saying "Hey let's use FPGA as a storage device" is like saying "Lets use 25 Pin DIN as a processor."
Even a LM741N op-amp (operational amplifier) is a processor. I'd draw the line at Schmitt trigger. If you watch the movie Tron even bits and electrons have intelligence,
the Seagate Cheetah X15 36LP has MTBF of 1.2 million hours, whereas the Seagate Barracuda ATA IV has an MTBF of 0.6 million hours. If we take a worst case of MYBF=100,000 hours, this can be a misleading figure. It depends on the actual distribution of failure. If mean time between failures is 12.5 years then if the variance is wide then we can approximate half the hard drives last 22 years, and the other half last 3 years that would give an MTBF=12.5 years = 100,000 hours. But half of your hard disks would die within 3 years. An abysmal rate.
We can see the same with cars, they are most likely to fail just after you buy them (manufacturing defect - lemon), then become unlikely to fail, and then gradually become more likely to fail after 10 years or so (because of age). Of course in the real world it won't be so extreme - half hard disks failing in 3 years, half after 22 years. It'll be more of a high-low manufacturing not perfect P(failure) = 1/exponential(t) within 10 years then slowly increasing P(failure) = log(t) rising to 100% failure after 500 years or so.
I seriously think it's possible for hard disks to (perhaps) go over 300 years because well in a car the components are rubbing => finite life, whereas in hard disks:
The heads barely touch the platter,
Servo actuators are so reliable they're used in car braking systems, Brushless motors have no frictional brushes, The SCSI electronics within the drive are cooled by the whirlwind generated by the fast platter rotation. IDE electronics on the drive's underside aren't. Rust or dust? Ahh, that's why its made in a clean room. Oil bearing technology might have high reliability soon.
So then why might a hard disk not last 500 years? Hmmmm let me think:
Perhaps the head assembly would weaken or become brittle as the metal ages, sagging and causing the head to scrape against the platter after a couple of decades,
Maybe the fast air rushing over the head would sharpen it same as a waterfall sharpens rock over thousands over years. This sharpening would over decades wreck the aerodynamics of the head causing it to lose lift and scrape against the platters, making a groove, Perhaps running your hard drive too cool can cause head scrapage against the platters - if the head assembly is cool then the metal will be less flexible and the head would ride closer to the platter, perhaps scraping against it, New Glass Platter technology might limit life because glass flows like a liquid, cuasing a warping effect in old windows. Under the high centrifugal forces in a 15,000 RPM hard disk it might shatter or start liquid flow within a few years.
I wonder if the engineers have factored these failure conditions into the manufacturing process. Maybe now in this recession I should switch to career in science fiction, or science fact?
The age-old debate, hmmmm this might be the last chance to have this debate before Serial-ATA gets ratified. Then we can have a 3-way debate. Heck let's throw in iSCSI, firewire hard disks, holographic cubes, flash-RAM, transactional-RAM (for databases) for good measure! Alright, big grand ruckus!/. flamewar - Serial versus 64-bit. Hey let's use FPGA as a storage device, alriiiiiight.
I was told by an IBM support rep that SCSI drives used a different lubricant on the axel the platters are mounted to.
And just for spraying the platters with some fancy stuff they charge an extra couple of hundred bucks. Common sense dictates they do a lot more than that, at least run Spinrite a couple of times;-)
Take a 7200 rpm SCSI drive. Take a 7200 rpm IDE drive. Rip off the electronics.
You now have two identical drives
Are you sure? Have both drives been through equivalent QA tests? And if one fails a QA test, wouldn't it make sense to make it IDE, remap the defective sectors, and sell it? Do you work in a HD manufacturers cleanroom? Do you know for a fact that they just randomly make some SCSI and others IDE without running further tests?
: "For many years we were told that SCSI is superior to IDE. I always made my systems with SCSI and the others in the household got el-cheapo IDE disks. In the past SCSI beat IDE hands-down but now according to Simson Garfinkel, "today's IDE drives are significantly faster than SCSI drives"
Not true. My friend worked at NCR, and talked to the clean-room hard disk manufacturing workers, I can't give him as a contact because he's retired now.
Mainframe hard disks (historically SCSI) don't use remapped sectors. The drives are built to perfection. They are the top of the line. IDE drives are inferior, because the drives that have imperfections are sold off as IDE. This is because the bad sectors are remapped and hidden from the user.
Same old story people, OS/2 is the quality system but loses, Microsoft is the pile of junk yet sells to the masses. Likewise SCSI drives are the quality niche, IDE drives are the mass-marketed Microsoft-equivalent pile of junk with the bugs and flaws hidden.
