I don't believe I criticized anyone in particular, but BP and the overall mismanagement and incompetence of the situation.
Large corporations have many employees, of course. Not all of them made mistakes or share any blame in a fiasco like this. Sometimes you can't even blame the corporation or its management, since the mistake was the fault of individuals acting alone.
But who's fault is it that the crew trying to repair the BOP did not exchange proper information with those knowlegable about its installation or maintenance? BP management "coordinating" the efforts. Which if you read the thread, goes back to the original criticism anyway...
I followed the timeline and they already had like 5 different things to try within days of it happening.
That is just plain untrue.
April 22 - The Deepwater Horizon rig, valued at more than $560 million, sinks and a 5-mile-long (8 km) oil slick forms. April 25 - Efforts to activate the well's blowout preventer fail. [It took them THREE DAYS to realize they had completely forgotten to maintain the main component intended to prevent the blowout] May 7 - An attempt to place a containment dome over the spewing well fails when the device is rendered useless by frozen hydrocarbons that clogged it [this was not days later, it was over TWO WEEKS LATER] May 16 - BP inserts a tube into the leaking riser pile of the well and captures some oil and gas. May 26 - A "top kill" maneuver starts, involving pumping heavy fluids and other material into the well shaft to try to stifle the flow. [Already over a month later!] June 2 - BP tries another capping strategy but has difficulty cutting off a leaking riser pipe. [etc]
So "within days" they had done one thing, which is to try to manually activate a device that didn't automatically activate because it "had a dead battery in its control pod, leaks in its hydraulic system, a "useless" test version of a key component and a cutting tool that wasn't strong enough to shear through steel joints in the well pipe and stop the flow of oil.".
Wow, yeah, sounds like they sure spent big bucks on R&D and maintenance there...
No, I'm thinking of it like I have spent the last decade writing software for STBs, TVs, and DVD/BD players that currently decode almost entirely H.264 content.
To get technical, you are (somewhat) correct that the hardware/microcode/software stack that is capable of decoding H.264 *might* allow the updatable bits to decode VP8 (though unlikely to impossible on a fair amount of the HW I have worked with). But even IF it is possible, the current manufacturers of SoCs ("system on a chip", ie the guys like Broadcom that build the silicon for much of the industry) would need to support it. They will do so once their customers demand it. Which IMO is not any time soon, no matter what the press releases say...
You are correct, but I think PC browser support (which everyone seems to focus on in this "battle") is really the least important segment to worry about.
As video consumption moves more and more to mobile devices and televisions (where it should be!) it's all about hardware support, where EVERYONE supports H.264 and NO ONE (yet) supports VP8. Not to mention backend encoding, where billions has been spent worldwide on various H.264 encoders, if you count all of the real time stat muxers that the cable/sat companies use...
I'm impatient so I always end up walking on the airport moving walkways anyway. This way I'd get the same exercise and still get to my destination twice as fast.
But yeah, maintenance would be insane. Have to admit cabs are a much more distributed, if inefficient, system...
I re-read it a couple of years ago (read it the first time in the mid-90's) and amazingly it seems to be 10x *more* relevant now than it was back then...
Willow was directed by Ron Howard, not Lucas. Granted, he was a producer, but it still wasn't totally "his baby".
Willow definitely counts! He wasn't *a* producer, he was executive producer AND screenwriter. Same as Empire and Return of the Jedi, he didn't direct those either...
Including preorders, Apple sold almost 1.5 million phones in 3 days. That is a truly huge number for a launch... a couple thousand is a TINY fraction of that.
Additionally, it has been widely reported that Apple has been swapping/replacing some iPhones that have broken already. They said they were doing it for the first ~50 phones with damage of each common category (broken screen, broken mic, no cell signal, etc). They stopped accepting broken screens (which were only swapped when showing up at the genius bar in a store) after two days. It's entirely within reason that if 100 phones with broken glass (50 front, 50 back) were swapped in two days, there were at least an order of magnitude more owners who didn't manage to take it back to an Apple store that quickly.
Sure, it's an estimate, but it certainly isn't bullshit.
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if the camera on the helicopter recording the video was based on hardware and software from about 1978, when 56 bit DES was "state of the art" (and yet probably already cracked by the NSA...)
Weak... or subtle, well informed, and topical!;) But apparently some mods aren't. Oh well, at least someone got it.
But seriously, it is on topic - a non-profit rogue web site can decrypt US military data, but the govt can't decrypt a white collar criminal's hard drives? Something is wrong with this picture...
