Every government program every written into law in Washington has cost more than it was "supposed" to. Is there anyone out there that doesn't already realize this fact?
I've found that TCO varies most based on if the person in charge knows what they are doing or not.
Compare the TCO of a project dreamed up at the CTO's latest golf game with a consulting company rep vs. the TCO of a project with better results dreamed up by a couple of sys admins who got tired of having nothing to do but read slashdot all day and you'll see what I mean.
How much more efficient is it really to put a card an inch next to a pad merchants will have to buy instead of swiping it through a card reader that already exists everywhere?
Look, the 5 seconds per month people will save with this aren't going to be worth the costs of embedding the RFID, so eventually this will go away based on simple economics.
I was taking a community course at the local college on "Assembly for 8 bit processors" for fun while I was in 7th grade. This was circa C-64s and Apple IIs being popular. I don't recall any first year CS classes being even that advanced, although I confess that I started as a computer electronics engineering major, so it was more physics and hardware oriented than software at that time.
I suspect that many of the Slashdot audience could easily test out of "prerequisite" first year CS classes that are designed for people who don't have much computer experience yet. I bet there are some people here who had to take "Intro to Windows " or "Spreadsheet" when they already knew everything the class taught. Don't waste your time.
As for WGU, if you already have the work and life experience to know 90% of the stuff, then the other 10% can be acquired in a semester without major difficulty. If you don't know the stuff, then the program is designed for you to learn it at a "normal" pace. Again, don't waste your time and money on things you already know.
There are a lot of people in the Slashdot readership that may have been working in the field for 10+ years and do not have a degree. The IT field is like that. Those people probably can get one in their field from WGU with only a semester or two of work to cover the stuff they don't know. This isn't because it's an easy course, it's because they've already learned it over several years.
A degree is about learning stuff and getting a piece of paper to show you know it. Sounds like you value the piece of paper more than the learning. I'd just as soon spend my valuable time actually learning things I don't know already instead of sitting in a class about something I already know more than the teacher about just to get a piece of paper.
If you can test out of the first year or two of college, then that just gives you the time to start the third year earlier, it doesn't somehow cheat you of the requisite suffering needed to have achieved a piece of paper.
The AP tests are decent, but it's been my experience that taking a CLEP test is easier, faster, less expensive _and_ tends to get your more college credit for the same amount of knowledge.
The next best thing is taking classes to fill up your "full-time" requirements of a certain number of units per semester and then testing out (by taking the final and passing) of the classes you already know. Many on Slashdot could probably get a lot of CS classes passed that way, for example. Those credits count towards "in residence" requirements as well. (The colleges want those tuition bucks, they don't care if you had to go to the class or not as long as you paid them for it.)
AP tests are probably the third best way, but not as useful as the above. I took and passed AP English (5) and AP U.S. History (4) in H.S. and got a lot more credits out of their CLEP counterparts.
Also, if you are good at tests and already fairly knowledgeable, check out Western Governors University, a fully accredited University that does all classes via certified testing. That means if you know your stuff you could pay for one sememster and then test out of a four-year or master's degree. Difficult, but possible.
1. The stock class they are selling to the public will not have voting rights. The founders will keep those so that they keep control.
2. They explicitly state that they don't plan to ever pay any dividends.
So what exactly do you get for buying their stock again, besides knowing you own part of the company and hoping someone else wants to know that for themselves in the future?
I mean, I love Google and all (and they make me a lot of money every day through Adsense and free search traffic), but where's the incentive to purchase their stock?
Got to say that this is an awesome racket for the founders to bring in a ton of cash for themselves and their business without giving anything up in exchange, since all the profits just go right back into the company or anywhere else they decide them want the cash to go to.
The webpage isn't brokem it's just that they are running it on IIS under their emulation and there are still a few bugs to work out.......yeah, that's it...
The Google design predates the big blade craze. They purchased custom designed cases that are like 1U steel boxes with no top on them and populated them with the bare minimum they needed (MB, CPU, RAM, NIC, single HD) to create 4 servers on each tray.
