Great I'm going to let my child learn that it's normal to be permanently under surveillance.
Whether or not you realize it, this is normal. At least that's the case if you live in any first world country these days. Countries with less money like north korea probably don't have it setup simply because of cost. You can debate the morality of it, but not the normality.
Yes, I would. There are a multitude of smartphone apps that do it, but the problem with those is they drain the battery so badly the phones (android or iphone) don't last even 8 hours with a standard battery. I've tried them.
I don't like this game, but the lack of current games on linux is the main reason I run windows at home. Hopefully in a few years linux releases will become some kind of norm.
Think of it more like an early investor vs. just a customer - like they said, it's sort of like Kickstarter for concerts. If the show sells well, the early investors/promoters get a return on their investment of the price of a ticket.
Investment, like their premium for a ticket, involves risk, which is done in expectation of a possible reward.
It's not THAT much of a risk, though. Either way the premium ticket buyers get to see the show.
Microsoft urges businesses to spend more money with Microsoft.
The funny thing about all the "love" on the net for XP these days is that it too was not great at release... I remember "XP" being joked about standing for "eXperience the Problems".
Fact is most iPhone sales are made to new buyers, or those upgrading at the end of their contracts.
Lol. Most of ANY kind of phone sales (prepaid excluded) are made this way. Most people can't afford to shell out $600+ for a phone every year so people generally have to wait for the contract to be ready. There's nothing unique about this to iPhone. If that wasn't the case, I'd probably replace my phone every few months!
But they don't. Android and iPhone utterly crush the BB in "business email".
the BB is an exercise in frustration with email. android Jelly Bean's email client is a dream compared to the BB. Oh and it works great with our company exchange server, no nasty useless poorly written BB server in the back office that everyone hated to deal with.
I disagree. I had blackberry devices for many years, and I'm now on my second android phone. I really like the android phone, but MOST of the benefits of it vs the blackberry are not specifically business related. The blackberry was significantly superior for email to anything I've used so far on android. For me, the biggest benefit from a business perspective is wireless tethering on the android.
Stupid people like to tease me for liking Star Trek and the Misfits. Fuck them, it's what *I* like that matters to me. If you switch phones because your old one isn't cool enough, you're a dipshit and deserved the mockery you were getting in the first place.
If switching phones because the old one isn't cool enough is wrong, 50 million apple fanboys don't want to be right.
In that case they can just add a simple robots,txt to tell the "parasite" to go away. And then start waving their fucking magic wand around to make people discover the site directly.
Because they don't want their sites excluded, they want to force some other company (google) to pay them money for the content since actual readers refuse to do it.
Exactly. The argument seems to me to be in favor of fostering a monopoly in news sites. It's a concerted effort to keep the small news site from taking readers away from big news sites.
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Your statement boils down to: "It's legal for an entity that hold massive amounts of power over you and your life to hold your needs for ransom and force you into a contract and for it to be binding."
People wonder why I think corporate rights should be subordinate to the rights of the individual. This is it. This might not be quite as serious as paypal has "competitors" (I disagree with this view... they hold the keys to one of the most important online marketplaces. There is no other way to gain access.), but think about if your water or electric company did this.
It's really more a matter of when they will do it, not if.
When a drive fails and a RAID goes into reconstruction (if you are set up that way), that's when you are significantly more likely to have another drive fail due to all the extra activity across the RAID.
I've seen two instances where a drive failed. Each time there were no handy replacement drives. Within a week a second drive died the same way as the first! back to backup tapes! Better to have replacement drives in boxes waiting.
This. Your spares closet is your best friend in the enterprise. Ensure you keep it stocked.
Keep a hot spare in the system and maintain same day onsite service contracts.
The FusionIO devices are provisioned with a fair amount of redundancy at the storage cell level. But if a part in the main controller goes boom, so does the whole device. I've seen that once so far, wasn't fun since the most critical parts of the data were stored there--trying to get the most out of the device's expense. Some of these units are just expensive enough that I've seen a depressing number of people buy just one (rather than a mirrored pair) after buying the sales pitch on the cell redundancy. If you're going to do that, make sure you have some sort of real-time replication over to a cheaper server going on, too.
We bought two per server, at about $20k a drive it was a hard sell to management! When I lost the card, the PCIe backplane also failed. No way to tell if the backplane caused the card to fail or vice versa I guess.
