Surely if this is supposed to be a highly secure box it would be a good idea to have an old fashioned mechanical lock alongside the electronic stuff so if one system fails the other is still in operation? Also what happens in a power cut?
The company has never had a good reputation wrt quality control or longevity of its vehicles. Seems like little has changed when they stick a chrysler or jeep badge on some bodge up they designed in Turin.
Disclaimer: I'm neither an american nor italian, just someone who likes properly built cars.
"While X is remote capable try running modern applications taking advantage of full modern X11 features, you'll find they dont work without workarounds like VNC or degrading their capabilities"
So what? I don't think anyone would expect perfect alpha blending on shading at 60fps over a network link. But something is better than nothing. Currently wayland is only offering the latter.
I'm sorry but you can't just come up with a new display driver and say arrogant BS like "oh, that network transparency stuff, no one uses it anymore, who cares" just because its either too difficult for them to implement or they're just not interested in doing it. Well some of us DO use it and we DO care.
... but here in the UK our Met Office sometimes can't even get it right 12 hours in advance. I'm not blaming them for that because the point i'm making is it doesn't matter how powerful the computer, if you don't have enough data and/or the software model isn't good enough then the hardware won't make much difference especially when chaos theory is working against you all the time too.
Everything is black and white to them, no shades of grey. They don't really understand the more complex levels of human nature and morality and try to fit it into their rather restricted mental box along with the typical teenage arrogance that makes them assume they're right about everything and everyone else is wrong.
Yeah , wonder why. Could it be because its actually readable and has a sane syntax that doesn't look like the aftermarth of an explosion in a punctuation factory?
... if you're paralysed and stuck in a wheelchair I'd imagine that even a walk just down to the bottom of the street and back would feel like a life changing experience.
Its good to see some genuinely useful robotics applications coming out instead of trivial gimmicks such as japanese robotic hotel receptionists.
But in some countries it seems to me its still treated as vaguely harmless probably because the judiciary don't really have a clue.
Need an example? Finland recently gave Lizard Squard hacker Julius Kivimaik a 2 years suspended. I mean he only hacked 50K systems (yes 50,000) and made a hoax bomb threat to a plane. You have to wonder if the judge in that courtroom was asleep through the prosecution case.
With lenient treatment like that its no surprise smart (in a narrow sphere) but socially dysfunctional teens keep doing this shit.
Sorry, can't let you get away with that. Someone who *willfully* places a whole boatload of personal information in the public domain without considering the long term consequences I'm afraid is solidly in the category of "idiot". And the millennial generation are the ones who are doing it by far the most.
You seem to like picking people up on spelling. Thats generally done by people who, in lieu actually having anything resembling a coherent point to contribute to the argument, feel they need to be noticed and admired for their - in their eyes - incredible intellect. Narcissists in other words.
Well there are always going to be psychopaths who start wars - its up to good people to finish them. Its a pity people like you don't appreciate the sacrifice others made for you to have your comfortable 21st century existence , but there we go, ideology trumps reality once more.
"None of them accounts for a full outage, only a particular feature may be down."
Total failure:
18th August 2014 19th november 2014
"As even the best maintained system will have scheduled outages"
Scheduled outages are one thing, failures are another entirely. And usually with mainframes its only a few nodes/VMs that are taken offline at any given time. The hardware itself keeps on trucking.
"So much so that the application ran completely in active RAM, and once the system went down, we found out the drives failed a long time ago"
Unless no one ever bothered to do a backup I find that hard to believe.
"A Cloud infrastructure is more fault tolerant and has less single point of failures then a mainframe."
Really? How many times has Azure gone done now? Mainframes are built to be resilient - they have to be as most of them need to run 24/7/365 for decades at a time. When a major bank decides to run its back end processing systems on a "cloud" service then I might sit up and take cloud systems seriously.
"So they are not passing down their wisdom and training replacements, but staying in the job until they die, leaving a gap that is hard to fill. "
If the old guy is doing something like COBOL which the younger coders don't want to learn then whats the alternative?
"By the time you peak in your career, you should be working on a succession plan, trying to get the new guys to work with you, "
Don't be daft. Its not the coders job to sort out training for his potential replacement, thats up to company management to arrange it. Most coders I know have enough on their hands just trying to meet deadlines without being some sort of kiddy coder support service.
"How do you think "they" get anybody to fight wars, to spy on everybody, etc.?"
Well its a good thing that someone is willing to fight wars and undertake spying or we'd all be speaking german and goose stepping to work. Yeah I know, Godwin etc, but in this case its a valid counterpoint.
I worked in IT in finance and can quite happily look at myself in the mirror thanks. It wasn't out of choice but a job came my way and I took it because those of us who don't live still live with our parents have rent/mortgages and other bills to pay and a family to support. And sadly you generally can't do that with self righteous right-on ideals powered by unicorns and moonbeams.
Yes, I'm part of the system, but guess what - society IS the system.
Oh only 20 hours, well thats alright them. I mean who doesn't have 20 hours spare to sit in front of a console typing Y/N/M a couple of thousand times?
"If you really want to trim things down only compile in the options you need"
That might have been possibly by one person 10 years ago, but these days by the time you've finished setting up all the compile options manually you'll be ready to collect your pension. Assuming you hadn't died of boredom already.
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Surely if this is supposed to be a highly secure box it would be a good idea to have an old fashioned mechanical lock alongside the electronic stuff so if one system fails the other is still in operation? Also what happens in a power cut?
A flintlock that has a good chance of exploding in your face when you fire it because Ball 1.1 is slightly too big for Barrel 1.0.
Well google it then you idiot. There have been plenty of incidents, Ferraris are far from reliable.
"Jeep and RAM models where never designed here"
Not 100% correct. The new jeep renegade is a rebodied 500X.
