And at a wonderful 8 MB/s write time, it will take over 2 hours to fill the thing. That's the best case scenario. It will probably take longer. Write times on these USB flash drives are atrocious.
So your 64mbit write time to a cheap flash drive is atrocious? How much does 64mbit of upstream network connectivity cost?
There are no X-ray scanners in Moscow airports, there are metal detectors that look like X-ray scanners, though.
DME has a MMW scanner (same as Erez, or LHR T1, or BWI). Not dangerous like the ionizing cancer-causing backscatter machines in places like IAD and MAN, but do fall under the category "nude scanner"
When your country name has "democratic" in it, you can usually count on that not actually being the case:
-Democratic Republic of the Congo (non-functioning government) -Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Communist) -People's Democratic Republic of Laos (Communist)
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
OK, not all great, but I've not heard much bad about Nepal or Sao Tome
You can dodge them at many airports, but then there are the real thug outfits like Phoenix that push everybody through them.
In the U.S. you have the right to opt out. You don't in the UK, nor I believe Russia. I did hear of someone refusing to go through the Erez one coming out of gaza, and she was strip searched instead.
The nice thing about space travel is that it's feasible according to the known laws of physics.
Space travel perhaps, but I think getting to the nearest galaxy will still take so long that nobody survives it (accelerating to the speed of light in time would generate too much g-force).
Actually you'll get to Andromeda in 28 years. You'll need a fair amount of fuel on the way though, especially if you want to stop.
That level of service is normal on long haul flights, even in business.
I get it even further back. Hell I got name recognition on Singapore Airlines yesterday in economy without and status, and only 2 previous SQ flights under my belt.
In my experience, far eastern carriers > Gulf > UK > European > American > Indian
Flying with Qatar it's even possible to make the whole journey without seeing an economy class passenger.
I know Lufthansa have a dedicated terminal for First Class in Frankfurt, but you generally see the riff-raff queueing up off to the side at security or something. At bad times at Manchester I have to duck under the barrier to get into fast track while the ryanair lot glare, and feel smug they "saved" £10 on their flight.
Thats how you still do it at smaller airports in India Security is just for the sake of it, you walk out onto the runway and they point you to which of the 3 ATR's (sometimes a 737-900 though) is yours
Yet at Delhi you won't get into the terminal without a ticket, and occasionally a baggage search (or in my case, two last year)
High speed rail will not work in the US outside of the Northeast Corridor because nowhere else has the kind of density needed to make it work. 1000 km in the US is a quick trip - the example he gives, Denver to SF, is more than double that. And rail requires a large and expensive infrastructure, one which is going to have to be duplicated (because our existing rail system is optimized for freight hauling, at which task it is one of the most efficient in the world). It's a cool idea, and in some places it makes sense. But not here.
High speed rail relies on long distances to make it worthwhile -- at 200mph you need a good 200 miles between stops to be of any use. Each stop tends to add 10 minutes. Paris to Strasbourg is 300 miles with no stops. It doesn't matter how dense the middle is, it's
A modern high speed train (200mph) will do New york to LA in 13 hours, (leave down town Manhattan at 9PM, arrive LA at 7AM, depart LA at 6PM, arrive Manhattan at 10AM, quick shower and in the office at 11AM), a bit too long. However Chicago-LA in 9 hours with a sleeping car (11pm-5am) is certainly viable from a timetable perspective, but wiht only a couple of trains a day over 2000 miles of track it's not financially sound. The coasts (East and West) though can certainly support high speed trains.
When available it's a no brainer. The total time is roughly is same (for distances up to 1000 km), and they go from city center to city center, and they're a lot more comfortable.
Well walking is faster than a high speed train (for distances up to 4km). Not much use.
However, high speed train for 1000km. From my house in Manchester to Brussels. 334 miles (534km) as the crow flies.
Last trip on the way back. We both departed the bar^H^H^H office at 20:00. Me Arrive Brussels airport 20:15 Depart Brussels airport 21:15 Arrive Manchester airport 22:45 (Brussels time) Get in car 23:00 Home 23:15
Him Arrive Brussels Midi 20:20 Depart Brussels 21:10 Arrive London St Pancras 23:15 (he had immigration problems for 30 minutes, but we'll ignore that for fairness) Get in taxi 23:25 Home 00:20
That's a 300km/h train that arrived an hour later than me, and only 2/3rd the distance. Had he flown, he'd have been in the taxi at Heathrow at 22:20 and home at 22:50 - 90 minutes earlier.
