Azure has both a IaaS offering but also extra services on top like AWS offers, they are PaaS-like. And they offer some of their other software as well, that would be SaaS.
They can only force you to use Azure IaaS by making licenses expensive for running your own installation of Windows.
Yes, you can get access to the source. But you don't get a license to build binaries from them and use those. Also it can probably only be compiled with their own compiler.
Really, you think these are the fist non-Latin TLDs ? These are just the first more open under the new gTLD process. Non-Latin TLDs have existed for much longer.
We all know solar and wind need a storage system, but batteries are not cheap.
Hydrogen is not really efficient, because you probably want to compress it which takes energy.
But what if energy was dirt cheap ? Would that make hydrogen viable ?
I don't know if we would use hydrogen in the car or if we'll only store it where/when the electricity is generated and transfer it to the car when needed.
I don't even know how expensive the components for hydrogen are. I probably can't predict what the price of batteries will be in 2020 either.
For personal transportation we seem to have decided that it makes sense to move an additional few thousand pounds of vehicle in moving each few hundred pounds of person.
Funny thing you mention this, there is a rise in the use of electric bicycles. Especially in countries that have infrastructure that can bicycles.
So some people are starting to understand this, or maybe it's just more economical.
You could probably download, decompress and process that in Javascript. You might find that if you optimize certain parts with asm.js that it would be about 2x as slow as in native or Java. That might, or might not be acceptable.
Anyway, you can even turn on Java on a per-site basis in Firefox.
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You are forgetting Daala is developed at the IETF and Mozilla by some of the same people that made the patent free Opus audio codec.
Which really is 'best of breed':
http://www.opus-codec.org/comparison/
So have I have at least some fait.
Yeah, I agree, a rate limiter on an authentication system is a security feature.
Never seen it being used that way, but it's possible.
I'm sorry, but I don't consider CAPTCHA a security system.
I would say it's an anti-spam system.
Or Bing Is Not Google.
Azure has both a IaaS offering but also extra services on top like AWS offers, they are PaaS-like. And they offer some of their other software as well, that would be SaaS.
They can only force you to use Azure IaaS by making licenses expensive for running your own installation of Windows.
Windows is not getting cheaper. Windows 2012 R2 is, depending on your needs, 28 procent more epensive than the previouos version:
http://www.vladanseget.com/windows-server-2012-r2-28-percent-more-expensive.html
they use both azure and amazon aws and even some of their own datacenters.
Federated or disitributed is the only solution.
Everything else is useless. As Eben Moglen would say: everything can keep their own logs.
The union should just make their own app.
Yes, you can get access to the source. But you don't get a license to build binaries from them and use those. Also it can probably only be compiled with their own compiler.
Good luck with that.
Anyway, that is why I wouldn't rule it out completely.
Break even has already happend.
Just is solar can't produce power all day long.
Unless you have a large plant with something like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_thermal_energy#Molten_salt_storage
Like a bunch of these have:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_thermal_power_stations
And I made a mistake:
These are just the first under the new more open gTLD process.
