The thing is that you can never estimate the difference correctly if it's about algorithmization.
You can compare two CODERS on the quality of CODE, but how can you evaluate the gain from me coming to the company, learning everything about the task in two hours and spending another two hours for generating an intuitive algorithm that was a million times better than everything three people have thought of in three months?;-)
Even though I might loose some precious karma to a stupid moderator, I have an advice for you regarding your health. Start doing qi-gong or some form of yoga; it will help you to restore health and get more stamina and endurance (for example, I can drive for 7 hours straight and still be able to move after; I was pretty much dead after driving for 4 hours before I started qi-gong).
It is not a panacea, but it helps a lot.
Visit www.qi.org for info.
The ONLY STRENGTH of any union is in its EXCLUSIVITY.
It means that in order to get workers, a company MUST deal with THE union (and there is no competition between unions). It works the same way from the other end of the "Employer - Union - Employee" line, i.e., in order to get a job, someone MUST become a union member.
If you neglect this exclusivity, you lose the only good point because the union can't protect its members because it can't prevent employer from getting non-unionized employees. This exclusivity is the only line of defence for any union (if you fire this union member, you're risking a strike).
Thus, the regular union rules apply, and incompetent idiot who calls himself a programmer after graduating from 3-month VB classes lawfully gets the same salary as Master of Science in Computer Science:-(
Another effect is that you'll be PROHIBITED FROM PROGRAMMING if you're not a union member in the unionized enterprise; any user who writes his own Excel or Word macros can be prosecuted;-)
The thing is that no one likes to be an ISP besides the big guys because it is not that profitable.
Qwest has sold 500K users, got a lot of money for marketing MSN, and kept its jewel - the DSL network charges ($30+/mo). They have just sold their ISP unit.
My friend used to own an ISP that went out of cash and could no longer continue operations. Local 800-pound gorilla ISP did not buy them as a company with all their equipment, people and debts, but paid some money for the servers and the customers (and hired some of the tech support people).
After that his company got belly up, but the customers continued to be served by the new ISP (transition was horrible, as it always happens;-).
It is that their information and the cost of failure are not critical. If one of the Google's servers (or hard drives) dies they can just find out what pages were stored there (from the master DB) and reload them into the storage on a new PC (and I'm sure they have some PCs with identical data).
Now imagine an e-commerce site built like that. Loss of any part of user list or merchandise catalog is a major failure. This is why such sites are usually powered by a moderate (typical site) to huge (Amazon, eBay) database with an enormous redundancy built in.
And no, Linux on IBM/390 WILL NOT help them because it is just an emulation, and disk arrays of this one huge computer will get swamped by the billions of read requests (the same way they will get swamped on Starfire or the same S390 under OS390). The entire idea of the setup is that you have a lot of independent disk channels.
Another interesting insight is that they have done some improvement to administering all of these machines remotely. Otherwise they will blow all their money on paying sysadmins;-)
Don't you think that such a thing as cloning an organ (or cloning an "organ donor") will be too expensive?
The problem is not just with "riches only" sign at the door initially; the problem is with rising cost of medical care in general. Everyone will want this, and organ cloning will becone the mainstream eventually, thus making the insurance cost to rise even more (I've become self-employed again after 2.5 years at the company just to discover that the cost of insurance has jumped from 140/month 3 years ago to 235/month now).
As for the costs, they are in general like a pension when a younger generation pays for the retirement and medical needs of the older ones (try to remember how often have you seen a doctor lately). If cloning will add its enormous cost to the rising cost of drugs and medical care, developed countries where the age distribution is leaning towards sharp increase in the retirees will just go bancrupt.
The thing is that he started the entire lawyer nonsense under the motto: "You're a small guy, so you're the victim of big bad corporations".
This spawned a wave of "Pay me and my lawyer millions for my poor doggie because you haven't put a clause about not drying it in your microwave into the instruction" crap.
It has transformed the American Dream into suing the shit out of someone instead of making the money honest way. "I'm stupid, and you need to pay me millions" became the slogan that allows lawyers harvest billions.
Just read this: http://www.wellingtonpublications.com/hsf/1994/res ponsibility/
It is the set of essays written by schoolchildren that illustrate the results that Naderism inflicted on this country.
Do you remember the main principle of the goverment spending described there?
Why spend shitload of money for something if you can spend two times more money?;-)
In the reality, you'll spend just 20-30% more money to get two copies!
One thing that MIR-2 can do is to engage some of the economics of scale in the Russian space program. A lot of things can be made interchangeable with the Russian modules of the ISS thus making them less expensive. The reason for this is that the tools to produce something that complex and precise comprises the lion's share of the overall costs (try remembering how much a fab for making processors costs versus the cost of one processor).
So, making the second replica after the tooling is built bears marginal costs.
... but the news about company X moving to the Open Source software won't lift its stock the same way as the news about blowing a few thousands of employees.
The reason for that is a totally rotten system of Wall Street with a vultures aka "respected industry analysts" running the show. I remember how HP had an excellent quarter and exceeded the numbers, but the stock had dropped because one of them told that the growth in the UNIX servers was "just a 15%".
