Why don't you take an existing product and put it on a truck. Boeing did this years ago from a 747, while in flight. so LM, who makes planes, said lets do that but do it easier by not making it fly. yawn.
The Boeing system(the YAL-1) was a chemical laser. Those things are markedly better at high power compared to ordinary photopumped gas lasers or solid state lasers; but are somewhat disliked because of the difficulties involved in supplying and exhausting substantial quantities of nasty halogens under field conditions.
I suspect that it depends on what you mean by 'under-qualified'.
Given that it is a specially designed, five-year, program, with the first year for remedial purposes, it obviously isn't targeting people with good high school educations.
However, such a program(with its willingness to accept students who went to shitty high schools) would presumably be very well placed to have its pick of talented students whose high schools sucked.
It remains to be seen if they will adopt sufficiently well refined selection criteria; but given the state of a nontrivial number of high schools, there should be plenty of people out there who aren't nearly prepared for a real college; but who have considerable aptitude.
and then when the IRS drops in and says it's income then all kinds of other laws drop in.
The epic hilarity starts if they decide that you'll probably have to account for different sorts of loot in different ways... Did you get the Helm of Epic Bashing while you were wandering around and slaying monsters(self employed), while doing a quest for the Mysterious Feckless Questgiver NPC(Independent Contractor), or should it be reflected in the W-2 that the Ratslayer's Guild submitted to cover your work as an employee with them?
You should probably also get an opinion from your tax lawyer on whether the depletion of the charges stored in your Staff of Fireball is simply part of the depreciation of that capital good, or whether charges are just a business expense like copier paper or potions of stamina...
Well, given that the SAR numbers are already required to be calculated for the handset to pass FCC approval, and the FCC already has an SAR limit for sale-able devices, it seems like mandating that the numbers be included in the documentation(rather than by grabbing the FCC ID and grovelling through the documents pertaining to the device's approval process) seems like it would be a pretty painless addition...
Obviously, there are an arbitrary number of variables you could theoretically demand a label for; but this is one that is already computed, already available, and apparently of some public interest, which would seem to make it a not-illogical choice if the people of a municipality so decide.
I can't figure out what is good and bad data with this topic. Seems like everything I read is spin.
Luckily, now that the labeling has been abandoned, you don't know your dosage level anyway, so no need to worry!
Honestly, that's what most annoys me about these sorts of cases(this, GMO labelling, 'organic' labeling, etc.) The evidence for harm or harmlessness is often rather equivocal; but the relevant trade association pressure groups scream like babies at the idea that customers would even be in the position to make an informed decision(foolish or otherwise).
Given the (currently tiny) market for goods buyable with bitcoins, their 'value' is heavily dependent on the health of the exchanges where you can cash out into some other currency.
Incidentally, those exchanges appear to get hacked and/or DDsSed every couple of months...
With the GPU, FPGA, and ASIC miners either online or coming-real-soon-now, bot-herding in order to outcompete honest nodes is a substantial computational challenge, CPU miners are just too pitiful; but it would seem that the real weakness to exploit is the (much softer) underbelly of conventional web infrastructure and the price swings that attacks on that part of the bitcoin economy can create.
The trade between bitcoins and USD looks sort of like the buying and selling of stock, in a world where it's totally normal for the NYSE to be firebombed multiple times per year...
I'm not sure that anybody, possibly aside from poor suckers in no position to do anything about it, had the slightest confidence in the Weimar republic's fiat currency...
You don't think that the Versailles reparations were due in goldmarks rather than papiermarks just because the winning side liked shiny things, do you?
Any idea what made memory prices jump so high? Just a few months ago, I upgraded two of my computers to 16GB for $80 each.
No idea, honestly. I have the impression that they were lower when I did my last build as well; but I was just reading numbers off newegg, both for RAM and SSDs,(which is usually within a few bucks of 'representative' if not always the absolute cheapest) when I wrote that post, so apparently something has.
This part probably doesn't help WD as much as they would like(since they had to buy the SSD silicon from a different vendor, who presumably is eating a nontrivial percentage of the profit on the drive); but one of the reasons why Flash-based solid state storage is popular is that it is faster than mechanical; but a lot cheaper than RAM. Even assuming your system isn't socket-limited or 32-bit non PAE, 24GB of RAM(basic DDR3, no ECC or other fancy stuff) is ~$200. 24GB of SLC Flash, from Intel, is ~$120, and if you are willing to deal with MLC, $200 puts you in the 240GB bracket, even from reputable brands.
