I do remember. I signed on for some light-weight services when they were small (like you mentioned) and signed up for some lifetime something or other. Really, it was like paying for 2 years up front or something cheap like that so I thought 'what the heck'. A while later, I had forgotten all about my account there, but needed the service there again, so I reset my password, signed in and to my surprise saw that I had been grandfathered into to a lifetime subscription even though they went commercial. Which I thought was really cool of them.
Yet, this infrastructure was built and paid for by Australian banks and merchants for the benefit of all Australians.
No, more like this infrastructure was built and paid for by Australians and merchants for the benefit of Australian banks. Fuck the banks.
And I know it's not cool to like Apple any more, but I don't really care which way the tide flows in this cesspool of ignorance. (I'm referring to the Slashdot hive-mind in case you're wondering).
I'd trust Apple w/my money more than any bank on this planet...
Uh, yeah, if there's anything Android is known for, it's gotta be the prompt, long-term updates and the attention to detail that the OEMs place above all else.
FBI Says Foreign Hackers Breached State Election Systems
So anyone who believes ANYTHING the FBI says, at this point in time especially, is a complete moron. Instead, let's apply the "FBI Says" headline filter to the text, and observe the results.
FBI Lackeys Breached State Election Systems. Blames Foreign Hackers
Now, that's much more believable, right? Sorry FBI, you have absolutely ZERO credibility. Anyone with more than a few functional neurons KNOWS that the likelihood of anything you say being an outright fabrication or lie approaches 100%.
"Microsoft" *anything* is banned in my household. I've found that this policy not only lowers blood pressure, it also saves money and leads to an overall increase to the quality of life.
AES (http://www.tubesandmore.com/) is an excellent resource; one of my favorite parts vendors for tube amp builds/mods. No relationship, just a happy customer.
The idealist sees this kind of future as obvious: the Star Trek economy, where there's no money and people 'work' to better themselves (lol). This sounds great but does not account for human nature, namely greed and to a lesser extent, cruelty.
The pessimist (realist?) sees the future as it was depicted in the 2013 movie 'Elysium', where the ultra-rich have just about everything, are completely corrupt & nearly completely useless, and walled off from the majority of the population. Meanwhile, 99.999% of the population lives in squalor. Sound familiar?
It's possible we'll have both realities, but unfortunately we'll need to get through the 'Elysium' economy before arriving at the 'Star Trek' economy. TBH, I don't think anything resembling a Star Trek economy is possible because of human nature... As bad as this sounds, I'd put my money on 'Elysium'...
I do the same thing w/my AT&T unlimited account; AT&T pulled a similar stunt w/their grandfathered unlimited accounts, plus they send an automated text at around 20GB/month stating that you may experience throttling at 22.5GB or so depending on network load or some-such crap. So apparently, in AT&T-speak, "unlimited" means "20GB, give or take".
Anyways, every month or two, I make sure to delete 20-40GB of music from my phone, and then re-download my "80's-90's Music" playlist from iCloud:)
Oh, and look at that, my mp3's seem to be getting a bit stale; looks like I need some fresh copies.;)
As we've seen time & time again, Intel is a one-trick pony. Granted, they do that one trick very well. But, in order to have any hope for success in any venture other than x86, they really need to spin off a separate company and allow it to run independently.
These large multi-billion $ corps are simply unable to innovate due to their corporate cultures and stifling hierarchies. All innovation happens with the small, nimble guys who, once they have a viable product, get gobbled up by the big guys.
Amazon does not allow Chromecast or AppleTV devices to be sold on their site, so don't hold your breath. Of course, there is no official word on this policy, but go ahead and try to find either device on Amazon.
You'll just find the craptastic Fire, and a selection of off-brand Chinese stuff...
Your servers may not be able to drive a flash array to 100,000 (or 1,000,000) IOPs, but the array itself can use a good bit of this; most of these all-flash arrays have inline global block deduplication and compression. In a scenario where you have a multi-TB database and Prod/QA/Dev/Test environments, you need a copy of the DB for each environment. With an all-flash array, you need 1 copy of the DB and then leverage snapshots w/no apparent performance hit (all those extra IOPs at work).
Real example: Where I work, we have an environment similar to that described above. On a traditional array, I needed to use ~150 15k FC spindles to meet the space (~50TB) and performance requirements. We're just now replacing that w/an all-flash array which takes all of 6U rack space and has 15TB usable space; we're seeing ~6:1 dedupe/compression across the environments...
