You'd be a fool to think you can stop it. Just as with the music industry trying to stop pirates, consumers trying to stop the collection of personally identifiable information by companies is just as futile.
They make money by doing that. They like making money... Ergo - fill in the blank.
And that's why you use the excuse that you're the sole provider for a family and can not afford to be on the jury. The judge then excuses you, and you go back to work.
Yep, I gut my house on a biennium basis to replace my electrical wires. The ones running up to my house on the outside also go through the same transformation.
We're talking about communication. The research and money is in wireless. Give it time and ethernet will be just a novelty.
I think the eureka moment should be when you realize that any language can fall into the trap that you describe. There's reasons for the complexity. Whether they are for compilation/parsing performance, or for some type of design pattern to elegantly solve a problem.
I've got a buddy down the hall who grew up ASP and VB. He uses notepad for development, and complains about not having pointers in Java. Syntax highlighting/completion aside, it takes him forever to write even some of the most basic classes. It's a constant game of finding something to copy and paste. What clicks off in my head is that when you're copying and pasting so much, someone probably already wrote a library for what you were trying to do. Hence additional files, includes, whatever it is... it's more of that whole lots and lots of small files that are mentioned as a downer in the op.
If you're complaining about OO patterns, that's not language specific. Heck, even SAP has an OO equivalent.OO is a byproduct of merging human conceptualization and computer language. It becomes more "natural", arguably, for a developer to understand. Is that a problem of the language? No. I can write just as much spaghetti code as OO in Java, well, pretty much any language for that matter.
Now for your humorous AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean. If you're writing a webpage with some fancy graphics on the front and not much user interaction, then you'll probably come across this class and think wtf would anyone ever use it? If you come from the data processing world with many systems working on the same data, you pretty much don't live without it.
This is equivalent to growing up in Mexico, never even hearing of the word snow, and then see someone walk by with a pair of snowshoes in hand. Do you point and laugh first, or do you try to understand why they have snowshoes?
Snowshoes are obviously everything that is wrong with footwear.
I haven't heard of very much wired technology improvements for end-consumers over the last decade. Wireless has been changing frequently. People don't remodel their houses every 2 years.
I think that's enough of a reason to forget about wires.
Over the next 10 years, it'll be more of the same, and soon enough, you'll be able to buy wireless capabilities that match or even surpass that of wired ones which aren't cost prohibitive. As in, there's no reason to drop 10 grand for fiber within your house and the gear to hook it up. There won't be enough demand for that to drop the price due to people not remodeling their homes every 2 years.
Lights, curtains, shades. All programmed/controlled via wifi; frontended with a web interface so I can manually control them via a tablet. Lights also include outdoor lights. Sensors to detect the deadbolts/garage doors on the house. (Don't want to actually control those, just tell if I locked up the house).
Multiple thermostats (nests)/zones for hvac. hack together a web interface to control those (some people already have been working on an api).
solar panels and/or windmills.
All of that is pretty nifty from a tech perspective, and will save you a buttload of money in the long run.
You know you can take a black-listed phone into verizon stores and they'll give you a refurb? The story of: "I bought it on craigslist and it won't register" works wonders.
I was amazed that even worked, and pissed off at the same time. My phone was stolen out of my office, and I figured blacklisting it would bring me vengeance... wrong.
My wife's nook was stolen at the same time. She blacklisted it. Then had a book purchased on her account 6 hours later... She called in again and said wtf? They told her that whoever blacklisted it for her didn't do it (hard to find competent people).
So that gives another reason to think that blacklisting doesn't work, because the damn idiots don't punch it into their computers.
I also got a buddy at work who's from China. He has family back in China that actively engage in acquiring broken electronics. iPhones are great. Blacklisted, broken, who cares? They strip the things down and make their own refurbs good as new and resell them.
So yeah, unless Police actually crack down on this, then the only other way to curb this activity is if the phone physically blows up and kills/maims the people stealing them while people cheer on the spectacle.
