To be fair, another poster was correct and I was referringto kB/s.
Why the hell we have two different measurement systems I'll never know. We should just start measuring in kB and refuse to measure in kb since kb became irrelevant almost 20 years ago.
However, you are correct, you get 4-5kB/s on a standard 56k dialup connection. The dialup connection speed is in bits however, not bytes so 7 kB/s is the theoretical rated speed, which you will only see on a sunny tuesday in wales on the day the pope moons the gathered bishops and yells "You're all fucking retards, There is no god!"
Currently a REALLY GOOD ROCK SOLID dialup connection will manage to log in and chat for about 5 seconds before the packet overflow reaches disconnect level latency. If you happen to be logged off in a major city you will just get a snapshot of where everyone was the instant you logged on and already be disconnected when you finish loading.
I think facebook is already on its way to myspace-dom. I've already got a lot of my less tech-savvy relatives looking for something else because they don't like facebook.
Google+ in its current form is unfortunately not the answer.
Given what big banks and other large businesses have gotten away with in the US, it might be more accurate to say that conspiracy to fraud and fraud are not crimes/inside/ of America.
So as several people have pointed out, I prefer dead-tree format books still.
Until the price is cheaper for a digital copy, that is what I will be sticking with.
Now, I have heard of and used ePub, but PDF was just the one that leaped out to me as an already extremely common document format, and what we're really talking about here is documents.
I apologize for apparently insulting the large ebook using populace out there. Please mentally replace PDF with ePub or whatever other format floats your boat in the parent post.
It will likely mean that certain proprietary formats will slowly disappear and the pricing will get down to the 4.75 kindle edition as no one buys the iPad editions etc.
Right now some of the pricing peaks and valleys are due to the fact that some devices have fees attached to publish for them at all.
As we go further into DRM-Free, most books will probably just start coming in PDF or something similar and fancy PDF reading apps will be more abundant than they currently are, and available on more devices.
Sigh, I've covered the fact that they are generalizations. They are true, on average.
Also, it wasn't a forced issue. It took her days to come back. The ultimatum was what I'd call a "soft" ultimatum and it took her days to come back with an answer, over the course of which we talked a whole bunch more about it and she actually read the material I had provided her for it.
By the way, I at no point said that women are "less capable" of making rational decisions.
Women are just as *capable* as men of making rational decisions. Due to various factors however, they are less likely to make the rational decision and more likely to rely on intuition, I.E. Emotion.
This is a perfectly valid stance. You need to do your own research and risk analysis. This is what I'm advocating for.
The doctors here don't vaccinate unnecessarily, and Hepatitis probably wasn't the best example, its just the one that I thought of because its the one that I most recently had before I left the country on a trip.
What you did is exactly the point however, you went and got informed, and are now making an informed, rational decision. You will be getting the vaccines where the benefits out-weigh the risks, and there are a lot out there where the benefit is "Not dying from disease x" so your child will still be getting the most important ones.
What would be irrational is if your cousins child had gotten the arthritis and you unilaterally said "no" to all vaccines for your own child.
Basically the demand was what made her open her mind and actually pay attention to what I was telling her.
The fact that I felt strongly enough about it to go to the relationship being over was enough to tell her that she should seriously reconsider her position on it.
It took her days to answer me. During which she actually read, and more importantly took the time to understand, all of the things I'd given to her as evidence before.
Another hilarious thing is that there are a small group of folks trying to moderate that comment down by any means necessary. I put the last statement in there to try to avoid that from the knee-jerk feminists but from another few comments I see that avoiding it wasn't possible...
There are differences in the sexes people. Men are better at some things, Women are better at others. Get over it.
If it makes you feel better Women are better at more things than Men. They're also better at doing more things at the same time than men.
Doctors are not always 100% correct. They are human, and invariably humans all make mistakes.
Besides which, however much a lot of RN's like to claim they know a lot about medicine, the reality is that they generally don't. I know a fair number of nurses, and it sometimes scares me some of the things that I consider to be relatively common knowledge(probably because I do a lot of reading), or at least definitely should be common knowledge in the medical profession, that they don't know.
