...that, with adaptive cruise control (one that slows down to speed of vehicle in front), and yah,... can prolly cruise for hours without touching the controls. Can't wait!
That's how you end up with hardware that you own, that you have to "root" or unlock in some way in order to run Linux (well, android). And that's perfectly reasonable for you?
Vote with your wallet doesn't work when *all* hardware is locked down good... think of cell phones and tablets in a few years time, when manufacturers iron out various defects that cause someone to bypass their security.
I dunno anything about military gps, but wouldn't it make sense to digitally sign the timestamps so that anyone receiving them can confirm that they're coming from trusted satellites?
...and the biggest things we've lost are agility, performance and stability.
This... I find it amazing how many corporations don't see this! No wonder small startups with half a dozen developers can run circles around big corps with "hundreds" of IT staff.
consoles for books... hmmm.......now if amazon could get most school books into this deal, it would mean governments would have to buy amazon devices for all school kids:-/
There are corps who buy a ``a few high end servers and use vmware'' and then there are corps who buy thousands of low-end cheap boxes and build hadoop clusters.
governments of the world can spend significantly more than 5% of GDP on military (vast majority of which is... a completely waste), and you're saying they can't (if they were actually interested in the idea) spend that much on doing something about "getting off this rock"?
That actually may be how aliens travel around... e.g. traveling "at" the speed of light is easier if "you are light"---not when "you're in a ship that needs to accelerate to speed of light"... so maybe aliens travel as laser beams, and have end-points that encode-decode the laser data steam into matter... yah, it won't be "stargate" like 'cause you're still "at speed of light", but it would avoid that whole "how to accelerate to c" problem.
So yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if the reason we haven't seen any aliens is 'cause we don't know how to capture one of their data streams, or to transmit one of our own... (and we can't "detect" their steams as something meaningful 'cause of high compression rate...it looks like random background radiation to us:-)
Well... we can't spend all-off-the-earth's-money every day...
Expense is a relative term when it comes to countries and the survival of life in the universe-as-we-know-it.
It's a matter of having say 5% of the world population dedicated to getting off this planet... and not be real-estate brokers, or financial analysts, etc. There are plenty of industries that can and should decrease in size---and there are industries that can and should grow---governments can just make it easier for aerospace industry to grow a bit faster than say "creative financial instruments" industry.
Ballmer: “We are in the Windows era — we were, we are, and we always will be. We are in an era in which the range of smart devices is continuing to expand. That’s a fantastic thing for Microsoft.”
Company buying its own shares back is the worst of sleazy practices. The company is using YOUR money (instead of giving you dividends) to buy YOUR shares at a cheaper price than the market thinks they're worth. They're screwing the investors who are selling. If you don't think that's crazy, consider the limit case: a company buys out *all* of its shareholders.
Heck, it should be illegal for a non-investment firm to own shares of itself or other companies. Any extra money left over after operations should be either used for expansion, rainy-day-fund (t-bills), or given out as dividends---not be gambled with by CFOs... and no, they don't know what's best for me.
Well, doing it during the day would've impacted millions of folks who just wanna go about their business (who don't care about the protest one way or another).
If I wanted to mess with stuff, I'd still be using Gentoo. Frankly, the only reason I used Ubuntu was: install from a thumb-drive, change a few settings, and you're good to go in minutes. I re-install the OS every year or so, and getting ubuntu to the state I liked was pretty trivial. The defaults worked for me (only needed to install developer tools, etc.). With Unity, the defaults don't work for me... so rather than "work around" things, I switched to Xubuntu...the defaults work for me. Will give Mint a try on my laptop this weekend---seems to get a lot of good publicity.
Many large corps have databases like Netezza (IBM) or Greenplum (EMC). To get better deals on their contracts, they'd like leverage of having an ``alternative''... Hadoop is often seen as that alternative (similar architecture, different mind-set) that can potentially be shoehorned into doing similar things that Netezza or Greenplum does---and not cost $bazillion dollars.
I think it's bubble mindset. It was similar atmosphere around 1999 or so. Not sure how this time it's different... Just flashier with different key-phrases---all hoping to cash in on the massive growth that ``advertising dollars'' will be bringing in as the economy of the world unravels.
Better yet, if OEMs provide only a Windows8 app to disable the bios feature---yes, you *could* do it, but you'll need Windows for it. (yes, I'm speaking of all those OEMs who at one time only had a *Windows* based bios updater).
Stick six 3T drives into a box, run rsync between'em daily (cron!). Build identical box in a different room/house, run rsync between first box and 2nd box daily/weekly (depending if local network or not)? each box, maybe ~$2k. That's 18T of space per box, with maybe 9T of it if you want to keep two copies of everything on each box.
Monitor disks, and as soon as OS tells ya the disk is going bad, replace it. It's amazing what modern disks are capable of.
Unless data changes rapidly, there's no need for replication that happens more than daily (e.g. typical home server box for whatever it is you're doing). Worst case scenario, you lose updates for that date. Have a tiny raid for critical stuff if that's not acceptable.
Easy to recover, 'cause, you have all the files right there, just swap disk, rsync will ensure all is good. No weird formats to deal with, no configurations to fiddle with (not something you want to be doing while recovering from a bad disk).
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...that, with adaptive cruise control (one that slows down to speed of vehicle in front), and yah,... can prolly cruise for hours without touching the controls. Can't wait!
You do realize that liquid rock has the exact same mass as solid, right?
To be perfectly technical, no it does not. Molecular bonds and heat have mass too...
That's how you end up with hardware that you own, that you have to "root" or unlock in some way in order to run Linux (well, android). And that's perfectly reasonable for you?
