Bull. Five nines is very, very expensive. I actually looked into 5 nines on HP-UX. Thats five minutes of downtime a year!! The cost of the hardware, infrastructure, and support was mind boggling.
For the standard hardware and support I have gotten three nines out of my current HP Equipment, and much the same for my NT Stuff, oh and for Linux running on older hardware as well. Most places don't need 5 nines (not when they see the pricetag).
No as to embedded devices, Microsoft's downfall will be that they will charge for every single install. Linux will be free for every single install. And don't get me started on how you need staff that knows NT, or WINCE or whatever. Embedded programmers are smart people they will pick up, and by necessity tweak their systems to the hilt. The cost factor will hurt Microsoft in this area.
Also, from what I've heard, embedded NT has a huge footprint for an embedded OS. This will hurt MS as well. Cost is a big issue with embedded systems, if you can get by on 8MB of flash memory for the OS instead of 16MB you can save millions of dollars over the life of an embedded product.
And some HP-UX users are actually Linux users as well. Just not ready to move the Oracle database over to Linux (at least not the _production_ database;-) ) yet.
But personally I'd prefer KDE to GNOME, but, oh well.
The article's fake, but really funny. This company has a great busniness plan and some really neat products.
Thier mocking of press releases is great. I really like the one where they dropped the COO in the picture with Bezos, he obviously was just pasted into the picutre.
Really funny. Ironically it put a smile on my face:-)
My biggest impression on the evilness of unions, came while I was unpacking for a trade convention in Philedelphia. I had to be sure not to be seen carrying my own boxes into the building, they had union workers whose "job" it was to do that.
Unions, what a load of shit.
Typical liberal rant. We have more than enough food, but what we don't do is distribute it. The US has the policy of giving foreign governments money as aid. When what we should be doing is sending them food. We let Russian leaders pocket 4 Billion dollars while they let their people starve, we should have just sent them 4 Billon dollars worth of food. Stavation and Hunger is a political and social problem, not just a money issue.
Nasa is about the dream, humanity needs to stretch. Eventually we will need live on these other planets. Plus the lessons we would learn terraforming Mars would be very useful here on Earth.
Not exactly. Price goes up with demand when the supply cannot keep up. Right now supply is not the issue, there are more than enough TV's for whoever has the cash to buy them. The problem is most people don't have that kind of cash. The hope is that as more digital broadcasts become available more people will buy the sets. The price will not go down then, but the manufacutures of HDTV will see increased demand and make more HDTV's. With the larger production runs and larger volume they will be able to save alot of money on the production side of things. This money can go for one of two ends. 1 - Increased profit marges 2 - Lower prices. Now you might think they will keep the money, but lower prices can help them sell more HDTV's than their competiion - so they _will_ lower the prices then. This, hopefully, it when HDTV becomes affordable. First we have to get enough rich people to buy enough TV's to start the cycle.
I would never say they shouldn't be allowed to patent their DRUG. But patenting the gene is baseless. The other way around you problem is to patent the process that identifies the gene (which this company has patented as well). But the gene itself is not theirs, its mine, and any other colorblind person's.
Then perhaps there press release should be more clear. It should say they have aquired the patent to a test for colorblindness, but that is not all it states.
The press release says they've received a patent for the genes themselves. The press release may be wrong, but then this companies PR group should be taken out back an flogged.
Actaully this really pisses me off. Go ahead, patent you testing methods, patent you (really cool - if they work - corrective lenses). But who the hell do they think they are patenting MY genes.
I got your prior art right here!!!
Actally shouldn't God/Nature hold the patent on colorblind genes?
Its amazing to think of the kind of abuse consumers will be looking at in the next few years regarding Digital TV.
1) Your old TV's won't work, but you can buy this $100-$200 box just so you can still use the damn thing. (Although the current price on tuner boxes is over $500).
2) New TV's will cost $1,500+. Please go back to 1 TV per household.
3) Now, you won't be able to use your VCR/Tivo/Anything to record shows on your hideously expensive new Digital set.
I will be surprised if there aren't eventually riots in the streets because of this. The total lack of concern for the consumer (and also for the local stations being forced to change standards) is amazing!
Homeworld rocks!! It brought 3D-realtime space combat to the PC, at least brought a realistic controllable 3D environment. Other games had tried and failed. Plus it has an awesome storyline.
You're wrong. The whole reason season 5 of Babylon 5 sucked is that:
1) Season 4 wrapped up to much (and did so brilliantly), because of the doubt that there would even be a season 5.
2) Ivonova left the show, which was an absolutley huge loss.
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Lets see.
2 DNS Servers
1 Database (Development) Server
1 Web server
And I'm not even a corprate office, I'm at a remote site. That's 20% of my servers running Linux.
Bull. Five nines is very, very expensive. I actually looked into 5 nines on HP-UX. Thats five minutes of downtime a year!! The cost of the hardware, infrastructure, and support was mind boggling.
For the standard hardware and support I have gotten three nines out of my current HP Equipment, and much the same for my NT Stuff, oh and for Linux running on older hardware as well. Most places don't need 5 nines (not when they see the pricetag).
