Unless the concern is about freak high winds that exceed the capacity of the farm and pose a threat to the systems operating there, I don't see the point. Couldn't they be better served by surveying locations? Shouldn't their model be based on average output, and wouldn't historical data be a much better indicator for that? I mean it's not like there's a lot you can do to control how the wind will be blowing and the systems are hopefully already actively synced with the direction of the wind. The tie in to the grid has to be an active process anyways, in case of failure, and is produced as a byproduct of a conditioning system anyhow. Is there something I'm missing here? Is this really cheaper than sending out a guy with a weather balloon?
I for one would never allow my son to compete with robots, they have a distint unfair advantage with their cold bloodsucking ways. It's only a matter of time before they all gang up on us!
Another aspect is how does this compare to the error margine in paper balloting?
Is 2% really that much larger then, for example, the number of hanging chads in florida?
Because out of all the parts of America your ancestors decided to colonize, you chose New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and picking New Jersey to colonize, out of all the states on the East Coast, puts you at the bottom of the barrel. I mean who wants to live in New Jersey?
Despite popular opinion, there are plenty of hard working people in the government. Problem is we have no mechanism to fire people so when someone screws up really bad where they don't deserve a second chance, there really is no way to get rid of them. So they sit on their thumbs. If you know a government employ who is not hard at work its either because they can't be trusted with real work (either incompetent or too lazy to be trusted with completing the task on time)
The real issue here is that in this situation I would want to see an individual from the private sector because when you work for the government you really don't have metrics on profit. Since the returns on investment are largely intangibles and have little for comparison it is difficult to quantify value. Because of this I want someone who can come in and at least have an idea of profit and value instead of just having to make things better. Even when you do have metrics on the improvement, it's hard to compare actual costs and apples to apples because a lot of costs are hidden in the details. Try finding a comparison for Boston's "Big Dig" for example and compare cost versus vehicles processed by the highway and make a percentage comparison. After that how do you factor in all the congestion that went on during the project? It's all very subjective.
I don't know what all their credentials for the job are and I don't know why they're not pulling someone from the airforce or pentagon who deal with the most high tech and high assurance programs in the government (I'm thinking the working level brains behind AFATDS level system like the Joint Integrated Fire Control System, for the airforce should be plenty competent for this). Some one from a systems engineering background instead of a admin/management background. You want change and solutions hire someone who's actually ran a program that produced a product.
I don't care. Let the fricken mud ball be independant. But I'll see at least 9 billion on this mud ball by the end of my life and probably 14 billion by the time my son is my age. That's going to be a serious problem. So in my opinion we either need a place to emigrate to or another couple world wars for population control or else we're going to breed ourselves into destroying the planet.
I'm pretty sure the TV show has been available there longer than on itunes and what not. Of course just about all of Blip.tv is available on Miro, as well as just about any rss delivered video.
Although I hate miro as software, I have to give them credit for getting the concept right (Tivo for internet TV) and having a great library of content feeds (including MAKE and most of the TED series) which makes me happy enough to use it despite it's resource hogging and glitches.
I couldn't agree with you more, however I would like to point out the reasons why the bureaucracies exist and why we pay so much more on government programs than private ones. Having worked in both sectors I understand what's going on and the advantages and disadvantages on both sides.
The reason government programs are so costly is accountability. Unlike private organizations, government institutions are nothing more than organizational structures. Therefore their setup must assume minimal competency at each point in the decision tree. Because of this decisions are split up into sub responsibilities with each sub responsibility being sent off to separate nodes in the tree. Those nodes each send their assessments (most of the time a simple pass/fail type system) up the chain where someone else signs off. Funding allocations are determined on how effective the whole unit is and the point of the process is not only to produce an item, but to additionally produce an accountability trail that is thorough enough that any failure can be re-examined and the root causes for failure can be brought out and blame can be properly assigned. When government partners with industry the bureaucracy doubles, because the government part of the process has to justify all the changes, expenses and performances that the industrial partner makes. On the gov side the motto is "Trust But Verify". The partner has to keep nearly identical records in case they fail and the funding they've been provided gets clawed back.
The fact that this problem gets in it's own way is an issue, but the thought behind it isn't a bad one. There's something to be said about having a trace for the thought process behind development. That said, currently despite that every decision and discussion is documented and recorded, the volume the government produces acts most effectively as camouflage and the sheer volume of reporting makes it difficult to track back to root causes when stuff goes bad.
To increases efficiency, you must assume more liability at each node in the tree. You improve competency at each node, and things move faster. Making nodes more competent, you can eliminate redundant nodes and stream line the process. On top of that they're only preforming half the function in that they aren't producing the same accountability trail that is required in government work.
