No I don't mean rugged I mean reliable. USB drives so far have limited performance and a limit on the rewrite cycles. Real SSD's are basically, complicated RAM assemblies with their own power backup. I wonder how, if you remove all of the mechanical components, the reliability of the drive stacks up, over time? Do SSD's have the same kind of error vs age characteristics? Compared to RAID-5 what's the real difference in availability vs recoverability for example? See we really don't care about RAID-5 except that it purports to offer us better availability and recoverability. But if that's not really the case vs BODs or mirroring then it's possible or it at least bears some investigation whether chucking mechanical drives altogether is a better approach. We're spending gobs of money anyway. So why not spend it differently?
So what you're saying is that there is an insufficient # of weaknesses and problems in Linux to warrant mounting endless gobs of third party software to workaround those problems.
What will happen in 3 years when MS executes on their plan to enter the security space in a major way? There won't be any financial opening for HW vendors to install demoware any longer. IT would appear that both Linux and MS will be on equal financial footing then. MS will all of its 'good' functions built in, and Linux with basic designs that don't require those workarounds.
See the point is that these rules don't exist to punish people they exist to ensure some modicum of productivity. If the company isn't going to do anything in the furtherance of that policy e.g. Sarbanes Oxley then they have no right to take punitive action. Clearly they are opening themselves up for exposures even they don't know about or understand. And they're falling back on "Well we had a rule" but that hasn't actually helped them in any material way. All it's done is shift the blame from the people who are paid to protect you to the people on the inside who are screw ups. If that's their view of it then why have firewalls? All they need to do is figure out who downloaded what and then they fire that person too. Of course auditors will laugh at you.
Well it is kind of self serving to assert that all assets are theirs and then decry unmanaged inappropriate use. It's either one or the other. If you leave your door open and the neighbor's dog wanders in and pisses all over your sofa don't complain about it, just close the door.
Never. And neither will anyone else. For the remainder of the existence of all advanced civilizations everywhere, the entire question will remain conjecture forever. This is not to say there are no other civilizations, because the odds suggest there has got to be. But it means that FOREVER there will NEVER be any contact nor any plausible evidence that such contact is possible. Moreover there will NEVER be any plausible evidence that said other civilizations exist at all.
At best, at the absolute best, Earth will eventually colonize the moon, perhaps Mars in a tiny way and may even make some kind of exploration to the Gas Giants. But that's it, and it will take such a massive effort to do that and will take so long that it won't be practical to do more than a tiny number of times, perhaps no more than once or twice to each planet. If earth is ever destroyed or rendered uninhabitable, at best perhaps 0.01% of humankind will survive elsewhere.
You are, for all practical purposes, forever alone.
Won't heat become a much bigger problem before we get to the point that electricity in constrained? Rack servers are very dense from a BTU/sq ft perspective. Wont we bump against an inability to handle the cooling requirements if we double our power density per sq ft?
And the Redmooninites crawled out to scold me for claiming that not every PC made in the last 5 years is perfectly able to run Vista.
So - if this is how the deluded marketing minions of MS work, I guess we can expect them to blame US for not buying enough of THEIR software. Which BTW I'm fine with. A few weeks ago I commented here that I was happy to have finally sold my last batch of MS stock only to be laughed at by the PR flacks that it's the greatest stock on the planet. Well it took a HUGE hit today so the joke's on you PR interns.
The people with a 4 year old machine with those specs are in the upper 1% of PC owners. I know of no one with a one+ year old machine who isn't a high end gamer or code developer who already has 1GB or more on their machine. And you answered your own point vis a vis the video card. If that's the target for Vista upgrades then it's going to be a cold cold winter in Redmond this year. You'd be amazed I think at how few people will chuck $180 for a new video adapter just to run an OS for no other clear reason. You have got be subsidized by someone else if that's how you think.
Didn't MS say openly that every $1 of Vista represents $18 of NEW hardware? I think they did. So it's no surprise that there would be a lag. I'm sure that in by the end of the year, all PC's will be moved to Vista and once MS abandons XP the upgrades will fly off the shelf. I was in Staples today and the price for XP Home upgrades and basic Vista was the same. So if you're smart enough to read the box, why would you buy Vista for an upgrade on a machine that's more than a year old and can't run it?
