Here's the reason it can't be used for forward thrust:
Shawyer has calculated that as soon as the thruster starts to move, it will use up energy stored in the cavity, draining energy faster than it can be replaced. So while the thrust of a motionless emdrive is high, the faster the engine moves, the more the thrust falls.
It is best used for force applied without actual movement (ie. hovering). Though I wonder how useful that is since the real world has undulations which would starve the cavity of force as they were followed. I guess it depends on how fast or slow you climb or descend. Damn it! Maybe my flying car will show up finally!
If what you said were true, I'd be inclined to agree. The people involved have NOT been punished. The Chairwoman will keep her position until January at which point she will step down but KEEP HER DIRECTOR SEAT. The CEO Mr. Hurd, a director as well, was an informed and complicit participant in the decision as much as the Chairwoman. HE WILL BECOME CHAIRMAN. Another director resigned in protest of the investigation. His symbolic resignation intended to be an embarassing slight to the board and force them to reconsider their illegal actions was covered up and not reported to the SEC as required by law.
So, the roundup on punishments: Chairwoman moves down one slot, keeps money, perks and most of her power. CEO moves up to chairman Director (read: good guy) who resigned out of sense of duty: still gone from boardroom Number of directors on the board, reduced
What should happen? I'm not sure as I don't have all the facts and I don't claim to be a lawyer. As a layman, I would expect Chairwoman Dunn to lose her seat on the board and forfeit any unvested compensation. I would hope Mr Hurd would lose his position on the board as well. The board should bring back the resigned member. The fellow who was leaking info should be removed from the board and lose compensation same as Ms Dunn. HP and other companies need strong boards. HP once had a reputation for good governance. Let's hope that returns.
BTW - I don't work for HP or really care too much about them. No emotions or money invested.
With Apple there is always a cutoff for OS support. It usually lands on significant architecture inflections such as Macs having a G3, USB Macs, or in this case a 64bit x86 Mac. It is conceivable that in 3 years Apple could discontinue ongoing OS support for 32 bit systems. It would actually seem pretty reasonable if they were to go completely 64bit. The first round of Core Solo/Duo models are 32 bit chips. It might then be better to wait a month for 64 bit Core 2 Solo/Duo systems for performance and supportability concerns going forward.
However, if you don't foresee keeping your Macbook for over 3 years, don't worry. It might affect resale value, but that's your call. There is always a brief timespan where it is best to wait for the coming rev release. The same thing happened to me back when MMX pentiums were released. I had an order for 12 systems into a local VAR. I spec'd MMX CPUs at 200Mhz I think. Anyway, the VAR knew nothing of MMX. I told him to stall the order for two weeks as the chips should be released and available by then. We both waited. I got MMX CPUs two weeks later for the same price. I then played the one or two MMX enabled games available for an hour and got bored. Still, I got something for nothing except patience.
YMMV. Apple could do nothing for 6 months! I am waiting though. I really want a new Macbook. I just need to replace the stupid touchpad button with a two sider.
Nice catch there! I missed that little blurb earlier. GC is nice and everyone can debate whether they like it or not, but DTrace is loved by almost everyone who touches it. I would think DTrace would be on the top of the list of things advertised to developers at WWDC. By default, that would make Leopard my favorite MacOS X platform to develop on.
reliability of SCSI versus ATA is largely imagined and the rest is intentional. drive manufacturers want you to believe their enterprise drives are more reliable and right now those drives are largely SCSI.
I disagree. There is a difference in product quality.
You need to go one further. Here's an online version of litebrite to practice getting screen refreshes up to.01 fpm. Not good enough for gaming, but I wouldn't notice the speed for a powerpoint presentation. [I usually sleep through those anyway.]
I've wondered for a while now why they don't use lasers for the colors. You can get red or green lasers pretty cheap and I supposed blue can be had as well and might be getting cheaper with Blu-Ray players creating a larger market. The color saturation from the laser I play with my cats with is great! Why not in a dlp with three reflectors? There's probably a good explanation that I hadn't considered, but thought I'd ask.
