--because otherwise we were looking at days and days of restoring from incremental backup tapes.--
Always do full backups and then you don't have that problem. I never did incremental ones. A full one every time with plenty of tapes and a big enough tape backup drive.
A lot of times a good backhoe operator would feel the line protection before he got caught up in it. That's how high pressure gas lines are constructed. I believe they have a sheath around them so that even without a map the backhoe guy should know he is running into something that should be there before he cuts the line completely, but it might have been a big piece of equipment, I just didn't read that far.
It sounds like your a man of experience because that is exactly how to keep it hid unless you have to many people working on it and one leaks to the press. Let them just run razor wire and watch towers over top of it, dogs, electronic surveillance, men with guns, shoot to kill signs, etc. The gas line idea would keep your average Joe away from it though.
I think lotus 123 was on this list but VisiCalc gave small businesses a reason to buy what was considered a hobbyist device. This was before the IBM PC. You could get it for the Apple II, TRS 80, Atari 800, etc. Also, WordStar should be included as well because without the word processor and spreadsheet, computers made no sense to a business. They bought and still buy the majority of equipment. I forgot to mention DBase from Ashton Tate.
Of course Office improved all of this stuff but it was basically there in the late 70's. So I would Vote the spreadsheet, database, and word processor in that order as 1,2, and 3. Quark Xpress at #2 come on?
--Making fusion a viable energy source (not a lab experiment) will take fifty years after the experiments have finished.--
That was my point maybe they should skip steps in experimentation since the idea is that fusion will only work at large scales. There is not really any danger of building a large scale plant. It is just costly. We skipped lots of steps like that with fission because we thought we had to get that going before the Germans. We'll I dunno pick a technology or all of them and start building large scale at the same time that you are designing. It's called design build. I do think speed is important at this point and 50 years is too long to wait. OK then invest your R & D into solar. You have to get the efficiency up to at least 80%. Maybe invest in everything that might be possible. At this point it would still be cheaper to do this then to bail everything out like GM that has even less chance of succeeding at anything. The US taxpayer has spent more on one company than DEMO would probably cost and I know more than ITER would cost. BTW I wasn't talking about a perpetual motion machine, just a fusion reactor that can keep a sustained reaction going. It's not 1850's tech but 1950's tech.
---We all know paywalls won't work. However, the alternative is worse: if newspapers don't find a way to make money online soon, they'll start seriously blending advertising inside news content. I don't want that to happen!----
--The idea of fusion and benefits of fusion are tremendous compared to fossil fuels but I've always wondered how long will it last before it starts eating a significant enough portion of the hydrogen to be a concern---
What! that is the most abundant chemical there is. By that time think antimatter.
--Ultimately the only "safe" power sources are those that derive their energy from external sources such as solar, wind, hydroelectric, and wave power; all of which are powered by the sun's energy and/or gravitational interaction with outside sources (aka moon).--
Technically all power is from the sun even fossil fuels. Without the sun, how would all of those plants have formed to make coal for instance? Nothing is completely safe but if a fusion reactor goes bad the reaction simply stops. I would be more worried about the materials that are bombarded with neutrons.
How much pollution is caused by making solar panels? There are a lot of carbon based solvents used in those processes. AND all of that stuff doesn't give you base load power except maybe geothermal. Wind and solar ARE under developed here when they are subsidizing 10% ethanol from corn in our gas. They should subsidize solar panels for those farmers fields instead. It would be cheaper. All that green stuff helps but in the end you need 2000 megawatt power stations that can be run continually unless you want to build a shitload of batteries to carry your green power when the sun don't shine, wind don't blow, etc. How much is the environmental impact of that? Nukes aren't perfect but seem to be the least bad of a choice that should be made very fast before we run out of oil. Coal will take a while longer but damn it is real nasty stuff.
--Fusion can only be made to work on a large scale, if at all.--
We have already made it work but the confinement has to be made to work as well, so the only way that can happen is to build a giant plant to test it, but a Tokomak scaled up would most likely work because the bigger they make them the better the efficiency. Go big enough and you get enormous power that is fairly clean.
--We're just using it wrong due to concerns for nuclear weapons proliferation.--
Very true and at this point it shouldn't be a concern. That line of thinking hasn't slowed down nuclear proliferation one bit. You could reprocess the stuff until it is only radio active for maybe 100 years. That can make waste disposal easier to deal with as well.
Fusion is even better though but no one wants to spend the money to scale it up to where it might work. It might take 100 billion or more really to get that. If we went at that problem like we were in a war, it would get solved just like the atomic bomb. Really we are in a race against time. We have to get enough power that is clean and fast. The only reason that there is not a net output yet is just a matter of scale, but fusion has to be scaled up even beyond ITER. Maybe they should just go ahead and build a bigger one no matter what the cost.
--A lot of my paranoia is related to this as well.---
It's not paranoia if what you say is well founded. I think you just made a case that I can back you up on that. I don't know if I have Asperger's because I have never been test but wanting to have a real career without exploitation is something I really want. There are lots of people labeled mentally ill that just can't stand the status qua of working like a serf.
