You're right, it's actually a policy thing more than a cost thing. Using white box like google and I think Yahoo, the price of storage is dirt cheap. (Compensate for reliability with some decent raid/backup scheme) No reason why they couldn't take advantage of that.
But storage on the intranet remains miniscule and expensive. Try to get a partition big enough to build a reasonably sized virtual instance, and you'll get handed 20 Gbytes because "storage is expensive".
And so, potential customers continue to do their stuff on their own PC, because really, storage isn't that expensive.
Yeah, probably nothing to see here. If they wanted to wreck her work they'd just crash the machine and it would come back up with a corrupted file system. Nobody would think there was a conspiracy about a hard-drive crash.
Especially since there's been so many high-profile hard drive crashes recently.
Yes. "And as I was typing and working on questions for a Benghazi-related story, the data started wiping kind of at hyperspeed"
Not how someone with remote control over a computer would wipe data. Not deleting it in the fucking editor. A quick console deltree "My Documents/Bengazi" while the computer is idle is easier and less obvious to the user.
She almost certainly held down control and backspace by accident and blamed it on the government. Classic paranoid ideation.
Later in the same article "It was described to me by the computer experts I consulted with afterwards that that was purely an attempt to let me know that they could do that, that they were watching, that they were in my computer."
You're right, nobody would break into a computer that way, unless, perhaps, if they were powerfully arrogant, and wanted to make a point.
> so there are entire management, recovery schemes introduced to make them usable.
I'm hoping that other companies do this better, but I've noticed that the recovery scheme is particularly open to a social engineering attack. If you lose your RSA clock dongle or it quits working, a call to the helpdesk will get you a "temporary code" that gives you access to the company's intranet. To do this only requires the helpdesk phone number and a valid employee name and associated employee number. None of these items are particularly secret.
Somewhere cheap, I presume. I mean, come on, I could make as good-looking as any flat icons. I could never make even passable skeuomorphic icons. This has to be a scheme to not have to hire actual artists to make your UI.
That's brilliant. Offshore GUI designers, because you can pay them in bottlecaps. Why didn't I think of that. It explains a lot.
was there any problem with Control Panel that they had to get rid of it? I liked a central place to change all settings in the OS, and similar settings managers in OS X and Linux Mint.
I think the problem with Control Panel is that it wasn't big flat primary colored squares.
Notice that Microsoft heard "loud and clear" that control panel features shouldn't be split up into disparate apps, but decided what we really meant, against all evidence to the contrary, was that we want a Metro app that does the Control Panel functions. This bodes ill. How many other annoying screwups are there going to be?
> What can sites serving an important public function do to ensure they stay running during periods of unexpected load?
I dunno...maybe ask how google and yahoo and amazon do it, instead of going with the standard government formula for developing websites, which is clearly NOT WORKING.
I think one could make a case for government website development being a parable for many, perhaps most, government supplied services. If the government doesn't directly benefit, (ie, IRS) it can't be done in reasonable time for reasonable funding.
Let's create a brand new type of stamp and launch a taxpayer-funded initiative to upgrade every sorting machines. It'll only take a gazillion dollars, not be completed in any reasonable amount of time, and eventually abandoned.
And Microsoft had tuned the OS so that rebooting the phone only takes 2.3 seconds, which means you don't have to wait very long if you want to turn the flashlight on.
...but they reboot in 2.3 seconds by restoring a state image from the previous session. A full reboot after BSOD will still take 23 minutes.
Any unsuccessful software product, even Microsoft Bob, have their proponents. I'm aware that there are people who liked really large monochrome squares. Shrug. Don't really care.
but more to the point, the presence of a start menu is not something I somehow decreed that Microsoft had to have (as if I could do that). It's simply something I would not do without. Microsoft is free to keep the busybox interface, I hear it does really well with children. They'll just have to do it without me as a customer.
I approach 9 (now called 10) with caution. Microsoft lost a lot of credibility with 8, and they lost even more when they "gave you back the start button" which was only an icon that took us to the start screen. I'm concerned about what arrogant new thing they'll try to foist on us next time, and wondering if I should take this opportunity to get out. And really, I don't need them anymore. I'm mostly sticking with them at this point only because it's too much trouble to switch. (Sort-of like why people stay with Comcast.)
To make this perfectly clear: Microsoft can do what it wants. It's their product. I can choose to buy it or not. It's my money. I really don't invest any more emotional energy in it than that.
