With the cost of fibre these days I don't see why anyone is putting their datacenters in the bay area. You can put them pretty much anywhere in the world wherever power and labour is cheap and just keep your 'suits' in the bay area.
SF is a ticking timebomb and putting kit off the coast is no more (or less) stable because a large quake will make some big waves and if the fault goes then the only people who will be worse off than the west coasters will be the east coast of asia folks and all those pacific islands that are about a centimeter above sea level *at the moment*.
There is only a limited amount of international bandwidth in Oz so downloading stuff from the US actually does incur a cost to the ISP compared with downloading from the ISP's own mirror. If an ISP is charged by the Mbit for data transfer then they have no option but to pass that cost on.
Comparatively. a lot of larger UK ISP's have multiple peering points and often own their own international cable so they have slightly better bargaining power when offloading data on peers, some even dynamically route traffic depending on which peer will give them the best price at that particular moment.
Yes, all Linux enthusiasts say that but how many of them *actually* do fix bugs? You'd think that with all the developers who apparently *can* make changes and improvements to Linux that it would actually be a contender by now. Unfortunately the Linux projects which actually get anywhere are the ones which have been adopted by corporates like Novell rather than the ones which rely on guys with ponytails in their mom's basement.
Woo, another American who does not understand how to deal with terrorists. Maybe that's because the greatest terrorist of the modern age is the US government. We lived through decades of terror threats and won over by getting on with our lives. Terrorists are having their job done for them by the US government because it is instilling paranoia and uncertainty.
Sure, everyone needs to take some basic precautions but the main way to beat terrorists is to not grant them endless media exposure. Just get on with your lives and refuse to be terrorised.
This bad boy is basically a larger version of the beauties that the US were dropping like pluto all Afghanistan. The idea is that the intense pressure wave would flush Osama bin Shopping out of his caves.
A well aligned IT department will work with the business to ensure that the infrastructure delivers what the business needs without compromising the security and integrity of the data. So you have worked for some bum companies, I am sorry to hear that. If your senior management team is so incompetent that they cannot get the IT department to deliver a worthwhile service then clearly the company is going to be in a lot of trouble.
She is able to "enjoy" nothing on her connection except the same internet to which we all have access. Sure, you can argue that as such bandwidth penetration becomes commonplace, services will be built to support it - like HD movie downloads or live HD IPTV. But as of now, this is nothing more than a technology demonstration, even though the article lamely begs to differ ("This is more than just a demonstration," said network boss Hafsteinn Jonsson.")
Actually when broadband first took over from dialup it was a problem for many sites who did not have the bandwidth to support users coming in at 512kb. If I was buying a 40Gb line to my ISP I would expect them to at least be selling me some additional services or providing some pretty awesome mirror/edge caching services. My current ISP does a lot of mirroring so often when I download stuff I get it at the full speed of my line with no contention because I am not going off my ISP's network.
As for the Windows crack, I expect that was a ploy to get linux fanboys to post it on/. and then discuss it... but it seems everyone was too clever for that.;-)
There were some kids that stole cars after playing GTA because they thought it was cool. What kind of things could we expect those kids to do after playing this game?
Kids are kids. It's up to the parents to teach kids the difference between a game world and the real world.
The US Government would not approve the spending on the GPS system unless it was made available to the general public. The military agreed but put in a clause allowing them to scramble the GPS system and if necessary turn off the civilian system altogether. This was why the GPS system is not used as a primary method of navigation by anyone with even half a brain.
During Gulf War 1 (The Phantom Menace) the allied soldiers were so baffled by the military GPS units and found them to be totally inappropriate for their needs so a number of forces used civilian systems (infantry grunts can cope being 300m out in a desert and that's about 700m closer than they would be without the unit).
I have a friend who works for NATO and they have a corporate subscription to the paid Google Earth service to provide graphics for briefings so I wonder if history is repeating itself in Gulf War 2 (The Clone of the Attacks) and US forces are actually using this technology themselves rather than trying to obtain the classified data that Military Intelligence (oxymoron) don't like people to have.
