Cable companies will have DVR farms, one for each channel, sucking up every show, every day, and making, say, the last 24-48 hours of shows available for free, in case you miss a show, but after hearing about it at work/school, you want to watch it. In addition to the default 24-48 hour retention, subscribers will also be able to submit requests for certain shows, and those requested shows will be retained until there is no more interest. The cable company could also update the commercials in their "slots" in each show, to be more current (a show from last month could have commercials currently running instead of historical ones), increasing revenues. If I worked at a Cable Company, I'd have my super-duper 200 channel DVR farm ready to go for this effort.
It wouldn't bee that big a complex, really, retaining two days of shows for a channel is what, about 50 Gig at "best quality"? From there, 90% of the shows immediately fall off the servers for lack of interest I suspect, and 1% may live on for more than 30 days (hit shows, TV movies, specials, etc.). This is the textbook example of the "Long Tail" economy.
I wouldn't charge for the service, I'd offer it as a differentiator and try and use it to increase adoption rates along existing cable runs, improving revenue per passed house.
What are you talking about? Cable started out as CATV, which stood for Community Antenna TV back in 1948 when it started, to share one antenna for many sets, typically in a housing development or apartment complex, then it evolved into what we now know as cable TV. There was never a time when CATV or Cable TV were commercial-free, since it always carried broadcast TV stations which were commercial.
It would have to be where a network connection of any usable speed is impossible.
BTW, just how big is a steady, 60 KWh solar panel? It appears to require several thousand (around 4,000 100 Watt panels in the mid-atlantic region (and suitable battery infrastructure) to generate 60 KWh for 24 hours a day (1.44 MegaWatt/hours for every 24 hours).
Aside from their paychecks? Why should they get any more than that? Optimizing the environment at all scales $3M/year or $300/year is the job of a good employee. If the people that did this didn't draw a salary but instead asked for a cut of the year-over-year savings then fine, but I suspect they drew a salaey for the conversion.
Holy cow, exactly what was the environment they had that cost $3M Euros/year more than the hand full of Linux boxes they replaced it with?
They could have had a collection of mainframes for $3M Euros, they were vastly under-used if they had that much in savings locked up in that environment.
Their code matches line for line, so they have the most basic of Java code in place of the COBOL code (it likely looks very similar to COBOL code) I guess.
As for the transcoding effort, they could also have fired up any one of several alternative environments that could support the COBOL natively without making some Frankenstein-like Java code...
At $WORK we just got a nice 8 bay rackmount eSATA chassis from them - dual/redundant power supply two quad-port SAS connectors, about $895, $679 for single power supply version. We bought it with 8x 1TB SATA HDs and an Areca RADI card with cables for just over $2200. (it is available as a chassis without cables, cards, or drives).
You missed it - yo uhave to add the "electronic ferret" to EACH container, the idea is you won't have to open the container, the ferret will signal contraband are inside the container once detected.
because what smuggler wouldn't notice the "electonic ferret" inside the container?
In round numbers we'd need what, about a bazillion of these ferrets to put a dent in drug traffic? (since it is one device per container)
And what, these things will run 24x7, so we'll know if anyone adds drugs while the container is in transit?
Seriously, how long would it take for a smuggler to compromise the electronics and rewire the "ferret" in their container to never report drug/contraband contents...
I work in a public school district and our flavor of SOftware Assurance costs much less than $90/PC - closer to $40/PC including a healthy selection of MS software (Office 2003/2007, the various shrinkwrap applications students use, etc.).
We save almost $150-200 per PC by not buying an OS pre-installed, and our typical hardware lasts about 5 years in the hands of our students, so the cost is essentially a wash (5x$40 = $200, which is aprox. savings of buying "blank" PCs from Dell), but we always have the ability to upgrade the OS/apps at will.
We plan on skipping Vista[0] and holding on to XP through the upcoming school year, then deploy Windows 7 on enduser desktops.
[0] Except for certain tablet laptops which only have drivers for VIsta...
I didn't mean to imply anything wrong (and she is certainly entitled to samples of her own intestinal tissue), but it seems a bit unusual, doesn't it? I mean I ask for the parts to be returned when I go the the auto repair shop, but I never asked for slides of tissue samples from my doctors.
To be 100% clear, I think it's great she did, I'm happy she was able to diagnose her disease, and if I were her I'd look for an entire new set of doctors. Hopefully, she'll find a way to ride this "news" for a slot in a good pre-med program when she graduates from HS.
...that merit pay for teachers is just around the corner? Heavens no - perish the thought!
