Actually, I remember reading a study a while back covering this very subject. In fact, having passengers in the car engaged in conversation actually improved driver alertness because the passengers would pause talking, stiffen, make a sharp breathing noise, or other indications of tension causing the driver to be on alert even when otherwise oblivious to the driving risk.
In practice, it's like having "more eyes on the road" even when they aren't driving.
Realistically, it would be nice to see the native (not FUSE based) code from OpenZFS be included as an alternative, but the CDDL/GPL conflicts likely will make this a no-go.
Well, isn't this your lucky day, then? ZFS on Linux works now, today, without the use of FUSE. Nothing about the license conflicts prohibits use or distribution, just distribution together. I have ZFS/Linux servers in production right now, and they are quite stable. Starting with a vanilla install of CentOS, the instructions are roughly:
Heck, my Father in law spent most of his childhood writing his name wrong when his parents forgot how they'd spelled it on the birth certificate! He found out about it when he got his driver's license as a teen...
I mean, if a kid's parents can't be trusted to spell a guy's name right, how do you figure a secretary is going to get it right 100% of the time?
All true. These aren't present. We end up watching Hulu/Comcast most of the time, and every week or so rent or use "noncommercial distribution" for a prime movie or show. (Often, you can't even rent/buy a particular movie online, thus the noncommercial options)
Today, we watched "The day the Earth stood still"... a wickedly good movie, even if in black & white. Yeah, 100% satisfying...
Truly, I don't understand them making episodes otherwise streamed not available for viewing historically. Don't more eyeballs translate into more revenue?
While I generally agree with your sentiment, it might be nice to learn how to capitalize sentences and form paragraphs so that you you at least appear to be educated, whatever the reality. Based on your post, I'm guessing that there was really no part of this technology that you personally made up. Also, avoid profanity, it makes you sound like you are 15.
To be fair, probiotics and alternative medicine people have said all kinds of ridiculous things for decades as well. I remember all too well the "ruby infused sun water" that was said to be a sure cure for my ear infections as a kid. That's just one of many similarly silly claims, as by recent protests against scam medical practices by actual doctors purposely trying to "overdose" on homeopathics...
The value isn't in having the "right answer" - it's in knowing which answers are are, in fact, right. "Alternative medicine" types tend to babble incoherently, a practice which does, occasional, manage to burble a right answer.
Remember that old hardware is subject to a selection bias: the stuff that was crap died long ago; only the good stuff remains!
I have a ancient Pentium 3 with 512 MB of RAM that I use as a network monitor. It's done that job continuously for 10+ years and I haven't replaced it because it has literally never given me a problem. If it was doing "real work" I'd have replaced it long ago, but it does what it does fine, and uses so little power (18 watts) that I feel no need to replace it.
I was a bit relieved when CentOS 6 came out with a 32 bit version, letting me coax another 7 or so years out of it...
Not only that, but the size advantage of optical media is simply gone.
When CDs first came out, they easily held several times the capacity of a standard HDD. DVDs were much the same way. Then, a few decades go by, and little changes. BlueRay holds much less than a stock HDD, and was that way when it finally won the format wars.
Now, they have a format that doesn't even come close to a stock HD. (My laptop has a 250 GB SSD, my desktop computer has twin 2 TB drives) This new format would just *barely* cover my laptop, and would be a pain to archive my desktop on.
To be fair, passwords are dramatically better security than not even using passwords. But for the reason you gave (as well as numerous others) passwords are a terrible idea.
1) You can't (safely) use the same password in more than one context.
2) If a password is leaked, all protection the password provides is lost.
3) It's easy to forget a password.
4) You can't "lend" somebody your password.... etc...
I'm pretty suspicious of your numbers. I sincerely doubt that it costs anything like $6 to produce a gallon of milk.
In any event, projects like the Greening the Desert Permaculture project have shown that applying a bit of intelligence to agriculture can produce miraculous results in the very worst of circumstances.
It requires a pretty significant re-think of what agriculture should look like. But it's worth it. TL;DR: Seriously, just watch the video linked above.
As a long-time PHP dev, I recognize that it's very popular to hate on PHP, and has been for some time. And there are some valid criticisms of PHP, particularly from the domain of purity. PHP is a brutish language, with lots of warts. Whether it's the lack of any sort of parallelism or threads, or the random_underscores or the random(haystack, needle) ordering of variables in functions, there's plenty to complain about.
