You ever used a FrogPad? I've got one here, and while it can be used, it's not laid out well enough to use regularly. The idea is wonderful. If they would just move the keys a little more ergonomically so it's not such a stretch to hit the keys with the pinkie, I'd love it. As it is, I eventually gave up.
Ya know, I have to agree. I'm 40 now, and going on my sixth surgery due to nerve problems in my arms (both wrists and now both elbows -- twice). My surgeon, aside from buying a new boat, is convinced it's a genetic problem, rather than work related. He thinks my nerves are just a little too short. So they get stretched too easily, and like a rubber band, eventually wear out.
I'm convinced it has more to do with how people sleep than anything else. I sleep with my hand curled up under my face, which just contorts the nerves just a little too much. If you wake up with your hand asleep, you're probably doing it. You can adjust how you sleep with a wrist brace, or an elbow pad turned around on the inside of your elbow.
I'd also like to bring everyones attention to cubital tunnel syndrome. Carpal tunnel messes up the thumb, index and half the middle finger. Cubital does the other two and half fingers. The surgery is much worse. Basically, they have to move your funny bone to the inside of your elbow. That involves cutting at least one muscle in half, moving the nerve and reconnecting the muscle halves.
I tell all the people who work for me, as soon as you start feeling symptoms, go in and get it checked out. Try the physical therapy, cortisone shots, whatever. The surgery isn't fun.
I was part of that IPO as a potential investor. The process was very clear.
*You "read" the prospectus (think EULA "check this box" kind of thing) that warned you extensively about the risk involved. Those risks were very clearly stated. *You had to read a page on the risks involved, with all of them ending in "and you could lose all the money you invest" *You created a limited purpose account with a brokerage. *You were told to read the prospectus again. *You made a conditional bid in 100 share increments, with the expectation that the price would be between $16-18. You were told that you could drop out at any time prior to the price being set, and that your bid, if accepted, would be binding. *You were told that the price was about to be set. *You were told to read the prospectus again. *The price was set at $17.00 *You were told "The posting of this information and the final terms of the intial public offering constitutes the underwriters' acceptance of your conditional offer to purchase shares of Vonage common stock. Accordingly, you are now obligated to purchase the number of shares you have been allocated, if any."
Having gone through it, I have no doubt that they are on firm legal ground (IANAL). You had to accept (again EULA type) every single step of the way, and every time you logged into the website.
As you said, if we don't enforce, it doesn't have teeth. We've had other problems (minor ones), but for the price we are paying we expect them to be able to handle the load. Their CEO talked to our CTO, and claimed a 100% uptime guarantee. Our CEO laughed at them.
Are we going to drop them? No. They're too valuable to drop. But it will be used as leverage to get a better deal on the next contract renewal.
Redundancy? If someone *guarantees* you 100% uptime (even if you know that's not possible) and the cost of ownership is less with them, then you go with them. Sure, we could have fallen back on our own servers. And if they had been down longer, we would have. But it's not something you can simply switch off instantaneously. And isn't redundancy what we are paying Akamai for? That's what they are selling.
I used to want a choice in cable channels. I'm not a big sports fan, so I'd rather not have ESPN, nor QVC, etc. But after I thought about it for a while, it would probably be more expensive to have it ala carte, since the cable networks set the prices for their channels.
Think about it for a second. We have, what, 108 million cable subscribers in the US? Round that to 100 million for simplicity. If each cable channel (ESPN, CNN, Discovery, etc.) gets $0.25 per subscriber, they get $25 million to cover the costs of production. But if all of a sudden, we have all but 1 million of those people no longer paying, the channel only gets $250,000. So if it actually takes $25 million to produce the shows, then they're going to have raise their costs to $25.00 to make up the difference. Do you want to spend $25.00 a month to pay for SciFi?
Whether or not it costs $25 million to run the channel is open for debate.
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Why not buy it and try it yourself! http://shopping.discovery.com/stores/se rvlet/Produ ctDisplay?catalogId=10000&storeId=10000&productId= 53965&langId=-1
Buy now, and get it for Christmas! You can use the coupon SHOP10 to get $10 off on all your shopping at the Discovery Store.
