Ahh... Nothing brightens my day like more free stuff. Especially Cloud Stuff I may actually use:)
Lot's of little boxes with AMD and Intel chips. No more big Iron. That is the dream. We aren't there yet as we still have an app or two that needs a $1,100,000 Sun box to run but this is where our data center is headed, A great pile of little servers and no concern if any one or two of them keels over.
Posted from the chilly Data Center of a Phone Company/ISP.
... I doubt they lose that much money in early termination due to deceased individuals.
For the record they do loose that much money. If you got a top end phone for "free" with your contract, it cost the phone company the full wholesale price.
Hate him or Loath him, Gates was a Geek. While he was at Microsoft he actually did some coding. Not the most elegant code mind you but it compiled most of the time and ran only a little less often.
Because of this the other geeks at MS (shock and horror, they actually employ thousands) folowed his orders without question, the way soldiers folow a battle scarred General.
Without him, that voice of command is gone and none too soon as the core software and business model itself are under threat from OSS.
What is that Business model? Manipulate everything from OEM deals to hardware prices so that the cheapest way to do most of the normal computer work in a normal office or home is to use your products. This was fine when they were competing with the likes of Lotus, IBM, Apple, and Sun.
Some of those companies are still around, but now you can buy cheep PC Hardware with Free Software and be ahead of the price curve. Investors see growth slowing and about to reverse and are jumping ship in droves.
I knew they were repealing "Don't ask, Don't tell" but isn't this going a little too far?
"Printed on the waistband and in constant contact with the skin is an electronic biosensor, designed to measure blood pressure, heart rate and other vital signs."
Translation: When blood flow to your Wang increases they will know. If you are in a room full of guys, they don't have to ask and you don't have to tell.
The semantics of it hardly matter. What I want to know is:
1. Will she be able to walk down the road or throgh an unfamiliar building without the cane?
2. Will we be able to afford this new gadget?
3. Will this be streamlined enough to wear comfortably?
If I get the right answers to all those questions I'll be among the 1st slash-doters to post a review.
I picked those two groups because the distinctions are clearcut. My Father was a Pastor with one of the many protestant denominations. While marriage isn't explicitly required, having a wife and 7 children didn't hurt his chances at being ordained in the slightest.
I'm neither Jewish nor Catholic, but given the choice I would rather be a Rabbi. Rabbis are practically required to have sex. (You must be married. Preferably with children).
The logic is beautiful in it's simplicity. A big part of your job in both rolls is guiding people throgh normal problems of life. Rebellious kids, angry wife, miserable mother in law etc... The kind of thing a virgin priest would know nothing about and thus give pointless advice.
However if you are looking for impressionable male virgins, FaceBook is a good place to start but Slashdot would be better. Most ACs should become priests. They already live under vows of Poverty and Chastity. Obedience isn't that hard to learn.
I used my own experience working for a company where:
1. A hour of lost Data from certain machines may mean a million dollars in lost revenue.
2. We own the raw fiber between locations.
3. We also have live systems at the backup site.
Even so, this is what I suggested for our next generation of backup hardware. 40TB of usable backup space (after RAID and hot spares) for under $16,000 is nothing to sneeze at. Being able to double that for an extra $10,000 or much less if you get the hard drives somewhere else ($16,000 for 80TB if you combine this box with drives from another source)
Before you ask, I checked. The machine comes with the empty drive trays if you don't order drives.
Dell sells LTO-4 (800GB/1.6TB) for $50.45 with the purchase of a drive. Since the drives start at $3,249.00 You need to be using around 60 tapes before it matches the price/GB of a sub $100 1TB SATA drive.
More than two years ago the balance shifted. It is now cheaper to build massive storage servers with SATA RAID in-house and off-site and backup to both than to put a Tape Library in your office and rotate tapes off-site.
This is true even when you assume $0 for transporting tapes and free off-site storage.
Holding it's value doesn't make a luxury vehicle a good investment. A Harley is a good to own in the following situations.
1. You actually enjoy riding it so you get $16,000 worth of fun spread over the time period you own it at then, when you sell it that's all profit. (Note "enjoy riding" includes "using bike to pick up girls")
2. You have oodles of money and can spend some of your excess on pretty things, like works of art, luxury vehicles or shares in a sports team.
Otherwise. Buy stuff that makes you money while you own it and gos up in value more often than not.
Let me clarify. When comersial properties are valued based on rent collected the precise term used is Net Operating Income. (NOI)
NOI is what's left over after you pay for management, taxes, maintenance, insurance etc...
That NOI based value is calculated so that if you can get the loan at normal commercial bank rates at the time, you will be able to service the loan out of the NOI.
