Last time I priced it SAN storage was about $2,500 a TB so that makes 1PetaByte 1024*$2,500 or about 2.56 MILLION bucks. Not to mention the floorspace and the power bill for the A/C and the drives. Those guys must have been some fatcat file swappers. There are large companies that don't have that much storage!
The JibJab piece could have been construed as slander against either person but if you are defined as a "public person" such as movie star, or politician the rules are relaxed and "intent" to harm must be proven. "Intent" is very tough to prove. Truth is always a defense against slander/libel.
There was no copyright issue here at all, thank goodness the courts actually got that right!
Hmm...oil rigs in International waters? Not very likley as some nation is going to want that revenue stream. Even the North Sea is divied up and I think thats outside everyone's 200 mile limit. How about storing them on a ship that never docks anywhere except where the can't reach? With GPS and Sattelite uplinks/downlinks you can find and access your data. Build your submarine if you want to hide even better. IIRC, there was a sci-fi novel about an AI that hid itself in parts across 1000's of servers when it learned it was to be decommissioned. So, the idea of distrubuting data to hide it has been around a while.
He also has an MBA, so he defies that sterotype too. His undergrad degreee is from Indiana and he is a BIG Bobby Knight fan.
The NBA hates him as he isn't afraid to criticize the referees and the stupid rules. They just fine him what amounts to "chump change" for him. Mav's fans love the man, he brought a decent team (and coach) back to Dallas.
Well, I'm NOT a physicist by any means! I was just trying to see if there was a lower cost option (smacks head...that damned MBA is kicking in again and overrulling my techiness). I wonder if you could boost the energy with the more modern technology available today (better magnets) and get the energy needed and still come out cheaper?
THe old Superconducting SuperCollider (SSC) is still there, half built in Texas. All the buildings are still intact and the tunnels are still there (just closed off). Would THAT be cheaper. As I recall it was also about 40km in length. I live near that site and I'm sure that we could make someone a HECK of a deal on the site. Of course there are people living nearby now but it's not going to be a hazard. IIRC, The collider at Stanford (SLAC) goes under houses, campus bldgs and a freeway.
Oh right, I forgot, common sense and high-energy high $$$ physics projects don't go together.
Umm..I hate to break this to ya but Software Engineering is one hell of a lot more than learning to write code. You WILL need a good many of those CS skills (not so much the theory but the application of the theory). Take Math thru Calculus 2 and take Statistics and Discrete Math skip the rest you will rarely need it, and if you do then you can likely learn enough of it OJT to get by. And get some classes BESIDES CS/Math and the basics, expand your mind learn to think in abstractions, learn about art, music and literature it will open your mind to the non-Geek world and make you a better employee. Plus chicks like guys who can talk about something other than computers;)
IF all you want to do is be a code jockey, then go to a Tech/Vocational College, learn Java and maybe VB and get to work. You can get your degree in something like business going part-time nights/weekends. The work experience will be invaluable plus you won't be broke all the time;) The downside is you have to compete for your job with the guys in India and other places, so don't expect good pay or a longterm job.
Just my.02 worth.
Given the current state of the IT field with many jobs leaving to go to those in India or other low wage nations, why, would anyone WANT to get in the field? If these folk are really the best and brighest they should use that intelligence in some area they can earn a decent living. If they are still interested, even though making thier living in another area, they can contribute thru the F/OSS movement.
You should (or maybe you have) read the thread on Groklaw about Enderle's "speech". Perhaps you wouldn't mind contributing your analysis to the other on the site.
This one has been debunked by Torvalds himself, he STUDIED Minix in school and thought he could do it better and so he built Linux from scratch with some help from his friends. There has never been any Minix code in Linux. Minix was never meant to be more than a teaching tool thats why it was never upgraded. This topic came up on Groklaw a while back and someone actually emailed Linus and got his permission to post his reply to the Minix question.
Goodness who modded this funny? It's WAY WAY off-topic political BS. And not even good political BS at that. Guess that's what happens when you give mod points to those with little brain.
