Anyone who has more than 1 hard drive will notice.
Having to ensure my hard drive and CD burner were on different cable to ensure that a consistent stream could be maintained sounds like a need for a higher speed link, note I said cd burner not dvd.
Bleh, I just re-read my comment and let me clarify.
The heart of his lawsuit is that you need to be one of these professionals or have a contract with them for access to the IOS images. And as someone who uses Cisco equipment, it is far from uncommon for a username / password to be issued on a per case basis to allow you to access a software image that can be tried to see if it solves your issue.
Last I checked, any CCIE or similarly qualified professional can access IOS images. I haven't seen anything about him downloading any file that is private / confidential to Cisco. These are files that they publish to use with their equipment, which is actually the heart of his anti-trust lawsuit.
I think a better analogy is "The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out".
Followed by: "You wanna fuck with me? Okay. You wanna play rough? Okay. Say hello to my little friend!" with a side of "If you can’t win by fighting fair, fight foul. Or have a third party do your fighting."
Probably the best explanation of this incident: "Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances."
And if your companies web site is just for show and your mail is hosted in the cloud somewhere else, none of that will make a dent.
Those that stand to lose allot (i.e. IT based companies) most likely have started or are done because it hurts their bottom line. The rest, most likely haven't even started.
Some of those action items are a bit vague, "Our company will EVENTUALLY..." is leaving allot to the imagination. Also internal network is a bit vague, updating servers networks to support both is one thing but end-users is a different kettle of fish. As the summary from network world correctly points out, most are interested in their public image first and the internal as an afterthought (or as far as needed to keep the public image, which will extend only as far as the server networks).
Once I get the IPv6 tunnel up (I can't get native here atm, native would be preferred but I have to setup BGP), I can get most of our servers networks on it in a week at most. Any cloud / hosting provider could probably do the same, its a very controlled environment and you are actually setting up the extra ips is more a management / logistical problem (depending on the size of your deployment) rather than a difficult technical procedure.
they COULD still be better costumers even without the possibility of piracy.
Take it down a notch, the GP's statement still stands, he / she was offering a alternate view (most likely the view the RIAA has) not making assumptions.
One issue with producing a common layer. What is holding back any MS lawyers from suing linux on the basis that the module infringes some patent MS holds / may be granted?
Right now there are two things (or rather two sides to the same coin): 1. The change only benefits them (pretty much scratch your own itch). 2. If such a lawsuit is ever brought to bear the module will be dropped faster than you can say boo, plus any further contributions will be heavily scrutinized (which hurts them and no one else)
#2 is a decent threat to linux and becomes quite difficult if a common layer is made. Technically I love the idea, would make writing a cross-virtual-platform management tool a allot easier. Businesswise / real-world not so much, unless there is some "we-will-not-sue" / "this-is-licensed-to-linux-indefinitely" clause that affects someone external to Microsoft refactoring the code. Somehow I don't think the GPL will win against a patent.
And most financial institutions of the nature you are describing don't do everything in real time, thats why there are close off times and most of the fees, etc are added after in batches. This applies to almost all transactions save cash which requires little to no verification.
One of the few institutions I know that deal with such large transaction volumes are stock exchanges and just like banks they close at some point and the real heavy processing happens at night. Same applies to central banks / regional centers for almost any financial institution, I am not aware of any that processes everything in a central facility.
Once nice thing most financial institutions have going for them is that the data is already localized, it is rare that someone in another country wants to see your bank account. What most banks do is have a simple hierarchy to keep the overall load down (the transaction is passed to the appropriate branch for processing).
How old is Postgre's Replication & Clustering support? These aren't nice to have for businesses like Facebook, they are must haves. They must work and work extremely well.
You are thinking a bit too small if you think the problems facebook are facing are the everyday run of the mill issues. Postgre is better at keeping a smaller set of data in order better but at certain levels the overhead is too much.
I'll leave 1 and 2 for the sibling poster, I have nothing to add to those 2 points.
3. What do you use to ensure unique keys? It is a feature, if you app doesn't need it then don't use it. Does not mean it isn't useful to others. The few apps I see controlling unique keys themselves tend to keep them in a separate table which eventually becomes the bottleneck once allot of inserts start happening (pretty much any sort of logging).
4. MySQL unlike just about any other database engine actually allows you to chose the best tool for the job. Last I checked database admins are pretty smart people so picking the appropriate tool seems like a no brainer to me. The default is meant for someone who doesn't know better aka n00b / beginner at which point a simple table will be better than a complex one which may scare / confuse.
