Other than the games I've seen in the local bowling alley, about the only arcades one sees is Dave and Busters. The problem with D&Bs is IMHO, that it's 'credit based'. So you pay X to to charge up a card and a game costs Y credits. The thing is the more you play the more credits your dollar buys. Kinda like a volume discount. If you don't go very often, then you're always getting the fewest # of credits per dollar.
The kicker tho is, it's very hard to tell a) how many credits you have on your card and b) how many credits a game takes. What kills me is that half the games they have cost $5 and are "timed", meaning that as you play you are running out of time. The classic example of this is Gauntlet, where even if you aren't hit, you are running outta health.
Couldn't AT&T complain that they aren't a viable alternative to verizon, in the same method that google complained that Google isn't an option for IE default searching?
You should pick up a copy of my book Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround. It might shed some light on your situation and get you back on track. So far the mainframes are still running strong.
With all this power hungry datacenters they keep building, what is google doing to be a bit more environmentlaly green? Datacenters suck up power, in the S.F bay area, Exodus Communications (runner/owner of colo facilities during the dotcom boom), consumed more power than the NUMMI http://www.nummi.com/ auto manufacturing factory. Is building 10s of thousands of servers the right idea? I've talked to quite a few datacenter managers lately and they all have power problems, many have physical space in their datacenters for more gear, but do not have enough power to continue expanding.
For other workloads, you need a big disk aray and SAN, probably from Hitachi [hds.com], Sun [sun.com], or HP [hp.com]. This is the traditional model. Use this if you need a really big central storage pool or really high throughput.
You do realize that HP and SUN OEM Hitachi (HDS) storage arrays?
Ok... so if you are planning on driving down the cost of the setup, you will have to sacrifice other features.
How important is performance? Reliability? Scalability? If you are building PB of storage, how do you plan to back it up? What are the uptime requirements? Hitless codeload? Do you need multipathing? Snapshots? They all do raid, but do you need SATA/FC disk? How much throughput (MB/s) and IO/sec do you require? What management tools do you need? Callhome? SNMP/pager/email notification? Can you save $$$ by putting in a high end array but use iSCSI in the hosts to save $800/host?
In the end it comes down to. How valuable is your data? What is the impact to your business if it is down.
It sounds sexy on/. to 'roll your own', but I don't see any financial institutions 'rolling their own'. Educate yourself, put out RFPs to various storage vendors. Educate yourself.
See that device on your desk with the coiled cable connecting a "handset" to a "base unit". There's numbers on it. Sometimes it makes a "ringing" sound?
Why do you buy any object that delivers content? The quality of the content.
Why'd you buy a DVD player? The movies on DVD with their superior audio/video quality and that the movies YOU wanted to watch were available in this format. Otherwise we'd have stayed with VHS.
Why do you choose an operating system? The applications. If my customers send me msword docs all day long, i should be running windows as I'm in the best position to have 100% compatibility with their documents. Windows is more expensive to purchase than linux, but if I cannot run Outlook/excel/word/whatever then the cost of windows is a necessary and mandatory cost.
Why is PS2 sales still high? It's not the cost of the game machine, but that there are HUNDREDS of games available for it. With a large variety in the type of games available, any new consumer is more likely to find a game they want to play on the PS2 than on the xbox360 which still has only a few games.
If PS3 is backwards compatible with the PS2, it will be a slam dunk as people can still play their old games, if PS3 is not backwards compatible it will suffer from the same problems as the xbox360
The Bhopal Disaster of 1984 is claimed by many as the worst industrial disaster in history. It was caused by the accidental release of 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate (MIC) from a Union Carbide India, Limited (UCIL, now known as Eveready Industries India, Limited) pesticide plant located in the heart of the city of Bhopal, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
In the early hours of December 3, 1984, a holding tank with stored MIC overheated and released toxic heavier-than-air MIC gas, which rolled along the ground through the surrounding streets killing thousands outright. The transportation system in the city collapsed and many people were trampled trying to escape. The gases also injured anywhere from 150,000 to 600,000 people, at least 15,000 of whom later died.
The majority of deaths and serious injuries were related to pulmonary edema, but the gas caused a wide variety of other ailments. Signs and symptoms of methyl isocyanate normally include cough, dyspnea, chest pain, lacrimation, eyelid edema, and unconsciousness. These effects might progress over the next 24 to 72 hours to include acute lung injury, cardiac arrest, and death. Because of the hypothesized reactions that took place within the storage tank and in the surrounding atmosphere, it is thought that apart from MIC, phosgene, and hydrogen cyanide along with other poisonous gases all played a significant role in this disaster.
Somebody tell me why the icon for this is supposedly funny?
Y'know, this type 'negative' FUD, reminds me of everytime some politician says, "Do XYZ for the Children." Or more common to Calif... "Do XYZ, otherwise we'll have to close 3 firehouses..."
Basically, an oil rig, drilling in the middle of the lake, punctured a mineshaft below the lake (mining for salt). The end result was the entire lake draining into the mine below it. Fortunately, nobody was hurt.
