive branch go through this crap before they board their own "all first class", caviar and champagne filled jets.
How much fuel and money could we save if instead of putting congress/executive branch in first class chairs, we stuffed them into cattle car like the rest of us that fly?
To quote Animal Farm, "All animals are created equal, yet some animals are more equal than others."
Try breaking your wrist and having your hand/forearm in a cast...
Exodus' solution was for me to use my left hand, upside down in the scanner and retake the initial scan since they only use right handed hand scanners.
You do realize that there are "services" that 99.9999% of the population must rely on. Like WAN/Network Services. I believe people were using the term "WAN Cloud" well before the term was applied to server/application clouds.
Dunno about you but the company that I work for (very large IT company), doesn't own all the dark fibre in between it's world wide sites and leases quite a few WAN circuits from various telco providers.
If I switch out pickup A for pickup B and then go back to A, how to I make sure i'm going to get the same sound in the second 'A' as in the first... It's bad enough when you put on new strings...
I'm a bassist and I have a Musicman Stingray and a Sterling. Two basses with different pickup magnets and different bodies. Is it worth the modularity to avoid having to spend say another $1500 on a bass? If you're serious about music, you'll just get two instruments one with each sound.
You forgot the fact that when you work with a PRIVATE party, you have to agree to a legal document up front. Want to approve of every single employee that works on your system? Get it in the contract (aka "Statement of Work"). Want to make sure nobody works on it that is not a US citizen? Get it in the contract. Uptime? Unscheduled outages? Scheduled Outages? How long it takes for a part to get on side?
Get it in the contract. And if they're in breach, set the lawyers on them and get your money back.
Good luck doing that with Dept 8675309 and the long bearded fellow, who's thinking about retiring or the young kid who dreams of quitting and going to Facebook.
The trickle down effect here will be that housing prices will continue to go up, making it much harder for those that are not part of IPOs to get into a home (either first time).
Housing in the Silicon Valley is already brutal. A "starter home" which is 3 bedroom, 2.5bath and about 1600sq ft is already at $500,000. And that is in a neighborhood that doesn't have "desirable schools." Oh yeah and you're 10ft from all of your neighbors. We're not talking acreage here.
What if you want to have "desirable schools"? Then that exact same house would cost about $1million.
I've always told people when they consider living in the silicon valley, move here right out of college. That way, since you're used to being poor, it'll be an easy transition. Try selling your 3000sq, $300k home in RTP North Carolina and moving out here with a family of 5.
While the Guitar Hero guitar was a PITA for retailers (huge box, took up space), it wasn't the game itself that sold people, nor the controller. It was when people put the controller on, that it conveyed a feeling of "I'm a rock star".
That feeling itself is what made GH a great game. Same holds true to flight sims, driving games with steering wheels and plastic guns. They add an emotion to the game that isn't there with a gamepad/joystick/keyboard+mouse.
I got a chance to meet Kai Huang at a class I was taking and he was telling me that when they brought the controller to the VC guys. The VC guy put on the controller and before even playing the game told Kai and his brother that he was sold on it. The VC guy said, "I don't know how to play guitar, but I feel like a rock star!"
In the movie, he was on a panel of some press conference and after he spoke, he forgot to take off his wireless microphone and headed off the mensroom whereby the sounds of his visit were broadcast over the PA system.
The problem with this model can be seen with any other device that uses rechargeable batteries.
You've got a brand new laptop, and I've got a 1 year old one. Would you swap your battery out for mine? Probably not. For me this is great, I get a brand new battery that will hold a full charge. You on the other hand will get one that discharges much quicker.
Personally, if I'm buying a new battery, I want it until I decide to replace it. Not after a 200mi drive.
This isn't like the Blue Rhino propane tanks used with gas grills. Those don't wear out due to too many uses.Also, if your old tank rusts out, you can buy a new, empty one for not very much.
Oh yeah and what happens if the battery swapping station has no more batteries that are ready to go? Go count the number of cars that fill up per hour at a gas station. Would you need that number of batteries in standby, if it required one hour to charge?
How long would it take to charge and how many charging stations would there be? If it takes an hour to charge, and all the charging stations are full, you could end up waiting quite a while...
Not really fun if you've got a bunch of kids in the back.
Tesla: For people with too much disposable income who want to look like they care about the environment.
I manage the storage for a mainframe environment for a large retailer. Our busy season is pretty much now through the end of January. Not only are we in a 'holiday freeze', but we procure additional resources from IBM during this season and then IBM takes them back when we no longer need the resources at the end of the holiday season.