Now to stay on topic. What makes SCO think someone will pay MORE for SCO Unix? From what I have seen its about a generation or two behind Solaris and AIX in features and scalability and not even as good as the current Linix Distros in many ways and Linux is FREE. Oh well just another example of backwards thinking, like "hey let's sure IBM over the fact we own UNIX and that they put our UNIX in Linux. They'll buy us out, and we'll make millions I tell ya.". NO ONE beats IBM in court.
Actually GE sorta has it's own internal MBA type program. Based on reading Jack Welch book, I'd say it's pretty close to an "Executive MBA", IBM does the same thing. Both are VERY good programs and while you don't get that actual degree you get the education albeit with a GE/IBM slant. Graduates of these programs have done very well even outside the company that taught them. I WILL say this, that a MBA is NOT a substitue for real world experience! If you look at the CEO Magazine article you will also see a lot of CEOs will were lawyers, THAT is scary to me. At least you know the Engineering and/or Business guys have some idea of how things really work! My MBA is from back in 1999 so it's probably useless.
Have you been around since the mid-80s? "Star Wars" was SPACE based (hence the name), not GROUND/AIR based. The defensive weapons (such as "brilliant pebbles") would take out the ICBM in it's exoatmospheric phase. The current systems attempt to target the warheads(and distinquish dummies)at the transitional area at about 300,000 feet during the re-entry phase. IMHO, what they are doing is MUCH harder than what "Star Wars" was doing and I have worked on some Star Wars ideas as well as the THAAD ABM system.
I agree that don't teach you a lot of the "soft" skills, it is more "hard" or data driven analysis skills. However where I went there was an attempt to add more of the soft skills and entrepneurism.
MBAs who are/were Tech Company CEOs--
Mark Cuban (Broadcast.com -> Yahoo -> Dallas Mavericks & a HD TV company)
Carly Fiorina (Hewlett-Packard)
Here is a list (a bit dated ) just covering the Fortune 200..
CEOs with Harvard MBAs (Fortune rank)
G. Richard Wagoner Jr., General Motors (3)
Charles R. Lee, Verizon (10)
Henry B. Schacht, Lucent (28)
Raymond V. Gilmartin, Merck (30)
Alan G. Lafley, Procter & Gamble (31)
Henry M. Paulson Jr., Goldman Sachs (42)
Robert D. Walter, Cardinal Health (51)
James Dimon, Bank One (70)
C. Steven McMillan, Sara Lee (96)
Fred Hassan, Pharmacia (113)
W. James McNerney Jr., 3M (118)
Leo F. Mullin, Delta Air Lines (123)
Samir G. Gibara, Goodyear (136)
John B. Hess, Amerada Hess (158)
John H. Eyler Jr., Toys 'R' Us (172)
Thomas G. Stemberg, Staples (178)
The Sloan Power List
CEOs with Sloan degrees* (Fortune rank)
Philip M. Condit, Boeing (15)
Carleton S. Fiorina, Hewlett-Packard (19)
F. Duane Ackerman, BellSouth (66)
Joseph P. Nacchio, Qwest (120)
Daniel A. Carp, Eastman Kodak (141)
*Master's in business/management
B-Schools with One MBA in the Top 200 CEOs
Thirty-two schools--from Wharton to Widener--made this list
Boston University
Cal State, Long Beach
Carnegie Mellon
Cornell Johnson
Creighton
Dartmouth Tuck
George Washington
Iona College Hagan
University of Iowa Tippie
University of Louisville
Manchester Business School (U.K.)
Marquette
University of Maryland Smith
University of Michigan
University of New Hampshire Whittemore
University of New Mexico Anderson
University of New South Wales
University of Oklahoma Price
Pace Lubin
University of Pennsylvania Wharton
Pepperdine Graziadio
Rochester Institute of Technology
University of Southern California Marshall
University of South Carolina Moore
Southern Illinois University
Southern Methodist University Cox
UCLA Anderson
Vanderbilt Owen
Wake Forest Babcock
Widener
University of Wisconsin
Xavier Williams
Route to the Top
Degrees held by Fortune 200 CEOs
79 MBAs
15 JDs/LLBs
12 Ph.D.'s
2 M.D.'s
18 Other graduate degree
The "Star Wars" defense system does NOT exist anymore. Hasn't since the mid 1990s. The systems now are Anti-ICBMs and other methods (laser, particle beams) of stopping ICBMs. And guess what, THEY WORK and have been live tested. I agree that the ICBM methods of attack might be a bit too avert, but it is still a threat we must solve along with the suitcase nukes. Both are hard security problems just in different ways.
