We're talking about walking into Walmart and buying a random printer, not the latest and greatest from HP/Lexmark.
Joe/Jane Average want to do what you did, walk into a store and buy a computer device based purely on specs, whether it's a printer/scanner/all in one. Just like supporting chipsets and such, anything that is "more mainstream" is more likely to have support. Though over the life of a computer, if my folks have to buy the most mainstream products which in the case of HP/Lexmark are more expensive than the savings due to not having to buy windows, starts to diminish.
I hope that the next time your Linux using parents decide to go to walmart/bestbuy to get a printer they have the foresight to see if $linux_distro supports it.
I have yet to see a generally available device that linux supports which windows doesn't. I'm not the in business of playing "geek squad" for my family.
Keep on "praying" or "holding on to making it happen"...
Are you writing printer drivers for linux for these walmart "all in one" printers?
Are you paying developers or donating gear? How about buying a few of these printers yourself and helping out.
And before you call me a hypocrite, I did what I preached. Back in '98-99, I worked in IBM's Storage Subsystems Group, and with a stack of Brocade 2800s and handful of Emulex LP7000s and Qlogic HBAs, I troubleshooted HBA issues with IBM and LSI logic disk subsystems. I didn't write code, but I was QA for a the one or two developers and the folks at UNH's Interoperability Lab.
Are any newspapers actually delivered by paperboys and girls? Or is it just adults throwing them out of a moving vehicle?
20 years ago I was a paperboy for The Boston Globe, I had 30 houses on my route and the daily paper had to be delivered by 7 while the sat/sun had to be delivered by 8. Paper had to be placed in the location of the recipients choosing. Most wanted it behind the storm door so it was dry. On Sundays we had to assemble the paper as it was delivered by The Globe to my driveway in three piles (Ads, news, sports). If the weather permitted, I could ride my bike, otherwise I walked it (had a cart or an orange/white bag).
I had to "collect" from the customer's on the route and then pay the paper office, I could collect weekly or preferably monthly, as this reduced my trips to the office.
Great way for a kid to make a few bucks a week (tips were where it was at, especially at X-Mas time). Plus if you delivered your route nonstop for 3years, the Globe gave you a $5,000 scholarship to any college.
So I don't recall seeing any journalists, editors or reporters working for google. They are in the unique position of being around as long as there is some company out there to absorb the costs of generating news. So google can sit around and wait for all the companies that actually generate news to die away all the while sucking margin out of those companies, as I'm sure that google gets compensated in some way for sending users to $news_site.
The worst part about google's news is that if I search for something, I get the same news article from 10 different sources, all which are just reposting the same AP/Reuters article. Then again, how would google determine that user X should see the AP/Reuters article from $newsite_A vs $newsite_B.
I'm not going to fault google as they have a good business model, albeit one that will ultimately help with driving those that report the news out of business.
The decision comes despite Google's assurances that it would blur faces and vehicle license plates when displaying the images online and that it would promptly respond to removal requests.
So while I can go to my house and request that google blur the license plate of my car in my driveway. How else do I find my license plate in the pictures that are not of my driveway? Do I have to now check out ALL of the various gas stations, supermarkets, parking lots etc... that my car could have been photographed? What about all the highways and streets that I've driven?
It seems that google is saying in the above quote, "If you can find something you don't like, then we'll blur it.
It's very possible (how ever probably) that someone could be convicted (or proven innocent) because their license plate was in various street view maps.
While I do like streetview because it allows me to see what a give store/location actually looks like before I drive there. It also enables "evil doers" to see that type of car that everyone on my street has, or parks in their driveway. And very easily compare it against the hundreds of other streets in the area. Sure criminals could do this by hand, but in this case it doesn't require the criminal to fly from NY to SanFrancisco and drive around with a camera. They just open up a web browser and put in various addresses to mine the database for neighborhoods with Porsches in the driveway.
Does google have any safeguards in place from someone recording all sorts of data/screenshots and running OCR on them? To record thousands of license plates? I wonder what privacy advocates would think if they knew that one could build a database of "License Plate & Street Address" Sure there would be some margin for error (say when your car is at another house, but I'd bet those building this database are willing to live with that.
Google should be by default blurring all license plates and faces. I haven't seen a reason yet justifying why they need to display either faces or license plates.
Why not complain how the terrorists could go around our country with chainsaws and cut down telephone poles or a sawzall and cut down the high voltage power line towers....
