God Bless you, Citizen! Not everything in the world maps into your (collective you: tax-haters) Cartman-like "It's *MY* money, dammit!" mentality. Taxes/evil government exist to do those big things, like making a better society possible, that individuals cannot reasonably do, well, individually.
Now that we've built out a great national infrastructure of education, seems like we're determined to let it rot on the vine.
Along with the specialized telecom equipment, a few standard server vendors, including Intel when I was there, have models designed with 48VDC power, along with NEBS-compliant features like - not catching fire.
Excuse me?!? Just where in the post does he say anything about being a Democrat *and* member of the Tea Party? Nowhere, but you guys just love making things up. Like about what Democrats and blacks want/need. Yeah, lily white-ass Teabagger like you knows all about what blacks need and Democrats want.
I read a very interesting argument the other day that said "Ninety percent of morality is comfort." Consider 2 scenarios: a high-altitude bomber pilot and crew can unleash massive death and devastation but, because of the "remove" of the distance and the abstractness, they generally sleep pretty soundly. OTOH, stab a man in the guts with a bayonet and watch the life leave his eyes, and it'll be a long time before you can sleep easily.
Something to consider.....
We can't really tell you what's "acceptable". Sure we can. As many others have pointed out here, anything more than about 20ms to your ISP is unacceptable. If you want to have *any* hope whatsoever of a successful VoIP call, you'll need 100ms end-to-end. Also, as others have mentioned, I've gotten less than 200ms ping times to freaking China!
This whole thing about refineries and how - supposedly - liberals, environmentalists, etc are somehow "stopping new refineries from being built" is total 100% BS. I got tired one day of hearing yet another Fauxoid go on about how there haven't been any new refineries built in the last 20 years because of enviro protests and decided to do some research. Do it yourself - go to the DOE website where they have refinery statistics going back about 40 years, along with detailed analysis of trends over that time. Guess what the real data showed? In the 1980s there were over 300 refineries in America. A decade or so later, there were about half that number. What happened? The oil companies spun off virtually all of their refinery capacity because refining is a pretty low-margin business. These refineries were bought by consortia who closed many of them to increase their capacity utilization rates which were in the low-to-mid 60% range into the 90s.
I really, really get tired of jerks who just mindlessly repeat stuff because it fits a pre-conceived notion.
You have a very, very strange definition of "diversifying its business". Last time I checked, being allowed to prevent competition in parts and service is hardly "diversifying", but - yes - anti-trust level of behavior that justifies bringing in those nasty, evil gummint boorocrats and their attack dogs to get a ruling from the Supreme Court that backed up the "attack dogs". If it was, say, Intel or MS, would you have the same opinion?
Of course they're expensive. Otherwise, everyone would be able to spin chips. AMD made the (wrong, IMO) decision to spin off their existing fab plants even though many analysts predicted at the time that this would cause them further problems in: yields; pricing flexibility (outsource fab plants have fixed price contracts); process technology improvements and control. It looked good at the time as a spurt to the old bottom line, but ultimately disastrous for them.
Too bad, BTW. Competition keeps even incumbents lean and on their toes.
This comment, and those below, are ignoring the real, underlying issue for AMD: outsourced production. Once AMD made the decision to decouple the design and manufacturing of chips, they were dead. RTFA! Customers who want to buy AMD chips can't get their hands on them. Is that due to underhanded marketing tactics? No, poor decision-making at the top. Having worked at Intel, I've seen how the tight coupling of design, testing and production can work wonders.
There's absolutely nothing involved in an AV that prohibits you from selecting a preferred route and even being able to enjoy more of the view by not having to always keep looking out for the idiots trying to T-bone you or rear-end you. Besides, that "bit of convenience" includes not having to share my space with some smelly drunk or crazed loon. (Cue the cries of "How elitist!!)
Let me expand that to say that anytime you are building something that ultimately relies on a 3rd party for integral, non-easily-replicatable components, you're asking for trouble. As an example, I worked at Dialogic where they acquired a product called Visual Voice, used by many companies to develop their core voice-processing apps. One day, senior PHBs decide they donl;t want to be in the app-development business and kill Visual Voice. Bam! Dead! Oh - you developed apps based on VV and now your company is tanking because you can't get bug fixes, new features or support for newer hardware? TFB, mofo!
Welcome to dependency-land.
Exactly! Having hired more than my share of technical folks, I never used puzzles, but mainly focused on how well they could interact with the rest of the team. Obviously, they'd have to demonstrate enough coding skills to pull their weight, but the #1 criteria is "playing well with others". One prima donna can ruin a solid team.
I know that you're obviously a troll or just so brain-washed that you believe this kind of crap, but....I'm going to make a case for it.
