This article is simply trying to make news where there isn't any. Of course only a fraction of the power consumed goes into actual computations. For starters you need to account for cooling. Roughly speaking for every watt of server power load, you nede to account for 1 watt of cooling energy. This essentially halves the potential efficiency. In addition to that, you need to account for the amount of power it takes just to maintain state when you talking about a data center of that scale. Non-volitle memory requires and consumes power just to retain its current values.
Unline Facebook and Google, most datacenters do not have 100% control over the hardware and software being run. Additionally datacenters often charge for power, space, etc and the client simply pays for what they use. In many instances efficiency is not for the datacenter to determine and one could argue that it may not even be in the datacenter's financial interest. Great strides have been made in scaling power consumption to fit computational demand but this is more of a hardware/software issue than a datacenter issue.
I couldn't agree with you more, this has been my experience as well. The more certifications you have, usually the less qualified you are with a few exceptions. Some certs such as CCIE still mean something.
It shoul not be restricted anywhere. f they cannot handle watching it, let them freak out. If they kill someone or destroy something in the process, eliminate those who cause problems. Restricting information simply because a group of people are not intellectually mature enough to let others voice their opinion no matter how offensive it is, do not deserve to share this planet with the rest of us.
I completely disagree. Most of the talented programmers and network engineers I have worked with over the years have not had degrees. With so many examples of highly successful programmers and engineers without degrees, I find it intellectually dishonest to claim that it is "absolutely needed"
The degree is not needed to become more than a "code monkey". I dropped out of college while getting a CS degree and it has not hindered me one bit. In fact it was quite possibly one of the best decisions of my life.
I'd argue the psychedelics specifically can actually broaden your perspective on the world.
"It must be changing something about the internal communication in my brain. Whatever my inner process is that lets me solve problems, it works differently, or maybe different parts of my brain are used, " said Herbert, 42, an early employee of Cisco Systems who says he solved his toughest technical problems while tripping to drum solos by the Grateful Dead -- who were among the many artists inspired by LSD.
"When I'm on LSD and hearing something that's pure rhythm, it takes me to another world and into anther brain state where I've stopped thinking and started knowing," said Herbert who intervened to ban drug testing of technologists at Cisco Systems.
Apple has enough buying power to get a good deal with any manufacturer, and Samsung isn't stupid enough to cut off a huge source of revenue. They make more off of apple than the lawsuit will cost them
Apparently having a positive view of Win8 and being excited about surface means you are an "obvious Microsoft marketer" I had no trouble understanding what he meant by "bring it all together" He is talking about a laptop/tablet hybrid running windows 8.
Discounting others opinions simply because they differ from your own is lame...
If it's a scripted call it won't be long before it's automated. I tihnk it's even preferrable to speak to a computer that understands english than a human that does not.
Both age 3 times faster than they would normally... There is no way I would rent my car out to a random person. I know many people who rent cars and have a goal of putting more wear and tear on the car than they paid for the rental... driving with the e-brake on, driving with both the gas and brake applied at the same time, repeatedly accelerating and braking as fast as possible until you warp the rotors, setting an automatic to no use more than first or second gear for the entire rental duration (think 6,000rpms at highway speeds for 3 days straight) just to name a few.
What the author neglects to realize is that language evolves based on how the majority of people use specific words. If 99.9% of the population believes the web and the internet are one and the same, then that becomes the defacto definition of the word even if it is not technically correct.
Given that the spear-phishing targets are mostly in Iran, I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is probably not the work of some 15 year old playing around or russia organized crime...
Generally not if it is a first-time offense, but many people have gone to prison as a result of possession of small amounts of weed if they were either on probation or if there are multiple offenses. In a few states they have decriminalized varying amounts of weed making it essentially a traffic ticket, but in the majority of states it is still a crime punishable by jail time.
Giving away a few tens of millions "anonymously" compared to giving away the majority of your fortune? I'll go with the latter.... BTW it becomes increasingly difficult to "anonymously" donate to charity when you're donating billions of dollars as opposed to millions or 10's of millions. Bill Gates' character puts him a notch above Jobs...
