The problem in Iraq is that we're not using our "super-duper" weapons so we avoid civilian casualties. We could have already turned the entire country into a lake of molten glass, but that doesn't do much to win people's hearts and minds...
Well I don't know about our friends on the right side of the pond, but here in the US we spend entirely too much on education and spend even MORE on it every year... Meanwhile almost none of it actually reaches the classroom. The problem here isn't how much money is spent, it's how the money is (mis)spent.
I also work in the public sector as a tech in a local government. I *know* the pay sucks, but that's not why I'm doing the job. It's entirely possible to get very qualified IT people in a public sector job; the problem is it takes time and effort and interest to find them. The government instead usually just decides to throw money at the problem instead of taking the time and energy to actually solve it.
Really what it comes down to is the government shouldn't be involved in education anyway. Let education become a free market like everything else and spend public money on more important things like defense.
You're correct, but most schools don't have a need for thousands of computers to be simultaneously connected to a huge pipe. Most would be fine with one or a few classrooms and/or library wired to a decent cable modem. We're not talking about some corporate environment, we're talking about kids doing research papers and visiting educational websites.
Yes, I do, since they paid the invoice before the merchandise was received. They also paid $324 per wireless card. Of course due to the way the program works, that means the school only paid $32 per card and the US taxpayer footed the rest. The administrators should have followed up on their purchase and should have reported the company to the program instead of letting the cards sit on the dock for four years.
I sure hope you're being sarcastic and that's not a kneejerk reaction. The problem isn't companies, the problem is SCHOOLS being morons and taking all this "free money" and spending it on multi-million dollar solutions when a $100 switch and a box of cable would fit their needs. The real problem is that this all paid for through a tax on your phone bill (think: Universal Service Fee, meaning most people never realize how much they pay for it) and the structuring of the program encourages waste. "Buy the biggest and best things that you can so we can get good PR for helping the children!" Meanwhile, anyone who questions the program's merits stands a chance of being labeled "against education" or even a racist, since the program (supposedly) exists to help poorer schools.
A better article on this can be found at the New York Times.
"Therapeutic heating and cooling via temperature management of a colon-inserted balloon"... Yeah, my space hotel room better just have an AC and heater, not one of those...
All joking aside I'm impressed and wish this guy the best of luck. Combining his ideas and money with JP Aerospace's launcher system should provide space travel on the cheap.
Excuse me but zero jobs should be lost to overseas workers. You know why? Because companies that do this should be taxed to hell and back for doing it
I know this is just your own misguided opinion... But could you at least back it up with some economic theory? Other than making you feel good for having "paid back" someone for a perceived "wrong", what will it accomplish in the long run?
You're essentially saying free markets and the encouragement of growth in the world economy is a bad thing. I'm sure people in poorer areas of the world are jumping with joy over the extra money and education coming in from this. Meanwhile, you are free as an American citizen to find other work, including becoming self employed.
Actually I'd take issue with you on the whole "console simplification" myth. It's more along the lines that console developers understand that games don't HAVE to be complex to be fun. Look at just about any KOEI sim game (Rot3K...), Princess Maker, some of the deeper console based RPGs, fighting games (ever looked at the full move list of Soul Calibur II?), etc, etc... There's plenty of complexity to be found in console games, but usually much less unnecessary complexity. A console flight sim may have less complex controls than a similar PC sim, but that's because the extra controls have a way of getting in the way of the fun of the game.
Since it's a Linux system, you could just use the Ethernet card to move files your done working with to long term storage on a file server outside of your recording room. 1.5GB of storage they mention in the article should be plenty for one session, which you can then fiddle with, move to storage, and record your next take/song/track/whatever. WAV file format is big, but it's not THAT big.
For instance, FuitadNET offers a $5/mo package that includes DNS hosting, 3GB of Web Space, 25GB of bandwidth, and 100 e-mail addresses. You'll get better uptime than with a cable modem and shouldn't have to worry about MAPS or ORDB or whatever.
Dude at the table next to me want's to light up a cigarette - hey but wait that smoke's killing me, too!
Eat in a non smoking establishment.
