They knew they were going to eventually get caught. It doesnt take a genius to realize that if "going dark" after 10 hours of the article release that they were anticipating this... And I suspect if the media contacts them, then it will be the classic "the intern did it" type response.... These guys make the russian mafia look good by comparison...
I would be impressed if korn is running on any stty, as there really should be no need for running a shell on a production unit. I am not going to believe this "trying to throw off" business, though... That USB interface is just way too handy to not do terminal interfacing during development/testing... The trick is understanding how they were interfacing to it, though. I strongly suspect that it is just a matter of time before someone invests the time to figure it out...
In my opinion, the biggest news here is not as how it was reported, but rather that people now can easily modify the default image and try booting it on the iPhone...
Also, please be kind on my personal perspective of the 1960's counterculture... I certainly am not looking to offend, and It is only my personal opinion. I certainly do not try to push myself as some sort of expert...:-)
Keep in mind that groups like this try to make their way to the top of the news by making outlandish statements... The bolder the statements, the easier it is to get people to listen to them... Statements like these are nothing new...
With that being said, on the political side, I clearly see a shift coming at some point... Meaning, more people are feeling that their lives are being actively manipulated by corporations, and manytimes they are probably right. Actually, the original 1960's "movement" was to combat exactly this, meaning a focus on self-reliance. Unfortunately, though, all of this has been lost thru time with the only things remembered now being drugs and free love crap..
Well considering that they are only needing 1.5Gs for 3 sec for certification whereas must GA aircraft are about 8Gs, I would agree with you.... What I find interesting is that for GA aircraft they always measure the loading by G measure, eventhough very few are aerobatic certified. For commercial aircraft, though, they prefer the percentage measure. I agree that it looks better than 1.5Gs, but is as also more difficult for someone to understand...
Also, just because an aircraft can take the G loading does not make it a good aerobatic aircraft. In fact, the Extra 300 is one of the best aerobatic aircraft out there and is perfect for doing snap rolls, but flying it from airshow to airshow is a bear... Dang thing is annoyingly too unstable and likes to roll too much...
Well, if they can reach a 10G loading limit, that could mean the 787 just might make a great aerobatic aircraft as well.
I mean who wouldnt want to see the 787 doing aerobatics at the next air show. I would definitely pay a ticket to see this. Maybe they could even get old Tex Johnston to fly it as well as he has some experience here...:-)
The potential of a distruption of an existing marketplace has that effect on people... For me, the real story is not the phone, but the fact that there are allot of scared people out there with what might just happen. Just looking at the success of the iPod, these companies know very well what Jobs & Company are capable of. Meaning, Apple just might redefine the requirements of what people expect a "smart" phone to be, and there is little doubt that the existing players are terrified at what this might mean to their existing product lines. Personally I have no opinion on it, and the iPhone probably is overhyped, but to M$, Palm, etc... I am pretty sure they dont internally feel this way. They are scared that they will have to slug it out in the marketplace with a company that has caught its stride, and history tells them that is not a trivial thing to do...
Listen, not to be an ass, but you are idealizing this. I have worked many contracts with allot of companies and have found everytime people who have the same responsabilities, but have 1/3 the salary. Also, applicants DO NOT find it easy to swap contracts. In fact, I am dating a south african girl right working as a programmer who has this exact problem. She hates the company she works for because they work her > 60 hours a week with a low salary, but knows very well the complexities of leaving her current employer.
Also, I have never found a company that cannot find qualified workers, because it fails simple market logic. If you are willing to pay more, people will come. Now, I have found many companies who are unwilling to pay extra for "qualified" workers. Meaning, if you offer enough money, qualified people will come from elsewhere. This is just my experience, though...
Employers are only doing this so that they can get lower cost labor. The easist way to fix it is to require them to pay equal pay to all workers and not pay someone lower just because they do not have a green card. Also, allow the immigrant the right to sue for this fair wage. To allow it to pass, just grandfather clause the existing workers. That would end this abuse over night because there would be no more reason to game the system anymore.
I am sure they are talking about bandwidth bottlenecks because of updating times. The problem with MythTV in the early days was everyone updating at the same time, in addition to updating multiple times per day. This was resolved later on with a new feature to spread this out. Their response seems dis-ingenious, though, because if they would have just open up their data, an rsync backup server(s) at the university level would have been trivial to setup. Meaning, use the same approach as who OSS binaries are stored. I suspect this is what the longterm solution will be for mythtv.
