Amen. I'm experimenting with S3 for backup (offsite backup, in additional to my optical media backups), but the upload time is killer. What scripts/program are you using for backup? I'm currently using JungleDisk because it looked like the best of OS X.
Fair enough. However, I still think it was rude to tell a bunch of Cocoa developers that they can use AJAX on the phone and act like they were doing us a favor.
But there is a difference between long term storage of analog media and digital media: the costs of storing digital media are dropping exponentially. What used to take a rack to store five years ago is now stored on one or two servers and will eventually be down to one hard drive.
Of course, you'd want to have multiple computers in separate locations for redundancy (which puts a lower limit on cost), but as time goes on, you'll need less copies at each datacenter. Combine electromagnetic storage with a couple of Blu-Ray discs of the same data (but use FEC encoding on the discs) and you've got a pretty good solution.
Why limit yourself to the US talent pool? Real companies like Microsoft and Google have satellite offices around the world so they can attract talent in those locations. They aren't laying people off in the US to outsource and save money, they are trying to tap the global market. Considering that the US is a small fraction of the entire world population, I'd say they are doing the right thing.
They don't just make their own copy of the internet, they make a dozen copies of the internet. They mirror their search index (and probably other stuff as well) as close to the user as possible, so these data centers are probably filled with a bunch of redundant data.
I was going to friend you for making good arguments in this thread and showing reason. However, you then insulted libertarians for wanting people to pay for their excesses. Anyone who claims to be libertarian and wants to force their externalities on others is a liar. I consider myself libertarian, but don't support massive, socialist freeway projects and subsidies for cars.
Why would you want to use an incandescent light in this? I think a lot of cities are switching to LED lamps here because they use much less power and last longer (so they don't need to send out expensive crews as often).
I wish I had mod points right now because you seem to be the only sane person in this thread. Some people are so paranoid about "anti-industry, global warming socialists" that they'll get defense every time someone even mentions it.
First of all, people choose where they want to live. By choosing the suburbs, they know they will likely have to rely on their vehicle most of the time. Suburbs may be cheaper, but if you can live in the city and not own a car (but perhaps use something like FlexCar to get one when you need it), then you might come out even.
Second, you claim that you are forced to use petroleum. That's funny. My parents, who drive more than I'd like (although, less than average), have a VW Jetta running on biodiesel. There were no state guards at the pump physically preventing us from filling up.
Finally, I think most of these people are just fucking lazy. Most of the people who claim they can't do anything without a car probably haven't tried. Do you really need to drive half a mile to the grocery store? I live in a city and I bike everywhere, even to the suburbs (even to other states and countries, occasionally). For some commutes (long ones that spend most of the time on the freeway) it is slower, but if you are doing in city driving, a bike can be nearly as fast. Plus, since you are getting exercise, you need to spend less time in the gym getting rid of the "suburban gut".
I think that the drop is a big deal. It is the first time it has dropped in 25 years. Also, while most of the country isn't an urban center, most of the people do live in urban areas. I'm skeptical of how places define urban (I'd probably consider it suburban), but the point is that a lot of people live in some small areas, so it is possible to use mass transit. Sure, Kansas probably won't have much in the way of mass transit, but many more people live in cities on either coast.
Actually, people are driving less. I also recall hearing that mass transit use has skyrocketed since Hurricane Katrina (in some places more than others).
How far is it to campus and what is your climate and terrain like? It seems like a bike could be a nice happy medium. A bike is cheaper than both a car and bus, and would probably put you somewhere in between on time.
Instead of giving incentives to car companies (which already get a shit load of subsidies in the form of "free" roads for their product), how about a green house gas (GHG) cap-and-trade system. The cap-and-trade system would automatically find the cheapest way to reduce GHGs, and I really doubt that way would be by producing ethanol. Ethanol is only hot because Iowa has waaay too much influence on politics (what with the Iowa primaries and all).
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Yeah, the right not to be killed, not the right to make everyone pay for your life extension.
Uhh, yes it is. The grandparent was talking about "free" as in speech not "free" as in beer, you frigtard.
Nevermind, I'm an idiot, I just tracerouted your website.
PS: Grr, slashdot reply time limits.
Interesting, thanks for the reply. If you don't mind me asking, what are you using EC2 for? IIRC, it is still a closed beta.
Amen. I'm experimenting with S3 for backup (offsite backup, in additional to my optical media backups), but the upload time is killer. What scripts/program are you using for backup? I'm currently using JungleDisk because it looked like the best of OS X.
