Plus it's not a bad idea to go 64-bit clean on Linux installations if possible as if one doesn't force 64-bit clean, over time and installing additional software often the box becomes a polluted mess of 32 bit and 64 bit programs and libraries. Better to drop 32 bit altogether if it's practical.
The shuttle's misuse as a payload delivery platform was not a technical failure of the vehicle. You are right, it was a terrible cargo vehicle, but would have been an excellent vehicle on which to operate longer-duration special missions that required the equipment to be launched and returned in one configuration.
It was our own damn political fault that we decided that the shuttle should contain the parts for a station, parts that individually had to be smaller than the shuttle's cargo bay. Had the entire payload of the launching rocket been station parts plus enough cowl to protect it for launch we could have sent up much bigger station parts, and if we used the shuttle for anything, could have housed the astronauts that were to complete assembly of the station in-orbit, or could have been configured not as a cargo vehicle but as a crew transport vehicle to the station carrying significantly more than the eight that it was equipped for.
The PS4 and Xbox One both have "8 core" AMD CPU's.
Previously only 6 cores for both systems were available to game developers.
I have one question about this...
WHIY?!
WHY in the HELL would these companies, that are fighting each other over which system is better, hobble their systems by disabling processor cores? Aren't the games multithreaded? Wouldn't two more cores, or approximately 25% of the processor power of the system, be useful to gamers that want better gameplay?
Sputnik was a lot more the glove slapped across the face than the pistol shot on the dueling grounds. After the United States' success with the Lunar Landing the Soviet/Russian and American programs headed into obviously different directions, but the development of the Shuttle and the Soviets' failure with their equivalent, and the Soviets/Russians success with inexpensive LEO and stations while the United States failed with Skylab and then had enough development problems that they relied on the Russians for the beginnings of the modern station.
That said, I welcome the Russians' designs on space because the competition will spur the American manned space program into more than trips to LEO again, which dwarf the military applications that the Russians would get from their programme.
No licensing required... but how about making them liable? I'm not a big fan of a litigious society of ambulance chasers (or lawyers in general), and I don't think IT or "security" firms should pay damages for every single thing that can possibly go wrong, but in a case of gross negligence like leaving default passwords or having no encryption whatsoever on links, they should be at least held liable for damages suffered.
When one relatively faceless organization works with another relatively faceless organization it requires the victim-company to have someone on staff who cares about the problems with enough seniority and clout to make a big deal of those problems. If that person doesn't exist then nothing will be done about it.
The local University has a retail surplus depot. That's where I got the dual-Xeon box. One of the local cities has a suprlus depot where the retail-sell old city property, police seized property, and unclaimed property.
some school districts will do surplus sales, but sometimes they don't have the staffing for it so they send stuff to auction.
I've worked with security companies that do lower-end security before. They've e-mailed usernames and passwords to me across the Internet.
There's no licensing or aptitude testing necessary to operate a security company. Anyone can form a business and call it a security business, and often people that have no technical background will do it because there's a market to be served, even if they should not be the ones serving it.
Go to Google Maps. Look up "surplus" or "college surplus" or "reclamation".
Alternately, call the big organizations in your area and ask the receptionist if they have a surplus property department, and ask to be transferred to them. Ask them if they do retail sales or auctions.
I know that you're speaking in-jest, but there are some actual practical reasons for using computer networks in learning. Acccess to shared resources that can be continually updated instead of printing hundreds of thousands or millions of books every few years, access to more material than one would have previously had available in a library or otherwise on-hand, etc. Unfortunately most of those are overshadowed by the general purpose nature of the machine and of the software used to access the educational content; it is very easy to do anything other than the assignement when the computer can do thousands of things other than the assignment.
Offline assignments make a lot of sense for beginning-level learners where they need to learn the fundamentals of the tool before they start looking-up more advanced features. That holds true for many uses of the tool- word processing, spreadsheets, CAD, programming, graphics manipulation, even ironically, web page design- establishing fundamentals before switching to a lookup-mode of use means that those fundamentals get written-in to the brain. Start off being able to easily look-up the fundamentals and one has a harder time retaining them down the road.
...then go to your local surplus depot for a school system, college, or large company and look for their older high-end workstations and workgroup servers and buy those for very little money, then put your drives of choice in. You'll find Xeons oodles of RAM and if it's a computer designed for a workspace (ie, not a rackmount server) it won't even be loud.
