Is there any reason to run Virtualbox over KVM if you're using Linux as the host? I really like having the core included with the base kernel, so I never have to worry when upgrading kernels. My only other recent experience is with VMPlayer, and I migrated mainly because I wanted to run VMs at startup without launching a GUI, which isn't really supported with VMPlayer. I'm really happy with the switch. The setup GUI for KVM is just a touch less intuitive, but otherwise it feels much more natural and integrated with the system.
Did VoIP phones stop working? Did ssh tunnels break? Did VPN connections go down? Did NetFlix get blocked? Did email access go down? If someone is on vacation, will their homes freeze if their thermostats can't connect? Will security systems fail?
Did they block access on an IP level or DNS? DId they mess only with port 80? If they tried to redirect on 443, then the browsers wouldn't display due to the certificate mismatch, but most sites are https now. Are users who set their DNS to another provider unaffected?
Depending on how they put in the notification, they may have left most non-browser stuff working, or they may have risked property damage by disabling smart home devices.
The linked story has no details.
Ahh, but article does link to reddit, where reports are that they're only intercepting port 80. I very rarely access anything over port 80. If that's accurate, then anything impacted by the change is broken. I wonder how many people haven't noticed, as all the major sites are fully https?
This is close to Dell's headquarters, so this is a great chance for Apple to poach Dell's best employees. As a Dell employee myself (not in Texas), this can be good, as Dell may be pushed to increase pay and benefits.
Well, in reading that, it occurred to me that it might be interesting to see if I could compile a Gentoo system in x32, but I have a few programs that really need 64-bit pointers (based on their memory footprint): X, web browsers, libreoffice, and a few others. I suppose that means I would need a multilib support for this, and that gets ugly.
Yup. Most people will never really appreciate how well the TV does on color as long as it's good enough. But many of us will notice that it doesn't have enough connectivity.
My big gripe is smart TVs that have a nice interface for selecting inputs, but don't have enough so you end up needing to use a switch, so you're back to a separate interface for selecting inputs. You can never have enough inputs, but they could be a lot less stingy. If you figure a cable box, a disc player, two gaming systems, and a streaming device, that's five inputs.
Perhaps there's only one game console, but eventually you'll get a new one, and then you may want to play some of the old games. Perhaps the TV has a good streaming solution built-in. Still, you don't want to run out, and adding HDMI ports should be dirt cheap.
The people taking the buyout are either people close to retirement who have lots of experience, or they're people who are good enough that they are confident they'll easily find another job. The net result is that while they're losing 7% of their workforce, they're likely losing 20% of their experience and 20% of their productivity.
While the article is looking internationally, domestically in the USA the competition is Amazon Prime. Yes, I'm aware they're now branding Prime as it's own thing, but with so many people joining Prime for Amazon or Whole Foods shopping, you have many millions of customers who see the streaming service as a free bonus. If these people don't already subscribe to Netflix, it's now a harder sell, as they have lots of content available already.
GPA is only marginally about intelligence. It is mostly about being able to identify and fulfill expectations, combined with a decision that grades matter. In hiring, I want someone that I think could get a 4.0 if they decided it was important, but honestly when doing recruiting, I haven't always looked at the GPA on the resume; what matters is having skills that go beyond the basic curriculum to make the candidate stand out. My favorite interview question for programming positions is to ask about projects done for fun outside of work and school to try to assess technical passion. But back to GPA, one candidate that stood out had a really low GPA, but they listed their GPA for just the last two years separately, which was much higher. They had some other interesting relevant experience, so I recommended hiring.
1) The cost of solar panels includes all the costs associated with making them, including energy. If it took more energy to make them than they would ever produce, then they would never pay for themselves. Even without incentives, that's no longer the case, so obviously this is wrong.
2) Solar panels stand up to extreme weather just fine, excluding things that destroy your home. They will still be producing plenty of power after twenty years. The question isn't when they will stop working, but when it will make sense to replace them with newer panels.
3) In the short-term these regulations will increase house prices, but they will also lower utility prices, so the total cost of ownership may go down. I believe some banks take into account expected utility costs in determining mortgage qualifications, so this may not impact the ability of people to buy homes.
4) Companies have always been motivated to use the cheapest tech, and existing solar installations have been extremely reliable. Regulations like this won't change that.