But also realize that the data center you were at isn't their only one. I know of at least 7 physical locations and there are probably more out there.
But yeah, their racks of 4 servers/1U is pretty impressive when you see them lined up in row after row of racks. Their data centers have to bring in extra cooling because they are so densely packed.
I can't locate any online copies of the article, but the 15 year study of Seveso is in Epidemiology 1997;8:646-652. The study didn't find any statistically significant increased risk of cancer in those exposed very heavily to dioxin. See JunkScience.com for a brief analysis.
That's the point. They initially relied on animal models, which turned out to have no correspondance in humans.
Of course, they only discovered that after a town in CA was razed to the ground because of a dioxin scare. Turned out that after years of living with massively high levels of dioxin in Italy, actual humans showed no signs of increased cancer levels.
Of course, in retrospect people remembered that for decades dioxin had been filling factories without the workers in them being hurt by it.
Just to put the capper on this, there isn't any real evidence that dioxin harms people either.
Do you perchance remember Seveso, Italy and the dioxin scare there? It was just a big scare based on junk science. No one actually got hurt by all the dioxin.
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You caught that I was being sarcastic, right? :)
No manual reset needed. I'm sure Cisco has a couple more vulnerabilities available internally that they haven't released patches for yet...
Camera "phone" with internet feed so you don't even have to store the movie with you.
Even if they grab you, they can't prove anything since you don't have a copy of the movie with you.
But really, we all know it's actually the guys up in the booth making $10/hr producing the really good copies.
Or lean libertarian and resent both.
So make sure you don't ship it back to them for warranty work, being illegal and all....
And of course the corollary, those who want to sacrifice freedom for the safety of being a slave without responsibility for themselves.
That's gotten pretty popular lately.
Doncha just love competition?
I wonder what features and prices the next round will bring us.
Windows is perfectly acceptable as long as you just want to play games and don't need to connect to a network for anything.
Otherwise, I think the various Unix-like operating systems come out ahead.
Every government program every written into law in Washington has cost more than it was "supposed" to. Is there anyone out there that doesn't already realize this fact?
About the whole Linux TCO thing.
I've found that TCO varies most based on if the person in charge knows what they are doing or not.
Compare the TCO of a project dreamed up at the CTO's latest golf game with a consulting company rep vs. the TCO of a project with better results dreamed up by a couple of sys admins who got tired of having nothing to do but read slashdot all day and you'll see what I mean.
How much more efficient is it really to put a card an inch next to a pad merchants will have to buy instead of swiping it through a card reader that already exists everywhere?
Look, the 5 seconds per month people will save with this aren't going to be worth the costs of embedding the RFID, so eventually this will go away based on simple economics.
I was taking a community course at the local college on "Assembly for 8 bit processors" for fun while I was in 7th grade. This was circa C-64s and Apple IIs being popular. I don't recall any first year CS classes being even that advanced, although I confess that I started as a computer electronics engineering major, so it was more physics and hardware oriented than software at that time.
I suspect that many of the Slashdot audience could easily test out of "prerequisite" first year CS classes that are designed for people who don't have much computer experience yet. I bet there are some people here who had to take "Intro to Windows " or "Spreadsheet" when they already knew everything the class taught. Don't waste your time.
As for WGU, if you already have the work and life experience to know 90% of the stuff, then the other 10% can be acquired in a semester without major difficulty. If you don't know the stuff, then the program is designed for you to learn it at a "normal" pace. Again, don't waste your time and money on things you already know.
There are a lot of people in the Slashdot readership that may have been working in the field for 10+ years and do not have a degree. The IT field is like that. Those people probably can get one in their field from WGU with only a semester or two of work to cover the stuff they don't know. This isn't because it's an easy course, it's because they've already learned it over several years.
A degree is about learning stuff and getting a piece of paper to show you know it. Sounds like you value the piece of paper more than the learning. I'd just as soon spend my valuable time actually learning things I don't know already instead of sitting in a class about something I already know more than the teacher about just to get a piece of paper.
