While not impossible to transfer the active memory from one system to the next, it normally doesn't happen, mostly because one of the key point of have a redundant system is that they don't go down at the same point. If the RAM was in sync. Then chances are they will crash at the same time because the same problems would span both systems.
it depends on your location. In rural areas USPS seems to be faster while the commercial will take longer bouncing to hubs. Then being placed on the truck for a night.
The field is more than Table Joins, but the Data Scientists who come in and charge Thousands of dollars a day, tend to be just doing simple DB stuff and use the fancy title that some just make up, so they can get the Data Scientist money.
True Data Scientist do a lot more, but they are not the ones most businesses hired.
I am sorry the company CEO is hurting the Presidents fragile Ego. But shouldn't he be Mr. Business man? Who looks at the big picture and works to make profitable deals no matter what your personal feelings are to the other person? Just as long as Amazon and like companies are not being charged at a loss at such bulk rates this is money to the USPS system, that isn't going to its competitors of FedEx and UPS. Doubling the Rates will not hurt Amazon that much, It will just hurt the USPS because Amazon will just move to the next cheapest shipping method.
On a SQL based server if you do a left inner or and outer join on an other table, you can use logic to connect two data elements together.
Quite honestly that is all that I see Data Scientist consultants do. Then they make a graph of the data and get paid big bucks. Vs. our poor schlubs who are not called Data Scientists who do the same thing, and get yelled at for asking the same questions.
For me it is less about not trusting Facebook on my device. But the idea of application running in full privilege mode bothers me. I normally get annoyed when an old windows App require Admin Rights to install, or worse like some old Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 Apps Requires Admin level right to run. Just because they couldn't figure out the safe place to save user data.
This shows poor judgement either in Facebook, for not coding around normal user permission and for Android for not allowing correct security controls to allow non-admin access to Facebook apps features.
Why is this news for Nerds? Well I find a lot of activities that people find common and popular 20+ years ago use to be Nerd behavior and a lot of the stuff would be too nerdy for many nerds to do publicly.
Back in the 1990's that kid with a Digital Assistant, Watch Calculator, who on his free time dialed up on the computer to chat with other people on different computers, posting on message boards about those particular interest of the time. Who used the computer and this Internet thing to to get research from materials that the school would never think about getting. Would have you classified as a major Nerd, to a point where your parents would force you to go to parties filled with kids you don't like, just so they can safe face.
This is happening across well every skill set beyond sports. It is more to the access of information from the internet and YouTube is one source to get some information.
20 Years ago when I started my career. What I could program and how to program it was isolated to the knowledge-base in the Documents that gets shipped with the product+any wisdom from the people I work with+any thing I learned in school.
So my skills back then was in a bubble. Looking back there are lot of things I could had done better with the technology at hand, if I had such a wide base of information to search for.
Today I will search for how to do things, that I already know how to do to see if there is a better way out there. Back then that would be impossible or difficult.
But if you want to cook better, you can search for receipts faster and easier then getting a cook book, and you can get a video on how to cook this and pause it and rewind at your own speed.
Even if it is some stupid trivia on nearly any topic. Heck if I am eating lunch I will often Wikipedia some part in my lunch. Just because it was a passing interest. Such as how the Supreme Court had ruled that a Tomato is a vegetable, for Tariff and taxing purposes.
$12.00 a month isn't a bad price. But it isn't the only service that I would want to have so all of them added up I am paying hundreds of dollars a month. If I wan't to save some money, then I will need to actively cancel my account. vs Passively just not buy an other copy.
Adobe Creative Suite is the biggest offender. It is a lot per month, where before If I paid a grand for the software, I could keep it years past its supported version until I can justify getting a new version. If money is tight, I can live with the older version. Because I refuse to pay the monthly fee, I have switched to open source variants, which are Good enough.
The issue is the power that we use is mostly mechanical energy, which then gets converted to electromagnetic. There is significant power loss when ever we change energy (well it isn't lost, it is converted into an unusable form, such as sound, or heat dissipation). Even with protonic fission we are still heating up water to create pressure difference to move a turbine that spins magnets which pushes and yanks electrons around.