As an added bonus, with equipment that's a few years old you're likely to be able to run Linux out of the box because the early adopters already figured out how to get the hardware working properly.
The only computers I continue to purchase new are portable computers. I buy used stuff for the rest, the last dual-quad Xeon with 32GB RAM cost me a couple hundred bucks.
Good design in the past meant that a designer used elements from a common pool. Icons, list bullets, etc that were images were not re-sourced every single time they were displayed across multiple pages, they were sourced the first time the page loaded and then cached and reused.
Web designers need to go back to the low-bandwidth model. They need to be forced to using ISDN (128kb) speeds to make the framework of their pages efficient before they start filling-in the meat of the pages with content. If the framework without content takes significant time to load, even without a character-set full of garbage to pull from, then the designer needs to rethink the design.
Clandestine meetings take place in public areas all of the time. Additionally there are still private clubs (as there were back then) where only members could enter. Barring everyone else included the authorities.
You need a good doze of wake the fuck up. There are fixed cameras everywhere; bars, stores, restaurant, street lights, tablets, laptops, possibly your TV... It has also become difficult to go out without someone pointing a cell phone in one's general direction and take a picture, either having coffee or at a restaurant. Even private property owners usually contract out the camera surveillance, most often to their ISPs, and have no control over the feed retention.
[CITATION NEEDED]
Seriously. Citation needed. In my experience they're locally stored and operated, simply because the bandwidth of the cameras is far too high to send it across the WAN or Internet pipe. The cameras I work with connect at 100BaseTX. Given that manufacturers are cheapskates that means they need more than 10BaseT speeds. For the sake of argument, if a camera uses 11 Megabits and there are two cameras that's already exceeded the transmit speeds of most DSL and Cablemodem (ie, cheap) connections and is FAR in excess of anything in the low-end T-carrier WAN tech short of a T3, and even then is using up half of that T3 for just security cameras.
Security footage is locally stored, and when there's a problem it's either locally or remotely accessed. To do otherwise would be a huge waste of both bandwidth and of storage.
No seriously. I'd be curious about the legalities of this; can they ensure that the age of the person they're "outing" is an adult? Are their "children online privacy" laws in Brazil similar to the U.S.?
At what point do people need to take responsibility for their actions or words?
I was under the impression that being a minor was not permission to misbehave, but is a state where the punishments for misbehaving are less than for an adult since a minor is still theoretically learning. The crux is that the minor still needs to be punished so that they learn that there are indeed consequences for their actions.
This seems like a fairly mild form of social shaming. People generally have fairly short attention spans, this will be forgotten by most people outside of the subject and possibly the subject's immediate circle, but the subject will probably have a fairly lasting memory of the event and maybe will change behavior on account of it.
Stop overprotecting minors from the consequences of their actions. When you overprotect them and don't force them to suffer minor consequences for their bad behavior then they reach adulthood still engaging in those bad behaviors until they run afoul of the law and now suffer much more severe consequences as adults than they ever would have suffered as minors.
Iconography for a rote function (ie, saving a document or dialing a telephone call) is not the same as attempting to use iconography to convey a complex thought. Look at Egyptian writing; either the concepts are very simple or else a LOT of icons are needed to express a complex thought.
We teach young children through simple picture concepts because they're too young to understand the nuances of complex concepts. It'd be a shame if we don't continue to evolve concepts past the point of images as people grow.
Because the newest generation likes to express themselves differently than the dinosaurs...
Believe me the demand is there, just because you can't comprehend it doesn't mean it shouldn't exist.
I'm sure that lots of people disagree with me, but historically the most creative writing emerged when base words and concepts were generally not acceptable in speech. Sure, it's censorship, but on the other hand, you don't find Shakespeare to simply be dialogue loaded-down with vulgar words either, and when vulgarities are employed, sparingly, they are highly effective.
Emojis are a form of base communications, when one does not take the time to express one's self properly. That doesn't mean that there isn't a place for them, but it isn't unfair to judge people by their choice to use them instead of the express themselves otherwise.
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Plus it's not a bad idea to go 64-bit clean on Linux installations if possible as if one doesn't force 64-bit clean, over time and installing additional software often the box becomes a polluted mess of 32 bit and 64 bit programs and libraries. Better to drop 32 bit altogether if it's practical.
The shuttle's misuse as a payload delivery platform was not a technical failure of the vehicle. You are right, it was a terrible cargo vehicle, but would have been an excellent vehicle on which to operate longer-duration special missions that required the equipment to be launched and returned in one configuration.