But PHP has its strengths, too. Its translation of strings to integers to hexidecimal numbers is "good enough" for most cases. Embedding variables into new strings works "good enough" that it's highly useful. It is extremely stable - I literally cannot remember a single incident of unexpected crashing. It's array/hash thingie is a highly convenient way to organize data from semi-sanitized sources, which is largely the norm in embedded, "enterprise" development and/or vertical stack software development.
And despite these strengths, PHP offers some interesting angles that are pragmatic (non-technical) in nature:
1) There are lots of PHP application templates and starter apps that work as a starting point for new start ups. The PHP community is generally very forgiving of newbies.
2) It's uni-thread model is simple enough for beginner/intermediate programmers to comprehend easily.
3) It's already installed on every 2-bit website hosting provider's servers.
4) You can get a tremendous amount of "real work" done with PHP. You could rather easily run a US national census by website using a small cluster of PHP servers.
Once, long ago, I was a beginner programmer, and I chose PHP for largely these reasons, reasons that have sustained me well as a developer. My company, founded on this technology, has grown rapidly and well, meeting the needs of our clients.
How can I not thank the PHP designers for the free gift that I built I career out of?
30 is far far too late to be learning a first programming language.
Well, aren't you feeling a bit superior?
My wife is in her mid 40s and is in her last semester at grad school. Turns out that (at least our) Universities can actually somewhat *prefer* older applicants because they have enough life experience to not mess around and they "get the job done". Result? My wife is top of her class. She also graduated with honors as a Bachelor.
I took up flying lessons at 37. I learned it just as fast and effectively as when I learned to program at 15.
Just how old do you think you *are*, sonny boy? 30 is just barely dry behind the ears! Truth is that there is lots of room for anybody in the tech field who is *competent*. So be competent!
It does help to be somewhat charismatic and hygienic.
Cancer or no, it's a cancer that's dramatically benefited the open source community. What's that, you say? Yes, I did say "benefit" and "open source community" without negatives...
Microsoft has traditionally been about open hardware. You can load whatever O/S you wanted, and the boot loaders were never locked. The thought of locking them down didn't really occur to them until after Apple did it, and even then, they *still* haven't had hardware locked down in a way that couldn't be relatively easily unlocked.
At least, in their classic environment. Phones are just like Android and iOS, boot loader locked. And we accept this for some reason.... (sigh)
I fail to understand why this is in any form, a problem?
I'm currently using Comcast Basic Internet for $65/mo. For this I get 25 Mbit speeds. If I paid $100/mo, I could get 100 Mbit speeds. If I did so, there would be no change to my equipment - they'd twiddle a bit someplace and I would suddenly get more speed.
So what this means is that there's at least 75 Mbits of available bandwidth that's not being utilized. Since I'm not using it, why not make it available to a paying neighbor?
From what I've seen about how Comcast modems work, every household is essentially on a rate-limited VPN to some master server located (in my case) hundreds of miles away. Because of this, latency, though not bad, is never excellent. (I never see a 20ms ping to *anything*)
Truth is, the public access side of things would have near-zero impact, other than perhaps using a wifi channel.
Counter intuitively, adding horsepower to a given aircraft design doesn't generally add much top speed. Instead you generally get improved climb capability.
Horsepower is linear in nature: a horsepower (or a pound of thrust) grows exactly to scale of the amount available. But wind resistance isn't. Drag more/less grows exponentially. Particularly at the higher end of the flight envelope, doubling the speed of an aircraft far more than doubles the amount of drag on the aircraft. Thus, adding 20% more horsepower might only give you a top speed gain of a few percentage points.
Above about 100 MPH or so, what generally makes a plane faster is "making it clean" - reducing elements of drag. For example, one of the worst possible shapes for creating drag is a circle. EG: a round pipe. Simply flaring the pipe can reduce the drag by 90% or more! Wires have the same problem - they create an intense amount of drag.
An example of an early "clean" plane is the Mooney M20 series. Compare the Mooney M20E with the M20J. The E is smaller and lighter than the J, has the same horsepower as the J, but the J cruises at 200 MPH while the E does about 175. Much of that improvement was gained by simply streamlining the air ventilation on the engine, directly behind the prop.
