Something like that has been tried and successfully perverted by the lobby in Germany.
"Highly qualified" employees who earned at least a (high) minimum salary could immigrate easier, with some prerequisites removed. The system started out with a minimum salary of 100.000 Euro per year, which is a lot by German standards. It was self-evident that only really highly qualified employees would be hired for those positions.
Meanwhile, the minimum salary is 44.800 Euro and in some occupations only 34.900 Euro. Highly qualified positions my ass. Also, no thanks to our lobbyist whore chancelorette.
PC games are increasingly going multicore. Took them long enough, but now they are getting there. That is a major "application" in terms of usage share. Probably more usage share than the image processing one of my fellow posters mentioned.
Impressive, but I wonder how much better it could be when CCP finally comes up with a multi-processor friendly architecture and replaces some more Python with C libraries. A factor 10 seems possible, and then the same battle could run in real time:).
I think there is some confusion about concepts in your post.
SQL injection relies on sloppy programming where the developer forgot to sanitize the input. Obfuscating the code probably won't help as the hackers don't need to see it, they just try to dump their malicious SQL code into some input field.
A trojan or backdoor is by definition something created by the original developer of the software. He can, of course, put his malicious code in before obfuscation.
But GP has a point if he questions the wisdom of a 130 kW engine combined with a 22 kWh battery. I think an 80kW engine would still offer enough power and be a bit cheaper.
Where did you get the statement that "this is to make sure the battery life is in sync with the vehicle's computer for delicate components"?
Sounds like an attempt of a marketroid to find a justification for shitty design. Components should either be designed to be not so delicate, or they should have their own DC/DC converter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC-to-DC_converter) to turn the voltage from the battery into something palatable for them. Most of the computing stuff needs voltages lower than 12V anyway, so a DC/DC converter is needed in any case.
The Model S isn't cheap. And while I personally think it looks good, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think aesthetics should not be on that list either way.
Seconded regarding "check image and backup". Only after you have successfully tested the restore process, you know that you actually have viable backups.
Also, think about the nature of your images. Are they easily migrated to another format, if the original hardware is no loger available? For instance, I have encountered one or two floppy "imaging" programs that simply store the contents of all sectors on a 3.5" floppy into a 1.44MB binary file. Good for getting hidden information in seemingly unused sectors too, but if you need to access the information 20 years from now, there may be no more floppys to restore to.
Depending on your archiving goals, it may be better to copy the contents of the media to a directory on a larger medium.
Meanwhile, a dirt cheap rubber-suit monster movie probably would have out performed Pacific Rim in the box office. People like that shit.
Try Japanese monster movies from the 1960s / 70s. They are fun in a trashy way, but I doubt you could get great box office revenue out of them today. OTOH, they are so cheap that a modest revenue might be enough to make a profit.
Come to think of it, machinima are gradually getting there, even with small budgets. I guess some small studio might eventually surprise us with an original and successful CGI movie - and launch a flood of uninspired "me too"s.
A few years back, in Germany we had a program for collecting communication metadata that was not quite as intrusive as PRISM but it came close. Telecoms were legally required to store those data for six months and hand them over to various government authorities on request. For those who are interested in EU and German politics, it was called "Vorratsdatenspeicherung" and initiated by an EU directive.
Some civil rights activists sued in the Bundesverfassungsgericht (highest German court, hears only constitutional cases). The court found that the intimidation factor of being watched is sufficient to suppress the exercising of rights to free speech. The decision of the court was that the law that mandated the "Vorratsdatenspeicherung" is unconstitutional and invalid.
On top of that, the discussion Sarah Sharp got so upset about did not involve her. To me, it reads more like friendly banter between old colleagues who have long ago given up being overly formal.
And they are old colleagues. According to Wikipedia, Ingo Molnar, Steven Rostedt and Greg Kroah-Hartman have been working on the Linux kernel for roughly a decade. Maybe longer, ten years is merely what I can find on short notice.
One would expect that this shows in their insurance premiums. As in "ships under Liberian flag are known to sink often, so it's double premiums for you".
