Starfish, 300,000 400GB tapes hold 117185.5 terabytes. WestGrid fits in about 0.2% of that. And the notion of staging terabyte datasets to disk is... umm.
Look, the simple fact is you just looked right at 114 petabytes didn't recognize them, and
Not to detract from your argument,
... but actually, that system you used hasn't got a clue.
Out of fairness, this is the guy's mother we're talking about here. I've been told several times I'm good, patient teacher. But my Mom? I have more than once been reduced to asking her to please try to imagine I know what I'm talking about. She'll ask for help and reject everything I say. I can get through the static, but it generally takes about an hour, then we get the five or fifteen minutes it should have taken, then another half hour or so of easing the tensions.
So, a Linux cluster would know what to do with a StorageTek SL8500?
I suspect you don't know what large means. 300,000 tapes. 2,048 drives. The complexity on mainframes isn't computation, it's data management. Trust me, it's a completely different world, with (solved) problems that simply do not appear in any but the largest enterprises. Those are the 400GB carts, btw.
Here's a pretty good analogy I just made up: think of how inappropriate FFT multiplication would be for most arithmetic, and how inadequate anything else is for the times when you really need it. A lot of the mutual derision between the Unix and mainframe camps was that each had (is/has?) a vastly superior toolset for their own, ahh, wavelength.
Microkernels are just one way to compartmentalize. Compartmentalization is good, yadda yadda momncherrypie yadda. We've known this for what, 20 years? 30? 40? Nobody suspects it's a fad anymore. The kinds of faults VM isolation guards against aren't the kinds of faults that worry people so much today. Panics and bluescreens aren't solved, but they're down in the background noise. Experience and diligence and increasingly good tools have been enough to put them there and will remain enough to keep them there, because the tools are getting better by leaps and bounds.
"In the 1980s, performance counted for everything, and reliability and security were not yet on the radar" is remarkable. Not on whose radar? MVS wasn't and z/OS isn't a microkernel either, and the NCSC didn't give out B1 ratings lightly.
One thing I found interesting is the notion of running a parallel virtual machine solely to sandbox drivers you don't trust.
Why play mindless games like the Sims when you could be improving yourself and having fun at the same time?
Arranging walls and furniture isn't as easy as it might look
Construction work is dirt cheap
Why annoy people?
Don't make life hard on Mom, she's busy.
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Yup. That just-shut-up-and-get-on-with-it response is a beautiful bit of work. There's enough evidence of intelligent design in that game I believe they intended to provoke it. The time pressures on the Broke household, the obvious (to grownups) solution to the Lilith problem... plus it's amazing how many wry jokes they manage to tuck into that sim. They had a LOT of fun making that game, and it shows.
Timescale? This is like RRT: multiple timescales all mashed up, a game day and a game year run concurrently. Plus it's a game: do you really want to have to also brush your teeth and trim your nails and blowdry your hair and whatever else? It's a stand-in.
Yesterday. Kid was playing Sims 2, winkeying in and out to check something or other, it worked a few times, then bluescreened so hard the text was garbled and unreadable. XP/SP2, clean, secure and up to date.
There are few, if any, public links: the entire Internet is privately owned and operated, in pieces.
If the roads were operated this way, and used what its advocates are pleased to call the "tiered" model, every road-network operator that wanted to start a trucking company would do everything they could to hamper all other trucking companies. Charge their customers extra. Slash the competition's tires. The analogy is damn near exact.
C'mon, guys. Think about it. You have email. If WL talks SMTP, email can reach your service, and yours can reach WL. Your email client works with your own email service. It's WL's POP/IMAP/browser support that's irrelevant to outsiders. Only SMTP matters.
and the only way to read it is via this Windows Live
What, Windows Live doesn't talk SMTP? I can't make sense of your reply any other way. Maybe it's just 'cause it's late, but you're going to have to explain to me how the kids will be unable to use whatever email client they already know.
In summary, forcing periodic password changes given today's resources is unlikely to significantly reduce the overall threat -- unless the password is immediately changed after each use.
Security is one of those things that complete ignoramuses believe they understand without benefit of thought or experience. ~Just make it too hard~. Experience says there is simply no reaching these people. I can actually find some sympathy for them: the least whiff of an implication that their existing security policies were wrong is politically all but intolerable.
... seems to me like a pretty good summary of the arguments against dumping gigatons of greenhouse gases into our atmosphere. Can someone provide pointers to the evidence that says what we're seeing amounts to more than just a bump on the log that is
this cycle?
