You don't allow infinite logins, that would take way too many system resources and be too slow. You run a password cracker against the hashed password database directly =)
Wrong. Wireless can be made to scale well if properly designed. I know that Cisco had a system installed at the MS main campus that supported hundreds of people in a conference room connected and watching fairly high bandwidth content.
Actually I think it will be quite the opposite. The explosion of cheap means of creating content will mean that much more will survive. I don't think a large percentage of correspondance from say the civil war survived, and the high cost in both materials, education and time to create the material means that there was much less content originally made. If even a fraction of the same percentage from today survives it means that future historians will have such large mountains of information to go through that their problem will be one of cataloging and sorting, not in finding the information to research.
30% seems really low, for entry through mid level people the number I have heard is closer to 40-50% of total cost is non-salary. Of course I'm not sure how much of that is facilities and support and how much is non-salary compensation. I don't think that a spreadout layoff like this saves you anything on facilities, only axing total divisions does that. Besides all that I think $1 Billion is for this round and the accompanying round of non-managerial layoffs.
I don't think that's true at all. Cisco routinely gets rid of the bottom x% of employees and they are based in California. Unless they do things differently in HQ then elsewhere they are doing exactly what you are saying they cannot do. Perhaps they just document things sufficiently to get around lawsuits?
The majority of VMWare's paying clients were already using ESX server for vmotion and the management tools or Workstation for the advanced features it offers. Putting server out there for free just encourages more people to play with the software and become hooked. Then once they realize how great virtualization is they will want to purchase VMWare's tools to manage it all. With upcoming Vanderpool and related hardware vitualization technologies VMWare realized that their future was is being a value add, not in the virtualization tech itself.
There's no remote access solution that beats Citrix, period. Email and files are too big to drag across dialup in most organizations today, and no remote acess protocol that I have seen is better than ICA over high latency, low bandwidth links (NX is close). Even most web based corporate apps are heavier on bandwidth requirements than a Citrix session. If you can point me to something that you think works better than Citrix I'd be interested, but skeptical.
In the US at least the dataset cannot be copyrighted because there is no artistic expression, it falls under the same general catagory as phone books. The maps themselves can be copyrighted if there is a degree of artistic expression, but for the majority of maps today that is not the case. Maps and datasets are usually covered by trade secret and licensing agreements. The SLA has some information available here.
Actually AFAIK the plan was to keep the PRN's covered by licensing deals that would require a fee per device so that the participating nations could make back part (or all) of their investment in the system from private enterprises.
You can get usefull information out of the GLONASS system without an encryption key, just like you can use the P-code for refinement without having a key. For the most accurate positioning possible you use the C/A code in differential mode with 2 or more antennas then get atmospheric shift information by calculating signal drift on the P-code and the GLONASS signals. This allows mm precision for a fixed position over a period of time. You could probably obtain similar results using only the C/A code but it would take somewhere around an order of magnitude more time.
We already solve the first two of your points using Citrix Presentation Server 4 with the Web Interface 4.0. With the Java fallback client you can get access basically anywhere you have access to a PC and you get the exact same desktop, applications, and data as in the office. The only downside is cost =) Oh and printing can be a PITA, but I think it would be even moreso with a web interface, I haven't seen one with decent printing support yet, and yes that includes google maps et all.
My guess is it's speed throtteling introducing delay into the occassional execution of these instructions whereas the chip is running full out when running through an artificial benchmark. That's pure speculation on my part though.
Actually I would trust the Linux RAID5 software setup more than a LOT of the RAID controller firmware setups which I have had no end of problems with over the years including a card that rebuilt an array from the new drive on insertion instead of the other way around! Firmware is after all simply software, and software that tends to get a lot less scrutiny then alot of other classes of software, especially potentially data eating code in a project like Linux or one of the BSD's.
The numbers are a bit out of date as the quote is from the 2002 timeframe but here's one about the google hardware:
Because Google servers are custom made, we'll use pricing information for comparable PC-based server racks for illustration. For example, in late 2002 a rack of 88 dual-CPU 2-GHz Intel Xeon servers with 2 Gbytes of RAM and an 80-Gbyte hard disk was offered on RackSaver.com for around $278,000. This figure translates into a monthly capital cost of $7,700 per rack over three years.
The cost advantages of using inexpensive, PC-based clusters over high-end multiprocessor servers can be quite substantial, at least for a highly parallelizable application like ours. The example $278,000 rack contains 176 2-GHz Xeon CPUs, 176 Gbytes of RAM, and 7 Tbytes of disk space. In comparison, a typical x86-based server contains eight 2-GHz Xeon CPUs, 64 Gbytes of RAM, and 8 Tbytes of disk space; it costs about $758,000.2 In other words, the multiprocessor server is about three times more expensive but has 22 times fewer CPUs, three times less RAM, and slightly more disk space. Much of the cost difference derives from the much higher interconnect bandwidth and reliability of a high-end server, but again, Google's highly redundant architecture does not rely on either of these attributes. Quote from here.
You can install and use bash as your shell on windows. All you have to do is install bash from your provider of choice and then set a single registry key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Pol icies\System\Shell or HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Pol icies\System\Shell to point to the bash executable.