* The propane tank exchanges used often by BBQ owners. The used/empty propane tank is exchanged for one that has a "full charge" and is fully functional. The tank itself might not be new (scratches, rust, paint chips etc..) but it holds a full charge of propane. Sometimes if you get a tank that is "nice and shiny" you can find places that only refill and don't swap.
* Laptop batteries. I couldn't imagine randomly swapping my laptop battery with another persons. As I could be swapping a brand new battery, that currently is discharged, for one that has had many many cycles and won't hold a charge as long. Even my Li-Ion battery in my laptop isn't as good as it used to be after 3 years. If I have to swap and can't quickly charge it (15minutes?), then I could end up with a battery that is junk.
So if the cost to upgrade a house is $60, how much would a typical cable company need to invest in their own infrastructure in the core and distribution networks to deal with the higher amount of bandwidth.
I've got 16Mb down service wit Comcast, and if they gave me 100Mb, I don't think it would make that much of a difference, since I can almost never find sources that will provide me with enough content to fill that pipe. Even torrents with hundreds of seeders never get that high.
How would the service providers get a solid return on their investment? Will 100Mb/s connections get more people to switch providers or get more people to move fro dialup? I doubt there are people that are saying, "I'd drop my dialup connection for broadband, but I'm waiting for 100Mb/s." I'd be interested to know what percentage of customers opt for say the highest tiers possible although the price difference might be as small as $10/mo (it is for comcast to go from 6-16Mb).
With ZFS IBM can build cheaper versions of NetApps Filers. Did I use cheap and IBM in the same sentence?
I'm sorry, but a cheaper NetApp filer is... a NetApp filer. IBM's disk storage has stunk for a LONG time. Let's see, their midrange has been OEMd from LSI for decades I would say since early 90s as "decades"). They've tried NAS, and that too stinks, so they oem netapp. Might as well buy netapp.
IBM's ESS (Shark), great idea using commodity parts such as existing AIX/rs6000/PowerX servers plus SSA (now FC) disk. However, every year EMC comes out with a new Symm/DMX and stomps them. Even HDS has a better high end box. Will Sun bring anything to the table? Only confusion. SUN OEMs HDS disk arrays and owns StorageTek (STK). So they'll get rid of the HDS storage and now have to figure out if you keep STK or IBM? Plus now you've got one company supporting more tape format's than you can shake a stick at. While they both have LTO, you've got to deal with the two proprietary formats (9840x descendants from STK and IBM's 3590) which are typically used on the midrange to high end systems.
So we already have keyword commands such that I can put "dir: " and have firefox search the corporate directory at my company. Want to search amazon? What about just typing "amazon.com " Google seems pretty good about finding it. The worst part about these "text commands" is having to remember all the commands that they're going to decide to implement.
Unless of course amazon decides to pay firefox for keyword usage...
When they can have this type of earthquake and not have any IO errors from the disks nor do any tapes fall off the walls of the inside of the tape library, then I'll call this a success. As someone that has had to retrieve a tape that was dropped by the robot of an old STK "Powderhorn", this would be a pain.
has suggested the possibility of a 'Dark Google.' 'What if Conficker is intended to give the computer underworld the ability to search for data on all the infected computers around the globe and then sell the answers,' writes Markoff. 'That would be a dragnet -- and a genuine horror story.'"
In some dark room, a couple of virus writers are thinking... "Damn, what a great idea... why didn't we think of that! That's so much better than playing APRIL FOOLSs at max volume on everyone's computers."
Nothing like people giving out ideas... much like when security specialists say, "Well atleast they didn't try to take out the planes stuffing baseballs in the airplane's toilets."
I haven't seen any evidence that FibreChannel is going away. Yes, Cisco is pushing FCOE (FibreChannel Over Ethernet), however that only replaces layers 0-2 in the FC stack with ethernet. You still have all the framing, nameservers, zoning, FSPF etc... that you are used to in the FC world. You just get to toss out the FC0 (physical) FC1 (encoding) and FC2 (B2B credits and such).
This is no different than when the industry moved away from SCSI as a physical transport to FC. The SCSI-3 protocol is still alive and kicking (what do you think runs on top of FibreChannel?)
