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Ok - first off, you haven't even mastered Tic Tac Toe... I'll let you have the first move, and guarantee at best you will get a draw, of course if you make a mistake - I can win with the second.
If you look at high end chess - you play so many moves in a certain time (20 moves in 4 hours maybe) - so to make sure you have enough time when it is interesting, you start standard moves, and until you or your opponent go outside of an silently agreed on game, the moves are fast and furious (watch the first 10 moves when 2 grand masters play) - then they slow down as the players try to figure out when to deviate from the script, then about 12-13 moves in (in some cases) the plays start taking about 20+ minutes a turn.
So yes - openning databases are known quite deeply by the best players - a computer using a database is only fair.
The standard it TCP - has been around for 20 years or so, not likely to change much.
What you might be thinking about are these abominations called RDMA protocols coming out of the RDMAC (Remote DMA - think about it and shudder) - the idea with strict TOE is that external to the box, you can't tell it is running TOE or just a BSD networking stack (or your favorite flavor of TCP anyway)
Here are companies paying big BIG bucks for these three (well, probably not online - they'll ship tapes) and you still have tapes lost/stolen off of the UPS truck.
My advice - make sure you SECURE your data before it leaves the house... ie. run AES over the whole thing. Depending on your parania level - either keep the key locally, or with a DIFFERENT backup provider so that there would have to be a collusion between the two vendors to get your data.
Another solution would be to encrypt the AES key for each backup with your public key - then all you have to do is keep the private key private. Is it small enough to keep on a pair (or more) USB dongles - or again, back it up with a second vendor.
End result - most backup vendors provide physical security, so it is up to you to provide true security for when their physical systems are broken into.
Well, being that the origional poster said he needed 250 copies - I'd assume 250 licenses are fair.
Basically this boils down to how much does the labor cost. Assume 100 bucks an hour, then for 250 licenses that is about 40 cents/hr for a license to do the work.
If you are saying you will do this for free - well, pony up the resources and make a counter offer. This seems like a perfect answer to the OP, and might be just what the OP wanted.
So - in reality in counting Server Hardware sales, Microsoft wins volumes hands down.
The average MS server is a dual proc box - with "big" boxes going all the way to 4 processors... Think a $20K Windows box is big.
Now go over to the Unix world - Sun/HP/IBM sell multiple million dollar 60+ way single image servers. Unix doesn't even want to bother with single processor boxes, dual proc systems are considered toys, 4 ways are small boxes.
Cordless Phone interference ?
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Why in the H*** would a computer geek even consider buying a cordless phone in the 802.11 frequency range.
There are two options, either of which avoids the problem, either 900Mhz or 5Ghz (you weren't planning on deploying 802.11a were you ?)
Please tell me you didn't go out and buy the coolest phone a few years back in the 2.4Ghz range, and now aren't willing to "upgrade" to a 5Ghz phone.
Note - Regulations are not laws. Regulations are what you get when a desk jockey in some government agency has to write a policy to interpret a law...
City codes (like building codes) are not passed by the city council directly into law - some agency creates a list of requirements to build buildings (the code) and the city passes a law saying you have to abide by the regulations. The regulations can be changed, adjusted whatever, without a new "Law" being passed.
Lets see again
Intel - Fab, Oregon, New Mexico, Arizona (check) - yes they also have fabs in Israel and Ireland, but only the CPUs can be fabbed where we need them
Micron - Fab Boise ID (check) - elsewhere of course, but who cares
Microsoft - I'm sure they can setup a CD press in Redmond, all the tech work is done there anyway (check)
Uh - no... The processors are Fabbed in "Ireland, Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, Israel". They are put through final assembly (mounting) and final test in Malaysia... I think they closed Costa Rica (I know that they closed Puerto Rico).
Intel could claim all of the "value" of the processor was done in the US with 1% assembly done overseas. Even then if it were "worth it" to Intel - I am sure they could so a little bit of final assembly in the US (lets say 10K units a month) for a slight premium.
Chipset - Intel - US (check)
CPU - Intel - US (check)
Operating System - Microsoft - US (check)
Memory - Micron - US (check)
Final Assembly - Dell -US (check)
Ok, lets stop the hype here - this is at least 1/2 the cost in a Dell system. Sure the hard drive is assembled somewhere else (from a US design) and the motherboard as well. What other component goes into one of these things that is expensive enough to make it a significant part of the cost (no - graphics cards can use the built in Intel functionality - and frankly Nvidia is a US company that manufactures overseas)
Now Cell Phones are a different thing, all though Qualcomm is a US company, that does the design in the US and manufactures elsewhere.
I could see any of these companies moving a subset of their manufacturing back to the US to meet the needs of this law, and then charging the US government twice what it costs to get a cell phone manufactured overseas... some because there isn't any local competition, and some because labor is more expensive here.
Your city codes might be copyrighted - as I said, there have been some building codes and regulations (very different from actual laws) but I am not aware of any LAWS that are copyrighted and you can't get your hands on.
In fact to get passed, most cities must host an open meeting where citizens can get up and make statements about the proposed law - these meeting minutes are open record and in fact you can get minutes that include proposals that were voted on - who voted each way, etc. etc. etc.
