PHPNuke and other CMS'es or weblog thingies like Wordpress made it simple to create websites for the masses of people that just wanted something simple to host their website. Of course, they never kept up with any of the updates or didn't even give a hoot about security. Next thing you know you have a bunch of websites that are cracked and now serve ads and malware.
Skype is like the Microsoft (MSN) of VoIP. It's one of the main players for home and even small business yet it isn't compatible with any of the other players. It also attempts to lock in their customers (as they don't accept or dial out to SIP) so anyone that wants to connect to anyone else needs Skype. Furthermore it's doing some dubious practices behind the doors with three-letter agencies and governments so they can't be trusted. Anyone trying to implement their protocol is either infringing on patents or otherwise will meet a DMCA.
But right at the moment, the global financial crisis is causing global distribution and production crises, and if those are not addressed immediately, then by November there will be famines, pestilence, and wars. There are only a few short weeks left to get things to the point where the American farming industry can get the loans it needs for Spring planting... and if fields end up going fallow for want of loans for plowing, seeding, and fertilizing, there will be a food shortage of global proportions.
Citation please. I still have food and the food hasn't gone up in price very much. If there was going to be a shortage soon, people would be hoarding food already and it would be extremely difficult to get anything. I can still get loans, in fact, I will get a mortgage pretty soon without major hurdles. The only ones that can't get mo' money are the ones that don't have the backing for it, those people that used up all their credit lines and/or don't have anything to offer the bank in return. My company can still buy things, they don't need to go in debt for most of it but even when they do, they don't have any problems with it.
Maybe some corn farmers have some issues but they can plant and reap for a year without having to go in debt can they? If not, you've been farming badly or you've been running your farm like or investing in those bank businesses. Actually, the bank businesses are the only one that are having problems right now and those that relied on the banks to keep bailing them out. Some banks like local credit unions, small banks, HSBC and some others don't see any problems because they didn't do the same things some of the bigger ones did (they could see further than the next quarter profit report or like my credit union - they report to their real shareholders aka the account holders). We are only in a recession on Wall Street and anyone elsewhere that has invested in Wall Street will see problems. The rest of us will live their happy lives and continue to build (although they have never made crazy profits and will probably never be able to afford anything better than a 3 bedroom house and 1 luxury car)
I don't understand. Is the torrent site suing the CRIAA (Canadian Recording Industry Assh*les from America) to see whether non-Canadian content is copyrighted by the CRIAA? I thought those companies were subsidiaries of the recording companies and they just cross-license their stuff.
The OGG requirements got removed from HTML5 because it's unclear whether patents are involved. The problem is not that ogg is patented but that somebody *cough*Fraunhofer*cough* has patents on an 'electronic (compressed) media apparatus' and others have patents *cough*Adobe & Microsoft*cough* on embedding media (Flash, Windows Media) into webpages.
Basically what a lot of 'religions' teach is that you will be judged by $DIETY after you die. When you're no good, you go to a bad place (or you won't get resurrected) and if you're good you will go to a good/better place (or you will get resurrected in paradise).
Whether or not that's true I'll leave in the middle in order not to spark huge debates but the leaders of those religions have you believe that you're always bad and everything you do is bad (you're born a sinner and we can't do anything about it) unless you tell $CHURCHLEADER about it and let him tell you what to do (whether it be paying cash, prayer,...), then you're good for a little bit until your next mistake. Off course we all make a lot of mistakes and some things we have never told to anyone or we have done and we think that we can't be forgiven for it (maybe because other people haven't forgotten about it) so we take those secrets/unforgiving sins with us as we die. However those secrets might doom us for eternity (it's not clear cut as to what will doom us or what won't) so we rather hold on to what we know than to what we don't know.
Another theory would be that if we hold on to life as long as we can and we think we lived a good life, that $DIETY might step in and miraculously heal us.
Somebody should ask them. Why do you want to live so badly, there's no hope for you.
The decline of the overpriced server market started with the availability of cheap commodity (desktop) hardware being used for server-grade systems. People don't always need 100% uptime (as Windows is a great example that people don't even think about it) and they aren't willing to pay extra to squeeze every ounce of performance and reliability out of those machines. Those people are willing to live with a few hours per month of downtime or they just invest in a failover server. The Sun's (as well as SGI and DEC machines) are very 'expensive' but they won't fail as fast nor will the failure be as disastrous (eg. RAID controllers taking a whole array of data with them).
