But improvements in SATA were made to serve an existing need, not as an accommodation to a maybe future tech. SFPs are fairly new, yet not nearly as easy to use as RJ45. Ease of use was not the primary concern though. Robotic compatibility would take a back seat to functionality improvements. Even with all that, try getting a robot to run a cable from point A to point B in a data center. The more likely scenario would be custom built chassis that use a standardized back-plane, like what we have now with blade servers. Wired by people with servers swapped out by robot. Of course, that also begs the question of just how often are you swapping servers in a data center that you NEED a robot? Is it really cost effective?
But then you end up with an economic chicken & egg problem. "We need you to change all of the industry standard cables to support our robots, which are not being sold yet because we can't work with the industry standard cables. Wait, why are you laughing? It's sure to be the next big thing! We just need you to refit an entire industry to our robots first! Promise!"
Have you looked at the back of a server rack lately? Tape libraries are neat and orderly. Everything is the same size, all marked with nice big bar codes. Even the best managed racks look like a temple to the flying spaghetti monster. All the cables look the same and often are in close proximity to one another. There is very little room for tags that would be useful (barcodes). RFID tags would be so close together there would always be the possibility of the robot getting them mixed up. Then there are the connectors. RJ45 connectors are difficult with human fingers. SFPs are easier to handle, but also easier to not seat properly. There is also the problem of orientation of the jacks on different equipment. Then you have to teach the robot to deal with your servers models, switch models, interconnects, etc. That's a lot of learning.
While I agree it would be a fun engineering problem to solve (for someone else!) I don't think it's been solved already. In reality it would require changes to all the hardware going in to make it robot friendly. Places like Google, who already design their own standardized hardware and have massive numbers of virtually identical servers could do it (and it might make sense for them to) but for most enterprise datacenters it would be almost impossible today. Hardware vendors would have to adapt and start to standardize on things that would make their gear robot friendly first.
No. All handguns have some safety features. Hammer blocks, firing pin disconnects, grip safeties, trigger safeties, manual safeties, etc. The problem is mandating a "safety" feature that is overly complex and likely to fail. Even if you don't like the idea of civilian guns, how do you think a cop would feel about the idea that maybe today his gun will miss-read his [insert biometric here] and won't fire when he needs it to?
Presumably they already HAVE hardware that can play them. It's not like their 360's are going to stop working when they buy the One. As for why, they are switching processor architectures. They would have to emulate the 360 and no one really wants that.
"With IPsoft's tools, work that is now done by human beings, mostly Level 1 support, could be done by a software machine."
Software Machine? From my experience most first level support could be replaced with a batch file or python script. 99% are just following a script, or worse, just act as some sort of very faulty speech-to-text interface for turning a phone call into text in a ticket and tossing said ticket over the wall to the next level of support.
First off, the difference in the vaccines is that the old vaccine was a "whole cell" vaccine. Pertussis is caused by a bacteria, not a virus. The old vaccine used a dead but whole version of the bacterial cells. The new one is an acellular vaccine; one made up of protein fragments from the pertussis bacteria cell wall. That is the big difference and it turns out the whole cell vaccine was more effective.
As for the comment about allowing studies on the link between autism and vaccines: there were plenty of studies! Go on pubmed and start searching.
MSG? Stop getting your vaccines from Chinese takeouts. Also, the whole MSG is "poison" thing was proven bogus a long time ago. As for thimerosal (which is rarely used anymore anyway), if you are worried about that then I seriously suggest you never eat wild caught fish. Ever.
I opened up my door the other day and there was a huge document, just sitting there, with my name, address and phone number inside of it in PLAIN TEXT. Something called a "phone book"!? WTF!? And it's all over the OUTSIDE of all the mail in my mailbox! These companies should be sued!
Everyone does realize this was one of those "On a scale of 1 to 6, 6 being extremely important" type surveys, right? It was also among other categories (ranked for importance) like:
Up-front cost
Long-term cost / TCO
Speed of delivery
Reliability
Electrical/energy efficiency
Minimizing under-utilized assets / operating near full capacity
Yea, right! Call me when AT&T or Verizon get rid of subsidies and lower their plan prices. More likely they will get rid of subsidies and pocket the difference.
"tracking effectiveness of every single 15-30sec tv advertisement, so their product request was bullshit as well."
