My reply was based on this sentance in the comment:
"Oh, one thing that Google hasn't done is Database, although its existance is almost solely based on databases. When are we seeing GoogleSQL?" [emphasis mine]
If the term Database is going to be used so broadly as to also cover a file system (and not merely a SQL database applications), then we will never see the "database", as I'm sure Google won't be releasing the GFS into the wild anytime soon.
When someone throws SQL into the mix, it's usually referring to a relational database.
"The file system has successfully met our storage needs. It is widely deployed within Google as the storage platform for the generation and processing of data used by our service as well as research and development efforts that require large data sets. The largest cluster to date provides hundreds of terabytes of storage across thousands of disks on over a thousand machines, and it is concurrently accessed by hundreds of clients."
Most businesses I've worked with over the last 2 years give their employees and internal extension as well as a direct dial number (with the extension being the last four digits of the direct dial number).
This isn't a feature so everyone can have free calls. This is something Google can show off to their Google Ad customers, to help them drive more revenue.
Note to Slashdot readers: It's not a crime to be in business to make money. It's the way you do it that matters. Google just happens to be very good at making money in a very friendly way.
It's most likely a custom implementation rather then Asterisk (Although it scales well, I'm not so sure how it could be incorporated into the Googleplex). All they're doing is SIP to connect the two parties (think Vonage, but using the PSTN for both sides).
I guess we know what they're doing with all that dark fiber, eh? (I'm sure there are plenty more uses going on with it, but the amount of fiber they bought allows them to run an amazing amount of voice calls over their own infrastructure, with no need to hand over cash to a third party accept for termination costs)
I use to play with this idea 4-5 years ago. A small team was going to look into building FPGA PCI boards that could be used with http://www.distributed.net/ to help crack DES/RC5/*insert-your-choice-encryption-here*.
Does Google run on Windows? How many users does it have? Could it run if Windows does not exist in the future? These are important questions. What your environment is matters less and less as time goes by.
"Owners" is the wrong term for it, as ARIN has made clear that no one owns the IP address space, they merely have a license to use it. I would say the "licensed user" of the space.
Subscribe to the NANOG mailing list [www.nanog.org]. There has been an on-going discussion over the last couple of weeks on the best way to pull back unused address space. One problem that's been cropping up is that once blocks of IPs have been identified as no flows coming from them for a long period of time, people then announce those blocks via BGP the next day.
My fault. That was a bad day, so I apologize for being as negative as I was.
The problem with hydrogen being the LCD (lowest common denominator) is that there is no natual source of it. You have to take an existing energy source, convert it to hydrogen, and then convert it back for fuel in the vehicle (none of which is very efficient). On the other hand, you can burn natural gas to get electricty, you can utilize nuclear power plants to get electricty, etc. Almost any power source can pump out electricty.
Also, with a fuel cell car, unless you have a temporary storage facility on-board you can't use regenerative braking to convert existing kinetic energy back into power usable at a later time to accelerate again.
I drive the new Mercedes SLK 350 (no physical contact to the brakes, all electronic). It's fantastic. I've had two incidents where I was concerned I didn't have enough stopping difference, and when I hammered on the brakes the brake assist kicked in. This is where it detects a "panic stop" and rams the brake piston automatically. I'd never want to go back to manual brakes after they've put superior electronics between my feet and the road.
I'd hate to live in any sort of country under your rule. Take the hammer away from the user. Don't ban everyone from using the hammer because someone somewhere used it in an evil fashion.
I'm sure dissidents in China, North Korea, and other repressive regimes around the world thank you for your blanket "...I don't believe in your "truly censorship-free" information system" sentiment.
Asshat.
Unsprung weight is a term used to describe that part of a vehicle's mass that is directly connected to the wheels, and not isolated through the suspension. Unsprung weights typically consists of the weight of the wheels, tires, brakes (if within the wheels), spindles, bearings, and a portion of weight of the half-shafts, springs, and suspension links. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsprung_weight
In conclusion, if carmakers are never going to be integrated into the wheels, you better get on the horn with them fast, since most of them are funding the R&D for the wheel hub motors.
You may also want to read about how Porsche used wheel hub motors:
'Porsche used his latest development: the wheel hub motor, praised in the contemporary press as an "epoch-making innovation", to power his first all-wheel-drive automobile. Porsche's wheel hub motor functioned without gears and driveshafts because the wheel, which was connected directly to the rotor of the direct current motor, rotated around the stator which was attached to the wheel suspension. The drive mechanism therefore worked without friction losses to an extraordinary efficiency level of 85 percent. This Porsche invention was even employed by NASA when its moon car explored the surface of the moon. Today, international car manufacturers are using this technology for the development of future emission-free vehicles.'
