Bingo. The first thing I thought of is "sure 90% goes to waste but you don't know *which* 90% until after the fact"...
Is Dell working on a patent to send information back from the future about what stored data is never used again? I just hope they don't stumble on the Slashdot comment archives, the future-tubes would be clogged indefinitely.
He meant to say disregourd, as in the process of undoing the readding of a gourd to said wonton soup. It's delicious without the gourd that was there (again).
Where is the catch-22 (paradox) in that? They don't want to make a treatment that won't earn them back the money they spent on it... Sounds like standard operating procedure to me for any for-profit company. It sucks, yes; but is it a paradox? Not really.
Joseph Heller just died a little more (he is already dead, I know.)
Bruce Schneier already knows Alice AND Bob's secret; all he has to do to detect cheating is eye a test taker until their lies burst into flames. Nothing hides from Bruce Schneier... Nothing.
The first thing I thought of when I read the flame-inducing "How do we feel about NSA spyware in all of our infrastructure?" was "oh well, at least there will be good-guy spyware in there with the bad-guy spyware..."
Do you really think that these private firms are honky dory with their current systems? As discussed to death at Black Hat 20[insert any year here], most private firms are years behind the DOD when it comes to info security, some of them ignoring it outright (the new power grid technology comes to mind).
If these companies aren't going to take security seriously, is it really wrong to offer a program that lets the NSA help them out? Or worse, would you rather the NSA simply hold out for a secret executive order to place surveillance equipment without the need to tell anyone? I think that this step, at least, is in the right direction. It could still go horribly wrong, but why kill it before it has the chance to do some good?
I think he means that he has TweetDeck set up to monitor several lists (a feature in twitter to allow a feed of updates from users not on your main "follow" list) which means that the requests for what's in each list will have to happen independently. Correct me if I'm wrong...
What Twitter really needs to do is require heavy-hitting API-using apps like TweetDeck to maintain their own mirror of tweet activity, a replicated database of some sort that way when users are craving full length updates of ten lists of one hundred people each they can cripple the app instead of crippling the whole Twitter system. Twitter can, in theory, easily handle incoming messages and simple list updates; it's when all these elaborate tools get involved with pinging for updates at a crazy rate that things get hectic.
The scary thing is that you don't even need overt corruption for this to go horribly wrong. All you need is a little persuasion and access to the right kinds of media. Anything can be spun, in any direction, and if it's up to every voter to be legitimately educated on every issue that comes up in government, GOD HELP US ALL! It's bad enough that the current popular representative form of government (around the world) basically gives a group of guys the keys to the country for 2-4 years at a stretch, now policy will shift daily based on who ran the most emotional commercials or trotted out the most appealing pundits on television.
Sounds like Australia is well on their way to repealing the Second and Third laws of Thermodynamics, as they have proven to be unpopular in similar online electoral systems. I guess that's one way to get what you want.
Funny, Prince basically says the same thing; he is very paranoid about Top-40 stations and exploitative record companies... Except that 8 years ago when he was saying this, people just added it to the list of reasons why he was crazy. Oh, and do you not realize that Prince still tours regularly, after more than 20 years? He doesn't seem to be toting the record company line of "the internet is stealing our music and killing our puppies", rather he has an admittedly dated opinion that there is simply now too much "noise" on-line for real art to flourish there.
Disclaimer: I am not a huge Prince fan, but I don't think the guy's work gets a fair shake thanks to the crazy that comes out of his mouth when he's not singing.
Are you perhaps in an area where reception is already reliable? There has been suggestion of not only the obvious trait of it only exhibiting when signals are weak, but also exhibiting when conflicting information about different towers is used to decide which to communicate with. It could well be that only quarter or less of AT&Ts asserted "coverage area" is susceptible to this problem and users not in that area "cannot reproduce it at all", but that's still way way way too much. There are more than enough identical reports out there for it to be a case of delusion or overt pickyness.
I thought this was how every politician operated? Palin, The previous white house, etc, all used non-government assigned email addresses to avoid archiving and disclosure laws.
Ok, I do have ONE regret about my switch: a unified mailbox. There's probably one in the android market...hmmm brb!