No as to embedded devices, Microsoft's downfall will be that they will charge for every single install. Linux will be free for every single install. And don't get me started on how you need staff that knows NT, or WINCE or whatever. Embedded programmers are smart people they will pick up, and by necessity tweak their systems to the hilt. The cost factor will hurt Microsoft in this area.
Also, from what I've heard, embedded NT has a huge footprint for an embedded OS. This will hurt MS as well. Cost is a big issue with embedded systems, if you can get by on 8MB of flash memory for the OS instead of 16MB you can save millions of dollars over the life of an embedded product.
Yesssss, and when you call support the will tell you to load more and more patches. The cycle is endless.....
And some HP-UX users are actually Linux users as well. Just not ready to move the Oracle database over to Linux (at least not the _production_ database ;-) ) yet.
But personally I'd prefer KDE to GNOME, but, oh well.
I work moving from VUE to CDE on our HP boxes, and now they go and switch to something else!!
Really though, I think this is a good thing, I just don't want to go mess with the configuration on my servers again.
My Linux DNS box is in a raised floor room ;-).
You're correct. This is history, not news. Is there anything new here?
The article's fake, but really funny. This company has a great busniness plan and some really neat products.
:-)
Thier mocking of press releases is great. I really like the one where they dropped the COO in the picture with Bezos, he obviously was just pasted into the picutre.
Really funny. Ironically it put a smile on my face
My biggest impression on the evilness of unions, came while I was unpacking for a trade convention in Philedelphia. I had to be sure not to be seen carrying my own boxes into the building, they had union workers whose "job" it was to do that. Unions, what a load of shit.
I'd watch that on Battlebots. K-9 vs. Muffit.
That would be great!!
Ummm right now that should read $500-$1000 per unit. I think this is really an experiment to see how much the consumer will take.
Typical liberal rant. We have more than enough food, but what we don't do is distribute it. The US has the policy of giving foreign governments money as aid. When what we should be doing is sending them food. We let Russian leaders pocket 4 Billion dollars while they let their people starve, we should have just sent them 4 Billon dollars worth of food. Stavation and Hunger is a political and social problem, not just a money issue.
Nasa is about the dream, humanity needs to stretch. Eventually we will need live on these other planets. Plus the lessons we would learn terraforming Mars would be very useful here on Earth.
Not exactly. Price goes up with demand when the supply cannot keep up. Right now supply is not the issue, there are more than enough TV's for whoever has the cash to buy them. The problem is most people don't have that kind of cash. The hope is that as more digital broadcasts become available more people will buy the sets. The price will not go down then, but the manufacutures of HDTV will see increased demand and make more HDTV's. With the larger production runs and larger volume they will be able to save alot of money on the production side of things. This money can go for one of two ends. 1 - Increased profit marges 2 - Lower prices. Now you might think they will keep the money, but lower prices can help them sell more HDTV's than their competiion - so they _will_ lower the prices then. This, hopefully, it when HDTV becomes affordable. First we have to get enough rich people to buy enough TV's to start the cycle.
I would never say they shouldn't be allowed to patent their DRUG. But patenting the gene is baseless. The other way around you problem is to patent the process that identifies the gene (which this company has patented as well). But the gene itself is not theirs, its mine, and any other colorblind person's.
Then perhaps there press release should be more clear. It should say they have aquired the patent to a test for colorblindness, but that is not all it states.
The press release says they've received a patent for the genes themselves. The press release may be wrong, but then this companies PR group should be taken out back an flogged.
I read the article and it states they patented both the genes AND the test to find them.
The patent office is utterly worthless unless it stops this crap.
Damn. I guess I'm stuck then.
Actaully this really pisses me off. Go ahead, patent you testing methods, patent you (really cool - if they work - corrective lenses). But who the hell do they think they are patenting MY genes.
I got your prior art right here!!!
Actally shouldn't God/Nature hold the patent on colorblind genes?
Its amazing to think of the kind of abuse consumers will be looking at in the next few years regarding Digital TV.
1) Your old TV's won't work, but you can buy this $100-$200 box just so you can still use the damn thing. (Although the current price on tuner boxes is over $500).
2) New TV's will cost $1,500+. Please go back to 1 TV per household.
3) Now, you won't be able to use your VCR/Tivo/Anything to record shows on your hideously expensive new Digital set.
I will be surprised if there aren't eventually riots in the streets because of this. The total lack of concern for the consumer (and also for the local stations being forced to change standards) is amazing!
I guess the next step will then be the software to prevent you from changing channels when commercials come on. ;-)
Homeworld rocks!! It brought 3D-realtime space combat to the PC, at least brought a realistic controllable 3D environment. Other games had tried and failed. Plus it has an awesome storyline.
You're wrong. The whole reason season 5 of Babylon 5 sucked is that:
1) Season 4 wrapped up to much (and did so brilliantly), because of the doubt that there would even be a season 5.
2) Ivonova left the show, which was an absolutley huge loss.
The corallary to you sig would be.
The court almost screwed the voters by enabling one canditate to count non-votes as votes for himself.
Ummm, no it IS Engr->CS/Math->IT->Business->Other
I should know I have degrees in Engr and CS.
One question. If this guy sticks with seven day weeks. Why rename the days at all!!!
Or maybe we could do that just to see how much more the human race could mess up their measurement of time.
Now just wait one Centon!!!