I am reverting my mod points on this discussion just to comment on this nonsense. You are right that networks are designed based usage patterns. The usage patterns for standard voice communication favors local. (e.g. 80% of all mobile calls are done in sight distance) But with data it's not the case, you connect to some server that is somewhere in the world. That is how the internet works for decades now, so there is nothing new. The problem comes now that mobile carriers are seeing more data traffic that before and there are two problems associated with that. First you have radio band saturation, but there is not much you can do about this; it is also not a data problem, more users for voice do the same thing. The second is that data traffic creates more traffic on the backbone infrastructure and that are cables. In this case the mobile service provider is either lazy and/or not very clever. Either they failed to upgrade their backbone infrastructure to meet demand and they knew is was coming. The second problem is probably their peering setup, there are ISPs that can bare the load easily. In contrast to e-mail spam and torrent traffic, the additional mobile traffic is peanuts. The mobile provider just has to establish more local hand-off points for data traffic. We are talking status updates here, that is puny in contrast to other traffic on the internet. Other non mobile ISPs can work cost efficient and there is definitely no bias for local communication. (Remember this post is sent around half the world...)
As a mater of fact, not immigrating with proper documentation is a felony. I get reminded of this all the time at the US embassy... But I also have dual citizenship (German), so...
I think there is no big difference if they wiretap my line or get the data from the last 3 months. The important part is that the appropriate legal framework exists to retrieve the data. And as GP said, this is only possible in criminal law, not civil law and at least in Europe copyright infringement is still civil law...
You know, although technically correct, I would not consider the nano satellites a "space craft". When someone rolls out the personal space shuttle, then we can talk space craft...
This is what you call security theater, it looks way more impressive. Nonsense but more impressive... On the other hand I think black combat gear looks more awsome; so I might be wrong here.
The term Programmer unfortunately is not well defined. But as job descriptions go, I the want a Programmer, they probably want someone to spew out code based on some more or less defined design. If they want a Software Engineer, they expect that you can work form a blank slate. That is requirements, analysis, design, development, test and deployment. I have never found a job posting as "coder", so you can assume that programmer is probably the simplest software development job, except maybe intern...
If I remember correctly the went for C, not necessarily because of technological reasons, but rather by following the GNU coding guidelines, which strongly favors C. This has made GTK and friends really easy to wrap into other languages. If you don't like C or GObject, just go with the version for your favorite language, C++, Python, Perl, Ruby,.Net... just pick one
I use gtkmm for all my development needs (even on Windows). It is the best framework I know of and that is allot. True I could not care much for GObject, but that is a different thing, I can ignore. True ravioli library layout is not the best think, especially since gtkmm adds one to each other one, but that is ok; link the stuff statically or don't care.
Yes, they want that. But there are technologies to enable this over the network... Just use a VPN and be done with it. The requirement is legin, the execution was lousy.
You are totally right. These systems where not designed to be accessible from the internet. They have a bunch of "usability" stuff in there to make configuration easier. As it turns out easier also means unsafe. If you ever read the security recommendations, you will learn that these systems, especially the Ethernet enabled PLCs are to be confined in a closed network. (The non Ethernet PLCs use Profibus and Profinet and you can't hook up that to a simple router.) The remote monitoring systems are also not considered inherently "safe", you are supposed to only use them in a trusted local network. The setup of the plant skimped on that issue (or a sales guy said it was OK).
The important thing that OP pointed out is that the SW is his core product. There is no harm in open sourcing your collaterals, if you can't make money of them. These colaterals are normally just a cost center and putting the software out there may even reduce the maintenance effort.
The thing looks differently with your core product. The question here is in what business are you? If your are in the business of selling software, open source is clearly not a real option. Why will people buy software they can get free from others. If you are in the business of providing paid support (Canonical) or paid training (MySql AB) then open sourcing your software makes sense, since more people will use it. If you are in the business for selling hardware it may make sense to open source the software that works with the hardware. It depends where your "company secrets" really are.
