Spend your first six months learning how *they* make software before you start suggesting the big changes. It's not about being a know-it-all. These guys have reasons why they do what they do the way they do it. Some of those reasons are good. Some are bad. Some were just never questioned. But until you've been around long enough to understand the underlying choices, you won't have a solid basis for recommending change.
You've hit on an important point here: human beings do in fact do some work in this space. Do you really want the guy racking your servers to have wet, sweaty palms?
You need to analyze whether your developers are naturally inclined towards introversion or extroversion. Personality tests like the MBTI or Keirsey temperment sorter can help you here if you want to do a scientific job of it.
Extroverts tend to work well in the "bullpen" arrangement you describe. The improved communication enhances their productivity and also improves morale.
Introverts are destroyed by the bullpen arrangement. Productivity and morale will take a nasty hit and some of them will outright quit. You'll get the maximum productivity from introverts by placing them in individual offices with doors that close. In fact, with high-paid high-skill jobs like software development, the introvert's productivity improvement achieved from placement in a private office damn near always outpaces the cost of the office.
If I correctly recall the article, comScore tested against the nearest Akamai server. That would have all but eliminated latency due to geographical distance.
As for ADSL2, it's mainly a political thing with the phone companies. They're required by law to unbnudle and sell copper pairs but if they deliver fiber they have an unregulated monopoly. So anywhere they'd seriously consider ADSL2 is getting fiber instead.
If you're not causing latency with QoS and you're not going through a satellite loop, lack of window scaling doesn't become a major factor until you're in the 100mbps range, well beyond any but the largest of today's consumer broadband links.
comScore got the data more or less right. The OP's main complaint seems to be that the speed is under-reported because packet loss causes the TCP session they used to slow down. Guess what? Packet loss causes the TCP session to slow down. Customers on ISPs with noticeable loss rates experience slower performance than the line's rated speed. Hello!
Many activities which consume electricity can be timed to take advantage of availability. Like recharging the batteries on your electric car at night timed to match where possible when the wind is actually blowing.
Even steady draws like computer data centers can be architected to consume grid power when it's cheap and then fire up the natural gas generators they need anyway (for backups) as the wind dies down and the grid price goes up.
And for solar, the peak production happens to match the peak electrical demand: in the middle of the day.
Nothing is inherently wrong with adding either technology to the power production mix.
As for California, their regulatory framework caused the shortages, discouraging the construction of new power plants. They still do... when the economy picks back up, I expect the brownouts will resume.
LEDs will likely have significant power savings [...] once the technology progresses.
How do you figure? Energy in = energy out. Electricity -> light + heat. The least heat you can have is zero, so the most additional light per watt you can have is the energy you save by reducing the heat output the rest of the way to zero.
Last I checked, LEDs were roughly as power-efficient as fluorescent. The shift from incandescent bulbs to fluorescent and now LED bulbs is more than offset by the increase in draw from computers and other electronics.
I haven't been impressed with the current batch of LED light bulbs. They're pitching an MBTF of 15,000 and 25,000 hours when LEDs have classically exhibited lifetimes closer to 60,000 hours. That means they're doing something wrong.
region's wind power too cheap for its members to compete with, unless developers there are made to pay the costs of moving wind power eastward.
To whatever extent the generation companies pay to move the power, I fail to see why wind shouldn't pay its fair share.
demanding that the state's wind developers share the costs of backup natural gas generators
That's stupid. The correct solution is: raise the price of natural gas generation to compensate for the efficiency of scale difference.
proposed to deny federal clean energy grants to wind developers that buy blades, turbines and other components from abroad.
Hey, if you want money from Uncle Sam, you gotta play the game the way it's played. You're always welcome to secure private financing and build it any way you please.
But, put simply, code is owned by its developer even once the client has paid, unless that developer is legally employed by the client or a contract exists that transfers full ownership (and even then it's far from clear-cut).
Just a point of clarification: You can't write a contract that transfers ownership of a copyright that doesn't (yet) exist. Well, you can but it's unenforceable in the US. You can write a contract to the effect that you *will* transfer ownership of the code you build, but you still own the code until you sign a subsequent document transferring it.
