Google Checkout was giving cash discounts and free shipping for a while. It's nothing very new. But yeah, it didn't convince me to use Bing. Although I do use it on the iPhone, I find their maps are much more accurate than the built-in Google maps. Sometimes Google would put me miles away from where I was when using the location feature. I've used them on Blackberry also with AT&T and it sucked as well, so it could just be AT&T location services. But Bing has always worked, and it also has the voice query which is really very good, better than Google's as well. It just seems to know what I'm looking for whereas Google takes a few tries. But the app is dog slow;) I wish I could go back to my Verzion, say what you will about VZW, their cell navigator is awesome.
I second that. If you searched for "Silver" at one point, ebay would come up with silver. They had a 28% off buy it now and you could buy silver coins or buillion at market rates with low shipping and get 28% back up to $2000 from Bing. It was a nice deal while it lasted;)
I also recommend The Golden Spruce by John Valliant, which recounts the history of forestry while examining the life of a specific, one in a billion tree--an albino spruce tree known as the "Golden Spruce". It's extremely interesting to me that the middle east was once a forest and is now a desert. And much of the Mediterranean and Europe and now there's not much left. Obviously some can be made to grow back, but so much valuable soil has been lost to the sea from deforestation.
Yes, you are correct. It's fairly likely that Colony Collapse is caused by feeding bees High Fructose Corn Syrup contaminated with hydroxymethylfurfural. Probably what happened was the phone uses a capacitance system to scan the buttons on the front. This scanning results in a high pitched sound that bees can probably hear and are probably annoyed by. Other things might be the phone smelled funny becuase a person had touched it, or the phone circuit board was treated with something toxic to bees. The only true test would be to put a sterile wire right in the hive and pump out 50W of power and see that nothing happens.
Yep, with Exchange finally. And Apple admitting that they lack an enterprise suite. Yeah, Xserve IMAP Mail is not going to cut it in the year 2010. Thank god, because I've got 50 mac desktops at work and Entourage wasn't cutting it;) Apple doesn't give a rat's ass about email, so they might as well let Exchange in. Plus Unified Communications is going to be huge on the consumer front (already getting big in business) and the iPad is one more convenient format to get your video phone in.
And unless the whole Internet is replaced by a walled garden like a Compuserve (which I'm sure a lot of very well heeled people want), it will likely remain this way.
Well, if the opposite of network neutrality is put into play, then providers can shape traffic and in effect create an AOL walled garden. Politicians would love more than anything to control the message, they don't care if it's true or not. They are like car dealers. Friend or foe, get the dough.
What can you do? Well, we need to move to IPv6 for starters. The huge amount of multicast will make traffic shaping irrelevant rather quickly. The huge amount of addresses make something like wireless mesh networking possible and doable, even with today's technology. When we only use big cable and big telecom for long hauls, we can send that data over encrypted tunnels and they won't know what to shape;) And all this to just preserve the status quo of the Internet relationships--the ability to freely route traffic with peers unrestricted by anything but the speed of the physical media.
And since you mention it, why isn't there a distro that concentrates on a very up to date but stable kernel, and then all the stable pieces to run a web server? CentOS and RHEL are way behind on the web server and PHP packages (as well as python, QT, ruby, etc.) so I always have to manually make those packages.
Likewise, the same could be done with a good productivity desktop distro. Don't worry about apache, php, etc. and just worry about open office and web browsers and audio and such.
I'm sure this is out there, and I'm just not aware of it. I'm also aware of kickstart and the appliance craze, but none of these seem to have the formal structure of a distro.
What if this drive could show up as two devices and a control driver and the driver allows a very fast copy between the two (without using SATA to the mobo)? SCSI has control drivers, used for scanners, tape libraries, etc. It wouldn't be to hard to graft a few controls into this drive and then have out of band front-line to nearline migration that happens on the disk autonomously.
Multi-tier storage is all the rage in enterprise storage now. With a SAN (storage area network), it's fairly easy to have different types of storage pools available to all of your servers. Then it's just software performing a maintenance process to move data from front line to near-line to back line.
Typically this would probably go something like this, for a midsize organization with a few hundred TB of live data:
8-16 SSD's in a RAID10 (~500-1000GB) 32-128TB 15K SAS Drives RAID10 32-128TB 7.2K nearline SAS Drives RAID 6 or 10 32-??TB Tape such as LTO
There are completely autonomous systems that do this now. It's pretty complex to set up but it's possible now to get a multi-tier data setup for not that much money.
