When you have say 10 different locations setup, one being utilized when down for 10minutes accounts still for 90% uptime on the period.
However, that being said, there are mission critical application, and i never said this is the perfect solution for everyone.
Also there are other means to load balance, say you want a host a single file, ie. your application on each of these, on your main website you have download page, which chooses the mirror according to availability.
Done right there's no problems at all. Just because something is CHEAP doesn't mean one couldn't utilize it;)
Everything has their own place and time, what you are saying is like Mini-ITX setups should be banned and never used because they are so cheap and doesn't offer performance.
Setup once, forget then. You get to run at a cost of say 40$ a month with 4 locations, versus 100-250$ a month with one 1 location, and practical usable bandwidth 1/10th.
besides, ones the setup is done, and you need to keep swapping places, you've done something wrong, or are trying to acheive too high of an ROI. Also, after initial setup done, almost any monkey can setup new locations shall the need arise.
Because of any degree of higher traffic (think 100k visitors a week) and you get suspended, that's why running an regular website on it sucks, unless you have very low traffic website. Nevermind their CPUs & ram are anyways quite damn busy -> slow page views.
Filehosting: Ie. installation file of your application is not included in that, while being technically distribution, not distribution in the sense of the TOS, which interpreted means sites where you have the latest game demos for download.
Case example, a 3D application like a game, this is what you have:
* Sound & Music
* 3D Graphics rendering
* Input devices
* Timing (of animations etc.)
Those are the main tasks, i found out personally it's way easier to implement in threads, my case was an demoscene 64k intro. If you don't know what that is... How sad, demoscene guys are the ones pushing envelope year in & year out! Basicly a short real time animation. At demoscene we've seen real time photorealistic raytracing back in the 90s already, albeit very simple scene, but it was photorealistic and real time.
It was way easier to implement the render calculation tasks, music and timings in separate threads, yes, that's only 3 threads, but it is some future proofing, and it was quite small codebase (64k stands for 64kbytes).
That way i got to ensure absolute precision over the animation precision, jitter free music etc. Nevermind the fact that i didn't have to give RAT'S ASS of my attention to make sure i were juggling between tasks.
Other case example:
Graphical multiple file WGET style:
The instances of getting the files, each on separate threads and the GUI.
Yet another case example from *** DOS-ERA ***, yes, that's right, i've implemented multi-threading style things even under DOS:
Music particularly, playing on the background, jitter free undepending on the task the remainder of the app was doing. I admit, i didn't code the music player, it was free to use, might've even been open source. (Give me a break for not coding it myself: i were 11-12 back then)
There are a multitude of tasks which are simpler when multithreaded. One today's example is Second Life bots, it's just so much wiser to implement multithreading for each individual task of the system, multithreaded callbacks etc. and performance rockets skyhigh. That being said, some tasks like teleporting is done on thread blocking style (blocks the current sequential block of code) to avoid trouble.
Nevermind that performance increases were attainable with single core, single CPU setups as well, even with very computationally heavy tasks such as Seti@Home (performed some benchmarks about 5yrs back).
Inter-thread communication can be a walk in the park on many cases aswell.
Yeap, that's right. With over 7yrs of solid hosting industry experience, it's very easy to see.
Atleast Amazon's service is WAY overpriced for long term use. Sure if you need it just for few hours ever it's all good, but for 24/7 hosting it ain't, none of them.
It's cheaper to get regular servers, even from a very high quality provide than to use amazon's services.
Best of all: You can still use their service to autoscale up if you prepare right, and yet have low baseline cost.
If it's only filehosting service you need, the BW prices amazon offers are outrageous, take a bunch of cheapend shared accounts, and you'll get way better ROI, and still, for the most part, do not sacrifice any reliability at all. Cost: Greater setup time, depending upon on several contingency factors.
Case examples: you can get from bluehost, dreamhost etc. plenty of HDD & Bandwidth for few $ a month. Don't even try to run any regular website on it, they'll cut you off (CPU & Ram usage), but for filehosting, it's great bang for buck:)
Scared of reliability? Automatically edit DNS zone according to locations availability and have low(ish) TTL. Every added location increases reliability.
No, because if the software was written correctly in the FIRST place, speed would increase.
Parallel task, parallel solution.
Oh, and before you even start: There was multi-cpu platforms ages ago, even on consumer level (but not on consumer budget) you could get multi-cpu setup some 10years ago, based on x86 architecture, and even windows supporting out-of-the-box.
