I live in the UK and my mother is a retired teacher. About 15 years ago now she relayed a story about what had happened that day in the "what do you want to be when you grow up" lesson in a school in a "rough" area of the local conerbation with a group of 5/6 year olds. Mostly it was normal stuff, Policeman, fireman, doctor, nurse etc. However one child replied with burglar. Presumably after seeing the look of shock on my mothers face he quickly qualifed the statement with the fact that not old people or schools, but only "rich" people and shops.
I think we can be fairly sure that this person grew up to be a criminal. In fact other observations made by my mother in that class gave *VERY* strong indications that the child was already involved in criminal activity, and was being used by the parents to gain entry in breakins.
That is perhaps a rather stark example. However when I look at my own time in school I used to see in the local paper from time to time reports of individuals from my year at school being convicted of criminal activity. Never once was I surprised by the people in trouble.
The reality is that the signs of criminal behaviour are there, and are clear to those who wish to observe them. You would probably be correct if you said that society should tackle this problem. However in the context of the police suggestion they are doing their job. Children likely to commit crimes when they grow up are identifiable at an early age, and collection DNA would drastically reduce the cost to the tax payer of catching them.
With the Asus Eee 701 shipping something like 500,000 units so far and looking at something like three million units by year end, that is pretty decent market to me. Anyone placing an order for three million processor units from *any* manufacturer, including Intel will get plenty of attention.
Well I have a friend that works at Delphi making injectors, and what he says is that the manufactures don't have 20 years of product history to know if they will work. So while they don't anticipate any problems they are all holding back on certifying them as being compliant.
The issue is that copyright in Mein Kampf still exists, and is in the hands of the German state. Printing it would be copyright infringement (it is not 70 years since Hitler died yet), just as much as printing a copy of a Harry Potter book would be. The fact that the German state deliberately does not print the book is neither here nor there.
No where in the bible does it say that God created the world in seven or even six days. He spends a indeterminate period of time creating the heavens and the earth. Then he creates light, again no mention whatsoever of how long this took. Finally he separates the light from the dark, and the first day happends.
Frankly I give most people about 0/10 for reading comprehension.
It's only broken because BT introduced paying by amount of data moved down the pipes. When it all started out you paid for a pipe and what was pushed through it was free of charge. What we need is OFCOM to get of it's backside and force BT back to the original pipe charging. The odd thing in all this is that PlusNet are now a subsidiary of BT.
Speaking as a happy customer of PlusNet for over five years now.
Think is that there is this the beyond *ALL* reasonable doubt thing. By your own admission there is a 0.1% chance he's innocent, so if that is all the evidence you have then there is some reasonable doubt and you have to find them not guilty.
It is why OJ Simpson was found not guilty. The glove the prosecution said the killer wore didn't fit; reasonable doubt. All DNA testing was done in the one lab, with all sort of cross contamination issues; reasonable doubt. The list goes on and on (frankly the prosecution where abysmal). Anyway any *ONE* of those would have been enough to secure a not guilty conviction.
Indeed, the SA agreements that where all coming up for renewal, stated that there would be at least *one* major release of the OS. Failure to ship an OS in the time frame of the SA agreements would have left Microsoft open to major law suites for breach of contract.
But Amazon are not competition for those sorts of book stores. I buy most of my books from Amazon, simply because the bricks and morta stores don't have the range of books in stock and it is a right pain ordering the books then going back.
Then again Waterstones in the UK have introduced a facility where you can order on the internet and have it delivered to your local bookstore where you can then pick it up. Handy if you are not it for delivery.
Not only that when the tape is unloaded and sitting there in the library it consumes *ZERO* power. A couple of tape frames and you can easily exceed 1PB of storage for a fraction the price of hard drives and a vanishingly small percentage of the power. A good HSM later and you are cooking.