There are a few strange building code laws, but by and large - for the price of publication - you too can get a full copy of the law as it exists on a given day.
That said - this document would be HUGE and frankly no one will want to read it.
I would love to run to become a congress critter with a sole platform of "I will not vote for any law that I can not read and understand". Unfortunately - I would have to vote against pretty much EVERY law being writen today. Of course the libertarian in me says this will be a good thing
Having 5 years of experience matters more than what the exact degree is.
That said - having something that says CS on your resume will get you through a lot of HR screens. Remember for each job a company posts, 100s of resumes come in. They might phone screen 4-5 candidates and bring in 1-2. The job of your resume is to get you from the door to the phone screen.
Once you are past the HR droid - your degree doesn't matter, your technical skills do... And trust me - I can tell if you have what I am looking for, and I don't care if you have a minor in CS, a partial degree, or a degree in animal husbandry.
The days when Dvorak started touting a wildly popular software patch that increased your computer performance by huge ammounts, double digit percentages even.
Turns out that his benchmark of choice read the system clock - did something then subtracted 1 from 2 and reported the time to do an operation.
He apparently didn't notice that his computer was loosing 6 hours of time a day.
From the article it states clearly that it is a mode of ESP in tunnel mode that causes the problem NOT IKE (Internet Key Exchange) that is used for session setup.
Now the solution might be in IKE as in don't let IKE configure ESP without authentication - but this boys and girls is why you NEVER do encryption without authentication
OEM installs linux and sells it to you for 15-35$ less.
And then turns around and charges you 50-100 bucks more to support this shiny new OS that most users can't use.
Oh, and who will patch this thing. Supported Linux (you know, with someone behind an 800 number) is one of the most expensive OSes out there, Solaris is 100 bucks a year with support, Microsoft is 80, how much is RHEL ?
Thank god I am running firefox and don't have to worry about not having a status bar at the bottom to display where the link REALLY goes to - was afraid you were going to sneak it in
This is slashdot - capitalism is bad... Everyone is equal here - and frankly if it really was that way Microsoft and Intel would have lost a long time ago to Apple and AMD
Should we start a daily poll on the dumbest question to hit Ask Slashdot on a 24 hour period.
This one is sure to hit it.
Been running a 64 bit dual proc AMD Linux for about a year. Been running a 64 bit AMD Win 2K3 Server for about 5 months. Been running a 64 bit Sparc Linux for about 2 years (personally - all of these were out long before I got to them)
Here is the big difference. When you remember the 16-32 bit port - most of the problems I saw were to memory protection, and dealing with ring transitions. We have all ready solved these problems, so the port to 64 bits is pretty painless.
Why does it take 50 people to write checks. assume a research project is 10 million a year (and that is pretty low by the time you get into interesting medical equipment, and highly trained profesionals) that is 30 checks a year... that is about.6 checks written per person. I write about 6 checks a month just paying bills... more if you count automatic stuff.
So california voters decide to spend 300 Million a year for 10 years on a science project. Where does the funding start - well 50 people at 100,000 a piece (and that is cheap, assume some of those people are high ranking folks making a ton more) is 5 million a year.
I don't even want to know how much a new 17,000 ft office building is going to cost in San Fransisco - but that can't be cheap (assuming you can build it after the environmental impact).
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Lets say that both players don't make a mistake - my 6 year old won't loose a game of TTT - and I would hardly call her a skilled player
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Ok - first off, you haven't even mastered Tic Tac Toe... I'll let you have the first move, and guarantee at best you will get a draw, of course if you make a mistake - I can win with the second.
If you look at high end chess - you play so many moves in a certain time (20 moves in 4 hours maybe) - so to make sure you have enough time when it is interesting, you start standard moves, and until you or your opponent go outside of an silently agreed on game, the moves are fast and furious (watch the first 10 moves when 2 grand masters play) - then they slow down as the players try to figure out when to deviate from the script, then about 12-13 moves in (in some cases) the plays start taking about 20+ minutes a turn.
So yes - openning databases are known quite deeply by the best players - a computer using a database is only fair.
The standard it TCP - has been around for 20 years or so, not likely to change much.
What you might be thinking about are these abominations called RDMA protocols coming out of the RDMAC (Remote DMA - think about it and shudder) - the idea with strict TOE is that external to the box, you can't tell it is running TOE or just a BSD networking stack (or your favorite flavor of TCP anyway)
My advice - make sure you SECURE your data before it leaves the house... ie. run AES over the whole thing. Depending on your parania level - either keep the key locally, or with a DIFFERENT backup provider so that there would have to be a collusion between the two vendors to get your data.
Another solution would be to encrypt the AES key for each backup with your public key - then all you have to do is keep the private key private. Is it small enough to keep on a pair (or more) USB dongles - or again, back it up with a second vendor.
End result - most backup vendors provide physical security, so it is up to you to provide true security for when their physical systems are broken into.
and has stupid blockers for google accelerator
Basically this boils down to how much does the labor cost. Assume 100 bucks an hour, then for 250 licenses that is about 40 cents/hr for a license to do the work.
