It seems like we're looking at the end of the platform, I guess. I suppose Dice and Beta officially made the site unreadable, or just superfluous for most users. Scrolling down the front page I see stories with nearly all the comment totals in double digits. The "active" story is about the hot-button US Supreme Court nomination fight with 279 comments. Three years ago, it would have been 1500.
I suppose 18 years (17 for me; I started reading in '98) is a good run in the internet age, but it's kind of sad to see it go.
What makes you think these rooms had installations done in the past decade? We're not all 3 year old start-ups building out brand new lease spaces with $200/SF upfit budgets. Some of these locations I work in are 100 year old buildings with 6 thick reinforced concrete floors and solid masonry walls. When you see what it costs to get new wiring, half the time the owner just says "Fuck it, get me another easel and a giant Postit pad," or "we'll paint on the wall with tree sap and crushed beetles instead."
Yeah, but that somebody else has people on call 24 hours a day to fix stuff, and they're (We hope) experts at it. For a personal or small business server, I have to fix or update things maybe once every 2 years (yeah slackware!) which means I have to pretty much re-learn everything I did last time I touched it. And compared to most people I know, I'm an hands-on guy when it comes to my home network.
TBH, I probably spent, all told, about 10-12 hours in lost time, one way or another over those two weeks. I bill a rather pedestrian $175/hr, and lost about 6-8 hours of billable time from contractors I couldn't keep busy at $90/hr. Still north of $2500. The good news is that my primary working set of data was, in fact, on Dropbox - which meant that I could keep working while I wasn't actively troubleshooting with the server. The bad news was that I couldn't trust any of the backups I had on that server. I've had a cloud service (LiveDrive) goes toes up on me before, and even before that I was paranoid enough to always have multiple backups, and even with 2 other backups (1 local, 1 cloud) I was on edge until the server was back up and running.
Ha - exactly. I do run my business off a Dropbox personal account, with multiple (both on and off line) backups.
Interestingly, the only way to replicate a data failure was to transfer a file of at least 1GB in size. About 1/2 the time a 700-800MB file was bad. And my files are generally in the 5MB range, with almost everything but the photo images in the 1MB range. I'd had some odd files that had either an odd color cast, or something out of the ordinary, but with a million files on the server, the chance that 1-2 get screwed up between the SD card, my laptop, and the server in a year seemed plausible. Re-installing to a new laptop, however, revealed that all of my OS images, and many of my large programs, were corrupt. Of course, so were most/all of the movies on the server which I'd loaded over the last year - but bit errors look a lot like screwed up or mis-coded I-frames, so I just assumed it was a bad rip/handbrake encode or a dodgy download (usenet has been slipping of late, imho).
Because your own cloud server requires maintenance, and when your cloud server goes down you're SOL until you, personally, have the time to troubleshoot and fix it.
How do I know this? My server developed a tic in it's network card, corrupting about 1 bit in every 5,000,000,000 or so. Took me a year to find that I actually had a problem with the server, and then two weeks to narrow down what the problem actually was. As a side effect I also found that I had a dodgy drive cable (one of 6 in the system) which showed no outward sign of problems because CRCs were correcting those bit problems.
Could this happen to a cloud service? Sure. Are they likely to catch it? Faster than I am, in all likelihood. Will it take them less time to correct it? You're damn sure it will. And for the cost of the time I spent troubleshooting my server, I could have paid for a decade of service from two cloud services so that I had 100% redundancy, and still had money to go buy a kegerator so I could drink beer instead of chasing bit problems.
I find that personalized meal service - where you provide your specific preferences and dislikes, along with any allergy information and your personal weight and fitness goals, is by far the most effective way to enjoy your meal and maximize your health. In fact, as a billionaire, its the only way I can see to get and keep everyone healthy. It just takes some planning and seed funding to create a few proof-of-concept restaurants that can do just that. After that it should be simple to, for example, provide the exact same personalized service to the entire deployed military forces for their daily meals.
If we'd bought them from Verizon it could be years before we get upgraded to the fixed software version. Or we might just have to by the F-36 to get the update.
Naw, what you're describing is Dirt. Soil is what we build buildings on and it had defined engineering properties such as internal friction angles, various moduli of elasticity and compression, and other useful things. (aka, each discipline has it's own definition of what "soil" is - and to CEs it has nothing to do with biology;-)
LG G5 - now physically bigger, with a smaller screen and smaller battery, and the opportunity to spend an extra $600 on accessories (ahem, "friends") you'll use only once.
(NB: I'm a current G3 & G4 owner, really not impressed with the G5)
Garbage is actually filled with valuable substances. GIGO is more applicable to older, discrete entry systems which have specific analysis paths.
