10 years back when I started college, I was making about $12 an hour, almost double minimum wage. About $1300k/month after taxes Rent $500/month Food $300/month Car Loan $200/month Energy $100/month Random Medical $80/month average over the year Basic Cellphone: $60/month Basic Internet: $60/month Gas $60/month $1,360/month so far
Now toss in random college costs.
Where did I save money? Double minimum wage and still in the Red.
"On top of which, I'd be sharing bandwidth going to the ISP."
Just like DSL and FIOS. DSL: Dedicated up to the dslam FIOS: shared at every point. --Best not because of best bandwidth, but fiber generally has fewer issues and is easier to troubleshoot. Much more reliable DOCSIS: hybrid of shared and not shared. Implementation dependent.
Toss in sCDMA on DOCSIS and you gain 128xs the bandwidth per channel. Now, can CDMA device process data fast enough becomes the issue, but it should scale with faster processors.
What's wrong with cable connections? I get a 6ms ping to a city 30mi away, 20ms ping to Chicago, and 45ms to New York.
If you know someone with DSL that gets more than 10% better, let me know. I bet most have worse. Latency isn't a cable technology issue, but and implementation issue.
ahh. So 100us would be the "extreme" case. Interesting info:-)
Just in case... I wasn't trying to say you were wrong, but I found it strange to have that much of a latency difference between my copper networking and a high speed fiber link. The 7us range sound quite fast for a bunch of error checking/correction.
"That may be Microsoft's plan, but it's a real loser for expensive specialty software. At my work, we have plenty of technical apps that cost more than the Windows machine they're running on, even though they require fairly hefty hardware. There's no way a company writing a $10K app is going to be willing to hand over $3K to Microsoft to get it on their appstore."
If you think that company is going to re-write their "$10k app" that requires "hefty hardware", in HTML5/Javascript, you've got a screw loose. Metro apps can only be from the app store... Metro apps are HTML5/Javascript.
Actually, MS has already stated that "developers" can install Metro apps, side channel, and ignore the app store all together. Did you know anyone with VS Express or Enterprise Windows can do this? Since every version of Windows supports VS Express(which is 100% free), I would venture to say that by-passing the App store is just a simple registry setting.
If you're paying $10k for software, I sure hope you can afford people smart enough to install VS Express, or write a small PowerShell script to by-pass the store.
Hypothetical situation: Mom's computer gets infected with a rootkit. On the next reboot, the rootkit attempts to take over and load before key OS comments, so it can't be detected.
What is your answer to making sure this situation can't happen?
The OS is compromised, so you can't trust the OS. Next best thing is to trust something other than the OS. So now we require the BIOS to be the gate keeper. How does the BIOS determine if something is "trustable"?.... Sign it.
All of this stuff is perfectly logical, unless you completely ignore the root-kit problem at hand. But that's willful ignorance.
100us sounds a bit high actually. When I run a high-resolution ping on my home network, it claims 0.01ms pings from my computer to my wife's through my Netgear 3700 home router. That right there is only 10us. So, from the time an application instructs the OS to ping a computer to the time the other computer receives the packet, is about 10 millionths of a second, on home-grade equipment.
The whole issue is that the rich are becoming richer must faster than the rest of the economy.. aka middle/lower classes.
As the rich gain money, the middle class is getting gutted, which means you have fewer and fewer people that can afford "luxury" items. As less and less money moves around and demand drops, the value of money falls out and the cost of living goes up. As demand drops, jobs start to disappear. More and more middle/lower are jobless.At some point, no one, other than the rich, can actually afford anything.
Now you're left with this top heavy system where you have rich people with all the money, no middle class, some workers, and a ton of unemployed.
Our economy is a chicken-and-the-egg problem. The lower class supports EVERYTHING. But we have too many people. So we have a middle class that makes luxury items and services. The middle class is its own biggest demand. As the middle class goes away, demand drops. Our entire economy is based around the middle class. The middle class needs money to create demand, but if the rich keep taking all the money, there goes the middle class and demand. Without demand, there are no jobs.
