I read the article. I still have no idea what he's trying to achieve or how it would be achieved. With a court order or whatever other means the government could shut down comcast/charter/warner, at&t, verizon, sprint...as in "here's a court order, shut down internet access to your customers". That would be an extremely large number of americans right there. Everybody on those ISPs with a "freedom box" would effectively be shut off anyway. No access, no freedom box. So no, I don't get it. As long as there's two or three companies that are handing out the internet access for large a large percentage of people this won't really matter or protect anything.
With the iPhone and iPod Touch and similar devices both a computer and an internet connection is required. And they're relatively expensive. As hard as it is to believe not everyone has both a PC and an internet connection...or cares to. And not everyone can afford ~$75/month for a smart phone....or cares to. Some people just want to pick up a gaming device, slide in whatever media and play and that's it. If the controls suck and there's no compelling content it doesn't matter. If I had to guess I would say that's the niche, the NDS sort of group but maybe a little older that just wants to play simply. Just guessing.
I'm not disagreeing with you but I would like to point out in the pre-cell phone era there were pay phones on every block and now pay phones are pretty much non-existent. Maybe you could find someone willing to let you borrow their phone to make a call, I don't know. The point is there less of an alternative if you're stuck some place and need to get in touch with the office.
I would assume the bit about the medical records probably has something to do with the "HIPAA" standards compliance. That's a big deal these and only seems to be getting more so. HIPAA is an American regulation to make sure confidential medical records aren't exposed or leaked (I've worked in IT for at least two different medical-related organizations).
When I was in college in 1999 I remember talking to a fellow student from Brazil. They've apparently been using ethanol for many years. Possibly decades. Anyway he was telling me how it was cheaper but no recommended because it damaged the car engines. Then years later in 2005 the hype engine around ethanol was starting to ramp up and a co-worker of mine was excited by it since obviously this would be a viable gasoline alternative and look how successful it is in Brazil. I tried pointing out it wasn't so great as defined by a native Brazilian but my arguments never seemed to make a dent.
So now, a mere 12 years after this Brazillian who ought to know as well as anyone told me ethanol was no good even Al Gore apparently admits it wasn't any good. Too bad he didn't talk a Brazilian in 1999.
Of course one of the main gas stations in my little town just finished installing a E85 pump like three weeks ago. Too bad for him eh?
Funny, I remember playing Golden Eye in picture-in-picture. I don't think TVs even come with PiP any longer. I assume a lack of VCRs has something to do with it...
Not sure why certain parties keep citing roads as some super-great government success story. Where I live in California the roads are terrible, falling apart and sometimes seem as if the government has forgotten they exist (I-80 between Reno and Sacramento, for instance). I have no idea where all that tax money goes for the roads because they're certainly not spending it on fixing giant pot holes or pavement. If I had to guess I'd say it goes to retirees lifetime benefits/pensions but I have no idea. If the whole CalTrans thing could be scrapped and converted entirely to private/toll roads I would cheer this. Maybe I could actually get from place to place without damage to my car. Or maybe I just need to move some place that has maintained roads (those places exist, right?).
On some level I'm glad Fox Business Network hasn't expanded out as far as FNC. Wait until the anti-beck crowd gets a load of John Stossel. I'm sure their heads will explode.
Personally I've never understood the vehement hatred of FNC. If you don't like it don't watch it. I've always been a right-leaning person and I remember when FNC first came our local cable. I had been watching things like Larry King up until then so to put it mildly O'Reilly and his "okay cut his mic" no-nonsense was incredibly different and appealing on some level.
Fox News was a news outlet "for the rest of us". When EVERY news outlet seemed to have a bias contrary to your values and beliefs it shouldn't be surprising something like Fox News was so throughly adopted.
I don't suppose anyone cares to know a slightly different perspective but here it is anyway. Despite my right-leanings I've never liked O'Reilly: he doesn't really have intellectual arguments for positions so much as stating a position and then repeating it over and over again. I think he's more for my my dad (in his mid-50s) than for me. I never liked Hannity either as he has the same issue as well as echoing everything from Limbaugh (that's the way he seemed five years ago, the last time I listened to him).
