Radiation hardened hardware has shielding and larger components. You simply can't harden chips like the RPi uses, the objects on the silicon are simply too small.
Checksumming doesn't fix errors, it detects them.
The RPi barely has enough CPU power too boot, let alone run regular ECC calculations.
This is a stupid idea across the board. I really wish people would get the fuck over the idea that buying a RPi isn't a stupid idea.
The RPi will corrupt SD cards even mounted read-only. It has no hardware write protection and does mysteriously stupid things on power loss. The behavior is well known, which is why you keep hearing it.
It'll be awesome... it'll run for exactly 8 seconds before radiation corrupts every register beyond function and it has to be reset. Cosmic Rays for the win!
Fuck your patents. We're making it anyway, you just lost your privileges to do business under normal business rules. The drug and any derivatives of it become public domain, and any knowledge you have relating to that particular drug becomes public domain. ALL OF IT, regardless as to how it relates to other work you have.
Then, as stage two, take all the execs and every employee who didn't openly, publicly, actively work against this move out back and shoot them, preferably in a way that makes their death slow and painful.
The second time a drug company does something like this, the government takes their ENTIRE patent portfolio, makes it public domain and closes the company down, selling any physical assets they have to the highest bidder and any other intellectual property also becomes public domain. Yes this will have collateral damage for the first few that do it, and then this shit would stop. Share holders lose everything, maybe next time they'll think a little more about being greedy fucks and demand the company do the right thing rather than the profitable thing.
Riddle me this: Has the TSA ever done anything to actually make anything more secure? I've never seen an example of the TSA catch any attempt. I've heard of passengers catching people who made it through TSA screening. I've seen people carry pocket knives on aircraft after going through that retarded microwave scanner. I've heard of Air Marshals stoping people.
Not once have I heard of the TSA doing anything useful.
On the other hand, the terrorists pretty much did exactly what they said they were going to do, make our lives more difficult and made people feel less secure. Of course they didn't make people feel less secure, the TSA makes us feel less secure.
Israel doesn't do the silly bullshit that the TSA does, yet they catch more people trying to blow them up and actually have a daily threat from their next door neighbors. Of course they also care more about being effective than security theatre to make certain friends of politicians rich or bullshit faux political correctness. They do intelligent profiling, and no that doesn't just mean go after the guys with brown skin, for obvious reasons.
If I can get enough explosive or poison into an iPhone to be effective, making the screen light up isn't going to be that difficult. A laptop? Give me a break, trivial to fake.
Merely having a camera on the aircraft would be enough in a civil court to make the assumption that the equipment can be used for flying via a desk.
No it isn't. Having a camera is perfectly legal and has been for years. FPV is perfectly legal as well, as long as the pilot isn't flying by it.
You have to keep your eyes on the aircraft as the pilot for it to be legal in the US. It also has to be below 400 feet and you can't accept any money or any other form of barter for doing so.
The commercial vs non-commercial part of the rules is there to allow hobbyists to do it and prevent any incentive for massive numbers of people to just start trying to fly for profit creating dangerous situations due to the number of people and their shear ignorance, which generally accompanies people and companies trying to take advantage of a new and unregulated technology.
Vaporizing in the beam off the surface is different than on the surface.
The process occurring on the surface creates are larger pot mark on the surface, so the surface is no longer 'flawless', which then cascades from there.
There is no way the thing would survive long with sea spray on it. What happens in a lab is not what happens in combat on the open ocean.
They have to have some mechanism to protect the optics on the device itself, even if that is as others have suggested by putting it in a tube that expels air in such a way to ensure no contaminates may enter. That and the beam itself contains some force to expel things from the surface.
No mirror exposed to the open ocean will be clean enough to not explode fairly quickly when a 30kw laser beam hits it.
Honestly, I'm surprised the laser itself doesn't have issues with its own optics in that sort of environment. One tiny spec of dust on the lens would be disastrous.
Lets put common sense on it. Anyone with half a clue, especially a smoker realizes when they get up in the morning after smoking for any period of time that its not good for you. You have to be an idiot to not understand what it does to you, and you are a complete moron if you believe what some company selling you a product says. You can potentially ignore that it causes cancer out of ignorance, but cancer is really not the biggest problem with smoking from a health perspective.
Yes, they made it intentionally more addictive, but it didn't kill me when I stopped, did it? They did nothing (and haven't been legally allowed to for 30 years at least) to entice me into smoking my first one.
I maintain that there is personal responsibility involved in the decision to smoke. I'm sorry you can't cope with reality, but there it is. Are you so fucking retarded that you think there are companies that don't lie and spin things daily to get you to buy their products? If so, that just makes you an idiot, not me.
stop outsourcing your dirty laundry if you don't want anyone to see your tread marks in your tighty whities.
