I agree that it would have to be something very adaptable to usage with cloud-based approached...still, even where I work (Oklahoma) we're on a tornado-prone area, and I work for a small "State and Local" government agency. We considered moving our datacenter to a location that is rated for EF5, flood proof, redundant this and that, and would safehouse our data entirely from any imaginable threat except nuclear. The costs were reasonable as well for what we'd co-locate...but what killed it was the need for bandwidth. Given our funding situation (current backlash against government spending, and my employer is a common target it seems for spending cutbacks) - having that additional cost per-month to have a live-failover location wasn't going to work for us. In the end, we did nothing about it...just we make sure our backups are good and send those off to an EF5 rated location...as we have for decades. Basically, what I'm saying is the same thing - that if your business model is such that having something like this in place, where it can be done, great, but, I imagine that there is a large customer-base that it's just not applicable. I fear that Amazon (and others) are taking a bit more of a "build it and they will come" approach, vs watching what the market will do and sustain. Right now, it's a buzzword...just like IPO and Web Site and Internet were a buzzwords in the 90's.

Am I the only one that thinks that cloud computing is really NOT going to take off? Amazon is spending a boatload of money, in the hopes that other people are going to be willing to offload a boatload of money...in the hopes that they can process data faster/better/etc off-site. Just the security issues alone concern me, but the additional bandwidth is what really gets things going... Just saying - from a business perspective (and my perspective as a network admin), it seems that Cloud Computing is a 90's .com bubble that will pop in the near future...can Amazon (or any other company) REALLY offer a reduction in costs, or an increase in performance that justifies the (obvious increase in) cost, especially when you look at the whole package? I think not. Same reason not every company has made the switch on the backend to free server-level operating systems (FreeBSD or Linux, namely) - it doesn't matter if the platform may perform better in every regard or has inheritantly better security and even can do the job just as well or better...it gets rejected simply because the costs will increase - in the case of linux/unix, because the skillset to operate and maintain it is more rare and rare = higher price...and unlike a product you purchase (optionally) once like software...support/maintenance is annual. Cloud computing...would be annual, vs a piece of hardware you own, with software that you own the rights to use

I use a drill press, works wonderfully...if it's a metal platter, it gets a 1/2" hole through it...or two...or three...depending on the level of assured destruction the HDD needs to keep the data secure. The metal bits left over inside the casing are icing on the cake - a few dozen shakes with that and you're pretty much guaranteed that the data will be unrecoverable...or so much more of a pain in the rear to handle, that it'd just not be feasible at any cost. If it's glass, it shatters from the pressure of the drill bit, problem solved.

You have to pay for internet service to a smart phone, some people (such as myself) see that as a waste of money, when I have internet at home, and the smart phones/plans don't allow tethering without a jailbreak (ie, put you at risk for losing internet or your whole phone)

For me, I find it crazy that internet costs $35/mo+ for my service (AT&T u-Verse) - and that is for the cheapest 3MB internet. I'd go cheaper if I could...I use it maybe 1hr a day at home during the week days and maybe 2-3 hours TOPS during the weekend - that's basically $3.18/hr that I'm paying out for internet access to do my home banking, watch a few youtube videos, do a little online shopping, and browse some forums. I've considered many times going without internet at home - simply because it's a cost that outweighs the gain. I feel the same way with TV.... ....and I work in I.T. - I find the majority of the consumer electronics nothing more than toys to distract people. Facebook, cell phones w/ internet...it's laughable that someone gets excited about the new iPhone, when they have a perfectly good one - one of my coworkers was giving everyone in the department a shipping update...twice a day. I perfectly understand the tech, I know of the advantages, but, really it's fairly pointless for the home consumer to have more than the minimum unless they are doing something that requires it...and by that, I mean like they are actually saturating their pipe and need more. Some people are into the mistaken belief that more bandwidth means less latency for gaming - which isn't the case...like my neighbor - top-tier internet by a competitor and plays online with his x-box, and he still complains of lag...but he keeps that fast internet thinking that if he downgraded, that it'd be worse.

Yeah, I missed that it was a repeating decimal :facepalm: My bad!

I wasn't trolling :(

This could be done with any fraction represented as a repeating decimal.
The trip-up is that it's repeating...since we have no concept for infinity, and, that there's no method of resolving a fraction w/ repeating decimal...it's not an accurate representation of the fraction - that's the flaw.
Therefore, Fractions are Good. Decimals are Evil!
Good thing our banks, credit card companies, and governments don't use repeating fractions.

And apparently, I can't spell in the mornings.

Wouldn't 10a (subtract) .999 be exactly 8.991...which breaks the whole "breakthrough"? Given that 'a' is a known value of .999... Math...it's so simple, only a mathemtician can't do it.

Someone disproved math. Kids around the world celebrating. Accountants are lighting themselves on fire. Corporate greed accellerates. 'Office Space' now seen as a prophecy.

I'd be happy with documentation that gives all the CLI commands and what they do in plain english (or your language of choice)... Nothing worse than getting a new piece of equipment that upper-management was sold on as the best thing "evah!", only to discover that you have to use the GUI for part of it, the CLI for another part, and then call the manufacturer (whom, without a maintenance/support agreement would otherwise charge a rediculous fee), whom requests remote access (lol-right...) or uses the CLI via remote-desktop-web-session and uses undocumented commands...and can't speak (your language here) well enough to explain what they just did and why. As for the article - Exchange 2007 does this pretty well - it gives you the exchange powershell command script when doing things with the GUI as part of the last step - kind of like holding one's hand and saying, here, try this as a script next time (not that I do)...there's some things that you can't do with Ex2007 without using the powershell - such as exporting a mailbox to PST, or changing SSL certificate info...

Why is it so hard to have 2 completely seperate networks? One for running everything (critical network) One for connecting to the rest of the world for email, etc. If you need to remotely monitor something - put an IP camera on it and connect it to the non-critical network...

I'd never puked from drinking until this past fall, me, at 31yrs old, until I had 1 and a half pints of Jeager, 2 Vicodin, and 6 malt beverages and 3-4 mixed shots, in the time span of around 3 hours.
I can't imagine hurling on a 6 pack + half a bottle (however much that is) of Absinth.

I'm the only "IT" guy, we have 5 others (1 manager/programmer, the others programmers) that are upgrading/developing internal applications. I take care of all the support issues (except for those internally developed apps). We've recently hired a sort of level-1 person, that is here part time. Job demand is such that we can just barely jusify having the part-timer - as this person's position has to be "billed out" to the other departments. Myself, I'm not billable for most of them. Strange, I know. Overall, we have around 200 users, according to active director. We have around 20 servers. Computers, we have around 300 or so. Why, you might ask? We have computer labs that the public can use...that we have to maintain. By myself, I get more and mroe behind, projects get delayed, ideas are never fleshed out. With the part-timer, I get enough breathing room that I can do more, even though I have to walk this more technical person through things...at least they get it, where our users don't.