I have had experience you can say with every type of hardware out there. It's not unusual to see a Sun Workstation or Sun Server (where I currently work we still have a few Ultra's chugging) that have been purchased in the 90's. Even their hard drives haven't failed yet and have layers of dusts because people either forget about it or are afraid to touch it. However I have never seen a Dell that was more than 5 years old that either hasn't been replaced yet or had some major (hardware) problems with it. The same goes for hardware with PowerPC processors, those things keep living even after they've been off the market for years and the performance of an Apple with a quad core G5 is almost similar to the previous Mac Pro's (with Xeon processors) on most loads. Just now are the Xeon's (either the Nehalem architecture or the higher frequency versions of the previous) passing the G5's on such a level that you actually notice.
An SLA is all nice and stuff. But the cloud adds so much more points of failure that a real 99.9% uptime job is nigh impossible. You need to take the lowest common denominator in your link between you and the cloud and that will be your uptime. If it's your internet connection (and everything that gives you the internet connection including load balancers, border routing, switches, fiber optics) that can't stay up for that level, having 99.999% at Google won't help much. On the other hand, what if they don't meet your SLA? How much will they give you back in monetary damages? Are they willing to sell you a service if you demand a $100,000 per minute penalty? The same goes for your failover equipment, your switches,...
If you are like one of the companies I used to work at (catalog ordering with their own credit card processing) 1 minute of downtime of their application can cost literally a million dollars (actually it would be more like $100,000 in real revenue but the fallout would probably be that much). If they host it close to home (in a local dual data center layout with automatic failover) they can actually guarantee quite some good uptime and with a decent contract with IBM (which doesn't care giving you a $100,000 discount on a $1M contract infrastructure) they have no downtime.
However how much internet connections do you think you need to get that kind of throughput and failover? For example in my area it's very difficult to find a good internet provider that doesn't peer to the local AT&T backbone. If the local AT&T backbone is down (and it has happened) I think about 90% of the providers lose their connection.
No. Currently ICBM's are accurate anywhere from 1 to 100 cm. It doesn't really matter if it's off even 5x that amount, the target will get hit or be incinerated.
1. Unlike previous downturns, we currently have tons of IT/CS people out of work. I'm very lucky to have work; according to all my colleagues, hiring is extremely limited, especially in large public companies. In addition, competition for these jobs is incredibly tough.
Not really. I find it very easy to find a job. I have recruiters sending me e-mail every week although I have been off the market for over 2 years. Everybody is tightening their belt. Some think cutting IT is going to help, some think spending on IT is helping. I work at a large company and we seem to be hiring a lot recently. Competition for any decent job is going to be tough. If you're good you'll filter through and somebody will have to go with the gut feeling on 2 or 3 of you.
2. Outsourcing has not gone away. IBM's a perfect example, as are many of the other professional services firms. India is rapidly moving up the food chain, and even advanced dev jobs are moving elsewhere very quickly. The best strategy is to get involved with a small company who doesn't have the resources to manage an outsourcing engagement.
Outsourcing will never go away. The current laws and tax code make it almost impossible to hire somebody unless you know their services are going to be required for more than 3 years. For all other things, just outsource to a consultant that is considered an 'asset' and can thus be abused, fired, go to the extreme, live in another country etc. and on top of that it's fully tax deductible. However if a hire gets sick and you have to pay for somebody else AND your company's health insurance is asking their spent money back from the company AND you have to pay out long term disability it can become very expensive. It's that the government let's health 'insurance' companies get away with it and let taxes be so lax and personnel code be so stringent (not to speak about unions and insane laws) for companies that a small downturn in economy won't allow for recovery of those companies. Another issue is data protection. If you outsource your data management (which is legal), then that company becomes liable for it. If that company is in another country it doesn't need to disclose. Thus if you lose data that you outsourced and you don't know (fingers in ear: la-la-la) your safe. If you lose it within the US every piece of information whether it is ever going to be used illegally or not needs to be payed for.
