I like to line stuff up, such as assignments. (Tried to demonstrate this with a code sample, but/. comments collapse spaces)
So for a list of const definitions in.h file, for example, despite variable names of differing lengths, the "=" signs will all be in the same column, and the values will all begin in the same column.
You might be able to achieve this with a proportional font and tabs, but I don't trust tabs.
With the "cloud" you have to trust that some third party, whose business is making money, is going to spend for the capacity to cover those contingencies. I flat do not trust them.
This argument to be used against any and all outsourcing.
With "motorcar servicing" you have to trust that some third party, whose business is making money, is going to perform due diligence when servicing my car.
With "banking" you have to trust that some third party, whose business is making money, is going to keep my money in a secure manner.
With "office cleaners" you have to trust that some third party, whose business is making money, is going to come in on a regular basis and clean the office.
It's a non-issue. Have your contract specify what you require from the service. If the vendor doesn't fulfil the terms of the contract, sue them.
If Amazon's SLA doesn't meet your requirements, then sure, don't buy their service. Find a provider who does, or, yes, roll your own.
But if their SLA does meet your requirements, why the hell would you "flat do not trust them" to fulfil that?
having a lot of expensive hardware sitting around not doing anything 90% of the time
The solution to this is finding saleable ways to use this spare capacity. That's what Amazon's Spot Instances plan addresses. Essentially, you set up an image, and ask Amazon to run it at a given price. During off-peak hours, when the capacity is available, your image comes up. If the capacity is unavailable, and someone's outbid you, your image comes down again.
(Remember, web hosting is not the only thing computers can do)
the per hour plans are cheap. but the 24x7 hosting EC2 plans are a lot more expensive than physical hardware.
Which makes the GP's taxi analogy perfect. If you want to host something with reasonably static storage needs, that's getting hit consistently all year round, EC2's going to be more expensive than the alternatives.
If you've got something like SmugMug (image hosting) where your storage needs grow forever, at an unpredictable rate, S3 might be cheaper than managing the storage yourself.
If you get massive surges in demand, a few times a year (for example, you sell tickets for in-demand events), the ability to add a few hundred EC2 instances just at the times you need them, might be cheaper than having that spare capacity all year round.
Or like the insurance industry, where the insurance companies take out insurance with re-insurance companies, against getting too many claims.
Or like the mortgage industry...
Seriously, I think Amazon and Google intend to be the end of the chain. They don't want to buy computing services from a third party. It seems like they need to invest in affordable "idle" capacity to deal with peaks. That spare capacity needs to be economical when it's not needed. Either it can be cheap to keep mothballed (whole powered-down data centres on cheap land?) or it can be working on profitable batch computing tasks, that customers don't mind having paused when the capacity is needed for real-time work.
It misses the point of the magical cloud! If the phbs learn that the magical cloud can run out of capacity, then they might have to start planning again.
The whole point is that Amazon (or, insert service vendor of choice) does the planning for you. I don't have to order extra heating gas for winter - I expect the gas company to anticipate the grid's needs. If I heated my house with gas from canisters I had to order a month in advance, I'd have to do my own planning. That's would be analogous to a traditional in-house datacentre.
It's possible that Amazon failed to provide sufficient capacity for a period. Or it's possible it did just fine - I'm not reading about any SLAs being breached. But if one service provider fails to provide sufficient capacity, that doesn't invalidate the whole business model. It just means that the vendor has to do better.
Does that matter? If 20% are in the right age range, and out of of those he finds 5% attractive, then 1% pass to the next stage (where they'll most likely fail!}.
Depends what figures he plugs into his equation.
If he plugs in "Percentage of women I find attractive", he gets a different outcome from if he plugs in "Percentage of women within the age specified that I find attractive."
He doesn't say that he is. In fact, looking in London, he'll find fewer English girls than in any other part of England. A staggering 24.8% of people living in London were born abroad. (I don't mean this in a pejorative way, incidentally).
Don't a significant number of the jokes in popular American sitcom Frasier rely on you understanding that Daphne's background in Manchester is very working class?