Is it a basic right to be allowed to receive e-mail from whomever I desire
Nope.
People these days get rights and privileges all mixed up. You have no rights whatsoever. You have no rights to receive email at all, you have that privilege by earning the money to pay a service provider to provide a service. It is up to you to select the correct service provider and if that service provider fails to provide that service you may change to another.
Stop bitching about rights and exercise your privilege.
Incidentally, you have no right to freedom, no right to privacy, democracy and no right to protection from a facist government. In the western world most people are lucky enough to currently have the privilege of being able to exercise democratic choice. If you lose that privilege because someone takes it away from you, or you neglect to exercise it, then you have to fight to get it back in the same manner that all those people fought to get it for you in the first place.
In the UK it is a crime to be in receipt of stolen goods. The prosecutors can use all sorts of things like price/packaging and reputability of the merchant to establish if the buyer was acting in good faith or not.
That means if you buy stolen goods from a high street store then you may get off but if you buy them in a pub at a discount price then they could prosecute you.
That would of course mean that Microsoft would have to produce a manual... why do that for 'free' when they can charge a licensing fee to companies who sell 'manuals' for £40 a throw?
Plus, let's face it, photocopiers are much better now that they were in the 80's!
On a side note, the pirates are getting so good that Microsoft analyses the glue which holds the box together as it is often the only clue that the product is a 'fake'. I reminds me of the time when a bunch of US Mint paper was stolen and some forged bills were produced which were so good that they were actually legal tender (in the US if it is on the right paper and has all the right stuff on it then it IS money regardless of who printed it).
I saw a thing on Brainiac where they filled a swimming pool full of cornflour and water and got a guy to walk on it... it was ok so long as he kept moving but as soon as he stopped he sank pretty quickly.
Getting out was pretty hard as the more he pulled the more it turned like concrete... pretty scary if you start sinking in this stuff and have nothing to hang on to!
First off I want to point out the similarities between this issue and one we discussed earlier and I made my position quite clear here.
Parents are responsible for the upbringing of their children and this means teaching them to make the right choices in life and guiding them to make resposible and informed decisions. It also includes protecting them from both the dangers around them and also from themselves while you teach them things like self discipline.
While I admire the idea behind this, it's a bit like Net Nanny in that it will circumvented in an instant by a smart kid and is a poor substitute to correctly educating a child in the dangers of poor eating habits. Maybe it could be adapted so that instead of blocking poor food choices it alerts the parents so that they can be made aware of their failures as a parent and then take action to educate their offspring into making better food choices.
This is just 'lazy parenting' and that breeds lazy kids. It is a parenting style which fails to take resonsibility and that just breeds kids who do not take responsibility. I have been amazed at the 'fat camp' approach to parenting which has spread from the US to the UK in recent years... if your kid is fat then it is because YOU are a bad parent and that's the end of it, just as if your kid meets someone on the internet who rapes and murders them then YOU are to blame for not educating them in the dangers of the internet, for not supervising them correctly and also for letting them go and meet someone they met on the internet (or not knowing they were doing so). I personally think parents with obese children (who continue to spoil them with twinkies) should be prosecuted for child abuse because they are negatively affecting their child's long term physical and emotional health.
Technology will never replace parenting skills and in this case although it could be useful to monitor what a child is eating so you can speak to them about it, putting blocks on foodstuffs will just increase the likelyhood that your child will move their illicit junk food habits underground.
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With the cost of fibre these days I don't see why anyone is putting their datacenters in the bay area. You can put them pretty much anywhere in the world wherever power and labour is cheap and just keep your 'suits' in the bay area. SF is a ticking timebomb and putting kit off the coast is no more (or less) stable because a large quake will make some big waves and if the fault goes then the only people who will be worse off than the west coasters will be the east coast of asia folks and all those pacific islands that are about a centimeter above sea level *at the moment*.
