Hmm... Thought most of the reasoning against iPods and other mp3 devices which had no ability to transmit/receive was that by wearing the earbuds you were inhibiting your ability to hear any announcements or instructions by the flight attendants...
Yeah, but it's competing with high-speed networks that are crippled by the ISPs at both ends using a single fibre to feed an entire neighborhood, and intentionally slowing the speed at the customer's site to a crawl unless you pay an exorbitant rate for a higher speed (which is then unused 99% of the time, and doesn't deliver if 2 or 3 others in your neighborhood are using high speed at the same time).
Last I checked an OC-768, as referenced in the article, isn't going to be crippled by the ISP.
Maybe it's time for you to realize that your uber-ultimate-epic-extreme bandwidth package from your ISP isn't really that fast compared to say what's in the article...
Like I said, why doesn't he run raid1 and mirror his computer's disk?
Linus flames an awful lot of people when they do something stupid by not understanding X or failing to do Y, so someone should flame him for failing to mirror his drive.
How is one meant for spying different from any other type of antenna?
I realize there are different antennas for different frequency...
Unless of course there are ones that are only made for those frequencies used for espionage and not anything else... "Is this optimally made for listening to encrypted transmissions and not broadcast radio or TV signals?"
Hopefully, Fry's has them on sale in the espionage section.
How is the current or future generation of iWatches going to be any different than an iPhone/Android phone in a small form factor strapped to your wrist? You'll still need a bluetooth headset to talk/hear the conversation.
It seems that the iWatch companies are trying to save us 1second of having to dig our phone out of our pocket. They don't look all that attractive compared to a similarly priced watch (mechanical or quartz) and remind me of the calculator watches of the 80s.
XFINITY Internet Package New Data Usage Allowance Economy 300 GB Economy Plus 300 GB Internet Essentials 300 GB Performance Starter 300 GB Performance 300 GB Blast! 350 GB Extreme 50 450 GB Extreme 105 600 GB
If you go over, they charge you $10 per 50GB. I've got the 50/10 Mb plan and I'd have to be running at 50Mb for 16 hours. This is assuming that I'm downloading from a site/torrent that can provide 50Mbps of bandwidth. Over the past three months the most I've used is 150GB...but what if you watch lots of netflix...?
They've got a meter with details. Their highest quality tier is still pretty small: Best quality (uses up to 1 GB per hour, up to 2.8 GB per hour if watching HD, or up to 4.7 GB per hour if watching 3D)
At 2.8GB per hour with a 350GB cap you could watch 125HD movies. There's about 720 hours in a month, so do you really want to spend about 1/3 of your time (including sleeping time) watching movies?
Like others have said, how much really do you need? These caps are so high, I can't imagine surpassing them. If you need more usage, call up Comcast, Verizon, ATT or any other SP and ask for a business line. Heck, if you really need bandwidth, most will be more than happy to sell you a 40Gb synchronous circuit.
Can't the airlines reject anybody on the no-fly list since the airlines are a private corporation? They're not violating any discrimination laws. How is this any different from a restaurant that "Reserves the right to refuse service"?
If Delta won't fly people on the do not fly list, go find an airline that will fly them.
There's a certain advantage to the online or delivery based grocery stores. They don't need to manage as packaged and portioned product as the traditional grocery stores.
Take meat for example.
In a traditional grocery store, there's hundreds of cuts of meat that are packaged up into individual portions sitting in a refrigerator waiting to be picked up by some consumer. There's a good chance that it won't be picked up and will eventually need to be tossed. Also, storing cut up meat isn't as efficient as say storing an entire side of beef/whole chicken/pork etc..
With the on-demand grocery, the side of beef is whole until an order is placed and then that side is cut up as per the orders that are needed. So if you need 50 steaks, you cut up exactly 50 steaks. Compared that to the traditional store in which you have to base that days sales on historical numbers and predictions rather than actual orders.
If you as a meat-dept manager guess that 100 steaks will be sold on a thursday and only 50 are sold, you're going to lose money. With the online butcher, you only cut up 50 steaks. In this case you're much more efficient as you have less product waste.
