In addition to what you state above, Jean-Louis Gassee overplayed his hand with Apple when trying to sell Be. He figured that he was the only game in town with an OS that Apple could use as a core for their next generation, and asked for 15% of Apple and a seat on the board for his investors. He also liked leaking negotiation details to the press, which pissed off Apple even before the Steve Jobs Secrecy Curtain was dropped.
Buying NeXTSTEP was both cheaper in the long run, and resulted in a much more complete OS; as it was thought that it would take at least 3 years to turn BeOS into something they could legitimately ship with a Mac. At the time he was trying to sell it, there was no file sharing, no printing, no language localizations, etc. NeXTSTEP also had a complete developer framework ready to go (what became Cocoa).
With modern fuel-air ordinance, nukes aren't really necessary for some piss-ant agressor like North Korea. You just do the following:
1. Take out most anti-aircraft capability with cruise missiles and stealth aircraft 2. Carpet bomb any artillery or infantry that might think about taking shots at slower aircraft with high-altitude B52 runs 3. Fly in the slower C-130s and C-131s with cargo bays filled with fuel-air ordinance, which act like small nukes without the nasty radioactive side-effects to wipe out any structures or equipment that we still don't like.
Depending on the design of the bomb, it could be quite possible for an accidental supercriticality causing a full detonation. Gun-type bombs can have this happen without extraordinary circumstance as the two sub-critical masses are moving parts, and things that prevent stuff from moving can always fail.
Implosion-type weapons (usually a Plutonium-core, which is what NK is using) require exact sequencing of explosive lenses to create the supercriticality, and are much more inherently "safe" from accidental detonation.
While they may not get the entire SSBN, the UK's Royal Navy does get the Trident D3 SLBM to slide into the launch tubes of their Vanguard SSBNs, with their warheads attached.
North Korea has only recently barely surpassed yields equal to the 1945 Nagasaki attack. They do not have fusion "boosted" weapons, or full on hydrogen bombs, which is what it takes to get into the 3-digit kiloton yields, or megaton class weapons.
While the yield would be small, fallout would be the real problem with a ground-level detonation. But, with a smaller blast radius, the amount of fallout would also be decreased, and the smaller the blast, the smaller the height of the mushroom cloud, thus the smaller area of fallout deposition.
It would still be horrific, but the response from the US would be orders of magnitude worse for them.
The point is though, with AMT, it's completely dynamic, and controlled by a service that needs that asset for as long as it needs it.
Doing a software deployment? Send a power-on event from your management system, and then when the agent checks in (because the system booted up) you can proceed with the install. When the install is done, send a power-off task. If you're not doing a software deployment / backup tast / AV scan / etc, the system stays powered off.
The summary stated that this guy's company has 2-year business leases on desktop hardware, so it's very likely that they have AMT baked in, and just need to provision it.
Or, use out-of-band management built into most business hardware of the last 5+ years to completely power off systems, and remotely power them up on an as-needed basis for management tasks such as backup and deployment.
Power off PCs at set time via group policy, wake them up with a direct HTTP packet, shut them down afterward with whatever task they are performing. Save money now without the get-rich-quick bullshit.
What's really funny is that if they bought actual enterprise grade desktops and such, they could leverage the out-of-band management baked into the chipsets for the last 5+ years to have the backup server wake the machine up when it is it's turn to back up, do the back up, and then put it to sleep. Or if you want deeper savings, skip the sleep and go directly to a power off state.
Intel's AMT leaves the NIC on and listening for a wake event, and will power up the machine. AMT has something like this too, but we have Intel machines here. Many management systems understand AMT as well (Altiris, SCCM) so you could start saving power right now by simply provisioning the AMT agent on your systems and then using group policy to tell them to turn the hell off. If they are needed, the servers that need to interact can wake them up with a HTTP packet.
Stop with the BitCoin get-rich-quick bullshit and actually do something that saves money and conserves power at the same time.
Or, use the enterprise features baked in to your supposedly enterprise-grade desktops and enable a smarter power management scheme using Intel's AMT and vPro out-of-band management stuff. The wrong question is being asked here. The guy is asking "how can we be more productive with all this power we're wasting at night" rather than "how can we stop wasting all this power at night."
Well, for one thing, the MBR is only a "protective MBR" and doesn't describe anything about the layout of the disk, and serves no purpose other than making sure disk utilities that don't know how to work with GPT don't blast your partition table to nothingness. Secondly, GPT has a backup table in it's standard layout, so if something does screw with the primary partition table, you can restore from the backup table. Third, if you're using uEFI, and your OS is EFI-boot native, it's not doing the "player piano" boot where the computer is only smart enough to know to look at sector zero to start doing what it's supposed to be doing. Your OS may load extensions to EFI, chain-boot through several pieces of code, etc.