4 [sic]) Lithium Ion batteries are easy to recycle. Also, like solar panels, they don't typically just fail; they degrade in capacity over time. Battery systems being installed today will likely stay in use for a decade or longer.
The tech does meet real criteria: efficiency, longevity, and safety -- you just don't want it on your rooftop.
I was thinking along these lines, but then you have the problem with negative acceleration. You could use this to balance out regular mass to make essentially weightless objects, but it would take massive energy to move them, as the applied force would have to fight the movement of the negative matter.
Yes, I'm sure there would be a ton of applications, but this is some very weird counter-intuitive stuff.
It sounds like you want to have stable function key access for all the features, which was one of the awesome features of WordPerfect. I remember the templates that everyone taped above their function keys. I even had a keyboard with a built-in template holder that included templates for WordPerfect and several other popular programs of the day.
The problem now is that everything is mouse based. The majority of users never learn keyboard shortcuts, so the shortcuts aren't so short.
Shipping by ship is incredibly cheap. Even though the ships tend to be fairly polluting beasts, the amount of cargo that they carry means the energy per item is tiny. Keep in mind that the cost of shipping includes the fuel, and that has to be amortized over the entire shipment, so the cost of the product incorporates all of the energy costs.
There have been crazy studies that show things like that that oil interests have funded. No surprise there. They generally make assumptions like the batteries being discarded after five years (ignoring that well-designed batteries last longer, they can be repurposed, and they can be recycled). And shipping is generally negligible for anything these days. Shipping the completed cars uses far more energy than shipping the parts, and you have to do that with any vehicle.
Car companies are avoiding EVs for two major reasons. EVs don't wear out as quickly, so they don't get as many repeat customers, and EVs don't take advantage of their sunk costs in gas powertrains.
And I was able to get a used Leaf for $6300. It's range isn't great, but it meets my needs. If the original purchaser didn't get a tax credit, that used car likely wouldn't have been available for me.
The EV tax credit and similar state programs encourages more people to buy EVs, which in turn encourages car manufacturers to make and sell them. Tesla has used this to get them to a high-volume $35K car (which they'll hit while the tax credit is phasing out). Nissan has used it to make a more affordable shorter-range EV, and they've increased the range to be more practical as they approach the phase-out of the federal tax credit. I think both companies have used the credit to expand the EV market and drive the manufacturing costs down. (And GM, too.)
The issue I have is that the companies that used the credit constructively are now facing the phase-out while those that waited to jump in after they did all the work will get to take advantage of it over the next few years. The credit should phase out for everyone together, not on a per-company basis.
That's completely false. Even in areas where the electricity is generated by coal, they still result in lower emissions than gas cars. And as the electric grid gets cleaner, the cars get cleaner. Also, a significantly higher percentage of EV owners install solar, so much of the power is completely emissions free.
Around here, it's become almost impossible to find a restaurant without televisions. They're worse than loud noise for killing conversation. I remember the look of shock on the manager's face after eating one night when he asked how our meal was, and we said we were never eating there again because of the televisions.
My favorite is to start sales way in advance at a ridiculous price and lower the price every day. For events where you select specific seats, those who pay more get better seats. It also eliminates tracking bids, and is simple for everyone to understand, while maximizing profit for the event. The downside is that it discourages early sales, so much of the money won't come in right away, and it might drive average ticket prices down.
Is this more of an issue for hot items that are in limited supply or for items with sufficient supply, but limited "door buster" type sales? The latter is pretty close to false advertising--naming a price that will only be honored for a very limited supply. I would love to see those restricted on the sales side.
Just make sure the legislation applies to event ticket sales. That's one area where bots are a huge problem. (It could easily be solved by real anti-scalping measures, but the venues and promoters like the instant sell-outs, so there's no push from the money side to fix it.)
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So that you can do something else with that time.
So that you can reduce your impact on global climate change.
So that you don't have to pay for parking, gas, tolls, and maintenance on your car.
So that you're not stuck in traffic jams.
Or you could care because it keeps a lot of other drivers off the road making your commute less painful.
Of course, if you had a Tesla instead of a BMW, many of those reasons wouldn't apply or would be significantly reduced.
