you would only see speed increases on an Ethernet cable if there was packetloss. If there was packetloss, then something was wrong with the cable or it was laid/crimped incorrectly. The cable should have been tested. I've never seen an Ethernet cable pass a cable test and get packetloss. But then again, I used a $1k cable tester that scanned all the frequencies back in my IT days.
There is no difference between Ethernet cables that "conform" to standards.
Unlike most computer transfers, HDMI is like UDP, a lost packet is going to cause visual artifacts. Then you return the cable, which should almost never happen. I know some people just buy a bunch of $5 HDMI cables from online. Only 1 or 2 cables will be bad in a box full of them. They then just give friends/family HDMI cables so they don't have to pay $40 for a Monster Cable.
"WebGL is implemented in Google Chrome[4], Mozilla Firefox 4 and in development releases of Safari and Opera."
Khronos Group is making WebGL. Blame them, not Google. Khronos Group also makes OpenGL. Google is just following standards and bragging about how they're implementing them first.
In a lot of companies, engineers get told what to do and not ask what they would like to do.
I have similar feelings for Intel. They make a great chip and they have awesome fab tech, but their sales is strait up evil with how they "compete" against AMD.
It's possible that Mr Executive Director Internet Systems Engineering is a good engineer and truly loves to fix things, but more than likely he's also on a choke leash and follows exactly what he's told while not being able to give his opinion.
This is how I feel about Comcast's current actions... "Even a thief may donate his pocket change to a just cause"
My friend had issues with Comcast. Internet would randomly lag, sometimes cut out. After 2 months of it, he complained right up the tree, as high as he could go. He finally got a tech to come out, the fixed it, they upgraded his package to 60mb, gave him HBO, and all of that for 6 months free. He didn't pay a dime for those 6 months and never had a connection problem again...outside of overall network problems.
Not as good but similar story for me with Charter Comm. My wife and I rarely watch TV, just a few select shows and Cartoon Network when going to bed. That was $20/month extra for the extended cable. We called up and said we didn't watch much and we would rather save the $20. They chopped off $15 and gave us Showtime for free. It's hard to turn down extended cable for $5/month, so we kept it.
It only alerts when something is trying to change system settings. It's not MS's fault it pops up so much, it's all the fail software that want admin privs.
Effectively, any software that prompts UAC would not run correctly without admin. Just goes to show how much software would break from faulty designs.
Death Rates Coal - USA: 15 people per Terrawatt hour Coal - World Wide: 161 people per Terrawatt hour Nuclear - World Wide: 0.04 people per Terrawatt hour
I would get rid of coal before Nuclear. But make sure your plants are made using the newest designs. Some of those old designs suck relative to new ones.
I wipe Windows and start over every time my HD fails. My last Windows reinstall was about 8 years ago. Well, I did upgrade my pre-installed Vista to 7, but that's not a reinstall.
"Does this further erode the argument that Fukushima was just an isolated incident in the 'modern' nuclear power age?"
The Fukushima reactors were 40 years old and based on a nuclear design that was even older. Please define "modern". The Alabama Nuclear Plant in question is also nearly 40 years old and probably more cheaply made.
Some may argue that the question is just asking if the Fukushima incident was isolated, but the use of the word "modern" makes it sound like an issue caused by modern nuclear reactors.
Next in news: "8086 takes hours to render a basic 3D scene. Was the 8086 just an isolated incident of a slow cpu, and will we reach real-time 3D in this modern computing age?"
Let me know when you can top of an EV in 5 minutes and has at least a 200mile range. Some car manufacturer recently said it would take about a 50KW load for 30 minutes to get a 100mil EV up to 85% charge. To charge that in 5 minutes, you would need a 300KW load and that's not even 200 miles. So, double for 200 miles, 600KW for 5min.
Now, build me a quick charge station that can handle ~6 vehicles pulling 0.6MW, or ~ 3.6MW. Even at 95% efficient AC->DC, you would have 180KW of heat to dump.
This is why a hydrogen quick fill will be useful. Pumping gas is easier than puling from the grid.
There are three things you can pick: Fast, Cheap, Tested
Seems the whole point of what he did was to be done NOW. So, Fast. Seems they weren't willing to throw more resources into the mix to speed up testing, so Cheap.
