I think his point was along the lines of "there are very few startups that should have 34 employees before they're pulling in any revenue."
A hardware startup may justify that kind of upfront effort, but I would think most software startups can get a couple versions of their product out in the field before needing to grow to 30+ employees.
Seeing the problems that "ordinary people" have with software helps us geeks understand better what it takes to design good software.
Don't forget the ego boost from thinking "I knew that."
Yeah, no kidding. I'm all for Windows throwing up a little bubble saying "hey, your network usage isn't usually this high. You sure there's not a problem?", but this sounds pretty ruthless.
the staggering loads that would make a cluster of *anything* weep.
Tell that to Google.
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Thanks, that matches my understanding, but I'll have to nitpick your phrase "RAID-0 gets you additional space". In truth, it doesn't gain anything. It's just that you're not sacrificing anything for the sake of parity, as you do in most RAID sets.
For the grandfather post, RAID0 is commonly caused "striping", which is obviously a synonym for "interleaving". JBOD is short for "Just a Bunch Of Disks" where nothing fancy is done with the data; the controller just makes the disks appear to be one large disk.
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Miniaturization gives you two options. You can either have a smaller version of the same thing you had yesterday or you can pack more features into an item that's the same size as the one it's replacing.
It's obvious which option you'd want, but that doesn't mean that an extra option is a bad thing. The "desktop replacement" crowd is going to love this. A 7200 rpm IDE RAID has been very affordable in desktops for some time now, yet you still have to pay a premium for a single 7200 rpm drive in a laptop. Having the option of going with 2 5400 rpm drives (with the opportunity to upgrade to 2 7200 rpm drives in the future) definitely has its benefits.
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A read generally only pulls from one drive at a time. If they have >2 drives, you could get some increased speed from the drive to the controller.
My understanding was that a good RAID1 controller (and this is Intel we're talking about, so I would expect them to use/make highend components) would divide the read command between the two drives and thus approach a 50% improvement in read time.
This seems fairly simple, seeing as how they already do the same thing for RAID0. The only difference should be in how the write command is issued. Am I missing something?
Unless this is effectively rigged to be a tie in which each wins 50% of the "showdowns" it will never happen.
Your point is correct, but it wouldn't even happen under the scenario you described. There is NO way Intel wants AMD to be seen as an equal.
It's been awhile since I've seen it, but at one point, the had something in the Google Labs that allowed you to call a phone number and say a search term. You could then go to a website and see the results.
While there was no direct practical use for this, it proves they can parse a phone conversation and provide relevant results. If they're handling the VOIP signal, there's no reason they couldn't parse the conversation and display relevant ads in the VOIP client.
My i had a machine running with it's case open while i was debugging some sort of problem. I don't remember why, but I left the room for a few minutes. My gf decided to clean up my desk so nothing would fall in the computer when she managed to knock my change jar in. About $40 worth of change landed right on the motherboard.
The sidebar looks cool, but Trillian (w/ plugins) already does that stuff for me. I can't justify giving up another 10% of my real estate for it. Is there something I'm missing here?
PTSD IS a problem. A lifetime of popping pills is probably not the best answer to it, but it is a problem.
My brother's 3-man fireteam walked into an ambush in Afghanistan. He was the only one to survive. He was shot in the back and and had to lie motionless, face down as the afghanis picked through his pockets.
I'm understating the issue by saying that he's pretty jumpy about people touching his back.
These are experiences that you don't just "get over" after a few days. It will take a good deal of therapy for him to come to terms with the fear and helplessness that he had to deal with on that day.
Alright, it's a relevant story, so in the interest of fairness, I propose a compromise. Repost the story as follows and we'll all try to talk the mods into upping it.
<T0qersHell Version=2> The site I have the pictures on is down (You didn't want to see it anyways), but hopefully I can give a detailed enough explanation of what happened to me last year to make folks realize the importance of anti bacterial undies.
I was sittin on the toilet one day and noticed a swollen ingrown hair. [Yes, it was where you think it was]. I tried [several things]. Nothing was coming out, so I said, "fuck it" and just left it at that.
During the week, it [got really bad: doctors, needles, etc].
I can totally see these types of bacterial infections knocking out a soldier for a month. For me, I could not walk without popping 2 or 3 vicodin [for awhile]. At least I had the lux[u]ry of my house, high speed internet, and cable TV (not much interneting during this ordeal, as it was very hard to sit) </T0qersHell>
I don't know what things are like in Britain, but I would imagine that anyone who has made it through basic training has already gotten over such superficial issues (and the army wouldn't care if they hadn't). I'm sure that the decision to forgo the flap was a functional and/or cost decision.
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What if search and PageRank and AdSense are Google's corporate apex.
That's probably true, but it's completely irrelevant. There are still countless areas in which they can APPLY PageRank and AdSense.
I think his point was along the lines of "there are very few startups that should have 34 employees before they're pulling in any revenue."
A hardware startup may justify that kind of upfront effort, but I would think most software startups can get a couple versions of their product out in the field before needing to grow to 30+ employees.
Thank you for the pep talk.
You wouldn't want to re-invest any of those funds in another venture, would you? <G>
Seeing the problems that "ordinary people" have with software helps us geeks understand better what it takes to design good software.
