<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 June 2010 23:54, Rick Moynihan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rick.moynihan@gmail.com">rick.moynihan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 9 June 2010 19:04, gordon dunlop <<a href="mailto:zubenel@fedoraproject.org">zubenel@fedoraproject.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I remembered reading an article a few years ago about supermarket<br>
> databases, I recalled it from my own news article database. It was in 2006,<br>
> and was about Wal-Mart and its store operations. It was stated that the<br>
> Wal-Mart database updates a billion rows a day or approximately 11,600 rows<br>
> a second ( a bit of trivia).<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=175801775" target="_blank">http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=175801775</a><br>
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</div>Yeah, those guys are good... but they're still small fry compared to<br>
the Google behemoth.<br>
<br>
There latest announcement<br>
<br>
"Caffeine takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one<br>
database and adds new information at a rate of hundreds of thousands<br>
of gigabytes per day. You would need 625,000 of the largest iPods to<br>
store that much information; if these were stacked end-to-end they<br>
would go for more than 40 miles."<br>
<br>
<a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html" target="_blank">http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/our-new-search-index-caffeine.html</a><br>
<br>
I was slightly shocked to discover yesterday I pastied an error<br>
message and stacktrace on github... 5 minutes later I googled the<br>
error message to see if anyone else had run into my problem before....<br>
I was more than a little shocked (and very impressed) to find the<br>
number first google result was the message I posted just 5 minutes<br>
earlier.... It's really scary how far ahead of the game google are.<br>
<br>
<br>
If you'll permit me a little hyperbole.... in 50 years, will Google be<br>
the one global government, the only company left?? Could they employ<br>
the worlds population?? Or will they manage it in just 20 years?<br>
<br>
Consider that Google now have their own trading floor - to manage<br>
their capital investments... I'm betting that Google know better than<br>
anyone else what to invest in! Even more so than the giant vampire<br>
squid, Goldman Sachs...<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_23/b4181033582670.htm" target="_blank">http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_23/b4181033582670.htm</a><br>
<br>
Is this a distopian or utopian future.... hmmm....<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote> At least Google is dumping the Windows shit.<br><br><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/01/google_snubs_windows_report/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/01/google_snubs_windows_report/</a><br>
<br>gordon<br><br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div class="h5">
R.<br>
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