It's the same with any other type of produce, also the shipping of produce from warehouse to grocery store via truck induces more issues around bruising/spoilage/damage etc. If it's sent to your house directly from the warehouse, then that's one less organization that your product has to pass through, thereby enabling you to have a better product. I'm also sure they'd allow you to refuse product say if for example, eggs were damaged.
The problem with the online is the same one as the movie rental business started out with. The impulse buy. Grocery stores are great at this, you walk by the steak counter and decide "this looks good, i'll have steak tonight". Online didn't have this ability as you had to wait a day or two to get your steak. Netflix had this problem vs. rental stores as you couldn't just do an impulse "movie night" if they had to ship you a dvd. Now with Netflix-streaming you can have a 'movie-night' as an impulse b/c the movie is provided to you the same day.
If my human driven car hits a tree or pedestrian, I or the driver is at fault. If Google's self driving car hits a tree/pedestrian, can I sue Google? Of course, there would probably be an army of lawyers trying to blame every conceivable part of the car just like tech support drones try to find any down level driver on my enter computer to blame problem x. "Ok, the bios update which according to the release-notes says that it fixes the F12 help menu typo, is why my computer crashes..."
Also, normally I roll out software updates into a sandbox or lab environment at work. How would you update driving software on your car without testing it on a real road? Would you take your car to an empty parking lot, upgrade and then pray... it doesn't screw you up?
Also, if a software update 'bricks' your car, will Google pay to have it towed?
Fine, worst case, so you're really pissed off. Your mgmt has royally screwed you and all your coworkers hate your guts.
Take the high ground. You never know if one day you run into them at some other company you being partners, vendors, whatever, and you don't want their last memory of you being the time you nailed your letter of resignation to the front door of the building.
This is probably not the case. So if you have some coworkers that you are ok with, giving 2 weeks notice means you aren't screwing them over.
By now there's probably 100 posts saying the same thing, " Don't be a dick. Give your two weeks. If they walk you out, so be it, who cares if it's corporate policy or not. In two weeks start your new job and move on with your life."
So how many people on your staff understand the complete source to your linux distribution?
Kernel Developers? RAID adapter or HBA driver developers? Filesystem developers? database developers (if you use an open source db) Network driver developers?
If your company does, then you must have quite a few of these people in case you have a problem and the one developer on your staff that understands the FCoE driver stack is on vacation...
Unless your core business is developing OSes, you'll save yourself quite a bit of money and time paying for support rather than hiring your own linux distribution development staff.
They're called Teachers. I took British Literature back in high school and in college. In high school, I had a dynamic teacher that made Shakespeare exciting and cause for much classroom participation and discussion.
Later in college, the professor created a boring environment "delving into the meaning behind the meaning behind the meaning" of individual words and phrases that the classroom turned into a snoozefest.
Ok, building an electric car is one thing, since public utilities, like roads, don't need to be heavily modified; but dreaming of a high speed rail... quite a bit needs to be done for that. Why are we even posting this? There's plenty of people dreaming, my 6 old daughter thinks there should be an emergency slide to get from a space station back to earth. Where's her article?
Given that California has been struggling since the 80s to establish high speed rail between LA and SF... I doubt this will get any consideration. We've finally got approval for the project to start with initial rounds of funding being approved for a project that will cost at least $50Billion.
I also dream of having a gold plated urinal in my Ferrari filled garage but like Elon, that's just dreaming.
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Why does it seem that each story has a photo above it that takes up 1/4 of my screen? I can barely get two story headlines on a page...
Hmm... Thought most of the reasoning against iPods and other mp3 devices which had no ability to transmit/receive was that by wearing the earbuds you were inhibiting your ability to hear any announcements or instructions by the flight attendants...
Yeah, but it's competing with high-speed networks that are crippled by the ISPs at both ends using a single fibre to feed an entire neighborhood, and intentionally slowing the speed at the customer's site to a crawl unless you pay an exorbitant rate for a higher speed (which is then unused 99% of the time, and doesn't deliver if 2 or 3 others in your neighborhood are using high speed at the same time).
