All this has EVER been is a way to extort more yearly fees from every corporation on the planet.
That's what our economy is based on now. It is well known to be the best way to make money, since you don't have to do anything in return. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_seeking
You're right about one thing, the systems in 1998 didn't look like GoolgeFS. They looked like what GoogleFS is becoming now that they are actually learning how to do it. Google very clearly did not know which constraints mattered, but now they seem to be aimed towards the right track now.
Oh, and you'll find the commercial world is vastly less impressed by a PhD then you think. Skills are all that matter. A PhD is like a shortwave radio - only other people with a shortwave care, and everyone else thinks you're a little nuts:)
Not really, it's IT done by not letting anyone over 30 or with any experience into the room. Every single issue they had to learn and fix mentioned in the article is quite literally standard textbook stuff in distributed systems, and has been for over 40 years. The failure model, the huge chunk sized, the single master problems... etc. Nobody who had taken even one decent class would have ever considered the original design viable.
They really should just stick to buying their tech pre-made like everything else Google is known for - acquisitions. Other companies are willing to hire experienced people. You know, those old lazy bastards that only work 40 hours a week because they have families, cost way too much to provide health insurance to, but get things done 5x as fast because they have done it before:)
Sadly, your statement was never true. Everything you think of as from Google was bought except the original Pagerank (obsoleted about a week after they started using it), which is licensed from Stanford. And AdSense, responsible for 99.9999% of their revenues, feeding the rest of the company, was bought and started from work at Brown University.
Please provide evidence for anything you think Google invented in-house.
It's known as the 3rd shift, and it's not 100 of 500, it's more like 1/3 (absolute minimum if you have something made in China) to 2/3 of all production.
Perfectly legal (there) and perfectly "real" goods. Welcome to China.
The file system isn't writing data it claims to have written, that means it's deliberately lying, which is different then a bug.
The "web 2.0" idea that being right most of the time doesn't cut it in the real world. People may put something more important then a tweet on a file system.
Optimize the reads all you want, but those writes better damn well happen before the calls that say data is written return.
There will never be any Software Engineering taught in a CS dept. No way would a Computer Science professor EVER teach such a base, primitive, and unrefined subject such as those dregs in engineering do. Let the $10/hr guys in India do that. Writing code, how insulting!
So... that about sums that up doesn't it. Here anyway, the Software Engineering course is out of I think the Mechanical Engineering department. No CS major would be caught dead taking it tho - it involves teams;)
Modern Software engineering has NOTHING to do with CS. Once you realize that, you're 99% of the way there. Some colleges now have Software Engineering departments. Hire those students or just an engineer that knows the problem domain, and teach them to code.
Today from Google, the god of all things and doer of all things good in the universe, many millions of dollars in computer equipment were able to sort lots of things, in about the amount of time you would think it would take for millions of dollars of equipment to sort things.
In other news, a woodchuck was found chucking wood as fast as a woodchuck could chuck wood.
Congrats Google, you have a HUGE data set, and an even bigger wallet.
Other areas of CS have multiple conferences throughout the year. Graphics has only one, and that's SIGGRAPH. If your paper is not accepted at SIGGRAPH, you are considered to have done nothing worthwhile that year. You could win every special effects award in Hollywood, but no SIGGRAPH paper = no cred.
Why is it every software developer that gives away their software (or not) is a great person, but every Open Source(TM) "advocate" (which is usually NOT the software developers) is just a complete ass that pisses off anyone and everyone they encounter like some sort of cult member?
Look, if you haven't figured out that Google and the governments of the countries they are in work closely together on everything from data mining to monitoring your activities by now... well you're just a fool.
That's what we pay the CIA and DHS security goon squads to do, spy on everyone (but you of course, you're special and they aren't watching you).
Slashdot Mirror
All this has EVER been is a way to extort more yearly fees from every corporation on the planet.
That's what our economy is based on now. It is well known to be the best way to make money, since you don't have to do anything in return. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_seeking
Think of it as Mafia 2.0.
You're right about one thing, the systems in 1998 didn't look like GoolgeFS. They looked like what GoogleFS is becoming now that they are actually learning how to do it. Google very clearly did not know which constraints mattered, but now they seem to be aimed towards the right track now.
Oh, and you'll find the commercial world is vastly less impressed by a PhD then you think. Skills are all that matter. A PhD is like a shortwave radio - only other people with a shortwave care, and everyone else thinks you're a little nuts :)
Not really, it's IT done by not letting anyone over 30 or with any experience into the room. Every single issue they had to learn and fix mentioned in the article is quite literally standard textbook stuff in distributed systems, and has been for over 40 years. The failure model, the huge chunk sized, the single master problems... etc. Nobody who had taken even one decent class would have ever considered the original design viable.