That said, doctors are right 95% of the time. Thus you should probably follow their advice 95% of the time. When its really important, like a vaccine that could potentially have side effects on your kid, when there are alternate vaccines or something available, you should research the issue, and inform yourself, and then make an informed decision.
Despite what some people think, learning a lot about one particular issue isn't very daunting. It would only take a few evenings of diligent research to find out about a lot of the vaccines they want to give your child, and if there are alternatives.
If you can't manage to spend a few evenings doing that, then you shouldn't have kids(IMHO)
Thats what pre-nuptial agreements are for. Also your bargaining power magically re-appears as soon as you hire a lawyer and aggressively go after custody of your children on child abuse grounds because of her beliefs.
This is the one situation that I've heard men have success in getting custody. If the Mother is refusing to get her kids vaccinated against very dangerous diseases, then she's actually quite screwed in the custody hearing, and with the kids, goes her ability to milk you for cash.
Women thinking men will change is stupid. If he's over 25, he is pretty much going to be the way he is now when he's 90.
She still has the irrational fear I'm sure, but the conversation made her properly prioritize things. I also mentioned the fact that she was putting her own irrational fear ahead of her (future)children's health.
As far as being up to her if I even get on the birth certificate, I have no idea what the laws around that are here. All I know is that she knows I'm gone if she does something crazy like that, and most women do not want to raise kids on their own.
I also know that "mom knows best" in most relationships. I'm just trying to spread the message that it does NOT have to be that way, at least not all of the time.
I see bad decisions made for this very reason every damn day and I wonder how we made it so far as a species with men as the warriors and hunters when I walk into a room of 20 and maybe 2 actually have a pair of balls still attached.
Another part of the problem is apathy. "Mom knows best" is a convenient answer that gets Dad off the hook for whatever decisions are made. This falls into the "Dad needs to grow a set" category as well.
Don't get me wrong, Dads letting Moms have most of the decisions is a/very/ good idea, but Dads need to step up when something important is going on and he knows that Mom is wrong. You don't have to sacrifice an entire relationship to straighten out a few things.
My wife also believes in healing crystals and burning incense. So long as I don't hate the smell of the stuff, I don't really care. She's got a lot of other things in common with me that more than make up for the little crap like that.
The entire point here is that Dads need to be fucking MEN. Not assholes that nit-pick on every little item, but not pussy-whipped fools either.
If even one or two guys reads what I wrote and decides to actually DO something about what he believes is the right course of action, then I have succeeded.
My wife loves me, and we've talked about having kids a fair bit. At first we were discussing things and then I started hearing her opinions on modern medicine etc.
All I had to do was explain to her, with the scientific evidence included, why she was wrong, and then, since as any man knows that isn't going to actually work, flat out make her choose between her backwards ideals and me. I wasn't an asshole about it, but I calmly explained that I wanted children, and if we weren't going to do what is best for their happiness and survival then the relationship was going to end at some point in the future unless she changed her mind.
She picked me. If she hadn't, I've have been sad for awhile, but knowing that I wouldn't have to lose a child to Hepatitis or something years from now would have more than made up for it.
More men need to start standing their ground on this stuff. A lot of men back down for fear of losing their loved one or
This is the age of science, and men tend to think more with their heads and less with their hearts. Now is the time where "Mom knows best" isn't always the best option.
When it comes to apple pies, talking the kid through their first relationship issues, things like that, Mom definitely still knows best. For most everyday things, Mom is the answer. Most of our lives revolve around social interaction of one type or another, which women, on average, excel at in comparison to men.
However in the age of our advanced state of medical knowledge, and informed, rational decision is what is needed. If Mom is going to do that, then you're in the clear. If Mom is not going to do that, then its time to grow a pair of balls and step in.
Now, before anyone screams, yes there are a lot of generalizations in there. These are true, on the AVERAGE. If you're a woman in one of those relatively-speaking "rare" situations where the shoe is on the other foot, then you need to do the same thing.
Thats more creative accounting than anything. It cost 208 million, marketing, accounting, everything included.
Hollywood companies publish the real numbers in their shareholders reports, one of which happened directly before the titanic movie was released in theatres.
