Well the cost structure from the company's perspective, is very different for personal computers vs. servers. Namely personal computers have very little after-sale cost, a little bit of labor for support and cost for replacement parts, which do not have to be fixed in a very short time frame. Servers however have significantly higher after sale costs because you need to make sure you have enough parts on hand and in the right locations at all times. Keeping a large number of rapidly deprecating parts around really isn't sustainable on the scale that Apple was selling XServes so I can see why Apple killed the XServe. Killing the XServe wasn't Apple's mistake, Apple's mistake was not offering anything equivalent in its stead. Again, had they partnered with Oracle(or HP or Dell, but considering that Apple competes with HP and Dell in a lot of areas, I doubt that would have worked out very well) and officially blessed running OS X server on Sunfire servers then we wouldn't have a problem. Sunfires are damn nice machines(and second only to XServes in aesthetic value:P) and you would have had 0 complaints from the Apple enterprise community.
In fact allowing a lot more flexibility in hardware and software would have been seen as a huge boon and probably would have resulted in a significant increase of OS X server, but again back to my original point, Steve is so obsessed about not repeating the mac clone experiment that he would rather see OS X server, and it's users who tended to be the most rabid pro-Apple people out there, suffer rather than just let the server OS run on officially blessed 3rd party hardware. Really, REALLY dumb move IMO and probably the first big mistake Steve has made since coming back to Apple.
You have to wonder if Apple is going to allow Lion Server to be virtualized on non-Apple servers. This would go a long way to help Apple dig out of the hole they made for themselves in the enterprise world when they canceled the XServe without offering a *REAL* replacement(no Mac Pros and/or Mac Minis are not replacements!). Allowing Lion to be virtualized on non-Apple hardware would give Apple more of a presence in the datacenter without having to maintain a "bulletproof" server hardware engineering team and a large number of parts distribution center. However Steve hates the whole "mac clone" market so much that he seems to be willing to screw his customers over rather than let them run *JUST* the server OS on non-Apple hardware. I still don't know why he didn't opt to allow OS X server to run on "certified" oracle servers, it would have been a win-win for both companies. Apple would have been able to free up the resources previously devoted to the XServe without screwing over some of their most ardent supporters and Oracle would have gotten both sales AND a ton of free advertising for their server division since Apple is currently the media darling and everyone would be reporting on said relationship.....
Just because the mails aren't visible doesn't NECESSARILY mean they are deleted. It could just be a replication issue amongst certain servers(you see this happen on slashdot from time to time, ie a story looks like it doesn't have any comments because there was an issue updating the server you are currently using). Eventual consistency is a powerful tool, but things like this can easily happen if a problem occurs.
I think the fact that you decided to take the time out to comment on a joke you didn't like when it would have been easier just to skip it is the saddest part honestly.
a: the competition and
b: the opportunity cost sacrificed by using slower systems
Even if the absolute cost is high, if it's lower than the cost of either going with a competing product or going with a slower solution, it's still cheap.
See, this is why you need to convince your girlfriend to get into the habit of morning sex. There is no alarm clock more reliable than the human wang and as an added bonus there is no snooze button either:P
Are cracked accounts being used to send spam? The only ones I have ever seen have been used for phishing, probably a much lower hit ratio but almost infinitely higher payout. The facebook spammers tend to be people who either join random groups and post their spam or search for random people and send direct message spam.
Will they be removing the Christian Bible as well for ITS fictional incest? I mean, if you want to talk about books that harm kids minds, the bible is right up there with the Koran and Torah as the most harmful books out there.
I wonder how much that primitive joke of an "operating system" will derail the widespread adoption of these hybrid technologies. With grown up OSs that aren't stupid enough to map the physical drive layout to the logical file layout, these hybrid drives are a no brainer, just change the fstab to point/home(/Users for macheads:P) to the hd and / to the ssd. Done! However in Windows you now would have to contend with your drive being divided amongst 2 drive letters and all the registry hell that goes along with it. Not to mention the fact that a large # of applications simply fail if everything isn't on C:\
Again, windows will probably hold up the rest of us from evolving long enough so that they can write another hack to make their shitty "operating system" work. Why, why are people still putting up with such hard to use primitive bullshit? Linux is infinitely easier to use than Windows ever was.
I just hope that the Religious Right doesn't connect this with the Bad Religion song "Frogger" whose lyrics include "playing frogger with my life". I can just see it now, some Republican asshat screaming "Atheists are telling kids to run out in front of cars, and they are listening! We must ban atheism!"
