To clarify this point. That depends on how share ownership is structured in the company. Some businesses start out with a fixed percentage of the ownership vested in the founders and VCs are sold a slice of the rest, then With an IPO some of what's left is sold and on like that. Keeping the founder's 10% as 10% of whatever the final total is, This is how M$ managed to have 4 of the top 10 richest people in America at one point.
The bigger questions are:
Will this business become a publicly traded giant or get bought out for enough money that your 10% can push you into the VC business yourself or at least provide a nest egg to make all future work optional?
Do you feel your presence in the top ranks of the business will enhance the likelihood of this type of outcome? Remember a 10% stake dosn't guarantee you a seat on the board, but that is not an unreasonable expectation.
This is just me stabbing in the dark here, but if an Engineer is worth 10% of the business, then this is likely not the type of business you can build up and let go. Basically the top engineers ARE the business.
Finaly. Mr. Neal. Did Hemos and Taco try to give you alcohol before making this offer?
I was with you up to the "striding across a beach naked" comment.
Seeing you naked could possibly do me serious, even permanent mental harm. My eyes can only tolerate so much pale, pimpled flab.
Don't know much about China but those Mortgage backed securities never sold in Jamaica at all.
Why? Because our government backed securities (equivalent of US Treasury notes) payed higher interest rates.
Even so we are receiving the economic equivalent of a 15 pimp bitch slap marathon. Why? Well for starters Seattle now has a thousand nerds who can no longer afford premium Coffee
I suspect that China with it's gigantic export driven economy is feeling the same pain on a grand scale.
I have bartered PC repair and System admin services for competent legal advise, accounting service and even medical care on one occasion (Every desktop in my dentist's office had the "worm of the month").
Sensible people do what they are good at and wherever possible get others to do the other things.
This little project may take a day or a few months for a pearl wizard. I'm not sure. I do know it would take me years, if it got done at all.
Clustered file systems and local file systems are of necessity different. Most of what makes a clustered FS useful would be pure dead weight on a local FS.
What I would like to see are clustered FSs which are easier to set up. I.e. You go to the 1st machine and start up the cluster config program and it asks: "Is this the 1st machine in your cluster?" Once you say yes there, you go to the other machines in turn, fire up the same program and say no to that question and enter the IP of the 1st machine.
Once all those machines are added, the next step is to select. "Add Local disk to cluster pool" and then you select partitions on your local hard drive that should be in the pool. They don't have to all be the same size either.
Once you have done that for each machine (either by going from one to the next or using the the tool on the primary node to add disks from each one (or a whole group of them if they are already partitioned in the same way).
Then you just start mounting this virtual disk and dumping files to it.
The technology exists to do this. The problem is that each time it's done' its a manual process tantamount to a programing job. Who want's to take up the task of tying all the pieces together to make the setup feel this simple for the user.
Additional functionality (like tuning the FS for Database or Email usage and failover hierarchy) would be added over time and in a way that dose not detract from the simplicity of that basic setup.
According to Yahoo Finance (and I may be misreading stuff, being a novice investor and amateur trader), Sun lost money last year.
So Which business would you rather own: One that makes $24 or one that looses $1400?
Since both are expected to continue in the same direction (RHT posting greater profits while JAVA posts greater losses) The Market caps continue to trend in opposite directions.
At some point Sun will reverse that trend or it's parts will end up being worth more than the whole.
Everone on SlashDot knows "More's Law": Every 18 months CPU speed doubles.
Most also know "Gate's Law": Every 16 months the speed of software halves.
The gap in those timespans is why machines keep getting slower.
Doesn't everyone play with driver level software ramdisks at some point?
What I was talking about is to move that software function out of the OS entirely so that the computer could boot off a RamDisk.
If done right, you would simply have an insanely fast hard drive for OS, Swap and your favorite game. Leaving that 8.5 TB RAID 6 for your porn archive.
What if the ramdisk function was moved into the motherboard chipset? This would achieve 2 things:
1. It would dramatically cut the cost of a ramdisk. I.e. The cost of the entire motherboard might go up by $5 or so.
2. It would eliminate that SATA bottleneck, allowing ramdisk to run at full RAM speed.
If you then figure out a way to have this data loaded to the ramdisk from a hard drive at poweron (or get realy clever and mount a flash chip on or near each DIMM which takes a backup of that DIMM, just before powerdown.
