Yeah VDI is a solution looking for a problem from what I can tell. If you want to have thin workstations then go with Citrix/TS and actually get some freaking load on the boxes. My worst Citrix servers host 15 users per box and that's for a huge RAM hogging app, and I have plans this year to use XenServer to do 4 to 1 consolidation on those by adding ram to the blades (maintaining a separate Citrix image using Enterprise for this app is too intensive in manpower and QA time).
The only part of a server that I would be significantly worried about during power cycles is drives and fans, and with boot from network/SAN that's no longer a concern so you might have to service fans more often, with decent servers they have redundant sets so it's just some additional scheduled maintenance, not a big cost next to turning loads of servers off.
Enwave Energy Corporation in Toronto, Ontario is already doing this. They have a 59K ton integrated district cooling plant using deep lake water as an energy sink. Chicago is thinking of doing something similar with the huge volume of water they already draw from the lake for other purposes. The Toronto project probably kept another coal plant from coming online because it's got a cooling capacity of 207MW which would require about 400MW of electricity between transmission losses and cooling system inefficiencies.
Actually it's easier to use a high level algorithm to save power then it is to optimize code to save it. As I talked about elsewhere HP and VMWare have a product for ESX that will consolidate the load to a few hosts during slow times and turn off hosts that aren't needed. No amount of code optimizing is going to save as much power as turning the server off where it's literally drawing a watt or two waiting for a WoL signal.
You're confusing energy and temperature. There is a hell of a lot more energy in a given volume of heated water then an equivalent volume of air so the comparison about the air getting cooler faster isn't a good comparison to what the GP is talking about.
Actually vmware and HP have a product that turns OFF hosts when they are not needed. When load on the existing hosts in the pool starts to get high they spin up spare hosts and vmotion stuff off to them, then when the workload slows down they vmotion them back and turn off hosts. Very cool way to save power during non-peak times in a large datacenter.
Think graphics student. They probably have access to the software for their class but probably don't have the money for a card that costs as much as their desktop. Also as someone above pointed out there is no Quadro to Go card and laptops are popular with students (heck you might use it to give a presentation on a laptop in the professional world).
Yet another case where the legit customers get shafted while the pirates have no problem running the software. I remember playing with Cubase back is college and thinking it wasn't all that hot. If I had my dongle stolen for something like that I would download a crack in a heartbeat and have zero moral problems running it.
APC Netbotz offers this as a module. In fact we use them here at my company, DR and production each point to a server at the other location to record images.
WTF, why don't these people follow PCI DSS? If they did then the data being stolen wouldn't matter, it would be encrypted or never stored in the first place.
Even better is when they get a truck full of CPU's from an Intel facility, many millions of dollars. Not quite as dense as gold or diamonds but pretty damn compact wealth.
I won't try to justify the ETF, it's not excusable other than to say that people do sign contracts. As to the cost of subsidies, they are replacing probably an average of ~80M cellphones a year (There are ~250M cellphone lines in the US) so they are buying that many handsets and financing those purchases.
Again why would they care if you use a Google phone? If you want very high speed wireless you will need a Verizon contract, that was the point of buying the spectrum. The equivalent product from the competition won't be nearly as good because they simply don't have the bandwidth.
Why should Verizon care where you get your phone? Charging you the same amount for access and not subsidizing your phone has to be more profitable for them then whatever they make on ringtones and wallpaper. A report cited here says the total US ringtone market is $500M, carrier cost for subsidizing phones has to be an order of magnitude more than that.
Novell Directory Service, aka eDirectory. Yes I know that the LDAP API predates AD, heck it predates NDS which in 1993 was one of the first implementations of LDAPv2. I meant the whole package, from the multimaster replication to the object model and hierarchy. Sure because of the way LDAP works you could cram an AD or NDS implementation into another LDAP server, but that doesn't change the fact that they are both really good implementations of LDAP with well thought out schema's and a lot of stuff that goes beyond simple LDAP. They also have their drawbacks like the idea of using a binary blob to encode the terminal server attributes in AD.
Actually knowing the way Hollywood works I would bet Orion Pictures does in fact have a financing wing which is part or their shell game to hide profits.
Eh, language is a tool to communicate ideas. If the idea is complex then using a complex language construct is fine. If fact I used to routinely craft paragraph length sentences for school papers which would get marked down for style reasons. I would then point the instructor to APA or the relevant guide for the area of study and generally have my points refunded =)
Eh, if the BD addon is only $99 like the HD-DVD addon was it will be a great deal and I can't understand why you would want to waste the money on a PS3 if all you want is a BD player. Oh and I personally hope they do offer an addon player so I can get it for my PC, I don't have either console but would love a cheap BD drive for my PC =)
Verizon territory near metro areas has FIOS and AT&T land has U-verse which is fiber to mini-co's with high speed ADSL carrying the signals a couple thousand feet to residences. I think AT&T should just run the damn fiber all the way to the premises but they don't want to give up the copper for some strange reason.
They offer it at a discount because their fixed costs of billing and recovery along with most of the technical support (line techs) is shared by all the services so it costs them less to offer them bundled.
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Yeah VDI is a solution looking for a problem from what I can tell. If you want to have thin workstations then go with Citrix/TS and actually get some freaking load on the boxes. My worst Citrix servers host 15 users per box and that's for a huge RAM hogging app, and I have plans this year to use XenServer to do 4 to 1 consolidation on those by adding ram to the blades (maintaining a separate Citrix image using Enterprise for this app is too intensive in manpower and QA time).
