Servers are not moving to fiber. They're just moving to *different* copper. Instead of moving from 1G-TX to 10G-BaseT, people are moving their servers to Direct Attach Copper (aka DAC, or Twinax). Why? The fiber plant is expensive, and so are transceivers.
Given where the industry is presently in terms of speed, the trend is toward Single Mode Fiber. This means very expensive optics. 10G-LR optics cost about 2-3x what a 10G-SR optic does. Same in the 40G and 100G world. A 3m 10G DAC can be had for $20 at street prices. Street prices on 10G-SR optics are around $20 each, and you'll need 2 per connection, plus a patch cable. See why people move to DAC?
Also, in the next year, you're going to see 25/50G access taking off. Guess what those technologies use - DAC. There is no optical standard for 25 and 50G to date.
3 reasons why this will never happen on any large scale.
1. Portable devices don't do FLAC. No FLAC on the iPod/iPhone/iPad means you just eliminated >90% of the portable device market.
2. Convenience - several folks cited how ripping CDs is inconvenient. So is converting FLAC to something usable by your devices.
3. Lack of knowledge/commitment - be honest. Think about how many people you know would be willing to learn how to do the conversions or commit to doing them.
Until those 3 are solved, you're going to be buying online music in MP3 or M4A formats.
The chief problem is one of cultural bias against mathematics. In today's culture, we teach our children that it's ok to "not be a math person," as if the ability to do mathematics requires a certain set of genetic traits. Is it any wonder that the bulk of people you meet every day have no clue as to how to go about logically working through a problem and coming to a decision on it? Is it any surprise how many people can't form a coherent argument, lacking any basis in logic?
Contrast this mindset with other subjects. Suppose I came out with the statement, "I'm just not a history person. I just can't get my head around it." Or, how about, "I'm just not a grammar person. It's all so hard, I'll never use it, so why bother?" I'd be labeled a blithering idiot.
Kind of sad that you don't get that cloud computing is real.
Let me break it down for you, simply. A virtualized environment where growing the pool of available compute time is as simply as adding another node to a cluster. Clearly, Captain Obvious realizes there are servers involved, but that's just the lowest layer in the thing.
In other news, the Fed Gov sales reps & SEs at VMware are currently weeping with joy.
Indeed. Friends of ours keep having this recurring conversation about having another child. Their previous children were difficult babies in different ways. The wife keeps saying things like, "But we'll probably have a good one this time. We're due." I keep pointing out that her chances are neither better, nor worse, which she doesn't seem to quite get, despite being a rather intelligent person.
For those who don't get it - the disposition, or ease/difficulty of each child is an independent random variable. The first N outcomes bear absolutely no influence on the N+1th outcome.
Interesting.. When we first got FiOS, they were only doing Internet & Phone (TV came 2 years later), and handing out D-Link routers. Since I work for a network manufacturer, the first thing I did was swap it out for a real firewall.
2 years later, they started doing TV in our area, they brought out an Actiontec, wanting to replace my firewall with theirs. Fortunately, I came upon a solution that worked perfectly, and doesn't involve using their router directly (shocked the installers that came out to do our TV install). I've got the Ethernet WAN port of their router plugged into an isolated zone on my firewall (where my Guest WLAN also lives), with the cable wire still connected (so the cable boxes can get guide data). This isolated zone has access to the Internet only, nothing on my "regular" network at all.
Works like a champ. Get your FiOS Internet delivered over Cat5 if you can get the installer to do it, then hook up the router that way. The cable boxes don't seem to mind 2 layers of NAT, so I see no reason not to deploy like this.
And as I understand it, unlimited data is actually cheaper on the iPhone than on other phones (at least, at the time of the launch) due to the fact that the iPhone really needs it and Apple demanded it.
I'm pretty sure you didn't quite understand it correctly then. When the original iPhone was launched, the data plan was $20/month. When the 3G launched, it jumped to $30/month. No change when the 3GS hit the shelves.
I've been paying $15/month for unlimited data on AT&T for years now.
Hey, look at it this way, he'll know what to look for in catching others cheating.:)
Seriously though, is anyone really surprised by any of this? Republicans, Democrats, they're mostly the same. Only 5 days until the new & improved pack of lies starts..