What this drive does is bring some of that power to the laptop world. If you have a desktop and haven't gotten a 40GB SSD yet, what are you waiting for? Granted, these Intel drives are not the fastest, but 40GB should be enough for almost anything you could do. You could definitely install an entire distro pretty easily. After that, if you run out of space, if you're using LVM you can just add another SSD that's twice as big in 2 years for another $100, then keep leapfrogging for $50/year to unlimited storage. Use some type of network storage if you have a ton of extra data, or add a 5400 rpm "green" drive.
This would work for most people and I predict 90% of desktops will be SSD-only in about 2 years. That's why hard drive manufacturers are scrambling to release drives in the 2TB, even 3TB range now. Their days are numbered. Cool, power efficient, fast SSDs are simply superior for almost everything and frankly are of a size where they are useful and competitive with any spinning disk for most desktop applications. Now, people with huge data like video and audio and the like may still need a drive or two in the home (or on the Internet somewhere, if they have a fast enough network), but the days of huge, mostly empty hard drives spinning 24/7 are coming to an end.
This might change culture a little bit. I do like the ability to hold a lot of data myself, but most people don't want to bother with it. This brings up a lot of obvious concerns about privacy, and that's going to be a war the drive manufacturers will be fighting with their own enterprise arms who want to sell drives to the data centers and cloud services that will be providing storage to the desktop users. Of course, the data won't be "yours" any more, it'll be a licensed copy streamed to your computer over iSCSI type connection.. That's what they all want now: Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Time Warner, Comcast, etc.
it wont be long before you can put a 10TB SSD in your laptop and never have to worry again (well, except for loosing it)
Why are you worried about loosing it? Is there something on there the world should be afraid of? Should we all live in fear of the data to be unleashed? Are we all going to be affected when you let it loose?
The problem is there are only a few market makers that do the big trades for the big banks and they know the prices, even if they aren't published by the exchange. Stocks don't have to be traded on the exchange, it's just a good place to meet other traders. You would have to outlaw knowing the price you ended up paying for something until you bought it. Which I think is your point, let people give a range, sort of like on ebay and how good you do in that range is dependent on an average of the market, which will slow everything down in a stable way. Obviously you'd only want to kick that in during a crisis, or on markets where people's lives depend on it (electricity for instance, now that Enron is dead and gone).
SCIENCE WEENIE: My master, what limit shall we use in our MBR code for a bootable drive?
EMPOROR GATES: Ahhhhhhhh. Well, my son, after all of these years of suffering at the hands of cruel pranksters, repeating my mistaken decision I made back in the MS-DOS years, I think I have learned my lesson. Yes, people DO have a use for more than 640K of RAM, and I was wrong. Sorry. Jesus, just let it go. Anyway, my son, I have learned my lesson, so let's make it something so unbelievable huge that we'll never need to change it again. Something like......2TB! And let that me my decree to all of PC World--No one will ever need more than 2TB on a single disk!
What you want is cheap 5U rack servers with either OpenFiler or FreeNAS. Personally, I like openfiler better. iSCSI is going to be the way to go unless you want a thick OS on the server and all the other admin issues that come with that. Plus, with openfiler you can still do block level snapshotting and change replication. Also, I've heard good things about Open-e as well. And if you want to mess with ZFS, there's OpenSolaris.
What you do is get yourself a huge (4 or 5U) barebones server from newegg or a cheaper place. Make sure to get a couple of good SATA RAID controllers. Not FakeRAID! SAS would be better, but the drives are a lot more, even for the nearline drives that are basically SATA drives with a SAS interface. Adaptec makes some real SATA raid cards, and there's 3Ware as well. You don't have to worry a lot about the cache, but if it isn't battery backed, you're going to write though it anyway. Who cares, you have 16 spindles! Load it with a bunch of drives. They don't have to be the biggest, anyway more spindles means more performance. 16 500GB drives is going to be fine, for instance, because then you can take 1/3 of that for RAID 6, have some hot spares, etc. Get the slowest drives you can, maybe get a little SSD to use as a boot drive (there are small ones for around $100). You could even boot from a USB key if you feel like the hassle. You don't need a ton of processor. A celeron would probably work, but you probably do want something 64 bit so you can put a bunch of RAM in it as you get more advanced.
Also check out Storage Search. Not a very well designed site but tons of goof info under iSCSI and SAN and NAS.. If you're rich, you might try out an EqualLogic, they are around $28,000 for 8TB but pretty slick.
