This is exactly the problem with self driving vehicles. Even if they are 10000 times safer than having human drivers, they will still not be used by the general public, because any kind of crash will be a huge lawsuit against the company. With human drivers, you can always blame the problem on human error. However, with computerized drivers, it's now the manufacturer who is at fault for every single problem. They can't even get all the systems they have (Think Toyota) working properly. Making cars that drive themselves is going to be an even bigger problem.
How did they count physical servers. How do they tell the difference between a single server, and multiple servers load balanced behind a single IP? Doing an NSLookup for www.facebook.com gives exactly 1 ip address, but there are hundreds of servers all sitting behind the 1 address. I do get what you are saying, but the real answer is, we don't know. There is no way of counting internal company servers. There's also no way of counting servers that people have running at home that don't have a domain name at all.
HTTPS certs don't verify that the site is safe. They only verify that you're transmitting information to the specified site, and that only the specified site can read it. There's no guarantee that the site you're communicating with won't contain malware. Actually, the fact that they have a cert may make it easier for them to install malware since they can send you signed active X controls, and other great things.
Toronto already uses deep water cooling to cool buildings in the downtown area. It's popular method. So long as the lake is sufficiently bigger (in terms of heat capacity) than what is being cooled, there is almost no noticeable effect on the lake.
Netflix in Canada is streaming only. And it's $8 a month. If you compare that to renting from the rental store, 2 rentals could cost as much. Compared to on demand movies from my cable provider, it's only $2 more than a single rental. $8 at the end of the month is almost completely unnoticeable. If they started doing on demand payments, it would just mean that you'd have to think about whether or not you wanted to pay $X every time you turned it on. By making is a single, very low, flat rate, they make it so you never have to think about whether or not you have to spend the money.
While you probably don't need the best graphics card in the market, just switching out to a $50 PCI-Express graphics card will give you quite a bit of performance. The issue isn't so much the processor as the fact that onboard video that shares RAM with the CPU also shares the memory bus. That means all those video frames end up clogging up the memory bus. Also, you might want to consider that Dell doesn't want to stock 1000 different motherboards. While there are boards that have built in video that support 6-core processors, perhaps the only boards they have that support hexacore don't have built in graphics. Because the vast majority of people buying hexacores also want discrete video.
Most ISPs have stopped selling unlimited broadband. There's almost always a cap. Personally I only have a 25 GB cap, because it's cheaper and I almost never need more than that. Now if someone was leeching off my internet, they could easily download a couple torrents, and go through all that bandwidth in a couple days. Granted I secure my internet, so I have nobody leeching off my internet. However, there really is no argument that leeching from an open wifi router isn't stealing. If you download 1 GB of data, that's 1 GB less of data for me to use. And possible could charge extra fees on my bill.
You do realize that 500 sq. feet is just over a 22 foot square room. That's not that big at all. I've often seen small "data centers" of this size in government buildings. Granted, I live in Canada, but I imagine the US is the same. Each little organizational unit wants to manage all their own stuff to increase their importance, and make it look like they are doing something. So they all have their own little data center. It's all to play their little game. If you don't spend your whole budget, then they figure you don't need the money, so the following year they cut it. If you do spend it all, then you can claim that you are underfunded and possibly get your budget raised. There's always a mad rush at the end of the fiscal year to ensure that all the money is spent.
You forgot Windows Mobile 6/6.5. Windows phone 7, like Windows 7/Vista, is facing huge competition from the fact that there are already millions of handsets out there with an operating system that many users are perfectly happy with. People don't necessarily have a need for the newest gadget. Just as many people are fine with Windows XP, because it runs on older, cheaper computers, there will be many of us who aren't running out to buy phones with 1 GHz processors in them, because we couldn't be bothered to spend hundreds of dollars on a phone, or get locked it into contracts where you have to sign away your first born. It will take years for Windows phone 7 to grab the market share that Windows Mobile has. Looking at the smartphone article from wikipedia shows that most sales are still going to symbian phones, which nobody even talks about. At least not in North America. Apple, which everybody probably thinks is the biggest, is still actually behind RIM in new sales. Even looking at total handsets shows that Windows mobile isn't doing that badly (although obviously dropping), especially considering it gets no publicity.
