farble, I'm impressed by Bruce's patience in not smacking you down earlier. Google and looking at UIDs are your friend before you go wading into a fight with a legend.
Cynical translation: Advertising to consumers should be illegal, that way only doctors can be advertised to, in the form of kickbacks and invitations to "conferences".
From the sounds of his interviews, I think he believed that the information would carry more weight if the source was know. If these were just anonymous leaks, they would be easier to discredit. It seems like he was fully aware of the dangers, and what he would be giving up, and decided it was worth it.
I think he was right, the leaks carry more weight with a name behind them, and further, its clear to the public that he wouldn't put himself in this position just for the "fun" of releasing false information.
Interesting idea. I wonder how much demand would drop. Technically we could all be renting time on Amazon servers instead of owning our own machines, but instead the thin client never worked and we buy millions of computers.
You can call a taxi in may small cities if you are willing to wait 10 minutes for one to show up. Would automated drivers really speed that up? People own a car so they can be independent.
Yes, because there are more people starving today, or without heat, or other basic necessities than there were 50 years ago. Has inequality increased? Yes. But you can't ignore the fact that that the average person in the bottom 20% is better off today than in 1960.
And that's just in the US. Around the world millions have been raised out of poverty through the productivity increases from technology in manufacturing and agriculture.
In what universe were the equity holders of GM wiped out? The stock never dropped below 28 and now the UAW owns the largest piece valued at $4.8 billion. That the bond holders got a haircut rather than the equity holders was a travesty of contract law and an under the table handout to the union.
Not that the bailout of the banks was any better, but to suggest that the handling of GM is the correct method is crazy.
How about Combat Flight Sims? Seems like pretty slim pickings lately. Mostly more Arcade style than proper Sims like Falcon. And what about Formula 1, is GP4 still the best that can be done?
To use your example of diabetics, I'm sure many people could learn to better listen to their bodies, especially with a training aid such as a real time read our of what they are trying to listen to.
I'm sure many people have certain "feelings" in their body, either moods, or energy levels, that are familiar to them, but they can't correlate it with hydration level, blood sugar, or 10s of other things that might affect how your body feels.
But with a read out, we could learn that "oh, that feeling means a lower than normal (for them) level of testosterone", with out looking at the meter, and know that its time to get some exercise in.
But calibrating your "feelings" is very difficult at present, with out lots of trial and error, or training in sport. This might lead to wider availability of an athlete's level of body awareness.
How is it a "race to the bottom" when states compete provide the best services for the lowest price (tax burden)? To attract companies, states, and countries, must do two things. 1) Keep taxes low enough to attract business and employees, 2) Provide the services and infrastructure which will attract the best employees. Neither of these entail bending laws to benefit business. It is not about favoring business over people, or the other way around. It is about removing favoritism and letting people get on with improving their way of life.
Is this hard? Of course it is, welcome to the real world where there is no free lunch.
Make no mistake, if our states do not start competing for business, then other countries will.
If you are interested in concept of using hardlinks to simplify your back experience, you can either set something up manually with rsync, or you can check out Dirvish: http://www.dirvish.org/ .
As other have pointed out, the pieces that are missing are: 1) No directory hardlinks, meaning you backups take up more space than you would like, since you have to create the whole directory structure, and then hardlink each file. 2) No FSEvents, so a full tree compare must be done by rsync each backup. So backups are not instantaneous, and are a bit intensive 3) No nifty interface
All that said, if you read the ArsTecnica article about how the Time Machine backups are stored, they are stored in a manner almost identical to Dirvish.
For me Dirvish makes it trivial to have a backup taken each night, with various expiration rules, and each backup being essentially an incremental backup.
Actually, logarithmic plots are often used in finance. The scale accurately portrays the effects of compounding. Only problem they are usually used on the way up...
FWIW, the Google interview process I was involved with was much quicker than I expected. 3 phone interviews and an on site in the span of about a month. From first contact to job offer was about 6 weeks. It is surprising how quickly their workforce is growing.
Are you talking about a strict limit on market share, over which a company is designated a monopoly? No such thing exists.
Intel is making chips with better performance per $ and per watt. What makes you think they should be punished for this?
Not so long ago, AMD was wiping the floor with Intel and gained significant market share. That alone suggests that Intel does not have exploitable control of the market.
