I (naively) though Hulu plus was going to be ad-free. Since it's still got ads, what is the point? What are you paying for? The ability to watch TV on your playstation? Even though you can already watch Hulu for free on your PC? That makes no sense - if they want ad revenue they should be pushing it out to every device imaginable.
When I heard about the upcoming Hulu Plus release I decided to give the regular Hulu a try for the first time. What a disappointment, I tried to watch the first episode of Hawaii-Five-Oh to see what it was like, but I guess it was too late to still see the series premier, as they only went back as far as episode 3. (don't ask me why they wouldn't have all episodes of a brand new show)
So I started watching episode 3 and it hung my browser. I restarted my browser and was able to watch to the second commercial, then the screen dimmed and a message appeared on the top of the playback window saying something like "your browser must allow ads to view this content", though the show continued playing, just dimmer. Conveniently, ads continued to play at full brightness and played just fine, but the show itself was dimmed out, so I continued to watch.
Then I paused it for 30 minutes to take a phone call and when I came back, it seemed to have timed out and I had to start over. Trying to skip back to where I left off made me sit through more ads - the same ones I had already seen.
So I gave up - I'll wait 'till it's available on Netflix. Or not. But I'm definitely not going to pay money for Hulu Plus after that experience.
My company used to run web servers on XServe/OSX - the web team was all Mac, so they wanted to use OSX to serve the web pages.
The servers ran relatively well, no major problems. The hardware looks nice, and the CPU monitor on the front is surprisingly userful.
However, after we built a VMWare cluster and started migrating services to it, we ditched OSX and moved to Linux on VMWare for the webservers. The Xserves are sitting idle in the corner of the datacenter now. I believe it's possible to virtualize OSX as long as the host operating system is OSX, but we didn't want to build out an OSX VMWare cluster just to run some web servers.
Are you sure he didn't mean that unless you're only using telnet and FTP (which *were* around when the 'net was designed), then you should pay extra? After all, the 'net wasn't designed for HTTP any more than it was for DVD's.
That was a close call -- for a while, people have been able to get the content they want how they want it, but the industry is taking appropriate steps to end that and make sure that consumers can only view content when the industry wants them to and how the industry wants them to.
This article is an outright lie. I've measured bandwidth at my own house, and I've found that 95% of all internet traffic comes from adult entertainment sites. Netflix isn't even a blip on the graph.
It wasn't "designed" for delivering HTML (what a space inefficient format!) with lots of embedded images, shouldn't users be paying for that too? Oh wait a second, I *am* paying for internet, my ISP tells me I am paying for blazing fast 10mbit/second speed. Now are you saying that I should only take advantage of that speed by not using high bandwidth application?
I actually *am* North American, which is why I can't count on my government to protect my privacy like those in the EU where they have real data protection laws.
I don't understand the "racial joke" comment, are US citizens considered a "race" now?
It shouldn't be up to the user to "learn about my privacy" and how to control it -- it should be incumbent upon the company that holds my personal data to not release it without my explicit consent. Revealing to the world who I chat and email with the most was not a smart move on their part.
If I post something on my Facebook wall, I expect the world to be able to see it - even if I've only allowed my "friends" to see it, I understand that I have no control over the data after my friends see it.
However, if I send a lot of emails to my ex-girlfriend, I don't want my wife to find out about it when she sees my Google Buzz followers.
They have plenty of vertical strength, as can be seen when loaded ISOs are stacked on ships
Sure, they have good vertical strength, but they aren't designed for pressure from the sides.
This brings to mind the soda can trick -- take an empty soda can (with no dents), put it on the floor and carefully kneel down and place one foot on top of the can and balance all of your weight on that one foot - the can will easily support your weight. Then, take your fingers and poke in the sides of the can and it will instantly collapse under the weight.
Since shipping containers aren't meant to have pressure exerted from the sides, my guess is that they are not safe for burial, especially if you're going to put dirt on top -- a foot of dirt on top of a 20' container weighs 10 tons. I wouldn't want to be standing in that container unless it was specifically engineered to handle the side loads from the earth pressing in on the sides.
For even stronger revetting, bury one, set a second atop it, cut open the roof (torch, Sawzall, etc) and fill with earth.
