The system is funded in part through U.S. benefactors who aren't just sending money; they're spending time there as well.
I've seen US benefactors at work in these countries before. There is always an alterior motive.
I would like to know who the benefactors are.
When staying in a Bankok hotel for example, there is usualy at least one group of americans there to unleash the Lord's word in these Buddhist countries.
They spend 1 month travelling through Thailand or useing Thailand as a gateway to Vietnam, Burma, Laos etc.
The several christian churches in Thailand, for example, do not want them there, as it usually entails the suited, burly foreigners lumbering through some area spreading their 'freedom'.
This undoes the gentle, tentative work already done by the few christian churches.
There will be more to this than just getting email to the people.
"Raw performance will ALWAYS be an issue. If you can handle 100,000 hits per day on the same hardware that I can handle 1,000,000 (and these are not made up numbers, we see this kind of discrepency in web applications all the time), then I clearly will be able to do MORE business than you and do it cheaper. That gives me a competitive advantage from now till the end of time. If you throw more hardware at the problem, well, so can I and I'll still be ahead of you."
Raw performance will NOT always be an issue.
Project cost to implementation phase often is an issue though.
Remember, we are often at the mercy of stakeholders, and organisational politics
In an ideal world, cost would not be an issue, but unless we are project developer, manager, and stakeholder then cost will almost always take a back seat to optimiztion and post implementation maintenance and development.
I dunno, maybe the stakeholders of the projects I've been involved in were special, in that they are irrational, cost-driven, with the to-implentation cost reigning as king.
Your stakeholders clearly are not like this.
How I envy you.
Countries typically agree on reciprocal rights and will move quickly on any change.
Examples:
- Visa fee increases by one country on anothers citizens will guarantee a like increase the other way.
- Any work periods are usually identical.
- The right to drive for a given period on the visitor drivers license country of origin(usually one year if both countries are signitories to the Genava COnvention).
Brazil is just doing what commonly happens when one side adds some caveat or premium to their citizens travel - they reply with like kind.
Keep in mind that a good part of the Southern Hemisphere is out combing the boxing day specials while our northern hemisphere cousins are sitting down to their Xmas meal.
Same for new years. Always somewhat amusing to watch on the TV live coverage of the New Years Ball drop in New York when say, New Zealanders have had New Years coutdown some 24 hours previous.
"I know where to find the WMDs. No, really, I do. I know where they are. I'll tell you: They're in North Korea."
They're also in the USA: Nuclear bombs, Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, Cluster Bombs, Land Mines, Chemical Weapons.
Submarines with nuclear warheads in the Antarctic sea.
is small form factor.
Yet the whole chart gives no indication of size. Just features.
If one is to say, find the smallest case, one must click on the detail matrix to drill down. A timely task
At least replace one category for a one look size comparison, perhaps the number of floppy bays can go, as this is down on my list of 'must have' case design.
I remember the Taiwan natural disaster of a few years back.
RAM prices here in New Zealand went from $150 for a 64mb stick to over $300.
A conflict now would be far reaching for Assemblers here. Taiwan suppliers such as Gigabyte are very prominant here in New Zealand.
Why not switch to a non Taiwan component supplier?
Relationships have been built, and such things as warranty deals are established. Dealers here find it very difficult to get warranty claims off some suppliers and hence must settle warranty claims themselves to comply with our very stringent conumers laws. For a shop to even suggest they are having trouble with warranties with their suppliers is technically against the law.
War between China/Taiwan would be distaserous for the NZ computer industry.
The universe consists of 2 broad data storage formats: 1) Database(DBMS) systems. 2) Flat files(usually text files).
When I went to school, database meant a dbms. "Big Files" were known as a flat file system. Jane the Office Girl calls her Excel spreadsheet of clients a database, when it really is only a flat file.
A database(dbms) should be seperated from flat file systems, which do not deserve the term database.
Agreed, with the advent of ODBC etc, even a comma delimited text file can be queried with SQL, but flat files do not share the qualities of their Database bretheran. IE Concurrency control, failure recovery etc.