We also have chemical energy from batteries and solar cells which more directly creates electricity without going to mechanical energy. So the dense energy sources such as Fossil fuel or nuclear energy needs a mechanical overhead.
The problem isn't as much as how much energy we need, but the expense (Environmental, Economic, Morally) of creating the energy is. Much of the Glamor of the 1950's vision of the future, didn't account for the price of oil rising, radioactive waste of nuclear energy, wars, safety concerns about getting the energy and the fact that people in general disagree with each other. Those Utopia visions of the future can be a Dystopia to someone else.
Don't count your chickens until they hatch. In politics there can be any little spark that can change the polling. There are a good number of people who will always vote for their Party no mater what they do, Many of the state are gerrymandered in a way to keep people who trend toward a different political party separated enough to prevent a majority vote, or concentrate them so they get only one seat. The economy is still strong. If the democrats just run on an Anti-Trump speaking points, they may not spark enough interest in people actually voting for them, and during off year democrats tend to get lower turnout.
While there is a low approval rating for the GOP, many people dislike the Democrats more.
There is a lot of work that needs to be done for the house seats to switch, and all the hardwork in the world can be counteracted by a small piece of bad news. Because the opposition will escalate it twist it to make them pure evil.
If you are going to randomly purchase some new hardware chances is it is going to work for Windows there is a slimmer chance it will work with Linux. Mostly due to the fact the Hardware maker will have a custom driver for that particular product, vs. Linux waiting for someone to make one, or falling back on the standards.
The biggest issue is many hardware makers just don't follow the interface standards and rely on the driver for compatibility. This sucks for the consumer, especially if they don't have time to do full research. They see two drives both the same size and same speed. One uses the standard controller interface, the other one has some crazy they made, and the custom driver deals with it. The second one costs 20% less. So we get the the cheaper one because we don't have the information to make a proper decision. So we get the drive assuming we have a Windows PC it will work fine for years, we give it 5 stars on Amazon and go on... Until there is that one patch, where Microsoft cannot account for such an off third party device. Then it fails to work. And you will need to wait (if the company isn't out of business) for them to make a patch to the driver to make it work again.
Back in them old days Internal modems had dip-switches or jumpers to set the COM port and IRQ settings. Then Windows 95 with its more advanced driver allowed for "Win" Modems. Which were in essence DtoA converts with a phone jack, so they were dirt cheap. And we relied on the driver to convert the request, emulate any AT Commands, and the CPU had to generate the data to produce whatever tone was needed. These modems sucked, because if your CPU was doing too much it would cut out and you would loose connection, or just take up a lot of CPU while online, slowing down the other software. And if you wanted to switch to Linux no luck. I got one of those after lighting killed my 14.4k modem. And returned it, because the box showed COM port and IRQ switches and the modem in the box didn't have it. False advertising, so I got little push back and went with external Parallel port Modems sense.
From my understanding Italy in general has bad drivers, especially in urban areas. Combined with Italian view of law, compared to English Law that most of us are accustom to. Makes it difficult to get people to change their ways. Police will stop someone who is being dangerous or causing problems. But if they are currently being safe, but doing a behavior that can be potentially dangerous they will not stop them.
I would disagree with that assessment. There is a lot of innovation that can happen around following standards. Look at Google, while they make their Chrome Browser, their products all work on competing modern browsers as well. I remember when Google Maps, Gmail and Google Docs was first released, Using existing well implemented Web Standards they made fully operational and interactive applications running in a Web Browser. Before that these applications would have to refresh the whole page to give you new information, which was slow, and server intensive. Google was following the standards, but they used them in a slightly different way. Ajax calls before then were mostly limited to querying form elements, and was mostly avoided, because the traditional less innovative developers were afraid that it will not work with that one guy using Netscape 4. For the most part such functionality use to be limited to plugins such as Active X, Java Applets or Flash which didn't work on every computer or browser.
Rebuilding the wheel, while there is a perfectly acceptable standard (even if not perfect) is not innovative, if your outcome is the same as what the standard could provide.