Only if your definition of quick only includes time elapsed between take off and landing. Definitely not that fast if you time door to door and include everything.
So, last week, which included a change in London 06:15 depart home 06:30 arrive airport (Manchester) 06:32 check in (straight to front of queue obviously) 06:35 arrive security 06:40 arrive lounge, pick up newspaper, get some cereal and OJ 07:15 depart for plane 07:30 wheels up 08:15 wheels down 08:30 leave plane 08:35 arrive lounge, proper cooked breakfast, get on with emails 09:45 leave for plane 10:00 on plane 10:30 wheels up 19:30(UK) arrive Delhi 19:45 collect suitcase, get in taxi
Thats 12h30 minutes to cover 4,243 miles, an average of 338.5 mph. How is that not fast?
And for comfort?
Also, why isn't a 'medium' class anymore? One would think that any company that provided decent legroom at a reasonable price would make a killing.
I travel in BA Premium Economy, a hell of a lot nicer than the back - I'd never fly coach for more than about 3 hours. For Manchester to New York on the cheapest non-flexible tickets with about 5 months notice, BA charge £464 in economy, £782 in premium (£2465 in business)
Premium (World Traveller Plus) is actually a lot more consistent with the prices too, you'll almost always get the £782 fare if you can book 3 weeks in advance with a Saturday night stay.
Or fly business / first class, and that from any point on earth except the US. The US is the only country AFAIK which use nude scanner.
What are you on about? They're all over the place. This year alone I've had to tactfully avoid them at 3 U.S airports, half a dozen European airports, Moscow and Erez (and that's not even for a plane!).
Once again, the UK shows the way with the NHS. While in China, Afghanistan, the US and North Korea, only the elite get medical treatment, in the UK everyone gets it (and it's half the price per head than the U.S. system).
Surely only a tiny fraction of people would be in bed by 9pm, so I can't see that explaining a spike in tablet use mid-evening.
My guess is that the main TV was being used to watch normal programs and the iPads (lets face it, the tablets were almost certainly ipads) were being used to follow the olympics out of the corner of the TV watcher's eye.
I really REALLY want to see the size of their routing/switching equipment, let alone racks of gear for processing/encoding/streaming. Hitting 700gigs/sec is PRETTY killer.
Singapore. I worked there for two weeks at the Marina Bay Sands project. English is the primary language, the area is beautiful and clean. Hated coming home. I'd still move my wife and kids there in a second.
Singapore is nice, just be ware of the various laws and lack of freedoms. They still have caning in Singapore, and the death penalty. No idea what the safety net's like if you get laid off either -- Healthcare, schooling etc.
There are 2 Ace Hardware stores in my town. One of them recycles CFL bulbs for free, no matter where you buy them. The other does not offer this service. Therefore I refuse to spend money at the non-recycling Ace Hardware. I take my money to the store that does the recycling. The market of 'me' is demanding recycling services of retailers.
I simply refuse to buy CFL in the first place - horrible technology, from the poisons inside it to the "brightness" of the bulb.
I'm actually one of those people who prefers a private office or cube with enough quiet to be able to work, so I'm glad our office didn't get transformed (yet.)
Mine did, however I'm lucky in that my boss will let me work from home whenever I want. My recent pattern is 2 days in the local office, 1 day in headquarters with most of my team, or another office, 2 days at home, and 1 week a month abroad.
1 weekly skype call (which is at 5AM when I'm in Washington *grrrr*) and occasional ad-hoc skype/phone/emails and it works great.
I've tried LTFS and it put the tape into such a bad state that I had to return it to maxell for replacement. Don't use LTFS if you value your data.
Thank you, I was hoping for someone (even an AC) to confirm what I've seen. IBM persuaded me to give LTFS a go last year, so I dutifully got a space LTO-5 machine and a few tapes, and tried writing a few hundered gig onto them as a file. Unreadable a week later.
