This is a more low-end or small-business grade disk configuration. Mid-range or high-end would havwe HW RAID. I've only seen 15,000 RPM in 146 GB disks and smaller, and 10,000 RPM in 300 GB disk, but I'd hoped the 250 GB option would have had 10,000 RPM disk.
I *think* the mainframe OSes do an one interesting thing, that is making the user that has superuser rights with respect to granting access to resources (under RACF) different from the user that would be otherwise equivalent with UNIX's root and such that the root equivalent can't change access control and is general excluded from accessing data.
My first thought is that of course the root-equivalent could bypass the security system but I think one would have to do the equivalent of writing and loading a kernel module plus user space tools to do so. Thus it provides a reasonably high barrier compared with the lack of barrier between a UNIX root user and the system's (and user's) data.
but note that Apache's market share is approximately 30% higher than IIS's at the moment.
Either "is approximately 100% higher" or "is approximately double" or "is approximately 30 percentage points higher" but not "is aproximately 30% higher".
By using green algae and sunlight, we can indeed produce hydrogen energy efficiently. See for example Hydrogen Production. Green Algae as a Source of Energy, by Melis and Happe.
Ok, but you realize that's really just solar energy, right? That's feasable if it can go on rooftops.
...down the line, hydrogen is the way to go -- maybe fuel cells. There's just so much energy available in what is the most available substance in the universe that the better we get at working with it the better off we are.
Since you say fuel cells I can only assume you don't mean fusion. You must be really confused because hydrogen for fuel cells is an energy transport medium, not a source; there isn't an abundant supply of elemental hydrogen (H_2) on Earth (or are you talking about harvesting from gas giant planets? what about the oxygen?).
There is an abundant supply of fissionable material, thus fission can be considered a source. There is an abundant supply of sunlight, so solar power can be considered a source (although at ~ 1000 W/m^2 we'd consume too much land area using only solar). There is an abundant supply of deuterium so fusion, if technically feasable in the future, could be considered a source.
You are talking about transport mediums. Electricity is a primary medium for much of our energy consumption. Hydrocarbons (oil, coal, & natural gas) act as both a source (because we've found a lot of them) as well as a transport medium. But since as a source it is finite on a human life timescale, we need alternatives.
Wouldn't be better to spend this tiny amount of money with measures to prevent and control the emission of CO2 at the atmosphere? This barges things looks like a hack to me... a really expensive hack. Would this have to be done every year? I think it is better to leave this kind of "ultimate" solution to when there is no option at all. Until then, let's try to fight the roots of the problem, not just patch it from the outside and adjourn the disaster for a few years.
If you researched the research, you would understand that they are not proposing this (at this time) as a solution, rather they are doing calculations to understand what it would cost to fix the problem (in this case the broken circulation of ocean water) after the fact. That is useful to be able to compare costs with those preventative measures you refer to.
The question from the employee described a situation I've seen all too often, the "Emperor has no clothes" syndrome.
Management on high sets a policy and directs lower level management to develop a process, and perhaps the process gets developed and perhaps it is even a good one, but the implementation of the process properly requires more resources and less management pressures to get other priorities met (like a ship date).
The interactions between levels of manangement then almost invariably leads to the situation where the people at the bottom learn that people above them don't want to hear bad news, no matter whose fault it is, and soon learn that telling the truth leads to whacks on the head while telling half-truths, or putting a spin on the truth results in "atta-boy"s.
Multiply that by two three or four layers of management and you get this guy's response. He doesn't even realize after hearing the question that his policy is considered a joke by the lowest layers.
The funny part is, there are smart people in the lower layers and they can compare the corporate public communications of each layer of management and see how things get distorted; since they already know the lowest layer, it is ironic that they get one of the best views of the company!
If there was an electronic way to submit bug reports there would be so much crap that real bug reports would get lost in the pile of crap, which would be bad. By putting a barrier, it forces people to put some thought into the submission.
Take the text that you've laboured so hard on (you properly did all sorts of problem determination to narrow the focus of the bug report, right? you documented that fully, right?...) and print it on a sheet of paper and mail it. The five minutes to do that and get it mailed (next time you're near a post box) should be small in comparison with the effort to properly create a bug report.
Of course, if you include an email address in your report, there is no reason why they shouldn't make all subsequent communications electronic.
Computers are extremely patient. Computers are extremely stupid.
Computers will do exactly what you tell them and won't second-guess your bad instructions. Someone has to tell them everything about what they are supposed to do. That means if people don't tell them right, they'll do the wrong thing. They'll do the wrong thing millions of times (see, they are patient).
Among the list of "crankpots" should we include mainstream religion and their various objections to things like cloning? I fail to see how mainstream religion differs significantly from the rest of the crackpots... I mean if you overlook the organization, political power and all that.
