You're assuming that the Rupee doesn't get stronger and the Dollar weaker. In fact, the Rupee was 49 to the dollar 2 years ago and now it's 45 to the dollar so Indian workers are already 10% better paid compared to American workers than they were just 2 years ago.
There is reason to believe that this trend will continue over time as the Indian economy strengthens and the American weakens to the point that it isn't worth moving work to India. In which case salaries will end up largely comparable.
Unfortunately for European and British workers it looks like the trend is generally in the other direction for the moment so it is probably more to do with weakness of the Dollar than anything else.
It might even be possible to set up permanent connections using a similar method to the proposed stationary airship solutions being tested in the US, Japan and UK.
For cheapness go for tethered hydrogen balloons carrying a wifi unit up to 1000m which talks to the ground and to other balloons flown from nearby villages. Configure it as a routed network but keep with the store/forward technology like email and usenet much like the Internet of 15 years ago for robustness. Mail and news comes in at a reasonable rate, minutes or hours instead of days and no, or fewer satellite uplinks required.
Hydrogen you say with fear and loathing. Look they ran the early airships for long periods using hydrogen, it's cheap and just needs a solar cell and some salt water to manufacture. The unit isn't going to carry any people and could be tethered out of the way where it won't fall on anyone.
"Even though the concept of "no guns = no gun-related crimes" is alien to the average Yank,"
You're basically wrong.
Gun ownership need not cause large amounts of gun related crime. And the lack of (legal) gun ownership doesn't preclude increasing gun related crime.
E.g. The Swiss have very high gun ownership rates, second only to the US I believe due to their national defense system but the rate of gun related crime is a tiny tiny fraction of that in the US.
The UK recently banned all firearms in private hands but now gun related crime is soaring out of control.
Now, I don't like guns, I believe they should be controlled, owners certified and re-certified regularly but the evidence is that the problem in the US and in the UK is a social and cultural problem, the availability of guns, legal or not doesn't necessarily help but your equation is laughably oversimplified which makes it basically incorrect.
Let's be honest here. Throwing out these patents sets the precedent that big boys can bully the patent office into throwing out the patents of the small guys. You don't really beleive that it's going to apply to anyone who doesn't have billions of dollars in the bank, do you?
Now what would be seriously cool though is complete node transparency, all the individual nodes acting as a single machine. I believe the Amoeba project tried to do this, and Mosix also looks like a good start but I don't know if it's really been done properly.
I'm sure she (Gloria Fontenot) was in at least one episode and has lots of links to her page, hence coming at the top of the list but she was not the main stunt double on the show. The person you should have found was "Vicki Phillips".
She isn't the stuntwoman on last or even (m)any of the episodes of Sheena. A Denise Loden did the last one but the lady I was actually looking for a picture of was Vicki Phillips who did most of the stunt doubling in the series.
Now, if you can find Vicki Phillips page which lists her tv credit list for the Sheena show you'll see how far off Google can lead, but I think you'll have to use something other than Google to find it. She's actually quite an attractive lady under the makeup so you've got a further incentive.
And... Microsoft have an unimaginably large stash of money.
Want to see the limitations of Google? Here's a challenge: OK. I wanted to find out what the stunt woman in Sheena looked like. Just curiosity.
Google, sod all.
Various other search engines returned photographs, agents numbers, phone, beeper numbers etc So for stalk^H^H^H^Hearching ability Google isn't necessarily the best or most comprehensive.
Wind/storms/other aircraft: Flies at 10 miles, far above storms and other aircraft.
What about the tether: 10 miles of rope, are you taking the piss?
Weight: It's carrying capacity increases with the cube of it's size, the bigger the better.
Power: Solar panels on top increase with the surface area. Batteries for holding position at night. Power increases with the square of the size, lifting capacity increases with the cube of the size, the bigger the better.
Latency: 6x10^-8 seconds for the radio wave to travel.
