Wowzers! Around here I could get some dark fiber patched in for way less than 10k. I guess it all depends on how competitive your area is for telecoms.
Okay, the next time I build one I'll snap pictures of the kill-a-watt. I have a habit of being stubborn and rebellious, but I'm no liar.
If you want to try it out, it's an Intel E2xxx, Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L, 2gb ram, Seagate SATA HD (any size) and an Antec Earthwatts 380 (mfg by Seasonic). I stick with the stock CPU fan, it's surprisingly quiet on the E2's.
At stock settings that reads between 45-55watts during boot. Sure, it peaks at 75-80 if you run Orthos or 3Dmark, but use it normally for a day and check the average. I could probably drop another 10 watts by underclocking it.
Conversely, my balls-out overclocked gaming/dev rig chugs over 500 watts at idle *chuckle*. The meter hits 850 at full CPU+CPU loads. That's for only one CPU and one GPU. For my own sanity (and hydro bill), I don't actually run it that hard most of the time, I dial it down to a more modest level and S3-sleep it when not in use.
Nevertheless, I'm always designing my (other) systems with noise and power draw in mind. I choose my components with great care. SPCR is a fantastic site for researching these things. My current servers are mostly mid-range processors, underclocked and undervolted. That's how I can manage a 4 TB file server under 80w.
You're right. I've only had very superficial harassment training. Maybe that's because I've worked with with sex industry for over a decade...;)
Sexual harassment in my world is something we resolve internally, without the need for lawyers. There are rather clear lines that are never to be crossed, and the unspoken threat of boundless punishment is enough to keep most people in check.
The fact that I'm a wacko libertarian probably doesn't help me. While I consider bimbo wallpapers and calendars unprofessional in an office setting, I don't think the response to seeing a bikini babe should be a lawsuit. The person can certainly be asked (and required) to remove the content, but I refuse to buy into the idea that the viewer is hurt or damaged. After all, they see themselves naked (hopefully) every day in the shower, and I'd bet 100 to 1 they're uglier than whatever "damaged" their eyes.
The way the virtual machine does it thing is quite simple. Here goes nothing:
You disable TCP-IP on the physical network interface, so the Windows box can't talk to the internet. This forces it to route its junk through the virtual machine, which exposes a private network between the host and VM. The VM, in turn, has a second virtual network interface that's bridged to the host's physical interface. Since the VM runs its own TCP stack, it can still talk to the world even though the host is deaf and dumb.
Conceptually, the VM gets inserted between the ethernet level and the TCP level. Barring any freak hypervisor weaknesses, the worst that can happen is for someone to root the VM... they can't break through to the host.
I had the same reaction when I first heard of it, but it makes perfect sense. All you need to do is disable TCP-IP on the physical interface. The virtual machine accesses the interface directly at the ethernet level, so it can still talk to the world even though the host cannot.
It works surprisingly well, and you can pull it off for free if you use VMWare Server.
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I realize it's trendy to sue anyone for anything these days, but there's no written or verbal contract when someone calls to check references. If the former employer holds a high opinion of the person, that's all it is: an opinion. If that same person ends up doing a poor job with you, you can't blame their former employer.
I'll take myself as an example. There are some jobs where I excelled, but I had to move on because I just wasn't happy with the pay or the work, or any number of reasons. Often times I've been laid off due to shortage of work (fuck I hate this industry).
There are other jobs where I sucked ass. I was unmotivated, or I hated the boss, or sometimes I was trapped in a maze of bureaucracy. The result was that I worked slowly, did a half-assed job sometimes, and showed up late because I didn't care, nor did anyone else. That employer would give me a bad rep, even though all my other references were golden.
Checking an employee's references is a red herring. You have to check the employer's rap sheet too!
I always thought it was a dumb idea to escort people out that way. Sure, their justification makes sense on its own, but put into perspective it's a wedgeless argument.
If I were planning to screw my employer by stealing/leaking sensitive information, I wouldn't give them 2 weeks notice. I'd just suddenly stop showing up to work, go on sick leave until they fire me or something.
There is no security. If you can't trust your employee, you shouldn't have employed them in the first place.
