I wrote a piece of Health and Safety assessment software for my company a while ago and one of the questions which every person was obliged to answer is what is the longest continuous daily period he/she sits in front of the computer. Any entries above 45 mins were set to be flagged to the attention of HR and Health and Safety.
As a matter of fact, while this is not enshrined in UK law this is what the current Health and Safety guidelines say and the person (if he is still alive) or his estate have a very fair chance of lodging a successfull lawsuit against his company under the UK Health and Safety act.
Though frankly, this is a classic case of Darwin Award. He/she did it to themselves and they deserve what they got.
London subway? Reliable? You gotta be kidding mate.
It is an abominable joke that has nothing to do with modern transportation. It is the worst public transport system in Europe. Any other public system I have used around Europe is better organised, more technologically advanced and less crowded. Even some US cities have better transportation than London and it is not going to improve anytime soon.
It is not completely clear what Lokheed Martin will do with the patents for the low sonic boom hypersonics and they are rumoured to have a Skunkworks project on it. Noone has seen it yet so the jury is still out on that one.
It is a very good indication about the tentative market that no orders were ever placed for a hypersonic built by Sukhoi and Gulfstream. Even putting the Ferrari and Rolls Royce of aviation together did not cause enough interest so I do think there is a viable market for this.
You will have to wait for a few more years I am afraid. Adobe holds a very good selection of patents in this area and GIMP is not going to improve anytime before they expire.
I would agree with that. And this is exactly the reason why I still use mon. It provides most of the functionality you need for a small-to-medium network. I have been using it on anything from a single server to 50-60 systems. Its CPU requirement is minimal, configurability and flexibility is similar to the ones provided by NagIOS (if not better on some counts) and writing extensions is trivial. Most importantly the monitoring itself is just a shell around a set of very well written perl modules. The code in them can be reused for all kinds of other server monitoring, statistics and control.
Americans companies (the ones I know) usually have a provision for some maximum seek leave per year and you can use it for cases where a member of the family is sick. In the UK you cannot. Similarly, in the US it is much easier to supplement payed leave with unpayed. Go and try to take extra holiday in the UK as unpayed leave. Yeah, dream on. So on so fourth.
Still, while the numbers are not the representative statistic for this, there is the overall tendency in the US to have less holidays and work more. It is not 10/25. Possibly less, possibly more.
15 years ago as a part of my coursework in Mol Biol I had to read a few years worth of issues of the American Journal of Human Genetics http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJHG/. While most of them were the usual polymorphisms, Bayes Statistics and similar stuff, one article struck me as utterly suicidal. Some psychopaths (I would not call them anything else) were reporting preliminary findings on a potential HIV vaccine. They tried to design it my introducing genetic material responsible for one of the HIV proteins into the virus of the live poliomielitis vaccine. To make things most entertaining they were introducing them into the area responsible for the biggest number of "reversions".
Thanks god that "vaccine" was never tried. I would not be surprised if it is sitting in a fridge with a "doomsday weapon" label on it somewhere.
While at it, having conciousness and moral fiber is not a universal treat amidst scientists. People like Einstein, Saharov, etc who have objected to the potential use of their discoveries for mass murder are an exemption. They are definitely not the rule. Especially nowdays when a very small proportion of science is funded "just because" and the majority is funded based on buzzword bingo.
I read the article and it roughly corresponds to my observations. Some certs have gained value, some have lost. The CC** family has clearly gained value to an extent which is disproportionate to their intrinsic value and IMO is bad for the industry. People in networking no longer try to think original and try to improve their skills on their own as it does not give them any career progression. They coerce their employer to subsidise their climb on the certification ladder instead.
In fact off the top of my head I can think of only two really MAJOR complaint about it.
Its internal timing sucks serious rotten eggz for any underlying sound system which does not interface directly to hardware which has its own timing. In other words NAS and ESS (in its network incarnation) suck really really bad. So will a arts based VOIP if someone finally writes it one day.
It does not have software mixer/volume control emulation for sound systems that do not support them. This is bloody trivial. Once again this seriously limits its usability in a NAS or ESS/net environment. It has also forced VOIP people like kphone to access the underlying hardware directly which seriously sucks for both stability and usability.
Couldn't this, technically, also eliminate QoS/fair queue'ing and general firewall rules?
