Commercial spaceflight is still in its infancy. I mean, sure we've put a few people in space and a handful on the moon, but in terms of an actual field, it's as if it's just a few years after the Wright brothers (regulation didn't start 'till 1926). Certainly no where near the level aviation was after the same number of years after its inception.
I hope space school has the same validity as engineering school though. But as long as it's just one school, I have my doubts.
This can be remedied somewhat by going with the value added support model. Professional support kept with a subscription can mitigate operating costs, but it would still be a bit of a stretch. Of course, by going purely on the donation route, big, bold, donation notices on the project homepage and anywhere else the code is linked for download will help. And users will want to clearly see how much is remaining to cover operational costs so that big thermometer thingy would fit in.
All machines get a barcode that let us pull up every component that went in, vendors, dates of installation and who touched what. For memory, I think we have 3 different vendors. Mobos are usually Asus and Supermicro with one or two Tyan. HDs are Samsung and WD with a couple more for SSDs that are special cases. Speaking of cases, we have Supermicro again and NORCO (for storage) primarily with a few Antec cases here and there.
L3 switches are Cisco and Netgear, L2 is Netgear and Trendnet.
There's a good reason a lot of our equipment is slightly older. No, we don't use ancient stuff, but they're not 100% top of the line made yesterday either. And that's because each time a new mobo, memory and storage combo that looks like its worth purchasing comes to market, the first thing we do is run a few sample sets under everything we can throw at it. Usually problems are narrowed down within the first couple of weeks or so, but that's why we have separate people just for testing equipment.
Now admittedly, it's getting harder with this economy so we have some people doing double duty on occasion (I've had to do a bit too when the flu came rolling in), but testing goes on for as long as we think is necessary before the combo goes live. We avoid a lot of the headaches that come with large deployments by keeping changes isolated to maybe 10-15 nodes at a time. It's a slow and steady rollout of mostly similar systems (maybe 3-4 identical) that helps us avoid down time.
We're not Google and we don't pretend to be, but common sense goes a long way to avoiding hiccups like "everything blew up". I think the biggest issue was when hurricane Sandy hit and we weren't sure if the backup generators would come online (this is a big problem with things that need fuel and oil, but stay off for a long time), so we brought in a generator truck for that too, just in case. Again, avoiding one of anything.
Whether it's your brand of switch, motherboard or even memory, never have the same across all machines if you can help it. The only time I'd recommend the same brand would be hard drives (due to concurrency issues), but then at least try go get them from different batches. If your lot of mobos will only handle one brand of memory for whatever reason even when cas latency is identical, then have two machines doing whatever it is you need to be doing.
One kind of anything makes it easier to kill you swiftly in the end, whether it's by a ping of death or a biological disease.
This is just a case of bureaucrats being bureaucrats as usual and common sense taking a back seat.
There are plenty of level-headed folks with a tenacity for doing what's right up there in moose country that will fight this tooth and nail (Theo comes to mind). At most, this will cause a whole lot of noise a la SOPA and eventually get dumped.
Besides, the anti-spam legislation, I hear, is quite popular. More than this rubbish is popular with law enforcement.
Due to the way Slashdot works, I'll hijack this inane post's thread to get a foothold somewhere close to the top. Thanks, AC!
This will likely go down the road Doom did, unless Abrams can pull something similar to the movie Moon (2009), which I thougth was a very good one examining existential themes and maybe blend it with Pandorum which showed what happens after long-term isolation after, apparently, everyone else is either gone or mad (though, hopefully, it won't become lame horror).
Science is the process of understanding the environment through observation, calculation and inference. Theories are formed and they're tested. Even if one believes in God, He is quite safe from science as a result, since... well... it would only be as if you're studying what God has created. One's faith in a higher power need not be shaken when all you're doing is studying His work. If it's observable, repeatable and logical, we can reasonably infer, it is true.
In this regard, science and faith need not be mutually exclusive.
To religion OTOH, science would be Kryptonite, since that's an institution of man and, like all institutions, there's a hierarchy of (usually) other men. And men will fight back when their status within this hierarchy is threatened. With science, there's suddenly no need for an interpreter to reality, since you can do the observations yourself.
Full disclosure: I don't believe in a personal God.
The child tables ignore parent tables on every UPDATE and return rowsAffected 0... A few years later, child tables return Foreign Key Error 1005 errno 150 on INSERT, but it's too late to because the parent tables are no more, but those ear plugs and tatoos are there forever.
Man, that would have been great. The only reason I switched to Postgres a while back was because of a licensing conflict. Happy accident it also happened to be a very consistent and stable DB.
