I think that the point of the arrangement in the first place was twofold: First one of the major caosts is floorspace, so the aim was to make more compact disc arrays. Second, that a very high proportion of reactive maintenance in data centres causes further problems. By leaving failed blocks in place this can be avoided. To answer your question, no and yes - the trick is to understand that money saved through leaving failed hardware in place may surpass extra space costs, especially when the architecture of this system increases density in the first place.
There is an almost directly inverse relationship between rigor of intellectual property law enforcement and general level of development
Indeed, that is why I mentioned Eastern Europe as a possibility, since I thought that there might be a few decent connections with Western Europe. I'll accept that this is not the case. As you mention, the alternative might be the far east where there are also developed nations on the doorstep of less well developed nations. Perhaps some of the pacific rim countries like the Philipines have fat pipes running through them en route to Australia?
1. Find a country where laws don't care about distribution of information, and which has a reasonable amount of connectivity. Perhaps some of the countries in eastyern europe have decent connections.
2. Find a co-location facility there.
3. Have a machine installed and sort out domain registration etc.
4. Stick up whatever dodgy content it is that you are dealing with to have such requirements in the first place.
5. If it's pr0n then wit for the money to roll in. Otherwise find a day job.
I've heard about this invention called the bicycle. As I understand it, you steer by leaning to the left or the right. The bicycle tilts sideways to stay underneath you which keeps you from falling over. Like walking, it is a controlled fall. But naturally the turning radius is limited, so if you lean too far (trying to turn faster) the bicycle would not be able to keep up and you would keep leaning farther until your face meets the sidewalk. Does anyone know what keeps it from doing this?
First spheres have minimal surface area to volume ratio. Second, the major win that they were talking about was reducing the floorspace at a datacenter. Hence the shape used has to be able to stack seamlessly. The cube or cuboid is the most sensible shape as components are themselves cuboid, and cuboids are easier to manufacture than other shapes. As for external i/o you could just put more than one cnnector on each face. Finally, the point is that you don't need access to inner modules. If they fail, you leave them there and route around.
Blimey! This lab is just out the back of my house and I walk past it every day en route to the engineering department. In fact the director, Andy Hopper taught a few lectures last year on distributed computing during which he spoke extensively about the Active Badge system they have there. The setup is pretty sweet: they have a bunch of IR tranceivers in every room in the lab, and also in the LCE in the engineering department. Each of the lab rats wears a small badge with an IR transmitter in it which emits a pulse containing a badge ID every so often. The receivers catch these and relay the information to a central server. This server runs a daemon which provides information on where everyone is to any program that requests it. More info on active badges here and its successor, the active bat system here. Location of staff members using the system here
Incidentally hopper is a pretty interesting character too. Having worked on the Cambridge ring which was for a while superior to ethernet, he then became involved with the Acorn computers that every Brit of my generation knew and loved at school. He established the then olivetti lab in the mid 80's and is involved with 2 of the three big startups in Cambridge, ARM and Virata. Oh, he also flies planes, is worth a packet and lectures in scruffy jeans.
quite correct. In which case I point to inkjet printers and razors as other examples of products that are sold as loss leaders in order to gain a captive market for the refills. Which is the same as the Xbox - MS want market share so they sell the hardware as a loss leader in order to create a market for the games and accessories, and to get people used to MS hardware.
That's strange: every mobile phone shop in the country must be breaking the law by selling phones for less than their manufacturing cost. You are talking absolute nonsense. Why would the european union sue MS for selling Xboxes cheaply? What european industry would be protected by such a move?
The anti-dumping regulations are there to protect nascent european industry from foreighn competitors segregating markets and dumping excess capacity. Consequently your comment makes no sense at all. Europe doesn't have a console industry to protect, and the cost of Xboxes is now comparable with other geographical regions, so it is not possible to argue that the practise is dumping.
The "content industry", not the audience chooses who will be listened to.
