No mention of the fact that you can download and install SuSE in less time than MS take to answer the phone. Sure it was a Windows server when it was installed, but by the time it actually serves something, its running LAMP.
I think you will find TCO was being taught in business school in the 1960's (at least in the UK). Gartners may be staking claim to public domain property, but I dont think that is a new concept either.
TCO in relation to servers probably did not exist before servers.
TCO is widely taught in sales courses as a marketing tool used by people whose solution is too expensive to justify the additional cost. Its in the same boat with "Yes we are the most expensive, its cos we are the best".
The whole point of getting an MBA is so you know to use these things on the competition, and not have them used on yourself. Of course, if you got your MBA from one of those places offering them for $5 on the internet, you might not have to do any actual learning.
I have a 6630, and it came with a movie on a micro-botched-fako-SD card.
If you think normal people can sit through a whole movie in 208x164 pixels,
you need your brain tested.
Its quite a good phone, and has some handy features. The camera is good too.
but needs to have some kind of illumination,
It makes a really good case for a 320x240 screen. Infrared would be nice too
(so you can run a program to make it do remote to the TV).
How does this system handle brand new cars which don't have plates
Are you kidding? you can't drive a car with no plates in the UK unless you are the Queen. You would be stopped within two blocks, and charged with zillions of offences. Cars are plated before they leave the dealers.
No... because 12 out of the last 13 people hung later turned out to be innocent.
A good portion of the people murdered in Britian have been murdered by police: google "table leg" or "Menezes".
I believe in the USA 75% of police shot are either shot with their own gun or by another policeman, so arming the police is not the answer either.
If everybody and their mother could download atom bombs from the Internet (I don't mean the blueprints, but complete with U238/plutonium, high-precision high-performance explosives to initiate fission and detonator) we'd all be in deep shit.
Yeah, but the spammers would be in bigger shit than everybody else!
Introduced to provide traffic speed info (provided you subscribe - about $50 per month).
Now beiing used to find stolen cars, terrorists (recently anyone who disagrees with a government minister) and people who owe parking tickets - who have their car clamped until they pay.
George Orwell was only 20 years too early - he got most of the rest right.
Tony Blair's government seems to think that Big Brother (1984 version) was way to moderate with surveyance, and would love to have people issued with passes that can be checked every 100m by Zigbee or Bluetooth or something.
The British government has proposed a "National Corriculum" for Under 5 year olds and in a year when there are riots in Paris. (The Paris uprising in 1968 was because the teaching curriculum was too rigid).
And if you don't support him, you must be an Al Quaida suporter. A member of his own party was arrested at the party conference for pointing out that Jack Straw is completely dishonest. He was charged under the Prevention of Terrorism act. However, they want the power to hold people for 90 days with no charge whatever, in case they notice that some other ministers are "economical with the truth".
The words neurotic, obsesssive, compulsive, posessive, paranoid, manic, and several less polite ones come to mind.
The only reason they are in power is because "her majesty's Loyal opposition"'s slogan is "we are the party of convictions" - most have several for corruption, libel, slander, purjury, and other things that normally bar you from high office.
I suspect that the Robert Mugabe's complaints against Blair are fuelled by jelousy over the ease with which these controls are imposed (no need to deport inner city kids to remote Scottish islands, etc).
YOu obviously never used DOS 4.0.
This used 16 bits for sector addresses when reading, but only 12 when writing! Result: after your disk was reasonably full of valuable data, it got irretrievably corrupted!
Information about me should be inherently/inalienably mine. That includes my genome. If there are any inalienable human rights, this should be top of the list.
Anyone selling it is entitled to a small percentage, as a commission, but I should get the bulk (~90%)of the money. The copyright should be something unsaleable (so that poor people cannot be induced to sell their souls to the devil).
Do they also offer insurance against "accidentally" selling your soul to the devil?
Any person in any corporation buying this should be subjet to instant dismissal. If you are a shareholder in a company that buys this, then you should sell your shares immediately, as it is clear proof that the management is corrupt or incompetent.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants should be expected to recognise it as a symptom of malpractice, and if auditors fail to recognise it as such, then the auditors are also guilty of malpractice.
What's the point of RFID in a passport? Is it somehow magically impossible to forge or duplicate? No - it lines a lot of pockets! (Like UK proposed ID cards)
Ah but transformers are among the most efficient electrical components we know how to make - Correct. But only economically at high power levels > 100Watts.
