Re:This is how economics is supposed to work!
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The problem with your idealization of market capitalsm is the problem that gas-guzzling and dangerous SUV's create externalities in terms of environmental destruction, dependence on foreign oil, and injury to others on the road, No different from any other car then... really...
The SUV is demonised, but really the difference between it and a regular car is marginal.
It's fairly simple to scale Linux to 200,000 machines. It can boot and run from the network. No local storage and crucially NO LOCAL STATE required. You can boot a ramdisk over the LAN and run from that if you want. What this means is you only need a few people to run thousands of machines. It's a log increase. That is, Linux isn't your big problem when running 200,000 machines. Your big problem is space, racking, networking, AC, power etc.
On the other hand, Windows pretty much has to be installed onto a hard disk. This means there are thousands of configuration settings, hundreds of libraries of specific versions which all have to be kept synchronized on tens or hundreds of thousands of hard disks. This is a fucking nightmare once you get past a few dozens of machines never mind 200,000. There is at least a linear increase in admin effort with increasing numbers of machines, and with that increase goes cost. Active Directory and Ghost are pretty much de rigueur but don't really fix the problem. Notice that Ghost isn't even an MS product, but a bandaid to fix something the OS can't do (Yes, I'm aware of the MS deployment add ons).
The problem is location of state; on 200,000 hard disks or 1 boot server. Simple maths. Basically, Windows will have to be redesigned so that it can boot and run over the LAN or from a ramdisk or whatever. That's the point when it really becomes "Enterprise ready" rather than being a pretender.
A documentary on military UAVs (don't remember the name) suggested that sometime soon, commercial airplanes would fly completely automatically with one bored pilot onboard to make the passengers happy. 15 years ago.
Google is the start of the factrification of the IT sector, they are the new Arkwrights.
It's basically an IT factory, providing the same service to hundreds of millions. Where smaller scale and family businesses might have performed those particular services before. Have a look at what happened during the Industrial Revolution for an example of what's coming. I'm sure there will even be some new age Luddites protesting against the changes.
It's simply the economics of increasing availabilty of bandwidth.
No such thing existed at that time. In 1985, the networks were fragmented into dozens of incompatible protocols, the environment which could have made Hypercard into the first web browser simply didn't exist and therefore there was no opportunity to make it into such.
And 600 different ways of spelling those sounds. That's 14 different ways of spelling each sound...
Now, THAT is an impressive achievement.
There's a logic to it all, unlike romance and germanic languages. I have to tell you that German, Italian, Spanish are all spelled phonetically. English not.
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The sound of a million creationists sensing their world view shatter.
With asbestos fibers, carbon fibers implicated in lung problems it's possible that these fibers will also cause problems.
Define "much" please.
BMW X5 - 216g/km
Ford Mondeo 2.5l - 225g/km
As I said... Marginal...
Free is clearly a big advantage for developers...
I don't see which part of this is difficult.
The SUV is demonised, but really the difference between it and a regular car is marginal.
rsync, keepalived...
HTH.
HTH.
My good deed for the day. Now I have to go rob a blind child to keep the universal karma in balance.
Not an American. Just would like to know why politics there is binary. On/Off, Good/Bad, Black/White.
Seems amazingly simplistic to me.
Were the printers imprisoned?
It's fairly simple to scale Linux to 200,000 machines. It can boot and run from the network. No local storage and crucially NO LOCAL STATE required. You can boot a ramdisk over the LAN and run from that if you want. What this means is you only need a few people to run thousands of machines. It's a log increase. That is, Linux isn't your big problem when running 200,000 machines. Your big problem is space, racking, networking, AC, power etc.
On the other hand, Windows pretty much has to be installed onto a hard disk. This means there are thousands of configuration settings, hundreds of libraries of specific versions which all have to be kept synchronized on tens or hundreds of thousands of hard disks. This is a fucking nightmare once you get past a few dozens of machines never mind 200,000. There is at least a linear increase in admin effort with increasing numbers of machines, and with that increase goes cost. Active Directory and Ghost are pretty much de rigueur but don't really fix the problem. Notice that Ghost isn't even an MS product, but a bandaid to fix something the OS can't do (Yes, I'm aware of the MS deployment add ons).
The problem is location of state; on 200,000 hard disks or 1 boot server. Simple maths. Basically, Windows will have to be redesigned so that it can boot and run over the LAN or from a ramdisk or whatever. That's the point when it really becomes "Enterprise ready" rather than being a pretender.
Answers on a postcard please.
So. You're the one paying for my internet surfing.
Sounds like you need adblock.
Catastrophe theory etc.
This comes under the category "noise nuisance" offense in many regions and is often punishable by a fine.
Google is the start of the factrification of the IT sector, they are the new Arkwrights.
It's basically an IT factory, providing the same service to hundreds of millions. Where smaller scale and family businesses might have performed those particular services before. Have a look at what happened during the Industrial Revolution for an example of what's coming. I'm sure there will even be some new age Luddites protesting against the changes.
It's simply the economics of increasing availabilty of bandwidth.
Web 2.0 is about a thousand layers above hardware, it does not in any manner, approach.
No such thing existed at that time. In 1985, the networks were fragmented into dozens of incompatible protocols, the environment which could have made Hypercard into the first web browser simply didn't exist and therefore there was no opportunity to make it into such.
Now, THAT is an impressive achievement. There's a logic to it all, unlike romance and germanic languages. I have to tell you that German, Italian, Spanish are all spelled phonetically. English not.
All you have to do is deny supplies and any moonbase will die.
Who owns anything? The person with the biggest stick.
A coding error.
I went to the site but it was all just squiggles.
Can it withstand a Slashdot onslaught?