or they realized there was lots of risk with the cloud and they did not want their resources to disappear and have little way to get them back on line other than yelling at a vendor.
Nobody realizes that yet. NOBODY. At least, nobody in a position where these decisions are made. It's a scary fact, true, but sadly true.
If anything the Amazon EC2 outage showed is that you should have a backup or a local resource for when the cloud fails. If you have to do that anyway then it is not as good as people are trying to make it out to be and the same or more work.
The problem being that the people that makes these decisions have absolutely no clue what a computer is. They don't realize that a server is basically the same thing that lies on their desktop and they watch youtube on - if a little more beefy. They don't know squat. They just know that Amazon will look good (or bad) in the press for the next election.
They don't give a rat's ass about their data because they don't have the slightest idea of how valuable they are, and don't have the slightest idea how quickly they can vanish forever. So why bother? Let's grab a bottle of Whiskey, a glass, and lie down next to the swimming pool with an iPad2 to shut our brain off. All these worries will be no more in a few minutes.
We're not talking about how things are, but about the trend. The more laws are passed, the heavier and unmanageable the whole system is. Even more so when these laws are here to strengthen the powers/monopolies in place. With the current guys at the head of the country, things are find, they are moderate. One day, some crazy fuck is going to find his way to the white house, and then things will break lose. Because of all the powers that this guy will have then and absolutely no balance of power. All in the name of terrorism. Or art. Or starving musicians.
Freedom has had nothing to do with how America is governed for a while now. The big players are lobbying congress and other parties with truckloads of money. The people - you know, the guys the government is supposed to work for - are lost in the background noise.
But be reassured, America is not the only country acting this way. Most western industrialized countries are at a similar level.
Something is going to go wrong with this, there's no question about it. Exactly how and when is the question.
Well, one of the point of caching on an SSD-type memory has to be the fact that your cache is non-volatile. So when you power up your drive the next day, the cache is still there. Why not doing write-caching then? It really is one of the advantage of SSD over pure RAM. The downside being that its a lot slower.
I hear rumblings that Windows 8 is going to finally solve this once and for all at the OS level. Designate a drive as a cache drive and it'll fill it up with frequently used files and the current cache.
This is stupid. What about, my windows crashes and is beyond recovery. Now all my data is spread on a "cache" SSD drive and on the physical drive. How do I get that onto one drive again?
For all its pitfalls, OCZ's solution is ONE DRIVE, hence having the benefit of ONE DRIVE. You can take it out, bring it to a friend, put it in an USB enclosure, etc...
At the OS level, I guess it is fine for some purposes.
The United States of America possesses the mightiest, most lethal fighting force in the history of the human civilization. If anything, I think they have been too restrained in their application of military force. I would favor more preemptive and swift action to prevent future attacks like this coming cyberwar
Unfortunately, they don't seem to be able to pay for it - when it is in action at least. More military actions in the past would have probably resulted in a financial meltdown, where the US would not even be able to pay the interests on their debt.
But how do you play those flash games to kill time? How do you tweet the reactor's inner core temperature? How do you check your 500k Facebook friend's statuses ?
I talked specifically about MS's history. Post 2000, they've been a lot better than pre-2000. But the harm was done, and in the geek community, their image has been tainted forever.
Apple takes several pgroducts and concepts that are poorly successful by themselves and turn them into stuff that is usable, cool and sells like hotcakes.
In MS's history, it was quite different. They started out with a monopoly on the OS by copying CPM and associating with IBM to kill CPM. Then they started copying other software, making inferior copies, and then used their monopoly to force the competition out of the arena out of sheer abuse and extremely agressive marketing. And (illegal) bundling.
See the difference? One takes, improves and sell, the other takes, hunts, kill and reigns.
ME, I'm waiting for the Linux light bulbs with the IPv6 addresses so I can control all the lighting in the house from a PC without having to do a fancy re-wiring job.
Yes, me too, but then who wants a $100 light bulb that burns +20% power, and 20W IDLE?
Well, even by your definition, you are wrong. Reread the GP's post. They innovate on the "successful tech product" area. (The GP wrote "well". You are free to put the word you prefer there.)
Did they invent tablets? No. Did they invent "successful tablets"? Yes Did they invent browsing on a phone? No. Did they invent "successful browsing on a phone"? Yes.
I could go on, but I'm tired of you not understanding that no innovation is standalone, and they are all based on top of other innovations.
