Help me understand something here... isn't EC2 really one gargantuan cluster far bigger than 30,000 cores? So why is it news that it ran a big job? Was there some significant step forward in software that allowed features that were not previously available on EC2?
TFA is angled more at the fact that anyone can go out and rent something like this for their own ends.
Golden age of app distribution over? Can't get your crummy apps seen or sold? Want armfuls of publicity for your company/cause?
1. Write an app that deliberately criticises the smartphone production process, dish out lots of dirt over alleged sweatshops, suicides etc. 2. Wait for the ban. 3. Pow! Instant news story! The tech press will lap it up! Anti-apple and Apple fanbois will whip it into a frenzy. Folks will relish being the first to spot a potential Streisand Effect. 4.. 5. Profit*??
Even more interesting, since thay require acceptance every time the car is used, whait if one decided to reject it a year after buying the car? The agreement you have to accept on a GPS, per use, only amounts to "Yes, I agree to still look at the road from time to time whilst using this gadget."
Having spent some years in IT support in a mainly windows-based-but-with-macs office, I recognise this story, unfortunately.
My only explanation for this attitude was that because Apple made computing easy for its users, their users consequently thought that all computing in itself must be easy by a similar order of magnitude, making them unbelievably impatient about things when they went wrong.
I'm a Linux server fanboy - I run them for 5 different financial services businesses, although I still continue to do most of my desktop tech work on Windows. Probably not caught up with the times really.
My own computer is a Macbook Pro. If someone asks why, I genuinely don't have any prepared ammunition. I guess I mention that I use a whole raft of VMWare machines for work, and then when I'm finished, I close them down and I'm back in happy Mac land for personal use. I like it. My next machine is probably going to be a Mac too. Go figure.
I've run a series of keyboard controllers midi'd to a sequencer and a bunch of modules to do a concert version of Les Miserables a number of years ago.
I transcribed the main sequences from the symphonic recordings and arranged them to be played via the sequencer and for two keyboard players.
During performances, I tended the sequencer, modules and played secondary parts on keyboard while the MD played and coordinated the whole thing from a performance point of view. For two guys with where the orchestra should have gone it sounded pretty impressive.
Oh and it was a school production.
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I must say, it's noble of RIM to give their existing customers a better way of smoothly transitioning from their existing platform to Android or iOS.
Help me understand something here ... isn't EC2 really one gargantuan cluster far bigger than 30,000 cores? So why is it news that it ran a big job? Was there some significant step forward in software that allowed features that were not previously available on EC2?
TFA is angled more at the fact that anyone can go out and rent something like this for their own ends.
Golden age of app distribution over? Can't get your crummy apps seen or sold? Want armfuls of publicity for your company/cause?
1. Write an app that deliberately criticises the smartphone production process, dish out lots of dirt over alleged sweatshops, suicides etc. ..
2. Wait for the ban.
3. Pow! Instant news story! The tech press will lap it up! Anti-apple and Apple fanbois will whip it into a frenzy. Folks will relish being the first to spot a potential Streisand Effect.
4
5. Profit*??
(*or at least tons of free exposure)
I guess he might have forgotten.
Having spent some years in IT support in a mainly windows-based-but-with-macs office, I recognise this story, unfortunately. My only explanation for this attitude was that because Apple made computing easy for its users, their users consequently thought that all computing in itself must be easy by a similar order of magnitude, making them unbelievably impatient about things when they went wrong.
I'm a Linux server fanboy - I run them for 5 different financial services businesses, although I still continue to do most of my desktop tech work on Windows. Probably not caught up with the times really. My own computer is a Macbook Pro. If someone asks why, I genuinely don't have any prepared ammunition. I guess I mention that I use a whole raft of VMWare machines for work, and then when I'm finished, I close them down and I'm back in happy Mac land for personal use. I like it. My next machine is probably going to be a Mac too. Go figure.
I've run a series of keyboard controllers midi'd to a sequencer and a bunch of modules to do a concert version of Les Miserables a number of years ago. I transcribed the main sequences from the symphonic recordings and arranged them to be played via the sequencer and for two keyboard players. During performances, I tended the sequencer, modules and played secondary parts on keyboard while the MD played and coordinated the whole thing from a performance point of view. For two guys with where the orchestra should have gone it sounded pretty impressive. Oh and it was a school production.