Yep. Aluminosilicate. That's what the iPhone 4 front and back surface is made from. And already after only a couple of days thousands of people have reported shattering theirs from drops as little as 12", dpeending on how unlucky they were at the angle of impact.
Crystalline structures can be very hard, but that doesn't mean they aren't prone to cracking or shattering - it's pretty hard to scratch a diamond, but easy to shatter with a hammer. Sure, plastic and metal will scratch more easily, but they are apparently much more durable in terms of catastrophic damage...
Actually, several people have tried something similar and yes, it does seem to help.
Though given how easily this thing seems to shatter I'd probably go for the "protective bumper" solution that absorbs some of the impact to the edges of the glass when you drop it. ("Hey, let's make a phone almost entirely out of GLASS!" "Yeah, great idea, it will look amazing. Almost as good of an idea as these beautiful glass golf balls!")
Yeah, don't forget that the original iPhone didn't work with any existing headphones out there with standard 1/8" plugs for the sole reason that Steve Jobs thought a recessed jack "looked better"...
Luckily the human body is a pretty poor conductor, as long as you are not standing in the shower (which I believe would be a bad place to talk on the phone anyway).
I can say from first hand testing that the initial quality of the signal has a lot to do with the attenuation caused by this issue - if you already have a good signal it doesn't seem to cause any problems.
Anyway, as you said, the fact that this was missed is pretty amazingly bad testing, especially considering how Jobs actually described in the keynote that the reason the metal on the outer rim had a visible break was because it acted as an antenna. Wouldn't you think the *first* question one would ask as a tester (or an engineer!) is "hmm, these are not connected for a reason - I wonder what happens when I connect them with various common household objects, like, say - my HAND?"
Security camera video can be useful at 320x240, 15fps. Encode it at 256 kbps and fit a whole 8-hour day on a card.
Read the GP (and the post title). I don't think the MPAA is going to give a crap about your security camera video...
How do you know DS, DSi, and 3DS games don't already use OTP tech similar to this for games expected to have a smaller print run?
Seriously? Come on... please note the "mass production" phrase in my comment. Sure, yeah, and when Kinko's makes DVDs of your grandma's 90th birthday bash I'm sure they burn DVD-Rs rather than press them. But again, irrelevant to the GP talking about *MPAA* and *RIAA*.
No it's not. This is a high priced flash-based SD card with only 1GB of storage that requires you to write to each card. It's too small for video, too expensive for consumers, and not useful for media mass production.
Besides, if the content mass production industry wanted to use a transistor-based solution they'd just mass produce a much cheaper ROM cartridge. But they won't, since DVDs and Blu-Ray disks can be pressed for pennies.
iOS is based on Max OSX and supports real threads and preemption. No need to "yield".
There's no app burden to play nice; instead it's an app burden to run in the background at all. They basically neuter any apps running in the background by limiting them to certain tasks explicitly registered with their API.
Well, the "slowest and most expensive" was just referring to constant complaints about (your) ISPs from customers and the Australian media... of course it's not "the slowest in the world", but I'm pretty sure the consensus form users is not positive... though it sounds like in recent years a lot of progress on price/performance has been made (hence the article about "cheap DSL":)
But again, I don't know what they are talking about, there are plenty of decent 802.11n full featured routers - just not with DSL included (which the article does not even specifically mention). Which is fine by me. I recently switched from DSL to cable because I was unable to get more than 3Mbps DSL in my neighborhood, and cable offers up to 50Mbps. I swapped my DSL modem for a cable modem and didn't even have to change any settings on my (standalone) router.
So we are supposed to believe that AUSTRALIA is the primary motivator for Internet technology innovation??
19M Internet users in the whole country. That's about 2/3 of the Internet users in the state of California.
And even disregarding the completely obvious question of numbers, Australian Internet service is famous for the slowest, most expensive broadband ISPs in the world.
AND - even disregarding BOTH of those points, I bought a router about 9 months with "dual band, great range, USB print server and storage" - for about $150, which I consider to be a great deal for all of those features.
And... oh, nevermind. There is nothing left in this article to dispute...
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There are several services doing this same general thing, might as well support the ones that aren't a-holes!
I don't believe I criticized anyone in particular, but BP and the overall mismanagement and incompetence of the situation.
Large corporations have many employees, of course. Not all of them made mistakes or share any blame in a fiasco like this. Sometimes you can't even blame the corporation or its management, since the mistake was the fault of individuals acting alone.
