Because if you don't already have a 24/7 PC it will cost you more in electricity than the iCloud service? I mean I have a squeezebox server and I still use Amazon's cloud player because it's more secure to let someone else host the files than it is to open up my home PC to all of Sprint's IP space. Oh and for people with data caps at home it only counts when you first upload them (or not at all for music matched songs!)
Got my Google Music Beta invite today and I didn't jump on it the first day it was announced so I assume they are pretty far into the beta, might want to signup if you haven't already.
I doubt they'd bother with VMWare, at that scale it's cheaper to build the scalability and redundancy into the application than it is to pay the 3-5% virtualization overhead and the license and support costs.
Now all I have to do is not buy an iphone and I'm sure to not get this incredibly stupid "feature". Of course they'll probably just license it for a quarter a camera or something and other companies will trip over themselves to implement it and we'll all pay for the pleasure of having a less useful device.
You're right, but these kind of stupid ideas have a way of spreading. I'm more worried about the idea of a web where if you're not running the latest beta quality browser you won't be able to use effectively use the vast majority of sites. If Google thinks they can pass up the revenue from the corporate market (and telling businesses a 2 year old browser is too old is going to massively slow enterprise adoption) then how many free sites will hesitate to follow?
Wait, you seriously think 2 years is old? It took us over a year from first quote for hardware to go live to upgrade our ERP system, and that was a minor version upgrade. We're now doing the first work for the next major version upgrade so that we can do budget estimate for next year, we're trying to figure out if that cost will be six or seven figures. Changing a major component in the chain requires a full regression test which is thousands of man hours, there's no way we'd do that on a whim. Now we've reduced the amount of outdated Internet facing browsers by publishing all of our apps from Citrix and upgrading the desktops to Windows 7 but that too comes at a cost which not every business is going to invest in.
Runs just fine in Chrome Current, it's been fine since a couple days after the redesign when they fixed whatever the bug was that was causing huge CPU usage.
When I worked at Cisco we had to have explicit signoff from an Executive VP to single source any component due to the risks involved. The supplier might have yield problems, they might have a plant get hit by an earthquake, they might discontinue the product, they might feel they can arbitrarily increase unit prices because they know we are single sourced, etc. To have a third party force that kind of risk on my company would really piss me off if I was an executive in charge of such a project.
All the links at the bottom of that site are broken, they include/newsite/ in the URL, apparently all the content was moved to / without updating the pages, doh.
It's javascript not java, so your browser version matters, something with a JIT compiler from the last 6 months will probably be able to display it at 30+fps (except Chrome, it doesn't render at all in either current or beta).
I'm saying it has nothing to do with global warming and so should not be part of the conversation about the consequences of global warming. There are plenty of negative consequences to a rise in mean temperature without throwing FUD into the equation.
What? I responded to your "the tornado outbreak should wake people up to global warming" with the actual expected results of long term global warning on tornado occurrence and you think I'm the one confused about short and long term changes?!?
Actually while net energy will increase with rising temperatures cape (or the amount of wind sheer) is expected to drop thus counteracting the increase in energy. The net effect is expected to be fewer but possibly more violent tornado's. The outbreak this spring in mostly fueled by la nina which is an increase in cool waters in the norther Pacific, not something that would be expected with rising global temperatures.
Hmm, Solaris 9 and Redhat 6 were so close that I could often take config files from one and make minimal changes and run them on the other. Of course our Solaris install was running the optional gnu utilities so that helped =)
The problem is that the area has had higher tsunami's in the not so distant past, there are stones along the hillside (some more than 600 years old) that show a line below which past tsunami's have wiped out homes.
Anything highly radioactive will be gone after years or at most decades, anything left over is barely going to be above background levels. So long as it's made into a form that doesn't easily enter the water table (glassification) it's really a non-issue. The concept that there will be dangerous amount of radiation after a lifetime is pure hysteria.
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Because if you don't already have a 24/7 PC it will cost you more in electricity than the iCloud service? I mean I have a squeezebox server and I still use Amazon's cloud player because it's more secure to let someone else host the files than it is to open up my home PC to all of Sprint's IP space. Oh and for people with data caps at home it only counts when you first upload them (or not at all for music matched songs!)
