My work has 6 optical platter "Jukebox's" that they run for a client, we have had them for atleast 4 or 5 years now. there double sided 2.6B (per side)platters in steal (the newer ones are plastic)caddy, they look fairly similar to these, but the caddy isn't transparent. There very sturdy, I have dropped many a platter and I have yet to break one...hehe...yet. I wouldnt mind them so much if it werent for the fact that the jukebox's have an ass load of problems, some days we have to restart a single box 10 times during the coarse of the shift, now keep it mind it takes 15 minutes+ to restart. Plasmon has information of MO drives and media on there website, the MO jukebox's look alot like the older ones I am talking about, just less boxy. My point is that this is really not a new technology, some large businesses have been using similar products for years, with in my case, crappy results.
This is still cheaper that the $1 a track that apple's music download service. $9.99 for 40 tracks breaks down to roughly $.25 for a single song, which is still pretty cheap if you ask me.
Sun becoming a big player in the linux world, after all, solaris is one of the most stable version of unix out there. It wouldnt surprise me in the least if we see a headline in 5 years stating that SUN microsystems has merged with a large linux company (redhat perhaps?)
Ah good question, actually we do have over a million tapes in silo at the present time (I don't know how many, I don't do my work with the silos). But the reason we have so many tapes not in silos is for one simple reason, COST. A lot of our clients find it cheaper to have stand-alone drives and pay Unisys a "few bodies" to staff it. I would think it would be cheaper in the long run to just purchase a silo and to run it, but they don't see it that way. Another possible reason is that the clients come in with only a few systems (say 2 systems and 2 drive strings, like one of our more recent customers), but later decide to bring in more systems. They keep added systems they finally decide to purchase a silo, which like some customers, never happens. But the main reason is that most companies just don't require enough tape mounts to make the purchase and use of a silo necessary.
That all the file sharing companies are doing it because they believe it is the right thing. After all, isn't the whole idea of file sharing that software should be for everyone and not just for a select few that can afford it? And isn't it true that most of the file sharing software that were mention are themselves bases off of open source code, further perpetuating the concept of free-trade?
I work for a large outsourcing company, not going to say which one but it is an international company, with tens or even hundreds of thousands of employees. we currently house 1.5 million tapes onsite that anyone could get past the guards could just walk in and take without question. Getting past the guards is not that hard, all you have to do is come up with some fake "important" reason why your there and more than likely the guard will give you access to the data center.
The only problem here is that with this many tapes, how the hell are you going to know which tape is the one with the data your looking for on it?
"They keep talking about how noisy it is, why would that matter if you are going supersonic above the ocean? You'd have to use some other sort of engine to take off and land, wouldn't you? My understanding is that this technology does not function below a certain airspeed."
If you had bothered to read the article you would know that one of the notable advantages of the Pulse Detonation Engine is that is can be used at a much higher range of speeds. The Pulse Detonation Engine would hypothetically be able to be used anywhere from take off to Hypersonic speeds. The "certain airspeed" at which it can function minimally is much lower than you think.
Although a little angry, this AC does have a point. The MPAA is the Motion Picture ASSOSIATION of America, notice the key word association. Being an association, not a company, they can't be a monopoly as the parent post so rudely stated.
Once again, Slashdot shows it's extreme ignorance about subjects not related to computers.
Note to the parent AC: Don't blame slashdot for the failing of some of there readers.
Yes, I agree. Thats why I play almost exclusivly on servers that I have admin access to. If anyone starts whining too much I gag them, problem solved:)
If your wondering what server I am an admin at check out: 64.191.53.192:27020 (counterstrike) Website: www.SeXy-Crew.com
"Today, 'Saturday morning cartoons' is a phrase that emotionally means nothing to anyone under the age of twenty-five."
I am twenty and Saturday morning cartoons' meant alot to me when I was a child, the saturday mourning cartoons didn't stop airing until I got to be atleast 12, and by then I was getting to old for them anyways. I was a TV junky as a child, watched alot of nickleodeon, but Saturday mornings were pretty much the only time I saw NEW cartoons that were GOOD. I liked the re-runs of loony toons that Nicleodeon would play but some of there other cartoons just sucked, but the Saturday morning cartoons were worth getting up for.
My point is that Saturday morning cartoons mean something to some of us younger than twenty-five, despite what the article stated.
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I dont consider that spam, I see it more as free beer coasters:P
Now normally I would just immediately say he is going to get sued witout hessitating, but with some of the reason news and events I have heard about recently its possible that apple may let him slide. Personally I hope that he can sell custom mac boxes, maybe it will open up Apple's market to a larger croud.