3. A corollary to #2 - Lots of companies are "discovering" they don't need an IT department anymore. Most of the programming jobs will be for vendors, if the whole "cloud computing" fad turns out to be more than a fad.
Cloud computing will be a fad. As we've seen outages with both Google and Amazon, several vendors closing doors and leaving their customers high and dry I think soon somebody in management is either going to take attention or fail miserably. Either way the risk and costs are greater in all my calculations and unless the price goes down and reliability up, no serious user is going to trust their company to a 'cloud'
4. Don't assume you can choose where you work, if that's important to you. Companies are shifting their support functions to cheaper locations within the US, so keep that in mind unless you don't care about living in Boston vs. Omaha.
Well, people will go where the jobs are. If more higher paying jobs are elsewhere, people will move thus leaving open slots for others that stay. This has always been the case and it doesn't matter whether it's Europe, India or the US. It all goes up and down and people will move. Simple case: go to a small rural area with some type of factory or engineering site that ended up there. They will pay you much more than what you earn in the 'city' but if you lose the job you'll probably have to move again. Would you do it? Some will, some won't. I did it for a while and it worked out for me.
It seems this card only copies files that are already written on the card through some weird proprietary protocol. As I said, many camera's will soon have this or at least have an option to add it (Nikon already has it on some SLR's and I believe Canon has a consumer camera with it and the rest probably won't lag behind).
What WOULD be interesting instead of this unusable trinket would be a cf-card as you propose that makes whatever device have a wireless connection. It could stream whatever is written on it directly through an open protocol onto an image on another storage system and retrieve it the same way. Kinda like having it emulate the card but have the data (as an image) physically reside on the storage server (with a small 128MB local buffer). That way you could insert them in security camera's and the like that currently all have their individual hard drive and cards.
A memory card with Wi-Fi built in and bad driver support somebody wrote a Python script for. Other than being over expensive (both in pocket and on battery) and unnecessary for most high-end camera's (since they have it already built-in or aren't in range of any wi-fi when shooting) I don't see the need for it nor do I see many uses elsewhere.
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Exactly what I was thinking. Graph out (bosses like yours like little graphs that dumb down what they don't understand) what what the actual usage is due to direct, unencrypted P2P (Kazaa, Limewire and WinMX) and what the rest of the usage is. With an actual oversubscription of 70:1 on a small (rural?) ISP I doubt that your problem is P2P. I would think video sites, video and audio chats and flash-heavy sites are more of a problem.
Then research the several solutions as well as their costs and graph out what your savings would be. Something simple as going from several T1's to a single (or dual) T3 would save you a lot of money and give you more bandwidth.
Well MAD wasn't all that. The populus on both sides were kept in a constant state of fear (as with terrorism in our days) and the politicians on both sides knew nothing was going to happen. It was all posturing through the media but in the background the channels were open and it was as far as I can see just a ploy to keep the war machine running and have the tax payers buy into it.
Most of these account have a personal account manager that represents the bank. Kinda like here in the US if you have more than 100k in your account, you get assigned a personal 'wealth' consultant (at least that's what my bank calls it) who basically manages all your assets and recommends what to do with them. Some of their services are included in the price of having your moneys at their bank and some you have to pay for.
I think if these bankers are going to compromise their trust with their clients, the banks won't survive for a very long time. There will be a run for the bank which is (as we've seen the last couple of years) very, very bad for any bank and with it the country's economy. The wealthy will always find someone or some company to manage their assets even if it means they have to move them to another country, it's only a phone call away. If you believe the movies/media and you piss off a drug baron with their money you might end up in a not-so-favorable situation.
So basically, steal a box from the Wal-Mart warehouse and distribute for free to anyone?
When you download a copy, it doesn't get automatically redistributed to millions. Look at the next Bittorrent upload/download rate of any (copyleft or copyright infringing) torrent that you do. If you have a popular download, YOU will redistribute maybe 50% of what you downloaded before your download is complete. If you leave it overnight you might go up to 100% or even 200% if you got a big pipe. But that's it. I have distributed torrents for weeks of popular Linux distro's on a 500 Mbps link (at work) and only reached 1000%. That's 10x somebody downloads a full copy.
