That's true for many grad students... Not all grad students though. Usually they have to teach, or the like to get a deal like that, and few schools can offer it to all their grad students.
Regardless, most of those students still have loans from their undergrad study which have been accruing interest while they were deferring payment to get their graduate degree.
Incidentally, in recent times those interest rates have been high, since congress has funded all of their higher education affordability initiatives by cutting subsidies on student loans for people who have already graduated.
1. 5 engineering students and one professor make a working prototype for under $20k 2. DoD contractor requests $50m to productize the research 3. 2 grad students (part of the original 5) improve the design as a product funded (Maybe $100k) by aformentioned DoD contractor 4. The university and contractor get a co-patent 5. The DoD contractor sells the $10k units for $10m to the US government. The university gets a 10% cut. The grad students get a $375/month student loan bill over 30 years. 6. The congressman for the district the DoD contractor is based in gets re-elected.
You left out a vital detail that makes this completely different from what's happening in Russia...
They went out of their way to get arrested. They were trying. It was their plan all along. They weren't invited to the debate, so they intentionally created a disturbance, so they would be arrested for publicity.
That is completely different from being arrested to silence your protest.
You've got a seriously fucked up definition of "happen" you you think this happens here. That, and you really have no appreciation for how good you've got it when it comes to political freedoms compared to what the Russians have.
I'm absolutely *not* describing postal injection. That is a different service (services such as FedEx SmartPost), which is not what Amazon does.
But you should know if you coded the controls for these systems... But I suspect you mean shipping systems, and not Amazon's systems.
You are right that the systems they use aren't "in the right direction"... I was dramatically oversimplifying the description... I can't think of any long-haul shipment system that works exactly like that.
That's all well and good in a discussion about whether or not you like the Zune. Unfortunately, we're talking about whether or not it is/was/will be a successful product, and whether or not it was a good decision for Microsoft to include an FM radio in it.
But there's no punishment for the customer. Both the Zune and iPod sell for about equivalent prices... the only person paying for the FM tuner addition is Microsoft by eating into their profits by a couple of pennies per device.
That's the point!
How much profit do you think Microsoft makes on the Zune? Unless your guess has a minus sign in front of it, you're wrong. Microsoft threw everything and the kitchen sink into the device to capture some market, with the intention of figuring out how to extract profit from those customers at some point in the future. They threw in things that niche consumers might like; things like an FM tuner. And what did it get them? A niche market, and a huge red entry in their balance sheet. Microsoft has yet to figure out how to turn a profit on products that they haven't cornered the market with. That's why the vast majority of their hardware (including both revisions of the XBox) have been spectacular failures financially. Steve Jobs, and Apple shareholders are laughing all the way to the bank.
I wouldn't call "slowly gaining market penetration by chopping 50% off the price to liquidate the remaining stock for what was already a loss-leader item", a rousing success. I think "failure" is a much more appropriate term.
Amazon pre-sorts, and pre-loads trucks for the shippers it uses to get cheap shipping. If you pick free-shipping, your item gets boxed, and loaded in a trailer that is heading in the right direction for where you live. When the truck is full, it leaves. If you order when the truck is almost full, you get your order quickly. If the truck is empty, and you live in an area that doesn't order a lot of stuff from Amazon, you wait.
If you pick paid shipping, the order gets picked up and goes through UPS/FedEx/DHL's regular shipping process.
It's as simple as that. What incentive could they possibly have to keep your order waiting around? Do you think they're trying to teach you some sort of lesson about using the free shipping?
As far as this patent goes, I could easily see them doing something like putting a repeat customer's box on the truck instead of a one-timer if there isn't room for both... And I can't fault them for it at all.
I used to work at a site which had around 5000 devices, maybe 50 of which were facing the public internet. Yes, it did significantly help with that site. We didn't name our db servers 1 through 6 by the way - or rather 1 through thirty-something.
The 1-6 thing is a red herring... They can still be found with a ping-scan, or similar.