While the manufacturing line at Seagate, IBM, Hitachi, Quantum, etc. take their SCSI drives *very* seriously, IDE is more like "yeah it's ok if we screw up a couple of sectors, couple of customers complain so what". The SCSI line failing is like Ford coming last at the Daytona, it's in a completely different league.
The reliability of SCSI drives outclasses that of IDE because the manufacturers discriminate during production (note IBM 120GXP fiasco did *not* affect its SCSI drives). If any cleanroom people can confirm my facts please reply.
This guy is taking it personally. Ad revenues are not his to possess. The shareholders constantly scream out for more and more profits. Ads were just a way of increasing this profit, decreasing subscription costs and thus reaching a greater viewer base, increasing revenue. They are in effect just as temporary ad hoc measure. Subscriptions are the core of what pays for the service in law. A TV alrady carves the content by changing brightness, contrast, picture size, widescreen. Temporal carving was always inevitable. TV advertising can stop tomorrow, it's not a guaranteed income, same as shares in Yahoo! It just seems like a guranteed income which you're entitled to while it's there. There's nothing stopping it from not being there.
It will be the corporations, not the goverment that will be the totaltarian
Osama bin Laden's brother's Uncle's Niece's Nephew's room-mate: We have struck the World Trade Centre, and yet the corporations have not been destroyed. George Bush: I thank your mercenaries for destroying the WTC, but we have greatly underestimated the enemy. Unemployment is at 5%, so 95% of US citizens have jobs - 95% of US citizens are the enemy. Destroying WTC is nothing. Osama bin Laden's brother's Uncle's Niece's Nephew's room-mate: AHHH! Sheesh kebab! They have found us! Bill Gates with armed strike team: There you are. Sign this DMCA-compliant waiver that everything you have said in your life breaches the CDBPTTA. Our worldwide DRM hardware+software system will then make all video and audio records of you unreadable. Osama bin Laden's brother's Uncle's Niece's Nephew's room-mate: And if we don't sign it? Bill Gates: We will install IP chains at every Border Gateway and sell the entire Internet backbone of the United States including ICANN and all DNS registrars to Scientology. They will censor it far better than we can. Muh ah ah ah ahhhhhhhh. MUH AH AH AH AH AHHHHH. George Bush: I would order my military to destroy you, but your DRM system would censor my orders as soon as I issue them. Dang. I have friends in the Tora Bora caves. You will NEVER defeat them! Bill Gates: Really.......? Every employee in the US is under our spell. If they don't do what we want, even if it's illegal or breaches their morals, we'll fire them. Their kids won't get healthcare, they'll be out in the street with all the whinos, starving. <Klingon accent> They will die without honour </Klingon accent> Now that we have this power NOBODY can fight against our megacartel. We will destroy the lives of anyone that tries. Muh ah ah ah ahhhhhhh Krusty the Clown: At least now I'll get ratings, and the adverts can pay my salary, alright, bwa ha ha! Ha ha! Ha, huhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Should we envision a dark future where you watch a show and then are QUIZZED on the ads you saw? If you pass you're good, if you fail you're fined?
OH MY GOD! So that's what interactive TV is for, that's why they're advertising that red interactive button on your sky remote.
Whoa. This is worse than Matrix, at least there in the dream world you were free to do whatever you wanted, but here we'll be handcuffed to the TV during the show and get blasted with ads. "Buy Barbie, buy Barbie!" what the hell is a Java programmer gonna do with a barbie doll?? I'm gonna stick with the BSD daemon statuette. Maybe they'll want us to generate our own electricity for the TV using our own body heat. And thanks to globalisation, when customer service is bad, new customers (people) will be grown in large fields and harvested. Oh man, Neo was right, this IS about control. I wanna take the red pill.
Ads are just an icing on the cake for the broadcaster. They have no right to force anything, just as doubleclick.net cannot BSoD your PC with an ad at the bottom to get "maximum visibility".
It's not stealing as in criminal law, it's simple breach of contract which is up to the company to prosecute if they wish, but then physically forcing you to sit through ads is against the Bill of Rights, as is DDoS'ing your TV by not allowing you to switch channels. Unless you were explicitly told this when you purchased your TV and signed the contract, it's unlawful hijacking of TV equipment. The only way to lock in channels during ads is by a CDPPBTTA derivative.
Well, you make no factual statements, everything is opinion, so it's not informative.
Everything in your post has been said at least thirty thousand times already on Slashdot, so it's not interesting.
Funny? Where? The only thing funny about your post is your claim that there's something funny about your post.
If that was a troll, it was the most pathetic one I've ever seen in my life. Who the fuck were you trolling for, anyway?
Flamebait? Well, I'm flaming you, so I suppose that one's correct.
