Actually, the very big businesses plunk down cash on both sides as a rule. The GOP fundraising advantage comes mostly from lopsided donations from small and medium businesses. That's why they've traditionally had a hard money advantage. The GOP had a lot of supporters who could plunk down the grand or two that individuals were legally allowed.
It's unlikely that they're going to get enough legitimate users hitting reload on their own computers to create a DOS attack good enough to down the GOP sites. What's much more likely is that they're creating an army of zombie machines with broadband connections who will do the bulk of the attacking.
A DDOS using zombies... do you really have to think much before you figure out it's illegal?
Every oil major has subsidiaries whose whole purpose is to bring hydrogen to market. There are plenty of well connected oil men in these companies whose careers are toast if hydrogen doesn't come online. Do you really think that Shell or Exxon care whether the profit comes from oil burned in ICE or hydrogen consumed in fuel cells? Get real, the bottom line for these guys is keeping the bonuses and stock options rolling in no matter what.
It's cold in the sense that you don't have to have huge containment systems to avoid heat death from your sonofusion experiment. You can run this stuff on a regular lab table.
Your incentive is that you'd like to win the bid on a $1M DoD contract and on page 173 of the spec document it says you're required to have IPv6 data services. It's that simple. If your customer requires it (and DoD will by 2008) you'll do it, whether you're EDS, AT&T, or some programming shop doing customized video conferencing software for troops in the field.
If its in the RFP, you'll beat up your ISP into providing it for you so your bid doesn't get tossed for not meeting the spec. If you're an ISP, you'll want to support IPv6 to maintain your own military contracts and the business of your customers who are military vendors.
Since the DoD is a huge consumer of IP services and moves a great deal of traffic across the Internet all over the world, the DoD's schedule for shifting over to IPv6 by 2008 is likely going to be the catalyst for everybody getting on the ball. If an ISP has a military base in their service area they're at least going to think about bidding for military data provisioning contracts. The money can be good and the checks generally don't bounce. You don't need more than one major customer to make IPv6 a requirement before an ISp will roll it out.
If you're properly planning to replace equipment as your network load rises, the switch to IPv6 isn't going to matter much, you just move up your current purchase calendar a month or two. If you aren't planning things, switching from IPv4 to IPv6 will make a bad situation worse.
I think the solution is to plan better, not to cater to all the bad administrators out there.
Actually, any IPv4 equipment that is running flat out would not be able to handle the same load as IPv6. Most equipment doesn't run at 100% all the time. It has spare capacity under normal load and administrators track load growth, budgeting money for replacement equipment according to a formula adopted by the organization. Instead of replacing everything, what's more likely is that everything will get replaced a month or two early from previous replacement estimates. Is this going to cost more money? Yes, but it's not a very big deal. You buy in June instead of August or you limp along for two months with degraded capacity and buy on your regular schedule.
The DoD has decided that it's going to be switching over to IPv6 by 2008. This is a big enough organization that 2008 is the outside date for the start of the major shift to IPv6. The idea of switching over on one day isn't going to fly because it really isn't necessary. You can tunnel and otherwise interoperate the two IP versions so nobody's going to go through the hassle of a massive cutover.
Don't forget Japan. The mini-iPod is likely to be a big hit there. They've got a very different value system in terms of how much they value small compared to the US.
A subquery is a SELECT statement inside another statement. For example:
SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE column1 = (SELECT column1 FROM t2); In the above example, SELECT * FROM t1... is the outer query (or outer statement), and (SELECT column1 FROM t2) is the subquery. We say that the subquery is nested in the outer query, and in fact it's possible to nest subqueries within other subqueries, to a great depth. A subquery must always be inside parentheses.
Starting with version 4.1, MySQL supports all subquery forms and operations which the SQL standard requires, as well as a few features which are MySQL-specific.
The funny thing is that Longhorn is not a competitor to 10.3. It'll be a competitor to 10.5 or 10.6 depending on the final release schedule pursued by both companies.
Japan Inc. stole a march on US manufacturing by putting out a product and then putting out a better one far faster than the US could do it. By the time the US got its first generation competitor rolling, Japan, Inc. was rolling out their third generation. Eventually the US got its act together but they lost a lot of ground and have never really regained it.
The current situation between Apple and Microsoft is very similar. By the time Longhorn is out, Apple will have put out another couple of versions. Anything that Microsoft announces that truly progresses the state of the art (see, no MS bashing here, they do come up with useful ideas) will be imitated while Apple's innovations will be refined and on their 2nd, 3rd, or fourth generation while MS is still trying to put together SP1.
Quick cycle turnaruond is no less valuable in software than it is in manufacturing.
