640HP and all they managed was 4.5 0-60 in something the size of a mini??? A 1987 Buick Regal GNX does it in 4.7 with only 245HP! Either they had shit for tires/driver or something is really wrong, especially with the near infinite torque of an electric motor.
It's the answer to the need for security, but unfortunately the people who need to implement the security don't seem to really care about it. It apparently costs them less to do nothing and pay out for breaches than it would to implement real security. Unfortunately it costs the powerless consumers orders of magnitude more in time, frustration, and real costs to fix the problem but that isn't the concern of the companies because it doesn't show up on the balance sheet and there is no real alternative.
Actually, these are basically the remaining folks from the old commission system. The people averaging below $15.75/hour in commission were kept around, but the new cap is like $10/hour, so they are basically getting rid of all the old commission people who were pretty good.
The answer is smart cards. I had a credit card with a smartchip in it from 2000-2005 and the chip was used exactly three times, twice at burger kings and once at a haircut place. None of the major retailers had the readers (or the readers didn't enforce smartcard use for cards with the flag). The only other use was for extra security in online banking, which is already probably the most secure part of the CC system due to SSL. If CC companies and merchants were serious about security smartcards with picture ID would be required, instead they are nearly impossible to obtain and the additional features aren't utilized during the majority of transactions. I have to conclude that the CC companies and merchants find it cheaper to continue with the status quo then to implement real security.
One admin per physical server?????
Dude, I admin 130+ physical servers and ~700 users myself, having another admin would be a luxury. I'm planning on going this way to reduce MY overhead, it's a lot easier to roll out a couple new VM's than it is to rack and stack the equivalent number of pizza boxes =) I just have to make the business case. Having an admin per 20 servers would be purely insane, that would make labor one of the most expensive pieces of the IT budget, which just is not the case around here even if we are well compensated (industry average in a part of the country with about 85% of average cost of living).
I wouldn't say they are beaten, at least for what I'm using them for. Here's a little spreadsheet I created to do a cost/benefit analysis for Vmware ESX. There are some assumptions built in, and it's not yet a full ROI calculator, but it gets most of the big costs. Cell A1 is the number of our "standard" systems to be compared (4GB dual cpu 2003 machines). The DL580 is 4xXeon 7120 with 32GB of ram, local RAID1 on 15k disks, dual HBA's and a dual port addon NIC. The DL585 is 2xOpteron 8220HE with 32 or 64GB of ram (the 580 with 64GB was more expensive than buying two with 32GB!) and the same equipment. The 360 is our standard build currently, dual 5110's with 4GB ram and local RAID1 and an HBA. After about 17 "systems" (the point where 3 Intel's are needed due to memory constraints) the AMD comes out cheaper, and keeps that lead. Quad core Intel's aren't even an option because 32GB of memory is insanely expensive for the DL380.
Except you can offer better security and more flexibility with virtual servers than traditional shared hosting. For a site with no DB or custom native code then shared instances is fine, for anything requiring code running on the server virtual servers are better. The cool thing about ESX is if your servers are all running the same OS and version of their apps the static memory contents all get laid onto the same memory pages, meaning that increased ram usage for 20 servers vs 10 is very low.
Here's a little spreadsheet I created to do a cost/benefit analysis for Vmware ESX. There are some assumptions built in, and it's not yet a full ROI calculator, but it gets most of the big costs. Cell A1 is the number of our "standard" systems to be compared (4GB dual cpu 2003 machines). The DL580 is 4xXeon 7120 with 32GB of ram, local RAID1 on 15k disks, dual HBA's and a dual port addon NIC. The DL585 is 2xOpteron 8220HE with 32 or 64GB of ram (the 580 with 64GB was more expensive than buying two with 32GB!) and the same equipment. The 360 is our standard build currently, dual 5110's with 4GB ram and local RAID1 and an HBA.
The interesting thing is the breakeven point for VMWare is only 12 servers, way, way below what you can put on two of those boxes. VMotion is the killer feature for me so less than 2 servers is stupid for my situation.
During Gulf War I this was exactly the situation with GPS locators. The milspec units were in short supply with a high cost and long lead time, so many soldiers had their family buy them civilian units for their use. The interesting thing is that while the milspec units had a very high theoretical edge in accuracy in practice the civilian units were generally as accurate because the milspec units were older technology that couldn't make full use of the extra information in the military signal whereas the civilian units used nearly every bit of information contained in the unencrypted signal.
Since the current monoculture for Windows PC's in government is probably the default windows install, a more secure default configuration can't possibly be a worse situation.
SAP has over 17K customers and 27K employees worldwide with over half of the Fortune 500 being customers. Oracle and SAP are now basically the only big players in the ERP arena. ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning, basically the software that runs medium to large businesses. If you've been programming for 15 years and have never heard of SAP you have either worked in small companies or have worked in Peoplesoft, JD Edwards (both now Oracle comapanies), Infor, or Sage shops.
