I absoultely despise Hungarian notation. Back about 7 years or so one of the less skilled developers where I worked thought that Hugarian notation was the answer to all our development problems. Needless to say that wasn't exactly the case.
Although, that person does now work for Microsoft.....
Of course I haven't heard a single person running for any office actaully talk about cutting spending.
Hell, my senator had a pair of sound bites that were really interesting. In one he complains about how much Bush is spending and how high the debt is, and in the other he complains about how his pet projects here at home didn't get enough funding.....
You are absolutely correct. Which is why it is sad that there are so few vendors out there selling Unix/Linux SCADA solutions. Because while SCADA on windows can work, eventually you'll end up smacked upside the head by a limitation of the operating system in one way or another.
I think wireless changes everything. I have a tungsten C and the wireless is really cool, it changes the whole device.
Just the other day I did some troubleshooting on a network printer while standing in front of it with my PDA. I know, very geeky, but still cool.
Now the total dream application for this would be to be able to stream content from my Myth system at home over a wireless network to the PDA. I think thats still out of reach of the tungsten C, but if you squint hard enough its not hard to envision in a future PDA.
You know the sad part is, its not much easier for Palms (or Pocket PCs even!) connected to windows. Depending on your email client and other software on your PC the setup gets just as convoluted as you have mentioned.
Sure it should include downtime. But what I'm saying is that downtime far outcosts other factors. My example is for specifically a manufacturing location, so the value lost is the cost of the lost output.
But consider, when Microsoft is figuring out a TCO on windows, do you think they include the cost of downtime in the calculations?
Ignore TCO. In the article they get it right. TCO is crap, in the end the only thing that really matters is cost of downtime. In most cases the cost of downtime is orders of magnitude greater than that of ownership.
For my location 24 hours of system downtime is one million dollars of lost production.
No its not, it just has a lot of "dark content" that you can't see but which weighs heavily against its moderation.... really sorry, I couldn't resist.
Just a simple question really, but where do we study the long term affects of weightlessness necessary for the Mars mission without the space station?
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It's like the guy genuinely doesn't care about th eendgame as many here have observed.
No, its just that his endgame is when he sells his final share of inflated stock and runs off.
I really hope that when someone picks up the scraps of SCO when all this is said and done, that they can find something in the corporate documents that will incriminate Darl in this pump and dump scheme. It will of course have to be a document they forgot to shred;-)
I mean look at/. all talk of sending men to Mars (something most of us want) quickly devolves into whining about how much you hate the President (oh wait Bush, I forget that liberals can't refer to him as president).
Yeah why don't you all clambor all over yourselves to make sure this new plan doesn't get anyware (even though you want it) because you couldn't live with yourselves if we actually get to Mars because of something Bush did! Heavens no!!
Go read up on the history of the internet, it was originally a defense project to build a computer communications network that was immune from a nuclear attack.
But if your son spends hours reconfiguring Star Wars ships, the cockpit peices come in real handy.;-)
He loves the Star Wars line and builds many of the models in their original arrangment first. But, secondary building becomes one of modification and creation of alternate ships from just his own imagination. Mind you the ships are unique, but still follow the original theme as far as playing with them goes.
This move will find my household buying fewer legos.
Yeah, keeping humans alive on the moon would be hard, but the boldness of that kind of exploration will be exhillarating. I think back (I know its kind of romanticized too) to the explorers in the new world and what they went through and built. Heck, both sides of my family came to America and eeked off a living from the land, something to be admired.
I really belive that the best of mankind comes from these types of endeavors. With great hardship can come great advancement and progress.
I wonder when I look at the pictures the Mars probes are returning what it will be like when a human walks over to take a look at one of them in the future, in person. It will truly be one of mankinds greatest achievments and I believe that money is no object when it comes to this.
Just out of curiosity, I figured I'd check this story out and see how long until it devolved into a bash Bush fest. I'm hard pressed to find ANY posts not following this scheme.
Now everybody stop and think for just a minute. This is/. right? I mean I would have to believe that 90% of the people posting here really truly believe that we should send people to Mars.
But apparently If Bush gets to suggest it, well Democrats can HAVE that can they. I just waiting for my esteemed Senator Daschle to rip into this for some reason or another, when his real reason would be its Bush's idea.