Imho, it's even easier to write parallel solutions to parallel problems than it is to bash it into a sequential solution, on languages supporting relatively easy parallelism (=threads, processes, whatever)
Once again, Moore's law = "Density of transistors will double every 18months", inherently hardware law, and does not take any kind of part into the utilization off the transistors. Hell, you could even arrange them in somekind huge loop doing nothing sane on the hardware level if you wanted to. It doesn't even say that speed will double in 18months, but that's the practical interpretation of it, while it is incorrect, it is relatively close.
yet again you are a showcase example of unability of thinking beyond written text.
Obvious abuse would be something like, reporting very same kind of incident for the 3rd time around, or something which clearly is not a suspicious activity.
idk what military has really or does, security wise, what i described, i came up while writing.
I didn't particularly suggest low budget, just that financial institutions tend to be too precise for every euro or usd. Automation can cut costs a great degree.
Infact, reading your reply, i thought, maybe these assets SHOULD be protected by military? With finances, you can spread very bad devastation with a single flick of a button given too much access. Crumble the economy behind a nation, and their military will fall too, due to lack of budget.
Therefore, such an organization, should be considered as valuable as military, and as highly guarded as the highest security (nuclear warheads for example). Afterall, it's meaningless pennies on their scale of economics. Spending a million or two on that each month, that is. With military as assistance, they effectively get aswell subsidized for the protection.
However, we must also remember that DOD networks has been breached on a consistent basis, there was some documentary about it couple years back.
Physically it doesn't matter much where the servers locate, as long as it's secure location. There could be a NOC style command room with rotating staff, military supervised security practices, where when sysadmins work on a server, they watch a big screen which can be watched by everyone in the room. Military is very disciplined, therefore, even attempting to maneuver anything suspicious is a huge dare.
Doesn't help if a whitelisted host is aswell infected. No single technique, or category of security is enough, it needs multi-tiered, multi-level security in cases such as this. All task specific.
Furthermore, there shouldn't be a single "full access" account, except for "root", and anyone working on root access would need to be required to work as a team of 2 or 3 persons, all coming from separate divisions/offices/departments, no prior contact, randomly chosen. Why?
Humans are always the weakest link in security, and if someone is being watched when working on a server maintenance, the second fellow could report such an incident. Offer an prize for bringing up if there's a suspicion, immediately bringing that server down, and even if it was a failed suspicion, there should be somekind of reward for just being suspicious.
This data is too critical to let any single person to have access in privacy. every action taken on the server should be logged, and automatic heuristic analysis done on it. Aswell, for all data in and out, network or removable media. It is all doable, given the right persons to do it, it's even cost-effective.
Automation is the key to cut costs.
There's plenty of methods to do something with high security, given creatively, sane, suspicious people planning for all of it.
Then show these 200-300euros apartments by all means!
Oikotie, Etuovi, Nettiasunto, Keltainen Porssi for example does not have them.
I've seen a "grandma's cabin" going for 250euros a month. Is this what you mean? The landlord couldn't even tell the size, so i'm assuming around 10sqm. Same landlord was offering car trailers parked on a backyard for 150euros a month.
That article you are quoting is over 7months old, as far as i know it is mandatory blacklisting, and that was the whole point of it.
do some fact checking, cheapest single apartment you will find is around 350-400euros.
I've personally got twice lucky, 55½sqm for 445euros a month, while my GF was paying for OWNED apartment of 56sqm with full mortgage only interest being paid, first 390euros a month, and later on 460euros month as interest got raised and the housing co. raised their charge for maintenace at the same time. My next apartment 59sqm and 500euros a month.
At the same time, my friend was paying 750euros a month for 65sqm in more remote location, and another friend 2 years earlier paid near my GF for around 70sqm, 880euros a month.
In a remote location, single apartment of 24sqm went for 350euros in a single day, i was looking to move there to goto school. City and organizations over there were even more expensive. At the same remote location, the school offered shared apartments for 150euros a month for half a room furnished. Those apartments were triple apartments, with 6 people sharing it. Their understanding of "single apartment" as well were two people living in it for 300euros a month. You weren't eligible to bring any furnishing you own, and no storage space was being offered neither.
