TBH. COBOL is very easy to learn, it's jsut a pain in the arse to build anything substantial in it because it's very primitive in comparison to a modern language.
COBOL experience is rare because the details of the kit that underpins it (DB2, forms for terminal input) and the interfaces to that kit are difficult to access; you can't spend 3 months doing an open source project on COBOL and then talk about that in your interview.
Java is everywhere - and will continue to be accessible as a technology, just much less desirable in corporate architecture if it is vendor owned in the way that this announcement predicts. So I can see a move away from Java for new projects and a need to support the old stuff falling to a less skilled and poorly paid workforce.
1000's of big companies (telcos, utilities, retailers, gov, defence) use java in their back office, and... well everywhere.
This may cause them to change their policy for new software development, and it may also squeeze the java developer market badly, but for sure there will be strong arguements for splashing £50k here, £90k there, £20k somewhere else, on getting the new JVM to pick up the performance of application x, y, z which are long in the tooth and a pain in the arse.
The alternative is to rebuild, which carries risk - although would be a good move in the long run. In the meetings someone will say "yeah, but we are all dead in the long run" and that's that basically. As a CIO you just pay over £50k, get your users back on side, keep your job for another year, collect your bonus, put another years pension contrib into the pot.
So, Oracle will make money, lots of money, off this. You guys can squeak, MS will cheer, the Python community will see a boost (perhaps), but Larry and co will be richer.
Mysql (in the future) = Oracle feather light (down load it and run it and you are up and going in less than 1hr - oracle normal = 6hrs to setup?) But, if you are an enterprise DBA then you want the management and recovery features that Oracle gives you (as well as the scaling - even though it gets so mind bendingly expensive).
Open office - who cares?
Oracle bought Sun to be IBM mark 2. Expect them to buy Accenture next.
There is a lot of poor research that is done, which will go no where, which is published in extremely good journals.
This work is funded now because the research councils do not have to differentiate between it and the rest of the "excellent" work that is funded.
It will not get funded in the future. The councils will pick projects that are done by groups that have track records of real, rather than paper, success.
The UK science budget has been overly generous. There is a very large entitlement culture in the universities. The capacity of our S&T culture and infrastructure has not kept pace with the funding that has been given to it, this is a huge mistake by the academic establishment who have spent money on glamour projects and recruiting superstars rather than developing the base that could turn funding into real results.
First, there is a concentration of low earning people in hard circumstances in big cities. Look at the buses - the people who are sleeping on them at 6am on the way back from their shift are in the survey. The 2 hours on the bus, the fact of being on shift from 11pm to 6am, and the fact of having to work up to your elbows in sh*t do not appear in the survey.
I know that many people who do have a degree experience these conditions (vets, doctors...) and many who do not, do not. But I think that the fact is that the people on the bus mostly don't have a degree and that they mostly don't want to be on the bus.
It is also clear that people who have strong vocational educations often have similar earnings to people with degrees, and often have fulfilling and pleasant roles that bring them respect in their communities. This is an excellent route for anyone who doesn't feel that a university education suits them.
Final point; the last 40 years and the next 40 years are not the same thing. No one knows what the future will bring, it might be the case that the rewards of a degree will be much greater in the future, and it might not. But I had my perspective sharply altered by this truth when I was in my mid thirties and two close friends with educations died. Now, their earnings were sharply curtailed, so their investment looks bad from the point of view of this table. But on the other hand they had done something, gained a degree, had a great time at college. They had lived - just as someone who had climbed mountains, joined the army and had a fun surfing career could say that they had lived.
But be clear. People who work in chicken factories until they get cancer do not feel that life has treated them kindly.
Of course - it would take considerable time and effort to actually be able to say if the paper was sensible and meaningful, but I think that it appears to be an indication of the topic I was alluding to.
I think that there are some really interesting predictions of how gravity should behave on a submicron scale which could rule out (or in) large number of potential string theories.
