I don't see annoying Zynga app-of-the-week update posts all day on Google+ and I actually interact with others about 'real' things to talk about other than the usual Facebook one-liner update.
You are shilling for Facebook, I hope you are getting paid. G+'s ability to follow others that actually have something interesting to say gives it a definitive leg up on Facebook for individual social interaction (of course, FB is still the king for Corporation social media, while G+ still gets its stuff together).
I agree, I actually liked discussing/flaming/trolling comments on Dvorak's articles. Regardless of whether or not I thought he was wrong, he presented points of view that were sometimes worth debate.
As soon as I saw Florian Mueller I knew it was all utter bullshit. I consider him in a lower, more scumbag league than even half-assed MG Siegler on Techcrunch.
Everything you think, write, say and do is a copy of some other action or thought that developed from other interactions with other people and was adapted to your own interpretation of it. Removing the patent and copyright systems (as they CURRENTLY STAND, go back to original intent!) solved more problems than you can possibly imagine. Also, people have to actually do 'work' to earn a living instead of licensing ideas and words that cost next to nothing to reproduce.
Judging by the usual slashdot response of "but they should just improve their algorithms", people don't seem to get how immersively complex current search engines and their algorithms are
Article was posted at 5:25, you posted at 5:26, what 'usual slashdot response' had occurred in the comments of this article when you posted? Take your astroturfing nonsense over the Cnet or Techcrunch where we can properly ignore it.
So you had to convert all of your videos into Apple TV format and use iTunes on a centralized app server to give Apple TV the major upside?
Why not just hook the 'centralized app server' directly to the TV and throw some XMBC/etc on it instead? Coulda saved you a lot of time re-encoding everything and importing into iTunes...
On top of that, even though the movies weren't purchased in iTunes but you STILL have to run iTunes to use them with your Apple TV.
Translation: not everyone likes to jump thru hoops just to run iTunes anyway.
Well if it is aliens, its good to know their ships can crash just like all of ours. Helps to see that they aren't perfect, regardless of any advanced technology or 'magic' they could do.
Or its just some asshole billionaire's life size remote control millenium falcon that he lost control of and it crashed into the sea.
The sheer number of videos encoded in Real's format sure gave them a significant advantage, no? No?
The royalty issue is for broadcasters and production houses, not 'devices.' Why the hell should I pay MPEGLA licenses for an independently shot movie I want to release on the web in a commercial fashion? What have they created with H264 that is novel and 'unique' other than squeezing more pixels into a smaller file size that justifies paying the royalties to use technology that is a glorified zip archive?
True, I didn't comment on that, just the aspect of them being replaceable. Obviously external Thunderbolt HD's could be though. Why worry about an HD on the device?
Obviously you have never been an IT consultant. Thunderbolt is another firewire-esque scheme at the moment, and does not offer the demonstrated reliability of internal SAS or even SATA interfaces. I'm also interested to know how a 10gbps channel is going to make a difference when accessing SAS or SATA drives in RAID (the default offering in the Apple Store with the mini server does not use SSD) with current hardware. I want to see some actual performance testing in a production environment. What RAID card has thunderbolt connectors? What non-server class hardware available today has throughput capability to hit 10gbps with thunderbolt? In five years, maybe. As sexy as thunderbolt sounds, actual implementation and usage is currently minimal and is mental tech masturbation.
How do you know it can't? Your fear-mongering over ECC is totally out of line. Again if you are thinking of this the way Google thinks of hardware, many cheap nodes that can die and it doesn't matter, well it doesn't matter. That would be the way to look at using Mac minis in a server configuration, not as a replacement for a typical $5k server box.
How do you know it CAN? This is a new technology, where else other than consumer devices is it being deployed? Who is using any of this in a production system, or even a testing deployment, other than perhaps OEMs and vendor research labs? In regards to ECC, there is a determined difference with server class hardware running ECC, I've experienced it first hand. You can get away with non-ECC in a lot of situations without much problem, but when you are being paid to integrate the most reliable systems for the money, you go the extra mile and get the slightly more reliable hardware infrastructure for a server. This has nothing to do with fear mongering, I'm optimizing for stability and reliability. Google has top notch programmers and systems designers that have created an ecosystem of reliable software to make use of lower end and custom built hardware, what OS and failover software are you going to use to manage the mac minis? How are you going to implement and manage failover of services? The scenario you are caught up in is for a small business oriented infrastructure, and it will simply cost too much money to implement and MAINTAIN such a system properly. Most small businesses aren't looking to shell out $25+ an hour for a dedicated IT employee, much less $130/hr for consultants to come in each week. You get to choose two: minimal administration; data redundancy; cheap. Google just spent more money on the development of the software to make up for the cheaper hardware.
