"Every program can be reduced by one instruction, and every program has at least one bug. Therefore, any program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work."
While there's plenty around here that put no faith in whatever calendar predicted 2012, but what if it was The Bible/Koran/Torah that predicted 2012? There's quite a bit more people that claim those books are the truth. I bet there's quite a few people on/. that are deeply religious and belief those books.
While we might think a few folks are believing this movie's prediction; try convincing a devout Christian/Jew there was no 'burning bush' or Moses and his 10 Commandments.
The problem with this is that it requires server manufacturers to standardize their designs. There was talk a few years ago about standardizing Bladeservers. I don't see this happening as there's too much control in the bladecenter chassis, switch interfaces, management abilities etc. Plus why would IBM want to sell an empty chassis and then let the customer fill it with HP C-Class blades?
Even racks themselves from IBM/HP/Dell/EMC/netapp/Sun aren't standardized, other than they are 19" wide. This is why if you mix vendors in the same rack you've got to adjust the depth of the rails.
As for going out and buying third party cabinets (APC for example), some of these have complex ductwork associated with them which makes them take up more than one tile of width.
These guys probably want two things, either IBM/HP/DELL license their technology or someone buys the company. Also, last I checked, there's not a large amount of room in my servers.
Why does the court system care how the data is distributed? If I still point my web browser to TPB, search their website for Movie_HD_1080p, and then it gives me some sort of seed/value, then in the eyes of the law the are still providing the same service. Is this any different from a law standpoint if they switched from an ftp server to an http server to a https server? The basic premise being "still providing access to copyrighted material."
How is this different than those webpages that have the initial full page ad that you must click through to get to the main page? In this case the "device" is my computer. Now of course I can still do other things on my computer, but for all intents and purposes I can't do anything with that browser window until I click through the ad.
Currently netflix doesn't stream in 5.1. Only stereo. Not a problem if you watch movies on your home computer, but my TV is connected up to my 5.1 receiver.
How many of these streaming services provide live feeds? For free.
Most sporting events you need to pay to watch online. Unless broadband provide gives you access to say ESPN360. I don't recall too many news sites that stream the 6:00 news and many times I don't want to sit around and read news articles, because maybe I'm eating dinner, washing the dishes and can't scroll a webpage at the same time.
In one or more of the following ways (1) adding "ing," changing the tense of the mark to a present participle; (2) adding the letter "s," changing the mark from singular to plural; (3) adding a generic or descriptive word to the mark; (4) adding a generic or descriptive word to the mark that has an obvious association with Complainant's business; (5) adding an abbreviation of a geographic word to the mark; (6) adding a geographic word to the mark; (7) misspelling the mark by changing a letter in the mark to a different letter; (8) misspelling the mark by changing a letter in the mark to a number; (9) misspelling the mark by adding a letter within the mark; (10) adding a letter to the beginning or end of the mark; (11) misspelling the mark by adding a number within the mark; (12) adding a number to the beginning or end of the mark; (13) omitting the period between the first-level domain, "www," and the mark; (14) changing the generic top-level domain (gTLD) included in the mark from ".com" to ".org;" and/or (15) adding hyphens to the mark. Any individual disputed domain name typically contains Complainant's mark and one of these changes.
I'm glad they won. The showed plenty of examples of other companies that also won b/c of squatters like Bank Of America vs wwwbankofamerica.com (squatter removed the ".").
We were forced to stop using the term "fat client' here at Big Bank; our end-users got offended when they heard the term, apparently they thought we were talking about the/users/ and not the systems... Instead, we must call it "thick client"* -- which is odd, since if they interpret it the same way it's just as insulting from another direction.
You forgot how we used to refer to IDE devices as either a "master" or a "slave"... this wasn't back in the 50s either.
By moving ray tracing and many other high power graphics algorithms off the client and into the cloud, lightweight-computing platforms like netbooks and smartphones can display photorealistic images in real time.
Why not just say:
By moving ray tracing and many other high power graphics algorithms off the client and onto nvidia's servers, lightweight-computing platforms like netbooks and smartphones can display photorealistic images in real time.
