Living with a connected home for over a decade now. Lights are nice, just starting on color as well as brightness. Security systems well think that is a major feature. Security camera's, arming and disarming via cell phone proximity, and giving status via the phones tablets, tv's and PC's are all killer features for me. Looking at HVAC controls, and really need something more tied in that just the thermostats as it needs to set boiler set-points at least and preferably control multiple systems. Ceiling fans are very nice, automated curtains actually have a noticeable change in heating/cooling bills. Appliances could be nice but need a lot more sensors, dishwashers need some method of knowing if they have a decent amount of dishes in them for example before it's really useful. I don't live in a place where power pricing is particularly fluid so having appliances shift there consumption is not useful to me.
My son went to a inner city catholic school with some pretty steep (aka basically free for the poor that asked for help) and there kids did very well due to parental involvement and school preparation. Key point is the parents had to actively be a part of their children's education not some passive thing.
Sue money helps but it seems secondary to other factors.
Because fiber is hard? A pure fiber last mile with CWDM works without letting the muni's get into speeds protocols etc. Is it a lot of glass sure but it's a one time thing fiber from 40 years ago still works.
Problem is you can not properly fund the police force. If you give them money they do things you do not want with it.
As to schools more money does not fix the problems. Fixing the problems fixes them. Replace failing teachers etc etc etc before coming crying for more money.
You hope it's only a firmware change. Altering hardware would be nearly impossible to detect by anybody but cisco and potentially very hard to do without destroying the part in the process.
PS Cisco will send you the current firmware for a new product it's just a PITA if it does not have smartnet.
Says I need to give up my server. I'm a small spread out shop and with few employees, their plan would cost me 250 bucks a month (10 users). This is vs a fairly small VPS on my own gear in a data center that might cost me 20 with a quality hosting provider. Installing a PBX is trivial for a sysadmin. And we spend maybe a couple hours a year looking at it. Couple this with a VOIP dial-tone provider at less than a hundred a month. So my spend is half as much and I can use my own guys to do the few hours of maintenance required a year.
I think this is more he says we should give him moneys because he said so.
Now looking as the company they use a proprietary product that took them 10 years to develop, that runs on commodity hardware. They tout their custom software app as well. This is VOIP, most people do not need something that handles piles of calls simultaneously in many ways a couple small servers are a lot easier to deal with than a big cloud, and can run commonly available software to do so.
Still looking for an OSS MAID setup for linux. Would love something that buffers writes to SSD and intelligently waits for a drive to spin up to write out. Bonus points for SSD caches for reading as well. Even more bonus points for using a pair or more of SSD's and only mirroring data waiting to hit disk.
Some sort of standardized magnetic mount QI Charging Wifi Link or some standard to link to displays that can work on existing phones Bluetooth, handsfree, audio, steering wheel controls, vehicle information Some Wifi accessible storage
All potentially open standards.
Past that a Bluetooth GPS might be useful.
Lets face it phones update every couple years cars not so much. Pretty much a 1080p touchscreen and some bluetooth and let people with a clue deal with powering it.
Sure nobody can jam a pretty weak signal. Once you have electronics especially with an RF pickup nobody with openly or worse clandestinely require that it safety itself when it see some broadcast. Openly I can see it be something like will not fire within 400 yards of a school think of the children BS. Nobody will figure out what the broadcast is. If you really want this it needs to be open hardware/software so it can be fully vetted, considering some of the silicon level back doors people have come up with I'm not sure that is even possible.
Make the cops use it for a couple decades and work the bugs out they are after all paid to put themselves in harms way.
Possibly because it's asinine? Mines are cheap and effective weapons. They would have been far better off requiring that mines have some form of self destruct when not used in a designated area.
