If you delete data on a day to day basis there is no issue. However, once there is an incident and this is the reason you go an delete stuff you are breaking the law. Nothing new here. Companies who have a legal deletion/shredding policy and regularly implement it are fine (and must not continue to exercise it documents subject to a subpoena once it is issued). Companies who only selectively exercise that policy when they suspect litigation may occur, or after a subpoena has been issued are breaking the law.
I am still waiting for a clear picture of their revenue model. Is this a case where they just are charging for new installations since almost nobody buys retail Windows upgrades, or are we paying to decripple our systems along the way?
I am honestly wanting a clear explanation as to how this is supposed to work in a way that they are not losing revenue (MS doesn't know how to do that voluntarily), yet not end up doing something evil (that they have down pat).
Works both ways. I share my opinions liberally of the bad shops amongst fellow engineers. Word gets around, and they have a harder time getting decent folks. Active Karma baby.
Your contract is good until your next pay check. Welcome to At-Will employment. Most contractors have better guarantees than actual employees do. Act accordingly.
I am surprised the republican field has not proposed we get rid of the english system for Biblical set of measures in units of Palms, Spans, and Cubits.
Poor choice of words on my part. My main point is simply that we have so many broadly written laws that it has actually become very difficult to get through a typical day without breaking a few laws, and even harder to even know what the heck is actually illegal anymore.
Odds are very good nothing will come of it, but it can be hugely chilling. Someone who becomes outspoken has to stop and think what in their past could be used or twisted to convict them if the powers that be choose to given them extra scrutiny.
Beware of making your house too gadgety. In 10-15 years most of it will be outmoded and junk and you will spend a lot of time and hassle keeping it going (and if that is your schtick, why are you asking for ideas?!). Don't become a slave to your house if you can avoid it.
Nice to haves: 1) Extra outlets and breakers. Having fewer rooms per breaker is nice to avoid finding out that a hairdryer plus your gaming PC will pop the breaker even though one is upstairs and the other is downstairs.
2) Speakers and speaker wire in your living room is really nice, and hard to add later.
3) Pull Ethernet cable where you can do so. Most stuff will be on wireless, but it is nice to be able to put a wireless router where needed once you find out the hard way where the dead zones are.
4) Good insulation. A cheap house to heat/cool is golden. Consider a heat exchanger to keep fresh air in your house, which is a bigger issue once you make a well sealed up house.
5) Storage, storage, storage. No modern house seems to have enough good storage in it.
6) Good sound deadening in the interior walls, few houses have this, and it sucks to try and add after the fact. Solid core interior doors help too.
7) Glue and screw your base flooring in you minimize how many squeeks show up over time, which can slowly drive you insane.
8) Low maintenance yard. Mowing every week sucks. Paying for yard guys sucks. Allergies suck. Unless you want to be a gardener, put in slow growing low maintenance plants that don't trigger your allergies.
We are all un-indicted felons. There are so many laws on the books that we are completely unaware of, and many laws were written very broadly to avoid people getting out of a crime on a technicality. The result is that once you are in the cross hairs of a federal persecutor there is a very high likelihood than the vast majority of us could be hauled into court and prosecuted for benign things that are illegal.
Be thankful there are juries and defense lawyers who can dispense with a lot of improper gray area use of law, but that is not assured, and can be very costly in terms of time, money, stress, and public opinion in the meantime.
In this case I don't personally like the guy, but I'd rather not have to explain every $10k withdrawal ($10k is not what it used to be). Also, what if he was honest about being blackmailed and the FBI could was unable to do anything about it? It leaves information with a government agency that has a long track record of egregious behavior including, but not limited to, leaking investigation details.
They are not priced like budget CPU's, in fact they look like a 5% price increase from what I could dig up. So you can pay more for a top of the line CPU with slight less awful integrated graphics, great...
So a 2x speedup in 6.5 years (unless you take into account the nearly 1.5x overclocking of my i7-920). Sure, lower dissipation is worth something, but sorry if my socks aren't blown off by a speed doubling every 6.5 years.
