I'm going to play devil's advocate here. Filter bubbles and all their implications aside, and ignoring the fact that one can go with the torrent way...
I would LIKE my TV provider to "track" me in some way. I would LOVE to have ads tailored to ME and MY needs. I hate so much, really, so much, the damn soap ads they play all day (at least in my country). REALLY, I DON'T want to see any more soap commercials, or Oral-B, or Colgate Whitening. MAN the colgate ads are so annoying, and soap ads are just sexist. I mean every soap and cleaning product ad features a young woman with children, who doesn't work and stays home all day cooking, doing laundry, and scrubbing because if you don't scrub it doesn't clean (unless you buy the new Mr Muscle that "cuts through grease" and cleans without scrubbing).
I DON'T GIVE A FUCK, I just buy the soap that's on sale, the first toothbrush and paste I see. Guess what? They're ALL THE SAME SHIT. A toothbrush that gives you a MASSAGE? Seriously, Oral-B?
I'm a 28 year old male. I don't fucking need ads for cleaning products. Let me know when the next Assassin's Creed is out, that's what I want to know.
Some folks get confused because ZFS runs on Solaris (or any other compatible OS), so people think it's a filesystem. So yes, it is, and it can perfectly run as a filesystem for a SMALL database and appserver on the same host. Small as in "test server".
But ZFS is more suited to dedicated storage cabinets rather than a local FS. You couldn't run Oracle on your Netapp storage server, this is the same. One box (or more) for storage, another box (or more) for db, app, etc.
Also I disagree with people who think the cpu should be "mostly idle". Some guys like to size their servers and freak out when the CPU hits 100% usage even during peak hours... that's wrong. CPU should be busy as much as possible (duh, that's why we virtualize nowadays), and if it hits 100% so be it. MOST apps (not all, of course) are not time-critical and can be delayed for some time. Not a "minutes" delay, but if your typical db query takes 100mS. having to wait 200-300mS won't hurt the sales guy hitting the DB server. Sure, he will get impatient but that's his problem.
Yes I forgot about new CPU instructions for checksumming and stuff, but even without them, CPUs today are SO powerful that I doubt you can peg all CPU cores. And if you're running a 20TB+ array I doubt you'll be running it in the same physical box as the DB server. You probably have a DB server with a ZFS backing store, connected by 10gbe or infiniband, or some other means.
If you have a single box, probably even multiple multi-core CPUs. So hitting a 100% CPU usage would be unusual (I mean, you're supposed to size your server to make 100% cpu usage unusual)
Agreed, and it reminds me of the #1 argument against ZFS: BUT BUT BUT IT BREAKS LAYERS, OH NOES!
And the second one: ZFS doesn't have fsck!! What's one going to do without a proper fsck? ZFS IS A JOKE!
Once you get familiar with ZFS you realize how much sense it makes, even if it violates "rules". For example, someone complained about the fact that zfs does LOTS of checksums, wasting CPU cycles; and doesn't have fsck. Well, it doesn't have fsck BECAUSE it does lots of checksums. Do you have time to wait for that 20TB arrayto finish fscking? I don't (is 20TB even "large" nowadays?) . And my CPU is powerful enough to cope with the "high demand" (sheesh!) of ZFS checksumming.
ZFS is a *reliable* filesystem. Not a lightweight, or "high performance" one.
Luckily with bigger drives people will start realizing that "life's too short" to wait for fsck to finish.
And why do you want to keep the raid and LVM stack?
If you're creating a filesystem and you can make it aware of its own backing storage (and adjust stuff like block size - cause you know, there are disks with 4K sectors now), and have it manage caching by itself (and thus, be aware of how much memory the has, and how much of it is actually RAM and not virtual), and have it check for redundancy and do online checks and repairs - which you realize it's just awesome if you ever try to do fsck on a 20TB filesystem (and because it knows how much data it's actually used, have it only check what's used, instead of blindly regenerating blank space for an array of disks). And variable strip size, and thin provisioning, CoW and free snapshots and clones, and a lot of other stuff ZFS does because it doesn't need to "respect its elders" LVM and md.