Anyways that what I think, as always I am problebly 99.9% wrong...
Of coarse microsoft things there search engine can compete, how hard is it to get hits when every single default install of IE automaticly searches MSN if it cant find a page, or if the user types something other than a URL in the address bar. This is the same way that microsoft got so many people to use IE, since it is built into all OS's newer than Windows 98, and since all those people didnt bother getting a new browser then why wouldnt they just use the address bar search option? it requires far less work...
My appologies if someone had already posted this point, I cant say I read all 650+ posts in this thread before posting my own.
This is why those crazy people that are giving away operating systems (read: Linux) for FREE are completely undercutting the competition (read: M$)?
Those "crazy people" arent giving the OS away for people to undercut the competition(or atleast not entirely), but because they beleive that computer software should be a free trade and not something to capitalize on.
I also made a point in there saying that why doesnt Intel just set the proccessor speed at its maximum at the factory so the retailers cant overclock without having to install more agressive cooling methods(which would be ovious to the consumer)?
Why is Intel so concerned about overclocking anyways? I would think that it would be better for them to set the clock on the proccessor to its full potential in the factory so the user doesnt need to when they get it.
I don't see how Intel thinks there losing money because of users overclocking there proccessors, because most users would spend relatively the same amount of money of a proccessor whether or not they can overclock it. I bet that if Intel took all the resourses that they put into Anti-Overclocking and put them into making better cooling methods for overclocked proccessors and then marketing that to the consumers they would make ALOT more money than they every will from restricting the user. People would be more likely to buy a Intel water cooling system for there Intel Proccessor just because of the name. Anyways that is just MHO, as always I may be 96.5% wrong.
the difficulty of orginizing this sort of thing IMHO would be astronomical, so although I think it would be a great thing, I fear that this is a mere pipe dream due the the fact that it isnt very likely that the WHOLE world would agree on anything at all, more or less how to control SPAM or if spam is a problem at all.
So what if dell says that unix is dead, there only saying that becuase there basicly in bed with MS so insulting a compete operating system might improve there sales
Great article but I must say that from the pictures of longhorn, the new desktop look doesnt look much different than my current desktop(StyleXP:community:windowNET skin). But other than that I am very interested to see where bill goes with this version of windows, will it be an improvement over XP or will it just be another Me?
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My personal information is worth atleast 2/10 of a cent :P
My work has 6 optical platter "Jukebox's" that they run for a client, we have had them for atleast 4 or 5 years now. there double sided 2.6B (per side)platters in steal (the newer ones are plastic)caddy, they look fairly similar to these, but the caddy isn't transparent. There very sturdy, I have dropped many a platter and I have yet to break one...hehe...yet. I wouldnt mind them so much if it werent for the fact that the jukebox's have an ass load of problems, some days we have to restart a single box 10 times during the coarse of the shift, now keep it mind it takes 15 minutes+ to restart. Plasmon has information of MO drives and media on there website, the MO jukebox's look alot like the older ones I am talking about, just less boxy. My point is that this is really not a new technology, some large businesses have been using similar products for years, with in my case, crappy results.
This is still cheaper that the $1 a track that apple's music download service. $9.99 for 40 tracks breaks down to roughly $.25 for a single song, which is still pretty cheap if you ask me.
Maybe it has something to do with the counter that was meantioned in a slashdot post earlyer today?
Sun becoming a big player in the linux world, after all, solaris is one of the most stable version of unix out there. It wouldnt surprise me in the least if we see a headline in 5 years stating that SUN microsystems has merged with a large linux company (redhat perhaps?)
Always blaming there problems on everyone else :P
Ah good question, actually we do have over a million tapes in silo at the present time (I don't know how many, I don't do my work with the silos). But the reason we have so many tapes not in silos is for one simple reason, COST. A lot of our clients find it cheaper to have stand-alone drives and pay Unisys a "few bodies" to staff it. I would think it would be cheaper in the long run to just purchase a silo and to run it, but they don't see it that way. Another possible reason is that the clients come in with only a few systems (say 2 systems and 2 drive strings, like one of our more recent customers), but later decide to bring in more systems. They keep added systems they finally decide to purchase a silo, which like some customers, never happens. But the main reason is that most companies just don't require enough tape mounts to make the purchase and use of a silo necessary.
That all the file sharing companies are doing it because they believe it is the right thing. After all, isn't the whole idea of file sharing that software should be for everyone and not just for a select few that can afford it? And isn't it true that most of the file sharing software that were mention are themselves bases off of open source code, further perpetuating the concept of free-trade?
