Not really, like the top post says, it's supply and demand, or more demand in this case. Just make a couple comparisons.
You can buy a brand new Korean made car for $7995, and an American one for just over 10K right now. That's thousands of technical components that need to be designed to fit together, manufactured by hundreds of suppliers, assembled in a multi million dollar facility, and shipped to your local dealer.
I'm currently looking at an open file add-on to my backup software, and it's going to cost around 20K for a 25 server license. Which costs more to produce?
All companies set prices as high as they can get away with and still sell their product. If no-one will buy it at the lowest price the company can afford, they won't be successful, but if they can get much more than their manufacturing costs they won't sell for less.
I just bought a 'bowling ball' mattress for $700.00 that the manufacturer basically designed 20-30 years ago and I'm sure now costs them about $60.00 to produce, but the market sustains $700.00 so that's what I payed. It's good to be in a high margin industry.
Software is no different. I know that R&D & support costs are high, but not as high as designing and building a new car model every two or three years.
And two hours to the West you've got Cornell U. with it's National Nano-tech research center, materials science and about 50 other top ranked technology programs.
Don't forget that Albany is pretty near the geographic center of the Ivy League and other high caliber research institutions that are plugged in the NE. MIT, RPI, WPI, Cornell Nonotech Lab etc. etc. etc.
Since the Article was so thin on the actual lighting technology, and I have read the other postings..
What I don't understand is why RF lighting poses a threat when WiFi devices ARE currently able to handle the interferance from other Class 15 devices? Do they bombard the entire spectrum to generate enough energy for the bulbs to convert to visible light? I doubt it, but don't have time to dig for more info as others have tried and failed to find much.
If the spread spectrum nature of 2.4 Gig communications devices has protected them to this point, why worry now, especially since it looks like this company/product is now just an afterthought.
Yes, but does Microsoft have any proof that you've accepted any EULA terms?
This is a great point! I work for one of the School Districts and we had NEVER seen the EULA to which we have apparently agreed to be bound. When we buy from our volume consortiium, they don't provide us a shread of paper with EULA terms. I also don't believe the click-through has been modified to include the volume terms.
So... How can they say that we have agreed to be forced to do the audit, at a cost of hundreds of manhours and the associated lost productivity???
Actually, most EULA's would probably be found to be unnecessarily restrictive to a point not supported by a 'sale' model. Only the specific terms of a EULA would usually be ruled on, not the premise of a EULA itself. This happened in the Adobe case where the judge said "It looks and smells like a sale, so it's a sale. just because you say the purchaser can't re-sell, doesn't make it legally binding". Since the GPL is the opposite of restrictive, I doubt it's terms would be called into question collaterally.
Where is it written that all Americans shall have the right to push porn under a.com root domain??? They can still pedal their wares to whoever is of legal age and wants to visit their site. Keeping it under one root just makes it easier for all those who don't want to see it to avoid it, and to filter content for minors.
I'm strongly in favor of the rights to have that content available, but anyone who thinks filtering web content for elementary school children is a bad idea just doesn't have kids.
I also agree that filtering software sucks, so having a.prn root domain makes it easier to filter AND has the added benefit that filtering software vendors would have less excuses for why they block legitimate content sites like 'The Register' and polital sites.
Another large manmade underwater structure has been causing a stir off the coast of Okinawa Japan. Said to have architectural links to Inca cities and other pre-historic civilizations. More found Here
We just purchased a SAN, and EMC was one of the vendors we were looking at. They had the most heavy handed sales tactics of anyone I have dealt with (12 years in IT). There favorite line was "We don't mean to trash the competition, but..."
Specific lies are hard to recall, since we quickly determined that the sales team was definitely heavy on the 'sales' and light on the tech knowledge. They kept wanting to take my boss to lunch, figuring that she would be less technical and easier to convert to the EMC religion.
Also like themes. We use different themes for different OS's (Fish for Netware Servers, Cats for Linux etc...) but you could always apply your themes to different unique characteristics.
I always want to use old sit-com characters (gregg, jan, cindy, gilligan, skipper, maryann, dobey, richie, MrC, MrsC etc., etc., etc...) but the other goobers around here won't let me.
Obviously with the quantity of servers posed by michael no themes would allow server functions to be easily determined (if that is indeed a requirement). A suitable scheme for them will have to be pretty boring.
I completely agree that this is a hoax or other misguided article. Many people are pointing out that and LED does have the bandwidth to carry lots of data, which I would agree with, and that LED's are currently being used to carry signals of various forms. As BandMan points out, however, the LED on a modem or switch/router isn't making any attempt to encode the data. It is ONLY telling you when there is a packet being either sent or received. How you could reconstruct the pattern of one's and zero's in those packets is beyond me.