The analogy is not with what they are trying to prevent, but with the powers they are asking for. A private organization should not be given the powers of search and seizure, that's what the button makers wanted, and that's what the MPAA and RIAA want. They want to enforce laws to their own standards, and that's insane. At the level of an individual they would be called vigilantes.
Can't agree with this more. Some additional goals:
1) Save 15% of your pre-tax income in a tax-free account, whether this be a 401k, a Keough, or whatever. 2) Budget to understand where your money is going. I don't follow a budget all the time, but I have tracked my expenses for a month or two so I have a pretty good idea what I spend my money on. 3) Treat raises and bonuses as extras, give yourself (or family) a small gift and save the rest. If you get a 5% raise, increase you 401k contribution 4%. 4) Run a spreadsheet out with an amount, say $100, compounding at 10% annually (multiply the above cell by 1.1) for the number of years between now and when you want to retire. See what it adds up to and think about that value when considering spending now.
I'm not there yet, but it does feel good to not have debt hanging over you, and I'm sure I'll feel even better when I can walk aware from a job for a few months with no problem.
I could be wrong, but I think Skype does a much better job than most SIP software at getting around firewall and NAT issues. It is really plug and play. No download this software, sign up for a SIP number with this service, and configure your software. Just download a client which works just like the IM client you are used to and go.
Born Lomborg, the author of the Skeptical Environmentalist, that Hemos mentioned certainly does NOT deny that global warming is real. The best I can sum up his points are:
* The level of anthropogenic heating is unclear. * Climate predictions routinely exaggerate changes or use worst case scenarios * Cost calculations of warming frequently omit: benefits of warming (fewer people dying of cold weather, better crop yields), technological improvements, and behavior adaptation * Given that the mechanisms driving warming (and there for the effectiveness of proposed solutions) is unclear, and the cost usually exagerated, it would be unwise to devote huge sums to this problem. Instead look for problems where the benefit is clear and a solution is available (such as providing clean water to the worlds poor) to spend this money on.
Anyone who is interested in this and other environmental issues must read his book. He set out years ago to debunk the claims of Julian Simon, and found himself changing his mind the more statistics he researched.
He does claim that everything is hunky dorry, or that there are no problems. What he advocates is a rational examination of problems and their costs so that we can evaluate the best course of action.
Is this really an area we need more laws about? The dangers of cookies have been overblown for a long time. Not to mention that fact that all browsers give the user more than adequate control over their cookies.
If this is the best thing the FCC can find to waste their time on, then they have become worthless.
How much is the earth warming? This is still a very much open question, and is what this article deals with.
How much will it cost deal with this warming, either by adapting (moving inland, etc) or stopping the warming? We are talking about gradual changes here. The sea levels are not going to suddenly rise 10 feet in a month, it will happen over decades. Maybe adaptation is cheaper than stopping the warming? Maybe a combination is better.
The Earth is warming, but the causes of this, and the magnitude of problem it creates (a small amount of warming can be a good thing), are open to enough debate that throwing hundreds of billions of dollars at the problem now would be foolish.
Except that in this case, the general consensus is usually based on worst case projections and copious amounts of rounding up. For instance a 1% annual growth in atmospheric CO2 is commonly used in projections, like the Stern report. The problem is that the actual rate is more like 0.35%. Now maybe it will double in the next 50 years to 0.70%, but that is still far different from saying CO2 will grow at 1% from today on. It grossly exaggerates the CO2 concentrations we'll be looking at in 100 years.
It's not really poking holes when you say, "How about we use average estimate instead of the doubling the worst case estimates". If you run the projections on average, or even plain worst case scenario numbers, you don't get a scary story. Even taking the UN's worst case scenario, you get a temp increase of like 7 c over the next 100 years, and that pretty much assumes that we make no progress in alternative energy, which seems pretty pessimistic.
How was the search engine arena less mature than other areas they got into? Internet search has been around a lot longer than: mapping sites, webmail, etc. The difference is that they came in with a significant advantage in searching. I think there other apps have definitely been improvements over existing options, but not by as big a margin as their search was.
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farble, I'm impressed by Bruce's patience in not smacking you down earlier. Google and looking at UIDs are your friend before you go wading into a fight with a legend.
Cynical translation: Advertising to consumers should be illegal, that way only doctors can be advertised to, in the form of kickbacks and invitations to "conferences".
