We're slowly introducing it in our office and my apartment building already uses it. In both cases you need to wave your badge within about 1" of the reader.
I'm sure you can get more sensitive readers, but i doubt it's that easy to constantly ping everyone to find out where they are.
Any reputable institution is going to keep logs of who opens their doors, be it by pin code, mag stripe, rfid or smart card... It's not really any different from keeping an audit trail on a server.
Mass hysteria seems to apply to nuclear power. It's not risk free, in fact the stakes are (as we've seen) very high - but people seem to conveniently ignore larger issues and latch on to easy to fear ones.
9/11 is a good example - smoking kills more people every day in the USA.
On a smaller scale I was brushing my teeth at a campsite during a water shortage, and out of habit left the water running as I brushed... only to get yelled at by a women who had left her huge SUV running so her husband could visit the bathroom.
anyway i'm tired and drunk and going to bed.. i forgot my conclusion
I've just moved to a new country and not really set up yet. But i figure i'll go down the RAID route but keep a couple of 250 GB external firewire drives such that i'll keep one live and sync'd with my data, but always leave one of them in my filing cabinet in the office - maybe switch them round every week.
For smaller amounts of data i've previously used an offsite rsync - you can get a reciprocal agreement going wiht a friend. But that doesn't cut it when you've got lots of huge images.
I've even had single photoshop files exceed the 700MB cdr limit:)
- general slow stuff like telnet - general high utility stuff like ftp or http file transfer - bursted traffic like web surfing or email checking
It seems highly unlikely that you'd need a neural net to optimize the packet size for these different types.
I also don't really understand why that makes it go so much faster. I'm sure you can conduct 'corner-case' tests where it makes a difference - but on the whole i can get file transfers to run at pretty near the linespeed of my wireless net.
Just like when you review meatspace companies, you really can't tell what they are like until everything goes tits up. Most flag carrier airlines seem largely the same, but when you get stuck with a long delay and British Airways give you $5 for dinner in an airport, whereas Lufthansa give you a hotel room and $35 for dinner anywhere you choose - you can tell the difference.
Similarly my preference for distro choices is based on "how easily i can fix it when i fuck it up". I've screwed up mandrakes package database and it became impossible to install rpms - i never did fix that.
Gentoo is a pain in the ass if you want to add specific patches to an application that they already have in portage - I'm sure it *can* be done, it's just not easy.
All distros work well if you use them the way the distributor intended - but straying outside that is usually the best test for powerusers.
I'm suggesting that the IT department choose the packages, either by taking the latest or thru preference. They do their own compile and essentially have their own distribution.
Gentoo do however need to refine these features and package them in a way that will be appealing to corporate types. In such a way that maintaining the distribution of packages is easy, allowing companies to have 'their own' gentoo distribution without the overhead of actually maintaining your own disto.
I love gentoo but still wouldn't run it on a critical server because of the compile demands.
I feel an enterprise version of gentoo needs some sort of master compiling server that can build binary packages (perhaps optimized for each arch in the company). That way, every 90 days (or whatever period, the IT department can build a 'cutting-edge' stable release and subject it to their quality control procedures.
Once it has passed, they need to produce the binary packages, and every system in the company can then emerge those (binary) packages on a nightly basis.
It doesn't make sense to have all your workstations and servers compiling everything for themselves.
... and they are free to fix mistakes, then they probably will.
I know of teachers who've found mistakes in textbooks, written to the publisher, only to be ignored and have the same mistake appear in the next edition.
A wide range of textbooks in wiki format would be a huge bonus if they were widely used. Of course that's a catch 22.
I believe Sun has more people working on real open source projects than anyone spare a couple of universities.
Certainly OpenOffice is very valuable, and I think they work on Evolution too.
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I'm well aware of the effects of resolution and like low speed film and large formats... but few people can even grasp why i have a 10lb wooden camera when their 6oz digital one produces 'perfect photos'.
Rarely does consumer photography go beyond 6x4 prints and it seems strange that consumer digital cameras are assessed on their MP rating, instead of useful stuff like smart light metering, stabilization etc...
I have a compact digital for taking to parties and at 2.1MP it's almost always got more resolution than i need.
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My mum's main complaint with her digital camera is that "all the pictures are so big"...
OTOH I am relatively obsessed with resolution and need to buy a faster computer so i can work with the 700MB images that i get off my large format film camera..
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Most people didn't care about resolution in the analog world. The fact that many people considered APS cameras to be better than 35mm is simple proof of this.
This seems analogous to consumer computer makers moving away from advertising GHz and MB.
The whole TCP window thing seems entirely obvious to me, i just hadn't realised that windows were sufficiently big to be guessed. As we start to see faster and faster transfers we'll need larger and larger windows and this will just get easier.
