That's five million terabytes of data, or 500,000 Libraries of Congress, which works out to about 800 MB of data for each of the 6.3 billion people on the planet.
But how many {VW Beetles, encyclopedias, football fields, Coke cans, DVDs, hours of porn} is that?
"Growth" will be expected year after year - the innovative ideas that have made google so successful will give way.
So you say that if people obsessed with growth show up, google would magically lose the ability to grow ?
'Growth' means two different things:
Improvement of the services Google provides
Profit[0]
The problem people are worried about is the push for the latter form of 'growth' getting in the way of the former - Google stagnates (or just plain starts to suck) because the big shareholders want more money out of it.
[0] Yes I know, it's a list with the word 'profit' in it, but not preceded by '???'.
...what's on the other side? Why isn't that part of the Universe?
It is part of the Universe.
Imagine a square sheet of rubber (so we can stretch, bend as we like). It has a finite area, and four edges. We choose one edge and glue it to its opposite edge. Now if you start from one point and draw a line in the right direction, you'll get back to where you started. Otherwise you'll just spiral around until you hit an edge.
Now we take the two circular edges and we glue them together, giving a donut (a torus). Now if you go in [what you see as] a straight line in any direction, you'll never reach an edge. The surface of the donut doesn't have any sides in the way the original sheet of rubber did, but it still covers a finite area.
N.b. The problem with this example is that it's difficult to think of just the surface of the donut, without imagining it being 'in' some larger space such as the 3D world.
Now if you want a headache, try to imagine doing this starting not with a square, but rather a cube, and joining opposing faces together. The first pair is easy - you get a sort of square donut shape. The second pair gives you a donut with an inner donut removed - something like the inner tube in a tyre.
The third one is the real bugger - you have to imagine joining the inner surface of the tube to the outer one, without going through the tube. I've seen a video that included a representation of what a similar manouvre (sp?) would look like in the 3D world that the cube started in, and I still can't fully get my head around it.
No matter what direction you moved in this weird twisted-cube-thingy, you'd never see an edge. It would give you the same effect as if there were an infinite array of cubes , with the exact same thing happening in each one. When you reach the edge of one cube, you ust move into the next one... which is identical to the last one.
This article says that the Universe is doing the same sort of thing, only starting with a dodecahedron instead of a cube (i.e. 6 pairs of faces instead of 3). Don't seriously try to picture this, or your head'll explode...
Sadly, I have to inform you that as you've just made a wild and stupid-sounding threat that you'll never follow through on, you have violated the 'Intellectual Property' of SCO. The invoice is in the mail.
A lot of libraries do something like this already - at the University that I attended, and the one that I now work at, they just slide the book past some sort of detector to check it in/out. And of course there are detectors by the exits to check if you're trying to steal books. Irritatingly it's set off by books from my local public library as well, which is a bit of a bugger when you're carrying books from one and trying to leave the other.
The obvious difference here is that there will allegedly soon be RFID detectors everywhere rather than just in the libraries, but other than that, it's a pretty bloody obvious and sensible thing to do.
Distributed computing has been a long time coming. Sure, grids are cool, but when can we download a safe piece of software which to use for distributed calculations? When I'm not it need of doing stuff myself it would use my idle time for other people's calculations, and vice versa.
I apologize in advance if this is stupid, but isn't what you're talking about exactly what SETI does? I thought they used distributed software to do calculations.
I think he means a generalised piece of software - i.e. you can upload your 50,000 data sets, along with the spec file for what you want doing with them (mathML-based, maybe?), and they get distributed to other people, with results being sent back to you.
It sounds like a good idea in theory, but there's the problem of people sending out 'dodgy' calculations - e.g. if John Q. Terrorist uploads a model for generating anthrax yields, are all the other people liable for assisting in the production of biological weapons?
They can (and presumably have) trademarked the name "Dewey Decimal" as relating to classification systems. As for the system itself, I don't think trademarking or patenting apply (at least not now, as the patent would long since have expired). I'd presume that the particular system would be copyrighted, in that you can't use that system or one sufficiently similar to it without permission.