Consider real garbage in your trash, or in transfer station, or in a landfill. It generally has no value - it's garbage. But at a larger and larger scale it begins to have, statsitically, more valuable material in it. Now consider minerals trapped in the earth. We regularly process millions of metric tons of earth to refine and process into the elements we need.
A truck full of garbage is a smelly mess. An earth full of garbage is a resource which can be mined for nearly anything you need. That's why all the trash we put in Google has greater value as the total amount of garbage they collect increases. It's still garbage...but at that scale it can be refined into money.
If the autonomous driver module is capable of independent operation, and yet unable to react fast enough to avoid a collision, there is no chance that a driver will be able to. A failure of the autonomous system wouldn't be apparent until it is too late for a human to react. And by failure, I mean a failure of both the autonomous system in operational mode, as well as a back-up system which is designed for fail-over control (and removal from the roadway/traffic).
This is why any benefit other than salary should be forbidden. Put it on the table, make it transparent, eliminate the lock-in, put some options back on the table for tens of millions of workers.
Silly boy. You don't yell "heads up everyone!," you yell "Terrorist!"
That way there's no question about your motives (you are saving these people from an attack), and if someone should accidentally be hit by debris, it's all in the name of security.
200% would be surge pricing. 20% is just your run of the mill peak period price. I'm a bit surprised they didn't have seasonal pricing already (though, in effect, they do through specials and offers).
You can't kill a corporation, you can only sue them out of existence and take all of their assets. I'm sure statutory damages for willful infringement would have been sufficient. but nobody bothers to register their CC works, so it's merely treble damages. And no lawyer is going to take on an IP case for $10,000 in crappy prints.
That's surprising. W10 seems pretty stable on 6 of the 7 machines I manage. The exception: a Surface Pro 4. Intels support for promised features and drivers are, in a word, awful. No - scratch that - they started out awful. Their latest beta is pretty good, but MS is still implementing drivers from 1-2 months ago (on a chip that's only been released for 4 months), and MS intentionally hobbles the driver interface which prevents things from being configured properly for their own damned hardware.
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It seems like we're looking at the end of the platform, I guess. I suppose Dice and Beta officially made the site unreadable, or just superfluous for most users. Scrolling down the front page I see stories with nearly all the comment totals in double digits. The "active" story is about the hot-button US Supreme Court nomination fight with 279 comments. Three years ago, it would have been 1500.
I suppose 18 years (17 for me; I started reading in '98) is a good run in the internet age, but it's kind of sad to see it go.
What makes you think these rooms had installations done in the past decade? We're not all 3 year old start-ups building out brand new lease spaces with $200/SF upfit budgets. Some of these locations I work in are 100 year old buildings with 6 thick reinforced concrete floors and solid masonry walls. When you see what it costs to get new wiring, half the time the owner just says "Fuck it, get me another easel and a giant Postit pad," or "we'll paint on the wall with tree sap and crushed beetles instead."
Yeah, but that somebody else has people on call 24 hours a day to fix stuff, and they're (We hope) experts at it. For a personal or small business server, I have to fix or update things maybe once every 2 years (yeah slackware!) which means I have to pretty much re-learn everything I did last time I touched it. And compared to most people I know, I'm an hands-on guy when it comes to my home network.
TBH, I probably spent, all told, about 10-12 hours in lost time, one way or another over those two weeks. I bill a rather pedestrian $175/hr, and lost about 6-8 hours of billable time from contractors I couldn't keep busy at $90/hr. Still north of $2500. The good news is that my primary working set of data was, in fact, on Dropbox - which meant that I could keep working while I wasn't actively troubleshooting with the server. The bad news was that I couldn't trust any of the backups I had on that server. I've had a cloud service (LiveDrive) goes toes up on me before, and even before that I was paranoid enough to always have multiple backups, and even with 2 other backups (1 local, 1 cloud) I was on edge until the server was back up and running.
Ha - exactly. I do run my business off a Dropbox personal account, with multiple (both on and off line) backups.
Interestingly, the only way to replicate a data failure was to transfer a file of at least 1GB in size. About 1/2 the time a 700-800MB file was bad. And my files are generally in the 5MB range, with almost everything but the photo images in the 1MB range. I'd had some odd files that had either an odd color cast, or something out of the ordinary, but with a million files on the server, the chance that 1-2 get screwed up between the SD card, my laptop, and the server in a year seemed plausible. Re-installing to a new laptop, however, revealed that all of my OS images, and many of my large programs, were corrupt. Of course, so were most/all of the movies on the server which I'd loaded over the last year - but bit errors look a lot like screwed up or mis-coded I-frames, so I just assumed it was a bad rip/handbrake encode or a dodgy download (usenet has been slipping of late, imho).
Because your own cloud server requires maintenance, and when your cloud server goes down you're SOL until you, personally, have the time to troubleshoot and fix it.