> Tesla is presently the show off for the affluent crowd.
Damned right. Excellent point, and one that's often lost in the noise. If we're not solving for everyman, then this zero point emission thang will only be a rich person's toy. Which kinda blows the whole point of the effort.
But I'd argue that 60kWh battery packs, or even larger, may be important in larger, load carrying vehicles. For instance, when I need to carry objects that wouldn't fit in an econodeathbox, I use an F-series truck. If those are ever going to be electrified, they're going to need bigger packs than a Leaf, and charge time may be an issue. So fast charge of larger power packs may still be something worth exploring, even if you're not planning to tear up the road in an overpriced sports car.
I'm not convinced, (been burned on that too many times over too many years) but in the back of my mind I always thought that if practical fusion is ever achieved, it'd be by a private company that intends to make money off it.
So, we put one 'a' these next to every one of those 2400 amp auto quick chargers, and we'd really have something.
Something this small also revives the possibility of fusion propelled spacecraft.
The Tesla car battery is 375 Volt. 85kWh to 70% in 2 minutes would require around 5000 amps. Lets say that a more realistic charge current is 1000 Amps. 10 minutes at the station, that's doable but the connector is going to be some kind of beast.
Was wondering about that. Surely the power pack is made up of a group of individual cells. It seems like you could attach a cable to each cell and charge them all simultaneously without having to use a single cable as big as your leg.
It'd be inconvenient to attach and deattach, but perhaps industrial robots could be employed. That might be interesting to watch.
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You're right, it's actually a policy thing more than a cost thing. Using white box like google and I think Yahoo, the price of storage is dirt cheap. (Compensate for reliability with some decent raid/backup scheme) No reason why they couldn't take advantage of that.
But storage on the intranet remains miniscule and expensive. Try to get a partition big enough to build a reasonably sized virtual instance, and you'll get handed 20 Gbytes because "storage is expensive".
And so, potential customers continue to do their stuff on their own PC, because really, storage isn't that expensive.
> now they are upping the ante with unlimited OneDrive storage.
Think of the Pr0n! You could put the entire country's Pr0n in the cloud!
But seriously, it'll be "unlimited" until disk space becomes an issue. Which is to say, it's unlimited until it isn't.
> Nixon could only have wet dreams over what the US Government can and does do now.
And probably does, in whatever hell he resides.
A former CBS News reporter who quit the network over claims it kills stories that put President Obama in a bad light ...
There are News organizations that manipulate, encourage or suppress stories that may make a President look good or bad? When did this happen?
I think back in the Grant administration.
Yeah, probably nothing to see here. If they wanted to wreck her work they'd just crash the machine and it would come back up with a corrupted file system. Nobody would think there was a conspiracy about a hard-drive crash.
Especially since there's been so many high-profile hard drive crashes recently.
Yes.
"And as I was typing and working on questions for a Benghazi-related story, the data started wiping kind of at hyperspeed"
Not how someone with remote control over a computer would wipe data. Not deleting it in the fucking editor. A quick console deltree "My Documents/Bengazi" while the computer is idle is easier and less obvious to the user.
She almost certainly held down control and backspace by accident and blamed it on the government. Classic paranoid ideation.
Later in the same article "It was described to me by the computer experts I consulted with afterwards that that was purely an attempt to let me know that they could do that, that they were watching, that they were in my computer."
You're right, nobody would break into a computer that way, unless, perhaps, if they were powerfully arrogant, and wanted to make a point.
> Not impossible, but also pretty difficult to achieve since it usually means physical access to something relatively local to the sender.
Wow I just had a flashback. This was the first step of the plan in most Mission Impossible episodes.
> so there are entire management, recovery schemes introduced to make them usable.
I'm hoping that other companies do this better, but I've noticed that the recovery scheme is particularly open to a social engineering attack. If you lose your RSA clock dongle or it quits working, a call to the helpdesk will get you a "temporary code" that gives you access to the company's intranet. To do this only requires the helpdesk phone number and a valid employee name and associated employee number. None of these items are particularly secret.
Easy solution:
Don't use AT&T. Ever.
Or Verizon.
Where did the latest GUI designers graduate from?
Somewhere cheap, I presume. I mean, come on, I could make as good-looking as any flat icons. I could never make even passable skeuomorphic icons. This has to be a scheme to not have to hire actual artists to make your UI.