Of course, if it were patented, we'd all be protesting about yet another damn silly patent - categorising books based on their subjects and then giving each subject a number, yeah that's really non-obvious.
Hey, us Brits invented the language, so you've been violating our intellectual property for the last 400 years or so. But don't worry, we'll only charge you 699 per sentence, as long as you say it before October 15.
/me hears a knock at the door. /me opens it to find Frenchmen, Germans, Celts, Normans, Danes, Vikings, Romans, Greeks, etc... all accompanied by lawyers.
Seriously though, are they allowing for people with older cards? (UT 2003 ran fine on my Voodoo3 and still looked pretty darn good, even w/o transparency, anti-aliasing, or any of the other modern GFX buzzwords)
Not that I don't get the sarcasm in your post, but your numbers 'prove' nothing. Let's try a fair comparison - i.e. one that takes into account the much larger population of the USA:
Sales of GTA:VC per 100 000 people:
United States 1788 (Taking current population from census.gov)
England & Wales 1538 (Population data from 2001 census, so a little out of date, but not significantly)
Re:200,000 Million?
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And If it is true, what's so hard about writing 200 Billion?
Probably the whole UK/US billion thing (although the UK billion = 10^12 is only rarely used now, as far as I've seen)
... now I'm stuck resetting passwords all day. I blame the users for this, but it *will* be nice for IT staff when biometrics replace passwords.
User: I can't log in!
Tech: Your biometric data's become corrupted, we'll have to resample it Tech pulls out meat cleaver
Tech: Now, are you left- or right-handed?
At the university where I work, the main campus is in the middle of an XP rollout, and the builds being installed didn't have the patch applied. Hosed the network so badly that remote updating wasn't possible - all the techs have been frantically running around with patch disks for the last few days.
Fortunately, the campus where I'm based is mostly on Win 9x, and we managed to get most of the rest of them patched before many were infected. We thought that we'd got them all, but we were still seeing ridiculous ICMP traffic. The networking people checked the traffic logs, and the PCs were identified.
They belonged to two of the Technical Support staff.
Judge: Mr. Hutz, we've been in here for four hours. Do you have any evidence at all?
Hutz: Well, your Honor, we've got plenty of hearsay and conjecture, those are kinds of evidence.
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But how many {VW Beetles, encyclopedias, football fields, Coke cans, DVDs, hours of porn} is that?
'Growth' means two different things:
- Improvement of the services Google provides
- Profit[0]
The problem people are worried about is the push for the latter form of 'growth' getting in the way of the former - Google stagnates (or just plain starts to suck) because the big shareholders want more money out of it.[0] Yes I know, it's a list with the word 'profit' in it, but not preceded by '???'.
It is part of the Universe.
Imagine a square sheet of rubber (so we can stretch, bend as we like). It has a finite area, and four edges. We choose one edge and glue it to its opposite edge. Now if you start from one point and draw a line in the right direction, you'll get back to where you started. Otherwise you'll just spiral around until you hit an edge.
Now we take the two circular edges and we glue them together, giving a donut (a torus). Now if you go in [what you see as] a straight line in any direction, you'll never reach an edge. The surface of the donut doesn't have any sides in the way the original sheet of rubber did, but it still covers a finite area.
N.b. The problem with this example is that it's difficult to think of just the surface of the donut, without imagining it being 'in' some larger space such as the 3D world.
Now if you want a headache, try to imagine doing this starting not with a square, but rather a cube, and joining opposing faces together. The first pair is easy - you get a sort of square donut shape. The second pair gives you a donut with an inner donut removed - something like the inner tube in a tyre.
The third one is the real bugger - you have to imagine joining the inner surface of the tube to the outer one, without going through the tube. I've seen a video that included a representation of what a similar manouvre (sp?) would look like in the 3D world that the cube started in, and I still can't fully get my head around it.
