As long as the server runs fine, you're better off continuing to run that server another year or two vs buying today's server to replace it for some minuscule power savings. You'll get more power savings going to SSDs from spinning disks than moving to these new CPUs.
The last time I checked Netflix streaming rates, their max was 3Mbps. So 3*60*60/8 = 1.3GB / hr. For comparison, TWC and Comcast both run between 4 and 6 Mbps. U-verse runs between 5 and 7 Mbps for HD streams, and that was within the last year. OTA streams for HD content are between 9 and 15 Mbps in my area. BD is up to 35Mbps. I have not yet measured FiOS streams.
These stats are the reason that streams look... well, crappy. It's also why anyone with a decent television only watches a stream as a last resort. I'm highly curious what Netflix's 4K HDR streams are going to be, size wise. To get reasonable video/audio quality comparable to a 1080P BD you'll need a minimum of 7GB / hr based on my compression comparisons. That's 1080P. 4K has potentially 4 times as much information, but let's say that you only need 50% more and round down, which is 10GB/hr (23Mbps). Think your stream is anywhere close to that? Or are you getting some seriously compressed video? Streaming HD/4K video isn't practical until download speeds near 100Mbps, due to a variety of issues with latency using today's in use streaming technologies. There are other options that would make it more viable, but the content providers are not open to using those, because it leaves them out of total control.
No. Multiple insurance companies aren't the source of increased costs....For a model of an insurance system that works relatively well with multiple companies involved, see car insurance.
Most health insurance isn't even insurance. It's a badly run buyers club. If you get a fender-bender with your car, the insurance company will generally pay for repair at any shop....If you implement single-payer in the US, you'll get corrupt single-payer and it will be expensive and it will suck.
A public option along side private insurance wouldn't be bad; but fix the corruption first, and let the free market providers stay in business so we can have some competition and innovation.
You have some points - corruption is certainly rampant. The primary thing that will fix health care costs is posted rates. There's no reason there should be 5 different prices for a single operation (hospital charge, payment charge, cash charge, your insurance charge, and medicare charge) I saw all 5 of those once because of mistakes in paperwork, and the differences were astounding (40K, 28K, 18K, 5K, 5K respectively) which also indicates that the industry's moaning about medicare rates is irrelevant since they get paid the same by a large insurance company. Post the rates like the auto industry so that everyone pays the same, regardless of who's paying, and you'll see a lot of corruption go out the door. It also effectively ends "steering" because now they can just say we pay 'x', and 'x' has to be available in the area, just like with auto insurance.
Now that's great, we got rid of a bunch of corruption and opportunities to rake extra cash out of people. Great. It still doesn't address the other side of the issue, which is that all people effectively get health care, because you will either help someone in an emergency situation, or you will watch them die. There are no realistic alternatives. So, given a black and white choice you'll wind up with guaranteed healthcare and single payer will be the most efficient means of getting it done.
I believe copyright, as it was originally defined, to be a good thing. I am probably a "pirate" to the various *AAs because, by some unholy means, I make personal copies of works and transfer them to other mediums to increase my enjoyment of my collection. If you read the copyright notice you can't get around on any disk, unless, of course, you flaunt the DMCA via some other nefarious means, such as recording the portion you want to see or merely walking to the kitchen for a refreshing beverage or the toilet to emphasize how you feel about the *AAs, you'll see that the implication is that all copying is unauthorized, because, of course, they didn't authorize it. In truth, only copies made and DISTRIBUTED without authorization fall afoul of *copyright* laws. The *AAs have managed to squeeze in some additional laws to make other activities illegal based on false innuendos which hopefully will soon be corrected.
I forget where I wrote it, but I only support HTML standards and get agreement for the requirements on IE versions. I've been fortunate enough that I have not supported IE 6 on any project since 2006, so I'd say that perhaps you should respond with: "Supporting IE 6 will double the cost of the website. I'd be happy to do so if you approve the funding and tripling of project time due to increased debugging required for IE 6." and see where that gets you.
