That's basically what Blades are right now. Effectively, Blades already exist because treating rack servers the same as a herd of Boxen has been silly for a while.
Ideally, you would have a "rack level" spec where DC power would be on tap maybe at the rack level, with the "ATX" DC connector (maybe even 3,6, & 12 volts) going out the back of the server.
The problem right now is that if you're not Google and can get boards and cases shipped from the factory like that, there is no spec so "little people" can do this. There ate still a lot of redundant electronics that could be pulled out of even blades... For instance the famous Capacitor problems...Imagine how many of those Google had to deal with! Why not move all those parts to the rack as well?
Of course what somebody like Google really wants is for OEMS to split the standard server mainboard at the power junctions and io ports. So you can buy one board or ten or thirty and slide them into whatever enclosure you need with minimal extra parts.
For example Apple has the Mac Mini down to where it just needs DC in and the Thunderbolt port to be functional.
Microsoft has Google tied up with Anti-trust mongering right now. (ironic that the only actual monopoly was so quick to turn the DoJ on somebody else) Microsoft has a deal with Yahoo that is basically a "poison pill" if Google tried to buy them. Microsoft couldn't buy Yahoo either, so they are just going to help their buddy Facebook drag them under.. And Microsoft will line up for the useful bits.
Like all Microsoft's deals, they are really betting Yahoo will not just get the short stick, but go under... "all of this has happened before, all of this will happen again" Yang knew this was the end... If Yahoo didn't stand on its own two feet and Fight. He couldn't get the Board and Management to see it.. But it's not his problem now.
It won't come to that, I like the "buy me" option. Of course if Yahoo! offered a "buy it now" price with a "one click" option they would then get sued by eBay and Amazon.
Fortunately, (unfortunately) Microsoft has quite a bit of cash in BOTH horses and Uncle Bill won't like to see it pissed away.... I see merger/buyout/Microsoft forcing them to the table and building some new "open standard" for social networking patents between them.
But these are all LARGE publishers making these calls... All the growth is over at Zynga and Nimble Bits and Rovio... Who aren't interested in adding their profit margins to EA's fold. Which supports the 5-year budgets of AAA console games.
Even then, the money in those companies is pocket change for the companies developing the next Mass Effect game. They ate at movie-sized budgets... Where angry birds is just past kids working out of their garage.
Of course the REAL issue is not money at all, it is TIME to play the game! The phone games all fill in when people only have a few minutes between other tasks... Like soccer moms waiting for kids to load up!
How about the 5 years intel was forcing GMA 900 on all the OEMS?
THAT is why PC games died, because only a small portion of the millions an millions of PCs sold can run the average PC game. It's a bloated, wasteful platform. PC games require a new "console" cash outlay every 18 months (of course so does xbox 360... Go RRoD) and are horribly abusive if the purpose of the computer is "real work". I fall in the category of people that just stopped trying.
Even the games that do run require 100's of MBs of patches... Often on a weekly! Basis? WTF. The toll just to keep a PC and internet connection around just for WoW is more time and effort than I have. I can get thru 3-4 levels of angry birds just waiting on WoW to actually get to the play screen....
A game like Sims or WoW could not exist as growing living games on a console or phone, but there are only so many of those people HAVE to have. The last round of consoles really separated PLAY style from the TECH demo style of games like Crysis. Again though, the PC-style updates are creeping into consoles as well...
To be fair they probably built the best the could.. For 2001... And then left it there. 5-6 years out of an IT system is about normal. The last Two years was very clearly in "let it rot" mode... Losing stuff was a feature at that point.
But It's politics, there's no need to upgrade the office for the NEXT GUY. They will want new stuff.. And you can "blame" them for wasting money next election!
Why should we take them seriously at all? The country was in the middle of a war and their party groomed no leader to continue it. The man in the VP chair was physically incapable of doing the job of a President on an ongoing basis should the task have been required... The guy even has artificial organs now.. Just like a "Darth". That President "walked away" from the job when the biggest ACTUAL CRISIS occurred in the last 30 years.
The MAN failed to hold his office in order to the end. The PARTY failed to plan for the financial and military good of the country. And left us more in Debt than Regan did to win the Cold War.
The previous guy had 16 years of Executive Branch experience when all hell broke loose.. The new guy had ZERO and at least has done a passable job walking into the middle of things. Which side had 6 years of uncontested control? Which side failed to run a ship that could endure the storm? Remember that in November and NEVER FORGET it.