The Japanese have been testing them for a while now:
http://www.jinjapan.org/trends98/honbun/ntj98030 6. html http://www.nal.go.jp/eng/newsletter/99winter /p09.h tm
Less likely: http://www.worldskycat.com/markets/skycom .html
Not what my girlfriend says, but when it comes to parallel parking you only need 2-3 inches on each side. In Milan I've seen them park with that amount of space quite regularly. Then of course there's the French bounce method of parking where you just bounce the car into and out of the space.
You already have a network of Sun machines but want something faster and cheaper. No additional complexity. If you start introducing different platforms you begin dividing and conquering the skills and time of your IT staff.
In the same vein, a Windows monoculture would be a great idea if it wasn't for all the architectural and implementational disadvantages.
Honestly, it isn't difficult. You just need a load of machines and a way to manage the distribution of jobs, and that's been possible for decades.
I have an architecture in place which can scale pretty much linearly from 10 concurrent users to 1000 concurrent users and probably beyond just by adding boxes, completely transparently and with spectacularly little administrative effort.
Stop thinking of computers as individual machines, they are really just little blocks in the whole, treat them as such.
Oh and we haven't spent a penny on setting up the system, making use of older kit, so it's cheap, scalable, easy to manage, highly available, fast etc etc. Am I going to tell you how to do it? Am I buggery, you'll be able to buy such a system from a web site near you soon. Any administrators with a bit of imagination, a few years of experience and penchant for infrastructures.org could come up with a similar system fairly easily but thankfully they are few and far between.
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RTFA. Linux can seriously eat Microsoft's lunch in this environment. And you need to learn a little about Linux before trying to comment.
And moderators... Insightful... Please...
Every crashed plane? No, you investigate the incident, learn the technical lesson and then get on with the job.
Anniversaries of accidents and disasters are for the families of the victims, anyone else is just ghoulish.
You're assuming that the Rupee doesn't get stronger and the Dollar weaker. In fact, the Rupee was 49 to the dollar 2 years ago and now it's 45 to the dollar so Indian workers are already 10% better paid compared to American workers than they were just 2 years ago.
There is reason to believe that this trend will continue over time as the Indian economy strengthens and the American weakens to the point that it isn't worth moving work to India. In which case salaries will end up largely comparable.
Unfortunately for European and British workers it looks like the trend is generally in the other direction for the moment so it is probably more to do with weakness of the Dollar than anything else.
It might even be possible to set up permanent connections using a similar method to the proposed stationary airship solutions being tested in the US, Japan and UK.
For cheapness go for tethered hydrogen balloons carrying a wifi unit up to 1000m which talks to the ground and to other balloons flown from nearby villages. Configure it as a routed network but keep with the store/forward technology like email and usenet much like the Internet of 15 years ago for robustness. Mail and news comes in at a reasonable rate, minutes or hours instead of days and no, or fewer satellite uplinks required.
Hydrogen you say with fear and loathing. Look they ran the early airships for long periods using hydrogen, it's cheap and just needs a solar cell and some salt water to manufacture. The unit isn't going to carry any people and could be tethered out of the way where it won't fall on anyone.
"Even though the concept of "no guns = no gun-related crimes" is alien to the average Yank,"
You're basically wrong.
Gun ownership need not cause large amounts of gun related crime. And the lack of (legal) gun ownership doesn't preclude increasing gun related crime.
E.g. The Swiss have very high gun ownership rates, second only to the US I believe due to their national defense system but the rate of gun related crime is a tiny tiny fraction of that in the US.
The UK recently banned all firearms in private hands but now gun related crime is soaring out of control.
Now, I don't like guns, I believe they should be controlled, owners certified and re-certified regularly but the evidence is that the problem in the US and in the UK is a social and cultural problem, the availability of guns, legal or not doesn't necessarily help but your equation is laughably oversimplified which makes it basically incorrect.
Let's be honest here. Throwing out these patents sets the precedent that big boys can bully the patent office into throwing out the patents of the small guys. You don't really beleive that it's going to apply to anyone who doesn't have billions of dollars in the bank, do you?
