If the colleges and universities switch to online courses, what's the benefit of paying them so many thousands of dollars for an education that you can get for free from something like the Khan Academy videos? People need and want an education, not a video lecture series.
A degree, which certifies that you have met some sort of minimum.
While I agree with your post in general, you don't have to derive your competitive advantage from your server infrastructure to not use a PaaS. Sometimes it's just difficult to abstract away all of those things (hardware, OS, other details).
Alternatively, you're a business that simply deals with requests beyond the 100 per second range; this doesn't make you one of the largest players in 2011.
It doesn't apply to checking out large repositories. It's faster at pretty much everything (except git clone vs svn checkout, which it still comes close for).
I think you meant to say that the latter (unfortunate password with same hash as "ppp") is improbable so the former (password actually was chosen to be "ppp") is more likely.
One 'benefit' of DRM is that it should make lending or even reselling trivial. Frankly I don't mind if there's even a small admin charge to cover the DRM costs.
Except the part where the DRM is fundamentally flawed, won't ever work, and only hurts legitimate consumers. "Benefit" indeed.
The issue with DRM is not that it's useless, but that it's impossible to implement. Additionally, it can only hurt legitimate consumers who are willing to pay.
On top of that, the frames are then compressed into GIFs as opposed to the lossless PNG and then uploaded with a.jpg extension. This guy is clueless.
Furthermore, in a video comparison, is audio even included in the file and, even worse, why is the audio encoded differently? This throws some doubt on fairness of the result since the filesize of the overall files are very close but the audio portions of the file likely take up different amounts of space.
Finally, why is VP8 thrown in the "WebM" container (which is just MKV) and the H.264 video thrown in the mp4 container?
* Yes I can. * I don't need to paste the code into another editor just to get custom coloring. * It sounds like all of your issues are with e-mail clients that assume the 80 column crap. In other words, with e-mail clients that have trouble with text. OK, so they're not your e-mail client, but it's still not the fault of the text. * Charset has little to do with the argument at hand.
You can't do lists in plain text? Try harder. I don't want your syntax highlighting. I can do my own highlighting, thanks. Your e-mail client can't handle wrapping of text? Try harder.
Text is text. How it is interpreted should be left up to the user (in this case, the receiver, not the sender). It seems that whatever software you're using really sucks at interpreting text, but don't blame the text for your problems.
Digital data is still more reliable. You can backup the data so that when the computer breaks, you can resume your work at some point in the future. When you spill some coffee on a stack of papers and you didn't go through the cost of backing that up, you lose.
Off-line use. I can refer to paper copies and make notes on them even when I'm not around the computer.
I don't think this is a fair argument for either side. Paperless people spend more time on the computer; people with lots of paper spend more time away from it.
Change control. Many times documents can be changed in the computer and, while it records that there was a change, there's no record anymore of what the document said before the change. The paper copies in my drawer can't be changed and I can pull them out to prove that yes that was what was originally specified.
That's exactly what version control is for. VCS's are better, though, because it's easier to create old versions and it may be harder to forge an old version.
Reliability. I don't have to worry about the contents of my desk drawers and noteboard going *poof* when a system upgrade goes south and it turns out the restore process requires things IT can't afford to do.
Backing up digital data is far easier than paper. On the other hand, spilling coffee on a stack of papers is generally irrecoverable.
Wrong. It worked,... any halfway-competent QA department should have caught those bugs on the first day.
So, where's the bug?
Also, when I write software for Windows, my QA team is myself and the two friends I give it to. But my entire QA team gets angry when that software breaks in a newer version of Windows.
I don't see any practical difference between the two. You're just used to the sudo behavior.
The rest of the world, too. When I introduce an XP user to sudo, they seem fine with it. When an XP user is introduced to UAC, even when I explain why it exists and tell them to consider leaving it on (I do), they are annoyed.
I complain about UAC while rooting for sudo. The annoyance caused by UAC is not because of badly written software that assumes it has full admin rights.
Firstly, the software is not badly written; it complied completely with previous versions of Windows. Vista and beyond introduced a breaking change; you can't blame the developers any more than you can blame web developers who write code that is not standards-compliant when almost all web browsers render them fine.
Secondly, the annoyance is in the fact that, in UAC, you ask to do something first, and then Windows asks you for authorization. sudo is less annoying because you authorize first (or at the same time, depending on how you look at it) and then ask to do something.
# Web Edition: Up to 1 GB relational database = $9.99 / month # Business Edition: Up to 10 GB relational database = $99.99 / month # Bandwidth = $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB
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* Self-managed DB, auto high availability
* Best suited for Web application, Departmental custom apps.
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* Up to 10 GB of T-SQL based relational database
* Self-managed DB, auto high availability
* Additional features in the future like auto-partition, CLR, fanouts etc.