First off, while Aisha may have been raped by Muhammad (if you go by the relatively modern definition that says any sex with a young child is rape) (which is one that I agree with BTW), she didn't appear to resent him for it. She was, in fact, his favorite wife, and she loved and was very affectionate toward him.
Whoah, hit the brakes there bucky. Just because the child still liked him, and later forgave him, does that make it right? That's a big no.
Second, while Jesus never had sex with a child (or with anyone, so far as the canonical Bible is concerned), Numbers 31 does have Moses (under God's command) ordering his soldiers to slaughter every man, woman, and male child among the Midianites, while keeping the female children to themselves. For what, manual labor, do you think?
Speculate much? Direct evidence vs. speculation. Isn't it entirely possible that those were God's orders? Female children wouldn't be likely to grow up, rise up and exact revenge. Just as plausible as your "explanation."
Really, sometimes, I think their heads are going to explode. Why? We refuse to give our SSNs to the doctor's office. They swear up, down, nine ways to Sunday that they absolutely need those 9 digits so they can bill our insurance company for the visit. Nevermind the fact that they've never once gone unpaid. Why? We give them the insurance information, which includes our member id #'s, which is NOT an SSN.
The last time we went through this, the girl told me, "But, if we enter anything wrong, misspell your name, get the id number wrong, or whatever, the insurance company will bounce the claim." My suggestion was simple, "Ok, no problem, just make sure you type in the correct number and information the first time, and then it will be correct in the future as well."
This always pisses me off. Assuming these figures are in any way accurate, this effectively means gamers in the US and Europe (especially the UK) are effectively subsidising lower costs in Japan. How the hell is that legal? Or am I missing something?
You're missing something. It's not illegal, as Nintendo is free to charge whatever they want for their product. In a free-market economy, one is free to charge whatever price they feel the market will bear. If you feel the pricing is unfair, I recommend you vote with your wallet and purchase some other system..
Who cares if your carrier supports a particular phone? Just get something that's technologically compatible with the network in question. If you want an E70, get yourself an E70-2, it's got GSM/EDGE 850/1800/1900, plus all of the associated goodness the phone brings in other areas.
I used to use one, loved it. It met an unfortunate end.. Currently using an E61i, while awaiting the release of the E71...
Forget all of these guys, I'm just excited to see Bob Villa out and posting. Bob should definitely throw his hat in. And maybe even bring Norm Abram. Maybe even Richard Trethewey as Secretary of State, or at least plumbing.
Seriously though kids, I'm not excited about any of these candidates, on either side. I guess this election, at least for me is going to be about "who terrifies me the least." McCain seems too frail. I mean, look at the dude, he's not in office yet and he looks like he's ready to fall over. Being the President is incredibly demanding. Neither Romney nor Huckabee are really doing it for me either. And Ron Paul? Interesting ideas, but just a bit too "out there" for my tastes.
Actually, a theory (or theorem) is a provable statement.
I suppose you are indeed correct. A theorem can be proven, but the theories that are germane to this discussion are still nothing more than unproven theories.
Science will change in the next 1000 years shattering our notion of the universe, but the Genesis account will never change.
And that, in one sentence, summarizes the fatal flaw in using religion as a means of understanding the world.
How so? Remember, that any sufficiently advanced technology would seem like "magic" to a sufficiently undeveloped mind. Are you really so bold as to believe that we've already advanced to the point of being capable of understanding every possible notion in existence?
Anti-Bible folks always trot out the whole "Earth created in 6 days" stuff and proclaim the entire Bible to be false, since they claim to have facts that the Earth is in fact millions of years old. A couple of observations there. Radio-carbon dating depends on an estimated window of how old you think the object is in the first place. Secondly, they conveniently dismiss the notion of the fact that God is not bound by the human concepts of time, "a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a day".
In short, you absolutely, positively, cannot prove the theories presented by today's scientific community. Theories are unproven, by definition. If they were proven, they would no longer be theory, but axiom. Take care to realize I've not dismissed those theories, just stated the simple fact that they are not absolute truths having been already proven.
No, most every gas station I have been to in my life sells "regular", "silver", and "premium" gas. Have you never bought gas before?
Spoken like someone who doesn't know that gas used to contain lead, and it was referred to as "regular gas". You used to go to the pump and get regular, unleaded or unleaded premium. At least that's my recollection of my early youth (born in 1972).