Yeah, but the way things are going, I think it's much more likely that all of us (or a large number of us) die off from simultaneous heart attacks, then the odds of getting hit by a species killing asteroid. To be more serious, it's much more likely that someone in my family, or a large part of my family will be taken out by a single event like a car crash. I think the most likely things we should worry about, even if we aren't selfish are heart attacks and car crashes. That's why I ride a bike everywhere. Helps fend off heart attacks, and probably less dangerous than being in a car, even if I'm on the same roads.
That's just added fun. Some people enjoy the task of shopping for computer parts, picking out exactly the components they want. And putting them together. I personally find it a lot of fun to do all this stuff.
You'd have to get quite a desktop computer to actually have it draw that much power. Just because a power supply is rated at 700w, doesn't mean that it always draws that much. A power supply will only draw as much power as the components hooked up to it will need. So, a laptop and a desktop with the same innards would probably draw about the same amount of power. The desktop may even draw less, because it doesn't require as much cooling, as there is more air circulation and the hot parts are placed further apart.
I have to wonder why we don't do this in a more distributed fashion. There's plenty of geeks/companies out there with lots of extra server power. Personally, I wouldn't mind hosting some of the content from a movie database. It wouldn't be that hard to set up. The main site could just push updates to any of the (perhaps partial, depending on how much data there is) mirrors, and keep a directory of who is up to date. Updates are signed with public/private key so only the official server can make updates to the mirrors. Upon visiting the main site, you would be redirected to one of the mirror sites. This would keep costs low, because you wouldn't need huge servers with tons of bandwidth, but rather just lot of really weak servers, distributed all over the place. I think it would be interesting if a more generic system of this type was developed not only for movie databases, but for many other kinds of data too.
I really have to agree with this. My Dad got switched to an iPhone as a cost saving measure for this business use. Bottom line, He hates it. It's much easier to type out an email on the Blackberry, as well as do a lot of other work related functions. The battery on the iPhone doesn't even last a whole day. The Blackberry can last quite a bit longer. The iPhone is good for teenagers who want to have fun. The Blackberry is meant for people who have work to do, and want it done quickly, and well.
1. War of the Worlds. They just try to annihilate us.
2. Ender's Game. Where the aliens don't even realize we have intelligence because they communicate completely differently. Since they can't figure out how to communicate with us, they figure we're no more different than the rest of the animals.
3. Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Mostly Harmless. Meaning, we don't even have regular space flight capabilites beyond our own orbit, and aren't worth worrying about.
I remember reading a blog post by 2D Boy, makers of World of Goo, that stated that they calculated a piracy rate of 90%. That's on an independent game, that only cost $15. It's a great game, and well worth the money. There's also absolutely no DRM on the game so there's no reason to assume that people are "pirating" because they need to get around copy protection for a game they already bought. They added corrections to the blog post, later, correcting the number to around 82%. So 67% doesn't seem all that bad in comparison.
There really should be a way to generate a custom jQuery library. Basically input all the functions your run, or maybe check off a list of things you need, and a custom built version will all dependencies is created. Would save a lot of code especially for many of the cases where jQuery is just used to get cross browser AJAX requests working, with majority of the code going unused.
Where I live, Electricity is about 5.3 cents/KwH in the ngiht, and 9.9 center/KwH in the day. So at night when it's colder, we actually get cheaper electricity. Natural Gas on the other hand, costs about 22 cents per cubic metre, and actually goes up in the winter.
That's a symptom of the desktop app. The browser itself is a desktop app. The applications that run inside the browsers are the ones I'm referring too.
Maybe instead of writing a machine emulator, it would make much more sense to use the techniques used in UltraHLE. It was amazing being able to run N64 games at full speed on my PII-266, at better resolution than the N64 used. It was quite interesting in that I think it was the only console that was emulated well while it was still being sold.
Instant updates to all your users at exactly the same time. No more worrying about if your users are using old, insecure, incompatible versions.
For times when users need to be connected to eachother, having everybody go through a standard HTTP server is the easiest way to getting rid of networking problems, not having to worry about firewalls, and not having to expose your users computers to the web.
