A plane running out of fuel doesn't drop like a rock. Some of them can glide. Some have had full engine failure and landed safely in the Hudson River.
The plane which landed in Hudson River had lost the engines, but was under control by an experienced and fully alert pilot.
If a plane flies over the ocean for several hours, it is highly likely that it is flying on autopilot with no pilot controlling it. If there was a pilot controlling it, why would he not try to reach land? Without a competent pilot, landing on water will destroy the plane.
At high speeds, wouldn't an air plane potentially skip across the surface without completely wrecking?
In a word: No.
First: Due to its weight, it would definitely not "skip across the water". Its structure would simply not withstand the shock.
Also, the plane would need to land on water at a very specific angle and with as low speed as possible to "land" and not "crash".
As the plane crashed due to being out of fuel, it is totally unthinkable that it landed at that exact angle, and in perfect balance.
...and BackupExec will still not install on Windows 2012
The beta for 2014 is out, and it fully support 2012 and 2012 R2 server. It is available to all who registered for the beta, and is supported in production. Late, but at least it is here now.
and they still do not support Windows 2012 R2 at all outside of a limited beta.
Calling the beta "limited" is pretty unfair. They announced the beta in November last year, and invited people to register for it. Everybody who registered by the end of February were admitted. If you followed any of their news channels (website, twitter...) you could not avoid knowing about it. In addition they provide support for the beta release in production.
...does sorting give any benefit in the long run?
I keep all my receipts (and bank statements etc...) in a binder without sorting them. One binder per year (sort of).
If/when I need one of the receipts, I simply look through the binder for the relevant year (s). Time spent per search is a fracion of the time I would need to sort them.
As I usually do not know the date of the receipt when I start looking, sorting by date would not provide a benefit anyway.
it would be equally as efficient for the end user than having to call up IT every 5 minutes because you're not allowed to use the computer you're given.
Actually, you are permitted to use the computer for what it was assigned to you for. What you cannot do is run all sorts of executables which have not been approved, some of them being malware, stupid browser plugins and all kinds of crap.
The company I work for have implemented bit9 on the XP PCs we need to keep. Works just fine. The user can keep the software that cannot run on 7/8, and the computers are secure.
Have the change require a hardware dongle. Lock the hardware dongle away where only the sysadmins have the (physical) keys. Problem solved.
Unless the sysadmin is in a different office, city, country or continent... Yes it is a real scenario. We do that in our company.
Or unless the sysadmin is responsible for a few thousand servers in a datacenter.
One problem solved, another unsolvable problem created.
So this is a reason why some countries have consumer rights protecting them from this kind of problem.
Where I live, there is a mandatory five year protection against manufacturing defects.
As it happens, my sons 2011 MacBook Pro failed last week. Did not boot. Got it back yesterday with a new motherboard. No cost.
McAfee may not be what I'd recommend for home use, but I would for enterprise.
Not if you need support. I have heard enough swearing over their incompetent support (one main reason we ditched them), and I have experienced it first hand. We had a virus that had disabled the virus scanner, so our people were busy reimaging PCs. We sent a VM with the problem to McAfee. After two weeks (yes, two weeks), they asked what hypervisor it was on... I ended up identifying the problem and a fix. Should I mention the false positive that took down all XP machines? Not for our enterprise, that's for sure.
Our company just shut down the last EPO server. Smiles all around.
So the institutions do not have any data lifecycle management for research data. Are we supposed to be surprised? Ensuring that data are not lost is a huge undertaking and cannot be left to the individual researcher. It may also require a change in the research culture at many institutions. As long as research is measured by the publications, that is where the resources go and where the focus will be.
Why is Microsoft selling Windows 8 for so much more than Windows XP?
To the best of my knowledge, they have not sold XP since Windows 7 was released. At least not around here. Unless you mean XP starter edition, but that is a crippled version only sold with hardware. A Windows 8 license cost considerably less than XP cost when it was actually sold.
If a disaster seems to be long lasting, then shut the phone down during most of the day, and only turn it on when you need it. And text instead of call. The phone will easily last for a week. My BB will last for less than a day if I use it actively. When I use mainly texting it will last for 3 days.
And if you are making a case for POTS vs. mobile, what if you cannot stay at your house?
So, if you text instead of talk when there is not an immediate need for assistance, you stand a better chance of having battery life left when you really need it.
If calling between rooms in your house is a priority, then by all means stick to your DECT phones. In my household we prefer to talk face to face when at home. But that may just be our geeky ways...
And regarding cell phone plans: My youngest really does not call that much, so his cell phone calls cost us all of $20 per year. I can live with that...
And what does age have to do with it? Or is it that you are jealous of us who are twice your age and have learned a thing or two on the way:-)
But, you open up many more possibilities when you also have the analog infrastructure, which is ALREADY IN PLACE!
Not quite. Where I live, new houses will get only digital lines. Besides, a lot of people drop house phones anyway. When everybody in the household has a mobile phone, the POTS phone is simply not used, so why pay to keep it? I have not had analog phone line for more than 10 years.
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A plane running out of fuel doesn't drop like a rock. Some of them can glide. Some have had full engine failure and landed safely in the Hudson River.
The plane which landed in Hudson River had lost the engines, but was under control by an experienced and fully alert pilot.
If a plane flies over the ocean for several hours, it is highly likely that it is flying on autopilot with no pilot controlling it. If there was a pilot controlling it, why would he not try to reach land? Without a competent pilot, landing on water will destroy the plane.
At high speeds, wouldn't an air plane potentially skip across the surface without completely wrecking?
In a word: No.
First: Due to its weight, it would definitely not "skip across the water". Its structure would simply not withstand the shock.
Also, the plane would need to land on water at a very specific angle and with as low speed as possible to "land" and not "crash".
