Small regional players probably don't have all the media hype that Google Fiber has gotten. That said 2.55MBPS how cute. Admittedly I can't benchmark against Netflix since it sucks ass in my country but I get 18MBPS (not Mbps MBps) pretty easily from torrents and large sites like MS, youtube etc. It does get pretty annoying actually to have that much speed at times sometimes I open a streaming video somewhere and download the whole thing before I realize it isn't the video I was looking for where as with a slower connection maybe only 1/10th of the video would be loaded before I can click the next/back button. I'm sure there is some limit to how much Netflix will push to you regardless of your bandwidth (you only need to stream so fast to keep a decent buffer on your video).
Can you get credits for machine gunners and scout recon courses? If so that would be cool;) It is cool that more colleges are recognizing things like military service courses as both some of them are directly useful (say leadership or accounting stuff for officers) and some are just plain character building which to me seems to be half of the idea of cramming some of the killer course combinations together in one term (I had for example 2 calculus courses and nuclear physics in the same term). Sneaking behind enemy lines with a rifle, canteen, shovel and a few field rations for a week has got to be worth something more than the joy of the experience:)
My school if I recall correctly allowed transfer credits but they had to be the minority of your degree requirements and I think you were limited to a few for upper year courses. Effectively you had to spend more than 2 years in a 4 year degree at that actual institution to get the degree. But top 3 universities in the country so might be just to prevent a bunch of people jumping on board to get a more prestigious degree.
I agree in principle though that outside credit should count. A MSCE might not be fantastic but it has got to be equivalent to at least a few intro to OOP courses no? Building core infrastructure at a company has got to be worth a networking course or two, (and potentially requirements analysis part of a systems engineering degree, technology strategy in a management program etc). You might not learn everything in a text book but at least if you are competent enough to not get fired/be hired by the next guy you probably have a deeper understanding of the pieces you did deal with than you'd pick up on a 2 week module as part of a course.
What exactly does "regionally accredited" mean? Does it mean if you want to do a masters you have to do it in the same region? Is it anything other than a diploma mill? Better than nothing I guess but I prefer my degree to be internationally recognized.
Exactly. The companies want to be able to say made in the US and get all the tax credits etc for making something in the US and creating jobs. But creating the actual jobs... not so much. The US and the rest of the west needs to just admit they aren't competitive for most forms of manufacturing and train people for other things.
I think this is the biggest argument for STEM education: we'll be a two tier work society those that are creative (engineers, computer programmers, designers etc) and those that work in stores selling stuff that the creative people invented and the Chinese manufactured. If you don't like a McJob you better start nerding it up.
I love that they went with Sacagawea for the dollar. Not sure if the US is the same as Canada (but I suspect it is the case) the natives are pissed on and then to pretend to have an interesting culture we pull out some native names/art on our money and maybe have a rain dance at a football game and feel all good about ourselves again. Nice.
Agreed. EU = subisidies out of the wazoo. Germany and France are the big examples of "success". However, a large amount of their exchange and banking assets are the crap countries that really couldn't afford the stuff in the first place. Then the banks countries and companies need to be bailed out because surprise surprise the average Spaniard can't afford 3 houses, Greece can't afford 20% unemployment and crazy social programs etc.Single currency only works with similar economies which Greece and say Germany are not.
Yeah but you are more likely to get a bag of chips and a drink if you have $20 of change to "get rid of". Sure giving bills for change would be difficult but I suspect that the reason for the lack of trying is that the people that work near a vending machine will eventually feed the whole $20 in the machine if you make them carry it around.
That is so much crap. Within a few weeks of dollar coins being out vending machines would be updated. They are a business and need to be able to take your money. Canada converted to $1 coins and then $2 coins, lots of EU countries completely changed their currencies and things kept working etc. The gov might have to give incentives to help particular industries convert initially but over but the long term it will work out.
There is always an amount of money that someone will license something for you (at least if they or their shareholders are sane). The court put a value on the damage of 1+ B they didn't say: "oh we don't know so we won't award anything." or "we agree irreprable harm so Apple you now own Samsung". They put a value on it.
Now the value you put on it depends on the type of customer you have to deal with. Do you have to deal with a customer that rips your stuff off and only pays you after a legal battle? Or do you have one that was more passive? Are they going to bring the tech to areas you aren't interested in pursuing yourself or are they going to be direct competition? The pain in the ass factor is a very large factor in determining how lax you are with your licensing rate.
No wonder Samsung had all the stuff needed to infringe Apple patents quickly. It wasn't that they were a vendor it was because they had a "Specialist" on the inside. Nice.
