I disagree. There are some real benefits for smaller companies who can afford to virtualize, more or less depending on the types of applications. Yes, I can buy one server to run any number of business critical applications, but I've seen, in most cases, that several applications are independently business critical and needed to be available at least for the full business day or some important aspect of the company was shut down. So while a single virtual server running everything sucks, you really can get a very close effect when only one of those servers you listed above fails. Add in a VM solution with two servers running VMWare with vmotion and you can get load balancing and fault tolerance. My experience is in the financial services industry. A small company doesn't have a ton of cash to throw around, but having new applications stop for a day while you try to get your single server back up and running costs a lot more than a couple more tens of thousands of dollars to buy a fault tolerant solution. Virtualization is perfect for that.
What about database access? Sun claims (in crappy marketing speak) to get some stellar performance out of MySQL, albeit with a special build to make it utilize the extra threads. A pain yes, very targeted, yes, but if you're running lots of simple requests, this might just be perfect for your application.
Which is how it should work. The government working on commercial clouds sounds completely unreasonable. There is a place for a large cloud where different agencies can aggregate their resources, rather than each agency having their own IT setup and staff.
I don't believe it will necessarily follow the open source model of allowing free, unfettered, public updates. Rather the idea of Open Source law should be based on the premise that the law of the country should be available with the lowest barriers possible to all citizens. It is basic to the running of the country, the country that we, the people, ultimately own, and we should all have access to it. To that end, it should be a government initiative to make that as easy as possible. I think that is what this project is about.
Early 64-bit chips were being made as 32 bit chips like the 386 and 486 were getting into stride. It's not crazy that 128 bit chips are in the works, if only for niche applications to start, but later for the server market and then desktops. When you're working on development of products 5-10 years out, you need to work in probable advancements.
Unfortunately, it's not near universal anymore, and there are some very real limits to the number of copies MS can sell. And yes, they do have a lot of profit. But to say that selling products with copyrights don't have fixed and substantial costs is a misrepresentation. And note, you'd probably be surprised how much R&D goes into a new auto. I believe GM had to layout about 1 billion for the development of the Volt.
MS put about 6 billion into the development of Vista. Their market is huge, and so they probably had no problem getting the 30 million purchases needed to recoup the cost (at $199 retail for Home Premium). But you also need to account for the steep discounts for OEMs, etc. It's a big outlay of cash for a product. And I can't even begin to imagine how much they spent on marketing...
Yes, you're right, the manufacturing cost of a "Key" is miniscule. Guess what, it's just like the cost of building a car. You don't think it costs 20,000 dollars in materials and labor to build a car, do you? Aren't you completely indignant that you had to pay that much? The nerve of car companies covering design and R&D costs and they expect to cover the costs of marketing their product in the sales price!? Well, that's outrageous!
Every product has hidden costs embedded into the price. In Microsofts case, it's dev time and marketing, and yes, a profit too. If you don't think the dev time yielded a high enough quality product, or a product you're interested in, by all means, go buy a Mac or download *nix. But, just because it costs next to nothing to create "keys" doesn't mean there weren't some very real expenses in delivering this product that need to be recouped.
I'd feel more comfortable using a laptop to view reference type materials. I love my Sony PRS-505 for novels and newspapers though. It's a good bit smaller than lugging around whatever I'm interested in reading at the moment (non-fic book, fic novel, a couple magazines).
I don't think it has anything to do with IE. Google really isn't in the browser business. They're in the web services business. Their lifeblood is people using their products so they see lots of ads. Part of using those products is enjoying using those products. apparently Google deemed it necessary to pick up some of Microsoft's slack for Google's own good. I think it's far less about trying to take market share directly from MS and far more about trying to grow and maintain their existing market by ensuring quality experiences.
I think a better measure of bloat is whether the kernel broadly has code it doesn't need. Does it load things into memory that generally don't do anything. Does it not appropriately reuse code, etc. Code that shouldn't be included at this level. It would be interesting to see what Linus identifies as bloat.
Mods: This is a play on words (Ross Perot) and then a reference to the scandal involving faked nude photos of his daughter. A strained joke at best, but not off-topic.
http://www.famoustexans.com/rossperot.htm
According to desktop computing standards. It seems pedantic, but it's perfectly adequate for the task for which it was intended (auto powertrain control).
The rating for your Accord was on the old EPA system which was much more generous. Many drivers are finding they get much better mileage than the ratings indicate. It depends on driving habits, locale, and amount of stop-and-go.
This is intentional. Negative growth is a problem for a country. They need a workforce to continue to survive and maintain their aged population. Many European countries are creating programs that encourage procreation for exactly this purpose.