Back on topic, NASA has only gotten permission to PLAN a POSSIBLE mission. I worked on HST at NASA, its a LONG WAY from PLAN to mission. Also, if things work out a robotic mission is a LOT cheaper than a shuttle. The new instruments, are the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) and the Wide Field Camera Gen 3 (WFC3) and they are already built, tested and in storage. The new gyros are ready too. This was all going to go up in early 2005 orginally. So the only costs to fund are the delivery and install. A robot that can actually DO this work would be an awesome step forward in that discipline, and could in fact be a technology that would be good for the "Mars Mission". So, its not all smoke and mirrors but neither is it ready to go.
Just because a business shows a loss on the income statement does not mean it is a BAD business. The Napster part could very well be CASH-FLOW positive which is a GOOD THING. Plus they may get to keep any tax savings from the Roxio losses to carry forward to offset income in future years meaning NO TAXES for many years. Also, I suspect overhead will be lower in the on-line music business than in the software business, thus leaving a bit more margin to play with. The Napster name is well know so marketing does not have to be intensive, saving more money. The lawsuit threats over copying software are now someone else headaches. This idea might just work, it's better than waiting around till there was nothing left to salvage after a lawsuit was kicked off against a product. This is a pre-emptive idea, and really not that bad of a risk. With $80M (assuming they don't blow it dot com style) they should last a while and maybe make a go of it. Like they say.."no risk = no reward".
I have an MBA from a very good school (top 25) but alas due to my MANY years of technical experience I am still considered a "geek" to most employers, and thus replacable by someone in India. An MBA is a worthwhile degree, but it's not a ticket into management and out of harms way:(
And I came name a 1000 other business leaders who DO have MBAs. The CEO is not the ONLY decision maker in a firm, many of them are more involved in Marketing, PR, meeting with Wall St., being an industry lobbist, etc. than what goes on at the "shop". Rarely do you see a CEO who actually "runs" the business, that is the job of the COO and the VPs. You also seem to forget that the CEO has a Board of Directors s/he has to confer with, and shareholders s/he has to keep happy. It is NOT an easy job with or without an MBA.
It's big, but what is the cost to RUN the system? The one time costs to buy are often but a fraction of those to run it over the next N years.
Also, think about energy use, the A/C they need for whereever they install it will be HUGE. They better shovel in some more coal/neutrons/oil/gas at the local power plant when this thing is running.
Simple, program the computer with an AI simulation of a GOOD NASA manager (yea, I know thats an oxymoron). Ask the computer what to do, let it crunch all the data and say GO/NOGO. They should have plenty of power to run that sort of AI program.
Lots of ways to segment and protect internally. Fixed IPs, Active Directory Settings, VLANs, LDAP, Digital Certificates all just a few of the things that come to mind. These are not trival solutions but are workable.
With proper network security it's not a problem. Just lock out the ports that have no business being open anyway. You can even NAT the devices behind a firewall. If hospital IT security is that sloppy I see some major lawsuits happening.
What really upsets me about liberals is that want handouts for everything, realistic or not. I haven't seen any demands for Alt.Fuel any place I buy gas and I use Premium at @2.05/gallon. Read the article about the Hybrid SUV from Ford, its 28K for a TINY SUV and you don't break even unless gas is $3+/gal. Now if the people wanting this vehicles go out and by them and put thier money where their mouth is then we'll see the industry build them. The only thing the Gov't should be involved in is maybe somes SMALL R&D fundings for very novel ideas, not underwriting a market that does not exist and technology thats really not ready for mass markets.
