VMWare has a business to protect, but that business is -- for the most part -- not selling software. It's providing services and support. All virtualization servers short of VMWare's ESX are now free. Consequently, it is in VMWare best interest to produce perfect software. Perfect software requires very few support staff, meaning all those support and services fees are almost pure profit and no overhead.
Yes, it just means you add a new level of storage. Essentially, flash is less than primary but more than secondary storage. Since it has write limitations, you need to make sure that it is mostly WORM files, such as OS and program files. Write-intensive files such as user data files, temp files, transactional databases, paging files or swap partitions, etc should remain on magnetic media.
Flash offers very high read performance, plain and simple. It is not a replacement for a hard drive any more than a DVD-RW is or a tape drive is.
Linux will very easily work in this type of environment. You mount the partitions you mount read-only on your flash media, and then mount your userspace,/tmp,/var, and swap partition on magnetic.
It's rather stupid for Intel to be upset about AMD64, if you ask me. AMD uses SSE1-3 and MMX as well as the full instruction sets from the original Pentium (which, in turn, included instructions sets from the 486 all the way back to the 8080). If Intel implements AMD64 in their processors they haven't got any reason to be ashamed. AMD's been piggybacking on 30 years of Intel technology.
Even if AMD beat them by a over a year it doesn't matter since no consumer-grade 64-bit OS was available. AMD did all the research and marketing, fought for all the market support, and now that there's a market Intel releases their own chip to compete in it. I fail to see how this could be anything but win-win for Intel in the end.
And then you:
a) get fired.
b) get yelled at by your boss for making his company seem slow and incompetent.
c) lose the contract to that company that lies and says they can do it faster than your accurate estimate.
d) all of the above.
Do not lie to your customers when you make a quote for them just to get one contract. Be honest about everything. The most important customers are repeat customers, and you will be #1 on their list if you get them a quality product on time and on budget.
Losing one contract is no big loss, particularly when you know for a fact that your competition cannot possibly make the goals they're quoting. They will look like fools when they ask for time and budget extentions or fail to produce anything usable, and nobody likes to do business with a fool. As they say, people might not know the difference.
Certainly there will always be competition that lies to get the sale and customers that make poor decisions based on unrealistic quotes. Dishonest business and mismanagement are commonplace. That doesn't mean you should compromise your quality or ethics. That's called "professionalism". Customers worth doing business with appreciate that, and you will attract repeat business and new customers through word of mouth.
So install Leak Monitor. Then you can see the cause of the most severe memory leaks: poorly coded extentions.
Whenever you close a tab or window and a leak is detected, you'll get a message about it. I used it for a few days and discovered several minor extentions I'd been using were causing some very large leaks.
I mean, the US is based on equality. Might as well invade everyone's privacy equally, right?
But don't worry, the US Government would never abuse that information! That would be unethical. That's why everyone in the US is so pleased with the President and his national security policies.
DNA, like fingerprints, only places you at the scene. Even if it's semen collected from a woman, they have to show that it got there without her consent.
Means + opportunity + motive = crime. DNA generally only gives you opportunity.
Teacher unions -- and civil service unions -- are a joke. They lack the ability to strike (at least in every state I've been in) so their collective bargaining has no teeth at all.
Teachers: "Can we have more than a.3% raise? Cost of living was five times that last year." State: "No." Teachers: "Well, ok."
The quality of teachers in the country relates only to their wages. Nobody wants to teach because you go to school for 6 years (student teaching, remember) and end up getting paid $25,000. You can't raise a family on that. Heck, you can't even buy a house on that. I went to school for two years, and came out making $36,000. And I don't have papers to correct every night at home!
While class actions are very good at getting money for damages, they are very poor at affecting change. Esepcially if things are wrong to the point that multiple changes are needed.
So you're running in mixed mode? Or am I missing something? 'Cause that's a much lower level of encryption and security for DC traffic, IIRC, and I believe you sacrifice several features of 2k3 as well.
The existence of a law does not guarantee it's persistence. And I certainly don't trust the US government to look out for my best interests simply because they have a marble building with "Department of Labor" chiseled into it. Much as the ACLU exists to protect your civil liberties, labor organizations exist to protect your rights as an employee.
Again, I'm not trying to argue that unions aren't part of the problem nowadays. The auto unions are half the reason the US auto industry is failing (the other is auto industry management).
Yeah, I think you missed the last line of my post there, guy.
And I'm still willing to argue that Wal-Mart employees are completely screwed by their employer. "Get another job" isn't reasonable when Wal-Mart has already put them all out of business.
