Cloud computing is generally cheaper in the short-term, rolling your own cheaper in the mid-term, and buying an app cheaper in the long term when life-cycle issues come up. What boggles my mind is that rolling your own often has a 6-month payback over current cloud computing solutions. As long as the time-to-market is less than 2 months (which can be ambitious), things like SalesForce seem to fail.
We decided to purchase an accounting system rather than roll our own (specifically work from an open-source ERP system to add the functionality we needed). We spent about $50k in the first 12 months to get a system that was marginally effective after 6 months, and has $5k annual costs. I had pegged the cost of rolling our own at $20k plus the loss of 4 months of my billable time; the latter part is what killed it-- it would be $120k total in the first year.
RIM made some very bad decisions dating back to 2007 and before; their business model relied on effectively having a monoculture at a business, and to pull in the BES licensing revenue. When the iPhone came out, they really needed to scale back expenses, because that BES revenue would disappear if it still relied on the monoculture. It wasn't until 2009 (IIRC) that they began supporting other devices, but they had long-since lost the lock.
If they had bought Palm and used that as their next-generation OS, they would have stood a chance. I don't think Android helps them any; it makes it easier for a customer to switch out of their ecosystem. At this point, Facebook is their only hope as a suitor... which would be a really bad combination for existing markets but might not be the end of the world for long-term strategy.
Well... I read/. because I generally respect the median poster to be well above the median in other sites. I disagree with many of the opinions, and the 30th percentile can be pretty annoying, but it sometimes adds to the discussion.
On this particular story, I expected to get some relevant input from people with similar intellectual capacity... But alas, all I ended up seeing is small-minded people and people berating the editorial decision to show the article. C'mon people... who still cares about Mono?! Yet we tolerate that collectively?
The problem with placing too much "honor" on the soldiers for their work is the vast majority go on to support the politicians that push the military agenda at the expense of sustainable policies.
A small publisher doesn't need a best seller, but then do need 10-20 books a year that sell 50k copies with reasonable margin.
Anecdotally, the only fiction I have read in the last 5-7 years is the Stei Larsson trilogy. This despite getting the amazon library off TPB. It is just too much work to find books: the publishers have failed at marketing. Amazon had a good system going to recommend books, but that was really only effective with proper bookworms, as best I can tell.
A healthy market needs the long tail and reasonable prices.
It should also be noted that Apple is trying to force retail outlets like Target from carrying the Kindle.
Apple isn't pushing that, the retailers are doing it themselves for self-preservation since there is little margin on the device and Amazon's goal is to use the product as a conduit to channel consumer spending on everything the retailer sells to themselves.
Apple is no saint in the matter of ebooks, but I am hard pressed to think anything they did was illegal.
Not sure about Germany, but Sweden the peak electrical demand is winter evenings.
Distributed solar generation is a fantastic solution when it can offset peak demand. When it doesn't to that, all it offsets is the marginal operating cost of other sources of production, which in economic terms is inefficient.
Completely agree. We're at 25-30 people now, but gmail was what saved us in our early years. We actually bought a Windows Server SMB edition, but never got around to installing it. We used a NAS box for the first 366 days until it crapped out on us. (Lesson-- after 90 days we should have bought a redundant NAS to work with cashflow...)
Today we have to reconsider if gmail is worth the price, and we have proper file servers with redundant snapshots and all that fun stuff. But when $15 matters, gmail is the way to go.
One thing to keep in mind is that a mildly talented administrative assistant at $10/hour can do many of the tasks that a streamlined software package can automate. The cost-benefit analysis seems to favor meat over bits until you need a second piece of meat to handle the task.
Yes it does. As long as all the devices are using the same time server, the problem does not exist. You need consistency not accuracy.
Most hospitals and surgical centers I have dealt with use a master clock system that wirelessly updates time on all devices to about 1-second accuracy. That wouldn't necessarily include things like EKG or blood oxygen meters, hence the issue in the summary-- those devices do not have a central time source typically, although the telemetry systems could add it in to have a common reference.
"It takes $2-3MM to wire a community of 50k, with no guarantee of how long it will take to recover."
