Some data centers also have multiple incoming power lines (which hopefully don't have a single transformer bottle-neck). Anyway, I know for sure that at least one data center in Toronto had 100% uptime during the big August 2004 Blackout, so it is possible to prevent these problems.
Same here. Additionally, I deal with a lot of large spreadsheets and the odf version is often %50 smaller so the first thing I do with these is ditch.xls.
Doom 3 was also developed in both (eventually), which would be part of why the xbox version came out much later than the PC version. That shows that they are willing to do that work, however I don't know if Rage is being developed solely in DX at this point.
Also, everyone should keep in mind that porting of Doom 3 to Linux didn't happen until fairly late in the development process. Just because they haven't planned to port it yet, doesn't mean that they aren't going to.
In the same respect, the OLPC should be less expensive to purchase in countries who's currency has appreciated against the USD. I'm no economist but it seems like these two factors will balance each other out to some extent.
What I wonder, is which scheduler they will use to pick a programming slot for the soap opera that someone is apparently trying to produce..
On next weeks show, Linus' returned from the dead, evil twin hatches a devious plot to turn kernel design discussions into a nerd-culture flame war. Tune in to see what happens next!
It's fairly common for 3rd party data centers to charge based on power consumption. If you want to rent spaces to have a few machines hosted, you can save a bunch of money by building servers that aren't power hogs. Any data center worth hosting at pays very close attention to how much power they have available, so even in the event of power loss, then have an alternate circuit to draw from and/or sufficient emergency generator power.
If it wasn't available then, that is certainly reasonable.
As far as the GPL goes, I'm pretty sure that's irrelevant as as far as I know, MOSS is a free service available for educational use.
I expect that browser vendors will implement the new tags by reusing the exact (or vary similar) behavior of old tags. As mentioned in a couple posts above, something like isn't really different than , aside from their semantic value. Basically, if this ends up being the case, we won't be worse off, just left with the same display incompatibility problems that we already have. And those problems aren't really a problem from the W3C, but the vendors.
That's sort of what I'm getting at. What I had in mind is more along the lines of concessions where a representative gets support for their legislation by making concessions on pieces of legislation brought forward by other legislation/parties.
I'm no expert on US politics, but isn't this how votes in the house of representatives often work? Certainly lots of negotiation must go on for any bipartisan legislation to pass?, it may not be vote for vote, but there is definitely back scratching going on. If that is the case, then why should the regular public be held to higher standards then their representatives?
Neither the summary nor the FA did a great job of summarizing the issues. I have a vague idea what the schedulers do, but how many readers know what the differences between SD and CFS are? I don't.
It's nice to see the commentary from the mailing list, but without a decent explanation of the situation, the posting isn't informative to many people.
Certainly true, but those systems were probably just web servers. The iPhone has a bunch of other processes running that likely require a lot of those resources.
Home..? Have you ever seen how many finger prints there are on the *back* of an IPod? Sounds about as effective as hiding a key under the front mat, except the mat is also see through.
Still the same difference I think. Someone who is willing to wait sometimes hours to get into an area probably does so to see every second of the game. The lack of big lines probably wouldn't diminish many players need to do so.
I don't know if I'd call it engrossing as much as taking advantage of people's obsessive nature. I suppose it's the same as with people who need to purchase every season of a show they like so they can see every last episode.
Stop to think that efforts like Wikipedia cannot operate without money, which has to come from somewhere. Private donations can only go so far, and other corporate type money sources tend to come with strings attached. It is more likely that selling CDs/DVDs for a few bucks will give Wikipedia *more* freedom to be altruistic since they won't rely so much on others for their resources.
While you were there, did you learn a bit about career advancement inside Accenture?
Yeah, that's the impression that I've gotten so far. It also doesn't look like there are any opportunities to move to other departments, each job pipeline has one entrance and one exit.
Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of humor to be derived from the nuttiness of it all, but the bigger picture is actually quite frightening. And now the "offshoring companies" have picked up the same business model. Only with less accountability.
Some people get the picture here and some don't. You really don't have to be a genius to figure out what downsides there are to off-shoring, then again we've all seen or heard of the god-complexes of executives, ruling from the mountain tops above, so who knows.
At the end of the day, you pretty much get what you pay for. Accenture hires their entry level people straight out of school and probably doesn't devote a lot of resources to them (I have an idea on this since I was through the interview process, and know a few people) since they expect them to stay much more than a year. I'm sure that Accenture is more than happy & able to through senior level programmers at your problems if you're welling to hand them buckets of cash for the work.
What I'm really getting at here though, is no matter who you are (fortune 500 or not), lots of business units end up with shitty, poorly designed systems that were contracted out to SAP or some other ERP provider. Even if you have a good IT dept. in house, it can take a long time to build an in house solution, so you're a bit stuck either way you go.
It doesn't really matter if their "developers" are some guys they just pulled off the street. (Hey, that sounds a lot like Accenture!)
I got a laugh out of that one. The funniest part is that Accenture could practically do that because of how screwed up, inefficient and wasteful their clients are. Personally, I work in the logistics industry and you can pretty much look at anyone's shipping data and with a minimum of effort, point out hundreds of thousands of dollars (at least!) that is just flying out a window. Maybe in the future we'll be outsourcing to get a Clue(tm).