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This is exactly the problem with self driving vehicles. Even if they are 10000 times safer than having human drivers, they will still not be used by the general public, because any kind of crash will be a huge lawsuit against the company. With human drivers, you can always blame the problem on human error. However, with computerized drivers, it's now the manufacturer who is at fault for every single problem. They can't even get all the systems they have (Think Toyota) working properly. Making cars that drive themselves is going to be an even bigger problem.
I think that the sheep in Worms 2 could rightfully be refered to as fire sheep.
How did they count physical servers. How do they tell the difference between a single server, and multiple servers load balanced behind a single IP? Doing an NSLookup for www.facebook.com gives exactly 1 ip address, but there are hundreds of servers all sitting behind the 1 address. I do get what you are saying, but the real answer is, we don't know. There is no way of counting internal company servers. There's also no way of counting servers that people have running at home that don't have a domain name at all.
HTTPS certs don't verify that the site is safe. They only verify that you're transmitting information to the specified site, and that only the specified site can read it. There's no guarantee that the site you're communicating with won't contain malware. Actually, the fact that they have a cert may make it easier for them to install malware since they can send you signed active X controls, and other great things.
Toronto already uses deep water cooling to cool buildings in the downtown area. It's popular method. So long as the lake is sufficiently bigger (in terms of heat capacity) than what is being cooled, there is almost no noticeable effect on the lake.
Netflix in Canada is streaming only. And it's $8 a month. If you compare that to renting from the rental store, 2 rentals could cost as much. Compared to on demand movies from my cable provider, it's only $2 more than a single rental. $8 at the end of the month is almost completely unnoticeable. If they started doing on demand payments, it would just mean that you'd have to think about whether or not you wanted to pay $X every time you turned it on. By making is a single, very low, flat rate, they make it so you never have to think about whether or not you have to spend the money.
How long until facebook starts offering HTTPS connections (for a price perhaps)?
While you probably don't need the best graphics card in the market, just switching out to a $50 PCI-Express graphics card will give you quite a bit of performance. The issue isn't so much the processor as the fact that onboard video that shares RAM with the CPU also shares the memory bus. That means all those video frames end up clogging up the memory bus. Also, you might want to consider that Dell doesn't want to stock 1000 different motherboards. While there are boards that have built in video that support 6-core processors, perhaps the only boards they have that support hexacore don't have built in graphics. Because the vast majority of people buying hexacores also want discrete video.
Most ISPs have stopped selling unlimited broadband. There's almost always a cap. Personally I only have a 25 GB cap, because it's cheaper and I almost never need more than that. Now if someone was leeching off my internet, they could easily download a couple torrents, and go through all that bandwidth in a couple days. Granted I secure my internet, so I have nobody leeching off my internet. However, there really is no argument that leeching from an open wifi router isn't stealing. If you download 1 GB of data, that's 1 GB less of data for me to use. And possible could charge extra fees on my bill.
You do realize that 500 sq. feet is just over a 22 foot square room. That's not that big at all. I've often seen small "data centers" of this size in government buildings. Granted, I live in Canada, but I imagine the US is the same. Each little organizational unit wants to manage all their own stuff to increase their importance, and make it look like they are doing something. So they all have their own little data center. It's all to play their little game. If you don't spend your whole budget, then they figure you don't need the money, so the following year they cut it. If you do spend it all, then you can claim that you are underfunded and possibly get your budget raised. There's always a mad rush at the end of the fiscal year to ensure that all the money is spent.
You forgot Windows Mobile 6/6.5. Windows phone 7, like Windows 7/Vista, is facing huge competition from the fact that there are already millions of handsets out there with an operating system that many users are perfectly happy with. People don't necessarily have a need for the newest gadget. Just as many people are fine with Windows XP, because it runs on older, cheaper computers, there will be many of us who aren't running out to buy phones with 1 GHz processors in them, because we couldn't be bothered to spend hundreds of dollars on a phone, or get locked it into contracts where you have to sign away your first born. It will take years for Windows phone 7 to grab the market share that Windows Mobile has. Looking at the smartphone article from wikipedia shows that most sales are still going to symbian phones, which nobody even talks about. At least not in North America. Apple, which everybody probably thinks is the biggest, is still actually behind RIM in new sales. Even looking at total handsets shows that Windows mobile isn't doing that badly (although obviously dropping), especially considering it gets no publicity.