Ultimately it depends on how much they actually (think) they end up losing. The reason they ship the same hardware to begin with is because it obviously costs them more to set up separate lines for the two cards than it does for them to put the extra bit unused hardware in the lower spec'd card. If ultimately they think that doing this will cost them more in lost sales than they gain in increased manufacturing efficiency then they will start shipping divergent hardware, but if only a tiny portion of their customer base mods their cards then they will probably just consider it collateral damage and maybe up the difficulty of modding the software in the next version.
Read the post again, I said your ears are the SECOND most important tool behind your eyes. Obviously you should look but it's not always possible or even that accurate. As per another bike coming up behind you, they are supposed to ring their bell before passing you, thats common courtesy. Again, ears augmenting the eyes. Please actually read posts before going on a rant next time, ok?
I take it you never bike. Knowing if a car is coming up behind me or not is pretty damned important, especially if I need to pass somebody on the road or there is someone coming the other direction. In fact I get really pissed off when I see cyclists wearing headphones, being able to hear is an integral part of bike safety.
Wow, you cannot even get your nouns right. The noun in "Mexican scam" is scam that somehow or other has a relationship to Mexico, not a person. In "Mexican scammer" the noun is a scammer who is Mexican, which is much more derogatory than the former. So yeah, until you can get the very basic building blocks of language correct there really is no point in arguing with you.
Just ascribing a nationality to something doesn't even remotely infer that everyone in said nation is involved with such activity. Do all French "french kiss"? Doubtful. Are all Swiss involved in making cheese, or even eating what we call "Swiss cheese"? Nope, but we still call it that. Are all Japanese infected with "Japanese Encephallitis"? Nope, in fact the disease has almost been eradicated from the country. Spanish flu? Wasn't even from Spain. etc. We call it the nigerian scam because it was Nigerians who first popularized it. Thats all, nothing more, nothing less. It does not suggest that all people from Nigeria are scammers. If you don't like it then you are going to have popularize a new term, but good luck with that.
To quote Futurama, "you are technically correct, the best kind of correct". Yes this is called an "advance fee fraud", but that isn't how most people refer to this kind of thing. You are interpreting language to be much more prescriptive than it actually is. Language is simply a tool for humans to communicate, not some sacrosanct set of rules that cannot and should not be changed. Most people know this kind of fraud from the Nigerian emails and thus thats how they refer to it.
It's just like "kleenex". Yes, it's technically called tissue paper, but thats now how a lot of people refer to it. If your grandmother asks you to hand her a kleenex and all you have is scott's brand tissue paper are you really going to say, "Sorry grannie, I don't have any kleenex."?
So what are you proposing as an alternative? That the banks wait until each check has totally cleared(taking weeks or longer in some cases) to totally clear? What about the vast, vast majority of the cases where the check does clear? Should everyone else be forced to wait weeks so morons won't have to suffer the consequences of their own stupidity?
Greed and abject stupidity. Seriously, why would the "victim"(aka mark) think that the person emailing him could not find a bank willing to transfer money for a 15% cut? Most banks transfer a lot more for a lot less money and are a lot more reliable than some random dude you email.
China is actually worrying about Irans nuclear ambitions but for different reasons than most of the west is. They arent worried too much about Iran attacking any of its interest but dont want to see US influence continue to grow in the region
Its already well established(and the leaked cables support this) that many of the other countries in the area are quite wary of Iran and its ambitions, and a nuclear armed Iran would give the US and these countries a rationale for increasing US presence and influence in the region. China does not see this as being beneficial in the long run as it sees the US as its biggest, and really only, potential rival. Therefore they are against a nuclear armed Iran but on the other hand Iran is one of Chinas biggest oil suppliers and it really does not want to piss them off. So Chinas position is to try to prevent Iran from getting nukes while at the same time looking like the `good guy`. They often times abstain when it comes time to vote on Iranian sanctions in the security counsel. This essentially gives them an out, they can continue to see sanctions and pressure put on the Iranian nuke program without looking like a bad guy to Iran. They can always tell the Iranians that they were worried about vague and unspecified reprecussions if asked why they didnt vote no.
The admins of the site have explained that essentially the idle section was mandated by their corporate overlords. By keeping the idle section as close to a "real" story as possible without totally violating the "spirit" of idle they are in essence maximizing the # of "real" stories on slashdot.
