How about I give you the answer now. Google has around 10,000 rack-mount servers. They're 1U rackables with 2 independent servers inside, w/256MB of RAM and 80GB hard drives. The systems are made by Rackable Systems and King Star Computer.
Just one more example of why the U.S. should just nuke all the other countries and let God figure it out. Sure, we'll have a nuclear winter to deal with, but we Americans are a hearty bunch. And sure, it'll make most of the world unliveable, but hey, when the nuclear winter subsides in a few thousand years, there will still be the U.S.
It all depends on the company you're with, and the relationship you have with them. The "reasons" on About.com are very generic and don't apply to a lot of situations.
First of all, if you weren't actively seeking new employment, but were solicited for the job, then you may want to stay with your current employer.
If you had previously asked for a raise and were refused, you probably want to leave.
If the employer realizes at: A) You didn't weren't actively seeking other jobs and B) They know that money was your only reason for considering it, then you have good reason to stay.
This all depends on your relationship with your employer, though. My relationship with my last few employers has been very close and personal, and the money difference would have to be pretty high to have gotten me to leave (this isn't why I left any of them, by the way).
My general opinion is that enjoying your job should come before the money. It's easy to find a job that pays well. It's hard to find a job you really enjoy. But that's just my opinion.
Look, it's their device and their service. They're not going to go cutting it on people for no reason. That only serves to hurt their reputation and reduce their consumer appeal. On the other hand, the terms protect them and allow them to provide the service you're paying for.
Look, if you hack a satellite T.V. box, you can go to jail. At least if you hack a ReplayTV box, all they'll do is cut your service. So again, what's the problem?
Who is the witch doctor that sold the Italians on this idea? Sorry, but sports injuries don't follow a pattern, and neural nets look for patterns. The only pattern it would spot is a guy who gets regularly injured.
Sports injuries happen because of "accidents." Neural nets aren't crystal balls. Hell, the stock market is more predictable than a sports injury, and getting a neural net to predict that is still a rough problem.
There are dangers completely independent of software here. I mean, it's kind of nice to have the Sunni recognition of the present, but what scares me is the chopping off the hand thing. Unfortunately, a theft is a theft in fatwa's. There's no "degree" of theft. It's either theft or it's not theft.
While I admire the idea that the prevention of theft is a good thing, life has degrees, and fatwa's don't discriminate with degrees. Frankly, there's a big difference if you steal my G.I. Joe (even the one with the kung-fu grip) and you steal my car. You steal my car, and we have issues. You steal my G.I. Joe, and we may still end up making up some day.
Islam should be a religion, not a law. No religion should be a law, but then I come from a country that allows freedom of religion, so maybe it's just me.
Regardless, lets say that a exact Earth analogs occur around one out of a billion stars. That still leaves 100 Earth analogs in the Milky Way alone.
Well, okay, let's assume that one out of a billion stars has an Earth like planet. Only about 1 out of 100 of those would be in what he considers a "habitable" zone of the galaxy. I've espoused on this several times here on Slashdot, and since I get to have my soapbox here, I'll do it again. Again I point to this article, that I think makes excellent points about why there's no other "intelligent" life in this galaxy.
I don't think that there's no other intelligent life out there, I just think that it averages 1 per galaxy tops. I think the chances of two intelligent species evolving in the same galaxy are incredibly slim, basically on the premise that, before a second species will have the opportunity, their planet will already be colonized.
And as I'll say over and over again, I very well may be wrong, just as anyone else who espouses on this topic. Working with a statistical sample population of 1 (us), makes it very hard to put statistics, let alone facts, on any of this.
Stop giving them a hard time. They're just trying to prevent illegal copying. Oh, damn, I've just illegally copied 26, 27, 28, 29 words from Webster's.
I don't bitch about every article I read. This one is just such a monument of crap, that I feel (and apparently quite a few people have as well) a need to let Slashdot know that it's a big pile of shit.
Yes, but I submitted two days before that was posted, with more or less the same article... Just saying, can't believe that was rejected and this piece of shit was accepted. The guy can't even spell. It "esplodes" Yes, it "ESPLODES". Sorry, that's almost a Spanish word, but not quite.
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I submit a story about Stephen Wolfram's controversial new book, A New Science, (for those who don't know, Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is a genius, published his first paper on particle physics at age 15, etc, etc...)and you guys post this piece of shit about a movie that has nothing to do with news or nerds or anything that matters, on top of which, the movie is 2 years old. What the hell is happening to/.? This is pathetic.