Sony by forcing people to use Propriety media, where they had numbers of standard methods as well, wasn't a good long term solution. Because most people are not that into who the vendor is, and would like to mix and match technology. Yes I have an iPhone, but I havn't had a Mac in over a decade (I am fine with a fixed battery in a phone, but not a laptop (Too much history)) So I may have a Apple Phone, Thinkpad for a Laptop running Linux or Windows, A kindle running Android... So I am not fixed on a vendor, and if my Next phone isn't an Apple phone or my next Laptop isn't a Thinkpad, I would still want them to follow enough standards to transfer info and have my stuff work on them as well.
There is tremendous spying benefit from the technology. Also it could be a deadly tool. Having it inject people with a poison or a virus then fly off. Would make it difficult to track.
I am guessing you are also of Western European Decent as well, with a charming English Accent. Culture, TV and Radio has made the British White Man seem like the general good guy. So Officials just don't get immediately suspicious of you. However if you don't quite meet that stereotype, and you look like someone who matches a negative stereotype. Then you will get questioned and hassled much more.
I see a difference when I go to work where I am wearing my work cloths and rather well shaved vs. on the weekend where I am in a tee-shirt and jeans and Have a few days of beard growth. Interaction with officials move from very cordial and polite, when I am in my work cloths. To more demanding and rude when I am looking a bit more scruffy. I didn't change my Sex or my Race, or precede religion and there is a noticeable difference. Imagine if you had one of those traits as well.
1. You are confusing Socialist vs Communist. It is sometime confusing because a Communist country will often call themselves Socialist Democratic Republic a big long name of things that make them seem like they are for the people. Also the Ideas of Socialism vs Communism have a lot of similarities, but there are major differences. Socialism is a regulated free market, vs Communism which is a controlled market. So in Socialist government and you owned a food store, you can sell whatever food you want just as long as the food is deemed safe by the government. While a Communist government will ship you the food that it thinks is needed, hence the stereotypical long bread lines in the USSR. Where those days is when the bread was shipped to the stores, so people were getting that. Because next week the store may be filled with Cooking Oil or Meat.
2. The Supply vs Demand is always in play. Finding the number of people willing or able to do a job, vs. how much someone wants the job done. For this case Ecuador needed people who could install this stuff secretively against a guy who is famously paranoid. In an area that is more tightly controlled. You can't just get the normal Cable Guy to go and install it without making people suspicious. So Ecuador will need to spend more to get the guy to do the job.
We see this type of stunt all the time. Often with Pickup Truck commercials. But this plays to Tesla's marketing strategy, of Showing their all electric cars to be just as powerful if not more so, then the best gasoline cars in their classification.
Which is opposed to other electric car makers who show off these cars as just Electric, but nothing really exciting about them, and rather lack luster in comparison of other cars in their class.
The stunt of pulling a 747 or a freight train... When using a flat surface and properly conditioned low friction wheels. Just needs enough energy to get past the static friction, then energy to account to the existing friction. Now if the Testla would be able to accelerate the plane from 0 to 15mph in 10 seconds that would be impressive.
A conference room system features: A Video Camera: Which most people want turned off because seeing people talking on the screen isn't helpful, plus you want to mute and turn off video on yourself and your team so they can discuss issues privately. Also the Video gets in the way of a screen shot or a presentation.
Some Sort of Smart Board features: Either a stylus or touch interface. All seems good, until you realize most of the presenters don't know how to use it, save the data or in order to have it seen by everyone in the meeting it is high up so it is difficult to reach.
These things are a wast of money.
Just get a good size TV (Get a 4K if you feel like it, but most of the time you will lower the resolution to 1k or below so people can see the text) Have cords to plug in your VGA, DVI and HDMI to it. So you can plug in your laptop. Finally get a separate good quality Conference room phone. Loud and crisp enough to hear from, and able to pick up with what you are saying clearly.
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Did you transfer data or did you transfer memory?
While not impossible to transfer the active memory from one system to the next, it normally doesn't happen, mostly because one of the key point of have a redundant system is that they don't go down at the same point. If the RAM was in sync. Then chances are they will crash at the same time because the same problems would span both systems.
it depends on your location. In rural areas USPS seems to be faster while the commercial will take longer bouncing to hubs. Then being placed on the truck for a night.