First, yes it would. Thanks god I live in a slightly more sane country (only by a bit unfortunately). Otherwise I would have lost one of my primary pieces of daily bread. Been doing QoS for 7+ years now.
Second, Amazon, MSFT and Co should have acted long ago when the Baby Bells and Bell Wannabies killed off the peering points circa Y2K. Instead of that, they went into a direct relationship with the Baby Bells and Bell Wannabies. As a result they simply do not have a leg to stand on regarding any such issues. They are already in contractual agreement with the ATT, Verizon, Level3, etc and if one of these decides to alter the contract there is little they could do.
To put things in a perspective - in the US traffic from access goes across the telco backbone and goes to Amazon and the like via a private link. In this environment the content provider is at the mercy of the telco. In Europe the traffic goes from access across the telco backbone after that traverses a well maintained non-profit peering point like Lynx and hits the content provider after that. Technically, you can do QoS in both cases. Practically, while you can there is no way you can guarantee any QoS because you do not control the entire route. The Bells understood this more than 5 years ago and killed the US peering points like MAE by maintaining the infrastructure as bad as they could (they also owned most of them) and forcing everyone to go private. From there on the question of net neutrality is utterly pointless.
I would second that. IANAL so this is a solely technical/financial take on this.
In an average corporate deployment the software licenses exceed the cost of the computer. Depending on the area you work on this factor is anything between 2 and 10 times for a desktop. The cost of maintaining a windows machine in man-hours per year depends on the number of machines and tools in use but it is pretty much close to the cost of the computer (once you add up AV, Anti-Spyware, etc). So on, so fourth.
It is not worth it financially. Numbers do not add up. The saving and convenience will be eaten up.
That is besides all the AUP and "my kid installed the spyware" crap.
Here the Judiciary still manifests some sense of humour at least from time to time.
It is only the Police and the Crown Prosecution Service who had that amputated. Dunno when this happened but they are clearly missing it now. Along with elementary sanity and sense of reality and proportion. Don't believe me? Here is an example: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/ 2981358.stm
The Daihatsu is interesting in another respect as the first car to introduce a radiator and bonnet design which is especially designed for pedestrian hit survivability. In fact it is one of the reasons why the test was changed later on. It is also copied nearly literally on most recent European and Japanese cars.
Granted, the best thing is not to hit pedestrians in the first place. This may be quite difficult sometimes. Just ask anyone who has had to dodge cretins with iPods on the max setting around a 6th form college during the morning rush hour.
Oh, and on the article topic - it is one of the very few cars delivering sub-9s 0-60mph while having under 150g/km CO2 emissions. In fact, possibly the only one capable of carrying 4 occupants.
The test the GP refers to is running into a fixed object.
Exactly.
By the way, having a military armoured version makes things only worse. You have essentially the same frame, but a much heavier vehicle. In addition to that you may also have stiffened elements in the crumple zones due to retrofitted armour plating. As a result the frame itself will be subjected to much higher loads in a crash and stands a much higher chance of collapsing on your head.
Of course.. you only said "Hummer" so maybe you mean the orignal.. these are H3 numbers
Considering the look of it after the crash it was quite difficult to make it out which model it is (they are still quite rare around here). It was not a 2006 H3 that is for sure. One of the earlier ones. Which are not on the site. I have scrolled back as far as 1999 and I do not see any such penile inferiority complex compensators listed for a safety test.
By the way - thanks for pointing to the US equivalent of the EURONCAP.
Li in any shape or form is toxic noxious substance and getting it out of the old batteries into new ones is going to defeat most of the environmental advantages of electrical and hybrid cards in the long term.
I would much rather look into getting more suitable storage options for hydrogen, biofuels or biofuel derivatives.
It is the same with any car. An average truck starts at 7 tons and goes up to 30+ for some articulated lorries. Being in a 500kg SMART or 2.5 ton VW Tuareg will not make the slightest difference to your survival chances.
In fact the SMART has a higher chance of being thrown off the road instead of being sucked under the bonnet with the truck getting on top. As far as this scenario is concerned the worst are the sports cars - Porche, TVR, Lotus, Ferrari, MR2, etc. I see people keep mentioning SMART instead of them which is just wrong.