No. Fear breeds anger. Anger creates messes like US vs Iraq. It could just as easily create People vs Copyright.
The RIAA/MPAA can sue everyone on the planet. The more people they beat, the less those people need to pay. How does it work ? There comes a point where crime turns into civil disobedience. If you're all alone and you don't pay your fine, you get thrown in jail, but what will they do if thousands of people band together and stand up to the RIAA ? Are they going to build special jails for downloaders ? Will they take them behind the Capitol building and execute them ? No.
If they hurt enough individuals, there will be more people like myself who are just dying to go toe-to-toe with these economy-raping asshats. I don't care if you throw a fist, swing a chain, or shoot a rifle, but sometimes you just have to defend what's yours. Downloaded files may not be legally "yours", but basic civil rights are yours, this country is yours, and the supposed power wielded by the RIAA/MPAA is yours - you gave it to them by buying their products, you can take it back by not buying anymore.
Yep ISDN looked great back in the 90s, but the ridiculous cost of installation and the two separate bills made it impractical for most people. I laugh hard when I see businesses still using ISDN 64k today when "business-class" cable can be had for half the price and 20-30 times faster upload. If that kind of basic service isn't available in your area, fire your cable co.
I'm not advocating wide-open porn surfing at work (even though I'm a peddler myself), but I hope you can explain how someone can get (realistically) sued because their employee surfed porn. I'm dying of curiosity here.
An employee could be fired, sure, but sued ? Where's the victim ?
This is a battle that will go on until cloning supplants natural reproduction, but I think people need to re-learn that naked things are NOT evil. Japanese women licking toads and puking in their own shit, that's evil.
It sounds goofy, but try a virtual firewall... e.g. Smoothwall in VMWare. Even with the VM layer, it's still far more conservative (and reliable) than any windows-based firewall junk. Mine runs with only 16mb of Ram allocated, and it's completely non-intrusive.
Perhaps I'm expecting too much here, but I'm not at all impressed by a 24-watt power draw, considering the inflated price of mATX components.
The average entry-level Intel-based desktops I sell, they eat 50 watts. They don't run fanless, but they are effectively noiseless beyond a foot. This is for a 2ghz Core-2 with 2gb ram and a SATA hard drive. Considering the Intel puts out at least twice as much performance as the Via, plus the second core.
I have yet to put them to work as servers and media centers, mainly because I don't have the time and my old gear still works well (XBMC + a weak old AMD X2). Still, I see very few advantages for the Via when compared with today's uncrippled desktops. Five years ago, sure, Via was unique, but they've been resting on their laurels for too long.
Nobody's ever heard of Michael Hollick. He's had a dozen or less tiny roles in a few TV episodes (Law and Order + spinoffs). He's a junior, and junior actors make peanuts. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he made more money on GTA than he has on all his prior acting jobs combined.
I think his attitude underlines the major problem with actors and the film industry in general: they have a warped sense of entitlement.
GTA IV would have shipped without him, or any other voice actors. It used to be (back in the glory days) that the developers themselves would do the voice acting, with mixed results of course, but it didn't really damage the gaming experience much at all. Worst case, you let out a chuckle at the horrible timing or nasal voice in a thriller adventure or FPS.
I've never understood the multi-million dollar paydays in the film industry, but then again I don't understand how a single game can rack up hundreds of millions in budget expenses. How much are you paying these overworked developers anyway ? How many man-hours actually go into the product ? Something's wrong with both these industries, and until they clean up their act (pardon the pun), I care not about their whining.
If you consider "ricejob" offensive, you need to step off the meta-racism bus. Would you prefer "horribly mutilated japanese-origin vehicle with weakly-bred owner" ?
It also assumes we'll be able to find and keep top engineers on staff, and not lose them to a higher paid, higher profile job with NVidia.
As if that weren't enough of a deterrent, what's the target market for this graphics card ? Clearly not the high end gamers, nor the professional rendering crowd. What, you want to market an open-source graphics card to Linux users ? A community that is built on the philosophy of making the most of older hardware... they're not going to pay anywhere near enough money to make this product worthwhile.
From an ideological standpoint, open-source anything is a great idea, but reality is hardly ever ideal.