If you cannot be identified, you cannot be held accountable. Accountability works both ways in that supporters or detractors can understand what to hold them responsible for. Obviously support for this action was far from an overwhemling majority and unfortnately when you operate under the premise of collection conciousness, you tend to include a lot of stupid people. If "anonymous" want's any sense of ligeitmacy, people need to be able to decern what actions were taken by the group and which ones were not. If this is not possible, anonymous is everyone and will be held responsible for all those who act like a pissed off bunch of 12 year olds lashing out hat everything they disagree with.
VMWare but be the leader in hardware virtualization right now, but hardware virtualization is a hack to bridge the gap between current software and the cloud concept. Why virtualize the hardware when your software natively supports a cloud model? Google has no need for virtualizing hardware because their software understands a cloud architecture. With Azure, microsoft is moving in this direction and when that happens VMware will be the leader in a technology with limited usefulness.
Microsoft will win this battle for Windows based OS virtulization if for now other reason but the licensing leverage. From a techhnology standpoint Hyper-V is competitive now in most respects. VMware is going to have a long, hard road ahead of it unless it can really start justifying the additional cost in a Windows environment.
Your data is only as secure as your backup service provider. Make sure your data is encrypted fromt he second it leaves your possession. Check Dynamic Vault Dynamic Vault. They offer encrypted remote backup with multiple key, full turn-key DR services and even offer the option for them not to know the key (you're on your own if you lose it).
You're really anonymous after your face has been ripped off, fingers cut off and your teeth have been ripped out with pliers. No one will ever figure out who those kids were.
Facebook is evil. The more you understand about how the world works and Facebook's business model, the more you realize it. Lucky for Facebook, the vast majority of people in the world are completely ignorant of the world around them.
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In other news Tom Welton, a professor of sustainable chemistry at Imperial College has been diagnosed with a severe case of OCD
This article is simply trying to make news where there isn't any. Of course only a fraction of the power consumed goes into actual computations. For starters you need to account for cooling. Roughly speaking for every watt of server power load, you nede to account for 1 watt of cooling energy. This essentially halves the potential efficiency. In addition to that, you need to account for the amount of power it takes just to maintain state when you talking about a data center of that scale. Non-volitle memory requires and consumes power just to retain its current values. Unline Facebook and Google, most datacenters do not have 100% control over the hardware and software being run. Additionally datacenters often charge for power, space, etc and the client simply pays for what they use. In many instances efficiency is not for the datacenter to determine and one could argue that it may not even be in the datacenter's financial interest. Great strides have been made in scaling power consumption to fit computational demand but this is more of a hardware/software issue than a datacenter issue.
I couldn't agree with you more, this has been my experience as well. The more certifications you have, usually the less qualified you are with a few exceptions. Some certs such as CCIE still mean something.
It shoul not be restricted anywhere. f they cannot handle watching it, let them freak out. If they kill someone or destroy something in the process, eliminate those who cause problems. Restricting information simply because a group of people are not intellectually mature enough to let others voice their opinion no matter how offensive it is, do not deserve to share this planet with the rest of us.
I'm pretty sure they value free of speech over silencing critism over their religion.
The lottery is a tax on people who do not understand math, McAfee is tax on people who do not understand computers.
I completely disagree. Most of the talented programmers and network engineers I have worked with over the years have not had degrees. With so many examples of highly successful programmers and engineers without degrees, I find it intellectually dishonest to claim that it is "absolutely needed"
The degree is not needed to become more than a "code monkey". I dropped out of college while getting a CS degree and it has not hindered me one bit. In fact it was quite possibly one of the best decisions of my life.
