But you see, as someone who has too much knowledge of "random" communications protocols as applied in very heterogenous industrial control environments, the "gluing of the features" is where all of the problems are. Gluing together a heterogenous system, even if it's made accessible via a uniform interface (say SOAP), is always fraught with problems. The fact that the interface is uniform doesn't mean that all of its behaviors are specified. It's business as usual when the critical behaviors such as failover are not formally specified, are subject to ad-hoc testing at best, and generally you're screwed unless everything works perfectly. Thus you lose all the benefits that uniform cloud-based services are supposed to provide - namely resiliency to "problems" (links down, servers down, datacenters down).
I estimate that at most 1 in 10^3 of web services are implemented by people who have background in theoretical underpinnings of communication protocols / system interworking and their testing. So, most implementations are by those who've never heard of formalized abstract test specs (say ITU-T Z.14x TTCN) and have never tested the behavior of their cloud "solution" in a formalized fashion, when subject to all sorts of error conditions. So let me rephrase that: we're taking some random cloud service provider, who has no clue about the theory of what he is doing, that his solution does as he supposedly claims (formal specs much?) even though he never actually bothered to verify and offer a semblance of proof that it is indeed so. Yeah, sorry, no, thank you.
There is a point where buzzwords are just buzzwords, and you need some rather solid theoretical engineering foundations to work in heterogenous systems. Just because it's using web technologies doesn't mean anything much. The problems are the same as faced by the telecom and process control industries.
Yeah, it's hard, it's much harder than people pretend it to be, and just mashing together your "5% solution" atop a bunch of web services is not magically going to work better just because you're outsourcing 95% of the "common" functionality.
Hopefully you'll remember to replace that filter after driving through that place. All while following proper PPE precautions as said filter has a high concentration of pathogens on it. Right? Yeah, right:/
I consider ad-overladen sites to be an unethical exploitation of the limited lifetimes of the users/viewers. If I were to buy it, the ad revenue would likely go down not because of drop in readership, but because of significant curbing of the rather ridiculous level of corporate buttlicking shown there so far. Never mind that buying into 25% ROI is kinda like what happened with gold recently. It won't last.
Same as with doing an inter-bank transfer. A couple of entries in a couple of databases get changed. That's about it, if you want to be "exact" about it. Namely, the domain registration records will be changed, and the domain will be either re-linked to your (new) user account if you are keeping the registrar, or will be transferred to you. Same thing will happen at the hosting company: the hosts (if any) and the content will be transferred to your (new) user's account there. What $500k buys you, exactly, is maybe a dozen kilobytes worth of database pages changed:/ Of course it also buys you the opportunity to leverage a reasonably well-known brand name, but whether that's worth it or not, I can't say. As-is, the site suffers from design braindamage and makes me want to puke every time I see it.
Presumably if it brings in ~$125k in ad revenue per year, it'd be "worth" about 4 times that, or $500k. I personally think that even with that much yearly ad revenue I would not spend that kind of money on such a site.
A bird once flew into the house through an open window - perhaps because there was another window open on the other side of the room, so it looked like there was clear way through. The cat happened to be in the room at the time, and the bird never made it to the opposite window. We couldn't react in time to prevent the poor bird from getting his neck broken as soon as the cat brought it down, nay, slammed it down on the floor.
If our cat wanted to maim us, he certainly could. If he's in a rogue mood, he'll chase and kill occasional insects that make it into the house. Mostly he's too lazy too bother, so he just observes them and sometimes uses his paws like flipper paddles in a pinball machine.
The massaging walk was done right at the edge of pain. It was painful, but any time it got too painful, the walk was over, and it wasn't my wife telling the cat to sod off. If I get a headache and lay down, the cat wraps around my head. That's the only time he does it.
Because, of course, helicopters are cat-allergic, right? The rotor sneezes and disintegrates as soon as a cat comes anywhere near.
In other words, get a grip. Not all emergencies are alike. If you have a small pet in your arms, there's no reason at all for the rescuers to tell you to forgo it. Heck, what you're arguing is pretty much life over quality of life. Yeah, we'll rescue you at any cost, but $DEITY forbid the rescuee has a living thing with them to comfort them. Being displaced in an emergency is obviously no biggie for you and you will stomach it like a big boy, right? You should have rotten for a couple of weeks at the superdome with all the other "ingrates" to get a humanistic perspective.
