Only Motorola Mobility (cell phone division) was sold off to Google... I don't know that the research division was with that though. This could still be Motorola of old.
You're talking lithium cell rechargeable batteries, which aren't exactly cheap. Just look at 6-cell laptop batteries, now multiply by a couple hundred, that's pretty pricey. That combined with production costs is a pretty penny, why the premium is usually $20-30K over a comparible petro-fueled car.
Many apps will store their settings in the user's AppData directory structure... For the most part I haven't seen much more in the registry beyond app install/uninstall information. There are some apps that are more badly behaved then others... also, you can export a key from the registry for import on another system.
Put all byod devices on a VLAN with a transparent proxy allowing HTTP and DNS requests only, in addition to some restricted targets/ports until authenticated.. from there (after authentication) you can offer access similar to VPN users. You don't have to give *everyone* access to everything.
I do a lot of the same for work... Though in my last job got to dabble with NodeJS and MongoDB a bit... now I'm in "Enterprise" development mode, WCF FTW!
My start was completely different... mostly application macros and shell scripts doing more creative work, until in 1996 I wanted to have some pretty simple interactions in a web design... the staff programmer told me it wasn't possible, I picked up a bit JS book, ate through it over the weekend, and did it myself the following Monday. Kind of fell into doing more after that. Was early on enough that LiveScript was pretty common and ASP was just coming out (JScript and VBScript), from there some VB and SQL. From there C# and a few other languages (Perl, Ruby, Python, F#, etc), did about one a year for almost a decade though don't remember enough of any of them to be productive in without a couple weeks to come up to speed.
These days it's still mostly C# (mostly ASP.Net and MVC stuff)... I do find the most compelling story is with JS + NodeJS + MongoDB for small-mid size projects (warts and all). Hoping that it gains more traction in corporate spaces.
Ouch... lets just scale the risk of memory leaks out a lot while we're at it...
I don't care for the WebForms event model (lots of bloat and overhead), but the ASP.Net MVC model is pretty efficient (even compared to C) at scale. I would also note there is Mono if you want to do cross platform.Net (personally, I think it's more painful to configure than my time is worth and would rather buy an MS license for Windows Web Server in a business environment). I've actually been considering taking my handful of personal-use.Net sites over to Mono.
I've been finding lately that I really like NodeJS and Express more than anything else out there. Yeah, I don't get a lot of the IDE benefits (WebStorm is nice enough for me), but the paradigm is so much cleaner.
I don't know that it was poorly designed... I think of it as mostly an extension to Perl, not that I write much of either. It doesn't really appeal to me, but that doesn't mean one can't appreciate it as a language. I've been a fan of JS before all the cool kids took notice, but it has a lot of warts, just the same, it's garnered a lot of attention for use in certain scenarios where it is a good fit, perhaps JS+NodeJS isn't as good a fit as Lua+Luvit, but it works, and is a widely used language.
That said, I've done most of my server-side coding for the better part of a decade in C# (.Net). I've seen plenty of people doing stupid stuff in the language/platform. You can build crap in any platform... not to mention that platform vulnerabilities happen, though imho less often than diy platforms tend to have. It's important to keep up on security updates.
The last two times I ran Linux on my desktop I ran into issues that weren't impossible to overcome, just a pain in the ass to deal with... I had a desktop with two graphics cards in sli, and two monitors.. getting them both working in 2006 was a pain, I know that was seven years ago, but still... far harder than it should have been.. in 2007, my laptop was running fine, upgraded to the latest ubuntu, nothing but problems.. In the first case, XP/Vista were less trouble, in the second, Win7 RC1 ran better... I also ran PC-BSD for a month, which was probably the nicest experience I've had with something outside win/osx on my main desktop, but still had issues with virtual machines that was a no-go.
Given, my experiences are pretty dated, and things have gotten better... for me, linux is on the server(s) or in a virtual machine... every time I've tried to make it my primary OS has been met with heartache and pain. I replaced my main desktop a couple months ago, and tried a few Linux variants.. The first time, I installed on my SSD, then when I plugged in my other hard drives, it still booted, but an update to Grub screwed things up and it wouldn't boot any longer. This was after 3 hours of time to get my displays working properly.... I wasn't willing to spend another day on the issue, so back to Windows I went. I really like Linux.. and I want to make it my primary desktop, but I don't have extra hours and days to tinker with problems an over-the-wire update causes... let alone the initial setup time which I really felt was unreasonable.