I don't think anybody here was advocating allowing a zone transfer for your internal addresses. That is a bad idea, as the only thing it accomplishes is making it easier for an attacker to get what they want and get out quickly should they break in.
If you have Bind9 configured correctly, it should only zone-transfer addresses that are visible on the network they are being transferred over. So your 5000 devices could do a transfer for all the addresses, and people on the internet could only transfer the addresses for the externally visible box.
If you use any type of round-robin that cycles through DNS names in a web-app, or anything like that, the only thing allowing transfers does is reduce the traffic to your nameserver by easing caching.
I did the hackers diet... I lost weight. And I can tell you as fact that it's not that simple.
Stress, nutrition, and types of exercise alter each of your variables in important ways.
So you start exercising, and modify your diet to reduce calories... Say you ditch sugared soda, and cut your portions in half; you also get a gym membership and start lifting and running. Sure, you're burning energy. Where is your body getting that energy? Metabolizing fat? If you're lucky... But it could be muscle if you've kept your stress levels high and don't have a balanced diet; or if you excercise improperly.... This leads to injury when you exercise. You lose weight, but not fat, then you're injured and can't exercise anymore. Great job! Soon the weight comes back, but not as the muscle you lost; instead it comes back as more fat. You may weigh slightly less than when you started, but you're less healthy, and you feel it too. Great job!
Claiming that the (calories in calories out = weight loss) is all there is to it is just bad. Very few people who have any experience with losing weight would tell you it was that simple.
What level of risk are you willing to take for civil disobedience?
In my state it is illegal not to meet your children at the bus stop. It's a ridiculous rule designed to prevent a tiny, tiny handful of child abductions.
Once a child reaches a certain age, I think that it is valuable - important - for them to start being independent in situations like that. It's the start of responsibility; being responsible for getting yourself home from where you need to be. It teaches valuable lessons that you need to know to become a responsible adult. It's clear from the attitudes of older children and young adults around here that it is a lesson which isn't being learned properly before people grow up.
But am I willing to lose my kids to do what I know is right in this case? Is that the best thing for myself and my child in that scenario? I know that one of the other busybody parents near me would turn me in, if not the bus driver...
Civil disobedience only works when it is organized and done in a large group.
In Prague in the 1618, dissatisfied citizens up in arms over their leaders religious affiliation and it's imposition upon them (sound familiar?), stormed the castle and threw said leaders out the window. If you go to Prague castle, you will see that the window in question is quite high off the ground; being thrown out it is a fatal proposition.
Unfortunately, the chambers in which our legislature meet have no windows, and the windows in the oval office aren't very far off the ground at all... We'd probably need firearms.
Reach over to your bookshelf and pull out your D&D PHB (you know you have one).
They're the perfect size, and you can work on them for hours before the heat gets through to your lap. Once it does, trade it out for the DMG for a while.
You don't even have to sink a tanker... All you have to do is pop up in the middle of a naval exercise being run with most sophisticated fleets on the planet, and not be detected until you arrive. That would be sufficient to make any future claims of submarine presence be taken seriously.
Where do you propose the coolant be sucked to, exactly, if the system isn't "truly closed"? Do you want your coolant open to the atmosphere somewhere?
A circulating system may have a pressure variance from one side of the pump to the other based on fluid viscosity, pipe diameter, and flowrate, but in a well designed system that would be negligible.
If you did design an open circuit system, and managed to develop sufficient negative pressure, you'd still end up with air in your circuit in the event of a leak. That would be *bad*, since it wouldn't cool your equipment correctly. Especially if it forms a cavity in the system somewhere. The best way to deal with leaks is not to have them. With well designed and implemented joins in your plumbing, this shouldn't be all that difficult. We've solved this problem over a century ago.
I *have* heard of the telecom industry, and that's exactly why I said "most" datacenters... Unfortunately, that's a telcom standard, and not an industry wide market. There are other features of intel's telecom boxes that make them impractical (far too expensive) for use in the whitebox market.