Of course, nobody sells regular gas any longer, so plain old unleaded has now assumed the name "regular".
Until very recently (i.e. prior to the current release), I would never have recommended OpenWrt. As of White Russian RC4, there's a standard web interface. Unfortunately, they forgot to install the nas package by default, so if you'd like to use WPA, you'll have to ipkg update; ipkg install nas. But after that, it works like a champ.
In fact, I like it so much I just changed out the firmware on my parents wrt54g for openwrt and installed an openvpn server. Now, fixing their computers is as easy as Windows/Apple Remote Desktop (they've still got 1 PeeCee running Windoze left).
I first read the headline, and thought, "Harry Potter Fires Father of Order of the Phoenix".
Then about 4 seconds later my brain caught up, and I thought perhaps I should wait until after I've fully woken up and had a shower before I read/.
I got tired of spending $50 to replace ink just because HP couldn't make a cartridge that wouldn't dry up after a few months or would just flat out expire (see previous/. stories if you don't believe...). Besides, now that HP has a $39 inkjet printer - we now live in the age of disposable printers. That's bound to be great for the environment, eh?
We've had a networked laser printer for quite some time, for a long time, an HP LJ 2300M with a Jetdirect card, and more recently an HP LJ 2420d. I moved the JetDirect card to it. The 2300M needed a lot of repairs after it got dropped.:(
The only, and I do mean only thing we ever used the Inkjet for was to print pictures on photo paper. I sold the printer with the remaining ink we had left for $100, sold the Wifi JetDirect box I had for the printer for another $250, and took my wife out for a nice dinner, and still had $200 in my pocket.
Our local CVS does digital prints that look tremendous, and cost a whole $0.29 each. If I don't have the time to mess with preparing the photos to be transported to CVS and all that, I just use iPhoto to order prints. I think next time I'm going to try to use the Kodak Bluetooth machines there in CVS. I'll just xfer the pics I want to print to my phone before I head over.
He's referring to what a number of people who saw the keynote, or watched the Quicktime stream of the keynote *thought they saw*. Steve brought up the "About this Mac" box, and it showed a Pentium 4 3.6 Ghz. They misread it as "4 Pentium 3.6 Ghz".
Silly, I agree, but more than 1 person out there misread it. There was a whole discussion on macrumors.com about it.
Want to leave BT on? Fine by me. Why do you need visibility on all the time though? Toothing? You flip on visibility, pair with whatever device you want to pair with and shut visibility back off.
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Servers are not moving to fiber. They're just moving to *different* copper. Instead of moving from 1G-TX to 10G-BaseT, people are moving their servers to Direct Attach Copper (aka DAC, or Twinax). Why? The fiber plant is expensive, and so are transceivers. Given where the industry is presently in terms of speed, the trend is toward Single Mode Fiber. This means very expensive optics. 10G-LR optics cost about 2-3x what a 10G-SR optic does. Same in the 40G and 100G world. A 3m 10G DAC can be had for $20 at street prices. Street prices on 10G-SR optics are around $20 each, and you'll need 2 per connection, plus a patch cable. See why people move to DAC? Also, in the next year, you're going to see 25/50G access taking off. Guess what those technologies use - DAC. There is no optical standard for 25 and 50G to date.
3 reasons why this will never happen on any large scale. 1. Portable devices don't do FLAC. No FLAC on the iPod/iPhone/iPad means you just eliminated >90% of the portable device market. 2. Convenience - several folks cited how ripping CDs is inconvenient. So is converting FLAC to something usable by your devices. 3. Lack of knowledge/commitment - be honest. Think about how many people you know would be willing to learn how to do the conversions or commit to doing them. Until those 3 are solved, you're going to be buying online music in MP3 or M4A formats.
The chief problem is one of cultural bias against mathematics. In today's culture, we teach our children that it's ok to "not be a math person," as if the ability to do mathematics requires a certain set of genetic traits. Is it any wonder that the bulk of people you meet every day have no clue as to how to go about logically working through a problem and coming to a decision on it? Is it any surprise how many people can't form a coherent argument, lacking any basis in logic?
Contrast this mindset with other subjects. Suppose I came out with the statement, "I'm just not a history person. I just can't get my head around it." Or, how about, "I'm just not a grammar person. It's all so hard, I'll never use it, so why bother?" I'd be labeled a blithering idiot.
