They all scale just fine - as a matter of fact, inertial storage is being looked at to help do load balancing at the local level irrespective of how the power is being generated.
Pumped storage can be situated hundreds of miles away to take advantage of local geography.
Wo says they'd have to visit your site? All your site has to do is serve out the data to any app or plugin that they want to run. You're thinking too 1990 here.
And btw, open source won't turn facebook into another aol - facebook is doing that all by itself.
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They can be configured for either phone or ip network, and they're not that expensive, especially if you buy it used at a bar or restaurant bankruptcy.
Pumped storage. Remember those water towers near factories? They were used to drive generators for extra peak power. Any form of dam would also work - or even just raising a huge weight, or compressed air in an underground chamber.
Using reflectors to heat up your steam generator - an idea from the 1970s. That retained heat can drive your steam plant until the next morning.
Eutectic salts - ditto.
Inertial storage systems, such as composite flywheels running in a vacuum - covered in Scientific American circa 1973.
Well, you're in for a surprise in 3 years. The 16-core chips on the roadmap are aimed at the consumer market.
And don't forget, they're talking about the 12-core being around 6k. I remember spending that on a computer without even a hard drive way back when (which would probably be more like $30k now), so even a $6k box is going to find its way into more than one or two home setups.
Now when he has old computers or electronics that he would have to pay to recycle he just leaves them in the car and pretty soon they're gone.
Same tactic for dealing with a garbage strike. Put all the garbage where I worked into a bunch of boxes, sealed them so they looked like new, and left them just outside the shipping entrance. So of course someone "stole" 8 large boxes of garbage.
One of my neighbors was from the Netherlands, and his garage had more bikes and bike parts than the local bicycle shop. Literally. You could not walk in there without having to squeeze through bikes, rims, frames hanging from the ceiling, etc. Easily enough parts to build at least 50, if not more, bikes.
1. Not everyone is a prima donna crybaby like Monty Widenius.
2. Publicly available doesn't mean it doesn't have worth - and it would be a good way to have an "official" product in every category when you're selling - and supporting - a complete stack. And support is where they make their money. Those Oracle license would be worthless without support.
3. Setting direction. If you want to be able to set the direction of a product, you need to pony up some money.
We wrote code to monitor mouse movements to detect click fraud years ago. However, we didn't deploy it for general use because it's a violation of the end-user's privacy - we only used it for pages and IPs that we suspected were either bots or paid-to-click.
So yes, by your mouse movement (not just the movement, but the timing) we could take specific advertisement-related actions.
So ask them to teach someone else something. That's a good test. If they can't teach someone else, how can they teach themselves? There's a difference between "muddling through" or "learning by rote trial and error" and really understanding teaching yourself something to the point where you can communicate it 3 different ways to an audience.
Apple isn't about making cool technology any more - it's about marketing to the masses.
Sure, I can use a 12-core device - but then again, I can write multi-threaded code in c, so I'm not dependent on a higher-level abstraction to hopefully "manage" my threading for me (while sucking so much resources that 12 cores becomes the new dual core). The average user simply can't even make proper use of 4 cores - and if you gave them a really pimped-out liquid-cooled overclocked single-core 32-bit machine (gobs or ram, a really good motherboard, multiple hard drives with the os and data spread amongst them so almost every drive access hits the drive cache), a slimmed-down OS that doesn't need to run bloatware like virus scanners, and stuck a 12-core label on it, they would be enthusiastic. AND most of their software would run faster.
The worst part, of course, is that even when it's painfully obvious that they're out of their depth, and you're willing to take the whole day and give them the nickel tour of the subject via white board, they "don't want to know."
It's funny, I love doing the "I'll make it simple AND fun to understand" thing - peppering my impromptu presentations with analogies that are easily accessible to whoever I'm talking to, and that get a few laughs - and when people really want to know, it becomes a real dialog - it WORKS! But when they don't know, and they don't want to know ("why can't we set 64 different flags on a million records a thousand times a second - and then sort them on that basis?" - yes, that was an actual problem, and I explained that, on low-end hardware, the best I could do was 15-16 flags, using all sorts of in-memory buckets and cheats - and even that was a lot more than most people could do on a box with a half-gig of ram and a 1.6ghz single-core 32-bit cpu).