Well it depends which ones. In reality "computer jobs" at places like Microsoft or EA are really glorified "production" workers... And they are treated like factory workers were ages ago. Unionization would benefit those industries (and in the long run make products BETTER) because their management has continually refused to learn the basics of managing projects and tech workers.
You miss the fact that he INHERITED that system. That's how politics works. The lame duck guy in charge of the White House (which would be the former President DIRECTLY) let the thing rot...
Part can be attributed to the old staff being done with the position and the new guy will just buy new stuff anyway... Almost fair?
Part of all the downtime was a FEATURE that the pervious administration used to their full advantage... They were über controll freaks... Controlling information of their own "trusted" employees was part of D.C.'s daily routine. The rot was deliberate to stop communications from being added to the archives.
This is an excellent example. They had the opportunity to put the app on th App Store and while they were at it stop begging for donations... I'm surprised that Mozilla hasn't done something similar, not out of spite, bit simply to secure ongoing funding rather than begging for scraps.
I'll leave it to the next poster to comment about a walled garden app store plays with free software.
For all the fear mongering, actual VIOLENT CRIME.... Murder, ASSUALT with a deadly weapon, armed robbery, rape... Is STILL falling... In a recession and it reprresents a SMALL percent of this in prisons now. Most of the inflation in the prison population is sentence inflation and "paper crimes" either stealing "property" or crimes and sentences that DID NOT EXIST 30 years ago (when all the lawmakers were doing those same things!)
Remember we have nearly as many people locked up for "paper crimes" as Soviet Russia did at one of its worst times. We have that many people in prisons and for the most part our country is extremely safe outside the bad parts of major cities. In fact in most of the country you are more likely to be assaulted for your dog crapping in somebody's yard than your wallet.
Many state schools are "incorporated" similar to cities, with the right to have their own official police department. That allows them "home rule" on minor crimes and is supposed to not burden the local cops with petty "childish" problems.
But yes, they can be REAL police, not just "mall cops".
That keeps Prosecutors from inflating crimes right there... That's a built in "plea bargin" and a pretty steep one as there is incentive to keep the charges under the limit. Although 5 years in prison is a LONG TIME. It says more that penning somebody up for an entire college education, or birth to school age for one mistake is so common we have to "streamline" it.
I can see that argument. Prosecutors "invent" criminal situations where the situation is clearly different... Like the the "getaway driver" gets life while the "trigger man" got to plea down.
Juries are spooned only the charges and situations the prosecution wants... Like the OJ case where they only put on the table some crazy case that the guy with millions of dollars, personally plotted first degree murder on his drugged out wife. Had they went for something reasonable like second degree, or manslaughter they might have got him...
But they didn't give the jury that option. I think in a lot of situations they prey on the jury not knowing what the "reasonable" sentence is... When you are put on a jury, you have the impression that the "letter of the law" is what you are judging against... But in reality it is only the one law that got put in front of you... NOT what "the law" actually does.
You'll notice the PROSECUTOR doesn't have to start each trial with THEIR hand on the Bible to tell the WHOLE truth.... Therein lies the problem with the system.
Then the state will have to figure out... In my state they started backing off "non violent" (read drug possession) sentences because the state couldn't afford to keep them in jail. In Arizona, they clearly went the other way to "tent cities" and treating inmates like personal cattle.
I think the solution is what Franklin pointed out... To wake and set with the Sun. That's pretty much what Farmers do... As animals tend to stir closer to the day-night cycle.
Now, we live in cities and work in factories or offices where we get little natural light anyway. At that point the real issue is about adjusting work time for health... Good luck...
As a side note, you'll notice civilization started in parts of the world where day and night are roughly 12 hours each. As we're just hitting the Equinox, can you imagine having all our days ONLY 12 hous long? I think that is why more ordered civilization moved North. People have to work together more all year round than they do in the more central parts of the world.
Or the REAL method, raid a broom closet on the other side of security... There's large bottles of stuff in the shops. Is EVERY SINGLE SCRAP inventoried at least one a week for security?
First, boxcutters were not illegal at the time, and second the terrorists didn't actually carry ANY currently prohibited items through security.
They profiled the psychology of hijackings and found a weakness to use the plane itself as the bomb. The next true attack (and not just an irrational idiot with a bomb in his chest) will be something nobody has thought of yet.
