While humor surrounds the adage, "If brute force isn't working, then you're not using enough," there's a degree of truth in that statement too.
I'm foreseeing problems as stupid or annoying as landing in the bottom of a shallow crater, and having to manually carry the rover up to the lip of the rim, plus all of the supplies, the habitat module, etc. I would expect a lot of it to be modular, but being able to physically move heavier things is really never a disadvantage. Then there are situations with stuck things, levers, etc, where simple brute-force is necessary.
I service my own vehicles and back when I had POS vehicles I had to swap transmissions in and out, and not only did I have to deal with the weight of the transmission, but the torque on all of the bolts. Even I had times when I had to resort to a length of pipe on a breaker bar as well.
I think that a thoroughly mixed and diverse crew makes a lot more sense. Hell, if they can assemble a crew of hedonistic swingers that wouldn't develop passionate confrontation over sexual liaisons, that would probably be even better, so that everyone is sated on this long journey in close quarters.
I ended up on Debian because of Slackware's holdout with libc5 when everyone else had gone to glibc2. I then discovered that I liked the ability to use install packages with dependency checking to keep my systems up to date.
I spent a few years drinking 128oz of Mountain Dew every workday. I'm down to 24oz now of Throwback, but I'd like to know more about what I've done to myself...
I had to quit. I was starting to have heart palpitations.
Yep. I'm one, I've got a box at home and my primary box at work both running Linux. I do network administration and it's convenient, with the amount of SSH that I do, to have Linux as my desktop.
I wish that I'd ended up with the X1 Carbon instead of the Yoga for my work laptop, the tablet doesn't get along well with Linux and is stuck as a Windows machine:(
Yes. I look at systemd as being the opposite in what I want; I deal with mostly daemon-serving boxes that do special purpose tasks. Those boxes don't need GUIs, and outside of storage don't really even need plug-and-play. They need to be repairable on the console without ever gaining physical access to the box, and everything needs to be crystal-clear with the configurations.
More to the point, as with the System V vs BSD init debate, this'll further help to separate the UNIX-method distributions from the desktop, automagic ones.
I learned on Slack and at the time just about all of the books that I could find were UNIX admin books, not Linux admin books. With Slackware in the 2.0 kernel days this wasn't a problem; the kernel-specific stuff was really the only differentiator from regular UNIX-style admin.
I expect Desktop-oriented distributions to increasingly obfuscate things from the user, in the manner that MacOSX does. And for most users that'll work fine. For those that want to tinker under the hood, hopefully distributions like Debian will continue to allow for a more UNIX-like method of doing things.
I don't think that it'll specifically add resale value, but it will make it easier. The more potential connectivity the better as it gives the buyers options.
A friend of mine bought a brand new build home a couple of years ago, and I cabled the house for ethernet, coax, and phone. I ran cabling to predicted demarc points for both the telephone company and the cable company. She didn't subscribe to phone service, and the phone company never installed a service connection or demarcation point. The cable company, for which she did sign up for service from, did.
If what I read on Google's fiber website is right, they're offering free lower-speed fiber connectivity so long as one pays for the installation cost, around $300. My guess is that if a subscriber likes the free, they'll upgrade to paid 1Gb, if they already have the connection in place.
They're full of shit. They're probably oversubscribed already. Sure, one subscriber without others on the line (remember, these are shared-bandwidth networks!) may be able to achieve 100Mbit speeds, or even one in the middle of the dead of night without other users to contend with could hit those speeds even on a shared line, but you're looking at lots of users on a segment. They throttle you to a certain speed because that's the fastest they can give you when utilization is low so that when utilization is high you don't notice the difference between the two too dramatically.
Most broadband providers now are in the same situation as dialup companies were at the end of the nineties; with dialup a provider needed to avoid oversubscribing more than about six users per phone line or digital-equivalent to avoid busy signals, but in order to be profitable they had to sell far more subscriptions. Some of the worst were 20:1 and actually getting a connection was nearly impossible. Remember redialing endlessly? That's where we're at with copper broadband now, they have to oversell to make it profitable but then everyone hates how poor the performance is, and the schmucks in customer service take the brunt of complaints, and they provide poor customer service because there's nothing they can do about it, and the corporate officers, board, and stockholders profit off the difference.
Demand density is almost certainly a factor. In the mid-nineties I was in one of the first neighborhoods in the US to see widespread cablemodem adoption. It was a dead-center middle-class neighborhood with properties that also weren't too physically large, so that the number of subscribers per square mile made it cost effective to roll-out the network changes needed for it.
Now magnify that 100x for brand-new fiber. They probably aren't using existing dark fiber since it's owned by others, unless they've been quietly buying it up wherever possible, so they'd have to license space on poles or in conduit or have to put in their own conduit, they'll have to design their infrastructure and install and terminate everything, just to set up a backbone. Then they have to take it the last length to the property once they have subscribers.
Poor neighborhoods, even high density ones, will be late to roll-out since they'll have less subscribers per square mile, and wealthy neighborhoods with especially low density will also be late to roll-out for the exact same reason.