If you find one, let me know. I am a long time BlackBerry user, and would love an Android phone but it's just not as tightly wound as the BB platform is, especially with the messaging boxes as you said. I love the ability to click "messages" and see anything that's gone on from IM to calls to emails, in one list. A phone needs to save me time first, and be a cool gadget second.
So you're saying they can afford them, and choose not to? Why? Because they love it when their customers can't use their shiny new phone to make calls? Surely, that can't be the answer!
Because that piece of metal is only useful as an antenna when someone's not grabbing hold of it. Even close counts when it comes to RF (try walking around an FM radio with marginal reception), but grabbing the thing with your hand is going to *wreck* it. Apparently Steve wanted too much for it to look like a Leica camera (whose stainless steel bodies were, surprisingly, *not* doubling as antennas) and too little for it to work in every possible situation (like being held by a sweaty person.)
This is only reasonable engineering if function follows form. I try not to bash apple, I really do, but in this case it's painfully obvious what they are after when they "engineered" this thing.
This is true. With Flash I'd need to pass the URL to rtmpdump, which takes a good 20 seconds more effort.
And that's all they want; to be able to get the charges bumped up from "complicit to copyright infringement" to "willful copyright infringement". The fine is much steeper with the latter, FYI.
You can also "re-size" that video straight to your hard drive and share it with 10,000 of your friends with a few clicks. This is why Flash (or some similar, DRMable software) will always have a need in the video distribution arena. Pirated content may be easy to come by, but content providers sure as hell aren't going to just give it away.
I think his point was that we have the choice between one open and barely capable kludge and one closed but broadly supported and well understood kludge.
Personally I would rather buy a crutch for my broken leg so it can heal, then have a sprained ankle that I was "free" to walk on day after day until my foot fell off. Oops, sorry, I am taking BadAnalogyGuy's job away from him...
Why would they? Dividends aren't even on investors' radar anymore, and if one tech company has a quarter that's a little slower than another company, why not move all the stock to the company that is ticking up a bit faster? The company can either destroy itself after a few good quarters, or before them. That's the free market! The only thing that's changed in the last 100 years is the depth of information available to average joe investors that gives them the "insight" to trade every day on every little whim of the economy.
Just part of the business cycle. It's expected of any company of Dell's size to constantly provide revenue growth both in customer base AND cost savings. If one slows, simply accelerate the other to meet your numbers. It's a recipe for disaster that's played itself out in every major industry; some several times over. Gotta love that free market! (free market purists, save your rants; that was tongue in cheek)
They tried to offer plans for health maintenance (used regularly) vs health insurance (used in extenuating circumstances) but it got too confusing and redundant. The bottom line is that if you want to be healthy in the long run you need all those regular little "tiny little things" like check ups and teeth cleanings. This is what keeps the need for the other kind of insurance relatively low.
But then the slippery slope takes over and as soon as people see insurance as "whatever they want for free" they couldn't care less if they get diabetes or need their arm sewn back on or whatever. It cuts both ways, it would seem. Insurance will only be cheap when it can target people who can be demonstrably responsible for their health. Proving that, though, is a tall order indeed.
As for the "free market", medicine has gotten way too complicated and expensive for people to need to vet every decision their doctor makes. Do you think doctors would magically just start being more honest and effective if their were less regulation? Just like bankers take the opportunity of deregulation to be more open and efficient and respectful of the consumer? Regulate in transparency and let people see what they are getting. Otherwise, there is nothing stopping fear mongering crooks from taking over that industry, too.
The heat is what causes the explosion, as a side effect of the "electrical impetus". The electricity itself isn't really explosive. Heat it up sufficiently some other way, and you will have just as much of a fireball since all you need to do is kickstart the exothermic chain reaction in the lithium. There are plenty of fun videos around of this in action.
In reality, very few ISPs have Akamai hubs colocated in them. In reality, only 60% of American households have braodband to begin with. In reality, it sure seems practical to orchestrate tens of thousands of caching hubs vs tens of thousands of simple RF transmitters. Sounds "efficient". Making a witty retort by dropping Akamai's name amd then rambling incoherently is pretty ignorant. Get a clue please, kthxbai.
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Bingo. The first thing I thought of is "sure 90% goes to waste but you don't know *which* 90% until after the fact"...
Is Dell working on a patent to send information back from the future about what stored data is never used again? I just hope they don't stumble on the Slashdot comment archives, the future-tubes would be clogged indefinitely.