Well... That is $1 per person per month over a 5-year timeline. Assuming an average 3.5 people per household and 20% penetration, that is $17.50 per household per month. Assuming a cut-rate service provider charging $35/month/household, you have a very healthy profit margin including upstream connection costs. As you add subscribers, things become even more attractive.
The problem is legacy investments amortized longer than their practical life.
Well... Hoover Dam doesn't have that much water behind it anymore... But if it was filled to capacity from current levels ocean levels would decrease by 0.077mm. The horror!
Their market cap is closer to $100B, so given 900MM users, that is actually over $100 per user.
If you take a 15% discount rate, over 10 years you would need an average of about 6 clicks per user per month at $0.25/click to justify the valuation. If you bumped it up to a 50% discount rate then you are looking at 16 clicks per month. This is all assuming 100% margin, so at a 50% margin they would need double those clicks.
So, not a good deal by any measure... but not impossible. It looks a lot like all the future value is pretty well locked in today.
The state gets 8% of sale the city gets 1%. The city is "giving back" nearly 100% of their 1% of sales.
The summary is miserable, and I haven't read TFS, but usually this happens in the form of property tax breaks, and not a "refund" of collected taxes from other people. Slightly less corrupt... but only slightly.
It would seem to make more sense to approach the problem from a different direction: limit your USB backups to the home directory (or a limited set of directories), and do incremental backups there. In the recovery mode, you first recover to the last known good state from the hard drive, and then you apply the changes from the USB stick to selected directories. It could be automated with a script that even I could write, or you just follow a simple step-by-step procedure.
A fully packaged solution as the OP wants would be nice; you would just need to make recursive hash tables of each directory that get you down to around 20-50MB chunk sizes wherever possible. I was hoping for something similar to help with backup drive validation to detect corruption. The table itself would be about 2MB if my math is right.
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Oh come on... This is HP we are talking about. They likely have 30,000 people in the packaging division responsible for the absurd amount of trash every time you buy an HP product.
The company needs to be reborn, and that is going to require re-prioritization of jobs. Saying they can't fire people will doom them to Kodak's fate. As long as they use the money for something good, it is how you run a business. So far, Meg isn't talking about a share repurchase or some other nonsense.
More likely, they determined that the peoplemthatnare willing to pay are the ones the advertisers actually want. The masses just make the rates look better.
Microsoft was imploding long before Gates left; it is revisionist to tHink otherwise. I remember in 1998-9 talking to a MS employee and how he was excited that the MBAs were starting to take a back seat to the engineers and how that would turn the company around from a "good enough" company to a true innovator.
I can't be certain if his view was realistic or accurate, but I do remember the lack of progress from Windows 95, and that the antitrust trial began in 1998.
Gates left a sinking ship. Balmer stabilized, then simply squandered opportunity. If he can't capitalize on Windows 8, he really needs to step down. They have another golden opportunity that started with 7, but if they blow it...
Tablet: not sim locked, easy to get local sim card when traveling Smartphone: home telephone number, expensive access before you get local sim for tablet Dumb phone: not sim locked, backup, local number. Can be tricky to use though. No longer part of my kit. Laptop: real work on the road (Desktop: performance)
It makes me sad to need all this crap... But my wife has her toiletry kit, so I still end up with less stuff when traveling...
Pelican cases often attract more attention than they should. Stuff inside may or may not be expensive, but from personal experience it is rarely marketable. We have one cases with over $50k of instruments, but good luck getting more than the value of a laptop on the street.
Generally speaking though, the right decals can protect a pelican box pretty well.
You must go to a different pharmacy than me. Walgreens seems to be staffed with some nice folks on work-release. When I lived abroad where you could get whatever you wanted at the pharmacy, it was often hard to discern if you were being recommended drugs based on cost/profit or genuine need.
It should be relevant to me, but as others have stated, I would not trust/. for this type of information. It seems like too much of a distraction rather than building it up from within the main site. There is a reason slashvertisements are viewed as they are, even though some of them are remotely useful.
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Cloud computing is generally cheaper in the short-term, rolling your own cheaper in the mid-term, and buying an app cheaper in the long term when life-cycle issues come up. What boggles my mind is that rolling your own often has a 6-month payback over current cloud computing solutions. As long as the time-to-market is less than 2 months (which can be ambitious), things like SalesForce seem to fail.
