Between 87 year olds taking on TSA and 90+ year olds storming the steps of the closed WWII memorial, I feel my rights and liberties are well protected. Well, at least until Social Security and Medicare run out of money then we're screwed.
Because that all too critical time between when the launch is ordered and when the missiles need to be in the air, it's always best to have groggy, noncoherent individuals performing critical steps.
Once you start doing that it shows you how little control you have over such services
Then a "cloud" exactly describes what it is. No one controls them except nature. Sometimes they do something useful (rain), sometimes something not useful (damaging storms), sometimes they are there (cloudy day) and sometimes they aren't (sunny day). You can count on them existing somewhere, just maybe not where you want/need them.
Regardless of where you store your information, be it on a desktop in front of you, a server in your company's datacenter (wherever that may be), or some cloud provider, you have to remember what the limitations of doing that may be. If high availability is critical and you absolutely can't live without that information, then only a single location is not the best choice as any one of them could be unavailable. If they need to be secured, then encrypt them before they leave your local control.
That's for the non-realtime production. They have 24 machines, 4 machines per projector, for the real-time rendering, each of which has 8 cores, an Nvidia K5000 GPU, and 16GB of RAM.
What swipe at medical communities? The screen pulses and seizes, as in "My computer seized up". It wasn't ever aimed at any medical communities, presumably those who suffer from epileptic seizures that can be induced by flashing screens. Although those that suffer from that condition probably should stay away from this OS for the time being.
Ironically ACA specifically requires Congress and their staff to go to the exchanges to get their insurance. But since their employer provides insurance as well, it created a quagmire because the law says that they wouldn't qualify for subsidized insurance since the employer has a plan...that they can't get.
What is now on the table is whether or not Congress (including the staffers who are not particularly well paid) will get a subsidy like everyone else who has employer covered healthcare insurance does.
Republicans tried to embarrass the Democrats by requiring Congress members and and their staff to go to the exchanges. Democrats embraced the proposal except it created the dilemma where the Federal Government has no means to make contributions towards exchange-purchased insurance, and since the government offers insurance but the individuals are required to go to the exchanges, they don't technically qualify for the subsidy either. They shot themselves in the foot with the requirement (not that it's a bad requirement) and they're just trying to figure out how to pay for the benefit they already received.
It's entertainment. Not real life. Not a NASA training video for what to do in case of an emergency. They don't have to get every last detail right in order for the movie to be successful both from a entertainment stand point as well as a general scientific standpoint. Sure Bullock's hair may not float right, or the debris drift away in the right direction. But neither are critical to the effectiveness of telling the story. Suspend your disbelief and just enjoy it.
If your signature specifies what algorithm was used, and your library can read that signature, then so can other libraries. You really haven't made your encryption more secure, you've just obscured it slightly...more like putting a padlock inside of a lockbox with a key.
An atmosphere may provide some protection from some space-borne objects, but not all. But regardless of how much protection it provides, Earth itself would likely be it's own destructive force for anything kept on it. How do you protect and object from the destructive forces that have created mountain ranges, carved grand canyons? Super volcanoes, glacial ice ages, hurricanes, flooding...
Keeping the object just physically safe over a billion years on Earth I think would be far harder than making sure that it's readable should you manage that feat. I think that just flinging something off into the void of space you'd have better luck not hitting something significant than trying to protect it on earth.
It's not a store, but literotica.com has more literary erotica than any book store I've ever seen. Their mobile site is better IMHO if you just want to browse stories.
They are simply doing what they think is best for business, keeping the bulk of their customers happy.
No, they are doing what will bring the least amount of controversy to their business. If the bulk of their customers were happy with the "questionable content" removed, then why was the 50 Shades of Gray as successful as it was? The bulk of customers really don't care one way or another. If a particular genre isn't their cup of tea, they move on to something else. It's a small minority of extremely vocal customers, we'll call them the "religious right" that feel they must control what everyone reads and watches based strictly on their beliefs and regardless of others.
The same basic concept is happening in Washington right now. The majority of people either don't specifically care one way or another or want the government open for business. It's a small group of representatives that made a large enough stink that shut everything down because of something the minority didn't like.
I also don't like how my modern smartphone with micro-USB needs to be plugged in every night, while my dumbphone could go several days without charging.
I don't like how my modern 1/2 ton pickup truck with a V8 only gets 15MPG, while my moped gets 100+ MPG. I'm sure having different capabilities might factor in to why one vehicle gets such vastly different mileage than the other even though at their most basic level, they both are means of motorized transportation.
Similarly, your dumbphone doesn't have nearly the same capability as your smartphone. They both can make calls and text, their basic purpose, but that's about where the similarities end.
Find me a parent who fully appreciates the effects and dangers of measles, mumps, and/or rubella.
Who gets measles, mumps, and/or rubella anymore? The vaccine isn't necessary as everyone else gets it so we can't get it. MY kids will be safe and won't catch autism.
(Note: The above should be read with dripping amounts of sarcasm in mind. I have a son who is on the autism spectrum and I don't believe one iota that any vaccine resulted in his condition.)