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This was supposed to be a 64bit cluster so P4s were out. Itanium was too expensive and Opterons weren't out except as parts that would have to be assembled and that wasn't going to fly for their requirements. Can you imagine the risk of having AMD declare your assembly methods out of spec and refuse to replace any downed processors? This is a multi-million dollar cluster. They needed a chip and a chassis and they wanted it right then.
Actually, G5s get upgraded at the $19.95 price. If you have a lot of G5s, you can call up and get a right to copy for free so no, it won't be $25, but $19.95. I don't think it's categorized as one seat though.
Actually, the definition hasn't changed because the calculations that are dangerous (modeling nukes and other WMD problems) take just about the same amount of processing power as 20 years ago. Nothing's changed. They relaxed the rules because they figured out the impossibility of export controlling $500 computers.
Instead of controlling the technology, now we have to control the regimes so they don't *want* to calculate how to kill us all.
And since Apple got access to ZeroConf at about the same time everybody else did, why are they leading the way in popular implementations that actually work?
Um, fuel cell generators don't pollute and have their biggest waste product being heat, thus they're planning to use them as generators/water heaters. GM's planning on fuel cell cars for the mass market in 2010 that you can plug into the grid so there's additional local, nonpolluting generator capacity. Then there's the classic 'green' stuff like windmills, solar cells, sticking a generator on your exercise bike, etc. The point is to max your generation easily and intelligently.
From what I understand, the current regime doesn't permit transmission line owners to recoup the cost of using their property. That's always going to be trouble no matter what system you have. Legal restrictions on increasing transmission pricing doesn't seem to be too much deregulation to me but rather not enough.
The benefit of competitive capitalism isn't that it's perfect but rather that stupid flaws get exposed and fixed quicker than in alternative systems.
What the article doesn't cover is why electricity is being wheeled at all. The truth is that people have differential abilities to stop power plants from being built. In areas where people are successful at it (for various reasons) they end up having power shortages. So, you want to cure this problem? Create legal systems that limit the ability of people to stop new generating capacity from being locally built. Long distance transmission is always lossy. The only reason to do it is in political accommodation to barriers to local generation and as an emergency backup when a local plant or five go down.
Why get it off the grid when you should be able to run your meter in reverse? The real value is in creating a system where you're trading power bidirectionally not creating a large bunch of autarkies.
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Actually, the very big businesses plunk down cash on both sides as a rule. The GOP fundraising advantage comes mostly from lopsided donations from small and medium businesses. That's why they've traditionally had a hard money advantage. The GOP had a lot of supporters who could plunk down the grand or two that individuals were legally allowed.
It's unlikely that they're going to get enough legitimate users hitting reload on their own computers to create a DOS attack good enough to down the GOP sites. What's much more likely is that they're creating an army of zombie machines with broadband connections who will do the bulk of the attacking.
A DDOS using zombies... do you really have to think much before you figure out it's illegal?
Every oil major has subsidiaries whose whole purpose is to bring hydrogen to market. There are plenty of well connected oil men in these companies whose careers are toast if hydrogen doesn't come online. Do you really think that Shell or Exxon care whether the profit comes from oil burned in ICE or hydrogen consumed in fuel cells? Get real, the bottom line for these guys is keeping the bonuses and stock options rolling in no matter what.
It's cold in the sense that you don't have to have huge containment systems to avoid heat death from your sonofusion experiment. You can run this stuff on a regular lab table.
How about pager notification with extra numbers on the end for error codes?
I never knew there were extraterrestrial sources of coal.
You almost had me there.
Your incentive is that you'd like to win the bid on a $1M DoD contract and on page 173 of the spec document it says you're required to have IPv6 data services. It's that simple. If your customer requires it (and DoD will by 2008) you'll do it, whether you're EDS, AT&T, or some programming shop doing customized video conferencing software for troops in the field.
If its in the RFP, you'll beat up your ISP into providing it for you so your bid doesn't get tossed for not meeting the spec. If you're an ISP, you'll want to support IPv6 to maintain your own military contracts and the business of your customers who are military vendors.
Since the DoD is a huge consumer of IP services and moves a great deal of traffic across the Internet all over the world, the DoD's schedule for shifting over to IPv6 by 2008 is likely going to be the catalyst for everybody getting on the ball. If an ISP has a military base in their service area they're at least going to think about bidding for military data provisioning contracts. The money can be good and the checks generally don't bounce. You don't need more than one major customer to make IPv6 a requirement before an ISp will roll it out.
If you're properly planning to replace equipment as your network load rises, the switch to IPv6 isn't going to matter much, you just move up your current purchase calendar a month or two. If you aren't planning things, switching from IPv4 to IPv6 will make a bad situation worse.
I think the solution is to plan better, not to cater to all the bad administrators out there.