The request wasn't bullshit, but going to Salesforce for this is. There are media and marketing companies that can do this for you (Neilsen for one, but there are other, lower tier companies that can as well), and it doesn't require some custom solution to do it. It's like having a ceramics factory built because you need some new toilets.
So I guess "Land of the Free" is now the equivalent of "Unlimited Internet". Guess we'll need to insert a fast-talking legal disclaimer guy into the national anthem now.
"I don't want to be inadvertently featured in YouTube videos, nor my kids, my wife"
Then stay out of public places. Or invest in hoodies and burkas. You do not, in the US at least, have a right to privacy when in public. Google glass will not make much difference in this respect anyway. With the prevalence of cell phone cameras, if you do something stupid/goofy/whatever odds are you'll end up there anyway.
While I agree that commercial entities pose a much greater danger to our privacy than the government (especially when they start sharing data with third party data brokers!) I don't think Google Glass is going to make much difference in this regard. Commercial companies are more interested in data that allows them to make money in one way or another. The only thing of real interest that Google could gain from this that they could not, if they wanted, already gain from any android device (and why people aren't focused on that I have no idea) would be product exposure data. Things like who you interact with and who you know they could just as easily get from existing sources.
It does, however, have the potential to have a big impact on the way public officials and law enforcement behave. When the idea that cameras are focused on them at virtually all times and they are so common there is not much they can do about it (unlike today when some still think they can) then that is going to be a game changer.
That's not completely true if you take businesses into account. Large companies (which I imagine are really Microsoft's bread and butter) usually have SAs or EAs, and pay per year. So they do have a recurring revenue stream off of existing products. Now keeping companies hooked on the enterprise agreements is starting to be a problem for them. I know of a few not exactly small organizations that have dropped their agreements because they plan to stick (most are just now going to) Windows 7 and Office 2010 for a long enough time that they don't see the value in the EA anymore.
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...where I see fit.
It does have some mild side effects in vivo though.
But improvements in SATA were made to serve an existing need, not as an accommodation to a maybe future tech. SFPs are fairly new, yet not nearly as easy to use as RJ45. Ease of use was not the primary concern though. Robotic compatibility would take a back seat to functionality improvements. Even with all that, try getting a robot to run a cable from point A to point B in a data center. The more likely scenario would be custom built chassis that use a standardized back-plane, like what we have now with blade servers. Wired by people with servers swapped out by robot. Of course, that also begs the question of just how often are you swapping servers in a data center that you NEED a robot? Is it really cost effective?
But then you end up with an economic chicken & egg problem. "We need you to change all of the industry standard cables to support our robots, which are not being sold yet because we can't work with the industry standard cables. Wait, why are you laughing? It's sure to be the next big thing! We just need you to refit an entire industry to our robots first! Promise!"
....in a test tube.
Have you looked at the back of a server rack lately? Tape libraries are neat and orderly. Everything is the same size, all marked with nice big bar codes. Even the best managed racks look like a temple to the flying spaghetti monster. All the cables look the same and often are in close proximity to one another. There is very little room for tags that would be useful (barcodes). RFID tags would be so close together there would always be the possibility of the robot getting them mixed up. Then there are the connectors. RJ45 connectors are difficult with human fingers. SFPs are easier to handle, but also easier to not seat properly. There is also the problem of orientation of the jacks on different equipment. Then you have to teach the robot to deal with your servers models, switch models, interconnects, etc. That's a lot of learning.
While I agree it would be a fun engineering problem to solve (for someone else!) I don't think it's been solved already. In reality it would require changes to all the hardware going in to make it robot friendly. Places like Google, who already design their own standardized hardware and have massive numbers of virtually identical servers could do it (and it might make sense for them to) but for most enterprise datacenters it would be almost impossible today. Hardware vendors would have to adapt and start to standardize on things that would make their gear robot friendly first.
I have no doubt a robot can rack a server, but I'd love to see one cable or (worse) uncable one.
My what signal?
" Sales of this are gonna tank"
Yea, I'll take that bet.
No. All handguns have some safety features. Hammer blocks, firing pin disconnects, grip safeties, trigger safeties, manual safeties, etc. The problem is mandating a "safety" feature that is overly complex and likely to fail. Even if you don't like the idea of civilian guns, how do you think a cop would feel about the idea that maybe today his gun will miss-read his [insert biometric here] and won't fire when he needs it to?