The Hummer chassis is incapable of absorbing its own impact energy after a crash. Making a car very big does not necessarily make it safe and vice versa. The Hummer has not been formally tested to EURONCAP, but it is likely to have a lower safety score than nearly all cars on the EU market. I have seen a hummer smashed at 30mph into a rock wall and it looks pretty much like this: http://www.euroncap.com/content/safety_ratings/det ails.php?id1=1&id2=73 (classic example of bodyshell colapse).
It works fine behind a NAT in either UDP or TCP mode. Have always worked. I run it for road warrior access for a 3rd year now after switching over from an IPSEC/PPTP solution.
If you use OpenVPN 2.0+ you can push options and manage everything from the server just like on a commercial VPN product. The only missing bit is the firewall management so you need to get a decent third party firewall.
A measly 320£ worth Via C3 running OpenVPN can deliver 200+ clients with an aggregate client bandwidth of 50MBit+. The comparable Cisco device is a higher end PIX or a 3000 series concentrator which costs 5 times that.
In addition to that with OpenVPN you can build a proper VPN infrastructure with failover, dynamic load balancing between tunnels, balancing between links, DDNS targets on either end, QoS to allow VOIP links in that, etc. With most IPSEC based solutions (including Cisco) you cannot get even close to that.
That has helped. But it would not have been enough if they were not artificially made to interdepend on each other by having the HTML and HTTP libraries from IE used nearly everywhere.
As usual, Dvorak is on crack.And he is not sharing which is a crime.
IE is just a shell around libraries which do parsing of content and rendering. These are used throughout Windows including Outlook, parts of Office, the Windows Update infrastructure, etc. These have to be accounted for when making a loss/profit assessment. If it was not for IE, Outlook would have never reached its near universal penetration. Where Outlook and IE go, Office, Exchange, Departamental intranet servers on IIS with HTML written by people on crack follow. All of these depend on IE in one form or another. All of these are commercial products and cost a pretty penny.
IE may be a loss, but it is a classic example of a well executed loss leader. If it was not for IE most of the remaining MSFT clutter would have had to be considerably better quality and less expensive to actually sell.
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Second that.
I wrote a piece of Health and Safety assessment software for my company a while ago and one of the questions which every person was obliged to answer is what is the longest continuous daily period he/she sits in front of the computer. Any entries above 45 mins were set to be flagged to the attention of HR and Health and Safety.
As a matter of fact, while this is not enshrined in UK law this is what the current Health and Safety guidelines say and the person (if he is still alive) or his estate have a very fair chance of lodging a successfull lawsuit against his company under the UK Health and Safety act.
Though frankly, this is a classic case of Darwin Award. He/she did it to themselves and they deserve what they got.
London subway? Reliable? You gotta be kidding mate.
It is an abominable joke that has nothing to do with modern transportation. It is the worst public transport system in Europe. Any other public system I have used around Europe is better organised, more technologically advanced and less crowded. Even some US cities have better transportation than London and it is not going to improve anytime soon.
Only one company has designed, built and tested a non-military supersonic plane since Concorde and Tu-144. It is Sukhoi for Gulfstream. SUKHOI-GULFSTREAM S-21. http://www.x-plane.org/home/spiff000/S21/S21specs. html
It is not completely clear what Lokheed Martin will do with the patents for the low sonic boom hypersonics and they are rumoured to have a Skunkworks project on it. Noone has seen it yet so the jury is still out on that one.
It is a very good indication about the tentative market that no orders were ever placed for a hypersonic built by Sukhoi and Gulfstream. Even putting the Ferrari and Rolls Royce of aviation together did not cause enough interest so I do think there is a viable market for this.
You will have to wait for a few more years I am afraid. Adobe holds a very good selection of patents in this area and GIMP is not going to improve anytime before they expire.
I would agree with that. And this is exactly the reason why I still use mon. It provides most of the functionality you need for a small-to-medium network. I have been using it on anything from a single server to 50-60 systems. Its CPU requirement is minimal, configurability and flexibility is similar to the ones provided by NagIOS (if not better on some counts) and writing extensions is trivial. Most importantly the monitoring itself is just a shell around a set of very well written perl modules. The code in them can be reused for all kinds of other server monitoring, statistics and control.
http://www.sinfest.net/comics/sf20060505.gif. Yep. We are definitely thinking of them. Loudly.
I will second that.