This is why the "Dish" Integrated PVR system stands out when looking at DVR's. It gets it's programming info off the sattelite, and connects to your TV with a single SVideo or composite cable. You don't even need to hook up the phone line if you don't plan to use pay per view. I chose the deal where I lease my box instead of buying it (I get the PVR for an extra $5/month) that way when they inevitably come out with a dual tuner model I can upgrade! (right now the only low tech feature of DVR's is the inability to watch show 'A' while recording show 'B'). The price is reasonable compared to digital cable et all.
The article also mentions that the window for using a traditional 'no-cost gravitational catapult' to get there will end in 2007. After that a new (not mentioned) experimental propulsion system would be necessary.
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You can buy a brand new Korean made car for $7995, and an American one for just over 10K right now. That's thousands of technical components that need to be designed to fit together, manufactured by hundreds of suppliers, assembled in a multi million dollar facility, and shipped to your local dealer.
I'm currently looking at an open file add-on to my backup software, and it's going to cost around 20K for a 25 server license. Which costs more to produce?
All companies set prices as high as they can get away with and still sell their product. If no-one will buy it at the lowest price the company can afford, they won't be successful, but if they can get much more than their manufacturing costs they won't sell for less.
I just bought a 'bowling ball' mattress for $700.00 that the manufacturer basically designed 20-30 years ago and I'm sure now costs them about $60.00 to produce, but the market sustains $700.00 so that's what I payed. It's good to be in a high margin industry.
Software is no different. I know that R&D & support costs are high, but not as high as designing and building a new car model every two or three years.
If you checked out the last one of Sarah B. you should have seen a very non-geeky skit that was a riot.
And two hours to the West you've got Cornell U. with it's National Nano-tech research center, materials science and about 50 other top ranked technology programs.
Don't forget that Albany is pretty near the geographic center of the Ivy League and other high caliber research institutions that are plugged in the NE. MIT, RPI, WPI, Cornell Nonotech Lab etc. etc. etc.
What I don't understand is why RF lighting poses a threat when WiFi devices ARE currently able to handle the interferance from other Class 15 devices? Do they bombard the entire spectrum to generate enough energy for the bulbs to convert to visible light? I doubt it, but don't have time to dig for more info as others have tried and failed to find much.
If the spread spectrum nature of 2.4 Gig communications devices has protected them to this point, why worry now, especially since it looks like this company/product is now just an afterthought.
I think it's time to chill out on this one.
This is a great point! I work for one of the School Districts and we had NEVER seen the EULA to which we have apparently agreed to be bound. When we buy from our volume consortiium, they don't provide us a shread of paper with EULA terms. I also don't believe the click-through has been modified to include the volume terms.
So... How can they say that we have agreed to be forced to do the audit, at a cost of hundreds of manhours and the associated lost productivity???
Actually, most EULA's would probably be found to be unnecessarily restrictive to a point not supported by a 'sale' model. Only the specific terms of a EULA would usually be ruled on, not the premise of a EULA itself. This happened in the Adobe case where the judge said "It looks and smells like a sale, so it's a sale. just because you say the purchaser can't re-sell, doesn't make it legally binding". Since the GPL is the opposite of restrictive, I doubt it's terms would be called into question collaterally.
I'm strongly in favor of the rights to have that content available, but anyone who thinks filtering web content for elementary school children is a bad idea just doesn't have kids.
I also agree that filtering software sucks, so having a .prn root domain makes it easier to filter AND has the added benefit that filtering software vendors would have less excuses for why they block legitimate content sites like 'The Register' and polital sites.
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Specific lies are hard to recall, since we quickly determined that the sales team was definitely heavy on the 'sales' and light on the tech knowledge. They kept wanting to take my boss to lunch, figuring that she would be less technical and easier to convert to the EMC religion.
I always want to use old sit-com characters (gregg, jan, cindy, gilligan, skipper, maryann, dobey, richie, MrC, MrsC etc., etc., etc...) but the other goobers around here won't let me.
Obviously with the quantity of servers posed by michael no themes would allow server functions to be easily determined (if that is indeed a requirement). A suitable scheme for them will have to be pretty boring.
I completely agree that this is a hoax or other misguided article. Many people are pointing out that and LED does have the bandwidth to carry lots of data, which I would agree with, and that LED's are currently being used to carry signals of various forms. As BandMan points out, however, the LED on a modem or switch/router isn't making any attempt to encode the data. It is ONLY telling you when there is a packet being either sent or received. How you could reconstruct the pattern of one's and zero's in those packets is beyond me.
This is why the "Dish" Integrated PVR system stands out when looking at DVR's. It gets it's programming info off the sattelite, and connects to your TV with a single SVideo or composite cable. You don't even need to hook up the phone line if you don't plan to use pay per view. I chose the deal where I lease my box instead of buying it (I get the PVR for an extra $5/month) that way when they inevitably come out with a dual tuner model I can upgrade! (right now the only low tech feature of DVR's is the inability to watch show 'A' while recording show 'B'). The price is reasonable compared to digital cable et all.
The article also mentions that the window for using a traditional 'no-cost gravitational catapult' to get there will end in 2007. After that a new (not mentioned) experimental propulsion system would be necessary.