An MTBF of 114 years doesn't mean that half of the drives will survive for 114 years without a failure; it means that if you run 114 drives for a year, you should expect to have 1 failure.
That is a good explanation. Many people confuse MTBF with lifetime.
Most products (and especially electronics) have a failure rate that when plotted over time looks like a bathtub. There is a high initial failure rate (infant mortality) that drops over time to a base rate (the random failure rate described by MTBF), this low failure rate continues until one reaches the end of useful life of the product, when the failure rate rises once again as age and wear effects cause the device to fail.
Note that most extended warranties are designed by the seller to kick in after the early failure rate has droped, but expire before the end-of-life failures.
I would add
Perdition to the list of tools. Perdition can be used to distribute POP/IMAP connections across a bunch of servers, while providing a single point of entry (single machine which proxies the incoming connections).
Using Perditon, one can send the actual POP/IMAP session to a specific machine using regex type matches on the username. The Perditon server(s) require little processing power per connection.
A smaller percentage of New Orleans residents had cars than even New York City - 2/5ths of the city. It was the poorest major city in the United States. How were they supposed to get out - hop in their private jet?
Don't feed the trolls. Andrew Orlowski is not simply failing to understand with an open mind and a desire to learn, he is choosing to not understand in order to incite. Don't let yourself be baited.
The startups are offering worse working conditions and so they have to pay more to tempt people away.
Makes you wonder why those startups can't improve working conditions. Is it more expensive to improve working conditions than to increase salaries, or just too difficult for these entrepreneurs to do?
Some of the benefits might be difficult to reproduce for smaller companies (such as the cafeteria), but there is no shortage of very nice office space in the valley nor is there any great difficulty in allowing engineers a certain amount of time and resources for their personal projects.
stability has been awful for me in the last half year or so
I've seen problems with Sun's JVM on Windows 98 (and not NT/2k/XP). But it really is a problem with Sun's code. Configure IE on the same platform to use Sun's JVM instead of MS' and IE becomes unstable.
I think that you have to assume there will be bugs in the code. I am sure Apple has bugs.
The real question, is: why are there so many listening ports on a Windows NT/2K/XP machine? Even one that has no files shared for users. What does it need them for? MS recommends running a firewall, which rather defeats the purpose of any listening ports, including such things as the administrative shares.
In this case, we have some code that is supposed to detect new hardware apparently listening on the Ethernet port. Why? New hardware is going to fly down the network? Wow! MS should patent that now since it would put UPS and Fedex out of business.
So, I don't think it is so much a bug as "what in $DEITY's name were they thinking when they designed this feature?"
Also it's worth noting that most of the world use 900 or 1800 mhz cellphones, whereas gsm phones in the US typically run on 1900 mhz - I doubt this chipset will be initially manufactered in US frequencies, although some latin american countries do use 1900.
Actually, most phones are tri-band (or quad-band capable) now. Even the basic phones.
You should have 3-5 budgets. You should have 1-2 lowball estimates of just bare minimum to scrape by. Say just the cost to effect repairs for the year and any licensing costs.
In my experience, unless you have some very good justification why the larger budgets should be approved, if you take this approach, the approval amount will be your lowest proposed budget.
Furthermore, can you predict all the expenses that are likely? Are you sure you won't miss some?
If you have a bare-bones budget, you will still be criticised for missing it, even if it is an unplanned emergency. Because that's what budgets are about: planning. Providing realistic data to management.
I have an HP printer woking nicely using the HPIIJS driver that I installed using emerge. It's connected via USB.
I don't worry about the cost of ink because I don't buy HP branded cartridges. These off-brand cartridges work well, except for one that was replaced free. My experience with refilling cartridges myself did not work (ink everywhere)
I haven't experienced any head clogging. But then we do print a couple of pages most days.
Tivo is the reason that I use WEP. Tivo does not support a wireless adapter that supports WPA (or there is no way to enable WPA from the TIVO box, even if the adapter does support WPA).