It's like being an undercover mob boss. Except you don't get to: Bang models on their way to the street, Drown rats or wear a cool ring.
Here is my question: Now that Darkmarket is all busted and closed, will this cop just enjoy a 2nd honeymoon before starting again with a new alias and hitting on a different set of crooks.
Hell, if he plays his cards right he could enter the private sector and make millions off the MPAA and RIAA.
Want to see ridiculous age related law? In many parts of the US you can start active duty in the police force at age 18. You can also join most (if not all) branches of the military at that age. However you can't drink alcohol ontil age 21 in most parts of the US.
This is inconsistent because in most western cultures (including America) it is expected that decent people who are forced to kill will drown their sorrows in some ethanol for a few days afterward. Yet, yore government puts people into jobs where killing inevitable for a certain percentage of those in that job while making it illegal for those same people to drink.
As for porn. Totally different issue. Sex is naturally, private and personal. Pornography is a public activity shared with strangers. Not only that, a person who dose porn today may still be recognised as a porn star decades later. The implications are more far reaching and long lasting.
People lie to get innocent people prosecuted. It's a fact of life. That's why they invented cross examination, and require corroborating evidence. It's not a perfect system by any stretch and has even led to innocent people being executed (my main objection to capital punishment is there is often no way to remedy a serious mistake when you discover it.)
Even so, this is what we have. I remember a case where a man was convicted of rape and his conviction was overturned when it was brought to the attention of the appeal's court that the "victim" admitted in court that there was no force of any kind, she agreed to have sex for a particular price and then the guy ran out on his bill.
Dose this mean we should abandon the charge of rape? No. It just means we should be diligent in prosecuting where a person suffers as a result of the acts of another, so as to only punish people who actually did harm. We should also pay attention to those situations where harm has not been done and change laws as needed to avoid prosecution in those situations.
Nudity is an objective measure (Is that a clitoris or acne at one end of a dimple?) while Porn is a subjective measure (Isn't double fisting really art?)
What should be done is to simply extend what already exists in common law (Jamaican, not US) for statutory rape to pornography. Specifically consent is a valid defense if the victim is the same age or older than the accused. Not only that when the accused is older the age gap in cases where consent is admitted is used to mitigate the sentence.
I.e. a 25 year old guy will spend years in prison for screwing his 15 year old "girlfriend". A 18 year old guy gets probation.
Apply that principle to child porn and you won't waste time prosecuting kids for pictures of themselves or their classmates.
RTFA.
Right now it takes them 4 months to build one. Until they get a proper assembly line going, It will be quicker to build an "old fashioned" landfill sized plant than to build an array of these miniatures.
Also at $850,000 for a highly complex peace of equipment, I wonder what they maintenance charge will be? What's the lifespan of the major components? Did that 3 years at full capacity to pay for itself estimate take those costs into account?
This is how I always assumed it "worked". Practical time travel takes you from a defined 4 dimensional point to another defined 4 dimensional point just the way teleportation takes you from one 3 dimensional point to another 3 dimensional point.
In other words. If I can telleport from my air conditioned office in the tropics to a sidewalk in Washington DC, then I might watch the inauguration live rather than webcast.
If I can also move throgh time I can watch it immediately after typing this message rather than hours later.
That the coordinates in space match up relative to the surface of the earth is a safety/convenience protocol that would have to be built in to make the device useful.
You are the only one who seems to "get it" (TM / Patent Pending).
A great deal of web apps rely on binaries which exist for only a few CPUs. Some for x86 only. If you are going to have a full featured web surfing experience on a CPU without an x86 instruction set it must be fast enough to emulate an x86 CPU in software.
Short version: Arm was never an option.
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It probably dose. Other IBM Built SCs do.
To clarify this point. That depends on how share ownership is structured in the company. Some businesses start out with a fixed percentage of the ownership vested in the founders and VCs are sold a slice of the rest, then With an IPO some of what's left is sold and on like that. Keeping the founder's 10% as 10% of whatever the final total is, This is how M$ managed to have 4 of the top 10 richest people in America at one point.
