I think the fact that other countries (like India) can launch into space for a fraction of what it costs NASA shows that a private American company can as well.
It has been structurally different in every company I've been in. Especially smaller ones. Sometimes IT reports to the CFO to keep costs in check. Sometimes to COO to get business processes automated and computerized. And if you're lucky you have a CTO who reports to the CEO/board but is free to make decisions.
Most companies view IT as pure overhead and try to micromanage it's budget out of fear of excess spending. I can't blame them. Once upon a time all you paid for was an office and some basic office supplies. Now your yearly software license costs alone rival your rent.
A better motivation would be to stick close to their IT department to make sure both sides understand what the businesses goals and visions are.
"We want to mobilize out sales force"
"We want a stronger web presence"
"We want ensure 24/7 up time even in the case of a disaster"
"We want to make X process and Y process work together more seemlessly using available technology"
Getting lost in small details or second guessing the decisions of the IT people you pay to make IT decisions for you ends up hurting businesses. Like "Hey! Stop buying $100 antivirus software buy $19.99 ones!" If IT has to waste time cleaning viruses and reformating machines then they have no time to plan for future growth or to research solutions to real business problems. It stifles growth and wastes money in other areas.
Theoretical performance vs real-world performance
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Yes it's true. In some real-world applications an algorithm encounters it's worst case running time more than the predicted theoretical average case running time. This is where case by case optimizations come into play.
Knuth never claimed the algorithm was the best choice in YOUR particular case. Don't drag his name through your sensational mud for the sake of your slashvertisement.
It has office 2007 trial, mcafee security stuff trial, various apps that run in the background to handle multitouch stuff, screen rotation, net book to tablet mode, face recognition, etc.
The most annoying thing is the mcafee since it pops up every time you do something and asks you if you're sure. The other thing that sucks is that it's multitouch. At least with other tablet pcs you have a stylus and can accurately 'click' on things. On this every time I try to hit minimize I end up closing the window lol... It works well in net book mode and it's decently light. Also it comes with win7 starter edition so you'll have to upgrade to pro to get all the multitouch stuff.
With the total cost of ownership people should consider getting a normal net book plus an iPad. Or if you handle IT purchasing like I do, just buy them all under your R&D budget:)
It's tricky. Once a product/service reaches a point where it's widely used and relied upon by users it potentially becomes a marketplace. The question is should it be considered a part of the rest of the "market" and be regulated as a free market like the rest of our market? How do you define what qualifies to be considered a market that should be free and open? By number of users? Value of potential revenue? Or should it all be free and open? I can't run an Ad network on PS3, Wii, etc. So why is the iPhone singled out?
I'm in the market for an affordable mac mini sized computer (with similar specs, i.e. no Atom) to use with my TV. I find my PS3 just doesn't cut it anymore since it won't play ALL media formats (lame).
So ya, I agree with parent. MAKE THE CASES SMALLER!
When I look out my office window (I know "OMG HE HAS WINDOW!") I see into the office of some stock traders and they each have 8 monitors (2 rows of 4).
Guys like them are probably the target audience. Also places like Network Operation Centers usually have a lot of screens displaying various maps, graphs, charts, etc
How do you backup TB's of data across many drives? Then how do you ensure your disks dont get damaged on the ride to the bank/vault? How do you store hundreds of disks?
If you're a small business that can get away with backing up to a couple external drives then you probably don't need tapes. If you can afford to have ALL of your data replicated to multiple sites and those sites can keep backups/archives running on live disks then you probably don't need tapes.
In my case, today I sent out 9 LTO4 tapes (each holds upto 1.6TB) to the vault. I couldn't manage 9 disks. With tapes I just put them in the tape library and it manages everything itself, moves them around, knows which tape has what data, what can be overwritten, etc. Everyday it gives me a list of tapes to bring back from the vault and it gives me a list of tapes to take to the vault. The courier throws them in his bag and goes on his way. There's nothing delicate that will easily break.
