I'm fairly confident that nothing you mentioned happened before the 80s. In fact, likely the world was only created in the early 80s and everything else is a fabrication.
That fits fairly well with my recollection of things.
I just hope I can find my pants later, but it's possible those didn't exist either.
I'll fetch him. BREIN? Huh. I can get RIAA! We'll have a nightmare with MPAA, have a surprise party for SCO, Monsanto can do the catering, and then we'll have christening for Lodsys! All I have to do is snap my fingers and they'll be here. They're lining up to get here, and do you know why Jack? Should I tell you why? Hmm? Because here, in this world, the bad guys can win!
The Way Of Kings was on the list and I rather enjoyed it. It is however only the first book and the next isn't due any time soon. However, for a first book it is quite lengthy and does entertain.
I try to find newer material, but the market for high fantasy isn't exactly a crowded one.
I twiddled some bits on my timeline entry and set the year to 2099.
It showed all of my future friends, unfriends, posts and messages.
Unfortunately, it also ended in 22 days with my obituary being posted by friends.
I'm not one to focus on the negatives and now I can focus on tweaking a few posts for maximum content prior to my untimely demise. (I'll probably just copy and paste)
This is integrated into the vPro management utilities. vPro is a proprietary BMC featured in their laptops and desktops. I have only user end experience with this, but you really just want to think of it as a DRAC. The major difference here is that beyond being another management interface it is shared with the host nic.
Same technology and the primary difference is the level of exposure*1. vPro already offers remote kvm with a proprietary interface. Introducing VNC simply gives a better alternative to the already available management utilities.
It's an improvement, but not anything world shattering.
*1 Do you need any more reasons to be on the internet unprotected?
More then likely this is integrated at the BMC (baseboard management controller). While the BMC may be integrated into the system and a few values override some of the DMI it is not technically the BIOS. I've run into several systems with dead BMCs and they will happily chug along and act mostly normal. (DMI values revert to the BIOS provided values)
You can obtain the source to the FRU and play with your hearts content. Unfortunately, these are typically available on their high end S5000 and above series boards. SuperMicro makes some cheap boards with IPMI, but I don't know if it is a similar BMC setup. Now, the kicker is the BMC is just linux on a chip managed through IPMI. You can obtain and modify this to your hearts content. Though I don't know if they left out any bits and the system firmware is still a binary blob I believe.
Oops, originally it was in the title, but after a refresh/repaste it was left out.
Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH
The point however was not the particular model. There are likely newer better units on the market. I was advocating research to determine which particular model he might want. In my case, I don't vouch for the radio's prowess as I only use the wireless portion for a few mobile gadgets. Though at one point I did use a Roku, but as my home is wired with gigabit network in every room wireless isn't something I use regularly. Living in metro areas I've tend to have found latency spikes at random intervals rather annoying. (Three seperate units and netstumbler tend to agree interference as the cause.)
I once had neighbors who had so tossed so much interference into the air that I couldn't use blue tooth at more then five feet and still received interface with my phone in my shirt pocket.
This is my current router chosen because it was compatible with dd-wrt.
It isn't wholly free of issues and the initial linux firmware actually had a memory leak in the httpd service. Depending on how much free time you want to invest you can move away from the stable build and roll your own dd-wrt or open-wrt. The leak was corrected fairly quickly after the initial release.
It can get prissy if it runs for a few weeks, but I have always used nightly restarts to mitigate any long term issues. TBH I've always had that issue with DD-WRT and I've always scheduled nightly reboots. I could probably get by weekly, but I'm rarely online at 4am.
If you are in the market for something new and stable my suggestion would be to do what I would do. Pick your poison and browse their forums. It usually isn't difficult to see what the current favorite is and where there is popularity there is generally support.
Here is my basic guideline for what to look for... Find a supported and fairly popular device that meets your feature criteria. (External antenna, dual, chipset preference, etc) Determine how easy it is to upgrade and prevent bricking. (Unless you want a tricky alpha procedure and have extra time) Look at the recent release and review the initial setup instructions and upgrade instructions.
It seems like the latter two are the same. However, the first of the two is to ensure that a stable process actually exists and there are not vast reports of masonry at work. The second process is there to ensure you know what you are getting into pre-purchase. When you are looking for the shortest path to success a little ground work and notes can make the adventure entirely unadventurous.
