The Olympics are basically feeding time at the zoo for the well-connected. Most concessions are monopolies controlled by a few select vendors, and local officials get bribes and no-show jobs for relatives to keep things running smoothly.
DSL ripoffs are just the tip of the iceberg. Millions are being stolen.
You missed the point -- I'm not saying that an email server isn't the appropriate place to store email. I'm saying that email isn't the appropriate place to publish and transfer data that will be needed for a long period of time.
I didn't advocate not investing your money in whatever unit of economic value that you wish. If you want to own gold, go for it. Yes, you will have to pay taxes on your gains (or claim your losses), just as if you invested in foreign currency or stock.
I also didn't say that having money controlled by the Fed and the US Government is the best possible scenario. But but it is better than having speculative and mining interests determine the value of your money.
The Gold standard benefited creditors, who given the scarcity of capital, were able to exact harsh terms (the only mortgages available in 1920 were 5 year loans with 20% down and a 40% default rate) and extract maximum value, since the par value of gold was fixed by treasury fiat.
In any gold-like money system (it doesn't need to be gold, anything that isn't "tamperable" by 3rd parties, be it the government or other, works the same), you have booms and busts, all right.
So, the United Kingdom wasn't impacted by shipping most of their gold assets to the US in order to pay for the First World War?
And I suppose Fisk's engineering of the original Black Friday was a minor glitch which only affected New York City?
And major gold discoveries (or looting) in South and Central America didn't create a centuries-long inflationary cycle in Spain, did it?
I look at the 19th century, and I see customer and other prices with almost perfect stability, so much that anyone could save money for bad times by simply storing it in their houses, rather than at some bank, as is required now.
I guess that you're pretty ignorant is 19th century history then.
Ever hear of Jim Fisk, who cornered the gold market and triggered a financial panic? Or the deflationary cycle that ran from the 1870's to around 1900 and basically screwed the working class, to the benefit of robber barons and railroads? How about the Civil War and the economic devastation wrought on the South, which took a century to recover from?
How about the famous Cross of Gold speech by William Jennings Bryan, which called for a dual gold-silver standard to help farmers get out from under monumental debt?
If you base your financial system on a commodity whose availablity is completely independent of the economic conditions of the system, you're going to have trouble. Ask the Spanish how the inflation caused by their gold mining in the New World was.
My own quote on the matter: "Under the current system money is managed by the Fed, which reports to Congress. Under a gold standard money is managed by international mining cartels and speculators. This is better, how?".
The difference is your government (assuming that you're an American) controls the flow of money and not some mining interests.
Why is this a bad thing? Well, look at banking panics in the 19th century -- they resulted in devastating depressions every 10-20 years. You can't just come up with more gold, but with our current debt-obligation system, you can adjust the value of the currency to preserve liquidity.
That's why since 1929, we haven't had a catastrophic, systemic banking failure.
Exactly. 3 years ago, IBM was the best for everything... storage, Tivoli crap, WAS, etc. Now, IBM has been de-listed from the systems management "magic quadrant"
In an enterprise environment, you have the option of setting up your own CA, which is much better than just generating BS certs that are essentially meaningless.
This FF3 problem is even worse - if you use SSL, your web browser would be screaming to your end-users that you're probably dealing with some hokey-untrusted individual!
If you're not willing to lay out as little as $15 for an SSL-Cert that will work on FF3, you are a hokey, untrusted individual!
Here's a wikipedia section of the section of the electricity transmission page related to losses. It gives you the math, but does explain things well. The paper that I read about the topic is here, but isn't free.
Note that I'm talking about marginal losses during periods of peak demand.
In other words, when transmission lines are at or near capacity, you lose more each time you increase the amount of energy in the line. In New York, they are dealing with it by reducing peak demand in the summertime through financial incentives. Commercial customers are offered an electricity discount in exchange for agreeing to curtail their electricity usage during power emergencies.
In regard to projects like this, you have it all wrong. Let's think for a minute.
New York City and its tri-state metro area is the largest in the country, and essentially the world's financial capital. Its arguably one of the most important areas in the country.
For a variety of reasons like NIMBY, the dysfunction of NY state government and rapidly increasing demand, an increasing proportion of the electricity supply is coming from places hundreds of miles away in Upstate NY and Quebec. The geography of NYC and Long Island (and the high cost of land) makes it very difficult to add transmission lines, and makes it relatively easy to attack the existing lines.
So, if a technology like superconducting transmission lines would allow you to increase capacity and better protect these lines by burying them, it seems like a valid security measure to me.
Even if it took alot of energy to cool the lines, these would still make sense in NY.
Long Island is like the epicenter of the NIMBY philosophy, so no new power generation has been added for 30-40 years. Most new power is actually transported from the large hydro projects in Quebec.
Using the existing power rights of way, 60-75% of each marginal increase in power transmission is lost in transit. So if you send 10 units of electricity from Quebec, 2-4 units will come out on the other end.
