I think the most likely disaster scenario for Reading PA would be a meteor impact. That area of the country just doesn't get much in the way of natural catastrophes unless you happen to be right next to a river or creek that can flood. I think a tornado makes the news about once every three years and is generally confirmed by the lawn furniture being dispersed in a non-linear pattern.
Sure, it can happen, but it is about as uneventful an area as you'll find.
Oh, ice storm is another failure mode for sure - you can certainly get those around there.
Yeah, Reading PA. Go look it up on a map. They weren't going to be having multiple substation outages that far inland. My own workplace didn't lose power and is about 20 miles further East. It doesn't hurt that they're about 200 yards from a substation and that both the substation and the plant site are fed by transmission lines on steel towards that stand WAY above the height of nearby trees.
Most of the outages for Sandy were due to flooding or downed trees. The former was only a problem along the coast or near rivers, and really a big problem for NYC where they have transmission equipment underground. Trees are horrible for the last mile of power delivery, but aren't an issue for the major substations, since if you drive by one of them you'll note that the transmission lines are WAY up in the air, and the trees are trimmed back a huge distance on either side of them anyway. The towers themselves are steel and on concrete foundations - they're not going to fall unless they're hit by something like a tornado.
The reason so many lost power wasn't because of transmission being cut, but by a bazillion downed trees taking out every other telephone pole in the region. If you want an IT analogy imagine if all your big network feeds and datacenter are intact, but some vandal walks around your building and sticks a firecracker next to every single network port.
For an inland location like Reading PA, this was just a matter of having either good power connectivity, or generators. Wilmington is next to the Delaware Bay and would be at more risk, but as long as you're at reasonable elevation and above-ground you'd be fine.
You know about text flowing across your screen. Grow up an use Arch.
About the only time I watch text flowing up my screen is when I'm building a kernel. The Gentoo package manger no longer directs compiler output to the screen unless that is what you want - and it isn't even supported if you install multiple packages in parallel.
In any case, I was using make and MASM more than 20 years ago, so I'm pretty confident I know what a compiler is.
Uh, I run Gentoo. I think I know a thing or two about compiling from source.:)
If I want to use something that isn't packaged, I just package it myself. I don't go running random installers are root and dealing with the aftermath.
Keep in mind that this isn't a distro-wide move - I doubt the default udev will be changing anytime soon on Gentoo.
On Gentoo any dev can start an official project at any time. Gentoo is about choice. Keep in mind that with Gentoo swapping out init implementations or things like udev isn't much harder than changing desktop enviornments on most other distros. There are some using busybox mdev as an alternative to udev since things started getting tense. I've got a systemd-based Gentoo box and an openrc-based one, and both work just fine with automatic updates.
However, assuming this fork takes off, I suspect it will be a popular option on Gentoo.
How about the fact that I'd like to actually be able to cleanly undo all the stuff that the installer did, and vendor who made that installer has no incentive to allow that.
Why do you think people have to reinstall their windows systems every few years just to keep them working normally?
You left out another step - buy utility after utility to de-cruft your system, and do a complete reinstall every year or two to get it to work right again.
Oh, and don't forget about having 47 processes running night and day, each of which only exists to update some particular program.
When the package manager does all the work, then getting rid of cruft is just a matter of asking it to remove it for you. No collision problems, no orphan files, and so on.
Some package managers do make it easier to package up the output of manual installers, but this usually requires at least somewhat cooperative installers to begin with.
Read Linus's arguments. The issue is that apparently certain types of devices drivers that can't be initialized without loading firmware, as it is not possible for them to identify what kind of devices are present/etc otherwise. So, the system can't tell what kinds of devices to create as a result, and then nothing will ever be able to open it anyway.
In theory the idea was a good one, but in practice it didn't really work out, and simply breaking a bunch of devices with no fix possible just isn't acceptable.
Linus wasn't complaining that they should wait forever for driver authors to catch up. He was complaining that it wasn't possible for them to catch up.
