"Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from failure scenarios."
Let's highlight the words that needs emphasis.
"provides", "developers", "tools"
As to whether the developers use them or not isn't always automatic.
"you can protect your applications from failure of a single location"
"can"
Highly available does not meant fault tolerance. The latter allows an application to continue functioning after a component failure. Regardless of the snake oil that has been thrown around, there is no silver bullet that can automagically enable application to be multi-node aware with no chance of deadlock or data corruption. You need to program for this. Again, tools are provided, but that doesn't mean everyone will use them. So in the absense of a fault tolerant application, the cloud provides high availability.
"A sprint (sometimes called a Code Jam or hack-a-thon) is a short time period (three to five days) during which software developers work on a particular chunk of functionality."
I've seen this usually in reference to agile programming. I've seen agile programming used, and I have seen it used badly. Sprints are time boxed units within a scrum format. They're fixed length, start and end at set times, with goals specified within that format. I don't consider "code jams" to be sprints, and it's hard for me to picture 3-5 days as an effective sprint for the newly initiated. One of the first things you're told is the effective percentage of utilization of resources who are new to the sprint, new to the team or new to scrum format is reduced. It is through the iterative process that the people become better, that means multiple sprints to improve and streamline your process. Sprints are a way to prioritize work via planning sessions at the start, and view the good, bad and ugly in the retrospective at the end.
For larger projects this means 3-4 week sprints, with continuity from 1 sprint to the next. It not only requires leadership discipline, but team discipline. It just doesn't seem to be conducive for drawing volunteer work. It isn't a magic glue that allows new people to come together to make code happen.
Muscle mass might also have high social pressures. What we consider "attractive" in the opposite sex can drive this more than anything. Physiologically it has been proven that there are inherent differences between the sexes. Sure that can be overcome artifically via hormones, and maybe our future is one where we're all unisexual bipedal equivalents of androgynous amoeba. That's a lot of genetic behavior to rewire.
How many lightbulbs would they need to convert from 100W to 60W usage (over time) to equal the energy cost of 1 femto second laser blast that "unleashes as much power as the entire grid of North America"?
> Personally, Corporations tax rate should be based on the percentage of people that work out of country. 100% of your work force in the US? then no corporate taxes. Base it upon work, not hired employees.
Strangely a simple but elegant solution that is catchy enough that even a politician might consider it. What IBM is doing is effectively negating any argument they would have in hiring ANY H1-B's. They obviously have the qualified workers, they don't don't want to pay them.
This corporate tax gimmick is pretty decent considering the US is considered to have one of the highest corporate tax rates in the "free" world. Unfortunately a law like this might be easy to circumnavigate by using shells and third party contractors.
Such a system would only work for the residents of Oregon...
I would if it would be more cost effective to issue mandatory transponders and put toll roads all over the place. If they're really worried about gas consumption within the state borders, wouldn't they want to catch everyone, including non-residents?
What's to prevent the next step, mandatory anklet GPS units to measure how much you walk vs. how much you drive?
Turning real life into a reward/achievement system. I know it's cliche to say that humans prefer the skinner box treatment. It is a concept that is constantly reinforced in everyday discussion, to the point where geek/gamer-dom take pride in the stereotype.
There are in game achievements for balancing as many girlfriends as possible, with bonus points for not letting them find out about each other.
It is over simplistic to say that construction style games are purely in the purview of femmes and destruction style games are purely male. There are guys who enjoy Little Big Planet, and there are girls who enjoy blowing off heads in Fallout 3.
Meh, it's not like rockets can be weaponized or anything.
On a more serious not, this stuff is all for liquid hydrogen rockets - that wouldn't make a very effective weapon... it does a fine job in the Space Shuttle main engine, but keeping rockets that run on liquid hydrogen flight-ready is pretty expensive. AFAIK, most of the US military rockets are solid fuel.
It's not just the delivery method, but the delivery reliability that is also important. Surprisingly after all this time we still have one of the most reliable methods to delivery expensive equipment into orbit.
I think in these trying economic times where money can come into play far more often than loyality, this problem will become worse.
I think part of the need for the extra capacity is the volume of the media in the place.
The size difference of the data files from 480p to 720p to 1080p shouldn't be discounted. Having seen the media + added downloadable content as "value add" model on Xbox, it's a good idea in theory, but it appears Sony once again has questionable execution.
