Dude, that's pure BS, today probably less than 1% of cars run Waze and yet it helps tremendously with traffic recognition, to the point that Google bought them primarily to feed better traffic info into maps. If you figure the average age of the US vehicle fleet is 11.4 years that means you turn over ~4% of the fleet each year resulting in a huge network effect year one and a stupid high effect by year 5.
Banks, they're extremely conservative and NDS's ability to replicate a sub-portion of the directory to each branch location helps keep bandwidth usage down, which can be important if you have hundreds or thousands of locations in podunk towns. I can also see using it if you're a anti-MS shop as it's the best directory server other than AD.
I'm not seeing anything about the alerts being via satellite other than the fact that CAP alerts go out to the stations via PRSS, the end devices only receive the alert from the digital subchannel from the participating stations. As to the cell network being overloaded, EWS messages go out as broadcast SMS messages which means if your cellphone is on it will receive the message, data and voice channels being overloaded won't stop your phone from receiving SMS.
Meh, the problem is also solved via the EWS warnings going out via cellular towers, most folks today carry a cellphone and all new ones have to have EWS alerts available. (though I do have a problem with the EWS targeting, they know which tower and concentrator you are talking to, why do they give tornado warnings for the other side of the state?). In an emergency it's a lot more likely your cellphone will work than your tv (and solar chargers that will power your cellphone are small and inexpensive, though the fuel for the tower probably becomes a problem first).
I generally avoid ads (I use comskip on my DVR and adblock + flashblock on my web browsers), but the superbowl brings out enough creativity that some of the spots are works of art. Take the Apple 1984 ad, it's a piece of short cinematic genius and is talked about 30 years later.
The housing bubble will eventually burst though. It's just a matter of time
Well duh, average home prices can't exceed levels where mortgage payments exceed ~33% of after tax median income for any significant amount of time because that's what people can actually afford to pay for housing without incurring significant debt in other areas which will eventually lead to default. That's why people cheering about home prices rebounding puzzle me, I figured the best thing that could happen to the housing market would be a decade of price stagnation allowing inflation to bring average prices back to more normal and sustainable levels without putting more people under water.
Exactly, between the local stations here in NE Ohio they have about 10x as many doppler radars available than the NWS which means if you're looking for the most up to date info scanning the local stations during a severe weather update is going to be better than looking at the 5 minute NOAA sweep.
Most business apps are written in java (as understood by one or two supported java server engines, probably not the ones available on ARM unless one of those happens to be Apache Tomcat). Seriously, most of the time even upgrading the java server to a newer subrelease will break things for any non-trivial application which is why you have very specific requirements in the support matrix.
It doesn't matter what you set your router too, that just keeps old protocol devices from associating to that SSID, if those devices are anywhere within range of your equipment they will cause all communications on those bands to be severely hampered (I believe one b device can cause an.11n network to achieve actual speeds lower than typical g without interference)
You say NASCAR is easy but the only top driver from another series to ever do well in NASCAR was Andretti, every other driver to come over has been in the bottom 20% or so. With the money available in NASCAR you'd think that more than a few top to mid pack drivers from other top series would be tempted to cross over for the 'easy' driving.
Actually, here's the point, today many, many embedded systems on odd architectures use gcc as it's the low cost easy to port compiler of choice. Due to the copyleft license any changes these platform developers make to gcc and distribute to users have to be released back to the community so open source systems can easily be ported to the platform. If you let them just take the compiler work and make their own proprietary compiler that platform may never be able to be supported by open systems.
Nope, net neutrality said you had to be neutral with respect to content, it did nothing to restrict normal operations of ISP's and their network management. In fact Comcast came out with a content neutral traffic management system (rfc6057) specifically to comply with net neutrality.
