Other formats are usually readable by a device with fairly closed firmware that is designed to spec. Nobody gives you a CD-ROM drive with access to head positioning servo loop and access to the raw bitstream after clock recovery. Yet this is almost what you has on Apple ][ - that's why the floppy controller hardware was so simple (a couple stock TTL chips, maybe a PAL or two). The magic was in the software (firmware). Same goes for a modern CD-ROM drive, but the firmware is not really easily amenable to hacking, and you can't really replace it as a matter of normal operation of the equipment. On Apple ][ it was trivial, since the firmware ran on the main CPU. On a CD-ROM, or really any other media access device, there's a dedicated CPU - these days it's most often a proprietary SoC with documentation available under an NDA only if you commit to a certain purchase volume. Never mind that the amount of code is orders of magnitude beyond what was routine in Apple ][ days.
That's the problem. One doesn't need any lights if there are actually no humans there to see them. And no, if the only humans are burglars, it still doesn't help. The non-burglar humans still aren't there. There is this crazy belief that just because one shines a light on a burglar, there'll suddenly appear concerned citizen's eyes that can make use of this visual input. Of course this is a load of bollocks. Lights are a mild deterrent, because many burglars are otherwise as silly as the rest of the citizenry and they themselves believe this stupid shit. Apart from that, it's a humongous waste of money. My bet is that electricity savings could pay for necessary insurance policies for those who can't afford them, especially that a decent group rate could be negotiated.
I used to comment my code in my native language up to maybe early high school. I did it subsequently on a project or two that were meant to be maintained by people who mostly didn't speak English. I can't comprehend anyone commenting code in anything but English.
Hear, hear. Especially that there are niche markets that may turn out not so niche once the market gets to speak and the "analyses" of the marketeers are refuted.
We don't have respect for the work because they don't have respect for themselves. Myself I'd like to see copyright law that forces one's hand: either you license it on reasonable terms, or it's public domain. Media hoarding should come to an end. A publisher of a book out of print doesn't care for a reprint or a digital edition? Boom, public domain. A video available in U.K. has been unavailable in the U.S. for a year? Boom, public domain. And so on. That way there would be no more human creativity that's basically locked up by a system of law that promotes indifference and laziness - the very anathema of promoting the progress of useful arts.
Exactly. Google has a payment processing business. Couldn't they collect micro payments, like $0.10 per video just to enable such things without the "unavailable" bullshit? Especially that the content for crying out loud is available. It's sitting right there on the server, they had to add extra logic to disable the content! It's just that some idiots who pretend they are poor but really don't care for our money. Too lazy to make the content available, they'd rather whine about poor abused media.
Heck, it's like my three year old. When he's hungry and you try to feed him, he's throwing a tantrum because, well he's hungry so he won't have no food nor anything else. Only after you force a couple bites into his mouth does he get the idea that well, food is good, and he should rather be eating than screaming. That's how the media cartels are. Exactly how.
There's more truth to this post than I'm comfortable with, actually. How sad is it when people can't just articulate a clear plan of action - something that anyone familiar with Fedora would be able to, you know, start hacking away on.
Let me rephrase what's going on: Matt Miller is unhappy about the state of Fedora, but he can't really articulate exactly what he's unhappy about and how exactly would he have an imaginary uber-developer fix the issue. When you get rid of buzzwords and marketing speak, there's no substance left. How sad.
The deal is that this "ring0" can be done in multiple ways. For example, what is the first process to start: init or launchd? Is selinux finally going to be the default, with support for all services in this ring0, and core stuff in the next ring as well? And so on. See, it's not so easy when you actually get to doing it. Talk is cheap.
I wonder how much U.S., cough, international pressure will they get so that there's no chance of any such law ever passing. Should this initiative succeed in Finland, there's no knowing what other countries may pick up on the idea - and that would really be disastrous to the public image of the media cartel. Note that I specifically said "disastrous to the public image". As far as I can tell, it'd actually improve the bottom lines of the cartel, but they themselves seem to pretend otherwise. It's an industry driven by a bunch of control freaks, it's not even about money anymore.
The perpendicular waves on an axis got zero to do with I/Q components, sorry. The I and Q components are a way of re-representing the phase and amplitude in a way that's more convenient to further process. There's no such thing as I and Q components once you're outside of your transceiver box, similarly to there being no prime factorization magically appearing on the blackboard every time you write down an integer. Just as prime factorization is a way of representing integers, the I and Q decomposition is a way of representing signals given a certain reference source of some frequency and phase.
