I'm not saying it's not. What I am saying is that it costs more, which is does. Flat monitoring of time spent on the phone, rather than itemised billing came in because there was a big reason to do so (cost of local/national/international calls), but how much smaller, in terms of sheets of paper, would your bill be if you only got a £15 a month charge not a fully itemised bill. You also seem to forget that these costs change over time, it's easier to change a flat rate system than a more complex billing arrangement.
It also costs more to support a more complex computer system. So this type of billing will come in should there be a business case for it, not otherwise.
Not to mention that your servers will have to work longer and harder so push up other costs.
The argument against this sort of charging policy is that it is complex, relatively speaking. It would cost a lot of money firstly to set that sort of system up to monitor say 100 000 users (for a smallish ISP), work out the individual bandwidth apply the charging scheme (of which there might be several, depending on various factors).
This as opposed to say 3 price levels on a flat per month basis.
Whilst you can automate some of the processes it would still cost more to maintain (and be more difficult too) than a flat rate system.
This while the percentage of 'problem' users is small. However if this should grow then it might be more persuasion for the ISPs.
But the ISPs should not be whinging about the cost to the content providers because it's not where they get money from, and shouldn't get money from in the future.
If you can name 5 technologies at power generation than a steam turbine, and also work on the same scale (Gigawatts) I could accept your horrendously inefficient claim. But from what I can recall from somewhere in my brain, modern steam turbines are 50-60% efficient while most other generators are in the 30-50% range. I could of course be wrong.
Indeed, nVidia Quadro cards generally use very similar versions of the GPU to the GeForce cards, but with one 'tuned' for speed, and the other for accuracy. It's the same deal with Xeons/Opterons and Core2/Phenom.
They have different needs but the silicon is relatively common to reduce costs.
Probably not in this case, but they did once (the British that is) fit a 12" (yes really 1 foot diameter) gun. The recoil did send the ship in the other direction. It sank sadly but still wonderfully pointless
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_M1
Ah but if it is your own laptop doing personal non work related things then you are covered. It's saying that organisations cannot deploy AVG Free on their systems but if it is your own then you are ok. I would imagine that school work falls under personal/private work if not it's a stupid law. I'm almost certain you can use this in the UK on your own personal laptop doing personal, non-commercial work, in the US you might be raped in the ass, but I don't live there. (IANAL)
It's not about the network it's about who owns the laptop and the work done on it. If you use it for business work (you should be using your business owned laptop from your work anyway) then you are not covered.
You seem to think that just because you are on an unfamiliar network you can't use the software for 'PRIVATE' use. "AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is for private, non-commercial, single computer use only."
It depends on what you are doing but if it is personal work then you are fine. As you are just using the network but not doing work for the company you are doing it for your own reasons (not commercial).
The any organisation blurb is for organisation owned machines not personally owned ones.
AVG Anti-virus is free for home and non-commercial use (not within non-commercial business though). Home in this case does not mean used in the home as you seem to suggest but for personal/private use.
From the AVG license: AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is for private, non-commercial, single computer use only. The use of AVG Free within any organization (including non-profit organizations) or for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited.
So you can use it on a laptop, mayhap you shouldn't comment on things you don't understand.
Make SD more resilient and i'd agree, but I have broken SD cards very easily by just bending them slightly putting in and taking out of card readers, DVDs whilst larger can take more abuse than SD cards, even most scratches can be fixed relatively easily.
The point being that XP supported _lots_ of broken code and would still run your program. XP's APIs so they were properly documented and worked only as described would break a lot of programs. Hence why this happens in XP compatibility mode, not all API calls there and not all broken functionality is there.
MS didn't give good documentation and the code was very resilient (it would run them) to badly written programs. Vista tries to fix some of these issues but causes some more because again of incomplete documentation. So Vista is stricter with bad code; for security and stability reasons; but it's not as easy to write good code or fix your old 'working' code to run on Vista.
I saw a very good article on this, shame I can't be arsed to look for it now. It may even have been on here.
You can't be a month from recession, as the definition is 2 consecutive quarters of negative growth, that isn't happening in the states right now so it's not a recession.