There is only a limited amount of international bandwidth in Oz so downloading stuff from the US actually does incur a cost to the ISP compared with downloading from the ISP's own mirror. If an ISP is charged by the Mbit for data transfer then they have no option but to pass that cost on.
Comparatively. a lot of larger UK ISP's have multiple peering points and often own their own international cable so they have slightly better bargaining power when offloading data on peers, some even dynamically route traffic depending on which peer will give them the best price at that particular moment.
Yes, all Linux enthusiasts say that but how many of them *actually* do fix bugs? You'd think that with all the developers who apparently *can* make changes and improvements to Linux that it would actually be a contender by now. Unfortunately the Linux projects which actually get anywhere are the ones which have been adopted by corporates like Novell rather than the ones which rely on guys with ponytails in their mom's basement.
Woo, another American who does not understand how to deal with terrorists. Maybe that's because the greatest terrorist of the modern age is the US government. We lived through decades of terror threats and won over by getting on with our lives. Terrorists are having their job done for them by the US government because it is instilling paranoia and uncertainty.
Sure, everyone needs to take some basic precautions but the main way to beat terrorists is to not grant them endless media exposure. Just get on with your lives and refuse to be terrorised.
This bad boy is basically a larger version of the beauties that the US were dropping like pluto all Afghanistan. The idea is that the intense pressure wave would flush Osama bin Shopping out of his caves.
Mod parent troll please.
A well aligned IT department will work with the business to ensure that the infrastructure delivers what the business needs without compromising the security and integrity of the data.
So you have worked for some bum companies, I am sorry to hear that. If your senior management team is so incompetent that they cannot get the IT department to deliver a worthwhile service then clearly the company is going to be in a lot of trouble.
She is able to "enjoy" nothing on her connection except the same internet to which we all have access. Sure, you can argue that as such bandwidth penetration becomes commonplace, services will be built to support it - like HD movie downloads or live HD IPTV. But as of now, this is nothing more than a technology demonstration, even though the article lamely begs to differ ("This is more than just a demonstration," said network boss Hafsteinn Jonsson.")
/. and then discuss it... but it seems everyone was too clever for that. ;-)
Actually when broadband first took over from dialup it was a problem for many sites who did not have the bandwidth to support users coming in at 512kb. If I was buying a 40Gb line to my ISP I would expect them to at least be selling me some additional services or providing some pretty awesome mirror/edge caching services. My current ISP does a lot of mirroring so often when I download stuff I get it at the full speed of my line with no contention because I am not going off my ISP's network.
As for the Windows crack, I expect that was a ploy to get linux fanboys to post it on
There were some kids that stole cars after playing GTA because they thought it was cool. What kind of things could we expect those kids to do after playing this game?
Kids are kids. It's up to the parents to teach kids the difference between a game world and the real world.
Well we all saw in Iraq what happened to people who ignored America's version of 'International' Law.
Also depends on your definition of "us".
The US Government would not approve the spending on the GPS system unless it was made available to the general public. The military agreed but put in a clause allowing them to scramble the GPS system and if necessary turn off the civilian system altogether. This was why the GPS system is not used as a primary method of navigation by anyone with even half a brain. During Gulf War 1 (The Phantom Menace) the allied soldiers were so baffled by the military GPS units and found them to be totally inappropriate for their needs so a number of forces used civilian systems (infantry grunts can cope being 300m out in a desert and that's about 700m closer than they would be without the unit). I have a friend who works for NATO and they have a corporate subscription to the paid Google Earth service to provide graphics for briefings so I wonder if history is repeating itself in Gulf War 2 (The Clone of the Attacks) and US forces are actually using this technology themselves rather than trying to obtain the classified data that Military Intelligence (oxymoron) don't like people to have.
To be fair with Vista there is going to be a whole lot of Windows running on the graphics card.
This is a datacenter so you have to assume that every box will have a second redundant power supply.
You also have to assume that the biggest hit is going to be keeping the boxes cool as you would want to factor in a highly available aircon system.