Economics isn't the theory of everything, but it is applicable here.
Gallium or any other material is never really destroyed. So if the easy to extract gallium is no longer available, the price goes up and recycling or other ways of reclaiming materials becomes practical.
When the prices go up enough, people will start mining old landfills for valuable materials. There are millions of tons of TVs, radios and demolition debris with all sorts of copper included.
Usually the CTO is on the product side, and the CIO on the operations side.
So if you're a software company, the CTO is in change of the technology of your products. The CIO is in charge of IT, datacenters, usually security and that sort of thing.
That isn't quite accurate. If you can't trust the integrity of the data committed to disk, you're backups are going to be corrupt as well.
RAID-5 solutions suffer from a few fatal flaws. The most common one is the that a power failure results in a write hole, if the power fails between a data and parity write.
The other flaw is that since there is no integrity checking in most filesystems, you are vulnerable to silent data corruption when sectors fail. If the source data is corrupt, the backup is also corrupt. I've read papers indicating that today you can expect 1 instance of silent data corruption every 8-20TB.
That's one reason why many DBAs insist on using "raw" disk for filesystems -- many databases will compute checksums when committing data for write.
Traditionally retailers specialized in carrying a wide breadth of merchandise, or a narrow, but deep selection of one type of item. The traditional general store sold everything from cheese to guns. Usually their margins were pretty thin.
A specialty store would focus on a wider selection of a particular type of good. So the cheese shop might have 50 varieties, and the plumbing supply place will have 50,000 plumbing parts in stock. The margins here are high, because the customer needs a particular type of a hard-to-get item.
Amazon and iTunes have a business model that scales out enough that they can pay the bills by selling high-volume, low-margin items while making a profit on low-volume high. When you build a giant, automated warehouse in the middle of nowhere, the marginal cost of storing one more book is very low.
Killing the slow-moving stock would kill Amazon, because that's where they make money!
On the other hand, carrying high-volume, low-margin items in a speciality retailer can kill the business. If a high-end steakhouse started selling $3 roast beef sandwiches, their customers would either leave, get crowded out by people buying sandwiches or stop buying $50 steaks.
Then the recording and movie industries will stop making millions pushing garbage to the masses, and those folks might actually have to get real jobs doing work that actually contributes to society.
To hell with DD-WRT, Tomato is a much, much better firmware with QoS services that work better than the Cisco gear I have at work. You can prioritize traffic to/from hosts, specific ports or even application signatures (note that if you do alot of sig matching it may affect performance)
I have a RR Pro account, and I can have a torrent box churn away while I play Counterstrike and my wife talks on the VoIP phone with zero problems.
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The Olympics are basically feeding time at the zoo for the well-connected. Most concessions are monopolies controlled by a few select vendors, and local officials get bribes and no-show jobs for relatives to keep things running smoothly. DSL ripoffs are just the tip of the iceberg. Millions are being stolen.
You missed the point -- I'm not saying that an email server isn't the appropriate place to store email. I'm saying that email isn't the appropriate place to publish and transfer data that will be needed for a long period of time.
Email != a document repository. If you need to keep something, print as a PDF or store it somewhere more appropriate.
I didn't advocate not investing your money in whatever unit of economic value that you wish. If you want to own gold, go for it. Yes, you will have to pay taxes on your gains (or claim your losses), just as if you invested in foreign currency or stock.
I also didn't say that having money controlled by the Fed and the US Government is the best possible scenario. But but it is better than having speculative and mining interests determine the value of your money.
The Gold standard benefited creditors, who given the scarcity of capital, were able to exact harsh terms (the only mortgages available in 1920 were 5 year loans with 20% down and a 40% default rate) and extract maximum value, since the par value of gold was fixed by treasury fiat.
So, the United Kingdom wasn't impacted by shipping most of their gold assets to the US in order to pay for the First World War?
And I suppose Fisk's engineering of the original Black Friday was a minor glitch which only affected New York City?
And major gold discoveries (or looting) in South and Central America didn't create a centuries-long inflationary cycle in Spain, did it?
I guess that you're pretty ignorant is 19th century history then.
Ever hear of Jim Fisk, who cornered the gold market and triggered a financial panic? Or the deflationary cycle that ran from the 1870's to around 1900 and basically screwed the working class, to the benefit of robber barons and railroads? How about the Civil War and the economic devastation wrought on the South, which took a century to recover from?
How about the famous Cross of Gold speech by William Jennings Bryan, which called for a dual gold-silver standard to help farmers get out from under monumental debt?
If you base your financial system on a commodity whose availablity is completely independent of the economic conditions of the system, you're going to have trouble. Ask the Spanish how the inflation caused by their gold mining in the New World was.
The difference is your government (assuming that you're an American) controls the flow of money and not some mining interests. Why is this a bad thing? Well, look at banking panics in the 19th century -- they resulted in devastating depressions every 10-20 years. You can't just come up with more gold, but with our current debt-obligation system, you can adjust the value of the currency to preserve liquidity. That's why since 1929, we haven't had a catastrophic, systemic banking failure.