The would place up to 80 tons of weight on the container -- this may be within the design specs of a freestanding container, but again, with the added pressure from the sides, I certainly wouldn't want to be standing in that container.
There are ways to mitigate side loading with proper construction techniques when preparing the hole you're placing the container in, but then you're getting farther away from the fast and cheap construction that you expected the containers to provide in the first place.
Technically, he suggested that you overwrite your xhci.conf file, not your modules file. Do you know for a fact that it's incorrect advice to solve the problem he's experienced? Sometimes you *do* want to overwrite the file rather than appending.
If no one burns CDs anymore, then it seems that they should omit Brasero entirely, rather than including a version that crashes.
In any case, since you asked, I still burn CD's and DVD's from time to time. My car stereo doesn't have an aux jack or USB port so CD-ROMs are the best way to listen to music in my car. Likewise, I don't want to hook a computer up to my TV, so DVD's are the best way to watch movies on the big TV.
But the whole problem is logistics - hauling stuff in a combat zone is hard.
When packed, a small 13x13ft tent takes up a space around 5 ft x 2 ft x 2 ft and weighs around 400 lbs.
You can fit around 50 of them in a single 20' container, and each tent will provide more square footage than than 20' container. You say that the containers can be buried, but are they safety rated for burial, and can they withstand corrosion after a year or more of burial in wet ground?
So if you need lots of space fast, bringing in one container full of tents sounds a lot easier than 50 empty containers. And you don't need to bring in any heavy equipment to dig 50 holes.
If fuel is so difficult to deliver there, then I'm not sure that bringing in 2000 lbs of wood and other materials to build an underground shelter is going to be cheaper than a 200 pound tent even if it saves some energy costs. Plus there's the added difficulty of trucking in a 20 ton excavator to dig the holes in the first place. Plus, not all soils are conducive to building below grade structures, some sandy soils make it quite difficult to do.
For more permanent bases, I believe they just build conventional hard sided above ground structures.
It might make people realize that population growth, resource consumption, etc. can't keep increasing at current levels without severe corrections in the somewhat close future.
Parent:
Paul Erlich has preached on it, and its still just as wrong as it ever was.
I think its time you cracked a book on economics and then get back to the rest of us on how exactly you went wrong.
Ehrlich noted that 600 million people were very hungry, billions were under-nourished, and stated that his predictions about disease and climate change were essentially correct... In retrospect, Ehrlich feels that The Population Bomb was "way too optimistic".[12] He acknowledges that he underestimated the success of higher-yielding grains, and how that spurred further population growth. But he also points out that there have been perhaps 300 million deaths since the book was published that were caused in large part by malnourishment and undernourishment.
I was supporting the grandparent's statement that population growth can't continue at current levels without a correction, and since the population growth rate is indeed slowing down in the real world, it seems that he is correct.
The population grown rate is already slowing down after peaking in the 1960's and is expected to continue to slow down, which is consistent with the parent poster's conjecture that current growth can't be maintained.
If they don't implement basic security precautions (and I'd say that turning off Autorun is a basic precaution), then shouldn't you be threatening to cut off their support contract?
Why should you write a registry patch when you can just turn it off in the GPO?
Either that, or *they* should be the ones cleaning up after an autorun'ed worm invades your network, not the local IT techs that aren't allowed to set Group Policy rules.
And found over 30 ads in the righthand sidebar. They claim "only one free read per visitor", but since they've exposed me to their advertising messages, my read is no longer "free". This would be easy to prove in court since advertisers are still willing to pay per impression. If the Gazette wants to argue that my visit is "free", then they better refund all of the impression based fees they received from advertisers.
If they want people to pay for "free" content, they should make it free first.
I don't get it - is this some geek culture reference?
The article says 50 missiles, 1/9th of our arsenal, which implies a total arsenal of 450 missiles.
I realize that each missile can carry more than one warhead, but I don't think they each carry 12.14 warheads. I thought that the maximum was 10 or 12 and I thought that some treaty cut that back to 1 or 2?
Only morons put data in a serial number, it's one of the most fundamental mistakes of database planning.
There are lots of valid reasons to put data in a serial number -- especially in 1941.
