Because litigation loses you friends, and it's a horrid end-product. Tell me one time when you used a lawyer and you were having fun. Tell me you didn't see pits of cash down a rathole. Tell me you enjoyed the experience. If you did, then we can end the discussion now.
Heh. TV is a monitor with something behind it. Broadcast, cable, digital, media, doesn't matter. It's a HUGE market and it's worth an enormous chunk of change. Go into a big box electronic store and look what people are buying. TV is a wasteland, but entertainment, the product, is not. Think about all the stuff on those monitors, and how it could be realigned into something more interesting. Doesn't take much imagination.
Not much remains very long in this industry as a unique feature. Apple didn't invent the smartphone, didn't invent the browser, but did come up with a combination of best-of-breed (mostly) ideas that when combined, represented strong, easily understandable value.
There's a value proposition, and added customer relationship. I could use a car analogy, but they've become trite. Apple custom-designed a hardware system that was/is very highly intertwined with its software loads. The combination is really strong. Yet others know how to do that, too.
The PC model (save Apple and a small handful of others) was: build a killer hardware design, and we'll port stuff to it and together it'll sing. The driver glue that makes graphics go, the mathCPU mechanics that make rendering possible, some are more accidental than others. Apple's determination was to design something from the ground-up that worked together as a system; doing so meant no sacrifices for compatibility with someone else's (perhaps obscure) stuff.
Their winning MP3 player became a phone, which became the crux of a tablet design. All three of these were really good, there is common agreement. They sealed the deal with developer ecosystems, and convinced the various media companies to market through iTunes. None of these things are unique, and numerous companies have the ability to mime the success. Why shouldn't they? Should they stand in the corner and twiddle their thumbs in fealty? Not gonna happen.
Do the various companies that Apple stole from just go away? The unique portions of the Apple intellectual property pool are interesting, but there are many parts, like Google's (and so many others) that are just cannon balls to be used in IP litigation-- patent wars. This is not to defend Google, rather to identify that asset protection has a stage called: sue the bastards, where you slow down competition while you're trying to get ahead. This is the stage we're at with Apple.
What do they have up their sleeves in innovation? What's left? TV, which is in crises due to digital delivery systems and corporate by-offs of news services. Wires glow in the US and across the world because of duplicate media delivery systems, and a usable Apple TV faces the problem most organizations face: the last mile, which is controlled by handfuls (at most) of companies across the globe. There's not enough wireless spectra to do it over the air, and not enough penetration of regional distribution systems (and fiber) to replace what's already there.
So Apple has to either create new categories of "cool" stuff, or hold onto the growth in the markets they have, churn the base, and get some royalties if possible. They have to do this and report fabulous quarter after fabulous quarter to Wall St, or see their stock (and market-cap) go south, and quick. Can they do it? Not by stepping on their customers, so how else do they slow down the competition? Innovate or sue. Guess which one they're doing right now.
The litigation seems like a desperate attempt on Apple's part. They have a mighty war chest. And their customer love is huge. The market was bound to get bigger, and Apple knew it, and even Apple cannot last as a monopoly.
How about more innovation instead of breathlessly baiting the world with nominal, incremental changes? Apple can't stop Android, try as it may. It might try to snack off vendor paranoia, as Microsoft has (to the tune of more revenue than their own phones). There's a law firm somewhere that told Apple that this should be part of their market share retention plan, and they bought into it, much to the love of armies of law firms. Those attorneys should be fired, and the temp turned up where Apple won lots of hearts: outstanding design and flawless customer retention. Ultimately, that's the only place I believe they can win. The courts might hand them victories, but at a hideous cost.
Gack. Messiah complex-with-money-and-patent-portfolio.... and really judgmental, too. Do gooders, doing God's work. Not bad, of course, but when you ostensibly have God's work to do, your agency can do no wrong, hurt no one, and the ends justify the means. You're inherently right, and others are apostates. Wait, wear did we hear that before?
On the shoulders of netboot, PxE boot, and even CLOAD, this should have never have been granted. This, I believe, was designed to piss off Apple and Microsoft, but it should line the pockets of lawyers for decades.
