About the b/width, most work-from-home solutions that I've seen use some form of server based terminal applications. ie Citrix.
A lot cheaper than giving every employee a license for all your apps and sending tech supp. to their homes to install them.
Parent post is just plain idiotic, you can think up convoluted scenarios that turn every damned thing into a bomb all day, and now society can't function.
First show at least ONE case where your ridiculous scenario has played out.
I haven't upgraded my PC for 4 years now and it does everything you could possibly want it to other than playing the latest games.
But then, the playstation I bought 4 years ago doesn't do that either.
I agree with you for UNIX, where I went to University the entire CS dept was in fact using dumb X based terminals with a Solaris backend, worked beautifully for the hundreds of comp sci students doing dev work.
Also with UNIX there are ways to get around things like ports, while still using very similar code.
But yeah, I was referring to Windows developers. (where there's also the problem that a bug in your program can quite easily crash the whole server:-))
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Seen the reservoir levels along pretty much all the east side of australia atm?
Water is a MASSIVE issue in Aus, it's always been scarce even with much smaller populations, as it is the population is growing, need more water and better infrastructure.
Power and telecommunications are man-made.
There is enough power for everyone (at the moment), it doesn't need to be rationed to stop parts of the country from dying.
What you don't realise is that by having your own PC you're just changing the times when you're out to different ones.
With a terminal server, the server goes down, everyone can't work and every IT guy frantically tries to fix that one server, with PC's, computers go down all the time but just separately and the IT guys spend their days fixing individual machines.
If anything your downtime should be worse with an individual PC, because the terminal server should be rock solid compared to it.
The fact is the downtime is just more noticeable because it's everyone at once, but overall imo it would be less.
I worked part time for a company that I personally saw migrate an accounting firm and a shire council over to a dumb terminal system, the administration and cost of running these setups was so much better that they intended to encourage other clients to do it.
Depends on the type of programming really, as another poster has said a whole heap of people trying to open port 80 on one server is a problem.
But also developers tend to be more likely to need to install their own apps, which is usally locked down on a terminal server.
Water is public in Aus.
About the only part that can conceivably be privatised here is the urban delivery, other than that it's way too important of a resource in this country to be profit driven.
The only bit of actual technical information in that garbled press doc is that they're encrypting what if effectively a part of the swap file... That's an interesting way of efficiently using memory:-S
"The most unique new feature is called Readyboost. When you're having performance issues due to insufficient memory, you can use a USB flash drive as an additional cache of memory to boost performance."
Wh... WHAT?!
Sounds like a good way to wear out a flash drive..
I once did a "developer usability study" for some uni class, was told to basically get on the net, and set up the computer to be a development environment for developing a small dynamic webpage with a db backend.
Having never done web dev before I went with the biggest target, MySQL backend with apache/php front, literally took me 5 minutes to download and install MySQL with its nice developer tools, and maybe another 10 minutes to have a reasonable understanding of how those tools work.
Now, I've never installed the Oracle server or Client at home, but I have had to install the Client on my work machine and others, and the process here is... arcane, you run some bat script off a network drive which spawns a process that's invisible for all intents and purposes except in the process list, and you know it's done when it dissapears. Takes about two hours, you then have to check a log file to see if it was successful or not.
Then you fire up their oracle product installation thingammy with all its horrid slowness, and try and figure out which (badly labelled) buttons you click on to make it download the developer client.
Now, I'm not sure if it's always like that, this is quite likely just a torture process thought up by someone in our ITS department, but that is my experience with installing anything oracle related.
The ability to handle large loads isn't the only feature people are looking for when they choose Oracle.
I've had very little experience with PostgreSQL but I have heard lots of good things, but the fact is when a large company chooses Oracle over it it's not a comparison of the databases that's the reason, it's names, support contracts, insurance, guarantees, someone to sue.
I think I said that... the sites those links point to will not be as well off in PageRank, and will therefore probably not be as noticed, of course. But like I said that's not hurting wikipedia, that's hurting the search engines.
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Your taxes ARE you being charged for the ability to be able to use it.
Err.. just to check, you're aware of how the almighty benevolent government PAYS for things such a libraries?
About the b/width, most work-from-home solutions that I've seen use some form of server based terminal applications. ie Citrix.
A lot cheaper than giving every employee a license for all your apps and sending tech supp. to their homes to install them.
