It's a real eye opener, a throwback to the 50s in its crudeness. They must have employed all the Soviet propagandists who were without work after the fall of the Soviet Union.
I think he's being sarcastic, but a bit misguided. You wouldn't translate my metric pancake recipe to include 1,761 cups of flower.
He's also right - imperial measure is still the norm in common expression. How many stone do you weigh? How many feet and inches are you tall? How many miles is it to the gas station? What's the consumption in MPG on that car? These are questions I get asked in the UK.
Last year Apple still outsold Nokia in touchscreen smartphones. I wouldn't be surprised if Nokia overtakook Apple this year as their lineup is shifting more to touchscreen phones.
Regarding company size, market valuation is not necessarily the best gauge. For example, Nokia's revenue in 2009 was larger than Apple's. Also take into account that Nokia is almost exclusively in the phone business whereas it's only a part of Apple's.
People always read too much into events like this. Microsoft is not a monolithic entity where every action is centrally planned and intentional. It's not like Steve Ballmer sat down with managers to figure which startup to rip off or part of the Microsoft induction is Ripoff 101.
What happened is most likely a subcontractor taking a shortcut.
If you want to blame Microsoft, put it down to poor IPR training and lacking due diligence. These are doubly important in developing countries that don't have the same awareness of these issues. I'm not defending Microsoft, but I'm sure code theft is something they genuinely try to avoid. At least where I work open source is an important part of our work and we are trained on how to use it correctly.
The GP is not "pretending" anything, he's saying "thought police", "surveillance" etc. are signs of dictatorships in general, not exclusively signs of communism. He hints that the UK is an example of a non-communist dictatorship.
As a generalisation, Europe doesn't have the same lawsuit-happy system as the US. Damages are a lot lower and we don't have punitive damages (apart from the UK).
Except the Pakistan affair was about the BGP routing protocol. I agree the file format is nutty, though.
I can't think of a better alternative to the hierarchical system, perhaps you have a suggestion. A flat namespace would be an administrative impossiblity, not to mention the stress it would put on name servers. Increasing the number of TLDs would lessen the impact of a single failure, though.
I guess you don't appreciate the irony in how close your attitude is to fundamentalism. You carry on lumping people together and feeling smug and superior. Whatever you do don't stop criticizing religious people for being holier than thou or try to see the shades of grey.
As I pointed out above, read the FA and you'll find that software is the bread and butter of BackBlaze, not hardware. That's why they can open source their design. Same as for Google, who also build their own hardware from COTS parts.
How about reading the section "A Backblaze Storage Pod is a Building Block".
<snip> the intelligence of where to store data and how to encrypt it, deduplicate it, and index it is all at a higher level (outside the scope of this blog post). When you run a datacenter with thousands of hard drives, CPUs, motherboards, and power supplies, you are going to have hardware failures — it's irrefutable. Backblaze Storage Pods are building blocks upon which a larger system can be organized that doesn't allow for a single point of failure. Each pod in itself is just a big chunk of raw storage for an inexpensive price; it is not a "solution" in itself.
Emphasis mine. I believe there are quite a few successful and reliable storage vendors not using ZFS. We get the point, you like it. Doesn't mean you can't succeed without it. Be more open minded.
Give me a break. It would be "inconsistent" to use base 2 for measuring frequency just because it's a computer?
You happily accept inconsistency yourself just by writing English, although it obviously causes real problems for you: It's spelled consistEncy even though you spell redundAncy with an A. Don't get me started on travesties like through vs. trough vs. though. Ugh! There's something useful Apple and Microsoft could do - sneak in consistent English spelling via their spelling checkers. You wouldn't need foreigners like myself teaching natives how to write their own language.
Please, put this in context. An employer in Finland was not allowed to even look at the recipient or subject line of outgoing emails, and Nokia wanted that changed. OK, I also disagree with their tactics if they actually made such threats.
Now compare this situation with how US companies treat their employees to have some perspective.
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Again, a proper banking system like my bank uses
- a one time pad for logging on - another set of codes, from which one is picked randomly, to confirm transfers
The one time pad means they can't open a second session. Even if they could hijack the session I've opened they can't transfer money without my explicitly authorizing each transfer by entering the second code.
Sure, and how OS's use the Linux kernel but not the GNU toolchain? And how many of those (any?) are enterprise offerings? So could it well be BSD/Linux? Thanks for this useless tangent.
That's what I'd imagine an instrument created by a software model would look like. Wake me up when the software "creates" an instrument that looks more Klingon and less "software model".
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It's a real eye opener, a throwback to the 50s in its crudeness. They must have employed all the Soviet propagandists who were without work after the fall of the Soviet Union.
I think he's being sarcastic, but a bit misguided. You wouldn't translate my metric pancake recipe to include 1,761 cups of flower.
He's also right - imperial measure is still the norm in common expression. How many stone do you weigh? How many feet and inches are you tall? How many miles is it to the gas station? What's the consumption in MPG on that car? These are questions I get asked in the UK.
I think there's a strong perception that Symbian isn't used in smartphones. Ironic.