It's not the developers, it's the MANAGEMENT. They see something on Google or one of the shiny beta sites out there and say "why aren't we doing that" without asking the essential question, "Do we NEED to do that?" The idea that flashy interactivity and fancy UI with fades and such is a mark of professionalism should probably be challenged. Sometimes it has a use, but in most cases, we're talking about forms that submit to a database for most business cases. We don't need a bunch of crap that basically breaks cross-browser, breaks performance, breaks usability because we want to look like a fancy marketing company.
I have to say, though, that the OP is correct. One of the best platforms has been.NET+Office+Sharepoint for a long time, but unfortunately it only runs reliably on Microsoft OS.
I haven't seen any of the other "big names" come up with anything as cohesive. Yes, you have websphere, etc. but it's less than innovative and way to big for agile development. I'd use it for an IRS or bank website over.NET though.
Java has a general lack of a single framework and dev environment that rises above all the others, but there's some good stuff out there. Spring, Struts, Eclipse is nice, etc. J2EE is a good standard but who owns Java again? What's going on with all the founders?
PHP, you have Zend and Cake, and a few smaller players. I'm putting my money on Zend and their OCD about design architect.
Python, you have django, which is OK. Nothing enterprise about python, and that's not the point I guess. Ruby is rapidly fading, as people realize that no one really wants to adopt a radical philosophy just to write software. Good for a few things, has a few new good ideas but too far off the beaten path to be a serious enterprise player.
Any more, I'm really looking to simple client-server packages because it's become too big of a hassle to make apps work consistently with 30 different browser versions, especially if it's just a simple app we need on the LAN and not shared with the public.
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This. Grammatical. Device. Is. An. Annoying. Cliche. Please. Stop.
I asked my wife if she would do octal and she told me to \076 off, so maybe that's it in this case.
Google Checkout was giving cash discounts and free shipping for a while. It's nothing very new. But yeah, it didn't convince me to use Bing. Although I do use it on the iPhone, I find their maps are much more accurate than the built-in Google maps. Sometimes Google would put me miles away from where I was when using the location feature. I've used them on Blackberry also with AT&T and it sucked as well, so it could just be AT&T location services. But Bing has always worked, and it also has the voice query which is really very good, better than Google's as well. It just seems to know what I'm looking for whereas Google takes a few tries. But the app is dog slow ;) I wish I could go back to my Verzion, say what you will about VZW, their cell navigator is awesome.
I second that. If you searched for "Silver" at one point, ebay would come up with silver. They had a 28% off buy it now and you could buy silver coins or buillion at market rates with low shipping and get 28% back up to $2000 from Bing. It was a nice deal while it lasted ;)
I also recommend The Golden Spruce by John Valliant, which recounts the history of forestry while examining the life of a specific, one in a billion tree--an albino spruce tree known as the "Golden Spruce". It's extremely interesting to me that the middle east was once a forest and is now a desert. And much of the Mediterranean and Europe and now there's not much left. Obviously some can be made to grow back, but so much valuable soil has been lost to the sea from deforestation.
Ouch, that hertz.
Yes, you are correct. It's fairly likely that Colony Collapse is caused by feeding bees High Fructose Corn Syrup contaminated with hydroxymethylfurfural. Probably what happened was the phone uses a capacitance system to scan the buttons on the front. This scanning results in a high pitched sound that bees can probably hear and are probably annoyed by. Other things might be the phone smelled funny becuase a person had touched it, or the phone circuit board was treated with something toxic to bees. The only true test would be to put a sterile wire right in the hive and pump out 50W of power and see that nothing happens.
Maybe time is speeding up.
Yep, with Exchange finally. And Apple admitting that they lack an enterprise suite. Yeah, Xserve IMAP Mail is not going to cut it in the year 2010. Thank god, because I've got 50 mac desktops at work and Entourage wasn't cutting it ;) Apple doesn't give a rat's ass about email, so they might as well let Exchange in. Plus Unified Communications is going to be huge on the consumer front (already getting big in business) and the iPad is one more convenient format to get your video phone in.
And unless the whole Internet is replaced by a walled garden like a Compuserve (which I'm sure a lot of very well heeled people want), it will likely remain this way.
Well, if the opposite of network neutrality is put into play, then providers can shape traffic and in effect create an AOL walled garden. Politicians would love more than anything to control the message, they don't care if it's true or not. They are like car dealers. Friend or foe, get the dough.
