(If you ever say it, wash your mouth out with soap. If anyone ever says it to you, run.)
I reject that sentiment. The statement was a motivating tool. It may not have been said - it probably didn't need to be said during the real mission as these were people that worked with those astronauts for years before the launch occurred. They didn't need to be told that the future of the space program and the three astronauts hung on their actions. But it got the point across to the audience, who didn't have that relationship.
Almost all of the popular MMORPGs are either dungeon crawlers or require a monthly payment (or both). I and a small group of friends of varying financial levels went with Guild Wars when it first came out and sprung for GW2 when it came out last year. We only play a few hours a week and get a lot of enjoyment out of it, but we've been collecitvely playing these kinds of games for almost 10 years.
The hactivist got legal representation the same as the murderer. If there were extenuating circumstances (they h4xx0r3d me first!) then that can be brought up during trial.
Activist (ok, civil disobedient) implies that they know what they're doing is legally wrong and is willing t accept the consequences of their actions. Is 10 years a bit much? Yes. Will it deter future crime? Probably. Does it get people talking about legal rights in this country? Looks like it.
Hard crime is generally already morally reprehensible. "Softer" crimes like this one are a bit more morally ambisuous and thus the punishment serves as a deterrent.
It's the difference between saying "If I kill this person, not only is it wrong, but I'll go to prison" and "If I steal data from this company/person/government, I'll go to prison for a long long time. Do I really want to do that?"
Us old timers know what it is. It's a ray tracer from the early early days (it was used to render one of the covers of my books back in the mid 90s). I honestly thought it went the way of the dodo since I haven't heard about it in years.
So this ran for 18 hours, or about $1800/hour. That gives you just under $44,000 per day, or $16 million for a year.
Give me $16 million a year and I can build you a very kick-butt cluster - the one I'm just finishing up is 5000 cores at about $3 million.
EC2 is great if your needs are small and intermittent. But if you're part of a larger organization that has continual HPC needs, you're going to be better off building it yourself for a while.
CyanogenMod is a custom ROM for a wide variety of Android phones. It's been around almost forever (I installed it on my OG Droid). I can forgive not saying what CM is, but WTF is an Oppo?
So... I repeat my wife's question: do you REALLY want these people in charge of your healthcare? I don't.
They're not in charge of your healthcare. They're in charge of making sure you get healthcare from a qualified insurance company and have the ability to discuss your medical needs with a qualified doctor.
It was rather sudden and my access was disconnected to all services of my employer. I had a list of passwords, I clearly outlined that while we had processes in place to share passwords with my staff, there's the possibility that I had passwords that nobody else had. They didn't care, so I wiped all of those passwords from my store (aided by the abysmal rollout of the latest SplashID which nuked your password database without warning).
Ship it to the kids in Afghanistan that wanted to hook up their C-64s to the Internet to watch movies. Good thing they were stored buried underground all this time.
Crashplan is really nice on both ends. The client doesn't get in the way of trying to back up, and the server on my linux box barely notices.
I'm backing my wife's laptop and my mother's desktop to the Crashplan cloud along with my basement server as a 'just in case'. It's been working really well so far.
I've worked with researchers in the biomedical field for 10 years. I'm sure he'd prefer to deal with Larry and Sergey's code over some of the horrible stuff I've seen.
As a teaser: I once saw a software package with a Makefile that was really a shell script to build the application.
Wish I had mod points. James Bond did have a tracker in Goldfinger, but it had to be placed by hand. He never had a gun-fired GPS tracker in the movies or any of the books.
Dell no longer has to worry about what happens in the next quarter or fiscal year. Instead of trying to maximize profit, they can start looking a few years down the road and make some investments that won't pay off for a while. They have a better ability to take risks without the threat of a shareholder lawsuit. Employees no longer have to wonder if there's going to be mass layoffs next month to boost the stock price by a percent. But in the meantime they have very little ability to raise extra cash and employees are going to want some sort of incentive to stay now that ESPs have been discontinued. As long as they can keep their cashflow and talent for a few years they'll be fine in the server market.
When a bunch of states gain majorities by saying "The federal government stinks and we don't want anything to do with them!" then proceed to let the feds prove them right, they don't get much of a footing for complaining about the results. If they truly believed that the government can't do anything right then they should have been bootstrappy and done it themselves.