That's why all my Paypal payments go through my credit card. Once Paypal allowed you to use your CC for payment the risks for using it to purchase went down to the same level as any other online transaction because if I have a problem I can simply dispute the paypal charge with my CC company. Not sure how accepting payments via paypal works as I don't sell things online.
My guess is this is meant as an extension of smart fuses. If the gun doesn't authenticate the user then the round never explodes, makes it hard for the enemy to shoot you with your own weapons. Of course it can be done more easily by authenticating the user in the gun and simply requiring autentication to launch the bullet through electrical pin.
That price on the Westinghouse is about half the street price of $2,500 according to froogle and it's a monitor, not a tv. Bring the price down to $999 and throw in a tuner and HDCard2 slot and I will bite, but a large chunk of the Wallmart set still won't.
At only $10k I'm suprised some of the recording houses haven't picked them up. I was looking into custom dub plates for my brother and the only way to get them done affordably for small runs was to send the files to a place in Jamaica where the reggae scene has kept some dub houses alive. They press to a non-vinyl material that has about 80% of the life of vinyl at like 2% of the cost of having a vinyl master made. For only $10k the recording houses could offer small runs of DJ's music for a much more reasonable cost then actually pressing a master.
Shouldn't CDRW be archival? The phase change material is non-organic and I can't think of a reason for the polycarbonite to fail, so the only possible weak link is the glue. So use a non-organic glue and you should be good for 50+ years no problem. I know that the manufacturers said CDRW might have a shorter shelf life initially but I never saw a reasoning for that claim and their ideas about CDR longevity have long ago been disproven.
Actually Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel will reach mass distribution in the US on 10/15/06, 90% of diesel being refined today is similar to the stuff from Europe =) For more info see this press release from the Diesel Technology Forum.
Actually that durability can be one of the biggest problems with Titanium rings, trauma sheers can't cut them so if you have any kind of severe sweeling problem there's a good chance of digit loss because the ER won't be able to remove the ring. That and the fact that my father gave me his ring are the reason I didn't get a titanium one. (He hadn't worn his in 20 years due to working with the machining industry and seeing several people lose their hands in machines due to wedding bands).
I prefer the 15K RPM 147GB SCSI drives personally =) Of course looking forward the high RPM SAS drives with physically smaller platters seem nice since I can get a large number of spindles into even a 2U enclosure.
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You don't allow infinite logins, that would take way too many system resources and be too slow. You run a password cracker against the hashed password database directly =)
Wrong. Wireless can be made to scale well if properly designed. I know that Cisco had a system installed at the MS main campus that supported hundreds of people in a conference room connected and watching fairly high bandwidth content.
Actually I think it will be quite the opposite. The explosion of cheap means of creating content will mean that much more will survive. I don't think a large percentage of correspondance from say the civil war survived, and the high cost in both materials, education and time to create the material means that there was much less content originally made. If even a fraction of the same percentage from today survives it means that future historians will have such large mountains of information to go through that their problem will be one of cataloging and sorting, not in finding the information to research.
30% seems really low, for entry through mid level people the number I have heard is closer to 40-50% of total cost is non-salary. Of course I'm not sure how much of that is facilities and support and how much is non-salary compensation. I don't think that a spreadout layoff like this saves you anything on facilities, only axing total divisions does that. Besides all that I think $1 Billion is for this round and the accompanying round of non-managerial layoffs.
I don't think that's true at all. Cisco routinely gets rid of the bottom x% of employees and they are based in California. Unless they do things differently in HQ then elsewhere they are doing exactly what you are saying they cannot do. Perhaps they just document things sufficiently to get around lawsuits?
The majority of VMWare's paying clients were already using ESX server for vmotion and the management tools or Workstation for the advanced features it offers. Putting server out there for free just encourages more people to play with the software and become hooked. Then once they realize how great virtualization is they will want to purchase VMWare's tools to manage it all. With upcoming Vanderpool and related hardware vitualization technologies VMWare realized that their future was is being a value add, not in the virtualization tech itself.
There's no remote access solution that beats Citrix, period. Email and files are too big to drag across dialup in most organizations today, and no remote acess protocol that I have seen is better than ICA over high latency, low bandwidth links (NX is close). Even most web based corporate apps are heavier on bandwidth requirements than a Citrix session. If you can point me to something that you think works better than Citrix I'd be interested, but skeptical.
In the US at least the dataset cannot be copyrighted because there is no artistic expression, it falls under the same general catagory as phone books. The maps themselves can be copyrighted if there is a degree of artistic expression, but for the majority of maps today that is not the case. Maps and datasets are usually covered by trade secret and licensing agreements. The SLA has some information available here.
Actually AFAIK the plan was to keep the PRN's covered by licensing deals that would require a fee per device so that the participating nations could make back part (or all) of their investment in the system from private enterprises.
You can get usefull information out of the GLONASS system without an encryption key, just like you can use the P-code for refinement without having a key. For the most accurate positioning possible you use the C/A code in differential mode with 2 or more antennas then get atmospheric shift information by calculating signal drift on the P-code and the GLONASS signals. This allows mm precision for a fixed position over a period of time. You could probably obtain similar results using only the C/A code but it would take somewhere around an order of magnitude more time.
