Do your credit cards come with EZ Pass or similar? Does your bank mail them to you with little metallic stickers affixed to the front of them? What makes you think it's any more secure in your wallet than in an evnelope? Why are banks doing this extra step if there's no security risk?
High speed rail is not to replace cars. It is to replace regional airlines.
For the most part, people don't FLY from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. They drive. The I-15 North is backed-up solid on Friday night, and I-15 South is backed-up even worse Sunday night.
To a lesser extent, the same is true of Los Angeles and San Francisco. It's not a short drive, but most people would rather drive it than fly it. It's those in-between distance where high-speed rail shines. Cross-country, flying will always be significantly faster, though I expect it will take a decent sized chunk of business away from them.
It's a matter of making it competitive with airlines, on price, and on convenience, and on speed. If that is done. You will replace the airlines almost over night.
That's a hell of an "if".
Yes, if you're giving away a train that goes 9/10ths the speed of sound, with all infrastructure included, and it springs up fully formed, it'll do quite well.
In reality, it's not going to be nearly as fast as airlines, it'll be more expensive, and service will be quite patchy for decades to come, at least.
His usage was perfectly fine. People think of IDE as a proper noun, but it's really just an acronym indicating the controller is combined with the drive, and not just a raw chunk of memory.
you should never expect to get paid for days you don't work.
If you're on salary, and routinely working overtime without getting extra pay because of it, it's perfectly reasonable to expect to get paid for your sick days and vacation days. Sick every day for two whole weeks right after your two-weeks notice? My employer can try to prove I wasn't sick, or else they'd better pay me every last cent...
That's a bit of an exaggeration (limits to consecutive sick days), but still basically true.
He put me into a really awkward position, since I ended up seeing the VP before HR (he was asking why he couldn't log into the servers). I sort of stood there for a few moments with a stunned look and informed him the HR guy was looking for him.
I would have said "I'll look into it, but in the meantime, HR is looking for you." However, it's a major screw up if terminated employees notice they have lost access to something, before EVERYTHING has been revoked, leaving them a window to get suspicious, and reek havock.
I don't want to be involved in the process of locking out someone before they've been informed by someone in authority of this impending fact. It's really unfair to the poor schmuck who gets caught in the middle.
It takes time, and it would be woefully incompetent to fire someone while they still have access. And it's not always practical to hold them in HR for 3 hours as you get the work done. You should have had more than an hour's warning, and should have been given far better instructions.
With a per-megabyte plan, the company's incentive is to provide you with more bandwidth than you could ever possibly need so that nothing will prevent you from downloading as much as possible.
A) Metering all your users is expensive. B) Complex billing for all your customers is expensive. C) Maintaining customers who download very little and pay you next to nothing, is expensive. D) Charging per-MB will increase prices and likely reduce demand, so while they might be encouraged to upgrade the last mile (or just take off the speed-limits they currently impose), they will probably actually reduce their upstream bandwidth.
Since its a Microkernel, it can have "servers" for different subsystems, including BSD, which aren't really "kernel modules" in the Linux or BSD sense.
Except, of course, it isn't a microkernel. They ripped that out, first thing, made it monolithic for performance.
I'd love to see a common operating system using a microkernel. That seems to be the only way forward in a world of imperfect programmers and increasing attention towards turning every little flaw into vulnerabilities.
All your criticisms are valid for Clear Channel cookie-cutter genre radio stations. Minimal costs, lowest common denominator radio. And, indeed, clear channel has taken over a large number of stations.
However, if you have any non-ClearChannel stations in your area, they ARE worth listening to, and certainly don't all have the flaws you list, which are well known, undeniable ClearChannel traits.
Pre-build binary packages invariably either have EVERY possible dependency built-in, requiring 200MBytes of unrelated software you don't want, be installed, or almost as bad, are occasionally configured with next to no options, eliminating the dependency problem, but quite possibly also leaving out the ONE extra option you need.
GP made it clear he's a developer, no doubt compiling his own software, and making changes to 3rd party software before compiling and installing it.