No matter what direction you moved in this weird twisted-cube-thingy, you'd never see an edge. It would give you the same effect as if there were an infinite array of cubes , with the exact same thing happening in each one. When you reach the edge of one cube, you ust move into the next one ... which is identical to the last one.
This article says that the Universe is doing the same sort of thing, only starting with a dodecahedron instead of a cube (i.e. 6 pairs of faces instead of 3). Don't seriously try to picture this, or your head'll explode ...
Anyone got any paper towels?
Sadly, I have to inform you that as you've just made a wild and stupid-sounding threat that you'll never follow through on, you have violated the 'Intellectual Property' of SCO. The invoice is in the mail.
A lot of libraries do something like this already - at the University that I attended, and the one that I now work at, they just slide the book past some sort of detector to check it in/out. And of course there are detectors by the exits to check if you're trying to steal books. Irritatingly it's set off by books from my local public library as well, which is a bit of a bugger when you're carrying books from one and trying to leave the other.
The obvious difference here is that there will allegedly soon be RFID detectors everywhere rather than just in the libraries, but other than that, it's a pretty bloody obvious and sensible thing to do.
I think he means a generalised piece of software - i.e. you can upload your 50,000 data sets, along with the spec file for what you want doing with them (mathML-based, maybe?), and they get distributed to other people, with results being sent back to you.
It sounds like a good idea in theory, but there's the problem of people sending out 'dodgy' calculations - e.g. if John Q. Terrorist uploads a model for generating anthrax yields, are all the other people liable for assisting in the production of biological weapons?
How about this?
OK guys, which do we think will happen first?
Sorry dude, but someone's beaten you to it
They can (and presumably have) trademarked the name "Dewey Decimal" as relating to classification systems. As for the system itself, I don't think trademarking or patenting apply (at least not now, as the patent would long since have expired). I'd presume that the particular system would be copyrighted, in that you can't use that system or one sufficiently similar to it without permission.
Of course, if it were patented, we'd all be protesting about yet another damn silly patent - categorising books based on their subjects and then giving each subject a number, yeah that's really non-obvious.
Send for Conan The Librarian
Hey, us Brits invented the language, so you've been violating our intellectual property for the last 400 years or so. But don't worry, we'll only charge you 699 per sentence, as long as you say it before October 15.
Is it an earthquake? A herd of elephants?
No, it's all the SCO jokers, with their (+5, Funny)'s at the ready! Time to run for cover, guys!
In Soviet Russia, the jokes are masters of you!
(Does this qualify as a real "In Soviet Russia ..." joke?)
... you insensitive clod!
Seriously though, are they allowing for people with older cards? (UT 2003 ran fine on my Voodoo3 and still looked pretty darn good, even w/o transparency, anti-aliasing, or any of the other modern GFX buzzwords)
I'm disappointed - about a dozen replies to this, and not a single iLoo joke/reference.
Not that I don't get the sarcasm in your post, but your numbers 'prove' nothing. Let's try a fair comparison - i.e. one that takes into account the much larger population of the USA:
Sales of GTA:VC per 100 000 people:
United States 1788 (Taking current population from census.gov)
England & Wales 1538 (Population data from 2001 census, so a little out of date, but not significantly)
Probably the whole UK/US billion thing (although the UK billion = 10^12 is only rarely used now, as far as I've seen)
User: I can't log in!
Tech: Your biometric data's become corrupted, we'll have to resample it
Tech pulls out meat cleaver
Tech: Now, are you left- or right-handed?
Perhaps he uses other anti-burglary devices.
At the university where I work, the main campus is in the middle of an XP rollout, and the builds being installed didn't have the patch applied. Hosed the network so badly that remote updating wasn't possible - all the techs have been frantically running around with patch disks for the last few days.
Fortunately, the campus where I'm based is mostly on Win 9x, and we managed to get most of the rest of them patched before many were infected. We thought that we'd got them all, but we were still seeing ridiculous ICMP traffic. The networking people checked the traffic logs, and the PCs were identified.
They belonged to two of the Technical Support staff.
Do you think three-valued logic is a good idea?
A different lawyer joke, for a bit of variety