Well... the XP interface was fairly mature and widely known. From 95 to Windows 7 were indeed only minor changes, so about everyone in the Windows world is familiar with it. And I never had the problem with finding stuff you describe (more about that below). So I think yes, it was a good interface, and forcing people to learn new stuff will run into resistance if what they have works fine.
Now I'm not sure how your OCD comment was meant, but I think it really misses the point. Intelligent people who have an obsession with finding stuff will not dump it all over the desktop. They might have a directory structure where stuff is sorted by category (like me) or they might have another organization scheme. Dumping everything on the desktop is a sign of lack of organization, and you find it in people who have the opposite of OCD:-p
The closest Linux has come is Mark Shuttleworth. I'm not sold on his being that. My coworkers still complain about real problems with the Ubuntu boxen that have been forced on them.
I agree that Ubuntu was the most successful and promising approach so far. That is, pre-Unity Ubuntu. As long as Ubuntu had a GUI that essentially copied XP, it was easy to get used to, coming from Windows. The biggest impediment was that you had to get used to new applications.
Now, the switch to Unity has given the change from Windows to Ubuntu a bigger learning curve. I'm sure that hurt the adoption of Linux.
Oracle as owner of the copyright can re-license new versions in whatever way they want. The only thing they cannot do is remove the old license from copies they have already distributed.
In this case, I have my doubts. MySQL was pretty popular, BerkeleyDB seems to be a niche product and according to TFA, the most prominent projects relying on it are already moving away.
I think the move to PC (as far as it actually happened) was due to the current consoles being a bit outdated, they are far behind a high end PC in performance. The new console generation might be able to win some of the hard-core gamers back.
I grant its astonishing capabilities: the instant access to vast amounts of information, the pleasures of YouTube and iTunes, the convenience of GPS and much more.
Hello? GPS is not a feature of the internet.
Also, I think he is totally wrong when he quotes cyberwar as a reason for removing the internet. Any organization that does not want the risks that come from connecting systems to the net can disconnect theirs. Simple, isn't it?
I once watched a friend of mine (professional car mechanic, knows to buy good tools) break two somewhat expensive bits on a recalcitrant screw connection. The bolt was totally unimpressed;-)
Ignoring political shenanigans for a moment, scale is less important than production cost per barrel. Of course scale may help in lowering that price per barrel, but if you can produce at competitive prices with a small company, why not?
There is a German engineering company that develops another biofuel technology, and they target relatively small plant sizes (capacity for a few thousand tons per year): http://www.alphakat.de/temp/company.php
This said, going for a niche market at first, while your production costs are still high, strikes me as a clever move. To some extent Tesla is doing the same: First the expensive sports cars, later on more everyday vehicles.
In practice (and if you're minded to sue), you could actually switch to MariaDB and carefully document the "effort" in terms of costs. Then you have a monetary value.
Now IANAL too, and I don't know the chances of success in court. But if you need a number of dollars, there are ways to get it. It may even be not so small, if you need to do a rollout in a major company.
Which requires having a cell phone that supports playing a music collection over Bluetooth. Among phones that I've investigated that are capable of doing that, they tend to cost more over time to operate on U.S. carriers than cell phones that just make calls and receive texts. Virgin Mobile, for example, refuses to activate smartphones on dumbphone plans, and the price difference between the cheapest dumbphone plan and the cheapest smartphone plan is over $330 per year. And that's why a lot of people still carry a separate phone and MP3 player.
Thanks for pointing that out.
Meanwhile, I still use a MP3 car stereo (which is a bit more of a hassle as I have to convert the files) but a 10 Euro USB stick is sufficient to feed data to the stereo. FLAC would be more convenient, but not so much that I would get a smartphone with bluetooth capability just for that.
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He had a logically valid response: You were not obliged to upgrade every year.
The "paid shill" is questionable though, I'd like some more evidence for that before calling people names.
Something like that has been tried and successfully perverted by the lobby in Germany.
"Highly qualified" employees who earned at least a (high) minimum salary could immigrate easier, with some prerequisites removed.