I'm not saying that the government way of doing things is correct, but I would say that there is a philosophy behind it that isn't totally worthless, even if the implementation is screwed up. I'm willing to bet that if SpaceX exhibits a failure, you'll have to turn to one of their senior engineers to understand and what went wrong and why. And if you're going to invest lots of public money into the system, there should be some assurance that if that happens, you don't just get a "shrug, idontkonw" in return. There should be a way of confirming that what he says the day after the failure is consistent with what he said before the failure.
From what I could tell the debate was over how serious the bugs were and how they should or shouldn't be allowed into something that is an official release.
Monty went beyond that to suggest that all the company talent was going toward other projects instead of MySQL and that was hurting the quality of the project. So it doesn't seem to be so much about where the quality bar is set and how the company is managed rather than over the existence of bugs. Some of it might be because there isn't a strong enough grasp of how the product is being used to allow for people to make those kinds of value decisions.
More importantly though it's impressive to see a company realize that instead of trying to squelch their development people, letting them say what they want and contribute to the conversation rather than telling them to shut up and get in line is rather impressive. The idea that open source means more than just disclosing code is a key part of becoming a member of the community and it seems like a culture shift in Sun's thinking. Definitely progressive from 5-10 years ago, when this would have been unthinkable.
I think one of the things that was missing from the previous paragraph is that in a tribal setting there is an expectation of behavior between members in the tribe. As information disseminates outside the tribe, there is a disconnect between availability of the information and an understanding of how that information is used. So it becomes harder to decide on what to share, as it has to be assumed that it could be used in any conceivable way.
in other words, a tribe is established by who we choose to share information with, and although we can now share information globally without respect to boundaries, that doesn't mean we're a part of a "global tribe" because the tribe is still a subset of the global system. Where who we choose to share info with might have once been an issue of geographic happenstance, it no longer a sufficient criteria for the designation of a tribe. There is no longer a one to one mapping of the people in close proximity and the people who have open access to my information and actions.
only if the robots are cheep and capable of being produced at a massive scale, which I doubt would be the case with such sophisticated machines. Otherwise there's still a cost penalty and people will be even more upset when our robots screw up and kill civilians, because they wouldn't have to worry about being "against the troops" given "against the robots" doesn't exactly carry the same negative connotation.
The CAN-SPAM Act is directed at the commercial entities that actually create the message, not the service providers who happen to be the medium.
as the actual medium as it's put is already constitutionally protected from being liable. So although ISP's are not common carriers in the US, the law is virtually identical for the considerations discussed within the article.
I don't work in IT, but I do work with very sensitive data that is high risk, so IT security is an important topic and I try to understand it as much as possible.
the reason I'm shocked is that I'd expect people to at least recognize that as a blindspot in their training before they ever graduate school. Our system is exclusively proprietary so I understand not everyone would need it, but it seems like it would make sense to know it since a good seventy percent of papers I see involve unix solutions. Granted, I might just be operating in a biased environment but I figured everyone would know at least the basics about linux.
and to ducomputergeek, I was infering that I don't see perl as being a unix based language... as far as I know it's platform independent and isn't strictly Unix based.
really, I mean do you really want a person who's that ignorant of these things to be running your IT security? maybe this is for a college class or something?
he methodology is complemented with an introduction to the standard Unix-based text processing tools (grep, awk, Perl, etc). This methodology is later on applied, with a strong hands-on and how-to spirit, to an extensive set of common security use-cases, such as the perimeter threat, compliance, and the insider threat.
Do you really want someoen who doesn't know grep to be security admin? And is Perl correctly included in that list?
That will never happen until we switch to consecutive run-off balloting. The election system being divided into districts and divisions will always favor a two party system until people are free to vote for a third party without "wasting" their vote.
And yes, I voted Nader.
I didn't know that you could do that... A developer can legally supply another entity enforcement rights of their license agreement, as well as the right to modify it. I could see this being useful for a small developers supplying FLA's to the EFF for example.
No, it's not ok, when the government does it. It's not ok when the citizenry does it either.
Just because I don't agree with what the current administration has done, doesn't mean I should let the same transgressions be passed against them.
It's because I think that the wire taps were wrong that I think this guy should be punished. It's not an excuse that just because Bush and the teleco's got off scott-free then all republicans shouldn't be given any rights.
Is that you're logic? Really? Because it's a bit of the reason why these comments get modded down and off-topic. I'm sick and tired of people hijacking threads to complain about how evil it was of the administration to tap phone calls domestically. But apparently you fail to realize that, since the only probable explanation you think of is that there's a hoard of republicans modding down comments.