Looking at their line of products, MDS for pure FC; or Nexus 5000 if you want to have only two adapters per server which push IP over Ethernet and FC over Ethernet. I dunno about about you, but I'm waiting for the FCOE market to mature up; so I can greatly reduce the number of HBAs and NICs that I've got installed in each server. Now if someone would just put dual FCOE on the motherboard then I wouldn't need any hbas/NICs. Each ESX server would get two cables plus power and our facilities are done. As opposed to now, I've got dual HBAs (two fibre connections) plus 2-4 GigE connections, for both bandwidth and connectivity. If this is a backup server then we're talking even more FC connections to reach the 4-8 LTO 3/4 tape drives
The Pygmalion effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect refers to situations in which students perform better than other students simply because they are expected to do so. So while these kids are in school, they may be doing great as they are being encouraged to do so. However, once they enter the work force the positive reinforcement and higher expectations are removed and the student (now employee) with expectations of self sufficiency.
Now I've seen my share of employees get hired and one thing that I've noticed is that during interviews the employer is often very positive and encouraging about the company/work environment; but then once the candidate is hired, they find out the truth that fellow employees are quite negative about the environment.
Maybe we're breeding a generation of kids that need to be "coddled" and receive continuous positive reinforcement, as the "tough love" is gone.
In 1998, People magazine ran an online poll to determine the most beautiful people in the world, where somebody facetiously entered Nasiff as a write-in candidate. Nasiff won the contest, receiving hundreds of thousands of votes. At the time the online poll was launched, People led voters to believe that it would influence the print magazine's annual listing of "the most beautiful people." People refused to allow online votes to influence the magazine results. The poll was configured so that users could vote multiple times, by deleting a cookie given from the site. Many contestants had scripts written that would allow users to vote repeatedly.
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We're talking about walking into Walmart and buying a random printer, not the latest and greatest from HP/Lexmark.
Joe/Jane Average want to do what you did, walk into a store and buy a computer device based purely on specs, whether it's a printer/scanner/all in one. Just like supporting chipsets and such, anything that is "more mainstream" is more likely to have support. Though over the life of a computer, if my folks have to buy the most mainstream products which in the case of HP/Lexmark are more expensive than the savings due to not having to buy windows, starts to diminish.
I hope that the next time your Linux using parents decide to go to walmart/bestbuy to get a printer they have the foresight to see if $linux_distro supports it.
I have yet to see a generally available device that linux supports which windows doesn't. I'm not the in business of playing "geek squad" for my family.
Keep on "praying" or "holding on to making it happen"...
Are you writing printer drivers for linux for these walmart "all in one" printers?
Are you paying developers or donating gear? How about buying a few of these printers yourself and helping out.
And before you call me a hypocrite, I did what I preached. Back in '98-99, I worked in IBM's Storage Subsystems Group, and with a stack of Brocade 2800s and handful of Emulex LP7000s and Qlogic HBAs, I troubleshooted HBA issues with IBM and LSI logic disk subsystems. I didn't write code, but I was QA for a the one or two developers and the folks at UNH's Interoperability Lab.
Are any newspapers actually delivered by paperboys and girls? Or is it just adults throwing them out of a moving vehicle?
20 years ago I was a paperboy for The Boston Globe, I had 30 houses on my route and the daily paper had to be delivered by 7 while the sat/sun had to be delivered by 8. Paper had to be placed in the location of the recipients choosing. Most wanted it behind the storm door so it was dry. On Sundays we had to assemble the paper as it was delivered by The Globe to my driveway in three piles (Ads, news, sports). If the weather permitted, I could ride my bike, otherwise I walked it (had a cart or an orange/white bag).
I had to "collect" from the customer's on the route and then pay the paper office, I could collect weekly or preferably monthly, as this reduced my trips to the office.
Great way for a kid to make a few bucks a week (tips were where it was at, especially at X-Mas time). Plus if you delivered your route nonstop for 3years, the Globe gave you a $5,000 scholarship to any college.
So I don't recall seeing any journalists, editors or reporters working for google. They are in the unique position of being around as long as there is some company out there to absorb the costs of generating news. So google can sit around and wait for all the companies that actually generate news to die away all the while sucking margin out of those companies, as I'm sure that google gets compensated in some way for sending users to $news_site.
The worst part about google's news is that if I search for something, I get the same news article from 10 different sources, all which are just reposting the same AP/Reuters article. Then again, how would google determine that user X should see the AP/Reuters article from $newsite_A vs $newsite_B.
I'm not going to fault google as they have a good business model, albeit one that will ultimately help with driving those that report the news out of business.