I'd challenge you to eat properly on $20 a week. Sure you can eat a $.12 package of ramen noodles each meal, but that's not going to sustain you forever.
Look up the "SNAP Challenge" where various groups challenge people to live off of $4.50 a day, the maximum SNAP pays per person. That's well under your $20. Almost everyone that has taken part in the challenge found it very difficult to provide a nutritionally balanced meal with variety, and that's just a single week.
and maintenance costs are virtually zero thereafter.
Do you know how much Windex and paper towels they are going to go through cleaning 3 square miles of 3200 mirrors? They better buy the glass cleaner by the tanker full...
First day load is going to be most of the user base, and at least one reporter from every news org, and the bad guys trying to hack it, and the curious public. If they built for first day load it would be overspending. Had they budgeted for 10x the servers, it sounds like you would have been okay with that a year from now when they are idle?
You act as if it's all or none as to which scenario to plan for and serve.
There are numerous ways that they could have spread the load around so that the initial extremely high load they had to expect could have been served quickly, but several months from now when the load drops to the fraction they aren't saddled with a bunch of extra servers idling with nothing to do.
So presumably you visited Vegas...and went to the public library? You sure do know how to have a great time. I think this would be one of those times where what happened in Vegas needs to stay in Vegas.
That's funny. I live in a city where FiOS wanted to go in too. The community said sure, fast tracked the approval process, and embraced the availability of additional competition and technology to the area. Verizon at the time was investing just as much into the community as the community was investing into Verizon for the long-term benefit.
As a result of the symbiotic relationship, we were one of the early communities on FiOS.
Then Verizon ditched us, selling us out to Frontier. Aside from that, and Frontier stumbling around for a bit wondering what they were going to over television wise, there really hasn't been any issues.
No, Congress didn't pass a budget. The House passed a budget that defunded the Affordable Care Act (aka ACA or Obamacare). The Senate passed the bill after dropping the defunding. Because there were differences in the bill, it went back to the House were they added it back in. And back to the Senate. And then House. This has gone on at least 4 times. It's never even got to the point where the President has had a chance to sign or veto a bill.
If he did veto it, that's not necessarily the end of it as Congress could vote to override the veto although with split houses and neither house even close to a supermajority, a veto isn't likely with a very partisan issue.
The only way to find out who was wrong and who was right is to wait and see what the voters say in the next elections,
No, that won't determine who was right or wrong. It just determines who will have a job for 2/4/6 more years (depending on which office is being voted for).
Winners and losers are determined by the people that ultimately affected by the bill, for better or for worse. ACA may be a great thing or it may be an awful thing. But it's guaranteed that everyone is a loser to some degree when the government shuts down, with the ones that are likely injured the most are the ones that can't afford to be the least.
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3.1 ounces of liquid explosives actually is fine. It's when you cross the 3.4 ounces that they have a problem with it.
Between 87 year olds taking on TSA and 90+ year olds storming the steps of the closed WWII memorial, I feel my rights and liberties are well protected. Well, at least until Social Security and Medicare run out of money then we're screwed.
Because that all too critical time between when the launch is ordered and when the missiles need to be in the air, it's always best to have groggy, noncoherent individuals performing critical steps.
Then a "cloud" exactly describes what it is. No one controls them except nature. Sometimes they do something useful (rain), sometimes something not useful (damaging storms), sometimes they are there (cloudy day) and sometimes they aren't (sunny day). You can count on them existing somewhere, just maybe not where you want/need them.
Regardless of where you store your information, be it on a desktop in front of you, a server in your company's datacenter (wherever that may be), or some cloud provider, you have to remember what the limitations of doing that may be. If high availability is critical and you absolutely can't live without that information, then only a single location is not the best choice as any one of them could be unavailable. If they need to be secured, then encrypt them before they leave your local control.
That's for the non-realtime production. They have 24 machines, 4 machines per projector, for the real-time rendering, each of which has 8 cores, an Nvidia K5000 GPU, and 16GB of RAM.
What swipe at medical communities? The screen pulses and seizes, as in "My computer seized up". It wasn't ever aimed at any medical communities, presumably those who suffer from epileptic seizures that can be induced by flashing screens. Although those that suffer from that condition probably should stay away from this OS for the time being.
Why can't be be 1, 2, AND 3?
Ironically ACA specifically requires Congress and their staff to go to the exchanges to get their insurance. But since their employer provides insurance as well, it created a quagmire because the law says that they wouldn't qualify for subsidized insurance since the employer has a plan...that they can't get.
Republicans tried to embarrass the Democrats by requiring Congress members and and their staff to go to the exchanges. Democrats embraced the proposal except it created the dilemma where the Federal Government has no means to make contributions towards exchange-purchased insurance, and since the government offers insurance but the individuals are required to go to the exchanges, they don't technically qualify for the subsidy either. They shot themselves in the foot with the requirement (not that it's a bad requirement) and they're just trying to figure out how to pay for the benefit they already received.
