But TCOs are not just of academic interest. 'Once TCOs can be reliably and frequently identified early enough in a capture event they create an opportunity for a low-cost low-delta-v meteoroid return mission.
Boring. I'd put a whole freaking base on it while its in earth orbit, then see where it goes. If not a manned base, at least a robot research station. Should be pretty interesting to see where it ends up. At least a radio beacon?
Ahh from the users point of view thats either weird or not new or not new anymore.
1) My android phone can play google music while I do other stuff like the kindle app.
2) Again my android phone and my ios ipod touch have a notification system. I find it annoying. Just another inbox to check, whats yet one more...
3) Not even sure how to replicate this. I think you mean I could pair my phone to my wifes phone like an extension phone? Thats just... weird. Isn't that just pairing to a automotive hands-free interface except the interface happens to be another phone? Thats so weird I don't even know if its new or not
Assuming its a long-used app like "G+" or... what do people download and use forever... Maybe dedicated website addons like the ancestry.com app, but thats closely tied to a legit site not a bot farmer (It seems very reasonable to assume ancestry.com, my hometown bank, etc are not bot farmers).
Imagine if the example Uno app is entertaining for 10 hours so I never play again after two weeks, making the zombie go off in two months isn't going to work well when I'm already long gone.
Although ancient humans possessed the technology for space travel, their governments kept squabbling about the strategic direction of space projects, so they never got off the ground.
The ones that did get off the ground are literally the ones that are not being dug up and studied... think about it...
If future civilization dug up the "factory seconds" "push pull or drag trade in pile" at the local aerospace factory, they'd probably have a pretty negative view of us too. "why this nozzle found in a dumpster marked "scrap" (whatever that word means) wouldn't even pass magnefluxing for crack detection, I bet the ancients never got a thing off the ground"
Either that, or "those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it." Which is advice that I wish that half of our first-world countries' leaders would listen to. Fall of the Roman Empire, anyone?
The bad news is they've done so, and it's all good for them, so they're not changing course.
Note that what the general public would call the "decline" was actually for the endless bureaucrat drones their "peak", so from their point of view, let the good times roll! Yes they all got killed in the end, only AFTER the general public bore the brunt, so again they come out ahead. There is really not much downside for them, is there?
The folks who need to listen are the general public, but bread and circuses numb them.
now say the product never had a fighting chance because it relied on WebKit
Who cares. The apathy is shallower than that.
It never had a fighting chance with the users because it was just another wannabe. What was special about webos from the user point of view, other than some "HP" branding, which in the old days meant something, but for more than a decade that brand has come to mean outsourcing, downsizing, clueless dilbertian executive management, hatred/screwing over of customers, and failure? So its just like my friends phones except it's not cool, and it can't run any of their apps. How profoundly unappealing to the users, and not because of the intimate details of the development library. "My alternative phone is just like yours except its not as good, not as cool, doesn't do anything yours can't do, yet costs just as much". How can that not fly off the shelves?
It never had a fighting change with 3rd party devs because it was just another wannabe. A wannabe has a chance if it does or uses something new and exciting, to balance out the lack of popularity. You know what would be weird? A mobile OS written completely in Ruby and Erlang. How truly weird, yet fascinating. I'd take some of my valuable holiday vacation time to play with that platform even if I were the only owner of that kind of phone in the whole world. Thats how internal OS library choices drag in developers. But, its just tech I can play with in more convenient systems, F that, I'll play with Android instead, or more likely play Skyrim some more. Whoops.
So that brings me back to my original summary. Does anyone not a HP employee, in engineering or astroturfing, being paid to toe the corporate line want to develop on webos? My guess is, "no". Who cares.
Nobody wants or needs it seems to be the actual "fatal flaw".
The standard/. car analogy is the famous Alaskan "bridge to nowhere" was not fatally flawed because it would have been much more appealing to paint it a slightly different color, it was fatally flawed because "no one" (rounded down to zero) wanted or needed it, other than the guys who built it.
I'm curious - what do you think the new Christmas playlist will include that the old one didn't?