Not only that, what it would cost to reliably cable up all those drives I shudder to think. The nice man from IBM comes tomorrow to install another tape frame onto our library at work. We are then going to fit some LTO4 drives, load a bunch of tapes, and start shuffling it all off the LTO1 tapes currently in there. Once operation has been completed (there is a lot of data to move) and we remove all the LTO1 tapes we should have some 1.5PB of storage. Note there are of course two libraries for redundancy and disaster recovery.
Hope you don't ever need an MRI scan then. No helium, no MRI scans for starters. Then there is the deep sea diving, no helium no off shore oil platforms. Those pebble bed nuclear reactors also require it, Basically the use of helium in party ballons is morally irresponsible, and needs to be banned with *immediate* effect.
The biggest problem is that once helium has escaped into the atmosphere it is literally lost for *EVER*. Basically the average velocity of a helium molecule is greater than the escape velocity, so it is lost into space and is irrecoverable.
I would have thought that a browser based software as a service solution, something like Liberty Accounts which is admittedly targeted at the UK would solve the small business angle. I would be surprised if similar solutions did not exist for other markets.
The reliability problem of valves was solved may years ago. It was down to the silicon that was added to the tungsten to make it easier to work with. If you go with pure tungsten and absorb the high manufacturing costs. Basically if you use high purity components, you can get operating life's of hundreds of thousands of hours from a vacuum tube.
It is also not worth prosecuting, as you can only get actual damages in the UK. You are going to have a hard time proving any significant actual damages so it is not worth prosecuting. The BPA has actually said it is fine with people copying their purchased CD's to their MP3 players and would not prosecute such a case. There is also moves afoot to make it legal as well.
The law is completely out of step with reality, nobody in their right mind considers it morally wrong either. In fact it has only served to damage the industry. In for a penny in for a pound as the saying goes. As it is just as illegal to copy my own CD's onto my MP3 player as download them for free off the internet, I might as well download them for free.
What beats me is why they spent money on a floppy port, a parallel port, a serial port and the PS/2 ports. They should junk that lot provide some more USB ports, and change the two PATA ports for two more SATA ports. Nice and legacy free, and probably cheaper as well.
You are indeed correct, the standard laptop optical units are indeed 12.5mm high. The 9.5mm high ones are for sub notebooks and the ultra slim models. Though I would note that Toshiba do a 7.6mm DVD drive that they include in their Portage R500 range.
I think FCoE is more useful in the data centre than iSCSI. None of the TCP/IP overhead, and all the cheapness of Ethernet. Thing is that long term 10GbE is going to eat FC alive in cost.
Er Exchange in all it formats is an enormous pile of dino droppings. How anything can claim to be an enterprise mail system and store all the mail in what are little more than glorified Access databases that can grow to terabytes in size is beyond me.
You don't have to dump Berne to make it more sane, you just need to peel the rights back to what is specified in Berne. Starting at 50 years after death...
Apart from the idea that you would not use tapes I am in complete agreement. I would add they are stuck in a 1985 mindset where the internet does not exist.
It is a pretty simple problem to solve. You set up a smallish data centre on three continents. You install some LTO4 tape libraries and start replicating the data to each over the internet. With LTO4 you are looking at ~600TB per 19" rack, and when you are not accessing the data (most of the time) you are not consuming power. Add in some checksumming and patrol checking of the tapes and problem sorted. In 5,10 years time you migrate to some new tape tech. That involves sticking some more frames in, hooking them up and telling the software to copy the data to the new tapes.
Remember as well this is a high assurance system not a high availability system, so some of the expense of a datacentre can be saved. No need for that diesel generator for example because it does not really matter if you cannot access the data today because of a power cut. What matters is that it is preserved and when the power returns you can access it.
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I live in the UK and my mother is a retired teacher. About 15 years ago now she relayed a story about what had happened that day in the "what do you want to be when you grow up" lesson in a school in a "rough" area of the local conerbation with a group of 5/6 year olds. Mostly it was normal stuff, Policeman, fireman, doctor, nurse etc. However one child replied with burglar. Presumably after seeing the look of shock on my mothers face he quickly qualifed the statement with the fact that not old people or schools, but only "rich" people and shops.