Last I checked an OC-768, as referenced in the article, isn't going to be crippled by the ISP.
Maybe it's time for you to realize that your uber-ultimate-epic-extreme bandwidth package from your ISP isn't really that fast compared to say what's in the article...
Like I said, why doesn't he run raid1 and mirror his computer's disk?
Linus flames an awful lot of people when they do something stupid by not understanding X or failing to do Y, so someone should flame him for failing to mirror his drive.
I'm no kernel maintainer but...
If his workstation is so important why doesn't he mirror the disks?
Back them up regularly?
Run a remote desktop to a server with the above conditions
How is one meant for spying different from any other type of antenna?
I realize there are different antennas for different frequency...
Unless of course there are ones that are only made for those frequencies used for espionage and not anything else... "Is this optimally made for listening to encrypted transmissions and not broadcast radio or TV signals?"
Hopefully, Fry's has them on sale in the espionage section.
How is the current or future generation of iWatches going to be any different than an iPhone/Android phone in a small form factor strapped to your wrist? You'll still need a bluetooth headset to talk/hear the conversation.
It seems that the iWatch companies are trying to save us 1second of having to dig our phone out of our pocket. They don't look all that attractive compared to a similarly priced watch (mechanical or quartz) and remind me of the calculator watches of the 80s.
With electricity, water and such, you control how much you use. You can reduce your usage if you can't afford the higher bills...
If they include an ad on their site that streams video, I can't stop them from doing it short of not visiting that site at all....
Ads? We've got caps in the hundreds of GB and you complain about a few ads Which stream probably a few MB of content?
Comcast just updated their usage limits and they seem pretty reasonable.
If you go over, they charge you $10 per 50GB. I've got the 50/10 Mb plan and I'd have to be running at 50Mb for 16 hours. This is assuming that I'm downloading from a site/torrent that can provide 50Mbps of bandwidth. Over the past three months the most I've used is 150GB. ..but what if you watch lots of netflix...?
They've got a meter with details. Their highest quality tier is still pretty small: Best quality (uses up to 1 GB per hour, up to 2.8 GB per hour if watching HD, or up to 4.7 GB per hour if watching 3D)
At 2.8GB per hour with a 350GB cap you could watch 125HD movies. There's about 720 hours in a month, so do you really want to spend about 1/3 of your time (including sleeping time) watching movies?
Like others have said, how much really do you need? These caps are so high, I can't imagine surpassing them. If you need more usage, call up Comcast, Verizon, ATT or any other SP and ask for a business line. Heck, if you really need bandwidth, most will be more than happy to sell you a 40Gb synchronous circuit.
mod parent up!!!!
Float...
Not obscure the vision of the wearing when enemy fires "flour bombs" at wearer...
Also work in the dense jungle (we know how well our high-tech worked against the pajama wearing VC...
Can't the airlines reject anybody on the no-fly list since the airlines are a private corporation? They're not violating any discrimination laws. How is this any different from a restaurant that "Reserves the right to refuse service"?
If Delta won't fly people on the do not fly list, go find an airline that will fly them.
As a result, this knowledge doesn't translate into the real world anymore
I thought teamwork still applied in the real world?
also help dieters too
Get read for the "30lbs in 30 days... Don't just be out of your body... transform your body!"
So you pay $475 for the iPad and then how much for the individual books?
What's the difference between Open Source music and music that's in the public domain?
Do you really need to create a licensing scheme for some piece of music that you just give away an audio recording with the accompanying sheet music?
What's next Open Source recipes?
There's a certain advantage to the online or delivery based grocery stores. They don't need to manage as packaged and portioned product as the traditional grocery stores.
Take meat for example.
In a traditional grocery store, there's hundreds of cuts of meat that are packaged up into individual portions sitting in a refrigerator waiting to be picked up by some consumer. There's a good chance that it won't be picked up and will eventually need to be tossed. Also, storing cut up meat isn't as efficient as say storing an entire side of beef/whole chicken/pork etc..