A lot of it is play time ratios. For example, boomer's parents probably thought Bing Crosby's 1930's era "White Christmas" was the cats meow (or whatever) so boomers grew up hearing it daily if not hourly on the radio, so 60 years later we're still reliving their childhood and have to hear "White Christmas" every hour on the radio from Halloween till New Years. On the other hand, boomer's parents probably thought that 50s/60s era "Santa Baby" was a bit too new and possibly scandalous, and the oldest boomers were too old to hear it during their childhood anyway, so we don't have to tolerate hearing "Santa Baby" quite as often. Oh we still have to sit thru both, but we have to hear one ten times more often.
It's hard to believe, but in about 2070, my kids "Phineas and Ferb Christmas music CD" which is all new christmas themed songs not just remakes of oldies, will probably be considered golden oldies, played every hour. Much like its weird to think about, but soon in nursing homes, Laurence Welk will be completely displaced by Led Zeppelin and the Stones. Weird but true.
Meh, still no good. Heirs should be contributing their own work, not living off yours.
The usual argument for heirs is something like... Record company is selling records and tired of cutting licensing checks to musician, turns out its cheaper to hire a hitman or just simply pay the musician 10% of income in high grade heroin (hmm, how could that possibly end badly?). Musician croaks, recordings instantly hit public domain on day of death, therefore license payments stop, PROFIT!!!!
Another weird effect might be you can record whatever you want, but they will not release it until you have a terminal illness or already dead. Instead of pretending "music stars/idols" are singers because they lipsync, you'd just make the "music stars/idols" explicitly dancers and models, and just deal with the actual musicians being 90 years old. I don't think this is all that much of a change, really. This effect would have bizarre effects on culture, so Jimmy Hendrix still gets released in the 60s, Black Sabbath Paranoid still would not be released yet (unless ozzy has pickled himself recently while I wasn't looking), Nirvana would still have still released in the 90s but we wouldn't hear NiN for probably a couple more decades...
A reasonable compromise is if a piano recording of mine had a short 10 year copyright, if I croaked half way thru, the record/distribution company/ITMS/music.google or whatever would not make an extra penny of profit for the remaining 5 years, and you gotta do something with that dough so most resonably willing it to the kids works. Even mandatory donation to charities doesn't work because I can simply set up a charity solely dedicated to hiring my family.
I'm a total noob to android (happily on Republic Wireless for like 8 days now) but even I know that on the market page, the requested permissions will be whacked out (like why would Uno need access to send SMS messages?). The other thing on the market page, unless you're the lucky first user, is you'll have low reviews and comments complaining about how the app is a SMS spam sender etc etc.
From what little I've found, it looks like G+ could adsorb google health and keep on going? Much like contacts and profiles and blogger and latitude and probably other stuff have kind of merged in.
I'd be careful, though, with which circles get which posts. Maybe the mighty goog is rolling out tagged data, like data input as medical records can only be read by people tagged as medical professionals...
So I've heard google health described in the past as pretty much mint.com but for health records instead of finance records.
1) Is that even remotely close?
2) What is the goog equivalent of mint.com WRT finance?
I could see if goog isn't going to compete with mint in the finance aggregation arena, and obviously GH is flushed, so maybe they are not interesting in being in the general aggregation market?
A side question, since supposedly there are/. readers who used GH, could you specify what actionable items you'd done with G.H.? Not what data they want or you gave, not their business model, not theoretically this and that, but what actual actionable things happened? I'm thinking in terms of impact on my life, I'm not missing much with the end of GH.
A close side question is I can't figure out on line how a PHR makes money, other than vendor lockin tied with corporate contracts. Follow the money! Are they selling records, deep in the fine print, or selling statistical/demographic data, or spamming ads, or...
Though I still cringe when people say they "could care less."
That begs the question if inappropriate use of "begs the question" is like, worse, like, than like using the word like, like in as the first like word after every like lung inhalation. I think that is a full 360 degree reversal from your suggestion.
What are these guys, all we get is what they're not:
traditional dictionary publishing system
slow aggregation
curation
crowd-sourced effort
human intervention
I'm guessing they are also not street taco vendors, catholic priests or christmas tree salesmen. Great, that really narrows it down. So, what are they? I mean in terms of workflow, or data diagrams, or even user experience. And who are their users, anyway, unless they provide a really good reason, the rest of the world will continue to use wikipedia/wikimedia products, google (lets face it, mostly google), and the urban dictionary (dare I invoke encyclopedia dramatica?)