I think we can be fairly sure that this person grew up to be a criminal. In fact other observations made by my mother in that class gave *VERY* strong indications that the child was already involved in criminal activity, and was being used by the parents to gain entry in breakins.
That is perhaps a rather stark example. However when I look at my own time in school I used to see in the local paper from time to time reports of individuals from my year at school being convicted of criminal activity. Never once was I surprised by the people in trouble.
The reality is that the signs of criminal behaviour are there, and are clear to those who wish to observe them. You would probably be correct if you said that society should tackle this problem. However in the context of the police suggestion they are doing their job. Children likely to commit crimes when they grow up are identifiable at an early age, and collection DNA would drastically reduce the cost to the tax payer of catching them.
With the Asus Eee 701 shipping something like 500,000 units so far and looking at something like three million units by year end, that is pretty decent market to me. Anyone placing an order for three million processor units from *any* manufacturer, including Intel will get plenty of attention.
No problem he is late, and he misses the flight at his own expense.
Well I have a friend that works at Delphi making injectors, and what he says is that the manufactures don't have 20 years of product history to know if they will work. So while they don't anticipate any problems they are all holding back on certifying them as being compliant.
The issue is that copyright in Mein Kampf still exists, and is in the hands of the German state. Printing it would be copyright infringement (it is not 70 years since Hitler died yet), just as much as printing a copy of a Harry Potter book would be. The fact that the German state deliberately does not print the book is neither here nor there.
No where in the bible does it say that God created the world in seven or even six days. He spends a indeterminate period of time creating the heavens and the earth. Then he creates light, again no mention whatsoever of how long this took. Finally he separates the light from the dark, and the first day happends.
Frankly I give most people about 0/10 for reading comprehension.
It's only broken because BT introduced paying by amount of data moved down the pipes. When it all started out you paid for a pipe and what was pushed through it was free of charge. What we need is OFCOM to get of it's backside and force BT back to the original pipe charging. The odd thing in all this is that PlusNet are now a subsidiary of BT.
Speaking as a happy customer of PlusNet for over five years now.
Think is that there is this the beyond *ALL* reasonable doubt thing. By your own admission there is a 0.1% chance he's innocent, so if that is all the evidence you have then there is some reasonable doubt and you have to find them not guilty.
It is why OJ Simpson was found not guilty. The glove the prosecution said the killer wore didn't fit; reasonable doubt. All DNA testing was done in the one lab, with all sort of cross contamination issues; reasonable doubt. The list goes on and on (frankly the prosecution where abysmal). Anyway any *ONE* of those would have been enough to secure a not guilty conviction.
Indeed, the SA agreements that where all coming up for renewal, stated that there would be at least *one* major release of the OS. Failure to ship an OS in the time frame of the SA agreements would have left Microsoft open to major law suites for breach of contract.
And the answer is YES. There is a reason why the FSF require you to sign the copyright in any project they run over to them, and this is the reason.
But Amazon are not competition for those sorts of book stores. I buy most of my books from Amazon, simply because the bricks and morta stores don't have the range of books in stock and it is a right pain ordering the books then going back.
Then again Waterstones in the UK have introduced a facility where you can order on the internet and have it delivered to your local bookstore where you can then pick it up. Handy if you are not it for delivery.
Not only that when the tape is unloaded and sitting there in the library it consumes *ZERO* power. A couple of tape frames and you can easily exceed 1PB of storage for a fraction the price of hard drives and a vanishingly small percentage of the power. A good HSM later and you are cooking.
Not only that, what it would cost to reliably cable up all those drives I shudder to think. The nice man from IBM comes tomorrow to install another tape frame onto our library at work. We are then going to fit some LTO4 drives, load a bunch of tapes, and start shuffling it all off the LTO1 tapes currently in there. Once operation has been completed (there is a lot of data to move) and we remove all the LTO1 tapes we should have some 1.5PB of storage. Note there are of course two libraries for redundancy and disaster recovery.