It was our own damn political fault that we decided that the shuttle should contain the parts for a station, parts that individually had to be smaller than the shuttle's cargo bay. Had the entire payload of the launching rocket been station parts plus enough cowl to protect it for launch we could have sent up much bigger station parts, and if we used the shuttle for anything, could have housed the astronauts that were to complete assembly of the station in-orbit, or could have been configured not as a cargo vehicle but as a crew transport vehicle to the station carrying significantly more than the eight that it was equipped for.
The PS4 and Xbox One both have "8 core" AMD CPU's.
Previously only 6 cores for both systems were available to game developers.
I have one question about this...
WHIY?!
WHY in the HELL would these companies, that are fighting each other over which system is better, hobble their systems by disabling processor cores? Aren't the games multithreaded? Wouldn't two more cores, or approximately 25% of the processor power of the system, be useful to gamers that want better gameplay?
Sputnik was a lot more the glove slapped across the face than the pistol shot on the dueling grounds. After the United States' success with the Lunar Landing the Soviet/Russian and American programs headed into obviously different directions, but the development of the Shuttle and the Soviets' failure with their equivalent, and the Soviets/Russians success with inexpensive LEO and stations while the United States failed with Skylab and then had enough development problems that they relied on the Russians for the beginnings of the modern station.
That said, I welcome the Russians' designs on space because the competition will spur the American manned space program into more than trips to LEO again, which dwarf the military applications that the Russians would get from their programme.
If it takes that long to do it, I think Putin will be riding it in the form of a powder packed into an especially lightweight urn...
Next you're going to complain about Star Track...
I don't understand how virtual layer 2 networks with tagging would help in situations like this.
Pardon me if I use the name-dropping to think lesser of the company that has made the announcement.
I donno, if it'd been an episode featuring Peri or perhaps both Tegan and Nyssa it could have been rather memorable...
Swallow the Doctor
Is this the sequel to Nympho Nurses?
No, just some really bad Doctor Who fanfiction...
I think I prefer George Carlin's take on prayer...
No licensing required... but how about making them liable? I'm not a big fan of a litigious society of ambulance chasers (or lawyers in general), and I don't think IT or "security" firms should pay damages for every single thing that can possibly go wrong, but in a case of gross negligence like leaving default passwords or having no encryption whatsoever on links, they should be at least held liable for damages suffered.
When one relatively faceless organization works with another relatively faceless organization it requires the victim-company to have someone on staff who cares about the problems with enough seniority and clout to make a big deal of those problems. If that person doesn't exist then nothing will be done about it.
The local University has a retail surplus depot. That's where I got the dual-Xeon box. One of the local cities has a suprlus depot where the retail-sell old city property, police seized property, and unclaimed property.
some school districts will do surplus sales, but sometimes they don't have the staffing for it so they send stuff to auction.
I've worked with security companies that do lower-end security before. They've e-mailed usernames and passwords to me across the Internet.
There's no licensing or aptitude testing necessary to operate a security company. Anyone can form a business and call it a security business, and often people that have no technical background will do it because there's a market to be served, even if they should not be the ones serving it.
Go to Google Maps. Look up "surplus" or "college surplus" or "reclamation".
Alternately, call the big organizations in your area and ask the receptionist if they have a surplus property department, and ask to be transferred to them. Ask them if they do retail sales or auctions.
I know that you're speaking in-jest, but there are some actual practical reasons for using computer networks in learning. Acccess to shared resources that can be continually updated instead of printing hundreds of thousands or millions of books every few years, access to more material than one would have previously had available in a library or otherwise on-hand, etc. Unfortunately most of those are overshadowed by the general purpose nature of the machine and of the software used to access the educational content; it is very easy to do anything other than the assignement when the computer can do thousands of things other than the assignment.
Offline assignments make a lot of sense for beginning-level learners where they need to learn the fundamentals of the tool before they start looking-up more advanced features. That holds true for many uses of the tool- word processing, spreadsheets, CAD, programming, graphics manipulation, even ironically, web page design- establishing fundamentals before switching to a lookup-mode of use means that those fundamentals get written-in to the brain. Start off being able to easily look-up the fundamentals and one has a harder time retaining them down the road.