If you can test out of the first year or two of college, then that just gives you the time to start the third year earlier, it doesn't somehow cheat you of the requisite suffering needed to have achieved a piece of paper.
The AP tests are decent, but it's been my experience that taking a CLEP test is easier, faster, less expensive _and_ tends to get your more college credit for the same amount of knowledge.
The next best thing is taking classes to fill up your "full-time" requirements of a certain number of units per semester and then testing out (by taking the final and passing) of the classes you already know. Many on Slashdot could probably get a lot of CS classes passed that way, for example. Those credits count towards "in residence" requirements as well. (The colleges want those tuition bucks, they don't care if you had to go to the class or not as long as you paid them for it.)
AP tests are probably the third best way, but not as useful as the above. I took and passed AP English (5) and AP U.S. History (4) in H.S. and got a lot more credits out of their CLEP counterparts.
Also, if you are good at tests and already fairly knowledgeable, check out Western Governors University, a fully accredited University that does all classes via certified testing. That means if you know your stuff you could pay for one sememster and then test out of a four-year or master's degree. Difficult, but possible.
According to the prospectus:
1. The stock class they are selling to the public will not have voting rights. The founders will keep those so that they keep control.
2. They explicitly state that they don't plan to ever pay any dividends.
So what exactly do you get for buying their stock again, besides knowing you own part of the company and hoping someone else wants to know that for themselves in the future?
I mean, I love Google and all (and they make me a lot of money every day through Adsense and free search traffic), but where's the incentive to purchase their stock?
Got to say that this is an awesome racket for the founders to bring in a ton of cash for themselves and their business without giving anything up in exchange, since all the profits just go right back into the company or anywhere else they decide them want the cash to go to.
The webpage isn't brokem it's just that they are running it on IIS under their emulation and there are still a few bugs to work out.... ...yeah, that's it...
The Google design predates the big blade craze. They purchased custom designed cases that are like 1U steel boxes with no top on them and populated them with the bare minimum they needed (MB, CPU, RAM, NIC, single HD) to create 4 servers on each tray.
It amazes me that everyone acts so surprised at this turn of events.
The government school system in the U.S. has been used for brainwashing and "socializing" kids for dozens of years.
Are there really this many people who are just now noticing that this goes on?
But also realize that the data center you were at isn't their only one. I know of at least 7 physical locations and there are probably more out there.
But yeah, their racks of 4 servers/1U is pretty impressive when you see them lined up in row after row of racks. Their data centers have to bring in extra cooling because they are so densely packed.
Ah, but it's only going to be as random as the player's random number generator.
Judging by the history of random number generators on cheap/small computers, that's probably not going to be all that very random.
Anyway, I did a quick search and it's lack of randomness has been discussed before.
Among your primary competitors you need to add the BSDs.
Convienently enough, they also tend to run and be used on both flavors of hardware, although x86 probable dominates.
We are talking about the server space, aren't we?
I can't locate any online copies of the article, but the 15 year study of Seveso is in Epidemiology 1997;8:646-652. The study didn't find any statistically significant increased risk of cancer in those exposed very heavily to dioxin. See JunkScience.com for a brief analysis.
That's the point. They initially relied on animal models, which turned out to have no correspondance in humans.
Of course, they only discovered that after a town in CA was razed to the ground because of a dioxin scare. Turned out that after years of living with massively high levels of dioxin in Italy, actual humans showed no signs of increased cancer levels.
Of course, in retrospect people remembered that for decades dioxin had been filling factories without the workers in them being hurt by it.
Just to put the capper on this, there isn't any real evidence that dioxin harms people either.
Do you perchance remember Seveso, Italy and the dioxin scare there? It was just a big scare based on junk science. No one actually got hurt by all the dioxin.
So what you're saying is that all pretty females in Tucson around April 9-11 should make sure they shower in the dark?
Hmmm.... infrared....
I find it amusing that you cite two competitors with each other in your list of supposed monopolies.
Of your list of monopolies, probably only Microsoft comes close at all, but only in one part of it's market (desktop OSs).