Really ? I thought it was merely an embedded COM object, so says the HTML source on any IETab...
I frankly don't care, as long as it works. It's a handy little tool, especially considering every single one of my beloved users runs either IE6/7 or (god forbid) some bastard AOL browser - all of which have terrible CSS support.
Obvious ? The result may be obvious, but I'm sure they can patent the particular method they're using. That's the beauty of how fucked up the patent system is today.
I remember using so-called "heuristic" scanners back in the early 90's on my BBS. I can't remember the name, but I had this thingamabob that ran every file through several virus scanners, and one of them had this fuzzy virus detection as its prime feature.
Agreed, I can build a rocket gaming PC for less than what a lower-spec Mac Pro costs. The problem is Apple has zero incentive to target lower price points, because it would cannibalize their other sales. Same reason why BMW doesn't want to sell you a $15k car. They could (and quite frankly, the 3 series is like a Corolla with nicer trim), but it would actually reduce their profits.
Hell, if I could sell my PC workstations at 300% markup and have every asshat praise them as gods gift to technology (that god being Me), I'd sit on that market for as long as humanly possible.
Since these geniuses simply drew opaque boxes on top of the "sensitive" data, any PDF editing tool can delete the box and restore the document to its pre-redacted state.
If these are the people protecting your country from "cyber terrorists", well, god can't even help you!
You mean like fundamentalist religious groups ? Yeah, Greenpeace totally reminds me of those, only instead of bashing gays, they bash wealthy corporations.
The problem is, we need an outfit like Greenpeace, even we don't necessarily agree with their methods, otherwise these issues would fly under the radar and we'd all be a tad more ignorant. The exaggeration is what brings it up to eye level.
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Wowzers! Around here I could get some dark fiber patched in for way less than 10k. I guess it all depends on how competitive your area is for telecoms.
your numbers are way off. way way off.
Okay, the next time I build one I'll snap pictures of the kill-a-watt. I have a habit of being stubborn and rebellious, but I'm no liar.
If you want to try it out, it's an Intel E2xxx, Gigabyte GA-G31M-S2L, 2gb ram, Seagate SATA HD (any size) and an Antec Earthwatts 380 (mfg by Seasonic). I stick with the stock CPU fan, it's surprisingly quiet on the E2's.
At stock settings that reads between 45-55watts during boot. Sure, it peaks at 75-80 if you run Orthos or 3Dmark, but use it normally for a day and check the average. I could probably drop another 10 watts by underclocking it.
Conversely, my balls-out overclocked gaming/dev rig chugs over 500 watts at idle *chuckle*. The meter hits 850 at full CPU+CPU loads. That's for only one CPU and one GPU. For my own sanity (and hydro bill), I don't actually run it that hard most of the time, I dial it down to a more modest level and S3-sleep it when not in use.
Nevertheless, I'm always designing my (other) systems with noise and power draw in mind. I choose my components with great care. SPCR is a fantastic site for researching these things. My current servers are mostly mid-range processors, underclocked and undervolted. That's how I can manage a 4 TB file server under 80w.
You're right. I've only had very superficial harassment training. Maybe that's because I've worked with with sex industry for over a decade... ;)
Sexual harassment in my world is something we resolve internally, without the need for lawyers. There are rather clear lines that are never to be crossed, and the unspoken threat of boundless punishment is enough to keep most people in check.
The fact that I'm a wacko libertarian probably doesn't help me. While I consider bimbo wallpapers and calendars unprofessional in an office setting, I don't think the response to seeing a bikini babe should be a lawsuit. The person can certainly be asked (and required) to remove the content, but I refuse to buy into the idea that the viewer is hurt or damaged. After all, they see themselves naked (hopefully) every day in the shower, and I'd bet 100 to 1 they're uglier than whatever "damaged" their eyes.
The way the virtual machine does it thing is quite simple. Here goes nothing:
You disable TCP-IP on the physical network interface, so the Windows box can't talk to the internet. This forces it to route its junk through the virtual machine, which exposes a private network between the host and VM. The VM, in turn, has a second virtual network interface that's bridged to the host's physical interface. Since the VM runs its own TCP stack, it can still talk to the world even though the host is deaf and dumb.