Well, I enjoyed this conversation. I don't believe I will ever build a box as you have described, but should you choose to more power to ya.
I'm not sure why that mindset change would come in, specifically from the perspective of an external data store.
It doesn't matter to a buyer if the LVM is hidden from the NFS hosts. Someone still has to maintain that box. They want to know what's involved and if they have to train their sysadmins on another product.
Really, the hardest part about selling something as cool as ZFS is that it sounds like bullshit. Sun comes off sounding like a snakeoil salesman with a panacea for your storage problems. Plus, Sun doesn't have a great track record of getting filesystems to stick in the realworld over the last 8 years. They bought SAM-FS and QFS which both are merely obscure technical knowledge now for me.
A 3U chassis that handles 11 drives is currently $140 on PriceWatch. Do the math.
OK. Your works out to be 3x larger than the 4U Sun's comes in. Did you have some other math for me to do?
As far as External SATA, I was wrong. I'm OK with that sometimes in a congenial conversation. It's little different to say "I may be wrong" than posting with IANAL. This is/. It's a discussion forum not a whitepaper or thesis. Thank you for correcting me and providing useful information to everyone.
Yeah, cabling arbitrary lengths of drives together has been easy since SCSI2 Fast Ultrawide. What you do is use seperate cables every few drives. Magic.
Yes, that'll look nice out the back of the rack. How many cables?
put silicone glue in for the inner rails
You have a lot of spare time.
Er, speed is one of Solaris' big selling points, if you'd actually look before announcing.
Well, I worked at Sun for 7 years and know a few things about Solaris. If you think Solaris is fast at NFS compared to NetApp, well I beg to differ.
Yeah, uh, ZFS takes like five minutes to set up. It's trivially simple. Why would you pretend otherwise? Have you even touched it?
Yes, I spent two years explaining and demonstrating it to customers. It's a huge change and takes a big mindset change for those who are used to Vxvm or other LVMs.
Also, if your going to nitpick the use of effect/affect:
1) Affect, not effect. 2) Cooling a 48-drive box is going to cost less electricity than running a single CPU. These people put down a thousand bucks a month just for the privelege of being in a controlled room. Let's have a sense of scale for things, please: fans just aren't that much power.
At least spell "privilege" right in your nit-picking.
Also, if we're going to have a "sense of scale" here, there is a huge cost difference between 12 RU and 4 RU in datacenter costs.
Just curious how you are going to hook up those 48 SATA drives to your 6 8-port SATA hbas? Where are you going to find a $1000 chassis that fits 48 drives? In one MAINTAINABLE configuration? As far as I know (and could be wrong) SATA is not an external bus. The SATA cards you mentioned would have to run outside of the box to another unless you find that 48 drive chassis I mentioned. Even if you ran a long enough wire to get to the other box mounted above your standard opteron 1U box, there's a lot of slack that has to be on that connection unless you want to disconnect everything just to pull the server out of the rack for maintenance. There are limitations to the SATA cabling you're not taking into account. Also add a couple more power supplies on here for each of the boxes that hold you drives. Cooling is also an issue that tier 1 vendors model very seriously before they put together a kit. Most home baked kits have either dangerous hotspots that effect reliability or are overcooled which wastes money. You should also keep your drives mounted with dampening to avoid vibrations from each other which can cause early drive failure.
There's more to this than simply buying parts. This appears to be another viable option in the storage arena for apps that need very large local storage. The problem with using it for NAS storage is that Solaris has historically been pretty slow compared to NetApp. ZFS could improve the score here with simplified administration if anyone actually understood how it worked.
I'm sure there will be another study which says the opposite soon enough. Linux is a major player and is here to stay. MS products are fine for a lot of applications and the same for UNIX. Just throw this in with the (rest of the) FUD and move along. Besides, until MS comes along with something as cheap as Linux (free as in beer) they'll never be able to kill Linux. Let's get back to the Apple adoration, BSD is dying, PS3 is great/expensive, hot grits, flame wars and ATI/Nvidia benchmarking that we've all come to expect from Slashdot.