Intel has an interesting approach with their thread building blocks; the provide the library under GNU GPL or a commercial license. This is ingenious, be cause the GNU GPL states that any derivative work is also GPL so it bars any closed source software. This may work for you.
I would rather make a clear "it depends". As with many things there is no clear Yes / No. The big problem how much is the right thing amount the government should influence whatever.
1. Yes, the Constitution should be interpreted. You need to adapt the interpretation to the technological realities and resulting implications. You think GPS tracking is unconstitutional? Go look it up, there is no provision on this. Should the Constitution be perverted beyond the original intent, definitely No.
2. I am all for a balanced budget and any government should strive for that. But there are unforeseen consequences, such as natural disasters. Should the people be left alone during this state of emergency, because there is no budget? No, they should not.
3. & 7. Is government allowed to interfere with the free market? Generally no, but the government is there to ensure that everybody plays by the same rules and that there remains a free market. Yes this includes laws that prevent monopolies form and price rigging.
4. I don't know about you, but will rather live in a country that helps me cases of dire need that starting and freezing in the cold, just because I lost a job. Sure there is abuse and that need handled.
5. What are the alternatives to an income tax? Ok, you get a road tax for driving on the government built road, you get a police, fire department and paramedic tax... It's not perfect but the approach to tax income has at least the potential to be "fair"; people with high income pay more... but the current situation is a broken one, yes...
6. If due process is done, then it is ok. If there is reasonable grounds to suspect some illegal activity and a judge approves all and every measure on an individual basis it is better for the entire society. The danger comes from abuse of power and that must be prevented.
So, no you can't answer yes to every question. Because if you do you actually don't have a government left and that is not called democracy, that's called anarchism.
I think by "failing" it is rather meant "No connection". The big hype in medical applications are wireless systems where the sensing device is decoupled form the monitoring device. This works well for one device, but in a crowed hospital you start to get to a saturation point. Does not help that they use off the shelf wireless telephones are cheap "mobile" intercoms. Maybe a few cables where wireless is not a requirement might help allot; but that what I say about my home IT infrastructure too. I will always run a cable if that is feasible, than use a wireless link. I can sense 11 wireless networks in my apartment...
Ok I am not really into cupcakes and am definitely not an expert on the subject; but I lived in France most of my childhood and know very much about french pastry... (yum).
Just to get it out of the way, there is supermarket pastry but almost nobody buys them. The major cost in making pastry is normally not the ingredients, it's the time / labor it takes to make them. Actually there is not so much difference in the ingredients, but they still have a order of a magnitude difference in taste. The real point is that freshly made pastries taste WAY better than pastries that stood around longer than half a day. This not helped that many things, like whipped creme, do not "hold" for a long period of time. So the industrially made pastry needs conservatives and stabilizers and you can taste them, even if it is just in the consistency.
Unfortunately many french bakeries start to use shortcuts to increase their profit margin / stay profitable. (I don't really know which is the real case.) For example they will buy dough from some factory, for example half baked baguette. The real trick is that they bake it fresh and that makes the major difference. Then again with french pastries you have like 20 things more to do than dough to get them done, and I am not talking croissants here. Just google "french pastries" to see what I mean...
Absolutely. It depends on the scope of the war. If we enter a war against china and GPS must be shut off for civilian use, so no one else can use it, it will be suddenly very patriotic to use a map. Sure China will probably try to kill the entire system, just to gain the advantage.
Makes complete sense to me. You want a pattern that exists nowhere else on earth, so when your satellite sees the pattern it knows exactly where it is. Then you give it a different pattern, say for example the pattern a ICBM missile silo looks like from space and the satellite will tell you where they are all located.
Yea, since Blinn's Law won't apply here. Sure rendering in real time is a boon for animators since they can use it for previews but the final renders/composits will probably still take way to long for real time.