If it's ok for the citizens to hack accounts just because they're republican accounts and republicans are evil than congrats, go work for bush. It's the same logic he used with the phone taps. In the mean time, I hope you get modded down, because sometimes we'd like to read about the FACTS relevant to the discussion and not just your crusade.
...convince the scientific journal community that they should open their standards and let articles published in their journals to be republished by the author else where.
I'm not going to pretend 50,000 is a lot, but the fact it's 50,000 and growing should make them worry. I hope the celebration of this milestone will help accelerate it's growth so we see 100,000 sooner than later. The quicker pay-for-access science disappears the better for all of us.
Solyndra's cylindrical solar modules collect sunlight more efficiently across a broader range of angles and catch light reflected off the roof itself
Plus it seems like these are MUCH cheaper to produce per unit than standard wafer based PV. Essentially there's a coating system applied to the tube and then just a pressing of an adapter on either end. However I will state, according to the article, they may become more cost efficient than other conventional power options, they are not there yet as they aren't getting optimal yield out of the PV technology.
The advantage they have is this is very producible, and scalable. It's much easier to tap into a tube than a flat sheet and if you place a reflective coating on the roof, you should mitigate any losses due to form factor quite nicely.
Maybe I'm just missing something but I don't see a decision. The preliminary ruling states that it's going to Dismiss in part, but not in whole the case.
However, it's missing key details, like will the plaintiff need to open his source code, will there be damages paid to the defendant due to the costs and burdens placed on him to defend a false complaint?
Can someone enlighten me to this please? This would be a hollow victory indeed if the court did not force the commercial software using open source to comply to the distribution guidelines in the distribution agreement. If they don't, isn't this just the invalidation of a patent do to examples of prior art?
Actually, I run vista without the fancy graphics and actually get comparable performance. On top of that I can appreciate the UAC and improved control schemes. And although it breaks a lot of programs that use FlexLM (and all you need a new license file from the individual vendors, most cooperate), I can't complain about backwards compatibility.
So when you say operating system goes slower, please clarify under what conditions. I've run linux with compviz on the same hardware and although it runs faster than Areo, its still slower than XP and vista without Areo.
I can already say vista has delt better with leaky memory than XP and UAC has already stopped a program from doing something that I didn't want it to. And it doesn't run any slower. But that's just my experience.
why? Because it sounds bleeding edge, and that's hip and cool. They're a tech company based on being ahead of the curve. Here's their response for the record:
"We believe beta has a different meaning when applied to applications on the Web, where people expect continual improvements in a product. On the Web, you don't have to wait for the next version to be on the shelf or an update to become available. Improvements are rolled out as they're developed. Rather than the packaged, stagnant software of decades past, we're moving to a world of regular updates and constant feature refinement where applications live in the cloud."
In other words, not being beta means the program is stagnant, so they leave things as beta to tell people they're still being developed and worked on.
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Unless the concern is about freak high winds that exceed the capacity of the farm and pose a threat to the systems operating there, I don't see the point. Couldn't they be better served by surveying locations? Shouldn't their model be based on average output, and wouldn't historical data be a much better indicator for that? I mean it's not like there's a lot you can do to control how the wind will be blowing and the systems are hopefully already actively synced with the direction of the wind. The tie in to the grid has to be an active process anyways, in case of failure, and is produced as a byproduct of a conditioning system anyhow. Is there something I'm missing here? Is this really cheaper than sending out a guy with a weather balloon?
I for one would never allow my son to compete with robots, they have a distint unfair advantage with their cold bloodsucking ways. It's only a matter of time before they all gang up on us!
Another aspect is how does this compare to the error margine in paper balloting? Is 2% really that much larger then, for example, the number of hanging chads in florida?
think I'm joking right?
there's already a lawsuit
1300 raptors are killed annually. Among them are 70 golden eagles that are federally protected. In total, 4700 birds are killed annually.
although I'm sure these are a little better planned out then they're predecessors I still haven't heard anyone talk about this in a long while.
Because out of all the parts of America your ancestors decided to colonize, you chose New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and picking New Jersey to colonize, out of all the states on the East Coast, puts you at the bottom of the barrel. I mean who wants to live in New Jersey?
The real issue here is that in this situation I would want to see an individual from the private sector because when you work for the government you really don't have metrics on profit. Since the returns on investment are largely intangibles and have little for comparison it is difficult to quantify value. Because of this I want someone who can come in and at least have an idea of profit and value instead of just having to make things better. Even when you do have metrics on the improvement, it's hard to compare actual costs and apples to apples because a lot of costs are hidden in the details. Try finding a comparison for Boston's "Big Dig" for example and compare cost versus vehicles processed by the highway and make a percentage comparison. After that how do you factor in all the congestion that went on during the project? It's all very subjective.