On the other hand, my coworkers who work in open systems, install quite a bit new hardware every August/September in preparation for the holiday rush, and then it sits idle come February/March.
Why it may seem expensive, it is quite efficient to be able to have X number of CPUs in use, and Y CPUs physically installed but not leased, so that if we get crushed at 8am on 'black friday', the admins or our management software can enable those CPUs based upon load. We of course get charged for it. If our load doesn't need the CPU cycles, then we don't enable them and subsequently don't get charged for them.
So it's all great that the CapEx costs for CentOS are much lower than those for RHEL, however, what are the OpEx costs associated with the two? For most companies the initial expenses to purchase a product are nothing compared to those that are required to maintain it over the life of the product.
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So does the whole group get an A, if they have some rock star who knows the material cold while 4 of the other students contribute absolutely nothing, and should have normally failed the exam?
That's no different than one person doing their homework and letting their friends copy it.
Would I still get the $25 if I installed it and then did the majority of my surfing with IE/FF and occasionally surfed with Chrome, as there's probably some Terms of Service that requires a minimal amount of usage.
I wonder how much money I could make if I created hundreds of VMs and installed the plugin in those...
We have 15k RPM drives because we need to move the sector to which we want to read/write at quicker to the actuator head. The slowest point isn't the transfer of data from head to platter, but a) moving the actuator arm and b) waiting for the correct sector to come around.
I'm not sure how much performance benefit using lasers could help since access time (moving the mechanical arm) is still on the order of ms.
Do we really think that terrorists are going to be coordinating things via FB?
It's like that old joke, what was Bin Laden's last FB entry?
"BRB, someone's at the door"
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All networks are hostile until proven otherwise. The solution is an encrypted tunnel back to a secure network. VPN or SSH tunneling are both easy to set up and use.
So what do you recommend to the average traveler that doesn't have corporate VPN/ssh tunneling? Is there a solution for mom/dad/grandma/grandpa who are traveling with their iPad/laptop. Or even going to Starbucks etc..?
We would like to assure the public that these experiments have been conducted with appropriate regulatory oversight in secure containment facilities by highly trained and responsible personnel to minimize any risk of accidental release.
Why does this remind me of all the stories where some contractor walked out of a "secure $organization facility" with highly sensitive data/source code/credit_card numbers etc...?
Should we be surprised when we read a story one day that says that some Chinese researcher walked out the door with a container of some highly contagious strain of Ferret Flu...
From what I can tell you can only read the iBooks "textbooks" on an iPad, but can anybody tell if you can read them on an iPhone?
While your point sounds good from a consumer perspective, from a publisher/author's perspective it doesn't work out so well.
Even notice that in college often the text books are written by the professor's themselves, and they can dictate that every year the newest version is to be used. Thereby killing off the used market for the previous version. A digital version could make it trivially easy to kill off the previous version with massive profits since nobody has to pay for printing and shipping of tons of paper.
This isn't about some little guy making a Calc 101 book and getting UCLA's freshman class to use it, but about making it cheaper for publishers to get the same content into the student's hands for a lower cost (not necessarily a lower price).
Publishers and authors of textbooks hate used books because they don't get any additional revenue. Which is why you'll see your standard freshman class books change every other year. How does Calc 101 change every year? The author changes one example replacing X with Y, and then can rev the book and get another $45 in revenue.
With an eBook with DRM, they'll make it so while the book might not cost $45, every student will be forced to buy it 'new' every year.
I don't understand why the government officials that are funding/sponsoring this crap aren't forced to go through all the scanners and such.
Why do they get to fly on private jets and such without having to go through the same invasive searches as the rest of us.
Someone should make all of congress and the executive branch go through this crap before they board their own "all first class", caviar and champagne filled jets.
How much fuel and money could we save if instead of putting congress/executive branch in first class chairs, we stuffed them into cattle car like the rest of us that fly?
To quote Animal Farm, "All animals are created equal, yet some animals are more equal than others."
Try breaking your wrist and having your hand/forearm in a cast...
Exodus' solution was for me to use my left hand, upside down in the scanner and retake the initial scan since they only use right handed hand scanners.
You do realize that there are "services" that 99.9999% of the population must rely on. Like WAN/Network Services. I believe people were using the term "WAN Cloud" well before the term was applied to server/application clouds.
Dunno about you but the company that I work for (very large IT company), doesn't own all the dark fibre in between it's world wide sites and leases quite a few WAN circuits from various telco providers.
If I switch out pickup A for pickup B and then go back to A, how to I make sure i'm going to get the same sound in the second 'A' as in the first... It's bad enough when you put on new strings...
