Boss: "Stop daydreaming, be productive."
Me: "But I am! By daydreaming I'm even more productive than I would be if I were strictly working on the task assigned to me! Slashdot told me so!"
Boss: "Fantastic, go be productive at another company."
I for one can back up the statements said here. I learned Photoshop on a pirated version of Photoshop 5.5 (it's on version 11 now [called CS4]). After learning it to a decent extent, I started using it in a bunch of business projects I was doing while I was in high school. Because of the amount of time I was spending using it, I felt it was fair to buy the product. I saved up for a year and bought Photoshop CS when it first came out.
Had I never have used the pirated version, I'd have never bought photoshop CS.
Actually it's a bit less than that even. The Sunfire servers they're using, or "thumpers" as they're nicknamed generally use zfs to store their data. However, the default configuration of these systems is to use a Raidz config for the drives (think raid 5). Essentially, the configuration uses 8 6-disk raidz configs, all aggregated together into one giant pool. The reason why it's less than what they state here, is that one disk from each of those eight raidzs are parity disks. That drops the theoretical storage to only 40TB per thumper. That puts us at 2520TB.
Again though, even that's a high number, because once formatted, each thumper only delivers about 36TB of storage. So in actuality, they only have about 2268TB of storage (half of what they claim).
My only guess is that the 4.5PB number comes from Sun's advertising dept, who are running the numbers on the theoretical max that the container could hold. If you use the highest capacity drives readily available on the market right now (1.5TB drives, as the 2GB drives are a bit hard to get ahold of), no parity, and no loss in formatting, the numbers are correct. 63 x 48 x 1.5 = ~4500
C'mon guys everyone knows that a.) sweden doesn't have a space program and b.) the world is going to end in 2012 anyway. How will they be able to deliver if we're all dea...
Ohh... I see. Well played Sweden.
I was going to write a long and well thought out reply that ended with me trailing off and it turning into ascii doodles, but apparently slashdot has an ascii art filter.
"Filter error: Your comment looks too much like ascii art."
The article and the summary on microsoft are both pretty lacking. It's hard to tell if this is a dropbox-esque implementation, or if it's something more along the lines of a distributed file system.
This provider enables linking a Windows Live ID to a Windows 7 user account.
Does this mean we'll have an AFS like login system where we'll be able to mount our home files from anywhere? Give us some more details windows.
...who doesn't mind the small breach of privacy, plus a few ads on the side, in order to provide myself and possibly some friends some interesting and beneficial functionality?
Oh sure there's the possibility that a corporation/stalker will be watching me at all times, but hey, stalkers sometimes have free candy (and they offer me rides in their van!).
The flexibility offered in key/value databases is simply too good of a feature to pass up. However, do you really think you can get people to give up MSSQL? It'll be nice for smaller projects, but corporations wont even consider it for a number of years.
What scares me most is that this style of distribution is something I'd actually fall for. I mean, pop ups and stuff are easy enough to ignore, but what about local flies for bands, business cards, and these tickets? Just goes to show that no matter how much protection you have on the tech side, there's always a social engineering way around it.
I like that in this edition of Duplicate Stories on/. Monthly, the link in the story actually links back to a previous story that's asking the same thing! Thanks for saving us the few seconds of searching for the older stories on this one/.!
Think about it. When calculators first came out, they were often outlawed in math courses because teachers thought that if you used a calculator than you wouldn't be able to do the problems later in life. Once people realized though that no one in their right mind would abstain from a calculator outside of the classroom though, they became accepted.
I have a feeling this will take the same course. It'll be used at first for medicine, yea. But eventually it'll find its way into classrooms, to the disdain of the teachers. After another era it will become accepted for use, and finally required. It's not hard to imagine a course that along side of the necessary books lists the prescription for the drugs you'll be required to take.<br> Don't get me wrong though, it's not a bad thing. It's simply society changing. I for one welcome it (and I'm not just playing on the/. gag).
This small ISP is a perfect example of why the RIAA's new scheme for free money music protection simply won't work. Content filtering, detection and litigation on the ISP's part costs money and takes time. ISP's aren't NPO's, they don't do charity work.
Honestly? Come on now. Saying you can retrieve images from the mind, then not showing said pictures is the same as claiming you've achieved cold fusion without showing any energy for it.
I think this is the first time I can scientifically say, "Pics or it didn't happen."
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that if he wants productivity to soar he has to hire more hot co-workers for me to daydream about.
...annndddd if you guys need me I'll be in my mandatory sensitivity training.
Boss: "Stop daydreaming, be productive."
Me: "But I am! By daydreaming I'm even more productive than I would be if I were strictly working on the task assigned to me! Slashdot told me so!"
Boss: "Fantastic, go be productive at another company."
Gonna hack into the FAA's site and arrange for some low fly-bys of New York city so I can take some nice pics. I'm sure no one will notice.
