In addition to a poor design it is a happy path system and doesnâ(TM)t account for real world exceptions. The project obviously chose fast and cheap over good.
The billions of lines of code on a typical computer are already beyond humans. The only way we manage is to break it up into smaller apps. Which is why we are always finding bugs and vulnerabilities. AI is our only hope.
The biggest failing for all of these systems is that they fail to acknowledge that hoses are standalone entities in there own right. House don't stop existing when you leave in the morning. Most house have more than one occupant and usually plants and pets. They need to run without outside help. This is where all the devices that need a smartphone or cloud connection to fail. Houses won't be smart until they don't need smartphones or people to run.
The risks you will face: 1) The obvious, it may be lost or stolen. Can you afford to lose family photos and you personal info? 2) Vibration. It addition to having your boxes roughly handled, ships will expose your gear to low frequency vibration for weeks on end. 3) Temperature. Most shipping isn't climate controlled, so you may get condensation. 4) Incompatibility. Chances are where you are going will have difference power, communications, space and environmental
Recommendation. Sell everything you can't replace and buy new at the destination. Almost for sure where you are going will have difference standards which apply to electronics, furniture, appliances and clothes. Backup everything twice. Leave a copy in the cloud, and one with friends/family.
Most database servers are already doing the same things that virtualization accomplishes. SQL Server 2012 as an example can support multiple database instances, each with multiple databases and will use every last resource available, and be more efficient than hosting multiple copies of in their own OS instance in VMWare.
Apple goal of late (at least since Steve Jobs return) is to return to the glory days of IBM and DEC. During the 60 & 70's IBM, DEC and almost all computer makers owned and controlled everything about their product lines. They build and serviced all the hardware and wrote almost all of the software. If you were a ISV or 3rd party you need to go through them/work by their rules to get access to their customers.
Apple is doing the same thing. They want complete control over their customer base. Want to sell an Apple customer software or accessories? You need to sell it through the App Store or include an Apple provided chip in your accessory, and they decide who sells through the App Store and who can make accessories. My only surprise is why they haven't started to lock down their computers and Mac OS.
So to be clear. If you own an Apple product you are an Apple customer first and foremost. And Apple decides who can sell software and hardware to you.
As always their are exceptions, but they are just that, exceptions.
It was typical for a spin off series. Lay down the ground work for the viewers new to the series, throw in some background on the individuals, add cameos for the stars from the previous series and hint at whats to come. Most importantly don't mess with the formula.
As for the episode. It still amazes me how the writers handle "The Ancients". Come on. Someone sends out a robot spaceship for a indefinitely long journey and it doesn't have a way to repair itself? "The Ancients" are so omnipotent that they don't need spacesuits, supplies or tools to make repairs, but they do need spaceships? Either "The Ancients" are so overrated or the writers need to think before they write. Oops. I forgot we were talking about Hollywood.
Before you can expect any serious answers you need to answer some questions:
How many sites? What are your data requirements? Are you web surfing, doing email or using SCADA? What are your voice requirements? How many minutes a month per site? To where? What is your latitude? Do you have to be portable?
As for soultions, have you considered Inmarsat's BGAN service, MSAT, VSAT and Iridium?
ACTA also has the effect of requiring that all traffic (and transactions) be routed through central points so that infringing content can be tracked back to the source. Pretty much a puts us back in the old Mainframe & PBX days. This not only impacts P2P traffic, but anything that is decentralized, which means the internet as a whole, along with email, IM, IRC, Skype, etc.
1) To bad the Whitehouse isn't using an e-mail system like millions of other people. Wait they are. Like it or not MS Exchange is everywhere. 2) To bad the requirement for e-mail archiving and retention is unique to government. Wait, most publicly traded companies have legal and compliance requirements to do so. 3) To bad there is no market for software to archive and retain e-mail on one of the most common e-mail platforms. Wait, there is, and its huge. 4) To bad nobody has nobody has developed technology for this market. Wait, there are dozens of solutions.
