But here's the trick: If you find data kept in violation of the policy, you send EVERYONE to training. I'm talking mandatory training where they lose computer access (and thus, don't get paid) until they do the training. All new hires have to do it, too. Make it really boring, and administered after normal work hours.
After the first time everyone is sent to training for some poor schmuck being careless, I guarantee nobody will ever violate policy again.
You certainly wouldn't have to worry about me violating your policies, nor I imagine any of the other competent staff who can easily find work elsewhere. I've seen it happen more than once - stupid draconian policies arrive in one door, competent staff walk out the other door.
Thankfully, this is is all theoretical to me because I would never work somewhere where what you propose is even legal.
They don't mention screen size, which would determine if this is a Nokia Internet Tablet competitor. It's impossible to get a sense of scale from the mockups. If It's got a 10" screen it's in a different league entirely and just the kind of device I've been waiting for for several years. My 770 is nice, but the screen size is defined by the portable form factor, which means it's too small. I was rather hoping Apple would have made a web tablet by now (the iPod Touch is, again, too small). I want something with a reasonable sized screen for use where a laptop is awkward or unnecessary but I don't need pocketability.
Bytes may not be an SI unit, but they are an IEC unit and a decade ago the IEC specified the meaning of the SI prefixes used with the byte to mean the same powers of ten as SI.
Other than solar heating and truly remote places, it's just not economic to build lots of tiny plants. The economes of scale bite you in the ass; small wind turbines are less efficient than big ones, small-scale geothermal is nonsensical unless you live on an active volcano and small-scale solar power means photo-voltaics, which don't give you as much bang for your buck as thermal solar plants.
You should have had negative feedback for cancelling the auction so close to the end. It was a negative experience for the bidders. It sounds like the winner might not have left negative feedback for you if he knew you could retaliate in kind, which suggests eBay's new rules are working perfectly.
Actually I'm pro nuclear power, it's really the only practical solution if we want to cut down on fossil fuel use and have a reasonable degree of energy independance. A bunch of radiation isn't very good for the environment, but at least it only very occasionally screws up a few hundred square kilometres. That's better than constantly screwing up the entire planet.
Absolutely. Unless you're a Linux zealot and can't cope with fuse, ZFS (be it on Solaris, a BSD or OS X) is by far the most sensible choice. RAID-5 is no good, the odds of getting a single read error when rebuilding your array after a drive failure are getting to be too high as aray sizes increase. In theory you can continue through the read error and just lose a block, but good luck actually doing that with the solutions out there. The odds of a silent read or write error are too high anyway, ZFS guards against this in a way no other filesystem does.
In order to define information, as it is perceived by humans into binary data you would need a far deeper understanding of the human brain than we currently do. Words can be exchanged for ones of sufficiently close meaning, the edges of a picture cropped, sections of a tune repeated and so on in ways which do not significantly change the information a human would extract, but which would defeat a simple binary comparison. While we can represent information as binary data, we just don't know how to represent the nuances of human interpretation as mathematical operators on binary data. That's not a failing of copyright law, but of mathematics and biology.
It's true that Apple gouge on upgrades, but it's hardly a new phenomenon. They were doing it 4 years ago when I bought my first Mac and were doing it well before then too. It's a form of price discrimination, similar in that way to rebates and coupons. Those willing to expend more effort (fit their own RAM, fill out a rebate) effectively pay a lower price which allows the store to sell to a broader range of customers while maximising profit.
Get over the open-source-coding-is-unpaid thing. Loads of the coders, particularly of larger projects, are full-time professionals employed by Novell, IBM, RedHat etc. Unpaid open-source work is hardly without reward either, I find the emails of thanks I get for the (incredibly minor) projects I've released hugely rewarding.
75 Farenheit is warm? That's only 24 Celsius. In 2004 the temperature in central Tokyo hit 39.5 Celsius. Temperatures of 30 Celsius and above aren't that unusual in summer and that's pretty close to skin temperature (33 Celsius according to Wikipedia). OK, it's not that hot all day every day, but warm enough that a picture pulled out from under your clothes wouldn't cool too far too fast.
So expect thermal (I.R.) sensors. Most digital cameras (CCDs) are highly IR sensitive anyway if you remove their IR filter, so this has to be a really easy mod for them to make.
Wrong end of the IR spectrum. People just aren't hot enough for CCDs to detect the IR, you need something not far short of red hot for a normal CCD to see it. You really do need those expensive detectors and optics if you want to tell the difference between paper at 20 Celsius and a person's skin at 33 Celsius.
Perhaps the controllers you get with them are pre-paired, but I know whenever my 360-owning friend gets a new controller it needs to be paired before it'll work.
Wow, theirs looks like the least effective system imaginable. It would just get covered in leaves. I suspect a good proportion of the water from a heavy rainstorm would just flow straight over that fine mesh even when it was clean.
