What about the choice between a 32GB SSD plus a 1.2TB HD or just a 1.5TB HD? Install your OS and software on the SSD for massive performance gains, keep almost as much capacity for your media and data.
I recently discovered that local union road maintenance workers demand double pay to work at night. Night being, by most accounts, the most efficient and least traffic-impacting time to do road work. There are thousands of people out of work who would be happy to work for "normal pay" ($15/hr for road maintenance here in Atlanta) when it is cooler and safer. Why are we still bothering with this union? Oh yeah, because they bribe the right people.
AT&T has no cells in the MARTA train tunnels in Atlanta. Every other carrier does. That alone is enough that I am switching services next time I want a new phone.
If there are homosexual members of religions that not only shun but also often *kill* them, which you can see to be the case by reading any number of very sad news reports, you think it unlikely that there are Jews who enjoy some ham on occasion?
I dont think that I have ever worked for a company that was actively seeking VC, or exhbited greater than linearly growing profit. I think we are talking about two very different kinds of company. The ones you describe fail often. The ones I am talking about stick around for decades.
I don't know what you consider "mom and pop", but the last two places I have worked have been 150-300 employee businesses that operated without permanent debt.
I have trouble seeing how a company with $1M in available credit is worth more than a company with $1M in cash on hand, all else being equal.
concurrent clients/watts = very high concurrent clients/$$$ = high concurrent clients/rack space = sadly low, owing to the limited selection of low power servers. no one makes a 1u with 8 ARM cores in it... yet:)
Say it takes a whole year. If your current budget for the software is X, then set aside an extra X this year to pay the development team. Recoup your investment in 1-2 years (depending on how you do the accounting), profit with a smaller dev team thereafter.
The traditional supply/demand model does not need to account for credit. When the price of existing data center space goes up, the companies running those data centers will make more profit, and thus be able to build more data centers without credit.
For what you are paying* for that proprietary accounting package, and all that MS software to support it, you could probably hire a team of programmers to make an open source accounting package meet your needs more precisely than your current package does.
Philadelphia, New York, Atlanta, Nashville, Houston, Dallas, Miami... All have widespread public pedestrian-only zones. I'm sure you've seen one somewhere.
No, that's not the point. If I work for you, then I am only going to connect to the VPN when it is an emergency. As opposed to staying connected and occasionally monitoring the network and services, doing small maintenance tasks that might occur to me in the middle of the night, responding to requests on the corporate IM system, etc... You will get a significantly larger amount of productive work out of me if you don't institute that policy on your VPN. Did you consider that before making that policy?
("you" being the company and/or hypothetical network admin who made the decision, "I" being a mid level IT person with any of various responsibilities that can be accomplished from home)
Exactly. The people responsible for these policies rarely consider the ramifications. If I can do work related things from home *at my leisure*, I will do a lot more than if I have to dedicate an entire extra computer and/or blocks of my time to the task. I am not going to give up my web surfing or game playing on the train/bus portion of my commute, nor when I am stuck in an airport for hours.
Yes, but no typical/normal/average person does that. You would be amazed how many lawyers billing hundreds of dollars an hour do not own home computers.
And this is an excellent plan for convincing your users to only connect to the VPN occasionally. Good if you want to maximize security. Bad if you want to maximize productivity.
I have never seen that enforced, and only twice ever as the default setting. It is a client-side configuration option in most VPN software (Cisco, SecuRemote, most Linux VPN clients).
You want VPN users to stream video or download game patches or do other non-business-related bandwidth intensive operations over the VPN, when they have a perfectly (ha!) good internet connection locally? I hope you have a REALLY big network pipe.
Be glad there are cracks for Steam games. I don't think anyone ever managed to break the DRM on Plays For Sure windows media files, or that MLB game footage that they stopped authorizing.
I am one of many people who do not buy from Steam. How many times do companies have to turn off DRM servers before people realize it's a bad idea to buy that sort of content?
Generally 1 is taken to be the true state, while 0 is false. The last digit of a binary number indicates oddness in that fashion, 1 being "is odd", 0 being "is not odd". Obviously this also effectively indicates evenness, but to label it so would be to defy convention.
This same phenomenon applies to the physics demonstrations by which a man's arm can be covered in water then dipped in molten lead, or a droplet of liquid nitrogen can roll around in the palm of your hand, both completely safe if performed carefully. Massive temperature gradients can exist in very small spaces, and as long as you are on the safe side of that gradient, no matter how narrow it is, you will be OK. Sure, the air might be a million degrees 1mm from your skin, but if the air touching your skin is 100 degrees then you will just feel slightly warm.
Slashdot Mirror
What about the choice between a 32GB SSD plus a 1.2TB HD or just a 1.5TB HD? Install your OS and software on the SSD for massive performance gains, keep almost as much capacity for your media and data.