Peering is critical to the internet. Right now comcast and similar are choosing to over-saturate peering and paid links in a bid to have people pay them directly to get to the eyeballs they service. Effective leaving it out allows them to let all the normal links over-saturate and push companies like netflix to pay for a fast connection. It's not like they have any viable competitors in most places. A well managed network looks at trending and proactively adds more capacity before they are over-saturated. Frankly we need more oversight they should have to justify why any link in there network is over saturated apart from individual clients and pay steep ever increasing fines to insure they upgrade in a timely manner. This should be built into whatever local monopoly oversight there is in place. This would need to be coupled to no single connections to the mother ship ala AT&T where they shift the choke point to the unregulated transit provider who also owns a huge chunk of the ISP.
I have no problems with cyclists but they should be bound by obstructing traffic laws. AKA if they disrupt the flow of traffic they need pull over and let people pass same as a car.
In america our public transit is abysmal as in turns a 30 minute car ride into a 15 minute car ride, 2.5 hours on a train and a 10 minute taxi ride. We do idiotic things like turn 2 lanes of highway into 1 lane of high occupancy only and let buses in, so you can not pass and are stuck behind a bus and we lost 25% of the highways caring capacity to do it. Oh and all mass transit goes through Rhode island because the needed two more votes and a couple hours added on wont detract at all.
mp3ornet tests if you can hear the difference between 128 and 320 not lossy and lossless. They do not specify what the source was to start out with either. I was talking about lossy vs lossless, the pop music that is compressed to hell I put as a choice by the sound engineer. Consider that you can get 24 bit 96k audio even in 5.1 and 7.1 uncompressed or loss-less why buy an inferior product it's not like storage or bandwidth are an issue for audio.
Are you the guy that is ok with compressed to hell cable TV because your TV / eyesight does not let you tell the difference? I want a quality product, not the bare minimum people will accept.
Sure current algorithms will be pretty simple. But back to the OP you still want it to hit the smaller car over the bigger car assuming all other things are equal. It's the safest choice for the car and it's occupants. Your stance seems to be that was somehow evil.
Possibly if you live in a city some of this might be useful. For those of us that choose not to live in urban hell it's pointless. We have sidewalks for a reason only other cars should be on any major roads.
What idiot would get into a machine that values there life less than others? Worse yet if you have this in place how easy is it to game the system aka take an old beater and swerve in front of an autonomous car and have it go kill/injure the occupant or others.
Here is an easy scenario. While driving down a hill in snow idiot soccer mom mobile pulls out in front of your from a strip mall (at a one way stop sign) and looses traction. Coming up hill is a large truck and guard rails on either side. Should you throw yourself into the guard rails in an effort to stop in time, ram the idiot soccer mom, or have a head on with the truck? I pick soccer mom as she is the idiot that caused the accident by trying to bolt out into traffic in bad weather and she is at fault (failing to yield to traffic at a one way stop). Ramming the truck is potentially suicidal and now puts me at fault. Hitting the guard rails is probably the safest bet but again your at fault and potentially get rear ended. Now if the laws/tech get updated so that soccer mom mobile gets to pay for me crashing my car into the guard rails maybe the world is a bit safer place. Till then my only question is there kids in the back if so try and hit the front vs the back as to avoid them (it's not there fault there mom/caretaker is an idiot) her I can take some solace that I removed from the gene pool so she can no longer pass on her stupidity.
Now if you want to be altruistic that is your choice, as to sociopath that is more about lack of regret than not choosing the most altruistic option. Expecting/requiring people to not take the best choice for them is broken by design.
There networks are fine (well at least lets not get into an engineering debate) they increase internal bandwidth as needed. I say this as a customer of them with multiple 10ge ports on a half dozen providers. Comcast etc are not increasing capacity at there peering points or paid transit, they are pretty much saying we have the eyeballs and your going to pay us to reach them. They are intentionally not upgrading to force more netflix type deals while screwing over there customer base by not giving them what they paid for.
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Living with a connected home for over a decade now. Lights are nice, just starting on color as well as brightness. Security systems well think that is a major feature. Security camera's, arming and disarming via cell phone proximity, and giving status via the phones tablets, tv's and PC's are all killer features for me. Looking at HVAC controls, and really need something more tied in that just the thermostats as it needs to set boiler set-points at least and preferably control multiple systems. Ceiling fans are very nice, automated curtains actually have a noticeable change in heating/cooling bills. Appliances could be nice but need a lot more sensors, dishwashers need some method of knowing if they have a decent amount of dishes in them for example before it's really useful. I don't live in a place where power pricing is particularly fluid so having appliances shift there consumption is not useful to me.
