It's not good for those natural gas/diesel plants, as well as coal plants, all whom have enormous capex costs they're locked into.
Would you want to be a nuclear power plant owner, with ~$1 billion sunk into your facility if someone invents (for the sake of argument) an arc reactor that fits in the palm of your hand and generates all the power you'll need for months at a time in a few seconds?
Entrenched interests fight the new guy, film at 11.
The carrier would require a police report. Would you risk filing a false police report and being convicted of the associated crimes to screw with someone?
The Girl Scouts take credit cards now (http://articles.latimes.com/2012/feb/03/business/fi-tn-girls-scouts-mobile-payment-20120203); the homeless and kids selling candy bars just need to get a Square adapter.
Seriously though, we're going full on cashless eventually; it ain't going back to the way things where before.
As the parent poster who is 29 and has travelled the world, yeah, I'm somewhat disheartened with my home country (US); I just haven't decided on a better place to move to yet (hopefully either somewhere in the EU or Australia/New Zealand).
You spread your data chunks across whole clusters of storage systems (i.e. Nimbus.io, Amazon's S3). The important data you really than need are the SHA hashes of the data.
Sure, you lose a ton of data on a drive here or there. You immediately invalidate the drive and the data on it, replication has already brought the number of good chunks of data back to the minimum replica requirement (because, you're smart, and you're keeping 3-5 copies of the same data across your storage platform), and you stream new data to the drive.
I have to disagree with their CEO. I worked at Fermilab on the USCMS Tier-1 team for the CMS detector; we have ~5PB of spinning disk to stage/cache/buffer data between our cluster of data workers (~5K nodes) and our 50-60PB tape storage silos (each being the size of a school bus, and having 2-4 robotic arms racing around moving tapes from storage to drives).
Not changing the world? Get out more and see where your product is in use; we used your drives brah!
What is the justification for this kind of heavy-handedness?
Consumer protection. Enacted by a government formed by the very citizens the law was enacted to protect. You (most likely) and I (for sure) are from the US; we're not use to government working *for us* though, so I'm not shocked you're unfamiliar with the concept.
Very true; TPB's time is almost up, but because they've obsoleted themselves. Did you know you can carry The Pirate Bay magnet hash collection around with 200MB of free USB stick space? You know how quickly you can replicate 200MB across the internet? What's that? You can store all those hashes in a distributed version control system like Git? And pull/replicate with only a couple lines of bash?
Indeed, The Pirate Bay has put themselves out of a job as it were. I don't think they're going to cry that hard about it.
Already happens, just in China and India. Did you know that I can buy a kidney from someone in one of those countries for $25K USD? Less if I ask less questions. And the whole time I would get to recover in a resort hospital.
To think its not already happening is naivety. To legalize it brings proper regulation.
28,000 people a year get organ donations. 20,000 less than the number of deaths every year in the US from traffic accidents. We still let people drive even with 50K deaths a year. I am NOT advocating shutting down organ donations; I'm advocating spending more money on research whether we're harvesting organs from individuals who are still viable living beings. What's the problem with that? What makes someone who needs an organ donation more important than someone who could possibly still be alive?
Disclaimer: I'm currently an organ donor in Illinois, and our laws currently override the wishes of next of kin and family with regards to organ donations.
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I'm not sure why you're not modded up yet.
The whole article argues that we don't really know when someone is "dead" yet in the cases outlined; just best guesses by doctors.
Would you trust a doctor from 100 years ago today? Maybe we should hedge a bit that we may be killing people for their organs who aren't quite dead yet, and some more research needs to go into when you're officially "braindead".
When you pay for Google Apps, yes, you're specifically paying Google for a service being provided. I wouldn't consider that "owing you nothing".
I've worked with exchange for......*counts on hand* 6 or 7 years on and off? I'd rather charge $2K on my credit card once each year for Google Apps, and enjoy working on real problems other than Exchange (hosted or not). Even Rackspace can't reliably provide hosted Exchange services without constant maintenance windows and downtime (yes, I keep tabs on service notification site for the mail application platform).
VP Engineering sir (or mam); 13 years of experience. I find that most poor technical decisions are the result of a) politics or b) ignorance. Neither is an excuse for a poor technical decision. If you want to make the choice not to use Google App services, make it. Don't bullshit that its because of sensitive data though. Google manages more data in a day than you'll see in a lifetime. I'd select them over Microsoft, Apple, or any of the other few options out there.
And yes, I can have the opinion that someone made a poor technical decision by excluding Google from a selection of vendors, unless its a genuine concern. That doesn't mean I'm berating someone. It means I believe their priorities are skewed.
I find Google Docs to be no where near as good as LibreOffice. I can show employees LibreOffice, and almost all are up and running as if it was Office same day. Google Docs simply lacks a large amount of functionality in comparison to Office and LibreOffice.
You'd think Google would've spent more time refining Docs to be a more worthy Office competitor.
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It's not good for those natural gas/diesel plants, as well as coal plants, all whom have enormous capex costs they're locked into.
Would you want to be a nuclear power plant owner, with ~$1 billion sunk into your facility if someone invents (for the sake of argument) an arc reactor that fits in the palm of your hand and generates all the power you'll need for months at a time in a few seconds?
Entrenched interests fight the new guy, film at 11.
The carrier would require a police report. Would you risk filing a false police report and being convicted of the associated crimes to screw with someone?