As a father (and tax payer), I don't like the idea. There are high-minded philosophical issues I have with this, but on a more practical level, is this really what we want to do with our kids? And what happens when the payments stop (will they stop)? What's next, paying people for public service/volunteer work? (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/world/americas/02iht-campaign.4.14179758.html)
I'm not a gamer myself, but I can imagine a freely downloadable game that has additional levels available for a trivial amount of money (instead of a $5 app, a 50 cent to $1 pack of additional levels, up to $5 to get/unlock all levels). This would cost the gamer that wants all the levels the same amount, but others could play the game and would buy additional levels as long as the game is engaging...
I can easily imagine this increasing over-all revenues per game, as many people would download the free game, then large number might buy the first set of additional levels, a smaller number might get the second additional level, etc, with only a few paying for all levels.
Seriously, they are taking Microsoft marketing money (just like Dell, HP, Lenovo, IBM, etc.) and stating simple facts.
Their custom version of Linux (or ANY version of Linux) IS unfamiliar to windows users. There ARE major compatibility issues between Linux and Windows - Applications from one can't run on the other, and documents from one CAN be incompatible with the other. Do workarounds exist for most issues, CERTAINLY, but those are just that WORKAROUNDS, that, you know, work around incompatibilities.
Additional claims on the site are:
"Trusted - Windows delivers a dependable experience that Microsoft and a worldwide community of partners stand behind" - this is true, there are countless MS partners and MS does provide a "dependable experience" (even MS detractors can't argue with that!)
"Familiar - Windows is easy to use and familiar so you can be up and running right away" - with 94% market share (Mac at 5% and Linux at 1%) it is reasonable to assume that most people are familiar with the Windows environment.
"Compatible - You can be confident that your devices and applications will work with Windows - more than any other platform" - the MS Windows ecosystem has more applications than either the Linux or Mac environments, and there are Windows-only devices in the market (printers, modems, on-board RAID controllers, etc.) that it is trivial to prve that there are more devices that work with Windows than other OSs.
Now, having said all that, this is not an MS or ASUS website - this is a troll to see how much traffic this site can generate.
View the source of the HTML - no copyright asserted, no authorship claimed, only some "google-analytics.com" javascript voodoo at the bottom of the page. There is no way either organization would develop a webpage annonymously.
Michael Sharp went to Godaddy and registered the domain 5-Dec-2008 - I know, he lives in Washington state, but he's having a bit of fun...
(The website is too thin, and there are small issues that scream fake to me - kerning, lack of contact info, no mention that Windows ia a registered trademark, links to additional info, etc.)
"The key to the concept, SGI said, was its Kelvin cooling technology, which could pack 10,000 cores into a single rack. Combining the Atom processor with the Kelvin technology could generate seven times better memory performance per watt than a single-rack X86 cluster. Molecule could also process 20,000 concurrent threads, forty times more than the rack, and 15 terabytes/s of memory performance, SGI said."
Supermicro makes a nice server MB with a dual-core Atom 330 CPU:
"The X7SLA-L platform from Supermicro is designed around the Atom 230, a single-core chip from Atom that consumes just four watts. The server itself packs four SATA ports with RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10, along with seven USB 2.0 interfaces, 2 Gbytes of DDR2 memory, Intel GMA 950 graphics and a Gigabit Ethernet port. The more robust X7SLA-H uses a dual-core Intel Atom 330 processor, and doubles the Gigagbit Ethernet ports, adding an additional USB and serial connector as well."
This might be a wild guess, as I have no proof, but the correlation between the anti-baby-pill and and the rise of feminism is pretty disturbing...
Are you kidding?!?!
The Pill was one of th ebiggest influencers of Modern Feminism - it allowed women to go areound and have sex indiscriminately, just like men, and not get pregnant. This was more a part of the Femanist movement than bra burning, IMHO, and a major part of the so-called sexual revolution. The third leg of this three-legged stool was the Roe v. Wade decision, legalizing abortions across all 50 states.
Seriously though, since English is your third language, I'll assume you weren't around in America in the mid-seventies, and I'll further assume you never took a Woman's Studies class (a fantastic way to meet lesbians, in case you are interested in that, by the way;^).
First off, how many incomplete outbound TCP-IP connections do you really need to have open inside of one second?
Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 are all DESKTOP OS, and the stated goal is to limit the spread of certain types of malware...
If you read the article referred to, the excessive outbound connection attempts are not dropped, they are delayed to maintain a manageable flow of information.
If I were to run a port scanner against a/24 subnet, that would mean it would take at least 2.6 seconds, since it would throttle the requests to each IP to a rate of 10 per second - what the heck is wrong with that? Must it be able to spew all 256 connection requests instantly?
