Don't know if you noticed that bridge in Missouri or wherever that collapsed a couple years back? Yeah, well that happens ALL the time here, only people don't usually get killed, and they collapse a little bit at a time (decking failures).
Most of our bridges are pushing 50 years old. That's what's crumbling. No one likes being dumped in a river on the way to work.
Oh I know how lucky I am. I'm just worried that I'm watching the greatness of America being flushed down the toilet - that the great America I grew up in will be a hell-hole for my children to grow up in.:-/
Okay, basic math here. Assuming that at every stage of production, each part is made such that each producer makes a profit, and you sell your product AT a profit, and say each kindle is $200. Then the cost of producing 1 million kindles is $200.
Pretty simple how that works, isn't it? People's salaries even get accounted for in that manner.:-)
The cost to make ONE modern semiconductor is HUGE! But you can by 1gz 32bit ARM CPUS for $20 in bulk. So arguably, I could make one newspaper for $1000, and 1 Kindle from scratch for maybe $100,000. But I can make 1 million kindles for the same cost as 365 million newspapers, which is just arguing TFA's point.:-) HAND.
Considering that Microsoft pretty much stole AD from the Internet at large (kerberos + ldap). Put a pretty GUI on it, and some GPO functionality (which is original, I'll grant you that).
You actually signed an exit letter? Only time I did that was part of receiving a severance package, and the verbiage was quite sane in asking only that I refrain from badmouthing the company in public forums.
Not every employer is insane, criminal or out to fuck you.
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by bankrupting a firm over the actions of one bad apple, you compound the problem for the many innocent individuals who had no control of this person's actions.
Punish the right individual... not the whole company, unless the company sanctioned it.
What they can charge you with, and what they can convict you with, are two very different things, and depend greatly on your lawyer and the judge and jury you draw.
Four or so years ago there was a packet sniffer that fit INSIDE a CAT5 cable drop and relayed it's data wirelessly. One-time access to a years of intel.
Um, trying to besmirch Google mail search is in poor taste, IMHO. It's by far the best search engine for email I've ever used, and it's never failed to turn up what I was looking for. So I'm not sure what sort of scenario you're trying to paint, but I do think you're going about it the wrong way.
I think the ultimate goal is something like what Palm claims to be doing with the Pre, or what Google is doing with Gears - location transparency. If you want to be working disconnected, you can do so, but when you go online, you can take advantage of greater computing resources.
Why should I run a VM or Eclipse on my local PC, when I could instead be running it on the PC on the HR lady's desk, which is only running Word, Outlook, and IE? All that computing power out there, completely unavailable to me today.
Oh really? I've done a bit of searching and the only debunking I've come up with seems to be from Microsoft themselves.
Some of that article seems a bit hokey, especially the parts about bit/voltage reliability, but he has valid points about DRM, especially the quality aspect. That I *NEED* to use HDMI to display HD BluRay from the PS3 when the 20+ year old Component/VGA interface is more than adequate to the task is asinine.
But I'd love to see your hordes of rebuttals. Please.:-)
We need another Eisenhower experiment. 50 years, it's time for another major infusion in infrastructure. Monorail, highways, Fiber to the Door... $800 billion sounds like just the ticket, and it has impacts all across the economy, from labor, to machinery, steel and concrete, up through project management, communications - the ultimate trickle-down.
Throwing billions at banks isn't going to solve our economic crisis.
[quote] They have incorporated support for Hyper-V virtualization in their operating systems going back to Windows 2000 SP4, and are making a major push into all areas of virtualization. In fact, of all of the virtualization vendors they are the only one pushing a true 360 strategy that includes not just platform virtualization, but also application virtualization (via their App-V/Softgrid product, the market leader in this space), presentation virtualization, and desktop virtualization. [/quote]
This is false. Citrix has been doing this since 2006, and VMware is very late to the game. Softgrid is hideously expensive, Thinstall is way too immature, and only Citrix offers decent packaging tools, but is deficient in some aspects on delivery.
disclaimer: I've only used Thinstall and Citrix Streaming.
Personally, I think XenApp + XenDesktop + Provisioning Server are by far a more compelling 360-style set of tools than anything Microsoft or VMware has to offer. XenServer was just the icing on the cake. Individually, each has strength, Citrix in desktop delivery, Microsoft perhaps in application delivery (Softgrid, idk I have no experience) and VMware is the undisputed king of virtualization.
How this evolves out over the next few years will be interesting. There's room enough for everyone - ultimately I think the REAL battle will be between Citrix and VMware.
I've just managed to break ESX, with 168 configured vcpus in 70 configured hosts on one server. Two whole racks full of test machines, in 3U of rackspace.
I don't think by definition you could release a photo under CC without a model release.
So I don't blame Virgin for believing they could use CC licensed images - it's reasonable to assume that by the act of said licensing, that a model release was in place and the creator was legally able to perform said licensing.
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Don't know if you noticed that bridge in Missouri or wherever that collapsed a couple years back? Yeah, well that happens ALL the time here, only people don't usually get killed, and they collapse a little bit at a time (decking failures).
Most of our bridges are pushing 50 years old. That's what's crumbling. No one likes being dumped in a river on the way to work.
Oh I know how lucky I am. I'm just worried that I'm watching the greatness of America being flushed down the toilet - that the great America I grew up in will be a hell-hole for my children to grow up in. :-/
Umm... didn't Intel own ARM for a while? Sometime around the StrongARM days? And ended up being rebranded Xscale, and which was killed off for Atom?