This guy is an artist and this is nothing but an excuse for being a dumb fool, that's all. You know how artsy-fartsy people snicker when a non-artistic nerd doesn't know basics of art history and style? Well, that's the same reason that the nerd snickers when an artsy-fartist has no clue about basics of electromagnetics at a freshman introductory level. Both artsy-fartists and nerds should be reminded that while not everyone is interested in the same thing, neither is everyone to be expected to be a complete ignorant of other things. General education and all that jazz, what happened to it?
You're spot on. It'd work exactly like light, just much longer wavelength. Speaking in orders of magnitude, 2.4GHz is a 10cm wave, visible light is a 1um wave. The difference is 5 orders of magnitude (100,000).
If we were to see radio waves of such a length, Wi-Fi would be a particularly uninteresting kind of a signal. A Wi-Fi node would look to us like an equivalent of a rather low power indicator lightbulb with some tint applied to the glass. It'd flicker, too. Why incandescent? Because it's broadband, not narrowband ("monochromatic") like an LED. Why tinted? Because a Wi-Fi channel can be centered on one of a couple of different frequencies, so it's an equivalent of a tinted light bulb. Why flicker? Because Wi-Fi is half-duplex.
Of course, if we'd put ourselves in a dark room (otherwise known as a Faraday cage), things would be more interesting as could see standing nodes and zeroes around objects. You could also focus Wi-Fi with a plastic lens, but it'd need to be the size of a large serving plate.
Wi-Fi, compared to any other signal, would be very much drowned out if we had similar receiver sensitivity compared to our eyes. It'd also be a pain in the butt to get a room dark enough to sleep in - a Faraday cage would be a must, with shielding screens over the air ducts lest those act as waveguides.
Shaped charges that eject metal hot enough to penetrate a meter or two of concrete, at supersonic speeds, don't think much of those rapid remodel jobs.
AFAIK, those planks of wood are narrow - nobody would waste nice glued wood boards or plywood on sheathing for a house. My bet is that the nails are partially rusted by now, and it'd be no big deal to kick your way out of there. Given a tool, like a decent wooden chair, you'd be able to get out even if it was 1891 and everything was brand new.
In most single family U.S. residential construction, the wall is made of (going outside in): vinyl siding, Tyvek homewrap, insulation foam board, optional wood sheathing (OSB or plywood), studs with wool insulation between them, drywall. There is some variation to it, of course, but nothing that changes things too much.
Going inside out, you don't need any tools at all to go through such a wall. Just use your legs and decent shoes - that's why I was so surprised that the Cleveland kidnapping victims didn't run away earlier. Yeah, you can't punch down walls if you're chained in, but demonstrably they weren't chained in all the time. They could have escaped from the top floor in spite of closed doors etc. Yes, even with sheathing present. It'll only be in recent highest quality construction that the sheathing would be both plywood and attached with screws. That's where kicking it out will give you a very decent workout and you might even fail if you're light. If it's OSB, it doesn't matter how it's fastened, you're going to punch through, period.
Going outside in, bare hands is all it takes to tear off the siding, rip the home wrap and foam board, and punch through the drywall. A crowbar is helpful but not usually necessary. When sheathing is involved, two crowbars are plenty, one could do with just one, but it'd be a tad slower.
If you're in a house with some windows boarded up and want easier escape, it's trivial to go through partition walls as two layers of drywall is all you are dealing with. It literally takes at most 30 seconds to be through that. Then you can move to another room that has unboarded windows, and off you go. Use whatever is handy to break the window. You can fashion a ram from stacked drywall.
Yes, I have tried all that during some remodeling done on my own house.
Oh come on, the business they are in is called Open Software Integrators, they are a consulting firm. I don't know what the fuck they are doing that they can't swallow an 24hr downtime, give-or-take. It's just completely blown out of proportion, and they are overreacting instead of following their gradual move-to-cloud plan. They are very silly.
Let's get real: what they have done is a classic otherwise known as buying insurance after something bad happens. IOW: always always a stupid move, since you by definition react irrationally (based on fear etc.). A business must have reserves and planning for dealing with downtime. For most small businesses, it's cheapest to acknowledge some loss of revenue in case of certain externalities. Providing failover/protection from those externalities will be just like buying insurance, except that you're self insuring at a cost that, amortized over time, likely vastly exceeds any loss of revenue, yes, even when accounting for time value of money etc.
