Sorry, you're wrong-- and you're a propagandizer. Microsoft has lots of stuff and it's lost mindshare. Statistically, I'm sure Microsoft has majority share in desktop operating systems, and Nothing.Else.
Your lack of knowledge about Citrix XenServer pegs you. Look it up. Find out where it plays.
Tsk tsk. You mistake the attitude of a few scumbags with the rest of the population of the country. Consider: in the US, it's the oil-sucking scumbags that decided to play chess with US Soldier's lives in battle with a very tiny fraction of scumbags in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There are lots of governments with dolts. It's the dolts we're after.
We agree on the point. My contention: it changes, and therefore the data is a variable. Yes, some places have lovely static fields. You can walk from points a-z and little changes....
Until something changes, and it will. A simple GPS is likely to have more immunity from fluctuations as its point source is an enormous distance away, which is precisely what makes GPS tough to resolve at many thousands of miles. The magneto sensors in a cellphone are going to get Hall Effect distortions pretty regularly, and those distortions aren't going to make the maps bad, just not as usable as GPS. Indoor navigation is subject to penetration indoors, I grant you. Iffy. Magnetic fields variability, IMHO, will thwart this.
And rife with problems, including transient ones. The earth's magnetic field, while kind of constant at each point, can vary wildly in just a few meters. Most of the earth has lots of iron in it, and it doesn't take much to shift it around to the point where Hall sensors go whack. Nice idea, but in practice it will be really difficult. I'll get a nice hand-wound field coil, put on a randomly generated VCO, and watch their devices implode. Yes, they can degauss your ancient monitor, and wreak havoc on Hall devices.
In the old and evil days of minis, mainframes, and proprietary platforms, one genuflected in front of the console, and said prayer to the Gods of Paid-up Support. Screw that.
Personal computers, PCs, are just that. Pull ANY device out of your kit, and they are all programmable, and follow the Von Neumann model in architecture. Some of them can even do old operating systems, although it's silly to do that these days.
Physical differences? All along the way we've been making computers in different form factors. Unbelievable variety. I watched a movie the other day when they were using PDAs to launch stuff, hack into blah blah, etc. Are PDAs PCs? Oh, they're Personal Digital Assistants. The nomenclature changes, but underneath, there are 1++ CPUs, data, storage, I/O, and hence, a PC.
Buying the kool aid of a (breast beating) Post PC Era! makes you look the fool. Yeah: they're PCs. They walk like a duck, quack like a duck, fly like a duck, have bills like a duck. so they're a PC. Nice form factors, highly evolving, but PCs. Quack.
The "post-PC" meme is a false one, so you're safe. Yeah, a lot of stuff will change and morph, but consumers will swallow almost any false meme with a little ketchup or hot sauce.
The fact is: all of these items are personal computers. Some of your stuff will be on other people's computers, a/k/a "the cloud". The cloud offers some cool storage (albeit not very reliable and often highly proprietary in accessibility) and some great apps, single-user and group.
Spit the bait out of your mouth and continue to watch neat stuff appear in the market place. PCs come in lots of form factors from Raspberry Pis, smartstuff, clothing, iGoo, and will continue to morph. If you want to buy and use a traditional tower PC with discrete monitor, etc., do it. Or choose from a wide variety of, yes, PCs.
No, it doesn't. The backers get strung out and lose the investment. The mgmt at AOL/HuffPo/etc. don't get changed. Civilians that invested in AOL get screwed. Living for another day isn't necessarily a good thing. When the entire economy is down, then the tendency for everyone to take their lumps at once is a well-known way to keep financial pain from having an effect on stock price. But that isn't the case here. AOL is portending that this is somehow visionary, and solves big problems, where it doesn't do that. At. All.
On the surface, your thinking looks good-- find heat transducers and reservoirs to store it. Distributing servers causes massive redundancies of the fixed gear needed to store and reuse heat. Convenience memes that create dysfunctional residential electrical power states are a problem, but people don't like sharing, don't like living in dorms, don't like high, up-front costs of shelter, and so you're fighting many problems.
As to AOL's distributed "NOC", the rationale for it is almost ludicrous. The local/regional/area "news gathering" they're trying to do would be distributed in that way, thus cutting the enormous costs of their CDN bills. The systems will still be 3% efficient, as most servers and networking gear are. The other 97% will still needed to be used, and another 100% of power consumption will be needed to cool the mess. As the mess is now distributed, and can't have shared costs of infrastructure (the advantages of ISPs and MSPs and "cloud providers), the redundancy will be hugely expensive, if potentially more resilient and with slightly less latency. The rest of it is hyperbabble PR-People-on-Acid.
I would add: stop the rape and pillage of privacy. I wouldn't mind Upset Birds, rather than the Angry ones that want to know how much sugar is in my coffee, and my longitude while drinking it.
It's still not that easy. The duty cycle of transactions produces a baseline load that's a fraction of rating. Behind the load are fat battery systems in data centers, dynamos, and other power storage devices that smooth the maniacal loads of equipment. Routers, servers, they all have aperiodic loads that are smoothed out to the transformers, which are where the cross-connections with the grid occur.