Fox news is like the MTV of news organizations. Assuming real news is something like the News Hour on PBS or reading a real news paper. If you get your news from only one source be in Fox News, MSNBC or Daily Show/Colbert you're really not getting a full picture of anything.
I have had a theory for a few years that the only reason FNC gets such (relative) high ratings is because of all the college kids watching it 24/7 waiting for some biased statement to come up so they can blog it. If you all just ignored it I think it would go away. Or at least be neck-and-neck with CNN.
Ever since Consumer Reports chose the 3DO as the favorite of all the consoles because of the "upgradability" of the coming add-on I completely ignore them. I mean granted it's been at least 15 years since then but geeks like me don't forget (or forgive) a thing like that.
Here's the way the data plans should work, not that verizon/att would listen to me:
Tell everyone who wants a smart phone they MUST get the $30 unlimited data plan. Then tell the customer they get a "discount" for specific increments under a particular amount of data. Like say for if the customer uses between 1 and 2 GB per month they get "$10 off" the bill, between 500Megs and 1 GB "$15 off" and if they use less then 500Megs then "$20 off". So the customer thinks they're saving money by using less data and the carrier's networks are that much less saturated. Essentially you would be giving smart phone users a financial incentive to switch to wifi for things like downloading games and listening to Pandora.
This idea just came out of my frustration of using less than 500Megs a month yet being charged the same $30/month as if I used 5GB+. I would like to be charged less for my minimal amount of data usage. But I guess that's just me.
I only use AVG one place: on my WHS box. I found this site that shows you how to hex edit the installer so you can run AVG on the "server" version of Windows even if that version is actually intended for home/non-for-profit use. MSE so far as I know still doesn't work on WHS either. It's the 32-bit WHS so I'm pretty sure I'm safe from this update. Probably.
What you should be asking "how many VMs will it run?". That's where servers are now really. If it has some similar VM CPU extension like the current intel/AMDs do and it gets superior performance-per-watt there could be a big argument for using ARM in the server room...
Otherwise known as the hunter of "Man-bear-pig". Okay he's more a politician then a "sciencey guy". But he invented the internet and appeared on Futurama (where he's apparently the emperor of the moon and inventor of the environment). A semi-famous geek if nothing else is something any 8 year old should look up to.
I am not a Linux guru or pro or much of an enthusiast for that matter. More of a "Linux on the weekend" type. I've been playing lately with "light" linux distros I want to use to host VirtualBox so I've been doing a lot of installing of VB. The process seems overly complicated and a little different each time I go through it. Even when there's two different distros that are derived from the same parent (like Ubuntu or whatever).
So my first thought when i saw this was that it would make installing VirtualBox and its various libraries that much easier. I mean I just want to get it over and capable of being run successfully. Then I can do all the updates to the libraries auto-magic with apt-get or whatever. Just having a single file with included libraries seems like it should be a good thing. Am I missing something?
Actually this is how it is on Windows: one VB installer package and you're up and running. No Perl or other runtimes to worry about.
I haven't seen anyone ask this: if there was any "malice" in this firing of a "missile" wouldn't be you know aimed at some place on the ground? There was no mention of anything like that one way or another. So I guess it just went up into the atmosphere and burned up on re-entry then... I think that supports the whole test fire theory, most likely by the US military.
I thought you were joking by implying she would use something like FrontPage. I didn't realize until I actually saw the error that she literally uses FrontPage. Wow. I didn't think that still existed. Now you're comment is funny on an entirely different level.
I also recommend VirtualBox along with a large majority here for all the same reasons.
What I haven't yet seen mentioned are a couple advantages to it is the ability to manage VirtualBox via alternative frontends like phpvirtualbox, although it annoying requires Java runtime (sorry, not a fan) for remoting in VNC-style.