Reducing the workforce significantly decreases a company's liability on about everything - pensions, health and other benefits, labor expenses and the amount of computer seats necessary whether computer is just a piece of metal, and software cost is just a small slice of the expense pie.
SUN tries to get some share of the desktop market with thin computers; they also have a new MAGC chip to power the appliances. Buying Be makes sense for them.
I've found Treatise of Love more than a year ago in Russian. The quaity of the English translation was really bad then, but now it's reasonably acceptable.
This Treatise looks at the process of mating among humans through ETHOLOGY that is the science about instincts. It explains pretty well a lot of "love stories" from the literature and geek problems with the opposite sex as well as my personal experience (both negative and positive). Besides that, it has some practical recommendations for both men and women.
However, the Treatise was originally written in Russian, so it might be somehow alien to the English speaker. For example, position of author on adopted children is not what most people in modern American society would think.
When reading the Treatise, have in mind George Costanza and Kramer as the brightest illustration to the difference between cornet and captain described in the Treatise I've found in the contemporary American subculture so far.
I live North-East from the Washington Square, and can't get DSL either. But at least the dialup is usually 49,333.
Are you sure your modem and computer are OK?
I had some experience when a modem was giving between 32K and 38K until I put it into different box where it started working significantly faster, up to aforementioned 49,333.
This processor is like the Subj - mean and lean, but completely non-practical. I mean, it's cool to brag while having one, but the ratio of price/usefullness is pretty low for both.
Another thing in common b/w the two is that both are cool from the technological point of view. Engine revving to 9000 RPM (No, it is not Redhat packages;-) with 120 hp/litre is pretty innovative, the same way as the processor that is one of the first reaping the full benefits of DDR.
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It IS news or even a discovery for some nerds :-(
;-)
And it matters for both men and women
The thing is that you can never estimate the difference correctly if it's about algorithmization.
;-)
You can compare two CODERS on the quality of CODE, but how can you evaluate the gain from me coming to the company, learning everything about the task in two hours and spending another two hours for generating an intuitive algorithm that was a million times better than everything three people have thought of in three months?
Even though I might loose some precious karma to a stupid moderator, I have an advice for you regarding your health. Start doing qi-gong or some form of yoga; it will help you to restore health and get more stamina and endurance (for example, I can drive for 7 hours straight and still be able to move after; I was pretty much dead after driving for 4 hours before I started qi-gong).
It is not a panacea, but it helps a lot.
Visit www.qi.org for info.
Moderation is sacrificed ...
:-(
;-)
The ONLY STRENGTH of any union is in its EXCLUSIVITY.
It means that in order to get workers, a company MUST deal with THE union (and there is no competition between unions). It works the same way from the other end of the "Employer - Union - Employee" line, i.e., in order to get a job, someone MUST become a union member.
If you neglect this exclusivity, you lose the only good point because the union can't protect its members because it can't prevent employer from getting non-unionized employees. This exclusivity is the only line of defence for any union (if you fire this union member, you're risking a strike).
Thus, the regular union rules apply, and incompetent idiot who calls himself a programmer after graduating from 3-month VB classes lawfully gets the same salary as Master of Science in Computer Science
Another effect is that you'll be PROHIBITED FROM PROGRAMMING if you're not a union member in the unionized enterprise; any user who writes his own Excel or Word macros can be prosecuted
I wouldn't even buy customers since the majority would come to the local leader anyway ;-)
But it happened a lot of Internet time ago (end of 97 or 98 IIRC).
The thing is that no one likes to be an ISP besides the big guys because it is not that profitable.
Qwest has sold 500K users, got a lot of money for marketing MSN, and kept its jewel - the DSL network charges ($30+/mo). They have just sold their ISP unit.
My friend used to own an ISP that went out of cash and could no longer continue operations. Local 800-pound gorilla ISP did not buy them as a company with all their equipment, people and debts, but paid some money for the servers and the customers (and hired some of the tech support people).
;-).
After that his company got belly up, but the customers continued to be served by the new ISP (transition was horrible, as it always happens
It is that their information and the cost of failure are not critical. If one of the Google's servers (or hard drives) dies they can just find out what pages were stored there (from the master DB) and reload them into the storage on a new PC (and I'm sure they have some PCs with identical data).
;-)
Now imagine an e-commerce site built like that. Loss of any part of user list or merchandise catalog is a major failure. This is why such sites are usually powered by a moderate (typical site) to huge (Amazon, eBay) database with an enormous redundancy built in.
And no, Linux on IBM/390 WILL NOT help them because it is just an emulation, and disk arrays of this one huge computer will get swamped by the billions of read requests (the same way they will get swamped on Starfire or the same S390 under OS390). The entire idea of the setup is that you have a lot of independent disk channels.
Another interesting insight is that they have done some improvement to administering all of these machines remotely. Otherwise they will blow all their money on paying sysadmins
Isn't prohibiting a cloned person's entrance into the US an example of clear discrimination?
