Bleeding heart socialist liberal here, I want your vision of the future of energy. I'm not alone. I want it right beside state run health care, basic income, cultural recognition of the fallacy of trickle down economics, complete nuclear disarmament, and a pure diplomatic approach to world affairs.
Bring on the geothermal nuclear power! Bring it on, then use the abundance of power to start engineering the damn climate and distilling the ocean.. What water shortage? While we're at it, might as well pull some extra nuclear fuel from the distillation waste. Food shortage? Shit, now we have tons of water and an engineered climate... make the deserts green and build the biggest hydroponics facilities the world has ever seen! Middle east being douchebags again? Fuck them, we don't need 'em anymore.
Using Blu-ray as the "gold" standard, you will often see h264 streams in the 15-30Mbps range with peaks at just over 40Mbps (audio and video combined).
I've seen Netflix streams in full 1080p hit 7-9Mbps.
VUDU's HDX format will hit 10Mbps fairly regularly. They're the highest quality service I've used to date.
These services don't match physical media quality yet in an effort to work with as many users as possible. When I can stream multiple Blu-ray quality movies at once (not uncommon for a family to stream 2 or more videos to different rooms) I'll consider broadband infrastructure as "sufficient". Until then, there's plenty of room for improvement.
Where I live I could purchase service with 90 down and 9 up. Assuming I could fully utilize that (and I highly doubt I actually could which is why I've not upgraded), that could just barely do 3 Blu-ray quality streams. Not bad! However, I live in the middle of a large city, so I don't consider my options typical. I've also experienced plenty of nights where the 20Mbps service I do have is fighting upstream congestion and can't even pull 3Mbps from any video service. Not sure adding 70 more Mbps to my apartment is going to alleviate that.
So, 5Mbps will get you an average quality 720p stream. We can do better.
That ^^... is a fucking problem. I sure as shit don't have to deal with crap like that when I'm online.
Even if not a single person ever followed through on their threats, it creates an incredibly hostile atmosphere that few would want to endure therefore creating a cultural divide and effectively excluding women from the activity.
And, somehow, even if that was deemed acceptable, even if we all said "ok fine gaming is to be a sausage fest for all time", do you really think the attitudes given voice by these in game messages somehow vanish once the sender puts down the controller and joins the rest of us in the real world?
Your analogy can be extended even further. Armor plating a vehicle has an enormous cost in fueld efficiency and handling. This could be directly compared to the labor and complexity costs of managing host firewalls on large numbers of servers when they're indiscriminately applied.
Indeed. I might be tolerable if it was at all insightful. I'm at as much a loss as you as to how this guy keeps getting his word jizz posted. I made it a few sentences in and already it's his typical "I spent 60 seconds pretending to do work then vomited paragraphs of nonsense about it!" This isn't even idle quality stream of consciousness stoner rhetoric.. I think even describing it as bloviating is too forgiving.
The parent indicates ammonia is produced from hydrocarbons like natural gas. Why not just run the vehicles on that? Is there a production method that does not involve using the same resource that fuel cell and electric cars are trying to supplant?
This. The ISP's seem to have successfully steered the conversation so that the focus is on how to best manage over saturated connections. Any bandwidth crunch is artificial. We need a way to steer the conversation back.
"have to"? I believe the exact wording was "want to". It's hyperbole meant to demonstrate the level of "tolerance" some of the candidates demand, not to demonstrate their crippling inability to get out of bed.
I do quite well in the private sector, but government is full of "zero tolerance" requirements from recreational drug use to the exact level of college education completed. Combine that with the pitiful wages and I'm amazed they end up with any technology related work force at all. If they'd compete I'd at least consider them. Now I don't even bother looking at them.
So then you agree they need to be regulated as a public utility and monopoly since, as you stated, competition is not tenable thereby preventing the proper application of free market forces.
You do understand that the reed solomon codes used for RAID 6 _are_ a form of CRC, right? Even better, they allow reconstruction when bad bits are found! RAID 6 would be a poor technology otherwise. I'm not trying to stomp on/.'s love affair with ZFS, but patrol reads on modern RAID cards are _exactly_ what ZFS does.
That's not the point. MP3 represents a generational loss. If a new favored format appears on the scene you'd suffer a second generational loss performing the transcoding. For archival masters why would you not use lossless compression?
This may point to a measurement problem, but you're not forced into it. A desire to learn is all that is needed to master the subject even if the tests are not a reliable indicator of mastery, or are you attempting to say that the instructor is uninterested in teaching even to those who wish to learn?
