Xterminals, or similar (see the PXES project) on the physical desktop.
An array of load balanced login servers which manage the KDE (*not* Gnome, it's too slow and inefficient) user interface.
Backended by an array of grid based execution nodes where your larger (Mozilla,OpenOffice etc) user applications really run.
And rdesktop clients installed for access to any required Windows applications.
You need a good network but it gives you a massively scalable and relatively simple to manage infrastructure. Any more and I'll have to start charging you consultancy.
If you have 1 system, 1 set of applications. Life is sweet. This is the mainframe.
If you have 2 systems, there's 2 sets of relationships which have to be managed, life is good.
If you have 4 systems, there's 16 sets of inter-relationships that have to be managed and life is interesting.
If you have 16 systems, there's 256 sets of relationships to manage and life is extremely busy.
With 256 systems, there's 65536 sets of relationships and frankly you're taking the piss.
With 5,000 systems (easily possible to have 5,000 servers in a multinational corporation) and no real thought to the complexity management, well, you've got 25,000,000 sets of relationships to manage, your army of IT staff and shareholders are holding the high ground and taking pot shots at users with high powered hunting rifles.
It's why pure peer to peer doesn't work. You have to start breaking the complexity down into layers of services, somewhere between 4 and 16 systems if you're sane. But you're never going to get mainframe levels of simplicity and therefore support costs and reliability.
We've managed to design our distributed infrastructure so that support and maintenance costs and sysadmin effort are increasing logarithmically rather than linearly or worse but... It still isn't a mainframe.
First it's on disk, then it ages through lack of use and gets migrated to tape in f*cking HUGE rooms full of f*cking huge silos which are full of f*ckng quick tape drives and large cartridges, none of your measly 200Gb 20MB/s cheap crap.
You access a "stub" file on disk, the tape the corresponding real file is on gets mounted in a drive, the drive seeks to the correct block on the tape, reads the file and puts it on disk. Takes about a minute on average if you have quick robots and fast tape drives.
I can easily believe that 70% of the world's data is on mainframes. A terabyte is nothing, we're talking petabytes and exabytes of storage.
Add an extra "on demand" shows menu which TiVo keeps updated with the latest and greatest. Start playing the video and it downloads and buffers the film as it plays. I'd have thought the cable companies would be dead keen. Course it'd only be feasable on something like DirecTivo, digital cable or fast ADSL.
I'd be surprised if the directors of the companies want to be dragged into court to face charges so it doesn't make sense to allow their subordinate management to defraud the employees.
It's completely natural. We are after all the top predator. There is a very long list of other species which were not up to scratch and which human beings have made extinct. I wouldn't worry too much about some microbes.
Really? Did you know him personally? I take it that you know he's reputed to have beheaded people just to make a point. Al-Qaeda fly aeroplanes into buildings just to make a point.
"I have philosophical problems with total loss lubrication. At least with a molybdenum disulfide based viscous lube a significant portion stays on the chain and sprockets."
It works a treat. If you're worried about running surface contamination it isn't a big problem, you just reduce the flow rate till there's no drips on the tyre and we're only talking 400ml every 5,000 miles. The problem with viscous lubes is they pick up dirt, gravel and turn into an abrasive slurry which actively wears out the o-rings, rollers and sprockets. An oiler washes that stuff off the chain and sprockets.
Yes it is slower, much slower and it isn't a problem because y'know what? You can install binaries from multiple applications into a single directory. How's that for clever.
The parent poster got rid of the shared directories though and if you're going to link the binaries into a common bin, you might as well just install them there with a package manager, and what do you do with application versions and binary name collisions? Hmm?
If every application has it's own directory, your PATH will be huge and the system will have to search each one of the PATH entries until it finds your application when you try to run it. How many searches before it finds it? 10,20,200?
Oh, sorry, you *only* use a GUI and so click on the application. Well not everyone solely uses a GUI or wants to go searching through dozens of application directories for the specific binary which runs an application.
Why are all futuristic motorcycles designed to only go in a straight line? That's what cars are for.
