Tech/computer specialists isn't something that is field specific. Any well rounded programmer/engineer can move from industry to industry with relative ease, in fact its pretty much a job requirement to be able to get in, get up to speed, and get productive. Its what we do.
Are Database Administrators some how different in hospitals than in power plants?
For any given sub-discipline, the job is largely the same everywhere.
Exactly, but, given the life of the drives, and the length of time the analysis covers, Blackblaze was buying drives on the open market, (in huge numbers) for a long time before Seagate dropped that particular line of drives due to high failure rates.
So Blackblaze turning in warranted drives for excessive and early failures is also probably a large contributor to the Seagate data as well. Blackblaze operated as a huge consumer. That they happened to find a lot of defects does not make their data flawed. The were simply sampling the market like any other consumer.
This guy is saying, yeah, Seagate were bad in the past, but that is no reason to hold off buying them now, pay no attention to those numbers.
Its always a crap shoot, because there is no 5 years longevity test for new drive models to fall back on. For the simple reason that the new models haven't' been in the field that long. So weighting past performance of the manufacture is as valid as it gets.
Might Seagate have learned a lesson, and improved their product? Possibly, check back in 5 years.
Agreed, the patents are important. Both to Google and Samsung.
As for Tizen only starting in China, Samsung has yet to confirm that, but If I were Google, and the single biggest handset manufacturer in the world showed a breakaway device, I'd take notice, If anyone could pull it off, Samsung could.
Its all guesswork of course. But if Tizen suddenly takes a few more years to appear, ore quietly dies, I would not be very surprised.
Forbes pretty much agrees with that analysis, and they valued the Tax write off for Moto losses to have been worth one billion out of the gate, plus 700million yearly. http://www.forbes.com/sites/ti...
Then there was the sale of 2 Moto fabs in the far east.
It will be interesting to see how much of the State Side assembly and shipping stays here. The advantages of having Chinese labor has been falling yearly, and Lenovo may just decide to build boards over seas and do the (mostly) automated assembly here in Texas.
Why are they eating up so much precious vertical real estate instead of using simple menus, or do like OpenOffice does, and put this complexity on the side.
Switching to OpenOffice would probably cost them more in training then they would save in 20 years of licensing fees.
As opposed to the relearning time wasted when I was forced to upgrade from MSO 2007 to 2010?
Thus, I say that "oh, the retraining costs" is a red herring.
Agreed. The retraining nonsense is pure MS hype. Switching to either is pretty simple, something that most people do with very little retraining. (Often none). You open the document from Word, or Excel and it just works the VAST majority of the time. The typical government office has little that is that complex. True you can find some horribly complex stuff occasionally, but most is simple letters and reports.
But we are talking government document here. Papers and memos etc. The vast majority of Office document processing never encounters anything more complex than a table embeded in a text document, and most of it is less complex than that.
OO/LO can easily handle that load. And Once written with either of these free package, conversion to the other works perfectly.
Getting from Word to OO/LO is occasionally problematic for complex documents. But in my experience, about 95% of the DOCX/DOC files I get convert perfectly. And I have a much better rate going the other way (oo/ol to Word).
Databases are a minuscule portion of the typical government work load, and even with Microsoft products, they are so unreliable and fragile that as soon as the developer walks out the door your Access + Word + Excel project becomes maintainable.
Its actually the other way around. Google is keeping all but 2000 patents (some sources indicate over 10K) and licensing them to Lenovo, and no doubt cross licensing those 2000 back from them.
Someones working overtime to make seagate look good. But the pile of dead seagates at work says otherwise.
Yeah, this guy is essentially saying the pre-known facts validate this research finding so therefore the research was deeply flawed.
It really doesn't matter what the accumulated knowledge over the intervening years says, the facts remain that for this user, Blackblaze, the results were the results, and it happened to match what the industry already knew.
Their results: Hitachi has the lowest overall failure rate (3.1% over three years). Western Digital has a slightly higher rate (5.2%), but the drives that fail tend to do so very early. Seagate drives fail much more often — 26.5% are dead by the three-year mark."
If anything, this guy just validated Blackblaze's study,
You can be specific in your request under FOI, and simply ask for those records and data that are currently here on earth.
However, reading the actual court filing, I don't see any reference to the Freedom of Information Act. Rather, he seems to be demanding the court force NASA to do what he alleges is their responsibility, that they are somehow shirking.
He demands high rez close up photos, which he says NASA hasn't produced, yet there are such already on file and more coming http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gall...
Ten years of photos, and he thinks he spotted a mushroom on mars where the average temp is -81 degrees F.
Samsung leaked a Tizen phone just to get Google's attention. Google extracted a patent deal in exchange for getting out of the hardware deal, and now they complete their end of the bargain.