This is advice from someone who didn't take it himself. I went to college, but didn't finish. It never stood in my way because I went into software development and I had already been doing it for years before I went into the workforce full-time.
That said, I think a college education can be invaluable, if you're into it. If you're not, don't go and waste your parents' or your own money. If you go to college, go because you want the education, and I'm not just talking about an education in computers. If that's all you really want, then just get your certifications and go into the workforce.
College isn't much of a preparation for a particular job, so much as a general education, which I think everyone needs. One of my favorite quotes from Mark Twain is, "Never let your schooling interefere with your education." My personal translation that I live by, is "Don't limit your education to your schooling." Education is a lifelong process that shouldn't end until you die.
I was always a horrible student in English, but I discovered in the "real" world, being literate, in speaking and in writing is very important. While it may be wrong, many people, myself included, judge a person's intelligence, to a large degree, by their literacy. If people write poorly, I tend to think less of their intelligence. Is that fair? Maybe not, but you'll find it's quite common.
Education in other subjects is just as important, for a variety of reasons, but in general, to be an interesting and interested member of the human race. There's a lot more to life than your job, and an education, formal or otherwise, adds a lot of dimensions to your life.
They're still trading over the counter, not on NASDAQ, which makes it more suspicious. I wouldn't suggest putting any money in it unless they actually do get onto Nasdaq. Actually, the press release sounds pretty boilerplate for a small, publicly traded company, though.
I mean, being offshore doesn't necessarily mean anything. A lot of very "respectable" U.S. companies are heading off shore to get the tax break.
I can just picture the RIAA rolling over and playing dead on this issue. I mean, they don't really care about money or anything. Sorry, but Verizona and Kazaa are in no position to take on the RIAA. Verizon may be big, but how much of their business are they willing to put behind this to make it fly? Whereas this IS the record companys' businesses. They're going to put everything they have against this. Sorry, I don't see Verizon willing to put up that big a fight.
We frequently have our customers send us their servers for us to install our software on. Not big iron, but we do get some big servers. Anyway, one of our customers from California (we're in Virginia), shipped us a really beautiful Dell rackmount server with all the redundant everythings in it. Anyway, we promptly installed our software and shipped it back UPS.
When the server arrived, the box was waterlogged and when they pulled the server out, water actually poured out of the case. Apparently UPS had left it out in the rain at some point.
Fortunately, it was insured, so our client got a replacement from Dell quickly.
The funny thing is that after a few days of leaving the machine out to dry, they actually tried to plug it in. Booted up just fine. I wouldn't bet on its long term reliability, but I thought that was cool.
Someone who really knows the future. I'm tired of all these crazy people telling us we're going to talk to computers. Finally a real seer. Maybe he can pick stocks for me too.
Sorry, but I put no stock in this at all, and I'll tell you why (of course, that's why we all get on our soap boxes here). I can't do voice dictation at all. I suck at it. I had IBM's ViaVoice for a while and I couldn't write anything that way.
Does that mean this guy is right? Of course not. Most people in my parents' generation can barely type, because they didn't have to growing up. Now almost every kid and young adult in the U.S. can type quite well. Why? Practice.
My uncle used to use a dictaphone (he was a U.S. senator) to dictate all of his speeches. He had no problem. Why? Practice, of course. He had no problem thinking and talking at the same time. It's just what he was used to. He couldn't type worth a damn.
I don't put much stock in people telling us what the future will bring. Look at all the brilliant people who were telling us that all these dot coms were the future. Poof, they're gone. Look at all the brilliant people that said we'd never cross the oceans, fly, go to the moon. Sorry, but a lot of smart people are wrong, quite often!
This guy is dealing with people who haven't grown up doing voice dictaton and are used to typing. The human brain (and I can point to about a million studies to back this up), is quite adaptable. That's one reason why we we're here and the Neanderthal's aren't. Our brains are amazingly flexible. Our brains can sometimes re-learn to do tasks that have been lost due to damage. It's especially adaptable in young people. Get a voice interface that children can deal with, and I guarantee you that that generation of kids will grow up speaking to computers. We typists will struggle and fumble, and feel "old" for not being able to pick it up as easily as them.
But then that's just me on my soapbox. I could be wrong, but so could this guy.
Game my ass. Everyone knows this is technology used by the Romulons to brainwash their victims. Sheesh... You guys go ahead and get one. Nobody's brainwashing me.