Like... Track changes feature in Microsoft Word. Change orders applied to the contract of building a new house. Amendments to contracts.
It's just the management of the amendments in a fashion that allows many people to make amendments and figure out when those amendments conflict with each other. Then other tools help you resolve those conflicts and and make everything work in the end.
A 52x cd-rom drive is faster than your internet connection. Go download a linux live cd. Imagine that your cd rom is actually a substitute for your internet connection, and the cd is "the cloud". Kinda sucks doesn't it?
So what can people do with a fatter pipe? My company has multiple gigabit connections to the internet, but we don't do anything significantly different with the internet than I do at home.
In relationship to your job, maybe they don't do anything that drastically different... But, if you ever hear of someone using something like... ohhhh remote desktop, so they can get into their work computer from home, then you just hit the whole point of my argument.
Remote desktop is a hack for a network problem. It's too slow to ship the actual programs running on the remote computer to your desktop. So instead, we duplicate unnecessary hardware (your computer), then ship over only the graphics, user input. The graphics try to only send the differences between screen transitions, and then do more hacks like limiting the amount of colors it'll actually represent on the other side.
The people at my workplace have a slightly better hack for that problem. They use laptops and then sneaker-net the programs they need back to their home. Then hope they have everything they need while they are "remote".
Then the other huge point of my argument is that you don't do anything different, because hardly anyone is building things that take advantage of fatter pipes since they just don't exist here in the US.
I'd love to make wagers that after people finally get internet connections over 8gb/s up and download speed that they'll look at our current rates the same way we look at a 9600 baud modem, and that is that they'd rather shoot themselves than live in an era like that (again).
I think Genghis Khan demonstrated a way to boost plant production. I'm sure the black plague also had similar effects. So has it reached it's limits? Nah. Remove all animal life forms and plant diseases, then you'll see it reach it's limits.
I just don't get why memory manufacturers are making such large capacity modules. Why would anyone ever need more than 64kb of memory?
I don't get why people make short-sighted statements about why an existing limitation isn't a problem,
People don't build sites, or applications, or services very often that have requirements that exceed things like memory, or network speed. If they do, they learn real fast that people call their product a piece of crap.
If network speeds were fast enough, then there'd be a way for us to store all of our information in "the cloud", and not have to worry about things like backups, or virus scanning on a at home basis. We could write operating systems that were designed to be run centrally, just like the good old mainframe era and dumb terminals. Then we wouldn't have as many grandma's out there running windows 95 in the year 2010.
Hell, you could ask the browser makers if they like the sounds of that! (Not the windows 95 crap, but the operating system in a cloud, aka web browser with apps).
Seriously. Everyone with a desk job (or student) doesn't need to drive into work. Get some good video conferencing solutions, a huge pipe to your office files, a cheap-as-dirt dumb terminal in your living room (or home-office), and now you actually have a fighting chance at staving off unimportant things like global warming (less gas for travel).
No need for schools to pay for buses, more money for teachers. Unfortunately, probably a lot less teachers). More stay-at-home professionals, everyone get's to gain an extra hour of their life back per day (less travel). An extra hour means later wake-up times, which would probably have a better impact than daylight savings time.
So what could people do with a fatter pipe? Oh, man, I don't know. Let's go back to 64kb of main memory. Or how about something a little easier to think of, let's go back to pre-cellphone times. Everyone doesn't need a cell phone. What can people not do with their existing land-lines?
I'd rather think on the order of, if it's not infinite/instant, it's not good enough. Once you get there, then you can question why anyone would need anything more.
Just like you can never confirm the theory of evolution right? Sounds like you really like to just make stuff up and post it. It's theorized that the graviton is massless, but it sounds better to make grandiose statements, doesn't it.