Of course, while I can imagine that gravity could be tested on a submicron scale when I start to try and imagine what kind of experiment could be constructed that actually did that I start to flail about and gape and make little clucking noises. I expect there are a fair number of physics fellas doing the same.
Letting informants live and continue to inform risks the lives of freedom fighters trying to shake off the bonds of occupation.
What makes the US military and its sympathizers and collaborators so much more important than other factions in this idiotic and unnecessary war?
Lets not forget, if the tables were turned, and we were Afghani, these people would be "traitors".
-Steve
An astonishing assertion that demonstrates how dire the situation is. We have completely lost our compass and the world will be 10,000 times poorer for it. Your smug little world is doomed - in one of two ways.
To get it clear.
1. The Taliban are not freedom fighters
2. The other factions seek to enslave and murder you and your family, after (of course) having enslaved and murdered anyone who they don't like in their own country - women, intellectuals, christians, jews, muslims that they don't agree with, scientists, doctors; and that list is just a start.
3. If the tables were turned you would be dead, your house would be burned, I would be dead, my family would be dead. The internet would be off, the power would be off, almost all books would be burned.
I would hope that we would be able to muster the will and resources to stop these people without recourse to collapsing our democracy and freedoms, but comments like yours make my blood run cold and the realization dawns on me that in fact this may not be the way that things play out. We do not, as a society, share the collective understanding and values that will allow us to do this. Since the alternative is unthinkable (see above) we are going to go down the route of totalitarianism and a military state.
Welcome to 1000 years of a boot stamping down on a human face, again, and again and again.
My advice, to everyone, keep your head down, be kind to those around you, preserve what you can, bury it if necessary. Wait for the knock at the door and go quietly when it comes, for the sake of your children.
Hope that some bright morning in the future someone finds what we have hidden.
Crowd sourcing is fine for finding out what people in general think, but that's the problem : it reflects what the mass of people think and know.
When specific data becomes available to investors they generally act on it pretty fast, unless it goes against the wisdom of the crowd in which case it gets ignored until the evidence becomes overwhelming. So - we have a very motivated form of crowd sourcing at the moment that isn't doing the job.
The way forward is to change the rules on disclosure, and to change the penalties for fraud. In particular to make the top 50 pay packets in all limited companies partnership packets. If executives had unlimited personal liabilities for one year, 90% in the second year and so on after accepting a top 50 position in a year then I would bet that fraud in organizations and between organizations would decline rapidly. Also, put a tax on goods from any company that is based in a territory that doesn't enforce this practice (or all the execs will go live in Hong Kong or somewhere!)
>Yeah, but none that aren't monopolistic, totalitarian, asinine, or flat-out bullshit.
Bollocks.
Wireless networks are constrained by the power law of signal propagation; because signals have to be broadcast (due to the moving about nature of wireless clients) the energy required to distribute the signal increases exponentially with distance. This matters very little when you are close to the antenna, but as you move away it matters alot, meaning that for feasible architectures - ie, no antenna in your bedroom and investment $2000000 billion (ish) you are buggered.
In the sense that for a much smaller investment you can get a fixed network, and you will have 100* (in principal) the bandwidth.
4g 4*MIMO cells can do about 375 Megs per secondo. That's split between all users of the cell mind. A decent optical network anywhere in the world should give you 50 Megs now... per person; cells with 10 subscribers are not viable.
The numbers are going to go one way, but even if they don't and the technologies pace each other then let's be clear; wireless networks will compete on the basis of the moving about ability they offer, and fixed on the basis of the undifferentiated vast pipe they offer.
You can hurl all the hyperbole you like about how horrid it is and how angry you are about it; but this is physics, and you are dicked.
This is how things will be; and have been so far, the applications will be driven by the potential of the wired network, this will provide the demand for the wired network, and the demand for the wireless network. That will mean that the wireless network will be contended badly, that will mean they will need a scarcity driven business model to support economically feasible bandwidth rather than technically appropriate and sensible bandwidth number.