If you're maintaining a battalion's worth of tanks, it's useful to know where your tank was manufactured and if it was manufactured around the same time as the other 5 tanks in your battalion that had bad drive gears.
It's not like they could have done a simple database lookup to find the assembly history of each tank. And generating a unique series of serial numbers across multiple factories would not have been trivial.
Of course, they ended up in inadvertently revealing secret information, but maybe they didn't think it was all that secret and assumed that observation alone would provide that data. (which didn't turn out to be true).
I'm not a gamer, and I know I'll get royally flamed for this, but my theory is that there are no new games -- there are a handful of unique games styles and everything else is a variant of those styles with different eye candy pasted on. Faster computers and better graphics cards just enable better eye candy (and maybe better game physics), not better games.
I've got my flame retardant suit donned, so flame on!
I read the linked Devops article and know even less about than before I read the article. It's full of management buzzwords and I'm sure a CIO would love it, but what does it mean?
How does Devops help?
The Devops movement is built around a group of people who believe that the application of a combination of appropriate technology and attitude can revolutionize the world of software development and delivery.
...
Beyond this multi-disciplinary approach, the Devops movement is attempting to encourage the development of communication skills, understanding of the domain in which the software is being written, and, crucially, a sensitivity and passion for the underlying business, and for ensuring it succeeds.
oh yeah, that clears it up. All it takes is a passion for the underlying business and it's sure to succeed!
If you're a doctor, your contact list (if it has any patient contact info) and appointment schedule may fall under HIPAA, making it sensitive information that must be protected.
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I (naively) though Hulu plus was going to be ad-free. Since it's still got ads, what is the point? What are you paying for? The ability to watch TV on your playstation? Even though you can already watch Hulu for free on your PC? That makes no sense - if they want ad revenue they should be pushing it out to every device imaginable.
When I heard about the upcoming Hulu Plus release I decided to give the regular Hulu a try for the first time. What a disappointment, I tried to watch the first episode of Hawaii-Five-Oh to see what it was like, but I guess it was too late to still see the series premier, as they only went back as far as episode 3. (don't ask me why they wouldn't have all episodes of a brand new show)
So I started watching episode 3 and it hung my browser. I restarted my browser and was able to watch to the second commercial, then the screen dimmed and a message appeared on the top of the playback window saying something like "your browser must allow ads to view this content", though the show continued playing, just dimmer. Conveniently, ads continued to play at full brightness and played just fine, but the show itself was dimmed out, so I continued to watch.
Then I paused it for 30 minutes to take a phone call and when I came back, it seemed to have timed out and I had to start over. Trying to skip back to where I left off made me sit through more ads - the same ones I had already seen.
So I gave up - I'll wait 'till it's available on Netflix. Or not. But I'm definitely not going to pay money for Hulu Plus after that experience.
My company used to run web servers on XServe/OSX - the web team was all Mac, so they wanted to use OSX to serve the web pages.
The servers ran relatively well, no major problems. The hardware looks nice, and the CPU monitor on the front is surprisingly userful.
However, after we built a VMWare cluster and started migrating services to it, we ditched OSX and moved to Linux on VMWare for the webservers. The Xserves are sitting idle in the corner of the datacenter now. I believe it's possible to virtualize OSX as long as the host operating system is OSX, but we didn't want to build out an OSX VMWare cluster just to run some web servers.
Are you sure he didn't mean that unless you're only using telnet and FTP (which *were* around when the 'net was designed), then you should pay extra? After all, the 'net wasn't designed for HTTP any more than it was for DVD's.
Don't worry, movie executives are working to close this hole as soon as possible:
Studios May Delay Netflix/Redbox Movie Rentals Even Longer; Offer Fewer Watch Instantly Choices on Netflix
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/11/03/movie-studios-delay-rentals-fewer-choices-watch-instantly-time-warner-premium-vod-2/
That was a close call -- for a while, people have been able to get the content they want how they want it, but the industry is taking appropriate steps to end that and make sure that consumers can only view content when the industry wants them to and how the industry wants them to.
This article is an outright lie. I've measured bandwidth at my own house, and I've found that 95% of all internet traffic comes from adult entertainment sites. Netflix isn't even a blip on the graph.