You gave up your privacy when you put your data on someone else servers. I'm not saying it should be legal for the government to claim it in any shape or form, domestic or foreign, but when you put your data on someone else servers you already gave up your security.
But they managed to kill 400,000 Americans every year
I'm fairly certain that they didn't actually light the cig for me, nor did they put it in my mouth or anything else.
I started smoking of my own free will, and likewise, I stopped.
They've done plenty of scummy things along the way, but pretending they are the sole responsible party just makes you look stupid and unwilling to take responsibility for your own actions. Man up.
A kernel is an important portion of the operating system, but it is not the entire operating system.
And the code shared between OS X and iOS is roughly the same as the code shared between OS X and FreeBSD. Are they the same OS because they share header files and some portion of code?
Someone tell this guy, the entire Linux community has spoken... we do not want this.
I disagree. I certainly want this.
I want my phone to have a Thunderbolt port on it for docking. I want to carry it with me all the time, and when I get to certain places like my desk at work or my desk at home, I want to plug in the thunderbolt cable and have my desktop with me right then and there.
I want my phone to function just like my iPhone when its not connected to a keyboard and mouse.
I want my phone to function just like OS X when using a keyboard, mouse/trackpad, standard sized monitor instead of the phone form factor.
I want it to switch seamlessly between the two.
I want developers to make apps that can do the transition seamlessly.
I want to be able to carry one device in my pocket that serves as my desktop and as my phone, and in the mean time, I'll accept some trade offs to do so, such as running Linux for my phone/desktop if they beat OS X to the punch.
Seriously, what don't you get
No, seriously, YOU DON'T GET IT. People whining when something changes is why Linux has no adoption on the desktop. Your crappy ways of computing are not the ways that everyone else wants to do it. Just because you pull up a page thats gathers its states by looking at the viewers of the page... which are all a bunch of curmudgeons trying to prove they're old school is the best school doesn't mean it represents the general user base.
You want to be stuck in the past with an inflexible UI, fine, stop upgrading your software. When you decide to accept that software has a whole lot of growth before it stabilizes, then you can join the rest of us in using newer software.
The solution for you is simple, don't upgrade. Stop dragging everyone else down because you can't cope with progress.
Its sad that this took so long that even Visual Studio will support Android and NDK development in its next release and Google is JUST NOW releasing real tools for one of its flagship data collection platforms.
Android users (meaning both owners of devices and device makers) - You are the product, not the customer. FFS do you not understand the saying 'You get what you pay for'
IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment.
There is no requirement that it be 'graphical', both yourself and the original poster are wrong in that presumption.
The original IDEs were ALL text based.
IDEs are simply a suite of tools that work together (in a convenient way) to make developing software easier, all other constraints you add are not actual constraints.
Emacs is fully capable of functioning as an IDE and in fact part of the reason it is what it is happens to be because a certain GNU fanboy used it as his IDE and he happens to be its author.
Those of us who don't still live in the stone age don't really think of it as an IDE, but it most certainly is a very capable one.
Oh, and it works in a GUI too, just put an X in front of its name, and as if by magic, you have a gui wrapper around it.
Not really, Catholics believe in evolution and have nothing against this theory. Catholics have contributed a great deal to science since science has absolutely no impact what so ever on religious beliefs. They are not in competition and can not be used for or against each other by definition.
Only raving nutters try to mix science and religion. Raving nutters on BOTH sides of the God vs No God debate.
They don't think that it 'had' to come from there, they are proposing a possible place that it started and showing that the conditions made it possible to happen. They aren't saying 'this is what happened', they are saying 'The conditions make it possible that it may occur during these types of events'.
Astrophysicists don't (generally) know jack shit about hydrothermal vents, they know about things in space so they can't comment (reliably) on life in pools of chemicals or at the bottom of the oceans, but they can comment on asteroid and comet impacts.
Marine biologists can also show that the conditions make it possible that it might have started near hydrothermal vents.
In reality, its possible life thrives given the opportunity and it occurs at BOTH, as well as many others we haven't begun to think of yet.
In your case, certifications won't likely help you much.
I would say, that since you're asking the question, you probably are in the wrong field.
You're in a field with many bright, observant people and you haven't really bothered to pay close enough attention to the field around you but you call yourself an IS manager. I would say your problem is not certifications, its that you're just not that good or at a bear minimum, you aren't trying very hard and thats why your career is stalled.
With 15 years 'experience' you should know the answer to this sort of generic question.