Hey sysadmins! He's calling you stupid! You may proceed with your usual revenge.
Now I think you are just trolling me entirely. The target market of Mac Minis and Lion is the consumer market and small businesses. Sysadmins know that already.
You obviously have not seen spacs on the newest ones. They are quite a lot more powerful. For server work, you would obviously want to (1) add memory and (2) use an SSD. That would provide quite a boost.
I have seen the specs. Looks good on paper, but still consumer hardware and still slows to a crawl when you get more than a couple machines actively accessing files on them. Actual experience in the field trumps theoretical performance possibilities fed to us by market departments.
Hey, once we hit 16 cores an 32GB ram on a gigabit backend I kinda stopped worrying about bandwidth. I will note, Mac OS X 10.6 Server vs Windows 2008 Server, I tend to have a more reliable GUI experience on Mac since Windows gets randomly slow and wacky when performing certain functions from the GUI. I prefer console but I have been getting lazier/dumber(?) as the years go by and I find myself just point and clicking more often now.
I'd even consider moving our infrastructure to BSD or even Linux at this point. Save money on licensing vs Windows and get actual server class functionality vs Mac. Maybe if Apple hadn't failed gloriously in the ZFS department we'd have something to positive to write about.
1. He said did specify HOT SWAP hard drives, not just replaceable hdd and ram.
2. When Thunderbolt can run dual gigabit NIC connections at full speed without taxing the CPU cores and repeated memory errors due to non-ECC ram, then maybe you'll have a point here, as it stands, thats not viable for reliable server infrastructure.
3. Using a third party tool you can make a bootable clone of any OS. Its not so easy for the target market of the new OS to know they HAVE to make a boot disk, and they will be throwing money at consultants to boot the drive with an OS disk to repair the drive if something goes wrong with the OS files.
4. Minis are SO damn underpowered that they are useless for server operations. The lack of ECC RAM is a big concern for reliability on server oriented machines as well. I have a client who decided to implement a mac mini running 10.6 Server as their file server and its dog slow. Minis are absolutely TERRIBLE platforms to run as a business server (or even a home server if you are a freelance creative kinda person with a lot of large files). Sure, they work great for home media centers, but throw more than 2 or 3 workstations on the network for day to day use and it all goes to hell.
Xserve with Lights-out management, Open Directory Services, Netboot services, Mail Server, Wiki Services, X-SAN(!), Apple Quad Port Fibre card, numerous supports 12+TB raid devices, supported tape autoload devices, Remote Desktop centralized management tool with scripting support for inventory/application installation/remote control, built in failover capabilities for some services... All the makings of an Enterprise class infrastructure. Apple fucked anyone who (by their own choice or the choice of 'management') put any serious investment into infrastructure oriented around the Xserve. Poor GoDaddy built their entire cloud hosting solution based on the Xserve (I wonder if that investment was among the soured investments that ended up convincing GD's principals and investors to sell the company).
Apple had a strong solution with their Xserve offering, but, as usual, they completely dropped the ball and forgot about the back room IT folks again in preference for some 'ohhhh shiny' toys and tools with unbelievably reduced functionality. (Also see Final Cut Pro X, coinciding with an immediate discontinue of Final Cut Studio upon release) These days, Apple feels like its trapped itself into an internet bubble atmosphere where they only want to do the 'cool' stuff but nobody wants to do actual hard work.
You obviously aren't spending more than a few seconds browsing through the selections, I have about 318 titles in my instant queue right now (albeit most of those were added before the recent horrendous site redesign) and among myself, wife, and kids, we have watched hundreds of other movies and tv shows on there. And thats with browsing through just a small portion of their available content.
Stop thinking a handful of offsite computers that share processing power in any way provides you more security than a self run virtual machine cluster (or anything near the performance of dedicated iron).
In-house IT can timeline an issue for repair more reliably than a cloud vendor (see the Amazon outage). The biggest problem I've come across in IT is having a department and infrastructure that is just simply too big, where you don't have enough skill overlap (especially UP THE CHAIN OF COMMAND).
Useless and late by a day or two. The congress app on android just came out and it is insanely more in depth, and does not have its content controlled directly by the politician that you are trying to contact.
Sounds like the reviews that came out about Duke3D when it first came out. 1.) the first page of the ars article makes me want to play the game. 2.) fuck ars. 3.) im already in a bad mood today so excuse the flippancy.
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I don't see annoying Zynga app-of-the-week update posts all day on Google+ and I actually interact with others about 'real' things to talk about other than the usual Facebook one-liner update.
You are shilling for Facebook, I hope you are getting paid. G+'s ability to follow others that actually have something interesting to say gives it a definitive leg up on Facebook for individual social interaction (of course, FB is still the king for Corporation social media, while G+ still gets its stuff together).