There are open formats that can be read with e-book readers (like the Sony)
Also there are books that free in open formats. Go look at gutenburg; also look at wikipedia where you can compile articles into a book that you can take away with you.
Filesharing is a minor issue compared to industrial counterfeiting - I've hear the proportions of loss estimated as 10% online 90% counterfeits. The estimate itself was actually (when I asked) substantially distorted because the research underpinning it (for a major US TV network) showed that the real proportion was 1% to 99%. This was felt not to be credible, and so it was changed to reflect various intangible factors like predicted growth and future impacts due to demographics and exchange rate changes.
Of course, you can't prove that anyone has gone under because their IP was stolen, those lost sales are an opportunity cost so they don't show on any spreadsheet. This is the trick that is used to kill any investment project in any enterprise and to persuade everyone that the status quo is the way to go - because the sales you do see have definite margin and definite costs and these are provable, so new products and different products are choked away.
The question is really - does this have a negative effect on the industry of music, film or TV? At the moment I would say that it's not clear that it is, but again - who can say what the situation would be if the counterfeiters were closed?
With respect to administrative controls, it is very easy to segment control and access in a system. I run a social media monitoring service, we have 3 basic types of user (Admin, Coordinator, Agent) but each one can have up to 30 options that define the precise controls and access they have. I am amazed that Twitter have not implemented a similar system.
If my team (3 guys) can implement this, anyone can. It is reasonable to expect. In fact it's totally sensible.
Compromise of individual accounts does not leak information as badly as administration - there is a host of stuff an admin could do that an individual couldn't.
With respect to limiting access by IP address, again you are talking complete nonsense. It is feasible to do this on a whitelist that would enable access from anywhere, but would require an email or a phone call to set up. Hardly difficult, and again, why not segregate the machines to enable moderation (fAor example) from a browser or using ssh but locking the database away somewhere where no one can get to? Actually I agree that ssh is functionally strong enough to rely on - if that breaks all our games are up!
You think that the world is complete - I think that is because you are happy with the world as you are told it is.
Your education has not equipped you to realize that the world is not as you are being told it is.
Things that are interesting that are not known:
- how to reliably and cheaply protect people from malaria (100's of millions of people would be very interested in this) ? - how to generate energy in a way that doesn't involve lots of people dying due to flooding, crop failure, radiation sickness or sudden my head is on fire syndrome? - is every number bigger than 2 expressible as the sum of two primes? - how will feed modern populations (say 5 billion people, because if a billion die who will care - clue they won't be on CNN and wouldn't be in a gang called "the aryans" in prison) with the resources available in 50 years time, in particular with known energy generation and recovery systems and feasible sources of fertilization? - how would you land a human on Mars (clue, no current system can deliver a payload of the weight of a human with minimal life support without fatal deceleration) - how can we do computation of several orders of magnitude greater than current computation with available energy supplies?
So - reconsider your educational position my friend.
The thing is that products are created once and then sold for years afterwards. This means that by the time the value of an engineer is realised she is a disposable item - because all that intellectual ability is sunk into the product.
Ergo, can the engineer and get some salesmen to sell what you have.
This is what every MBA everywhere will do.
This is why MBA's should be killed with sticks.
This is why the economy of the western world (by which I mean USA, France, England and Germany) is sinking into the quagmire (the other candidates for the tag "western world" are on the way down due to other factors, apart from Canada and Australia which are doing ok due to having things to dig up and sell)
In truth the engineers should be kept and built into an engine of innovation and competitive advantage, but the problem is that the products that you don't have don't show up on your spreadsheets. Opportunity cost cannot be quantified, spend on R&D can - so shut R&D, boost your balance sheet, take dividends for 5 or 6 (or 7 or 8) years, then fire everyone and shut up shop.
Shareholders (apparently) don't give a toss, although I suspect that some pension fund managers will pay in blood in the end. The media don't give a toss, politicians don't give a toss.
Do you give a toss?
Thought not.