Yeah, pretty much different types of "media" and "news outlets" exist to create markets where there are none. This is done in order to keep the gears of industry turning, selling you crap that you don't need.
I'd like to hear what Bennett Haselton has to say on this matter. His take on matters is always insightful. And he's also a frequent contributor here at Slashdot.
Hi. I see by your reply that, even though you're not really new here (judging by your UID), you're not really sure how things work.
Slashdot earns money through advertising. More page views = more ads shown = more ad clicks = more money earned.
In order to drive the page views, Slashdot "editors" troll their readership in order to stimulate discussion through upsetting people, driving them to respond to stories they otherwise would pass up. They do this in several ways, including, but not limited to:
Intentional misspellings and poor grammar in the summaries.
Intentional inflammatory use of terminology (like this summary, which got you to reply (and I replied to the meta-troll))
Injection of political or religious themes or topics (a classic; never gets old, works every time)
And so on...
Now, with this information in hand, you can read the summaries and pick out the trolling technique used in about, oh, 90% of the stories/summaries posted.
These guys have got better things to do than squeeze a few extra months out of an array that's on a 3 or 4 year lease or support contract.
If you're doing your sizing projections correctly (very tricky, I'll give you that), space is not an issue, but time is. If you lease, then you need a replacement installed before the lease is up; the leasing company wants their hardware back. There is no stretching it out. If you purchase, you are bound by the length of your support contract, as nobody sane is going to run an enterprise array without a current support contract.
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I do remember. I signed on for some light-weight services when they were small (like you mentioned) and signed up for some lifetime something or other. Really, it was like paying for 2 years up front or something cheap like that so I thought 'what the heck'. A while later, I had forgotten all about my account there, but needed the service there again, so I reset my password, signed in and to my surprise saw that I had been grandfathered into to a lifetime subscription even though they went commercial. Which I thought was really cool of them.
We'll see if Oracle honors that service tier...
Like what? Online advertising?
No, more like this infrastructure was built and paid for by Australians and merchants for the benefit of Australian banks. Fuck the banks.
And I know it's not cool to like Apple any more, but I don't really care which way the tide flows in this cesspool of ignorance. (I'm referring to the Slashdot hive-mind in case you're wondering).
I'd trust Apple w/my money more than any bank on this planet...
It's a conspiracy between the airlines and the military-industrial-shampoo complex.
Uh, yeah, if there's anything Android is known for, it's gotta be the prompt, long-term updates and the attention to detail that the OEMs place above all else.
/s
So anyone who believes ANYTHING the FBI says, at this point in time especially, is a complete moron. Instead, let's apply the "FBI Says" headline filter to the text, and observe the results.
FBI Lackeys Breached State Election Systems. Blames Foreign Hackers
Now, that's much more believable, right? Sorry FBI, you have absolutely ZERO credibility. Anyone with more than a few functional neurons KNOWS that the likelihood of anything you say being an outright fabrication or lie approaches 100%.
"Microsoft" *anything* is banned in my household. I've found that this policy not only lowers blood pressure, it also saves money and leads to an overall increase to the quality of life.
Microsoft: When not-really good, is good enough.
-or-
Microsoft: Do Evil.
Mod parent up 'Informative'. Great stuff.
AES (http://www.tubesandmore.com/) is an excellent resource; one of my favorite parts vendors for tube amp builds/mods. No relationship, just a happy customer.
The Swiss vote 'No'
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-vote-idUSKCN0YR0CW/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/referendum-offered-money-for-nothing-and-the-swiss-say-no/2016/06/05/2c09f1d8-2b24-11e6-b9d5-3c3063f8332c_story.html
lol 'Start Trek'
/Homer
Stupid fingers
The idealist sees this kind of future as obvious: the Star Trek economy, where there's no money and people 'work' to better themselves (lol). This sounds great but does not account for human nature, namely greed and to a lesser extent, cruelty.
The pessimist (realist?) sees the future as it was depicted in the 2013 movie 'Elysium', where the ultra-rich have just about everything, are completely corrupt & nearly completely useless, and walled off from the majority of the population. Meanwhile, 99.999% of the population lives in squalor. Sound familiar?
