Here's a quote from the Google paper: "Power-on hours -- Although we do not dispute that
power-on hours might have an effect on drive lifetime, it happens that in our deployment the age of the drive is
an excellent approximation for that parameter, given that our drives remain powered on for most of their life time." (Page 10, 4th paragraph)
Translation: The number of hours the drives are powered is the same as the age of the drives, since the drives are always powered.
When two numbers are close to equal, they are approximations for each other. LOL. Is there a social breakdown at Google? Are the people who don't like to think taking power at Google?
The research results are VERY poorly communicated, as research results often are.
This seems to be the most relevant sentence: "What stands out are the 3 and 4-
year old drives, where the trend for higher failures with higher temperature is much more constant and also more
pronounced." (Page 5, Section 3.4, 4th paragraph)
Often poor communication in research pages is intended to hide the fact that the results are not very useful. The above sentence can be translated to: "If you run hard drives hot, after 3 or 4 years you will have a high failure rate."
All of our drives have their own vibration-isolated fans. Google, I recommend you do that too, based on your research results.
-- Is U.S. government violence a good in the world, or does violence just cause more violence?
Most of those services are done by a computer. Most of the services done by a person are done once, but the domain registration fee is paid every year.
Notice that GoDaddy has become so rich that it can buy a Superbowl commercial. It seems that most of that money comes from tricking first-time buyers into buying things they don't need, but why should a mostly online clerical company become fabulously wealthy?
Maybe the domain registration business should be re-organized. Was it ever intended to help the registrars build vast fortunes?
Nearlyfreespeech.net costs $7.30/year for email forwarding? Apparently you cannot discover the features offered unless you are already a customer: "Visit the Domains tab in our user interface for more information."
But Register4Less.com has "pricing structure" instead of "prices". You know what that means. "Registering one domain name for one year will cost $14.95, already saving you $20 or more as compared to some other registrars." Paying almost twice as much saves you $20 per year? They mean "some other [very expensive] registrars".
DynDNS has pricing rather than "prices". When I see that word, I think "pricey". Why should a domain name registrar be so expensive? What do they do with the money ($15 per year)?
I don't understand the suggestion. Does Registry Rocket register domains?
This Registry Rocket?
"RegistryRocket is a customizable e-commerce web page. It is designed as a tool for you to sell domain names. You give your site a name, upload a logo (or not), and set the pricing. We take care of the website hosting, merchant processing and other eNom services. Track sales and watch your account balance grow in your eNom reseller account.Whether this is your permanent e-commerce solution fordomain name sales, or an interim option until you have your own merchant account established, RegistryRocket works."
The almost total ignorance of U.S. government corruption among its citizens scares me. I love the U.S., and for me that means staying with it when it is in trouble.
Bush administration representatives have not been arrested because the rule of law has been suspended. Here is one of the many, many articles about that: Bush Is Not Above the Law.
GWB is only a figurehead. Yes, he is corrupt, but he mostly enables other corrupt people.
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Here's a quote from the Google paper: "Power-on hours -- Although we do not dispute that power-on hours might have an effect on drive lifetime, it happens that in our deployment the age of the drive is an excellent approximation for that parameter, given that our drives remain powered on for most of their life time." (Page 10, 4th paragraph)
Translation: The number of hours the drives are powered is the same as the age of the drives, since the drives are always powered.
When two numbers are close to equal, they are approximations for each other. LOL. Is there a social breakdown at Google? Are the people who don't like to think taking power at Google?
The research results are VERY poorly communicated, as research results often are.
This seems to be the most relevant sentence: "What stands out are the 3 and 4- year old drives, where the trend for higher failures with higher temperature is much more constant and also more pronounced." (Page 5, Section 3.4, 4th paragraph)
Often poor communication in research pages is intended to hide the fact that the results are not very useful. The above sentence can be translated to: "If you run hard drives hot, after 3 or 4 years you will have a high failure rate."
All of our drives have their own vibration-isolated fans. Google, I recommend you do that too, based on your research results.
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Is U.S. government violence a good in the world, or does violence just cause more violence?
Most of those services are done by a computer. Most of the services done by a person are done once, but the domain registration fee is paid every year.