The real problem is that the manila folder has to pass through at least 20 hands in order to be processed. That way none of them are responsible since any catchable fraud they missed would have been caught by one of the others. Computerizing the manila folder won't solve the 20-hands-irresponsibility problem.
Placing an impossible burden on copyright owners to defend their property in a fly-by-night ease-of-entry environment conducive to massive infringement is no more an appropriate application of free speech than making it OK to "yell fire in a theater." I have no problem with the basic concept of DMCA take-downs.
My biggest problem with the DMCA is that there doesn't seem to be any penalty when folks filing DMCA takedowns negligently exceed their authority. Congress clearly intended that there be a severe penalty for DMCA misuse, equating it to perjury, but the courts have declined to enforce it. This has left an imbalance in the process that *is* a threat to free speech.
Take the upgrade. Shipping firmware always has bugs. Always. As a system administrator, the first thing I do out of the box is download and install the current firmware while it's still under warranty. And if they brick your computer they'll replace it.
I've read the various articles and one thing that struck me is that no one questions the assumption that the assistant principal pulled up the student's webcam even though the school district claims he didn't and couldn't have. Couldn't one of the kid's friends have snapped a picture during a web chat or with their own illicit software and then given a copy to the assistant principal?
The "screw-fit" terminals you're talking about are not even cat-3. You'll get signal reflection (the same thing that produced ghost images on your old analog TV) from those resulting in errors.
Fortunately, the Leviton cat-5 receptacles available at your local Home Depot include a disposable 110 tool you can use to correctly "punch down" the wire.
Because the local community college is run under the same governmental entity that runs the high schools, so they can be tooled so that they're A) able and B) willing to accept kids who've had only two years of high school.
Presumably if two-year graduation for those who pass the test becomes the norm, mainstream colleges will begin to accept the graduates as well.
I really wish this had been around when I was in high school. If I'm being charitable, maybe half of my high school classes were something better than a complete waste of my time. Community college is not much better but it is better and much of the coursework transfers to the bachelors' degree program that I'd eventually end up in elsewhere, getting the generic crap out of the way so I could dive straight in to the courses that actually interest me.
After the initial mirroring of data is completed, SSD and HDD will have the same front -end data. HDDBOOST's controller chip will then set data read priority to SSD to take advantage of SSD's much faster read speed. HDDBOOST's priority will be determined by the following rules:
1.When data is present on both drives, read from SSD. 2.When data is not present on both drives, read from HDD. 3.Data will only be written to HDD.
[...]
In normal operating system environment, a system drive gets written onto constantly until the system is turned off. Compared to using SSD only as the main system drive, HDDBOOST will only write to SSD once sequentially during system boot up when it activates mirror backup. This significantly reduces the wear and tear that normally occurs when writing data to SSD.
This makes no sense. How is it supposed to read from the SSD if the SSD doesn't have a current copy of the data because you only wrote it to the hard disk?
Four basic ways to come into possession of a thing:
You can make it. It can be given to you. You can buy it. You can steal it.
If you want to be truly pedantic about it, copyright infringement is half make and half steal. But stealing is stealing, even if it's only half the story.
Well, bully for your education. The only molar-anything I was aware of in middle school was in the back of my mouth.
Copying without someone saying OK, eh? How about we simplify that further: taking something that isn't yours. Better yet, let's use the word that was made just for that: theft.
Or we could make it fancy. Copyright infringement, oh noes! But fancy crimes have fancy punishments.
If you want to know if the hacks were done with Chinese government approval, watch and see who they put to death for it. As with the contaminated baby formula, China has a strong tradition of swift trials and swifter executions for those citizens who through unauthorized behavior embarrass them on the world stage. Strong enough that it makes them rather transparent when denying something they actually did do.
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Spend your first six months learning how *they* make software before you start suggesting the big changes. It's not about being a know-it-all. These guys have reasons why they do what they do the way they do it. Some of those reasons are good. Some are bad. Some were just never questioned. But until you've been around long enough to understand the underlying choices, you won't have a solid basis for recommending change.
Can USPS delivery vehicles be ticketed?
Lately I've noticed that the USPS vehicles in my area don't even have license plates...
