We have star all the way out to individual apartments. Channels and such can be switched on and off per endpoint if our current cable operator would use that(They bought up the last one, which used to do that. No need for decoder boxes and cards, you just called, ordered a channel subscription, 5 minutes later at most you'd have it available).
So, in our stairwell, there's a pretty beefy tube running that holds the individual cables for each apartment, going down to the central switch cabinet in the house. Each house is individually connected via fiber to the next step up, which is about 10km away from here. And yes, we're running DOCSIS 3, with 100Mb/s down, 10Mb/s up available for now, 50Mb/s will become available.
Even during peak times, I get 5-6MB/s download rates from Sunet with our 50/10 connection.
We're running star topology, with each apartment being a separate endpoint. And the topology has been in place since the late 80's. It was a special niche for the company that ran the cable network back then. Among other things, they could administer what channels you had available centrally, and just toggle what endpoints could see it, based on subscriptions etc.
As for gigabit ethernet? No, last time we checked, it would cost us about the same to have it installed, and all apartments prepared for it, as the next ten years of upgrades to the cable network would cost the cable company to. Because the cable backhaul is fiber too. We have a fiber supplier, but they only offer 10Mb/s down as the best, and their latency is horrible, as is the customer support.
Drop the torrenting for some better P2P solution, and your connection will be sufficient. Back when I shared an apartment with several other people, as soon as we blocked torrents, 5 people could split a (back then blazing fast) 24Mb/s down connection.
Not all cable is a shared medium. Depends on the network. Some, like the old StjärnTV/Chello installations in Sweden, use a star topology rather than ring/loop.
Where I live, we have cable in a star topology, rather than ring/loop, and just in these 4 houses, there are 220 apartments. Yet I can still hit 5-6 MB/s during peak hours, on a 50Mb/s down connection, from a decent FTP like say Sunet.
Uhm, you really are clueless: The Soviet Union was instrumental in rebuilding and training Wehrmacht. 300 Luftwaffe pilots trained and developed new methods in Lipetsk, in Russia. Tank tactics were developed in Russia too, near Kazan. There were huge areas assigned to the germans, with german names, german street signs etc.
I strongly doubt your IQ's any higher than your daughters... such father, such offspring and all that.
What I pointed out was: The blind/severely degraded may very well have been dropped off by someone, or is waiting to be picked up, close to the elevators. If it's anything like a normal hospital, the parking garage elevator area tends to be less crowded than the area around the main entrance, and thus less chaotic. Unlike what you are trying to assert, there are perfectly valid reasons for a person with degraded sight/total blindness to be in the parking garage. In fact, in REALITY, it's often easier for those people to use that route.
My condoleances to your offspring on having inherited your bad genes.
Not necessarily. With aids like braille embossed on buttons, audible cues etc, blinds don't always need someone with seeing to follow them at all times. Unless people reason as retardedly as you do.
The sad thing is, for many disabilities, a well-made(NOTE: WELL-MADE) Flash interface is better than a bog standard clean HTML interface. Unless one assumes that only bad sight/blindness counts as a disability.
One disability where a well-made Flash interface is advantageous is for example people with reduced mobility/manual dexterity. Large, distincite fields(Buttons) makes it easier for people with such disabilities. Hell, I have mild fibromyalgia with only rare attacks, and when I get bouts of that, I can sometimes barely type. In those situations using a mouse causes less pain and navigation issues than typing and otherwise using the keyboard.
Unfortunately, as noted in the beginning, many just blindly(pun intended) assume that disability=bad eyesight/totally blind.
While the store is privately owned, any areas open to consumers are considered public space, due to it being accessible to the aforementioned public. Employee-only areas otoh are not restricted in the same way, as long as you don't try to pull a stunt like placing a camera in the restricted area monitoring the public area.
Durability/Longevity. All the quality photographic film can survive longer in storage than CD's/DVD's can. Even HD's have a higher deterioration rate.
But overall, with film, it still is the king when it comes down to absolute quality(Both in resolution and colour representation). A top-quality 35mm film with superb emulsion can reach pretty damn good resolutions(equalling todays top-of-the line DSLR's). Then you move up mid-format and large-format cameras and you get even more insane results.
No, he's trying to instill a bit of reality check in people: Just because an audit is external does not mean they are automatically able to find any flaws, or even have the required competence. You don't want some freshface straight out of comp.sci doing such an audit for example. He or she may very well know everything about high-level "safe coding" and the algorithms for that, but know jack shit about coding to extremely precise timing requirements. For modern pacemakers, that actively monitor natural heartrate and adapt their response, those requirements are pretty damn tight, and a greater concern than a Therac-25 style rare race condition that also involved operator intervention to occur(And since some anal retentive nerds will need it spelled out for them explicitly: The precise timings are more important on a day-to-day basis in keeping people alive, than a rare, unusual bug will potentially kill off).