I don't know what all their credentials for the job are and I don't know why they're not pulling someone from the airforce or pentagon who deal with the most high tech and high assurance programs in the government (I'm thinking the working level brains behind AFATDS level system like the Joint Integrated Fire Control System, for the airforce should be plenty competent for this). Some one from a systems engineering background instead of a admin/management background. You want change and solutions hire someone who's actually ran a program that produced a product.
I don't care. Let the fricken mud ball be independant. But I'll see at least 9 billion on this mud ball by the end of my life and probably 14 billion by the time my son is my age. That's going to be a serious problem. So in my opinion we either need a place to emigrate to or another couple world wars for population control or else we're going to breed ourselves into destroying the planet.
Although I hate miro as software, I have to give them credit for getting the concept right (Tivo for internet TV) and having a great library of content feeds (including MAKE and most of the TED series) which makes me happy enough to use it despite it's resource hogging and glitches.
I couldn't agree with you more, however I would like to point out the reasons why the bureaucracies exist and why we pay so much more on government programs than private ones. Having worked in both sectors I understand what's going on and the advantages and disadvantages on both sides.
The reason government programs are so costly is accountability. Unlike private organizations, government institutions are nothing more than organizational structures. Therefore their setup must assume minimal competency at each point in the decision tree. Because of this decisions are split up into sub responsibilities with each sub responsibility being sent off to separate nodes in the tree. Those nodes each send their assessments (most of the time a simple pass/fail type system) up the chain where someone else signs off. Funding allocations are determined on how effective the whole unit is and the point of the process is not only to produce an item, but to additionally produce an accountability trail that is thorough enough that any failure can be re-examined and the root causes for failure can be brought out and blame can be properly assigned. When government partners with industry the bureaucracy doubles, because the government part of the process has to justify all the changes, expenses and performances that the industrial partner makes. On the gov side the motto is "Trust But Verify". The partner has to keep nearly identical records in case they fail and the funding they've been provided gets clawed back.
The fact that this problem gets in it's own way is an issue, but the thought behind it isn't a bad one. There's something to be said about having a trace for the thought process behind development. That said, currently despite that every decision and discussion is documented and recorded, the volume the government produces acts most effectively as camouflage and the sheer volume of reporting makes it difficult to track back to root causes when stuff goes bad.
To increases efficiency, you must assume more liability at each node in the tree. You improve competency at each node, and things move faster. Making nodes more competent, you can eliminate redundant nodes and stream line the process. On top of that they're only preforming half the function in that they aren't producing the same accountability trail that is required in government work.
I'm not saying that the government way of doing things is correct, but I would say that there is a philosophy behind it that isn't totally worthless, even if the implementation is screwed up. I'm willing to bet that if SpaceX exhibits a failure, you'll have to turn to one of their senior engineers to understand and what went wrong and why. And if you're going to invest lots of public money into the system, there should be some assurance that if that happens, you don't just get a "shrug, idontkonw" in return. There should be a way of confirming that what he says the day after the failure is consistent with what he said before the failure.
Monty went beyond that to suggest that all the company talent was going toward other projects instead of MySQL and that was hurting the quality of the project. So it doesn't seem to be so much about where the quality bar is set and how the company is managed rather than over the existence of bugs. Some of it might be because there isn't a strong enough grasp of how the product is being used to allow for people to make those kinds of value decisions.
More importantly though it's impressive to see a company realize that instead of trying to squelch their development people, letting them say what they want and contribute to the conversation rather than telling them to shut up and get in line is rather impressive. The idea that open source means more than just disclosing code is a key part of becoming a member of the community and it seems like a culture shift in Sun's thinking. Definitely progressive from 5-10 years ago, when this would have been unthinkable.
in other words, a tribe is established by who we choose to share information with, and although we can now share information globally without respect to boundaries, that doesn't mean we're a part of a "global tribe" because the tribe is still a subset of the global system. Where who we choose to share info with might have once been an issue of geographic happenstance, it no longer a sufficient criteria for the designation of a tribe. There is no longer a one to one mapping of the people in close proximity and the people who have open access to my information and actions.
only if the robots are cheep and capable of being produced at a massive scale, which I doubt would be the case with such sophisticated machines. Otherwise there's still a cost penalty and people will be even more upset when our robots screw up and kill civilians, because they wouldn't have to worry about being "against the troops" given "against the robots" doesn't exactly carry the same negative connotation.
