These guys seem to have forgotten what business they are in. They are in the business of providing persistant data storage, not data storage for 1 year.
I understand that storage is a competitive market with low margins. This move is probably intended to reinforce the distinction between SCSI and IDE drives, a distiction that has been lost over the years, but it is the wrong way to do it.
If they tell me that warrantys longer than 1 year are costing them too much money, then they are telling me that a significant number of drives are failing from 2-3 years out. That doesn't make me feel good, even with my home user hat on.
I keep a system for a couple of years. The prospect of data loss in that time frame. Using drive failure (and data loss) as incentive to upgrade is a bad idea.
Most modern jet engines are high-bypass turbofans. A great deal of the exaust energy is captured in the turbine section and used to spin the big fan at the front of the engine. The result is that rather than generating thrust by ejecting a relatively small mass of exaust gas out the back at supersonic speeds, they pump a large quantity of air at subsonic speeds. The result is a quieter and more efficient powerplant.
This doesn't really change your main point though. These aren't going to be as noisy as a jet engine.
I'm going to guess though that these turbines are going to be a lot bigger than the ones in a huey. Or maybe not: http://www.bombardier.com/index.jsp?id=1_0&lang=en &file=/en/1_0/1_10/1_10_0.jsp Looks like they are about half again as powerful. I was imagining a freight locomotive.
I don't quite understand why a turbine locomotive would be low efficiency. Can't you operate them at an efficient RPM even at low-load thanks to the electrics?
Yeah, no kidding. Tiny PC goes rather nicely with a flat panel. Using an analog connection between CPU and display intrudes on the elegance of the arrangement.
Traditional sys-admin tasks are already in decline. Consider Windows NT/2000. Sure, it takes expertise to run it well, but was easier to get going and keep limping along than what came before. Consider even the evolution of Linux distibutions, and the pressure that has put on traditional UNIX vendors.
I can sympathize with students who don't even realize they are transposing chat-room lingo into their assignmentes. I remember when I first got my palm pilot, it was a struggle to remember how I should be writing on paper.
Still, I find most chat shorthand appauling and I am quite glad that none of the people IM with use it.
1. it is a patent, not a trademark 2. just because someone has a patent doesn't mean the patent can't be challenged. 3. just because someone has a patent doesn't mean a patent will be enforced. 4. Some things are worth fighting for
Tech companies make their biggest margins off the newest, top of the line stuff. Unless you need the absolute fastest/best, buy stuff that is further down the curve.
Think how much more performance/capacity the money you save is going to buy in 18 months.
Good point, though a $100 WAP isn't going to be capable enough to throttle anonymous users.
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Say what?
This seems rather shortsighted.
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It seems to me that antagonizing commercial WiFi operators is an invitation to regulations.
The existing unlicensed spectrum may remain free, but it will become filled up with a proliferation of low power RF devices, ranging from WiFi, to phones to RF-lighting.
When this time comes, we will want the FCC to open up more unlicensed spectrum, but we may not get it, or as much, if commercial WiFi providers are at the same time lobbying the FCC for their own slice of licensed spectrum so they can do business without people deliberately trying to screw them.
What's missing from this explanation is consideration of the WAP11 which can also bridge a wired segment wirelessly to another wired segment via another WAP11.
The problem is that neither WAP11 can serve wireless clients at the same time. With one of these in place of one of the WAP11s, the WAP11 can both link individual wireless client machines AND bridge to the remote wired segment served by the WET11.
I have fond memories of spending a strange summer night in the vicinity of one of these situated on a mountain pass when I was in high school. I'm just glad my fiends didn't climb the tower durring the gathering thundersorm.
The author repeatedly knocks Netscape for lagging Mozilla in terms of features, but to me, this isn't completely outrageous.
Released software lags betas in terms of features too and in some ways, Mozilla is a beta for Netscape. Of course, carrying this to its logical extreme, one would hope that Netscape was more stable than the version of Mozilla on which it is based. I don't have enough experience with Netscape to say that this is the case, but I kind of doubt it is any more stable.
They are basically treating existing broadband users as a test market. What they learn now will inform how the procced along these lines in the future.
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I'd rather they design syncing in, rather than hacking it in.
These guys seem to have forgotten what business they are in. They are in the business of providing persistant data storage, not data storage for 1 year.
I understand that storage is a competitive market with low margins. This move is probably intended to reinforce the distinction between SCSI and IDE drives, a distiction that has been lost over the years, but it is the wrong way to do it.
