No. No. A thousand times, no. Basing your actions on what you *wish* other people would do is a losing strategy. You have to base your actions on what you reasonably project that other people in fact *will* do.
Other people will use Microsoft Office, and most will continue doing so for the foreseeable future. Since they trade documents with each other all the time, they'll expect to do so successfully with you. Without the degradation that comes from import/export cycles. They expect to walk in with a power point on a CD, place the disc in your PC and display it on your projector. If you can't adequately support these things, you're the screwball who can't achieve a business norm.
Companies and businesses should be able to make their own decisions and benefit from their good decision making or suffer from their poor decision making.
Then we need a standing government red team to continuously and creatively attack these infrastructure providers with large penalties any time an infrastructure system is sufficiently penetrated to have permitted the red team attacker to disable it. The price of failure is too high to wait until a foreign entity attacks: the company must suffer for poor decision making much earlier.
If you want to beat MS Office, start with natively reading and writing their formats. I don't mean importing from and exporting to the formats. I mean adopting at least the older formats and all their issues in your core.
Why, you ask? Because everybody else is going to send you.doc,.xls and.ppt. And that's what they expect to receive back from you. And as you load and save these documents in your respective Office suites, it's not acceptable for them to degrade like a jpeg.
It's time to both beef up the communications infrastructure to support reliable operation and to commit to helping your neighbors with access to things like a telephone, should you have one that works, during a major catastrophe.
200 amp mains I get. Quick-charge the super-capacitors in tomorrow's electric car while taking a shower using the tankless electric hot water heater. I'm just having trouble conceiving of 500 amps for a house smaller than a mansion.
I can't speak for the accuracy of this, but what I read is that when the SSD runs out of reserved space as a result of reallocation, it switches itself to read-only.
I lost a server once where the drive batch had a 60% failure rate after 6 months. Unless you're intentionally building the raid for performance (vice reliability), you definitely want to pull drives from as many different manufacturers and batches as you can.
Samsung and Apple were already on their respective trajectories when Nokia stumbled. Like Blackberry, Symbian wasn't. The writing was on the wall and Elop read it. If Nokia stayed the course they would promptly slide from #1 to #3. Perhaps not as painfully but every bit as surely.
Unfortunately, Elop then made two inexplicable mistakes. And in this Ahonen and, well, everyone on Slashdot at the time saw it.
1. Planned obsolescence of the core product. Did he learn nothing from the 60's and 70's disaster with the U.S. automobile industry? Customers don't like that!
2. The new product line to challenge the meteoric rise of Samsung and Apple would be... Microsoft Windows? Really!?
One is that Internet access should be an -entitlement- like Social Security or Medicare. If you cannot afford Internet access, Internet access will be provided for you.
Another is that Internet access is a staple of life. Like denying food or water runs afoul of the right to life and freedom from torture, denying Internet access runs afoul of freedom of speech, thought, conscience and religion. You still have to buy it and you can only have what you can afford. But it can't be arbitrarily denied.
Precisely. An "entitlement" is a service someone is required to provide to you. A right is generally defined in the negative: No one is permitted to do X to you. No one is permitted to prevent you from doing Y.
Right to life - not allowed to kill you. Freedom from torture - not allowed to torture you. Freedom from slavery - not allowed to require work from you. Right to a fair trial - not allowed to penalize absent a fair trial. Freedom of speech - may not prevent you from speaking your mind. Freedom of thought, conscience and religion - may not prevent you from practicing your religion.
Internet Access - may not prevent you from pirating my wifi? What the heck kind of right is that?
1. Don't plan to work remote while a tourist in China. Treat it the same as you would a trip to a country without readily available communications infrastructure.
2. Plan any business activities around what's lawful in China. If this makes you less effective, so be it. China's government has determined that they and all business operating within China will pay that cost.
Heck, good luck hitting a completely immobile carrier-sized target with an purely kinetic ICBM. It's ballistic. On the way back down there is no guidance so no way to correct for the buffeting from travel through the air.
Which carrier has been sunk by a super-sonic 'carrier-killer' missile? Let's wait until a carrier is actually killed before declaring the end of its day.
A carrier lets you park a military city 10 miles off just about anyone's border just about any time you want to. Until something either replaces that function or ends its utility the carrier will persist.