- grow veg in your garden - develop a second income - buy emerging market funds - bet big short on the dow and ftse. Standard valuation is 8* pe, current valuations are at 12*, the reality is that current companies are worth about 5* due to gearing and running so lean for so long. - pray that someone wakes up and puts a stop to this soon
What about massive drops in a day when systems kick in and sell stuff due to a single rogue trade shifting a price?
Short term trading may create market liquidity, but there are many other ways of creating and managing liquidity in markets. The most significant of which is to only trade in products that are widely in demand and are therefore backed by a substantial pool of buyers.
The statement is "anything else" not anything already tried.
A man said "As our case is new, we must think and act anew"
- do you think that the current situation is a seemless continuation of the mechanisms of trade that have prevailed for 5000 years? - do you think that all mechanisms of economic distribution and management have now been invented and tried.
Also in the past there were a number of relatively successful alternative mechanisms that only failed when variously smallpox (inca socialism), opium (confusion economic management) and random acts of genocide were applied to them.
Latency : we will not see any change while people are still using MIP (Mobile IP) - this is the source of latency on mobile devices; it gives seamless roaming, but the price is playing ping pong with your packets.
Throughput : if you have a MIMO (multiplex in, multiplex out) implementation of 4G you will see 375 MB throughput in a cell as opposed to 75 ish with Wimax or 3G, the good thing about LTE as I understand it is that you can mix MIMO nodes and normal nodes in a network with no worries, so that means that you can put MIMO nodes where you want them. Of course you can get similar architectural effects with femento cells, but I think that the architecture will work out better and consumers will see better throughput for their devices and more consistency in metro areas even when there is heavy and popular use.
Having said that it is not going to be the case that you will want to switch from your DSL to this - or even more particularally from your NGA to this.
Another key constraint is the battery life of the devices using this - pulling through loads of data is going to drain those batteries, so we will have to see some improvement there just as we did for 3G I guess.
NO ONE CARES WHAT "A RESEARCHER" (or professor, or cleverdick) SAYS
we only care if they have published peer reviewed research that we can read and evaluate for ourselves and then decide if we believe if it is substantively true or not.
You have to fit in with their culture, this might be very difficult but consider your objectives and what you are prepared to do to achieve them.
For example, for a new grad gaining 2 years of solid experience is probably worth swallowing wearing a suit, being at your desk at 7am and kissing arse daily. After 2 years of doing that you may well be able to leave and find a better job on more money with a fun culture that suits you if you are into that kind of thing !
People are saying that you should socialize : definitely true. But the big reason to do it is not to appear to be someone who is social and good at communicating, but actually to develop sources of help for times of difficulty. You will have screw ups, you are human, you will need someone to give you a pass on occasion - the guys you go to lunch with may do that. They may also feel comfortable enough with you to tell you what you did wrong and what you could do right instead. Your co-workers are a seminar like source of knowledge for you - build that resource and use it.
Whenever anyone attacks any country now civilian infrastructure is routinely targeted - factories, ministries, water plants, electricity generators, ports.
I don't see what any adversary would have to loose to be honest.
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TBH. COBOL is very easy to learn, it's jsut a pain in the arse to build anything substantial in it because it's very primitive in comparison to a modern language.
COBOL experience is rare because the details of the kit that underpins it (DB2, forms for terminal input) and the interfaces to that kit are difficult to access; you can't spend 3 months doing an open source project on COBOL and then talk about that in your interview.
Java is everywhere - and will continue to be accessible as a technology, just much less desirable in corporate architecture if it is vendor owned in the way that this announcement predicts. So I can see a move away from Java for new projects and a need to support the old stuff falling to a less skilled and poorly paid workforce.
1000's of big companies (telcos, utilities, retailers, gov, defence) use java in their back office, and... well everywhere.
This may cause them to change their policy for new software development, and it may also squeeze the java developer market badly, but for sure there will be strong arguements for splashing £50k here, £90k there, £20k somewhere else, on getting the new JVM to pick up the performance of application x, y, z which are long in the tooth and a pain in the arse.