From an interview on Forbes.com with John Connors, CFO of Microsoft after the announcement that they were issuing a one-time dividend of 30 billion (yes with a B) dollars:
John Connors: The first thing was to keep enough cash on hand to give us flexibility to manage things like a severe short-term economic dislocation or investment opportunities. We haven't publicly said how much cash that will be, but it's probably fair to assume that, after the upcoming distribution, we will still have around $25 billion to $40 billion on hand.
and here's another quote from the same article:
We have a relatively unique model, in that our business is not capital-intensive. What drove our approach is that Bill [Gates] and Steve [Ballmer] and the board are pretty conservative. We don't want to be in the position where we have to make decisions because of the balance sheet. And while we don't anticipate that we would ever have a year with expenses but no revenue, we'll probably keep at least one year of operating expenses and cost of goods sold in cash on hand--that's around $20 billion in cash and short-term investments.
Now if you like you can also look at their SEC filings if you want to argue with people. AFTER the $30,000,000,000 dividend, they'll have AT LEAST $25-40 billion dollars. That means they have on hand $55-70 billion dollars cash or liquid assets. Your last statement that shareholders would have "no control" over this money is just dumb. Shareholders have final control over everything. That's why they have yearly votes.
Wow, I hope the parent was a troll. I could have sworn that I heard him say:
The only place where 0+1 or 1+0 is used is at the consumer level.
Hmmm... let's look at an Hitachi USP. This is their high-end storage unit right now and comparable to anything you can buy from EMC or IBM. They support RAID 5 in 3+1 and 7+1 configurations. They also support RAID 1 in 2+2 fashion (haven't seen a 4+4 setup). I have personally consulted at at least 8 of the Fortune 100 and setup RAID 1 for high i/o environments. RAID 5 is generally used for lower demand hosts. They also use fibre channel drives although SATA may be an option sooner or later since you can get them on their modular storage now.
I can tell you I DO HAVE EXPERIENCE and you are full of shit. You're also a bit combative. Have a drink. Relax. It's slashdot.
Well, I'm not in Silicon Valley anymore and that helps I suppose. I also choose each position with the goal of padding my resume with useful experiences. In response to an earlier post, I simply put my resume up onto Monster and Dice. I searched the listings on Dice and CL and applied for a few jobs (~20 each) with targeted emails. Some of them responded and I was interested in a couple of those. The rest of the opportunities were from recruiters contacting me from my resume on Dice and Monster.
On each interview I stressed that my family was most important. If the vibe from the other side was wrong I asked deeper questions about rotations, hours and what the team does together during or after work. If it smelled like a sweatshop, I moved on.
I may have been lucky. I would like to think that's not the case since I had to turn down jobs. Am I anything special? Nope. Guaranteed on that one. Hell, my wife would get a chuckle if she knew I was tooting my horn at all since I can't remember people's names once I walk out of a room.
As I said before, if you are new to this you'll probably have to get a shit job. Most of us had them. If you're not new to this and you're not able to find a job in a good economy during Summer, think about changing your direction. You CAN have two resumes out there tailored to different careers. Go the Borders and read Who Moved my Cheese and think about where you're going. It's not Shakespeare or Nietzsche but if it makes you think...
It is your time, but maybe we can agree that they can request you not go and get drunk while you're still in your UPS uniform? Large companies invest a good deal of money in public perception and that can all go to hell with one good meth-binged clocktower episode.
Six months to find a job? Where the hell are you looking? I started looking for a new job after being with my last employer seven years. It took me 4.5 weeks from posting my resume to accepting an offer yesterday on a new job for 37% more money with equal benefits. Plus I had two other offers and a lot more interviews lined up. Maybe you need to compare your skillset and the market and see where they don't match or even consider a change in careers to something tangetial so your experience still works in your favor.
