Live in Minnesota here. We have air conditioners for server rooms that are designed to be used in the middle of January. HVAC contractors know what a server room is, even if they don't have the foggiest about the contents. It takes specialized HVAC to do it, but you better believe those server rooms are air conditioned in the heart of winter. On the plus side, it's usually easy to get an HVAC contractor to work on one, after all who else uses an air conditioner when it's 20 below?
When I worked at Target we had specialized monitoring equipment that notified the same people that handle burglar alarms if a server room got to be too hot. It was written directly in the contract we had with the HVAC co's that only 911 call centers and Hospital Emergency rooms could be prioritized over one of our server rooms.
Water cooled servers have been out for a little while by some vendors. You can find rack mount water cooled gear pretty easily. Too much damage is done too quickly when you don't have cooling. I have worked in environments where if a server room was allowed to get up to 74 F/23.3 C and an HVAC contractor wasn't already on the way there would be hell to pay.
There really isn't a question of if it will become widespread. Overclocking sites have had more than a few visits from Intel and AMD over the years. It's an inevitable problem with an inevitable solution. The only question is how long until water cooling becomes more popular. Heat needs have had people clamoring for Pentium M processors for rack mount gear for a while as well. It's a reasonably speed CPU that handles heat fairly well. It would work very nicely in rack mount gear, but motherboards that will take one are fairly rare.
As for server rooms, they will continue to be air conditioned for as long as all of your server room equipment is in their. Even if you found a magical solution for servers you still have RAID arrays, switches, routers and the like all in the same room. Server rooms are well known by HVAC people as requiring cooling. Most HVAC vendors will prioritize a failed server room HVAC over anything but medical. They know damn well that anybody that has an air conditioner designed to work in the middle of January in Minnesota or North Dakota isn't using the cooling for comfort.
Is it really too much to ask for a wiki free link for reference? Articles written by the tyranny of the persistant dont tend to have much to do with reality. Really, I'm sure some school, corp, journal or industry site probably has something about this. How about a link to a google search, or something with some shred of credibility?
Wikipedia, because the tyranny of the persistant must be right.
Come on Slashdot, this has easily got to be the least thought april fools joke you have ever pulled. We've seen much better. Please go back to the drawing board and try again.
I agree. That's why they need to stop providing links to the destination. The source itself is meaningless as you pointed out. While they can have thousands of servers, IP's etc googlebomb someone, they can't practically have thousands of website without diluting their own resources. Kill the destiantion, not the source in this case.
If Google would do this kind of thing much more often, it's results would stop becoming watered down. They should make their policy simple. Googlebomb google and stop getting linked from Google. After a few businesses get nailed and put out to pasture the rest will learn and their results will once more become relevant.
Hm, come to think of it, I probably haven't looked at MSN search since last year. In all fairness, they did revamp it and having another looksee would be a good idea. If they have now seperated out the paid results clearly than they have overcome my main objection. Tell me, do they still filter results on subjects Microsoft considers sensetive?
Is Hilary Clinton trying to swell the ranks of the Young Republicans? Whatever happened to Democrats sticking up for things like civil liberties? When do I get my Deomocrat party back from the corps and self righteous? Yet another disillusioned Democrat that desperatelhy want a middle of the road party to balance things out in this country of mine.
Oi, let's start at the get go. The Internet is not an internationaly owned network. It is not created by a team of international people working for the UN. It is a US military invention designed to allow research facilities to communicate and the US gov and military to have a nuclear war surviving communications system. The US just happens to be kind enough to let the rest of the world use their network they invented and own.
You might be thinking of the WWW invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 over at CERN. The WWW uses the Internet as a backbone, and is not owned by the US.
All that being said, the UN has proven time and time again to be utterly corrupt and without leadership. How many billions of dollars have dissapeared in one corruption plagued scandal or another? While the US military was busy actually saving lives, establishing safe drinking water and the like right after the boxing day Tsunami, the UN was busy setting up accomodations in luxury hotels for committees to have meetings.
Perhaps you dont like the US or the US military, and this colors your world view. If you don't like it, I have a very simple suggestion for you. Invent your own network, pour billions of dollars of research into it, setup a few international treaties, get the hardware co's to play ball, develop communications protocols, get the telco's on board and dont forget the software companies. Really, if you don't like it, just make your own.
Why do people bitch when we pour billions of dollars into something, spend decades researching it, and get to benifit from it for free? How much of your economy now depends on this thing you have been given access to for free? Have you ever heard of looking a gift horse in the mouth? Is this a case of jealousy, paranoia or just another anti-US rant? Seriously, I want to know.
Easy, stigma of the geek. Kill the stigma of IT and the geek and IT will attract more Women. Meanwhile IT will scare away just as many Women as any other geek...