In a closed loop, there is no difference between sucking on the return, and pumping material into the supply. Using the pump to assist draining as you describe would require one pump per server, as the coolant is preferentially going to come from the loops that are being backfilled by the pump itself, and not from the disconnected pipe.
Ideally, you would connect the systems with quick-releases that close off on both sides. That would prevent the need for draining the components inside the system *ever*, and it would also eliminate the need to purge the air from the system.
The reason these types of systems aren't used already is the same as the reason most datacenters aren't supplying our servers with DC power to prevent the loss of 20% of the energy before they even start processing data.... There aren't any standards, and there is a lot of legacy equipment out there. We need intel, and Sun, and a bunch of switch manufacturers to get together and come up with a standard for external DC power supplies and cooling connections. There also needs to be a low cost, small scale box that can produce what those connections need in a small setting for not much more money than the old way. Then over time we'll see more efficiency in this space.
Subs are rather bad at "or else" tactics. "Or else" and using the element of surprise kinda clash.
Actually, "or else" works really well if your enforcement method is entirely undetectable until it's used.
"Turn around, or else that sub behind you is going to sink you..."
Then it's up to the captain of the ship to decide whether or not the person making the demands is bluffing about the sub or not. If you have a proven stealth capability, you can exert your will with a much smaller fleet than if your true capabilities are visible to anybody.
Rule enforcers are selected from the player base... Abuse is rampant. If you start to become even remotely powerful, you end up banned for having duplicate accounts (even if you don't have duplicate accounts). Then your punishment gets "reduced" to having all of your buildings levels reduced by 10% and your account re-enabled... It only takes them as long as it takes your rival alliance to build up strength to attack you, and your account is re-enabled mere seconds before they send their attacks...
Or maybe it's a coincidence when that stuff happens. I mean, It's only happened to 8 out of the 10 people I know who played enough to get high up on the population board.
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You've got a great point. Toshiba wouldn't ever push restrictive DRM on consumers, own an RIAA member company, or pay a major studio to adopt their technology after it couldn't gain adoption on its own merits. They've actually got a squeaky-clean corporate reputation. Hugely ethical...
That's true for many grad students... Not all grad students though. Usually they have to teach, or the like to get a deal like that, and few schools can offer it to all their grad students.
Regardless, most of those students still have loans from their undergrad study which have been accruing interest while they were deferring payment to get their graduate degree.
Incidentally, in recent times those interest rates have been high, since congress has funded all of their higher education affordability initiatives by cutting subsidies on student loans for people who have already graduated.
You've got the order backwards:
1. 5 engineering students and one professor make a working prototype for under $20k
2. DoD contractor requests $50m to productize the research
3. 2 grad students (part of the original 5) improve the design as a product funded (Maybe $100k) by aformentioned DoD contractor
4. The university and contractor get a co-patent
5. The DoD contractor sells the $10k units for $10m to the US government. The university gets a 10% cut. The grad students get a $375/month student loan bill over 30 years.
6. The congressman for the district the DoD contractor is based in gets re-elected.
You left out a vital detail that makes this completely different from what's happening in Russia...
They went out of their way to get arrested. They were trying. It was their plan all along. They weren't invited to the debate, so they intentionally created a disturbance, so they would be arrested for publicity.
That is completely different from being arrested to silence your protest.
You've got a seriously fucked up definition of "happen" you you think this happens here. That, and you really have no appreciation for how good you've got it when it comes to political freedoms compared to what the Russians have.
I'm absolutely *not* describing postal injection. That is a different service (services such as FedEx SmartPost), which is not what Amazon does.
But you should know if you coded the controls for these systems... But I suspect you mean shipping systems, and not Amazon's systems.
You are right that the systems they use aren't "in the right direction"... I was dramatically oversimplifying the description... I can't think of any long-haul shipment system that works exactly like that.
That's all well and good in a discussion about whether or not you like the Zune. Unfortunately, we're talking about whether or not it is/was/will be a successful product, and whether or not it was a good decision for Microsoft to include an FM radio in it.
That's the point!