Sir, the famous belief that IT people don't express their opinions and get wiped on the floor by salespeople and managers is what I want to destroy, by, at least, expressing my opinion. You may not value your opinion as an IT professional. But I assure you Sir that the hoardes of management and sales that have brainwashed you the same as Al Qaeda does to it's recruits are wrong. You are an individual, speak out otherwise you'll get a CDBTPPTBA slapped on your forehead. Your opinions *DO* count. As does your democratic vote.
Managers and salespeople use the same damn stupid semi-illiterate buzzwords over and over. You know a secret - all managers know that Unix is more scalable than Windows, because some geek told them and they remembered it, now with that information they can show they are GOD (that's why they're in sales). But do they actually know what Unix or Windows is? Nope, because otherwise they'll know how little they actually know and then won't have the confidence to talk sh** any more, in other words their career in sales will be over. So if you know something, say it over and over. If Jesus said to some bozo, "Hey I'm Jesus, and I'm the son of God. Well good to get that off my chest, I thnk I'll go sleep now" then we wouldn't have christianity. Read this and be inspired. Amen.
Oh, oh yeah? Well what about VStudio.NET enterprise architect 4xISOs = 2 Gigs @ 2.0kbps.
I start twitching every time I see/hear someone mention the concept of "broadcasting" content on the Web -- because it implies that the Web works like high-tech radio. It doesn't work that way, and it never will.
Dude you better lay off the caffeine, that'll fix the twitching. As for the broadcasting, you can get pretty close with RSVP and RTP. The IETF aren't too stupid you know (allegedly).
Ahh...the beauty of this would be that the warez community would come up with a way to create the watermarks, and you could view the "pirated" content even on new computers.
Or maybe Osama bin Laden could create the watermarks so that only his diciples could see the content. Boom boom boom and completely untracable.
What we're seeing here is a dying industry clutching at straws for survival.
Same with the PC industry. With a P4 or AthlonXP on your desk, the only reason you'd want to upgrade that in future is to run Quake VI at 100FPS or whatever. Either that or every Joe sixpack will run ERP, CRM, SETI@home and a Google node on their dekstop. CPU power is so excessive nowadays that old-timers complaining about Java applets' CPU usage get flamed. But the marketing works - the only person that would need a high-end Pentium 4 DDR is for doing hyperspace jump calulations, hence the latest Intel advertisements featuring aliens. Heck Rambus could tag on the ad that, "Rambus is optimised for data-intensive SSE2 instructions, such as our hyperspace jump calculations, latency is your friend, latency loves you and therefore DDR hates you." Marketing, marketing, marketing, Bill Gates you really did it.
Bill Gates to Intel Chairman: Everyone is flaming the Itanium, calling it Itanic, you're a dumbass Intel Chairman: Not if Windows XP2 only runs on IA-64 buddy Bill Gates: Ha ha! You'll have to give me half your company before I even think about it Intel Chairman: hmmm 40% Bill Gates: 45% going going Intel Chairman: we have a deal Intel Chairman thinks *sucker* I'll give him the loss-making part of my company, I'll give him Celeron. Muh ah ah ahhh. AMD Chairman: <Krusty the Clown laugh> Bwa ha! Ha ha ha! Ha huh, huhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh </Krusty the Clown laugh>
To adapt to the new world (if without effective enforcement of SSSSSSCA or CDBTTPPPTBA) the media companies would have to,
Shock horror, create exciting new content and broadcast it worldwide first, so that if you're downloading it on DivX, you're missing it's Premiere on Sky. Might as well switch the computer off (/. - Noooooooooo my poor zombie processes is gonna die) and sit in front of the TV, watch those ads and make Disney happy.
Since after the first few broadcasts everyone has the DiVX, the cable channels won't get zip for broadcasting reruns and repeats x million times. Content will have to be fresh.
In getting fresh new content instead of broadctasing DiVX'ed reruns, we'll see more international programs, upcoming artists - all the good stuff Napster was supposed to introduce. Heck maybe even US would get BBC broadcasts, then in 50 years there will be no more Joe sixpacks, just a whole country of geeks.
In light of all this, why is the entertainment industry pushing CDBTPPABA? They're forcing us to watch pathetic old reruns again and again, forcing us to wait years before the DVD is released in only certain DVD-regions, creating the demand for DeCSS in the first place. If all content was DivX'ed on first broadcast, then reruns would have no value, only fresh content would appeal to customers - a good thing.
Pop quiz hotshot: this is an Informative, Interesting, Funny, Trolling flamebait. How do you mod? how do you mod?
Because those very shareholders will then immediately move their waning interest in your company somewhere else where they might get some measure of respect from those that they've invested in
But then surely the CEO can say, "Ha ha! Losers! You pulled your money out prematurely, our shares are gonna rise next quarter."