I'm a bassist and I have a Musicman Stingray and a Sterling. Two basses with different pickup magnets and different bodies. Is it worth the modularity to avoid having to spend say another $1500 on a bass? If you're serious about music, you'll just get two instruments one with each sound.
You forgot the fact that when you work with a PRIVATE party, you have to agree to a legal document up front. Want to approve of every single employee that works on your system? Get it in the contract (aka "Statement of Work"). Want to make sure nobody works on it that is not a US citizen? Get it in the contract. Uptime? Unscheduled outages? Scheduled Outages? How long it takes for a part to get on side?
Get it in the contract. And if they're in breach, set the lawyers on them and get your money back.
Good luck doing that with Dept 8675309 and the long bearded fellow, who's thinking about retiring or the young kid who dreams of quitting and going to Facebook.
The trickle down effect here will be that housing prices will continue to go up, making it much harder for those that are not part of IPOs to get into a home (either first time).
Housing in the Silicon Valley is already brutal. A "starter home" which is 3 bedroom, 2.5bath and about 1600sq ft is already at $500,000. And that is in a neighborhood that doesn't have "desirable schools." Oh yeah and you're 10ft from all of your neighbors. We're not talking acreage here.
What if you want to have "desirable schools"? Then that exact same house would cost about $1million.
I've always told people when they consider living in the silicon valley, move here right out of college. That way, since you're used to being poor, it'll be an easy transition. Try selling your 3000sq, $300k home in RTP North Carolina and moving out here with a family of 5.
...Join em.
This is a much better tree, has atleast a hundred different versions on it...
http://www.levenez.com/unix/
Image from wikimedia of the UNIX Family Tree
While the Guitar Hero guitar was a PITA for retailers (huge box, took up space), it wasn't the game itself that sold people, nor the controller. It was when people put the controller on, that it conveyed a feeling of "I'm a rock star".
That feeling itself is what made GH a great game. Same holds true to flight sims, driving games with steering wheels and plastic guns. They add an emotion to the game that isn't there with a gamepad/joystick/keyboard+mouse.
I got a chance to meet Kai Huang at a class I was taking and he was telling me that when they brought the controller to the VC guys. The VC guy put on the controller and before even playing the game told Kai and his brother that he was sold on it. The VC guy said, "I don't know how to play guitar, but I feel like a rock star!"
Partitions in solaris are so.... 1996.
e10k was a POS.... though it was trying mighty hard to keep up with LPARs under AIX...
In the movie, he was on a panel of some press conference and after he spoke, he forgot to take off his wireless microphone and headed off the mensroom whereby the sounds of his visit were broadcast over the PA system.
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The problem with this model can be seen with any other device that uses rechargeable batteries.
You've got a brand new laptop, and I've got a 1 year old one. Would you swap your battery out for mine? Probably not. For me this is great, I get a brand new battery that will hold a full charge. You on the other hand will get one that discharges much quicker.
Personally, if I'm buying a new battery, I want it until I decide to replace it. Not after a 200mi drive.
This isn't like the Blue Rhino propane tanks used with gas grills. Those don't wear out due to too many uses.Also, if your old tank rusts out, you can buy a new, empty one for not very much.
Oh yeah and what happens if the battery swapping station has no more batteries that are ready to go? Go count the number of cars that fill up per hour at a gas station. Would you need that number of batteries in standby, if it required one hour to charge?
How long would it take to charge and how many charging stations would there be? If it takes an hour to charge, and all the charging stations are full, you could end up waiting quite a while...
Not really fun if you've got a bunch of kids in the back.
Tesla: For people with too much disposable income who want to look like they care about the environment.
I manage the storage for a mainframe environment for a large retailer. Our busy season is pretty much now through the end of January. Not only are we in a 'holiday freeze', but we procure additional resources from IBM during this season and then IBM takes them back when we no longer need the resources at the end of the holiday season.
On the other hand, my coworkers who work in open systems, install quite a bit new hardware every August/September in preparation for the holiday rush, and then it sits idle come February/March.
Why it may seem expensive, it is quite efficient to be able to have X number of CPUs in use, and Y CPUs physically installed but not leased, so that if we get crushed at 8am on 'black friday', the admins or our management software can enable those CPUs based upon load. We of course get charged for it. If our load doesn't need the CPU cycles, then we don't enable them and subsequently don't get charged for them.
So it's all great that the CapEx costs for CentOS are much lower than those for RHEL, however, what are the OpEx costs associated with the two? For most companies the initial expenses to purchase a product are nothing compared to those that are required to maintain it over the life of the product.