The drains aren't just holes in the ground. You'll either have a properly designed soakaway or the gutters will be connected to the main drains. It's not just about the foundations either. I don't know about aluminium siding, wood and other finishes, but brick walls certainly don't like water flowing over them - the get damp, the mortar crumbles and stuff grows on them.
You're evidntly lucky enought to live somewhere where cheap houses exist. A fucked-up one-bedroom flat on a nasty concil estate will cost you £60k ($120k) in all but the very crappiest parts of the UK. Something you might want to live in (not big or nice, but at least in a reasonably safe area) is well over £100k virtually everywhere. The average age of a first-time buyer in the UK is now in the 30s. When the average price of a home is 7x the median salary home ownership simply isn't an option for huge chunks of the population.
Or I'll just use my Xbox which "automagically" works even if you never, ever, plug your wireless controller cable in.
Pressing the little button on the back of the controller and the button on the XBox to pair them is isn't "automagic". It's not hard, but it's not automagic.
How would that set up your Wi-Fi connection? It does bring to mind one of the nice features of the PS3 though - when you plug in the USB cable to the controller it automagically sorts out the Bluetooth pairing for you. It's a fairly minor thing I know, but a nice touch.
Without QoS at the ISP end you can't control every possibility, but your attitude seems to be that the fact that it can't cover every eventuality means it's a waste of time. How often do home users get DOSed? How many bandwidth-hungry protocols that people actually use don't back off when packets are dropped? The fact is that you can control the other end the majority of the time, because the majority of the time you're connected with reasonably well-behaved protocols. Ingress QoS isn't perfect, but for a home network it sure as hell helps, is often good enough, and unless you want to spend 10x as much for your connection it's frequently your only option. The perfect is the enemy of the good.
My SpeedTouch 546 will do this, I think all the SpeedTouch routers will. I don't think you can do it with the web interface, but you can with telnet or by editing a config file. You just turn IPQoS on and the default ruleset prioritises VOIP and shares bandwidth fairly between the four ethernet ports. In fact, it might be on by default.
Speedtouches are very capable little routers under the hood. In addition to the usual 1:many NAT, firewalling and port forwarding, mine is currently also doing proper NAT (I have a public IP block) and IPQoS. The firewall is based on chains, so is pretty flexible. I think they run pretty much the same firmware as the "business" routers which are 5x the price, but with a dumbed-down web interface. If you don't mind a command line (it's quite a nice CLI for an embedded system - on-line help, interactive command entry and a command history) they'll probably do everything you'd want a router for a small network to do.
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You certainly wouldn't have to worry about me violating your policies, nor I imagine any of the other competent staff who can easily find work elsewhere. I've seen it happen more than once - stupid draconian policies arrive in one door, competent staff walk out the other door.
Thankfully, this is is all theoretical to me because I would never work somewhere where what you propose is even legal.
They don't mention screen size, which would determine if this is a Nokia Internet Tablet competitor. It's impossible to get a sense of scale from the mockups. If It's got a 10" screen it's in a different league entirely and just the kind of device I've been waiting for for several years. My 770 is nice, but the screen size is defined by the portable form factor, which means it's too small. I was rather hoping Apple would have made a web tablet by now (the iPod Touch is, again, too small). I want something with a reasonable sized screen for use where a laptop is awkward or unnecessary but I don't need pocketability.
Bytes may not be an SI unit, but they are an IEC unit and a decade ago the IEC specified the meaning of the SI prefixes used with the byte to mean the same powers of ten as SI.
Other than solar heating and truly remote places, it's just not economic to build lots of tiny plants. The economes of scale bite you in the ass; small wind turbines are less efficient than big ones, small-scale geothermal is nonsensical unless you live on an active volcano and small-scale solar power means photo-voltaics, which don't give you as much bang for your buck as thermal solar plants.
You should have had negative feedback for cancelling the auction so close to the end. It was a negative experience for the bidders. It sounds like the winner might not have left negative feedback for you if he knew you could retaliate in kind, which suggests eBay's new rules are working perfectly.
Actually I'm pro nuclear power, it's really the only practical solution if we want to cut down on fossil fuel use and have a reasonable degree of energy independance. A bunch of radiation isn't very good for the environment, but at least it only very occasionally screws up a few hundred square kilometres. That's better than constantly screwing up the entire planet.
Why layer all that duplication and checksumming crap on top of your arrays when ZFS can do the whole lot for you and do it better?
Absolutely. Unless you're a Linux zealot and can't cope with fuse, ZFS (be it on Solaris, a BSD or OS X) is by far the most sensible choice. RAID-5 is no good, the odds of getting a single read error when rebuilding your array after a drive failure are getting to be too high as aray sizes increase. In theory you can continue through the read error and just lose a block, but good luck actually doing that with the solutions out there. The odds of a silent read or write error are too high anyway, ZFS guards against this in a way no other filesystem does.
