I would have trouble coming up with 47k app names. It's hard enough just trying to come up with sane function and variable names in namespaces two or three orders of magnitude smaller.
I think you have failed to consider the problem that these systems are already packaged in boxes for retail sale, and probably further packaged into crates. You can't just use ESP to beam a firmware update into them. As I understand it, there are hundreds of thousands of these little slabs of fail in a warehouse somewhere, because some VP convinced himself that they would fly off shelves faster than they could make them.
So either they have to be individually opened, updated, and re-packaged, which is neither free in time nor money, or they have to release an update that can be applied by a consumer, whether they have one of these warehoused units or ones sold months ago. Even to re-use parts from them would require them to be individually opened, with the exception of just throwing them into a grinder for metals recovery.
I doubt there's any plutonium in it. The uranium is basically safe if there's any of it. And wtf is "buring"? Do you even have the faintest clue about how nuclear decay works?
There's probably a bunch of short-lived isotopes in there which are radioactive for days to months. They have to keep these under control until they decay. But it's the strontium and cesium that are the big problem, because your body absorbs them in place of calcium into your bones, and they have a half life of decades, so they can give you a slow exposure for the rest of your life.
I would say the engineers who put the backup generators where they would get wiped out by the flooding, and the engineers who put the incompatible electrical connections that prevented them from using portable generators. While there is evidence that at least one core may have cracked from the earthquake itself, the lack of power to run the cooling system was the biggest problem. (The biggest problem after underestimating the possible tsunami size that could hit the site, or with the reactor design itself being so vulnerable to loss of cooling, that is.)
But that wasn't radioactivity, was it? Radioactivity cleans itself up given enough time. The really radioactive stuff goes away in days/months. The stuff that takes centuries or longer really isn't very radioactive. The problem stuff from this type of incident goes away in decades, but is absorbed into the body in place of calcium and iodine, bringing the radiation into your body where it can do the most bad.
Well, after all, there's no better way to increase the crime rate than to pass laws that define new crimes. The same can apply to obesity. But it still doesn't explain rural feral rats.
I would also blame gut parasites. For instance, simply having most of the human population wearing shoes significantly breaks the life cycle of tapeworms. Parasites and gut bacteria are one of the few things that could affect so many species all at the same time.
I've watched cable from the early '80s until 2000. I remember when MTV actually played music, and it was glorious. I spent a lot of time watching "superstations", WGN, WTCG/WTBS, and even WOR when they did it for a while, which were local independents in big markets showing the kind of things you got on the fifth station in a market before Fox, like movies and sitcom reruns. And I also remember what a pain in the ass it was to get good reception from an antenna. That's how cable got big in the first place. (Once the digital switchover started to happen, I was all over that shit and its clear picture.)
Then the cable-only channels started happening in the '90s. It was okay at first, but eventually it got to the point where most of them jumped the shark and went "off topic" just like MTV did. Just look at what the "History" Channel shows for an example. Even the "movie" channels (HBO/Showtime) started making their own shows. (With the crap that Hollywood churns out these days, I can't blame them.) About the only thing cable-only that I really appreciate (when I get to where I can sit and watch cable for a day) is Mike Rowe's Dirty Jobs, because he is just that awesome.
And hey, don't dis the Kitchen Nightmares... Gordon Ramsay is just that awesome too, even if he does put the "F" in food. If one or two other people running fucked up restaurants "see the light" after watching an episode of KN, then he's done good work. Deep down at the basic level, his shows are about professionalism (even under stress), paying fucking attention to what you're doing, and abandoning childish ego. Though I do admit to not caring as much about Hell's Kitchen lately since it's had such total and complete fuck-ups on the teams. (But I still think it's funny how it's always the same three things that make everyone fall apart: Beef Wellington, Scallops, and Risotto.)
My antenna picks up the PBS station from an adjacent market. Create is always the same, but the main channels usually have schedule differences. And they tend to run pledges on different weeks. I had an okay DVR before (Channel Master DTVPAL7000) that crashes a bit, but now I'm getting a MythTV working.
Really, what I "want" to watch other than basic broadcast networks, cable and satellite don't provide: subtitled versions of current anime in Japan. They even have their own torrent infrastructure outside of TPB.
This happens much more often in a company like Cisco that is constantly gobbling up smaller companies as a means of acquiring new products and technologies. If you haven't seen that situation from the inside, you would wonder what the big deal is.
