This is clearly a result of the industrial revolution. All of those pollutants aren't just hanging around on Earth... they are obviously escaping into space (or we'd be on a smoke-filled ball right now) and the Sun's gravity is causing them to fall to it. This is the result!
How you managed to read that I was suggesting that there weren't any and I was somehow lamenting that fact is beyond me. How you turned my post questioning the choice of location into "telling others how to conduct their business" is mystifying. You must be great fun in person when someone asks "why?"
To summarize my post and possibly increase your reading comprehension: I questioned why anyone would build a data center in California. I provided an example of an alternative that I was familiar with.
Since you seem to think that I was suggesting that there aren't any big data center projects here, I'll do the name-drops: Google, Amazon, Facebook, Intel, and Mission West all have or are constructing data centers here. There are more, of course, but those are well-known.
You left out earthquakes, rising taxes, bankrupt state gov't.
I'm not sure why anyone would want a data center in California when there are other locations that don't have these disadvantages.
Put 'em near the Columbia river here in Oregon and you get cheaper land, cooler air (meaning you can economize on cooling), cheap hydro power, lower cost of living (meaning smaller payroll), and (if you do it right) no sales tax when you buy equipment.
Or, keep putting them in California and pay a premium for land, hotter air, more expensive power with occasional delivery problems, higher payrolls, and sales tax.
That aside, there's still a shitload of methane hydrate down there, and it might be in the planet's (and all ships' in the bay area) if BP didn't subject it to the shock of a nuke.
I doubt BP has any nukes, so I doubt it would be BP that subjects it to the shock of a nuke.
I have a kid. It takes a lot more sugar than a couple pieces of candy to get her behavior to change.
Heck, even when she managed to get ahold of a half-full tin of altoids and eat the whole thing in a couple of minutes, she didn't get that much more hyper.
Wow, one notable commercial flight since 1918 (the start of what was considered the "golden era" of aviation) overruns its destination due to distracted pilots and now we have to go regulating everyone.
If we followed this policy with cars by banning every activity that might result in a mishap (even one with no deaths), nobody would drive.
I hope you are run over while you stare in horror at your daughter being raped.... You are so twisted by hatred that you are a danger to everyone around you.
You hope the GP has a painful death and his/her daughter gets raped and then say the he/she is twisted and dangerous?
They work unless traffic is heavily weighted on certain inputs. Imagine a circle with inputs at N, E, S, and W. If traffic is heavily biased E-W then the poor suckers waiting at the N and S inputs have to wait a long time for traffic to clear.
Additionally, my fellow Americans (well, maybe just Oregonians) have no f***ing clue how to deal with roundabouts. Mainly stemming from a complete lack of knowing what "yield" means. You get people stopping at the entrances to empty roundabouts because they think "yield" means stop. You get people not stopping at entrances when there is traffic in the circle with right-of-way because they think that "yield" means crash your car into the person with the right-of-way. Finally, you have people that stop due to traffic (good), but then seem confused as to the part where you enter the circle when there's an opening.
The N side has entrances for straight and right and straight and around; two exit lanes. The E side has entrances for a right turn only and straight and around; two exit lanes. The S side has entrances for straight and right, and straight and around; two exit lanes. The W side has entrances for a right turn only, straight through, and straight and around; one exit lane. There's an NE entrance that is rarely used, so I'll leave it out.
What this ends up being is that two lanes travel N->S/S->N, two lanes go W->E (and merge into one after), and one lane goes E->W. The rightmost lane in any entrance can be used to turn right. The leftmost lane in any entrance can be used to effectively turn left. It's really quite simple.
The roundabout has signs at each entrance explaining what each lane does. However, that doesn't seem to stop people from doing completely stupid things like continuing around from the outer lane, basically turning left across a lane that also has the ability to go straight.
I've been to Ireland and Australia, and folks there don't seem to have any problem with them.