Maybe others will redistribute too but that's their problem between the copyright holders and them and it might even be perfectly legal for them to do, if not the copyright holders need to go after them in civil court, not punish you.
You mean like those cheap MP4 players you get at JCPenney (Craig or whatever brand they are). I have a couple (5) of those since people got them as a gift and don't know what to do with them. They are 1) ugly 2) unusable (interface) and 3) low quality (music is metallic, screen is 320x240 and video output is 160x120). The only thing they're good for is storing 512MB of data.
There is a reason Apple is so successful in the market and it's not because it's the iEl-Cheapo from the Abble cult, it's because they do what they need to do better than the others. I overheard quite some sales nerds at several stores while I was waiting in line (especially during the holiday season). Even the Zune (which is price-wise and sound-quality wise on par with the iPod) is being steered away from by them just because and I quote "almost nobody returns an iPod after the holidays but we got quite some customers come trade in their Zune for either an iPod or cash because they didn't like how it worked".
Two 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 32GB (8x4GB) Mac Pro RAID Card
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s 1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s 1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s 1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s 4x NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB Two 18x SuperDrives Apple Mighty Mouse Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad (English) and User's Guide AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi Card with 802.11n
Processor wise AMD or Intel doesn't make a difference. Even on the boards there isn't that much difference, manufacturers just slap on whatever is cheapest (Creative and Realtek) and most of the time you're better off buying a separate sound and network card for any decent performance (especially amplified sound output and gigabit).
As far as your specifics: the ATi 48xx is supported on all main distro's (try Ubuntu) with the binary driver and audio-over-HDMI as well with any recent (2y old) Alsa packages. I found it helpful if you have the 'latest' hardware to just enable the 'unstable' package repositories (any distro) and let all the updates come in. For RPM-based systems I recommend the Dries, Livna and Dag package repositories (haven't gone RPM in a while but afaik they are still available).
Your machine will still be stable, unstable just means that if you are running a server or an enterprise desktop you probably should be careful but I never had a problem with any of the packages that couldn't be fixed (ever since I have been Windows-free on my home computers using Red Hat Linux 5 in 1998)
Welcome to Time Warner Cable. It is possible to set it up differently but then it will start recording all reruns and old shows as well and depending on other shows, it might conflict with other recordings you've set upf. If you've ever used their stuff, it's very, very difficult even for a geek like me to fully understand their setup (like why there is a Firewire and USB port but neither are active and why does the DVR go through the trouble of filtering HD channels out when using the coax pass-through) and the options when setting up a recording are very cryptic (1) First Run only on this channel (will record only new shows within this time slot on this day if it moves it won't record) 2) On this channel at any time (will record all episodes no matter what and upon collision with other shows will record both shows only half) 3) On this channel any day in this time slot (will record all episodes within this time slot on this day but will stop all recordings after 2 minutes in case of a collision)
But aren't all of those 'solutions' already considered?
Space garbage zapping: You'll end up with particles and debris that is smaller and more difficult to track. Given a speck of paint in space has the same effect as a bullet on earth I don't know if we really want that.
Space garbage collecting: However you try to do it, your spacecraft would have to either maneuver very very well in order not to be destroyed itself (making even more debris) or have such heavy shields that would make it nigh impossible to get into space.
Space pushing into the atmosphere: Just like garbage collecting, your spacecraft will have to be careful. On the other hand it would also be possible that with a slight miscalculation you push it into an orbit that's either much more dangerous (if it bounces instead of incinerates) or more difficult to track and clean up. Next to that some things might just give other side effects here on earth. What do you think would happen if you push an old satellite with some type of nuclear fuel into the atmosphere and it doesn't burn up completely the way you want it to and it basically becomes a dirty bomb in high orbit.
And that's maybe another reason they do it. A lot of service provided DVR's won't record shows if they appear on other time slots than their usual runs. DVR's mean that people can time shift and skip the ads (at least I do). They want people to watch the shows WITH the ads so if they change the schedule the DVR won't record and you'll be forced to watch the show on reruns.
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Slackware with a XFCE and Firefox/OpenOffice is very, very fast on even older hardware.