Let's be realistic here. We're not some super special group in society. We're (most of us, anyway), are employees for companies, and to maintain that employment, we do the job we're given. If we disagree with it in principle, we have the option of pursuing other work.
What would an "oath" do anyway? Would it keep sleazy programmers from working for sleazy companies? Would it get the guy who writes a virus to not write a virus?
Doctors are a different story. Many of them deal with life and death on a regular basis. We programmers, generally, do not.
And to what should this theoretical oath extend? What about a programmer who works on a guidance system for a cruise missile? Some may find that unethical, others may not.
I think the motive is good, but I just don't think that it could amount to anything of importance, unfortunately. I think we ought to teach more about computer ethics in schools. A computer is like any other tool. It can be used for good or it can be used for bad. We need to find a way to stop young people from indulging their tendencies to destroy things (a.k.a. writing a virus or hacking into systems to deface web pages or do real damage), and we ought to be teaching it early on. This, I think, would have a more direct effect.
No offense, but a "population of one", as statistics go is hardly conclusive, though your conclusion may be correct, the example is limited in the ability to draw a conclusion. Just thought I'd point that out.
This sounds like LMDS, a technology that I actually wrote propagation prediction software for about 6 years ago when they were just talking about LMDS. If that's the case, then there has been a test system up in NYC for quite some time.
It does offer high bandwidth for internet and Cable TV. The only real problem with it is that, like Satellite, it requires line of site to the transmitter. Unlike satellite, unfortunately, the transmitter isn't in orbit, meaning local topology can have a big effect on who can and can't get it.
I can almost guarantee that I'd be out of the running. I'm in a bit of a valley and no line of sight to anything but trees and a tiny bit of sky. When I say line of sight, it's real line of sight. No trees (except maybe in fall, after the leaves have fallen), nothing can be in the way between you and the transmitter.
Hope it works for other people, though. It should be able to provide excellent downstream bandwidth and close to what most cable providers are giving for upstream.
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How about I give you the answer now. Google has around 10,000 rack-mount servers. They're 1U rackables with 2 independent servers inside, w/256MB of RAM and 80GB hard drives. The systems are made by Rackable Systems and King Star Computer.
Moded down to Troll? Geez, someone doesn't have a since of humor.
Just one more example of why the U.S. should just nuke all the other countries and let God figure it out. Sure, we'll have a nuclear winter to deal with, but we Americans are a hearty bunch. And sure, it'll make most of the world unliveable, but hey, when the nuclear winter subsides in a few thousand years, there will still be the U.S.
It all depends on the company you're with, and the relationship you have with them. The "reasons" on About.com are very generic and don't apply to a lot of situations.
First of all, if you weren't actively seeking new employment, but were solicited for the job, then you may want to stay with your current employer.
If you had previously asked for a raise and were refused, you probably want to leave.
If the employer realizes at: A) You didn't weren't actively seeking other jobs and B) They know that money was your only reason for considering it, then you have good reason to stay.
This all depends on your relationship with your employer, though. My relationship with my last few employers has been very close and personal, and the money difference would have to be pretty high to have gotten me to leave (this isn't why I left any of them, by the way).
My general opinion is that enjoying your job should come before the money. It's easy to find a job that pays well. It's hard to find a job you really enjoy. But that's just my opinion.
That's just funky, to think that the source of one's DSL service comes from a barn. But hey, if it works...
Once I've paid my $450, it's my property as far as I'n concerened.
But the service is still theirs, unless you want to buy the company.
Look, it's their device and their service. They're not going to go cutting it on people for no reason. That only serves to hurt their reputation and reduce their consumer appeal. On the other hand, the terms protect them and allow them to provide the service you're paying for.
Look, if you hack a satellite T.V. box, you can go to jail. At least if you hack a ReplayTV box, all they'll do is cut your service. So again, what's the problem?
Who is the witch doctor that sold the Italians on this idea? Sorry, but sports injuries don't follow a pattern, and neural nets look for patterns. The only pattern it would spot is a guy who gets regularly injured.
Sports injuries happen because of "accidents." Neural nets aren't crystal balls. Hell, the stock market is more predictable than a sports injury, and getting a neural net to predict that is still a rough problem.
There are dangers completely independent of software here. I mean, it's kind of nice to have the Sunni recognition of the present, but what scares me is the chopping off the hand thing. Unfortunately, a theft is a theft in fatwa's. There's no "degree" of theft. It's either theft or it's not theft.
