He's talking about how it's harder to reach gopher servers from his card-punch machine. And he's selling something.
So how does our StormDriver tie in with all that? Are we a knight in a shining armor, on a quest to defend the old ways? Or are we a part of web 3.0? It’s complicated (as usual). On one hand, we want to bring the interaction back to the common web, and break down the walled garden walls. We want you to be able to interact everywhere, not only in places where admins allow you to. On the other hand, we’re also an adaptive and robust social recommendation circle. Stormdriver will allow you to see the web as recommended by other users. It will be much easier to avoid the really bad sites and content, but on the other hand – it is a garden, even if the walls are knee-high, and you can step over them without login or password.
"Please! Come with us! We're YALAWF (Yet another link aggregator/web forum)! Read our ads! And look! We like being Googled!"
Seriously. Google has done little or nothing to get itself out from under blatant censorship by the Chinese government. Just what are they going to do when every backbone dangler is subtly manipulating mercantile network traffic for their own profit? Wave vague statistics at them?
Having a dirt-dumb mode that is tested until its lever falls off that ensures that, if the thing is mechanically able, it can find your signal so you can reprogram it from the nuts up is requirement #1 for any computer-controlled thing you send into space.
G1 did not attract people like the iPhone did. And every carrier has Android, so it's not a differentiator for T-Mobile.
The Google Phone, aka Nexus One, could have been a differentiator, but Eric Schmidt kept the marketing of it to himself, and T-Mobile just got dragged in as a payola player. Beyond activating it, they don't want to hear about it. And because of that non-synergy in co-branding, the Nexus One flopped economically (although it's wizard's work technologically), and T-Mobile got almost nothing out of joining forces with Google.
Google, BTW, could buy T-Mobile and AT&T and still have money to develop transmat beams for home use. So not becoming GoogleTel was a huge loss of opportunity for T-Mobile.
Heat is never trapped. Temperature increases until it reaches thermal equilibrium and is leaking out as fast as it's generated. With a fan, that's a lower temperature. The difference here is the fan is in the attic, since the thing the fan cools is in the attic instead of in the computer. The new computers probably have new low-power CPUs that don't need fans of any kind. So the quiet is a canard in multiple ways.
What he's saying, in reality, is that he thinks the preponderance standard does not make correct decisions. Which means he questions the validity of all civil litigation.
What the fuck is someone with that attitude doing arguing this nation's business before the Supreme Court?
"time tested simple solutions that multiple contractors can compete for" is what they had in Fukushima.
The thing about testing things with time is that time doesn't tell you when it's going to hit the random combination of inputs that will crap-out your system.
Testing them thoroughly by assuming that all inputs will exhibit their full range in all combinations is how you ensure that your systems work.
But hardly anyone does that now, and when they were designing these things there was no engineering discipline devoted to safety, and no sense of what safety and real testing looked like. They imagined a couple of things going wrong, bolted on one layer of backups, collected the check and flew home.
All they needed was a backup supply of water that would be gravity-fed. One big tank on that big hill behind the plant, with a nice, flexible hose leading to a fat, manual valve behind enough shielding to protect someone even if the reactor was breached.
But no. GE sells generators, and that's what Fukushima Daichii got. Fucked by GE.
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Damn skippy.
I got time to core my apple with my pen-knife, now.
Used to go starving til half-past quittin' time afore.
And I shaved today! H'ain't done that since IE6 was all I had.
I wonder what my lawn looks like...
He's talking about how it's harder to reach gopher servers from his card-punch machine. And he's selling something.
So how does our StormDriver tie in with all that? Are we a knight in a shining armor, on a quest to defend the old ways? Or are we a part of web 3.0? It’s complicated (as usual). On one hand, we want to bring the interaction back to the common web, and break down the walled garden walls. We want you to be able to interact everywhere, not only in places where admins allow you to. On the other hand, we’re also an adaptive and robust social recommendation circle. Stormdriver will allow you to see the web as recommended by other users. It will be much easier to avoid the really bad sites and content, but on the other hand – it is a garden, even if the walls are knee-high, and you can step over them without login or password.