The alternative is to rebuild, which carries risk - although would be a good move in the long run. In the meetings someone will say "yeah, but we are all dead in the long run" and that's that basically. As a CIO you just pay over £50k, get your users back on side, keep your job for another year, collect your bonus, put another years pension contrib into the pot.
So, Oracle will make money, lots of money, off this. You guys can squeak, MS will cheer, the Python community will see a boost (perhaps), but Larry and co will be richer.
Mysql (in the future) = Oracle feather light (down load it and run it and you are up and going in less than 1hr - oracle normal = 6hrs to setup?) But, if you are an enterprise DBA then you want the management and recovery features that Oracle gives you (as well as the scaling - even though it gets so mind bendingly expensive).
Open office - who cares?
Oracle bought Sun to be IBM mark 2. Expect them to buy Accenture next.
There is a lot of poor research that is done, which will go no where, which is published in extremely good journals.
This work is funded now because the research councils do not have to differentiate between it and the rest of the "excellent" work that is funded.
It will not get funded in the future. The councils will pick projects that are done by groups that have track records of real, rather than paper, success.
The UK science budget has been overly generous. There is a very large entitlement culture in the universities. The capacity of our S&T culture and infrastructure has not kept pace with the funding that has been given to it, this is a huge mistake by the academic establishment who have spent money on glamour projects and recruiting superstars rather than developing the base that could turn funding into real results.
People ride fixies because the chain doesn't come off.
If you are depending on your bike for a living - for example because you are a messenger - then this is a positive thing.
However, for everyone else, it is not.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8044599/Jerome-Kerviel-will-need-177000-years-to-repay-5-billion.html
Well - he'll have had 3000 years to enjoy his income at that point!
First, there is a concentration of low earning people in hard circumstances in big cities. Look at the buses - the people who are sleeping on them at 6am on the way back from their shift are in the survey. The 2 hours on the bus, the fact of being on shift from 11pm to 6am, and the fact of having to work up to your elbows in sh*t do not appear in the survey.
I know that many people who do have a degree experience these conditions (vets, doctors...) and many who do not, do not. But I think that the fact is that the people on the bus mostly don't have a degree and that they mostly don't want to be on the bus.
It is also clear that people who have strong vocational educations often have similar earnings to people with degrees, and often have fulfilling and pleasant roles that bring them respect in their communities. This is an excellent route for anyone who doesn't feel that a university education suits them.
Final point; the last 40 years and the next 40 years are not the same thing. No one knows what the future will bring, it might be the case that the rewards of a degree will be much greater in the future, and it might not. But I had my perspective sharply altered by this truth when I was in my mid thirties and two close friends with educations died. Now, their earnings were sharply curtailed, so their investment looks bad from the point of view of this table. But on the other hand they had done something, gained a degree, had a great time at college. They had lived - just as someone who had climbed mountains, joined the army and had a fun surfing career could say that they had lived.
But be clear. People who work in chicken factories until they get cancer do not feel that life has treated them kindly.
Most of the "young" academics I know, and a lot of other domain experts contribute to Wikipedia.
Y'know - the truth and facts and things... they have a certain sort of persistence and value.
And ok, there's no credit, but that's what grant applications and papers are for right?
Oh c'mon, "refuse to allow the beliefs of anybody"?
How about the belief that the environment we share should be protected?
No?
Ok, how about the belief that animals should not suffer unnecessarily in an experiment?
No, not bothered by sad beagles?
Ok, how about the belief that human children shouldn't be dissected?
No?
Ok, how about now, when they are still alive?
No?
Ok, no anesthetic?
C'mon c'mon c'mon - there are limits, the question is which limits?
I don't claim to know a bean about this, but perhaps this paper indicates the issues and opportunities, and challenges!
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/C0507252/papers/T032.PDF
Of course - it would take considerable time and effort to actually be able to say if the paper was sensible and meaningful, but I think that it appears to be an indication of the topic I was alluding to.