Ironically is the direction MySQL should have gone after the 4.x branch. There's a whole heap of legacy baggage in the code base and Oracle -- since we know how good they're with legacy baggage -- decided to keep doing incremental changes to it (ever try putting CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as default on two fields with the second being ON UPDATE?)
The 5.6 line is actually using a lot of improvements handed back by companies like Google, which I think initally used it for AdWords and may still be using in some capacity.
I once knew a brilliant artist who worked with water colors, oil paints and even home-made concoctions. Been at it for several decades. Absolutely hated scupture.
Without knowing what you actually did or how good you were or whether you touched the language for any meaningful length of time to form an intelligent decision, you're just another AC with a theory... and there seems to be plenty more of that on this story and none of them add to the discussion more "I hate JS cause people write bad programs with it". Doesn't that apply to pretty much every language?
I don't care either way since, as I said, I don't use it for app stuff, but the intellectual dishonesty on this thread would make a politician blush.
He acknowledges that splitting up a company will take a lawsuit and that will be costly E.G. Microsoft, but then at the same time says the solution is to tax them heavily... Which will still require changes in law and will still be blocked by the banking lobby and we're back to square one again. The problem will still be that banks are currently too big period.
Every apex predator of the past that ever ruled at the top of the food chain was brought down by something other than an overwhelming number of pray animals. For the dinosaurs, it was drastic change in the environment (climate and/or meteorite, take your pick), for the European jaguar it was more than likely climate change and for sabre tooth tigers it was probably humans. The bottom line is that something other than within the system must influence the status quo to make "too big to fail" no longer hold true.
Stallman's proposal is still within the system, that being congress and law, and the system is setup to prop up the current apex predators (banks, MPAA/RIAA, Big Pharma etc...)
For banks, I can see a sudden dumping of embarrassing records or a chain of whistleblowing that will make avoiding criminal prosecution Enron style, impossible to avoid. I don't know if there's already an investigation going on (I doubt it), but since all the Occupy protests didn't so much cause the feds to blink, I doubt that's an avenue with results.
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This bit is kinda important :
For system libraries the language of choice is still C.
The Gnome folks don't have a deaf ear, it seems, since they proactively acknowledge JS isn't a lot of developers' cup of tea... And the anti-JS vitriol is something that doesn't make sense to me, but whatever (note: I don't use it in app work, but that's only because I found another language I know).
As you might expect, the initial reactions are of horror at the idea that JavaScript has been selected rather than the favorite language of the commenter.
This may sound silly, but I think if everyone used Tor whenever they're on a public wifi hotspot, there would be fewer problems with privacy. All these horror stories of identity theft and bank info stolen etc... etc... have happened in many cases when people used unsecured wifi.
I assure you there are folks who would give any service of their choosing as much time as they like if they think it's worth while to wait. Can be three weeks like for you or it can be maybe a few months even. Loyalty is a personal thing, but companies that do poorly with service tend not to have many clients/customers unless they offer something unique and/or interesting. And loyalty is very fickle.
One thing, I'm still not really clear on is whether they just "linked" to content or did they display those nifty "summary boxes" or whatever Google calls them when you do a search? (If you search for a person's name, it's now a short profile usually from Wikipedia with a photo)
If it's the summery (and I use that term loosely) then, I can understand. After all, most people just skim the summary while skipping most of the content unless it really grabs their attention, so they profited by advertising next to it without kicking back.
But if it's the former, I would have LOVED to see Google simply drop these people from the search ranks. In fact if their only crime was just displaying links, I'd rather they drop them now after payment saying : "We're very sorry we linked to your content without your permission. Now that we've paid you, we'll be sure never to repeat our mistake. We're really sorry!".
The compromise allows it to avoid paying an ongoing licensing fee.
Facebook is a good idea taken way too far and a userbase that refuses to acknowledge that fact. If we've learned anything from history, people are more than willing to go along with anything that even includes physical assault for the sake of recognition. A little violation of privacy is no sweat.
"RPI will extend Watson's reasoning and cognitive abilities to finance, information technology, business analytics, and other areas, IBM says."
The reason we go to school (at first at least) is really to learn how to learn. Which is what this is doing right now so when it has perfected the ability to learn, there's no real limit to what it can learn considering... well, brain in NAS, not skull.
Are we sure this thing has a kill-switch somewhere?
Not sure if this is trolling or genuine. But just in case it's genuine, please visit YouTube and browse for cat videos. Watch about 4 hours worth and then read this
...Like I do, you may find the router's UPnP page mysteriously missing from the "Advanced" section of your admin panel. This is a brilliant move on their part to avoid users breaking their skype/game access and then calling tech support.