Not at all, Motorola seems to be making better phones now, and Google has the parents. I assume the purchase was very hedging, in case android as an ecosystem didn't take off, they could try to make them alone. The need to hedge is over, Google gets some money, and a company that has proven it's ability to manage american brands is in the mix.
Google can now release moto based nexus items (if they dream moto to be good for it), without threatening the ecosystem.
The hedge on android probably was worth it to them.
Android had already captured about 75% of all hanset sales by the time the Moto Buy happened. So I don't think they were hedging.
However, you might have hit the mark after all, in a slightly different way: Preventing Android from being eroded.
Its entirely possible there was a quietly brewing manufacturer revolt going on due to Google competing with its user base by manufacturing phones. Samsung leaked a Tizen Phone, and Mozilla funding a phone OS (paid for by Google, as is 95% of everything Mozilla does), and the Chinese also brewing up a phone OS, it might have come to Google's attention that getting rid of Moto might have been the best choice.
They keep the patents, secure Android's future, and already pocketed the tax write off when acquiring Moto's debts. Win, Win, Win.
Chances are, they will just take the Nest patents, disassociate the Nest website and do all the work on an Android app on your phone. There is really precious little need for there to be a mother ship for a thermostat to call home to.
Maybe not. According to Forbes Google's net cost might have been as low as $1.5 billion, which means this might be a net gain. TLDR: The sold off portions and the tax write-down may have made the out of pocket costs only 1.5B.
Except for the facts that get in the way of that. 13000 years ago the Americas were extremely underpopulated. At the time of Columbus, the best estimates for all of North and South american combined is less than current day Canada. That's not enough people to drive anything extinct.
You seem to have overlooked the fact that they were paid rather substantial coin for their years of development, even when their project never left the lab. Their careers were sustained quite handsomely by the grants/salaries they were operating under. And the papers they may have submitted and the research they performed did nothing to hurt their career path either.
1492 is mentioned simply as the high-point of population density in the Americas. (I should have thought that would have been obvious). 13,000 years ago the density was microscopic. So much so that we've only found evidence in a very few special sites.
Small local tribes can only exhaust small local populations, but on continents the size of North and South America, Local doesn't apply, and your tropical island example is really laughable (and I suspect you knew that the minute you typed it, yet you hit that submit button anyway.).
openwlanmap.org uses it to display maps of wifi-war-drived-data when you submit any. I scanned wifi-access points while driving to France for a holiday; amazing how many access points you detect even in the middle of nowhere!
When anyone can download a few hundred gigs and build their own maps server I see that as a good thing (TM).
Let me know when that happens. Never mistake your (company supplied) hardware and paid "fun time" and your technical expertise for something "anyone" can do.
I can't speak to the edit/delete wars issue, because I don't know the rules under which it operates.
But without resorting to the use of hugely expensive satellite imagery, and official sources, and mapping that to known points, openstreetmaps misses a lot of the less traveled roads, even in countries like the US where everyone is carrying a cell phone with GPS turned on. Look into south america and the quality drops off quite a bit.
Enthusiasts may run mapping apps and contribute, but until they can get a large segment of people doing so they will always be behind the curve. There are some mapping track submission apps for Android and probabl for IOS, but these are fairly crude and battery hogging things. They are unwieldy, and more than a little geeky to use.
What they really need is something that will track your location and speed on your phone. Anything over 15 to 20 indicates some sort of vehicle. Just record that on your phone, and not upload it. Then, (when connected to wifi or on the charger perhaps), download just those map segments needed and compare that to the recorded track. Any travel at speed NOT on a known road, would periodically submitted. When there is enough evidence to suggest a road from enough different users, they could add the road to the map.
That way, they can make up for the lack of official sources and satellite imagery by using the power of thousands of phones without users having to do anything other than install the app, and key in some random digits to use for anonamizing the submissions.
Google gets real time traffic data via this method, so we already know it works.
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Where were you really going with this ramble?
Tech/computer specialists isn't something that is field specific. Any well rounded programmer/engineer can move from industry to industry with relative ease, in fact its pretty much a job requirement to be able to get in, get up to speed, and get productive. Its what we do.
Are Database Administrators some how different in hospitals than in power plants?
For any given sub-discipline, the job is largely the same everywhere.
Too dumb to click a link, yet somehow able to post?!
You wouldn't understand it anyway son.
Exactly, but, given the life of the drives, and the length of time the analysis covers, Blackblaze was buying drives on the open market, (in huge numbers) for a long time before Seagate dropped that particular line of drives due to high failure rates.
So Blackblaze turning in warranted drives for excessive and early failures is also probably a large contributor to the Seagate data as well.