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If you take any organization called "WANdisco" seriously, you have bigger issues than where exactly your open source software came from :P
Well the cost structure from the company's perspective, is very different for personal computers vs. servers. Namely personal computers have very little after-sale cost, a little bit of labor for support and cost for replacement parts, which do not have to be fixed in a very short time frame. Servers however have significantly higher after sale costs because you need to make sure you have enough parts on hand and in the right locations at all times. Keeping a large number of rapidly deprecating parts around really isn't sustainable on the scale that Apple was selling XServes so I can see why Apple killed the XServe. Killing the XServe wasn't Apple's mistake, Apple's mistake was not offering anything equivalent in its stead. Again, had they partnered with Oracle(or HP or Dell, but considering that Apple competes with HP and Dell in a lot of areas, I doubt that would have worked out very well) and officially blessed running OS X server on Sunfire servers then we wouldn't have a problem. Sunfires are damn nice machines(and second only to XServes in aesthetic value :P) and you would have had 0 complaints from the Apple enterprise community.
In fact allowing a lot more flexibility in hardware and software would have been seen as a huge boon and probably would have resulted in a significant increase of OS X server, but again back to my original point, Steve is so obsessed about not repeating the mac clone experiment that he would rather see OS X server, and it's users who tended to be the most rabid pro-Apple people out there, suffer rather than just let the server OS run on officially blessed 3rd party hardware. Really, REALLY dumb move IMO and probably the first big mistake Steve has made since coming back to Apple.
You have to wonder if Apple is going to allow Lion Server to be virtualized on non-Apple servers. This would go a long way to help Apple dig out of the hole they made for themselves in the enterprise world when they canceled the XServe without offering a *REAL* replacement(no Mac Pros and/or Mac Minis are not replacements!). Allowing Lion to be virtualized on non-Apple hardware would give Apple more of a presence in the datacenter without having to maintain a "bulletproof" server hardware engineering team and a large number of parts distribution center. However Steve hates the whole "mac clone" market so much that he seems to be willing to screw his customers over rather than let them run *JUST* the server OS on non-Apple hardware. I still don't know why he didn't opt to allow OS X server to run on "certified" oracle servers, it would have been a win-win for both companies. Apple would have been able to free up the resources previously devoted to the XServe without screwing over some of their most ardent supporters and Oracle would have gotten both sales AND a ton of free advertising for their server division since Apple is currently the media darling and everyone would be reporting on said relationship.....
Maybe the birds realized they were in Arkansas and figured suicide was really the only way out.
Just because the mails aren't visible doesn't NECESSARILY mean they are deleted. It could just be a replication issue amongst certain servers(you see this happen on slashdot from time to time, ie a story looks like it doesn't have any comments because there was an issue updating the server you are currently using). Eventual consistency is a powerful tool, but things like this can easily happen if a problem occurs.
I think the fact that you decided to take the time out to comment on a joke you didn't like when it would have been easier just to skip it is the saddest part honestly.
The girlfriend is the one that had to get to work, not the OP.
But low cost is always relative to:
a: the competition and
b: the opportunity cost sacrificed by using slower systems
Even if the absolute cost is high, if it's lower than the cost of either going with a competing product or going with a slower solution, it's still cheap.
See, this is why you need to convince your girlfriend to get into the habit of morning sex. There is no alarm clock more reliable than the human wang and as an added bonus there is no snooze button either :P
Okay, but is 'little whores' really necessary?
Depends on the kind of party you are throwing I guess.
Are cracked accounts being used to send spam? The only ones I have ever seen have been used for phishing, probably a much lower hit ratio but almost infinitely higher payout. The facebook spammers tend to be people who either join random groups and post their spam or search for random people and send direct message spam.
Will they be removing the Christian Bible as well for ITS fictional incest? I mean, if you want to talk about books that harm kids minds, the bible is right up there with the Koran and Torah as the most harmful books out there.
I wonder how much that primitive joke of an "operating system" will derail the widespread adoption of these hybrid technologies. With grown up OSs that aren't stupid enough to map the physical drive layout to the logical file layout, these hybrid drives are a no brainer, just change the fstab to point /home(/Users for macheads :P) to the hd and / to the ssd. Done! However in Windows you now would have to contend with your drive being divided amongst 2 drive letters and all the registry hell that goes along with it. Not to mention the fact that a large # of applications simply fail if everything isn't on C:\
Again, windows will probably hold up the rest of us from evolving long enough so that they can write another hack to make their shitty "operating system" work. Why, why are people still putting up with such hard to use primitive bullshit? Linux is infinitely easier to use than Windows ever was.
I just hope that the Religious Right doesn't connect this with the Bad Religion song "Frogger" whose lyrics include "playing frogger with my life". I can just see it now, some Republican asshat screaming "Atheists are telling kids to run out in front of cars, and they are listening! We must ban atheism!"
