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QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 30, 2011 -> 08:50 AM) Are you a salesman, by chance? Because you sound like one. I'm not saying it's a bad thing...but engineers and salesmen don't mix well when they're trying to discuss the Internet/Cloud, etc. This discussion will go the way of oil and water. I do consulting work and my specialty is data center automation and "cloud and virtualization." I also spent alot of time in the security and compliance forum. I honestly dont spend much time with engineers until a project has been started, and usually someone has forced them to change the way they work. I will say that I dont agree with alot of the things you say are "fail". I have worked with some extremely large companies helping them automate and virtualize their data center and build internal cloud structures that are extremely efficient and secure. It's not for every business, but I can say first hand there is some benefit both financially and performance-wise for some organizations large and small. But you're correct in that there are alot of different opinions and not everyone agrees one way or another. Shoot, there are still fundamental disagreements on using the mainframe in the industry. Thats why I like it so much, things are very fluid.

QUOTE (hitlesswonder @ Jan 29, 2011 -> 11:46 PM) I would agree though that were he in the big 12 or big east or even the sec that he wouldn't have the hype he does -- he's very good player who can look great because he plays in a lousy conference. Ah yes, he has hype because of him playing in the Big Ten. No matter he was the #1 or #2 (depending on the site) HS player in the country. He didnt have any hype till he started playing in the Big Ten. His talents would wilt under the extreme competition of the mighty SEC and Big 12. Its a good thing he's playing in the lowly Big Ten.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 29, 2011 -> 10:36 PM) Sorry I didn't notice this beforehand. WHAT A GAME! iwanted to buy you a shot.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Jan 29, 2011 -> 11:15 PM) No, Northwestern is that bad inside. He played soft for a guy his size. NU had 8 offensive rebounds in a slowdown game. He's not the best player in the country, that's for sure. NU without Shurna has no business being close to OSU, but that was probably a letdown of sorts. LOL, you are terrible. Lets pick on the best player in the game tonight. Nice work.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Jan 29, 2011 -> 07:12 PM) Jared Sullinger has a long way to go if tonight was any indication. 8 rebounds against Northwestern? Embarrassing. Being the top scorer and rebounder in the game and only getting 2 under his reb avg is an embarrassment to you? Wow.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 29, 2011 -> 11:30 AM) I'm not an end user, I'm a senior security analyst, dealing in internet/packet switching security (firewalls), VPN's, load balanced applications, in, around, and on the Internet (cloud), and have been for a number of years. I've done remote administration, virtualization, storage, all of it...I know the different uses of this "cloud", and they haven't changed by design or concept from the beginning (I've been on the internet since 1992, and before that a heavy user of BBS's). It's all packet switching at it's most basic level, regardless of what fancy term is slapped on it. I'm not simplifying it, I'm simply dispelling all the modern sales-speak bulls*** that's being created to make it sound like some new concept. The "cloud" CAN have a cost benefit if used properly...however, arbitrarily moving things to the cloud will not result in savings and more often than not, it will result in a loss. Some things make sense, others do not. There are times that remote storage and remote processing can be beneficial, but most of the time, it's not, as bandwidth costs often exceed the cost of the raw hardware over time. The internet *is* the cloud, they mean the same thing...everything you just described is merely ANOTHER use of the Internet. The internet is not the web, it's not email, it's not virtualization...it's ALL of that, and it ALWAYS has been all of that. Just because people are discovering new uses for the Internet/Cloud/Info. Superhighway/Cyberspace (which aren't new, as I said), doesn't make it new. These uses have always been there both in reality and in potential, and yes, like a user above said, modern bandwidth is making these uses more visible...but beneath it all, they've always been there...that was the idea behind the design of packet switching in the first place: You can be anywhere and do anything on such a network... But it's still not new. I am not even talking about leaving the firewall, the internet has nothing to do with what I was describing above. And I know its not new, grid computing and the mainframe did alot of this many many years back. However the increase in virtualization enhancements has made the "cloud" alot easier for corporations to use. For example, I can drag a drop an entire application stack (server, routers, firewall, load balancer etc) on one console and deploy this application in mere minutes without moving a single box around. That is an amazing enhancement and is part of this concept of the "cloud". This process with applications tied to specific pieces of hardware was not only expensive, but time consuming for companies for years. I can show you a 100% virtualized infrastructure of a company located in the loop and show you a 50% reduction in spending overall in their data center and throughout their organization. They are also using a greater percentage of their hardware assets and ensuring a much high level of service to their business. It is all because of this cloud concept, and most of the benfit comes from the internal cloud. As for the external cloud, or the new concept of grid computing, I think there are some cost benefits of the SaaS marketplace and also remote capacity, but like you said, alot of this has been done before in outsourcing movements. Most of the cost benefits I have been seeing have been from people treating hardware like a commodity and making the movement and performance of applications fluid. I spoke with a CIO from a fortune 500 company a few months back he told me that his philosophy is that he doesnt give a s*** where the applications are running and what they are running on, if a server goes down he wants a new one to spin up instantly. All he cares about is the level of service that is being delivered to the business and as long as that does suffer, he wants costs to be cut down as far as they can be.