I've considered putting it as my primary on my macbook, but similar to windows, the environment pretty much works out of the box, and brew takes things a long way towards how I want it to work. Linux is close to 20 years old.. and still seems to be more crusty for desktop users than windows was a decade and a half ago in a lot of ways. In the end, I think Android may be a better desktop interface than what's currently on offer from most of the desktop bases in the Linux community, which is just plain sad... I really hope something good comes out of it all, I don't like being tethered to Windows or OSX... I don't like the constraints... but they work, with far fewer issues... the biggest ones being security related... I think that Windows is getting secure faster than Linux is getting friendlier, or at least easier to get up and running with.
Exactly, then again, there are plenty of non-cpu intensive loads.. part of the popularity and growth of NodeJS is that a lot of jobs are IO bound, and even a lot of web services/sites are spending most of their time waiting on files, or network resources/services... 10 arm CPU's handling 10K simultaneous requests, is as good as 1 uber-cpu handling 10K simultaneous requests... for that matter, there's been a lot of work done in MessageQueue routing, and distributed databases... ARM is a pretty good fit for an environment designed to scale horizontally. Some of the first things I wanted to try on my Raspberry Pi were MongoDB and NodeJS, with the thought that a couple dozen of them might work better with more resilience than a few larger systems...
For the record, I think addressing a bit more memory, and larger/faster storage channels are what's holding back some of these systems.. which aren't a problem at super-computer scale.. but for someone wanting to put together a small cluster, it gets irritating.
The problem is when they have the fat-haze glasses on and assume every condition is related to their weight, and a more serious condition goes untreated for years because of it. It happens a lot with overweight people.
Another difference between being fat and addictions like alcohol, drugs or even sex... is you can live without alcohol, drugs, or sex.... you can't live without food. Most addictions you cut what you are addicted to out of your life... how does that work with food?
Then show me an instance of twins separated when very young, who later in life have one thin, one fat... There's been several cases of paternal twins separated at birth to come together later in life, and in every case, their body types are similar... raised in differing environments... similar outcome.
I followed the "recommended" diet by several doctors for "normal" intake, including the USDA recommendations, and a lot of others.. it's only in the past year that I eliminated the vast majority of starches and processed carbs from my diet that has a persistent dent ever been made. I had a case of Guillain-Barre about 3 years ago, that sapped a lot of what little mobility I had... was using a cane for several months after. I was put on so many medications over the years, and so many negative reactions, that late last year, I finally said fuck it... stopped taking everything.. cut most of the starches from my diet (so my blood sugar had half a chance of staying in check, and I'm full-on insulin resistance at this point)... I'm doing better now than I was before the Guillain-Barre event... finally.
I hate the "nutrition" industry as a whole, I read labels, I avoid trans-fats, I avoid starches, carbs and a lot of other things.. I eat more fruit and vegetables, I eat a lot of meat. And, I'm doing better... there are almost no grains of any kind in my diet (I slip about two meals a week, and grab a sandwich, or something similar)... It's a lot more expensive eating this way, and more year over year lately than I can remember... If I knew now at 19, I would have been a lot better off... I've yo-yo'd at least a ton of weight (literally).... My highest was 460#... at 19, I was 290#, strong as an ox, and healthy... nearly 20 years of "diet and exercise" have done more harm than good, my knees are shot, I've got pretty bad type 2 diabetes, and not nearly as strong or healthy. I enjoyed a lot of activity back then, walking/hiking... I also much preferred a diet closer to what I eat now... If I'd not tried to exercise (what was too much, injuries) and just walking/hiking, or eat a recommended diet (lots of whole grains, low fat)... I'd be better off than I am now.
I would not be opposed to a socialized health care program that stands a chance in hell of working... what we got here was something to sate the insurance companies, more than the citizens, at a higher cost, with so many exceptions it wasn't worth doing in the first place.
I'd rather they take the money from VA benefits, medicare, medicate, and deferments to state programs, and fund an NPO insurance company to cover the same people, that any person/business can use as a baseline options... and act as a point where other insurance companies can compete. Of course, you'd have to have a provision that the congress-critters, federal employees and their families have to use this option in order for it to work.
I also wouldn't mind if they made it a requirement for anyone doing work for a company that puts in more than 16 hours a week (include part timers) to provide insurance, and for unemployment benefits to be expanded to include coverage for cobra policies (cobra being extended coverage after employment ends). That would cover the vast majority of the population not already covered by other means. Of course, I'd also make open billing from medical establishments a priority. Meaning medical institutions must provide average, high and low charges/fees for a given procedure.