I'll have to disagree with you on this. I'm single, I rarely stay out late or have that much sex (at least not to the point where it impacts my job), and I don't smoke pot at all.
I'm also 22, and work twice as many hours a week then the other gentlemen I work with, who are twice my age and have childeren.
Parents picking up the slack indeed. Call me when you're done working 80 hour weeks for 3 years and we'll talk.
P.S. My drive to make money is because I want to be wealthy, not because of some inate need to want to have to support dependents.
Hydrogen isn't a power source. It's a transportation method for power. Natural gas, coal, oil, solar, nuclear. Those are power sources. Until we can get power changed into and back out of hyfrogen efficiently (and right now, we can't), we should concentrate on where we get our energy from, not how we move it around.
Also, with an all electric car, you can get your power from anywhere (any of the above sources I listed), even hydrogen. With a hydrogen car, you're stuck using hydrogen.
Toyota is doing what GM and Ford couldn't do. It's letting it's customers help fund it's R&D related to the transition from gas to electric.
Future cars are going to be all electric. That's all there is too it. Why? Simplicity. It takes a great deal of effort to design a mechanical structure that can transmit anywhere from 200-600 bhp from the front of the car to the back. You lose efficiency on the drive shaft, at the transmission, etc.
The end game of cars is going to be where the motors are built into the wheels. The power plant is interchangeable (and inconsequential). When you brake, all four wheels will capture the energy into some sort of temporary energy storage device.
Toyota knows this. The Prius is subsidized R&D. Personally, I think it's a fabulous idea.
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Give it a year. 1 year. By next Christmas (Dec. '06), Google will be larger than Microsoft.
My reply was based on this sentance in the comment: "Oh, one thing that Google hasn't done is Database, although its existance is almost solely based on databases. When are we seeing GoogleSQL?" [emphasis mine] If the term Database is going to be used so broadly as to also cover a file system (and not merely a SQL database applications), then we will never see the "database", as I'm sure Google won't be releasing the GFS into the wild anytime soon. When someone throws SQL into the mix, it's usually referring to a relational database.
http://labs.google.com/papers/gfs.html
"The file system has successfully met our storage needs. It is widely deployed within Google as the storage platform for the generation and processing of data used by our service as well as research and development efforts that require large data sets. The largest cluster to date provides hundreds of terabytes of storage across thousands of disks on over a thousand machines, and it is concurrently accessed by hundreds of clients."
Most businesses I've worked with over the last 2 years give their employees and internal extension as well as a direct dial number (with the extension being the last four digits of the direct dial number).
Note to Slashdot readers: It's not a crime to be in business to make money. It's the way you do it that matters. Google just happens to be very good at making money in a very friendly way.
I guess we know what they're doing with all that dark fiber, eh? (I'm sure there are plenty more uses going on with it, but the amount of fiber they bought allows them to run an amazing amount of voice calls over their own infrastructure, with no need to hand over cash to a third party accept for termination costs)
When I read your comment, I imagined a female voice (such as that in your car) saying "Your Christ is ajar".
You forgot to mention that Nascar uses leaded gasoline. http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detai l&pk=NASCARLEAD-02-28-05
He's also assuming that this form of primitive life cannot survive a high G-force impact, being protected deep within the asteroid/comet/etc.
I use to play with this idea 4-5 years ago. A small team was going to look into building FPGA PCI boards that could be used with http://www.distributed.net/ to help crack DES/RC5/*insert-your-choice-encryption-here*.
Does Google run on Windows? How many users does it have? Could it run if Windows does not exist in the future? These are important questions. What your environment is matters less and less as time goes by.
It's pronounced In-TAR-web
"Owners" is the wrong term for it, as ARIN has made clear that no one owns the IP address space, they merely have a license to use it. I would say the "licensed user" of the space.
Subscribe to the NANOG mailing list [www.nanog.org]. There has been an on-going discussion over the last couple of weeks on the best way to pull back unused address space. One problem that's been cropping up is that once blocks of IPs have been identified as no flows coming from them for a long period of time, people then announce those blocks via BGP the next day.
Case closed.
Best. Overlord. Quote. Ever.