"Please! Come with us! We're YALAWF (Yet another link aggregator/web forum)! Read our ads! And look! We like being Googled!"
Jeebus...
Read to the bottom. It's binspam. It got through. /. filtering is foiled again.
I'm going to go trademark "Syzzlergy" before anyone else does.
Nope. Made it themselves, with MS Cake.
> The cake is a lie9
FTFY.
I'd bet the existence of Firefox means there are about 100 more IE devs employed than there would otherwise be.
The cake's a meager kickback.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a basket of fries hurtling down the freeway at 70 mph.
He flashy-thinged Steve Jobs?
(man, i am stuck in a movie-reference rut today)
Seriously. Google has done little or nothing to get itself out from under blatant censorship by the Chinese government. Just what are they going to do when every backbone dangler is subtly manipulating mercantile network traffic for their own profit? Wave vague statistics at them?
No reason to believe the lightning had to come from the sky.
Having a dirt-dumb mode that is tested until its lever falls off that ensures that, if the thing is mechanically able, it can find your signal so you can reprogram it from the nuts up is requirement #1 for any computer-controlled thing you send into space.
...a Lore, too?
Heh. Have they USED T-Mobile?
Choppy, variable, and not as well-distributed as their map claims. It's better than AT&T's, but it's no miracle cure.
G1 did not attract people like the iPhone did. And every carrier has Android, so it's not a differentiator for T-Mobile.
The Google Phone, aka Nexus One, could have been a differentiator, but Eric Schmidt kept the marketing of it to himself, and T-Mobile just got dragged in as a payola player. Beyond activating it, they don't want to hear about it. And because of that non-synergy in co-branding, the Nexus One flopped economically (although it's wizard's work technologically), and T-Mobile got almost nothing out of joining forces with Google.
Google, BTW, could buy T-Mobile and AT&T and still have money to develop transmat beams for home use. So not becoming GoogleTel was a huge loss of opportunity for T-Mobile.
Doesn't he live to like 143 or something?
Heat is never trapped. Temperature increases until it reaches thermal equilibrium and is leaking out as fast as it's generated. With a fan, that's a lower temperature. The difference here is the fan is in the attic, since the thing the fan cools is in the attic instead of in the computer. The new computers probably have new low-power CPUs that don't need fans of any kind. So the quiet is a canard in multiple ways.
And probably more, since when you turn the computers off the common power supply is still on and leaking.
Okay, let's improve on that.
"Government is smarter than Conservatives."
HTH.
What he's saying, in reality, is that he thinks the preponderance standard does not make correct decisions. Which means he questions the validity of all civil litigation.
What the fuck is someone with that attitude doing arguing this nation's business before the Supreme Court?
"time tested simple solutions that multiple contractors can compete for" is what they had in Fukushima.
The thing about testing things with time is that time doesn't tell you when it's going to hit the random combination of inputs that will crap-out your system.
Testing them thoroughly by assuming that all inputs will exhibit their full range in all combinations is how you ensure that your systems work.
But hardly anyone does that now, and when they were designing these things there was no engineering discipline devoted to safety, and no sense of what safety and real testing looked like. They imagined a couple of things going wrong, bolted on one layer of backups, collected the check and flew home.
How nice of GE to provide one-off parts for a safety system.
On the other hand, you'd think the operators of an electric plant could splice a couple of 3-phase lines together.
Depends on who's doing the thinking and who's doing the spending.
The thinkers can only fuck us by lacking imagination, and the spenders can only fuck us by making sure the thinkers lack imagination.
All they needed was a backup supply of water that would be gravity-fed. One big tank on that big hill behind the plant, with a nice, flexible hose leading to a fat, manual valve behind enough shielding to protect someone even if the reactor was breached.
But no. GE sells generators, and that's what Fukushima Daichii got. Fucked by GE.
There's no agency in government that should be accorded the singular privilege of not having to be second-guessed by a jury.