I hope you're using striping (RAID5 or RAID10) and not doing pure mirroring or concatenation for your RAID arrays. Anyhow, I am really looking forward to SSDs that permit a lot of operations on the same bit. I deal with databases, and they too do a lot of random IO.
Really? You learned nothing from electing a baseball manager as your president, and then re-electing him four years later even though he had achieved little except stopping stem cell research and invading two countries of little brown people?
Let's say Microsoft indeed wises up and emulates the Linux package management idea. The users will then always have the latest security patches applied. Maybe for all installed programs. That would be a good thing, wouldn't it?
Had there been more flexible security procedures - like allowing USB storage as long as it is encrypted, then you could shrug if G.W.Bush or Amhadinejad got hold of your data. Ensuring a rogue operator cannot leave the building with classified data is the kinda policy that ends up with overly inconvenient security procedures. Guess what - a lot of corporations would go bust if all their procedures were fully implemented. The security policy enforcement overhead would be so great that they could not compete in the market.
Finding the right tradeoff between convenience and security, choosing the right technologies and reasonable procedures are important prerequiesites to actually increaing the security of your data.
Now imagine explaining the superiority of wikipedia to Joe the Plumber in 1992.
C'mon!
OpenID holds promise to make identity theft much harder - as we will no longer leave our standardized passwords all over the net along with our email address. And our lives will be easier.
In fact, Windows 7 seems to be adopting the Apple way of doing things: Do rational, incremental improvements while describing these are revolutionary.;)
Seriously, though - I wish us all a more secure, less troubleful computer experience. I think Microsoft has finally budged in the right direction - they are starting to document their formats and interfaces, and now they are also adopting a sane development roadmap. Not bad, Redmond.
Of course their systems will be proprietary. At the very least there will be strong authentication to ensure you're paying the correct operator for your miles.
The idea - as outlined in the Wired article - is that you buy miles from Better Place. They pay for the electricity - from environmentally friendly companies. They own the battery - and therefore you can replace the depleted battery in your car with a fully loaded battery at any time.
For that to work as a business model, you will need some level of proprietary solution. Unfortunately.
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Oh man. I wish I could find an ocean-worthy sailing boat for 5000 USD... Even if it's old. Solar + Wind + some fishing equipment = a low-effort way to stay alive.
I pay about 13 USD/month for 90 gb of images at S3. I'm a hobby photographer, and those 90 gbs are primarily RAWs along with a few PSDs etc. In case you're wondering why I have 90 gbs of images..
I don't bother protecting my music and my movies etc. I've got lots of legal DVDs and CDs.. And my mailbox is IMAP - so no problem there. My contact list is synced to my phone both at home and at work. So, for 13 USD/month I've insured myself against losing 5 years of my life.
Tell me, what is the marginal utility of that special Mac aura?
OSX is what userland Linux should be. It's secure enough. And there is a culture of user-centricity amongst the application developers. That's the special Mac aura - to me.
The keyboards are really good, too. I love that spacing between the keys - the margin of error is built-in, so that you can type faster and still avoid hitting the neighbouring key. Stuff like being able to write appx 10% faster is also the "marginal" utility of a Mac.
To the best of my understanding, the current mess is the combination of two toxic factors:
Bad loans - at least partially stemming from political pressure. Fancy financial instruments - which replaced sound risk management and created the current mess where nobody truly knows where the bad loans are.
What specheads usually miss: The secret sauce is usability not specs. Other smartphones can do the same things - on paper. Many people don't buy non-iPhone smartphones because they think those phones are too complicated to use.
The same might go for the netbook marked - people are talking about RAM amount, price range, 3G etc. Maybe a better user experience would be a good idea? How about a piece of easy-to-use software on a USB thumdrive that allows you to set up a home network complete with sharing? A _lot_ of people with netbooks also have a desktop. If they could access photos, movies, documents on their desktop then that might be a good idea. Or maybe even sync between those computers?
You're able to make a backup of your CDs or DVDs if you want to. With regards to DVDs, that's only because their DRM was broken back in the 90s.. With regards to BluRays, what is the status? Can you rip one bit-by-bit and then make a copy that plays?
To the best of my understanding, making a backup is a no-no with this Sony solution. If they refuse to store information about your purchases and allow you to re-download purchased items then you're much worse off than with DVDs.
I'm in the process of making lossless backups of all my 300-odd CDs btw.
A fair and reasonable company would charge me by the gigabyte. Say 10 cents per gigabyte == $13.40 a month. My electric company operates on that same principle (9 cents per kilowatthour), so why can't my internet company work the same way? No reason I can think of.
Most people would have their bills lowered, and us-in-the-know would mercilessly jump towards the cheapest gigabyte.
The fatcats in the broadband business would go from relatively high-margin to cutthroat business.
Either way, Scandinavia&Benelux (and Switzerland?) are great choices for Americans who want to work abroad for a few years - since there's a need for highly educated staff and English is often the official language within a company (we all want to take part in the larger EU market rather than limiting ourselves to just the national markets). All internal documents are written in slightly awkward English.