While I admire the idea that the prevention of theft is a good thing, life has degrees, and fatwa's don't discriminate with degrees. Frankly, there's a big difference if you steal my G.I. Joe (even the one with the kung-fu grip) and you steal my car. You steal my car, and we have issues. You steal my G.I. Joe, and we may still end up making up some day.
Islam should be a religion, not a law. No religion should be a law, but then I come from a country that allows freedom of religion, so maybe it's just me.
Regardless, lets say that a exact Earth analogs occur around one out of a billion stars. That still leaves 100 Earth analogs in the Milky Way alone.
Well, okay, let's assume that one out of a billion stars has an Earth like planet. Only about 1 out of 100 of those would be in what he considers a "habitable" zone of the galaxy. I've espoused on this several times here on Slashdot, and since I get to have my soapbox here, I'll do it again. Again I point to this article, that I think makes excellent points about why there's no other "intelligent" life in this galaxy.
I don't think that there's no other intelligent life out there, I just think that it averages 1 per galaxy tops. I think the chances of two intelligent species evolving in the same galaxy are incredibly slim, basically on the premise that, before a second species will have the opportunity, their planet will already be colonized.
And as I'll say over and over again, I very well may be wrong, just as anyone else who espouses on this topic. Working with a statistical sample population of 1 (us), makes it very hard to put statistics, let alone facts, on any of this.
Stop giving them a hard time. They're just trying to prevent illegal copying. Oh, damn, I've just illegally copied 26, 27, 28, 29 words from Webster's.
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I don't bitch about every article I read. This one is just such a monument of crap, that I feel (and apparently quite a few people have as well) a need to let Slashdot know that it's a big pile of shit.
Yes, but I submitted two days before that was posted, with more or less the same article... Just saying, can't believe that was rejected and this piece of shit was accepted. The guy can't even spell. It "esplodes" Yes, it "ESPLODES". Sorry, that's almost a Spanish word, but not quite.
I submit a story about Stephen Wolfram's controversial new book, A New Science, (for those who don't know, Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and is a genius, published his first paper on particle physics at age 15, etc, etc...)and you guys post this piece of shit about a movie that has nothing to do with news or nerds or anything that matters, on top of which, the movie is 2 years old. What the hell is happening to /.? This is pathetic.
This is advice from someone who didn't take it himself. I went to college, but didn't finish. It never stood in my way because I went into software development and I had already been doing it for years before I went into the workforce full-time.
That said, I think a college education can be invaluable, if you're into it. If you're not, don't go and waste your parents' or your own money. If you go to college, go because you want the education, and I'm not just talking about an education in computers. If that's all you really want, then just get your certifications and go into the workforce.
College isn't much of a preparation for a particular job, so much as a general education, which I think everyone needs. One of my favorite quotes from Mark Twain is, "Never let your schooling interefere with your education." My personal translation that I live by, is "Don't limit your education to your schooling." Education is a lifelong process that shouldn't end until you die.
I was always a horrible student in English, but I discovered in the "real" world, being literate, in speaking and in writing is very important. While it may be wrong, many people, myself included, judge a person's intelligence, to a large degree, by their literacy. If people write poorly, I tend to think less of their intelligence. Is that fair? Maybe not, but you'll find it's quite common.
Education in other subjects is just as important, for a variety of reasons, but in general, to be an interesting and interested member of the human race. There's a lot more to life than your job, and an education, formal or otherwise, adds a lot of dimensions to your life.
But that's just my degree-less opinion.
They're still trading over the counter, not on NASDAQ, which makes it more suspicious. I wouldn't suggest putting any money in it unless they actually do get onto Nasdaq. Actually, the press release sounds pretty boilerplate for a small, publicly traded company, though.
I mean, being offshore doesn't necessarily mean anything. A lot of very "respectable" U.S. companies are heading off shore to get the tax break.
I can just picture the RIAA rolling over and playing dead on this issue. I mean, they don't really care about money or anything. Sorry, but Verizona and Kazaa are in no position to take on the RIAA. Verizon may be big, but how much of their business are they willing to put behind this to make it fly? Whereas this IS the record companys' businesses. They're going to put everything they have against this. Sorry, I don't see Verizon willing to put up that big a fight.
