I see an 'X' next to troll to tell /. this is not troll. "Nope, this is definitely a troll" I tell myself
flamebait? Nope, also accurate
politics, usa, education? Sure!

So where's my 'X' next to story?

I know that no-one RTFA's around here, but isn't it a bit much to simply quote the first couple of paragraphs of the article as the summary? Especially since the article is entirely opaque about why the ISPs will "have" to pay higher costs. It does a great job of beating the drum for it's chosen viewpoint, though.

And people wonder why Old Media News Services are going extinct - what's the point of "news" that uniformative AND biased?

*whoooosh*!

:)

This is awesome! My other problem is that I've got a number of AWS instances that did not begin life as in-house products. Will NetFlix release a tool to kill those off as well? Ba-dum-ching! I'll be here all week, folks :)

Given that the price of gas keeps going up, isn't every year a record year for gas prices?

See? That's what's wrong with this country! Our litigious, lawsuit focused culture has so many bureaucrats looking to build their own little fiefdom that even that one appeal get's it's very own court! A court, for that one, individual appeal! WTF??!???!?88??!

There, clarified that for you (At least, I'm pretty sure.....) :)

I wonder if our ever-declining real wage is connected to our pessimism?

If I thought that my life was going to be Better In The Future For Sure then I'd be much more likely to take risks, try stuff that might not work, and generally be more optimistic. When I'm confident that my life will be as-good-or-better than now then I could always say "well, that was a nice experiment, too bad it didn't work, thank goodness it will not substantially impact the remainder of my life"

And, just because I feel like I ought to provide a citation:
http://www.workinglife.org/wiki/Wages+and+Benefits%3A+Real+Wages+(1964-2004)

Can anyone shed some light on whether these technologies are niche/minor technologies, or whether they're actually popular / useful / used technologies?

"I've never heard of AMPLab" means just about nothing, given that I don't really spend a lot of time on Big Data. I recognize Hadoop (and MapReduce, Scala, etc,etc), but most of the technologies used in this class seems to be specific to Berkeley.

(I'm almost afraid to ask, given that there's a grand total of 13 comments and it's already 1/2 down the /. main page :( )

Huh - so the main difference is that it can figure out what's changed after the local machine has been running for a while, and save those changes?

Many many moons ago I was at a Usenix conference & it seemed like the trendy topic was moving a process from one machine to another. After some quick Googling, it looks like the terms to look for are
process migration
and
application checkpointing

This patent sound similar to that stuff.

(It's probably one of these things where I"m going to have to dig deeply into all these concepts in order to actually be able to clearly differentiate amongst them.)

Re: trolling: LOL, yeah - I replied to geekoid, *then* clicked on his name & noticed that all his posts are very short and very negative. Luckily for me my response also got a reply from you, and so the discussion quality just upticked quite a bit :)

It was tough reconciling the sacrosanct rule of not RTFA with a desire to actually know what the patent actually does. So I compromised, followed the link, and then only read the summary:

Going back and reading the patent in a little bit more detail, and then skimming RFC 906, I still don't see how the patent isn't obvious. Things like encrypting the image (or compressing the image), updating the image, etc, etc all seem like they 'fall out of' the diskless booting idea.

Could you provide list of the specific things that this does that RFC 906 doesn't do?

Didn't Unix (specifically, NFS) have a diskless boot option decades ago? Between that and whatever VMWare's been doing (they must have a way of choosing which image you want to load onto your server, right?) how is this in any way an original, patent-able idea?

Actually he's fine.

He'll hit the base case long before he runs out of stack space:

if (worker.isDead)
{
        return;
}

:)

It was really nice when the college's mission used to be refuge, contemplation, and investigation for its own sake, but in today's shrinking economy that is (more and more) no longer the case. Now-a-days not only does the college as a whole feel immense budget pressure, but if individual departments don't ante up each year then they'll be on the chopping block

I love how the summary neatly dismisses the objections of the employees by citing the goal of the corporation. I can see this working well for a variety of other problems that the data center firms face, but let's just jump to the one the MBAs are salivating over: