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Open Source Transforms Software TCO

Determining TCO is simple, in principle. Just add up the estimated costs over the time of use. Some costs, such as training, typically are similar for open source software – OSS — and proprietary software. The initial licensing fees are often different. OSS often has little or no initial licensing fees, while the initial licensing fees are often substantial for proprietary software. This means that you can often "try out" OSS as long as you like, and then pay for support later once the software becomes more important to your business.

Half of American Doctors Often Prescribe Placebos

damn_registrars writes "'Half of all American doctors responding to a nationwide survey say they regularly prescribe placebos to patients. The results trouble medical ethicists, who say more research is needed to determine whether doctors must deceive patients in order for placebos to work.' The study just quoted goes on to say that the drugs most often used as placebo are headache pills, vitamins, and antibiotics. Studies on doctors in Europe and New Zealand have found similar results."

IPod Cigarette Case

The iPod is often associated with fitness -- the iconic white headphones dangle from the the ears of joggers around the globe. As a smoker, I have often felt left out. Sure, I have an iPod, but what good is a portable entertainment device if you never leave the house except to walk, wheezing, to the nearest bar for the first carajillo of the morning?

Climate change: opportunities and challenges for patent owners

Although there is often talk of the challenge posed by climate change, it also presents an opportunity. With the policy objective of reducing emissions, the Garnaut Climate Change Review recommended that this could be most efficiently achieved by implementing an emissions trading scheme (ETS), rather than an emissions tax (often referred to as a “carbon tax”) (Interim Report to the Commonwealth, State and Territory Governments of Australia, February 2008). The introduction of an ETS in Australia from 2010 will create a new emissions market in which government-created permits may be exchanged between sellers and buyers. According to the review, the trading of permits will enable:

10 Questions that Guarantee SEO Success, Part I

When focusing on SEO strategies we often talk about the engines, algorithms, links, page-tweaks and whatnot. We focus on what we can do to improve website architecture, research keywords, or write better copy. All of these are important to successful search engine optimization, but what we often don't focus on is the internal issues.

Physics and the Leader of the Pack

Lance Armstrong, the cyclist who won the Tour de France six times, often came in first because he spent so much time in second. That is, he would regularly pedal right behind a teammate whose job was to obligingly break up the stream of oncoming air, making it easier for Armstrong to save his own energy for a sprint later on. Stock cars also often maneuver to be in the draft of the car in front, thus reducing drag. A new study, however, suggests that this strategy of staying right behind a leader can backfire.

Virus Infections via USB Increasing

Many companies are trying to prevent leakage of personal and classified information by building independent networks isolated from the Internet, as viruses are often transmitted via files attached to e-mail or those on the Internet. However, USB drives are often used on unspecified computers, so viruses can immediately spread.

Virus Infections via USB Drives Increasing Sharply

Many companies are trying to prevent leakage of personal and classified information by building independent networks isolated from the Internet, as viruses are often transmitted via files attached to e-mail or those on the Internet. However, USB drives are often used on unspecified computers, so viruses can immediately spread.

Virus Infections via USB Drives Increasing Sharply

Many companies are trying to prevent leakage of personal and classified information by building independent networks isolated from the Internet, as viruses are often transmitted via files attached to e-mail or those on the Internet. However, USB drives are often used on unspecified computers, so viruses can immediately spread.

Virus Infections via USB Drives Increasing Sharply

Many companies are trying to prevent leakage of personal and classified information by building independent networks isolated from the Internet, as viruses are often transmitted via files attached to e-mail or those on the Internet. However, USB drives are often used on unspecified computers, so viruses can immediately spread.

Using Web Services for Business

SOAP is at the heart of all Web services as the way to deliver messages between two applications or systems. SOAP in its various versions is well known and often discussed. However, SOAP on its own is often not enough, especially if the message is sent outside the enterprise where privacy of the message content and reliable message delivery become much more important.

Using Web Services for Business

SOAP is at the heart of all Web services as the way to deliver messages between two applications or systems. SOAP in its various versions is well known and often discussed. However, SOAP on its own is often not enough, especially if the message is sent outside the enterprise where privacy of the message content and reliable message delivery become much more important.

Techniques and Styles of Video Game Music

MarkN writes "Video game music has come to represent much more than just the beeps and boops of early video games that often got muted out of annoyance. It's a genre that stands on its own, stylistically and musically. It necessarily differs from typical soundtrack fare in a few important ways — it's written to accompany an activity rather than meant to be listened to passively, it is often required to loop and extend indefinitely, and it has the potential to be adaptive and respond to player feedback. In this article, I talk about some of the techniques used to make game music effective within its constraints and with all of its potential, and discuss how different styles and musical techniques can relate to the gameplay."

Linux applications gain new developers on Windows and OS X

The Linux platform is home to a vast and highly diverse ecosystem of open source software applications. These programs are developed through a collaborative process that often relies heavily on the participation of volunteer developers. Although there are many professional programmers who get paid to work on open source software, the efforts of volunteers can significantly accelerate development and often represent the bulk of the work that is done on many large-scale open source software projects.