Fiber work takes time and is very labor-intensive. Even aerial fiber requires effort and planning, and just because your home is spitting-distance to the backbone, that doesn't mean that there aren't still several phases of the project necessary in order to go the last hundred-feet or to light-up that fiber.
It's possible that the central office or local exchange is still being built. It's possible that the local exchange doesn't have its own backbone to the CO finished yet. It's possible that the CO or local exchange is still waiting on the switching equipment. It's possible that they're waiting on the demarc equipment, as ME-grade switches are made in fewer numbers than customer premises LAN equipment. It's possible that they're still coordinating crews for the labor. It's possible they're still doing permitting for the final service-tie-in or are even just working with tree-trimming companies to make sure that foliage won't be a problem. It's even possible that they're waiting for the subscription count to get high enough to increase the priority of that particular neighborhood's hookup, to make it financially viable.
I'm not a hipster and I'd be rejoicing if it came to my city. Gigabit for the cost of my current crappy broadband cable, or FREE (sans installation cost) for the same speed as what I get from my crappy broadband cable now?
Hell, I've been planning on cabling my home, this would be the sort of thing to make me implement those plans even with the construction that I'd need to do for pathways and an MDF...
And you're the exception, not the rule. You probabaly have something of a functional datacenter even if it's little-more than a tower server sitting next to the IT manager's desk, running AD for workstation authentication in the office, but it's probably still more than most people have.
The larger the bill, the more profitable it is to counterfeit it, and the less likely that a shop clerk will recognize it for a counterfeit due to the small number of them handled over time.
Bill-denomination is something that's interested me for awhile actually; it seems from my limited view of time like in the United States, the $20 has been the standard bill for 30+ years. I can remember as a child, my dad sending me into the convenience store to prepay so the clerk would activate the fuel pump, and usually going back for just a couple dollars change at the most. I wonder if stores' unwillingness to take $50 and $100 bills actually helps work against inflation as consumers end up putting a relative-value compared to the $20 on items for sale.
I've also wondered about the $1 bill in the same way, for lesser goods and vending machines and the like.
actually I need some of them tomorrow, because some delivery guys will put up my sleeping room and then directly cash the remaining money (and no, thats not even some funky semi-legal business, just the way its done here).
Honestly, the answer will be no, unless something truly radical like a buildup of significant mistrust of American software (ie, Microsoft operating systems) that currently just isn't the case.
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What if a man can carry 100-150lb more than a woman?
...where we look at Oracle's rebranding of Java and think, "you're not fooling anyone," and, "And we thought it was bad under Sun's stewardship..."
While humor surrounds the adage, "If brute force isn't working, then you're not using enough," there's a degree of truth in that statement too.
I'm foreseeing problems as stupid or annoying as landing in the bottom of a shallow crater, and having to manually carry the rover up to the lip of the rim, plus all of the supplies, the habitat module, etc. I would expect a lot of it to be modular, but being able to physically move heavier things is really never a disadvantage. Then there are situations with stuck things, levers, etc, where simple brute-force is necessary.
I service my own vehicles and back when I had POS vehicles I had to swap transmissions in and out, and not only did I have to deal with the weight of the transmission, but the torque on all of the bolts. Even I had times when I had to resort to a length of pipe on a breaker bar as well.
I think that a thoroughly mixed and diverse crew makes a lot more sense. Hell, if they can assemble a crew of hedonistic swingers that wouldn't develop passionate confrontation over sexual liaisons, that would probably be even better, so that everyone is sated on this long journey in close quarters.
I ended up on Debian because of Slackware's holdout with libc5 when everyone else had gone to glibc2. I then discovered that I liked the ability to use install packages with dependency checking to keep my systems up to date.
then systemd came along and made me sad.
I wonder which half will end up over at Ubuntu...
So just a mesh network with multipath capability then?
I spent a few years drinking 128oz of Mountain Dew every workday. I'm down to 24oz now of Throwback, but I'd like to know more about what I've done to myself...
I had to quit. I was starting to have heart palpitations.
I wonder how much they've been paid or are being paid.
PerkinElmer is still in business, by the way.
Who?
Yep. I'm one, I've got a box at home and my primary box at work both running Linux. I do network administration and it's convenient, with the amount of SSH that I do, to have Linux as my desktop.
:(
I wish that I'd ended up with the X1 Carbon instead of the Yoga for my work laptop, the tablet doesn't get along well with Linux and is stuck as a Windows machine
They'll fork, or Ubuntu will be forced to consider following Debian back to the UNIX model with System V.
For how many of them did you set up their computers?
Yes. I look at systemd as being the opposite in what I want; I deal with mostly daemon-serving boxes that do special purpose tasks. Those boxes don't need GUIs, and outside of storage don't really even need plug-and-play. They need to be repairable on the console without ever gaining physical access to the box, and everything needs to be crystal-clear with the configurations.
More to the point, as with the System V vs BSD init debate, this'll further help to separate the UNIX-method distributions from the desktop, automagic ones.
I learned on Slack and at the time just about all of the books that I could find were UNIX admin books, not Linux admin books. With Slackware in the 2.0 kernel days this wasn't a problem; the kernel-specific stuff was really the only differentiator from regular UNIX-style admin.
