But for a datacenter? Particularly one which exists to serve but one company's products? How, exactly, does this attract other companies to an area?
In your IBM example, it is pretty plain that other companies had a strong desire to be geographically near to IBM. The reason is obvious: It's easier to sell stuff to the guy across town, than it is to sell it to the guy across the continent.
Therefore, it made sense for companies that either had existing business with IBM, or would like to do business with IBM (or any business that might support any of these entities, and so on) to set up shop next door. But, again, a datacenter? Stuffed full of Apple hardware to support Apple's computing cloud?
There's a reason why the place will only employ 100 -- it's a datacenter! You've got cable monkeys, parts-swapping monkeys, HVAC monkeys, and janitorial (hell, you might even class all of these roles into "janitorial"), plus some management to deal with them. And that's...all. Everyone else associated with such a datacenter will be just as able to do their work over the network from anywhere, as they would from an office in that building.
The folks working at that datacenter won't be decision-makers. They won't be buyers. They won't be marketers. They'll just keep the thing running.
How, again, does this help encourage growth in that area? I mean, sure: Spending $1 billion on a new datacenter is sure to get the union trades all hot and bothered over bidding on the construction, but once it's built, who cares?
Unlike traditional manufacturing, their product is a long series of bits on teh Intarwebs. There aren't mountains of raw materials coming on by truck and rail and leaving as finished products on pallets. There is no major consumption of goods. About the only thing that changes, once it's built, is that the power company will have shored up their services a bit to serve the area, the telephone company will have a few more circuits to look after, and a paltry 100 people will have a new job.
Right. But optical drives under Windows don't have special drivers, other than those included with the OS. That bad firmware can crash such a bog-standard driver is indicative of bad drivers, across the board.
No firmware fault in a device as common as an IDE/SATA optical drive should ever cause such a bog-standard driver to hang forever, spinning its wheels.
Killing the "window server" won't do a damned thing. You need to kill X. A little "killall -9 X" should do the trick on almost any single-user machine.
A Linux user who can't (or doesn't want to) grok SSH is really missing the point, anyway, and would've mashed the reset button long before attempting to recover the GUI on the (otherwise-working) machine.
Odd. I have an old ethan allen dining room set. The glue joints holding the chairs together are all failing. The formica table surface is delaminating from the substrate on the table.
There's no evidence that any of it was ever misused -- there's hardly any evidence that it was used at all. I got it from an old man who lived by himself, and the only thing to show any wear at all was the one chair he actually used to sit in.
So, the whole set basically wore itself out just sitting around barely being used.
I, for one, am glad they don't build things like that anymore.
Naw. Destroying the ethernet jack wouldn't solve anything anyway -- it'll just motivate him to learn how to replace it so he can get back to gaming.
When I was a kid (like, 12), I got in trouble for not going to school for weeks at a time because I'd be up all night fucking with my BBS. My parents took away my keyboard. This action was very thoughtful, I think - they understood a bit about what a BBS was, and how it was there for others to use, not just me. Taking just the keyboard allowed them to ban me from my own BBS, without killing it for everyone.
I was pissed, though, and motivated to do something about it. After a day or two of withdrawal, I put together a new keyboard using parts from a couple of old, broken, mangled ones that I had around. I got most of the important keys working reasonably well, and for the odd letter that didn't work correctly, I memorized the ASCII code for it and entered it on the numeric keypad. Thenceforth, I got my BBS fix.
There's a lot more story to this episode than just that, but I'm trying to be brief and to the point. And the point is this:
Wiring a new RJ-45 receptacle seems so trivial in comparison. He'd figure it out in no time, armed with nothing more than a couple of dollars (or big pockets), a Home Depot, and a kitchen knife.
No, no. It's not a fight for me -- remember, I'm the exceptional case I wrote about. It's just a fight for some married folks I happen to know.
I have no problem buying reasonable amounts of hardware on a whim...or reasonable amounts of tequila or bourbon, for that matter, either. Others' wives aren't always so tolerant.
Being intended for law enforcement only is a good enough reason to be secretive about it? Bah. Had this information been more accessible or widely-understood, this whole thing might never have happened to begin with.
The number is in public sight, right here, just like you say. It is 800-451-5242.