But who's fault is it that the crew trying to repair the BOP did not exchange proper information with those knowlegable about its installation or maintenance? BP management "coordinating" the efforts. Which if you read the thread, goes back to the original criticism anyway...
No, I was replying to the OP's comment (which I even quoted in my post!)
"I followed the timeline and they already had like 5 different things to try within days of it happening".
"Pre-made" domes or whatnot has nothing to do with disputing that statment.
Do you even READ THE ORIGINAL POST or do you just get irate and post on emotion?
I followed the timeline and they already had like 5 different things to try within days of it happening.
That is just plain untrue.
April 22 - The Deepwater Horizon rig, valued at more than $560 million, sinks and a 5-mile-long (8 km) oil slick forms.
April 25 - Efforts to activate the well's blowout preventer fail. [It took them THREE DAYS to realize they had completely forgotten to maintain the main component intended to prevent the blowout]
May 7 - An attempt to place a containment dome over the spewing well fails when the device is rendered useless by frozen hydrocarbons that clogged it [this was not days later, it was over TWO WEEKS LATER]
May 16 - BP inserts a tube into the leaking riser pile of the well and captures some oil and gas.
May 26 - A "top kill" maneuver starts, involving pumping heavy fluids and other material into the well shaft to try to stifle the flow. [Already over a month later!]
June 2 - BP tries another capping strategy but has difficulty cutting off a leaking riser pipe. [etc]
So "within days" they had done one thing, which is to try to manually activate a device that didn't automatically activate because it "had a dead battery in its control pod, leaks in its hydraulic system, a "useless" test version of a key component and a cutting tool that wasn't strong enough to shear through steel joints in the well pipe and stop the flow of oil.".
Wow, yeah, sounds like they sure spent big bucks on R&D and maintenance there...
No, I'm thinking of it like I have spent the last decade writing software for STBs, TVs, and DVD/BD players that currently decode almost entirely H.264 content.
To get technical, you are (somewhat) correct that the hardware/microcode/software stack that is capable of decoding H.264 *might* allow the updatable bits to decode VP8 (though unlikely to impossible on a fair amount of the HW I have worked with). But even IF it is possible, the current manufacturers of SoCs ("system on a chip", ie the guys like Broadcom that build the silicon for much of the industry) would need to support it. They will do so once their customers demand it. Which IMO is not any time soon, no matter what the press releases say...
You are correct, but I think PC browser support (which everyone seems to focus on in this "battle") is really the least important segment to worry about.
As video consumption moves more and more to mobile devices and televisions (where it should be!) it's all about hardware support, where EVERYONE supports H.264 and NO ONE (yet) supports VP8. Not to mention backend encoding, where billions has been spent worldwide on various H.264 encoders, if you count all of the real time stat muxers that the cable/sat companies use...
Heh, yeah, that is true...
But if I can average > 10mph in the city, it's still almost as fast, more exercise (and a lot less money) than taking a cab ;)
I'm impatient so I always end up walking on the airport moving walkways anyway. This way I'd get the same exercise and still get to my destination twice as fast.
But yeah, maintenance would be insane. Have to admit cabs are a much more distributed, if inefficient, system...
I re-read it a couple of years ago (read it the first time in the mid-90's) and amazingly it seems to be 10x *more* relevant now than it was back then...
Willow was directed by Ron Howard, not Lucas. Granted, he was a producer, but it still wasn't totally "his baby".
Willow definitely counts! He wasn't *a* producer, he was executive producer AND screenwriter. Same as Empire and Return of the Jedi, he didn't direct those either...
It's not bullshit, it's statistics.
Including preorders, Apple sold almost 1.5 million phones in 3 days. That is a truly huge number for a launch... a couple thousand is a TINY fraction of that.
Additionally, it has been widely reported that Apple has been swapping/replacing some iPhones that have broken already. They said they were doing it for the first ~50 phones with damage of each common category (broken screen, broken mic, no cell signal, etc). They stopped accepting broken screens (which were only swapped when showing up at the genius bar in a store) after two days. It's entirely within reason that if 100 phones with broken glass (50 front, 50 back) were swapped in two days, there were at least an order of magnitude more owners who didn't manage to take it back to an Apple store that quickly.
Sure, it's an estimate, but it certainly isn't bullshit.
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if the camera on the helicopter recording the video was based on hardware and software from about 1978, when 56 bit DES was "state of the art" (and yet probably already cracked by the NSA...)
Weak... or subtle, well informed, and topical! ;) But apparently some mods aren't. Oh well, at least someone got it.