While watching my mother die the slowest, most painful death around (Alzheimer's) my sister and I prayed over and over for even the option to end her suffering. Not an option in America. At the same time, I couldn't help but notice others in the nursing home - worse off - but whose families insisted on prolonging things for what I consider to be their own selfish motivations. Yes, I said selfish. While focused on trying to avoid their own impending loss of a loved one, they never took any consideration for the ongoing medical torture being perpetrated on the patient. Every time blood pressure spikes - Bam! A trip to the ER with all of the attendant poking, prodding, jabbing, muscling their bodies around.....Fucking medieval.
Well, given that union participation rates have been declining steadily for decades - and continue to do so with no end in sight - what makes you think that's not what they've been doing?
Disclaimers: A) I work in the industry that produces automated dialing systems and B) IANAL.
That said, let me enlighten you all as to how the technology shifts over the last few years has conflicted with the existing law. Let's say that you have a loan from a bank and quit paying the bill. The bank has your telephone number and is entitled to contact you due to the existing business relationship. Fine so far. Fast forward several years and your old landline telephone number is now soft-routed through Google Voice to your cell phone. Existing law would make that call illegal because you called their cell phone, even though you - in good faith - called what you thought was a landline number. This law, as I understand, would fix that.
PS - Nothing to do with "robocalls" other than to explicitly disallow the random or generated numbers lists which some scum use for robocalls.
Thanks very much, B1. Solid advice.
As I may have mentioned earlier, we're not going to "dump and run", but make a sustained effort to foster much better engagement with our customers to make their live easier.
For whatever my word is worth, we're doing this for several reasons:
1) Sell more stuff. I am a greedy, capitalist pig and I want to sell more stuff. I know from having participated in the Linux industry since installation was on a pile of floppies that open source drivers allow hardware companies to sell more stuff.
2) Help our software be better. As mentioned above, I know that open source leads to better software, even if you do start with a train wreck.:-)
3) Help our customers. It's only somewhat altruistic in that I know that open source will help our customers in making their products better. By doing this, it helps me and my company.
We are going to continue to own and maintain the code and, quite frankly, we are not anticipating much initial assistance. It's a long-term effort to work better with our customers so that they won't have similar horrible experiences as you, sadly, had.
Actually, our plan is to continue to ship a binary release, but the source will be available through the normal open source mechanisms.
Any changes that get submitted and pass the usual engineering muster *and* make sense will get incorporated into the code base.
Yes, I will follow up and hopefully it will be a big success for all of us.
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Haven't you ever heard the old joke about how all the math and science teachers in Tennessee have the same first name? It's "Coach".
Oops - when I said "your..." I meant the parent post....
God Bless you, Citizen! Not everything in the world maps into your (collective you: tax-haters) Cartman-like "It's *MY* money, dammit!" mentality. Taxes/evil government exist to do those big things, like making a better society possible, that individuals cannot reasonably do, well, individually. Now that we've built out a great national infrastructure of education, seems like we're determined to let it rot on the vine.
Along with the specialized telecom equipment, a few standard server vendors, including Intel when I was there, have models designed with 48VDC power, along with NEBS-compliant features like - not catching fire.
Excuse me?!? Just where in the post does he say anything about being a Democrat *and* member of the Tea Party? Nowhere, but you guys just love making things up. Like about what Democrats and blacks want/need. Yeah, lily white-ass Teabagger like you knows all about what blacks need and Democrats want.
I read a very interesting argument the other day that said "Ninety percent of morality is comfort." Consider 2 scenarios: a high-altitude bomber pilot and crew can unleash massive death and devastation but, because of the "remove" of the distance and the abstractness, they generally sleep pretty soundly. OTOH, stab a man in the guts with a bayonet and watch the life leave his eyes, and it'll be a long time before you can sleep easily. Something to consider.....
We can't really tell you what's "acceptable". Sure we can. As many others have pointed out here, anything more than about 20ms to your ISP is unacceptable. If you want to have *any* hope whatsoever of a successful VoIP call, you'll need 100ms end-to-end. Also, as others have mentioned, I've gotten less than 200ms ping times to freaking China!
This whole thing about refineries and how - supposedly - liberals, environmentalists, etc are somehow "stopping new refineries from being built" is total 100% BS. I got tired one day of hearing yet another Fauxoid go on about how there haven't been any new refineries built in the last 20 years because of enviro protests and decided to do some research. Do it yourself - go to the DOE website where they have refinery statistics going back about 40 years, along with detailed analysis of trends over that time. Guess what the real data showed? In the 1980s there were over 300 refineries in America. A decade or so later, there were about half that number. What happened? The oil companies spun off virtually all of their refinery capacity because refining is a pretty low-margin business. These refineries were bought by consortia who closed many of them to increase their capacity utilization rates which were in the low-to-mid 60% range into the 90s. I really, really get tired of jerks who just mindlessly repeat stuff because it fits a pre-conceived notion.
You have a very, very strange definition of "diversifying its business". Last time I checked, being allowed to prevent competition in parts and service is hardly "diversifying", but - yes - anti-trust level of behavior that justifies bringing in those nasty, evil gummint boorocrats and their attack dogs to get a ruling from the Supreme Court that backed up the "attack dogs". If it was, say, Intel or MS, would you have the same opinion?