PHPNuke and other CMS'es or weblog thingies like Wordpress made it simple to create websites for the masses of people that just wanted something simple to host their website. Of course, they never kept up with any of the updates or didn't even give a hoot about security. Next thing you know you have a bunch of websites that are cracked and now serve ads and malware.
Skype is like the Microsoft (MSN) of VoIP. It's one of the main players for home and even small business yet it isn't compatible with any of the other players. It also attempts to lock in their customers (as they don't accept or dial out to SIP) so anyone that wants to connect to anyone else needs Skype. Furthermore it's doing some dubious practices behind the doors with three-letter agencies and governments so they can't be trusted. Anyone trying to implement their protocol is either infringing on patents or otherwise will meet a DMCA.
But right at the moment, the global financial crisis is causing global distribution and production crises, and if those are not addressed immediately, then by November there will be famines, pestilence, and wars. There are only a few short weeks left to get things to the point where the American farming industry can get the loans it needs for Spring planting... and if fields end up going fallow for want of loans for plowing, seeding, and fertilizing, there will be a food shortage of global proportions.
Citation please. I still have food and the food hasn't gone up in price very much. If there was going to be a shortage soon, people would be hoarding food already and it would be extremely difficult to get anything. I can still get loans, in fact, I will get a mortgage pretty soon without major hurdles. The only ones that can't get mo' money are the ones that don't have the backing for it, those people that used up all their credit lines and/or don't have anything to offer the bank in return. My company can still buy things, they don't need to go in debt for most of it but even when they do, they don't have any problems with it.
Maybe some corn farmers have some issues but they can plant and reap for a year without having to go in debt can they? If not, you've been farming badly or you've been running your farm like or investing in those bank businesses. Actually, the bank businesses are the only one that are having problems right now and those that relied on the banks to keep bailing them out. Some banks like local credit unions, small banks, HSBC and some others don't see any problems because they didn't do the same things some of the bigger ones did (they could see further than the next quarter profit report or like my credit union - they report to their real shareholders aka the account holders). We are only in a recession on Wall Street and anyone elsewhere that has invested in Wall Street will see problems. The rest of us will live their happy lives and continue to build (although they have never made crazy profits and will probably never be able to afford anything better than a 3 bedroom house and 1 luxury car)
Maybe somebody wanted to go home early?
I don't understand. Is the torrent site suing the CRIAA (Canadian Recording Industry Assh*les from America) to see whether non-Canadian content is copyrighted by the CRIAA? I thought those companies were subsidiaries of the recording companies and they just cross-license their stuff.
Legalese is so very confusing.
The OGG requirements got removed from HTML5 because it's unclear whether patents are involved. The problem is not that ogg is patented but that somebody *cough*Fraunhofer*cough* has patents on an 'electronic (compressed) media apparatus' and others have patents *cough*Adobe & Microsoft*cough* on embedding media (Flash, Windows Media) into webpages.
Basically what a lot of 'religions' teach is that you will be judged by $DIETY after you die. When you're no good, you go to a bad place (or you won't get resurrected) and if you're good you will go to a good/better place (or you will get resurrected in paradise).
Whether or not that's true I'll leave in the middle in order not to spark huge debates but the leaders of those religions have you believe that you're always bad and everything you do is bad (you're born a sinner and we can't do anything about it) unless you tell $CHURCHLEADER about it and let him tell you what to do (whether it be paying cash, prayer,...), then you're good for a little bit until your next mistake. Off course we all make a lot of mistakes and some things we have never told to anyone or we have done and we think that we can't be forgiven for it (maybe because other people haven't forgotten about it) so we take those secrets/unforgiving sins with us as we die. However those secrets might doom us for eternity (it's not clear cut as to what will doom us or what won't) so we rather hold on to what we know than to what we don't know.
Another theory would be that if we hold on to life as long as we can and we think we lived a good life, that $DIETY might step in and miraculously heal us.
Somebody should ask them. Why do you want to live so badly, there's no hope for you.
The decline of the overpriced server market started with the availability of cheap commodity (desktop) hardware being used for server-grade systems. People don't always need 100% uptime (as Windows is a great example that people don't even think about it) and they aren't willing to pay extra to squeeze every ounce of performance and reliability out of those machines. Those people are willing to live with a few hours per month of downtime or they just invest in a failover server. The Sun's (as well as SGI and DEC machines) are very 'expensive' but they won't fail as fast nor will the failure be as disastrous (eg. RAID controllers taking a whole array of data with them).