Conceptually, the VM gets inserted between the ethernet level and the TCP level. Barring any freak hypervisor weaknesses, the worst that can happen is for someone to root the VM... they can't break through to the host.
I had the same reaction when I first heard of it, but it makes perfect sense. All you need to do is disable TCP-IP on the physical interface. The virtual machine accesses the interface directly at the ethernet level, so it can still talk to the world even though the host cannot.
It works surprisingly well, and you can pull it off for free if you use VMWare Server.
Current, past... no one escapes my cynicism. What about that failed actor ?
US Presidency has little to do with wisdom, and everything to do with image. It's all just a song and dance.
The problem with America is that they've been rendered pretty much useless by the threat of lawsuits.
There, fixed it for you.
Sued ?
I realize it's trendy to sue anyone for anything these days, but there's no written or verbal contract when someone calls to check references. If the former employer holds a high opinion of the person, that's all it is: an opinion. If that same person ends up doing a poor job with you, you can't blame their former employer.
I'll take myself as an example. There are some jobs where I excelled, but I had to move on because I just wasn't happy with the pay or the work, or any number of reasons. Often times I've been laid off due to shortage of work (fuck I hate this industry).
There are other jobs where I sucked ass. I was unmotivated, or I hated the boss, or sometimes I was trapped in a maze of bureaucracy. The result was that I worked slowly, did a half-assed job sometimes, and showed up late because I didn't care, nor did anyone else. That employer would give me a bad rep, even though all my other references were golden.
Checking an employee's references is a red herring. You have to check the employer's rap sheet too!
I always thought it was a dumb idea to escort people out that way. Sure, their justification makes sense on its own, but put into perspective it's a wedgeless argument.
If I were planning to screw my employer by stealing/leaking sensitive information, I wouldn't give them 2 weeks notice. I'd just suddenly stop showing up to work, go on sick leave until they fire me or something.
There is no security. If you can't trust your employee, you shouldn't have employed them in the first place.
No. Fear breeds anger. Anger creates messes like US vs Iraq. It could just as easily create People vs Copyright.
The RIAA/MPAA can sue everyone on the planet. The more people they beat, the less those people need to pay. How does it work ? There comes a point where crime turns into civil disobedience. If you're all alone and you don't pay your fine, you get thrown in jail, but what will they do if thousands of people band together and stand up to the RIAA ? Are they going to build special jails for downloaders ? Will they take them behind the Capitol building and execute them ? No.
If they hurt enough individuals, there will be more people like myself who are just dying to go toe-to-toe with these economy-raping asshats. I don't care if you throw a fist, swing a chain, or shoot a rifle, but sometimes you just have to defend what's yours. Downloaded files may not be legally "yours", but basic civil rights are yours, this country is yours, and the supposed power wielded by the RIAA/MPAA is yours - you gave it to them by buying their products, you can take it back by not buying anymore.
Yep ISDN looked great back in the 90s, but the ridiculous cost of installation and the two separate bills made it impractical for most people. I laugh hard when I see businesses still using ISDN 64k today when "business-class" cable can be had for half the price and 20-30 times faster upload. If that kind of basic service isn't available in your area, fire your cable co.
How can it realistically be called a clone, if they're just breeding a new dog "based on" the original's DNA ? It's not a true clone, by my standards.
Of course, it goes without saying that I don't consider any pet to be worth $50k, much less $150k. Just get a new dog, life goes on!
We did it to prove to ourselvesUSSR that it could be donewe had power.
There, fixed it for you.
I'm not advocating wide-open porn surfing at work (even though I'm a peddler myself), but I hope you can explain how someone can get (realistically) sued because their employee surfed porn. I'm dying of curiosity here.
An employee could be fired, sure, but sued ? Where's the victim ?
This is a battle that will go on until cloning supplants natural reproduction, but I think people need to re-learn that naked things are NOT evil. Japanese women licking toads and puking in their own shit, that's evil.