TFA is a little sparse, and I don't feel like forking out the cash right now to test whether I can work around the call home feature via a simple loopback definition for the BD live servers in my local DNS cache.
At least Xbox Live has the ability to disable logging into Xbox live to play games. It's built on a system that includes maintenence and downtime. An expected consideration for any online service. Any service built to assume to 100% uptime is really bad architecture.
More importantly, the IOC has taken their official stance, too.
Pretty sure the IOC is attempting to wash their hands of this issue by saying it's up to the FIG to allow/deny the legality of the Chinese gymnasts.
The Chinese outnumber us, and unlike have a better established economic structure to promote the Olympics. They take it seriously and have the backing of their government. How much backing do you honestly think the any American athlete sees from the government?
Simple really, age and weight determine how much easier it is to compete in an event like gymnastics. Unlike swimming which is a feat of strength, skill and technique, it's been proven that the smaller you are, the lower your balance of gravity, the easier it is for several of the events.
You can't honestly do away with the age limit without enforcing some method of equal ground. Maybe impose a minimum weight limit. Some of the girls on the Chinese team are less than 70 lbs, with their average weight being 77 lbs.
And you rate the US universities by the fact that a few of your classes had little value? Do you think his statement is inclusive of all universities? State Universities or private colleges? Ivy League calibur or run of the mill JuCo, or even State University? And were the classes required or did you choose them for your own curriculum? There's a reason why several countries state sponsor their best and brightest to attend our colleges, and those who do attend maximize their experience. You don't see foreign students signing up for advanced pottery or basket weaving.
The US is still the best environment conducive for education and innovation. We create, while they emulate. Chinese? Let me know when they can create their own chip without grabbing our ideas first. They're about where the Japanese were 30 years ago. We still have the best broad based educational infrastructure. We're still treated as the capital of the finance and business world. Our medical and engineering programs still gain recognition.
So some Russians are about to figure out how to write a recursive sieve in the least amount of time via rote and repetition, and are able to regurgitate that information on demand for competition. I'll be impressed when I see a Russian "Web 2.0" app that isn't spam or spyware.
If you narrow it down to less than 5 digits, you can separate the contenders from the pretenders.;)
As for the original parent comment: "Give me something cheap, give me something universal and give me something that companies can utilize today."
It's called DVD+/-, with optional dual layer. It's cheap, it's "universal" and it's already here. When you can get 400GB for $20 (100 blank 4gb DVDs), it's just a matter of how much time you want to spend. For archival purposes I end up keeping all my TV shows encoded via MPEG-4.
You want something more permanent? UATA hard drive prices are dropping.
> I write websites so I can present ideas to people. > I don't want them to see my site the way they want to see it. > I want them to see it the way it was meant to be seen.
Which is it? You write websites to present ideas or eyecandy?
Unless you've ebayed your low UID from a true old timer, you should've been around long enough to know that the idea of imposing a set format for your website goes against what the web was originally made for.
People have a funny way of taking what you meant and twisting it into a form that you hardly recognize. Most of the internet is based off that. I suppose you could attempt to freeze everything and prevent any innovation or changes to previous ideas, but then you'd be stuck using either Gopher or Mosiac... and you still wouldn't have a whole lot of control over how the content was formatted.
If you don't want your online "content" manipulated, publish everything in a PDF, or better yet, don't publish at all.
That's probably due to the fact that most low UIDs are lurkers by habit... after you've been on here long enough, you've seen enough, done enough and posted enough to last a multitude of virtual lifetimes.
Considering PJ's main focus was to point out that both old SCO (now Tarantella) and new SCO (previously Caldera) were fully aware that IBM was using Unix based technology on the POWER architecture, which appears to be in contradiction to new SCO's current claims.
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Damn whipper snappers thinking gopher was old. :)
I remember maintaining uucp links.
"Amazon EC2 provides developers the tools to build failure resilient applications and isolate themselves from failure scenarios."
Let's highlight the words that needs emphasis.
"provides", "developers", "tools"
As to whether the developers use them or not isn't always automatic.