Awards of damages in European cases are usually several orders of magnitude lower than in the states.
Shared everything storage/filesystems, transparent cluster wide (NUMA) memory access, transparent process migration.
Now what would be seriously cool though is complete node transparency, all the individual nodes acting as a single machine. I believe the Amoeba project tried to do this, and Mosix also looks like a good start but I don't know if it's really been done properly.
It's almost a perfect example of the UK position on Europe.
100mW EIRP is the maximum.
And Linux is an easy lay.
Course this is what you run into when you build monolithic applications.
I'm sure she (Gloria Fontenot) was in at least one episode and has lots of links to her page, hence coming at the top of the list but she was not the main stunt double on the show. The person you should have found was "Vicki Phillips".
On you go then. 2nd time lucky.
She isn't the stuntwoman on last or even (m)any of the episodes of Sheena. A Denise Loden did the last one but the lady I was actually looking for a picture of was Vicki Phillips who did most of the stunt doubling in the series.
Now, if you can find Vicki Phillips page which lists her tv credit list for the Sheena show you'll see how far off Google can lead, but I think you'll have to use something other than Google to find it. She's actually quite an attractive lady under the makeup so you've got a further incentive.
The uses of grid computing are many, varied and have been around for decades.
And... Microsoft have an unimaginably large stash of money.
Want to see the limitations of Google? Here's a challenge: OK. I wanted to find out what the stunt woman in Sheena looked like. Just curiosity.
Google, sod all.
Various other search engines returned photographs, agents numbers, phone, beeper numbers etc So for stalk^H^H^H^Hearching ability Google isn't necessarily the best or most comprehensive.
On the bright side because they just can't admit they're idiots you can sell them the same thing half a dozen times.
They didn't happen to be of the family Cannabis sativa did they?
Wind/storms/other aircraft: Flies at 10 miles, far above storms and other aircraft.
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What about the tether: 10 miles of rope, are you taking the piss?
Weight: It's carrying capacity increases with the cube of it's size, the bigger the better.
Power: Solar panels on top increase with the surface area. Batteries for holding position at night. Power increases with the square of the size, lifting capacity increases with the cube of the size, the bigger the better.
Latency: 6x10^-8 seconds for the radio wave to travel.
The Japanese have been testing them for a while now:
http://www.jinjapan.org/trends98/honbun/ntj9803
http://www.nal.go.jp/eng/newsletter/99winte
Less likely:
http://www.worldskycat.com/markets/skyco
I once saw an aerogel which was made in a helium atmosphere. It flew just like a balloon, eventually the helium escaped though.
Are you sure you don't mean "arse"?
Not what my girlfriend says, but when it comes to parallel parking you only need 2-3 inches on each side. In Milan I've seen them park with that amount of space quite regularly. Then of course there's the French bounce method of parking where you just bounce the car into and out of the space.
You already have a network of Sun machines but want something faster and cheaper. No additional complexity. If you start introducing different platforms you begin dividing and conquering the skills and time of your IT staff.
In the same vein, a Windows monoculture would be a great idea if it wasn't for all the architectural and implementational disadvantages.
Don't spend money on nostalgia when the next generation of space craft are being built by private companies who are short of cash.
Honestly, it isn't difficult. You just need a load of machines and a way to manage the distribution of jobs, and that's been possible for decades.
I have an architecture in place which can scale pretty much linearly from 10 concurrent users to 1000 concurrent users and probably beyond just by adding boxes, completely transparently and with spectacularly little administrative effort.
Stop thinking of computers as individual machines, they are really just little blocks in the whole, treat them as such.
Oh and we haven't spent a penny on setting up the system, making use of older kit, so it's cheap, scalable, easy to manage, highly available, fast etc etc. Am I going to tell you how to do it? Am I buggery, you'll be able to buy such a system from a web site near you soon. Any administrators with a bit of imagination, a few years of experience and penchant for infrastructures.org could come up with a similar system fairly easily but thankfully they are few and far between.