They don't claim cloud reduces costs for everyone, it reduces capital investment and removes having under-utilized admins, which is very costly for small systems.
"Would you buy a Ford from a Ford dealer where every employee of the dealer drove a Chevy (parked out back in the employee lot)?"
It's more like Ford selling race cars, but their employees don't drive race cars themselves, outside of testing.
I've been lucky and immediately found a job out of college where their average worker has worked here over 10 years, but I have to assume it is pure luck on my part.
No one should be *required* to answer questions not related to the job position.
"The privacy advocates have to tone it down to things people actually care about before they will get anywhere."
This. 1) The internet is about copying. If you put your data out there, it's going to be copied all over. 2) If you don't want to pay for your page views through ads, then start giving out your CC #. It needs to get paid for some how. 3) Data collected by Google/etc isn't just for ads, that data also helps improve their searches.
Many privacy advocates are just as bad as politicians. They don't know what they're talking about and their think everything works via magic. "Google, stop collecting any/all data and still give us relevant searches"... It's Magic!
1) The topic is about Microsoft 2) We're an all MS shop. There is no real reason to look at the competition except to make sure the pricing is similar, which it is.
MS can't outsource to itself, so #1 doesn't matter. #2 only matters if you don't already run a large datacenter. The larger your service, the less bursty usage it gets.
Cloud is mostly useful for small to medium companies.
Not all work loads need lots of throughput, some are very sensitive to latency. IGP is a great trade-off between latency and throughput. 10s of times faster at SIMD than a CPU could ever be and 100-1000 times less latency than a discrete GPU.
Having a graphics card integrated into the CPU is only one benefit. The future benefit is using the GPU as a co-CPU. AMD already has plans for the IGP to understand context switching and respect protected memory.
Some people say "why, the IGP is slower than discrete". But no one thinks, ohh, the IGP has 2-3 magnitudes less latency than a discrete GPU while being less than 1 magnitude slower.
Think of future multimedia where the CPU and IGP ping-pong data back and forth. I like to think of what kind of physics game may have once IGPs become easy to program. CPU->GPU->CPU->GPU is really slow when you're talking about microseconds round trips each hop. CPU->IGP->CPU->GPU is much faster when latency between the CPU and IGP is in nanoseconds. It may possibly even get streamlined to CPU->IGP->GPU, depending on future algorithms and engine designs.
C isn't a perfect language? The base language reads like a cross between Macro'd ASM and algebra. This IS the perfect syntax.
The goal of a language is to abstract away the repetition of writing pure ASM, while not detracting from its power. Descendants of C added a few extra things like lambdas, but the base language still remains.
Type-less languages are the worst. Abstracting away basic types like int and floats is just a horrible idea.
Any pings over 150ms in the lower 48 of the USA between ANY two points is caused by congestion. New York to LA is under 125ms. Don't tell me 300ms is fine from your home to your ISP.
I get 5ms-8ms to my ISP and 20ms to Chicago, I'm in semi-northern Wisconsin.
That being said, like other have mentioned saturating your upload will adversely affect your pings. Disconnect all other devices and make sure you have no other apps using your network when doing a ping test. If you're truly having issues, you need to isolate your testing.
If this does turn out to be the issue, many routers support QoS to prioritize different data, typically based on port. Make sure you set your upload speed on your router if you do this. QoS with no rate limiting is near pointless with broadband's HUGE buffers.
Even since a kid, I loved the "idea" of programming but I couldn't get myself to make a program that couldn't be useful.
I never really made any programs outside of class or work. One thing that I do love doing all the time is looking at a problem and effectively creating pseudo-code in my head. This I can do quickly and at anytime. I've been doing a lot of reading on how computers work, assembly, latencies, and throughput since I was ~12. I'm always looking at stuff, breaking it down, and juggling around many ideas on how a problem may be solved at the low level.
One might say I "program" all the time in my head, but not so much in real life. I am finding as I get older, opensource projects are looking more and more fun. Being a.Net programmer, C/C++ is looking very tempting as it would let me get back to the "low level".
I would assume there are more people like me. This means there are kids who would love to program, but don't like to program just-to-program. I wonder how many out there are like me.
I've very recently been doing some digging into "the cloud" as requested by my superiors. All marketing/tech literature that I find from Microsoft is aimed towards entities that cannot afford proper admins to run their infrastructure or entities that regularly encounter huge peak demand. It also gives the entity the flexibility to suddenly scale up if they need more resources for a corner case, without the large capital investment required for in-house infrastructure.
Everything that I was read, listened to, or watched from MS has been quite level-headed in which cases to use the cloud.