"you can protect your applications from failure of a single location"
"can"
Highly available does not meant fault tolerance. The latter allows an application to continue functioning after a component failure. Regardless of the snake oil that has been thrown around, there is no silver bullet that can automagically enable application to be multi-node aware with no chance of deadlock or data corruption. You need to program for this. Again, tools are provided, but that doesn't mean everyone will use them. So in the absense of a fault tolerant application, the cloud provides high availability.
"A sprint (sometimes called a Code Jam or hack-a-thon) is a short time period (three to five days) during which software developers work on a particular chunk of functionality."
I've seen this usually in reference to agile programming. I've seen agile programming used, and I have seen it used badly. Sprints are time boxed units within a scrum format. They're fixed length, start and end at set times, with goals specified within that format. I don't consider "code jams" to be sprints, and it's hard for me to picture 3-5 days as an effective sprint for the newly initiated. One of the first things you're told is the effective percentage of utilization of resources who are new to the sprint, new to the team or new to scrum format is reduced. It is through the iterative process that the people become better, that means multiple sprints to improve and streamline your process. Sprints are a way to prioritize work via planning sessions at the start, and view the good, bad and ugly in the retrospective at the end.
For larger projects this means 3-4 week sprints, with continuity from 1 sprint to the next. It not only requires leadership discipline, but team discipline. It just doesn't seem to be conducive for drawing volunteer work. It isn't a magic glue that allows new people to come together to make code happen.
Muscle mass might also have high social pressures. What we consider "attractive" in the opposite sex can drive this more than anything. Physiologically it has been proven that there are inherent differences between the sexes. Sure that can be overcome artifically via hormones, and maybe our future is one where we're all unisexual bipedal equivalents of androgynous amoeba. That's a lot of genetic behavior to rewire.
How many lightbulbs would they need to convert from 100W to 60W usage (over time) to equal the energy cost of 1 femto second laser blast that "unleashes as much power as the entire grid of North America"?
Vancouver to DC is a little different than say Poughkeepsie, NY to Bangalore.
> Personally, Corporations tax rate should be based on the percentage of people that work out of country. 100% of your work force in the US? then no corporate taxes. Base it upon work, not hired employees.
Strangely a simple but elegant solution that is catchy enough that even a politician might consider it. What IBM is doing is effectively negating any argument they would have in hiring ANY H1-B's. They obviously have the qualified workers, they don't don't want to pay them.
This corporate tax gimmick is pretty decent considering the US is considered to have one of the highest corporate tax rates in the "free" world. Unfortunately a law like this might be easy to circumnavigate by using shells and third party contractors.
Such a system would only work for the residents of Oregon...
I would if it would be more cost effective to issue mandatory transponders and put toll roads all over the place. If they're really worried about gas consumption within the state borders, wouldn't they want to catch everyone, including non-residents?
What's to prevent the next step, mandatory anklet GPS units to measure how much you walk vs. how much you drive?
I believe this youtube video epitomizes your concept.
"World of Wifecraft".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVhwwFHGEFI
Turning real life into a reward/achievement system. I know it's cliche to say that humans prefer the skinner box treatment. It is a concept that is constantly reinforced in everyday discussion, to the point where geek/gamer-dom take pride in the stereotype.
You can play the Sims in a "guy" way.
You know the role, play the pimp with a harem.
There are in game achievements for balancing as many girlfriends as possible, with bonus points for not letting them find out about each other.
It is over simplistic to say that construction style games are purely in the purview of femmes and destruction style games are purely male. There are guys who enjoy Little Big Planet, and there are girls who enjoy blowing off heads in Fallout 3.
Meh, it's not like rockets can be weaponized or anything.
On a more serious not, this stuff is all for liquid hydrogen rockets - that wouldn't make a very effective weapon... it does a fine job in the Space Shuttle main engine, but keeping rockets that run on liquid hydrogen flight-ready is pretty expensive. AFAIK, most of the US military rockets are solid fuel.
It's not just the delivery method, but the delivery reliability that is also important. Surprisingly after all this time we still have one of the most reliable methods to delivery expensive equipment into orbit.
I think in these trying economic times where money can come into play far more often than loyality, this problem will become worse.
I think affixing American would be a gross exaggeration.
And most Asians might want to differentiate themselves from the Chinese.
Just out of curiousity, how many cases have there been of selling secrets to the Chinese in the last 20 years, vs. Koreans or Japanese?
Chinese have been replacing Koreans within the D.C. area.
I think part of the need for the extra capacity is the volume of the media in the place.
