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Re:IBM To Furlough Most Of Its U.S. Hardware Staff In Late August
on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @08:19PM (#6170086)
This furlough is an attempt to prevent another round of layoffs. Another round of layoffs would cause IBM to reconsider which projects are necessary and start eliminating projects as a whole.
30% pay for 1 week of a 52 week year works out to 0.5% of your salary. It could be worse...
Re:IBM To Furlough Most Of Its U.S. Hardware Staff In Late August
on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @08:10PM (#6170053)
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/solutions/cloud/
They are. IBM's mainframe business is quickly becoming a dinosaur, cloud or not.
The furlough is a way to prevent another round of layoffs. By furloughing a division, you can save X%. You cant have two rounds of layoffs within 3 months and not destroy existing projects.
Re:The Reddit sleuths who brought down a meme empire
on Monday July 01, 2013 @12:58PM (#5971921)
estimated $1.6 mil a month for > 12 months? For a meme generator? I'd say they had a good run.
Re:Malibu homeowners foiled by $30K Kickstarter campaign
on Monday June 24, 2013 @01:17PM (#5934286)
Seems like some of these homeowners would pay $30k to not have this program, or for some control over the final product. I could imagine some rich guy paying $15k to keep his section of beach off the program.
Re:IBM to Acquire SoftLayer
on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @11:17AM (#5819885)
IBM has had private clouds for a few years now. It's not like AWS where anyone can click and spin up an instance. It's geared towards very large companies. These companies have been reluctant to use AWS, or have specific requirements (hardware requirements, licensing issues, corporate policies). So it's incorrect to say IBM cant build a cloud. IBM's cloud isnt a public facing entity.
Re:Boxfish: Realtime Index of Every Word Spoken on TV
on Friday May 10, 2013 @01:33PM (#5687542)
Wont this just amplify existing trends instead of exposing new ones?
Re:Employee Turns Gaming Network Into Private Bitcoin Mine
on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @10:26PM (#5642130)
Like pushing ads to the phones.
Re:Bitcoin ASIC Miner from BFL, finally
on Saturday April 20, 2013 @10:51PM (#5583667)
few months - year...
Re:IBM looks to sell its x86 server business to Lenovo as profits crash
on Saturday April 20, 2013 @12:00AM (#5580072)
Quite a few. It puts food on my table.... :)
Re:IBM looks to sell its x86 server business to Lenovo as profits crash
on Friday April 19, 2013 @01:49PM (#5577834)
Why would POWER be affected by this decision?
Everyone and their mother sells a x86 server. Hard to make a profit when everyone is competing. How many other companies sell POWER hardware?
Re:Google I/O 2013
on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @10:00PM (#4874626)
Really? I'd love a new pair of glasses.
Re:The new Acer Chromebook
on Monday November 12, 2012 @02:26PM (#4774315)
The 100GB of cloud storage is worth $5 a month/$60 year. I'm hoping Google starts throwing around storage with all their future devices. Maybe on the Nexus 4?
Re:How Long Will Programmers Be So Well-Paid?
on Saturday October 27, 2012 @11:52AM (#4706382)
I think you underestimated the cost of major cities in UK.
Re:Fusion Drive: Apple jumps on the SSD cache bandwagon
on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @02:44PM (#4694387)
Apple apparently abandoned ZFS to adopt specific subsets of the technology. Someone else mentioned 4 GB of the SSD is for write cache (log device). Guessing the other XGB is the traditional cache device.
Should really improve daily usage performance. Makes sense their benchmarks only go to 4GB.
Re:Fusion Drive: Apple jumps on the SSD cache bandwagon
on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @02:42PM (#4694369)
My guess it's using some tech similar to ZFS. Creating a 4GB log drive for writing, and the rest as a cache drive. Sounds like they abandoned the adaption of ZFS to make their own interpretation.
Re:The Amazing iOS 6 Maps
on Thursday September 20, 2012 @12:14PM (#4549260)
I'm sure google is sitting on a treasure chest of map related patents, too.
Re:Building a supercomputer from 64 Raspberry Pis and Lego
on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @04:51PM (#4513146)
No, 256 MB of RAM on each rasp. It's 16GB of storage on each rasp.
Re:Facebook co-founder Moskovitz scrambles to offload his shares
on Thursday August 30, 2012 @09:55AM (#4454628)
He sold 1.3m shares out of the 113mil he has? "Scrambles to offload his shares" = 1.1%?
Re:How to crawl a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours
on Friday August 10, 2012 @05:36PM (#4368385)
fuzzy hashing and a database? Break the content into parts, and generate scores for each part. calculate a hash entry for each part and enter into a database. Compare against existing entries. If the content is too similar, then reject. Doesnt get you around spam, though.
Re:Valve brings non-game software to Steam
on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @06:32PM (#4358471)
Do you still dislike Steams DRM on 30Mbps?
Re:Valve brings non-game software to Steam
on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @06:28PM (#4358450)
Sure, sometimes you don't have a choice. But saying progress cant be made because it cant accommodate the edge cases is absurd. Dont like Steams DRM? Dont use it. But dont bitch about it because you cant use it properly.
Re:Valve brings non-game software to Steam
on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @05:42PM (#4358241)
.2Mbps = .025MB/s
Re:Valve brings non-game software to Steam
on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @05:38PM (#4358224)
Right. But saying you cant have internet based DRM because you dont have a capable connection is equivalent to denying the last 5 years of progress.
Re:Valve brings non-game software to Steam
on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @05:22PM (#4358160)
.2Mbps...maybe that's your real problem? DRM is here to stay, and internet drm is increasingly popular. Maybe time to upgrade your connection?
Re:Steve Wozniak: "I worry about everything going to the cloud"
on Monday August 06, 2012 @04:31PM (#4347115)
As someone without facebook, care to enlighten me as to what happens?
Re:The Heretic - the U.S. government banned medical studies of the eff...
on Monday July 30, 2012 @09:04AM (#4312103)
How about Kary Mullis crediting the invention of the PCR machine to LSD?
Re:What's so special with minimalweather.com?
on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @12:54PM (#4291811)
Is there something I am missing? Why would you be checking the weather so often? I agree that this is a novel use of a site icon, but it has limited (minimal) advantages.
Re:Whistleblower Binney says the NSA has dossiers on nearly every US c...
on Wednesday July 18, 2012 @12:55PM (#4261630)
While you make a good point, your end number is wildly inaccurate.
1) I highly doubt the NSA is buying $100 dollar low grade hard drives. I bet this data is backed up at least twice per site, at multiple sites.
2) The data is not unstructured, it will be structured in some sort of database. Storing your facebook photos alone will be potentially hundreds of megabytes.
3) I doubt NSA is spending it's entire budget every year on hard drives.
Re:Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Cannibalistic Culture That Felled ...
on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @12:40PM (#4194876)
IBM does something similar as well.
Re:The bandwidth of a Boeing 747 and its impact on web browsing
on Thursday June 21, 2012 @09:19AM (#4141818)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliding_window_protocol
It does send multiple packets (which helps throughput), but it doesn't cut down on latency. Round trip time is hard to improve.