Most wives seem to put computer hardware into the same bucket as sports cars, motorbikes, and substances (beer or otherwise) -- things that men often want, but never really need. Therefore, buying something new (a mouse, a motherboard, a DVD burner, another terabyte of disk or few gigs of RAM) is often a fight.
There are exceptions, but those are exceptional.
Like this:
First, my wife bought herself a nice dual-core machine. A little under a year later, she asks me to pick something out for myself...and I managed to find a nice quad-core SLI machine for about what she paid for hers. She said OK.
Hey, you know - that's cool. Everyone's simple from time to time.
I think the real reason for my previous condescention was a case of having the wrong booze. Tonight, however, I drink Red Stripe, and all seems well with the world at the moment.
I do remember Slashdot before comments or logins. When it was just a quick perl hack with a cute rounded corner on the upper-left of the titles. When Taco had the whole thing to himself. I just didn't have anything meaningful to say for awhile (though one could easily argue that I never have), and by the time I did, 21054 was the number.
Oh - I almost forgot. I noticed a week or so ago that Slashdot had given me the option to turn off ads (for free), just for being such a good sport on these pages. Whether based on karma or frequency or what, I implore you to let me know when your 1515553 account reaches this new milestone.
I'd forgotten (hey, you don't get to be 21054 without being around for awhile) that I'd configured Slashdot to shove new accounts into the black hole of -1 postings, which puts most of 'em at 0.
Again, I'm glad that you're now posting at +2, and that your new account has been around long enough to avoid my -1 newbie scoring. You accomplished the former rather quickly.
I look forward to a long future of tyrannical disagreements with you.:)
What if you need more hot water (in terms of volume) than the loop through the server room(s) can provide? All the hot faucets on at once. Someone in the kitchen filling up a steam kettle. Power-washing the lot. (Or any combination of these things.)
At that point, you'd still need some sort of relatively complicated valving to bypass the server room loop for these instances. And as long as you're adding complexity, one might as well just use a tempering valve and be done with it.
Just one problem: Where can I find a $1000 PC with 8 available PCI Express x16 slots? The best machine I have at the moment only has three, and 8 won't even fit into a normal ATX case.
This is one of the most inane thought patterns I have yet to witness this week.
The reason is simple: Fine, so you've split a process into chunks and distributed them across two or more cores. But it's not exactly like those cores are working in a vacuum; they all use the same RAM.
As another reply has stated, codecs don't work quite how you describe -- they don't use the entire media as a reference, but at most a couple of dozen frames. But even if such mythological technology were really in use: There's no qualitative reason why something learned by process A cannot be shared with process B, and vice-versa. Therefore, the two processes can encode totally different segments of a given video, share what they've learned, and make similar and consistent tradeoffs.
After that, you join the parts on an existing keyframe (which doesn't have to be exactly at 50% or whatever the ideal number happens to be), and call it a day.
When EDO DRAM was getting cheaper, nobody bitched that it was less expensive than 30-pin SIMMs (unless they did bitch, in which case they were laughed out of town).
If you really want to go back in time: All of this stuff is cheap compared to the 256kbit SIP chips for an Everex 2-megabyte EMS expansion board I used to have on my 10MHz XT. (And let's not even talk about what the 64KB RAM expansion cabinet for my TRS-80 Model I cost.)
But that's all silly. So, again: Apples to apples, or in any other reasonable comparison, Vista has cheaper memory requirements than any other Windows, on common hardware of the day.
I gave him pointers. And I told him his idea was bogus, which it is. (This, of course, is based on the assumption that the man would like to actually, yaknow, vacation while on vacation, instead of fuck with prototype tech the whole time.)
You can have my geek card when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
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But for a datacenter? Particularly one which exists to serve but one company's products? How, exactly, does this attract other companies to an area?
In your IBM example, it is pretty plain that other companies had a strong desire to be geographically near to IBM. The reason is obvious: It's easier to sell stuff to the guy across town, than it is to sell it to the guy across the continent.
Therefore, it made sense for companies that either had existing business with IBM, or would like to do business with IBM (or any business that might support any of these entities, and so on) to set up shop next door. But, again, a datacenter? Stuffed full of Apple hardware to support Apple's computing cloud?