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VMWare has a business to protect, but that business is -- for the most part -- not selling software. It's providing services and support. All virtualization servers short of VMWare's ESX are now free. Consequently, it is in VMWare best interest to produce perfect software. Perfect software requires very few support staff, meaning all those support and services fees are almost pure profit and no overhead.
Yes, it just means you add a new level of storage. Essentially, flash is less than primary but more than secondary storage. Since it has write limitations, you need to make sure that it is mostly WORM files, such as OS and program files. Write-intensive files such as user data files, temp files, transactional databases, paging files or swap partitions, etc should remain on magnetic media. Flash offers very high read performance, plain and simple. It is not a replacement for a hard drive any more than a DVD-RW is or a tape drive is. Linux will very easily work in this type of environment. You mount the partitions you mount read-only on your flash media, and then mount your userspace, /tmp, /var, and swap partition on magnetic.
Who said it was innovative?
TCP/IP isn't innovative either. Doesn't mean it's a bad feature. Should we also denegrate MS for including Notepad or Calc?
OMG, read the freaking man pages, n00b.
It's rather stupid for Intel to be upset about AMD64, if you ask me. AMD uses SSE1-3 and MMX as well as the full instruction sets from the original Pentium (which, in turn, included instructions sets from the 486 all the way back to the 8080). If Intel implements AMD64 in their processors they haven't got any reason to be ashamed. AMD's been piggybacking on 30 years of Intel technology.
Even if AMD beat them by a over a year it doesn't matter since no consumer-grade 64-bit OS was available. AMD did all the research and marketing, fought for all the market support, and now that there's a market Intel releases their own chip to compete in it. I fail to see how this could be anything but win-win for Intel in the end.
I'd say it's God's version of sudo.
Do not lie to your customers when you make a quote for them just to get one contract. Be honest about everything. The most important customers are repeat customers, and you will be #1 on their list if you get them a quality product on time and on budget.
Losing one contract is no big loss, particularly when you know for a fact that your competition cannot possibly make the goals they're quoting. They will look like fools when they ask for time and budget extentions or fail to produce anything usable, and nobody likes to do business with a fool. As they say, people might not know the difference.
Certainly there will always be competition that lies to get the sale and customers that make poor decisions based on unrealistic quotes. Dishonest business and mismanagement are commonplace. That doesn't mean you should compromise your quality or ethics. That's called "professionalism". Customers worth doing business with appreciate that, and you will attract repeat business and new customers through word of mouth.
No, no. This is the Internet. The proper word is "ORLY?".
Why should file sharing crash an OS?
Don't use CutePDF. This is Slashdot. Use PDF Creator.
Actually, it has been mainly thoguh the No Atmospheric Layer Left Behind program that the Ozone Layer has improved as rapidly as it has.
Complaining that developers don't get paid for MS's shared source software while many FOSS developers also develop for no pay is obtuse.
Mutant powers in comic books:
Mutant powers in real life:
This just doesn't seem fair.
Whenever you close a tab or window and a leak is detected, you'll get a message about it. I used it for a few days and discovered several minor extentions I'd been using were causing some very large leaks.
What, you thought Manifest Destiny would stop just because we hit the Pacific Ocean?
We were scared of Communists, too. I seem to remember surviving the Cold War with my rights intact.
But don't worry, the US Government would never abuse that information! That would be unethical. That's why everyone in the US is so pleased with the President and his national security policies.
Means + opportunity + motive = crime. DNA generally only gives you opportunity.
Teachers: "Can we have more than a .3% raise? Cost of living was five times that last year."
State: "No."
Teachers: "Well, ok."
The quality of teachers in the country relates only to their wages. Nobody wants to teach because you go to school for 6 years (student teaching, remember) and end up getting paid $25,000. You can't raise a family on that. Heck, you can't even buy a house on that. I went to school for two years, and came out making $36,000. And I don't have papers to correct every night at home!
While class actions are very good at getting money for damages, they are very poor at affecting change. Esepcially if things are wrong to the point that multiple changes are needed.
So you're running in mixed mode? Or am I missing something? 'Cause that's a much lower level of encryption and security for DC traffic, IIRC, and I believe you sacrifice several features of 2k3 as well.
Again, I'm not trying to argue that unions aren't part of the problem nowadays. The auto unions are half the reason the US auto industry is failing (the other is auto industry management).
And I'm still willing to argue that Wal-Mart employees are completely screwed by their employer. "Get another job" isn't reasonable when Wal-Mart has already put them all out of business.
I must say that is the absolute perfect SlashDot answer. Precise, brief, and absolutely devoid of any meaning or content. :)