It's funny because I just finished up doing a network for a small going on medium sized business who was bringing up a new headquarters on a shoestring budget and I wound up getting them a layer 3 HP switch for their headquarters. On HP's networking chart, it's called an edge switch or a remote-office switch, or something like that but it has plenty of backplane and PPS capacity for what they need as a core router.
However, it does not have a redundant power supply but I did specify the model that can do router redundancy, so when their budget allows we'll get a second one and then we'll interconnect the two devices on the 10g link and plug the power supply from the second switch into a different UPS (unfortunately not a second mains power leg in this case but it could be).
Due to the pricing structure on these things, it's sometimes less expensive to have entire redundant router/switches than to get the router/switch with the redundant power supply. I'm not at all surprised that Cisco specified the more expensive switches, but I do wonder if they did not have an independent consultant help them create the specification. That's how I market my services - I do not make a commission on the gear I specify so I have no incentive to upsell the client on product they do not need, while at the same time my reputation is dependent on providing value-based choices.
I just happen to be sitting waiting for a bitcoin talk to start at Liberty Forum and I just walked past a bitcoin ATM and my next stop is a company that is making them usable for purchase at 7-11 and Walgreens. Interesting times.
Over qualification, if somebody is actually requiring a college degree to scan groceries (clerk), they can go shove it
It's really a supply and demand problem. The current inflationary environment is so hard on business that there are 8% of the workforce unemployed plus the other 8 million jobs that used to belong to people who are "out of the workforce" (haven't been able to get a job).
There are so many people who want jobs and so few jobs, that employers can be picky.
The problem, as I see it, is that if you're hiring a stock boy, you don't want somebody with a Masters degree because he will become bored, do a poor job due to boredom and go on to a better job as soon as he can. That would be a poor hiring decision, but, please, I've met my share of ditzy HR people.
Ah yes, the old Gold is God argument. I fail to see how perpetually binding the US Dollar to a limited supply of gold would have avoided inflation.
Monetary inflation is the creation of new units of currency without new units of backing to offset them. The value of a unit of fiat currency depends on the overall value of all of the currency (as the world values it, which is somewhat subjective and fluctuates over the short term) divided by the number of units of that currency.
Now realize that M2 (all savings accounts plus all currency in circulation) is about 10 trillion dollars and the Federal Reserve has created 16 trillion dollars of new money during the "crisis". That doesn't include some institutional money accounts, but the Fed discontinued publication of that measure (M3) a year prior to the Bear Stearns liquidation (and subsequent money printing) so nobody really knows what the total functional currency is (estimates have it at $13T).
Since the Federal Reserve doubled the number of outstanding dollars, the price of just about every commodity (wheat, coffee, beans, metals, oil) has doubled. This is where the price increases come from - the dollars are worth less so it takes more dollars to buy a commodity.
Now, consider the old Dollar where one dollar is worth 1/25 of an ounce of gold. Show me how the government creates new dollars out of thin air and eradicates the value of a person's savings.
Gold-backing isn't panacea, but it avoids the bigger problem of massive monetary debasement without any representative control. In a just society people would be able to choose to use whichever currency(ies) they'd prefer.
Then why is the situation more or less unique to the United States when "fiat money" isn't?'
Because Bretton Woods pegged the USD as the world reserve currency, so the Federal Reserve can print it at a much higher percentage than any other country could get away with.
2018 is a good year. Mars will be at about 57 M miles. One has to wait until 2035 to do better and that's only a million miles closer. 2023 isn't a particularly good year.
The problem is that real wages are not keeping up with the levels of productivity increases that technology and knowledge should afford. It hasn't always been this way - look at the chart here. You'll see that after 1971 the real share of productivity that the workers saw went away. Unions didn't suddenly crumble in 1971 but the US Dollar did, and that delta in money isn't just evaporating.
