You are correct that RAID isn't a backup solution, but incorrect when you say if you're using RAID5 you should be in a data centre.
What if you have a lot of photos, music or movies - these aren't unusual things these days. I don't want to go rummaging through DVDs to find the picture I want, I want to fire up f-spot and see it there straight away.
RAID5 provides sensible protection against data loss when using consumer hard disks - software RAID5 is readily available on linux and hard disks in the 2-300GB range are easily affordable. You can often pick them up for $50 after rebates. So I can get a TB of storage for a few hundred dollars, but to use hardware RAID5 would probably double the cost. Fine if you're an enterprise, but not fine if you're using it at home.
Yes, it looks very much like the kid couldn't afford Zend Platform so just bashes it then disregards it.
Of course if your PHP site is seeing the sort of traffic levels that require an optimzer it's very likely you will in fact want the support that comes with Zend Platform - not to mention the integration and debugging features with Zend Studio. (I have no relationship with Zend other than being a happy customer).
I trust my VoIP provider, currently. I log into their SIP server which is at the other end of my DSL connection. They are also my ISP so I know my data never leaves their network except when it is put back on the PSTN.
How do you know your VoIP provider are passing your call to the PSTN - it's likely in fact that they send it over the internet to someone else closer to the final call destination who makes that final link. That's especially true for international calls.
What if the person you're calling has VoIP - your call would then be routed over the internet to their VoIP provider and then to their home / office, all without your knowledge.
The prices are way more than are available elsewhere online. Play.com offers King Kong for 15 quid ($26 US), and Pride & Prejudice and War of the Worlds are both 13 quid ($22.50 US). And that gets you a downloaded copy that only plays on Windows and which you can't burn to DVD - but apparently can keep forever, and a second copy somewhat strangely through the post.
If they were to say you can download a copy - even if they provided their own app to burn to DVD - and that's it for, say, 10 quid then this might fly. TO me it looks like they're going to say "well we offered movies for permenant download and the consumers weren't interested, so our moves to sell time limited copies are cleary what vindicated as what the consumer wants."
Real alone has 1.4 million subscribers paying between $10 and $15 / month for a service only available in the US. Apple has iTuens stores covering much of the globe so clearly has a bigger potential audience.
It took Apple 7 months to go from 500 million to 1 billion songs sold, so that's $71.4M revenue per month or $856M turnover per year.
Real has a turnover on 1.4 million subscribers of between $168M and $252M per year not icluding any song sales over and above subscription payments.
So given it's a much more diverse market on the windows side as there are competing stores, having a turnover at 1/4 to 1/3 that of iTunes is not bad going. Especially given their margins are probably significantly higher for the subscription music service as opposed to Apple's sales.
I'm not lauding one over the other, this really is horses for courses, you use the service that fits your lifestyle. Nonetheless, the non Apple market (as opposed to the windows market as Rhapsody runs on Linux through the browser) is certainly significant in size.
So what if AOL profits off of reducing my spam load?
So you don't care, even if it means legitimate emails don't get through?
What this means is AOL can look for any large volume of nearly identical messages and move them straight to the spam bucket. That means not-for-profit mailing lists. Think the linux kernel mailing list, mysql-users and hundreds or thousands of other lists, large and small.
Sure, spam volume for AOL users will decrease dramatically, but at what cost?
There are lots of very effective anti-spam tools available, and other anti-spam strategies that don't cost anything such as SPF that make it easier to discard obviously forged messages. The trouble with these is folk don't make money off them.
If you want someone to proffit from the spam you receive, pay someone like Mesegelabs to filter your mail - they'll be happy to take your money. Just don't make the rest of us pay so we can use email.
The $900 figure was an analysts estimate of the build cost.
Others have already pointed out flaws in the analyst's figures, for example Sony won't pay licensing fees on Bluray, and Bluray drives will probably costs less than the analyst predicts + will fall in price rapidly.
The main point, however, is that this in no way pointed to the purchase price. Sony will have to compete in the sub $500 market and they know it. Sony will take a hit on hardware knowing they have revenue streams from games, accessories and imjportantly downloads (music, movies and games).
As the build price decreases Sony will eventually break even and at some point in the future, draw a profit on hardware too.
At no point will consumers pay $900 for a PS3 (unless they buy it on eBay the day after launch)
I presume this is because most email logs wouldn't store this information, so it's not there to collect. I'm sure if it had been there'd be lots more interest.
This leads me to wonder, are there regulations in place saying how long a US ISP must maintain email logs for? If not, do any ISP's actually publish their data retention policy?
This only affects senders of bulk emails (mailing lists and spammers).
No this affects mailing lists, not spammers.
If they want to block spam they can use filters. Spam these days tends to come from millions of zombie windows boxes - they'll continue to send small volumes of mail to AOL from forged email addresses and be completely unaffected by this.
Large companies will pay because, presumably, the cost will be less than their average profit per email.