They wanted Fast and Cheap. You can't hold a person fully to "standards" when his job demands Fast and Cheap.
But with Amazon's recent downtime, they won't be able to lay claim to 99.99% up-time for at least 5 years, assuming they have no more down time. But yes, theeir data is still there.
Using Win7 at home, I hit 110MB/sec over SMB2.0/IPv6 on my integrated Intel NIC. Best part is the 1.5% cpu that 110MB/sec uses.
At my last job, we had ~200 computer that did nightly back-ups of the primary user's profile. We had quite a few back-ups that were over 2GB 7-zipped. Quite often, we had to restore these back-ups to their computers because they deleted a file or something. A lot of man hours were saved using gigabit. Our workshop had its own 96port gig switch with dual 10gb uplinks to the network's backbone.
I would like to say, when working on computer's, having every port in the room with gig links helps speed up your work.
Lay 10 fibers in preparation for 100gb, then team two 40gb using 8 of those 10. As 22nm yields go up and the tech leaks to into networking, prices will drop dramatically. Heck, Intel claims cheap consumer-grade 10gb NICs will be made with 22nm and we should see integrated 10gb cropping up in 2012.
In ~3 years, we should see 10gb NICs where 1gb use to be.
That's why the infrastructure should be considered a utility. Let the ISP handle the internet connection and let the last mile be publicly owned and shared at whole-sale prices.
Well, I've been playing 6-14 hours of video games since ~'95, and now I program 8 hours a day then come home and play another 6 hours of games.
The only issues I have had were related to bad posture or poorly design keyboards/mice. I can usually sense an issue starting up and fix it before it becomes bad. Either way, I have always fix any RSI style issues on my own by new input devices or fixing my posture. The biggest posture issue I've noticed is I like to lean on my left arm. The leaning means my neck is at an angle which has once caused my neck muscles on one side to burn for a month. I've always figured this stuff out on my own.
16 years of constant keyboard and mouse usage. When does total hours become a cause?
Mind you, I didn't do Computer Science, I did Computer Information Systems. Programming, Web, SQL, Networking, System Admin, etc.
Graduated, 3 months later found a 8-4:30 salaried job with ~75k/year of compensation in a city where $500/month will get your a large apartment with a deck and backyard and 5min from work and food is only ~$120/month/person.
My company likes to invest into its workers. ~80% of the 1000+ employees have been with us for 5+ years, ~30% for 10+ years and ~15% 15+ years(these groups overlap). They keep their tech up-to-date, with Win7 went live about 8 months ago, several production servers are Win 2k8 R2 with SQL 2k8 R2, and we've already upgraded to VS2010 and are moving to.Net 4.0 in a few months from 3.5
Almost no one gets "replaced" around here as the only people who get fired/let-go are people you don't want around. Even though I'm salaried, working over time gets my supervisor asking what he can do to help. He and his boss do a VERY good job making sure we get what we need.
Quite a few of our workers have their spouses work within the company. It's a very family oriented company.
After reading a bunch of these "horror stories" of jobs, I think I'll be content with mine for a long time. Also, because the company is so large and is constantly expanding, it's easy for me to move around if I chose to. They're very willing to train in house as we have a lot of very smart people. It's not Google, but It's nice.
Oh, BTW, Youtube/FaceBook/etc aren't blocked. People get there work done and that's all that matters around here.
The worst part of my job is all the "food days" are making me fat..:*(
Being that the Earth is on the outer edge of the galaxy, I could see the Milky Way plowing into some intergalactic radiation and us getting pushed to the front of it could cause issues. Or anything else like that.
But more than likely, something that happened 237mil years ago was just a one time thing and just so happens to align with another number.
Coldest I've seen living in Wisconsin is -62c/-80f/211k including wind-chill. Local news said exposed skin could develop frostbite in 10-15 seconds. WI is right next to MN, so similar temps, although MN tends to take the brunt of the weather that the Rockys sends our way.
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you would only see speed increases on an Ethernet cable if there was packetloss. If there was packetloss, then something was wrong with the cable or it was laid/crimped incorrectly. The cable should have been tested. I've never seen an Ethernet cable pass a cable test and get packetloss. But then again, I used a $1k cable tester that scanned all the frequencies back in my IT days.
There is no difference between Ethernet cables that "conform" to standards.
