Back in the bad old days, a few days in the stocks would have done it. Spectators threw stuff. If you were lucky enough to get out alive, you possibly didn't have eyes anymore, and for sure would be an expert on the taste of various species' feces.
Though the metric actually seems to be DVD kilometers per second. Assuming about 800 DVDs per cubic foot, and 2.7 cubic meters to a station wagon doing 120km/h on the freeway, the BoaSW is approximately 933 DVD km/sec. Leaving aside whatever the article means by "400 DVDs per second.kilometer", 12PB/sec at the speed of light in fiber (~200K km/sec), divided by 4.7GB per single layer DVD gives us approximately 510 billion DVD km/sec. That's a lot of stationwagons.
But, a more ordinary distance-neutral metric gives us a stationwagon bandwidth of 28,000 DVDs/sec * 4.7 GB = 132TB/sec. 12 PB/sec is still a good ways ahead of that, so it looks like we've finally left the stationwagon behind.
The problem is getting a whole bunch of big companies to come up with simple usable interfaces. Doesn't happen easily.
That's why even FOSS-clueful users at said big companies will routinely vote for the more polished commercial applications over FOSS alternatives. Example. As a longtime Photoshop hater, I gave GIMP a lusty try, and after a couple weeks gave up in disgust. Mod me a troll if you like, but to my mind FOSS is like organic food. Sure, it may be better, but I ain't paying twice as much for it (in the FOSS case, of my time).
It's obvious to every Human Interface designer on the planet that Adobe does not have one in their employ. Unfortunately, it's pretty obvious that most FOSS has never been in the same room with one either.
European bank IT people are some of the most conservative and risk-averse people on the planet. If you ask them which is more important, infrastructure or best practices, they will answer "Yes."
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Change is inevitable. Progress is not.
It's common in heavy urban traffic to have a rude lane-changer pull over a car length or two in front of you. It would be interesting to see how they deal with it, but not interesting at all if that involves slamming on the brakes or flashing lights and sirens. As a rule, the correct response is to simply ease off and give them room, as you mentally turn into the bug from MIB, tear off both car roofs and dismember them limb from limb, all the while steering adroitly with your two middle legs.
It is common for very intelligent people to disagree violently, each proposing logic-based arguments in favor of their views.
What rarely gets done is to step back and examine the premises behind the reasoning of each party. Logic itself can do no more than apply rules to the evaluation of premises to produce other truths. Here's an example, let's take two often quoted premises:
(a) all the best things in life are free
(b) there's no such thing as a free lunch
By the rules of logic, we "prove" that lunch is not one of the best things in life. So now you have no choice but to agree with the conclusion, or decide that one of the premises must be false.
Even in the absence of conundrums such as this, reason alone cannot solve our problems, because it does not propose a method of coming to terms with others who don't share our premises.
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I think sex is better than logic, but I can't prove it.
I'm kind of semi-permanently pissed off at getting suckered into buying+reading the last four books of that series. So let's please have some reviews when/if the series actually ends. (Calling the next volume "The Gathering Storm" doesn't induce confidence--the storm has gathered and dispersed some dozens of times already by my count).
Funny how we Americans insist on endings though. The Europeans are not so fussy, it seems, at least to judge by their movies.
I've lost track of how many times hardware dudes have jammed a bunch of the newest fastest hardware into a box to achieve "100x" the "performance" of prior systems. Without a sliver of irony, or the slightest effort to analyze how software will use all this new hardware. Or what the serviceability of the new machine will be. Or any of the hundred other things that will combine to turn their "100x" into "1.25x".
Dude, please quit flaming the baby boomers. Sure, some of them write stupid books. Your generation will master this skill eventually, I assure you.
I am continually amazed at the attitude on the part of the young that because they got to the planet 30 or 40 years later than me, they are somehow better.
I work for a technology company and Microsoft partner that routinely does these same shenanigans. It's about testing. It costs a lot of money to put together larger systems and test them rigorously (our testing cycle is close to a year long).
It costs even more money to support said larger systems. When a customer with a large system has an outage, we have to reproduce the problem internally to figure out how to fix it. That may involve a lot of expensive equipment on top of the people time to set it up, configure it, load it, etc.
Our licensing and support fees are structured accordingly.
As a one-time construction industry veteran, let me say this about admixes. Go to a concrete company or flatwork outfit and ask the the old timers what kind of concrete holds up best. They'll all say, down to a man, that fly ash is evil, and you should stick to the old fashioned bag mixes.