Servers are at best, about 3-5% power efficient. The rest must then be cooled. Routers are actually more efficient than servers, but not by that much.
Where the power company saturates the coils inside the transformer is a variable load fact. Learn about power factor.
I was a systems guy, but the 400 and 800 were more like fun. Hook it to a color TV, get the joysticks, and have a blast. It kept me sane while compiling crap in 64K of memory on "larger" systems. It gave birth to ideas that made the C64, the Playstation, and even things like the Xbox. What fun!
Atari 400 and 800 were just plain fun. Yeah, plastic cases, and ROM cartridges, but what fun those arcade games were. The Apple II guys would say: PR#6. We'd say: PR pound sand.
I was really clear in my concern that this a rubric fronted by a "policy foundation" whose purpose has been, IMHO, to calculatingly advance ostensible conservative memes that 1) embarrass the Obama administration and 2) must amplify, nay-- advance the tempus in a teacup that the 10th in line to the throne of the US must be more protected among a long list of very bad calls.
My reasoning has everything to do with my sentiment that the Birchers are seditionists, and in a transitive way, their allies bear the same label. The Heritage Foundation, National Review, elements of the disorganized Tea Party, along with a long list of others are tainted by their association with the Birchers. They are messianists of their own cause.
You defend the Heritage Foundation, yet don't know who the Commerce Secretary was.
This is your cognitive dissonance lesson for today.
The legitimacy of the Heritage Foundation is rooted in its founder's ideals, and one of his admirers were specific Birchers. Birchers are very scary people.
The foundation for the post is a political meme that is false and cloying, forwarded and advanced by an organization whose intents are well-defined.
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Sorry, you're wrong-- and you're a propagandizer. Microsoft has lots of stuff and it's lost mindshare. Statistically, I'm sure Microsoft has majority share in desktop operating systems, and Nothing.Else.
Your lack of knowledge about Citrix XenServer pegs you. Look it up. Find out where it plays.
Phones yielded to Apple and Android.
Desktop operating systems yielded to MacOSX (and maybe Ubuntu)
Tablets tossed with the Hail Mary of RT.
Servers yielded to several versions of Linux (and here, Apple croaked).
Cloud to dozens of IaaS and PaaS providers.
Virtual machines handed on a platter to VMware, Citrix, RedHat, and varying others.
OH! But Games! Microsoft has XBOX and Zune^H^H^H^H
Steve: remember, it was you that mixed the kool aid.
Tsk tsk. You mistake the attitude of a few scumbags with the rest of the population of the country. Consider: in the US, it's the oil-sucking scumbags that decided to play chess with US Soldier's lives in battle with a very tiny fraction of scumbags in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There are lots of governments with dolts. It's the dolts we're after.
May their toilets stop up.
Might have been. Early automatic transmission failure, and all that.
Undefined loop in 30.
We agree on the point. My contention: it changes, and therefore the data is a variable. Yes, some places have lovely static fields. You can walk from points a-z and little changes....
Until something changes, and it will. A simple GPS is likely to have more immunity from fluctuations as its point source is an enormous distance away, which is precisely what makes GPS tough to resolve at many thousands of miles. The magneto sensors in a cellphone are going to get Hall Effect distortions pretty regularly, and those distortions aren't going to make the maps bad, just not as usable as GPS. Indoor navigation is subject to penetration indoors, I grant you. Iffy. Magnetic fields variability, IMHO, will thwart this.
Error in Line 10: undeclared variable.
I shall pray for the Almighty Admin Password.
Imagine: trying to bring in Boolean logic and set math into an argument like that one. What WERE you thinking?
This is about prejudice! Falsehoods! Blasphemy!
You can't fight that shit with math.
Heretic! You shall burn! May the flies of a thousand camels infest your arm pits (thank you St Johnny of Carson).
And rife with problems, including transient ones. The earth's magnetic field, while kind of constant at each point, can vary wildly in just a few meters. Most of the earth has lots of iron in it, and it doesn't take much to shift it around to the point where Hall sensors go whack. Nice idea, but in practice it will be really difficult. I'll get a nice hand-wound field coil, put on a randomly generated VCO, and watch their devices implode. Yes, they can degauss your ancient monitor, and wreak havoc on Hall devices.
Sorry, RR, PCs are just that.
In the old and evil days of minis, mainframes, and proprietary platforms, one genuflected in front of the console, and said prayer to the Gods of Paid-up Support. Screw that.
Personal computers, PCs, are just that. Pull ANY device out of your kit, and they are all programmable, and follow the Von Neumann model in architecture. Some of them can even do old operating systems, although it's silly to do that these days.
Physical differences? All along the way we've been making computers in different form factors. Unbelievable variety. I watched a movie the other day when they were using PDAs to launch stuff, hack into blah blah, etc. Are PDAs PCs? Oh, they're Personal Digital Assistants. The nomenclature changes, but underneath, there are 1++ CPUs, data, storage, I/O, and hence, a PC.