We decided to purchase an accounting system rather than roll our own (specifically work from an open-source ERP system to add the functionality we needed). We spent about $50k in the first 12 months to get a system that was marginally effective after 6 months, and has $5k annual costs. I had pegged the cost of rolling our own at $20k plus the loss of 4 months of my billable time; the latter part is what killed it-- it would be $120k total in the first year.
Yeah... other people's headphones seem to help them concentrate dramatically in comparison to listening to my techno.
RIM made some very bad decisions dating back to 2007 and before; their business model relied on effectively having a monoculture at a business, and to pull in the BES licensing revenue. When the iPhone came out, they really needed to scale back expenses, because that BES revenue would disappear if it still relied on the monoculture. It wasn't until 2009 (IIRC) that they began supporting other devices, but they had long-since lost the lock.
If they had bought Palm and used that as their next-generation OS, they would have stood a chance. I don't think Android helps them any; it makes it easier for a customer to switch out of their ecosystem. At this point, Facebook is their only hope as a suitor... which would be a really bad combination for existing markets but might not be the end of the world for long-term strategy.
Well... I read /. because I generally respect the median poster to be well above the median in other sites. I disagree with many of the opinions, and the 30th percentile can be pretty annoying, but it sometimes adds to the discussion.
On this particular story, I expected to get some relevant input from people with similar intellectual capacity... But alas, all I ended up seeing is small-minded people and people berating the editorial decision to show the article. C'mon people... who still cares about Mono?! Yet we tolerate that collectively?
The problem with placing too much "honor" on the soldiers for their work is the vast majority go on to support the politicians that push the military agenda at the expense of sustainable policies.
A small publisher doesn't need a best seller, but then do need 10-20 books a year that sell 50k copies with reasonable margin.
Anecdotally, the only fiction I have read in the last 5-7 years is the Stei Larsson trilogy. This despite getting the amazon library off TPB. It is just too much work to find books: the publishers have failed at marketing. Amazon had a good system going to recommend books, but that was really only effective with proper bookworms, as best I can tell.
A healthy market needs the long tail and reasonable prices.
It should also be noted that Apple is trying to force retail outlets like Target from carrying the Kindle.
Apple isn't pushing that, the retailers are doing it themselves for self-preservation since there is little margin on the device and Amazon's goal is to use the product as a conduit to channel consumer spending on everything the retailer sells to themselves.
Apple is no saint in the matter of ebooks, but I am hard pressed to think anything they did was illegal.
Not sure about Germany, but Sweden the peak electrical demand is winter evenings.
Distributed solar generation is a fantastic solution when it can offset peak demand. When it doesn't to that, all it offsets is the marginal operating cost of other sources of production, which in economic terms is inefficient.
Which is why it should be set up for snapshots. However, that doesn't help much format database directly...
Unloading 1,000 pounds in microgravity requires the same energy as in 1G. 450kg however would be significantly easier.
Completely agree. We're at 25-30 people now, but gmail was what saved us in our early years. We actually bought a Windows Server SMB edition, but never got around to installing it. We used a NAS box for the first 366 days until it crapped out on us. (Lesson-- after 90 days we should have bought a redundant NAS to work with cashflow...)
Today we have to reconsider if gmail is worth the price, and we have proper file servers with redundant snapshots and all that fun stuff. But when $15 matters, gmail is the way to go.
One thing to keep in mind is that a mildly talented administrative assistant at $10/hour can do many of the tasks that a streamlined software package can automate. The cost-benefit analysis seems to favor meat over bits until you need a second piece of meat to handle the task.
Yes it does. As long as all the devices are using the same time server, the problem does not exist. You need consistency not accuracy.
Most hospitals and surgical centers I have dealt with use a master clock system that wirelessly updates time on all devices to about 1-second accuracy. That wouldn't necessarily include things like EKG or blood oxygen meters, hence the issue in the summary-- those devices do not have a central time source typically, although the telemetry systems could add it in to have a common reference.
"It takes $2-3MM to wire a community of 50k, with no guarantee of how long it will take to recover."
