Solar panels are nice, but if they require rare metals to function, that's not so nice.
Personally, I'm looking at building a Sterling engine with a parabolic mirror and running water. It may not be the most efficient thing you can build, but it can be built with low tech tools, common materials and will last damn near forever...
If you want to keep your data secure, you sure as hell aren't going to do it using FAT32. The argument in favour of doing so is, it will make it available to multiple operating systems. Thing is, it's probably the least secure file system you can find that will hold large files. It's just not a good idea.
That said, if this is indeed what you want to do, you need to use hardware raid. For no other reason than this: Windows software raid will not be accessible from any other platform than Windows. Going to be highly vulnerable to corruption though.
I used to work in a fireworks factory. Few months after I quit that job and went to sea, it blew up. The people who were vaporized didn't find it much fun...
There's one big huge flawed premise in the article. Free software has already established its relevance. It is the cloud computing concept that has yet to establish its relevance. Even if it does, which is questionable, if it does so by using virtualization of commodity hardware, then the question of what software is being run in the cloud is irrelevant, because all of it will do so. If you are renting computer cycles, the ability to pare things down to the bare bones and tweak the internals is more relevant than ever, which gives the edge in such an environment to open source software. If the question is, what is the group using to operate their cloud, the answer is, who cares? May as well ask the farmer what brand of tractor he uses... it's irrelevant.
Fat lot of good it did. Same with George Carlin. For all of the insight they had, all they did was make people laugh at their own idiocy.
I wonder why they didn't say, half way through the show "Why are you laughing? What's funny about what I'm saying? Here's a petition stating that we want this shit sorted out. Sign it. It's going in this envelope on stage, and that envelope is going to Congress. I'm tired of this shit, and the fact that you're paying to hear me talk about it means you are too! Do something about it! Put your name down."
There are millions of angry men out there. These particular ones manage to make you laugh at things, which drains your anger of its potency and makes you accepting, and thus makes apathetic about what you were angry about. They made nihilism seem like it really wasn't so bad even as they shoved it in your face.
Because these particular men had that particular quality, they were given a voice that can reach billions where others were not given such a voice.
1) Ask X nodes if they have information that relates to subject Y. 2) Wait Z period of time for an answer 3) Take the answers you got from what nodes answered in Z time, form a conclusion
The way this works in plain English is, poll a million people on a subject, give them a time limit to answer, ignore those who don't answer in the time limit, form their collective opinions into a result, call it a day. If 10,000 of those people on your list are dead and 50,000 are in jail and 30,000 didn't get the message and none of those people answered, you don't know, you don't care.
If you can re-think your application so it works within this paradigm, this technology will work. If you can't, it won't.
For things like search engines or suggesting a vaguely related item that you might also want to purchase, this is fine. Anywhere you need to spit out SOME kind of answer, without consistent accuracy being essential, this is a good way to do it.
It's not going to become a replacement for RDBMS' as a tool. Pitching it that way is stupid. It is a supplemental tool for an entirely different category of problems.
Satellite in geostable orbit. Receiving station on equator. Receiving station emits guiding signal to satellite, causing satellite to beam power to earth. If the guiding signal is missing, the satellite stops beaming power and starts using that power to adjust it's position. That's how I'd do it.
I was impressed with the PlayPump. You tie a bunch of kids wrists to that merry-go-round and they're going to end up looking like Conan when they grow up! That's cool, right?
the best thing a school can teach a kid is how to learn. Teaching a kid to "use a computer" is not nearly as valuable as teaching a kid how to learn how to use a computer. A kid who was taught how to use 3 very specific applications on exactly 1 operating system is going to be in deep trouble (or at the very least a nuisance to his IT department) when he starts a job that uses a custom application to do 90% of his work. Trust me on this one, I work in that IT department
You can't teach a kid to learn. You need to give them tools and resources and freedom and leave them alone until they ask you for help. The education system combines with the economic system to prevent people from having these things, which causes them to be fatalistic and unmotivated. Let people be pioneers and explorers and inventors and they will learn obsessively.
