I know the C-like language geniuses won't jump on Erlang immediately, but the multi-core support is awesome. I'm pretty sure there's a port for every platform too.
Google is circumventing copyright law and capturing works that are in the public domain. Going forward, they monetize a previously free work eternally.
If information wants to be free, then how *exactly* is that freeing books?
Just as they desperately need DotnetNuke to stay relevant in CMS, they need this to stay relevant in other areas.
At this point I'm guessing customers they care about are talking about Open Source and the Microsoft sales rep needs to say "Yeah, we got that." while they are on their way in the Microsoft limo to the strip club/whorehouse.
USB doesn't work like that. USB is a master->slave specification whereas firewire has mastermaster functionality. Networking is a mastermaster type of relationship.
With that out of the way, some manufacturer somewhere had a device between two USB connectors that did what you are describing. It is/was in the USB Gadgets section and I didn't have the patience to fiddle with it. http://www.linux-usb.org/gadget/
Classic example of how economic interests take an inherently good thing (Free software) and weaponize it.
IBM couldn't beat Microsoft, so they regrouped around Free software. Everyone still benefits. So far so good.
IBM is still evil though. Anyone old enough to remember when IBM PC *was* a personal computer can back me up on this.
I would argue that IBM is setting themselves up to be able to litigate competitors using Free software on the basis of patented processes inside the code. Sure, the software can be freely distributed, but if you eat into IBM's business, they will litigate the process patents.
Hence the need to conflate Patents and Free software.
costs for support Well, they have to support their application/infrastructure anyway. The worst case scenario is this is a marginal cost.
server maintenance Ditto.
upgrades Hardware is still getting faster and cheaper every year. Storage is getting cheaper by the terabyte every year too. So, this cost goes down AND they get more storage if they choose to do nothing to their solution.
There are clearly situations where EMC has something that cannot be done for less or done better than EMC's products. But that's not the situation here. Why pay more for something you can do for far less? Is it the luxury of getting to blame someone else? I don't get your way of thinking, please provide some facts to support your ideas.
where I work we pay a premium for what happens when the power goes out, what happens with a drive goes bad,
Whomever spec'd your systems should have accommodated obvious failures like this. As in, paying for colo, using servers with dual power supplies that fail over, sensible RAID strategy. Giving money to EMC in this situation is not sensible.
but they also left out the people who manage these massive beasts. I mean, how many hundreds (or thousands) of drives are we talking here? I have a couple of hundred drives going at any one time and I get an SNMP alert when a drive goes bad. I take one out of the closet and destroy the broken one. The RAID does the rest.
someone to get up in the middle of the night when their pager goes off because something just went wrong and you want 24/7 storage time. Our storage strategy is N+1 all the way and required to be online 24/7 so failures are part of the plan. They are probably part of the plan at this startup.
We pay premiums so we can relax and concentrate on what we need to concentrate on. I don't understand this. If your job is 89% software dev, then EMC may be the way to go. Expensive! But, it makes a little business sense. If you aren't spending most of your time writing software that adds value to your service/product, then EMC is doing your job and you are some kind of TPS generator. Do you pay a premium to blame someone else? I've had the opportunity to work in places like this and I've always passed because of the veiled contempt for IT.
Parent's 100% accurate. I spent lots of time mountain biking up there many (15??) years ago and know the destination well.
The priority goes to not only the observatory, but the *many* radio and television antennas up there that service the most densely populated parts of L.A. When we used to stop there before descending on some beautiful single track, the grounds were very well kept. Hopefully that hasn't changed too much.
The steepness of the San Gabriel mountains along the south-facing sides just cannot be described. There's just no way to reasonably manage the fuel loads beyond a small perimeter around the top of Mt. Wilson. Taxpayers are in no mood to fund that sort of effort.
Hopefully, they've been managing the area as well as I remember.
Today, if a research organization creates something new and exciting, it can generally be duplicated in China in less than a year - often three weeks or so.
That's an 'Apple' version of research. This isn't hard research, it's repetitive research tinkering with products that have well developed components. The thinking behind calling this 'research' is a kind of buying short-term attempting to turn it into long-term market capture (higher prices) using patent and intellectual property law to maintain market capture. It's also one way the DVD consortium maintains their stranglehold on media distribution.