Means they're not playing games and pretending a non-manager is an exempt manager therefore exempt, a popular activity in the IT world. Hourly at 55600 means you get $41.70/hour for working overtime (storm repair work, high workload, etc), whereas salaried at 55600 means you get laughed at on/. for working uncompensated overtime.
Last decade I worked for a cableco and we had the opportunity of free training from this place called Jones/NCTI basically a paper binder self paced training system, fax in your chapter test answers, then study the next chapter, repeat. I took a couple classes for the heck of it (although it had nothing to do with my job, we had what amounted to a free site license, where any employee could sign up and it was rubber stamp approved). The frontline techs were required to take these classes, engineering staff not required. The classes were pretty good and basically explain in great detail very clearly (modern high school level, old middle school level) more or less how not to end up in a link from Joe_Dragon on/.
Simple individual case incompetence, is probably much more likely than company wide lack of training.
the other end of the line actually seemed annoyed with having to give up the one piece of info I actually needed
I don't think giving out DNS server IPs is in the script, and going off the script means that rep is going to be disciplined, and they had to exhaust the 15 minute script lest the rep get punished before being able to go off script, which also ruins the rep's required average call time which it probably something like 3 minutes. So you had them between a rock and a hard place, no matter what the rep did, once you called in, that rep is about to get disciplined, and no one likes no win scenarios.
Which at least fits in well with the management strategy of keeping the turnover rate of line employees up to keep benefit costs down.
Geeze, they lock it down to MAC address? What if you get a new PC? They can tell (or predict with some accuracy) if its a LAN card or a dedicated device via the "OUI" organizationally unique identifier portion of the MAC addrs, so their software will likely not fall for you telling them your apple airport is actually your new PC. They might fall for you telling them its your new mac mini, maybe.
What will work is installing a second NIC on the machine, installing debian linux or whatever, configure the new nic on your lan, set up a bit of iptables nat, and away you go. This pretty accurately describes my home setup for over a decade now (with newer lower power machines periodically installed, of course)
installed a “wireless gateway,” transforming an unused stairwell into a control room for the modem and router that can handle at least 24 devices at 22 megabits per second.
Anybody in this business more than 5 minutes, already knows you don't need an unused stairwell to hold a little apple airport. Unused Barbie Dollhouse stairwell, then I'll be impressed. My unused stairwell has a fileserver psuedo-nas, a small 3 unit compute cluster, a vlan capable ether switch with a zillion ports, a sbc6120 pdp-8 clone with an ethernet to serial telnet converter box, one of my ipphones that connects to the house asterisk ip pbx, and yes, I wedged an apple time machine box in there as a wireless gateway too.
Also not sure about the marketing figure of 24 devices. A/28 for the customer and a/29 for the public guest network? Uh, not. Probably just pulled than number out of a completely meaningless nether region.
Another rant is you don't need certifications in network engineering such as my long expired CCNP to... crimp a F-connector on a cable, or yank cat-5 thru a wall. I think this is one of those ever so trendy and tiresome "be glad you networking guys at least have some kind of job, because physicists and aerospace engineers are stuck driving taxis" story. Its very much like implying that you "Need" a french literature degree to be a mcdonalds fry cook because that seems to be the only job position hiring french lit grads now a days. You need the overtraining and overeducation due to intense competition and lack of jobs, not because the workload requires it.
Finally, $55K is for a national job not just flyover big cities on the coasts. In the semi-rural area where I live, three times that gets you basically my house, a nice landed estate, an upgraded non-mcmansion house, an acre or so to grow gardens or have the kids play or put up a ham radio antenna in a non-HOA neighborhood, more or less low crime, decent neighbors, great four season weather, tons of money left over for kids education, travel/vacations, excellent local schools, tech toys, gourmet food, etc. Two spouses income and if you want you can live a rather more elaborate lifestyle, like perhaps own a house on a lakeshore, or substantial land for a private hunting reserve, etc. So spare me the comments that $55K in the flyover coastal areas or Chicago means living in a cardboard box and eating mac n cheese in the park; we know that. I know that TW pay has at least a small correction factor for local cost of living. The difference in salary required for "the good life" varies across the US by darn near a factor of 10, so if you can get a mid paying job in a fantastic area, its pretty good indeed.