Do that in spinning HDD, dream on mate.
Hope you don't ever need an MRI scan then. No helium, no MRI scans for starters. Then there is the deep sea diving, no helium no off shore oil platforms. Those pebble bed nuclear reactors also require it, Basically the use of helium in party ballons is morally irresponsible, and needs to be banned with *immediate* effect.
The biggest problem is that once helium has escaped into the atmosphere it is literally lost for *EVER*. Basically the average velocity of a helium molecule is greater than the escape velocity, so it is lost into space and is irrecoverable.
I would have thought that a browser based software as a service solution, something like Liberty Accounts which is admittedly targeted at the UK would solve the small business angle. I would be surprised if similar solutions did not exist for other markets.
Yeah, and my VOIP phone needs PoE, and my wireless access points also needs PoE. Hum we seem to have a slight problem here with power over fibre.
The reliability problem of valves was solved may years ago. It was down to the silicon that was added to the tungsten to make it easier to work with. If you go with pure tungsten and absorb the high manufacturing costs. Basically if you use high purity components, you can get operating life's of hundreds of thousands of hours from a vacuum tube.
It is also not worth prosecuting, as you can only get actual damages in the UK. You are going to have a hard time proving any significant actual damages so it is not worth prosecuting. The BPA has actually said it is fine with people copying their purchased CD's to their MP3 players and would not prosecute such a case. There is also moves afoot to make it legal as well.
The law is completely out of step with reality, nobody in their right mind considers it morally wrong either. In fact it has only served to damage the industry. In for a penny in for a pound as the saying goes. As it is just as illegal to copy my own CD's onto my MP3 player as download them for free off the internet, I might as well download them for free.
Er, yes it can accept SATA, it is using a VIA iDot motherboard http://www.idot.com.tw/en/products/mb-pc2500e/
What beats me is why they spent money on a floppy port, a parallel port, a serial port and the PS/2 ports. They should junk that lot provide some more USB ports, and change the two PATA ports for two more SATA ports. Nice and legacy free, and probably cheaper as well.
Funny a couple of weeks ago I was reading about how these where sold out at Walmart, so I would argue that clearly they are selling.
You are indeed correct, the standard laptop optical units are indeed 12.5mm high. The 9.5mm high ones are for sub notebooks and the ultra slim models. Though I would note that Toshiba do a 7.6mm DVD drive that they include in their Portage R500 range.
I think FCoE is more useful in the data centre than iSCSI. None of the TCP/IP overhead, and all the cheapness of Ethernet. Thing is that long term 10GbE is going to eat FC alive in cost.
Er Exchange in all it formats is an enormous pile of dino droppings. How anything can claim to be an enterprise mail system and store all the mail in what are little more than glorified Access databases that can grow to terabytes in size is beyond me.
You don't have to dump Berne to make it more sane, you just need to peel the rights back to what is specified in Berne. Starting at 50 years after death...
Apart from the idea that you would not use tapes I am in complete agreement. I would add they are stuck in a 1985 mindset where the internet does not exist.
It is a pretty simple problem to solve. You set up a smallish data centre on three continents. You install some LTO4 tape libraries and start replicating the data to each over the internet. With LTO4 you are looking at ~600TB per 19" rack, and when you are not accessing the data (most of the time) you are not consuming power. Add in some checksumming and patrol checking of the tapes and problem sorted. In 5,10 years time you migrate to some new tape tech. That involves sticking some more frames in, hooking them up and telling the software to copy the data to the new tapes.
Remember as well this is a high assurance system not a high availability system, so some of the expense of a datacentre can be saved. No need for that diesel generator for example because it does not really matter if you cannot access the data today because of a power cut. What matters is that it is preserved and when the power returns you can access it.
You could replicate it on three continents for a dam sight less than the article suggests.