I have to disagree with this. It is true that marketing has immense power to influence buying decisions, and the media corps do hold great sway on deciding radio playlists and the other avenues for new acts to break. However now more than ever before there is a great variety of new music being produced and bought. At the end of the day people will go out and find music that they like rather than listen to what the radio shoves down their throat. The internet even has a pretty important role to play in all this - I bought my three most recent records after hearing low quality streamed versions from the web, and I actively went to find those sites based on friends reccomendations and the music press.
Looking through the box of records next to me I see a litany of independents; records that weren't produced just to make it onto top of the pops. Many of these records went on to sell millions of copies, others very few. Labels like moving shadow, ninja tune, compost, warp, mo' wax, glo, even the venerable blue note are all churning out quality records that will receive no tv advertising, and for the most part little radio time, but which sell enough copies to sustain the artists.
Fundamentally I strongly believe that the diversity of music that is available is the the main reason that the charts are filled with such insubstantial shite at the moment. The market is sufficiently disaggregated that if a record appeals to only one subset then it will not make it into the top 10. It will still make money for the artist, but not the millions that the record company hope for. So what do they do? They focus on the one market that is still coherent enough that you can shift enough records to make it to number 1. That market is 8-16 year old girls. How else do you explain the piles of westlife style dross that sits in the charts these days?
So I return to my original point: The music industry has never been in a stronger position and those of us that listen to music have never had more choice or quality available to us. Much of this diversity comes from the small independent labels that certainly don't fuck over their artists, mainly because they are run by the musicians themselves. end of rant.
On the positive side of this demise of the content industry as we know it is free (almost) information to everyone (almost). except that it won't mean that at all because if the content producer cannot make enough cash out of producing content, then he won't be able to produce anything at all. That means less information available to all.
Yes, I agree that the RIAA, MPAA are greedy motherfsckers. Yes, I agree that the internet presents a real opportunity to cut out the middleman in media distribution and publishing. No, I don't agree that there is no place for copyright law, and the right of the creator over his/her intellectual property.
just out of interest, what do you do for a living?
Same position. Live in Kent slap bang in the commuter belt 35 minutes train from Charing Cross. Exchange went digital in the early 90's, and there are no plans to DSLify the exchange in the foreseeable future according to the telephone bunnies. This is despite the fact that this is one of the wealthiest areas in Britain. As for modem connections, our line is so bad that I'm lucky to get 14.4.
At the end of the day the government won't put its money where it's mouth is and actually fund the roll out of DLS. BT is so markedroid driven that they are too busy spending money on new logos and names to actually get anything useful done. They are still at heart an old school monopoly and they are intent on maintaining that position rather than actually competing through offering better products at lower prices. Last, their investment model is very western: they require quick returns to make a project viable. Telco projects simply don't generate quick returns which is why they are sitting on a mountain of debt.
In practice what happens is that two or more people share the cost of a book which none of them would likely have purchased otherwise.
I don't believe this is true for all except a tiny fraction of books purchased. I buy about 3-4 fiction books per month, and I have never bought a book factoring the resale value into the purchasing decision. I have done this with text books, which by their nature cost more and will only be needed for a year.
I do, however, think that the availability of second hand books have an effect. If you sell books, what are you most likely to spend the money on? MORE BOOKS. Certainly this has been my experience when I have sold CDs; I just go and buy more music with the money. So on average I suspect that a non-negligible percentage of each second hand book sale is recycled straight back into new books.
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It's a winCE PC tablet PC which they are marketing as a remote access device that uses Citrix or the winXP remote access software to access applications on a regular PC or server.
In the past you could buy a C64 (when they were popular) for $400 and the disk drive for $200, making a system price $600 (IIRC). That can be tough to find with a PC nowadays (not impossible, just tough).
hmmm. you haven't really grasped the concept of inflation have you. Now inflation at 2.5% (UK trend) compounded over 12 years runs to a 35% increase. In 1990 you could get yourself an Amiga 500 and a disc for about £500 sterling. factor inflation and you have £675 in today's money. I'm sure I could buy/build a pretty decent machine for that money.