We already solve the first two of your points using Citrix Presentation Server 4 with the Web Interface 4.0. With the Java fallback client you can get access basically anywhere you have access to a PC and you get the exact same desktop, applications, and data as in the office. The only downside is cost =) Oh and printing can be a PITA, but I think it would be even moreso with a web interface, I haven't seen one with decent printing support yet, and yes that includes google maps et all.
My guess is it's speed throtteling introducing delay into the occassional execution of these instructions whereas the chip is running full out when running through an artificial benchmark. That's pure speculation on my part though.
Actually I would trust the Linux RAID5 software setup more than a LOT of the RAID controller firmware setups which I have had no end of problems with over the years including a card that rebuilt an array from the new drive on insertion instead of the other way around! Firmware is after all simply software, and software that tends to get a lot less scrutiny then alot of other classes of software, especially potentially data eating code in a project like Linux or one of the BSD's.
The numbers are a bit out of date as the quote is from the 2002 timeframe but here's one about the google hardware:
Because Google servers are custom made, we'll use pricing information for comparable PC-based server racks for illustration. For example, in late 2002 a rack of 88 dual-CPU 2-GHz Intel Xeon servers with 2 Gbytes of RAM and an 80-Gbyte hard disk was offered on RackSaver.com for around $278,000. This figure translates into a monthly capital cost of $7,700 per rack over three years.
The cost advantages of using inexpensive, PC-based clusters over high-end multiprocessor servers can be quite substantial, at least for a highly parallelizable application like ours. The example $278,000 rack contains 176 2-GHz Xeon CPUs, 176 Gbytes of RAM, and 7 Tbytes of disk space. In comparison, a typical x86-based server contains eight 2-GHz Xeon CPUs, 64 Gbytes of RAM, and 8 Tbytes of disk space; it costs about $758,000.2 In other words, the multiprocessor server is about three times more expensive but has 22 times fewer CPUs, three times less RAM, and slightly more disk space. Much of the cost difference derives from the much higher interconnect bandwidth and reliability of a high-end server, but again, Google's highly redundant architecture does not rely on either of these attributes.
Quote from here.
You can install and use bash as your shell on windows. All you have to do is install bash from your provider of choice and then set a single registry key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Pol icies\System\Shell or HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Pol icies\System\Shell to point to the bash executable.
That's why all my Paypal payments go through my credit card. Once Paypal allowed you to use your CC for payment the risks for using it to purchase went down to the same level as any other online transaction because if I have a problem I can simply dispute the paypal charge with my CC company. Not sure how accepting payments via paypal works as I don't sell things online.
My guess is this is meant as an extension of smart fuses. If the gun doesn't authenticate the user then the round never explodes, makes it hard for the enemy to shoot you with your own weapons. Of course it can be done more easily by authenticating the user in the gun and simply requiring autentication to launch the bullet through electrical pin.
That price on the Westinghouse is about half the street price of $2,500 according to froogle and it's a monitor, not a tv. Bring the price down to $999 and throw in a tuner and HDCard2 slot and I will bite, but a large chunk of the Wallmart set still won't.
At only $10k I'm suprised some of the recording houses haven't picked them up. I was looking into custom dub plates for my brother and the only way to get them done affordably for small runs was to send the files to a place in Jamaica where the reggae scene has kept some dub houses alive. They press to a non-vinyl material that has about 80% of the life of vinyl at like 2% of the cost of having a vinyl master made. For only $10k the recording houses could offer small runs of DJ's music for a much more reasonable cost then actually pressing a master.
Shouldn't CDRW be archival? The phase change material is non-organic and I can't think of a reason for the polycarbonite to fail, so the only possible weak link is the glue. So use a non-organic glue and you should be good for 50+ years no problem. I know that the manufacturers said CDRW might have a shorter shelf life initially but I never saw a reasoning for that claim and their ideas about CDR longevity have long ago been disproven.
Actually Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel will reach mass distribution in the US on 10/15/06, 90% of diesel being refined today is similar to the stuff from Europe =) For more info see this press release from the Diesel Technology Forum.
If more and more of their life experiences are drawn from a fantasy world, what set of morals and ethics will they be learning from?
As apposed to the fantasy world of the bible which is supposedly the foundation of the western moral code?
Actually that durability can be one of the biggest problems with Titanium rings, trauma sheers can't cut them so if you have any kind of severe sweeling problem there's a good chance of digit loss because the ER won't be able to remove the ring. That and the fact that my father gave me his ring are the reason I didn't get a titanium one. (He hadn't worn his in 20 years due to working with the machining industry and seeing several people lose their hands in machines due to wedding bands).
I prefer the 15K RPM 147GB SCSI drives personally =)
Of course looking forward the high RPM SAS drives with physically smaller platters seem nice since I can get a large number of spindles into even a 2U enclosure.
I used to get similar numbers from my Toshiba Toughbook running XP, of course I did a custom reinstall of XP, not the factory load.