The availability of broadband is much greater now than back during the bubble days for one thing. This model is much cheaper as well.
This is not geared toward end consumers but to developers. You get redundancy and multiple storage locations.
Lots of positives. There will always be some drawbacks but for the 20 meg of vital data that I have, this could be seen as super nice. Now I can get a dev account and distribute this to my family and boom we are all in much better shape.
It is our right to have copper run to our home to host our precious video, voip, and other "special activities". Being for the U.S., I hear these "crazy" rumors that Korea, Japan, and most European countries have much better internet backbones. It just makes little sense that we can't get the same here.
besides all the other obviously correct posts. I think it is more apt that Mac OSX will be made available to otherwise boring Windows machines for the low price of $300 US. Your PC will have a virtual orgasm now that it is running OSX.
Reading the claims this seems to be just like the MS briefcase (which I am sure is stolen from somewhere else). When when docking your machine into the network the briefcase would check versions and make sure everything in cool.
Of course that was about 5 years before this patent....
P2P users are more likely to kick dogs and watch Jerry Springer. P2P is nothing more than a symptom to a bigger problem that person being social deviant concerned with the destruction of copyrights and creation of weapons of mass destructions.
We need to shut down P2P networks before these miscreants teepee your house!!!
Agreed. This is horrible. Throw him in jail.
I started out feeling honestly bad for this guy, but the further I get through the article the more I see that he is a waste of our good breathable oxygen. 3.5 mill hits. hahahahaha.
Well let's look at it differently.
Hosting costs: $100 / month = $3600 for 3 years
Design costs: $5000
Interest: $292,000
I think he is figuring in uncle sam too.
I quit caffeine about 5 years ago. I have recently started again but in much smaller doses. When I quit I was drinking two 2-liters a day. Most miserable two weeks I ever had. But I just quit. Took vitamin C, and B to try to help. Worked to some degree. But a steady dose of aspirin did the trick.
Your best option is to charge per hour. You never know what bugs turn up and sometimes it just takes a while to develop. However for the company, they tend to prefer that they pay for a finished product since they can then turn it down if it is not finished to their request.
I relate this to the title as such. IBM Global Services is hired to write a specific piece of code, they will do an hourly rate and magically never meet their estimates.
But most consumers don't want to purchase a separate device so that they can remotely check their air conditioner, hot water heater, stereo, etc. There has to be some sort of public access that could be tied into. A server for everyone home doesn't seem to fit into the non-geeky mind.
Even though it would be "fun" to see a comparison between Linux and Windows, I don't think it really could and should be done. Mr. Gates and Company would like for us to think that it is a viable solution to everything but honestly, as we all have discovered, there is no silver bullet. So what Windows may be good at something Linux may suffer at and vice verca. Now to know each ones strengths is truely valuable.
However what the article does with the two linux distros is good. Now we are comparing two OSes designed for the same general tasks and let them duke it out.
But in the end, I would like to see some list of strengths.
But a lot of time, the outsourced IT department is made up of no one but contract work. Which will never retire unless that person is putting money away themselves. Most temp agencies are not offering the benefits to contract employees.
Saving money can be a pain because an IT professional must stay updated on his skills. Keep the latest PCs at home. And usually has a hobby that lets out the stress. None conducive to this.
If folks in IT positions are going to retire, it is going to take a lot of work.
Maybe I don't know enough about telescopes, but wouldn't it just be a bit easier to point out the flag througha telescope and if it was powerful enough the entire landing site? Maybe afraid that you painted the whole site of the other end of the lens?
Really you should do a break down of the pro's and cons.
Pros:
Do not have to run any cabling other than from the access points to the servers and out.
Secure in the way that someone can't just jack into my lan and see what I have. Cons:
Cost . . . The cheapest wifi lan card is $89 compared to hard line $7. The cheapest 24 port hub is about $140, where as a cheap access point (with poor range) is about the same. Now you are probably going to want to run bridges instead of running lots of cables to all of your access points and bridges run about $300 for a pair.
Security. I can sit outside your office building, with a linux laptop and be in your network in about 10 minutes, this is using code your find on the web. So I don't need to even physically get into the building.
Of course there are others, but there just isn't enough positives to go that way in a corporate environment. Wait till a better wifi comes out, besides 802.11b is pretty slow.
I am working at a company that is using OSGi pretty heavily. While I have basically been familarizing myself with their code it seems fairly straight forward. What are you using as a OSGi framework? Any specific question?
Whenever I got warez, it was for one of two main purposes. One to fight the price gouging of windoze. Gotta use it to get certain games. And two, try out games. The demos out there just don't cut it. They limit some of the features that you specifically want to see if you like. Some jump you to the middle of the games. So I tried the full version. Some I later bought, some cd burns got shattered against the wall cause they were poo.
Maybe game developers could make time expired demos instead of stripped versions. Maybe we should all use Linux and get Wine. Maybe we should all code our own software.
As to the point, I now work on software, and I know that people copy. I wish they wouldn't but at the same time I don't get to set up prices and I know that it is not affordable.
Maybe the java web start / vending machine idea will pick up. Buy per use or buy the whole software. Of course now you have to secure that as well. hmmmmm ... .
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The availability of broadband is much greater now than back during the bubble days for one thing. This model is much cheaper as well. This is not geared toward end consumers but to developers. You get redundancy and multiple storage locations. Lots of positives. There will always be some drawbacks but for the 20 meg of vital data that I have, this could be seen as super nice. Now I can get a dev account and distribute this to my family and boom we are all in much better shape.
