Depending on your situation, some of the 802.11g phones are pretty good and avoid all the hassle of carrier restrictions. They work at work and at home, where else do you ever go? My campus is working with the city right now to roll out WAPs on telephone poles in the vicinity, extending our wifi fabric out into the nearby streets. With WiMax coming out, this is looking like a practical alternative to cell providers in the near future.
The previously mentioned one-way flap valve seems like an inexpensive and effective retrofit. I was able to think of it in the several minutes between reading the summary and the comment by A/C earlier, I'm pretty sure I could have a deployable solution in less than four years.
(half jokingly) Think of it more literally. You have a cloud... in a box. It's all that flexibility to grow and shrink on demand, within the confines of the box.
Really though, what I've taken it to mean is a (maybe) smaller, more static version of the same platform. If you need to scale up or down in the future you can buy more cloud-boxes or ship your cloud-box contents off to a "real" cloud provider and sell your box. Packing up and shipping a set of VMDKs from my equipment is a bit easier than converting all of them to a different platform, or doing the initial PtoV conversion in the first place.
At least, this is what I've been able to surmise from my interactions with EMC/VMware/Cisco, who also sell a "private cloud box" (vBlock). Admittedly, the mainframe era is before my time. I say all the time that it's the exact same idea, but the implementation seems a bit different to me. With the extra VMware abstraction layers we can do some pretty neat things like live-migration (vMotion) of virtual machines across hosts, virtual machine fault tolerance (almost like the old Tandem machines, but not quite as good yet), and power management (DPM) where the cluster will power off nodes as it can to keep the power bill down. It's the same premise with a bit more flexibility built in and built (mostly) on commodity hardware.
Also, virtual appliances are awesome. We needed a load balancer (were considering F5) and opted to try a Zeus traffic manager. We were able to get it running on a trial license within hours of making the decision, while purchasing went through their motions to actually buy it. They're pretty good, by the way. It's only been in place for about a month, but we're 100% satisfied so far.
I'm envisioning (haven't read the article) plates that you can buy and affix to your house, converting that nasty road noise into beautiful silence and free energy.
I have U-verse and I love it. There's not an extensive amount of equipment, from what I can tell. There's nothing bolted to the outside of my house and the gateway device they give you lets you cable your TVs with CAT-5 if you so choose. It's faster and cheaper than what I got from Cox Comm. before I switched last year. I sing the praises of U-verse to anyone who asks. In the Oklahoma City area it's really the best thing going.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one thinking about this. Doesn't seem like it should be all that hard of an upgrade, right? Just splice in the appropriate plant DNA and whamo, green skin! In addition to not needing to breathe (as much) you might be able to yield ATP from them and not have to eat (as much) either.
Some people really shouldn't be allowed in a biology classroom:-(
Maybe I've misunderstood all these years but Hungarian notation always been intentionally redundant--just there to make it easier to understand code at a glance without having to read three pages up or depending on an IDE's hints.
Straight answer from a friendly DBA: each has its advantages and appropriate applications. Neither has anything to do with HTTP, totally different game. They're both in common use, they both support a good deal of the SQL standard language features (though Postgres is better there), and each has its own extensions to the standard. Just like any other topic here, each has its respective group of fans who will tout its "betterness" and maybe flame you for thinking anything otherwise (see anon response #32513876 above). This extends outside the open source world to Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle, too.
Why have two? Well, competition drives innovation, so think of it as a good thing.
Most of the apps where I work were written for the web. I know this isn't a universal truth but I doubt the number approaches 99%. Most of those unfortunately require a Windows server but at least I can access them from my Linux machine.
I've got one functioning Gentoo machine still happily churning along. I'll probably never deploy it on another machine but I probably won't rebuild this one on something else anytime soon, either.
That said, I've never met another Gentoo user in person. It seems to have been just another masochistic geek fad.
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Seconded. I love those eTrade commercials, too. They're better than actually having kids because I only have to deal with them for 30 seconds at a time and they're always cracking wise.
- bad language and violence are moved into the designation. "We have an opportunity here to create a kid-safe Internet. We're not censoring these things, of course; we're just classifying them!"
Remember that, for some reason, they don't seem to have any issue with violence or bad language.
Incidentally, it was Slashdot that keyed us into the source of our problems (McAfee) on Wednesday. If that's not justification for my constant screwing around^W^W research on Slashdot every day, I don't know what is.