A little research leads me to the conclusion that this is a meaningful effort to have a positive impact on the spread of malware on Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 desktops.
There is (was) also a limit on in-bound connections, made popular when Tim O'Reilly published a hack to turn Windows NT Workstation into Windows NT Server, allowing more than 10 in-bound connections, allowing companies to deploy lower-cost Workstation OS as web servers. Here is a brief recap of those events.
Seriously, they've shipped a near-infinite number of Windows XP licenses, and there are millions and millions of users exercising the code, so really, what is left to "debug"? But let's be clear - you may want Windows XP to function differently, but that is not a bug, that's a preference. By now, Windows XP is a tested code base, and it has value as demonstrated by the steady stream of stories discussing the end of support for Windows XP, downgrade rights from Vista to Windows XP, etc.
The issue is, they are doing a cost comparison of $20 to upgrade one infrastructure with a forklift network upgrade at $1,500 to a complete fiber to the home roll-out. What did the Japanese company pay for their infrastructure? Why not compare Japan cable companies with US cable companies, and since there is still a large number of homes that cable co coax doesn't pass in front of, you need to consider the initial infrastructure costs (as US cable cos will need to roll out new infrastructure in many parts of America)?
Obviously, the cost of a house passed is much much lower than an actual FTTH implementation, like the FiOS implementation priced at $716/house (compared with $20 to run cable past a "house"). What does the high-speed cable "modem" cost? The actual wiring in the house, etc.?
It costs more than $20 to simply run coax from my street to my house - that $20 number is silly.
And finally, I bet Verizon could run more than 160 Megabit over their fiber infrastructure to a house if they choose to - fiber has a lot of bandwidth, more than coax last I checked.
Because this feeds into a popular myth, it isn't questioned - but the excerpted text is just misleading.
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SGML pre-dated HTML, in fact, HTML is (in many ways) a subset of SGML.
I suspect the poster never heard of SGML, or it's predecessor GML
Here's a link to a good book on the subject in Google Books: The SGML Book
There is also DOCBOOK and LaTex..
Cable companies will have DVR farms, one for each channel, sucking up every show, every day, and making, say, the last 24-48 hours of shows available for free, in case you miss a show, but after hearing about it at work/school, you want to watch it. In addition to the default 24-48 hour retention, subscribers will also be able to submit requests for certain shows, and those requested shows will be retained until there is no more interest. The cable company could also update the commercials in their "slots" in each show, to be more current (a show from last month could have commercials currently running instead of historical ones), increasing revenues. If I worked at a Cable Company, I'd have my super-duper 200 channel DVR farm ready to go for this effort.
It wouldn't bee that big a complex, really, retaining two days of shows for a channel is what, about 50 Gig at "best quality"? From there, 90% of the shows immediately fall off the servers for lack of interest I suspect, and 1% may live on for more than 30 days (hit shows, TV movies, specials, etc.). This is the textbook example of the "Long Tail" economy.
I wouldn't charge for the service, I'd offer it as a differentiator and try and use it to increase adoption rates along existing cable runs, improving revenue per passed house.
What are you talking about? Cable started out as CATV, which stood for Community Antenna TV back in 1948 when it started, to share one antenna for many sets, typically in a housing development or apartment complex, then it evolved into what we now know as cable TV. There was never a time when CATV or Cable TV were commercial-free, since it always carried broadcast TV stations which were commercial.
It would have to be where a network connection of any usable speed is impossible.
BTW, just how big is a steady, 60 KWh solar panel? It appears to require several thousand (around 4,000 100 Watt panels in the mid-atlantic region (and suitable battery infrastructure) to generate 60 KWh for 24 hours a day (1.44 MegaWatt/hours for every 24 hours).
The above is from http://www.batterycountry.com/ShopSite/sec.htm
Sure it is, just shove 42 1,500 Watt 1U power supplies in a standard cabinet.
Naw, how deep can I make the cabinet ;^)
Aside from their paychecks? Why should they get any more than that? Optimizing the environment at all scales $3M/year or $300/year is the job of a good employee. If the people that did this didn't draw a salary but instead asked for a cut of the year-over-year savings then fine, but I suspect they drew a salaey for the conversion.
Holy cow, exactly what was the environment they had that cost $3M Euros/year more than the hand full of Linux boxes they replaced it with?
They could have had a collection of mainframes for $3M Euros, they were vastly under-used if they had that much in savings locked up in that environment.
Their code matches line for line, so they have the most basic of Java code in place of the COBOL code (it likely looks very similar to COBOL code) I guess.