Notice that GoDaddy has become so rich that it can buy a Superbowl commercial. It seems that most of that money comes from tricking first-time buyers into buying things they don't need, but why should a mostly online clerical company become fabulously wealthy?
Maybe the domain registration business should be re-organized. Was it ever intended to help the registrars build vast fortunes?
EasyDNS is $25 per year.
How much does it cost to be a DirectI.com reseller?
Investigating the features of every suggested registrar is beginning to be bind moggling.
Joker.com is $12/year with a list of free features.
I feel uncomfortable with the name. When someone chooses a poor name for a business, doesn't that indicate a low amount of business sophistication?
Please provide links! DNSMadeEasy.com.
AITDomains.com sells URL forwarding for "only" $5.99 per year. I don't see a list of other features.
See this ugly story about GKG.net.
VoxDomains.com has a list of free services for $6.95/year.
DreamHost.com domain names are $9.95/year. However, apparently it is not possible to see the domain features unless you are a customer.
Thanks for the link to the InterNIC list of all domain registrars.
000domains.com domains are $13.50 per year, with a list of no-extra-cost features.
Nearlyfreespeech.net costs $7.30/year for email forwarding? Apparently you cannot discover the features offered unless you are already a customer: "Visit the Domains tab in our user interface for more information."
But see the above comment about Gandi.net: "There was a dispute with one of his [Gandi.net] domains and they shut them ALL down."
Gandi.net is also a bit spendy: 12,00 = 15,6276 U.S. dollars (on 2007-02-03).
eNameCo.com is $16.99 per year. Here are eNameCo.com's free services.
MOD PARENT UP!!! Excellent links: NamePros.com provides a list of registrars and prices. CNet's article is must reading: Survey: Are domain registrars free-speech friendly?
GKG.net does not seem to list the features. Do they provide email forwarding, for example?
Parent comment is very interesting.
But Register4Less.com has "pricing structure" instead of "prices". You know what that means. "Registering one domain name for one year will cost $14.95, already saving you $20 or more as compared to some other registrars." Paying almost twice as much saves you $20 per year? They mean "some other [very expensive] registrars".
StargateInc.com asks you to pay extra for "URL Forwarding, Email Forwarding, and Advanced DNS Zone Control Panel", apparently.
Here are NameCheap.com's features. Anything missing from Enom.com's features? Is NameCheap.com really an Enom.com reseller?
DynDNS has pricing rather than "prices". When I see that word, I think "pricey". Why should a domain name registrar be so expensive? What do they do with the money ($15 per year)?
Gandi.net costs "12,00 Tax Excl. ie. 14,35 incl. tax". That is $15.63 today (2007-02-03), almost twice as expensive as the minimum.
PagesGarden.com apparently is not a domain registrar, unless you buy hosting through them.
Enom is not a direct seller of domain names?
Enom has "Pricing", rather than "prices": enom.com. "Become an eNom Reseller for as little as $195".
I don't understand the suggestion. Does Registry Rocket register domains?
This Registry Rocket?
"RegistryRocket is a customizable e-commerce web page. It is designed as a tool for you to sell domain names. You give your site a name, upload a logo (or not), and set the pricing. We take care of the website hosting, merchant processing and other eNom services. Track sales and watch your account balance grow in your eNom reseller account.Whether this is your permanent e-commerce solution fordomain name sales, or an interim option until you have your own merchant account established, RegistryRocket works."
RegistryRocket.com gives an error message.
Registry Rocket - Free Domain Reselling?
The almost total ignorance of U.S. government corruption among its citizens scares me. I love the U.S., and for me that means staying with it when it is in trouble.
Bush administration representatives have not been arrested because the rule of law has been suspended. Here is one of the many, many articles about that: Bush Is Not Above the Law.
GWB is only a figurehead. Yes, he is corrupt, but he mostly enables other corrupt people.
Quote from the parent comment: "I studied MS extensively for a political science thesis. My conclusion is that MS is evil."
In 2003 I wrote an article about Windows XP: Windows XP Shows the Direction Microsoft is Going.
I came to the conclusion that Microsoft is very adversarial toward its customers, manipulating them whenever it is able to find a weakness.