Sure, given resources (time, money, hardware) I could think of several ways to solve the problem, because the impossible is just a challenge, but this would require some sort of partitioning of the data, and simultaneous execution. Or a collection of rainbow tables for some of the intial work... Or any one of a number of other solutions, none of which fit within those constraints. But just like they don't "get" the "You put a penny on the first square of a chess board, 2 cents on the second, 4 cents on the third, and I'll match it by putting $1,000 on each square. We don't need to actually put the money on it - we'll settle up on the 64th day", they won't "get" other things because they won't let their pre-conceptions be challenged.
they were in two groups, one with R and one with RW, and he thought the way to fix this was to take them out of the R group.
... sounds like a true winner! Seriously, though, how do you expect someone who learned everything on a system where they were the only user, and only worked as "administrator" all the time, to figure it out? They simply don't get exposed to the harsh reality that when they create a second account on their home machine, they can't just write to that second account's files by default. First time you run into that, you learn. Or if you're running your own ftp server, you learn. Or if you're writing some code that takes a downloaded file and moves it outside the web directory space, you learn.
But there are people who don't learn, not because they don't have the opportunity, but because they don't want to. I love making mistakes, because that teaches me something new. Sometimes it's obvious in retrospect ("I'm having a blonde day" - my most recent one being comparing a signed char to an int while writing a utility in c to convert international characters to their html entities - duh! I make that mistake at least once a decade:-), sometimes it's "hey, this is something new, and now that I know it, how else can I use it?" Curiosity. It's the key ingredient.
Did you actually read the article? iPad owners self-identify as over-eaters. They admit that they're fat pigs. Does this sound sophisticated, when you can't even control your own eating habits?
Or this:
Now consider the iPad from this hardcore geek perspective. Tablet computers have been around for many years. Touchscreen technology is not new. I'll let Darren Murph's assessment on Engadget tell the rest:
I can't begin to explain how disappointing this device is in the sense of being a usable computer. There's a 1GHz CPU in there that can't even be used for multitasking. There's no camera for video chatting. There's no way to watch a Flash video and chat within an IRC client at the same time. There's not even a way to connect a USB device to this without paying Apple extra for an adapter. The iPad is remarkably limited in scope and functionality, and for no good reason. A netbook can run circles around this in terms of actually getting work done, and if I want to enjoy multimedia, I'll carry around something that can fit in my pocket. As I mentioned, you'll say I'm just missing the point, but this thing does absolutely nothing for me in its current iteration.
When you think about it this way, the tablet seems like little more than an oversized iPhone. So when it's heralded as a breakthrough by the media and craved by consumers everywhere, our independent geeks are predictably incredulous.
It's like all the people who are thinking "I'll develop an iApp and get rich" - they're just jumping on the trend without looking at the numbers, which are grim. 99% won't make back their $150 developers kit. Again, hardly sounds sophisticated.
Too big to carry around in a pocket or purse, limited functionality, you need to lug around a separate bag to prevent it from getting scratched, can't show hd movies because both the display (it downscales to 1024x576, which is something from the Win9x era...) and the cpu are too weak to push out enough pixels...
Enjoy it, but don't try to claim that Apple users are sophisticated by any stretch. Apple's primary market for the jesusphone is college kids and soccer moms.
First there's the BS degree - and we all know what BS means.
Then there's the MS degree - More of the Same.
Finally, there's the PhD - Piled Higher and Deeper.
Unfortunately, there's a lot of truth in that, same as everything else in life, there's going to be a sh*tload of crap to shovel, and you're either the shovel or the crap.
Sometimes it gets completely ridiculous. It seems like simply because someone can get SOMETHING to work on a computer and know more than the totally ignorant, they think they're a complete badass.
You've just described the average boss who thinks that they "know computers" because they can move a mouse on-screen and make spreadsheets and powerpoint presentations, or the average webmonkey who knows dreamweaver but couldn't set up a web server or hand-code a css file if their life depended on it (witness the earlier discussion with idiots claiming that php scripts could be linked to each other).
These are not people who are self-teachers, because they don't go beyond what they need to know to do the task at hand. They stop learning because they stop exploring - they learn a limited amount because they have to, not because of any innate curiosity.