If someone offers you a job and states that you'll have to work more than 40 hours a week, tell them you're not interested or ask for more money in compensation. Companies that want salaried positions to work far more than 40 hours a week are either bleeding money, cutting costs so badly they are understaffed or have no real concern for their employees. These are not places you should want to work anyways. Avoid them at all costs since they will only make you miserable and ruin other portions of your life. Pull an "Office Space" and dig ditches if you have to but don't work for people like that.
You should really only have to work shitty jobs like that when you have no experience. Out of college, you should expect to get a shit job because you don't know shit generally. While there are exceptions, most college grads need the blow to the nads that a crap job gives them so they mature and stop doing stupid crap.
But I digress...
Keep 2 months salary socked away and your resume updated. Really. It is amazing how fast a good job can go downhill or disappear.
Maybe music stores (which I don't care about personally since I don't buy music online), but banking? Why would a bank purposefully drive away customers?
Have you been to Bank of America lately? Well, almost any bank now will do for this discussion. You can't speak to a human anymore unless it's in a grcery store "bank center" where they're mostly salespeople anyway. If you do walk into an actual bank, they'll charge you!! My wife worked in a Credit Union [which is supposed to exist for the benefit of its members] and they started screwing their members too! First they extended membership to anyone who has ANY job within 100 miles. Then when some of these losers started bouncing checks, they had to raise fees to cover for them. On top of that, if you can talk to a human, they HAVE to start their conversation with a sales pitch for crappy certs of deposit (CD's) with ungodly low yields. If they don't sell enough services to the members, they can be disciplined.
Now, why would banks/credit unions do that to their customers/members? Usually two reasons:
The CEO is looking to grow the company to show that he achieved some huge percentage of growth and deserves a big bonus or better job at a bigger bank. This is irregardless of whether the company is properly focused on long-term stability for the benefit of customers, employees and shareholders.
Stock price evaluations need to be manipulated to "maximize shareholder value". This usually means a company should split or divest itself of some of its holdings so the current day traders can collect the cash from the sales or (more likely) ride the wave of excitement afterwards and sell quickly so they can get out a devalued company [which should probably merge with another to cut costs from redundancies!]
What the hell, we might as all just quit our jobs and day trade. I'm not against business. I just want someone to look a little further out than the next quarter's SEC filing. Shit who am I kidding, it'll all get better now that CAFTA passed, right?
If your bank starts pulling this shit, visit a branch, close out your account, and take that shiny cashier's check to a bank that still supports open standards.
Luckily there's enough banks out there that there's a choice here.
Go ahead, visit a branch - $2 Get a cashiers check - $5 Go to a grocery store and open an account at one of the few banks left like Citi, BofA, Wells, US Bank, Wash Mutual, Chase [... oops, they're gone too!] I'm sure they'll listen to your complaints about "trusted computing" over the din of "cleanup on aisle four!"
Thanks for the short cuts, but they don't seem to work system-wide in XP as I'm unable to put them into this post or into Notepad or MS Word. Are these Linux conventions? I'll have to wait until my wife gets off the powerbook to try it on a Mac.
When I saw this, the first thing I thought of was the Internet cafe I sat at near Place de Bastille in Paris. It took me a long time to write the simple email I needed to get off because I had no clue where the keys were on a French Keyboard. It occasionally did some strange stuff. Touch typing is out too! Something like this where a single button on the side could change the keyboard to several languages would be great even in the states where English really isn't the only language spoken (even though we tend to think so). Hell, the computer labs in school could use this for French, Spanish and other language labs. You know how hard it is to write a French paper without easy access to a cedilla or other diacritic marks?
One of the few soapboxes I really stand on all the time is cell phones and fscking CDMA carriers' lock down on phones. I only use GSM phones. Period. If I get one free from the cell company, I unlock it ASAP. If it's disabled in some way, I either fix that or get rid of it. By staying with a GSM carrier, I leave my options open and I can buy whatever model I choose. I'm not limited by whatever selection Verizon or Sprint offers. I don't have to tell them which phone I'm using or pay them for ringtones.
Most people don't know that there is a difference or that Verizon continually screws them by disabling advertised features on most of their phones. I do my best to educate people, but it's only a few at a time. Don't use phones without SIM chips, or use a provider that screws you right up front.
