Probably the power cost is higher, but to do the real ROI, they need to examine the number of additional computer failures that will occur and the cost (both in $$$ and in CO2) that will be required to replace them.
Every time you cycle the power on a computer you shorten it's life. Shut off every one of these computers every night and you will probably have a million more dead PCs/year...
Yes, about 1/3-1/4 of camcorders are hard drive based... Another 10-25% or so are recordable CD or DVD based. Then you have flash memory based and then you have your tape based. Flash memory is the way to go.
Make sure the video cam you get him is flash memory based. HD based ones will certainly die with the shock and vibration they will take in the field. I recently got Canon Vixia HF10, which is flash based, HD and works quite well. However, for something the field he may prefer something a bit more robust like a Sanyo Xacti or a Flip HD.
The biggest share of the blame goes to Phil Gramm and two bills that GOP idiot got passed.
1. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act that rolled back the 1933 reforms and let us just REPEAT the same problem... morons... absolute morons
2. The Commodity Futures Act of 2000, which made CDOs and CDSs legal even though they were ILLEGAL in almost all states since the 1907 crash, and for good reason..
Then lastly, blame the GOP controlled SEC which allowed banks to leverage 33 to 1!!!!!!! in 2004.
Talk about absolute insanity. Nothing the Dems did in encouraging low cost home ownership is even in the same ball park as the stupidity I listed above.
Disorderly conduct is one of those 'crimes' that should not exist.
It is arbitrary and capricious and allows a cop to arrest you for doing anything or literally nothing at all.
When you get arrested for disorderly conduct you can be sure that you just pissed the cop off and they decided to run you in as payback. That's all it is. It is a 'crime' made up to let police lean on anyone they don't like.
Even if you've never worked for a corporation in your life, you are still at the mercy of their whims when they buy politicians and laws (which they do constantly).
That still makes you a peon and the corporations the royalty anyway you look at it.
Maybe you can be the village blacksmith (Consultant) rather than the Baron's whipping boy (corporate programmer), but that still doesn't make you any less subject to the whims of the law put in place by the Royalty.
This IS the same company after all that helped Hitler keep track of his concentration camp prisoners.
Expecting moral behavior from a corporation in general and IBM in particular is like expecting the sun to shine at night.
Until we change the things that make corporations amoral, we will never change their behavior.
It's no secret that our business schools teach our MBAs how to be absolute slime and justify it with the mantra of 'capitalism'.
An ideology of greed and selfishness breeds this, which is why the GOP is the party of the corporation... not that the Dems are much better, but at least they give lip service to something else.
Any corporation that is big enough and has enough money, can get the politicians they buy to do anything for them, regardless of the effects on the rest of us.
The average person is nothing but a 21st century serf and the corporations are the royalty.
The scenery and technology has changed since the 1700s, but not much else has.
I've read the book, so I know what is espoused, and know that what you are saying is correct. However, the Conservative movement in this country in general and the GOP in particular appears to believe what I stated.
Certainly the ACTIONS of the GOP far more closely follow the philosophy of "whatever I can do to make a buck, regardless of the impacts to others is ok".
Sadly I have seen a lot of evidence of this over the last 8 years, and I'm sure anyone who looks with an open mind has too.
On the other hand, if one espouses and believes a philosophy that says that "Whatever I can do to make myself more money at the expense of the group is both moral and reasonable", well, you wind up with the current GOP ideology of selfishness and greed and you can see where that has gotten us.
They don't have a 'core business' any more. I should know, I once owned their stock... God help me.
Your customers don't hang around when you have clearly lost your mind completely and decide to SUE YOUR OWN CUSTOMERS...
Darl and SCO should be a business case every newly minted MBA a**hole has to study before being allowed to graduate, so that they don't follow him down the path to stupidity.
You are far too forgiving. There are some levels of anti-social activity that must be punished horrifically, and continuing to harass people long after everyone and their brother has decided your arguments are fallacious and worthless is certainly one of them.
Anyone who uses the legal system of the United States as an UNJUST weapon against others deserves significant punishment, "pour encourager les autres".