Perhaps a decent HSM front end may make tapes worthwhile in the PB+ range, but I'm less convinced then I was this time last year.
We keep adding 108TB (raw) 5U disk slabs for archiving purposes (mirrored). It makes me uncomfortable, but it's only a "temporary" solution until the 8-figure project that's dealing with archive finally delivers something usable, and isn't my direct project.
No, pick all three. Hard drives are faster, cheaper, and higher capacity than tape.
When you have 1 PB of data, having that on hard drives (which are running and generating heat), it's a lot cheaper to put it on tape where it doesn't take power to run or cool. When you have to keep (financial) data around for at least seven years, it's easier to make 2-3 copies on tape and set it off to the side to recall when the auditors want it.
I saw an interesting rack a couple of years back, from IBM I think. They had something like 140 disks in a 4U space, 1400 in a single rack, or 2.8PB at the time. They kept the disks spun down, and the controller would only allow about 20% of them to be spun up at any one time. Every so often data would be checked in the background.
Latency is not a problem when dealing with I 'd say over 200 gigs of data. bandwidth is a bitch then.
My link from my desktop in Manchester to my server in London is 1 gigabit. Using axel to pull a 200GB file gets about 700mbit even with the other traffic, that's 40 minutes.
Realistically to send 200GB to Washington takes 24 hours. To get it there faster than using a 100mbit link (available for peanuts in DC) you'd need Concorde parked out back. Even then it'd be tight.
20TB perhaps, although a copy (on disk or tape) isn't make instantly. I've sent 54TB of data on disks from Moscow to London in a single suitcase, not a problem. Duplicating the data in London takes the time (and therefore costs money).
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Well I would have got first post if I wasn't using Amazon Glacier for my swap file.
And at a wonderful 8 MB/s write time, it will take over 2 hours to fill the thing. That's the best case scenario. It will probably take longer. Write times on these USB flash drives are atrocious.
So your 64mbit write time to a cheap flash drive is atrocious? How much does 64mbit of upstream network connectivity cost?
Sounds like at least a few Republicans have something in common with the Taliban...
One group's a bunch of male, middle-aged fundamentalist religious nutjobs.
The other's based in Afghanistan.
There are no X-ray scanners in Moscow airports, there are metal detectors that look like X-ray scanners, though.
DME has a MMW scanner (same as Erez, or LHR T1, or BWI). Not dangerous like the ionizing cancer-causing backscatter machines in places like IAD and MAN, but do fall under the category "nude scanner"
When your country name has "democratic" in it, you can usually count on that not actually being the case:
-Democratic Republic of the Congo (non-functioning government)
-Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Communist)
-People's Democratic Republic of Laos (Communist)
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
OK, not all great, but I've not heard much bad about Nepal or Sao Tome
You can dodge them at many airports, but then there are the real thug outfits like Phoenix that push everybody through them.
In the U.S. you have the right to opt out. You don't in the UK, nor I believe Russia. I did hear of someone refusing to go through the Erez one coming out of gaza, and she was strip searched instead.
The nice thing about space travel is that it's feasible according to the known laws of physics.
Space travel perhaps, but I think getting to the nearest galaxy will still take so long that nobody survives it (accelerating to the speed of light in time would generate too much g-force).
Actually you'll get to Andromeda in 28 years. You'll need a fair amount of fuel on the way though, especially if you want to stop.
http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/mirrors/physicsfaq/Relativity/SR/rocket.html
That level of service is normal on long haul flights, even in business.
I get it even further back. Hell I got name recognition on Singapore Airlines yesterday in economy without and status, and only 2 previous SQ flights under my belt.
In my experience, far eastern carriers > Gulf > UK > European > American > Indian
Flying with Qatar it's even possible to make the whole journey without seeing an economy class passenger.
I know Lufthansa have a dedicated terminal for First Class in Frankfurt, but you generally see the riff-raff queueing up off to the side at security or something. At bad times at Manchester I have to duck under the barrier to get into fast track while the ryanair lot glare, and feel smug they "saved" £10 on their flight.