I do, except they are nice full screen (even HD) videos. Ah the wonders of bittorrent. I generally watch shows that aren't available in my market (like TopGear) but I've been known to watch a missed episode of Battlestar Galactica to catch up. There's no reason that the media providers can't use a bittorrent like interface with a big initial seed from their servers to provide full resolution content.
Yes, it's called reality. This company can't create ink significantly cheaper than Epson, so once they get their foot in the door it's inevitable that they will try to maximize shareholder value and will jack up ink prices to the same general cost as other market participant.
is new again. Laser printers went through this. The original laser printers were raster based laser based units, but they quickly went to arrays of LED lasers because a bunch of silicone was cheaper than the stuff needed to steer the laser accurately. My problem with a super faster inkjet is that a bad print job would cost an absolute fortune, it's bad enough when a fast laser cranks out a couple hundred pages of ASCII goop, thats about 5 cents per page, when you do the same with an inkjet it's probably more like 30 cents per page.
Well, it's a max of $14.99/month, but only $12.99/month for the US if you buy in 6 month chunks. I also assumed that the revenue from Chinese users is somewhat less per month and the revenue from EU slightly higher.
Yep, I can feel the chants of embrace, extend, extinguish from here. Somehow I can't help but fear that MS will be adding proprietary COM addins to their XMLHTTPRequest implementation to "aid developers in promoting a more rich experience" which will of course tie most AJAX implementations to Windows and IE.
Because our biological imperative is mixed up with our geeky brain, duh. Btw the ultimate geek girl has to be Miss Ohio USA 2007, she's a Biology/premed dual major with good grades and is a pageant queen. Now there may be few of these women around, but to a geek they are better than any supermodel. You could have a great conversation with her and all of your non-geek friends would still be jealous of you for her physical attraction.
Since the researchers are rarely paid anything (and in some cases pay to be published!) and the reviewers are rarely paid much if anything I think the only costs are in profit and production and distribution. In the age of the internet production and distribution costs have been reduced to such a degree that it literally costs fractions of a penny per page. The answer to me is obvious, more online distribution of small (and not so small) journals. Yes dead tree is nice at times, but the content indexing and searching facilities of electronic media far outweigh the deadtree advantages, at least for me.
Maybe this will lead to an end to the sugar import tarrif now that the corn producers have another market for their product. Then we can get the crap that is high fructose corn syrup out of our food supply.
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640HP and all they managed was 4.5 0-60 in something the size of a mini???
A 1987 Buick Regal GNX does it in 4.7 with only 245HP!
Either they had shit for tires/driver or something is really wrong, especially with the near infinite torque of an electric motor.
It's the answer to the need for security, but unfortunately the people who need to implement the security don't seem to really care about it. It apparently costs them less to do nothing and pay out for breaches than it would to implement real security. Unfortunately it costs the powerless consumers orders of magnitude more in time, frustration, and real costs to fix the problem but that isn't the concern of the companies because it doesn't show up on the balance sheet and there is no real alternative.
Actually, these are basically the remaining folks from the old commission system. The people averaging below $15.75/hour in commission were kept around, but the new cap is like $10/hour, so they are basically getting rid of all the old commission people who were pretty good.
The answer is smart cards. I had a credit card with a smartchip in it from 2000-2005 and the chip was used exactly three times, twice at burger kings and once at a haircut place. None of the major retailers had the readers (or the readers didn't enforce smartcard use for cards with the flag). The only other use was for extra security in online banking, which is already probably the most secure part of the CC system due to SSL. If CC companies and merchants were serious about security smartcards with picture ID would be required, instead they are nearly impossible to obtain and the additional features aren't utilized during the majority of transactions. I have to conclude that the CC companies and merchants find it cheaper to continue with the status quo then to implement real security.
One admin per physical server?????
Dude, I admin 130+ physical servers and ~700 users myself, having another admin would be a luxury. I'm planning on going this way to reduce MY overhead, it's a lot easier to roll out a couple new VM's than it is to rack and stack the equivalent number of pizza boxes =) I just have to make the business case. Having an admin per 20 servers would be purely insane, that would make labor one of the most expensive pieces of the IT budget, which just is not the case around here even if we are well compensated (industry average in a part of the country with about 85% of average cost of living).
yep, but the systems I used for my analysis were equipped with four dual cores =)
Damn it, the 585 is four dual cores, not two.
I wouldn't say they are beaten, at least for what I'm using them for. Here's a little spreadsheet I created to do a cost/benefit analysis for Vmware ESX. There are some assumptions built in, and it's not yet a full ROI calculator, but it gets most of the big costs. Cell A1 is the number of our "standard" systems to be compared (4GB dual cpu 2003 machines). The DL580 is 4xXeon 7120 with 32GB of ram, local RAID1 on 15k disks, dual HBA's and a dual port addon NIC. The DL585 is 2xOpteron 8220HE with 32 or 64GB of ram (the 580 with 64GB was more expensive than buying two with 32GB!) and the same equipment. The 360 is our standard build currently, dual 5110's with 4GB ram and local RAID1 and an HBA. After about 17 "systems" (the point where 3 Intel's are needed due to memory constraints) the AMD comes out cheaper, and keeps that lead. Quad core Intel's aren't even an option because 32GB of memory is insanely expensive for the DL380.
