You're mostly right here. The thing with Apple being about integration and design, is that they are really good at it. A lot of people like to crack on them as not "innovating" or whatever, but when it really comes down to it, the people crying about innovation are much worse at what Apple does, and like to wait until Apple figured out how to make it and market it, and then repeat it without spending all the R&D cash. The PC industry has been doing it for decades.
If it's so easy to integrate and design a product, then why is history so replete with absolutely fucking terrible devices, and implementations of "obvious" technology? If Apple doesn't bring any innovation to the table, then why aren't these supposedly innovative companies eating Apple's lunch?
Sure, Apple has a failure here and there; but they're success rate is FAR higher than just about anyone else.
Unless your boat is a submarine, there is a whole other dimension of avoid ability with air traffic - you can pass through the same X,Y as long as Z is different.
Is that a very good idea? No, but it will definitely do in an emergency.
Oh, I know. My team started the work of figuring out how to do Win7 migration two years ago, and started migrating systems 6 months ago. We had to sit down and figure out a completely automated way to do the migration, retaining existing user data. We had a process where every application was reviewed and repackaged specifically for Windows 7, including user acceptance testing. If it didn't work, then replacements were found or we virtualized it.
All our offices are complete now, but we're about 20% done with line-of-business systems, and we're doing over 300/night through automation. We're gonna be done sometime in June - but I hear of other VERY large companies that are taking the "Oh, Microsoft will go back on that April 8 date" approach, and I think they're going to be very unhappy on Tuesday.
Hardware cost of replacing a Lenovo T400 with a new Lenovo L440 laptop, with negotiated pricing: $700+ Hardware cost of replacing spinning rust from Lenovo T400 with 128GB SSD that buys another year+ of service: $91
Hmm, perfectly serviceable laptop in either scenario, but one costs $91 and the other is $700+. Oh, and when the T400 does get replaced, that SSD can be used to lengthen the life of a T410 or a T420, since it has a 3-year warranty.
Guess what? Your small shop experience doesn't jive with 100% of the use cases out there. Probably much less than that, actually. SATA II versus SATA III is irrelevant, because SATA II is more than adequate to see massive gains with a drive swap.
I just got done doing a benchmarking exercise to figure out what hardware to buy for our large business, where we compared like laptops from the "Big Three" (Lenovo, Dell, HP).
Rotational disk throughput, 1Gb random 512KB block read: 33 - 46 MB/sec depending on disk model
SSD disk throughput, 1Gb random 512KB block read: 339 - 464 MB/sec depending on disk model
Conclusion: Most rotational disks barely used the available bandwidth of SATA I. SSDs are only now passing SATA II speeds. A SSD on a SATA II controller is still going to be an order of magnitude better.
Well, the first problem is the first thing in your list: The radioactive stuff.
It turns out that it's rather expensive to handle, and there's a whole lot of it. We're not just talking about the fuel assemblies, though there is 42 years worth of that laying around; we're talking about the neutron-activated reactor vessel, the coolant loop, and the heat exchanger. All of them are low-level waste that needs proper disposal. Oh, and there's all the contaminated dirt from the tritium leaks that have been widely publicized.
After you deal with all of that, sure - you just do what you said. But dealing with all of that will likely cost in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Portland General Electric did this with the Trojan Nuclear Generating Station back in the early 90s. There was a state referendum on closing the thing, which failed. Then, PGE decided to decommission it due to a new mechanical failure that Westinghouse was blaming on the contractor that did the install, and the contractor was blaming on Westinghouse.
PGE decided they were both assholes, and they wanted the PR win. So they decommissioned it, sailed the entombed reactor core up the Columbia, and buried it at Hanford. Then, they called in CDI to demolish the cooling tower.
I guess I'm wondering why PGE was able to get this done, but Entergy is claiming poverty, when Entergy is WAY bigger than PGE.
This committee is acting like they were never informed of the "enhanced interrogation technique" program from the get-go. It's total horseshit. This committee knew it was happening, and they gave their approval right up until the New York Times (or whoever) published the first public reports of it.
