No, I disagree it should be solely up to the builder and buyer. Almost certainly the building will be bought and sold multiple times, and without codes there's no reasonable way for a buyer to know if the building is well-constructed, resulting in the market undervaluing safety/quality due to lack of information, and a subsequent race to the bottom. Moreover, the vast majority of buyers are simply not technically qualified to make these sorts of assessments. Granted the precise optimum is subjective, but it's very clearly neither a concrete bunker on one end, nor a flimsy deathtrap at the other.
And that's not even counting public buildings, such as schoolhouses.
I'm not sure I understand you, but I do realize bad regulations are worse than none at all, and overkill is possible and undesirable even when there is a valid need for reasonable regulations.
It's not robotic rescue dogs, it's building codes that reduce the need for them in the first place.
Compare to China recently where a less powerful quake sent brick buildings toppling onto and killing tens of thousands of people, including government buildings such as schoolhouses that collapsed and killed the children inside.
Building codes are one of the areas where it's almost impossible to argue against the need for government regulation.
I don't think Ooma solves the poster's question specifically, but I do like it. The catch is when you sign up they'll put you on a free trial of their "premium" service. Then a few months later they'll start monthly charges for it, until/unless you call them and ask for it to be discontinued (which is the typical 10 minute torture routine of, "are you SURE you don't want us to charge you every month?"). If you are on Ooma now, I suggest you check your billing history:)
That was originally true, but is either A) no longer true or B) should no longer be true. I don't think any analog networks are still in service, and I don't see why SMS would be sent that way on a network designed for digital payloads. Either way, there are no excuses for this in 2011.
The new layer of security is engineered using the same techniques as the old one, so...
On slashdot and elsewhere the conventional wisdom still seems to be that the solution is there, and everybody just needs to try harder at using them. I'm becoming more convinced this is false. It's increasingly clear that nobody knows any practical method to secure any network that is a target of directed attacks. With any luck you can delay the attacks and make the more expensive, but that's it. In retrospect I guess that should come as no surprise, just as it's impossible to run a business without some loss to theft.
The water is evaporated in the process of cooling the data center, apparently.
Let's not jump to conclusions. All they did was move the property "into" the city, so it would have the same priority as any other city water user:
"If it were not part of the city, the center would be considered a 'surplus priority' customer of the city, meaning its water supply would be cut if there were a shortage."
So, it appears they cannot operate with no water, but that doesn't mean they'll use an inordinate amount of water, either (like fabs do). I don't think *any* business would want to be without water.
To hear him describe it, they have a serious brain drain issue where the lure of the private sector takes a lot of their best and brightest.
But I thought all government workers were spoiled, lazy, and overpaid? And there would be no consequences if we slash their salaries whenever we need to close a deficit?
Today, parallelism seems mostly limited to "scientific" applications. But I think possibly, our computing model may evolve towards more parallelism for lots of new applications, that compute more like a brain - that is, massively parallel pattern matching. Of course we'll still use more direct algorithms where applicable, such as word processors and web browsers, but as computers integrate better with the natural world they'll need much more algorithms rooted in signal processing, pattern matching, and generate-and-test.
Creating software that allows millions of people to connect to the internet definitely provides value.
When buying a bottle of water, you don't pay a vast sum for it just because you'd die without water. Instead you look at the second most expensive brand, and if the difference isn't worth it, you buy that instead.
It's not how much value you create, it's how hard it is for somebody else to replicate it.
There was bound to be a prevailing cheap or free TCP/IP stack for Windows.
Don't you think it's interesting that the anecdote used to introduce the article - the largest example of a GPS outage they could find - was caused by jamming devices the US Navy was intentionally using against itself in a training exercise for electronic warfare? I find that somewhat reassuring.
Quality of sleep usually isn't an issue until the onset of early middle age or so.
For me games are not much of a problem, and I can wind down from programming fairly quickly, but if I do work e-mail within a couple hours of going to bed, I'll toss and turn worrying about work. Arguing about politics or job hunting before bed doesn't help me either - anything that gets the mind racing.
Running less than a few hours before bed also keeps me up.
As for the correlation != causation argument, it's very easy to experiment on yourself by intentionally avoiding things that keep you awake and see if it helps - for me it certainly does. If you have no trouble sleeping under any conditions, don't worry about it!
True, which is why these predictions are more pertinent to warfare than sports - in warfare it doesn't matter what's fun, and it doesn't matter what's fair, only what gives somebody advantage over somebody else. This already happens in a narrow sense, e.g. a ship-based defense system that "decides" where to aim to hit an incoming missile with a wall of lead, much faster than a person could react. The "cyber" realm will raise this to the nth degree, because a battle might begin and end within a few seconds. Another example is high frequency trading on Wall Street. Games and sports may be the last realm where people are manually making all the decisions in their heads - only because rules will be created to make it that way.