Not as much as even a year ago.... not quite half as expensive. SSDs are plentifully fast.
SAS is faster than SATA is faster than USB, generally speaking. the SSD SATAII drives are becoming almost commodity. The cage is the same cost, as it's form factor and power supply.
SATA is good, and a set of SATA cages might be the cheapest solution.
More expensive is getting SAS drives (if the interface is there) and it'll be quicker.
More expensive, but not TOO expensive (these days) is a set of SATA cages and some SSDs, which will do the job far faster still (than conventional SATA drives).
USB3, if supported, with SSDs, would do the job nicely, too.
The software? Good old tar can be used, self-managed. Tar never seems to go out of style, and using it in conjunction with drive-spanning is a well-known exercise.
So was Robert Scheckley. He did the 10th Victim, turned into a movie starring Ursula Andress, a 1960's beauty some termed "Ursula Undress". But he was hilarious. Gone, but not forgotten.
There are all sorts of reasons to provoke anxiety, but using a simple spreadsheet and modeling what happens will allow you to arrive at a fact-based decision. That's all you can do.
Enormous resources are available online for disaster recovery, planning for contingencies, how to deal with public safety, how to model differing scenarios, and so forth. Tons. There are monthly publications dedicated to this. The facts and war stories are known. But pageviews are pageviews. It all helps to prove the aphorism that every question has a simple answer, and the answer is wrong. There are some headline writers that ought to be taken behind the woodshed and spanked.
There is the possibility you speak of. The data center is connected to the world (if well designed) through multiple routes with multiple carriers, who hopefully didn't use the same pipe or pole to mount their gear.
The amplification comes from context. There are low and high priority applications, and those used for entertainment. Communications like email, public safety, asset protection, all need to survive (no matter whose assets). Your streaming video can wait. But there are very few "concentrated" data centers. If you're in the business of depending on systems infrastructure, you hedged your bet. If you put all of your eggs into a single basket, there is the risk of an omelet.
But most organizations I know, don't do this. It's too risky. There are data centers across the planet these days, and plentiful redundancy. My own connections have not one, but seven NAP connections with TTL 3. It's backed up. But I'm in no way mission-critical or public safety. Look up how the DHS and FEMA security experts recommend it, and they're the "stupid" government. It's a low bar. Insurance companies demand (if they're smart) lots of redundancy and disaster planning to deal with interruptions. The plans and success/failure stories are out there. Read them.
The mean time to recovery is something every person and organization has to answer for themselves. If primary office facilities go down, can users get (by remote control or physical presence) to an alternate site? Disaster recovery professionals have tried to apply science to how recovery works given differing scenarios. It doesn't have to be hurricane, tornado, heavy snow, or even weather-related issues at all; everyone's production surface is different-- although there are lots of commonalities.
Where I live, there are several strongly built data centers with generators and heavy fuel tanks, multiple grid connections, and so forth. Having an area available to get to, let alone logon to, might otherwise be a problem.
Backups? People do backups? I thought it was a lost art. Yet for every fat EMC can full of blinking drives, there is a backhoe looking for a spot marked X.
There are many data centers built to withstand F5. It's how long they can be without power, and if the redundant network paths are strenuous enough to hold up. Networks can heal pretty quickly but if most carriers are down, then bottlenecks and other failure modes occur.
But an F5 storm is crippling in many other ways that are important. Checking your Facebook may be trivial by comparison.
Let me go all AliasParker on you and say that your repulsive argument is like getting poked with a big stick. Stop it.
A negative social value, within the context described, goes below NO social value. Use your Boolean logic, basic math and set skills and understand that there is value, no value, negative value and then other theories outside the domain of the discussion.
The phrase was: don't believe them to be a value.... which qualifies in the middle, e.g. no value. "Strictly negative" in this case, would be silly, so let's put an absolute value where |value| or zero is the new domain and agree on zero.
I agree; it was one of the first scifi books that shocked me. Took a lot of thinking to resolve all of the metaphor. Around the same time, I was listening to Neil Young and his "Needle and the Damage Done".