I think that there are some really interesting predictions of how gravity should behave on a submicron scale which could rule out (or in) large number of potential string theories.
Of course, while I can imagine that gravity could be tested on a submicron scale when I start to try and imagine what kind of experiment could be constructed that actually did that I start to flail about and gape and make little clucking noises. I expect there are a fair number of physics fellas doing the same.
Letting informants live and continue to inform risks the lives of freedom fighters trying to shake off the bonds of occupation.
What makes the US military and its sympathizers and collaborators so much more important than other factions in this idiotic and unnecessary war?
Lets not forget, if the tables were turned, and we were Afghani, these people would be "traitors".
-Steve
An astonishing assertion that demonstrates how dire the situation is. We have completely lost our compass and the world will be 10,000 times poorer for it. Your smug little world is doomed - in one of two ways.
To get it clear.
1. The Taliban are not freedom fighters
2. The other factions seek to enslave and murder you and your family, after (of course) having enslaved and murdered anyone who they don't like in their own country - women, intellectuals, christians, jews, muslims that they don't agree with, scientists, doctors; and that list is just a start.
3. If the tables were turned you would be dead, your house would be burned, I would be dead, my family would be dead. The internet would be off, the power would be off, almost all books would be burned.
I would hope that we would be able to muster the will and resources to stop these people without recourse to collapsing our democracy and freedoms, but comments like yours make my blood run cold and the realization dawns on me that in fact this may not be the way that things play out. We do not, as a society, share the collective understanding and values that will allow us to do this. Since the alternative is unthinkable (see above) we are going to go down the route of totalitarianism and a military state.
Welcome to 1000 years of a boot stamping down on a human face, again, and again and again.
My advice, to everyone, keep your head down, be kind to those around you, preserve what you can, bury it if necessary. Wait for the knock at the door and go quietly when it comes, for the sake of your children.
Hope that some bright morning in the future someone finds what we have hidden.
Crowd sourcing is fine for finding out what people in general think, but that's the problem : it reflects what the mass of people think and know.
When specific data becomes available to investors they generally act on it pretty fast, unless it goes against the wisdom of the crowd in which case it gets ignored until the evidence becomes overwhelming. So - we have a very motivated form of crowd sourcing at the moment that isn't doing the job.
The way forward is to change the rules on disclosure, and to change the penalties for fraud. In particular to make the top 50 pay packets in all limited companies partnership packets. If executives had unlimited personal liabilities for one year, 90% in the second year and so on after accepting a top 50 position in a year then I would bet that fraud in organizations and between organizations would decline rapidly. Also, put a tax on goods from any company that is based in a territory that doesn't enforce this practice (or all the execs will go live in Hong Kong or somewhere!)
>Yeah, but none that aren't monopolistic, totalitarian, asinine, or flat-out bullshit.
Bollocks.
Wireless networks are constrained by the power law of signal propagation; because signals have to be broadcast (due to the moving about nature of wireless clients) the energy required to distribute the signal increases exponentially with distance. This matters very little when you are close to the antenna, but as you move away it matters alot, meaning that for feasible architectures - ie, no antenna in your bedroom and investment $2000000 billion (ish) you are buggered.
In the sense that for a much smaller investment you can get a fixed network, and you will have 100* (in principal) the bandwidth.
4g 4*MIMO cells can do about 375 Megs per secondo. That's split between all users of the cell mind. A decent optical network anywhere in the world should give you 50 Megs now... per person; cells with 10 subscribers are not viable.
The numbers are going to go one way, but even if they don't and the technologies pace each other then let's be clear; wireless networks will compete on the basis of the moving about ability they offer, and fixed on the basis of the undifferentiated vast pipe they offer.
You can hurl all the hyperbole you like about how horrid it is and how angry you are about it; but this is physics, and you are dicked.
