The same liability that a PE accepts when he puts his stamp and number on a design? That's the point. It's not about tricking customers into signing something, it's about people who are designing things accepting responsibility for that design. Why should software engineers be given any different treatment?
Yes, but.... what happens when the software that is landing a plane miscalculates the height above ground and it crashes? Wouldn't you hold the software developer accountable for that?
As much as I wish I could recommend Linux, you are probably better off with XP, if you have licensed copies. I recommend that you install SiteSafe so that normal users can only change what you want them to change, and see what you want them to see. Look at the site the same way you would look at a cybercafe - every user is a potential source of virus. If you use SiteSafe to flush changes after every user finishes, you can feel fairly confident that the computers aren't going to get so virused that you have to flatten them and start again.
If you are trying to drop these off and forget them, just train one of the administrators to login as admin from time to time so that they can do updates or whatever software changes might be needed.
So, why is that, exactly? Google has proven by it's actions that their solution to the need for more processor power is just to add more servers. Granted, it'd be tough to pull one of the old blades and play the most recent edition of Duke Nukem, but really, these systems will still be able to crunch numbers for a very long time. Would buying faster systems with more cores would allow a single system to crunch more? Sure, but really, those old systems can still happily serve their original purpose. As Google needs more systems, they buy the latest and fastest, but the old systems don't actually have to be replaced until they actually break.
Yikes. I worked in West Africa for a few years, and we dreamed about the day when SAT-3 would bring us more than a couple of satellite T1s. Next year, they are getting over 10Tbps capacity, and almost more importantly, it's coming in separate, redundant cables.
It's hard to imagine what that's going to do.
Now, if they could only keep their cable landings and their terrestrial infrastructure working.
I agree with the parent. When you have a user base that makes you the third largest country in the world, what, exactly, is the problem? Are there new features they are trying to add, reliability issues, or what?
CNN's coverage described George as a hacker who "Cost Sony 20 Million Dollars by hacking into the PlayStation Network. He also published instructions for how to do it online."
It's not that speed isn't necessary anymore. I submit that it's not lack of technology that has caused us (personally) to slow down, it's BECAUSE of it. Consider manned space flight in the 60s. Why did we need to send people to the moon? Because we didn't know how to build robots that would do it for us. Same for Concorde and the defunct Boeing SST programs. People don't need to get there fast anymore because if they needed something fast, they use video conferencing, internet, whatever.
Speed is still there and the machines are still there - we send more rockets to space than ever before. We just don't need an SR-71 to spy on the the Evil Do-ers because it's much easier to send in a drone or read underwear labels from satellites. We don't need to send a man to the moon because it's much easier to crash robots into it.
As far as the west is concerned, the issue is also lack of competition anymore. Soviet Russia was always pushing the envelope to compete with the west, and the west felt obligated to respond. Now, the west doesn't seem to consider China and India to be competition, or at least not important enough to dedicate big research programs to.
Absolutely. SF-LA = one hour on the plane, 5 hours in reality with all the TSA gropes, traffic from the airport and all the other bullshit. It's not that hard to build a train that can make the city center to city center trip in 5 hours or less.
Sitting on a plane worried about when the guy in front of you is going to flip his seat back and crush your laptop screen. Compare that to walking up to board the train a few minutes before it departs, sitting in a nice comfortable seat and maybe even having reasonable internet access.
No, because along with a simple ping, one would employ some sort of traceroute that would record the routers that a particular route used. So, if I traceroute to you once and see the routers that were used, then trace again, get the same routers, but a different round trip time, I would just assume that you are trying to fool me or your network interface is very busy.
Okay, hands up who's going to be the first to apply for a job as a professor, stating belief in the green cheese fairy, and then sue their asses for not hiring them?
I've spent a lot of time doing communications in remote areas of the world. Your biggest challenge in this case is going to be the other end. You can blast what you want from outside the country, but until you get something actually inside the country to blast back to you, you are pretty much screwed.
Having said that, in a pinch a Pringle can might be enough to get something going, or if you are a fan of the movies, someone who sneaks into the country with a bunch of microwave equipment on their backs. The best approach would be a nice 20 mile space diversity link with 50 ft towers on either end. Let me know how that works out.
The real question is: how long is it going to be before some government police person sees the tower or mast and decides that it might be a good target?