If "big boy" hardware is the answer then why does google not have a similar issue. They built their setup pretty much the same say and it works. Google doesn't use Oracle, postgre, etc. heck last I checked their entire map / reduce setup relies on a in house solution. Why? because nothing they tried scaled to what they do. Facebook is in pretty much the same boat.
In case u haven't noticed throwing hardware at the problem only works when your load is low and even then it tends to be a temporary solution.
More interesting, this downclocking technique is in use in pretty much the entire i3/5/7 family as well as the entire phenom family (thermal protection). Both AMD & Intel have been using techniques like this for years. Then again look at PWM fan control built into most motherboards
I know of alienware laptops (pre-acquisition) that actually gave you a button to control this behavior (used to think it increased the fan till I watched clock speeds and saw what was going on).
This isn't limited to laptops but I guess they are warming up (just like Microsoft) before they tackle the big boys. The real question is how was this patent even issued? I might not be obvious but there is plenty of prior art, any microprocessor (even a PIC) downclocks to reduce power consumption and heat.
For the partitioning part I can say windows isn't much better, if you are actually using RAID or anything but the defaults (lets say u want to separate OS from data) it tends to get tricky.
It could work really well when you look at deployment instead of research. Thats allot of vaccines that would reach the people that need it. And every infection stopped potentially stops more infections, except for cancer which does not spread like the dengue, malaria, cholera, etc.
Even if the 7 mil might not make much of a difference on the research side (I actually think it can) there are other areas where it definitely will. Haiti after the earthquake is one very simple example. I agree sometimes the only thing people will listen to is a bigger gun aimed at them but as the GP said more lives could probably be saved (although somewhere else) by putting the money into "peacetime" research.
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Anyone who has more than 1 hard drive will notice.
Having to ensure my hard drive and CD burner were on different cable to ensure that a consistent stream could be maintained sounds like a need for a higher speed link, note I said cd burner not dvd.
Bleh, I just re-read my comment and let me clarify.
The heart of his lawsuit is that you need to be one of these professionals or have a contract with them for access to the IOS images. And as someone who uses Cisco equipment, it is far from uncommon for a username / password to be issued on a per case basis to allow you to access a software image that can be tried to see if it solves your issue.
Last I checked, any CCIE or similarly qualified professional can access IOS images. I haven't seen anything about him downloading any file that is private / confidential to Cisco. These are files that they publish to use with their equipment, which is actually the heart of his anti-trust lawsuit.
I think a better analogy is "The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out".
Followed by: "You wanna fuck with me? Okay. You wanna play rough? Okay. Say hello to my little friend!" with a side of "If you can’t win by fighting fair, fight foul. Or have a third party do your fighting."
Probably the best explanation of this incident: "Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances."
I think you can replace businesses with human beings and the statement will still hold.
And if your companies web site is just for show and your mail is hosted in the cloud somewhere else, none of that will make a dent.
Those that stand to lose allot (i.e. IT based companies) most likely have started or are done because it hurts their bottom line. The rest, most likely haven't even started.
Some of those action items are a bit vague, "Our company will EVENTUALLY..." is leaving allot to the imagination. Also internal network is a bit vague, updating servers networks to support both is one thing but end-users is a different kettle of fish. As the summary from network world correctly points out, most are interested in their public image first and the internal as an afterthought (or as far as needed to keep the public image, which will extend only as far as the server networks).
Once I get the IPv6 tunnel up (I can't get native here atm, native would be preferred but I have to setup BGP), I can get most of our servers networks on it in a week at most. Any cloud / hosting provider could probably do the same, its a very controlled environment and you are actually setting up the extra ips is more a management / logistical problem (depending on the size of your deployment) rather than a difficult technical procedure.
Keep auditing, till its safe... :P
Especially if you add the clause "you can use any credit cards you acquire, Sony will pay the bill", that should get them fixing things quickly.
Most likely the answer lies in their streaming side, that would require them to reproduce the movie.
Go kids!!! Next the padded room...
they COULD still be better costumers even without the possibility of piracy.
Take it down a notch, the GP's statement still stands, he / she was offering a alternate view (most likely the view the RIAA has) not making assumptions.
U mean like a jealous / paranoid spouse?
http://opensignalmaps.com/ does this as well. Worldwide too
One issue with producing a common layer. What is holding back any MS lawyers from suing linux on the basis that the module infringes some patent MS holds / may be granted?