I know Sr-90 is often also used in similar devices (mainly Russian ones), any reason why we can't switch to that?
Someone please write this. I would buy this book.
Call me crazy but I don't see Monsanto as evil at all. I've always wanted to know what soylent green tastes like, and I think they're up to the job.
I for one can back up the statements said here. I learned Photoshop on a pirated version of Photoshop 5.5 (it's on version 11 now [called CS4]). After learning it to a decent extent, I started using it in a bunch of business projects I was doing while I was in high school. Because of the amount of time I was spending using it, I felt it was fair to buy the product. I saved up for a year and bought Photoshop CS when it first came out.
Had I never have used the pirated version, I'd have never bought photoshop CS.
Actually it's a bit less than that even. The Sunfire servers they're using, or "thumpers" as they're nicknamed generally use zfs to store their data. However, the default configuration of these systems is to use a Raidz config for the drives (think raid 5). Essentially, the configuration uses 8 6-disk raidz configs, all aggregated together into one giant pool. The reason why it's less than what they state here, is that one disk from each of those eight raidzs are parity disks. That drops the theoretical storage to only 40TB per thumper. That puts us at 2520TB.
Again though, even that's a high number, because once formatted, each thumper only delivers about 36TB of storage. So in actuality, they only have about 2268TB of storage (half of what they claim).
My only guess is that the 4.5PB number comes from Sun's advertising dept, who are running the numbers on the theoretical max that the container could hold. If you use the highest capacity drives readily available on the market right now (1.5TB drives, as the 2GB drives are a bit hard to get ahold of), no parity, and no loss in formatting, the numbers are correct. 63 x 48 x 1.5 = ~4500
C'mon guys everyone knows that a.) sweden doesn't have a space program and b.) the world is going to end in 2012 anyway. How will they be able to deliver if we're all dea...
Ohh... I see. Well played Sweden.
I was going to write a long and well thought out reply that ended with me trailing off and it turning into ascii doodles, but apparently slashdot has an ascii art filter.
/., I'm just trying to concentrate!
"Filter error: Your comment looks too much like ascii art."
Damnit
Their new phone wont have GPS capabilities.
This provider enables linking a Windows Live ID to a Windows 7 user account.
Does this mean we'll have an AFS like login system where we'll be able to mount our home files from anywhere? Give us some more details windows.
...who doesn't mind the small breach of privacy, plus a few ads on the side, in order to provide myself and possibly some friends some interesting and beneficial functionality?
Oh sure there's the possibility that a corporation/stalker will be watching me at all times, but hey, stalkers sometimes have free candy (and they offer me rides in their van!).
The flexibility offered in key/value databases is simply too good of a feature to pass up. However, do you really think you can get people to give up MSSQL? It'll be nice for smaller projects, but corporations wont even consider it for a number of years.
Or maybe just bring back one of their old ads, with DMCA stopping the girl just before she throws the hammer.
do you know what a parking ticket looks like in your city
Only one way to find out. Lemme borrow your keys.
What scares me most is that this style of distribution is something I'd actually fall for. I mean, pop ups and stuff are easy enough to ignore, but what about local flies for bands, business cards, and these tickets? Just goes to show that no matter how much protection you have on the tech side, there's always a social engineering way around it.
I like that in this edition of Duplicate Stories on /. Monthly, the link in the story actually links back to a previous story that's asking the same thing! Thanks for saving us the few seconds of searching for the older stories on this one /.!
What does this mean for open source phones? Does this mean that Android would be illegal in the US?
Think about it. When calculators first came out, they were often outlawed in math courses because teachers thought that if you used a calculator than you wouldn't be able to do the problems later in life. Once people realized though that no one in their right mind would abstain from a calculator outside of the classroom though, they became accepted.
/. gag).
I have a feeling this will take the same course. It'll be used at first for medicine, yea. But eventually it'll find its way into classrooms, to the disdain of the teachers. After another era it will become accepted for use, and finally required. It's not hard to imagine a course that along side of the necessary books lists the prescription for the drugs you'll be required to take.<br>
Don't get me wrong though, it's not a bad thing. It's simply society changing. I for one welcome it (and I'm not just playing on the
Mice? I use emacs as my OS you insensitive clod!
This small ISP is a perfect example of why the RIAA's new scheme for free money music protection simply won't work. Content filtering, detection and litigation on the ISP's part costs money and takes time. ISP's aren't NPO's, they don't do charity work.
Chapter 2 Review Question: 1. What was the average number of tentacles used to penetrate Rui?
Those are easy. Just,
return true;
Honestly? Come on now. Saying you can retrieve images from the mind, then not showing said pictures is the same as claiming you've achieved cold fusion without showing any energy for it.
I think this is the first time I can scientifically say, "Pics or it didn't happen."