Except you can offer better security and more flexibility with virtual servers than traditional shared hosting. For a site with no DB or custom native code then shared instances is fine, for anything requiring code running on the server virtual servers are better. The cool thing about ESX is if your servers are all running the same OS and version of their apps the static memory contents all get laid onto the same memory pages, meaning that increased ram usage for 20 servers vs 10 is very low.
Here's a little spreadsheet I created to do a cost/benefit analysis for Vmware ESX. There are some assumptions built in, and it's not yet a full ROI calculator, but it gets most of the big costs. Cell A1 is the number of our "standard" systems to be compared (4GB dual cpu 2003 machines). The DL580 is 4xXeon 7120 with 32GB of ram, local RAID1 on 15k disks, dual HBA's and a dual port addon NIC. The DL585 is 2xOpteron 8220HE with 32 or 64GB of ram (the 580 with 64GB was more expensive than buying two with 32GB!) and the same equipment. The 360 is our standard build currently, dual 5110's with 4GB ram and local RAID1 and an HBA.
The interesting thing is the breakeven point for VMWare is only 12 servers, way, way below what you can put on two of those boxes. VMotion is the killer feature for me so less than 2 servers is stupid for my situation.
During Gulf War I this was exactly the situation with GPS locators. The milspec units were in short supply with a high cost and long lead time, so many soldiers had their family buy them civilian units for their use. The interesting thing is that while the milspec units had a very high theoretical edge in accuracy in practice the civilian units were generally as accurate because the milspec units were older technology that couldn't make full use of the extra information in the military signal whereas the civilian units used nearly every bit of information contained in the unencrypted signal.
Since the current monoculture for Windows PC's in government is probably the default windows install, a more secure default configuration can't possibly be a worse situation.
RIT, they have a fab on campus =)
Huh? SAP has a market cap of $56B and Oracle has a market cap of $95.8B, so Oracle is almost twice as large as SAP.
SAP has over 17K customers and 27K employees worldwide with over half of the Fortune 500 being customers. Oracle and SAP are now basically the only big players in the ERP arena. ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning, basically the software that runs medium to large businesses. If you've been programming for 15 years and have never heard of SAP you have either worked in small companies or have worked in Peoplesoft, JD Edwards (both now Oracle comapanies), Infor, or Sage shops.
I do, except they are nice full screen (even HD) videos. Ah the wonders of bittorrent. I generally watch shows that aren't available in my market (like TopGear) but I've been known to watch a missed episode of Battlestar Galactica to catch up. There's no reason that the media providers can't use a bittorrent like interface with a big initial seed from their servers to provide full resolution content.
Check under PC games at Sony Online Entertainment.
Yes, it's called reality. This company can't create ink significantly cheaper than Epson, so once they get their foot in the door it's inevitable that they will try to maximize shareholder value and will jack up ink prices to the same general cost as other market participant.
is new again. Laser printers went through this. The original laser printers were raster based laser based units, but they quickly went to arrays of LED lasers because a bunch of silicone was cheaper than the stuff needed to steer the laser accurately. My problem with a super faster inkjet is that a bad print job would cost an absolute fortune, it's bad enough when a fast laser cranks out a couple hundred pages of ASCII goop, thats about 5 cents per page, when you do the same with an inkjet it's probably more like 30 cents per page.
Well, it's a max of $14.99/month, but only $12.99/month for the US if you buy in 6 month chunks. I also assumed that the revenue from Chinese users is somewhat less per month and the revenue from EU slightly higher.
Lets see, 8.5 million WoW subscribers * ~$12/month * 12 months = ~$1.2 Billion.
Yep, I can feel the chants of embrace, extend, extinguish from here. Somehow I can't help but fear that MS will be adding proprietary COM addins to their XMLHTTPRequest implementation to "aid developers in promoting a more rich experience" which will of course tie most AJAX implementations to Windows and IE.
Because our biological imperative is mixed up with our geeky brain, duh. Btw the ultimate geek girl has to be Miss Ohio USA 2007, she's a Biology/premed dual major with good grades and is a pageant queen. Now there may be few of these women around, but to a geek they are better than any supermodel. You could have a great conversation with her and all of your non-geek friends would still be jealous of you for her physical attraction.
Since the researchers are rarely paid anything (and in some cases pay to be published!) and the reviewers are rarely paid much if anything I think the only costs are in profit and production and distribution. In the age of the internet production and distribution costs have been reduced to such a degree that it literally costs fractions of a penny per page. The answer to me is obvious, more online distribution of small (and not so small) journals. Yes dead tree is nice at times, but the content indexing and searching facilities of electronic media far outweigh the deadtree advantages, at least for me.
Maybe this will lead to an end to the sugar import tarrif now that the corn producers have another market for their product. Then we can get the crap that is high fructose corn syrup out of our food supply.