Go read the "Criticisms and controvery" section. There's a reason people are suspicious of Huawei. Because they're criminals who've been caught with their hand in the cookie jar on more than one occasion.
+5 Interesting? How in the world do you people modding this believe that this price includes the cost to deliver last mile to 541 million homes? This is for huge aggregate bundles of fiber laid from point to point. It would cost many orders of magnitude more to deliver it to that many locations. It's not even remotely comparable.
You're arguing the same thing. He admitted the government created and developed the technology but the Internet as it exists to do is largely run by corporations.
That's a little shortsighted, don't you think? It will not have any DIRECT effect (as in consumers won't access these fibers directly) but it will most definitely have an indirect effect. More fiber in the ground means more competition and more available bandwidth which means cheaper and more plentiful transport for ISPs which could increase last mile speeds, reduce prices or both.
"The CDNs don't provide a service to the people that have to put up with them in most cases."
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that in "most cases" CDNs do in fact provide a service of providing faster access to content. There are problems, like the one this story points out, but they definitely do provide a useful service.
Microsoft warned them a year ago that they infringed on patents. Salesforce obviously didn't do anything. Microsoft sued them. Quit trying to uncover some conspiracy.
full featured management tools. kvm is woefully behind the curve. until you make it approachable by administrators used to the xen management tools and vmware virtual infrastructure client you won't see it catch on like other hypervisors have. sad but true.
I have the same laptop and have used an iPad and to be honest, it depends on what I'm doing. If I'm using it in the datacenter to console into a router I'm going for the netbook. But if I want to read a PDF or browse the web, no question, I'm going for the iPad.
Adobe should announce an immediate end to all future development on the Mac version of all Creative Suite applications. A huge number of creative professionals care far more about the applications than the OS and would switch to Windows. This would be devastating to Apple who markets itself as the "creative" computer.
Of course, it could be pretty devastating to Adobe as well.
I've got data on floppies from 20 years ago. It's not that difficult to transfer data from one storage medium to the next. It's your responsibility as a scientist/researcher to maintain it. Let's not forget that storage gets larger and cheaper by orders of magnitude every decade or so. Any data on those machines from the 1980s you could probably fit 1,000 times on a $10 thumb drive from best buy.
So the earth has been cooling (even according to "climate change" proponents) for the last 15 years which is completely dismissed by the environmentalists as "too small a sample", but now 30 years is enough to "prove" global warming?
I must be missing something very obvious (wouldn't be the first time!) because this isn't very convincing at all.
oh ok we'll just spend untold billions of dollars to fix a problem based on science we can't prove because you "can't afford" to release results. that makes perfect sense.
By the way I need a billion dollars to fight off alien bears. I can't release my research but trust me, they're very real. And very angry.
Well given your reasoned response and stimulating intellectual counterpoints I've decided that I know believe in global warming. Thanks for changing my mind.
(I've never seen so many expletives modded 5 in my life)
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So what you're saying is because people copied inventions essentially before patent law existed that it's ok for Chinese to steal things now?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei
Go read the "Criticisms and controvery" section. There's a reason people are suspicious of Huawei. Because they're criminals who've been caught with their hand in the cookie jar on more than one occasion.
+5 Interesting? How in the world do you people modding this believe that this price includes the cost to deliver last mile to 541 million homes? This is for huge aggregate bundles of fiber laid from point to point. It would cost many orders of magnitude more to deliver it to that many locations. It's not even remotely comparable.
You're arguing the same thing. He admitted the government created and developed the technology but the Internet as it exists to do is largely run by corporations.
What about all the DSL providers?
That's a little shortsighted, don't you think? It will not have any DIRECT effect (as in consumers won't access these fibers directly) but it will most definitely have an indirect effect. More fiber in the ground means more competition and more available bandwidth which means cheaper and more plentiful transport for ISPs which could increase last mile speeds, reduce prices or both.
"The CDNs don't provide a service to the people that have to put up with them in most cases."
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that in "most cases" CDNs do in fact provide a service of providing faster access to content. There are problems, like the one this story points out, but they definitely do provide a useful service.
Why is "services" in quotes?
Microsoft warned them a year ago that they infringed on patents. Salesforce obviously didn't do anything. Microsoft sued them. Quit trying to uncover some conspiracy.
full featured management tools. kvm is woefully behind the curve. until you make it approachable by administrators used to the xen management tools and vmware virtual infrastructure client you won't see it catch on like other hypervisors have. sad but true.
"have MBAs and PhDs, and are untouchable because of political connections"
Who? Name some. Otherwise I call "bullshit".
I have the same laptop and have used an iPad and to be honest, it depends on what I'm doing. If I'm using it in the datacenter to console into a router I'm going for the netbook. But if I want to read a PDF or browse the web, no question, I'm going for the iPad.
You're buying data either way. The packaging is a delivery mechanism just like the Internet.
amen. how do I turn off these fucking comments already. firefox grinds to a halt every time I open a story from google reader.
Adobe should announce an immediate end to all future development on the Mac version of all Creative Suite applications. A huge number of creative professionals care far more about the applications than the OS and would switch to Windows. This would be devastating to Apple who markets itself as the "creative" computer.
Of course, it could be pretty devastating to Adobe as well.
The Appstore makes them MILLIONS. How do you think they get people to buy iPhones?
"There's an App for that."
Open your eyes.
I've got data on floppies from 20 years ago. It's not that difficult to transfer data from one storage medium to the next. It's your responsibility as a scientist/researcher to maintain it. Let's not forget that storage gets larger and cheaper by orders of magnitude every decade or so. Any data on those machines from the 1980s you could probably fit 1,000 times on a $10 thumb drive from best buy.
Absolutely absurd argument.
"I chose the period 1950-1980"
So the earth has been cooling (even according to "climate change" proponents) for the last 15 years which is completely dismissed by the environmentalists as "too small a sample", but now 30 years is enough to "prove" global warming?
I must be missing something very obvious (wouldn't be the first time!) because this isn't very convincing at all.
*cough*BITTORRENT*cough*
"I mention that there are multiple datasets and measurements taken by independent research projects"
yes, you mention lots of things. without citing anything. you make a very unconvincing argument.
storage? a 1TB hard drive is $99.
transferring? it would probably be the most seeded bittorrent file on the planet.
oh ok we'll just spend untold billions of dollars to fix a problem based on science we can't prove because you "can't afford" to release results. that makes perfect sense.
By the way I need a billion dollars to fight off alien bears. I can't release my research but trust me, they're very real. And very angry.
Well if we're using anecdotal evidence and fictional statistics - 90% of my users demand remote access via VPN.
Well given your reasoned response and stimulating intellectual counterpoints I've decided that I know believe in global warming. Thanks for changing my mind.
(I've never seen so many expletives modded 5 in my life)
The great part about being a sceptic and arguing with global warming supporters is that I can write you off but you can't afford to write me off :)