Thats how you still do it at smaller airports in India
Security is just for the sake of it, you walk out onto the runway and they point you to which of the 3 ATR's (sometimes a 737-900 though) is yours
Yet at Delhi you won't get into the terminal without a ticket, and occasionally a baggage search (or in my case, two last year)
High speed rail will not work in the US outside of the Northeast Corridor because nowhere else has the kind of density needed to make it work. 1000 km in the US is a quick trip - the example he gives, Denver to SF, is more than double that. And rail requires a large and expensive infrastructure, one which is going to have to be duplicated (because our existing rail system is optimized for freight hauling, at which task it is one of the most efficient in the world). It's a cool idea, and in some places it makes sense. But not here.
High speed rail relies on long distances to make it worthwhile -- at 200mph you need a good 200 miles between stops to be of any use. Each stop tends to add 10 minutes. Paris to Strasbourg is 300 miles with no stops. It doesn't matter how dense the middle is, it's
Boston-NewYork-Washington, NewYork-Cleveland-Chicago, Vegas/Phoenix-LA-San Francisco-Portland-Seatle-Vancouver-Calgary
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=bos-nyc-was,nyc-cle-ord-den-las-lax-phx,lax-sfo-pdx-sea-yvr-YYC
A modern high speed train (200mph) will do New york to LA in 13 hours, (leave down town Manhattan at 9PM, arrive LA at 7AM, depart LA at 6PM, arrive Manhattan at 10AM, quick shower and in the office at 11AM), a bit too long. However Chicago-LA in 9 hours with a sleeping car (11pm-5am) is certainly viable from a timetable perspective, but wiht only a couple of trains a day over 2000 miles of track it's not financially sound. The coasts (East and West) though can certainly support high speed trains.
When available it's a no brainer. The total time is roughly is same (for distances up to 1000 km), and they go from city center to city center, and they're a lot more comfortable.
Well walking is faster than a high speed train (for distances up to 4km). Not much use.
However, high speed train for 1000km. From my house in Manchester to Brussels. 334 miles (534km) as the crow flies.
Last trip on the way back. We both departed the bar^H^H^H office at 20:00.
Me
Arrive Brussels airport 20:15
Depart Brussels airport 21:15
Arrive Manchester airport 22:45 (Brussels time)
Get in car 23:00
Home 23:15
Him
Arrive Brussels Midi 20:20
Depart Brussels 21:10
Arrive London St Pancras 23:15
(he had immigration problems for 30 minutes, but we'll ignore that for fairness)
Get in taxi 23:25
Home 00:20
That's a 300km/h train that arrived an hour later than me, and only 2/3rd the distance.
Had he flown, he'd have been in the taxi at Heathrow at 22:20 and home at 22:50 - 90 minutes earlier.
Only if your definition of quick only includes time elapsed between take off and landing. Definitely not that fast if you time door to door and include everything.
So, last week, which included a change in London
06:15 depart home
06:30 arrive airport (Manchester)
06:32 check in (straight to front of queue obviously)
06:35 arrive security
06:40 arrive lounge, pick up newspaper, get some cereal and OJ
07:15 depart for plane
07:30 wheels up
08:15 wheels down
08:30 leave plane
08:35 arrive lounge, proper cooked breakfast, get on with emails
09:45 leave for plane
10:00 on plane
10:30 wheels up
19:30(UK) arrive Delhi
19:45 collect suitcase, get in taxi
Thats 12h30 minutes to cover 4,243 miles, an average of 338.5 mph. How is that not fast?
And for comfort?
Also, why isn't a 'medium' class anymore? One would think that any company that provided decent legroom at a reasonable price would make a killing.
I travel in BA Premium Economy, a hell of a lot nicer than the back - I'd never fly coach for more than about 3 hours. For Manchester to New York on the cheapest non-flexible tickets with about 5 months notice, BA charge £464 in economy, £782 in premium (£2465 in business)
Premium (World Traveller Plus) is actually a lot more consistent with the prices too, you'll almost always get the £782 fare if you can book 3 weeks in advance with a Saturday night stay.
Or fly business / first class, and that from any point on earth except the US. The US is the only country AFAIK which use nude scanner.
What are you on about? They're all over the place. This year alone I've had to tactfully avoid them at 3 U.S airports, half a dozen European airports, Moscow and Erez (and that's not even for a plane!).