Why would anyone spend the money on R&D when the fruits of their labor is going to be taken by a foreign operator? Who said so? There are LOTS of things that cannot be 'knocked off' easily. It seems to me you've been convinced the fault with doing business in America is that labor costs too much. If it's not the labor, then it's something else. well, that's just not true. Those people selling that crap are seeking to build/maintain influence and prestige of some idealized world view. There are lots of examples of countries with very high living standards exporting goods that customers want all over the world. The lack of an American industrial policy that recognizes the many global markets/niches to fill for high-value goods is to blame.
You're wrong. Really? You mean every school district works the same everywhere? Really?
The rest of your post is good info which goes even further to making my hopelessly lost point, taxpayers don't make education a high priority. Class sizes are huge and most importantly how involved the are the parents? A small minority are involved, but the rest don't make it a high priority for themselves or their children.
And taxpayers funding the schools? Let's raise their taxes to do a better job educating our kids. And that's going over like a lead balloon.
So, her sample of *Stanford* students says we're in a writing revolution eh? Since Stanford's $36,000 a year in tuition from the bank of mom and dad it stands to reason the kids entering the institution have been matriculated to a similar degree before entering Stanford.
Let's replicate her experiment in a State college and see what the outcome is eh?
1. Call centers are in the more depressed parts of the U.S. I have a sneaking suspicion the workers are happy-ish to be there, but aren't part of a healthy middle class. 2...U.S. employees universal health insurance. What kind? PPO. I'm tired of hearing this topline chant when the details of the policies are depressing. 3....and pays salaries and bonuses that are nearly 50% above industry norms. So, are the call center workers still the working poor? 4. The best of iQor's front-line call-center workers make more than $100,000 per year The best one serving an uber-tight niche. More spam.
Can anyone explain why my initial gut sense is an over-reaction?
Because you don't have sufficient grasp of the issues at hand. That's not meant as an insult. You could just as easily overwhelm me with lawyer-speak on a given lawyer-rific topic.
Should my replacement computer (another laptop) be Linux (other than Apple)? There is no doubt that Linux will gain more visibility and users will know their computer runs a Linux distro. Linux is already 'everywhere' in lots of devices where the software is not visible to the end-user.
There is no doubt if you want to maximize control and distribution of your entertainment media going forward, Linux is the way to go. But running it on your laptop it depends on your level of interest.
At minimum, buy a Mac laptop, and don't run it as administrator. Then use the older tower you probably are replacing with the laptop and use it for serving media, backing up your mac, recording television at home and whatever else you need.
I'm ignoring the notion that you may have to run lawyer-related software. If so, you are probably constrained by the legal software.
I opined on the last story that he was playing the 'power game' from the bottom of the political strata. By most accounts he was at the top of the network knowledge, so a technically important guy. 'Network God' doesn't translate into political power and he got burned.
But what else is in the plea deal? I can't help but think there's waaaay more to the story given the political heat this guy brought on himself. Maybe the plea deal keeps him quiet?
he/she didn't just blow up the fastest woman's time in two events, she redefined 'fast.'
The continuity and in some respects the legitimacy of all previous records are now null-and-void.
It is impossible to describe how gifted these people are, even without the drugs.(Marion Jones was doping since she was a teenager and never got caught.) Unfortunately, people just don't get the opportunity to be right on the track to get a sense of the speed.
I know it doesn't matter to you, but for many it is very important.
I have an aged nokia n-series that is a clamshell design, runs the psion OS. I've got an ssh (putty!) client for it. For the win32 crowd, they still have a remote desktop client. (not fun to use on a tiny screen I imagine)
Most Americans don't seem to realize that Psion OS had tons of apps written for it waaay before Apple got started.. As a longtime n-series owner, I could never get the buzz for an iPhone. It did far less than my n-series and was more expensive.
An maemo phone is exactly what I was waiting for. I'm happy to pay for it up front. $700 is a bargain for a device I mostly control.