I see a large difference between the government forcing two parties to do business vs a single business forcing a customer to go elsewhere.
From the sounds of his interviews, I think he believed that the information would carry more weight if the source was know. If these were just anonymous leaks, they would be easier to discredit. It seems like he was fully aware of the dangers, and what he would be giving up, and decided it was worth it.
I think he was right, the leaks carry more weight with a name behind them, and further, its clear to the public that he wouldn't put himself in this position just for the "fun" of releasing false information.
Interesting idea. I wonder how much demand would drop. Technically we could all be renting time on Amazon servers instead of owning our own machines, but instead the thin client never worked and we buy millions of computers.
You can call a taxi in may small cities if you are willing to wait 10 minutes for one to show up. Would automated drivers really speed that up? People own a car so they can be independent.
Yes, because there are more people starving today, or without heat, or other basic necessities than there were 50 years ago. Has inequality increased? Yes. But you can't ignore the fact that that the average person in the bottom 20% is better off today than in 1960.
And that's just in the US. Around the world millions have been raised out of poverty through the productivity increases from technology in manufacturing and agriculture.
In what universe were the equity holders of GM wiped out? The stock never dropped below 28 and now the UAW owns the largest piece valued at $4.8 billion. That the bond holders got a haircut rather than the equity holders was a travesty of contract law and an under the table handout to the union.
Not that the bailout of the banks was any better, but to suggest that the handling of GM is the correct method is crazy.
How about Combat Flight Sims? Seems like pretty slim pickings lately. Mostly more Arcade style than proper Sims like Falcon. And what about Formula 1, is GP4 still the best that can be done?
To use your example of diabetics, I'm sure many people could learn to better listen to their bodies, especially with a training aid such as a real time read our of what they are trying to listen to.
I'm sure many people have certain "feelings" in their body, either moods, or energy levels, that are familiar to them, but they can't correlate it with hydration level, blood sugar, or 10s of other things that might affect how your body feels.
But with a read out, we could learn that "oh, that feeling means a lower than normal (for them) level of testosterone", with out looking at the meter, and know that its time to get some exercise in.
But calibrating your "feelings" is very difficult at present, with out lots of trial and error, or training in sport. This might lead to wider availability of an athlete's level of body awareness.
How is it a "race to the bottom" when states compete provide the best services for the lowest price (tax burden)? To attract companies, states, and countries, must do two things. 1) Keep taxes low enough to attract business and employees, 2) Provide the services and infrastructure which will attract the best employees. Neither of these entail bending laws to benefit business. It is not about favoring business over people, or the other way around. It is about removing favoritism and letting people get on with improving their way of life.
Is this hard? Of course it is, welcome to the real world where there is no free lunch.
Make no mistake, if our states do not start competing for business, then other countries will.
If you are interested in concept of using hardlinks to simplify your back experience, you can either set something up manually with rsync, or you can check out Dirvish: http://www.dirvish.org/ .
As other have pointed out, the pieces that are missing are:
1) No directory hardlinks, meaning you backups take up more space than you would like, since you have to create the whole directory structure, and then hardlink each file.
2) No FSEvents, so a full tree compare must be done by rsync each backup. So backups are not instantaneous, and are a bit intensive
3) No nifty interface
All that said, if you read the ArsTecnica article about how the Time Machine backups are stored, they are stored in a manner almost identical to Dirvish.
For me Dirvish makes it trivial to have a backup taken each night, with various expiration rules, and each backup being essentially an incremental backup.
Actually, logarithmic plots are often used in finance. The scale accurately portrays the effects of compounding. Only problem they are usually used on the way up...
FWIW, the Google interview process I was involved with was much quicker than I expected. 3 phone interviews and an on site in the span of about a month. From first contact to job offer was about 6 weeks. It is surprising how quickly their workforce is growing.
Where are these positives articles about Iraq which you speak of?
Are you talking about a strict limit on market share, over which a company is designated a monopoly? No such thing exists.
Intel is making chips with better performance per $ and per watt. What makes you think they should be punished for this?
Not so long ago, AMD was wiping the floor with Intel and gained significant market share. That alone suggests that Intel does not have exploitable control of the market.