Well... That is $1 per person per month over a 5-year timeline. Assuming an average 3.5 people per household and 20% penetration, that is $17.50 per household per month. Assuming a cut-rate service provider charging $35/month/household, you have a very healthy profit margin including upstream connection costs. As you add subscribers, things become even more attractive.
The problem is legacy investments amortized longer than their practical life.
Well... Hoover Dam doesn't have that much water behind it anymore... But if it was filled to capacity from current levels ocean levels would decrease by 0.077mm. The horror!
Their market cap is closer to $100B, so given 900MM users, that is actually over $100 per user.
If you take a 15% discount rate, over 10 years you would need an average of about 6 clicks per user per month at $0.25/click to justify the valuation. If you bumped it up to a 50% discount rate then you are looking at 16 clicks per month. This is all assuming 100% margin, so at a 50% margin they would need double those clicks.
So, not a good deal by any measure... but not impossible. It looks a lot like all the future value is pretty well locked in today.
The state gets 8% of sale the city gets 1%. The city is "giving back" nearly 100% of their 1% of sales.
The summary is miserable, and I haven't read TFS, but usually this happens in the form of property tax breaks, and not a "refund" of collected taxes from other people. Slightly less corrupt... but only slightly.
It would seem to make more sense to approach the problem from a different direction: limit your USB backups to the home directory (or a limited set of directories), and do incremental backups there. In the recovery mode, you first recover to the last known good state from the hard drive, and then you apply the changes from the USB stick to selected directories. It could be automated with a script that even I could write, or you just follow a simple step-by-step procedure.
A fully packaged solution as the OP wants would be nice; you would just need to make recursive hash tables of each directory that get you down to around 20-50MB chunk sizes wherever possible. I was hoping for something similar to help with backup drive validation to detect corruption. The table itself would be about 2MB if my math is right.
Oh come on... This is HP we are talking about. They likely have 30,000 people in the packaging division responsible for the absurd amount of trash every time you buy an HP product.
The company needs to be reborn, and that is going to require re-prioritization of jobs. Saying they can't fire people will doom them to Kodak's fate. As long as they use the money for something good, it is how you run a business. So far, Meg isn't talking about a share repurchase or some other nonsense.
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Looking at the preview, I was all ready to reply and...say what you said in the second paragraph. Good job!
More likely, they determined that the peoplemthatnare willing to pay are the ones the advertisers actually want. The masses just make the rates look better.
Wrong solution in my book though.
Microsoft was imploding long before Gates left; it is revisionist to tHink otherwise. I remember in 1998-9 talking to a MS employee and how he was excited that the MBAs were starting to take a back seat to the engineers and how that would turn the company around from a "good enough" company to a true innovator.
I can't be certain if his view was realistic or accurate, but I do remember the lack of progress from Windows 95, and that the antitrust trial began in 1998.
Gates left a sinking ship. Balmer stabilized, then simply squandered opportunity. If he can't capitalize on Windows 8, he really needs to step down. They have another golden opportunity that started with 7, but if they blow it...
Tablet: not sim locked, easy to get local sim card when traveling
Smartphone: home telephone number, expensive access before you get local sim for tablet
Dumb phone: not sim locked, backup, local number. Can be tricky to use though. No longer part of my kit.
Laptop: real work on the road
(Desktop: performance)
It makes me sad to need all this crap... But my wife has her toiletry kit, so I still end up with less stuff when traveling...
Pelican cases often attract more attention than they should. Stuff inside may or may not be expensive, but from personal experience it is rarely marketable. We have one cases with over $50k of instruments, but good luck getting more than the value of a laptop on the street.
Generally speaking though, the right decals can protect a pelican box pretty well.
You must go to a different pharmacy than me. Walgreens seems to be staffed with some nice folks on work-release. When I lived abroad where you could get whatever you wanted at the pharmacy, it was often hard to discern if you were being recommended drugs based on cost/profit or genuine need.
It should be relevant to me, but as others have stated, I would not trust /. for this type of information. It seems like too much of a distraction rather than building it up from within the main site. There is a reason slashvertisements are viewed as they are, even though some of them are remotely useful.