Politics sabotaged it. Representatives on both sides added as many ear marks as possible and otherwise too many cooks spoiled the soup.
If you look at the original proposal, it wasn't nearly this bad. In fact, most of the current issues with the system weren't likely to have been issues with the original system. Instead of ditching and and saying "fuck it", the administration got a system in place that hopefully can be patched and fixed in the future. I have little faith in that.
Obama's mistake wasn't that he wanted people to be healthy and he wanted everyone to have to pay instead if just giving free healthcare to anyone who couldn't afford it (how it was before). His mistake was not bullying back.
I hope whoever is next... Republican or democrat can show more strength and say "this isn't working... We're going to fix it. Anyone who argues with me, I'll destroy in the press".
I kinda agree with both of you thanks to your example.
The Russian market took a nose dive because of borderless trading. If it were a closed system, outside investors couldn't have affected it so much.
Basically, the value of the shares have absolutely nothing to do with the companies or their performance. It's all about trends in squiggly lines. If a panic starts in either direction, more and more people trade and increase volumes. Everyone tries to buy low and sell high, but gambling related panic causes traders to lose nerve and sell low sometimes to cut losses hoping to buy back in before it rises again.
The panic is generally triggered by news stories which are written by people who don't understand the business they're writing about (for example, Amazon who is treated like a sales website only) for people who understand even less and don't care. It just makes them rush to see if the share will rise or fall.
In short, you're both kinda right. But if anyone suggests there is any more logic to the stock market than to a roulette wheel, they're full of crap.
To be fair... I have worked on many software projects in my life and have also worked with government software projects. A simple fact of life is that government funded software projects are only given to blood sucking leeches that intentionally underbid and lie their asses off about delivery schedules. Legitimate software houses who actually can plan projects and meet schedules are never evaluated.
From what I can tell, the site is up and running "mostly" only a year late and not nearly as over budget as I expected. What do you expect from a project initiated by uneducated people like politicians and sales people. They of course ask "computer experts" for help, but let's be honest... Politicians wouldn't know a qualified computer programmer from a Barbie doll.
I support ObamaCare aka ACA on a federal level simply because it requires one big ass database system to be made by one company with a whole nation of people to kick the crap out of the company making it. And let's be honest... Whether the system is for all of America or just a state, the system is almost the same.
Imagine if a state like Mississippi or Oklahoma had to get a system made? They'd hire a guy named Jom Bob from church to do it. They'd piss away the entire budget before they even found Jim Bob. They'd run it on index cards and toilet paper in type writers with no correction ink.
Is there anyone dumb enough on Slashdot to think :
A) a government sponsored software project can be done without corruption, delays and major budget problems?
B) all 50 states in America could actually manage to get a system up and running at a state level... Why not ask Florida about their prepaid college project and how bad that for screwed up. I worked at the company writing that one and that project was doomed to fail before it even started. They built the damn thing on Tandem computers with Thomas Conrad ArcNet and had a total of one guy who even knew how to boot the machine.
That is soooo RUDE!!! Are you suggesting Alibaba is not a serious corporate entity who closely monitors their sellers and ensures consumer safety and follows regulations in the countries they operate?
To be fair, I don't see how Alibaba has anything to do with Amazon. One is a legitimate vendor who has built a highly lucrative business model with sustained growth. The other is basically a swap shop site which most sane consumers would never consider typing a credit card number into. I have tried purchasing there 4 times and all 4 times, in response to what appeared to be legitimate postings, the vendors refused to ship unless I paid more or bought more. I honestly can't figure out how to use the site without being scammed.
The problem is, Amazon's share. People think the two companies are the same. Alibaba is more like an eBay than an Amazon.
I train massive numbers of people in BGP every year. The best would go for it. The average are just happy to peer and move on.
IT completely lacks process. ITIL is a joke. People insist on wasting time doing the same thing over and over. The best networking companies I know with the absolute best people are rarely more professional than a bunch of script kiddies. The best of the best hack away on networking and routing like and orangoutang playing with a toy piano. Modern IT is rarely better off than a bunch of idiots in comfort zones who make changes indiscriminately and send the invoice.