It means the criminal would expect to get about $100.00 out of your identity, but they won't pay $100.00 to try and get that value. They have a significant risk, including many identities that just don't work out, and the risk of getting caught. So, they'll only buy the opportunity to use that identity for $0.43.
I suspect the fact that these people are incredibly efficient and good at their jobs means that you're less likely to be on the phone for an hour, which appears to be the point. They may get paid 4x more than the average phone jockey, but if they can handle 5x as many calls, then they are a better deal.
Probably because those people can get people on and off the phone much faster because they have experience in the topic they are supporting. Or they are handling advanced calls for premium customers. It's the point. These people don't have a job of answering a phone, and the management realizes that. They have a job of being a subject matter expert or being great at customer service, or whatever the heck else we stick people behind phones to do. The phone just happens to be the medium.
No wonder companies are outsourcing if all USAsians think they have to be overpaid that much.
Apparently you missed the bit where they said they were deliriously rolling in piles of money because they treat their people right and get high quality work in return.
I'd be careful about opting in with the DVR. I can see producers seeing heavy DVR numbers and canceling shows because of poor ad reception (fast forward) or deciding that those shows need the most product placements. The crew of firefly exclusively uses Downy fabric softener...
Note, just the other day, it was a major story that IBM and Caltech had found a way to arrange DNA as a sort of scaffolding for arranging components. From an article on just this subject:
The resulting nanostructures might be used as scaffolds or as miniature circuit boards for precisely assembling components like carbon nanotubes and nanowires. Such circuits would be much smaller than those possible using conventional techniques to fabricate semiconductors. Indeed, the resolution of the process is roughly 10x higher than those currently used to make computer chips because the spacing between the components can be as small as just 6 nm, explains Rothemund.
Bingo. IANAL but I believe Google's fiduciary duty extends solely to their stockholders. So, unless Port is a Google stockholder, I suspect she doesn't have much of a case. Further, I suspect she can't show that this issue did much to the value of the company. Further, I suspect she can't show that she incurred anything near $15 million in damages as a result.
I support the legal system allowing people to seek retribution. But I think people looking to dig out money like this she be recognized and dealt with by the courts.
If the above posts are correct, it doesn't say you can return the radio itself for a refund, but to speak with the manufacturer about their refund policies. These may very well include you returning the car because you don't want the radio. It's up to you.
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I disagree. There are some real benefits for smaller companies who can afford to virtualize, more or less depending on the types of applications. Yes, I can buy one server to run any number of business critical applications, but I've seen, in most cases, that several applications are independently business critical and needed to be available at least for the full business day or some important aspect of the company was shut down. So while a single virtual server running everything sucks, you really can get a very close effect when only one of those servers you listed above fails. Add in a VM solution with two servers running VMWare with vmotion and you can get load balancing and fault tolerance. My experience is in the financial services industry. A small company doesn't have a ton of cash to throw around, but having new applications stop for a day while you try to get your single server back up and running costs a lot more than a couple more tens of thousands of dollars to buy a fault tolerant solution. Virtualization is perfect for that.
What about database access? Sun claims (in crappy marketing speak) to get some stellar performance out of MySQL, albeit with a special build to make it utilize the extra threads. A pain yes, very targeted, yes, but if you're running lots of simple requests, this might just be perfect for your application.
Which is how it should work. The government working on commercial clouds sounds completely unreasonable. There is a place for a large cloud where different agencies can aggregate their resources, rather than each agency having their own IT setup and staff.
I don't believe it will necessarily follow the open source model of allowing free, unfettered, public updates. Rather the idea of Open Source law should be based on the premise that the law of the country should be available with the lowest barriers possible to all citizens. It is basic to the running of the country, the country that we, the people, ultimately own, and we should all have access to it. To that end, it should be a government initiative to make that as easy as possible. I think that is what this project is about.
Early 64-bit chips were being made as 32 bit chips like the 386 and 486 were getting into stride. It's not crazy that 128 bit chips are in the works, if only for niche applications to start, but later for the server market and then desktops. When you're working on development of products 5-10 years out, you need to work in probable advancements.
Unfortunately, it's not near universal anymore, and there are some very real limits to the number of copies MS can sell. And yes, they do have a lot of profit. But to say that selling products with copyrights don't have fixed and substantial costs is a misrepresentation. And note, you'd probably be surprised how much R&D goes into a new auto. I believe GM had to layout about 1 billion for the development of the Volt.
MS put about 6 billion into the development of Vista. Their market is huge, and so they probably had no problem getting the 30 million purchases needed to recoup the cost (at $199 retail for Home Premium). But you also need to account for the steep discounts for OEMs, etc. It's a big outlay of cash for a product. And I can't even begin to imagine how much they spent on marketing...
