No, this is not what happened at all. Simon Crosby (biggest blowhard ever), shot his mouth off proclaiming that VMware are a bunch of idiots, but he can't show it cause of the EULA. Well, unbeknownst to all his readers Xen had submitted their paper to VMware for approval, which they did approve and Xen published. It showed that Xen was competitive in most of the benchmarks, but fell short in a number and beat ESX in only 1, SPECjbb on Linux.
Good luck finding anything from this whole exchange, Citrix purged there blogs of the entire ordeal. Here is the paper WITH the data, no redactions. I am not seeing this "everywhere else Xen killed", could you point it out to me?
As a side note VMware is very liberal with their benchmark policy. As long as you actually benchmark in a sane manner they will let you publish no matter the result.
The health and car insurance numbers you give are way too high. Where I work (silicon valley), health insurance is $130/month for family coverage with HMO or $180/month for PPO. Taking out the employer's contribution would bump it up to about $500 for the PPO, the HMO is about $420, but we are talking about Google, so they obviously contribute a lot to the health insurance.
My car insurance is about $350/6 months, however that is only for a single driver, but even doubling that doesn't come to the 250 you claim.
The "computer" followed the brain-dead tie breaker rules that the FIG instituted and awarded Liuken second. The whole thing is overblown IMO since the real travesty of that event final was the score they gave Yang Yilin, who had a practically flawless routine yet somehow comes in third place (same difficulty as the other 2).
The Chinese people know about Tiananmen square. They also know you do not talk about it.
Also, I have found Chinese record keeping to be pretty suspect. My wife's birth certificate lists her birthdate as April 9, yet her real birthdate is April 29, her cousin, who was born in the same hospital (their mother's shared a room) has the correct birthdate of April 26.
The FIG have control of the event, not the Chinese.
Delays happen at sporting events, you deal with them or lose. The Chinese men team had to wait 5 minutes between competitors on the rings for the qualifying. They didn't have problems.
A lot of stations are going to start using their current analog channel spectrum for DTV. This means that stations that now broadcast analog on a VHF channel and digital on a UHF channel will be VHF only after the switch.
UHF channels 52-69 are going black no matter what, that is the spectrum the FCC sold off. so some rearranging might need to occur.
This all depends on the station of course, they can choose to dump their VHF channel in favor of the UHF one.
That is not true, indoor reception has improved greatly. I get a lot better reception on my TiVo 3 than I ever did on my MyHD MDP100 card (old card). same antenna, same location, the stations haven't changed their broadcast power yet.
They have used that ranking for a LONG time now, I remember them using it in '88 also. Anyway, I think it stems from that "lets give everyone a trophy" sentiment prevalent in the US.
There is no amateur rule in the Olympics anymore, that was ditched in the '70s. It is now up to each individual sport federation to determine the rules.
Frankly I find the whole idea of excluding professionals to be stupid. If someone can make money at their sport they are obviously better at it than those who cannot. Why exclude better athletes from a competition that is supposed to show us who the best in the world is at that sport?
They were rude because the customer was rude. They told him to stop because he was acting like an ass.
If he would have been polite I would guess he would have gotten a lot further.
You know Foxconn produces motherboards for Intel right?
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Because a TiVo is not a VCR.
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You really don't get it.
Without the DRM and content agreements there is no TiVo as a business. So no, even fucking TiVo cannot ship GPL 3 software with their product.
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In what world is TiVo able to distribute GPL 3 software? TiVo sells a box that requires signed binaries to run on it, GPL 3 doesn't let you do that without giving the ability to sign your own binaries. TiVo cannot do that because of DRM and various agreements with content producers. Hence TiVo cannot distribute GPL 3 software. Wether it is a restriction on the software or hardware side really doesn't matter. A TiVo box is software and hardware combined.
Take a look at MS and Google. Which one has a lot of sales and marketing people bungling their products?
The only reason Google doesn't have a lot of sales and marketing people is because they don't sell any products, they make all their money from ads (98% according to their last quarterly report).
I think this is partly the reason for the "problems" discussed in the article. The focus is on cool because that is what gets the eyeballs, which increases your ad views. It doesn't matter if there are bugs, as long as it is usable, they don't need to sell or support their products. This is why they can keep gmail in perpetual beta for example, they don't need to "release" it since it is never going to be sold. I would be curious to see a similar look at the Adsense departments at Google, I would imagine it is a lot more corporate.
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That giving the key to signing binaries defeats the entire point of requiring signed binaries.
What do you think I mean? I went to us.cyworld.com clicked a few random profiles and quickly closed my browser. Each profile looked exactly like a Myspace profile (complete with annoying music, ugly backgrounds, multiple videos, etc.), The only thing I saw different was this "room" at the top.
Maybe the Korean version is better, I didn't look at that.
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They brought back the lifetime service option.
What tuner are you using? I live ~34 miles from the transmitters in SF and get great signals, maybe 1 or 2 dropouts in an hour.
It was broadcast in the US.
Sorry, made a small error, Simon's blog posts are still on Citrix's sight, but the paper's are gone.
Nice FUD.
