I visit many sites which require logins, I can never remember them so I just create a new one each time if I desperately want access to some information, If I'm not that bothered of if it's a commerce site, I just go elsewhere.
And what spurs development. Everyone is looking for a technical advantage over the other guy, no matter what that is. I don't see it as a problem that one team wins because they've put together a better technical solution. It's not as if we're talking about driver skill or anything.
The amount of effort you put into something is irrelevant if you're making that effort in the wrong direction.
Sure, you can spend a fortune on specially selected cells which are 17% efficient, but most people will be stuck with 10% efficiency and that means very large areas and lots of cells, which are expensive, to generate reasonable amounts of power.
A better solar solution for many applications is solar thermal rather than photovoltaic. Higher collector efficiency (80%) on small scale vacuum tube panels typically used for domestic water and central heating and higher conversion efficiency to electricity for big plants (28%).
It's clear that any specific format will last for a while and then be obsoleted within a decade or so.
Therefore transferring the information from format to format automatically as new and cheaper solutions arrive. This means a process and to simplify and reduce costs, some automatic tools to do the job.
There are hierarchical storage management[1] solutions around which can do this for you, Tivoli do quite a good one, but, because we're talking long term, the software really also needs to be cross platform and open source.
The original Battlestar Galactica was rubbish anyway. What kind of sad git gives a toss about the original?
What it does point out rather clearly though is the kind of crap which the media is churning out. Remakes and sequels, then more remakes and more sequels. That alone is a good enough reason not to watch.
Why use Exchange as the template?
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Exchange really isn't very good at groupware. It does nice calendaring, but calendaring isn't groupware. It's also very rigid in terms of functionality and not terribly flexible.
Notes would be a better template for a groupware solution. From a server point of view anyway.
Linux is a bit of a flood fill phenomenon. You get these high profile vocal hold out areas who will suddenly not be implementing their large top down projects.
In the meantime, Linux will just continue quietly flood filling in the background, eating up everything, almost completely unnoticed by the management.
SCO are irrelevant, Microsoft are irrelevant, IBM are irrelevant, RedHat are irrelevant, SuSE are irrelevant, large top down Linux projects are also irrelevant, they make up a tiny tiny percentage of Linux usage.
The biggest cost savings come from systems architecture reorganisation. If you can architect your systems so that they require only log(N) support rather than N support people per box then you can make some very large savings.
You don't necesssarily cut your costs in half by reducing the number of systems or even staff by half.
It's very easy to architect Linux systems to require just log(N) support people, it's far far more difficult to architect Windows the same way.
So you've got to get the architecture right and yes, the OS can make that easy or it can make it difficult or even impossible.
And it wouldn't matter very much if the traffic's bad.
Of course this doesn't help in the US where motorcyclists are not allowed to filter[1] through traffic, which partially explains the very low numbers of motorcycles on the roads in the US.
[1] lane-split for our American readers.
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But, if you're shit at something, no matter how much you spend on kit, you'll still be shit.
In terms of bicycles, the single bit of kit that'll make you faster is... A pair of toe clips. £5 for a pair. Or cleats if you don't need to walk around.
After that, a set of high pressure slick tyres and well maintained chainset. The last thing that matters is the frame.
I see it more on motorcycles though, people go out, buy a gsxr 1000 sportsbike or similar and then can't ride for toffee, sure, they can accelerate quickly in a straight line, but then, so can a rock, they go round corners like they have training wheels on.
Obviously, motorcycles are rather more likely to kill you when you do have an accident, but the accident rate for motorcyclists is around half that for car drivers per mile travelled. In the UK anyway.
Why? The motorcyclist's full attention is on the road, no radio, no mobile phones, no chatting to passengers, no screaming children, no lipstick, no coffee.
That and the fact that you *know* you're going to die if you hit something. It concentrates the mind.
Perhaps you might like to check out the price of cartridges from manufacturers other than HP before bitching about it.