For instance, EFI-based Macs check the EFI System Partition on every boot to see if a new firmware file was dropped there. If it was, it checks the signature on it (only install signed firmware), and then loads the flashing tool rather than the OS kernel. Windows 7 in an EFI-based install will move all of the BCD stores and boot loader binaries onto the EFI System Partition, which is a completely different file system (and format) than the rest of your Windows install. EFI understands several different file systems including VFAT, so you can have the boot loader named any discrete thing, and in any inode in the file system.
There is much more going on with GPT / uEFI than there ever was with MBR / BIOS.
Microsoft, incredibly late to the party, has now realized that instead of maintaining all that backwards compatibility in the core OS to be able to run 20+ year old apps in the same space as something published 6 minutes ago, have turned to application layer virtualization.
Unfortunately, you only get the license to use this if you buy the ridiculously expensive versions of Windows, or are a company giving Microsoft a ton of cash for Software Assurance. But, you can actually run multiple versions of applications side by side (including versions that are listed as incompatible) on modern Windows without a lot of hackery.
There's also some other application virtualization schemes available from other companies; but they either don't work very well, or require some kind of vendor lock-in scheme that many find distasteful (not that Microsoft's AppV isn't a vendor lock-in, but whatever.)
All Lenovo EFI versions I've seen (and that's quite a few of them since I own the process of certifying hardware for my employer) have the ability to disable EFI Secure Boot under the "Security" section.
They don't have a way of making that money somehow. Also, they have no fucking clue what they are doing, and are throwing money at the problem without knowing what the problem is.
That always cracks me up when someone holds a handgun sideways with their right hand, because it aligns the brass ejection port perfectly with their face.
Oh, and it makes the sights completely cosmetic rather than functional.
So manufacturers of cheap 3D printed firearms take a clue from cellphone manufacturers, and pre-load an unremovable magazine. When it's out, it's out - put it in the nearest recycling bin.
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In addition to what you state above, Jean-Louis Gassee overplayed his hand with Apple when trying to sell Be. He figured that he was the only game in town with an OS that Apple could use as a core for their next generation, and asked for 15% of Apple and a seat on the board for his investors. He also liked leaking negotiation details to the press, which pissed off Apple even before the Steve Jobs Secrecy Curtain was dropped.
Buying NeXTSTEP was both cheaper in the long run, and resulted in a much more complete OS; as it was thought that it would take at least 3 years to turn BeOS into something they could legitimately ship with a Mac. At the time he was trying to sell it, there was no file sharing, no printing, no language localizations, etc. NeXTSTEP also had a complete developer framework ready to go (what became Cocoa).
Because clearly naming one example that goes against the statement disproves the entire statement.
You knew this, which is why you posted Anonymous coward.
CNN carrying the Pentagon briefing, of course.
Isn't listing both Dennis Rodman and Goofy redundant?
With modern fuel-air ordinance, nukes aren't really necessary for some piss-ant agressor like North Korea. You just do the following:
1. Take out most anti-aircraft capability with cruise missiles and stealth aircraft
2. Carpet bomb any artillery or infantry that might think about taking shots at slower aircraft with high-altitude B52 runs
3. Fly in the slower C-130s and C-131s with cargo bays filled with fuel-air ordinance, which act like small nukes without the nasty radioactive side-effects to wipe out any structures or equipment that we still don't like.
Yes and no.
Depending on the design of the bomb, it could be quite possible for an accidental supercriticality causing a full detonation. Gun-type bombs can have this happen without extraordinary circumstance as the two sub-critical masses are moving parts, and things that prevent stuff from moving can always fail.
Implosion-type weapons (usually a Plutonium-core, which is what NK is using) require exact sequencing of explosive lenses to create the supercriticality, and are much more inherently "safe" from accidental detonation.
While they may not get the entire SSBN, the UK's Royal Navy does get the Trident D3 SLBM to slide into the launch tubes of their Vanguard SSBNs, with their warheads attached.
North Korea has only recently barely surpassed yields equal to the 1945 Nagasaki attack. They do not have fusion "boosted" weapons, or full on hydrogen bombs, which is what it takes to get into the 3-digit kiloton yields, or megaton class weapons.
While the yield would be small, fallout would be the real problem with a ground-level detonation. But, with a smaller blast radius, the amount of fallout would also be decreased, and the smaller the blast, the smaller the height of the mushroom cloud, thus the smaller area of fallout deposition.
It would still be horrific, but the response from the US would be orders of magnitude worse for them.
The point is though, with AMT, it's completely dynamic, and controlled by a service that needs that asset for as long as it needs it.
Doing a software deployment? Send a power-on event from your management system, and then when the agent checks in (because the system booted up) you can proceed with the install. When the install is done, send a power-off task. If you're not doing a software deployment / backup tast / AV scan / etc, the system stays powered off.
The summary stated that this guy's company has 2-year business leases on desktop hardware, so it's very likely that they have AMT baked in, and just need to provision it.
Or, use out-of-band management built into most business hardware of the last 5+ years to completely power off systems, and remotely power them up on an as-needed basis for management tasks such as backup and deployment.