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Last time I priced it SAN storage was about $2,500 a TB so that makes 1PetaByte 1024*$2,500 or about 2.56 MILLION bucks. Not to mention the floorspace and the power bill for the A/C and the drives. Those guys must have been some fatcat file swappers. There are large companies that don't have that much storage!
The JibJab piece could have been construed as slander against either person but if you are defined as a "public person" such as movie star, or politician the rules are relaxed and "intent" to harm must be proven. "Intent" is very tough to prove. Truth is always a defense against slander/libel.
There was no copyright issue here at all, thank goodness the courts actually got that right!
Hmm...oil rigs in International waters? Not very likley as some nation is going to want that revenue stream. Even the North Sea is divied up and I think thats outside everyone's 200 mile limit. How about storing them on a ship that never docks anywhere except where the can't reach? With GPS and Sattelite uplinks/downlinks you can find and access your data. Build your submarine if you want to hide even better. IIRC, there was a sci-fi novel about an AI that hid itself in parts across 1000's of servers when it learned it was to be decommissioned. So, the idea of distrubuting data to hide it has been around a while.
He also has an MBA, so he defies that sterotype too. His undergrad degreee is from Indiana and he is a BIG Bobby Knight fan.
The NBA hates him as he isn't afraid to criticize the referees and the stupid rules. They just fine him what amounts to "chump change" for him. Mav's fans love the man, he brought a decent team (and coach) back to Dallas.
Well, I'm NOT a physicist by any means! I was just trying to see if there was a lower cost option (smacks head...that damned MBA is kicking in again and overrulling my techiness). I wonder if you could boost the energy with the more modern technology available today (better magnets) and get the energy needed and still come out cheaper?
THe old Superconducting SuperCollider (SSC) is still there, half built in Texas. All the buildings are still intact and the tunnels are still there (just closed off). Would THAT be cheaper. As I recall it was also about 40km in length. I live near that site and I'm sure that we could make someone a HECK of a deal on the site. Of course there are people living nearby now but it's not going to be a hazard. IIRC, The collider at Stanford (SLAC) goes under houses, campus bldgs and a freeway. Oh right, I forgot, common sense and high-energy high $$$ physics projects don't go together.
Umm..I hate to break this to ya but Software Engineering is one hell of a lot more than learning to write code. You WILL need a good many of those CS skills (not so much the theory but the application of the theory). Take Math thru Calculus 2 and take Statistics and Discrete Math skip the rest you will rarely need it, and if you do then you can likely learn enough of it OJT to get by. And get some classes BESIDES CS/Math and the basics, expand your mind learn to think in abstractions, learn about art, music and literature it will open your mind to the non-Geek world and make you a better employee. Plus chicks like guys who can talk about something other than computers ;)
IF all you want to do is be a code jockey, then go to a Tech/Vocational College, learn Java and maybe VB and get to work. You can get your degree in something like business going part-time nights/weekends. The work experience will be invaluable plus you won't be broke all the time ;) The downside is you have to compete for your job with the guys in India and other places, so don't expect good pay or a longterm job.
Just my .02 worth.
Given the current state of the IT field with many jobs leaving to go to those in India or other low wage nations, why, would anyone WANT to get in the field? If these folk are really the best and brighest they should use that intelligence in some area they can earn a decent living. If they are still interested, even though making thier living in another area, they can contribute thru the F/OSS movement.
Great..glad you Grok with us now..See ya over there..
You should (or maybe you have) read the thread on Groklaw about Enderle's "speech". Perhaps you wouldn't mind contributing your analysis to the other on the site.
This one has been debunked by Torvalds himself, he STUDIED Minix in school and thought he could do it better and so he built Linux from scratch with some help from his friends. There has never been any Minix code in Linux. Minix was never meant to be more than a teaching tool thats why it was never upgraded. This topic came up on Groklaw a while back and someone actually emailed Linus and got his permission to post his reply to the Minix question.