There's a reason why the place will only employ 100 -- it's a datacenter! You've got cable monkeys, parts-swapping monkeys, HVAC monkeys, and janitorial (hell, you might even class all of these roles into "janitorial"), plus some management to deal with them. And that's...all. Everyone else associated with such a datacenter will be just as able to do their work over the network from anywhere, as they would from an office in that building.
The folks working at that datacenter won't be decision-makers. They won't be buyers. They won't be marketers. They'll just keep the thing running.
How, again, does this help encourage growth in that area? I mean, sure: Spending $1 billion on a new datacenter is sure to get the union trades all hot and bothered over bidding on the construction, but once it's built, who cares?
Unlike traditional manufacturing, their product is a long series of bits on teh Intarwebs. There aren't mountains of raw materials coming on by truck and rail and leaving as finished products on pallets. There is no major consumption of goods. About the only thing that changes, once it's built, is that the power company will have shored up their services a bit to serve the area, the telephone company will have a few more circuits to look after, and a paltry 100 people will have a new job.
Welcome to 2009.
Yeah. Sure. Like people want their pubics spread all over the media, anyway.
Right. But optical drives under Windows don't have special drivers, other than those included with the OS. That bad firmware can crash such a bog-standard driver is indicative of bad drivers, across the board.
No firmware fault in a device as common as an IDE/SATA optical drive should ever cause such a bog-standard driver to hang forever, spinning its wheels.
Well, duh. Your advice doesn't work anyway:
Killing the "window server" won't do a damned thing. You need to kill X. A little "killall -9 X" should do the trick on almost any single-user machine.
A Linux user who can't (or doesn't want to) grok SSH is really missing the point, anyway, and would've mashed the reset button long before attempting to recover the GUI on the (otherwise-working) machine.
Some of us fucks have been married for quite some fucking time now, you fucking insensitive clod.
My -- what a bunch of cold, unforgiving, and distrusting folks.
Odd. I have an old ethan allen dining room set. The glue joints holding the chairs together are all failing. The formica table surface is delaminating from the substrate on the table.
There's no evidence that any of it was ever misused -- there's hardly any evidence that it was used at all. I got it from an old man who lived by himself, and the only thing to show any wear at all was the one chair he actually used to sit in.
So, the whole set basically wore itself out just sitting around barely being used.
I, for one, am glad they don't build things like that anymore.
Naw. Destroying the ethernet jack wouldn't solve anything anyway -- it'll just motivate him to learn how to replace it so he can get back to gaming.
When I was a kid (like, 12), I got in trouble for not going to school for weeks at a time because I'd be up all night fucking with my BBS. My parents took away my keyboard. This action was very thoughtful, I think - they understood a bit about what a BBS was, and how it was there for others to use, not just me. Taking just the keyboard allowed them to ban me from my own BBS, without killing it for everyone.
I was pissed, though, and motivated to do something about it. After a day or two of withdrawal, I put together a new keyboard using parts from a couple of old, broken, mangled ones that I had around. I got most of the important keys working reasonably well, and for the odd letter that didn't work correctly, I memorized the ASCII code for it and entered it on the numeric keypad. Thenceforth, I got my BBS fix.
There's a lot more story to this episode than just that, but I'm trying to be brief and to the point. And the point is this:
Wiring a new RJ-45 receptacle seems so trivial in comparison. He'd figure it out in no time, armed with nothing more than a couple of dollars (or big pockets), a Home Depot, and a kitchen knife.
"Unless this was posted by the girlfriend"
Answer's still the same: get him a girlfriend (another one, obviously).
(There. Fixed that for you.)
Right. Because the best way to live happily ever after is to have as many secrets as possible.
No, no. It's not a fight for me -- remember, I'm the exceptional case I wrote about. It's just a fight for some married folks I happen to know.
I have no problem buying reasonable amounts of hardware on a whim...or reasonable amounts of tequila or bourbon, for that matter, either. Others' wives aren't always so tolerant.
Being intended for law enforcement only is a good enough reason to be secretive about it? Bah. Had this information been more accessible or widely-understood, this whole thing might never have happened to begin with.
The number is in public sight, right here, just like you say. It is 800-451-5242.
No, not always. It's usually worse.