I'd argue the psychedelics specifically can actually broaden your perspective on the world. "It must be changing something about the internal communication in my brain. Whatever my inner process is that lets me solve problems, it works differently, or maybe different parts of my brain are used, " said Herbert, 42, an early employee of Cisco Systems who says he solved his toughest technical problems while tripping to drum solos by the Grateful Dead -- who were among the many artists inspired by LSD. "When I'm on LSD and hearing something that's pure rhythm, it takes me to another world and into anther brain state where I've stopped thinking and started knowing," said Herbert who intervened to ban drug testing of technologists at Cisco Systems.
Apple has enough buying power to get a good deal with any manufacturer, and Samsung isn't stupid enough to cut off a huge source of revenue. They make more off of apple than the lawsuit will cost them
Apparently having a positive view of Win8 and being excited about surface means you are an "obvious Microsoft marketer" I had no trouble understanding what he meant by "bring it all together" He is talking about a laptop/tablet hybrid running windows 8. Discounting others opinions simply because they differ from your own is lame...
If it's a scripted call it won't be long before it's automated. I tihnk it's even preferrable to speak to a computer that understands english than a human that does not.
Both age 3 times faster than they would normally... There is no way I would rent my car out to a random person. I know many people who rent cars and have a goal of putting more wear and tear on the car than they paid for the rental... driving with the e-brake on, driving with both the gas and brake applied at the same time, repeatedly accelerating and braking as fast as possible until you warp the rotors, setting an automatic to no use more than first or second gear for the entire rental duration (think 6,000rpms at highway speeds for 3 days straight) just to name a few.
What the author neglects to realize is that language evolves based on how the majority of people use specific words. If 99.9% of the population believes the web and the internet are one and the same, then that becomes the defacto definition of the word even if it is not technically correct.
Given that the spear-phishing targets are mostly in Iran, I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is probably not the work of some 15 year old playing around or russia organized crime...
Generally not if it is a first-time offense, but many people have gone to prison as a result of possession of small amounts of weed if they were either on probation or if there are multiple offenses. In a few states they have decriminalized varying amounts of weed making it essentially a traffic ticket, but in the majority of states it is still a crime punishable by jail time.
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/0051209/apples-icloud-runs-on-microsoft-azure
Giving away a few tens of millions "anonymously" compared to giving away the majority of your fortune? I'll go with the latter.... BTW it becomes increasingly difficult to "anonymously" donate to charity when you're donating billions of dollars as opposed to millions or 10's of millions. Bill Gates' character puts him a notch above Jobs...
If you cannot be identified, you cannot be held accountable. Accountability works both ways in that supporters or detractors can understand what to hold them responsible for. Obviously support for this action was far from an overwhemling majority and unfortnately when you operate under the premise of collection conciousness, you tend to include a lot of stupid people. If "anonymous" want's any sense of ligeitmacy, people need to be able to decern what actions were taken by the group and which ones were not. If this is not possible, anonymous is everyone and will be held responsible for all those who act like a pissed off bunch of 12 year olds lashing out hat everything they disagree with.
Twitter tells you what to think.
VMWare but be the leader in hardware virtualization right now, but hardware virtualization is a hack to bridge the gap between current software and the cloud concept. Why virtualize the hardware when your software natively supports a cloud model? Google has no need for virtualizing hardware because their software understands a cloud architecture. With Azure, microsoft is moving in this direction and when that happens VMware will be the leader in a technology with limited usefulness.
Microsoft will win this battle for Windows based OS virtulization if for now other reason but the licensing leverage. From a techhnology standpoint Hyper-V is competitive now in most respects. VMware is going to have a long, hard road ahead of it unless it can really start justifying the additional cost in a Windows environment.
Your data is only as secure as your backup service provider. Make sure your data is encrypted fromt he second it leaves your possession. Check Dynamic Vault Dynamic Vault. They offer encrypted remote backup with multiple key, full turn-key DR services and even offer the option for them not to know the key (you're on your own if you lose it).
You're really anonymous after your face has been ripped off, fingers cut off and your teeth have been ripped out with pliers. No one will ever figure out who those kids were.
Facebook is evil. The more you understand about how the world works and Facebook's business model, the more you realize it. Lucky for Facebook, the vast majority of people in the world are completely ignorant of the world around them.