This is how things will be; and have been so far, the applications will be driven by the potential of the wired network, this will provide the demand for the wired network, and the demand for the wireless network. That will mean that the wireless network will be contended badly, that will mean they will need a scarcity driven business model to support economically feasible bandwidth rather than technically appropriate and sensible bandwidth number.
Look at 3G, look at the money that was blown!
And while you are at it... well blow..
There are open formats that can be read with e-book readers (like the Sony)
Also there are books that free in open formats. Go look at gutenburg; also look at wikipedia where you can compile articles into a book that you can take away with you.
Filesharing is a minor issue compared to industrial counterfeiting - I've hear the proportions of loss estimated as 10% online 90% counterfeits. The estimate itself was actually (when I asked) substantially distorted because the research underpinning it (for a major US TV network) showed that the real proportion was 1% to 99%. This was felt not to be credible, and so it was changed to reflect various intangible factors like predicted growth and future impacts due to demographics and exchange rate changes.
Of course, you can't prove that anyone has gone under because their IP was stolen, those lost sales are an opportunity cost so they don't show on any spreadsheet. This is the trick that is used to kill any investment project in any enterprise and to persuade everyone that the status quo is the way to go - because the sales you do see have definite margin and definite costs and these are provable, so new products and different products are choked away.
The question is really - does this have a negative effect on the industry of music, film or TV? At the moment I would say that it's not clear that it is, but again - who can say what the situation would be if the counterfeiters were closed?
The statement "any password that is easy to memorize is not strong" is not true.
The best way to create a strong easy to remember password is via a phrase.
Iwearcoolshoes!638
dobbinisanicehorse.112
ponyslikejonty6eatcarrots?
With respect to administrative controls, it is very easy to segment control and access in a system. I run a social media monitoring service, we have 3 basic types of user (Admin, Coordinator, Agent) but each one can have up to 30 options that define the precise controls and access they have. I am amazed that Twitter have not implemented a similar system.
If my team (3 guys) can implement this, anyone can. It is reasonable to expect. In fact it's totally sensible.
Compromise of individual accounts does not leak information as badly as administration - there is a host of stuff an admin could do that an individual couldn't.
With respect to limiting access by IP address, again you are talking complete nonsense. It is feasible to do this on a whitelist that would enable access from anywhere, but would require an email or a phone call to set up. Hardly difficult, and again, why not segregate the machines to enable moderation (fAor example) from a browser or using ssh but locking the database away somewhere where no one can get to?
Actually I agree that ssh is functionally strong enough to rely on - if that breaks all our games are up!
Really interesting.
You think that the world is complete - I think that is because you are happy with the world as you are told it is.
Your education has not equipped you to realize that the world is not as you are being told it is.
Things that are interesting that are not known:
- how to reliably and cheaply protect people from malaria (100's of millions of people would be very interested in this) ?
- how to generate energy in a way that doesn't involve lots of people dying due to flooding, crop failure, radiation sickness or sudden my head is on fire syndrome?
- is every number bigger than 2 expressible as the sum of two primes?
- how will feed modern populations (say 5 billion people, because if a billion die who will care - clue they won't be on CNN and wouldn't be in a gang called "the aryans" in prison) with the resources available in 50 years time, in particular with known energy generation and recovery systems and feasible sources of fertilization?
- how would you land a human on Mars (clue, no current system can deliver a payload of the weight of a human with minimal life support without fatal deceleration)
- how can we do computation of several orders of magnitude greater than current computation with available energy supplies?
So - reconsider your educational position my friend.
The thing is that products are created once and then sold for years afterwards. This means that by the time the value of an engineer is realised she is a disposable item - because all that intellectual ability is sunk into the product.
Ergo, can the engineer and get some salesmen to sell what you have.
This is what every MBA everywhere will do.
This is why MBA's should be killed with sticks.