I guess it's just not as cool...
I wonder if this would work for cooking?
By moving cutting, peeling, baking, frying and many other food preparation techniques off the dining room table and into the food cloud (kitchen), lightweight-eating platforms like TV trays and paper plates can be used to eat off of in real time.
Why is anybody surprised by this? Cisco announces a server product with very strong networking abilities. This is pretty much one of the few large areas of the datacenter (hardware wise) that Cisco hasn't moved into (besides disk arrays). HP sees this as a huge threat to them (bigger than IBM, who makes most revenue from services including running datacenters comprised of non-IBM equipment).
HP now realizing that they don't have the networking expertise to go after cisco directly in the networking space (one area they need to expand into to gain marketshare in the datacenter beyond servers and HDS rebranded storage, or that midrange Compaq based arrays). Well, they could go after the #2 enterprise networking company (Juniper, but they have a market cap of ~$13B), so they pick up 3com and whatever is left of it (remember they used to be partnered a while ago with Huauei, that partnership is gone tho), so they can better fight against Cisco for networking.
For these big companies it's all about expanding your presence and finding new revenue streams. Cisco can't seriously increase it's core routing/switching marketshare very easily any more than HP can increase its server marketshare.
It's not always easy to grow your company organically (from within). Look at cisco, they buy security companies, storage switching companies, WebEx. Hell, when they were a router only company, they bought an ethernet switching company (Crescendo) which later became the bread and butter business for them.
My guess is that they feel the need to suddenly justify their usefulness to fend off budget cuts. Which probably means, that they SHOULD be some of the first ones on the chopping block.
You do realize that when these officers are not watching for speeders, they are responding to calls for robberies, murders and rapes..?
I've seen this a million times in the corporate world. The problem is that the speaker has never taken ANY professional speaking classes. Sure, they may know their material inside and out, but they have never been trained on actually presenting it using powerpoint. The biggest problem? The speaker does not pause.
With a "chalk talk" the speaker can only write so fast, but with ppt, they can put up a huge page of bullets/text/graphics in an instant, and the instant that material is up on the screen they immediately begin speaking. So as an attendee, what are you supposed to do? Listen to what they say or read what's on the screen?
What the speaker should do is, after putting up a slide, pause for 20seconds so the attendee can read what's up there. Sure the speaker might think they look like a moron for not saying anything, but you're allowing the attendee to digest what you just put up on the screen before you start draw the attention away from the slide and onto the speaker.
I used to have a large cage in an Exodus colocation facility. Turns out that if we wanted to put in an EMC Symm5 (these are three tiles wide), we would have to rent a fork lift and put it through an open rollup door on the second floor. Their "freight elevator" was barely big enough for two people and a dolly.
One of my other cages was housed in a Global Crossing facility; when they started to run out of out cooling, they would hook up huge external A/C units in the parking lot and run 2ft diameter ducting to a hole in the wall. If you happened to walk near one of these openings you'd be greeted by freezing 50mph winds.
Anybody find it odd that Exodus bought Global Crossing, who then went out of business?
Don't assume that he knows what some feature is. Think like his level. For example, from a technical standpoint he might only care that you just successfully rolled out a major software upgrade (if your company writes lots of software). This would be the equivalent to eBay rolling out a major release of their trading software, NOT them upgrading their linux boxes to the latest kernel. The only CXO level folks I've worked with that consistently cared about response time were those in which whose businesses depended on response times (like financial trading companies, where response time = trading = money).
How are you saving money? (ROI, reducing expenses such as power/cooling/hardware). How are you improving efficiency (automation, consolidation etc..).
Also as someone that has presented many times to CxO level people, remember this if you have to give a presentation of your findings, "You are not in control of the presentation." No matter how much you prepare for it, or think you'll be giving a controlled presentation; fully expect them to look at your first slide and ask you a bunch of questions which are not covered anywhere, completely derailing/hijacking your presentation. Be prepared for "buzzword" questions, "Have you considered transitioning to a cloud based...?"