These are by no means instructions for everyone to follow. I have at times purchased gear knowing the road ahead was going to be bumpy, but I really wanted said item to function. At the time, I didn't mind putting in the weekend to getting the device up and running. With the early Linksys device I spent some time putting together a cheap serial port and soldiered on the ttl to cmos adapter to play with the boot loader.
However, now I'm lazy and I have other projects to spend my efforts on. My guess is if you are asking these questions you don't want to take the low road either.
Actually, most newer SANs support even further tiered setup. Some will manage this automatically and others require a scan and move. Various technologies do this with varying levels of intricacy and transparency.
A few solutions looked at the heat map of access and would proactively move these to either SSD storage, traditional SAS storage or high density SATA storage. If you wanted to spring for the frontend cache systems they were sporting volatile cache based a memory backend. Though our workloads typically would just fly things right through the cache so it wouldn't provide much usefulness for the cost.
Everyone did it slightly different and there were some really newer implementations of the typical SAN environment. Our group being very geeky really liked one of the newer technologies, but everyone agreed it was a bit too new to gamble on. Sometimes vendors don't win out on just the geek points alone.
These guys are also happy to come out and talk about their technologies. I highly recommend picking at least four major vendors and talking about their technologies. It's just not going to be on the cheap side and chances are if you need that level of speed/durability it's because you can't lose data/system uptime.
Tablet serves a different function then my laptop. I managed to get one of the ultra portables at work and I like the low weight + dock for more functionality. However, if I'm just lounging around the tablet is nicer for simple things (you nailed it).
I've also found I enjoy e-book/pdf reading on the tablet either on the couch or just before/in bed.
I probably wouldn't have the laptop now if it wasn't free. Still, not going to dismiss the luxury and it's a tough choice at breakfast. In fact, the billion news apps replace reading the paper in the morning.
Redbox dvd rental is actually cheaper and I get more dvds per dollar. (assuming I remember to return them)
I had the one dvd rental plan and looking over my history the most I was able to achieve in a single month were four movies. It ranged between 3-4 even returning the next day. I simply moved to the streaming only plan and I can get my rental fix from various redbox locations. It's not the most convenient for some and they don't service all areas. Still, if it's available it's a better service for those who don't mind to pick up. Since I can preview what is available at a location and then reserve the title it provides a pretty good happy medium.
I also want to give a quick alternative shout out to my little Roku box. It has my prime account for crappy movies + unobx, crackle and a few other premium channels. There are also many various channels which provide a bit more entertainment.
This was actually brought up on one of the first labs on the first days of the core engineering classes.
It basically went along the lines of we are going to model this circuit and then we are going to build this circuit. Notice that some things show variance that your model doesn't show.
Then fast forward many years later and an engineer is telling me about how the A model of this particular something doesn't really perform how the A model used to. The harmonics are slightly different and as a result the board I was repairing was going to be noisy. So what I really wanted was... (I forget the specifics or which guy I was speaking to as it was a very long time ago)
In fairness, I was repairing a card for an exciter that was 27 years old at the time and every component was failing due to age. I literally ordered the closest components I could find on newark and gave it a shot at resurrecting it. The card actually survived the ordeal, but the negative 27vdc on the power supply kept shorting. (Never did get back to the rebuild sadly). I suppose it didn't really matter because the recommended color adjustment procedure was to run it through color bars and adjust while monitoring via a spectrum analyzer. Even a used analyzer was more expensive then sending it off to a shop for repair that had the actual equipment. (Still, might have been able to eye ball it on the air at night;) )
Since you completely missed the point of anything there and went on a random rant in reply...
What's the difference between a post apocalyptic thermonuclear wasteland and Kansas? At least among the rubble and mutants in the wasteland there is something to do!
In fact, the whole conversation seems so misplaced it seems like a robotext running on keywords. I believe it's worth a shot to give it a test, no?
As a TSA representative how many penis's have you witnessed? I want to compare it with the number of breasts I've seen on the internet. (I'm still thinking I lose on this one and I've seen a lot of tits!)
Unless you were contractually required to keep the raw there is no screwing. You won't get some free cash just by tweaking, but it rather might just be time to create a new spot.
When I worked in the broadcast industry we typically kept the raw footage, a backup of the project file and components and the final work. The final work would be in numerous locations beyond the production environment if it was a current production spot. In that case it would be loaded in playout systems and stored in the backup systems as well.
While we did try to keep some older NLEs kicking around in case we wanted to quickly revamp a spot it wasn't unheard of to ingest the raw footage or pull the clips from the project file backup. There was an instance where someone wanted their REALLLY old spot brought back to life and there was only one extremely long raw beta tape sitting around. I kid you not... when the material was shot it was on BETA. Someone actually found the old finished spot on beta in storage and there was much rejoicing.
