I mean, really. This is a good idea, and it's about darn time a large-form-factor motherboard running on low voltage is available, but IMHO this should not be patentable. It's simply designing around a low-voltage input.
Scratch that, they're not doing what I thought. I went and RTFA now that I have a few minutes and see there is no separate power supply outside of the 12VDC feed. Darn.
Google's big surprise: each server has its own 12-volt battery to supply power if there's a problem with the main source of electricity. The company also revealed for the first time that since 2005, its data centers have been composed of standard shipping containers--each with 1,160 servers and a power consumption that can reach 250 kilowatts.
I've actually been looking for a 12V power supply for a while. I wonder if they use power supplies off the shelf or if they are custom-manufactured just for Google?
They are very, very easy to recover. I thought I bricked mine (power went out during a flash and I didn't have the router plugged in to a UPS), but setting a static IP on my box and a script to retry a tftp push as rapidly as possible recovered it. There is info on the dd-wrt boards on recovering "bricked" Buffalo routers. You'd have to try really hard to truly brick one.
What I have found, though, is dd-wrt isn't very stable on the Nfiniti Wireless-N; the wired features work wonderfully but the wireless keeps cutting in and out. I am going try re-flashing it with the latest dd-wrt builds to see if that works better but since I have a working WAP at the office and all our wireless devices are G, not N, it hasn't been a high priority. Every other Buffalo router I've tried with dd-wrt has performed flawlessly in all regards.
And, I've bought about 15 of them (for instances where a Snapgear or Sonicwall is overkill) since they started selling them in the US again. Last time I checked Newegg doesn't sell them yet but Micro Center has been stocking them again for about a year.
"social services" really ought to be handled by private organizations like they used to. The government ought to stick to protecting the borders, punishing evildoers (you know, like rapists and murderers and burglars, not "criminals" like stoners and crack heads), and maybe building roads. That's it. Then, the budget problems would go away, and there would be no need for oppressive taxes. Everything can then be funded through import tariffs.
Hey, why didn't our founding fathers consider that? Oh right, that's what they intended in the first place. The problem is bleeding hearts had the though "wouldn't it be nice if government could provide __________ - for the children" and after having done that like eleventy trillion times we have a national debt that isn't $11.x trillion, which is horrifying enough, but really more like $60 TRILLION dollars when every liability (social security, bonds, etc.) are all accounted for. That doesn't include states' debts either.
If you had a private corporation and you charged $FOO amount for $BAR services, and then charged a fee so customers can use $BAR after they have already been paid, you would be charged with crimes for overbilling and/or fraud.
It's more likely that Facebook has those restrictions in place so it doesn't turn into Myspace II and cause the userbase to implode. They want to keep the value of the users high for advertisers. Hence keeping it clean, allowing only limited HTML, and allowing users to vote (thumbs up, thumbs down) on individual ads. They have a much better long-term model compared to myspace. Myspace has driven away most conservative and moderate users, and the garish customizing of profiles has driven away pretty much everyone over the age of 18. You know, the people who actually have money and therefore value to advertisers.
What facebook is doing is smart. I'd like to tweak my profile a bit, but if not allowing profile customizations prevents making the site looks like someone just discovered html and fonts and colors and doesn't know how to mix them well, I'm all for keeping facebook plain-looking and letting them host my images. If I want to put in a link to another site to refer users to another image, I'll do that.
Besides, I'm sick of 3,000-pixel-wide myspace profiles and seeing Myspace users hijack my image files (which get a 301 redirect to a photo of dog poo when I notice the hotlinking in the server logs).
True that. Hyundai has been building great cars for about 10 years now, but memories of the Excel keeps a LOT of potential customers away from their more upscale cars. They had to resort to introducing the most generous warranty in the business to gain back customers - and I'm still wary. (Note: I didn't choose my Hyundai purchase. My dad did. I didn't have any choice in the matter at the time. I'll just say it was the worst car ever. Nice comfortable (if bare-bones) interior, but lousy reliability.
Stockholders tend to not care about 10 years down the road. They want their money now.