Don't forget the ego boost from thinking "I knew that."
Yeah, no kidding. I'm all for Windows throwing up a little bubble saying "hey, your network usage isn't usually this high. You sure there's not a problem?", but this sounds pretty ruthless.
Well, voice is great for provin that Hotqt4u071282 is really a legal chick.
Of course, every problem is different as is every answer. I was merely refuting his claim that clusters couldn't play in the same league.
the staggering loads that would make a cluster of *anything* weep.
Tell that to Google.
Thanks, that matches my understanding, but I'll have to nitpick your phrase "RAID-0 gets you additional space". In truth, it doesn't gain anything. It's just that you're not sacrificing anything for the sake of parity, as you do in most RAID sets.
For the grandfather post, RAID0 is commonly caused "striping", which is obviously a synonym for "interleaving". JBOD is short for "Just a Bunch Of Disks" where nothing fancy is done with the data; the controller just makes the disks appear to be one large disk.
Miniaturization gives you two options. You can either have a smaller version of the same thing you had yesterday or you can pack more features into an item that's the same size as the one it's replacing. It's obvious which option you'd want, but that doesn't mean that an extra option is a bad thing. The "desktop replacement" crowd is going to love this. A 7200 rpm IDE RAID has been very affordable in desktops for some time now, yet you still have to pay a premium for a single 7200 rpm drive in a laptop. Having the option of going with 2 5400 rpm drives (with the opportunity to upgrade to 2 7200 rpm drives in the future) definitely has its benefits.
only the trolls need more karma
Hey, don't forget us n00bs.
A read generally only pulls from one drive at a time. If they have >2 drives, you could get some increased speed from the drive to the controller.
My understanding was that a good RAID1 controller (and this is Intel we're talking about, so I would expect them to use/make highend components) would divide the read command between the two drives and thus approach a 50% improvement in read time.
This seems fairly simple, seeing as how they already do the same thing for RAID0. The only difference should be in how the write command is issued. Am I missing something?
Unless this is effectively rigged to be a tie in which each wins 50% of the "showdowns" it will never happen. Your point is correct, but it wouldn't even happen under the scenario you described. There is NO way Intel wants AMD to be seen as an equal.
It's been awhile since I've seen it, but at one point, the had something in the Google Labs that allowed you to call a phone number and say a search term. You could then go to a website and see the results. While there was no direct practical use for this, it proves they can parse a phone conversation and provide relevant results. If they're handling the VOIP signal, there's no reason they couldn't parse the conversation and display relevant ads in the VOIP client.
My i had a machine running with it's case open while i was debugging some sort of problem. I don't remember why, but I left the room for a few minutes. My gf decided to clean up my desk so nothing would fall in the computer when she managed to knock my change jar in. About $40 worth of change landed right on the motherboard.
Where is everybody?
The sidebar looks cool, but Trillian (w/ plugins) already does that stuff for me. I can't justify giving up another 10% of my real estate for it. Is there something I'm missing here?
Sir, would you advise a cancer patient to deal with it unaided?
I think he was drawing a distinction between "typical bad times" which everyone goes through and extreme experiences that can cause PTSD.
The former can almost always be overcome w/o professional help, while the latter obviously requires assistance.
I'll bite.
PTSD IS a problem. A lifetime of popping pills is probably not the best answer to it, but it is a problem.
My brother's 3-man fireteam walked into an ambush in Afghanistan. He was the only one to survive. He was shot in the back and and had to lie motionless, face down as the afghanis picked through his pockets.
I'm understating the issue by saying that he's pretty jumpy about people touching his back.
These are experiences that you don't just "get over" after a few days. It will take a good deal of therapy for him to come to terms with the fear and helplessness that he had to deal with on that day.
Umm, you're assuming that someone actually clicked the links in the writeup. Does anyone actually do that anymore?
Alright, it's a relevant story, so in the interest of fairness, I propose a compromise. Repost the story as follows and we'll all try to talk the mods into upping it.
<T0qersHell Version=2>
The site I have the pictures on is down (You didn't want to see it anyways), but hopefully I can give a detailed enough explanation of what happened to me last year to make folks realize the importance of anti bacterial undies.
I was sittin on the toilet one day and noticed a swollen ingrown hair. [Yes, it was where you think it was]. I tried [several things]. Nothing was coming out, so I said, "fuck it" and just left it at that.
During the week, it [got really bad: doctors, needles, etc].
I can totally see these types of bacterial infections knocking out a soldier for a month. For me, I could not walk without popping 2 or 3 vicodin [for awhile]. At least I had the lux[u]ry of my house, high speed internet, and cable TV (not much interneting during this ordeal, as it was very hard to sit)
</T0qersHell>
I don't know what things are like in Britain, but I would imagine that anyone who has made it through basic training has already gotten over such superficial issues (and the army wouldn't care if they hadn't). I'm sure that the decision to forgo the flap was a functional and/or cost decision.
SHHHHH!! Whose side are you on?
If you locate a hazardous bacterial sample, simply find a British soldier and drop it down his pants.
I like the way you think, but personally, I'd find a female British soldier.
Actually, I registered about 4 hours before i posted that, but it seems that part of the joke was missed by most people.