The above is totally against my Libertarian nature, but the pragmatist inside me sees all the waste our current systems have, and would simply prefer something better first.
As someone who regularly uses Mac and Windows, Windows is closer to the Mac, than Unity is to either of them (Maybe not Windows 8, but Windows 7 for certain)
The bulk of the cost was the drives themselves, the system cost beyond the drives was maybe 5 or 6 hundred, including the 8-drive card (in standalone mode) and 8087-sata breakout cable.
Corporations are *NOT* people.... if the owner of a company wants to donate campaign funds.. awesome.. companies shouldn't... if they have the money for charity and political contributions... that should just be redistributed back as investor dividends, and those *people* can make their own contributions.
Corporations are artificial entities created and allowed by the government to allow people to pool funds for business purposes... they should not be allowed a *voice* and in some cases their officers should definitively be criminally charged in some cases.
I'm honestly hoping to get 6-8 years out of the NAS box I built last year... I've got Raid-Z2 (double parity) and two hot-spares... When it's full, as long as I don't lose more than two drives in less than two days, I should be fine... now remembering which drives are which a few years from now should one go bad, that's a different story. 12 WD Green 3TB drives. 22TB of relatively safe storage... I do have backups for *really* critical stuff.. but would be a pain to lose the 4.5TB already on the thing.
That said, dropping $2K on hardware for storage more than once in half a decade sounds insane to me. I upgraded from my 4TB nas box that I filled up in about 2.5 years.
Well, if you have a modern browser, there's twelephone/twitter... I would expect more WebRTC based services to pop up in the near future that are very easy to use/setup.
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God created Google to index everything so he wouldn't have to think about it all...
Only Motorola Mobility (cell phone division) was sold off to Google... I don't know that the research division was with that though. This could still be Motorola of old.
Not that I believe in voodoo/magic... but the bible talks about something like this too... requirement for trade etc.
I also remember something similar in the movie Demolition Man as well... Are you an Oscar Mayer Weiner?
You're talking lithium cell rechargeable batteries, which aren't exactly cheap. Just look at 6-cell laptop batteries, now multiply by a couple hundred, that's pretty pricey. That combined with production costs is a pretty penny, why the premium is usually $20-30K over a comparible petro-fueled car.
What you are talking about is pretty much what WinRT is... though MS only released it for closed deployments to locked down ARM devices... :-(
Many apps will store their settings in the user's AppData directory structure... For the most part I haven't seen much more in the registry beyond app install/uninstall information. There are some apps that are more badly behaved then others... also, you can export a key from the registry for import on another system.
I'm pretty sure the graphics drivers in Linux run in kernel space...
Put all byod devices on a VLAN with a transparent proxy allowing HTTP and DNS requests only, in addition to some restricted targets/ports until authenticated.. from there (after authentication) you can offer access similar to VPN users. You don't have to give *everyone* access to everything.
I do a lot of the same for work... Though in my last job got to dabble with NodeJS and MongoDB a bit... now I'm in "Enterprise" development mode, WCF FTW!
My start was completely different... mostly application macros and shell scripts doing more creative work, until in 1996 I wanted to have some pretty simple interactions in a web design... the staff programmer told me it wasn't possible, I picked up a bit JS book, ate through it over the weekend, and did it myself the following Monday. Kind of fell into doing more after that. Was early on enough that LiveScript was pretty common and ASP was just coming out (JScript and VBScript), from there some VB and SQL. From there C# and a few other languages (Perl, Ruby, Python, F#, etc), did about one a year for almost a decade though don't remember enough of any of them to be productive in without a couple weeks to come up to speed.
These days it's still mostly C# (mostly ASP.Net and MVC stuff)... I do find the most compelling story is with JS + NodeJS + MongoDB for small-mid size projects (warts and all). Hoping that it gains more traction in corporate spaces.
They don't even need to update the Rails version, just change the default encryption key used for the secure cookies token(s).
Ouch... lets just scale the risk of memory leaks out a lot while we're at it...
.Net (personally, I think it's more painful to configure than my time is worth and would rather buy an MS license for Windows Web Server in a business environment). I've actually been considering taking my handful of personal-use .Net sites over to Mono.