The actually answer is 'yes, no, maybe, both, sometimes and never'. It depends on what you're trying to accomplish and who you're trying to get hired by or who you are trying to impress for a promotion or raise. You haven't bothered to consider what you're trying to accomplish but instead you've just come to slashdot expecting an easy answer. Certain companies will require certifications. Some will know that most are stupid. Certain certs are actually meaningful, and certain certs just mean you paid the right 'training provider' the right amount of money (i.e. took their training courses)
So how many times are we going to go through this same alarmist, the world is going to end because of... the flu thing?
I started paying attention to this crap in the late 90s when I realized 'it seems like every year we're going to have a horrible flu outbreak'... then they started naming the flu for the year, which meant my drama queen sister in law seemed to get 'deadliest flu strain ever' every year... and saying things like 'I have H1N1, its the deadly one!!!!!' except of course... H1N1 isn't a specific strain, its a class of strains... and its the most common one for all time, which pretty much everyone gets.
Every year, some news station will show someone from the CDC talking about how much more dangerous this year is... and they'll throw out numbers... and then when you go compare those numbers with the CDCs website of ACTUAL statistics... you see that the numbers they are saying are bullshit... and that the numbers for this year are actually pretty much average and right down the median of the range from previous years.
Now they've changed the data they display. They no longer display historical data, now they display what they call the seasonal baseline, which is essentially the lowest year ever recorded, and an epidemic threshold, which is exceeded EVERY SINGLE YEAR except extremely rare ones... and no longer do they show that this year looks exactly like last year, and the previous 20 all look almost identical.
Scaremongering
And while we're on the subject of the flu... why is it that I'm the only one in my family that doesn't get a flu shot and I'm also the only one who has managed to not get the flu every year except for the year before last... when doctors convinced me to get the flu shot because I had a newborn son... ironic that I GOT THE FLU THAT YEAR.
Just fucking stop.
The flu is scary for immunocompromised hosts, which is basically no one other than HIV/AIDS carriers and older people. Even freaking kids have an immune system that does well against it.
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Theres a difference between radiation poisoning and flipping a few bits.
Radiation hardened hardware has shielding and larger components. You simply can't harden chips like the RPi uses, the objects on the silicon are simply too small.
Checksumming doesn't fix errors, it detects them.
The RPi barely has enough CPU power too boot, let alone run regular ECC calculations.
This is a stupid idea across the board. I really wish people would get the fuck over the idea that buying a RPi isn't a stupid idea.
Then you're lucky.
The RPi will corrupt SD cards even mounted read-only. It has no hardware write protection and does mysteriously stupid things on power loss. The behavior is well known, which is why you keep hearing it.
It'll be awesome ... it'll run for exactly 8 seconds before radiation corrupts every register beyond function and it has to be reset. Cosmic Rays for the win!
Fuck your patents. We're making it anyway, you just lost your privileges to do business under normal business rules. The drug and any derivatives of it become public domain, and any knowledge you have relating to that particular drug becomes public domain. ALL OF IT, regardless as to how it relates to other work you have.
Then, as stage two, take all the execs and every employee who didn't openly, publicly, actively work against this move out back and shoot them, preferably in a way that makes their death slow and painful.
The second time a drug company does something like this, the government takes their ENTIRE patent portfolio, makes it public domain and closes the company down, selling any physical assets they have to the highest bidder and any other intellectual property also becomes public domain. Yes this will have collateral damage for the first few that do it, and then this shit would stop. Share holders lose everything, maybe next time they'll think a little more about being greedy fucks and demand the company do the right thing rather than the profitable thing.
It doesn't matter if GLONASS is better, its that modern chips use BOTH.
Riddle me this: Has the TSA ever done anything to actually make anything more secure? I've never seen an example of the TSA catch any attempt. I've heard of passengers catching people who made it through TSA screening. I've seen people carry pocket knives on aircraft after going through that retarded microwave scanner. I've heard of Air Marshals stoping people.
Not once have I heard of the TSA doing anything useful.
On the other hand, the terrorists pretty much did exactly what they said they were going to do, make our lives more difficult and made people feel less secure. Of course they didn't make people feel less secure, the TSA makes us feel less secure.
Israel doesn't do the silly bullshit that the TSA does, yet they catch more people trying to blow them up and actually have a daily threat from their next door neighbors. Of course they also care more about being effective than security theatre to make certain friends of politicians rich or bullshit faux political correctness. They do intelligent profiling, and no that doesn't just mean go after the guys with brown skin, for obvious reasons.
If I can get enough explosive or poison into an iPhone to be effective, making the screen light up isn't going to be that difficult. A laptop? Give me a break, trivial to fake.