Yeah, but the way things are going, I think it's much more likely that all of us (or a large number of us) die off from simultaneous heart attacks, then the odds of getting hit by a species killing asteroid. To be more serious, it's much more likely that someone in my family, or a large part of my family will be taken out by a single event like a car crash. I think the most likely things we should worry about, even if we aren't selfish are heart attacks and car crashes. That's why I ride a bike everywhere. Helps fend off heart attacks, and probably less dangerous than being in a car, even if I'm on the same roads.
That's just added fun. Some people enjoy the task of shopping for computer parts, picking out exactly the components they want. And putting them together. I personally find it a lot of fun to do all this stuff.
You'd have to get quite a desktop computer to actually have it draw that much power. Just because a power supply is rated at 700w, doesn't mean that it always draws that much. A power supply will only draw as much power as the components hooked up to it will need. So, a laptop and a desktop with the same innards would probably draw about the same amount of power. The desktop may even draw less, because it doesn't require as much cooling, as there is more air circulation and the hot parts are placed further apart.
I have to wonder why we don't do this in a more distributed fashion. There's plenty of geeks/companies out there with lots of extra server power. Personally, I wouldn't mind hosting some of the content from a movie database. It wouldn't be that hard to set up. The main site could just push updates to any of the (perhaps partial, depending on how much data there is) mirrors, and keep a directory of who is up to date. Updates are signed with public/private key so only the official server can make updates to the mirrors. Upon visiting the main site, you would be redirected to one of the mirror sites. This would keep costs low, because you wouldn't need huge servers with tons of bandwidth, but rather just lot of really weak servers, distributed all over the place. I think it would be interesting if a more generic system of this type was developed not only for movie databases, but for many other kinds of data too.
Exactly, we've seen this kind of thing in the past with the Three Gorges Dam.
I really have to agree with this. My Dad got switched to an iPhone as a cost saving measure for this business use. Bottom line, He hates it. It's much easier to type out an email on the Blackberry, as well as do a lot of other work related functions. The battery on the iPhone doesn't even last a whole day. The Blackberry can last quite a bit longer. The iPhone is good for teenagers who want to have fun. The Blackberry is meant for people who have work to do, and want it done quickly, and well.
So if they construct a new road, or change their routing algorithm, I've now lost my password forever?
So, the possibilities are either
1. War of the Worlds. They just try to annihilate us.
2. Ender's Game. Where the aliens don't even realize we have intelligence because they communicate completely differently. Since they can't figure out how to communicate with us, they figure we're no more different than the rest of the animals.
3. Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Mostly Harmless. Meaning, we don't even have regular space flight capabilites beyond our own orbit, and aren't worth worrying about.
I remember reading a blog post by 2D Boy, makers of World of Goo, that stated that they calculated a piracy rate of 90%. That's on an independent game, that only cost $15. It's a great game, and well worth the money. There's also absolutely no DRM on the game so there's no reason to assume that people are "pirating" because they need to get around copy protection for a game they already bought. They added corrections to the blog post, later, correcting the number to around 82%. So 67% doesn't seem all that bad in comparison.
There really should be a way to generate a custom jQuery library. Basically input all the functions your run, or maybe check off a list of things you need, and a custom built version will all dependencies is created. Would save a lot of code especially for many of the cases where jQuery is just used to get cross browser AJAX requests working, with majority of the code going unused.
Where I live, Electricity is about 5.3 cents/KwH in the ngiht, and 9.9 center/KwH in the day. So at night when it's colder, we actually get cheaper electricity. Natural Gas on the other hand, costs about 22 cents per cubic metre, and actually goes up in the winter.
That's a symptom of the desktop app. The browser itself is a desktop app. The applications that run inside the browsers are the ones I'm referring too.
Maybe instead of writing a machine emulator, it would make much more sense to use the techniques used in UltraHLE. It was amazing being able to run N64 games at full speed on my PII-266, at better resolution than the N64 used. It was quite interesting in that I think it was the only console that was emulated well while it was still being sold.
There are some good things about the web.
Instant updates to all your users at exactly the same time. No more worrying about if your users are using old, insecure, incompatible versions.
For times when users need to be connected to eachother, having everybody go through a standard HTTP server is the easiest way to getting rid of networking problems, not having to worry about firewalls, and not having to expose your users computers to the web.