Adams said, "It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number." Why? Why not the color blue? Or "steak, medium rare?" Why did choosing an ordinary smallish number make "the answer to life, the universe, everything" funny?
Because it poked at two favorite conceits: that there must be some simple reason for our existence and that everything is math.
The central conceit of mathematics is that everything is math. Life, the universe, everything. That's why "the answer" was 42, or didn't you get that?
Tell a physicist that his work is just math and he'll sneer derisively. Tell an engineer and he might crack the joke that the difference between theory and practice is that in theory there is no difference. Yet because so many of the founders of computer science started as mathematicians, we're willing to tolerate the similarly absurd claim about computer science.
My degree says CS and I graduated with a 4.0 in-major from a school that while it wasn't in the top 5 is reasonably high up the list. Somehow or another I satisfied the professors that I knew the material and then went on to satisfy employers too.
On the other hand, both of my parents hold degrees in math, and theirs are from top-5 schools. My father has even won awards for his brilliance in cost modeling.
So when I talk my father through a computing problem and he can't work his way through the next similar one, and then I face the same problem when he walks me through something in differential equations, that gives me a pretty solid clue that the two fields' underpinnings are dissimilar. If they weren't, the insights and approaches to problem solving would be portable.
As for lambda calculus, that's a great example: a false mental model of computing. It offers great insight into a set of seemingly simple computing problems which are not solvable. But it offers little insight into usefully solving problems in computing which -are- solvable. It presents itself as a system by which the correctness of a computing solution can be proven, but such proofs are so tedious that using it to prove the correctness of any complex (i.e. useful) computing problem falls to simple statistics: the probability of undetected error in the proof approaches unity.
Even the problems proven to be unsolvable with lambda calculus turn out to be solvable in the practice of computer science. We just move the goal post: find a computable way to get an answer that's "good enough." Indeed, much of the art of computer science lies in intuiting when and how to redefine the problem so that you reach a useful solution.
Which is not to say that math is not a useful tool in computer science. Boolean algebra: critical. Algebra in general, damn important. Combinatorics, really helpful. Probability too.
But Calculus? Trigonometry? Geometry? Outside of very specialized portions of computing, these branches of math have no value to computer science at all.
Math is continuous. Y isn't set to X + 1, Y *is* X + 1. That's not true in computing. Y doesn't become X + 1 until it's set to that. Before that it's something else and after that it doesn't matter if X changes. Computing is incremental. State-dependent. The language of mathematics is poorly equipped to describe it let alone think in those terms.
Lots of folks have strong logical thinking skills. Philosophers. Mathematicians. Lawyers. If logical thinking skills made a successful programmer these folks would be consistently good at it. They're usually not. In fact, mathematicians can be the worst: they think computer science is a subset of math and it really isn't.
There's a particular intuition, a bent of mind that makes for a successful programmer. If you have it, there's little about programming I can't teach you. If you don't have it, there's little about programming I *can* teach you.
I'm not a fan of unions but if any shop needs a union it's a call center. Call centers offer some of the worst jobs available in terms of employee treatment; If I was reduced to a job at that level I think I'd rather collect the curbside trash.
On the other hand how "skilled" a job is the call center where you work? Do you have specific technical skills as a prerequisite or is it something for which you get a couple days' training and then go at it? Unions only work for labor scenarios where hiring replacements is difficult.
Dell made an offer to sell a piece of equipment. The offer was accepted. They refused to honor the offer. The refusal was not based on any circumstances beyond their control. That's plain slimy.
This isn't Joe's two person computer shop we're talking about. They have years of warranty service obligations remaining on the machines they did sell. They have access to a continuing source for every part that goes in to those computers and will for some time.
Do you buy for a large corporation? Do you generally place the order the same day you got the quote? The standard business practice is that quotes are good for 30 days. There's a reason for this: bureaucracy. Love it or hate it it's a business reality.
That is, the P420 series definitely doesn't work with the card you referenced.
I tried a P410. It worked with the card. But not with the drive bay: it reported all 16 drives as being bay 1 drive 0 and it wouldn't light any of the lights.
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No. No. A thousand times, no. Basing your actions on what you *wish* other people would do is a losing strategy. You have to base your actions on what you reasonably project that other people in fact *will* do.