I haven't had time to RTFA as the end of the day nears and I'm working on something else, but I find it strange for MS to do an about-face and claim cloud as an actual replacement for a proper in-house IT.
CDMA does the same thing. DOCSIS3.0 allows channel bonding to the same physical channel, but different virtual channel. Each physical 40mb channel is broken up into 127 CDMA codes, each with 40mb. Watching a cable modem channel bond 8 virtual channels to the same 6 MHz physical channel and sustain 320mb/s is quite cool.
It was called "black magic" when it first came out.
I envision ping -t attacks and Minecraft griefing. Possibly a World of Warcraft arena team to take out pesky Chinese farmers. Maybe the US government is going to get into EveOnline and is going to all out attack the Chinese players.
Really.. wtf is "mutual destruction" in relation to a "Cyber-war"?
When I signed up for G+ there was a check box to track me for personalized results and it defaulted off. When checked it, I got this huge warning that was in regular English(non legalese) that I had to OK before it accepted my option.
That's what I learned in school. Customers are idiots, not to be trusted to know what they need.
You will need to use social skills to dance the fine line between giving the customer what the need and what they want, while trying to push their needs as much as you can.
There is a reason why my Major has had a 100% post-graduation job rate for the past 2 decades. Many getting hired by Google, Microsoft, FBI, Banks, etc. Quite a few have stayed behind to work at local business also, bringing some of the best software products to the market.
I have been on the other side of the stick. Someone explaining the difference between what I need and want was quite enlightening. Left me more open minded for ideas.
Don't think I'm trying to say my way is the right way, I'm just saying one needs to identify the underlying problem. There are many ways to fix a problem, but many end users only look at the symptoms and apply bandaids.
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They don't claim cloud reduces costs for everyone, it reduces capital investment and removes having under-utilized admins, which is very costly for small systems.
"Would you buy a Ford from a Ford dealer where every employee of the dealer drove a Chevy (parked out back in the employee lot)?"
It's more like Ford selling race cars, but their employees don't drive race cars themselves, outside of testing.
^ This
I've been lucky and immediately found a job out of college where their average worker has worked here over 10 years, but I have to assume it is pure luck on my part.
No one should be *required* to answer questions not related to the job position.
"The privacy advocates have to tone it down to things people actually care about before they will get anywhere."
This.
1) The internet is about copying. If you put your data out there, it's going to be copied all over.
2) If you don't want to pay for your page views through ads, then start giving out your CC #. It needs to get paid for some how.
3) Data collected by Google/etc isn't just for ads, that data also helps improve their searches.
Many privacy advocates are just as bad as politicians. They don't know what they're talking about and their think everything works via magic. "Google, stop collecting any/all data and still give us relevant searches"... It's Magic!
There's a happy medium somewhere.
I would define the "cloud" as: Scalable virtual-resource allocation and management.
1) The topic is about Microsoft
2) We're an all MS shop. There is no real reason to look at the competition except to make sure the pricing is similar, which it is.
Cloud really only gives you two main benefits
1) Outsource
2) Simple dynamic scaling
MS can't outsource to itself, so #1 doesn't matter. #2 only matters if you don't already run a large datacenter. The larger your service, the less bursty usage it gets.
Cloud is mostly useful for small to medium companies.
^ This
Not all work loads need lots of throughput, some are very sensitive to latency. IGP is a great trade-off between latency and throughput. 10s of times faster at SIMD than a CPU could ever be and 100-1000 times less latency than a discrete GPU.
Having a graphics card integrated into the CPU is only one benefit. The future benefit is using the GPU as a co-CPU. AMD already has plans for the IGP to understand context switching and respect protected memory.
Some people say "why, the IGP is slower than discrete". But no one thinks, ohh, the IGP has 2-3 magnitudes less latency than a discrete GPU while being less than 1 magnitude slower.
Think of future multimedia where the CPU and IGP ping-pong data back and forth. I like to think of what kind of physics game may have once IGPs become easy to program. CPU->GPU->CPU->GPU is really slow when you're talking about microseconds round trips each hop. CPU->IGP->CPU->GPU is much faster when latency between the CPU and IGP is in nanoseconds. It may possibly even get streamlined to CPU->IGP->GPU, depending on future algorithms and engine designs.
C isn't a perfect language? The base language reads like a cross between Macro'd ASM and algebra. This IS the perfect syntax.
The goal of a language is to abstract away the repetition of writing pure ASM, while not detracting from its power. Descendants of C added a few extra things like lambdas, but the base language still remains.