I think his point is that in some parts of the world people would think nothing of travelling 90 miles for groceries, or a date, or whatever. If you lived in Stewart, BC for example, you'd probably get used to long drives or frequent light aircraft flights.
What he doesn't recognise is that in the UK, people don't have that mentality.
For a lasting relationship it helps to have not too much of an age difference. More than 10 years and you are almost looking at a generation difference.
The older you get, the less significant 10 years becomes.
According to my own prejudices: When you're as school, a 1 year age difference seems significant. A 30 year old man with a 20 year old partner is a bit odd. A 35 year old man with a 25 year old partner is not quite so notable. A 40 year old man with a 30 year old partner is fairly unremarkable.
Reverse the genders and the dynamics change that's just the way it is.
There's more to a relationship than remembering the same songs and TV shows from your youth.
If your a male over 40 who finds himself single, and you have ambitions to start a family, it's probably wise to look for a younger woman!
Glasses are no more of a problem during sex than any other physical activity
Glasses are more of a problem during sex than during, say, jogging. For example if you want to lie with your head on its side, glasses get in the way. A sweaty nose combined with repetitive jerks while face-down can cause glasses to slip off your nose and fall off.
It's probably worth taking them off, unless your partner is really keen on spex appeal.
Glasses are less of a problem during sex, than during surf based activities. You can shag with glasses on. I lost three pairs of prescription sunglasses to the briny deep, and that's what persuaded me to get laser surgery.
the nearest city to Coventry is clearly Birmingham
The nearest city to Coventry is clearly Coventry. It's an ancient city, going back to Roman times, with the monastery authorised to become a cathedral in 1102.
(In case you didn't know, in Britain the definition of 'city' is that it contains a cathedral. Otherwise it's just a big town.)
Whereas, Birmingham was nothing until the Industrial Revolution, where it thrived thanks to happening to be where a bunch of canals converged.
I think what threw Fox is that the guy's paper says he wants a girl who lives in London.
90 miles by car. Quite along way when you consider that the whole of England is 400 miles or so end to end.
The southern half of England is very densely populated compared to pretty much anywhere else in the world. A 90 mile journey is considered a long way, and you'd pass through/near several major conurbations en route.
I'm British. I've spent a fair amount of time in the US. And I disagree.
Patriotism aside, I think one probably develops a taste for local styles.
Oh, and TV isn't really representative of real life. British TV has less of a propensity for glamour than American TV. Our most popular soaps - Coronation St. and Eastenders - make a habit of taking beautiful actresses and making them dowdy in costume/makeup.
Plus you might date someone you find averagely attractive, by the end of the night glimpse something about them that makes you like them more, and six months later think they're the most beautiful person in the world.
They say familiarity breeds contempt, but sometimes it works the other way.
... and he says only 5% of women meet this criterion. TOO PICKY.
Plus he says he wants them to be single. Jeez, way to narrow your options;)
Plus, many of these variables aren't really orthogonal. For example, many of the women that he doesn't find attractive are likely to be older than his criteria allow. There's a correlation between wealth and physical attractiveness, and there's also a correlation between wealth and university education.
I think the intention is that 3D TVs are not significantly more expensive than ordinary TVs -- all the display needs is to be able to update at 60FPS (for a 30FPS 3D movie).
The glasses synchronise with the image source, to flicker in sync.
A story about PS3 3D games recently said that some existing retail TVs can display at 120FPS, such that 60FPS 3D games are possible.
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Slashcode appears to strip <pre>.
It accepts a <code> tag that puts your comment in a monospaced font, but spaces are still collapsed.
I like to line stuff up, such as assignments. (Tried to demonstrate this with a code sample, but /. comments collapse spaces)
So for a list of const definitions in .h file, for example, despite variable names of differing lengths, the "=" signs will all be in the same column, and the values will all begin in the same column.
You might be able to achieve this with a proportional font and tabs, but I don't trust tabs.
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(if your web application requires less than at least a rack in a datacenter there is actually no sense in having it clouded)
Maybe not EC2, I'll grant, because of their pricing model.
But there's no reason why a "traditional" shared web serving service couldn't be hosted on a cloud. Indeed Google App Engine fits the bill.