*prepares quote on banner to hang on entrance to NOC*
The problem with hydrogen being the LCD (lowest common denominator) is that there is no natual source of it. You have to take an existing energy source, convert it to hydrogen, and then convert it back for fuel in the vehicle (none of which is very efficient). On the other hand, you can burn natural gas to get electricty, you can utilize nuclear power plants to get electricty, etc. Almost any power source can pump out electricty.
Also, with a fuel cell car, unless you have a temporary storage facility on-board you can't use regenerative braking to convert existing kinetic energy back into power usable at a later time to accelerate again.
Most states have a law where Ma Bell cuts your service, but they're still required to allow the phone to dial 911, as it is with cellphones.
Nevermind the other Wal-mart customers who will probably switch anyway, even with the code problem.
Remember, there's always another consumer who can replace the monthly fee you pay.
I drive the new Mercedes SLK 350 (no physical contact to the brakes, all electronic). It's fantastic. I've had two incidents where I was concerned I didn't have enough stopping difference, and when I hammered on the brakes the brake assist kicked in. This is where it detects a "panic stop" and rams the brake piston automatically. I'd never want to go back to manual brakes after they've put superior electronics between my feet and the road.
I'd hate to live in any sort of country under your rule. Take the hammer away from the user. Don't ban everyone from using the hammer because someone somewhere used it in an evil fashion. I'm sure dissidents in China, North Korea, and other repressive regimes around the world thank you for your blanket "...I don't believe in your "truly censorship-free" information system" sentiment. Asshat.
Your Google skills are weak young Jedi...
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'A Chevrolet S-10 pickup is equipped with two rear wheel electric motors that improved torque by 60 percent and added another 70 horsepower, GM says.'
http://www.detnews.com/2003/autosinsider/0308/12/
Another article about GMs new wheel hub motors
http://www.saturnfans.com/Cars/Future/motorinwhee
Unsprung weight is a term used to describe that part of a vehicle's mass that is directly connected to the wheels, and not isolated through the suspension. Unsprung weights typically consists of the weight of the wheels, tires, brakes (if within the wheels), spindles, bearings, and a portion of weight of the half-shafts, springs, and suspension links.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsprung_weight
In conclusion, if carmakers are never going to be integrated into the wheels, you better get on the horn with them fast, since most of them are funding the R&D for the wheel hub motors.
You may also want to read about how Porsche used wheel hub motors:
http://www.rockcrawler.com/features/newsshorts/01
'Porsche used his latest development: the wheel hub motor, praised in the contemporary press as an "epoch-making innovation", to power his first all-wheel-drive automobile. Porsche's wheel hub motor functioned without gears and driveshafts because the wheel, which was connected directly to the rotor of the direct current motor, rotated around the stator which was attached to the wheel suspension. The drive mechanism therefore worked without friction losses to an extraordinary efficiency level of 85 percent. This Porsche invention was even employed by NASA when its moon car explored the surface of the moon. Today, international car manufacturers are using this technology for the development of future emission-free vehicles.'
I shall consider you schooled for the evening.
I'll have to disagree with you on this. I'm single, I rarely stay out late or have that much sex (at least not to the point where it impacts my job), and I don't smoke pot at all. I'm also 22, and work twice as many hours a week then the other gentlemen I work with, who are twice my age and have childeren. Parents picking up the slack indeed. Call me when you're done working 80 hour weeks for 3 years and we'll talk. P.S. My drive to make money is because I want to be wealthy, not because of some inate need to want to have to support dependents.
Hydrogen isn't a power source. It's a transportation method for power. Natural gas, coal, oil, solar, nuclear. Those are power sources. Until we can get power changed into and back out of hyfrogen efficiently (and right now, we can't), we should concentrate on where we get our energy from, not how we move it around.
Also, with an all electric car, you can get your power from anywhere (any of the above sources I listed), even hydrogen. With a hydrogen car, you're stuck using hydrogen.
Think lowest common denominator.
Leo,
Toyota is doing what GM and Ford couldn't do. It's letting it's customers help fund it's R&D related to the transition from gas to electric.
Future cars are going to be all electric. That's all there is too it. Why? Simplicity. It takes a great deal of effort to design a mechanical structure that can transmit anywhere from 200-600 bhp from the front of the car to the back. You lose efficiency on the drive shaft, at the transmission, etc.
The end game of cars is going to be where the motors are built into the wheels. The power plant is interchangeable (and inconsequential). When you brake, all four wheels will capture the energy into some sort of temporary energy storage device.
Toyota knows this. The Prius is subsidized R&D. Personally, I think it's a fabulous idea.