Do we really NEED liquid cooled servers in datacenters? Is this just our feeble attempt to validate Moore's Law despite diminishing returns on smaller process size and core multiplication...?
What the hell am I talking about? Of COURSE we need them!
In this day and age, I'm about 99.9% sure some or all of the guard-patron transactions on the borders is recorded in some way. If this guy is as innocent as he says, the tapes will clearly show it and any judge with half a brain will reach the same conclusion: he wasn't in the wrong.
Congratulations, you have experienced what a pilot encounters for the majority of a transatlantic flight. If you're ambitious, you can even fake some cockpit announcements.
I am currently doing flight training to a commercial pilot level. One of the things I do as a skills practice is fly on MS Flight Simulator using the VATSIM (Virtual Air Traffic Simulation) network - http://www.vatsim.net/ - and I routinely fly transoceanic flights. We fly with real airline callsigns, following real aircraft routes and timetables. The instrumentation and controls are (for the most part) the same as the real thing. The Flight Management Computers in the simulated planes are exactly the same as the real thing. If you have good equipment, the hands-on controls are almost the same. It's a fun way to pass the time and keep skills up to date...BUT:
When you've got 9+ hours of looking at nothing, and you only have to make radio contact once an hour (North Atlantic Track position reports) there is actually nothing to do. At most, you scan the instruments every couple minutes. Even on the flight sim, I usually resort to what we call "In-flight Movies" which is essentially pull up Hulu and watch something until we next have to change the aircraft controls, which is usually when leaving land or making landfall on the other side.
You have a cruising altitude which is held by a computer, and a heading which follows a little line on your on-board GPS, and a speed which is usually also controlled by a computer(or if not, it's setting a lever to a certain position and leaving it there). There is literally NOTHING for the pilot to do if they can't have some sort of distraction. Some real-world pilots I have flown with read a newspaper or magazine, some play with a Game Boy, DS, PSP, etc Some get up and walk through the passenger cabin just like a "How are you, how's it going?" sort of thing. Almost like a chef in a restaurant would come out to the dining area and ask how people's food is.
On top of the endless boredom, they don't get paid nearly enough. Pilots have one of the lowest returns on their education costs of any profession. Throw in the fact that their skills are there to protect hundreds of lives at a time, and you'd think they would be well-paid.
Making regulations that prohibit them from minor distractions in the course of this endless boredom will most likely lead to highly detrimental results. I would not be surprised to see that there were more incidents with pilots falling asleep than previously as these regulations begin to take effect.
Very disappointing, FAA. Maybe you could instead start regulating things that jack up travel prices, waste fuel, and cause extreme delays, like airlines selling more flights in and out of airports than the runways can physically accommodate in a given amount of time. Or like the stupid TSA requirements that we are subjected to as passengers on commercial airlines.
The airlines are failing, and it's their own damn fault. Unnecessary regulation like this is a waste of taxpayers' time and money, and pushes prospective customers and employees away from the industry.
I love Firefox. I use it on all my computers as a browser. It offers me more features than Chrome, and more stability and security than IE.
That said, I don't want to use it on my Droid. My droid is a 500MHz piece with very limited RAM, and Firefox has a whole buttload of overhead. The browser that came with Android 1.2 is just fine for me. Does Firefox for Android add flash support? That would be the only reason I could ever bring myself to use it.
While there are a handful of stereotyping assholes on the government's payroll in Japan, by and large they are civil people. If you are taking out trash or retrieving mail and are stopped, and you say "My ID is inside, come with me while I get it", they will happily oblige and take the 10 steps to your door for you to save them the trouble of dragging you somewhere else and filling out a bunch of paperwork. If you make the effort to speak the language, they will more or less leave you alone.
In some of the super touristy parts of Shinjuku and Akihabara, late at night, the police will frequently ask for foreigners' IDs. This is mostly to stem foreign patronage of backstreet underaged prostitution establishments, which has been an extreme problem as of late. I certainly have no problem flashing my passport or an ID card if they ask, but if you speak Japanese well they probably won't do more than ask what you're up to.