Essentially, the middle class circulates money with-in itself. The rich can "leech" off of the surplus. When the rich leech more than the surplus, the economy suffers.
Another way to look at it, is interest in a savings account. Say your economy is a savings account and it's worth $5 trill. Your savings account gains 4% interest per year. If everything was balanced, the rich would skim 1-2% off of that interest. The economy would continue to grow and the rich would grow faster than the rest because they're sharing 2% with a small amount of people. But when they start taking 4% out, suddenly the economy stops growing. The amount that they skim off is out of whack with the growth. Then they get more greedy and start taking 5%. Now you have a decline.
The rich, as a whole, are too greedy. They want to make money more, so the lay off workers. But because they lay off workers, the reduce demand. So their company makes less money because demand is down. So they lay off more workers again, and again reduce demand, which causes them to lay off more workers..... see a pattern?
"What happens in 10 years when today's computers are in the same position? They all end up in a landfill instead of in the hands of people who desperately need them."
My local schools call 10 year old computers "junk" and will not accept them. That's like donating a "house" to someone, but said house is 500 years old and made of hay and branches. They're better off living in a shelter.
Intel is saying you can now do remote boot options, prior to the OS starting up. Remote into the BIOS, then tell the machine to boot from the NIC instead of the HD, then run memtest or something.
Christ was all about forgiveness and was slow to anger.. except when it came to perversion of the Bible. His largest out-lashes against people were always against people to twisted the words of God(Bible) or claimed to be Christians but did not act it(typically greedy or unforgiving).
Remember, He looked down more on the people who were judgmental of the prostitute, than the prostitute herself. Just based on that alone, "I'm holier than thou" type Christians are lower than whores.
Maybe you should read the Bible a bit, it's quite clear.
We need a flat tax on income with no loop holes. The only "deduction" should be living expenses, which should be pre-calculated by your local county, and you don't fill that out.
Make $100k/year, but live in an area with $80k/year median living expense cost, your effective income is $20k/year. You pay taxes on that $20k Make $40k/year, but live in an area with $20k/year median living expense cost, your effective income is $20k/year. You pay taxes on that $20k
The local median living expense should never exceed some factor of the national median living expense, that way you can't have a bunch of rich folk buying out a county and skewing the median.
This is just a start of an idea, I have no idea how it would play out, that would be up to people more knowledgeable than me to find out. But on the surface, it looks like it would allow for a more "fair" taxation.
Personally, I think corps are tax dodging more than people are. Corps are reporting record net profits during a recession and getting 0% effective taxes.. WTF?!
You mention that you have a 100mbit internet connection and will possibly be going to 200mbit in the foreseeable future.
That right there is an issue. Lots of people on this thread recommend a lot of Open/DD WRT compatible routers, but I bet almost none of them can break 50mbit/sec sustained with SPI/NAT and a few connections.
There are only 2-3 consumer grade routers that can handle those speeds. Just because they have a gigabit WAN doesn't mean they can *process* those speeds. That's a memory and CPU issue.
If you want to actually get near those speeds, you will either need a DLink DIR-825 or a Netgear WNDR3700N. I will warn you right now, the 3700 has issues with DD/Open WRT in that the wireless has a good chance of being about useless after the flash, even if you flash back to stock firmware. Something about the DD/Open WRT wireless drivers does not play well with more 3700s and has permanently left some devices effectively with out wireless even after a reflash. I have no idea about the 825.
Both support IPv6.
The 3700 with Netgear firmware does have some of the best wireless performance in the industry. Longest range, best peak performance, best ranged performance, best penetration. It works great with Netgear's firmware.
My recommendation would be to use the 3700 as your wireless device, and get an Intel i5, put some decent NICs on it and install pfSense. A bit more expensive, but it will last a long time, be customizable, and be fast fast fast.