Kind of sad that you don't get that cloud computing is real. Let me break it down for you, simply. A virtualized environment where growing the pool of available compute time is as simply as adding another node to a cluster. Clearly, Captain Obvious realizes there are servers involved, but that's just the lowest layer in the thing. In other news, the Fed Gov sales reps & SEs at VMware are currently weeping with joy.
Indeed. Friends of ours keep having this recurring conversation about having another child. Their previous children were difficult babies in different ways. The wife keeps saying things like, "But we'll probably have a good one this time. We're due." I keep pointing out that her chances are neither better, nor worse, which she doesn't seem to quite get, despite being a rather intelligent person. For those who don't get it - the disposition, or ease/difficulty of each child is an independent random variable. The first N outcomes bear absolutely no influence on the N+1th outcome.
Interesting.. When we first got FiOS, they were only doing Internet & Phone (TV came 2 years later), and handing out D-Link routers. Since I work for a network manufacturer, the first thing I did was swap it out for a real firewall. 2 years later, they started doing TV in our area, they brought out an Actiontec, wanting to replace my firewall with theirs. Fortunately, I came upon a solution that worked perfectly, and doesn't involve using their router directly (shocked the installers that came out to do our TV install). I've got the Ethernet WAN port of their router plugged into an isolated zone on my firewall (where my Guest WLAN also lives), with the cable wire still connected (so the cable boxes can get guide data). This isolated zone has access to the Internet only, nothing on my "regular" network at all. Works like a champ. Get your FiOS Internet delivered over Cat5 if you can get the installer to do it, then hook up the router that way. The cable boxes don't seem to mind 2 layers of NAT, so I see no reason not to deploy like this.
And as I understand it, unlimited data is actually cheaper on the iPhone than on other phones (at least, at the time of the launch) due to the fact that the iPhone really needs it and Apple demanded it.
I'm pretty sure you didn't quite understand it correctly then. When the original iPhone was launched, the data plan was $20/month. When the 3G launched, it jumped to $30/month. No change when the 3GS hit the shelves. I've been paying $15/month for unlimited data on AT&T for years now.
Hey, look at it this way, he'll know what to look for in catching others cheating. :)
Seriously though, is anyone really surprised by any of this? Republicans, Democrats, they're mostly the same. Only 5 days until the new & improved pack of lies starts..
First off, while Aisha may have been raped by Muhammad (if you go by the relatively modern definition that says any sex with a young child is rape) (which is one that I agree with BTW), she didn't appear to resent him for it. She was, in fact, his favorite wife, and she loved and was very affectionate toward him.
Whoah, hit the brakes there bucky. Just because the child still liked him, and later forgave him, does that make it right? That's a big no.
Second, while Jesus never had sex with a child (or with anyone, so far as the canonical Bible is concerned), Numbers 31 does have Moses (under God's command) ordering his soldiers to slaughter every man, woman, and male child among the Midianites, while keeping the female children to themselves. For what, manual labor, do you think?
Speculate much? Direct evidence vs. speculation. Isn't it entirely possible that those were God's orders? Female children wouldn't be likely to grow up, rise up and exact revenge. Just as plausible as your "explanation."
Really, sometimes, I think their heads are going to explode. Why? We refuse to give our SSNs to the doctor's office. They swear up, down, nine ways to Sunday that they absolutely need those 9 digits so they can bill our insurance company for the visit. Nevermind the fact that they've never once gone unpaid. Why? We give them the insurance information, which includes our member id #'s, which is NOT an SSN. The last time we went through this, the girl told me, "But, if we enter anything wrong, misspell your name, get the id number wrong, or whatever, the insurance company will bounce the claim." My suggestion was simple, "Ok, no problem, just make sure you type in the correct number and information the first time, and then it will be correct in the future as well."
This always pisses me off. Assuming these figures are in any way accurate, this effectively means gamers in the US and Europe (especially the UK) are effectively subsidising lower costs in Japan. How the hell is that legal? Or am I missing something?
You're missing something. It's not illegal, as Nintendo is free to charge whatever they want for their product. In a free-market economy, one is free to charge whatever price they feel the market will bear. If you feel the pricing is unfair, I recommend you vote with your wallet and purchase some other system..