We frequently have our customers send us their servers for us to install our software on. Not big iron, but we do get some big servers. Anyway, one of our customers from California (we're in Virginia), shipped us a really beautiful Dell rackmount server with all the redundant everythings in it. Anyway, we promptly installed our software and shipped it back UPS.
When the server arrived, the box was waterlogged and when they pulled the server out, water actually poured out of the case. Apparently UPS had left it out in the rain at some point.
Fortunately, it was insured, so our client got a replacement from Dell quickly.
The funny thing is that after a few days of leaving the machine out to dry, they actually tried to plug it in. Booted up just fine. I wouldn't bet on its long term reliability, but I thought that was cool.
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Hey, I know who this girl is, she's my mail order Czech ex-bride. I want 50%!!!!
Someone who really knows the future. I'm tired of all these crazy people telling us we're going to talk to computers. Finally a real seer. Maybe he can pick stocks for me too.
Sorry, but I put no stock in this at all, and I'll tell you why (of course, that's why we all get on our soap boxes here). I can't do voice dictation at all. I suck at it. I had IBM's ViaVoice for a while and I couldn't write anything that way.
Does that mean this guy is right? Of course not. Most people in my parents' generation can barely type, because they didn't have to growing up. Now almost every kid and young adult in the U.S. can type quite well. Why? Practice.
My uncle used to use a dictaphone (he was a U.S. senator) to dictate all of his speeches. He had no problem. Why? Practice, of course. He had no problem thinking and talking at the same time. It's just what he was used to. He couldn't type worth a damn.
I don't put much stock in people telling us what the future will bring. Look at all the brilliant people who were telling us that all these dot coms were the future. Poof, they're gone. Look at all the brilliant people that said we'd never cross the oceans, fly, go to the moon. Sorry, but a lot of smart people are wrong, quite often!
This guy is dealing with people who haven't grown up doing voice dictaton and are used to typing. The human brain (and I can point to about a million studies to back this up), is quite adaptable. That's one reason why we we're here and the Neanderthal's aren't. Our brains are amazingly flexible. Our brains can sometimes re-learn to do tasks that have been lost due to damage. It's especially adaptable in young people. Get a voice interface that children can deal with, and I guarantee you that that generation of kids will grow up speaking to computers. We typists will struggle and fumble, and feel "old" for not being able to pick it up as easily as them.
But then that's just me on my soapbox. I could be wrong, but so could this guy.
The game uses galvanic skin response technology
Game my ass. Everyone knows this is technology used by the Romulons to brainwash their victims. Sheesh... You guys go ahead and get one. Nobody's brainwashing me.
Let's be realistic here. We're not some super special group in society. We're (most of us, anyway), are employees for companies, and to maintain that employment, we do the job we're given. If we disagree with it in principle, we have the option of pursuing other work.
What would an "oath" do anyway? Would it keep sleazy programmers from working for sleazy companies? Would it get the guy who writes a virus to not write a virus?
Doctors are a different story. Many of them deal with life and death on a regular basis. We programmers, generally, do not.
And to what should this theoretical oath extend? What about a programmer who works on a guidance system for a cruise missile? Some may find that unethical, others may not.
I think the motive is good, but I just don't think that it could amount to anything of importance, unfortunately. I think we ought to teach more about computer ethics in schools. A computer is like any other tool. It can be used for good or it can be used for bad. We need to find a way to stop young people from indulging their tendencies to destroy things (a.k.a. writing a virus or hacking into systems to deface web pages or do real damage), and we ought to be teaching it early on. This, I think, would have a more direct effect.
No offense, but a "population of one", as statistics go is hardly conclusive, though your conclusion may be correct, the example is limited in the ability to draw a conclusion. Just thought I'd point that out.
This sounds like LMDS, a technology that I actually wrote propagation prediction software for about 6 years ago when they were just talking about LMDS. If that's the case, then there has been a test system up in NYC for quite some time.
It does offer high bandwidth for internet and Cable TV. The only real problem with it is that, like Satellite, it requires line of site to the transmitter. Unlike satellite, unfortunately, the transmitter isn't in orbit, meaning local topology can have a big effect on who can and can't get it.
I can almost guarantee that I'd be out of the running. I'm in a bit of a valley and no line of sight to anything but trees and a tiny bit of sky. When I say line of sight, it's real line of sight. No trees (except maybe in fall, after the leaves have fallen), nothing can be in the way between you and the transmitter.
Hope it works for other people, though. It should be able to provide excellent downstream bandwidth and close to what most cable providers are giving for upstream.