Rule of thumb. If you pay under $100 for a router, it's not going to break 80mbit/sec of WANLAN performance. At least not for the current generation of two of routing hardware.
I got Win7 RTM from MSDN early. I had 4 months of uptime on Win7 before I had to restart for an update.
I have yet to see or hear of a Win7 machine crashing from my friends/co-workers(IT), other than failing hardware.
I've installed buggy Video/audio drivers before, but luckily Win7 rarely crashes from failing video/audio drivers. My screen just goes black and it resets the card. I don't even have to restart Win7 when installing most new video/audio drivers because most of the drivers run in user-mode, which is why they don't BSOD often.
Not saying Windows is awesome, just saying "unstable" doesn't describe it anymore. "Annoying" still applies.
How I hated Basic. I started to learn basic when I was 12, but it was so boring, it almost dis-interested me from learning programming at all. Luckily, a year later, I stumbled across C.
I hated Basic because I wasn't programming the computer, I was programming Basic. C, on the other hand, was low enough to the computer that I felt I was "talking" directly to the computer, that is what got my attention. From there, C got me reading into ASM. I've never done a whole lot of C/ASM programming, but the little I dabbled in, along with reading optimization theories, has helped me design and optimize C# programs that I now do for a living.
If you want code monkeys, teach kids a language; if you want programmers, teach kids how to problem solve.
My most interesting and fun "programming" class in college, was about writing pseudo-code and calculating the Big O. It was a Discrete Math class based entirely around programming and set theory.
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10 years back when I started college, I was making about $12 an hour, almost double minimum wage. About $1300k/month after taxes
Rent $500/month
Food $300/month
Car Loan $200/month
Energy $100/month
Random Medical $80/month average over the year
Basic Cellphone: $60/month
Basic Internet: $60/month
Gas $60/month
$1,360/month so far
Now toss in random college costs.
Where did I save money? Double minimum wage and still in the Red.
"On top of which, I'd be sharing bandwidth going to the ISP."
Just like DSL and FIOS.
DSL: Dedicated up to the dslam
FIOS: shared at every point. --Best not because of best bandwidth, but fiber generally has fewer issues and is easier to troubleshoot. Much more reliable
DOCSIS: hybrid of shared and not shared. Implementation dependent.
I stand corrected. Wish I could replace my above comment with "herp a derp"
Toss in sCDMA on DOCSIS and you gain 128xs the bandwidth per channel. Now, can CDMA device process data fast enough becomes the issue, but it should scale with faster processors.
What's wrong with cable connections? I get a 6ms ping to a city 30mi away, 20ms ping to Chicago, and 45ms to New York.
If you know someone with DSL that gets more than 10% better, let me know. I bet most have worse. Latency isn't a cable technology issue, but and implementation issue.
ahh. So 100us would be the "extreme" case. Interesting info :-)
Just in case... I wasn't trying to say you were wrong, but I found it strange to have that much of a latency difference between my copper networking and a high speed fiber link. The 7us range sound quite fast for a bunch of error checking/correction.
"That may be Microsoft's plan, but it's a real loser for expensive specialty software. At my work, we have plenty of technical apps that cost more than the Windows machine they're running on, even though they require fairly hefty hardware. There's no way a company writing a $10K app is going to be willing to hand over $3K to Microsoft to get it on their appstore."
If you think that company is going to re-write their "$10k app" that requires "hefty hardware", in HTML5/Javascript, you've got a screw loose. Metro apps can only be from the app store... Metro apps are HTML5/Javascript.
Actually, MS has already stated that "developers" can install Metro apps, side channel, and ignore the app store all together. Did you know anyone with VS Express or Enterprise Windows can do this? Since every version of Windows supports VS Express(which is 100% free), I would venture to say that by-passing the App store is just a simple registry setting.
If you're paying $10k for software, I sure hope you can afford people smart enough to install VS Express, or write a small PowerShell script to by-pass the store.