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I am reverting my mod points on this discussion just to comment on this nonsense. You are right that networks are designed based usage patterns. The usage patterns for standard voice communication favors local. (e.g. 80% of all mobile calls are done in sight distance) But with data it's not the case, you connect to some server that is somewhere in the world. That is how the internet works for decades now, so there is nothing new. The problem comes now that mobile carriers are seeing more data traffic that before and there are two problems associated with that. First you have radio band saturation, but there is not much you can do about this; it is also not a data problem, more users for voice do the same thing. The second is that data traffic creates more traffic on the backbone infrastructure and that are cables. In this case the mobile service provider is either lazy and/or not very clever. Either they failed to upgrade their backbone infrastructure to meet demand and they knew is was coming. The second problem is probably their peering setup, there are ISPs that can bare the load easily. In contrast to e-mail spam and torrent traffic, the additional mobile traffic is peanuts. The mobile provider just has to establish more local hand-off points for data traffic. We are talking status updates here, that is puny in contrast to other traffic on the internet. Other non mobile ISPs can work cost efficient and there is definitely no bias for local communication. (Remember this post is sent around half the world...)
What he said. I could not agree more with this opinion. If I had modpoints left I would camplet the score to 5
As a mater of fact, not immigrating with proper documentation is a felony. I get reminded of this all the time at the US embassy... But I also have dual citizenship (German), so...
I think there is no big difference if they wiretap my line or get the data from the last 3 months. The important part is that the appropriate legal framework exists to retrieve the data. And as GP said, this is only possible in criminal law, not civil law and at least in Europe copyright infringement is still civil law...
Simple, follow the money!
"The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants." Thomas Jefferson
You know, although technically correct, I would not consider the nano satellites a "space craft". When someone rolls out the personal space shuttle, then we can talk space craft...
This is what you call security theater, it looks way more impressive. Nonsense but more impressive... On the other hand I think black combat gear looks more awsome; so I might be wrong here.
The term Programmer unfortunately is not well defined. But as job descriptions go, I the want a Programmer, they probably want someone to spew out code based on some more or less defined design. If they want a Software Engineer, they expect that you can work form a blank slate. That is requirements, analysis, design, development, test and deployment. I have never found a job posting as "coder", so you can assume that programmer is probably the simplest software development job, except maybe intern...
If I remember correctly the went for C, not necessarily because of technological reasons, but rather by following the GNU coding guidelines, which strongly favors C. This has made GTK and friends really easy to wrap into other languages. If you don't like C or GObject, just go with the version for your favorite language, C++, Python, Perl, Ruby, .Net... just pick one
I use gtkmm for all my development needs (even on Windows). It is the best framework I know of and that is allot. True I could not care much for GObject, but that is a different thing, I can ignore. True ravioli library layout is not the best think, especially since gtkmm adds one to each other one, but that is ok; link the stuff statically or don't care.
Yes, they want that. But there are technologies to enable this over the network... Just use a VPN and be done with it. The requirement is legin, the execution was lousy.
You are totally right. These systems where not designed to be accessible from the internet. They have a bunch of "usability" stuff in there to make configuration easier. As it turns out easier also means unsafe. If you ever read the security recommendations, you will learn that these systems, especially the Ethernet enabled PLCs are to be confined in a closed network. (The non Ethernet PLCs use Profibus and Profinet and you can't hook up that to a simple router.) The remote monitoring systems are also not considered inherently "safe", you are supposed to only use them in a trusted local network. The setup of the plant skimped on that issue (or a sales guy said it was OK).
Motivated means well paid. No manager will ever agree to this.
I would say motivation means way more that that, but yea it starts there.
Someone put a news in my news so I can read while I read! Great!
The important thing that OP pointed out is that the SW is his core product. There is no harm in open sourcing your collaterals, if you can't make money of them. These colaterals are normally just a cost center and putting the software out there may even reduce the maintenance effort.
The thing looks differently with your core product. The question here is in what business are you? If your are in the business of selling software, open source is clearly not a real option. Why will people buy software they can get free from others. If you are in the business of providing paid support (Canonical) or paid training (MySql AB) then open sourcing your software makes sense, since more people will use it. If you are in the business for selling hardware it may make sense to open source the software that works with the hardware. It depends where your "company secrets" really are.