The bigger questions are:
Will this business become a publicly traded giant or get bought out for enough money that your 10% can push you into the VC business yourself or at least provide a nest egg to make all future work optional?
Do you feel your presence in the top ranks of the business will enhance the likelihood of this type of outcome? Remember a 10% stake dosn't guarantee you a seat on the board, but that is not an unreasonable expectation.
This is just me stabbing in the dark here, but if an Engineer is worth 10% of the business, then this is likely not the type of business you can build up and let go. Basically the top engineers ARE the business.
Finaly. Mr. Neal. Did Hemos and Taco try to give you alcohol before making this offer?
I was with you up to the "striding across a beach naked" comment. Seeing you naked could possibly do me serious, even permanent mental harm. My eyes can only tolerate so much pale, pimpled flab.
Don't know much about China but those Mortgage backed securities never sold in Jamaica at all.
Why? Because our government backed securities (equivalent of US Treasury notes) payed higher interest rates.
Even so we are receiving the economic equivalent of a 15 pimp bitch slap marathon. Why? Well for starters Seattle now has a thousand nerds who can no longer afford premium Coffee
I suspect that China with it's gigantic export driven economy is feeling the same pain on a grand scale.
Yes I have and as I mentioned in another post. It's not easy by any stretch.
"Without the 2nd Amendment, the others are just suggestions."
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I have used them.
1. The work for sharing a SAN but are not so useful for clustering local disks.
2. Even doing what they are good at, setup is a bit more tedious than I would like.
BTW: A nice setup menu dose not need to be GUI. Many of the console tools in the system-config-whatever series are nice.
We all have our talents.
I have bartered PC repair and System admin services for competent legal advise, accounting service and even medical care on one occasion (Every desktop in my dentist's office had the "worm of the month").
Sensible people do what they are good at and wherever possible get others to do the other things.
This little project may take a day or a few months for a pearl wizard. I'm not sure. I do know it would take me years, if it got done at all.
Clustered file systems and local file systems are of necessity different. Most of what makes a clustered FS useful would be pure dead weight on a local FS.
What I would like to see are clustered FSs which are easier to set up. I.e. You go to the 1st machine and start up the cluster config program and it asks: "Is this the 1st machine in your cluster?" Once you say yes there, you go to the other machines in turn, fire up the same program and say no to that question and enter the IP of the 1st machine.
Once all those machines are added, the next step is to select. "Add Local disk to cluster pool" and then you select partitions on your local hard drive that should be in the pool. They don't have to all be the same size either.
Once you have done that for each machine (either by going from one to the next or using the the tool on the primary node to add disks from each one (or a whole group of them if they are already partitioned in the same way).
Then you just start mounting this virtual disk and dumping files to it.
The technology exists to do this. The problem is that each time it's done' its a manual process tantamount to a programing job. Who want's to take up the task of tying all the pieces together to make the setup feel this simple for the user.
Additional functionality (like tuning the FS for Database or Email usage and failover hierarchy) would be added over time and in a way that dose not detract from the simplicity of that basic setup.
According to Yahoo Finance (and I may be misreading stuff, being a novice investor and amateur trader), Sun lost money last year.
So Which business would you rather own: One that makes $24 or one that looses $1400?
Since both are expected to continue in the same direction (RHT posting greater profits while JAVA posts greater losses) The Market caps continue to trend in opposite directions.
At some point Sun will reverse that trend or it's parts will end up being worth more than the whole.
Everone on SlashDot knows "More's Law": Every 18 months CPU speed doubles. Most also know "Gate's Law": Every 16 months the speed of software halves. The gap in those timespans is why machines keep getting slower.
Why don't you just Google it? Afraid you will get an inaccurate Wikipedia link?
Doesn't everyone play with driver level software ramdisks at some point?
What I was talking about is to move that software function out of the OS entirely so that the computer could boot off a RamDisk.
If done right, you would simply have an insanely fast hard drive for OS, Swap and your favorite game. Leaving that 8.5 TB RAID 6 for your porn archive.
RTFA.
They said these changes would only be visible online after being vetted by internal or contract editors.
And let people edit this precious first post ?
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This brings up an interesting idea.