That location was really remote for being part of the capital city area, 70km from eastern helsinki, and 10km from nearest junction to highway. Not even proper internet access is guaranteed over there. Public transportation was available, but to say the least, not very good.
A small real house costs always over 1000euros a month, and all row houses i've seen has been over 800euros a month. and they are still small.
The blacklisting IS mandatory here for ISPs, and i doubt you were expecting me to list all the things making Finland close to police state. Did you for example know that all highways and major roads in capital city area have dozens and dozens of cameras tracking where you are going, from where you are coming from, what speed you are going from. Hell, they even sometimes snail mail you to ask from where you were coming and where to you were going!
I don't know on what basis the parent does base his arguments, and accusations, it seems parent should be mod as TROLL.
Ofc, all the people who speak for human rights, civil liberties, and freedom are stupid like the parent said;) It's just like opposing DRM, RIAA/MPAA is futile and stupid, afterall they are here FOR THE PEOPLE!
So EvilNTUser, come and move to Finland, live there for a few years, and let me know how cheap of apartment you were able to find etc. and was essentially 50hr work weeks to benefit 200euros is worth it compared to 0hr work weeks, and spending your time educating yourself, sports, hobbies, or just generally building the skills which are required for 2500+ euros monthly wage before it makes it all worth, and you are able to live comfortably.
Oh and good luck on getting 2500+ euros monthly wage, middle management doesn't here make that much generally, coders don't make that much generally, and mostly where you get to that kind of salary is some serious overtime hours.
in southern finland, i heard it was somekind of military base. That censor was masked as corrupted image data (black areas etc. garbage which made it look like data is corrupted), a friend found it
That blacklist IS mandatory for all ISPs. That blacklist IS being misused.
The unemployment "benefit" alone is only one part of the aids you get. You are being simply stupid if you do not use the whole palette of the aids.
As unemployed you get:
* Unemployment payments
* Subsidized rental
* Social welfare payments
Which equals to:
After rent, electricity and some other necessities. case by case on internet, computer, phone. I know people who have got even all their furnishing from gov. Also all health related (glasses, doctor appointments, medication etc.) is paid by gov when you are unemployed fully. 380euros on hand for everything else, which is generally food, clothing, travels, hobbies.
Comparison:
Basic well over minimum wage job: 1700euros brutto a month, total taxes 20%, rental 700euros a month, job travel 80euros a month, leaves 580euros on hand (This is BEFORE electricity which is paid for unemployed). No subsidied rental, no aids whatsoever from gov. Electricity around 20-40euros a month. Also, no health expense related benefits from govt. unless you've had reaaally big expenses you can get social welfare to pay for them.
Minimum wage ~1380euros brutto a month. On other hand, the cheapest single apartments go for around 400euros, and are around 12-16sqm, for 500-600euros you get single or double of 25 to 60sqm if you are REALLY lucky. A decent apartment regularly costs around 15euros per sqm a month. so 50sqm is 750euros a month, and well over 20euros per sqm a month is not unheard neither (one of my friend's is considering moving into one which costs 22euros per sqm, due to it's location near trainstation and town center). Ofc, cheaper DO exist, but it's a bit like winning in lottery to get one.
There is also a lot of people who have to still get social welfare after their wage, because so little remains on hand.
Next time you come bullshitting, do make some fact checking. Or maybe try living few years on Finland, only with income you get here. Good luck with that! Especially if you intend to have ANY hobbies AT ALL.
Matti Nikki's website has been censored from almost the start because he has been speaking against this kind of censorship, and it's problems.
One of the problems he claims is that it will be used against sites which do not distribute child pornography, activist websites, critical of the goverment, or otherwise "undesired" websites. This blacklist was entirely made for child pornography.
His site got blacklisted, proofing the point. No action has been taken, and no one seems to care how Finland aswell is turning into a police state. To access his website, simply use OpenDNS.org nameservers.
Finland is in a state of masqueraded communism, the taxes are highest in the world and living costs right up there too! For well above minimum wage job, you don't get even twice the amount of money to spend on things than on unemployment checks.
I were born in Finland, and like living here very much indeed, even so much i've denied some REALLY good positions offered to me abroad and stayed in Finland. However slowly i'm starting to rethink the sensibility of staying in Finland, due to things like this blacklist.
As some people report, some of the places are blurred and pixelated.
Debunking would need a full around inspection, on as well lesser known censored locations. So in other words this Debunking article is *FUD* and by far an incomplete investigation to the matter.
