Wish I had mod points today, parent is a highly insightful post summarizing the situation and outlook perfectly.
Think of the enormous service industry as well, there are millions of people employed in the industry of servicing gasoline cars and trucks, but many of those people will be out of a job with the shift to electric vehicles, as they simply do not require the same high level of maintenance (check out the Tesla 5 year service checklist, it's ridiculous how little maintenance these cars require), and many will face challenges adapting to the new required skill set. Very little motivation from the established industry to change to something so unknown and unpredictable.
I live in downtown Copenhagen and own a car, and yet I'm super excited about this!
With 400 cars scattered across the city, you can almost expect and plan for a car to be available in your vicinity. Huge flexibility and so many use cases.
Owning a car in Copenhagen, even a small and highly economical car is easily minimum 400 USD per month, everything included; parking, depreciation, fuel, insurance, service etc. You can drive one of these guys around for many many hours for the same price. So if you live in the city and don't need a car for the daily commute, this is a superb alternative to owning one. Have already signed up and expect to use this on a regular basis.
Right, if you don't have remote users, then it's less of an issue. But the thing is, I run a lot of meetings where I need to explain some fairly complex technical things to non-tech end users.
Plug a USB Web cam into the laptop connected to the online meeting solution (we use gotomeeting) and point it at the whiteboard. Closes the loop for remote people.
This could easily have extended consequences for the quality of the devices that are put in the market over the next 1-6 months. New possibly untested stopgap suppliers, providing technology condensed sensitive parts.
This won't just affect Apple, many manufacturers will get hit by this. Would be interesting to see stats for returns from some of these companies over the next few months.
Wow, I realize I am seriously a nerd, getting genuinely excited about someone sorting large amounts of data.
Please don't tell my girlfriend, she'll realize I've been faking being a semi-normal cool guy for years, and leave me.
The researchers are not trying to save rats. They're trying to save human lives. Unfortunately, it isn't wise to use experimental medical procedures on humans as sometimes the treatment being tested ends up doing more harm than good.
I can't tell if you're just trying to be funny or if you really don't understand this.
Thank you! I was deeply concerned there for a minute. What a waste of resources trying to create artificial rat lungs, when I can go down to my local pizza place, and find freshly dead rats, who are all great candidates for rat-to-rat transplants for example.
Thanks for clearing this up. I really think they should have been more clear in the headline.
This is probably one of the worst things I have ever seen. What terrible terrible judgment. These poor people presented NO present danger. Completely slaughtered. Terribly terribly sad. Shit like this is why I've come to hate wars. Mod me down for saying nothing new, but this is so fucking sad.
Exclude drug-related murders from both Germany and the US. The remaining violence statistics are on par.
Absolutely complete BS. There exist no reliable statistics whatsoever that shows whether a particular crime is motived by drugs or not. Motivation for a particular crime is not tracked on any national level, so your post is complete speculation.
The US has a far higher violent crime rate than any other country in the western world.
Today, the process does not incur any cost, is almost instantaneous, and you do not have to surrender your passport, answer intrusive questions during a life interview that that could go anywhere, depending on your answers and whims of the interviewer.
When is the last time you traveled to the USA? It is a nightmare. One on one pre-interviews in the airport you're departing in Europe, then another quite intrusive interview upon arriving in the USA. You're completely at the mercy of the interviewer. If he's having a bad day, you'll be stuck with a permanent note on your record, making all your subsequent visits even more painful.
While most of what you say is true, that particular statement is not. EC2 provides a virtual machine, running the operating system of your choice - anything you could do on your single co-located server, you can do on an EC2 machine.
There are heaps of limitations compared to dedicated machines. Check out the Amazon forums, and you'll be surprised how far you'll be from getting the full sensation of the real thing.
Load balancing multiple instances is also a bitch.
We considered it seriously for a high-volume high-availability Web site project, but kept running into dealbreaking limitations, and some we just happened to stumble upon during testing. Minor things that suddenly turn incredibly difficult to solve.
Add to that the cost.. In our cost comparisons we found EC2 costing the same or more than managed dedicated servers with tier 1 providers.
There's no question EC2, VMWare and other "cloud" platforms will be highly attractive, but not yet.