If Nokia knows nothing about smartphone OS design, how is it that they outsell Apple and Google in smartphones.? They must be doing something right.
Smartphones are not low margin, and Symbian outsells iOS and Android combined:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone
Last year Apple still outsold Nokia in touchscreen smartphones. I wouldn't be surprised if Nokia overtakook Apple this year as their lineup is shifting more to touchscreen phones.
http://www.gsmarena.com/touchscreen_smartphones_sales_rose_twice_apple_still_in_the_lead-news-1437.php
Regarding company size, market valuation is not necessarily the best gauge. For example, Nokia's revenue in 2009 was larger than Apple's. Also take into account that Nokia is almost exclusively in the phone business whereas it's only a part of Apple's.
In case that last part was ambiguous: I've never worked for Microsoft.
People always read too much into events like this. Microsoft is not a monolithic entity where every action is centrally planned and intentional. It's not like Steve Ballmer sat down with managers to figure which startup to rip off or part of the Microsoft induction is Ripoff 101.
What happened is most likely a subcontractor taking a shortcut.
If you want to blame Microsoft, put it down to poor IPR training and lacking due diligence. These are doubly important in developing countries that don't have the same awareness of these issues. I'm not defending Microsoft, but I'm sure code theft is something they genuinely try to avoid. At least where I work open source is an important part of our work and we are trained on how to use it correctly.
The GP is not "pretending" anything, he's saying "thought police", "surveillance" etc. are signs of dictatorships in general, not exclusively signs of communism. He hints that the UK is an example of a non-communist dictatorship.
Take your witch-hunt elsewhere.
As a generalisation, Europe doesn't have the same lawsuit-happy system as the US. Damages are a lot lower and we don't have punitive damages (apart from the UK).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punitive_damages
The government is just a corporate sock puppet, and blaming the government is one of the oldest tricks in the corporate handbook.
1) Lobby for deregulation
2) Profit
3) Shit hits the fan
4) Blame the goverment
5) GOTO 1
Except the Pakistan affair was about the BGP routing protocol. I agree the file format is nutty, though.
I can't think of a better alternative to the hierarchical system, perhaps you have a suggestion. A flat namespace would be an administrative impossiblity, not to mention the stress it would put on name servers. Increasing the number of TLDs would lessen the impact of a single failure, though.
Rejected, plagiarism. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104257/quotes
I guess you don't appreciate the irony in how close your attitude is to fundamentalism. You carry on lumping people together and feeling smug and superior. Whatever you do don't stop criticizing religious people for being holier than thou or try to see the shades of grey.
As I pointed out above, read the FA and you'll find that software is the bread and butter of BackBlaze, not hardware. That's why they can open source their design. Same as for Google, who also build their own hardware from COTS parts.
How about reading the section "A Backblaze Storage Pod is a Building Block".
<snip> the intelligence of where to store data and how to encrypt it, deduplicate it, and index it is all at a higher level (outside the scope of this blog post). When you run a datacenter with thousands of hard drives, CPUs, motherboards, and power supplies, you are going to have hardware failures — it's irrefutable. Backblaze Storage Pods are building blocks upon which a larger system can be organized that doesn't allow for a single point of failure. Each pod in itself is just a big chunk of raw storage for an inexpensive price; it is not a "solution" in itself.
Emphasis mine. I believe there are quite a few successful and reliable storage vendors not using ZFS. We get the point, you like it. Doesn't mean you can't succeed without it. Be more open minded.
Give me a break. It would be "inconsistent" to use base 2 for measuring frequency just because it's a computer?
You happily accept inconsistency yourself just by writing English, although it obviously causes real problems for you: It's spelled consistEncy even though you spell redundAncy with an A. Don't get me started on travesties like through vs. trough vs. though. Ugh! There's something useful Apple and Microsoft could do - sneak in consistent English spelling via their spelling checkers. You wouldn't need foreigners like myself teaching natives how to write their own language.
kb is kilobits
kB is kilobytes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix#List_of_SI_prefixes
Please, put this in context. An employer in Finland was not allowed to even look at the recipient or subject line of outgoing emails, and Nokia wanted that changed. OK, I also disagree with their tactics if they actually made such threats.
Now compare this situation with how US companies treat their employees to have some perspective.
Again, a proper banking system like my bank uses
- a one time pad for logging on
- another set of codes, from which one is picked randomly, to confirm transfers
The one time pad means they can't open a second session. Even if they could hijack the session I've opened they can't transfer money without my explicitly authorizing each transfer by entering the second code.
Writing automated test cases? Good on you.
Sure, and how OS's use the Linux kernel but not the GNU toolchain? And how many of those (any?) are enterprise offerings? So could it well be BSD/Linux? Thanks for this useless tangent.
That's what I'd imagine an instrument created by a software model would look like. Wake me up when the software "creates" an instrument that looks more Klingon and less "software model".
Absolutely. I'd also wager the new SAN controller has more battery-backed cache than the older one. This makes a HUGE difference.
We have one-time pads.
It's been done before and it's $0.
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