You've hit on an important point here: human beings do in fact do some work in this space. Do you really want the guy racking your servers to have wet, sweaty palms?
You need to analyze whether your developers are naturally inclined towards introversion or extroversion. Personality tests like the MBTI or Keirsey temperment sorter can help you here if you want to do a scientific job of it.
Extroverts tend to work well in the "bullpen" arrangement you describe. The improved communication enhances their productivity and also improves morale.
Introverts are destroyed by the bullpen arrangement. Productivity and morale will take a nasty hit and some of them will outright quit. You'll get the maximum productivity from introverts by placing them in individual offices with doors that close. In fact, with high-paid high-skill jobs like software development, the introvert's productivity improvement achieved from placement in a private office damn near always outpaces the cost of the office.
If I correctly recall the article, comScore tested against the nearest Akamai server. That would have all but eliminated latency due to geographical distance.
As for ADSL2, it's mainly a political thing with the phone companies. They're required by law to unbnudle and sell copper pairs but if they deliver fiber they have an unregulated monopoly. So anywhere they'd seriously consider ADSL2 is getting fiber instead.
If you're not causing latency with QoS and you're not going through a satellite loop, lack of window scaling doesn't become a major factor until you're in the 100mbps range, well beyond any but the largest of today's consumer broadband links.
comScore got the data more or less right. The OP's main complaint seems to be that the speed is under-reported because packet loss causes the TCP session they used to slow down. Guess what? Packet loss causes the TCP session to slow down. Customers on ISPs with noticeable loss rates experience slower performance than the line's rated speed. Hello!
Yep, neat things you can do with LED Christmas lights:
http://www.dirtside.com/led/leds.html
http://www.dirtside.com/led/hacking.html
Many activities which consume electricity can be timed to take advantage of availability. Like recharging the batteries on your electric car at night timed to match where possible when the wind is actually blowing.
Even steady draws like computer data centers can be architected to consume grid power when it's cheap and then fire up the natural gas generators they need anyway (for backups) as the wind dies down and the grid price goes up.
And for solar, the peak production happens to match the peak electrical demand: in the middle of the day.
Nothing is inherently wrong with adding either technology to the power production mix.
As for California, their regulatory framework caused the shortages, discouraging the construction of new power plants. They still do... when the economy picks back up, I expect the brownouts will resume.
LEDs will likely have significant power savings [...] once the technology progresses.
How do you figure? Energy in = energy out. Electricity -> light + heat. The least heat you can have is zero, so the most additional light per watt you can have is the energy you save by reducing the heat output the rest of the way to zero.
Last I checked, LEDs were roughly as power-efficient as fluorescent. The shift from incandescent bulbs to fluorescent and now LED bulbs is more than offset by the increase in draw from computers and other electronics.
I haven't been impressed with the current batch of LED light bulbs. They're pitching an MBTF of 15,000 and 25,000 hours when LEDs have classically exhibited lifetimes closer to 60,000 hours. That means they're doing something wrong.
region's wind power too cheap for its members to compete with, unless developers there are made to pay the costs of moving wind power eastward.
To whatever extent the generation companies pay to move the power, I fail to see why wind shouldn't pay its fair share.
demanding that the state's wind developers share the costs of backup natural gas generators
That's stupid. The correct solution is: raise the price of natural gas generation to compensate for the efficiency of scale difference.
proposed to deny federal clean energy grants to wind developers that buy blades, turbines and other components from abroad.
Hey, if you want money from Uncle Sam, you gotta play the game the way it's played. You're always welcome to secure private financing and build it any way you please.
But, put simply, code is owned by its developer even once the client has paid, unless that developer is legally employed by the client or a contract exists that transfers full ownership (and even then it's far from clear-cut).
Just a point of clarification: You can't write a contract that transfers ownership of a copyright that doesn't (yet) exist. Well, you can but it's unenforceable in the US. You can write a contract to the effect that you *will* transfer ownership of the code you build, but you still own the code until you sign a subsequent document transferring it.
The real problem is that the manila folder has to pass through at least 20 hands in order to be processed. That way none of them are responsible since any catchable fraud they missed would have been caught by one of the others. Computerizing the manila folder won't solve the 20-hands-irresponsibility problem.