Undeniably, there are applications for which in-RAM performance is simply essential; but using RAM as HDD cache if you can use flash as HDD cache isn't going to save you any money(though the greater maturity of driver/OS support is certainly nice).
I know that Fedora was experimenting with some policykit setting where(by default, configurable in other ways) unprivileged users were delegated the authority to install any package already available from the approved repositories(which did require root access to muck with). There was some controversy about whether this was a good default setting or not.
I don't know the details of what apt can and can't do; but given the existence and considerable utility of sudo(which is precisely a tool for allowing a user to perform controlled impersonations of other user accounts in administrator-defined contexts) I would strongly suspect that it is either already possible to allow apt to perform certain approved operations on behalf of a non-root user, or that is a feature that could be added without substantial upheaval(especially for the use case that involves an OSX-like 'copy this special folder into a directory I have write privileges for' install operation, rather than a system-wide change, though system-wide cases would be doable as well).
Your hurtful stereotypes wound me deeply. As a smirking east coast liberal elitist, I am only able to wear my Birkenstocks a few months out of the year, lest the cruel winter winds chill my delicate toes. Also, please keep in mind that (while liberals are required by union regulations to despise all practical knowledge except evilutionism), our culture has long prided itself on spending as many years as possible at expensive private universities and liberal arts colleges accruing detailed knowledge of the useless arts and humanities and indulging in depraved promiscuity. We work very hard to know as much as possible without crossing the lines into being capable of actual productivity.
As for Mississippi, it isn't the 'southern' that's the problem, it's the "scraping the bottom of the barrel among US states on an alarming number of measures" that's the problem.
It isn't clear, exactly, from TFA what the drive will look like when you plug it in. Both components(the HDD and the SSD) apparently can function as SATA peripherals; but they are both behind some sort of bridge chip, type unspecified.
If the 'bridge chip' is just a reasonably generic SATA port multiplier, then an unsupported OS, or Windows without the driver, will just see two drives, the larger mechanical one and the smaller flash one. This would leave the way open for any OS with SATA and AHCI support to do whatever it prefers to get the best performance(on Linux, I assume that'd be at the filesystem level, with something like btrfs)
If the 'bridge chip' is some sort of proprietary oddity, and the vendor driver is required to even communicate with the flash portion(presumably at least some part of the drive will be visible as a normal SATA device, or booting without specific BIOS support would be a problem...), then that's pretty much worthless.
I suspect that the desire to get people plunking down real money didn't help; but MMORPGs have a long history of economies that render their currencies nearly entirely obsolete after a short time, at least for anybody who isn't a level 3 newb saving up for stuff that the NPC blacksmith actually sells. Even 'open world' single player RPGs frequently succumb to "I have more money than the world has things to buy"-itis after a few levels.
And several arrests - this is computer hacking of exploiting a known bug to your advantage.
It will actually be interesting to see. Historically, people who come up with glitch exploits, even in multiplayer and MMORPG contexts, just get banned for some ToS reason. Blizzard's precious little 'Auction House', of course, might change that. However, I suspect that Blizzard really doesn't want to push the idea that 'in-game items are legally real value' too seriously, both because that could complicate things if players end up 'owning' them, rather than the current "Everything in this game is just intellectual property of blizzard...yadda yadda, licensed not sold,etc.", and because it would be a real blow, to the US customer base, if it were decided that Blizzard was running something closer to a very complex flavor of video poker, rather than a mere video game that you can buy some DLC for.
Obviously Blizzard won't be happy, and the banhammer will see some use; but they might want to tread lightly.
IMHO, this is something Windows gets right. It's a fucking executable dammit. Yeah, it calls some APIs that are needed for installing. Installation library, sure; but "packaging system"??? Package format? Sooner or later you'd think that Linux people would just wake up and realize it's an executable.
You'd better go tell Microsoft about that, they've apparently been running headlong away from 'getting it right' since 1999... While it doesn't have the concept of 'repositories' in the same sense that Linux package managers generally do, the Windows Installer Service and the.msi,.msp, and.mst files that it works with are easily as or more complex as anything on the Linux side(and that's in addition to the distinct Windows Update mechanism, which interacts either with Microsoft, with a WSUS server, or with.msu files, exactly what circumstances require this rather than WIS are not 100% clear to me).
Yes, Windows doesn't forbid much simpler mechanisms like the nullsoft installer or 'just click foo.exe'; but neither does linux. Plenty of non-packaged software comes as an 'install.sh' or just an executable binary you copy somewhere.
