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Posts by Ben Norris
69 posts • joined Monday 23rd July 2007 13:55 GMT
Posted in How can NetApp respond to Tintri?
eggs in one basket
800 machines dependant on a single piece of hardware, sounds great for business continuity even if there is failover!
Just like the stockmarket
You do realise that people buying guff based on hype about it's value is pretty much the same system as the stockmarket. You think Facebook has $100 billion in assets or potential earnings?
This is why our economy is in such a state at the moment because bankers are playing a game with virtual items that don't have the tangible worth to back up their value.
Lets put 20,000 milk trucks back on the road so that people get it fresh and don't waste so much :P
Why has the government never heard of distributed or batch processing? It's not exactly a new concept. Designing systems with server(s) at their heart which are too important to fail will always lead to occasional big problems.
Re: Hmmm.
"There is more content being produced today than there ever was." Sean Timarco Baggaley
You seem to be confusing 'content' with innovation which is exactly the problem. Endless dross may be entertaining and make money but it doesn't actually benefit society or move the human race forward.
The discussion about IP law shouldn't be one about whether musicians or fatcats get paid, it should be about for example why the fax machine could never be updated and how the current laws are holding us back from doing great things (which will also happen to make money as well)
accessibility is not just as good
Current copyright laws are killing innovation because hardly anyone can take the risk of building on someone else's work, either that they will allow you to use it at all or not make absurd demands that would render your added value entirely unprofitable.
Technology has brought down the barriers of invention to everyday people and yet the law has not only not kept up but in fact is getting worse. We used to be world leaders in transport, industry, energy, etc, now all we can export are financial services and coockie cutter boybands.
cloud is vastly more expensive
So what this article seems to gloss over in all it's talk about autoscaling throughout the day is that it would be vastly cheaper to setup your own racks of servers and have them sitting doing nothing a lot of the time.
The cloud is only cost effective for rapid change either in growth or temporary services. You should always aim to transition your base load away to old fashioned racks of servers if you want to be cost effective.
The model is exactly the same as hiring or buying a car.
This is why the goverment have Martha Lame Fox as UK Digital Champion, founder of lastminute.com - A company which soaked up millions of investment while consistancy making huge loses and yet mysteriously is hailed as the pinnacle of British internet business.
bad implementation is inevitable in reality
What annoys me is that I have to enter my sky pin every five minute even though I live in a house full of adults. No option to permanently turn it off.
Likewise on my mobile I had to faff around getting adult content enabled because they had miscategorised a site that I often use for work. This took several phonecalls and having to go into a shop to show id despite the fact that I must be an adult to engage in a contract . That's not the end of it because from time to time it randomly gets turned back on again.
This is the real reason why opt out systems are so inconvenient, because they can never be implemented thouroughly and entirely correctly. By opting in you are choosing that the benefit will outweigh the inconvenience whereas in an opt out system the inconvenience is thrust upon you whether you see any benefit or not.
Posted in Anonymous turns its fire on China
General Ignorance
Have any of these commentors ever been to China? It is simply not this sinister oppresive regime that people are making it out to be. Yes, there are examples of injustice but not any more so than you can find in the US. There arn't death squads roaming the country hunting down people who look the wrong way!
You need to broaden your horizons and try learning a little bit about a situation before you stick your oar in.
A bit early for april fools day?
Posted in Kinect for Windows ships with SDK 1.0
Exactly what rule prevents a company plugging an xbox kinect into a pc and providing it as a solution? And who are companies playing by these so called rules making a solution for when no consumer wants to pay twice as much for a kinect on the PC?
GOV.UK repeating the same mistakes as DirectGov
When will they realise that the internet is about incremental change rather than doomed from the start overhauls every year or so?
Posted in Kinect for Windows ships with SDK 1.0
Why would anyone buy this? The xbox version already works on the PC and it has been said that the only difference to shorten the range is in firmware. If that is the case, how long till it is applied to the standard kinect? A commercial licence is pointless because there is no one with the PC version to sell any apps to.
time to stop calling them abusers
the top 1% are using what was offered. It is long past time for ISPs to stop offering something that they can't deliver and whining when early adopters try to make use of it. In any other kind of business you wouldn't get away with it. There would be outrage if I sold cars which I took back when people tried to drive for more than 4hrs a week!Posted in Microsoft celebrates the death of IE6
@harmony
The beta runs fine on older versions of windows so the issue is not a technical one. The reason they don't 'allow' it is to make it a benefit of upgrading to the new OS.
Often it seems that Tom Watson is the only sensible politician around!
Bit of a swindle really.
A one off phone app properly done for all of the main platforms is going to take more than £1000 of worktime and then only maybe will you get paid!? Who are they kidding?
Actually...
It is like earning 50K with a 50K debt, everyone coming out of the woodwork saying you are going to fail so we will reduce your salary to 10K. There, we told you you would fail.
People keep comparing government economies to household finance but it doesn't work the same way at all. The more confidence the governement has the more they make in taxes and the more debt they can afford.