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Other formats are usually readable by a device with fairly closed firmware that is designed to spec. Nobody gives you a CD-ROM drive with access to head positioning servo loop and access to the raw bitstream after clock recovery. Yet this is almost what you has on Apple ][ - that's why the floppy controller hardware was so simple (a couple stock TTL chips, maybe a PAL or two). The magic was in the software (firmware). Same goes for a modern CD-ROM drive, but the firmware is not really easily amenable to hacking, and you can't really replace it as a matter of normal operation of the equipment. On Apple ][ it was trivial, since the firmware ran on the main CPU. On a CD-ROM, or really any other media access device, there's a dedicated CPU - these days it's most often a proprietary SoC with documentation available under an NDA only if you commit to a certain purchase volume. Never mind that the amount of code is orders of magnitude beyond what was routine in Apple ][ days.
That's the problem. One doesn't need any lights if there are actually no humans there to see them. And no, if the only humans are burglars, it still doesn't help. The non-burglar humans still aren't there. There is this crazy belief that just because one shines a light on a burglar, there'll suddenly appear concerned citizen's eyes that can make use of this visual input. Of course this is a load of bollocks. Lights are a mild deterrent, because many burglars are otherwise as silly as the rest of the citizenry and they themselves believe this stupid shit. Apart from that, it's a humongous waste of money. My bet is that electricity savings could pay for necessary insurance policies for those who can't afford them, especially that a decent group rate could be negotiated.
I used to comment my code in my native language up to maybe early high school. I did it subsequently on a project or two that were meant to be maintained by people who mostly didn't speak English. I can't comprehend anyone commenting code in anything but English.
Because not everyone wants to paint their driveway black, you know.
this is endangering the elderly and school children
The fuck?
You never heard of a headband mounted flashlight?!
Hear, hear. Especially that there are niche markets that may turn out not so niche once the market gets to speak and the "analyses" of the marketeers are refuted.
We don't have respect for the work because they don't have respect for themselves. Myself I'd like to see copyright law that forces one's hand: either you license it on reasonable terms, or it's public domain. Media hoarding should come to an end. A publisher of a book out of print doesn't care for a reprint or a digital edition? Boom, public domain. A video available in U.K. has been unavailable in the U.S. for a year? Boom, public domain. And so on. That way there would be no more human creativity that's basically locked up by a system of law that promotes indifference and laziness - the very anathema of promoting the progress of useful arts.
Exactly. Google has a payment processing business. Couldn't they collect micro payments, like $0.10 per video just to enable such things without the "unavailable" bullshit? Especially that the content for crying out loud is available . It's sitting right there on the server, they had to add extra logic to disable the content ! It's just that some idiots who pretend they are poor but really don't care for our money. Too lazy to make the content available, they'd rather whine about poor abused media.
Heck, it's like my three year old. When he's hungry and you try to feed him, he's throwing a tantrum because, well he's hungry so he won't have no food nor anything else. Only after you force a couple bites into his mouth does he get the idea that well, food is good, and he should rather be eating than screaming. That's how the media cartels are. Exactly how.
There's more truth to this post than I'm comfortable with, actually. How sad is it when people can't just articulate a clear plan of action - something that anyone familiar with Fedora would be able to, you know, start hacking away on.
Let me rephrase what's going on: Matt Miller is unhappy about the state of Fedora, but he can't really articulate exactly what he's unhappy about and how exactly would he have an imaginary uber-developer fix the issue. When you get rid of buzzwords and marketing speak, there's no substance left. How sad.
The deal is that this "ring0" can be done in multiple ways. For example, what is the first process to start: init or launchd? Is selinux finally going to be the default, with support for all services in this ring0, and core stuff in the next ring as well? And so on. See, it's not so easy when you actually get to doing it. Talk is cheap.
Idiot moderators, this should have been moderated funny! Stonefish, if you're serious, you're in deep trouble.
I wonder how much U.S., cough, international pressure will they get so that there's no chance of any such law ever passing. Should this initiative succeed in Finland, there's no knowing what other countries may pick up on the idea - and that would really be disastrous to the public image of the media cartel. Note that I specifically said "disastrous to the public image". As far as I can tell, it'd actually improve the bottom lines of the cartel, but they themselves seem to pretend otherwise. It's an industry driven by a bunch of control freaks, it's not even about money anymore.
The perpendicular waves on an axis got zero to do with I/Q components, sorry. The I and Q components are a way of re-representing the phase and amplitude in a way that's more convenient to further process. There's no such thing as I and Q components once you're outside of your transceiver box, similarly to there being no prime factorization magically appearing on the blackboard every time you write down an integer. Just as prime factorization is a way of representing integers, the I and Q decomposition is a way of representing signals given a certain reference source of some frequency and phase.