Comcast for all their faults actually had the proper solution for this problem, as a node becomes congested they look at the top few percent of users and throttle their connection, if the top few percent doesn't alleviate the congestion they move on to the next few percent, etc. Once they reach ~10% of users being throttled they upgrade the backhaul for the node or split the node depending on where the congestion is. None of the shenanigans with monthly download limits or metered billing, attack the actual problem. Unfortunately they later added on a monthly download limit (though at 250GB it is pretty generous compared to their peers). Comcast even published their system as rfc6057.
Hehe, I used to move config files between my Solaris 9 system and the RH based release we were developing for desktop use at a large networking company, ~80% of the time the config would work without modification.
I had the option of taking AP CS in high school, instead I took the postsecondary enrollment option and took college C and C++ courses at the local engineering school, a much better use of my time and a much better way to prepare for a college CS program.
Since they have to go through the FISA court for warrants to do the searches now the bandwidth of the court will limit their ability to dragnet like that. I have my own problems with the FISA court system but at least it does add an additional party looking over the requests and the small size of the court reduces the amount of work that can be done requiring the NSA to actually focus their work to real suspects. This change is good for American freedom from a surveillance state and it's probably good for our security as well as the analysts will be looking at sets of data with a higher signal to noise ratio.
Windows 7 embedded is supported through July 27, 2025, that's one reason these kind of applications have flocked to MS, they offer longer support than even IBM for a given OS release.
What makes you think the banks don't have full access to the source of XPe? Major companies, governments, and many academic institutions have access to the Windows source code. Trust me, anyone forking over the millions for an extended support agreement with MS can get access to the source if they need to.
Plus the XP part of the ATM has nothing to do with the network, that's all handled by IBM black box crypto modules (or at least it was when I worked as a field tech for Global Services, we could do maintenance work on the PC running the GUI but there was a special group for handling the crypto boxes).
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Dude, that's pure BS, today probably less than 1% of cars run Waze and yet it helps tremendously with traffic recognition, to the point that Google bought them primarily to feed better traffic info into maps. If you figure the average age of the US vehicle fleet is 11.4 years that means you turn over ~4% of the fleet each year resulting in a huge network effect year one and a stupid high effect by year 5.
Banks, they're extremely conservative and NDS's ability to replicate a sub-portion of the directory to each branch location helps keep bandwidth usage down, which can be important if you have hundreds or thousands of locations in podunk towns. I can also see using it if you're a anti-MS shop as it's the best directory server other than AD.
I'm not seeing anything about the alerts being via satellite other than the fact that CAP alerts go out to the stations via PRSS, the end devices only receive the alert from the digital subchannel from the participating stations. As to the cell network being overloaded, EWS messages go out as broadcast SMS messages which means if your cellphone is on it will receive the message, data and voice channels being overloaded won't stop your phone from receiving SMS.
Meh, the problem is also solved via the EWS warnings going out via cellular towers, most folks today carry a cellphone and all new ones have to have EWS alerts available. (though I do have a problem with the EWS targeting, they know which tower and concentrator you are talking to, why do they give tornado warnings for the other side of the state?). In an emergency it's a lot more likely your cellphone will work than your tv (and solar chargers that will power your cellphone are small and inexpensive, though the fuel for the tower probably becomes a problem first).
I generally avoid ads (I use comskip on my DVR and adblock + flashblock on my web browsers), but the superbowl brings out enough creativity that some of the spots are works of art. Take the Apple 1984 ad, it's a piece of short cinematic genius and is talked about 30 years later.
The housing bubble will eventually burst though. It's just a matter of time
Well duh, average home prices can't exceed levels where mortgage payments exceed ~33% of after tax median income for any significant amount of time because that's what people can actually afford to pay for housing without incurring significant debt in other areas which will eventually lead to default. That's why people cheering about home prices rebounding puzzle me, I figured the best thing that could happen to the housing market would be a decade of price stagnation allowing inflation to bring average prices back to more normal and sustainable levels without putting more people under water.
Exactly, between the local stations here in NE Ohio they have about 10x as many doppler radars available than the NWS which means if you're looking for the most up to date info scanning the local stations during a severe weather update is going to be better than looking at the 5 minute NOAA sweep.