Got my Google Music Beta invite today and I didn't jump on it the first day it was announced so I assume they are pretty far into the beta, might want to signup if you haven't already.
I doubt they'd bother with VMWare, at that scale it's cheaper to build the scalability and redundancy into the application than it is to pay the 3-5% virtualization overhead and the license and support costs.
Did you not read the part about a watermark?
Now all I have to do is not buy an iphone and I'm sure to not get this incredibly stupid "feature". Of course they'll probably just license it for a quarter a camera or something and other companies will trip over themselves to implement it and we'll all pay for the pleasure of having a less useful device.
You're right, but these kind of stupid ideas have a way of spreading. I'm more worried about the idea of a web where if you're not running the latest beta quality browser you won't be able to use effectively use the vast majority of sites. If Google thinks they can pass up the revenue from the corporate market (and telling businesses a 2 year old browser is too old is going to massively slow enterprise adoption) then how many free sites will hesitate to follow?
Uh, with most enterprise apps running IN the browser these days you can't just upgrade the endpoint without testing.
Wait, you seriously think 2 years is old? It took us over a year from first quote for hardware to go live to upgrade our ERP system, and that was a minor version upgrade. We're now doing the first work for the next major version upgrade so that we can do budget estimate for next year, we're trying to figure out if that cost will be six or seven figures. Changing a major component in the chain requires a full regression test which is thousands of man hours, there's no way we'd do that on a whim. Now we've reduced the amount of outdated Internet facing browsers by publishing all of our apps from Citrix and upgrading the desktops to Windows 7 but that too comes at a cost which not every business is going to invest in.
Runs just fine in Chrome Current, it's been fine since a couple days after the redesign when they fixed whatever the bug was that was causing huge CPU usage.
Yeah, because a battery room has never blown out a wall at a datacenter, oh wait....
We tried that, we got Enron and rolling blackouts across California.
Uh, plenty of places use batteries for 20MW for 15 minutes, that's a small to midsized datacenter.
Supercaps would seem a much better solution than either batteries or flywheels for that kind of short charge/discharge cycle.
When I worked at Cisco we had to have explicit signoff from an Executive VP to single source any component due to the risks involved. The supplier might have yield problems, they might have a plant get hit by an earthquake, they might discontinue the product, they might feel they can arbitrarily increase unit prices because they know we are single sourced, etc. To have a third party force that kind of risk on my company would really piss me off if I was an executive in charge of such a project.
Oh, it only happens if you click on the last link first "Epilogue: New Series".
All the links at the bottom of that site are broken, they include /newsite/ in the URL, apparently all the content was moved to / without updating the pages, doh.
It's javascript not java, so your browser version matters, something with a JIT compiler from the last 6 months will probably be able to display it at 30+fps (except Chrome, it doesn't render at all in either current or beta).
I'm saying it has nothing to do with global warming and so should not be part of the conversation about the consequences of global warming. There are plenty of negative consequences to a rise in mean temperature without throwing FUD into the equation.
What? I responded to your "the tornado outbreak should wake people up to global warming" with the actual expected results of long term global warning on tornado occurrence and you think I'm the one confused about short and long term changes?!?
Actually while net energy will increase with rising temperatures cape (or the amount of wind sheer) is expected to drop thus counteracting the increase in energy. The net effect is expected to be fewer but possibly more violent tornado's. The outbreak this spring in mostly fueled by la nina which is an increase in cool waters in the norther Pacific, not something that would be expected with rising global temperatures.
None because you don't run interactive processes on a cluster but instead submit a package to the job scheduler.
Hmm, Solaris 9 and Redhat 6 were so close that I could often take config files from one and make minimal changes and run them on the other. Of course our Solaris install was running the optional gnu utilities so that helped =)
I believe if you use a CBR codec like G.711 without VAD or CNG you should be ok.
The problem is that the area has had higher tsunami's in the not so distant past, there are stones along the hillside (some more than 600 years old) that show a line below which past tsunami's have wiped out homes.
Anything highly radioactive will be gone after years or at most decades, anything left over is barely going to be above background levels. So long as it's made into a form that doesn't easily enter the water table (glassification) it's really a non-issue. The concept that there will be dangerous amount of radiation after a lifetime is pure hysteria.