How much profit do you think Microsoft makes on the Zune? Unless your guess has a minus sign in front of it, you're wrong. Microsoft threw everything and the kitchen sink into the device to capture some market, with the intention of figuring out how to extract profit from those customers at some point in the future. They threw in things that niche consumers might like; things like an FM tuner. And what did it get them? A niche market, and a huge red entry in their balance sheet. Microsoft has yet to figure out how to turn a profit on products that they haven't cornered the market with. That's why the vast majority of their hardware (including both revisions of the XBox) have been spectacular failures financially. Steve Jobs, and Apple shareholders are laughing all the way to the bank.
I wouldn't call "slowly gaining market penetration by chopping 50% off the price to liquidate the remaining stock for what was already a loss-leader item", a rousing success. I think "failure" is a much more appropriate term.
Amazon pre-sorts, and pre-loads trucks for the shippers it uses to get cheap shipping. If you pick free-shipping, your item gets boxed, and loaded in a trailer that is heading in the right direction for where you live. When the truck is full, it leaves. If you order when the truck is almost full, you get your order quickly. If the truck is empty, and you live in an area that doesn't order a lot of stuff from Amazon, you wait.
If you pick paid shipping, the order gets picked up and goes through UPS/FedEx/DHL's regular shipping process.
It's as simple as that. What incentive could they possibly have to keep your order waiting around? Do you think they're trying to teach you some sort of lesson about using the free shipping?
As far as this patent goes, I could easily see them doing something like putting a repeat customer's box on the truck instead of a one-timer if there isn't room for both... And I can't fault them for it at all.
It also assumes that those 1% of people would use Google if the button weren't there.
The button is branding. Would this same analyst consider any advertising Google might choose to do as a "revenue loss"?
The assumption is exactly as absurd as the assumption that every downloaded song is a lost CD sale, for exactly the same reasons.
The 1-6 thing is a red herring... They can still be found with a ping-scan, or similar.
I don't think anybody here was advocating allowing a zone transfer for your internal addresses. That is a bad idea, as the only thing it accomplishes is making it easier for an attacker to get what they want and get out quickly should they break in.
If you have Bind9 configured correctly, it should only zone-transfer addresses that are visible on the network they are being transferred over. So your 5000 devices could do a transfer for all the addresses, and people on the internet could only transfer the addresses for the externally visible box.
If you use any type of round-robin that cycles through DNS names in a web-app, or anything like that, the only thing allowing transfers does is reduce the traffic to your nameserver by easing caching.
I did the hackers diet... I lost weight. And I can tell you as fact that it's not that simple.
Stress, nutrition, and types of exercise alter each of your variables in important ways.
So you start exercising, and modify your diet to reduce calories... Say you ditch sugared soda, and cut your portions in half; you also get a gym membership and start lifting and running. Sure, you're burning energy. Where is your body getting that energy? Metabolizing fat? If you're lucky... But it could be muscle if you've kept your stress levels high and don't have a balanced diet; or if you excercise improperly.... This leads to injury when you exercise. You lose weight, but not fat, then you're injured and can't exercise anymore. Great job! Soon the weight comes back, but not as the muscle you lost; instead it comes back as more fat. You may weigh slightly less than when you started, but you're less healthy, and you feel it too. Great job!
Claiming that the (calories in calories out = weight loss) is all there is to it is just bad. Very few people who have any experience with losing weight would tell you it was that simple.
What level of risk are you willing to take for civil disobedience?
In my state it is illegal not to meet your children at the bus stop. It's a ridiculous rule designed to prevent a tiny, tiny handful of child abductions.
Once a child reaches a certain age, I think that it is valuable - important - for them to start being independent in situations like that. It's the start of responsibility; being responsible for getting yourself home from where you need to be. It teaches valuable lessons that you need to know to become a responsible adult. It's clear from the attitudes of older children and young adults around here that it is a lesson which isn't being learned properly before people grow up.
But am I willing to lose my kids to do what I know is right in this case? Is that the best thing for myself and my child in that scenario? I know that one of the other busybody parents near me would turn me in, if not the bus driver...