Ah, yes. Instant gratification. Work hard, invest, and wait for the huge growth? It's a thing of the past. Day traders are why we don't see the upward trends in the Dow Jones and NASDAQ averages; one of my clients teaches day traders, and I've sat in on some classes while working. I learned a lot about the hows and whys of the mini stock "crashes" and the "window dressing" (basically, legal pump & dump trades) that are done every day so brokers can reach their commissions regardless of the condition of the market. For example, they'll buy a bunch of stocks in certain companies, drive the price up a few points, and dump them. That's why you see a mid-afternoon rally and then the dive after everyone gets on board trying to ride that wave. The trainers teach the day traders how to try to predict when those rallies are going to peak and to pull out early.
The neat thing is, neither a CoA on a machine or in a folder with documentation of where that instance is installed, nor proof of purchase is proof enough for the BSA (see past articles about the BSA and related cases). If either is not proof enough, why would anyone take the risk? Go open source when/where possible. Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenSolaris are all solid, sensible choices.
I, for one, am impressed with this new approach Microsoft is taking. Maybe with Apple's engaging in deceptive and anticompetitive marketing methods, Microsoft saw Apple taking tricks from their play book, so it was time for a new plan.
As you're probably aware, Microsoft has long since peaked. The only place they could go was down - and they have been, what with Vista being an epic fail, Office 2007's ribbon with no menu alternative alienating users, and the "vista compatible" debacle. Microsoft is desperate. Maybe they finally realized this: when all else fails, they could try the honest approach. That's right: honesty is Microsoft's new policy, to distinguish themselves from Apple.
IPv4 Exhaustion is expected approximately 734 days from today's date. That is just about 2 years.
Right, and they have been saying two years for about 12 years now. Just like how we've been 10 years away from running out of oil for close to 40 years, and about 10 years away from commercialized fusion for about the same amount of time.
How many fails does it take for Sony to learn not to fuck the customer? I have a PSP. I like having the physical games in hand so I don't need to worry about which memory stick is in the drive, or who signs in to the game - the games are always available, and if I replace the PSP, I still have the games in hand. No need for DRM to require me to re-purchase, and if I tire of the game, the first sale doctrine allows me to resell it if I wish. Finally, if the game I purchased has been discontinued and is no longer available in the playstation store, I still have it in hand when it comes time to replace the PSP.
Besides, most of the games I am interested are Sega Genesis and PS1 games - games that are available ONLY on UMD.
Looks like when time comes for a replacement, I'll be buying a used one since I need the UMD. Thanks, Sony! You just removed any incentive to pay a premium for a new one. Idiots.
IMHO, aside from the ridiculously-low price point you cited, the very best choice for your requirements would be the Dell Precision Mobile Workstation line. If you can't do that then consider a Dell latitude E6500. You'll get faster processors from Dell than you can buy from Apple at any price, as well as far, far more expandability and also much faster GPUs.
If you can forgo the expansion and can put up with the one-button trackpad (with it's crappy 'virtual' second button) then by all means go with a Macbook Pro. I like their notebooks a lot but the single-button trackpad is a deal breaker for me, and the cost and availability of replacement parts (they usually want $700+ for a replacement motherboard) is simply a seal on that dealbreaker.
Without major changes (such as getting the libertarian or reform party into power) something like this will never happen. It's the mission of modern legislators to slip in pork-barrel spending, projects earmarked for their buddies and campaign contributors, and also increase reliance of the people on the government.
If they were required by law to post these bills prior to voting on a publicly-released draft, they just might be held accountable, and representatives' and senators' office and home telephones would be ringing constantly due to the outrage caused by reckless spending, tax increases, self-serving clauses, and so on - and they just might have to finally, you know, actually represent the people whom they were elected to represent because they just might be held accountable for once in their miserable lives.
Heck, it's possible even the current president doesn't read the bills; there were clauses requiring federal funding of abortions in the health care bills at the time Obama swore up and down there weren't any, so if it was simply a matter of not reading the bills because they are too complicated for him to understand (which I'd believe), it could be "plausible denyability" - he wasn't lying because he purposely didn't read the legislation. I believe he was lying to his teeth, but by not reading the bills, politicians from top to bottom have a (shitty) excuse to say "Oh, but I didn't know!" after the fact. Unfortunately, too many of us consider that an acceptable excuse nowadays.:(
I'm not saying that all politicians are so lazy, scummy and egotistic, but looking at the current state of affairs, it's obvious that the vast majority of them are.
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Oh, so it's $FOO, but in a server.
Running computers on batteries? It got a patent?
I think there is a good bit of prior art if only one knows where to look.
I mean, really. This is a good idea, and it's about darn time a large-form-factor motherboard running on low voltage is available, but IMHO this should not be patentable. It's simply designing around a low-voltage input.