This is why
The CAN-SPAM Act is directed at the commercial entities that actually create the message, not the service providers who happen to be the medium.
as the actual medium as it's put is already constitutionally protected from being liable. So although ISP's are not common carriers in the US, the law is virtually identical for the considerations discussed within the article.
I don't work in IT, but I do work with very sensitive data that is high risk, so IT security is an important topic and I try to understand it as much as possible.
the reason I'm shocked is that I'd expect people to at least recognize that as a blindspot in their training before they ever graduate school. Our system is exclusively proprietary so I understand not everyone would need it, but it seems like it would make sense to know it since a good seventy percent of papers I see involve unix solutions. Granted, I might just be operating in a biased environment but I figured everyone would know at least the basics about linux.
and to ducomputergeek, I was infering that I don't see perl as being a unix based language... as far as I know it's platform independent and isn't strictly Unix based.
he methodology is complemented with an introduction to the standard Unix-based text processing tools (grep, awk, Perl, etc). This methodology is later on applied, with a strong hands-on and how-to spirit, to an extensive set of common security use-cases, such as the perimeter threat, compliance, and the insider threat.
Do you really want someoen who doesn't know grep to be security admin? And is Perl correctly included in that list?
That will never happen until we switch to consecutive run-off balloting. The election system being divided into districts and divisions will always favor a two party system until people are free to vote for a third party without "wasting" their vote. And yes, I voted Nader.
...you forgot walking up hill in the snow both ways...
I didn't know that you could do that... A developer can legally supply another entity enforcement rights of their license agreement, as well as the right to modify it. I could see this being useful for a small developers supplying FLA's to the EFF for example.
Just because I don't agree with what the current administration has done, doesn't mean I should let the same transgressions be passed against them.
It's because I think that the wire taps were wrong that I think this guy should be punished. It's not an excuse that just because Bush and the teleco's got off scott-free then all republicans shouldn't be given any rights.
Is that you're logic? Really? Because it's a bit of the reason why these comments get modded down and off-topic. I'm sick and tired of people hijacking threads to complain about how evil it was of the administration to tap phone calls domestically. But apparently you fail to realize that, since the only probable explanation you think of is that there's a hoard of republicans modding down comments.
If it's ok for the citizens to hack accounts just because they're republican accounts and republicans are evil than congrats, go work for bush. It's the same logic he used with the phone taps. In the mean time, I hope you get modded down, because sometimes we'd like to read about the FACTS relevant to the discussion and not just your crusade.
I'm not going to pretend 50,000 is a lot, but the fact it's 50,000 and growing should make them worry. I hope the celebration of this milestone will help accelerate it's growth so we see 100,000 sooner than later. The quicker pay-for-access science disappears the better for all of us.
Solyndra's cylindrical solar modules collect sunlight more efficiently across a broader range of angles and catch light reflected off the roof itself
Plus it seems like these are MUCH cheaper to produce per unit than standard wafer based PV. Essentially there's a coating system applied to the tube and then just a pressing of an adapter on either end. However I will state, according to the article, they may become more cost efficient than other conventional power options, they are not there yet as they aren't getting optimal yield out of the PV technology.
The advantage they have is this is very producible, and scalable. It's much easier to tap into a tube than a flat sheet and if you place a reflective coating on the roof, you should mitigate any losses due to form factor quite nicely.
a $2B basket measured in feet
However, it's missing key details, like will the plaintiff need to open his source code, will there be damages paid to the defendant due to the costs and burdens placed on him to defend a false complaint?
Can someone enlighten me to this please? This would be a hollow victory indeed if the court did not force the commercial software using open source to comply to the distribution guidelines in the distribution agreement. If they don't, isn't this just the invalidation of a patent do to examples of prior art?
So when you say operating system goes slower, please clarify under what conditions. I've run linux with compviz on the same hardware and although it runs faster than Areo, its still slower than XP and vista without Areo.
I can already say vista has delt better with leaky memory than XP and UAC has already stopped a program from doing something that I didn't want it to. And it doesn't run any slower. But that's just my experience.
"We believe beta has a different meaning when applied to applications on the Web, where people expect continual improvements in a product. On the Web, you don't have to wait for the next version to be on the shelf or an update to become available. Improvements are rolled out as they're developed. Rather than the packaged, stagnant software of decades past, we're moving to a world of regular updates and constant feature refinement where applications live in the cloud."
In other words, not being beta means the program is stagnant, so they leave things as beta to tell people they're still being developed and worked on.