They really should just stick to buying their tech pre-made like everything else Google is known for - acquisitions. Other companies are willing to hire experienced people. You know, those old lazy bastards that only work 40 hours a week because they have families, cost way too much to provide health insurance to, but get things done 5x as fast because they have done it before :)
Which is why I used the term "in-house". The companies are not people thread is down the hall.
Webmail has been around a lot longer then Google.
Sadly, your statement was never true. Everything you think of as from Google was bought except the original Pagerank (obsoleted about a week after they started using it), which is licensed from Stanford. And AdSense, responsible for 99.9999% of their revenues, feeding the rest of the company, was bought and started from work at Brown University.
Please provide evidence for anything you think Google invented in-house.
Why are people listed by where they work their day job, as if that has anything to do with it?
Oh, so you've seen the other 100 .com startups that tried EXACTLY this business plan then :)
It's touchy now.
But the second you take money from them, you're screwed.
Is there anything in history safe from Google claiming credit for it?
Pretty soon it will be Google Wheel(tm) and Google Fire(tm)
White high-reflectivity paint.
It's Google! They invented everything, air, fire, water, they even created people! All hail the Google overlords!
(but seriously, that idea is old, almost as old as map-reduce, which means patentable in the US)
It's known as the 3rd shift, and it's not 100 of 500, it's more like 1/3 (absolute minimum if you have something made in China) to 2/3 of all production.
Perfectly legal (there) and perfectly "real" goods. Welcome to China.
Even funnier, they think FTC > CIA and NSA, the government agencies working with Google (that's their job, we the taxpayers pay them to watch Google)
To be fair, this is much more then "somewhat remarkable" for any academic discipline.
And it NEVER will. Grade matter only to those _in_ school. Even if you go to grad school, getting in will be the last time anyone cares.
After that, it's about what you have done and know about the real world.
The file system isn't writing data it claims to have written, that means it's deliberately lying, which is different then a bug.
The "web 2.0" idea that being right most of the time doesn't cut it in the real world. People may put something more important then a tweet on a file system.
Optimize the reads all you want, but those writes better damn well happen before the calls that say data is written return.
Folding@home is at 1.007 PFLOPS of just ATI GPUs :)
(which is an entirely different sort of "computer", but still)
There will never be any Software Engineering taught in a CS dept. No way would a Computer Science professor EVER teach such a base, primitive, and unrefined subject such as those dregs in engineering do. Let the $10/hr guys in India do that. Writing code, how insulting!
So... that about sums that up doesn't it. Here anyway, the Software Engineering course is out of I think the Mechanical Engineering department. No CS major would be caught dead taking it tho - it involves teams ;)
Modern Software engineering has NOTHING to do with CS. Once you realize that, you're 99% of the way there. Some colleges now have Software Engineering departments. Hire those students or just an engineer that knows the problem domain, and teach them to code.
Now, just make a certain highly corrupt organization charge less then several years revenue for a IPv6 address block.
Wait, you though just because there are 2^64 blocks they aren't trying to make 2^128 dollars off of them?
It's about the money, your ISP cannot possibly afford an address allocation, so you're not getting IPv6.
Today from Google, the god of all things and doer of all things good in the universe, many millions of dollars in computer equipment were able to sort lots of things, in about the amount of time you would think it would take for millions of dollars of equipment to sort things.
In other news, a woodchuck was found chucking wood as fast as a woodchuck could chuck wood.
Congrats Google, you have a HUGE data set, and an even bigger wallet.
Other areas of CS have multiple conferences throughout the year. Graphics has only one, and that's SIGGRAPH. If your paper is not accepted at SIGGRAPH, you are considered to have done nothing worthwhile that year. You could win every special effects award in Hollywood, but no SIGGRAPH paper = no cred.
That's just how it works.
Why is it every software developer that gives away their software (or not) is a great person, but every Open Source(TM) "advocate" (which is usually NOT the software developers) is just a complete ass that pisses off anyone and everyone they encounter like some sort of cult member?
Look, if you haven't figured out that Google and the governments of the countries they are in work closely together on everything from data mining to monitoring your activities by now... well you're just a fool.
That's what we pay the CIA and DHS security goon squads to do, spy on everyone (but you of course, you're special and they aren't watching you).
If by future, you mean 1975, then yes!