Sadly enough, so am I. The brutal irony of large companies is that eventually it becomes too hard to fire people. The RIFs only catch a small percentage of the deadweight and take far too many of the good people. Many, many good people have gone away while managers of the most failed groups and division suck up to McNealy and Co, get their promotions, crosstraining and 6 figure salaries.
Then again everyone says the same shit happens at their company.
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It is best used for force applied without actual movement (ie. hovering). Though I wonder how useful that is since the real world has undulations which would starve the cavity of force as they were followed. I guess it depends on how fast or slow you climb or descend. Damn it! Maybe my flying car will show up finally!
If what you said were true, I'd be inclined to agree. The people involved have NOT been punished. The Chairwoman will keep her position until January at which point she will step down but KEEP HER DIRECTOR SEAT. The CEO Mr. Hurd, a director as well, was an informed and complicit participant in the decision as much as the Chairwoman. HE WILL BECOME CHAIRMAN. Another director resigned in protest of the investigation. His symbolic resignation intended to be an embarassing slight to the board and force them to reconsider their illegal actions was covered up and not reported to the SEC as required by law.
So, the roundup on punishments:
Chairwoman moves down one slot, keeps money, perks and most of her power.
CEO moves up to chairman
Director (read: good guy) who resigned out of sense of duty: still gone from boardroom
Number of directors on the board, reduced
What should happen? I'm not sure as I don't have all the facts and I don't claim to be a lawyer. As a layman, I would expect Chairwoman Dunn to lose her seat on the board and forfeit any unvested compensation. I would hope Mr Hurd would lose his position on the board as well. The board should bring back the resigned member. The fellow who was leaking info should be removed from the board and lose compensation same as Ms Dunn. HP and other companies need strong boards. HP once had a reputation for good governance. Let's hope that returns.
BTW - I don't work for HP or really care too much about them. No emotions or money invested.
With Apple there is always a cutoff for OS support. It usually lands on significant architecture inflections such as Macs having a G3, USB Macs, or in this case a 64bit x86 Mac. It is conceivable that in 3 years Apple could discontinue ongoing OS support for 32 bit systems. It would actually seem pretty reasonable if they were to go completely 64bit. The first round of Core Solo/Duo models are 32 bit chips. It might then be better to wait a month for 64 bit Core 2 Solo/Duo systems for performance and supportability concerns going forward.
However, if you don't foresee keeping your Macbook for over 3 years, don't worry. It might affect resale value, but that's your call. There is always a brief timespan where it is best to wait for the coming rev release. The same thing happened to me back when MMX pentiums were released. I had an order for 12 systems into a local VAR. I spec'd MMX CPUs at 200Mhz I think. Anyway, the VAR knew nothing of MMX. I told him to stall the order for two weeks as the chips should be released and available by then. We both waited. I got MMX CPUs two weeks later for the same price. I then played the one or two MMX enabled games available for an hour and got bored. Still, I got something for nothing except patience.
YMMV. Apple could do nothing for 6 months! I am waiting though. I really want a new Macbook. I just need to replace the stupid touchpad button with a two sider.
Nice catch there! I missed that little blurb earlier. GC is nice and everyone can debate whether they like it or not, but DTrace is loved by almost everyone who touches it. I would think DTrace would be on the top of the list of things advertised to developers at WWDC. By default, that would make Leopard my favorite MacOS X platform to develop on.
I disagree. There is a difference in product quality.
Read this: http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2006-06/
There are real differences in performance and reliability on hard drives.
You need to go one further. Here's an online version of litebrite to practice getting screen refreshes up to .01 fpm. Not good enough for gaming, but I wouldn't notice the speed for a powerpoint presentation. [I usually sleep through those anyway.]
I've wondered for a while now why they don't use lasers for the colors. You can get red or green lasers pretty cheap and I supposed blue can be had as well and might be getting cheaper with Blu-Ray players creating a larger market. The color saturation from the laser I play with my cats with is great! Why not in a dlp with three reflectors? There's probably a good explanation that I hadn't considered, but thought I'd ask.