The F-11 Tiger is noted for being the first jet aircraft to shoot itself down. On 21 September 1956, during a test firing of its 20 mm (.79 in) cannons, pilot Tom Attridge fired two bursts mid-way through a shallow dive. As the velocity and trajectory of the cannon rounds decayed, they ultimately crossed paths with the Tiger as it continued its descent, disabling it and forcing Attridge to crash land the aircraft; he survived.
the pipes from the magic heat source to the turbines costs $ per watt, the turbine itself costs $ per watt, the water pumps and filters cost $ per watt...
RTA, there are no pipes, turbine, pumps, nor filter. It's photovoltaic. I don't know whether they can beat a nuke plant in the real world, but the relative simplicity of this system compared to a nuclear power plant is certainly striking.
Maybe the parents will see this as a tool to help them do their job. Who else would buy it? (I mean, other than guilt-ridden professionals with more money than time to spend on their kids?)
Yeah, I already created a Facebook profile (which I didn't have before) for nothing but this. But I also don't want my postings from different sites linked together. I just want to have the content stand on its own. So I guess now, a different Facebook profile for each site to which I comment?
One good thing could come of this - most sites' comment systems are terrible, and facebook might get it right eventually. Currently, many sites can't even show a threaded discussion, or have no concept of moderation, or (in the case of CNN) don't even enable you to find responses to your own comments! (That's what caused me to quit posting AC on slashdot and get a profile in the first place back when). CNN calls their board "soundoff", which is true - it really is just designed to let people blurt out some garbage and move on, rather than conversing at all.
I don't know how much of this is fixed by facebook's system, but if it becomes a big thing for them I assume they will make it work well sooner or later.
They need to start including a conventional 2.5" hard drive in these comparisons. You can say they're in a different class, but these stories are always accompanied by people making direct cost/GB comparisons to hard drives, so clearly they are still competitors.
No, I get that point, I just don't think that's the important thing. In many ways the investments of that generation were far above whatever people are willing to put in now, and not just in terms of money or taxes. Their average standard of living life was much, much lower than today's, with or without the $22K, so how can I begrudge them? Also, the birth rate was a lot higher then, so they invested much more of their income in the future that way, which is just as viable in terms of keeping an elderly support program solvent. Not that I think mushrooming population is still the right option today.
Ooh, $22,000 whole dollars? I don't begrudge the first generation of SS too much, they brought America through the Great Depression and their "paid retirements" were quite short on average. In the long run, SS is a perfectly stable idea so long as people don't expect oversized benefits compared to the taxes they paid in. I am annoyed that the baby boomers refused to fully fund the system when everybody told them for decade after decade the math wouldn't add up unless they did... and now they want their check in the mail. I support the program, but we should trim it a few percent right away, and not in 20 years from now after digging a bigger hole.
But they're supplying all-important liquidity! Do you want to have to wait a whole *millisecond* to rebalance your retirement investments when Wall Street could reduce that to *picoseconds* for just a few hundred billion dollars per year?
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And that's not even counting public buildings, such as schoolhouses.
I'm not sure I understand you, but I do realize bad regulations are worse than none at all, and overkill is possible and undesirable even when there is a valid need for reasonable regulations.
Compare to China recently where a less powerful quake sent brick buildings toppling onto and killing tens of thousands of people, including government buildings such as schoolhouses that collapsed and killed the children inside.
Building codes are one of the areas where it's almost impossible to argue against the need for government regulation.
I don't think Ooma solves the poster's question specifically, but I do like it. The catch is when you sign up they'll put you on a free trial of their "premium" service. Then a few months later they'll start monthly charges for it, until/unless you call them and ask for it to be discontinued (which is the typical 10 minute torture routine of, "are you SURE you don't want us to charge you every month?"). If you are on Ooma now, I suggest you check your billing history :)
That was originally true, but is either A) no longer true or B) should no longer be true. I don't think any analog networks are still in service, and I don't see why SMS would be sent that way on a network designed for digital payloads. Either way, there are no excuses for this in 2011.
On slashdot and elsewhere the conventional wisdom still seems to be that the solution is there, and everybody just needs to try harder at using them. I'm becoming more convinced this is false. It's increasingly clear that nobody knows any practical method to secure any network that is a target of directed attacks. With any luck you can delay the attacks and make the more expensive, but that's it. In retrospect I guess that should come as no surprise, just as it's impossible to run a business without some loss to theft.
Let's not jump to conclusions. All they did was move the property "into" the city, so it would have the same priority as any other city water user:
So, it appears they cannot operate with no water, but that doesn't mean they'll use an inordinate amount of water, either (like fabs do). I don't think *any* business would want to be without water.