They're making scandalous sums in royalties from Linux and Android. What do they care, now that the IP litigation is impossible? For Microsoft, this is Profit: stand up you PC and Phone Makers: On the left, is the $$ you'll pay for using Linux (so you won't get sued) and on the right is the $$ you'll pay for integrating that Android Stuff.
And if you think we were fooling, here's our RT tablet. Open the wallets or die! That's the mantra.
Thirty-four years and 600 networks is all you get: anecdotal. I'm glad you have such a regimen. You are rare indeed. Please continue to flatter yourself: teasing the backup gods will not bode well for you.
You can be proud of your accomplishments. And you're as rare as hen's teeth, IMHO.
Conventional wisdom might say that. So which IP is it? Do you infect the NOC, then sniff for delicious traffic, then bear down on it to crack it open? Who knows?
Every single system on IPv4/6 is a target. You open up a restaurant rating system, and you get the sponsor list. A bank seems juicy, but there are interesting controls placed on account movements. A bank is likely to have an IDS.
It's different for each site. I'm sure the Bank of America sites get pounded. But they realize this. A traffic site? I'll bet they're not as worried. The payoff for the BofA seems juicer, except you're likely being watched, and so you're playing your best game. They're both not in your home or office, and you're not such a brilliant security person.
Sites get cracked all the time. I've been cracked and watched them take me down near midnight one night. What they didn't know: I can remote reset and clean the chain in seconds. But my site has no money in it whatsoever. Not a dime. They didn't know that, and they still don't. In the next cabinet is a pretty juicy target. They're armed to the teeth. If I bang my cabinet loudly enough, alarms go off in theirs. It's all about priorities and constant change.
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Because litigation loses you friends, and it's a horrid end-product. Tell me one time when you used a lawyer and you were having fun. Tell me you didn't see pits of cash down a rathole. Tell me you enjoyed the experience. If you did, then we can end the discussion now.
Heh. TV is a monitor with something behind it. Broadcast, cable, digital, media, doesn't matter. It's a HUGE market and it's worth an enormous chunk of change. Go into a big box electronic store and look what people are buying. TV is a wasteland, but entertainment, the product, is not. Think about all the stuff on those monitors, and how it could be realigned into something more interesting. Doesn't take much imagination.
Not much remains very long in this industry as a unique feature. Apple didn't invent the smartphone, didn't invent the browser, but did come up with a combination of best-of-breed (mostly) ideas that when combined, represented strong, easily understandable value.
There's a value proposition, and added customer relationship. I could use a car analogy, but they've become trite. Apple custom-designed a hardware system that was/is very highly intertwined with its software loads. The combination is really strong. Yet others know how to do that, too.
The PC model (save Apple and a small handful of others) was: build a killer hardware design, and we'll port stuff to it and together it'll sing. The driver glue that makes graphics go, the mathCPU mechanics that make rendering possible, some are more accidental than others. Apple's determination was to design something from the ground-up that worked together as a system; doing so meant no sacrifices for compatibility with someone else's (perhaps obscure) stuff.
Their winning MP3 player became a phone, which became the crux of a tablet design. All three of these were really good, there is common agreement. They sealed the deal with developer ecosystems, and convinced the various media companies to market through iTunes. None of these things are unique, and numerous companies have the ability to mime the success. Why shouldn't they? Should they stand in the corner and twiddle their thumbs in fealty? Not gonna happen.
Do the various companies that Apple stole from just go away? The unique portions of the Apple intellectual property pool are interesting, but there are many parts, like Google's (and so many others) that are just cannon balls to be used in IP litigation-- patent wars. This is not to defend Google, rather to identify that asset protection has a stage called: sue the bastards, where you slow down competition while you're trying to get ahead. This is the stage we're at with Apple.
What do they have up their sleeves in innovation? What's left? TV, which is in crises due to digital delivery systems and corporate by-offs of news services. Wires glow in the US and across the world because of duplicate media delivery systems, and a usable Apple TV faces the problem most organizations face: the last mile, which is controlled by handfuls (at most) of companies across the globe. There's not enough wireless spectra to do it over the air, and not enough penetration of regional distribution systems (and fiber) to replace what's already there.