If, as in this case, your purchase price is 1/2 what it should be you will have a crap load of cash flow. A portion of which can be diverted to service a 2nd mortgage, worth some sizable portion of that $1M equity. As much as 1/2 with even the most conservative banks. Nice shiny cash you can take to the next deal.
Yeah it takes a while to get your profit but that is why mostly people who already have money are on this buying frenzy.
It's not just stocks. In a recession a lot of things are under-priced and being sold for what everyone involved knows is way below value.
I.e. An apartment building which is priced based on the rent collected may be sold for 50% of it's value even thogh it's still full of paying tenants. If the guy who bought it just put 10% down, he makes a 1000% return on his investment. Let me break it down.
All the people with both money and brains have been on a buying frenzy since 2008 because deals like this are available if you have the $100 down-payment. (It's more like $100,000,000 most of the time. I just dropped 0s to simplify)
Te proper format for "Foundation" is a TV series cross between Dr. Who, Te new BattleStar Galactica and Tales from the Cript.
I.e. A narator wo stays constant, major caracters swaped out every few episodes, and a long main story that stretces for 3 to 7 years with little diversions in between.
American prices are lower and if you check the far east even those prices seam extreme.
Here is my dream machine. Take a current ultra thin, reasonable fast laptop with a 14" screen and weighing under 5 pounds.
Then add a super-sized battery that covers the entire bottom of the laptop (except the fan where it has vents to let the air throgh) and adds 1/2 inch and 2 or 3 pounds.
That beast should give 24 hours of run time quite easily and for those of us who care more about run time, than raw power or weight it would be quite pleased.
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Ahh... Nothing brightens my day like more free stuff. Especially Cloud Stuff I may actually use :)
Lot's of little boxes with AMD and Intel chips. No more big Iron. That is the dream. We aren't there yet as we still have an app or two that needs a $1,100,000 Sun box to run but this is where our data center is headed, A great pile of little servers and no concern if any one or two of them keels over.
Posted from the chilly Data Center of a Phone Company/ISP.
But the nuts don't know that.
... I doubt they lose that much money in early termination due to deceased individuals.
For the record they do loose that much money. If you got a top end phone for "free" with your contract, it cost the phone company the full wholesale price.
This isn't such a joke.
Hate him or Loath him, Gates was a Geek. While he was at Microsoft he actually did some coding. Not the most elegant code mind you but it compiled most of the time and ran only a little less often.
Because of this the other geeks at MS (shock and horror, they actually employ thousands) folowed his orders without question, the way soldiers folow a battle scarred General.
Without him, that voice of command is gone and none too soon as the core software and business model itself are under threat from OSS.
What is that Business model? Manipulate everything from OEM deals to hardware prices so that the cheapest way to do most of the normal computer work in a normal office or home is to use your products. This was fine when they were competing with the likes of Lotus, IBM, Apple, and Sun.
Some of those companies are still around, but now you can buy cheep PC Hardware with Free Software and be ahead of the price curve. Investors see growth slowing and about to reverse and are jumping ship in droves.
Three Dead Trolls in a Baggy absolutely rule.
I knew they were repealing "Don't ask, Don't tell" but isn't this going a little too far?
"Printed on the waistband and in constant contact with the skin is an electronic biosensor, designed to measure blood pressure, heart rate and other vital signs."
Translation: When blood flow to your Wang increases they will know. If you are in a room full of guys, they don't have to ask and you don't have to tell.
Which was his goal old timer.
BTW: Seen Meept lately?
Slasdot's Admins and Editors don't read Slashdot anymore. If they did, they would have noticed the criticism years ago and mended their ways.
"Close loved one" is correct. While she doesn't read SlashDot much, she is a better writer than I am (isn't everybody?).
Turkmenistan? Wikipedia is making up country names now?
Wikipedia may have made up Uzbekistan, but not Turkmenistan. That was made up by Burat or somebody.
The semantics of it hardly matter. What I want to know is:
1. Will she be able to walk down the road or throgh an unfamiliar building without the cane?
2. Will we be able to afford this new gadget?
3. Will this be streamlined enough to wear comfortably?
If I get the right answers to all those questions I'll be among the 1st slash-doters to post a review.
So dose This mean Dinosaurs walked with man, or that Dinosaurs could draw?
I picked those two groups because the distinctions are clearcut. My Father was a Pastor with one of the many protestant denominations. While marriage isn't explicitly required, having a wife and 7 children didn't hurt his chances at being ordained in the slightest.