I agree, I actually liked discussing/flaming/trolling comments on Dvorak's articles. Regardless of whether or not I thought he was wrong, he presented points of view that were sometimes worth debate.
As soon as I saw Florian Mueller I knew it was all utter bullshit. I consider him in a lower, more scumbag league than even half-assed MG Siegler on Techcrunch.
Everything you think, write, say and do is a copy of some other action or thought that developed from other interactions with other people and was adapted to your own interpretation of it. Removing the patent and copyright systems (as they CURRENTLY STAND, go back to original intent!) solved more problems than you can possibly imagine. Also, people have to actually do 'work' to earn a living instead of licensing ideas and words that cost next to nothing to reproduce.
I do this all the time and find it on the first page of the Google results. What the hell are you talking about?
Judging by the usual slashdot response of "but they should just improve their algorithms", people don't seem to get how immersively complex current search engines and their algorithms are
Article was posted at 5:25, you posted at 5:26, what 'usual slashdot response' had occurred in the comments of this article when you posted? Take your astroturfing nonsense over the Cnet or Techcrunch where we can properly ignore it.
From what I've noticed, just about EVERYTHING causes cancer.
Where in the First Amendment does it allow the law to abridge freedom of speech provided there is no 'substantial hardship'?
The ruling looks a lot like copyright trumping the First Amendment.
One that looks like the Millenium Falcon? ;)
So you had to convert all of your videos into Apple TV format and use iTunes on a centralized app server to give Apple TV the major upside?
Why not just hook the 'centralized app server' directly to the TV and throw some XMBC/etc on it instead? Coulda saved you a lot of time re-encoding everything and importing into iTunes...
On top of that, even though the movies weren't purchased in iTunes but you STILL have to run iTunes to use them with your Apple TV.
Translation: not everyone likes to jump thru hoops just to run iTunes anyway.
Well if it is aliens, its good to know their ships can crash just like all of ours. Helps to see that they aren't perfect, regardless of any advanced technology or 'magic' they could do.
Or its just some asshole billionaire's life size remote control millenium falcon that he lost control of and it crashed into the sea.
The sheer number of videos encoded in Real's format sure gave them a significant advantage, no? No?
The royalty issue is for broadcasters and production houses, not 'devices.' Why the hell should I pay MPEGLA licenses for an independently shot movie I want to release on the web in a commercial fashion? What have they created with H264 that is novel and 'unique' other than squeezing more pixels into a smaller file size that justifies paying the royalties to use technology that is a glorified zip archive?
Apple TV is garbage. Roku is decent. Logitech priced themselves out of it. nothing to do with Google TV.
True, I didn't comment on that, just the aspect of them being replaceable. Obviously external Thunderbolt HD's could be though. Why worry about an HD on the device?
Obviously you have never been an IT consultant. Thunderbolt is another firewire-esque scheme at the moment, and does not offer the demonstrated reliability of internal SAS or even SATA interfaces. I'm also interested to know how a 10gbps channel is going to make a difference when accessing SAS or SATA drives in RAID (the default offering in the Apple Store with the mini server does not use SSD) with current hardware. I want to see some actual performance testing in a production environment. What RAID card has thunderbolt connectors? What non-server class hardware available today has throughput capability to hit 10gbps with thunderbolt? In five years, maybe. As sexy as thunderbolt sounds, actual implementation and usage is currently minimal and is mental tech masturbation.
How do you know it can't? Your fear-mongering over ECC is totally out of line. Again if you are thinking of this the way Google thinks of hardware, many cheap nodes that can die and it doesn't matter, well it doesn't matter. That would be the way to look at using Mac minis in a server configuration, not as a replacement for a typical $5k server box.
How do you know it CAN? This is a new technology, where else other than consumer devices is it being deployed? Who is using any of this in a production system, or even a testing deployment, other than perhaps OEMs and vendor research labs? In regards to ECC, there is a determined difference with server class hardware running ECC, I've experienced it first hand. You can get away with non-ECC in a lot of situations without much problem, but when you are being paid to integrate the most reliable systems for the money, you go the extra mile and get the slightly more reliable hardware infrastructure for a server. This has nothing to do with fear mongering, I'm optimizing for stability and reliability. Google has top notch programmers and systems designers that have created an ecosystem of reliable software to make use of lower end and custom built hardware, what OS and failover software are you going to use to manage the mac minis? How are you going to implement and manage failover of services? The scenario you are caught up in is for a small business oriented infrastructure, and it will simply cost too much money to implement and MAINTAIN such a system properly. Most small businesses aren't looking to shell out $25+ an hour for a dedicated IT employee, much less $130/hr for consultants to come in each week. You get to choose two: minimal administration; data redundancy; cheap. Google just spent more money on the development of the software to make up for the cheaper hardware.
