Did you check the figures adding up to the total? He received $126,349. Of this, $6,000 was from PACs while the rest includes contributions from individuals employed by the two companies. If someone contributes $20 to his presidential campaign, it will go in that total. Since he raised record amounts from individual contributions, I'd be surprised if he wasn't near the top of that list, and I'd expect it to be the same from any employer picked at random in the USA.
Guess who got $0 from those PACs?
And no, I'm not a McCain supporter, both candidates sucked.
I think you're taking the wrong angle. Obviously having an IT-department is cheaper than doing everything "the old way", but what you really have to consider is the alternatives to having an IT-department.
Outsourcing IT-services is an reasonable alternative for organizations that aren't large enough to justify dedicated personnel and hardware. There are of course some cons like no control over downtimes (which is why you don't outsource to some one-man sweatshop that is one heartbeat away from IT meltdown) and slower reaction times unless the company is located nearby, but all in all it is a good idea for smaller companies.
I realize now that this probably isn't what the person asking the original question wanted to hear. My advice would be to estimate roughly how long it would take and how much it would cost to recover from e.g. a server meltdown (which your actions of course prevent), and then calculate how much income would be lost because of it. You could do something similar to other aspects of your work.
The "victims" of this mortgage debacle are not by any stretch of the imagination responsible people. They're nothing but petty consumers who were unable to plan ahead far enough to realize that they can't afford their mortgage.
You are under the profound illusion that babies in Africa won't starve if only they had more gumption.
Let's not start a discussion about the inability of African farmers to compete with subsidized western agribusiness.
Well, to be honest this is a dupe. I remember reading about it on slashdot earlier this decade. Of course, with geologic timescales it's hard to tell which one of the articles was posted first.
You are right, there's a whole lot of articles talking about this problem. And there have been people touting the NAT silver bullet for as long as the shortage has been known about. The interesting thing is that the rate of IPv4 consumption has kept increasing regardless.
An ISP can NAT big chunks of its user network. Charging even a modest amount per IP would free up huge numbers of IPs.
That sounds like a huge step backwards. Hopefully it won't come to that.
If they go too fast then this screws up the core team because they suddenly have more transistors than they expect.
I don't see how that would be a problem. Being able to put more transistors on a chip != have to put more transistors on a chip. In this case, having a better process would lead to higher profits, so there is an incentive to advance process technology ASAP.
That is overly pessimistic, seeing as how 802.11n has been in development since 2004, and will (hopefully) be ready in 2009. So I'd say gigabit WLAN will be actual in 2013ish.
However, by that time gigabit speeds will feel like snails pace..
Higher vulnerability to certain types of effects, including abrupt power loss (especially DRAM based SSDs)
That sounds odd. DRAM based SSDs are certainly vulnerable to that, but I would have thought that flash-based SSDs are almost completely immune to power loss (they need power to operate of course). HDDs, on the other hand are at risk of mechanical damage and/or failure from abrupt power loss.
The difference is that Democrats will get more votes from young people who think that only chumps (and old people like McCain) should have to pay for movies, and who capable of compartmentalizing their "respect" for their favorite musicians separately from their willingness to happily rip them off.
Then they're up for a huge disappointment. It doesn't matter which candidate wins, they'll both push for ACTA. Network neutrality won't make it any easier for young people to "happily rip [artists] off".
The docs are better. The tools are better. Its faster (make > 300M of Visual Studio in my RAM).
That's a silly comparison. Nothing wrong with notepad coding, but using VS only for compiling is obviously immense overkill. I'm sure someone has ported make to the windows platform, combine that with Microsoft's command line compiler and you should have a more reasonable comparison.
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Atheism does not lead to rationality, however rationality does lead to atheism (or at the very least agnosticism).
Are you joking?
That's correct too, but I actually meant McCain. As in, getting or not getting donations from PACs means squat.
Guess who got $0 from those PACs?
And no, I'm not a McCain supporter, both candidates sucked.
I think you're taking the wrong angle. Obviously having an IT-department is cheaper than doing everything "the old way", but what you really have to consider is the alternatives to having an IT-department.
Outsourcing IT-services is an reasonable alternative for organizations that aren't large enough to justify dedicated personnel and hardware. There are of course some cons like no control over downtimes (which is why you don't outsource to some one-man sweatshop that is one heartbeat away from IT meltdown) and slower reaction times unless the company is located nearby, but all in all it is a good idea for smaller companies.
I realize now that this probably isn't what the person asking the original question wanted to hear. My advice would be to estimate roughly how long it would take and how much it would cost to recover from e.g. a server meltdown (which your actions of course prevent), and then calculate how much income would be lost because of it. You could do something similar to other aspects of your work.
Let's not start a discussion about the inability of African farmers to compete with subsidized western agribusiness.
Why the ridiculous disclaimer?
Wrong. Irresponsible people cannot invest, those who have savings and aren't up to their ears in debt are doing fine thank-you-very-much.
But deficit spending is killing the USA.
Well, to be honest this is a dupe. I remember reading about it on slashdot earlier this decade. Of course, with geologic timescales it's hard to tell which one of the articles was posted first.
The exhaustion of IPv4 address space - dated 17th October, 2005
You are right, there's a whole lot of articles talking about this problem. And there have been people touting the NAT silver bullet for as long as the shortage has been known about. The interesting thing is that the rate of IPv4 consumption has kept increasing regardless.
That sounds like a huge step backwards. Hopefully it won't come to that.
Are you certain? Perhaps the GPP meant pounds of flesh.
I had to check wikipedia to see if you are joking. You are not.
I'm saying that burning the coal produces more energy than removing the nitrogen from the air uses.
Well the subject matter is a power plant, so I'd say we found the power source. :)
I guess the entire process produces more energy than it uses, otherwise they wouldn't be planning larger facilities.
I don't see how that would be a problem. Being able to put more transistors on a chip != have to put more transistors on a chip. In this case, having a better process would lead to higher profits, so there is an incentive to advance process technology ASAP.
That is overly pessimistic, seeing as how 802.11n has been in development since 2004, and will (hopefully) be ready in 2009. So I'd say gigabit WLAN will be actual in 2013ish.
However, by that time gigabit speeds will feel like snails pace..
That sounds odd. DRAM based SSDs are certainly vulnerable to that, but I would have thought that flash-based SSDs are almost completely immune to power loss (they need power to operate of course). HDDs, on the other hand are at risk of mechanical damage and/or failure from abrupt power loss.
Then they're up for a huge disappointment. It doesn't matter which candidate wins, they'll both push for ACTA. Network neutrality won't make it any easier for young people to "happily rip [artists] off".
How about the other way around? Hack the camera, and make yourself invisible to it.
If there's something weird,
in your movie idea,
who you gonna call?
Uwe Boll!
If the script is shit,
and it don't look good,
who you gonna call?
Uwe Boll!
He ain't afraid of no sequels!
Well if things get that bad then we're already far past the point of "encrypt everything".
That's a silly comparison. Nothing wrong with notepad coding, but using VS only for compiling is obviously immense overkill. I'm sure someone has ported make to the windows platform, combine that with Microsoft's command line compiler and you should have a more reasonable comparison.
Seeing as the ISPs in Finland are private companies and the government doesn't subsidize broadband... I'd have to say yes.
Perhaps you meant Sweden?
Marinol a.k.a. synthetic THC?
I ask because they are large, expensive orange pills.