What's it matter if the enemy can see you when you have double their range, close air support, infrared/NVG capability, datalinks showing you a picture of the battlefield, and insane DU armour?
And all that the enemy has to do is drop a nuke. Perhaps at the bottom of the Pacific. Or in Antarctica.
Or launch biological weapons. Or start a rumour or two. Or a combination of any or all of these.
Do you mean ISPs, or access providers. There is no reason why layer 1 and layer 3 service should be provided by the same provider.
Layer 1 providers are a monopoly and they are using that to create a monopoly in layer 3 services. Anti-trust legislation itself should be able to screw this one, but laws could mandate that layer 1 and layer 3 providers have to be separate.
On average, it takes more than a simple casual contact to get infected. So, the number of contacted targets is small. If enough are vaccinated, or otherwise invalid, the average number of infected targets drops below 1, and the epidemic stops. The interesting result is that the infection stops before every potential target is infected. A typical infection affect a city or a province, and then stops.
Long distance flights. SARS. Bird flu. Lots of communication. Diseases are merely constrained by how fast people travel.
Which is why you outsource your entire network management to Wipro or another company, which will put warm bodies onsite for a price. These will end up being cheaper for both companies (expensive network managers work from India, with the occasional onsite visit during upgrade timed, otherwise you still get to keep monkeys at the frontline anyway).
Remember that a guy in the US for three months is a lot cheaper than the same guy in the US for a whole year.
Turning Hydrogen into Oxygen is fairly easy. Just walk out at the dawn, and see the biggest thermonuclear device we have around here in the process of doing that.
For where I come from, 200 USD is a month or two of income, so the price difference is significant. The digital lifestyle pitch is irrelveant:). Oh, and you can put the cabinet under a table and the monitor and keyboard on top, so the whole "space saving" thing is irrelevant.
And that is from someone who grew up in a 400 sq ft flat.
IPTV _is_ feasible on normal broadband. It needs more intelligent design of the network, and management with clue. What would need to be done is a) Multicast to a known set of caches (one box per couple of DSLAMs or so) b) Let people access TV from those boxes.
What is currently being attempted is a simple powergrab.
The stupid technological alternative would be to involve lots of boxes in multicast streams causing bandwidth chokes.
ISPs make money from end users by over-selling. Their commitment will be throughput burstable to 6 MBps down, 1 Mbps up, 24/7connectivity. The keyword here is burstable. If you want to use that bandwidth all the time, feel free to buy a T1 or better.
They aren't. The good ones just don't work for the big outsourcing companies because they don't want to do the crappy, dull work. If you want the good people, you have to hire direct.
The basic Dell box is 249 USD, including monitor and keyboard. The Mac mini does not come with monitor and keyboard. The cabinet itself isn't as large a volume as the monitor, so the size of the box itself is pretty much irrelevant.
What you are noticing is that people buy at certain price points. They will not buy above that point. They also have lower price points below which they will not buy. For a lot of buyers, that band is between 500 to 1200 USD. For others, it is sub 500. Different markets.
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What's it matter if the enemy can see you when you have double their range, close air support, infrared/NVG capability, datalinks showing you a picture of the battlefield, and insane DU armour?
And all that the enemy has to do is drop a nuke. Perhaps at the bottom of the Pacific. Or in Antarctica.
Or launch biological weapons. Or start a rumour or two. Or a combination of any or all of these.
You can't defend against a suicide bomber.
Nothing like a bunch of big fucking nukes to make the US see reason.
All that it takes is the willingness not to lose at any cost. You can nuke me off the planet, but I will not go alone.
If you doubt that, just remember that the US has only threatened countries without nukes. If Iran actually goes nuclear, the US will back off.
Mailing lists.
Also see the recent ruckus about Goodmail.
Do you mean ISPs, or access providers. There is no reason why layer 1 and layer 3 service should be provided by the same provider.
Layer 1 providers are a monopoly and they are using that to create a monopoly in layer 3 services. Anti-trust legislation itself should be able to screw this one, but laws could mandate that layer 1 and layer 3 providers have to be separate.
s/MS // and use the standardised open document format. You don't lose everything at one go, and users can still communicate.