Right now it hasn't been as high since 2010. The fact that it's still over 24 after this is a good thing. It was ready for some profit-taking after the sudden price jump in May. So I guess you're tired of the dividends too?
I seem to recall that he's one of those "$1 salary" CEOs who prefers to make it in bonuses and stock options.
Anyhow, cutting jobs has been "normal" at Cisco since at least 2000. Part of the reason is that they keep getting so many new employees from buying other companies. If the product becomes unimportant or gets mainstreamed, its project gets downsized or cut. If you can find an internal req on another project you can stay, but it's not like Cisco is hiring and firing people left and right in a binge/purge cycle. At least in the 2000-2006 period that I know of, a manager often had to get VP level approval to get an external req approved. Even contractors were scarce where I was.
Yep, the ol' "bottom five percent". That joke always made a return whenever someone did a reply-to-all to a message from mailing list, then people from all over the company would reply-to-all telling him not to reply-to-all.
I didn't take advantage of the job placement because I needed some idle time, and the six months plus selling my options on the last day had me set for a couple of years. Then two someone-cold-calling-me jobs later and now I have more money than even back then. And I'm still sitting on over 2000 CSCO shares.
Note that Grasshopper does NOT have to return from orbital velocity. It has to fight whatever horizontal vector the first stage got from its primary job of launching the vehicle, but that's nowhere near orbital speed. So it doesn't have to worry about all the fun of orbital re-entry.
Also, the main job of Grasshopper is to go down to a controlled landing. It doesn't need to be able to go full sideways like the DC-X did. It just tilts itself in the general direction of where it needs to go vertical.
So MS is going to have problems selling them for anything more what they're worth for scrap metals recovery. Sure, they could unlock the bootloader, except that they've got a warehouse full of these things already boxed for retail sale. So they either have to open all the boxes, individually re-flash and re-package them, or they have to release some kind of unlocker app, of which I figure the odds are somewhere between "hell", and "no".
4 choices here - Dish, DirectTV, Time Warner, and AT&T Uverse. I wanted to bundle in internet, and have unlimited data. That rulled out everyone except Time Warner.
I've been using the 5th choice for over a decade now. It doesn't give me all those cable channels (I don't watch Breaking Bad anyhow), but then again it doesn't make me pay for a ton of crap I don't want to watch. It comes in digital now, and they don't use encryption or even set broadcast flags, so I can record it with MythTV into clean MPEG2 transport stream files.
It's called an "antenna".
I remember the days when the reason to get cable was because an antenna was a pain in the ass and always gave you a picture that was at least a little snowy/noisy. With ATSC, if you can get it, it's perfect. With a good tuner (the Hauppage 2250 in my MythTV), I was able to receive all my channels (except a local low-power station) with a good rabbit ears antenna, while I was building/testing it.
LA to Vegas? I-15 is a lot less straight than I-5, but the land around it is basically desert, and shouldn't be too expensive to buy land rights for the curves. I think it could work.
On the other hand, the LV monorail still doesn't reach the airport.
you have taxi drivers who run people to the airports
And this will affect taxi drivers how, exactly? Hyperloop absolutely, positively, will not run to your front door. There will still be stations that people need rides to and from, and as a bonus, there won't (at least initially) be an airport fee for them to have to pay.
Apparently? You don't know? They have to get the DDT somehow, and it's not from eating mosquitoes, it's from the stuff getting into everything from being sprayed all over the fucking place like they loved to do with everything back in the mid 20th century. Hell, they even thought radiation was good for you in the early 20th century, here have some yummy radium water!
What I've heard is that all you need to do in the third world is spray the insides of huts, and you'll kill the mosquitoes without DDT entering the food chain. But we have to over-react and never ever ever ever use it again, even if there is a safe way to use it, just because it can be abused. And when it was abused, it caused problems in a photogenic way, and what better way for a journalist to feel warm and fuzzy inside than to pull heartstrings with pictures of dead birds killed by these cheeeemicals made by eeeevil corporations?
The business model is: Lead clients to BELIEVE that you can pull in street vendors, hand them a stack of written procedures and turn them into sysadmins for a dollar a week.
Sorry, I think IBM Global Services has already patented that idea.
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I would have trouble coming up with 47k app names. It's hard enough just trying to come up with sane function and variable names in namespaces two or three orders of magnitude smaller.
I honestly don't know what day those comedies air on
I hear computers are very good at remembering schedules, and the broadcast signal includes at least 12 hours of schedule data, including show names.
