presumably, in poster's mind, broadband = cable. Maybe it means fiber but i would think cable. Most of the dsl implementations are pretty crappy around the states (based on setups around the east coast mainly, seattle was good). Because of this, most people think dsl is inherently inferior to cable broadband. having used some excellent dsl providers in london, it definitely comes down to the service provider.
A human driver will likely make far more mistakes than this software but it won't matter.
While I am sure each of us reading this are excellent and attentive drivers, there are a lot of people texting, putting on makeup, eating, and plain not paying attention. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in Sept 2010, "30,000 people died and over 2.4 million people were injured in traffic collisions". This is the lowest it has been in 60 years, apparently.
This is actually lower than I expected but I would still be we (google) could get hte software to work better than that. Eventually, however, something will happen. Even if the software is not at fault, public perception will be that the robot car that caused everything. We could have a soccer mom in her suv looking backwards to yell at her kids and swerve into one of these self driven cars but the news will be that a Robot Car was in an accident and killed someone. The media will blast that incessantly and people will get scared. This will be all despite the previous safe records and lives saved overall. The lobbiests against these killer machines will be more motivated than the people who believe in math and they will be outlawed or restricted to nearly the same effect. maybe I am being pessimistic.
. Since email travels in the clear (mostly) and when you use a cloud service you are giving the information to an untrusted third party, the courts hold that you do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy
As more and more mail servers take advantage of TLS (thnk ssl for email), does it change this expectation? if my email never travels a public network in clear text, do i then get an expectation of privacy?
Given that it can be encrypted from teh server w/ no obvious tell tales at a user level, how are users supposed to know whether they are protected or not?
wear and tear is a good point. I was speaking more to if the bot made an error in judgement in situation x w/ mitigating factors y and z.
I agree we should look towards public transport but why do you split these two things. it seems that public transport would be a good place for this kind of automation to run. I believe some of these commuter trains are already basically driverless (ie the guy is just along for the ride in case he is needed to think but doesn't generally). Why not buses next?
there is a difference here. You can never find two people who are exactly alike. Two robots w the same manufacturing and programming will be exactly alike. At lest least to the extent that you can expect the second to make the same mistakes a the first. Hence, it actually votes make some sense to judge them as a group.
Ok we know that patches, etc can make all the difference but good luck explaining that top the population at large
The economic reason is Apple (and soon, linux. This is the year of the linux desktop, right?) I have lost count of how many people have talked about how much better apple is than windows and faster etc. (I don't want to get into a flame war about which is actually better, for my purposes here lets just say they are within range of each other; both w/ strengths and weaknesses.)
I used to wonder why I never ran into any of the problems 'everybody' has w/ windows. I always blew away everything and laid down a clean os when I got a new machine. Then I sat down at one of these dell made loaded up pieces of garbage. It absolutely kills teh experience. The base MS experience is fairly responsive but when you load up the trial ware and tool bars this guy is talking about, it has a serious negative impact.
The feed backloop is broken though. People bitch about the crappy MS OS where it is really dell et al that are crushing the experience. As apple's marketshare (in consumer land) increases, the wintel crowd are going to need to reevaluate.
Me, personally after many years I've come to believe that Eastern systems like Yoga, Tai Chi and other are just a load of BS and a way to make money of naive Westerners.
do one session of yoga w/ any half decent teacher and tell me it didn't feel like exercise. i, personally, feel it is better to do an hour of most types of yoga than, say, jog for an hour but both have many health benefits. or does that fact that it is 'Eastern' some how negate the benefits of exercising? That eastern exercise just doesn't help our massively superior western fed bodies, right?
There's no way having this much surveillance in the hands of the state should be acceptable unless all private citizens also have the same access. If, as Mr. Orozco stated, that all cameras are located in an area where the public has no expectation of privacy, then why shouldn't anyone in the world be able to see any camera at any time?
This is an important point. The reality is there is going to be more and more surveillance. The real problem comes when a small group controls that surveillance. That is an unacceptable amount of power to be in the hands of a few. Any public camera, funded by public money, must be available to the public. This could easily be done over the internet
I can see some security concerns with this issue. To that end I would consider a 1-2 week delay on the feed.