The decision comes despite Google's assurances that it would blur faces and vehicle license plates when displaying the images online and that it would promptly respond to removal requests.
So while I can go to my house and request that google blur the license plate of my car in my driveway. How else do I find my license plate in the pictures that are not of my driveway? Do I have to now check out ALL of the various gas stations, supermarkets, parking lots etc... that my car could have been photographed? What about all the highways and streets that I've driven?
It seems that google is saying in the above quote, "If you can find something you don't like, then we'll blur it.
It's very possible (how ever probably) that someone could be convicted (or proven innocent) because their license plate was in various street view maps.
While I do like streetview because it allows me to see what a give store/location actually looks like before I drive there. It also enables "evil doers" to see that type of car that everyone on my street has, or parks in their driveway. And very easily compare it against the hundreds of other streets in the area. Sure criminals could do this by hand, but in this case it doesn't require the criminal to fly from NY to SanFrancisco and drive around with a camera. They just open up a web browser and put in various addresses to mine the database for neighborhoods with Porsches in the driveway.
Does google have any safeguards in place from someone recording all sorts of data/screenshots and running OCR on them? To record thousands of license plates? I wonder what privacy advocates would think if they knew that one could build a database of "License Plate & Street Address" Sure there would be some margin for error (say when your car is at another house, but I'd bet those building this database are willing to live with that.
Google should be by default blurring all license plates and faces. I haven't seen a reason yet justifying why they need to display either faces or license plates.
Read this "race to the 1 minute meeting" reminded me of this old joke...
Every program has at least one bug.
Every program can be reduced in size by at least on line.
Therefore, every program can be reduced to a single line - which is a bug.
--
Every meeting is way to long
Every meeting can be reduced by one minute
Every meeting can be reduced by one minute - which is too long.
Ah, the good old days...
Wait, this was yesterday.
Are there sources out there that could actually provide 100Mb of bandwidth?
Why don't you go after Social Security http://www.ssa.gov/budget/ instead? There's more being spent on Social Security than on defense http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2008/defense.html.
Why not complain how the terrorists could go around our country with chainsaws and cut down telephone poles or a sawzall and cut down the high voltage power line towers....
Cue the response of the typical /. user:
I've tried to compare this to:
* The propane tank exchanges used often by BBQ owners. The used/empty propane tank is exchanged for one that has a "full charge" and is fully functional. The tank itself might not be new (scratches, rust, paint chips etc..) but it holds a full charge of propane. Sometimes if you get a tank that is "nice and shiny" you can find places that only refill and don't swap.
* Laptop batteries. I couldn't imagine randomly swapping my laptop battery with another persons. As I could be swapping a brand new battery, that currently is discharged, for one that has had many many cycles and won't hold a charge as long. Even my Li-Ion battery in my laptop isn't as good as it used to be after 3 years. If I have to swap and can't quickly charge it (15minutes?), then I could end up with a battery that is junk.
Could you fill a 32GB iPOD touch with $10k worth of iTunes downloads?
Try using Wanem http://wanem.sourceforge.net/ You can even download it as a vmware virtual appliance.
So if the cost to upgrade a house is $60, how much would a typical cable company need to invest in their own infrastructure in the core and distribution networks to deal with the higher amount of bandwidth.
I've got 16Mb down service wit Comcast, and if they gave me 100Mb, I don't think it would make that much of a difference, since I can almost never find sources that will provide me with enough content to fill that pipe. Even torrents with hundreds of seeders never get that high.
How would the service providers get a solid return on their investment? Will 100Mb/s connections get more people to switch providers or get more people to move fro dialup? I doubt there are people that are saying, "I'd drop my dialup connection for broadband, but I'm waiting for 100Mb/s." I'd be interested to know what percentage of customers opt for say the highest tiers possible although the price difference might be as small as $10/mo (it is for comcast to go from 6-16Mb).
With ZFS IBM can build cheaper versions of NetApps Filers. Did I use cheap and IBM in the same sentence?
I'm sorry, but a cheaper NetApp filer is... a NetApp filer. IBM's disk storage has stunk for a LONG time. Let's see, their midrange has been OEMd from LSI for decades I would say since early 90s as "decades"). They've tried NAS, and that too stinks, so they oem netapp. Might as well buy netapp.