It sounds goofy, but try a virtual firewall... e.g. Smoothwall in VMWare. Even with the VM layer, it's still far more conservative (and reliable) than any windows-based firewall junk. Mine runs with only 16mb of Ram allocated, and it's completely non-intrusive.
Perhaps I'm expecting too much here, but I'm not at all impressed by a 24-watt power draw, considering the inflated price of mATX components.
The average entry-level Intel-based desktops I sell, they eat 50 watts. They don't run fanless, but they are effectively noiseless beyond a foot. This is for a 2ghz Core-2 with 2gb ram and a SATA hard drive. Considering the Intel puts out at least twice as much performance as the Via, plus the second core.
I have yet to put them to work as servers and media centers, mainly because I don't have the time and my old gear still works well (XBMC + a weak old AMD X2). Still, I see very few advantages for the Via when compared with today's uncrippled desktops. Five years ago, sure, Via was unique, but they've been resting on their laurels for too long.
Nobody's ever heard of Michael Hollick. He's had a dozen or less tiny roles in a few TV episodes (Law and Order + spinoffs). He's a junior, and junior actors make peanuts. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he made more money on GTA than he has on all his prior acting jobs combined.
I think his attitude underlines the major problem with actors and the film industry in general: they have a warped sense of entitlement.
GTA IV would have shipped without him, or any other voice actors. It used to be (back in the glory days) that the developers themselves would do the voice acting, with mixed results of course, but it didn't really damage the gaming experience much at all. Worst case, you let out a chuckle at the horrible timing or nasal voice in a thriller adventure or FPS.
I've never understood the multi-million dollar paydays in the film industry, but then again I don't understand how a single game can rack up hundreds of millions in budget expenses. How much are you paying these overworked developers anyway ? How many man-hours actually go into the product ? Something's wrong with both these industries, and until they clean up their act (pardon the pun), I care not about their whining.
If you consider "ricejob" offensive, you need to step off the meta-racism bus. Would you prefer "horribly mutilated japanese-origin vehicle with weakly-bred owner" ?
Ricejob it is.
It also assumes we'll be able to find and keep top engineers on staff, and not lose them to a higher paid, higher profile job with NVidia.
As if that weren't enough of a deterrent, what's the target market for this graphics card ? Clearly not the high end gamers, nor the professional rendering crowd. What, you want to market an open-source graphics card to Linux users ? A community that is built on the philosophy of making the most of older hardware... they're not going to pay anywhere near enough money to make this product worthwhile.
From an ideological standpoint, open-source anything is a great idea, but reality is hardly ever ideal.
Really ? I thought it was merely an embedded COM object, so says the HTML source on any IETab...
I frankly don't care, as long as it works. It's a handy little tool, especially considering every single one of my beloved users runs either IE6/7 or (god forbid) some bastard AOL browser - all of which have terrible CSS support.
Obvious ? The result may be obvious, but I'm sure they can patent the particular method they're using. That's the beauty of how fucked up the patent system is today.
I remember using so-called "heuristic" scanners back in the early 90's on my BBS. I can't remember the name, but I had this thingamabob that ran every file through several virus scanners, and one of them had this fuzzy virus detection as its prime feature.
Agreed, I can build a rocket gaming PC for less than what a lower-spec Mac Pro costs. The problem is Apple has zero incentive to target lower price points, because it would cannibalize their other sales. Same reason why BMW doesn't want to sell you a $15k car. They could (and quite frankly, the 3 series is like a Corolla with nicer trim), but it would actually reduce their profits.
Hell, if I could sell my PC workstations at 300% markup and have every asshat praise them as gods gift to technology (that god being Me), I'd sit on that market for as long as humanly possible.
Since these geniuses simply drew opaque boxes on top of the "sensitive" data, any PDF editing tool can delete the box and restore the document to its pre-redacted state.
If these are the people protecting your country from "cyber terrorists", well, god can't even help you!
You mean like fundamentalist religious groups ? Yeah, Greenpeace totally reminds me of those, only instead of bashing gays, they bash wealthy corporations.
The problem is, we need an outfit like Greenpeace, even we don't necessarily agree with their methods, otherwise these issues would fly under the radar and we'd all be a tad more ignorant. The exaggeration is what brings it up to eye level.