The system started out with a minimum salary of 100.000 Euro per year, which is a lot by German standards. It was self-evident that only really highly qualified employees would be hired for those positions.
Meanwhile, the minimum salary is 44.800 Euro and in some occupations only 34.900 Euro. Highly qualified positions my ass. Also, no thanks to our lobbyist whore chancelorette.
PC games are increasingly going multicore. Took them long enough, but now they are getting there. That is a major "application" in terms of usage share. Probably more usage share than the image processing one of my fellow posters mentioned.
Computers and robots will replace hard workers way before smart workers.
Have you considered the "Good enough" factor into the equation? The pointy-haired bosses usually don't want smart employees but fungible ones.
Computers and robots are pretty fungible, and in the long term they tend to be cheaper than humans.
Impressive, but I wonder how much better it could be when CCP finally comes up with a multi-processor friendly architecture and replaces some more Python with C libraries. :).
A factor 10 seems possible, and then the same battle could run in real time
I think there is some confusion about concepts in your post.
SQL injection relies on sloppy programming where the developer forgot to sanitize the input. Obfuscating the code probably won't help as the hackers don't need to see it, they just try to dump their malicious SQL code into some input field.
A trojan or backdoor is by definition something created by the original developer of the software. He can, of course, put his malicious code in before obfuscation.
But GP has a point if he questions the wisdom of a 130 kW engine combined with a 22 kWh battery.
I think an 80kW engine would still offer enough power and be a bit cheaper.
Where did you get the statement that "this is to make sure the battery life is in sync with the vehicle's computer for delicate components"?
Sounds like an attempt of a marketroid to find a justification for shitty design. Components should either be designed to be not so delicate, or they should have their own DC/DC converter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC-to-DC_converter) to turn the voltage from the battery into something palatable for them. Most of the computing stuff needs voltages lower than 12V anyway, so a DC/DC converter is needed in any case.
The Model S isn't cheap.
And while I personally think it looks good, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think aesthetics should not be on that list either way.
Seconded regarding "check image and backup". Only after you have successfully tested the restore process, you know that you actually have viable backups.
Also, think about the nature of your images. Are they easily migrated to another format, if the original hardware is no loger available?
For instance, I have encountered one or two floppy "imaging" programs that simply store the contents of all sectors on a 3.5" floppy into a 1.44MB binary file. Good for getting hidden information in seemingly unused sectors too, but if you need to access the information 20 years from now, there may be no more floppys to restore to.
Depending on your archiving goals, it may be better to copy the contents of the media to a directory on a larger medium.
Meanwhile, a dirt cheap rubber-suit monster movie probably would have out performed Pacific Rim in the box office. People like that shit.
Try Japanese monster movies from the 1960s / 70s. They are fun in a trashy way, but I doubt you could get great box office revenue out of them today. OTOH, they are so cheap that a modest revenue might be enough to make a profit.
Come to think of it, machinima are gradually getting there, even with small budgets. I guess some small studio might eventually surprise us with an original and successful CGI movie - and launch a flood of uninspired "me too"s.
The court may yet surprise you.
A few years back, in Germany we had a program for collecting communication metadata that was not quite as intrusive as PRISM but it came close. Telecoms were legally required to store those data for six months and hand them over to various government authorities on request. For those who are interested in EU and German politics, it was called "Vorratsdatenspeicherung" and initiated by an EU directive.
Some civil rights activists sued in the Bundesverfassungsgericht (highest German court, hears only constitutional cases). The court found that the intimidation factor of being watched is sufficient to suppress the exercising of rights to free speech. The decision of the court was that the law that mandated the "Vorratsdatenspeicherung" is unconstitutional and invalid.
On top of that, the discussion Sarah Sharp got so upset about did not involve her. To me, it reads more like friendly banter between old colleagues who have long ago given up being overly formal.
And they are old colleagues. According to Wikipedia, Ingo Molnar, Steven Rostedt and Greg Kroah-Hartman have been working on the Linux kernel for roughly a decade. Maybe longer, ten years is merely what I can find on short notice.