The systems are designed to make corruption possible. Not because systems must be designed with such weaknesses, they just are. Fix the systems, you remove the corruption. Ignore the vulnerabilities, corruption grows because of them. Acknowledging the nature of the system and identifying the flaws is how you remove the problem. Which is going to fall to people who can see what is going on and don't have a vested interest in the status quo.
Small minded folks like yourself will always be led around unable to see what's going on and unable to acknowledge at anything except the most superficial and intellectual level that things don't need to run this way, and will think nothing of wrapping themselves deeper and deeper into a dependent situation for short term rewards. That's what makes YOU a sheeple who empowers the malicious through small minded ignorance.
Try living in a few foreign countries and emotionally digesting just how entirely arbitrary the rules you live by are and how easily they can be changed. Try walking in some other peoples shoes and broadening your mind. Then you might actually develop something constructive to say instead of just repeating the shit you've been fed.
Go read, research... educate yourself, then maybe you'll understand. You might want to try The Green Book. Don't precisely agree with his conclusions, but it's a very good critique of the nature of western politics and economics.
Are you really telling me you don't see a good reason to provide an unfiltered communication capability to Iran given its current situation?
What situation is that... a bunch of foreigners who failed to buy the election so they're funding a campaign of misinformation and corruption to overthrow a democratically elected government, enslave it's people and pillage their wealth?
I didn't say it was different. I said that it wasn't created by some saint for a higher purpose, but rather negotiated by a bunch of people who were already on the top of the heap and felt that it would help them stay there. It was created in the manner that it was created for the enrichment of a few people and the maintenance of their dynasty, and it worked.
It's not an effective democracy because it wasn't created by people who believed in democracy. It was created to be an ineffective democracy and sold to a bunch of rubes who didn't know better.
In our Republic, laws are set forth through a strict set of procedures to ensure fairness to all parties involved, not just the most popular. This is why we were formed as a Republic and NOT a Democracy.
Your country was formed as a Republic because a bunch of slave owning bastards who had massive political and economic power saw it as a way to have even more power and less responsibility for their slaves. It wasn't formed by God and The People because they thought it was fair, it was formed by incumbent powers who thought it was a good deal for themselves.
Customers don't type in "mpeg-4". They don't type in "theora". They type in "britney spears nude". When they find something, they don't react with "ewh, yuck, theora... back button". Either their browser plays it, or it doesn't, and if it doesn't, they install something, or they don't. That's it. With Theora baked into major browsers, the browser plays it, and that's it.
You think that's bad, wait for alimony and child support. High end prostitutes are cheap by comparison. (I actually saw a cost breakdown about that, showing cost per act of coitus with a high end prostitute vs. an ex wife. Sad, really)
Move to a country where you can just buy her from her father?
The thing you're missing is that users are irrelevant in this situation. The decision lies with the publishers.
If a publisher had to pay a lot of money to MPEG-LA, and suddenly they have another option, that is a big deal.
If you want to become a publisher and you don't have a lot of money or a large legacy of content, then this is an option where before you had none. That is an even bigger deal.
As far as user choice goes, the vast majority just watch what is there and have no clue what the difference is. Discussing their opinion is pointless.
If all the cameras were open to all citizens, and you could look back in time on any particular place you wanted, any time, all the time, everybody... that would be awesome.
Asymmetric surveillance, however, where some people know all and some know nothing by comparison, not so good.
I also know that Iran's women stand in the vanguard. For days now, I've seen them urging less courageous men on. I've seen them get beaten and return to the fray. "Why are you sitting there?" one shouted at a couple of men perched on the sidewalk on Saturday. "Get up! Get up!"
Moral of the story is, women are the root of all evil?
You think I'm a fascist because I want to have some respect for things that have merit and have them not lumped into a category with a bunch of crap. By your definition, and by popular definition, if I take a dump on a stage and stick a flag in it, that is an artistic endeavor no different from painting a masterpiece. I think you do this because you don't wish to be held to any standards. I think you hurt us all when you do this. If it's fascism to oppose your position, then I support fascism.
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Solar panels are nice, but if they require rare metals to function, that's not so nice.
Personally, I'm looking at building a Sterling engine with a parabolic mirror and running water. It may not be the most efficient thing you can build, but it can be built with low tech tools, common materials and will last damn near forever...
