the drives are more reliable then the ones running in a CoLo with constant 50 degree super clean air, just because drives in 1U's run hotter constantly and under a heaver load. Heat isn't necessarily so bad. From Google's research on hard disk failure trends [PDF]:
The figure shows that failures do not increase when the average temperature increases. In fact, there is a clear trend showing that lower temperatures are associated with higher failure rates. Only at very high temperatures is there a slight reversal of this trend.
If Google Maps was a "me too" project, then it was for MapQuest or Yahoo Maps. I was a big user of Terraserver back in the day, but Google Maps initially launched with just street maps, it didn't have any satellite views. Also, Google was the first to put a really useable interface on internet street maps.
I've come to the conclusion that bio-D is going to have a "green feel good tax" stuck on it for another decade. The people producing it refuse to even try and be price competitive with PD. What market are you in? In Seattle, last I checked, Biodiesel is $3.05 and petrodiesel is $3.89. This is a big switch from a few years ago (pre-tax breaks) where BD was about $4.00 and PD was about $2.50.
Definitely. Looking at my friends who have recently graduated, excluding those going to Microsoft, most are going to work for Unix shops. When I look at tech companies, I see Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Apple--who are all Unix based--and a large number of startups using PHP, Perl, or Ruby on a LAMP-like stack. The people not developing for Unix are those working in the IT departments of non-tech companies, which most of my friends don't seem to a show an interest in. For us, the interesting jobs are Unix-based*.
* I excluded Microsoft at the beginning, but I would like to add that I'm sure Microsoft has interesting jobs using MS technology, but they are the exception, not the rule.
Really? Cause I seem to remember creating FSMs using PALs just last year in my undergraduate CS program (in a required 300 level class). We also had a class where we put together a microprocessor, put it on an FPGA, and wrote low level code to run on it.
A number of my friends took the hardware capstone where you did even more of this type of work. It still goes on, perhaps you just aren't looking in the right place? It seems the CE and EE folks take more embedded classes than CS students, so that is where you should look. CS is a huge field, and not everyone is going to follow the story's author's preference of study.
This isn't a mainframe, it is a supercomputer. Last month we had a talk at work from a researcher at LLNL who works with supercomputers, and specifically the BlueGene/L. While BlueGene/L is reliable for a supercomputer, it sucks compared to a fault tolerant cluster or even a single machine: he said it has a hardware crash on average every seven days (compared with a day or two for more complicated supercomputer architectures). These large systems have no fault tolerance and one failure takes down the whole machine. That's why the software that runs on supercomputers makes lots of checkpoints.
Seriously? I'm pretty sure there are a large number of H1B visa holders at my work and, trust me, they don't come cheap. It isn't about cheap labor, it is about the free market and finding the right people for the job. We can't find enough talented people from the US, so we look abroad. Why limit yourself to the 5% of the population that just happens to live in the US?
The fact that the data content is far smaller is simply due to the ingenious idea of letting the user do the compression.
Heh, I like this concept. Perhaps the wireless companies-to the dissatisfaction of English teachers everywhere-are also subversively encouraging the use of SMS lingo. For example, "r u going to the mall 2night" is compressed to 82% of the original size of "are you going to the mall tonight". Those bastards will do anything to make a buck!
Have you not heard? The SDK is coming out February. Of course, we don't know any details about it yet, so maybe you'll have to get your app approved by Apple and ATT, which would really blow. I'm kinda wondering if you'll have to shell out for the SDK and then buy apps through the iTunes store, which would again suck. Either way, apps are coming.
Unless you are gay. An old friend was kicked out of BYU for that and they withheld his transcript so he couldn't transfer credits. Yeah, real nice folks.
That show drove me fucking nuts. Haven't they ever heard of dynamic range? Jesus Christ. The sheets rustling when they were in bed were louder than the explosions. Come on.
Or they figure there is so much pent up demand for solar panels that they can sell at market rates. They'll make a killing at that price, which can be used for paying off their debt and expanding capacity. As they saturate the market, they can lower prices and still make a nice profit. Eventually panels will be commoditized and then they will sell for less than a dollar per watt. Until they can fulfill the demand, why lower prices?
It has been known that the iPhone has a removable SIM since 12 minutes after it was announced. Don't believe me? Go watch the keynote and stop spreading FUD.
Why? If they are going to require laptops, let the students decided which one they'd like and have them buy it themselves.
BTW, my CS department didn't require a laptop; in fact it is very possible to complete the major without owning a computer at all (just using the labs).