I had a FusionIO IODrive fail a few weeks ago. It was running a data array on a windows 2008 r2 server. It manifested its-self by giving errors in the windows event log and causing long boot times (even though it was not a boot device). The device was still accessible, but slower than normal. I think the answer to your question will probably vary greatly both by manufacturer and also based on what part of the device failed. The SSD's I've used generally come with a fairly large amount of "backup" memory on them so that if a cell begins to fail, the card marks the cell bad and uses one from one of the backup chips. Much like how hard drives deal with bad sectors. As I understand it, the SSD is somehow able to detect the failure before data is lost and begin using the backup chips transparently and automatically vs having to do a scandisk or similar to do the same on a physical disk. That may very well vary by manufacturer as well.
It was my understanding that for traditional drives in a RAID you don't want to get all the same type of drive all made around the same time since they will fail around the same time too. Same would apply to SSDs.
Never heard of that. I've got about 450 servers each with a raid1 and raid10 array of physical disks. We always buy everything together, including all the disks. If one fails we get alerts from the monitoring software and get a technician to the site that night for a disk replacement. I think I've seen one incident in the past 14 years I've been in this department where more than one disk failed at a time.
My thought on buying them separately is that you run the risk of getting devices with different firmware levels or other manufacturer revisions which would be less than ideal when raided together. Not to mention you have a mess for warranty management. We replace systems (disks included) when the 4 year warranty expires.
Amazon taking charge of OMAP could leave rivals Barnes & Noble in a tricky situation
Also, I believe the BeagleBoard is the SoC OMAP3530... not to mention there's a bunch of Samsung products (since it was mentioned that they are "rising competition") that depend on the OMAP4xxx series like the Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab 2 and Galaxy Nexus... lot of BlackBerry devices on that list too. It's not just the Kindle Fire using OMAP4, there's a lot of current devices using OMAP3 & OMAP4.
What's going to happen to all these devices when Amazon decides it doesn't make open source hobby boards or cell phones and condenses these SoCs down to just Kindle-related focus? I guess it'd be stupid to throw away all that business but anybody know what would happen to these?
Amazon seems to be in the business of selling "stuff". Chips are stuff, I don't think they will likely stop selling the chips before they are obsolete. So to reiterate, they'll probably keep selling the chips at least until January 2013.
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Great I'm going to let my child learn that it's normal to be permanently under surveillance.
Whether or not you realize it, this is normal. At least that's the case if you live in any first world country these days. Countries with less money like north korea probably don't have it setup simply because of cost.
You can debate the morality of it, but not the normality.
Yes, I would. There are a multitude of smartphone apps that do it, but the problem with those is they drain the battery so badly the phones (android or iphone) don't last even 8 hours with a standard battery. I've tried them.
I don't like this game, but the lack of current games on linux is the main reason I run windows at home. Hopefully in a few years linux releases will become some kind of norm.
Think of it more like an early investor vs. just a customer - like they said, it's sort of like Kickstarter for concerts. If the show sells well, the early investors/promoters get a return on their investment of the price of a ticket.
Investment, like their premium for a ticket, involves risk, which is done in expectation of a possible reward.
It's not THAT much of a risk, though. Either way the premium ticket buyers get to see the show.
Microsoft urges businesses to spend more money with Microsoft.
The funny thing about all the "love" on the net for XP these days is that it too was not great at release... I remember "XP" being joked about standing for "eXperience the Problems".
Fact is most iPhone sales are made to new buyers, or those upgrading at the end of their contracts.
Lol. Most of ANY kind of phone sales (prepaid excluded) are made this way. Most people can't afford to shell out $600+ for a phone every year so people generally have to wait for the contract to be ready. There's nothing unique about this to iPhone. If that wasn't the case, I'd probably replace my phone every few months!
But they don't. Android and iPhone utterly crush the BB in "business email".
the BB is an exercise in frustration with email. android Jelly Bean's email client is a dream compared to the BB. Oh and it works great with our company exchange server, no nasty useless poorly written BB server in the back office that everyone hated to deal with.
I disagree. I had blackberry devices for many years, and I'm now on my second android phone. I really like the android phone, but MOST of the benefits of it vs the blackberry are not specifically business related. The blackberry was significantly superior for email to anything I've used so far on android. For me, the biggest benefit from a business perspective is wireless tethering on the android.
Stupid people like to tease me for liking Star Trek and the Misfits. Fuck them, it's what *I* like that matters to me. If you switch phones because your old one isn't cool enough, you're a dipshit and deserved the mockery you were getting in the first place.
If switching phones because the old one isn't cool enough is wrong, 50 million apple fanboys don't want to be right.
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But Google can refuse to show their content if the options are either pay for crawling it and not to crawl it.
I think that IS what is on the table. Google has come out and said they weren't going to pay and therefore were going to exclude the sites.
In that case they can just add a simple robots,txt to tell the "parasite" to go away. And then start waving their fucking magic wand around to make people discover the site directly.