The tapes cost about $40 each. A drive costs probably $1000. My tape library cost like $10,000, it has two drives and holds around 40 tapes.
This article claims the average user is locked in to $100 worth of apps. That's nothing compared to being locked into games for the wii, ps3, xbox... I have probably $1000 worth of ps3 games.
Also, if someone buys $100 worth of android or blackberry apps then, surprise surprise, they can only use them on whichever device they purchased them for and are locked in.
The only way to be free and not locked in is for the PUBLISHERS to allow people to download versions of their apps/media for any platform they want. It's not up to the platform owners since they don't own the media in question
It was probably one (some) of their client's servers that got hacked and used in the collection of the credentials. The client found out that they got hacked and demanded that Symantec explain what happen. Symantec investigated and found out.
They're not going to say "a server we were protecting with our products got hacked and was used in an operation to steal 44 million credentials..."
I don't think it is. I always see "no vibration/movement issues" listed as a "pro" in all SSD vs HDD reviews. Plus SSDs don't have any moving parts.
Is you comment based on this part of the article?
SSD value. Flash SSDs have fast random read access. But disks can improve their performance by 50% through vibration damping, that changes value proposition for SSDs.
I think the author is saying that if you can improve performance by 50% then there's less value in moving to SSDs that previously thought.
It's still a map, doesn't matter what the scale is. In fact, no maps (of cities, the world, etc) are 1:1 because they would have to be the same size as what they are mapping.
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Are there normal image files we can download? I'm not installing Silverlight just to see pictures...
Here's a summary:
1. Make $100 million dollar movie.
2. Gross $480 million dollars at the box office.
3. ???
4. Epic profit!
Jobs said let there be the iPhone 4 and there was the iPhone 4 and Jobs saw the iPhone 4 and said it was good. Then he sent them forth to multiply.
But he never actually held it and made a call with it. That was the problem.
"We're boned." - Adobe's CEO
That data isn't just going to magically appear.
at least not until the quantum iPad is released.
I don't know how you got any of that from what I wrote... All I said is that it's not unfathomable for the private sector to do it cheaper.
I think the fact that other countries (like India) can launch into space for a fraction of what it costs NASA shows that a private American company can as well.
It has been structurally different in every company I've been in. Especially smaller ones. Sometimes IT reports to the CFO to keep costs in check. Sometimes to COO to get business processes automated and computerized. And if you're lucky you have a CTO who reports to the CEO/board but is free to make decisions.
Most companies view IT as pure overhead and try to micromanage it's budget out of fear of excess spending. I can't blame them. Once upon a time all you paid for was an office and some basic office supplies. Now your yearly software license costs alone rival your rent.
A better motivation would be to stick close to their IT department to make sure both sides understand what the businesses goals and visions are.
"We want to mobilize out sales force"
"We want a stronger web presence"
"We want ensure 24/7 up time even in the case of a disaster"
"We want to make X process and Y process work together more seemlessly using available technology"
Getting lost in small details or second guessing the decisions of the IT people you pay to make IT decisions for you ends up hurting businesses. Like "Hey! Stop buying $100 antivirus software buy $19.99 ones!" If IT has to waste time cleaning viruses and reformating machines then they have no time to plan for future growth or to research solutions to real business problems. It stifles growth and wastes money in other areas.
No, of course not! I would ask "how high?"
Yes it's true. In some real-world applications an algorithm encounters it's worst case running time more than the predicted theoretical average case running time. This is where case by case optimizations come into play.
Knuth never claimed the algorithm was the best choice in YOUR particular case. Don't drag his name through your sensational mud for the sake of your slashvertisement.
It has office 2007 trial, mcafee security stuff trial, various apps that run in the background to handle multitouch stuff, screen rotation, net book to tablet mode, face recognition, etc.