After IPO, what happens to a company's share value doesn't matter too much (I think), it doesn't immediately effect the company itself. When the company's share price drops you can just say, "Hey, we're expanding rapidly, what do you expect? Other companies take 120 days to pay their Invoices on our B2B transactions. If shareholders pull out because we haven't received payment yet, then they're losers"
When I was a supervisor there was one employee that would constantly come in 5-10mins late every day, I told him he needed to be at work on time (it was a NOC that did 12hr shifts and he would replace the overnight who was just working 12hrs, so it was kinda important). He informed me that he didn't have a car and he had to take a bus and that was the earliest one he could get. I informed him that it was not my problem, he took the job, he knew what time he had to be at work before he took the job. Get to work on time, or you're all done..
WHAAAAAAAAAAATTTT!!!!!If I could insult you without starting a flamewar the I would. If I hijack a plane and smash it into some world trade centre, It's nobody's business. So I'm screwing the lives of 3000 people in WTC, but by your logic their lives don't mean anything, it's nothing personal.
You say "So what if I fire some woman with dependent children", I say, "So what if I smash an aeroplane into WTC?"
I mean, the reason is obvious: a huge influx of IPO cash to do with what you please. But then you're beholden to the shareholders forever. And they care about nothing but profit.
I've never understood this, why not tell shareholders to shut up and wait? Firing employees drops the shares because you have to pay severance, etc. Hiring employees increases the share price because it inidicates growth. As for showing growth on the balance sheet, the Enron accountants can sort out that problem for you in no time. So why not just hire more employees to make the share price go up? It'll make the shareholders AND the employees happy.
the non-technically challenging are the jobs that need to pay 150% of salary (imagine converting long, marketing type ms-word documents to html pages for 40 hrs a week, every week, over and over...)
I'm sorry dude, but this is America, where important people like garbagemen, taxi drivers, greyhound coach drivers, builders, dam supervisors, power station clerks, librarians, firemen get oh what $30,000 ? And trash like CEOs that talk hot air get oh what >$200k and us lucky tech people get a little more, I'm grateful for that.
I don't know about you, but 40 miles from London doesn't quite count as the middle of nowhere to me. According to a recent article in New Scientist (hard copy edition - no link, sorry) the MoD is even preventing wind turbine farms from being placed in the North Sea because of the possiblity that they may interfere with radar. I think that those guys are going to be quite concerned about EM pulses going off in the English Channel.
Ahhhh, yes, true. Perhaps a directional EM pulse (I don't know if that's possible) or a directional 10GW UWB pulse (yeah I think that's possible).
More realistically, some unidentified ship from some place will drag it's anchor on the sea floor and sever the undersea fiber-optic cable, like happened before. Or for a satellite link, flood their dish with directional static, targetted at where their side-lobes would be. But this would probably be of limited effect.
I suspect that in the event of Chinese guided missiles being fired at targets in northern Europe, most people will have other things to worry about than their website. Certainly, bandwidth and hosting costs would be expected to rise!
True, there are however ways to attack the computer systems themselves without causing any trouble. Who the hell would care about an EM pulse or UWB pulse in the middle of nowhere, quoting this article
to assess and characterize aircraft system survivability to High Frequency (HF) electromagnetic (EM) transient threats. These threats include the HF Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) and other ultra wideband (UWB) transient environments. The Navy recognizes this need and is taking the initiative to investigate the feasibility of a realistic, low-cost test methodology to assess, characterize and validate aircraft survivability to threats that may range from a few hundred Kilohertz to the low Gigahertz region. The proposed Navy technical approach is based on established system-level RDTE technology using existing high frequency test laboratories and equipment. The approach will be validated using a combination of High Level Pulse (HLP) testing at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Patuxent Rivers Horizontally Polarized Dipole (HPD) and Vertically Polarized Dipole (VPD) free-field EMP simulators, electromagnetic effects generating equipment to simulate the carrier shipboard environment free-field low-level continuous wave (LLCW) testing to acquire the stress response data, and wideband direct-drive tests to characterize system strength. The Navy is developing a new wideband (up to 1 GHz) direct-drive technology and waveform combination techniques using stress response data to develop worst-case stress envelopes to be used during the direct-drive tests.
Whoa! The article also has lots of other cool stuff, I never realised that a single nuke could obliterate the Internet because the radiation causes fibre optic cables to go black. Gotta quote this,
Fiber optic transmission systems, because of their extraordinary channel capacity and decreasing cost, are the preferred terrestrial transmission media of the nation's long distance, inter-city telecommunications infrastructure. Since the commercial telephone network forms the foundation for emergency communication in the event of a national crisis or emergency, additional requirements are placed on the fibers and components of this system. The network must remain operational in the face of such threats as loss of commercial power, disruption by natural causes, violation of physical security, and exposure to the effects of nuclear weapons, including electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and ionizing radiation from the delayed gamma component and fallout. The most stressing environment for the fiber consists of fallout subsequent to a nuclear attack since the long lengths of fiber can be potentially exposed to high total doses. The susceptibility of some types of commercially available fiber optic cable to optical darkening (and hence increased signal loss and bit error rate) from exposure to ionizing radiation raises serious questions about the survivability of such systems in the reconstitution phase of a nuclear conflict.