Actually, any IPv4 equipment that is running flat out would not be able to handle the same load as IPv6. Most equipment doesn't run at 100% all the time. It has spare capacity under normal load and administrators track load growth, budgeting money for replacement equipment according to a formula adopted by the organization. Instead of replacing everything, what's more likely is that everything will get replaced a month or two early from previous replacement estimates. Is this going to cost more money? Yes, but it's not a very big deal. You buy in June instead of August or you limp along for two months with degraded capacity and buy on your regular schedule.
The DoD has decided that it's going to be switching over to IPv6 by 2008. This is a big enough organization that 2008 is the outside date for the start of the major shift to IPv6. The idea of switching over on one day isn't going to fly because it really isn't necessary. You can tunnel and otherwise interoperate the two IP versions so nobody's going to go through the hassle of a massive cutover.
Don't forget Japan. The mini-iPod is likely to be a big hit there. They've got a very different value system in terms of how much they value small compared to the US.
MySQL has had nested queries since 4.1 was released. You need to slam them for other lapses now.
Please explain this.
... is the outer query (or outer statement), and (SELECT column1 FROM t2) is the subquery. We say that the subquery is nested in the outer query, and in fact it's possible to nest subqueries within other subqueries, to a great depth. A subquery must always be inside parentheses.
From the page:
6.4.2 Subquery Syntax
A subquery is a SELECT statement inside another statement. For example:
SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE column1 = (SELECT column1 FROM t2);
In the above example, SELECT * FROM t1
Starting with version 4.1, MySQL supports all subquery forms and operations which the SQL standard requires, as well as a few features which are MySQL-specific.
The funny thing is that Longhorn is not a competitor to 10.3. It'll be a competitor to 10.5 or 10.6 depending on the final release schedule pursued by both companies.
Japan Inc. stole a march on US manufacturing by putting out a product and then putting out a better one far faster than the US could do it. By the time the US got its first generation competitor rolling, Japan, Inc. was rolling out their third generation. Eventually the US got its act together but they lost a lot of ground and have never really regained it.
The current situation between Apple and Microsoft is very similar. By the time Longhorn is out, Apple will have put out another couple of versions. Anything that Microsoft announces that truly progresses the state of the art (see, no MS bashing here, they do come up with useful ideas) will be imitated while Apple's innovations will be refined and on their 2nd, 3rd, or fourth generation while MS is still trying to put together SP1.
Quick cycle turnaruond is no less valuable in software than it is in manufacturing.
This was supposed to be a 64bit cluster so P4s were out. Itanium was too expensive and Opterons weren't out except as parts that would have to be assembled and that wasn't going to fly for their requirements. Can you imagine the risk of having AMD declare your assembly methods out of spec and refuse to replace any downed processors? This is a multi-million dollar cluster. They needed a chip and a chassis and they wanted it right then.
Actually, G5s get upgraded at the $19.95 price. If you have a lot of G5s, you can call up and get a right to copy for free so no, it won't be $25, but $19.95. I don't think it's categorized as one seat though.
Actually, the definition hasn't changed because the calculations that are dangerous (modeling nukes and other WMD problems) take just about the same amount of processing power as 20 years ago. Nothing's changed. They relaxed the rules because they figured out the impossibility of export controlling $500 computers.
Instead of controlling the technology, now we have to control the regimes so they don't *want* to calculate how to kill us all.
And since Apple got access to ZeroConf at about the same time everybody else did, why are they leading the way in popular implementations that actually work?
Um, fuel cell generators don't pollute and have their biggest waste product being heat, thus they're planning to use them as generators/water heaters. GM's planning on fuel cell cars for the mass market in 2010 that you can plug into the grid so there's additional local, nonpolluting generator capacity. Then there's the classic 'green' stuff like windmills, solar cells, sticking a generator on your exercise bike, etc. The point is to max your generation easily and intelligently.
The G5 v. Opteron tests were hand timed. I'd say there's a lot of room for improvement in testing methodology there.
I thought W2k3 was Longhorn... on Longhorn's original release schedule...
From what I understand, the current regime doesn't permit transmission line owners to recoup the cost of using their property. That's always going to be trouble no matter what system you have. Legal restrictions on increasing transmission pricing doesn't seem to be too much deregulation to me but rather not enough.
The benefit of competitive capitalism isn't that it's perfect but rather that stupid flaws get exposed and fixed quicker than in alternative systems.
What the article doesn't cover is why electricity is being wheeled at all. The truth is that people have differential abilities to stop power plants from being built. In areas where people are successful at it (for various reasons) they end up having power shortages. So, you want to cure this problem? Create legal systems that limit the ability of people to stop new generating capacity from being locally built. Long distance transmission is always lossy. The only reason to do it is in political accommodation to barriers to local generation and as an emergency backup when a local plant or five go down.
Why get it off the grid when you should be able to run your meter in reverse? The real value is in creating a system where you're trading power bidirectionally not creating a large bunch of autarkies.