The biggest problem for me personally is raiding. Picture this, if you will, we're mid-raid (10 is bad, 25 a nightmare) and someone dies. My raid leader pipes up: 'Combat rez on xxx now!' As the Druid, this means me and it's time to panic. Somewhere in the mass of moving targets, dead trash mobs and my valiant guild mates is a corpse. I've got to find and rez that corpse now and I have no idea where to find them. I usually yell for the raid leader to mark said fallen soul but it doesn't always happen. Welcome to my nightmare.
So why is he specifically targeting Sony? Why not all the video game manufacturers? In the end, Sony will agree to make some trivial modification to some game to meet this guys requirements, maybe like a "high contrast mode". And then...
Obviously you've never been a HP Openview operator/admin. This stuff takes a dozen dedicated programmers to work correctly. I believe that's why they call it a 'frame work" because you need a main frame to get it to work.
I really think the landline is slowly going the way of the dodo as far as home users are concerned.
My landline phone, never needs external power or batteries. It never has problems when the "tower" is overloaded with people trying to make calls. By LAW, it can always call 911 from any phone jack in any house. I never have to deal with "are you there? you're breaking up" nor deal with "ATT|Verizon|Sprint|T-Mobile has crappy coverage at my house..." related issues. I have a $5 corded phone from Walmart for emergency use and a cordless phone (requires external power) for normal use. Maybe as a society we're becoming too dependent on continuous sources of electricity.
And yes I've been without power to my house for days on end (ice storms in the Northeast). Light's didn't work but my home phone worked fine.
Go with a nice IEC 309 connector. Water/dust proof and if you trip on it, it's not coming apart. Though the NEMA twis lock ones (Nema LX-YY) are nice too.
It's especially bad out here in the SanFrancisco area where every middle/upper-class parent is trying to "put a square peg in a round hole" by making all these kids math/sciences experts but I almost never see parents pushing kids in the direction of arts/music (except for the forced piano/violin lessons). Sports?
Society has been on a tear lately always looking to avoid personal responsibility and blame someone (or in this case, something else). For example,
--Kids aren't hyperactive or have too much energy. They have ADD and require Ritalin. --Why isn't my kid cut out to do Algebra in 2nd grade? It's not that he/she might have a disposition for the arts, but that I need to blame the school and the teachers. --"The Man" is holding me down. I find it odd that at my Fortune 500 company the "White male" is not the majority of VPs. --I'm not fat, it's just that I have a genetic disposition to eat tons of crappy food and avoid exercise. My genes make me buy ice cream and not even take a 10minute walk around the neighborhood every day. --I can't get a date b/c I have a genetic disposition to be single, and not because I want to date Hawaiian Tropic models and I look like Bill Gates and dress like a slob.
Damnit people, take a bit of responsibility, there's millions of cases out there of people finding their niche and succeeding or overcoming their obstacles to obtain greatness. I don't recall all the immigrants that came through Ellis Island in the early 1900s saying, "I can't be anything" and blamed everyone else.
There used to be an expression, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." I think to many people this now has become, "When the going gets tough, blame someone else."
The TCP overhead on iSCSI is too great when you start approaching gigE speeds. So now you're looking at purchasing a TOE (TCP Offload Engine) card to deal with that, or a dedicated iSCSI adapter. Might as well go buy a dedicated iSCSI array at that point. Plus I want my disk arrays to have enough intelligence and software to do their specific job. A general purpose OS has too many places where I have to patch/upgrade etc.
Now if sun would enable a FCOE target then we've got something. I don't even need a dedicated adapter for it, since there is no heavy TCP do deal with just layer2 (FC being "layer 3" which is a much lighter protocol than TCP).
The advantages of SANs are easy to realize, they need not necessarily be FibreChannel vs NAS (NFS/CIFS) as a SAN could be iSCSI, FCOE, FCIP, FICON etc..
-Storage Consolidation compared with internal disk. -Fewer components in your servers that can break. -Server admins don't have to focus on Storage except at the VolMgr/Filesystem level -Higher Utilization (a WebServer might not need 500GB of internal disk). -Offloading storage based functions (RAID in the array vs RAID on your server's CPU, I'd rather the CPU perform application work rather than calculating parity, replacing failed disks etc). This increases when you want to replicate to a DR site.