I have had experience you can say with every type of hardware out there. It's not unusual to see a Sun Workstation or Sun Server (where I currently work we still have a few Ultra's chugging) that have been purchased in the 90's. Even their hard drives haven't failed yet and have layers of dusts because people either forget about it or are afraid to touch it. However I have never seen a Dell that was more than 5 years old that either hasn't been replaced yet or had some major (hardware) problems with it. The same goes for hardware with PowerPC processors, those things keep living even after they've been off the market for years and the performance of an Apple with a quad core G5 is almost similar to the previous Mac Pro's (with Xeon processors) on most loads. Just now are the Xeon's (either the Nehalem architecture or the higher frequency versions of the previous) passing the G5's on such a level that you actually notice.
An SLA is all nice and stuff. But the cloud adds so much more points of failure that a real 99.9% uptime job is nigh impossible. You need to take the lowest common denominator in your link between you and the cloud and that will be your uptime. If it's your internet connection (and everything that gives you the internet connection including load balancers, border routing, switches, fiber optics) that can't stay up for that level, having 99.999% at Google won't help much. On the other hand, what if they don't meet your SLA? How much will they give you back in monetary damages? Are they willing to sell you a service if you demand a $100,000 per minute penalty? The same goes for your failover equipment, your switches, ...
If you are like one of the companies I used to work at (catalog ordering with their own credit card processing) 1 minute of downtime of their application can cost literally a million dollars (actually it would be more like $100,000 in real revenue but the fallout would probably be that much). If they host it close to home (in a local dual data center layout with automatic failover) they can actually guarantee quite some good uptime and with a decent contract with IBM (which doesn't care giving you a $100,000 discount on a $1M contract infrastructure) they have no downtime.
However how much internet connections do you think you need to get that kind of throughput and failover? For example in my area it's very difficult to find a good internet provider that doesn't peer to the local AT&T backbone. If the local AT&T backbone is down (and it has happened) I think about 90% of the providers lose their connection.
No. Currently ICBM's are accurate anywhere from 1 to 100 cm. It doesn't really matter if it's off even 5x that amount, the target will get hit or be incinerated.
1. Unlike previous downturns, we currently have tons of IT/CS people out of work. I'm very lucky to have work; according to all my colleagues, hiring is extremely limited, especially in large public companies. In addition, competition for these jobs is incredibly tough.
Not really. I find it very easy to find a job. I have recruiters sending me e-mail every week although I have been off the market for over 2 years. Everybody is tightening their belt. Some think cutting IT is going to help, some think spending on IT is helping. I work at a large company and we seem to be hiring a lot recently. Competition for any decent job is going to be tough. If you're good you'll filter through and somebody will have to go with the gut feeling on 2 or 3 of you.
2. Outsourcing has not gone away. IBM's a perfect example, as are many of the other professional services firms. India is rapidly moving up the food chain, and even advanced dev jobs are moving elsewhere very quickly. The best strategy is to get involved with a small company who doesn't have the resources to manage an outsourcing engagement.
Outsourcing will never go away. The current laws and tax code make it almost impossible to hire somebody unless you know their services are going to be required for more than 3 years. For all other things, just outsource to a consultant that is considered an 'asset' and can thus be abused, fired, go to the extreme, live in another country etc. and on top of that it's fully tax deductible. However if a hire gets sick and you have to pay for somebody else AND your company's health insurance is asking their spent money back from the company AND you have to pay out long term disability it can become very expensive. It's that the government let's health 'insurance' companies get away with it and let taxes be so lax and personnel code be so stringent (not to speak about unions and insane laws) for companies that a small downturn in economy won't allow for recovery of those companies. Another issue is data protection. If you outsource your data management (which is legal), then that company becomes liable for it. If that company is in another country it doesn't need to disclose. Thus if you lose data that you outsourced and you don't know (fingers in ear: la-la-la) your safe. If you lose it within the US every piece of information whether it is ever going to be used illegally or not needs to be payed for.