By your standard, Graham Bell invented the phone so Apple didn't. Sounds a little stupid, if you ask me.
Well, you would be wrong. I criticize his point in that it is easy to find flaws in the system. They are glaringly obvious. Proposing a better alternative, however, is something else altogether.
That's the thing about jurisdictions and the justice game. There are limits on borders and time and on and on. He "escaped." This means he won. It's really that simple.
This is an essential part of justice, believe it or not. We have statues of limitations for a lot of reasons and they are of general benefit to everyone. He was successful in "getting away" and we should applaud him for it. And if you can't find it within yourself to applaud it, then place blame where it belongs -- the people or system who failed to apprehend him properly and quickly when they had the chance... or whatever the cause. But if you dare think about taking away the limitations on justice, then you will find that an "unlimited justice system" will bring down hell on all.
Then he travelled to switzerland, leaving his "safe heaven" and he got arrested. Again, that's life. No complaining needed. No "unlimited justice system". Nothing of the sort. What are you talking about? Who wants to abolish the limitations of justice?
I didn't say it was my only computer. All my other computers (laptop at work, kid's computer, wife's eeepc) are much slower than mine. And on all of them I use Chrome because it really makes a difference. Like, when you close a tab, you reclaim memory, whereas in FF it doesn't (at least it didn't in FF3.6).
Hence, I'm now used to Chrome. Hence, I use Chrome on my main computer.
I'm complaining that (1) because (2). And I'm saying that there's no remedy, short of a revolution which will be bloody. At least, I don't see a solution.
I could make myself a candidate, but then who would vote for someone that want to change things? People just want to watch House M.D. on saturday night and be done with it. The rest is overkill and does not mandate their little self to be disturbed.
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or they realized there was lots of risk with the cloud and they did not want their resources to disappear and have little way to get them back on line other than yelling at a vendor.
Nobody realizes that yet. NOBODY. At least, nobody in a position where these decisions are made. It's a scary fact, true, but sadly true.
If anything the Amazon EC2 outage showed is that you should have a backup or a local resource for when the cloud fails. If you have to do that anyway then it is not as good as people are trying to make it out to be and the same or more work.
The problem being that the people that makes these decisions have absolutely no clue what a computer is. They don't realize that a server is basically the same thing that lies on their desktop and they watch youtube on - if a little more beefy. They don't know squat. They just know that Amazon will look good (or bad) in the press for the next election.
They don't give a rat's ass about their data because they don't have the slightest idea of how valuable they are, and don't have the slightest idea how quickly they can vanish forever. So why bother? Let's grab a bottle of Whiskey, a glass, and lie down next to the swimming pool with an iPad2 to shut our brain off. All these worries will be no more in a few minutes.
We're not talking about how things are, but about the trend. The more laws are passed, the heavier and unmanageable the whole system is. Even more so when these laws are here to strengthen the powers/monopolies in place. With the current guys at the head of the country, things are find, they are moderate. One day, some crazy fuck is going to find his way to the white house, and then things will break lose. Because of all the powers that this guy will have then and absolutely no balance of power. All in the name of terrorism. Or art. Or starving musicians.
Holding steady. Send your team.
Freedom has had nothing to do with how America is governed for a while now. The big players are lobbying congress and other parties with truckloads of money. The people - you know, the guys the government is supposed to work for - are lost in the background noise.
But be reassured, America is not the only country acting this way. Most western industrialized countries are at a similar level.
Something is going to go wrong with this, there's no question about it. Exactly how and when is the question.
Well, one of the point of caching on an SSD-type memory has to be the fact that your cache is non-volatile. So when you power up your drive the next day, the cache is still there. Why not doing write-caching then?
It really is one of the advantage of SSD over pure RAM. The downside being that its a lot slower.
Uhhh, true enough. I guess they should get their act together and release SATA drives with this.
So please enlighten me. Don't forget write-cache in your explanation.
I hear rumblings that Windows 8 is going to finally solve this once and for all at the OS level. Designate a drive as a cache drive and it'll fill it up with frequently used files and the current cache.
This is stupid. What about, my windows crashes and is beyond recovery. Now all my data is spread on a "cache" SSD drive and on the physical drive. How do I get that onto one drive again?
For all its pitfalls, OCZ's solution is ONE DRIVE, hence having the benefit of ONE DRIVE. You can take it out, bring it to a friend, put it in an USB enclosure, etc...