Intel AMT: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/intel-active-management-technology.html
AMD DASH: http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/systems-management/Pages/manageability-desktops-notebooks.aspx
Power off PCs at set time via group policy, wake them up with a direct HTTP packet, shut them down afterward with whatever task they are performing. Save money now without the get-rich-quick bullshit.
AMT has something like this too
Meant AMD in the above.
What's really funny is that if they bought actual enterprise grade desktops and such, they could leverage the out-of-band management baked into the chipsets for the last 5+ years to have the backup server wake the machine up when it is it's turn to back up, do the back up, and then put it to sleep. Or if you want deeper savings, skip the sleep and go directly to a power off state.
Intel's AMT leaves the NIC on and listening for a wake event, and will power up the machine. AMT has something like this too, but we have Intel machines here. Many management systems understand AMT as well (Altiris, SCCM) so you could start saving power right now by simply provisioning the AMT agent on your systems and then using group policy to tell them to turn the hell off. If they are needed, the servers that need to interact can wake them up with a HTTP packet.
Stop with the BitCoin get-rich-quick bullshit and actually do something that saves money and conserves power at the same time.
Or, use the enterprise features baked in to your supposedly enterprise-grade desktops and enable a smarter power management scheme using Intel's AMT and vPro out-of-band management stuff. The wrong question is being asked here. The guy is asking "how can we be more productive with all this power we're wasting at night" rather than "how can we stop wasting all this power at night."
At least Oracle is being honest with everyone about being asshats.
Well, for one thing, the MBR is only a "protective MBR" and doesn't describe anything about the layout of the disk, and serves no purpose other than making sure disk utilities that don't know how to work with GPT don't blast your partition table to nothingness. Secondly, GPT has a backup table in it's standard layout, so if something does screw with the primary partition table, you can restore from the backup table. Third, if you're using uEFI, and your OS is EFI-boot native, it's not doing the "player piano" boot where the computer is only smart enough to know to look at sector zero to start doing what it's supposed to be doing. Your OS may load extensions to EFI, chain-boot through several pieces of code, etc.
For instance, EFI-based Macs check the EFI System Partition on every boot to see if a new firmware file was dropped there. If it was, it checks the signature on it (only install signed firmware), and then loads the flashing tool rather than the OS kernel. Windows 7 in an EFI-based install will move all of the BCD stores and boot loader binaries onto the EFI System Partition, which is a completely different file system (and format) than the rest of your Windows install. EFI understands several different file systems including VFAT, so you can have the boot loader named any discrete thing, and in any inode in the file system.
There is much more going on with GPT / uEFI than there ever was with MBR / BIOS.
Microsoft, incredibly late to the party, has now realized that instead of maintaining all that backwards compatibility in the core OS to be able to run 20+ year old apps in the same space as something published 6 minutes ago, have turned to application layer virtualization.
Unfortunately, you only get the license to use this if you buy the ridiculously expensive versions of Windows, or are a company giving Microsoft a ton of cash for Software Assurance. But, you can actually run multiple versions of applications side by side (including versions that are listed as incompatible) on modern Windows without a lot of hackery.
There's also some other application virtualization schemes available from other companies; but they either don't work very well, or require some kind of vendor lock-in scheme that many find distasteful (not that Microsoft's AppV isn't a vendor lock-in, but whatever.)
Yeah, that's great for old school MBR-style disks, but when you move into GPT / uEFI, it's a completely different ball game.
Update your EFI.
All Lenovo EFI versions I've seen (and that's quite a few of them since I own the process of certifying hardware for my employer) have the ability to disable EFI Secure Boot under the "Security" section.
This is Yahoo we're talking about.
They don't have a way of making that money somehow. Also, they have no fucking clue what they are doing, and are throwing money at the problem without knowing what the problem is.
Yeah, and by "no one" you mean "just about every Fortune-500 business" right?
Android zealouts are even worse than Apple zealouts sometimes.
Or, jailbreak and then don't update until a new jailbreak is available?
Who's putting a gun to your nutsack and demanding you push the install button?
That always cracks me up when someone holds a handgun sideways with their right hand, because it aligns the brass ejection port perfectly with their face.
Oh, and it makes the sights completely cosmetic rather than functional.
Hollywood sucks.
The first Apple cost $666.66. Inflation adjusted, that's $2717.44 according to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics.
The Commodore 64 cost $595 in 1982. Inflation adjusted, that's $1431.49.
Today's cost for a Lenovo M92 "Tiny" desktop is $749, which in 1980 dollars is $266.00.
Still think a computer can't be had for the same price scale?
So manufacturers of cheap 3D printed firearms take a clue from cellphone manufacturers, and pre-load an unremovable magazine. When it's out, it's out - put it in the nearest recycling bin.
I would submit that BECAUSE he has a 5-digit ID, the workflow looks more like this:
1. Read the summary
2. Click on comments
3. Click Post
4. Type in comment and hit submit without preview
See what I did there?