Developing something like ZFS is pretty simple. Just get some of the world's best programmers, have them work in a project, with good management and leadership, and test and fix bugs. And tell them they're free to do it ANY way they want, there's no "right" or "wrong". There's no obligation in using md, LVM and an FS on top. In fact, md and LVM were created to overcome the filesystem's limitations. If you're creating a fs from the ground up, you might as well skip md and LVM. But some people in mailing lists think rules have to be followed strictly, and you're an idiot if you don't "layer" properly because it's Written In The Book.
Too much layering is not good either... and, you know what? The 7-layer OSI model is just a model. TCP/IP doesn't have 7 layer: it "only" has 4.
Which is why Linux moves so slowly. Features take ages to develop, unless Red Hat or someone else throws in some code and makes stuff work. Otherwise, it's just the brainchild of someone that does it in his free time... and has to take shit from any random idiot.
Also: steam is available basically worldwide. While iTunes is only available in "selected regions", my brother can access Steam just as easy.
Me? I have an xbox 360, and I need to lie to MS and tell them I live in the USA just to get a XBL account (and use a pre-paid XBL card bought in the USA, because it rejects my Visa issued in Argentina). Why?
It's a funny show, come on! It's a modern-day McGyver, with characters like a former spy that's been through everything (but doesn't have a single scar), a hot girl that's crazy and likes to blow things up, and a funny guy you like just because he wears hawaiian shirts. And the hot girl and guy are in love, and the funny guy and the girl hate each other (but work together when needed). The main character gets himself in deep shit every time but manages to escape, sometimes with help from his friends.
If any, Burn Notice is a commercially viable show. It uses every cliché in the book, goes at a decent pace, and it's entertaining to watch.
I think TV shows don't need to be auteur to be interesting. I mean, at least during the week I'm not sure people want to watch a complex show with lots of characters and a long back story. At least, I'm too tired most days (I don't know what time Burn Notice airs on the USA as I'm in Latin America and I don't think it's on these days).
Not sure if Burn Notice is *the* best show on TV, but I'm pretty sure it's in the top 5, along with Monk (sad to see it was canceled) and, (flame away) Family Guy.
Loved-by-all House I can't stand. It was interesting at the beginning but now it's get repetitive (no shit). Every episode is the same: patient comes in, they check the weirdest diseases no one is ever heard about, and turns out the patient had a toothpick piercing through his guts. It uses all the same tricks as Burn Notice as well, but while Burn Notice repeats the same formula in every episode, every episode is different. In house, every episode is the same. And to be honest, people don't watch House because it's good. They watch it because Hugh Laurie is a great actor when doing the "total douchebag" role.
Speak for yourself. I don't want to be bothered downloading everything I want to watch. I want to watch a movie NOW, like you can with netflix. The problem with the idiots at hollywood is that they're just blinded with greed. I'm pretty sure lots of people would pay $10 a month if you could get decent movies, in HD, streaming it *right now*, instead of having to wait a day for that 720p BD-rip to download.
I'm "only" 28 years old, and I like cable. I like to change channels and stumble across stuff. I don't want to be bothered managing a stupid queue of movies I want to watch and wait until Netflix can mail me that DVD (because it's not on streaming). And I'd like to have the option to watch a movie "any time" if I want to.
But one thing cable channels need to cut are commercials. Period. No commercials whatsoever. No stupid station IDs jumping all around. No graphic overlays taking up half screen to tell me the show that's going to premiere in a fucking MONTH (FOX, I'M TALKING TO YOU).
Also, from your UID, your arguments against paying for stuff, and the fact that you mentioned SyFy make me thing you're just an average amercan white male geek. Probably in college. Hell, probably even using the University's pipes to torrent - anyway, the thing is, "most people" aren't white male geeks. "most people" simply don't like Sci-Fi, they don't like complex stories, they don't like alternate universes, etc. If any, SyFy's model is collapsed because they targeted to a "niche" market... and not the "commercially viable" niche market of Rolex and Rolls Royce, but rather, the niche markets of geeks that know how to download stuff for free. Heh, how would I not know about your kind? I own a fucking comic book store! Way too often some idiot walks in and points out that you can download comics for free.