Of course they're expensive. Otherwise, everyone would be able to spin chips. AMD made the (wrong, IMO) decision to spin off their existing fab plants even though many analysts predicted at the time that this would cause them further problems in: yields; pricing flexibility (outsource fab plants have fixed price contracts); process technology improvements and control. It looked good at the time as a spurt to the old bottom line, but ultimately disastrous for them. Too bad, BTW. Competition keeps even incumbents lean and on their toes.
This comment, and those below, are ignoring the real, underlying issue for AMD: outsourced production. Once AMD made the decision to decouple the design and manufacturing of chips, they were dead. RTFA! Customers who want to buy AMD chips can't get their hands on them. Is that due to underhanded marketing tactics? No, poor decision-making at the top. Having worked at Intel, I've seen how the tight coupling of design, testing and production can work wonders.
There's absolutely nothing involved in an AV that prohibits you from selecting a preferred route and even being able to enjoy more of the view by not having to always keep looking out for the idiots trying to T-bone you or rear-end you. Besides, that "bit of convenience" includes not having to share my space with some smelly drunk or crazed loon. (Cue the cries of "How elitist!!)
Let me expand that to say that anytime you are building something that ultimately relies on a 3rd party for integral, non-easily-replicatable components, you're asking for trouble. As an example, I worked at Dialogic where they acquired a product called Visual Voice, used by many companies to develop their core voice-processing apps. One day, senior PHBs decide they donl;t want to be in the app-development business and kill Visual Voice. Bam! Dead! Oh - you developed apps based on VV and now your company is tanking because you can't get bug fixes, new features or support for newer hardware? TFB, mofo! Welcome to dependency-land.
Huh - OK, try to plan a trip to, say, Cuba. If you're caught, you go directly to jail. Freedom of movement/travel? Yeah, right.....
Hell yes! Try writing any device driver without linked lists.....
Exactly! Having hired more than my share of technical folks, I never used puzzles, but mainly focused on how well they could interact with the rest of the team. Obviously, they'd have to demonstrate enough coding skills to pull their weight, but the #1 criteria is "playing well with others". One prima donna can ruin a solid team.
I know that you're obviously a troll or just so brain-washed that you believe this kind of crap, but....I'm going to make a case for it. While watching my mother die the slowest, most painful death around (Alzheimer's) my sister and I prayed over and over for even the option to end her suffering. Not an option in America. At the same time, I couldn't help but notice others in the nursing home - worse off - but whose families insisted on prolonging things for what I consider to be their own selfish motivations. Yes, I said selfish. While focused on trying to avoid their own impending loss of a loved one, they never took any consideration for the ongoing medical torture being perpetrated on the patient. Every time blood pressure spikes - Bam! A trip to the ER with all of the attendant poking, prodding, jabbing, muscling their bodies around.....Fucking medieval.
Your sig line says it all. Dittohead == "Rush, tell me what to think. Hippies! OK!..."
Well, given that union participation rates have been declining steadily for decades - and continue to do so with no end in sight - what makes you think that's not what they've been doing?
Disclaimers: A) I work in the industry that produces automated dialing systems and B) IANAL. That said, let me enlighten you all as to how the technology shifts over the last few years has conflicted with the existing law. Let's say that you have a loan from a bank and quit paying the bill. The bank has your telephone number and is entitled to contact you due to the existing business relationship. Fine so far. Fast forward several years and your old landline telephone number is now soft-routed through Google Voice to your cell phone. Existing law would make that call illegal because you called their cell phone, even though you - in good faith - called what you thought was a landline number. This law, as I understand, would fix that. PS - Nothing to do with "robocalls" other than to explicitly disallow the random or generated numbers lists which some scum use for robocalls.
Thanks very much, B1. Solid advice. As I may have mentioned earlier, we're not going to "dump and run", but make a sustained effort to foster much better engagement with our customers to make their live easier.
For whatever my word is worth, we're doing this for several reasons: 1) Sell more stuff. I am a greedy, capitalist pig and I want to sell more stuff. I know from having participated in the Linux industry since installation was on a pile of floppies that open source drivers allow hardware companies to sell more stuff. 2) Help our software be better. As mentioned above, I know that open source leads to better software, even if you do start with a train wreck. :-)
3) Help our customers. It's only somewhat altruistic in that I know that open source will help our customers in making their products better. By doing this, it helps me and my company.
We are going to continue to own and maintain the code and, quite frankly, we are not anticipating much initial assistance. It's a long-term effort to work better with our customers so that they won't have similar horrible experiences as you, sadly, had.
Actually, our plan is to continue to ship a binary release, but the source will be available through the normal open source mechanisms. Any changes that get submitted and pass the usual engineering muster *and* make sense will get incorporated into the code base. Yes, I will follow up and hopefully it will be a big success for all of us.
God, YES!! :-)
This is indeed our current approach and what we will continue.