3. A corollary to #2 - Lots of companies are "discovering" they don't need an IT department anymore. Most of the programming jobs will be for vendors, if the whole "cloud computing" fad turns out to be more than a fad.
Cloud computing will be a fad. As we've seen outages with both Google and Amazon, several vendors closing doors and leaving their customers high and dry I think soon somebody in management is either going to take attention or fail miserably. Either way the risk and costs are greater in all my calculations and unless the price goes down and reliability up, no serious user is going to trust their company to a 'cloud'
4. Don't assume you can choose where you work, if that's important to you. Companies are shifting their support functions to cheaper locations within the US, so keep that in mind unless you don't care about living in Boston vs. Omaha.
Well, people will go where the jobs are. If more higher paying jobs are elsewhere, people will move thus leaving open slots for others that stay. This has always been the case and it doesn't matter whether it's Europe, India or the US. It all goes up and down and people will move. Simple case: go to a small rural area with some type of factory or engineering site that ended up there. They will pay you much more than what you earn in the 'city' but if you lose the job you'll probably have to move again. Would you do it? Some will, some won't. I did it for a while and it worked out for me.
It seems this card only copies files that are already written on the card through some weird proprietary protocol. As I said, many camera's will soon have this or at least have an option to add it (Nikon already has it on some SLR's and I believe Canon has a consumer camera with it and the rest probably won't lag behind).
What WOULD be interesting instead of this unusable trinket would be a cf-card as you propose that makes whatever device have a wireless connection. It could stream whatever is written on it directly through an open protocol onto an image on another storage system and retrieve it the same way. Kinda like having it emulate the card but have the data (as an image) physically reside on the storage server (with a small 128MB local buffer). That way you could insert them in security camera's and the like that currently all have their individual hard drive and cards.
This is basically a rework of a TRS-80 but in another packaging and different chip. Not very useful these days.
A memory card with Wi-Fi built in and bad driver support somebody wrote a Python script for. Other than being over expensive (both in pocket and on battery) and unnecessary for most high-end camera's (since they have it already built-in or aren't in range of any wi-fi when shooting) I don't see the need for it nor do I see many uses elsewhere.
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Exactly what I was thinking. Graph out (bosses like yours like little graphs that dumb down what they don't understand) what what the actual usage is due to direct, unencrypted P2P (Kazaa, Limewire and WinMX) and what the rest of the usage is. With an actual oversubscription of 70:1 on a small (rural?) ISP I doubt that your problem is P2P. I would think video sites, video and audio chats and flash-heavy sites are more of a problem.
Then research the several solutions as well as their costs and graph out what your savings would be. Something simple as going from several T1's to a single (or dual) T3 would save you a lot of money and give you more bandwidth.
Well MAD wasn't all that. The populus on both sides were kept in a constant state of fear (as with terrorism in our days) and the politicians on both sides knew nothing was going to happen. It was all posturing through the media but in the background the channels were open and it was as far as I can see just a ploy to keep the war machine running and have the tax payers buy into it.
Most of these account have a personal account manager that represents the bank. Kinda like here in the US if you have more than 100k in your account, you get assigned a personal 'wealth' consultant (at least that's what my bank calls it) who basically manages all your assets and recommends what to do with them. Some of their services are included in the price of having your moneys at their bank and some you have to pay for.
I think if these bankers are going to compromise their trust with their clients, the banks won't survive for a very long time. There will be a run for the bank which is (as we've seen the last couple of years) very, very bad for any bank and with it the country's economy. The wealthy will always find someone or some company to manage their assets even if it means they have to move them to another country, it's only a phone call away. If you believe the movies/media and you piss off a drug baron with their money you might end up in a not-so-favorable situation.
So basically, steal a box from the Wal-Mart warehouse and distribute for free to anyone?
When you download a copy, it doesn't get automatically redistributed to millions. Look at the next Bittorrent upload/download rate of any (copyleft or copyright infringing) torrent that you do. If you have a popular download, YOU will redistribute maybe 50% of what you downloaded before your download is complete. If you leave it overnight you might go up to 100% or even 200% if you got a big pipe. But that's it. I have distributed torrents for weeks of popular Linux distro's on a 500 Mbps link (at work) and only reached 1000%. That's 10x somebody downloads a full copy.