It is our right to have copper run to our home to host our precious video, voip, and other "special activities". Being for the U.S., I hear these "crazy" rumors that Korea, Japan, and most European countries have much better internet backbones. It just makes little sense that we can't get the same here.
besides all the other obviously correct posts. I think it is more apt that Mac OSX will be made available to otherwise boring Windows machines for the low price of $300 US. Your PC will have a virtual orgasm now that it is running OSX.
Reading the claims this seems to be just like the MS briefcase (which I am sure is stolen from somewhere else). When when docking your machine into the network the briefcase would check versions and make sure everything in cool. Of course that was about 5 years before this patent....
P2P users are more likely to kick dogs and watch Jerry Springer. P2P is nothing more than a symptom to a bigger problem that person being social deviant concerned with the destruction of copyrights and creation of weapons of mass destructions.
We need to shut down P2P networks before these miscreants teepee your house!!!
Agreed. This is horrible. Throw him in jail. I started out feeling honestly bad for this guy, but the further I get through the article the more I see that he is a waste of our good breathable oxygen. 3.5 mill hits. hahahahaha. Well let's look at it differently. Hosting costs: $100 / month = $3600 for 3 years Design costs: $5000 Interest: $292,000 I think he is figuring in uncle sam too.
I quit caffeine about 5 years ago. I have recently started again but in much smaller doses. When I quit I was drinking two 2-liters a day. Most miserable two weeks I ever had. But I just quit. Took vitamin C, and B to try to help. Worked to some degree. But a steady dose of aspirin did the trick.
Simply amazing. Not sure when it was released but I just recently picked it up!!! Rock on.
Your best option is to charge per hour. You never know what bugs turn up and sometimes it just takes a while to develop. However for the company, they tend to prefer that they pay for a finished product since they can then turn it down if it is not finished to their request.
I relate this to the title as such. IBM Global Services is hired to write a specific piece of code, they will do an hourly rate and magically never meet their estimates.
But most consumers don't want to purchase a separate device so that they can remotely check their air conditioner, hot water heater, stereo, etc. There has to be some sort of public access that could be tied into. A server for everyone home doesn't seem to fit into the non-geeky mind.
Even though it would be "fun" to see a comparison between Linux and Windows, I don't think it really could and should be done. Mr. Gates and Company would like for us to think that it is a viable solution to everything but honestly, as we all have discovered, there is no silver bullet. So what Windows may be good at something Linux may suffer at and vice verca. Now to know each ones strengths is truely valuable.
However what the article does with the two linux distros is good. Now we are comparing two OSes designed for the same general tasks and let them duke it out.
But in the end, I would like to see some list of strengths.
But a lot of time, the outsourced IT department is made up of no one but contract work. Which will never retire unless that person is putting money away themselves. Most temp agencies are not offering the benefits to contract employees. Saving money can be a pain because an IT professional must stay updated on his skills. Keep the latest PCs at home. And usually has a hobby that lets out the stress. None conducive to this. If folks in IT positions are going to retire, it is going to take a lot of work.
Maybe I don't know enough about telescopes, but wouldn't it just be a bit easier to point out the flag througha telescope and if it was powerful enough the entire landing site? Maybe afraid that you painted the whole site of the other end of the lens?
Pros:
Do not have to run any cabling other than from the access points to the servers and out.
Secure in the way that someone can't just jack into my lan and see what I have.
Cons:
Cost . . . The cheapest wifi lan card is $89 compared to hard line $7. The cheapest 24 port hub is about $140, where as a cheap access point (with poor range) is about the same. Now you are probably going to want to run bridges instead of running lots of cables to all of your access points and bridges run about $300 for a pair.
Security. I can sit outside your office building, with a linux laptop and be in your network in about 10 minutes, this is using code your find on the web. So I don't need to even physically get into the building.
Of course there are others, but there just isn't enough positives to go that way in a corporate environment. Wait till a better wifi comes out, besides 802.11b is pretty slow.
I am working at a company that is using OSGi pretty heavily. While I have basically been familarizing myself with their code it seems fairly straight forward. What are you using as a OSGi framework? Any specific question?
Whenever I got warez, it was for one of two main purposes. One to fight the price gouging of windoze. Gotta use it to get certain games. And two, try out games. The demos out there just don't cut it. They limit some of the features that you specifically want to see if you like. Some jump you to the middle of the games. So I tried the full version. Some I later bought, some cd burns got shattered against the wall cause they were poo.
.. .
Maybe game developers could make time expired demos instead of stripped versions. Maybe we should all use Linux and get Wine. Maybe we should all code our own software.
As to the point, I now work on software, and I know that people copy. I wish they wouldn't but at the same time I don't get to set up prices and I know that it is not affordable.
Maybe the java web start / vending machine idea will pick up. Buy per use or buy the whole software. Of course now you have to secure that as well. hmmmmm .
I think that many people feel that a technical manager is better, but I disagree. I don't totally disagree, but I do to some degree.
A technical manager is good iff they know the limit to their knowledge. They shouldn't make decisions outside of their knowledge.
A manager is good iff they support their employees to do their job (aka run interference).
There are many qualities that make for a bad manager so we should best leave those alone.
int main() {
while (Manager_EMPLOYED) {
for (int i=0; iDIRECT_REPORTS; i++) {
if (employee[i] != HAPPY) {
root = findRootProblem();
correctProblem(root);
}
for (int i=0; iDIRECT_REPORTS; i++) {
if (employee[i] == jobComplete) {
giveRaise(employee[i]);
}
else {
if (employee[i] == blocked) {
runInterference(employee[i]);
}
else if (employee[i] == resourceStrapped) {
realignProjectPlan();
}
}
}
doProjectPlan();
doBudget();
hire();
fire();
}
}
Probably needs some work but it is at least better than most I've worked with.
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