--Pawning their patients off onto proper counsellors and/or medication is not making the doctor any more money.--
It can if they get kickbacks and the PCP usually gets you back because he will then prescribe what the specialist did as long as there is a record of it. They bounce you all around and back and forth to get all they can sometimes.
Of course some doctors are this way and some aren't.
--There were so many studies in the 60's where LSD based therapy seems to have contributed to long term reform of alcoholics,--
That's because the ones doing the studying were on LSD too. Timothy Leary equidistantly got it banned for running his mouth about it too much, Then it got to the higher ups that said make it stop and they sorta did. Not too much LSD in the US any more but worse stuff like what the shrinks prescribe now.
--E85 has a lower energy density than that of regular unleaded.--
Why is that because Ethanol doesn't have a lower energy density than Gas. Wait that might be Methanol. We'll let's just use nitro-methane. I'm sure it has high energy density.
--Neither is Microsoft nor the hardware vendors.--
I've never seen them around for Windows either. Just make sure you can get Linux drivers for all of the hardware that you are purchasing. Notebooks may be tricky here. I might would buy one of those pre-loaded with Linux but not a desktop.
Don't do that pick the smallest hard drive, least memory, etc. Go get that custom stuff from newegg or somewhere like that. They make a killing off of memory and hard drives.
Of course if you have to buy thousands I'm sure you can get them to discount that.
Sometimes it is also your job to keep them from doing things that could harm the company as well. After all like you said the machines aren't the admin's either, but he might not like to have the company fail because the job market is not the greatest here right now.
That means disabling them and enabling them too. That is why remote attestation is attractive and disgusting at the same time.
Sometimes people are worth more to you for what they wouldn't than what they would. To keep a user happy all their stuff for the company has to work but then they get pissed off if you take away stuff that they are used too. Personal stuff. The users think the machines are theirs. So I guess you might be right, but some kind of balance must be struck at least where I at now. The higher up users seem to be the worst offenders about bringing USB keys from home or know where with what files. If it were up to me I wouldn't let them through the door.
I would really like to have it but at the same time I don't trust it either.
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--because otherwise we were looking at days and days of restoring from incremental backup tapes.--
Always do full backups and then you don't have that problem. I never did incremental ones. A full one every time with plenty of tapes and a big enough tape backup drive.
CHKDSK and RECOVER
Hell, it works most of the time on a widows box.
You forgot territorial as well.
A lot of times a good backhoe operator would feel the line protection before he got caught up in it. That's how high pressure gas lines are constructed. I believe they have a sheath around them so that even without a map the backhoe guy should know he is running into something that should be there before he cuts the line completely, but it might have been a big piece of equipment, I just didn't read that far.
It sounds like your a man of experience because that is exactly how to keep it hid unless you have to many people working on it and one leaks to the press. Let them just run razor wire and watch towers over top of it, dogs, electronic surveillance, men with guns, shoot to kill signs, etc. The gas line idea would keep your average Joe away from it though.
I think lotus 123 was on this list but VisiCalc gave small businesses a reason to buy what was considered a hobbyist device. This was before the IBM PC. You could get it for the Apple II, TRS 80, Atari 800, etc. Also, WordStar should be included as well because without the word processor and spreadsheet, computers made no sense to a business. They bought and still buy the majority of equipment. I forgot to mention DBase from Ashton Tate.
Of course Office improved all of this stuff but it was basically there in the late 70's. So I would Vote the spreadsheet, database, and word processor in that order as 1,2, and 3. Quark Xpress at #2 come on?
--Making fusion a viable energy source (not a lab experiment) will take fifty years after the experiments have finished.--
That was my point maybe they should skip steps in experimentation since the idea is that fusion will only work at large scales. There is not really any danger of building a large scale plant. It is just costly. We skipped lots of steps like that with fission because we thought we had to get that going before the Germans. We'll I dunno pick a technology or all of them and start building large scale at the same time that you are designing. It's called design build. I do think speed is important at this point and 50 years is too long to wait. OK then invest your R & D into solar. You have to get the efficiency up to at least 80%. Maybe invest in everything that might be possible. At this point it would still be cheaper to do this then to bail everything out like GM that has even less chance of succeeding at anything. The US taxpayer has spent more on one company than DEMO would probably cost and I know more than ITER would cost. BTW I wasn't talking about a perpetual motion machine, just a fusion reactor that can keep a sustained reaction going. It's not 1850's tech but 1950's tech.
---We all know paywalls won't work. However, the alternative is worse: if newspapers don't find a way to make money online soon, they'll start seriously blending advertising inside news content. I don't want that to happen!----
This happened a long time ago.
--The idea of fusion and benefits of fusion are tremendous compared to fossil fuels but I've always wondered how long will it last before it starts eating a significant enough portion of the hydrogen to be a concern---
What! that is the most abundant chemical there is. By that time think antimatter.