Darl sucks. He took a company that had a decent product that was rapidly becoming irrelevant and decided the 'winning business solution' was to sue everyone and hope to win the lawsuit lottery.
I hope the bankruptcy judge finds him PERSONALLY LIABLE and sentences him to jail for THEFT. Because that is what he has done. He has STOLEN money and time from companies and people that have far, far better things to do with their time and money.
He is a parasite on society and because of him, SCO will forever be known as a bad joke and an evil company.
Reading how the BART police apparently shot an unarmed and handcuffed man in the back while he was face down reminds me of something someone once told me regarding how to deal with police.
"Don't tease the animals"
Meaning, the cops deal with scumbags so often that they expect everyone to be a scumbag and they rationalize what they do to you based off of that. They are also generally pissed off and unhappy, which means you stay alive a lot longer if you don't give them any excuse.
Their constant support of assaults on the Constitution and their support of extra- and outright illegal acts all in the name of a Global "War on Terror" are directly responsible for the atmosphere that allows these sorts of violations to occur.
Let's hope the new administration realizes what it means to be American.
You can have Freedom or Security, but not both.
The America I thought I grew up in wants Freedom more than Security.
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Think again... I work in this industry... Remember Nvidia's problems? Many things are getting MORE fragile, not less....
Probably the power cost is higher, but to do the real ROI, they need to examine the number of additional computer failures that will occur and the cost (both in $$$ and in CO2) that will be required to replace them.
Every time you cycle the power on a computer you shorten it's life. Shut off every one of these computers every night and you will probably have a million more dead PCs/year...
Once again a corporation is allowed to steal and not pay back what it stole...
While an individual would have to pay every DIME back and then pay a penalty on TOP of that...
Pathetic
Yes, about 1/3-1/4 of camcorders are hard drive based... Another 10-25% or so are recordable CD or DVD based. Then you have flash memory based and then you have your tape based. Flash memory is the way to go.
Make sure the video cam you get him is flash memory based. HD based ones will certainly die with the shock and vibration they will take in the field. I recently got Canon Vixia HF10, which is flash based, HD and works quite well. However, for something the field he may prefer something a bit more robust like a Sanyo Xacti or a Flip HD.
You are wrong to blame only the democrats.
The biggest share of the blame goes to Phil Gramm and two bills that GOP idiot got passed.
1. The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act that rolled back the 1933 reforms and let us just REPEAT the same problem... morons... absolute morons
2. The Commodity Futures Act of 2000, which made CDOs and CDSs legal even though they were ILLEGAL in almost all states since the 1907 crash, and for good reason..
Then lastly, blame the GOP controlled SEC which allowed banks to leverage 33 to 1!!!!!!! in 2004.
Talk about absolute insanity. Nothing the Dems did in encouraging low cost home ownership is even in the same ball park as the stupidity I listed above.
'All models are wrong, but some are useful' - George EP Box
What's wrong with models are that ignorant people use them wrongly...
It's good to know that the idiocy of the GOP continues unabated.
It's sad to realize that the moronic Dems will probably also vote for this.
The only thing that will save us is that ISPs will fight this tooth and nail
Of course, the big ISPs will probably agree to do it since they can afford it and it will help them drive the small ISPs out of business.
What a great system of government we have... not.
Disorderly conduct is one of those 'crimes' that should not exist.
It is arbitrary and capricious and allows a cop to arrest you for doing anything or literally nothing at all.
When you get arrested for disorderly conduct you can be sure that you just pissed the cop off and they decided to run you in as payback. That's all it is. It is a 'crime' made up to let police lean on anyone they don't like.
Please explain this to George Bush, Dick Cheney and.... well, every politician that ever lived.
Yeah, thought so.
So shouldn't the HR drone have MENTIONED this?
I lean toward the H1B theory myself... "We put up the ad and received NO APPLICANTS! We MUST be allowed to hire foreign workers!"
The Romans knew that they had to keep the plebes in line with Bread and Circuses.
Nowadays our "Bread and Circuses" are McDonalds and plasma TVs with the Superbowl...
Even if you've never worked for a corporation in your life, you are still at the mercy of their whims when they buy politicians and laws (which they do constantly).