Then again, given the good English level of the population, we prefer to impress you with our excellent English skills over giving you language lessons.
The plants grow at a leisurely pace. You'll have much time to consider your options. Also, weeding etc are tasks that take up only a small part of your consciousness - enabling you to plan ahead.
Contrast this to the life of a common system admin. Sure, as a gardener you will have to deal with the unexpected and the weather. In a server farm, you will have to deal with stress (the system is down!), poor choices by your superiors and/or peers (because I say so!), and a permanent demand for efficiency. Of course, all these factors do not apply if you're working in a smaller company or one of those companies with a high enough profitability that they prefer to slightly overstaff their IT department just because it's a good way of reducing risk.
By "too strict to be enforced" I should have made it clear that I meant "so strict that enforcement would mean an unacceptable drop in productivity". I think we're in the same chapter here (maybe even on the same page).
Such a river means there may be structural problems.
My best guess is that the policies are so rigid that they will not work in the real world (and therefore cannot be enforced). USB sticks? Why don't they use truecrypt? (Maybe because USB sticks are banned altogether, and there is consequently no checks in place for whether the data is encrypted or not?)
I agree that firing those responsible for the status quo is a good idea, but the first thing to do is to determine who is responsible. Well - the senior officer in charge of security will have to go, though - this has obviously gone on for long enough for that firing to be a non-brainer. But just firing people and thinking unidentified structural problems will solve themselves once "that idiot is gone" is a very counterproductive thing to do.
I use the vastly superior Apple Lossless. The bits are perfectly aligned for optimum playback on my once-siny iPod Nano 2gen!
Anyways, what will happen once CD sales drop so far that we'll only be able to download our music. Then we'll be in trouble, since we won't have any CDs to rip from!
Ignorance is strength. Seriously. Not having to bother with reality, you can overstate and misframe to your hearts content while being convinced you are doing the right thing - because you are ignorant of how the world works but in the know of the conspiracies of those against you.
We've got the same thing in Norway - they call themselves "fremskrittspartiet" (the progress party) and still their agenda is anti-science (it has an agenda!), anti-intellectual (useless people who only produce opinions!) and anti-elitist (they're after our money!).
It's world-wide disease and I'm suspecting the internet is the carrier.
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I hope you're using striping (RAID5 or RAID10) and not doing pure mirroring or concatenation for your RAID arrays. Anyhow, I am really looking forward to SSDs that permit a lot of operations on the same bit. I deal with databases, and they too do a lot of random IO.
Really? You learned nothing from electing a baseball manager as your president, and then re-electing him four years later even though he had achieved little except stopping stem cell research and invading two countries of little brown people?
Let's say Microsoft indeed wises up and emulates the Linux package management idea. The users will then always have the latest security patches applied. Maybe for all installed programs. That would be a good thing, wouldn't it?
Ewww. I'll see you in court, Anonymous Coward. I'm suing you for the damage that mental image caused!
Had there been more flexible security procedures - like allowing USB storage as long as it is encrypted, then you could shrug if G.W.Bush or Amhadinejad got hold of your data. Ensuring a rogue operator cannot leave the building with classified data is the kinda policy that ends up with overly inconvenient security procedures. Guess what - a lot of corporations would go bust if all their procedures were fully implemented. The security policy enforcement overhead would be so great that they could not compete in the market.
Finding the right tradeoff between convenience and security, choosing the right technologies and reasonable procedures are important prerequiesites to actually increaing the security of your data.
I have witnessed how strict, inflexible security rules force people to break the security in order to get their job done.
Now imagine explaining the superiority of wikipedia to Joe the Plumber in 1992.
C'mon!
OpenID holds promise to make identity theft much harder - as we will no longer leave our standardized passwords all over the net along with our email address. And our lives will be easier.
In fact, Windows 7 seems to be adopting the Apple way of doing things: Do rational, incremental improvements while describing these are revolutionary. ;)
Seriously, though - I wish us all a more secure, less troubleful computer experience. I think Microsoft has finally budged in the right direction - they are starting to document their formats and interfaces, and now they are also adopting a sane development roadmap. Not bad, Redmond.
Of course their systems will be proprietary. At the very least there will be strong authentication to ensure you're paying the correct operator for your miles.
The idea - as outlined in the Wired article - is that you buy miles from Better Place. They pay for the electricity - from environmentally friendly companies. They own the battery - and therefore you can replace the depleted battery in your car with a fully loaded battery at any time.
For that to work as a business model, you will need some level of proprietary solution. Unfortunately.
Oh man. I wish I could find an ocean-worthy sailing boat for 5000 USD... Even if it's old. Solar + Wind + some fishing equipment = a low-effort way to stay alive.
Too expensive? Really?
