Your answer, while maybe true in some rare cases, just shows the ignorance of some IT people to business decisions. Maintaining such an old piece of technology might actually result in higher costs than developing a new system based on current technology. Why?
1. People. Probably the most important reason. Cobol is not exactly a widely taught language. People knowledgable in Java, C#, PHP and other languages are younger, much easier to find and thus cheaper. People with real solid Cobol experience are actually quite expensive nowadays (supply->demand).
2. Extensibility and maintainability. While maintainability might be ok, extensibility is a bitch. Connectors to Web Services? Talking to the myriad of other web apps you have inhouse? Accessing that SAP system you have?. There might be some solutions for every one of those problems. Hell, they even made Object Oriented Cobol a decade or so. But all of these (proprietary) solutions cost much more money than simply using a new language / technology which comes with most of these included.
Exactly! We just need to proactively monetize the synergistic potential of this new paradigm of cloud computing and meta-programming by thinking outside the box and leverage these tools to enable a better strategic fit in our forward-thinking, customercentric enterprise.
Is is it really that hard to understand? As a high school student and a nerd I had way too much time. I always tried to get the latest stuff. It was fun, it didn't matter whether it destroyed the computer and it was awesome to have the new beta of Windows 98 when nobody else had it.
Ah, the smell of no clue in the morning. As this is a not too uncommon scenario in germany there is basically no bank which does not immediately give you the money back.
12. Debris hits Sarah Palin in the head. Fortunately no damage was done...
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For those not getting it: this is a tribute to the song "One" by Filter:
One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do Two can be as bad as one, its the loneliest number since the number one No is the saddest experience you'll ever know Yes is the saddest experience you'll ever know Linky.
I am German, so I know both StudiVZ and Facebook. It is true that StudiVZ copied just about everything from facebook except the color and the name. Functionality, fonts, even the order of buttons is the same. Hell, StudiVZ even had a directory in their URLs named "Fakebook". Whether this is legal or not - the courts may decide that.
More interesting about this case is the fact, that this has been known for a long time, even to Facebook. But they (facebook) only recently started to expand to Germany. As they are too late and thus largely unsuccessful (Metcalfes Law anyone?) they decided to sue them. But this is purely business: if they want to be sucessful in Germany they have to buy StudiVZ. And sueing might help lowering the price. Pretty straight-forward.
The article states nothing new - there are two very interesting blogs from Lenovo which already stated the same in August 07 (!). To quote:
Solid state HDDs promise to save power compared to traditional hard disk technology. And they will. However today's generation of SSDs have no power savings benefit compared to traditional HDDs. The big reason is that current SSDs with a Serial ATA interface are actually Parallel ATA hard disk drives with a serial bridge chip. They don't offer support for low power interface states and the architecture has a potential for data-losing error conditions when recovering from a low power state like suspend or hibernate. In the future, there will be native SATA solutions which will solve many of these problems and will at the same time offer a real power savings benefit which should increase battery life.[1]
An updated quote from a newer blog:
Power Consumption - All SSDs are going to save you battery life on your notebook, but some will save you more than others. Again, the native SATA drives will give you better battery life.[2]
To summarise: old news and mostly outdated with very recent SSD drives.
Suppose that the APIs delivered with Windows XP are the 100% baseline for app compatibility that you want to achieve. Could you give an estimate of how much percent is already implemented and how much work it would be to implement the rest?
I think what's new here is that it's been shown in an actual experiment using real cars, rather than just theorized or modeled in a computer. This has been known and studied for a long time in theory and practice. I remember seeing pretty much the exact same experiment on a pseudo/popular-science TV show in germany, called "Welt der Wunder" about two years ago. Proof. Even though the link is in German, there is a date (January 2007) and the picture at the top right shows the experiment. They also mention that there were no problems using 8 to 10 drivers at 30 km per hour, but adding more drivers made these waves occur until everybody slowly stopped. So I don't see how this is newsworthy...
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I'm not sure whether this is common geek knowledge or not - The title of this story most likely alludes to Philipp K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? This novel was the basis for the motion picture Blade Runner, a movie that every self-respecting geek ought to see (IMHO of course).
"The government funded research in microdrive storage, electrochemistry and signal compression. They did so for one reason: It turned out that those were the key ingredients for the development of the iPod."
So he's only claiming the funding of research for ingredients that would eventually be used in the iPod. He's not claiming that they have developed the iPod. Sounds like press hype to me.
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Your answer, while maybe true in some rare cases, just shows the ignorance of some IT people to business decisions. Maintaining such an old piece of technology might actually result in higher costs than developing a new system based on current technology. Why?