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Commercial spaceflight is still in its infancy. I mean, sure we've put a few people in space and a handful on the moon, but in terms of an actual field, it's as if it's just a few years after the Wright brothers (regulation didn't start 'till 1926). Certainly no where near the level aviation was after the same number of years after its inception.
I hope space school has the same validity as engineering school though. But as long as it's just one school, I have my doubts.
This can be remedied somewhat by going with the value added support model. Professional support kept with a subscription can mitigate operating costs, but it would still be a bit of a stretch. Of course, by going purely on the donation route, big, bold, donation notices on the project homepage and anywhere else the code is linked for download will help. And users will want to clearly see how much is remaining to cover operational costs so that big thermometer thingy would fit in.
See my reply to LordLimecat above.
All machines get a barcode that let us pull up every component that went in, vendors, dates of installation and who touched what. For memory, I think we have 3 different vendors. Mobos are usually Asus and Supermicro with one or two Tyan. HDs are Samsung and WD with a couple more for SSDs that are special cases. Speaking of cases, we have Supermicro again and NORCO (for storage) primarily with a few Antec cases here and there.
L3 switches are Cisco and Netgear, L2 is Netgear and Trendnet.
Editorial, I assure you. :)
There's a good reason a lot of our equipment is slightly older. No, we don't use ancient stuff, but they're not 100% top of the line made yesterday either. And that's because each time a new mobo, memory and storage combo that looks like its worth purchasing comes to market, the first thing we do is run a few sample sets under everything we can throw at it. Usually problems are narrowed down within the first couple of weeks or so, but that's why we have separate people just for testing equipment.
Now admittedly, it's getting harder with this economy so we have some people doing double duty on occasion (I've had to do a bit too when the flu came rolling in), but testing goes on for as long as we think is necessary before the combo goes live. We avoid a lot of the headaches that come with large deployments by keeping changes isolated to maybe 10-15 nodes at a time. It's a slow and steady rollout of mostly similar systems (maybe 3-4 identical) that helps us avoid down time.
We're not Google and we don't pretend to be, but common sense goes a long way to avoiding hiccups like "everything blew up". I think the biggest issue was when hurricane Sandy hit and we weren't sure if the backup generators would come online (this is a big problem with things that need fuel and oil, but stay off for a long time), so we brought in a generator truck for that too, just in case. Again, avoiding one of anything.
Whether it's your brand of switch, motherboard or even memory, never have the same across all machines if you can help it. The only time I'd recommend the same brand would be hard drives (due to concurrency issues), but then at least try go get them from different batches. If your lot of mobos will only handle one brand of memory for whatever reason even when cas latency is identical, then have two machines doing whatever it is you need to be doing.
One kind of anything makes it easier to kill you swiftly in the end, whether it's by a ping of death or a biological disease.
This is just a case of bureaucrats being bureaucrats as usual and common sense taking a back seat.
There are plenty of level-headed folks with a tenacity for doing what's right up there in moose country that will fight this tooth and nail (Theo comes to mind). At most, this will cause a whole lot of noise a la SOPA and eventually get dumped.
Besides, the anti-spam legislation, I hear, is quite popular. More than this rubbish is popular with law enforcement.
Due to the way Slashdot works, I'll hijack this inane post's thread to get a foothold somewhere close to the top. Thanks, AC!
This will likely go down the road Doom did, unless Abrams can pull something similar to the movie Moon (2009), which I thougth was a very good one examining existential themes and maybe blend it with Pandorum which showed what happens after long-term isolation after, apparently, everyone else is either gone or mad (though, hopefully, it won't become lame horror).
Soft targets eh?
Without stepping on anyone's toes...
Science is the process of understanding the environment through observation, calculation and inference. Theories are formed and they're tested. Even if one believes in God, He is quite safe from science as a result, since... well... it would only be as if you're studying what God has created. One's faith in a higher power need not be shaken when all you're doing is studying His work. If it's observable, repeatable and logical, we can reasonably infer, it is true.
In this regard, science and faith need not be mutually exclusive.
To religion OTOH, science would be Kryptonite, since that's an institution of man and, like all institutions, there's a hierarchy of (usually) other men. And men will fight back when their status within this hierarchy is threatened. With science, there's suddenly no need for an interpreter to reality, since you can do the observations yourself.
Full disclosure: I don't believe in a personal God.
The child tables ignore parent tables on every UPDATE and return rowsAffected 0... A few years later, child tables return Foreign Key Error 1005 errno 150 on INSERT, but it's too late to because the parent tables are no more, but those ear plugs and tatoos are there forever.
Man, that would have been great. The only reason I switched to Postgres a while back was because of a licensing conflict. Happy accident it also happened to be a very consistent and stable DB.