Just like with healthcare, unless you're forced, you don't want to join. Who wants to spend 70 bucks of their paycheck every month for something they perceive as doing nothing for them? The power of the union comes from the collective. If your collective is only 25 to 30% of the working force, guess what? You're expendable.
"If you've been involved in such an action, how did it work out for you?"
I don't know. Some douchebags hacked my gaming box so I got them back by hacking their computers. It seemed like they were hacking from a computer fan manufacturing plant or something, because there were literally thousands of devices reporting the same rpms being operated there. I figured it would be funny to mess around with the operating speeds of those fans in the hopes of creating a tornado or something.
They also seemed to be obsessed with U2... apparently, they gave band members nicknames like #35 and #38.
Only if we are communicating with V1 with a known mechanism that gets absorbed/reflected by the solar system's border. Since we detect electromagnetic radiation from other stars, we can safely say there's a high probability of us still being able to communicate with V1 after it leaves.
Since we know we can receive electromagnetic radiation, and we are listening for it, then we haven't necessarily thought outside of the bubble enough to be listening to something else that would get reflected/absorbed by the border. In other words, we're not going to magically start receiving a different form of communication than what we already are detecting, because we just haven't gotten smart enough yet.
I'd say we have a better chance of something picking up our little V1 on their monitors and come check us out!
I put plastic sheets over my wood piles to dry out the wood over the summer. Inevitably, the plastic heats up and cools off enough times to crack and becomes useless for that purpose.
Plastic might get you through a couple of months, but you'd better have an alternative plan in place pretty quick. I'd try to find some fresh water.
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You'd be a fool to think you can stop it.
Just as with the music industry trying to stop pirates, consumers trying to stop the collection of personally identifiable information by companies is just as futile.
They make money by doing that. They like making money... Ergo - fill in the blank.
And that's why you use the excuse that you're the sole provider for a family and can not afford to be on the jury.
The judge then excuses you, and you go back to work.
Yep, I gut my house on a biennium basis to replace my electrical wires.
The ones running up to my house on the outside also go through the same transformation.
We're talking about communication. The research and money is in wireless. Give it time and ethernet will be just a novelty.
I think the eureka moment should be when you realize that any language can fall into the trap that you describe. There's reasons for the complexity. Whether they are for compilation/parsing performance, or for some type of design pattern to elegantly solve a problem.
I've got a buddy down the hall who grew up ASP and VB. He uses notepad for development, and complains about not having pointers in Java. Syntax highlighting/completion aside, it takes him forever to write even some of the most basic classes. It's a constant game of finding something to copy and paste. What clicks off in my head is that when you're copying and pasting so much, someone probably already wrote a library for what you were trying to do. Hence additional files, includes, whatever it is... it's more of that whole lots and lots of small files that are mentioned as a downer in the op.
If you're complaining about OO patterns, that's not language specific. Heck, even SAP has an OO equivalent.OO is a byproduct of merging human conceptualization and computer language. It becomes more "natural", arguably, for a developer to understand. Is that a problem of the language? No. I can write just as much spaghetti code as OO in Java, well, pretty much any language for that matter.
Now for your humorous AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean. If you're writing a webpage with some fancy graphics on the front and not much user interaction, then you'll probably come across this class and think wtf would anyone ever use it?
If you come from the data processing world with many systems working on the same data, you pretty much don't live without it.
This is equivalent to growing up in Mexico, never even hearing of the word snow, and then see someone walk by with a pair of snowshoes in hand. Do you point and laugh first, or do you try to understand why they have snowshoes?
Snowshoes are obviously everything that is wrong with footwear.
I haven't heard of very much wired technology improvements for end-consumers over the last decade. Wireless has been changing frequently. People don't remodel their houses every 2 years.
I think that's enough of a reason to forget about wires.
Over the next 10 years, it'll be more of the same, and soon enough, you'll be able to buy wireless capabilities that match or even surpass that of wired ones which aren't cost prohibitive. As in, there's no reason to drop 10 grand for fiber within your house and the gear to hook it up. There won't be enough demand for that to drop the price due to people not remodeling their homes every 2 years.