Well, I enjoyed this conversation. I don't believe I will ever build a box as you have described, but should you choose to more power to ya.
I'm not sure why that mindset change would come in, specifically from the perspective of an external data store.
It doesn't matter to a buyer if the LVM is hidden from the NFS hosts. Someone still has to maintain that box. They want to know what's involved and if they have to train their sysadmins on another product.
Really, the hardest part about selling something as cool as ZFS is that it sounds like bullshit. Sun comes off sounding like a snakeoil salesman with a panacea for your storage problems. Plus, Sun doesn't have a great track record of getting filesystems to stick in the realworld over the last 8 years. They bought SAM-FS and QFS which both are merely obscure technical knowledge now for me.
A 3U chassis that handles 11 drives is currently $140 on PriceWatch. Do the math.
/. It's a discussion forum not a whitepaper or thesis. Thank you for correcting me and providing useful information to everyone.
OK. Your works out to be 3x larger than the 4U Sun's comes in. Did you have some other math for me to do?
As far as External SATA, I was wrong. I'm OK with that sometimes in a congenial conversation. It's little different to say "I may be wrong" than posting with IANAL. This is
Yeah, cabling arbitrary lengths of drives together has been easy since SCSI2 Fast Ultrawide. What you do is use seperate cables every few drives. Magic.
Yes, that'll look nice out the back of the rack. How many cables?
put silicone glue in for the inner rails
You have a lot of spare time.
Er, speed is one of Solaris' big selling points, if you'd actually look before announcing.
Well, I worked at Sun for 7 years and know a few things about Solaris. If you think Solaris is fast at NFS compared to NetApp, well I beg to differ.
Yeah, uh, ZFS takes like five minutes to set up. It's trivially simple. Why would you pretend otherwise? Have you even touched it?
Yes, I spent two years explaining and demonstrating it to customers. It's a huge change and takes a big mindset change for those who are used to Vxvm or other LVMs.
Also, if your going to nitpick the use of effect/affect:
1) Affect, not effect.
2) Cooling a 48-drive box is going to cost less electricity than running a single CPU. These people put down a thousand bucks a month just for the privelege of being in a controlled room. Let's have a sense of scale for things, please: fans just aren't that much power.
At least spell "privilege" right in your nit-picking.
Also, if we're going to have a "sense of scale" here, there is a huge cost difference between 12 RU and 4 RU in datacenter costs.
Just curious how you are going to hook up those 48 SATA drives to your 6 8-port SATA hbas? Where are you going to find a $1000 chassis that fits 48 drives? In one MAINTAINABLE configuration? As far as I know (and could be wrong) SATA is not an external bus. The SATA cards you mentioned would have to run outside of the box to another unless you find that 48 drive chassis I mentioned. Even if you ran a long enough wire to get to the other box mounted above your standard opteron 1U box, there's a lot of slack that has to be on that connection unless you want to disconnect everything just to pull the server out of the rack for maintenance. There are limitations to the SATA cabling you're not taking into account. Also add a couple more power supplies on here for each of the boxes that hold you drives. Cooling is also an issue that tier 1 vendors model very seriously before they put together a kit. Most home baked kits have either dangerous hotspots that effect reliability or are overcooled which wastes money. You should also keep your drives mounted with dampening to avoid vibrations from each other which can cause early drive failure.
There's more to this than simply buying parts. This appears to be another viable option in the storage arena for apps that need very large local storage. The problem with using it for NAS storage is that Solaris has historically been pretty slow compared to NetApp. ZFS could improve the score here with simplified administration if anyone actually understood how it worked.
My $.02
Now let's hope Berman doesn't screw up the "STC" (Star Trek Collections) unit of measurement too by adding to it!! Leave it alone!
Go to your room! Until you learn to share airwaves with everyone else, you can stay in your lead walled room with no TV or computer Mister!
I think that may be a side effect of Orrin Hatch's work for the RIAA and MPAA.