The problem with the free market is that it kind of assumes that the people making purchasing decisions aren't fucking morons. Unfortunately it looks like that's a false assumption.
Joe Consumer gets everything he deserves if he isn't checking the literature on a product before purchase.
There are plenty of magazine reviews, product tests, "Which" and "What" type publications which go into detail on performance, costs limitations of all sorts of products, including printers...
It simply isn't true to say that he has no way of knowing. He's too f*cking lazy to get off his 400lb arse and find out.
Exploration, accomodation, entertainment. It starts off so expensive that only a billionaire can afford, then only a multi-millionaire, then the wealthy then the middle income, then everyone.
Or we can let NASA monopolise space flight for another 50 years.
Starts off well, but loses it long before the fairly disappointing conclusion. It didn't make me want to rush out and get Cryptonomicon, which I've never bothered to read.
No, you add $0.10 to the sender's phone bill. Just like they do across the whole of Europe and Asia. It isn't rocket science.
If you make the receiver pay and they get 200 spam SMS's per day how useful do you think the service will be? I can't see how it can possibly reduce the usefulness of the service if the sender pays.
I live in the UK, it costs 5-10p per SMS sent depending on the service plan and network and I don't get any SMS spam at all. But you know what? Every single mobile phone is SMS enabled which makes it ubiquitous, which makes it very useful.
When sending an SMS, I don't even think about the 5p cost, I mean, really...
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I visit many sites which require logins, I can never remember them so I just create a new one each time if I desperately want access to some information, If I'm not that bothered of if it's a commerce site, I just go elsewhere.
And what spurs development. Everyone is looking for a technical advantage over the other guy, no matter what that is. I don't see it as a problem that one team wins because they've put together a better technical solution. It's not as if we're talking about driver skill or anything.
The amount of effort you put into something is irrelevant if you're making that effort in the wrong direction.
Sure, you can spend a fortune on specially selected cells which are 17% efficient, but most people will be stuck with 10% efficiency and that means very large areas and lots of cells, which are expensive, to generate reasonable amounts of power.
A better solar solution for many applications is solar thermal rather than photovoltaic. Higher collector efficiency (80%) on small scale vacuum tube panels typically used for domestic water and central heating and higher conversion efficiency to electricity for big plants (28%).
It's clear that any specific format will last for a while and then be obsoleted within a decade or so.
Therefore transferring the information from format to format automatically as new and cheaper solutions arrive. This means a process and to simplify and reduce costs, some automatic tools to do the job.
There are hierarchical storage management[1] solutions around which can do this for you, Tivoli do quite a good one, but, because we're talking long term, the software really also needs to be cross platform and open source.
[1] http://itmanagement.webopedia.com/TERM/H/HSM.html
Strict belief in the original?
The original Battlestar Galactica was rubbish anyway. What kind of sad git gives a toss about the original?
What it does point out rather clearly though is the kind of crap which the media is churning out. Remakes and sequels, then more remakes and more sequels. That alone is a good enough reason not to watch.
http://www.xprize.com/teams/ilat.html
Exchange really isn't very good at groupware. It does nice calendaring, but calendaring isn't groupware. It's also very rigid in terms of functionality and not terribly flexible.
Notes would be a better template for a groupware solution. From a server point of view anyway.
Linux is a bit of a flood fill phenomenon. You get these high profile vocal hold out areas who will suddenly not be implementing their large top down projects.
In the meantime, Linux will just continue quietly flood filling in the background, eating up everything, almost completely unnoticed by the management.
SCO are irrelevant, Microsoft are irrelevant, IBM are irrelevant, RedHat are irrelevant, SuSE are irrelevant, large top down Linux projects are also irrelevant, they make up a tiny tiny percentage of Linux usage.
The biggest cost savings come from systems architecture reorganisation. If you can architect your systems so that they require only log(N) support rather than N support people per box then you can make some very large savings.
You don't necesssarily cut your costs in half by reducing the number of systems or even staff by half.
