A blade server is essentially a computer on a motherboard, including: one or more processors, memory, storage, and network connections. The idea behind blade servers is that many such blades can be added in space-saving racks, thus providing compact and powerful computing solutions that are less expensive than traditional solutions (such as mainframes).
Blade servers are ideal for specific purposes such as web hosting and cluster computing. Individual blades are typically hot-swappable.
Although blade server technology allows for open, cross-vendor solutions, for the time being, users experience fewer problems when keeping with blades, racks and blade management tools from the same vendor. Eventual standardisation of the technology will hopefully result in more choices for consumers; increasing numbers of third-party software vendors are now entering this growing field.
I noticed that Bank of America (admittedly huge) isn't in the list of banks spoofed. Why is that? Do they have their own private fraud division or something, or has something bad happened to spoofers in the past?
I don't know about most of you, but the link to the story (with pics) of the naked PETA protesters painted like tigers garnered a lot more interest from me than "China Bans (fill in the blank)."
The reason that Amazon and Microsoft get so much publicity is because their patents are often not really patents, or they're attempting to patent something that shouldn't be patented. In a word, they're not patenting ideas so much as they're trying to patent things we already do.
The top patent recipients are actually innovating, leveraging their R&D power and making progress instead of leveraging their lawyer power and hindering progress in legal battles.
I convered to AMD a while back on my desktop, and I recently acquired a AMD AthlonXPM 2800+ notebook. This thing has relatively poor battery life at 1:30 and lowest screen brightness, even when doing mundane things such as typing a paper. My sister's Intel 1.6 Centrino proc on her IBM though has 3 hours on a full charge when doing mundane tasks.
If AMD gets this right, AMD can sneak its way into the ultralights and ultrasmalls easily. And the way it's been looking for AMD on big-name desktops, volume is likely to go through the roof, especially if Dell finally catches onto the game and adopts AMD procs.
My apartment room (I'm a college student) is ridiculously small. It's so convenient to stuff my LCD in a corner where the corners of a CRT would bash holes in the walls. I have a desk with a 1-foot depth that comes out of a wall, so putting a CRT here is pretty much impossible unless I want to put a 19" CRT monitor in my lap.
I'm willing to be that a lot of LCD purchases are fueled by higher education... it's easily a well-sought-after college freshman gift.
This is the first consumer-level implementation... definitely a milestone. How many of your non-photographer friends would pay $1000 for an SLR that doesn't fit in their pocket and does WiFi?
This could link up very well with a pocket-sized hard drive unit sitting in a pocket or photographer's vest. The pictures would automatically be downloaded to the hard drive while shooting. Since 1GB drives are pretty much the norm for shooting (with the exception of the 4GB flash drives), and photos can run upwards of 15-20MB/photo in RAW, this would be a photojournalists/sports photographer's dream not to have to switch out cards every 50 or 80 pictures. This is definitely something to consider, especially when many high-end cameras can take 8 pictures/second in burst mode, with a buffer able to hold 30 or more pictures before writing to flash.
Average Joe would not only benefit greatly by not needing to connect cables to the computer to transfer files, but this is likely to open up a digital convergence gateway where cameras, computers, and phones can transfer photos to each other. We all know that media sharing has become the next big thing, not just in P2P, but in a hardware sense, too.
Think about it - how many times have you taken pictures at a party with your digicam, and your friends ask you, "I want a copy of that pic!" Now you can without batting an eye!
I seriously doubt this is a real job. Note that "antenna" was spelled incorrectly, leading me to believe that this was just some project that someone made, building it up around some pictures. Samsung wouldn't display this to potential vendors; it's way to unprofessional not to proofread it.
Newsgroups and IRC were too nerdy for average joe to get in on this. P2P made it easy for your grandma in a wheelchair to download music/movies... well maybe that's taking it a little far but you get the point.
RIAA/MPAA would be so happy to shut down P2P... they probably wouldn't go after any newsgroups or IRC rooms.
Who's going to be responsible for all the dent-and-scratch stuff on the cars? Sensors wouldn't pick it up because it's not violent enough. Unless people are examining the cars before they get to the next user, there's sure to be a lot of finger-pointing.
In metro areas, bicycles are vastly faster anyways. If you can stand to get sweaty, that is...
For most companies, lightning never strikes. The promised miracle product fails, and the revolutionary dreams meet evolutionary reality.
Hmm... something that will revolutionize the way we get around... cities will be built around this invention of the millenium... what was that thing again? Wasn't it banned from sidewalks in 30 cities around the country?