And why not? Regardless of your political leanings, class is a very important discussion. As in, it is widely recognized that the basis to a prospering society is a broad and stable middle class. Do you know how you build a middle class? Mostly by economic and fiscal policies that protect a middle class.
Human history refutes the notion that middle classes just spring up out of nowhere and are self-sustaining. Your world view then experiences an irreconcilable collision with remarkably consistent social organization of extremes. Extreme wealth and extreme poverty with a very tenuous middle-ground and dictatorial government systems
Simplify to this: "Stupid people do stupid things that cause them to die sooner. That costs me and you lot of fscking money! How can you possibly support that position? No, instead lets hijack a legitimate discussion with political nonsense.
Please, don't shift the topic away from these two points. No new details. No new facts are necessary.
Paypal is not a bank. Paypal processes transactions. Amex? Mastercard? Visa? All payment processors. None of them are banks.
You too can process transactions! No bank charter required. No messy banking regulations. Set up a website, get fast and dirty with some SQL/PHP and Bob's yer Uncle!
Marc, may not be the guy to do it, but modern operating systems are more than capable of being both client and server in a hostile network. (AKA the Internet)
I would argue 600lb gorilla ISP's, media conglomerates and as an extension of the media conglomerates Microsoft and Apple won't want to embrace it.
But it's a fundamental capability of the Internet that has *just* started to be included inside a browser.
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I know the C-like language geniuses won't jump on Erlang immediately, but the multi-core support is awesome. I'm pretty sure there's a port for every platform too.
Don't you guys and girl get it?
Google is circumventing copyright law and capturing works that are in the public domain. Going forward, they monetize a previously free work eternally.
If information wants to be free, then how *exactly* is that freeing books?
Technically, it's a mess. Are there two or three other .net CMS's with as many plugins though?
Parent's post is likely scenario.
Just as they desperately need DotnetNuke to stay relevant in CMS, they need this to stay relevant in other areas.
At this point I'm guessing customers they care about are talking about Open Source and the Microsoft sales rep needs to say "Yeah, we got that." while they are on their way in the Microsoft limo to the strip club/whorehouse.
Networking over USB would be awesome.
USB doesn't work like that. USB is a master->slave specification whereas firewire has mastermaster functionality. Networking is a mastermaster type of relationship.
With that out of the way, some manufacturer somewhere had a device between two USB connectors that did what you are describing. It is/was in the USB Gadgets section and I didn't have the patience to fiddle with it. http://www.linux-usb.org/gadget/
This is the most sensible post in this entire discussion.
Classic example of how economic interests take an inherently good thing (Free software) and weaponize it.
IBM couldn't beat Microsoft, so they regrouped around Free software. Everyone still benefits. So far so good.
IBM is still evil though. Anyone old enough to remember when IBM PC *was* a personal computer can back me up on this.
I would argue that IBM is setting themselves up to be able to litigate competitors using Free software on the basis of patented processes inside the code. Sure, the software can be freely distributed, but if you eat into IBM's business, they will litigate the process patents.
Hence the need to conflate Patents and Free software.
Someone please provide some contrary arguments.
A plain-vanilla SAN is worth every penny.
Especially now that you can get them from distressed companies who paid too much for them a couple of years ago, $15,000 will get you a refrigerator-sized solution. Straight retail on a 2U san is still getting cheaper every year. http://h71016.www7.hp.com/dstore/ctoBases.asp?oi=E9CED&BEID=19701&SBLID=&ProductLineId=450&FamilyId=2569&LowBaseId=15222&LowPrice=$1,899.00
Oh, please stop with the rationale that *something* is accomplished with the average PHB cost/benefit analysis.
The *vast* majority of the time both the costs and benefits are fabricated out of whole cloth to support a foregone conclusion.
Bullsh!t
costs for support
Well, they have to support their application/infrastructure anyway. The worst case scenario is this is a marginal cost.
server maintenance
Ditto.
upgrades
Hardware is still getting faster and cheaper every year. Storage is getting cheaper by the terabyte every year too. So, this cost goes down AND they get more storage if they choose to do nothing to their solution.