One would expect that this shows in their insurance premiums. As in "ships under Liberian flag are known to sink often, so it's double premiums for you".
Well... the XP interface was fairly mature and widely known. From 95 to Windows 7 were indeed only minor changes, so about everyone in the Windows world is familiar with it. And I never had the problem with finding stuff you describe (more about that below). So I think yes, it was a good interface, and forcing people to learn new stuff will run into resistance if what they have works fine.
Now I'm not sure how your OCD comment was meant, but I think it really misses the point. Intelligent people who have an obsession with finding stuff will not dump it all over the desktop. They might have a directory structure where stuff is sorted by category (like me) or they might have another organization scheme. Dumping everything on the desktop is a sign of lack of organization, and you find it in people who have the opposite of OCD :-p
The closest Linux has come is Mark Shuttleworth. I'm not sold on his being that. My coworkers still complain about real problems with the Ubuntu boxen that have been forced on them.
I agree that Ubuntu was the most successful and promising approach so far. That is, pre-Unity Ubuntu. As long as Ubuntu had a GUI that essentially copied XP, it was easy to get used to, coming from Windows. The biggest impediment was that you had to get used to new applications.
Now, the switch to Unity has given the change from Windows to Ubuntu a bigger learning curve. I'm sure that hurt the adoption of Linux.
Oracle as owner of the copyright can re-license new versions in whatever way they want. The only thing they cannot do is remove the old license from copies they have already distributed.
In this case, I have my doubts. MySQL was pretty popular, BerkeleyDB seems to be a niche product and according to TFA, the most prominent projects relying on it are already moving away.
I guess BerkeleyDB will simply disappear.
I think the move to PC (as far as it actually happened) was due to the current consoles being a bit outdated, they are far behind a high end PC in performance. The new console generation might be able to win some of the hard-core gamers back.
But I think you are right about the casuals.
I grant its astonishing capabilities: the instant access to vast amounts of information, the pleasures of YouTube and iTunes, the convenience of GPS and much more.
Hello? GPS is not a feature of the internet.
Also, I think he is totally wrong when he quotes cyberwar as a reason for removing the internet. Any organization that does not want the risks that come from connecting systems to the net can disconnect theirs. Simple, isn't it?
You break the bolts instead of the bits?
I once watched a friend of mine (professional car mechanic, knows to buy good tools) break two somewhat expensive bits on a recalcitrant screw connection. The bolt was totally unimpressed ;-)
Ignoring political shenanigans for a moment, scale is less important than production cost per barrel. Of course scale may help in lowering that price per barrel, but if you can produce at competitive prices with a small company, why not?
There is a German engineering company that develops another biofuel technology, and they target relatively small plant sizes (capacity for a few thousand tons per year): http://www.alphakat.de/temp/company.php
This said, going for a niche market at first, while your production costs are still high, strikes me as a clever move. To some extent Tesla is doing the same:
First the expensive sports cars, later on more everyday vehicles.
In practice (and if you're minded to sue), you could actually switch to MariaDB and carefully document the "effort" in terms of costs. Then you have a monetary value.
Now IANAL too, and I don't know the chances of success in court. But if you need a number of dollars, there are ways to get it. It may even be not so small, if you need to do a rollout in a major company.
Which requires having a cell phone that supports playing a music collection over Bluetooth. Among phones that I've investigated that are capable of doing that, they tend to cost more over time to operate on U.S. carriers than cell phones that just make calls and receive texts. Virgin Mobile, for example, refuses to activate smartphones on dumbphone plans, and the price difference between the cheapest dumbphone plan and the cheapest smartphone plan is over $330 per year. And that's why a lot of people still carry a separate phone and MP3 player.
Thanks for pointing that out.
Meanwhile, I still use a MP3 car stereo (which is a bit more of a hassle as I have to convert the files) but a 10 Euro USB stick is sufficient to feed data to the stereo. FLAC would be more convenient, but not so much that I would get a smartphone with bluetooth capability just for that.
Well, I must admit I was not looking all that hard. But thanks anyway, the Kenwood looks interesting :-)