The Haswell-E drops the clock 10%, so you net a 1.35x speedup at best.
And I am painfully aware of the clock speed drop. We plunked down a serious chunk of change for a dual Xeon box (16 total cores) to run our electromagnetic simulations on, only to have it run about 10% slower than our 6 core desktop workstations. It turns out the wild claims of the software vendor about scalability with cores was crap (shocker!). It seems that at some point with the clock speeds getting stagnant that we would see more significant movement to have programs use larger core count better.
Same here, SATA3 would be nice over my SATA1 for my SSD, but my i7-920 is not very far behind the current crop of CPU's considering it is 6 years old. I at least had hope for 6-8 cores by now, but 4 is still considered plenty so that is what can be gotten without getting too gouged.
The die pictures are pretty disappointing too, the core's are pretty small, surely adding a couple more would not increase the die size much on a percentage basis, but intel seems to want to more than double the price for their 6 core chips compared to a 4 core (and drop the clock speed to erase a good part of the expected gains).
I am planning on pulling the trigger when Skylake comes out, but Moore's law looks pretty much saturated at this point. Even DDR4 looks to be a very minor improvement over DDR3 from the benchmarks thus far.
Also fab access. Intel has kept their fab enough ahead of their other faults to be ahead most of the time. AMD has arguably had a better architecture than intel, but is stuck a couple process nodes behind due to not having access to a comparable fab.
I am simply dumbstruck with how flat the performance has been for intel. The power reductions are impressive, but the speed has been nearly flat for the last 4-5 years.
This latest round reeks of being an Apple specific processor. Anyone wanting a good machine would pair a halfway decent GPU into the system, making the 6200 Iris graphics meaningless. Apple sticks out as a likely buyer wanting "good enough" graphics with low power dissipation for a desktop build. Anyone else spending $230-330 on a CPU won't mind spending another $100 for a bottom end GPU that would still blow away the 6200 performance.
A better question is why as a country we don't value human life and human dignity more?
In such a rich society we should expect that hard working folk will occasionally obsoleted, and we should have a safety net for them. Once you have a family (much needed for the country in the long term) it is very destructive to take 4 years off and go back to school, not to mention spending a few years getting through the break in period in your new profession to get anywhere close to your old salary.
If we were more humane we would support higher taxation to fund a safety net that provided for retraining and income support while you did it rather than casting our workers in the gutter the minute they are no longer sufficiently profitable. In other words
Given that we are not more human to our citizenry, it is not all that surprising that there is not a strong shared sense of community across the USA. As long as I have mine, the rest can eat cake.
At least it becomes a new bill rather than a reauthorization. The stink that sticks to the yes voters is far worse for passing a new bill rather than just reauthorizing someones elses dirty work.
I interviewed at Analog Devices a year back (didn't get an offer, sadly). At this particular design center all design engineers had offices. It was specifically understood that good hard design work required periods of intense focus with no distractions. Their model was to encourage folks to leave their door open when they could, but to encourage folks who really needed to focus to close it, or if discussions/phone calls in your office would distract others to encourage folks to close the door.
There were still some cubicles, but those were for the secretary, and for setting up test equipment.
Where I went to is a good company and all, but boy are there days I really wish I could close off the rest of the office din and distraction. I still get more done on weekends during my kids nap time than I can get done in a full work day more of the time.
Cubes are cheap, but I think the real cost in lost productivity vastly outweighs savings in building materials for those doing the really complex stuff.
Low voltage DC would still need to convert at the appliance one last time. Running a 600W PC on 12V DC would require battery cable size wire, just as charging your iPhone on 100V DC would be "entertaining". So even if you ran your house on DC you would need DC-DC converters at every end point.