And as mentioned above VB is portable across Windows/Mac/Linux and unofficially FreeBSD hosts making it easy to move stuff to different OSes like that without any issues. That's the only downside I can see to the KVM/XEN kernel stuff: you're kind of tied to that VM technology on that host OS. But then I may not know what I'm talking about.
--semi-off topic rant
I've been using VB for years now but I started looking at alternatives a little while ago: whilst VB can have an incredible number of virtual hard drives of hundreds of gigabytes each Microsoft's VirtualPC supports only three virtual drives of a max capacity of 160 gigs each. I mean...what the hell.../end off topic rant
I've never been in a decision-making position for choosing a server for a company but over the last ~seven or eight years I've come to conclusion (I'm some will correct me if I'm wrong) that there aren't really meetings in which a group managers balance the pluses and minuses of Linux/Samba verses whichever Windows server. That look at entire apparent cost-of-ownership, in particular the support contract.
In other words the main draw is the service contract: if any hardware fails on any server an 800 number is called and less than 24 hours later either the replacement part is delivered or a tech of some sort is there ready to install the part that needs replacing.
I don't think most at least large companies really care about brands so much. I mean I don't think they're loyal to Windows in so much as the Dells and HPs of the world will win the bid for phone support/hardware replacement for three or five or whatever number of years at a time. And that Dell contract will extend to an MS support contract along with server/desktop licensing etc. Companies pay huge amounts of money for things like always having someone that can be called and a replacement part in under 24 hours.
I don't know what the big deal is with CD-Rs. I mean I have some CD-Rs still around for some reason from the late 90s/early 00s that I haven't gone out of my way to treat particularly well (just a normal CD wallet or sandwiched in a spindle) and they all seem to be perfectly readable as the day I burned them. Am I missing something here? Did I just get lucky?
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I read the article. I still have no idea what he's trying to achieve or how it would be achieved. With a court order or whatever other means the government could shut down comcast/charter/warner, at&t, verizon, sprint...as in "here's a court order, shut down internet access to your customers". That would be an extremely large number of americans right there. Everybody on those ISPs with a "freedom box" would effectively be shut off anyway. No access, no freedom box. So no, I don't get it. As long as there's two or three companies that are handing out the internet access for large a large percentage of people this won't really matter or protect anything.
With the iPhone and iPod Touch and similar devices both a computer and an internet connection is required. And they're relatively expensive. As hard as it is to believe not everyone has both a PC and an internet connection...or cares to. And not everyone can afford ~$75/month for a smart phone....or cares to. Some people just want to pick up a gaming device, slide in whatever media and play and that's it. If the controls suck and there's no compelling content it doesn't matter. If I had to guess I would say that's the niche, the NDS sort of group but maybe a little older that just wants to play simply. Just guessing.
I'm not disagreeing with you but I would like to point out in the pre-cell phone era there were pay phones on every block and now pay phones are pretty much non-existent. Maybe you could find someone willing to let you borrow their phone to make a call, I don't know. The point is there less of an alternative if you're stuck some place and need to get in touch with the office.
I would assume the bit about the medical records probably has something to do with the "HIPAA" standards compliance. That's a big deal these and only seems to be getting more so. HIPAA is an American regulation to make sure confidential medical records aren't exposed or leaked (I've worked in IT for at least two different medical-related organizations).
Does this mean you're endorsing "Battlefield Earth" as some kind of not bad movie?
When I was in college in 1999 I remember talking to a fellow student from Brazil. They've apparently been using ethanol for many years. Possibly decades. Anyway he was telling me how it was cheaper but no recommended because it damaged the car engines. Then years later in 2005 the hype engine around ethanol was starting to ramp up and a co-worker of mine was excited by it since obviously this would be a viable gasoline alternative and look how successful it is in Brazil. I tried pointing out it wasn't so great as defined by a native Brazilian but my arguments never seemed to make a dent.
So now, a mere 12 years after this Brazillian who ought to know as well as anyone told me ethanol was no good even Al Gore apparently admits it wasn't any good. Too bad he didn't talk a Brazilian in 1999.