If it was an emergency where the rest of my immediate family would be already dead, and I had a choice of being rescued with our cat or perishing with him, I'd probably choose the latter. Say what you will, but our cat always knows when there's something wrong with one of us, and he sometimes works quite hard at comforting us. When my wife got back from a C-section, the cat would walk directly across her scar, massaging it. He kept at it for weeks. Nobody prompted it, it didn't see the scar directly, and so on. He just knew what to do. I have plenty of other examples like that. Just because it's not human doesn't mean it's life is worthless. Just to preempt what might be coming: no, I'm not freeing any lab monkeys, thank you very much, it'd be a retarded thing to do. Neither is our cat a "member" of our family. He's our cat. He gets his food and water, his vet check-ups, has a few small toys, and is kept indoors. He treats us with care, and we do the same, but we don't go overboard. He scratches a couple of designated dining room chairs, we don't have any pet furniture.
These days you could probably slap a differential phase-sensing GPS receiver, a transmitter and a battery in each golf ball, allowing you to know its location to within a few inches on the golf course...
I use stuff that was designed almost a decade ago. Works just fine for a small business, and it's pretty damn cheap, too. I have zero experience with HP things newer than perhaps 2009.
I've had lots of luck with HP Procurve gear. We use a couple of J8986A (530) access points at work and they seem to be unbeatable. For a router, run a linux box. Can be as little as a raspberry pi with VLANs split up by an external switch.
Recreational endoscopy is all the rage. And for peering into the body cavities and GI tracts of others, the Vividia Waterproof Mini 7 mm can't be beat. Nothing brings people together or creates a shared sense of intimacy like comparing vital organs, intestinal tissues and polypscapes. Plus with the optional digital camera adaptor, you can even "scrapbook" your treasured images at websites like Pinterest! All this technological prowess for about the price of a carton of cigarettes!!! Three cheers for dirt-cheap wages and Chinese factory workers!
I mean, come on, I might just buy one and post something on Pinterest, after all:)
Because, you idiot AC, it's a product review. You're reviewing books, or other merchandise, in isolation from whatever the vedor or the post office has done. When you look at reviews of a book, you don't care if a library somewhere has a copy covered in tomato sauce, and those dumbfucker-written reviews are exactly that: telling you stuff that's absolutely irrelevant to the product in general. Again, this is not eBay, mmkay?
The "PC enthusiast" scene has been quietly dying for years.
As the technology matures, there's less and less to be enthusiastic about. It moves from technology frontier to everyday to mundane. Sure, there are PC enthusiasts just like there are car enthusiasts, but their numbers are nowadays tiny compared to the number of cars and PCs out there, respectively. Car enthusiasts, for some reason, are slightly higher in relative abundance, it'd seem, than PC enthusiasts. Perhaps understanding cars, especially old cars, takes a bit less brains?
For a shopping cart - why not? There's zero implications. Eventually the server gets a list of what was ordered, by whom, and where to ship it, and asks for payment. Now if you're idiotic enough to presume that the server will ask the client for pricing and such, then you're just that - idiotic.
Sorry, you're wrong on that. There currently is no such thing as individual, non-group health insurance. Sure, it does exist on paper, but it's such an unrealistically priced rip-off that it only makes sense for very well to do upper middle class. If you happen to be anything less, you must have it through your employer or you won't have any. That's the reality of it.
I wonder how hard would it be to write the Javascript necessary for the Chromium OS to mimic the old experience - within reason of course. It should not choke on modern content:)
There is nothing that the government can do to recover jobs short of bringing the manufacturing home by establishing protective tariffs. I do mean nothing. Given that tariffs are pretty much a no-go, the job recovery is a no-go as well.
Then all the liberals start whining about how "unfair" it is that employers try to save their businesses by not incurring new taxes
Yeah, because it's just oh so great that the businesses are "saved" by pissing on their employees and not providing them with adequate health care coverage.
Oh, the 7% of U.S. population doesn't get their wages from the government, they get their wages from the rest of the population - and only the part of the rest that pays taxes, with corporate tax payments being some sort of a joke these days. Remember: the government doesn't make any money, nor do they have any. They get it from the rest of us via taxes.
I'm pretty sure it could be done using coreboot (formerly linuxbios). I don't think the code for it is written yet, of course, so yeah, there ain't one - yet.
If the thief is that technically literate, then, arguably, you've been had, get over it. Use insurance or just buy a new machine and enjoy the fresh smell:)
Alas, in most cases, a BIOS/firmware password and a password-less guest account on the OS are enough the ensure that you'll hear back from your machine. Thiefs are mostly silly.
That was tongue in cheek. Obviously my cheek was so puffed out that I was mumbling and hard to understand:)
I've recently run into webtv's portal page and it's like instant travel back in time by a decade at least. These days a webtv would be basically Raspberry Pi with chromium OS or somesuch.