There is no profit in fixing BGP. It works and most IT engineers operating peers don't care. There is nothing which says "the internet won't work if we don't do this.". There's not even a clear line of how you would gain money by making such a change.
The internet will never implement a feature simply because it's useful or right. We do it because of the money, because it's fun or because our peering won't function without it.
Starting will always be low. After 3-5 years, you can expect much more. COBOL is for conservative organizations where computers enable business not define them. You'll work a few years and maybe end up in management or be stuck writing RPG for 50 years.
All banks will hire people with no experience just because the alternative is hiring no one. Want experience? Intern a summer or three.
The COBOL market is hard to get into. It also sucks to be in. But the pay is steady and the employers are stable. You'll be under-appreciated and you'll be bored to tears. But if you like personal stability, want the ability to get stocks in highly lucrative companies and have a bunch of free time to be a musician or climb mountains, it's an awesome job.
It's truly the job for people who work to live instead of living to work.
I left development when I saw what you call FDD be used in SCRUM.
I have recently after 3 years sabbatical started my first commercial development project. It will be a web based database and system manager. I have spent many hours researching the right tools and designing the right database scheme for the entire system. I have begun designing the goals of each sprint while setting realistic expectations for each developer.
Once the project is started, we will employ SCRUM in a modified form. Test driven development is a minimum requirement. Three people will write tests and two people will implement code.
I will use mediocre developers which are inexpensive and instead of writing code myself will constantly adjust the project to adapt to the resources on the project. I will use no "Star Developers". I'll trim out dead weight too. Everyone will pull their own weight. If I end up with a Star Developer", I'll trim him/her as well. I believe "Steady wins the race". I always want people who are happy just to code and get paid. I'm not interested in artists or creative people. Implement the code.
I didn't get creative with the design. I used methodologies that date back to 1969 and work. No fancy thinking... It was boring as hell. The point is simply to create a project with top quality and high maintain ability and a low cost in a reasonable period of time.
This is 2014... We have done it already. We don't need to write a new language, design a new method, invent a new management system... We need to build programs or tools which work. Creative people can make games. Weaker people can go back to school or change printer ink. Average is best.
Hell... If you spend enough time at the range to actually ensure your skills are satisfactory enough to not be more dangerous than a gun that won't unlock, then maybe it wouldn't be a problem.
I personally also want laws passed requiring that guns used for self protection can't be activated without a corresponding video recording device.
Many of us have no issues with guns.... Only the people holding them. People with your personality are some of the scariest.
Or one could figure that Microsoft has a clear plan to capitalize and $2.5 was worth it to them. They will own a company that has done a better job the last few years on family games than Lego and Nintendo combined. Imagine if they had the resources of Microsoft.
Bash MS all you want, but XBox has been a pretty popular and successful gig. If anything, Sony was idiotic to let Microsoft beat them to this.
First of all... It's Italy. Turin is in one of the few sane parts of Italy, but in the end it is still Italy. I would suspect that the issue will be more like :
1) Claim to leave Windows for Linux
2) Use the law that passed in Italy a few days ago to guarantee refunds for the Windows Tax
3) Buy machines with Linux on them instead
4) Install pirated copies of Windows and Office on each machine.
Italy tends to operate more like an 3rd world country than a Western European country on most things. I've been there several times and will be there again soon in a few months. I think the only laws which actually stick are the traffic laws and those have items like "If the car has a license plate from somewhere else, it must no exceed the speed limit more than...."
99% of Windows is exactly the same to the user for Windows 8 vs Windows XP. The only difference is, if you click the start button you get a screen of icons vs. a menu of icons.
After all this time, have you even tried Windows 8 or do you prefer to just comment on it without any prior knowledge?
Laws should be made against building battery factories on American soil. Even more so, laws should be made against selling batteries unless that same company takes responsibility and completely recycles or reclaims all components of said batteries. Lithium is widely available from used cells, but it's cheaper to buy it new, so they just store it in barrels and produce waste.
How about this? When will Tesla research and deliver on an alternative to non-recyclable tires. Does Tesla have a policy stating they will only use technology which fucks our planet for millions if years?