Hypothetical situation: Mom's computer gets infected with a rootkit. On the next reboot, the rootkit attempts to take over and load before key OS comments, so it can't be detected.
What is your answer to making sure this situation can't happen?
The OS is compromised, so you can't trust the OS. Next best thing is to trust something other than the OS. So now we require the BIOS to be the gate keeper. How does the BIOS determine if something is "trustable"?.... Sign it.
All of this stuff is perfectly logical, unless you completely ignore the root-kit problem at hand. But that's willful ignorance.
100us sounds a bit high actually. When I run a high-resolution ping on my home network, it claims 0.01ms pings from my computer to my wife's through my Netgear 3700 home router. That right there is only 10us. So, from the time an application instructs the OS to ping a computer to the time the other computer receives the packet, is about 10 millionths of a second, on home-grade equipment.
I should hope fiber is faster than that.
Propagation speed in copper is actually slightly faster than that of light in fibre.
^^
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The whole issue is that the rich are becoming richer must faster than the rest of the economy.. aka middle/lower classes.
As the rich gain money, the middle class is getting gutted, which means you have fewer and fewer people that can afford "luxury" items. As less and less money moves around and demand drops, the value of money falls out and the cost of living goes up. As demand drops, jobs start to disappear. More and more middle/lower are jobless.At some point, no one, other than the rich, can actually afford anything.
Now you're left with this top heavy system where you have rich people with all the money, no middle class, some workers, and a ton of unemployed.
Our economy is a chicken-and-the-egg problem. The lower class supports EVERYTHING. But we have too many people. So we have a middle class that makes luxury items and services. The middle class is its own biggest demand. As the middle class goes away, demand drops. Our entire economy is based around the middle class. The middle class needs money to create demand, but if the rich keep taking all the money, there goes the middle class and demand. Without demand, there are no jobs.
Essentially, the middle class circulates money with-in itself. The rich can "leech" off of the surplus. When the rich leech more than the surplus, the economy suffers.
Another way to look at it, is interest in a savings account. Say your economy is a savings account and it's worth $5 trill. Your savings account gains 4% interest per year. If everything was balanced, the rich would skim 1-2% off of that interest. The economy would continue to grow and the rich would grow faster than the rest because they're sharing 2% with a small amount of people. But when they start taking 4% out, suddenly the economy stops growing. The amount that they skim off is out of whack with the growth. Then they get more greedy and start taking 5%. Now you have a decline.
The rich, as a whole, are too greedy. They want to make money more, so the lay off workers. But because they lay off workers, the reduce demand. So their company makes less money because demand is down. So they lay off more workers again, and again reduce demand, which causes them to lay off more workers..... see a pattern?
"What happens in 10 years when today's computers are in the same position? They all end up in a landfill instead of in the hands of people who desperately need them."
My local schools call 10 year old computers "junk" and will not accept them. That's like donating a "house" to someone, but said house is 500 years old and made of hay and branches. They're better off living in a shelter.
I would assume you press F1/F12/F10/DEL or whatever, at boot time and disable the secure boot setting.
I can't see Server/Motherboard manufacturers screwing over large super-computer contracts that use Linux by not having this optional.
Would have to be careful about not messing up the ecosystem.
Intel is saying you can now do remote boot options, prior to the OS starting up. Remote into the BIOS, then tell the machine to boot from the NIC instead of the HD, then run memtest or something.
+9001
" Just taking FAIR to it's logical conclusion..."
Slavery
Just taking UNFAIR to it's logical conclusion...
Middle ground ever?
Christ was all about forgiveness and was slow to anger.. except when it came to perversion of the Bible. His largest out-lashes against people were always against people to twisted the words of God(Bible) or claimed to be Christians but did not act it(typically greedy or unforgiving).
Remember, He looked down more on the people who were judgmental of the prostitute, than the prostitute herself. Just based on that alone, "I'm holier than thou" type Christians are lower than whores.
