I fully agree. With other EPA ratings, they compare similar sized appliances with each other. Your dorm fridge rating won't be compared to a full size fridge which could be quite a bit more efficient.
The customer has probably figured out what size server they want to buy before they look at the energy ratings. If you've decided on the specs of your server, you can look at servers from several different companies who can provide you with similar hardware. At that point, if one has a better Energy Star rating that the others, it might influence your purchasing decisions.
When I read the title, I thought Sony was approaching YouTube to create a full length movie.
Putting Sony's content on YouTube makes a bit more sense than YouTube's content on Sony.
I suspect the switch to IPv6 will take about as long as the switch from DC to AC electricity. IPv4 is so ingrained in hardware and software that it will take decades after the last IPv4 only hardware has been produced for the switch to occur.
Additionally, the cost of IPv4 addresses is going to need to rise above the couple of dollars a year it currently is at.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/off-goes-the-power-current-started-by-thomas-edison/
Modern key-logging software captures the area under the mouse on each mouse click. The defeats those on-screen keyboards, and web-sites which force you to do the same.
This of course requires software to be running on your hosts. There's existing technology which can reconstruct an image from a CRT using EFI, but LCD screens are a lot harder to pick up.
I wonder how much the downturn in financial services is going to hurt sales of Solaris. The only companies I know of who go out and buy $500k Sun servers by the pallet are financial services, and perhaps a couple of telcos.
Great, now UAL will crash every time Google scans a newspaper with an article about their bankruptcy. I imagine Google news will start showing headlines like "Man Lands on Moon" next.
San Gorgonio Mountain Pass in the San Bernadino Mountains contains more than 4000 separate windmills and provides enough electricity to power Palm Springs and the entire Coachella Valley.
Actually, it's easier for the multi-billion dollar company to keep it's tax rules up to date than it is for the small sites. It's only the largest merchants who can keep tax rules on all states up to date, and send the tax revenue onto the appropriate state.
This is how most of the ISPs in Australia work - and I think it works quite well. For electricity, I pay for how much energy I use each month, and not if my house is wired for a maximum draw of 100kw or 250kw. Would you want the electric company to offer a 1kw intro rate for people with only a few lights around the house, and then have another plan for 'heavy' users who have multiple air conditioners? Everyone should be able to get really fast internet to their home. Your grandma who only uses Hotmail should not have to pay as much as someone who downloads GB of movies each month, but both should be able to have the same 'speed'.
If Microsoft put the XBox team in charge of coming up with a version of Windows for the XO, then it would probably fit onto the flash disk and have a usable interface.
Broadband isn't so much on the agenda here in Australia, as something the politicians promise when they visit rural areas. Most urban areas have access to several different broadband choices. The controversy is how to get affordable broadband outside the cities. Telstra wants to turn off their 1G and 2G towers, when rolling out 3G to rural areas. The politicians are divided over allow Telstra to do whatever they want, or to introduce legislation requiring them to keep their older networks running.
The NASD has a requirement that a firm must keep a copy of all email sent and received for three years. We figured the NASD must have the same requirement, so a simple solution would be to forward copies of all our email to the NASD, and let them worry about retaining it.
I was proposing solutions for another bank on how they could meet the PCI DSS requirements, and the business users decided it would just be easier if we didn't log anything at all. That we we didn't have to worry about them getting tampered or falling into the wrong hand.
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"quiet?" You've obviously never been on a Friday night SWA flight to Las Vegas.
I fully agree. With other EPA ratings, they compare similar sized appliances with each other. Your dorm fridge rating won't be compared to a full size fridge which could be quite a bit more efficient. The customer has probably figured out what size server they want to buy before they look at the energy ratings. If you've decided on the specs of your server, you can look at servers from several different companies who can provide you with similar hardware. At that point, if one has a better Energy Star rating that the others, it might influence your purchasing decisions.
I'd like to see this book combined with a Pragmatic Programmer's guide to Test Driven Development.
When I read the title, I thought Sony was approaching YouTube to create a full length movie. Putting Sony's content on YouTube makes a bit more sense than YouTube's content on Sony.
I suspect the switch to IPv6 will take about as long as the switch from DC to AC electricity. IPv4 is so ingrained in hardware and software that it will take decades after the last IPv4 only hardware has been produced for the switch to occur. Additionally, the cost of IPv4 addresses is going to need to rise above the couple of dollars a year it currently is at. http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/off-goes-the-power-current-started-by-thomas-edison/
Modern key-logging software captures the area under the mouse on each mouse click. The defeats those on-screen keyboards, and web-sites which force you to do the same. This of course requires software to be running on your hosts. There's existing technology which can reconstruct an image from a CRT using EFI, but LCD screens are a lot harder to pick up.
The newer Air New Zealand planes have USB power in each seat. It's not enough to power a laptop, but it's enough for most other gadgets.
all code must be written in ADA.
Unless you consider the cost of your electricity. That old PC will probably suck down way more power over a year than any of the SoHo NAS boxes.
An executive at my employer recently had to have his Blackberry replaced after his wife threw it against a wall while they were on vacation.
I wonder how much the downturn in financial services is going to hurt sales of Solaris. The only companies I know of who go out and buy $500k Sun servers by the pallet are financial services, and perhaps a couple of telcos.
Great, now UAL will crash every time Google scans a newspaper with an article about their bankruptcy. I imagine Google news will start showing headlines like "Man Lands on Moon" next.
IBM seems to have had a problem determining what was legal and what is moral. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
San Gorgonio Mountain Pass in the San Bernadino Mountains contains more than 4000 separate windmills and provides enough electricity to power Palm Springs and the entire Coachella Valley.
1.5 cores has already been done. It was called Hyperthreading.
Actually, it's easier for the multi-billion dollar company to keep it's tax rules up to date than it is for the small sites. It's only the largest merchants who can keep tax rules on all states up to date, and send the tax revenue onto the appropriate state.
This is how most of the ISPs in Australia work - and I think it works quite well. For electricity, I pay for how much energy I use each month, and not if my house is wired for a maximum draw of 100kw or 250kw. Would you want the electric company to offer a 1kw intro rate for people with only a few lights around the house, and then have another plan for 'heavy' users who have multiple air conditioners? Everyone should be able to get really fast internet to their home. Your grandma who only uses Hotmail should not have to pay as much as someone who downloads GB of movies each month, but both should be able to have the same 'speed'.
If Microsoft put the XBox team in charge of coming up with a version of Windows for the XO, then it would probably fit onto the flash disk and have a usable interface.
Broadband isn't so much on the agenda here in Australia, as something the politicians promise when they visit rural areas. Most urban areas have access to several different broadband choices. The controversy is how to get affordable broadband outside the cities. Telstra wants to turn off their 1G and 2G towers, when rolling out 3G to rural areas. The politicians are divided over allow Telstra to do whatever they want, or to introduce legislation requiring them to keep their older networks running.
The NASD has a requirement that a firm must keep a copy of all email sent and received for three years. We figured the NASD must have the same requirement, so a simple solution would be to forward copies of all our email to the NASD, and let them worry about retaining it. I was proposing solutions for another bank on how they could meet the PCI DSS requirements, and the business users decided it would just be easier if we didn't log anything at all. That we we didn't have to worry about them getting tampered or falling into the wrong hand.
How many employees buy stuff for their company, but then fill the rebate form out so they get the check?