It was only after the fact that they came up with the other shit. Like they always do.
If you talk to anyone, ever, who was due a cut of profits in hollywood, they'll tell you their film lost money. Yet somehow Warner, Universal, Sony etc manage to stay in business and have so much cash that they can spend upwards of 100m a year just on people to talk to people in washington.
If you look at the records, almost every single film they produce loses money. The ones that don't make a very meager profit.
Its not. Its actually cheaper to test a particular batch if its for a big enough job.
In a raid 5 3 drive configuration if one disk fails you rebuild it, then swap each of the other drives out one at a time immediately afterwards. Since one drive has failed and they've all had the same use pattern you can assume that the others are going to fail as well.
Beyond that, if things are that mission critical you should have streaming backups to an additional backup array of newer drives. Brand makes zero difference here, they just have to have less usage.
Besides which, whatever they claim, raid controllers to this day do not like different types of hardware inside a single array. I've seen IT guys take the manufacturers at their word and spend months looking for "ghosts in the system" due to random corrupt data errors. Its just the raid controller spazing because someone installed a Western Digital drive in the same array as a Maxtor, or a 120gb drive alongside two 80gb drives.
There is no "easy" when it comes to proper hardware management. If you're working in IT you need to learn this fast before it costs your company big time down the road.
I mean, really, someone working at slashdot doesn't know this? This is about as basic a question as it gets when it comes to hardware.
Raid 5, a solid backup scheme, and a storage closet full of replacement drives. There is no good way to test HDDs.
Due entirely to the fact that they are a WEAR item it is only possible to decide which brand you trust the most.
Other than that, if its a big job and a lot of HDDs are going to be bought you could take 10 of each candidate drive and run them through spinrite till they fail. One that fails last wins.
SSDs are still too expensive to be using for mass storage, and should be treated the exact same way even if you ARE using them for mass storage regardless, as they are also a wear item, and will fail without warning after so many read/write operations, the same as a HDD.
Your corporate environment needs some updating if an Android device can't do everything you need it to.
The only thing it doesn't have these days is the end-to-end encrypted messenger service.
As for government, they're always slow in changing but my Provincial government here in Canada is actually rolling out an exclusively Android based market because of the fact that their IT guys can run custom apps on them quite easily. The few custom apps and settings gain back 95% of the security they're losing from the blackberries and the other 5% can take a hike due to the productivity increase from the phones.
Technically, according to the data they have so far that child would still be safer with the driverless car than a human. It stops for all obstacles, ALL, and THEN maneuvers around them. There are no exceptions, and regardless of anything else, the child is an obstacle.
This is a stat I see quoted quite often, and its so wrong I keep wondering how it stays alive.
Basically over half of the losses actually happen while stepping up the power for transmission or stepping it back down for use at the other end.
Yes the LINES only lose 3% but the process to step the power up and down lose an additional 4% or more. As the transformers age the loss goes up.
As solar power is only barely on the edge of viable right now, with subsidies, taking an additional 7% hit pushes it over the edge into non-viable town.
There is also the fact that not all industries are equal.
a 5 day or less work week is highly desirable for any field, however anything less than 10 hours a day in construction loses a LOT of productivity unless its a huge project(I.E. Hanging drywall in an apartment building for 20 days straight etc)
If there is any thinking involved, IE carpentry & finishing work, its way worse to have an 8 hour day. The guys will, regardless of the length of the work day, spend approximately 1 hour in the morning figuring out exactly how they're going to do everything for the day, and then about 30 minutes after they've had a lunch break recalling/refiguring everything they were going to do for the afternoon.
Wow, I make a legitimately informative post and what I can only assume are republitards come along and mod me down after the story has been off the front page for days. Congrats.
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To be fair, another poster was correct and I was referringto kB/s.
Why the hell we have two different measurement systems I'll never know. We should just start measuring in kB and refuse to measure in kb since kb became irrelevant almost 20 years ago.
However, you are correct, you get 4-5kB/s on a standard 56k dialup connection. The dialup connection speed is in bits however, not bytes so 7 kB/s is the theoretical rated speed, which you will only see on a sunny tuesday in wales on the day the pope moons the gathered bishops and yells "You're all fucking retards, There is no god!"
