DB2 just doesn't scale down as well as some of the others so it doesn't get as much exposure to the masses, if you check out things like the TCP-H results you'll notice at the 10TB level DB2 is #1 and #3, it's typically used for very large databases running on IBM big iron. It's yet another IBM technology that kind of sits in the corner running some of the largest financial systems in the world without getting a lot of exposure.
There is a relatively high fixed cost per customer. Those costs include buildout of the network, marketing to get the customer, installation, equipment to service the user (ports on a device), support, etc. The marginal cost to the ISP for interconnection bandwidth really is quite trivial in comparison. There might be various reasons they want to minimize that marginal cost, but a big one is that it potentially upsets their existing business model which is to be a government granted monopoly, and they don't want to do anything to enable competition. Look at the CEO of one of the telecoms saying that Google should be paying them to get to the customers. It's arrogance plain and simple, they think they should be able to demand continued revenue based on the fact that they have a limited government monopoly on access to peoples homes.
If you want a large number of PC's Sony is NOT who you choose. Many of their laptops have drivers installed in the OEM setup disk that flat out aren't available any other way. Most shops that have large numbers of machines use some sort of imaging setup and that doesn't work with an OEM edition of Windows, only with volume licensed editions.
It doesn't matter. When we talked to MS about Hyper-V they flat out told us we weren't their target market (we're a smaller Fortune 500 company). They basically are targeting Hyper-V at the SMB shop that's outgrown the everything and the kitchen sink model of Windows SMB Server. They don't have the tools to manage large deployments efficiently and so they aren't that worried about the large shop that wants to run Solaris x86 and Linux on the same box. For large virtualization projects you're still looking at VMWare or Xen with the Xen stack looking to make a LOT of progress over the next year or two once the Citrix initiatives kick in.
Actually there are ways to deform a fullerene lattice without breaking the bonds. Certain catalysts can be used which temporarily bond with the carbon deforming the lattice and allowing appropriate sized captured molecules to escape. This method was developed to deliver chemotherapy drugs more directly, the researchers found a way to attach the catalyst to the cancer site and then injected the chemo containing fullerenes into the patient where they only deformed on and near the cancer site. This significantly reduced collateral damage and also reduced the overall amount of drugs needed.
That's up for debate, the Betamax decision which was the last major fair use case heard by the Supreme Court ruled that time and place shifting is a protected right.
Um, yeah people who had VHS players in their conversion vans copied DVD's to VHS to watch them. Not many people are both wealthy and stupid enough to buy movies in two formats just because the content providers wish they could force them to.
Well, according to this source 9.5kg of H is equivalent to 25kg gasoline which also requires a 17kg container, so you get about 118kg to about 42kg, or almost tipple. Now most of that weight penalty can probably be made up by the fact that Honda has a fuel cell stack that weighs only 67kg which is way less than an IC engine.
You must not have kids, I know tons of people including my own inlaws (both police officers) that make backup copies of their DVD's so that when the kids scratch them up they can just make another copy of the pristine original. People rightfully don't see backing up their DVD's as a crime even though it technically is under the DMCA.
Another example is wanting to play your BD movie in your car, there are almost no BD players for cars and even if they were widely available it wouldn't help the people with a year old car with a builtin DVD player. HD DVD at least had multilayer and flip disk designs available.
Those high ratings for LED's are for undervolted units in ideal conditions. The charts I have seen for real world production LED lights at 35C and with normal voltage fluctuations is ~8K hours to 50% brightness, a light that's installed in a location where a 60W bulb is called for is going to get tossed if it's only putting out the light of a 30W bulb. I guess the answer is to put a lumen meter and extra LED's in the package and turn on new ones as the existing ones fade but that adds to complexity and cost.
Nah, CFL's pull less than 1/4 an incandescent for the same lumens. For instance a GE T2 long life (12K hour) CFL that produces 870 lumens (equivalent to a 60W T19 incandescent) pulls only 13W. The only problem with that bulb is the color temp is only 2700K, for a 6500K T3 bulb it's 15W and 8K hours.
If they can't find a way to make a profit at $100 per subscriber their entire executive board needs to be fired and replaced by competent people. They should have significantly lower cost per subscriber than wireline service providers due to reduced infrastructure costs and the wireline providers exist on much lower revenue numbers.
Actually I can think of a great use for this, supporting the builtin database for Neverwinter Nights! The only way to get the complete object state saved was to use the builtin DB layer which was unbearably slow when backed by disk. Using a ramdisk was blazing fast but unsafe of course, having a magnetically backed ramdisk would have been great.
Backing Oracle with this would be pointless as tables can already be cached in memory and putting logs on this would make any DBA's skin crawl as the system would be exposed from the time the writes were acknowledged to when they actually got written to permanent storage.