The problem is 1971 is when Nixon put the country on a fiat money system (probably his and Johnson's fault, but that's a separate issue). The problem with that is that with a fiat currency and Keynesian central bankers, steady inflation is a guarantee in the economy. If you have wealth (capital) then you're going to want to protect it, and that means you can no longer hold your wealth in your local bank, making a moderate level of interest while protecting your holdings. If you don't want to lose real value every year, that money now needs to be invested in financial instruments (stocks, bonds, commodities, annuities - whatever Wall Street is selling) that return at a higher rate than inflation.
Suddenly capital is no longer available for local lending (due to reserve requirements), money that would have otherwise been spent in the local economy is now gone almost immediately (where does that that 10% of your salary into 401(k) match go, eh?). Wealth that was previously re-invested in the local economy in a healthy cycle is now shipped off, leaving capitalism broken on the local level. And with the 70's stagflation the effect was rather sudden, and people had no recourse. Over time the expectations set them have become permanent, and the workers aren't able to solve the problem themselves anymore (short of a massive general strike, anyway).
This is the same reason trickle-down economics doesn't work anymore - tax cuts at the top don't flow to the workers, they flow to Wall Street (at least to any measurable degree of what they used to). The median hourly wage, in real terms, would be about $37/hr, if trends had kept going as they had for the bulk of the 20th Century before 1971.
American workers are being systematically screwed out of their earnings for the benefit of the financial sector (the new "robber barons") and the legal tender act ensures that anybody who tries to offer a stable currency as an alternative will get SWAT-raided. It's really no wonder that by any honest measure we're in an economic depression. The odds of it getting any better before a total monetary crash are, unfortunately, quite slim.
because in your theory he has no particular right to the fruits of such labor because it's bits on a disk instead of, say, a piece of hardware like your the expensive computers and smartphones middle-class users use to view the content, right?
Tell us about this computer of mine. Do I own the hard disk? If I own the hard disk, can I use it how I see fit? Can I arrange the bit patterns in any way that I want? If I own it, I surely can.
Now, then, it sounds like you'd like to use an armed gang to prevent me from arranging the bit pattern on my hard drive in a way that replicates a bit pattern that your bother came up with. In my country (the US), as an example, you'd like to use that armed gang to prevent 300 million people from using their property in that way, if they so choose.
You either have to make an argument that I don't own my hard drive but that your bother does own his bit pattern (that imaginary property is superior to real property, abrogating the entire basis for Western civilization) or you have to claim that you'll willing to take away the property rights of hundreds of millions of people to pad the business plan of one man. Because if real property rights don't exit, surely imaginary ones don't either.
Clearly it's wrong. Find a better business model (I suggest Creator Endorsed as a morally sound option) but whether you personally know of a sound business plan that will allow your brother to make money on that work or not doesn't justify taking away the property rights of millions or billions of people by force for his private benefit.
One doesn't get to patent filesystem features again (and especially not obvious ones) just because they're now "distributed".
Bwahahahahha. That's the industry term for "only the suckers will wait to re-file every known filesystem patent with 'on a distributed filesystem' added to the end." Referencing prior art is for weaklings since weak patents can still be used to extract medium-sized license fees from end-users before they're invalidated. Set up a good corporation to take the fall for it.
If I've got a lot of data, it means that data with the nearest expiration date *scaled by some function of the memory pressure*, is deleted.
So like any of the thousands of scripts sysadmins have written to check the output of df and run an rm on the temp directories with a -mtime value to find based on the result of the df. Hint: they're quite useful for maintaining large cache trees.
To anticipate the next patent: only take the action immediately if the return value from df is on the high side, otherwise schedule the pruning activity to minimize impact on CPU and IO resources (I shall call my inventions, 'nice' and 'ionice'). Throw some 'pluralities' in there too, for good measure.
If the patent process were anything like the peer review process, a bunch of distributed filesystem engineers would have been asked how to implement file expiration, and their answer, within five minutes, would sound something very close to this.
But, more importantly, Google seems to have actually implemented this (not bad, considering the state of things). But who honestly believes they would not have done so without the hope of patent protection?