Forcing me to interact with a police officer without any cause violates my RIGHT to remain silent. In case you didn't know, you have this right whether or not you have been arrested or mirandized.
To me, silence is by far the best way to interact with a police officer when you haven't done anything wrong.
This just sounds like an IT guy whining that someone's making him do his job. If they're not setting up/fixing/managing workstations, what is their job? I know there are some legit IT jobs that aren't workstation oriented, but it seems like the point of an IT department in any bigger company is mostly to make the computers which everyone else works on function correctly.
I worked for a software division of a pretty highly-ranked fortune 500 company for about 3 years. In that time, 99% of what was on the IT guy's to-do list(which was publicly visible and available to add to on the intranet) was related to workstations. There was a daily backup to a data storage company(they actually came and swapped out the backup drives and took them away in a lockbox) and in 3 years probably 3 times they had to increase storage for the company-wide server shares. There may have been a handful of other things they did which didn't make it onto their list, but other than that it was ALL simple workstation stuff like "Add more RAM" or "Reformat to new OS".
It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me that IT people complain about the workstation users as much as they do. It's what they're paid to do. If they're not happy with the job, maybe find something else that suits you better.
If you could convince people to do those things on the internet without getting sidetracked onto facebook or some social media site which has absolutely no productivity value, then please do. I'm sure we'd all appreciate it. The fact is, people are far too dependent on those things and feel like they're being left out if they can't check on them every few minutes. The fact is, if you're at work, you SHOULD be left out - at least until you finish work.
I propose instead of blocking internet, we have an application for office computers which essentially keep track of internet activity on the employee's computer. If the employee is hourly, they should essentially be 'punched out' from work during any time they spend on social sites, forums, etc. Anything the company deems to be non-work-related. If the employee is not hourly, then deduct a prorated amount from their salary based on the time they spend screwing around each month. I would imagine as soon as the person gets that first paycheck showing how much they were docked for all the time they spent on myspace instead of working, that they will reorganize their priorities a little. Understandably you'd leave things like internet radio sites and business-necessary sites off the list. There's a slight potential for abuse, but in what company is there absolutely no way for employers to screw employees? That seems like a right all companies have, from my experience.
If you NEED to be connected to those time wasting sites so badly it can't wait, I believe that's what they're calling Internet Addiction these days.
Your dependence on utterly useless and rampant societal time-sucks like Facebook and Twitter depresses me greatly. I wonder if we could have already achieved monumentally great things in biology, science, and space travel if not for these wasteful uses of our technology and time.
The transition of the personal computer from a productive tool to a frivolous waste of time has been one of the saddest phenomenon I have had to witness over the last 10 years.
Just one more reason I will never create a Facebook page. It's a no-benefit time suck with no apparent purpose except to facilitate attention whores and their ilk.
Yes, it makes it easy to keep in touch with your friends. You know what else does that? A phone. A letter. Walking to their house and knocking on the door.
Further eliminating direct interpersonal communications in favor of digital communication is absolutely not beneficial for this society, country, or planet. If their wanton lack of regard for privacy and their users' data isn't enough to drive you away, I hope the chair ass and jelly rolls it induces will be.
Go throw a damn baseball with a real friend instead.
I don't know where you learned your bitmath, but 32-bits *is* a DWORD
I think the logical solution which should've presented itself after the whole Y2K scare thing, would be to use a time-since-Jan-1st number for the day/month and a separate integer for the year. Even if it's an unsigned short, it can still go somewhere around 16,500 years before we're going to run out of digits.
"We really thought the EA Partners would give us the freedom and independence we needed to make great games."
Um, what? You do know EA is an equally large and corporate entity as Activision, right?
"We own the IP, so we can make sure it's treated with the respect it deserves."
Oh, score!