That still makes you a peon and the corporations the royalty anyway you look at it.
Maybe you can be the village blacksmith (Consultant) rather than the Baron's whipping boy (corporate programmer), but that still doesn't make you any less subject to the whims of the law put in place by the Royalty.
This IS the same company after all that helped Hitler keep track of his concentration camp prisoners.
Expecting moral behavior from a corporation in general and IBM in particular is like expecting the sun to shine at night.
Until we change the things that make corporations amoral, we will never change their behavior.
It's no secret that our business schools teach our MBAs how to be absolute slime and justify it with the mantra of 'capitalism'.
An ideology of greed and selfishness breeds this, which is why the GOP is the party of the corporation... not that the Dems are much better, but at least they give lip service to something else.
Any corporation that is big enough and has enough money, can get the politicians they buy to do anything for them, regardless of the effects on the rest of us.
The average person is nothing but a 21st century serf and the corporations are the royalty.
The scenery and technology has changed since the 1700s, but not much else has.
I've read the book, so I know what is espoused, and know that what you are saying is correct. However, the Conservative movement in this country in general and the GOP in particular appears to believe what I stated.
Certainly the ACTIONS of the GOP far more closely follow the philosophy of "whatever I can do to make a buck, regardless of the impacts to others is ok".
Sadly I have seen a lot of evidence of this over the last 8 years, and I'm sure anyone who looks with an open mind has too.
On the other hand, if one espouses and believes a philosophy that says that "Whatever I can do to make myself more money at the expense of the group is both moral and reasonable", well, you wind up with the current GOP ideology of selfishness and greed and you can see where that has gotten us.
You can look at it either way...
Encourage others to behave honorably, or discourage them from behaving badly.
Typically I've seen this phrase quoted this way...."pour encourager les autres", although granted it has been a lot of years since French class.
I bet Orrin Hatch proposes this in the next legislative session.
Orrin Hatch is an evil bleepard just like Darl.
Orrin is the RIAA's beeatch and supports their continued lawsuits of individuals.
It's interesting that so much evil comes out of Utah... Wonder why...
EXACTLY.
They don't have a 'core business' any more. I should know, I once owned their stock... God help me.
Your customers don't hang around when you have clearly lost your mind completely and decide to SUE YOUR OWN CUSTOMERS...
Darl and SCO should be a business case every newly minted MBA a**hole has to study before being allowed to graduate, so that they don't follow him down the path to stupidity.
You are far too forgiving. There are some levels of anti-social activity that must be punished horrifically, and continuing to harass people long after everyone and their brother has decided your arguments are fallacious and worthless is certainly one of them.
Anyone who uses the legal system of the United States as an UNJUST weapon against others deserves significant punishment, "pour encourager les autres".
Darl sucks. He took a company that had a decent product that was rapidly becoming irrelevant and decided the 'winning business solution' was to sue everyone and hope to win the lawsuit lottery.
I hope the bankruptcy judge finds him PERSONALLY LIABLE and sentences him to jail for THEFT. Because that is what he has done. He has STOLEN money and time from companies and people that have far, far better things to do with their time and money.
He is a parasite on society and because of him, SCO will forever be known as a bad joke and an evil company.
Reading how the BART police apparently shot an unarmed and handcuffed man in the back while he was face down reminds me of something someone once told me regarding how to deal with police.
"Don't tease the animals"
Meaning, the cops deal with scumbags so often that they expect everyone to be a scumbag and they rationalize what they do to you based off of that. They are also generally pissed off and unhappy, which means you stay alive a lot longer if you don't give them any excuse.
"Don't tease the animals"... remember it.
Their constant support of assaults on the Constitution and their support of extra- and outright illegal acts all in the name of a Global "War on Terror" are directly responsible for the atmosphere that allows these sorts of violations to occur.
Let's hope the new administration realizes what it means to be American.
You can have Freedom or Security, but not both.
The America I thought I grew up in wants Freedom more than Security.
Fine, then just fire the HEAD of the OS validation team 'pour encourager les autres'.
The one thing you CAN'T do is let a screwup this big go, or else people realize there are no consequences for not doing your job.