Whatever's causing it now, all the predicted changes I've seen or heard of (Limited Research Warning) land well within the recorded variations, with a consistent, roughly hundred-thousand-year period, over the last... several... million... years. And we're not just due for the next spike, we're in it. What comes next, within the next few thousand years, is a precipitous drop of more than 6 C.
And that drop will continue a much longer, deeper trend. What we're doing now may be the right thing.
has their tellers using what looks to me to be a web page in IE coming from a remote site
HTTP as a 3270 datastream for framebuffers; web services as CICS transactions, hidden modified fields and all; all apps and data on remote servers. It's all coming back around.
I don't think the parent was meaning that banks, hospitals, etc. are hosting B2C applications remotely, but rather their software that they use internally is being hosted as a service by another computer elsewhere, either one they run or one run by another company.
Not B2C in the traditional sense, more like B2B, where rather than pay your own IT department to host and/or deploy commodity services, outsource the whole shebang, use your PCs as 3270's, and let competition find the right price for it all. My only two questions are whether the lock-in/lock-out moles will get hold of this model and destroy it, and how they'll go about trying. Build a big noisy unutterably shoddy bandwagon would be my guess.
In a way, this is just an extension of things that have been going on for a long time anyway: for instance, lots of companies use the "temporary" agencies for a large fraction of their employees, effectively outsourcing much of HR. If the actual code were common (as the employment laws are), the analogy would be virtually exact.
themes like this were cautionary tales? Perky Pat, anyone? I get older, I get more tolerant of the changes I see (not going to make much of a grumpy old fart, sigh), but still remember how creepy the worlds I read about then felt.
The big lesson learned is that a window of opportunity exists for a second-mover to challenge a first-mover
And how can they use this window?
The second mover has to[emphasis mine] have some sort of asymmetric advantage, such as control over the distribution of a complement
And that's pretty much all TFA wrote. Oh yeah: MS won (their words: "Game over."), and all MS have to do to keep it that way is copy anything really good the competition comes up with. Yah, not real big on internal consistency, but there's a valid point in there anyway.
You don't need an Apple to be creative; if you have an Apple it doesn't mean you are creative.
True enough. But the title comment stays true anyway, because Apple have consistently approached computers with a creative mindset: ~Gods, this is a neat toy. Look what can you make it do!~.
They didn't stick to what their customers already knew they wanted, they went and found stuff or made it up themselves, and stuck it on their boxes because they thought it was cool. And they were right. Full-bore WIMP? Apple. Networking on every box? Apple. Decent sound card on every box? Apple. Cute-looking hardware just because they could, and it was fun? Quicktime? Postscript? Multiple monitors? Care to guess how long this list could go on?
Many people who care about creativity buy Macs out of simple appreciation, and even gratitude might not be too strong.
The American team's breakthrough was to make OLEDs able to emit the daylight-style white light needed in homes and offices.
And I really think this is too hard on them re the qualifiers. "Eventually" they think they can hit 100% efficiency. And both the other qualifiers are on the last remaining problem: protection from water.
As for cost, I can think of a few reasons the cost on LED screens might drop faster than the discrete kind.
But popping a focused "accept" button at random times is near criminal, no matter who does it. Yah, go ahead. "Redundant". I say that bears saying until everyone on the planet is sick of hearing it, and then saying it some more. Kind of like telling kids to look both ways before crossing the street.
It didn't matter; she was already part of Chinese pop culture.
It did matter. It exposed the censors publicly for the frightened little martinets they are. Again. The Chinese breed is no different than the US variety that tried to ban crypto. Now the little chewing moles in the Chinese government get to act on a well-lit stage in front of their entire country.
It's the scale of the exposure: somehow, on a stage that large, the truth appears. It takes a while, and we have to pity the small animals these people will turn their attentions to when the effects really take hold, but it's now only a matter of time. Watch for some posturing USian president taking credit for an inevitable watershed event, say the fall of the Great Firewall.
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Starfish, 300,000 400GB tapes hold 117185.5 terabytes. WestGrid fits in about 0.2% of that. And the notion of staging terabyte datasets to disk is ... umm.
Look, the simple fact is you just looked right at 114 petabytes didn't recognize them, and
Not to detract from your argument,
... but actually, that system you used hasn't got a clue.
