But I would have been even happier to have gotten the stock options and work elsewhere. If it made things better for Google, a few stock options would seem like a reasonable form of recognition.
Google has had the foresight to cut their losses before...
I have an Android phone. It was a gift from Google. Admittedly, it was an early version so maybe Android 2.0 looks better, but frankly when compared to an iPhone it looks like a high school science fair project. I'd rather pay for an iPhone than use the Android phone for free.
Oneder doesn't have multiplication. It doesn't have registers. And, to my point, it doesn't execute its instructions (each of which actually accomplishes almost nothing) any faster than a 25-year-old commodity microprocessor executes CISC instructions.
Forgive me; I've committed the sin of working for one of those name-brand storage companies.
The real value in a data storage system isn't in the hardware, it's in the data. And the real cost incurred in a data storage system is measured in the inability of the customer to access that data quickly, efficiently and (in the case of a disaster) at all.
If you need to crunch the data quickly, a higher-performing system is going to save you money in the end. Look at all the benchmarks: no home-grown systems are anywhere on the lists. If you want to stream through your data at several gigabytes per second, you need to pay for a fast interconnect. Putting 45 drives behind a single 1GbE just doesn't cut it.
Similarly, if you want to ensure that the data is protected (integrity, immutable storage for folks who need to preserve data and be certain it hasn't been tampered with, etc) and stored efficiently (single instance store, or dedupe, so you don't fill your petabytes of disks with a bajillion copies of the same photos of Anna Kournakova) then you need to pay for the extra goodness in that software and hardware as well.
Finally, if you want extremely high availability, then the cost of the hardware is miniscule compared to the cost of downtime. We had customers that would lose millions of dollars per service interruption. They're willing to pay a million dollars to eliminate or even reduce downtime.
These folks are essentially just building a box that makes a bunch of disks behave like a honking big tape drive. It's a viable business--that's all some folks need. But EMC et al are not going to lose any sleep over this.
Yes, it could certainly mean that. It's a perfectly valid explanation!
For the searches I've tried through Bing, it seems on par with Google.
I'm amazed that nearly all the posters seem to think that Bing users are stupid victims of a marketing campaign, or that Microsoft is up to something fishy with spurious click-throughs. I realize this is slashdot, and Google can do no wrong here, but perhaps, just perhaps Bing doesn't suck.
I haven't noticed any lack of creativity. They do seem a bit more preoccupied with consensus and protocol, which gives the appearance of a lack of spontaneity, but don't let that fool you the way it fooled the American automotive industry, or the semiconductor world, or the consumer electronics world (or the anime world...).
I've been modded off-topic for suggesting
that a $300 laptop with good ergonomics, battery
life, and performance would be a good, balanced
budget laptop.
Hmmm... Google manipulated an auction so that they could have
access to the air-waves without spending money, while costing a
competitor billions of dollars.
I'm so glad they told us that they aren't evil!
Seriously, this should have been done with a Vickrey auction
in order to prevent this sort of thing. If the theories that Google simply bid to drive up the price but were careful
to not win the auctions, then their participation in the auction is not in good faith. If supported by
evidence, it's actionable.
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But I would have been even happier to have gotten the stock options and work elsewhere. If it made things better for Google, a few stock options would seem like a reasonable form of recognition.
Google has had the foresight to cut their losses before...
I have an Android phone. It was a gift from Google. Admittedly, it was an early version so maybe Android 2.0 looks better, but frankly when compared to an iPhone it looks like a high school science fair project. I'd rather pay for an iPhone than use the Android phone for free.
Gasp!
Once we're boycotting all the search engines that have caved into to the demands of the Chinese government, what search engines are left?
Maybe you didn't RTFA?
Oneder doesn't have multiplication. It doesn't have registers. And, to my point, it doesn't execute its instructions (each of which actually accomplishes almost nothing) any faster than a 25-year-old commodity microprocessor executes CISC instructions.
Color me unimpressed.