Still waiting on that confirmation from Google...
That website just shows that they are still internally using an internal program.
It is also historic because he didn't say, "Create a patch and we'd be happy to commit it."
Fair enough. However, I still think it was rude to tell a bunch of Cocoa developers that they can use AJAX on the phone and act like they were doing us a favor.
I think you script junkies should show us how you plan to utilize multitouch in your websites. Oh wait, you can't.
Are you saying you don't think the official website of a product should return as the first result in a search for that product?
Indeed. In fact, I consider pirating music and software to be more dishonorable than dealing or doing drugs.
The point is that continually replacing and recycling (on the other side of the world it should be noted)
Wrong. From TFA:
"All the e-waste we collect in North America is processed in the U.S., and nothing is shipped overseas for disposal."
Now "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0" is in the WP spam filter and you can't post it on any page. Lame.
But there is a difference between long term storage of analog media and digital media: the costs of storing digital media are dropping exponentially. What used to take a rack to store five years ago is now stored on one or two servers and will eventually be down to one hard drive.
Of course, you'd want to have multiple computers in separate locations for redundancy (which puts a lower limit on cost), but as time goes on, you'll need less copies at each datacenter. Combine electromagnetic storage with a couple of Blu-Ray discs of the same data (but use FEC encoding on the discs) and you've got a pretty good solution.
Why limit yourself to the US talent pool? Real companies like Microsoft and Google have satellite offices around the world so they can attract talent in those locations. They aren't laying people off in the US to outsource and save money, they are trying to tap the global market. Considering that the US is a small fraction of the entire world population, I'd say they are doing the right thing.
They don't just make their own copy of the internet, they make a dozen copies of the internet. They mirror their search index (and probably other stuff as well) as close to the user as possible, so these data centers are probably filled with a bunch of redundant data.
They do use inexpensive commodity hardware, but no where have I heard that they use 2nd hand hardware. Do you have a source?
I was going to friend you for making good arguments in this thread and showing reason. However, you then insulted libertarians for wanting people to pay for their excesses. Anyone who claims to be libertarian and wants to force their externalities on others is a liar. I consider myself libertarian, but don't support massive, socialist freeway projects and subsidies for cars.
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Why would you want to use an incandescent light in this? I think a lot of cities are switching to LED lamps here because they use much less power and last longer (so they don't need to send out expensive crews as often).
I wish I had mod points right now because you seem to be the only sane person in this thread. Some people are so paranoid about "anti-industry, global warming socialists" that they'll get defense every time someone even mentions it.
That's quite a cop out.
First of all, people choose where they want to live. By choosing the suburbs, they know they will likely have to rely on their vehicle most of the time. Suburbs may be cheaper, but if you can live in the city and not own a car (but perhaps use something like FlexCar to get one when you need it), then you might come out even.
Second, you claim that you are forced to use petroleum. That's funny. My parents, who drive more than I'd like (although, less than average), have a VW Jetta running on biodiesel. There were no state guards at the pump physically preventing us from filling up.
Finally, I think most of these people are just fucking lazy. Most of the people who claim they can't do anything without a car probably haven't tried. Do you really need to drive half a mile to the grocery store? I live in a city and I bike everywhere, even to the suburbs (even to other states and countries, occasionally). For some commutes (long ones that spend most of the time on the freeway) it is slower, but if you are doing in city driving, a bike can be nearly as fast. Plus, since you are getting exercise, you need to spend less time in the gym getting rid of the "suburban gut".
I think that the drop is a big deal. It is the first time it has dropped in 25 years. Also, while most of the country isn't an urban center, most of the people do live in urban areas. I'm skeptical of how places define urban (I'd probably consider it suburban), but the point is that a lot of people live in some small areas, so it is possible to use mass transit. Sure, Kansas probably won't have much in the way of mass transit, but many more people live in cities on either coast.
Actually, people are driving less. I also recall hearing that mass transit use has skyrocketed since Hurricane Katrina (in some places more than others).
How far is it to campus and what is your climate and terrain like? It seems like a bike could be a nice happy medium. A bike is cheaper than both a car and bus, and would probably put you somewhere in between on time.
Instead of giving incentives to car companies (which already get a shit load of subsidies in the form of "free" roads for their product), how about a green house gas (GHG) cap-and-trade system. The cap-and-trade system would automatically find the cheapest way to reduce GHGs, and I really doubt that way would be by producing ethanol. Ethanol is only hot because Iowa has waaay too much influence on politics (what with the Iowa primaries and all).