Currently a REALLY GOOD ROCK SOLID dialup connection will manage to log in and chat for about 5 seconds before the packet overflow reaches disconnect level latency. If you happen to be logged off in a major city you will just get a snapshot of where everyone was the instant you logged on and already be disconnected when you finish loading.
Its not playable on a dialup modem anymore, and actually consumes a large amount of bandwidth now, at least in comparison to what it used to.
Last time I checked it was eating about 40-50kb/s.
Which is something like 8x a really good really fast dialup connection.
I think facebook is already on its way to myspace-dom. I've already got a lot of my less tech-savvy relatives looking for something else because they don't like facebook.
Google+ in its current form is unfortunately not the answer.
Given what big banks and other large businesses have gotten away with in the US, it might be more accurate to say that conspiracy to fraud and fraud are not crimes /inside/ of America.
So as several people have pointed out, I prefer dead-tree format books still.
Until the price is cheaper for a digital copy, that is what I will be sticking with.
Now, I have heard of and used ePub, but PDF was just the one that leaped out to me as an already extremely common document format, and what we're really talking about here is documents.
I apologize for apparently insulting the large ebook using populace out there. Please mentally replace PDF with ePub or whatever other format floats your boat in the parent post.
It will likely mean that certain proprietary formats will slowly disappear and the pricing will get down to the 4.75 kindle edition as no one buys the iPad editions etc.
Right now some of the pricing peaks and valleys are due to the fact that some devices have fees attached to publish for them at all.
As we go further into DRM-Free, most books will probably just start coming in PDF or something similar and fancy PDF reading apps will be more abundant than they currently are, and available on more devices.
Sigh, I've covered the fact that they are generalizations. They are true, on average.
Also, it wasn't a forced issue. It took her days to come back. The ultimatum was what I'd call a "soft" ultimatum and it took her days to come back with an answer, over the course of which we talked a whole bunch more about it and she actually read the material I had provided her for it.
By the way, I at no point said that women are "less capable" of making rational decisions.
Women are just as *capable* as men of making rational decisions. Due to various factors however, they are less likely to make the rational decision and more likely to rely on intuition, I.E. Emotion.
This is a perfectly valid stance. You need to do your own research and risk analysis. This is what I'm advocating for.
The doctors here don't vaccinate unnecessarily, and Hepatitis probably wasn't the best example, its just the one that I thought of because its the one that I most recently had before I left the country on a trip.
What you did is exactly the point however, you went and got informed, and are now making an informed, rational decision. You will be getting the vaccines where the benefits out-weigh the risks, and there are a lot out there where the benefit is "Not dying from disease x" so your child will still be getting the most important ones.
What would be irrational is if your cousins child had gotten the arthritis and you unilaterally said "no" to all vaccines for your own child.
I've seen that happen too.
Basically the demand was what made her open her mind and actually pay attention to what I was telling her.
The fact that I felt strongly enough about it to go to the relationship being over was enough to tell her that she should seriously reconsider her position on it.
It took her days to answer me. During which she actually read, and more importantly took the time to understand, all of the things I'd given to her as evidence before.
Another hilarious thing is that there are a small group of folks trying to moderate that comment down by any means necessary. I put the last statement in there to try to avoid that from the knee-jerk feminists but from another few comments I see that avoiding it wasn't possible...
There are differences in the sexes people. Men are better at some things, Women are better at others. Get over it.
If it makes you feel better Women are better at more things than Men. They're also better at doing more things at the same time than men.
They don't really change that much.
New experiences may change their opinions on a few things, but the basic person is still there.
This is what I'm talking about.
Good for you.
This is a reasonable approach.
Doctors are not always 100% correct. They are human, and invariably humans all make mistakes.
Besides which, however much a lot of RN's like to claim they know a lot about medicine, the reality is that they generally don't. I know a fair number of nurses, and it sometimes scares me some of the things that I consider to be relatively common knowledge(probably because I do a lot of reading), or at least definitely should be common knowledge in the medical profession, that they don't know.