Apple gives HTC a good deal because there isn't as much of a mess in the courts with them vs Samsung. Then Samsung wants the info so they can claim that the award Apple got was too large. Nice. Sorry but companies can sell things to customers at different prices for whatever reason they want including but not limited to how much of a jerk you are.
The guy in the article that says that running the redundant copies on the same nodes would reduce i/o traffic: I'd love to speak to him. There are two options I see:
1) Assuming that there is common source data that both instances need to churn on: so the data isn't redundant so what exactly are you proving by getting the same result? Diddo with CPU, integer unit etc same hardware is not a redundant solution.
2) No shared data but you are generating data on each node: so they still have to chat with eachother to synchronize and such. So now you have 1/3 of a CPU node and 1/3 of I/O. But wait that's not all you also are trashing the hell out of your cache, if any of the stuff is on disk you are pretty much guaranteeing that at least one of the instances on the node has to wait for the drive latency since one or the other is going to get the disk first etc.
Either way you still have the problem of a node blowing up and all the simultaneous copies of the sim dying together: In short you can't call something a redundant system without actually having redundancy.
Engineering is a profession like medicine and law. Common to all is a organization of peers that regulates the ethical practice of the profession. If you screw up you get discipline up to and including loosing your accreditation. Since accreditation is often legally required to practice it effectively means play by the rules or find a new job.
So I can understand when someone has all the examinations, insurance and fear of screwing up costing them their career not just their job they are a little touchy that someone, potentially who learned how to program while working in the warehouse at Walmart, claims to be a member of their profession without any sort of qualms about actually learning such things as fiduciary duty, risk mitigation plans etc.
But wouldn't the proxies use a limited number of IPs? What happens with email spam is if you relay spam you get blacklisted. Hence people tend to close open relays and/or spammers have huge churn on the servers they can use. As for bots: throttling helps a lot with email spam wonder if it would work here. The company I worked for made an ISP grade anti-spam service that would throttle unknowns down to really slow connection speed, bots simply can't wait around for 10min sending a message. That said neither will the user of a webpage I suppose. You might have to fake it, act like you accepted it, refresh the senders view to show the new message so they think everything is fine but in the background you are verifying that the sender is trust worthy. A reputation system is nice for this because if a bot targets several forums you'll see the same IP showing up from different customers anti-spam systems and can block regardless of whether or not your site has seen the sender before. Mah.
About 4 years ago I worked in the anti-spam industry. One of the groups (MAAWG) had a meeting that year and several large telco/ISP representives said that SMS and board spam was on their radar. It seems like it should be relatively trivial to run this stuff through the mail filter pipeline, wrap it up as a email (or even don't as long as your system treats the message like a mail body), grab the IP that it originates from and send it off to your reputation system and see if it pings. Anyone no of a mainstream vendor that has a product in this space? If not I could probably whip something up in a month or so:) I'm thinking redirect post requests through a REST service process the body through a spam engine, and if it is clean relay the request off the the real post on the bulletin server.
Exactly. By this metric Atlas holds the world record for weight lifting, Robin Hood for archery etc. How the arc was supposed to hold two of everything is beyond me. Heck it couldn't hold two of every kind of beetle I suspect.
Amen. I don't know how often (but its a lot) I've seen tech reviews saying things like the iPad with 32GB of RAM is only $X . Argh. Not RAM (though flash kind of is I guess since you are not limited to sequential access like a platter drive) storage. This is the pain we as tech geeks are going to have. Everything is moving towards ~7" screens with touch interface and a walled garden store which licks donkey taint for development/content creation work.
Them porting OS X to a new chip (presumably one of the A's) so that tablets, and phones use the same as the desktop not porting it so that the desktop can use a mobile CPU.
Now I understand it has devolved into football being a fundamental human right. (Seem to recall reading that Sky is required to broadcast a couple games a week for free because otherwise they would have a defacto monopoly on broadcasting a lot of stuff).
As for emergency services: couldn't they do that without the fee? Not everyone has a receiver for a starters so you still have the problem with some people free loading of the guy down the hall that just heard that Ireland just fell into the bog. There is nothing stopping them from having as part of the licensing with any broadcaster in the country that they can take over the airwaves in a matter of emergency. Wouldn't it be better to just charge that as part of the taxes which go towards emergency response rather than ad hoc on a "if you have a siren in your house then you pay" method?