Then the states shouldn't complain if it turns out to be crap. The had their chance, they passed, and now they get to reap the benefits. Many of those states are probably firmly in the 10th Amendment trench. Odd that they wouldn't want local control over such an important part of their local economy
Because health insurance is way more complicated and expensive than car insurance. Individual companies were offering individual care. The intent of the centralized (state, now federal since many states didn't choose to set up their own exchanges) was to make it easy for people to shop and evaluate their options. In an open market, competition for consumers drive prices down.
Well, there should be 50 web sites, one for each state. But 34 (or 36?) states decided they didn't want to do it, so healthcare.gov had to be extended to handle way more states than they expected. If I go to look for MA or NY, I don't have to sign in, I just get redirected to the state exchange which operates separately.
I was tangentially related to a project that was supposed to setup chargeback for a HPC environment. Before I left it was going on for over a year and was just barely in an alpha state (i.e. just past a mockup). There were still core operational questions that needed to be answered and nobody who could answer them was part of the project or brought in.
Consider how Blu-Ray has settled into the niche, high-end "I have a 800-inch TV and 13-point surround sound" video/audiophile nerd zone, while DVD still kicks its butt by being available to anyone who can scrape together $20 for a player, $20 for a tv of any sort (even an old CRT still works w/ it), and $5-10 a month for a Netflix subscription or some cheap movies from the local grocery store or walmart's bargain bin.
BR isn't that much more expensive than DVD (which was also horribly overpriced at the time it came out, even though it was far superior to VHS). Players can be found in PS3 and soon to be XBOne, standalone players can be had for $20-$50, usually with lots of other bells and whistles like Netflix integration and wifi. I've been picking up BR discs for $15-$20, sometimes more than the equivalent DVD, but much better quality.
Wide implementation was delayed while the consumers waited for the HD-DVD/BR wars to settle down. Now that they're over prices are dropping rapidly and support is appearing in more devices.
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(If you ever say it, wash your mouth out with soap. If anyone ever says it to you, run.)
I reject that sentiment. The statement was a motivating tool. It may not have been said - it probably didn't need to be said during the real mission as these were people that worked with those astronauts for years before the launch occurred. They didn't need to be told that the future of the space program and the three astronauts hung on their actions. But it got the point across to the audience, who didn't have that relationship.
Almost all of the popular MMORPGs are either dungeon crawlers or require a monthly payment (or both). I and a small group of friends of varying financial levels went with Guild Wars when it first came out and sprung for GW2 when it came out last year. We only play a few hours a week and get a lot of enjoyment out of it, but we've been collecitvely playing these kinds of games for almost 10 years.
The hactivist got legal representation the same as the murderer. If there were extenuating circumstances (they h4xx0r3d me first!) then that can be brought up during trial.
Activist (ok, civil disobedient) implies that they know what they're doing is legally wrong and is willing t accept the consequences of their actions. Is 10 years a bit much? Yes. Will it deter future crime? Probably. Does it get people talking about legal rights in this country? Looks like it.
Hard crime is generally already morally reprehensible. "Softer" crimes like this one are a bit more morally ambisuous and thus the punishment serves as a deterrent.
It's the difference between saying "If I kill this person, not only is it wrong, but I'll go to prison" and "If I steal data from this company/person/government, I'll go to prison for a long long time. Do I really want to do that?"
What he said
Us old timers know what it is. It's a ray tracer from the early early days (it was used to render one of the covers of my books back in the mid 90s). I honestly thought it went the way of the dodo since I haven't heard about it in years.
So this ran for 18 hours, or about $1800/hour. That gives you just under $44,000 per day, or $16 million for a year.
Give me $16 million a year and I can build you a very kick-butt cluster - the one I'm just finishing up is 5000 cores at about $3 million.
EC2 is great if your needs are small and intermittent. But if you're part of a larger organization that has continual HPC needs, you're going to be better off building it yourself for a while.
CyanogenMod is a custom ROM for a wide variety of Android phones. It's been around almost forever (I installed it on my OG Droid). I can forgive not saying what CM is, but WTF is an Oppo?
So ... I repeat my wife's question: do you REALLY want these people in charge of your healthcare? I don't.