If you are saying you will do this for free - well, pony up the resources and make a counter offer. This seems like a perfect answer to the OP, and might be just what the OP wanted.
Yes, I guess at some point there is a server or two out there, and I read it on a piece of hardware - but Hardware ?
You have to love slashdot catagories
The average MS server is a dual proc box - with "big" boxes going all the way to 4 processors... Think a $20K Windows box is big.
Now go over to the Unix world - Sun/HP/IBM sell multiple million dollar 60+ way single image servers. Unix doesn't even want to bother with single processor boxes, dual proc systems are considered toys, 4 ways are small boxes.
There are two options, either of which avoids the problem, either 900Mhz or 5Ghz (you weren't planning on deploying 802.11a were you ?)
Please tell me you didn't go out and buy the coolest phone a few years back in the 2.4Ghz range, and now aren't willing to "upgrade" to a 5Ghz phone.
City codes (like building codes) are not passed by the city council directly into law - some agency creates a list of requirements to build buildings (the code) and the city passes a law saying you have to abide by the regulations. The regulations can be changed, adjusted whatever, without a new "Law" being passed.
Rather subtle distinctions - sorry you missed it
Intel - Fab, Oregon, New Mexico, Arizona (check) - yes they also have fabs in Israel and Ireland, but only the CPUs can be fabbed where we need them
Micron - Fab Boise ID (check) - elsewhere of course, but who cares
Microsoft - I'm sure they can setup a CD press in Redmond, all the tech work is done there anyway (check)
So I would say all of these qualify
Intel could claim all of the "value" of the processor was done in the US with 1% assembly done overseas. Even then if it were "worth it" to Intel - I am sure they could so a little bit of final assembly in the US (lets say 10K units a month) for a slight premium.
CPU - Intel - US (check)
Operating System - Microsoft - US (check)
Memory - Micron - US (check)
Final Assembly - Dell -US (check)
Ok, lets stop the hype here - this is at least 1/2 the cost in a Dell system. Sure the hard drive is assembled somewhere else (from a US design) and the motherboard as well. What other component goes into one of these things that is expensive enough to make it a significant part of the cost (no - graphics cards can use the built in Intel functionality - and frankly Nvidia is a US company that manufactures overseas)
Now Cell Phones are a different thing, all though Qualcomm is a US company, that does the design in the US and manufactures elsewhere.
I could see any of these companies moving a subset of their manufacturing back to the US to meet the needs of this law, and then charging the US government twice what it costs to get a cell phone manufactured overseas... some because there isn't any local competition, and some because labor is more expensive here.
In fact to get passed, most cities must host an open meeting where citizens can get up and make statements about the proposed law - these meeting minutes are open record and in fact you can get minutes that include proposals that were voted on - who voted each way, etc. etc. etc.
That said - this document would be HUGE and frankly no one will want to read it.
I would love to run to become a congress critter with a sole platform of "I will not vote for any law that I can not read and understand". Unfortunately - I would have to vote against pretty much EVERY law being writen today. Of course the libertarian in me says this will be a good thing
Having 5 years of experience matters more than what the exact degree is.
That said - having something that says CS on your resume will get you through a lot of HR screens. Remember for each job a company posts, 100s of resumes come in. They might phone screen 4-5 candidates and bring in 1-2. The job of your resume is to get you from the door to the phone screen.
Once you are past the HR droid - your degree doesn't matter, your technical skills do... And trust me - I can tell if you have what I am looking for, and I don't care if you have a minor in CS, a partial degree, or a degree in animal husbandry.
Turns out that his benchmark of choice read the system clock - did something then subtracted 1 from 2 and reported the time to do an operation.
He apparently didn't notice that his computer was loosing 6 hours of time a day.
From the article it states clearly that it is a mode of ESP in tunnel mode that causes the problem NOT IKE (Internet Key Exchange) that is used for session setup.
Now the solution might be in IKE as in don't let IKE configure ESP without authentication - but this boys and girls is why you NEVER do encryption without authentication
Oh, and who will patch this thing. Supported Linux (you know, with someone behind an 800 number) is one of the most expensive OSes out there, Solaris is 100 bucks a year with support, Microsoft is 80, how much is RHEL ?
Thank god I am running firefox and don't have to worry about not having a status bar at the bottom to display where the link REALLY goes to - was afraid you were going to sneak it in
This is slashdot - capitalism is bad... Everyone is equal here - and frankly if it really was that way Microsoft and Intel would have lost a long time ago to Apple and AMD
This one is sure to hit it.
Been running a 64 bit dual proc AMD Linux for about a year. Been running a 64 bit AMD Win 2K3 Server for about 5 months. Been running a 64 bit Sparc Linux for about 2 years (personally - all of these were out long before I got to them)
Here is the big difference. When you remember the 16-32 bit port - most of the problems I saw were to memory protection, and dealing with ring transitions. We have all ready solved these problems, so the port to 64 bits is pretty painless.
Tell me why they need 50 people again ?
I don't even want to know how much a new 17,000 ft office building is going to cost in San Fransisco - but that can't be cheap (assuming you can build it after the environmental impact).
All this and no real science being done yet.