This is not a ZFS vs SANs argument. I think ZFS running on SAN based storage is a great idea as ZFS replaces/combines two applications that are already on the host (volmgr & filesystem).
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Reminds me of this old saying,
"Every program can be reduced by one instruction, and every program has at least one bug. Therefore, any program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work."
I just wish I knew who came up with it.
Though there are tens of thousands of other developers who have pumped out over 100,000 apps for the platform..
100,000 apps? Are these truly unique apps or are most trivial differences (app#1 main icon is blue, app#2 main icon is red...)
While there's plenty around here that put no faith in whatever calendar predicted 2012, but what if it was The Bible/Koran/Torah that predicted 2012? There's quite a bit more people that claim those books are the truth. I bet there's quite a few people on /. that are deeply religious and belief those books.
While we might think a few folks are believing this movie's prediction; try convincing a devout Christian/Jew there was no 'burning bush' or Moses and his 10 Commandments.
The problem with this is that it requires server manufacturers to standardize their designs. There was talk a few years ago about standardizing Bladeservers. I don't see this happening as there's too much control in the bladecenter chassis, switch interfaces, management abilities etc. Plus why would IBM want to sell an empty chassis and then let the customer fill it with HP C-Class blades?
Even racks themselves from IBM/HP/Dell/EMC/netapp/Sun aren't standardized, other than they are 19" wide. This is why if you mix vendors in the same rack you've got to adjust the depth of the rails.
As for going out and buying third party cabinets (APC for example), some of these have complex ductwork associated with them which makes them take up more than one tile of width.
These guys probably want two things, either IBM/HP/DELL license their technology or someone buys the company. Also, last I checked, there's not a large amount of room in my servers.
Why does the court system care how the data is distributed? If I still point my web browser to TPB, search their website for Movie_HD_1080p, and then it gives me some sort of seed/value, then in the eyes of the law the are still providing the same service. Is this any different from a law standpoint if they switched from an ftp server to an http server to a https server? The basic premise being "still providing access to copyrighted material."
How is this different than those webpages that have the initial full page ad that you must click through to get to the main page? In this case the "device" is my computer. Now of course I can still do other things on my computer, but for all intents and purposes I can't do anything with that browser window until I click through the ad.
Currently netflix doesn't stream in 5.1. Only stereo. Not a problem if you watch movies on your home computer, but my TV is connected up to my 5.1 receiver.
How many of these streaming services provide live feeds? For free.
Most sporting events you need to pay to watch online. Unless broadband provide gives you access to say ESPN360.
I don't recall too many news sites that stream the 6:00 news and many times I don't want to sit around and read news articles, because maybe I'm eating dinner, washing the dishes and can't scroll a webpage at the same time.
In one or more of the following ways
(1) adding "ing," changing the tense of the mark to a present participle;
(2) adding the letter "s," changing the mark from singular to plural;
(3) adding a generic or descriptive word to the mark;
(4) adding a generic or descriptive word to the mark that has an obvious association with Complainant's business;
(5) adding an abbreviation of a geographic word to the mark; (6) adding a geographic word to the mark;
(7) misspelling the mark by changing a letter in the mark to a different letter;
(8) misspelling the mark by changing a letter in the mark to a number;
(9) misspelling the mark by adding a letter within the mark;
(10) adding a letter to the beginning or end of the mark;
(11) misspelling the mark by adding a number within the mark;
(12) adding a number to the beginning or end of the mark;
(13) omitting the period between the first-level domain, "www," and the mark;
(14) changing the generic top-level domain (gTLD) included in the mark from ".com" to ".org;" and/or
(15) adding hyphens to the mark. Any individual disputed domain name typically contains Complainant's mark and one of these changes.
I'm glad they won. The showed plenty of examples of other companies that also won b/c of squatters like Bank Of America vs wwwbankofamerica.com (squatter removed the ".").
We were forced to stop using the term "fat client' here at Big Bank; our end-users got offended when they heard the term, apparently they thought we were talking about the /users/ and not the systems... Instead, we must call it "thick client"* -- which is odd, since if they interpret it the same way it's just as insulting from another direction.