Furthermore, it is in google's best interest that censorship is considered a myth / urban legend.
I've myself seen even in Finland a censored location.
I am very well aware of that, even 70s cars btw had variable ignition timing.
However, the basics of physics remain the same, no matter how much you add control to it.
Granted, the newer things have limtied the raise in fuel consumption. But biggest of these are fuel injection.
Anti-knock works for the high revs. O2 sensor's (lambda) ability to vary the mixture is usually limited in nature.
So to rank from those best for normal daily driving fuel consuption savers are electronic multipoint fuel injection, then O2 sensor based varying of mixture, and ofc the increased accuracy and ignition power by newer digitally controlled spark system (ie. waste spark type like FORD EDIS, and real direct ignition).
The bottomline nevertheless is that an 80s day to day car weighted 800-1000kg, today's day to day car weights 1200-1600kg. Increased mass, increased energy consumption. Also, newer cars tend to be way bigger, in other words, increased surface area, increased total drag. The aerodynamic design might be light years ahead, but no where enough to counter the increased surface area. (Drag coefficient afterall is just a multiplier for surface area to get the total drag)
oh based on the load you want to accurately retard and advance timing. Advancing is more for high end and horsepowers, retarding more for low end and torque.
Don't forget variable valve timing, yet, that too mostly is beneficial for high end revs. it gives capability to maintain smooth idle to low rpm, yet give the advantage of more aggressive valve timings for high revs.
yet in the end it all boils down to very simple laws physics like said, minimize car weight, minimize engine size, minimize intake size for lowest possible consumption on the hardware side. Biggest impact on consumption is always on the driver however.
oh almost forgot a quite new thing for mass produced vehicles: Direct injection into cylinders which is able to reduce consumption and increase HP & torque output greatly by what i've seen by utilization so far (ie. new BMW 1-series cars)
Def. won't work if you got a plenum, because then most likely you will have a steep turn for the air to take. So that's why i were wondering, would it work for sidedrafts / individual throttle bodies setup:)
Highly tuned cars tend to quite economic too when driven calmly, my friends 500whp 200SX consumes around 8litres on mixed drive, another friend's BMW M3 consumes around 8-10 on mostly city, my old tuned up BMW used to take 6.6-6.8litres/100km on travel (however, the same car sucked around 60l/100km when on circuit AVERAGE!)
and last but least, my winter car, old RWD Corolla DX with 1.6l and dual sidedraft carbs, untuned, on calm mostly travel and a bit of city driving around 9l/100km, but that isn't particularly highly tuned (just an ~25-30% increase over stock engine), but the intake is NOT AT ALL suited for low rpms.
The engines are same over here, infact, usually we don't have some of the anti-emission things JAPAN or CALIFORNIA has. The tuning is otherwise exactly the same, and most cars could use cheaper fuel than what is commercially available here (95 octane), and we have commercially available also 99+ octane gas, which means it's minimum 99 octane, and should usually be higher. and some rare places sell 'regular' 99 octane.
These premium fuels come with a heavy premium on them, costing atleast 7.5% more usually. Most cars do not need the normal high octane 98RON.
Advanced timing, the easiest way to take advantage of higher octane fuel is beneficial mostly only on high rpm.
on top of that, most fuel efficient cars has been rated to something like 88RON minimum, and over 90% of cars run easily on the russian "stable quality" gas (meaning it can be whatever shit, anything from 70octane to 95 octane in reality), albeit i wouldn't ever buy a car which has regularly used regular russian gas, except maybe if only brand name gas stations used, known here aswell.
I don't think cars differ, maybe cars bought differ?;) Europeans don't think so vastly "Bigger is better", and 1.6litre engine is quite a standard size, and not so many cars have 2litre engines or bigger.
Also, atleast here in Finland, we drive quite old cars usually, which tend to have lower consumption being lighter weight. An old (early 90s? late 80s?) clio does achieve under 5liters per 100km on mixed drive. that's around 49mpg.
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For time tracking, toggl is a good solution.
When you have say 10 different locations setup, one being utilized when down for 10minutes accounts still for 90% uptime on the period.
However, that being said, there are mission critical application, and i never said this is the perfect solution for everyone.
Also there are other means to load balance, say you want a host a single file, ie. your application on each of these, on your main website you have download page, which chooses the mirror according to availability.