Goodness who modded this funny? It's WAY WAY off-topic political BS. And not even good political BS at that. Guess that's what happens when you give mod points to those with little brain. Now to stay on topic. What makes SCO think someone will pay MORE for SCO Unix? From what I have seen its about a generation or two behind Solaris and AIX in features and scalability and not even as good as the current Linix Distros in many ways and Linux is FREE. Oh well just another example of backwards thinking, like "hey let's sure IBM over the fact we own UNIX and that they put our UNIX in Linux. They'll buy us out, and we'll make millions I tell ya.". NO ONE beats IBM in court.
Actually GE sorta has it's own internal MBA type program. Based on reading Jack Welch book, I'd say it's pretty close to an "Executive MBA", IBM does the same thing. Both are VERY good programs and while you don't get that actual degree you get the education albeit with a GE/IBM slant. Graduates of these programs have done very well even outside the company that taught them. I WILL say this, that a MBA is NOT a substitue for real world experience! If you look at the CEO Magazine article you will also see a lot of CEOs will were lawyers, THAT is scary to me. At least you know the Engineering and/or Business guys have some idea of how things really work! My MBA is from back in 1999 so it's probably useless.
Have you been around since the mid-80s? "Star Wars" was SPACE based (hence the name), not GROUND/AIR based. The defensive weapons (such as "brilliant pebbles") would take out the ICBM in it's exoatmospheric phase. The current systems attempt to target the warheads(and distinquish dummies)at the transitional area at about 300,000 feet during the re-entry phase. IMHO, what they are doing is MUCH harder than what "Star Wars" was doing and I have worked on some Star Wars ideas as well as the THAAD ABM system.
I agree that don't teach you a lot of the "soft" skills, it is more "hard" or data driven analysis skills. However where I went there was an attempt to add more of the soft skills and entrepneurism. MBAs who are/were Tech Company CEOs-- Mark Cuban (Broadcast.com -> Yahoo -> Dallas Mavericks & a HD TV company) Carly Fiorina (Hewlett-Packard) Here is a list (a bit dated ) just covering the Fortune 200.. CEOs with Harvard MBAs (Fortune rank) G. Richard Wagoner Jr., General Motors (3) Charles R. Lee, Verizon (10) Henry B. Schacht, Lucent (28) Raymond V. Gilmartin, Merck (30) Alan G. Lafley, Procter & Gamble (31) Henry M. Paulson Jr., Goldman Sachs (42) Robert D. Walter, Cardinal Health (51) James Dimon, Bank One (70) C. Steven McMillan, Sara Lee (96) Fred Hassan, Pharmacia (113) W. James McNerney Jr., 3M (118) Leo F. Mullin, Delta Air Lines (123) Samir G. Gibara, Goodyear (136) John B. Hess, Amerada Hess (158) John H. Eyler Jr., Toys 'R' Us (172) Thomas G. Stemberg, Staples (178) The Sloan Power List CEOs with Sloan degrees* (Fortune rank) Philip M. Condit, Boeing (15) Carleton S. Fiorina, Hewlett-Packard (19) F. Duane Ackerman, BellSouth (66) Joseph P. Nacchio, Qwest (120) Daniel A. Carp, Eastman Kodak (141) *Master's in business/management B-Schools with One MBA in the Top 200 CEOs Thirty-two schools--from Wharton to Widener--made this list Boston University Cal State, Long Beach Carnegie Mellon Cornell Johnson Creighton Dartmouth Tuck George Washington Iona College Hagan University of Iowa Tippie University of Louisville Manchester Business School (U.K.) Marquette University of Maryland Smith University of Michigan University of New Hampshire Whittemore University of New Mexico Anderson University of New South Wales University of Oklahoma Price Pace Lubin University of Pennsylvania Wharton Pepperdine Graziadio Rochester Institute of Technology University of Southern California Marshall University of South Carolina Moore Southern Illinois University Southern Methodist University Cox UCLA Anderson Vanderbilt Owen Wake Forest Babcock Widener University of Wisconsin Xavier Williams Route to the Top Degrees held by Fortune 200 CEOs 79 MBAs 15 JDs/LLBs 12 Ph.D.'s 2 M.D.'s 18 Other graduate degree
The "Star Wars" defense system does NOT exist anymore. Hasn't since the mid 1990s. The systems now are Anti-ICBMs and other methods (laser, particle beams) of stopping ICBMs. And guess what, THEY WORK and have been live tested. I agree that the ICBM methods of attack might be a bit too avert, but it is still a threat we must solve along with the suitcase nukes. Both are hard security problems just in different ways. Back on topic, NASA has only gotten permission to PLAN a POSSIBLE mission. I worked on HST at NASA, its a LONG WAY from PLAN to mission. Also, if things work out a robotic mission is a LOT cheaper than a shuttle. The new instruments, are the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) and the Wide Field Camera Gen 3 (WFC3) and they are already built, tested and in storage. The new gyros are ready too. This was all going to go up in early 2005 orginally. So the only costs to fund are the delivery and install. A robot that can actually DO this work would be an awesome step forward in that discipline, and could in fact be a technology that would be good for the "Mars Mission". So, its not all smoke and mirrors but neither is it ready to go.
