Does anyone know what are the physical limitations of highspeed ethernet? I mean at some point doesn't it become impossible to move electrons or modulate data any faster?
Okay the topic of this article freaked me out. I thought, Oh great... My Boss just found me on slashdot and wants to know where the code I'm supposed to be writing has been hidden... My coding happy place is within my little brain...
Your argument is a huge slippery slope, which essentially underscores the original point which is that the parents are screwed--they no longer are permitted to filter topics of their children's education. While this may be fine for you in this instance, one wonders where this sort of parenting by committee mentality ends, and what the end result will be. Sure there are other sources for this material, but why does it have to be in a public school? Why are the public desires of parents being ignored? It's one thing to avoid a topic of discussion, and quite another to promote it, as seems to be the direction of this sort of litigation.
I see no problem with a school limiting internet access to a strict subset of tools based solely upon the curriculum they teach.
Having lived in the Seattle area, I'm not that enthused on rail travel. In one of the most liberal states in the country, the rail projects that were supposed to be so beneficial for the state's environment and economy has served neither purpose. Huge amounts of money has been dumped into environmental impact studies, in acquiring lands for the project and then SO MUCH overspending such that the voters eventually have tried to kill it. And of course since all that land had been grabbed the government then makes a decent profit off of selling prime real estate back to people--when they can't complete the project.
Sure, cynics will say it might all be for the money, but surprise fan events like this are the reason why Star Trek will be around forever. The series creators and contributors have created something amazing out of listening to the people who enjoyed the series just a bit "too much", and rather than being constantly embarrassed by them, they continue to reward them.
there are some networks like that. Other networks require data transfers to occur via CD-R's, banning the use of USB devices, for example. (Because USB devices are notorious for carrying and picking up unwanted self-loading malware) the problem is that now with the reliance upon COTS all drivers, programs and a lot of information required to do the job is found on the internet... somewhere. It's a huge cost savings not to have to custom design every component of your infrastructure. The parts are more reliable and you don't worry about them becoming unavailable (because there's competition among providers) due to things like economic downturns. if everyone went to air-gaps there would be no point in having an internet...
Look. If it won't work from a technical standpoint, then I don't think it should be done. But defending the status quo because "this is who we are" seems pretty shallow reasoning. We can still be who we are, and create safe zones for distinct purposes. I think most family users would prefer an alternative to having to purchase a huge suite of cyber-security tools that work fine as long as your kid doesn't go over to the neighbor's house with a USB drive to bring home something that the neighbor wasn't smart enough to guard against.
Humanity has evolved over time. It can continue to do so here. Sure there may always be a tendency for someone somewhere to take advantage of the system, but by organizing the system, it may enable the users to eradicate them quicker. If there's interest in perpetuating cyber-maladies, then the demand alone will perpetuate the venue, a place in which they can thrive... heck, isn't that the whole deal behind myspace?
And by making a place free of vice-triggering content--I'm not saying the users are free of such vices, but in the end they have more choices...
To be honest, I think most people object to filtering because they want their vices to be triggered "accidentally"... (as you put it, they like the "danger") so they can absolve themselves (or have plausible deniability) of having made a conscious choice to engage crap.
...all I wanted the internet for was to order a stupid computer book that's not available at my local bookstore... why do I have to be subjected to worms, popups, piracy, agenda-driven corruption, scams, spam, primal absurdity, porn and the base nature of humanity!?
There are some real utilitarian uses for the internet, that have nothing to do with inserting one's human baggage on anybody who happens to misclick on a misleading link...
I pity any intelligence that evolves from YouTube content... I guess that's the most unbelievable part of the prank, seeing as how YouTube drains intelligence.
The problem with many 3 yr olds, is that they do have a lot of tendencies of adults. One of my daughters was extremely advanced with language at age three she was speaking in full sentences and in what seemed to be very intelligent (and stubborn) expressions. I still remember coming to the realization that while my daughter was stating very rational arguments, she had no idea what she was really saying... because she was only three. It helped me calm down a lot and just enjoy her nonsense a lot more.
Pixar's _The_Incredibles_ proved you could do a blockbuster superhero movie without any known namesake characters (admittedly a couple were suspiciously similar to well known supers...) The wider appeal and great story telling of Pixar (and lack of preachiness) really helped. Watchman is too "out there" to be a blockbuster, and it's a depressing story... which during an economic depression is essentially movie suicide. A lot of movies will fail this year due to the stream of negativity that's been all the trend lately. To attract large audiences now, especially with such an escapist topic like superhero movies, people need a positive message. People only care to feel bad about themselves and get overly self-critical when they're living in times of excess and security...
Whatever you do, don't predict the downfall of the company or your department, or some such...
A good friend of mine predicted that a major corporations router tables would fail due to bad practices within six months of his leaving the company. (you can probably guess why he'd leave, as they never did anything to actually fix the problems.) When this happened within a week of his prediction, the management (which was always stellar) assumed he'd sabotaged them, and sent a legal team after him. Needless to say they didn't win.
In fact I believe they hired him back for a month as a consultant at top dollar... cuz he understood their problem better than anyone at the company.