How does noscript affect this? Am I going to have enable javascript for every site that has a PDF that I want to view?
no, just once for the javascript file.
I've been using it on the previous release (it had to be enabled). It's generally as useful as Google's PDF preview used to be. But fortunately there's a one-click "show me in my system PDF viewer" button at the top for anything with fonts or images that need alignment. So far, I haven't turned it off.
Tizen is an open source, standards-based software platform supported by leading mobile operators, device manufacturers, and silicon suppliers for multiple device categories such as smartphones, tablets, netbooks, in-vehicle infotainment devices, and smart TVs. Tizen offers an innovative operating system, applications, and a user experience that consumers can take from device to device.
The Tizen project resides within the Linux Foundation and is governed by a Technical Steering Group. The Technical Steering Group is the primary decision-making body for the open source project, with a focus on platform development and delivery, along with the formation of working groups to support device verticals.
The Tizen Association has been formed to guide the industry role of Tizen, including gathering of requirements, identification and facilitation of service models, and overall industry marketing and education.
Tizen provides a robust and flexible environment for application developers, based on HTML5. With HTML5's robust capabilities and cross platform flexibility, it is rapidly becoming the preferred development environment for mobile apps and services. The Tizen SDK and API allow developers to use HTML5 and related web technologies to write applications that run across multiple device segments.
As of February 2013 there were no announcements either from Samsung or Intel about market releases of Tizen on actual devices. Unofficial disclosures typically come from Samsung officials at conferences. Allegedly, the first devices were planned to hit the market in second half of 2012.[13]. It was then clarified that first quarter of 2013 is not a date of actual product launch but demonstration at Mobile World Congress.[14] Tizen Devices made by Samsung would ship later in 2013 but the exact date has not been disclosed.[15]
A possible cause of delay is Samsung's transition to Bada on top of Linux as a base for the operating system. A Samsung employee involved in the project explained on the project's mailing list the he had not enough permission or knowledge to disclose plans regarding the future of the platform, pointing to the committee of executives in Tizen Association.[16]
Licensing Model
Presented originally as an open source operating system, Tizen 2 has complicated licensing model. Its SDK contains is based on many open source components[7] while the entire SDK has been published under a non-open-source Samsung's licence[8].
The operating system itself is consisted of a many open source components. A number of components internally developed by Samsung (e.g. boot animation, calendar, task manager, music player applications) are however released under the Flora License which is most likely incompatible with requirements of the Open Source Initiative.
they seem to have decided to sell their GPU techology as an integrated component
Rumor has it that they did a patent cross-licensing deal with nVidia and part of the deal was that they'd stay out of the component market. Much to the chagrin of everybody who would prefer a low-wattage graphics card.
I use them for the speed, but anyone claiming they are reliable are smoking some strong peyote.
Yep, just yesterday I had four embedded boxes on my desk that needed the SSD's pulled for replacement and reinstall. All four had Kingston SSDNOw drives in them and were 1-2 years old. We had much better luck back in the days of IDE CompactFlash adapters and those were less expensive parts than SSD's.
I'm under the impression now that it's because those were 90nm devices and the newer stuff is just crap. MLC SSD's have moved further along the hot/crazy scale in the past couple years. I should say that I'm still happy with the SLC SSD's in my servers, but for low-cost gear we're going back to 2.5" harddrives for reliability.
Yes, but that doesn't mean correlation studies are worthless. Causation always brings correlation, so if there's no correlation then there's not going to be any causation.
It's a good first-pass at studying an issue cost-effectively. As the other researchers point out, more study is needed. If they had found no correlation, no further study would be needed.
I think it's more than the FDA - I read about 10 years ago that mussel glue was demonstrated to be a non-toxic waterproof long-lasting super-strong plywood adhesive. It hasn't taken over my Home Depot yet.
Imagine the relative of a raging alcoholic getting ahold of a dose of the vaccine and going to visit their relation, who happens to be blacked out from a bender.
The print industry itself may not be large enough to give CMYK attention, but when you consider all the clients they have...
