Really? Because it sure as fuck says "Proof of Insurance: Interinsurance Exchange of the Automobile Club NAIC#: 15598" at the top of my AAA INSURANCE CARD.
FYI, NAIC is the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
Seriously, these fuckers decided to send someone, only to have the fucker turn around and leave about halfway to us. Thank you AAA for leaving two people out in the desert, stranded, and having to rely upon BLM/911 for an emergency evac because your driver's shit truck can't handle a little dirt washboard road maintained by the BLM (meanwhile my low-riding Taurus had no problems on the road whatsoever, until it kicked a rock up into the transmission oil pan.)
AAA is bullshit through and through, much like this survey.
After having a talk with a couple of people, I've come to a decision.
If you want more help on turning/. around, I'll help you for free. I know this site very well, and I'm one of the more vocal no-nonsense proponents. In the past, I've regularly contributed to/. in both story submission, commenting, and in giving you all the survey information you asked for.
If you want the help from a long-time user and fan of/., I am a phone call away. To hell with the text feedback, things get done faster and more reliably via voice.
You've had your head in the sand for about as long, it seems. We didn't have this kind of hysterical bullshit until now, and I've been alive to witness it starting from Bush/Dukakis back in 88.
"Really? I think if that were anywhere near true it would be reflected in the cost of SSDs."
SSDs command a higher price premium because of A. Marketing B. actual performance and C. perceived 'new technology' to the general mass market, so the prices remain high. This is basic economics 101, man.
This is patently incorrect and the power bills alone prove it. Go ask any datacenter that switched over to SSD. There's a reason my box uses SSDs (lower requirement for cooling the TWELVE GPUS INSIDE.)
I design these kinds of systems for a living, among other things like owning a mine and mining gems and minerals, designing semiconductors, and much, much more.
"There is more involved in managing data center performance than simple access times or temps."
Most of that unnecessarily complex and useless. Feature creep in the name of "advancement" when nobody ever uses those features excepting maybe 0.000001% of the population.
" Plus you don't need SSD to get LEED certification."
No, but every single power saving and low-impact device you use brings you closer to attaining LEED certification. Hard Drives, with platinum (not an easy thing to mine and refine, speaking from personal experience owning two mines here in SoCal) you're ripping the shit out of the environment to get it in most cases.
"The cost of manufacturing a similar size SSD as a typical datacenter size drive is much much much more."
Uhh, what? Do you even know the materials used in an HDD vs an SSD (hint, the spinning rust drive uses expensive shit like platinum and helium.) The BOM alone is 1/4 the cost. It's only expensive because it's sold on performance and a 'new technology' versus HDDs.
The power performance will NEVER COME CLOSE to being as low as an SSD.
Even my first-gen SSDs use far less power than a regular laptop drive. Taller drive geometry = more power to spin the spindle. You do know what an ?INDUCTIVE LOAD is, right? If not, protip for you: The amount of power you use to spin up those platters alone is all the power I need to find and transfer data from my SSD. And that's done before your drive heads even begin moving!
Hey, Eric? Google needs to fire you. You're too stupid to be any visionary of the future.
First, spinning rust drives eat fucktons of power and generate fucktons of heat. This is a NO-GO for any datacenter wanting LEED or any other 'green' certification. Second, SSDs meet and beat platter drives in every way conceivable. Third, the cost of manufacturing an SSD is about 25% that of manufacturing a platter HDD. Fourth, even as drive sizes shrink, drive capacities are still increasing.
Someone please tell me where Eric Brewer attended university, so I may not send my children there to receive such a poor education.
"In a new research paper the VP of Infrastructure at Google argues for hard drive manufacturers and data center provisioners to consider revisions to the current 3.5" form-factor in favour of taller, multi-platter form factors"
Google needs to fire this idiot. First off, we moved away from the larger drives BECAUSE THEY REQUIRE MORE POWER TO OPERATE AND GENERATE FUCKTONS OF HEAT. Secondly, SSDs are at and beyond the capabilities of spinning rust under a layer of vapor-deposited platinum. Third, SSDs are much smaller - even the typical 2.5" laptop drives are mostly empty space. Fourth, the energy required to manufacture an SSD is about 25% of what is required to make a comparable HDD.
Can someone tell me what 'University' this 'VP of Infrastructure' attended so I know not to send my children to such a moronic 'Institution of Education?'
"Great, now you have multiple copies in random locations with no cohesion AND you need extra staff to manage all the extra paper."
Apparently you don't know what the fuck is entailed in a medical records release. Generally, everything is sent, TO MAINTAIN COHESION IN DOCUMENTED PERFORMED MEDICAL PROCEDURES.