Morale of the story, if you know that your company will fail, just let it go.
Chip developers and hardware developers are starting to have the same nonchalaunt attitude about prototyping and getting hardware out the door... as software folks... I was in chip verification for ten years and have watched much of that work go bye-bye... The favored methods for many hardware folks is to design using FPGAs...you can even convert your fpgas to asics nowadays... Even in full blown asics its unusual not to use huge component libraries of hw macros because they've already been tested by someone else... and where possible programmable logic that can be upgraded and patched in subsequent releases of Firmware. Of course there are security holes and stability issues in such a thing, but your hardware is out faster... and you saved in needing a whole huge verification team...
When I was at Hewlett Packard, I took a project management fundamentals course, and we mentioned the Kiersey/whatever (i forget) type personality test as a way for management to get to know the sorts of people on the team. There was a lot of talk about how to use the 'strengths' of this or that personality. IMO, all it really served to do was to point out the obvious... that so and so was different from so and so, and that we're all somewhat odd... I think it is highly unlikely that such tests provide a huge amount of insight into predictive success of a project--outside of what is more often than not already obvious if you just get to know the people in your team.
Just host a stupid barbeque. You'll probably learn more there... As for hiring, that's why they always take the potential candidate out for lunch, right?
--Ray
When I lived in Italy (20 years ago) this was common practice, all the piazzas were covered with the black dots of chewed gum. Public squares are a huge social gathering where teens gathered especially on the weekends. The crowds were thick and it would be impossible to enforce. it also seemed like everyone smoked back then, so cigarrette butts were everywhere. And when it rained, the puddles filled with 'log jams' of used butts. Nasty.
My thought was, "In some countries, Electricity would be nice." I can imagine a computer making a nice paperweight. Flat surface for chopping roots... etc.:)
The problem with books is that we're all hoping to never have to print another one, that all our smarts are going into webpages and online accessible forms of information, and that means that the knowledge divide is even greater with countries that depend upon books... instead of automated forms of media.
--Ray
Oh I dunno. I've found Windows vista renders most hardware inoperable. At least this state of the art piece of pc I've had under my desk runs slower than ever, now that it's got the latest/greatest os on it. You could bore identity thieves to death with transparent windows and shiny icons.
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Does anyone know what are the physical limitations of highspeed ethernet? I mean at some point doesn't it become impossible to move electrons or modulate data any faster?
Okay the topic of this article freaked me out. I thought, Oh great... My Boss just found me on slashdot and wants to know where the code I'm supposed to be writing has been hidden... My coding happy place is within my little brain...
Your argument is a huge slippery slope, which essentially underscores the original point which is that the parents are screwed--they no longer are permitted to filter topics of their children's education. While this may be fine for you in this instance, one wonders where this sort of parenting by committee mentality ends, and what the end result will be. Sure there are other sources for this material, but why does it have to be in a public school? Why are the public desires of parents being ignored? It's one thing to avoid a topic of discussion, and quite another to promote it, as seems to be the direction of this sort of litigation. I see no problem with a school limiting internet access to a strict subset of tools based solely upon the curriculum they teach.
Having lived in the Seattle area, I'm not that enthused on rail travel. In one of the most liberal states in the country, the rail projects that were supposed to be so beneficial for the state's environment and economy has served neither purpose. Huge amounts of money has been dumped into environmental impact studies, in acquiring lands for the project and then SO MUCH overspending such that the voters eventually have tried to kill it. And of course since all that land had been grabbed the government then makes a decent profit off of selling prime real estate back to people--when they can't complete the project.
Sure, cynics will say it might all be for the money, but surprise fan events like this are the reason why Star Trek will be around forever. The series creators and contributors have created something amazing out of listening to the people who enjoyed the series just a bit "too much", and rather than being constantly embarrassed by them, they continue to reward them.
there are some networks like that. Other networks require data transfers to occur via CD-R's, banning the use of USB devices, for example. (Because USB devices are notorious for carrying and picking up unwanted self-loading malware) the problem is that now with the reliance upon COTS all drivers, programs and a lot of information required to do the job is found on the internet... somewhere. It's a huge cost savings not to have to custom design every component of your infrastructure. The parts are more reliable and you don't worry about them becoming unavailable (because there's competition among providers) due to things like economic downturns. if everyone went to air-gaps there would be no point in having an internet...
Segway: Stealing the last particle of human dignity from rent-a-cops worldwide.
Look. If it won't work from a technical standpoint, then I don't think it should be done. But defending the status quo because "this is who we are" seems pretty shallow reasoning. We can still be who we are, and create safe zones for distinct purposes. I think most family users would prefer an alternative to having to purchase a huge suite of cyber-security tools that work fine as long as your kid doesn't go over to the neighbor's house with a USB drive to bring home something that the neighbor wasn't smart enough to guard against. Humanity has evolved over time. It can continue to do so here. Sure there may always be a tendency for someone somewhere to take advantage of the system, but by organizing the system, it may enable the users to eradicate them quicker. If there's interest in perpetuating cyber-maladies, then the demand alone will perpetuate the venue, a place in which they can thrive... heck, isn't that the whole deal behind myspace? And by making a place free of vice-triggering content--I'm not saying the users are free of such vices, but in the end they have more choices... To be honest, I think most people object to filtering because they want their vices to be triggered "accidentally"... (as you put it, they like the "danger") so they can absolve themselves (or have plausible deniability) of having made a conscious choice to engage crap.