What he did was basically blackmail: "Let me talk ot the mayor or I'll keep you locked out of your network."
Riiiight.... and when I go home for the day, I'm, implicitly blackmailing my boss... "Either pay me time-and-a-half or I won't fix your network!"
If anybody other than my Manager, or the CEO of the company requested I reveal my passwords, I'm going to tell them to get lost as well. I'm not blackmailing them because I feel like talking to the CEO...
You can't let the guy off easy just because he happened to be harmless. Next time, you might not be so lucky.
He didn't just happen to prove harmless. It's pretty clear his superiors were in fact just as incompetent as he mad them out to be, and caused downtime just as soon as they did finally get the password. And if he did hand over his password to just anybody, and the same down-time happened? I bet he'd be facing charges for violating the restrictions in his contract anyhow.
And he's not even honest about it. Nobody has ever gotten a 1 year sentence for murder... The person in question pleaded no-contest to MANSLAUGHTER.
Want the penalty for Manslaughter to be harsher? Then be prepared for your kids to spend the rest of their life in jail when they fall asleep at the wheel and someone gets killed.
Think he should have been allowed to plead down to manslaughter? They had one witness, who lied on the stand.
Honestly, the outrage should be for the HUNDREDS if not THOUSANDS of murderers who are AQUITTED and spend ZERO time in jail due to lack of evidence, are still allowed to vote, own a gun, get a job at a public school, etc., not the one in a billion guy who got a light sentence.
I didn't claim nobody would ever want TV over WiFi, just that the demand would be vanishingly small, in large part because most people would only watch while at home, and also because, as you've illustrated, people already have the option of DVDs, or copying videos recorded by their DVRs. What's the business-case for live, mobile, wireless, cable TV? Everyone desperate wants to watch the crappy shows that just happen to be on while they're on the train? They want to reoutinely miss the start and end of shows because the broadcast schedule doesn't match their train schedule? They want a much more expensive and lower-capacity mobile DVR that will have to deal with routine signal drop-outs as people walt around all day?
Everything listed are DEFINITELY GTK applications.
not sure how you could write a sound card interface that requires 24 cores and 64GB of RAM...
I'm not sure how you could write ANYTHING that requires 24 course and 64GB of RAM...
However, I'm extremely annoyed by all the trivial software that takes 5+ seconds before it pops up on-screen, while older versions launched in a fraction of a second...
Intel has been doing so much stuff behind the scenes to keep the x86 architecture going, that it may be time to just bite the bullet and move to something that doesn't require as much translation?
The things which Intel has been doing to x86 are the same things you'd need to do for ANY processor to get that kind of speed. For all the hype about ARM, they still don't come close to the DMIPS/MHz of the slowest x86 CPU today. Just try to name one CPU architecture that would do better, and then explain why Intel can't just roll those features into any x86 CPU.
Honestly, if any existed, they'd be able to take over at least a few niches pretty quick.
I can't see ever wanting mobile TV, even if it was free, since watching TV while moving isn't terribly pleasant, and for the most part, isn't practical (while driving, walking, etc.).
So, in the worst case, fiber to the home eliminates all the bandwidth (TONS) that would be wasted by sending hundreds if not thousands of high-def (19Mbps) TV channels over the airwaves.
In addition, wireless has a chicken and egg problem, which FTTH does not. Until it's installed widely, it isn't useful. FTTH is useful as soon as it's connected. FTTH is cheaper, and gets immediate return on investment.
How about writing better software. Stuff that doesn't require 24 cores and 64GB of RAM?
They did. The are damn fast on modern processors, too. However, people simply look at me funny for using all GTK v1.2 applications... GIMP, aumix, emelfm, Ayttm, Sylpheed1, XFce3, etc.
So, why AREN'T YOU using better software, which "doesn't require 24 cores and 64GB of RAM"?
It's incompatible license meant it wasn't ever going to get going in Linux, and Linux has far too much momentum for OpenSolaris to have dethroned it as the open source world's golden boy.
FreeBSD, OTOH, is plenty competitive with Linux, and has good ZFS support.