Americans companies (the ones I know) usually have a provision for some maximum seek leave per year and you can use it for cases where a member of the family is sick. In the UK you cannot. Similarly, in the US it is much easier to supplement payed leave with unpayed. Go and try to take extra holiday in the UK as unpayed leave. Yeah, dream on. So on so fourth.
Still, while the numbers are not the representative statistic for this, there is the overall tendency in the US to have less holidays and work more. It is not 10/25. Possibly less, possibly more.
That has been done.
15 years ago as a part of my coursework in Mol Biol I had to read a few years worth of issues of the American Journal of Human Genetics http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJHG/. While most of them were the usual polymorphisms, Bayes Statistics and similar stuff, one article struck me as utterly suicidal. Some psychopaths (I would not call them anything else) were reporting preliminary findings on a potential HIV vaccine. They tried to design it my introducing genetic material responsible for one of the HIV proteins into the virus of the live poliomielitis vaccine. To make things most entertaining they were introducing them into the area responsible for the biggest number of "reversions".
Thanks god that "vaccine" was never tried. I would not be surprised if it is sitting in a fridge with a "doomsday weapon" label on it somewhere.
While at it, having conciousness and moral fiber is not a universal treat amidst scientists. People like Einstein, Saharov, etc who have objected to the potential use of their discoveries for mass murder are an exemption. They are definitely not the rule. Especially nowdays when a very small proportion of science is funded "just because" and the majority is funded based on buzzword bingo.
Sad, but true.
I agree.
I read the article and it roughly corresponds to my observations. Some certs have gained value, some have lost. The CC** family has clearly gained value to an extent which is disproportionate to their intrinsic value and IMO is bad for the industry. People in networking no longer try to think original and try to improve their skills on their own as it does not give them any career progression. They coerce their employer to subsidise their climb on the certification ladder instead.
Neither. Reality
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By the way, as I am in old foggy Blighty I did not see it, but here is the full transcript: http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/30/1441/5981
And all I can say, applause, applause...
Indeed...
And on the Internet he who controls the peering controls the Internet.
A large ISP or Telco without a good peering manager is like a guild vessel whose navigator has had its Spice withdrawn.
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In fact off the top of my head I can think of only two really MAJOR complaint about it.
First, yes it would. Thanks god I live in a slightly more sane country (only by a bit unfortunately). Otherwise I would have lost one of my primary pieces of daily bread. Been doing QoS for 7+ years now.
Second, Amazon, MSFT and Co should have acted long ago when the Baby Bells and Bell Wannabies killed off the peering points circa Y2K. Instead of that, they went into a direct relationship with the Baby Bells and Bell Wannabies. As a result they simply do not have a leg to stand on regarding any such issues. They are already in contractual agreement with the ATT, Verizon, Level3, etc and if one of these decides to alter the contract there is little they could do.
To put things in a perspective - in the US traffic from access goes across the telco backbone and goes to Amazon and the like via a private link. In this environment the content provider is at the mercy of the telco. In Europe the traffic goes from access across the telco backbone after that traverses a well maintained non-profit peering point like Lynx and hits the content provider after that. Technically, you can do QoS in both cases. Practically, while you can there is no way you can guarantee any QoS because you do not control the entire route. The Bells understood this more than 5 years ago and killed the US peering points like MAE by maintaining the infrastructure as bad as they could (they also owned most of them) and forcing everyone to go private. From there on the question of net neutrality is utterly pointless.
I would second that. IANAL so this is a solely technical/financial take on this.
In an average corporate deployment the software licenses exceed the cost of the computer. Depending on the area you work on this factor is anything between 2 and 10 times for a desktop. The cost of maintaining a windows machine in man-hours per year depends on the number of machines and tools in use but it is pretty much close to the cost of the computer (once you add up AV, Anti-Spyware, etc). So on, so fourth.
It is not worth it financially. Numbers do not add up. The saving and convenience will be eaten up.
That is besides all the AUP and "my kid installed the spyware" crap.
Not in the UK.
/ 2981358.stm
Here the Judiciary still manifests some sense of humour at least from time to time.
It is only the Police and the Crown Prosecution Service who had that amputated. Dunno when this happened but they are clearly missing it now. Along with elementary sanity and sense of reality and proportion. Don't believe me? Here is an example: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire
The Daihatsu is interesting in another respect as the first car to introduce a radiator and bonnet design which is especially designed for pedestrian hit survivability. In fact it is one of the reasons why the test was changed later on. It is also copied nearly literally on most recent European and Japanese cars.