I'm not implying that Ballmer isn't equally responsible - just that Gates had his hand firmly on the tiller when it came to methodology, and he took someone who shouts just as much (among other things) - and unlike Gates mother Mary, Ballmer's mother doesn't sit in on meetings keeping her eye on her kid.
And how do you plan to get the content (1) into the computer and (2) from there onto the screen? You have no dvd player, you have no wireless, and if you have the box set up in another room (because desktops are noisier than laptops) you're going to need a VERY long cable - and (1) the picture is going to suck as a result, and (2) the cable is going to blow your budget.
The copy of windows that came with your computer is an OEM version. You will NEVER get a refund from MS for an OEM version. The only way you could potentially get a refund on Windows is if you purchased the retail copy, or if a full retail copy was provided with the system. In which case you have to return it to the retailer, not MS.
Hey everyone, Steve Ballmer is trolling slashdot again! Shouldn't you be doing something productive, like not launching yet another failed product?
Someone will give you back your money - try everyone along the supply chain and you'll eventually get a winner - then pass the info along to the next person.
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Pumped storage can be situated hundreds of miles away to take advantage of local geography.
And btw, open source won't turn facebook into another aol - facebook is doing that all by itself.
Here's one of the machines in question
They can be configured for either phone or ip network, and they're not that expensive, especially if you buy it used at a bar or restaurant bankruptcy.
Pumped storage. Remember those water towers near factories? They were used to drive generators for extra peak power. Any form of dam would also work - or even just raising a huge weight, or compressed air in an underground chamber.
Using reflectors to heat up your steam generator - an idea from the 1970s. That retained heat can drive your steam plant until the next morning.
Eutectic salts - ditto.
Inertial storage systems, such as composite flywheels running in a vacuum - covered in Scientific American circa 1973.
Well, you're in for a surprise in 3 years. The 16-core chips on the roadmap are aimed at the consumer market.
And don't forget, they're talking about the 12-core being around 6k. I remember spending that on a computer without even a hard drive way back when (which would probably be more like $30k now), so even a $6k box is going to find its way into more than one or two home setups.
THIEF!
Same tactic for dealing with a garbage strike. Put all the garbage where I worked into a bunch of boxes, sealed them so they looked like new, and left them just outside the shipping entrance. So of course someone "stole" 8 large boxes of garbage.
So drive faster ...
So steal a hearse.
NOBODY stops a hearse.
You and your friends following you can ignore all stop signs and red lights, drive slow and piss off everyone, and nobody will bother you.
You can speed, and nobody will bother you.
You can park anywhere, and nobody will bother you.
And if they do, just tell them you have a couple of cool ones in the back, wanna see if they're defrosting? ... :-)
Nobody bothers a hearse.
1. Not everyone is a prima donna crybaby like Monty Widenius.
2. Publicly available doesn't mean it doesn't have worth - and it would be a good way to have an "official" product in every category when you're selling - and supporting - a complete stack. And support is where they make their money. Those Oracle license would be worthless without support.
3. Setting direction. If you want to be able to set the direction of a product, you need to pony up some money.
We wrote code to monitor mouse movements to detect click fraud years ago. However, we didn't deploy it for general use because it's a violation of the end-user's privacy - we only used it for pages and IPs that we suspected were either bots or paid-to-click.
So yes, by your mouse movement (not just the movement, but the timing) we could take specific advertisement-related actions.
So ask them to teach someone else something. That's a good test. If they can't teach someone else, how can they teach themselves? There's a difference between "muddling through" or "learning by rote trial and error" and really understanding teaching yourself something to the point where you can communicate it 3 different ways to an audience.
Apple isn't about making cool technology any more - it's about marketing to the masses.
Sure, I can use a 12-core device - but then again, I can write multi-threaded code in c, so I'm not dependent on a higher-level abstraction to hopefully "manage" my threading for me (while sucking so much resources that 12 cores becomes the new dual core). The average user simply can't even make proper use of 4 cores - and if you gave them a really pimped-out liquid-cooled overclocked single-core 32-bit machine (gobs or ram, a really good motherboard, multiple hard drives with the os and data spread amongst them so almost every drive access hits the drive cache), a slimmed-down OS that doesn't need to run bloatware like virus scanners, and stuck a 12-core label on it, they would be enthusiastic. AND most of their software would run faster.