However I cant see why BGP needs to implement a large window - in fact in a device which needs to run as fast as possible it's surely disadvantageous.
I've seen TCP RST attacks in the mid nineties actually used on IRC - only the application of the exploit to bgp is new.
I recently graduated with a CS&E degree from Edinburgh university and i would agree that a large proportion of people on the program lacked the sort of applied knowledge and problem solving skills that my job requires every day.
If you can prove to an employer that you have those skills along with a solid technical education then you'll be in very good shape. Unfortunately that's hard to convey in an interview and most of the people that have good jobs now started with internships.
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No you dont have to buy a license to use Sun's java implementation, but you do for some other java implementations. But java's license doesn't give you as many rights at the gpl.
You can (i believe) write a bsd licensed app using QT.
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You can buy a commercial license and make closed-source linux applications, while supporting the community financially.
Or you can stick with the open one...
I can't see why it would bother microsoft either way.
What people often seem to overlook is the fact that underdeveloped countries are not undeveloped countries.
I've been to places where the average wage is US $40/mo, yet manage to sustain things like internet cafes and cellphone coverage. Obviously there must be a very wide income spread, but things like this surely mark the start of something better.
When people talk of bringing internet access to the developing world, they don't dream of bringing them icq and porn. It's a practical way to spread knowledge and also allows local businesses to open up wider markets.
I wonder how long it'll take 'til western IT jobs get outsourced to ethiopia, that kind of aid is worth far more than tins of anchovies.
They haven't proved all aspects of it, but there is proof to support the argument that time slows down the faster you go.
I suspect though that it might just be easier to use GPS for most localized space travel, since you'll be able to get a pretty good signal from the earthbound satelites unless something big is blocking them.
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I agree that it absolutely makes sense in communication technologies.
Imagine if you were working with a baseband digital transmission at 10Kbit/s yet you'd have to oscillate at 1024 Hz...
Finding that your new network card does 100000000 bits/s instead of 102400000 is a lot less inconvenient.
We're slowly introducing it in our office and my apartment building already uses it. In both cases you need to wave your badge within about 1" of the reader.
I'm sure you can get more sensitive readers, but i doubt it's that easy to constantly ping everyone to find out where they are.
Any reputable institution is going to keep logs of who opens their doors, be it by pin code, mag stripe, rfid or smart card... It's not really any different from keeping an audit trail on a server.
A neighboring town has a total ban on smoking anywhere but your car or personal property - you can't even walk down the street smoking.
However we don't see the same war on terror or war or drugs hysteria.
Mass hysteria seems to apply to nuclear power. It's not risk free, in fact the stakes are (as we've seen) very high - but people seem to conveniently ignore larger issues and latch on to easy to fear ones.
9/11 is a good example - smoking kills more people every day in the USA.
On a smaller scale I was brushing my teeth at a campsite during a water shortage, and out of habit left the water running as I brushed... only to get yelled at by a women who had left her huge SUV running so her husband could visit the bathroom.
anyway i'm tired and drunk and going to bed.. i forgot my conclusion
I've just moved to a new country and not really set up yet. But i figure i'll go down the RAID route but keep a couple of 250 GB external firewire drives such that i'll keep one live and sync'd with my data, but always leave one of them in my filing cabinet in the office - maybe switch them round every week.
:)
For smaller amounts of data i've previously used an offsite rsync - you can get a reciprocal agreement going wiht a friend. But that doesn't cut it when you've got lots of huge images.
I've even had single photoshop files exceed the 700MB cdr limit
There are probably 3 main types of traffic
- general slow stuff like telnet
- general high utility stuff like ftp or http file transfer
- bursted traffic like web surfing or email checking
It seems highly unlikely that you'd need a neural net to optimize the packet size for these different types.
I also don't really understand why that makes it go so much faster. I'm sure you can conduct 'corner-case' tests where it makes a difference - but on the whole i can get file transfers to run at pretty near the linespeed of my wireless net.
Well java 1.5 is codenamed "Tiger" also so maybe they'll mate.. or something
Just like when you review meatspace companies, you really can't tell what they are like until everything goes tits up. Most flag carrier airlines seem largely the same, but when you get stuck with a long delay and British Airways give you $5 for dinner in an airport, whereas Lufthansa give you a hotel room and $35 for dinner anywhere you choose - you can tell the difference.
Similarly my preference for distro choices is based on "how easily i can fix it when i fuck it up". I've screwed up mandrakes package database and it became impossible to install rpms - i never did fix that.
Gentoo is a pain in the ass if you want to add specific patches to an application that they already have in portage - I'm sure it *can* be done, it's just not easy.
