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It may just mean that they do integration testing well. I've seen large systems complete all their tests within a few hours and only once a day for the whole development team based on just the merged branches, while other systems have run the whole CI suite for each developer every night for each branch they are working on. Guess which approach costs a lot more in CPU cycles and development time, but far less overall for the business long term.
Now, with this price increase, all the other offerings can start the process of raising their prices to get nearer to their true running costs.
At some point, the cost is going to reach $4,000+ pm per person for an all-you-can-use solution, but before then, the solution is going to really have to enhance a developer's performance.
There are no laws that state that a patent holder must share their patent or at what price they must sell products that use the patent.
No, patent law itself is fundamentally flawed, as it was written well before the advent of 3-year product cycles, but that is a very different issue.
So they age-strict VPNs, they will then have to age-strict VPS servers, which someone could use to set up their own VPN. They will then have to age-restrict the use of debit cards as few VPN or VPS vendors with systems based outside of the UK are going to worry about any UK based laws.
"To purchase Oracle VirtualBox Extension Pack Enterprise Licenses, visit the Oracle Store, or contact your local sales office. Oracle VirtualBox Extension Pack Enterprise Named Workstation User Perpetual licenses must be purchased in an initial quantity of at least 100."
So the post boy goes to Oracle's site and downloads VirtualBox with the extension pack onto their company PC, and somehow the business becomes liable to purchase 100 copies.
The real world does not work like that.
My cheap Android phone came with 48 months of security updates from the date of its release and 3 OS updates. Unless some show-stopping new feature is added to mobile phones, there is little need to upgrade until the updates stop, and who would then want a phone without such updates?
AI is not the 'new search' as it does not record everything it discovers at the time it is found. The core data set of an AI system is a highly refined subset of a snapshot of data that was made before the training process was started.
He seems to think that an AI system can, in real time, learn the internet and stay up to date as changes are found. AI systems learn real time information by filling their very limited context window during an interaction with an end client, often by calling out to things like search engines.
"Toyota picks Huawei’s Android-killer HarmonyOS for its Chinese electric sedan".
HarmonyOS on phones is reportedly built on Android 10, while larger target devices may just use linux as the foundation OS. Not really an Android-killer if it's just an out-of-date version of a mainstream OS.
In 1991 I was purchasing 32MB modules for Compaq servers at just £11,000 a module as they were made by Kingston rather than Compaq. At one point I had 7 of them sitting on my desk.
In 1996 I was purchasing 32MB modules for HP Servers at £800 a module.
Today I just install 32GB modules without caring into any desktop that is short on memory and use hosted servers with 256GB+.
With IPv6, it is common to use the Extended Unique Identifier (RFC2373) solution to provide a unique local address for a network device. This is a unique 64-bit value often created by expanding the 48-bit Mac Address to 64 bits.
The result is that every subnet becomes rather large but things like DHCP or manual address assignment can be dropped from the system design, which at scale for grand IoT networks is key.
So, for the old hands here, the IPv6 address starts to look very much like the old Novell IPX address structure, which was, in turn, based on the older Xerox IDP protocol.
IPv6 may still needs NAT for reasons like the one you have provided if devices can not handle a dynamic local name service, they key thing is that it does not need the service provider to roll out things like carrier-grade NAT which may be OK for phones, but is a right pain for other tasks.
So the school has not kept up with what is going on around it in the world. AI, well what we currently call AI is now a standard feature of much of the internet. Google search even answers now with an "AI Overview" as the first entry.
There is no defined 'length' for a tab as the original concept comes from manually set 'tabs' on a typewriter. So while one person's IDE may be set to 3 spaces per tab it does not mean that the same indentation will be shown across all the tools that access/process the file with the tabs included.
If you want to use the tab key, just select an IDE that can convert the tab into spaces for you.
These system designs have to be mapped to a business problem before any choice can be made, the benchmarks just tell a designer they are nice and fast. If the business problem needs all cores to work on the same memory-based data set you are going to start looking at the Nvidia solution first as the memory I/O speed and processor interconnect are designed for just that with performance numbers beyond anything AMD or Intel can offer. On the other hand, if the problem does not need a unified memory model or needs more than 960GB of RAM the Nvidia solution may not fit so well.
Note - AMD gave Nivida an advantage in the benchmarks as the 480GB solution is reported to have a memory bandwidth of 1024GB/s, while the larger 960GB solution is listed at just 768GB/s.
Sun failed because its hardware business model failed.
The cost of Java was a rounding error for a company that needed to sell very costly unix-based SPARC systems. What did not help was that SUN got into the X86-based server market so 'good enough' systems from Sun reduced the sales of their 'top end' systems.
Just like all the other 'advanced' system providers of the 80's and 90's, the 2000 bubble burst and commodity servers did them in. When they did innovate with things like the cloud based utility offering it was easy for others to duplicate the offering once it was clear that there was a market using far cheaper X86/Linux solutions.
If you need to support a MySQL based application you install MariaDB.
If you want a feature-rich SQL server for a new project then PostgreSQL becomes a valid option depending on the skill sets you have access to.
The choice becomes harder if you are designing around the need for high-availability replication - at this point, you hire an expert for either PostgresSQL or MariaDB and forget about MySQL.
You don't have to purchase certs nowadays. Even Eloxon's main website uses certs from Cloudflare as I guess they use Cloudflare as their CDN. They can then use Cloudflare certs on their own systems or choose another vendor.
The fact that the Insight web pages are using a cert from DigiCert likely means that no one in the tech team at Eloxon has upgraded their infrastructure to use Let's Encrypt certs which are also free.
If the AI client has access to 100,000's of non-sequential IP addresses then it can be well hidden as it can act as 100,000's of human speed browsers. If on the other hand, it is accessing a large number of sites quickly from a small number of IP addresses it becomes visible within the logs rather quickly. The only real challenge is to separate the AI traffic patterns from traffic patterns that would be generated by a large multi-user proxy.
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