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Comment Re:Important Question (Score 1) 178

by cb0nd on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @08:39AM (#20303123) Attached to: Linux Credit Card Re-Launches

The breakdown of those fees would probably be something like 0.1% of the purchased value for the credit card flag (Visa, Mastercard etc), 1.2% for the issuer (usually a bank, that gets the credit risk and eventual interests) and another 1.2% for the company that provides the infrastructure and processes every purchase.

Results may vary as parent already said.

Rails Cookbook 59

Posted by samzenpus on Monday February 26, 2007 @03:58PM from the get-cooking dept.

honestpuck writes "When reading the foreword of Rails Cookbook I felt a strong kinship with Zed Shaw, I too have fond memories of the first edition of Perl Cookbook and the way I relied on it once I'd taken the training wheels off. Since that one I have relied on several of the O'Reilly Cookbook series. It is only when I discard the early tutorial and dive in the deep end with a "cookbook" on my desk that I really start to learn proficiency." Read the rest of honestpuck's review.

Microsoft or Google? 490

Posted by Cliff on Friday October 13, 2006 @07:45AM from the better-working-environment dept.

Undecided asks: "I will be graduating next April, and I have been fortunate enough to receive job offers from both Microsoft and Google. This has left me with a bit of a conundrum, however — I'm having real difficulty deciding which offer to accept. Putting aside compensation and other personal circumstances that will factor into my decision, what is the Slashdot community's take on this? Am I crazy not to go with Google? I am especially interested in the insight of others working in the computer science industry, in particular those who may have experienced what it's like to work at both companies."

What a Vista Upgrade Will Really Cost You 482

Posted by kdawson on Thursday October 05, 2006 @10:32AM from the big-bucks dept.

narramissic writes, "James Gaskin wrote an interesting article this week about what he recons it will really cost organizations to upgrade to Vista. Gaskin estimates that each Vista user will 'cost your company between $3,250 and $5,000. That's each and every Vista user. Money will go to Microsoft for Vista and Office 2007, to hardware vendors for new PCs and components, and possibly a few bucks to Apple for those users jumping to a Mac.'" Any sense of how realistic those figures are?

New 25x Data Compression? 438

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday April 05, 2006 @04:23PM from the make-sure-to-give-it-to-more-than-just-the-corporate-monkies dept.

modapi writes "StorageMojo is reporting that a company at Storage Networking World in San Diego has made a startling claim of 25x data compression for digital data storage. A combination of de-duplication and calculating and storing only the changes between similar byte streams is apparently the key. Imagine storing a terabyte of data on a single disk, and it all runs on Linux." Obviously nothing concrete or released yet so take with the requisite grain of salt.

Review of GMail for Your Domain 192

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday March 28, 2006 @07:11PM from the fingers-in-another-pie dept.

DevanJedi writes "Google recently started offering GMail hosted email service, with 25 free 2 GB email accounts, for universities and beta-testing private domains. Science Addiction has a review of the GMail for Your Domain service and its features including screenshots and speculation on future Google free and paid hosting efforts."

Sandals and Ponytails Behind Slow Linux Adoption 948

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday March 28, 2006 @06:01PM from the shave-and-a-haircut dept.

Eric Giguere writes "CNet is reporting that according to former Massachusetts CIO Peter Quinn 'the lax dress code of the open-source community is one of the reasons behind the software's slow uptake in commercial environments.' In particular, Quinn blames the 'sandal and ponytail set' for sluggish adoption of Linux by businesses and governments." From the article: "Quinn, who faced plenty of scrutiny over his support of the OpenDocument standards-based office document format, said proponents of open source in government faced formidable opposition from vested interests if they went public."

Fedora Core 5 Available 327

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 20, 2006 @12:34PM from the unannounced-announcements dept.

Jan Slupski writes "New release day today. Fedora Core 5 CD images are now available for download (i386, ppc, x86_64) on the ftp servers or via the torrent page." Linclips also has a short screencast on some of the default functionality.

Self Contained Water Cooled Radeon X1900, Retail 129

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday March 18, 2006 @11:45AM from the not-just-for-case-modders-anymore dept.

Spinnerbait writes "Graphics cards are all the rage in the Enthusiast Computing community, where overclocking standard off-the-shelf components is commonplace. Recently innovative cooling solutions have been brought to Graphics cards in an effort to tame the thermals of their power hungry GPUs. It looks like some of the major vendors have taken it up a notch in this area, with this ATI-based Sapphire Graphics card that employs a self-contained water cooling system. Not only does the card have potential for serious overclocking but it should do so relatively quietly as well."

Google Base Retail Rumours Confirmed 87

Posted by Zonk on Thursday March 16, 2006 @12:26PM from the all-their-base-etc-etc dept.

kaufmanmoore writes "According to an MSNBC report, the head of Google's European arm has said that Google wants to use Google Base for brick and mortar stores to submit lists of goods and prices in order to create an online presence." From the article: "Google would index and package the information into a consumer-friendly search engine, giving its users a virtual supermarket across a number of retail brands. Mr Arora said: 'Google Base is going to have a huge impact on retailers," adding that the move reflected internal research, which found many leading European retailers did not feel they were competitive enough online.'

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