Having the smaller Game Development studios own and manage their own IP is the only way to assure we can have a broad range of quality games without being completely sucked into the absolutely horrid profit mill of excessive sequels and movie-based games. As far as I'm concerned, these two are heroes for everyone below an executive level in the Game Development field.
"Hire some former drill instructors to fix discipline problems. Yes, your little deviant brat who "would never do anything bad" might get his feelings hurt a little bit, but maybe he'll finally get his shit straight "
Unfortunately, the lax governing of acceptable lawsuits has made our society far too litigious to ever succeed with this plan. The school board would be sued, and would probably lose, should they ever 'discipline' a child like that.
One of my teachers in college loves to say things like "Not all students will be A-Students. If you get a B in my class, you're doing just fine." Then he'd pile on the work so thick if you didn't spend every second of your free time reading up or studying some new technique, you couldn't pass, let alone get an A.
My high school had this. Public school, small country town in Wisconsin.
In your senior year you could do a variety of things. If your grades were in good standing, you could:
-Leave after a little more than half the day to do...whatever. Most people used this time to work. -Sign up for work study programs where you can get a job in an applicable field and get credit for working it. They also paid for high-level vocational training(A+ cert, Net+ Cert, Project Management, etc for my program) -Graduate half a year early if you completed the required number of credits in each area
Saying that disseminating information on sex is the same as encouraging people to HAVE sex could be likened to saying disseminating information on drugs is encouraging people to use drugs. This can be applied to many different fields, such as 'Don't Drink and Drive' commercials on TV, Trojan Condom commercials on TV, Planned Parenthood for providing free contraceptives regardless of age or situation, the Needle Exchange program which tries to prevent spreading HIV, AIDS, and Hepatitis by replacing dirty, used needles with clean ones, the AIDS network which regularly provides information and contraceptives to anyone for the asking....the list is LONG, especially in a liberal state like Wisconsin.
I'm not a lawyer, but I have faith (at least in Wisconsin) that the law will not be permitted to be twisted this way. I'm sure any half-assed newbie lawyer could look for a while and find some precedent that prevents the prosecution of an instructor for dissemination of information which certain people do not agree with. The fact remains, that as a student in Wisconsin (pre-, primary, middle, and high school) I was told countless times how condoms work, to use condoms if I had sex, how the body reproduces, how sex works, how drugs work, not to use drugs...hell, a DARE officer even brought in a CASE FULL OF DRUGS to my 5th grade class to show us what everything looks like. How is that not worse than showing a kid a condom?
I think 'designer' clothing is a scam in any form or market. Paying more for something because a certain person's name is on it is the height of shallow stupidity. Extending this to a market where safety and reliability are the only real concerns, and adding fashion concerns over function, is simply irresponsible. If any of these suits are actually produced and used, it will be abundantly clear why the space program on this planet as a whole is failing.
1. Google telling its employees to "Be vague" does not mean they're giving out personal information or access to the government. For all we know, they're being vague so the government doesn't get a straight answer about why they CAN'T access the accounts.
2. This article is pure speculation and has no factual basis to indicate Google is giving anyone access to anything. A report worthy of Fox News.
Google has always been a proponent of privacy, and they have gone to near-contempt lengths to prevent people from obtaining their records. I highly doubt for some reason they're just handing that information over now.
Saying that an intern doesn't make the company money, so they shouldn't be paid, is like saying "I'm hiring a Maid, but since they're not going to make my house a profit, I won't pay them."
Interns often provide valuable services (running errands, doing menial tasks) which in the end DO lead to profit, even if they themselves don't directly rake in the big bucks for you. The interns also get training and experience with your company while working the internship, lessening future training costs and acclimation times when/if you hire them outside of the internship. This should be especially true for software companies, where it often takes people working with the code a good period of time to get up to speed with the layout and formatting of the existing code base.
I think it should be quite clear to all but the most corrupt people that working for no pay, while in the employ of a company that generates Millions if not Billions of dollars of profit, is not acceptable.
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Do we really NEED liquid cooled servers in datacenters? Is this just our feeble attempt to validate Moore's Law despite diminishing returns on smaller process size and core multiplication...?