Blackblaze operated as a huge consumer. That they happened to find a lot of defects does not make their data flawed. The were simply sampling the market like any other consumer.
This guy is saying, yeah, Seagate were bad in the past, but that is no reason to hold off buying them now, pay no attention to those numbers.
Its always a crap shoot, because there is no 5 years longevity test for new drive models to fall back on. For the simple reason that the new models haven't' been in the field that long. So weighting past performance of the manufacture is as valid as it gets.
Might Seagate have learned a lesson, and improved their product? Possibly, check back in 5 years.
Agreed, the patents are important. Both to Google and Samsung.
As for Tizen only starting in China, Samsung has yet to confirm that, but If I were Google, and the single biggest handset manufacturer in the world showed a breakaway device, I'd take notice, If anyone could pull it off, Samsung could.
Its all guesswork of course. But if Tizen suddenly takes a few more years to appear, ore quietly dies, I would not be very surprised.
Forbes pretty much agrees with that analysis, and they valued the Tax write off for Moto losses to have been worth one billion out of the gate, plus 700million yearly. http://www.forbes.com/sites/ti...
Then there was the sale of 2 Moto fabs in the far east.
See also http://www.androidcentral.com/...
It will be interesting to see how much of the State Side assembly and shipping stays here. The advantages of having Chinese labor has been falling yearly, and Lenovo may just decide to build boards over seas and do the (mostly) automated assembly here in Texas.
Agreed, ribbons are a mess.
Why are they eating up so much precious vertical real estate instead of using simple menus, or do like OpenOffice does, and put this complexity on the side.
OO Example: http://www.openoffice.org/prod...
LO Example: http://www.libreoffice.org/fea...
I switch back and forth between OO and LO all the time, with occasional forays into Word/Excel. I much prefer OO to Word. No ribbons.
Switching to OpenOffice would probably cost them more in training then they would save in 20 years of licensing fees.
As opposed to the relearning time wasted when I was forced to upgrade from MSO 2007 to 2010?
Thus, I say that "oh, the retraining costs" is a red herring.
Agreed. The retraining nonsense is pure MS hype.
Switching to either is pretty simple, something that most people do with very little retraining. (Often none). You open the document from Word, or Excel and it just works the VAST majority of the time. The typical government office has little that is that complex. True you can find some horribly complex stuff occasionally, but most is simple letters and reports.
But we are talking government document here. Papers and memos etc.
The vast majority of Office document processing never encounters anything more complex than a table embeded in a text document, and most of it is less complex than that.
OO/LO can easily handle that load. And Once written with either of these free package, conversion to the other works perfectly.
Getting from Word to OO/LO is occasionally problematic for complex documents. But in my experience, about 95% of the DOCX/DOC files I get convert perfectly. And I have a much better rate going the other way (oo/ol to Word).
Databases are a minuscule portion of the typical government work load, and even with Microsoft products, they are so unreliable and fragile that as soon as the developer walks out the door your Access + Word + Excel project becomes maintainable.
Its actually the other way around. Google is keeping all but 2000 patents (some sources indicate over 10K) and licensing them to Lenovo, and no doubt cross licensing those 2000 back from them.
Someones working overtime to make seagate look good.
But the pile of dead seagates at work says otherwise.
Yeah, this guy is essentially saying the pre-known facts validate this research finding so therefore the research was deeply flawed.
It really doesn't matter what the accumulated knowledge over the intervening years says, the facts remain that for this user, Blackblaze, the results were the results, and it happened to match what the industry already knew.
Their results: Hitachi has the lowest overall failure rate (3.1% over three years). Western Digital has a slightly higher rate (5.2%), but the drives that fail tend to do so very early. Seagate drives fail much more often — 26.5% are dead by the three-year mark."
If anything, this guy just validated Blackblaze's study,
But don't you suppose that computer systems that can distinguish gibberish composed of valid words from meaningful sentences?
There is more than a little research in this area.
You can be specific in your request under FOI, and simply ask for those records and data that are currently here on earth.
However, reading the actual court filing, I don't see any reference to the Freedom of Information Act. Rather, he seems to be demanding the court force NASA to do what he alleges is their responsibility, that they are somehow shirking.
He demands high rez close up photos, which he says NASA hasn't produced, yet there are such already on file and more coming http://marsrover.nasa.gov/gall...
Ten years of photos, and he thinks he spotted a mushroom on mars where the average temp is -81 degrees F.
and avoid a war with their customers.
Exactly. Nail hit squarely on the head.
Samsung leaked a Tizen phone just to get Google's attention.
Google extracted a patent deal in exchange for getting out of the hardware deal, and now they complete their end of the bargain.