I tried. Really. I read your post three times. I still have no idea what point you are making. Is it that Linux sucks? Win 7 sucks? Win 8 sucks? Truth: They all suck, in their own ways. Pick the type of poison you like best. You don't have to pick just one!
I use Red Hat Linux to get "real work" done, where "real work" consists of serving ridiculous amounts of complex data to tens of thousands of users with numerous nines of uptime. I use Windows to play video games and watch cat videos. I use Android to send texts or find the nearest hotel when traveling.
As with most things, pick the right tool for the job.
Most ARM chips cost less than $5, with some selling for pennies.
Not to nitpick, but it's likely that *most* ARM chips made actually sell for pennies, given that they are turning up in some very unlikely places. The question isn't whether or not Intel will sink ARM, that's very unlikely. The question is only how much and to what degree. There's an *astronomical* market for low-speed chips that cost $0.03 for embedded/microcontroller use.
The problem is that this kind of automatic update process can be a security hole in and of itself. If there is a way for a remote system to send updates to the router's firmware, then there is the potential for a malicious user to spoof the update and send their own custom-crafted exploit code.
Sure, that's why you sign your updates with decent (open source!) cryptography and embed your public key into the router's firmware.
The issue is what a change in climate would mean for your kids, grandkids, and related offspring? Just because a small plague wiped out about a third of all humans didn't actually wipe out all of humanity doesn't mean it wasn't a big f---ing deal.
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Printing presses are also increasingly under pressure (no pun intended) by start ups like Lulu that essentially print books on demand.
If BTRFS bit rot detection is anything like ZFS' then it most certainly can check for bit rot and correct it automatically.
Actually, I remember reading a study a while back covering this very subject. In fact, having passengers in the car engaged in conversation actually improved driver alertness because the passengers would pause talking, stiffen, make a sharp breathing noise, or other indications of tension causing the driver to be on alert even when otherwise oblivious to the driving risk.
In practice, it's like having "more eyes on the road" even when they aren't driving.
Realistically, it would be nice to see the native (not FUSE based) code from OpenZFS be included as an alternative, but the CDDL/GPL conflicts likely will make this a no-go.
Well, isn't this your lucky day, then? ZFS on Linux works now, today, without the use of FUSE. Nothing about the license conflicts prohibits use or distribution, just distribution together. I have ZFS/Linux servers in production right now, and they are quite stable. Starting with a vanilla install of CentOS, the instructions are roughly:
1) Install the yum repo file.
2) yum Install kernel-devel zfs
3) Start the ZFS service.
4) Start creating ZFS volumes....
A reboot isn't typically necessary... (though not a bad idea)
Heck, my Father in law spent most of his childhood writing his name wrong when his parents forgot how they'd spelled it on the birth certificate! He found out about it when he got his driver's license as a teen...
I mean, if a kid's parents can't be trusted to spell a guy's name right, how do you figure a secretary is going to get it right 100% of the time?
All true. These aren't present. We end up watching Hulu/Comcast most of the time, and every week or so rent or use "noncommercial distribution" for a prime movie or show. (Often, you can't even rent/buy a particular movie online, thus the noncommercial options)
Today, we watched "The day the Earth stood still"... a wickedly good movie, even if in black & white. Yeah, 100% satisfying...
Truly, I don't understand them making episodes otherwise streamed not available for viewing historically. Don't more eyeballs translate into more revenue?
While I generally agree with your sentiment, it might be nice to learn how to capitalize sentences and form paragraphs so that you you at least appear to be educated, whatever the reality. Based on your post, I'm guessing that there was really no part of this technology that you personally made up. Also, avoid profanity, it makes you sound like you are 15.
To be fair, probiotics and alternative medicine people have said all kinds of ridiculous things for decades as well. I remember all too well the "ruby infused sun water" that was said to be a sure cure for my ear infections as a kid. That's just one of many similarly silly claims, as by recent protests against scam medical practices by actual doctors purposely trying to "overdose" on homeopathics...
The value isn't in having the "right answer" - it's in knowing which answers are are, in fact, right. "Alternative medicine" types tend to babble incoherently, a practice which does, occasional, manage to burble a right answer.
Remember that old hardware is subject to a selection bias: the stuff that was crap died long ago; only the good stuff remains!