What if the ramdisk function was moved into the motherboard chipset? This would achieve 2 things:
1. It would dramatically cut the cost of a ramdisk. I.e. The cost of the entire motherboard might go up by $5 or so.
2. It would eliminate that SATA bottleneck, allowing ramdisk to run at full RAM speed.
If you then figure out a way to have this data loaded to the ramdisk from a hard drive at poweron (or get realy clever and mount a flash chip on or near each DIMM which takes a backup of that DIMM, just before powerdown.
It's like being an undercover mob boss. Except you don't get to: Bang models on their way to the street, Drown rats or wear a cool ring.
Here is my question: Now that Darkmarket is all busted and closed, will this cop just enjoy a 2nd honeymoon before starting again with a new alias and hitting on a different set of crooks.
Hell, if he plays his cards right he could enter the private sector and make millions off the MPAA and RIAA.
Want to see ridiculous age related law? In many parts of the US you can start active duty in the police force at age 18. You can also join most (if not all) branches of the military at that age. However you can't drink alcohol ontil age 21 in most parts of the US.
This is inconsistent because in most western cultures (including America) it is expected that decent people who are forced to kill will drown their sorrows in some ethanol for a few days afterward. Yet, yore government puts people into jobs where killing inevitable for a certain percentage of those in that job while making it illegal for those same people to drink.
As for porn. Totally different issue. Sex is naturally, private and personal. Pornography is a public activity shared with strangers. Not only that, a person who dose porn today may still be recognised as a porn star decades later. The implications are more far reaching and long lasting.
People lie to get innocent people prosecuted. It's a fact of life. That's why they invented cross examination, and require corroborating evidence. It's not a perfect system by any stretch and has even led to innocent people being executed (my main objection to capital punishment is there is often no way to remedy a serious mistake when you discover it.)
Even so, this is what we have. I remember a case where a man was convicted of rape and his conviction was overturned when it was brought to the attention of the appeal's court that the "victim" admitted in court that there was no force of any kind, she agreed to have sex for a particular price and then the guy ran out on his bill.
Dose this mean we should abandon the charge of rape? No. It just means we should be diligent in prosecuting where a person suffers as a result of the acts of another, so as to only punish people who actually did harm. We should also pay attention to those situations where harm has not been done and change laws as needed to avoid prosecution in those situations.
Nudity is an objective measure (Is that a clitoris or acne at one end of a dimple?) while Porn is a subjective measure (Isn't double fisting really art?)
What should be done is to simply extend what already exists in common law (Jamaican, not US) for statutory rape to pornography. Specifically consent is a valid defense if the victim is the same age or older than the accused. Not only that when the accused is older the age gap in cases where consent is admitted is used to mitigate the sentence.
I.e. a 25 year old guy will spend years in prison for screwing his 15 year old "girlfriend". A 18 year old guy gets probation.
Apply that principle to child porn and you won't waste time prosecuting kids for pictures of themselves or their classmates.
RTFA. Right now it takes them 4 months to build one. Until they get a proper assembly line going, It will be quicker to build an "old fashioned" landfill sized plant than to build an array of these miniatures.
Also at $850,000 for a highly complex peace of equipment, I wonder what they maintenance charge will be? What's the lifespan of the major components? Did that 3 years at full capacity to pay for itself estimate take those costs into account?
This is how I always assumed it "worked". Practical time travel takes you from a defined 4 dimensional point to another defined 4 dimensional point just the way teleportation takes you from one 3 dimensional point to another 3 dimensional point. In other words. If I can telleport from my air conditioned office in the tropics to a sidewalk in Washington DC, then I might watch the inauguration live rather than webcast. If I can also move throgh time I can watch it immediately after typing this message rather than hours later. That the coordinates in space match up relative to the surface of the earth is a safety/convenience protocol that would have to be built in to make the device useful.
Try running Wine on a $50 x86 chip and on a $50 none x86 chip. Compare the performance and get back to me.
You are the only one who seems to "get it" (TM / Patent Pending). A great deal of web apps rely on binaries which exist for only a few CPUs. Some for x86 only. If you are going to have a full featured web surfing experience on a CPU without an x86 instruction set it must be fast enough to emulate an x86 CPU in software. Short version: Arm was never an option.
We all have fantasies.