Then come the public hearings where they excoriate CIA lawyers rather than the senate confirmed administrators and directors. Oh, and when they purposefully ask questions with classified answers in open hearings, and the answer given is "we can cover than in the closed hearing, as it pertains to classified information"; guess who goes to attend an ice cream social at the White House rather than attend the closed hearing to get their answers? The same fucking assholes that are now publishing reports and covering up their involvement and approval. Yes, that actually happened.
This is nothing but politicians doing what politicians do best - making sure that when the music stops, they're sitting in an over-stuffed wing-back chair; and some guy who was following orders that had legal findings backing them up from the fucking JUSTICE DEPARTMENT gets his career ruined, and possibly goes to jail.
I had this discussion with someone the other day. He was asking if there was a helmet law in Ohio, and I said that I didn't care, because I never get on a motorcycle without one. My head is worth more than the $400 I spent on a comfortable, safety rated helmet.
You're right. The Constitution and it's amendments apply to all in US territorial lands. It applies to what the United States Government can do, or rather, cannot do.
Last I checked, the US Government has exactly zero controlling interest in Baidu. Therefore, this case is not one of constitutional law, or constitutional rights violation.
It doesn't matter. As far as the United States federal government is concerned, it is a private corporation complying with corporate law. They operate a business that produces a product which is unsuitable for a percentage of the US population, in which case there is a simple form of redress: don't fucking use it, and use Google / Bing / Yahoo / etc. instead.
The US government has no jurisdiction over what happens in China, or any other country not named the United States of America or it's legal territories. In fact, it's the usual refrain on this web site - that the US should stay out of everyone else's business.
"The only thing on the menu is pasta. Why did I come to a pasta restaurant when I want a steak? Let's go to a steakhouse instead."
This is US law inside of the jurisdiction of the United States. Nobody is forcing people inside the US to use Baidu - there are plenty of search alternatives that are not beholden to Chinese Communist Party censorship. In fact, one of those alternative's names is so popular, it gets used as a verb in common speech.
Also, the First Amendment doesn't require any private entity to hand another private entity it's micro / megaphone. To say otherwise is completely ludicrous - it is very specific in what it was written for: to make it impossible for the government to muzzle you legally.
Fine, let's look at your version of "freedom" where the Government now requires every website everywhere to continue to post forever every single word submitted to it. For example, Johnny Q. Racist posts some nonsense about $RACE being intellectually inferior to the NAACP web site forums? Too bad, NAACP; you've got to continue showing that because this fucking idiot says so in his completely incorrect interpretation of one of the most elegant laws ever passed by man.
Wouldn't being legally forced to keep that nonsense on the website infringe on the website owner's rights of free expression; specifically, the right for them to not express something?
Didn't think of that, did you? Pull your head out of your smug pompous ass. That's me freely expressing myself, and Slashdot, as a private entity, can feel free to eliminate it from their database without legal recourse. See what I did there?
I (and any other private entity) have no obligation to listen to you, or anybody else. I can bit-bucket your phone calls, text messages, forum posts, emails, etc. with impunity, with absolutely no legal jeopardy.
The Government has the obligation to listen to your uninformed idiotic whining, however, if it is conveyed in a capacity as outlined in the revised United States Code, or the legal system of your local jurisdiction.
I disagree. They are applauding that the law they wrote, is being interpreted exactly as they wrote it.
The First Amendment applies to government censorship, not private entity censorship.
Don't like the private censorship? Don't use that search engine. There's plenty of alternatives, one of which has become it's own verb, and another is trying to through terrible marketing.
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Believe it or not, capacity still matters.
You're mostly right here. The thing with Apple being about integration and design, is that they are really good at it. A lot of people like to crack on them as not "innovating" or whatever, but when it really comes down to it, the people crying about innovation are much worse at what Apple does, and like to wait until Apple figured out how to make it and market it, and then repeat it without spending all the R&D cash. The PC industry has been doing it for decades.
If it's so easy to integrate and design a product, then why is history so replete with absolutely fucking terrible devices, and implementations of "obvious" technology? If Apple doesn't bring any innovation to the table, then why aren't these supposedly innovative companies eating Apple's lunch?
Sure, Apple has a failure here and there; but they're success rate is FAR higher than just about anyone else.