Blogs certainly can be, I recall one blog I wrote that was picked up rather quickly by news agencies around the world. I had my blog story shown on websites from New Zealand to Africa. This doesn't include a number of sites that reference having printed my blog in hard copy as well.
In my case I took a small news event that had local significance only on the surface and showed how the local event would effect things on a world scale. It was my analysis and ability to make the story relevant to people on other continents that turned my blog rate into a story.
Most blogs are crap, with little research and shoddy research at best. Heck if you look at the last US election Kerry should have won in a landslide according to the blogscape. All that being said though, some people do create quality blogs that have journalism quality writing in them. The answer is, they can be journalism, but usually aren't.
Really, only Americans have suffered at the hands of outsourcing in India? What about all those poor Europeans and Asians that have also suffered from Indian outsourcing? I know, another chance to bash America for something that has nothing to do with America. Damn intolerant bastards.
Silly person, your talking about a government and a way of raising money through taxes. They are of course willing to push this ahead if "need be".
A spokeswoman for the Department for Culture said that it was not worried for now, but insiders said that the department would act if internet viewing took off.
Never underestimate a government looking for a new source of revenue, especially when they see the old as losing potential.
Are you f'n nuts? The UN couldn't lead their way out of a wet paper bag. They have a decades long record of failure recently highlighted with their widespread debacles with the Tsunami of Boxing day. You want to hand over the Internet to an agency that lost track of how many billions to Saddam Hussein? This is the most brain dead proposal I have ever heard in my life. They are accountable to no one, and know it.
I agree, that is bunk. I had a liquor store do that to me and refuse to remove my info from their database. When they asked for my ID I assumed the clerk was going to check it, not scan it. Very disturbing seeing my name and address appear on their computer. If such info is scanned, it should display nothing more than your age. It should also not be legal to keep the information.
"Help, I'm being repressed!". I can hear the cry already. Your not, I hate to break it to you, this doesnt repress anyone. Most countries have a national ID to begin with, and this isn't even that much.
This doesnt take away your rights, it doesn't repress you as a person, it doesn't cause cancer, and it sure as hell isn't that big of a deal. Drivers license and ID information is largely public to begin with anyways, it just all getting (somewhat) standardized.
Fake ID's are a fairly good size problem. I used to work in a bar years ago and we could confiscate 30 fake ID's a night on the weekend- and that's at a country bar. A dance club can easily confiscate 100 ID's a night on a weekend. I'm sure law enforcement has much nastier problems on their hands.
The only thing to really be concerned about on this is to make sure this information stays private and doesnt get sold to marketers. Really, this whole security thing isn't that big of a deal.
Congratulations, you just took a question (what is art) that has been debated and unresolved for millenium and thrust it on slashdot. I predict this to be more pointless than another triplicate article. Let's just leave it as art is subjective, ok?
Platform stability is very important. As someone who daily stuggles with various unstable platforms I agree completely. Unfortunately marketing decisions are rarely made bases on platform stability. After all just look at most software that is out there, it is very unstable with incredibly numbers of bugs. Let's face it as well, there have been some pretty unstable Mac OS's over the years as well.
Xbox is basicly a PC, I agree, it also moving over to the PowerPC architecture for the next version. Think about that for a moment.
The average user finds the Mac OS very easy to use. What they don't find so pallatable is the sky high price, a problem Jobs finally actually did something about with their new $500 mac that uses a three year old CPU. If they could start selling their OS, which is actually now fairly good, their are a good number of people who consider using it (heck even I would).
Apple has always wanted a wholely proprietary environment that they could own. This has cost them countless billions over the years, the future is open with their current OS though.
As far as drivers go (huge source of instability), simply put in the OS a requirement to have all drivers signed. WHQL already does this with Windows. All the manufacturer does is submit their driver for approval and get it ok'd. Since unapproved drivers couldn't be installed, the stability point on this matter becomes moot. Most hardware manufactures would be probably be willing to do this. Just look at how many linux drivers are out there, and Linux has a similiar market share to Mac.
They make that much because they have a standardized consistent format. Linux does not have this, Solaris does but it is limited (largely) to their hardware and has never been oriented to the consumer market in the first place. The only other OS that has ever been aimed at the mass consumer market is Apple's.
They have the standardizataion, they have the name brand, they have a market of established consumer software. They have consumer oriend distribution channels and developers that know their products on a widespread basis. Linux, FreeBSD and umpteem flavors of Unix do not have this consumer base. They have commercial bases and programmer bases.