Ultimately it depends on how much they actually (think) they end up losing. The reason they ship the same hardware to begin with is because it obviously costs them more to set up separate lines for the two cards than it does for them to put the extra bit unused hardware in the lower spec'd card. If ultimately they think that doing this will cost them more in lost sales than they gain in increased manufacturing efficiency then they will start shipping divergent hardware, but if only a tiny portion of their customer base mods their cards then they will probably just consider it collateral damage and maybe up the difficulty of modding the software in the next version.
Read the post again, I said your ears are the SECOND most important tool behind your eyes. Obviously you should look but it's not always possible or even that accurate. As per another bike coming up behind you, they are supposed to ring their bell before passing you, thats common courtesy. Again, ears augmenting the eyes. Please actually read posts before going on a rant next time, ok?
I take it you never bike. Knowing if a car is coming up behind me or not is pretty damned important, especially if I need to pass somebody on the road or there is someone coming the other direction. In fact I get really pissed off when I see cyclists wearing headphones, being able to hear is an integral part of bike safety.
Wow, you cannot even get your nouns right. The noun in "Mexican scam" is scam that somehow or other has a relationship to Mexico, not a person. In "Mexican scammer" the noun is a scammer who is Mexican, which is much more derogatory than the former. So yeah, until you can get the very basic building blocks of language correct there really is no point in arguing with you.
Just ascribing a nationality to something doesn't even remotely infer that everyone in said nation is involved with such activity. Do all French "french kiss"? Doubtful. Are all Swiss involved in making cheese, or even eating what we call "Swiss cheese"? Nope, but we still call it that. Are all Japanese infected with "Japanese Encephallitis"? Nope, in fact the disease has almost been eradicated from the country. Spanish flu? Wasn't even from Spain. etc. We call it the nigerian scam because it was Nigerians who first popularized it. Thats all, nothing more, nothing less. It does not suggest that all people from Nigeria are scammers. If you don't like it then you are going to have popularize a new term, but good luck with that.
To quote Futurama, "you are technically correct, the best kind of correct". Yes this is called an "advance fee fraud", but that isn't how most people refer to this kind of thing. You are interpreting language to be much more prescriptive than it actually is. Language is simply a tool for humans to communicate, not some sacrosanct set of rules that cannot and should not be changed. Most people know this kind of fraud from the Nigerian emails and thus thats how they refer to it.
It's just like "kleenex". Yes, it's technically called tissue paper, but thats now how a lot of people refer to it. If your grandmother asks you to hand her a kleenex and all you have is scott's brand tissue paper are you really going to say, "Sorry grannie, I don't have any kleenex."?
So what are you proposing as an alternative? That the banks wait until each check has totally cleared(taking weeks or longer in some cases) to totally clear? What about the vast, vast majority of the cases where the check does clear? Should everyone else be forced to wait weeks so morons won't have to suffer the consequences of their own stupidity?
Greed and abject stupidity. Seriously, why would the "victim"(aka mark) think that the person emailing him could not find a bank willing to transfer money for a 15% cut? Most banks transfer a lot more for a lot less money and are a lot more reliable than some random dude you email.
Yeah because a hardcore Jewish extremist would use the Christian calendar with the American date format to celebrate their martyr.....
China is actually worrying about Irans nuclear ambitions but for different reasons than most of the west is. They arent worried too much about Iran attacking any of its interest but dont want to see US influence continue to grow in the region
Its already well established(and the leaked cables support this) that many of the other countries in the area are quite wary of Iran and its ambitions, and a nuclear armed Iran would give the US and these countries a rationale for increasing US presence and influence in the region. China does not see this as being beneficial in the long run as it sees the US as its biggest, and really only, potential rival. Therefore they are against a nuclear armed Iran but on the other hand Iran is one of Chinas biggest oil suppliers and it really does not want to piss them off. So Chinas position is to try to prevent Iran from getting nukes while at the same time looking like the `good guy`. They often times abstain when it comes time to vote on Iranian sanctions in the security counsel. This essentially gives them an out, they can continue to see sanctions and pressure put on the Iranian nuke program without looking like a bad guy to Iran. They can always tell the Iranians that they were worried about vague and unspecified reprecussions if asked why they didnt vote no.
The admins of the site have explained that essentially the idle section was mandated by their corporate overlords. By keeping the idle section as close to a "real" story as possible without totally violating the "spirit" of idle they are in essence maximizing the # of "real" stories on slashdot.