This is a great bonus for high density HPC applications. Typically in a datacenter you are blowing air up from the raised floor in front of the servers. However, a good deal of it is taken up by the servers in the lower part of the rack, leaving the top servers running warmer than the lower servers. Supposedly the water chilled doors help a lot in this scenario.
It's only overclocking if you're running the chip at a clock speed faster than it is rated/designed for. If the chip is designed to be water-cooled, I wouldn't be callinng that overclocking.
That would be nice in an ideal world where cash flow doesn't matter. However, even if you could give them something to do, you may not be able to immediately support these employees, or perhaps they'd take away too many resources from your other projects to make it worthwhile.
I can think of tons of "stuff" our company could be doing that it's not doing enough of, but we don't have the money for it.
Not necessarily, often times the redundancy comes in the administrative areas such as finance, marketing or HR. Not to imply that people who work in these fields are not intelligent, but often times their roles are less critical to the overall operation, especially if they are filling the same roles as other people.
You're right in that if the company needs the people again, they will have to hire them. But suppose that's some years down the road. Why would you pay the salaries of people you don't currently need, just so you don't have to hire them later? I fail to see how that would be more cost effective.
Your examples are good, other than the Google doubleclick one. Google is not laying off these people because they are doing poorly, they're just not needed any more. It's fairly typical of acquisitions, you end up with a bunch of redundant employees and someone has to go.
I still recommend the wait and see approach for OS X 10.5, at least if you're deploying it in a networked environment. OS X 10.5 server is a complete disaster. The server admin tools, and many of the backing technologies like AFP, are severely broken. I regret having upgraded.
On the other hand, I haven't had any major problems with the client.
Well, the GP's comment stated that the transforms themselves were devised by Engineers, which is not the case. The transforms were created by mathematicians, and applied by Engineers, and the theory as to why they work for those particular problems was later derived by science.
Really? I always thought the Laplace transform was invented by.. well.. Laplace? I'm pretty sure he was a mathematician, along with Euler, Fourier, and friends.
The webkit source is under a BSD-style license, so it's totally within their right to have components which do not have the source available. It seems like all the non-Apple-specific code is open source anyways, so it's not like it impedes your use of the code elsewhere.
As for point 2, there's already lots of developers using dangerous hidden APIs. I'm sure if the APIs were disclosed, there'd only be more who used them, and more applications which would break.
Thanks for posting this, I was just about to post it myself. This whole story stinks of sensationalism. Do people really think that the webkit and OS X developers sit together in a room and say "Ah.. how can we screw all those 3rd party application makers?". These types of APIs are usually undisclosed because you shouldn't depend on them. Anyone who reads The Old New Thing knows that it's a big problem for Microsoft as well, where developers go digging for some "hidden" APIs only to have their applications break in a future revision of the OS because it wasn't meant to be used.
If every single one of us was cashing in on the same opportunity, then nobody would have the advantage. As a result, the profit to be made would eventually average to 0.
Well, all the data we have is from our simulations, we don't keep any customer information. More specifically, we're not at all in to E-commerce or anything remotely related. If that were the case, there's no way I'd feel comfortable with things as they are now...
They're not encrypted yet, but our company is still very young, and I just took over as the system administrator. We're definitely going to start encrypting them once I finish putting the rest of our backup solution in place.
That's similar to our setup, we have an IP SAN cluster at two locations which sync over a dedicated line. We do still create tapes for archival purposes and offsite backup. IMO having replication is not a replacement for that.
I'm not sure I follow how a VTL would prevent this kind of mishap from occurring? If you still need to store the data offsite, someone could just as easily lose the drives from your VTL.
I think you missed the part in the film where they said she was his best friend since (I can't remember if it was high school or college). It wasn't just some chick he banged. Also, he received a distressed call from her moments before he witnessed his brother being killed, and made his decision to go after her at that point. I think it's realistic in the sense that his judgement was influenced by a recent trauma.
God forbid you have to clean your mouse ball once in a while. I think after 5 months of using my mouse every single day at the office I've had to clean the ball exactly twice.
Actually, most people don't know or don't care about the actual audio format. So long as their media play and application can play their songs, they're good.
I agree. While I haven't run in to these kinds of issues myself, I talked to a former DEC/Compaq/HP engineer the other week and he told me that many of the storage servers that he designed included workarounds in the RAID card firmware specifically for dealing with Seagate drives. Apparently they would often have issues with non-standard timings in many cases.
the kinds of business that run this software commercially really don't care too much about a $2500 license fee. Well, as someone who works at a scientific simulation company, I can tell you that we *do* care about a $2500 license fee. We don't use Mathematica, most of our work is accomplished using GNU Octave, PyMol, VMD, and a host of other open-source applications.