Wires are like dinosaurs. They were really fricken awesome once, but now there's plenty other cools things to use.
The only thing I can think of for needing a wire anymore is still video, as I don't think wireless video has matured enough.
You must be new here. The only way to get fucking in our bedrooms is by having a tv in them and watching fox news. Mind = fucked.
Or you could just use 8 pins of the 30 you have and leave it in the wall.
Lights, curtains, shades. All programmed/controlled via wifi; frontended with a web interface so I can manually control them via a tablet.
Lights also include outdoor lights.
Sensors to detect the deadbolts/garage doors on the house. (Don't want to actually control those, just tell if I locked up the house).
Multiple thermostats (nests)/zones for hvac. hack together a web interface to control those (some people already have been working on an api).
solar panels and/or windmills.
All of that is pretty nifty from a tech perspective, and will save you a buttload of money in the long run.
You know you can take a black-listed phone into verizon stores and they'll give you a refurb?
The story of: "I bought it on craigslist and it won't register" works wonders.
I was amazed that even worked, and pissed off at the same time. My phone was stolen out of my office, and I figured blacklisting it would bring me vengeance... wrong.
My wife's nook was stolen at the same time. She blacklisted it. Then had a book purchased on her account 6 hours later... She called in again and said wtf? They told her that whoever blacklisted it for her didn't do it (hard to find competent people).
So that gives another reason to think that blacklisting doesn't work, because the damn idiots don't punch it into their computers.
I also got a buddy at work who's from China. He has family back in China that actively engage in acquiring broken electronics. iPhones are great. Blacklisted, broken, who cares? They strip the things down and make their own refurbs good as new and resell them.
So yeah, unless Police actually crack down on this, then the only other way to curb this activity is if the phone physically blows up and kills/maims the people stealing them while people cheer on the spectacle.
Spicy chicken nuggets!
100Mbit/sec internet is common in South Korea, so what is it that they do differently with their high speed internet?
Lan partys don't count.
http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/05/02/south-korea-internet-speed-17-5-mbps/
Peak speeds of ~48mbps on average is no where near the speeds I'm talking about.
Solaris - > Debian -> Once you go Debian, you never go back!
Debian FTW!
Like...
Track changes feature in Microsoft Word.
Change orders applied to the contract of building a new house.
Amendments to contracts.
It's just the management of the amendments in a fashion that allows many people to make amendments and figure out when those amendments conflict with each other. Then other tools help you resolve those conflicts and and make everything work in the end.
A 52x cd-rom drive is faster than your internet connection.
Go download a linux live cd.
Imagine that your cd rom is actually a substitute for your internet connection, and the cd is "the cloud". Kinda sucks doesn't it?
So what can people do with a fatter pipe? My company has multiple gigabit connections to the internet, but we don't do anything significantly different with the internet than I do at home.
In relationship to your job, maybe they don't do anything that drastically different...
But, if you ever hear of someone using something like... ohhhh remote desktop, so they can get into their work computer from home, then you just hit the whole point of my argument.
Remote desktop is a hack for a network problem. It's too slow to ship the actual programs running on the remote computer to your desktop. So instead, we duplicate unnecessary hardware (your computer), then ship over only the graphics, user input. The graphics try to only send the differences between screen transitions, and then do more hacks like limiting the amount of colors it'll actually represent on the other side.
The people at my workplace have a slightly better hack for that problem. They use laptops and then sneaker-net the programs they need back to their home. Then hope they have everything they need while they are "remote".
Then the other huge point of my argument is that you don't do anything different, because hardly anyone is building things that take advantage of fatter pipes since they just don't exist here in the US.
I'd love to make wagers that after people finally get internet connections over 8gb/s up and download speed that they'll look at our current rates the same way we look at a 9600 baud modem, and that is that they'd rather shoot themselves than live in an era like that (again).