This would use the upper reserved portions of the memory anyway, as it because of shadowed memory that this problem exists in the first place. As the article says implement PAE correctly and the problem is reduced.
Diesel is primarily used in heavier vehicles as it has a higher energy density than compared with petrol (especially US petrol). The engines are also 'simpler' devices as they only use the compression they generate to ignite the fuel (no spark plugs). Also diesel engines produce more torque than petrol which is useful in heavier cars.
They were probably talking about Hybrid RAID, you know those shonky chips on most modern motherboards which allow you to kinda do RAID with plain old SATA drives. My advice is don't touch it with a barge pole I've only had bad experience and you basically take the worse features of software and hardware RAID and put them in one device, a genius plan.
It wouldn't have been at the middle of the time zones (which are odd shapes anyway, due to countries being odd shapes, it should have been at the 0 degrees longitude and every 15 degrees after that). But the rest of your points I can't fault, but then living in London I don't think anything should change the time as it's all related to GMT...
It would actually be about every 50ish years as you get a leap second about once a year (there have been relatively few recently from what I remember, and they can only occur at 2 points in the year (June and December)) but what's wrong with trying to keep time in line with what we see, at 12 (or 1 during DST/BST) the sun should be at the highest point, ok not if your not exactly on a longitudinal line divisible by pi/12, but close enough, and anyway hasn't a lot of money gone into sorting programs to deal with leap seconds...
It could be argued, however, that these are server and workstation chips and so would be expected to perform mainly 64bit tasks to get the full use out of the performance. So 64bit benchmarks would make more sense. Now when the Phenom chips are out then 32 and 64 bits would be both useful as over the next few years most software will convert to 64bit and drop 32bit.
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I'm not saying it's not. What I am saying is that it costs more, which is does. Flat monitoring of time spent on the phone, rather than itemised billing came in because there was a big reason to do so (cost of local/national/international calls), but how much smaller, in terms of sheets of paper, would your bill be if you only got a £15 a month charge not a fully itemised bill. You also seem to forget that these costs change over time, it's easier to change a flat rate system than a more complex billing arrangement. It also costs more to support a more complex computer system. So this type of billing will come in should there be a business case for it, not otherwise. Not to mention that your servers will have to work longer and harder so push up other costs.
So you deleted the Internet.
No, I deleted the backup.
So the little e is still there then...
The argument against this sort of charging policy is that it is complex, relatively speaking. It would cost a lot of money firstly to set that sort of system up to monitor say 100 000 users (for a smallish ISP), work out the individual bandwidth apply the charging scheme (of which there might be several, depending on various factors). This as opposed to say 3 price levels on a flat per month basis. Whilst you can automate some of the processes it would still cost more to maintain (and be more difficult too) than a flat rate system. This while the percentage of 'problem' users is small. However if this should grow then it might be more persuasion for the ISPs. But the ISPs should not be whinging about the cost to the content providers because it's not where they get money from, and shouldn't get money from in the future.
But if it's not backed up it can't be important...
If you can name 5 technologies at power generation than a steam turbine, and also work on the same scale (Gigawatts) I could accept your horrendously inefficient claim. But from what I can recall from somewhere in my brain, modern steam turbines are 50-60% efficient while most other generators are in the 30-50% range. I could of course be wrong.
Indeed, nVidia Quadro cards generally use very similar versions of the GPU to the GeForce cards, but with one 'tuned' for speed, and the other for accuracy. It's the same deal with Xeons/Opterons and Core2/Phenom.
They have different needs but the silicon is relatively common to reduce costs.
Probably not in this case, but they did once (the British that is) fit a 12" (yes really 1 foot diameter) gun. The recoil did send the ship in the other direction. It sank sadly but still wonderfully pointless http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_M1
Ah but if it is your own laptop doing personal non work related things then you are covered. It's saying that organisations cannot deploy AVG Free on their systems but if it is your own then you are ok. I would imagine that school work falls under personal/private work if not it's a stupid law. I'm almost certain you can use this in the UK on your own personal laptop doing personal, non-commercial work, in the US you might be raped in the ass, but I don't live there. (IANAL)
It's not about the network it's about who owns the laptop and the work done on it. If you use it for business work (you should be using your business owned laptop from your work anyway) then you are not covered.