It's entertainment. Not real life. Not a NASA training video for what to do in case of an emergency. They don't have to get every last detail right in order for the movie to be successful both from a entertainment stand point as well as a general scientific standpoint. Sure Bullock's hair may not float right, or the debris drift away in the right direction. But neither are critical to the effectiveness of telling the story. Suspend your disbelief and just enjoy it.
If your signature specifies what algorithm was used, and your library can read that signature, then so can other libraries. You really haven't made your encryption more secure, you've just obscured it slightly...more like putting a padlock inside of a lockbox with a key.
An atmosphere may provide some protection from some space-borne objects, but not all. But regardless of how much protection it provides, Earth itself would likely be it's own destructive force for anything kept on it. How do you protect and object from the destructive forces that have created mountain ranges, carved grand canyons? Super volcanoes, glacial ice ages, hurricanes, flooding...
Keeping the object just physically safe over a billion years on Earth I think would be far harder than making sure that it's readable should you manage that feat. I think that just flinging something off into the void of space you'd have better luck not hitting something significant than trying to protect it on earth.
It's not a store, but literotica.com has more literary erotica than any book store I've ever seen. Their mobile site is better IMHO if you just want to browse stories.
No, they are doing what will bring the least amount of controversy to their business. If the bulk of their customers were happy with the "questionable content" removed, then why was the 50 Shades of Gray as successful as it was? The bulk of customers really don't care one way or another. If a particular genre isn't their cup of tea, they move on to something else. It's a small minority of extremely vocal customers, we'll call them the "religious right" that feel they must control what everyone reads and watches based strictly on their beliefs and regardless of others.
The same basic concept is happening in Washington right now. The majority of people either don't specifically care one way or another or want the government open for business. It's a small group of representatives that made a large enough stink that shut everything down because of something the minority didn't like.
I don't like how my modern 1/2 ton pickup truck with a V8 only gets 15MPG, while my moped gets 100+ MPG. I'm sure having different capabilities might factor in to why one vehicle gets such vastly different mileage than the other even though at their most basic level, they both are means of motorized transportation.
Similarly, your dumbphone doesn't have nearly the same capability as your smartphone. They both can make calls and text, their basic purpose, but that's about where the similarities end.
Who gets measles, mumps, and/or rubella anymore? The vaccine isn't necessary as everyone else gets it so we can't get it. MY kids will be safe and won't catch autism.
(Note: The above should be read with dripping amounts of sarcasm in mind. I have a son who is on the autism spectrum and I don't believe one iota that any vaccine resulted in his condition.)
I'd challenge you to eat properly on $20 a week. Sure you can eat a $.12 package of ramen noodles each meal, but that's not going to sustain you forever.
Look up the "SNAP Challenge" where various groups challenge people to live off of $4.50 a day, the maximum SNAP pays per person. That's well under your $20. Almost everyone that has taken part in the challenge found it very difficult to provide a nutritionally balanced meal with variety, and that's just a single week.
Do you know how much Windex and paper towels they are going to go through cleaning 3 square miles of 3200 mirrors? They better buy the glass cleaner by the tanker full...
You act as if it's all or none as to which scenario to plan for and serve.
There are numerous ways that they could have spread the load around so that the initial extremely high load they had to expect could have been served quickly, but several months from now when the load drops to the fraction they aren't saddled with a bunch of extra servers idling with nothing to do.
So presumably you visited Vegas...and went to the public library? You sure do know how to have a great time. I think this would be one of those times where what happened in Vegas needs to stay in Vegas.
Holy shit! A struggling company trying to make money?!?!? Who ever heard of such a thing.
I thought HP redesigned their logo within the last few years. And they had the TouchPad that was a miserable flop until they went on fire sale.
That's funny. I live in a city where FiOS wanted to go in too. The community said sure, fast tracked the approval process, and embraced the availability of additional competition and technology to the area. Verizon at the time was investing just as much into the community as the community was investing into Verizon for the long-term benefit.
As a result of the symbiotic relationship, we were one of the early communities on FiOS.
Then Verizon ditched us, selling us out to Frontier. Aside from that, and Frontier stumbling around for a bit wondering what they were going to over television wise, there really hasn't been any issues.
No, Congress didn't pass a budget. The House passed a budget that defunded the Affordable Care Act (aka ACA or Obamacare). The Senate passed the bill after dropping the defunding. Because there were differences in the bill, it went back to the House were they added it back in. And back to the Senate. And then House. This has gone on at least 4 times. It's never even got to the point where the President has had a chance to sign or veto a bill.
If he did veto it, that's not necessarily the end of it as Congress could vote to override the veto although with split houses and neither house even close to a supermajority, a veto isn't likely with a very partisan issue.
No, that won't determine who was right or wrong. It just determines who will have a job for 2/4/6 more years (depending on which office is being voted for).
Winners and losers are determined by the people that ultimately affected by the bill, for better or for worse. ACA may be a great thing or it may be an awful thing. But it's guaranteed that everyone is a loser to some degree when the government shuts down, with the ones that are likely injured the most are the ones that can't afford to be the least.