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FWIW, Amazon Web Services did host the Seattle Slashdot anniversary party. I'm not suggesting there was any impropriety, however.
If Google Maps was a "me too" project, then it was for MapQuest or Yahoo Maps. I was a big user of Terraserver back in the day, but Google Maps initially launched with just street maps, it didn't have any satellite views. Also, Google was the first to put a really useable interface on internet street maps.
Definitely. Looking at my friends who have recently graduated, excluding those going to Microsoft, most are going to work for Unix shops. When I look at tech companies, I see Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Apple--who are all Unix based--and a large number of startups using PHP, Perl, or Ruby on a LAMP-like stack. The people not developing for Unix are those working in the IT departments of non-tech companies, which most of my friends don't seem to a show an interest in. For us, the interesting jobs are Unix-based*.
* I excluded Microsoft at the beginning, but I would like to add that I'm sure Microsoft has interesting jobs using MS technology, but they are the exception, not the rule.
Really? Cause I seem to remember creating FSMs using PALs just last year in my undergraduate CS program (in a required 300 level class). We also had a class where we put together a microprocessor, put it on an FPGA, and wrote low level code to run on it.
A number of my friends took the hardware capstone where you did even more of this type of work. It still goes on, perhaps you just aren't looking in the right place? It seems the CE and EE folks take more embedded classes than CS students, so that is where you should look. CS is a huge field, and not everyone is going to follow the story's author's preference of study.
Hmm, perhaps the meme I chose to follow was too obscure.
this looks shopped i can tell from teh pixels and from having seen quite a few shops in my time
This isn't a mainframe, it is a supercomputer. Last month we had a talk at work from a researcher at LLNL who works with supercomputers, and specifically the BlueGene/L. While BlueGene/L is reliable for a supercomputer, it sucks compared to a fault tolerant cluster or even a single machine: he said it has a hardware crash on average every seven days (compared with a day or two for more complicated supercomputer architectures). These large systems have no fault tolerance and one failure takes down the whole machine. That's why the software that runs on supercomputers makes lots of checkpoints.
The only thing I can think of after reading your comment is Europe's Large Hardon Collider.
Seriously? I'm pretty sure there are a large number of H1B visa holders at my work and, trust me, they don't come cheap. It isn't about cheap labor, it is about the free market and finding the right people for the job. We can't find enough talented people from the US, so we look abroad. Why limit yourself to the 5% of the population that just happens to live in the US?
The fact that the data content is far smaller is simply due to the ingenious idea of letting the user do the compression.
Heh, I like this concept. Perhaps the wireless companies-to the dissatisfaction of English teachers everywhere-are also subversively encouraging the use of SMS lingo. For example, "r u going to the mall 2night" is compressed to 82% of the original size of "are you going to the mall tonight". Those bastards will do anything to make a buck!
Have you not heard? The SDK is coming out February. Of course, we don't know any details about it yet, so maybe you'll have to get your app approved by Apple and ATT, which would really blow. I'm kinda wondering if you'll have to shell out for the SDK and then buy apps through the iTunes store, which would again suck. Either way, apps are coming.
Was on it. From what I can tell, that page has hardly been touched in the many years since it was posted.
Defensive much?
My point stands, starting a school that doesn't allows gays isn't something nice people do.
Unless you are gay. An old friend was kicked out of BYU for that and they withheld his transcript so he couldn't transfer credits. Yeah, real nice folks.
Do you have a link for this? These prison stats say that only 20% of the sentenced inmates had a most serious offense that was drug related.
That show drove me fucking nuts. Haven't they ever heard of dynamic range? Jesus Christ. The sheets rustling when they were in bed were louder than the explosions. Come on.
Or they figure there is so much pent up demand for solar panels that they can sell at market rates. They'll make a killing at that price, which can be used for paying off their debt and expanding capacity. As they saturate the market, they can lower prices and still make a nice profit. Eventually panels will be commoditized and then they will sell for less than a dollar per watt. Until they can fulfill the demand, why lower prices?
He was using Verizon math.
Or maybe you can move markers 200 yards on the US map and 200 meters in sane countries that use the metric system.
Morally innocent? I disagree.
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It has been known that the iPhone has a removable SIM since 12 minutes after it was announced. Don't believe me? Go watch the keynote and stop spreading FUD.
Why? If they are going to require laptops, let the students decided which one they'd like and have them buy it themselves.
BTW, my CS department didn't require a laptop; in fact it is very possible to complete the major without owning a computer at all (just using the labs).