Next door neighbor wants to talk on his cell phone while he's driving. Fine with me - hey but wait whose going to take care of the kids of the guy he just plowed into while dialing?
He will, just like if he had dropped a girder on the guy, accidentally blown the guy's gas line, etc, etc, etc. No new laws needed, he's still liable no matter whether he was getting a blowjob, adjusting the radio, or using a cell phone.
Mom wants to surf the internet - hey but wait that worm infecting her computer is now eating up my bandwidth?
I don't see how your example disproves that law is designed to protect you from external threats and not yourself. If your contractor is negligent in following guidelines set forth by the government and such negligence causes you harm, then you are being harmed by a third party and not yourself. Negligence itself is often looked upon as malicious. However, if, as I said before, you decide knowingly to set yourself on fire because you think it's fun, the government should not punish the maker of the lighter fluid you used to accomplish such an act. Nor should it make it a criminal act for you to do such a thing unless it in some way harms others (setting yourself on fire in an crowded elevator, for instance). And irregardless of whether laws exist to protect you from yourself, that does NOT make them right! As I said before, read the Constitution. Read the writings of the Founding Fathers (the Federalist Papers are a good starting point), and point out where in those documents they make the claim the government is responsible for protecting you from yourself. The belief (that you seem to share) that people should not be responsible for their own actions is what has led to our current state of a tort system gone mad.
Slavery was legal and government sponsored in certain states at one time, as well. Just because it's law doesn't mean it's right; doesn't mean it fits in with the framework for governing set out by the people who created this country. I realize you were just trying to point me to what you felt was an interesting contradiction of what I was saying, but what I'm trying to get people to think about is not whether or not laws exist to regulate certain things, but whether or not governments have any business regulating those things. The Constitution and Federalist Papers spell out very exactly what the government should be in charge of, and they really should be required reading for legislators.
Well that's the idea of personal responsibility. You *KNOW* smoking is bad for you, so if you get lung cancer society shouldn't have to foot the bill. Saves insurance and the government the pain of having to deal with stupid people and lets resources be redirected to people who need help due to no fault of their own (Schizophrenics for example).
No, 99% of our laws are to protect people/society from malicious intent. Read the Constitution, read the writings of the Founding Fathers. The Government's job is to protect you from outside threats, not yourself. If you want to light yourself on fire the government has no business telling you not to, as long as your not hurting anyone else. There is no vested interest for ANYONE but despots and tyrants to allow people to live their lives completely ignorant. The less you require people to know and pay attention to, the less they will know and pay attention to. Want proof? Ask one hundred ranom people on the street to identify the president and vice president. I'd be surprised if you got over ten correct answers.
I don't see the point of your comment, since people who burn down apartment complexes through negligence are already held accountable; whether it's from falling asleep smoking, knocking over a bong, or lighting your farts, it doesn't matter. The point is the government over-regulates everything, and when it moves into areas like regulating what you consume it's gone too far.
-- Greens, who don't like fossil carbon getting into the air
As far as I know, biodiesel is equally as polluting as normal diesel, isn't it? Sorry, no matter what solution you come up with, some whacked out wing of the green movement will have some problem with it.
Fixed computers for a Doctor's family recently... Got in a friendly argument about payment. See, this Doctor has done alot to help me and my family at various times, including doing very expensive procedures essentially for free. So I naturally didn't want to charge him. Finally we agreed that instead of payment, as a late surprise birthday gift my girlfriend could come for a day of horseback riding since she hasn't ridden a horse in a few years and has loved them since she had one as a little girl.
Of course the nut mailed me a check anyway.:) God bless the generous.
Gigabit gives you 3 to 4 times the performance in the same way that a 3Ghz processor gives you double the performance of a 1.5GHz... Assuming you could get even 50% utilization of a Gigabit network connection, that's 64MB/s. What do you think the throughput is on the IDE hard drive in this thing? I'll point you toward this benchmark of one of Seagate's most recent top of the line drives, and you'll notice that the read speed in the BEST case tops out near 60MB/s, and that's an artificial non-real world example that couldn't even be maintained. That's also on an Ultra ATA/100 controller, which I'm sure the SNAP box is lacking. The network connection isn't really an issue here; even if it were a gigabit connection, the drives would be too slow to really take advantage of it. Plus, as I've said in numerous other posts, their target market doesn't give a damn about gigabit support. If you do, don't buy their product or better yet try to sell your own improved NAS device. Besides, a SAN administrator would laugh at your puny gigabit ethernet connection while he points at his Fibre Channel setup. This Snap Server isn't designed to serve everyone's needs, it fills a niche market that was sorely in need of a solution like this and if you find it lacking YOU'RE NOT IN ITS TARGET MARKET! Don't try to sell a semi truck to someone who just needs a pickup!