I think we should just chuck all the damn politicians indo deep space and then prepare for the Mars mission.
When did it happen that everyone had to reflexively oppose any idea of the party they "dont belong to" instead of possilby nodding and saying, hey thats a good idea we should go for it?
So if you're a/. reader and want to see a mission to Mars, just applaud the president on this one thing. Feel free to mock him on any number of other things, but put the partisianship down for a moment and perhaps we can finally get the world embracing the spirit of exploration again.
The main question is then "Is pausing live TV and algorithm." The answer in this case would be that the algorithm for pausing the viewing of data while still collecting it has a profound amount of prior art. All you would have to do is prove that in Unix you could cat a file that is currently being appended to and pause the cat with a ctrl-s, which would be considerably prior art.
And if the patent is more specific than that, then the act of just making a machine that can do the same thing (using a different algorithm!!) would not be violating the patent. That is why I think copyrights should be the case for software and not patents. Basically the description of a software algorithm is being abused to be used to patent any action one can take and not the specific means to solve a particular problem.
Do they include the cost of patching your servers?
The cost of the last few months of Microsoft patch updates was about 30 minutes per PC. The TCO impact of patching every machine is huge and I bet its not included in Microsoft's numbers.
In this case, thin clients rule!!! (even microsoft--actually citrix-- ones)
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Man, I wish I still had some mod points.
I absoultely despise Hungarian notation. Back about 7 years or so one of the less skilled developers where I worked thought that Hugarian notation was the answer to all our development problems.
Needless to say that wasn't exactly the case.
Although, that person does now work for Microsoft.....
Cut spending???? What are you crazy?? ;-)
Of course I haven't heard a single person running for any office actaully talk about cutting spending.
Hell, my senator had a pair of sound bites that were really interesting. In one he complains about how much Bush is spending and how high the debt is, and in the other he complains about how his pet projects here at home didn't get enough funding.....
You are absolutely correct. Which is why it is sad that there are so few vendors out there selling Unix/Linux SCADA solutions. Because while SCADA on windows can work, eventually you'll end up smacked upside the head by a limitation of the operating system in one way or another.
I think wireless changes everything. I have a tungsten C and the wireless is really cool, it changes the whole device.
Just the other day I did some troubleshooting on a network printer while standing in front of it with my PDA. I know, very geeky, but still cool.
Now the total dream application for this would be to be able to stream content from my Myth system at home over a wireless network to the PDA. I think thats still out of reach of the tungsten C, but if you squint hard enough its not hard to envision in a future PDA.
You know the sad part is, its not much easier for Palms (or Pocket PCs even!) connected to windows. Depending on your email client and other software on your PC the setup gets just as convoluted as you have mentioned.
Sure it should include downtime. But what I'm saying is that downtime far outcosts other factors. My example is for specifically a manufacturing location, so the value lost is the cost of the lost output.
But consider, when Microsoft is figuring out a TCO on windows, do you think they include the cost of downtime in the calculations?
Ignore TCO. In the article they get it right. TCO is crap, in the end the only thing that really matters is cost of downtime. In most cases the cost of downtime is orders of magnitude greater than that of ownership.
For my location 24 hours of system downtime is one million dollars of lost production.
No its not, it just has a lot of "dark content" that you can't see but which weighs heavily against its moderation. ... really sorry, I couldn't resist.
Just a simple question really, but where do we study the long term affects of weightlessness necessary for the Mars mission without the space station?
It's like the guy genuinely doesn't care about th eendgame as many here have observed.
;-)
No, its just that his endgame is when he sells his final share of inflated stock and runs off.
I really hope that when someone picks up the scraps of SCO when all this is said and done, that they can find something in the corporate documents that will incriminate Darl in this pump and dump scheme. It will of course have to be a document they forgot to shred
The lesson I hope these kids learn is to tell everyone they know to not buy CDs.
The recording industry did have rights here, but they just used a sledgehammer to kill files. Suing minors is extreme overkill.
Instead of trying to change their business model (I have a lot of ideas on how they could have done that too) they decided to sue.
Until I see new ways of selling their product, I have decided not to buy it.
Or does he know who Novell is? That is actually the bigger, more prominent, company of the two that have Norda's name attached to it.
And to top it off SCO's suing them too!