To bad no one is getting fired, imprisoned or impeached over this one.
Both Canada and Mexico have similar problems when it comes to the USA not complying with WTO rulings. These will be on the table if NAFTA is renegotiated.
Overall I found the article biased. It put a negative bend on the fact the the up and coming generation are more comfortable with technology, better connected and networked. They tend to look at the existing corporate IT culture as limiting. Thus they work around the obstacles. The article then presumes that this activity is wrong, just as the RIAA and MPAA automatically assume that P2P is wrong because it doesn't fit their view of the world.
Unfortunately the joke will be on us. Countries like China already have licensing requirements for Internet cafe operators and ISPs.
I suspect if cars were invented today with our current technology, GPS tracking would be mandatory, event recorders would be mandatory, and some sort of biometric access control so that they would know would was driving and when in real time.
The government and law enforcement will make sure all of this will happen if a 'new' Internet is built.
Although I am no fan of SOCAN, this definitely sticks it to the record companies. As long as these fees are in place, music piracy will remain untested in court. The current theory is that as long as the artists are compensated for illegally obtained music (aka burning a copy for you friends) they are not loosing anything when piracy happens. This reduces the real losses to artists, which is what piracy is all about (can you say someone stole from you if they are paid a mutually agreeable price through SOCAN, which SOCAN oddly decides is fair). CRIA/RIAA will not risk loosing in court and would prefer it stay a legal grey area.
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Microsoft can go join DEC, CDC, Borroughs and UNIVAC.
In addition to a poor design it is a happy path system and doesnâ(TM)t account for real world exceptions. The project obviously chose fast and cheap over good.
The billions of lines of code on a typical computer are already beyond humans. The only way we manage is to break it up into smaller apps. Which is why we are always finding bugs and vulnerabilities. AI is our only hope.
Come on.
When have you ever heard governments say they did anything illegal or say they didn't do something because it was wrong or illegal.
At best they lose in court.
The biggest failing for all of these systems is that they fail to acknowledge that hoses are standalone entities in there own right. House don't stop existing when you leave in the morning. Most house have more than one occupant and usually plants and pets. They need to run without outside help. This is where all the devices that need a smartphone or cloud connection to fail. Houses won't be smart until they don't need smartphones or people to run.
I was there. Didn't bother to attend the Hugos.
BTW. They were two ceremonies. Check out http://loncon3.org
I guess April Fools came early with the new calendar. Or is the timing of the announcement off?
The risks you will face:
1) The obvious, it may be lost or stolen. Can you afford to lose family photos and you personal info?
2) Vibration. It addition to having your boxes roughly handled, ships will expose your gear to low frequency vibration for weeks on end.
3) Temperature. Most shipping isn't climate controlled, so you may get condensation.
4) Incompatibility. Chances are where you are going will have difference power, communications, space and environmental
Recommendation. Sell everything you can't replace and buy new at the destination. Almost for sure where you are going will have difference standards which apply to electronics, furniture, appliances and clothes. Backup everything twice. Leave a copy in the cloud, and one with friends/family.
Most of these events have DJs and commercial DJs are licensed, so unless SOCAN is double dipping his is a waste of a news article.
Most database servers are already doing the same things that virtualization accomplishes. SQL Server 2012 as an example can support multiple database instances, each with multiple databases and will use every last resource available, and be more efficient than hosting multiple copies of in their own OS instance in VMWare.
Most boiler and elevator design predates electronic/computerized controls so they have mechanical safeties.
Thumbs up to everyone who said networking them to the Internet is a DUMB idea.
IBM used to had a touchscreen monitor that used pressure sensors in the base to determine where the screen was being pressed.
Apple goal of late (at least since Steve Jobs return) is to return to the glory days of IBM and DEC. During the 60 & 70's IBM, DEC and almost all computer makers owned and controlled everything about their product lines. They build and serviced all the hardware and wrote almost all of the software. If you were a ISV or 3rd party you need to go through them/work by their rules to get access to their customers.