As the plane crashed due to being out of fuel, it is totally unthinkable that it landed at that exact angle, and in perfect balance.
I thought that maybe a bunch of spy satellites picked up and stored the broadcasts,
Why would a spy satellite pick up and store information that is pretty much publicly available?
And why did it take three weeks to do that analysis?
Actually, it is in the interview that the post is based on... You should check it, It is quite informative.
My next phone is going to be the simplest phone I can get with tethering.
Unfortunately, I have not found a simple phone with tethering. Not that I have looked too hard, but it seems that the basic models do not have it.
What I want is a phone
Seems most manufacturers (and users?) forgot the "phone" bit. A good old dumb Nokia beat all of them when it comes to voice quality and coverage.
With some improvements.
With the improvements in the 2014 version, I think the GUI works quite well. But I never liked the old GUI (which was getting VERY old...).
...and BackupExec will still not install on Windows 2012
The beta for 2014 is out, and it fully support 2012 and 2012 R2 server.
It is available to all who registered for the beta, and is supported in production.
Late, but at least it is here now.
and they still do not support Windows 2012 R2 at all outside of a limited beta.
Calling the beta "limited" is pretty unfair. They announced the beta in November last year, and invited people to register for it. Everybody who registered by the end of February were admitted. If you followed any of their news channels (website, twitter...) you could not avoid knowing about it.
In addition they provide support for the beta release in production.
...does sorting give any benefit in the long run?
I keep all my receipts (and bank statements etc...) in a binder without sorting them. One binder per year (sort of).
If/when I need one of the receipts, I simply look through the binder for the relevant year (s). Time spent per search is a fracion of the time I would need to sort them.
As I usually do not know the date of the receipt when I start looking, sorting by date would not provide a benefit anyway.
it would be equally as efficient for the end user than having to call up IT every 5 minutes because you're not allowed to use the computer you're given.
Actually, you are permitted to use the computer for what it was assigned to you for. What you cannot do is run all sorts of executables which have not been approved, some of them being malware, stupid browser plugins and all kinds of crap.
The company I work for have implemented bit9 on the XP PCs we need to keep. Works just fine. The user can keep the software that cannot run on 7/8, and the computers are secure.
Have the change require a hardware dongle. Lock the hardware dongle away where only the sysadmins have the (physical) keys. Problem solved.
Unless the sysadmin is in a different office, city, country or continent... Yes it is a real scenario. We do that in our company.
Or unless the sysadmin is responsible for a few thousand servers in a datacenter.
One problem solved, another unsolvable problem created.
Is there something that I do not understand about this?
Yes. They want more customers to pay for support.
What THEY do not understand is that people will start buying Dell.
So this is a reason why some countries have consumer rights protecting them from this kind of problem.
Where I live, there is a mandatory five year protection against manufacturing defects.
As it happens, my sons 2011 MacBook Pro failed last week. Did not boot. Got it back yesterday with a new motherboard. No cost.
McAfee may not be what I'd recommend for home use, but I would for enterprise.
Not if you need support. I have heard enough swearing over their incompetent support (one main reason we ditched them), and I have experienced it first hand. We had a virus that had disabled the virus scanner, so our people were busy reimaging PCs. We sent a VM with the problem to McAfee. After two weeks (yes, two weeks), they asked what hypervisor it was on... I ended up identifying the problem and a fix.
Should I mention the false positive that took down all XP machines?
Not for our enterprise, that's for sure.
Our company just shut down the last EPO server. Smiles all around.
so what's holding them back?
Wrong question. It is open source. If you need it, you fix it.
So the institutions do not have any data lifecycle management for research data. Are we supposed to be surprised? Ensuring that data are not lost is a huge undertaking and cannot be left to the individual researcher. It may also require a change in the research culture at many institutions. As long as research is measured by the publications, that is where the resources go and where the focus will be.
Will this change? Probably not.
Why is Microsoft selling Windows 8 for so much more than Windows XP?
To the best of my knowledge, they have not sold XP since Windows 7 was released. At least not around here. Unless you mean XP starter edition, but that is a crippled version only sold with hardware. A Windows 8 license cost considerably less than XP cost when it was actually sold.
If a disaster seems to be long lasting, then shut the phone down during most of the day, and only turn it on when you need it. And text instead of call. The phone will easily last for a week. My BB will last for less than a day if I use it actively. When I use mainly texting it will last for 3 days.
And if you are making a case for POTS vs. mobile, what if you cannot stay at your house?
So, if you text instead of talk when there is not an immediate need for assistance, you stand a better chance of having battery life left when you really need it.
If calling between rooms in your house is a priority, then by all means stick to your DECT phones. In my household we prefer to talk face to face when at home. But that may just be our geeky ways...
:-)
And regarding cell phone plans: My youngest really does not call that much, so his cell phone calls cost us all of $20 per year. I can live with that...
And what does age have to do with it? Or is it that you are jealous of us who are twice your age and have learned a thing or two on the way
Well, you are not really concerned with battery life in those cases, are you?
But, you open up many more possibilities when you also have the analog infrastructure, which is ALREADY IN PLACE!
Not quite. Where I live, new houses will get only digital lines. Besides, a lot of people drop house phones anyway. When everybody in the household has a mobile phone, the POTS phone is simply not used, so why pay to keep it?
I have not had analog phone line for more than 10 years.
A common solution to this is to tell people just to text instead of making calls, that helps reduce the load on the cellular infrastructure.
Texting instead of talking will also reduce battery drain, so in an emergency, any phone with decent battery should last at least a few days.
That doesn't necessarily make them more dangerous
Which I did not claim. My last sentence was "Different energy stores, different risks". To compare the risks, we must first understand them.