The thing with the Wall Street Journal is that most of the subscriptions are directly paid by companies or else put on the subscribers expense account.
"The company equates its "building blocks" approach to data centers to building with Legos -- albeit with customized parts (i.e. the Millennium Falcon Lego kit). Microsoft is taking a similar approach, packaging generators, switchgear and UPS units into pre-assembled components for rapid assembly. Is this the future of data center design?"
It only makes sense to maintain the infrastructure to build the building blocks so long as data centers are being rolled out at a furious pace - something that cannot continue forever.
I suspect the 'Lego' builders are betting on vendor lock-in to feed the bottom line over the long term. Once you buy their bricks, you're pretty much stuck with their interface and thus will be coming back to them for upgrades and renovation.
It's not that they got bogged down under their own weight of users and articles - it's because the lunatics are running the asylum and they got bogged down under the weight of policies, procedures, and consensus.
Note that this is the same type of failure as what happened in the mortgage bubble. Realtors and buyers and auditors were not actually determining the real value of the houses they were trading, but were merely checking to see what everyone else thought the value was.
The real value of a house is what 'everyone else' thinks the value is - there is no 'real' or objective way to determine the value of a house.
Don't laugh - because this happened to me. I edited a series of Wikipedia articles with close to a grands worth of topic specific reference works at my elbow...
Every single edit was reverted because "your facts do not match what was found with a Google search".
This article from eight years ago [city-journal.org] sure did a great job of predicting this whole thing.
The amazing thing about the internet is that no matter what happens, it's easy to find the guy the predicted it would happen. Even if the next day he predicted the Brooklyn Dodger would win the pennant in 2001.
IMHO, the Mortgage Broker is supposed to be the person who makes the judgement call as to weather you are a default risk or not.
Well, in the real world (as opposed to your 'HO') it's the loan originator that makes that call - the Mortgage broker is just the middleman who handles the paperwork and skims off a commission.
Am I the only one who is amazed at the amount of times someone sticks the boot into Google for doing something constructive?
Had they actually done something constructive - you'd have a point. What they've done is reneged on their promise to do something constructive in February and replaced it with a promise to something constructive someday, maybe. (Or maybe you missed the part where they no longer promise a date to do something constructive.)
There's a world of difference between 'fake until proven otherwise' and '[always and forever considered] a fake because it cannot be tracked through it's whole life'.
Oh really? Define "obviously and intentionally harassing" in a legalistic manner that is so clear cut that it cannot be abused, misused, or given an extremely broad interpretation? If I post a scathing blog indicting the Ku Klux Klan and a Klan member finds it harassing, can my blog be shut down?
Why shouldn't it be shut down? Unless you are exposing criminal activity, the Klan is every bit as protected by the Constitution as the Roman Catholic Church and your local Linux user's group.
Folks like you scare me.
And folks like you, who seem to believe that the Constitution doesn't apply to people you don't like, scare the piss out of me.
There's a reason in the art world if a painting cannot be tracked through it's whole life it's first considered a fake.
Except of course for all the paintings not discovered to be by someone considered important until years, decades, or centuries after the work was created. Something that's actually done fairly routinely.
The drum is made of selenium that usually winds in land fills.
I suspect that someday, people will be using those landfills as a high-grade ore for all kinds of metals.
Probably not as the 'ore' is a fairly small amount of metals mixed in with a great deal of dross, much of which dross is some pretty toxic (poisons, carcinogens, and biohazard) stuff with all the chemical and organic waste in the landfills.
They'd have to be seriously desperate to 'mine' a landfill.
C64/C128 so-called "cultists" might get a little excited about some anachronistic development, decades after the platforms' prime, but I don't remember any religious fervor that the C64 was going to put Microsoft in its grave. For that you need an Amiga believer.
Amiga died long before the belief that Microsoft needed to reined in, if not buried, became general.
On this scale, Slashdotters are too small to be a cult - they're the crazy guy muttering to himself on a street corner. (Nor do they hold one of the main characteristics of the cults discussed - a unity of belief.)
Slashdot Mirror
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Lacking any objective standard to compare - you assume the comedy show is more accurate.
"The company equates its "building blocks" approach to data centers to building with Legos -- albeit with customized parts (i.e. the Millennium Falcon Lego kit). Microsoft is taking a similar approach, packaging generators, switchgear and UPS units into pre-assembled components for rapid assembly. Is this the future of data center design?"
It only makes sense to maintain the infrastructure to build the building blocks so long as data centers are being rolled out at a furious pace - something that cannot continue forever.
I suspect the 'Lego' builders are betting on vendor lock-in to feed the bottom line over the long term. Once you buy their bricks, you're pretty much stuck with their interface and thus will be coming back to them for upgrades and renovation.
It's not that they got bogged down under their own weight of users and articles - it's because the lunatics are running the asylum and they got bogged down under the weight of policies, procedures, and consensus.
The real value of a house is what 'everyone else' thinks the value is - there is no 'real' or objective way to determine the value of a house.
Don't laugh - because this happened to me. I edited a series of Wikipedia articles with close to a grands worth of topic specific reference works at my elbow...
Every single edit was reverted because "your facts do not match what was found with a Google search".
No, it's not a different story at all. It's fanbois drooling and the media serving up what they know the fanbois will eat up without question.
And people wonder why Hollywood keeps making sequels, remakes, and re-imaginings.
The amazing thing about the internet is that no matter what happens, it's easy to find the guy the predicted it would happen. Even if the next day he predicted the Brooklyn Dodger would win the pennant in 2001.
Well, in the real world (as opposed to your 'HO') it's the loan originator that makes that call - the Mortgage broker is just the middleman who handles the paperwork and skims off a commission.
Had they actually done something constructive - you'd have a point. What they've done is reneged on their promise to do something constructive in February and replaced it with a promise to something constructive someday, maybe. (Or maybe you missed the part where they no longer promise a date to do something constructive.)
Hello - she's a Democratic senator. She's not winning any conservative vote. So blaming it on Bush like you do is horseshit.
There's a world of difference between 'fake until proven otherwise' and '[always and forever considered] a fake because it cannot be tracked through it's whole life'.
Yeah, with Bush out of office and the bill being proposed by a Democrat - it's clearly Bush's fault.
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
No, he doesn't. Like 'police state', they're just words he's heard around the blogosphere and parrots without any understanding whatsoever.
Why shouldn't it be shut down? Unless you are exposing criminal activity, the Klan is every bit as protected by the Constitution as the Roman Catholic Church and your local Linux user's group.
And folks like you, who seem to believe that the Constitution doesn't apply to people you don't like, scare the piss out of me.
Except of course for all the paintings not discovered to be by someone considered important until years, decades, or centuries after the work was created. Something that's actually done fairly routinely.
I'm guessing you didn't actually read what I wrote - and missed the part about the landfills being filled with toxins, carcinogens, and biohazards.
That's a research paper about a process that may be used 'soon', not a description of what is used *today*. There's a difference.
Probably not as the 'ore' is a fairly small amount of metals mixed in with a great deal of dross, much of which dross is some pretty toxic (poisons, carcinogens, and biohazard) stuff with all the chemical and organic waste in the landfills.
They'd have to be seriously desperate to 'mine' a landfill.
I'm a former (US) submariner. You're wrong on both counts.
Amiga died long before the belief that Microsoft needed to reined in, if not buried, became general.
On this scale, Slashdotters are too small to be a cult - they're the crazy guy muttering to himself on a street corner. (Nor do they hold one of the main characteristics of the cults discussed - a unity of belief.)
If you mean 'cheap' then why not say 'cheap'? Not to mention that to a large extent you're comparing apples to oranges.