In order to define information, as it is perceived by humans into binary data you would need a far deeper understanding of the human brain than we currently do. Words can be exchanged for ones of sufficiently close meaning, the edges of a picture cropped, sections of a tune repeated and so on in ways which do not significantly change the information a human would extract, but which would defeat a simple binary comparison. While we can represent information as binary data, we just don't know how to represent the nuances of human interpretation as mathematical operators on binary data. That's not a failing of copyright law, but of mathematics and biology.
newer data.
It's true that Apple gouge on upgrades, but it's hardly a new phenomenon. They were doing it 4 years ago when I bought my first Mac and were doing it well before then too. It's a form of price discrimination, similar in that way to rebates and coupons. Those willing to expend more effort (fit their own RAM, fill out a rebate) effectively pay a lower price which allows the store to sell to a broader range of customers while maximising profit.
Get over the open-source-coding-is-unpaid thing. Loads of the coders, particularly of larger projects, are full-time professionals employed by Novell, IBM, RedHat etc. Unpaid open-source work is hardly without reward either, I find the emails of thanks I get for the (incredibly minor) projects I've released hugely rewarding.
75 Farenheit is warm? That's only 24 Celsius. In 2004 the temperature in central Tokyo hit 39.5 Celsius. Temperatures of 30 Celsius and above aren't that unusual in summer and that's pretty close to skin temperature (33 Celsius according to Wikipedia). OK, it's not that hot all day every day, but warm enough that a picture pulled out from under your clothes wouldn't cool too far too fast.
Wrong end of the IR spectrum. People just aren't hot enough for CCDs to detect the IR, you need something not far short of red hot for a normal CCD to see it. You really do need those expensive detectors and optics if you want to tell the difference between paper at 20 Celsius and a person's skin at 33 Celsius.
Perhaps the controllers you get with them are pre-paired, but I know whenever my 360-owning friend gets a new controller it needs to be paired before it'll work.
Wow, theirs looks like the least effective system imaginable. It would just get covered in leaves. I suspect a good proportion of the water from a heavy rainstorm would just flow straight over that fine mesh even when it was clean.
The drains aren't just holes in the ground. You'll either have a properly designed soakaway or the gutters will be connected to the main drains. It's not just about the foundations either. I don't know about aluminium siding, wood and other finishes, but brick walls certainly don't like water flowing over them - the get damp, the mortar crumbles and stuff grows on them.
You're evidntly lucky enought to live somewhere where cheap houses exist. A fucked-up one-bedroom flat on a nasty concil estate will cost you £60k ($120k) in all but the very crappiest parts of the UK. Something you might want to live in (not big or nice, but at least in a reasonably safe area) is well over £100k virtually everywhere. The average age of a first-time buyer in the UK is now in the 30s. When the average price of a home is 7x the median salary home ownership simply isn't an option for huge chunks of the population.
Pressing the little button on the back of the controller and the button on the XBox to pair them is isn't "automagic". It's not hard, but it's not automagic.
How would that set up your Wi-Fi connection? It does bring to mind one of the nice features of the PS3 though - when you plug in the USB cable to the controller it automagically sorts out the Bluetooth pairing for you. It's a fairly minor thing I know, but a nice touch.
Without QoS at the ISP end you can't control every possibility, but your attitude seems to be that the fact that it can't cover every eventuality means it's a waste of time. How often do home users get DOSed? How many bandwidth-hungry protocols that people actually use don't back off when packets are dropped? The fact is that you can control the other end the majority of the time, because the majority of the time you're connected with reasonably well-behaved protocols. Ingress QoS isn't perfect, but for a home network it sure as hell helps, is often good enough, and unless you want to spend 10x as much for your connection it's frequently your only option. The perfect is the enemy of the good.
If you're using it for work get work to pay for a second phone line and unplug it after hours.
My SpeedTouch 546 will do this, I think all the SpeedTouch routers will. I don't think you can do it with the web interface, but you can with telnet or by editing a config file. You just turn IPQoS on and the default ruleset prioritises VOIP and shares bandwidth fairly between the four ethernet ports. In fact, it might be on by default.
Speedtouches are very capable little routers under the hood. In addition to the usual 1:many NAT, firewalling and port forwarding, mine is currently also doing proper NAT (I have a public IP block) and IPQoS. The firewall is based on chains, so is pretty flexible. I think they run pretty much the same firmware as the "business" routers which are 5x the price, but with a dumbed-down web interface. If you don't mind a command line (it's quite a nice CLI for an embedded system - on-line help, interactive command entry and a command history) they'll probably do everything you'd want a router for a small network to do.
1999 called, they want their trolls back.
Spoken like someone who's never worked for Apple.