Microsoft supports Windows (kinda), on ARM
FTFY, MS only supports a limited set of the Windows 8 client piece on ARM (specifically Modern UI based apps)
Most business apps are written in java (as understood by one or two supported java server engines, probably not the ones available on ARM unless one of those happens to be Apache Tomcat). Seriously, most of the time even upgrading the java server to a newer subrelease will break things for any non-trivial application which is why you have very specific requirements in the support matrix.
It doesn't matter what you set your router too, that just keeps old protocol devices from associating to that SSID, if those devices are anywhere within range of your equipment they will cause all communications on those bands to be severely hampered (I believe one b device can cause an .11n network to achieve actual speeds lower than typical g without interference)
You say NASCAR is easy but the only top driver from another series to ever do well in NASCAR was Andretti, every other driver to come over has been in the bottom 20% or so. With the money available in NASCAR you'd think that more than a few top to mid pack drivers from other top series would be tempted to cross over for the 'easy' driving.
Your 90% figure is probably about right, KERS produce ~10% of engine output for 6.5 seconds per lap giving you around 10% energy recovery.
Actually, here's the point, today many, many embedded systems on odd architectures use gcc as it's the low cost easy to port compiler of choice. Due to the copyleft license any changes these platform developers make to gcc and distribute to users have to be released back to the community so open source systems can easily be ported to the platform. If you let them just take the compiler work and make their own proprietary compiler that platform may never be able to be supported by open systems.
You mean global services and software, right? Because THAT is where the money is.
Nope, net neutrality said you had to be neutral with respect to content, it did nothing to restrict normal operations of ISP's and their network management. In fact Comcast came out with a content neutral traffic management system (rfc6057) specifically to comply with net neutrality.
Comcast for all their faults actually had the proper solution for this problem, as a node becomes congested they look at the top few percent of users and throttle their connection, if the top few percent doesn't alleviate the congestion they move on to the next few percent, etc. Once they reach ~10% of users being throttled they upgrade the backhaul for the node or split the node depending on where the congestion is. None of the shenanigans with monthly download limits or metered billing, attack the actual problem. Unfortunately they later added on a monthly download limit (though at 250GB it is pretty generous compared to their peers). Comcast even published their system as rfc6057.
Hehe, I used to move config files between my Solaris 9 system and the RH based release we were developing for desktop use at a large networking company, ~80% of the time the config would work without modification.
Nobody in the Donner Party was prosecuted for murder.
I had the option of taking AP CS in high school, instead I took the postsecondary enrollment option and took college C and C++ courses at the local engineering school, a much better use of my time and a much better way to prepare for a college CS program.
Since they have to go through the FISA court for warrants to do the searches now the bandwidth of the court will limit their ability to dragnet like that. I have my own problems with the FISA court system but at least it does add an additional party looking over the requests and the small size of the court reduces the amount of work that can be done requiring the NSA to actually focus their work to real suspects. This change is good for American freedom from a surveillance state and it's probably good for our security as well as the analysts will be looking at sets of data with a higher signal to noise ratio.
XPe is supported through January 30, 2017, heck even NT4 embedded is supported through August 31, 2014 =)
Windows 7 embedded is supported through July 27, 2025, that's one reason these kind of applications have flocked to MS, they offer longer support than even IBM for a given OS release.
What makes you think the banks don't have full access to the source of XPe? Major companies, governments, and many academic institutions have access to the Windows source code. Trust me, anyone forking over the millions for an extended support agreement with MS can get access to the source if they need to.
Plus the XP part of the ATM has nothing to do with the network, that's all handled by IBM black box crypto modules (or at least it was when I worked as a field tech for Global Services, we could do maintenance work on the PC running the GUI but there was a special group for handling the crypto boxes).
Until it gets rolled out to all of Google's servers...
Which generally takes a couple days.