:)
The most annoying thing is the mcafee since it pops up every time you do something and asks you if you're sure. The other thing that sucks is that it's multitouch. At least with other tablet pcs you have a stylus and can accurately 'click' on things. On this every time I try to hit minimize I end up closing the window lol... It works well in net book mode and it's decently light. Also it comes with win7 starter edition so you'll have to upgrade to pro to get all the multitouch stuff.
With the total cost of ownership people should consider getting a normal net book plus an iPad. Or if you handle IT purchasing like I do, just buy them all under your R&D budget
It's tricky. Once a product/service reaches a point where it's widely used and relied upon by users it potentially becomes a marketplace. The question is should it be considered a part of the rest of the "market" and be regulated as a free market like the rest of our market? How do you define what qualifies to be considered a market that should be free and open? By number of users? Value of potential revenue? Or should it all be free and open? I can't run an Ad network on PS3, Wii, etc. So why is the iPhone singled out?
I'm in the market for an affordable mac mini sized computer (with similar specs, i.e. no Atom) to use with my TV. I find my PS3 just doesn't cut it anymore since it won't play ALL media formats (lame).
So ya, I agree with parent. MAKE THE CASES SMALLER!
We're talking characters in a language not words in a dictionary...
2001 jokes!
Tower: AirHAL you are cleared for takeoff.
AirHAL: I'm sorry Tower, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Just the fact that the US is pushing so hard for this makes people believe that the US government has UFOs and aliens.
When I look out my office window (I know "OMG HE HAS WINDOW!") I see into the office of some stock traders and they each have 8 monitors (2 rows of 4).
Guys like them are probably the target audience. Also places like Network Operation Centers usually have a lot of screens displaying various maps, graphs, charts, etc
This will go great next to my sarcasm detector!
How do you backup TB's of data across many drives? Then how do you ensure your disks dont get damaged on the ride to the bank/vault? How do you store hundreds of disks?
If you're a small business that can get away with backing up to a couple external drives then you probably don't need tapes. If you can afford to have ALL of your data replicated to multiple sites and those sites can keep backups/archives running on live disks then you probably don't need tapes.
In my case, today I sent out 9 LTO4 tapes (each holds upto 1.6TB) to the vault. I couldn't manage 9 disks. With tapes I just put them in the tape library and it manages everything itself, moves them around, knows which tape has what data, what can be overwritten, etc. Everyday it gives me a list of tapes to bring back from the vault and it gives me a list of tapes to take to the vault. The courier throws them in his bag and goes on his way. There's nothing delicate that will easily break.
The tapes cost about $40 each. A drive costs probably $1000. My tape library cost like $10,000, it has two drives and holds around 40 tapes.
This article claims the average user is locked in to $100 worth of apps. That's nothing compared to being locked into games for the wii, ps3, xbox... I have probably $1000 worth of ps3 games.
Also, if someone buys $100 worth of android or blackberry apps then, surprise surprise, they can only use them on whichever device they purchased them for and are locked in.
The only way to be free and not locked in is for the PUBLISHERS to allow people to download versions of their apps/media for any platform they want. It's not up to the platform owners since they don't own the media in question
It was probably one (some) of their client's servers that got hacked and used in the collection of the credentials. The client found out that they got hacked and demanded that Symantec explain what happen. Symantec investigated and found out.
They're not going to say "a server we were protecting with our products got hacked and was used in an operation to steal 44 million credentials..."
To this day that magical sound of two modems negotiating a connection gets me excited.
BEEEEEEP, CHIRP, CHIRP, KTWANG, shhhhhh, SHHHHHHH!!!
Is you comment based on this part of the article?
SSD value. Flash SSDs have fast random read access. But disks can improve their performance by 50% through vibration damping, that changes value proposition for SSDs.
I think the author is saying that if you can improve performance by 50% then there's less value in moving to SSDs that previously thought.
Everyone knows the biggest file sharers in the world are Canadian.
Damn straight!
It's still a map, doesn't matter what the scale is. In fact, no maps (of cities, the world, etc) are 1:1 because they would have to be the same size as what they are mapping.