Of course one of the main gas stations in my little town just finished installing a E85 pump like three weeks ago. Too bad for him eh?
Funny, I remember playing Golden Eye in picture-in-picture. I don't think TVs even come with PiP any longer. I assume a lack of VCRs has something to do with it...
Not sure why certain parties keep citing roads as some super-great government success story. Where I live in California the roads are terrible, falling apart and sometimes seem as if the government has forgotten they exist (I-80 between Reno and Sacramento, for instance). I have no idea where all that tax money goes for the roads because they're certainly not spending it on fixing giant pot holes or pavement. If I had to guess I'd say it goes to retirees lifetime benefits/pensions but I have no idea. If the whole CalTrans thing could be scrapped and converted entirely to private/toll roads I would cheer this. Maybe I could actually get from place to place without damage to my car. Or maybe I just need to move some place that has maintained roads (those places exist, right?).
Fallout hasn't really been an issue for 40 or 50 years now. Nukes have a changed a lot since the mid-40s.
On some level I'm glad Fox Business Network hasn't expanded out as far as FNC. Wait until the anti-beck crowd gets a load of John Stossel. I'm sure their heads will explode.
Personally I've never understood the vehement hatred of FNC. If you don't like it don't watch it. I've always been a right-leaning person and I remember when FNC first came our local cable. I had been watching things like Larry King up until then so to put it mildly O'Reilly and his "okay cut his mic" no-nonsense was incredibly different and appealing on some level.
Fox News was a news outlet "for the rest of us". When EVERY news outlet seemed to have a bias contrary to your values and beliefs it shouldn't be surprising something like Fox News was so throughly adopted.
I don't suppose anyone cares to know a slightly different perspective but here it is anyway. Despite my right-leanings I've never liked O'Reilly: he doesn't really have intellectual arguments for positions so much as stating a position and then repeating it over and over again. I think he's more for my my dad (in his mid-50s) than for me. I never liked Hannity either as he has the same issue as well as echoing everything from Limbaugh (that's the way he seemed five years ago, the last time I listened to him).
Fox news is like the MTV of news organizations. Assuming real news is something like the News Hour on PBS or reading a real news paper. If you get your news from only one source be in Fox News, MSNBC or Daily Show/Colbert you're really not getting a full picture of anything.
I have had a theory for a few years that the only reason FNC gets such (relative) high ratings is because of all the college kids watching it 24/7 waiting for some biased statement to come up so they can blog it. If you all just ignored it I think it would go away. Or at least be neck-and-neck with CNN.
I did not hear about that. Now I guess I have to go finish ME2. I was close. Stupid hard drives. Lost all my saves.
Ever since Consumer Reports chose the 3DO as the favorite of all the consoles because of the "upgradability" of the coming add-on I completely ignore them. I mean granted it's been at least 15 years since then but geeks like me don't forget (or forgive) a thing like that.
Tell everyone who wants a smart phone they MUST get the $30 unlimited data plan. Then tell the customer they get a "discount" for specific increments under a particular amount of data. Like say for if the customer uses between 1 and 2 GB per month they get "$10 off" the bill, between 500Megs and 1 GB "$15 off" and if they use less then 500Megs then "$20 off". So the customer thinks they're saving money by using less data and the carrier's networks are that much less saturated. Essentially you would be giving smart phone users a financial incentive to switch to wifi for things like downloading games and listening to Pandora.
This idea just came out of my frustration of using less than 500Megs a month yet being charged the same $30/month as if I used 5GB+. I would like to be charged less for my minimal amount of data usage. But I guess that's just me.
I only use AVG one place: on my WHS box. I found this site that shows you how to hex edit the installer so you can run AVG on the "server" version of Windows even if that version is actually intended for home/non-for-profit use. MSE so far as I know still doesn't work on WHS either. It's the 32-bit WHS so I'm pretty sure I'm safe from this update. Probably.
