Well, yes (maintenance contracts and required personnel rise with the size of the datacenter) - but this is offset by also being able to get more users forking over money.
> Your ISP isn't getting paid by Google to allow the pipe you're paying for to connect to the pipe they are paying for.
No, but the provider that pumps Google's data onto your ISP's network, is paying your ISP for that privilege by allowing your ISP to pump an equivalent amount of data onto their network. This is roughly what peering is about, and it balances those kind of network traffic accountings without resorting to too many financial transactions.
> Windows 7 is really good compared to other Windows operating system especially Vista.
I fully agree. Better to lose one kidney than to lose both.
I really do agree, though - it is by far the best OS they've delivered to date. I still don't particularly like it, but speed and stability play a lesser role in that than ever.
> Ubuntu is good but if you think of mass public all will go for Windows than Ubuntu.
This is true if you tell them, simply because most people prefer the devil they know. If you don't tell them - and remember, the first generation of netbooks ran nothing BUT linux - they probably won't care one bit, as long as it's snappy and they can read mail and watch youtube.
Additionally, and this is of course nothing but anecdotal, I can't think of a single person I switched who even wants to go back. Better yet: someone who never even came close to it before I switched him positively begged me to reinstall the newest version when I replaced his crashed disk.
Ask ? Fuck that - regardless of how it was performed, this *is* important research. They should have just been up front about it and require a donorship as part of the contract.
Tricky legal ground, not to mention a dangerous precedent, yes, but the cleanest way to handle it.
You're quite right, I wouldn't reconnect with those people otherwise. I conclude, however, that I'm not really that interested in them, or I would reconnect without facefook, anyway.
Thus, I don't have an account.
Everyone is different, but to me, this culture of perpetually attaching yourself to people and things of the past is estranging, and I can't quite decide wether it's simply weird or plain unhealthy.
I was there, and now I'm here. The world moves on, and so do I. I have other interests, and other friends; and no real need to forcibly reconnect with the past.
The people who were sufficiently "compatible" are still in the address books and in the mind, and we still occasionally get together with, say, a handful of people from uni - every few years or so, or whenever one forks or gets married. We like each other, we still have a great night out, but there's no real need for more contact - we all have our lives.
Yes, many people in my current life also have and use facebook actively to stay in contact, and it *is* a useful platform for that, too; but no, I really don't have an account. I simply don't have the need to know every move they make, nor do I feel the need to broadcast mine.
As if the passengers of any plane are going to just sit idly by after 9/11. Even if they have guns, the hijackers are still outnumbered a hundred to one, not to mention that it's kinda hard to hijack a plane if you can't get into the pilot's cabin.
Also, kindly find some figures about the number of hijackings vs the number of safe flights before you go spouting brainwashed nonsense.
I have to say that I went rougly the other way: I started with Linux because I was highly discontent with the then-current Microsoft offerings, finding them unwieldy and unstable. I started way back on Slack 6, where the first step of the installation process was compiling your own kernel and gcc three times to get them pure:-)
Later I switched to RedHat (3 or 4, I think), and was also messing in some code - mostly for my own benefit, can't recall ever committing anything because I didn't think the changes I made were useful for enough people to be included.
These days, I just run Ubuntu - I've been through the whole trial-and-error config file thing, it's given me a good understanding of many things, but now I just want something that simply works so I can get on with other stuff.
These days, the MS offerings (well, some of them) are at least a lot more stable, although I personally still find them unwieldy - I guess I'm no longer used to having my OS babysit me. I even occasionally recommend that a friend who needs a reinstall sticks with windows, depending on his needs, although I always offer them Linux, too. I flat out refuse to support windows boxen, though:)
> there is no need to talk an enthusiastic person down like that
Wish I could pass some of my users on to you. They're really enthusiastic about things, I can tell you. Almost enough to make up for their utter lack of understanding or their complete inability to understand even basic concepts.
Sometimes a good mental kicking is the best you can do for them, not to mention yourself.
Whilst I agree that it's wrong to dehumanize them (I'm officially obese, too, at 100kg - but slowly losing some) I do take just as much offence at the "you're OK" culture that so seems to permeate the states these days. Oh, it's not your fault, it's the environment. It's society. It's the evil corporations stuffing you with easily accessible junk food.
No, it's not, and I'm not OK. I'm FAT, and it's my own goddamn fault for not watching my food intake and for not exercising. It's not fun, but it's nobody's fault but mine.