Check your facts before posting, next time, maybe?
*plonk*
Since you flamed him, I'm going to see if you really are right or not.
>All China has to do is conduct naval exercises
>in the region, carefully staying outside of
>British waters, and have a little accident with
>a missile.
For some odd reason I would presume that eyebrows
be raised if China moved their navy across half
the globe to have this little "accident".
Same sort of accident where a couple of US tomahawk cruise missiles hit the Chinese embassy in Serbia (Chinese soil). Yup, this happens all the time. China wouldn't have to move its navy, just one unescorted fishing boat with one cruise missile will do the job. Haven't you heard of camouflage? Russian submarines parked themselves a couple of hundred miles off US waters during the cold war, some were undetected.
Sealand
(apparently) will go down in flames before
allowing unauthorised access
Flames can be arranged, and almost were if you believe their website which I quote
Some of these people, it seems, were involved in the terrorist attack on Sealand in the 1970s that nearly resulted in loss of life, and did involve an international incident with the British, Dutch and German governments."
So, dude if you want him to check his facts,
Check your facts before posting, next time, maybe?
*plonk*
I used to be very optimistic about the role of the internet in combatting censorship. I was naive and silly. The internet resists goverment censorship, because it's difficult to enforce laws and regulations against such a decentralized entity. But as long as the key networks are owned by a few media monopolies, you will play by their rules, or your plug will be pulled.
If the telcos stay in control of the Internet (as they are at the moment being the carriers) then Internet freedom is looking good. If AoL/TW and the like start taking backbone responsibility away from the telcos (possible after the telco crash), we'll start to see censorship, starting with (in my opinion) a massive attack on celebrity nude sites (where AoL/TW interests' lie most), national and international. All backbone routers (which will belong to AoL/TW) will run IP chains type software and DENY all packets to their IP address blacklist, or they'll just quietly drop the entire region from their BGP tables. Your only recourse will be a dial-up connection to uncensored Afghanistani ISPs, but then the National Guard will knock your door down and take you to camp xray.
This is the world in which we live. We work to earn money, spending the money in grocery and clothing stores, paying our mortgages, living as model citizens (just as Neo was pressured to do) for the sake of our survival. We take money from the system and feed it back into the system, like cattle fertilizing the ground upon which they graze. The film assumed that reducing a human being to a "coppertop" was an intolerable, dehumanizing condition. -- The Matrix
I am sorry/. people, I've taken the red pill and woken up out of the dream world, this is how the things actually are:
Television, radio, telephony and the traditional print
media will find counterparts on the Internet - and will be changed in
profound ways by the presence of software that transforms the one-way
media into interactive resources, shareable by many.
Television - content is paid for by cable subscription, plus advertising dollars. This is broadcast over powerful transmitters and/or subterrainian cable nationwide. The transmitters have a long range and can be received with aerials, or cable set top boxes (sometimes integrated with the TV). Important term: broadcast. The Internet doesn't provide as cheap a mechanism (routers, ISPs) for reaching as many people as possible, as cheaply as possible. After the burst of the telecom bubble, there is no way in hell that the telcos can afford to upgrade their IP bandwith to the levels required for transmission of TV-like signals to 500 million Americans, even super-compressed. 500 million MPEG-2 streams of 2 Megabits per second, I'm not even going to bother to do the math. RSVP and RTP and multicasting protocols will find it difficult to scale to this amount, and even if they can, what's the point when the infrastructure to broadast is available anyway. Even the advertisers like doubleclick.bet can barely cover bandwidth costs because the Internet is so poor at providing a one-time broadcast, one advertisement places a billion hits on doubleclick.net and they have to pay for their bandwidth. with ad revenues sliding, once they can't cover their costs....... Free content is dead.
"I don't watch TV. It's a cultural wasteland filled with inappropriate metaphors and an unrealistic portrayal of life created by the liberal media elite."
-EarthForce Security Officer, Babylon 5
Well dude, you're not gonna have to watch TV over IP because it offers no massive improvement over boradcast over current cable and broadcast transmitter technology.