What you should be asking "how many VMs will it run?". That's where servers are now really. If it has some similar VM CPU extension like the current intel/AMDs do and it gets superior performance-per-watt there could be a big argument for using ARM in the server room...
Otherwise known as the hunter of "Man-bear-pig". Okay he's more a politician then a "sciencey guy". But he invented the internet and appeared on Futurama (where he's apparently the emperor of the moon and inventor of the environment). A semi-famous geek if nothing else is something any 8 year old should look up to.
I don't think I became aware of the difference between 45 and 30 until I was at least 11.
Impressive. I don't think i knew the difference until I was...30.
These are two of the tags for this story as I write this. It made me bust up laughing so I thought I would say bravo...bravo...
I am not a Linux guru or pro or much of an enthusiast for that matter. More of a "Linux on the weekend" type. I've been playing lately with "light" linux distros I want to use to host VirtualBox so I've been doing a lot of installing of VB. The process seems overly complicated and a little different each time I go through it. Even when there's two different distros that are derived from the same parent (like Ubuntu or whatever). So my first thought when i saw this was that it would make installing VirtualBox and its various libraries that much easier. I mean I just want to get it over and capable of being run successfully. Then I can do all the updates to the libraries auto-magic with apt-get or whatever. Just having a single file with included libraries seems like it should be a good thing. Am I missing something? Actually this is how it is on Windows: one VB installer package and you're up and running. No Perl or other runtimes to worry about.
I haven't seen anyone ask this: if there was any "malice" in this firing of a "missile" wouldn't be you know aimed at some place on the ground? There was no mention of anything like that one way or another. So I guess it just went up into the atmosphere and burned up on re-entry then... I think that supports the whole test fire theory, most likely by the US military.
I thought you were joking by implying she would use something like FrontPage. I didn't realize until I actually saw the error that she literally uses FrontPage. Wow. I didn't think that still existed. Now you're comment is funny on an entirely different level.
What I haven't yet seen mentioned are a couple advantages to it is the ability to manage VirtualBox via alternative frontends like phpvirtualbox, although it annoying requires Java runtime (sorry, not a fan) for remoting in VNC-style.
And as mentioned above VB is portable across Windows/Mac/Linux and unofficially FreeBSD hosts making it easy to move stuff to different OSes like that without any issues. That's the only downside I can see to the KVM/XEN kernel stuff: you're kind of tied to that VM technology on that host OS. But then I may not know what I'm talking about.
--semi-off topic rant I've been using VB for years now but I started looking at alternatives a little while ago: whilst VB can have an incredible number of virtual hard drives of hundreds of gigabytes each Microsoft's VirtualPC supports only three virtual drives of a max capacity of 160 gigs each. I mean...what the hell... /end off topic rant
I haven't used either system but the podcast FLOSS weekly recently did a whole episode about PLONE that may help you decide if it is right you.
I've never been in a decision-making position for choosing a server for a company but over the last ~seven or eight years I've come to conclusion (I'm some will correct me if I'm wrong) that there aren't really meetings in which a group managers balance the pluses and minuses of Linux/Samba verses whichever Windows server. That look at entire apparent cost-of-ownership, in particular the support contract.
In other words the main draw is the service contract: if any hardware fails on any server an 800 number is called and less than 24 hours later either the replacement part is delivered or a tech of some sort is there ready to install the part that needs replacing.
I don't think most at least large companies really care about brands so much. I mean I don't think they're loyal to Windows in so much as the Dells and HPs of the world will win the bid for phone support/hardware replacement for three or five or whatever number of years at a time. And that Dell contract will extend to an MS support contract along with server/desktop licensing etc. Companies pay huge amounts of money for things like always having someone that can be called and a replacement part in under 24 hours.
So, am I way off?
I don't know what the big deal is with CD-Rs. I mean I have some CD-Rs still around for some reason from the late 90s/early 00s that I haven't gone out of my way to treat particularly well (just a normal CD wallet or sandwiched in a spindle) and they all seem to be perfectly readable as the day I burned them. Am I missing something here? Did I just get lucky?