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claims the site won’t be ready for five months because there isn’t enough data storage capacity to hold it all.
That is a lie, and an easily checkable one (not that anyone in our fiercely independent press will bother to check it).
You can buy terabyte drives for a hundred bucks nowadays.
1 terabyte is enough to hold roughly 2.5 million novel-length texts.
I think they could afford to buy a few freakin’ drives, even if they sprung for top of the line failure-tolerant arrays in multiple data centers.
They have already surrendered. Obama’s plan wins.
Reason TV did a great clip recently on how an information-services firm -Onvia- went ahead and did what Recovery.gov was supposed to do; track the Stimulus Spending. the website is Recovery.org.
http://www.reason.tv/video/show/780.html
Turns out that the various folks involved with bidding and receiving these stimulus funds are using the privately funded site to get the info they need about the stimulus.
The Private sector is more efficient than the government. Truly a shocker to behold.
‘ “Transparency” is when Barack Obama promises that the enterprising citizen will be able to track “every dime” of the $787 billion forever-government stimulus bill via a nifty website called Recovery.gov (sic).
Reality is when that much-heralded site won’t be complete until next spring, when half the stimulus money will have been wasted and, well, it probably won’t be especially helpful. ‘
Yeah, there’s nothing like cleaning out the Buick, finding a 14-month-old, uncontemplatably stained tab from Jim’s Reliving Your College Years Bar for $63.77 and being reminded that you spent all of that on neat blend scotches, none of it on appletinis and no, you won’t find any unfamiliar hosiery under your seats, either.
But I know where every dime went. Every dime went to not getting me laid.
Businesses are risk averse.
You’d hope somebody with standing would have the balls to stand up to the government, but this is how they make their living.
The government will nearly always win. Which is why it’s important to keep the government out.
… and by “me” not getting laid, I mean, of course, “me.”
Yeah, thuggery works.
Going out in a Buick to get laid is … optimistic.
Obama couldn’t tie his shoes without Affirmative Action. Now he is the most powerful man in the World because Americans are stupid sheep.
@hf
… I did also mention the *blend* scotches, did I not?
… oh, and jodhpurs. I forgot to mention the jodhpurs.
they worked for granpa.
@Tman (#3)
The object lesson couldn’t be more stark or ironic — or less in danger of being apprehended by those who could stand to learn from it.
“That is a lie, and an easily checkable one (not that anyone in our fiercely independent press will bother to check it).
You can buy terabyte drives for a hundred bucks nowadays.
1 terabyte is enough to hold roughly 2.5 million novel-length texts.
I think they could afford to buy a few freakin’ drives, even if they sprung for top of the line failure-tolerant arrays in multiple data centers.”
Well, here’s the thing. In order to do this properly, the administration has to triple-book the records. The Porkulus Bill and Budget is soo big you can’t hide the fraud with just two sets of books. You need three sets, maybe even going so far as to quadruple-book the damn thing.
hey! This is happy and insightful and brilliant must see teevee with bonus 70s porn moustache involved I think…
freedom! has a proponent. That’s so great.
You could do that. I could do that. Large organizations have a mindset of their own.
My employer’s IT department, until recently, charged projects $1,000 a Gig for storage. That means the a terabyte would have cost $1,000,000 — a cost identical to the one I heard for a terabyte of storage back in the mid ’90s, when it would have been the size of a phone booth.
Most of the added cost is the cost of bureaucracy. At a small company, someone would just go out, pick up the hardware, and have it ready for development by the end of the day. With the right platform, the developers would have something ready by the end of the week.
But with a bureaucracy, everything slows to a crawl. A horrible, soul-sucking crawl.
Dude, you need to read this.
You told meh once that perception is reality.
Thing is…republicans appear to be a bunch of super-angry pissed off mostly white people engaged in somesort of a perpetual tempertantrum…its not attractive.
“…They watch tv…”
That is the operative metameme.
We are a little over a hundred days into this presidency and its been one long hissy fit from the conservatives.
You blow a gasket over every little thing he does…..its going to be outrage saturation in another 100 days.
Then what if Obama does something really bad? You have used up all your credibility wilin’ out on him about mustard.
You will be the boy that cried wolf, and no one will even hear you.
You should be subversive, be subtle, be sly.
Be opportunistic and exploitive.
The environment will change….it always does.
And the other thing….the way you could start to make inroads into the hispanic and black voting blocks is to win youth demographic…..because there are young black people and young hispanics in that cohort.
But you have to get cool to do that…..
jodhpurs are a marketing challenge but this isn’t even trying…*
God Bless America
Drive boy dog boy
Dirty numb angel boy
In the doorway boy
Shouting lager lager lager lager
Mega mega white thing
Mega mega white thing
So many things to see and do
In the tube hole
They watch TV and they see a very intelligent, charismatic President who says a lot of very reasonable sounding things and exudes competence. And then they see a bunch of angry conservatives and Republicans who insist that that same man is some sort of evil communist who’s going to destroy the country.
