Actually I know the herald that designed that portion of the Coat of Arms. I asked her right away & the verdict is: no hidden meaning. Come on life, this is my one chance for a +5 Informative rating on slashdot...
Why not use the Hadoop distributed file system? It offers automatic replication and you can treat each "store" as a "rack" to guarantee multiple remote backups.
You also get the immediate advantage of having a single file namespace and instant streaming access to all of the files from any single location.
The only advantage to Bittorrent that I can see is faster recovery time since a single store can source the backup from from N other stores (instead of 2, or whatever number of replications you have decided on).
What worries me about this is that China isn't exactly known for its pioneering efforts on behalf of minimizing the impact of the technology industry on the environment.
I would say that China already receives a good portion of the world's technology garbage.
This posting provides a few details.
Globalization is not new.
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Although I concur with the culture portion of Jon's comment "Technologies from movie cameras to TV sets to the Net are the means by which culture and wealth travel from one part of the world to the other.", I have to disagree with the wealth portion.
Globalization is only the newest noun for an age-old economict process formerly known as colonialism or imperialism. The only difference is that instead of a colonial power demanding that it's colonies trade exclusively with it, we have a global hegemony of economic clout demanding that all countries capitulate to the World Bank and IMF. Same game, different names but it has always been moving wealth around the world.
Lots of people like to believe that The Net has started a revolution. In fact, it's only spead up the existing trade processes.
For the most part, most of the curriculum in high school only taught me how to *use* something; that's the best you can expect from a curriculum. It was my imagination and my own desire to continue tinkering with what I learned that finally taught me an understanding of anything.
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Discussion/Example/Implicit-Proof
This is (unfortunately) not limited to computers. I'll give you two opposing examples:
I prefer math and science: I went on to code a very basic graphics engine, just for fun, using only basic matrix operations and Gausian eliminasion. I was taught how to use matrixes and row reduction but my imagination forced me to learn how to apply them and therefore understand them.
Conversly, a good friend of mine can whip off a 3000 word essay about any piece of literature they've just read. In high school, they got A's. I hate writing essays. Nevertheless, I can write one but I have to follow a formula that I was taught: Introduction > Hypothesis > Discussion/Example/Implicit-Proof > Restate Hypothesis > Conslusion. This is what I was taught and it's what I can do. Each of my essays is indistinguishable from the last. I've never been able to understand what it is about literature, it's form, construction, etc that eludes me because I lack the imagination. My friend however is doing quite well in her masters program; I'm writing this post.
Restate Hypothesis
IMHO, it's not the curriculum that can be blamed for any perceived problems with our high schools. Computers are just about the only addition to it in the last 20 years. Math is math and high school science is pretty much the same. As for english, 1984 was the most modern book I read in high school.:)
Conslusion
If school is worse today than it was yesterday, I say it's because of strained resources or poor learning environments that strangle whatever imagination kids might have today. But, I'll leave that for another essay.
Well, I guess my fellow Canadians and I can expect to start paying an extra $2 or $3 per roll of tape soon to compensate the recording industry for their lost revenues!
Are you honestly surprised that the media (and society, which consumes their product) focuses on Nasa's failures/scandals and not their successes? The reason for this is the same as why we don't see headlines like these:
"Celebrity A and Celebrity B enjoy successfull heterosexual, well-balanced child producing mariage! Live all-day coverage starting at six."
New discoveries and wonders happen so often (and they *do* make the news) that people just don't care unless they can see how it will impact them immediately (Viagra)
Nasa doesn't lose probes twice in a row in such a short time very often, so it *is* news. On top of that, it has a scandalous flavour to it! Now that is something people will read with their dose of **OJ** in the morning.:)
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Actually I know the herald that designed that portion of the Coat of Arms. I asked her right away & the verdict is: no hidden meaning. Come on life, this is my one chance for a +5 Informative rating on slashdot...
Why not use the Hadoop distributed file system? It offers automatic replication and you can treat each "store" as a "rack" to guarantee multiple remote backups.
You also get the immediate advantage of having a single file namespace and instant streaming access to all of the files from any single location.
The only advantage to Bittorrent that I can see is faster recovery time since a single store can source the backup from from N other stores (instead of 2, or whatever number of replications you have decided on).
Although I concur with the culture portion of Jon's comment "Technologies from movie cameras to TV sets to the Net are the means by which culture and wealth travel from one part of the world to the other.", I have to disagree with the wealth portion.
Globalization is only the newest noun for an age-old economict process formerly known as colonialism or imperialism. The only difference is that instead of a colonial power demanding that it's colonies trade exclusively with it, we have a global hegemony of economic clout demanding that all countries capitulate to the World Bank and IMF. Same game, different names but it has always been moving wealth around the world.
Lots of people like to believe that The Net has started a revolution. In fact, it's only spead up the existing trade processes.
For the most part, most of the curriculum in high school only taught me how to *use* something; that's the best you can expect from a curriculum. It was my imagination and my own desire to continue tinkering with what I learned that finally taught me an understanding of anything.
(word count: 328)
Discussion/Example/Implicit-Proof
This is (unfortunately) not limited to computers. I'll give you two opposing examples:
I prefer math and science: I went on to code a very basic graphics engine, just for fun, using only basic matrix operations and Gausian eliminasion. I was taught how to use matrixes and row reduction but my imagination forced me to learn how to apply them and therefore understand them.
Conversly, a good friend of mine can whip off a 3000 word essay about any piece of literature they've just read. In high school, they got A's. I hate writing essays. Nevertheless, I can write one but I have to follow a formula that I was taught: Introduction > Hypothesis > Discussion/Example/Implicit-Proof > Restate Hypothesis > Conslusion. This is what I was taught and it's what I can do. Each of my essays is indistinguishable from the last. I've never been able to understand what it is about literature, it's form, construction, etc that eludes me because I lack the imagination. My friend however is doing quite well in her masters program; I'm writing this post.
Restate Hypothesis
IMHO, it's not the curriculum that can be blamed for any perceived problems with our high schools. Computers are just about the only addition to it in the last 20 years. Math is math and high school science is pretty much the same. As for english, 1984 was the most modern book I read in high school. :)
Conslusion
If school is worse today than it was yesterday, I say it's because of strained resources or poor learning environments that strangle whatever imagination kids might have today. But, I'll leave that for another essay.
(word count: 328)
Who is John Galt?
Well, I guess my fellow Canadians and I can expect to start paying an extra $2 or $3 per roll of tape soon to compensate the recording industry for their lost revenues!
Are you honestly surprised that the media (and society, which consumes their product) focuses on Nasa's failures/scandals and not their successes? The reason for this is the same as why we don't see headlines like these:
:)
"Celebrity A and Celebrity B enjoy successfull heterosexual, well-balanced child producing mariage! Live all-day coverage starting at six."
New discoveries and wonders happen so often (and they *do* make the news) that people just don't care unless they can see how it will impact them immediately (Viagra)
Nasa doesn't lose probes twice in a row in such a short time very often, so it *is* news. On top of that, it has a scandalous flavour to it! Now that is something people will read with their dose of **OJ** in the morning.