A) I only support a small handfull of developers and they all have local admin and are expected to maintain their own boxes.
B) Even if I WAS qualified to do every job in the organization not that many of them would be more highly compensated. Due to the multiplier effect of my efficiency gains I am more valuable to a company making lots of people productive then I am doing some singular job. As a wise man once said, pick up a nickel and you have a nickel, have 10,000 people pick up nickels for you and soon you're talking real money.
For the vast majority of my users they need communications, productivity software, and financials. They do not need to install random weather plugin accompanied by spyware. I have a list of over 150 software packages that we support, that's quite a bit for a company of ~1,000 employees. Heck just for financial reporting we have like a dozen different packages we support.
Money is nothing but a measure time and value, if IT is doing their job they are saving the company so much time that when multiplied times the average salary in the company they are in fact making the company TONS of money in reduced labor costs. That's why I restrict my users, because I get them the tools they need to do their job efficiently and I keep those tools up and running and performing well enough so that they aren't the bottleneck in the organization.
It shouldn't be strange considering that the European mobile carriers realized quite quickly that there was no way to monetize the spectrum sufficiently to pay off the huge fees paid for the auction.
No you won't. Unless you go over the transmit power allowance for unlicensed FM broadcast ("The field strength of any emissions within the permitted 200 kHz
band shall not exceed 250 microvolts/meter at 3 meters" [FCC 15.239]). Not sure of the AM limit but the chance of you building a homebuilt station with enough power to drown out an AM station is pretty small unless someone is listening to a tropo bounce station from out of market.
I would think that in general JP would have OTHER clients who are shareholders in the companies in question and so by facilitating a backdoor to insider trading they are unfairly enriching one client at the cost of another who happens to have insider information. This is exactly the situation that the insider trading regulations were written to eliminate.
I'm guessing it's because they run as a filesystem filter driver and so need privileges to attach to the filesystem layer. They also need to poke about in memory and attach to running processes (eg attach to Outlook to scan incoming mail). It should be possible to separate the data capture portion from the analysis portion but it would probably be much harder to design and test.
Another way to look at it is that it's equivilant to one hour and ten minutes in Iraq. Yep, we are spending a little over $12M per HOUR in Iraq! oil's pretty freaking expensive, isn't it.
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DB2 just doesn't scale down as well as some of the others so it doesn't get as much exposure to the masses, if you check out things like the TCP-H results you'll notice at the 10TB level DB2 is #1 and #3, it's typically used for very large databases running on IBM big iron. It's yet another IBM technology that kind of sits in the corner running some of the largest financial systems in the world without getting a lot of exposure.
In real terms the $16 you're paying now is about the same as the $8 you were paying in 1988, according to the CPI it's equivalent to $14.42.
There is a relatively high fixed cost per customer. Those costs include buildout of the network, marketing to get the customer, installation, equipment to service the user (ports on a device), support, etc. The marginal cost to the ISP for interconnection bandwidth really is quite trivial in comparison. There might be various reasons they want to minimize that marginal cost, but a big one is that it potentially upsets their existing business model which is to be a government granted monopoly, and they don't want to do anything to enable competition. Look at the CEO of one of the telecoms saying that Google should be paying them to get to the customers. It's arrogance plain and simple, they think they should be able to demand continued revenue based on the fact that they have a limited government monopoly on access to peoples homes.
If you want a large number of PC's Sony is NOT who you choose. Many of their laptops have drivers installed in the OEM setup disk that flat out aren't available any other way. Most shops that have large numbers of machines use some sort of imaging setup and that doesn't work with an OEM edition of Windows, only with volume licensed editions.
It doesn't matter. When we talked to MS about Hyper-V they flat out told us we weren't their target market (we're a smaller Fortune 500 company). They basically are targeting Hyper-V at the SMB shop that's outgrown the everything and the kitchen sink model of Windows SMB Server. They don't have the tools to manage large deployments efficiently and so they aren't that worried about the large shop that wants to run Solaris x86 and Linux on the same box. For large virtualization projects you're still looking at VMWare or Xen with the Xen stack looking to make a LOT of progress over the next year or two once the Citrix initiatives kick in.
Actually there are ways to deform a fullerene lattice without breaking the bonds. Certain catalysts can be used which temporarily bond with the carbon deforming the lattice and allowing appropriate sized captured molecules to escape. This method was developed to deliver chemotherapy drugs more directly, the researchers found a way to attach the catalyst to the cancer site and then injected the chemo containing fullerenes into the patient where they only deformed on and near the cancer site. This significantly reduced collateral damage and also reduced the overall amount of drugs needed.
That's up for debate, the Betamax decision which was the last major fair use case heard by the Supreme Court ruled that time and place shifting is a protected right.
Um, yeah people who had VHS players in their conversion vans copied DVD's to VHS to watch them. Not many people are both wealthy and stupid enough to buy movies in two formats just because the content providers wish they could force them to.
