Why oh why does Hollywood have such a hard time with living up to contract obligations. Just goes to show you that to them, signing a piece of paper means nothing to them.
I've been thinking of the same thing of late. Our IT department uses this huge SAN at $$$ money. Why couldn't a distributed fault tolerant (with something like striped with parity) be implemented across a LAN with 100Mb/GigE? The standard drive size being shipped on new PC's is at a minimum about 200GB. For biz users that is WAY overkill.
Our whole organization is about a 1000 Windoze desktops, but I'd like to try it in our local workgroup first (maybe 20 systems). I looked around but couldn't find anything that would pool unused desktop space.
I expect once the address space runs out in IPv4 and new biz are FORCED to use IPv6 for their Web servers on the internet that there will be some screaming that public ISP's must provide v6 service to ALL customers.
If I want to start a business and it HAS to be on a v6 block because there are no v4 blocks left it would be a bit unfair competitively for me if the consumer ISP's refused to allow access to my web site due to lack of providing IPv6 to consumers.
I expect something like an edict from the Fed to command that (at least in the U.S.) that IPv6 be available to anybody who asks for it at some point.
Or, even IF Skype is not sending data to the FBI all the gov would have to do is get a spy on the inside, pilfer some documentation, send it to the NSA and presto they will have all they need to clandestinely monitor skype conversations.
You are splitting hairs and you know it. It's borderline Troll like.
The point of his post is that as a "belief system", trying to force others to believe as you do is wrong. No matter what the method, soft or by violence.
It was a question put to me by an MIT tenured professor while I worked at NSF. My position being strange, neither program officer or support staff but a contractor who helped program officers with evaluation of software grants. Seeing all those PhD's around me started me thinking of going for my masters and PhD.
When I asked him for his opinion, he said "Why do you want it?". Money wise I'm making what college grads with Masters or PhD's made and he made the point that at my age, 35 that it was probably more headache than worth it..UNLESS my goal was to learn something rather than just to have the title "PhD" after my name. You don't have to have a PhD to do research, but having one will open some doors that otherwise would be harder to open (but not impossible).
The problem is that many college students see college as a way to make more MONEY first and the love of learning about something SECOND (if at all). From their perspective college is something to be endured like a bad trip to the dentist and if they can make it through it the pot of gold waits at the other end. This is wrong! College is not supposed to be a stamp on a form you get so you qualify for an expensive car, house and trophy wife.
If that is what your expectations are, then you should drop out of college NOW. You can make GOOD money, MORE money than many white collar college requirement jobs. Jobs like electrician, plumber, AC repair and believe me NOBODY looks down on the good plumber who has a BIG freaking house and expensive sports car.
If he is getting NSF funding then his stuff has survived an NSF peer review panel or more. I work at NSF and I can tell you that scientists that sit on NSF panels (BTW they don't work for NSF but are asked to come) don't have a habit of rubber stamping stuff they think is BS. The Ego's involved don't allow it. If it is truly worth funding then some serious people have looked at his proposal and the science behind it.
People tend to laugh at Virtual "Assets" because they keep comparing it to physical items.
OF COURSE Virtual assets are not tangible real items. What they represent is effort/service on the part of somebody. When you "buy" something in Second life you are not buying a Virtual House/dress/etc, you are paying for the service/labor involved in the creation of said digital content. Looking at it in that way does not make it so cooky.
One could say when you "buy" an ebook you are not actually buying a book, but people don't lambast others as nutz for buying electronic print.
Having your modem capable of these speeds is good technically, but I have the "premier" comcast service now and it does not come even close to maxing out DOCSIS 1.x.
having a DOCSIS 3.x modem would be like having a firehose into your house but only having measly garden hose pressure amount of water going through it.
The first objections people bring up when talking about utility computing is about security and something along the lines of "I'd never trust my data to Google." etc. The fear is usually something about having your data sold to a competitor.
But the fact of the matter is businesses trust their data with contractors all the time. Using a utility computing vendor is no different than trusting the contractor you hire in house. It's all dependent on the contract language and what is signed.
Everybody talks as if Apple dies or thrives on Itunes sales.
WRONG!
Most analysts agree and Apple has all but confirmed they make almost NO money on the itunes store. Rather it's just a vehicle to sell more hardware (ipods, iphones, isomethings). Geeks like devices that have lots of options, and we like to crap on the ipod due lack of this or that feature. Normal non-geeks have been buying the ipod and associated devices due to other reasons other than for the the online itunes store. The idea if itunes goes away the ipod will vanish into oblivion is crazy. If Amazon gets bigger than itunes and Apple can still make a player that sells better than the others it's a win-win situation for them.
You want to watch a fight? Get the Windows Server sysadmins and the UNIX/LINUX sysadmins and ask each group which server OS should be the "Native" operating system under which the other runs....fun...
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Why oh why does Hollywood have such a hard time with living up to contract obligations. Just goes to show you that to them, signing a piece of paper means nothing to them.
I've been thinking of the same thing of late. Our IT department uses this huge SAN at $$$ money. Why couldn't a distributed fault tolerant (with something like striped with parity) be implemented across a LAN with 100Mb/GigE? The standard drive size being shipped on new PC's is at a minimum about 200GB. For biz users that is WAY overkill.
Our whole organization is about a 1000 Windoze desktops, but I'd like to try it in our local workgroup first (maybe 20 systems). I looked around but couldn't find anything that would pool unused desktop space.
Conceptual Mach 5 airliners are SO yesterday.