I don't care for the WebForms event model (lots of bloat and overhead), but the ASP.Net MVC model is pretty efficient (even compared to C) at scale. I would also note there is Mono if you want to do cross platform
I've been finding lately that I really like NodeJS and Express more than anything else out there. Yeah, I don't get a lot of the IDE benefits (WebStorm is nice enough for me), but the paradigm is so much cleaner.
The cool kids have mostly moved on to NodeJS and Express. I like NodeJS and Express myself, but was into JS long before all the cool kids came along.
I don't know that it was poorly designed... I think of it as mostly an extension to Perl, not that I write much of either. It doesn't really appeal to me, but that doesn't mean one can't appreciate it as a language. I've been a fan of JS before all the cool kids took notice, but it has a lot of warts, just the same, it's garnered a lot of attention for use in certain scenarios where it is a good fit, perhaps JS+NodeJS isn't as good a fit as Lua+Luvit, but it works, and is a widely used language.
That said, I've done most of my server-side coding for the better part of a decade in C# (.Net). I've seen plenty of people doing stupid stuff in the language/platform. You can build crap in any platform... not to mention that platform vulnerabilities happen, though imho less often than diy platforms tend to have. It's important to keep up on security updates.
The last two times I ran Linux on my desktop I ran into issues that weren't impossible to overcome, just a pain in the ass to deal with... I had a desktop with two graphics cards in sli, and two monitors.. getting them both working in 2006 was a pain, I know that was seven years ago, but still... far harder than it should have been.. in 2007, my laptop was running fine, upgraded to the latest ubuntu, nothing but problems.. In the first case, XP/Vista were less trouble, in the second, Win7 RC1 ran better... I also ran PC-BSD for a month, which was probably the nicest experience I've had with something outside win/osx on my main desktop, but still had issues with virtual machines that was a no-go.
Given, my experiences are pretty dated, and things have gotten better... for me, linux is on the server(s) or in a virtual machine... every time I've tried to make it my primary OS has been met with heartache and pain. I replaced my main desktop a couple months ago, and tried a few Linux variants.. The first time, I installed on my SSD, then when I plugged in my other hard drives, it still booted, but an update to Grub screwed things up and it wouldn't boot any longer. This was after 3 hours of time to get my displays working properly.... I wasn't willing to spend another day on the issue, so back to Windows I went. I really like Linux.. and I want to make it my primary desktop, but I don't have extra hours and days to tinker with problems an over-the-wire update causes... let alone the initial setup time which I really felt was unreasonable.
I've considered putting it as my primary on my macbook, but similar to windows, the environment pretty much works out of the box, and brew takes things a long way towards how I want it to work. Linux is close to 20 years old.. and still seems to be more crusty for desktop users than windows was a decade and a half ago in a lot of ways. In the end, I think Android may be a better desktop interface than what's currently on offer from most of the desktop bases in the Linux community, which is just plain sad... I really hope something good comes out of it all, I don't like being tethered to Windows or OSX... I don't like the constraints... but they work, with far fewer issues... the biggest ones being security related... I think that Windows is getting secure faster than Linux is getting friendlier, or at least easier to get up and running with.
Exactly, then again, there are plenty of non-cpu intensive loads.. part of the popularity and growth of NodeJS is that a lot of jobs are IO bound, and even a lot of web services/sites are spending most of their time waiting on files, or network resources/services... 10 arm CPU's handling 10K simultaneous requests, is as good as 1 uber-cpu handling 10K simultaneous requests... for that matter, there's been a lot of work done in MessageQueue routing, and distributed databases... ARM is a pretty good fit for an environment designed to scale horizontally. Some of the first things I wanted to try on my Raspberry Pi were MongoDB and NodeJS, with the thought that a couple dozen of them might work better with more resilience than a few larger systems...
For the record, I think addressing a bit more memory, and larger/faster storage channels are what's holding back some of these systems.. which aren't a problem at super-computer scale.. but for someone wanting to put together a small cluster, it gets irritating.
The problem is when they have the fat-haze glasses on and assume every condition is related to their weight, and a more serious condition goes untreated for years because of it. It happens a lot with overweight people.
Another difference between being fat and addictions like alcohol, drugs or even sex... is you can live without alcohol, drugs, or sex.... you can't live without food. Most addictions you cut what you are addicted to out of your life... how does that work with food?
Then show me an instance of twins separated when very young, who later in life have one thin, one fat... There's been several cases of paternal twins separated at birth to come together later in life, and in every case, their body types are similar... raised in differing environments... similar outcome.