Since no one else said it:
If you want to keep your data secure, you sure as hell aren't going to do it using FAT32. The argument in favour of doing so is, it will make it available to multiple operating systems. Thing is, it's probably the least secure file system you can find that will hold large files. It's just not a good idea.
That said, if this is indeed what you want to do, you need to use hardware raid. For no other reason than this: Windows software raid will not be accessible from any other platform than Windows. Going to be highly vulnerable to corruption though.
I'm making beer. That is fun.
I used to work in a fireworks factory. Few months after I quit that job and went to sea, it blew up. The people who were vaporized didn't find it much fun...
There's one big huge flawed premise in the article. Free software has already established its relevance. It is the cloud computing concept that has yet to establish its relevance. Even if it does, which is questionable, if it does so by using virtualization of commodity hardware, then the question of what software is being run in the cloud is irrelevant, because all of it will do so. If you are renting computer cycles, the ability to pare things down to the bare bones and tweak the internals is more relevant than ever, which gives the edge in such an environment to open source software. If the question is, what is the group using to operate their cloud, the answer is, who cares? May as well ask the farmer what brand of tractor he uses... it's irrelevant.
Fat lot of good it did. Same with George Carlin. For all of the insight they had, all they did was make people laugh at their own idiocy.
I wonder why they didn't say, half way through the show "Why are you laughing? What's funny about what I'm saying? Here's a petition stating that we want this shit sorted out. Sign it. It's going in this envelope on stage, and that envelope is going to Congress. I'm tired of this shit, and the fact that you're paying to hear me talk about it means you are too! Do something about it! Put your name down."
There are millions of angry men out there. These particular ones manage to make you laugh at things, which drains your anger of its potency and makes you accepting, and thus makes apathetic about what you were angry about. They made nihilism seem like it really wasn't so bad even as they shoved it in your face.
Because these particular men had that particular quality, they were given a voice that can reach billions where others were not given such a voice.
Does that answer your question?
How these databases work:
1) Ask X nodes if they have information that relates to subject Y.
2) Wait Z period of time for an answer
3) Take the answers you got from what nodes answered in Z time, form a conclusion
The way this works in plain English is, poll a million people on a subject, give them a time limit to answer, ignore those who don't answer in the time limit, form their collective opinions into a result, call it a day. If 10,000 of those people on your list are dead and 50,000 are in jail and 30,000 didn't get the message and none of those people answered, you don't know, you don't care.
If you can re-think your application so it works within this paradigm, this technology will work. If you can't, it won't.
For things like search engines or suggesting a vaguely related item that you might also want to purchase, this is fine. Anywhere you need to spit out SOME kind of answer, without consistent accuracy being essential, this is a good way to do it.
It's not going to become a replacement for RDBMS' as a tool. Pitching it that way is stupid. It is a supplemental tool for an entirely different category of problems.
You could deal with a situation like this by zipping or rarring it into multiple small files and including parity files.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
Satellite in geostable orbit. Receiving station on equator. Receiving station emits guiding signal to satellite, causing satellite to beam power to earth. If the guiding signal is missing, the satellite stops beaming power and starts using that power to adjust it's position. That's how I'd do it.
It's actually a very old technology. Here is a picture
I was impressed with the PlayPump. You tie a bunch of kids wrists to that merry-go-round and they're going to end up looking like Conan when they grow up! That's cool, right?
the best thing a school can teach a kid is how to learn. Teaching a kid to "use a computer" is not nearly as valuable as teaching a kid how to learn how to use a computer. A kid who was taught how to use 3 very specific applications on exactly 1 operating system is going to be in deep trouble (or at the very least a nuisance to his IT department) when he starts a job that uses a custom application to do 90% of his work. Trust me on this one, I work in that IT department
You can't teach a kid to learn. You need to give them tools and resources and freedom and leave them alone until they ask you for help. The education system combines with the economic system to prevent people from having these things, which causes them to be fatalistic and unmotivated. Let people be pioneers and explorers and inventors and they will learn obsessively.
Yawn. You're very tiresome.