We may have to accept that there is no privacy in public spaces but so do the lawmakers.
I think that should be corrected to "Users speak simply...". When using Google Translate to translate something from Dutch to French or German, I often deliberately make simple sentences that I know can be parsed easily and without having to detect double meanings.
You mean sort of like when you are talking to somebody in another language that you haven't mastered? You will often need to use simpler sentences and enunciate clearly when speaking across cultural lines. this just allows you to speak those words in your own tongue. Pretty impressive, imho.
I can see the parallels. You are presenting a skewed or idealized world that your characters have to work within. There are arbitrary rulesets that differ from our experience in this world.
A great example recently, for me, was when I read Richard Morgans latest, the steel remains. If you haven't read anything by Morgan, run don't walk and pick up Altered Carbon. It is a very interesting world (sci-fi) with all sorts of great technology. And his characters are such badasses but flawed enough to like. I read all of his other books (all scifi, some near term future but most several hundred years ahead). I was very excited to see his new book coming out. Low and behold, when I grabbed the sample chapter on the kindle, it was fantasy. As in guy w/ big magic sword fantasy. WTF? I read the sample and it did seem ok. I am a fantasy fan anyways, i was just disappointed b/c i really liked the futures and technologies that he crafted.
About 1/2 way through the book, i realized his fantasy was exactly like his scifi. The same fantastical back alleys with strange visions on the edge of human acceptance. Different names for the strange drugs that his characters were on that gave this edge or that.
If you don't think sci-fi and fantasy are the same genre, read altered carbon and the steel remains (and I encourage you to read any of the others). I suspect it will change your mind.
that actually speaks a lot toward the improved boot time in vista. you are saying that it doesn't take much more time to load vista than it takes to read the bits off the disk.
basically, if you have 4gbs of memory in use, you are going to have to wait while that memory writes to disk on hibernate and then reads from disk on resume.
hibernate is fine but why bother in most cases? My laptop will sleep for a day w/ very minimal battery loss, how often are you without power more than 2-3 days and still plan to be using a laptop?
I would guess that writing all that crap to disk and reading it again takes as much, if not more, power than suspending it for a couple of hours.
Server Manager is IMO a good thing. Not for the seasoned admin who already knows how to find everything, but i've seen most of our apprentices getting an easier grip on 2008 than on 2003.
and experienced admins should be automating things through remote scripting and not using the gui. it is just the middle of the road guy that was comfortable w/ the gui in 2003 and has to find all the new icons that it is a real set back for.
some of the changes take some time to get used to but in the last month or so of playing w/ it, i am finding it a all around improvement in interface. I like the scheduling, eventing and the resource manager. some of the iis/ad/vm improvements are pretty compelling. the real test will be in the stability though, win 2k3 was pretty solid, hopefully this will measure up. otherwise the rest means diddly squat
to this point, they aren't bad. most of the time, when there is a newer version out, there is a whole set of docs around that version with helpful links to 'other versions' of the docs. Notes saying the article is deprecated, which versions it hits. together with moderated by microsoft newsgroups, the docs really aren't all that bad.
not to say linux docs are bad but to get the true state you often have to read the source/commit logs.
as far as a closed source company goes, msdn/technet have a wealth of information.
by digitizing, you also gain the ability to have computers scan the records and potentially pic up something that could have been missed. not saying it isn't a hard problem but it would be an added diagnostic.
You gripe that advanced users can't do what they want and then point out how advanced users can extend the system? huh?
The windows scripting env is pretty fucking powerful. windows was engineered so the users who knows what he's doing can do pretty much anything he damn well pleases. drop into powershell, wmi and.NET and you have pretty total control of your environment and it generally have it quickly.
nah, search allows me to spend less time cataloging data and still find it more effectively. as an example, I used to sort out conversations in my in inbox based on what client I was speaking with. i had a little folder for each client and I would faithfully stick discussions relevant to that client in their folder. sometimes I would forget or, heaven forfend, sometimes I would drop it in the wrong folder and it would be lost for ever. come win desktop search (or wahtever company it was before ms bought them and broke the search, but that is another story)
now I don't bother sorting at all. I have one big archive. but you know what, I can still get at my data and conversations way more quickly than I could when I spent they time sorting. let the machine do the work man.