I am a motorcyclist and *the* most fun thing about bikes is the way you can go round corners are utterly insane speeds and unfeasably low lean angles, footpegs, exhausts scraping on the ground. *That* thing would just ground out and slide into a ditch... Much like a Harley actually.
Well not compared to other Americans anyway. What happens is that value of the Almighty Dollar falls as the economy weakens, becoming worth less on the global market. *That* effectively reduces your wages compared to the rest of the world, making you cheaper to employ and your products cheaper. Your pay remains at a similar level compared to other Americans. e.g. A Harley now only costs 5200GBP. That same Harley cost nearly 9,000GBP a couple of years ago.
I don't know if you've noticed but the Dollar has been falling for the last couple of years. In 2002 1 dollar would have bought you 0.7 pounds sterling (GBP) or 50 Indian Rupees (INR). Now, 1 dollar will only buy you 0.55 pounds sterling or 44 Indian Ruppees (INR). That's more than a 10% reduction in all American's wages right there.
Another example is the Japanese Yen. It halved in value during the 90s while their economy was contracting, effectively halving the wage bill compared to the rest of the world. Harder times for everyone in that economy.
There are several other models which can coexist peacefully with capitalism and which benefit the workers, consumers and society.
Co-operatives spring to mind first e.g. The co-operative bank: http://www.co-operativebank.co.uk/
Then there's charities. There also seem to be other organisations springing up, particularly to provide local government services which are not charities but are otherwise non profit making by design.
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"Death is no longer seen as an acceptable loss so safety is something to be taken into high consideration"
This is why NASA is going to lose America the space race. Safety above all. Nothing safer than a straight jacket and a nice padded cell.
Post your email address and I'll forward my spam messages to you. That'll train your bayesian filter.
My spam folder is full of mail with all sorts of crap random words.
The one or two which have gotten through look like they could have been written by a Perl guru.
So all the drivers stuck in traffic can swear at each other.
Xterminals, or similar (see the PXES project) on the physical desktop.
An array of load balanced login servers which manage the KDE (*not* Gnome, it's too slow and inefficient) user interface.
Backended by an array of grid based execution nodes where your larger (Mozilla,OpenOffice etc) user applications really run.
And rdesktop clients installed for access to any required Windows applications.
You need a good network but it gives you a massively scalable and relatively simple to manage infrastructure. Any more and I'll have to start charging you consultancy.
It's fairly simple mathematically.
If you have 1 system, 1 set of applications. Life is sweet. This is the mainframe.
If you have 2 systems, there's 2 sets of relationships which have to be managed, life is good.
If you have 4 systems, there's 16 sets of inter-relationships that have to be managed and life is interesting.
If you have 16 systems, there's 256 sets of relationships to manage and life is extremely busy.
With 256 systems, there's 65536 sets of relationships and frankly you're taking the piss.
With 5,000 systems (easily possible to have 5,000 servers in a multinational corporation) and no real thought to the complexity management, well, you've got 25,000,000 sets of relationships to manage, your army of IT staff and shareholders are holding the high ground and taking pot shots at users with high powered hunting rifles.
It's why pure peer to peer doesn't work. You have to start breaking the complexity down into layers of services, somewhere between 4 and 16 systems if you're sane. But you're never going to get mainframe levels of simplicity and therefore support costs and reliability.
We've managed to design our distributed infrastructure so that support and maintenance costs and sysadmin effort are increasing logarithmically rather than linearly or worse but... It still isn't a mainframe.
First it's on disk, then it ages through lack of use and gets migrated to tape in f*cking HUGE rooms full of f*cking huge silos which are full of f*ckng quick tape drives and large cartridges, none of your measly 200Gb 20MB/s cheap crap.
You access a "stub" file on disk, the tape the corresponding real file is on gets mounted in a drive, the drive seeks to the correct block on the tape, reads the file and puts it on disk. Takes about a minute on average if you have quick robots and fast tape drives.
I can easily believe that 70% of the world's data is on mainframes. A terabyte is nothing, we're talking petabytes and exabytes of storage.
Add an extra "on demand" shows menu which TiVo keeps updated with the latest and greatest. Start playing the video and it downloads and buffers the film as it plays. I'd have thought the cable companies would be dead keen. Course it'd only be feasable on something like DirecTivo, digital cable or fast ADSL.