Not to mention that, while ZFS may not become a universal file system, it could well dominate in NAS appliances, and other proprietary closed-box products running OpenSolaris.
Is it just my imagination or has there been a sharp increase over the last decade in the number of people willing to swallow anything that comes in the form of an anti-science conspiracy theory.
It's a by-product of downfall of the mainstream news media. It used to be that broadcasters would weed out lies and misinformation as much as possible. These days, nonsense from two moron crackpots arguing about whether the earth is flat or square constitutes "objective reporting".
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Do your credit cards come with EZ Pass or similar? Does your bank mail them to you with little metallic stickers affixed to the front of them? What makes you think it's any more secure in your wallet than in an evnelope? Why are banks doing this extra step if there's no security risk?
For the most part, people don't FLY from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. They drive. The I-15 North is backed-up solid on Friday night, and I-15 South is backed-up even worse Sunday night.
To a lesser extent, the same is true of Los Angeles and San Francisco. It's not a short drive, but most people would rather drive it than fly it. It's those in-between distance where high-speed rail shines. Cross-country, flying will always be significantly faster, though I expect it will take a decent sized chunk of business away from them.
That's a hell of an "if".
Yes, if you're giving away a train that goes 9/10ths the speed of sound, with all infrastructure included, and it springs up fully formed, it'll do quite well.
In reality, it's not going to be nearly as fast as airlines, it'll be more expensive, and service will be quite patchy for decades to come, at least.
His usage was perfectly fine. People think of IDE as a proper noun, but it's really just an acronym indicating the controller is combined with the drive, and not just a raw chunk of memory.
Having something which looks safe (like NAT) but which can, in fact, be TRIVIALLY BYPASSED with a few crafted packets, is the apex of insecurity.
That's like saying it's part invincible, part infinitely fragile.
Yes, it has message passing, but if you don't HAVE TO use message passing, the benefits of microkernels are null.
No, but Merkle trees + Lamport signatures are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_signature
If you're on salary, and routinely working overtime without getting extra pay because of it, it's perfectly reasonable to expect to get paid for your sick days and vacation days. Sick every day for two whole weeks right after your two-weeks notice? My employer can try to prove I wasn't sick, or else they'd better pay me every last cent...
That's a bit of an exaggeration (limits to consecutive sick days), but still basically true.
I would have said "I'll look into it, but in the meantime, HR is looking for you." However, it's a major screw up if terminated employees notice they have lost access to something, before EVERYTHING has been revoked, leaving them a window to get suspicious, and reek havock.
It takes time, and it would be woefully incompetent to fire someone while they still have access. And it's not always practical to hold them in HR for 3 hours as you get the work done. You should have had more than an hour's warning, and should have been given far better instructions.
Why don't they say "up to" twice the speed? 4x the speed? It's still technically true, right?
A) Metering all your users is expensive.
B) Complex billing for all your customers is expensive.
C) Maintaining customers who download very little and pay you next to nothing, is expensive.
D) Charging per-MB will increase prices and likely reduce demand, so while they might be encouraged to upgrade the last mile (or just take off the speed-limits they currently impose), they will probably actually reduce their upstream bandwidth.
Except, of course, it isn't a microkernel. They ripped that out, first thing, made it monolithic for performance.
I'd love to see a common operating system using a microkernel. That seems to be the only way forward in a world of imperfect programmers and increasing attention towards turning every little flaw into vulnerabilities.
All your criticisms are valid for Clear Channel cookie-cutter genre radio stations. Minimal costs, lowest common denominator radio. And, indeed, clear channel has taken over a large number of stations.
However, if you have any non-ClearChannel stations in your area, they ARE worth listening to, and certainly don't all have the flaws you list, which are well known, undeniable ClearChannel traits.
NAT is NOT a firewall, and a firewall most certainly doesn't require NAT at all. You absolutely don't lose any security at all with IPv6.
Yes, but since you don't know what you're talking about...
Pre-build binary packages invariably either have EVERY possible dependency built-in, requiring 200MBytes of unrelated software you don't want, be installed, or almost as bad, are occasionally configured with next to no options, eliminating the dependency problem, but quite possibly also leaving out the ONE extra option you need.