To get that $59 refund, people will spend 3.5 hours each and wait 6 months.
Oh... And most people won't bother. The court could have just paid the $300 which will actually get refunded from this instead of wasting what was probably tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands screwing with this.
Get a small premade solution and skip the DIY thing. It's minimal power and unless you happen to like pain and suffering, a simple SSL VPN with a decent Web UI is much nicer than spend in half your life building one.
Why not have all platforms on all devices and if I use a wireless thin client to dock a phone which is in my pocket and get a desktop. Add a wireless charger to the chair and I can leave the phone in my pocket. Add hands free speakerphone to the desktop or phone and messaging control to the task bar with caller ID notifications and I can use a Bluetooth hands free.
Make a wide variety of laptop style thin clients which can be docked with or without wires to the phone. Then you can mix and match. The device can last you 5 generations of phones.
There are many things which can be done like this. Intel processors for phones are more powerful than what I had in my laptop 4 years ago. Add enough RAM and enough storage and your phone can completely replace your laptop and desktop CPUs.
There are just an amazing number of options like this. Funny thing is, with technology of Linux like X and Wayland, if there was a desktop which didn't suck and apps which didn't suck for Linux, it could have done this years ago.
Hmmm... I saw the link afterwards... I would like to see a ruling that explicitly requires battery manufacturers to recycle their own batteries and most specifically the lithium. I don't care what it costs. It shouldn't be the duty of the tax payer to clean their mess and based on history, if you don't force it from the start, it'll never get taken care of when the problem is out of control.
I think the changes in v3 probably are able to make the claim of more VMs per for due to memory bandwidth. Of course, then one could say 50% more cores at 20% greater capacity per core (my guess) which would be 65% more VMs per physical server.
I suppose Cisco will release a quad socket, 6TB RAM blade soon. I hope they'll loan me one to try. I was able to run entire companies with VDI on 3 60-core blade with V2, a little slowly, but effectively. 3 72-core V3 blades should be better.
The real problem comes that whether you're using Cisco with 640Gb/sec Ethernet or some aweful Infiniband on HP/Dell solution, I don't see how to get the data in and out of the blade quickly enough to use the cores.:( I wonder if the systems will even have enough PCIe bandwidth to support it.
I am hoping that with these servers, Cisco will support quad-SLI nVidia at some point. VDI is much better when it's 3D accelerated and adding massive numbers of GPU cores is helpful. But if they do, I doubt there will be enough PCIe lanes to handle storage and video.
You British guys keep bragging about your speeds to the Americans. I probably pay less and get over 60 up and down. I'm surprised you can acknowledge packets fast enough on those upload speeds to use your download speeds.
I am not even sure if civilized places like outside of America even use the term broadband anymore. It seems stupid since we don't have a narrow band anymore.
See, codecs allow things like full-HD at 6mb/s and 9mb/s at good quality. Home bandwidth should support at least on stream of Full-HD at -20db SnR. It should also allow some surfing and a phone call.
10Mb/sec isn't fast enough for that. 12-15Mb/sec is.
This is awesome!!! I've been hoping for years that Cadillac would make a car like this. When the driver falls asleep or simply dies behind the wheel, it should get them home or to the morgue. It simply needs a heart rate detector.
The only downside is it will put the yellow pages out of business finally since Q-tips won't need one to see under the wheel.
Remember that the exponential math in DH and RSA is called a HARD problem, not and impossible one. Consider that regarding key strength 1024 bits of RSA is not very secure in today's world. I'm not saying it's cracked... Just weak.
Incubators are generally a disaster since they're not actually meant to start businesses. They're designed specifically to take assist ventures in acquiring venture capital and then using a lock-in to the agreement to suck that money back out.
Incubators are a total disaster. The only advantage ever has been that they provide the coffee pot. You'll have to make your own coffee elsewhere.
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Politics sabotaged it. Representatives on both sides added as many ear marks as possible and otherwise too many cooks spoiled the soup.
If you look at the original proposal, it wasn't nearly this bad. In fact, most of the current issues with the system weren't likely to have been issues with the original system. Instead of ditching and and saying "fuck it", the administration got a system in place that hopefully can be patched and fixed in the future. I have little faith in that.