I think this comes from people who set up system that 'works' for them. they forget that they are spending time bookkeeping and that there could be a better way to do this. I agree w/ a poster above, i enjoy many of the user enhancements that come out in newer versions. I generally give my self at least a couple of months of trying them before I decide if I want to turn them off. Some go off, some don't. Many get so built in to my work flow that I can't imagine how I ever function on win 9x or 2k let alone earlier.
This is actually why I find mac difficult to get used to. I navigate through my work w/o the mouse at least as much as with. I assume osx has all the same shortcuts availabe (at least I hope so, i do recall mac had trouble standardizing these things) but since I am so much more effective getting to what I want to do in windows, Mac seems frustratingly non-intuitive. This is why I largely disregard mac fanboys griping about how hard it is to do things in windows. Playing w/ the OS is not the main point (even for a sysadmin) getting it to do your work for you is the point.
how much does anybody actually care? The install may take longer but if you wrap the actual compilation w/ an installer, most people wouldn't even know that the package was being compiled vs installed.
maybe what you mean is 'people don't want to fuck around w/ make and command lines to install their software.' or 'All people want to do is doubleclick and get their software'. That I agree with. whether it is a copy or a compile doesn't really matter to most. Maybe really fancy packages could offer a choice. A - wait 5 mins while we put in our binary, B - wait 1 hour while we compile a version optimized for your system.
So you are saying that cookies are "no more secure than a cookie" other than having advantages that narrow the vulnerability field? Isn't that another word for more secure?
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presumably, in poster's mind, broadband = cable. Maybe it means fiber but i would think cable. Most of the dsl implementations are pretty crappy around the states (based on setups around the east coast mainly, seattle was good). Because of this, most people think dsl is inherently inferior to cable broadband. having used some excellent dsl providers in london, it definitely comes down to the service provider.
You do realise these things still need fuel right?
have you seen the garage prices in ny? i recall one place was $25/hour 10 years ago. a quick web check is saying 30-40$ for 3 hours.
A human driver will likely make far more mistakes than this software but it won't matter.
While I am sure each of us reading this are excellent and attentive drivers, there are a lot of people texting, putting on makeup, eating, and plain not paying attention. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in Sept 2010, "30,000 people died and over 2.4 million people were injured in traffic collisions". This is the lowest it has been in 60 years, apparently.
This is actually lower than I expected but I would still be we (google) could get hte software to work better than that. Eventually, however, something will happen. Even if the software is not at fault, public perception will be that the robot car that caused everything. We could have a soccer mom in her suv looking backwards to yell at her kids and swerve into one of these self driven cars but the news will be that a Robot Car was in an accident and killed someone. The media will blast that incessantly and people will get scared. This will be all despite the previous safe records and lives saved overall. The lobbiests against these killer machines will be more motivated than the people who believe in math and they will be outlawed or restricted to nearly the same effect. maybe I am being pessimistic.
. Since email travels in the clear (mostly) and when you use a cloud service you are giving the information to an untrusted third party, the courts hold that you do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy
As more and more mail servers take advantage of TLS (thnk ssl for email), does it change this expectation? if my email never travels a public network in clear text, do i then get an expectation of privacy?
Given that it can be encrypted from teh server w/ no obvious tell tales at a user level, how are users supposed to know whether they are protected or not?
wear and tear is a good point. I was speaking more to if the bot made an error in judgement in situation x w/ mitigating factors y and z.
I agree we should look towards public transport but why do you split these two things. it seems that public transport would be a good place for this kind of automation to run. I believe some of these commuter trains are already basically driverless (ie the guy is just along for the ride in case he is needed to think but doesn't generally). Why not buses next?
there is a difference here. You can never find two people who are exactly alike. Two robots w the same manufacturing and programming will be exactly alike. At lest least to the extent that you can expect the second to make the same mistakes a the first. Hence, it actually votes make some sense to judge them as a group.