We already have ever improving efficiency standards on power supplies and inverters. Last I checked the DC-AC inverters on solar arrays are 95+% efficient, and also serve a vital need of outputting a constant AC voltage (varying current) as the cell voltage varies with light intensity. hte 20-40% number is just hysterics, only the lowest power devices are this bad. Most big power hogs with AC to DC conversion (PC's, TV's) all do so very efficiently, like 90+%.
Another factor is electromigration. DC wires cannot be run with as high of current density as AC lines. Over time hot wires with high current develop thin spots. The fast moving electrons physically displace metal atoms, eventually creating an open (or a fire). AC tends to average out this effect compared to DC. Depending on the material you have to have 5-10x the cross sectional area to have the same wire lifetime. It would not be 5-10x in household wiring due to peak temperature and voltage loss limititations that keep AC lines from being near as this as they could be just for electromigration reasons, but this is a real factor to be worried about once you start looking at the power handling of existing copper (or the cost of running more).
Tesla had no beef with DC as such, but was very astute at recognizing that it sucks for its difficulty in stepping up and down voltages for transmission and reception. AC does this with ease with very simple and robust transformer. Similarly you can make AC motors that have no brushes to wear out. No true DC motor operates without brushes (brushless DC motors are really AC motors using a hall effect sensor to trigger circuits to chop the DC at the right times).
Edison seemed like the one with religious convictions around DC rather than the other way around.
Lightning is not really DC. Once the arc is created there is usually a fair amount of charging that sloshes in either direction. It is far too messy of a process to categorize it as either AC or DC.
Nope, look at the resulting images. It has been blurred to the point of uselessness. It has taken away the whole point of the body camera in the first place. It is the equivalent of having the officers smear Crisco on the lense.
Slashdot Mirror
If you delete data on a day to day basis there is no issue. However, once there is an incident and this is the reason you go an delete stuff you are breaking the law. Nothing new here. Companies who have a legal deletion/shredding policy and regularly implement it are fine (and must not continue to exercise it documents subject to a subpoena once it is issued). Companies who only selectively exercise that policy when they suspect litigation may occur, or after a subpoena has been issued are breaking the law.
I am still waiting for a clear picture of their revenue model. Is this a case where they just are charging for new installations since almost nobody buys retail Windows upgrades, or are we paying to decripple our systems along the way?
I am honestly wanting a clear explanation as to how this is supposed to work in a way that they are not losing revenue (MS doesn't know how to do that voluntarily), yet not end up doing something evil (that they have down pat).
Obligatory XKCD:
https://xkcd.com/927/
Works both ways. I share my opinions liberally of the bad shops amongst fellow engineers. Word gets around, and they have a harder time getting decent folks. Active Karma baby.
Your contract is good until your next pay check. Welcome to At-Will employment. Most contractors have better guarantees than actual employees do. Act accordingly.
I am surprised the republican field has not proposed we get rid of the english system for Biblical set of measures in units of Palms, Spans, and Cubits.
Never got the Windows 7 backup to run, kept giving non-useful error messages, and I moved on pretty quick. Broken by design...
Poor choice of words on my part. My main point is simply that we have so many broadly written laws that it has actually become very difficult to get through a typical day without breaking a few laws, and even harder to even know what the heck is actually illegal anymore.
Odds are very good nothing will come of it, but it can be hugely chilling. Someone who becomes outspoken has to stop and think what in their past could be used or twisted to convict them if the powers that be choose to given them extra scrutiny.
Beware of making your house too gadgety. In 10-15 years most of it will be outmoded and junk and you will spend a lot of time and hassle keeping it going (and if that is your schtick, why are you asking for ideas?!). Don't become a slave to your house if you can avoid it.
Nice to haves:
1) Extra outlets and breakers. Having fewer rooms per breaker is nice to avoid finding out that a hairdryer plus your gaming PC will pop the breaker even though one is upstairs and the other is downstairs.
2) Speakers and speaker wire in your living room is really nice, and hard to add later.
3) Pull Ethernet cable where you can do so. Most stuff will be on wireless, but it is nice to be able to put a wireless router where needed once you find out the hard way where the dead zones are.