I'm neither Jewish nor Catholic, but given the choice I would rather be a Rabbi. Rabbis are practically required to have sex. (You must be married. Preferably with children).
The logic is beautiful in it's simplicity. A big part of your job in both rolls is guiding people throgh normal problems of life. Rebellious kids, angry wife, miserable mother in law etc... The kind of thing a virgin priest would know nothing about and thus give pointless advice.
However if you are looking for impressionable male virgins, FaceBook is a good place to start but Slashdot would be better. Most ACs should become priests. They already live under vows of Poverty and Chastity. Obedience isn't that hard to learn.
I used my own experience working for a company where:
1. A hour of lost Data from certain machines may mean a million dollars in lost revenue.
2. We own the raw fiber between locations.
3. We also have live systems at the backup site.
Even so, this is what I suggested for our next generation of backup hardware. 40TB of usable backup space (after RAID and hot spares) for under $16,000 is nothing to sneeze at. Being able to double that for an extra $10,000 or much less if you get the hard drives somewhere else ($16,000 for 80TB if you combine this box with drives from another source)
Before you ask, I checked. The machine comes with the empty drive trays if you don't order drives.
Yeah and Kingston has girls chasing him, despite being a chubby nerd.
Ok. Using a made up last name is cheating. Sue me.
Dell sells LTO-4 (800GB/1.6TB) for $50.45 with the purchase of a drive. Since the drives start at $3,249.00 You need to be using around 60 tapes before it matches the price/GB of a sub $100 1TB SATA drive.
More than two years ago the balance shifted. It is now cheaper to build massive storage servers with SATA RAID in-house and off-site and backup to both than to put a Tape Library in your office and rotate tapes off-site.
This is true even when you assume $0 for transporting tapes and free off-site storage.
Why?
I met China, babysat Jamaica, was friends with Africa and dated both India and Georgia.
Parents figured out that you can name a girl almost anything and it's cool (especially if she is cute.)
Not so easy for a guy though. Denver and Indiana keep running into problems.
Holding it's value doesn't make a luxury vehicle a good investment. A Harley is a good to own in the following situations.
1. You actually enjoy riding it so you get $16,000 worth of fun spread over the time period you own it at then, when you sell it that's all profit. (Note "enjoy riding" includes "using bike to pick up girls")
2. You have oodles of money and can spend some of your excess on pretty things, like works of art, luxury vehicles or shares in a sports team.
Otherwise. Buy stuff that makes you money while you own it and gos up in value more often than not.
Let me clarify. When comersial properties are valued based on rent collected the precise term used is Net Operating Income. (NOI)
NOI is what's left over after you pay for management, taxes, maintenance, insurance etc...
That NOI based value is calculated so that if you can get the loan at normal commercial bank rates at the time, you will be able to service the loan out of the NOI.
If, as in this case, your purchase price is 1/2 what it should be you will have a crap load of cash flow. A portion of which can be diverted to service a 2nd mortgage, worth some sizable portion of that $1M equity. As much as 1/2 with even the most conservative banks. Nice shiny cash you can take to the next deal.
Yeah it takes a while to get your profit but that is why mostly people who already have money are on this buying frenzy.
It's not just stocks. In a recession a lot of things are under-priced and being sold for what everyone involved knows is way below value.
I.e. An apartment building which is priced based on the rent collected may be sold for 50% of it's value even thogh it's still full of paying tenants. If the guy who bought it just put 10% down, he makes a 1000% return on his investment. Let me break it down.
Purchase price $1000
Loan $900
Cash invested $100
Value $2000
Equity $1100
Profit 1000%
All the people with both money and brains have been on a buying frenzy since 2008 because deals like this are available if you have the $100 down-payment. (It's more like $100,000,000 most of the time. I just dropped 0s to simplify)
According to some otherwise good SciFi (Stargate comes to mind) even alien devices use Serial.
Te proper format for "Foundation" is a TV series cross between Dr. Who, Te new BattleStar Galactica and Tales from the Cript.
I.e. A narator wo stays constant, major caracters swaped out every few episodes, and a long main story that stretces for 3 to 7 years with little diversions in between.
Tis is how I woud [re]do Dune as well.
An engineering challenge but not insurmountable.
American prices are lower and if you check the far east even those prices seam extreme.
Here is my dream machine. Take a current ultra thin, reasonable fast laptop with a 14" screen and weighing under 5 pounds.
Then add a super-sized battery that covers the entire bottom of the laptop (except the fan where it has vents to let the air throgh) and adds 1/2 inch and 2 or 3 pounds.
That beast should give 24 hours of run time quite easily and for those of us who care more about run time, than raw power or weight it would be quite pleased.