Just because a business shows a loss on the income statement does not mean it is a BAD business. The Napster part could very well be CASH-FLOW positive which is a GOOD THING. Plus they may get to keep any tax savings from the Roxio losses to carry forward to offset income in future years meaning NO TAXES for many years. Also, I suspect overhead will be lower in the on-line music business than in the software business, thus leaving a bit more margin to play with. The Napster name is well know so marketing does not have to be intensive, saving more money. The lawsuit threats over copying software are now someone else headaches. This idea might just work, it's better than waiting around till there was nothing left to salvage after a lawsuit was kicked off against a product. This is a pre-emptive idea, and really not that bad of a risk. With $80M (assuming they don't blow it dot com style) they should last a while and maybe make a go of it. Like they say.."no risk = no reward".
I have an MBA from a very good school (top 25) but alas due to my MANY years of technical experience I am still considered a "geek" to most employers, and thus replacable by someone in India. An MBA is a worthwhile degree, but it's not a ticket into management and out of harms way :(
And I came name a 1000 other business leaders who DO have MBAs. The CEO is not the ONLY decision maker in a firm, many of them are more involved in Marketing, PR, meeting with Wall St., being an industry lobbist, etc. than what goes on at the "shop". Rarely do you see a CEO who actually "runs" the business, that is the job of the COO and the VPs. You also seem to forget that the CEO has a Board of Directors s/he has to confer with, and shareholders s/he has to keep happy. It is NOT an easy job with or without an MBA.
It's big, but what is the cost to RUN the system? The one time costs to buy are often but a fraction of those to run it over the next N years. Also, think about energy use, the A/C they need for whereever they install it will be HUGE. They better shovel in some more coal/neutrons/oil/gas at the local power plant when this thing is running.
Simple, program the computer with an AI simulation of a GOOD NASA manager (yea, I know thats an oxymoron). Ask the computer what to do, let it crunch all the data and say GO/NOGO. They should have plenty of power to run that sort of AI program.
:)
Then if it fails, blame the software!!
Kirk vs Q for control of the Universe? Kirk vs Q might be an interesting idea. She how long Kirk puts up with him before he offs him with a phaser.
Lots of ways to segment and protect internally. Fixed IPs, Active Directory Settings, VLANs, LDAP, Digital Certificates all just a few of the things that come to mind. These are not trival solutions but are workable.
With proper network security it's not a problem. Just lock out the ports that have no business being open anyway. You can even NAT the devices behind a firewall. If hospital IT security is that sloppy I see some major lawsuits happening.
What really upsets me about liberals is that want handouts for everything, realistic or not. I haven't seen any demands for Alt.Fuel any place I buy gas and I use Premium at @2.05/gallon. Read the article about the Hybrid SUV from Ford, its 28K for a TINY SUV and you don't break even unless gas is $3+/gal. Now if the people wanting this vehicles go out and by them and put thier money where their mouth is then we'll see the industry build them. The only thing the Gov't should be involved in is maybe somes SMALL R&D fundings for very novel ideas, not underwriting a market that does not exist and technology thats really not ready for mass markets.