So his claim is that unless we have older fathers with more mutations, evolution will slow down or stop...
So, what happened when people we only living to be 35? I dunno, but in my own family tree, it seems like they were having kids at much younger ages than people I see today...
My Grandfather was in his early 20's, my Dad in his early 30's and I didn't have a kid until I was in my late 30's...
You don't need Windows, Windows developers, or all the overhead it takes to keep that ecosystem running in some kind of decent shape. You can deliver enterprise services at a fraction of the cost and at competitive turn-around times. Simplify your environment and you'll save yourself a lot of money and stress.
I don't really disagree with you at all, but the LAMP stack has its own ecosystem, with NIS and LDAP and Kerberos and DNS...
I work with huge multi-nationals every day, as a storage engineer. The Windows/IIS/MSSQL/.Net ecosystem can be problematic, but believe me, if you're trying to run a global NFS network, you've got almost as many headaches...
...computers are still relatively new, and eventually you won't need a whole staff of IT gurus to keep a network up and running,... thus less IT workers needed...large websites and databases will get easier to manage, eventually, the only thing that won't go away is the need for real security...so security is where real IT growth is, computers will get more reliable and software easier to manage...
Let me just say, after 26 years in this business, of hearing this every year, the systems just keep getting more complex and harder to maintain, rather than less and easier.
Windows NT was supposed to make it so anyone who could use Windows could manage a server.
How many MILLION MSCEs do we have in the world now?
Storage systems with Petabytes of data are complex things. Cloud computing is a complex thing. Supercomputing clusters are complex things. World-spanning networks are complex things.
No offense intended, but the only people who think things are getting easier are people who don't know how they work in the first place.
It works on coat hooks, door handles and now it can even make working copies... of itself.
I didn't even have to read TFA to know this ain't true...
Unless the machine can also make it's own electrical components...Gears and even parts of pumps I can believe, but without some way to move those electrons around, it ain't happenin'.
Never seen any problems like that from them... All my websites run PHP5.. Some even take XML feeds on demand, parse them out and display the data in dynamically generated tables... Never seen a throttling problem..
My biggest problem with them is too many passwords to remember...
Add iron, plankton grows. Plankton absorbs CO2, then dies, sinking. Nope. Plankton dies, releasing organo-phophates and nitrogen compounds into the water, which causes bacterial blooms, which depletes dissolved O2 levels, which causes other marine lifeforms to die, initiating a downward spiral...
Not a marine biologist, but a marine aquarium owner. Been there, done that.
Well, saying laptop drives isn't really fair. They've been making 10,000 RPM serial attached SCSI disks in a 2.5" form factor for quite some time, I know Sun uses them in servers. I'm not sure if there are 15,000 RPM disks out yet in this size or not. These are not your 5400RPM laptop drives. Ok, fair enough.
Still, I personally don't like "black box" systems...
You don't need to replace a module, because it doesn't break. See the failure rates/service event numbers from their presentations.
Lab failure rates mean very little.
Didn't Google just blow the lid off of the disk manufacturers MTBF numbers, by reporting their own failure rates as being an order of magnitude higher?
Wait till they have a few thousands of these deployed. They we'll kknow how good they really are... And, that's when companies with big money to spend will take notice.
Nothing really new here, except the box is sealed, which means when they have bought a batch of disks with an undiscovered flaw, there's no way to fix or replace them...
Seagate Tomcats anyone?
Also, would you trust your enterprise storage to laptop drives? Running 24/7/36...
How long will those last?
Hell, most SATA disks are unsuitable for anything but nearline storage, and even then, they're iffy...Keep plenty of spares!
I hear this said a lot, could somebody please explain to me how larger, heavier mail which costs much much less could possibly subsidize smaller, lighter mail which costs much more? OK... Part of the reason why Bulk Rate mail is cheaper because the sender has to presort the mail before it is taken to/picked up by the USPS. So, all the PO has to do is give it to the carriers for delivery.
Just like backtesting stock trading strategies doesn't guarantee future success, this probably won't make anyone any safer than making us take off our shoes, or emptying our shampoo bottles, before we get on airplanes...
But, someone will make a fortune from it...
Here's what I propose...It will probably work just as well...
Send emails to half of the people telling them to stay home and to the other half, tell hem to act as usual...
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So his claim is that unless we have older fathers with more mutations, evolution will slow down or stop...
So, what happened when people we only living to be 35?
I dunno, but in my own family tree, it seems like they were having kids at much younger ages than people I see today...
My Grandfather was in his early 20's, my Dad in his early 30's and I didn't have a kid until I was in my late 30's...
Then only way you can take it completely out of the carbon cycle is to blast it into space on a rocket.
I say cheap diamonds is the best way to go...
Put the whole "blood diamond" thing to rest for good...
Sounds like you haven't read the article.
Yes, I'm new here.
Sounds like you don't know what startled means...
They could startle easier because they're cowards. Or maybe they're just more situationally aware because they're not high.
Um, yeah.
If you're "situationally aware", it means you're aware of what is going on around you, so why would you be startled at all?