He meant to say disregourd, as in the process of undoing the readding of a gourd to said wonton soup. It's delicious without the gourd that was there (again).
Where is the catch-22 (paradox) in that? They don't want to make a treatment that won't earn them back the money they spent on it... Sounds like standard operating procedure to me for any for-profit company. It sucks, yes; but is it a paradox? Not really.
Joseph Heller just died a little more (he is already dead, I know.)
Bruce Schneier already knows Alice AND Bob's secret; all he has to do to detect cheating is eye a test taker until their lies burst into flames. Nothing hides from Bruce Schneier... Nothing.
The first thing I thought of when I read the flame-inducing "How do we feel about NSA spyware in all of our infrastructure?" was "oh well, at least there will be good-guy spyware in there with the bad-guy spyware..."
Do you really think that these private firms are honky dory with their current systems? As discussed to death at Black Hat 20[insert any year here], most private firms are years behind the DOD when it comes to info security, some of them ignoring it outright (the new power grid technology comes to mind).
If these companies aren't going to take security seriously, is it really wrong to offer a program that lets the NSA help them out? Or worse, would you rather the NSA simply hold out for a secret executive order to place surveillance equipment without the need to tell anyone? I think that this step, at least, is in the right direction. It could still go horribly wrong, but why kill it before it has the chance to do some good?
I think he means that he has TweetDeck set up to monitor several lists (a feature in twitter to allow a feed of updates from users not on your main "follow" list) which means that the requests for what's in each list will have to happen independently. Correct me if I'm wrong...
What Twitter really needs to do is require heavy-hitting API-using apps like TweetDeck to maintain their own mirror of tweet activity, a replicated database of some sort that way when users are craving full length updates of ten lists of one hundred people each they can cripple the app instead of crippling the whole Twitter system. Twitter can, in theory, easily handle incoming messages and simple list updates; it's when all these elaborate tools get involved with pinging for updates at a crazy rate that things get hectic.
Tyler Durden was the only one *not* in Fight Club... He didn't exist, after all.
The scary thing is that you don't even need overt corruption for this to go horribly wrong. All you need is a little persuasion and access to the right kinds of media. Anything can be spun, in any direction, and if it's up to every voter to be legitimately educated on every issue that comes up in government, GOD HELP US ALL! It's bad enough that the current popular representative form of government (around the world) basically gives a group of guys the keys to the country for 2-4 years at a stretch, now policy will shift daily based on who ran the most emotional commercials or trotted out the most appealing pundits on television.
If this party comes to power, how long do you reckon it will take for the whole country to have it's name changed to "Stephen Colberia"?
Sounds like Australia is well on their way to repealing the Second and Third laws of Thermodynamics, as they have proven to be unpopular in similar online electoral systems. I guess that's one way to get what you want.
Funny, Prince basically says the same thing; he is very paranoid about Top-40 stations and exploitative record companies... Except that 8 years ago when he was saying this, people just added it to the list of reasons why he was crazy. Oh, and do you not realize that Prince still tours regularly, after more than 20 years? He doesn't seem to be toting the record company line of "the internet is stealing our music and killing our puppies", rather he has an admittedly dated opinion that there is simply now too much "noise" on-line for real art to flourish there.
Disclaimer: I am not a huge Prince fan, but I don't think the guy's work gets a fair shake thanks to the crazy that comes out of his mouth when he's not singing.
Are you perhaps in an area where reception is already reliable? There has been suggestion of not only the obvious trait of it only exhibiting when signals are weak, but also exhibiting when conflicting information about different towers is used to decide which to communicate with. It could well be that only quarter or less of AT&Ts asserted "coverage area" is susceptible to this problem and users not in that area "cannot reproduce it at all", but that's still way way way too much. There are more than enough identical reports out there for it to be a case of delusion or overt pickyness.
I thought this was how every politician operated? Palin, The previous white house, etc, all used non-government assigned email addresses to avoid archiving and disclosure laws.
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The solution is simple. Vote for the one that doesn't use email!
I am only kind of joking... heh...
Ok, I do have ONE regret about my switch: a unified mailbox. There's probably one in the android market...hmmm brb!