Scratch that, they're not doing what I thought. I went and RTFA now that I have a few minutes and see there is no separate power supply outside of the 12VDC feed. Darn.
I've actually been looking for a 12V power supply for a while. I wonder if they use power supplies off the shelf or if they are custom-manufactured just for Google?
I'm sorry, but that doesn't help. We're asking for a difference between a Mac and a PC and you just told us how they're alike! ;)
I kid, I kid. :)
You forgot to drink the kool-aid!
BTW the specific model I've had problems with is the WHR-G300N. Sorry, I ought to have mentioned the model number in the last post.
They are very, very easy to recover. I thought I bricked mine (power went out during a flash and I didn't have the router plugged in to a UPS), but setting a static IP on my box and a script to retry a tftp push as rapidly as possible recovered it. There is info on the dd-wrt boards on recovering "bricked" Buffalo routers. You'd have to try really hard to truly brick one.
What I have found, though, is dd-wrt isn't very stable on the Nfiniti Wireless-N; the wired features work wonderfully but the wireless keeps cutting in and out. I am going try re-flashing it with the latest dd-wrt builds to see if that works better but since I have a working WAP at the office and all our wireless devices are G, not N, it hasn't been a high priority. Every other Buffalo router I've tried with dd-wrt has performed flawlessly in all regards.
And, I've bought about 15 of them (for instances where a Snapgear or Sonicwall is overkill) since they started selling them in the US again. Last time I checked Newegg doesn't sell them yet but Micro Center has been stocking them again for about a year.
"social services" really ought to be handled by private organizations like they used to. The government ought to stick to protecting the borders, punishing evildoers (you know, like rapists and murderers and burglars, not "criminals" like stoners and crack heads), and maybe building roads. That's it. Then, the budget problems would go away, and there would be no need for oppressive taxes. Everything can then be funded through import tariffs.
Hey, why didn't our founding fathers consider that? Oh right, that's what they intended in the first place. The problem is bleeding hearts had the though "wouldn't it be nice if government could provide __________ - for the children" and after having done that like eleventy trillion times we have a national debt that isn't $11.x trillion, which is horrifying enough, but really more like $60 TRILLION dollars when every liability (social security, bonds, etc.) are all accounted for. That doesn't include states' debts either.
If you had a private corporation and you charged $FOO amount for $BAR services, and then charged a fee so customers can use $BAR after they have already been paid, you would be charged with crimes for overbilling and/or fraud.
However, since this is the government, it's okay.
what about Buffalo? Buffalo helped fund dd-wrt and encourages (or at least used to encourage) the use.of dd-wrt.
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/wireless/?p=161
re: I'm sorry, but your post just cracked me up.
That was the intent
Re: What Belongs In a High School Sci-Fi/Fantasy Lit Class?
Microsoft total cost of ownership studies. ;)
It's more likely that Facebook has those restrictions in place so it doesn't turn into Myspace II and cause the userbase to implode. They want to keep the value of the users high for advertisers. Hence keeping it clean, allowing only limited HTML, and allowing users to vote (thumbs up, thumbs down) on individual ads. They have a much better long-term model compared to myspace. Myspace has driven away most conservative and moderate users, and the garish customizing of profiles has driven away pretty much everyone over the age of 18. You know, the people who actually have money and therefore value to advertisers.
What facebook is doing is smart. I'd like to tweak my profile a bit, but if not allowing profile customizations prevents making the site looks like someone just discovered html and fonts and colors and doesn't know how to mix them well, I'm all for keeping facebook plain-looking and letting them host my images. If I want to put in a link to another site to refer users to another image, I'll do that.
Besides, I'm sick of 3,000-pixel-wide myspace profiles and seeing Myspace users hijack my image files (which get a 301 redirect to a photo of dog poo when I notice the hotlinking in the server logs).
True that. Hyundai has been building great cars for about 10 years now, but memories of the Excel keeps a LOT of potential customers away from their more upscale cars. They had to resort to introducing the most generous warranty in the business to gain back customers - and I'm still wary. (Note: I didn't choose my Hyundai purchase. My dad did. I didn't have any choice in the matter at the time. I'll just say it was the worst car ever. Nice comfortable (if bare-bones) interior, but lousy reliability.
First sale doctrine says you can. The EULA is moot.