The "cloud" hate is strong here so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that nobody has mentioned this yet, but this is quite simply a non issue. Box and Dropbox allow you to share files publicly, but it is not the default. While each have had genuine security issues in the past, this is not one. This is simple, common user ignorance. Both services have proper and secure sharing methods to share documents with other users of the service that require authentication on both ends.
What happens is:
- User clicks "Share dropbox link" from the context menu OR user places file into a pre-configured public folder - User gives link to recipient - Recipient enters it into a browser with one of those horrible combo search/url bars - Link is indexed by the search engine
The important thing to remember is that that link does not exist before the user selects that action. These links also expire, and there is also an "Unshare" explicit action.
Nuclear, obviously. The energy crisis was solved 50 years ago. Our will to implement the solution just vanished under a haze of ignorance and propaganda.
Most of the world knows that the more guns there are in the hands of citizens, the more shootings and gun crimes there are.
Most of the world _might_ think this, but know it? I've seen evidence for that assertion and it's inverse. I don't know which is sound, nor do I care. Clearly mere legal ownership rates is not the most important factor in gun violence considering you can find evidence to support any position you wish to take on that one.
And I'm pretty sure those people were "properly trained" in the use of the automobile.
By whom? In every state I've lived in drivers license requirements are so lax they might as well just stop pretending and rubber stamp every application. I'm "pretty sure" hardly anyone has been "properly trained" in the use of an automobile in the USA.
You'd only need 5ish drives to match raw throughput, but to match IOPS, the more important factor in enterprise uses, you'd need 250 of the fastest 15k drives you can find just to match a single average SSD, and that's if you run them with RAID 0. If you wany any sort of redundancy that number is going to get a lot bigger.
Nearly every SAN out there offering flash capability is limited by the CPU, software, and bus speeds. SAN vendors also love to severely mark up flash drives.
I feel much like you, and I attribute it to there being nothing particularly interesting or new about the Pi. It's just a small, cheap computer. I've installed and configured linux on a hundred systems big and small, and I learned everything this thing can teach me a long time ago.
DIY is fun and can be a great learning experience, but it ends there. After that it turns into a time sink just to keep the damn thing going for no gain other than to learn what having a second job is like. If you just want something to use let somebody else deal with the hassle of making sure it works and keeps working. Let someone else design the UI, negotiate relationships with 3rd parties for commercial application support, keep an eye on security issues, fix that random idiotic HDCP issue with that new TV, deal with that bug in ffmpeg, etc.
A bullshit practice being common is not really a great reason to prepetuate the practice. Now is about the best chance we'll get to change the culture around this sort of entertainment to stop seeing this sort of double dipping as normal or, worse, expected.
I don't think cable companies use to pay for commercial supported networks, but that landscape slowly changed. It use to make sense. The cable company was paid for distribution and the networks covered their expenses with advertising. Now the cable company must pay for access to the network, and the network _still_ advertises. This model has moved to the likes of Hulu where Hulu must pay for both distribution and the content. However, now the ad revenue _also_ goes to Hulu instead of directly to the network.
It's all one giant pile of fuckery letting the finer aspects of the typical fucked up economic model around cable companies shine and persist.
"... rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people, according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights
That seems a reasonable definition of rights for this discussion. Applying this to geekoid's comment, "He wanted to use political force to deny rights to people", is prefectly valid. The right existed in the legal sense prior to the passage of the proposition. Political force was being used to "re-remove" (deny) the right.
You are absolutely correct the "governmental advantages" associated with marriage are, indeed, privileges in the legal sense, but that's beside the point. Marriage itself is a right that places those who obtain married status into a class that enjoys specific privileges.
I do agree that marriage is not a _natural_ right, but a civil one. Marriage is, afterall, and entirely human legal creation. That the right existed in the state prior to prop 8 does result in it being an explicit attempt to deny a pre-existing civil right. However, even if that had not been the case, it is still possible to deny a right that has not been expressly granted in the past. To put it as simply as possible; "Can I have this?", "No" - Denied.
Of course all of this completely ignores the ethical issue which you so nicely opened up in your final sentence. However, I'll leave that fo rother commentors. The irony of one who would deny rights on the grounds of thinly veiled bigotry (but it's just my opinion!) calling those who would grant them bigots is not lost on most.
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Not negotiating is, indeed, not negotiating. Have you tried negotiating?
Bleeding heart socialist liberal here, I want your vision of the future of energy. I'm not alone. I want it right beside state run health care, basic income, cultural recognition of the fallacy of trickle down economics, complete nuclear disarmament, and a pure diplomatic approach to world affairs.