With the on-demand grocery, the side of beef is whole until an order is placed and then that side is cut up as per the orders that are needed. So if you need 50 steaks, you cut up exactly 50 steaks. Compared that to the traditional store in which you have to base that days sales on historical numbers and predictions rather than actual orders.
If you as a meat-dept manager guess that 100 steaks will be sold on a thursday and only 50 are sold, you're going to lose money. With the online butcher, you only cut up 50 steaks. In this case you're much more efficient as you have less product waste.
It's the same with any other type of produce, also the shipping of produce from warehouse to grocery store via truck induces more issues around bruising/spoilage/damage etc. If it's sent to your house directly from the warehouse, then that's one less organization that your product has to pass through, thereby enabling you to have a better product. I'm also sure they'd allow you to refuse product say if for example, eggs were damaged.
The problem with the online is the same one as the movie rental business started out with. The impulse buy. Grocery stores are great at this, you walk by the steak counter and decide "this looks good, i'll have steak tonight". Online didn't have this ability as you had to wait a day or two to get your steak. Netflix had this problem vs. rental stores as you couldn't just do an impulse "movie night" if they had to ship you a dvd. Now with Netflix-streaming you can have a 'movie-night' as an impulse b/c the movie is provided to you the same day.
If my human driven car hits a tree or pedestrian, I or the driver is at fault. If Google's self driving car hits a tree/pedestrian, can I sue Google? Of course, there would probably be an army of lawyers trying to blame every conceivable part of the car just like tech support drones try to find any down level driver on my enter computer to blame problem x. "Ok, the bios update which according to the release-notes says that it fixes the F12 help menu typo, is why my computer crashes..."
Also, normally I roll out software updates into a sandbox or lab environment at work. How would you update driving software on your car without testing it on a real road? Would you take your car to an empty parking lot, upgrade and then pray... it doesn't screw you up?
Also, if a software update 'bricks' your car, will Google pay to have it towed?
Giving people the chance to be stranded 50ft off the ground a few miles outside of Coalinga while the scent of 5000 heads of cattle wafts your way...
This guy may be ex-IBM, but IBM's lawyers are gonna sue this guy into oblivion...
That's no moon... that's Armonk...
Fine, worst case, so you're really pissed off. Your mgmt has royally screwed you and all your coworkers hate your guts.
Take the high ground. You never know if one day you run into them at some other company you being partners, vendors, whatever, and you don't want their last memory of you being the time you nailed your letter of resignation to the front door of the building.
This is probably not the case. So if you have some coworkers that you are ok with, giving 2 weeks notice means you aren't screwing them over.
By now there's probably 100 posts saying the same thing, " Don't be a dick. Give your two weeks. If they walk you out, so be it, who cares if it's corporate policy or not. In two weeks start your new job and move on with your life."
Ok...
So how many people on your staff understand the complete source to your linux distribution?
Kernel Developers?
RAID adapter or HBA driver developers?
Filesystem developers?
database developers (if you use an open source db)
Network driver developers?
If your company does, then you must have quite a few of these people in case you have a problem and the one developer on your staff that understands the FCoE driver stack is on vacation...
Unless your core business is developing OSes, you'll save yourself quite a bit of money and time paying for support rather than hiring your own linux distribution development staff.
"You should have thought about that before..."
They're called Teachers. I took British Literature back in high school and in college. In high school, I had a dynamic teacher that made Shakespeare exciting and cause for much classroom participation and discussion.
Later in college, the professor created a boring environment "delving into the meaning behind the meaning behind the meaning" of individual words and phrases that the classroom turned into a snoozefest.
Ok, building an electric car is one thing, since public utilities, like roads, don't need to be heavily modified; but dreaming of a high speed rail... quite a bit needs to be done for that. Why are we even posting this? There's plenty of people dreaming, my 6 old daughter thinks there should be an emergency slide to get from a space station back to earth. Where's her article?
Given that California has been struggling since the 80s to establish high speed rail between LA and SF... I doubt this will get any consideration. We've finally got approval for the project to start with initial rounds of funding being approved for a project that will cost at least $50Billion.
I also dream of having a gold plated urinal in my Ferrari filled garage but like Elon, that's just dreaming.