The only part of a server that I would be significantly worried about during power cycles is drives and fans, and with boot from network/SAN that's no longer a concern so you might have to service fans more often, with decent servers they have redundant sets so it's just some additional scheduled maintenance, not a big cost next to turning loads of servers off.
Enwave Energy Corporation in Toronto, Ontario is already doing this. They have a 59K ton integrated district cooling plant using deep lake water as an energy sink. Chicago is thinking of doing something similar with the huge volume of water they already draw from the lake for other purposes. The Toronto project probably kept another coal plant from coming online because it's got a cooling capacity of 207MW which would require about 400MW of electricity between transmission losses and cooling system inefficiencies.
Actually it's easier to use a high level algorithm to save power then it is to optimize code to save it. As I talked about elsewhere HP and VMWare have a product for ESX that will consolidate the load to a few hosts during slow times and turn off hosts that aren't needed. No amount of code optimizing is going to save as much power as turning the server off where it's literally drawing a watt or two waiting for a WoL signal.
You're confusing energy and temperature. There is a hell of a lot more energy in a given volume of heated water then an equivalent volume of air so the comparison about the air getting cooler faster isn't a good comparison to what the GP is talking about.
Actually vmware and HP have a product that turns OFF hosts when they are not needed. When load on the existing hosts in the pool starts to get high they spin up spare hosts and vmotion stuff off to them, then when the workload slows down they vmotion them back and turn off hosts. Very cool way to save power during non-peak times in a large datacenter.
Think graphics student. They probably have access to the software for their class but probably don't have the money for a card that costs as much as their desktop. Also as someone above pointed out there is no Quadro to Go card and laptops are popular with students (heck you might use it to give a presentation on a laptop in the professional world).
Yet another case where the legit customers get shafted while the pirates have no problem running the software. I remember playing with Cubase back is college and thinking it wasn't all that hot. If I had my dongle stolen for something like that I would download a crack in a heartbeat and have zero moral problems running it.
APC Netbotz offers this as a module. In fact we use them here at my company, DR and production each point to a server at the other location to record images.
WTF, why don't these people follow PCI DSS? If they did then the data being stolen wouldn't matter, it would be encrypted or never stored in the first place.
VST hasn't heard of FlexLM? Seriously hardware dongles are so last decade.
Probably special windings, possibly a different style of bridge than is normal for that model. Those are the most common modifications for guitars.
Even better is when they get a truck full of CPU's from an Intel facility, many millions of dollars. Not quite as dense as gold or diamonds but pretty damn compact wealth.
I won't try to justify the ETF, it's not excusable other than to say that people do sign contracts. As to the cost of subsidies, they are replacing probably an average of ~80M cellphones a year (There are ~250M cellphone lines in the US) so they are buying that many handsets and financing those purchases.
Again why would they care if you use a Google phone? If you want very high speed wireless you will need a Verizon contract, that was the point of buying the spectrum. The equivalent product from the competition won't be nearly as good because they simply don't have the bandwidth.
Why should Verizon care where you get your phone? Charging you the same amount for access and not subsidizing your phone has to be more profitable for them then whatever they make on ringtones and wallpaper. A report cited here says the total US ringtone market is $500M, carrier cost for subsidizing phones has to be an order of magnitude more than that.
Novell Directory Service, aka eDirectory. Yes I know that the LDAP API predates AD, heck it predates NDS which in 1993 was one of the first implementations of LDAPv2. I meant the whole package, from the multimaster replication to the object model and hierarchy. Sure because of the way LDAP works you could cram an AD or NDS implementation into another LDAP server, but that doesn't change the fact that they are both really good implementations of LDAP with well thought out schema's and a lot of stuff that goes beyond simple LDAP. They also have their drawbacks like the idea of using a binary blob to encode the terminal server attributes in AD.
98SE was the best of the 9x/ME generation followed by 95 OSR 2.1.
Most LDAP implementations are a poor, poor imitator of either AD or NDS. In fact most LDAP is only a step better than NIS+.
It depends on the area of the county as to the correct generic term as this site shows.
Actually knowing the way Hollywood works I would bet Orion Pictures does in fact have a financing wing which is part or their shell game to hide profits.
Eh, language is a tool to communicate ideas. If the idea is complex then using a complex language construct is fine. If fact I used to routinely craft paragraph length sentences for school papers which would get marked down for style reasons. I would then point the instructor to APA or the relevant guide for the area of study and generally have my points refunded =)
Eh, if the BD addon is only $99 like the HD-DVD addon was it will be a great deal and I can't understand why you would want to waste the money on a PS3 if all you want is a BD player. Oh and I personally hope they do offer an addon player so I can get it for my PC, I don't have either console but would love a cheap BD drive for my PC =)
Verizon territory near metro areas has FIOS and AT&T land has U-verse which is fiber to mini-co's with high speed ADSL carrying the signals a couple thousand feet to residences. I think AT&T should just run the damn fiber all the way to the premises but they don't want to give up the copper for some strange reason.
They offer it at a discount because their fixed costs of billing and recovery along with most of the technical support (line techs) is shared by all the services so it costs them less to offer them bundled.