That's brilliant. Offshore GUI designers, because you can pay them in bottlecaps. Why didn't I think of that. It explains a lot.
So they're going to add a third?
I suspect they're going to nuke the one we use and try to make us use the other one.
was there any problem with Control Panel that they had to get rid of it? I liked a central place to change all settings in the OS, and similar settings managers in OS X and Linux Mint.
I think the problem with Control Panel is that it wasn't big flat primary colored squares.
Notice that Microsoft heard "loud and clear" that control panel features shouldn't be split up into disparate apps, but decided what we really meant, against all evidence to the contrary, was that we want a Metro app that does the Control Panel functions. This bodes ill. How many other annoying screwups are there going to be?
How about a control panel, that melts the two together into, you know, a control panel? Why, on a regular PC, do I need to deal with Metro at all?
> What can sites serving an important public function do to ensure they stay running during periods of unexpected load?
I dunno...maybe ask how google and yahoo and amazon do it, instead of going with the standard government formula for developing websites, which is clearly NOT WORKING.
I think one could make a case for government website development being a parable for many, perhaps most, government supplied services. If the government doesn't directly benefit, (ie, IRS) it can't be done in reasonable time for reasonable funding.
Let's create a brand new type of stamp and launch a taxpayer-funded initiative to upgrade every sorting machines. It'll only take a gazillion dollars, not be completed in any reasonable amount of time, and eventually abandoned.
And Microsoft had tuned the OS so that rebooting the phone only takes 2.3 seconds, which means you don't have to wait very long if you want to turn the flashlight on.
"Microsoft Lumia. Because it will function as a flashlight."
Any unsuccessful software product, even Microsoft Bob, have their proponents. I'm aware that there are people who liked really large monochrome squares. Shrug. Don't really care.
but more to the point, the presence of a start menu is not something I somehow decreed that Microsoft had to have (as if I could do that). It's simply something I would not do without. Microsoft is free to keep the busybox interface, I hear it does really well with children. They'll just have to do it without me as a customer.
I approach 9 (now called 10) with caution. Microsoft lost a lot of credibility with 8, and they lost even more when they "gave you back the start button" which was only an icon that took us to the start screen. I'm concerned about what arrogant new thing they'll try to foist on us next time, and wondering if I should take this opportunity to get out. And really, I don't need them anymore. I'm mostly sticking with them at this point only because it's too much trouble to switch. (Sort-of like why people stay with Comcast.)
To make this perfectly clear: Microsoft can do what it wants. It's their product. I can choose to buy it or not. It's my money. I really don't invest any more emotional energy in it than that.
> Tesla is presently the show off for the affluent crowd.
Damned right. Excellent point, and one that's often lost in the noise. If we're not solving for everyman, then this zero point emission thang will only be a rich person's toy. Which kinda blows the whole point of the effort.
But I'd argue that 60kWh battery packs, or even larger, may be important in larger, load carrying vehicles. For instance, when I need to carry objects that wouldn't fit in an econodeathbox, I use an F-series truck. If those are ever going to be electrified, they're going to need bigger packs than a Leaf, and charge time may be an issue. So fast charge of larger power packs may still be something worth exploring, even if you're not planning to tear up the road in an overpriced sports car.
Excellent point.
Hey, putting the start menu back was a big deal. It's one of the top requirements in my decision on whether or not to switch to Apple.
I'm not convinced, (been burned on that too many times over too many years) but in the back of my mind I always thought that if practical fusion is ever achieved, it'd be by a private company that intends to make money off it.
So, we put one 'a' these next to every one of those 2400 amp auto quick chargers, and we'd really have something.
Something this small also revives the possibility of fusion propelled spacecraft.
But, you know, it has to work first.
It does seem like a lot of "breakthroughs" lately have been edge conditions that aren't practical to reproduce.
The Tesla car battery is 375 Volt.
85kWh to 70% in 2 minutes would require around 5000 amps. Lets say that a more realistic charge current is 1000 Amps. 10 minutes at the station, that's doable but the connector is going to be some kind of beast.
Was wondering about that. Surely the power pack is made up of a group of individual cells. It seems like you could attach a cable to each cell and charge them all simultaneously without having to use a single cable as big as your leg.
It'd be inconvenient to attach and deattach, but perhaps industrial robots could be employed. That might be interesting to watch.