I don't get it - isn't the killer phone one that's sufficiently cool like ye olde iPhone yet goes with any carrier? Wouldn't a go-anywhere phone be a better move? I won't get any fancy phone that leaves me stuck with one carrier. It's enough that my freebie phone only works with who gave it to me but if I were to pay for one, I'd want it to go anywhere. Bad car analogy: My Honda isn't restricted to only Honda gas or only Honda streets. Whereas all the people who bought locomotives can only go where B&O lays tracks.
The bad publicity will cost them hundredfold of what they gained from not giving the customer what he should have gotten
And if word gets around that they'll trade boxes of tiles for hard drives, how much will it cost them? I feel for the guy but if I were running a store I'd have to be skeptical and not unquestioningly and immediately accept returns like this.
Why not go SLi with another of your current cards? Unless you're determined to get first generation Dx10 then the 8xxx series isnt yet as cost effective as a pair of 7xxx series.
The best place in a database server for these is probably something like logfiles or the scratchspace. Somewhere that gets fragmented quickly due to frequent resizing. The main data files may get internally fragmented but if they're being fragmented due to frequent resizing then your DB has basic configuration issues - preallocate main files' initial sizes larger from the start.
I hope this is for a test/dev or a personal learning server; if 15Krpm SAS drives are 'horrendously expensive' for a production OLTP server then your management needs to rethink their priorities.
I don't get it - the tone of your first posting suggested you were irritated government was not more forceful in telling companies where they could and couldn't sell their merchandise and now the tone of this post suggests you think government should cut back on telling banks how they could and couldn't do business. Which is it? As for myself, I know that economic sanctions just don't work against dictators / juntas. Sanctions only make things miserable for the common citizen.
Anyway, nevermind the money trail; someone else has already posted the list of goods (including weapons) that are embargoed as well the movement of money.
I have just read the current sanctions section of that link and notably absent is ANY restriction on the selling of arms to the goverment...If anyone wants to prove this to be incorrect then please be my guest. Post a quote from the document proving me wrong
Because the link above is to a summary of the newest batch of sanctions. What you need is the Treasury Dept's complete list:
537.517 Noncommercial, personal remittances. (a)(1) U.S. depository institutions,U.S. registered brokers or dealers insecurities, and U.S. gistered money transmitters are authorized to process transfers of funds to or from Burma or for or on behalf of an individual ordinarily resident in Burma in cases in which the transfer involves a noncommercial, personal remittance, provided the following conditions are met: (i) The transfer is not by, to, or through a person whose property or interests in property are blocked pursuant to 537.201(a), except as explained in 537.404 of this part; and (ii) Total remittances to the territory of Burma in any consecutive 3-month period do not exceed $300 per Burmese household, regardless of the number of individuals comprising the household.
So you might get US Customs to let you export weapons to Burma but the Treasury won't let you get paid for them unless you find a local who is willing pretend it's a personal family transfer and to send it to you in chuncks of $300 per calendar quarter.
Actually piracy has been on the increase since the end of the cold war
Modern pirates drive gas powered speedboats instead of sailing square-riggers, thus you prove the GP's point that pirate levels are indeed directly linked to global warming.
There are hundreds of auctions on eBay under one seller yesterday before the tickets even went on sale promising that he could get them; now they're all removed. Did his plan to hammer the system fail because too many people were trying to buy or did 1 jackass would-be scalper bring the thing down?
but his attitude is not 'teach me' but rather 'nobody wants to pay me.' It's not helping him any
He's already got an advanced degree; how much more education does he need? He's used that education and now has something to sell - it's infinitely better than the 'nobody wants to give me a free handout' attitude. Sure, he's grumpy about his lack of instant success in marketing said product but that's typical of engineers. I hope he manages to team up with someone with local business savvy who won't screw him over.
Yes, but it was an overseas flight on a foreign carrier (the food on Austrian is very good if you can handle the garish color scheme inside their planes).