You're missing the point, if the ballot is both randomized and parties are removed, then people will only vote for those they know, and no one else, or they will choose randomly. Either outcome is preferred over party based voting if you're interested in informed and fair elections.
Trade Secrets do not have their own specific protections, they are protected via contract law. I f I work for Coca Cola and have access to their processes and then replicate their recipe, I'd likely be in huge trouble for violating various clauses of whatever contracts I had to sign to work for them. If I as a person with no affiliation to Coca Cola and without access to any Coca Cola personnel recreate their recipe, I can do whatever I want with it, including publish it for the world to see without penalty.
make/imake did not work well for java because it started a new process for every directory IIRC, or maybe it was for each compilable unit? That means loading everything up every time you had a new directory (or file), which obviously greatly slowed down compilations for larger projects. That's not a slam on make (or imake) but on using the wrong tool for the job. Even considering that, those tools may be more appropriate to compile java than gradle, which supposedly was designed to build java projects.
Russians aren't stupid just because they're drunk. They know that talking to foreign reporters (or pretty much any reporter) can get very, very career-limiting.
Especially when they're surveyed in front of the Kremlin
If you think you should pay less because you're still using an obsolete system that's fading away, stop paying them. You're not entitled to a rate-cut, and shouldn't be wasting resources shipping plastic discs when even old people are able to stream their media now.
If you're not happy with NetFlix, and are fixated on plastic discs, there are competing services for technology-limited people. This is all on you.
Until the wannabe streams are anywhere near the quality of disks (BDs, not DVDs) then I'll consider switching. Until then, you can watch your pixelated Dolby Stereo 3 Mbps streams. To get anywhere near BD quality with Dolby Atmos / DTS:X quality, you're going to need a stream somewhere above a combined 15Mbps at a minimum. No one is streaming anywhere near that, not even those supposed 4K streams. To get a semblance of what's happening, take a 20MB photo of a city scene with a tree and flowers and cars and convert it to a 100KB JPEG, and then take a lossless CD rip of something interesting with wide dynamic range and convert it to a 64Kbps audio stream. Those would be the rough comparisons of what the streaming companies are doing to your video and audio.
I've successfully used Ant in several very modular build environments where a module could be fully defined in as little as 2 lines. Unfortunately, I inherited both Maven and Gradle systems on other jobs, and those things are just a cluster to do anything reasonable with. When you spend more time modding the build system to support new code than coding, there's a serious problem with them. Gradle makes the case that Maven sucks. That's about the only thing the Gradle authors got correct. In every other way, Gradle is far worse than Maven, and possibly worse than make/imake. (Just to put it in perspective).
With the constant bouncing back into Win32 constantly to do anything meaningful with the system.
PS - in this case I was writing system management code, right about the time that.NET 4.5 came out. The documentation was flat out wrong as 4.5 removed quite a few internal calls because they were trying to secure the process space. However, IMNSHO, what they really did was make the situation even worse, by removing token manipulation routines instead of actually implementing real security. But that's another post.
I'm well aware of why we have a 2 party system. It is an easy system to fix, actually, but it will never happen: only allow names under the positions in the ballots. No parties listed and especially no party line votes. If the order of names on ballots need to be randomized to prevent bias then putting party affiliation on the ballot should also be removed, as it leads to bias as well. Know your candidates.
Interestingly enough the Todd Akin candidacy is one of the reasons many tea party people want to take out the republican establishment. The republican establishment funded a candidate with no chance for winning simply to split the vote and allow Akin to win. They preferred to lose the Senate seat rather than have a tea party candidate win.
And this is why the current party system needs to be disbanded. Both parties.
Traditional moral codes? So, polygyny is back on the table? Including to under-aged girls who are given no choice in the matter?
"Traditional" does not mean what most people think. Most people only want to use the last hundred years or so as "traditional" and ignore that fact that if we use a larger time frame then we end up with a lot of things that modern people don't like.
Jerry Lee Lewis.
Not even the last 100 years, in the US, with well-known people.