Based on the amount of time it took to get this big yawn out the door, 2 translates to 7. Ok maybe they'll strip out 75% of the 'new features' and crunch mode it out the door in 5. Honestly MS has to make their money back on Vista first. It will take one year for them to force it on PC vendors to preload it 100% on every machine. Then it will take another 2 years minimum to make their money back. so in year 3 is where they start to dream up new functions. Years 4 and 5 is where they get work figuring out which of their new functions they can build. Release of new supercool ultra funky codenamed OS at the end of year 5. Immediately followed by an announcement that yet another OS will be released in 2 more years. Years 6 and 7 spent shoehorning 70% of the functions already abandoned.
Redmond has mastered the art of profitably over promising and under delivering. It's incredible and there should be a Harvard B-school case on it.
So that's Office 2007 major new function?
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I'm sure the droids in Redmond think this is a quantum leap in functionality too.
This sounds a little hysterical and typical of the Norwegian government's PC nonsense. Like the time their national pension fund manager was sanctioned for pulling all investments out of Norwegian defense related firms because he wanted to make a political statement.
We are a nation of assholes, cowards, soccermommies and pussies. How is it that the fucking NEWS departments can literally make shit up, get all their facts wrong racing each other to the 'scoop' and they suffer for it. In fact they never even apologize? Complete and utter bullshit. Big city cops want nothing more than to dress in black, sling their AR-15's and pretend they're holding the line on the robot alien horde coming over the hill.
From now on when cops scream 'fire' in a crowded theater and people get trampled you can bet that they won't be punished for it. Because of 'terrorism'......ooooh scary~~~~~~!
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No I don't mean rugged I mean reliable. USB drives so far have limited performance and a limit on the rewrite cycles. Real SSD's are basically, complicated RAM assemblies with their own power backup. I wonder how, if you remove all of the mechanical components, the reliability of the drive stacks up, over time? Do SSD's have the same kind of error vs age characteristics? Compared to RAID-5 what's the real difference in availability vs recoverability for example? See we really don't care about RAID-5 except that it purports to offer us better availability and recoverability. But if that's not really the case vs BODs or mirroring then it's possible or it at least bears some investigation whether chucking mechanical drives altogether is a better approach. We're spending gobs of money anyway. So why not spend it differently?
I wonder if anyone looked at what actually failed in the drives? An arm, a platter, an actuator, a board, an MPU?
Would an analysis tell us that SSDs are not only faster but more reliable and if so by how much?
We need to develop a new coded speaking language. That way we don't need any expectation of privacy.
So what you're saying is that there is an insufficient # of weaknesses and problems in Linux to warrant mounting endless gobs of third party software to workaround those problems.
What will happen in 3 years when MS executes on their plan to enter the security space in a major way? There won't be any financial opening for HW vendors to install demoware any longer. IT would appear that both Linux and MS will be on equal financial footing then. MS will all of its 'good' functions built in, and Linux with basic designs that don't require those workarounds.
See the point is that these rules don't exist to punish people they exist to ensure some modicum of productivity. If the company isn't going to do anything in the furtherance of that policy e.g. Sarbanes Oxley then they have no right to take punitive action. Clearly they are opening themselves up for exposures even they don't know about or understand. And they're falling back on "Well we had a rule" but that hasn't actually helped them in any material way. All it's done is shift the blame from the people who are paid to protect you to the people on the inside who are screw ups. If that's their view of it then why have firewalls? All they need to do is figure out who downloaded what and then they fire that person too. Of course auditors will laugh at you.
Well it is kind of self serving to assert that all assets are theirs and then decry unmanaged inappropriate use. It's either one or the other. If you leave your door open and the neighbor's dog wanders in and pisses all over your sofa don't complain about it, just close the door.
Never. And neither will anyone else. For the remainder of the existence of all advanced civilizations everywhere, the entire question will remain conjecture forever. This is not to say there are no other civilizations, because the odds suggest there has got to be. But it means that FOREVER there will NEVER be any contact nor any plausible evidence that such contact is possible. Moreover there will NEVER be any plausible evidence that said other civilizations exist at all.
