No, I cannot imagine cities without cars by 2050. I think it is very unlikely that will happen. Much more likely is Europe without a European Commission by 2050. These bureaucrats make themselves so incredibly impossible that whatever is happening in the middle-East right now, will also happen to the Bureaucrats in Brussels. My prediction is 2025 at the latest..
The simple answer is that the authorities, as evidenced by this article, are not releasing enough information for individuals to make sensible decisions.
Well, has it ever occurred to you that the Japanese might have containment of the radiation a bit higher on their priority list than aiding the media circus that has been built around it? Why does everyone feel they are *entitled* to all available information at all times, and that people responsible have to jump through hoops to make that information available? I'd much rather have them work as hard as they can trying to fix the problem, than spending resources providing minute-by-minute reports.
Makes me think of my boss. Whenever there's a crisis, he wants hourly updates about why the issue has not been resolved yet. So I give him a choice. Either we talk about the problem, or we work on fixing the problem. We'll let him know when his help is needed.
And just who gave the FAA the authority to license anything coming from space? Why do they claim any authority at all? Part of space is over my house, please submit your application for a license from me as well.
Oh boy, you are soooo right..
One of the guidelines for patents is that the 'invention' should not be obvious to the average skilled person. Now, if I never look at any patent description and write my software, doesn't that already prove that whatever patent I 'violate' is rubbish to start with?
If something can be thought of by any skilled programmer then why should someone else get money because they 'thought of it first'??
Software patents are EVIL and MUST GO!
As if that would surprize anyone.. I have bought a Sony blue-ray player with a Sony home theatre receiver and a Sony TV and they were incompatible. Simply would not handshake. Manufacturers go to such an extent to protect Hollywood's precious content that they no longer give a rats a** what implications this has for their customers.
We must be all thieves, or else no sane inductry would do this to their customers.
I have a hard time understanding how 1080p is such a great feature on screens 4" or smaller in diameter. Most if not all have less pixels than 1920x1080, so how would this produce a better picture than 720p?
but I bought my phone to make phone calls?!? - Not to listen to the radio - Not to play MP3 - Not to watch movies - Not to vacuum the room - Not to bake breadrolls..etc
And that is my choise and I am perfectly happy with it. Thank you
If you are going to demand subtitles, can you please list which language(s) they should be in? What if a disabled person ends up on a Swedish or Japanese video site. Will the US sue them for not having English/Spanish subtitles? Or put up a Chinese-style firewall to keep these sites from being available in the US?
As you say, the intent is good, but the execution is near impossible.
If you measured it, that means you may have a fair understanding of what is, and what isn't an acceptible ratio of ash particles in the air. I have yet to see any numbers from an engine manufacturer that claims, for instance, 10 particles per cubic inch is acceptible, and 20 will reduce the service life by 30%.
And that is what is missing in the entire story. We don't have a baseline. If engine manufacturers would specify the limit for acceptible flight then you can measure the particles up there and make a real determination. Yes, it is safe because we are under the limit. Or no, stop flying, we are over the limit. How hard is that?!?
You have a good point, parents need to talk to their kids.
Unfortunately, kids around the age of 14 develop their own natural firewall which filters anything parents say to them. In fact, their firewall has a built-in inverter system which makes them do everything that you specifically tell them not to.
Denying them access to their computer and thinking that that will make them study harder is silly. All you can do is sit down with them at least once and explain what they can encounter on the Internet and try to make them aware that not all of that is intended for them. With a bit of luck they will remember.
OpenDNS works well as a technical hurdle to stop them from casual missteps. By the time they get smart enough to circumvent OpenDNS, they are hopefully smart enough to deal with the darker side of Internet as well
If it is really as bad as you describe, take a couple of days sick leave. Have them figure it out for themselves that your job isn't easy and that they do not have a backup.
Perhaps when one of those out-of-service systems dies in the interim, they feel the pain. They may look at you as being a valuable asset.
I am always surprised when people make this claim about compiling from source giving a performance boost. Why would code compiled on your system run any faster than the same code on someone else's system?
Unless you know how to tweak the compiler flags for this particular app (and know them better than the developer who distributes the binaries), the binary delivered with the distribution will be just as quick as the one you compile yourself.
Before you do, send a polite email message to your boss that you have been looking for the original licenses for the software to complete your audit and cannot seem to find them anywhere. Ask him where they are. Make sure you have "read receipt' on.
Print the email as well as the receipt, and if he responds, print that too. Use it to cover your ass when the boss tells the authorities that he had no idea this was going on and wants to pin it on you.
If you build a petabyte stack using 1.5TB disks you need about 800 drives including RAID overhead. With an MTBF for consumer drives of 500,000 hours, a drive will fail roughly every 10-15 days, if your design is good and you create no hotspots/vibration issues.
Rebuild times on large RAID sets are such that it is only a matter of time before they run a double drive failure and lose their customers data. The money they saved by going cheap will be spent on lawyers when they get the liability claims in.
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No, I cannot imagine cities without cars by 2050. I think it is very unlikely that will happen.
Much more likely is Europe without a European Commission by 2050. These bureaucrats make themselves so incredibly impossible that whatever is happening in the middle-East right now, will also happen to the Bureaucrats in Brussels. My prediction is 2025 at the latest..
The simple answer is that the authorities, as evidenced by this article, are not releasing enough information for individuals to make sensible decisions.