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You also have the right to democratically select a dictatorship
An amusing paradox because once the dictator is in power new elections will not be called or won't bring any result other than the dictator being re-elected. Please see: Julius Caesar being elected consul-for-life and what happened to the Roman Republic thereafter and all the other democracies that have ever voted in tyrants. So it depends on whether you take a practical view or demand absolutes. The practical view doesn't insist a democracy be allowed to commit suicide - that's always ended poorly for the common citizen. Just remember: democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others. (go look up who said that)
every single wealthy chinese today, the millionaires, the multi-millionaires, the billionaires and even the multi-billionaires, they were ALL just middle class workers 15 years ago
You're not kidding; I got to hang out in some ritzy members only places when I visited thanks to some well placed college friends. Glittery, garish, big centerpieces in a fancy room while the moulding around the floors is aligned like the trim on a 1970's GM product. And that's just the start. The whole place is so 'new money' it's sad. Makes one want to invest in a lawn flamingo factory.
Is the album any good? I don't need to know from Radiohead fans, but from someone like me that doesn't know them.
Well, all of the songs are quite different from each other. There is no general theme to the collection. So, one was terrible (very electric) and I'll probably delete it, most were good (acoustic instruments with vocals and the singer has a strange voice but you get used to it), and one I found was very good (multilayered electrics with harmonized vocals). Your results may vary but I bet there's at least 1 track for everyone. All in all, the $5 I paid was a good deal - I would have put 8 if I'd heard it ahead of time.
When I said exchange fee, I understood it would be padded into the exchange rate.
Or set up a few servers here and there as seeders and when you buy the album on their site, you get the torrent file. This would take advantage of the torrent architecture - instead you download it directly from one place that was overloaded for a while. Actually, it isnt overloaded anymore - I just got the thing from them and it came down in less than 10 minutes.
who the dumbass is who seeded the torrent of the album
Someone who works for the RIAA trying to prove that downloadable music in a non-DRM format is only going to be pirated. Thanks to all those who are helping prove the point.
To try to counter, I've just bought the thing for $5 although I don't think I know any of this band's work but I have heard the name. I'm willing to support this experimental distribution method, though. Anyway, it's downloading at a reasonable clip. Oh, and be warned, they charged me 45 pence for a credit card transaction fee... reasonable I suppose. Now my bank will hit me for a foreign exchange fee too probably. Maybe the band could find someone among their fans who could have set up a better e-commerce site for a discount rate.
If you want a free distro with no support contract: CentOS, OpenSUSE
Please RTFA and my original comments. TFA is about Dell's stats on servers sold when someone's clicked one of the Windows options versus one of the Linux options. Dell's sales options for servers don't include any free Linux distros, only bundled support/software packages from RH and SUSE. And they don't include MS's support options, only Windows software licensing. Therefore the only comparison to make with what's given is with what's given. Are you completely unable to understand these limits???
Senators help draft bills, decide which bills should be drafted and what they should say, sit on committees and take testimony and figure out what should and shouldn't be done, etc
Yes, I agree, which is why it sounds to me like a "senator" who just votes according to a web poll isn't earning his/her keep.
It looks like an Australian senator makes between $108,000 and $126,000. For only running a website, this is a cush job. And one assumes the senatorial priviledges like office space and going on overseas "fact finding missions" and whatnot can get claimed by the webmaster. Pure genius - money, travel, lunches, etc, all on the public tab for running a website.
The software is free on the linux side. The support isn't
In the case of Red Hat's and SUSE's "Enterprise" offerings this is a technicality - the only way to get those packages is to buy the support. So, no, from the path of buying a server from Dell and having it count in the stats that the article is about, Linux is not free.
There are several posters already above who make noise about Linux being free but it isn't when Dell counts a server as being sold as a Linux server. From their Small/Medium business server purchase options:
SUSE Enterprise comes in either 1 year ($280) or 3 year ($698) RedHat Enterprise for 1 yr ($349) or 3 yr ($1,047) Win2k3 Std at $799
I bet corporate buyers are unlikely to get service contracts for anything less than the service life of the server, usually a minimum of 3 years. So, no, it's not upfront sticker cost that's driving businesses to "free" Linux instead of Windows in the server market.
You seem to think tickets to music concerts are not a pure luxury. If prices are too high for some people to afford, so what? Price controls and a "ticket stamps" program a la food stamps for concert tickets?
