I agree with you though, I think what the president called the attack isn't a scandal at all. It was funny how it was argued about, but it wasn't important or meaningful.
What is meaningful is what he has done about it and what he did on that night. Same goes for his advisors and commanders.
I have seen more drives in RAID arrays fail than any other type/configuration of drives. I don't know why, but when you put disks into a raid array they seem to be so much more likely to fail. Maybe RAID controllers tend to overwork drives? We always buy the "enterprise" (expensive) drives too...
You want more? I've also seen more power supplies in servers that support redundant power supplies (especially Dell) fail than anything else.
I've got 286 computers with good drives and power supplies that will probably keep working until there's an EMP, but the "enterprise" stuff from today is just awful.
Yeah, he did say terrorism once. And then there were all these other "it was the video" incidents. If he felt it was terrorism, he should have shown it with his actions rather than doing whatever he could to place the blame on a video (the guy went to JAIL after all).
Black and white laser: Brother 5250DN, includes ethernet interface. Works just fine with mac, windows, and linux. I have printed over 20,000 pages on mine, and I have only needed three toner cartridges. This printer is as simple and plug-and-play as it gets and it works great. You can feed in envelops and such if you need to. And if you cover the optical window on the toner (where it checks the toner level), you can print a lot more on each one. Since this printer accepts generic post script, you can print out of the box with any computer build since 1995 using a generic postscript driver and get most of the functionality if not all. If you want to read the printer status then install the brother drivers, which are very good and work on all modern platforms.
Scanner (and color inkjet): Canon MX870. The scanner is worth the price alone, as it can do bulk scanning, BOTH SIDES ("full duplex"), of a stack of paper. I used this in school all the time to archive my notes and old tests. If you have a nice photo or something, you can use the normal flatbed and get very high resolution -- probably overkill at the highest setting for most cases as the files can be enormous. You can also put in a USB drive or memory card and print off it. To be honest, I think our older Epson was a better photo printer, but this one is not bad at all. The scanner though, it's just as good as it gets for the price. The full duplex scanning is very very useful, I think for a business it would be invaluable to be able to just put in a stack of bills or sheet music or what have you and hit "scan" and get a PDF out of it. Lastly, this printer has wifi and ethernet built-in, and yes, you can use the scanner over the network, although I think most people will find this isn't as useful as it sounds.
I have a feeling you are comparing analog cassette tapes with DAW performance. Well of course, 3.5 IPS cassette tapes suck, nobody is debating that.
But a 30 IPS properly aligned Studer multitrack will have frequency response up through 80Khz and dynamic range greater than what can realistically be achieved on most DAWs.
There are merits to the old way. Wow and flutter and hiss are consumer perceptions based on inferior formats like the cassette tape and vinyl records.
Having said that, on a sub-$250k budget, many DAWs rival cheap all-analog setups.
Just give the two weeks notice. There is nothing to loose, and it is professional to do so.
In my case, I gave a one month notice. The boss asked me to focus on documenting my work, which I did. It was actually one of the greatest months out of all my time at that company.
When you announce your departure, write a very logical and very true letter. Don't be afraid to say something like "I think my boss lacks the skill to delegate authority" or "the office kitchen is infested with mold". So long as you are truthful and logical, it can never be held against you, and it may even serve to prove your character as unwaveringly logical.
Just tell it how it is. If they give you a cardboard box and an hour to pack up, don't sweat it, they will almost certainly be paying for your next two weeks either way.
Leaving without notice is: 1) unprofessional 2) costs your (ex) company a lot of money and time trying to figure out what to do 3) of course looks bad if anyone ever finds out from another company (but they most likely wouldn't) 4) is unethical (even if your ex company was unethical towards you, it is not justification) 5) you might get sued because they can claim you purposefully left things in a state of chaos and then cut the cord without notice, costing the company millions of dollars, downtime, etc 6) burns your bridges with the ex company. Who cares, sure, but why do it?
My guess is the reason you are considering this is that you do not have a definite day in mind to leave, but as soon as you find another job you wish to just cut it off entirely that day. Don't do this, it will also look unprofessional to your next employer if they notice that you are all-too-eager to 'move on'.
"The researchers processed the nonmetallic fraction of waste circuit boards into a powder and found that it adsorbed metals like copper, lead, and zinc"
I'm not going to read the article (I am a slashdot user after all), but where in the world of electronic waste do you find PCBs without any metal? That would mean they don't have any traces or solder joints... unlikely to say the least.