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But you see, as someone who has too much knowledge of "random" communications protocols as applied in very heterogenous industrial control environments, the "gluing of the features" is where all of the problems are. Gluing together a heterogenous system, even if it's made accessible via a uniform interface (say SOAP), is always fraught with problems. The fact that the interface is uniform doesn't mean that all of its behaviors are specified. It's business as usual when the critical behaviors such as failover are not formally specified, are subject to ad-hoc testing at best, and generally you're screwed unless everything works perfectly. Thus you lose all the benefits that uniform cloud-based services are supposed to provide - namely resiliency to "problems" (links down, servers down, datacenters down).
I estimate that at most 1 in 10^3 of web services are implemented by people who have background in theoretical underpinnings of communication protocols / system interworking and their testing. So, most implementations are by those who've never heard of formalized abstract test specs (say ITU-T Z.14x TTCN) and have never tested the behavior of their cloud "solution" in a formalized fashion, when subject to all sorts of error conditions. So let me rephrase that: we're taking some random cloud service provider, who has no clue about the theory of what he is doing, that his solution does as he supposedly claims (formal specs much?) even though he never actually bothered to verify and offer a semblance of proof that it is indeed so. Yeah, sorry, no, thank you.
There is a point where buzzwords are just buzzwords, and you need some rather solid theoretical engineering foundations to work in heterogenous systems. Just because it's using web technologies doesn't mean anything much. The problems are the same as faced by the telecom and process control industries.
Yeah, it's hard, it's much harder than people pretend it to be, and just mashing together your "5% solution" atop a bunch of web services is not magically going to work better just because you're outsourcing 95% of the "common" functionality.
Hopefully you'll remember to replace that filter after driving through that place. All while following proper PPE precautions as said filter has a high concentration of pathogens on it. Right? Yeah, right :/
Um, no.
I consider ad-overladen sites to be an unethical exploitation of the limited lifetimes of the users/viewers. If I were to buy it, the ad revenue would likely go down not because of drop in readership, but because of significant curbing of the rather ridiculous level of corporate buttlicking shown there so far. Never mind that buying into 25% ROI is kinda like what happened with gold recently. It won't last.
What exactly does it mean to "buy" a blog?
Same as with doing an inter-bank transfer. A couple of entries in a couple of databases get changed. That's about it, if you want to be "exact" about it. Namely, the domain registration records will be changed, and the domain will be either re-linked to your (new) user account if you are keeping the registrar, or will be transferred to you. Same thing will happen at the hosting company: the hosts (if any) and the content will be transferred to your (new) user's account there. What $500k buys you, exactly, is maybe a dozen kilobytes worth of database pages changed :/ Of course it also buys you the opportunity to leverage a reasonably well-known brand name, but whether that's worth it or not, I can't say. As-is, the site suffers from design braindamage and makes me want to puke every time I see it.
Presumably if it brings in ~$125k in ad revenue per year, it'd be "worth" about 4 times that, or $500k. I personally think that even with that much yearly ad revenue I would not spend that kind of money on such a site.
A bird once flew into the house through an open window - perhaps because there was another window open on the other side of the room, so it looked like there was clear way through. The cat happened to be in the room at the time, and the bird never made it to the opposite window. We couldn't react in time to prevent the poor bird from getting his neck broken as soon as the cat brought it down, nay, slammed it down on the floor.
If our cat wanted to maim us, he certainly could. If he's in a rogue mood, he'll chase and kill occasional insects that make it into the house. Mostly he's too lazy too bother, so he just observes them and sometimes uses his paws like flipper paddles in a pinball machine.
The massaging walk was done right at the edge of pain. It was painful, but any time it got too painful, the walk was over, and it wasn't my wife telling the cat to sod off. If I get a headache and lay down, the cat wraps around my head. That's the only time he does it.
Nope, he gets the message if we get upset about something he has done. He's quite good about remembering it as well. Maybe we are just lucky.
Because, of course, helicopters are cat-allergic, right? The rotor sneezes and disintegrates as soon as a cat comes anywhere near.
In other words, get a grip. Not all emergencies are alike. If you have a small pet in your arms, there's no reason at all for the rescuers to tell you to forgo it. Heck, what you're arguing is pretty much life over quality of life. Yeah, we'll rescue you at any cost, but $DEITY forbid the rescuee has a living thing with them to comfort them. Being displaced in an emergency is obviously no biggie for you and you will stomach it like a big boy, right? You should have rotten for a couple of weeks at the superdome with all the other "ingrates" to get a humanistic perspective.
