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by fh973 12y ago
One of these efforts graced the Berlin, Germany area with a huge hangar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CargoLifter Luckily, they found a new use for the structure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropi
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by fh973 12y ago
As someone who is currently implementing a next-gen distributed file system, I can highlight one aspect: you have a lot of concurrency and asynchronous processing. Thus you need at least reference counting.
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by fh973 12y ago
You seem to imply that higher GDP of a country is relevant for quality of life of its citizen. Knowing the US and Europe, I was also wondering what this high GDP is about, because it surely does not translate to material wealth. Googling re
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by fh973 12y ago
No, the data in different locations does not need to be the same (think: quorum operations). Consistent means that they are consistent from the perspective of the client within the rules of the consistency model. If you have sequential cons
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Amazon's Retail Revolution – BBC Documentary(youtube.com)
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by fh973 12y ago
If it is seen as a credible threat, there is no need to walk the whole way. It is enough already if Intel gets the message.
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by fh973 12y ago
This is significant. With POWER back in the game, and ARM server CPUs arriving, Intel will again have competition.
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Our beaches are disappearing as we are running short of…sand(kattsblog.wordpress.com)
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by fh973 13y ago
This might have an interesting product positioning aspect: Amazon is calling the product "prime", but it is actually a way to save money. Hence, this is no premium product and there is no actual perception as a premium product by
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XtreemFS 1.5 released: Improved support for Hadoop and SSDs (xtreemfs.blogspot.de)
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XtreemFS 1.5 released: Ready for Hadoop(xtreemfs.org)
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by fh973 13y ago
If you only care about the file storage (you don't have 1TB of Docs do you?), there is also NSA-free Hubic from OVH. https://hubic.com/ $13.50 per month for 10TB!
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by fh973 13y ago
Most fly with 8-bit Arduinos actually. Their power consumption is nil compared to the brushless motors.
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Kimsufi: the affordable dedicated server(kimsufi.com)
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1 World Trade Center Highres Panorama(vosizneias.com)
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by fh973 13y ago
There is also https://www.tocario.com/ , which seems to have pricing similiar to Amazon. I guess there are tons of others. So actually just another us-too product from big corp. Next Google news in 3, 2, 1....
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Google exec to girls: Tech needs you(us.cnn.com)
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Robotic insects make first controlled flight(seas.harvard.edu)
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by fh973 14y ago
Apple is in the category "growth company" and needs a growth story to justify its value. When the roof comes in sight, as it does currently, the party is over.
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by fh973 14y ago
Again somebody seems to misunderstand what OS means. Only because Android OS and Chrome OS are called operating systems does not mean they play in the same category as Windows. Windows is a platform, because it has vendor-provided high-qual
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Benign data races: What could possibly go wrong?(software.intel.com)
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by fh973 14y ago
The regulator was actually saying that the goal of his move is to have it challenged in court. He wants to either establish to have a saying over Facebook, or, I guess, put some pressure on politics.
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XtreemFS 1.4 with Paxos-based replication(xtreemfs.blogspot.com)
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Google to help fight organized crime and terrorism(csmonitor.com)
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What is object-based storage (and what it is not)(xtreemfs.blogspot.com)
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by fh973 17y ago
I suggest you also check out XtreemFS ( http://www.xtreemfs.org/ ). It supports striping/parallel IO and your throughput will scale with the number of storage servers you deploy (we ran at GB/s, not Gbits, on a single file). It gives you fu
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by fh973 18y ago
Yes, there is exactly what you are looking for: Yield. http://yield.sf.net/ It is an event-driven, staged (threads communicating via message passing) application server, written in C++. It has stages for HTTP server and client, disk IO, g