thereallurch

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by thereallurch 13y ago
This furlough is an attempt to prevent another round of layoffs. Another round of layoffs would cause IBM to reconsider which projects are necessary and start eliminating projects as a whole. 30% pay for 1 week of a 52 week year works out t
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by thereallurch 13y ago
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/solutions/cloud/ They are. IBM's mainframe business is quickly becoming a dinosaur, cloud or not. The furlough is a way to prevent another round of layoffs. By furlou
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by thereallurch 13y ago
estimated $1.6 mil a month for > 12 months? For a meme generator? I'd say they had a good run.
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by thereallurch 13y ago
Seems like some of these homeowners would pay $30k to not have this program, or for some control over the final product. I could imagine some rich guy paying $15k to keep his section of beach off the program.
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by thereallurch 13y ago
IBM has had private clouds for a few years now. It's not like AWS where anyone can click and spin up an instance. It's geared towards very large companies. These companies have been reluctant to use AWS, or have specific requirements (hardw
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by thereallurch 13y ago
Wont this just amplify existing trends instead of exposing new ones?
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by thereallurch 13y ago
Like pushing ads to the phones.
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by thereallurch 13y ago
few months - year...
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by thereallurch 13y ago
Quite a few. It puts food on my table.... :)
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by thereallurch 13y ago
Why would POWER be affected by this decision? Everyone and their mother sells a x86 server. Hard to make a profit when everyone is competing. How many other companies sell POWER hardware?
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by thereallurch 14y ago
Really? I'd love a new pair of glasses.
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by thereallurch 14y ago
The 100GB of cloud storage is worth $5 a month/$60 year. I'm hoping Google starts throwing around storage with all their future devices. Maybe on the Nexus 4?
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by thereallurch 14y ago
I think you underestimated the cost of major cities in UK.
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by thereallurch 14y ago
Apple apparently abandoned ZFS to adopt specific subsets of the technology. Someone else mentioned 4 GB of the SSD is for write cache (log device). Guessing the other XGB is the traditional cache device. Should really improve daily usage pe
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by thereallurch 14y ago
My guess it's using some tech similar to ZFS. Creating a 4GB log drive for writing, and the rest as a cache drive. Sounds like they abandoned the adaption of ZFS to make their own interpretation.
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by thereallurch 14y ago
I'm sure google is sitting on a treasure chest of map related patents, too.
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by thereallurch 14y ago
No, 256 MB of RAM on each rasp. It's 16GB of storage on each rasp.
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by thereallurch 14y ago
He sold 1.3m shares out of the 113mil he has? "Scrambles to offload his shares" = 1.1%?
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by thereallurch 14y ago
fuzzy hashing and a database? Break the content into parts, and generate scores for each part. calculate a hash entry for each part and enter into a database. Compare against existing entries. If the content is too similar, then reject. Doe
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by thereallurch 14y ago
Do you still dislike Steams DRM on 30Mbps?
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by thereallurch 14y ago
Sure, sometimes you don't have a choice. But saying progress cant be made because it cant accommodate the edge cases is absurd. Dont like Steams DRM? Dont use it. But dont bitch about it because you cant use it properly .
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by thereallurch 14y ago
.2Mbps = .025MB/s
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by thereallurch 14y ago
Right. But saying you cant have internet based DRM because you dont have a capable connection is equivalent to denying the last 5 years of progress.
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by thereallurch 14y ago
.2Mbps...maybe that's your real problem? DRM is here to stay, and internet drm is increasingly popular. Maybe time to upgrade your connection?
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by thereallurch 14y ago
As someone without facebook, care to enlighten me as to what happens?
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by thereallurch 14y ago
How about Kary Mullis crediting the invention of the PCR machine to LSD?
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by thereallurch 14y ago
Is there something I am missing? Why would you be checking the weather so often? I agree that this is a novel use of a site icon, but it has limited (minimal) advantages.
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by thereallurch 14y ago
While you make a good point, your end number is wildly inaccurate. 1) I highly doubt the NSA is buying $100 dollar low grade hard drives. I bet this data is backed up at least twice per site, at multiple sites. 2) The data is not unstructur
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by thereallurch 14y ago
IBM does something similar as well.
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by thereallurch 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliding_window_protocol It does send multiple packets (which helps throughput), but it doesn't cut down on latency. Round trip time is hard to improve.

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