Placing an impossible burden on copyright owners to defend their property in a fly-by-night ease-of-entry environment conducive to massive infringement is no more an appropriate application of free speech than making it OK to "yell fire in a theater." I have no problem with the basic concept of DMCA take-downs.
My biggest problem with the DMCA is that there doesn't seem to be any penalty when folks filing DMCA takedowns negligently exceed their authority. Congress clearly intended that there be a severe penalty for DMCA misuse, equating it to perjury, but the courts have declined to enforce it. This has left an imbalance in the process that *is* a threat to free speech.
Lessig is now required to fill out a counternotice challenging the takedown [...] The system is broken.
Seems to me the system is broken *IF* the video isn't restored and doesn't remain that way following the counternotice.
Seems to me the system is also broken if there actually was a DMCA notice from Warner and they fail to pay Lessig damages too.
Take the upgrade. Shipping firmware always has bugs. Always. As a system administrator, the first thing I do out of the box is download and install the current firmware while it's still under warranty. And if they brick your computer they'll replace it.
I've read the various articles and one thing that struck me is that no one questions the assumption that the assistant principal pulled up the student's webcam even though the school district claims he didn't and couldn't have. Couldn't one of the kid's friends have snapped a picture during a web chat or with their own illicit software and then given a copy to the assistant principal?
The "screw-fit" terminals you're talking about are not even cat-3. You'll get signal reflection (the same thing that produced ghost images on your old analog TV) from those resulting in errors.
Fortunately, the Leviton cat-5 receptacles available at your local Home Depot include a disposable 110 tool you can use to correctly "punch down" the wire.
Because the local community college is run under the same governmental entity that runs the high schools, so they can be tooled so that they're A) able and B) willing to accept kids who've had only two years of high school.
Presumably if two-year graduation for those who pass the test becomes the norm, mainstream colleges will begin to accept the graduates as well.
I really wish this had been around when I was in high school. If I'm being charitable, maybe half of my high school classes were something better than a complete waste of my time. Community college is not much better but it is better and much of the coursework transfers to the bachelors' degree program that I'd eventually end up in elsewhere, getting the generic crap out of the way so I could dive straight in to the courses that actually interest me.
That part, at least, does make sense. Front end data is the data at the front end of the hard drive. Literally it's the first 1 to N LBA blocks.
From http://www.silverstonetek.com/qa/qa_contents.php?pno=HDDBOOST&area=usa
After the initial mirroring of data is completed, SSD and HDD will have the same front -end data. HDDBOOST's controller chip will then set data read priority to SSD to take advantage of SSD's much faster read speed. HDDBOOST's priority will be determined by the following rules:
1.When data is present on both drives, read from SSD.
2.When data is not present on both drives, read from HDD.
3.Data will only be written to HDD.
[...]
In normal operating system environment, a system drive gets written onto constantly until the system is turned off. Compared to using SSD only as the main system drive, HDDBOOST will only write to SSD once sequentially during system boot up when it activates mirror backup. This significantly reduces the wear and tear that normally occurs when writing data to SSD.
This makes no sense. How is it supposed to read from the SSD if the SSD doesn't have a current copy of the data because you only wrote it to the hard disk?
There's no "taking" involved here,
Four basic ways to come into possession of a thing:
You can make it.
It can be given to you.
You can buy it.
You can steal it.
If you want to be truly pedantic about it, copyright infringement is half make and half steal. But stealing is stealing, even if it's only half the story.
Well, bully for your education. The only molar-anything I was aware of in middle school was in the back of my mouth.
Copying without someone saying OK, eh? How about we simplify that further: taking something that isn't yours. Better yet, let's use the word that was made just for that: theft.
Or we could make it fancy. Copyright infringement, oh noes! But fancy crimes have fancy punishments.
If you want to know if the hacks were done with Chinese government approval, watch and see who they put to death for it. As with the contaminated baby formula, China has a strong tradition of swift trials and swifter executions for those citizens who through unauthorized behavior embarrass them on the world stage. Strong enough that it makes them rather transparent when denying something they actually did do.