In summary, if you are reasonably prepared and work in a commercial environment it isn't difficult to not be bitten by the upgrade bug. In our case, upgrades were the least of our worries most of the time. Really, the people this impacts are those who are utilizing poor recovery strategies.
While checking through at the airport a few months back I was going through the standard scans. After placing my items in the bins (o so many bins, damn you electronic devices) I'm left to stand while they take a peek at my penis (to determine if it's worthy of flight).
The agent nearby asks me to keep an eye on my items as they pass through. I suppose if I'm busy watching my things they are free to do other things (like giggle at my pictures). I thought it was kinda odd because who in the right mind would dare defy the TSA under their noses. Still, nearly 20 seconds after the agent mentions me watching my belongings some chick snatches my ipad out of the bin and proceeds to start to walk off. Unfortunately, I can't leave my position of shame and I keep raising my voice while repeatedly saying, "HEY LADY, THAT IS MY IPAD." Eventually, when about 3 or 4 people are staring her down she sets in back in the bin and states she thought it was hers. Ignoring the fact that it was crammed between three other bins that had my possessions and I don't recall her actually picking up an ipad from her newly radioactive items.
In the end, I kept my things and the TSA laughed at my penis some more. Still, it's quite frightening how easy it really is to both nab someones things and then write off what you were attempting.
Indeed, in one episode of JLA they brought back Crime Syndicate Amerika and the evil green lantern had simply sensed the universe had changed. Perhaps they mentioned it elsewhere or something else way later, but it was given no more mention. In fact, I'm not sure if that line just stopped or I somehow missed an episode because the arc just died.
At least in Green Lantern when a new writer would take over he would retire an awful arc fairly quickly.
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Once one reaches /. zen they no longer need to even read TFC either.
It's fairly boring though as I can only stand to read fifty or so RE:s of the same subject.
I'm fairly confident that nothing you mentioned happened before the 80s. In fact, likely the world was only created in the early 80s and everything else is a fabrication.
That fits fairly well with my recollection of things.
I just hope I can find my pants later, but it's possible those didn't exist either.
Well off to the store!
You need Internet2.
Just be very careful.
"Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line?"
I'll fetch him. BREIN? Huh. I can get RIAA! We'll have a nightmare with MPAA, have a surprise party for SCO, Monsanto can do the catering, and then we'll have christening for Lodsys! All I have to do is snap my fingers and they'll be here. They're lining up to get here, and do you know why Jack? Should I tell you why? Hmm? Because here, in this world, the bad guys can win!
Take their domain, computers and women!
Actually, it's been quite documented the moon landings were in fact real.
It just wasn't our moon.
Froth over that one buddy!
The Way Of Kings was on the list and I rather enjoyed it. It is however only the first book and the next isn't due any time soon. However, for a first book it is quite lengthy and does entertain.
I try to find newer material, but the market for high fantasy isn't exactly a crowded one.
I twiddled some bits on my timeline entry and set the year to 2099.
It showed all of my future friends, unfriends, posts and messages.
Unfortunately, it also ended in 22 days with my obituary being posted by friends.
I'm not one to focus on the negatives and now I can focus on tweaking a few posts for maximum content prior to my untimely demise. (I'll probably just copy and paste)
I also had a chance to watch the video.
This is integrated into the vPro management utilities. vPro is a proprietary BMC featured in their laptops and desktops. I have only user end experience with this, but you really just want to think of it as a DRAC. The major difference here is that beyond being another management interface it is shared with the host nic.
Same technology and the primary difference is the level of exposure*1. vPro already offers remote kvm with a proprietary interface. Introducing VNC simply gives a better alternative to the already available management utilities.
It's an improvement, but not anything world shattering.
*1 Do you need any more reasons to be on the internet unprotected?
More then likely this is integrated at the BMC (baseboard management controller). While the BMC may be integrated into the system and a few values override some of the DMI it is not technically the BIOS. I've run into several systems with dead BMCs and they will happily chug along and act mostly normal. (DMI values revert to the BIOS provided values)
You can obtain the source to the FRU and play with your hearts content. Unfortunately, these are typically available on their high end S5000 and above series boards. SuperMicro makes some cheap boards with IPMI, but I don't know if it is a similar BMC setup. Now, the kicker is the BMC is just linux on a chip managed through IPMI. You can obtain and modify this to your hearts content. Though I don't know if they left out any bits and the system firmware is still a binary blob I believe.