Unlike most computer transfers, HDMI is like UDP, a lost packet is going to cause visual artifacts. Then you return the cable, which should almost never happen. I know some people just buy a bunch of $5 HDMI cables from online. Only 1 or 2 cables will be bad in a box full of them. They then just give friends/family HDMI cables so they don't have to pay $40 for a Monster Cable.
"WebGL is implemented in Google Chrome[4], Mozilla Firefox 4 and in development releases of Safari and Opera."
Khronos Group is making WebGL. Blame them, not Google. Khronos Group also makes OpenGL. Google is just following standards and bragging about how they're implementing them first.
In a lot of companies, engineers get told what to do and not ask what they would like to do.
I have similar feelings for Intel. They make a great chip and they have awesome fab tech, but their sales is strait up evil with how they "compete" against AMD.
It's possible that Mr Executive Director Internet Systems Engineering is a good engineer and truly loves to fix things, but more than likely he's also on a choke leash and follows exactly what he's told while not being able to give his opinion.
This is how I feel about Comcast's current actions... "Even a thief may donate his pocket change to a just cause"
My friend had issues with Comcast. Internet would randomly lag, sometimes cut out. After 2 months of it, he complained right up the tree, as high as he could go. He finally got a tech to come out, the fixed it, they upgraded his package to 60mb, gave him HBO, and all of that for 6 months free. He didn't pay a dime for those 6 months and never had a connection problem again...outside of overall network problems.
Not as good but similar story for me with Charter Comm. My wife and I rarely watch TV, just a few select shows and Cartoon Network when going to bed. That was $20/month extra for the extended cable. We called up and said we didn't watch much and we would rather save the $20. They chopped off $15 and gave us Showtime for free. It's hard to turn down extended cable for $5/month, so we kept it.
I now have more respect for their engineers, not their management.
It only alerts when something is trying to change system settings. It's not MS's fault it pops up so much, it's all the fail software that want admin privs.
Effectively, any software that prompts UAC would not run correctly without admin. Just goes to show how much software would break from faulty designs.
Death Rates
Coal - USA: 15 people per Terrawatt hour
Coal - World Wide: 161 people per Terrawatt hour
Nuclear - World Wide: 0.04 people per Terrawatt hour
I would get rid of coal before Nuclear. But make sure your plants are made using the newest designs. Some of those old designs suck relative to new ones.
I wipe Windows and start over every time my HD fails. My last Windows reinstall was about 8 years ago. Well, I did upgrade my pre-installed Vista to 7, but that's not a reinstall.
Some guy in China, who makes $100 per year, pirated our $500 piece of software. We LOST $500!
"Does this further erode the argument that Fukushima was just an isolated incident in the 'modern' nuclear power age?"
The Fukushima reactors were 40 years old and based on a nuclear design that was even older. Please define "modern". The Alabama Nuclear Plant in question is also nearly 40 years old and probably more cheaply made.
Some may argue that the question is just asking if the Fukushima incident was isolated, but the use of the word "modern" makes it sound like an issue caused by modern nuclear reactors.
Next in news: "8086 takes hours to render a basic 3D scene. Was the 8086 just an isolated incident of a slow cpu, and will we reach real-time 3D in this modern computing age?"
Let me know when you can top of an EV in 5 minutes and has at least a 200mile range. Some car manufacturer recently said it would take about a 50KW load for 30 minutes to get a 100mil EV up to 85% charge. To charge that in 5 minutes, you would need a 300KW load and that's not even 200 miles. So, double for 200 miles, 600KW for 5min.
Now, build me a quick charge station that can handle ~6 vehicles pulling 0.6MW, or ~ 3.6MW. Even at 95% efficient AC->DC, you would have 180KW of heat to dump.
This is why a hydrogen quick fill will be useful. Pumping gas is easier than puling from the grid.
There are three things you can pick: Fast, Cheap, Tested
Seems the whole point of what he did was to be done NOW. So, Fast. Seems they weren't willing to throw more resources into the mix to speed up testing, so Cheap.
They wanted Fast and Cheap. You can't hold a person fully to "standards" when his job demands Fast and Cheap.
But with Amazon's recent downtime, they won't be able to lay claim to 99.99% up-time for at least 5 years, assuming they have no more down time. But yes, theeir data is still there.