That wall wart is probably achieving between 3 and 7 nines of efficiency. Nope - it probably takes 30 watts and delivers 13 watts. unless its a switcher, in which case probably about 80% efficient.
transforming already regulated AC is way more efficient than regulating DC. True at high power levels, but not at low powers. I work for a manufacturer of high power AC regulators, and its not cheap stuff. At low powers, regulating AC is extremely inefficient. Its normally changed to DC, and the AC regenerated with an inverter.
In reality, things like phone chargers have switch mode power supplies. These can be >90% efficient (if cost is no object), but prefer to have a DC supply. However, off-line switching is more expensive and complex than a switcher doing DC to DC conversion at a low voltage. From the point of view of energy efficiency there is a really good case for having a house-wide DC supply of 5V (good for phones PDAs etc) or 12V (interchangable with stuff designed for cars) or 40V (forthcoming standard for all vehicles), or 50V (Standard for telecoms). - which will it be? [I personally favour 40V, but I doubt many people will agree with me]
There is also the issue of safety. A low voltage supply intended to supply all your equipment would have to be capable of supplying very considerable current. The lower the voltage, the higher the current. A 12V 100A supply might be needed if you are to power audio equiment, computers, etc. Try shorting a car battery with a screwdriver to see how much damage this can do!
(I saw someone very badly injured when his metal watch strap went across a 5V 50A supply.)
DC is far more dangerous than AC because the zeros in voltage between cycles allow your nervous system to regain control of your muscles and pull free from the contacts. I know from first hand experience - a DC shock is far more scary because the loss of control of your muscles is far more complete.
Genetically, the spectral sensitivity of the red, green and blue comes in a number of different versions. The most common set of spectral responses for women is not the same as for men (In any case 10% of men are colour blind)
Thus it is possible to have light which appears white to a group of men, but not to a group of women.
Even more troublesome, it is possible to have two objects which appear the same colour to one group of viewers under two different light sources, but appear different colours to another group!
So when your girlfriend doesnt agree with your choice of colour scheme, there is a sound physical/biological explanation. And changing the girl probably won't help you!
George Bush kills more people than terroists (of course some people think he is a terrorist.)
Terrorists kill people in particularly nasty ways, and get heaps of "the oxygen of publicity".
However, the Mafia (Based in Sicily) almost certaily kill more people than the terrorists, and if the terrorists mess with this bridge, then I am sure the Mafia will "make them an offer they can't refuse"
It's what allows US retailers to sell a DVD for $20, while their counterparts in the 3rd world sell them for $2
Or in the USA for $20 and in the UK for £20 ($38).
The problem is, a lot of people travel between regions, and when their DVD player wont play the DVDs they bought somewhere else, they complain to the drive manufacturer and the disk seller.
Its beginning to dawn on some people that slapping your customer round the face with a wet fish is not good business practice.
Have you explained region codes to your mother today?
Those OS's are fairly similar to Linux, and are BSD'd, not GPL'd. And it seems to me (feel free to tell me if I'm wrong) that Linux has rather more momentum/popularity/support than they do. Why is that?
Part of the reason is that, at the time Linux was getting started, the *BSD code was under a deep cloud of FUD. Its also true that controversy over the GPL provides a lot of advertising for Linux, while the *BSDs are largely unkown outside of serious geekdom. Without that period of FUD, *BSD might have ruled the 32 bit world, as it was far more mature and stable than the then 16-bit Windows. However, the reality is that KDE and Gnome are only just now approaching the level of usability that is needed to fight Windows head on.
History is not over yet: things might change. Most users dont give a @&%# about licences, and will click through selling their soul to the devil without batting an eyelid. However, they are not able to click their way out of a machine that has been h4x0r3d and as more and more nerds tell them "the only way to stop that is to install Linux/BSD or buy a Mac", we know they buy Macs. And Macs run *BSD!
Note: It may be easy to recognise who is reponsible for penetration on the desktop (look at the webcams:-) but its less easy to determine how many routers, gateways, broadband modems, etc run *BSD. One thing is clear, not many run Linux.
This is probably because the BSD licence is very attractive to people making these things, while GPL is not.