Yes, you're right, the manufacturing cost of a "Key" is miniscule. Guess what, it's just like the cost of building a car. You don't think it costs 20,000 dollars in materials and labor to build a car, do you? Aren't you completely indignant that you had to pay that much? The nerve of car companies covering design and R&D costs and they expect to cover the costs of marketing their product in the sales price!? Well, that's outrageous!
Every product has hidden costs embedded into the price. In Microsofts case, it's dev time and marketing, and yes, a profit too. If you don't think the dev time yielded a high enough quality product, or a product you're interested in, by all means, go buy a Mac or download *nix. But, just because it costs next to nothing to create "keys" doesn't mean there weren't some very real expenses in delivering this product that need to be recouped.
I'd feel more comfortable using a laptop to view reference type materials. I love my Sony PRS-505 for novels and newspapers though. It's a good bit smaller than lugging around whatever I'm interested in reading at the moment (non-fic book, fic novel, a couple magazines).
I don't think it has anything to do with IE. Google really isn't in the browser business. They're in the web services business. Their lifeblood is people using their products so they see lots of ads. Part of using those products is enjoying using those products. apparently Google deemed it necessary to pick up some of Microsoft's slack for Google's own good. I think it's far less about trying to take market share directly from MS and far more about trying to grow and maintain their existing market by ensuring quality experiences.
Large != Bloated and Bloated != Large.
I think a better measure of bloat is whether the kernel broadly has code it doesn't need. Does it load things into memory that generally don't do anything. Does it not appropriately reuse code, etc. Code that shouldn't be included at this level. It would be interesting to see what Linus identifies as bloat.
Mods: This is a play on words (Ross Perot) and then a reference to the scandal involving faked nude photos of his daughter. A strained joke at best, but not off-topic. http://www.famoustexans.com/rossperot.htm
I hear a three-digit IQ is, in fact, a disqualifying condition.
According to desktop computing standards. It seems pedantic, but it's perfectly adequate for the task for which it was intended (auto powertrain control).
The rating for your Accord was on the old EPA system which was much more generous. Many drivers are finding they get much better mileage than the ratings indicate. It depends on driving habits, locale, and amount of stop-and-go.
This is intentional. Negative growth is a problem for a country. They need a workforce to continue to survive and maintain their aged population. Many European countries are creating programs that encourage procreation for exactly this purpose.
It means the criminal would expect to get about $100.00 out of your identity, but they won't pay $100.00 to try and get that value. They have a significant risk, including many identities that just don't work out, and the risk of getting caught. So, they'll only buy the opportunity to use that identity for $0.43.
It's on their front page. It's called "Deny Digital Dangers". It links to every click matters.
It also apparently covers a portion of Jeff Bezos ego and a hefty part of his dividends.
Which is why God was able to say 10^90 bits of RAM ought to be enough for anybody, because he made sure he bounded his variables.
I suspect the fact that these people are incredibly efficient and good at their jobs means that you're less likely to be on the phone for an hour, which appears to be the point. They may get paid 4x more than the average phone jockey, but if they can handle 5x as many calls, then they are a better deal.
No wonder companies are outsourcing if all USAsians think they have to be overpaid that much.
Apparently you missed the bit where they said they were deliriously rolling in piles of money because they treat their people right and get high quality work in return.
I'd be careful about opting in with the DVR. I can see producers seeing heavy DVR numbers and canceling shows because of poor ad reception (fast forward) or deciding that those shows need the most product placements. The crew of firefly exclusively uses Downy fabric softener...
The resulting nanostructures might be used as scaffolds or as miniature circuit boards for precisely assembling components like carbon nanotubes and nanowires. Such circuits would be much smaller than those possible using conventional techniques to fabricate semiconductors. Indeed, the resolution of the process is roughly 10x higher than those currently used to make computer chips because the spacing between the components can be as small as just 6 nm, explains Rothemund.
Source: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/40171
Bingo. IANAL but I believe Google's fiduciary duty extends solely to their stockholders. So, unless Port is a Google stockholder, I suspect she doesn't have much of a case. Further, I suspect she can't show that this issue did much to the value of the company. Further, I suspect she can't show that she incurred anything near $15 million in damages as a result.
I support the legal system allowing people to seek retribution. But I think people looking to dig out money like this she be recognized and dealt with by the courts.
If the above posts are correct, it doesn't say you can return the radio itself for a refund, but to speak with the manufacturer about their refund policies. These may very well include you returning the car because you don't want the radio. It's up to you.