Merely having a camera on the aircraft would be enough in a civil court to make the assumption that the equipment can be used for flying via a desk.
No it isn't. Having a camera is perfectly legal and has been for years. FPV is perfectly legal as well, as long as the pilot isn't flying by it.
You have to keep your eyes on the aircraft as the pilot for it to be legal in the US. It also has to be below 400 feet and you can't accept any money or any other form of barter for doing so.
The commercial vs non-commercial part of the rules is there to allow hobbyists to do it and prevent any incentive for massive numbers of people to just start trying to fly for profit creating dangerous situations due to the number of people and their shear ignorance, which generally accompanies people and companies trying to take advantage of a new and unregulated technology.
Vaporizing in the beam off the surface is different than on the surface.
The process occurring on the surface creates are larger pot mark on the surface, so the surface is no longer 'flawless', which then cascades from there.
There is no way the thing would survive long with sea spray on it. What happens in a lab is not what happens in combat on the open ocean.
They have to have some mechanism to protect the optics on the device itself, even if that is as others have suggested by putting it in a tube that expels air in such a way to ensure no contaminates may enter. That and the beam itself contains some force to expel things from the surface.
No mirror exposed to the open ocean will be clean enough to not explode fairly quickly when a 30kw laser beam hits it.
Honestly, I'm surprised the laser itself doesn't have issues with its own optics in that sort of environment. One tiny spec of dust on the lens would be disastrous.
How about you get fucked. You just don't want to pay for content. Cry me a river.
Lets put common sense on it. Anyone with half a clue, especially a smoker realizes when they get up in the morning after smoking for any period of time that its not good for you. You have to be an idiot to not understand what it does to you, and you are a complete moron if you believe what some company selling you a product says. You can potentially ignore that it causes cancer out of ignorance, but cancer is really not the biggest problem with smoking from a health perspective.
Yes, they made it intentionally more addictive, but it didn't kill me when I stopped, did it? They did nothing (and haven't been legally allowed to for 30 years at least) to entice me into smoking my first one.
I maintain that there is personal responsibility involved in the decision to smoke. I'm sorry you can't cope with reality, but there it is. Are you so fucking retarded that you think there are companies that don't lie and spin things daily to get you to buy their products? If so, that just makes you an idiot, not me.
stop outsourcing your dirty laundry if you don't want anyone to see your tread marks in your tighty whities.
You gave up your privacy when you put your data on someone else servers. I'm not saying it should be legal for the government to claim it in any shape or form, domestic or foreign, but when you put your data on someone else servers you already gave up your security.
The study, by Accenture,
As soon as you said Accenture, every single bit of credibility vanished.
But they managed to kill 400,000 Americans every year
I'm fairly certain that they didn't actually light the cig for me, nor did they put it in my mouth or anything else.
I started smoking of my own free will, and likewise, I stopped.
They've done plenty of scummy things along the way, but pretending they are the sole responsible party just makes you look stupid and unwilling to take responsibility for your own actions. Man up.
kernel != operating system
A kernel is an important portion of the operating system, but it is not the entire operating system.
And the code shared between OS X and iOS is roughly the same as the code shared between OS X and FreeBSD. Are they the same OS because they share header files and some portion of code?
Someone tell this guy, the entire Linux community has spoken... we do not want this.
I disagree. I certainly want this.
I want my phone to have a Thunderbolt port on it for docking. I want to carry it with me all the time, and when I get to certain places like my desk at work or my desk at home, I want to plug in the thunderbolt cable and have my desktop with me right then and there.
I want my phone to function just like my iPhone when its not connected to a keyboard and mouse.
I want my phone to function just like OS X when using a keyboard, mouse/trackpad, standard sized monitor instead of the phone form factor.
I want it to switch seamlessly between the two.
I want developers to make apps that can do the transition seamlessly.
I want to be able to carry one device in my pocket that serves as my desktop and as my phone, and in the mean time, I'll accept some trade offs to do so, such as running Linux for my phone/desktop if they beat OS X to the punch.
Seriously, what don't you get
No, seriously, YOU DON'T GET IT. People whining when something changes is why Linux has no adoption on the desktop. Your crappy ways of computing are not the ways that everyone else wants to do it. Just because you pull up a page thats gathers its states by looking at the viewers of the page ... which are all a bunch of curmudgeons trying to prove they're old school is the best school doesn't mean it represents the general user base.
You want to be stuck in the past with an inflexible UI, fine, stop upgrading your software. When you decide to accept that software has a whole lot of growth before it stabilizes, then you can join the rest of us in using newer software.