Radio over the Internet - Napster, Kazaa, Bearshare, etc, - you content providers better become good friends with Cydoor 'cos that's as good as it's gonna get. Users with lots of shared files don't get money, just loads of people leeching off of them, pissing off their ISP, which will then enforce a restrictive usage policy of "No filesharing, no servers". The RIAA will shut the rest of you down unless you pay them off with ad revenues (which don't cost the cost of streaming radio anyway) or set the lawyers (hounds) on them.
Telephony over the Internet - on hold until IPv6 backbone QoS. Over corporate LANs or to PBXs it's OK. When encapsulated in SONET (which guarantees stuff) it's mmmmmmkay, over the Internet IPv4/IPv6 itself - some Chinese DDoS or SNMP router hack or some dumb MCSE at the ISP/telco will see to the reliability and latency of that. With <4% of households on broadband there will only be a gentle transition to broadband phones.
Newspapers over the Internet - when we buy a newspaper we pay 30 cents, some goes to the publisher to pay his journalists. Journalists want money or they'll just flip burgers. Therefore the Internet kills free media, it doesn't encourage it (ironic really). If you want newspapers over the Internet, it could be really cheap because the medium is cheap (no middle man or distribution network), but at the end of the day you're gonna have to get 500 million Americans to whip out their credit cards and send it over the Net. Doh! Newspapers on the Internet suddenly seems like a bad idea.
End result: ISPs and telcos will have to pay for Internet content if ad revenues dry up. The Internet won't be free unless the telcos and ISPs want it to be. Judging by TV coverage of WTC attacks, has anyone shown binLaden's persective? Nope, okay scratch Internet free speech then.
The Internet can facilitate democratic practices in unexpected ways.
Did you know that proxy voting for stock shareholders is now commonly
supported on the Internet?
Yeah, and the dot-coms also said that they'll make money in unexpected ways. Dude, sorry you're just clutching at straws
The Internet is moving off the planet! Already, interplanetary
Internet is part of the NASA Mars mission program now underway at the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory. By 2008 we should have a well-functioning
Earth-Mars network that serves as a nascent backbone of an inter-
planetary system of Internets - InterPlaNet is a network of
Internets! Ultimately, we will have interplanetary Internet relays
in polar solar orbit so that they can see most of the planets and
their associated interplanetary gateways for most, if not all of the
time.
If doubleclick.net can barely pay for terrestrial content sites, how the heck are they gonna pay for that infrastructure? I told everyone my XML search engine could be used over the interplanetary Internet, so what?
Let us dedicate ourselves to the creation of a
global legal framework in which laws work across national boundaries
to reinforce the upward spiral of value that the Internet is capable
of creating.
WHATTTTTTT? So the RIAA and DMCA can follow me to Mexico???? How about if I code DeCSS v2 WHERE THE HELL WILL I GO?
Let us also commit
ourselves to support the work of the Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers - a key function for the Internet's
operation.
Let us give thanks for the food on our table.... Maybe if I give ICANN a donation they'll give me my own static IPv4 address
Internet IS for everyone - but it won't be unless WE make it so.
Dude, you should get a dog, Golden Retriever maybe, and perhaps take a chill pill.
Score: -1, Pessimist, it's people like you that burst the bubble a@@hole.
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Can transistors dream?
We can see the same with cars, they are most likely to fail just after you buy them (manufacturing defect - lemon), then become unlikely to fail, and then gradually become more likely to fail after 10 years or so (because of age). Of course in the real world it won't be so extreme - half hard disks failing in 3 years, half after 22 years. It'll be more of a high-low manufacturing not perfect P(failure) = 1/exponential(t) within 10 years then slowly increasing P(failure) = log(t) rising to 100% failure after 500 years or so.
I seriously think it's possible for hard disks to (perhaps) go over 300 years because well in a car the components are rubbing => finite life, whereas in hard disks:
So then why might a hard disk not last 500 years? Hmmmm let me think:I wonder if the engineers have factored these failure conditions into the manufacturing process. Maybe now in this recession I should switch to career in science fiction, or science fact?
The age-old debate, hmmmm this might be the last chance to have this debate before Serial-ATA gets ratified. Then we can have a 3-way debate. Heck let's throw in iSCSI, firewire hard disks, holographic cubes, flash-RAM, transactional-RAM (for databases) for good measure! Alright, big grand ruckus! /. flamewar - Serial versus 64-bit. Hey let's use FPGA as a storage device, alriiiiiight.
Mainframe hard disks (historically SCSI) don't use remapped sectors. The drives are built to perfection. They are the top of the line. IDE drives are inferior, because the drives that have imperfections are sold off as IDE. This is because the bad sectors are remapped and hidden from the user.
Same old story people, OS/2 is the quality system but loses, Microsoft is the pile of junk yet sells to the masses. Likewise SCSI drives are the quality niche, IDE drives are the mass-marketed Microsoft-equivalent pile of junk with the bugs and flaws hidden.