Ok we know that patches, etc can make all the difference but good luck explaining that top the population at large
The economic reason is Apple (and soon, linux. This is the year of the linux desktop, right?) I have lost count of how many people have talked about how much better apple is than windows and faster etc. (I don't want to get into a flame war about which is actually better, for my purposes here lets just say they are within range of each other; both w/ strengths and weaknesses.)
I used to wonder why I never ran into any of the problems 'everybody' has w/ windows. I always blew away everything and laid down a clean os when I got a new machine. Then I sat down at one of these dell made loaded up pieces of garbage. It absolutely kills teh experience. The base MS experience is fairly responsive but when you load up the trial ware and tool bars this guy is talking about, it has a serious negative impact.
The feed backloop is broken though. People bitch about the crappy MS OS where it is really dell et al that are crushing the experience. As apple's marketshare (in consumer land) increases, the wintel crowd are going to need to reevaluate.
Me, personally after many years I've come to believe that Eastern systems like Yoga, Tai Chi and other are just a load of BS and a way to make money of naive Westerners.
do one session of yoga w/ any half decent teacher and tell me it didn't feel like exercise. i, personally, feel it is better to do an hour of most types of yoga than, say, jog for an hour but both have many health benefits. or does that fact that it is 'Eastern' some how negate the benefits of exercising? That eastern exercise just doesn't help our massively superior western fed bodies, right?
There's no way having this much surveillance in the hands of the state should be acceptable unless all private citizens also have the same access. If, as Mr. Orozco stated, that all cameras are located in an area where the public has no expectation of privacy, then why shouldn't anyone in the world be able to see any camera at any time?
This is an important point. The reality is there is going to be more and more surveillance. The real problem comes when a small group controls that surveillance. That is an unacceptable amount of power to be in the hands of a few. Any public camera, funded by public money, must be available to the public. This could easily be done over the internet
I can see some security concerns with this issue. To that end I would consider a 1-2 week delay on the feed.
We may have to accept that there is no privacy in public spaces but so do the lawmakers.
I think that should be corrected to "Users speak simply...". When using Google Translate to translate something from Dutch to French or German, I often deliberately make simple sentences that I know can be parsed easily and without having to detect double meanings.
You mean sort of like when you are talking to somebody in another language that you haven't mastered? You will often need to use simpler sentences and enunciate clearly when speaking across cultural lines. this just allows you to speak those words in your own tongue. Pretty impressive, imho.
I can see the parallels. You are presenting a skewed or idealized world that your characters have to work within. There are arbitrary rulesets that differ from our experience in this world.
A great example recently, for me, was when I read Richard Morgans latest, the steel remains. If you haven't read anything by Morgan, run don't walk and pick up Altered Carbon. It is a very interesting world (sci-fi) with all sorts of great technology. And his characters are such badasses but flawed enough to like. I read all of his other books (all scifi, some near term future but most several hundred years ahead). I was very excited to see his new book coming out. Low and behold, when I grabbed the sample chapter on the kindle, it was fantasy. As in guy w/ big magic sword fantasy. WTF? I read the sample and it did seem ok. I am a fantasy fan anyways, i was just disappointed b/c i really liked the futures and technologies that he crafted.
About 1/2 way through the book, i realized his fantasy was exactly like his scifi. The same fantastical back alleys with strange visions on the edge of human acceptance. Different names for the strange drugs that his characters were on that gave this edge or that.
If you don't think sci-fi and fantasy are the same genre, read altered carbon and the steel remains (and I encourage you to read any of the others). I suspect it will change your mind.
It's targeted advertisement based on your distinct psychological profile. I personally don't see anything.
That's just because you use firefox/adblock. damn kids and their ad enabled browsers get into all the trouble.
dban (daryl boot and nuke or similar) is a nice easy, secure wipe for full drives.
that actually speaks a lot toward the improved boot time in vista. you are saying that it doesn't take much more time to load vista than it takes to read the bits off the disk.
basically, if you have 4gbs of memory in use, you are going to have to wait while that memory writes to disk on hibernate and then reads from disk on resume.
hibernate is fine but why bother in most cases? My laptop will sleep for a day w/ very minimal battery loss, how often are you without power more than 2-3 days and still plan to be using a laptop?
