While I agree that its nice to see alternative generation being developed, you have to realize that those costs aren't what the consumer pays. Thats just the price they sell the power to the government for, its a rich subsidy for the power generators. The consumers don't pay anywhere near that, they pay the average market rate.
And for all those who mention anything along the lines of it being low production due to daylight hours, please look at a map. Sarnia is only like 30-40 miles from Detroit. So unless you also believe that the Detroit area is in total darkness 8 months a year, or are just to ignorant to care, your off on the product amount due to daylight hours.
Wow... not only no link to the story, but the half attempt at a summary says something different then the title. Possibly should be 'The SEC has been given notice by SCO that they will be delisted from the NASDAQ', not whats above.
Either way, SCO is toast. Not like its a big surprise or anything.
Personally I've avoided them as all my experiences with them proved they were doodoo years ago. Sure their system specs may look nice, but when you build a system with components that you know have issues, then tell the client when the system goes kaput a month later that 'we know there are issues, but we hoped you wouldn't see them', its not a good sign. And this was 5 years ago or so now.
In my case, it was a RAID controller that caused all 4 hard drives in the system to crater at the same time... thank god for backups.
I'm in 100% agreement on this. I've just finished my 2nd year of Comp. Science and aside from a very select number of the students (most of which are not fresh out of high school, but are either doing 2nd or 3rd degrees, or hit their late 20's and realised they wanted to come back to school to pursue a career) the vast majority don't have a clue what they are doing. I know of a number of freshmen this past year who I'd talked to who were doing computer science only for the money they figure they can make, and the biggest acomplishment with computers at the time had been getting MS Word to autonumber pages. Hence most of them walk into their first class of the year (at the university I attend most first years majoring in CS only take 1 CS course first semester) and begin doubting why they are there after seeing what it takes to program in Pascal. And I know of at least a half dozen who were seriously considering switching majors by the time they got to 2nd semester this year and the course on low level programming on SPARC.
I know my former high school didn't offer any programming courses what so ever, although that may be changing in the next year. When I was there they focused more on graphic design, and video production, and the entire school network consisted of PC's running win98 with so much security crap on them you couldn't right click the desktop, browse folders, surf around 50% of the web, or even use them without the possibility of being remotely monitored.
As for the calculators, a TI-83 (or a gather a TI-84 now) is a requirement for grade 10 through 12 around here, so there probaly wasn't a kid in the school that hadn't at least used a game on them, but even out of approx 600 students in the entire school, there were only 2 people other then myself who had an idea of even basic programming for math formulas, never mind applications or games.
What I find hiliarous is that the only people likely to even be visiting their site are us, the ones that are sitting here having a good laugh at it. Doing a search for any term that is remotely descriptive of what a person wanting to use a P2P service would look for doesn't return any links to grokster.com in the first couple pages, so I highly doubt they'll actually scare many.
We recently had a client switch his domains over to us for hosting, and in a very quick lesson learned how bad setting up a catchall can be (the client requested it be setup for him). Within days of switching the sites over, he left for a month long vacation to Asia, promising to check his email via the web while he was there so he wouldnt run over his quota (he said he usually only recieved about 10-15 emails per day so it wasnt a biggie). Due to this, we relaxed the quota just in case he fell behind (originally it was 10mb). When he returned, he phoned me asking if there was a problem with his email, because he was unable to check it because it kept freezing up on him and had been since early in his vacation. I did a quick check myself, to discover the cause: 80,136 emails had been sent to his account during the month, only 1300 some of them properly addressed to his real email and the rest due to the catchall.
Let's just say that is a lesson learned and never to be repeated.
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This was presented at the Volunteer Geographic Information conference in Dec 2007, see http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/vgi/.
The paper that TFA references can be found at http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/vgi/docs/position/Goodchild_VGI2007.pdf
Another presentation on Openstreetmap from the same conference is at http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/vgi/docs/present/Coast_openstreetmap-opendata.pdf
While I agree that its nice to see alternative generation being developed, you have to realize that those costs aren't what the consumer pays. Thats just the price they sell the power to the government for, its a rich subsidy for the power generators. The consumers don't pay anywhere near that, they pay the average market rate.
And for all those who mention anything along the lines of it being low production due to daylight hours, please look at a map. Sarnia is only like 30-40 miles from Detroit. So unless you also believe that the Detroit area is in total darkness 8 months a year, or are just to ignorant to care, your off on the product amount due to daylight hours.
Wow... not only no link to the story, but the half attempt at a summary says something different then the title. Possibly should be 'The SEC has been given notice by SCO that they will be delisted from the NASDAQ', not whats above.
Either way, SCO is toast. Not like its a big surprise or anything.
Personally I've avoided them as all my experiences with them proved they were doodoo years ago. Sure their system specs may look nice, but when you build a system with components that you know have issues, then tell the client when the system goes kaput a month later that 'we know there are issues, but we hoped you wouldn't see them', its not a good sign. And this was 5 years ago or so now. In my case, it was a RAID controller that caused all 4 hard drives in the system to crater at the same time... thank god for backups.
I'm in 100% agreement on this. I've just finished my 2nd year of Comp. Science and aside from a very select number of the students (most of which are not fresh out of high school, but are either doing 2nd or 3rd degrees, or hit their late 20's and realised they wanted to come back to school to pursue a career) the vast majority don't have a clue what they are doing. I know of a number of freshmen this past year who I'd talked to who were doing computer science only for the money they figure they can make, and the biggest acomplishment with computers at the time had been getting MS Word to autonumber pages. Hence most of them walk into their first class of the year (at the university I attend most first years majoring in CS only take 1 CS course first semester) and begin doubting why they are there after seeing what it takes to program in Pascal. And I know of at least a half dozen who were seriously considering switching majors by the time they got to 2nd semester this year and the course on low level programming on SPARC.
I know my former high school didn't offer any programming courses what so ever, although that may be changing in the next year. When I was there they focused more on graphic design, and video production, and the entire school network consisted of PC's running win98 with so much security crap on them you couldn't right click the desktop, browse folders, surf around 50% of the web, or even use them without the possibility of being remotely monitored.
As for the calculators, a TI-83 (or a gather a TI-84 now) is a requirement for grade 10 through 12 around here, so there probaly wasn't a kid in the school that hadn't at least used a game on them, but even out of approx 600 students in the entire school, there were only 2 people other then myself who had an idea of even basic programming for math formulas, never mind applications or games.
What I find hiliarous is that the only people likely to even be visiting their site are us, the ones that are sitting here having a good laugh at it. Doing a search for any term that is remotely descriptive of what a person wanting to use a P2P service would look for doesn't return any links to grokster.com in the first couple pages, so I highly doubt they'll actually scare many.
We recently had a client switch his domains over to us for hosting, and in a very quick lesson learned how bad setting up a catchall can be (the client requested it be setup for him). Within days of switching the sites over, he left for a month long vacation to Asia, promising to check his email via the web while he was there so he wouldnt run over his quota (he said he usually only recieved about 10-15 emails per day so it wasnt a biggie). Due to this, we relaxed the quota just in case he fell behind (originally it was 10mb). When he returned, he phoned me asking if there was a problem with his email, because he was unable to check it because it kept freezing up on him and had been since early in his vacation. I did a quick check myself, to discover the cause: 80,136 emails had been sent to his account during the month, only 1300 some of them properly addressed to his real email and the rest due to the catchall.
Let's just say that is a lesson learned and never to be repeated.
I've used john@doe.com for the longest time
Alberta licenses only have the barcode (new licenses at least)... and 3 of them.