...then go to your local surplus depot for a school system, college, or large company and look for their older high-end workstations and workgroup servers and buy those for very little money, then put your drives of choice in. You'll find Xeons oodles of RAM and if it's a computer designed for a workspace (ie, not a rackmount server) it won't even be loud.
As an added bonus, with equipment that's a few years old you're likely to be able to run Linux out of the box because the early adopters already figured out how to get the hardware working properly.
The only computers I continue to purchase new are portable computers. I buy used stuff for the rest, the last dual-quad Xeon with 32GB RAM cost me a couple hundred bucks.
I those icons weren't pictures I might agree with you.
Good design in the past meant that a designer used elements from a common pool. Icons, list bullets, etc that were images were not re-sourced every single time they were displayed across multiple pages, they were sourced the first time the page loaded and then cached and reused.
Web designers need to go back to the low-bandwidth model. They need to be forced to using ISDN (128kb) speeds to make the framework of their pages efficient before they start filling-in the meat of the pages with content. If the framework without content takes significant time to load, even without a character-set full of garbage to pull from, then the designer needs to rethink the design.
Clandestine meetings take place in public areas all of the time. Additionally there are still private clubs (as there were back then) where only members could enter. Barring everyone else included the authorities.
You need a good doze of wake the fuck up. There are fixed cameras everywhere; bars, stores, restaurant, street lights, tablets, laptops, possibly your TV... It has also become difficult to go out without someone pointing a cell phone in one's general direction and take a picture, either having coffee or at a restaurant. Even private property owners usually contract out the camera surveillance, most often to their ISPs, and have no control over the feed retention.
[CITATION NEEDED]
Seriously. Citation needed. In my experience they're locally stored and operated, simply because the bandwidth of the cameras is far too high to send it across the WAN or Internet pipe. The cameras I work with connect at 100BaseTX. Given that manufacturers are cheapskates that means they need more than 10BaseT speeds. For the sake of argument, if a camera uses 11 Megabits and there are two cameras that's already exceeded the transmit speeds of most DSL and Cablemodem (ie, cheap) connections and is FAR in excess of anything in the low-end T-carrier WAN tech short of a T3, and even then is using up half of that T3 for just security cameras.
Security footage is locally stored, and when there's a problem it's either locally or remotely accessed. To do otherwise would be a huge waste of both bandwidth and of storage.
No seriously. I'd be curious about the legalities of this; can they ensure that the age of the person they're "outing" is an adult? Are their "children online privacy" laws in Brazil similar to the U.S.?
At what point do people need to take responsibility for their actions or words?
I was under the impression that being a minor was not permission to misbehave, but is a state where the punishments for misbehaving are less than for an adult since a minor is still theoretically learning. The crux is that the minor still needs to be punished so that they learn that there are indeed consequences for their actions.
This seems like a fairly mild form of social shaming. People generally have fairly short attention spans, this will be forgotten by most people outside of the subject and possibly the subject's immediate circle, but the subject will probably have a fairly lasting memory of the event and maybe will change behavior on account of it.
Stop overprotecting minors from the consequences of their actions. When you overprotect them and don't force them to suffer minor consequences for their bad behavior then they reach adulthood still engaging in those bad behaviors until they run afoul of the law and now suffer much more severe consequences as adults than they ever would have suffered as minors.
Iconography for a rote function (ie, saving a document or dialing a telephone call) is not the same as attempting to use iconography to convey a complex thought. Look at Egyptian writing; either the concepts are very simple or else a LOT of icons are needed to express a complex thought.
We teach young children through simple picture concepts because they're too young to understand the nuances of complex concepts. It'd be a shame if we don't continue to evolve concepts past the point of images as people grow.
Because the newest generation likes to express themselves differently than the dinosaurs...
Believe me the demand is there, just because you can't comprehend it doesn't mean it shouldn't exist.
I'm sure that lots of people disagree with me, but historically the most creative writing emerged when base words and concepts were generally not acceptable in speech. Sure, it's censorship, but on the other hand, you don't find Shakespeare to simply be dialogue loaded-down with vulgar words either, and when vulgarities are employed, sparingly, they are highly effective.
Emojis are a form of base communications, when one does not take the time to express one's self properly. That doesn't mean that there isn't a place for them, but it isn't unfair to judge people by their choice to use them instead of the express themselves otherwise.
It was because the anonymity cities provided people where able to question religious dogma, dared to question the authority of king and queens etc...
Are you sure that was anonymity and not simply groups meeting in secret?