You'd fail an audit if the developers installed the software.
I think Genghis Khan demonstrated a way to boost plant production. I'm sure the black plague also had similar effects.
So has it reached it's limits? Nah. Remove all animal life forms and plant diseases, then you'll see it reach it's limits.
I just don't get why memory manufacturers are making such large capacity modules. Why would anyone ever need more than 64kb of memory?
I don't get why people make short-sighted statements about why an existing limitation isn't a problem,
People don't build sites, or applications, or services very often that have requirements that exceed things like memory, or network speed. If they do, they learn real fast that people call their product a piece of crap.
If network speeds were fast enough, then there'd be a way for us to store all of our information in "the cloud", and not have to worry about things like backups, or virus scanning on a at home basis. We could write operating systems that were designed to be run centrally, just like the good old mainframe era and dumb terminals. Then we wouldn't have as many grandma's out there running windows 95 in the year 2010.
Hell, you could ask the browser makers if they like the sounds of that! (Not the windows 95 crap, but the operating system in a cloud, aka web browser with apps).
Seriously. Everyone with a desk job (or student) doesn't need to drive into work. Get some good video conferencing solutions, a huge pipe to your office files, a cheap-as-dirt dumb terminal in your living room (or home-office), and now you actually have a fighting chance at staving off unimportant things like global warming (less gas for travel).
No need for schools to pay for buses, more money for teachers. Unfortunately, probably a lot less teachers). More stay-at-home professionals, everyone get's to gain an extra hour of their life back per day (less travel). An extra hour means later wake-up times, which would probably have a better impact than daylight savings time.
So what could people do with a fatter pipe? Oh, man, I don't know. Let's go back to 64kb of main memory. Or how about something a little easier to think of, let's go back to pre-cellphone times. Everyone doesn't need a cell phone. What can people not do with their existing land-lines?
I'd rather think on the order of, if it's not infinite/instant, it's not good enough. Once you get there, then you can question why anyone would need anything more.
less to package and ship than a crt
Just like you can never confirm the theory of evolution right? Sounds like you really like to just make stuff up and post it. It's theorized that the graviton is massless, but it sounds better to make grandiose statements, doesn't it.
Just like with healthcare, unless you're forced, you don't want to join. Who wants to spend 70 bucks of their paycheck every month for something they perceive as doing nothing for them? The power of the union comes from the collective. If your collective is only 25 to 30% of the working force, guess what? You're expendable.
"If you've been involved in such an action, how did it work out for you?"
I don't know. Some douchebags hacked my gaming box so I got them back by hacking their computers. It seemed like they were hacking from a computer fan manufacturing plant or something, because there were literally thousands of devices reporting the same rpms being operated there. I figured it would be funny to mess around with the operating speeds of those fans in the hopes of creating a tornado or something.
They also seemed to be obsessed with U2... apparently, they gave band members nicknames like #35 and #38.
Only if we are communicating with V1 with a known mechanism that gets absorbed/reflected by the solar system's border. Since we detect electromagnetic radiation from other stars, we can safely say there's a high probability of us still being able to communicate with V1 after it leaves.
Since we know we can receive electromagnetic radiation, and we are listening for it, then we haven't necessarily thought outside of the bubble enough to be listening to something else that would get reflected/absorbed by the border. In other words, we're not going to magically start receiving a different form of communication than what we already are detecting, because we just haven't gotten smart enough yet.
I'd say we have a better chance of something picking up our little V1 on their monitors and come check us out!
I put plastic sheets over my wood piles to dry out the wood over the summer. Inevitably, the plastic heats up and cools off enough times to crack and becomes useless for that purpose.
Plastic might get you through a couple of months, but you'd better have an alternative plan in place pretty quick. I'd try to find some fresh water.
http://home.paulschou.net/tools/xlate/