Finally, a trivial pursuit for which I can actually answer some questions:)
Really, who cares about the name of the 4th movie that starred Denise Richards (doh, bad example...)
Maybe they'll even put questions in like "What year did Guido and Larry Wall join forces to produce the ultimate language, Parrot?"
Now there's a question I can answer!
Back to the backhoe... I'm not talking about the redundancy redundancy redundancy of the actual connection. I'm talking more about the actual data.
How many copies are floating around? If a small segment of the network gets cut off and my important data (silly me) happens to be in that network segment and then, as another reader mentioned, the power goes off, what happens to my data? Connectivity can be lost and restored. Data lost on a fiber network cannot.
I wonder what kind of redundency is built into the system? It would not be very neat to have your data flying across the fiber and run smack into a severed line cut by some poor guy's backhoe. If not redundency, will they be backing this stuff up somewhere?
I'd like to see this one happen. It looks like they've got a kernel in development, but the actual symbolic creation of a program is in the future. It also appears to be one more step towards representing things closer to the way we do in real life. If you could actually pick out a common everyday "object" and just use it, that would be very cool. Especially if that object has already been proven.
Viola, instant cash register:)
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Finally, a trivial pursuit for which I can actually answer some questions :)
Really, who cares about the name of the 4th movie that starred Denise Richards (doh, bad example...)
Maybe they'll even put questions in like "What year did Guido and Larry Wall join forces to produce the ultimate language, Parrot?"
Now there's a question I can answer!
Back to the backhoe... I'm not talking about the redundancy redundancy redundancy of the actual connection. I'm talking more about the actual data.
How many copies are floating around? If a small segment of the network gets cut off and my important data (silly me) happens to be in that network segment and then, as another reader mentioned, the power goes off, what happens to my data? Connectivity can be lost and restored. Data lost on a fiber network cannot.
I wonder what kind of redundency is built into the system? It would not be very neat to have your data flying across the fiber and run smack into a severed line cut by some poor guy's backhoe. If not redundency, will they be backing this stuff up somewhere?
The glass just seems a little fragile...
I'd like to see this one happen. It looks like they've got a kernel in development, but the actual symbolic creation of a program is in the future. It also appears to be one more step towards representing things closer to the way we do in real life. If you could actually pick out a common everyday "object" and just use it, that would be very cool. Especially if that object has already been proven. :)
Viola, instant cash register