With the "cloud" you have to trust that some third party, whose business is making money, is going to spend for the capacity to cover those contingencies. I flat do not trust them.
This argument to be used against any and all outsourcing.
With "motorcar servicing" you have to trust that some third party, whose business is making money, is going to perform due diligence when servicing my car.
With "banking" you have to trust that some third party, whose business is making money, is going to keep my money in a secure manner.
With "office cleaners" you have to trust that some third party, whose business is making money, is going to come in on a regular basis and clean the office.
It's a non-issue. Have your contract specify what you require from the service. If the vendor doesn't fulfil the terms of the contract, sue them.
If Amazon's SLA doesn't meet your requirements, then sure, don't buy their service. Find a provider who does, or, yes, roll your own.
But if their SLA does meet your requirements, why the hell would you "flat do not trust them" to fulfil that?
having a lot of expensive hardware sitting around not doing anything 90% of the time
The solution to this is finding saleable ways to use this spare capacity. That's what Amazon's Spot Instances plan addresses. Essentially, you set up an image, and ask Amazon to run it at a given price. During off-peak hours, when the capacity is available, your image comes up. If the capacity is unavailable, and someone's outbid you, your image comes down again.
(Remember, web hosting is not the only thing computers can do)
The poster specifically asked for RAW IRON testing: no vm, no nothing.
I've re-read it about 5 times, and I can't see where he asks for that.
it takes ~10 minutes boot-to-boot to bring up a raw windows system in a known state.
So 60 times longer than bringing up a new EC2 instance from an image, and when you're not testing, you're still paying for the hardware.
the per hour plans are cheap. but the 24x7 hosting EC2 plans are a lot more expensive than physical hardware.
Which makes the GP's taxi analogy perfect. If you want to host something with reasonably static storage needs, that's getting hit consistently all year round, EC2's going to be more expensive than the alternatives.
If you've got something like SmugMug (image hosting) where your storage needs grow forever, at an unpredictable rate, S3 might be cheaper than managing the storage yourself.
If you get massive surges in demand, a few times a year (for example, you sell tickets for in-demand events), the ability to add a few hundred EC2 instances just at the times you need them, might be cheaper than having that spare capacity all year round.
Or like the insurance industry, where the insurance companies take out insurance with re-insurance companies, against getting too many claims.
Or like the mortgage industry...
Seriously, I think Amazon and Google intend to be the end of the chain. They don't want to buy computing services from a third party. It seems like they need to invest in affordable "idle" capacity to deal with peaks. That spare capacity needs to be economical when it's not needed. Either it can be cheap to keep mothballed (whole powered-down data centres on cheap land?) or it can be working on profitable batch computing tasks, that customers don't mind having paused when the capacity is needed for real-time work.
It misses the point of the magical cloud! If the phbs learn that the magical cloud can run out of capacity, then they might have to start planning again.
The whole point is that Amazon (or, insert service vendor of choice) does the planning for you. I don't have to order extra heating gas for winter - I expect the gas company to anticipate the grid's needs. If I heated my house with gas from canisters I had to order a month in advance, I'd have to do my own planning. That's would be analogous to a traditional in-house datacentre.
It's possible that Amazon failed to provide sufficient capacity for a period. Or it's possible it did just fine - I'm not reading about any SLAs being breached. But if one service provider fails to provide sufficient capacity, that doesn't invalidate the whole business model. It just means that the vendor has to do better.
"Cloud Computing" is a marketing architecture, not a technical one.
The fact that real programming goes into projects like Hadoop and CouchDB refutes this.
I'll accept that "Cloud Computing" can be used to refer to both a marketing architecture and a technical architecture.
Does that matter? If 20% are in the right age range, and out of of those he finds 5% attractive, then 1% pass to the next stage (where they'll most likely fail!}.
Depends what figures he plugs into his equation.
If he plugs in "Percentage of women I find attractive", he gets a different outcome from if he plugs in "Percentage of women within the age specified that I find attractive."
The problem is looking for an English girl.