The water of Lake Peigneur slowly started to turn, eventually forming a giant whirlpool. A large crater developed in the bottom of the lake. It was like someone pulled the stopper out of the bottom of a giant bathtub.
The crater grew larger and larger (it would eventually reach sixty yards in diameter). The water went down the hole faster and faster. The lake had been connected by the Delcambre Canal to the Gulf of Mexico, some twelve miles away. The ever-emptying lake caused the canal to lower by 3.5 feet and to start flowing in reverse. A fifty foot waterfall (the highest ever to exist in the state) formed where the canal water emptied into the crater.
The whirlpool easily sucked up the $5 million Texaco drilling platform, a second drilling rig that was nearby, a tugboat, eleven barges from the canal, a barge loading dock, seventy acres of Jefferson Island and its botanical gardens, parts of greenhouses, a house trailer, trucks, tractors, a parking lot, tons of mud, trees, and who knows what else. A natural gas fire broke out where the Texaco well was being drilled. Let's not forget the estimated 1.5 billion gallons of water that seemed to magically drain down the hole (does the Coriolis effect come into play here?). Of course, there was the great threat of environmental and economical catastrophe.
So reality TV works for the studios b/c they can hire basically "free" actors. No paying Seinfeld $1m per episode, but they can hire a bunch of nobodies for pennies who actually want to act for the sake of acting and not making millions for this piece of work. So the TV studios rake in huge profits by not having to pay out these salaries...
Now the computer industry is doing it...
We've seen 'hack this box for a prize' as its cheaper to pay out awards than to hire QA engineers.
Google does 'summer of code'...
Now sun does "write apps for us". Much cheaper than hiring a team of developers (or even one developer for that matter).
That was 15 times as much data as can fit on similar space on magnetic tapes considered the current industry standard, IBM spokesman Mike Ross told AFP.
A cartridge half the size of a typical VHS tape cartridge used in home recorders will be able to hold the text from eight million books that would fill 57 miles (92 kilometers) of bookshelves, according to researchers.
Where's the standard units of measurement? Such as how many Libraries of Congress is this?
But seriously, why can't they just say, compared to a LTO-3 tape, which holds XGB, this increased density will allow the same tape to hold Y GB.
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Someone call Tiger Woods and let him know that he'd be better if he played more videogames and spent less time on the course..
Looks like the next Eddie VanHalen will come from the 'Guitar Hero' playing basements and not the garage.
Typical /. post when it comes to privacy:
/. response to this article:
"I don't want to goverment/corporate entity/whatever to know anything about me. I must have privacy at all costs."
Typical
"What we need here is more information collected..."
Hypocrits.... or rather another form of NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard).
Doesn't quite work b/c somehow all the stations have managed to sync up when they play commercials....
Suspected terrorists change their name to Bob Smith.
Other than the games I've seen in the local bowling alley, about the only arcades one sees is Dave and Busters. The problem with D&Bs is IMHO, that it's 'credit based'. So you pay X to to charge up a card and a game costs Y credits. The thing is the more you play the more credits your dollar buys. Kinda like a volume discount. If you don't go very often, then you're always getting the fewest # of credits per dollar.
The kicker tho is, it's very hard to tell a) how many credits you have on your card and b) how many credits a game takes. What kills me is that half the games they have cost $5 and are "timed", meaning that as you play you are running out of time. The classic example of this is Gauntlet, where even if you aren't hit, you are running outta health.
Anybody here think that this resembles some guy dealing with his girlfriend/wife who is mad at him..
Him: What did I do?
Her: You know what you did, and if you don't know, I'm not telling you.
It would be nice if it had a bar code scanner built in. Then they could target it to warehouses and such.
Couldn't AT&T complain that they aren't a viable alternative to verizon, in the same method that google complained that Google isn't an option for IE default searching?
Then they crank up your $12.99 "introductory price" to $49.95/mo.
Dear Ballmer,
You should pick up a copy of my book Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround. It might shed some light on your situation and get you back on track. So far the mainframes are still running strong.
Sincerely yours,
Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
With all this power hungry datacenters they keep building, what is google doing to be a bit more environmentlaly green? Datacenters suck up power, in the S.F bay area, Exodus Communications (runner/owner of colo facilities during the dotcom boom), consumed more power than the NUMMI http://www.nummi.com/ auto manufacturing factory. Is building 10s of thousands of servers the right idea? I've talked to quite a few datacenter managers lately and they all have power problems, many have physical space in their datacenters for more gear, but do not have enough power to continue expanding.
You do realize that HP and SUN OEM Hitachi (HDS) storage arrays?
*sigh* n00b
Ok... so if you are planning on driving down the cost of the setup, you will have to sacrifice other features.
/. to 'roll your own', but I don't see any financial institutions 'rolling their own'. Educate yourself, put out RFPs to various storage vendors. Educate yourself.
