Imagine it like this for a moment: every device that plugs into a wall outlet has its own "power meter" like the one that the electric company use to determine how much to bill you each month...
Well, true, Cloud computing could provide that. But you are missing the point of the name 'Grid Computing' - the original idea was to model compute time provisioning after a Power *Grids*: you plug your laptop into an outlet, and, voila,...
So, your wall outlet idea was already promised by Grid Computing -- what Cloud computing seems to add, IMHO, is support for (a) very simple interfaces to use the provided resources, and (b) support for specific usage modes. Grids are more all-purpose infrastructure, which makes them rather complex, and non-trivial to use. Clouds focus on a few, but very common use cases, which makes them much more simple to use. IMHO, the infrastructure to implement a Cloud can very well be a Grid...
You forgot that amusing episode where the millions of lines of stolen code have been foound by SCO, but could not be shows becaus, you know, it THEIR SECRET CODE.
see http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon/f1/060325leak .html - appearently, a fuel leak has been identified in preliminary analysis of images. The articel quotes Elon Musk: "I cannot predict exactly when the next flight will take place [...] However, I would hope that the next launch occurs in less than six months."
I think that this is, if confirmed, good news (both the fast and analysis, and the optimism that the program gets not indefinitely delayed). Also, the analysis seems to be consistent with what many people on/. and otherwhere guessed.
Did you understand his claim that the dispersed energy is radiated as Electromagnetic Energy? I wondered where that claim comes from, and have not seen any statement supporting it (might be my fault: too many slides, not enough formulas...).
I would trivially suspect the energy to be dispered as gravitational wave, but then again, he seems to negate the existence of GW altogether (see ligo slide) - I could not follow that point either.
Anyone?
Thanks, Andre.
No, its not getting more complex. In fact, having more dimensions explaines the stuff _nicely_, that means without too many additional assumptions. No need for an arbitrary particle which, by chance, excatly behaves like dark matter on large distances, but is not observable otherwise.
The problem only is, that the simple ideas of the string theory (which is usually the physical theory behind the multiple dimensional universe explainations) is mathematically difficult, and complex, and hence, all articles etc. which try to explain it, or parts of it, are ususally somewhat mind boggling.
Its somewhat like taking Maxwells equations (which are beautufully simple) and start to explain why the sun looks red while rising - Ugh!
Let some years pass, and as understanding of String theory and implications gets better, it will look simplier...
Hmm, sorry if I offended. But still, don't have anything to add:
"It is soo powerful - it must have benn made by God"
"It is soo beautiful - it must have been made by God"
etc etc. Why? Doesn't make sense. Does not explain enything.
"it is so blue - must have been made by cockroaches"
play in the same league. It's silly, and does not explain anything...
force hardware player vendors to secure their boxes (their keys really)
ignore (!) breaks on hardware boxes
force software player vendors to include online key updates
trigger online key updates as soon as a key leaks
That way, if you gat a new DVD which does not play on your software (hardware will always work), you need an online update, not more.
Sure, for SuperDeCSS you can (very probably) get the key again and again, but if you put online security updates on top of online key updates, you may have to do the whole reverse engineering part again and again. Its not getting impossible, but tedious.
What more can they want?
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Imagine it like this for a moment: every device that plugs into a wall outlet has its own "power meter" like the one that the electric company use to determine how much to bill you each month...
Well, true, Cloud computing could provide that. But you are missing the point of the name 'Grid Computing' - the original idea was to model compute time provisioning after a Power *Grids*: you plug your laptop into an outlet, and, voila, ...
So, your wall outlet idea was already promised by Grid Computing -- what Cloud computing seems to add, IMHO, is support for (a) very simple interfaces to use the provided resources, and (b) support for specific usage modes. Grids are more all-purpose infrastructure, which makes them rather complex, and non-trivial to use. Clouds focus on a few, but very common use cases, which makes them much more simple to use. IMHO, the infrastructure to implement a Cloud can very well be a Grid...
Best, Andre.
You forgot that amusing episode where the millions of lines of stolen code have been foound by SCO, but could not be shows becaus, you know, it THEIR SECRET CODE.
see http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon/f1/060325leak .html - appearently, a fuel leak has been identified in preliminary analysis of images. The articel quotes Elon Musk: "I cannot predict exactly when the next flight will take place [...] However, I would hope that the next launch occurs in less than six months."
I think that this is, if confirmed, good news (both the fast and analysis, and the optimism that the program gets not indefinitely delayed). Also, the analysis seems to be consistent with what many people on /. and otherwhere guessed.
Did you understand his claim that the dispersed energy is radiated as Electromagnetic Energy? I wondered where that claim comes from, and have not seen any statement supporting it (might be my fault: too many slides, not enough formulas...). I would trivially suspect the energy to be dispered as gravitational wave, but then again, he seems to negate the existence of GW altogether (see ligo slide) - I could not follow that point either. Anyone? Thanks, Andre.
No, its not getting more complex. In fact, having more dimensions explaines the stuff _nicely_, that means without too many additional assumptions. No need for an arbitrary particle which, by chance, excatly behaves like dark matter on large distances, but is not observable otherwise. The problem only is, that the simple ideas of the string theory (which is usually the physical theory behind the multiple dimensional universe explainations) is mathematically difficult, and complex, and hence, all articles etc. which try to explain it, or parts of it, are ususally somewhat mind boggling. Its somewhat like taking Maxwells equations (which are beautufully simple) and start to explain why the sun looks red while rising - Ugh! Let some years pass, and as understanding of String theory and implications gets better, it will look simplier...
Hmm, sorry if I offended. But still, don't have anything to add:
"It is soo powerful - it must have benn made by God"
"It is soo beautiful - it must have been made by God"
etc etc. Why? Doesn't make sense. Does not explain enything.
"it is so blue - must have been made by cockroaches"
play in the same league. It's silly, and does not explain anything...
After studying evolution for some time, I became a believer in GOD! Because only god could have created something as powerful as evolution.
Why is that? I never understood that statement, or similar ones. Sorry, but that sounds just silly to me, really *shrug*.
- force hardware player vendors to secure their boxes (their keys really)
- ignore (!) breaks on hardware boxes
- force software player vendors to include online key updates
- trigger online key updates as soon as a key leaks
That way, if you gat a new DVD which does not play on your software (hardware will always work), you need an online update, not more. Sure, for SuperDeCSS you can (very probably) get the key again and again, but if you put online security updates on top of online key updates, you may have to do the whole reverse engineering part again and again. Its not getting impossible, but tedious. What more can they want?