All distros work well if you use them the way the distributor intended - but straying outside that is usually the best test for powerusers.
Seeing automated network down messages appear, and pinging the new york office somehow expecting it to reply.
And then we killed what was left of the network by streaming cnn..
Read the link... it's not owned by the government.
It did require an act of parliament to create it, but it's a publically owned company which is financed by it's commercial operations.
I think we're on the same page.
I'm suggesting that the IT department choose the packages, either by taking the latest or thru preference. They do their own compile and essentially have their own distribution.
Gentoo do however need to refine these features and package them in a way that will be appealing to corporate types. In such a way that maintaining the distribution of packages is easy, allowing companies to have 'their own' gentoo distribution without the overhead of actually maintaining your own disto.
I love gentoo but still wouldn't run it on a critical server because of the compile demands.
I feel an enterprise version of gentoo needs some sort of master compiling server that can build binary packages (perhaps optimized for each arch in the company). That way, every 90 days (or whatever period, the IT department can build a 'cutting-edge' stable release and subject it to their quality control procedures.
Once it has passed, they need to produce the binary packages, and every system in the company can then emerge those (binary) packages on a nightly basis.
It doesn't make sense to have all your workstations and servers compiling everything for themselves.
... and they are free to fix mistakes, then they probably will.
I know of teachers who've found mistakes in textbooks, written to the publisher, only to be ignored and have the same mistake appear in the next edition.
A wide range of textbooks in wiki format would be a huge bonus if they were widely used. Of course that's a catch 22.
I believe Sun has more people working on real open source projects than anyone spare a couple of universities.
Certainly OpenOffice is very valuable, and I think they work on Evolution too.
I'm well aware of the effects of resolution and like low speed film and large formats... but few people can even grasp why i have a 10lb wooden camera when their 6oz digital one produces 'perfect photos'.
Rarely does consumer photography go beyond 6x4 prints and it seems strange that consumer digital cameras are assessed on their MP rating, instead of useful stuff like smart light metering, stabilization etc...
I have a compact digital for taking to parties and at 2.1MP it's almost always got more resolution than i need.
My mum's main complaint with her digital camera is that "all the pictures are so big"...
OTOH I am relatively obsessed with resolution and need to buy a faster computer so i can work with the 700MB images that i get off my large format film camera..
Most people didn't care about resolution in the analog world. The fact that many people considered APS cameras to be better than 35mm is simple proof of this.
This seems analogous to consumer computer makers moving away from advertising GHz and MB.
It's what you (can) do with it that counts.
The whole TCP window thing seems entirely obvious to me, i just hadn't realised that windows were sufficiently big to be guessed. As we start to see faster and faster transfers we'll need larger and larger windows and this will just get easier.
However I cant see why BGP needs to implement a large window - in fact in a device which needs to run as fast as possible it's surely disadvantageous.
I've seen TCP RST attacks in the mid nineties actually used on IRC - only the application of the exploit to bgp is new.
Well that's a simple solution... make a version of zip that also puts a 10GB file in the archive with the mp3, or even adds 10GB of length to the mp3.
As capacity goes up, so does data density, which means that there'll (most likely) be more bits stored in a given track.
Disks with higher capacity will naturally have a higher transfer rate at the same RPM.
The RPM helps a lot when it comes to average seek time though.
I recently graduated with a CS&E degree from Edinburgh university and i would agree that a large proportion of people on the program lacked the sort of applied knowledge and problem solving skills that my job requires every day.
If you can prove to an employer that you have those skills along with a solid technical education then you'll be in very good shape. Unfortunately that's hard to convey in an interview and most of the people that have good jobs now started with internships.
No you dont have to buy a license to use Sun's java implementation, but you do for some other java implementations. But java's license doesn't give you as many rights at the gpl.
You can (i believe) write a bsd licensed app using QT.
You can buy a commercial license and make closed-source linux applications, while supporting the community financially.
Or you can stick with the open one...
I can't see why it would bother microsoft either way.
What people often seem to overlook is the fact that underdeveloped countries are not undeveloped countries.
I've been to places where the average wage is US $40/mo, yet manage to sustain things like internet cafes and cellphone coverage. Obviously there must be a very wide income spread, but things like this surely mark the start of something better.
When people talk of bringing internet access to the developing world, they don't dream of bringing them icq and porn. It's a practical way to spread knowledge and also allows local businesses to open up wider markets.
I wonder how long it'll take 'til western IT jobs get outsourced to ethiopia, that kind of aid is worth far more than tins of anchovies.
They haven't proved all aspects of it, but there is proof to support the argument that time slows down the faster you go.
I suspect though that it might just be easier to use GPS for most localized space travel, since you'll be able to get a pretty good signal from the earthbound satelites unless something big is blocking them.