No jiggery is needed, ie. swapping hosts etc.
Done right there's no problems at all. Just because something is CHEAP doesn't mean one couldn't utilize it ;)
Everything has their own place and time, what you are saying is like Mini-ITX setups should be banned and never used because they are so cheap and doesn't offer performance.
Setup once, forget then. You get to run at a cost of say 40$ a month with 4 locations, versus 100-250$ a month with one 1 location, and practical usable bandwidth 1/10th.
besides, ones the setup is done, and you need to keep swapping places, you've done something wrong, or are trying to acheive too high of an ROI. Also, after initial setup done, almost any monkey can setup new locations shall the need arise.
Because of any degree of higher traffic (think 100k visitors a week) and you get suspended, that's why running an regular website on it sucks, unless you have very low traffic website. Nevermind their CPUs & ram are anyways quite damn busy -> slow page views.
Filehosting: Ie. installation file of your application is not included in that, while being technically distribution, not distribution in the sense of the TOS, which interpreted means sites where you have the latest game demos for download.
Actually you are wrong.
Case example, a 3D application like a game, this is what you have:
* Sound & Music
* 3D Graphics rendering
* Input devices
* Timing (of animations etc.)
Those are the main tasks, i found out personally it's way easier to implement in threads, my case was an demoscene 64k intro. If you don't know what that is ... How sad, demoscene guys are the ones pushing envelope year in & year out! Basicly a short real time animation. At demoscene we've seen real time photorealistic raytracing back in the 90s already, albeit very simple scene, but it was photorealistic and real time.
It was way easier to implement the render calculation tasks, music and timings in separate threads, yes, that's only 3 threads, but it is some future proofing, and it was quite small codebase (64k stands for 64kbytes).
That way i got to ensure absolute precision over the animation precision, jitter free music etc.
Nevermind the fact that i didn't have to give RAT'S ASS of my attention to make sure i were juggling between tasks.
Other case example:
Graphical multiple file WGET style:
The instances of getting the files, each on separate threads and the GUI.
Yet another case example from *** DOS-ERA ***, yes, that's right, i've implemented multi-threading style things even under DOS:
Music particularly, playing on the background, jitter free undepending on the task the remainder of the app was doing. I admit, i didn't code the music player, it was free to use, might've even been open source. (Give me a break for not coding it myself: i were 11-12 back then)
There are a multitude of tasks which are simpler when multithreaded.
One today's example is Second Life bots, it's just so much wiser to implement multithreading for each individual task of the system, multithreaded callbacks etc. and performance rockets skyhigh. That being said, some tasks like teleporting is done on thread blocking style (blocks the current sequential block of code) to avoid trouble.
Nevermind that performance increases were attainable with single core, single CPU setups as well, even with very computationally heavy tasks such as Seti@Home (performed some benchmarks about 5yrs back).
Inter-thread communication can be a walk in the park on many cases aswell.
Yeap, that's right. With over 7yrs of solid hosting industry experience, it's very easy to see.
Atleast Amazon's service is WAY overpriced for long term use. Sure if you need it just for few hours ever it's all good, but for 24/7 hosting it ain't, none of them.
It's cheaper to get regular servers, even from a very high quality provide than to use amazon's services.
Best of all: You can still use their service to autoscale up if you prepare right, and yet have low baseline cost.
If it's only filehosting service you need, the BW prices amazon offers are outrageous, take a bunch of cheapend shared accounts, and you'll get way better ROI, and still, for the most part, do not sacrifice any reliability at all. Cost: Greater setup time, depending upon on several contingency factors.
Case examples: you can get from bluehost, dreamhost etc. plenty of HDD & Bandwidth for few $ a month. Don't even try to run any regular website on it, they'll cut you off (CPU & Ram usage), but for filehosting, it's great bang for buck :)
Scared of reliability? Automatically edit DNS zone according to locations availability and have low(ish) TTL. Every added location increases reliability.
Where to start is the question, coming from Web Dev background with some C, Visual Basic and C# experience.
What languages are out there? Where to go for some introductory tutorials etc.?
No, because if the software was written correctly in the FIRST place, speed would increase.
Parallel task, parallel solution.
Oh, and before you even start: There was multi-cpu platforms ages ago, even on consumer level (but not on consumer budget) you could get multi-cpu setup some 10years ago, based on x86 architecture, and even windows supporting out-of-the-box.
