Industrial rates in the Columbia Basin (read Oregon & Washington states) are LESS than 2 per kW/hr. This is why the pacific northwest is the prime location for datacenters in the USA.
"The Prineville FB data center employs 35 people, but the tech jobs were all filled out of area"
Wrong, and wrong again. Just because you live nearby doesn't mean you have a clue what is going on inside. More than half the full-time tech jobs have been filled locally.
Additionally the site has been under construction for over a year and a half employing hundreds of people, both locally and from all over the Pacific Northwest. All those folks have been spending their money in Crook County, hotels, restaurants, bars, etc. Every day for the past 18 months. I've seen Central Oregon before this project began, and since - the economic benefits have been palpable and positive.
Marathon What put Bungie on the map. Apeiron Runs on OSX, great soundFX (the orgasm sound is awesome), pure mindless fun. Reckless Drivin' Ditto the above, minus the orgasmFX! Medal of Honor Except for that damn "Bastogne" level, which pisses me off to no end! UT The latter two we play at work on Friday afternoons.
I think it is more like a 1962 Mercedes-Benz 300sl - the final iteration of the iconic "gullwing"... where they had refined it to include disc brakes, aluminum engine block, the full-blown racing cams and head, a well engineered convertible top, etc on top of the original innovations of fuel injection, lightweight superleggera body construction, drop-dead gorgeous looks, etc.
-vs.-
A Ford Explorer. Basically a hybrid of a truck and a station wagon, loaded with compromises, ungainly and uneconomical, and of course it blows tires and rolls over too easily.
The Newton 2100 really represented the ultimate in Newton development, and what came after (like the 2X0sl line) was thoughtful and useful, but just did not have the same flair, style and world-beating power of the original.
Any Windows-based device will be a study in compromise and instability. The less said about Ford Explorers the better.
Um... the patent was granted last August... that was 2005. The iPod (including its UI, which hasn't changed much since the release,) was introduced in October... 2001.
So, unless Apple is holding onto some secret time-travelling technology, how exactly did they "steal" this patent?
To answer your question... yes, there are a few. Tom Owad (of AppleFritter fame comes to mid when you ask. He double majored in CS & History specifically to combine the two. Interesting guy.
Or, in the words of Bill Clinton circa 1992: "It's the economy stupid!"
My earnings have been flat since 2000, and significantly lower than what I made in 1997-8. The same (mostly) can be said for my staff. If I could pay them more, I would in a heartbeat, but we haven't been able to raise prices in 6 years, so revenues have grown, right along with costs which means profits remain... dismal. If I gathered up all the profit our company has made in the past 6 years, I MIGHT be able to purchase a small Korean sedan. Instead I've done what any smart employer can do, which is give rasies where I can (which means NOT to me sadly) and plowed the rest of it back into the company. We should all be earning 40% more than we are, but we're not. Deal with it.
They're welcome to come suck on my tailpipe, as it is mostly WVO (waste veggie oil) emissions and is unlikely to have any ill affect.
CARB really needs to reconsider their death sentence on Diesel-fueled vehicles. Especially now that the droughts of the late 80s/early 90s are gone since rain reduces Diesel particulates to very low levels, unlike gasoline emissions.
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That is because Macworld Expo is run by IDG, not Apple.
Journalists are just sheep. They behave as a herd, but there are always a few black ones.
A decade ago, about one decade after the launch of the Macintosh, virtually EVERY mention of Apple by the press attached the adjective "beleaguered" to the word "Apple." It was as if the press had universally decided to change the name of the company to "Beleaguered Apple Computer Inc." They spoke in glowing terms about such industry darlings as Gateway and Compaq. (heh) Mr. Dvorak, who spent a stint as a columnist at MacUser magazine in the Mac's first peak years ('88-'94), followed the herd and became the tech journalism's leading Apple-basher. He, more than any other industry pundit took it to the logical extreme and repeatedly pronounced Apple dead. Or near dead. Or almost nearly kind of dead. Over, and over and over again.
Now, Jobs has managed to turn Apple around, and make it into an industry leader once again. Mr. Dvorak's favorite monopolists have become the General Motors of the tech industry (read: bland, predictable, flawed, and boring - producing pablum with zero innovation or appeal.) The herd is all flocking to Apple now. Big deal.