Who cares if your carrier supports a particular phone? Just get something that's technologically compatible with the network in question. If you want an E70, get yourself an E70-2, it's got GSM/EDGE 850/1800/1900, plus all of the associated goodness the phone brings in other areas.
I used to use one, loved it. It met an unfortunate end.. Currently using an E61i, while awaiting the release of the E71...
Seriously though kids, I'm not excited about any of these candidates, on either side. I guess this election, at least for me is going to be about "who terrifies me the least." McCain seems too frail. I mean, look at the dude, he's not in office yet and he looks like he's ready to fall over. Being the President is incredibly demanding. Neither Romney nor Huckabee are really doing it for me either. And Ron Paul? Interesting ideas, but just a bit too "out there" for my tastes.
But hey, that's me. Bob & Norm all the way!
I suppose you are indeed correct. A theorem can be proven, but the theories that are germane to this discussion are still nothing more than unproven theories.
How so? Remember, that any sufficiently advanced technology would seem like "magic" to a sufficiently undeveloped mind. Are you really so bold as to believe that we've already advanced to the point of being capable of understanding every possible notion in existence?
Anti-Bible folks always trot out the whole "Earth created in 6 days" stuff and proclaim the entire Bible to be false, since they claim to have facts that the Earth is in fact millions of years old. A couple of observations there. Radio-carbon dating depends on an estimated window of how old you think the object is in the first place. Secondly, they conveniently dismiss the notion of the fact that God is not bound by the human concepts of time, "a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a day".
In short, you absolutely, positively, cannot prove the theories presented by today's scientific community. Theories are unproven, by definition. If they were proven, they would no longer be theory, but axiom. Take care to realize I've not dismissed those theories, just stated the simple fact that they are not absolute truths having been already proven.
Spoken like someone who doesn't know that gas used to contain lead, and it was referred to as "regular gas". You used to go to the pump and get regular, unleaded or unleaded premium. At least that's my recollection of my early youth (born in 1972).
Of course, nobody sells regular gas any longer, so plain old unleaded has now assumed the name "regular".
In fact, I like it so much I just changed out the firmware on my parents wrt54g for openwrt and installed an openvpn server. Now, fixing their computers is as easy as Windows/Apple Remote Desktop (they've still got 1 PeeCee running Windoze left).
Love it.
Um, I guess you haven't been in a Cingular store recently.
There's a Nokia flip. The 6102.
I first read the headline, and thought, "Harry Potter Fires Father of Order of the Phoenix". Then about 4 seconds later my brain caught up, and I thought perhaps I should wait until after I've fully woken up and had a shower before I read /.
PowerBook. Bluetooth.
Expanded version: Use a BT keyboard & mouse with it.
A friend of mine does exactly that with his 17" PB, and swears by it.
I got tired of spending $50 to replace ink just because HP couldn't make a cartridge that wouldn't dry up after a few months or would just flat out expire (see previous /. stories if you don't believe...). Besides, now that HP has a $39 inkjet printer - we now live in the age of disposable printers. That's bound to be great for the environment, eh?
We've had a networked laser printer for quite some time, for a long time, an HP LJ 2300M with a Jetdirect card, and more recently an HP LJ 2420d. I moved the JetDirect card to it. The 2300M needed a lot of repairs after it got dropped. :(
The only, and I do mean only thing we ever used the Inkjet for was to print pictures on photo paper. I sold the printer with the remaining ink we had left for $100, sold the Wifi JetDirect box I had for the printer for another $250, and took my wife out for a nice dinner, and still had $200 in my pocket.
Our local CVS does digital prints that look tremendous, and cost a whole $0.29 each. If I don't have the time to mess with preparing the photos to be transported to CVS and all that, I just use iPhoto to order prints. I think next time I'm going to try to use the Kodak Bluetooth machines there in CVS. I'll just xfer the pics I want to print to my phone before I head over.
Hey, if you really don't want to get picked on by Windoze fanboys, you should know that Xenon is a noble gas and Xeon is a CPU type. :)
Silly, I agree, but more than 1 person out there misread it. There was a whole discussion on macrumors.com about it.
Being married, I've got no need for toothing..
Just like the other one, but it also infects via BT. If you're not in some stranger's phonebook, he can't MMS you.