They were vaporized. How do you turn that into a cliffhanger?
We've had them for years.
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http://conceptengine.tripod.com/conceptengine/i
Guess they don't have any.
Tell you what though. We could work out the level of commitment by the percentage of troops from each country from the total number of troops.
I'd be surprised if the directors of the companies want to be dragged into court to face charges so it doesn't make sense to allow their subordinate management to defraud the employees.
Some examples might be required though.
It's completely natural. We are after all the top predator. There is a very long list of other species which were not up to scratch and which human beings have made extinct. I wouldn't worry too much about some microbes.
" Sun Tsu was a realist. "
Really? Did you know him personally? I take it that you know he's reputed to have beheaded people just to make a point. Al-Qaeda fly aeroplanes into buildings just to make a point.
"I have philosophical problems with total loss lubrication. At least with a molybdenum disulfide based viscous lube a significant portion stays on the chain and sprockets."
It works a treat. If you're worried about running surface contamination it isn't a big problem, you just reduce the flow rate till there's no drips on the tyre and we're only talking 400ml every 5,000 miles. The problem with viscous lubes is they pick up dirt, gravel and turn into an abrasive slurry which actively wears out the o-rings, rollers and sprockets. An oiler washes that stuff off the chain and sprockets.
Yes it is slower, much slower and it isn't a problem because y'know what? You can install binaries from multiple applications into a single directory. How's that for clever.
The parent poster got rid of the shared directories though and if you're going to link the binaries into a common bin, you might as well just install them there with a package manager, and what do you do with application versions and binary name collisions? Hmm?
Look. Go read The Art of War. 2,500 years old and it's just as applicable today.
http://www.gutenberg.net/etext94/sunzu10.txt
You can have the most powerful army in the world and still be defeated by someone with talent who has read and understood Sun Tsu.
It seems that Al-Qaeda have, and that the US government hasn't.
If every application has it's own directory, your PATH will be huge and the system will have to search each one of the PATH entries until it finds your application when you try to run it. How many searches before it finds it? 10,20,200?
Oh, sorry, you *only* use a GUI and so click on the application. Well not everyone solely uses a GUI or wants to go searching through dozens of application directories for the specific binary which runs an application.
You're going to end up on your arse the first time you try to take a corner. All show.
It'll double your chain life and you'll never have to adjust or oil the chain manually again.
Or get a BMW F650CS. It has a belt that's rated to last up to 75,000 miles. Much better than the 15,000 you usually get out of a manually lubed chain.
Why are all futuristic motorcycles designed to only go in a straight line? That's what cars are for.
I am a motorcyclist and *the* most fun thing about bikes is the way you can go round corners are utterly insane speeds and unfeasably low lean angles, footpegs, exhausts scraping on the ground. *That* thing would just ground out and slide into a ditch... Much like a Harley actually.
Well not compared to other Americans anyway. What happens is that value of the Almighty Dollar falls as the economy weakens, becoming worth less on the global market. *That* effectively reduces your wages compared to the rest of the world, making you cheaper to employ and your products cheaper. Your pay remains at a similar level compared to other Americans. e.g. A Harley now only costs 5200GBP. That same Harley cost nearly 9,000GBP a couple of years ago.
I don't know if you've noticed but the Dollar has been falling for the last couple of years. In 2002 1 dollar would have bought you 0.7 pounds sterling (GBP) or 50 Indian Rupees (INR). Now, 1 dollar will only buy you 0.55 pounds sterling or 44 Indian Ruppees (INR). That's more than a 10% reduction in all American's wages right there.
Another example is the Japanese Yen. It halved in value during the 90s while their economy was contracting, effectively halving the wage bill compared to the rest of the world. Harder times for everyone in that economy.
There are several other models which can coexist peacefully with capitalism and which benefit the workers, consumers and society.
Co-operatives spring to mind first e.g. The co-operative bank: http://www.co-operativebank.co.uk/
Then there's charities. There also seem to be other organisations springing up, particularly to provide local government services which are not charities but are otherwise non profit making by design.