What the hell am I talking about? Of COURSE we need them!
"...so they can swim and drive..."
Woah. These Beavers can build complex structures AND drive? That's seriously impressive.
In this day and age, I'm about 99.9% sure some or all of the guard-patron transactions on the borders is recorded in some way. If this guy is as innocent as he says, the tapes will clearly show it and any judge with half a brain will reach the same conclusion: he wasn't in the wrong.
Stare at this picture for 9 hours: http://www.flickr.com/photos/14584559@N03/4502059275/
Every hour or so, say "position report"
Congratulations, you have experienced what a pilot encounters for the majority of a transatlantic flight. If you're ambitious, you can even fake some cockpit announcements.
I am currently doing flight training to a commercial pilot level. One of the things I do as a skills practice is fly on MS Flight Simulator using the VATSIM (Virtual Air Traffic Simulation) network - http://www.vatsim.net/ - and I routinely fly transoceanic flights. We fly with real airline callsigns, following real aircraft routes and timetables. The instrumentation and controls are (for the most part) the same as the real thing. The Flight Management Computers in the simulated planes are exactly the same as the real thing. If you have good equipment, the hands-on controls are almost the same. It's a fun way to pass the time and keep skills up to date...BUT:
It's so boring! Here is an example of what I look at for 9 hours without touching anything: http://www.flickr.com/photos/14584559@N03/4502059275/
When you've got 9+ hours of looking at nothing, and you only have to make radio contact once an hour (North Atlantic Track position reports) there is actually nothing to do. At most, you scan the instruments every couple minutes. Even on the flight sim, I usually resort to what we call "In-flight Movies" which is essentially pull up Hulu and watch something until we next have to change the aircraft controls, which is usually when leaving land or making landfall on the other side.
You have a cruising altitude which is held by a computer, and a heading which follows a little line on your on-board GPS, and a speed which is usually also controlled by a computer(or if not, it's setting a lever to a certain position and leaving it there). There is literally NOTHING for the pilot to do if they can't have some sort of distraction. Some real-world pilots I have flown with read a newspaper or magazine, some play with a Game Boy, DS, PSP, etc Some get up and walk through the passenger cabin just like a "How are you, how's it going?" sort of thing. Almost like a chef in a restaurant would come out to the dining area and ask how people's food is.
On top of the endless boredom, they don't get paid nearly enough. Pilots have one of the lowest returns on their education costs of any profession. Throw in the fact that their skills are there to protect hundreds of lives at a time, and you'd think they would be well-paid.
Making regulations that prohibit them from minor distractions in the course of this endless boredom will most likely lead to highly detrimental results. I would not be surprised to see that there were more incidents with pilots falling asleep than previously as these regulations begin to take effect.
Very disappointing, FAA. Maybe you could instead start regulating things that jack up travel prices, waste fuel, and cause extreme delays, like airlines selling more flights in and out of airports than the runways can physically accommodate in a given amount of time. Or like the stupid TSA requirements that we are subjected to as passengers on commercial airlines.
The airlines are failing, and it's their own damn fault. Unnecessary regulation like this is a waste of taxpayers' time and money, and pushes prospective customers and employees away from the industry.
I love Firefox. I use it on all my computers as a browser. It offers me more features than Chrome, and more stability and security than IE.
That said, I don't want to use it on my Droid. My droid is a 500MHz piece with very limited RAM, and Firefox has a whole buttload of overhead. The browser that came with Android 1.2 is just fine for me. Does Firefox for Android add flash support? That would be the only reason I could ever bring myself to use it.
While there are a handful of stereotyping assholes on the government's payroll in Japan, by and large they are civil people. If you are taking out trash or retrieving mail and are stopped, and you say "My ID is inside, come with me while I get it", they will happily oblige and take the 10 steps to your door for you to save them the trouble of dragging you somewhere else and filling out a bunch of paperwork. If you make the effort to speak the language, they will more or less leave you alone.