How many people are out there running WEP because they have TIVOs wirelessly connected?
Because those options to purchase future maintenance and upgrades do not have a fixed price, the buyer gains no value from the "options" (or warrants).
The seller can merely make the price of upgrades and maintenance beyond what the buyer will pay and then, those "options" are worthless.
The upgrade price has merely to be less than the full price, but what control is there over the full price (there MAY be market forces, but what if the seller wants to discontinue the product)? Thus, unless you have a contractually agreed price (as in the case of the Apple extended warranty, but NOT in the case of most software purchases), you don't have an enforceable option to buy upgrades, maintenance, etc.
My TIVO either misses programs or records the wrong programs because BBC America either changes it's listings at the last moment, or just has incorrect listings (I don't know which).
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For the most part, if a solid-state device works for the first 30 days, it'll work forever if it's taken care of.
You are quite wrong about this. Electronic devices have known failure mechanisms which determine the useful life of the device.
IC designers are most concerned about electromigration these days. Electromigration causes the metal in the metal traces on chips to be moved from one location to another, causing thinner metal lines. Eventually this will cause the device to fail.
Most mechanisms that affect lifetime are highly dependent upon operating temperature. Different applications areas (consumer, telecom, etc.) will have different goals as far as lifetime go, but 5 years is a typical minimum lifetime goal.
There's a big difference between the government giving something away, and a private citizen. The private citizen is spending his own money; the government is spending taxpayer dollars.
But in this case, the BBC is not really "giving something away" -- since the BBC will still have the recordings and will still be able to broadcast them. It's more like a government entity sharing its ownership with people, in a manner that causes no loss to the government (except a very minor bandwidth cost).
Put out patches at the same time as a major F/OSS project is also issuing patches, thus lessening the impact of a potentially negative message about MS in the media and discussion boards.
Unless we all move to IPv6, his proposal cannot be widely implemented, since it appears to do away with NAT and hence all "clients" must have their own routable IP address.
A stock does not just represent a share of future earnings - it represents a share of ownership in the company.
Yes, but the valuation of the company depends upon its future earnings potential and the value of the stock relates to a fraction of that.
A company may have lots of assets, but if it is losing money such that its assets will soon be worthless and the management are not going to shut it down before bankruptsy, then the value of the assets matters little. All that matters is what cash shareholders can get from the company now or in the future.
It's cheap, environmentally friendly (just fire the waste water off to your garden)
So, if it is environmentally friendly, just where did the "ice water" come from?
Unless you have a solar or wind-powered refrigerator, I suspect that the overall system is not actually all that environmentally friendly. What is the energy efficiency of the system?
I think you have described some of the major features of a good project management program. Really, every feature you require is there in any good PM tool.
You should look at the small number of project management tools out there. I used to like CA-Superproject, but I don't know if it is still supported or available.
I don't understand why you don't want to use a project management tool when your needs seem to fit such a tool.
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Most products (and especially electronics) have a failure rate that when plotted over time looks like a bathtub. There is a high initial failure rate (infant mortality) that drops over time to a base rate (the random failure rate described by MTBF), this low failure rate continues until one reaches the end of useful life of the product, when the failure rate rises once again as age and wear effects cause the device to fail.
Note that most extended warranties are designed by the seller to kick in after the early failure rate has droped, but expire before the end-of-life failures.
Using Perditon, one can send the actual POP/IMAP session to a specific machine using regex type matches on the username. The Perditon server(s) require little processing power per connection.
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Some of the benefits might be difficult to reproduce for smaller companies (such as the cafeteria), but there is no shortage of very nice office space in the valley nor is there any great difficulty in allowing engineers a certain amount of time and resources for their personal projects.
Maybe it is there, but I did not see any reference to UPnP, only PnP.