Well, according to this source 9.5kg of H is equivalent to 25kg gasoline which also requires a 17kg container, so you get about 118kg to about 42kg, or almost tipple. Now most of that weight penalty can probably be made up by the fact that Honda has a fuel cell stack that weighs only 67kg which is way less than an IC engine.
You must not have kids, I know tons of people including my own inlaws (both police officers) that make backup copies of their DVD's so that when the kids scratch them up they can just make another copy of the pristine original. People rightfully don't see backing up their DVD's as a crime even though it technically is under the DMCA.
Another example is wanting to play your BD movie in your car, there are almost no BD players for cars and even if they were widely available it wouldn't help the people with a year old car with a builtin DVD player. HD DVD at least had multilayer and flip disk designs available.
Those high ratings for LED's are for undervolted units in ideal conditions. The charts I have seen for real world production LED lights at 35C and with normal voltage fluctuations is ~8K hours to 50% brightness, a light that's installed in a location where a 60W bulb is called for is going to get tossed if it's only putting out the light of a 30W bulb. I guess the answer is to put a lumen meter and extra LED's in the package and turn on new ones as the existing ones fade but that adds to complexity and cost.
Nah, CFL's pull less than 1/4 an incandescent for the same lumens. For instance a GE T2 long life (12K hour) CFL that produces 870 lumens (equivalent to a 60W T19 incandescent) pulls only 13W. The only problem with that bulb is the color temp is only 2700K, for a 6500K T3 bulb it's 15W and 8K hours.
If they can't find a way to make a profit at $100 per subscriber their entire executive board needs to be fired and replaced by competent people. They should have significantly lower cost per subscriber than wireline service providers due to reduced infrastructure costs and the wireline providers exist on much lower revenue numbers.
Actually I can think of a great use for this, supporting the builtin database for Neverwinter Nights! The only way to get the complete object state saved was to use the builtin DB layer which was unbearably slow when backed by disk. Using a ramdisk was blazing fast but unsafe of course, having a magnetically backed ramdisk would have been great. Backing Oracle with this would be pointless as tables can already be cached in memory and putting logs on this would make any DBA's skin crawl as the system would be exposed from the time the writes were acknowledged to when they actually got written to permanent storage.
Brushless designs are more efficient and more durable anyways.
A) I only support a small handfull of developers and they all have local admin and are expected to maintain their own boxes.
B) Even if I WAS qualified to do every job in the organization not that many of them would be more highly compensated. Due to the multiplier effect of my efficiency gains I am more valuable to a company making lots of people productive then I am doing some singular job. As a wise man once said, pick up a nickel and you have a nickel, have 10,000 people pick up nickels for you and soon you're talking real money.
For the vast majority of my users they need communications, productivity software, and financials. They do not need to install random weather plugin accompanied by spyware. I have a list of over 150 software packages that we support, that's quite a bit for a company of ~1,000 employees. Heck just for financial reporting we have like a dozen different packages we support.
I was refuting your incorrect statement that you will get a C&D for running and unlicensed FM transmitter.
Money is nothing but a measure time and value, if IT is doing their job they are saving the company so much time that when multiplied times the average salary in the company they are in fact making the company TONS of money in reduced labor costs. That's why I restrict my users, because I get them the tools they need to do their job efficiently and I keep those tools up and running and performing well enough so that they aren't the bottleneck in the organization.
It shouldn't be strange considering that the European mobile carriers realized quite quickly that there was no way to monetize the spectrum sufficiently to pay off the huge fees paid for the auction.
JP Morgan says they only intend to tap about $20B of the $30B limit, the discrepancy is just in case something is wrong with the current books.
No you won't. Unless you go over the transmit power allowance for unlicensed FM broadcast ("The field strength of any emissions within the permitted 200 kHz band shall not exceed 250 microvolts/meter at 3 meters" [FCC 15.239]). Not sure of the AM limit but the chance of you building a homebuilt station with enough power to drown out an AM station is pretty small unless someone is listening to a tropo bounce station from out of market.
I would think that in general JP would have OTHER clients who are shareholders in the companies in question and so by facilitating a backdoor to insider trading they are unfairly enriching one client at the cost of another who happens to have insider information. This is exactly the situation that the insider trading regulations were written to eliminate.
I'm guessing it's because they run as a filesystem filter driver and so need privileges to attach to the filesystem layer. They also need to poke about in memory and attach to running processes (eg attach to Outlook to scan incoming mail). It should be possible to separate the data capture portion from the analysis portion but it would probably be much harder to design and test.
Another way to look at it is that it's equivilant to one hour and ten minutes in Iraq. Yep, we are spending a little over $12M per HOUR in Iraq! oil's pretty freaking expensive, isn't it.