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Small regional players probably don't have all the media hype that Google Fiber has gotten. That said 2.55MBPS how cute. Admittedly I can't benchmark against Netflix since it sucks ass in my country but I get 18MBPS (not Mbps MBps) pretty easily from torrents and large sites like MS, youtube etc. It does get pretty annoying actually to have that much speed at times sometimes I open a streaming video somewhere and download the whole thing before I realize it isn't the video I was looking for where as with a slower connection maybe only 1/10th of the video would be loaded before I can click the next/back button. I'm sure there is some limit to how much Netflix will push to you regardless of your bandwidth (you only need to stream so fast to keep a decent buffer on your video).
Can you get credits for machine gunners and scout recon courses? If so that would be cool ;) It is cool that more colleges are recognizing things like military service courses as both some of them are directly useful (say leadership or accounting stuff for officers) and some are just plain character building which to me seems to be half of the idea of cramming some of the killer course combinations together in one term (I had for example 2 calculus courses and nuclear physics in the same term). Sneaking behind enemy lines with a rifle, canteen, shovel and a few field rations for a week has got to be worth something more than the joy of the experience :)
My school if I recall correctly allowed transfer credits but they had to be the minority of your degree requirements and I think you were limited to a few for upper year courses. Effectively you had to spend more than 2 years in a 4 year degree at that actual institution to get the degree. But top 3 universities in the country so might be just to prevent a bunch of people jumping on board to get a more prestigious degree.
I agree in principle though that outside credit should count. A MSCE might not be fantastic but it has got to be equivalent to at least a few intro to OOP courses no? Building core infrastructure at a company has got to be worth a networking course or two, (and potentially requirements analysis part of a systems engineering degree, technology strategy in a management program etc). You might not learn everything in a text book but at least if you are competent enough to not get fired/be hired by the next guy you probably have a deeper understanding of the pieces you did deal with than you'd pick up on a 2 week module as part of a course.
What exactly does "regionally accredited" mean? Does it mean if you want to do a masters you have to do it in the same region? Is it anything other than a diploma mill? Better than nothing I guess but I prefer my degree to be internationally recognized.
Never.
Exactly. The companies want to be able to say made in the US and get all the tax credits etc for making something in the US and creating jobs. But creating the actual jobs ... not so much. The US and the rest of the west needs to just admit they aren't competitive for most forms of manufacturing and train people for other things.
I think this is the biggest argument for STEM education: we'll be a two tier work society those that are creative (engineers, computer programmers, designers etc) and those that work in stores selling stuff that the creative people invented and the Chinese manufactured. If you don't like a McJob you better start nerding it up.
I love that they went with Sacagawea for the dollar. Not sure if the US is the same as Canada (but I suspect it is the case) the natives are pissed on and then to pretend to have an interesting culture we pull out some native names/art on our money and maybe have a rain dance at a football game and feel all good about ourselves again. Nice.
Agreed. EU = subisidies out of the wazoo. Germany and France are the big examples of "success". However, a large amount of their exchange and banking assets are the crap countries that really couldn't afford the stuff in the first place. Then the banks countries and companies need to be bailed out because surprise surprise the average Spaniard can't afford 3 houses, Greece can't afford 20% unemployment and crazy social programs etc.Single currency only works with similar economies which Greece and say Germany are not.
Yeah but you are more likely to get a bag of chips and a drink if you have $20 of change to "get rid of". Sure giving bills for change would be difficult but I suspect that the reason for the lack of trying is that the people that work near a vending machine will eventually feed the whole $20 in the machine if you make them carry it around.
That is so much crap. Within a few weeks of dollar coins being out vending machines would be updated. They are a business and need to be able to take your money. Canada converted to $1 coins and then $2 coins, lots of EU countries completely changed their currencies and things kept working etc. The gov might have to give incentives to help particular industries convert initially but over but the long term it will work out.
You can do it like we have in Canada for the last 20 years or so: "Make it hail bee-atch."
There is always an amount of money that someone will license something for you (at least if they or their shareholders are sane). The court put a value on the damage of 1+ B they didn't say: "oh we don't know so we won't award anything." or "we agree irreprable harm so Apple you now own Samsung". They put a value on it.
Now the value you put on it depends on the type of customer you have to deal with. Do you have to deal with a customer that rips your stuff off and only pays you after a legal battle? Or do you have one that was more passive? Are they going to bring the tech to areas you aren't interested in pursuing yourself or are they going to be direct competition? The pain in the ass factor is a very large factor in determining how lax you are with your licensing rate.
No wonder Samsung had all the stuff needed to infringe Apple patents quickly. It wasn't that they were a vendor it was because they had a "Specialist" on the inside. Nice.
It will be posted on /. or the like before it is sent to the lawyer by someone in Apple/Apple's lawyer so I take 0 days.