This is why the economy of the western world (by which I mean USA, France, England and Germany) is sinking into the quagmire (the other candidates for the tag "western world" are on the way down due to other factors, apart from Canada and Australia which are doing ok due to having things to dig up and sell)
In truth the engineers should be kept and built into an engine of innovation and competitive advantage, but the problem is that the products that you don't have don't show up on your spreadsheets. Opportunity cost cannot be quantified, spend on R&D can - so shut R&D, boost your balance sheet, take dividends for 5 or 6 (or 7 or 8) years, then fire everyone and shut up shop.
Shareholders (apparently) don't give a toss, although I suspect that some pension fund managers will pay in blood in the end. The media don't give a toss, politicians don't give a toss.
Do you give a toss?
Thought not.
- grow veg in your garden
- develop a second income
- buy emerging market funds
- bet big short on the dow and ftse. Standard valuation is 8* pe, current valuations are at 12*, the reality is that current companies are worth about 5* due to gearing and running so lean for so long.
- pray that someone wakes up and puts a stop to this soon
Whoooo ha !
What about massive drops in a day when systems kick in and sell stuff due to a single rogue trade shifting a price?
Short term trading may create market liquidity, but there are many other ways of creating and managing liquidity in markets. The most significant of which is to only trade in products that are widely in demand and are therefore backed by a substantial pool of buyers.
The statement is "anything else" not anything already tried.
A man said "As our case is new, we must think and act anew"
- do you think that the current situation is a seemless continuation of the mechanisms of trade that have prevailed for 5000 years?
- do you think that all mechanisms of economic distribution and management have now been invented and tried.
Also in the past there were a number of relatively successful alternative mechanisms that only failed when variously smallpox (inca socialism), opium (confusion economic management) and random acts of genocide were applied to them.
Latency : we will not see any change while people are still using MIP (Mobile IP) - this is the source of latency on mobile devices; it gives seamless roaming, but the price is playing ping pong with your packets.
Throughput : if you have a MIMO (multiplex in, multiplex out) implementation of 4G you will see 375 MB throughput in a cell as opposed to 75 ish with Wimax or 3G, the good thing about LTE as I understand it is that you can mix MIMO nodes and normal nodes in a network with no worries, so that means that you can put MIMO nodes where you want them. Of course you can get similar architectural effects with femento cells, but I think that the architecture will work out better and consumers will see better throughput for their devices and more consistency in metro areas even when there is heavy and popular use.
Having said that it is not going to be the case that you will want to switch from your DSL to this - or even more particularally from your NGA to this.
Another key constraint is the battery life of the devices using this - pulling through loads of data is going to drain those batteries, so we will have to see some improvement there just as we did for 3G I guess.
when will people get this :
NO ONE CARES WHAT "A RESEARCHER" (or professor, or cleverdick) SAYS
we only care if they have published peer reviewed research that we can read and evaluate for ourselves and then decide if we believe if it is substantively true or not.
Thank you for your attention.
Make sure that there is no phone plugged in without a filter.
Change/swap your filters round to see if one of them is faulty
Try with your daughters router/hub and see if that helps.
Try connecting with a lan cable (not wireless)
Try turning off noisy devices like fridges and freezers and washing machines and see if that helps
Try turning off circuits on your fuse boxes and see if that helps.
You have to fit in with their culture, this might be very difficult but consider your objectives and what you are prepared to do to achieve them.
For example, for a new grad gaining 2 years of solid experience is probably worth swallowing wearing a suit, being at your desk at 7am and kissing arse daily. After 2 years of doing that you may well be able to leave and find a better job on more money with a fun culture that suits you if you are into that kind of thing !
People are saying that you should socialize : definitely true. But the big reason to do it is not to appear to be someone who is social and good at communicating, but actually to develop sources of help for times of difficulty. You will have screw ups, you are human, you will need someone to give you a pass on occasion - the guys you go to lunch with may do that. They may also feel comfortable enough with you to tell you what you did wrong and what you could do right instead. Your co-workers are a seminar like source of knowledge for you - build that resource and use it.
Whenever anyone attacks any country now civilian infrastructure is routinely targeted - factories, ministries, water plants, electricity generators, ports.
I don't see what any adversary would have to loose to be honest.