How important is performance? Reliability? Scalability? If you are building PB of storage, how do you plan to back it up? What are the uptime requirements? Hitless codeload? Do you need multipathing? Snapshots? They all do raid, but do you need SATA/FC disk? How much throughput (MB/s) and IO/sec do you require? What management tools do you need? Callhome? SNMP/pager/email notification? Can you save $$$ by putting in a high end array but use iSCSI in the hosts to save $800/host?
In the end it comes down to. How valuable is your data? What is the impact to your business if it is down.
It sounds sexy on
First, since we're all a bit introverted we need help communicating...
= tips+for+effective+communication&btnG=Search
= how+to+talk+to+women&btnG=Search
/. community I would like to thank you for carrying on the tradition of "I can't use google, so I'll ask /."
= open+source+instant+messaging+platform&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q
See that device on your desk with the coiled cable connecting a "handset" to a "base unit". There's numbers on it. Sometimes it makes a "ringing" sound?
It's called a phone. Pick it up, dial the persons number and talk to them. A simple film from 1927 will help http://www.archive.org/details/HowtoUse1927
Or to be even less introverted.
walk over to their desk and talk to them. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q
Or... if you insist...
On behalf of the entire
Here... I'll even do it for you:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q
Thank you for your continued support.
Why do you buy any object that delivers content? The quality of the content.
Why'd you buy a DVD player? The movies on DVD with their superior audio/video quality and that the movies YOU wanted to watch were available in this format. Otherwise we'd have stayed with VHS.
Why do you choose an operating system? The applications. If my customers send me msword docs all day long, i should be running windows as I'm in the best position to have 100% compatibility with their documents. Windows is more expensive to purchase than linux, but if I cannot run Outlook/excel/word/whatever then the cost of windows is a necessary and mandatory cost.
Why is PS2 sales still high? It's not the cost of the game machine, but that there are HUNDREDS of games available for it. With a large variety in the type of games available, any new consumer is more likely to find a game they want to play on the PS2 than on the xbox360 which still has only a few games.
If PS3 is backwards compatible with the PS2, it will be a slam dunk as people can still play their old games, if PS3 is not backwards compatible it will suffer from the same problems as the xbox360
Everytime you have a problem, just post it to Ask Slashdot... seems like those are the most common questions around these parts.
So what if they're talking about unscheduled downtime... If you have to apply a patch every week (ala windows) then that's unscheduled downtime....
Somebody tell me why the icon for this is supposedly funny?
Y'know, this type 'negative' FUD, reminds me of everytime some politician says, "Do XYZ for the Children." Or more common to Calif... "Do XYZ, otherwise we'll have to close 3 firehouses..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Peigneur/
c o.html/
Basically, an oil rig, drilling in the middle of the lake, punctured a mineshaft below the lake (mining for salt). The end result was the entire lake draining into the mine below it. Fortunately, nobody was hurt.
From: http://members.tripod.com/~earthdude1/texaco/texa
The water of Lake Peigneur slowly started to turn, eventually forming a giant whirlpool. A large crater developed in the bottom of the lake. It was like someone pulled the stopper out of the bottom of a giant bathtub.
The crater grew larger and larger (it would eventually reach sixty yards in diameter). The water went down the hole faster and faster. The lake had been connected by the Delcambre Canal to the Gulf of Mexico, some twelve miles away. The ever-emptying lake caused the canal to lower by 3.5 feet and to start flowing in reverse. A fifty foot waterfall (the highest ever to exist in the state) formed where the canal water emptied into the crater.
The whirlpool easily sucked up the $5 million Texaco drilling platform, a second drilling rig that was nearby, a tugboat, eleven barges from the canal, a barge loading dock, seventy acres of Jefferson Island and its botanical gardens, parts of greenhouses, a house trailer, trucks, tractors, a parking lot, tons of mud, trees, and who knows what else. A natural gas fire broke out where the Texaco well was being drilled. Let's not forget the estimated 1.5 billion gallons of water that seemed to magically drain down the hole (does the Coriolis effect come into play here?). Of course, there was the great threat of environmental and economical catastrophe.
So the LA gov't is spending time/$$$ on this instead of helping Katrina victims?
What's more dangerous... being in this so called "Fight Club", or going to Kaiser?
Ba-dum tish... I'll be here all week, try the veal.
Sadly, running windows applications didn't work for OS/2 Warp.
So reality TV works for the studios b/c they can hire basically "free" actors. No paying Seinfeld $1m per episode, but they can hire a bunch of nobodies for pennies who actually want to act for the sake of acting and not making millions for this piece of work. So the TV studios rake in huge profits by not having to pay out these salaries...
Now the computer industry is doing it...
We've seen 'hack this box for a prize' as its cheaper to pay out awards than to hire QA engineers.
Google does 'summer of code'...
Now sun does "write apps for us". Much cheaper than hiring a team of developers (or even one developer for that matter).
Where's the standard units of measurement? Such as how many Libraries of Congress is this?
But seriously, why can't they just say, compared to a LTO-3 tape, which holds XGB, this increased density will allow the same tape to hold Y GB.