Imho, it's even easier to write parallel solutions to parallel problems than it is to bash it into a sequential solution, on languages supporting relatively easy parallelism (=threads, processes, whatever)
Once again, Moore's law = "Density of transistors will double every 18months", inherently hardware law, and does not take any kind of part into the utilization off the transistors. Hell, you could even arrange them in somekind huge loop doing nothing sane on the hardware level if you wanted to. It doesn't even say that speed will double in 18months, but that's the practical interpretation of it, while it is incorrect, it is relatively close.
or just: touch
This has been the happening for a year now or something, longer time anyways.
Nothing upfront, laptop + wireless broadband (GPRS i think) 15-29euros a month, 2 year contract.
yet again you are a showcase example of unability of thinking beyond written text.
Obvious abuse would be something like, reporting very same kind of incident for the 3rd time around, or something which clearly is not a suspicious activity.
Punishment for obvious abuse would be a necessity, thinking beyond of written text is allowed, even recommended.
idk what military has really or does, security wise, what i described, i came up while writing.
I didn't particularly suggest low budget, just that financial institutions tend to be too precise for every euro or usd. Automation can cut costs a great degree.
Infact, reading your reply, i thought, maybe these assets SHOULD be protected by military? With finances, you can spread very bad devastation with a single flick of a button given too much access. Crumble the economy behind a nation, and their military will fall too, due to lack of budget.
Therefore, such an organization, should be considered as valuable as military, and as highly guarded as the highest security (nuclear warheads for example). Afterall, it's meaningless pennies on their scale of economics. Spending a million or two on that each month, that is. With military as assistance, they effectively get aswell subsidized for the protection.
However, we must also remember that DOD networks has been breached on a consistent basis, there was some documentary about it couple years back.
Physically it doesn't matter much where the servers locate, as long as it's secure location. There could be a NOC style command room with rotating staff, military supervised security practices, where when sysadmins work on a server, they watch a big screen which can be watched by everyone in the room. Military is very disciplined, therefore, even attempting to maneuver anything suspicious is a huge dare.
Doesn't help if a whitelisted host is aswell infected. No single technique, or category of security is enough, it needs multi-tiered, multi-level security in cases such as this. All task specific.
Furthermore, there shouldn't be a single "full access" account, except for "root", and anyone working on root access would need to be required to work as a team of 2 or 3 persons, all coming from separate divisions/offices/departments, no prior contact, randomly chosen. Why?
Humans are always the weakest link in security, and if someone is being watched when working on a server maintenance, the second fellow could report such an incident. Offer an prize for bringing up if there's a suspicion, immediately bringing that server down, and even if it was a failed suspicion, there should be somekind of reward for just being suspicious.
This data is too critical to let any single person to have access in privacy. every action taken on the server should be logged, and automatic heuristic analysis done on it. Aswell, for all data in and out, network or removable media. It is all doable, given the right persons to do it, it's even cost-effective.
Automation is the key to cut costs.
There's plenty of methods to do something with high security, given creatively, sane, suspicious people planning for all of it.
My 2 cents.
i have thought of the same exact method. Then again, if it would work, wouldn't it already be used pretty much everywhere? ;)
You don't need dental dremel to do it :) Normal electrical dremel is enough :)
Then show these 200-300euros apartments by all means!
Oikotie, Etuovi, Nettiasunto, Keltainen Porssi for example does not have them.
I've seen a "grandma's cabin" going for 250euros a month. Is this what you mean? The landlord couldn't even tell the size, so i'm assuming around 10sqm. Same landlord was offering car trailers parked on a backyard for 150euros a month.
That article you are quoting is over 7months old, as far as i know it is mandatory blacklisting, and that was the whole point of it.
do some fact checking, cheapest single apartment you will find is around 350-400euros.
I've personally got twice lucky, 55½sqm for 445euros a month, while my GF was paying for OWNED apartment of 56sqm with full mortgage only interest being paid, first 390euros a month, and later on 460euros month as interest got raised and the housing co. raised their charge for maintenace at the same time. My next apartment 59sqm and 500euros a month.
At the same time, my friend was paying 750euros a month for 65sqm in more remote location, and another friend 2 years earlier paid near my GF for around 70sqm, 880euros a month.