My son went to a inner city catholic school with some pretty steep (aka basically free for the poor that asked for help) and there kids did very well due to parental involvement and school preparation. Key point is the parents had to actively be a part of their children's education not some passive thing.
Sue money helps but it seems secondary to other factors.
Because fiber is hard? A pure fiber last mile with CWDM works without letting the muni's get into speeds protocols etc. Is it a lot of glass sure but it's a one time thing fiber from 40 years ago still works.
Problem is you can not properly fund the police force. If you give them money they do things you do not want with it.
As to schools more money does not fix the problems. Fixing the problems fixes them. Replace failing teachers etc etc etc before coming crying for more money.
You hope it's only a firmware change. Altering hardware would be nearly impossible to detect by anybody but cisco and potentially very hard to do without destroying the part in the process.
PS Cisco will send you the current firmware for a new product it's just a PITA if it does not have smartnet.
Says I need to give up my server. I'm a small spread out shop and with few employees, their plan would cost me 250 bucks a month (10 users). This is vs a fairly small VPS on my own gear in a data center that might cost me 20 with a quality hosting provider. Installing a PBX is trivial for a sysadmin. And we spend maybe a couple hours a year looking at it. Couple this with a VOIP dial-tone provider at less than a hundred a month. So my spend is half as much and I can use my own guys to do the few hours of maintenance required a year.
I think this is more he says we should give him moneys because he said so.
Now looking as the company they use a proprietary product that took them 10 years to develop, that runs on commodity hardware. They tout their custom software app as well. This is VOIP, most people do not need something that handles piles of calls simultaneously in many ways a couple small servers are a lot easier to deal with than a big cloud, and can run commonly available software to do so.
ZFS or similar can deal with bitrot issues.
Still looking for an OSS MAID setup for linux. Would love something that buffers writes to SSD and intelligently waits for a drive to spin up to write out. Bonus points for SSD caches for reading as well. Even more bonus points for using a pair or more of SSD's and only mirroring data waiting to hit disk.
Try a Nexus, droid vendors tend to only update current far sale hardware and that changes every 6-12 months.
Some sort of standardized magnetic mount
QI Charging
Wifi Link or some standard to link to displays that can work on existing phones
Bluetooth, handsfree, audio, steering wheel controls, vehicle information
Some Wifi accessible storage
All potentially open standards.
Past that a Bluetooth GPS might be useful.
Lets face it phones update every couple years cars not so much. Pretty much a 1080p touchscreen and some bluetooth and let people with a clue deal with powering it.
Who says it's just firmware? Working examples of chip level modifications are in the open.
Sure nobody can jam a pretty weak signal. Once you have electronics especially with an RF pickup nobody with openly or worse clandestinely require that it safety itself when it see some broadcast. Openly I can see it be something like will not fire within 400 yards of a school think of the children BS. Nobody will figure out what the broadcast is. If you really want this it needs to be open hardware/software so it can be fully vetted, considering some of the silicon level back doors people have come up with I'm not sure that is even possible.
Make the cops use it for a couple decades and work the bugs out they are after all paid to put themselves in harms way.
Depends on how they deactivate. Detonating the mine does not leave much to question whether or not it's still active.
Reducing the number of mines to be cleared by 97% is a huge improvement. There was research into biodegradable explosives as well.
PS the treaty only covers antipersonnel mines, antitank mines are also dangerous post war to the civilian population.
Possibly because it's asinine? Mines are cheap and effective weapons. They would have been far better off requiring that mines have some form of self destruct when not used in a designated area.