It wasn't "designed" for delivering HTML (what a space inefficient format!) with lots of embedded images, shouldn't users be paying for that too? Oh wait a second, I *am* paying for internet, my ISP tells me I am paying for blazing fast 10mbit/second speed. Now are you saying that I should only take advantage of that speed by not using high bandwidth application?
I actually *am* North American, which is why I can't count on my government to protect my privacy like those in the EU where they have real data protection laws.
I don't understand the "racial joke" comment, are US citizens considered a "race" now?
It shouldn't be up to the user to "learn about my privacy" and how to control it -- it should be incumbent upon the company that holds my personal data to not release it without my explicit consent. Revealing to the world who I chat and email with the most was not a smart move on their part.
If I post something on my Facebook wall, I expect the world to be able to see it - even if I've only allowed my "friends" to see it, I understand that I have no control over the data after my friends see it.
However, if I send a lot of emails to my ex-girlfriend, I don't want my wife to find out about it when she sees my Google Buzz followers.
They have plenty of vertical strength, as can be seen when loaded ISOs are stacked on ships
Sure, they have good vertical strength, but they aren't designed for pressure from the sides.
This brings to mind the soda can trick -- take an empty soda can (with no dents), put it on the floor and carefully kneel down and place one foot on top of the can and balance all of your weight on that one foot - the can will easily support your weight. Then, take your fingers and poke in the sides of the can and it will instantly collapse under the weight.
Since shipping containers aren't meant to have pressure exerted from the sides, my guess is that they are not safe for burial, especially if you're going to put dirt on top -- a foot of dirt on top of a 20' container weighs 10 tons. I wouldn't want to be standing in that container unless it was specifically engineered to handle the side loads from the earth pressing in on the sides.
For even stronger revetting, bury one, set a second atop it, cut open the roof (torch, Sawzall, etc) and fill with earth.
The would place up to 80 tons of weight on the container -- this may be within the design specs of a freestanding container, but again, with the added pressure from the sides, I certainly wouldn't want to be standing in that container.
There are ways to mitigate side loading with proper construction techniques when preparing the hole you're placing the container in, but then you're getting farther away from the fast and cheap construction that you expected the containers to provide in the first place.
Technically, he suggested that you overwrite your xhci.conf file, not your modules file. Do you know for a fact that it's incorrect advice to solve the problem he's experienced? Sometimes you *do* want to overwrite the file rather than appending.
If no one burns CDs anymore, then it seems that they should omit Brasero entirely, rather than including a version that crashes.
In any case, since you asked, I still burn CD's and DVD's from time to time. My car stereo doesn't have an aux jack or USB port so CD-ROMs are the best way to listen to music in my car. Likewise, I don't want to hook a computer up to my TV, so DVD's are the best way to watch movies on the big TV.
Yes, because no solution should be implemented unless it solves all problems, even if those problems are completely unrelated.
But the whole problem is logistics - hauling stuff in a combat zone is hard.
When packed, a small 13x13ft tent takes up a space around 5 ft x 2 ft x 2 ft and weighs around 400 lbs.
You can fit around 50 of them in a single 20' container, and each tent will provide more square footage than than 20' container. You say that the containers can be buried, but are they safety rated for burial, and can they withstand corrosion after a year or more of burial in wet ground?
So if you need lots of space fast, bringing in one container full of tents sounds a lot easier than 50 empty containers. And you don't need to bring in any heavy equipment to dig 50 holes.
If fuel is so difficult to deliver there, then I'm not sure that bringing in 2000 lbs of wood and other materials to build an underground shelter is going to be cheaper than a 200 pound tent even if it saves some energy costs. Plus there's the added difficulty of trucking in a 20 ton excavator to dig the holes in the first place. Plus, not all soils are conducive to building below grade structures, some sandy soils make it quite difficult to do.
For more permanent bases, I believe they just build conventional hard sided above ground structures.
That's odd, I thought we were already in an exponential population growth curve.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Population_curve.svg
Sure I read them...did you? Grandparent:
It might make people realize that population growth, resource consumption, etc. can't keep increasing at current levels without severe corrections in the somewhat close future.
Parent:
Paul Erlich has preached on it, and its still just as wrong as it ever was.
