The cost savings is due to not having to buy hardware, bandwidth, disk, and administration staff.
Pretend you're running a business that takes orders off the Internet. You do 90% of your business in the two months preceeding Christmas. For 10 months out of the year, you can run your business on a cluster of 4 cheap rack mountable machines, plus a database machine. You've got X bandwidth.
But, at Christmas, you need to have something more like Sun's top of the line server, plus some really massive database storage. Perhaps something from EMC. And you need a lot of bandwidth. And people to administer the machines.
If you haven't priced out that sort of setup, then you might not realize that you could be above a million bucks, depending on what you buy. You could go cheap, but you're not going to get the handholding support you might get with the expensive stuff. You'll lose part of the savings with admin people. The biggest problem is that you have to buy that huge machine because you need it for 2 months, and the rest of the time it's sitting there at 0.1 load. You can't get by with buying a smaller machine, because if it can't handle your peak load, you will lose money.
This doesn't only apply to CPU cycles. It applies to other things like databases too, and even disk arrays.
It's the opposite of what you're saying. It's putting multiple customers onto a single big computer. Each customer thinks they have the whole machine to themselves, and that machine can change size instantly. You don't have to pay for a giant computer yourself and hope you can use all of it.
You're thinking about just the CPU. Imagine a typical company, with hundreds or thousands of databases scattered across the company. It's not unreasonable for a CIO to try to integrate these databases. Instead of keeping the company data on hundreds of hard drives that might not be backed up, why not keep the data in a more centralized oracle database stored on something like an Enterprise disk array, that has a good backup. Good, no?
That's utility computing, except that a company is their own utility. They still have to buy the big machine to run their big database on. The HP's and the IBM's of the world are just saying that they'll lease the machine, administration, and pipe to the machine cheaper than what you'd buy it. And if you need more capacity quickly all you have to do is get on the phone and call them. If you've got too much capacity, then IBM will sell that to some other customer and you'll never notice the difference.
Also, they virtualize machines, and the newest hardware can do fractional CPU allocations. You can have a single 4 CPU box split up between 18 users, each thinks they have their own machine with its own processors, but in reality, it might actually be only 0.2 of the real processors, disk, and memory on the machine.
The old mainframes could do this for years. Sun can do this a little bit. The new IBM pSeries machines running Linux have this capability.
People offload their critical business to "semi-trusted" sites all the time. Do you think that Slashdot runs their own network administration? Do you think that Sears or WalMart is self-hosting? Where does Rackspace get all their customers from?
Some people are still buying brownies. I've got a 50 year old Brownie Hawkeye sitting on my desk right now, with some film in it. Got it off E-bay for $5, spooled some 120 film onto 620 spools, and I'm in business. After a little cleaning, it's in perfect shape, and takes great pictures.
That report was a pure fantasy, as there would be no mist of particles produced. Have some self-respect. Last I checked, a geek would be embarassed to display such an ignorance of space technology.
Much more than sarchasm should be directed at the people who protested Cassini. That thermopile could not have caused any kind of widespread trouble if the rocket had crashed, and that fact was proven. The protestors were a bunch of ill-informed people.
A) breeder reactors. The US doesn't allow processing of spent fuel into safer forms because there's concern that the plutonium could be a problem. France does this with their spent fuel.
B) new designs. The currently operating reactors are very old designs. New designs are available that are far far safer than the already very safe reactors that we have. But, no new plants are being built, so we're stuck with the older designs.
There you go, I'm glad that you're a supporter of nuclear energy now. Get to work writing your congress critters to build the political support that is needed.
If Asimov had described the first intelligent robots as being invented by a guy named "Steve" his stories would have been filed away as being too unbelievable, even for science fiction.
You can't pick and choose the parts that you don't like. The work needs to be taken as a whole, and as a whole, GTA is protected speech. Proclaiming one sentence, such as the one about the Haitians, to be unprotected would be similar to declaring that the N-word in "Huckleberry Finn" wasn't protected, though the rest of the book is.
STS-2 landed at White Sands. It was memorable because a gust of wind picked up the nose after landing. It lifted, and then dropped hard on the nose gear. Made a lot of people jump.
I'll also tell her that it's easy to have sex and not get pregnant. I did it for 15 years, and now that I'm 34, I will be having a daughter in about 2 weeks.
When my daughter gets to be 15, she'll know how to use a condom. I am not stupid. 15 year olds will fuck anything that moves, and while I will do my damndest to see that she doesn't do it that early, I can't be everywhere, all the time.
Your pregnant friend is most likely that way because of mis-education. Not her fault, really.
Having sex doesn't equal a bad kid either. It's a societal view. We don't like to think about kids in high school who might be 18 having sex any more than we like to think of our 85 year old parents or grandparents enjoying a little afternoon quickie.
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Making silly, inane comments about him only makes you appear small.
I just love that kind of doubletalk.
The cost savings is due to not having to buy hardware, bandwidth, disk, and administration staff.
Pretend you're running a business that takes orders off the Internet. You do 90% of your business in the two months preceeding Christmas. For 10 months out of the year, you can run your business on a cluster of 4 cheap rack mountable machines, plus a database machine. You've got X bandwidth.
But, at Christmas, you need to have something more like Sun's top of the line server, plus some really massive database storage. Perhaps something from EMC. And you need a lot of bandwidth. And people to administer the machines.