Unless your boat is a submarine, there is a whole other dimension of avoid ability with air traffic - you can pass through the same X,Y as long as Z is different.
Is that a very good idea? No, but it will definitely do in an emergency.
Further, there is nothing illegal about having a monopoly.
It is, however, illegal to use that monopoly to monopolize a different market.
Oh, I know. My team started the work of figuring out how to do Win7 migration two years ago, and started migrating systems 6 months ago. We had to sit down and figure out a completely automated way to do the migration, retaining existing user data. We had a process where every application was reviewed and repackaged specifically for Windows 7, including user acceptance testing. If it didn't work, then replacements were found or we virtualized it.
All our offices are complete now, but we're about 20% done with line-of-business systems, and we're doing over 300/night through automation. We're gonna be done sometime in June - but I hear of other VERY large companies that are taking the "Oh, Microsoft will go back on that April 8 date" approach, and I think they're going to be very unhappy on Tuesday.
There might even be some job openings.
The same install of XP, minus the annoying constant stream of patches?
Unless you're talking about large business, then they'll be (and are) switching to Win7.
Hardware cost of replacing a Lenovo T400 with a new Lenovo L440 laptop, with negotiated pricing: $700+
Hardware cost of replacing spinning rust from Lenovo T400 with 128GB SSD that buys another year+ of service: $91
Hmm, perfectly serviceable laptop in either scenario, but one costs $91 and the other is $700+. Oh, and when the T400 does get replaced, that SSD can be used to lengthen the life of a T410 or a T420, since it has a 3-year warranty.
Guess what? Your small shop experience doesn't jive with 100% of the use cases out there. Probably much less than that, actually. SATA II versus SATA III is irrelevant, because SATA II is more than adequate to see massive gains with a drive swap.
I just got done doing a benchmarking exercise to figure out what hardware to buy for our large business, where we compared like laptops from the "Big Three" (Lenovo, Dell, HP).
Rotational disk throughput, 1Gb random 512KB block read: 33 - 46 MB/sec depending on disk model
SSD disk throughput, 1Gb random 512KB block read: 339 - 464 MB/sec depending on disk model
Conclusion: Most rotational disks barely used the available bandwidth of SATA I. SSDs are only now passing SATA II speeds. A SSD on a SATA II controller is still going to be an order of magnitude better.
I did the same. Then I striped together two SSDs in the same config as the WD Raptors.
Still using a 2009 model desktop and using the latest software at full speed.
Well, the first problem is the first thing in your list: The radioactive stuff.
It turns out that it's rather expensive to handle, and there's a whole lot of it. We're not just talking about the fuel assemblies, though there is 42 years worth of that laying around; we're talking about the neutron-activated reactor vessel, the coolant loop, and the heat exchanger. All of them are low-level waste that needs proper disposal. Oh, and there's all the contaminated dirt from the tritium leaks that have been widely publicized.
After you deal with all of that, sure - you just do what you said. But dealing with all of that will likely cost in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Nah, they'll just continue running it a bit longer to power their bitcoin mining grid, and make up the difference that way.
Portland General Electric did this with the Trojan Nuclear Generating Station back in the early 90s. There was a state referendum on closing the thing, which failed. Then, PGE decided to decommission it due to a new mechanical failure that Westinghouse was blaming on the contractor that did the install, and the contractor was blaming on Westinghouse.
PGE decided they were both assholes, and they wanted the PR win. So they decommissioned it, sailed the entombed reactor core up the Columbia, and buried it at Hanford. Then, they called in CDI to demolish the cooling tower.
I guess I'm wondering why PGE was able to get this done, but Entergy is claiming poverty, when Entergy is WAY bigger than PGE.
Automobile waste has a half-life longer than nuclear waste.
Oh noes!
Exactly.
This committee is acting like they were never informed of the "enhanced interrogation technique" program from the get-go. It's total horseshit. This committee knew it was happening, and they gave their approval right up until the New York Times (or whoever) published the first public reports of it.