I think its time you cracked a book on economics and then get back to the rest of us on how exactly you went wrong.
And Erlich (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Ehrlich):
Ehrlich noted that 600 million people were very hungry, billions were under-nourished, and stated that his predictions about disease and climate change were essentially correct ...
In retrospect, Ehrlich feels that The Population Bomb was "way too optimistic".[12] He acknowledges that he underestimated the success of higher-yielding grains, and how that spurred further population growth. But he also points out that there have been perhaps 300 million deaths since the book was published that were caused in large part by malnourishment and undernourishment.
I was supporting the grandparent's statement that population growth can't continue at current levels without a correction, and since the population growth rate is indeed slowing down in the real world, it seems that he is correct.
The population grown rate is already slowing down after peaking in the 1960's and is expected to continue to slow down, which is consistent with the parent poster's conjecture that current growth can't be maintained.
http://www.npg.org/facts/world_pop_year.htm
So perhaps you can enlighten us on how Economics proves that what is happening in the real world is wrong?
Uhh, you might want to check your math.
300GB / 30 days/mon / 24 hours/day / 3600 seconds/hour = 115KB/second, only around 20% of a 5Mbit DSL line..
You can check my math here:
http://www.google.com/search?q=300000000000+%2F+30+%2F+24+%2F+3600
If they don't implement basic security precautions (and I'd say that turning off Autorun is a basic precaution), then shouldn't you be threatening to cut off their support contract?
Why should you write a registry patch when you can just turn it off in the GPO?
Either that, or *they* should be the ones cleaning up after an autorun'ed worm invades your network, not the local IT techs that aren't allowed to set Group Policy rules.
Wasn't there a recent Slashdot article about using existing tools rather than building your own?
Rather than writing your own crawler, why not use an existing one -- no Python required:
wget -r -p -l 0 http://example.com/
I went to this page:
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/2010/10/
And found over 30 ads in the righthand sidebar. They claim "only one free read per visitor", but since they've exposed me to their advertising messages, my read is no longer "free". This would be easy to prove in court since advertisers are still willing to pay per impression. If the Gazette wants to argue that my visit is "free", then they better refund all of the impression based fees they received from advertisers.
If they want people to pay for "free" content, they should make it free first.
I don't get it - is this some geek culture reference?
The article says 50 missiles, 1/9th of our arsenal, which implies a total arsenal of 450 missiles.
I realize that each missile can carry more than one warhead, but I don't think they each carry 12.14 warheads. I thought that the maximum was 10 or 12 and I thought that some treaty cut that back to 1 or 2?
Only morons put data in a serial number, it's one of the most fundamental mistakes of database planning.
There are lots of valid reasons to put data in a serial number -- especially in 1941.
If you're maintaining a battalion's worth of tanks, it's useful to know where your tank was manufactured and if it was manufactured around the same time as the other 5 tanks in your battalion that had bad drive gears.
It's not like they could have done a simple database lookup to find the assembly history of each tank. And generating a unique series of serial numbers across multiple factories would not have been trivial.
Of course, they ended up in inadvertently revealing secret information, but maybe they didn't think it was all that secret and assumed that observation alone would provide that data. (which didn't turn out to be true).
I'm not a gamer, and I know I'll get royally flamed for this, but my theory is that there are no new games -- there are a handful of unique games styles and everything else is a variant of those styles with different eye candy pasted on. Faster computers and better graphics cards just enable better eye candy (and maybe better game physics), not better games.
I've got my flame retardant suit donned, so flame on!
I read the linked Devops article and know even less about than before I read the article. It's full of management buzzwords and I'm sure a CIO would love it, but what does it mean?
How does Devops help?
The Devops movement is built around a group of people who believe that the application of a combination of appropriate technology and attitude can revolutionize the world of software development and delivery.
Beyond this multi-disciplinary approach, the Devops movement is attempting to encourage the development of communication skills, understanding of the domain in which the software is being written, and, crucially, a sensitivity and passion for the underlying business, and for ensuring it succeeds.
oh yeah, that clears it up. All it takes is a passion for the underlying business and it's sure to succeed!
If you're a doctor, your contact list (if it has any patient contact info) and appointment schedule may fall under HIPAA, making it sensitive information that must be protected.