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I don't get it - isn't the killer phone one that's sufficiently cool like ye olde iPhone yet goes with any carrier? Wouldn't a go-anywhere phone be a better move? I won't get any fancy phone that leaves me stuck with one carrier. It's enough that my freebie phone only works with who gave it to me but if I were to pay for one, I'd want it to go anywhere. Bad car analogy: My Honda isn't restricted to only Honda gas or only Honda streets. Whereas all the people who bought locomotives can only go where B&O lays tracks.
The bad publicity will cost them hundredfold of what they gained from not giving the customer what he should have gotten
And if word gets around that they'll trade boxes of tiles for hard drives, how much will it cost them? I feel for the guy but if I were running a store I'd have to be skeptical and not unquestioningly and immediately accept returns like this.
Why not go SLi with another of your current cards? Unless you're determined to get first generation Dx10 then the 8xxx series isnt yet as cost effective as a pair of 7xxx series.
The best place in a database server for these is probably something like logfiles or the scratchspace. Somewhere that gets fragmented quickly due to frequent resizing. The main data files may get internally fragmented but if they're being fragmented due to frequent resizing then your DB has basic configuration issues - preallocate main files' initial sizes larger from the start.
I hope this is for a test/dev or a personal learning server; if 15Krpm SAS drives are 'horrendously expensive' for a production OLTP server then your management needs to rethink their priorities.
yeah, but is the mars rover really making money for anyone?
They did sell a lot of Lego and Matchbox versions of the thing.
I don't get it - the tone of your first posting suggested you were irritated government was not more forceful in telling companies where they could and couldn't sell their merchandise and now the tone of this post suggests you think government should cut back on telling banks how they could and couldn't do business. Which is it? As for myself, I know that economic sanctions just don't work against dictators / juntas. Sanctions only make things miserable for the common citizen.
Anyway, nevermind the money trail; someone else has already posted the list of goods (including weapons) that are embargoed as well the movement of money.
I have just read the current sanctions section of that link and notably absent is ANY restriction on the selling of arms to the goverment...If anyone wants to prove this to be incorrect then please be my guest. Post a quote from the document proving me wrong
Because the link above is to a summary of the newest batch of sanctions. What you need is the Treasury Dept's complete list:
537.517 Noncommercial, personal remittances.
(a)(1) U.S. depository institutions,U.S. registered brokers or dealers insecurities, and U.S. gistered money transmitters are authorized to process transfers of funds to or from Burma or for or on behalf of an individual ordinarily resident in Burma in cases in which the transfer involves a noncommercial, personal remittance, provided the following conditions are met:
(i) The transfer is not by, to, or through a person whose property or interests in property are blocked pursuant to 537.201(a), except as explained in 537.404 of this part; and (ii) Total remittances to the territory of Burma in any consecutive 3-month period do not exceed $300 per Burmese household, regardless of the number of individuals comprising the household.
So you might get US Customs to let you export weapons to Burma but the Treasury won't let you get paid for them unless you find a local who is willing pretend it's a personal family transfer and to send it to you in chuncks of $300 per calendar quarter.
Actually piracy has been on the increase since the end of the cold war
Modern pirates drive gas powered speedboats instead of sailing square-riggers, thus you prove the GP's point that pirate levels are indeed directly linked to global warming.
There are hundreds of auctions on eBay under one seller yesterday before the tickets even went on sale promising that he could get them; now they're all removed. Did his plan to hammer the system fail because too many people were trying to buy or did 1 jackass would-be scalper bring the thing down?
Any info on its mpg?
It uses an engine from a Civic and my Civic get 38 mpg. Hope that helps!
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but his attitude is not 'teach me' but rather 'nobody wants to pay me.' It's not helping him any
He's already got an advanced degree; how much more education does he need? He's used that education and now has something to sell - it's infinitely better than the 'nobody wants to give me a free handout' attitude. Sure, he's grumpy about his lack of instant success in marketing said product but that's typical of engineers. I hope he manages to team up with someone with local business savvy who won't screw him over.
Ever heard of nuclear powered aircraft?
Yes, but it was the 70's.
Yes, but it was an overseas flight on a foreign carrier (the food on Austrian is very good if you can handle the garish color scheme inside their planes).