In a remote location, single apartment of 24sqm went for 350euros in a single day, i was looking to move there to goto school. City and organizations over there were even more expensive. At the same remote location, the school offered shared apartments for 150euros a month for half a room furnished. Those apartments were triple apartments, with 6 people sharing it. Their understanding of "single apartment" as well were two people living in it for 300euros a month. You weren't eligible to bring any furnishing you own, and no storage space was being offered neither.
That location was really remote for being part of the capital city area, 70km from eastern helsinki, and 10km from nearest junction to highway. Not even proper internet access is guaranteed over there. Public transportation was available, but to say the least, not very good.
A small real house costs always over 1000euros a month, and all row houses i've seen has been over 800euros a month. and they are still small.
The blacklisting IS mandatory here for ISPs, and i doubt you were expecting me to list all the things making Finland close to police state. Did you for example know that all highways and major roads in capital city area have dozens and dozens of cameras tracking where you are going, from where you are coming from, what speed you are going from. Hell, they even sometimes snail mail you to ask from where you were coming and where to you were going!
I don't know on what basis the parent does base his arguments, and accusations, it seems parent should be mod as TROLL.
Ofc, all the people who speak for human rights, civil liberties, and freedom are stupid like the parent said ;) It's just like opposing DRM, RIAA/MPAA is futile and stupid, afterall they are here FOR THE PEOPLE!
So EvilNTUser, come and move to Finland, live there for a few years, and let me know how cheap of apartment you were able to find etc. and was essentially 50hr work weeks to benefit 200euros is worth it compared to 0hr work weeks, and spending your time educating yourself, sports, hobbies, or just generally building the skills which are required for 2500+ euros monthly wage before it makes it all worth, and you are able to live comfortably.
Oh and good luck on getting 2500+ euros monthly wage, middle management doesn't here make that much generally, coders don't make that much generally, and mostly where you get to that kind of salary is some serious overtime hours.
in southern finland, i heard it was somekind of military base. That censor was masked as corrupted image data (black areas etc. garbage which made it look like data is corrupted), a friend found it
That blacklist IS mandatory for all ISPs.
That blacklist IS being misused.
The unemployment "benefit" alone is only one part of the aids you get. You are being simply stupid if you do not use the whole palette of the aids.
As unemployed you get:
* Unemployment payments
* Subsidized rental
* Social welfare payments
Which equals to:
After rent, electricity and some other necessities. case by case on internet, computer, phone. I know people who have got even all their furnishing from gov. Also all health related (glasses, doctor appointments, medication etc.) is paid by gov when you are unemployed fully. 380euros on hand for everything else, which is generally food, clothing, travels, hobbies.
Comparison:
Basic well over minimum wage job: 1700euros brutto a month, total taxes 20%, rental 700euros a month, job travel 80euros a month, leaves 580euros on hand (This is BEFORE electricity which is paid for unemployed). No subsidied rental, no aids whatsoever from gov. Electricity around 20-40euros a month. Also, no health expense related benefits from govt. unless you've had reaaally big expenses you can get social welfare to pay for them.
Minimum wage ~1380euros brutto a month. On other hand, the cheapest single apartments go for around 400euros, and are around 12-16sqm, for 500-600euros you get single or double of 25 to 60sqm if you are REALLY lucky. A decent apartment regularly costs around 15euros per sqm a month. so 50sqm is 750euros a month, and well over 20euros per sqm a month is not unheard neither (one of my friend's is considering moving into one which costs 22euros per sqm, due to it's location near trainstation and town center). Ofc, cheaper DO exist, but it's a bit like winning in lottery to get one.
There is also a lot of people who have to still get social welfare after their wage, because so little remains on hand.
Next time you come bullshitting, do make some fact checking. Or maybe try living few years on Finland, only with income you get here. Good luck with that! Especially if you intend to have ANY hobbies AT ALL.
Matti Nikki's website has been censored from almost the start because he has been speaking against this kind of censorship, and it's problems.
One of the problems he claims is that it will be used against sites which do not distribute child pornography, activist websites, critical of the goverment, or otherwise "undesired" websites. This blacklist was entirely made for child pornography.
His site got blacklisted, proofing the point. No action has been taken, and no one seems to care how Finland aswell is turning into a police state.
To access his website, simply use OpenDNS.org nameservers.
Finland is in a state of masqueraded communism, the taxes are highest in the world and living costs right up there too! For well above minimum wage job, you don't get even twice the amount of money to spend on things than on unemployment checks.