If you're upgrading to Gigabit you'll also be buying one of the more expensive Enterprise models instead of the reviewed Workgroup model. I don't know why people keep pointing at some enterprise level requirement and saying "It won't work for that!" That's like saying "a pickup truck is worthless because I can't move as much as an eighteen wheeler." This box is meant for a small workgroup of a dozen or so people who just need some storage that everyone can use that doesn't require any administration. That's it. If you want more than that, look somewhere else.
You don't understand because you're not in the target market. A firewire or USB disk isn't too useful if you need to let a couple dozen people access the data all at once, is it? If you want to back it up, either have itself mirror to a duplicate server or use (insert favorite backup package) to mount the share and back the data up.
Stupid keyboard switched back to DVORAK while I was responding... As I was saying, the more expensive models support you SSHing in to install some backup software, but otherwise you can use ArcServe or Veritas or any other software package to go ahead and just mount the network share and backup the contents to whatever sort of archive you use. Or you could, as I said before, write a little cron job that grabs the data and stores it on a tape for you. Whatever works for you.
Well they can mirror to other SNAP servers... But you could also write a backup script to mount it, tar+bzip the contents, then store that to a tape, couldn't you?
Actually the 2200s and up do support RAID-5. As well as plain striping or mirroring. What's special about it is that it's a fire and forget zero administration solution for a small workgroup scenario. They also come with a great warranty, wherein I had a server replaced free of charge even though its warrant was expired (as mentioned in above post). The whole idea is you're paying for a solution you can install and forget about. Can't say the same about full blown fileservers.
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The problem in Iraq is that we're not using our "super-duper" weapons so we avoid civilian casualties. We could have already turned the entire country into a lake of molten glass, but that doesn't do much to win people's hearts and minds...
Well I don't know about our friends on the right side of the pond, but here in the US we spend entirely too much on education and spend even MORE on it every year... Meanwhile almost none of it actually reaches the classroom. The problem here isn't how much money is spent, it's how the money is (mis)spent.
I also work in the public sector as a tech in a local government. I *know* the pay sucks, but that's not why I'm doing the job. It's entirely possible to get very qualified IT people in a public sector job; the problem is it takes time and effort and interest to find them. The government instead usually just decides to throw money at the problem instead of taking the time and energy to actually solve it.
Really what it comes down to is the government shouldn't be involved in education anyway. Let education become a free market like everything else and spend public money on more important things like defense.
You're correct, but most schools don't have a need for thousands of computers to be simultaneously connected to a huge pipe. Most would be fine with one or a few classrooms and/or library wired to a decent cable modem. We're not talking about some corporate environment, we're talking about kids doing research papers and visiting educational websites.
Yes, I do, since they paid the invoice before the merchandise was received. They also paid $324 per wireless card. Of course due to the way the program works, that means the school only paid $32 per card and the US taxpayer footed the rest.
The administrators should have followed up on their purchase and should have reported the company to the program instead of letting the cards sit on the dock for four years.
I sure hope you're being sarcastic and that's not a kneejerk reaction. The problem isn't companies, the problem is SCHOOLS being morons and taking all this "free money" and spending it on multi-million dollar solutions when a $100 switch and a box of cable would fit their needs.
The real problem is that this all paid for through a tax on your phone bill (think: Universal Service Fee, meaning most people never realize how much they pay for it) and the structuring of the program encourages waste. "Buy the biggest and best things that you can so we can get good PR for helping the children!" Meanwhile, anyone who questions the program's merits stands a chance of being labeled "against education" or even a racist, since the program (supposedly) exists to help poorer schools.