Admixtures are almost all targeted at things like greater compression strength, lower price or tolerance of low temperatures during the setting process. They get tested to see if they effed up longevity, not to see if they enhanced it.
Not sure what engineering school parent went to, btw, but at mine, the civil grads spent a lot more time with ugly math on a blackboard than they did in a lab twiddling concrete mixes.
Companies that make extensive use of BSD code, or wind up making extensive amounts of money from BSD-containing proprietary code, are often guilted into putting improvements back to the BSD code base, supporting/employing BSD contributors, or in some other way contributing.
Granted, guilt isn't a perfect motivator, but neither is a well-crafted license, as can be seen by the number of Linux scofflaws out there.
No more printouts also seems to mean you will be happy with MediaWiki, a system without a WSIWYG interface, drawing tools, diagramming tools, embedded graphics, in-line comments and change tracking, and much else. And the author asserts that it's good enough for one use (Wikipedia), so it should be good enough for about anything. Not.
The strong nuclear force is well modeled at a macro level by nerds and the weird systems they love. You can't pry them apart without emission of gamma rays and particulate matter.
Article also says to always obey the 3 second rule. This doesn't make sense. In heavy traffic most folks are 1/2 to one second apart. If you spread them 3 seconds apart, throughput goes down by a factor of between three and six.
Too bad, the original research is impressive and spot on.
No scientific journal that I'm aware of bars citation of results. What they often do do is bar republication of the same results--that leads to dilution of quality as opportunistic grad students try to pump up their resumes by merely rewriting previous papers.
Don't get me wrong, it happens anyway. It may also be that the attorneys for journals occasionally go over the line. But paper quality dilution is the problem journals are aimed at, not some kind of screwy IP ownership.
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Back in the bad old days, a few days in the stocks would have done it. Spectators threw stuff. If you were lucky enough to get out alive, you possibly didn't have eyes anymore, and for sure would be an expert on the taste of various species' feces.
In case the picture of Carol Bartz giving one of the lap dances gets out.
Yep. RIP, "bandwidth of a stationwagon".
Though the metric actually seems to be DVD kilometers per second. Assuming about 800 DVDs per cubic foot, and 2.7 cubic meters to a station wagon doing 120km/h on the freeway, the BoaSW is approximately 933 DVD km/sec. Leaving aside whatever the article means by "400 DVDs per second.kilometer", 12PB/sec at the speed of light in fiber (~200K km/sec), divided by 4.7GB per single layer DVD gives us approximately 510 billion DVD km/sec. That's a lot of stationwagons.
But, a more ordinary distance-neutral metric gives us a stationwagon bandwidth of 28,000 DVDs/sec * 4.7 GB = 132TB/sec. 12 PB/sec is still a good ways ahead of that, so it looks like we've finally left the stationwagon behind.
The problem is getting a whole bunch of big companies to come up with simple usable interfaces. Doesn't happen easily.
That's why even FOSS-clueful users at said big companies will routinely vote for the more polished commercial applications over FOSS alternatives. Example. As a longtime Photoshop hater, I gave GIMP a lusty try, and after a couple weeks gave up in disgust. Mod me a troll if you like, but to my mind FOSS is like organic food. Sure, it may be better, but I ain't paying twice as much for it (in the FOSS case, of my time).
It's obvious to every Human Interface designer on the planet that Adobe does not have one in their employ. Unfortunately, it's pretty obvious that most FOSS has never been in the same room with one either.
European bank IT people are some of the most conservative and risk-averse people on the planet. If you ask them which is more important, infrastructure or best practices, they will answer "Yes."
----------
Change is inevitable. Progress is not.
It's common in heavy urban traffic to have a rude lane-changer pull over a car length or two in front of you. It would be interesting to see how they deal with it, but not interesting at all if that involves slamming on the brakes or flashing lights and sirens. As a rule, the correct response is to simply ease off and give them room, as you mentally turn into the bug from MIB, tear off both car roofs and dismember them limb from limb, all the while steering adroitly with your two middle legs.
Oh come on, when he hung that big red ruby between her breasts, that was hot!
It is common for very intelligent people to disagree violently, each proposing logic-based arguments in favor of their views.
What rarely gets done is to step back and examine the premises behind the reasoning of each party. Logic itself can do no more than apply rules to the evaluation of premises to produce other truths. Here's an example, let's take two often quoted premises:
(a) all the best things in life are free
(b) there's no such thing as a free lunch
By the rules of logic, we "prove" that lunch is not one of the best things in life. So now you have no choice but to agree with the conclusion, or decide that one of the premises must be false.