Obama's mistake wasn't that he wanted people to be healthy and he wanted everyone to have to pay instead if just giving free healthcare to anyone who couldn't afford it (how it was before). His mistake was not bullying back.
I hope whoever is next... Republican or democrat can show more strength and say "this isn't working... We're going to fix it. Anyone who argues with me, I'll destroy in the press".
I kinda agree with both of you thanks to your example.
The Russian market took a nose dive because of borderless trading. If it were a closed system, outside investors couldn't have affected it so much.
Basically, the value of the shares have absolutely nothing to do with the companies or their performance. It's all about trends in squiggly lines. If a panic starts in either direction, more and more people trade and increase volumes. Everyone tries to buy low and sell high, but gambling related panic causes traders to lose nerve and sell low sometimes to cut losses hoping to buy back in before it rises again.
The panic is generally triggered by news stories which are written by people who don't understand the business they're writing about (for example, Amazon who is treated like a sales website only) for people who understand even less and don't care. It just makes them rush to see if the share will rise or fall.
In short, you're both kinda right. But if anyone suggests there is any more logic to the stock market than to a roulette wheel, they're full of crap.
To be fair... I have worked on many software projects in my life and have also worked with government software projects. A simple fact of life is that government funded software projects are only given to blood sucking leeches that intentionally underbid and lie their asses off about delivery schedules. Legitimate software houses who actually can plan projects and meet schedules are never evaluated.
From what I can tell, the site is up and running "mostly" only a year late and not nearly as over budget as I expected. What do you expect from a project initiated by uneducated people like politicians and sales people. They of course ask "computer experts" for help, but let's be honest... Politicians wouldn't know a qualified computer programmer from a Barbie doll.
I support ObamaCare aka ACA on a federal level simply because it requires one big ass database system to be made by one company with a whole nation of people to kick the crap out of the company making it. And let's be honest... Whether the system is for all of America or just a state, the system is almost the same.
Imagine if a state like Mississippi or Oklahoma had to get a system made? They'd hire a guy named Jom Bob from church to do it. They'd piss away the entire budget before they even found Jim Bob. They'd run it on index cards and toilet paper in type writers with no correction ink.
Is there anyone dumb enough on Slashdot to think :
A) a government sponsored software project can be done without corruption, delays and major budget problems?
B) all 50 states in America could actually manage to get a system up and running at a state level... Why not ask Florida about their prepaid college project and how bad that for screwed up. I worked at the company writing that one and that project was doomed to fail before it even started. They built the damn thing on Tandem computers with Thomas Conrad ArcNet and had a total of one guy who even knew how to boot the machine.
That is soooo RUDE!!! Are you suggesting Alibaba is not a serious corporate entity who closely monitors their sellers and ensures consumer safety and follows regulations in the countries they operate?
To be fair, I don't see how Alibaba has anything to do with Amazon. One is a legitimate vendor who has built a highly lucrative business model with sustained growth. The other is basically a swap shop site which most sane consumers would never consider typing a credit card number into. I have tried purchasing there 4 times and all 4 times, in response to what appeared to be legitimate postings, the vendors refused to ship unless I paid more or bought more. I honestly can't figure out how to use the site without being scammed.
The problem is, Amazon's share. People think the two companies are the same. Alibaba is more like an eBay than an Amazon.
I train massive numbers of people in BGP every year. The best would go for it. The average are just happy to peer and move on.
IT completely lacks process. ITIL is a joke. People insist on wasting time doing the same thing over and over. The best networking companies I know with the absolute best people are rarely more professional than a bunch of script kiddies. The best of the best hack away on networking and routing like and orangoutang playing with a toy piano. Modern IT is rarely better off than a bunch of idiots in comfort zones who make changes indiscriminately and send the invoice.
There is no profit in fixing BGP. It works and most IT engineers operating peers don't care. There is nothing which says "the internet won't work if we don't do this.". There's not even a clear line of how you would gain money by making such a change.
The internet will never implement a feature simply because it's useful or right. We do it because of the money, because it's fun or because our peering won't function without it.