You forgot how we used to refer to IDE devices as either a "master" or a "slave"... this wasn't back in the 50s either.
FTFA:
Why not just say:
I guess it's just not as cool...
I wonder if this would work for cooking?
Why is anybody surprised by this? Cisco announces a server product with very strong networking abilities. This is pretty much one of the few large areas of the datacenter (hardware wise) that Cisco hasn't moved into (besides disk arrays). HP sees this as a huge threat to them (bigger than IBM, who makes most revenue from services including running datacenters comprised of non-IBM equipment).
HP now realizing that they don't have the networking expertise to go after cisco directly in the networking space (one area they need to expand into to gain marketshare in the datacenter beyond servers and HDS rebranded storage, or that midrange Compaq based arrays). Well, they could go after the #2 enterprise networking company (Juniper, but they have a market cap of ~$13B), so they pick up 3com and whatever is left of it (remember they used to be partnered a while ago with Huauei, that partnership is gone tho), so they can better fight against Cisco for networking.
For these big companies it's all about expanding your presence and finding new revenue streams. Cisco can't seriously increase it's core routing/switching marketshare very easily any more than HP can increase its server marketshare.
It's not always easy to grow your company organically (from within). Look at cisco, they buy security companies, storage switching companies, WebEx. Hell, when they were a router only company, they bought an ethernet switching company (Crescendo) which later became the bread and butter business for them.
You do realize that when these officers are not watching for speeders, they are responding to calls for robberies, murders and rapes..?
I've seen this a million times in the corporate world. The problem is that the speaker has never taken ANY professional speaking classes. Sure, they may know their material inside and out, but they have never been trained on actually presenting it using powerpoint. The biggest problem? The speaker does not pause.
With a "chalk talk" the speaker can only write so fast, but with ppt, they can put up a huge page of bullets/text/graphics in an instant, and the instant that material is up on the screen they immediately begin speaking. So as an attendee, what are you supposed to do? Listen to what they say or read what's on the screen?
What the speaker should do is, after putting up a slide, pause for 20seconds so the attendee can read what's up there. Sure the speaker might think they look like a moron for not saying anything, but you're allowing the attendee to digest what you just put up on the screen before you start draw the attention away from the slide and onto the speaker.
I used to have a large cage in an Exodus colocation facility. Turns out that if we wanted to put in an EMC Symm5 (these are three tiles wide), we would have to rent a fork lift and put it through an open rollup door on the second floor. Their "freight elevator" was barely big enough for two people and a dolly.
One of my other cages was housed in a Global Crossing facility; when they started to run out of out cooling, they would hook up huge external A/C units in the parking lot and run 2ft diameter ducting to a hole in the wall. If you happened to walk near one of these openings you'd be greeted by freezing 50mph winds.
Anybody find it odd that Exodus bought Global Crossing, who then went out of business?
Don't assume that he knows what some feature is. Think like his level. For example, from a technical standpoint he might only care that you just successfully rolled out a major software upgrade (if your company writes lots of software). This would be the equivalent to eBay rolling out a major release of their trading software, NOT them upgrading their linux boxes to the latest kernel. The only CXO level folks I've worked with that consistently cared about response time were those in which whose businesses depended on response times (like financial trading companies, where response time = trading = money).
How are you saving money? (ROI, reducing expenses such as power/cooling/hardware). How are you improving efficiency (automation, consolidation etc..).
Also as someone that has presented many times to CxO level people, remember this if you have to give a presentation of your findings, "You are not in control of the presentation." No matter how much you prepare for it, or think you'll be giving a controlled presentation; fully expect them to look at your first slide and ask you a bunch of questions which are not covered anywhere, completely derailing/hijacking your presentation. Be prepared for "buzzword" questions, "Have you considered transitioning to a cloud based...?"
Last one. Check your ego at the door.
http://www.wow.com/2009/07/06/visually-impaired-players-the-unseen-inhabitants-of-azeroth/
So why is he specifically targeting Sony? Why not all the video game manufacturers? In the end, Sony will agree to make some trivial modification to some game to meet this guys requirements, maybe like a "high contrast mode". And then...