Hey sysadmins! He's calling you stupid! You may proceed with your usual revenge.
Now I think you are just trolling me entirely. The target market of Mac Minis and Lion is the consumer market and small businesses. Sysadmins know that already.
You obviously have not seen spacs on the newest ones. They are quite a lot more powerful. For server work, you would obviously want to (1) add memory and (2) use an SSD. That would provide quite a boost.
I have seen the specs. Looks good on paper, but still consumer hardware and still slows to a crawl when you get more than a couple machines actively accessing files on them. Actual experience in the field trumps theoretical performance possibilities fed to us by market departments.
Hey, once we hit 16 cores an 32GB ram on a gigabit backend I kinda stopped worrying about bandwidth. I will note, Mac OS X 10.6 Server vs Windows 2008 Server, I tend to have a more reliable GUI experience on Mac since Windows gets randomly slow and wacky when performing certain functions from the GUI. I prefer console but I have been getting lazier/dumber(?) as the years go by and I find myself just point and clicking more often now.
I'd even consider moving our infrastructure to BSD or even Linux at this point. Save money on licensing vs Windows and get actual server class functionality vs Mac. Maybe if Apple hadn't failed gloriously in the ZFS department we'd have something to positive to write about.
1. He said did specify HOT SWAP hard drives, not just replaceable hdd and ram.
2. When Thunderbolt can run dual gigabit NIC connections at full speed without taxing the CPU cores and repeated memory errors due to non-ECC ram, then maybe you'll have a point here, as it stands, thats not viable for reliable server infrastructure.
3. Using a third party tool you can make a bootable clone of any OS. Its not so easy for the target market of the new OS to know they HAVE to make a boot disk, and they will be throwing money at consultants to boot the drive with an OS disk to repair the drive if something goes wrong with the OS files.
4. Minis are SO damn underpowered that they are useless for server operations. The lack of ECC RAM is a big concern for reliability on server oriented machines as well. I have a client who decided to implement a mac mini running 10.6 Server as their file server and its dog slow. Minis are absolutely TERRIBLE platforms to run as a business server (or even a home server if you are a freelance creative kinda person with a lot of large files). Sure, they work great for home media centers, but throw more than 2 or 3 workstations on the network for day to day use and it all goes to hell.
Xserve with Lights-out management, Open Directory Services, Netboot services, Mail Server, Wiki Services, X-SAN(!), Apple Quad Port Fibre card, numerous supports 12+TB raid devices, supported tape autoload devices, Remote Desktop centralized management tool with scripting support for inventory/application installation/remote control, built in failover capabilities for some services... All the makings of an Enterprise class infrastructure. Apple fucked anyone who (by their own choice or the choice of 'management') put any serious investment into infrastructure oriented around the Xserve. Poor GoDaddy built their entire cloud hosting solution based on the Xserve (I wonder if that investment was among the soured investments that ended up convincing GD's principals and investors to sell the company).
Apple had a strong solution with their Xserve offering, but, as usual, they completely dropped the ball and forgot about the back room IT folks again in preference for some 'ohhhh shiny' toys and tools with unbelievably reduced functionality. (Also see Final Cut Pro X, coinciding with an immediate discontinue of Final Cut Studio upon release) These days, Apple feels like its trapped itself into an internet bubble atmosphere where they only want to do the 'cool' stuff but nobody wants to do actual hard work.
Sounds like a Zuckerberg directed or inspired move on facebook's part. A snarky fuck-face way of running a business, as expected.
You obviously aren't spending more than a few seconds browsing through the selections, I have about 318 titles in my instant queue right now (albeit most of those were added before the recent horrendous site redesign) and among myself, wife, and kids, we have watched hundreds of other movies and tv shows on there. And thats with browsing through just a small portion of their available content.
Stop thinking a handful of offsite computers that share processing power in any way provides you more security than a self run virtual machine cluster (or anything near the performance of dedicated iron).
In-house IT can timeline an issue for repair more reliably than a cloud vendor (see the Amazon outage). The biggest problem I've come across in IT is having a department and infrastructure that is just simply too big, where you don't have enough skill overlap (especially UP THE CHAIN OF COMMAND).
Isn't every monetary system a pyramid scheme in that respect?
Useless and late by a day or two. The congress app on android just came out and it is insanely more in depth, and does not have its content controlled directly by the politician that you are trying to contact.
Sounds like the reviews that came out about Duke3D when it first came out. 1.) the first page of the ars article makes me want to play the game. 2.) fuck ars. 3.) im already in a bad mood today so excuse the flippancy.