In some of the super touristy parts of Shinjuku and Akihabara, late at night, the police will frequently ask for foreigners' IDs. This is mostly to stem foreign patronage of backstreet underaged prostitution establishments, which has been an extreme problem as of late. I certainly have no problem flashing my passport or an ID card if they ask, but if you speak Japanese well they probably won't do more than ask what you're up to.
Forcing me to interact with a police officer without any cause violates my RIGHT to remain silent. In case you didn't know, you have this right whether or not you have been arrested or mirandized.
To me, silence is by far the best way to interact with a police officer when you haven't done anything wrong.
This just sounds like an IT guy whining that someone's making him do his job. If they're not setting up/fixing/managing workstations, what is their job? I know there are some legit IT jobs that aren't workstation oriented, but it seems like the point of an IT department in any bigger company is mostly to make the computers which everyone else works on function correctly.
I worked for a software division of a pretty highly-ranked fortune 500 company for about 3 years. In that time, 99% of what was on the IT guy's to-do list(which was publicly visible and available to add to on the intranet) was related to workstations. There was a daily backup to a data storage company(they actually came and swapped out the backup drives and took them away in a lockbox) and in 3 years probably 3 times they had to increase storage for the company-wide server shares. There may have been a handful of other things they did which didn't make it onto their list, but other than that it was ALL simple workstation stuff like "Add more RAM" or "Reformat to new OS".
It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me that IT people complain about the workstation users as much as they do. It's what they're paid to do. If they're not happy with the job, maybe find something else that suits you better.
If you could convince people to do those things on the internet without getting sidetracked onto facebook or some social media site which has absolutely no productivity value, then please do. I'm sure we'd all appreciate it. The fact is, people are far too dependent on those things and feel like they're being left out if they can't check on them every few minutes. The fact is, if you're at work, you SHOULD be left out - at least until you finish work.
I propose instead of blocking internet, we have an application for office computers which essentially keep track of internet activity on the employee's computer. If the employee is hourly, they should essentially be 'punched out' from work during any time they spend on social sites, forums, etc. Anything the company deems to be non-work-related. If the employee is not hourly, then deduct a prorated amount from their salary based on the time they spend screwing around each month. I would imagine as soon as the person gets that first paycheck showing how much they were docked for all the time they spent on myspace instead of working, that they will reorganize their priorities a little. Understandably you'd leave things like internet radio sites and business-necessary sites off the list. There's a slight potential for abuse, but in what company is there absolutely no way for employers to screw employees? That seems like a right all companies have, from my experience.
If you NEED to be connected to those time wasting sites so badly it can't wait, I believe that's what they're calling Internet Addiction these days.
Your dependence on utterly useless and rampant societal time-sucks like Facebook and Twitter depresses me greatly. I wonder if we could have already achieved monumentally great things in biology, science, and space travel if not for these wasteful uses of our technology and time.
The transition of the personal computer from a productive tool to a frivolous waste of time has been one of the saddest phenomenon I have had to witness over the last 10 years.
Just one more reason I will never create a Facebook page. It's a no-benefit time suck with no apparent purpose except to facilitate attention whores and their ilk.
Yes, it makes it easy to keep in touch with your friends. You know what else does that? A phone. A letter. Walking to their house and knocking on the door.
Further eliminating direct interpersonal communications in favor of digital communication is absolutely not beneficial for this society, country, or planet. If their wanton lack of regard for privacy and their users' data isn't enough to drive you away, I hope the chair ass and jelly rolls it induces will be.
Go throw a damn baseball with a real friend instead.
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I don't know where you learned your bitmath, but 32-bits *is* a DWORD
I think the logical solution which should've presented itself after the whole Y2K scare thing, would be to use a time-since-Jan-1st number for the day/month and a separate integer for the year. Even if it's an unsigned short, it can still go somewhere around 16,500 years before we're going to run out of digits.
"We really thought the EA Partners would give us the freedom and independence we needed to make great games."
