And for performance we can forget about storage that uses legacy drive interfaces at all. The performance kings these days are PCIe attach SSDs and they make the fastest of these SSDs look like tape drives in comparison.
But not everything the products can do is written in the specs. HP might think they have a good reason to not offer a 70 drive DAS SAS box. I think this thing might work in other ways and they just don't want to sell it for that purpose. I'm willing to give it a shot.
But strictly yeah, you're right. According to the specs you need 2 C7000 chassis to control more than 6 of these, and those won't fit in the rack with them. The X4540 puts both the servers and the storage in the rack, so that's a win for Sun there. But regardless, the PB fits in the rack without servers, so I'm not incorrect either. I wonder if Dell or IBM have anything that approaches this storage density.
Actually I was thinking 8 of the MDS600 full of 2TB drives in 40U but whatever. The Sunfire box looks nice too. A Petabyte-a-rack it is. That's a lot of data.
Every new thing these days has many parts. No matter how clever you are you are unlikely to discover anything unique that can get to market by itself. And so you are blocked by all the myriad others who got to the patent office before you, or who might have. Instead of spending your time innovating new things you waste your brilliant years playing the patent game. Small inventors have almost no hope any more.
This is not a new thing. I believe the commercial exploitation of the steam engine was blocked for 20 years by inventors with duelling inventions. Someone else will have to find the link for me - I'm on the portable.
With seventeen years of wasted inventor's lives before you to hunt through for every facet of each new product you conceive, you'll shffle a lot more paper than be creative.
It doesn't have to be this way. Although the US Constitution allows the Congress the power to grant patents, it in no way compells Congress to do so. If they stopped doing it, the rennaissance of the craft inventor would energize innovation.
It's a bit of a mess, but at least there are some hybrid cars. As other companies do more of this stuff (like the Volt, the Fusion if it doesn't use the HSD, etc) it will get to the point no one will be able to produce a car without violating patents, so they'll just cross-license everything and things will be the same as they are now.
The purpose of patents is to prevent progress. It's no longer to permit an inventor to the exclusive use of his art, and perhaps it's never been. There will never be a mass market electric car because these competing companies would rather prevent the electric car than share the market that destroys the internal combustion engine with another carmaker.
Unless we do away with patents. Then it's a race to market with the cleverest implementation of the newest technology you can get, because that's what sells, and every popular feature becomes common (commons?) in a very short time, requiring car makers to make continuous improvement in order to stay in business.
An individual system will always eventually fail. A single part, a server, a power system, a communication system. We have an architecture of related systems that can survive the isolation of one group or large swaths of systems with no impact on the persistence or availability of data.
Yes, they do. See Internet Radio and the Canadian tax on blank optical media, among other things. Also, the permanent extension of copyrights which is nothing less than outright theft of our entire culture.
Unlike music piracy, the eternal copyright actually deprives people of content they are entitled to, so it is theft. It is different from illicit copying.
Unfortunately the only cure is to abolish copyright altogether, or as near as can be accomplished without rewriting the constitution.
The HTML spec is as much documentation of how things are currently done as it is a prescription for how they should be done. It has almost always lagged implementations by several years.
If anybody wants to win this one, they should use video on their own sites, or upload videos to other sites, that use their preferred codec. Better yet, put in a trouble ticket that the browser is broken. They'll fix it.
What things can a compiler do to your code to 'optimize' it for you?
The correct answer to this question is... it depends. No matter how advanced your compiler is it can't select the correct algorithm for you. If you're ordering your lists with a bubble sort instead of some kind of btree, there's nothing the compiler can do to help you except deliver the best O(n^2) sort it can. A truly artistic programmer can transcend all of the optimizations this compiler might achieve, by several orders of magnitude.
But if you're the kind of code geek that Microsoft hires, yeah, you might get a version of Windows that boots to a usable desktop in under five minutes.
however, drinking alcohol frequently and smoking damages sperm, no matter how often you "produce" sperm.
Please pretend I filled this post out with the most ridiculous anecdotal evidence to the contrary, because I have one. Also, please don't give medical advice. Soda pop does not work as a contraceptive, and the medical term for teens who swear abstinence is "parents".