...all I wanted the internet for was to order a stupid computer book that's not available at my local bookstore... why do I have to be subjected to worms, popups, piracy, agenda-driven corruption, scams, spam, primal absurdity, porn and the base nature of humanity!? There are some real utilitarian uses for the internet, that have nothing to do with inserting one's human baggage on anybody who happens to misclick on a misleading link...
I pity any intelligence that evolves from YouTube content... I guess that's the most unbelievable part of the prank, seeing as how YouTube drains intelligence.
...and it's inexpensive... ...because they put the word "inexpensive" in the product name...
The problem with many 3 yr olds, is that they do have a lot of tendencies of adults. One of my daughters was extremely advanced with language at age three she was speaking in full sentences and in what seemed to be very intelligent (and stubborn) expressions. I still remember coming to the realization that while my daughter was stating very rational arguments, she had no idea what she was really saying... because she was only three. It helped me calm down a lot and just enjoy her nonsense a lot more.
Pixar's _The_Incredibles_ proved you could do a blockbuster superhero movie without any known namesake characters (admittedly a couple were suspiciously similar to well known supers...) The wider appeal and great story telling of Pixar (and lack of preachiness) really helped. Watchman is too "out there" to be a blockbuster, and it's a depressing story... which during an economic depression is essentially movie suicide. A lot of movies will fail this year due to the stream of negativity that's been all the trend lately. To attract large audiences now, especially with such an escapist topic like superhero movies, people need a positive message. People only care to feel bad about themselves and get overly self-critical when they're living in times of excess and security...
I've some coworkers whose PCs would be more productive turned off... I won't even go into their environmental impact... [shudder!] --Ray
Whatever you do, don't predict the downfall of the company or your department, or some such... A good friend of mine predicted that a major corporations router tables would fail due to bad practices within six months of his leaving the company. (you can probably guess why he'd leave, as they never did anything to actually fix the problems.) When this happened within a week of his prediction, the management (which was always stellar) assumed he'd sabotaged them, and sent a legal team after him. Needless to say they didn't win. In fact I believe they hired him back for a month as a consultant at top dollar... cuz he understood their problem better than anyone at the company. Morale of the story, if you know that your company will fail, just let it go.
Haha!!!
wait? so you're saying one must actually eat, and have shelter (clothing's optional), before they will use a computer? --Ray
...and so the reign of photoshop begins...
Seems ideal... What other food makes its own napkin? --Ray
Chip developers and hardware developers are starting to have the same nonchalaunt attitude about prototyping and getting hardware out the door... as software folks... I was in chip verification for ten years and have watched much of that work go bye-bye... The favored methods for many hardware folks is to design using FPGAs...you can even convert your fpgas to asics nowadays... Even in full blown asics its unusual not to use huge component libraries of hw macros because they've already been tested by someone else... and where possible programmable logic that can be upgraded and patched in subsequent releases of Firmware. Of course there are security holes and stability issues in such a thing, but your hardware is out faster... and you saved in needing a whole huge verification team...
WARNING: Your kid is evil for even wanting this game.
When I was at Hewlett Packard, I took a project management fundamentals course, and we mentioned the Kiersey/whatever (i forget) type personality test as a way for management to get to know the sorts of people on the team. There was a lot of talk about how to use the 'strengths' of this or that personality. IMO, all it really served to do was to point out the obvious... that so and so was different from so and so, and that we're all somewhat odd... I think it is highly unlikely that such tests provide a huge amount of insight into predictive success of a project--outside of what is more often than not already obvious if you just get to know the people in your team. Just host a stupid barbeque. You'll probably learn more there... As for hiring, that's why they always take the potential candidate out for lunch, right? --Ray
When I lived in Italy (20 years ago) this was common practice, all the piazzas were covered with the black dots of chewed gum. Public squares are a huge social gathering where teens gathered especially on the weekends. The crowds were thick and it would be impossible to enforce. it also seemed like everyone smoked back then, so cigarrette butts were everywhere. And when it rained, the puddles filled with 'log jams' of used butts. Nasty.
My thought was, "In some countries, Electricity would be nice." I can imagine a computer making a nice paperweight. Flat surface for chopping roots... etc. :)
The problem with books is that we're all hoping to never have to print another one, that all our smarts are going into webpages and online accessible forms of information, and that means that the knowledge divide is even greater with countries that depend upon books... instead of automated forms of media.
--Ray
Oh I dunno. I've found Windows vista renders most hardware inoperable. At least this state of the art piece of pc I've had under my desk runs slower than ever, now that it's got the latest/greatest os on it. You could bore identity thieves to death with transparent windows and shiny icons.