Granted, the best thing is not to hit pedestrians in the first place. This may be quite difficult sometimes. Just ask anyone who has had to dodge cretins with iPods on the max setting around a 6th form college during the morning rush hour.
Oh, and on the article topic - it is one of the very few cars delivering sub-9s 0-60mph while having under 150g/km CO2 emissions. In fact, possibly the only one capable of carrying 4 occupants.
Exactly.
By the way, having a military armoured version makes things only worse. You have essentially the same frame, but a much heavier vehicle. In addition to that you may also have stiffened elements in the crumple zones due to retrofitted armour plating. As a result the frame itself will be subjected to much higher loads in a crash and stands a much higher chance of collapsing on your head.
Considering the look of it after the crash it was quite difficult to make it out which model it is (they are still quite rare around here). It was not a 2006 H3 that is for sure. One of the earlier ones. Which are not on the site. I have scrolled back as far as 1999 and I do not see any such penile inferiority complex compensators listed for a safety test.
By the way - thanks for pointing to the US equivalent of the EURONCAP.
Especially environmentally.
Li in any shape or form is toxic noxious substance and getting it out of the old batteries into new ones is going to defeat most of the environmental advantages of electrical and hybrid cards in the long term.
I would much rather look into getting more suitable storage options for hydrogen, biofuels or biofuel derivatives.
It is the same with any car. An average truck starts at 7 tons and goes up to 30+ for some articulated lorries. Being in a 500kg SMART or 2.5 ton VW Tuareg will not make the slightest difference to your survival chances.
In fact the SMART has a higher chance of being thrown off the road instead of being sucked under the bonnet with the truck getting on top.
As far as this scenario is concerned the worst are the sports cars - Porche, TVR, Lotus, Ferrari, MR2, etc. I see people keep mentioning SMART instead of them which is just wrong.
That is already installed.
t ails.php?id1=1&id2=73 (classic example of bodyshell colapse).
t ails.php?id1=1&id2=67 (Note the lack of chassis deformation)
g s/details.php?id1=9&id2=210 (for a vehicle in the same class as the Hummer)
The Hummer chassis is incapable of absorbing its own impact energy after a crash. Making a car very big does not necessarily make it safe and vice versa. The Hummer has not been formally tested to EURONCAP, but it is likely to have a lower safety score than nearly all cars on the EU market. I have seen a hummer smashed at 30mph into a rock wall and it looks pretty much like this: http://www.euroncap.com/content/safety_ratings/de
A selfrespecting moderately safe car should look at least like this: http://www.euroncap.com/content/safety_ratings/de
or like this:http://www.euroncap.com/content/safety_ratin
Bollocks.
It works fine behind a NAT in either UDP or TCP mode. Have always worked. I run it for road warrior access for a 3rd year now after switching over from an IPSEC/PPTP solution.
If you use OpenVPN 2.0+ you can push options and manage everything from the server just like on a commercial VPN product. The only missing bit is the firewall management so you need to get a decent third party firewall.
A measly 320£ worth Via C3 running OpenVPN can deliver 200+ clients with an aggregate client bandwidth of 50MBit+. The comparable Cisco device is a higher end PIX or a 3000 series concentrator which costs 5 times that.
In addition to that with OpenVPN you can build a proper VPN infrastructure with failover, dynamic load balancing between tunnels, balancing between links, DDNS targets on either end, QoS to allow VOIP links in that, etc. With most IPSEC based solutions (including Cisco) you cannot get even close to that.
That has helped. But it would not have been enough if they were not artificially made to interdepend on each other by having the HTML and HTTP libraries from IE used nearly everywhere.
IE is just a shell around libraries which do parsing of content and rendering. These are used throughout Windows including Outlook, parts of Office, the Windows Update infrastructure, etc. These have to be accounted for when making a loss/profit assessment. If it was not for IE, Outlook would have never reached its near universal penetration. Where Outlook and IE go, Office, Exchange, Departamental intranet servers on IIS with HTML written by people on crack follow. All of these depend on IE in one form or another. All of these are commercial products and cost a pretty penny.
IE may be a loss, but it is a classic example of a well executed loss leader. If it was not for IE most of the remaining MSFT clutter would have had to be considerably better quality and less expensive to actually sell.