Now Dvorak has stopped writing anything particularly useful, and his just become a industry gadfly; saying stupid things to piss people off. He hasn't stopped beating this anti-Apple drum for the past 10 years. Why? It gets him attention. That is all. He has decided to just be a black sheep. Same herd, just a different coat. Just because.
The thing that is odd, is that in some ways he was right. Apple is dead. The old, Performa/Quadra/Michael Spindler/John Sculley/Pink/Taligent/Copland Apple is dead. The Apple of today is nothing like the Apple of a decade ago. Nothing. Thank Jobs.
The technology journalists aren't "biased" they are just praising a set of quality products from a quality company. The fact that they actually USE the products isn't a bias, it just is.
>Tango is also the name of the ugliest excuse for a web development platform on this green earth.
Tango was abandoned by Pervasive Software in 2001 IIRC. It is funny to still see ".taf" in URLs on occasion, meaning the site was developed and is still served with Tango's CGI.
Last I heard, there are a group of developers in Australia that somehow have captured the source and are selling Tango still, under the name Witango.
I agree though... they should probably change the name.
I read the headline and imagine a story about the costs and revenues from Apple iTMS. Analysis of running the datacenters: costs of electricity, bandwidth, storage, etc.
Instead I read about some geek with way too much time on his hands. Yawn.
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Facebook's datacenter and server design has been open sourced. They use the waste heat to bring outside air UP to datacenter cooling temperatures.
As far as I can tell you are dead wrong. Very few imports, almost all local hires.
Industrial rates in the Columbia Basin (read Oregon & Washington states) are LESS than 2 per kW/hr. This is why the pacific northwest is the prime location for datacenters in the USA.
"The Prineville FB data center employs 35 people, but the tech jobs were all filled out of area"
Wrong, and wrong again. Just because you live nearby doesn't mean you have a clue what is going on inside. More than half the full-time tech jobs have been filled locally.
Additionally the site has been under construction for over a year and a half employing hundreds of people, both locally and from all over the Pacific Northwest. All those folks have been spending their money in Crook County, hotels, restaurants, bars, etc. Every day for the past 18 months. I've seen Central Oregon before this project began, and since - the economic benefits have been palpable and positive.
You are wrong. They will, and they do.
Datacenter work is the "blue collar" end of the IT spectrum. With the right toolset in place, anyone can be trained to do it.
Purely decorative. They are not "security barriers" they are just decorative concrete slabs.
Google has never made their *datacenter* designs, or even their locations public. They have shared their server design, or at least an outdated one.
From what I've heard from Ex-Googlers they never actually deployed the container concept beyond one half, of one of their many, many facilities.
What about the crabs, starfish, clams, and other slow or non-movers that inhabit the seafloor?
Poor things will be made into sushi!
You should colocate somewhere more secure, with people who know and love Apple hardware. www.forest.net
--chuck
Cyphercell, I want to thank you personally for summarizing so well the state of the nation right now. Thank you.
I wish nothing but success and comfort for you and yours.
--chuck
Forty bazillion bucks per quarter in profit, making more money per quarter than any other entity in the history of Capitalism, and they gave you $450?
--chuck
Marathon What put Bungie on the map.
Apeiron Runs on OSX, great soundFX (the orgasm sound is awesome), pure mindless fun.
Reckless Drivin' Ditto the above, minus the orgasmFX!
Medal of Honor Except for that damn "Bastogne" level, which pisses me off to no end!
UT The latter two we play at work on Friday afternoons.
I think it is more like a 1962 Mercedes-Benz 300sl - the final iteration of the iconic "gullwing"... where they had refined it to include disc brakes, aluminum engine block, the full-blown racing cams and head, a well engineered convertible top, etc on top of the original innovations of fuel injection, lightweight superleggera body construction, drop-dead gorgeous looks, etc.
-vs.-
A Ford Explorer. Basically a hybrid of a truck and a station wagon, loaded with compromises, ungainly and uneconomical, and of course it blows tires and rolls over too easily.
The Newton 2100 really represented the ultimate in Newton development, and what came after (like the 2X0sl line) was thoughtful and useful, but just did not have the same flair, style and world-beating power of the original.
Any Windows-based device will be a study in compromise and instability. The less said about Ford Explorers the better.