If they tell me that warrantys longer than 1 year are costing them too much money, then they are telling me that a significant number of drives are failing from 2-3 years out. That doesn't make me feel good, even with my home user hat on.
I keep a system for a couple of years. The prospect of data loss in that time frame. Using drive failure (and data loss) as incentive to upgrade is a bad idea.
Most modern jet engines are high-bypass turbofans. A great deal of the exaust energy is captured in the turbine section and used to spin the big fan at the front of the engine. The result is that rather than generating thrust by ejecting a relatively small mass of exaust gas out the back at supersonic speeds, they pump a large quantity of air at subsonic speeds. The result is a quieter and more efficient powerplant.
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This doesn't really change your main point though. These aren't going to be as noisy as a jet engine.
I'm going to guess though that these turbines are going to be a lot bigger than the ones in a huey. Or maybe not: http://www.bombardier.com/index.jsp?id=1_0&lang=e
Looks like they are about half again as powerful. I was imagining a freight locomotive.
I don't quite understand why a turbine locomotive would be low efficiency. Can't you operate them at an efficient RPM even at low-load thanks to the electrics?
You think small.
A site that is accessible to the blind is also accessible to someone over the phone, or perhaps someone stuck in traffic.
Yeah, no kidding. Tiny PC goes rather nicely with a flat panel. Using an analog connection between CPU and display intrudes on the elegance of the arrangement.
Are your Win32 machines used in the same way and by the same sorts of people are your Sparc machines?
In most places, I would expect the Win32 machines to be in the hands of a lot of desktop users with all the issues that entails.
"Since when did it become bad to be smart?"
You do remember high school, don't you?
Besides, it sounds a bit to much like an annoying X10.com popup-ad
I'm sure the wife will be much happier if you watch the girl next door with a video camera, rather than chatting with her.
Traditional sys-admin tasks are already in decline. Consider Windows NT/2000. Sure, it takes expertise to run it well, but was easier to get going and keep limping along than what came before. Consider even the evolution of Linux distibutions, and the pressure that has put on traditional UNIX vendors.
X.400/500 are protocols, not implementations. Protocols are pretty worthless without implemenations.
I can sympathize with students who don't even realize they are transposing chat-room lingo into their assignmentes. I remember when I first got my palm pilot, it was a struggle to remember how I should be writing on paper.
Still, I find most chat shorthand appauling and I am quite glad that none of the people IM with use it.
1. it is a patent, not a trademark
2. just because someone has a patent doesn't mean the patent can't be challenged.
3. just because someone has a patent doesn't mean a patent will be enforced.
4. Some things are worth fighting for
ummm, the car culture came before the computer culture.
In other words, we already have case mods for cars. We have for at least 50 years.
Tech companies make their biggest margins off the newest, top of the line stuff. Unless you need the absolute fastest/best, buy stuff that is further down the curve.
Think how much more performance/capacity the money you save is going to buy in 18 months.
Good point, though a $100 WAP isn't going to be capable enough to throttle anonymous users.
Say what?
It seems to me that antagonizing commercial WiFi operators is an invitation to regulations.
The existing unlicensed spectrum may remain free, but it will become filled up with a proliferation of low power RF devices, ranging from WiFi, to phones to RF-lighting.
When this time comes, we will want the FCC to open up more unlicensed spectrum, but we may not get it, or as much, if commercial WiFi providers are at the same time lobbying the FCC for their own slice of licensed spectrum so they can do business without people deliberately trying to screw them.
These people are offering free public Internet access via an unsecured Wi-Fi network? How is this stealing?
What's missing from this explanation is consideration of the WAP11 which can also bridge a wired segment wirelessly to another wired segment via another WAP11.
The problem is that neither WAP11 can serve wireless clients at the same time. With one of these in place of one of the WAP11s, the WAP11 can both link individual wireless client machines AND bridge to the remote wired segment served by the WET11.
I have fond memories of spending a strange summer night in the vicinity of one of these situated on a mountain pass when I was in high school. I'm just glad my fiends didn't climb the tower durring the gathering thundersorm.
The author repeatedly knocks Netscape for lagging Mozilla in terms of features, but to me, this isn't completely outrageous.
Released software lags betas in terms of features too and in some ways, Mozilla is a beta for Netscape. Of course, carrying this to its logical extreme, one would hope that Netscape was more stable than the version of Mozilla on which it is based. I don't have enough experience with Netscape to say that this is the case, but I kind of doubt it is any more stable.
They are basically treating existing broadband users as a test market. What they learn now will inform how the procced along these lines in the future.
It is bad business to demonize your best customers.