Apple gives HTC a good deal because there isn't as much of a mess in the courts with them vs Samsung. Then Samsung wants the info so they can claim that the award Apple got was too large. Nice. Sorry but companies can sell things to customers at different prices for whatever reason they want including but not limited to how much of a jerk you are.
The guy in the article that says that running the redundant copies on the same nodes would reduce i/o traffic: I'd love to speak to him. There are two options I see:
1) Assuming that there is common source data that both instances need to churn on: so the data isn't redundant so what exactly are you proving by getting the same result? Diddo with CPU, integer unit etc same hardware is not a redundant solution.
2) No shared data but you are generating data on each node: so they still have to chat with eachother to synchronize and such. So now you have 1/3 of a CPU node and 1/3 of I/O. But wait that's not all you also are trashing the hell out of your cache, if any of the stuff is on disk you are pretty much guaranteeing that at least one of the instances on the node has to wait for the drive latency since one or the other is going to get the disk first etc.
Either way you still have the problem of a node blowing up and all the simultaneous copies of the sim dying together: In short you can't call something a redundant system without actually having redundancy.
Engineering is a profession like medicine and law. Common to all is a organization of peers that regulates the ethical practice of the profession. If you screw up you get discipline up to and including loosing your accreditation. Since accreditation is often legally required to practice it effectively means play by the rules or find a new job.
So I can understand when someone has all the examinations, insurance and fear of screwing up costing them their career not just their job they are a little touchy that someone, potentially who learned how to program while working in the warehouse at Walmart, claims to be a member of their profession without any sort of qualms about actually learning such things as fiduciary duty, risk mitigation plans etc.
But wouldn't the proxies use a limited number of IPs? What happens with email spam is if you relay spam you get blacklisted. Hence people tend to close open relays and/or spammers have huge churn on the servers they can use. As for bots: throttling helps a lot with email spam wonder if it would work here. The company I worked for made an ISP grade anti-spam service that would throttle unknowns down to really slow connection speed, bots simply can't wait around for 10min sending a message. That said neither will the user of a webpage I suppose. You might have to fake it, act like you accepted it, refresh the senders view to show the new message so they think everything is fine but in the background you are verifying that the sender is trust worthy. A reputation system is nice for this because if a bot targets several forums you'll see the same IP showing up from different customers anti-spam systems and can block regardless of whether or not your site has seen the sender before. Mah.
About 4 years ago I worked in the anti-spam industry. One of the groups (MAAWG) had a meeting that year and several large telco/ISP representives said that SMS and board spam was on their radar. It seems like it should be relatively trivial to run this stuff through the mail filter pipeline, wrap it up as a email (or even don't as long as your system treats the message like a mail body), grab the IP that it originates from and send it off to your reputation system and see if it pings. Anyone no of a mainstream vendor that has a product in this space? If not I could probably whip something up in a month or so :) I'm thinking redirect post requests through a REST service process the body through a spam engine, and if it is clean relay the request off the the real post on the bulletin server.
God: "I'm not a genocidal maniac I'll let at least 2 of you live."
Of course their fake I saw Leonardo DiCarprio in movies that came out years later. His death was a hoax.
Exactly. By this metric Atlas holds the world record for weight lifting, Robin Hood for archery etc. How the arc was supposed to hold two of everything is beyond me. Heck it couldn't hold two of every kind of beetle I suspect.
"don't know RAM from storage space"
Amen. I don't know how often (but its a lot) I've seen tech reviews saying things like the iPad with 32GB of RAM is only $X . Argh. Not RAM (though flash kind of is I guess since you are not limited to sequential access like a platter drive) storage. This is the pain we as tech geeks are going to have. Everything is moving towards ~7" screens with touch interface and a walled garden store which licks donkey taint for development/content creation work.
Them porting OS X to a new chip (presumably one of the A's) so that tablets, and phones use the same as the desktop not porting it so that the desktop can use a mobile CPU.
Now I understand it has devolved into football being a fundamental human right. (Seem to recall reading that Sky is required to broadcast a couple games a week for free because otherwise they would have a defacto monopoly on broadcasting a lot of stuff).
As for emergency services: couldn't they do that without the fee? Not everyone has a receiver for a starters so you still have the problem with some people free loading of the guy down the hall that just heard that Ireland just fell into the bog. There is nothing stopping them from having as part of the licensing with any broadcaster in the country that they can take over the airwaves in a matter of emergency. Wouldn't it be better to just charge that as part of the taxes which go towards emergency response rather than ad hoc on a "if you have a siren in your house then you pay" method?