Wake up and smell the fascism ??? How about, wake up and smell the socialism?
Uh, how about, "Wake up and smell the Crony Capitalism"?
You don't need Windows, Windows developers, or all the overhead it takes to keep that ecosystem running in some kind of decent shape. You can deliver enterprise services at a fraction of the cost and at competitive turn-around times. Simplify your environment and you'll save yourself a lot of money and stress.
I don't really disagree with you at all, but the LAMP stack has its own ecosystem, with NIS and LDAP and Kerberos and DNS...
I work with huge multi-nationals every day, as a storage engineer. The Windows/IIS/MSSQL/.Net ecosystem can be problematic, but believe me, if you're trying to run a global NFS network, you've got almost as many headaches...
...computers are still relatively new, and eventually you won't need a whole staff of IT gurus to keep a network up and running,... thus less IT workers needed...large websites and databases will get easier to manage, eventually, the only thing that won't go away is the need for real security...so security is where real IT growth is, computers will get more reliable and software easier to manage...
Let me just say, after 26 years in this business, of hearing this every year, the systems just keep getting more complex and harder to maintain, rather than less and easier.
Windows NT was supposed to make it so anyone who could use Windows could manage a server.
How many MILLION MSCEs do we have in the world now?
Storage systems with Petabytes of data are complex things. Cloud computing is a complex thing. Supercomputing clusters are complex things. World-spanning networks are complex things.
No offense intended, but the only people who think things are getting easier are people who don't know how they work in the first place.
How's your Airtight Garage? :)
I've administered a couple of Fireboxes and I have to say they were pretty trouble free...
GUI frontend, some flavor of Linux on the backend...
It works on coat hooks, door handles and now it can even make working copies ... of itself.
I didn't even have to read TFA to know this ain't true...
Unless the machine can also make it's own electrical components...Gears and even parts of pumps I can believe, but without some way to move those electrons around, it ain't happenin'.
Woo Hoo!
Way to go JPL and Lockheed Martin!
P.S. Kudos to the Science Channel for their live coverage...
Never seen any problems like that from them...
All my websites run PHP5..
Some even take XML feeds on demand, parse them out and display the data in dynamically generated tables...
Never seen a throttling problem..
My biggest problem with them is too many passwords to remember...
Cost to you, about $15 per month.
Depending on how many friends, charge them $3 to $5 per month...
Did this for myself last year, to give myself a big web sandbox to play around in...
Money well spent...
Disclosure: No, I don't own GoDaddy, but I am a satisfied customer.
Listen to my Podcast, Read More Science Fiction.
My buddy and I read and review Sci-Fi books...Mostly older, but recently we reviewed "Old Man's War" by John Scalzi...
Yeah, we don't stay on-topic very well, but I think we're entertaining anyway, or we wouldn't keep doing it...
...make a lower resistance path between cloud and ground...
Either with a wire on a rocket or a lower density column of heated air...
So, that lowers the threshold of charge differential required for the discharge.
...It's called, "I own the equipment and I'm paying for your time, so you have no expectation of privacy. Deal with it!"
Nope. Plankton dies, releasing organo-phophates and nitrogen compounds into the water, which causes bacterial blooms, which depletes dissolved O2 levels, which causes other marine lifeforms to die, initiating a downward spiral...
Not a marine biologist, but a marine aquarium owner. Been there, done that.
Still, I personally don't like "black box" systems...
You don't need to replace a module, because it doesn't break. See the failure rates/service event numbers from their presentations.
Lab failure rates mean very little.
Didn't Google just blow the lid off of the disk manufacturers MTBF numbers, by reporting their own failure rates as being an order of magnitude higher?
Wait till they have a few thousands of these deployed. They we'll kknow how good they really are...
And, that's when companies with big money to spend will take notice.
Nothing really new here, except the box is sealed, which means when they have bought a batch of disks with an undiscovered flaw, there's no way to fix or replace them...
Seagate Tomcats anyone?
Also, would you trust your enterprise storage to laptop drives? Running 24/7/36...
How long will those last?
Hell, most SATA disks are unsuitable for anything but nearline storage, and even then, they're iffy...Keep plenty of spares!
I hear this said a lot, could somebody please explain to me how larger, heavier mail which costs much much less could possibly subsidize smaller, lighter mail which costs much more?
OK...
Part of the reason why Bulk Rate mail is cheaper because the sender has to presort the mail before it is taken to/picked up by the USPS. So, all the PO has to do is give it to the carriers for delivery.
Just like backtesting stock trading strategies doesn't guarantee future success, this probably won't make anyone any safer than making us take off our shoes, or emptying our shampoo bottles, before we get on airplanes...
But, someone will make a fortune from it...
Here's what I propose...It will probably work just as well...
Send emails to half of the people telling them to stay home and to the other half, tell hem to act as usual...
Lather, rinse, repeat...Profit!
It's like aversion therapy!
This is the same kind of abstract extrapolation that predicted we'd all be riding around in flying cars.
So, the real question is...
Where the fuck is my flying car?
I worked for BBN when they registered their .com and didn't even know it.
That's it, nothing more exciting than that...