Other people will use Microsoft Office, and most will continue doing so for the foreseeable future. Since they trade documents with each other all the time, they'll expect to do so successfully with you. Without the degradation that comes from import/export cycles. They expect to walk in with a power point on a CD, place the disc in your PC and display it on your projector. If you can't adequately support these things, you're the screwball who can't achieve a business norm.
Companies and businesses should be able to make their own decisions and benefit from their good decision making or suffer from their poor decision making.
Then we need a standing government red team to continuously and creatively attack these infrastructure providers with large penalties any time an infrastructure system is sufficiently penetrated to have permitted the red team attacker to disable it. The price of failure is too high to wait until a foreign entity attacks: the company must suffer for poor decision making much earlier.
If you want to beat MS Office, start with natively reading and writing their formats. I don't mean importing from and exporting to the formats. I mean adopting at least the older formats and all their issues in your core.
Why, you ask? Because everybody else is going to send you .doc, .xls and .ppt. And that's what they expect to receive back from you. And as you load and save these documents in your respective Office suites, it's not acceptable for them to degrade like a jpeg.
It's time to both beef up the communications infrastructure to support reliable operation and to commit to helping your neighbors with access to things like a telephone, should you have one that works, during a major catastrophe.
200 amp mains I get. Quick-charge the super-capacitors in tomorrow's electric car while taking a shower using the tankless electric hot water heater. I'm just having trouble conceiving of 500 amps for a house smaller than a mansion.
500 amp mains? The heck do you plan to do that draws 120 kilowatts? Run 1200 incandescent bulbs?
I can't speak for the accuracy of this, but what I read is that when the SSD runs out of reserved space as a result of reallocation, it switches itself to read-only.
I lost a server once where the drive batch had a 60% failure rate after 6 months. Unless you're intentionally building the raid for performance (vice reliability), you definitely want to pull drives from as many different manufacturers and batches as you can.
Ahonen gets it wrong. You can see the problem in his chart here: http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/.a/6a00e0097e337c8833017ee41902ae970d-pi
Samsung and Apple were already on their respective trajectories when Nokia stumbled. Like Blackberry, Symbian wasn't. The writing was on the wall and Elop read it. If Nokia stayed the course they would promptly slide from #1 to #3. Perhaps not as painfully but every bit as surely.
Unfortunately, Elop then made two inexplicable mistakes. And in this Ahonen and, well, everyone on Slashdot at the time saw it.
1. Planned obsolescence of the core product. Did he learn nothing from the 60's and 70's disaster with the U.S. automobile industry? Customers don't like that!
2. The new product line to challenge the meteoric rise of Samsung and Apple would be... Microsoft Windows? Really!?
There are many middle grounds here.
One is that Internet access should be an -entitlement- like Social Security or Medicare. If you cannot afford Internet access, Internet access will be provided for you.
Another is that Internet access is a staple of life. Like denying food or water runs afoul of the right to life and freedom from torture, denying Internet access runs afoul of freedom of speech, thought, conscience and religion. You still have to buy it and you can only have what you can afford. But it can't be arbitrarily denied.
Precisely. An "entitlement" is a service someone is required to provide to you. A right is generally defined in the negative: No one is permitted to do X to you. No one is permitted to prevent you from doing Y.
Right to life - not allowed to kill you.
Freedom from torture - not allowed to torture you.
Freedom from slavery - not allowed to require work from you.
Right to a fair trial - not allowed to penalize absent a fair trial.
Freedom of speech - may not prevent you from speaking your mind.
Freedom of thought, conscience and religion - may not prevent you from practicing your religion.
Internet Access - may not prevent you from pirating my wifi? What the heck kind of right is that?
We have a winner.
Hand-carry or air-ship your media. Pack the rest like you would for shipping it UPS and don't overthink it.
What he said.
The correct answer to the OP's question is:
1. Don't plan to work remote while a tourist in China. Treat it the same as you would a trip to a country without readily available communications infrastructure.
2. Plan any business activities around what's lawful in China. If this makes you less effective, so be it. China's government has determined that they and all business operating within China will pay that cost.
Heck, good luck hitting a completely immobile carrier-sized target with an purely kinetic ICBM. It's ballistic. On the way back down there is no guidance so no way to correct for the buffeting from travel through the air.
No one who built battleships prior to December '41 was a fool for doing so. They'd only have been fools for not also building carriers.
