Why would Comcast want to agree to net neutrality now? They've just shown the value of being able to dictate the terms of use to people intending to serve data over the internet. They'll probably strike a deal with Sony where Sony pays them several million a year and in exchange doesn't get hit by Comcast's data caps. It's a huge new untapped revenue stream for an ISP. The fact that they can decide not to play ball with companies that might compete with its own cable service is just icing on the cake. You can bet that Comcast's senators are getting well greased right now and are ready to go to bat to prevent anything like Net Neutrality from ever really being implemented.
I can see the ads already. The government is trying to tell the internet how to operate! Call your senator today and tell him you don't want big government interfering in the Internet!
These articles come up when someone's old equipment fails and they go looking for the replacement and discover that it costs 3x as much as his department's budget for the entire year. Maybe his boss is really stingy with the money too. So he's got to figure out some other solution and posts to Slashdot. It's not like Amusement Park owners are known for their generosity.
The best bet would probably be to try to convince whomever is in charge of the money that it is a safety issue and that they should just spend the $$$ for the proper professional solution, even if it does seem overpriced. The minimum wage summer intern that knows Linux could probably cobble together a cheaper solution based on what people on Slashdot say, but then he'll go back to school and something will go wrong and you'll be back at square 1, and it will happen on the day the Fire Marshal is inspecting the park and checking the emergency alert system.
I'll bet few people have ever tried installing 8 sound cards into a single machine. I find that doing stuff like that almost always ends up with the machine not booting or half (or all) of the cards not working.
You're suggesting Airport Express modules to avoid having to do troubleshooting?!? They're neat modules, but their tendency to suddenly decide not to respond to the discovery broadcasts randomly for a couple of minutes randomly prevents me from suggesting them as a professional solution.
To be fair, it's a big pain in the rear to do that in Outlook too. You can do it, but Outlook REALLY prefers that you top post on all emails. It's one of my pet peeves about it, because I used email clients 15 years ago that were smart about where to focus the window when there was quoted material on there so you could bottom post like a sane person, but because Microsoft couldn't figure it out we have a culture of horrible untrimmed emails always top posted.
That actually improves their chances of success in my eyes. They're not getting money from duped investors (who tend to figure out what is going on eventually). They know this is likely to be a huge money pit with little short or even medium term return, but they know someone has to do it first to make it feasible for everybody else to follow in their footsteps.
Besides, if you're going to be filthy stinking rich, you might as well spend your money on projects like this instead of gaming the commodities market or buying outrageously expensive yachts or whatnot.
Are robo-graders as good as or better than human graders because the quality of the human graders is so low? When you have literally millions of SAT essays to grade, you can't afford to be choosy with your staff and as a result the quality of the work is depressed.
Often times the differences between versions is that the questions at the end of the chapter will just be reordered and maybe a couple of minor tweaks here and there in the text. The versioning is really just a racket to try to shut down the used book market. I've had teachers that support multiple versions of a book by simply handing out problems like so:
Questions 2, 5, 8, 11, and 19 for version 5 owners, 5, 8, 9, 13, and 14 for version 6 owners. Since the rest of the content was the same this was basically no extra work on their part, since they had to go through and pick the new questions when the new version came out anyway, so they just picked the same ones as the previous year's. The textbook industry is such a racket.
DARPA doesn't manufacture anything though. They might hand off the designs to another contractor like GD or something, but I'd be willing to bet that if it was good and you offered it for sale, then the government would come buying. The fact that the government has unlimited rights to the design might even be seen as a plus in the procurement office.
There is a danger they would hand the plans off to a different contractor to have them build it, but I think you could make the case that your company would be the most qualified to actually do the work.
And there are still all of the non-governmental customers who would be interested in a flexible and capable robot.
My public library can barely afford to keep the doors open even with severely reduced operating hours and staff. They're certainly not shelling out multi-thousands per year for scientific journal access.
$2 million gets added to your R&D budget on this adventurous robotics project that you can then sell to governments all over the world (or at least the US, since this is DARPA).
Office Depot has horrendous markup on every damn thing they sell though. $90 for a black ink cartridge for an inkjet printer?!? $18 cans of air? $1300 for a bare bones Asus laptop? I've never found anything there that I would be willing to actually buy at the prices they asked for.
[quote]"You know, this is a major project. You're going to put a full-scale ENTERPRISE up in the heart of Las Vegas. And on one hand that sounds exciting. But on another hand, it might not be a great idea for us – for Paramount." Everyone in the room was stunned, most of all, me, because I could see where this was going. "In the movie business, when we produce a big movie and it's a flop – we take some bad press for a few weeks or a few months, but then it goes away. The next movie comes out and everyone forgets. But THIS – this is different. If this doesn't work – if this is not a success – it's there, forever." I remember thinking to myself "oh my god, this guy does NOT get it." And he said "I don't want to be the guy that approved this and then it's a flop and sitting out there in Vegas forever."[/quote]
Well, now we know why Star Trek started sucking real hard after DS9. No balls in the upper management. That's why they tried reheating the old material and ended up releasing drek like Voyager and Enterprise instead of trying something new and fresh.