What I want to see is a Mach 5 CRUISELINER! That would be worth building!
I expect once the address space runs out in IPv4 and new biz are FORCED to use IPv6 for their Web servers on the internet that there will be some screaming that public ISP's must provide v6 service to ALL customers.
If I want to start a business and it HAS to be on a v6 block because there are no v4 blocks left it would be a bit unfair competitively for me if the consumer ISP's refused to allow access to my web site due to lack of providing IPv6 to consumers.
I expect something like an edict from the Fed to command that (at least in the U.S.) that IPv6 be available to anybody who asks for it at some point.
And they are probably more Internet secure than people running WinXP.
Yea, but the fact of the matter is Microsoft COULD make it an all cash bid which is scary.
Different topic entirely with different rules. "others" in my sentence is referring to adults.
I thought the corrupt Russian Gov officials and the Russian underworld types were one and the same?
Or, even IF Skype is not sending data to the FBI all the gov would have to do is get a spy on the inside, pilfer some documentation, send it to the NSA and presto they will have all they need to clandestinely monitor skype conversations.
Yea, but what are the chances Apple will sell you a replacement battery?
You are splitting hairs and you know it. It's borderline Troll like.
The point of his post is that as a "belief system", trying to force others to believe as you do is wrong. No matter what the method, soft or by violence.
Although Comcast has the right to throttle and manage their network connectivity, forging packets will probably get them in trouble. IANAL
My first gaming experience was a Scott Adams two word text adventure called "Adventureland" on a Commodore Vic-20 Cartridge.
Go see a head shrink and take some meds.
It was a question put to me by an MIT tenured professor while I worked at NSF. My position being strange, neither program officer or support staff but a contractor who helped program officers with evaluation of software grants. Seeing all those PhD's around me started me thinking of going for my masters and PhD.
When I asked him for his opinion, he said "Why do you want it?". Money wise I'm making what college grads with Masters or PhD's made and he made the point that at my age, 35 that it was probably more headache than worth it..UNLESS my goal was to learn something rather than just to have the title "PhD" after my name. You don't have to have a PhD to do research, but having one will open some doors that otherwise would be harder to open (but not impossible).
The problem is that many college students see college as a way to make more MONEY first and the love of learning about something SECOND (if at all). From their perspective college is something to be endured like a bad trip to the dentist and if they can make it through it the pot of gold waits at the other end. This is wrong! College is not supposed to be a stamp on a form you get so you qualify for an expensive car, house and trophy wife.
If that is what your expectations are, then you should drop out of college NOW. You can make GOOD money, MORE money than many white collar college requirement jobs. Jobs like electrician, plumber, AC repair and believe me NOBODY looks down on the good plumber who has a BIG freaking house and expensive sports car.
Hey man...don't knock NSF money. It's funded some pretty important things like..
Those two guys from Stanford who were working on money from an NSF grant on some search engine software............which ended up being GOOGLE!
And that's just one example...
The article says he was/is and names the NSF program officer.
If he is getting NSF funding then his stuff has survived an NSF peer review panel or more. I work at NSF and I can tell you that scientists that sit on NSF panels (BTW they don't work for NSF but are asked to come) don't have a habit of rubber stamping stuff they think is BS. The Ego's involved don't allow it. If it is truly worth funding then some serious people have looked at his proposal and the science behind it.
People tend to laugh at Virtual "Assets" because they keep comparing it to physical items.
OF COURSE Virtual assets are not tangible real items. What they represent is effort/service on the part of somebody. When you "buy" something in Second life you are not buying a Virtual House/dress/etc, you are paying for the service/labor involved in the creation of said digital content. Looking at it in that way does not make it so cooky.
One could say when you "buy" an ebook you are not actually buying a book, but people don't lambast others as nutz for buying electronic print.
Like the mail, interfering/inspecting/tampering with the data portion of any IP packet should be ILLEGAL.
Just my opinion.
Having your modem capable of these speeds is good technically, but I have the "premier" comcast service now and it does not come even close to maxing out DOCSIS 1.x.
having a DOCSIS 3.x modem would be like having a firehose into your house but only having measly garden hose pressure amount of water going through it.
The first objections people bring up when talking about utility computing is about security and something along the lines of "I'd never trust my data to Google." etc. The fear is usually something about having your data sold to a competitor.
But the fact of the matter is businesses trust their data with contractors all the time. Using a utility computing vendor is no different than trusting the contractor you hire in house. It's all dependent on the contract language and what is signed.
Everybody talks as if Apple dies or thrives on Itunes sales.
WRONG!
Most analysts agree and Apple has all but confirmed they make almost NO money on the itunes store. Rather it's just a vehicle to sell more hardware (ipods, iphones, isomethings). Geeks like devices that have lots of options, and we like to crap on the ipod due lack of this or that feature. Normal non-geeks have been buying the ipod and associated devices due to other reasons other than for the the online itunes store. The idea if itunes goes away the ipod will vanish into oblivion is crazy. If Amazon gets bigger than itunes and Apple can still make a player that sells better than the others it's a win-win situation for them.
Free ones - both only require that you change your URL slightly and the both work
Coral Web Cache:
http://www.coralcdn.org/
Cobliz Web Cache:
http://codeen.cs.princeton.edu/coblitz/
You want to watch a fight? Get the Windows Server sysadmins and the UNIX/LINUX sysadmins and ask each group which server OS should be the "Native" operating system under which the other runs....fun...