I’m wondering if you could point to a time when you watched TV (at least the part that isn’t Fox News) and didn’t see the Democrats portrayed as reasonable and charismatic and the Republicans portrayed as something else?
Aww Nishi, cute but stupid.
We are a little over a hundred days into this presidency and its been one long hissy fit from the conservatives.
So what? Even if I agreed that it’s a hissy fit (it’s not), the left STILL hasn’t stopped the hissy fit they started eight and half years ago. Please.
what if Obama does something really bad?
Like nationalize the auto industry? Scare the shit out of the city of New York? Go on..
Be opportunistic and exploitive.
The environment will change….it always does.
I have no desire to turn in to what I hate the most about the left.
the way you could start to make inroads into the hispanic and black voting blocks is to win youth demographic
Conservatism is a fact of life. Eventually people grow up and figure it out, no matter what color they are.
An exhortation to be cool for the kids followed by West Side Story Lyrics? Wow.
You’re hip, Nishi. Like totally.
Unlike happyfeet’s super uncool Born Slippy lameness.
Wait a second, I mean exactly the opposite.
It has nothing to do with cool cause cool is cool in times of prosperity only and I will tell you what cool is, it’s nature, and this is a secret what we know in marketing. Cool is a luxury good. That’s not where we are. Maybe someday but Barack Obama won’t be getting us there. Instead of cool try confident and in times of trial there is nothing quite like the calm self-assured confidence of an anti-socialist stalwart what refrains from sighing and just soldiers on. So no one told you dirty socialist life was going to be this way … your green job’s a joke, you’re broke, your economy’s DOA but I’ll be there for you – with my mysterious yet intriguing capitalisms and also an insouciant penchant for individual liberty.
Nishi is apparently under the impression that she can be a mutant, an oddball, a socially maladjusted kookburger, yet somehow have her finger on the zeitgeist. You can’t have any insight into most segments of the population when you’re an acquired taste that most people have no interest in acquiring.
*its* nature I meant. Hey the weekend is starting this very minute. That’s so cool.
Well we hope you’ll be there with your mysterious gifts of capitalisms and ideas about individual liberty, but since the world doesn’t stand still maybe you’ll be in India or China. Although probably not China.
i make empty stomach grrr’ grrr’
passes…
at stubby fingered pasty face irish
lasses….
[shhhh. they be cabbagge gasses/
but…big tittie woman,….
i’m having a dream sequence…mmmm…mmmm
and
No/ i only like ricky nelsons voice…
heres my joke….
rino…
no/ RINO,…
RECOVERY IN NAME ONLY…
patent pending..
After 11 Dewarses, I would appreciate the ease of targeting afforded by the black-n-white number up top.
someone zip my lip!
i bow and and i think
imitate?…no way!
um, #27 was for #17, ‘feets, though I’m sure you’re already backing slowly around the corner, and away.
hehe, my moms is mad about show tunes, and she sang them constantly out load.
I know the lyrics to every musical ever made.
JeffieG has mad skillz..hes one of the best political satirists evah….but hes not using them.
If I were JeffieG…I’d go total rogue…and make fun of Beck and Rush.
Thass just me.
;)
Yup feets, weekend time!
I’ll see you in Lo-do JeffieG…..I hope the house will play Skrillex for meh.
I feel like dancing.
says who a drone?
those tea party’s were angry? oh yea right no busHitler signs
Oh no they doh–unt.
now bye.
have a nice time, y’all!
“And then they see a bunch of angry conservatives and Republicans who insist that that same man is some sort of evil communist who’s going to destroy the country.”
?
jodphurs….
lettuce broadsway off!
you fucking queers!
history…uhhh…balanchine….
ballett
mark morris is no….
russian!…
[i luv stones/ they clo\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
why only ???? number of fawlty towers?
that is prime !
cleese!
oh… we’ve fuckin seen clock something movie…
and we all lurved fish wanda…
but.,..y?
why no more prunella scales?
dragonfly!
i just want to thank u people…
i just read wahat i was thinking…
i would never/never write it…
OMG…i might be a earth/teen/date/fri/nigh…
…tits?
You know, my immediate thought — after visualizing that, with a Russian hooker they’re both abusing and lecturing to on the abuse of the oppressed — was Bukowski and Spitzer.
My point? You got me.
My employer’s IT department, until recently, charged projects $1,000 a Gig for storage.
Paying off that multi-terrabyte SAN array and the fiber network it runs on.
Just a guess.
speaking of drones and BusHitler — Death toll from U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan up to 125-130, per CNN and Karzai.
Still waiting for the denunciations of Obutcher.
I understand it takes time to get the giant puppets parade-ready, but the signs shouldn’t take more than a quick edit. Right?
on the one hand,,,,…
mmmm./never mind….
but the other hand…
maverick always say
letitbeme…
hey i just remembered right as I was leaving the office nishi gave us a song. Very where the wild things are sounding. I like it and that whole channel I will explore it this weekend. It’s only four songs so that’s not really a lot ambitious but already I like the Grammatics thinger.