So Apple has to either create new categories of "cool" stuff, or hold onto the growth in the markets they have, churn the base, and get some royalties if possible. They have to do this and report fabulous quarter after fabulous quarter to Wall St, or see their stock (and market-cap) go south, and quick. Can they do it? Not by stepping on their customers, so how else do they slow down the competition? Innovate or sue. Guess which one they're doing right now.
Dude, put down the whiskey now, and stay out of Colorado, k?
The litigation seems like a desperate attempt on Apple's part. They have a mighty war chest. And their customer love is huge. The market was bound to get bigger, and Apple knew it, and even Apple cannot last as a monopoly.
How about more innovation instead of breathlessly baiting the world with nominal, incremental changes? Apple can't stop Android, try as it may. It might try to snack off vendor paranoia, as Microsoft has (to the tune of more revenue than their own phones). There's a law firm somewhere that told Apple that this should be part of their market share retention plan, and they bought into it, much to the love of armies of law firms. Those attorneys should be fired, and the temp turned up where Apple won lots of hearts: outstanding design and flawless customer retention. Ultimately, that's the only place I believe they can win. The courts might hand them victories, but at a hideous cost.
They come in all kinds of different flavors, don't they?
Gack. Messiah complex-with-money-and-patent-portfolio.... and really judgmental, too. Do gooders, doing God's work. Not bad, of course, but when you ostensibly have God's work to do, your agency can do no wrong, hurt no one, and the ends justify the means. You're inherently right, and others are apostates. Wait, wear did we hear that before?
Read the whole thing. Do you live in a cave? Hint: cut thru the babble, and there is not a thing new. Not.A.Thing.
Obama has not a thing to do with this.
On the shoulders of netboot, PxE boot, and even CLOAD, this should have never have been granted. This, I believe, was designed to piss off Apple and Microsoft, but it should line the pockets of lawyers for decades.
USPTO? Rubber stampers.
Not as much as even a year ago.... not quite half as expensive. SSDs are plentifully fast.
SAS is faster than SATA is faster than USB, generally speaking. the SSD SATAII drives are becoming almost commodity. The cage is the same cost, as it's form factor and power supply.
SATA is good, and a set of SATA cages might be the cheapest solution.
More expensive is getting SAS drives (if the interface is there) and it'll be quicker.
More expensive, but not TOO expensive (these days) is a set of SATA cages and some SSDs, which will do the job far faster still (than conventional SATA drives).
USB3, if supported, with SSDs, would do the job nicely, too.
The software? Good old tar can be used, self-managed. Tar never seems to go out of style, and using it in conjunction with drive-spanning is a well-known exercise.
So was Robert Scheckley. He did the 10th Victim, turned into a movie starring Ursula Andress, a 1960's beauty some termed "Ursula Undress". But he was hilarious. Gone, but not forgotten.
There are all sorts of reasons to provoke anxiety, but using a simple spreadsheet and modeling what happens will allow you to arrive at a fact-based decision. That's all you can do.
Enormous resources are available online for disaster recovery, planning for contingencies, how to deal with public safety, how to model differing scenarios, and so forth. Tons. There are monthly publications dedicated to this. The facts and war stories are known. But pageviews are pageviews. It all helps to prove the aphorism that every question has a simple answer, and the answer is wrong. There are some headline writers that ought to be taken behind the woodshed and spanked.
There is the possibility you speak of. The data center is connected to the world (if well designed) through multiple routes with multiple carriers, who hopefully didn't use the same pipe or pole to mount their gear.
The amplification comes from context. There are low and high priority applications, and those used for entertainment. Communications like email, public safety, asset protection, all need to survive (no matter whose assets). Your streaming video can wait. But there are very few "concentrated" data centers. If you're in the business of depending on systems infrastructure, you hedged your bet. If you put all of your eggs into a single basket, there is the risk of an omelet.