There are clearly situations where EMC has something that cannot be done for less or done better than EMC's products. But that's not the situation here. Why pay more for something you can do for far less? Is it the luxury of getting to blame someone else? I don't get your way of thinking, please provide some facts to support your ideas.
where I work we pay a premium for what happens when the power goes out, what happens with a drive goes bad,
Whomever spec'd your systems should have accommodated obvious failures like this. As in, paying for colo, using servers with dual power supplies that fail over, sensible RAID strategy. Giving money to EMC in this situation is not sensible.
but they also left out the people who manage these massive beasts. I mean, how many hundreds (or thousands) of drives are we talking here?
I have a couple of hundred drives going at any one time and I get an SNMP alert when a drive goes bad. I take one out of the closet and destroy the broken one. The RAID does the rest.
someone to get up in the middle of the night when their pager goes off because something just went wrong and you want 24/7 storage time.
Our storage strategy is N+1 all the way and required to be online 24/7 so failures are part of the plan. They are probably part of the plan at this startup.
We pay premiums so we can relax and concentrate on what we need to concentrate on.
I don't understand this. If your job is 89% software dev, then EMC may be the way to go. Expensive! But, it makes a little business sense. If you aren't spending most of your time writing software that adds value to your service/product, then EMC is doing your job and you are some kind of TPS generator. Do you pay a premium to blame someone else? I've had the opportunity to work in places like this and I've always passed because of the veiled contempt for IT.
Please, explain this to me.
Parent's 100% accurate. I spent lots of time mountain biking up there many (15??) years ago and know the destination well.
The priority goes to not only the observatory, but the *many* radio and television antennas up there that service the most densely populated parts of L.A. When we used to stop there before descending on some beautiful single track, the grounds were very well kept. Hopefully that hasn't changed too much.
The steepness of the San Gabriel mountains along the south-facing sides just cannot be described. There's just no way to reasonably manage the fuel loads beyond a small perimeter around the top of Mt. Wilson. Taxpayers are in no mood to fund that sort of effort.
Hopefully, they've been managing the area as well as I remember.
Today, if a research organization creates something new and exciting, it can generally be duplicated in China in less than a year - often three weeks or so.
That's an 'Apple' version of research. This isn't hard research, it's repetitive research tinkering with products that have well developed components. The thinking behind calling this 'research' is a kind of buying short-term attempting to turn it into long-term market capture (higher prices) using patent and intellectual property law to maintain market capture. It's also one way the DVD consortium maintains their stranglehold on media distribution.
Why would anyone spend the money on R&D when the fruits of their labor is going to be taken by a foreign operator?
Who said so? There are LOTS of things that cannot be 'knocked off' easily. It seems to me you've been convinced the fault with doing business in America is that labor costs too much. If it's not the labor, then it's something else. well, that's just not true. Those people selling that crap are seeking to build/maintain influence and prestige of some idealized world view. There are lots of examples of countries with very high living standards exporting goods that customers want all over the world. The lack of an American industrial policy that recognizes the many global markets/niches to fill for high-value goods is to blame.
You're wrong.
Really? You mean every school district works the same everywhere? Really?
The rest of your post is good info which goes even further to making my hopelessly lost point, taxpayers don't make education a high priority. Class sizes are huge and most importantly how involved the are the parents? A small minority are involved, but the rest don't make it a high priority for themselves or their children.
And taxpayers funding the schools? Let's raise their taxes to do a better job educating our kids. And that's going over like a lead balloon.
So, her sample of *Stanford* students says we're in a writing revolution eh? Since Stanford's $36,000 a year in tuition from the bank of mom and dad it stands to reason the kids entering the institution have been matriculated to a similar degree before entering Stanford.
Let's replicate her experiment in a State college and see what the outcome is eh?
Well, let's see.... At the top of the list is not working because they aren't paid over the summer.
This is a particularly annoying version of complaining about inferior service when, in fact, you are the one who funds that service.
1. Call centers are in the more depressed parts of the U.S. I have a sneaking suspicion the workers are happy-ish to be there, but aren't part of a healthy middle class.
2...U.S. employees universal health insurance. What kind? PPO. I'm tired of hearing this topline chant when the details of the policies are depressing.
3....and pays salaries and bonuses that are nearly 50% above industry norms. So, are the call center workers still the working poor?