Maybe others will redistribute too but that's their problem between the copyright holders and them and it might even be perfectly legal for them to do, if not the copyright holders need to go after them in civil court, not punish you.
You mean like those cheap MP4 players you get at JCPenney (Craig or whatever brand they are). I have a couple (5) of those since people got them as a gift and don't know what to do with them. They are 1) ugly 2) unusable (interface) and 3) low quality (music is metallic, screen is 320x240 and video output is 160x120). The only thing they're good for is storing 512MB of data.
Like the one in this review? http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/funny-british-review-of-some-mp4-player-196544.php
There is a reason Apple is so successful in the market and it's not because it's the iEl-Cheapo from the Abble cult, it's because they do what they need to do better than the others. I overheard quite some sales nerds at several stores while I was waiting in line (especially during the holiday season). Even the Zune (which is price-wise and sound-quality wise on par with the iPod) is being steered away from by them just because and I quote "almost nobody returns an iPod after the holidays but we got quite some customers come trade in their Zune for either an iPod or cash because they didn't like how it worked".
Similar configuration than this:
Two 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
32GB (8x4GB)
Mac Pro RAID Card
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
4x NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB
Two 18x SuperDrives
Apple Mighty Mouse
Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad (English) and User's Guide
AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi Card with 802.11n
$14,299
Processor wise AMD or Intel doesn't make a difference. Even on the boards there isn't that much difference, manufacturers just slap on whatever is cheapest (Creative and Realtek) and most of the time you're better off buying a separate sound and network card for any decent performance (especially amplified sound output and gigabit).
As far as your specifics: the ATi 48xx is supported on all main distro's (try Ubuntu) with the binary driver and audio-over-HDMI as well with any recent (2y old) Alsa packages. I found it helpful if you have the 'latest' hardware to just enable the 'unstable' package repositories (any distro) and let all the updates come in. For RPM-based systems I recommend the Dries, Livna and Dag package repositories (haven't gone RPM in a while but afaik they are still available).
Your machine will still be stable, unstable just means that if you are running a server or an enterprise desktop you probably should be careful but I never had a problem with any of the packages that couldn't be fixed (ever since I have been Windows-free on my home computers using Red Hat Linux 5 in 1998)
Welcome to Time Warner Cable. It is possible to set it up differently but then it will start recording all reruns and old shows as well and depending on other shows, it might conflict with other recordings you've set upf. If you've ever used their stuff, it's very, very difficult even for a geek like me to fully understand their setup (like why there is a Firewire and USB port but neither are active and why does the DVR go through the trouble of filtering HD channels out when using the coax pass-through) and the options when setting up a recording are very cryptic (1) First Run only on this channel (will record only new shows within this time slot on this day if it moves it won't record) 2) On this channel at any time (will record all episodes no matter what and upon collision with other shows will record both shows only half) 3) On this channel any day in this time slot (will record all episodes within this time slot on this day but will stop all recordings after 2 minutes in case of a collision)
But aren't all of those 'solutions' already considered?
Space garbage zapping: You'll end up with particles and debris that is smaller and more difficult to track. Given a speck of paint in space has the same effect as a bullet on earth I don't know if we really want that.
Space garbage collecting: However you try to do it, your spacecraft would have to either maneuver very very well in order not to be destroyed itself (making even more debris) or have such heavy shields that would make it nigh impossible to get into space.
Space pushing into the atmosphere: Just like garbage collecting, your spacecraft will have to be careful. On the other hand it would also be possible that with a slight miscalculation you push it into an orbit that's either much more dangerous (if it bounces instead of incinerates) or more difficult to track and clean up. Next to that some things might just give other side effects here on earth. What do you think would happen if you push an old satellite with some type of nuclear fuel into the atmosphere and it doesn't burn up completely the way you want it to and it basically becomes a dirty bomb in high orbit.
And that's maybe another reason they do it. A lot of service provided DVR's won't record shows if they appear on other time slots than their usual runs. DVR's mean that people can time shift and skip the ads (at least I do). They want people to watch the shows WITH the ads so if they change the schedule the DVR won't record and you'll be forced to watch the show on reruns.