Really, you think these are the fist non-Latin TLDs ? These are just the first more open under the new gTLD process. Non-Latin TLDs have existed for much longer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains#Internationalized_country_code_top-level_domains
Here is the full list in Punycode ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode ) of all the now non-Latin TLDs (as slashdot doesn't do UTF-8):
XN--0ZWM56D
XN--11B5BS3A9AJ6G
XN--3E0B707E
XN--45BRJ9C
XN--80AKHBYKNJ4F
XN--80AO21A
XN--80ASEHDB
XN--80ASWG
XN--90A3AC
XN--9T4B11YI5A
XN--CLCHC0EA0B2G2A9GCD
XN--DEBA0AD
XN--FIQS8S
XN--FIQZ9S
XN--FPCRJ9C3D
XN--FZC2C9E2C
XN--G6W251D
XN--GECRJ9C
XN--H2BRJ9C
XN--HGBK6AJ7F53BBA
XN--HLCJ6AYA9ESC7A
XN--J1AMH
XN--J6W193G
XN--JXALPDLP
XN--KGBECHTV
XN--KPRW13D
XN--KPRY57D
XN--L1ACC
XN--LGBBAT1AD8J
XN--MGB9AWBF
XN--MGBA3A4F16A
XN--MGBAAM7A8H
XN--MGBAYH7GPA
XN--MGBBH1A71E
XN--MGBC0A9AZCG
XN--MGBERP4A5D4AR
XN--MGBX4CD0AB
XN--NGBC5AZD
XN--O3CW4H
XN--OGBPF8FL
XN--P1AI
XN--PGBS0DH
XN--S9BRJ9C
XN--UNUP4Y
XN--WGBH1C
XN--WGBL6A
XN--XKC2AL3HYE2A
XN--XKC2DL3A5EE0H
XN--YFRO4I67O
XN--YGBI2AMMX
XN--ZCKZAH
The new TLDs will massively extend the number of US controlled domains.
There is no structural difference between a gTLD and cTLD.
Please do tell me how a new gTLD gives the US more control than they already have over the root itself ?
Most of the new gTLD's are brandnames or TLDs like this Cyrilic .online.
I assume the brandnames already had a .com.
And the others will be selling second level domains.
Do tell, I'd like to know how the US has more control.
Money and maybe expertise. It's expensive to built multiple of the same things.
If you want to build the only fab in Brazil, you possibly need to import more expertise and other goods from suppliers in Asia.
I've seen people from Mozilla mention they wouldn't mind better a better cooperation between the Tor developers and Firefox developers.
The Tor developers have always showed a lot of interest to do so.
So this could help improve things and get Tor to be able to use with a newer version or more easily port to newer versions.
I've even seen one of the top people at Mozilla mention, maybe Firefox needs a Private Browsing mode that has Tor built-in.
I don't agree, I think we need all kinds of people in the community.
Stallman is very good at pointing out what might be a bad idea.
I think it keeps people aware of possible problems. So people keep their options open and be vigilant.
He also makes licenses that can be used to protect rights. He prefers end-users rights above developer rights. And the developers choose the licenses.
I do see more use of Apache, MIT, BSD licenses at the moment.
We'll have to see if that was a good idea.
Big business is using open source software in a big way now and nasty things can still happen.
How about really, really cheap solar ?
Supposedly solar power is on a similar, exponential improvement curve as Moore's law for computer chips.
That would make solar power, thus electricity, ridiculously cheap by 2020. That is only 7 years from now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEWLjVmweoE
We all know solar and wind need a storage system, but batteries are not cheap.
Hydrogen is not really efficient, because you probably want to compress it which takes energy.
But what if energy was dirt cheap ? Would that make hydrogen viable ?
I don't know if we would use hydrogen in the car or if we'll only store it where/when the electricity is generated and transfer it to the car when needed.
I don't even know how expensive the components for hydrogen are. I probably can't predict what the price of batteries will be in 2020 either.
For personal transportation we seem to have decided that it makes sense to move an additional few thousand pounds of vehicle in moving each few hundred pounds of person.
Funny thing you mention this, there is a rise in the use of electric bicycles. Especially in countries that have infrastructure that can bicycles.
So some people are starting to understand this, or maybe it's just more economical.
They could do it, but I doubt they would care.
An other tip: be careful with SaaS and PaaS, they sound like lock-in.
Backup and replication (a form of DR == Disaster Recovery)
Good luck !
So maybe it is 3 :-)
Sure and who is gonna port Java to the new plug-in API ?
A PPAPI version of Java depends on someone creating it.
I doubt the Chromium developers will do it.
Chrome will remove the whole plug-in API:
http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/09/NPAPI-Depricated
So it won't be able to run Java at all.
You could probably download, decompress and process that in Javascript. You might find that if you optimize certain parts with asm.js that it would be about 2x as slow as in native or Java. That might, or might not be acceptable.
Anyway, you can even turn on Java on a per-site basis in Firefox.