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04-08-08, 13:12
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CERN creates a new super-fast internet
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not sure if this has been posted here b4 ....
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CERN creates a new super-fast internet
Apparently, when CERN isn't colliding particles (and ripping massive holes in the space-time continuum), it's busy working on a new "internet" which will be 10,000 times faster than our current version. The project -- known as "the grid" -- is built atop completely fiber optic networks, and utilizes modern routing centers. By keeping traffic out of our current phone and data systems, the researchers have been able to achieve speeds heretofore unseen on previous networks. The system connects from CERN to 11 centers around the globe, and will be switched on when the Large Hadron Collider is activated, on what the group is calling "Red Button Day." Project heads believe a network with this speed will lead to all sorts of futuristic innovations -- like true cloud computing, holographic video conferencing, and really, really fast pirating of the entire Nightmare on Elm Street series.
Via: Engadget
Original News Source: Times Online UK
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will this superfast internet mean an end to many IT jobs esp. DBAs in the near future??
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04-08-08, 13:34
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04-08-08, 13:43
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whatever. people have been perdicting the end for database professionals since I joined the racket. what a bunch of crap. The truth is that most users can barely get around email, the internet, and Excel and most programmers can not think in mathmatical sets.
as long as there is matrix manipulation problems against time series databases, the world is going to need someone smart enough to manipulate them. so come and get my job. you can have it and then I can go use my brain for something that might contribute to the civilization .
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04-08-08, 13:46
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I mean come on. The world moves slowly and most of its transactions are still handled on mainframes with COBOL originally put together decades ago. My job is safe as long as I want it.
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04-08-08, 13:46
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hmmm... i m sorry ... yes means??
DBAs wont have a job or the market for DBAs will be down in near future?
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04-08-08, 13:51
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Originally Posted by Thrasymachus
I mean come on. The world moves slowly and most of its transactions are still handled on mainframes with COBOL originally put together decades ago. My job is safe as long as I want it.
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i m trying getting into oracle DBA .... hence was curious to know...
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04-08-08, 14:20
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I've lived through somewhere between three and seven full generations of computer hardware/software, depending on whose count you happen to like.
The world's appetite for geeks is insatiable, and that appetite is growing many times faster than we have ever been able to create new geeks. As the geek factor of the marketplace increases, we need both larger caliber geeks and more geeks too.
If being an Oracle DBA suits you, then go for it, with gusto! Ten years from now will be more different than ten years ago (change accelerates), but pick a place and get started... Then hang on for dear life and assume that you'll keep learning every day for at least as long as you keep working in a technology related field.
-PatP
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04-08-08, 20:17
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Originally Posted by iinfi
hmmm... i m sorry ... yes means??
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yes means yes to your question
your question was "will this superfast internet mean an end to many IT jobs esp. DBAs in the near future??"
yes, it will
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04-09-08, 01:06
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04-09-08, 17:26
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Originally Posted by r937
yes means yes to your question
your question was "will this superfast internet mean an end to many IT jobs esp. DBAs in the near future??"
yes, it will
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Ignorance
"The massage you have entered is too short"
I always though massages were too short
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04-09-08, 23:29
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whom are you calling ignorant?
pistols at dawn, sir!!!
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04-10-08, 10:48
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Originally Posted by r937
whom are you calling ignorant?
pistols at dawn, sir!!!
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We have quite a history of duels here in Jersey
Anyway from what I've seen, the DBA is the only group protecting IT from ITself
(Hamilton should have stayed in bed)
Whom? you speak very good English...for a Germain German
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04-10-08, 11:23
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the thought of either of you with a firearm is enough to give me chills.
I have new 2nd ammendment position. it only applies to me and people I approve of.
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04-10-08, 13:13
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Originally Posted by Thrasymachus
the thought of either of you with a firearm is enough to give me chills.
I have new 2nd ammendment position. it only applies to me and people I approve of.
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OK!!!!
Shots at dawn
I choose Tequila!!!!!
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04-10-08, 14:02
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Originally Posted by Thrasymachus
the thought of either of you with a firearm is enough to give me chills.
I have new 2nd ammendment position. it only applies to me and people I approve of.
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I think that everyone should be allowed to wear short-sleeved shirts.
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