As for the transcoding effort, they could also have fired up any one of several alternative environments that could support the COBOL natively without making some Frankenstein-like Java code...
At $WORK we just got a nice 8 bay rackmount eSATA chassis from them - dual/redundant power supply two quad-port SAS connectors, about $895, $679 for single power supply version. We bought it with 8x 1TB SATA HDs and an Areca RADI card with cables for just over $2200. (it is available as a chassis without cables, cards, or drives).
You missed it - yo uhave to add the "electronic ferret" to EACH container, the idea is you won't have to open the container, the ferret will signal contraband are inside the container once detected.
because what smuggler wouldn't notice the "electonic ferret" inside the container?
In round numbers we'd need what, about a bazillion of these ferrets to put a dent in drug traffic? (since it is one device per container)
And what, these things will run 24x7, so we'll know if anyone adds drugs while the container is in transit?
Seriously, how long would it take for a smuggler to compromise the electronics and rewire the "ferret" in their container to never report drug/contraband contents...
I work in a public school district and our flavor of SOftware Assurance costs much less than $90/PC - closer to $40/PC including a healthy selection of MS software (Office 2003/2007, the various shrinkwrap applications students use, etc.).
We save almost $150-200 per PC by not buying an OS pre-installed, and our typical hardware lasts about 5 years in the hands of our students, so the cost is essentially a wash (5x$40 = $200, which is aprox. savings of buying "blank" PCs from Dell), but we always have the ability to upgrade the OS/apps at will.
We plan on skipping Vista[0] and holding on to XP through the upcoming school year, then deploy Windows 7 on enduser desktops.
[0] Except for certain tablet laptops which only have drivers for VIsta...
I didn't mean to imply anything wrong (and she is certainly entitled to samples of her own intestinal tissue), but it seems a bit unusual, doesn't it? I mean I ask for the parts to be returned when I go the the auto repair shop, but I never asked for slides of tissue samples from my doctors.
To be 100% clear, I think it's great she did, I'm happy she was able to diagnose her disease, and if I were her I'd look for an entire new set of doctors. Hopefully, she'll find a way to ride this "news" for a slot in a good pre-med program when she graduates from HS.
While looking under a microscope at slides of her own intestinal tissue in her AP science class
...that merit pay for teachers is just around the corner? Heavens no - perish the thought!
As a father (and tax payer), I don't like the idea. There are high-minded philosophical issues I have with this, but on a more practical level, is this really what we want to do with our kids? And what happens when the payments stop (will they stop)? What's next, paying people for public service/volunteer work? (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/world/americas/02iht-campaign.4.14179758.html)
I'm not a gamer myself, but I can imagine a freely downloadable game that has additional levels available for a trivial amount of money (instead of a $5 app, a 50 cent to $1 pack of additional levels, up to $5 to get/unlock all levels). This would cost the gamer that wants all the levels the same amount, but others could play the game and would buy additional levels as long as the game is engaging...
I can easily imagine this increasing over-all revenues per game, as many people would download the free game, then large number might buy the first set of additional levels, a smaller number might get the second additional level, etc, with only a few paying for all levels.
Seriously, they are taking Microsoft marketing money (just like Dell, HP, Lenovo, IBM, etc.) and stating simple facts.
Their custom version of Linux (or ANY version of Linux) IS unfamiliar to windows users. There ARE major compatibility issues between Linux and Windows - Applications from one can't run on the other, and documents from one CAN be incompatible with the other. Do workarounds exist for most issues, CERTAINLY, but those are just that WORKAROUNDS, that, you know, work around incompatibilities.
Additional claims on the site are:
"Trusted - Windows delivers a dependable experience that Microsoft and a worldwide community of partners stand behind" - this is true, there are countless MS partners and MS does provide a "dependable experience" (even MS detractors can't argue with that!)
"Familiar - Windows is easy to use and familiar so you can be up and running right away" - with 94% market share (Mac at 5% and Linux at 1%) it is reasonable to assume that most people are familiar with the Windows environment.
"Compatible - You can be confident that your devices and applications will work with Windows - more than any other platform" - the MS Windows ecosystem has more applications than either the Linux or Mac environments, and there are Windows-only devices in the market (printers, modems, on-board RAID controllers, etc.) that it is trivial to prve that there are more devices that work with Windows than other OSs.
Now, having said all that, this is not an MS or ASUS website - this is a troll to see how much traffic this site can generate.
View the source of the HTML - no copyright asserted, no authorship claimed, only some "google-analytics.com" javascript voodoo at the bottom of the page. There is no way either organization would develop a webpage annonymously.