It's possible we'll have both realities, but unfortunately we'll need to get through the 'Elysium' economy before arriving at the 'Star Trek' economy. TBH, I don't think anything resembling a Star Trek economy is possible because of human nature... As bad as this sounds, I'd put my money on 'Elysium'...
I do the same thing w/my AT&T unlimited account; AT&T pulled a similar stunt w/their grandfathered unlimited accounts, plus they send an automated text at around 20GB/month stating that you may experience throttling at 22.5GB or so depending on network load or some-such crap. So apparently, in AT&T-speak, "unlimited" means "20GB, give or take".
:)
;)
Anyways, every month or two, I make sure to delete 20-40GB of music from my phone, and then re-download my "80's-90's Music" playlist from iCloud
Oh, and look at that, my mp3's seem to be getting a bit stale; looks like I need some fresh copies.
HA! I crushed an apple, fruit vendor! THIS WILL NOT BE THE LAST!!
As we've seen time & time again, Intel is a one-trick pony. Granted, they do that one trick very well. But, in order to have any hope for success in any venture other than x86, they really need to spin off a separate company and allow it to run independently.
These large multi-billion $ corps are simply unable to innovate due to their corporate cultures and stifling hierarchies. All innovation happens with the small, nimble guys who, once they have a viable product, get gobbled up by the big guys.
Amazon does not allow Chromecast or AppleTV devices to be sold on their site, so don't hold your breath. Of course, there is no official word on this policy, but go ahead and try to find either device on Amazon.
You'll just find the craptastic Fire, and a selection of off-brand Chinese stuff...
Pretty shady move, Amazon.
Did they break the law, or are they following the law?
Remember, the IRS accepts donations. How much have you donated?
Your servers may not be able to drive a flash array to 100,000 (or 1,000,000) IOPs, but the array itself can use a good bit of this; most of these all-flash arrays have inline global block deduplication and compression. In a scenario where you have a multi-TB database and Prod/QA/Dev/Test environments, you need a copy of the DB for each environment. With an all-flash array, you need 1 copy of the DB and then leverage snapshots w/no apparent performance hit (all those extra IOPs at work).
Real example: Where I work, we have an environment similar to that described above. On a traditional array, I needed to use ~150 15k FC spindles to meet the space (~50TB) and performance requirements. We're just now replacing that w/an all-flash array which takes all of 6U rack space and has 15TB usable space; we're seeing ~6:1 dedupe/compression across the environments...
Yeah, pretty much different types of "media" and "news outlets" exist to create markets where there are none. This is done in order to keep the gears of industry turning, selling you crap that you don't need.
Buying things will not make you happy.
Yet no comment on Microsoft or Autodesk and their contributions which cost them essentially $0?
I'd like to hear what Bennett Haselton has to say on this matter. His take on matters is always insightful. And he's also a frequent contributor here at Slashdot.
Came to post the exact same thing...
Hi. I see by your reply that, even though you're not really new here (judging by your UID), you're not really sure how things work.
Slashdot earns money through advertising. More page views = more ads shown = more ad clicks = more money earned.
In order to drive the page views, Slashdot "editors" troll their readership in order to stimulate discussion through upsetting people, driving them to respond to stories they otherwise would pass up. They do this in several ways, including, but not limited to:
Intentional misspellings and poor grammar in the summaries.
Intentional inflammatory use of terminology (like this summary, which got you to reply (and I replied to the meta-troll))
Injection of political or religious themes or topics (a classic; never gets old, works every time)
And so on...
Now, with this information in hand, you can read the summaries and pick out the trolling technique used in about, oh, 90% of the stories/summaries posted.
Woohoo! Anybody need me to light their torch? Pitchforks are over there, to your right...
These guys have got better things to do than squeeze a few extra months out of an array that's on a 3 or 4 year lease or support contract.
If you're doing your sizing projections correctly (very tricky, I'll give you that), space is not an issue, but time is. If you lease, then you need a replacement installed before the lease is up; the leasing company wants their hardware back. There is no stretching it out. If you purchase, you are bound by the length of your support contract, as nobody sane is going to run an enterprise array without a current support contract.
not so much when talking about a SAN of SSDs
You mean an array of SSDs.
Just as you wouldn't call a PC on a local network a "LAN", you don't refer to an array on a storage network as a SAN. The SAN is the network.
Sorry, but this really bugs me...