The size difference of the data files from 480p to 720p to 1080p shouldn't be discounted. Having seen the media + added downloadable content as "value add" model on Xbox, it's a good idea in theory, but it appears Sony once again has questionable execution.
TFA is a little sparse, and I don't feel like forking out the cash right now to test whether I can work around the call home feature via a simple loopback definition for the BD live servers in my local DNS cache.
At least Xbox Live has the ability to disable logging into Xbox live to play games. It's built on a system that includes maintenence and downtime. An expected consideration for any online service. Any service built to assume to 100% uptime is really bad architecture.
This is slashdot.
That's like saying you read Playboy to read the articles.
It just doesn't happen...
More importantly, the IOC has taken their official stance, too.
Pretty sure the IOC is attempting to wash their hands of this issue by saying it's up to the FIG to allow/deny the legality of the Chinese gymnasts.
The Chinese outnumber us, and unlike have a better established economic structure to promote the Olympics. They take it seriously and have the backing of their government. How much backing do you honestly think the any American athlete sees from the government?
Simple really, age and weight determine how much easier it is to compete in an event like gymnastics. Unlike swimming which is a feat of strength, skill and technique, it's been proven that the smaller you are, the lower your balance of gravity, the easier it is for several of the events.
You can't honestly do away with the age limit without enforcing some method of equal ground. Maybe impose a minimum weight limit. Some of the girls on the Chinese team are less than 70 lbs, with their average weight being 77 lbs.
And you rate the US universities by the fact that a few of your classes had little value? Do you think his statement is inclusive of all universities? State Universities or private colleges? Ivy League calibur or run of the mill JuCo, or even State University? And were the classes required or did you choose them for your own curriculum? There's a reason why several countries state sponsor their best and brightest to attend our colleges, and those who do attend maximize their experience. You don't see foreign students signing up for advanced pottery or basket weaving.
The US is still the best environment conducive for education and innovation. We create, while they emulate. Chinese? Let me know when they can create their own chip without grabbing our ideas first. They're about where the Japanese were 30 years ago. We still have the best broad based educational infrastructure. We're still treated as the capital of the finance and business world. Our medical and engineering programs still gain recognition.
So some Russians are about to figure out how to write a recursive sieve in the least amount of time via rote and repetition, and are able to regurgitate that information on demand for competition. I'll be impressed when I see a Russian "Web 2.0" app that isn't spam or spyware.
Beads? Using our sexagesimal system, we didn't have the true concept of zero as a number!
If you narrow it down to less than 5 digits, you can separate the contenders from the pretenders. ;)
As for the original parent comment:
"Give me something cheap, give me something universal and give me something that companies can utilize today."
It's called DVD+/-, with optional dual layer. It's cheap, it's "universal" and it's already here. When you can get 400GB for $20 (100 blank 4gb DVDs), it's just a matter of how much time you want to spend. For archival purposes I end up keeping all my TV shows encoded via MPEG-4.
You want something more permanent? UATA hard drive prices are dropping.
And Firefox has a little addon extension called Spellbound that can also spellcheck.
Google toolbar would also be considered an extension...
> I write websites so I can present ideas to people.
> I don't want them to see my site the way they want to see it.
> I want them to see it the way it was meant to be seen.
Which is it? You write websites to present ideas or eyecandy?
Unless you've ebayed your low UID from a true old timer, you should've been around long enough to know that the idea of imposing a set format for your website goes against what the web was originally made for.
People have a funny way of taking what you meant and twisting it into a form that you hardly recognize. Most of the internet is based off that. I suppose you could attempt to freeze everything and prevent any innovation or changes to previous ideas, but then you'd be stuck using either Gopher or Mosiac... and you still wouldn't have a whole lot of control over how the content was formatted.
If you don't want your online "content" manipulated, publish everything in a PDF, or better yet, don't publish at all.
That's probably due to the fact that most low UIDs are lurkers by habit... after you've been on here long enough, you've seen enough, done enough and posted enough to last a multitude of virtual lifetimes.
I guess I'm feeling like a real fossil then... :)
Considering PJ's main focus was to point out that both old SCO (now Tarantella) and new SCO (previously Caldera) were fully aware that IBM was using Unix based technology on the POWER architecture, which appears to be in contradiction to new SCO's current claims.