Today the big guys have 500,000 servers. Even if you are somehow an order of magnitude more efficient, and another order of magnitude smaller while you're starting out, that's still 5k servers
A magnitude of order less than 500,00 is 50,000, not 5K.
I'm serious. With their huge cash reserves, Microsoft could enter the market in toilet seats tomorrow, price them at 99 cents, drive everyone else out of business, and drive up the price to $10,000 a seat.
It may not be dumping, but their customers sure will be.
There is significantly higher motivation for learning new skills in the public sector because it will actually make a difference for the individual. When you become invaluable, your status and pay reflect that, generally, in the public sector. Definetly not so in government positions. I do completely agree that an individual with a strong desire to learn and expand skills and knowledge can be of immense use in the public sector.
I don't think you know the difference between the public and private sector, in spite of apparently having worked for both.
How do you reach THAT conclusion? Business process patents weren't allowed until 1998. This is the single largest increase in patent scope this century.
I suppose it does, for different values of "this century".
And why is a murder committed out of hate worse than a "regular" murder? The victim is equally dead either way.
It is because the normal run-of-the-mill murder, the victim may have done something to bring it upon himself, whether or not he knows it. In the case of, say a mafia hit, it's just business.
In the case of a hate crime, the victim dies just because they were born. Not for any personal or business reasons. They die out of pure ignorance, nothing less. That's why hate crimes are so abhorrent.
Yeah. Also the Civil War may not have happened, and there may be no such place as "Mozambique". Teach the controversy!
What would be more controversial would be to call the Civil War the 2nd Civil War. Does anyone really think that the Revolution was anything _but_ a Civil War?
Of course, I wasn't around at the time, but it's pretty clear to me, as it was to J. Edgar Hoover[1] that locking people up for their ethnicity was not only illegal, but utterly unprecendented in the history of the United States.
Locking up, like you would a slave? Sadly, that's hardly unprecedented in the United States.
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I wish that there were spell checks on whatever is submitted. "Millenium" indeed.
So it is.
One-to-the-hundredth power is a "googol."
One to the hundreth power is still one. However, 10^100 is a googol.
Today the big guys have 500,000 servers. Even if you are somehow an order of magnitude more efficient, and another order of magnitude smaller while you're starting out, that's still 5k servers
A magnitude of order less than 500,00 is 50,000, not 5K.
Is this dumping?
I'm serious. With their huge cash reserves, Microsoft could enter the market in toilet seats tomorrow, price them at 99 cents, drive everyone else out of business, and drive up the price to $10,000 a seat.
It may not be dumping, but their customers sure will be.
And then I saw the link for the "therms of use." "Professional enough" indeed
Hey now, be nice. People with lisps can be professionals too.
Be nice now, it'll be the first audio player to have a full 640k of memory, which is naturally enough for everyone.
The platypus also secretes a poison that can't be blcoked by opiates, or anything else for that matter. Interesting stuff.
There is significantly higher motivation for learning new skills in the public sector because it will actually make a difference for the individual. When you become invaluable, your status and pay reflect that, generally, in the public sector. Definetly not so in government positions. I do completely agree that an individual with a strong desire to learn and expand skills and knowledge can be of immense use in the public sector.
I don't think you know the difference between the public and private sector, in spite of apparently having worked for both.
Stallman: I'm going to f***ing kill CNN. It's GNU/Linux damn it!
*Chair goes flying across room*
Are you sure you don't mean Steve Ballmer?
I'd rather have Apple pie than Windows pie. Ewww.. gross!
What, are you kidding? It's fantastic! It's...crunchy.
Cue the people who say Global Warming isn't real, citing a crappy Micheal Crichton novel.
"It had a successful flight but it ran off the end of the runway."
These guys need the White House spin doctors to make this look good...
"The test was successful because it ran off the end of the runway, after all, isn't "run" the operative word here?"
Advices on Learning Japanese?
I think "advice" is it's own plural. How about mastering the English language before going on to greener pastures?
How do you reach THAT conclusion? Business process patents weren't allowed until 1998. This is the single largest increase in patent scope this century.
I suppose it does, for different values of "this century".
Psst. It's 2006 buddy.
And, there's a history for the game Tabula Rasa; they've scrapped development of the game once and restarted already.
I suppose you're saying that they've started with a "blank slate" then?
And why is a murder committed out of hate worse than a "regular" murder? The victim is equally dead either way.
It is because the normal run-of-the-mill murder, the victim may have done something to bring it upon himself, whether or not he knows it. In the case of, say a mafia hit, it's just business.
In the case of a hate crime, the victim dies just because they were born. Not for any personal or business reasons. They die out of pure ignorance, nothing less. That's why hate crimes are so abhorrent.
Yeah. Also the Civil War may not have happened, and there may be no such place as "Mozambique". Teach the controversy!
What would be more controversial would be to call the Civil War the 2nd Civil War. Does anyone really think that the Revolution was anything _but_ a Civil War?
I've presistant back pain... I've known about this for a while now... I'm glad to see there's some research to back me up.
:)
No pun intended of course
Of course, I wasn't around at the time, but it's pretty clear to me, as it was to J. Edgar Hoover[1] that locking people up for their ethnicity was not only illegal, but utterly unprecendented in the history of the United States.
Locking up, like you would a slave? Sadly, that's hardly unprecedented in the United States.
I hate people that don't use correct grammar or correctly spell their or there properly.
Don't forget they're.
"Gitmo" is a US navel base in Guantanamo Bay located in Cuba.
A navel base? Is that where they grow oranges or wear belly-exposing shirts?
Did anyone else read this as "Japan Will Mock Cyberattacks on Stage" at first glance?
I can just picture it:
"Pfft, You call that a cyberattack?"
Next!
1 Joule = 1 Watt * 1 Second, so wattage is related to waste heat.
I've worked for very large companies (F-10s), and if one thing they have in common is they constantly settle for 1/2-baked CARP
Hmm, that's funny, I don't read a lot about CEO's getting food poisoning in the Business section of my paper...