What the hell is that for a comparison? Next you'll say Angry Birds is comparable to Skyrim?
Yes it is, in gameplay hours. The standard deviation for AB is a heck of a lot narrower than Skyrim but the mean and probably median are mostly the same. In my family only 1 out of 4 (that "1" being me) has played more than an hour of Skyrim, but "everyone" seems to have suffered thru a roughly similar week long AB addiction.
Actually play the damn games before commenting on how much they should cost.
Exactly what I did. Well, I didn't play Crysis 2. A FPS where you play a marine running around a formerly human living environment with a rifle and shoot aliens and/or anything that moves. Talk about boooooorrrrrrrring.... Been there, done that.
This might be part of the reason why "hardcore" gamers are so dismissive of "casuals". If I only get a couple of hours out of a $60 game, I've made a huge mistake.
That's a pretty insightful idea. I could run with that and suggest its why "hardcore" game = remake of a sequel of the same tired old FPS.... Very boring, but its too scary to spend $60 on something that might be fun or might suck, so having basically ONE GAME with $60 level packs makes console purchasing much less stressful. Oh look, WWII level pack number 35235, etc.
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Not true, the asteroid is a bigger heatsink than the beacon, unless you're tracking something really small.
Doesn't this:
It seems like it'd be more useful to capture them and exploit them for their mineral content.
Depend directly on what you don't seem to like:
This is interesting and all, but I have to ask, how useful is this knowledge?
But TCOs are not just of academic interest. 'Once TCOs can be reliably and frequently identified early enough in a capture event they create an opportunity for a low-cost low-delta-v meteoroid return mission.
Boring. I'd put a whole freaking base on it while its in earth orbit, then see where it goes. If not a manned base, at least a robot research station. Should be pretty interesting to see where it ends up. At least a radio beacon?
Ahh from the users point of view thats either weird or not new or not new anymore.
1) My android phone can play google music while I do other stuff like the kindle app.
2) Again my android phone and my ios ipod touch have a notification system. I find it annoying. Just another inbox to check, whats yet one more...
3) Not even sure how to replicate this. I think you mean I could pair my phone to my wifes phone like an extension phone? Thats just ... weird. Isn't that just pairing to a automotive hands-free interface except the interface happens to be another phone? Thats so weird I don't even know if its new or not
Assuming its a long-used app like "G+" or ... what do people download and use forever... Maybe dedicated website addons like the ancestry.com app, but thats closely tied to a legit site not a bot farmer (It seems very reasonable to assume ancestry.com, my hometown bank, etc are not bot farmers).
Imagine if the example Uno app is entertaining for 10 hours so I never play again after two weeks, making the zombie go off in two months isn't going to work well when I'm already long gone.
Although ancient humans possessed the technology for space travel, their governments kept squabbling about the strategic direction of space projects, so they never got off the ground.
The ones that did get off the ground are literally the ones that are not being dug up and studied... think about it...
If future civilization dug up the "factory seconds" "push pull or drag trade in pile" at the local aerospace factory, they'd probably have a pretty negative view of us too. "why this nozzle found in a dumpster marked "scrap" (whatever that word means) wouldn't even pass magnefluxing for crack detection, I bet the ancients never got a thing off the ground"
Either that, or "those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it." Which is advice that I wish that half of our first-world countries' leaders would listen to. Fall of the Roman Empire, anyone?
The bad news is they've done so, and it's all good for them, so they're not changing course.
Note that what the general public would call the "decline" was actually for the endless bureaucrat drones their "peak", so from their point of view, let the good times roll! Yes they all got killed in the end, only AFTER the general public bore the brunt, so again they come out ahead. There is really not much downside for them, is there?
The folks who need to listen are the general public, but bread and circuses numb them.
now say the product never had a fighting chance because it relied on WebKit
Who cares. The apathy is shallower than that.