Michael Sharp went to Godaddy and registered the domain 5-Dec-2008 - I know, he lives in Washington state, but he's having a bit of fun...
(The website is too thin, and there are small issues that scream fake to me - kerning, lack of contact info, no mention that Windows ia a registered trademark, links to additional info, etc.)
SGI had an Atom-based supercomputer on the drawing board: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2334887,00.asp
Quote:
"The key to the concept, SGI said, was its Kelvin cooling technology, which could pack 10,000 cores into a single rack. Combining the Atom processor with the Kelvin technology could generate seven times better memory performance per watt than a single-rack X86 cluster. Molecule could also process 20,000 concurrent threads, forty times more than the rack, and 15 terabytes/s of memory performance, SGI said."
Supermicro makes a nice server MB with a dual-core Atom 330 CPU:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2346555,00.asp
Quote:
"The X7SLA-L platform from Supermicro is designed around the Atom 230, a single-core chip from Atom that consumes just four watts. The server itself packs four SATA ports with RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10, along with seven USB 2.0 interfaces, 2 Gbytes of DDR2 memory, Intel GMA 950 graphics and a Gigabit Ethernet port. The more robust X7SLA-H uses a dual-core Intel Atom 330 processor, and doubles the Gigagbit Ethernet ports, adding an additional USB and serial connector as well."
Mfg. website: http://supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/945/X7SLA.cfm?typ=H
In case you are wondering what Vinegar Joe is talking about...
http://gogov.com/bergerwatch.htm
You said:
Are you kidding?!?!
The Pill was one of th ebiggest influencers of Modern Feminism - it allowed women to go areound and have sex indiscriminately, just like men, and not get pregnant. This was more a part of the Femanist movement than bra burning, IMHO, and a major part of the so-called sexual revolution. The third leg of this three-legged stool was the Roe v. Wade decision, legalizing abortions across all 50 states.
Seriously though, since English is your third language, I'll assume you weren't around in America in the mid-seventies, and I'll further assume you never took a Woman's Studies class (a fantastic way to meet lesbians, in case you are interested in that, by the way ;^).
It seemed to work fine back in the 80's - that's what my friends tell me anyway, not that I had any problems...
First off, how many incomplete outbound TCP-IP connections do you really need to have open inside of one second?
Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 are all DESKTOP OS, and the stated goal is to limit the spread of certain types of malware...
If you read the article referred to, the excessive outbound connection attempts are not dropped, they are delayed to maintain a manageable flow of information.
If I were to run a port scanner against a /24 subnet, that would mean it would take at least 2.6 seconds, since it would throttle the requests to each IP to a rate of 10 per second - what the heck is wrong with that? Must it be able to spew all 256 connection requests instantly?
A little research leads me to the conclusion that this is a meaningful effort to have a positive impact on the spread of malware on Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 desktops.
There is (was) also a limit on in-bound connections, made popular when Tim O'Reilly published a hack to turn Windows NT Workstation into Windows NT Server, allowing more than 10 in-bound connections, allowing companies to deploy lower-cost Workstation OS as web servers. Here is a brief recap of those events.
Seriously, they've shipped a near-infinite number of Windows XP licenses, and there are millions and millions of users exercising the code, so really, what is left to "debug"? But let's be clear - you may want Windows XP to function differently, but that is not a bug, that's a preference. By now, Windows XP is a tested code base, and it has value as demonstrated by the steady stream of stories discussing the end of support for Windows XP, downgrade rights from Vista to Windows XP, etc.
Falcon,
The issue is, they are doing a cost comparison of $20 to upgrade one infrastructure with a forklift network upgrade at $1,500 to a complete fiber to the home roll-out. What did the Japanese company pay for their infrastructure? Why not compare Japan cable companies with US cable companies, and since there is still a large number of homes that cable co coax doesn't pass in front of, you need to consider the initial infrastructure costs (as US cable cos will need to roll out new infrastructure in many parts of America)?
Obviously, the cost of a house passed is much much lower than an actual FTTH implementation, like the FiOS implementation priced at $716/house (compared with $20 to run cable past a "house"). What does the high-speed cable "modem" cost? The actual wiring in the house, etc.?
It costs more than $20 to simply run coax from my street to my house - that $20 number is silly.
And finally, I bet Verizon could run more than 160 Megabit over their fiber infrastructure to a house if they choose to - fiber has a lot of bandwidth, more than coax last I checked.
Because this feeds into a popular myth, it isn't questioned - but the excerpted text is just misleading.