The lawyers will once again win.
Obviously you've never been a HP Openview operator/admin. This stuff takes a dozen dedicated programmers to work correctly. I believe that's why they call it a 'frame work" because you need a main frame to get it to work.
I really think the landline is slowly going the way of the dodo as far as home users are concerned.
My landline phone, never needs external power or batteries. It never has problems when the "tower" is overloaded with people trying to make calls. By LAW, it can always call 911 from any phone jack in any house. I never have to deal with "are you there? you're breaking up" nor deal with "ATT|Verizon|Sprint|T-Mobile has crappy coverage at my house..." related issues. I have a $5 corded phone from Walmart for emergency use and a cordless phone (requires external power) for normal use. Maybe as a society we're becoming too dependent on continuous sources of electricity.
And yes I've been without power to my house for days on end (ice storms in the Northeast). Light's didn't work but my home phone worked fine.
Go with a nice IEC 309 connector. Water/dust proof and if you trip on it, it's not coming apart. Though the NEMA twis lock ones (Nema LX-YY) are nice too.
It's especially bad out here in the SanFrancisco area where every middle/upper-class parent is trying to "put a square peg in a round hole" by making all these kids math/sciences experts but I almost never see parents pushing kids in the direction of arts/music (except for the forced piano/violin lessons). Sports?
Society has been on a tear lately always looking to avoid personal responsibility and blame someone (or in this case, something else). For example,
--Kids aren't hyperactive or have too much energy. They have ADD and require Ritalin.
--Why isn't my kid cut out to do Algebra in 2nd grade? It's not that he/she might have a disposition for the arts, but that I need to blame the school and the teachers.
--"The Man" is holding me down. I find it odd that at my Fortune 500 company the "White male" is not the majority of VPs.
--I'm not fat, it's just that I have a genetic disposition to eat tons of crappy food and avoid exercise. My genes make me buy ice cream and not even take a 10minute walk around the neighborhood every day.
--I can't get a date b/c I have a genetic disposition to be single, and not because I want to date Hawaiian Tropic models and I look like Bill Gates and dress like a slob.
Damnit people, take a bit of responsibility, there's millions of cases out there of people finding their niche and succeeding or overcoming their obstacles to obtain greatness. I don't recall all the immigrants that came through Ellis Island in the early 1900s saying, "I can't be anything" and blamed everyone else.
There used to be an expression, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." I think to many people this now has become, "When the going gets tough, blame someone else."
Just create a ZVol, and share it out via iSCSI.
The TCP overhead on iSCSI is too great when you start approaching gigE speeds. So now you're looking at purchasing a TOE (TCP Offload Engine) card to deal with that, or a dedicated iSCSI adapter. Might as well go buy a dedicated iSCSI array at that point. Plus I want my disk arrays to have enough intelligence and software to do their specific job. A general purpose OS has too many places where I have to patch/upgrade etc.
Now if sun would enable a FCOE target then we've got something. I don't even need a dedicated adapter for it, since there is no heavy TCP do deal with just layer2 (FC being "layer 3" which is a much lighter protocol than TCP).
The advantages of SANs are easy to realize, they need not necessarily be FibreChannel vs NAS (NFS/CIFS) as a SAN could be iSCSI, FCOE, FCIP, FICON etc..
-Storage Consolidation compared with internal disk.
-Fewer components in your servers that can break.
-Server admins don't have to focus on Storage except at the VolMgr/Filesystem level
-Higher Utilization (a WebServer might not need 500GB of internal disk).
-Offloading storage based functions (RAID in the array vs RAID on your server's CPU, I'd rather the CPU perform application work rather than calculating parity, replacing failed disks etc). This increases when you want to replicate to a DR site.
This is not a ZFS vs SANs argument. I think ZFS running on SAN based storage is a great idea as ZFS replaces/combines two applications that are already on the host (volmgr & filesystem).
Storage Vmotion only works if your entire organization is based upon vmware. I'm not knocking Storage Vmotion, it's a great product for what it does.
Btw, now you are locked into VmWare. :)