If you find one, let me know. I am a long time BlackBerry user, and would love an Android phone but it's just not as tightly wound as the BB platform is, especially with the messaging boxes as you said. I love the ability to click "messages" and see anything that's gone on from IM to calls to emails, in one list. A phone needs to save me time first, and be a cool gadget second.
So you're saying they can afford them, and choose not to? Why? Because they love it when their customers can't use their shiny new phone to make calls? Surely, that can't be the answer!
Because that piece of metal is only useful as an antenna when someone's not grabbing hold of it. Even close counts when it comes to RF (try walking around an FM radio with marginal reception), but grabbing the thing with your hand is going to *wreck* it. Apparently Steve wanted too much for it to look like a Leica camera (whose stainless steel bodies were, surprisingly, *not* doubling as antennas) and too little for it to work in every possible situation (like being held by a sweaty person.)
This is only reasonable engineering if function follows form. I try not to bash apple, I really do, but in this case it's painfully obvious what they are after when they "engineered" this thing.
This is true. With Flash I'd need to pass the URL to rtmpdump, which takes a good 20 seconds more effort.
And that's all they want; to be able to get the charges bumped up from "complicit to copyright infringement" to "willful copyright infringement". The fine is much steeper with the latter, FYI.
Believe it or not, some people still drink plain, black 12 oz coffees. The poor ones that can only afford $4!!! HAHAHAhahahahaaha. ha?
You can also "re-size" that video straight to your hard drive and share it with 10,000 of your friends with a few clicks. This is why Flash (or some similar, DRMable software) will always have a need in the video distribution arena. Pirated content may be easy to come by, but content providers sure as hell aren't going to just give it away.
I think his point was that we have the choice between one open and barely capable kludge and one closed but broadly supported and well understood kludge.
Personally I would rather buy a crutch for my broken leg so it can heal, then have a sprained ankle that I was "free" to walk on day after day until my foot fell off. Oops, sorry, I am taking BadAnalogyGuy's job away from him...
Why would they? Dividends aren't even on investors' radar anymore, and if one tech company has a quarter that's a little slower than another company, why not move all the stock to the company that is ticking up a bit faster? The company can either destroy itself after a few good quarters, or before them. That's the free market! The only thing that's changed in the last 100 years is the depth of information available to average joe investors that gives them the "insight" to trade every day on every little whim of the economy.
Just part of the business cycle. It's expected of any company of Dell's size to constantly provide revenue growth both in customer base AND cost savings. If one slows, simply accelerate the other to meet your numbers. It's a recipe for disaster that's played itself out in every major industry; some several times over. Gotta love that free market! (free market purists, save your rants; that was tongue in cheek)
They tried to offer plans for health maintenance (used regularly) vs health insurance (used in extenuating circumstances) but it got too confusing and redundant. The bottom line is that if you want to be healthy in the long run you need all those regular little "tiny little things" like check ups and teeth cleanings. This is what keeps the need for the other kind of insurance relatively low.
But then the slippery slope takes over and as soon as people see insurance as "whatever they want for free" they couldn't care less if they get diabetes or need their arm sewn back on or whatever. It cuts both ways, it would seem. Insurance will only be cheap when it can target people who can be demonstrably responsible for their health. Proving that, though, is a tall order indeed.
As for the "free market", medicine has gotten way too complicated and expensive for people to need to vet every decision their doctor makes. Do you think doctors would magically just start being more honest and effective if their were less regulation? Just like bankers take the opportunity of deregulation to be more open and efficient and respectful of the consumer? Regulate in transparency and let people see what they are getting. Otherwise, there is nothing stopping fear mongering crooks from taking over that industry, too.
The heat is what causes the explosion, as a side effect of the "electrical impetus". The electricity itself isn't really explosive. Heat it up sufficiently some other way, and you will have just as much of a fireball since all you need to do is kickstart the exothermic chain reaction in the lithium. There are plenty of fun videos around of this in action.
In reality, very few ISPs have Akamai hubs colocated in them. In reality, only 60% of American households have braodband to begin with. In reality, it sure seems practical to orchestrate tens of thousands of caching hubs vs tens of thousands of simple RF transmitters. Sounds "efficient". Making a witty retort by dropping Akamai's name amd then rambling incoherently is pretty ignorant. Get a clue please, kthxbai.