Parent post is just plain idiotic, you can think up convoluted scenarios that turn every damned thing into a bomb all day, and now society can't function.
First show at least ONE case where your ridiculous scenario has played out.
citation needed.
I don't disagree, but the irony of your statement is that with cheap DNA you would just automatically have your "papers" at all times.
If you don't know the maths behind what you're doing you're going to be a particularly useless programmer for anything non-trivial.
Sorry but what you have a problem with is AGRICULTURE in general, not biofuel.
I haven't upgraded my PC for 4 years now and it does everything you could possibly want it to other than playing the latest games.
But then, the playstation I bought 4 years ago doesn't do that either.
I agree with you for UNIX, where I went to University the entire CS dept was in fact using dumb X based terminals with a Solaris backend, worked beautifully for the hundreds of comp sci students doing dev work. :-))
Also with UNIX there are ways to get around things like ports, while still using very similar code.
But yeah, I was referring to Windows developers. (where there's also the problem that a bug in your program can quite easily crash the whole server
Seen the reservoir levels along pretty much all the east side of australia atm?
Water is a MASSIVE issue in Aus, it's always been scarce even with much smaller populations, as it is the population is growing, need more water and better infrastructure.
Power and telecommunications are man-made.
;-)
There is enough power for everyone (at the moment), it doesn't need to be rationed to stop parts of the country from dying.
Try again lib
What you don't realise is that by having your own PC you're just changing the times when you're out to different ones.
With a terminal server, the server goes down, everyone can't work and every IT guy frantically tries to fix that one server, with PC's, computers go down all the time but just separately and the IT guys spend their days fixing individual machines.
If anything your downtime should be worse with an individual PC, because the terminal server should be rock solid compared to it.
The fact is the downtime is just more noticeable because it's everyone at once, but overall imo it would be less.
Contrast locking down one terminal server with locking down 150 PC's...
I worked part time for a company that I personally saw migrate an accounting firm and a shire council over to a dumb terminal system, the administration and cost of running these setups was so much better that they intended to encourage other clients to do it.
Depends on the type of programming really, as another poster has said a whole heap of people trying to open port 80 on one server is a problem.
But also developers tend to be more likely to need to install their own apps, which is usally locked down on a terminal server.
Small nit, but if we need exponential amount of time to simulate a non-deterministic TM that would mean P != NP
Water is public in Aus.
About the only part that can conceivably be privatised here is the urban delivery, other than that it's way too important of a resource in this country to be profit driven.
The only bit of actual technical information in that garbled press doc is that they're encrypting what if effectively a part of the swap file... That's an interesting way of efficiently using memory :-S
"The most unique new feature is called Readyboost. When you're having performance issues due to insufficient memory, you can use a USB flash drive as an additional cache of memory to boost performance."
Wh... WHAT?!
Sounds like a good way to wear out a flash drive..
Ah... for a database that sounds like a pretty big fucking advantage.
I once did a "developer usability study" for some uni class, was told to basically get on the net, and set up the computer to be a development environment for developing a small dynamic webpage with a db backend.
Having never done web dev before I went with the biggest target, MySQL backend with apache/php front, literally took me 5 minutes to download and install MySQL with its nice developer tools, and maybe another 10 minutes to have a reasonable understanding of how those tools work.
Now, I've never installed the Oracle server or Client at home, but I have had to install the Client on my work machine and others, and the process here is... arcane, you run some bat script off a network drive which spawns a process that's invisible for all intents and purposes except in the process list, and you know it's done when it dissapears. Takes about two hours, you then have to check a log file to see if it was successful or not.
Then you fire up their oracle product installation thingammy with all its horrid slowness, and try and figure out which (badly labelled) buttons you click on to make it download the developer client.
Now, I'm not sure if it's always like that, this is quite likely just a torture process thought up by someone in our ITS department, but that is my experience with installing anything oracle related.
The ability to handle large loads isn't the only feature people are looking for when they choose Oracle.
I've had very little experience with PostgreSQL but I have heard lots of good things, but the fact is when a large company chooses Oracle over it it's not a comparison of the databases that's the reason, it's names, support contracts, insurance, guarantees, someone to sue.
Ex post facto laws... They're those fancy things they're using to nail David Hicks to the wall yeah?
I think I said that... the sites those links point to will not be as well off in PageRank, and will therefore probably not be as noticed, of course. But like I said that's not hurting wikipedia, that's hurting the search engines.