The field is more than Table Joins, but the Data Scientists who come in and charge Thousands of dollars a day, tend to be just doing simple DB stuff and use the fancy title that some just make up, so they can get the Data Scientist money.
True Data Scientist do a lot more, but they are not the ones most businesses hired.
I am sorry the company CEO is hurting the Presidents fragile Ego. But shouldn't he be Mr. Business man? Who looks at the big picture and works to make profitable deals no matter what your personal feelings are to the other person? Just as long as Amazon and like companies are not being charged at a loss at such bulk rates this is money to the USPS system, that isn't going to its competitors of FedEx and UPS. Doubling the Rates will not hurt Amazon that much, It will just hurt the USPS because Amazon will just move to the next cheapest shipping method.
On a SQL based server if you do a left inner or and outer join on an other table, you can use logic to connect two data elements together.
Quite honestly that is all that I see Data Scientist consultants do. Then they make a graph of the data and get paid big bucks. Vs. our poor schlubs who are not called Data Scientists who do the same thing, and get yelled at for asking the same questions.
For me it is less about not trusting Facebook on my device. But the idea of application running in full privilege mode bothers me. I normally get annoyed when an old windows App require Admin Rights to install, or worse like some old Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 Apps Requires Admin level right to run. Just because they couldn't figure out the safe place to save user data.
This shows poor judgement either in Facebook, for not coding around normal user permission and for Android for not allowing correct security controls to allow non-admin access to Facebook apps features.
Normally a bad spell checker will give you congestion of properly spelt words, just not the correct word in context.
Why is this news for Nerds?
Well I find a lot of activities that people find common and popular 20+ years ago use to be Nerd behavior and a lot of the stuff would be too nerdy for many nerds to do publicly.
Back in the 1990's that kid with a Digital Assistant, Watch Calculator, who on his free time dialed up on the computer to chat with other people on different computers, posting on message boards about those particular interest of the time. Who used the computer and this Internet thing to to get research from materials that the school would never think about getting. Would have you classified as a major Nerd, to a point where your parents would force you to go to parties filled with kids you don't like, just so they can safe face.
You know, I really don't miss the 1990's
This is happening across well every skill set beyond sports.
It is more to the access of information from the internet and YouTube is one source to get some information.
20 Years ago when I started my career. What I could program and how to program it was isolated to the knowledge-base in the Documents that gets shipped with the product+any wisdom from the people I work with+any thing I learned in school.
So my skills back then was in a bubble. Looking back there are lot of things I could had done better with the technology at hand, if I had such a wide base of information to search for.
Today I will search for how to do things, that I already know how to do to see if there is a better way out there. Back then that would be impossible or difficult.
But if you want to cook better, you can search for receipts faster and easier then getting a cook book, and you can get a video on how to cook this and pause it and rewind at your own speed.
Even if it is some stupid trivia on nearly any topic. Heck if I am eating lunch I will often Wikipedia some part in my lunch. Just because it was a passing interest. Such as how the Supreme Court had ruled that a Tomato is a vegetable, for Tariff and taxing purposes.
$12.00 a month isn't a bad price.
But it isn't the only service that I would want to have so all of them added up I am paying hundreds of dollars a month. If I wan't to save some money, then I will need to actively cancel my account. vs Passively just not buy an other copy.
Adobe Creative Suite is the biggest offender. It is a lot per month, where before If I paid a grand for the software, I could keep it years past its supported version until I can justify getting a new version. If money is tight, I can live with the older version. Because I refuse to pay the monthly fee, I have switched to open source variants, which are Good enough.
The issue is the power that we use is mostly mechanical energy, which then gets converted to electromagnetic.
There is significant power loss when ever we change energy (well it isn't lost, it is converted into an unusable form, such as sound, or heat dissipation).
Even with protonic fission we are still heating up water to create pressure difference to move a turbine that spins magnets which pushes and yanks electrons around.
We also have chemical energy from batteries and solar cells which more directly creates electricity without going to mechanical energy.