Yes, he did. And he was mocking you when he said it. Idiot.
I must say that it is nice to see that you’ve finally developed a working relationship with the shift key.
Baby steps.
“An exhortation to be cool for the kids followed by West Side Story Lyrics? Wow.”
Nishi…I just met a sociopath named nishi. And suddenly a name will never be the same to me. Oh, nishi.
Indeed. About the only reason Internet Explorer 6 is still in use at all, anywhere, is the glacial pace of thought in large organizations.
Like nationalize the auto industry? Scare the shit out of the city of New York?
Apologize for winning World War II?
Bomb the piss out of civilians in Offgawneeeeestawn and Pockeeeestawwwwn?
Destroy relations with our best and longest-term allies in Europe and the Middle East?
Spend $3.4 trillion dollars that we don’t have?
Threaten hedge funds with mob-style extortion tactics?
Start raising taxes all over the place, despite his promise that he wouldn’t?
You’re in a cult, Nishit.
Sorry.
Um, try 41 years ago.
You need to tighten up, Nishi. You slipped into proper grammar there in #16 and almost sounded like an intelligent adult for a paragraph or two. Glad to see you got your babbling idiot groove back on there at the end.
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We elected the wrong miracle worker
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/05/petraeus-performs-miracle-brings.html
I feel like dancing.
Who leads, you or ‘tons?
It’s not just the storage for the current contents of the file. It’s the versioned backups that allow some idiot to delete a file entirely, change a single byte (perhaps adding a 0 to the end of a dollar amount), or anything in between, and later someone in that department notices there’s a problem, and asks the IT guys to restore to a particular version. It’s replicating everything to the extra arrays in the Chicago and LA offices that have the same functionality, so that if, just for instance, some terrorists decide to crash a plane filled with jet fuel into the building where the first array is, you don’t lose all the data required to run your business.
To do all of that, you need a lot more hardware than just a single terabyte drive. You also need the versioned backup software, which must be tested to be certain it works the way you want. A worst-case scenario (under which the backups are simply complete snapshots of the data, rather than “diffs” that show only how the file changed from version to version) would require something on the order of 60x the nominal size of a file in order to have two weeks of backups on RAID 5 arrays (arbitrarily 5 drives each, meaning 25% allowance for parity; if you use less drives you have more overhead for parity) in three different cities.
Do they use the cost-assignment rules used by Pentagon procurement?
You also need the versioned backup software, which must be tested to be certain…
Or you could just provision the storage on Amazon S3 and have it up and running in ten minutes. :-)
Remember, this isn’t the live data we’re talking about here. It’s supposed to be a publicly-accessible copy of the data.
In theory, the real data is already being protected by everything you mentioned, and more.
In practice, it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that a vital file exists only on a five year old Dell notebook that some bureaucrat takes home with him on the DC Metro every day.
If I were JeffieG…I’d go total rogue…and make fun of Beck and Rush.
Because making fun of Rush and Beck is so fucking outre right now.
Insufficiently Big Machines will sell you a 35GB drive for your properly-configured tower for approximately what you or I would spend on a terabyte and a half for our mundane (which is to say, non-IBM) units.
God forbid you should figure out how to work ordinary Seagatery into the mix (or the RAID array).
After years of hand-wringing over steroids in baseball, the Olympics, the Tour de France and other sports
Notice nobody ever mentions football in these cries about steroids? Funny how that is, when everyone knows they are using that stuff like a junkie every game.
In other words, the problem is not the ideas, but the attitude. Republicans are coming across as a bunch of obnoxious, unreasonable a-holes.
Republicans are being portrayed as this. The reality is utterly different, but who’ll listen when the people who give most people their news are deliberately trying to poison it? Democrats for 8 years screamed and frothed and hollared and lied and demonized and looked more hateful, more irrational, and more bitter than anyone in the history of mankind. If that mere behavior is repellant to Americans and causes loss of power why are they in office?
Yet again reality caves in on the leftist fool.
Businesses are risk averse.
I am risk averse. I will not buy a new suit, or a new sport coat, or new dress shoes. I will keep the tires on sammy a little longer. I will hunker down and just wait and see.
Oh, nishi/matoko/kate has reappeared here again? I suppose ‘strangelet’ wasn’t receiving enough respect at Hot Air.
Avoid the Mengele-oid.
#33 router:
But what happens when a worker has a complaint about management? Who is he to go to when the union that is supposed to represent him against management sits on the same side of the table as mangement?
‘Military-Industrial Complex’ indeed.
Um, Monster — that would be wunnerful if any of that stuff were present. There’s little evidence of that, sadly.
Besides, they charge the same for production, testing, and development environments. You just don’t need the same level of redundancy for dev or test.
And don’t get me started on the price schedules for PCs.
One could ask that question of the people who are employees of a Big Labor central office. Nobody plays hardball with a union like another union.
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