I agree. If the regular citizen has no privacy rights, then neither does anyone in government, or anyone else. If there are to be no secrets, then fair enough, let's have absolutely no secrets.
But I really really don't want to know exactly what kind of flatulence Cameron has.
Technically, you should never trust your own network, including internal production networks. 3 tier ring a bell? It's not news and hasn't been for 2 decades. I guess Google finally got the memo?
Because when he was active, conservative meant something different than what it means today in the US? Today "conservative" in the US is pretty synonymous with "irrational religious wingnut that adheres to the republican party's most out there points" and conservatives as the rest of the world knows them pretty much have to be defined as fiscal conservatives, which is an entirely different thing that a US conservative. In fact, I'd argue that the majority of democrats and whatever moderate republicans remain are fiscal conservatives. Of course the entire concept of "Republican" may optimistically be laid to rest within 8 months.
Hypothetical, but does this WTF stand even if Tesla and Apple's cars are "cloudy" but Google's is not ?
I doubt Apple or Tesla will have "cloudy" cars or that Google's wouldn't be. It'd be a 180 on Google's part.
But even then, it's a quality/trust combination. Tesla has a pretty reasonable record. Apple has a history of making good hardware, although of late the reliability of their software has me somewhat concerned. Google? Where to start? It's a marketing company with 1 hell of a DB, but not much else that's really notable in relation to this hypothetical conversation, honestly.
On network infrastructure. I'm not sure they envisioned such wildly insecure and widespread endpoints, even within government (and military!) walls.
Considering that the original version of the internet had your computer hooked directly to the backbone or pretty close to it with no security features at all as firewalls etc hadn't been developed yet, I'd say they couldn't have envisioned anything else. LAN/MAN/WAN etc were just descriptions of how degraded your connectivity became (across a LAN it was OK, WAN could be a 12Kbps link)
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As long as the server runs fine, you're better off continuing to run that server another year or two vs buying today's server to replace it for some minuscule power savings. You'll get more power savings going to SSDs from spinning disks than moving to these new CPUs.
The last time I checked Netflix streaming rates, their max was 3Mbps. So 3*60*60/8 = 1.3GB / hr. For comparison, TWC and Comcast both run between 4 and 6 Mbps. U-verse runs between 5 and 7 Mbps for HD streams, and that was within the last year. OTA streams for HD content are between 9 and 15 Mbps in my area. BD is up to 35Mbps. I have not yet measured FiOS streams.
These stats are the reason that streams look... well, crappy. It's also why anyone with a decent television only watches a stream as a last resort. I'm highly curious what Netflix's 4K HDR streams are going to be, size wise. To get reasonable video/audio quality comparable to a 1080P BD you'll need a minimum of 7GB / hr based on my compression comparisons. That's 1080P. 4K has potentially 4 times as much information, but let's say that you only need 50% more and round down, which is 10GB/hr (23Mbps). Think your stream is anywhere close to that? Or are you getting some seriously compressed video? Streaming HD/4K video isn't practical until download speeds near 100Mbps, due to a variety of issues with latency using today's in use streaming technologies. There are other options that would make it more viable, but the content providers are not open to using those, because it leaves them out of total control.
No. Multiple insurance companies aren't the source of increased costs. ...For a model of an insurance system that works relatively well with multiple companies involved, see car insurance.
Most health insurance isn't even insurance. It's a badly run buyers club. If you get a fender-bender with your car, the insurance company will generally pay for repair at any shop. ...If you implement single-payer in the US, you'll get corrupt single-payer and it will be expensive and it will suck.
A public option along side private insurance wouldn't be bad; but fix the corruption first, and let the free market providers stay in business so we can have some competition and innovation.
You have some points - corruption is certainly rampant. The primary thing that will fix health care costs is posted rates. There's no reason there should be 5 different prices for a single operation (hospital charge, payment charge, cash charge, your insurance charge, and medicare charge) I saw all 5 of those once because of mistakes in paperwork, and the differences were astounding (40K, 28K, 18K, 5K, 5K respectively) which also indicates that the industry's moaning about medicare rates is irrelevant since they get paid the same by a large insurance company. Post the rates like the auto industry so that everyone pays the same, regardless of who's paying, and you'll see a lot of corruption go out the door. It also effectively ends "steering" because now they can just say we pay 'x', and 'x' has to be available in the area, just like with auto insurance.
