Eg the Lumia 520, released in early 2013, currently runs win phone 8.1 which is supported to July 2017, but will support win phone 10 which will get a minimum of 36 months support upon release so summer 2018, which will be just over 5 years from release.
I use iOS, not win phone. But this is a win for windows phone.
Even a one bed apartment in London costs £750k (~$1m).
That's highly misleading. 1 bed apartments cost that much in a tiny part of London, I could say the same of pretty much all major global cities.
You can get 1 bedroom flats within 25 minutes of the centre of town (by center of town I mean a tube station in the city of London) for less than 275k GBP, I'm sure you can find cheaper ones nearer - but I hardly looked.
If you do more miles - all things being equal, you are more likely to have an accident - so it makes sense for the insurer to charge you more. The only reason they aren't doing it yet is they've not found a good way to measure it yet, I'm sure they are working on it though.
Presumably now you are going to complain about insurers "discriminating" against people who live on flood plains, in high risk crime areas and arsonists ?
There are a bunch of good posts here, but most people are jumping to solution without knowing some pretty important requirements.
1) How important are the backups ? Is your system backup failure rate is 1% is that ok ? How many backups can fail, affects how much effort you need to put into the validation you need to do to make sure that you've got every backup. I'd suggest you should use whatever you use for regular backups, automate the agent installation and removal - this way you can plug into your regular corporate backup system - and avoid creating a whole load of bespoke process.
2) How important is it that you wipe 100% of the disks ? if your wipe failure rate is 1% is that ok ? (as above - if the answer is no, then you need to put the correct amount of effort into the validation that you've wiped the disk, and into creating an audit trail to prove the wiping was done).
3) Are there certain machines you really, really need to have copies of and make sure are wiped ? eg the CXO's ? If you make sure the really important ones are dealt with, can you accept a higher failure rate on the others ?
You've got this totally wrong - Greece has a HUGE government, AND low taxes. I'm pretty sure no US party is advocating that.
For example, Greeks get state pensions at 55 at 90% of earnings, and at 50 if you are in one of 580 hazardous professions (for example if you cut people's hair). In some situations, children can inherit their parents state pension when their parents die !
Plus no one pays any Taxes and the Greeks have spent the last 10 years running up debts to keep everything running, so now interest rates have gone up they are fucked.
Do whats right for you. The company will survive without you - and if it won't the owners of the company are foolish for not looking after you better, and they don't deserve your loyalty.
As a couple of people on here have said, the 90m back each day could be worth much more than the 7k from a quality of life perspective.
Plus I bet its only 90m on a good day, I bet you have days when its 90m each way !
That 90m per day represents 7.5 hours of your time per week.
Consider that you work 40 hours per week, and if you sleep 8 hours per night you sleep 56 hours per week and that the week is only 168 hours long.
168 - 40 - 56 = 72
So all this means if you get 7.5 hours back you have a little bit more than 10% more "you" time, which is massive.
"A 1-millisecond advantage in trading applications can be worth $100 million a year to a major brokerage firm, by one estimate."
I can't find the original source of this - but IIRC its from the CTO of someone like Goldman's or BoA.
If you are doing high frequency trading on a NY or London based exchange, you don't buy the lowest latency connectivity from the exchange to you. You put your systems as close to the exchange as possible AND THEN you buy the lowest latency connectivity from the exchange to you. Your systems which trade in NY are based in NY, and your systems which trade in London are based in London.
I'm sure there is some minor advantage of NY and London being slightly closer together from a latency perspective, but I'm sure its not as much as 100M USD.
And just think, it's been working for years under Solaris (okay, working internally for a little over 2 years, and available externally for over a year).... =)
More like available externally since Nov 2005 (in opensolaris), and running internally for at least 3 more years than that.
Please - Xen does not a vmware copy make - vmware is so much more than a virtualization product, VMware are trying to make it THE datacenter management tool.
Interesting to see the sub 100k userids come to say the same. Seems like a lot of us (relative) old-timers are really enjoying this series and reliving the past. I can't believe I have at least checked the headline of just about every story over the past 8 years. Granted I will miss some on the weekends, or manage to resist the urge to review when I go on vacation, but I really enjoy the quick synopsis of things going on I wouldn't hear about otherwise being available anytime (what a messy sentence, sorry). Taco, just in case you weren't aware, there are literally (hundreds of?) thousands of us that greatly appreciate the work you do every day, but I suspect you knew that.
Yeah - best series for years, reminds me of the labs at Uni where I started reading/.
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Eg the Lumia 520, released in early 2013, currently runs win phone 8.1 which is supported to July 2017, but will support win phone 10 which will get a minimum of 36 months support upon release so summer 2018, which will be just over 5 years from release.
I use iOS, not win phone. But this is a win for windows phone.
Sorry, I wasn't very clear here - I DIDN'T mean Oracle, thought it certainly sounds like I did !
I meant pick whatever gives you the best job prospects ! (and TBH I think that's probably mysql or member of mysql "group" of databases)
Alex
Do you think anyone who works with Oracle respects it ? This doesn't stop them earning a pile of cash though.
Stop being a prima donna and pick the one with the best employment prospects.
Alex
A story that won't cause a bad reaction in the middle east.
Alex
Even a one bed apartment in London costs £750k (~$1m).
That's highly misleading. 1 bed apartments cost that much in a tiny part of London, I could say the same of pretty much all major global cities.