I would guess that writing all that crap to disk and reading it again takes as much, if not more, power than suspending it for a couple of hours.
Server Manager is IMO a good thing. Not for the seasoned admin who already knows how to find everything, but i've seen most of our apprentices getting an easier grip on 2008 than on 2003.
and experienced admins should be automating things through remote scripting and not using the gui. it is just the middle of the road guy that was comfortable w/ the gui in 2003 and has to find all the new icons that it is a real set back for.
some of the changes take some time to get used to but in the last month or so of playing w/ it, i am finding it a all around improvement in interface. I like the scheduling, eventing and the resource manager. some of the iis/ad/vm improvements are pretty compelling. the real test will be in the stability though, win 2k3 was pretty solid, hopefully this will measure up. otherwise the rest means diddly squat
As if Microsoft's tech specs were any better.
to this point, they aren't bad. most of the time, when there is a newer version out, there is a whole set of docs around that version with helpful links to 'other versions' of the docs. Notes saying the article is deprecated, which versions it hits. together with moderated by microsoft newsgroups, the docs really aren't all that bad.
not to say linux docs are bad but to get the true state you often have to read the source/commit logs.
as far as a closed source company goes, msdn/technet have a wealth of information.
I second that poll. that would be very interesting.
Thread creation in Linux is not expensive.
informative? mods, really?
how about a hint of detail rather than a school boys 'nyah, nyah is not!'?
awesome troll response, er... mick (i am topical now?)
by digitizing, you also gain the ability to have computers scan the records and potentially pic up something that could have been missed. not saying it isn't a hard problem but it would be an added diagnostic.
You gripe that advanced users can't do what they want and then point out how advanced users can extend the system? huh?
The windows scripting env is pretty fucking powerful. windows was engineered so the users who knows what he's doing can do pretty much anything he damn well pleases. drop into powershell, wmi and .NET and you have pretty total control of your environment and it generally have it quickly.
nah, search allows me to spend less time cataloging data and still find it more effectively. as an example, I used to sort out conversations in my in inbox based on what client I was speaking with. i had a little folder for each client and I would faithfully stick discussions relevant to that client in their folder. sometimes I would forget or, heaven forfend, sometimes I would drop it in the wrong folder and it would be lost for ever. come win desktop search (or wahtever company it was before ms bought them and broke the search, but that is another story)
now I don't bother sorting at all. I have one big archive. but you know what, I can still get at my data and conversations way more quickly than I could when I spent they time sorting. let the machine do the work man.
I think this comes from people who set up system that 'works' for them. they forget that they are spending time bookkeeping and that there could be a better way to do this. I agree w/ a poster above, i enjoy many of the user enhancements that come out in newer versions. I generally give my self at least a couple of months of trying them before I decide if I want to turn them off. Some go off, some don't. Many get so built in to my work flow that I can't imagine how I ever function on win 9x or 2k let alone earlier.
This is actually why I find mac difficult to get used to. I navigate through my work w/o the mouse at least as much as with. I assume osx has all the same shortcuts availabe (at least I hope so, i do recall mac had trouble standardizing these things) but since I am so much more effective getting to what I want to do in windows, Mac seems frustratingly non-intuitive. This is why I largely disregard mac fanboys griping about how hard it is to do things in windows. Playing w/ the OS is not the main point (even for a sysadmin) getting it to do your work for you is the point.
meh, rant got long.
And, the kid's toys will stop when you unplug the transmitter.
That sounds like a potential benefit from where I stand. Whether to get them to stop playing and come to dinner or just for some peace and quiet.
how much does anybody actually care? The install may take longer but if you wrap the actual compilation w/ an installer, most people wouldn't even know that the package was being compiled vs installed.
maybe what you mean is 'people don't want to fuck around w/ make and command lines to install their software.' or 'All people want to do is doubleclick and get their software'. That I agree with. whether it is a copy or a compile doesn't really matter to most. Maybe really fancy packages could offer a choice. A - wait 5 mins while we put in our binary, B - wait 1 hour while we compile a version optimized for your system.
So you are saying that cookies are "no more secure than a cookie" other than having advantages that narrow the vulnerability field? Isn't that another word for more secure?