Summary: A code audit, whether internal or external, is not a magic catch-all. The problem may not even be in the source code, it could very well be something the compiler has caused, or a hardware error. Thus, for all QA, you need to test at every stage, and try to anticipate every possible way someone might use the software+hardware combination.
A source code audit would not necessarily have found it. Like with so many other obscure faults, most likely, you'd have to go through a full trial and error on an actually running system, since you do not always know beforehand if the error is introduced by the specific source code, the compiler or anything else.
"Pah - on-board communication, nah - listen to the waves. Enjoy the quiet. Watch the sky. See the moon rise, blood red, from the sea. Let your mind actually think, perchance dream."
This is something more people need to do. Sailing is not for me, however. For me, it's hiking or skiing. Just going out for a couple of weeks of wandering far away, without electronics and such intruding, and navigating just by map and compass when necessary. Keeps the brain healthy.(It's actually something that bothers me.... how people are weakening their minds by relying more and more on shit like GPS etc, becoming more and more helpless without such gadgets that healthy humans don't really need)
No, the REAL advantage is that you work natively in RAW, in a non-destructive manner, letting you do proper digital exposure going far beyond anything Levels in Photoshop or GIMP can. Ergo, darkroom work.
He asked on the mailing list where he could send the suggestion documents in 2006, and was told he couldn't post them on the mailing list, but instead send them to a Suggestions mailbox.
He DID bring his own ingredients: He contributed by spending a week describing and structuring suggestions, based on his over 35 years of doing photography. Unfortunately, that's something the GIMP people were at the time at least unable to comprehend the worth of. Ah well, my father just ended up buying a new license for Photoshop, as well as Lightroom. In terms of serious photography, even on the hobby side, the cost for those is small change.
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No, I mentioned 5-6 MB/s out of a 50Mb/s theoretical max.... B=Byte, b=bit....
Geez, and this is a geek site...
Whoops, slight mistake there.
It should say "With 50Mb/s down 10Mb/s up available right now, 100Mb/s down will become available"
We have star all the way out to individual apartments. Channels and such can be switched on and off per endpoint if our current cable operator would use that(They bought up the last one, which used to do that. No need for decoder boxes and cards, you just called, ordered a channel subscription, 5 minutes later at most you'd have it available).
So, in our stairwell, there's a pretty beefy tube running that holds the individual cables for each apartment, going down to the central switch cabinet in the house. Each house is individually connected via fiber to the next step up, which is about 10km away from here. And yes, we're running DOCSIS 3, with 100Mb/s down, 10Mb/s up available for now, 50Mb/s will become available.
Even during peak times, I get 5-6MB/s download rates from Sunet with our 50/10 connection.
We're running star topology, with each apartment being a separate endpoint. And the topology has been in place since the late 80's. It was a special niche for the company that ran the cable network back then. Among other things, they could administer what channels you had available centrally, and just toggle what endpoints could see it, based on subscriptions etc.
As for gigabit ethernet? No, last time we checked, it would cost us about the same to have it installed, and all apartments prepared for it, as the next ten years of upgrades to the cable network would cost the cable company to. Because the cable backhaul is fiber too. We have a fiber supplier, but they only offer 10Mb/s down as the best, and their latency is horrible, as is the customer support.
Drop the torrenting for some better P2P solution, and your connection will be sufficient. Back when I shared an apartment with several other people, as soon as we blocked torrents, 5 people could split a (back then blazing fast) 24Mb/s down connection.
Not all cable is a shared medium. Depends on the network. Some, like the old StjärnTV/Chello installations in Sweden, use a star topology rather than ring/loop.
Where I live, we have cable in a star topology, rather than ring/loop, and just in these 4 houses, there are 220 apartments. Yet I can still hit 5-6 MB/s during peak hours, on a 50Mb/s down connection, from a decent FTP like say Sunet.
Kerberos combined with IPSec CAN be used to allow an edge firewall to filter by application, but it's a pain in the ass to setup.
Uhm, you really are clueless: The Soviet Union was instrumental in rebuilding and training Wehrmacht. 300 Luftwaffe pilots trained and developed new methods in Lipetsk, in Russia. Tank tactics were developed in Russia too, near Kazan. There were huge areas assigned to the germans, with german names, german street signs etc.
I strongly doubt your IQ's any higher than your daughters... such father, such offspring and all that.