I'm sure there will be another study which says the opposite soon enough. Linux is a major player and is here to stay. MS products are fine for a lot of applications and the same for UNIX. Just throw this in with the (rest of the) FUD and move along. Besides, until MS comes along with something as cheap as Linux (free as in beer) they'll never be able to kill Linux. Let's get back to the Apple adoration, BSD is dying, PS3 is great/expensive, hot grits, flame wars and ATI/Nvidia benchmarking that we've all come to expect from Slashdot.
From an interview on Forbes.com with John Connors, CFO of Microsoft after the announcement that they were issuing a one-time dividend of 30 billion (yes with a B) dollars:
John Connors: The first thing was to keep enough cash on hand to give us flexibility to manage things like a severe short-term economic dislocation or investment opportunities. We haven't publicly said how much cash that will be, but it's probably fair to assume that, after the upcoming distribution, we will still have around $25 billion to $40 billion on hand.
and here's another quote from the same article:
We have a relatively unique model, in that our business is not capital-intensive. What drove our approach is that Bill [Gates] and Steve [Ballmer] and the board are pretty conservative. We don't want to be in the position where we have to make decisions because of the balance sheet. And while we don't anticipate that we would ever have a year with expenses but no revenue, we'll probably keep at least one year of operating expenses and cost of goods sold in cash on hand--that's around $20 billion in cash and short-term investments.
Now if you like you can also look at their SEC filings if you want to argue with people. AFTER the $30,000,000,000 dividend, they'll have AT LEAST $25-40 billion dollars. That means they have on hand $55-70 billion dollars cash or liquid assets. Your last statement that shareholders would have "no control" over this money is just dumb. Shareholders have final control over everything. That's why they have yearly votes.
This myth has been confirmed.
Microsoft Annual Report 2005
Hmmm... let's look at an Hitachi USP. This is their high-end storage unit right now and comparable to anything you can buy from EMC or IBM. They support RAID 5 in 3+1 and 7+1 configurations. They also support RAID 1 in 2+2 fashion (haven't seen a 4+4 setup). I have personally consulted at at least 8 of the Fortune 100 and setup RAID 1 for high i/o environments. RAID 5 is generally used for lower demand hosts. They also use fibre channel drives although SATA may be an option sooner or later since you can get them on their modular storage now.
I can tell you I DO HAVE EXPERIENCE and you are full of shit. You're also a bit combative. Have a drink. Relax. It's slashdot.
Well, I'm not in Silicon Valley anymore and that helps I suppose. I also choose each position with the goal of padding my resume with useful experiences. In response to an earlier post, I simply put my resume up onto Monster and Dice. I searched the listings on Dice and CL and applied for a few jobs (~20 each) with targeted emails. Some of them responded and I was interested in a couple of those. The rest of the opportunities were from recruiters contacting me from my resume on Dice and Monster.
On each interview I stressed that my family was most important. If the vibe from the other side was wrong I asked deeper questions about rotations, hours and what the team does together during or after work. If it smelled like a sweatshop, I moved on.
I may have been lucky. I would like to think that's not the case since I had to turn down jobs. Am I anything special? Nope. Guaranteed on that one. Hell, my wife would get a chuckle if she knew I was tooting my horn at all since I can't remember people's names once I walk out of a room.
As I said before, if you are new to this you'll probably have to get a shit job. Most of us had them. If you're not new to this and you're not able to find a job in a good economy during Summer, think about changing your direction. You CAN have two resumes out there tailored to different careers. Go the Borders and read Who Moved my Cheese and think about where you're going. It's not Shakespeare or Nietzsche but if it makes you think...
It is your time, but maybe we can agree that they can request you not go and get drunk while you're still in your UPS uniform? Large companies invest a good deal of money in public perception and that can all go to hell with one good meth-binged clocktower episode.
Six months to find a job? Where the hell are you looking? I started looking for a new job after being with my last employer seven years. It took me 4.5 weeks from posting my resume to accepting an offer yesterday on a new job for 37% more money with equal benefits. Plus I had two other offers and a lot more interviews lined up. Maybe you need to compare your skillset and the market and see where they don't match or even consider a change in careers to something tangetial so your experience still works in your favor.