And yet nobody has cared enough in the past decade to hire a few developers to add CMYK support. When the motion picture industry wanted more out of GIMP they hired the programmers to get it done (and they forked as well, but that was a matter of governance).
In my State the death rate from influenza is about 1.3 per hundred thousand. Which just happens to be the same as our homicide rate.
The thing I wonder about is if the CDC is accurately estimating the number of people who Google and decide, "yup, I've got the flu, I've got no money for a doctor's visit, no insurance, and certainly no money for anti-virals" and those cases never make it into any surveillance systems. Are they accounting for the real unemployment rate which has 8.5 million people that BLS has discounted as "no longer in the workforce" and their families?
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At the moment the idea sounds really appealing, but it's a ways off in implementation yet.
You sure about that, dude?
TNG is about 60 years away, if we figure out a warp drive.
It's funny because I just finished up doing a network for a small going on medium sized business who was bringing up a new headquarters on a shoestring budget and I wound up getting them a layer 3 HP switch for their headquarters. On HP's networking chart, it's called an edge switch or a remote-office switch, or something like that but it has plenty of backplane and PPS capacity for what they need as a core router.
However, it does not have a redundant power supply but I did specify the model that can do router redundancy, so when their budget allows we'll get a second one and then we'll interconnect the two devices on the 10g link and plug the power supply from the second switch into a different UPS (unfortunately not a second mains power leg in this case but it could be).
Due to the pricing structure on these things, it's sometimes less expensive to have entire redundant router/switches than to get the router/switch with the redundant power supply. I'm not at all surprised that Cisco specified the more expensive switches, but I do wonder if they did not have an independent consultant help them create the specification. That's how I market my services - I do not make a commission on the gear I specify so I have no incentive to upsell the client on product they do not need, while at the same time my reputation is dependent on providing value-based choices.
I just happen to be sitting waiting for a bitcoin talk to start at Liberty Forum and I just walked past a bitcoin ATM and my next stop is a company that is making them usable for purchase at 7-11 and Walgreens. Interesting times.
Over qualification, if somebody is actually requiring a college degree to scan groceries (clerk), they can go shove it
It's really a supply and demand problem. The current inflationary environment is so hard on business that there are 8% of the workforce unemployed plus the other 8 million jobs that used to belong to people who are "out of the workforce" (haven't been able to get a job).
There are so many people who want jobs and so few jobs, that employers can be picky.
The problem, as I see it, is that if you're hiring a stock boy, you don't want somebody with a Masters degree because he will become bored, do a poor job due to boredom and go on to a better job as soon as he can. That would be a poor hiring decision, but, please, I've met my share of ditzy HR people.
Ah yes, the old Gold is God argument. I fail to see how perpetually binding the US Dollar to a limited supply of gold would have avoided inflation.
Monetary inflation is the creation of new units of currency without new units of backing to offset them. The value of a unit of fiat currency depends on the overall value of all of the currency (as the world values it, which is somewhat subjective and fluctuates over the short term) divided by the number of units of that currency.
Now realize that M2 (all savings accounts plus all currency in circulation) is about 10 trillion dollars and the Federal Reserve has created 16 trillion dollars of new money during the "crisis". That doesn't include some institutional money accounts, but the Fed discontinued publication of that measure (M3) a year prior to the Bear Stearns liquidation (and subsequent money printing) so nobody really knows what the total functional currency is (estimates have it at $13T).
Since the Federal Reserve doubled the number of outstanding dollars, the price of just about every commodity (wheat, coffee, beans, metals, oil) has doubled. This is where the price increases come from - the dollars are worth less so it takes more dollars to buy a commodity.
Now, consider the old Dollar where one dollar is worth 1/25 of an ounce of gold. Show me how the government creates new dollars out of thin air and eradicates the value of a person's savings.
Gold-backing isn't panacea, but it avoids the bigger problem of massive monetary debasement without any representative control. In a just society people would be able to choose to use whichever currency(ies) they'd prefer.