I pay about 13 USD/month for 90 gb of images at S3. I'm a hobby photographer, and those 90 gbs are primarily RAWs along with a few PSDs etc. In case you're wondering why I have 90 gbs of images..
I don't bother protecting my music and my movies etc. I've got lots of legal DVDs and CDs.. And my mailbox is IMAP - so no problem there. My contact list is synced to my phone both at home and at work. So, for 13 USD/month I've insured myself against losing 5 years of my life.
Poor write performance matters when you're using the disk for backups. Or databases. But it seems fine for hosting all your DVDs and FLACs. :)
OSX is what userland Linux should be. It's secure enough. And there is a culture of user-centricity amongst the application developers. That's the special Mac aura - to me.
The keyboards are really good, too. I love that spacing between the keys - the margin of error is built-in, so that you can type faster and still avoid hitting the neighbouring key. Stuff like being able to write appx 10% faster is also the "marginal" utility of a Mac.
This will give us good readings on how the solar cycle affects this climate.
To the best of my understanding, the current mess is the combination of two toxic factors:
Bad loans - at least partially stemming from political pressure.
Fancy financial instruments - which replaced sound risk management and created the current mess where nobody truly knows where the bad loans are.
That's my 2c.
What specheads usually miss: The secret sauce is usability not specs. Other smartphones can do the same things - on paper. Many people don't buy non-iPhone smartphones because they think those phones are too complicated to use.
The same might go for the netbook marked - people are talking about RAM amount, price range, 3G etc. Maybe a better user experience would be a good idea? How about a piece of easy-to-use software on a USB thumdrive that allows you to set up a home network complete with sharing? A _lot_ of people with netbooks also have a desktop. If they could access photos, movies, documents on their desktop then that might be a good idea. Or maybe even sync between those computers?
You're able to make a backup of your CDs or DVDs if you want to. With regards to DVDs, that's only because their DRM was broken back in the 90s.. With regards to BluRays, what is the status? Can you rip one bit-by-bit and then make a copy that plays?
To the best of my understanding, making a backup is a no-no with this Sony solution. If they refuse to store information about your purchases and allow you to re-download purchased items then you're much worse off than with DVDs.
I'm in the process of making lossless backups of all my 300-odd CDs btw.
Most people would have their bills lowered, and us-in-the-know would mercilessly jump towards the cheapest gigabyte.
The fatcats in the broadband business would go from relatively high-margin to cutthroat business.
Danish is difficult. ;)
Either way, Scandinavia&Benelux (and Switzerland?) are great choices for Americans who want to work abroad for a few years - since there's a need for highly educated staff and English is often the official language within a company (we all want to take part in the larger EU market rather than limiting ourselves to just the national markets). All internal documents are written in slightly awkward English.
Then again, given the good English level of the population, we prefer to impress you with our excellent English skills over giving you language lessons.
The plants grow at a leisurely pace. You'll have much time to consider your options. Also, weeding etc are tasks that take up only a small part of your consciousness - enabling you to plan ahead.
Contrast this to the life of a common system admin. Sure, as a gardener you will have to deal with the unexpected and the weather. In a server farm, you will have to deal with stress (the system is down!), poor choices by your superiors and/or peers (because I say so!), and a permanent demand for efficiency. Of course, all these factors do not apply if you're working in a smaller company or one of those companies with a high enough profitability that they prefer to slightly overstaff their IT department just because it's a good way of reducing risk.
By "too strict to be enforced" I should have made it clear that I meant "so strict that enforcement would mean an unacceptable drop in productivity". I think we're in the same chapter here (maybe even on the same page).
Such a river means there may be structural problems.
My best guess is that the policies are so rigid that they will not work in the real world (and therefore cannot be enforced). USB sticks? Why don't they use truecrypt? (Maybe because USB sticks are banned altogether, and there is consequently no checks in place for whether the data is encrypted or not?)
I agree that firing those responsible for the status quo is a good idea, but the first thing to do is to determine who is responsible. Well - the senior officer in charge of security will have to go, though - this has obviously gone on for long enough for that firing to be a non-brainer. But just firing people and thinking unidentified structural problems will solve themselves once "that idiot is gone" is a very counterproductive thing to do.
I was parodying fanboyism (and making an observation in the second paragaph).
FLAC?
I use the vastly superior Apple Lossless. The bits are perfectly aligned for optimum playback on my once-siny iPod Nano 2gen!
Anyways, what will happen once CD sales drop so far that we'll only be able to download our music. Then we'll be in trouble, since we won't have any CDs to rip from!
Ignorance is strength. Seriously. Not having to bother with reality, you can overstate and misframe to your hearts content while being convinced you are doing the right thing - because you are ignorant of how the world works but in the know of the conspiracies of those against you.
We've got the same thing in Norway - they call themselves "fremskrittspartiet" (the progress party) and still their agenda is anti-science (it has an agenda!), anti-intellectual (useless people who only produce opinions!) and anti-elitist (they're after our money!).
It's world-wide disease and I'm suspecting the internet is the carrier.