I think you have failed to consider the problem that these systems are already packaged in boxes for retail sale, and probably further packaged into crates. You can't just use ESP to beam a firmware update into them. As I understand it, there are hundreds of thousands of these little slabs of fail in a warehouse somewhere, because some VP convinced himself that they would fly off shelves faster than they could make them.
So either they have to be individually opened, updated, and re-packaged, which is neither free in time nor money, or they have to release an update that can be applied by a consumer, whether they have one of these warehoused units or ones sold months ago. Even to re-use parts from them would require them to be individually opened, with the exception of just throwing them into a grinder for metals recovery.
I doubt there's any plutonium in it. The uranium is basically safe if there's any of it. And wtf is "buring"? Do you even have the faintest clue about how nuclear decay works?
There's probably a bunch of short-lived isotopes in there which are radioactive for days to months. They have to keep these under control until they decay. But it's the strontium and cesium that are the big problem, because your body absorbs them in place of calcium into your bones, and they have a half life of decades, so they can give you a slow exposure for the rest of your life.
Well then why don't you explain it for everyone, instead of making a pointlessly snarky AC comment?
I would say the engineers who put the backup generators where they would get wiped out by the flooding, and the engineers who put the incompatible electrical connections that prevented them from using portable generators. While there is evidence that at least one core may have cracked from the earthquake itself, the lack of power to run the cooling system was the biggest problem. (The biggest problem after underestimating the possible tsunami size that could hit the site, or with the reactor design itself being so vulnerable to loss of cooling, that is.)
But that wasn't radioactivity, was it? Radioactivity cleans itself up given enough time. The really radioactive stuff goes away in days/months. The stuff that takes centuries or longer really isn't very radioactive. The problem stuff from this type of incident goes away in decades, but is absorbed into the body in place of calcium and iodine, bringing the radiation into your body where it can do the most bad.
Well, after all, there's no better way to increase the crime rate than to pass laws that define new crimes. The same can apply to obesity. But it still doesn't explain rural feral rats.
I would also blame gut parasites. For instance, simply having most of the human population wearing shoes significantly breaks the life cycle of tapeworms. Parasites and gut bacteria are one of the few things that could affect so many species all at the same time.
Mozilla is still there, but they renamed it to Seamonkey to make it harder to find.
I've watched cable from the early '80s until 2000. I remember when MTV actually played music, and it was glorious. I spent a lot of time watching "superstations", WGN, WTCG/WTBS, and even WOR when they did it for a while, which were local independents in big markets showing the kind of things you got on the fifth station in a market before Fox, like movies and sitcom reruns. And I also remember what a pain in the ass it was to get good reception from an antenna. That's how cable got big in the first place. (Once the digital switchover started to happen, I was all over that shit and its clear picture.)
Then the cable-only channels started happening in the '90s. It was okay at first, but eventually it got to the point where most of them jumped the shark and went "off topic" just like MTV did. Just look at what the "History" Channel shows for an example. Even the "movie" channels (HBO/Showtime) started making their own shows. (With the crap that Hollywood churns out these days, I can't blame them.) About the only thing cable-only that I really appreciate (when I get to where I can sit and watch cable for a day) is Mike Rowe's Dirty Jobs, because he is just that awesome.
And hey, don't dis the Kitchen Nightmares... Gordon Ramsay is just that awesome too, even if he does put the "F" in food. If one or two other people running fucked up restaurants "see the light" after watching an episode of KN, then he's done good work. Deep down at the basic level, his shows are about professionalism (even under stress), paying fucking attention to what you're doing, and abandoning childish ego. Though I do admit to not caring as much about Hell's Kitchen lately since it's had such total and complete fuck-ups on the teams. (But I still think it's funny how it's always the same three things that make everyone fall apart: Beef Wellington, Scallops, and Risotto.)
...which of course only shows just how bad Netflix's "HD" is, if a 480 resolution DVD looks clearly better.
My antenna picks up the PBS station from an adjacent market. Create is always the same, but the main channels usually have schedule differences. And they tend to run pledges on different weeks. I had an okay DVR before (Channel Master DTVPAL7000) that crashes a bit, but now I'm getting a MythTV working.
Really, what I "want" to watch other than basic broadcast networks, cable and satellite don't provide: subtitled versions of current anime in Japan. They even have their own torrent infrastructure outside of TPB.
This happens much more often in a company like Cisco that is constantly gobbling up smaller companies as a means of acquiring new products and technologies. If you haven't seen that situation from the inside, you would wonder what the big deal is.