Now that's great, we got rid of a bunch of corruption and opportunities to rake extra cash out of people. Great. It still doesn't address the other side of the issue, which is that all people effectively get health care, because you will either help someone in an emergency situation, or you will watch them die. There are no realistic alternatives. So, given a black and white choice you'll wind up with guaranteed healthcare and single payer will be the most efficient means of getting it done.
I believe copyright, as it was originally defined, to be a good thing. I am probably a "pirate" to the various *AAs because, by some unholy means, I make personal copies of works and transfer them to other mediums to increase my enjoyment of my collection. If you read the copyright notice you can't get around on any disk, unless, of course, you flaunt the DMCA via some other nefarious means, such as recording the portion you want to see or merely walking to the kitchen for a refreshing beverage or the toilet to emphasize how you feel about the *AAs, you'll see that the implication is that all copying is unauthorized, because, of course, they didn't authorize it. In truth, only copies made and DISTRIBUTED without authorization fall afoul of *copyright* laws. The *AAs have managed to squeeze in some additional laws to make other activities illegal based on false innuendos which hopefully will soon be corrected.
I forget where I wrote it, but I only support HTML standards and get agreement for the requirements on IE versions. I've been fortunate enough that I have not supported IE 6 on any project since 2006, so I'd say that perhaps you should respond with: "Supporting IE 6 will double the cost of the website. I'd be happy to do so if you approve the funding and tripling of project time due to increased debugging required for IE 6." and see where that gets you.
You're missing the point, if the ballot is both randomized and parties are removed, then people will only vote for those they know, and no one else, or they will choose randomly. Either outcome is preferred over party based voting if you're interested in informed and fair elections.
Trade Secrets do not have their own specific protections, they are protected via contract law. I f I work for Coca Cola and have access to their processes and then replicate their recipe, I'd likely be in huge trouble for violating various clauses of whatever contracts I had to sign to work for them. If I as a person with no affiliation to Coca Cola and without access to any Coca Cola personnel recreate their recipe, I can do whatever I want with it, including publish it for the world to see without penalty.
make/imake did not work well for java because it started a new process for every directory IIRC, or maybe it was for each compilable unit? That means loading everything up every time you had a new directory (or file), which obviously greatly slowed down compilations for larger projects. That's not a slam on make (or imake) but on using the wrong tool for the job. Even considering that, those tools may be more appropriate to compile java than gradle, which supposedly was designed to build java projects.
Russians aren't stupid just because they're drunk. They know that talking to foreign reporters (or pretty much any reporter) can get very, very career-limiting.
Especially when they're surveyed in front of the Kremlin
If you think you should pay less because you're still using an obsolete system that's fading away, stop paying them. You're not entitled to a rate-cut, and shouldn't be wasting resources shipping plastic discs when even old people are able to stream their media now.
If you're not happy with NetFlix, and are fixated on plastic discs, there are competing services for technology-limited people. This is all on you.
Until the wannabe streams are anywhere near the quality of disks (BDs, not DVDs) then I'll consider switching. Until then, you can watch your pixelated Dolby Stereo 3 Mbps streams. To get anywhere near BD quality with Dolby Atmos / DTS:X quality, you're going to need a stream somewhere above a combined 15Mbps at a minimum. No one is streaming anywhere near that, not even those supposed 4K streams. To get a semblance of what's happening, take a 20MB photo of a city scene with a tree and flowers and cars and convert it to a 100KB JPEG, and then take a lossless CD rip of something interesting with wide dynamic range and convert it to a 64Kbps audio stream. Those would be the rough comparisons of what the streaming companies are doing to your video and audio.