I think it's the Hague Conventions (specifically, 1899) that you're looking for, not the Geneva Conventions.
Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague II); July 29, 1899
Section II, Chapter I, Article 23
Besides the phohibitions provided by special Conventions, it is especially prohibited:-- [...] To employ arms, projectiles, or material of a nature to cause superfluous injury; Citation
Superfluous may be too subjective a term, but I think this is the line typically thought to deal with this sort of thing.
Personally, I'd like to see an army of giant wrecker robots used to smash the enemy, but I guess I'm impractical.
If you look at the sales materials from any of the big vendors (EMC, I'm looking at you), even a single system image shows reduction in size through block-level deduplication--even more through variable-sized blocks. I can't recall the exact numbers, I'm at the end of a terribly long week, but I think it was somewhere around 10-30% reduction in the day-0 backup size. Subsequent days typically see a >95% reduction.
All sales literature, mind you. My personal experience with it will begin in a few months, when we get our new Celerra installed:-)
P.S. Remember that a project such as this is good because it offers high-dollar features to low-dollar players who enjoy tinkering in their basements. Such was the goal of Linux in the first place. It's how, on a three-figure budget, a dedicated nerd can set up a several-terabyte file server with software RAID-6 protection and (soon) data deduplication--stuff you'd pay EMC 100-1000 times as much for.
I was never a fan of "gifted" either. My IQ was 137 when I tested in second grade. They wanted me to go to the "gifted" school, and when I declined they insisted on the "gifted" classes. I think it basically starts around 120 to 130, but I have no source to back that up.
I think the graph of IQ to dropout rate would be somewhat bowl-shaped rather than a flat line. Regardless, I'm probably an outlier in any model and have to periodically remind myself of that.
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How would you feel if your favorite pub closed? There are probably plenty of pubs that are just about the same nearby, but I know I would be sad.
Finally, an analogy we can all identify with!
Depending on your situation, some of the 802.11g phones are pretty good and avoid all the hassle of carrier restrictions. They work at work and at home, where else do you ever go? My campus is working with the city right now to roll out WAPs on telephone poles in the vicinity, extending our wifi fabric out into the nearby streets. With WiMax coming out, this is looking like a practical alternative to cell providers in the near future.
Examples: Cisco WIP310, Linksys by Cisco WIP330, D-Link DPH-541, Alfa Color wireless VoIP (Sorry for the Amazon links, couldn't find some manufacturer pages quickly)
The previously mentioned one-way flap valve seems like an inexpensive and effective retrofit. I was able to think of it in the several minutes between reading the summary and the comment by A/C earlier, I'm pretty sure I could have a deployable solution in less than four years.
People without emotion would have no reason at all to act.
Like sociopaths?
Seriously though, there's always a reason to act. Hunger isn't an emotion but is a powerful motivator.
...non-organic condoms...
Latex is organic, it comes from trees :-)
(half jokingly) Think of it more literally. You have a cloud... in a box. It's all that flexibility to grow and shrink on demand, within the confines of the box.
Really though, what I've taken it to mean is a (maybe) smaller, more static version of the same platform. If you need to scale up or down in the future you can buy more cloud-boxes or ship your cloud-box contents off to a "real" cloud provider and sell your box. Packing up and shipping a set of VMDKs from my equipment is a bit easier than converting all of them to a different platform, or doing the initial PtoV conversion in the first place.
At least, this is what I've been able to surmise from my interactions with EMC/VMware/Cisco, who also sell a "private cloud box" (vBlock). Admittedly, the mainframe era is before my time. I say all the time that it's the exact same idea, but the implementation seems a bit different to me. With the extra VMware abstraction layers we can do some pretty neat things like live-migration (vMotion) of virtual machines across hosts, virtual machine fault tolerance (almost like the old Tandem machines, but not quite as good yet), and power management (DPM) where the cluster will power off nodes as it can to keep the power bill down. It's the same premise with a bit more flexibility built in and built (mostly) on commodity hardware.
Also, virtual appliances are awesome. We needed a load balancer (were considering F5) and opted to try a Zeus traffic manager. We were able to get it running on a trial license within hours of making the decision, while purchasing went through their motions to actually buy it. They're pretty good, by the way. It's only been in place for about a month, but we're 100% satisfied so far.