Oh, come on. If it was that bad the rest areas would be empty and you'd never see a trucker on a side road taking a nap.
Of course, if you just stop on the side of the road like a dumbass instead of minding those "emergency stopping only" signs, then yeah, the police might mess with you.
I have also deployed LDOMs on the CoolThreads stuff, but it's not quite like the IBM offering. The capability delivered with the IBM systems (provided you have purchased the appropriate license!) is more like a combination of domains (eXXXX[X]-style) and LDOMs rolled into one.
However, LDOMs a are definitely far simpler to set up. Also, being able to set up a system and do dynamic reconfigs without an HMC is a good advantage for the Sun boxes.
BTW, that's BS about the add/remove on CPUs and memory, especially on the 595s. The only problem is getting a CE that feels comfortable doing it.
Well, extensive googling has yielded marketing material that makes the claims that the feature to hot-add/swap/remove CPU nodes would be added to the 570 and 595 in Q4 2008. Our systems were purchased prior to that so maybe the new system firmware update our FE is recommending has that capability.
I do know that when we were negotiating the purchase and benchmarking against the Sun M9000 that was a sticking point which was solved by installing CUOD CPU books.
You can swap CPU and Memory on 595 hot (period) since the regatta Power4.
Care to back that up with documentation?
I didn't say you couldn't put the HMCs anywhere because of a technical limitation. I said IBM requires them to be placed within a certain distance (I believe it was 60 feet) of the systems. This is so that FEs don't have to walk too far between the HMC and the frames when servicing the hardware.
Overall I like the hardware, though there are a few things that I find annoying. People say "fast" with the P6 CPUs...but they don't execute instructions out-of-order, so a high clock rate isn't what it appears. Another complaint is that I can't add/remove/swap CPUs and memory while the system is running, even on the 595s. Sun had this figured out ages ago. Lack of simple integrated systems management forcing the use of the HMC on the bigger boxes is also kind of annoying. IBM also requires that the HMC be placed within a certain distance of the systems, which forced me to get creative with a particular data center.
There's a bit of complexity with support plans and cost as well. Even though AIX only runs on IBM hardware (as far as I am aware), you have to buy separate support for it. I suspect that there may be a few customers who ditch AIX and run Linux instead, I'd rather see the AIX support and Right to Use "in the box", so to speak.
I have to say though that you're right about the virtualization and partitioning capabilities being some of the best out there. It sure comes with a steep learning curve (and don't get me started on LHEAs!).
I suppose my dream world might be Solaris on either SPARC or POWER, with IBM partitioning/virtualization capabilities in a Sun frame with RIO connections...
We've deployed a few P-series systems in place of where we would have deployed big Sun boxes.
My observations are thus:
1. I like Solaris way better than AIX. 2. If you consider Linux and Solaris to be cousins from an administrative standpoint, then AIX is a 3rd- or 4th-cousin. Lots of things are different. 3. smit is my friend and helps deal with #2. 4. Virtualization on the IBM gear is powerful. And WAY complicated. 5. I keep hoping we'll change our mind and go back to Sun gear, but it's rather unlikely.
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By the FCC's rules, you can receive any unencrypted data that you want
If this is specific to WiFi, then true. If to radio signals in general, not true.
Don't be an idiot. The comment was supposed to be funny, jackass.
Proof that one man's +5 funny (or so I thought it would be) is another man's -1 troll.
My sig ought to have given away my position here, folks.
This is clearly a result of the industrial revolution. All of those pollutants aren't just hanging around on Earth... they are obviously escaping into space (or we'd be on a smoke-filled ball right now) and the Sun's gravity is causing them to fall to it. This is the result!
The Republicans are clearly at fault.
How you managed to read that I was suggesting that there weren't any and I was somehow lamenting that fact is beyond me. How you turned my post questioning the choice of location into "telling others how to conduct their business" is mystifying. You must be great fun in person when someone asks "why?"