Yeah, and there's a good chance we would have ended up like some countries that got widespread Internet after the Telcos figured it out, like South Africa. Telekom hired a bunch of consultants from SBC who showed up and told them they had to meter Internet usage.
"Just a minute honey. Sip on that martini while I get this satellite call"
"HELLO?? Yes. WHAT? Sorry, I can't hear you I'm indoors. YOU ARE BREAKING UP. WHAT? I'LL HAVE TO GO OUTSIDE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PARKING LOT TO TALK TO YOU. WHAT?"
"Sorry honey, I guess I gotta go. I guess the blowjob is off?"
Sorry, but this just looks like a bog-standard boat desalinization system hooked up to some solar cells. I fail to see what is so earth-shattering about it.
..are probably running them on big VMWare-based servers which runs Windows under, ummm, Linux.
Anyone who has been in a large corporate data center knows the ugly truth - Microsoft servers still don't like to multitask. The usual response is to install yet another bit of hardware to run the smallest of applications. Bad for the environment, good for Intel and Microsoft.
Hummmm, has anyone tried to sell Linux to corporations because it is good for the environment?
They probably did it because their database vendor (Microsoft?) claimed that their database problems had to be due to their hardware. It couldn't possibly be software performance issues...
Yeah, that Bose-Einstein condensation of bipolarons is pretty tricky stuff. Why, just the other day I was condensing bipolarons, and you probably know what happened next!
As you can see from the text, they are talking elevation angles of 6 to 8 degrees. That's either very far north or on the edge of a footprint.
We are both right. As I said before, and you proved with your link, there is a multipath effect if the elevation angle is really low. It looks something like reflections you get on point-to-point microwave. As the elevation angle increases, the directivity of the dish pretty much isolates any reflections you might see.
Trust me on this - I engineered these things for the oil business for 31 years. Multipath on satellite uplinks is the least of your problems when putting a dish on an offshore platform.
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The same liability that a PE accepts when he puts his stamp and number on a design? That's the point. It's not about tricking customers into signing something, it's about people who are designing things accepting responsibility for that design. Why should software engineers be given any different treatment?
Yes, but.... what happens when the software that is landing a plane miscalculates the height above ground and it crashes? Wouldn't you hold the software developer accountable for that?
As much as I wish I could recommend Linux, you are probably better off with XP, if you have licensed copies. I recommend that you install SiteSafe so that normal users can only change what you want them to change, and see what you want them to see. Look at the site the same way you would look at a cybercafe - every user is a potential source of virus. If you use SiteSafe to flush changes after every user finishes, you can feel fairly confident that the computers aren't going to get so virused that you have to flatten them and start again.
If you are trying to drop these off and forget them, just train one of the administrators to login as admin from time to time so that they can do updates or whatever software changes might be needed.
So, why is that, exactly? Google has proven by it's actions that their solution to the need for more processor power is just to add more servers. Granted, it'd be tough to pull one of the old blades and play the most recent edition of Duke Nukem, but really, these systems will still be able to crunch numbers for a very long time. Would buying faster systems with more cores would allow a single system to crunch more? Sure, but really, those old systems can still happily serve their original purpose. As Google needs more systems, they buy the latest and fastest, but the old systems don't actually have to be replaced until they actually break.
Yikes. I worked in West Africa for a few years, and we dreamed about the day when SAT-3 would bring us more than a couple of satellite T1s. Next year, they are getting over 10Tbps capacity, and almost more importantly, it's coming in separate, redundant cables.
It's hard to imagine what that's going to do.
Now, if they could only keep their cable landings and their terrestrial infrastructure working.
I agree with the parent. When you have a user base that makes you the third largest country in the world, what, exactly, is the problem? Are there new features they are trying to add, reliability issues, or what?
CNN's coverage described George as a hacker who "Cost Sony 20 Million Dollars by hacking into the PlayStation Network. He also published instructions for how to do it online."
Sigh...
Has about as much chance for success as taxes on cigarettes and booze. You can see how much that has prevented people from indulging.
But, but, this has the word "nano" in it! It has to be good!
http://www.google.com/trends?q=nano&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
It's not that speed isn't necessary anymore. I submit that it's not lack of technology that has caused us (personally) to slow down, it's BECAUSE of it. Consider manned space flight in the 60s. Why did we need to send people to the moon? Because we didn't know how to build robots that would do it for us. Same for Concorde and the defunct Boeing SST programs. People don't need to get there fast anymore because if they needed something fast, they use video conferencing, internet, whatever.