That said, doctors are right 95% of the time. Thus you should probably follow their advice 95% of the time. When its really important, like a vaccine that could potentially have side effects on your kid, when there are alternate vaccines or something available, you should research the issue, and inform yourself, and then make an informed decision.
Despite what some people think, learning a lot about one particular issue isn't very daunting. It would only take a few evenings of diligent research to find out about a lot of the vaccines they want to give your child, and if there are alternatives.
If you can't manage to spend a few evenings doing that, then you shouldn't have kids(IMHO)
Thats what pre-nuptial agreements are for. Also your bargaining power magically re-appears as soon as you hire a lawyer and aggressively go after custody of your children on child abuse grounds because of her beliefs.
This is the one situation that I've heard men have success in getting custody. If the Mother is refusing to get her kids vaccinated against very dangerous diseases, then she's actually quite screwed in the custody hearing, and with the kids, goes her ability to milk you for cash.
Women thinking men will change is stupid. If he's over 25, he is pretty much going to be the way he is now when he's 90.
She still has the irrational fear I'm sure, but the conversation made her properly prioritize things. I also mentioned the fact that she was putting her own irrational fear ahead of her (future)children's health.
As far as being up to her if I even get on the birth certificate, I have no idea what the laws around that are here. All I know is that she knows I'm gone if she does something crazy like that, and most women do not want to raise kids on their own.
I also know that "mom knows best" in most relationships. I'm just trying to spread the message that it does NOT have to be that way, at least not all of the time.
I see bad decisions made for this very reason every damn day and I wonder how we made it so far as a species with men as the warriors and hunters when I walk into a room of 20 and maybe 2 actually have a pair of balls still attached.
Another part of the problem is apathy. "Mom knows best" is a convenient answer that gets Dad off the hook for whatever decisions are made. This falls into the "Dad needs to grow a set" category as well.
Don't get me wrong, Dads letting Moms have most of the decisions is a /very/ good idea, but Dads need to step up when something important is going on and he knows that Mom is wrong. You don't have to sacrifice an entire relationship to straighten out a few things.
My wife also believes in healing crystals and burning incense. So long as I don't hate the smell of the stuff, I don't really care. She's got a lot of other things in common with me that more than make up for the little crap like that.
The entire point here is that Dads need to be fucking MEN. Not assholes that nit-pick on every little item, but not pussy-whipped fools either.
If even one or two guys reads what I wrote and decides to actually DO something about what he believes is the right course of action, then I have succeeded.
Thats only because Dad gives in.
My wife loves me, and we've talked about having kids a fair bit. At first we were discussing things and then I started hearing her opinions on modern medicine etc.
All I had to do was explain to her, with the scientific evidence included, why she was wrong, and then, since as any man knows that isn't going to actually work, flat out make her choose between her backwards ideals and me. I wasn't an asshole about it, but I calmly explained that I wanted children, and if we weren't going to do what is best for their happiness and survival then the relationship was going to end at some point in the future unless she changed her mind.
She picked me. If she hadn't, I've have been sad for awhile, but knowing that I wouldn't have to lose a child to Hepatitis or something years from now would have more than made up for it.
More men need to start standing their ground on this stuff. A lot of men back down for fear of losing their loved one or
This is the age of science, and men tend to think more with their heads and less with their hearts. Now is the time where "Mom knows best" isn't always the best option.
When it comes to apple pies, talking the kid through their first relationship issues, things like that, Mom definitely still knows best. For most everyday things, Mom is the answer. Most of our lives revolve around social interaction of one type or another, which women, on average, excel at in comparison to men.
However in the age of our advanced state of medical knowledge, and informed, rational decision is what is needed. If Mom is going to do that, then you're in the clear. If Mom is not going to do that, then its time to grow a pair of balls and step in.
Now, before anyone screams, yes there are a lot of generalizations in there. These are true, on the AVERAGE. If you're a woman in one of those relatively-speaking "rare" situations where the shoe is on the other foot, then you need to do the same thing.
Thats more creative accounting than anything. It cost 208 million, marketing, accounting, everything included.
Hollywood companies publish the real numbers in their shareholders reports, one of which happened directly before the titanic movie was released in theatres.
It was only after the fact that they came up with the other shit. Like they always do.
