Not every job requires 100% attention 100% of the time. I have a friend, for example, who spends much of his night shift sitting. His duty is making sure none of the juveniles in custody leave through the door next to him.
Correct. However, theodp is quite the anti-patent submitter who has a particular habit of posting anti-Amazon stories -- all his stories have a sensationalist, borderline flamebait bias to them.
Quantum computing is getting a fair bit of funding. D-Wave, as the primary example, raised $44 million from various sources. I agree with you if someone wanted to start up another AMD to build Intel clones... that's 100% crazy. But for someone with a new type of processor (like quantum ones) that have an amazing amount of (theoretical) potential, it's worth the risk given the potential upside.
But there is a silver lining: capital is no longer necessary to start companies.
That's very true for software-based businesses. However, imagine someone with a great idea for a new type of processor that wants to compete with Intel. There's a LOT of capital required for manufacturing-based businesses in order to do proper R&D, establish factories, and so on... assuming the concept is so radically different that it can't be outsourced to existing fabrication plants.
Um, the problem isn't a lack of repairmen Mr Malkin - it's a lack of electricity. A problem which this incubator doesn't fix. (No, the motorcycle battery isn't a fix. It's a backup. With no electricity, this incubator dies just as dead as a high tech one.)
Not a problem. A small motorcycle internal combustion engine could run continuously to provide electricity via a generator. Now all that's required are babies that breathe carbon monoxide.
The difference is that for a new TLD, ICANN estimates the fees involved as:
The Evaluation Fee is designed to make the new gTLD program self-funding only. This was a recommendation of the Generic names Supporting Organization (GNSO). A detailed costing methodology â" including historical program development costs, and predictable and uncertain costs associated with processing new gTLD applications through to delegation in the root zone â" estimates a per applicant fee of $US185,000. This is the estimated cost per evaluation in the first application round.
The fee also includes $US100,000 per applicant relating to both fixed and variable costs of processing each application.
So if you have $100,000 to give to ICANN plus another $85K or so for expenses, you can have your proposal for.goatse or.profit considered. For a non-profit organization, it's surprising that it costs $100K for just the application fee. Given that they're essentially opening the floodgates for new TLDs, surely their historic costs for organizational overhead with maintaining only a few TLDs will drop drastically, such that the absurd fees they're charging will no longer be warranted.
I predict the ICANN board members and key employees will be given very hefty bonuses and pay raises to offset the potential for profits.
You do realize that the concept of "raising" involves presenting something that's actually better? Those cheesy yuk-yuk Novell ads don't even hold a candle to the power and quality of the IBM ad.
Tux: [points to someone behind Steve Jobs] You there! What is your distro? Random guy: I am Mac OS X, sir. Tux: [points to another one] And you, what is your distro? Another one: OS X, sir. [turns to a third] Tux: And you? Third one: Mac OS X. Tux: [turns around to his people] Linux! WHAT IS YOUR DISTRIBUTION? Linux: [random cries of Red Hat, Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE, Slackware, YellowDog, DamnSmallLinux... each person a different one] Tux: [turning to Steve Jobs] You see, old friend? I brought more distros than you did.
"While it is true that ext3 is more resistant to file fragmentation than FAT, and NTFS filesystems, nonetheless ext3 filesystems can and do get fragmented over time.[14] Consequently the successor to the ext3 filesystem, ext4, includes a filesystem defragmentation utility and support for extents (contiguous file regions)."
Contig (part of the Sysinternals suite) will do this on a file-by-file basis. I have this setup nightly to go through my user directory and defrag individual files which tends to speed the system up a fair bit.
The problem with just throwing hardware at the problem is that it identifies that the application doesn't scale very well. What happens when your usage requirements double or triple? Now you have to go out and get three racks instead of just one? Wouldn't it have been better making the software itself more efficient?
The other fallacy that this exposes is that hardware maintains itself. It doesn't. Proper operation of hardware requires IT staff, which are similarly expensive.
I agree with the premise that if a company is operating in bootstrap mode, just keep pushing and throw as much hardware as is required. However, once you get beyond a certain level of success it makes sense to pause for a bit and optimize what you have. That way, you can continue to grow and get more scalability out of the hardware that you already have.
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Not every job requires 100% attention 100% of the time. I have a friend, for example, who spends much of his night shift sitting. His duty is making sure none of the juveniles in custody leave through the door next to him.
Wouldn't a door lock do an equally good job?
Correct. However, theodp is quite the anti-patent submitter who has a particular habit of posting anti-Amazon stories -- all his stories have a sensationalist, borderline flamebait bias to them.
No one with any sense will fund them.
Quantum computing is getting a fair bit of funding. D-Wave, as the primary example, raised $44 million from various sources. I agree with you if someone wanted to start up another AMD to build Intel clones... that's 100% crazy. But for someone with a new type of processor (like quantum ones) that have an amazing amount of (theoretical) potential, it's worth the risk given the potential upside.