But even so, let's say MS office is still the "standard" in 2014.
Is MS Office so different from the Open Office variants that one would be lost in it after being trained in OO?
Of course not. Learning MS Office 97 and then going to Office 2000 is enough to alienate even the most trained MS Office user. Open Office is not that different, and what is more important, is to learn the *language* of desktop publishing. A simple google search or even perhaps the help menu, can answer a lot of questions if you just know what to ask.
I would argue that OO provides an acceptably complete desktop publishing experience. If you need to learn MS Office later, you'll catch on pretty quick. And again, whatever version they have when you get that first job that requires desktop publishing, it will be different than what you learned on, MS or Open or otherwise.
General writs of assistance played an important role in the increasing tensions that led to the American Revolution and the creation of the United States of America. In 1760, Great Britain began to enforce some of the provisions of the Navigation Acts by granting customs officers these writs. In New England, smuggling had become common. However, officers could not search a person's property without giving a reason. Colonists protested that the writs violated their rights as British subjects. The colonists had several problems with these writs. They were permanent and even transferable: the holder of a writ could assign it to another. Any place could be searched at the whim of the holder, and searchers were not responsible for any damage they caused. This put anyone who had such a writ above the law.
Does this not bear a resemblance to what is going on today?
Let us re-visit the 4th amendment:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Well how about this, I know this will be earth shattering to some, but the new Mac Pro might not be perfect for every application.
Personally, if I had to do some high-end computing, I would probably buy a rack of high-end PCs with linux on them.
I don't think I would bother trying to build the ultimate performance machine into a desktop. This computer Apple is selling is not intended to be the ultimate server or number cruncher. It's designed for high-end desktop publishing, audio and video editing. That's all.
If we're really switching to LEDs, why bother with these PWM-ish schemes anyway? Just use a transistor (collector) to drive the LED with a variable amount of current. This has got to be cleaner in terms of RFI, no possibility of flicker, etc.
Of course, this would not work equally well for every LED, some tuning woud be necessary... And probably a lot less efficient (but better power factor).
By "some parts" you mean adding nice PCI expansion cards? Ram? Hard disk?
I think you can do all that with the new cylinder Mac. The cards will be external thunderbolt peripherals, but it's the same idea. Hard disk, even if it's not replaceable, with all that external bandwidth, you can probably find a port to stick one on. Ram is probably upgradable.
As for the CPU, if it's soldered down, all the better. Makes the machine smaller and simpler to engineer and probably more reliable. If you really think it's so important to get the next 10% higher clock speed CPU (of the same pin-compatible series), then this machine isn't for you -- go buy some blue LEDs at radioshack and a fan and put them in your PC, and then head over to egghead.com and waste your cash on a ever-so-slightly faster CPU.
You're comparing number of cores and ram. There are so many other factors.
But...
My advice to you is to go buy the machine with the most cores and most ram and be happy with it, since this new model is clearly identical to the previous model. You can also go join the so-called MHz war if you wish.
I just read ten posts above about lack of upgradability.
Who cares!?
It's not a big deal. The days of upgrading your pc every few years are over. Two years after buying this machine, Apple will release a newer version. The newer version will be so much better (faster bus, etc), that the older one will be left in the dust and on ebay for $499.
Things have been headed this way for a long while now. Why upgrade when it's only a little more to get a new machine with the best and latest/greatest hardware inside? This argument didn't hold as much weight in the past when the computer ecosystem moved slower. These days though, we move faster.
I like upgrading because it's an interest of mine to spend/waste my time getting things as fast and cool as possible, but honestly, this is more for fun than anything. If my professional life depended on a few more GB/s, I would drop down the money and upgrade at every chance I have.
Max out the ram and other options when you buy it, and make the most of it until there's a new model.
I can relate. My username here comes from wanting to show that there are other open source alternatives to GNU.
But yes, I got fed up with Windows in the 3.11 days. I switched to Mac and Linux (and Solaris, Irix, and eventually BSD). These systems worked for me, they did what I told them to, and if they didn't, I had the time to figure it out and make it work. Eventually I became a mac user on the desktop and a debian linux fan on the server. I sort of wrote "desktop linux" off as a sort of neat but too experimental aspect of linux long ago.