I have a ancient Pentium 3 with 512 MB of RAM that I use as a network monitor. It's done that job continuously for 10+ years and I haven't replaced it because it has literally never given me a problem. If it was doing "real work" I'd have replaced it long ago, but it does what it does fine, and uses so little power (18 watts) that I feel no need to replace it.
I was a bit relieved when CentOS 6 came out with a 32 bit version, letting me coax another 7 or so years out of it...
Not only that, but the size advantage of optical media is simply gone.
When CDs first came out, they easily held several times the capacity of a standard HDD. DVDs were much the same way. Then, a few decades go by, and little changes. BlueRay holds much less than a stock HDD, and was that way when it finally won the format wars.
Now, they have a format that doesn't even come close to a stock HD. (My laptop has a 250 GB SSD, my desktop computer has twin 2 TB drives) This new format would just *barely* cover my laptop, and would be a pain to archive my desktop on.
To be fair, passwords are dramatically better security than not even using passwords. But for the reason you gave (as well as numerous others) passwords are a terrible idea.
1) You can't (safely) use the same password in more than one context.
2) If a password is leaked, all protection the password provides is lost.
3) It's easy to forget a password.
4) You can't "lend" somebody your password. ... etc...
I'm pretty suspicious of your numbers. I sincerely doubt that it costs anything like $6 to produce a gallon of milk.
In any event, projects like the Greening the Desert Permaculture project have shown that applying a bit of intelligence to agriculture can produce miraculous results in the very worst of circumstances.
It requires a pretty significant re-think of what agriculture should look like. But it's worth it. TL;DR: Seriously, just watch the video linked above.
As a long-time PHP dev, I recognize that it's very popular to hate on PHP, and has been for some time. And there are some valid criticisms of PHP, particularly from the domain of purity. PHP is a brutish language, with lots of warts. Whether it's the lack of any sort of parallelism or threads, or the random_underscores or the random(haystack, needle) ordering of variables in functions, there's plenty to complain about.
But PHP has its strengths, too. Its translation of strings to integers to hexidecimal numbers is "good enough" for most cases. Embedding variables into new strings works "good enough" that it's highly useful. It is extremely stable - I literally cannot remember a single incident of unexpected crashing. It's array/hash thingie is a highly convenient way to organize data from semi-sanitized sources, which is largely the norm in embedded, "enterprise" development and/or vertical stack software development.
And despite these strengths, PHP offers some interesting angles that are pragmatic (non-technical) in nature:
1) There are lots of PHP application templates and starter apps that work as a starting point for new start ups. The PHP community is generally very forgiving of newbies.
2) It's uni-thread model is simple enough for beginner/intermediate programmers to comprehend easily.
3) It's already installed on every 2-bit website hosting provider's servers.
4) You can get a tremendous amount of "real work" done with PHP. You could rather easily run a US national census by website using a small cluster of PHP servers.
Once, long ago, I was a beginner programmer, and I chose PHP for largely these reasons, reasons that have sustained me well as a developer. My company, founded on this technology, has grown rapidly and well, meeting the needs of our clients.
How can I not thank the PHP designers for the free gift that I built I career out of?
30 is far far too late to be learning a first programming language.
Well, aren't you feeling a bit superior?
My wife is in her mid 40s and is in her last semester at grad school. Turns out that (at least our) Universities can actually somewhat *prefer* older applicants because they have enough life experience to not mess around and they "get the job done". Result? My wife is top of her class. She also graduated with honors as a Bachelor.
I took up flying lessons at 37. I learned it just as fast and effectively as when I learned to program at 15.
Bwha ha ha ha ha!!!
Just how old do you think you *are*, sonny boy? 30 is just barely dry behind the ears! Truth is that there is lots of room for anybody in the tech field who is *competent*. So be competent!
It does help to be somewhat charismatic and hygienic.
Cancer or no, it's a cancer that's dramatically benefited the open source community. What's that, you say? Yes, I did say "benefit" and "open source community" without negatives...
Microsoft has traditionally been about open hardware. You can load whatever O/S you wanted, and the boot loaders were never locked. The thought of locking them down didn't really occur to them until after Apple did it, and even then, they *still* haven't had hardware locked down in a way that couldn't be relatively easily unlocked.