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The system is funded in part through U.S. benefactors who aren't just sending money; they're spending time there as well.
I've seen US benefactors at work in these countries before. There is always an alterior motive. I would like to know who the benefactors are.
When staying in a Bankok hotel for example, there is usualy at least one group of americans there to unleash the Lord's word in these Buddhist countries.
They spend 1 month travelling through Thailand or useing Thailand as a gateway to Vietnam, Burma, Laos etc. The several christian churches in Thailand, for example, do not want them there, as it usually entails the suited, burly foreigners lumbering through some area spreading their 'freedom'.
This undoes the gentle, tentative work already done by the few christian churches. There will be more to this than just getting email to the people.
"Raw performance will ALWAYS be an issue. If you can handle 100,000 hits per day on the same hardware that I can handle 1,000,000 (and these are not made up numbers, we see this kind of discrepency in web applications all the time), then I clearly will be able to do MORE business than you and do it cheaper. That gives me a competitive advantage from now till the end of time. If you throw more hardware at the problem, well, so can I and I'll still be ahead of you."
Raw performance will NOT always be an issue.
Project cost to implementation phase often is an issue though.
Remember, we are often at the mercy of stakeholders, and organisational politics In an ideal world, cost would not be an issue, but unless we are project developer, manager, and stakeholder then cost will almost always take a back seat to optimiztion and post implementation maintenance and development.
I dunno, maybe the stakeholders of the projects I've been involved in were special, in that they are irrational, cost-driven, with the to-implentation cost reigning as king.
Your stakeholders clearly are not like this.
How I envy you.
Countries typically agree on reciprocal rights and will move quickly on any change. Examples:
- Visa fee increases by one country on anothers citizens will guarantee a like increase the other way.
- Any work periods are usually identical.
- The right to drive for a given period on the visitor drivers license country of origin(usually one year if both countries are signitories to the Genava COnvention).
Brazil is just doing what commonly happens when one side adds some caveat or premium to their citizens travel - they reply with like kind.
Keep in mind that a good part of the Southern Hemisphere is out combing the boxing day specials while our northern hemisphere cousins are sitting down to their Xmas meal. Same for new years. Always somewhat amusing to watch on the TV live coverage of the New Years Ball drop in New York when say, New Zealanders have had New Years coutdown some 24 hours previous.
"I know where to find the WMDs. No, really, I do. I know where they are. I'll tell you: They're in North Korea."
They're also in the USA: Nuclear bombs, Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, Cluster Bombs, Land Mines, Chemical Weapons. Submarines with nuclear warheads in the Antarctic sea.
is small form factor. Yet the whole chart gives no indication of size. Just features. If one is to say, find the smallest case, one must click on the detail matrix to drill down. A timely task At least replace one category for a one look size comparison, perhaps the number of floppy bays can go, as this is down on my list of 'must have' case design.
I remember the Taiwan natural disaster of a few years back. RAM prices here in New Zealand went from $150 for a 64mb stick to over $300. A conflict now would be far reaching for Assemblers here. Taiwan suppliers such as Gigabyte are very prominant here in New Zealand. Why not switch to a non Taiwan component supplier? Relationships have been built, and such things as warranty deals are established. Dealers here find it very difficult to get warranty claims off some suppliers and hence must settle warranty claims themselves to comply with our very stringent conumers laws. For a shop to even suggest they are having trouble with warranties with their suppliers is technically against the law. War between China/Taiwan would be distaserous for the NZ computer industry.
The universe consists of 2 broad data storage formats:
1) Database(DBMS) systems.
2) Flat files(usually text files).
When I went to school, database meant a dbms.
"Big Files" were known as a flat file system.
Jane the Office Girl calls her Excel spreadsheet of clients a database, when it really is only a flat file.
A database(dbms) should be seperated from flat file systems, which do not deserve the term database.
Agreed, with the advent of ODBC etc, even a comma delimited text file can be queried with SQL, but flat files do not share the qualities of their Database bretheran. IE Concurrency control, failure recovery etc.