Presumably they already HAVE hardware that can play them. It's not like their 360's are going to stop working when they buy the One. As for why, they are switching processor architectures. They would have to emulate the 360 and no one really wants that.
Hrm.... Actually with the right accessories that could make for some interesting multiplayer game play....
"With IPsoft's tools, work that is now done by human beings, mostly Level 1 support, could be done by a software machine."
Software Machine? From my experience most first level support could be replaced with a batch file or python script. 99% are just following a script, or worse, just act as some sort of very faulty speech-to-text interface for turning a phone call into text in a ticket and tossing said ticket over the wall to the next level of support.
First off, the difference in the vaccines is that the old vaccine was a "whole cell" vaccine. Pertussis is caused by a bacteria, not a virus. The old vaccine used a dead but whole version of the bacterial cells. The new one is an acellular vaccine; one made up of protein fragments from the pertussis bacteria cell wall. That is the big difference and it turns out the whole cell vaccine was more effective.
As for the comment about allowing studies on the link between autism and vaccines: there were plenty of studies! Go on pubmed and start searching.
MSG? Stop getting your vaccines from Chinese takeouts. Also, the whole MSG is "poison" thing was proven bogus a long time ago. As for thimerosal (which is rarely used anymore anyway), if you are worried about that then I seriously suggest you never eat wild caught fish. Ever.
I opened up my door the other day and there was a huge document, just sitting there, with my name, address and phone number inside of it in PLAIN TEXT. Something called a "phone book"!? WTF!? And it's all over the OUTSIDE of all the mail in my mailbox! These companies should be sued!
"i've measured and photographed lots of buildings that are important for americans - in florida."
TERRORIST!!!
Everyone does realize this was one of those "On a scale of 1 to 6, 6 being extremely important" type surveys, right? It was also among other categories (ranked for importance) like:
Up-front cost
Long-term cost / TCO
Speed of delivery
Reliability
Electrical/energy efficiency
Minimizing under-utilized assets / operating near full capacity
I love the first one:
People drawing or measuring important buildings.
I really just want to go grab a sketch pad and a measuring tape and head downtown...
Uh, does TWA ring any bells?
Yea, right! Call me when AT&T or Verizon get rid of subsidies and lower their plan prices. More likely they will get rid of subsidies and pocket the difference.
...OMG Ponies! pink.
"tracking effectiveness of every single 15-30sec tv advertisement, so their product request was bullshit as well."
The request wasn't bullshit, but going to Salesforce for this is. There are media and marketing companies that can do this for you (Neilsen for one, but there are other, lower tier companies that can as well), and it doesn't require some custom solution to do it. It's like having a ceramics factory built because you need some new toilets.
So I guess "Land of the Free" is now the equivalent of "Unlimited Internet". Guess we'll need to insert a fast-talking legal disclaimer guy into the national anthem now.
"I don't want to be inadvertently featured in YouTube videos, nor my kids, my wife"
Then stay out of public places. Or invest in hoodies and burkas. You do not, in the US at least, have a right to privacy when in public. Google glass will not make much difference in this respect anyway. With the prevalence of cell phone cameras, if you do something stupid/goofy/whatever odds are you'll end up there anyway.
While I agree that commercial entities pose a much greater danger to our privacy than the government (especially when they start sharing data with third party data brokers!) I don't think Google Glass is going to make much difference in this regard. Commercial companies are more interested in data that allows them to make money in one way or another. The only thing of real interest that Google could gain from this that they could not, if they wanted, already gain from any android device (and why people aren't focused on that I have no idea) would be product exposure data. Things like who you interact with and who you know they could just as easily get from existing sources.
It does, however, have the potential to have a big impact on the way public officials and law enforcement behave. When the idea that cameras are focused on them at virtually all times and they are so common there is not much they can do about it (unlike today when some still think they can) then that is going to be a game changer.
That's not completely true if you take businesses into account. Large companies (which I imagine are really Microsoft's bread and butter) usually have SAs or EAs, and pay per year. So they do have a recurring revenue stream off of existing products. Now keeping companies hooked on the enterprise agreements is starting to be a problem for them. I know of a few not exactly small organizations that have dropped their agreements because they plan to stick (most are just now going to) Windows 7 and Office 2010 for a long enough time that they don't see the value in the EA anymore.