What about double-spending? I would think that this would be the main reason to delay accepting a transaction until it is in the block chain. That essentially makes it final - otherwise I could go spend my entire balance at 15 places at the same time and none would be the wiser if they didn't wait for things to propagate.
Alas, it is also apparently required to get the MythTV Android remote features to work. I might consider running it but for the fact that I started using the.local domain for my internal network long before avahi came along and I really don't want to reconfigure everything.
Well, systemd is in fact packaged and working on Gentoo - in fact I use it on a Gentoo VM. Gentoo is, after all, about choice.
I see the fork as being positive in that regard - keeps everybody honest and gives the end user more choices. As long as somebody is willing to maintain it, Gentoo will accept it.
I think the general concern is that while the shareholders will lose all their money, the people who are effectively running the company have extracted that value through fees/etc. It sounds like a variation on hollywood accounting - the company is worth nothing, but the people running the company extracted all the value and can now make the company bankrupt to discharge all kinds of liabilities, then use the money they accumulated to either buy back the assets and repeat, or they can go do the same to some other company.
Sometimes I think pensions should be banned. Or, they should be placed in escrowed accounts and be purely defined contribution.
The problem with your logic is that you KNEW there wouldn't be a pension so you negotiated a salary accordingly. That is vastly different than accepting a lower salary in the expectation of receiving a nice pension. Since most defined-benefit pension plans use a formula that amounts to workers putting in time for 20 years and then accruing all their benefits in the last 10 or so, the company has effectively taken the employee's time, but are now denying the opportunity to accrue the benefit.
The way pensions are generally funded is a big sham - and it has the backing of the courts.
That seems odd. I thought that bitcoins could only change hands when a new block is added to the chain, or something like that. While I'm sure that happens multiple times per day, I doubt it happens in the matter of seconds a credit card transaction takes.
Now, you could probably post the transaction quickly, but it wouldn't be verified/etc until the next block comes along. I'd need to re-read the docs to be sure on that...
Yup, it is like having a car with a proprietary cigarette light adapter plug because the vendor is concerned that you'll short it out with a bad device.
Or like having phones hard-wired into the system by the telephone company (used to be standard practice). I hear there are still people paying a few bucks a month to rent a battleship phone from the 50s.
If my VGA card fries the motherboard feel free to not honor the warranty, but you can't pull that excuse when the damage is not attributable to something you attached.
Warranty laws are too heavily abused. If anything if the vendors can't agree on who is at fault then they should all have to write a check and then fight it out in court or arbitration among themselves. The whole system where the consumer is left to rot while everybody points fingers doesn't work.
Yeah, I'm an Android fan, but I don't put much stock in 3Q numbers for exactly that reason. I'd be more interested in total market share (of all devices currently in use), or year-to-year comparisons, or something that minimizes the peaks/valleys of the Apple sales cycle.
I think Android is growing, but you can't look at just a single quarter and tell anything.
Maybe, but keen in mind that McDonalds probably makes more money than any 5-star restaurant in the world. It might make more money than all of them combined.
I think the right market depends on the app, and the intended market. If you're selling diamond studded leather phone cases, make it for the iPhone. If you're selling 99 cent cases by the train car, then make sure it fits whatever Verizon or ATT is giving away for free with their data plan.
True, and software vendors make money on OSX, especially in particular niches. However, no vendor is going to outright ignore the Windows market, because starting out by not supporting 95% of the desktop PC market just isn't a good move.
Sure, maybe iOS users spend more on apps, but at some point the numbers really do matter. Plus, on Android vendors have a lot more freedom - as long as you're not shipping malware you can stick whatever you want in the Play store, and even if you can't chances are you can stick it in some other store, or even just distribute apks on your website if you're desperate.
If you plan on you app being funded by ad revenue then Android is a no-brainer - you just care about eyeballs, and Android has the most eyeballs.
From my observations, I've concluded that no organizational group works toward reducing its size, reducing the amount of its discretionary budget, or increasing its accountability for the preceding.
Any exceptions?
Yes - ones that are directly overseen by the company owner. When you're the one paying for everything, suddenly there is a whole lot to be said for efficiency.