Civil disobedience only works when it is organized and done in a large group.
Try it sometime.
It doesn't take very many guards with automatic weapons to stop an angry mob.
In Prague in the 1618, dissatisfied citizens up in arms over their leaders religious affiliation and it's imposition upon them (sound familiar?), stormed the castle and threw said leaders out the window. If you go to Prague castle, you will see that the window in question is quite high off the ground; being thrown out it is a fatal proposition.
Unfortunately, the chambers in which our legislature meet have no windows, and the windows in the oval office aren't very far off the ground at all... We'd probably need firearms.
Reach over to your bookshelf and pull out your D&D PHB (you know you have one).
They're the perfect size, and you can work on them for hours before the heat gets through to your lap. Once it does, trade it out for the DMG for a while.
Clearly the only thing that gets stored in a database is sensitive personal information....
You don't even have to sink a tanker... All you have to do is pop up in the middle of a naval exercise being run with most sophisticated fleets on the planet, and not be detected until you arrive. That would be sufficient to make any future claims of submarine presence be taken seriously.
Where do you propose the coolant be sucked to, exactly, if the system isn't "truly closed"? Do you want your coolant open to the atmosphere somewhere?
A circulating system may have a pressure variance from one side of the pump to the other based on fluid viscosity, pipe diameter, and flowrate, but in a well designed system that would be negligible.
If you did design an open circuit system, and managed to develop sufficient negative pressure, you'd still end up with air in your circuit in the event of a leak. That would be *bad*, since it wouldn't cool your equipment correctly. Especially if it forms a cavity in the system somewhere. The best way to deal with leaks is not to have them. With well designed and implemented joins in your plumbing, this shouldn't be all that difficult. We've solved this problem over a century ago.
I *have* heard of the telecom industry, and that's exactly why I said "most" datacenters... Unfortunately, that's a telcom standard, and not an industry wide market. There are other features of intel's telecom boxes that make them impractical (far too expensive) for use in the whitebox market.
In a closed loop, there is no difference between sucking on the return, and pumping material into the supply. Using the pump to assist draining as you describe would require one pump per server, as the coolant is preferentially going to come from the loops that are being backfilled by the pump itself, and not from the disconnected pipe.
Ideally, you would connect the systems with quick-releases that close off on both sides. That would prevent the need for draining the components inside the system *ever*, and it would also eliminate the need to purge the air from the system.
The reason these types of systems aren't used already is the same as the reason most datacenters aren't supplying our servers with DC power to prevent the loss of 20% of the energy before they even start processing data.... There aren't any standards, and there is a lot of legacy equipment out there. We need intel, and Sun, and a bunch of switch manufacturers to get together and come up with a standard for external DC power supplies and cooling connections. There also needs to be a low cost, small scale box that can produce what those connections need in a small setting for not much more money than the old way. Then over time we'll see more efficiency in this space.
Actually, "or else" works really well if your enforcement method is entirely undetectable until it's used.
"Turn around, or else that sub behind you is going to sink you..."
Then it's up to the captain of the ship to decide whether or not the person making the demands is bluffing about the sub or not. If you have a proven stealth capability, you can exert your will with a much smaller fleet than if your true capabilities are visible to anybody.
Rule enforcers are selected from the player base... Abuse is rampant. If you start to become even remotely powerful, you end up banned for having duplicate accounts (even if you don't have duplicate accounts). Then your punishment gets "reduced" to having all of your buildings levels reduced by 10% and your account re-enabled... It only takes them as long as it takes your rival alliance to build up strength to attack you, and your account is re-enabled mere seconds before they send their attacks...
Or maybe it's a coincidence when that stuff happens. I mean, It's only happened to 8 out of the 10 people I know who played enough to get high up on the population board.
Yes, but your car probably doesn't have the most expensive component in common with a Ferrari...
The only differences between an HD-DVD drive and a BluRay drive are the lens, and software.
Who modded this insightful?
The laser diodes are identical for both BluRay and HD-DVD.
Too bad there isn't a (-1, Wrong)...