The TSA's approach is to have management keep up on spy novels and CNN and make knee-jerk reactionary policies.... When the horse is out of the barn... We're dealing with sheep and wolves... When we REALLY need more wolves (prepared regular citizens, not necessarily armed) walking around and police capable of actually working with the public and not actively against them.
This is like arguing for good Engineering. The Efiel Tower is a great piece of engineering and applied sciences. It is also a terrible house or car factory.
What these "bad" languages provide are tools to do a TASK well. The classic case of a well designed and engineered language would be Java. The underlying computer science is excellent.... But it doesn't SOLVE PROBLEMS PROGRAMMERS ACTUALLY HAVE. Java is like a store full of Craftsman tools of every type.. A langauge like Perl is a master lockpicker's toolset... Not much to look at, but get the job done.
I think you hit the REAL reason.... The file sizes are much larger! Add to that the ability to invent new DRM and they can effectively "flood" the casual copiers right out of the market. Especially as devices get thinner and storage goes back to being "premium" on laptops and tablets.
It's much how I laugh at everybody sharing "HD" rips of Blu Ray movies... The joke is that the "clever" people sharing just stripped 75% of said HD data right back out... In the grand scheme of things "clever people" end up right back at slightly higher lossy compression anyway.
But they waited till they were DEAD. That's not really philanthropic that's just being assholes to their families because THEY didn't work hard enough for the money.... STILL about the power over their families to piss and burn a huge pile of money away... How did that make them nice people? Gates foundation still has his name... And his family has controlling interest.. Drop that and it might be a "gift".
How about paying an extra 10% to the fathers of the little Tiny Tim's so those families didn't NEED welfare? While those people were still ALIVE? We have Unions BECAUSE those guys were so rich, and willing to step on the poorest of poor to get one more dime...
Like when Gates went to China... That was a turning point because a REAL Communist would have executed him on sight as a Capitalist! Feel like that line in Austin Powers when he commented "we won". Or the new Wall Street movie.. Pointing out many of the laws from the 1980's for security trading AREN'T on the books... And people are still needing to goto jail.
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That's basically what Blades are right now. Effectively, Blades already exist because treating rack servers the same as a herd of Boxen has been silly for a while.
Ideally, you would have a "rack level" spec where DC power would be on tap maybe at the rack level, with the "ATX" DC connector (maybe even 3,6, & 12 volts) going out the back of the server.
The problem right now is that if you're not Google and can get boards and cases shipped from the factory like that, there is no spec so "little people" can do this. There ate still a lot of redundant electronics that could be pulled out of even blades... For instance the famous Capacitor problems...Imagine how many of those Google had to deal with! Why not move all those parts to the rack as well?
Of course what somebody like Google really wants is for OEMS to split the standard server mainboard at the power junctions and io ports. So you can buy one board or ten or thirty and slide them into whatever enclosure you need with minimal extra parts.
For example Apple has the Mac Mini down to where it just needs DC in and the Thunderbolt port to be functional.
Microsoft has Google tied up with Anti-trust mongering right now. (ironic that the only actual monopoly was so quick to turn the DoJ on somebody else) Microsoft has a deal with Yahoo that is basically a "poison pill" if Google tried to buy them. Microsoft couldn't buy Yahoo either, so they are just going to help their buddy Facebook drag them under.. And Microsoft will line up for the useful bits.
Like all Microsoft's deals, they are really betting Yahoo will not just get the short stick, but go under... "all of this has happened before, all of this will happen again" Yang knew this was the end... If Yahoo didn't stand on its own two feet and Fight. He couldn't get the Board and Management to see it.. But it's not his problem now.
It won't come to that, I like the "buy me" option. Of course if Yahoo! offered a "buy it now" price with a "one click" option they would then get sued by eBay and Amazon.
Fortunately, (unfortunately) Microsoft has quite a bit of cash in BOTH horses and Uncle Bill won't like to see it pissed away.... I see merger/buyout/Microsoft forcing them to the table and building some new "open standard" for social networking patents between them.
Now consider an iPad 3 is pushing comparable hardware, and big screen resolution... On batteries.
Because I have ROOM for another TV big enough to relax and play games on.
When you have a house, playing games on spare TVs is for the kids.. Not Dad. The good TV has to be shared with Mom now... Darn Lifetime movies....
But these are all LARGE publishers making these calls... All the growth is over at Zynga and Nimble Bits and Rovio... Who aren't interested in adding their profit margins to EA's fold. Which supports the 5-year budgets of AAA console games.