I think it's just a case of "because different" and "not developed here". I don't see how they could make any significant improvements over apt, but it doesn't surprise me from this group of hipsters.
Stop pissing in the pool Ubuntu.
It does seem a trifle odd because, to the best of my knowledge, there isn't anything preventing existing tools from working normally with.deb packages that just happen to include everything, and have no defined dependencies. There might be some modest changes needed to allow you to process packages that don't do anything requiring root privileges without being asked for them; but that hardly seems like enough to justify an entire new tool.
Isn't '60-90 days of retraining' about the same as what you get for failing a class in high school and getting forced to take summer classes if you want to graduate?
You are free to ignore them. My point was just that, while 'cloud storage' in general is very useful for certain things, the industry trend toward highly fragmented chunks of cloud storage, all from different providers, all with different credentials, all bundled with different products and services, and generally an alphabet soup of APIs and protocols(if they offer anything at all aside from 'install our client software').
With conventional storage, we've been using it long enough that intermediate layers of abstraction have built up and allowed us to, essentially transparently, serve all kinds of scenarios, with equipment from all sorts of vendors, and even operate substantially mixed infrastructures. With 'cloud' stuff, that sort of thing is in its infancy(and actively resisted by some vendors), which makes each individual little chunk of 'cloud storage' much less useful than it would otherwise be, and can also make expanding one of the chunks more expensive than it would otherwise be, and require duplication of files between the chunks.
Oh, buying a cheapie residental DSL line for security testing seems totally sensible. I'm just a touch surprised that somebody honeypotting for possibly-sophisticated attackers wouldn't conceal the fact that they are using a burner VM, as well as not using a network connection associated with a well-known security firm.
So now every tech support call in the world is monitored by the indian government? If I defame their leaders while on the phone with Dell, will their be consequences?
"Hello, this is Steve at Dell 'Support' in not-Bangalore, I'm afraid that the replacement motherboard for your system has been accused of injuring religious feelings and offenses against public order. We will provide you with new tracking number when they are finished 'refurbishing' it in the basement of the interior ministry."
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Why don't you take an existing product and put it on a truck.
Boeing did this years ago from a 747, while in flight.
so LM, who makes planes, said lets do that but do it easier by not making it fly.
yawn.
The Boeing system(the YAL-1) was a chemical laser. Those things are markedly better at high power compared to ordinary photopumped gas lasers or solid state lasers; but are somewhat disliked because of the difficulties involved in supplying and exhausting substantial quantities of nasty halogens under field conditions.
I suspect that it depends on what you mean by 'under-qualified'.
Given that it is a specially designed, five-year, program, with the first year for remedial purposes, it obviously isn't targeting people with good high school educations.
However, such a program(with its willingness to accept students who went to shitty high schools) would presumably be very well placed to have its pick of talented students whose high schools sucked.
It remains to be seen if they will adopt sufficiently well refined selection criteria; but given the state of a nontrivial number of high schools, there should be plenty of people out there who aren't nearly prepared for a real college; but who have considerable aptitude.
and then when the IRS drops in and says it's income then all kinds of other laws drop in.
The epic hilarity starts if they decide that you'll probably have to account for different sorts of loot in different ways... Did you get the Helm of Epic Bashing while you were wandering around and slaying monsters(self employed), while doing a quest for the Mysterious Feckless Questgiver NPC(Independent Contractor), or should it be reflected in the W-2 that the Ratslayer's Guild submitted to cover your work as an employee with them?
You should probably also get an opinion from your tax lawyer on whether the depletion of the charges stored in your Staff of Fireball is simply part of the depreciation of that capital good, or whether charges are just a business expense like copier paper or potions of stamina...
Well, given that the SAR numbers are already required to be calculated for the handset to pass FCC approval, and the FCC already has an SAR limit for sale-able devices, it seems like mandating that the numbers be included in the documentation(rather than by grabbing the FCC ID and grovelling through the documents pertaining to the device's approval process) seems like it would be a pretty painless addition...
Obviously, there are an arbitrary number of variables you could theoretically demand a label for; but this is one that is already computed, already available, and apparently of some public interest, which would seem to make it a not-illogical choice if the people of a municipality so decide.
I can't figure out what is good and bad data with this topic. Seems like everything I read is spin.
Luckily, now that the labeling has been abandoned, you don't know your dosage level anyway, so no need to worry!
Honestly, that's what most annoys me about these sorts of cases(this, GMO labelling, 'organic' labeling, etc.) The evidence for harm or harmlessness is often rather equivocal; but the relevant trade association pressure groups scream like babies at the idea that customers would even be in the position to make an informed decision(foolish or otherwise).