What?!? I'm only 20 miles from Washington D.C, and I was seeing easily 1 per minute, and that wasn't even trying. My son (8) said that getting up was more worth it than going to see Harry Potter on Friday night (10:10 show).
I do have to agree with you that it is better than Iron Chef USA. But, then again, *anything* is better than that...
I currently work for a company that has several large websites. Our goal for last year was 300 million visitors. Unfortunately (!) we had 1.6 billion visitors. This nearly killed us. We had the bandwidth, but the *cost* of that bandwidth was huge. The ad sales just don't cover the costs.
How did we fix it? We haven't. The higher ups set the goal for this year of 300 million visitors (again). So we have to try to find a way to keep people away from the site, but not drive everyone away. It also means trying to co-brand with other companies (where they pay us), and not updating the content as much).
Oddly enough for today's climate, our eCommerce activities are actually making money, and keeping the rest of the sites afloat.
The company I work for does it. We have programmers spread out over the entire US. It really a matter of whether the company is committed to it. If they are, then the company will do what is necessary to allow the people to work from wherever they are. That means cable modems/DSL, computers, laptops, fax machines, cell phone, etc.
This beta runs about as well under FreeBSD's emulation of Linux. Just as others have said, I can't use submit buttons, and occasionally it segfaults, but otherwise, it runs!
While $2000 may be chicken feed for many companies, if their pricing on this is like their pricing on SQL Server, it's $2000 per processor/machine. So if you have a large server farm, this could start costing some big bucks.
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You mean like this?
http://earth.google.com/intl/en/userguide/v4/flightsim/index.html
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You ever used a FrogPad? I've got one here, and while it can be used, it's not laid out well enough to use regularly. The idea is wonderful. If they would just move the keys a little more ergonomically so it's not such a stretch to hit the keys with the pinkie, I'd love it. As it is, I eventually gave up.
ps
Ya know, I have to agree. I'm 40 now, and going on my sixth surgery due to nerve problems in my arms (both wrists and now both elbows -- twice). My surgeon, aside from buying a new boat, is convinced it's a genetic problem, rather than work related. He thinks my nerves are just a little too short. So they get stretched too easily, and like a rubber band, eventually wear out.
I'm convinced it has more to do with how people sleep than anything else. I sleep with my hand curled up under my face, which just contorts the nerves just a little too much. If you wake up with your hand asleep, you're probably doing it. You can adjust how you sleep with a wrist brace, or an elbow pad turned around on the inside of your elbow.
I'd also like to bring everyones attention to cubital tunnel syndrome. Carpal tunnel messes up the thumb, index and half the middle finger. Cubital does the other two and half fingers. The surgery is much worse. Basically, they have to move your funny bone to the inside of your elbow. That involves cutting at least one muscle in half, moving the nerve and reconnecting the muscle halves.
I tell all the people who work for me, as soon as you start feeling symptoms, go in and get it checked out. Try the physical therapy, cortisone shots, whatever. The surgery isn't fun.
I was part of that IPO as a potential investor. The process was very clear.
*You "read" the prospectus (think EULA "check this box" kind of thing) that warned you extensively about the risk involved. Those risks were very clearly stated.
*You had to read a page on the risks involved, with all of them ending in "and you could lose all the money you invest"
*You created a limited purpose account with a brokerage.
*You were told to read the prospectus again.
*You made a conditional bid in 100 share increments, with the expectation that the price would be between $16-18. You were told that you could drop out at any time prior to the price being set, and that your bid, if accepted, would be binding.
*You were told that the price was about to be set.
*You were told to read the prospectus again.
*The price was set at $17.00
*You were told "The posting of this information and the final terms of the intial public offering constitutes the underwriters' acceptance of your conditional offer to purchase shares of Vonage common stock. Accordingly, you are now obligated to purchase the number of shares you have been allocated, if any."
Having gone through it, I have no doubt that they are on firm legal ground (IANAL). You had to accept (again EULA type) every single step of the way, and every time you logged into the website.