But most organizations I know, don't do this. It's too risky. There are data centers across the planet these days, and plentiful redundancy. My own connections have not one, but seven NAP connections with TTL 3. It's backed up. But I'm in no way mission-critical or public safety. Look up how the DHS and FEMA security experts recommend it, and they're the "stupid" government. It's a low bar. Insurance companies demand (if they're smart) lots of redundancy and disaster planning to deal with interruptions. The plans and success/failure stories are out there. Read them.
The mean time to recovery is something every person and organization has to answer for themselves. If primary office facilities go down, can users get (by remote control or physical presence) to an alternate site? Disaster recovery professionals have tried to apply science to how recovery works given differing scenarios. It doesn't have to be hurricane, tornado, heavy snow, or even weather-related issues at all; everyone's production surface is different-- although there are lots of commonalities.
Where I live, there are several strongly built data centers with generators and heavy fuel tanks, multiple grid connections, and so forth. Having an area available to get to, let alone logon to, might otherwise be a problem.
Backups? People do backups? I thought it was a lost art. Yet for every fat EMC can full of blinking drives, there is a backhoe looking for a spot marked X.
You're right. Wasn't thinking.
Good point.
There are many data centers built to withstand F5. It's how long they can be without power, and if the redundant network paths are strenuous enough to hold up. Networks can heal pretty quickly but if most carriers are down, then bottlenecks and other failure modes occur.
But an F5 storm is crippling in many other ways that are important. Checking your Facebook may be trivial by comparison.
Let me go all AliasParker on you and say that your repulsive argument is like getting poked with a big stick. Stop it.
A negative social value, within the context described, goes below NO social value. Use your Boolean logic, basic math and set skills and understand that there is value, no value, negative value and then other theories outside the domain of the discussion.
The phrase was: don't believe them to be a value.... which qualifies in the middle, e.g. no value. "Strictly negative" in this case, would be silly, so let's put an absolute value where |value| or zero is the new domain and agree on zero.
If you allow people to be reviled, they will be.
I agree; it was one of the first scifi books that shocked me. Took a lot of thinking to resolve all of the metaphor. Around the same time, I was listening to Neil Young and his "Needle and the Damage Done".
There are arguments against your seeming wisdom: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/07/07/sociopathic/ and I, who understand her ideas, don't believe them to be a value to society.
They're making scandalous sums in royalties from Linux and Android. What do they care, now that the IP litigation is impossible? For Microsoft, this is Profit: stand up you PC and Phone Makers: On the left, is the $$ you'll pay for using Linux (so you won't get sued) and on the right is the $$ you'll pay for integrating that Android Stuff.
And if you think we were fooling, here's our RT tablet. Open the wallets or die! That's the mantra.
My personal data gets physically sent/dropped 70miles away, to another locale, once a week. Once there, it becomes available online.
Thirty-four years and 600 networks is all you get: anecdotal. I'm glad you have such a regimen. You are rare indeed. Please continue to flatter yourself: teasing the backup gods will not bode well for you.
You can be proud of your accomplishments. And you're as rare as hen's teeth, IMHO.
Conventional wisdom might say that. So which IP is it? Do you infect the NOC, then sniff for delicious traffic, then bear down on it to crack it open? Who knows?
Every single system on IPv4/6 is a target. You open up a restaurant rating system, and you get the sponsor list. A bank seems juicy, but there are interesting controls placed on account movements. A bank is likely to have an IDS.
It's different for each site. I'm sure the Bank of America sites get pounded. But they realize this. A traffic site? I'll bet they're not as worried. The payoff for the BofA seems juicer, except you're likely being watched, and so you're playing your best game. They're both not in your home or office, and you're not such a brilliant security person.
Sites get cracked all the time. I've been cracked and watched them take me down near midnight one night. What they didn't know: I can remote reset and clean the chain in seconds. But my site has no money in it whatsoever. Not a dime. They didn't know that, and they still don't. In the next cabinet is a pretty juicy target. They're armed to the teeth. If I bang my cabinet loudly enough, alarms go off in theirs. It's all about priorities and constant change.