Why the hell would I want to tell an organization that is more focused on their actual business that they need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to build up a datacenter over weeks / months worth of time when I can literally do it myself using Chef / Puppet and Amazon EC2 in a few days, and we're not on the hook for any hardware maintenance or replacement in the future?
The business gets to keep focus on the business without the overhead of running a whole datacenter including power, cooling, wiring, real estate, countless admins, service contracts for hardware and network gear, construction costs, built-in costs for future hardware replacement and scaling, etc. etc.
There's a reason why lots of people are following Amazon into this space. It's possible to do things right, and to do it cheaper. And you are far more agile in needs should you be successful by pairing their load balancing services with something like Chef or Puppet. Oh, and just do your offsite backup out of "the cloud" to a box at your office, and an off-site at a regional or whatever.
Yes, there's some risk associated with the "Amazon / Microsoft / RackSpace / Whoever fucked up", but it's far more likely they'll figure it out and get it back up and running far faster than if the same fuckup occurs within your private datacenter, because datacenter is their business while the company I'm working for cannot say the same.
The good news is that Apple isn't selling their A-series chip to anybody else, and the only people that will even know there is an "A9" branding issue will be the 0.1% of the market that actually pays any attention to what the SoC in their phone is named.
Google Maps still cannot locate my house, where every other map service has no problem. And this house has been in this neighborhood since 1978, so it's not like they haven't had a chance to figure it out, or that it's way out in the middle of nowhere.
I'm still running 8.3.2 because all 9.x versions have had a nasty kernel panic bug in the 3Ware 9660 drivers that apparently I'm the only one experiencing. So I'll stick with it until I need to rebuild and import the ZFS pool. The hardware is a bit old anyway (and was super cheap when obtained off eBay), so it's probably almost time.
Yes, the same bug exists in FreeBSD - I tried that too.
I've not heard it used for a production release, but in QA-speak, a "code drop" is whenever a new build comes into the lab for it's shakedown from development.
I think I may have heard it used in this way in the hip hop circles, and it should remain there.
Yeah, who cares that it is completely new hardware. We already did this under vaguely similar circumstances on Apollo 7, so clearly Orion doesn't require testing in high orbit to make sure that it was safe to stuff 4 people inside, and return without them being baked to a crisp from a radiation shield not being adequate, or the heat shield failing and causing the whole thing to turn into a rapidly expanding fireball.
Because it worked on a spacecraft that we're not operating anymore, therefore we never need to do it again!
You do realize there are hundreds of thousands of Linux-based "thin clients" sold every year into enterprise markets, which are effectively the "network computer" right?
Passing on the right is legal on a 2-lane road, if the person being passed is making a left turn and waiting for oncoming traffic, and the passing vehicle doesn't leave pavement.
Those are not conditions you see on a road with multiple lanes in the same direction, and never on a freeway where there is limited access and exit ramps. If this guy is really doing 45 in the right lane on a multi-lane highway, he should NEVER be passed on the right unless someone is illegally passing on the shoulder.
Going further, if the suspension is shit the vehicle will "brake dive" causing WAY more load on the front axle, thus causing way more load on the front brakes and tires. If they're crap too, or the tires are crap, you go into a skid. And that's when you crash.
The suspension is just there to make the ride more comfortable - it serves a very important safety purpose.
Washington State actually has a law that you have to keep right except passing, and I've seen them pull people over and cite them for camping the left lane.
Of course, this is also in the same state where I've seen them pull people over in a police truck that has a trailer with a cardboard horse in it. They love stroking tickets in Washington.
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And what means are used to detect drivers who are high on pot?
Show them a clip of a Pauli Shore movie on YouTube. If they laugh, they're driving under the influence.
Someone doesn't agree with you, therefore they must have an agenda aligning with a corporate / government cabal?
I do hear that cannabis makes you paranoid...
Because they bought into the mystique of a niche product, and therefore nothing else can match up.
Why the hell would I want to tell an organization that is more focused on their actual business that they need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to build up a datacenter over weeks / months worth of time when I can literally do it myself using Chef / Puppet and Amazon EC2 in a few days, and we're not on the hook for any hardware maintenance or replacement in the future?
The business gets to keep focus on the business without the overhead of running a whole datacenter including power, cooling, wiring, real estate, countless admins, service contracts for hardware and network gear, construction costs, built-in costs for future hardware replacement and scaling, etc. etc.