They are not mass distribution consumer ready products (I've used Linux off and on for years in addition to a Linux firewall - not a basher)
PC hardware is largely the same as apple hardware anymore anyways. Apple uses USB and firewire, PCI, standard memory, hard drives, mice, keyboards etc. About all that is really proprietary is their motherboard, chipset and CPU. All of which is a moot point as they are a unix bases OS that was originally ported from X86 to begin with! Porting back to X86 isn't nearly anything like it would have before the current unix based OS. From what I understand Apple has had an internal Athlon 64 based beta build of 10.x for a while now anyways.
Last I checked Microsoft made a fortune selling the OS instead of hardware. Hardware is cut throat with incredibly margins whereas with Operating Systems your margins are incredibly high. The only reason at all Sun or Apple can make decent margins on their hardware is because they are the sole providers of their proprietary systems.
Sun simply isn't making the money that you think it is.
Don't be so quick to judge what you can't see. I have a permanent disability from football in high school. If you were to look at me you would never see anything wrong. If you were to look at an x-ray of my foot, you would wonder how I walk at all. As a result I have a parking placard, and have to deal with people like yourself every now and then.
Many things will get someone a placard that don't show up on sight. A friend of mine for example is a Hemophiliac - social securities literal example of a permanently disabled person. If you were to look at him you could never see anything wrong with him either. Things like heart conditions can also be cause for a placard and won't show up. If you are sincerely concerned take down the license plate and placard number and talk to the DMV - placards can get stolen.
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When I worked at Target we had specialized monitoring equipment that notified the same people that handle burglar alarms if a server room got to be too hot. It was written directly in the contract we had with the HVAC co's that only 911 call centers and Hospital Emergency rooms could be prioritized over one of our server rooms.
There really isn't a question of if it will become widespread. Overclocking sites have had more than a few visits from Intel and AMD over the years. It's an inevitable problem with an inevitable solution. The only question is how long until water cooling becomes more popular. Heat needs have had people clamoring for Pentium M processors for rack mount gear for a while as well. It's a reasonably speed CPU that handles heat fairly well. It would work very nicely in rack mount gear, but motherboards that will take one are fairly rare.
As for server rooms, they will continue to be air conditioned for as long as all of your server room equipment is in their. Even if you found a magical solution for servers you still have RAID arrays, switches, routers and the like all in the same room. Server rooms are well known by HVAC people as requiring cooling. Most HVAC vendors will prioritize a failed server room HVAC over anything but medical. They know damn well that anybody that has an air conditioner designed to work in the middle of January in Minnesota or North Dakota isn't using the cooling for comfort.
Wikipedia, because the tyranny of the persistant must be right.
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I agree. That's why they need to stop providing links to the destination. The source itself is meaningless as you pointed out. While they can have thousands of servers, IP's etc googlebomb someone, they can't practically have thousands of website without diluting their own resources. Kill the destiantion, not the source in this case.
If Google would do this kind of thing much more often, it's results would stop becoming watered down. They should make their policy simple. Googlebomb google and stop getting linked from Google. After a few businesses get nailed and put out to pasture the rest will learn and their results will once more become relevant.
Hm, come to think of it, I probably haven't looked at MSN search since last year. In all fairness, they did revamp it and having another looksee would be a good idea. If they have now seperated out the paid results clearly than they have overcome my main objection. Tell me, do they still filter results on subjects Microsoft considers sensetive?
- Simple interface, quickly loads.
- No graphical Ads
- Paid results are clearly ads and seperated from real results.
That's it, that's why Google is king. Until Yahoo, MSN search, Ask Jeeves and the like get those three points, they will continue to be second fiddle.Is Hilary Clinton trying to swell the ranks of the Young Republicans? Whatever happened to Democrats sticking up for things like civil liberties? When do I get my Deomocrat party back from the corps and self righteous? Yet another disillusioned Democrat that desperatelhy want a middle of the road party to balance things out in this country of mine.
Forgot to credit the Aussie military that was right there alongside the US military for the Boxing day disaster relief.
You might be thinking of the WWW invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 over at CERN. The WWW uses the Internet as a backbone, and is not owned by the US.
All that being said, the UN has proven time and time again to be utterly corrupt and without leadership. How many billions of dollars have dissapeared in one corruption plagued scandal or another? While the US military was busy actually saving lives, establishing safe drinking water and the like right after the boxing day Tsunami, the UN was busy setting up accomodations in luxury hotels for committees to have meetings.
Perhaps you dont like the US or the US military, and this colors your world view. If you don't like it, I have a very simple suggestion for you. Invent your own network, pour billions of dollars of research into it, setup a few international treaties, get the hardware co's to play ball, develop communications protocols, get the telco's on board and dont forget the software companies. Really, if you don't like it, just make your own.