But seriously, it is on topic - a non-profit rogue web site can decrypt US military data, but the govt can't decrypt a white collar criminal's hard drives? Something is wrong with this picture...
No, they just need to send it to Wikileaks and tell them it's a video of waterboarding.
Yep. Aluminosilicate. That's what the iPhone 4 front and back surface is made from. And already after only a couple of days thousands of people have reported shattering theirs from drops as little as 12", dpeending on how unlucky they were at the angle of impact.
Crystalline structures can be very hard, but that doesn't mean they aren't prone to cracking or shattering - it's pretty hard to scratch a diamond, but easy to shatter with a hammer. Sure, plastic and metal will scratch more easily, but they are apparently much more durable in terms of catastrophic damage...
Actually, several people have tried something similar and yes, it does seem to help.
Though given how easily this thing seems to shatter I'd probably go for the "protective bumper" solution that absorbs some of the impact to the edges of the glass when you drop it. ("Hey, let's make a phone almost entirely out of GLASS!" "Yeah, great idea, it will look amazing. Almost as good of an idea as these beautiful glass golf balls!")
Yeah, don't forget that the original iPhone didn't work with any existing headphones out there with standard 1/8" plugs for the sole reason that Steve Jobs thought a recessed jack "looked better"...
Luckily the human body is a pretty poor conductor, as long as you are not standing in the shower (which I believe would be a bad place to talk on the phone anyway).
I can say from first hand testing that the initial quality of the signal has a lot to do with the attenuation caused by this issue - if you already have a good signal it doesn't seem to cause any problems.
Anyway, as you said, the fact that this was missed is pretty amazingly bad testing, especially considering how Jobs actually described in the keynote that the reason the metal on the outer rim had a visible break was because it acted as an antenna. Wouldn't you think the *first* question one would ask as a tester (or an engineer!) is "hmm, these are not connected for a reason - I wonder what happens when I connect them with various common household objects, like, say - my HAND?"
Security camera video can be useful at 320x240, 15fps. Encode it at 256 kbps and fit a whole 8-hour day on a card.
Read the GP (and the post title). I don't think the MPAA is going to give a crap about your security camera video...
How do you know DS, DSi, and 3DS games don't already use OTP tech similar to this for games expected to have a smaller print run?
Seriously? Come on... please note the "mass production" phrase in my comment. Sure, yeah, and when Kinko's makes DVDs of your grandma's 90th birthday bash I'm sure they burn DVD-Rs rather than press them. But again, irrelevant to the GP talking about *MPAA* and *RIAA*.
No it's not. This is a high priced flash-based SD card with only 1GB of storage that requires you to write to each card. It's too small for video, too expensive for consumers, and not useful for media mass production.
Besides, if the content mass production industry wanted to use a transistor-based solution they'd just mass produce a much cheaper ROM cartridge. But they won't, since DVDs and Blu-Ray disks can be pressed for pennies.
iOS is based on Max OSX and supports real threads and preemption. No need to "yield".
There's no app burden to play nice; instead it's an app burden to run in the background at all. They basically neuter any apps running in the background by limiting them to certain tasks explicitly registered with their API.
Well, the "slowest and most expensive" was just referring to constant complaints about (your) ISPs from customers and the Australian media... of course it's not "the slowest in the world", but I'm pretty sure the consensus form users is not positive... though it sounds like in recent years a lot of progress on price/performance has been made (hence the article about "cheap DSL" :)
But again, I don't know what they are talking about, there are plenty of decent 802.11n full featured routers - just not with DSL included (which the article does not even specifically mention). Which is fine by me. I recently switched from DSL to cable because I was unable to get more than 3Mbps DSL in my neighborhood, and cable offers up to 50Mbps. I swapped my DSL modem for a cable modem and didn't even have to change any settings on my (standalone) router.
So we are supposed to believe that AUSTRALIA is the primary motivator for Internet technology innovation??
19M Internet users in the whole country. That's about 2/3 of the Internet users in the state of California.
And even disregarding the completely obvious question of numbers, Australian Internet service is famous for the slowest, most expensive broadband ISPs in the world.
AND - even disregarding BOTH of those points, I bought a router about 9 months with "dual band, great range, USB print server and storage" - for about $150, which I consider to be a great deal for all of those features.
And... oh, nevermind. There is nothing left in this article to dispute...
They are just trying to protect their newest genetic engineering masterpiece, the pigacorn ("the other flying one horned white meat"!)
http://www.zazzle.com/pigacorn_tshirt-235137265974671836
That's no problem, they can just boil the potatoes using the kerosene lamps!