Even in the absence of conundrums such as this, reason alone cannot solve our problems, because it does not propose a method of coming to terms with others who don't share our premises.
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I think sex is better than logic, but I can't prove it.
You save only 59 seconds over 8 miles by going 75 instead of 65. Do you really have to pass that guy? Do the Math!
In 3200 miles (a cross country trip), that's over six and a half hours. Damn near a workday. Do the math!
They get paid for the fat coming and going. Where do I sign up as a Michelin inspector?
I'm kind of semi-permanently pissed off at getting suckered into buying+reading the last four books of that series. So let's please have some reviews when/if the series actually ends. (Calling the next volume "The Gathering Storm" doesn't induce confidence--the storm has gathered and dispersed some dozens of times already by my count).
Funny how we Americans insist on endings though. The Europeans are not so fussy, it seems, at least to judge by their movies.
I've lost track of how many times hardware dudes have jammed a bunch of the newest fastest hardware into a box to achieve "100x" the "performance" of prior systems. Without a sliver of irony, or the slightest effort to analyze how software will use all this new hardware. Or what the serviceability of the new machine will be. Or any of the hundred other things that will combine to turn their "100x" into "1.25x".
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Boot time is O(1).
Dude, please quit flaming the baby boomers. Sure, some of them write stupid books. Your generation will master this skill eventually, I assure you.
I am continually amazed at the attitude on the part of the young that because they got to the planet 30 or 40 years later than me, they are somehow better.
My favorite formulation of this principle:
A conservative is a [person] who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.
-- Alfred E. Wiggam
There's something to this. I have known some beautiful women who definitely require a debonair hint of slobber on the face of their males.
There are thousands of lines in the federal budget. Why pick on this one? Why not sacrifice a jet fighter instead? Or a bridge to nowhere?
I work for a technology company and Microsoft partner that routinely does these same shenanigans. It's about testing. It costs a lot of money to put together larger systems and test them rigorously (our testing cycle is close to a year long).
It costs even more money to support said larger systems. When a customer with a large system has an outage, we have to reproduce the problem internally to figure out how to fix it. That may involve a lot of expensive equipment on top of the people time to set it up, configure it, load it, etc.
Our licensing and support fees are structured accordingly.
What happens when you feed the poor guy alphabits?
No way man. The quality of my handwriting has gone down because the handwriting Taliban chopped off my backspace finger.
As a one-time construction industry veteran, let me say this about admixes. Go to a concrete company or flatwork outfit and ask the the old timers what kind of concrete holds up best. They'll all say, down to a man, that fly ash is evil, and you should stick to the old fashioned bag mixes.
Admixtures are almost all targeted at things like greater compression strength, lower price or tolerance of low temperatures during the setting process. They get tested to see if they effed up longevity, not to see if they enhanced it.
Not sure what engineering school parent went to, btw, but at mine, the civil grads spent a lot more time with ugly math on a blackboard than they did in a lab twiddling concrete mixes.
Companies that make extensive use of BSD code, or wind up making extensive amounts of money from BSD-containing proprietary code, are often guilted into putting improvements back to the BSD code base, supporting/employing BSD contributors, or in some other way contributing.
Granted, guilt isn't a perfect motivator, but neither is a well-crafted license, as can be seen by the number of Linux scofflaws out there.
What is the proposed self-enforcing voting protocol? With no suggestion made, what is the interest of this article to the slashdot community?
No more printouts also seems to mean you will be happy with MediaWiki, a system without a WSIWYG interface, drawing tools, diagramming tools, embedded graphics, in-line comments and change tracking, and much else. And the author asserts that it's good enough for one use (Wikipedia), so it should be good enough for about anything. Not.
The strong nuclear force is well modeled at a macro level by nerds and the weird systems they love. You can't pry them apart without emission of gamma rays and particulate matter.
Article also says to always obey the 3 second rule. This doesn't make sense. In heavy traffic most folks are 1/2 to one second apart. If you spread them 3 seconds apart, throughput goes down by a factor of between three and six. Too bad, the original research is impressive and spot on.
No scientific journal that I'm aware of bars citation of results. What they often do do is bar republication of the same results--that leads to dilution of quality as opportunistic grad students try to pump up their resumes by merely rewriting previous papers. Don't get me wrong, it happens anyway. It may also be that the attorneys for journals occasionally go over the line. But paper quality dilution is the problem journals are aimed at, not some kind of screwy IP ownership.