I'm sorry, but comparing this case and abortion/organized religion is a false analogy.
In the latter case, science does agree that the thing that becomes a full human after gestation is the single-celled fertilized egg. Science does not have anything to say about the ethical, moral, social, or political issues around abortion. Scientists or scientific organizations, being people or groups of people, may have something to say, but that is different from science.
In the former case (comet impact/astrology) science specifically refutes the claim that the position of the comet has any measurable effect on any person's life (apart from physical effects like changing its course resulting in impact with the Earth!).
You are thinking of the object, not the process. It may be that there are products that can open the current versions of.doc and.xls files, but how did they get that way and will it remain that way?
Current formats (the object) may be open by your definition, but by a process definition they are not. They require either either restrictive licensing to access a specification or reverse engineering (which is arguably difficult or impossible to validate as complete). Both of those processes to generate code are closed/restrictive, not open.
A standard with an open definition process separate from any implementation (open or closed) would generate an open format.
How about OS/400. Lots of retail POS ISVs run the server code on AS/400 (iSeries). And how about zOS? Still a lot of banks and insurance companies run their core apps on mainframe.
He'd better invest in some auditing. You know the studios will cook the books with all sorts of extra "fees" for stuff that has no value, reducing the bottom line.
Just like record production companies hire all sorts of expensive behind the scenes "help", reducing the amount of profit that is applied against the artist's advance.
Are you aware that some Hard IP Phones (i.e. IP phones that look like phones and plug into Ethernet, as opposed to Soft IP Phones, i.e. software running on a PC that use PC audio) have three-port 100baseT switches that are capable of trunking (using VTP) to the uplinked switch and providing separate VLAN for the phone proper verses the available port (for pluggin in your PC).
The box colours match the authorized editions of the books that I have (1977, A Magnum Book, Methuen Publications, Toronto, London, Syndey, Wellington).
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Actually *technically* it is 6 books physically published as 3.
I hope it doesn't have to work below -5 F or need cameras on the side or require secure communications...
This is a more low-end or small-business grade disk configuration. Mid-range or high-end would havwe HW RAID. I've only seen 15,000 RPM in 146 GB disks and smaller, and 10,000 RPM in 300 GB disk, but I'd hoped the 250 GB option would have had 10,000 RPM disk.
* Incidentally: try Googling "mass of the moon". Freaky, isn't it.
Even better, google "mass of the earth divided by mass of the moon"
I *think* the mainframe OSes do an one interesting thing, that is making the user that has superuser rights with respect to granting access to resources (under RACF) different from the user that would be otherwise equivalent with UNIX's root and such that the root equivalent can't change access control and is general excluded from accessing data.
My first thought is that of course the root-equivalent could bypass the security system but I think one would have to do the equivalent of writing and loading a kernel module plus user space tools to do so. Thus it provides a reasonably high barrier compared with the lack of barrier between a UNIX root user and the system's (and user's) data.
but note that Apache's market share is approximately 30% higher than IIS's at the moment.
Either "is approximately 100% higher" or "is approximately double" or "is approximately 30 percentage points higher" but not "is aproximately 30% higher".
This is comparing a 60% share with a 30% share.
Only the expression of one.
By using green algae and sunlight, we can indeed produce hydrogen energy efficiently. See for example Hydrogen Production. Green Algae as a Source of Energy, by Melis and Happe.
Ok, but you realize that's really just solar energy, right? That's feasable if it can go on rooftops.
...down the line, hydrogen is the way to go -- maybe fuel cells. There's just so much energy available in what is the most available substance in the universe that the better we get at working with it the better off we are.
Since you say fuel cells I can only assume you don't mean fusion. You must be really confused because hydrogen for fuel cells is an energy transport medium, not a source; there isn't an abundant supply of elemental hydrogen (H_2) on Earth (or are you talking about harvesting from gas giant planets? what about the oxygen?).
There is an abundant supply of fissionable material, thus fission can be considered a source. There is an abundant supply of sunlight, so solar power can be considered a source (although at ~ 1000 W/m^2 we'd consume too much land area using only solar). There is an abundant supply of deuterium so fusion, if technically feasable in the future, could be considered a source.
You are talking about transport mediums. Electricity is a primary medium for much of our energy consumption. Hydrocarbons (oil, coal, & natural gas) act as both a source (because we've found a lot of them) as well as a transport medium. But since as a source it is finite on a human life timescale, we need alternatives.
I can't believe how little effort some people put into writing grammatically correct prose.
The estimated cost is about $50 billion.
Wouldn't be better to spend this tiny amount of money with measures to prevent and control the emission of CO2 at the atmosphere? This barges things looks like a hack to me... a really expensive hack. Would this have to be done every year? I think it is better to leave this kind of "ultimate" solution to when there is no option at all. Until then, let's try to fight the roots of the problem, not just patch it from the outside and adjourn the disaster for a few years.