At best, at the absolute best, Earth will eventually colonize the moon, perhaps Mars in a tiny way and may even make some kind of exploration to the Gas Giants. But that's it, and it will take such a massive effort to do that and will take so long that it won't be practical to do more than a tiny number of times, perhaps no more than once or twice to each planet. If earth is ever destroyed or rendered uninhabitable, at best perhaps 0.01% of humankind will survive elsewhere.
You are, for all practical purposes, forever alone.
He went to the Baltimore School of the Fine Arts on a scholarship. His mother is like the poet laureate of Maryland or something like that.
Or is that beyond the abilities of IBM's network support groups?
Seems like Big Blue could block it from the inside out if they wanted to. If he's a work at home'r then how did they know?
Won't heat become a much bigger problem before we get to the point that electricity in constrained? Rack servers are very dense from a BTU/sq ft perspective. Wont we bump against an inability to handle the cooling requirements if we double our power density per sq ft?
So the advantage to Vista is therefore, what? Isn't it a little bit like a dancing bear? Not so well it dances but that it dances at all?
And the Redmooninites crawled out to scold me for claiming that not every PC made in the last 5 years is perfectly able to run Vista.
So - if this is how the deluded marketing minions of MS work, I guess we can expect them to blame US for not buying enough of THEIR software. Which BTW I'm fine with. A few weeks ago I commented here that I was happy to have finally sold my last batch of MS stock only to be laughed at by the PR flacks that it's the greatest stock on the planet. Well it took a HUGE hit today so the joke's on you PR interns.
The people with a 4 year old machine with those specs are in the upper 1% of PC owners. I know of no one with a one+ year old machine who isn't a high end gamer or code developer who already has 1GB or more on their machine. And you answered your own point vis a vis the video card. If that's the target for Vista upgrades then it's going to be a cold cold winter in Redmond this year. You'd be amazed I think at how few people will chuck $180 for a new video adapter just to run an OS for no other clear reason. You have got be subsidized by someone else if that's how you think.
Didn't MS say openly that every $1 of Vista represents $18 of NEW hardware? I think they did. So it's no surprise that there would be a lag. I'm sure that in by the end of the year, all PC's will be moved to Vista and once MS abandons XP the upgrades will fly off the shelf. I was in Staples today and the price for XP Home upgrades and basic Vista was the same. So if you're smart enough to read the box, why would you buy Vista for an upgrade on a machine that's more than a year old and can't run it?
And force them to put the tax revenue into an escrow account for Open Commons.
Free hand o'commerce, bitches.
Based on the amount of time it took to get this big yawn out the door, 2 translates to 7. Ok maybe they'll strip out 75% of the 'new features' and crunch mode it out the door in 5. Honestly MS has to make their money back on Vista first. It will take one year for them to force it on PC vendors to preload it 100% on every machine. Then it will take another 2 years minimum to make their money back. so in year 3 is where they start to dream up new functions. Years 4 and 5 is where they get work figuring out which of their new functions they can build. Release of new supercool ultra funky codenamed OS at the end of year 5. Immediately followed by an announcement that yet another OS will be released in 2 more years. Years 6 and 7 spent shoehorning 70% of the functions already abandoned.
Redmond has mastered the art of profitably over promising and under delivering. It's incredible and there should be a Harvard B-school case on it.
I'm sure the droids in Redmond think this is a quantum leap in functionality too.
Sounds like MS's own marketing department could have written this.
This sounds a little hysterical and typical of the Norwegian government's PC nonsense. Like the time their national pension fund manager was sanctioned for pulling all investments out of Norwegian defense related firms because he wanted to make a political statement.
We are a nation of assholes, cowards, soccermommies and pussies. How is it that the fucking NEWS departments can literally make shit up, get all their facts wrong racing each other to the 'scoop' and they suffer for it. In fact they never even apologize? Complete and utter bullshit. Big city cops want nothing more than to dress in black, sling their AR-15's and pretend they're holding the line on the robot alien horde coming over the hill.
From now on when cops scream 'fire' in a crowded theater and people get trampled you can bet that they won't be punished for it. Because of 'terrorism'......ooooh scary~~~~~~!
With a 10% market share, Apple can afford to 'water down' their product channel.
I love it. Speech is free. Talking about it in the newspaper is not.
Typically your moles are the best intelligence agents you have. That's why it's hard to find them.