Is there any reason to run Virtualbox over KVM if you're using Linux as the host? I really like having the core included with the base kernel, so I never have to worry when upgrading kernels. My only other recent experience is with VMPlayer, and I migrated mainly because I wanted to run VMs at startup without launching a GUI, which isn't really supported with VMPlayer. I'm really happy with the switch. The setup GUI for KVM is just a touch less intuitive, but otherwise it feels much more natural and integrated with the system.
So what all did they block in doing this?
Did VoIP phones stop working? Did ssh tunnels break? Did VPN connections go down? Did NetFlix get blocked? Did email access go down? If someone is on vacation, will their homes freeze if their thermostats can't connect? Will security systems fail?
Did they block access on an IP level or DNS? DId they mess only with port 80? If they tried to redirect on 443, then the browsers wouldn't display due to the certificate mismatch, but most sites are https now. Are users who set their DNS to another provider unaffected?
Depending on how they put in the notification, they may have left most non-browser stuff working, or they may have risked property damage by disabling smart home devices.
The linked story has no details.
Ahh, but article does link to reddit, where reports are that they're only intercepting port 80. I very rarely access anything over port 80. If that's accurate, then anything impacted by the change is broken. I wonder how many people haven't noticed, as all the major sites are fully https?
Amazon is weaning themselves off of the USPS. I expect the post office's finances will look a lot worse when Amazon is out of the picture.
This is close to Dell's headquarters, so this is a great chance for Apple to poach Dell's best employees. As a Dell employee myself (not in Texas), this can be good, as Dell may be pushed to increase pay and benefits.
No, but...
Well, in reading that, it occurred to me that it might be interesting to see if I could compile a Gentoo system in x32, but I have a few programs that really need 64-bit pointers (based on their memory footprint): X, web browsers, libreoffice, and a few others. I suppose that means I would need a multilib support for this, and that gets ugly.
Yup. Most people will never really appreciate how well the TV does on color as long as it's good enough. But many of us will notice that it doesn't have enough connectivity.
My big gripe is smart TVs that have a nice interface for selecting inputs, but don't have enough so you end up needing to use a switch, so you're back to a separate interface for selecting inputs. You can never have enough inputs, but they could be a lot less stingy. If you figure a cable box, a disc player, two gaming systems, and a streaming device, that's five inputs.
Perhaps there's only one game console, but eventually you'll get a new one, and then you may want to play some of the old games. Perhaps the TV has a good streaming solution built-in. Still, you don't want to run out, and adding HDMI ports should be dirt cheap.
The people taking the buyout are either people close to retirement who have lots of experience, or they're people who are good enough that they are confident they'll easily find another job. The net result is that while they're losing 7% of their workforce, they're likely losing 20% of their experience and 20% of their productivity.
They are going to be making significant capital expenditures. In order to do so without impacting cash flow, they're getting rid of payroll expenses.
While the article is looking internationally, domestically in the USA the competition is Amazon Prime. Yes, I'm aware they're now branding Prime as it's own thing, but with so many people joining Prime for Amazon or Whole Foods shopping, you have many millions of customers who see the streaming service as a free bonus. If these people don't already subscribe to Netflix, it's now a harder sell, as they have lots of content available already.
GPA is only marginally about intelligence. It is mostly about being able to identify and fulfill expectations, combined with a decision that grades matter. In hiring, I want someone that I think could get a 4.0 if they decided it was important, but honestly when doing recruiting, I haven't always looked at the GPA on the resume; what matters is having skills that go beyond the basic curriculum to make the candidate stand out. My favorite interview question for programming positions is to ask about projects done for fun outside of work and school to try to assess technical passion. But back to GPA, one candidate that stood out had a really low GPA, but they listed their GPA for just the last two years separately, which was much higher. They had some other interesting relevant experience, so I recommended hiring.
That's nonsense.
1) The cost of solar panels includes all the costs associated with making them, including energy. If it took more energy to make them than they would ever produce, then they would never pay for themselves. Even without incentives, that's no longer the case, so obviously this is wrong.
2) Solar panels stand up to extreme weather just fine, excluding things that destroy your home. They will still be producing plenty of power after twenty years. The question isn't when they will stop working, but when it will make sense to replace them with newer panels.