Starting will always be low. After 3-5 years, you can expect much more. COBOL is for conservative organizations where computers enable business not define them. You'll work a few years and maybe end up in management or be stuck writing RPG for 50 years.
All banks will hire people with no experience just because the alternative is hiring no one. Want experience? Intern a summer or three.
The COBOL market is hard to get into. It also sucks to be in. But the pay is steady and the employers are stable. You'll be under-appreciated and you'll be bored to tears. But if you like personal stability, want the ability to get stocks in highly lucrative companies and have a bunch of free time to be a musician or climb mountains, it's an awesome job.
It's truly the job for people who work to live instead of living to work.
I left development when I saw what you call FDD be used in SCRUM.
I have recently after 3 years sabbatical started my first commercial development project. It will be a web based database and system manager. I have spent many hours researching the right tools and designing the right database scheme for the entire system. I have begun designing the goals of each sprint while setting realistic expectations for each developer.
Once the project is started, we will employ SCRUM in a modified form. Test driven development is a minimum requirement. Three people will write tests and two people will implement code.
I will use mediocre developers which are inexpensive and instead of writing code myself will constantly adjust the project to adapt to the resources on the project. I will use no "Star Developers". I'll trim out dead weight too. Everyone will pull their own weight. If I end up with a Star Developer", I'll trim him/her as well. I believe "Steady wins the race". I always want people who are happy just to code and get paid. I'm not interested in artists or creative people. Implement the code.
I didn't get creative with the design. I used methodologies that date back to 1969 and work. No fancy thinking... It was boring as hell. The point is simply to create a project with top quality and high maintain ability and a low cost in a reasonable period of time.
This is 2014... We have done it already. We don't need to write a new language, design a new method, invent a new management system... We need to build programs or tools which work. Creative people can make games. Weaker people can go back to school or change printer ink. Average is best.
Hell... If you spend enough time at the range to actually ensure your skills are satisfactory enough to not be more dangerous than a gun that won't unlock, then maybe it wouldn't be a problem.
I personally also want laws passed requiring that guns used for self protection can't be activated without a corresponding video recording device.
Many of us have no issues with guns.... Only the people holding them. People with your personality are some of the scariest.
Or one could figure that Microsoft has a clear plan to capitalize and $2.5 was worth it to them. They will own a company that has done a better job the last few years on family games than Lego and Nintendo combined. Imagine if they had the resources of Microsoft.
Bash MS all you want, but XBox has been a pretty popular and successful gig. If anything, Sony was idiotic to let Microsoft beat them to this.
Many of us in Norway were promised global warming and now you f-ers are talking this crap about recovery!!!!!
What do we have to do to get you jerks to mess up some more ozone!!! I'm really not liking how this is turning out!
First of all... It's Italy. Turin is in one of the few sane parts of Italy, but in the end it is still Italy. I would suspect that the issue will be more like :
...."
1) Claim to leave Windows for Linux
2) Use the law that passed in Italy a few days ago to guarantee refunds for the Windows Tax
3) Buy machines with Linux on them instead
4) Install pirated copies of Windows and Office on each machine.
Italy tends to operate more like an 3rd world country than a Western European country on most things. I've been there several times and will be there again soon in a few months. I think the only laws which actually stick are the traffic laws and those have items like "If the car has a license plate from somewhere else, it must no exceed the speed limit more than
99% of Windows is exactly the same to the user for Windows 8 vs Windows XP. The only difference is, if you click the start button you get a screen of icons vs. a menu of icons.
After all this time, have you even tried Windows 8 or do you prefer to just comment on it without any prior knowledge?
Laws should be made against building battery factories on American soil. Even more so, laws should be made against selling batteries unless that same company takes responsibility and completely recycles or reclaims all components of said batteries. Lithium is widely available from used cells, but it's cheaper to buy it new, so they just store it in barrels and produce waste.
How about this? When will Tesla research and deliver on an alternative to non-recyclable tires. Does Tesla have a policy stating they will only use technology which fucks our planet for millions if years?
To get that $59 refund, people will spend 3.5 hours each and wait 6 months.