I've successfully used Ant in several very modular build environments where a module could be fully defined in as little as 2 lines. Unfortunately, I inherited both Maven and Gradle systems on other jobs, and those things are just a cluster to do anything reasonable with. When you spend more time modding the build system to support new code than coding, there's a serious problem with them. Gradle makes the case that Maven sucks. That's about the only thing the Gradle authors got correct. In every other way, Gradle is far worse than Maven, and possibly worse than make/imake. (Just to put it in perspective).
With the constant bouncing back into Win32 constantly to do anything meaningful with the system.
PS - in this case I was writing system management code, right about the time that .NET 4.5 came out. The documentation was flat out wrong as 4.5 removed quite a few internal calls because they were trying to secure the process space. However, IMNSHO, what they really did was make the situation even worse, by removing token manipulation routines instead of actually implementing real security. But that's another post.
Why do you care? Use Firefox, Chrome, Opera....
Why can't they use a decent build system? Gradle is just about the worst option out there.
It is actually looking like a great move on Apple's part. More people using Swift, more potential developers.
Wow, some of that sounds exactly like my C# experience. Except C# has been around years and years.
I'm well aware of why we have a 2 party system. It is an easy system to fix, actually, but it will never happen: only allow names under the positions in the ballots. No parties listed and especially no party line votes. If the order of names on ballots need to be randomized to prevent bias then putting party affiliation on the ballot should also be removed, as it leads to bias as well. Know your candidates.
Interestingly enough the Todd Akin candidacy is one of the reasons many tea party people want to take out the republican establishment. The republican establishment funded a candidate with no chance for winning simply to split the vote and allow Akin to win. They preferred to lose the Senate seat rather than have a tea party candidate win.
And this is why the current party system needs to be disbanded. Both parties.
Traditional moral codes? So, polygyny is back on the table? Including to under-aged girls who are given no choice in the matter?
"Traditional" does not mean what most people think. Most people only want to use the last hundred years or so as "traditional" and ignore that fact that if we use a larger time frame then we end up with a lot of things that modern people don't like.
Jerry Lee Lewis.
Not even the last 100 years, in the US, with well-known people.
I agree. If the regular citizen has no privacy rights, then neither does anyone in government, or anyone else. If there are to be no secrets, then fair enough, let's have absolutely no secrets.
But I really really don't want to know exactly what kind of flatulence Cameron has.
Technically, you should never trust your own network, including internal production networks. 3 tier ring a bell? It's not news and hasn't been for 2 decades. I guess Google finally got the memo?
Because when he was active, conservative meant something different than what it means today in the US? Today "conservative" in the US is pretty synonymous with "irrational religious wingnut that adheres to the republican party's most out there points" and conservatives as the rest of the world knows them pretty much have to be defined as fiscal conservatives, which is an entirely different thing that a US conservative. In fact, I'd argue that the majority of democrats and whatever moderate republicans remain are fiscal conservatives. Of course the entire concept of "Republican" may optimistically be laid to rest within 8 months.
Hypothetical, but does this WTF stand even if Tesla and Apple's cars are "cloudy" but Google's is not ?
I doubt Apple or Tesla will have "cloudy" cars or that Google's wouldn't be. It'd be a 180 on Google's part.
But even then, it's a quality/trust combination. Tesla has a pretty reasonable record. Apple has a history of making good hardware, although of late the reliability of their software has me somewhat concerned. Google? Where to start? It's a marketing company with 1 hell of a DB, but not much else that's really notable in relation to this hypothetical conversation, honestly.
On network infrastructure. I'm not sure they envisioned such wildly insecure and widespread endpoints, even within government (and military!) walls.
Considering that the original version of the internet had your computer hooked directly to the backbone or pretty close to it with no security features at all as firewalls etc hadn't been developed yet, I'd say they couldn't have envisioned anything else. LAN/MAN/WAN etc were just descriptions of how degraded your connectivity became (across a LAN it was OK, WAN could be a 12Kbps link)
Genetic Engineering is to selective breeding like the Golden Gate Bridge is to stacking selected rocks.