If you talk to anyone, ever, who was due a cut of profits in hollywood, they'll tell you their film lost money. Yet somehow Warner, Universal, Sony etc manage to stay in business and have so much cash that they can spend upwards of 100m a year just on people to talk to people in washington.
If you look at the records, almost every single film they produce loses money. The ones that don't make a very meager profit.
Its not. Its actually cheaper to test a particular batch if its for a big enough job.
In a raid 5 3 drive configuration if one disk fails you rebuild it, then swap each of the other drives out one at a time immediately afterwards. Since one drive has failed and they've all had the same use pattern you can assume that the others are going to fail as well.
Beyond that, if things are that mission critical you should have streaming backups to an additional backup array of newer drives. Brand makes zero difference here, they just have to have less usage.
Besides which, whatever they claim, raid controllers to this day do not like different types of hardware inside a single array. I've seen IT guys take the manufacturers at their word and spend months looking for "ghosts in the system" due to random corrupt data errors. Its just the raid controller spazing because someone installed a Western Digital drive in the same array as a Maxtor, or a 120gb drive alongside two 80gb drives.
There is no "easy" when it comes to proper hardware management. If you're working in IT you need to learn this fast before it costs your company big time down the road.
I mean, really, someone working at slashdot doesn't know this? This is about as basic a question as it gets when it comes to hardware.
Raid 5, a solid backup scheme, and a storage closet full of replacement drives. There is no good way to test HDDs.
Due entirely to the fact that they are a WEAR item it is only possible to decide which brand you trust the most.
Other than that, if its a big job and a lot of HDDs are going to be bought you could take 10 of each candidate drive and run them through spinrite till they fail. One that fails last wins.
SSDs are still too expensive to be using for mass storage, and should be treated the exact same way even if you ARE using them for mass storage regardless, as they are also a wear item, and will fail without warning after so many read/write operations, the same as a HDD.
Its seriously gotten so bad that I pretty much either A) tackle the idiot or B) run for the hills every time I see a camera.
Your corporate environment needs some updating if an Android device can't do everything you need it to.
The only thing it doesn't have these days is the end-to-end encrypted messenger service.
As for government, they're always slow in changing but my Provincial government here in Canada is actually rolling out an exclusively Android based market because of the fact that their IT guys can run custom apps on them quite easily. The few custom apps and settings gain back 95% of the security they're losing from the blackberries and the other 5% can take a hike due to the productivity increase from the phones.
Technically, according to the data they have so far that child would still be safer with the driverless car than a human. It stops for all obstacles, ALL, and THEN maneuvers around them. There are no exceptions, and regardless of anything else, the child is an obstacle.
This is a stat I see quoted quite often, and its so wrong I keep wondering how it stays alive.
Basically over half of the losses actually happen while stepping up the power for transmission or stepping it back down for use at the other end.
Yes the LINES only lose 3% but the process to step the power up and down lose an additional 4% or more. As the transformers age the loss goes up.
As solar power is only barely on the edge of viable right now, with subsidies, taking an additional 7% hit pushes it over the edge into non-viable town.
There is that.
There is also the fact that not all industries are equal.
a 5 day or less work week is highly desirable for any field, however anything less than 10 hours a day in construction loses a LOT of productivity unless its a huge project(I.E. Hanging drywall in an apartment building for 20 days straight etc)
If there is any thinking involved, IE carpentry & finishing work, its way worse to have an 8 hour day. The guys will, regardless of the length of the work day, spend approximately 1 hour in the morning figuring out exactly how they're going to do everything for the day, and then about 30 minutes after they've had a lunch break recalling /refiguring everything they were going to do for the afternoon.
Majority motion to re-open has to pass the house. Guess whats not happening now?
Responding to you because of the Anonymous Faggot who is attempting to spread disinformation.
http://www.straight.com/article-119340/stephen-harper-opens-door-to-prison-privatization
This is what the above poster is talking about.
Yes Stephen Harper IS privatizing prisons.
NO it is NOT a good idea.
Wow, I make a legitimately informative post and what I can only assume are republitards come along and mod me down after the story has been off the front page for days. Congrats.