Bring on the geothermal nuclear power! Bring it on, then use the abundance of power to start engineering the damn climate and distilling the ocean.. What water shortage? While we're at it, might as well pull some extra nuclear fuel from the distillation waste. Food shortage? Shit, now we have tons of water and an engineered climate... make the deserts green and build the biggest hydroponics facilities the world has ever seen! Middle east being douchebags again? Fuck them, we don't need 'em anymore.
So ya.. fucking hippies..
(I'm honestly being quite serious.)
Using Blu-ray as the "gold" standard, you will often see h264 streams in the 15-30Mbps range with peaks at just over 40Mbps (audio and video combined).
I've seen Netflix streams in full 1080p hit 7-9Mbps.
VUDU's HDX format will hit 10Mbps fairly regularly. They're the highest quality service I've used to date.
These services don't match physical media quality yet in an effort to work with as many users as possible. When I can stream multiple Blu-ray quality movies at once (not uncommon for a family to stream 2 or more videos to different rooms) I'll consider broadband infrastructure as "sufficient". Until then, there's plenty of room for improvement.
Where I live I could purchase service with 90 down and 9 up. Assuming I could fully utilize that (and I highly doubt I actually could which is why I've not upgraded), that could just barely do 3 Blu-ray quality streams. Not bad! However, I live in the middle of a large city, so I don't consider my options typical. I've also experienced plenty of nights where the 20Mbps service I do have is fighting upstream congestion and can't even pull 3Mbps from any video service. Not sure adding 70 more Mbps to my apartment is going to alleviate that.
So, 5Mbps will get you an average quality 720p stream. We can do better.
No, but just about "every last women who picks up a controller" will be threatened with violence or rape by a gamer.
http://fatuglyorslutty.com/category/death-threats/
That ^^ ... is a fucking problem. I sure as shit don't have to deal with crap like that when I'm online.
Even if not a single person ever followed through on their threats, it creates an incredibly hostile atmosphere that few would want to endure therefore creating a cultural divide and effectively excluding women from the activity.
And, somehow, even if that was deemed acceptable, even if we all said "ok fine gaming is to be a sausage fest for all time", do you really think the attitudes given voice by these in game messages somehow vanish once the sender puts down the controller and joins the rest of us in the real world?
"class" and "action" are the 12th and 13th words in the damned summary.. Have /. readers stopped even bothering with the summaries anymore?
Your analogy can be extended even further. Armor plating a vehicle has an enormous cost in fueld efficiency and handling. This could be directly compared to the labor and complexity costs of managing host firewalls on large numbers of servers when they're indiscriminately applied.
Indeed. I might be tolerable if it was at all insightful. I'm at as much a loss as you as to how this guy keeps getting his word jizz posted. I made it a few sentences in and already it's his typical "I spent 60 seconds pretending to do work then vomited paragraphs of nonsense about it!" This isn't even idle quality stream of consciousness stoner rhetoric.. I think even describing it as bloviating is too forgiving.
The parent indicates ammonia is produced from hydrocarbons like natural gas. Why not just run the vehicles on that? Is there a production method that does not involve using the same resource that fuel cell and electric cars are trying to supplant?
This. The ISP's seem to have successfully steered the conversation so that the focus is on how to best manage over saturated connections. Any bandwidth crunch is artificial. We need a way to steer the conversation back.
"have to"? I believe the exact wording was "want to". It's hyperbole meant to demonstrate the level of "tolerance" some of the candidates demand, not to demonstrate their crippling inability to get out of bed.
I do quite well in the private sector, but government is full of "zero tolerance" requirements from recreational drug use to the exact level of college education completed. Combine that with the pitiful wages and I'm amazed they end up with any technology related work force at all. If they'd compete I'd at least consider them. Now I don't even bother looking at them.
So then you agree they need to be regulated as a public utility and monopoly since, as you stated, competition is not tenable thereby preventing the proper application of free market forces.
You do understand that the reed solomon codes used for RAID 6 _are_ a form of CRC, right? Even better, they allow reconstruction when bad bits are found! RAID 6 would be a poor technology otherwise. I'm not trying to stomp on /.'s love affair with ZFS, but patrol reads on modern RAID cards are _exactly_ what ZFS does.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#Integrity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_scrubbing
Even better, this works with all filesystems! Layering FTW.
And yet people laugh at me for having a hardware RAID card with read patroling and ECC RAM...
That's not the point. MP3 represents a generational loss. If a new favored format appears on the scene you'd suffer a second generational loss performing the transcoding. For archival masters why would you not use lossless compression?