Because they don't want their sites excluded, they want to force some other company (google) to pay them money for the content since actual readers refuse to do it.
Exactly. The argument seems to me to be in favor of fostering a monopoly in news sites. It's a concerted effort to keep the small news site from taking readers away from big news sites.
I'm in! Should I bring flowers and candy?
Some companys just don't have the decency to lay down and die when their time is over... It's so sad.
My parents are still on Compuserve dial-up. It's all their fault.
Wow, honestly I assumed compuserve had closed up shop years ago.
Sounds like WAY too much of a pain in the ass for me to put up with. For me, email is and will continue to be simple.
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Your statement boils down to: "It's legal for an entity that hold massive amounts of power over you and your life to hold your needs for ransom and force you into a contract and for it to be binding."
People wonder why I think corporate rights should be subordinate to the rights of the individual. This is it. This might not be quite as serious as paypal has "competitors" (I disagree with this view... they hold the keys to one of the most important online marketplaces. There is no other way to gain access.), but think about if your water or electric company did this.
It's really more a matter of when they will do it, not if.
Who is RMS?
When a drive fails and a RAID goes into reconstruction (if you are set up that way), that's when you are significantly more likely to have another drive fail due to all the extra activity across the RAID.
Don't use RAID 5. Battle Against Any Raid 5
I've seen two instances where a drive failed. Each time there were no handy replacement drives. Within a week a second drive died the same way as the first! back to backup tapes! Better to have replacement drives in boxes waiting.
This. Your spares closet is your best friend in the enterprise. Ensure you keep it stocked.
Keep a hot spare in the system and maintain same day onsite service contracts.
The FusionIO devices are provisioned with a fair amount of redundancy at the storage cell level. But if a part in the main controller goes boom, so does the whole device. I've seen that once so far, wasn't fun since the most critical parts of the data were stored there--trying to get the most out of the device's expense. Some of these units are just expensive enough that I've seen a depressing number of people buy just one (rather than a mirrored pair) after buying the sales pitch on the cell redundancy. If you're going to do that, make sure you have some sort of real-time replication over to a cheaper server going on, too.
We bought two per server, at about $20k a drive it was a hard sell to management! When I lost the card, the PCIe backplane also failed. No way to tell if the backplane caused the card to fail or vice versa I guess.
I had a FusionIO IODrive fail a few weeks ago. It was running a data array on a windows 2008 r2 server. It manifested its-self by giving errors in the windows event log and causing long boot times (even though it was not a boot device). The device was still accessible, but slower than normal. I think the answer to your question will probably vary greatly both by manufacturer and also based on what part of the device failed. The SSD's I've used generally come with a fairly large amount of "backup" memory on them so that if a cell begins to fail, the card marks the cell bad and uses one from one of the backup chips. Much like how hard drives deal with bad sectors. As I understand it, the SSD is somehow able to detect the failure before data is lost and begin using the backup chips transparently and automatically vs having to do a scandisk or similar to do the same on a physical disk. That may very well vary by manufacturer as well.
It was my understanding that for traditional drives in a RAID you don't want to get all the same type of drive all made around the same time since they will fail around the same time too. Same would apply to SSDs.
Never heard of that. I've got about 450 servers each with a raid1 and raid10 array of physical disks. We always buy everything together, including all the disks. If one fails we get alerts from the monitoring software and get a technician to the site that night for a disk replacement. I think I've seen one incident in the past 14 years I've been in this department where more than one disk failed at a time.
My thought on buying them separately is that you run the risk of getting devices with different firmware levels or other manufacturer revisions which would be less than ideal when raided together. Not to mention you have a mess for warranty management. We replace systems (disks included) when the 4 year warranty expires.
A Korean general serving in the U.N. is "the western world?"
Amazon taking charge of OMAP could leave rivals Barnes & Noble in a tricky situation
Also, I believe the BeagleBoard is the SoC OMAP3530 ... not to mention there's a bunch of Samsung products (since it was mentioned that they are "rising competition") that depend on the OMAP4xxx series like the Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab 2 and Galaxy Nexus ... lot of BlackBerry devices on that list too. It's not just the Kindle Fire using OMAP4, there's a lot of current devices using OMAP3 & OMAP4.
What's going to happen to all these devices when Amazon decides it doesn't make open source hobby boards or cell phones and condenses these SoCs down to just Kindle-related focus? I guess it'd be stupid to throw away all that business but anybody know what would happen to these?
Amazon seems to be in the business of selling "stuff". Chips are stuff, I don't think they will likely stop selling the chips before they are obsolete. So to reiterate, they'll probably keep selling the chips at least until January 2013.