The analogy is not with what they are trying to prevent, but with the powers they are asking for. A private organization should not be given the powers of search and seizure, that's what the button makers wanted, and that's what the MPAA and RIAA want. They want to enforce laws to their own standards, and that's insane. At the level of an individual they would be called vigilantes.
Can't agree with this more. Some additional goals:
1) Save 15% of your pre-tax income in a tax-free account, whether this be a 401k, a Keough, or whatever.
2) Budget to understand where your money is going. I don't follow a budget all the time, but I have tracked my expenses for a month or two so I have a pretty good idea what I spend my money on.
3) Treat raises and bonuses as extras, give yourself (or family) a small gift and save the rest. If you get a 5% raise, increase you 401k contribution 4%.
4) Run a spreadsheet out with an amount, say $100, compounding at 10% annually (multiply the above cell by 1.1) for the number of years between now and when you want to retire. See what it adds up to and think about that value when considering spending now.
I'm not there yet, but it does feel good to not have debt hanging over you, and I'm sure I'll feel even better when I can walk aware from a job for a few months with no problem.
Yes, reshaping the federal budget and undoing 50 years of deficit spending would be much easy than changing the composition of a few coins...
I could be wrong, but I think Skype does a much better job than most SIP software at getting around firewall and NAT issues. It is really plug and play. No download this software, sign up for a SIP number with this service, and configure your software. Just download a client which works just like the IM client you are used to and go.
Oh crap, yes, you're right. I hope most readers pick up on that. Hmm... Note to self: Firefox spell checking does not remove the need to Preview.
Born Lomborg, the author of the Skeptical Environmentalist, that Hemos mentioned certainly does NOT deny that global warming is real. The best I can sum up his points are:
* The level of anthropogenic heating is unclear.
* Climate predictions routinely exaggerate changes or use worst case scenarios
* Cost calculations of warming frequently omit: benefits of warming (fewer people dying of cold weather, better crop yields), technological improvements, and behavior adaptation
* Given that the mechanisms driving warming (and there for the effectiveness of proposed solutions) is unclear, and the cost usually exagerated, it would be unwise to devote huge sums to this problem. Instead look for problems where the benefit is clear and a solution is available (such as providing clean water to the worlds poor) to spend this money on.
Anyone who is interested in this and other environmental issues must read his book. He set out years ago to debunk the claims of Julian Simon, and found himself changing his mind the more statistics he researched.
He does claim that everything is hunky dorry, or that there are no problems. What he advocates is a rational examination of problems and their costs so that we can evaluate the best course of action.
Is this really an area we need more laws about? The dangers of cookies have been overblown for a long time. Not to mention that fact that all browsers give the user more than adequate control over their cookies.
If this is the best thing the FCC can find to waste their time on, then they have become worthless.
Actually I'd say the real questions are:
How much is the earth warming? This is still a very much open question, and is what this article deals with.
How much will it cost deal with this warming, either by adapting (moving inland, etc) or stopping the warming? We are talking about gradual changes here. The sea levels are not going to suddenly rise 10 feet in a month, it will happen over decades. Maybe adaptation is cheaper than stopping the warming? Maybe a combination is better.
The Earth is warming, but the causes of this, and the magnitude of problem it creates (a small amount of warming can be a good thing), are open to enough debate that throwing hundreds of billions of dollars at the problem now would be foolish.
Except that in this case, the general consensus is usually based on worst case projections and copious amounts of rounding up. For instance a 1% annual growth in atmospheric CO2 is commonly used in projections, like the Stern report. The problem is that the actual rate is more like 0.35%. Now maybe it will double in the next 50 years to 0.70%, but that is still far different from saying CO2 will grow at 1% from today on. It grossly exaggerates the CO2 concentrations we'll be looking at in 100 years.
It's not really poking holes when you say, "How about we use average estimate instead of the doubling the worst case estimates". If you run the projections on average, or even plain worst case scenario numbers, you don't get a scary story. Even taking the UN's worst case scenario, you get a temp increase of like 7 c over the next 100 years, and that pretty much assumes that we make no progress in alternative energy, which seems pretty pessimistic.
How was the search engine arena less mature than other areas they got into? Internet search has been around a lot longer than: mapping sites, webmail, etc. The difference is that they came in with a significant advantage in searching. I think there other apps have definitely been improvements over existing options, but not by as big a margin as their search was.