It just amazes me how theres always a comment about how Republicans are all for helping out SCO.
In reality, if you asked George Bush who SCO is, he probably wouldn't know. But I'm pretty sure he knows who IBM is.
And IBM has lobbyists too, plus they could easily donate the entire value of SCO to political campaigns if they wanted to.
Great post, you hit the nail right on the head!!
That is why they will lose.
/. all talk of sending men to Mars (something most of us want) quickly devolves into whining about how much you hate the President (oh wait Bush, I forget that liberals can't refer to him as president).
I mean look at
Yeah why don't you all clambor all over yourselves to make sure this new plan doesn't get anyware (even though you want it) because you couldn't live with yourselves if we actually get to Mars because of something Bush did! Heavens no!!
I make me sick.
Go read up on the history of the internet, it was originally a defense project to build a computer communications network that was immune from a nuclear attack.
BTW: What's the value of the internet?
But if your son spends hours reconfiguring Star Wars ships, the cockpit peices come in real handy. ;-)
He loves the Star Wars line and builds many of the models in their original arrangment first. But, secondary building becomes one of modification and creation of alternate ships from just his own imagination. Mind you the ships are unique, but still follow the original theme as far as playing with them goes.
This move will find my household buying fewer legos.
Yeah, keeping humans alive on the moon would be hard, but the boldness of that kind of exploration will be exhillarating. I think back (I know its kind of romanticized too) to the explorers in the new world and what they went through and built. Heck, both sides of my family came to America and eeked off a living from the land, something to be admired.
I really belive that the best of mankind comes from these types of endeavors. With great hardship can come great advancement and progress.
I wonder when I look at the pictures the Mars probes are returning what it will be like when a human walks over to take a look at one of them in the future, in person. It will truly be one of mankinds greatest achievments and I believe that money is no object when it comes to this.
Just out of curiosity, I figured I'd check this story out and see how long until it devolved into a bash Bush fest. I'm hard pressed to find ANY posts not following this scheme.
/. right? I mean I would have to believe that 90% of the people posting here really truly believe that we should send people to Mars.
/. reader and want to see a mission to Mars, just applaud the president on this one thing. Feel free to mock him on any number of other things, but put the partisianship down for a moment and perhaps we can finally get the world embracing the spirit of exploration again.
Now everybody stop and think for just a minute. This is
But apparently If Bush gets to suggest it, well Democrats can HAVE that can they. I just waiting for my esteemed Senator Daschle to rip into this for some reason or another, when his real reason would be its Bush's idea.
I think we should just chuck all the damn politicians indo deep space and then prepare for the Mars mission.
When did it happen that everyone had to reflexively oppose any idea of the party they "dont belong to" instead of possilby nodding and saying, hey thats a good idea we should go for it?
So if you're a
A trained chimp could drive a 2,290 employee company into the ground too. But I don't think Carly would like being paid in banannas.
Carly Fiorina != Steve Jobs
If Carly quit HP, I don't see how things could get much worse, but I do agree that if Steve left Apple would be in trouble.
Therefore, I really do belive that Carly isn't worth anywhere near what she's being paid.
The main question is then "Is pausing live TV and algorithm." The answer in this case would be that the algorithm for pausing the viewing of data while still collecting it has a profound amount of prior art. All you would have to do is prove that in Unix you could cat a file that is currently being appended to and pause the cat with a ctrl-s, which would be considerably prior art.
And if the patent is more specific than that, then the act of just making a machine that can do the same thing (using a different algorithm!!) would not be violating the patent. That is why I think copyrights should be the case for software and not patents. Basically the description of a software algorithm is being abused to be used to patent any action one can take and not the specific means to solve a particular problem.
So, your're saying that they stood on the shoulders of giants and ....
PATENTED IT!!
I do think it is despicible. Software is copyrightable, not patentable.
If the idea of the patent office was to spur on invention and promote progress, I think they're doing it EXACTLY wrong.
Do they include the cost of patching your servers?
The cost of the last few months of Microsoft patch updates was about 30 minutes per PC. The TCO impact of patching every machine is huge and I bet its not included in Microsoft's numbers.
In this case, thin clients rule!!! (even microsoft--actually citrix-- ones)
Have I missed something, or did K5 ever actually _not_ have trouble with trolls?