There's a reason why lots of people are following Amazon into this space. It's possible to do things right, and to do it cheaper. And you are far more agile in needs should you be successful by pairing their load balancing services with something like Chef or Puppet. Oh, and just do your offsite backup out of "the cloud" to a box at your office, and an off-site at a regional or whatever.
Yes, there's some risk associated with the "Amazon / Microsoft / RackSpace / Whoever fucked up", but it's far more likely they'll figure it out and get it back up and running far faster than if the same fuckup occurs within your private datacenter, because datacenter is their business while the company I'm working for cannot say the same.
The good news is that Apple isn't selling their A-series chip to anybody else, and the only people that will even know there is an "A9" branding issue will be the 0.1% of the market that actually pays any attention to what the SoC in their phone is named.
Google Maps still cannot locate my house, where every other map service has no problem. And this house has been in this neighborhood since 1978, so it's not like they haven't had a chance to figure it out, or that it's way out in the middle of nowhere.
It is Microsoft, so what works well in this version will stop working well in the next.
I'm still running 8.3.2 because all 9.x versions have had a nasty kernel panic bug in the 3Ware 9660 drivers that apparently I'm the only one experiencing. So I'll stick with it until I need to rebuild and import the ZFS pool. The hardware is a bit old anyway (and was super cheap when obtained off eBay), so it's probably almost time.
Yes, the same bug exists in FreeBSD - I tried that too.
Yeah, what a shithead for donating some of his resources to charity.
He gives more money than you'll see in your life in one day, and you're shitting on him because he didn't give more? Ingrate.
Someone want to tell me how this doesn't run foul of HIPAA?
I don't remember signing a release form...
I've not heard it used for a production release, but in QA-speak, a "code drop" is whenever a new build comes into the lab for it's shakedown from development.
I think I may have heard it used in this way in the hip hop circles, and it should remain there.
The FireGL brand took a HUGE step back when it was purchased by AMD / ATI. I remember when they were the best OpenGL performers you could buy...
And isn't the GPU doing WAY more work than it needs to, if it first renders everything at 4k and then scales it to some crap $120 1600x900 display?
No thanks, I'll take the framerate increase of rendering in the resolution I'm actually displaying.
I always see it the other way 'round - "Look how rubbish our drivers were!"
Of course, anyone but the absolute most stalwart AMD fan already knew their drivers were rubbish, so I guess this is an improvement.
We also had a government that *wanted* to go from first orbit to the moon in a decade. Not the case today.
Today we have a government that just wants NASA to not screw up.
They're all Constitutional rights. See: the Ninth Amendment.
Yeah, who cares that it is completely new hardware. We already did this under vaguely similar circumstances on Apollo 7, so clearly Orion doesn't require testing in high orbit to make sure that it was safe to stuff 4 people inside, and return without them being baked to a crisp from a radiation shield not being adequate, or the heat shield failing and causing the whole thing to turn into a rapidly expanding fireball.
Because it worked on a spacecraft that we're not operating anymore, therefore we never need to do it again!
They are making sure that their spacecraft actually works before putting people in it. Not that hard to suss out.
People said that about Apple in 1998. Don't be one of those people.
You do realize there are hundreds of thousands of Linux-based "thin clients" sold every year into enterprise markets, which are effectively the "network computer" right?
No, the market wants improved backhaul. But the telco's don't like actually building telecommunications networks, so they institute caps instead.
Passing on the right is legal on a 2-lane road, if the person being passed is making a left turn and waiting for oncoming traffic, and the passing vehicle doesn't leave pavement.
Those are not conditions you see on a road with multiple lanes in the same direction, and never on a freeway where there is limited access and exit ramps. If this guy is really doing 45 in the right lane on a multi-lane highway, he should NEVER be passed on the right unless someone is illegally passing on the shoulder.
shit - The suspension ISN'T just there to make the ride more comfortable.
Typos are apparently infectious.
Going further, if the suspension is shit the vehicle will "brake dive" causing WAY more load on the front axle, thus causing way more load on the front brakes and tires. If they're crap too, or the tires are crap, you go into a skid. And that's when you crash.
The suspension is just there to make the ride more comfortable - it serves a very important safety purpose.
Washington State actually has a law that you have to keep right except passing, and I've seen them pull people over and cite them for camping the left lane.
Of course, this is also in the same state where I've seen them pull people over in a police truck that has a trailer with a cardboard horse in it. They love stroking tickets in Washington.