It never had a fighting chance with the users because it was just another wannabe. What was special about webos from the user point of view, other than some "HP" branding, which in the old days meant something, but for more than a decade that brand has come to mean outsourcing, downsizing, clueless dilbertian executive management, hatred/screwing over of customers, and failure? So its just like my friends phones except it's not cool, and it can't run any of their apps. How profoundly unappealing to the users, and not because of the intimate details of the development library. "My alternative phone is just like yours except its not as good, not as cool, doesn't do anything yours can't do, yet costs just as much". How can that not fly off the shelves?
It never had a fighting change with 3rd party devs because it was just another wannabe. A wannabe has a chance if it does or uses something new and exciting, to balance out the lack of popularity. You know what would be weird? A mobile OS written completely in Ruby and Erlang. How truly weird, yet fascinating. I'd take some of my valuable holiday vacation time to play with that platform even if I were the only owner of that kind of phone in the whole world. Thats how internal OS library choices drag in developers. But, its just tech I can play with in more convenient systems, F that, I'll play with Android instead, or more likely play Skyrim some more. Whoops.
So that brings me back to my original summary. Does anyone not a HP employee, in engineering or astroturfing, being paid to toe the corporate line want to develop on webos? My guess is, "no". Who cares.
Nobody wants or needs it seems to be the actual "fatal flaw".
The standard /. car analogy is the famous Alaskan "bridge to nowhere" was not fatally flawed because it would have been much more appealing to paint it a slightly different color, it was fatally flawed because "no one" (rounded down to zero) wanted or needed it, other than the guys who built it.
I'm curious - what do you think the new Christmas playlist will include that the old one didn't?
A lot of it is play time ratios. For example, boomer's parents probably thought Bing Crosby's 1930's era "White Christmas" was the cats meow (or whatever) so boomers grew up hearing it daily if not hourly on the radio, so 60 years later we're still reliving their childhood and have to hear "White Christmas" every hour on the radio from Halloween till New Years. On the other hand, boomer's parents probably thought that 50s/60s era "Santa Baby" was a bit too new and possibly scandalous, and the oldest boomers were too old to hear it during their childhood anyway, so we don't have to tolerate hearing "Santa Baby" quite as often. Oh we still have to sit thru both, but we have to hear one ten times more often.
It's hard to believe, but in about 2070, my kids "Phineas and Ferb Christmas music CD" which is all new christmas themed songs not just remakes of oldies, will probably be considered golden oldies, played every hour. Much like its weird to think about, but soon in nursing homes, Laurence Welk will be completely displaced by Led Zeppelin and the Stones. Weird but true.
Meh, still no good. Heirs should be contributing their own work, not living off yours.
The usual argument for heirs is something like ... Record company is selling records and tired of cutting licensing checks to musician, turns out its cheaper to hire a hitman or just simply pay the musician 10% of income in high grade heroin (hmm, how could that possibly end badly?). Musician croaks, recordings instantly hit public domain on day of death, therefore license payments stop, PROFIT!!!!
Another weird effect might be you can record whatever you want, but they will not release it until you have a terminal illness or already dead. Instead of pretending "music stars/idols" are singers because they lipsync, you'd just make the "music stars/idols" explicitly dancers and models, and just deal with the actual musicians being 90 years old. I don't think this is all that much of a change, really. This effect would have bizarre effects on culture, so Jimmy Hendrix still gets released in the 60s, Black Sabbath Paranoid still would not be released yet (unless ozzy has pickled himself recently while I wasn't looking), Nirvana would still have still released in the 90s but we wouldn't hear NiN for probably a couple more decades...
A reasonable compromise is if a piano recording of mine had a short 10 year copyright, if I croaked half way thru, the record/distribution company/ITMS/music.google or whatever would not make an extra penny of profit for the remaining 5 years, and you gotta do something with that dough so most resonably willing it to the kids works. Even mandatory donation to charities doesn't work because I can simply set up a charity solely dedicated to hiring my family.