The worst part, of course, is that even when it's painfully obvious that they're out of their depth, and you're willing to take the whole day and give them the nickel tour of the subject via white board, they "don't want to know."
It's funny, I love doing the "I'll make it simple AND fun to understand" thing - peppering my impromptu presentations with analogies that are easily accessible to whoever I'm talking to, and that get a few laughs - and when people really want to know, it becomes a real dialog - it WORKS! But when they don't know, and they don't want to know ("why can't we set 64 different flags on a million records a thousand times a second - and then sort them on that basis?" - yes, that was an actual problem, and I explained that, on low-end hardware, the best I could do was 15-16 flags, using all sorts of in-memory buckets and cheats - and even that was a lot more than most people could do on a box with a half-gig of ram and a 1.6ghz single-core 32-bit cpu).
Sure, given resources (time, money, hardware) I could think of several ways to solve the problem, because the impossible is just a challenge, but this would require some sort of partitioning of the data, and simultaneous execution. Or a collection of rainbow tables for some of the intial work ... Or any one of a number of other solutions, none of which fit within those constraints. But just like they don't "get" the "You put a penny on the first square of a chess board, 2 cents on the second, 4 cents on the third, and I'll match it by putting $1,000 on each square. We don't need to actually put the money on it - we'll settle up on the 64th day", they won't "get" other things because they won't let their pre-conceptions be challenged.
But there are people who don't learn, not because they don't have the opportunity, but because they don't want to. I love making mistakes, because that teaches me something new. Sometimes it's obvious in retrospect ("I'm having a blonde day" - my most recent one being comparing a signed char to an int while writing a utility in c to convert international characters to their html entities - duh! I make that mistake at least once a decade :-), sometimes it's "hey, this is something new, and now that I know it, how else can I use it?" Curiosity. It's the key ingredient.
Did you actually read the article? iPad owners self-identify as over-eaters. They admit that they're fat pigs. Does this sound sophisticated, when you can't even control your own eating habits?
Or this:
It's like all the people who are thinking "I'll develop an iApp and get rich" - they're just jumping on the trend without looking at the numbers, which are grim. 99% won't make back their $150 developers kit. Again, hardly sounds sophisticated.
Too big to carry around in a pocket or purse, limited functionality, you need to lug around a separate bag to prevent it from getting scratched, can't show hd movies because both the display (it downscales to 1024x576, which is something from the Win9x era ...) and the cpu are too weak to push out enough pixels ...
Enjoy it, but don't try to claim that Apple users are sophisticated by any stretch. Apple's primary market for the jesusphone is college kids and soccer moms.
How can they be described as sophisticated if they fall for the marketing hype?
Let's see - make an iPhone twice the size that can't make phone calls ... yep, sure sounds sophisticated to me.
I guess you never got the memo.
First there's the BS degree - and we all know what BS means.
Then there's the MS degree - More of the Same.
Finally, there's the PhD - Piled Higher and Deeper.
Unfortunately, there's a lot of truth in that, same as everything else in life, there's going to be a sh*tload of crap to shovel, and you're either the shovel or the crap.
You've just described the average boss who thinks that they "know computers" because they can move a mouse on-screen and make spreadsheets and powerpoint presentations, or the average webmonkey who knows dreamweaver but couldn't set up a web server or hand-code a css file if their life depended on it (witness the earlier discussion with idiots claiming that php scripts could be linked to each other).
These are not people who are self-teachers, because they don't go beyond what they need to know to do the task at hand. They stop learning because they stop exploring - they learn a limited amount because they have to, not because of any innate curiosity.
Actually they're not "pre-installed" they're slipstreamed into the install files on the install partition.
I'm not implying that Ballmer isn't equally responsible - just that Gates had his hand firmly on the tiller when it came to methodology, and he took someone who shouts just as much (among other things) - and unlike Gates mother Mary, Ballmer's mother doesn't sit in on meetings keeping her eye on her kid.
Just buy a laptop and be done with it.
Buy a pre-built laptop - this "project" is a false economy.
Hey everyone, Steve Ballmer is trolling slashdot again! Shouldn't you be doing something productive, like not launching yet another failed product?
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Someone will give you back your money - try everyone along the supply chain and you'll eventually get a winner - then pass the info along to the next person.