The digging of the hole is expensive, whether the housing subdivision exists or not. Each additional cable put in the ground is relatively cheap when compared to the initial wire, but whether the area is in use or not makes very little difference.
By extenstion, wiring your home is still an expensive propisition, since almost all the runs are individual wires. The reason more home are coming pre-wired is to avoid the surface mounted raceways, and jacks. Things just look prettier when they are in the walls.
Real costs savings are achived by installing reusable infrastructure like cabletrays, and conduits since it cuts down on labor time during future expansions, and upgrades.
Wireless also helps in the regard since a single access point can serve ten or so users at once. This does come at a price, which is a lower connection speed. But, for most applications, wireless speeds are more than adiquite, and users enjoy the lack of cabling. Internet applicaitons are often limited by the outgoing connection speed, which for many offices is less than 10 Mb/s. If they are sharing document, most often they are small enough so that users don't notice the slower load time.
In fact, the Military has blocked GPS as a proof of concept in the past. At issue really is the need to block guidance systems developed by other nations. I think that it is rather unlikely that a terrorist could develop the technology to guide a missle, since they consider their own lifes' expendable. However, a nation with limited resources can use it as a cheap guidence system. This is a likely situation, especially since the US developed GPS to guide its planes and missles to the proper target.
There is a legitimate concern that if GPS is not blocked it would be used to guide missles to targets in the US.
Bayer lost the Aspirin trademark after WWI as part of war reperations to the US. The name was made generic via the government, and if you live outside the US you are likely to know generic aspirin as asalicylic acid tablets.
They never lost the right by generic use. In fact I'm not sure of a single case where a trademark has been lost in this fashion.
How does this effect the argument for bazzar versus catherdral style development?
This is what has always worried me about bazzar projects, since there is no controling body, it depends on the honesty of those developing the code not to violate anyones IP rights, or anything else for that matter.
While I always get a kick out of someone over-clocking there cpu to some extreeme point, using liquid cooling, I have to wonder about the longterm costs. It seems to me having a pump, air conditioning, or some gagle of women with fans would cost more over 3 months than a faster processor, and this is without considering the hours spent toiling away at such a project.
For the past 3 years I've been attending a university, and during two of those years I've been working as a sys-admin. When I started attending classes I never imagined not getting a fancy sheet of paper, but now, I get better benefits than my degree holding friends, I get paid more, and have more money stashed away. Plus, my salary is still quite low. If I continue on to get my degree, the only thing I would gain is a little more leverage in sallary negotiations, but the intrest on my loans would exceed any finacial gain this may give me.
For me at least, college has done anything except burn a small hole in my pocket.
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The digging of the hole is expensive, whether the housing subdivision exists or not. Each additional cable put in the ground is relatively cheap when compared to the initial wire, but whether the area is in use or not makes very little difference.
By extenstion, wiring your home is still an expensive propisition, since almost all the runs are individual wires. The reason more home are coming pre-wired is to avoid the surface mounted raceways, and jacks. Things just look prettier when they are in the walls.
Real costs savings are achived by installing reusable infrastructure like cabletrays, and conduits since it cuts down on labor time during future expansions, and upgrades.
Wireless also helps in the regard since a single access point can serve ten or so users at once. This does come at a price, which is a lower connection speed. But, for most applications, wireless speeds are more than adiquite, and users enjoy the lack of cabling. Internet applicaitons are often limited by the outgoing connection speed, which for many offices is less than 10 Mb/s. If they are sharing document, most often they are small enough so that users don't notice the slower load time.
In fact, the Military has blocked GPS as a proof of concept in the past. At issue really is the need to block guidance systems developed by other nations. I think that it is rather unlikely that a terrorist could develop the technology to guide a missle, since they consider their own lifes' expendable. However, a nation with limited resources can use it as a cheap guidence system. This is a likely situation, especially since the US developed GPS to guide its planes and missles to the proper target.
There is a legitimate concern that if GPS is not blocked it would be used to guide missles to targets in the US.
Bayer lost the Aspirin trademark after WWI as part of war reperations to the US. The name was made generic via the government, and if you live outside the US you are likely to know generic aspirin as asalicylic acid tablets.
They never lost the right by generic use. In fact I'm not sure of a single case where a trademark has been lost in this fashion.
How does this effect the argument for bazzar versus catherdral style development?
This is what has always worried me about bazzar projects, since there is no controling body, it depends on the honesty of those developing the code not to violate anyones IP rights, or anything else for that matter.
While I always get a kick out of someone over-clocking there cpu to some extreeme point, using liquid cooling, I have to wonder about the longterm costs. It seems to me having a pump, air conditioning, or some gagle of women with fans would cost more over 3 months than a faster processor, and this is without considering the hours spent toiling away at such a project.
For the past 3 years I've been attending a university, and during two of those years I've been working as a sys-admin. When I started attending classes I never imagined not getting a fancy sheet of paper, but now, I get better benefits than my degree holding friends, I get paid more, and have more money stashed away. Plus, my salary is still quite low. If I continue on to get my degree, the only thing I would gain is a little more leverage in sallary negotiations, but the intrest on my loans would exceed any finacial gain this may give me.
For me at least, college has done anything except burn a small hole in my pocket.