* Best suited for ISVs packaged LOB apps, Department custom apps
# Small DB Instance: 1.7 GB memory, 1 ECU (1 virtual core with 1 ECU), 64-bit platform. # Large DB Instance: 7.5 GB memory, 4 ECUs (2 virtual cores with 2 ECUs each), 64-bit platform # Extra Large DB Instance: 15 GB of memory, 8 ECUs (4 virtual cores with 2 ECUs each), 64-bit platform # Double Extra Large DB Instance: 34 GB of memory, 13 ECUs (4 virtual cores with 3,25 ECUs each), 64-bit platform # Quadruple Extra Large DB Instance: 68 GB of memory, 26 ECUs (8 virtual cores with 3.25 ECUs each), 64-bit platform
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Provisioned Database Storage
For each DB Instance class, Amazon RDS provides you the ability to select from 5 GB to 1 TB of associated storage capacity for your primary data set.
* $0.10 per GB-month of provisioned storage
* $0.10 per 1 million I/O requests
Data Transfer In
* All Data Transfer $0.10 per GB
Data Transfer Out
* First 10 TB per Month $0.17 per GB
* Next 40 TB per Month $0.13 per GB
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Data transferred between two Amazon Web Services within the same region (e.g. between Amazon RDS US and Amazon EC2 US) is free of charge.
The minimum on Amazon is 5GB, so let's compare 10GB. For Amazon at 1 month, you're paying $0.10 * 10 = $1 for storage and your $81.84 is about right. Note that this $82.84 is not comparable to the "Web Edition" offering from Microsoft, as that's for 1GB of storage. The "Small DB Instance" offering from Amazon is for an instance, not for storage, which you pay for completely separately.
So this $82.84 figure is really only comparable to Microsoft's "Business Edition" offering at $99.99, both before bandwidth costs. Bandwidth costs apply to Azure too under a different pricing model. The data in cost is exactly the same and the data out cost is $0.02/GB more expensive for Amazon for the first 10 TB and cheaper after that. You do have to pay Amazon an additional $0.10 per 1 million I/O requests, though.
On the other hand, Amazon allows you to buy way more than 10GB of storage, different instances, and
The upgrade process (be it Vista or 7) copies the data out of the current \Users, \Program Files, and \Windows directory to a temporary directory. It then kills those directories and lays down the new OS. After that, it copies all of the data back (well, probably a move operation -- but it still takes a long time).
You can watch it if you do a Ctrl-F10 to bring up a command prompt during the upgrade process.
Yes, the misery of having a machine that... can inter-operate with the most possible other machines and users
Windows isn't exactly a good example of support for open standards. The only reason it "inter-operates" with other machines is because the designers of software for other OS's made them "inter-operate" with Windows. Don't give Windows developers credit for something they not only have not done, but have never cared for.
Even better: it's not quite done, but classes have already started and faculty have moved in. There's still construction going on in some areas, unpainted areas, unfurnished classrooms, etc.
A recent patch fixed the ~60 degree AC in some rooms. There's still a strange bug that causes the fire alarms to go off all the time.
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If the colleges and universities switch to online courses, what's the benefit of paying them so many thousands of dollars for an education that you can get for free from something like the Khan Academy videos? People need and want an education, not a video lecture series.
A degree, which certifies that you have met some sort of minimum.
While I agree with your post in general, you don't have to derive your competitive advantage from your server infrastructure to not use a PaaS. Sometimes it's just difficult to abstract away all of those things (hardware, OS, other details).
Alternatively, you're a business that simply deals with requests beyond the 100 per second range; this doesn't make you one of the largest players in 2011.
It doesn't apply to checking out large repositories. It's faster at pretty much everything (except git clone vs svn checkout, which it still comes close for).
See http://johan.kiviniemi.name/blag/svn-diff-git-diff-speed/ and http://thinkvitamin.com/code/why-you-should-switch-from-subversion-to-git/, particularly the "Not Just for Teams of Coders" section.
I think you meant to say that the latter (unfortunate password with same hash as "ppp") is improbable so the former (password actually was chosen to be "ppp") is more likely.
I'm a not very good programmer who is a good system admin.
I disagree.
I can just see my last employer waiting as I read through 10k lines of source code to figure out why X isn't working with Y.
Have you heard of grep?
One 'benefit' of DRM is that it should make lending or even reselling trivial. Frankly I don't mind if there's even a small admin charge to cover the DRM costs.
Except the part where the DRM is fundamentally flawed, won't ever work, and only hurts legitimate consumers. "Benefit" indeed.
And the DRM will stop people from pirating it, just like with every other form of digitized data that has been DRM-ed, right?
The issue with DRM is not that it's useless, but that it's impossible to implement. Additionally, it can only hurt legitimate consumers who are willing to pay.
On top of that, the frames are then compressed into GIFs as opposed to the lossless PNG and then uploaded with a .jpg extension. This guy is clueless.
Furthermore, in a video comparison, is audio even included in the file and, even worse, why is the audio encoded differently? This throws some doubt on fairness of the result since the filesize of the overall files are very close but the audio portions of the file likely take up different amounts of space.
Finally, why is VP8 thrown in the "WebM" container (which is just MKV) and the H.264 video thrown in the mp4 container?
http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=292
* Yes I can.
* I don't need to paste the code into another editor just to get custom coloring.
* It sounds like all of your issues are with e-mail clients that assume the 80 column crap. In other words, with e-mail clients that have trouble with text. OK, so they're not your e-mail client, but it's still not the fault of the text.