Then why is the situation more or less unique to the United States when "fiat money" isn't?'
Because Bretton Woods pegged the USD as the world reserve currency, so the Federal Reserve can print it at a much higher percentage than any other country could get away with.
Yes and it would take hundreds to thousands of years to explore all of Mars as a sterile experiment. We shouldn't wait that long to go there.
2018 is a good year. Mars will be at about 57 M miles. One has to wait until 2035 to do better and that's only a million miles closer. 2023 isn't a particularly good year.
The problem is that real wages are not keeping up with the levels of productivity increases that technology and knowledge should afford. It hasn't always been this way - look at the chart here. You'll see that after 1971 the real share of productivity that the workers saw went away. Unions didn't suddenly crumble in 1971 but the US Dollar did, and that delta in money isn't just evaporating.
The problem is 1971 is when Nixon put the country on a fiat money system (probably his and Johnson's fault, but that's a separate issue). The problem with that is that with a fiat currency and Keynesian central bankers, steady inflation is a guarantee in the economy. If you have wealth (capital) then you're going to want to protect it, and that means you can no longer hold your wealth in your local bank, making a moderate level of interest while protecting your holdings. If you don't want to lose real value every year, that money now needs to be invested in financial instruments (stocks, bonds, commodities, annuities - whatever Wall Street is selling) that return at a higher rate than inflation.
Suddenly capital is no longer available for local lending (due to reserve requirements), money that would have otherwise been spent in the local economy is now gone almost immediately (where does that that 10% of your salary into 401(k) match go, eh?). Wealth that was previously re-invested in the local economy in a healthy cycle is now shipped off, leaving capitalism broken on the local level. And with the 70's stagflation the effect was rather sudden, and people had no recourse. Over time the expectations set them have become permanent, and the workers aren't able to solve the problem themselves anymore (short of a massive general strike, anyway).
This is the same reason trickle-down economics doesn't work anymore - tax cuts at the top don't flow to the workers, they flow to Wall Street (at least to any measurable degree of what they used to). The median hourly wage, in real terms, would be about $37/hr, if trends had kept going as they had for the bulk of the 20th Century before 1971.
American workers are being systematically screwed out of their earnings for the benefit of the financial sector (the new "robber barons") and the legal tender act ensures that anybody who tries to offer a stable currency as an alternative will get SWAT-raided. It's really no wonder that by any honest measure we're in an economic depression. The odds of it getting any better before a total monetary crash are, unfortunately, quite slim.
That the Univerity of Vermont researchers' methodology indicates that Vermont is among the happiest states.
because in your theory he has no particular right to the fruits of such labor because it's bits on a disk instead of, say, a piece of hardware like your the expensive computers and smartphones middle-class users use to view the content, right?
Tell us about this computer of mine. Do I own the hard disk? If I own the hard disk, can I use it how I see fit? Can I arrange the bit patterns in any way that I want? If I own it, I surely can.
Now, then, it sounds like you'd like to use an armed gang to prevent me from arranging the bit pattern on my hard drive in a way that replicates a bit pattern that your bother came up with. In my country (the US), as an example, you'd like to use that armed gang to prevent 300 million people from using their property in that way, if they so choose.
You either have to make an argument that I don't own my hard drive but that your bother does own his bit pattern (that imaginary property is superior to real property, abrogating the entire basis for Western civilization) or you have to claim that you'll willing to take away the property rights of hundreds of millions of people to pad the business plan of one man. Because if real property rights don't exit, surely imaginary ones don't either.
Clearly it's wrong. Find a better business model (I suggest Creator Endorsed as a morally sound option) but whether you personally know of a sound business plan that will allow your brother to make money on that work or not doesn't justify taking away the property rights of millions or billions of people by force for his private benefit.
One doesn't get to patent filesystem features again (and especially not obvious ones) just because they're now "distributed".