But there is a silver lining: capital is no longer necessary to start companies.
That's very true for software-based businesses. However, imagine someone with a great idea for a new type of processor that wants to compete with Intel. There's a LOT of capital required for manufacturing-based businesses in order to do proper R&D, establish factories, and so on... assuming the concept is so radically different that it can't be outsourced to existing fabrication plants.
a $180-dollar value bonus
Note: when you put the $ sign before 180, you pronounce it "one hundred eighty dollars". You don't need the redundant "-dollar" [sic] after.
Of course, replacing an estimated $70 million a year in revenue is easier said than done, especially if these types of search deals dry up.
You can infer a lot about the OS from the way it crafts it's packets.
Similarly, you can learn a lot about a person from the way it crafts it is sentences.
Um, the problem isn't a lack of repairmen Mr Malkin - it's a lack of electricity. A problem which this incubator doesn't fix. (No, the motorcycle battery isn't a fix. It's a backup. With no electricity, this incubator dies just as dead as a high tech one.)
Not a problem. A small motorcycle internal combustion engine could run continuously to provide electricity via a generator. Now all that's required are babies that breathe carbon monoxide.
The difference is that for a new TLD, ICANN estimates the fees involved as:
The Evaluation Fee is designed to make the new gTLD program self-funding only. This was a recommendation of the Generic names Supporting Organization (GNSO). A detailed costing methodology â" including historical program development costs, and predictable and uncertain costs associated with processing new gTLD applications through to delegation in the root zone â" estimates a per applicant fee of $US185,000. This is the estimated cost per evaluation in the first application round.
The fee also includes $US100,000 per applicant relating to both fixed and variable costs of processing each application.
So if you have $100,000 to give to ICANN plus another $85K or so for expenses, you can have your proposal for .goatse or .profit considered. For a non-profit organization, it's surprising that it costs $100K for just the application fee. Given that they're essentially opening the floodgates for new TLDs, surely their historic costs for organizational overhead with maintaining only a few TLDs will drop drastically, such that the absurd fees they're charging will no longer be warranted.
I predict the ICANN board members and key employees will be given very hefty bonuses and pay raises to offset the potential for profits.
havent figured out what kph are but are too lazy to look it up
It's the unit of measure for vehicular velocity...
No, it's a measurement of speed, not velocity. Velocity is speed + a directional component. km/h tells you nothing about the direction of travel.
I'll see your IBM and raise you a Novell
You do realize that the concept of "raising" involves presenting something that's actually better? Those cheesy yuk-yuk Novell ads don't even hold a candle to the power and quality of the IBM ad.
Tux: [points to someone behind Steve Jobs] You there! What is your distro?
Random guy: I am Mac OS X, sir.
Tux: [points to another one] And you, what is your distro?
Another one: OS X, sir.
[turns to a third]
Tux: And you?
Third one: Mac OS X.
Tux: [turns around to his people] Linux! WHAT IS YOUR DISTRIBUTION?
Linux: [random cries of Red Hat, Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE, Slackware, YellowDog, DamnSmallLinux... each person a different one]
Tux: [turning to Steve Jobs] You see, old friend? I brought more distros than you did.
The article you quote contradicts your statement:
"While it is true that ext3 is more resistant to file fragmentation than FAT, and NTFS filesystems, nonetheless ext3 filesystems can and do get fragmented over time.[14] Consequently the successor to the ext3 filesystem, ext4, includes a filesystem defragmentation utility and support for extents (contiguous file regions)."
14: "We found heavily fragmented free areas on an intensively used IMAP server which stores all its emails in individual files - although more than 900 GB of the total disk space of 1.4 TB were still available." http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/Tuning-the-Linux-file-system-Ext3--/features/110398/3
Contig (part of the Sysinternals suite) will do this on a file-by-file basis. I have this setup nightly to go through my user directory and defrag individual files which tends to speed the system up a fair bit.
The problem with just throwing hardware at the problem is that it identifies that the application doesn't scale very well. What happens when your usage requirements double or triple? Now you have to go out and get three racks instead of just one? Wouldn't it have been better making the software itself more efficient?
The other fallacy that this exposes is that hardware maintains itself. It doesn't. Proper operation of hardware requires IT staff, which are similarly expensive. I agree with the premise that if a company is operating in bootstrap mode, just keep pushing and throw as much hardware as is required. However, once you get beyond a certain level of success it makes sense to pause for a bit and optimize what you have. That way, you can continue to grow and get more scalability out of the hardware that you already have.
The town prostitute is the one who never gets laid?
the office that I have in Dubai is more highly paid for the 8 people there than the 16 (including a CEO) in the Australian office.
Are you trying to say that you pay the office a salary? What does it mean for the office to be highly paid?
Look at me, I advertise via my username the fact that I have a vagina. So mod me up everybody!