Well, that was the whole point of the game. Since nobody can be certain if a particular fix will or won't work, negotiations are hampered as risk is a continual slide and spending too much is a "waste." If you think that there is no climate change risk then any amount is too much, and if you think it is likely then no amount is too much, and then you have every position in-between. Any which way you benefit from anything others spend, so you have incentive to try to get others to fix the problem for you.
Yup, but the tolerances and checks are only that lax because nobody systematically abuses them. If inspectors found that 5 consecutive gas stations checked for a particular company were all out of spec I would imagine that the schedule would be stepped up.
I don't work in the gas industry, but from the experiences I've had with regulatory audits they tend to start out easy and then either they wrap up in a day or two with few issues, or you end up with a team camped out at your company for six months with the CEO asking for daily updates. They'll pick a few files here and there fishing around, and if they generally like what they see they go away. If they don't like what they see they start asking for more files, or they start systematically going through every little thing you do. Companies that have enough problems to get spotted in the spot checks usually have pervasive issues.
And that is probably how it should be - trust but verify, and if verify turns out bad, then no more trust.
The statement just said that mass was the same "in space." That would mean that the mass of an object is constant no matter where in the universe it might be. I only mentioned orbit as a situation where an object has no weight. Would your mass be the same if you were standing next to the Great Attractor - who knows?
Well, the other side of that is that there would be much more pressure to reform laws. If EVERYBODY who drive 56mph in a 55 zone got a fine every time this happened you'd see a huge uproar, since the speed limits are usually unreasonable (by design 20% of the population is SUPPOSED TO BE violating them at any given time, and if anything they're set even lower than that).
Seems like the solution would involve cameras, 4G, and a write-only cloud service.
I've sometimes contemplated what it would be like to record everything that goes on around me and data mine it, and perhaps even publish it. Imagine if lots of people just published logs of all the license plates and facial GUIDs that drove past their homes. There might no longer be privacy, but there wouldn't be secrets either.
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I think the most likely disaster scenario for Reading PA would be a meteor impact. That area of the country just doesn't get much in the way of natural catastrophes unless you happen to be right next to a river or creek that can flood. I think a tornado makes the news about once every three years and is generally confirmed by the lawn furniture being dispersed in a non-linear pattern.
Sure, it can happen, but it is about as uneventful an area as you'll find.
Oh, ice storm is another failure mode for sure - you can certainly get those around there.
Yeah, Reading PA. Go look it up on a map. They weren't going to be having multiple substation outages that far inland. My own workplace didn't lose power and is about 20 miles further East. It doesn't hurt that they're about 200 yards from a substation and that both the substation and the plant site are fed by transmission lines on steel towards that stand WAY above the height of nearby trees.
Most of the outages for Sandy were due to flooding or downed trees. The former was only a problem along the coast or near rivers, and really a big problem for NYC where they have transmission equipment underground. Trees are horrible for the last mile of power delivery, but aren't an issue for the major substations, since if you drive by one of them you'll note that the transmission lines are WAY up in the air, and the trees are trimmed back a huge distance on either side of them anyway. The towers themselves are steel and on concrete foundations - they're not going to fall unless they're hit by something like a tornado.
The reason so many lost power wasn't because of transmission being cut, but by a bazillion downed trees taking out every other telephone pole in the region. If you want an IT analogy imagine if all your big network feeds and datacenter are intact, but some vandal walks around your building and sticks a firecracker next to every single network port.
For an inland location like Reading PA, this was just a matter of having either good power connectivity, or generators. Wilmington is next to the Delaware Bay and would be at more risk, but as long as you're at reasonable elevation and above-ground you'd be fine.
You know about text flowing across your screen. Grow up an use Arch.
About the only time I watch text flowing up my screen is when I'm building a kernel. The Gentoo package manger no longer directs compiler output to the screen unless that is what you want - and it isn't even supported if you install multiple packages in parallel.
In any case, I was using make and MASM more than 20 years ago, so I'm pretty confident I know what a compiler is.