If you researched the research, you would understand that they are not proposing this (at this time) as a solution, rather they are doing calculations to understand what it would cost to fix the problem (in this case the broken circulation of ocean water) after the fact. That is useful to be able to compare costs with those preventative measures you refer to.
The question from the employee described a situation I've seen all too often, the "Emperor has no clothes" syndrome.
Management on high sets a policy and directs lower level management to develop a process, and perhaps the process gets developed and perhaps it is even a good one, but the implementation of the process properly requires more resources and less management pressures to get other priorities met (like a ship date).
The interactions between levels of manangement then almost invariably leads to the situation where the people at the bottom learn that people above them don't want to hear bad news, no matter whose fault it is, and soon learn that telling the truth leads to whacks on the head while telling half-truths, or putting a spin on the truth results in "atta-boy"s.
Multiply that by two three or four layers of management and you get this guy's response. He doesn't even realize after hearing the question that his policy is considered a joke by the lowest layers.
The funny part is, there are smart people in the lower layers and they can compare the corporate public communications of each layer of management and see how things get distorted; since they already know the lowest layer, it is ironic that they get one of the best views of the company!
If there was an electronic way to submit bug reports there would be so much crap that real bug reports would get lost in the pile of crap, which would be bad. By putting a barrier, it forces people to put some thought into the submission.
...) and print it on a sheet of paper and mail it. The five minutes to do that and get it mailed (next time you're near a post box) should be small in comparison with the effort to properly create a bug report.
Take the text that you've laboured so hard on (you properly did all sorts of problem determination to narrow the focus of the bug report, right? you documented that fully, right?
Of course, if you include an email address in your report, there is no reason why they shouldn't make all subsequent communications electronic.
Computers are extremely patient. Computers are extremely stupid.
Computers will do exactly what you tell them and won't second-guess your bad instructions. Someone has to tell them everything about what they are supposed to do. That means if people don't tell them right, they'll do the wrong thing. They'll do the wrong thing millions of times (see, they are patient).
Sorry.
Good thing wikipedia.com redirects to wikipedia.org, or this would be wrong too!
Wha? The Fifth Element and Robocop are classics? I'd swear anything with Bruce Willis is, by definition (due to age, if not quality), not a classic.
Sure, Wikipedia wouldn't compare well to actual journalism, but where do you find that nowadays?
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, of course.
This is the Tipping Point of the Decline and Fall of the American Empire.
You heard it here first.
Among the list of "crankpots" should we include mainstream religion and their various objections to things like cloning? I fail to see how mainstream religion differs significantly from the rest of the crackpots... I mean if you overlook the organization, political power and all that.
I'm sorry, but comparing this case and abortion/organized religion is a false analogy.
In the latter case, science does agree that the thing that becomes a full human after gestation is the single-celled fertilized egg. Science does not have anything to say about the ethical, moral, social, or political issues around abortion. Scientists or scientific organizations, being people or groups of people, may have something to say, but that is different from science.
In the former case (comet impact/astrology) science specifically refutes the claim that the position of the comet has any measurable effect on any person's life (apart from physical effects like changing its course resulting in impact with the Earth!).
So you see, the analogy is not correct.
You are thinking of the object, not the process. It may be that there are products that can open the current versions of .doc and .xls files, but how did they get that way and will it remain that way?
Current formats (the object) may be open by your definition, but by a process definition they are not. They require either either restrictive licensing to access a specification or reverse engineering (which is arguably difficult or impossible to validate as complete). Both of those processes to generate code are closed/restrictive, not open.
A standard with an open definition process separate from any implementation (open or closed) would generate an open format.
How about OS/400. Lots of retail POS ISVs run the server code on AS/400 (iSeries). And how about zOS? Still a lot of banks and insurance companies run their core apps on mainframe.
He'd better invest in some auditing. You know the studios will cook the books with all sorts of extra "fees" for stuff that has no value, reducing the bottom line.
Just like record production companies hire all sorts of expensive behind the scenes "help", reducing the amount of profit that is applied against the artist's advance.
Are you aware that some Hard IP Phones (i.e. IP phones that look like phones and plug into Ethernet, as opposed to Soft IP Phones, i.e. software running on a PC that use PC audio) have three-port 100baseT switches that are capable of trunking (using VTP) to the uplinked switch and providing separate VLAN for the phone proper verses the available port (for pluggin in your PC).
You mean -34 pointing out that 25+50+50+75+2+24+8 != 200
The box colours match the authorized editions of the books that I have (1977, A Magnum Book, Methuen Publications, Toronto, London, Syndey, Wellington).