Chrysler is not a partner of fiat, its a subsidiary and was sold to it by Merc a few years ago for a song.
... you know things are going badly.
The company has never had a good reputation wrt quality control or longevity of its vehicles. Seems like little has changed when they stick a chrysler or jeep badge on some bodge up they designed in Turin.
Disclaimer: I'm neither an american nor italian, just someone who likes properly built cars.
"While X is remote capable try running modern applications taking advantage of full modern X11 features, you'll find they dont work without workarounds like VNC or degrading their capabilities"
So what? I don't think anyone would expect perfect alpha blending on shading at 60fps over a network link. But something is better than nothing. Currently wayland is only offering the latter.
I'm sorry but you can't just come up with a new display driver and say arrogant BS like "oh, that network transparency stuff, no one uses it anymore, who cares" just because its either too difficult for them to implement or they're just not interested in doing it. Well some of us DO use it and we DO care.
... but here in the UK our Met Office sometimes can't even get it right 12 hours in advance. I'm not blaming them for that because the point i'm making is it doesn't matter how powerful the computer, if you don't have enough data and/or the software model isn't good enough then the hardware won't make much difference especially when chaos theory is working against you all the time too.
Everything is black and white to them, no shades of grey. They don't really understand the more complex levels of human nature and morality and try to fit it into their rather restricted mental box along with the typical teenage arrogance that makes them assume they're right about everything and everyone else is wrong.
Yeah , wonder why. Could it be because its actually readable and has a sane syntax that doesn't look like the aftermarth of an explosion in a punctuation factory?
"Avoid ableism here"
How about you avoid stupid "ism" terms that you've just made up.
"He can go faster in a wheelchair, despite the stigma, than he can in the robotic legs."
Even up and down stairs or getting on a bus/train/etc?
... if you're paralysed and stuck in a wheelchair I'd imagine that even a walk just down to the bottom of the street and back would feel like a life changing experience.
Its good to see some genuinely useful robotics applications coming out instead of trivial gimmicks such as japanese robotic hotel receptionists.
Well its the obvious question isn't it - presumably they've eaten their own dog food and run the program on its own binary , right?
Sadly there's some truth in what you say.
But in some countries it seems to me its still treated as vaguely harmless probably because the judiciary don't really have a clue.
Need an example? Finland recently gave Lizard Squard hacker Julius Kivimaik a 2 years suspended. I mean he only hacked 50K systems (yes 50,000) and made a hoax bomb threat to a plane. You have to wonder if the judge in that courtroom was asleep through the prosecution case.
With lenient treatment like that its no surprise smart (in a narrow sphere) but socially dysfunctional teens keep doing this shit.
Sorry, can't let you get away with that. Someone who *willfully* places a whole boatload of personal information in the public domain without considering the long term consequences I'm afraid is solidly in the category of "idiot". And the millennial generation are the ones who are doing it by far the most.
You seem to like picking people up on spelling. Thats generally done by people who, in lieu actually having anything resembling a coherent point to contribute to the argument, feel they need to be noticed and admired for their - in their eyes - incredible intellect. Narcissists in other words.
Got anything else or is that it?
... who catalogued their entire lives online including endless photographs, times and dates, feelings, opinions, likes, dislikes etc.
Wait, whats that loud clucking sound I can hear?
Well there are always going to be psychopaths who start wars - its up to good people to finish them. Its a pity people like you don't appreciate the sacrifice others made for you to have your comfortable 21st century existence , but there we go, ideology trumps reality once more.
"None of them accounts for a full outage, only a particular feature may be down."
Total failure:
18th August 2014
19th november 2014
"As even the best maintained system will have scheduled outages"
Scheduled outages are one thing, failures are another entirely. And usually with mainframes its only a few nodes/VMs that are taken offline at any given time. The hardware itself keeps on trucking.
"So much so that the application ran completely in active RAM, and once the system went down, we found out the drives failed a long time ago"
Unless no one ever bothered to do a backup I find that hard to believe.
"A Cloud infrastructure is more fault tolerant and has less single point of failures then a mainframe."
Really? How many times has Azure gone done now? Mainframes are built to be resilient - they have to be as most of them need to run 24/7/365 for decades at a time. When a major bank decides to run its back end processing systems on a "cloud" service then I might sit up and take cloud systems seriously.
"So they are not passing down their wisdom and training replacements, but staying in the job until they die, leaving a gap that is hard to fill. "
If the old guy is doing something like COBOL which the younger coders don't want to learn then whats the alternative?
"By the time you peak in your career, you should be working on a succession plan, trying to get the new guys to work with you, "
Don't be daft. Its not the coders job to sort out training for his potential replacement, thats up to company management to arrange it. Most coders I know have enough on their hands just trying to meet deadlines without being some sort of kiddy coder support service.
"How do you think "they" get anybody to fight wars, to spy on everybody, etc.?"
Well its a good thing that someone is willing to fight wars and undertake spying or we'd all be speaking german and goose stepping to work. Yeah I know, Godwin etc, but in this case its a valid counterpoint.
I worked in IT in finance and can quite happily look at myself in the mirror thanks. It wasn't out of choice but a job came my way and I took it because those of us who don't live still live with our parents have rent/mortgages and other bills to pay and a family to support. And sadly you generally can't do that with self righteous right-on ideals powered by unicorns and moonbeams.
Yes, I'm part of the system, but guess what - society IS the system.
Oh only 20 hours, well thats alright them. I mean who doesn't have 20 hours spare to sit in front of a console typing Y/N/M a couple of thousand times?
"If you really want to trim things down only compile in the options you need"
That might have been possibly by one person 10 years ago, but these days by the time you've finished setting up all the compile options manually you'll be ready to collect your pension. Assuming you hadn't died of boredom already.