To summarize my post and possibly increase your reading comprehension: I questioned why anyone would build a data center in California. I provided an example of an alternative that I was familiar with.
Since you seem to think that I was suggesting that there aren't any big data center projects here, I'll do the name-drops: Google, Amazon, Facebook, Intel, and Mission West all have or are constructing data centers here. There are more, of course, but those are well-known.
You left out earthquakes, rising taxes, bankrupt state gov't.
I'm not sure why anyone would want a data center in California when there are other locations that don't have these disadvantages.
Put 'em near the Columbia river here in Oregon and you get cheaper land, cooler air (meaning you can economize on cooling), cheap hydro power, lower cost of living (meaning smaller payroll), and (if you do it right) no sales tax when you buy equipment.
Or, keep putting them in California and pay a premium for land, hotter air, more expensive power with occasional delivery problems, higher payrolls, and sales tax.
That aside, there's still a shitload of methane hydrate down there, and it might be in the planet's (and all ships' in the bay area) if BP didn't subject it to the shock of a nuke.
I doubt BP has any nukes, so I doubt it would be BP that subjects it to the shock of a nuke.
The mistake was using cheese for bait. They should have used beer and brats.
I upgraded to 0.22 with no issues. Last weekend I upgraded to the latest 0.23 release candidate... again with no issues.
Of course, now that 0.23 is officially out, I guess I get to upgrade to it...
I have a kid. It takes a lot more sugar than a couple pieces of candy to get her behavior to change.
Heck, even when she managed to get ahold of a half-full tin of altoids and eat the whole thing in a couple of minutes, she didn't get that much more hyper.
From my understanding, in some jurisdictions they are... all medications have to be given by a nurse.
It'll change eventually, but unfortunately not until a kid dies from a bee sting because he had to wait for the school nurse to show up.
Wow, bunch of control freaks, huh?
What they need to do is hire some mechanical engineers that deal with vibrations. There are many many ways to deal with vibrations.
You mean, like, build an anti-vibration rack or something?
Just downloaded firmware for my first-gen X4100, GA date Nov 2005.
So, no issue for me either.
Right now, all republicans are voting along party lines but only some democrats are.
All? False. Proof by counterexample:
H.R. 2499, Puerto Rico Democracy Act. Roll call on 4/29/2010. Democrats 184Y, 40N. Republicans: 39Y 129N.
Also, I can find plenty of other votes where 100% of democrats voted one way, and not all Republicans voted the opposite.
Wow, one notable commercial flight since 1918 (the start of what was considered the "golden era" of aviation) overruns its destination due to distracted pilots and now we have to go regulating everyone.
If we followed this policy with cars by banning every activity that might result in a mishap (even one with no deaths), nobody would drive.
I hope you are run over while you stare in horror at your daughter being raped. ...
You are so twisted by hatred that you are a danger to everyone around you.
You hope the GP has a painful death and his/her daughter gets raped and then say the he/she is twisted and dangerous?
Pot, meet kettle.
They work unless traffic is heavily weighted on certain inputs. Imagine a circle with inputs at N, E, S, and W. If traffic is heavily biased E-W then the poor suckers waiting at the N and S inputs have to wait a long time for traffic to clear.
Additionally, my fellow Americans (well, maybe just Oregonians) have no f***ing clue how to deal with roundabouts. Mainly stemming from a complete lack of knowing what "yield" means. You get people stopping at the entrances to empty roundabouts because they think "yield" means stop. You get people not stopping at entrances when there is traffic in the circle with right-of-way because they think that "yield" means crash your car into the person with the right-of-way. Finally, you have people that stop due to traffic (good), but then seem confused as to the part where you enter the circle when there's an opening.
You know it's bad when the public works department has to hand out flyers every few months with instructions on how to use the roundabout. One in particular is interesting and generates much confusion:
The N side has entrances for straight and right and straight and around; two exit lanes.
The E side has entrances for a right turn only and straight and around; two exit lanes.