4) Good insulation. A cheap house to heat/cool is golden. Consider a heat exchanger to keep fresh air in your house, which is a bigger issue once you make a well sealed up house.
5) Storage, storage, storage. No modern house seems to have enough good storage in it.
6) Good sound deadening in the interior walls, few houses have this, and it sucks to try and add after the fact. Solid core interior doors help too.
7) Glue and screw your base flooring in you minimize how many squeeks show up over time, which can slowly drive you insane.
8) Low maintenance yard. Mowing every week sucks. Paying for yard guys sucks. Allergies suck. Unless you want to be a gardener, put in slow growing low maintenance plants that don't trigger your allergies.
We are all un-indicted felons. There are so many laws on the books that we are completely unaware of, and many laws were written very broadly to avoid people getting out of a crime on a technicality. The result is that once you are in the cross hairs of a federal persecutor there is a very high likelihood than the vast majority of us could be hauled into court and prosecuted for benign things that are illegal.
Be thankful there are juries and defense lawyers who can dispense with a lot of improper gray area use of law, but that is not assured, and can be very costly in terms of time, money, stress, and public opinion in the meantime.
In this case I don't personally like the guy, but I'd rather not have to explain every $10k withdrawal ($10k is not what it used to be). Also, what if he was honest about being blackmailed and the FBI could was unable to do anything about it? It leaves information with a government agency that has a long track record of egregious behavior including, but not limited to, leaking investigation details.
Switched from $130 a month for a triple bundle thing to Vonage ($18), internet only ($35), netflix+hulu ($16) for a total savings of $52 a month.
They are not priced like budget CPU's, in fact they look like a 5% price increase from what I could dig up. So you can pay more for a top of the line CPU with slight less awful integrated graphics, great...
Intel is really not blowing my skirt up.
So a 2x speedup in 6.5 years (unless you take into account the nearly 1.5x overclocking of my i7-920). Sure, lower dissipation is worth something, but sorry if my socks aren't blown off by a speed doubling every 6.5 years.
The Haswell-E drops the clock 10%, so you net a 1.35x speedup at best.
And I am painfully aware of the clock speed drop. We plunked down a serious chunk of change for a dual Xeon box (16 total cores) to run our electromagnetic simulations on, only to have it run about 10% slower than our 6 core desktop workstations. It turns out the wild claims of the software vendor about scalability with cores was crap (shocker!). It seems that at some point with the clock speeds getting stagnant that we would see more significant movement to have programs use larger core count better.
Same here, SATA3 would be nice over my SATA1 for my SSD, but my i7-920 is not very far behind the current crop of CPU's considering it is 6 years old. I at least had hope for 6-8 cores by now, but 4 is still considered plenty so that is what can be gotten without getting too gouged.
The die pictures are pretty disappointing too, the core's are pretty small, surely adding a couple more would not increase the die size much on a percentage basis, but intel seems to want to more than double the price for their 6 core chips compared to a 4 core (and drop the clock speed to erase a good part of the expected gains).
I am planning on pulling the trigger when Skylake comes out, but Moore's law looks pretty much saturated at this point. Even DDR4 looks to be a very minor improvement over DDR3 from the benchmarks thus far.
Also fab access. Intel has kept their fab enough ahead of their other faults to be ahead most of the time. AMD has arguably had a better architecture than intel, but is stuck a couple process nodes behind due to not having access to a comparable fab.
I am simply dumbstruck with how flat the performance has been for intel. The power reductions are impressive, but the speed has been nearly flat for the last 4-5 years.
This latest round reeks of being an Apple specific processor. Anyone wanting a good machine would pair a halfway decent GPU into the system, making the 6200 Iris graphics meaningless. Apple sticks out as a likely buyer wanting "good enough" graphics with low power dissipation for a desktop build. Anyone else spending $230-330 on a CPU won't mind spending another $100 for a bottom end GPU that would still blow away the 6200 performance.