Apple is doing the same thing. They want complete control over their customer base. Want to sell an Apple customer software or accessories? You need to sell it through the App Store or include an Apple provided chip in your accessory, and they decide who sells through the App Store and who can make accessories. My only surprise is why they haven't started to lock down their computers and Mac OS.
So to be clear. If you own an Apple product you are an Apple customer first and foremost. And Apple decides who can sell software and hardware to you.
As always their are exceptions, but they are just that, exceptions.
It was typical for a spin off series. Lay down the ground work for the viewers new to the series, throw in some background on the individuals, add cameos for the stars from the previous series and hint at whats to come. Most importantly don't mess with the formula.
As for the episode. It still amazes me how the writers handle "The Ancients". Come on. Someone sends out a robot spaceship for a indefinitely long journey and it doesn't have a way to repair itself? "The Ancients" are so omnipotent that they don't need spacesuits, supplies or tools to make repairs, but they do need spaceships? Either "The Ancients" are so overrated or the writers need to think before they write. Oops. I forgot we were talking about Hollywood.
Before you can expect any serious answers you need to answer some questions:
How many sites?
What are your data requirements? Are you web surfing, doing email or using SCADA?
What are your voice requirements? How many minutes a month per site? To where?
What is your latitude?
Do you have to be portable?
As for soultions, have you considered Inmarsat's BGAN service, MSAT, VSAT and Iridium?
ACTA also has the effect of requiring that all traffic (and transactions) be routed through central points so that infringing content can be tracked back to the source. Pretty much a puts us back in the old Mainframe & PBX days. This not only impacts P2P traffic, but anything that is decentralized, which means the internet as a whole, along with email, IM, IRC, Skype, etc.
1) To bad the Whitehouse isn't using an e-mail system like millions of other people. Wait they are. Like it or not MS Exchange is everywhere.
2) To bad the requirement for e-mail archiving and retention is unique to government. Wait, most publicly traded companies have legal and compliance requirements to do so.
3) To bad there is no market for software to archive and retain e-mail on one of the most common e-mail platforms. Wait, there is, and its huge.
4) To bad nobody has nobody has developed technology for this market. Wait, there are dozens of solutions.
To bad no one is getting fired, imprisoned or impeached over this one.
Both Canada and Mexico have similar problems when it comes to the USA not complying with WTO rulings. These will be on the table if NAFTA is renegotiated.
Overall I found the article biased. It put a negative bend on the fact the the up and coming generation are more comfortable with technology, better connected and networked. They tend to look at the existing corporate IT culture as limiting. Thus they work around the obstacles. The article then presumes that this activity is wrong, just as the RIAA and MPAA automatically assume that P2P is wrong because it doesn't fit their view of the world.
Read the book.
Unfortunately the joke will be on us. Countries like China already have licensing requirements for Internet cafe operators and ISPs.
I suspect if cars were invented today with our current technology, GPS tracking would be mandatory, event recorders would be mandatory, and some sort of biometric access control so that they would know would was driving and when in real time.
The government and law enforcement will make sure all of this will happen if a 'new' Internet is built.
Just like you need a driver's license to use the public road system, or a passport to fly, you will need a Internet license.
or a lobotomy, its cheaper with more immediate results.
Almost forgot.
Get your haircut short on top, short on the sides and back, long & curly at 10 & 2.
So when the USA starts using vague negative labels like pirates or terrorists, it is easy for foreign government to use them.
Standard political tactics, label people you don't like with them too.
Although I am no fan of SOCAN, this definitely sticks it to the record companies. As long as these fees are in place, music piracy will remain untested in court. The current theory is that as long as the artists are compensated for illegally obtained music (aka burning a copy for you friends) they are not loosing anything when piracy happens. This reduces the real losses to artists, which is what piracy is all about (can you say someone stole from you if they are paid a mutually agreeable price through SOCAN, which SOCAN oddly decides is fair). CRIA/RIAA will not risk loosing in court and would prefer it stay a legal grey area.