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It's being done though not on the system level but on the rack level. SGI's ICE platform has water-chilled doors: http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/altix/ice/features.html
This is a great bonus for high density HPC applications. Typically in a datacenter you are blowing air up from the raised floor in front of the servers. However, a good deal of it is taken up by the servers in the lower part of the rack, leaving the top servers running warmer than the lower servers. Supposedly the water chilled doors help a lot in this scenario.
and the semiconductor and integrated defense are not far off!
It's only overclocking if you're running the chip at a clock speed faster than it is rated/designed for. If the chip is designed to be water-cooled, I wouldn't be callinng that overclocking.
That would be nice in an ideal world where cash flow doesn't matter. However, even if you could give them something to do, you may not be able to immediately support these employees, or perhaps they'd take away too many resources from your other projects to make it worthwhile.
I can think of tons of "stuff" our company could be doing that it's not doing enough of, but we don't have the money for it.
Not necessarily, often times the redundancy comes in the administrative areas such as finance, marketing or HR. Not to imply that people who work in these fields are not intelligent, but often times their roles are less critical to the overall operation, especially if they are filling the same roles as other people.
You're right in that if the company needs the people again, they will have to hire them. But suppose that's some years down the road. Why would you pay the salaries of people you don't currently need, just so you don't have to hire them later? I fail to see how that would be more cost effective.
Your examples are good, other than the Google doubleclick one. Google is not laying off these people because they are doing poorly, they're just not needed any more. It's fairly typical of acquisitions, you end up with a bunch of redundant employees and someone has to go.
Also, your link to newsoxy seems to be some kind of spammy site. A better article is here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/03/BUA2VUNAO.DTL&tsp=1
I still recommend the wait and see approach for OS X 10.5, at least if you're deploying it in a networked environment. OS X 10.5 server is a complete disaster. The server admin tools, and many of the backing technologies like AFP, are severely broken. I regret having upgraded.
On the other hand, I haven't had any major problems with the client.
You can just imagine the point is not there. Then you're going from 49 -> 50.
Well, the GP's comment stated that the transforms themselves were devised by Engineers, which is not the case. The transforms were created by mathematicians, and applied by Engineers, and the theory as to why they work for those particular problems was later derived by science.
Really? I always thought the Laplace transform was invented by.. well.. Laplace? I'm pretty sure he was a mathematician, along with Euler, Fourier, and friends.
The webkit source is under a BSD-style license, so it's totally within their right to have components which do not have the source available. It seems like all the non-Apple-specific code is open source anyways, so it's not like it impedes your use of the code elsewhere.
As for point 2, there's already lots of developers using dangerous hidden APIs. I'm sure if the APIs were disclosed, there'd only be more who used them, and more applications which would break.
Thanks for posting this, I was just about to post it myself. This whole story stinks of sensationalism. Do people really think that the webkit and OS X developers sit together in a room and say "Ah.. how can we screw all those 3rd party application makers?". These types of APIs are usually undisclosed because you shouldn't depend on them. Anyone who reads The Old New Thing knows that it's a big problem for Microsoft as well, where developers go digging for some "hidden" APIs only to have their applications break in a future revision of the OS because it wasn't meant to be used.
They do care about their customers. Except that their customers are not us, they are Dell, HP, et al.
If every single one of us was cashing in on the same opportunity, then nobody would have the advantage. As a result, the profit to be made would eventually average to 0.
Well, all the data we have is from our simulations, we don't keep any customer information. More specifically, we're not at all in to E-commerce or anything remotely related. If that were the case, there's no way I'd feel comfortable with things as they are now...
They're not encrypted yet, but our company is still very young, and I just took over as the system administrator. We're definitely going to start encrypting them once I finish putting the rest of our backup solution in place.
That's similar to our setup, we have an IP SAN cluster at two locations which sync over a dedicated line. We do still create tapes for archival purposes and offsite backup. IMO having replication is not a replacement for that.
I'm not sure I follow how a VTL would prevent this kind of mishap from occurring? If you still need to store the data offsite, someone could just as easily lose the drives from your VTL.
I think you missed the part in the film where they said she was his best friend since (I can't remember if it was high school or college). It wasn't just some chick he banged. Also, he received a distressed call from her moments before he witnessed his brother being killed, and made his decision to go after her at that point. I think it's realistic in the sense that his judgement was influenced by a recent trauma.
God forbid you have to clean your mouse ball once in a while. I think after 5 months of using my mouse every single day at the office I've had to clean the ball exactly twice.
Actually, most people don't know or don't care about the actual audio format. So long as their media play and application can play their songs, they're good.
Why not just return the crappy Seagate drives and buy something else instead of supporting products like these?
I agree. While I haven't run in to these kinds of issues myself, I talked to a former DEC/Compaq/HP engineer the other week and he told me that many of the storage servers that he designed included workarounds in the RAID card firmware specifically for dealing with Seagate drives. Apparently they would often have issues with non-standard timings in many cases.
It's more likely that whoever was updating the list at the time just got around to adding them all on that particular day.