You seem to think that just because you are on an unfamiliar network you can't use the software for 'PRIVATE' use. "AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is for private, non-commercial, single computer use only."
It depends on what you are doing but if it is personal work then you are fine. As you are just using the network but not doing work for the company you are doing it for your own reasons (not commercial).
The any organisation blurb is for organisation owned machines not personally owned ones.
AVG Anti-virus is free for home and non-commercial use (not within non-commercial business though). Home in this case does not mean used in the home as you seem to suggest but for personal/private use.
From the AVG license:
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition is for private, non-commercial, single computer use only. The use of AVG Free within any organization (including non-profit organizations) or for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited.
So you can use it on a laptop, mayhap you shouldn't comment on things you don't understand.
Make SD more resilient and i'd agree, but I have broken SD cards very easily by just bending them slightly putting in and taking out of card readers, DVDs whilst larger can take more abuse than SD cards, even most scratches can be fixed relatively easily.
The point being that XP supported _lots_ of broken code and would still run your program. XP's APIs so they were properly documented and worked only as described would break a lot of programs. Hence why this happens in XP compatibility mode, not all API calls there and not all broken functionality is there.
MS didn't give good documentation and the code was very resilient (it would run them) to badly written programs. Vista tries to fix some of these issues but causes some more because again of incomplete documentation. So Vista is stricter with bad code; for security and stability reasons; but it's not as easy to write good code or fix your old 'working' code to run on Vista.
I saw a very good article on this, shame I can't be arsed to look for it now. It may even have been on here.
You can't be a month from recession, as the definition is 2 consecutive quarters of negative growth, that isn't happening in the states right now so it's not a recession.
That's a generous definition of middle class...
This would use the upper reserved portions of the memory anyway, as it because of shadowed memory that this problem exists in the first place. As the article says implement PAE correctly and the problem is reduced.
But you'll be, like everyone else, working at your Linux desktop when it is released...
Diesel is primarily used in heavier vehicles as it has a higher energy density than compared with petrol (especially US petrol). The engines are also 'simpler' devices as they only use the compression they generate to ignite the fuel (no spark plugs). Also diesel engines produce more torque than petrol which is useful in heavier cars.
So what you are saying is that all OS's suck in at least some respect... I think if it's a computer you should be able to use it to do what you need.
They were probably talking about Hybrid RAID, you know those shonky chips on most modern motherboards which allow you to kinda do RAID with plain old SATA drives. My advice is don't touch it with a barge pole I've only had bad experience and you basically take the worse features of software and hardware RAID and put them in one device, a genius plan.
It wouldn't have been at the middle of the time zones (which are odd shapes anyway, due to countries being odd shapes, it should have been at the 0 degrees longitude and every 15 degrees after that). But the rest of your points I can't fault, but then living in London I don't think anything should change the time as it's all related to GMT...
It would actually be about every 50ish years as you get a leap second about once a year (there have been relatively few recently from what I remember, and they can only occur at 2 points in the year (June and December)) but what's wrong with trying to keep time in line with what we see, at 12 (or 1 during DST/BST) the sun should be at the highest point, ok not if your not exactly on a longitudinal line divisible by pi/12, but close enough, and anyway hasn't a lot of money gone into sorting programs to deal with leap seconds...
Useful, cancel all useful features of the SATA bus in one easy go, thanks for the tip but tech as old and as ubiquitous as SATA should be supported...
Was that not the 7950?
No offence but your brain is water _heated_, Humans; and all mammals; being warm blooded...
Women? You must be new here.
It could be argued, however, that these are server and workstation chips and so would be expected to perform mainly 64bit tasks to get the full use out of the performance. So 64bit benchmarks would make more sense. Now when the Phenom chips are out then 32 and 64 bits would be both useful as over the next few years most software will convert to 64bit and drop 32bit.