Given the (currently tiny) market for goods buyable with bitcoins, their 'value' is heavily dependent on the health of the exchanges where you can cash out into some other currency.
Incidentally, those exchanges appear to get hacked and/or DDsSed every couple of months...
With the GPU, FPGA, and ASIC miners either online or coming-real-soon-now, bot-herding in order to outcompete honest nodes is a substantial computational challenge, CPU miners are just too pitiful; but it would seem that the real weakness to exploit is the (much softer) underbelly of conventional web infrastructure and the price swings that attacks on that part of the bitcoin economy can create.
The trade between bitcoins and USD looks sort of like the buying and selling of stock, in a world where it's totally normal for the NYSE to be firebombed multiple times per year...
I'm not sure that anybody, possibly aside from poor suckers in no position to do anything about it, had the slightest confidence in the Weimar republic's fiat currency...
You don't think that the Versailles reparations were due in goldmarks rather than papiermarks just because the winning side liked shiny things, do you?
Any idea what made memory prices jump so high? Just a few months ago, I upgraded two of my computers to 16GB for $80 each.
No idea, honestly. I have the impression that they were lower when I did my last build as well; but I was just reading numbers off newegg, both for RAM and SSDs,(which is usually within a few bucks of 'representative' if not always the absolute cheapest) when I wrote that post, so apparently something has.
This part probably doesn't help WD as much as they would like(since they had to buy the SSD silicon from a different vendor, who presumably is eating a nontrivial percentage of the profit on the drive); but one of the reasons why Flash-based solid state storage is popular is that it is faster than mechanical; but a lot cheaper than RAM. Even assuming your system isn't socket-limited or 32-bit non PAE, 24GB of RAM(basic DDR3, no ECC or other fancy stuff) is ~$200. 24GB of SLC Flash, from Intel, is ~$120, and if you are willing to deal with MLC, $200 puts you in the 240GB bracket, even from reputable brands.
Undeniably, there are applications for which in-RAM performance is simply essential; but using RAM as HDD cache if you can use flash as HDD cache isn't going to save you any money(though the greater maturity of driver/OS support is certainly nice).
I know that Fedora was experimenting with some policykit setting where(by default, configurable in other ways) unprivileged users were delegated the authority to install any package already available from the approved repositories(which did require root access to muck with). There was some controversy about whether this was a good default setting or not.
I don't know the details of what apt can and can't do; but given the existence and considerable utility of sudo(which is precisely a tool for allowing a user to perform controlled impersonations of other user accounts in administrator-defined contexts) I would strongly suspect that it is either already possible to allow apt to perform certain approved operations on behalf of a non-root user, or that is a feature that could be added without substantial upheaval(especially for the use case that involves an OSX-like 'copy this special folder into a directory I have write privileges for' install operation, rather than a system-wide change, though system-wide cases would be doable as well).
Your hurtful stereotypes wound me deeply. As a smirking east coast liberal elitist, I am only able to wear my Birkenstocks a few months out of the year, lest the cruel winter winds chill my delicate toes. Also, please keep in mind that (while liberals are required by union regulations to despise all practical knowledge except evilutionism), our culture has long prided itself on spending as many years as possible at expensive private universities and liberal arts colleges accruing detailed knowledge of the useless arts and humanities and indulging in depraved promiscuity. We work very hard to know as much as possible without crossing the lines into being capable of actual productivity.
As for Mississippi, it isn't the 'southern' that's the problem, it's the "scraping the bottom of the barrel among US states on an alarming number of measures" that's the problem.
I get the impression that I need to joke a little more blatantly...
It isn't clear, exactly, from TFA what the drive will look like when you plug it in. Both components(the HDD and the SSD) apparently can function as SATA peripherals; but they are both behind some sort of bridge chip, type unspecified.
If the 'bridge chip' is just a reasonably generic SATA port multiplier, then an unsupported OS, or Windows without the driver, will just see two drives, the larger mechanical one and the smaller flash one. This would leave the way open for any OS with SATA and AHCI support to do whatever it prefers to get the best performance(on Linux, I assume that'd be at the filesystem level, with something like btrfs)
If the 'bridge chip' is some sort of proprietary oddity, and the vendor driver is required to even communicate with the flash portion(presumably at least some part of the drive will be visible as a normal SATA device, or booting without specific BIOS support would be a problem...), then that's pretty much worthless.