What can you do? Well, we need to move to IPv6 for starters. The huge amount of multicast will make traffic shaping irrelevant rather quickly. The huge amount of addresses make something like wireless mesh networking possible and doable, even with today's technology. When we only use big cable and big telecom for long hauls, we can send that data over encrypted tunnels and they won't know what to shape ;) And all this to just preserve the status quo of the Internet relationships--the ability to freely route traffic with peers unrestricted by anything but the speed of the physical media.
No, don't listen Rupert. It's a brilliant plan ;) You're going to be king soon ;) Good job, keep up the good work ;)
Not to be pedantic, but MI5 is the analysis side. I think you mean MI6, also known as the Secret Intelligence Service.
From wikipedia:
Commander Sir James Bond, (KCMG, RNVR) is an officer of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS; commonly known as MI6).
And since you mention it, why isn't there a distro that concentrates on a very up to date but stable kernel, and then all the stable pieces to run a web server? CentOS and RHEL are way behind on the web server and PHP packages (as well as python, QT, ruby, etc.) so I always have to manually make those packages.
Likewise, the same could be done with a good productivity desktop distro. Don't worry about apache, php, etc. and just worry about open office and web browsers and audio and such.
I'm sure this is out there, and I'm just not aware of it. I'm also aware of kickstart and the appliance craze, but none of these seem to have the formal structure of a distro.
What if this drive could show up as two devices and a control driver and the driver allows a very fast copy between the two (without using SATA to the mobo)? SCSI has control drivers, used for scanners, tape libraries, etc. It wouldn't be to hard to graft a few controls into this drive and then have out of band front-line to nearline migration that happens on the disk autonomously.
Multi-tier storage is all the rage in enterprise storage now. With a SAN (storage area network), it's fairly easy to have different types of storage pools available to all of your servers. Then it's just software performing a maintenance process to move data from front line to near-line to back line.
Typically this would probably go something like this, for a midsize organization with a few hundred TB of live data:
8-16 SSD's in a RAID10 (~500-1000GB)
32-128TB 15K SAS Drives RAID10
32-128TB 7.2K nearline SAS Drives RAID 6 or 10
32-??TB Tape such as LTO
There are completely autonomous systems that do this now. It's pretty complex to set up but it's possible now to get a multi-tier data setup for not that much money.
What this drive does is bring some of that power to the laptop world. If you have a desktop and haven't gotten a 40GB SSD yet, what are you waiting for? Granted, these Intel drives are not the fastest, but 40GB should be enough for almost anything you could do. You could definitely install an entire distro pretty easily. After that, if you run out of space, if you're using LVM you can just add another SSD that's twice as big in 2 years for another $100, then keep leapfrogging for $50/year to unlimited storage. Use some type of network storage if you have a ton of extra data, or add a 5400 rpm "green" drive.
This would work for most people and I predict 90% of desktops will be SSD-only in about 2 years. That's why hard drive manufacturers are scrambling to release drives in the 2TB, even 3TB range now. Their days are numbered. Cool, power efficient, fast SSDs are simply superior for almost everything and frankly are of a size where they are useful and competitive with any spinning disk for most desktop applications. Now, people with huge data like video and audio and the like may still need a drive or two in the home (or on the Internet somewhere, if they have a fast enough network), but the days of huge, mostly empty hard drives spinning 24/7 are coming to an end.
This might change culture a little bit. I do like the ability to hold a lot of data myself, but most people don't want to bother with it. This brings up a lot of obvious concerns about privacy, and that's going to be a war the drive manufacturers will be fighting with their own enterprise arms who want to sell drives to the data centers and cloud services that will be providing storage to the desktop users. Of course, the data won't be "yours" any more, it'll be a licensed copy streamed to your computer over iSCSI type connection.. That's what they all want now: Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Time Warner, Comcast, etc.
it wont be long before you can put a 10TB SSD in your laptop and never have to worry again (well, except for loosing it)
Why are you worried about loosing it? Is there something on there the world should be afraid of? Should we all live in fear of the data to be unleashed? Are we all going to be affected when you let it loose?
It's also the 30th anniversary of The Empire Strikes Back today.
The problem is there are only a few market makers that do the big trades for the big banks and they know the prices, even if they aren't published by the exchange. Stocks don't have to be traded on the exchange, it's just a good place to meet other traders. You would have to outlaw knowing the price you ended up paying for something until you bought it. Which I think is your point, let people give a range, sort of like on ebay and how good you do in that range is dependent on an average of the market, which will slow everything down in a stable way. Obviously you'd only want to kick that in during a crisis, or on markets where people's lives depend on it (electricity for instance, now that Enron is dead and gone).