Check out the Vodafone.es site. "Internet Prepago" Got the Modem USB K3520 for I think 70 Euro, and then just purchased the plan "1 month" for 59 Euro. They have plans for 300 MB, 1 GB etc, if you're not a heavy user. I purchased this in a Vodafone store in Spain.
It does GPRS, 3G and HDSPA, so as long as there's Vodafone GSM coverage, you should be able to get an Internet connection, but the GPRS is dead-slow.
Using a similar service from Vodafone here in Spain, where I'm staying for a couple of months. 59 Euros per month, unlimited usage, no contract. Just showed my drivers license, and purchased the Vodafone USB HSDPA/3G modem stick and they activated my subscription in the store. Works amazingly well, able to reach download speeds of 1.5 mbit, and coverage almost anywhere.
What I found particularly interesting, was how much bandwidth you use with just "minimal" use, ie. having it plugged in all day while working for emails, using Web sites and various company Web apps. So far, in 20 days this month, I've used 1.2 GB of data. A lot more than I would have guessed... and nope, no movie or music downloads.
Have purchased hundreds of Geotrust/Equifax RapidSSL certificates over the years, in the past couple only from their reseller servertastic.com. Dirt cheap, quick automated purchasing process and works across all browsers, except some mobile devices like a Motorola Q9 I played with the other day.
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http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/...
One of the best articles I've read this year. Long but very very well worth it.
Point is that whatever we're looking at now is nothing compared to what we'll have very very soon.
Wish I had mod points today, parent is a highly insightful post summarizing the situation and outlook perfectly.
Think of the enormous service industry as well, there are millions of people employed in the industry of servicing gasoline cars and trucks, but many of those people will be out of a job with the shift to electric vehicles, as they simply do not require the same high level of maintenance (check out the Tesla 5 year service checklist, it's ridiculous how little maintenance these cars require), and many will face challenges adapting to the new required skill set. Very little motivation from the established industry to change to something so unknown and unpredictable.
I live in downtown Copenhagen and own a car, and yet I'm super excited about this!
With 400 cars scattered across the city, you can almost expect and plan for a car to be available in your vicinity. Huge flexibility and so many use cases.
Owning a car in Copenhagen, even a small and highly economical car is easily minimum 400 USD per month, everything included; parking, depreciation, fuel, insurance, service etc. You can drive one of these guys around for many many hours for the same price. So if you live in the city and don't need a car for the daily commute, this is a superb alternative to owning one. Have already signed up and expect to use this on a regular basis.
Right, if you don't have remote users, then it's less of an issue. But the thing is, I run a lot of meetings where I need to explain some fairly complex technical things to non-tech end users.
Plug a USB Web cam into the laptop connected to the online meeting solution (we use gotomeeting) and point it at the whiteboard. Closes the loop for remote people.
Otherwise agree with your approach.
Blast. Out of mod points. But parent is one of the more insightful and balanced posts I've read on here in quite a while.
I was using MODx Revolution for around two years, [..] But there are also some issues that led me to seeking an alternative now. MODx developers
So what did you end up using instead?
Argh best post i've read in a while, and no mod points!
This could easily have extended consequences for the quality of the devices that are put in the market over the next 1-6 months. New possibly untested stopgap suppliers, providing technology condensed sensitive parts. This won't just affect Apple, many manufacturers will get hit by this. Would be interesting to see stats for returns from some of these companies over the next few months.
Sadly out of mod points today, but mod up parent. Enjoy the time you have together now, don't get caught up in trying to capture everything.
Wow, I realize I am seriously a nerd, getting genuinely excited about someone sorting large amounts of data. Please don't tell my girlfriend, she'll realize I've been faking being a semi-normal cool guy for years, and leave me.
The researchers are not trying to save rats. They're trying to save human lives. Unfortunately, it isn't wise to use experimental medical procedures on humans as sometimes the treatment being tested ends up doing more harm than good.
I can't tell if you're just trying to be funny or if you really don't understand this.
Thank you! I was deeply concerned there for a minute. What a waste of resources trying to create artificial rat lungs, when I can go down to my local pizza place, and find freshly dead rats, who are all great candidates for rat-to-rat transplants for example. Thanks for clearing this up. I really think they should have been more clear in the headline.