Even then, the money in those companies is pocket change for the companies developing the next Mass Effect game. They ate at movie-sized budgets... Where angry birds is just past kids working out of their garage.
Of course the REAL issue is not money at all, it is TIME to play the game! The phone games all fill in when people only have a few minutes between other tasks... Like soccer moms waiting for kids to load up!
How about the 5 years intel was forcing GMA 900 on all the OEMS?
THAT is why PC games died, because only a small portion of the millions an millions of PCs sold can run the average PC game. It's a bloated, wasteful platform. PC games require a new "console" cash outlay every 18 months (of course so does xbox 360... Go RRoD) and are horribly abusive if the purpose of the computer is "real work". I fall in the category of people that just stopped trying.
Even the games that do run require 100's of MBs of patches... Often on a weekly! Basis? WTF. The toll just to keep a PC and internet connection around just for WoW is more time and effort than I have. I can get thru 3-4 levels of angry birds just waiting on WoW to actually get to the play screen....
A game like Sims or WoW could not exist as growing living games on a console or phone, but there are only so many of those people HAVE to have. The last round of consoles really separated PLAY style from the TECH demo style of games like Crysis. Again though, the PC-style updates are creeping into consoles as well...
To be fair Bush took office in 2001 so that was probably needed... They just never upgraded anything after that.
To be fair they probably built the best the could .. For 2001... And then left it there. 5-6 years out of an IT system is about normal. The last Two years was very clearly in "let it rot" mode... Losing stuff was a feature at that point.
But It's politics, there's no need to upgrade the office for the NEXT GUY. They will want new stuff.. And you can "blame" them for wasting money next election!
Why should we take them seriously at all? The country was in the middle of a war and their party groomed no leader to continue it. The man in the VP chair was physically incapable of doing the job of a President on an ongoing basis should the task have been required... The guy even has artificial organs now.. Just like a "Darth". That President "walked away" from the job when the biggest ACTUAL CRISIS occurred in the last 30 years.
The MAN failed to hold his office in order to the end. The PARTY failed to plan for the financial and military good of the country. And left us more in Debt than Regan did to win the Cold War.
The previous guy had 16 years of Executive Branch experience when all hell broke loose.. The new guy had ZERO and at least has done a passable job walking into the middle of things. Which side had 6 years of uncontested control? Which side failed to run a ship that could endure the storm? Remember that in November and NEVER FORGET it.
Well it depends which ones. In reality "computer jobs" at places like Microsoft or EA are really glorified "production" workers... And they are treated like factory workers were ages ago. Unionization would benefit those industries (and in the long run make products BETTER) because their management has continually refused to learn the basics of managing projects and tech workers.
You miss the fact that he INHERITED that system. That's how politics works. The lame duck guy in charge of the White House (which would be the former President DIRECTLY) let the thing rot...
Part can be attributed to the old staff being done with the position and the new guy will just buy new stuff anyway... Almost fair?
Part of all the downtime was a FEATURE that the pervious administration used to their full advantage... They were über controll freaks... Controlling information of their own "trusted" employees was part of D.C.'s daily routine. The rot was deliberate to stop communications from being added to the archives.
Because 12 different sets of rules are so complicated? The USA has 50 different sets of rules... And it seems to me manageable ... I'd call BS!
This is an excellent example. They had the opportunity to put the app on th App Store and while they were at it stop begging for donations... I'm surprised that Mozilla hasn't done something similar, not out of spite, bit simply to secure ongoing funding rather than begging for scraps.
I'll leave it to the next poster to comment about a walled garden app store plays with free software.
For all the fear mongering, actual VIOLENT CRIME.... Murder, ASSUALT with a deadly weapon, armed robbery, rape... Is STILL falling... In a recession and it reprresents a SMALL percent of this in prisons now. Most of the inflation in the prison population is sentence inflation and "paper crimes" either stealing "property" or crimes and sentences that DID NOT EXIST 30 years ago (when all the lawmakers were doing those same things!)
Remember we have nearly as many people locked up for "paper crimes" as Soviet Russia did at one of its worst times. We have that many people in prisons and for the most part our country is extremely safe outside the bad parts of major cities. In fact in most of the country you are more likely to be assaulted for your dog crapping in somebody's yard than your wallet.
Many state schools are "incorporated" similar to cities, with the right to have their own official police department. That allows them "home rule" on minor crimes and is supposed to not burden the local cops with petty "childish" problems.
But yes, they can be REAL police, not just "mall cops".