Why do people bitch when we pour billions of dollars into something, spend decades researching it, and get to benifit from it for free? How much of your economy now depends on this thing you have been given access to for free? Have you ever heard of looking a gift horse in the mouth? Is this a case of jealousy, paranoia or just another anti-US rant? Seriously, I want to know.
Easy, stigma of the geek. Kill the stigma of IT and the geek and IT will attract more Women. Meanwhile IT will scare away just as many Women as any other geek...
In my case I took a small news event that had local significance only on the surface and showed how the local event would effect things on a world scale. It was my analysis and ability to make the story relevant to people on other continents that turned my blog rate into a story.
Most blogs are crap, with little research and shoddy research at best. Heck if you look at the last US election Kerry should have won in a landslide according to the blogscape. All that being said though, some people do create quality blogs that have journalism quality writing in them. The answer is, they can be journalism, but usually aren't.
Really, only Americans have suffered at the hands of outsourcing in India? What about all those poor Europeans and Asians that have also suffered from Indian outsourcing? I know, another chance to bash America for something that has nothing to do with America. Damn intolerant bastards.
Are you f'n nuts? The UN couldn't lead their way out of a wet paper bag. They have a decades long record of failure recently highlighted with their widespread debacles with the Tsunami of Boxing day. You want to hand over the Internet to an agency that lost track of how many billions to Saddam Hussein? This is the most brain dead proposal I have ever heard in my life. They are accountable to no one, and know it.
I agree, that is bunk. I had a liquor store do that to me and refuse to remove my info from their database. When they asked for my ID I assumed the clerk was going to check it, not scan it. Very disturbing seeing my name and address appear on their computer. If such info is scanned, it should display nothing more than your age. It should also not be legal to keep the information.
This doesnt take away your rights, it doesn't repress you as a person, it doesn't cause cancer, and it sure as hell isn't that big of a deal. Drivers license and ID information is largely public to begin with anyways, it just all getting (somewhat) standardized.
Fake ID's are a fairly good size problem. I used to work in a bar years ago and we could confiscate 30 fake ID's a night on the weekend- and that's at a country bar. A dance club can easily confiscate 100 ID's a night on a weekend. I'm sure law enforcement has much nastier problems on their hands.
The only thing to really be concerned about on this is to make sure this information stays private and doesnt get sold to marketers. Really, this whole security thing isn't that big of a deal.
How much did you pay slashdot for your link?
Congratulations, you just took a question (what is art) that has been debated and unresolved for millenium and thrust it on slashdot. I predict this to be more pointless than another triplicate article. Let's just leave it as art is subjective, ok?
That said kudos for disclosing that you work for them.
Xbox is basicly a PC, I agree, it also moving over to the PowerPC architecture for the next version. Think about that for a moment.
The average user finds the Mac OS very easy to use. What they don't find so pallatable is the sky high price, a problem Jobs finally actually did something about with their new $500 mac that uses a three year old CPU. If they could start selling their OS, which is actually now fairly good, their are a good number of people who consider using it (heck even I would).
Apple has always wanted a wholely proprietary environment that they could own. This has cost them countless billions over the years, the future is open with their current OS though.
As far as drivers go (huge source of instability), simply put in the OS a requirement to have all drivers signed. WHQL already does this with Windows. All the manufacturer does is submit their driver for approval and get it ok'd. Since unapproved drivers couldn't be installed, the stability point on this matter becomes moot. Most hardware manufactures would be probably be willing to do this. Just look at how many linux drivers are out there, and Linux has a similiar market share to Mac.
They have the standardizataion, they have the name brand, they have a market of established consumer software. They have consumer oriend distribution channels and developers that know their products on a widespread basis. Linux, FreeBSD and umpteem flavors of Unix do not have this consumer base. They have commercial bases and programmer bases. They are not mass distribution consumer ready products (I've used Linux off and on for years in addition to a Linux firewall - not a basher)
PC hardware is largely the same as apple hardware anymore anyways. Apple uses USB and firewire, PCI, standard memory, hard drives, mice, keyboards etc. About all that is really proprietary is their motherboard, chipset and CPU. All of which is a moot point as they are a unix bases OS that was originally ported from X86 to begin with! Porting back to X86 isn't nearly anything like it would have before the current unix based OS. From what I understand Apple has had an internal Athlon 64 based beta build of 10.x for a while now anyways.
Sun simply isn't making the money that you think it is.
Many things will get someone a placard that don't show up on sight. A friend of mine for example is a Hemophiliac - social securities literal example of a permanently disabled person. If you were to look at him you could never see anything wrong with him either. Things like heart conditions can also be cause for a placard and won't show up. If you are sincerely concerned take down the license plate and placard number and talk to the DMV - placards can get stolen.