I see your point. It's not my impression that moving things 'into the cloud' will magically make any complexity go away. But it does make that complexity easier and easier to manage.
We can stripe servers around the world at service setup time with one command.
Load balancers now intelligently remove defunct machines and increase capacity (from other zones) to compensate, provided you have defined how you want them to act (and no system will ever define that for you for a known cost).
It's not a panacea for all IT ills, but it is strong medicine.
But they weren't down. I have servers in Dublin. I also have striped redundancy across other EC2 datacentres. We had 100% uptime last night and I'm now watching the Dublin based machines recover gracefully.
Yes, I agree it's "advanced virtual hosting with a different name". But it didn't break its promises.
Oh silly underinformed person. There is a datacentre in Dublin. It is one of six Amazon datacentres. The others were unaffected, as were (our) public facing services, because only some (of our) servers are placed in Dublin.
It looks like a cloud from the outside. Those of on the inside know where the servers are because we want to choose where we place them for latency / redundancy reasons.
Rubbish. We stripe across two EC2 zones. We would always want at least two servers anyway in case of any server failure. We still had 100% uptime over last night because failover worked correctly.
We are now seeing servers come back up gracefully and so far have not had to take any remedial action - a watching brief.
Back when I was a wee lad, my wonderful maths teacher taught us to consider aleph-0, aleph-1 etc values of infinity as follows...
There is an infinite number (A) of lines of constant y that don't intersect y=0.
There is a larger infinity of lines of non-constant y that do: For each value of y at the y-axis (an infinite number equal to A), there is an infinite number (B) of angles at which the line can be drawn. Thus the first infinity cancels out, giving the probability of an arbitrary line not intersecting y=0 to be A/AB == 1/B == 0 because B is infinite.
Alternatively: for any location in 2d space, there is one line that does not intersect, and an infinite number that do. Probability of picking one that doesn't intersect is therefore zero even though there is a line that doesn't intersect!
This reply bothered me (see my other replies to your other posts). From the same website
Test averages include 21 mpg with a manual-transmission 4-cyl sedan, 19.2-21.6 with automatic-transmission GLX versions, 17.8 with V6 4Motion wagon. W8 averaged 16.2 overall, and 22.4 in mostly highway driving. All Passats require premium fuel
There is no way whatever my car gets anything that low. According to their figures, you are getting 30% over the norm.
Curiously, I have a 1.8l 2003 Passat Estate (which I assume is Wagon in US-speak). I get nearly 50mpg(uk) at cruising 80mph. Allowing for our gallons being ~20% bigger than yours, I make that ~40mpg(us).
I wonder if one of our cars is built somehow differently for the specific market.
If this research applies to any 'population', then it could be considered a function of parliament/congress.
Which means that unless the corner case of two groups of >10% with opposing ideas occurs (e.g. labour/democrat vs conservative/republican), ideas will spread as soon as 10% are convinced (e.g. perhaps global warming, multi-culturalism is good, the trickle-down theory)
I'd say this demonstrates the need for greater evidence-based and scientific decision making. Who's with me? And can we persuade 10% of parliamentarians/congressmen?!
I think: The sun is behind the camera, and the apparent angles you see are caused by the shadow being forward (from the camera perspective) of the object. In the parts with vertical edges (the thruster) the shadows look aligned, but in the parts with curved edges underneath (front and back), the resultant offset produces an optical illusion.
It might well be the FAT32 patent (actually VFAT). It was upheld in 2004 or so for usage on memory cards, and a lot of Android phones have card slots, unlike iPhones, which would explain why this is not an Apple shakedown too.
I used it with reasonable success. It depended strongly on the people you were collaborating with being good at putting their input into the right place in a document. We had one user who just brain-dumped into the last document he had had open, which reduced functionality almost to zero.
I won't be at all surprised to see some elements of Wave turn up in Google+.
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That sounds suspiciously like a common or garden pressure cooker. Turn the heat off, and steam still keeps coming out for ages and ages.
Me too - a proper cryptographically signed trust api between any two social networks (for a common set of tasks) is the holy grail.
We estimate savings of ~30% of server cost, none on IT staff. If you do it right. If you do it wrong, costs can rise.
I see your point. It's not my impression that moving things 'into the cloud' will magically make any complexity go away. But it does make that complexity easier and easier to manage.
We can stripe servers around the world at service setup time with one command.
Load balancers now intelligently remove defunct machines and increase capacity (from other zones) to compensate, provided you have defined how you want them to act (and no system will ever define that for you for a known cost).
It's not a panacea for all IT ills, but it is strong medicine.