It's very easy to architect Linux systems to require just log(N) support people, it's far far more difficult to architect Windows the same way.
So you've got to get the architecture right and yes, the OS can make that easy or it can make it difficult or even impossible.
Rocks. Muchly rocks.
The accidents which happen while filtering are as follows:
Car jumps lanes across the path of motorcyclist to get into a gap in the other (faster moving) lane.
Car performs U turn across path of motorcyclist after getting impatient waiting in line.
Car pulls out of sideroad across stationary trafic and across the path of the motorcyclist to reach lane travelling in opposite direction.
Car turns across the path of motorcyclist to enter side road in opposite lane.
http://www.patent.gov.uk/patent/history/fivehundre d/tudors.htm
Sorry, but Zope wins hands down. No questions.
It runs on Windows and Unix/Linux so you can stick it on anything.
And it wouldn't matter very much if the traffic's bad.
Of course this doesn't help in the US where motorcyclists are not allowed to filter[1] through traffic, which partially explains the very low numbers of motorcycles on the roads in the US.
[1] lane-split for our American readers.
But, if you're shit at something, no matter how much you spend on kit, you'll still be shit.
In terms of bicycles, the single bit of kit that'll make you faster is... A pair of toe clips. £5 for a pair. Or cleats if you don't need to walk around.
After that, a set of high pressure slick tyres and well maintained chainset. The last thing that matters is the frame.
I see it more on motorcycles though, people go out, buy a gsxr 1000 sportsbike or similar and then can't ride for toffee, sure, they can accelerate quickly in a straight line, but then, so can a rock, they go round corners like they have training wheels on.
http://www.conglomerate.org/
Lovely bit of kit.
The parent got modded Informative rather than Funny...
Speaks volumes.
Obviously, motorcycles are rather more likely to kill you when you do have an accident, but the accident rate for motorcyclists is around half that for car drivers per mile travelled. In the UK anyway.
Why? The motorcyclist's full attention is on the road, no radio, no mobile phones, no chatting to passengers, no screaming children, no lipstick, no coffee.
That and the fact that you *know* you're going to die if you hit something. It concentrates the mind.
The 100mW EIRP regulations across most of Europe severely limit the usefulness of the current 2.4GHz systems.
I haven't looked at the regulations for the 5Ghz band but if it's as limited as 2.4GHz it won't be much use.
Perhaps you might like to check out the price of cartridges from manufacturers other than HP before bitching about it.
The problem with the free market is that it kind of assumes that the people making purchasing decisions aren't fucking morons. Unfortunately it looks like that's a false assumption.
Joe Consumer gets everything he deserves if he isn't checking the literature on a product before purchase.
There are plenty of magazine reviews, product tests, "Which" and "What" type publications which go into detail on performance, costs limitations of all sorts of products, including printers...
It simply isn't true to say that he has no way of knowing. He's too f*cking lazy to get off his 400lb arse and find out.
Exploration, accomodation, entertainment. It starts off so expensive that only a billionaire can afford, then only a multi-millionaire, then the wealthy then the middle income, then everyone.
Or we can let NASA monopolise space flight for another 50 years.
Starts off well, but loses it long before the fairly disappointing conclusion. It didn't make me want to rush out and get Cryptonomicon, which I've never bothered to read.
There are plenty of better writers out there.
Too much risk in that.
If [ $FILM = "Success"]; then
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makeanother_sequel $FILM
done
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fi
That just about sums up Hollywood...
No, you add $0.10 to the sender's phone bill. Just like they do across the whole of Europe and Asia. It isn't rocket science.
If you make the receiver pay and they get 200 spam SMS's per day how useful do you think the service will be? I can't see how it can possibly reduce the usefulness of the service if the sender pays.
I live in the UK, it costs 5-10p per SMS sent depending on the service plan and network and I don't get any SMS spam at all. But you know what? Every single mobile phone is SMS enabled which makes it ubiquitous, which makes it very useful.
When sending an SMS, I don't even think about the 5p cost, I mean, really...