Then come the public hearings where they excoriate CIA lawyers rather than the senate confirmed administrators and directors. Oh, and when they purposefully ask questions with classified answers in open hearings, and the answer given is "we can cover than in the closed hearing, as it pertains to classified information"; guess who goes to attend an ice cream social at the White House rather than attend the closed hearing to get their answers? The same fucking assholes that are now publishing reports and covering up their involvement and approval. Yes, that actually happened.
This is nothing but politicians doing what politicians do best - making sure that when the music stops, they're sitting in an over-stuffed wing-back chair; and some guy who was following orders that had legal findings backing them up from the fucking JUSTICE DEPARTMENT gets his career ruined, and possibly goes to jail.
Does anyone listen to the Tea Party anymore? I'm pretty sure they blew what was left of their credibility on the government shutdown fiasco.
Well, they did with anyone that actually pays attention to what's going on, rather than drinking from the ideology fire hose.
I'll buy that you can have a "bad day" or "make a mistake" once. Maybe even twice, because fuck it, we all need a break here and there.
But TEN TIMES?!
That's not an anomaly, that's DATA. If you fail anything 10 times, you suck at that thing and should be HIGHLY discouraged at doing it any more.
You actually think that an auto manufacturer would pass on component level savings, rather than pocketing the difference?
Do you really think that any of those options actually cost them that much, or even remotely close to that much?
I had this discussion with someone the other day. He was asking if there was a helmet law in Ohio, and I said that I didn't care, because I never get on a motorcycle without one. My head is worth more than the $400 I spent on a comfortable, safety rated helmet.
The law is completely irrelevant to me.
You're right. The Constitution and it's amendments apply to all in US territorial lands. It applies to what the United States Government can do, or rather, cannot do.
Last I checked, the US Government has exactly zero controlling interest in Baidu. Therefore, this case is not one of constitutional law, or constitutional rights violation.
You do if you'd like to do business there.
I'll bet that Yahoo does.
It doesn't matter. As far as the United States federal government is concerned, it is a private corporation complying with corporate law. They operate a business that produces a product which is unsuitable for a percentage of the US population, in which case there is a simple form of redress: don't fucking use it, and use Google / Bing / Yahoo / etc. instead.
The US government has no jurisdiction over what happens in China, or any other country not named the United States of America or it's legal territories. In fact, it's the usual refrain on this web site - that the US should stay out of everyone else's business.
Well, they just did. Next?
There is a third option:
"The only thing on the menu is pasta. Why did I come to a pasta restaurant when I want a steak? Let's go to a steakhouse instead."
This is US law inside of the jurisdiction of the United States. Nobody is forcing people inside the US to use Baidu - there are plenty of search alternatives that are not beholden to Chinese Communist Party censorship. In fact, one of those alternative's names is so popular, it gets used as a verb in common speech.
Also, the First Amendment doesn't require any private entity to hand another private entity it's micro / megaphone. To say otherwise is completely ludicrous - it is very specific in what it was written for: to make it impossible for the government to muzzle you legally.
Fine, let's look at your version of "freedom" where the Government now requires every website everywhere to continue to post forever every single word submitted to it. For example, Johnny Q. Racist posts some nonsense about $RACE being intellectually inferior to the NAACP web site forums? Too bad, NAACP; you've got to continue showing that because this fucking idiot says so in his completely incorrect interpretation of one of the most elegant laws ever passed by man.
Wouldn't being legally forced to keep that nonsense on the website infringe on the website owner's rights of free expression; specifically, the right for them to not express something?
Didn't think of that, did you? Pull your head out of your smug pompous ass. That's me freely expressing myself, and Slashdot, as a private entity, can feel free to eliminate it from their database without legal recourse. See what I did there?
I (and any other private entity) have no obligation to listen to you, or anybody else. I can bit-bucket your phone calls, text messages, forum posts, emails, etc. with impunity, with absolutely no legal jeopardy.
The Government has the obligation to listen to your uninformed idiotic whining, however, if it is conveyed in a capacity as outlined in the revised United States Code, or the legal system of your local jurisdiction.
I disagree. They are applauding that the law they wrote, is being interpreted exactly as they wrote it.
The First Amendment applies to government censorship, not private entity censorship.
Don't like the private censorship? Don't use that search engine. There's plenty of alternatives, one of which has become it's own verb, and another is trying to through terrible marketing.