Not at all, Motorola seems to be making better phones now, and Google has the parents. I assume the purchase was very hedging, in case android as an ecosystem didn't take off, they could try to make them alone. The need to hedge is over, Google gets some money, and a company that has proven it's ability to manage american brands is in the mix.
Google can now release moto based nexus items (if they dream moto to be good for it), without threatening the ecosystem.
The hedge on android probably was worth it to them.
Android had already captured about 75% of all hanset sales by the time the Moto Buy happened.
So I don't think they were hedging.
However, you might have hit the mark after all, in a slightly different way: Preventing Android from being eroded.
Its entirely possible there was a quietly brewing manufacturer revolt going on due to Google competing with its user base by manufacturing phones.
Samsung leaked a Tizen Phone, and Mozilla funding a phone OS (paid for by Google, as is 95% of everything Mozilla does), and the Chinese also brewing up a phone OS, it might have come to Google's attention that getting rid of Moto might have been the best choice.
They keep the patents, secure Android's future, and already pocketed the tax write off when acquiring Moto's debts. Win, Win, Win.
Chances are, they will just take the Nest patents, disassociate the Nest website and do all the work on an Android app on your phone.
There is really precious little need for there to be a mother ship for a thermostat to call home to.
That's gonna leave a mark. A -$10 billion mark!
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Maybe not. According to Forbes Google's net cost might have been as low as $1.5 billion, which means this might be a net gain.
TLDR: The sold off portions and the tax write-down may have made the out of pocket costs only 1.5B.
Except for the facts that get in the way of that. 13000 years ago the Americas were extremely underpopulated.
At the time of Columbus, the best estimates for all of North and South american combined is less than current day Canada.
That's not enough people to drive anything extinct.
Way to cherry pick your area:
https://www.google.com/maps?q=...
http://www.openstreetmap.org/r...
I agree that the rush for width in browser windows drives me nuts, especially when the web designer forces it on you.
But I'm not sure understand why this requires Regions? Multi-column has been done for quite a while.
Mozilla has some examples here: https://developer.mozilla.org/...
and CSS3 have examples here http://www.w3schools.com/css/c...
Are these the same thing as regions? Or are they using other concepts all together?
expressing the coin they pay
You seem to have overlooked the fact that they were paid rather substantial coin for their years of development, even when their project never left the lab. Their careers were sustained quite handsomely by the grants/salaries they were operating under. And the papers they may have submitted and the research they performed did nothing to hurt their career path either.
1492 is mentioned simply as the high-point of population density in the Americas. (I should have thought that would have been obvious).
13,000 years ago the density was microscopic. So much so that we've only found evidence in a very few special sites.
Small local tribes can only exhaust small local populations, but on continents the size of North and South America, Local doesn't apply, and your tropical island example is really laughable (and I suspect you knew that the minute you typed it, yet you hit that submit button anyway.).
openwlanmap.org uses it to display maps of wifi-war-drived-data when you submit any. I scanned wifi-access points while driving to France for a holiday; amazing how many access points you detect even in the middle of nowhere!
Pathetic pikers compared to https://wigle.net/
http://openwlanmap.org/northam...
https://wigle.net/images/rigle...
When anyone can download a few hundred gigs and build their own maps server I see that as a good thing (TM).
Let me know when that happens.
Never mistake your (company supplied) hardware and paid "fun time" and your technical expertise for something "anyone" can do.
Really?
I seem to get a hell of a lot of detail for the princely sum of zero on Google Maps. Right down to lot lines in residential areas.
I can't speak to the edit/delete wars issue, because I don't know the rules under which it operates.
But without resorting to the use of hugely expensive satellite imagery, and official sources, and mapping that to known points, openstreetmaps misses a lot of the less traveled roads, even in countries like the US where everyone is carrying a cell phone with GPS turned on. Look into south america and the quality drops off quite a bit.
Enthusiasts may run mapping apps and contribute, but until they can get a large segment of people doing so they will always be behind the curve.
There are some mapping track submission apps for Android and probabl for IOS, but these are fairly crude and battery hogging things. They are unwieldy, and more than a little geeky to use.
What they really need is something that will track your location and speed on your phone. Anything over 15 to 20 indicates some sort of vehicle. Just record that on your phone, and not upload it. Then, (when connected to wifi or on the charger perhaps), download just those map segments needed and compare that to the recorded track. Any travel at speed NOT on a known road, would periodically submitted. When there is enough evidence to suggest a road from enough different users, they could add the road to the map.
That way, they can make up for the lack of official sources and satellite imagery by using the power of thousands of phones without users having to do anything other than install the app, and key in some random digits to use for anonamizing the submissions.
Google gets real time traffic data via this method, so we already know it works.