These days, it's really quite amazing how much can be done with almost any mainstream platform (except maybe Windows 8, boy, that's a strange one). Computers no longer crash on a daily basis, windows has networking and multi-user support, etc.
So I do find the line is a lot grayer than it once was.
However...
At my new job, I was issued a PC with Windows 7. I have to tell you, I was impressed with how far Windows has gotten since Windows 3.11, Windows 98, etc. The thing actually was stable. I could plug in USB devices and not face the blue screen of death. I felt the UI was a bit dated, but I was willing to accept that for stability.
And this went on for a few weeks until I had a need to write a program. I mean, this was a simple program, but I felt so much resistance from the Windows platform itself towards my getting this done. Fiddled with Microsoft's compiler/IDE/VisualXYZ/MSDN/whatever it is, got fed up with the minutia. I tried Cygwin... Not really integrated enough, too different from the built-in system.
Got fed up with it, downloaded a debian linux net install cd. Haven't rebooted since. Desktop linux has also come a long way since the days of editing XF86Config and trying to get OpenGL running. The system practically caters towards developers. It's awesome. So many programs, compilers, editors, environments... And all the tools I was used to.
So yes, I agree, Windows is not the awfulness it was back in the day (except perhaps this make the desktop the tablet and make the tablet the desktop Windows 8 crap that I tried for five minutes at a computer store).
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Let them eat Obamacare
http://www.investors.com/image/RAMclr-101713_CLR.jpg.cms
(Michael Ramirez is the most awesome cartoonist ever)
His other stuff:
http://www.investors.com/editorial-cartoons/michael-ramirez/
I agree with you though, I think what the president called the attack isn't a scandal at all. It was funny how it was argued about, but it wasn't important or meaningful.
What is meaningful is what he has done about it and what he did on that night. Same goes for his advisors and commanders.
You may find this to be ridiculous....
I have seen more drives in RAID arrays fail than any other type/configuration of drives. I don't know why, but when you put disks into a raid array they seem to be so much more likely to fail. Maybe RAID controllers tend to overwork drives? We always buy the "enterprise" (expensive) drives too...
You want more? I've also seen more power supplies in servers that support redundant power supplies (especially Dell) fail than anything else.
I've got 286 computers with good drives and power supplies that will probably keep working until there's an EMP, but the "enterprise" stuff from today is just awful.
Yeah, he did say terrorism once. And then there were all these other "it was the video" incidents. If he felt it was terrorism, he should have shown it with his actions rather than doing whatever he could to place the blame on a video (the guy went to JAIL after all).
If you can take a cartoon of it:
http://www.investors.com/editorial-cartoons/michael-ramirez/629942-barack-obama-white-house-benghazi-terrorist-attack
Black and white laser: Brother 5250DN, includes ethernet interface. Works just fine with mac, windows, and linux. I have printed over 20,000 pages on mine, and I have only needed three toner cartridges. This printer is as simple and plug-and-play as it gets and it works great. You can feed in envelops and such if you need to. And if you cover the optical window on the toner (where it checks the toner level), you can print a lot more on each one. Since this printer accepts generic post script, you can print out of the box with any computer build since 1995 using a generic postscript driver and get most of the functionality if not all. If you want to read the printer status then install the brother drivers, which are very good and work on all modern platforms.
Scanner (and color inkjet): Canon MX870. The scanner is worth the price alone, as it can do bulk scanning, BOTH SIDES ("full duplex"), of a stack of paper. I used this in school all the time to archive my notes and old tests. If you have a nice photo or something, you can use the normal flatbed and get very high resolution -- probably overkill at the highest setting for most cases as the files can be enormous. You can also put in a USB drive or memory card and print off it. To be honest, I think our older Epson was a better photo printer, but this one is not bad at all. The scanner though, it's just as good as it gets for the price. The full duplex scanning is very very useful, I think for a business it would be invaluable to be able to just put in a stack of bills or sheet music or what have you and hit "scan" and get a PDF out of it. Lastly, this printer has wifi and ethernet built-in, and yes, you can use the scanner over the network, although I think most people will find this isn't as useful as it sounds.
No kidding. Look at how the affordable care act has exceptions for congress and the White House.
You have no idea what you are talking about.
I have a feeling you are comparing analog cassette tapes with DAW performance. Well of course, 3.5 IPS cassette tapes suck, nobody is debating that.