Oops, originally it was in the title, but after a refresh/repaste it was left out.
Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH
The point however was not the particular model. There are likely newer better units on the market. I was advocating research to determine which particular model he might want. In my case, I don't vouch for the radio's prowess as I only use the wireless portion for a few mobile gadgets. Though at one point I did use a Roku, but as my home is wired with gigabit network in every room wireless isn't something I use regularly. Living in metro areas I've tend to have found latency spikes at random intervals rather annoying. (Three seperate units and netstumbler tend to agree interference as the cause.)
I once had neighbors who had so tossed so much interference into the air that I couldn't use blue tooth at more then five feet and still received interface with my phone in my shirt pocket.
This is my current router chosen because it was compatible with dd-wrt.
It isn't wholly free of issues and the initial linux firmware actually had a memory leak in the httpd service. Depending on how much free time you want to invest you can move away from the stable build and roll your own dd-wrt or open-wrt. The leak was corrected fairly quickly after the initial release.
It can get prissy if it runs for a few weeks, but I have always used nightly restarts to mitigate any long term issues. TBH I've always had that issue with DD-WRT and I've always scheduled nightly reboots. I could probably get by weekly, but I'm rarely online at 4am.
If you are in the market for something new and stable my suggestion would be to do what I would do. Pick your poison and browse their forums. It usually isn't difficult to see what the current favorite is and where there is popularity there is generally support.
Here is my basic guideline for what to look for...
Find a supported and fairly popular device that meets your feature criteria. (External antenna, dual, chipset preference, etc)
Determine how easy it is to upgrade and prevent bricking. (Unless you want a tricky alpha procedure and have extra time)
Look at the recent release and review the initial setup instructions and upgrade instructions.
It seems like the latter two are the same. However, the first of the two is to ensure that a stable process actually exists and there are not vast reports of masonry at work. The second process is there to ensure you know what you are getting into pre-purchase. When you are looking for the shortest path to success a little ground work and notes can make the adventure entirely unadventurous.
These are by no means instructions for everyone to follow. I have at times purchased gear knowing the road ahead was going to be bumpy, but I really wanted said item to function. At the time, I didn't mind putting in the weekend to getting the device up and running. With the early Linksys device I spent some time putting together a cheap serial port and soldiered on the ttl to cmos adapter to play with the boot loader.
However, now I'm lazy and I have other projects to spend my efforts on. My guess is if you are asking these questions you don't want to take the low road either.
Actually, most newer SANs support even further tiered setup. Some will manage this automatically and others require a scan and move. Various technologies do this with varying levels of intricacy and transparency.
A few solutions looked at the heat map of access and would proactively move these to either SSD storage, traditional SAS storage or high density SATA storage. If you wanted to spring for the frontend cache systems they were sporting volatile cache based a memory backend. Though our workloads typically would just fly things right through the cache so it wouldn't provide much usefulness for the cost.
Everyone did it slightly different and there were some really newer implementations of the typical SAN environment. Our group being very geeky really liked one of the newer technologies, but everyone agreed it was a bit too new to gamble on. Sometimes vendors don't win out on just the geek points alone.
These guys are also happy to come out and talk about their technologies. I highly recommend picking at least four major vendors and talking about their technologies. It's just not going to be on the cheap side and chances are if you need that level of speed/durability it's because you can't lose data/system uptime.
Tablet serves a different function then my laptop. I managed to get one of the ultra portables at work and I like the low weight + dock for more functionality. However, if I'm just lounging around the tablet is nicer for simple things (you nailed it).
I've also found I enjoy e-book/pdf reading on the tablet either on the couch or just before/in bed.
I probably wouldn't have the laptop now if it wasn't free. Still, not going to dismiss the luxury and it's a tough choice at breakfast. In fact, the billion news apps replace reading the paper in the morning.
Yes, It has surprised us he managed to get out of the chains.
More beatings will have to be issued to the remaining priso.... editors.
Wolfram and Heart... providing all of your demonic document format needs.
Redbox dvd rental is actually cheaper and I get more dvds per dollar. (assuming I remember to return them)
I had the one dvd rental plan and looking over my history the most I was able to achieve in a single month were four movies. It ranged between 3-4 even returning the next day. I simply moved to the streaming only plan and I can get my rental fix from various redbox locations. It's not the most convenient for some and they don't service all areas. Still, if it's available it's a better service for those who don't mind to pick up. Since I can preview what is available at a location and then reserve the title it provides a pretty good happy medium.