Buying the kool aid of a (breast beating) Post PC Era! makes you look the fool. Yeah: they're PCs. They walk like a duck, quack like a duck, fly like a duck, have bills like a duck. so they're a PC. Nice form factors, highly evolving, but PCs. Quack.
The "post-PC" meme is a false one, so you're safe. Yeah, a lot of stuff will change and morph, but consumers will swallow almost any false meme with a little ketchup or hot sauce.
The fact is: all of these items are personal computers. Some of your stuff will be on other people's computers, a/k/a "the cloud". The cloud offers some cool storage (albeit not very reliable and often highly proprietary in accessibility) and some great apps, single-user and group.
Spit the bait out of your mouth and continue to watch neat stuff appear in the market place. PCs come in lots of form factors from Raspberry Pis, smartstuff, clothing, iGoo, and will continue to morph. If you want to buy and use a traditional tower PC with discrete monitor, etc., do it. Or choose from a wide variety of, yes, PCs.
No, it doesn't. The backers get strung out and lose the investment. The mgmt at AOL/HuffPo/etc. don't get changed. Civilians that invested in AOL get screwed. Living for another day isn't necessarily a good thing. When the entire economy is down, then the tendency for everyone to take their lumps at once is a well-known way to keep financial pain from having an effect on stock price. But that isn't the case here. AOL is portending that this is somehow visionary, and solves big problems, where it doesn't do that. At. All.
On the surface, your thinking looks good-- find heat transducers and reservoirs to store it. Distributing servers causes massive redundancies of the fixed gear needed to store and reuse heat. Convenience memes that create dysfunctional residential electrical power states are a problem, but people don't like sharing, don't like living in dorms, don't like high, up-front costs of shelter, and so you're fighting many problems.
As to AOL's distributed "NOC", the rationale for it is almost ludicrous. The local/regional/area "news gathering" they're trying to do would be distributed in that way, thus cutting the enormous costs of their CDN bills. The systems will still be 3% efficient, as most servers and networking gear are. The other 97% will still needed to be used, and another 100% of power consumption will be needed to cool the mess. As the mess is now distributed, and can't have shared costs of infrastructure (the advantages of ISPs and MSPs and "cloud providers), the redundancy will be hugely expensive, if potentially more resilient and with slightly less latency. The rest of it is hyperbabble PR-People-on-Acid.
I would add: stop the rape and pillage of privacy. I wouldn't mind Upset Birds, rather than the Angry ones that want to know how much sugar is in my coffee, and my longitude while drinking it.
(insert gratuitous flamebaiting remark regarding exemptions for textbooks in Kansas, Oklahoma, and most of Texas, here)
There ya go, injecting facts into a perfectly distorted planted meme. You anti-trolls just suck the venom right out of stuff, ya know?
Input vs load vs output.
If it does no work, then it's a short circuit-- no load.
It's still not that easy. The duty cycle of transactions produces a baseline load that's a fraction of rating. Behind the load are fat battery systems in data centers, dynamos, and other power storage devices that smooth the maniacal loads of equipment. Routers, servers, they all have aperiodic loads that are smoothed out to the transformers, which are where the cross-connections with the grid occur.
Servers are at best, about 3-5% power efficient. The rest must then be cooled. Routers are actually more efficient than servers, but not by that much.
Where the power company saturates the coils inside the transformer is a variable load fact. Learn about power factor.
It violates human rights. Cisco has no business tracking user history. Federal law? Privacy law? I hope they throw the book at them. What churl.
Who do they think they are, Oracle or Google???
I was a systems guy, but the 400 and 800 were more like fun. Hook it to a color TV, get the joysticks, and have a blast. It kept me sane while compiling crap in 64K of memory on "larger" systems. It gave birth to ideas that made the C64, the Playstation, and even things like the Xbox. What fun!
Atari 400 and 800 were just plain fun. Yeah, plastic cases, and ROM cartridges, but what fun those arcade games were. The Apple II guys would say: PR#6. We'd say: PR pound sand.
No.
I was really clear in my concern that this a rubric fronted by a "policy foundation" whose purpose has been, IMHO, to calculatingly advance ostensible conservative memes that 1) embarrass the Obama administration and 2) must amplify, nay-- advance the tempus in a teacup that the 10th in line to the throne of the US must be more protected among a long list of very bad calls.
My reasoning has everything to do with my sentiment that the Birchers are seditionists, and in a transitive way, their allies bear the same label. The Heritage Foundation, National Review, elements of the disorganized Tea Party, along with a long list of others are tainted by their association with the Birchers. They are messianists of their own cause.
You defend the Heritage Foundation, yet don't know who the Commerce Secretary was.
This is your cognitive dissonance lesson for today.
The legitimacy of the Heritage Foundation is rooted in its founder's ideals, and one of his admirers were specific Birchers. Birchers are very scary people.
The foundation for the post is a political meme that is false and cloying, forwarded and advanced by an organization whose intents are well-defined.