... Google failed to appreciate how popular its new terms would be, and sold out in less than an hour, so it will take 3 more weeks until the next shipment of terms arrives.
I pity Amazon, having to wait 3 more weeks for terms.
[No, not bitter at all about being backordered, why do you ask...]
Actually, you can read all the shorts here:
Good times too. Reminds me a bit of Niven.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/12/21/17846/757
LocalRoger wrote several shorts based in this universe. I though they were great, and am still waiting for a book.
Why Societies Need Dissent - Cass Sunstein
The Road to Reality - Roger Penrose
Liars and Outliers - Bruce Schneier
Diplomacy - Henry Kissenger
Last Chance to See - Douglas Adams
Free to Choose - Milton Friedman
Cosmos - Carl Sagan
Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Bible
I care about as much for Terabit over copper, as I do for Terabit over caloric, phlogiston, or aether. Short-haul Terabit over fiber would be quite sufficient for our use-case (network never leaves the NOC, which I suspect is probably the major use case, long-haul is a smaller though higher margin market) and is *much* easier to pull off.
And FWIW, physicist, not CS/CE.
I manage several petabytes of storage on a large compute cluster, and we could use Terabit ethernet yesterday. Network fabric throughput is our limiting factor on pushing data out.
One senses that vendors went for the 400 Gb standard on the premise of "why sell one network upgrade when you can sell two at twice the price", and not from actually catering to customer's needs.
It's similar to the current 40 Gb/100 Gb standards. No one that I know actually wants 40 Gb. I can bond 4 x 10 Gb and get that already. But vendors want that double upgrade fee from those companies that have to have every ephemeral competitive advantage.
Slackware -> Debian -> RHEL -> Debian -> Fedora -> Debian -> FreeBSD -> Linux -> Ubuntu -> Debian -> Mint Debian -> Debian.
While most distros have their strength, it's *really* hard to beat Debian.
I have an MBA, but in my defense I also have several years of grad work in theoretical physics and over a decade as senior sysadmin at a large academic compute cluster, so I hope I have enough street cred when I say this.
Don't confuse the body of knowledge, with the kind of people who are attracted to it. Economics, finance, org behavior, strategy are all legitimate domains of knowledge, and can be just as interesting and thought-provoking as theoretical physics.
I got the MBA because a) I like the math-ier parts of business and b) ageism exists in technology, so it's best to add another leg to your stool while you can.
A MBA degree is like a can of car wax. Put wax on a Ferrari, you'll have a shiny race car. Put it on a turd, and at the end you'll still just have a turd. What you take out of a MBA program is largely what you bring into it, and a lot of people don't bring much other than a desire for a promotion with a six-figure salary.
Actually listen to your users and do what they say. It's so radical it just might work.
In theory, if civilization is destroyed by the Flame Deluge, the monks should be able to reconstruct your data on paper using nothing more than a magnifying glass.
I was reading about this on another site, and the average was reported as 6.7 Mbs, but 60% of users were 4 Mbs or below, which means that the median user is getting around half the speed of the average user.
The average is a poor statistic for measuring bandwidth. It's like putting 9 hobos and Bill Gates in a room and saying that on average everyone is a millionaire.
He is a long-term investor (in the Warren Buffet mold) who puts out a quarterly newsletter of investment advice. He just released his latest a few days ago, and it's highly bearish on the future because of resource demands.
http://www.gmo.com/websitecontent/GMOQ2Letter.pdf
The ones who say "don't worry about the future, science will take care of it" would probably consider jumping off the Empire State Building to be ok, because they did it and they've fallen 30 floors and nothing bad has happened, therefore jumping off the ESB is perfectly safe...
under either incumbant ISP's or our politicians. Lack of widespread broadband isn't a technical problem. It's purely political.
I posted this on Slashdot months ago:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2497294&cid=37860766
Since it's election season, I posed a question about broadband availability to the 10 candidates for our local state representative. Only 3 responded, and... Outside of Google lighting a fire, my parents are literally going to die of old age before they get broadband.
"No matter where you go, there you are..." -- Buckaroo Banzai