Well, has it ever occurred to you that the Japanese might have containment of the radiation a bit higher on their priority list than aiding the media circus that has been built around it? Why does everyone feel they are *entitled* to all available information at all times, and that people responsible have to jump through hoops to make that information available? I'd much rather have them work as hard as they can trying to fix the problem, than spending resources providing minute-by-minute reports.
Makes me think of my boss. Whenever there's a crisis, he wants hourly updates about why the issue has not been resolved yet. So I give him a choice. Either we talk about the problem, or we work on fixing the problem. We'll let him know when his help is needed.
.. She ate beans and farted..
Sorry.
I remember reading about a huge amount of plastic floating in the ocean. Since it was just garbage no-one seemed interested in cleaning that up.
Now this plastic has become a valuable supply for producing oil, I'm sure some entrepreneur will stand up and collect it for a profit!
Likewise an average male should weigh about 75 kg (165 pounds) but is more likely to weigh double that in the US
There. Corrected that for you.
And just who gave the FAA the authority to license anything coming from space? Why do they claim any authority at all? Part of space is over my house, please submit your application for a license from me as well.
Oh boy, you are soooo right.. One of the guidelines for patents is that the 'invention' should not be obvious to the average skilled person. Now, if I never look at any patent description and write my software, doesn't that already prove that whatever patent I 'violate' is rubbish to start with? If something can be thought of by any skilled programmer then why should someone else get money because they 'thought of it first'?? Software patents are EVIL and MUST GO!
It's a wide edge...
As if that would surprize anyone.. I have bought a Sony blue-ray player with a Sony home theatre receiver and a Sony TV and they were incompatible. Simply would not handshake. Manufacturers go to such an extent to protect Hollywood's precious content that they no longer give a rats a** what implications this has for their customers.
We must be all thieves, or else no sane inductry would do this to their customers.
I have a hard time understanding how 1080p is such a great feature on screens 4" or smaller in diameter.
Most if not all have less pixels than 1920x1080, so how would this produce a better picture than 720p?
but I bought my phone to make phone calls?!? ..etc
- Not to listen to the radio
- Not to play MP3
- Not to watch movies
- Not to vacuum the room
- Not to bake breadrolls
And that is my choise and I am perfectly happy with it.
Thank you
If you are going to demand subtitles, can you please list which language(s) they should be in? What if a disabled person ends up on a Swedish or Japanese video site. Will the US sue them for not having English/Spanish subtitles? Or put up a Chinese-style firewall to keep these sites from being available in the US?
As you say, the intent is good, but the execution is near impossible.
Well, your lack of proper tape handling procedure isn't the tape's fault, is it??
If you measured it, that means you may have a fair understanding of what is, and what isn't an acceptible ratio of ash particles in the air. I have yet to see any numbers from an engine manufacturer that claims, for instance, 10 particles per cubic inch is acceptible, and 20 will reduce the service life by 30%.
And that is what is missing in the entire story. We don't have a baseline. If engine manufacturers would specify the limit for acceptible flight then you can measure the particles up there and make a real determination. Yes, it is safe because we are under the limit. Or no, stop flying, we are over the limit. How hard is that?!?
You have a good point, parents need to talk to their kids.
Unfortunately, kids around the age of 14 develop their own natural firewall which filters anything parents say to them. In fact, their firewall has a built-in inverter system which makes them do everything that you specifically tell them not to.
Denying them access to their computer and thinking that that will make them study harder is silly. All you can do is sit down with them at least once and explain what they can encounter on the Internet and try to make them aware that not all of that is intended for them. With a bit of luck they will remember.
OpenDNS works well as a technical hurdle to stop them from casual missteps. By the time they get smart enough to circumvent OpenDNS, they are hopefully smart enough to deal with the darker side of Internet as well
Don't even bother re-using the coax.
Use it to attach the end of a cat6 cable and pull the coax and cat6 through.
Just rewire.
If it is really as bad as you describe, take a couple of days sick leave. Have them figure it out for themselves that your job isn't easy and that they do not have a backup.
Perhaps when one of those out-of-service systems dies in the interim, they feel the pain. They may look at you as being a valuable asset.
Bruce is sooo right. The whole security sharade is not part of the solution, it is part of terror itself
I am always surprised when people make this claim about compiling from source giving a performance boost. Why would code compiled on your system run any faster than the same code on someone else's system?
Unless you know how to tweak the compiler flags for this particular app (and know them better than the developer who distributes the binaries), the binary delivered with the distribution will be just as quick as the one you compile yourself.
We are still struggling to find the real effects of vaccination in The Netherlands. Many people think they shouldn't bother.
So are there any statistics about fatality rate of swine flu versus 'regular' flu and also vaccinated vs. non-vaccinated?
Before you do, send a polite email message to your boss that you have been looking for the original licenses for the software to complete your audit and cannot seem to find them anywhere. Ask him where they are. Make sure you have "read receipt' on. Print the email as well as the receipt, and if he responds, print that too. Use it to cover your ass when the boss tells the authorities that he had no idea this was going on and wants to pin it on you.
Dit they get an assignment from the public to research and develop this technology?
In other words, was this developed for the greater good of humanity, or because someone had an itch??
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Maybe using this tool is not such a smart idea?!?
If you build a petabyte stack using 1.5TB disks you need about 800 drives including RAID overhead. With an MTBF for consumer drives of 500,000 hours, a drive will fail roughly every 10-15 days, if your design is good and you create no hotspots/vibration issues.
Rebuild times on large RAID sets are such that it is only a matter of time before they run a double drive failure and lose their customers data. The money they saved by going cheap will be spent on lawyers when they get the liability claims in.