'The simple truth is that, while it may be statistically unlikely, the final voting tally gives us the truth: Bush won.'
The final voting tally is not an indicator of truth, only of an outcome.
Election have often been swayed/rigged/cheated since the beginning of time. If "the truth" is supposed to be something similar to the actual desires of the mass of voters, the "final voting tally" isn't achieving truth.
The article suggests doing an air conditioning unit. What about things like the refrigerator and/or freezer? I know my freezer, in the garage, puts out a lot of heat. I'd imagine cooling the outside coils with the pool water would make them more efficient... and more heat for the pool!
How many small and medium sized companies have total data exceeding 750GB?
Tough to say. Can speak for the one where I work: we do.
We recently installed an 16-terabyte server for video storage, Avid's Unity "Isis" server, and Avid considers us a "small" installation. Apparently they have other sites with lots of these systems installed. And more places are going to get these installed.
So many businesses who deal with video will have data which exceeds 750GB. TV stations. Cable companies. Video production houses. And every business which has video surveillance (more capacity equals either more cameras, higher frame rates, longer content expiration cycles, or all three).
We're already having to carefully manage the space in our Avid server, as we're running up to the edges of the capacity, and we've only had the server for five months. We need more.
One terabyte is not a lot.
Video might go up to 1024x768x32-bitx100FPS but will not exceed that.
That isn't true today. Full HDTV is 1920x1080 pixels. Many TV stations are already broadcasting at that rate (granted, most is up-converted from low def, but not everything). We're already storing full HDTV content on our video server. Heck, the screen on the laptop computer I'm typing this on has a resolution of 1920x1200, and I want video which fills the screen without up-conversion (lots of movie trailers on the QuickTime site are in full HD resolution).
Sure I understand Moores law...
An aside: was Moore's Law applicable to hard drive capacities or just processor densities?
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'The simple truth is that, while it may be statistically unlikely, the final voting tally gives us the truth: Bush won.' The final voting tally is not an indicator of truth, only of an outcome. Election have often been swayed/rigged/cheated since the beginning of time. If "the truth" is supposed to be something similar to the actual desires of the mass of voters, the "final voting tally" isn't achieving truth.
The article suggests doing an air conditioning unit. What about things like the refrigerator and/or freezer? I know my freezer, in the garage, puts out a lot of heat. I'd imagine cooling the outside coils with the pool water would make them more efficient... and more heat for the pool!
Tough to say. Can speak for the one where I work: we do.
We recently installed an 16-terabyte server for video storage, Avid's Unity "Isis" server, and Avid considers us a "small" installation. Apparently they have other sites with lots of these systems installed. And more places are going to get these installed.
So many businesses who deal with video will have data which exceeds 750GB. TV stations. Cable companies. Video production houses. And every business which has video surveillance (more capacity equals either more cameras, higher frame rates, longer content expiration cycles, or all three).
We're already having to carefully manage the space in our Avid server, as we're running up to the edges of the capacity, and we've only had the server for five months. We need more.
One terabyte is not a lot.
That isn't true today. Full HDTV is 1920x1080 pixels. Many TV stations are already broadcasting at that rate (granted, most is up-converted from low def, but not everything). We're already storing full HDTV content on our video server. Heck, the screen on the laptop computer I'm typing this on has a resolution of 1920x1200, and I want video which fills the screen without up-conversion (lots of movie trailers on the QuickTime site are in full HD resolution). An aside: was Moore's Law applicable to hard drive capacities or just processor densities?