He doesn't say that he is. In fact, looking in London, he'll find fewer English girls than in any other part of England. A staggering 24.8% of people living in London were born abroad. (I don't mean this in a pejorative way, incidentally).
Don't a significant number of the jokes in popular American sitcom Frasier rely on you understanding that Daphne's background in Manchester is very working class?
Since when has distance got much to do with it?
I think his point is that in some parts of the world people would think nothing of travelling 90 miles for groceries, or a date, or whatever. If you lived in Stewart, BC for example, you'd probably get used to long drives or frequent light aircraft flights.
What he doesn't recognise is that in the UK, people don't have that mentality.
For a lasting relationship it helps to have not too much of an age difference. More than 10 years and you are almost looking at a generation difference.
The older you get, the less significant 10 years becomes.
According to my own prejudices:
When you're as school, a 1 year age difference seems significant.
A 30 year old man with a 20 year old partner is a bit odd.
A 35 year old man with a 25 year old partner is not quite so notable.
A 40 year old man with a 30 year old partner is fairly unremarkable.
Reverse the genders and the dynamics change that's just the way it is.
There's more to a relationship than remembering the same songs and TV shows from your youth.
If your a male over 40 who finds himself single, and you have ambitions to start a family, it's probably wise to look for a younger woman!
Sorry that I'm not foolish enough to marry someone totally wrong and have the bitch take all my money and possessions.
It's happened to people I know. Sadly, over time, some people change (or reveal themselves) in unpredictable ways.
Glasses are no more of a problem during sex than any other physical activity
Glasses are more of a problem during sex than during, say, jogging. For example if you want to lie with your head on its side, glasses get in the way. A sweaty nose combined with repetitive jerks while face-down can cause glasses to slip off your nose and fall off.
It's probably worth taking them off, unless your partner is really keen on spex appeal.
Glasses are less of a problem during sex, than during surf based activities. You can shag with glasses on. I lost three pairs of prescription sunglasses to the briny deep, and that's what persuaded me to get laser surgery.
the nearest city to Coventry is clearly Birmingham
The nearest city to Coventry is clearly Coventry. It's an ancient city, going back to Roman times, with the monastery authorised to become a cathedral in 1102.
(In case you didn't know, in Britain the definition of 'city' is that it contains a cathedral. Otherwise it's just a big town.)
Whereas, Birmingham was nothing until the Industrial Revolution, where it thrived thanks to happening to be where a bunch of canals converged.
I think what threw Fox is that the guy's paper says he wants a girl who lives in London.
90 miles by car. Quite along way when you consider that the whole of England is 400 miles or so end to end.
The southern half of England is very densely populated compared to pretty much anywhere else in the world. A 90 mile journey is considered a long way, and you'd pass through/near several major conurbations en route.
I'm British. I've spent a fair amount of time in the US. And I disagree.
Patriotism aside, I think one probably develops a taste for local styles.
Oh, and TV isn't really representative of real life. British TV has less of a propensity for glamour than American TV. Our most popular soaps - Coronation St. and Eastenders - make a habit of taking beautiful actresses and making them dowdy in costume/makeup.
Plus you might date someone you find averagely attractive, by the end of the night glimpse something about them that makes you like them more, and six months later think they're the most beautiful person in the world.
They say familiarity breeds contempt, but sometimes it works the other way.
All he wants is a person around his age,
To within unnecessarily low margins.
living in the same city
Narrowing his options for no good reason.
with a university education
A completely arbitrary decision.
and that he finds attractive
... and he says only 5% of women meet this criterion. TOO PICKY.
Plus he says he wants them to be single. Jeez, way to narrow your options ;)
Plus, many of these variables aren't really orthogonal. For example, many of the women that he doesn't find attractive are likely to be older than his criteria allow. There's a correlation between wealth and physical attractiveness, and there's also a correlation between wealth and university education.
I think the intention is that 3D TVs are not significantly more expensive than ordinary TVs -- all the display needs is to be able to update at 60FPS (for a 30FPS 3D movie).
The glasses synchronise with the image source, to flicker in sync.
A story about PS3 3D games recently said that some existing retail TVs can display at 120FPS, such that 60FPS 3D games are possible.