So the dense energy sources such as Fossil fuel or nuclear energy needs a mechanical overhead.
The problem isn't as much as how much energy we need, but the expense (Environmental, Economic, Morally) of creating the energy is. Much of the Glamor of the 1950's vision of the future, didn't account for the price of oil rising, radioactive waste of nuclear energy, wars, safety concerns about getting the energy and the fact that people in general disagree with each other. Those Utopia visions of the future can be a Dystopia to someone else.
Don't count your chickens until they hatch.
In politics there can be any little spark that can change the polling.
There are a good number of people who will always vote for their Party no mater what they do, Many of the state are gerrymandered in a way to keep people who trend toward a different political party separated enough to prevent a majority vote, or concentrate them so they get only one seat.
The economy is still strong.
If the democrats just run on an Anti-Trump speaking points, they may not spark enough interest in people actually voting for them, and during off year democrats tend to get lower turnout.
While there is a low approval rating for the GOP, many people dislike the Democrats more.
There is a lot of work that needs to be done for the house seats to switch, and all the hardwork in the world can be counteracted by a small piece of bad news. Because the opposition will escalate it twist it to make them pure evil.
I don't think Slashdot can bring down a Raspberry Pi running a web server. It just isn't as big as it use to be.
If you are going to randomly purchase some new hardware chances is it is going to work for Windows there is a slimmer chance it will work with Linux.
Mostly due to the fact the Hardware maker will have a custom driver for that particular product, vs. Linux waiting for someone to make one, or falling back on the standards.
The biggest issue is many hardware makers just don't follow the interface standards and rely on the driver for compatibility. This sucks for the consumer, especially if they don't have time to do full research. They see two drives both the same size and same speed. One uses the standard controller interface, the other one has some crazy they made, and the custom driver deals with it. The second one costs 20% less. So we get the the cheaper one because we don't have the information to make a proper decision. So we get the drive assuming we have a Windows PC it will work fine for years, we give it 5 stars on Amazon and go on... Until there is that one patch, where Microsoft cannot account for such an off third party device. Then it fails to work. And you will need to wait (if the company isn't out of business) for them to make a patch to the driver to make it work again.
Back in them old days Internal modems had dip-switches or jumpers to set the COM port and IRQ settings. Then Windows 95 with its more advanced driver allowed for "Win" Modems. Which were in essence DtoA converts with a phone jack, so they were dirt cheap. And we relied on the driver to convert the request, emulate any AT Commands, and the CPU had to generate the data to produce whatever tone was needed. These modems sucked, because if your CPU was doing too much it would cut out and you would loose connection, or just take up a lot of CPU while online, slowing down the other software. And if you wanted to switch to Linux no luck. I got one of those after lighting killed my 14.4k modem. And returned it, because the box showed COM port and IRQ switches and the modem in the box didn't have it. False advertising, so I got little push back and went with external Parallel port Modems sense.
From my understanding Italy in general has bad drivers, especially in urban areas. Combined with Italian view of law, compared to English Law that most of us are accustom to. Makes it difficult to get people to change their ways. Police will stop someone who is being dangerous or causing problems. But if they are currently being safe, but doing a behavior that can be potentially dangerous they will not stop them.
I would disagree with that assessment. There is a lot of innovation that can happen around following standards. Look at Google, while they make their Chrome Browser, their products all work on competing modern browsers as well. I remember when Google Maps, Gmail and Google Docs was first released, Using existing well implemented Web Standards they made fully operational and interactive applications running in a Web Browser. Before that these applications would have to refresh the whole page to give you new information, which was slow, and server intensive. Google was following the standards, but they used them in a slightly different way. Ajax calls before then were mostly limited to querying form elements, and was mostly avoided, because the traditional less innovative developers were afraid that it will not work with that one guy using Netscape 4.
For the most part such functionality use to be limited to plugins such as Active X, Java Applets or Flash which didn't work on every computer or browser.
Rebuilding the wheel, while there is a perfectly acceptable standard (even if not perfect) is not innovative, if your outcome is the same as what the standard could provide.