Posted in BOFH: Where's my free fondleslab?
Aweful
This seems as if it should be a joke about product placement but someone forgot the joke.
And Star Trek 'predicted' it in the 60s. Theres a long way from dreaming up what something might do to inventing how it does it.
pretty funny since GCHQ was only just talked about for not being able to retain their skilled IT bods
No new law required, phone companies already liable
Under the sale of goods act companies are already required to ensure that phones are fit for purpose, free of defects and liable for consequential losses.
This covers security and software bugs already.
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Yay!
every action has an equal and opposite reaction
clearly you need 2 rockets pointing in opposite directions and launched simultaneously :P
answer to the worlds energy problem
yes if people wern't so paranoid about nuclear power it would be far cheaper and greener (and still safer) than the alternatives available to us
Posted in Bullfrog Syndicate
in my day, sonny...
Where has all the creativity gone? Games of today arn't even a shadow of classics like theme hospital, syndicate or dungeon keeper.
Look how successful A1GP was!
The main problem I find with Sky Sports is that the pre event coverage just drags on too long without enough real content to fill the time. Half an hour - an hour is enough!
Posted in World braces for domain name EXPLOSION
.mess
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isn't it about time you got rid of the required title?
@Steve and Tony
Last time I checked, flash was both memory and randomly accessible. So the mistake was in your assumption rather than what anybody called it.
Anyone with a desire will instantly know it means internal storage as there is barely enough room for any apps as it is.
The title was not suitable for children
Parents should take some responsibility for supervising their children rather than whining about how it's everyone else's fault.
The vast majority of internet users are adults with no interest in having to faff around getting poorly implemented filters turned off. Not to mention that it is another dangerous step on the road of government censorship.
Android apps make money on ads
What you are missing is that the android market has embraced advertising as the main method of generating revenue and make more money that way than they would a paid app on the iphone.
By giving away their apps free they reach a far wider audience. Its a win win situation. All we need now are better ways of finding quality apps amongst the junk.
all talk
Most of the opendata is useless for anything ongoing because there is no good way to get updates.
Posted in Short domain land-rush coming to .uk
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its the 4th emergency airline
Security is not a matter of cost
It's easy, don't put medical servers containing sensitive data directly on the internet in the first place. That doesn't cost a whole load of money, just a little bit of common sense.
Also the whole angle of this story is hugely misleading. No one pillaged a medical server specifically to play games, they pillaged an insecure server indescriminantly.
Posted in HMV offers 80-quid colour e-book reader
Not an e-book
If it does not have an e-ink screen then it is not an e-book
Not android
The failing download problem is a galaxy s specific problem. It has nothing to do with android but of their implementation. It also has an easy fix. Take your SD card out and put it back in again.
I would also like to say that this article is a bunch of one sided exagerated rubbish. I haven't experienced any of these faults and I am not a lucky one, I am a typical user. All phones have bugs here are there, it is nothing new with android at all.
Coat because that's what you'll need if you can't write a better article than this.
Missing information in the story
So what did he actually get sacked for this time? Surely nothing new regarding the case has happened since they employed him so unless it was something completely unconnected they would have no grounds?
also
it doesn't even take into account the ongoing replacement and disposal of the batteries which contain chemicals that are much worse for the environment and harder to process
Actually...
it is a real PITA when it does have the same message and you don't know which email address you used for that site. It offers no extra security to hide which are valid addresses since they are already purposefully searchable.
According to their logic...
Argentina is closest to them and they were established first so therefore Argentina should belong to Britain too. :D
@blackworx
The difference is that BT know who they connected the line from and to so are at least quite certain that the call was made. ACS:Law are acting a chain of unproven links and using intimidation tactics because they know they have no evidence to take anyone to court.
They don't prove that anything was uploaded when they log IPs, they can't prove that the logged IP was genuinely from the right ISP or spoofed, the ISPs records are not reliable enough to tie it to a certain household, when you get to the household there is no record to tie it to a specific PC, there is no way to prove it wasn't a trojan or somebody accessing a wireless AP, and finally there is no way to prove who was using the PC at the time.
So should we put a stop to their tactics or apply them to other crimes? Maybe next time there is a bank robbery we should just pick some random guy off the street with the same colour shirt and lock him up?
Posted in ISP redesign unites the web in nausea
Hilarious
The funniest thing is that they probably paid shedloads for that to be 'designed'
Posted in People just not that into Blu-ray
hella expensive cables
Thanks to the miracles of digital as long as the signal gets there it will be perfect so those £80+ HDMI cables that the likes of Currys and Comet try to sell you are absolutely pointless. Do yourself a favour and get a £10 or cheaper one from your local supermarket and enjoy the exact same quality picture.
Posted in US city ends FaceSpaceGooHoo log-in grab
@James O'Brian
Why bother to destroy them? Anyone who is that bothered about their privacy can simply change their passwords and lock them out.
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