This may point to a measurement problem, but you're not forced into it. A desire to learn is all that is needed to master the subject even if the tests are not a reliable indicator of mastery, or are you attempting to say that the instructor is uninterested in teaching even to those who wish to learn?
The "cloud" hate is strong here so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that nobody has mentioned this yet, but this is quite simply a non issue. Box and Dropbox allow you to share files publicly, but it is not the default. While each have had genuine security issues in the past, this is not one. This is simple, common user ignorance. Both services have proper and secure sharing methods to share documents with other users of the service that require authentication on both ends.
What happens is:
- User clicks "Share dropbox link" from the context menu OR user places file into a pre-configured public folder
- User gives link to recipient
- Recipient enters it into a browser with one of those horrible combo search/url bars
- Link is indexed by the search engine
The important thing to remember is that that link does not exist before the user selects that action. These links also expire, and there is also an "Unshare" explicit action.
Nuclear, obviously. The energy crisis was solved 50 years ago. Our will to implement the solution just vanished under a haze of ignorance and propaganda.
Hit the enter key from time to time, son. Nobody will be able to get through that.
The psychology of disenfranchisement has been turned on you, and it's working. Don't let it.
Most of the world knows that the more guns there are in the hands of citizens, the more shootings and gun crimes there are.
Most of the world _might_ think this, but know it? I've seen evidence for that assertion and it's inverse. I don't know which is sound, nor do I care. Clearly mere legal ownership rates is not the most important factor in gun violence considering you can find evidence to support any position you wish to take on that one.
And I'm pretty sure those people were "properly trained" in the use of the automobile.
By whom? In every state I've lived in drivers license requirements are so lax they might as well just stop pretending and rubber stamp every application. I'm "pretty sure" hardly anyone has been "properly trained" in the use of an automobile in the USA.
You'd only need 5ish drives to match raw throughput, but to match IOPS, the more important factor in enterprise uses, you'd need 250 of the fastest 15k drives you can find just to match a single average SSD, and that's if you run them with RAID 0. If you wany any sort of redundancy that number is going to get a lot bigger.
Nearly every SAN out there offering flash capability is limited by the CPU, software, and bus speeds. SAN vendors also love to severely mark up flash drives.
I feel much like you, and I attribute it to there being nothing particularly interesting or new about the Pi. It's just a small, cheap computer. I've installed and configured linux on a hundred systems big and small, and I learned everything this thing can teach me a long time ago.
DIY is fun and can be a great learning experience, but it ends there. After that it turns into a time sink just to keep the damn thing going for no gain other than to learn what having a second job is like. If you just want something to use let somebody else deal with the hassle of making sure it works and keeps working. Let someone else design the UI, negotiate relationships with 3rd parties for commercial application support, keep an eye on security issues, fix that random idiotic HDCP issue with that new TV, deal with that bug in ffmpeg, etc.
A bullshit practice being common is not really a great reason to prepetuate the practice. Now is about the best chance we'll get to change the culture around this sort of entertainment to stop seeing this sort of double dipping as normal or, worse, expected.
I don't think cable companies use to pay for commercial supported networks, but that landscape slowly changed. It use to make sense. The cable company was paid for distribution and the networks covered their expenses with advertising. Now the cable company must pay for access to the network, and the network _still_ advertises. This model has moved to the likes of Hulu where Hulu must pay for both distribution and the content. However, now the ad revenue _also_ goes to Hulu instead of directly to the network.
It's all one giant pile of fuckery letting the finer aspects of the typical fucked up economic model around cable companies shine and persist.
"... rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people, according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights
That seems a reasonable definition of rights for this discussion. Applying this to geekoid's comment, "He wanted to use political force to deny rights to people", is prefectly valid. The right existed in the legal sense prior to the passage of the proposition. Political force was being used to "re-remove" (deny) the right.
You are absolutely correct the "governmental advantages" associated with marriage are, indeed, privileges in the legal sense, but that's beside the point. Marriage itself is a right that places those who obtain married status into a class that enjoys specific privileges.
I do agree that marriage is not a _natural_ right, but a civil one. Marriage is, afterall, and entirely human legal creation. That the right existed in the state prior to prop 8 does result in it being an explicit attempt to deny a pre-existing civil right. However, even if that had not been the case, it is still possible to deny a right that has not been expressly granted in the past. To put it as simply as possible; "Can I have this?", "No" - Denied.
Of course all of this completely ignores the ethical issue which you so nicely opened up in your final sentence. However, I'll leave that fo rother commentors. The irony of one who would deny rights on the grounds of thinly veiled bigotry (but it's just my opinion!) calling those who would grant them bigots is not lost on most.
I'm actually embarassed for you, /.
wth..