While the manufacturing line at Seagate, IBM, Hitachi, Quantum, etc. take their SCSI drives *very* seriously, IDE is more like "yeah it's ok if we screw up a couple of sectors, couple of customers complain so what". The SCSI line failing is like Ford coming last at the Daytona, it's in a completely different league.
The reliability of SCSI drives outclasses that of IDE because the manufacturers discriminate during production (note IBM 120GXP fiasco did *not* affect its SCSI drives). If any cleanroom people can confirm my facts please reply.
This guy is taking it personally. Ad revenues are not his to possess. The shareholders constantly scream out for more and more profits. Ads were just a way of increasing this profit, decreasing subscription costs and thus reaching a greater viewer base, increasing revenue. They are in effect just as temporary ad hoc measure. Subscriptions are the core of what pays for the service in law. A TV alrady carves the content by changing brightness, contrast, picture size, widescreen. Temporal carving was always inevitable. TV advertising can stop tomorrow, it's not a guaranteed income, same as shares in Yahoo! It just seems like a guranteed income which you're entitled to while it's there. There's nothing stopping it from not being there.
George Bush: I thank your mercenaries for destroying the WTC, but we have greatly underestimated the enemy. Unemployment is at 5%, so 95% of US citizens have jobs - 95% of US citizens are the enemy. Destroying WTC is nothing.
Osama bin Laden's brother's Uncle's Niece's Nephew's room-mate: AHHH! Sheesh kebab! They have found us!
Bill Gates with armed strike team: There you are. Sign this DMCA-compliant waiver that everything you have said in your life breaches the CDBPTTA. Our worldwide DRM hardware+software system will then make all video and audio records of you unreadable.
Osama bin Laden's brother's Uncle's Niece's Nephew's room-mate: And if we don't sign it?
Bill Gates: We will install IP chains at every Border Gateway and sell the entire Internet backbone of the United States including ICANN and all DNS registrars to Scientology. They will censor it far better than we can. Muh ah ah ah ahhhhhhhh. MUH AH AH AH AH AHHHHH.
George Bush: I would order my military to destroy you, but your DRM system would censor my orders as soon as I issue them. Dang. I have friends in the Tora Bora caves. You will NEVER defeat them!
Bill Gates: Really.......? Every employee in the US is under our spell. If they don't do what we want, even if it's illegal or breaches their morals, we'll fire them. Their kids won't get healthcare, they'll be out in the street with all the whinos, starving. <Klingon accent> They will die without honour </Klingon accent> Now that we have this power NOBODY can fight against our megacartel. We will destroy the lives of anyone that tries. Muh ah ah ah ahhhhhhh
Krusty the Clown: At least now I'll get ratings, and the adverts can pay my salary, alright, bwa ha ha! Ha ha! Ha, huhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Whoa. This is worse than Matrix, at least there in the dream world you were free to do whatever you wanted, but here we'll be handcuffed to the TV during the show and get blasted with ads. "Buy Barbie, buy Barbie!" what the hell is a Java programmer gonna do with a barbie doll?? I'm gonna stick with the BSD daemon statuette. Maybe they'll want us to generate our own electricity for the TV using our own body heat. And thanks to globalisation, when customer service is bad, new customers (people) will be grown in large fields and harvested. Oh man, Neo was right, this IS about control. I wanna take the red pill.
It's not stealing as in criminal law, it's simple breach of contract which is up to the company to prosecute if they wish, but then physically forcing you to sit through ads is against the Bill of Rights, as is DDoS'ing your TV by not allowing you to switch channels. Unless you were explicitly told this when you purchased your TV and signed the contract, it's unlawful hijacking of TV equipment. The only way to lock in channels during ads is by a CDPPBTTA derivative.
Managers and salespeople use the same damn stupid semi-illiterate buzzwords over and over. You know a secret - all managers know that Unix is more scalable than Windows, because some geek told them and they remembered it, now with that information they can show they are GOD (that's why they're in sales). But do they actually know what Unix or Windows is? Nope, because otherwise they'll know how little they actually know and then won't have the confidence to talk sh** any more, in other words their career in sales will be over. So if you know something, say it over and over. If Jesus said to some bozo, "Hey I'm Jesus, and I'm the son of God. Well good to get that off my chest, I thnk I'll go sleep now" then we wouldn't have christianity. Read this and be inspired. Amen.