Out of fairness, this is the guy's mother we're talking about here. I've been told several times I'm good, patient teacher. But my Mom? I have more than once been reduced to asking her to please try to imagine I know what I'm talking about. She'll ask for help and reject everything I say. I can get through the static, but it generally takes about an hour, then we get the five or fifteen minutes it should have taken, then another half hour or so of easing the tensions.
I suspect you don't know what large means. 300,000 tapes. 2,048 drives. The complexity on mainframes isn't computation, it's data management. Trust me, it's a completely different world, with (solved) problems that simply do not appear in any but the largest enterprises. Those are the 400GB carts, btw.
Here's a pretty good analogy I just made up: think of how inappropriate FFT multiplication would be for most arithmetic, and how inadequate anything else is for the times when you really need it. A lot of the mutual derision between the Unix and mainframe camps was that each had (is/has?) a vastly superior toolset for their own, ahh, wavelength.
"In the 1980s, performance counted for everything, and reliability and security were not yet on the radar" is remarkable. Not on whose radar? MVS wasn't and z/OS isn't a microkernel either, and the NCSC didn't give out B1 ratings lightly.
One thing I found interesting is the notion of running a parallel virtual machine solely to sandbox drivers you don't trust.
But the toasting kit is just plain malicious.
Timescale? This is like RRT: multiple timescales all mashed up, a game day and a game year run concurrently. Plus it's a game: do you really want to have to also brush your teeth and trim your nails and blowdry your hair and whatever else? It's a stand-in.
Yesterday. Kid was playing Sims 2, winkeying in and out to check something or other, it worked a few times, then bluescreened so hard the text was garbled and unreadable. XP/SP2, clean, secure and up to date.
If the roads were operated this way, and used what its advocates are pleased to call the "tiered" model, every road-network operator that wanted to start a trucking company would do everything they could to hamper all other trucking companies. Charge their customers extra. Slash the competition's tires. The analogy is damn near exact.
Do you want to live in that world?
Dude, I think you missed the "rational" part, there. And the "thought" part.
C'mon, guys. Think about it. You have email. If WL talks SMTP, email can reach your service, and yours can reach WL. Your email client works with your own email service. It's WL's POP/IMAP/browser support that's irrelevant to outsiders. Only SMTP matters.
Do they really think they're going to compete with gmail that late in the kids' lives?
English not your first? You can noun verbs, and verb nouns.
Whatever's causing it now, all the predicted changes I've seen or heard of (Limited Research Warning) land well within the recorded variations, with a consistent, roughly hundred-thousand-year period, over the last ... several ... million ... years. And we're not just due for the next spike, we're in it. What comes next, within the next few thousand years, is a precipitous drop of more than 6 C.
And that drop will continue a much longer, deeper trend. What we're doing now may be the right thing.
In a way, this is just an extension of things that have been going on for a long time anyway: for instance, lots of companies use the "temporary" agencies for a large fraction of their employees, effectively outsourcing much of HR. If the actual code were common (as the employment laws are), the analogy would be virtually exact.
themes like this were cautionary tales? Perky Pat, anyone? I get older, I get more tolerant of the changes I see (not going to make much of a grumpy old fart, sigh), but still remember how creepy the worlds I read about then felt.
They didn't stick to what their customers already knew they wanted, they went and found stuff or made it up themselves, and stuck it on their boxes because they thought it was cool. And they were right. Full-bore WIMP? Apple. Networking on every box? Apple. Decent sound card on every box? Apple. Cute-looking hardware just because they could, and it was fun? Quicktime? Postscript? Multiple monitors? Care to guess how long this list could go on?
Many people who care about creativity buy Macs out of simple appreciation, and even gratitude might not be too strong.
And I really think this is too hard on them re the qualifiers. "Eventually" they think they can hit 100% efficiency. And both the other qualifiers are on the last remaining problem: protection from water.
As for cost, I can think of a few reasons the cost on LED screens might drop faster than the discrete kind.
"Informative"?!?? "Flamebait". "Troll".
But popping a focused "accept" button at random times is near criminal, no matter who does it. Yah, go ahead. "Redundant". I say that bears saying until everyone on the planet is sick of hearing it, and then saying it some more. Kind of like telling kids to look both ways before crossing the street.
Clinton started a war as cover for throwing trillions of our tax dollars at his friends?
It's the scale of the exposure: somehow, on a stage that large, the truth appears. It takes a while, and we have to pity the small animals these people will turn their attentions to when the effects really take hold, but it's now only a matter of time. Watch for some posturing USian president taking credit for an inevitable watershed event, say the fall of the Great Firewall.