GP made it clear he's a developer, no doubt compiling his own software, and making changes to 3rd party software before compiling and installing it.
Riiiight.... and when I go home for the day, I'm, implicitly blackmailing my boss... "Either pay me time-and-a-half or I won't fix your network!"
If anybody other than my Manager, or the CEO of the company requested I reveal my passwords, I'm going to tell them to get lost as well. I'm not blackmailing them because I feel like talking to the CEO...
He didn't just happen to prove harmless. It's pretty clear his superiors were in fact just as incompetent as he mad them out to be, and caused downtime just as soon as they did finally get the password. And if he did hand over his password to just anybody, and the same down-time happened? I bet he'd be facing charges for violating the restrictions in his contract anyhow.
And he's not even honest about it. Nobody has ever gotten a 1 year sentence for murder... The person in question pleaded no-contest to MANSLAUGHTER.
Want the penalty for Manslaughter to be harsher? Then be prepared for your kids to spend the rest of their life in jail when they fall asleep at the wheel and someone gets killed.
Think he should have been allowed to plead down to manslaughter? They had one witness, who lied on the stand.
Honestly, the outrage should be for the HUNDREDS if not THOUSANDS of murderers who are AQUITTED and spend ZERO time in jail due to lack of evidence, are still allowed to vote, own a gun, get a job at a public school, etc., not the one in a billion guy who got a light sentence.
I didn't claim nobody would ever want TV over WiFi, just that the demand would be vanishingly small, in large part because most people would only watch while at home, and also because, as you've illustrated, people already have the option of DVDs, or copying videos recorded by their DVRs. What's the business-case for live, mobile, wireless, cable TV? Everyone desperate wants to watch the crappy shows that just happen to be on while they're on the train? They want to reoutinely miss the start and end of shows because the broadcast schedule doesn't match their train schedule? They want a much more expensive and lower-capacity mobile DVR that will have to deal with routine signal drop-outs as people walt around all day?
Everything listed are DEFINITELY GTK applications.
I'm not sure how you could write ANYTHING that requires 24 course and 64GB of RAM...
However, I'm extremely annoyed by all the trivial software that takes 5+ seconds before it pops up on-screen, while older versions launched in a fraction of a second...
The things which Intel has been doing to x86 are the same things you'd need to do for ANY processor to get that kind of speed. For all the hype about ARM, they still don't come close to the DMIPS/MHz of the slowest x86 CPU today. Just try to name one CPU architecture that would do better, and then explain why Intel can't just roll those features into any x86 CPU.
Honestly, if any existed, they'd be able to take over at least a few niches pretty quick.
A) We were talking about servers...
B) Windows has a lot of features Linux is lacking as well. I guess Linux isn't competitive.
I can't see ever wanting mobile TV, even if it was free, since watching TV while moving isn't terribly pleasant, and for the most part, isn't practical (while driving, walking, etc.).
So, in the worst case, fiber to the home eliminates all the bandwidth (TONS) that would be wasted by sending hundreds if not thousands of high-def (19Mbps) TV channels over the airwaves.
In addition, wireless has a chicken and egg problem, which FTTH does not. Until it's installed widely, it isn't useful. FTTH is useful as soon as it's connected. FTTH is cheaper, and gets immediate return on investment.
They did. The are damn fast on modern processors, too. However, people simply look at me funny for using all GTK v1.2 applications... GIMP, aumix, emelfm, Ayttm, Sylpheed1, XFce3, etc.
So, why AREN'T YOU using better software, which "doesn't require 24 cores and 64GB of RAM"?
FreeBSD, OTOH, is plenty competitive with Linux, and has good ZFS support.
Not to mention that, while ZFS may not become a universal file system, it could well dominate in NAS appliances, and other proprietary closed-box products running OpenSolaris.
It's a by-product of downfall of the mainstream news media. It used to be that broadcasters would weed out lies and misinformation as much as possible. These days, nonsense from two moron crackpots arguing about whether the earth is flat or square constitutes "objective reporting".