I were born in Finland, and like living here very much indeed, even so much i've denied some REALLY good positions offered to me abroad and stayed in Finland. However slowly i'm starting to rethink the sensibility of staying in Finland, due to things like this blacklist.
As some people report, some of the places are blurred and pixelated.
Debunking would need a full around inspection, on as well lesser known censored locations. So in other words this Debunking article is *FUD* and by far an incomplete investigation to the matter.
Furthermore, it is in google's best interest that censorship is considered a myth / urban legend.
I've myself seen even in Finland a censored location.
I am very well aware of that, even 70s cars btw had variable ignition timing.
However, the basics of physics remain the same, no matter how much you add control to it.
Granted, the newer things have limtied the raise in fuel consumption. But biggest of these are fuel injection.
Anti-knock works for the high revs. O2 sensor's (lambda) ability to vary the mixture is usually limited in nature.
So to rank from those best for normal daily driving fuel consuption savers are electronic multipoint fuel injection, then O2 sensor based varying of mixture, and ofc the increased accuracy and ignition power by newer digitally controlled spark system (ie. waste spark type like FORD EDIS, and real direct ignition).
The bottomline nevertheless is that an 80s day to day car weighted 800-1000kg, today's day to day car weights 1200-1600kg. Increased mass, increased energy consumption. Also, newer cars tend to be way bigger, in other words, increased surface area, increased total drag. The aerodynamic design might be light years ahead, but no where enough to counter the increased surface area. (Drag coefficient afterall is just a multiplier for surface area to get the total drag)
oh based on the load you want to accurately retard and advance timing. Advancing is more for high end and horsepowers, retarding more for low end and torque.
Don't forget variable valve timing, yet, that too mostly is beneficial for high end revs. it gives capability to maintain smooth idle to low rpm, yet give the advantage of more aggressive valve timings for high revs.
yet in the end it all boils down to very simple laws physics like said, minimize car weight, minimize engine size, minimize intake size for lowest possible consumption on the hardware side. Biggest impact on consumption is always on the driver however.
oh almost forgot a quite new thing for mass produced vehicles: Direct injection into cylinders which is able to reduce consumption and increase HP & torque output greatly by what i've seen by utilization so far (ie. new BMW 1-series cars)
Def. won't work if you got a plenum, because then most likely you will have a steep turn for the air to take. So that's why i were wondering, would it work for sidedrafts / individual throttle bodies setup :)
Highly tuned cars tend to quite economic too when driven calmly, my friends 500whp 200SX consumes around 8litres on mixed drive, another friend's BMW M3 consumes around 8-10 on mostly city, my old tuned up BMW used to take 6.6-6.8litres/100km on travel (however, the same car sucked around 60l/100km when on circuit AVERAGE!)
and last but least, my winter car, old RWD Corolla DX with 1.6l and dual sidedraft carbs, untuned, on calm mostly travel and a bit of city driving around 9l/100km, but that isn't particularly highly tuned (just an ~25-30% increase over stock engine), but the intake is NOT AT ALL suited for low rpms.
The engines are same over here, infact, usually we don't have some of the anti-emission things JAPAN or CALIFORNIA has. The tuning is otherwise exactly the same, and most cars could use cheaper fuel than what is commercially available here (95 octane), and we have commercially available also 99+ octane gas, which means it's minimum 99 octane, and should usually be higher. and some rare places sell 'regular' 99 octane.
These premium fuels come with a heavy premium on them, costing atleast 7.5% more usually. Most cars do not need the normal high octane 98RON.
Advanced timing, the easiest way to take advantage of higher octane fuel is beneficial mostly only on high rpm.
on top of that, most fuel efficient cars has been rated to something like 88RON minimum, and over 90% of cars run easily on the russian "stable quality" gas (meaning it can be whatever shit, anything from 70octane to 95 octane in reality), albeit i wouldn't ever buy a car which has regularly used regular russian gas, except maybe if only brand name gas stations used, known here aswell.
I don't think cars differ, maybe cars bought differ? ;) Europeans don't think so vastly "Bigger is better", and 1.6litre engine is quite a standard size, and not so many cars have 2litre engines or bigger.
Also, atleast here in Finland, we drive quite old cars usually, which tend to have lower consumption being lighter weight. An old (early 90s? late 80s?) clio does achieve under 5liters per 100km on mixed drive. that's around 49mpg.