In the mean time there is this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4rdDq6Mr-o
And add this one
The highly trained team of photoshoppers who are on hand for such occasions have been busy...
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He was a legend who even in death is providing education and entertainment.
Joshua
Is it a basic right to be allowed to receive e-mail from whomever I desire
Nope.
People these days get rights and privileges all mixed up. You have no rights whatsoever. You have no rights to receive email at all, you have that privilege by earning the money to pay a service provider to provide a service. It is up to you to select the correct service provider and if that service provider fails to provide that service you may change to another.
Stop bitching about rights and exercise your privilege.
Incidentally, you have no right to freedom, no right to privacy, democracy and no right to protection from a facist government. In the western world most people are lucky enough to currently have the privilege of being able to exercise democratic choice. If you lose that privilege because someone takes it away from you, or you neglect to exercise it, then you have to fight to get it back in the same manner that all those people fought to get it for you in the first place.
In the UK it is a crime to be in receipt of stolen goods. The prosecutors can use all sorts of things like price/packaging and reputability of the merchant to establish if the buyer was acting in good faith or not.
That means if you buy stolen goods from a high street store then you may get off but if you buy them in a pub at a discount price then they could prosecute you.
IANAL.
Who needs a battery made from C4 when you can just use one of these: https://www.dellbatteryprogram.com/
Let's recognise a bunch of examples of a bunch of technologies in a totally arbitrary fashion with no real measured criteria.
I could do the same with my own list and it would be just as valid :
It's OK... Data will just 'compensate'.
That would of course mean that Microsoft would have to produce a manual... why do that for 'free' when they can charge a licensing fee to companies who sell 'manuals' for £40 a throw?
Plus, let's face it, photocopiers are much better now that they were in the 80's!
On a side note, the pirates are getting so good that Microsoft analyses the glue which holds the box together as it is often the only clue that the product is a 'fake'. I reminds me of the time when a bunch of US Mint paper was stolen and some forged bills were produced which were so good that they were actually legal tender (in the US if it is on the right paper and has all the right stuff on it then it IS money regardless of who printed it).
I saw a thing on Brainiac where they filled a swimming pool full of cornflour and water and got a guy to walk on it... it was ok so long as he kept moving but as soon as he stopped he sank pretty quickly.
Getting out was pretty hard as the more he pulled the more it turned like concrete... pretty scary if you start sinking in this stuff and have nothing to hang on to!
First off I want to point out the similarities between this issue and one we discussed earlier and I made my position quite clear here.
Parents are responsible for the upbringing of their children and this means teaching them to make the right choices in life and guiding them to make resposible and informed decisions. It also includes protecting them from both the dangers around them and also from themselves while you teach them things like self discipline.
While I admire the idea behind this, it's a bit like Net Nanny in that it will circumvented in an instant by a smart kid and is a poor substitute to correctly educating a child in the dangers of poor eating habits. Maybe it could be adapted so that instead of blocking poor food choices it alerts the parents so that they can be made aware of their failures as a parent and then take action to educate their offspring into making better food choices.
This is just 'lazy parenting' and that breeds lazy kids. It is a parenting style which fails to take resonsibility and that just breeds kids who do not take responsibility. I have been amazed at the 'fat camp' approach to parenting which has spread from the US to the UK in recent years... if your kid is fat then it is because YOU are a bad parent and that's the end of it, just as if your kid meets someone on the internet who rapes and murders them then YOU are to blame for not educating them in the dangers of the internet, for not supervising them correctly and also for letting them go and meet someone they met on the internet (or not knowing they were doing so). I personally think parents with obese children (who continue to spoil them with twinkies) should be prosecuted for child abuse because they are negatively affecting their child's long term physical and emotional health.
Technology will never replace parenting skills and in this case although it could be useful to monitor what a child is eating so you can speak to them about it, putting blocks on foodstuffs will just increase the likelyhood that your child will move their illicit junk food habits underground.