4. The best of iQor's front-line call-center workers make more than $100,000 per year The best one serving an uber-tight niche. More spam.
This is a critical problem with the topic.
I have anecdotal evidence similar to the parent's post as well.
Can anyone explain why my initial gut sense is an over-reaction?
Because you don't have sufficient grasp of the issues at hand. That's not meant as an insult. You could just as easily overwhelm me with lawyer-speak on a given lawyer-rific topic.
Should my replacement computer (another laptop) be Linux (other than Apple)?
There is no doubt that Linux will gain more visibility and users will know their computer runs a Linux distro. Linux is already 'everywhere' in lots of devices where the software is not visible to the end-user.
There is no doubt if you want to maximize control and distribution of your entertainment media going forward, Linux is the way to go. But running it on your laptop it depends on your level of interest.
At minimum, buy a Mac laptop, and don't run it as administrator. Then use the older tower you probably are replacing with the laptop and use it for serving media, backing up your mac, recording television at home and whatever else you need.
I'm ignoring the notion that you may have to run lawyer-related software. If so, you are probably constrained by the legal software.
I opined on the last story that he was playing the 'power game' from the bottom of the political strata. By most accounts he was at the top of the network knowledge, so a technically important guy. 'Network God' doesn't translate into political power and he got burned.
But what else is in the plea deal? I can't help but think there's waaaay more to the story given the political heat this guy brought on himself. Maybe the plea deal keeps him quiet?
he/she didn't just blow up the fastest woman's time in two events, she redefined 'fast.'
The continuity and in some respects the legitimacy of all previous records are now null-and-void.
It is impossible to describe how gifted these people are, even without the drugs.(Marion Jones was doping since she was a teenager and never got caught.) Unfortunately, people just don't get the opportunity to be right on the track to get a sense of the speed.
I know it doesn't matter to you, but for many it is very important.
I have an aged nokia n-series that is a clamshell design, runs the psion OS. I've got an ssh (putty!) client for it. For the win32 crowd, they still have a remote desktop client. (not fun to use on a tiny screen I imagine)
Most Americans don't seem to realize that Psion OS had tons of apps written for it waaay before Apple got started.. As a longtime n-series owner, I could never get the buzz for an iPhone. It did far less than my n-series and was more expensive.
An maemo phone is exactly what I was waiting for. I'm happy to pay for it up front. $700 is a bargain for a device I mostly control.
..bringing class into everything.
And why not? Regardless of your political leanings, class is a very important discussion. As in, it is widely recognized that the basis to a prospering society is a broad and stable middle class. Do you know how you build a middle class? Mostly by economic and fiscal policies that protect a middle class.
Human history refutes the notion that middle classes just spring up out of nowhere and are self-sustaining. Your world view then experiences an irreconcilable collision with remarkably consistent social organization of extremes. Extreme wealth and extreme poverty with a very tenuous middle-ground and dictatorial government systems
Simplify to this: "Stupid people do stupid things that cause them to die sooner.
That costs me and you lot of fscking money! How can you possibly support that position? No, instead lets hijack a legitimate discussion with political nonsense.
Please, don't shift the topic away from these two points. No new details. No new facts are necessary.
Paypal is operating as an unlicensed bank.
Paypal is not a bank. Paypal processes transactions. Amex? Mastercard? Visa? All payment processors. None of them are banks.
You too can process transactions! No bank charter required. No messy banking regulations. Set up a website, get fast and dirty with some SQL/PHP and Bob's yer Uncle!
PCI compliance isn't too difficult either: http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:VNU6PPML01wJ:https://cms.paypal.com/cms_content/en_US/files/developer/PP_PCI_Compliance_WhitePaper.pdf+paypal+pci+compliant&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
It's not some impossible thing.
Marc, may not be the guy to do it, but modern operating systems are more than capable of being both client and server in a hostile network. (AKA the Internet)
I would argue 600lb gorilla ISP's, media conglomerates and as an extension of the media conglomerates Microsoft and Apple won't want to embrace it.
But it's a fundamental capability of the Internet that has *just* started to be included inside a browser.
Bring it on!