I thought the whole point about MAI, which the Yanks (and, sadly, our toadying mob in Whitehall too) were vigorously supporting was that the US's laws would soon apply in all countries, whether they liked it or not... particularly when it came to the right of a corporate entity to rape'n'pillage for profit (see BGH, GM soya, Ethyl Corporation in Canada etc)
Hurrah for the French who told the rest of the OECD where to stick it (temporarily, at least). -- Cheers
Which is your opinion, to which you're entitled. It's also wrong, of course.
Look at the name: internet. Interconnected networks. The first time someone glued networks from two sites together via the magic of packet switching and nicotine they created an internet.
The one we've got nowadays (B1FFs, pr0n,/. and all) could be dated back to 1982-1983 (TCP/IP adopted in preference to NCP/IP and DNS put in place), which is about the first time the whole shooting match got called 'the Internet'.
Hell, the Great Renaming was in '85... -- Cheers
Jon
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Depends what sort of services you're running: if you're just doing file & print to an 20-person office then it's fine having scheduled downtime. If you require 5 9's availability then it ain't. -- Cheers
Do I take it from this that you never take your plastic out of your wallet? Because if you do, then all sorts of people (shop staff, waiters, call-centre workers etc) all know your credit card details.
Admittedly, modern (i.e. last couple of years) tills and credit card swipe machines have now started printing only the last five digits of your card number on your receipt, but they're still in a minority. The rest have your card number, expiry date, name, inside leg measurement and just about everything else too. Feeling secure yet?
The only way to get round it is to pay cash or cheque for everything, I'm afraid. Wired economy my arse... -- Cheers
Cost of hiring a competent programmer for a year = $70 000 to $200 000. Cost of providing office space, computers etc for said programmer = ???
Two grands worth of compiler ain't going to make much difference. Plus who pays list price for Microsoft products anyway? Not me, for one, and not *any* corporate...
Well - let's not overstate the case. MSSQL7 runs rings round just about anything else on NT, but stack it up against a real database server (like some of the big CC-NUMA boxes) and watch it squeal.
FYI - a Sequent NUMACentre 2000 posted 94000 tpmCs running Oracle 8 on Dynix on 64 Xeons, while a ProLiant 8000 posted 26500 tpmCs running MSSQL7 EE on NT4 EE on quad Xeons.
As far as big databases go, Unix (commercial flavours only so far) is still the only game in town.
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Shame this was posted by AC: it'd have been worth at least +3 mod. points for outright satirical brilliance...
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Jon
I thought the whole point about MAI, which the Yanks (and, sadly, our toadying mob in Whitehall too) were vigorously supporting was that the US's laws would soon apply in all countries, whether they liked it or not... particularly when it came to the right of a corporate entity to rape'n'pillage for profit (see BGH, GM soya, Ethyl Corporation in Canada etc)
Hurrah for the French who told the rest of the OECD where to stick it (temporarily, at least).
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Cheers
Jon
Which is your opinion, to which you're entitled. It's also wrong, of course.
/. and all) could be dated back to 1982-1983 (TCP/IP adopted in preference to NCP/IP and DNS put in place), which is about the first time the whole shooting match got called 'the Internet'.
Look at the name: internet. Interconnected networks. The first time someone glued networks from two sites together via the magic of packet switching and nicotine they created an internet.
The one we've got nowadays (B1FFs, pr0n,
Hell, the Great Renaming was in '85...
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Cheers
Jon
Depends what sort of services you're running: if you're just doing file & print to an 20-person office then it's fine having scheduled downtime. If you require 5 9's availability then it ain't.
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Cheers
Jon
Do I take it from this that you never take your plastic out of your wallet? Because if you do, then all sorts of people (shop staff, waiters, call-centre workers etc) all know your credit card details.
Admittedly, modern (i.e. last couple of years) tills and credit card swipe machines have now started printing only the last five digits of your card number on your receipt, but they're still in a minority. The rest have your card number, expiry date, name, inside leg measurement and just about everything else too. Feeling secure yet?
The only way to get round it is to pay cash or cheque for everything, I'm afraid. Wired economy my arse...
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Cheers
Jon
erm ... FX!32?
Cost of hiring a competent programmer for a year = $70 000 to $200 000.
Cost of providing office space, computers etc for said programmer = ???
Two grands worth of compiler ain't going to make much difference. Plus who pays list price for Microsoft products anyway? Not me, for one, and not *any* corporate...
Well - let's not overstate the case. MSSQL7 runs rings round just about anything else on NT, but stack it up against a real database server (like some of the big CC-NUMA boxes) and watch it squeal.
FYI - a Sequent NUMACentre 2000 posted 94000 tpmCs running Oracle 8 on Dynix on 64 Xeons, while a ProLiant 8000 posted 26500 tpmCs running MSSQL7 EE on NT4 EE on quad Xeons.
As far as big databases go, Unix (commercial flavours only so far) is still the only game in town.