At my repair shop, 99% of people with Chrome claim they don't know how they got it.
Probably because they have previously had tech-savvy friends fix their computers. Said friends have installed chrome to get a working browser and/or give them a more secure browser.
And how do you propose to create redundancy and availability when any number of components could fail at any time? The GP is correct, this is a ridiculous question. No matter what level of redundancy you put into a system, there is no way to ensure that even a minimal number of computers will be on at all times. Building in enough redundancy would immediately make this cost prohibitive compared to just purchasing some additional disk drives.
Also, any company that is in any way interested in reducing energy costs would ask their employees to turn off computers when not in use!! This means that any data you store on these would probably only be sporadically available between 9AM and 4PM (or whenever a quorum of computers would be operational.
This is not even touching on the other problems, such as the additional network load, increased failure of disk drives, and cost in time or software of managing such a solution.
From what I remember, the Labels were suggesting a pricing structure that changed from "all songs are $.99" to "all songs are at least $.99, with some up to $1.99".
I have a difficult time believing that the record labels will agree to drop the price on older songs. They already have people willing to pay 99 cents, so they're not going to let anything go for less than that.
The other problem that they have is that by lowering prices over time, you have more people who will just wait until the price goes down to purchase, just like with video games. This practice will force them to raise the price on new music even higher to compensate.
No one will come out of this system better except the record labels, who now will be able to price-fix to their hearts content.
This is moronic, even a lightly loaded datacenter will go from 60F to 95F within 7-10 minutes, causing overtemp shutdowns, and bankruptcy if you are a colo provider like the poster is.
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At my repair shop, 99% of people with Chrome claim they don't know how they got it.
Probably because they have previously had tech-savvy friends fix their computers. Said friends have installed chrome to get a working browser and/or give them a more secure browser.
Someone once told me "Wisdom is what you would do if you had ALL the facts"
umm...from the website (http://www.nagios.org/)
Latest versions:
Nagios 3.0.3 (stable)
And how do you propose to create redundancy and availability when any number of components could fail at any time? The GP is correct, this is a ridiculous question. No matter what level of redundancy you put into a system, there is no way to ensure that even a minimal number of computers will be on at all times. Building in enough redundancy would immediately make this cost prohibitive compared to just purchasing some additional disk drives.
Also, any company that is in any way interested in reducing energy costs would ask their employees to turn off computers when not in use!! This means that any data you store on these would probably only be sporadically available between 9AM and 4PM (or whenever a quorum of computers would be operational.
This is not even touching on the other problems, such as the additional network load, increased failure of disk drives, and cost in time or software of managing such a solution.
Hmm... no MSN or Yahoo search.
I smell a lawsuit.
From what I remember, the Labels were suggesting a pricing structure that changed from "all songs are $.99" to "all songs are at least $.99, with some up to $1.99".
I have a difficult time believing that the record labels will agree to drop the price on older songs. They already have people willing to pay 99 cents, so they're not going to let anything go for less than that.
The other problem that they have is that by lowering prices over time, you have more people who will just wait until the price goes down to purchase, just like with video games. This practice will force them to raise the price on new music even higher to compensate.
No one will come out of this system better except the record labels, who now will be able to price-fix to their hearts content.
That would work fine, until the record label said "Hey we're charging you $50 for each song that you just sold for $.99"
Look at this, "Six Sigma Security Inc." is an authorized sales agent for citywatcher.com...
http://www.sixsigmasecurity.u
Sounds like a bunch of hooey to me.
This is moronic, even a lightly loaded datacenter will go from 60F to 95F within 7-10 minutes, causing overtemp shutdowns, and bankruptcy if you are a colo provider like the poster is.