I'm talking about millions of Chinese retiring in a bigger version of the Baby Boom problem the US is already facing. The 1 child per couple policy means the retirees could outnumber the working class if they live long enough, and put enormous strain on the social welfare systems in China. It's a looming disaster and the Chinese government doesn't seem to be all that concerned about it for some bizarre reason. Maybe they think all of the children will just support their parents? That would be a tremendous burden on those children, and it basically puts all of their eggs in one basket. Have a child who wants to become an artist or maybe just doesn't have a good job and you're in for a rough retirement.
The in-game CPU runs at 100khz and has fairly primitive support for words larger than 16 bits. I'm guessing it will take an impressively long time to generate a single Bitcoin.
Wouldn't it be easier to just choose good passwords? The downside of port knocking is when you are using ssh because all of the other ports are blocked (including 80, thanks to your ISP).
This is probably not a solution if you have a bunch of users, but for a home machine it's not that hard to create a password that will never be guessed by some bot trying one dictionary word every 10 seconds.
It means that their mathematical model either goes to infinity or to 0 after 20 years. If you're wondering how complex a mathematical model has to be to accurately predict economic effects, population growth, new innovations and everything else, well, lets just say it would be way way more complex than the one they are using.
There aren't any viable substitutes because oil was so cheap before that nobody needed to make one. Once the price of oil goes up, people will start looking for substitutes everywhere. Biofuels might start to actually become economic (without huge subsidies), electric cars become more attractive, etc... You don't make the switch overnight either. As oil gets more and more expensive the alternatives start displacing it in the market, slowly pushing down demand and slowing the price growth, giving people more time to invest in alternatives.
The most effective motivator for alternative energy is high prices on the conventional energy. The downside is the short term economic slowdown you get from the high energy prices.
Yes, we should rush to adopt a policy that is steering China right for a demographics disaster in just a couple of decades.
Besides, birth rates in the West are already pretty darn low. A 2-child-per-couple policy wouldn't really change much, that's about as many as they already make!
I can't take doomsayer too seriously either. Of all of the predictions that the world is going to end (many thousands now), the track record is still at 0 correct guesses. Resource depletion is a concern for sure, and we should be better about conserving/recycling/etc..., but the idea that we're going to suddenly run out of iron/oil/silicon in 20 years and immediately turn into a Mad Max society always strikes me as what you get when you oversimplify your models.
Slashdot Mirror
Why would Comcast want to agree to net neutrality now? They've just shown the value of being able to dictate the terms of use to people intending to serve data over the internet. They'll probably strike a deal with Sony where Sony pays them several million a year and in exchange doesn't get hit by Comcast's data caps. It's a huge new untapped revenue stream for an ISP. The fact that they can decide not to play ball with companies that might compete with its own cable service is just icing on the cake. You can bet that Comcast's senators are getting well greased right now and are ready to go to bat to prevent anything like Net Neutrality from ever really being implemented.
I can see the ads already. The government is trying to tell the internet how to operate! Call your senator today and tell him you don't want big government interfering in the Internet!
These articles come up when someone's old equipment fails and they go looking for the replacement and discover that it costs 3x as much as his department's budget for the entire year. Maybe his boss is really stingy with the money too. So he's got to figure out some other solution and posts to Slashdot. It's not like Amusement Park owners are known for their generosity.
The best bet would probably be to try to convince whomever is in charge of the money that it is a safety issue and that they should just spend the $$$ for the proper professional solution, even if it does seem overpriced. The minimum wage summer intern that knows Linux could probably cobble together a cheaper solution based on what people on Slashdot say, but then he'll go back to school and something will go wrong and you'll be back at square 1, and it will happen on the day the Fire Marshal is inspecting the park and checking the emergency alert system.
I'll bet few people have ever tried installing 8 sound cards into a single machine. I find that doing stuff like that almost always ends up with the machine not booting or half (or all) of the cards not working.
You're suggesting Airport Express modules to avoid having to do troubleshooting?!? They're neat modules, but their tendency to suddenly decide not to respond to the discovery broadcasts randomly for a couple of minutes randomly prevents me from suggesting them as a professional solution.
Sorry, this post is just to remove a bad moderation I made due to my fat fingers.
To be fair, it's a big pain in the rear to do that in Outlook too. You can do it, but Outlook REALLY prefers that you top post on all emails. It's one of my pet peeves about it, because I used email clients 15 years ago that were smart about where to focus the window when there was quoted material on there so you could bottom post like a sane person, but because Microsoft couldn't figure it out we have a culture of horrible untrimmed emails always top posted.
That actually improves their chances of success in my eyes. They're not getting money from duped investors (who tend to figure out what is going on eventually). They know this is likely to be a huge money pit with little short or even medium term return, but they know someone has to do it first to make it feasible for everybody else to follow in their footsteps.
Besides, if you're going to be filthy stinking rich, you might as well spend your money on projects like this instead of gaming the commodities market or buying outrageously expensive yachts or whatnot.
Are robo-graders as good as or better than human graders because the quality of the human graders is so low? When you have literally millions of SAT essays to grade, you can't afford to be choosy with your staff and as a result the quality of the work is depressed.