I followed the "recommended" diet by several doctors for "normal" intake, including the USDA recommendations, and a lot of others.. it's only in the past year that I eliminated the vast majority of starches and processed carbs from my diet that has a persistent dent ever been made. I had a case of Guillain-Barre about 3 years ago, that sapped a lot of what little mobility I had... was using a cane for several months after. I was put on so many medications over the years, and so many negative reactions, that late last year, I finally said fuck it... stopped taking everything.. cut most of the starches from my diet (so my blood sugar had half a chance of staying in check, and I'm full-on insulin resistance at this point)... I'm doing better now than I was before the Guillain-Barre event... finally.
I hate the "nutrition" industry as a whole, I read labels, I avoid trans-fats, I avoid starches, carbs and a lot of other things.. I eat more fruit and vegetables, I eat a lot of meat. And, I'm doing better... there are almost no grains of any kind in my diet (I slip about two meals a week, and grab a sandwich, or something similar)... It's a lot more expensive eating this way, and more year over year lately than I can remember... If I knew now at 19, I would have been a lot better off... I've yo-yo'd at least a ton of weight (literally).... My highest was 460#... at 19, I was 290#, strong as an ox, and healthy... nearly 20 years of "diet and exercise" have done more harm than good, my knees are shot, I've got pretty bad type 2 diabetes, and not nearly as strong or healthy. I enjoyed a lot of activity back then, walking/hiking... I also much preferred a diet closer to what I eat now... If I'd not tried to exercise (what was too much, injuries) and just walking/hiking, or eat a recommended diet (lots of whole grains, low fat)... I'd be better off than I am now.
I would not be opposed to a socialized health care program that stands a chance in hell of working... what we got here was something to sate the insurance companies, more than the citizens, at a higher cost, with so many exceptions it wasn't worth doing in the first place.
I'd rather they take the money from VA benefits, medicare, medicate, and deferments to state programs, and fund an NPO insurance company to cover the same people, that any person/business can use as a baseline options... and act as a point where other insurance companies can compete. Of course, you'd have to have a provision that the congress-critters, federal employees and their families have to use this option in order for it to work.
I also wouldn't mind if they made it a requirement for anyone doing work for a company that puts in more than 16 hours a week (include part timers) to provide insurance, and for unemployment benefits to be expanded to include coverage for cobra policies (cobra being extended coverage after employment ends). That would cover the vast majority of the population not already covered by other means. Of course, I'd also make open billing from medical establishments a priority. Meaning medical institutions must provide average, high and low charges/fees for a given procedure.
The above is totally against my Libertarian nature, but the pragmatist inside me sees all the waste our current systems have, and would simply prefer something better first.
As someone who regularly uses Mac and Windows, Windows is closer to the Mac, than Unity is to either of them (Maybe not Windows 8, but Windows 7 for certain)
The bulk of the cost was the drives themselves, the system cost beyond the drives was maybe 5 or 6 hundred, including the 8-drive card (in standalone mode) and 8087-sata breakout cable.
Which, if they were smart, they would have offered 3 years ago before competing devices started adding competitive features.
Corporations are *NOT* people.... if the owner of a company wants to donate campaign funds.. awesome.. companies shouldn't... if they have the money for charity and political contributions... that should just be redistributed back as investor dividends, and those *people* can make their own contributions.
Corporations are artificial entities created and allowed by the government to allow people to pool funds for business purposes... they should not be allowed a *voice* and in some cases their officers should definitively be criminally charged in some cases.
And NY/NJ don't have anything on Chicago or Detroit in terms of corruption... The irony is that they're so corrupt, stuff actually gets done.
I'm honestly hoping to get 6-8 years out of the NAS box I built last year... I've got Raid-Z2 (double parity) and two hot-spares... When it's full, as long as I don't lose more than two drives in less than two days, I should be fine... now remembering which drives are which a few years from now should one go bad, that's a different story. 12 WD Green 3TB drives. 22TB of relatively safe storage... I do have backups for *really* critical stuff.. but would be a pain to lose the 4.5TB already on the thing.
That said, dropping $2K on hardware for storage more than once in half a decade sounds insane to me. I upgraded from my 4TB nas box that I filled up in about 2.5 years.
Well, if you have a modern browser, there's twelephone/twitter ... I would expect more WebRTC based services to pop up in the near future that are very easy to use/setup.