I'm a total noob to android (happily on Republic Wireless for like 8 days now) but even I know that on the market page, the requested permissions will be whacked out (like why would Uno need access to send SMS messages?). The other thing on the market page, unless you're the lucky first user, is you'll have low reviews and comments complaining about how the app is a SMS spam sender etc etc.
other products such as Google Plus
From what little I've found, it looks like G+ could adsorb google health and keep on going? Much like contacts and profiles and blogger and latitude and probably other stuff have kind of merged in.
I'd be careful, though, with which circles get which posts. Maybe the mighty goog is rolling out tagged data, like data input as medical records can only be read by people tagged as medical professionals...
So I've heard google health described in the past as pretty much mint.com but for health records instead of finance records.
1) Is that even remotely close?
2) What is the goog equivalent of mint.com WRT finance?
I could see if goog isn't going to compete with mint in the finance aggregation arena, and obviously GH is flushed, so maybe they are not interesting in being in the general aggregation market?
A side question, since supposedly there are /. readers who used GH, could you specify what actionable items you'd done with G.H.? Not what data they want or you gave, not their business model, not theoretically this and that, but what actual actionable things happened? I'm thinking in terms of impact on my life, I'm not missing much with the end of GH.
A close side question is I can't figure out on line how a PHR makes money, other than vendor lockin tied with corporate contracts. Follow the money! Are they selling records, deep in the fine print, or selling statistical/demographic data, or spamming ads, or ...
I'm not sure why he's upset that most people are actually computer illiterate
Its like being upset that most people are "illiterate illiterate" or innumerate. How can we stay on top, without people to look down upon?
Of all the conditions of humanity to champion, I don't think ignorance lacks for help, you can probably stand down.
Though I still cringe when people say they "could care less."
That begs the question if inappropriate use of "begs the question" is like, worse, like, than like using the word like, like in as the first like word after every like lung inhalation. I think that is a full 360 degree reversal from your suggestion.
What are these guys, all we get is what they're not:
traditional dictionary publishing system
slow aggregation
curation
crowd-sourced effort
human intervention
I'm guessing they are also not street taco vendors, catholic priests or christmas tree salesmen. Great, that really narrows it down. So, what are they? I mean in terms of workflow, or data diagrams, or even user experience. And who are their users, anyway, unless they provide a really good reason, the rest of the world will continue to use wikipedia/wikimedia products, google (lets face it, mostly google), and the urban dictionary (dare I invoke encyclopedia dramatica?)
Means they're not playing games and pretending a non-manager is an exempt manager therefore exempt, a popular activity in the IT world. /. for working uncompensated overtime.
Hourly at 55600 means you get $41.70/hour for working overtime (storm repair work, high workload, etc), whereas salaried at 55600 means you get laughed at on
Last decade I worked for a cableco and we had the opportunity of free training from this place called Jones/NCTI basically a paper binder self paced training system, fax in your chapter test answers, then study the next chapter, repeat. I took a couple classes for the heck of it (although it had nothing to do with my job, we had what amounted to a free site license, where any employee could sign up and it was rubber stamp approved). The frontline techs were required to take these classes, engineering staff not required. The classes were pretty good and basically explain in great detail very clearly (modern high school level, old middle school level) more or less how not to end up in a link from Joe_Dragon on /.
Simple individual case incompetence, is probably much more likely than company wide lack of training.
the other end of the line actually seemed annoyed with having to give up the one piece of info I actually needed
I don't think giving out DNS server IPs is in the script, and going off the script means that rep is going to be disciplined, and they had to exhaust the 15 minute script lest the rep get punished before being able to go off script, which also ruins the rep's required average call time which it probably something like 3 minutes. So you had them between a rock and a hard place, no matter what the rep did, once you called in, that rep is about to get disciplined, and no one likes no win scenarios.
Which at least fits in well with the management strategy of keeping the turnover rate of line employees up to keep benefit costs down.
preventing [me] from getting more than 4 meg
unfortunately my choice is them or DSL that tops out at 7 meg for the same price
Hmm maybe you got the story crossed over but I'm not really seeing the problem here...
Geeze, they lock it down to MAC address? What if you get a new PC? They can tell (or predict with some accuracy) if its a LAN card or a dedicated device via the "OUI" organizationally unique identifier portion of the MAC addrs, so their software will likely not fall for you telling them your apple airport is actually your new PC. They might fall for you telling them its your new mac mini, maybe.