Actually, yes. Yes it does. As bad as this group is, it's far above the common troll. Consider idiocracy. Now go read 4chan, MSNBC, CNN and Fark. Then come back and comment about how the people here need to surrender their reproductivity to support the Darwinian selection of those mental giants.
Let's do something useful. Fire up a proxy and get it into the queue. Start up a TOR node. Get to work on WAP firmware that enables a wireless mesh network. If you know somebody in-country, buy up a bunch of Micro-SD cards in decent capacities and mail them in, stuffed with downloaded videos of protests so that in case they don't have them they can share them around. Even in the absence of networking, microSD cards are a discreet way to distribute large amounts of information. If you receive mail from somebody in-country, check the package thoroughly for concealed data cards and publish what you find.
You can still influence votes in the current system.
No shit. I could decide to be the one who writes the software that counts the votes. Locally I really do have that option. Then the totals would be up to me. Sorry, but that's more responsibility than I want. Perhaps I should, so I could make the count fair, but I dare not because the inevitable voices of bias would ruin me. It's sad that I let it go to those who are unafraid of that claim, but there it is.
I would prefer that when people with the right to vote do vote, that their votes are recorded by other citizens with the right to vote, and the count is supervised by all interested parties. That way there is no question. To do it any other way is to introduce the potential for a tyrant to decide the vote beforehand.
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And for performance we can forget about storage that uses legacy drive interfaces at all. The performance kings these days are PCIe attach SSDs and they make the fastest of these SSDs look like tape drives in comparison.
I'm an engineer. This problem requires the skills of someone trained in Human Resources.
Because who would want to hire the last few software engineers who stayed there through to the last?
Yeah, I've seen your pitch live and in person. It's hilarious.
Neither the MDS600 nor the X4540 is offered with 2TB SATA disks, so we're both off of spec.
Yeah. Specs. Those are handy. Sometimes. ;)
But not everything the products can do is written in the specs. HP might think they have a good reason to not offer a 70 drive DAS SAS box. I think this thing might work in other ways and they just don't want to sell it for that purpose. I'm willing to give it a shot.
But strictly yeah, you're right. According to the specs you need 2 C7000 chassis to control more than 6 of these, and those won't fit in the rack with them. The X4540 puts both the servers and the storage in the rack, so that's a win for Sun there. But regardless, the PB fits in the rack without servers, so I'm not incorrect either. I wonder if Dell or IBM have anything that approaches this storage density.
Actually I was thinking 8 of the MDS600 full of 2TB drives in 40U but whatever. The Sunfire box looks nice too. A Petabyte-a-rack it is. That's a lot of data.
A PB now fits in one rack also.
I believe you're looking for the historical period referred to as "The Renaissance". I think it may have a wikipedia article.
Every new thing these days has many parts. No matter how clever you are you are unlikely to discover anything unique that can get to market by itself. And so you are blocked by all the myriad others who got to the patent office before you, or who might have. Instead of spending your time innovating new things you waste your brilliant years playing the patent game. Small inventors have almost no hope any more.
This is not a new thing. I believe the commercial exploitation of the steam engine was blocked for 20 years by inventors with duelling inventions. Someone else will have to find the link for me - I'm on the portable.
With seventeen years of wasted inventor's lives before you to hunt through for every facet of each new product you conceive, you'll shffle a lot more paper than be creative.
It doesn't have to be this way. Although the US Constitution allows the Congress the power to grant patents, it in no way compells Congress to do so. If they stopped doing it, the rennaissance of the craft inventor would energize innovation.
It's a bit of a mess, but at least there are some hybrid cars. As other companies do more of this stuff (like the Volt, the Fusion if it doesn't use the HSD, etc) it will get to the point no one will be able to produce a car without violating patents, so they'll just cross-license everything and things will be the same as they are now.
The purpose of patents is to prevent progress. It's no longer to permit an inventor to the exclusive use of his art, and perhaps it's never been. There will never be a mass market electric car because these competing companies would rather prevent the electric car than share the market that destroys the internal combustion engine with another carmaker.
