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Power and Cooling Cost compared with Server/Hardware Cost Has anyone done, or is aware of any, calculations to compare the cost of power and cooling compared to the cost of hardware (servers) in a typical data center? This is to compute a true total cost of ownership of self-hosting servers. Of course real TCO... Started by psaccounts on Thursday, September 10, 2009, 5 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): Anecdotes about power consumption (possibly including cooling) for servers can now exceed the cost.

What low cost/no cost bug tracking system do you use? Possible Duplicate: Free/Cheap Task/Bug Management software I'm on a four man dev team. I've managed to persuade my manager that we need a bug/issue tracking system. I've been playing with FogBugz for a while, but he isn't prepared to pay 100USD/month... Started by Twelve47 on Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 9 posts by 9 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): However, we are also running a 4 person team and have found FogBugz and ... . Redmine is a good option. Atlassian offers Starter Licenses : for just $60 you'll get wiki (Confluence), issue tracker (Jira), build server (Bamboo), SSO (Crowd), and many more .

Cost of scaling Rails vs cost of scaling PHP vs Python frameworks I guess this question has been asked a lot around. I know Rails can scale because I have worked on it and it's awesome. And there is not much doubt about that as far as PHP frameworks are concerned. I don't want to know which frameworks are better. How... Started by Rishav Rastogi on Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): IMHO I don't think the cost of scaling is going to be any different between those three because. Usage.

Is there a point where cost of refactoring outweighs the cost of re-writing? We have some really shocking code touted as a next generation framework at my current place of employment. Thing is, there is only one person of this opinion and that is the guy who wrote most of it. The rest of the department are of the impression it... Started by Mike on Monday, February 23, 2009, 7 posts by 7 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): But on that level, it's refactoring :) The strategic cost new features will go down over time rather than up, leading to reduced cost in salary and possibly. Refactoring the funciton itself.

Sunk cost vs. opportunity cost I've been confided in by a friend who is strongly considering quitting her liberal arts grad program. She worries about the sunk cost (the 4 years and 100K!) she's spent, but then considers the opportunity cost of spending another two years (and another... Started by Gray on Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 15 posts by 12 people.   Read the full thread at thenest Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at thenest): If she actually planned. Between opportunity cost and the sunk cost in this case, if you ask me).

Subdivision costs and interest costs All. I know this has been discussed before but ill add my experience so far. basically i purchased a property in 2009. this property has been rented the whole time. I started the process of building a second dwelling on the back with the intention to ... Started by devo76 on Wednesday, December 21, 2011, 13 posts by 6 people.   Read the full thread at somersoft Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at somersoft): Don't bother getting a private ruling. Into three and decide to sell the middle battleaxe block, how on earth do we (or the ATO) decide the "cost not need to add them to the cost base.

Given the cost of SQL Server why would anyone choose to develop on the microsoft stack, for a low cost startup. I am writing an ASP.NET MVC application in the hope that I may be able to make it successful. This question from meta has scared me a little. http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/32944/cost-of-stackoverflow-licences-post-biz-spark/32987#32987 My question... Started by optician on Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): For my money, the question is not, "how much does it cost for licensing" but "how well do I know and consider that you can run production apps on SQL Server Express at zero license cost, even SQL.

What is the difference between Greedy-Search and Uniform-Cost-Search? When searching in a tree, my understanding of uniform cost search is that for a given node A, having child nodes B,C,D with associated costs of (10, 5, 7), my algorithm will choose C, as it has a lower cost. After expanding C, I see nodes E, F, G with... Started by devoured elysium on Sunday, January 17, 2010, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Greedy Search doesn't go back up the tree - it... . The next node to be visited in case of uniform-cost-search would be D, as that has the lowest total cost from the root (7, as opposed to 40+5=45). Your understanding isn't quite right.

Cost of Electric shower V Cost of Mixed Shower Hi I am replacing the shower in my bathroom. At the moment I have a gravity fed pumped electric shower but the plumber has suggested there's enough pressure for a mixed shower. Perhaps this is impossible to answer but is a mixed shower more expensive ... Started by Dofarrell on Tuesday, February 07, 2012, 14 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at boards Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at boards): Ask the installer: "What does it cost to prepare the thermal energy the installer: "What does it cost to prepare the thermal energy for the shower water?" Get this in writing at humour The OP asked.... An electric shower? This is answered easy.

Is it safe to generally assume that toString() has a low cost? Do you generally assume that toString() on any given object has a low cost (i.e. for logging)? I do. Is that assumption valid? If it has a high cost should that normally be changed? What are valid reasons to make a toString() method with a high cost? ... Started by James A. N. Stauffer on Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 18 posts by 18 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): It's a reasonable assumption.... Why would you do whatever they like. The only time I use generally assume that toString() on any given object has a low cost? I do. And overrode the base method, then I generally know what the cost is ahead of time.