The systems are designed to make corruption possible. Not because systems must be designed with such weaknesses, they just are. Fix the systems, you remove the corruption. Ignore the vulnerabilities, corruption grows because of them. Acknowledging the nature of the system and identifying the flaws is how you remove the problem. Which is going to fall to people who can see what is going on and don't have a vested interest in the status quo.
Small minded folks like yourself will always be led around unable to see what's going on and unable to acknowledge at anything except the most superficial and intellectual level that things don't need to run this way, and will think nothing of wrapping themselves deeper and deeper into a dependent situation for short term rewards. That's what makes YOU a sheeple who empowers the malicious through small minded ignorance.
Try living in a few foreign countries and emotionally digesting just how entirely arbitrary the rules you live by are and how easily they can be changed. Try walking in some other peoples shoes and broadening your mind. Then you might actually develop something constructive to say instead of just repeating the shit you've been fed.
Go read, research... educate yourself, then maybe you'll understand. You might want to try The Green Book. Don't precisely agree with his conclusions, but it's a very good critique of the nature of western politics and economics.
Are you really telling me you don't see a good reason to provide an unfiltered communication capability to Iran given its current situation?
What situation is that... a bunch of foreigners who failed to buy the election so they're funding a campaign of misinformation and corruption to overthrow a democratically elected government, enslave it's people and pillage their wealth?
I didn't say it was different. I said that it wasn't created by some saint for a higher purpose, but rather negotiated by a bunch of people who were already on the top of the heap and felt that it would help them stay there. It was created in the manner that it was created for the enrichment of a few people and the maintenance of their dynasty, and it worked.
It's not an effective democracy because it wasn't created by people who believed in democracy. It was created to be an ineffective democracy and sold to a bunch of rubes who didn't know better.
In our Republic, laws are set forth through a strict set of procedures to ensure fairness to all parties involved, not just the most popular. This is why we were formed as a Republic and NOT a Democracy.
Your country was formed as a Republic because a bunch of slave owning bastards who had massive political and economic power saw it as a way to have even more power and less responsibility for their slaves. It wasn't formed by God and The People because they thought it was fair, it was formed by incumbent powers who thought it was a good deal for themselves.
Customers don't type in "mpeg-4". They don't type in "theora". They type in "britney spears nude". When they find something, they don't react with "ewh, yuck, theora... back button". Either their browser plays it, or it doesn't, and if it doesn't, they install something, or they don't. That's it. With Theora baked into major browsers, the browser plays it, and that's it.
You think that's bad, wait for alimony and child support. High end prostitutes are cheap by comparison. (I actually saw a cost breakdown about that, showing cost per act of coitus with a high end prostitute vs. an ex wife. Sad, really)
Move to a country where you can just buy her from her father?
The thing you're missing is that users are irrelevant in this situation. The decision lies with the publishers.
If a publisher had to pay a lot of money to MPEG-LA, and suddenly they have another option, that is a big deal.
If you want to become a publisher and you don't have a lot of money or a large legacy of content, then this is an option where before you had none. That is an even bigger deal.
As far as user choice goes, the vast majority just watch what is there and have no clue what the difference is. Discussing their opinion is pointless.
If all the cameras were open to all citizens, and you could look back in time on any particular place you wanted, any time, all the time, everybody... that would be awesome.
Asymmetric surveillance, however, where some people know all and some know nothing by comparison, not so good.
Didn't Tesla figure this stuff out decades ago, before the US government seized all his research?
Why don't you stop stalking me you filthy, insane bitch? You planning on printing my slashdot history and bringing it with you to court again?
I also know that Iran's women stand in the vanguard. For days now, I've seen them urging less courageous men on. I've seen them get beaten and return to the fray. "Why are you sitting there?" one shouted at a couple of men perched on the sidewalk on Saturday. "Get up! Get up!"
Moral of the story is, women are the root of all evil?
You think I'm a fascist because I want to have some respect for things that have merit and have them not lumped into a category with a bunch of crap. By your definition, and by popular definition, if I take a dump on a stage and stick a flag in it, that is an artistic endeavor no different from painting a masterpiece. I think you do this because you don't wish to be held to any standards. I think you hurt us all when you do this. If it's fascism to oppose your position, then I support fascism.