But I thought all government workers were spoiled, lazy, and overpaid? And there would be no consequences if we slash their salaries whenever we need to close a deficit?
Today, parallelism seems mostly limited to "scientific" applications. But I think possibly, our computing model may evolve towards more parallelism for lots of new applications, that compute more like a brain - that is, massively parallel pattern matching. Of course we'll still use more direct algorithms where applicable, such as word processors and web browsers, but as computers integrate better with the natural world they'll need much more algorithms rooted in signal processing, pattern matching, and generate-and-test.
When buying a bottle of water, you don't pay a vast sum for it just because you'd die without water. Instead you look at the second most expensive brand, and if the difference isn't worth it, you buy that instead.
It's not how much value you create, it's how hard it is for somebody else to replicate it.
There was bound to be a prevailing cheap or free TCP/IP stack for Windows.
Don't you think it's interesting that the anecdote used to introduce the article - the largest example of a GPS outage they could find - was caused by jamming devices the US Navy was intentionally using against itself in a training exercise for electronic warfare? I find that somewhat reassuring.
For me games are not much of a problem, and I can wind down from programming fairly quickly, but if I do work e-mail within a couple hours of going to bed, I'll toss and turn worrying about work. Arguing about politics or job hunting before bed doesn't help me either - anything that gets the mind racing.
Running less than a few hours before bed also keeps me up.
As for the correlation != causation argument, it's very easy to experiment on yourself by intentionally avoiding things that keep you awake and see if it helps - for me it certainly does. If you have no trouble sleeping under any conditions, don't worry about it!
True, which is why these predictions are more pertinent to warfare than sports - in warfare it doesn't matter what's fun, and it doesn't matter what's fair, only what gives somebody advantage over somebody else. This already happens in a narrow sense, e.g. a ship-based defense system that "decides" where to aim to hit an incoming missile with a wall of lead, much faster than a person could react. The "cyber" realm will raise this to the nth degree, because a battle might begin and end within a few seconds. Another example is high frequency trading on Wall Street. Games and sports may be the last realm where people are manually making all the decisions in their heads - only because rules will be created to make it that way.
RTA, there are no pipes, turbine, pumps, nor filter. It's photovoltaic. I don't know whether they can beat a nuke plant in the real world, but the relative simplicity of this system compared to a nuclear power plant is certainly striking.
It sounds like the problem is storage capacity moreso than processing capacity, is that so?
It's hard to count all the ways our oil economy is supported and subsidized by the government. And we haven't even started cleaning up the mess yet.
Maybe the parents will see this as a tool to help them do their job. Who else would buy it? (I mean, other than guilt-ridden professionals with more money than time to spend on their kids?)
One good thing could come of this - most sites' comment systems are terrible, and facebook might get it right eventually. Currently, many sites can't even show a threaded discussion, or have no concept of moderation, or (in the case of CNN) don't even enable you to find responses to your own comments! (That's what caused me to quit posting AC on slashdot and get a profile in the first place back when). CNN calls their board "soundoff", which is true - it really is just designed to let people blurt out some garbage and move on, rather than conversing at all.
I don't know how much of this is fixed by facebook's system, but if it becomes a big thing for them I assume they will make it work well sooner or later.
They need to start including a conventional 2.5" hard drive in these comparisons. You can say they're in a different class, but these stories are always accompanied by people making direct cost/GB comparisons to hard drives, so clearly they are still competitors.
No, I get that point, I just don't think that's the important thing. In many ways the investments of that generation were far above whatever people are willing to put in now, and not just in terms of money or taxes. Their average standard of living life was much, much lower than today's, with or without the $22K, so how can I begrudge them? Also, the birth rate was a lot higher then, so they invested much more of their income in the future that way, which is just as viable in terms of keeping an elderly support program solvent. Not that I think mushrooming population is still the right option today.
Ooh, $22,000 whole dollars? I don't begrudge the first generation of SS too much, they brought America through the Great Depression and their "paid retirements" were quite short on average. In the long run, SS is a perfectly stable idea so long as people don't expect oversized benefits compared to the taxes they paid in. I am annoyed that the baby boomers refused to fully fund the system when everybody told them for decade after decade the math wouldn't add up unless they did... and now they want their check in the mail. I support the program, but we should trim it a few percent right away, and not in 20 years from now after digging a bigger hole.
But they're supplying all-important liquidity! Do you want to have to wait a whole *millisecond* to rebalance your retirement investments when Wall Street could reduce that to *picoseconds* for just a few hundred billion dollars per year?
OK, go ahead and tell me who's the Bernie Madoff of Social Security. I'm waiting...
Which market? If you're just into reading, a Kindle easily beats that.