If you haven't priced out that sort of setup, then you might not realize that you could be above a million bucks, depending on what you buy. You could go cheap, but you're not going to get the handholding support you might get with the expensive stuff. You'll lose part of the savings with admin people. The biggest problem is that you have to buy that huge machine because you need it for 2 months, and the rest of the time it's sitting there at 0.1 load. You can't get by with buying a smaller machine, because if it can't handle your peak load, you will lose money.
This doesn't only apply to CPU cycles. It applies to other things like databases too, and even disk arrays.
It's the opposite of what you're saying. It's putting multiple customers onto a single big computer. Each customer thinks they have the whole machine to themselves, and that machine can change size instantly. You don't have to pay for a giant computer yourself and hope you can use all of it.
You're thinking about just the CPU. Imagine a typical company, with hundreds or thousands of databases scattered across the company. It's not unreasonable for a CIO to try to integrate these databases. Instead of keeping the company data on hundreds of hard drives that might not be backed up, why not keep the data in a more centralized oracle database stored on something like an Enterprise disk array, that has a good backup. Good, no?
That's utility computing, except that a company is their own utility. They still have to buy the big machine to run their big database on. The HP's and the IBM's of the world are just saying that they'll lease the machine, administration, and pipe to the machine cheaper than what you'd buy it. And if you need more capacity quickly all you have to do is get on the phone and call them. If you've got too much capacity, then IBM will sell that to some other customer and you'll never notice the difference.
Also, they virtualize machines, and the newest hardware can do fractional CPU allocations. You can have a single 4 CPU box split up between 18 users, each thinks they have their own machine with its own processors, but in reality, it might actually be only 0.2 of the real processors, disk, and memory on the machine.
The old mainframes could do this for years. Sun can do this a little bit. The new IBM pSeries machines running Linux have this capability.
People offload their critical business to "semi-trusted" sites all the time. Do you think that Slashdot runs their own network administration? Do you think that Sears or WalMart is self-hosting? Where does Rackspace get all their customers from?
Glow job?
Nope. There was a non-rechargable lithium battery onboard, and when that died, so did the rover.
It only operated for 30 days, not long enough for dust to build up.
Bandwidth supply. I'm starting a band that does updated covers of sappy 80's love songs, and I've been looking for a name. That's perfect, thanks!
Informative?
We're not going to make it, are we?
Some people are still buying brownies. I've got a 50 year old Brownie Hawkeye sitting on my desk right now, with some film in it. Got it off E-bay for $5, spooled some 120 film onto 620 spools, and I'm in business. After a little cleaning, it's in perfect shape, and takes great pictures.
That's moronic. Read my webpage and you'll see that I'm not a Cheney fan by any means.
That report was a pure fantasy, as there would be no mist of particles produced. Have some self-respect. Last I checked, a geek would be embarassed to display such an ignorance of space technology.
Much more than sarchasm should be directed at the people who protested Cassini. That thermopile could not have caused any kind of widespread trouble if the rocket had crashed, and that fact was proven. The protestors were a bunch of ill-informed people.
OK, here you go:
A) breeder reactors. The US doesn't allow processing of spent fuel into safer forms because there's concern that the plutonium could be a problem. France does this with their spent fuel.
B) new designs. The currently operating reactors are very old designs. New designs are available that are far far safer than the already very safe reactors that we have. But, no new plants are being built, so we're stuck with the older designs.
There you go, I'm glad that you're a supporter of nuclear energy now. Get to work writing your congress critters to build the political support that is needed.
If Asimov had described the first intelligent robots as being invented by a guy named "Steve" his stories would have been filed away as being too unbelievable, even for science fiction.
Go Steve, Go!
Just a hint for you: you already are.
How many Germans are named Adolf these days? I'd suspect that the name, which is a perfectly good German name, isn't as popular as it used to be.
In 2003 Spamprobe blocked just over 12000 on my personal domain, which is low compared to many others.
You can't pick and choose the parts that you don't like. The work needs to be taken as a whole, and as a whole, GTA is protected speech. Proclaiming one sentence, such as the one about the Haitians, to be unprotected would be similar to declaring that the N-word in "Huckleberry Finn" wasn't protected, though the rest of the book is.
STS-2 landed at White Sands. It was memorable because a gust of wind picked up the nose after landing. It lifted, and then dropped hard on the nose gear. Made a lot of people jump.
I make my recommendations, and people ignore them. Here's the list, ignore it at your peril:
Buy Don't buy
Honda Civic Chevy Cavalier
Nikon Minolta
Thinkpad Toshiba
Thinkpad Sony VAIO
Satellite TV Cable
separate parts E-Machine
Linux Windows
Timex Rolex
and finally
TiVo Replay
OK, I'll tell her.
I'll also tell her that it's easy to have sex and not get pregnant. I did it for 15 years, and now that I'm 34, I will be having a daughter in about 2 weeks.
When my daughter gets to be 15, she'll know how to use a condom. I am not stupid. 15 year olds will fuck anything that moves, and while I will do my damndest to see that she doesn't do it that early, I can't be everywhere, all the time.
Your pregnant friend is most likely that way because of mis-education. Not her fault, really.
Same network drive. It loads just fine.
When you marked me as a foe, that's just like HITLER marked me as a foe.
Having sex doesn't equal a bad kid either. It's a societal view. We don't like to think about kids in high school who might be 18 having sex any more than we like to think of our 85 year old parents or grandparents enjoying a little afternoon quickie.