Rats Breathe Air From Lungs Grown In the Lab
Argh! Stop trying to cure rats. We have billions of rats, we don't need to try to heal the unhealthy ones.
This is probably one of the worst things I have ever seen. What terrible terrible judgment. These poor people presented NO present danger. Completely slaughtered. Terribly terribly sad. Shit like this is why I've come to hate wars. Mod me down for saying nothing new, but this is so fucking sad.
Argh, no mod points when I need them. Someone mod up parent. I just waited fucking 10 minutes for this piece of stinking turd to load.
Red ribbon? Guess our galactic overlords are concerned about aids as well..
Exclude drug-related murders from both Germany and the US. The remaining violence statistics are on par.
Absolutely complete BS. There exist no reliable statistics whatsoever that shows whether a particular crime is motived by drugs or not. Motivation for a particular crime is not tracked on any national level, so your post is complete speculation. The US has a far higher violent crime rate than any other country in the western world.
Mod parent up. This is one of the most dead-on insightful replies to this Shell change.
Today, the process does not incur any cost, is almost instantaneous, and you do not have to surrender your passport, answer intrusive questions during a life interview that that could go anywhere, depending on your answers and whims of the interviewer.
When is the last time you traveled to the USA? It is a nightmare. One on one pre-interviews in the airport you're departing in Europe, then another quite intrusive interview upon arriving in the USA. You're completely at the mercy of the interviewer. If he's having a bad day, you'll be stuck with a permanent note on your record, making all your subsequent visits even more painful.
While most of what you say is true, that particular statement is not. EC2 provides a virtual machine, running the operating system of your choice - anything you could do on your single co-located server, you can do on an EC2 machine.
There are heaps of limitations compared to dedicated machines. Check out the Amazon forums, and you'll be surprised how far you'll be from getting the full sensation of the real thing.
You can for example only have 1 static public IP per instance. Bad for hosting multiple Web apps with SSL on each domain.
Load balancing multiple instances is also a bitch.
We considered it seriously for a high-volume high-availability Web site project, but kept running into dealbreaking limitations, and some we just happened to stumble upon during testing. Minor things that suddenly turn incredibly difficult to solve.
Add to that the cost.. In our cost comparisons we found EC2 costing the same or more than managed dedicated servers with tier 1 providers.
There's no question EC2, VMWare and other "cloud" platforms will be highly attractive, but not yet.
Check out the Vodafone.es site. "Internet Prepago" Got the Modem USB K3520 for I think 70 Euro, and then just purchased the plan "1 month" for 59 Euro. They have plans for 300 MB, 1 GB etc, if you're not a heavy user. I purchased this in a Vodafone store in Spain.
It does GPRS, 3G and HDSPA, so as long as there's Vodafone GSM coverage, you should be able to get an Internet connection, but the GPRS is dead-slow.
Using a similar service from Vodafone here in Spain, where I'm staying for a couple of months. 59 Euros per month, unlimited usage, no contract. Just showed my drivers license, and purchased the Vodafone USB HSDPA/3G modem stick and they activated my subscription in the store. Works amazingly well, able to reach download speeds of 1.5 mbit, and coverage almost anywhere.
What I found particularly interesting, was how much bandwidth you use with just "minimal" use, ie. having it plugged in all day while working for emails, using Web sites and various company Web apps. So far, in 20 days this month, I've used 1.2 GB of data. A lot more than I would have guessed. .. and nope, no movie or music downloads.
Have purchased hundreds of Geotrust/Equifax RapidSSL certificates over the years, in the past couple only from their reseller servertastic.com. Dirt cheap, quick automated purchasing process and works across all browsers, except some mobile devices like a Motorola Q9 I played with the other day.
How did you manage to rig them up to start when the bag was opened?
Spooky. Clicked on "Read more..", got "Nothing to see here. Please move along."
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A watch fan myself. Storm are really fantastic. Dolce Gabbana are very nice too (http://www.dolceandgabbanawatches.co.uk/dgindex.h tm -- not sure of where to get 'em in the US).
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I bought one of these suckers recently, and love it:
http://us.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/reveal-watc