Um, what? You do know EA is an equally large and corporate entity as Activision, right?
"We own the IP, so we can make sure it's treated with the respect it deserves."
Oh, score!
Having the smaller Game Development studios own and manage their own IP is the only way to assure we can have a broad range of quality games without being completely sucked into the absolutely horrid profit mill of excessive sequels and movie-based games. As far as I'm concerned, these two are heroes for everyone below an executive level in the Game Development field.
I think I need to send a resume.
"Hire some former drill instructors to fix discipline problems. Yes, your little deviant brat who "would never do anything bad" might get his feelings hurt a little bit, but maybe he'll finally get his shit straight "
Unfortunately, the lax governing of acceptable lawsuits has made our society far too litigious to ever succeed with this plan. The school board would be sued, and would probably lose, should they ever 'discipline' a child like that.
So, basically...make our schools just like Japanese schools?
I could see that working.
One of my teachers in college loves to say things like "Not all students will be A-Students. If you get a B in my class, you're doing just fine." Then he'd pile on the work so thick if you didn't spend every second of your free time reading up or studying some new technique, you couldn't pass, let alone get an A.
My high school had this. Public school, small country town in Wisconsin.
In your senior year you could do a variety of things. If your grades were in good standing, you could:
-Leave after a little more than half the day to do...whatever. Most people used this time to work.
-Sign up for work study programs where you can get a job in an applicable field and get credit for working it. They also paid for high-level vocational training(A+ cert, Net+ Cert, Project Management, etc for my program)
-Graduate half a year early if you completed the required number of credits in each area
It would seem the server had a meltdown as well.
Saying that disseminating information on sex is the same as encouraging people to HAVE sex could be likened to saying disseminating information on drugs is encouraging people to use drugs. This can be applied to many different fields, such as 'Don't Drink and Drive' commercials on TV, Trojan Condom commercials on TV, Planned Parenthood for providing free contraceptives regardless of age or situation, the Needle Exchange program which tries to prevent spreading HIV, AIDS, and Hepatitis by replacing dirty, used needles with clean ones, the AIDS network which regularly provides information and contraceptives to anyone for the asking....the list is LONG, especially in a liberal state like Wisconsin.
I'm not a lawyer, but I have faith (at least in Wisconsin) that the law will not be permitted to be twisted this way. I'm sure any half-assed newbie lawyer could look for a while and find some precedent that prevents the prosecution of an instructor for dissemination of information which certain people do not agree with. The fact remains, that as a student in Wisconsin (pre-, primary, middle, and high school) I was told countless times how condoms work, to use condoms if I had sex, how the body reproduces, how sex works, how drugs work, not to use drugs...hell, a DARE officer even brought in a CASE FULL OF DRUGS to my 5th grade class to show us what everything looks like. How is that not worse than showing a kid a condom?
I think 'designer' clothing is a scam in any form or market. Paying more for something because a certain person's name is on it is the height of shallow stupidity. Extending this to a market where safety and reliability are the only real concerns, and adding fashion concerns over function, is simply irresponsible. If any of these suits are actually produced and used, it will be abundantly clear why the space program on this planet as a whole is failing.
2. This article is pure speculation and has no factual basis to indicate Google is giving anyone access to anything. A report worthy of Fox News.
Google has always been a proponent of privacy, and they have gone to near-contempt lengths to prevent people from obtaining their records. I highly doubt for some reason they're just handing that information over now.
I think my signature says it all.
Interns often provide valuable services (running errands, doing menial tasks) which in the end DO lead to profit, even if they themselves don't directly rake in the big bucks for you. The interns also get training and experience with your company while working the internship, lessening future training costs and acclimation times when/if you hire them outside of the internship. This should be especially true for software companies, where it often takes people working with the code a good period of time to get up to speed with the layout and formatting of the existing code base.
I think it should be quite clear to all but the most corrupt people that working for no pay, while in the employ of a company that generates Millions if not Billions of dollars of profit, is not acceptable.