Which carrier has been sunk by a super-sonic 'carrier-killer' missile? Let's wait until a carrier is actually killed before declaring the end of its day.
A carrier lets you park a military city 10 miles off just about anyone's border just about any time you want to. Until something either replaces that function or ends its utility the carrier will persist.
Adams said, "It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number." Why? Why not the color blue? Or "steak, medium rare?" Why did choosing an ordinary smallish number make "the answer to life, the universe, everything" funny?
Because it poked at two favorite conceits: that there must be some simple reason for our existence and that everything is math.
The central conceit of mathematics is that everything is math. Life, the universe, everything. That's why "the answer" was 42, or didn't you get that?
Tell a physicist that his work is just math and he'll sneer derisively. Tell an engineer and he might crack the joke that the difference between theory and practice is that in theory there is no difference. Yet because so many of the founders of computer science started as mathematicians, we're willing to tolerate the similarly absurd claim about computer science.
My degree says CS and I graduated with a 4.0 in-major from a school that while it wasn't in the top 5 is reasonably high up the list. Somehow or another I satisfied the professors that I knew the material and then went on to satisfy employers too.
On the other hand, both of my parents hold degrees in math, and theirs are from top-5 schools. My father has even won awards for his brilliance in cost modeling.
So when I talk my father through a computing problem and he can't work his way through the next similar one, and then I face the same problem when he walks me through something in differential equations, that gives me a pretty solid clue that the two fields' underpinnings are dissimilar. If they weren't, the insights and approaches to problem solving would be portable.
As for lambda calculus, that's a great example: a false mental model of computing. It offers great insight into a set of seemingly simple computing problems which are not solvable. But it offers little insight into usefully solving problems in computing which -are- solvable. It presents itself as a system by which the correctness of a computing solution can be proven, but such proofs are so tedious that using it to prove the correctness of any complex (i.e. useful) computing problem falls to simple statistics: the probability of undetected error in the proof approaches unity.
Even the problems proven to be unsolvable with lambda calculus turn out to be solvable in the practice of computer science. We just move the goal post: find a computable way to get an answer that's "good enough." Indeed, much of the art of computer science lies in intuiting when and how to redefine the problem so that you reach a useful solution.
Which is not to say that math is not a useful tool in computer science. Boolean algebra: critical. Algebra in general, damn important. Combinatorics, really helpful. Probability too.
But Calculus? Trigonometry? Geometry? Outside of very specialized portions of computing, these branches of math have no value to computer science at all.
Math is continuous. Y isn't set to X + 1, Y *is* X + 1. That's not true in computing. Y doesn't become X + 1 until it's set to that. Before that it's something else and after that it doesn't matter if X changes. Computing is incremental. State-dependent. The language of mathematics is poorly equipped to describe it let alone think in those terms.
Lots of folks have strong logical thinking skills. Philosophers. Mathematicians. Lawyers. If logical thinking skills made a successful programmer these folks would be consistently good at it. They're usually not. In fact, mathematicians can be the worst: they think computer science is a subset of math and it really isn't.
There's a particular intuition, a bent of mind that makes for a successful programmer. If you have it, there's little about programming I can't teach you. If you don't have it, there's little about programming I *can* teach you.
I'm not a fan of unions but if any shop needs a union it's a call center. Call centers offer some of the worst jobs available in terms of employee treatment; If I was reduced to a job at that level I think I'd rather collect the curbside trash.
On the other hand how "skilled" a job is the call center where you work? Do you have specific technical skills as a prerequisite or is it something for which you get a couple days' training and then go at it? Unions only work for labor scenarios where hiring replacements is difficult.
Dell made an offer to sell a piece of equipment. The offer was accepted. They refused to honor the offer. The refusal was not based on any circumstances beyond their control. That's plain slimy.
This isn't Joe's two person computer shop we're talking about. They have years of warranty service obligations remaining on the machines they did sell. They have access to a continuing source for every part that goes in to those computers and will for some time.
Do you buy for a large corporation? Do you generally place the order the same day you got the quote? The standard business practice is that quotes are good for 30 days. There's a reason for this: bureaucracy. Love it or hate it it's a business reality.
That is, the P420 series definitely doesn't work with the card you referenced.
I tried a P410. It worked with the card. But not with the drive bay: it reported all 16 drives as being bay 1 drive 0 and it wouldn't light any of the lights.