Same with the PC industry. With a P4 or AthlonXP on your desk, the only reason you'd want to upgrade that in future is to run Quake VI at 100FPS or whatever. Either that or every Joe sixpack will run ERP, CRM, SETI@home and a Google node on their dekstop. CPU power is so excessive nowadays that old-timers complaining about Java applets' CPU usage get flamed. But the marketing works - the only person that would need a high-end Pentium 4 DDR is for doing hyperspace jump calulations, hence the latest Intel advertisements featuring aliens. Heck Rambus could tag on the ad that,
"Rambus is optimised for data-intensive SSE2 instructions, such as our hyperspace jump calculations, latency is your friend, latency loves you and therefore DDR hates you." Marketing, marketing, marketing, Bill Gates you really did it.
Bill Gates to Intel Chairman: Everyone is flaming the Itanium, calling it Itanic, you're a dumbass
Intel Chairman: Not if Windows XP2 only runs on IA-64 buddy
Bill Gates: Ha ha! You'll have to give me half your company before I even think about it
Intel Chairman: hmmm 40%
Bill Gates: 45% going going
Intel Chairman: we have a deal
Intel Chairman thinks *sucker* I'll give him the loss-making part of my company, I'll give him Celeron. Muh ah ah ahhh.
AMD Chairman: <Krusty the Clown laugh> Bwa ha! Ha ha ha! Ha huh, huhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh </Krusty the Clown laugh>
To adapt to the new world (if without effective enforcement of SSSSSSCA or CDBTTPPPTBA) the media companies would have to,
In light of all this, why is the entertainment industry pushing CDBTPPABA? They're forcing us to watch pathetic old reruns again and again, forcing us to wait years before the DVD is released in only certain DVD-regions, creating the demand for DeCSS in the first place. If all content was DivX'ed on first broadcast, then reruns would have no value, only fresh content would appeal to customers - a good thing.Pop quiz hotshot: this is an Informative, Interesting, Funny, Trolling flamebait. How do you mod? how do you mod?
After IPO, what happens to a company's share value doesn't matter too much (I think), it doesn't immediately effect the company itself. When the company's share price drops you can just say, "Hey, we're expanding rapidly, what do you expect? Other companies take 120 days to pay their Invoices on our B2B transactions. If shareholders pull out because we haven't received payment yet, then they're losers"
You say "So what if I fire some woman with dependent children", I say, "So what if I smash an aeroplane into WTC?"
More realistically, some unidentified ship from some place will drag it's anchor on the sea floor and sever the undersea fiber-optic cable, like happened before. Or for a satellite link, flood their dish with directional static, targetted at where their side-lobes would be. But this would probably be of limited effect.
Radio over the Internet - Napster, Kazaa, Bearshare, etc, - you content providers better become good friends with Cydoor 'cos that's as good as it's gonna get. Users with lots of shared files don't get money, just loads of people leeching off of them, pissing off their ISP, which will then enforce a restrictive usage policy of "No filesharing, no servers". The RIAA will shut the rest of you down unless you pay them off with ad revenues (which don't cost the cost of streaming radio anyway) or set the lawyers (hounds) on them.
Telephony over the Internet - on hold until IPv6 backbone QoS. Over corporate LANs or to PBXs it's OK. When encapsulated in SONET (which guarantees stuff) it's mmmmmmkay, over the Internet IPv4/IPv6 itself - some Chinese DDoS or SNMP router hack or some dumb MCSE at the ISP/telco will see to the reliability and latency of that. With <4% of households on broadband there will only be a gentle transition to broadband phones.
Newspapers over the Internet - when we buy a newspaper we pay 30 cents, some goes to the publisher to pay his journalists. Journalists want money or they'll just flip burgers. Therefore the Internet kills free media, it doesn't encourage it (ironic really). If you want newspapers over the Internet, it could be really cheap because the medium is cheap (no middle man or distribution network), but at the end of the day you're gonna have to get 500 million Americans to whip out their credit cards and send it over the Net. Doh! Newspapers on the Internet suddenly seems like a bad idea.
End result: ISPs and telcos will have to pay for Internet content if ad revenues dry up. The Internet won't be free unless the telcos and ISPs want it to be. Judging by TV coverage of WTC attacks, has anyone shown binLaden's persective? Nope, okay scratch Internet free speech then.
Yeah, and the dot-coms also said that they'll make money in unexpected ways. Dude, sorry you're just clutching at strawsIf doubleclick.net can barely pay for terrestrial content sites, how the heck are they gonna pay for that infrastructure? I told everyone my XML search engine could be used over the interplanetary Internet, so what?WHATTTTTTT? So the RIAA and DMCA can follow me to Mexico???? How about if I code DeCSS v2 WHERE THE HELL WILL I GO?Let us give thanks for the food on our table.... Maybe if I give ICANN a donation they'll give me my own static IPv4 addressDude, you should get a dog, Golden Retriever maybe, and perhaps take a chill pill.Score: -1, Pessimist, it's people like you that burst the bubble a@@hole.