Uh, I run Gentoo. I think I know a thing or two about compiling from source. :)
If I want to use something that isn't packaged, I just package it myself. I don't go running random installers are root and dealing with the aftermath.
Keep in mind that this isn't a distro-wide move - I doubt the default udev will be changing anytime soon on Gentoo.
On Gentoo any dev can start an official project at any time. Gentoo is about choice. Keep in mind that with Gentoo swapping out init implementations or things like udev isn't much harder than changing desktop enviornments on most other distros. There are some using busybox mdev as an alternative to udev since things started getting tense. I've got a systemd-based Gentoo box and an openrc-based one, and both work just fine with automatic updates.
However, assuming this fork takes off, I suspect it will be a popular option on Gentoo.
How about the fact that I'd like to actually be able to cleanly undo all the stuff that the installer did, and vendor who made that installer has no incentive to allow that.
Why do you think people have to reinstall their windows systems every few years just to keep them working normally?
You left out another step - buy utility after utility to de-cruft your system, and do a complete reinstall every year or two to get it to work right again.
Oh, and don't forget about having 47 processes running night and day, each of which only exists to update some particular program.
When the package manager does all the work, then getting rid of cruft is just a matter of asking it to remove it for you. No collision problems, no orphan files, and so on.
Some package managers do make it easier to package up the output of manual installers, but this usually requires at least somewhat cooperative installers to begin with.
Read Linus's arguments. The issue is that apparently certain types of devices drivers that can't be initialized without loading firmware, as it is not possible for them to identify what kind of devices are present/etc otherwise. So, the system can't tell what kinds of devices to create as a result, and then nothing will ever be able to open it anyway.
In theory the idea was a good one, but in practice it didn't really work out, and simply breaking a bunch of devices with no fix possible just isn't acceptable.
Linus wasn't complaining that they should wait forever for driver authors to catch up. He was complaining that it wasn't possible for them to catch up.
What about double-spending? I would think that this would be the main reason to delay accepting a transaction until it is in the block chain. That essentially makes it final - otherwise I could go spend my entire balance at 15 places at the same time and none would be the wiser if they didn't wait for things to propagate.
Alas, it is also apparently required to get the MythTV Android remote features to work. I might consider running it but for the fact that I started using the .local domain for my internal network long before avahi came along and I really don't want to reconfigure everything.
Well, systemd is in fact packaged and working on Gentoo - in fact I use it on a Gentoo VM. Gentoo is, after all, about choice.
I see the fork as being positive in that regard - keeps everybody honest and gives the end user more choices. As long as somebody is willing to maintain it, Gentoo will accept it.
I think the general concern is that while the shareholders will lose all their money, the people who are effectively running the company have extracted that value through fees/etc. It sounds like a variation on hollywood accounting - the company is worth nothing, but the people running the company extracted all the value and can now make the company bankrupt to discharge all kinds of liabilities, then use the money they accumulated to either buy back the assets and repeat, or they can go do the same to some other company.
Sometimes I think pensions should be banned. Or, they should be placed in escrowed accounts and be purely defined contribution.
The problem with your logic is that you KNEW there wouldn't be a pension so you negotiated a salary accordingly. That is vastly different than accepting a lower salary in the expectation of receiving a nice pension. Since most defined-benefit pension plans use a formula that amounts to workers putting in time for 20 years and then accruing all their benefits in the last 10 or so, the company has effectively taken the employee's time, but are now denying the opportunity to accrue the benefit.
The way pensions are generally funded is a big sham - and it has the backing of the courts.
That seems odd. I thought that bitcoins could only change hands when a new block is added to the chain, or something like that. While I'm sure that happens multiple times per day, I doubt it happens in the matter of seconds a credit card transaction takes.
Now, you could probably post the transaction quickly, but it wouldn't be verified/etc until the next block comes along. I'd need to re-read the docs to be sure on that...
Yup, it is like having a car with a proprietary cigarette light adapter plug because the vendor is concerned that you'll short it out with a bad device.