Unless we do away with patents. Then it's a race to market with the cleverest implementation of the newest technology you can get, because that's what sells, and every popular feature becomes common (commons?) in a very short time, requiring car makers to make continuous improvement in order to stay in business.
You have to admit that administering a Windows box is so easy anybody can do it. Anybody.
An individual system will always eventually fail. A single part, a server, a power system, a communication system. We have an architecture of related systems that can survive the isolation of one group or large swaths of systems with no impact on the persistence or availability of data.
We call it life.
The main difference between theory and practice is that in theory they are the same but they are not in practice.
Yes, they do. See Internet Radio and the Canadian tax on blank optical media, among other things. Also, the permanent extension of copyrights which is nothing less than outright theft of our entire culture.
Unlike music piracy, the eternal copyright actually deprives people of content they are entitled to, so it is theft. It is different from illicit copying.
Unfortunately the only cure is to abolish copyright altogether, or as near as can be accomplished without rewriting the constitution.
The HTML spec is as much documentation of how things are currently done as it is a prescription for how they should be done. It has almost always lagged implementations by several years.
If anybody wants to win this one, they should use video on their own sites, or upload videos to other sites, that use their preferred codec. Better yet, put in a trouble ticket that the browser is broken. They'll fix it.
What things can a compiler do to your code to 'optimize' it for you?
The correct answer to this question is... it depends. No matter how advanced your compiler is it can't select the correct algorithm for you. If you're ordering your lists with a bubble sort instead of some kind of btree, there's nothing the compiler can do to help you except deliver the best O(n^2) sort it can. A truly artistic programmer can transcend all of the optimizations this compiler might achieve, by several orders of magnitude.
But if you're the kind of code geek that Microsoft hires, yeah, you might get a version of Windows that boots to a usable desktop in under five minutes.
Her place, always, and never give your right name.
however, drinking alcohol frequently and smoking damages sperm, no matter how often you "produce" sperm.
Please pretend I filled this post out with the most ridiculous anecdotal evidence to the contrary, because I have one. Also, please don't give medical advice. Soda pop does not work as a contraceptive, and the medical term for teens who swear abstinence is "parents".
Well, if the mechanism they propose is right then it's literally true. You could set up an experiment to prove it.
Some grant potential here. This is not a bookmark.
Actually, yes. Yes it does. As bad as this group is, it's far above the common troll. Consider idiocracy. Now go read 4chan, MSNBC, CNN and Fark. Then come back and comment about how the people here need to surrender their reproductivity to support the Darwinian selection of those mental giants.
Let's do something useful. Fire up a proxy and get it into the queue. Start up a TOR node. Get to work on WAP firmware that enables a wireless mesh network. If you know somebody in-country, buy up a bunch of Micro-SD cards in decent capacities and mail them in, stuffed with downloaded videos of protests so that in case they don't have them they can share them around. Even in the absence of networking, microSD cards are a discreet way to distribute large amounts of information. If you receive mail from somebody in-country, check the package thoroughly for concealed data cards and publish what you find.
You can still influence votes in the current system.
No shit. I could decide to be the one who writes the software that counts the votes. Locally I really do have that option. Then the totals would be up to me. Sorry, but that's more responsibility than I want. Perhaps I should, so I could make the count fair, but I dare not because the inevitable voices of bias would ruin me. It's sad that I let it go to those who are unafraid of that claim, but there it is.
I would prefer that when people with the right to vote do vote, that their votes are recorded by other citizens with the right to vote, and the count is supervised by all interested parties. That way there is no question. To do it any other way is to introduce the potential for a tyrant to decide the vote beforehand.
You got me. I was talking to the average. You probably know more ways to cheat than me.
Can you offer a way to prevent cheating? Any? Even in theory?
Sorry to break the news to everybody but online voting in one form or another is the future.
I'm sorry for you to hear that. For me of course, coding plausible deniability into the vote results is just another data warehouse job in the queue.
Good luck with that. I hope it works out well for you, but in the short term I'm quite sure it works out well for me.