3) In the short-term these regulations will increase house prices, but they will also lower utility prices, so the total cost of ownership may go down. I believe some banks take into account expected utility costs in determining mortgage qualifications, so this may not impact the ability of people to buy homes.
4) Companies have always been motivated to use the cheapest tech, and existing solar installations have been extremely reliable. Regulations like this won't change that.
4 [sic]) Lithium Ion batteries are easy to recycle. Also, like solar panels, they don't typically just fail; they degrade in capacity over time. Battery systems being installed today will likely stay in use for a decade or longer.
The tech does meet real criteria: efficiency, longevity, and safety -- you just don't want it on your rooftop.
I was thinking along these lines, but then you have the problem with negative acceleration. You could use this to balance out regular mass to make essentially weightless objects, but it would take massive energy to move them, as the applied force would have to fight the movement of the negative matter.
Yes, I'm sure there would be a ton of applications, but this is some very weird counter-intuitive stuff.
Alt-F4 for the win!
It sounds like you want to have stable function key access for all the features, which was one of the awesome features of WordPerfect. I remember the templates that everyone taped above their function keys. I even had a keyboard with a built-in template holder that included templates for WordPerfect and several other popular programs of the day.
The problem now is that everything is mouse based. The majority of users never learn keyboard shortcuts, so the shortcuts aren't so short.
Shipping by ship is incredibly cheap. Even though the ships tend to be fairly polluting beasts, the amount of cargo that they carry means the energy per item is tiny. Keep in mind that the cost of shipping includes the fuel, and that has to be amortized over the entire shipment, so the cost of the product incorporates all of the energy costs.
Again, false.
There have been crazy studies that show things like that that oil interests have funded. No surprise there. They generally make assumptions like the batteries being discarded after five years (ignoring that well-designed batteries last longer, they can be repurposed, and they can be recycled). And shipping is generally negligible for anything these days. Shipping the completed cars uses far more energy than shipping the parts, and you have to do that with any vehicle.
Car companies are avoiding EVs for two major reasons. EVs don't wear out as quickly, so they don't get as many repeat customers, and EVs don't take advantage of their sunk costs in gas powertrains.
And I was able to get a used Leaf for $6300. It's range isn't great, but it meets my needs. If the original purchaser didn't get a tax credit, that used car likely wouldn't have been available for me.
The EV tax credit and similar state programs encourages more people to buy EVs, which in turn encourages car manufacturers to make and sell them. Tesla has used this to get them to a high-volume $35K car (which they'll hit while the tax credit is phasing out). Nissan has used it to make a more affordable shorter-range EV, and they've increased the range to be more practical as they approach the phase-out of the federal tax credit. I think both companies have used the credit to expand the EV market and drive the manufacturing costs down. (And GM, too.)
The issue I have is that the companies that used the credit constructively are now facing the phase-out while those that waited to jump in after they did all the work will get to take advantage of it over the next few years. The credit should phase out for everyone together, not on a per-company basis.
That's completely false. Even in areas where the electricity is generated by coal, they still result in lower emissions than gas cars. And as the electric grid gets cleaner, the cars get cleaner. Also, a significantly higher percentage of EV owners install solar, so much of the power is completely emissions free.
Yup. I use this to call home when travelling internationally when I have WiFi. It's very useful. I hope that continues to work.
Around here, it's become almost impossible to find a restaurant without televisions. They're worse than loud noise for killing conversation. I remember the look of shock on the manager's face after eating one night when he asked how our meal was, and we said we were never eating there again because of the televisions.
Yup. And that's just one of the solutions.
My favorite is to start sales way in advance at a ridiculous price and lower the price every day. For events where you select specific seats, those who pay more get better seats. It also eliminates tracking bids, and is simple for everyone to understand, while maximizing profit for the event. The downside is that it discourages early sales, so much of the money won't come in right away, and it might drive average ticket prices down.
Is this more of an issue for hot items that are in limited supply or for items with sufficient supply, but limited "door buster" type sales? The latter is pretty close to false advertising--naming a price that will only be honored for a very limited supply. I would love to see those restricted on the sales side.
Just make sure the legislation applies to event ticket sales. That's one area where bots are a huge problem. (It could easily be solved by real anti-scalping measures, but the venues and promoters like the instant sell-outs, so there's no push from the money side to fix it.)