You can get 1 bedroom flats within 25 minutes of the centre of town (by center of town I mean a tube station in the city of London) for less than 275k GBP, I'm sure you can find cheaper ones nearer - but I hardly looked.
Alex
That's not discrimination, its common sense.
If you do more miles - all things being equal, you are more likely to have an accident - so it makes sense for the insurer to charge you more. The only reason they aren't doing it yet is they've not found a good way to measure it yet, I'm sure they are working on it though.
Presumably now you are going to complain about insurers "discriminating" against people who live on flood plains, in high risk crime areas and arsonists ?
Alex
Saying "I'm an ethical hacker" when you get caught, doesn't mean you don't do time.
It means you are an idiot.
Alex
There are a bunch of good posts here, but most people are jumping to solution without knowing some pretty important requirements.
1) How important are the backups ? Is your system backup failure rate is 1% is that ok ? How many backups can fail, affects how much effort you need to put into the validation you need to do to make sure that you've got every backup. I'd suggest you should use whatever you use for regular backups, automate the agent installation and removal - this way you can plug into your regular corporate backup system - and avoid creating a whole load of bespoke process.
2) How important is it that you wipe 100% of the disks ? if your wipe failure rate is 1% is that ok ? (as above - if the answer is no, then you need to put the correct amount of effort into the validation that you've wiped the disk, and into creating an audit trail to prove the wiping was done).
3) Are there certain machines you really, really need to have copies of and make sure are wiped ? eg the CXO's ? If you make sure the really important ones are dealt with, can you accept a higher failure rate on the others ?
There are a number of good posts on here, and a lot of people saying "use DBAN".
99.99% of the problem space here is the process that proves the drive was wiped and the processes supporting that, 0.01% is doing the wiping.
2000 usd per access point from the look of the link.
You've got this totally wrong - Greece has a HUGE government, AND low taxes. I'm pretty sure no US party is advocating that.
For example, Greeks get state pensions at 55 at 90% of earnings, and at 50 if you are in one of 580 hazardous professions (for example if you cut people's hair). In some situations, children can inherit their parents state pension when their parents die !
Plus no one pays any Taxes and the Greeks have spent the last 10 years running up debts to keep everything running, so now interest rates have gone up they are fucked.
Alex
Do whats right for you. The company will survive without you - and if it won't the owners of the company are foolish for not looking after you better, and they don't deserve your loyalty.
As a couple of people on here have said, the 90m back each day could be worth much more than the 7k from a quality of life perspective.
Plus I bet its only 90m on a good day, I bet you have days when its 90m each way !
That 90m per day represents 7.5 hours of your time per week.
Consider that you work 40 hours per week, and if you sleep 8 hours per night you sleep 56 hours per week and that the week is only 168 hours long.
168 - 40 - 56 = 72
So all this means if you get 7.5 hours back you have a little bit more than 10% more "you" time, which is massive.
Alex
This 1ms advantage is worth 100m USD, isn't relevant to transatlantic bandwidth.
The quote from wikipedia https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Low_latency_(capital_markets) is
"A 1-millisecond advantage in trading applications can be worth $100 million a year to a major brokerage firm, by one estimate."
I can't find the original source of this - but IIRC its from the CTO of someone like Goldman's or BoA.
If you are doing high frequency trading on a NY or London based exchange, you don't buy the lowest latency connectivity from the exchange to you. You put your systems as close to the exchange as possible AND THEN you buy the lowest latency connectivity from the exchange to you. Your systems which trade in NY are based in NY, and your systems which trade in London are based in London.
I'm sure there is some minor advantage of NY and London being slightly closer together from a latency perspective, but I'm sure its not as much as 100M USD.
Alex
didn't know they were ipod speakers, nice pizza and cappu though.
"London did have a real problem with terrorism: every few months the Provisional IRA would plant a bomb"
Mostly funded by "concerned" east coast Americans, see NORAID.
Gee thanks,
Alex
And just think, it's been working for years under Solaris (okay, working internally for a little over 2 years, and available externally for over a year).... =)
More like available externally since Nov 2005 (in opensolaris), and running internally for at least 3 more years than that.
Alex
A slashdot post about mobile phones, cue loads of North Americans whining about GSM/CDMA, Verizon, cellphone plans, etc.
Awesome!
indeed
Oracle Is Latest To Take On VMware
Please - Xen does not a vmware copy make - vmware is so much more than a virtualization product, VMware are trying to make it THE datacenter management tool.
Alex
Interesting to see the sub 100k userids come to say the same. Seems like a lot of us (relative) old-timers are really enjoying this series and reliving the past. I can't believe I have at least checked the headline of just about every story over the past 8 years. Granted I will miss some on the weekends, or manage to resist the urge to review when I go on vacation, but I really enjoy the quick synopsis of things going on I wouldn't hear about otherwise being available anytime (what a messy sentence, sorry). Taco, just in case you weren't aware, there are literally (hundreds of?) thousands of us that greatly appreciate the work you do every day, but I suspect you knew that.
Yeah - best series for years, reminds me of the labs at Uni where I started reading
Alex
there are more than a few of us about......
We're ready to grow FAST to basically any size, modeling after the /. supreme being, Google. Are you?
Does he need to be ?
Thats an HBA - how about I sell you 2 for $25k ?
sitebacker - that will change your dns within 3m of your site going down.
cheers,
Alex
thats not a low user id......