There is little doubt that this is a marketing pr document. Whatever PR firm who wrote this document is hoping that the news people start to talk about it. Did anyone mention that the IPhone is not even released yet? I mean, how can businesses "hang up" on it when they dont even know anything about it? They cant and so they wouldnt....
What this article clearly shows is that the existing players in the cell phone market are very scared... Damn scared of what the potential impact on their market space could me... Competition is such a beautiful thing...:-)
Well, then I must have PS3-itis, because I very much want one. Also, last time I checked, it was only $600, but if it is now $800, fine... For Apple products, it definitely worth it. That is just my opinion, though.
I am also no "fanboy" as everyone seems to like to call people who likes Apple. I just love better products and are willing to pay extra for them. If you are not, then that it fine. Also, any break from the Blackberry barbie doll features madness would be greatly appreciated. I am tired of having calluses on my thumbs... Quite annoying..
Of course they see no conflict. Alternatie would be that they admit that have a conflict, and then do what? There action is not a shorterm play. The reality is that MS is scared to death about the longterm of the software industry. The OSS model kills legacy applications, which is a good thing in most peoples minds. At some point, you need to stop charging for same application. Winzip comes to mind here... If OSS didnt exist, this simply would not happen.
Just so you know, there is goods and bads of testing. When you test something, you actually increase its risk of failure. Why? Because you are using it... Because of this, we use what is called the threshold number.. Meaning, we determine where we want the reasonable reliability, such as 90%, and then we test to that range, which is a calculated number by the way. Anything beyond the 90% range traditionally will be groomed out by either a design change and thru volume... Once you bring up the volume on manufacturing line, it gives you a chance to see some really odd errors. Once you correct them, the entire line gets more reliable over time. There is very little mystery about this and certainly is not consumer or business related.. Reliability is something everyone wants..
Also, as far as labeling as "business grade" for the ones that survive. This is just marketing hype to allow vendors to justify making business products more expensive. Any returns, including high volume consumer lines, just kill margins because as a manufacture you traditionally have to eat this costs. No vendor in their right mind would ever ship out a product knowing that it will fail prematurely.
Also, I have never heard of "business-grade" being one generation behind anything. This would make allot of sense, but I just have not seen much evidence of this because competition would just kill this approach. In fact, it is my experience that business equipment is more unreliable than consumer equipment that is at volume. Meaning, take a traditional HP business server and compare the same arrangement in a spec colo center and see which one fails first. You will pretty much always find that it is the one with the newest design or the least volume at the manufacturing level.....
Finally, the requirement of large throughput in NAS's, in my opinion, is a side effect of poor design or patching of an existing poor design. Meaning, you should never design a network where huge throughput is in one area. Spread it out across a network so that this never becomes a problem. Some approaches do this thru muliple NICs, by the way. HA Linux and its directoring principles are ideal for this. Oh, did I mention that you can use "cheap" consumer grade hardware for HA Linux? The best of both worlds...:-)
I dont know if it is that bad.... Your exaggerating a little. Yes all of these types of things have occured, but I would not say they occur everyday. Also, there are severe consequences when people get caught doing it.
For example... Many manufactures will take a sample from a component shipment and test. If so many fail, they would send back the entire shipment. In one instance for me, we suspect that the vendor was just shipping it back to us, so we tagged the box. When we noticed the box coming back, we axed the vendor forever... Toyota is known very well for this type of approach to things as well.. A zero tolerance for defects...
Do you honestly believe the slogan of "business-grade"? Come on, let the marketing jargon go. Hardware designs are expensive, so rarely are there multiple designs. Sales guys are selling you additional support, but the hardware is rarely different. If it is, then the volume is not there, so the reliability is actually worse. Volume is the king of reliability. Reliability is always more dependent on the age of the design and its volume rather than the intended customer...
It is not my intention to offend, but I alway love it when I hear the dreaded marketing phrase of hardware "tested to a higher level of quality".
I work in the world of hardware manufacturing, and I can tell you that this "magical" more testing process simply does not exist. Hardware failures are always expensive, and we do anything we can to prevent them. To do this, we build burn in procedures based on what most call the 90% rule, but you really cannot guarantee more reliability beyond that. Better device design at that point is what will determine reliability beyond that point. Any person who says differently either does not completely understand individual test harness processes or does not understand how burn in procedures work.
In short, more money is not nessesarily better. More volume designs typically are, though...
Call me a optimist, but instead of developing indirect ways to make energy, why dont we just focus all of our attention on developing non-toxic and high energy density batteries. We do have nuclear power plants after all which are not only zero emissions, but also can provide energy worldwide. Personally, if we can put a man on the moon and bring him back safely in under a decade during the 1960's, I think we can probably develop a battery that we can use in your cars of the future....