Netflix recently started operating in Latin America, for about USD 10 a month, streaming only (no mail option, of course, since they don't have a physical presence). Guess what? No one is subscribing because it only has old movies. "Hunt for Red October" old.
La oferta inicial de Arnet Play es de $20 durante los primeros seis meses (luego pasará a $40); a eso deben sumársele $10 por el set top box; y, en caso de alquilar los últimos estrenos y contenidos especiales, se abonarán entre $9 y $16 extras.
“Es un cargo que los estudios de Hollywood imponen. Aunque quisiéramos, no podríamos dejar de cobrarlo. Ni siquiera abonándolo nosotros para hacer más atractiva la oferta”, mencionaron en Telecom.
Translation: Arnet Play's initial offering is USD5 for the first 6 months (then it's USD 10); to that you need to add USD 2,50 for a set top box, and if you want the latest movies and special contents, between $2 and $4 extra. It's an extra that Hollywood imposes, even if we wanted to, we can't not charge for it. Not even paying for it ourselves to make the offer more attractive, Telecom mentioned."
Yeah, no. DVDs down here HAVE ads. My dad got himself some Rolling Stones DVD which has a national bank ad (which you can't skip) at the beginning. And since it's not TV space, it's the full-lenght ad. About 2 minutes.
I know I can rip them, but, you know, why do I have to?
And don't forget that, even when you're paying all that, you still need to watch ads.
That's what I hate the most. Last monday was "Terra Nova" premiere on FOX (Latin America), they had a FUCKING COUNTDOWN TIMER 2 days before, on the top left of the screen, during EVERY SHOW!
Now you are being picky. Use a GSM provider, there you'll have a free choice of handsets and contracts.
Yeah, about that... you talk about euros, so I'm going to assume you're european. You know, the americans like to be backwards-assed as usual. It wasn't enough for them to stick with Imperial units, they also developed a separate standard, so there's not a 100% interoperable GSM network over there. And they also seem to be happy about it, claiming that EV-DO lets them have speeds that GSM won't reach (as if GSM doesn't have 4G and more).
Also, I think they're not required by law to have an unlocked phone option like in Europe (or was that just in Germany?). So more often than not, you just can't get any phone unlocked.
Kinda like Japan, but Japan just doesn't give a fuck about the rest of the world, like they always have.
Zune never did well against the iPod because of the "coolness" factor Apple has. For one, I thought the Zune looked way "sexier" than the iPod, and its interface (of which I've only seen screenshots) looked "prettier" than the iPod's (no, I don't buy that "not minimalist" means "cluttered").
Microsoft has a big problem with hate from "relevant" groups. Self-righteous bloggers who write reviews that love anything-but-microsoft. The XBOX 360 was criticized for not having a BD drive (how many games out there justify the BD size? Just a tiny number of 360 games come in more than 1 DVD), and some people just love the PS3. I don't see why, I mean, I have the 360 and the controller alone is enough reason for me to stick with the 360 (and also, with a receiver, the 360 controller works on a PC too!). Sony seems fixated on keeping a 15 year old controller design... come on!
The thing is, this bank offers "discount" at a nearby supermarket (Carrefour does it with HSBC and Santander, Walmart does it with Standard Bank, and so on). When I first subscribed, the 15% discount was nice, but it had a maximum of $30 a month. Since that supermarket is where I shop anyway, and the cost was $10 a month, it was a good deal. Fast forward 4 years: the maximum discount is still $30 but account cost is $30, so I was just barely covering the maint. cost. I thought of downgrading to a basic account ($12 a month and it also has supermarket discount). But for $3 extra I get to keep my credit card... "I wasn't using" the account as much as before because I just went to a smaller local supermarket chain that has decent prices... Carrefour is big and has lots of variety, but their prices are consistently higher than the local supermarket (how would they give you a 15% "discount" if they didn't raise their prices accordiingly?). The local supermarket is only "good enough".
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I'm going to play devil's advocate here. Filter bubbles and all their implications aside, and ignoring the fact that one can go with the torrent way...