It is not this person's fault, he has not made a decision to be cloned. Why has he pay?
... a Beowulf cluster of brainless Taco clones mowing the lawn? ;-)
Don't you think that such a thing as cloning an organ (or cloning an "organ donor") will be too expensive?
The problem is not just with "riches only" sign at the door initially; the problem is with rising cost of medical care in general. Everyone will want this, and organ cloning will becone the mainstream eventually, thus making the insurance cost to rise even more (I've become self-employed again after 2.5 years at the company just to discover that the cost of insurance has jumped from 140/month 3 years ago to 235/month now).
As for the costs, they are in general like a pension when a younger generation pays for the retirement and medical needs of the older ones (try to remember how often have you seen a doctor lately). If cloning will add its enormous cost to the rising cost of drugs and medical care, developed countries where the age distribution is leaning towards sharp increase in the retirees will just go bancrupt.
Clone without a brain is a better speller ;-)
what you've forgotten to notice, is the line of thinking "We have had a lot of grief, so someone has to pay monetarily".
Courts became the instrument of greed and "wealth redistribution".
Really.
s ponsibility/
The thing is that he started the entire lawyer nonsense under the motto: "You're a small guy, so you're the victim of big bad corporations".
This spawned a wave of "Pay me and my lawyer millions for my poor doggie because you haven't put a clause about not drying it in your microwave into the instruction" crap.
It has transformed the American Dream into suing the shit out of someone instead of making the money honest way. "I'm stupid, and you need to pay me millions" became the slogan that allows lawyers harvest billions.
Just read this: http://www.wellingtonpublications.com/hsf/1994/re
It is the set of essays written by schoolchildren that illustrate the results that Naderism inflicted on this country.
Do you remember the main principle of the goverment spending described there?
;-)
Why spend shitload of money for something if you can spend two times more money?
In the reality, you'll spend just 20-30% more money to get two copies!
One thing that MIR-2 can do is to engage some of the economics of scale in the Russian space program. A lot of things can be made interchangeable with the Russian modules of the ISS thus making them less expensive. The reason for this is that the tools to produce something that complex and precise comprises the lion's share of the overall costs (try remembering how much a fab for making processors costs versus the cost of one processor).
So, making the second replica after the tooling is built bears marginal costs.
... but the news about company X moving to the Open Source software won't lift its stock the same way as the news about blowing a few thousands of employees.
The reason for that is a totally rotten system of Wall Street with a vultures aka "respected industry analysts" running the show. I remember how HP had an excellent quarter and exceeded the numbers, but the stock had dropped because one of them told that the growth in the UNIX servers was "just a 15%".
Reducing the workforce significantly decreases a company's liability on about everything - pensions, health and other benefits, labor expenses and the amount of computer seats necessary whether computer is just a piece of metal, and software cost is just a small slice of the expense pie.
Can you believe, I've sent this article to /. leadership to make an editorial, but they refused to publish it! :-(
...
Maybe, I need to become another ESR before they do that
SUN tries to get some share of the desktop market with thin computers; they also have a new MAGC chip to power the appliances. Buying Be makes sense for them.
I've found Treatise of Love more than a year ago in Russian. The quaity of the English translation was really bad then, but now it's reasonably acceptable.
This Treatise looks at the process of mating among humans through ETHOLOGY that is the science about instincts. It explains pretty well a lot of "love stories" from the literature and geek problems with the opposite sex as well as my personal experience (both negative and positive). Besides that, it has some practical recommendations for both men and women.
However, the Treatise was originally written in Russian, so it might be somehow alien to the English speaker. For example, position of author on adopted children is not what most people in modern American society would think.
When reading the Treatise, have in mind George Costanza and Kramer as the brightest illustration to the difference between cornet and captain described in the Treatise I've found in the contemporary American subculture so far.
The first thing Saddam will do is nuke the /. server location in order to silence Jon Katz ;-)
I used to contract in the US Geological Survey in one of the Vancouver, WA, so I've seen some maps.
Think of the seismic zone that caused the latest earthquake in Seattle; the entire city might have one big BSOD one day.
Having a nuclear reactor there would be a suicidal decision (not that I dislike the joke above).
It would be too good to be true, as Bill Gates would comment such a news ;-)
I live North-East from the Washington Square, and can't get DSL either. But at least the dialup is usually 49,333.
Are you sure your modem and computer are OK?
I had some experience when a modem was giving between 32K and 38K until I put it into different box where it started working significantly faster, up to aforementioned 49,333.
GCC has made revolution by itself in the world where a professional compiler/development studio might cost four digits.
It was the one who spawned the entire revolution.
This processor is like the Subj - mean and lean, but completely non-practical. I mean, it's cool to brag while having one, but the ratio of price/usefullness is pretty low for both.
;-) with 120 hp/litre is pretty innovative, the same way as the processor that is one of the first reaping the full benefits of DDR.
Another thing in common b/w the two is that both are cool from the technological point of view. Engine revving to 9000 RPM (No, it is not Redhat packages