Too fast to be pedestrian and too slow to be a vehicle: the Segway was doomed to be a toy from the start. Oh yeah, and that price....
I can't believe nobody has suggested this: If we can blow mountains up to make way for railroads/roads, then a slightly larger-scaled version of some mountain blowing-upping can push the side of the island into the water in small increments, causing no more than a smidgen of concern!
Not only would we not have to evacuate anyone, but the seismologists wouldn't shit their pants, the coastal habitants would be happy (myself in FL included), the news people would be sad that they don't have a catastrophe to bring in the ratings, and we could live life as normal.
Oh yeah, and those Canary Islands people would probably like this idea...
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Is there a version out there for us hand-of-God-wannabes to simulate outbreaks of dysentery in a highly-populated area? *splat*
A blade server is essentially a computer on a motherboard, including: one or more processors, memory, storage, and network connections. The idea behind blade servers is that many such blades can be added in space-saving racks, thus providing compact and powerful computing solutions that are less expensive than traditional solutions (such as mainframes). Blade servers are ideal for specific purposes such as web hosting and cluster computing. Individual blades are typically hot-swappable. Although blade server technology allows for open, cross-vendor solutions, for the time being, users experience fewer problems when keeping with blades, racks and blade management tools from the same vendor. Eventual standardisation of the technology will hopefully result in more choices for consumers; increasing numbers of third-party software vendors are now entering this growing field.
It's all 5, Funny until an entire (human) race gets obliterated by Martian bacteria...
"Um, Bill? The lenscap is still on..."
I noticed that Bank of America (admittedly huge) isn't in the list of banks spoofed. Why is that? Do they have their own private fraud division or something, or has something bad happened to spoofers in the past?
I don't know about most of you, but the link to the story (with pics) of the naked PETA protesters painted like tigers garnered a lot more interest from me than "China Bans (fill in the blank)."
The top patent recipients are actually innovating, leveraging their R&D power and making progress instead of leveraging their lawyer power and hindering progress in legal battles.
So when you, as a student of George Mason U, get a bill for "MOULIN SPLOOGE" you can be sure it wasn't you... or was it?
"She's not even real!"
"But she's hot..."
"But SHE'S NOT REAL!!!"
I suppose the moral of this story is to be careful when you play around with the dd command and your MBR.
DOY!
If AMD gets this right, AMD can sneak its way into the ultralights and ultrasmalls easily. And the way it's been looking for AMD on big-name desktops, volume is likely to go through the roof, especially if Dell finally catches onto the game and adopts AMD procs.
I'm willing to be that a lot of LCD purchases are fueled by higher education... it's easily a well-sought-after college freshman gift.
This is the first consumer-level implementation... definitely a milestone. How many of your non-photographer friends would pay $1000 for an SLR that doesn't fit in their pocket and does WiFi?
Average Joe would not only benefit greatly by not needing to connect cables to the computer to transfer files, but this is likely to open up a digital convergence gateway where cameras, computers, and phones can transfer photos to each other. We all know that media sharing has become the next big thing, not just in P2P, but in a hardware sense, too.
Think about it - how many times have you taken pictures at a party with your digicam, and your friends ask you, "I want a copy of that pic!" Now you can without batting an eye!
Just kidding. Figured it out.
I seriously doubt this is a real job. Note that "antenna" was spelled incorrectly, leading me to believe that this was just some project that someone made, building it up around some pictures. Samsung wouldn't display this to potential vendors; it's way to unprofessional not to proofread it.
RIAA/MPAA would be so happy to shut down P2P... they probably wouldn't go after any newsgroups or IRC rooms.
In metro areas, bicycles are vastly faster anyways. If you can stand to get sweaty, that is...
Hmm... something that will revolutionize the way we get around... cities will be built around this invention of the millenium... what was that thing again? Wasn't it banned from sidewalks in 30 cities around the country?
Too fast to be pedestrian and too slow to be a vehicle: the Segway was doomed to be a toy from the start. Oh yeah, and that price....
Not only would we not have to evacuate anyone, but the seismologists wouldn't shit their pants, the coastal habitants would be happy (myself in FL included), the news people would be sad that they don't have a catastrophe to bring in the ratings, and we could live life as normal.
Oh yeah, and those Canary Islands people would probably like this idea...
Maybe someone can sell off his penis for more than the $40,000 an American urologist paid for Napoleon's penis: here
Joe Blow doesn't have $10,000 to spend with Microsoft just for Microsoft to provide service for its own product. Corporations do.
The dollars equal the content.