A better article on this can be found at the New York Times.
"Therapeutic heating and cooling via temperature management of a colon-inserted balloon" ... Yeah, my space hotel room better just have an AC and heater, not one of those...
All joking aside I'm impressed and wish this guy the best of luck. Combining his ideas and money with JP Aerospace's launcher system should provide space travel on the cheap.
I know this is just your own misguided opinion... But could you at least back it up with some economic theory? Other than making you feel good for having "paid back" someone for a perceived "wrong", what will it accomplish in the long run?
You're essentially saying free markets and the encouragement of growth in the world economy is a bad thing. I'm sure people in poorer areas of the world are jumping with joy over the extra money and education coming in from this. Meanwhile, you are free as an American citizen to find other work, including becoming self employed.
Actually I'd take issue with you on the whole "console simplification" myth. It's more along the lines that console developers understand that games don't HAVE to be complex to be fun. Look at just about any KOEI sim game (Rot3K...), Princess Maker, some of the deeper console based RPGs, fighting games (ever looked at the full move list of Soul Calibur II?), etc, etc... There's plenty of complexity to be found in console games, but usually much less unnecessary complexity. A console flight sim may have less complex controls than a similar PC sim, but that's because the extra controls have a way of getting in the way of the fun of the game.
Since it's a Linux system, you could just use the Ethernet card to move files your done working with to long term storage on a file server outside of your recording room. 1.5GB of storage they mention in the article should be plenty for one session, which you can then fiddle with, move to storage, and record your next take/song/track/whatever. WAV file format is big, but it's not THAT big.
For instance, FuitadNET offers a $5/mo package that includes DNS hosting, 3GB of Web Space, 25GB of bandwidth, and 100 e-mail addresses. You'll get better uptime than with a cable modem and shouldn't have to worry about MAPS or ORDB or whatever.
Eat in a non smoking establishment.
Next door neighbor wants to talk on his cell phone while he's driving. Fine with me - hey but wait whose going to take care of the kids of the guy he just plowed into while dialing?
He will, just like if he had dropped a girder on the guy, accidentally blown the guy's gas line, etc, etc, etc. No new laws needed, he's still liable no matter whether he was getting a blowjob, adjusting the radio, or using a cell phone.
Mom wants to surf the internet - hey but wait that worm infecting her computer is now eating up my bandwidth?
Move out and get a job you bum. :P
I don't see how your example disproves that law is designed to protect you from external threats and not yourself. If your contractor is negligent in following guidelines set forth by the government and such negligence causes you harm, then you are being harmed by a third party and not yourself. Negligence itself is often looked upon as malicious.
However, if, as I said before, you decide knowingly to set yourself on fire because you think it's fun, the government should not punish the maker of the lighter fluid you used to accomplish such an act. Nor should it make it a criminal act for you to do such a thing unless it in some way harms others (setting yourself on fire in an crowded elevator, for instance).
And irregardless of whether laws exist to protect you from yourself, that does NOT make them right! As I said before, read the Constitution. Read the writings of the Founding Fathers (the Federalist Papers are a good starting point), and point out where in those documents they make the claim the government is responsible for protecting you from yourself.
The belief (that you seem to share) that people should not be responsible for their own actions is what has led to our current state of a tort system gone mad.
Slavery was legal and government sponsored in certain states at one time, as well. Just because it's law doesn't mean it's right; doesn't mean it fits in with the framework for governing set out by the people who created this country. I realize you were just trying to point me to what you felt was an interesting contradiction of what I was saying, but what I'm trying to get people to think about is not whether or not laws exist to regulate certain things, but whether or not governments have any business regulating those things. The Constitution and Federalist Papers spell out very exactly what the government should be in charge of, and they really should be required reading for legislators.
Well that's the idea of personal responsibility. You *KNOW* smoking is bad for you, so if you get lung cancer society shouldn't have to foot the bill. Saves insurance and the government the pain of having to deal with stupid people and lets resources be redirected to people who need help due to no fault of their own (Schizophrenics for example).