I suspect that the desire to get people plunking down real money didn't help; but MMORPGs have a long history of economies that render their currencies nearly entirely obsolete after a short time, at least for anybody who isn't a level 3 newb saving up for stuff that the NPC blacksmith actually sells. Even 'open world' single player RPGs frequently succumb to "I have more money than the world has things to buy"-itis after a few levels.
And several arrests - this is computer hacking of exploiting a known bug to your advantage.
It will actually be interesting to see. Historically, people who come up with glitch exploits, even in multiplayer and MMORPG contexts, just get banned for some ToS reason. Blizzard's precious little 'Auction House', of course, might change that. However, I suspect that Blizzard really doesn't want to push the idea that 'in-game items are legally real value' too seriously, both because that could complicate things if players end up 'owning' them, rather than the current "Everything in this game is just intellectual property of blizzard...yadda yadda, licensed not sold,etc.", and because it would be a real blow, to the US customer base, if it were decided that Blizzard was running something closer to a very complex flavor of video poker, rather than a mere video game that you can buy some DLC for.
Obviously Blizzard won't be happy, and the banhammer will see some use; but they might want to tread lightly.
IMHO, this is something Windows gets right. It's a fucking executable dammit. Yeah, it calls some APIs that are needed for installing. Installation library, sure; but "packaging system"??? Package format? Sooner or later you'd think that Linux people would just wake up and realize it's an executable.
You'd better go tell Microsoft about that, they've apparently been running headlong away from 'getting it right' since 1999... While it doesn't have the concept of 'repositories' in the same sense that Linux package managers generally do, the Windows Installer Service and the .msi, .msp, and .mst files that it works with are easily as or more complex as anything on the Linux side(and that's in addition to the distinct Windows Update mechanism, which interacts either with Microsoft, with a WSUS server, or with .msu files, exactly what circumstances require this rather than WIS are not 100% clear to me).
Yes, Windows doesn't forbid much simpler mechanisms like the nullsoft installer or 'just click foo.exe'; but neither does linux. Plenty of non-packaged software comes as an 'install.sh' or just an executable binary you copy somewhere.
I think it's just a case of "because different" and "not developed here". I don't see how they could make any significant improvements over apt, but it doesn't surprise me from this group of hipsters.
Stop pissing in the pool Ubuntu.
It does seem a trifle odd because, to the best of my knowledge, there isn't anything preventing existing tools from working normally with .deb packages that just happen to include everything, and have no defined dependencies. There might be some modest changes needed to allow you to process packages that don't do anything requiring root privileges without being asked for them; but that hardly seems like enough to justify an entire new tool.
Mid-tribulation Premillennialists might be a good choice... though their 'not-launching-the-missiles' capabilities might be a problem.
"I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death."
I think these are the same units who allowed a nuclear bomb to be shipped accidentally from ND to ??Mississippi?? a few years ago.
I, for one, shudder to think of Mississippi as a nuclear power...
Isn't '60-90 days of retraining' about the same as what you get for failing a class in high school and getting forced to take summer classes if you want to graduate?
Perhaps we could build a huge supercomputer called "Colossus" to take control. I hear Dr. Forbin is a sharp guy, he could be project lead...
You are free to ignore them. My point was just that, while 'cloud storage' in general is very useful for certain things, the industry trend toward highly fragmented chunks of cloud storage, all from different providers, all with different credentials, all bundled with different products and services, and generally an alphabet soup of APIs and protocols(if they offer anything at all aside from 'install our client software').
With conventional storage, we've been using it long enough that intermediate layers of abstraction have built up and allowed us to, essentially transparently, serve all kinds of scenarios, with equipment from all sorts of vendors, and even operate substantially mixed infrastructures. With 'cloud' stuff, that sort of thing is in its infancy(and actively resisted by some vendors), which makes each individual little chunk of 'cloud storage' much less useful than it would otherwise be, and can also make expanding one of the chunks more expensive than it would otherwise be, and require duplication of files between the chunks.
Oh, buying a cheapie residental DSL line for security testing seems totally sensible. I'm just a touch surprised that somebody honeypotting for possibly-sophisticated attackers wouldn't conceal the fact that they are using a burner VM, as well as not using a network connection associated with a well-known security firm.
So now every tech support call in the world is monitored by the indian government? If I defame their leaders while on the phone with Dell, will their be consequences?
"Hello, this is Steve at Dell 'Support' in not-Bangalore, I'm afraid that the replacement motherboard for your system has been accused of injuring religious feelings and offenses against public order. We will provide you with new tracking number when they are finished 'refurbishing' it in the basement of the interior ministry."