I would LIKE my TV provider to "track" me in some way. I would LOVE to have ads tailored to ME and MY needs. I hate so much, really, so much, the damn soap ads they play all day (at least in my country). REALLY, I DON'T want to see any more soap commercials, or Oral-B, or Colgate Whitening. MAN the colgate ads are so annoying, and soap ads are just sexist. I mean every soap and cleaning product ad features a young woman with children, who doesn't work and stays home all day cooking, doing laundry, and scrubbing because if you don't scrub it doesn't clean (unless you buy the new Mr Muscle that "cuts through grease" and cleans without scrubbing).
I DON'T GIVE A FUCK, I just buy the soap that's on sale, the first toothbrush and paste I see. Guess what? They're ALL THE SAME SHIT. A toothbrush that gives you a MASSAGE? Seriously, Oral-B?
I'm a 28 year old male. I don't fucking need ads for cleaning products. Let me know when the next Assassin's Creed is out, that's what I want to know.
That's exactly what I'm talking about.
Some folks get confused because ZFS runs on Solaris (or any other compatible OS), so people think it's a filesystem. So yes, it is, and it can perfectly run as a filesystem for a SMALL database and appserver on the same host. Small as in "test server".
But ZFS is more suited to dedicated storage cabinets rather than a local FS. You couldn't run Oracle on your Netapp storage server, this is the same. One box (or more) for storage, another box (or more) for db, app, etc.
Also I disagree with people who think the cpu should be "mostly idle". Some guys like to size their servers and freak out when the CPU hits 100% usage even during peak hours... that's wrong. CPU should be busy as much as possible (duh, that's why we virtualize nowadays), and if it hits 100% so be it. MOST apps (not all, of course) are not time-critical and can be delayed for some time. Not a "minutes" delay, but if your typical db query takes 100mS. having to wait 200-300mS won't hurt the sales guy hitting the DB server. Sure, he will get impatient but that's his problem.
Yes I forgot about new CPU instructions for checksumming and stuff, but even without them, CPUs today are SO powerful that I doubt you can peg all CPU cores. And if you're running a 20TB+ array I doubt you'll be running it in the same physical box as the DB server. You probably have a DB server with a ZFS backing store, connected by 10gbe or infiniband, or some other means.
If you have a single box, probably even multiple multi-core CPUs. So hitting a 100% CPU usage would be unusual (I mean, you're supposed to size your server to make 100% cpu usage unusual)
Agreed, and it reminds me of the #1 argument against ZFS: BUT BUT BUT IT BREAKS LAYERS, OH NOES!
And the second one: ZFS doesn't have fsck!! What's one going to do without a proper fsck? ZFS IS A JOKE!
Once you get familiar with ZFS you realize how much sense it makes, even if it violates "rules". For example, someone complained about the fact that zfs does LOTS of checksums, wasting CPU cycles; and doesn't have fsck. Well, it doesn't have fsck BECAUSE it does lots of checksums. Do you have time to wait for that 20TB arrayto finish fscking? I don't (is 20TB even "large" nowadays?) . And my CPU is powerful enough to cope with the "high demand" (sheesh!) of ZFS checksumming.
ZFS is a *reliable* filesystem. Not a lightweight, or "high performance" one.
Luckily with bigger drives people will start realizing that "life's too short" to wait for fsck to finish.
And why do you want to keep the raid and LVM stack?
If you're creating a filesystem and you can make it aware of its own backing storage (and adjust stuff like block size - cause you know, there are disks with 4K sectors now), and have it manage caching by itself (and thus, be aware of how much memory the has, and how much of it is actually RAM and not virtual), and have it check for redundancy and do online checks and repairs - which you realize it's just awesome if you ever try to do fsck on a 20TB filesystem (and because it knows how much data it's actually used, have it only check what's used, instead of blindly regenerating blank space for an array of disks). And variable strip size, and thin provisioning, CoW and free snapshots and clones, and a lot of other stuff ZFS does because it doesn't need to "respect its elders" LVM and md.