Maybe you should read the Bible a bit, it's quite clear.
".With our current tiered system, they pay a higher percentage than us."
Not when you take loopholes into account. We're talking about effective tax not the fictional values listed in the code.
We need a flat tax on income with no loop holes. The only "deduction" should be living expenses, which should be pre-calculated by your local county, and you don't fill that out.
Make $100k/year, but live in an area with $80k/year median living expense cost, your effective income is $20k/year. You pay taxes on that $20k
Make $40k/year, but live in an area with $20k/year median living expense cost, your effective income is $20k/year. You pay taxes on that $20k
The local median living expense should never exceed some factor of the national median living expense, that way you can't have a bunch of rich folk buying out a county and skewing the median.
This is just a start of an idea, I have no idea how it would play out, that would be up to people more knowledgeable than me to find out. But on the surface, it looks like it would allow for a more "fair" taxation.
Personally, I think corps are tax dodging more than people are. Corps are reporting record net profits during a recession and getting 0% effective taxes.. WTF?!
+5
I try reading 2-3 times before I reply, but this feature still tends to bite me quite often.
You mention that you have a 100mbit internet connection and will possibly be going to 200mbit in the foreseeable future.
That right there is an issue. Lots of people on this thread recommend a lot of Open/DD WRT compatible routers, but I bet almost none of them can break 50mbit/sec sustained with SPI/NAT and a few connections.
There are only 2-3 consumer grade routers that can handle those speeds. Just because they have a gigabit WAN doesn't mean they can *process* those speeds. That's a memory and CPU issue.
If you want to actually get near those speeds, you will either need a DLink DIR-825 or a Netgear WNDR3700N. I will warn you right now, the 3700 has issues with DD/Open WRT in that the wireless has a good chance of being about useless after the flash, even if you flash back to stock firmware. Something about the DD/Open WRT wireless drivers does not play well with more 3700s and has permanently left some devices effectively with out wireless even after a reflash. I have no idea about the 825.
Both support IPv6.
The 3700 with Netgear firmware does have some of the best wireless performance in the industry. Longest range, best peak performance, best ranged performance, best penetration. It works great with Netgear's firmware.
My recommendation would be to use the 3700 as your wireless device, and get an Intel i5, put some decent NICs on it and install pfSense. A bit more expensive, but it will last a long time, be customizable, and be fast fast fast.
Rule of thumb. If you pay under $100 for a router, it's not going to break 80mbit/sec of WANLAN performance. At least not for the current generation of two of routing hardware.
An 8 CPU(socket) computer would cost a heck of a lot more than a multi-monitor setup.
I got Win7 RTM from MSDN early. I had 4 months of uptime on Win7 before I had to restart for an update.
I have yet to see or hear of a Win7 machine crashing from my friends/co-workers(IT), other than failing hardware.
I've installed buggy Video/audio drivers before, but luckily Win7 rarely crashes from failing video/audio drivers. My screen just goes black and it resets the card. I don't even have to restart Win7 when installing most new video/audio drivers because most of the drivers run in user-mode, which is why they don't BSOD often.
Not saying Windows is awesome, just saying "unstable" doesn't describe it anymore. "Annoying" still applies.
How I hated Basic. I started to learn basic when I was 12, but it was so boring, it almost dis-interested me from learning programming at all. Luckily, a year later, I stumbled across C.
I hated Basic because I wasn't programming the computer, I was programming Basic. C, on the other hand, was low enough to the computer that I felt I was "talking" directly to the computer, that is what got my attention. From there, C got me reading into ASM. I've never done a whole lot of C/ASM programming, but the little I dabbled in, along with reading optimization theories, has helped me design and optimize C# programs that I now do for a living.
If you want code monkeys, teach kids a language; if you want programmers, teach kids how to problem solve.
My most interesting and fun "programming" class in college, was about writing pseudo-code and calculating the Big O. It was a Discrete Math class based entirely around programming and set theory.