I care about range when talking about defense.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 29, 2011 -> 10:37 AM) Please don't. I am going to this game. Are you going out boozing before or after the game?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 29, 2011 -> 09:14 AM) Cloud computing is another word for dumb terminal computing...a concept that's been around from the start of the Internet. It's not new. The implementation is not new, either... It's just re-branded and called 'cloud' now. Just because people have "finally caught on" to storing video/pictures remotely doesn't make it new. I've been doing it for over a decade now. Eh, you are simplifying it based on your needs as and end user. Cloud computing nowadays is quite a bit more complicated than file shares and hosted applications. With advances in virtualization and processing pools internally and externally, the cloud has some real financial benefit to companies that have usage spikes once in awhile. Dumb terminal computing was just having your applications on a server insteads of the end users PC's, virtualization has actually disconnected the application entirely from that server as now you can virtualize the entire stack and move it dynamically across external or internal boundaries without service disruption. And that's just a piece of what cloud is. Cloud doesn't necessarily mean the Internet at all.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 28, 2011 -> 05:36 PM) Indiana being this bad is no good for the Big 10. I guess my expectation of Indiana getting into the top half of the Big 10, is more tempered than some expectations of Indiana returning to Bob Knight glory. I think we can all agree on how bad Iowa is I'm a giant Bob Knight fan, and that's the gap i see here, i don't think Crean is the coach that pushes a program into top tier status. I could be wrong, but i watched OSU's program which wasn't s*** get pushed into top tier status simply because of a coach.

Speaking of environments, i think minny, Wisconsin, and msu are probably the best and the toughest places to play in the conference

QUOTE (He_Gawn @ Jan 28, 2011 -> 05:31 PM) Yes, I do believe IU used to be elite. 5 titles speak for itself. Hell, the bigten as a conference has 10 total! We are no longer elite, but we definitely have great tradition. You should probably go mention that to all these guys we have coming in, because the first thing out of their mouth when they mention they want to come to IU, is they want to bring back IU basketball. That was an iPad error. I meant elite now because of their history. There were a lot of great sports programs in the 60's 70's and 80's that are average now. I really don't care if the guys read the company line, I am more interested to see if Crean can actually coach his way there.

QUOTE (He_Gawn @ Jan 28, 2011 -> 05:08 PM) You have not followed Indiana recruiting lately have you? They've been on a run that is just unheard of, Calipari like. Also, IU is not elite anymore, but a top level job, it is. We've been god awful for 3 years, and we nearly sell out every game with just ridiculous atmospheres. Our tradition may be old, but its unmatched in the bigten. Indiana should be well on its way back starting next year, as the cavalry starts to arrive. Unheard of huh? Check out the recruiting rankings of the top team in the Big Ten to see where the bar currently sits. And do you really think IU has elite history? They haven't won a title since 1987, way before recruits were born and have only had one good team since the mid 90's. The entire claim to fame is the 5 titles they won many years ago. History is good and all, but i don't think it means much to recruits who don't have parents from Indiana that remember the old glory days.