IBM's ESS (Shark), great idea using commodity parts such as existing AIX/rs6000/PowerX servers plus SSA (now FC) disk. However, every year EMC comes out with a new Symm/DMX and stomps them. Even HDS has a better high end box. Will Sun bring anything to the table? Only confusion. SUN OEMs HDS disk arrays and owns StorageTek (STK). So they'll get rid of the HDS storage and now have to figure out if you keep STK or IBM? Plus now you've got one company supporting more tape format's than you can shake a stick at. While they both have LTO, you've got to deal with the two proprietary formats (9840x descendants from STK and IBM's 3590) which are typically used on the midrange to high end systems.
Atleast they make good tape drives/libraries.
So we already have keyword commands such that I can put "dir: " and have firefox search the corporate directory at my company. Want to search amazon? What about just typing "amazon.com " Google seems pretty good about finding it. The worst part about these "text commands" is having to remember all the commands that they're going to decide to implement.
Unless of course amazon decides to pay firefox for keyword usage...
Anybody know of a ergonomic keyboard with the same tactile feedback as an "M"?
When they can have this type of earthquake and not have any IO errors from the disks nor do any tapes fall off the walls of the inside of the tape library, then I'll call this a success. As someone that has had to retrieve a tape that was dropped by the robot of an old STK "Powderhorn", this would be a pain.
has suggested the possibility of a 'Dark Google.' 'What if Conficker is intended to give the computer underworld the ability to search for data on all the infected computers around the globe and then sell the answers,' writes Markoff. 'That would be a dragnet -- and a genuine horror story.'"
In some dark room, a couple of virus writers are thinking... "Damn, what a great idea... why didn't we think of that! That's so much better than playing APRIL FOOLSs at max volume on everyone's computers."
Nothing like people giving out ideas... much like when security specialists say, "Well atleast they didn't try to take out the planes stuffing baseballs in the airplane's toilets."
I haven't seen any evidence that FibreChannel is going away. Yes, Cisco is pushing FCOE (FibreChannel Over Ethernet), however that only replaces layers 0-2 in the FC stack with ethernet. You still have all the framing, nameservers, zoning, FSPF etc... that you are used to in the FC world. You just get to toss out the FC0 (physical) FC1 (encoding) and FC2 (B2B credits and such).
This is no different than when the industry moved away from SCSI as a physical transport to FC. The SCSI-3 protocol is still alive and kicking (what do you think runs on top of FibreChannel?)
Looking at their line of products, MDS for pure FC; or Nexus 5000 if you want to have only two adapters per server which push IP over Ethernet and FC over Ethernet. I dunno about about you, but I'm waiting for the FCOE market to mature up; so I can greatly reduce the number of HBAs and NICs that I've got installed in each server. Now if someone would just put dual FCOE on the motherboard then I wouldn't need any hbas/NICs. Each ESX server would get two cables plus power and our facilities are done. As opposed to now, I've got dual HBAs (two fibre connections) plus 2-4 GigE connections, for both bandwidth and connectivity. If this is a backup server then we're talking even more FC connections to reach the 4-8 LTO 3/4 tape drives
The Pygmalion effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect refers to situations in which students perform better than other students simply because they are expected to do so. So while these kids are in school, they may be doing great as they are being encouraged to do so. However, once they enter the work force the positive reinforcement and higher expectations are removed and the student (now employee) with expectations of self sufficiency.
Now I've seen my share of employees get hired and one thing that I've noticed is that during interviews the employer is often very positive and encouraging about the company/work environment; but then once the candidate is hired, they find out the truth that fellow employees are quite negative about the environment.
Maybe we're breeding a generation of kids that need to be "coddled" and receive continuous positive reinforcement, as the "tough love" is gone.
Anybody remember People Magazine's contest for online voting for 'most beautiful person'? Howard Stern urged his listeners to vote for Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_the_Angry_Drunken_Dwarf
In 1998, People magazine ran an online poll to determine the most beautiful people in the world, where somebody facetiously entered Nasiff as a write-in candidate. Nasiff won the contest, receiving hundreds of thousands of votes. At the time the online poll was launched, People led voters to believe that it would influence the print magazine's annual listing of "the most beautiful people." People refused to allow online votes to influence the magazine results. The poll was configured so that users could vote multiple times, by deleting a cookie given from the site. Many contestants had scripts written that would allow users to vote repeatedly.
To get a better look at where storage came from, head on over to IBM's Archives: http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_intro.html Then check out the historical product profiles, documentation and videos: http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_reference.html