Developing something like ZFS is pretty simple. Just get some of the world's best programmers, have them work in a project, with good management and leadership, and test and fix bugs. And tell them they're free to do it ANY way they want, there's no "right" or "wrong". There's no obligation in using md, LVM and an FS on top. In fact, md and LVM were created to overcome the filesystem's limitations. If you're creating a fs from the ground up, you might as well skip md and LVM. But some people in mailing lists think rules have to be followed strictly, and you're an idiot if you don't "layer" properly because it's Written In The Book.
Too much layering is not good either... and, you know what? The 7-layer OSI model is just a model. TCP/IP doesn't have 7 layer: it "only" has 4.
Which is why Linux moves so slowly. Features take ages to develop, unless Red Hat or someone else throws in some code and makes stuff work. Otherwise, it's just the brainchild of someone that does it in his free time... and has to take shit from any random idiot.
Stupid licensing issues.
There's always a way around technical stuff: http://zfsonlinux.org/
Rent? Who wants to rent Hunt for Red October when you can watch it several times a month on Cinecanal or The Film Zone?
BTW, friends from Chile told me the same about netflix: Old movies, no one wants them.
Also: steam is available basically worldwide. While iTunes is only available in "selected regions", my brother can access Steam just as easy.
Me? I have an xbox 360, and I need to lie to MS and tell them I live in the USA just to get a XBL account (and use a pre-paid XBL card bought in the USA, because it rejects my Visa issued in Argentina). Why?
It's a funny show, come on! It's a modern-day McGyver, with characters like a former spy that's been through everything (but doesn't have a single scar), a hot girl that's crazy and likes to blow things up, and a funny guy you like just because he wears hawaiian shirts. And the hot girl and guy are in love, and the funny guy and the girl hate each other (but work together when needed). The main character gets himself in deep shit every time but manages to escape, sometimes with help from his friends.
If any, Burn Notice is a commercially viable show. It uses every cliché in the book, goes at a decent pace, and it's entertaining to watch.
I think TV shows don't need to be auteur to be interesting. I mean, at least during the week I'm not sure people want to watch a complex show with lots of characters and a long back story. At least, I'm too tired most days (I don't know what time Burn Notice airs on the USA as I'm in Latin America and I don't think it's on these days).
Not sure if Burn Notice is *the* best show on TV, but I'm pretty sure it's in the top 5, along with Monk (sad to see it was canceled) and, (flame away) Family Guy.
Loved-by-all House I can't stand. It was interesting at the beginning but now it's get repetitive (no shit). Every episode is the same: patient comes in, they check the weirdest diseases no one is ever heard about, and turns out the patient had a toothpick piercing through his guts. It uses all the same tricks as Burn Notice as well, but while Burn Notice repeats the same formula in every episode, every episode is different. In house, every episode is the same. And to be honest, people don't watch House because it's good. They watch it because Hugh Laurie is a great actor when doing the "total douchebag" role.
Speak for yourself. I don't want to be bothered downloading everything I want to watch. I want to watch a movie NOW, like you can with netflix. The problem with the idiots at hollywood is that they're just blinded with greed. I'm pretty sure lots of people would pay $10 a month if you could get decent movies, in HD, streaming it *right now*, instead of having to wait a day for that 720p BD-rip to download.
I'm "only" 28 years old, and I like cable. I like to change channels and stumble across stuff. I don't want to be bothered managing a stupid queue of movies I want to watch and wait until Netflix can mail me that DVD (because it's not on streaming). And I'd like to have the option to watch a movie "any time" if I want to.
But one thing cable channels need to cut are commercials. Period. No commercials whatsoever. No stupid station IDs jumping all around. No graphic overlays taking up half screen to tell me the show that's going to premiere in a fucking MONTH (FOX, I'M TALKING TO YOU).
Also, from your UID, your arguments against paying for stuff, and the fact that you mentioned SyFy make me thing you're just an average amercan white male geek. Probably in college. Hell, probably even using the University's pipes to torrent - anyway, the thing is, "most people" aren't white male geeks. "most people" simply don't like Sci-Fi, they don't like complex stories, they don't like alternate universes, etc. If any, SyFy's model is collapsed because they targeted to a "niche" market... and not the "commercially viable" niche market of Rolex and Rolls Royce, but rather, the niche markets of geeks that know how to download stuff for free. Heh, how would I not know about your kind? I own a fucking comic book store! Way too often some idiot walks in and points out that you can download comics for free.