If I were responsible for managing x,000 desktops, I would consider FreeBSD, but I would probably use Linux. I am only responsibe for 4 Desktops, so I run FreeBSD.
Reason: I value stability over flexibility, but my values depend on my environment. Others who have the same values as me will learn that *BSD delivers what they want, and *BSD market penetration will rise, but it wont stop Linux. Very few potential Mercedes owners buy a Ford (unless responsible for buying cars for their sales reps).
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don't laugh. A lot of countries take this argument seriously.
I don't want a Ford, I want KDE in FreeBSD.
No mention of the fact that you can download and install SuSE in less time than MS take to answer the phone. Sure it was a Windows server when it was installed, but by the time it actually serves something, its running LAMP.
Sun Microsystems have a large UK operation, and I can confidently say they sell servers -with a choice of Intel or not! (I choose Not)
TCO in relation to servers probably did not exist before servers.
TCO is widely taught in sales courses as a marketing tool used by people whose solution is too expensive to justify the additional cost. Its in the same boat with "Yes we are the most expensive, its cos we are the best".
The whole point of getting an MBA is so you know to use these things on the competition, and not have them used on yourself. Of course, if you got your MBA from one of those places offering them for $5 on the internet, you might not have to do any actual learning.
Its quite a good phone, and has some handy features. The camera is good too.
but needs to have some kind of illumination, It makes a really good case for a 320x240 screen. Infrared would be nice too (so you can run a program to make it do remote to the TV).
for a poke in the eye with a sharp stick press 2
for another menu of annoying options, press 9.
However, they are pre-teens who are the victims of misleading advertising.
If the music industry believes that its target audience is pre-teens who can be suckered with false advertising...
Oh, wait..
only if you exclude Glasgow.
Are you kidding? you can't drive a car with no plates in the UK unless you are the Queen. You would be stopped within two blocks, and charged with zillions of offences. Cars are plated before they leave the dealers.
No ... because 12 out of the last 13 people hung later turned out to be innocent.
A good portion of the people murdered in Britian have been murdered by police: google "table leg" or "Menezes". I believe in the USA 75% of police shot are either shot with their own gun or by another policeman, so arming the police is not the answer either.
Yeah, but the spammers would be in bigger shit than everybody else!
Introduced to provide traffic speed info (provided you subscribe - about $50 per month).
Now beiing used to find stolen cars, terrorists (recently anyone who disagrees with a government minister) and people who owe parking tickets - who have their car clamped until they pay.
George Orwell was only 20 years too early - he got most of the rest right.
The British government has proposed a "National Corriculum" for Under 5 year olds and in a year when there are riots in Paris. (The Paris uprising in 1968 was because the teaching curriculum was too rigid).
And if you don't support him, you must be an Al Quaida suporter. A member of his own party was arrested at the party conference for pointing out that Jack Straw is completely dishonest. He was charged under the Prevention of Terrorism act. However, they want the power to hold people for 90 days with no charge whatever, in case they notice that some other ministers are "economical with the truth".
The words neurotic, obsesssive, compulsive, posessive, paranoid, manic, and several less polite ones come to mind.
The only reason they are in power is because "her majesty's Loyal opposition"'s slogan is "we are the party of convictions" - most have several for corruption, libel, slander, purjury, and other things that normally bar you from high office.
I suspect that the Robert Mugabe's complaints against Blair are fuelled by jelousy over the ease with which these controls are imposed (no need to deport inner city kids to remote Scottish islands, etc).
YOu obviously never used DOS 4.0. This used 16 bits for sector addresses when reading, but only 12 when writing! Result: after your disk was reasonably full of valuable data, it got irretrievably corrupted!
"Enjoy yourself or I'll beat you!"
Anyone selling it is entitled to a small percentage, as a commission, but I should get the bulk (~90%)of the money. The copyright should be something unsaleable (so that poor people cannot be induced to sell their souls to the devil).
Any person in any corporation buying this should be subjet to instant dismissal. If you are a shareholder in a company that buys this, then you should sell your shares immediately, as it is clear proof that the management is corrupt or incompetent.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants should be expected to recognise it as a symptom of malpractice, and if auditors fail to recognise it as such, then the auditors are also guilty of malpractice.