Thank God my bid wasn't accepted!
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As you said, if we don't enforce, it doesn't have teeth. We've had other problems (minor ones), but for the price we are paying we expect them to be able to handle the load. Their CEO talked to our CTO, and claimed a 100% uptime guarantee. Our CEO laughed at them.
Are we going to drop them? No. They're too valuable to drop. But it will be used as leverage to get a better deal on the next contract renewal.
Redundancy? If someone *guarantees* you 100% uptime (even if you know that's not possible) and the cost of ownership is less with them, then you go with them. Sure, we could have fallen back on our own servers. And if they had been down longer, we would have. But it's not something you can simply switch off instantaneously. And isn't redundancy what we are paying Akamai for? That's what they are selling.
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Simple. Just like it looks.
is due within the hour. We're pulling out our SLAs to find out what recourse we have against them. We were down for almost 90 min.
I used to want a choice in cable channels. I'm not a big sports fan, so I'd rather not have ESPN, nor QVC, etc. But after I thought about it for a while, it would probably be more expensive to have it ala carte, since the cable networks set the prices for their channels.
Think about it for a second. We have, what, 108 million cable subscribers in the US? Round that to 100 million for simplicity. If each cable channel (ESPN, CNN, Discovery, etc.) gets $0.25 per subscriber, they get $25 million to cover the costs of production. But if all of a sudden, we have all but 1 million of those people no longer paying, the channel only gets $250,000. So if it actually takes $25 million to produce the shows, then they're going to have raise their costs to $25.00 to make up the difference. Do you want to spend $25.00 a month to pay for SciFi?
Whether or not it costs $25 million to run the channel is open for debate.
Shameless plug!
e rvlet/Produ ctDisplay?catalogId=10000&storeId=10000&productId= 53965&langId=-1
Why not buy it and try it yourself!
http://shopping.discovery.com/stores/s
Buy now, and get it for Christmas! You can use the coupon SHOP10 to get $10 off on all your shopping at the Discovery Store.
Yes, I work for Discovery.
What?!? I'm only 20 miles from Washington D.C, and I was seeing easily 1 per minute, and that wasn't even trying. My son (8) said that getting up was more worth it than going to see Harry Potter on Friday night (10:10 show).
I do have to agree with you that it is better than Iron Chef USA. But, then again, *anything* is better than that...
ps
I currently work for a company that has several large websites. Our goal for last year was 300 million visitors. Unfortunately (!) we had 1.6 billion visitors. This nearly killed us. We had the bandwidth, but the *cost* of that bandwidth was huge. The ad sales just don't cover the costs.
How did we fix it? We haven't. The higher ups set the goal for this year of 300 million visitors (again). So we have to try to find a way to keep people away from the site, but not drive everyone away. It also means trying to co-brand with other companies (where they pay us), and not updating the content as much).
Oddly enough for today's climate, our eCommerce activities are actually making money, and keeping the rest of the sites afloat.
Will we be able to make it? We'll have to see...
The Java 2 is availible in /usr/ports/java/jdk12-beta as well as ;Ta r file
We've been running it with no problems for some time now
I doubt it. Why should I spend $20 to become a "developer" when I can just examine it for free? I don't want their software. I want their hardware.
The company I work for does it. We have programmers spread out over the entire US. It really a matter of whether the company is committed to it. If they are, then the company will do what is necessary to allow the people to work from wherever they are. That means cable modems/DSL, computers, laptops, fax machines, cell phone, etc.
The U.S. territories that have represenation in Congress are:
District of Columbia
Puerto Rico
U.S. Virgin Islands
Guam
American Samoa
And has been noted, they do not have voting privliges, only voice.
Pat
This beta runs about as well under FreeBSD's emulation of Linux. Just as others have said, I can't use submit buttons, and occasionally it segfaults, but otherwise, it runs!
While $2000 may be chicken feed for many companies, if their pricing on this is like their pricing on SQL Server, it's $2000 per processor/machine. So if you have a large server farm, this could start costing some big bucks.
100 servers w/ 1 CPU = $200,000
It can add up quickly.