At the OS level, I guess it is fine for some purposes.
The United States of America possesses the mightiest, most lethal fighting force in the history of the human civilization. If anything, I think they have been too restrained in their application of military force. I would favor more preemptive and swift action to prevent future attacks like this coming cyberwar
Unfortunately, they don't seem to be able to pay for it - when it is in action at least. More military actions in the past would have probably resulted in a financial meltdown, where the US would not even be able to pay the interests on their debt.
No, not always. They did a few cool and interesting things.
Care to share one example?
I was under the impression that twitter friends had the same (lack of) value than Facebook's ...
Since when does "eternal" rhymes with "glory" ?
But how do you play those flash games to kill time? How do you tweet the reactor's inner core temperature? How do you check your 500k Facebook friend's statuses ?
Thanks for the link. Very soothing and beautiful video clip. Majes me want to look at star trek again ;-)
I talked specifically about MS's history. Post 2000, they've been a lot better than pre-2000. But the harm was done, and in the geek community, their image has been tainted forever.
Apple takes several pgroducts and concepts that are poorly successful by themselves and turn them into stuff that is usable, cool and sells like hotcakes.
In MS's history, it was quite different. They started out with a monopoly on the OS by copying CPM and associating with IBM to kill CPM. Then they started copying other software, making inferior copies, and then used their monopoly to force the competition out of the arena out of sheer abuse and extremely agressive marketing. And (illegal) bundling.
See the difference? One takes, improves and sell, the other takes, hunts, kill and reigns.
ME, I'm waiting for the Linux light bulbs with the IPv6 addresses so I can control all the lighting in the house from a PC without having to do a fancy re-wiring job.
Yes, me too, but then who wants a $100 light bulb that burns +20% power, and 20W IDLE?
We'll get there, but the wait will be loooong.
Well, even by your definition, you are wrong. Reread the GP's post. They innovate on the "successful tech product" area. (The GP wrote "well". You are free to put the word you prefer there.)
Did they invent tablets? No. Did they invent "successful tablets"? Yes
Did they invent browsing on a phone? No. Did they invent "successful browsing on a phone"? Yes.
I could go on, but I'm tired of you not understanding that no innovation is standalone, and they are all based on top of other innovations.
By your standard, Graham Bell invented the phone so Apple didn't. Sounds a little stupid, if you ask me.
Well, you would be wrong. I criticize his point in that it is easy to find flaws in the system. They are glaringly obvious. Proposing a better alternative, however, is something else altogether.
That's the thing about jurisdictions and the justice game. There are limits on borders and time and on and on. He "escaped." This means he won. It's really that simple.
This is an essential part of justice, believe it or not. We have statues of limitations for a lot of reasons and they are of general benefit to everyone. He was successful in "getting away" and we should applaud him for it. And if you can't find it within yourself to applaud it, then place blame where it belongs -- the people or system who failed to apprehend him properly and quickly when they had the chance... or whatever the cause. But if you dare think about taking away the limitations on justice, then you will find that an "unlimited justice system" will bring down hell on all.
Then he travelled to switzerland, leaving his "safe heaven" and he got arrested. Again, that's life. No complaining needed. No "unlimited justice system". Nothing of the sort. What are you talking about? Who wants to abolish the limitations of justice?
Can you cite some specific software packages that want to install a browser (chrome) specifically? This is something new to me...
I can't but I sure have seen a Chrome checkbox ticked by default a couple of times when installing random stuff.
Again, no no! It's not bullshit, it's called a sugared beverage. It's actually not bad tasting.
I didn't say it was my only computer. All my other computers (laptop at work, kid's computer, wife's eeepc) are much slower than mine. And on all of them I use Chrome because it really makes a difference. Like, when you close a tab, you reclaim memory, whereas in FF it doesn't (at least it didn't in FF3.6).
Hence, I'm now used to Chrome. Hence, I use Chrome on my main computer.
Oooops, the first one was meant to be Chrome. As you have guessed I'm sure ;-)
I'm complaining that (1) because (2). And I'm saying that there's no remedy, short of a revolution which will be bloody. At least, I don't see a solution.
I could make myself a candidate, but then who would vote for someone that want to change things? People just want to watch House M.D. on saturday night and be done with it. The rest is overkill and does not mandate their little self to be disturbed.