Once again, the UK shows the way with the NHS. While in China, Afghanistan, the US and North Korea, only the elite get medical treatment, in the UK everyone gets it (and it's half the price per head than the U.S. system).
Surely only a tiny fraction of people would be in bed by 9pm, so I can't see that explaining a spike in tablet use mid-evening.
My guess is that the main TV was being used to watch normal programs and the iPads (lets face it, the tablets were almost certainly ipads) were being used to follow the olympics out of the corner of the TV watcher's eye.
There wasn't much normal TV
I really REALLY want to see the size of their routing/switching equipment, let alone racks of gear for processing/encoding/streaming.
Hitting 700gigs/sec is PRETTY killer.
Try Akamai!
The BBC uses akamai to deliver a lot of content
Singapore. I worked there for two weeks at the Marina Bay Sands project. English is the primary language, the area is beautiful and clean. Hated coming home. I'd still move my wife and kids there in a second.
Singapore is nice, just be ware of the various laws and lack of freedoms. They still have caning in Singapore, and the death penalty. No idea what the safety net's like if you get laid off either -- Healthcare, schooling etc.
There are 2 Ace Hardware stores in my town. One of them recycles CFL bulbs for free, no matter where you buy them. The other does not offer this service. Therefore I refuse to spend money at the non-recycling Ace Hardware. I take my money to the store that does the recycling. The market of 'me' is demanding recycling services of retailers.
I simply refuse to buy CFL in the first place - horrible technology, from the poisons inside it to the "brightness" of the bulb.
$ yes f | ./markWork.sh
I'm actually one of those people who prefers a private office or cube with enough quiet to be able to work, so I'm glad our office didn't get transformed (yet.)
Mine did, however I'm lucky in that my boss will let me work from home whenever I want. My recent pattern is 2 days in the local office, 1 day in headquarters with most of my team, or another office, 2 days at home, and 1 week a month abroad.
1 weekly skype call (which is at 5AM when I'm in Washington *grrrr*) and occasional ad-hoc skype/phone/emails and it works great.
I've tried LTFS and it put the tape into such a bad state that I had to return it to maxell for replacement. Don't use LTFS if you value your data.
Thank you, I was hoping for someone (even an AC) to confirm what I've seen. IBM persuaded me to give LTFS a go last year, so I dutifully got a space LTO-5 machine and a few tapes, and tried writing a few hundered gig onto them as a file. Unreadable a week later.
Perhaps a decent HSM front end may make tapes worthwhile in the PB+ range, but I'm less convinced then I was this time last year.
We keep adding 108TB (raw) 5U disk slabs for archiving purposes (mirrored). It makes me uncomfortable, but it's only a "temporary" solution until the 8-figure project that's dealing with archive finally delivers something usable, and isn't my direct project.
No, pick all three. Hard drives are faster, cheaper, and higher capacity than tape.
When you have 1 PB of data, having that on hard drives (which are running and generating heat), it's a lot cheaper to put it on tape where it doesn't take power to run or cool. When you have to keep (financial) data around for at least seven years, it's easier to make 2-3 copies on tape and set it off to the side to recall when the auditors want it.
I saw an interesting rack a couple of years back, from IBM I think. They had something like 140 disks in a 4U space, 1400 in a single rack, or 2.8PB at the time. They kept the disks spun down, and the controller would only allow about 20% of them to be spun up at any one time. Every so often data would be checked in the background.
Latency is not a problem when dealing with I 'd say over 200 gigs of data. bandwidth is a bitch then.
My link from my desktop in Manchester to my server in London is 1 gigabit. Using axel to pull a 200GB file gets about 700mbit even with the other traffic, that's 40 minutes.
Realistically to send 200GB to Washington takes 24 hours. To get it there faster than using a 100mbit link (available for peanuts in DC) you'd need Concorde parked out back. Even then it'd be tight.
20TB perhaps, although a copy (on disk or tape) isn't make instantly. I've sent 54TB of data on disks from Moscow to London in a single suitcase, not a problem. Duplicating the data in London takes the time (and therefore costs money).
If Microsoft doesn't bleep out the 'shit'
Or vagina
Cheap compared with the petrol to drive from, say, Delhi to Mumbai. Flight can be had for $120, Driving is an 1800 mile round trip.