Design work is the easy part. Getting a team to agree on specs, timetables, features, and actually sticking to those agreements is very very hard.
The upshot is that if you are very, very lucky you might spend 20% of your time doing design work, mostly less, and that is at pretty good outfits.
A better question is why as a country we don't value human life and human dignity more?
In such a rich society we should expect that hard working folk will occasionally obsoleted, and we should have a safety net for them. Once you have a family (much needed for the country in the long term) it is very destructive to take 4 years off and go back to school, not to mention spending a few years getting through the break in period in your new profession to get anywhere close to your old salary.
If we were more humane we would support higher taxation to fund a safety net that provided for retraining and income support while you did it rather than casting our workers in the gutter the minute they are no longer sufficiently profitable. In other words
Given that we are not more human to our citizenry, it is not all that surprising that there is not a strong shared sense of community across the USA. As long as I have mine, the rest can eat cake.
At least it becomes a new bill rather than a reauthorization. The stink that sticks to the yes voters is far worse for passing a new bill rather than just reauthorizing someones elses dirty work.
I interviewed at Analog Devices a year back (didn't get an offer, sadly). At this particular design center all design engineers had offices. It was specifically understood that good hard design work required periods of intense focus with no distractions. Their model was to encourage folks to leave their door open when they could, but to encourage folks who really needed to focus to close it, or if discussions/phone calls in your office would distract others to encourage folks to close the door.
There were still some cubicles, but those were for the secretary, and for setting up test equipment.
Where I went to is a good company and all, but boy are there days I really wish I could close off the rest of the office din and distraction. I still get more done on weekends during my kids nap time than I can get done in a full work day more of the time.
Cubes are cheap, but I think the real cost in lost productivity vastly outweighs savings in building materials for those doing the really complex stuff.
So building berms and calling them "land art" is news worthy?
Agree 100 times over.
Low voltage DC would still need to convert at the appliance one last time. Running a 600W PC on 12V DC would require battery cable size wire, just as charging your iPhone on 100V DC would be "entertaining". So even if you ran your house on DC you would need DC-DC converters at every end point.
We already have ever improving efficiency standards on power supplies and inverters. Last I checked the DC-AC inverters on solar arrays are 95+% efficient, and also serve a vital need of outputting a constant AC voltage (varying current) as the cell voltage varies with light intensity. hte 20-40% number is just hysterics, only the lowest power devices are this bad. Most big power hogs with AC to DC conversion (PC's, TV's) all do so very efficiently, like 90+%.
Another factor is electromigration. DC wires cannot be run with as high of current density as AC lines. Over time hot wires with high current develop thin spots. The fast moving electrons physically displace metal atoms, eventually creating an open (or a fire). AC tends to average out this effect compared to DC. Depending on the material you have to have 5-10x the cross sectional area to have the same wire lifetime. It would not be 5-10x in household wiring due to peak temperature and voltage loss limititations that keep AC lines from being near as this as they could be just for electromigration reasons, but this is a real factor to be worried about once you start looking at the power handling of existing copper (or the cost of running more).
Tesla had no beef with DC as such, but was very astute at recognizing that it sucks for its difficulty in stepping up and down voltages for transmission and reception. AC does this with ease with very simple and robust transformer. Similarly you can make AC motors that have no brushes to wear out. No true DC motor operates without brushes (brushless DC motors are really AC motors using a hall effect sensor to trigger circuits to chop the DC at the right times).
Edison seemed like the one with religious convictions around DC rather than the other way around.
Lightning is not really DC. Once the arc is created there is usually a fair amount of charging that sloshes in either direction. It is far too messy of a process to categorize it as either AC or DC.
Nope, look at the resulting images. It has been blurred to the point of uselessness. It has taken away the whole point of the body camera in the first place. It is the equivalent of having the officers smear Crisco on the lense.
Get the latest horse and buggy whip! Now with graphene and gold nano-particles!