Re: and they say the sex industry is bad for women
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And you will have no way to know when it will be back, nor can you do anything about except shout on the phone.
You do have proper SLAs don't you? The ones that stand-in for the OLAs that you didn't manage to properly implement with in-house services because of undecided management and unclear separation of responsibilities, not to mention budgetary restrictions? Where you had to shout on the phone with the sysops down in the basement and never knew when the service would be back?
IT has a cost. Putting data in the Cloud does not remove that cost. It does, however, remove your control over it to place it in the hands of you don't know who.
I have bad news about the software, hardware and firmware you are running in your datacenter though. Hold on, did that consultant just walk out with a large USB stick?
Provide link, dawg.
It's not even paywalled.
Towards a Theory of Information: Information: Mystical Fluid or a Subject for Scientific Enquiry?
It's the reason that's important
"Not basing traffic management on packet attributes that are irrelevant for said management."
On a highway toll booth, cars with the "already paid elsewhere" sticker, the VIP marker or the blue light may pass quickly. The rest should be an amalgamated mass. Once vans of delivery company X are suspiciously often held up compared to vans of delivery company Z, something is going on. But then the contract should stipulate a max delay time for 99% of the time or penalties.
If there are daily jams, you may want to consider using our VIP#2 lane, usable for a low, low fee... (and then you have to hope that the next tool booth is either owned by the same operator or is contractually bound to you, too)
In the software world, there is talk about moving away from the "Not responsible, LOL" EULA model for paid-for software. Is it time to move away from the "best effort, LOL" EULA model for packet delivery?
It is possible to have network infrastructure that has more bandwidth than the consumers can use.
35 upvotes.
I though this was a tech site?
Oh well. Maybe economics is no longer even needed for modern button pushers.
"If Obama can promise 5 billion of "special pension outlays", why not 500 billion??"
You will find that 't Hooft has published quite a few things. That guy cleans up. (examples, and, you know...)
Also: Prof Hawking's view carries a lot of weight in the scientific community.. Not to diss Hawking, but that would be the "popular scientific" community mainly.
Until the user has to do something that ought to be a little more complicated, at which point it becomes a lot more complicated.
1) Make the mundane simple.
2) Make the demanding possible.
Windows used to stop at 1). To reach 2), difficulties and hits on your credit card increased exponentially.
Well, at least there is PowerShell now.
The night sky on Earth in its early years was very different, with our Moon glowing red with fire in the sky. Now scientists think they've worked out why.
As we don't have reliable eyewitness accounts about those times, the last "why" should be replaced by a "that".
The grammar would be atrocious but the direction of scientific enquiry would be right.
They believe complexity disappearsstate space magically reduces to the one little hypercube you desire to inhabit using $FRESH_THING_ILLUSTRATED_VIA_SHUTTERSTOCK_PICS?
lightweight transactions such as Paxos
Kudos for mentioning PAXOS but AFAIK PAXOS is just the general case of the 2-phase commit protocol (n-phase commit protocol?), the latter hidden under the "Distributed Transactions" designator. So not particularly lightweight .
In truth, I haven't understood PAXOS as far as I would like, Leslie Lamport's original paper was way confusing the last time I read it. I need to start again...
Centerum Censo, people should read: A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels. Transactions - An underrated area of interesting stuff.
JSON and XML are both fine on a 1G LAN.
Why is this even being discussed? Either you have data in your database that fit your problem, then they have to transit, 1Gbps LAN or not. Or you don't, in which case better head for the showers. If you absolutely want, you can compress them to some binary but still inspectable format after all.
JSON (for what purpose?) and XML are fine and in PostgreSQL and others, XML is just another column data type that you can operate on. Purposeless adherence to First Normal Form is just for people who want to suffer and who actually believe Strings are "atomic". We not only want set values, we want annotated tree values! (Why not graphs, actually?)
Every cable measured TO THE INCH to the patch panels and crimped by hand. And often going through the centres of the racks so you couldn't actually insert anything more into the rack without de-patching EVERY CABLE and re-patching it. For one cabinet we had to pull an all-nighter just to rewire 24U. And we rewired EVERY cable in there.
Master troll is masterful!
Should have, could have.
I remember that idea was rejected because there was Hurd going nowhere fast, microkernels were starting to go out of fashion (sometimes someone dowloaded the Mach manual), and Linus wanted to have something situated in a known technical domain at useful levels of functionality fast. Hence, monolithic kernel.
...they are being fined for not being precog enough?
"Yes, Mr. Anderson. It seems your department's work has not been up to the usual standards lately .... give money plox!"
Does their insurance cover that sort of event?
And do they screen animals like Cheney, Hillary and "Inspector Surge" Petraeus?
Hannah and her sweets have probably put paid to that
I WILL SAY. The person who formulated this as if he/she were hailing from the low-power bulb end of the Gaussian would have been sent for a ten-year stint of hard labor to Australia in more enlightened times!
Hannah has 6 orange sweets and some yellow sweets.
Overall, she has n sweets.
The probability of her taking 2 orange sweets is 1/3.
Prove that: n^2-n-90=0
NO BUT JUST NO. UNDERSPECIFIED; MISTAKES "CONCLUDING" FOR "PROVING"...
Why is there no gravity? Are they actually inside a spun-down O'Neill cylinder? Has the first phase Operation British begun? Inquiring minds etc.
"My own personal computers, being highly secured and reliable, coupled with my knowledge of how to use them, would make me personally the equivillent of a nuclear power in a nuclear war."
This is basically the slightly more egocentric "Inna woods with AK-47 and Heintz Beans stash" equivalent of the US-centric zombocalypse.
who pretended Java was realtime
Learn2BasicComputerScience. I hope your not in the "industry" and posting from you stuudent account?
I don't think anyone pretended "Java" (the JVM) was realtime, though there ARE realtime reduced JVMs. Anyway, what has that to do with anything?
into chips with standards-based offerings
The one which RAMBUS gets the IEEE to standarize on whereupon PATENT SUBMARINES surface menacingly?
Man, I remember the article in "The Economist" about RAMBUS. Still have it probably on my HD. There were also a number of articles by El Reg's Andrew Orlowski back from 200[12], when he wrote about other things than crying artists.