Godel's incompleteness theorem in two sentences: Within any self-consistent system of formal logic there will be theorems that are true, but which cannot be proven within that system. This is such a theorem.
but if you have mede it as far as the server room you may as well wire up the cabinet door to the mains, and replace the terminals with model three waffle irons.
Use the Gimp. It's got file compatibility with photoshop, all the same capabilities, similarly broad set of plugins, and it's pretty easy to use. And "Grokking the Gimp" is a really really good user guide.
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I think that the point of the arrangement in the first place was twofold: First one of the major caosts is floorspace, so the aim was to make more compact disc arrays. Second, that a very high proportion of reactive maintenance in data centres causes further problems. By leaving failed blocks in place this can be avoided. To answer your question, no and yes - the trick is to understand that money saved through leaving failed hardware in place may surpass extra space costs, especially when the architecture of this system increases density in the first place.
There is an almost directly inverse relationship between rigor of intellectual property law enforcement and general level of development
Indeed, that is why I mentioned Eastern Europe as a possibility, since I thought that there might be a few decent connections with Western Europe. I'll accept that this is not the case. As you mention, the alternative might be the far east where there are also developed nations on the doorstep of less well developed nations. Perhaps some of the pacific rim countries like the Philipines have fat pipes running through them en route to Australia?
1. Find a country where laws don't care about distribution of information, and which has a reasonable amount of connectivity. Perhaps some of the countries in eastyern europe have decent connections.
2. Find a co-location facility there.
3. Have a machine installed and sort out domain registration etc.
4. Stick up whatever dodgy content it is that you are dealing with to have such requirements in the first place.
5. If it's pr0n then wit for the money to roll in. Otherwise find a day job.
I've heard about this invention called the bicycle. As I understand it, you steer by leaning to the left or the right. The bicycle tilts sideways to stay underneath you which keeps you from falling over. Like walking, it is a controlled fall. But naturally the turning radius is limited, so if you lean too far (trying to turn faster) the bicycle would not be able to keep up and you would keep leaning farther until your face meets the sidewalk. Does anyone know what keeps it from doing this?
read the article: you don't. You leave failed blocks in place and plug another one in on the top.
nah, it'll work the other way round for the same reason that Leibig condensers do.
First spheres have minimal surface area to volume ratio. Second, the major win that they were talking about was reducing the floorspace at a datacenter. Hence the shape used has to be able to stack seamlessly. The cube or cuboid is the most sensible shape as components are themselves cuboid, and cuboids are easier to manufacture than other shapes. As for external i/o you could just put more than one cnnector on each face. Finally, the point is that you don't need access to inner modules. If they fail, you leave them there and route around.
(a deltic so please dont moan about spelling but the content)
what's a deltic?
Hursley is still going strong over in Winchester, waving the flag for IBM.
Incidentally hopper is a pretty interesting character too. Having worked on the Cambridge ring which was for a while superior to ethernet, he then became involved with the Acorn computers that every Brit of my generation knew and loved at school. He established the then olivetti lab in the mid 80's and is involved with 2 of the three big startups in Cambridge, ARM and Virata. Oh, he also flies planes, is worth a packet and lectures in scruffy jeans.
quite correct. In which case I point to inkjet printers and razors as other examples of products that are sold as loss leaders in order to gain a captive market for the refills. Which is the same as the Xbox - MS want market share so they sell the hardware as a loss leader in order to create a market for the games and accessories, and to get people used to MS hardware.
That's strange: every mobile phone shop in the country must be breaking the law by selling phones for less than their manufacturing cost. You are talking absolute nonsense. Why would the european union sue MS for selling Xboxes cheaply? What european industry would be protected by such a move?
The anti-dumping regulations are there to protect nascent european industry from foreighn competitors segregating markets and dumping excess capacity. Consequently your comment makes no sense at all. Europe doesn't have a console industry to protect, and the cost of Xboxes is now comparable with other geographical regions, so it is not possible to argue that the practise is dumping.