Ah, yes. Instant gratification. Work hard, invest, and wait for the huge growth? It's a thing of the past. Day traders are why we don't see the upward trends in the Dow Jones and NASDAQ averages; one of my clients teaches day traders, and I've sat in on some classes while working. I learned a lot about the hows and whys of the mini stock "crashes" and the "window dressing" (basically, legal pump & dump trades) that are done every day so brokers can reach their commissions regardless of the condition of the market. For example, they'll buy a bunch of stocks in certain companies, drive the price up a few points, and dump them. That's why you see a mid-afternoon rally and then the dive after everyone gets on board trying to ride that wave. The trainers teach the day traders how to try to predict when those rallies are going to peak and to pull out early.
The neat thing is, neither a CoA on a machine or in a folder with documentation of where that instance is installed, nor proof of purchase is proof enough for the BSA (see past articles about the BSA and related cases). If either is not proof enough, why would anyone take the risk? Go open source when/where possible. Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenSolaris are all solid, sensible choices.
I, for one, am impressed with this new approach Microsoft is taking. Maybe with Apple's engaging in deceptive and anticompetitive marketing methods, Microsoft saw Apple taking tricks from their play book, so it was time for a new plan.
As you're probably aware, Microsoft has long since peaked. The only place they could go was down - and they have been, what with Vista being an epic fail, Office 2007's ribbon with no menu alternative alienating users, and the "vista compatible" debacle. Microsoft is desperate. Maybe they finally realized this: when all else fails, they could try the honest approach. That's right: honesty is Microsoft's new policy, to distinguish themselves from Apple.
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Right, and they have been saying two years for about 12 years now. Just like how we've been 10 years away from running out of oil for close to 40 years, and about 10 years away from commercialized fusion for about the same amount of time.
they accidentally the whole thing?
How many fails does it take for Sony to learn not to fuck the customer? I have a PSP. I like having the physical games in hand so I don't need to worry about which memory stick is in the drive, or who signs in to the game - the games are always available, and if I replace the PSP, I still have the games in hand. No need for DRM to require me to re-purchase, and if I tire of the game, the first sale doctrine allows me to resell it if I wish. Finally, if the game I purchased has been discontinued and is no longer available in the playstation store, I still have it in hand when it comes time to replace the PSP.
Besides, most of the games I am interested are Sega Genesis and PS1 games - games that are available ONLY on UMD.
Looks like when time comes for a replacement, I'll be buying a used one since I need the UMD. Thanks, Sony! You just removed any incentive to pay a premium for a new one. Idiots.
IMHO, aside from the ridiculously-low price point you cited, the very best choice for your requirements would be the Dell Precision Mobile Workstation line. If you can't do that then consider a Dell latitude E6500. You'll get faster processors from Dell than you can buy from Apple at any price, as well as far, far more expandability and also much faster GPUs.
If you can forgo the expansion and can put up with the one-button trackpad (with it's crappy 'virtual' second button) then by all means go with a Macbook Pro. I like their notebooks a lot but the single-button trackpad is a deal breaker for me, and the cost and availability of replacement parts (they usually want $700+ for a replacement motherboard) is simply a seal on that dealbreaker.
Without major changes (such as getting the libertarian or reform party into power) something like this will never happen. It's the mission of modern legislators to slip in pork-barrel spending, projects earmarked for their buddies and campaign contributors, and also increase reliance of the people on the government.
If they were required by law to post these bills prior to voting on a publicly-released draft, they just might be held accountable, and representatives' and senators' office and home telephones would be ringing constantly due to the outrage caused by reckless spending, tax increases, self-serving clauses, and so on - and they just might have to finally, you know, actually represent the people whom they were elected to represent because they just might be held accountable for once in their miserable lives.
Heck, it's possible even the current president doesn't read the bills; there were clauses requiring federal funding of abortions in the health care bills at the time Obama swore up and down there weren't any, so if it was simply a matter of not reading the bills because they are too complicated for him to understand (which I'd believe), it could be "plausible denyability" - he wasn't lying because he purposely didn't read the legislation. I believe he was lying to his teeth, but by not reading the bills, politicians from top to bottom have a (shitty) excuse to say "Oh, but I didn't know!" after the fact. Unfortunately, too many of us consider that an acceptable excuse nowadays. :(
I'm not saying that all politicians are so lazy, scummy and egotistic, but looking at the current state of affairs, it's obvious that the vast majority of them are.