Isn't it nice that the secret police or some other shadowy quasi government organization won't be breaking into your home tonite and removing you at gun point never to be seen or heard from again? Wait a minute... maybe not!
The ability to watch an area of a persons brain light up that contains tens (or hundreds) of thousands of individual neurons in response to some ad visual amounts to nothing other than a high tech parlor trick. As organisims we are infinitely more complex.
Advertisers however may latch on to this as a method that they may use to give them an edge in the market place.
On the whole, our free will is quite safe.
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Interesting but not really relevant.
While the study does examine longer term ownership issues, which is an improvement many we have seen. Over five years, 11-22 % really amounts to nothing other than a margin of error, statistically speaking. Yet another TCO study for the bottom of the bird cage!
Nothing, and I mean nothing warms the cockles of my heart more than seeing Redmond take it on the chin. RFG however does not seem to understand Solaris and it's operating costs. The $ 12,500.00 "licence" fee quoted in the report covers what? Normally when you purchase a Solaris Server the cost of the server licence is included. Since Solaris 8, Apache has been part of the Solaris OS distribution, there is no software cost associated with Apache. Support contracts under Sun Service while expensive by comparison to x86 software support, also include the costs of on site hardware replacement. As to scalability, attempting normalize capacities based on the per Processor Unit method in the study are misleading. Given the 9.1 GB/sec back plane of the 4800-6800 server line, the number of CPUs required in a horizontally scaled server farm would be many large multiples compared to the Solaris US III implementation. While Solaris admin's generally cost more than MS sys-admins, equating support and admin costs is some what misleading. Comparatively speaking, Soaris admin costs tend to be much lower on account of the stabilitym of the OS, and generally lower number of servers involved in a Sun Solaris installation. Also, as you must know, most of us rarely spend all of our time administering just one OS platform. This makes calculating costs difficult.
All in all it is good to see that Open Source code is making it's way in to the enterprise, and is providing much needed copetition to Redmond.
Point well taken, in many cases this could simply have been the result of commonly available hacking tools rather than an inate suitability for comp sci. In any event, four years of university is more than long enough to weed out the weaklings!!!
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Isn't it nice that the secret police or some other shadowy quasi government organization won't be breaking into your home tonite and removing you at gun point never to be seen or heard from again? Wait a minute ... maybe not!
Yeah! Freud was suposed to have said that "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar", sometimes its not!!
Wait a minute... thats our thing!
Wireless excepted, air is still the best firewall.
The ability to watch an area of a persons brain light up that contains tens (or hundreds) of thousands of individual neurons in response to some ad visual amounts to nothing other than a high tech parlor trick. As organisims we are infinitely more complex. Advertisers however may latch on to this as a method that they may use to give them an edge in the market place. On the whole, our free will is quite safe.
Been smoking a little rope have we?
Interesting but not really relevant. While the study does examine longer term ownership issues, which is an improvement many we have seen. Over five years, 11-22 % really amounts to nothing other than a margin of error, statistically speaking. Yet another TCO study for the bottom of the bird cage!
Nothing, and I mean nothing warms the cockles of my heart more than seeing Redmond take it on the chin. RFG however does not seem to understand Solaris and it's operating costs. The $ 12,500.00 "licence" fee quoted in the report covers what? Normally when you purchase a Solaris Server the cost of the server licence is included. Since Solaris 8, Apache has been part of the Solaris OS distribution, there is no software cost associated with Apache. Support contracts under Sun Service while expensive by comparison to x86 software support, also include the costs of on site hardware replacement. As to scalability, attempting normalize capacities based on the per Processor Unit method in the study are misleading. Given the 9.1 GB/sec back plane of the 4800-6800 server line, the number of CPUs required in a horizontally scaled server farm would be many large multiples compared to the Solaris US III implementation. While Solaris admin's generally cost more than MS sys-admins, equating support and admin costs is some what misleading. Comparatively speaking, Soaris admin costs tend to be much lower on account of the stabilitym of the OS, and generally lower number of servers involved in a Sun Solaris installation. Also, as you must know, most of us rarely spend all of our time administering just one OS platform. This makes calculating costs difficult. All in all it is good to see that Open Source code is making it's way in to the enterprise, and is providing much needed copetition to Redmond.
Point well taken, in many cases this could simply have been the result of commonly available hacking tools rather than an inate suitability for comp sci. In any event, four years of university is more than long enough to weed out the weaklings!!!