Most wives seem to put computer hardware into the same bucket as sports cars, motorbikes, and substances (beer or otherwise) -- things that men often want, but never really need. Therefore, buying something new (a mouse, a motherboard, a DVD burner, another terabyte of disk or few gigs of RAM) is often a fight.
There are exceptions, but those are exceptional.
Like this:
First, my wife bought herself a nice dual-core machine. A little under a year later, she asks me to pick something out for myself...and I managed to find a nice quad-core SLI machine for about what she paid for hers. She said OK.
Close.
It's actually his second cousin, and she's visiting him in Kentucky. That makes it all square.
(Hey, if you can't fuck your friends and family, then who can you fuck?)
Hey, you know - that's cool. Everyone's simple from time to time.
I think the real reason for my previous condescention was a case of having the wrong booze. Tonight, however, I drink Red Stripe, and all seems well with the world at the moment.
I do remember Slashdot before comments or logins. When it was just a quick perl hack with a cute rounded corner on the upper-left of the titles. When Taco had the whole thing to himself. I just didn't have anything meaningful to say for awhile (though one could easily argue that I never have), and by the time I did, 21054 was the number.
Them's were the days. *hic*
Thank you for your condescending remarks.
Please keep me posted on any other improvements to the Slashdot moderation, karma, and advertising systems.
Regards,
adolf
Oh - I almost forgot. I noticed a week or so ago that Slashdot had given me the option to turn off ads (for free), just for being such a good sport on these pages. Whether based on karma or frequency or what, I implore you to let me know when your 1515553 account reaches this new milestone.
Heh. Good to see your karma has improved.
I'd forgotten (hey, you don't get to be 21054 without being around for awhile) that I'd configured Slashdot to shove new accounts into the black hole of -1 postings, which puts most of 'em at 0.
Again, I'm glad that you're now posting at +2, and that your new account has been around long enough to avoid my -1 newbie scoring. You accomplished the former rather quickly.
I look forward to a long future of tyrannical disagreements with you. :)
What if you need more hot water (in terms of volume) than the loop through the server room(s) can provide? All the hot faucets on at once. Someone in the kitchen filling up a steam kettle. Power-washing the lot. (Or any combination of these things.)
At that point, you'd still need some sort of relatively complicated valving to bypass the server room loop for these instances. And as long as you're adding complexity, one might as well just use a tempering valve and be done with it.
Cool. Sign me up.
Just one problem: Where can I find a $1000 PC with 8 available PCI Express x16 slots? The best machine I have at the moment only has three, and 8 won't even fit into a normal ATX case.
This is one of the most inane thought patterns I have yet to witness this week.
The reason is simple: Fine, so you've split a process into chunks and distributed them across two or more cores. But it's not exactly like those cores are working in a vacuum; they all use the same RAM.
As another reply has stated, codecs don't work quite how you describe -- they don't use the entire media as a reference, but at most a couple of dozen frames. But even if such mythological technology were really in use: There's no qualitative reason why something learned by process A cannot be shared with process B, and vice-versa. Therefore, the two processes can encode totally different segments of a given video, share what they've learned, and make similar and consistent tradeoffs.
After that, you join the parts on an existing keyframe (which doesn't have to be exactly at 50% or whatever the ideal number happens to be), and call it a day.
What about the energy that goes into building the Prius? It seems like such a complicated little git compared to a diesel Hummer.
(Please note that I do not pretend to have the answer to this question, nor any data to back up the assertion after that.)
Oh, boo-hoo. Cry me a river.
When EDO DRAM was getting cheaper, nobody bitched that it was less expensive than 30-pin SIMMs (unless they did bitch, in which case they were laughed out of town).
If you really want to go back in time: All of this stuff is cheap compared to the 256kbit SIP chips for an Everex 2-megabyte EMS expansion board I used to have on my 10MHz XT. (And let's not even talk about what the 64KB RAM expansion cabinet for my TRS-80 Model I cost.)
But that's all silly. So, again: Apples to apples, or in any other reasonable comparison, Vista has cheaper memory requirements than any other Windows, on common hardware of the day.
I gave him pointers. And I told him his idea was bogus, which it is. (This, of course, is based on the assumption that the man would like to actually, yaknow, vacation while on vacation, instead of fuck with prototype tech the whole time.)
You can have my geek card when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.