The S side has entrances for straight and right, and straight and around; two exit lanes.
The W side has entrances for a right turn only, straight through, and straight and around; one exit lane.
There's an NE entrance that is rarely used, so I'll leave it out.
What this ends up being is that two lanes travel N->S/S->N, two lanes go W->E (and merge into one after), and one lane goes E->W. The rightmost lane in any entrance can be used to turn right. The leftmost lane in any entrance can be used to effectively turn left. It's really quite simple.
The roundabout has signs at each entrance explaining what each lane does. However, that doesn't seem to stop people from doing completely stupid things like continuing around from the outer lane, basically turning left across a lane that also has the ability to go straight.
I've been to Ireland and Australia, and folks there don't seem to have any problem with them.
Would result in too many false positives on me. I'm often cussing at other drivers.
Oh, come on. If it was that bad the rest areas would be empty and you'd never see a trucker on a side road taking a nap.
Of course, if you just stop on the side of the road like a dumbass instead of minding those "emergency stopping only" signs, then yeah, the police might mess with you.
I have also deployed LDOMs on the CoolThreads stuff, but it's not quite like the IBM offering. The capability delivered with the IBM systems (provided you have purchased the appropriate license!) is more like a combination of domains (eXXXX[X]-style) and LDOMs rolled into one.
However, LDOMs a are definitely far simpler to set up. Also, being able to set up a system and do dynamic reconfigs without an HMC is a good advantage for the Sun boxes.
BTW, that's BS about the add/remove on CPUs and memory, especially on the 595s. The only problem is getting a CE that feels comfortable doing it.
Well, extensive googling has yielded marketing material that makes the claims that the feature to hot-add/swap/remove CPU nodes would be added to the 570 and 595 in Q4 2008. Our systems were purchased prior to that so maybe the new system firmware update our FE is recommending has that capability.
I do know that when we were negotiating the purchase and benchmarking against the Sun M9000 that was a sticking point which was solved by installing CUOD CPU books.
You can swap CPU and Memory on 595 hot (period) since the regatta Power4.
Care to back that up with documentation?
I didn't say you couldn't put the HMCs anywhere because of a technical limitation. I said IBM requires them to be placed within a certain distance (I believe it was 60 feet) of the systems. This is so that FEs don't have to walk too far between the HMC and the frames when servicing the hardware.
Overall I like the hardware, though there are a few things that I find annoying. People say "fast" with the P6 CPUs...but they don't execute instructions out-of-order, so a high clock rate isn't what it appears. Another complaint is that I can't add/remove/swap CPUs and memory while the system is running, even on the 595s. Sun had this figured out ages ago. Lack of simple integrated systems management forcing the use of the HMC on the bigger boxes is also kind of annoying. IBM also requires that the HMC be placed within a certain distance of the systems, which forced me to get creative with a particular data center.
There's a bit of complexity with support plans and cost as well. Even though AIX only runs on IBM hardware (as far as I am aware), you have to buy separate support for it. I suspect that there may be a few customers who ditch AIX and run Linux instead, I'd rather see the AIX support and Right to Use "in the box", so to speak.
I have to say though that you're right about the virtualization and partitioning capabilities being some of the best out there. It sure comes with a steep learning curve (and don't get me started on LHEAs!).
I suppose my dream world might be Solaris on either SPARC or POWER, with IBM partitioning/virtualization capabilities in a Sun frame with RIO connections...
We've deployed a few P-series systems in place of where we would have deployed big Sun boxes.
My observations are thus:
1. I like Solaris way better than AIX.
2. If you consider Linux and Solaris to be cousins from an administrative standpoint, then AIX is a 3rd- or 4th-cousin. Lots of things are different.
3. smit is my friend and helps deal with #2.
4. Virtualization on the IBM gear is powerful. And WAY complicated.
5. I keep hoping we'll change our mind and go back to Sun gear, but it's rather unlikely.