Read all your replies - thanks. No further comments, but thought I'd let you know they were read ;-)
But they weren't down. I have servers in Dublin. I also have striped redundancy across other EC2 datacentres. We had 100% uptime last night and I'm now watching the Dublin based machines recover gracefully.
Yes, I agree it's "advanced virtual hosting with a different name". But it didn't break its promises.
Oh silly underinformed person. There is a datacentre in Dublin. It is one of six Amazon datacentres. The others were unaffected, as were (our) public facing services, because only some (of our) servers are placed in Dublin.
It looks like a cloud from the outside. Those of on the inside know where the servers are because we want to choose where we place them for latency / redundancy reasons.
Rubbish. We stripe across two EC2 zones. We would always want at least two servers anyway in case of any server failure. We still had 100% uptime over last night because failover worked correctly.
We are now seeing servers come back up gracefully and so far have not had to take any remedial action - a watching brief.
And it's cheap.
This is only valid if you can prove the two A values are identical.
Back when I was a wee lad, my wonderful maths teacher taught us to consider aleph-0, aleph-1 etc values of infinity as follows...
There is an infinite number (A) of lines of constant y that don't intersect y=0.
There is a larger infinity of lines of non-constant y that do: For each value of y at the y-axis (an infinite number equal to A), there is an infinite number (B) of angles at which the line can be drawn. Thus the first infinity cancels out, giving the probability of an arbitrary line not intersecting y=0 to be A/AB == 1/B == 0 because B is infinite.
Alternatively: for any location in 2d space, there is one line that does not intersect, and an infinite number that do. Probability of picking one that doesn't intersect is therefore zero even though there is a line that doesn't intersect!
qv Hilbert's Paradox.
Justin.
This reply bothered me (see my other replies to your other posts). From the same website
There is no way whatever my car gets anything that low. According to their figures, you are getting 30% over the norm.
Am I missing something?
Oh: diesel. Yours petrol?
Still a surprising difference.
Curiously, I have a 1.8l 2003 Passat Estate (which I assume is Wagon in US-speak). I get nearly 50mpg(uk) at cruising 80mph. Allowing for our gallons being ~20% bigger than yours, I make that ~40mpg(us).
I wonder if one of our cars is built somehow differently for the specific market.
And sadly even Nildram, whose customer service and tech support were superb, got bought out and demolished by Opal last year.
I promptly moved to BT, because I've moved to the sticks too, so I might as well have cheap access if I can't have good.
This should be modified insightful...
If this research applies to any 'population', then it could be considered a function of parliament/congress.
Which means that unless the corner case of two groups of >10% with opposing ideas occurs (e.g. labour/democrat vs conservative/republican), ideas will spread as soon as 10% are convinced (e.g. perhaps global warming, multi-culturalism is good, the trickle-down theory)
I'd say this demonstrates the need for greater evidence-based and scientific decision making. Who's with me? And can we persuade 10% of parliamentarians/congressmen?!
As Stanislaw Lem either didn't understand statistics or was simplifying for those who don't ;-)
For an equal chance of failure = (n-1)/n, you need x=ln(1/2)/ln((n-1)/n) parts to have a greater chance of failure.
For n=10e6, that's about 693 thousand components. Quite a lot less than a million!
Correct me if I'm wrong, I won't mind.
I think: The sun is behind the camera, and the apparent angles you see are caused by the shadow being forward (from the camera perspective) of the object. In the parts with vertical edges (the thruster) the shadows look aligned, but in the parts with curved edges underneath (front and back), the resultant offset produces an optical illusion.
Take another look.
It might well be the FAT32 patent (actually VFAT). It was upheld in 2004 or so for usage on memory cards, and a lot of Android phones have card slots, unlike iPhones, which would explain why this is not an Apple shakedown too.
Fuck off. Since 1547:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/for_all_intents_and_purposes
I think nature has a distinct advantage still... it needs to be legal for engineers to incorporate either euthanasia or eunuch-making tech.
You could allow searches for indexed terms that match regexp fairly easily. That's what I think the GP is after.
I upload photos from my current phone. I used to upload from my old phone. Sometimes from my real camera, via my macbook.
I'd quite like to have all my statuses and discussions easily convertable to a journal.
I think an export/import facility should be standard, normal, required functionality.
FTA:
Hear, hear!
I used it with reasonable success. It depended strongly on the people you were collaborating with being good at putting their input into the right place in a document. We had one user who just brain-dumped into the last document he had had open, which reduced functionality almost to zero. I won't be at all surprised to see some elements of Wave turn up in Google+.
Bloody marvelous. Hadn't come across those (and I work in open data for the uk govt, albeit in an unrelated field!). Thanks.
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