At least, in their classic environment. Phones are just like Android and iOS, boot loader locked. And we accept this for some reason.... (sigh)
You Google skillz are also (apparently) invalid. A Google search for "rebirth windows" returns this link on the first page which provides instructions for getting it to work on Windows 7/64.
I fail to understand why this is in any form, a problem?
I'm currently using Comcast Basic Internet for $65/mo. For this I get 25 Mbit speeds. If I paid $100/mo, I could get 100 Mbit speeds. If I did so, there would be no change to my equipment - they'd twiddle a bit someplace and I would suddenly get more speed.
So what this means is that there's at least 75 Mbits of available bandwidth that's not being utilized. Since I'm not using it, why not make it available to a paying neighbor?
From what I've seen about how Comcast modems work, every household is essentially on a rate-limited VPN to some master server located (in my case) hundreds of miles away. Because of this, latency, though not bad, is never excellent. (I never see a 20ms ping to *anything*)
Truth is, the public access side of things would have near-zero impact, other than perhaps using a wifi channel.
Counter intuitively, adding horsepower to a given aircraft design doesn't generally add much top speed. Instead you generally get improved climb capability.
Horsepower is linear in nature: a horsepower (or a pound of thrust) grows exactly to scale of the amount available. But wind resistance isn't. Drag more/less grows exponentially. Particularly at the higher end of the flight envelope, doubling the speed of an aircraft far more than doubles the amount of drag on the aircraft. Thus, adding 20% more horsepower might only give you a top speed gain of a few percentage points.
Above about 100 MPH or so, what generally makes a plane faster is "making it clean" - reducing elements of drag. For example, one of the worst possible shapes for creating drag is a circle. EG: a round pipe. Simply flaring the pipe can reduce the drag by 90% or more! Wires have the same problem - they create an intense amount of drag.
An example of an early "clean" plane is the Mooney M20 series. Compare the Mooney M20E with the M20J. The E is smaller and lighter than the J, has the same horsepower as the J, but the J cruises at 200 MPH while the E does about 175. Much of that improvement was gained by simply streamlining the air ventilation on the engine, directly behind the prop.
I tried. Really. I read your post three times. I still have no idea what point you are making. Is it that Linux sucks? Win 7 sucks? Win 8 sucks? Truth: They all suck, in their own ways. Pick the type of poison you like best. You don't have to pick just one!
I use Red Hat Linux to get "real work" done, where "real work" consists of serving ridiculous amounts of complex data to tens of thousands of users with numerous nines of uptime. I use Windows to play video games and watch cat videos. I use Android to send texts or find the nearest hotel when traveling.
As with most things, pick the right tool for the job.
Most ARM chips cost less than $5, with some selling for pennies.
Not to nitpick, but it's likely that *most* ARM chips made actually sell for pennies, given that they are turning up in some very unlikely places. The question isn't whether or not Intel will sink ARM, that's very unlikely. The question is only how much and to what degree. There's an *astronomical* market for low-speed chips that cost $0.03 for embedded/microcontroller use.
Or, you could use a Router / company that supports DD-WRT out of the box....
Bought mine online, love it, no issues, great reception, and perhaps $10 more than the N600 at the local Be$t Buy.
The problem is that this kind of automatic update process can be a security hole in and of itself. If there is a way for a remote system to send updates to the router's firmware, then there is the potential for a malicious user to spoof the update and send their own custom-crafted exploit code.
Sure, that's why you sign your updates with decent (open source!) cryptography and embed your public key into the router's firmware.
Oh sure, eventually the Earth probably *would* balance it out, and may one day again become a giant snowball for a few million years - That's really not the concern.
The issue is what a change in climate would mean for your kids, grandkids, and related offspring? Just because a small plague wiped out about a third of all humans didn't actually wipe out all of humanity doesn't mean it wasn't a big f---ing deal.
At least, that's the story that the right-wing news sources you use would like you to believe.
Then, too, you have those that call people:
"Gay agenda" for believing that big government doesn't have a place dictating who you can or can't marry.
"Tax and spend liberal" for trying to rebuild the crumbling roads, waterways, and other infrastructure all around us.
"Hostile to business" for expecting that we not grossly pollute the air and water around us that we all depend on.
"Socialist" for expecting that insurance be available to everybody.
Both sides have their merits.