I recently discovered that local union road maintenance workers demand double pay to work at night. Night being, by most accounts, the most efficient and least traffic-impacting time to do road work. There are thousands of people out of work who would be happy to work for "normal pay" ($15/hr for road maintenance here in Atlanta) when it is cooler and safer. Why are we still bothering with this union? Oh yeah, because they bribe the right people.
AT&T has no cells in the MARTA train tunnels in Atlanta. Every other carrier does. That alone is enough that I am switching services next time I want a new phone.
If there are homosexual members of religions that not only shun but also often *kill* them, which you can see to be the case by reading any number of very sad news reports, you think it unlikely that there are Jews who enjoy some ham on occasion?
I dont think that I have ever worked for a company that was actively seeking VC, or exhbited greater than linearly growing profit. I think we are talking about two very different kinds of company. The ones you describe fail often. The ones I am talking about stick around for decades.
I don't know what you consider "mom and pop", but the last two places I have worked have been 150-300 employee businesses that operated without permanent debt.
I have trouble seeing how a company with $1M in available credit is worth more than a company with $1M in cash on hand, all else being equal.
And you get the money, with which you will adage-ly make more money, by raising your prices when demand goes up... I don't see what you're getting at.
most companies balance themselves on credit
...and those are the companies that are suffering from the "credit crisis". What I said applies to responsible companies.
concurrent clients/watts = very high :)
concurrent clients/$$$ = high
concurrent clients/rack space = sadly low, owing to the limited selection of low power servers. no one makes a 1u with 8 ARM cores in it... yet
Say it takes a whole year. If your current budget for the software is X, then set aside an extra X this year to pay the development team. Recoup your investment in 1-2 years (depending on how you do the accounting), profit with a smaller dev team thereafter.
Who needs 20A?
Not me, that's who!
The traditional supply/demand model does not need to account for credit. When the price of existing data center space goes up, the companies running those data centers will make more profit, and thus be able to build more data centers without credit.
For what you are paying* for that proprietary accounting package, and all that MS software to support it, you could probably hire a team of programmers to make an open source accounting package meet your needs more precisely than your current package does.
Philadelphia, New York, Atlanta, Nashville, Houston, Dallas, Miami... All have widespread public pedestrian-only zones. I'm sure you've seen one somewhere.
No, that's not the point. If I work for you, then I am only going to connect to the VPN when it is an emergency. As opposed to staying connected and occasionally monitoring the network and services, doing small maintenance tasks that might occur to me in the middle of the night, responding to requests on the corporate IM system, etc... You will get a significantly larger amount of productive work out of me if you don't institute that policy on your VPN. Did you consider that before making that policy?
("you" being the company and/or hypothetical network admin who made the decision, "I" being a mid level IT person with any of various responsibilities that can be accomplished from home)
Exactly. The people responsible for these policies rarely consider the ramifications. If I can do work related things from home *at my leisure*, I will do a lot more than if I have to dedicate an entire extra computer and/or blocks of my time to the task. I am not going to give up my web surfing or game playing on the train/bus portion of my commute, nor when I am stuck in an airport for hours.
Yes, but no typical/normal/average person does that. You would be amazed how many lawyers billing hundreds of dollars an hour do not own home computers.
And this is an excellent plan for convincing your users to only connect to the VPN occasionally. Good if you want to maximize security. Bad if you want to maximize productivity.
I have never seen that enforced, and only twice ever as the default setting. It is a client-side configuration option in most VPN software (Cisco, SecuRemote, most Linux VPN clients).
You want VPN users to stream video or download game patches or do other non-business-related bandwidth intensive operations over the VPN, when they have a perfectly (ha!) good internet connection locally? I hope you have a REALLY big network pipe.
Be glad there are cracks for Steam games. I don't think anyone ever managed to break the DRM on Plays For Sure windows media files, or that MLB game footage that they stopped authorizing.
I am one of many people who do not buy from Steam. How many times do companies have to turn off DRM servers before people realize it's a bad idea to buy that sort of content?
[linux]'s not ready to go because it doesn't look familiar enough, because things aren't in the same place, because things are labelled differently.
And everything you said does not apply equally to Vista / Windows 7 / Office 2007 why exactly?
Generally 1 is taken to be the true state, while 0 is false. The last digit of a binary number indicates oddness in that fashion, 1 being "is odd", 0 being "is not odd". Obviously this also effectively indicates evenness, but to label it so would be to defy convention.
This same phenomenon applies to the physics demonstrations by which a man's arm can be covered in water then dipped in molten lead, or a droplet of liquid nitrogen can roll around in the palm of your hand, both completely safe if performed carefully. Massive temperature gradients can exist in very small spaces, and as long as you are on the safe side of that gradient, no matter how narrow it is, you will be OK. Sure, the air might be a million degrees 1mm from your skin, but if the air touching your skin is 100 degrees then you will just feel slightly warm.
The faux concern, or misplaced real concern, so many people show over 9/11 has made it a relevant target for such jokes since 9/12.