No point in trying to reply to the rest of your comment if you can't even make that logical conclusion.
I see you know jack shit about medical billing. Here, let me help you with this very non-complex and highly reliable system we call a paper trail.
Phone call from one doctor to a different doctor's office: "Hi, this is Dr. X, I need records for our common Patient Y regarding their last checkup and test work performed on or around such and such date at your facility. Will you fax that over to me at 888-555-1212?"
Fax machine: Spits outpatient records after they have been found and scanned, or transmitted to digital fax.
"Ben Franklin is someone who never had his liberty or his safety threatened"
Say fucking what? February 15, 1739: Franklin’s home was robbed by William Lloyd. November 24, 1737: Franklin and others organized a volunteer militia – the Associators – for the defense of Pennsylvania. December 23, 1750: Franklin was severely shocked, while electrocuting a turkey. June, 1752: Franklin, who has not yet heard of the French success of his 'sentry-box' experiment, experiments with flying a kite in a thunderstorm, and also proves that lightning is electrical in nature. September 16-17, 1765: Franklin’s house threatened by Stamp Act protestors. Deborah refused to flee, and the mob was dissuaded by 8oo Franklin supporters ready to combat them.
Franklin has had his liberty and safety at risk more times than you can possibly imagine. these are just the documented and notable ones.
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"First of all, AAA is not an insurance company."
Really? Because it sure as fuck says "Proof of Insurance: Interinsurance Exchange of the Automobile Club NAIC#: 15598" at the top of my AAA INSURANCE CARD.
FYI, NAIC is the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
Seriously, these fuckers decided to send someone, only to have the fucker turn around and leave about halfway to us. Thank you AAA for leaving two people out in the desert, stranded, and having to rely upon BLM/911 for an emergency evac because your driver's shit truck can't handle a little dirt washboard road maintained by the BLM (meanwhile my low-riding Taurus had no problems on the road whatsoever, until it kicked a rock up into the transmission oil pan.)
AAA is bullshit through and through, much like this survey.
"there's no such thing as a glass-based solar cell"
Fucking what? Glass is silicon. Most solar cells are silicon. Which dimension did you pop in from, sonny?
Vimeo has plenty I want to watch. Usually more original than the shit you find on YouTube, too.
Hey, Whipslash.
After having a talk with a couple of people, I've come to a decision.
If you want more help on turning /. around, I'll help you for free. I know this site very well, and I'm one of the more vocal no-nonsense proponents. In the past, I've regularly contributed to /. in both story submission, commenting, and in giving you all the survey information you asked for.
If you want the help from a long-time user and fan of /., I am a phone call away. To hell with the text feedback, things get done faster and more reliably via voice.
Where shall I send you my phone number?
You've had your head in the sand for about as long, it seems. We didn't have this kind of hysterical bullshit until now, and I've been alive to witness it starting from Bush/Dukakis back in 88.
You must not understand CC. Since I happen to have various works licensed under it, let me explain it to you:
If you don't attribute, you implicitly do not have permission. It's that simple.
You just don't fucking listen.
Wrong. Class D extinguishers are meant specifically for metal fires like thermite.
"Really? I think if that were anywhere near true it would be reflected in the cost of SSDs."
SSDs command a higher price premium because of A. Marketing B. actual performance and C. perceived 'new technology' to the general mass market, so the prices remain high. This is basic economics 101, man.
"SSDs do not solve any problems for data centers"
This is patently incorrect and the power bills alone prove it. Go ask any datacenter that switched over to SSD. There's a reason my box uses SSDs (lower requirement for cooling the TWELVE GPUS INSIDE.)
I design these kinds of systems for a living, among other things like owning a mine and mining gems and minerals, designing semiconductors, and much, much more.
"There is more involved in managing data center performance than simple access times or temps."
Most of that unnecessarily complex and useless. Feature creep in the name of "advancement" when nobody ever uses those features excepting maybe 0.000001% of the population.
" Plus you don't need SSD to get LEED certification."
No, but every single power saving and low-impact device you use brings you closer to attaining LEED certification. Hard Drives, with platinum (not an easy thing to mine and refine, speaking from personal experience owning two mines here in SoCal) you're ripping the shit out of the environment to get it in most cases.
"The cost of manufacturing a similar size SSD as a typical datacenter size drive is much much much more."
Uhh, what? Do you even know the materials used in an HDD vs an SSD (hint, the spinning rust drive uses expensive shit like platinum and helium.) The BOM alone is 1/4 the cost. It's only expensive because it's sold on performance and a 'new technology' versus HDDs.