No, this is not what happened at all. Simon Crosby (biggest blowhard ever), shot his mouth off proclaiming that VMware are a bunch of idiots, but he can't show it cause of the EULA. Well, unbeknownst to all his readers Xen had submitted their paper to VMware for approval, which they did approve and Xen published. It showed that Xen was competitive in most of the benchmarks, but fell short in a number and beat ESX in only 1, SPECjbb on Linux.
Good luck finding anything from this whole exchange, Citrix purged there blogs of the entire ordeal. Here is the paper WITH the data, no redactions. I am not seeing this "everywhere else Xen killed", could you point it out to me?
As a side note VMware is very liberal with their benchmark policy. As long as you actually benchmark in a sane manner they will let you publish no matter the result.
The health and car insurance numbers you give are way too high. Where I work (silicon valley), health insurance is $130/month for family coverage with HMO or $180/month for PPO. Taking out the employer's contribution would bump it up to about $500 for the PPO, the HMO is about $420, but we are talking about Google, so they obviously contribute a lot to the health insurance.
My car insurance is about $350/6 months, however that is only for a single driver, but even doubling that doesn't come to the 250 you claim.
Each guy of the chinese team waited around 5 minutes after each routine just like sacramone.
What are you talking about? North Korea won the gold on the vault, the chinese gymnast got a bronze.
It is due to the really stupid scoring system that awards skyhigh difficulty.
The "computer" followed the brain-dead tie breaker rules that the FIG instituted and awarded Liuken second. The whole thing is overblown IMO since the real travesty of that event final was the score they gave Yang Yilin, who had a practically flawless routine yet somehow comes in third place (same difficulty as the other 2).
The Chinese people know about Tiananmen square. They also know you do not talk about it.
Also, I have found Chinese record keeping to be pretty suspect. My wife's birth certificate lists her birthdate as April 9, yet her real birthdate is April 29, her cousin, who was born in the same hospital (their mother's shared a room) has the correct birthdate of April 26.
The FIG have control of the event, not the Chinese.
Delays happen at sporting events, you deal with them or lose. The Chinese men team had to wait 5 minutes between competitors on the rings for the qualifying. They didn't have problems.
It depends.
A lot of stations are going to start using their current analog channel spectrum for DTV. This means that stations that now broadcast analog on a VHF channel and digital on a UHF channel will be VHF only after the switch.
UHF channels 52-69 are going black no matter what, that is the spectrum the FCC sold off. so some rearranging might need to occur.
This all depends on the station of course, they can choose to dump their VHF channel in favor of the UHF one.
That is not true, indoor reception has improved greatly. I get a lot better reception on my TiVo 3 than I ever did on my MyHD MDP100 card (old card). same antenna, same location, the stations haven't changed their broadcast power yet.
They have used that ranking for a LONG time now, I remember them using it in '88 also. Anyway, I think it stems from that "lets give everyone a trophy" sentiment prevalent in the US.
There is no amateur rule in the Olympics anymore, that was ditched in the '70s. It is now up to each individual sport federation to determine the rules. Frankly I find the whole idea of excluding professionals to be stupid. If someone can make money at their sport they are obviously better at it than those who cannot. Why exclude better athletes from a competition that is supposed to show us who the best in the world is at that sport?
Xinjiang is not Tibet. It is the province to the north of Tibet which contains a number of Islamic extremist.
I don't really understand your reference to flagship, Hellgate was a buggy mess with a really bad business model.
They were rude because the customer was rude. They told him to stop because he was acting like an ass. If he would have been polite I would guess he would have gotten a lot further.
You know Foxconn produces motherboards for Intel right?
Because a TiVo is not a VCR.
You really don't get it. Without the DRM and content agreements there is no TiVo as a business. So no, even fucking TiVo cannot ship GPL 3 software with their product.
In what world is TiVo able to distribute GPL 3 software? TiVo sells a box that requires signed binaries to run on it, GPL 3 doesn't let you do that without giving the ability to sign your own binaries. TiVo cannot do that because of DRM and various agreements with content producers. Hence TiVo cannot distribute GPL 3 software. Wether it is a restriction on the software or hardware side really doesn't matter. A TiVo box is software and hardware combined.
Take a look at MS and Google. Which one has a lot of sales and marketing people bungling their products?
The only reason Google doesn't have a lot of sales and marketing people is because they don't sell any products, they make all their money from ads (98% according to their last quarterly report).
I think this is partly the reason for the "problems" discussed in the article. The focus is on cool because that is what gets the eyeballs, which increases your ad views. It doesn't matter if there are bugs, as long as it is usable, they don't need to sell or support their products. This is why they can keep gmail in perpetual beta for example, they don't need to "release" it since it is never going to be sold. I would be curious to see a similar look at the Adsense departments at Google, I would imagine it is a lot more corporate.
That giving the key to signing binaries defeats the entire point of requiring signed binaries.
What do you think I mean? I went to us.cyworld.com clicked a few random profiles and quickly closed my browser. Each profile looked exactly like a Myspace profile (complete with annoying music, ugly backgrounds, multiple videos, etc.), The only thing I saw different was this "room" at the top. Maybe the Korean version is better, I didn't look at that.