The folk who will be left in the cold will be those that host free mailing lists - that could be your local church, local voluntary associations, schools, folk who freely manage topical lists of interest etc. These folk won't make back the money because email isn't a revenue stream. They're the only ones who will see any effect.
You don't tell us what you're comparing - it's like saying I can buy a Ford for 15k or a Merc for 30k therefore Merc are uncompetitive.
pricewatch.com Says the slowest Sempron being produced is the 2200+ and you can have it delivered for $57. For $60 you can get a 2.2Ghz Celeron which is no match for AMD's processor. The 2.2Ghz P4 costs $79 delivered, $22 more than the AMD offering.
The reason all those AMD chips appeared before Christmas was because they are so competitive at the lower end. When you match that with their server options AMD are wiping the floor with Intel at almost every level.
Oh, and that magnetic no-trip power cord... that's just slick apple engineering right there.
Oh come on - my $25 deep fryer has a magnetic power cord. Sure it;s nice to include it on a laptop, but it didn't exactly require a wave of insight amongst the Apple design illuminati - the ability to do this has been around for years, one of them probably thought to include it while making french fries.
Bill Gates has given more to charity than anyone EVER.
That's like saying Intel's next chip is the fastest X86 prcessor ever - chip speeds get ever faster. So too does inflation make people wealthier than ever, so the world's richest folk can always give more than anyone who went before them, often with less impact on their wealth in real terms.
Andrew Carnegie gave over $350 million to charity before he died in 1911. Adjusted for inflation that's over $7 billion today. When Gates gives away $7 billion that'll be a real story - indeed Gates might well do this, and may will benefit in the way we can still walk into Carnegie libraries around the world today.
I'm not criticising Gates here - just pointing out that he hasn't, yet, been the most generous philanthropist.
No Government refers to the Executive branch, parliament is the legislature. The givernment may be formed by members of the parliament, but that doesn't make the parliament the government - as an opposition members in the parliament would tell you!
Another suggestion is only to auto-complete after.5 seconds with no typing - that way rather than autom completing s sl sla slas slash slasd slasdo the user who knew exactly what they wanted doesn't load down your server with spurious requests.
First off, Real have been around a long time and while the big media sites stream using their software they're going nowhere.
Secondly, RealPlayer is a heck of a lot better than it once was. It's also straightforward to find the free player on their site, after a period where they hid it in the depths of real.com
Sure this is a subscription service - that means it's not for everyone. However there are also lots of folk who are happy to pay $10 a month for a huge music library.
Real made their player available for linux, made their server open source and suffer only complaints.
They're a big company and they make their music player available so it works on Linux and the Mac and supports Firefox perfectly. Folk still complain.
Real's business model is subscription music. That might not be of interest to you so go bug Apple to provide you with iTunes on Linux. In the mean time don't take out your frustrations that apple are ignoring you on another firm that has chose to welcom Linux - Real should be applauded for this
"Change it yourself" is like saying "if skinheads painted Nazi slogans on your house wall, just repaint it". Is that really OK and is all that should be done? Nobody should be pursued for this?
What you're suggesting is that the homeowner should be sued because skinheads painted slogans on their wall.
The guy and his lawyers were told that if they wanted to sue and had a case a court could order release of the name. Why does he want the name without a court order and what on earth leads him to believe he's entitled to just ask for it?
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Those might be of interest. I'm a happy blackcat customer.
Yes we've been able to encryp network traffic to other suitably equipped machines for some years.
What if you have a lot of photos, music or movies - these aren't unusual things these days. I don't want to go rummaging through DVDs to find the picture I want, I want to fire up f-spot and see it there straight away.
RAID5 provides sensible protection against data loss when using consumer hard disks - software RAID5 is readily available on linux and hard disks in the 2-300GB range are easily affordable. You can often pick them up for $50 after rebates. So I can get a TB of storage for a few hundred dollars, but to use hardware RAID5 would probably double the cost. Fine if you're an enterprise, but not fine if you're using it at home.
There's also an IAX client for Asterisk fans called MozIAX available here.
Of course if your PHP site is seeing the sort of traffic levels that require an optimzer it's very likely you will in fact want the support that comes with Zend Platform - not to mention the integration and debugging features with Zend Studio. (I have no relationship with Zend other than being a happy customer).
Why do many fell Microsoft are obliged to open up their networking protocols to allow interoperability whereas Apple are exempt?
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I wonder what their webmasters think of the bill?
And when using windows, watch out for coworkers shouting "format see colon"
What if the person you're calling has VoIP - your call would then be routed over the internet to their VoIP provider and then to their home / office, all without your knowledge.
If they were to say you can download a copy - even if they provided their own app to burn to DVD - and that's it for, say, 10 quid then this might fly. TO me it looks like they're going to say "well we offered movies for permenant download and the consumers weren't interested, so our moves to sell time limited copies are cleary what vindicated as what the consumer wants."