How do you do this?? Simple... Challenge and encourage NASA, DARPA, DOD, and all university/research centers to focusing specifically on this one goal... Put out in specifications of what it means to achieving this goal and wait to be stunned by the wonder of human ingenuity. Commit huge amounts of money to the grants for such things.... That would assume, though, that we have an administration that is willing to commit to doing this. Something that until now we are unable to do....
You might want to think about shorting your cardio time and making it a little more intense... With proper cardio at the 85% Max HR for 20 minutes, there is no way you would want to play a video game.... You would also get a considerable better HGH release as well...
Meaning, personally combining fitness and play are not best because both are watered down. Meaning, you get poor cardio, but also it is not the best video game either... Just spend 20 minutes on the cardio and then you can play the game for the next 40 minutes..
Ive got an idea for you... Next time you have a major problem with windows, send a personal email to Steve Balmer and see how far it gets you...:-)
The point is Apple, and apparently Steve Jobs as well, still understands that they are there to serve people and not people serving them. As long as Apple rememembers this, they will continue to take the high end and most profitable customers.
Oh, and I would believe the "Apple has an insignficant market share" argument... Apple is taking the most profitable customers from the rest of the tech industry. Those are the most painful for Microsoft/Dell/HP to loose...
Yes but you cannot datamine a trashcan over several years without a considerable amount of effort. Meaning, there is an inherent cost in digging thru millions of peoples trashcans, including probably getting shot by some for intruding on their property. From a search engine companies perspective, there is no inherent cost of gathering this data. It is simply an benefit of their business model.
To me this is a failure of congress once again. In no way should they have allowed companies to keep this information. With the current situation in the US political system, though, I suspect nothing will change anytime soon. I suspect that at some point GOOG and the others will get caught selling some of this intrusive data. At that point the pubilic will force congress's hand. Until then, however, we will have the deal with this situation...
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They knew they were going to eventually get caught. It doesnt take a genius to realize that if "going dark" after 10 hours of the article release that they were anticipating this... And I suspect if the media contacts them, then it will be the classic "the intern did it" type response.... These guys make the russian mafia look good by comparison...
I would be impressed if korn is running on any stty, as there really should be no need for running a shell on a production unit. I am not going to believe this "trying to throw off" business, though... That USB interface is just way too handy to not do terminal interfacing during development/testing... The trick is understanding how they were interfacing to it, though. I strongly suspect that it is just a matter of time before someone invests the time to figure it out...
In my opinion, the biggest news here is not as how it was reported, but rather that people now can easily modify the default image and try booting it on the iPhone...
Also, please be kind on my personal perspective of the 1960's counterculture... I certainly am not looking to offend, and It is only my personal opinion. I certainly do not try to push myself as some sort of expert... :-)
Keep in mind that groups like this try to make their way to the top of the news by making outlandish statements... The bolder the statements, the easier it is to get people to listen to them... Statements like these are nothing new...
With that being said, on the political side, I clearly see a shift coming at some point... Meaning, more people are feeling that their lives are being actively manipulated by corporations, and manytimes they are probably right. Actually, the original 1960's "movement" was to combat exactly this, meaning a focus on self-reliance. Unfortunately, though, all of this has been lost thru time with the only things remembered now being drugs and free love crap..
Well considering that they are only needing 1.5Gs for 3 sec for certification whereas must GA aircraft are about 8Gs, I would agree with you.... What I find interesting is that for GA aircraft they always measure the loading by G measure, eventhough very few are aerobatic certified. For commercial aircraft, though, they prefer the percentage measure. I agree that it looks better than 1.5Gs, but is as also more difficult for someone to understand...
Also, just because an aircraft can take the G loading does not make it a good aerobatic aircraft. In fact, the Extra 300 is one of the best aerobatic aircraft out there and is perfect for doing snap rolls, but flying it from airshow to airshow is a bear... Dang thing is annoyingly too unstable and likes to roll too much...
Darn... Didnt realize Tex is no long with us... That sux...
Well, if they can reach a 10G loading limit, that could mean the 787 just might make a great aerobatic aircraft as well.
:-)
I mean who wouldnt want to see the 787 doing aerobatics at the next air show. I would definitely pay a ticket to see this. Maybe they could even get old Tex Johnston to fly it as well as he has some experience here...