Which could explain why everybody is so bad at it.
Often times the differences between versions is that the questions at the end of the chapter will just be reordered and maybe a couple of minor tweaks here and there in the text. The versioning is really just a racket to try to shut down the used book market. I've had teachers that support multiple versions of a book by simply handing out problems like so:
Questions 2, 5, 8, 11, and 19 for version 5 owners, 5, 8, 9, 13, and 14 for version 6 owners. Since the rest of the content was the same this was basically no extra work on their part, since they had to go through and pick the new questions when the new version came out anyway, so they just picked the same ones as the previous year's. The textbook industry is such a racket.
Home Depot sells mahogany?
You've really gotta stop burning down so many neighborhoods man.
DARPA doesn't manufacture anything though. They might hand off the designs to another contractor like GD or something, but I'd be willing to bet that if it was good and you offered it for sale, then the government would come buying. The fact that the government has unlimited rights to the design might even be seen as a plus in the procurement office.
There is a danger they would hand the plans off to a different contractor to have them build it, but I think you could make the case that your company would be the most qualified to actually do the work.
And there are still all of the non-governmental customers who would be interested in a flexible and capable robot.
They have plenty of those, thanks.
My public library can barely afford to keep the doors open even with severely reduced operating hours and staff. They're certainly not shelling out multi-thousands per year for scientific journal access.
$2 million gets added to your R&D budget on this adventurous robotics project that you can then sell to governments all over the world (or at least the US, since this is DARPA).
Even that $5 cable was overpriced. I've never had any trouble with a cable I bought from Monoprice either.
Office Depot has horrendous markup on every damn thing they sell though. $90 for a black ink cartridge for an inkjet printer?!? $18 cans of air? $1300 for a bare bones Asus laptop? I've never found anything there that I would be willing to actually buy at the prices they asked for.
[quote]"You know, this is a major project. You're going to put a full-scale ENTERPRISE up in the heart of Las Vegas. And on one hand that sounds exciting. But on another hand, it might not be a great idea for us – for Paramount." Everyone in the room was stunned, most of all, me, because I could see where this was going. "In the movie business, when we produce a big movie and it's a flop – we take some bad press for a few weeks or a few months, but then it goes away. The next movie comes out and everyone forgets. But THIS – this is different. If this doesn't work – if this is not a success – it's there, forever." I remember thinking to myself "oh my god, this guy does NOT get it." And he said "I don't want to be the guy that approved this and then it's a flop and sitting out there in Vegas forever."[/quote] Well, now we know why Star Trek started sucking real hard after DS9. No balls in the upper management. That's why they tried reheating the old material and ended up releasing drek like Voyager and Enterprise instead of trying something new and fresh.
I'm talking about millions of Chinese retiring in a bigger version of the Baby Boom problem the US is already facing. The 1 child per couple policy means the retirees could outnumber the working class if they live long enough, and put enormous strain on the social welfare systems in China. It's a looming disaster and the Chinese government doesn't seem to be all that concerned about it for some bizarre reason. Maybe they think all of the children will just support their parents? That would be a tremendous burden on those children, and it basically puts all of their eggs in one basket. Have a child who wants to become an artist or maybe just doesn't have a good job and you're in for a rough retirement.
The in-game CPU runs at 100khz and has fairly primitive support for words larger than 16 bits. I'm guessing it will take an impressively long time to generate a single Bitcoin.
Wouldn't it be easier to just choose good passwords? The downside of port knocking is when you are using ssh because all of the other ports are blocked (including 80, thanks to your ISP).
This is probably not a solution if you have a bunch of users, but for a home machine it's not that hard to create a password that will never be guessed by some bot trying one dictionary word every 10 seconds.
It means that their mathematical model either goes to infinity or to 0 after 20 years. If you're wondering how complex a mathematical model has to be to accurately predict economic effects, population growth, new innovations and everything else, well, lets just say it would be way way more complex than the one they are using.
There aren't any viable substitutes because oil was so cheap before that nobody needed to make one. Once the price of oil goes up, people will start looking for substitutes everywhere. Biofuels might start to actually become economic (without huge subsidies), electric cars become more attractive, etc... You don't make the switch overnight either. As oil gets more and more expensive the alternatives start displacing it in the market, slowly pushing down demand and slowing the price growth, giving people more time to invest in alternatives.
The most effective motivator for alternative energy is high prices on the conventional energy. The downside is the short term economic slowdown you get from the high energy prices.
Yes, we should rush to adopt a policy that is steering China right for a demographics disaster in just a couple of decades.
Besides, birth rates in the West are already pretty darn low. A 2-child-per-couple policy wouldn't really change much, that's about as many as they already make!
I can't take doomsayer too seriously either. Of all of the predictions that the world is going to end (many thousands now), the track record is still at 0 correct guesses. Resource depletion is a concern for sure, and we should be better about conserving/recycling/etc..., but the idea that we're going to suddenly run out of iron/oil/silicon in 20 years and immediately turn into a Mad Max society always strikes me as what you get when you oversimplify your models.