--chuck
Um... the patent was granted last August... that was 2005. The iPod (including its UI, which hasn't changed much since the release,) was introduced in October... 2001.
So, unless Apple is holding onto some secret time-travelling technology, how exactly did they "steal" this patent?
Hey Jason! Long time, no speak...
To answer your question... yes, there are a few. Tom Owad (of AppleFritter fame comes to mid when you ask. He double majored in CS & History specifically to combine the two. Interesting guy.
No biggie... we all have bad days.
mmmmm tequila for breakfast....
um... I was joking Pharmboy.
The problem with lawyers is their lack of a sense of humor. I should know I'm the son of a lawyer, and the husband of another.
Bring on the talking heads to rile about "Activist Judges Out Of Control!"
Or, in the words of Bill Clinton circa 1992: "It's the economy stupid!"
My earnings have been flat since 2000, and significantly lower than what I made in 1997-8. The same (mostly) can be said for my staff. If I could pay them more, I would in a heartbeat, but we haven't been able to raise prices in 6 years, so revenues have grown, right along with costs which means profits remain... dismal. If I gathered up all the profit our company has made in the past 6 years, I MIGHT be able to purchase a small Korean sedan. Instead I've done what any smart employer can do, which is give rasies where I can (which means NOT to me sadly) and plowed the rest of it back into the company. We should all be earning 40% more than we are, but we're not. Deal with it.
>> CARB can go suck on a tailpipe.
They're welcome to come suck on my tailpipe, as it is mostly WVO (waste veggie oil) emissions and is unlikely to have any ill affect.
CARB really needs to reconsider their death sentence on Diesel-fueled vehicles. Especially now that the droughts of the late 80s/early 90s are gone since rain reduces Diesel particulates to very low levels, unlike gasoline emissions.
That is because Macworld Expo is run by IDG, not Apple.
Actually they made System 7.5.3 to drive people to Windows.
That OS, and the PowerBook 5300. The one/two punch from Apple that sold many ThinkPads and Windows95.
God did they *suck*.
--chuck
A decade ago, about one decade after the launch of the Macintosh, virtually EVERY mention of Apple by the press attached the adjective "beleaguered" to the word "Apple." It was as if the press had universally decided to change the name of the company to "Beleaguered Apple Computer Inc." They spoke in glowing terms about such industry darlings as Gateway and Compaq. (heh) Mr. Dvorak, who spent a stint as a columnist at MacUser magazine in the Mac's first peak years ('88-'94), followed the herd and became the tech journalism's leading Apple-basher. He, more than any other industry pundit took it to the logical extreme and repeatedly pronounced Apple dead. Or near dead. Or almost nearly kind of dead. Over, and over and over again.
Now, Jobs has managed to turn Apple around, and make it into an industry leader once again. Mr. Dvorak's favorite monopolists have become the General Motors of the tech industry (read: bland, predictable, flawed, and boring - producing pablum with zero innovation or appeal.) The herd is all flocking to Apple now. Big deal.
Now Dvorak has stopped writing anything particularly useful, and his just become a industry gadfly; saying stupid things to piss people off. He hasn't stopped beating this anti-Apple drum for the past 10 years. Why? It gets him attention. That is all. He has decided to just be a black sheep. Same herd, just a different coat. Just because.
The thing that is odd, is that in some ways he was right. Apple is dead. The old, Performa/Quadra/Michael Spindler/John Sculley/Pink/Taligent/Copland Apple is dead. The Apple of today is nothing like the Apple of a decade ago. Nothing. Thank Jobs.
The technology journalists aren't "biased" they are just praising a set of quality products from a quality company. The fact that they actually USE the products isn't a bias, it just is.
--chuck
Tango was abandoned by Pervasive Software in 2001 IIRC. It is funny to still see ".taf" in URLs on occasion, meaning the site was developed and is still served with Tango's CGI.
Last I heard, there are a group of developers in Australia that somehow have captured the source and are selling Tango still, under the name Witango.
I agree though... they should probably change the name.
I read the headline and imagine a story about the costs and revenues from Apple iTMS. Analysis of running the datacenters: costs of electricity, bandwidth, storage, etc.
Instead I read about some geek with way too much time on his hands. Yawn.