This guy is an artist and this is nothing but an excuse for being a dumb fool, that's all. You know how artsy-fartsy people snicker when a non-artistic nerd doesn't know basics of art history and style? Well, that's the same reason that the nerd snickers when an artsy-fartist has no clue about basics of electromagnetics at a freshman introductory level. Both artsy-fartists and nerds should be reminded that while not everyone is interested in the same thing, neither is everyone to be expected to be a complete ignorant of other things. General education and all that jazz, what happened to it?
You're spot on. It'd work exactly like light, just much longer wavelength. Speaking in orders of magnitude, 2.4GHz is a 10cm wave, visible light is a 1um wave. The difference is 5 orders of magnitude (100,000).
If we were to see radio waves of such a length, Wi-Fi would be a particularly uninteresting kind of a signal. A Wi-Fi node would look to us like an equivalent of a rather low power indicator lightbulb with some tint applied to the glass. It'd flicker, too. Why incandescent? Because it's broadband, not narrowband ("monochromatic") like an LED. Why tinted? Because a Wi-Fi channel can be centered on one of a couple of different frequencies, so it's an equivalent of a tinted light bulb. Why flicker? Because Wi-Fi is half-duplex.
Of course, if we'd put ourselves in a dark room (otherwise known as a Faraday cage), things would be more interesting as could see standing nodes and zeroes around objects. You could also focus Wi-Fi with a plastic lens, but it'd need to be the size of a large serving plate.
Wi-Fi, compared to any other signal, would be very much drowned out if we had similar receiver sensitivity compared to our eyes. It'd also be a pain in the butt to get a room dark enough to sleep in - a Faraday cage would be a must, with shielding screens over the air ducts lest those act as waveguides.
How the heck is a baggage check with a magnetometer useful? A check of a person I understand, but a check of baggage?
Shaped charges that eject metal hot enough to penetrate a meter or two of concrete, at supersonic speeds, don't think much of those rapid remodel jobs.
AFAIK, those planks of wood are narrow - nobody would waste nice glued wood boards or plywood on sheathing for a house. My bet is that the nails are partially rusted by now, and it'd be no big deal to kick your way out of there. Given a tool, like a decent wooden chair, you'd be able to get out even if it was 1891 and everything was brand new.
the probability of something as catastrophic like the car accident on your datacenter happening again is lower now
There must be a name for this common fallacy...
Chainsaw? What for, except some convenience?
In most single family U.S. residential construction, the wall is made of (going outside in): vinyl siding, Tyvek homewrap, insulation foam board, optional wood sheathing (OSB or plywood), studs with wool insulation between them, drywall. There is some variation to it, of course, but nothing that changes things too much.
Going inside out, you don't need any tools at all to go through such a wall. Just use your legs and decent shoes - that's why I was so surprised that the Cleveland kidnapping victims didn't run away earlier. Yeah, you can't punch down walls if you're chained in, but demonstrably they weren't chained in all the time. They could have escaped from the top floor in spite of closed doors etc. Yes, even with sheathing present. It'll only be in recent highest quality construction that the sheathing would be both plywood and attached with screws. That's where kicking it out will give you a very decent workout and you might even fail if you're light. If it's OSB, it doesn't matter how it's fastened, you're going to punch through, period.
Going outside in, bare hands is all it takes to tear off the siding, rip the home wrap and foam board, and punch through the drywall. A crowbar is helpful but not usually necessary. When sheathing is involved, two crowbars are plenty, one could do with just one, but it'd be a tad slower.
If you're in a house with some windows boarded up and want easier escape, it's trivial to go through partition walls as two layers of drywall is all you are dealing with. It literally takes at most 30 seconds to be through that. Then you can move to another room that has unboarded windows, and off you go. Use whatever is handy to break the window. You can fashion a ram from stacked drywall.
Yes, I have tried all that during some remodeling done on my own house.
Oh come on, the business they are in is called Open Software Integrators, they are a consulting firm. I don't know what the fuck they are doing that they can't swallow an 24hr downtime, give-or-take. It's just completely blown out of proportion, and they are overreacting instead of following their gradual move-to-cloud plan. They are very silly.
Let's get real: what they have done is a classic otherwise known as buying insurance after something bad happens. IOW: always always a stupid move, since you by definition react irrationally (based on fear etc.). A business must have reserves and planning for dealing with downtime. For most small businesses, it's cheapest to acknowledge some loss of revenue in case of certain externalities. Providing failover/protection from those externalities will be just like buying insurance, except that you're self insuring at a cost that, amortized over time, likely vastly exceeds any loss of revenue, yes, even when accounting for time value of money etc.
Bingo! This scale of costs will be true for most small businesses, in fact.