Luckily, it appears there is a Kindle edition =)
Thank you for all the info. As a US citizen, its extremely helpful to know that I have options. I wish you the very best!
What's the difficulty level of emigrating to Switzerland? I assume I'm going to need quite a bit asset-wise to do so (at least $1MM in assets).
The Girl Scouts take credit cards now (http://articles.latimes.com/2012/feb/03/business/fi-tn-girls-scouts-mobile-payment-20120203); the homeless and kids selling candy bars just need to get a Square adapter.
Seriously though, we're going full on cashless eventually; it ain't going back to the way things where before.
As the parent poster who is 29 and has travelled the world, yeah, I'm somewhat disheartened with my home country (US); I just haven't decided on a better place to move to yet (hopefully either somewhere in the EU or Australia/New Zealand).
You, as a tech literate, informed voter who wants the freedoms to purchase sub-standard products, are in the minority. Sorry.
My Macbook Air agrees with you; mechanical drives in the small/low power market are dead.
You spread your data chunks across whole clusters of storage systems (i.e. Nimbus.io, Amazon's S3). The important data you really than need are the SHA hashes of the data.
Sure, you lose a ton of data on a drive here or there. You immediately invalidate the drive and the data on it, replication has already brought the number of good chunks of data back to the minimum replica requirement (because, you're smart, and you're keeping 3-5 copies of the same data across your storage platform), and you stream new data to the drive.
I have to disagree with their CEO. I worked at Fermilab on the USCMS Tier-1 team for the CMS detector; we have ~5PB of spinning disk to stage/cache/buffer data between our cluster of data workers (~5K nodes) and our 50-60PB tape storage silos (each being the size of a school bus, and having 2-4 robotic arms racing around moving tapes from storage to drives).
Not changing the world? Get out more and see where your product is in use; we used your drives brah!
What is the justification for this kind of heavy-handedness?
Consumer protection. Enacted by a government formed by the very citizens the law was enacted to protect. You (most likely) and I (for sure) are from the US; we're not use to government working *for us* though, so I'm not shocked you're unfamiliar with the concept.
Suddenly all those hashes are just a zone transfer away.
Very true; TPB's time is almost up, but because they've obsoleted themselves. Did you know you can carry The Pirate Bay magnet hash collection around with 200MB of free USB stick space? You know how quickly you can replicate 200MB across the internet? What's that? You can store all those hashes in a distributed version control system like Git? And pull/replicate with only a couple lines of bash?
Indeed, The Pirate Bay has put themselves out of a job as it were. I don't think they're going to cry that hard about it.
Its said that being in orbit is very similar to throwing yourself at the Earth and trying to miss.v
*Labor Laws heard coughing in the corner*
So, Germany (capitalist/socialist hybrid system, freedoms/rights protected, etc).
As a US citizen, I completely agree.
Already happens, just in China and India. Did you know that I can buy a kidney from someone in one of those countries for $25K USD? Less if I ask less questions. And the whole time I would get to recover in a resort hospital.
To think its not already happening is naivety. To legalize it brings proper regulation.
And hence why at-will employment exists.
http://www.transweb.org/faq/q30.shtml
28,000 people a year get organ donations. 20,000 less than the number of deaths every year in the US from traffic accidents. We still let people drive even with 50K deaths a year. I am NOT advocating shutting down organ donations; I'm advocating spending more money on research whether we're harvesting organs from individuals who are still viable living beings. What's the problem with that? What makes someone who needs an organ donation more important than someone who could possibly still be alive?
Disclaimer: I'm currently an organ donor in Illinois, and our laws currently override the wishes of next of kin and family with regards to organ donations.
I'm not sure why you're not modded up yet.
The whole article argues that we don't really know when someone is "dead" yet in the cases outlined; just best guesses by doctors.
Would you trust a doctor from 100 years ago today? Maybe we should hedge a bit that we may be killing people for their organs who aren't quite dead yet, and some more research needs to go into when you're officially "braindead".
When you pay for Google Apps, yes, you're specifically paying Google for a service being provided. I wouldn't consider that "owing you nothing".
I've worked with exchange for......*counts on hand* 6 or 7 years on and off? I'd rather charge $2K on my credit card once each year for Google Apps, and enjoy working on real problems other than Exchange (hosted or not). Even Rackspace can't reliably provide hosted Exchange services without constant maintenance windows and downtime (yes, I keep tabs on service notification site for the mail application platform).
VP Engineering sir (or mam); 13 years of experience. I find that most poor technical decisions are the result of a) politics or b) ignorance. Neither is an excuse for a poor technical decision. If you want to make the choice not to use Google App services, make it. Don't bullshit that its because of sensitive data though. Google manages more data in a day than you'll see in a lifetime. I'd select them over Microsoft, Apple, or any of the other few options out there.
And yes, I can have the opinion that someone made a poor technical decision by excluding Google from a selection of vendors, unless its a genuine concern. That doesn't mean I'm berating someone. It means I believe their priorities are skewed.
Ok, so you have a contract with someone who specifically prohibits using Google. Most other businesses are not this short sighted.
I find Google Docs to be no where near as good as LibreOffice. I can show employees LibreOffice, and almost all are up and running as if it was Office same day. Google Docs simply lacks a large amount of functionality in comparison to Office and LibreOffice.
You'd think Google would've spent more time refining Docs to be a more worthy Office competitor.