...tiny male (whose tentacle/penis breaks off and remains in the female)
Or "octopussy", as we like to call him.
He said "with", not "in".
Do you think it would be possible to run a news server on Amazon EC2 with their cheap storage? Of course it's possible.
I remember going from 60 to 90 minute audio cassette tapes to fit more than 100k ON A SIDE. Lawn. You. Off.
INT - GATES THRONE ROOM (CIRCA 2000)
SCIENCE WEENIE: My master, what limit shall we use in our MBR code for a bootable drive?
EMPOROR GATES: Ahhhhhhhh. Well, my son, after all of these years of suffering at the hands of cruel pranksters, repeating my mistaken decision I made back in the MS-DOS years, I think I have learned my lesson. Yes, people DO have a use for more than 640K of RAM, and I was wrong. Sorry. Jesus, just let it go. Anyway, my son, I have learned my lesson, so let's make it something so unbelievable huge that we'll never need to change it again. Something like......2TB! And let that me my decree to all of PC World--No one will ever need more than 2TB on a single disk!
SCIENCE WEENIE: As you wish.
What you want is cheap 5U rack servers with either OpenFiler or FreeNAS. Personally, I like openfiler better. iSCSI is going to be the way to go unless you want a thick OS on the server and all the other admin issues that come with that. Plus, with openfiler you can still do block level snapshotting and change replication. Also, I've heard good things about Open-e as well. And if you want to mess with ZFS, there's OpenSolaris.
What you do is get yourself a huge (4 or 5U) barebones server from newegg or a cheaper place. Make sure to get a couple of good SATA RAID controllers. Not FakeRAID! SAS would be better, but the drives are a lot more, even for the nearline drives that are basically SATA drives with a SAS interface. Adaptec makes some real SATA raid cards, and there's 3Ware as well. You don't have to worry a lot about the cache, but if it isn't battery backed, you're going to write though it anyway. Who cares, you have 16 spindles! Load it with a bunch of drives. They don't have to be the biggest, anyway more spindles means more performance. 16 500GB drives is going to be fine, for instance, because then you can take 1/3 of that for RAID 6, have some hot spares, etc. Get the slowest drives you can, maybe get a little SSD to use as a boot drive (there are small ones for around $100). You could even boot from a USB key if you feel like the hassle. You don't need a ton of processor. A celeron would probably work, but you probably do want something 64 bit so you can put a bunch of RAM in it as you get more advanced.
Also check out Storage Search. Not a very well designed site but tons of goof info under iSCSI and SAN and NAS.. If you're rich, you might try out an EqualLogic, they are around $28,000 for 8TB but pretty slick.
It's not the developers, it's the MANAGEMENT. They see something on Google or one of the shiny beta sites out there and say "why aren't we doing that" without asking the essential question, "Do we NEED to do that?" The idea that flashy interactivity and fancy UI with fades and such is a mark of professionalism should probably be challenged. Sometimes it has a use, but in most cases, we're talking about forms that submit to a database for most business cases. We don't need a bunch of crap that basically breaks cross-browser, breaks performance, breaks usability because we want to look like a fancy marketing company.
I have to say, though, that the OP is correct. One of the best platforms has been .NET+Office+Sharepoint for a long time, but unfortunately it only runs reliably on Microsoft OS.
I haven't seen any of the other "big names" come up with anything as cohesive. Yes, you have websphere, etc. but it's less than innovative and way to big for agile development. I'd use it for an IRS or bank website over .NET though.
Java has a general lack of a single framework and dev environment that rises above all the others, but there's some good stuff out there. Spring, Struts, Eclipse is nice, etc. J2EE is a good standard but who owns Java again? What's going on with all the founders?
PHP, you have Zend and Cake, and a few smaller players. I'm putting my money on Zend and their OCD about design architect.
Python, you have django, which is OK. Nothing enterprise about python, and that's not the point I guess. Ruby is rapidly fading, as people realize that no one really wants to adopt a radical philosophy just to write software. Good for a few things, has a few new good ideas but too far off the beaten path to be a serious enterprise player.
Any more, I'm really looking to simple client-server packages because it's become too big of a hassle to make apps work consistently with 30 different browser versions, especially if it's just a simple app we need on the LAN and not shared with the public.