Small Change to Google Phrase Search Syntax

In other words, it used to be that you could use punctuation between words instead of quote characters outside the phrase to trigger phrase search results. I often used dashes, as in foo-bar. Ianf writes, “Apparently it is no more, only I only realized it just now.” (Not sure how new this is; also note you will still often get very similar results.)

Data Privacy in Non-Production SAP Environments: How safe is your SAP data?

Privacy breaches are making headlines, as organizations scramble to protect the confidentiality of their critical customer and business data. While companies are making great strides in protecting data privacy in production application environments, the idea of implementing similar strategies in testing environments is often overlooked. This "Privacy Gap" needs to be addressed immediately, because it often represents the most exploited area of an organization's IT infrastructure. Taking a proactive strategy to remove this vulnerability within your SAP environment is recognized as a best practice and will help your organization with compliance with many national, international, and industry-specific regulations, while at the same time protecting your company from being the next privacy breach headline.

Data Privacy in Non-Production SAP Environments: How safe is your SAP data?

Privacy breaches are making headlines, as organizations scramble to protect the confidentiality of their critical customer and business data. While companies are making great strides in protecting data privacy in production application environments, the idea of implementing similar strategies in testing environments is often overlooked. This "Privacy Gap" needs to be addressed immediately, because it often represents the most exploited area of an organization's IT infrastructure. Taking a proactive strategy to remove this vulnerability within your SAP environment is recognized as a best practice and will help your organization with compliance with many national, international, and industry-specific regulations, while at the same time protecting your company from being the next privacy breach headline.

Data Privacy in Non-Production SAP Environments: How safe is your SAP data?

Privacy breaches are making headlines, as organizations scramble to protect the confidentiality of their critical customer and business data. While companies are making great strides in protecting data privacy in production application environments, the idea of implementing similar strategies in testing environments is often overlooked. This "Privacy Gap" needs to be addressed immediately, because it often represents the most exploited area of an organization's IT infrastructure. Taking a proactive strategy to remove this vulnerability within your SAP environment is recognized as a best practice and will help your organization with compliance with many national, international, and industry-specific regulations, while at the same time protecting your company from being the next privacy breach headline.

Browsing Frugally Without Wasting Bandwidth?

forrestm writes "At home, my internet connection is limited to 1GB / month before I have to pay extra. At my university, I'm charged around 2.5c per megabyte. I rarely download anything big, but I often go through a large amount of bandwidth by simply browsing around. For example, when I play a YouTube video, click a link, and then return to the video, the whole video reloads. When I read some websites, such as BoingBoing.net or Cnet.com, my status bar shows a whole lot of data being transferred through other domains. Some pages seem to send/receive data at certain intervals for the duration of my visit. When I begin to enter a search in Firefox's search bar, a list of suggestions is automatically downloaded. In addition to this, Firefox often requests internet access of its own accord, even though I have automatic updating turned off.

Improve Your Search Engine Rankings Equals Free Traffic

Before anything, let's just clear up what's meant by a search engine ranking? When an individual uses a search service like Google, Yahoo, MSN or many of the numerous smaller search services, they type in a question, or a request for information - this is called a 'search query'. When they enter that 'query' they are then presented by a whole list of results that search service has decided in their mysterious way are relevant search results to the query you want information on. This list of search results is often termed Organic Search Results. These are different to the Sponsored Search Results that often appear down the right hand margin of the search results page, and sometimes can appear at the top of the page shaded in a slightly different background colour.

Justice often elusive in a still-hopeful New Orleans

In our Behind the Scenes series, CNN correspondents share their experiences in covering news and analyze the stories behind the events. CNN's Soledad O'Brien and her producers spent several weeks in New Orleans shadowing the foot soldiers charged with battling the violence and corruption that mars the city and keeps many residents from returning home three years after Hurricane Katrina. She reveals what they found in "One Crime at a Time" airing Saturday and Sunday, 8 and 11 p.m. ET.

Online shoppers often evade paying sales tax

(Orlando Sentinel, The (FL) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Nov. 27--Buy an Apple iPhone from a national cell-phone company's Web site this holiday season and you'll pay sales tax on top of the phone price. Buy the same phone from Amazon.com, however, and you won't pay the tax -- though you'll probably be breaking the law.

Online searchers often led away from corporate sites

Companies like Wal-Mart, Exxon Mobil and the makers of Motrin have all learned the hard way that online assaults from external users on Web 2.0 sites like Facebook and Twitter can damage their brands.

Online searchers often led away from corporate sites

Companies like Wal-Mart, Exxon Mobil and the makers of Motrin have all learned the hard way that online assaults from external users on Web 2.0 sites like Facebook and Twitter can damage their brands.

Critical infrastructure often under cyberattack

Survey shows critical infrastructure industries are unprepared for cyberattacks, insider threats, or data leakage and insiders are mad about it

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