Speed is still there and the machines are still there - we send more rockets to space than ever before. We just don't need an SR-71 to spy on the the Evil Do-ers because it's much easier to send in a drone or read underwear labels from satellites. We don't need to send a man to the moon because it's much easier to crash robots into it.
As far as the west is concerned, the issue is also lack of competition anymore. Soviet Russia was always pushing the envelope to compete with the west, and the west felt obligated to respond. Now, the west doesn't seem to consider China and India to be competition, or at least not important enough to dedicate big research programs to.
Absolutely. SF-LA = one hour on the plane, 5 hours in reality with all the TSA gropes, traffic from the airport and all the other bullshit. It's not that hard to build a train that can make the city center to city center trip in 5 hours or less.
Sitting on a plane worried about when the guy in front of you is going to flip his seat back and crush your laptop screen. Compare that to walking up to board the train a few minutes before it departs, sitting in a nice comfortable seat and maybe even having reasonable internet access.
Too many special interests in the States.
No, because along with a simple ping, one would employ some sort of traceroute that would record the routers that a particular route used. So, if I traceroute to you once and see the routers that were used, then trace again, get the same routers, but a different round trip time, I would just assume that you are trying to fool me or your network interface is very busy.
Okay, hands up who's going to be the first to apply for a job as a professor, stating belief in the green cheese fairy, and then sue their asses for not hiring them?
Of course, some people have known about this for a long time...
http://www.ironsky.net/site/
I've spent a lot of time doing communications in remote areas of the world. Your biggest challenge in this case is going to be the other end. You can blast what you want from outside the country, but until you get something actually inside the country to blast back to you, you are pretty much screwed.
Having said that, in a pinch a Pringle can might be enough to get something going, or if you are a fan of the movies, someone who sneaks into the country with a bunch of microwave equipment on their backs. The best approach would be a nice 20 mile space diversity link with 50 ft towers on either end. Let me know how that works out.
The real question is: how long is it going to be before some government police person sees the tower or mast and decides that it might be a good target?
Yeah, and there's a good chance we would have ended up like some countries that got widespread Internet after the Telcos figured it out, like South Africa. Telekom hired a bunch of consultants from SBC who showed up and told them they had to meter Internet usage.
RING RING!
"Just a minute honey. Sip on that martini while I get this satellite call"
"HELLO?? Yes. WHAT? Sorry, I can't hear you I'm indoors. YOU ARE BREAKING UP. WHAT? I'LL HAVE TO GO OUTSIDE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PARKING LOT TO TALK TO YOU. WHAT?"
"Sorry honey, I guess I gotta go. I guess the blowjob is off?"
Sorry, but this just looks like a bog-standard boat desalinization system hooked up to some solar cells. I fail to see what is so earth-shattering about it.
..are probably running them on big VMWare-based servers which runs Windows under, ummm, Linux.
Anyone who has been in a large corporate data center knows the ugly truth - Microsoft servers still don't like to multitask. The usual response is to install yet another bit of hardware to run the smallest of applications. Bad for the environment, good for Intel and Microsoft.
Hummmm, has anyone tried to sell Linux to corporations because it is good for the environment?
Please, ALEX!
Get it right. I'll take Earth Burning to A Cinder for 400 please, Alex.
They probably did it because their database vendor (Microsoft?) claimed that their database problems had to be due to their hardware. It couldn't possibly be software performance issues...
In my last gig in Africa we took old dishes, mounted them inverted on a pole, covered them with grass and made them in to tiki bars!
I think that would qualify as "fun".
Yeah, that Bose-Einstein condensation of bipolarons is pretty tricky stuff. Why, just the other day I was condensing bipolarons, and you probably know what happened next!
As you can see from the text, they are talking elevation angles of 6 to 8 degrees. That's either very far north or on the edge of a footprint.
We are both right. As I said before, and you proved with your link, there is a multipath effect if the elevation angle is really low. It looks something like reflections you get on point-to-point microwave. As the elevation angle increases, the directivity of the dish pretty much isolates any reflections you might see.
Trust me on this - I engineered these things for the oil business for 31 years. Multipath on satellite uplinks is the least of your problems when putting a dish on an offshore platform.
They use stabilized VSAT (e.g. http://www.omniaccess.com/en/products/orbit-al7103mkii-stabilized-vsat/ systems, as do a lot of drilling vessels, cargo vessels, cruise ships, etc.