Right now there are two things (or rather two sides to the same coin):
1. The change only benefits them (pretty much scratch your own itch).
2. If such a lawsuit is ever brought to bear the module will be dropped faster than you can say boo, plus any further contributions will be heavily scrutinized (which hurts them and no one else)
#2 is a decent threat to linux and becomes quite difficult if a common layer is made. Technically I love the idea, would make writing a cross-virtual-platform management tool a allot easier. Businesswise / real-world not so much, unless there is some "we-will-not-sue" / "this-is-licensed-to-linux-indefinitely" clause that affects someone external to Microsoft refactoring the code. Somehow I don't think the GPL will win against a patent.
That might be true if the profit margins nVidia & Apple got went to the fab plants. They are all probably paying about the same.
Apple is probably the only one with some sort of advantage, the whole "we'll help u build it, but it only produces our chips"
And most financial institutions of the nature you are describing don't do everything in real time, thats why there are close off times and most of the fees, etc are added after in batches. This applies to almost all transactions save cash which requires little to no verification.
One of the few institutions I know that deal with such large transaction volumes are stock exchanges and just like banks they close at some point and the real heavy processing happens at night. Same applies to central banks / regional centers for almost any financial institution, I am not aware of any that processes everything in a central facility.
Once nice thing most financial institutions have going for them is that the data is already localized, it is rare that someone in another country wants to see your bank account. What most banks do is have a simple hierarchy to keep the overall load down (the transaction is passed to the appropriate branch for processing).
Care to point us n00bs to a example? Last I checked I couldn't find a price, and as they say "if you have to ask..."
How old is Postgre's Replication & Clustering support? These aren't nice to have for businesses like Facebook, they are must haves. They must work and work extremely well.
You are thinking a bit too small if you think the problems facebook are facing are the everyday run of the mill issues. Postgre is better at keeping a smaller set of data in order better but at certain levels the overhead is too much.
I'll leave 1 and 2 for the sibling poster, I have nothing to add to those 2 points.
3. What do you use to ensure unique keys? It is a feature, if you app doesn't need it then don't use it. Does not mean it isn't useful to others. The few apps I see controlling unique keys themselves tend to keep them in a separate table which eventually becomes the bottleneck once allot of inserts start happening (pretty much any sort of logging).
4. MySQL unlike just about any other database engine actually allows you to chose the best tool for the job. Last I checked database admins are pretty smart people so picking the appropriate tool seems like a no brainer to me. The default is meant for someone who doesn't know better aka n00b / beginner at which point a simple table will be better than a complex one which may scare / confuse.
Would more locks and referential integrity help performance or hinder it?
If "big boy" hardware is the answer then why does google not have a similar issue. They built their setup pretty much the same say and it works. Google doesn't use Oracle, postgre, etc. heck last I checked their entire map / reduce setup relies on a in house solution. Why? because nothing they tried scaled to what they do. Facebook is in pretty much the same boat.
In case u haven't noticed throwing hardware at the problem only works when your load is low and even then it tends to be a temporary solution.
I don't think you read the article, ACID and its associated overhead is Facebook's problem. Adding more of it isn't going to help them.
Also MySQL might not be fully ACID compliant but instead it is fast, substituting postgres will only make their lives more painful.
More interesting, this downclocking technique is in use in pretty much the entire i3/5/7 family as well as the entire phenom family (thermal protection). Both AMD & Intel have been using techniques like this for years. Then again look at PWM fan control built into most motherboards
I know of alienware laptops (pre-acquisition) that actually gave you a button to control this behavior (used to think it increased the fan till I watched clock speeds and saw what was going on).
This isn't limited to laptops but I guess they are warming up (just like Microsoft) before they tackle the big boys. The real question is how was this patent even issued? I might not be obvious but there is plenty of prior art, any microprocessor (even a PIC) downclocks to reduce power consumption and heat.
2007, there has to be prior art for this...
For the partitioning part I can say windows isn't much better, if you are actually using RAID or anything but the defaults (lets say u want to separate OS from data) it tends to get tricky.
It could work really well when you look at deployment instead of research. Thats allot of vaccines that would reach the people that need it. And every infection stopped potentially stops more infections, except for cancer which does not spread like the dengue, malaria, cholera, etc.
Even if the 7 mil might not make much of a difference on the research side (I actually think it can) there are other areas where it definitely will. Haiti after the earthquake is one very simple example. I agree sometimes the only thing people will listen to is a bigger gun aimed at them but as the GP said more lives could probably be saved (although somewhere else) by putting the money into "peacetime" research.