I work for a large outsourcing company, not going to say which one but it is an international company, with tens or even hundreds of thousands of employees. we currently house 1.5 million tapes onsite that anyone could get past the guards could just walk in and take without question. Getting past the guards is not that hard, all you have to do is come up with some fake "important" reason why your there and more than likely the guard will give you access to the data center.
The only problem here is that with this many tapes, how the hell are you going to know which tape is the one with the data your looking for on it?
"They keep talking about how noisy it is, why would that matter if you are going supersonic above the ocean? You'd have to use some other sort of engine to take off and land, wouldn't you? My understanding is that this technology does not function below a certain airspeed."
If you had bothered to read the article you would know that one of the notable advantages of the Pulse Detonation Engine is that is can be used at a much higher range of speeds. The Pulse Detonation Engine would hypothetically be able to be used anywhere from take off to Hypersonic speeds. The "certain airspeed" at which it can function minimally is much lower than you think.
Although a little angry, this AC does have a point. The MPAA is the Motion Picture ASSOSIATION of America, notice the key word association. Being an association, not a company, they can't be a monopoly as the parent post so rudely stated.
Once again, Slashdot shows it's extreme ignorance about subjects not related to computers.
Note to the parent AC: Don't blame slashdot for the failing of some of there readers.
Yes, I agree. Thats why I play almost exclusivly on servers that I have admin access to. If anyone starts whining too much I gag them, problem solved:)
If your wondering what server I am an admin at check out:
64.191.53.192:27020 (counterstrike)
Website: www.SeXy-Crew.com
My point is that Saturday morning cartoons mean something to some of us younger than twenty-five, despite what the article stated.
I dont consider that spam, I see it more as free beer coasters:P
Yes, they can, besides if NASA gets income from royalties that means (theoretically) less tax dollars will be needed.
Now normally I would just immediately say he is going to get sued witout hessitating, but with some of the reason news and events I have heard about recently its possible that apple may let him slide. Personally I hope that he can sell custom mac boxes, maybe it will open up Apple's market to a larger croud.
Anyways that what I think, as always I am problebly 99.9% wrong...
Of coarse microsoft things there search engine can compete, how hard is it to get hits when every single default install of IE automaticly searches MSN if it cant find a page, or if the user types something other than a URL in the address bar. This is the same way that microsoft got so many people to use IE, since it is built into all OS's newer than Windows 98, and since all those people didnt bother getting a new browser then why wouldnt they just use the address bar search option? it requires far less work...
My appologies if someone had already posted this point, I cant say I read all 650+ posts in this thread before posting my own.
Those "crazy people" arent giving the OS away for people to undercut the competition(or atleast not entirely), but because they beleive that computer software should be a free trade and not something to capitalize on.
I also made a point in there saying that why doesnt Intel just set the proccessor speed at its maximum at the factory so the retailers cant overclock without having to install more agressive cooling methods(which would be ovious to the consumer)?
Why is Intel so concerned about overclocking anyways? I would think that it would be better for them to set the clock on the proccessor to its full potential in the factory so the user doesnt need to when they get it. I don't see how Intel thinks there losing money because of users overclocking there proccessors, because most users would spend relatively the same amount of money of a proccessor whether or not they can overclock it. I bet that if Intel took all the resourses that they put into Anti-Overclocking and put them into making better cooling methods for overclocked proccessors and then marketing that to the consumers they would make ALOT more money than they every will from restricting the user. People would be more likely to buy a Intel water cooling system for there Intel Proccessor just because of the name. Anyways that is just MHO, as always I may be 96.5% wrong.
the difficulty of orginizing this sort of thing IMHO would be astronomical, so although I think it would be a great thing, I fear that this is a mere pipe dream due the the fact that it isnt very likely that the WHOLE world would agree on anything at all, more or less how to control SPAM or if spam is a problem at all.
So what if dell says that unix is dead, there only saying that becuase there basicly in bed with MS so insulting a compete operating system might improve there sales
I welcome microsoft inproving its windows interface, personally I am getting tired of the same ol' windows look.
Great article but I must say that from the pictures of longhorn, the new desktop look doesnt look much different than my current desktop(StyleXP:community:windowNET skin). But other than that I am very interested to see where bill goes with this version of windows, will it be an improvement over XP or will it just be another Me?
why do you need a LCD that fits in a 5-1/4" bay and not just a 1U or 2U rackmount LCD display?