1. People. Probably the most important reason. Cobol is not exactly a widely taught language. People knowledgable in Java, C#, PHP and other languages are younger, much easier to find and thus cheaper. People with real solid Cobol experience are actually quite expensive nowadays (supply->demand).
2. Extensibility and maintainability. While maintainability might be ok, extensibility is a bitch. Connectors to Web Services? Talking to the myriad of other web apps you have inhouse? Accessing that SAP system you have?. There might be some solutions for every one of those problems. Hell, they even made Object Oriented Cobol a decade or so. But all of these (proprietary) solutions cost much more money than simply using a new language / technology which comes with most of these included.
Exactly! We just need to proactively monetize the synergistic potential of this new paradigm of cloud computing and meta-programming by thinking outside the box and leverage these tools to enable a better strategic fit in our forward-thinking, customercentric enterprise.
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Translation for the lazy:
"That's also what your girlfriend always says!"
Where's the "-1, Disturbing" mod, when you need it?
Is is it really that hard to understand? As a high school student and a nerd I had way too much time. I always tried to get the latest stuff. It was fun, it didn't matter whether it destroyed the computer and it was awesome to have the new beta of Windows 98 when nobody else had it.
He spelled it correct. The Rechtschreibreform did not abolish all Es-Zetts!
Ah, the smell of no clue in the morning. As this is a not too uncommon scenario in germany there is basically no bank which does not immediately give you the money back.
12. Debris hits Sarah Palin in the head. Fortunately no damage was done...
For those not getting it: this is a tribute to the song "One" by Filter:
One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
Two can be as bad as one, its the loneliest number since the number one
No is the saddest experience you'll ever know
Yes is the saddest experience you'll ever know
Linky.
It's called the Two Generals' Problem.
I am German, so I know both StudiVZ and Facebook. It is true that StudiVZ copied just about everything from facebook except the color and the name. Functionality, fonts, even the order of buttons is the same. Hell, StudiVZ even had a directory in their URLs named "Fakebook". Whether this is legal or not - the courts may decide that.
More interesting about this case is the fact, that this has been known for a long time, even to Facebook. But they (facebook) only recently started to expand to Germany. As they are too late and thus largely unsuccessful (Metcalfes Law anyone?) they decided to sue them. But this is purely business: if they want to be sucessful in Germany they have to buy StudiVZ. And sueing might help lowering the price. Pretty straight-forward.
The article states nothing new - there are two very interesting blogs from Lenovo which already stated the same in August 07 (!). To quote:
Solid state HDDs promise to save power compared to traditional hard disk technology. And they will. However today's generation of SSDs have no power savings benefit compared to traditional HDDs. The big reason is that current SSDs with a Serial ATA interface are actually Parallel ATA hard disk drives with a serial bridge chip. They don't offer support for low power interface states and the architecture has a potential for data-losing error conditions when recovering from a low power state like suspend or hibernate. In the future, there will be native SATA solutions which will solve many of these problems and will at the same time offer a real power savings benefit which should increase battery life.[1]
An updated quote from a newer blog:
Power Consumption - All SSDs are going to save you battery life on your notebook, but some will save you more than others. Again, the native SATA drives will give you better battery life.[2]
To summarise: old news and mostly outdated with very recent SSD drives.
[1]: SSD part 1 (Aug 07)
[2]: SSD part 2 (March 08)
Hi,
Suppose that the APIs delivered with Windows XP are the 100% baseline for app compatibility that you want to achieve. Could you give an estimate of how much percent is already implemented and how much work it would be to implement the rest?
Thanks!
Yes! YES!!
And don't swoosh me
Seems they've already fixed most of the problem. (Scroll down a little - the "they fixed mine"-messages are all at the bottom).
I'm not sure whether this is common geek knowledge or not - The title of this story most likely alludes to Philipp K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? This novel was the basis for the motion picture Blade Runner, a movie that every self-respecting geek ought to see (IMHO of course).
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My two cents
So he's only claiming the funding of research for ingredients that would eventually be used in the iPod. He's not claiming that they have developed the iPod. Sounds like press hype to me.
Obligatory userfriendly.org link. The whole storyline is well worth reading :-)
Let's show them who's the boss! :-)
Considering your spelling and grammar, you probably decided to not listen to your teacher after that :-)
.. badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, MUSHROOM! MUSHROOM
Badger Badger
Chiba is in the first part of the book Neuromancer by William Gibson - a very revolutionary novel and winner of the Nebula awards amongst others.