The potential of a distruption of an existing marketplace has that effect on people... For me, the real story is not the phone, but the fact that there are allot of scared people out there with what might just happen. Just looking at the success of the iPod, these companies know very well what Jobs & Company are capable of. Meaning, Apple just might redefine the requirements of what people expect a "smart" phone to be, and there is little doubt that the existing players are terrified at what this might mean to their existing product lines. Personally I have no opinion on it, and the iPhone probably is overhyped, but to M$, Palm, etc... I am pretty sure they dont internally feel this way. They are scared that they will have to slug it out in the marketplace with a company that has caught its stride, and history tells them that is not a trivial thing to do...
Listen, not to be an ass, but you are idealizing this. I have worked many contracts with allot of companies and have found everytime people who have the same responsabilities, but have 1/3 the salary. Also, applicants DO NOT find it easy to swap contracts. In fact, I am dating a south african girl right working as a programmer who has this exact problem. She hates the company she works for because they work her > 60 hours a week with a low salary, but knows very well the complexities of leaving her current employer.
Also, I have never found a company that cannot find qualified workers, because it fails simple market logic. If you are willing to pay more, people will come. Now, I have found many companies who are unwilling to pay extra for "qualified" workers. Meaning, if you offer enough money, qualified people will come from elsewhere. This is just my experience, though...
Employers are only doing this so that they can get lower cost labor. The easist way to fix it is to require them to pay equal pay to all workers and not pay someone lower just because they do not have a green card. Also, allow the immigrant the right to sue for this fair wage. To allow it to pass, just grandfather clause the existing workers. That would end this abuse over night because there would be no more reason to game the system anymore.
I am sure they are talking about bandwidth bottlenecks because of updating times. The problem with MythTV in the early days was everyone updating at the same time, in addition to updating multiple times per day. This was resolved later on with a new feature to spread this out. Their response seems dis-ingenious, though, because if they would have just open up their data, an rsync backup server(s) at the university level would have been trivial to setup. Meaning, use the same approach as who OSS binaries are stored. I suspect this is what the longterm solution will be for mythtv.
There is little doubt that this is a marketing pr document. Whatever PR firm who wrote this document is hoping that the news people start to talk about it. Did anyone mention that the IPhone is not even released yet? I mean, how can businesses "hang up" on it when they dont even know anything about it? They cant and so they wouldnt....
:-)
What this article clearly shows is that the existing players in the cell phone market are very scared... Damn scared of what the potential impact on their market space could me... Competition is such a beautiful thing...
Well, then I must have PS3-itis, because I very much want one. Also, last time I checked, it was only $600, but if it is now $800, fine... For Apple products, it definitely worth it. That is just my opinion, though.
I am also no "fanboy" as everyone seems to like to call people who likes Apple. I just love better products and are willing to pay extra for them. If you are not, then that it fine. Also, any break from the Blackberry barbie doll features madness would be greatly appreciated. I am tired of having calluses on my thumbs... Quite annoying..
Of course they see no conflict. Alternatie would be that they admit that have a conflict, and then do what? There action is not a shorterm play. The reality is that MS is scared to death about the longterm of the software industry. The OSS model kills legacy applications, which is a good thing in most peoples minds. At some point, you need to stop charging for same application. Winzip comes to mind here... If OSS didnt exist, this simply would not happen.
Another marketing ploy here as well... :-)
:-)
Just so you know, there is goods and bads of testing. When you test something, you actually increase its risk of failure. Why? Because you are using it... Because of this, we use what is called the threshold number.. Meaning, we determine where we want the reasonable reliability, such as 90%, and then we test to that range, which is a calculated number by the way. Anything beyond the 90% range traditionally will be groomed out by either a design change and thru volume... Once you bring up the volume on manufacturing line, it gives you a chance to see some really odd errors. Once you correct them, the entire line gets more reliable over time. There is very little mystery about this and certainly is not consumer or business related.. Reliability is something everyone wants..
Also, as far as labeling as "business grade" for the ones that survive. This is just marketing hype to allow vendors to justify making business products more expensive. Any returns, including high volume consumer lines, just kill margins because as a manufacture you traditionally have to eat this costs. No vendor in their right mind would ever ship out a product knowing that it will fail prematurely.
Also, I have never heard of "business-grade" being one generation behind anything. This would make allot of sense, but I just have not seen much evidence of this because competition would just kill this approach. In fact, it is my experience that business equipment is more unreliable than consumer equipment that is at volume. Meaning, take a traditional HP business server and compare the same arrangement in a spec colo center and see which one fails first. You will pretty much always find that it is the one with the newest design or the least volume at the manufacturing level.....