What I pointed out was: The blind/severely degraded may very well have been dropped off by someone, or is waiting to be picked up, close to the elevators. If it's anything like a normal hospital, the parking garage elevator area tends to be less crowded than the area around the main entrance, and thus less chaotic. Unlike what you are trying to assert, there are perfectly valid reasons for a person with degraded sight/total blindness to be in the parking garage. In fact, in REALITY, it's often easier for those people to use that route.
My condoleances to your offspring on having inherited your bad genes.
Not necessarily. With aids like braille embossed on buttons, audible cues etc, blinds don't always need someone with seeing to follow them at all times. Unless people reason as retardedly as you do.
Do blind people perhaps get a ride to the hospital by friends or family, to go to an appointment perhaps?
Come on, that really shouldn't be too hard to figure out.
The sad thing is, for many disabilities, a well-made(NOTE: WELL-MADE) Flash interface is better than a bog standard clean HTML interface. Unless one assumes that only bad sight/blindness counts as a disability.
One disability where a well-made Flash interface is advantageous is for example people with reduced mobility/manual dexterity. Large, distincite fields(Buttons) makes it easier for people with such disabilities. Hell, I have mild fibromyalgia with only rare attacks, and when I get bouts of that, I can sometimes barely type. In those situations using a mouse causes less pain and navigation issues than typing and otherwise using the keyboard.
Unfortunately, as noted in the beginning, many just blindly(pun intended) assume that disability=bad eyesight/totally blind.
While the store is privately owned, any areas open to consumers are considered public space, due to it being accessible to the aforementioned public. Employee-only areas otoh are not restricted in the same way, as long as you don't try to pull a stunt like placing a camera in the restricted area monitoring the public area.
Durability/Longevity. All the quality photographic film can survive longer in storage than CD's/DVD's can. Even HD's have a higher deterioration rate.
But overall, with film, it still is the king when it comes down to absolute quality(Both in resolution and colour representation). A top-quality 35mm film with superb emulsion can reach pretty damn good resolutions(equalling todays top-of-the line DSLR's). Then you move up mid-format and large-format cameras and you get even more insane results.
No, he's trying to instill a bit of reality check in people: Just because an audit is external does not mean they are automatically able to find any flaws, or even have the required competence. You don't want some freshface straight out of comp.sci doing such an audit for example. He or she may very well know everything about high-level "safe coding" and the algorithms for that, but know jack shit about coding to extremely precise timing requirements. For modern pacemakers, that actively monitor natural heartrate and adapt their response, those requirements are pretty damn tight, and a greater concern than a Therac-25 style rare race condition that also involved operator intervention to occur(And since some anal retentive nerds will need it spelled out for them explicitly: The precise timings are more important on a day-to-day basis in keeping people alive, than a rare, unusual bug will potentially kill off).
Summary: A code audit, whether internal or external, is not a magic catch-all. The problem may not even be in the source code, it could very well be something the compiler has caused, or a hardware error. Thus, for all QA, you need to test at every stage, and try to anticipate every possible way someone might use the software+hardware combination.
A source code audit would not necessarily have found it. Like with so many other obscure faults, most likely, you'd have to go through a full trial and error on an actually running system, since you do not always know beforehand if the error is introduced by the specific source code, the compiler or anything else.
"Pah - on-board communication, nah - listen to the waves. Enjoy the quiet. Watch the sky. See the moon rise, blood red, from the sea. Let your mind actually think, perchance dream."
This is something more people need to do. Sailing is not for me, however. For me, it's hiking or skiing. Just going out for a couple of weeks of wandering far away, without electronics and such intruding, and navigating just by map and compass when necessary. Keeps the brain healthy.(It's actually something that bothers me.... how people are weakening their minds by relying more and more on shit like GPS etc, becoming more and more helpless without such gadgets that healthy humans don't really need)
No, the fuck off came when he actually sent the files to the correct place.
Keyword "eventually", as in Real Soon Now
No, the REAL advantage is that you work natively in RAW, in a non-destructive manner, letting you do proper digital exposure going far beyond anything Levels in Photoshop or GIMP can. Ergo, darkroom work.
He asked on the mailing list where he could send the suggestion documents in 2006, and was told he couldn't post them on the mailing list, but instead send them to a Suggestions mailbox.
For digital darkroom? Look into Adobe Lightroom, and see what you could really have =)
The difference is, GIMP has actively asked for suggestions. That simple fact completely nullifies your argument.
He DID bring his own ingredients: He contributed by spending a week describing and structuring suggestions, based on his over 35 years of doing photography. Unfortunately, that's something the GIMP people were at the time at least unable to comprehend the worth of. Ah well, my father just ended up buying a new license for Photoshop, as well as Lightroom. In terms of serious photography, even on the hobby side, the cost for those is small change.