As I said, I'm actually losing some, slowly, and it's through deliberate effort. It's not going as fast as it could be, but then I'm still not really exercising, and I'm not great at sticking to diets:-) The main thing is that I've learned the difference between eating because it's lunchtime, and actually being hungry - and what it's been teaching me is that I really need nowhere near 2000kcal per day. Also, all the fancy diet fads are irrelevant: it's just about calories in vs. calories out. Oh, the rest probably helps, but the simple truth is that to lose weight, you simply have to take in less than what you burn, and that's what I'm doing.
Incorrect. If you're going that route, at least recommend the item with the highest profit margin, preferably matched up with expected sales related to the price. This will not necessarily always be the highest-priced item - bottled water is going to be a lot easier and cheaper to produce than, say, coke.
This is not a new thing. Back in the industrial revolution, it was common for factories to have workers' housing around the terrain - this is what industrial era towns looked like, and can still be seen around many towns.
Of course, because using something that everyone who's ever been into contact with *knows* is removable storage, and then making it so that it isn't removable even if you can remove it, is perfectly sane.
> Tht is not the answer accounting departments want to hear, though.
And there is the core of the problem. Public services (and scientific research *is* a public service) should not be managed as if it were a commercial venture.
In the old days, large companies realised this, and had things like Palo Alto, doing stuff that didn't actually bring in any money in the foreseeable future; but just look at how much of our current tech can be traced back to that research. These days, it's all about the bottom line (for shareholders, but really for the CEO's bonuses) and short-term profit tends to trump any long-term view.
Religion is very different depending on both the country/area and *what* religion. We got some nutters here, too (our cardinal Leonard has been trolling quite a bit of late, to the point that his spokesman resigned because he got tired of cleaning up the shit), but nothing quite like what goes on in America, which the televangelists and whatnot.
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Well, yes (maintenance contracts and required personnel rise with the size of the datacenter) - but this is offset by also being able to get more users forking over money.
> Your ISP isn't getting paid by Google to allow the pipe you're paying for to connect to the pipe they are paying for.
No, but the provider that pumps Google's data onto your ISP's network, is paying your ISP for that privilege by allowing your ISP to pump an equivalent amount of data onto their network. This is roughly what peering is about, and it balances those kind of network traffic accountings without resorting to too many financial transactions.
> Windows 7 is really good compared to other Windows operating system especially Vista.
I fully agree. Better to lose one kidney than to lose both.
I really do agree, though - it is by far the best OS they've delivered to date. I still don't particularly like it, but speed and stability play a lesser role in that than ever.
> Ubuntu is good but if you think of mass public all will go for Windows than Ubuntu.
This is true if you tell them, simply because most people prefer the devil they know. If you don't tell them - and remember, the first generation of netbooks ran nothing BUT linux - they probably won't care one bit, as long as it's snappy and they can read mail and watch youtube.
Additionally, and this is of course nothing but anecdotal, I can't think of a single person I switched who even wants to go back. Better yet: someone who never even came close to it before I switched him positively begged me to reinstall the newest version when I replaced his crashed disk.
Ask ? Fuck that - regardless of how it was performed, this *is* important research. They should have just been up front about it and require a donorship as part of the contract.
Tricky legal ground, not to mention a dangerous precedent, yes, but the cleanest way to handle it.
You're quite right, I wouldn't reconnect with those people otherwise. I conclude, however, that I'm not really that interested in them, or I would reconnect without facefook, anyway.
Thus, I don't have an account.
Everyone is different, but to me, this culture of perpetually attaching yourself to people and things of the past is estranging, and I can't quite decide wether it's simply weird or plain unhealthy.
I was there, and now I'm here. The world moves on, and so do I. I have other interests, and other friends; and no real need to forcibly reconnect with the past.
The people who were sufficiently "compatible" are still in the address books and in the mind, and we still occasionally get together with, say, a handful of people from uni - every few years or so, or whenever one forks or gets married. We like each other, we still have a great night out, but there's no real need for more contact - we all have our lives.
Yes, many people in my current life also have and use facebook actively to stay in contact, and it *is* a useful platform for that, too; but no, I really don't have an account. I simply don't have the need to know every move they make, nor do I feel the need to broadcast mine.
Which only goes to prove that they REALLY haven't got a clue about what makes a good OS.
Which, honestly, is also how it *should* work. There's always someone who doesn't like what you're doing, regardless of what you do.