Finally, the requirement of large throughput in NAS's, in my opinion, is a side effect of poor design or patching of an existing poor design. Meaning, you should never design a network where huge throughput is in one area. Spread it out across a network so that this never becomes a problem. Some approaches do this thru muliple NICs, by the way. HA Linux and its directoring principles are ideal for this. Oh, did I mention that you can use "cheap" consumer grade hardware for HA Linux? The best of both worlds...
I dont know if it is that bad.... Your exaggerating a little. Yes all of these types of things have occured, but I would not say they occur everyday. Also, there are severe consequences when people get caught doing it.
For example... Many manufactures will take a sample from a component shipment and test. If so many fail, they would send back the entire shipment. In one instance for me, we suspect that the vendor was just shipping it back to us, so we tagged the box. When we noticed the box coming back, we axed the vendor forever... Toyota is known very well for this type of approach to things as well.. A zero tolerance for defects...
"comsumer-grade hardware"???
Do you honestly believe the slogan of "business-grade"? Come on, let the marketing jargon go. Hardware designs are expensive, so rarely are there multiple designs. Sales guys are selling you additional support, but the hardware is rarely different. If it is, then the volume is not there, so the reliability is actually worse. Volume is the king of reliability. Reliability is always more dependent on the age of the design and its volume rather than the intended customer...
It is not my intention to offend, but I alway love it when I hear the dreaded marketing phrase of hardware "tested to a higher level of quality".
I work in the world of hardware manufacturing, and I can tell you that this "magical" more testing process simply does not exist. Hardware failures are always expensive, and we do anything we can to prevent them. To do this, we build burn in procedures based on what most call the 90% rule, but you really cannot guarantee more reliability beyond that. Better device design at that point is what will determine reliability beyond that point. Any person who says differently either does not completely understand individual test harness processes or does not understand how burn in procedures work.
In short, more money is not nessesarily better. More volume designs typically are, though...
Call me a optimist, but instead of developing indirect ways to make energy, why dont we just focus all of our attention on developing non-toxic and high energy density batteries. We do have nuclear power plants after all which are not only zero emissions, but also can provide energy worldwide. Personally, if we can put a man on the moon and bring him back safely in under a decade during the 1960's, I think we can probably develop a battery that we can use in your cars of the future....
How do you do this?? Simple... Challenge and encourage NASA, DARPA, DOD, and all university/research centers to focusing specifically on this one goal... Put out in specifications of what it means to achieving this goal and wait to be stunned by the wonder of human ingenuity. Commit huge amounts of money to the grants for such things.... That would assume, though, that we have an administration that is willing to commit to doing this. Something that until now we are unable to do....
You know Verizon does have unlimited SMS plans for only $15 per month... Just a thought for someone paying a $1100 phone bill... :-)
Sorry.. I missunderstood you then... I didnt realize that you were only using the games on a warmup... :-)
:-)
And yes, I would definitely say you are doing everything right.. 20lbs and 6in off your waist is nothing to sneeze at..
You might want to think about shorting your cardio time and making it a little more intense... With proper cardio at the 85% Max HR for 20 minutes, there is no way you would want to play a video game.... You would also get a considerable better HGH release as well...
:-)
Meaning, personally combining fitness and play are not best because both are watered down. Meaning, you get poor cardio, but also it is not the best video game either... Just spend 20 minutes on the cardio and then you can play the game for the next 40 minutes..
Just a thought..
Where the heck did this come from? I thought piracy was the big deal here... :-)
Ive got an idea for you... Next time you have a major problem with windows, send a personal email to Steve Balmer and see how far it gets you... :-)
The point is Apple, and apparently Steve Jobs as well, still understands that they are there to serve people and not people serving them. As long as Apple rememembers this, they will continue to take the high end and most profitable customers.
Oh, and I would believe the "Apple has an insignficant market share" argument... Apple is taking the most profitable customers from the rest of the tech industry. Those are the most painful for Microsoft/Dell/HP to loose...
Yes but you cannot datamine a trashcan over several years without a considerable amount of effort. Meaning, there is an inherent cost in digging thru millions of peoples trashcans, including probably getting shot by some for intruding on their property. From a search engine companies perspective, there is no inherent cost of gathering this data. It is simply an benefit of their business model.
To me this is a failure of congress once again. In no way should they have allowed companies to keep this information. With the current situation in the US political system, though, I suspect nothing will change anytime soon. I suspect that at some point GOOG and the others will get caught selling some of this intrusive data. At that point the pubilic will force congress's hand. Until then, however, we will have the deal with this situation...