I have to disagree with this. It is true that marketing has immense power to influence buying decisions, and the media corps do hold great sway on deciding radio playlists and the other avenues for new acts to break. However now more than ever before there is a great variety of new music being produced and bought. At the end of the day people will go out and find music that they like rather than listen to what the radio shoves down their throat. The internet even has a pretty important role to play in all this - I bought my three most recent records after hearing low quality streamed versions from the web, and I actively went to find those sites based on friends reccomendations and the music press.
Looking through the box of records next to me I see a litany of independents; records that weren't produced just to make it onto top of the pops. Many of these records went on to sell millions of copies, others very few. Labels like moving shadow, ninja tune, compost, warp, mo' wax, glo, even the venerable blue note are all churning out quality records that will receive no tv advertising, and for the most part little radio time, but which sell enough copies to sustain the artists.
Fundamentally I strongly believe that the diversity of music that is available is the the main reason that the charts are filled with such insubstantial shite at the moment. The market is sufficiently disaggregated that if a record appeals to only one subset then it will not make it into the top 10. It will still make money for the artist, but not the millions that the record company hope for. So what do they do? They focus on the one market that is still coherent enough that you can shift enough records to make it to number 1. That market is 8-16 year old girls. How else do you explain the piles of westlife style dross that sits in the charts these days?
So I return to my original point: The music industry has never been in a stronger position and those of us that listen to music have never had more choice or quality available to us. Much of this diversity comes from the small independent labels that certainly don't fuck over their artists, mainly because they are run by the musicians themselves. end of rant.
At what point do you say "we're making...$.50 per drive we sell. Let's give up." ?
;-)
The point at which you are making 50 cents per drive?
except that it won't mean that at all because if the content producer cannot make enough cash out of producing content, then he won't be able to produce anything at all. That means less information available to all.
Yes, I agree that the RIAA, MPAA are greedy motherfsckers. Yes, I agree that the internet presents a real opportunity to cut out the middleman in media distribution and publishing. No, I don't agree that there is no place for copyright law, and the right of the creator over his/her intellectual property.
just out of interest, what do you do for a living?
At the end of the day the government won't put its money where it's mouth is and actually fund the roll out of DLS. BT is so markedroid driven that they are too busy spending money on new logos and names to actually get anything useful done. They are still at heart an old school monopoly and they are intent on maintaining that position rather than actually competing through offering better products at lower prices. Last, their investment model is very western: they require quick returns to make a project viable. Telco projects simply don't generate quick returns which is why they are sitting on a mountain of debt.
who wants to remove their X-Box hard drive to take it up the road?
I don't believe this is true for all except a tiny fraction of books purchased. I buy about 3-4 fiction books per month, and I have never bought a book factoring the resale value into the purchasing decision. I have done this with text books, which by their nature cost more and will only be needed for a year.
I do, however, think that the availability of second hand books have an effect. If you sell books, what are you most likely to spend the money on? MORE BOOKS. Certainly this has been my experience when I have sold CDs; I just go and buy more music with the money. So on average I suspect that a non-negligible percentage of each second hand book sale is recycled straight back into new books.
It's a winCE PC tablet PC which they are marketing as a remote access device that uses Citrix or the winXP remote access software to access applications on a regular PC or server.
In the past you could buy a C64 (when they were popular) for $400 and the disk drive for $200, making a system price $600 (IIRC). That can be tough to find with a PC nowadays (not impossible, just tough).
hmmm. you haven't really grasped the concept of inflation have you. Now inflation at 2.5% (UK trend) compounded over 12 years runs to a 35% increase. In 1990 you could get yourself an Amiga 500 and a disc for about £500 sterling. factor inflation and you have £675 in today's money. I'm sure I could buy/build a pretty decent machine for that money.
Perks?
single point of contact warranty and support.
but if you have mede it as far as the server room you may as well wire up the cabinet door to the mains, and replace the terminals with model three waffle irons.