But a 30 IPS properly aligned Studer multitrack will have frequency response up through 80Khz and dynamic range greater than what can realistically be achieved on most DAWs.
There are merits to the old way. Wow and flutter and hiss are consumer perceptions based on inferior formats like the cassette tape and vinyl records.
Having said that, on a sub-$250k budget, many DAWs rival cheap all-analog setups.
Just give the two weeks notice. There is nothing to loose, and it is professional to do so.
In my case, I gave a one month notice. The boss asked me to focus on documenting my work, which I did. It was actually one of the greatest months out of all my time at that company.
When you announce your departure, write a very logical and very true letter. Don't be afraid to say something like "I think my boss lacks the skill to delegate authority" or "the office kitchen is infested with mold". So long as you are truthful and logical, it can never be held against you, and it may even serve to prove your character as unwaveringly logical.
Just tell it how it is. If they give you a cardboard box and an hour to pack up, don't sweat it, they will almost certainly be paying for your next two weeks either way.
Leaving without notice is:
1) unprofessional
2) costs your (ex) company a lot of money and time trying to figure out what to do
3) of course looks bad if anyone ever finds out from another company (but they most likely wouldn't)
4) is unethical (even if your ex company was unethical towards you, it is not justification)
5) you might get sued because they can claim you purposefully left things in a state of chaos and then cut the cord without notice, costing the company millions of dollars, downtime, etc
6) burns your bridges with the ex company. Who cares, sure, but why do it?
My guess is the reason you are considering this is that you do not have a definite day in mind to leave, but as soon as you find another job you wish to just cut it off entirely that day. Don't do this, it will also look unprofessional to your next employer if they notice that you are all-too-eager to 'move on'.
Establish trusted keys, encrypt the content, and then use whatever method you wish.
Security should not rest on the security of the channel.
Forgive me, but what part of a printed circuit board is metal-free? The edge? Certainly not 99.9% of it.
"The researchers processed the nonmetallic fraction of waste circuit boards into a powder and found that it adsorbed metals like copper, lead, and zinc"
I'm not going to read the article (I am a slashdot user after all), but where in the world of electronic waste do you find PCBs without any metal? That would mean they don't have any traces or solder joints... unlikely to say the least.
But even so, let's say MS office is still the "standard" in 2014.
Is MS Office so different from the Open Office variants that one would be lost in it after being trained in OO?
Of course not. Learning MS Office 97 and then going to Office 2000 is enough to alienate even the most trained MS Office user. Open Office is not that different, and what is more important, is to learn the *language* of desktop publishing. A simple google search or even perhaps the help menu, can answer a lot of questions if you just know what to ask.
I would argue that OO provides an acceptably complete desktop publishing experience. If you need to learn MS Office later, you'll catch on pretty quick. And again, whatever version they have when you get that first job that requires desktop publishing, it will be different than what you learned on, MS or Open or otherwise.
Let's review, the servers the company had on-side got damaged, so they expedited their plans to move to off-site servers.
Oh, and the off-site server is called a "cloud" service in this article.
What's new? What am I missing here?
Will that work with different nvidia cards? Ie, one 4500 and one 5000?
I think I tried this and it did not, but I can't remember the details of everything I attempted.
I can relate to this.
Granted, I have seen it work just fine with different cards.
But with nvidia, I have two different cards and, yep, can't move a window from one screen to another.
debian linux on x86_64
From Wikipedia:
General writs of assistance played an important role in the increasing tensions that led to the American Revolution and the creation of the United States of America. In 1760, Great Britain began to enforce some of the provisions of the Navigation Acts by granting customs officers these writs. In New England, smuggling had become common. However, officers could not search a person's property without giving a reason. Colonists protested that the writs violated their rights as British subjects. The colonists had several problems with these writs. They were permanent and even transferable: the holder of a writ could assign it to another. Any place could be searched at the whim of the holder, and searchers were not responsible for any damage they caused. This put anyone who had such a writ above the law.
Does this not bear a resemblance to what is going on today?
Let us re-visit the 4th amendment:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Well how about this, I know this will be earth shattering to some, but the new Mac Pro might not be perfect for every application.
Personally, if I had to do some high-end computing, I would probably buy a rack of high-end PCs with linux on them.
I don't think I would bother trying to build the ultimate performance machine into a desktop. This computer Apple is selling is not intended to be the ultimate server or number cruncher. It's designed for high-end desktop publishing, audio and video editing. That's all.