How do I know this? My server developed a tic in it's network card, corrupting about 1 bit in every 5,000,000,000 or so. Took me a year to find that I actually had a problem with the server, and then two weeks to narrow down what the problem actually was. As a side effect I also found that I had a dodgy drive cable (one of 6 in the system) which showed no outward sign of problems because CRCs were correcting those bit problems.
Could this happen to a cloud service? Sure. Are they likely to catch it? Faster than I am, in all likelihood. Will it take them less time to correct it? You're damn sure it will. And for the cost of the time I spent troubleshooting my server, I could have paid for a decade of service from two cloud services so that I had 100% redundancy, and still had money to go buy a kegerator so I could drink beer instead of chasing bit problems.
Kronk, is that you?
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Why do we even *have* that lever?!?
I don't see an issue - the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty were both created by the French. Seems absolutely logical.
I find that personalized meal service - where you provide your specific preferences and dislikes, along with any allergy information and your personal weight and fitness goals, is by far the most effective way to enjoy your meal and maximize your health. In fact, as a billionaire, its the only way I can see to get and keep everyone healthy. It just takes some planning and seed funding to create a few proof-of-concept restaurants that can do just that. After that it should be simple to, for example, provide the exact same personalized service to the entire deployed military forces for their daily meals.
Oh, upgrading the projector is nothing. It's the cost of replacing the wires in the wall that gets expensive.
"He said that an error in removing the memory could make the data unreadable forever."
Well, considering that's the current state of the data, they really have nothing to lose.
If we'd bought them from Verizon it could be years before we get upgraded to the fixed software version. Or we might just have to by the F-36 to get the update.
Naw, what you're describing is Dirt. Soil is what we build buildings on and it had defined engineering properties such as internal friction angles, various moduli of elasticity and compression, and other useful things. (aka, each discipline has it's own definition of what "soil" is - and to CEs it has nothing to do with biology ;-)
LG G5 - now physically bigger, with a smaller screen and smaller battery, and the opportunity to spend an extra $600 on accessories (ahem, "friends") you'll use only once.
(NB: I'm a current G3 & G4 owner, really not impressed with the G5)
Garbage is actually filled with valuable substances. GIGO is more applicable to older, discrete entry systems which have specific analysis paths.
Consider real garbage in your trash, or in transfer station, or in a landfill. It generally has no value - it's garbage. But at a larger and larger scale it begins to have, statsitically, more valuable material in it. Now consider minerals trapped in the earth. We regularly process millions of metric tons of earth to refine and process into the elements we need.
A truck full of garbage is a smelly mess. An earth full of garbage is a resource which can be mined for nearly anything you need. That's why all the trash we put in Google has greater value as the total amount of garbage they collect increases. It's still garbage...but at that scale it can be refined into money.
Or, at least, that will be the effect once all of the legal/available methods of ripping your own media are gone.
If the autonomous driver module is capable of independent operation, and yet unable to react fast enough to avoid a collision, there is no chance that a driver will be able to. A failure of the autonomous system wouldn't be apparent until it is too late for a human to react. And by failure, I mean a failure of both the autonomous system in operational mode, as well as a back-up system which is designed for fail-over control (and removal from the roadway/traffic).
This is why any benefit other than salary should be forbidden. Put it on the table, make it transparent, eliminate the lock-in, put some options back on the table for tens of millions of workers.
"required."
I'm not sure that word means what you think it means.
Do you know how amazingly mad I'd be if I fired this and the drone ended up being 328.09 feet away?
Silly boy. You don't yell "heads up everyone!," you yell "Terrorist!"
That way there's no question about your motives (you are saving these people from an attack), and if someone should accidentally be hit by debris, it's all in the name of security.
So, pretty much about as easy as decrypting an iPhone without the key.
200% would be surge pricing. 20% is just your run of the mill peak period price. I'm a bit surprised they didn't have seasonal pricing already (though, in effect, they do through specials and offers).
You can't kill a corporation, you can only sue them out of existence and take all of their assets. I'm sure statutory damages for willful infringement would have been sufficient. but nobody bothers to register their CC works, so it's merely treble damages. And no lawyer is going to take on an IP case for $10,000 in crappy prints.
That's surprising. W10 seems pretty stable on 6 of the 7 machines I manage. The exception: a Surface Pro 4. Intels support for promised features and drivers are, in a word, awful. No - scratch that - they started out awful. Their latest beta is pretty good, but MS is still implementing drivers from 1-2 months ago (on a chip that's only been released for 4 months), and MS intentionally hobbles the driver interface which prevents things from being configured properly for their own damned hardware.
But on all the "old" stuff...near zero issues.
The problem isn't in finding a version (though I own[ed] a perpetual license), it's in getting the key updates to rip new BR discs.