Vote with your wallet doesn't work when *all* hardware is locked down good... think of cell phones and tablets in a few years time, when manufacturers iron out various defects that cause someone to bypass their security.
I dunno anything about military gps, but wouldn't it make sense to digitally sign the timestamps so that anyone receiving them can confirm that they're coming from trusted satellites?
...and the biggest things we've lost are agility, performance and stability.
This... I find it amazing how many corporations don't see this! No wonder small startups with half a dozen developers can run circles around big corps with "hundreds" of IT staff.
consoles for books... hmmm.... ...now if amazon could get most school books into this deal, it would mean governments would have to buy amazon devices for all school kids :-/
There are corps who buy a ``a few high end servers and use vmware'' and then there are corps who buy thousands of low-end cheap boxes and build hadoop clusters.
Since when does a server need "low-end graphics"? Do you mean the desktop OS that, thanks to Turing, can run server programs?
governments of the world can spend significantly more than 5% of GDP on military (vast majority of which is... a completely waste), and you're saying they can't (if they were actually interested in the idea) spend that much on doing something about "getting off this rock"?
That actually may be how aliens travel around... e.g. traveling "at" the speed of light is easier if "you are light"---not when "you're in a ship that needs to accelerate to speed of light"... so maybe aliens travel as laser beams, and have end-points that encode-decode the laser data steam into matter... yah, it won't be "stargate" like 'cause you're still "at speed of light", but it would avoid that whole "how to accelerate to c" problem.
So yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if the reason we haven't seen any aliens is 'cause we don't know how to capture one of their data streams, or to transmit one of our own... (and we can't "detect" their steams as something meaningful 'cause of high compression rate...it looks like random background radiation to us :-)
Well... we can't spend all-off-the-earth's-money every day...
Expense is a relative term when it comes to countries and the survival of life in the universe-as-we-know-it.
It's a matter of having say 5% of the world population dedicated to getting off this planet... and not be real-estate brokers, or financial analysts, etc. There are plenty of industries that can and should decrease in size---and there are industries that can and should grow---governments can just make it easier for aerospace industry to grow a bit faster than say "creative financial instruments" industry.
Or to listen to drug companies.
...for what they will do.
Ballmer: “We are in the Windows era — we were, we are, and we always will be. We are in an era in which the range of smart devices is continuing to expand. That’s a fantastic thing for Microsoft.”
Company buying its own shares back is the worst of sleazy practices. The company is using YOUR money (instead of giving you dividends) to buy YOUR shares at a cheaper price than the market thinks they're worth. They're screwing the investors who are selling. If you don't think that's crazy, consider the limit case: a company buys out *all* of its shareholders.
Heck, it should be illegal for a non-investment firm to own shares of itself or other companies. Any extra money left over after operations should be either used for expansion, rainy-day-fund (t-bills), or given out as dividends---not be gambled with by CFOs... and no, they don't know what's best for me.
Well, doing it during the day would've impacted millions of folks who just wanna go about their business (who don't care about the protest one way or another).
....so how much would it cost (dollars) to run a single map-reduce word-count against that?
Also, why not do torrent thing. e.g. 100gig torrent dumps, with more updated on regular basis?
I wonder how big of a torrent file that would make....
no, it's the propulsion gel...for science!
If I wanted to mess with stuff, I'd still be using Gentoo. Frankly, the only reason I used Ubuntu was: install from a thumb-drive, change a few settings, and you're good to go in minutes. I re-install the OS every year or so, and getting ubuntu to the state I liked was pretty trivial. The defaults worked for me (only needed to install developer tools, etc.). With Unity, the defaults don't work for me... so rather than "work around" things, I switched to Xubuntu...the defaults work for me. Will give Mint a try on my laptop this weekend---seems to get a lot of good publicity.
Many large corps have databases like Netezza (IBM) or Greenplum (EMC). To get better deals on their contracts, they'd like leverage of having an ``alternative''... Hadoop is often seen as that alternative (similar architecture, different mind-set) that can potentially be shoehorned into doing similar things that Netezza or Greenplum does---and not cost $bazillion dollars.
I think it's bubble mindset. It was similar atmosphere around 1999 or so. Not sure how this time it's different... Just flashier with different key-phrases---all hoping to cash in on the massive growth that ``advertising dollars'' will be bringing in as the economy of the world unravels.
Better yet, if OEMs provide only a Windows8 app to disable the bios feature---yes, you *could* do it, but you'll need Windows for it. (yes, I'm speaking of all those OEMs who at one time only had a *Windows* based bios updater).
Stick six 3T drives into a box, run rsync between'em daily (cron!). Build identical box in a different room/house, run rsync between first box and 2nd box daily/weekly (depending if local network or not)? each box, maybe ~$2k. That's 18T of space per box, with maybe 9T of it if you want to keep two copies of everything on each box.
Monitor disks, and as soon as OS tells ya the disk is going bad, replace it. It's amazing what modern disks are capable of.
Unless data changes rapidly, there's no need for replication that happens more than daily (e.g. typical home server box for whatever it is you're doing). Worst case scenario, you lose updates for that date. Have a tiny raid for critical stuff if that's not acceptable.
Easy to recover, 'cause, you have all the files right there, just swap disk, rsync will ensure all is good. No weird formats to deal with, no configurations to fiddle with (not something you want to be doing while recovering from a bad disk).
Indeed. I drove on I15, the 80mph limit stretch...and going 80 felt like "speeding" as everyone else was going 70-ish.
But the more precisely they measure the speed, the less they can be sure of its exact position!