Intel has an interesting approach with their thread building blocks; the provide the library under GNU GPL or a commercial license. This is ingenious, be cause the GNU GPL states that any derivative work is also GPL so it bars any closed source software. This may work for you.
I would rather make a clear "it depends". As with many things there is no clear Yes / No. The big problem how much is the right thing amount the government should influence whatever.
1. Yes, the Constitution should be interpreted. You need to adapt the interpretation to the technological realities and resulting implications. You think GPS tracking is unconstitutional? Go look it up, there is no provision on this. Should the Constitution be perverted beyond the original intent, definitely No.
2. I am all for a balanced budget and any government should strive for that. But there are unforeseen consequences, such as natural disasters. Should the people be left alone during this state of emergency, because there is no budget? No, they should not.
3. & 7. Is government allowed to interfere with the free market? Generally no, but the government is there to ensure that everybody plays by the same rules and that there remains a free market. Yes this includes laws that prevent monopolies form and price rigging.
4. I don't know about you, but will rather live in a country that helps me cases of dire need that starting and freezing in the cold, just because I lost a job. Sure there is abuse and that need handled.
5. What are the alternatives to an income tax? Ok, you get a road tax for driving on the government built road, you get a police, fire department and paramedic tax... It's not perfect but the approach to tax income has at least the potential to be "fair"; people with high income pay more... but the current situation is a broken one, yes...
6. If due process is done, then it is ok. If there is reasonable grounds to suspect some illegal activity and a judge approves all and every measure on an individual basis it is better for the entire society. The danger comes from abuse of power and that must be prevented.
So, no you can't answer yes to every question. Because if you do you actually don't have a government left and that is not called democracy, that's called anarchism.
The just backfired in the last word there. That sounded quite reasonable until you said maintenance and suddenly I though "Job Security for Dummies".
I think by "failing" it is rather meant "No connection". The big hype in medical applications are wireless systems where the sensing device is decoupled form the monitoring device. This works well for one device, but in a crowed hospital you start to get to a saturation point. Does not help that they use off the shelf wireless telephones are cheap "mobile" intercoms. Maybe a few cables where wireless is not a requirement might help allot; but that what I say about my home IT infrastructure too. I will always run a cable if that is feasible, than use a wireless link. I can sense 11 wireless networks in my apartment...
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Ok I am not really into cupcakes and am definitely not an expert on the subject; but I lived in France most of my childhood and know very much about french pastry... (yum).
Just to get it out of the way, there is supermarket pastry but almost nobody buys them. The major cost in making pastry is normally not the ingredients, it's the time / labor it takes to make them. Actually there is not so much difference in the ingredients, but they still have a order of a magnitude difference in taste. The real point is that freshly made pastries taste WAY better than pastries that stood around longer than half a day. This not helped that many things, like whipped creme, do not "hold" for a long period of time. So the industrially made pastry needs conservatives and stabilizers and you can taste them, even if it is just in the consistency.
Unfortunately many french bakeries start to use shortcuts to increase their profit margin / stay profitable. (I don't really know which is the real case.) For example they will buy dough from some factory, for example half baked baguette. The real trick is that they bake it fresh and that makes the major difference. Then again with french pastries you have like 20 things more to do than dough to get them done, and I am not talking croissants here. Just google "french pastries" to see what I mean...
Actually not "the internet" but unfiltered internet ACCESS is what is should become a inalienable right. Like the right to read any book I chose...
Like the Chinese have any problem with cheap labor?
Absolutely. It depends on the scope of the war. If we enter a war against china and GPS must be shut off for civilian use, so no one else can use it, it will be suddenly very patriotic to use a map. Sure China will probably try to kill the entire system, just to gain the advantage.
Makes complete sense to me. You want a pattern that exists nowhere else on earth, so when your satellite sees the pattern it knows exactly where it is. Then you give it a different pattern, say for example the pattern a ICBM missile silo looks like from space and the satellite will tell you where they are all located.
Yea, since Blinn's Law won't apply here. Sure rendering in real time is a boon for animators since they can use it for previews but the final renders/composits will probably still take way to long for real time.