Or like having phones hard-wired into the system by the telephone company (used to be standard practice). I hear there are still people paying a few bucks a month to rent a battleship phone from the 50s.
If my VGA card fries the motherboard feel free to not honor the warranty, but you can't pull that excuse when the damage is not attributable to something you attached.
Warranty laws are too heavily abused. If anything if the vendors can't agree on who is at fault then they should all have to write a check and then fight it out in court or arbitration among themselves. The whole system where the consumer is left to rot while everybody points fingers doesn't work.
Yeah, I'm an Android fan, but I don't put much stock in 3Q numbers for exactly that reason. I'd be more interested in total market share (of all devices currently in use), or year-to-year comparisons, or something that minimizes the peaks/valleys of the Apple sales cycle.
I think Android is growing, but you can't look at just a single quarter and tell anything.
Maybe, but keen in mind that McDonalds probably makes more money than any 5-star restaurant in the world. It might make more money than all of them combined.
I think the right market depends on the app, and the intended market. If you're selling diamond studded leather phone cases, make it for the iPhone. If you're selling 99 cent cases by the train car, then make sure it fits whatever Verizon or ATT is giving away for free with their data plan.
True, and software vendors make money on OSX, especially in particular niches. However, no vendor is going to outright ignore the Windows market, because starting out by not supporting 95% of the desktop PC market just isn't a good move.
Sure, maybe iOS users spend more on apps, but at some point the numbers really do matter. Plus, on Android vendors have a lot more freedom - as long as you're not shipping malware you can stick whatever you want in the Play store, and even if you can't chances are you can stick it in some other store, or even just distribute apks on your website if you're desperate.
If you plan on you app being funded by ad revenue then Android is a no-brainer - you just care about eyeballs, and Android has the most eyeballs.
Well, presumably if the ERP vendor is getting paid the USAF already has some kind of ERP system.
From my observations, I've concluded that no organizational group works toward reducing its size, reducing the amount of its discretionary budget, or increasing its accountability for the preceding.
Any exceptions?
Yes - ones that are directly overseen by the company owner. When you're the one paying for everything, suddenly there is a whole lot to be said for efficiency.
Well, that was the whole point of the game. Since nobody can be certain if a particular fix will or won't work, negotiations are hampered as risk is a continual slide and spending too much is a "waste." If you think that there is no climate change risk then any amount is too much, and if you think it is likely then no amount is too much, and then you have every position in-between. Any which way you benefit from anything others spend, so you have incentive to try to get others to fix the problem for you.
Yup, but the tolerances and checks are only that lax because nobody systematically abuses them. If inspectors found that 5 consecutive gas stations checked for a particular company were all out of spec I would imagine that the schedule would be stepped up.
I don't work in the gas industry, but from the experiences I've had with regulatory audits they tend to start out easy and then either they wrap up in a day or two with few issues, or you end up with a team camped out at your company for six months with the CEO asking for daily updates. They'll pick a few files here and there fishing around, and if they generally like what they see they go away. If they don't like what they see they start asking for more files, or they start systematically going through every little thing you do. Companies that have enough problems to get spotted in the spot checks usually have pervasive issues.
And that is probably how it should be - trust but verify, and if verify turns out bad, then no more trust.
The statement just said that mass was the same "in space." That would mean that the mass of an object is constant no matter where in the universe it might be. I only mentioned orbit as a situation where an object has no weight. Would your mass be the same if you were standing next to the Great Attractor - who knows?
Well, the other side of that is that there would be much more pressure to reform laws. If EVERYBODY who drive 56mph in a 55 zone got a fine every time this happened you'd see a huge uproar, since the speed limits are usually unreasonable (by design 20% of the population is SUPPOSED TO BE violating them at any given time, and if anything they're set even lower than that).
Seems like the solution would involve cameras, 4G, and a write-only cloud service.
I've sometimes contemplated what it would be like to record everything that goes on around me and data mine it, and perhaps even publish it. Imagine if lots of people just published logs of all the license plates and facial GUIDs that drove past their homes. There might no longer be privacy, but there wouldn't be secrets either.