Oh... And most people won't bother. The court could have just paid the $300 which will actually get refunded from this instead of wasting what was probably tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands screwing with this.
Or a checkpoint UTM-1 or a Juniper SSG...
Get a small premade solution and skip the DIY thing. It's minimal power and unless you happen to like pain and suffering, a simple SSL VPN with a decent Web UI is much nicer than spend in half your life building one.
Why not have all platforms on all devices and if I use a wireless thin client to dock a phone which is in my pocket and get a desktop. Add a wireless charger to the chair and I can leave the phone in my pocket. Add hands free speakerphone to the desktop or phone and messaging control to the task bar with caller ID notifications and I can use a Bluetooth hands free.
Make a wide variety of laptop style thin clients which can be docked with or without wires to the phone. Then you can mix and match. The device can last you 5 generations of phones.
There are many things which can be done like this. Intel processors for phones are more powerful than what I had in my laptop 4 years ago. Add enough RAM and enough storage and your phone can completely replace your laptop and desktop CPUs.
There are just an amazing number of options like this. Funny thing is, with technology of Linux like X and Wayland, if there was a desktop which didn't suck and apps which didn't suck for Linux, it could have done this years ago.
Hmmm... I saw the link afterwards... I would like to see a ruling that explicitly requires battery manufacturers to recycle their own batteries and most specifically the lithium. I don't care what it costs. It shouldn't be the duty of the tax payer to clean their mess and based on history, if you don't force it from the start, it'll never get taken care of when the problem is out of control.
Where does the lithium go when the rest of the battery is recycled?
Big blue barrels buried under the dirt where someone will live some day?
I think the changes in v3 probably are able to make the claim of more VMs per for due to memory bandwidth. Of course, then one could say 50% more cores at 20% greater capacity per core (my guess) which would be 65% more VMs per physical server.
:( I wonder if the systems will even have enough PCIe bandwidth to support it.
I suppose Cisco will release a quad socket, 6TB RAM blade soon. I hope they'll loan me one to try. I was able to run entire companies with VDI on 3 60-core blade with V2, a little slowly, but effectively. 3 72-core V3 blades should be better.
The real problem comes that whether you're using Cisco with 640Gb/sec Ethernet or some aweful Infiniband on HP/Dell solution, I don't see how to get the data in and out of the blade quickly enough to use the cores.
I am hoping that with these servers, Cisco will support quad-SLI nVidia at some point. VDI is much better when it's 3D accelerated and adding massive numbers of GPU cores is helpful. But if they do, I doubt there will be enough PCIe lanes to handle storage and video.
So... New bottlenecks?
HyperThreading plus branch prediction says you should use -j72
You British guys keep bragging about your speeds to the Americans. I probably pay less and get over 60 up and down. I'm surprised you can acknowledge packets fast enough on those upload speeds to use your download speeds.
I am not even sure if civilized places like outside of America even use the term broadband anymore. It seems stupid since we don't have a narrow band anymore.
See, codecs allow things like full-HD at 6mb/s and 9mb/s at good quality. Home bandwidth should support at least on stream of Full-HD at -20db SnR. It should also allow some surfing and a phone call.
10Mb/sec isn't fast enough for that. 12-15Mb/sec is.
So, the American system is just broken.
You're being rude.
This is awesome!!! I've been hoping for years that Cadillac would make a car like this. When the driver falls asleep or simply dies behind the wheel, it should get them home or to the morgue. It simply needs a heart rate detector.
The only downside is it will put the yellow pages out of business finally since Q-tips won't need one to see under the wheel.
Remember that the exponential math in DH and RSA is called a HARD problem, not and impossible one. Consider that regarding key strength 1024 bits of RSA is not very secure in today's world. I'm not saying it's cracked... Just weak.
Incubators are generally a disaster since they're not actually meant to start businesses. They're designed specifically to take assist ventures in acquiring venture capital and then using a lock-in to the agreement to suck that money back out.
Incubators are a total disaster. The only advantage ever has been that they provide the coffee pot. You'll have to make your own coffee elsewhere.
I'm wondering... When you dump massive amounts of lithium in the grounds in Reno... Will it make the place less insane?