That keeps Prosecutors from inflating crimes right there... That's a built in "plea bargin" and a pretty steep one as there is incentive to keep the charges under the limit. Although 5 years in prison is a LONG TIME. It says more that penning somebody up for an entire college education, or birth to school age for one mistake is so common we have to "streamline" it.
I can see that argument. Prosecutors "invent" criminal situations where the situation is clearly different... Like the the "getaway driver" gets life while the "trigger man" got to plea down.
Juries are spooned only the charges and situations the prosecution wants... Like the OJ case where they only put on the table some crazy case that the guy with millions of dollars, personally plotted first degree murder on his drugged out wife. Had they went for something reasonable like second degree, or manslaughter they might have got him...
But they didn't give the jury that option. I think in a lot of situations they prey on the jury not knowing what the "reasonable" sentence is... When you are put on a jury, you have the impression that the "letter of the law" is what you are judging against... But in reality it is only the one law that got put in front of you... NOT what "the law" actually does.
You'll notice the PROSECUTOR doesn't have to start each trial with THEIR hand on the Bible to tell the WHOLE truth.... Therein lies the problem with the system.
Then the state will have to figure out... In my state they started backing off "non violent" (read drug possession) sentences because the state couldn't afford to keep them in jail. In Arizona, they clearly went the other way to "tent cities" and treating inmates like personal cattle.
I think the solution is what Franklin pointed out... To wake and set with the Sun. That's pretty much what Farmers do... As animals tend to stir closer to the day-night cycle.
Now, we live in cities and work in factories or offices where we get little natural light anyway. At that point the real issue is about adjusting work time for health... Good luck...
As a side note, you'll notice civilization started in parts of the world where day and night are roughly 12 hours each. As we're just hitting the Equinox, can you imagine having all our days ONLY 12 hous long? I think that is why more ordered civilization moved North. People have to work together more all year round than they do in the more central parts of the world.
Or the REAL method, raid a broom closet on the other side of security... There's large bottles of stuff in the shops. Is EVERY SINGLE SCRAP inventoried at least one a week for security?
First, boxcutters were not illegal at the time, and second the terrorists didn't actually carry ANY currently prohibited items through security.
They profiled the psychology of hijackings and found a weakness to use the plane itself as the bomb. The next true attack (and not just an irrational idiot with a bomb in his chest) will be something nobody has thought of yet.
The TSA's approach is to have management keep up on spy novels and CNN and make knee-jerk reactionary policies.... When the horse is out of the barn... We're dealing with sheep and wolves... When we REALLY need more wolves (prepared regular citizens, not necessarily armed) walking around and police capable of actually working with the public and not actively against them.
This is like arguing for good Engineering. The Efiel Tower is a great piece of engineering and applied sciences. It is also a terrible house or car factory.
What these "bad" languages provide are tools to do a TASK well. The classic case of a well designed and engineered language would be Java. The underlying computer science is excellent.... But it doesn't SOLVE PROBLEMS PROGRAMMERS ACTUALLY HAVE. Java is like a store full of Craftsman tools of every type.. A langauge like Perl is a master lockpicker's toolset... Not much to look at, but get the job done.
I think you hit the REAL reason.... The file sizes are much larger! Add to that the ability to invent new DRM and they can effectively "flood" the casual copiers right out of the market. Especially as devices get thinner and storage goes back to being "premium" on laptops and tablets.
It's much how I laugh at everybody sharing "HD" rips of Blu Ray movies... The joke is that the "clever" people sharing just stripped 75% of said HD data right back out... In the grand scheme of things "clever people" end up right back at slightly higher lossy compression anyway.
But they waited till they were DEAD. That's not really philanthropic that's just being assholes to their families because THEY didn't work hard enough for the money.... STILL about the power over their families to piss and burn a huge pile of money away... How did that make them nice people? Gates foundation still has his name... And his family has controlling interest.. Drop that and it might be a "gift".
How about paying an extra 10% to the fathers of the little Tiny Tim's so those families didn't NEED welfare? While those people were still ALIVE? We have Unions BECAUSE those guys were so rich, and willing to step on the poorest of poor to get one more dime...
Like when Gates went to China... That was a turning point because a REAL Communist would have executed him on sight as a Capitalist! Feel like that line in Austin Powers when he commented "we won". Or the new Wall Street movie.. Pointing out many of the laws from the 1980's for security trading AREN'T on the books... And people are still needing to goto jail.