Type-less languages are the worst. Abstracting away basic types like int and floats is just a horrible idea.
50% joking + 50% not joking = 100% opinion
With everyone talking about raids and stuff....How do I find "raid" harddrives on newegg?
My cousin has over 10,000 HDs in his datacenter and he told me Hitachi fail the least for him.
Was good enough for me.
Any pings over 150ms in the lower 48 of the USA between ANY two points is caused by congestion. New York to LA is under 125ms. Don't tell me 300ms is fine from your home to your ISP.
I get 5ms-8ms to my ISP and 20ms to Chicago, I'm in semi-northern Wisconsin.
That being said, like other have mentioned saturating your upload will adversely affect your pings. Disconnect all other devices and make sure you have no other apps using your network when doing a ping test. If you're truly having issues, you need to isolate your testing.
If this does turn out to be the issue, many routers support QoS to prioritize different data, typically based on port. Make sure you set your upload speed on your router if you do this. QoS with no rate limiting is near pointless with broadband's HUGE buffers.
Even since a kid, I loved the "idea" of programming but I couldn't get myself to make a program that couldn't be useful.
I never really made any programs outside of class or work. One thing that I do love doing all the time is looking at a problem and effectively creating pseudo-code in my head. This I can do quickly and at anytime. I've been doing a lot of reading on how computers work, assembly, latencies, and throughput since I was ~12. I'm always looking at stuff, breaking it down, and juggling around many ideas on how a problem may be solved at the low level.
One might say I "program" all the time in my head, but not so much in real life. I am finding as I get older, opensource projects are looking more and more fun. Being a .Net programmer, C/C++ is looking very tempting as it would let me get back to the "low level".
I would assume there are more people like me. This means there are kids who would love to program, but don't like to program just-to-program. I wonder how many out there are like me.
Which cloud service do they use? I would assume they don't need one and I can't find anything on the topic.
I've very recently been doing some digging into "the cloud" as requested by my superiors. All marketing/tech literature that I find from Microsoft is aimed towards entities that cannot afford proper admins to run their infrastructure or entities that regularly encounter huge peak demand. It also gives the entity the flexibility to suddenly scale up if they need more resources for a corner case, without the large capital investment required for in-house infrastructure.
Everything that I was read, listened to, or watched from MS has been quite level-headed in which cases to use the cloud.
I haven't had time to RTFA as the end of the day nears and I'm working on something else, but I find it strange for MS to do an about-face and claim cloud as an actual replacement for a proper in-house IT.
First Ars http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/01/fare-well-kuuuuuuuccccchhheeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaa.ars
Now /.
Nice to see long time "friends" moving up in the world.
Anyone else have the voice from "End of the World" saying "THE END!"?
F'n kangaroos
CDMA does the same thing. DOCSIS3.0 allows channel bonding to the same physical channel, but different virtual channel. Each physical 40mb channel is broken up into 127 CDMA codes, each with 40mb. Watching a cable modem channel bond 8 virtual channels to the same 6 MHz physical channel and sustain 320mb/s is quite cool.
It was called "black magic" when it first came out.
I envision ping -t attacks and Minecraft griefing. Possibly a World of Warcraft arena team to take out pesky Chinese farmers. Maybe the US government is going to get into EveOnline and is going to all out attack the Chinese players.
Really.. wtf is "mutual destruction" in relation to a "Cyber-war"?
Don't you browse porn in Privacy mode anyway?
They don't track your IP for personal results because dynamic IPs break that. They track IPs for regional results, like local news.
When I signed up for G+ there was a check box to track me for personalized results and it defaulted off. When checked it, I got this huge warning that was in regular English(non legalese) that I had to OK before it accepted my option.
"The customer is always wrong."
That's what I learned in school. Customers are idiots, not to be trusted to know what they need.
You will need to use social skills to dance the fine line between giving the customer what the need and what they want, while trying to push their needs as much as you can.
There is a reason why my Major has had a 100% post-graduation job rate for the past 2 decades. Many getting hired by Google, Microsoft, FBI, Banks, etc. Quite a few have stayed behind to work at local business also, bringing some of the best software products to the market.
I have been on the other side of the stick. Someone explaining the difference between what I need and want was quite enlightening. Left me more open minded for ideas.
Don't think I'm trying to say my way is the right way, I'm just saying one needs to identify the underlying problem. There are many ways to fix a problem, but many end users only look at the symptoms and apply bandaids.
More like "you bought the wrong one, so suck-it-up and learn from your mistakes"
"stuff that does the dirty work for you automatically"
ahh, the Windows method. Works great until something breaks.