I expect Desktop-oriented distributions to increasingly obfuscate things from the user, in the manner that MacOSX does. And for most users that'll work fine. For those that want to tinker under the hood, hopefully distributions like Debian will continue to allow for a more UNIX-like method of doing things.
I don't think that it'll specifically add resale value, but it will make it easier. The more potential connectivity the better as it gives the buyers options.
No, they don't.
A friend of mine bought a brand new build home a couple of years ago, and I cabled the house for ethernet, coax, and phone. I ran cabling to predicted demarc points for both the telephone company and the cable company. She didn't subscribe to phone service, and the phone company never installed a service connection or demarcation point. The cable company, for which she did sign up for service from, did.
If what I read on Google's fiber website is right, they're offering free lower-speed fiber connectivity so long as one pays for the installation cost, around $300. My guess is that if a subscriber likes the free, they'll upgrade to paid 1Gb, if they already have the connection in place.
They're full of shit. They're probably oversubscribed already. Sure, one subscriber without others on the line (remember, these are shared-bandwidth networks!) may be able to achieve 100Mbit speeds, or even one in the middle of the dead of night without other users to contend with could hit those speeds even on a shared line, but you're looking at lots of users on a segment. They throttle you to a certain speed because that's the fastest they can give you when utilization is low so that when utilization is high you don't notice the difference between the two too dramatically.
Most broadband providers now are in the same situation as dialup companies were at the end of the nineties; with dialup a provider needed to avoid oversubscribing more than about six users per phone line or digital-equivalent to avoid busy signals, but in order to be profitable they had to sell far more subscriptions. Some of the worst were 20:1 and actually getting a connection was nearly impossible. Remember redialing endlessly? That's where we're at with copper broadband now, they have to oversell to make it profitable but then everyone hates how poor the performance is, and the schmucks in customer service take the brunt of complaints, and they provide poor customer service because there's nothing they can do about it, and the corporate officers, board, and stockholders profit off the difference.
Demand density is almost certainly a factor. In the mid-nineties I was in one of the first neighborhoods in the US to see widespread cablemodem adoption. It was a dead-center middle-class neighborhood with properties that also weren't too physically large, so that the number of subscribers per square mile made it cost effective to roll-out the network changes needed for it.
Now magnify that 100x for brand-new fiber. They probably aren't using existing dark fiber since it's owned by others, unless they've been quietly buying it up wherever possible, so they'd have to license space on poles or in conduit or have to put in their own conduit, they'll have to design their infrastructure and install and terminate everything, just to set up a backbone. Then they have to take it the last length to the property once they have subscribers.
Poor neighborhoods, even high density ones, will be late to roll-out since they'll have less subscribers per square mile, and wealthy neighborhoods with especially low density will also be late to roll-out for the exact same reason.
Fiber work takes time and is very labor-intensive. Even aerial fiber requires effort and planning, and just because your home is spitting-distance to the backbone, that doesn't mean that there aren't still several phases of the project necessary in order to go the last hundred-feet or to light-up that fiber.
It's possible that the central office or local exchange is still being built. It's possible that the local exchange doesn't have its own backbone to the CO finished yet. It's possible that the CO or local exchange is still waiting on the switching equipment. It's possible that they're waiting on the demarc equipment, as ME-grade switches are made in fewer numbers than customer premises LAN equipment. It's possible that they're still coordinating crews for the labor. It's possible they're still doing permitting for the final service-tie-in or are even just working with tree-trimming companies to make sure that foliage won't be a problem. It's even possible that they're waiting for the subscription count to get high enough to increase the priority of that particular neighborhood's hookup, to make it financially viable.
I'm not a hipster and I'd be rejoicing if it came to my city. Gigabit for the cost of my current crappy broadband cable, or FREE (sans installation cost) for the same speed as what I get from my crappy broadband cable now?
Hell, I've been planning on cabling my home, this would be the sort of thing to make me implement those plans even with the construction that I'd need to do for pathways and an MDF...
And you're the exception, not the rule. You probabaly have something of a functional datacenter even if it's little-more than a tower server sitting next to the IT manager's desk, running AD for workstation authentication in the office, but it's probably still more than most people have.
The larger the bill, the more profitable it is to counterfeit it, and the less likely that a shop clerk will recognize it for a counterfeit due to the small number of them handled over time.
Bill-denomination is something that's interested me for awhile actually; it seems from my limited view of time like in the United States, the $20 has been the standard bill for 30+ years. I can remember as a child, my dad sending me into the convenience store to prepay so the clerk would activate the fuel pump, and usually going back for just a couple dollars change at the most. I wonder if stores' unwillingness to take $50 and $100 bills actually helps work against inflation as consumers end up putting a relative-value compared to the $20 on items for sale.
I've also wondered about the $1 bill in the same way, for lesser goods and vending machines and the like.
I'm not sure we're on the same page here...
Honestly, the answer will be no, unless something truly radical like a buildup of significant mistrust of American software (ie, Microsoft operating systems) that currently just isn't the case.