No, 99% of our laws are to protect people/society from malicious intent. Read the Constitution, read the writings of the Founding Fathers. The Government's job is to protect you from outside threats, not yourself. If you want to light yourself on fire the government has no business telling you not to, as long as your not hurting anyone else.
There is no vested interest for ANYONE but despots and tyrants to allow people to live their lives completely ignorant. The less you require people to know and pay attention to, the less they will know and pay attention to. Want proof? Ask one hundred ranom people on the street to identify the president and vice president. I'd be surprised if you got over ten correct answers.
I don't see the point of your comment, since people who burn down apartment complexes through negligence are already held accountable; whether it's from falling asleep smoking, knocking over a bong, or lighting your farts, it doesn't matter. The point is the government over-regulates everything, and when it moves into areas like regulating what you consume it's gone too far.
It's been done.
-- Greens, who don't like fossil carbon getting into the air
As far as I know, biodiesel is equally as polluting as normal diesel, isn't it? Sorry, no matter what solution you come up with, some whacked out wing of the green movement will have some problem with it.
Fixed computers for a Doctor's family recently... Got in a friendly argument about payment. See, this Doctor has done alot to help me and my family at various times, including doing very expensive procedures essentially for free. So I naturally didn't want to charge him. Finally we agreed that instead of payment, as a late surprise birthday gift my girlfriend could come for a day of horseback riding since she hasn't ridden a horse in a few years and has loved them since she had one as a little girl.
:) God bless the generous.
Of course the nut mailed me a check anyway.
Gigabit gives you 3 to 4 times the performance in the same way that a 3Ghz processor gives you double the performance of a 1.5GHz...
Assuming you could get even 50% utilization of a Gigabit network connection, that's 64MB/s. What do you think the throughput is on the IDE hard drive in this thing? I'll point you toward this benchmark of one of Seagate's most recent top of the line drives, and you'll notice that the read speed in the BEST case tops out near 60MB/s, and that's an artificial non-real world example that couldn't even be maintained. That's also on an Ultra ATA/100 controller, which I'm sure the SNAP box is lacking.
The network connection isn't really an issue here; even if it were a gigabit connection, the drives would be too slow to really take advantage of it. Plus, as I've said in numerous other posts, their target market doesn't give a damn about gigabit support. If you do, don't buy their product or better yet try to sell your own improved NAS device.
Besides, a SAN administrator would laugh at your puny gigabit ethernet connection while he points at his Fibre Channel setup.
This Snap Server isn't designed to serve everyone's needs, it fills a niche market that was sorely in need of a solution like this and if you find it lacking YOU'RE NOT IN ITS TARGET MARKET! Don't try to sell a semi truck to someone who just needs a pickup!
If you're upgrading to Gigabit you'll also be buying one of the more expensive Enterprise models instead of the reviewed Workgroup model. I don't know why people keep pointing at some enterprise level requirement and saying "It won't work for that!" That's like saying "a pickup truck is worthless because I can't move as much as an eighteen wheeler." This box is meant for a small workgroup of a dozen or so people who just need some storage that everyone can use that doesn't require any administration. That's it. If you want more than that, look somewhere else.
You don't understand because you're not in the target market. A firewire or USB disk isn't too useful if you need to let a couple dozen people access the data all at once, is it? If you want to back it up, either have itself mirror to a duplicate server or use (insert favorite backup package) to mount the share and back the data up.
Stupid keyboard switched back to DVORAK while I was responding... As I was saying, the more expensive models support you SSHing in to install some backup software, but otherwise you can use ArcServe or Veritas or any other software package to go ahead and just mount the network share and backup the contents to whatever sort of archive you use. Or you could, as I said before, write a little cron job that grabs the data and stores it on a tape for you. Whatever works for you.
Well they can mirror to other SNAP servers... But you could also write a backup script to mount it, tar+bzip the contents, then store that to a tape, couldn't you?
Actually the 2200s and up do support RAID-5. As well as plain striping or mirroring. What's special about it is that it's a fire and forget zero administration solution for a small workgroup scenario. They also come with a great warranty, wherein I had a server replaced free of charge even though its warrant was expired (as mentioned in above post).
The whole idea is you're paying for a solution you can install and forget about. Can't say the same about full blown fileservers.