Ironically is the direction MySQL should have gone after the 4.x branch. There's a whole heap of legacy baggage in the code base and Oracle -- since we know how good they're with legacy baggage -- decided to keep doing incremental changes to it (ever try putting CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as default on two fields with the second being ON UPDATE?)
The 5.6 line is actually using a lot of improvements handed back by companies like Google, which I think initally used it for AdWords and may still be using in some capacity.
I once knew a brilliant artist who worked with water colors, oil paints and even home-made concoctions. Been at it for several decades. Absolutely hated scupture.
Without knowing what you actually did or how good you were or whether you touched the language for any meaningful length of time to form an intelligent decision, you're just another AC with a theory... and there seems to be plenty more of that on this story and none of them add to the discussion more "I hate JS cause people write bad programs with it". Doesn't that apply to pretty much every language?
I don't care either way since, as I said, I don't use it for app stuff, but the intellectual dishonesty on this thread would make a politician blush.
He acknowledges that splitting up a company will take a lawsuit and that will be costly E.G. Microsoft, but then at the same time says the solution is to tax them heavily... Which will still require changes in law and will still be blocked by the banking lobby and we're back to square one again. The problem will still be that banks are currently too big period.
Every apex predator of the past that ever ruled at the top of the food chain was brought down by something other than an overwhelming number of pray animals. For the dinosaurs, it was drastic change in the environment (climate and/or meteorite, take your pick), for the European jaguar it was more than likely climate change and for sabre tooth tigers it was probably humans. The bottom line is that something other than within the system must influence the status quo to make "too big to fail" no longer hold true.
Stallman's proposal is still within the system, that being congress and law, and the system is setup to prop up the current apex predators (banks, MPAA/RIAA, Big Pharma etc...)
For banks, I can see a sudden dumping of embarrassing records or a chain of whistleblowing that will make avoiding criminal prosecution Enron style, impossible to avoid. I don't know if there's already an investigation going on (I doubt it), but since all the Occupy protests didn't so much cause the feds to blink, I doubt that's an avenue with results.
This bit is kinda important :
The Gnome folks don't have a deaf ear, it seems, since they proactively acknowledge JS isn't a lot of developers' cup of tea... And the anti-JS vitriol is something that doesn't make sense to me, but whatever (note: I don't use it in app work, but that's only because I found another language I know).
Use Tor, unless that's blocked somehow as well.
This may sound silly, but I think if everyone used Tor whenever they're on a public wifi hotspot, there would be fewer problems with privacy. All these horror stories of identity theft and bank info stolen etc... etc... have happened in many cases when people used unsecured wifi.
I assure you there are folks who would give any service of their choosing as much time as they like if they think it's worth while to wait. Can be three weeks like for you or it can be maybe a few months even. Loyalty is a personal thing, but companies that do poorly with service tend not to have many clients/customers unless they offer something unique and/or interesting. And loyalty is very fickle.
One thing, I'm still not really clear on is whether they just "linked" to content or did they display those nifty "summary boxes" or whatever Google calls them when you do a search? (If you search for a person's name, it's now a short profile usually from Wikipedia with a photo)
If it's the summery (and I use that term loosely) then, I can understand. After all, most people just skim the summary while skipping most of the content unless it really grabs their attention, so they profited by advertising next to it without kicking back.
But if it's the former, I would have LOVED to see Google simply drop these people from the search ranks. In fact if their only crime was just displaying links, I'd rather they drop them now after payment saying : "We're very sorry we linked to your content without your permission. Now that we've paid you, we'll be sure never to repeat our mistake. We're really sorry!".
You don't say.
A camera really can steal your soul.
Facebook is a good idea taken way too far and a userbase that refuses to acknowledge that fact. If we've learned anything from history, people are more than willing to go along with anything that even includes physical assault for the sake of recognition. A little violation of privacy is no sweat.
The reason we go to school (at first at least) is really to learn how to learn. Which is what this is doing right now so when it has perfected the ability to learn, there's no real limit to what it can learn considering... well, brain in NAS, not skull.
Are we sure this thing has a kill-switch somewhere?
Did we learn nothing from the x-surface debacle?
Not sure if this is trolling or genuine. But just in case it's genuine, please visit YouTube and browse for cat videos. Watch about 4 hours worth and then read this
Forgot to add, my router model is MI424WR-GEN3I
...Like I do, you may find the router's UPnP page mysteriously missing from the "Advanced" section of your admin panel. This is a brilliant move on their part to avoid users breaking their skype/game access and then calling tech support.
But the page itself is still there. Only the link was removed. To get to it, visit : http://192.168.1.1/index.cgi?active%5fpage=900
Suck it, Verizon!