Bwahahahahha. That's the industry term for "only the suckers will wait to re-file every known filesystem patent with 'on a distributed filesystem' added to the end." Referencing prior art is for weaklings since weak patents can still be used to extract medium-sized license fees from end-users before they're invalidated. Set up a good corporation to take the fall for it.
If I've got a lot of data, it means that data with the nearest expiration date *scaled by some function of the memory pressure*, is deleted.
So like any of the thousands of scripts sysadmins have written to check the output of df and run an rm on the temp directories with a -mtime value to find based on the result of the df. Hint: they're quite useful for maintaining large cache trees.
To anticipate the next patent: only take the action immediately if the return value from df is on the high side, otherwise schedule the pruning activity to minimize impact on CPU and IO resources (I shall call my inventions, 'nice' and 'ionice'). Throw some 'pluralities' in there too, for good measure.
If the patent process were anything like the peer review process, a bunch of distributed filesystem engineers would have been asked how to implement file expiration, and their answer, within five minutes, would sound something very close to this.
But, more importantly, Google seems to have actually implemented this (not bad, considering the state of things). But who honestly believes they would not have done so without the hope of patent protection?
How does noscript affect this? Am I going to have enable javascript for every site that has a PDF that I want to view?
no, just once for the javascript file.
I've been using it on the previous release (it had to be enabled). It's generally as useful as Google's PDF preview used to be. But fortunately there's a one-click "show me in my system PDF viewer" button at the top for anything with fonts or images that need alignment. So far, I haven't turned it off.
And Wikipedia says:
ah, thanks for the link - now the story makes sense for me.
Something will someday push people over the edge and get them to give up on single-factor symmetric authentication. I know, breaking news...
they seem to have decided to sell their GPU techology as an integrated component
Rumor has it that they did a patent cross-licensing deal with nVidia and part of the deal was that they'd stay out of the component market. Much to the chagrin of everybody who would prefer a low-wattage graphics card.
I use them for the speed, but anyone claiming they are reliable are smoking some strong peyote.
Yep, just yesterday I had four embedded boxes on my desk that needed the SSD's pulled for replacement and reinstall. All four had Kingston SSDNOw drives in them and were 1-2 years old. We had much better luck back in the days of IDE CompactFlash adapters and those were less expensive parts than SSD's.
I'm under the impression now that it's because those were 90nm devices and the newer stuff is just crap. MLC SSD's have moved further along the hot/crazy scale in the past couple years. I should say that I'm still happy with the SLC SSD's in my servers, but for low-cost gear we're going back to 2.5" harddrives for reliability.
"Correlation does not equal causation."
Yes, but that doesn't mean correlation studies are worthless. Causation always brings correlation, so if there's no correlation then there's not going to be any causation.
It's a good first-pass at studying an issue cost-effectively. As the other researchers point out, more study is needed. If they had found no correlation, no further study would be needed.
I think it's more than the FDA - I read about 10 years ago that mussel glue was demonstrated to be a non-toxic waterproof long-lasting super-strong plywood adhesive. It hasn't taken over my Home Depot yet.
I heard you like to edit text, so I put a text editor in your text editor so you can edit text while you edit text.
Imagine the relative of a raging alcoholic getting ahold of a dose of the vaccine and going to visit their relation, who happens to be blacked out from a bender.
The print industry itself may not be large enough to give CMYK attention, but when you consider all the clients they have...
And yet nobody has cared enough in the past decade to hire a few developers to add CMYK support. When the motion picture industry wanted more out of GIMP they hired the programmers to get it done (and they forked as well, but that was a matter of governance).
...when people regularly died from it?
In my State the death rate from influenza is about 1.3 per hundred thousand. Which just happens to be the same as our homicide rate.
The thing I wonder about is if the CDC is accurately estimating the number of people who Google and decide, "yup, I've got the flu, I've got no money for a doctor's visit, no insurance, and certainly no money for anti-virals" and those cases never make it into any surveillance systems. Are they accounting for the real unemployment rate which has 8.5 million people that BLS has discounted as "no longer in the workforce" and their families?