If it was an emergency where the rest of my immediate family would be already dead, and I had a choice of being rescued with our cat or perishing with him, I'd probably choose the latter. Say what you will, but our cat always knows when there's something wrong with one of us, and he sometimes works quite hard at comforting us. When my wife got back from a C-section, the cat would walk directly across her scar, massaging it. He kept at it for weeks. Nobody prompted it, it didn't see the scar directly, and so on. He just knew what to do. I have plenty of other examples like that. Just because it's not human doesn't mean it's life is worthless. Just to preempt what might be coming: no, I'm not freeing any lab monkeys, thank you very much, it'd be a retarded thing to do. Neither is our cat a "member" of our family. He's our cat. He gets his food and water, his vet check-ups, has a few small toys, and is kept indoors. He treats us with care, and we do the same, but we don't go overboard. He scratches a couple of designated dining room chairs, we don't have any pet furniture.
These days you could probably slap a differential phase-sensing GPS receiver, a transmitter and a battery in each golf ball, allowing you to know its location to within a few inches on the golf course...
I use stuff that was designed almost a decade ago. Works just fine for a small business, and it's pretty damn cheap, too. I have zero experience with HP things newer than perhaps 2009.
I've had lots of luck with HP Procurve gear. We use a couple of J8986A (530) access points at work and they seem to be unbeatable. For a router, run a linux box. Can be as little as a raspberry pi with VLANs split up by an external switch.
Recreational endoscopy is all the rage. And for peering into the body cavities and GI tracts of others, the Vividia Waterproof Mini 7 mm can't be beat. Nothing brings people together or creates a shared sense of intimacy like comparing vital organs, intestinal tissues and polypscapes. Plus with the optional digital camera adaptor, you can even "scrapbook" your treasured images at websites like Pinterest! All this technological prowess for about the price of a carton of cigarettes!!! Three cheers for dirt-cheap wages and Chinese factory workers!
I mean, come on, I might just buy one and post something on Pinterest, after all :)
Because, you idiot AC, it's a product review. You're reviewing books, or other merchandise, in isolation from whatever the vedor or the post office has done. When you look at reviews of a book, you don't care if a library somewhere has a copy covered in tomato sauce, and those dumbfucker-written reviews are exactly that: telling you stuff that's absolutely irrelevant to the product in general. Again, this is not eBay, mmkay?
The "PC enthusiast" scene has been quietly dying for years.
As the technology matures, there's less and less to be enthusiastic about. It moves from technology frontier to everyday to mundane. Sure, there are PC enthusiasts just like there are car enthusiasts, but their numbers are nowadays tiny compared to the number of cars and PCs out there, respectively. Car enthusiasts, for some reason, are slightly higher in relative abundance, it'd seem, than PC enthusiasts. Perhaps understanding cars, especially old cars, takes a bit less brains?
For a shopping cart - why not? There's zero implications. Eventually the server gets a list of what was ordered, by whom, and where to ship it, and asks for payment. Now if you're idiotic enough to presume that the server will ask the client for pricing and such, then you're just that - idiotic.
Sorry, you're wrong on that. There currently is no such thing as individual, non-group health insurance. Sure, it does exist on paper, but it's such an unrealistically priced rip-off that it only makes sense for very well to do upper middle class. If you happen to be anything less, you must have it through your employer or you won't have any. That's the reality of it.
I wonder how hard would it be to write the Javascript necessary for the Chromium OS to mimic the old experience - within reason of course. It should not choke on modern content :)
There is nothing that the government can do to recover jobs short of bringing the manufacturing home by establishing protective tariffs. I do mean nothing. Given that tariffs are pretty much a no-go, the job recovery is a no-go as well.
Then all the liberals start whining about how "unfair" it is that employers try to save their businesses by not incurring new taxes
Yeah, because it's just oh so great that the businesses are "saved" by pissing on their employees and not providing them with adequate health care coverage.
Oh, the 7% of U.S. population doesn't get their wages from the government, they get their wages from the rest of the population - and only the part of the rest that pays taxes, with corporate tax payments being some sort of a joke these days. Remember: the government doesn't make any money, nor do they have any. They get it from the rest of us via taxes.
I'm pretty sure it could be done using coreboot (formerly linuxbios). I don't think the code for it is written yet, of course, so yeah, there ain't one - yet.
If the thief is that technically literate, then, arguably, you've been had, get over it. Use insurance or just buy a new machine and enjoy the fresh smell :)
Alas, in most cases, a BIOS/firmware password and a password-less guest account on the OS are enough the ensure that you'll hear back from your machine. Thiefs are mostly silly.
Here's a solution that will work on any Unix system (less Orbicule, of course).
That was tongue in cheek. Obviously my cheek was so puffed out that I was mumbling and hard to understand :)
I've recently run into webtv's portal page and it's like instant travel back in time by a decade at least. These days a webtv would be basically Raspberry Pi with chromium OS or somesuch.
So, they were bringing out computers to make web surfing available to those who previously didn't have them? How original of them!