2009: one million gates, one instruction, RISC, gnarly to program = 10 MIPS.
1984: 200,000 gates, gobs of instructions, CISC, easy to program = 10 MIPS.
We should have more to show for the last twenty-five years in microprocessor design.
Well, if it's written in Java like the rest of Android, it could be a bit more work. T'aint no "unsigned" in Java.
This is so ridiculous. ... Their patent filing is so fresh, it still says "patent pending".
It takes several years to get a patent awarded after date of filing. Five years seems about average, but I've seen much longer.
I wouldn't turn around right now, if I were you...
Me!
The real value in a data storage system isn't in the hardware, it's in the data. And the real cost incurred in a data storage system is measured in the inability of the customer to access that data quickly, efficiently and (in the case of a disaster) at all.
If you need to crunch the data quickly, a higher-performing system is going to save you money in the end. Look at all the benchmarks: no home-grown systems are anywhere on the lists. If you want to stream through your data at several gigabytes per second, you need to pay for a fast interconnect. Putting 45 drives behind a single 1GbE just doesn't cut it.
Similarly, if you want to ensure that the data is protected (integrity, immutable storage for folks who need to preserve data and be certain it hasn't been tampered with, etc) and stored efficiently (single instance store, or dedupe, so you don't fill your petabytes of disks with a bajillion copies of the same photos of Anna Kournakova) then you need to pay for the extra goodness in that software and hardware as well.
Finally, if you want extremely high availability, then the cost of the hardware is miniscule compared to the cost of downtime. We had customers that would lose millions of dollars per service interruption. They're willing to pay a million dollars to eliminate or even reduce downtime.
These folks are essentially just building a box that makes a bunch of disks behave like a honking big tape drive. It's a viable business--that's all some folks need. But EMC et al are not going to lose any sleep over this.
It's a lot easier to get the kernel right when it only has twelve entry points...
For the searches I've tried through Bing, it seems on par with Google.
I'm amazed that nearly all the posters seem to think that Bing users are stupid victims of a marketing campaign, or that Microsoft is up to something fishy with spurious click-throughs. I realize this is slashdot, and Google can do no wrong here, but perhaps, just perhaps Bing doesn't suck.
Any animal whose existence depends on that of the asian elephant is in deep shit.
If having humans 'central to the process' is an issue, that rules out medicine, psychology, sociology, history...
My guess is that what he meant was "Please don't send them to me."
NFS semantics require that the data be stably written on disk before it can be client's RPC request can be acknowledged.
This hasn't been true since NFSv2. We're at NFSv4 now...
It's not "unconventional" to mimic everything NetApp does five or ten years later.
Well put.
That would be awesome.
Umm... how many Japanese people do you know?
I haven't noticed any lack of creativity. They do seem a bit more preoccupied with consensus and protocol, which gives the appearance of a lack of spontaneity, but don't let that fool you the way it fooled the American automotive industry, or the semiconductor world, or the consumer electronics world (or the anime world...).
Yes, crazy like a fox.
However, I don't see what nationality or ethnicity has to do with this. TFA doesn't even mention China.
I've been modded off-topic for suggesting that a $300 laptop with good ergonomics, battery life, and performance would be a good, balanced budget laptop.
Oh, happy day!
(now this posting really is offtopic...)
PowerBook G3 Pismo. Still the best balance of ergonomics, battery life, and performance.
Too bad it can't run Leopard.
Hmmm... Google manipulated an auction so that they could have access to the air-waves without spending money, while costing a competitor billions of dollars.
I'm so glad they told us that they aren't evil!
Seriously, this should have been done with a Vickrey auction in order to prevent this sort of thing. If the theories that Google simply bid to drive up the price but were careful to not win the auctions, then their participation in the auction is not in good faith. If supported by evidence, it's actionable.
I'm sorry, did you think I was talking about you?
Why?
Never mind reading comprehension. Let's start with ordinary comprehension.