No, but it will make signal processing for copper based 10gb cheap enough to put 10gb NICs into $80 motherboards just like how 1gb became a commodity.
Using Win7 at home, I hit 110MB/sec over SMB2.0/IPv6 on my integrated Intel NIC. Best part is the 1.5% cpu that 110MB/sec uses.
At my last job, we had ~200 computer that did nightly back-ups of the primary user's profile. We had quite a few back-ups that were over 2GB 7-zipped. Quite often, we had to restore these back-ups to their computers because they deleted a file or something. A lot of man hours were saved using gigabit. Our workshop had its own 96port gig switch with dual 10gb uplinks to the network's backbone.
I would like to say, when working on computer's, having every port in the room with gig links helps speed up your work.
Your JS interpreter doesn't run at kernel level with full access to your low level hardware.
Just wait when Thunderbolt hits 40/100gb. I could see stacked switches using TB for cheap uplinks
Lay 10 fibers in preparation for 100gb, then team two 40gb using 8 of those 10. As 22nm yields go up and the tech leaks to into networking, prices will drop dramatically. Heck, Intel claims cheap consumer-grade 10gb NICs will be made with 22nm and we should see integrated 10gb cropping up in 2012.
In ~3 years, we should see 10gb NICs where 1gb use to be.
until you need to wash your clothes/dishes/water-lawn with bottled water
That's why the infrastructure should be considered a utility. Let the ISP handle the internet connection and let the last mile be publicly owned and shared at whole-sale prices.
But traveling on a road at 60mph in a station wagon full of reel-to-reel tape is a lot of bandwidth. I still think the road analogy works great.
Well, I've been playing 6-14 hours of video games since ~'95, and now I program 8 hours a day then come home and play another 6 hours of games.
The only issues I have had were related to bad posture or poorly design keyboards/mice. I can usually sense an issue starting up and fix it before it becomes bad. Either way, I have always fix any RSI style issues on my own by new input devices or fixing my posture. The biggest posture issue I've noticed is I like to lean on my left arm. The leaning means my neck is at an angle which has once caused my neck muscles on one side to burn for a month. I've always figured this stuff out on my own.
16 years of constant keyboard and mouse usage. When does total hours become a cause?
I'm glad I don't work where you do/have.
Mind you, I didn't do Computer Science, I did Computer Information Systems. Programming, Web, SQL, Networking, System Admin, etc.
Graduated, 3 months later found a 8-4:30 salaried job with ~75k/year of compensation in a city where $500/month will get your a large apartment with a deck and backyard and 5min from work and food is only ~$120/month/person.
My company likes to invest into its workers. ~80% of the 1000+ employees have been with us for 5+ years, ~30% for 10+ years and ~15% 15+ years(these groups overlap). They keep their tech up-to-date, with Win7 went live about 8 months ago, several production servers are Win 2k8 R2 with SQL 2k8 R2, and we've already upgraded to VS2010 and are moving to .Net 4.0 in a few months from 3.5
Almost no one gets "replaced" around here as the only people who get fired/let-go are people you don't want around. Even though I'm salaried, working over time gets my supervisor asking what he can do to help. He and his boss do a VERY good job making sure we get what we need.
Quite a few of our workers have their spouses work within the company. It's a very family oriented company.
After reading a bunch of these "horror stories" of jobs, I think I'll be content with mine for a long time. Also, because the company is so large and is constantly expanding, it's easy for me to move around if I chose to. They're very willing to train in house as we have a lot of very smart people. It's not Google, but It's nice.
Oh, BTW, Youtube/FaceBook/etc aren't blocked. People get there work done and that's all that matters around here.
The worst part of my job is all the "food days" are making me fat.. :*(
Being that the Earth is on the outer edge of the galaxy, I could see the Milky Way plowing into some intergalactic radiation and us getting pushed to the front of it could cause issues. Or anything else like that.
But more than likely, something that happened 237mil years ago was just a one time thing and just so happens to align with another number.
Coldest I've seen living in Wisconsin is -62c/-80f/211k including wind-chill. Local news said exposed skin could develop frostbite in 10-15 seconds. WI is right next to MN, so similar temps, although MN tends to take the brunt of the weather that the Rockys sends our way.