Who needs public sanitation when you have "real" money?
Exactly. 3 years ago, IBM was the best for everything... storage, Tivoli crap, WAS, etc. Now, IBM has been de-listed from the systems management "magic quadrant"
In an enterprise environment, you have the option of setting up your own CA, which is much better than just generating BS certs that are essentially meaningless.
In your case, it's probably appropriate to ask your uses to add CACert or a self-signed certificate to their browsers. This isn't rocket science.
This FF3 problem is even worse - if you use SSL, your web browser would be screaming to your end-users that you're probably dealing with some hokey-untrusted individual!
If you're not willing to lay out as little as $15 for an SSL-Cert that will work on FF3, you are a hokey, untrusted individual!
Here's a wikipedia section of the section of the electricity transmission page related to losses. It gives you the math, but does explain things well. The paper that I read about the topic is here, but isn't free.
Note that I'm talking about marginal losses during periods of peak demand.
In other words, when transmission lines are at or near capacity, you lose more each time you increase the amount of energy in the line. In New York, they are dealing with it by reducing peak demand in the summertime through financial incentives. Commercial customers are offered an electricity discount in exchange for agreeing to curtail their electricity usage during power emergencies.
In regard to projects like this, you have it all wrong. Let's think for a minute.
New York City and its tri-state metro area is the largest in the country, and essentially the world's financial capital. Its arguably one of the most important areas in the country.
For a variety of reasons like NIMBY, the dysfunction of NY state government and rapidly increasing demand, an increasing proportion of the electricity supply is coming from places hundreds of miles away in Upstate NY and Quebec. The geography of NYC and Long Island (and the high cost of land) makes it very difficult to add transmission lines, and makes it relatively easy to attack the existing lines.
So, if a technology like superconducting transmission lines would allow you to increase capacity and better protect these lines by burying them, it seems like a valid security measure to me.
Even if it took alot of energy to cool the lines, these would still make sense in NY. Long Island is like the epicenter of the NIMBY philosophy, so no new power generation has been added for 30-40 years. Most new power is actually transported from the large hydro projects in Quebec. Using the existing power rights of way, 60-75% of each marginal increase in power transmission is lost in transit. So if you send 10 units of electricity from Quebec, 2-4 units will come out on the other end.
Charge $0.01 per message. Should put an end to spam pretty quickly.
Economics isn't the theory of everything, but it is applicable here. Gallium or any other material is never really destroyed. So if the easy to extract gallium is no longer available, the price goes up and recycling or other ways of reclaiming materials becomes practical.
When the prices go up enough, people will start mining old landfills for valuable materials. There are millions of tons of TVs, radios and demolition debris with all sorts of copper included.
Usually the CTO is on the product side, and the CIO on the operations side. So if you're a software company, the CTO is in change of the technology of your products. The CIO is in charge of IT, datacenters, usually security and that sort of thing.
Amazon S3. Or someother backup provider.
That isn't quite accurate. If you can't trust the integrity of the data committed to disk, you're backups are going to be corrupt as well. RAID-5 solutions suffer from a few fatal flaws. The most common one is the that a power failure results in a write hole, if the power fails between a data and parity write. The other flaw is that since there is no integrity checking in most filesystems, you are vulnerable to silent data corruption when sectors fail. If the source data is corrupt, the backup is also corrupt. I've read papers indicating that today you can expect 1 instance of silent data corruption every 8-20TB. That's one reason why many DBAs insist on using "raw" disk for filesystems -- many databases will compute checksums when committing data for write.
A specialty store would focus on a wider selection of a particular type of good. So the cheese shop might have 50 varieties, and the plumbing supply place will have 50,000 plumbing parts in stock. The margins here are high, because the customer needs a particular type of a hard-to-get item.
Amazon and iTunes have a business model that scales out enough that they can pay the bills by selling high-volume, low-margin items while making a profit on low-volume high. When you build a giant, automated warehouse in the middle of nowhere, the marginal cost of storing one more book is very low.
Killing the slow-moving stock would kill Amazon, because that's where they make money!
On the other hand, carrying high-volume, low-margin items in a speciality retailer can kill the business. If a high-end steakhouse started selling $3 roast beef sandwiches, their customers would either leave, get crowded out by people buying sandwiches or stop buying $50 steaks.
' Says the stupid college kid with no mortgage.
There' nothing wrong with the 54G, it's DD-WRT which is the problem.
To hell with DD-WRT, Tomato is a much, much better firmware with QoS services that work better than the Cisco gear I have at work. You can prioritize traffic to/from hosts, specific ports or even application signatures (note that if you do alot of sig matching it may affect performance)
I have a RR Pro account, and I can have a torrent box churn away while I play Counterstrike and my wife talks on the VoIP phone with zero problems.