I've worked for Google. They used to have a serious vetting process. Now it's more of who you know than what you know.
Hey, look, the fucking moron that claimed he was done psting here.
Since we can't trust you at your word, your HOSTs engine is very obviously not trustworthy either, you lying sack of shit.
Not like it matters beause every program coming out now days is hardcoded to bypass your HOSTs bullshit.
Meanwhile, they can't bypass my router block.
Dedicated hardware = 1. HOSTs = -1,000,000
The power performance will NEVER COME CLOSE to being as low as an SSD.
Even my first-gen SSDs use far less power than a regular laptop drive. Taller drive geometry = more power to spin the spindle. You do know what an ?INDUCTIVE LOAD is, right? If not, protip for you: The amount of power you use to spin up those platters alone is all the power I need to find and transfer data from my SSD. And that's done before your drive heads even begin moving!
Hey, Eric? Google needs to fire you. You're too stupid to be any visionary of the future.
First, spinning rust drives eat fucktons of power and generate fucktons of heat. This is a NO-GO for any datacenter wanting LEED or any other 'green' certification. Second, SSDs meet and beat platter drives in every way conceivable. Third, the cost of manufacturing an SSD is about 25% that of manufacturing a platter HDD. Fourth, even as drive sizes shrink, drive capacities are still increasing.
Someone please tell me where Eric Brewer attended university, so I may not send my children there to receive such a poor education.
"In a new research paper the VP of Infrastructure at Google argues for hard drive manufacturers and data center provisioners to consider revisions to the current 3.5" form-factor in favour of taller, multi-platter form factors"
Google needs to fire this idiot. First off, we moved away from the larger drives BECAUSE THEY REQUIRE MORE POWER TO OPERATE AND GENERATE FUCKTONS OF HEAT. Secondly, SSDs are at and beyond the capabilities of spinning rust under a layer of vapor-deposited platinum. Third, SSDs are much smaller - even the typical 2.5" laptop drives are mostly empty space. Fourth, the energy required to manufacture an SSD is about 25% of what is required to make a comparable HDD.
Can someone tell me what 'University' this 'VP of Infrastructure' attended so I know not to send my children to such a moronic 'Institution of Education?'
Meanwhile, My February, which should be in the 60s, is in the 90s.
IN THE FUCKING COLORADO DESERT, where it should in reality be in the 50s this time of year, and wet.
It's more secure than any network currently online has proven to be.
"Great, now you have multiple copies in random locations with no cohesion AND you need extra staff to manage all the extra paper."
Apparently you don't know what the fuck is entailed in a medical records release. Generally, everything is sent, TO MAINTAIN COHESION IN DOCUMENTED PERFORMED MEDICAL PROCEDURES.
No point in trying to reply to the rest of your comment if you can't even make that logical conclusion.
"And how do you query data from a paper fax?"
I see you know jack shit about medical billing. Here, let me help you with this very non-complex and highly reliable system we call a paper trail.
Phone call from one doctor to a different doctor's office: "Hi, this is Dr. X, I need records for our common Patient Y regarding their last checkup and test work performed on or around such and such date at your facility. Will you fax that over to me at 888-555-1212?"
Fax machine: Spits outpatient records after they have been found and scanned, or transmitted to digital fax.
It's that fucking simple.
I have copies of Franklin's writings. You know absolutely NOTHING.
"God forbid we try and track a patient long term, especially those with complex medical issues."
What, too lazy to use a fucking fax machine?
What're you going to do when your medical records system loses power and you can't access patient information?
That's why every doctor's office I go to keeps a CARBON COPY BACKUP.
Leeches are still used medically today and with good reason, you ill-educated nitwit.
Ditto bone saws.
"Ben Franklin is someone who never had his liberty or his safety threatened"
Say fucking what? February 15, 1739: Franklin’s home was robbed by William Lloyd. November 24, 1737: Franklin and others organized a volunteer militia – the Associators – for the defense of Pennsylvania. December 23, 1750: Franklin was severely shocked, while electrocuting a turkey. June, 1752: Franklin, who has not yet heard of the French success of his 'sentry-box' experiment, experiments with flying a kite in a thunderstorm, and also proves that lightning is electrical in nature. September 16-17, 1765: Franklin’s house threatened by Stamp Act protestors. Deborah refused to flee, and the mob was dissuaded by 8oo Franklin supporters ready to combat them.
Franklin has had his liberty and safety at risk more times than you can possibly imagine. these are just the documented and notable ones.