I haven't read many of them, but I'm pretty sure it's almost all back-story compiled from Tolkien's notes. Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales are probably the most prominent of these, they are basically the origin stories for Middle Earth and it's people.
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Some data centers also have multiple incoming power lines (which hopefully don't have a single transformer bottle-neck). Anyway, I know for sure that at least one data center in Toronto had 100% uptime during the big August 2004 Blackout, so it is possible to prevent these problems.
Same here. Additionally, I deal with a lot of large spreadsheets and the odf version is often %50 smaller so the first thing I do with these is ditch .xls.
Doom 3 was also developed in both (eventually), which would be part of why the xbox version came out much later than the PC version. That shows that they are willing to do that work, however I don't know if Rage is being developed solely in DX at this point.
Also, everyone should keep in mind that porting of Doom 3 to Linux didn't happen until fairly late in the development process. Just because they haven't planned to port it yet, doesn't mean that they aren't going to.
In the same respect, the OLPC should be less expensive to purchase in countries who's currency has appreciated against the USD. I'm no economist but it seems like these two factors will balance each other out to some extent.
What I wonder, is which scheduler they will use to pick a programming slot for the soap opera that someone is apparently trying to produce..
On next weeks show, Linus' returned from the dead, evil twin hatches a devious plot to turn kernel design discussions into a nerd-culture flame war. Tune in to see what happens next!
It's fairly common for 3rd party data centers to charge based on power consumption. If you want to rent spaces to have a few machines hosted, you can save a bunch of money by building servers that aren't power hogs. Any data center worth hosting at pays very close attention to how much power they have available, so even in the event of power loss, then have an alternate circuit to draw from and/or sufficient emergency generator power.
Exactly true, and in most cases the effort needed to cover you tracks well is equivalent to doing the assignment anyway.. thus the laziness factor.
If it wasn't available then, that is certainly reasonable.
As far as the GPL goes, I'm pretty sure that's irrelevant as as far as I know, MOSS is a free service available for educational use.
Or you could just use MOSS http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/moss/ (or other) like everyone else.
I'd settle for an IDE that would actually build and deploy one of their *example* J2EE projects.. apparently this is the hard part.
I expect that browser vendors will implement the new tags by reusing the exact (or vary similar) behavior of old tags. As mentioned in a couple posts above, something like isn't really different than , aside from their semantic value. Basically, if this ends up being the case, we won't be worse off, just left with the same display incompatibility problems that we already have. And those problems aren't really a problem from the W3C, but the vendors.
That's sort of what I'm getting at. What I had in mind is more along the lines of concessions where a representative gets support for their legislation by making concessions on pieces of legislation brought forward by other legislation/parties.
I'm no expert on US politics, but isn't this how votes in the house of representatives often work? Certainly lots of negotiation must go on for any bipartisan legislation to pass?, it may not be vote for vote, but there is definitely back scratching going on. If that is the case, then why should the regular public be held to higher standards then their representatives?
Neither the summary nor the FA did a great job of summarizing the issues. I have a vague idea what the schedulers do, but how many readers know what the differences between SD and CFS are? I don't.
It's nice to see the commentary from the mailing list, but without a decent explanation of the situation, the posting isn't informative to many people.
Certainly true, but those systems were probably just web servers. The iPhone has a bunch of other processes running that likely require a lot of those resources.
Home..? Have you ever seen how many finger prints there are on the *back* of an IPod? Sounds about as effective as hiding a key under the front mat, except the mat is also see through.
Still the same difference I think. Someone who is willing to wait sometimes hours to get into an area probably does so to see every second of the game. The lack of big lines probably wouldn't diminish many players need to do so.
I don't know if I'd call it engrossing as much as taking advantage of people's obsessive nature. I suppose it's the same as with people who need to purchase every season of a show they like so they can see every last episode.
Stop to think that efforts like Wikipedia cannot operate without money, which has to come from somewhere. Private donations can only go so far, and other corporate type money sources tend to come with strings attached. It is more likely that selling CDs/DVDs for a few bucks will give Wikipedia *more* freedom to be altruistic since they won't rely so much on others for their resources.
Some people get the picture here and some don't. You really don't have to be a genius to figure out what downsides there are to off-shoring, then again we've all seen or heard of the god-complexes of executives, ruling from the mountain tops above, so who knows.
At the end of the day, you pretty much get what you pay for. Accenture hires their entry level people straight out of school and probably doesn't devote a lot of resources to them (I have an idea on this since I was through the interview process, and know a few people) since they expect them to stay much more than a year. I'm sure that Accenture is more than happy & able to through senior level programmers at your problems if you're welling to hand them buckets of cash for the work.
What I'm really getting at here though, is no matter who you are (fortune 500 or not), lots of business units end up with shitty, poorly designed systems that were contracted out to SAP or some other ERP provider. Even if you have a good IT dept. in house, it can take a long time to build an in house solution, so you're a bit stuck either way you go.
I haven't read many of them, but I'm pretty sure it's almost all back-story compiled from Tolkien's notes. Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales are probably the most prominent of these, they are basically the origin stories for Middle Earth and it's people.