I also want to give a quick alternative shout out to my little Roku box. It has my prime account for crappy movies + unobx, crackle and a few other premium channels. There are also many various channels which provide a bit more entertainment.
This was actually brought up on one of the first labs on the first days of the core engineering classes.
It basically went along the lines of we are going to model this circuit and then we are going to build this circuit. Notice that some things show variance that your model doesn't show.
Then fast forward many years later and an engineer is telling me about how the A model of this particular something doesn't really perform how the A model used to. The harmonics are slightly different and as a result the board I was repairing was going to be noisy. So what I really wanted was ... (I forget the specifics or which guy I was speaking to as it was a very long time ago)
In fairness, I was repairing a card for an exciter that was 27 years old at the time and every component was failing due to age. I literally ordered the closest components I could find on newark and gave it a shot at resurrecting it. The card actually survived the ordeal, but the negative 27vdc on the power supply kept shorting. (Never did get back to the rebuild sadly). I suppose it didn't really matter because the recommended color adjustment procedure was to run it through color bars and adjust while monitoring via a spectrum analyzer. Even a used analyzer was more expensive then sending it off to a shop for repair that had the actual equipment. (Still, might have been able to eye ball it on the air at night ;) )
Or as woflram and heart says, 0 = 144,000 x 0 (estimated worth of human knowledge).
Since you completely missed the point of anything there and went on a random rant in reply...
What's the difference between a post apocalyptic thermonuclear wasteland and Kansas? At least among the rubble and mutants in the wasteland there is something to do!
In fact, the whole conversation seems so misplaced it seems like a robotext running on keywords. I believe it's worth a shot to give it a test, no?
As a TSA representative how many penis's have you witnessed? I want to compare it with the number of breasts I've seen on the internet. (I'm still thinking I lose on this one and I've seen a lot of tits!)
Pound me in the ass prison?
That comes to mind to me.
Unless you were contractually required to keep the raw there is no screwing. You won't get some free cash just by tweaking, but it rather might just be time to create a new spot.
When I worked in the broadcast industry we typically kept the raw footage, a backup of the project file and components and the final work. The final work would be in numerous locations beyond the production environment if it was a current production spot. In that case it would be loaded in playout systems and stored in the backup systems as well.
While we did try to keep some older NLEs kicking around in case we wanted to quickly revamp a spot it wasn't unheard of to ingest the raw footage or pull the clips from the project file backup. There was an instance where someone wanted their REALLLY old spot brought back to life and there was only one extremely long raw beta tape sitting around. I kid you not... when the material was shot it was on BETA. Someone actually found the old finished spot on beta in storage and there was much rejoicing.
In summary, if you are reasonably prepared and work in a commercial environment it isn't difficult to not be bitten by the upgrade bug. In our case, upgrades were the least of our worries most of the time. Really, the people this impacts are those who are utilizing poor recovery strategies.
While checking through at the airport a few months back I was going through the standard scans. After placing my items in the bins (o so many bins, damn you electronic devices) I'm left to stand while they take a peek at my penis (to determine if it's worthy of flight).
The agent nearby asks me to keep an eye on my items as they pass through. I suppose if I'm busy watching my things they are free to do other things (like giggle at my pictures). I thought it was kinda odd because who in the right mind would dare defy the TSA under their noses. Still, nearly 20 seconds after the agent mentions me watching my belongings some chick snatches my ipad out of the bin and proceeds to start to walk off. Unfortunately, I can't leave my position of shame and I keep raising my voice while repeatedly saying, "HEY LADY, THAT IS MY IPAD." Eventually, when about 3 or 4 people are staring her down she sets in back in the bin and states she thought it was hers. Ignoring the fact that it was crammed between three other bins that had my possessions and I don't recall her actually picking up an ipad from her newly radioactive items.
In the end, I kept my things and the TSA laughed at my penis some more. Still, it's quite frightening how easy it really is to both nab someones things and then write off what you were attempting.
Indeed, in one episode of JLA they brought back Crime Syndicate Amerika and the evil green lantern had simply sensed the universe had changed. Perhaps they mentioned it elsewhere or something else way later, but it was given no more mention. In fact, I'm not sure if that line just stopped or I somehow missed an episode because the arc just died.
At least in Green Lantern when a new writer would take over he would retire an awful arc fairly quickly.