They're not in charge of your healthcare. They're in charge of making sure you get healthcare from a qualified insurance company and have the ability to discuss your medical needs with a qualified doctor.
It was rather sudden and my access was disconnected to all services of my employer. I had a list of passwords, I clearly outlined that while we had processes in place to share passwords with my staff, there's the possibility that I had passwords that nobody else had. They didn't care, so I wiped all of those passwords from my store (aided by the abysmal rollout of the latest SplashID which nuked your password database without warning).
Ship it to the kids in Afghanistan that wanted to hook up their C-64s to the Internet to watch movies. Good thing they were stored buried underground all this time.
Crashplan is really nice on both ends. The client doesn't get in the way of trying to back up, and the server on my linux box barely notices.
I'm backing my wife's laptop and my mother's desktop to the Crashplan cloud along with my basement server as a 'just in case'. It's been working really well so far.
I've worked with researchers in the biomedical field for 10 years. I'm sure he'd prefer to deal with Larry and Sergey's code over some of the horrible stuff I've seen.
As a teaser: I once saw a software package with a Makefile that was really a shell script to build the application.
Wish I had mod points. James Bond did have a tracker in Goldfinger, but it had to be placed by hand. He never had a gun-fired GPS tracker in the movies or any of the books.
..though it may take a while to get there.
Dell no longer has to worry about what happens in the next quarter or fiscal year. Instead of trying to maximize profit, they can start looking a few years down the road and make some investments that won't pay off for a while. They have a better ability to take risks without the threat of a shareholder lawsuit. Employees no longer have to wonder if there's going to be mass layoffs next month to boost the stock price by a percent. But in the meantime they have very little ability to raise extra cash and employees are going to want some sort of incentive to stay now that ESPs have been discontinued. As long as they can keep their cashflow and talent for a few years they'll be fine in the server market.
They voted for Obama, but their legislatures and governor are Republicans. You can spin this any way you want, but the facts are the facts.
When a bunch of states gain majorities by saying "The federal government stinks and we don't want anything to do with them!" then proceed to let the feds prove them right, they don't get much of a footing for complaining about the results. If they truly believed that the government can't do anything right then they should have been bootstrappy and done it themselves.
Then the states shouldn't complain if it turns out to be crap. The had their chance, they passed, and now they get to reap the benefits. Many of those states are probably firmly in the 10th Amendment trench. Odd that they wouldn't want local control over such an important part of their local economy
Because health insurance is way more complicated and expensive than car insurance. Individual companies were offering individual care. The intent of the centralized (state, now federal since many states didn't choose to set up their own exchanges) was to make it easy for people to shop and evaluate their options. In an open market, competition for consumers drive prices down.
Well, there should be 50 web sites, one for each state. But 34 (or 36?) states decided they didn't want to do it, so healthcare.gov had to be extended to handle way more states than they expected. If I go to look for MA or NY, I don't have to sign in, I just get redirected to the state exchange which operates separately.
I was tangentially related to a project that was supposed to setup chargeback for a HPC environment. Before I left it was going on for over a year and was just barely in an alpha state (i.e. just past a mockup). There were still core operational questions that needed to be answered and nobody who could answer them was part of the project or brought in.
PS2 came out about 5 years after DVDs were introduced.
Consider how Blu-Ray has settled into the niche, high-end "I have a 800-inch TV and 13-point surround sound" video/audiophile nerd zone, while DVD still kicks its butt by being available to anyone who can scrape together $20 for a player, $20 for a tv of any sort (even an old CRT still works w/ it), and $5-10 a month for a Netflix subscription or some cheap movies from the local grocery store or walmart's bargain bin.
BR isn't that much more expensive than DVD (which was also horribly overpriced at the time it came out, even though it was far superior to VHS). Players can be found in PS3 and soon to be XBOne, standalone players can be had for $20-$50, usually with lots of other bells and whistles like Netflix integration and wifi. I've been picking up BR discs for $15-$20, sometimes more than the equivalent DVD, but much better quality.
Wide implementation was delayed while the consumers waited for the HD-DVD/BR wars to settle down. Now that they're over prices are dropping rapidly and support is appearing in more devices.
If you think that all federal employees are minimum wage and can be easily replaced, you're a bit mistaken.
...and they haven't been paying anything for the past two weeks. And as I said above, the government has lost those two weeks of productivity.