* Charset has little to do with the argument at hand.
You can't do lists in plain text? Try harder.
I don't want your syntax highlighting. I can do my own highlighting, thanks.
Your e-mail client can't handle wrapping of text? Try harder.
Text is text. How it is interpreted should be left up to the user (in this case, the receiver, not the sender). It seems that whatever software you're using really sucks at interpreting text, but don't blame the text for your problems.
Digital data is still more reliable. You can backup the data so that when the computer breaks, you can resume your work at some point in the future. When you spill some coffee on a stack of papers and you didn't go through the cost of backing that up, you lose.
Off-line use. I can refer to paper copies and make notes on them even when I'm not around the computer.
I don't think this is a fair argument for either side. Paperless people spend more time on the computer; people with lots of paper spend more time away from it.
Change control. Many times documents can be changed in the computer and, while it records that there was a change, there's no record anymore of what the document said before the change. The paper copies in my drawer can't be changed and I can pull them out to prove that yes that was what was originally specified.
That's exactly what version control is for. VCS's are better, though, because it's easier to create old versions and it may be harder to forge an old version.
Reliability. I don't have to worry about the contents of my desk drawers and noteboard going *poof* when a system upgrade goes south and it turns out the restore process requires things IT can't afford to do.
Backing up digital data is far easier than paper. On the other hand, spilling coffee on a stack of papers is generally irrecoverable.
So your software sucks, even though better, more reliable alternatives exist.
Because sudo is a commandline tool and UAC a graphical tool.
And XP users are already accustomed to the CLI?
Sudo behaves like UAC when you try to launch a Gnome or KDE app that requires root.
That's gksu/kdesu.
Wrong. It worked, ...
any halfway-competent QA department should have caught those bugs on the first day.
So, where's the bug?
Also, when I write software for Windows, my QA team is myself and the two friends I give it to. But my entire QA team gets angry when that software breaks in a newer version of Windows.
I don't see any practical difference between the two. You're just used to the sudo behavior.
The rest of the world, too. When I introduce an XP user to sudo, they seem fine with it. When an XP user is introduced to UAC, even when I explain why it exists and tell them to consider leaving it on (I do), they are annoyed.
So you disallow ping without root, too?
I complain about UAC while rooting for sudo. The annoyance caused by UAC is not because of badly written software that assumes it has full admin rights.
Firstly, the software is not badly written; it complied completely with previous versions of Windows. Vista and beyond introduced a breaking change; you can't blame the developers any more than you can blame web developers who write code that is not standards-compliant when almost all web browsers render them fine.
Secondly, the annoyance is in the fact that, in UAC, you ask to do something first, and then Windows asks you for authorization. sudo is less annoying because you authorize first (or at the same time, depending on how you look at it) and then ask to do something.
What?
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/pricing/
http://aws.amazon.com/rds/
The minimum on Amazon is 5GB, so let's compare 10GB. For Amazon at 1 month, you're paying $0.10 * 10 = $1 for storage and your $81.84 is about right. Note that this $82.84 is not comparable to the "Web Edition" offering from Microsoft, as that's for 1GB of storage. The "Small DB Instance" offering from Amazon is for an instance, not for storage, which you pay for completely separately.
So this $82.84 figure is really only comparable to Microsoft's "Business Edition" offering at $99.99, both before bandwidth costs. Bandwidth costs apply to Azure too under a different pricing model. The data in cost is exactly the same and the data out cost is $0.02/GB more expensive for Amazon for the first 10 TB and cheaper after that. You do have to pay Amazon an additional $0.10 per 1 million I/O requests, though.
On the other hand, Amazon allows you to buy way more than 10GB of storage, different instances, and
Your question actually doesn't make much sense.
What software are they offering as a service?
If it wasn't your point, don't mention it. Your response is a reiteration of everything I didn't respond to in your original post.
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/09/microsoft-upgrade-to-windows-7-can-take-up-to-a-day.ars?comments=1&comment_id=136007241041
The upgrade process (be it Vista or 7) copies the data out of the current \Users, \Program Files, and \Windows directory to a temporary directory. It then kills those directories and lays down the new OS. After that, it copies all of the data back (well, probably a move operation -- but it still takes a long time).
You can watch it if you do a Ctrl-F10 to bring up a command prompt during the upgrade process.
modern iMacs have a larger screen with higher resolution than most typical PC desktops.
I am completely convinced. This is completely sound argument to buy a Mac.
Yes, the misery of having a machine that... can inter-operate with the most possible other machines and users
Windows isn't exactly a good example of support for open standards. The only reason it "inter-operates" with other machines is because the designers of software for other OS's made them "inter-operate" with Windows. Don't give Windows developers credit for something they not only have not done, but have never cared for.
Even better: it's not quite done, but classes have already started and faculty have moved in. There's still construction going on in some areas, unpainted areas, unfurnished classrooms, etc.
A recent patch fixed the ~60 degree AC in some rooms. There's still a strange bug that causes the fire alarms to go off all the time.
I'm still waiting for SP1.