I'm envisioning (haven't read the article) plates that you can buy and affix to your house, converting that nasty road noise into beautiful silence and free energy.
Louder voice = more transmissive power?
With how some people scream into their phones all day, maybe they think it already works this way.
I have U-verse and I love it. There's not an extensive amount of equipment, from what I can tell. There's nothing bolted to the outside of my house and the gateway device they give you lets you cable your TVs with CAT-5 if you so choose. It's faster and cheaper than what I got from Cox Comm. before I switched last year. I sing the praises of U-verse to anyone who asks. In the Oklahoma City area it's really the best thing going.
Yes, yes I would. It's easy, looks like this:
(with regards to intelligence) : Peyton Manning < Albert Einstein
It's not an insult either, it's just the way it is.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one thinking about this. Doesn't seem like it should be all that hard of an upgrade, right? Just splice in the appropriate plant DNA and whamo, green skin! In addition to not needing to breathe (as much) you might be able to yield ATP from them and not have to eat (as much) either.
:-(
Some people really shouldn't be allowed in a biology classroom
Reminds me of this video from Tom's Hardware, circa 2001.
+1 funny (why don't I ever get any mod points anymore?)
Maybe I've misunderstood all these years but Hungarian notation always been intentionally redundant--just there to make it easier to understand code at a glance without having to read three pages up or depending on an IDE's hints.
Straight answer from a friendly DBA: each has its advantages and appropriate applications. Neither has anything to do with HTTP, totally different game. They're both in common use, they both support a good deal of the SQL standard language features (though Postgres is better there), and each has its own extensions to the standard. Just like any other topic here, each has its respective group of fans who will tout its "betterness" and maybe flame you for thinking anything otherwise (see anon response #32513876 above). This extends outside the open source world to Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle, too.
Why have two? Well, competition drives innovation, so think of it as a good thing.
Most of the apps where I work were written for the web. I know this isn't a universal truth but I doubt the number approaches 99%. Most of those unfortunately require a Windows server but at least I can access them from my Linux machine.
I've got one functioning Gentoo machine still happily churning along. I'll probably never deploy it on another machine but I probably won't rebuild this one on something else anytime soon, either. That said, I've never met another Gentoo user in person. It seems to have been just another masochistic geek fad.
Seconded. I love those eTrade commercials, too. They're better than actually having kids because I only have to deal with them for 30 seconds at a time and they're always cracking wise.
Remember that, for some reason, they don't seem to have any issue with violence or bad language.
Incidentally, it was Slashdot that keyed us into the source of our problems (McAfee) on Wednesday. If that's not justification for my constant screwing around^W^W research on Slashdot every day, I don't know what is.
I'm only slightly surprised that such a transplant exists, but why are so many Slashdotters so familiar with it?
I have no problem with the British "taking care" of the tea baggers for us.
Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague II); July 29, 1899
Section II, Chapter I, Article 23
Superfluous may be too subjective a term, but I think this is the line typically thought to deal with this sort of thing.
Personally, I'd like to see an army of giant wrecker robots used to smash the enemy, but I guess I'm impractical.
If you look at the sales materials from any of the big vendors (EMC, I'm looking at you), even a single system image shows reduction in size through block-level deduplication--even more through variable-sized blocks. I can't recall the exact numbers, I'm at the end of a terribly long week, but I think it was somewhere around 10-30% reduction in the day-0 backup size. Subsequent days typically see a >95% reduction.
:-)
All sales literature, mind you. My personal experience with it will begin in a few months, when we get our new Celerra installed
P.S. Remember that a project such as this is good because it offers high-dollar features to low-dollar players who enjoy tinkering in their basements. Such was the goal of Linux in the first place. It's how, on a three-figure budget, a dedicated nerd can set up a several-terabyte file server with software RAID-6 protection and (soon) data deduplication--stuff you'd pay EMC 100-1000 times as much for.
I was never a fan of "gifted" either. My IQ was 137 when I tested in second grade. They wanted me to go to the "gifted" school, and when I declined they insisted on the "gifted" classes. I think it basically starts around 120 to 130, but I have no source to back that up.
I think the graph of IQ to dropout rate would be somewhat bowl-shaped rather than a flat line. Regardless, I'm probably an outlier in any model and have to periodically remind myself of that.