On average, it takes more than a simple casual contact to get infected. So, the number of contacted targets is small. If enough are vaccinated, or otherwise invalid, the average number of infected targets drops below 1, and the epidemic stops. The interesting result is that the infection stops before every potential target is infected. A typical infection affect a city or a province, and then stops.
Long distance flights. SARS. Bird flu. Lots of communication. Diseases are merely constrained by how fast people travel.
You don't need multiple cultures in a single organisation (but it sure is nice to have those available if needed).
What we need is different organisations with different monocultures, and a way between those monocultures to talk.
Open specifications allow for the talking, and once you have open specifications and mutliple implementations, the resultant speciation occurs.
No, it won't affect you if you are using prepared statements. It may affect you if you are not using them.
Sometimes, just sometimes, a spreadsheet is the right tool for the job. A spreadsheet is a good analysis tool, it is not a database.
Attribution would be nice: Devdas Bhagat. Feel free to use it wherever you like :).
If you are managing your system, you are a sysadmin. Even home users running Windows PCs are sysadmins, only more of them are of the clueless variety.
If you have the administrative password (root/administrator/system operator/whatever else), you _are_ a system administrator.
If you have the authority to be able to fuck things up, you have the responsibility not to. There is no choice.
The corollary to 'With great power comes great responsibility' is 'If you don't want the responsibility, give up the power[1]'.
[1] You _could_ join the government, or politics.
What makes you think those systems aren't outsourced? Most of the back office stuff is outsourced, with the leading frontend people being in the US.
http://www.delhiprofessionals.com/bpoutsource.asp
http://www.wipro.com/webpages/bpo/index.htm . That lists HR and accounts outsourcing right there.
I think you mean a PPC version of Windows.
Which is why you outsource your entire network management to Wipro or another company, which will put warm bodies onsite for a price. These will end up being cheaper for both companies (expensive network managers work from India, with the occasional onsite visit during upgrade timed, otherwise you still get to keep monkeys at the frontline anyway).
Remember that a guy in the US for three months is a lot cheaper than the same guy in the US for a whole year.
Turning Hydrogen into Oxygen is fairly easy. Just walk out at the dawn, and see the biggest thermonuclear device we have around here in the process of doing that.
See this illustration for an example.
In modern terms, the universe has bigger WMD than the shrub.
For where I come from, 200 USD is a month or two of income, so the price difference is significant. The digital lifestyle pitch is irrelveant :). Oh, and you can put the cabinet under a table and the monitor and keyboard on top, so the whole "space saving" thing is irrelevant.
And that is from someone who grew up in a 400 sq ft flat.
Flash works on Linux on i386 platforms. x86_64 is possibly due in a release or two, according to a friend of mine working at Macromedia.
IPTV _is_ feasible on normal broadband. It needs more intelligent design of the network, and management with clue. What would need to be done is
a) Multicast to a known set of caches (one box per couple of DSLAMs or so)
b) Let people access TV from those boxes.
What is currently being attempted is a simple powergrab.
The stupid technological alternative would be to involve lots of boxes in multicast streams causing bandwidth chokes.
You don't have that many people on your network yet. Remember the days when Kazaa killed network bandwidth?
ISPs make money from end users by over-selling. Their commitment will be throughput burstable to 6 MBps down, 1 Mbps up, 24/7connectivity. The keyword here is burstable. If you want to use that bandwidth all the time, feel free to buy a T1 or better.
They aren't. The good ones just don't work for the big outsourcing companies because they don't want to do the crappy, dull work. If you want the good people, you have to hire direct.
http://www.dell.com/content/products/compare.aspx/ dimen_lo?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
The basic Dell box is 249 USD, including monitor and keyboard. The Mac mini does not come with monitor and keyboard. The cabinet itself isn't as large a volume as the monitor, so the size of the box itself is pretty much irrelevant.
What you are noticing is that people buy at certain price points. They will not buy above that point. They also have lower price points below which they will not buy. For a lot of buyers, that band is between 500 to 1200 USD. For others, it is sub 500. Different markets.
We will just merge Google and Apple.
I already write mail(1) from within vim(1), except that it is invoked from mutt(1).
http://www.conmicro.cx/hercules/