As if the passengers of any plane are going to just sit idly by after 9/11. Even if they have guns, the hijackers are still outnumbered a hundred to one, not to mention that it's kinda hard to hijack a plane if you can't get into the pilot's cabin.
Also, kindly find some figures about the number of hijackings vs the number of safe flights before you go spouting brainwashed nonsense.
I have to say that I went rougly the other way: I started with Linux because I was highly discontent with the then-current Microsoft offerings, finding them unwieldy and unstable. I started way back on Slack 6, where the first step of the installation process was compiling your own kernel and gcc three times to get them pure :-)
Later I switched to RedHat (3 or 4, I think), and was also messing in some code - mostly for my own benefit, can't recall ever committing anything because I didn't think the changes I made were useful for enough people to be included.
These days, I just run Ubuntu - I've been through the whole trial-and-error config file thing, it's given me a good understanding of many things, but now I just want something that simply works so I can get on with other stuff.
These days, the MS offerings (well, some of them) are at least a lot more stable, although I personally still find them unwieldy - I guess I'm no longer used to having my OS babysit me. I even occasionally recommend that a friend who needs a reinstall sticks with windows, depending on his needs, although I always offer them Linux, too. I flat out refuse to support windows boxen, though :)
Depends on wether they or the plant was there first.
I seem to recall we have DOS flying space shuttles.
> there is no need to talk an enthusiastic person down like that
Wish I could pass some of my users on to you. They're really enthusiastic about things, I can tell you. Almost enough to make up for their utter lack of understanding or their complete inability to understand even basic concepts.
Sometimes a good mental kicking is the best you can do for them, not to mention yourself.
When it comes to the universe as a whole, "impossible" has a permeating flavour of "we just haven't seen it yet".
Whilst I agree that it's wrong to dehumanize them (I'm officially obese, too, at 100kg - but slowly losing some) I do take just as much offence at the "you're OK" culture that so seems to permeate the states these days. Oh, it's not your fault, it's the environment. It's society. It's the evil corporations stuffing you with easily accessible junk food.
No, it's not, and I'm not OK. I'm FAT, and it's my own goddamn fault for not watching my food intake and for not exercising. It's not fun, but it's nobody's fault but mine.
As I said, I'm actually losing some, slowly, and it's through deliberate effort. It's not going as fast as it could be, but then I'm still not really exercising, and I'm not great at sticking to diets :-) The main thing is that I've learned the difference between eating because it's lunchtime, and actually being hungry - and what it's been teaching me is that I really need nowhere near 2000kcal per day. Also, all the fancy diet fads are irrelevant: it's just about calories in vs. calories out. Oh, the rest probably helps, but the simple truth is that to lose weight, you simply have to take in less than what you burn, and that's what I'm doing.
Incorrect. If you're going that route, at least recommend the item with the highest profit margin, preferably matched up with expected sales related to the price. This will not necessarily always be the highest-priced item - bottled water is going to be a lot easier and cheaper to produce than, say, coke.
The hackers aren't encumbered by a bloated management structure.
This is not a new thing. Back in the industrial revolution, it was common for factories to have workers' housing around the terrain - this is what industrial era towns looked like, and can still be seen around many towns.
Of course, because using something that everyone who's ever been into contact with *knows* is removable storage, and then making it so that it isn't removable even if you can remove it, is perfectly sane.
Ah, so it was YOU who lost the whole internet, that time.
> can be shown to speed up the process of checking in.
You know what would speed up the process ? Get rid of the useless security theatre.
> browser does a swift “I'm feeling lucky” search
Umm... Maybe this changed, but the last time I checked, Firefox tries .com and a few other toplevels until one resolves.
> Tht is not the answer accounting departments want to hear, though.
And there is the core of the problem. Public services (and scientific research *is* a public service) should not be managed as if it were a commercial venture.
In the old days, large companies realised this, and had things like Palo Alto, doing stuff that didn't actually bring in any money in the foreseeable future; but just look at how much of our current tech can be traced back to that research.
These days, it's all about the bottom line (for shareholders, but really for the CEO's bonuses) and short-term profit tends to trump any long-term view.
Religion is very different depending on both the country/area and *what* religion. We got some nutters here, too (our cardinal Leonard has been trolling quite a bit of late, to the point that his spokesman resigned because he got tired of cleaning up the shit), but nothing quite like what goes on in America, which the televangelists and whatnot.
> step on the floor a la DDR to execute various commands
Doesn't that mean that DDR has prior art, then ?
No. This is probably a lot more like Defendor. A whole lot more.