What's the point of RFID in a passport? Is it somehow magically impossible to forge or duplicate? No - it lines a lot of pockets! (Like UK proposed ID cards)
That wall wart is probably achieving between 3 and 7 nines of efficiency. Nope - it probably takes 30 watts and delivers 13 watts. unless its a switcher, in which case probably about 80% efficient.
transforming already regulated AC is way more efficient than regulating DC. True at high power levels, but not at low powers. I work for a manufacturer of high power AC regulators, and its not cheap stuff. At low powers, regulating AC is extremely inefficient. Its normally changed to DC, and the AC regenerated with an inverter.
In reality, things like phone chargers have switch mode power supplies. These can be >90% efficient (if cost is no object), but prefer to have a DC supply. However, off-line switching is more expensive and complex than a switcher doing DC to DC conversion at a low voltage. From the point of view of energy efficiency there is a really good case for having a house-wide DC supply of 5V (good for phones PDAs etc) or 12V (interchangable with stuff designed for cars) or 40V (forthcoming standard for all vehicles), or 50V (Standard for telecoms). - which will it be? [I personally favour 40V, but I doubt many people will agree with me]
There is also the issue of safety. A low voltage supply intended to supply all your equipment would have to be capable of supplying very considerable current. The lower the voltage, the higher the current. A 12V 100A supply might be needed if you are to power audio equiment, computers, etc. Try shorting a car battery with a screwdriver to see how much damage this can do! (I saw someone very badly injured when his metal watch strap went across a 5V 50A supply.)
DC is far more dangerous than AC because the zeros in voltage between cycles allow your nervous system to regain control of your muscles and pull free from the contacts. I know from first hand experience - a DC shock is far more scary because the loss of control of your muscles is far more complete.
Thus it is possible to have light which appears white to a group of men, but not to a group of women.
Even more troublesome, it is possible to have two objects which appear the same colour to one group of viewers under two different light sources, but appear different colours to another group!
So when your girlfriend doesnt agree with your choice of colour scheme, there is a sound physical/biological explanation. And changing the girl probably won't help you!
Beer kills more people than terrorists.
George Bush kills more people than terroists (of course some people think he is a terrorist.)
Terrorists kill people in particularly nasty ways, and get heaps of "the oxygen of publicity".
However, the Mafia (Based in Sicily) almost certaily kill more people than the terrorists, and if the terrorists mess with this bridge, then I am sure the Mafia will "make them an offer they can't refuse"
Or in the USA for $20 and in the UK for £20 ($38).
The problem is, a lot of people travel between regions, and when their DVD player wont play the DVDs they bought somewhere else, they complain to the drive manufacturer and the disk seller.
Its beginning to dawn on some people that slapping your customer round the face with a wet fish is not good business practice.
Have you explained region codes to your mother today?
The *BSDs each have their own highly centralised engineering management, with complex release Engineering that covers both kernel and userland.
Linux has a free-for-all management system.
Read "The Cathedral and the Bazzar" by whats-his-name.
Part of the reason is that, at the time Linux was getting started, the *BSD code was under a deep cloud of FUD. Its also true that controversy over the GPL provides a lot of advertising for Linux, while the *BSDs are largely unkown outside of serious geekdom. Without that period of FUD, *BSD might have ruled the 32 bit world, as it was far more mature and stable than the then 16-bit Windows. However, the reality is that KDE and Gnome are only just now approaching the level of usability that is needed to fight Windows head on.
History is not over yet: things might change. Most users dont give a @&%# about licences, and will click through selling their soul to the devil without batting an eyelid. However, they are not able to click their way out of a machine that has been h4x0r3d and as more and more nerds tell them "the only way to stop that is to install Linux/BSD or buy a Mac", we know they buy Macs. And Macs run *BSD!
Note: It may be easy to recognise who is reponsible for penetration on the desktop (look at the webcams :-) but its less easy to determine how many routers, gateways, broadband modems, etc run *BSD. One thing is clear, not many run Linux.
This is probably because the BSD licence is very attractive to people making these things, while GPL is not.
If I were responsible for managing x,000 desktops, I would consider FreeBSD, but I would probably use Linux. I am only responsibe for 4 Desktops, so I run FreeBSD. Reason: I value stability over flexibility, but my values depend on my environment. Others who have the same values as me will learn that *BSD delivers what they want, and *BSD market penetration will rise, but it wont stop Linux. Very few potential Mercedes owners buy a Ford (unless responsible for buying cars for their sales reps).