Right now it hasn't been as high since 2010. The fact that it's still over 24 after this is a good thing. It was ready for some profit-taking after the sudden price jump in May. So I guess you're tired of the dividends too?
I seem to recall that he's one of those "$1 salary" CEOs who prefers to make it in bonuses and stock options.
Anyhow, cutting jobs has been "normal" at Cisco since at least 2000. Part of the reason is that they keep getting so many new employees from buying other companies. If the product becomes unimportant or gets mainstreamed, its project gets downsized or cut. If you can find an internal req on another project you can stay, but it's not like Cisco is hiring and firing people left and right in a binge/purge cycle. At least in the 2000-2006 period that I know of, a manager often had to get VP level approval to get an external req approved. Even contractors were scarce where I was.
Yep, the ol' "bottom five percent". That joke always made a return whenever someone did a reply-to-all to a message from mailing list, then people from all over the company would reply-to-all telling him not to reply-to-all.
I didn't take advantage of the job placement because I needed some idle time, and the six months plus selling my options on the last day had me set for a couple of years. Then two someone-cold-calling-me jobs later and now I have more money than even back then. And I'm still sitting on over 2000 CSCO shares.
Note that Grasshopper does NOT have to return from orbital velocity. It has to fight whatever horizontal vector the first stage got from its primary job of launching the vehicle, but that's nowhere near orbital speed. So it doesn't have to worry about all the fun of orbital re-entry.
Also, the main job of Grasshopper is to go down to a controlled landing. It doesn't need to be able to go full sideways like the DC-X did. It just tilts itself in the general direction of where it needs to go vertical.
I thought they were called Back Bars.
I'd honestly be unsurprised to see them sold wholesale to be stripped for components,
Those screens would be something... if the LCD and glass weren't glued together so hard.
or debranded and flashed into mysterious pacific rim non-brand Androids
Except there's the little problem that secure boot won't allow any other operating system run on the RT.
So MS is going to have problems selling them for anything more what they're worth for scrap metals recovery. Sure, they could unlock the bootloader, except that they've got a warehouse full of these things already boxed for retail sale. So they either have to open all the boxes, individually re-flash and re-package them, or they have to release some kind of unlocker app, of which I figure the odds are somewhere between "hell", and "no".
4 choices here - Dish, DirectTV, Time Warner, and AT&T Uverse. I wanted to bundle in internet, and have unlimited data. That rulled out everyone except Time Warner.
I've been using the 5th choice for over a decade now. It doesn't give me all those cable channels (I don't watch Breaking Bad anyhow), but then again it doesn't make me pay for a ton of crap I don't want to watch. It comes in digital now, and they don't use encryption or even set broadcast flags, so I can record it with MythTV into clean MPEG2 transport stream files.
It's called an "antenna".
I remember the days when the reason to get cable was because an antenna was a pain in the ass and always gave you a picture that was at least a little snowy/noisy. With ATSC, if you can get it, it's perfect. With a good tuner (the Hauppage 2250 in my MythTV), I was able to receive all my channels (except a local low-power station) with a good rabbit ears antenna, while I was building/testing it.
LA to Vegas? I-15 is a lot less straight than I-5, but the land around it is basically desert, and shouldn't be too expensive to buy land rights for the curves. I think it could work.
On the other hand, the LV monorail still doesn't reach the airport.
you have taxi drivers who run people to the airports
And this will affect taxi drivers how, exactly? Hyperloop absolutely, positively, will not run to your front door. There will still be stations that people need rides to and from, and as a bonus, there won't (at least initially) be an airport fee for them to have to pay.
Apparently? You don't know? They have to get the DDT somehow, and it's not from eating mosquitoes, it's from the stuff getting into everything from being sprayed all over the fucking place like they loved to do with everything back in the mid 20th century. Hell, they even thought radiation was good for you in the early 20th century, here have some yummy radium water!
What I've heard is that all you need to do in the third world is spray the insides of huts, and you'll kill the mosquitoes without DDT entering the food chain. But we have to over-react and never ever ever ever use it again, even if there is a safe way to use it, just because it can be abused. And when it was abused, it caused problems in a photogenic way, and what better way for a journalist to feel warm and fuzzy inside than to pull heartstrings with pictures of dead birds killed by these cheeeemicals made by eeeevil corporations?
The business model is: Lead clients to BELIEVE that you can pull in street vendors, hand them a stack of written procedures and turn them into sysadmins for a dollar a week.
Sorry, I think IBM Global Services has already patented that idea.