If someone offers you a job and states that you'll have to work more than 40 hours a week, tell them you're not interested or ask for more money in compensation. Companies that want salaried positions to work far more than 40 hours a week are either bleeding money, cutting costs so badly they are understaffed or have no real concern for their employees. These are not places you should want to work anyways. Avoid them at all costs since they will only make you miserable and ruin other portions of your life. Pull an "Office Space" and dig ditches if you have to but don't work for people like that.
You should really only have to work shitty jobs like that when you have no experience. Out of college, you should expect to get a shit job because you don't know shit generally. While there are exceptions, most college grads need the blow to the nads that a crap job gives them so they mature and stop doing stupid crap.
But I digress...
Keep 2 months salary socked away and your resume updated. Really. It is amazing how fast a good job can go downhill or disappear.
Have you been to Bank of America lately? Well, almost any bank now will do for this discussion. You can't speak to a human anymore unless it's in a grcery store "bank center" where they're mostly salespeople anyway. If you do walk into an actual bank, they'll charge you!!
My wife worked in a Credit Union [which is supposed to exist for the benefit of its members] and they started screwing their members too! First they extended membership to anyone who has ANY job within 100 miles. Then when some of these losers started bouncing checks, they had to raise fees to cover for them. On top of that, if you can talk to a human, they HAVE to start their conversation with a sales pitch for crappy certs of deposit (CD's) with ungodly low yields. If they don't sell enough services to the members, they can be disciplined.
Now, why would banks/credit unions do that to their customers/members? Usually two reasons:
What the hell, we might as all just quit our jobs and day trade. I'm not against business. I just want someone to look a little further out than the next quarter's SEC filing. Shit who am I kidding, it'll all get better now that CAFTA passed, right?
Go ahead, visit a branch - $2
Get a cashiers check - $5
Go to a grocery store and open an account at one of the few banks left like Citi, BofA, Wells, US Bank, Wash Mutual, Chase [... oops, they're gone too!] I'm sure they'll listen to your complaints about "trusted computing" over the din of "cleanup on aisle four!"
Thanks for the short cuts, but they don't seem to work system-wide in XP as I'm unable to put them into this post or into Notepad or MS Word. Are these Linux conventions? I'll have to wait until my wife gets off the powerbook to try it on a Mac.
When I saw this, the first thing I thought of was the Internet cafe I sat at near Place de Bastille in Paris. It took me a long time to write the simple email I needed to get off because I had no clue where the keys were on a French Keyboard. It occasionally did some strange stuff. Touch typing is out too! Something like this where a single button on the side could change the keyboard to several languages would be great even in the states where English really isn't the only language spoken (even though we tend to think so).
Hell, the computer labs in school could use this for French, Spanish and other language labs. You know how hard it is to write a French paper without easy access to a cedilla or other diacritic marks?
That's "Print Devices" in MS parlance. "Printers" are print drivers. I don't want to know why. I stopped asking years ago.
One of the few soapboxes I really stand on all the time is cell phones and fscking CDMA carriers' lock down on phones. I only use GSM phones. Period. If I get one free from the cell company, I unlock it ASAP. If it's disabled in some way, I either fix that or get rid of it. By staying with a GSM carrier, I leave my options open and I can buy whatever model I choose. I'm not limited by whatever selection Verizon or Sprint offers. I don't have to tell them which phone I'm using or pay them for ringtones.
Most people don't know that there is a difference or that Verizon continually screws them by disabling advertised features on most of their phones. I do my best to educate people, but it's only a few at a time. Don't use phones without SIM chips, or use a provider that screws you right up front.
Sadly enough, so am I. The brutal irony of large companies is that eventually it becomes too hard to fire people. The RIFs only catch a small percentage of the deadweight and take far too many of the good people. Many, many good people have gone away while managers of the most failed groups and division suck up to McNealy and Co, get their promotions, crosstraining and 6 figure salaries.
Then again everyone says the same shit happens at their company.