Sony by forcing people to use Propriety media, where they had numbers of standard methods as well, wasn't a good long term solution. Because most people are not that into who the vendor is, and would like to mix and match technology. Yes I have an iPhone, but I havn't had a Mac in over a decade (I am fine with a fixed battery in a phone, but not a laptop (Too much history)) So I may have a Apple Phone, Thinkpad for a Laptop running Linux or Windows, A kindle running Android... So I am not fixed on a vendor, and if my Next phone isn't an Apple phone or my next Laptop isn't a Thinkpad, I would still want them to follow enough standards to transfer info and have my stuff work on them as well.
There is tremendous spying benefit from the technology. Also it could be a deadly tool. Having it inject people with a poison or a virus then fly off. Would make it difficult to track.
I am guessing you are also of Western European Decent as well, with a charming English Accent.
Culture, TV and Radio has made the British White Man seem like the general good guy. So Officials just don't get immediately suspicious of you.
However if you don't quite meet that stereotype, and you look like someone who matches a negative stereotype. Then you will get questioned and hassled much more.
I see a difference when I go to work where I am wearing my work cloths and rather well shaved vs. on the weekend where I am in a tee-shirt and jeans and Have a few days of beard growth. Interaction with officials move from very cordial and polite, when I am in my work cloths. To more demanding and rude when I am looking a bit more scruffy. I didn't change my Sex or my Race, or precede religion and there is a noticeable difference. Imagine if you had one of those traits as well.
1. You are confusing Socialist vs Communist. It is sometime confusing because a Communist country will often call themselves Socialist Democratic Republic a big long name of things that make them seem like they are for the people. Also the Ideas of Socialism vs Communism have a lot of similarities, but there are major differences. Socialism is a regulated free market, vs Communism which is a controlled market. So in Socialist government and you owned a food store, you can sell whatever food you want just as long as the food is deemed safe by the government. While a Communist government will ship you the food that it thinks is needed, hence the stereotypical long bread lines in the USSR. Where those days is when the bread was shipped to the stores, so people were getting that. Because next week the store may be filled with Cooking Oil or Meat.
2. The Supply vs Demand is always in play. Finding the number of people willing or able to do a job, vs. how much someone wants the job done. For this case Ecuador needed people who could install this stuff secretively against a guy who is famously paranoid. In an area that is more tightly controlled. You can't just get the normal Cable Guy to go and install it without making people suspicious. So Ecuador will need to spend more to get the guy to do the job.
We see this type of stunt all the time. Often with Pickup Truck commercials. But this plays to Tesla's marketing strategy, of Showing their all electric cars to be just as powerful if not more so, then the best gasoline cars in their classification.
Which is opposed to other electric car makers who show off these cars as just Electric, but nothing really exciting about them, and rather lack luster in comparison of other cars in their class.
The stunt of pulling a 747 or a freight train... When using a flat surface and properly conditioned low friction wheels. Just needs enough energy to get past the static friction, then energy to account to the existing friction. Now if the Testla would be able to accelerate the plane from 0 to 15mph in 10 seconds that would be impressive.
APT-GET is just an other App Store.
Really? You are saying treaties are getting in the way with the US Companies doing whatever they feel like?
Perhaps you didn't clearly write your position.
Sounds like the Cisco system too. Just replace Skype with Webex
A conference room system features:
A Video Camera: Which most people want turned off because seeing people talking on the screen isn't helpful, plus you want to mute and turn off video on yourself and your team so they can discuss issues privately. Also the Video gets in the way of a screen shot or a presentation.
Some Sort of Smart Board features: Either a stylus or touch interface. All seems good, until you realize most of the presenters don't know how to use it, save the data or in order to have it seen by everyone in the meeting it is high up so it is difficult to reach.
These things are a wast of money.
Just get a good size TV (Get a 4K if you feel like it, but most of the time you will lower the resolution to 1k or below so people can see the text) Have cords to plug in your VGA, DVI and HDMI to it. So you can plug in your laptop. Finally get a separate good quality Conference room phone. Loud and crisp enough to hear from, and able to pick up with what you are saying clearly.
These things look cool, but rarely ever utilized.