Peering is critical to the internet. Right now comcast and similar are choosing to over-saturate peering and paid links in a bid to have people pay them directly to get to the eyeballs they service. Effective leaving it out allows them to let all the normal links over-saturate and push companies like netflix to pay for a fast connection. It's not like they have any viable competitors in most places. A well managed network looks at trending and proactively adds more capacity before they are over-saturated. Frankly we need more oversight they should have to justify why any link in there network is over saturated apart from individual clients and pay steep ever increasing fines to insure they upgrade in a timely manner. This should be built into whatever local monopoly oversight there is in place. This would need to be coupled to no single connections to the mother ship ala AT&T where they shift the choke point to the unregulated transit provider who also owns a huge chunk of the ISP.
I have no problems with cyclists but they should be bound by obstructing traffic laws. AKA if they disrupt the flow of traffic they need pull over and let people pass same as a car.
Give XBMC or Plex a go a bit nicer interface. Plex client on a Ras PI is dirt cheap low power and still gives you something your in control of.
In america our public transit is abysmal as in turns a 30 minute car ride into a 15 minute car ride, 2.5 hours on a train and a 10 minute taxi ride. We do idiotic things like turn 2 lanes of highway into 1 lane of high occupancy only and let buses in, so you can not pass and are stuck behind a bus and we lost 25% of the highways caring capacity to do it. Oh and all mass transit goes through Rhode island because the needed two more votes and a couple hours added on wont detract at all.
mp3ornet tests if you can hear the difference between 128 and 320 not lossy and lossless. They do not specify what the source was to start out with either. I was talking about lossy vs lossless, the pop music that is compressed to hell I put as a choice by the sound engineer. Consider that you can get 24 bit 96k audio even in 5.1 and 7.1 uncompressed or loss-less why buy an inferior product it's not like storage or bandwidth are an issue for audio.
Are you the guy that is ok with compressed to hell cable TV because your TV / eyesight does not let you tell the difference? I want a quality product, not the bare minimum people will accept.
My favorite is the cell phone speaker and it tucked into there baseball cap.
For overpriced technically inferior headphones to listen to compressed to hell music.
Wake me when apple gets a quality pair of headphones and at least cd quality loss-less without DRM.
Sure current algorithms will be pretty simple. But back to the OP you still want it to hit the smaller car over the bigger car assuming all other things are equal. It's the safest choice for the car and it's occupants. Your stance seems to be that was somehow evil.
Possibly if you live in a city some of this might be useful. For those of us that choose not to live in urban hell it's pointless. We have sidewalks for a reason only other cars should be on any major roads.
What idiot would get into a machine that values there life less than others? Worse yet if you have this in place how easy is it to game the system aka take an old beater and swerve in front of an autonomous car and have it go kill/injure the occupant or others.
Here is an easy scenario. While driving down a hill in snow idiot soccer mom mobile pulls out in front of your from a strip mall (at a one way stop sign) and looses traction. Coming up hill is a large truck and guard rails on either side. Should you throw yourself into the guard rails in an effort to stop in time, ram the idiot soccer mom, or have a head on with the truck? I pick soccer mom as she is the idiot that caused the accident by trying to bolt out into traffic in bad weather and she is at fault (failing to yield to traffic at a one way stop). Ramming the truck is potentially suicidal and now puts me at fault. Hitting the guard rails is probably the safest bet but again your at fault and potentially get rear ended. Now if the laws/tech get updated so that soccer mom mobile gets to pay for me crashing my car into the guard rails maybe the world is a bit safer place. Till then my only question is there kids in the back if so try and hit the front vs the back as to avoid them (it's not there fault there mom/caretaker is an idiot) her I can take some solace that I removed from the gene pool so she can no longer pass on her stupidity.
Now if you want to be altruistic that is your choice, as to sociopath that is more about lack of regret than not choosing the most altruistic option. Expecting/requiring people to not take the best choice for them is broken by design.
There networks are fine (well at least lets not get into an engineering debate) they increase internal bandwidth as needed. I say this as a customer of them with multiple 10ge ports on a half dozen providers. Comcast etc are not increasing capacity at there peering points or paid transit, they are pretty much saying we have the eyeballs and your going to pay us to reach them. They are intentionally not upgrading to force more netflix type deals while screwing over there customer base by not giving them what they paid for.