You also have the right to democratically select a dictatorship
An amusing paradox because once the dictator is in power new elections will not be called or won't bring any result other than the dictator being re-elected. Please see: Julius Caesar being elected consul-for-life and what happened to the Roman Republic thereafter and all the other democracies that have ever voted in tyrants. So it depends on whether you take a practical view or demand absolutes. The practical view doesn't insist a democracy be allowed to commit suicide - that's always ended poorly for the common citizen. Just remember: democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others. (go look up who said that)
every single wealthy chinese today, the millionaires, the multi-millionaires, the billionaires and even the multi-billionaires, they were ALL just middle class workers 15 years ago
You're not kidding; I got to hang out in some ritzy members only places when I visited thanks to some well placed college friends. Glittery, garish, big centerpieces in a fancy room while the moulding around the floors is aligned like the trim on a 1970's GM product. And that's just the start. The whole place is so 'new money' it's sad. Makes one want to invest in a lawn flamingo factory.
Is the album any good? I don't need to know from Radiohead fans, but from someone like me that doesn't know them.
Well, all of the songs are quite different from each other. There is no general theme to the collection. So, one was terrible (very electric) and I'll probably delete it, most were good (acoustic instruments with vocals and the singer has a strange voice but you get used to it), and one I found was very good (multilayered electrics with harmonized vocals). Your results may vary but I bet there's at least 1 track for everyone. All in all, the $5 I paid was a good deal - I would have put 8 if I'd heard it ahead of time.
When I said exchange fee, I understood it would be padded into the exchange rate.
Or set up a few servers here and there as seeders and when you buy the album on their site, you get the torrent file. This would take advantage of the torrent architecture - instead you download it directly from one place that was overloaded for a while. Actually, it isnt overloaded anymore - I just got the thing from them and it came down in less than 10 minutes.
who the dumbass is who seeded the torrent of the album
Someone who works for the RIAA trying to prove that downloadable music in a non-DRM format is only going to be pirated. Thanks to all those who are helping prove the point.
To try to counter, I've just bought the thing for $5 although I don't think I know any of this band's work but I have heard the name. I'm willing to support this experimental distribution method, though. Anyway, it's downloading at a reasonable clip. Oh, and be warned, they charged me 45 pence for a credit card transaction fee... reasonable I suppose. Now my bank will hit me for a foreign exchange fee too probably. Maybe the band could find someone among their fans who could have set up a better e-commerce site for a discount rate.
...my company's webfilter says I can't be shown it because the site has fallen in the "tasteless and/or gross" category.
If you want a free distro with no support contract: CentOS, OpenSUSE
Please RTFA and my original comments. TFA is about Dell's stats on servers sold when someone's clicked one of the Windows options versus one of the Linux options. Dell's sales options for servers don't include any free Linux distros, only bundled support/software packages from RH and SUSE. And they don't include MS's support options, only Windows software licensing. Therefore the only comparison to make with what's given is with what's given. Are you completely unable to understand these limits???
Senators help draft bills, decide which bills should be drafted and what they should say, sit on committees and take testimony and figure out what should and shouldn't be done, etc
Yes, I agree, which is why it sounds to me like a "senator" who just votes according to a web poll isn't earning his/her keep.
It looks like an Australian senator makes between $108,000 and $126,000. For only running a website, this is a cush job. And one assumes the senatorial priviledges like office space and going on overseas "fact finding missions" and whatnot can get claimed by the webmaster. Pure genius - money, travel, lunches, etc, all on the public tab for running a website.
The software is free on the linux side. The support isn't
In the case of Red Hat's and SUSE's "Enterprise" offerings this is a technicality - the only way to get those packages is to buy the support. So, no, from the path of buying a server from Dell and having it count in the stats that the article is about, Linux is not free.
There are several posters already above who make noise about Linux being free but it isn't when Dell counts a server as being sold as a Linux server. From their Small/Medium business server purchase options:
SUSE Enterprise comes in either 1 year ($280) or 3 year ($698)
RedHat Enterprise for 1 yr ($349) or 3 yr ($1,047)
Win2k3 Std at $799
I bet corporate buyers are unlikely to get service contracts for anything less than the service life of the server, usually a minimum of 3 years. So, no, it's not upfront sticker cost that's driving businesses to "free" Linux instead of Windows in the server market.
and the public pays exorbitant prices
You seem to think tickets to music concerts are not a pure luxury. If prices are too high for some people to afford, so what? Price controls and a "ticket stamps" program a la food stamps for concert tickets?