What will work is installing a second NIC on the machine, installing debian linux or whatever, configure the new nic on your lan, set up a bit of iptables nat, and away you go. This pretty accurately describes my home setup for over a decade now (with newer lower power machines periodically installed, of course)
installed a “wireless gateway,” transforming an unused stairwell into a control room for the modem and router that can handle at least 24 devices at 22 megabits per second.
Anybody in this business more than 5 minutes, already knows you don't need an unused stairwell to hold a little apple airport. Unused Barbie Dollhouse stairwell, then I'll be impressed. My unused stairwell has a fileserver psuedo-nas, a small 3 unit compute cluster, a vlan capable ether switch with a zillion ports, a sbc6120 pdp-8 clone with an ethernet to serial telnet converter box, one of my ipphones that connects to the house asterisk ip pbx, and yes, I wedged an apple time machine box in there as a wireless gateway too.
Also not sure about the marketing figure of 24 devices. A /28 for the customer and a /29 for the public guest network? Uh, not. Probably just pulled than number out of a completely meaningless nether region.
Another rant is you don't need certifications in network engineering such as my long expired CCNP to ... crimp a F-connector on a cable, or yank cat-5 thru a wall. I think this is one of those ever so trendy and tiresome "be glad you networking guys at least have some kind of job, because physicists and aerospace engineers are stuck driving taxis" story. Its very much like implying that you "Need" a french literature degree to be a mcdonalds fry cook because that seems to be the only job position hiring french lit grads now a days. You need the overtraining and overeducation due to intense competition and lack of jobs, not because the workload requires it.
Finally, $55K is for a national job not just flyover big cities on the coasts. In the semi-rural area where I live, three times that gets you basically my house, a nice landed estate, an upgraded non-mcmansion house, an acre or so to grow gardens or have the kids play or put up a ham radio antenna in a non-HOA neighborhood, more or less low crime, decent neighbors, great four season weather, tons of money left over for kids education, travel/vacations, excellent local schools, tech toys, gourmet food, etc. Two spouses income and if you want you can live a rather more elaborate lifestyle, like perhaps own a house on a lakeshore, or substantial land for a private hunting reserve, etc. So spare me the comments that $55K in the flyover coastal areas or Chicago means living in a cardboard box and eating mac n cheese in the park; we know that. I know that TW pay has at least a small correction factor for local cost of living. The difference in salary required for "the good life" varies across the US by darn near a factor of 10, so if you can get a mid paying job in a fantastic area, its pretty good indeed.
What the hell is that for a comparison? Next you'll say Angry Birds is comparable to Skyrim?
Yes it is, in gameplay hours. The standard deviation for AB is a heck of a lot narrower than Skyrim but the mean and probably median are mostly the same. In my family only 1 out of 4 (that "1" being me) has played more than an hour of Skyrim, but "everyone" seems to have suffered thru a roughly similar week long AB addiction.
Actually play the damn games before commenting on how much they should cost.
Exactly what I did. Well, I didn't play Crysis 2. A FPS where you play a marine running around a formerly human living environment with a rifle and shoot aliens and/or anything that moves. Talk about boooooorrrrrrrring.... Been there, done that.
This might be part of the reason why "hardcore" gamers are so dismissive of "casuals". If I only get a couple of hours out of a $60 game, I've made a huge mistake.
That's a pretty insightful idea. I could run with that and suggest its why "hardcore" game = remake of a sequel of the same tired old FPS .... Very boring, but its too scary to spend $60 on something that might be fun or might suck, so having basically ONE GAME with $60 level packs makes console purchasing much less stressful. Oh look, WWII level pack number 35235, etc.
Well in most cases when game is released on multiple platforms, they are about 25% cheaper on the PC than xbox or PS3 (at least in the UK).
I assume this is because the games are harded to pirate on a console, they can get away with pricing it higher.
Because the graphics are much lower res on the console than on a reasonable PC? Oh wait that argument doesn't work.
Must be the inferior hand held controller interface makes it harder to play on consoles?