If we're really switching to LEDs, why bother with these PWM-ish schemes anyway? Just use a transistor (collector) to drive the LED with a variable amount of current. This has got to be cleaner in terms of RFI, no possibility of flicker, etc.
Of course, this would not work equally well for every LED, some tuning woud be necessary... And probably a lot less efficient (but better power factor).
So then what, use encryption anyway and don't identify?
As much as I hate to say it, if you don't cause any problems or interference, you'll never even be noticed.
Ships in international waters do this all the time, sometimes with a license, mostly without.
By "some parts" you mean adding nice PCI expansion cards? Ram? Hard disk?
I think you can do all that with the new cylinder Mac. The cards will be external thunderbolt peripherals, but it's the same idea. Hard disk, even if it's not replaceable, with all that external bandwidth, you can probably find a port to stick one on. Ram is probably upgradable.
As for the CPU, if it's soldered down, all the better. Makes the machine smaller and simpler to engineer and probably more reliable. If you really think it's so important to get the next 10% higher clock speed CPU (of the same pin-compatible series), then this machine isn't for you -- go buy some blue LEDs at radioshack and a fan and put them in your PC, and then head over to egghead.com and waste your cash on a ever-so-slightly faster CPU.
You're comparing number of cores and ram. There are so many other factors.
But...
My advice to you is to go buy the machine with the most cores and most ram and be happy with it, since this new model is clearly identical to the previous model. You can also go join the so-called MHz war if you wish.
Folks,
I just read ten posts above about lack of upgradability.
Who cares!?
It's not a big deal. The days of upgrading your pc every few years are over. Two years after buying this machine, Apple will release a newer version. The newer version will be so much better (faster bus, etc), that the older one will be left in the dust and on ebay for $499.
Things have been headed this way for a long while now. Why upgrade when it's only a little more to get a new machine with the best and latest/greatest hardware inside? This argument didn't hold as much weight in the past when the computer ecosystem moved slower. These days though, we move faster.
I like upgrading because it's an interest of mine to spend/waste my time getting things as fast and cool as possible, but honestly, this is more for fun than anything. If my professional life depended on a few more GB/s, I would drop down the money and upgrade at every chance I have.
Max out the ram and other options when you buy it, and make the most of it until there's a new model.
I can relate. My username here comes from wanting to show that there are other open source alternatives to GNU.
But yes, I got fed up with Windows in the 3.11 days. I switched to Mac and Linux (and Solaris, Irix, and eventually BSD). These systems worked for me, they did what I told them to, and if they didn't, I had the time to figure it out and make it work. Eventually I became a mac user on the desktop and a debian linux fan on the server. I sort of wrote "desktop linux" off as a sort of neat but too experimental aspect of linux long ago.
These days, it's really quite amazing how much can be done with almost any mainstream platform (except maybe Windows 8, boy, that's a strange one). Computers no longer crash on a daily basis, windows has networking and multi-user support, etc.
So I do find the line is a lot grayer than it once was.
However...
At my new job, I was issued a PC with Windows 7. I have to tell you, I was impressed with how far Windows has gotten since Windows 3.11, Windows 98, etc. The thing actually was stable. I could plug in USB devices and not face the blue screen of death. I felt the UI was a bit dated, but I was willing to accept that for stability.
And this went on for a few weeks until I had a need to write a program. I mean, this was a simple program, but I felt so much resistance from the Windows platform itself towards my getting this done. Fiddled with Microsoft's compiler/IDE/VisualXYZ/MSDN/whatever it is, got fed up with the minutia. I tried Cygwin... Not really integrated enough, too different from the built-in system.
Got fed up with it, downloaded a debian linux net install cd. Haven't rebooted since. Desktop linux has also come a long way since the days of editing XF86Config and trying to get OpenGL running. The system practically caters towards developers. It's awesome. So many programs, compilers, editors, environments... And all the tools I was used to.
So yes, I agree, Windows is not the awfulness it was back in the day (except perhaps this make the desktop the tablet and make the tablet the desktop Windows 8 crap that I tried for five minutes at a computer store).
But I don't need it, I can do better.
The device is called a "firewall" and is set up by an "IT Professional"
You tell the IT guys when (or if) you want that company to be able to connect in remotely. That's it.
This is unreal...