The solution for you is simple, don't upgrade. Stop dragging everyone else down because you can't cope with progress.
Its sad that this took so long that even Visual Studio will support Android and NDK development in its next release and Google is JUST NOW releasing real tools for one of its flagship data collection platforms.
Android users (meaning both owners of devices and device makers) - You are the product, not the customer. FFS do you not understand the saying 'You get what you pay for'
IDE stands for Integrated Development Environment.
There is no requirement that it be 'graphical', both yourself and the original poster are wrong in that presumption.
The original IDEs were ALL text based.
IDEs are simply a suite of tools that work together (in a convenient way) to make developing software easier, all other constraints you add are not actual constraints.
Emacs is fully capable of functioning as an IDE and in fact part of the reason it is what it is happens to be because a certain GNU fanboy used it as his IDE and he happens to be its author.
Those of us who don't still live in the stone age don't really think of it as an IDE, but it most certainly is a very capable one.
Oh, and it works in a GUI too, just put an X in front of its name, and as if by magic, you have a gui wrapper around it.
Not really, Catholics believe in evolution and have nothing against this theory. Catholics have contributed a great deal to science since science has absolutely no impact what so ever on religious beliefs. They are not in competition and can not be used for or against each other by definition.
Only raving nutters try to mix science and religion. Raving nutters on BOTH sides of the God vs No God debate.
They don't think that it 'had' to come from there, they are proposing a possible place that it started and showing that the conditions made it possible to happen. They aren't saying 'this is what happened', they are saying 'The conditions make it possible that it may occur during these types of events'.
Astrophysicists don't (generally) know jack shit about hydrothermal vents, they know about things in space so they can't comment (reliably) on life in pools of chemicals or at the bottom of the oceans, but they can comment on asteroid and comet impacts.
Marine biologists can also show that the conditions make it possible that it might have started near hydrothermal vents.
In reality, its possible life thrives given the opportunity and it occurs at BOTH, as well as many others we haven't begun to think of yet.
In your case, certifications won't likely help you much.
I would say, that since you're asking the question, you probably are in the wrong field.
You're in a field with many bright, observant people and you haven't really bothered to pay close enough attention to the field around you but you call yourself an IS manager. I would say your problem is not certifications, its that you're just not that good or at a bear minimum, you aren't trying very hard and thats why your career is stalled.
With 15 years 'experience' you should know the answer to this sort of generic question.
The actually answer is 'yes, no, maybe, both, sometimes and never'. It depends on what you're trying to accomplish and who you're trying to get hired by or who you are trying to impress for a promotion or raise. You haven't bothered to consider what you're trying to accomplish but instead you've just come to slashdot expecting an easy answer. Certain companies will require certifications. Some will know that most are stupid. Certain certs are actually meaningful, and certain certs just mean you paid the right 'training provider' the right amount of money (i.e. took their training courses)
I'll leave you with ... I'm married to a doctor who works with flu patients every year.
My anecdotal evidence trumps yours.
GTA IV - The Ballad of Gay Tony
He was pretty much a manwhore and they based a whole DLC arc on his empire
So how many times are we going to go through this same alarmist, the world is going to end because of ... the flu thing?
I started paying attention to this crap in the late 90s when I realized 'it seems like every year we're going to have a horrible flu outbreak' ... then they started naming the flu for the year, which meant my drama queen sister in law seemed to get 'deadliest flu strain ever' every year ... and saying things like 'I have H1N1, its the deadly one!!!!!' except of course ... H1N1 isn't a specific strain, its a class of strains ... and its the most common one for all time, which pretty much everyone gets.
Every year, some news station will show someone from the CDC talking about how much more dangerous this year is ... and they'll throw out numbers ... and then when you go compare those numbers with the CDCs website of ACTUAL statistics ... you see that the numbers they are saying are bullshit ... and that the numbers for this year are actually pretty much average and right down the median of the range from previous years.
Now they've changed the data they display. They no longer display historical data, now they display what they call the seasonal baseline, which is essentially the lowest year ever recorded, and an epidemic threshold, which is exceeded EVERY SINGLE YEAR except extremely rare ones ... and no longer do they show that this year looks exactly like last year, and the previous 20 all look almost identical.
Scaremongering
And while we're on the subject of the flu ... why is it that I'm the only one in my family that doesn't get a flu shot and I'm also the only one who has managed to not get the flu every year except for the year before last ... when doctors convinced me to get the flu shot because I had a newborn son ... ironic that I GOT THE FLU THAT YEAR.
Just fucking stop.
The flu is scary for immunocompromised hosts, which is basically no one other than HIV/AIDS carriers and older people. Even freaking kids have an immune system that does well against it.