--Ultimately the only "safe" power sources are those that derive their energy from external sources such as solar, wind, hydroelectric, and wave power; all of which are powered by the sun's energy and/or gravitational interaction with outside sources (aka moon).--
Technically all power is from the sun even fossil fuels. Without the sun, how would all of those plants have formed to make coal for instance? Nothing is completely safe but if a fusion reactor goes bad the reaction simply stops. I would be more worried about the materials that are bombarded with neutrons.
How much pollution is caused by making solar panels? There are a lot of carbon based solvents used in those processes. AND all of that stuff doesn't give you base load power except maybe geothermal. Wind and solar ARE under developed here when they are subsidizing 10% ethanol from corn in our gas. They should subsidize solar panels for those farmers fields instead. It would be cheaper. All that green stuff helps but in the end you need 2000 megawatt power stations that can be run continually unless you want to build a shitload of batteries to carry your green power when the sun don't shine, wind don't blow, etc. How much is the environmental impact of that? Nukes aren't perfect but seem to be the least bad of a choice that should be made very fast before we run out of oil. Coal will take a while longer but damn it is real nasty stuff.
They could terraform Mars with coal. We just have to build taller smokestacks to send the CO2 in that direction.
--Fusion can only be made to work on a large scale, if at all.--
We have already made it work but the confinement has to be made to work as well, so the only way that can happen is to build a giant plant to test it, but a Tokomak scaled up would most likely work because the bigger they make them the better the efficiency. Go big enough and you get enormous power that is fairly clean.
--We're just using it wrong due to concerns for nuclear weapons proliferation.--
Very true and at this point it shouldn't be a concern. That line of thinking hasn't slowed down nuclear proliferation one bit. You could reprocess the stuff until it is only radio active for maybe 100 years. That can make waste disposal easier to deal with as well.
Fusion is even better though but no one wants to spend the money to scale it up to where it might work. It might take 100 billion or more really to get that. If we went at that problem like we were in a war, it would get solved just like the atomic bomb. Really we are in a race against time. We have to get enough power that is clean and fast. The only reason that there is not a net output yet is just a matter of scale, but fusion has to be scaled up even beyond ITER. Maybe they should just go ahead and build a bigger one no matter what the cost.
--A lot of my paranoia is related to this as well.---
It's not paranoia if what you say is well founded. I think you just made a case that I can back you up on that. I don't know if I have Asperger's because I have never been test but wanting to have a real career without exploitation is something I really want. There are lots of people labeled mentally ill that just can't stand the status qua of working like a serf.
--Pawning their patients off onto proper counsellors and/or medication is not making the doctor any more money.--
It can if they get kickbacks and the PCP usually gets you back because he will then prescribe what the specialist did as long as there is a record of it. They bounce you all around and back and forth to get all they can sometimes.
Of course some doctors are this way and some aren't.
--There were so many studies in the 60's where LSD based therapy seems to have contributed to long term reform of alcoholics,--
That's because the ones doing the studying were on LSD too. Timothy Leary equidistantly got it banned for running his mouth about it too much, Then it got to the higher ups that said make it stop and they sorta did. Not too much LSD in the US any more but worse stuff like what the shrinks prescribe now.
--E85 has a lower energy density than that of regular unleaded.--
Why is that because Ethanol doesn't have a lower energy density than Gas. Wait that might be Methanol. We'll let's just use nitro-methane. I'm sure it has high energy density.
--Neither is Microsoft nor the hardware vendors.--
I've never seen them around for Windows either. Just make sure you can get Linux drivers for all of the hardware that you are purchasing. Notebooks may be tricky here. I might would buy one of those pre-loaded with Linux but not a desktop.
With Dell at least you can upgrade the memory and hard drives on those laptops your self and save some money sometimes.
--"customize it" --
Don't do that pick the smallest hard drive, least memory, etc. Go get that custom stuff from newegg or somewhere like that. They make a killing off of memory and hard drives.
Of course if you have to buy thousands I'm sure you can get them to discount that.
---Most people will not allow a bad plumber, with a string of complaints anywhere near their shower or toilette,---
My wife does. Guess who it is?
CSS is just tables that function a little better for maintenance. That's all. Getting all of the browsers to work right (IE IE IE) is another issue.
Some are just as ugly as tables of old.
http://www.freecsstemplates.org/css-templates/24
Hmm...someone once told me that a top person could be insured in case he quit. I guess that would be costly.
Insurance for a business only pays for replacement of things and not time that I'm aware of.
Everyone also knows they don't need any because they have Ungabunga Linux that does everything for free.
Sometimes it is also your job to keep them from doing things that could harm the company as well. After all like you said the machines aren't the admin's either, but he might not like to have the company fail because the job market is not the greatest here right now.
That means disabling them and enabling them too. That is why remote attestation is attractive and disgusting at the same time.
Sometimes people are worth more to you for what they wouldn't than what they would. To keep a user happy all their stuff for the company has to work but then they get pissed off if you take away stuff that they are used too. Personal stuff. The users think the machines are theirs. So I guess you might be right, but some kind of balance must be struck at least where I at now. The higher up users seem to be the worst offenders about bringing USB keys from home or know where with what files. If it were up to me I wouldn't let them through the door.
I would really like to have it but at the same time I don't trust it either.