I think that you have to assume there will be bugs in the code. I am sure Apple has bugs. The real question, is: why are there so many listening ports on a Windows NT/2K/XP machine? Even one that has no files shared for users. What does it need them for? MS recommends running a firewall, which rather defeats the purpose of any listening ports, including such things as the administrative shares. In this case, we have some code that is supposed to detect new hardware apparently listening on the Ethernet port. Why? New hardware is going to fly down the network? Wow! MS should patent that now since it would put UPS and Fedex out of business. So, I don't think it is so much a bug as "what in $DEITY's name were they thinking when they designed this feature?"
Furthermore, can you predict all the expenses that are likely? Are you sure you won't miss some?
If you have a bare-bones budget, you will still be criticised for missing it, even if it is an unplanned emergency. Because that's what budgets are about: planning. Providing realistic data to management.
I have an HP printer woking nicely using the HPIIJS driver that I installed using emerge. It's connected via USB.
I don't worry about the cost of ink because I don't buy HP branded cartridges. These off-brand cartridges work well, except for one that was replaced free. My experience with refilling cartridges myself did not work (ink everywhere)
I haven't experienced any head clogging. But then we do print a couple of pages most days.
Is this the same Sunbelt Software that did a study with the Yankee group that resulted in the claim that the TCO of Windows is less than that of Linux?
Tivo is the reason that I use WEP. Tivo does not support a wireless adapter that supports WPA (or there is no way to enable WPA from the TIVO box, even if the adapter does support WPA).
How many people are out there running WEP because they have TIVOs wirelessly connected?
Because those options to purchase future maintenance and upgrades do not have a fixed price, the buyer gains no value from the "options" (or warrants).
The seller can merely make the price of upgrades and maintenance beyond what the buyer will pay and then, those "options" are worthless.
The upgrade price has merely to be less than the full price, but what control is there over the full price (there MAY be market forces, but what if the seller wants to discontinue the product)? Thus, unless you have a contractually agreed price (as in the case of the Apple extended warranty, but NOT in the case of most software purchases), you don't have an enforceable option to buy upgrades, maintenance, etc.
My TIVO either misses programs or records the wrong programs because BBC America either changes it's listings at the last moment, or just has incorrect listings (I don't know which).
IC designers are most concerned about electromigration these days. Electromigration causes the metal in the metal traces on chips to be moved from one location to another, causing thinner metal lines. Eventually this will cause the device to fail.
Most mechanisms that affect lifetime are highly dependent upon operating temperature. Different applications areas (consumer, telecom, etc.) will have different goals as far as lifetime go, but 5 years is a typical minimum lifetime goal.
Is this a new strategy, or just coincidence?
Put out patches at the same time as a major F/OSS project is also issuing patches, thus lessening the impact of a potentially negative message about MS in the media and discussion boards.
I guess it is just coincidence.
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How difficult is it really? On my Gentoo system:
emerge cups hpiijs
fire up a web browser and point it to http://localhost:631/
Add new printer, selecting HPIIJS driver.
Unless we all move to IPv6, his proposal cannot be widely implemented, since it appears to do away with NAT and hence all "clients" must have their own routable IP address.
Yes, but the valuation of the company depends upon its future earnings potential and the value of the stock relates to a fraction of that.
A company may have lots of assets, but if it is losing money such that its assets will soon be worthless and the management are not going to shut it down before bankruptsy, then the value of the assets matters little. All that matters is what cash shareholders can get from the company now or in the future.
If you call paying $20M to Lindows/Linspire in a settlement "winning".
Many people think that MS paid $20M to avoid a loss in court.
Unless you have a solar or wind-powered refrigerator, I suspect that the overall system is not actually all that environmentally friendly. What is the energy efficiency of the system?
I think you have described some of the major features of a good project management program. Really, every feature you require is there in any good PM tool.
You should look at the small number of project management tools out there. I used to like CA-Superproject, but I don't know if it is still supported or available.
I don't understand why you don't want to use a project management tool when your needs seem to fit such a tool.