Am I remembering history wrong?
Except I don't want to give up my top-notch phone service with Verizon for subpar performance on another carrier. Ooo, flamebait? Sorry. :-)
an iphone with a sliding keyboard, now that would be useful.
:-/
A smartphone without a keyboard is a bust for me.
Dynamite. :-)
Okay, basic math here. Assuming that at every stage of production, each part is made such that each producer makes a profit, and you sell your product AT a profit, and say each kindle is $200. Then the cost of producing 1 million kindles is $200.
:-)
:-) HAND.
Pretty simple how that works, isn't it? People's salaries even get accounted for in that manner.
The cost to make ONE modern semiconductor is HUGE! But you can by 1gz 32bit ARM CPUS for $20 in bulk. So arguably, I could make one newspaper for $1000, and 1 Kindle from scratch for maybe $100,000. But I can make 1 million kindles for the same cost as 365 million newspapers, which is just arguing TFA's point.
Considering that Microsoft pretty much stole AD from the Internet at large (kerberos + ldap). Put a pretty GUI on it, and some GPO functionality (which is original, I'll grant you that).
You actually signed an exit letter? Only time I did that was part of receiving a severance package, and the verbiage was quite sane in asking only that I refrain from badmouthing the company in public forums.
Not every employer is insane, criminal or out to fuck you.
And Microsoft didn't just buy them why?
Do they even still exist?
by bankrupting a firm over the actions of one bad apple, you compound the problem for the many innocent individuals who had no control of this person's actions.
Punish the right individual... not the whole company, unless the company sanctioned it.
What they can charge you with, and what they can convict you with, are two very different things, and depend greatly on your lawyer and the judge and jury you draw.
Four or so years ago there was a packet sniffer that fit INSIDE a CAT5 cable drop and relayed it's data wirelessly. One-time access to a years of intel.
Um, trying to besmirch Google mail search is in poor taste, IMHO. It's by far the best search engine for email I've ever used, and it's never failed to turn up what I was looking for. So I'm not sure what sort of scenario you're trying to paint, but I do think you're going about it the wrong way.
I think the ultimate goal is something like what Palm claims to be doing with the Pre, or what Google is doing with Gears - location transparency. If you want to be working disconnected, you can do so, but when you go online, you can take advantage of greater computing resources.
:-)
Why should I run a VM or Eclipse on my local PC, when I could instead be running it on the PC on the HR lady's desk, which is only running Word, Outlook, and IE? All that computing power out there, completely unavailable to me today.
That is where we're going in 10 years. I hope.
Note to self, never read the last 50 pages of Snow Crash while tripping on acid.
Oi!
Never mind, kept going past page two in Google and found some, guess I've got some reading to do.
Oh really? I've done a bit of searching and the only debunking I've come up with seems to be from Microsoft themselves.
:-)
Some of that article seems a bit hokey, especially the parts about bit/voltage reliability, but he has valid points about DRM, especially the quality aspect. That I *NEED* to use HDMI to display HD BluRay from the PS3 when the 20+ year old Component/VGA interface is more than adequate to the task is asinine.
But I'd love to see your hordes of rebuttals. Please.
Since I'm a karma whore: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.htmlA Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
Now THERE'S a meme I haven't seen in a while...
We need another Eisenhower experiment. 50 years, it's time for another major infusion in infrastructure. Monorail, highways, Fiber to the Door... $800 billion sounds like just the ticket, and it has impacts all across the economy, from labor, to machinery, steel and concrete, up through project management, communications - the ultimate trickle-down.
Throwing billions at banks isn't going to solve our economic crisis.
I've been boycotting the music industry since the RIAA started their sue campaign against ten year olds and grandmothers.
So the days of me downloading, say Interpol, liking it, and then buying it on CD are over.
4 years, and the only CD's I've bought have been local bands.
Sucks to be you, big Music. Stop spending money on lawsuits, and more on good, cheap content, and maybe you'll start making money again.
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They have incorporated support for Hyper-V virtualization in their operating systems going back to Windows 2000 SP4, and are making a major push into all areas of virtualization. In fact, of all of the virtualization vendors they are the only one pushing a true 360 strategy that includes not just platform virtualization, but also application virtualization (via their App-V/Softgrid product, the market leader in this space), presentation virtualization, and desktop virtualization.
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This is false. Citrix has been doing this since 2006, and VMware is very late to the game. Softgrid is hideously expensive, Thinstall is way too immature, and only Citrix offers decent packaging tools, but is deficient in some aspects on delivery.
disclaimer: I've only used Thinstall and Citrix Streaming.
Personally, I think XenApp + XenDesktop + Provisioning Server are by far a more compelling 360-style set of tools than anything Microsoft or VMware has to offer. XenServer was just the icing on the cake. Individually, each has strength, Citrix in desktop delivery, Microsoft perhaps in application delivery (Softgrid, idk I have no experience) and VMware is the undisputed king of virtualization.
How this evolves out over the next few years will be interesting. There's room enough for everyone - ultimately I think the REAL battle will be between Citrix and VMware.
I've just managed to break ESX, with 168 configured vcpus in 70 configured hosts on one server. Two whole racks full of test machines, in 3U of rackspace.
That's power and flexibility.
I don't think by definition you could release a photo under CC without a model release.
So I don't blame Virgin for believing they could use CC licensed images - it's reasonable to assume that by the act of said licensing, that a model release was in place and the creator was legally able to perform said licensing.