Real alone has 1.4 million subscribers paying between $10 and $15 / month for a service only available in the US. Apple has iTuens stores covering much of the globe so clearly has a bigger potential audience.
It took Apple 7 months to go from 500 million to 1 billion songs sold, so that's $71.4M revenue per month or $856M turnover per year.
Real has a turnover on 1.4 million subscribers of between $168M and $252M per year not icluding any song sales over and above subscription payments.
So given it's a much more diverse market on the windows side as there are competing stores, having a turnover at 1/4 to 1/3 that of iTunes is not bad going. Especially given their margins are probably significantly higher for the subscription music service as opposed to Apple's sales.
I'm not lauding one over the other, this really is horses for courses, you use the service that fits your lifestyle. Nonetheless, the non Apple market (as opposed to the windows market as Rhapsody runs on Linux through the browser) is certainly significant in size.
What this means is AOL can look for any large volume of nearly identical messages and move them straight to the spam bucket. That means not-for-profit mailing lists. Think the linux kernel mailing list, mysql-users and hundreds or thousands of other lists, large and small.
Sure, spam volume for AOL users will decrease dramatically, but at what cost?
There are lots of very effective anti-spam tools available, and other anti-spam strategies that don't cost anything such as SPF that make it easier to discard obviously forged messages. The trouble with these is folk don't make money off them.
If you want someone to proffit from the spam you receive, pay someone like Mesegelabs to filter your mail - they'll be happy to take your money. Just don't make the rest of us pay so we can use email.
Others have already pointed out flaws in the analyst's figures, for example Sony won't pay licensing fees on Bluray, and Bluray drives will probably costs less than the analyst predicts + will fall in price rapidly.
The main point, however, is that this in no way pointed to the purchase price. Sony will have to compete in the sub $500 market and they know it. Sony will take a hit on hardware knowing they have revenue streams from games, accessories and imjportantly downloads (music, movies and games).
As the build price decreases Sony will eventually break even and at some point in the future, draw a profit on hardware too.
At no point will consumers pay $900 for a PS3 (unless they buy it on eBay the day after launch)
This leads me to wonder, are there regulations in place saying how long a US ISP must maintain email logs for? If not, do any ISP's actually publish their data retention policy?
No this affects mailing lists, not spammers.
If they want to block spam they can use filters. Spam these days tends to come from millions of zombie windows boxes - they'll continue to send small volumes of mail to AOL from forged email addresses and be completely unaffected by this.
Large companies will pay because, presumably, the cost will be less than their average profit per email.
The folk who will be left in the cold will be those that host free mailing lists - that could be your local church, local voluntary associations, schools, folk who freely manage topical lists of interest etc. These folk won't make back the money because email isn't a revenue stream. They're the only ones who will see any effect.
pricewatch.com Says the slowest Sempron being produced is the 2200+ and you can have it delivered for $57. For $60 you can get a 2.2Ghz Celeron which is no match for AMD's processor. The 2.2Ghz P4 costs $79 delivered, $22 more than the AMD offering.
The reason all those AMD chips appeared before Christmas was because they are so competitive at the lower end. When you match that with their server options AMD are wiping the floor with Intel at almost every level.
Andrew Carnegie gave over $350 million to charity before he died in 1911. Adjusted for inflation that's over $7 billion today. When Gates gives away $7 billion that'll be a real story - indeed Gates might well do this, and may will benefit in the way we can still walk into Carnegie libraries around the world today.
I'm not criticising Gates here - just pointing out that he hasn't, yet, been the most generous philanthropist.
No Government refers to the Executive branch, parliament is the legislature. The givernment may be formed by members of the parliament, but that doesn't make the parliament the government - as an opposition members in the parliament would tell you!
You expect every visitor to your site to click to view your headlines?
This idea might work just as soon as you convince every online advertiser to stop using flash.
Another suggestion is only to auto-complete after .5 seconds with no typing - that way rather than autom completing s sl sla slas slash slasd slasdo the user who knew exactly what they wanted doesn't load down your server with spurious requests.
Secondly, RealPlayer is a heck of a lot better than it once was. It's also straightforward to find the free player on their site, after a period where they hid it in the depths of real.com
Sure this is a subscription service - that means it's not for everyone. However there are also lots of folk who are happy to pay $10 a month for a huge music library.
Real made their player available for linux, made their server open source and suffer only complaints.
They're a big company and they make their music player available so it works on Linux and the Mac and supports Firefox perfectly. Folk still complain.
Real's business model is subscription music. That might not be of interest to you so go bug Apple to provide you with iTunes on Linux. In the mean time don't take out your frustrations that apple are ignoring you on another firm that has chose to welcom Linux - Real should be applauded for this
You send your puppies to work?
What you're suggesting is that the homeowner should be sued because skinheads painted slogans on their wall.
The guy and his lawyers were told that if they wanted to sue and had a case a court could order release of the name. Why does he want the name without a court order and what on earth leads him to believe he's entitled to just ask for it?