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Jan 28, 2011 -> 03:00 PM) I'm almost positive that under Law's system Dayan isn't eligible for his list. He no longer has prospect status. I believe in his prospect chat he states that Dayan is a DH that doesn't walk, but if learns some patience, look out. He also notes his impressive raw power. Methinks people are just looking for more reason to dislike Mr. Law. No, he makes it very easy with his negative bias on the Sox.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 28, 2011 -> 03:39 PM) The fan support at OSU is another thing, since the fans dont care as much about the basketball as what goes on at the Horseshoe. I believe they didnt sell out this week as the #1 team playing the 2nd best team in the conference. I'm not trying to downplay Ohio State as some crap basketball job, but as compared to the top jobs, I think it could be a slight factor. The fan support is an accurate statement, it will never be as popular as football. Ohio is simply a football state. However the reason they have been a top team over the last several years is because of superior coaching and recruiting. Even if you won some games in the 70's and 80's, it doesnt mean s*** if the coach is garbage. Programs that have the prestige to pull in top guys based on rep alone are not in the Big Ten.

QUOTE (ZoomSlowik @ Jan 28, 2011 -> 02:57 PM) I think there are a fair number more than that. Schools like UNC, Kentucky, Kansas, UCLA and Indiana have been considered elite for quite some time, there are other ones that one great coach has made elite like Duke, Syracuse, MSU and UConn, and there are others that cycle into the elite bracket from time to time (OSU right now, Florida 5 years ago, Memphis before Calipari left, Michigan 20 years ago, ect). Illinois can easily cycle to the elite group with a solid run of success, but they haven't really had any kind of sustained run in recent history. There's no chance I'd call them a top-10 program right now and you can probably argue they're lower than that. I think you are confusing elite with good. There are only maybe 5 elite jobs, and UCLA and Indiana are not in that grouping whatsoever. OSU will probably never be an elite bball job, mostly because its an elite football school first and foremost. Usually elite bball jobs are not elite football schools.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 28, 2011 -> 02:42 PM) Depends on how you define top. Kansas is an "elite" job (imo). You are talking about only a handful of schools that would have the "elite" ranking. And even the Kansas coach left for UNC, another elite job. Illinois is a top job. Illinois has had consistent success recruiting Chicago, which is one of the most talented areas in the nation. In terms of the Big 10, Id say Illinois is near the top, if not the top job. Arguably OSU/MSU are up there, but in terms of raw numbers of instate talent Id give the edge to Illinois. I guess if you are talking about one of the top 25 jobs in the nation, its a top job to me. Plenty of people would take the job at Illinois, and only a few would not even consider it. I agree. There are maybe 5 elite jobs in the country and a whole bunch of top jobs. You have to think Duke, UNC, Kentucky and Kansas are elite jobs and add in the top Big East program at the moment. I dont think any elite jobs exist in the Big Ten or Pac 10.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jan 27, 2011 -> 11:05 PM) Reading the first few pages is interesting now that the season is playing out. The user posts or ESPN's prediction? http://espn.go.com/ncb/notebook/_/page/not...d100830/big-ten

Thad Matta woudl gladly take Richmond if he wants out thats for sure.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jan 27, 2011 -> 07:38 PM) And it's official, D-Rose will be the Eastern conference all-star starting PG. The fans finally got it right for once. Can't argue with any of the starters for the east this year. The west is another story. That east team is ridiculous.

Wow, a USC fan actually saying something positive about my Buckeyes. http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-ohiost...0,5109597.story

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 27, 2011 -> 04:46 PM) Watching about every single Bulls game (except when the Hawks are on), I can't call Rose an average defender. The guy still has no idea how to play the pick and roll, which is going to be shoved down the Bulls throat in the playoffs. He's improved a TON throughout this season at that exact play.

Man Cavallari is f***ing hot.

Uverse is totally constricted by the type of cabling that the signal comes across on, this is why you cannot watch more than one HD show at a time. The cable company's advertisements are somewhat accurate that the technology doesnt exist currently for phone lines to carry as much data as cable.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jan 27, 2011 -> 08:31 AM) I wouldn't say he carried his team. He only has 8 touchdowns in this years playoffs and 800 yards passing. Thats really average. He didnt carry his team past the Bears whatsoever, their defense did.