Netflix recently started operating in Latin America, for about USD 10 a month, streaming only (no mail option, of course, since they don't have a physical presence). Guess what? No one is subscribing because it only has old movies. "Hunt for Red October" old.
I read that Telecom, my country's main internet provider, is starting a streaming service. http://www.infobae.com/notas/609633-Arnet-Play-el-nuevo-servicio-multimedia-de-Telecom.html
Translation: Arnet Play's initial offering is USD5 for the first 6 months (then it's USD 10); to that you need to add USD 2,50 for a set top box, and if you want the latest movies and special contents, between $2 and $4 extra. It's an extra that Hollywood imposes, even if we wanted to, we can't not charge for it. Not even paying for it ourselves to make the offer more attractive, Telecom mentioned."
What the hell, hollywood?
Yeah, no. DVDs down here HAVE ads. My dad got himself some Rolling Stones DVD which has a national bank ad (which you can't skip) at the beginning. And since it's not TV space, it's the full-lenght ad. About 2 minutes.
I know I can rip them, but, you know, why do I have to?
And don't forget that, even when you're paying all that, you still need to watch ads.
That's what I hate the most. Last monday was "Terra Nova" premiere on FOX (Latin America), they had a FUCKING COUNTDOWN TIMER 2 days before, on the top left of the screen, during EVERY SHOW!
What the hell?
Oh, BOOHOO!
Is it even cable TV if you get your connection through DSL or FIOS and watch on an XBOX?
I meant a nation-wide interoperable GSM network. AT&T is GSM, Verizon is not.
Yeah, about that... you talk about euros, so I'm going to assume you're european. You know, the americans like to be backwards-assed as usual. It wasn't enough for them to stick with Imperial units, they also developed a separate standard, so there's not a 100% interoperable GSM network over there. And they also seem to be happy about it, claiming that EV-DO lets them have speeds that GSM won't reach (as if GSM doesn't have 4G and more).
Also, I think they're not required by law to have an unlocked phone option like in Europe (or was that just in Germany?). So more often than not, you just can't get any phone unlocked.
Kinda like Japan, but Japan just doesn't give a fuck about the rest of the world, like they always have.
Zune never did well against the iPod because of the "coolness" factor Apple has. For one, I thought the Zune looked way "sexier" than the iPod, and its interface (of which I've only seen screenshots) looked "prettier" than the iPod's (no, I don't buy that "not minimalist" means "cluttered").
Microsoft has a big problem with hate from "relevant" groups. Self-righteous bloggers who write reviews that love anything-but-microsoft. The XBOX 360 was criticized for not having a BD drive (how many games out there justify the BD size? Just a tiny number of 360 games come in more than 1 DVD), and some people just love the PS3. I don't see why, I mean, I have the 360 and the controller alone is enough reason for me to stick with the 360 (and also, with a receiver, the 360 controller works on a PC too!). Sony seems fixated on keeping a 15 year old controller design... come on!
HEH was that a stab at the iPhone? You know, because it doesn't have a user-replaceable battery.
One word for you: Azure.
So, are you the 99% or not?
It's complicated.
The thing is, this bank offers "discount" at a nearby supermarket (Carrefour does it with HSBC and Santander, Walmart does it with Standard Bank, and so on). When I first subscribed, the 15% discount was nice, but it had a maximum of $30 a month. Since that supermarket is where I shop anyway, and the cost was $10 a month, it was a good deal. Fast forward 4 years: the maximum discount is still $30 but account cost is $30, so I was just barely covering the maint. cost. I thought of downgrading to a basic account ($12 a month and it also has supermarket discount). But for $3 extra I get to keep my credit card...
"I wasn't using" the account as much as before because I just went to a smaller local supermarket chain that has decent prices... Carrefour is big and has lots of variety, but their prices are consistently higher than the local supermarket (how would they give you a 15% "discount" if they didn't raise their prices accordiingly?). The local supermarket is only "good enough".
You might want to ask this guy: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2450702&cid=37545634