you said you don't have any formal knowledge on CS. then don't think about neural networks yet, you have to build from the ground up. you need to take algorithms (doesn't matter if you're a programmer) and language theory (languages, regex,... turing machines) at the very least. after that you can start experimenting with AI.
Take a moment to think. You say you hate people who bluff about their skills and get a job. If they don't have the skills and they still succeed, then you, a certified admin, do have the skills. You're just a PUSSY, you're scared, you should try something else if you don't like this industry. This is how it works -- get used to it. Next time, bluff about your skills and you will get a job. Don't get scared if it seems too big: you're a cert. linux admin, you CAN do it. You know very well that training only gets you so far, the rest is practice, trial and error. So stop whining now and prove yourself better than these kids. BTW, I also have competition, clients usually call me to say they found someone that will do it cheaper than me. I just tell them, well, what are you waiting for? They're just bluffing, they're scared of hiring the cheap option. And if they do, they call you a couple of months later, desperate, and that's where you get your sweet revenge.
I really really really hope you will royally screw up some day, end up as news, and get fired. Who the fuck do you think you are to give that kind of "advice"? You seem to be convinced that "trained, skilled people" don't make mistakes. Wrong, we all make mistakes, no matter how trained, skilled, or experienced you are. Instead of that troll of a comment, why don't you post a list of books he can read, sites he can visit, or stuff he can get? Oh, because you're just a stupid troll who has no idea either? Thought so.
and you sound like you're trying to save management a few cents here and there. you know where that leads to? removing 1 olive from each salad served in first class, to save $40.000 a year.
that kind of thinking is what leaving the US way behind broadband providers in the rest of the world, starting with japan where 100mbps residential connections are common. the max you're getting in the US is 20 or 30 mbit fios. FAIL. point? It's doable, it's just big corps trying to convince YOU (and succeeding) what's setting you back.
and btw a 12x12 fibre can hold 40gbps in each fibre or 5.76Tbps combined. asshole.
First: when you lay fibre, you usually install 12 or 16 buffers of 12 fibres each, totaling 96/96 fibres (full duplex). 40Gbps per fibre is 3.8Tbps total.
Second: do some basic math, will ya? there are, what? 50 million residential broadband connections in the US? Each one pays what? $ 10 a month? Isn't that 500M a month, or 6 Billion a year, only from residential connections? I think that's a fucking lot of money to cover for the "expenses"? And considering that the internet networks run side-by-side with the cellular networks, and that phone companies have more than 300 million subscribers paying what? $20 a month? Or about 72Bn a year?
You know what? Just -- just shut the fuck up. Oh and by the way, in Tokyo (among other places) they have 100Mbps residential connections for about the same prace. And their networks don't melt. And they pay the same price for the networking gear.
the BIG SWITCH can be as big as a Cisco CRS-1, with a switching capacity of 92 TERABITS PER SECOND. I think that's enough for switching the whole internet, considering this article, dated 2005: http://gigaom.com/2005/09/08/us-still-the-bandwidth-daddy/
and by the way, the CRS-1 was released 4 years ago. cunt.
ISPs get their bandwidth from PEERING AGREEMENTS, if you don't know what that is, I'll spell it out for you:
THEY THROW A FIBRE FROM EACH BIG ISP TO A BIG SWITCH AND EXCHANGE TRAFFIC FREELY
That is correct: they buy nothing and sell you internet. What you're paying is operational costs, NOT product. A T1 line has nothing to do with this because the bonus you pay is for GOOD support and guaranteed service.
It shows that the welding shut and burying is a stupid idea in the first place.
The poster wasn't asking that. He was asking how to make the information available 25 years later after it's been buried. If you don't have an answer for that, there's a whole internet of things where you can stick your nose into. Just try to keep on topic. Jeez.
1. you think the foam mattresses are made of grows on trees? I know it doesn't. The engineer here in charge of QC discards complete batches of the stuff if there's an error in the mix or process.
2. seriously, I really think there must be some talented chinese that can do the job right. I'm also in the consumer electronics area, and most of the TV's we fix are made in Brazil or Argentina, and they're really really picky about finishings. Most new stuff now is shiny black and I bet that one isn't particularly easy to make. And I can tell you Philips products made in Argentina, Brazil and China have the same quality of finishing in the plastics as the ones made in the Netherlands. My point wasn't that you can just blow and make legos (we have a saying in my language "it's not just blowing and making bottles"), but that you can certainly do it right anywhere in the world. QC is the key, not country of origin (we can say that German-made BMWs are better than US-made ones, for that matter. Cause Germany is far more automated than the US *hint*illegal mexicans*hint*).
ok temperature? pressure? sensors anyone? come on, when you have a process like that, they know every aspect of it, every variable has been figured out and programmed into the machine. there's no magic involved, no "this is so secret we can't tell anyone". you just fucking program the machine to keep that shit at the right pressure and temperature and that's it.
I see no reason why these molds can't be made in whatever place they make them and shipped to china for manufacturing, and now for some reality check, so excuse the upper case:
THERE'S OVER ONE FUCKING BILLION CHINESE, ARE YOU GOING TO TELL ME THAT THEY CAN'T FIND ONE ENGINEER THAT CAN DO IT RIGHT? CHINA MAKES RAM CHIPS, MICROPROCESSORS, HARD FUCKING DRIVES, LCD PANELS, PLASMA SCREENS, AND THEY CAN'T MAKE A GOD DAMN LEGO?
Besides, "important" jobs are always handled by non-locals (if it's an american company, then the manager is american).
There's a misconception that chinese products are "bad". Chinese products are as good as you're willing to pay for. It's like an internet connection, you can get a regular DSL line, or get a T3 with an SLA.
But we got two things mixed in this discussion: quality and price. My point is that stuff manufactured in china doesn't have to be bad. It can be as good as stuff made in europe. The difference is how they cut down on personnel in europe, and I know this first hand. I work for a mattress factory and we buy big machines. But the salesman is always showing us two options: the full auto or the semi auto. Example: to sew the mattress top to the sides you sew all around, flip the mattress and sew the other side, then remove it and load another one. The full-auto machine has a huge mechanism (that takes up a lot of room too) that flips the mattress and tilts it off the table when it's done. The semi-auto doesn't have that. The salesman always suggest we buy the semi-auto, given that it has low mantainance costs, and it's not really cost-effective (example: full auto vs semi-auto is $50K vs $25K. That difference is the YEARLY salary of 4 or 5 employees in the factory I work (in Argentina). That's why you see such nice, tidy, clean european factories. They have to be clean so that delicate machines can work, tidy so that automated transport machines can roll, and nice to keep the few employees left happy.
If you ever try to manufacture something in China they're very happy to do it. They require all CAD drawings and stuff like that, and you have to specify every aspect of it. They will ask you what material, tolerances... and that's where you can be cheap, especially in tolerances. Need tighter tolerances? No problem, but the price is going to be much higher. Want to bring your own raw materials? No problem. Want them to develop a process to make your product? They even go as far as that. You supply them with an idea, they make it happen, you just have to be very specific about what you want.
so what's your point? Factories move to china for low wages,but obviously here that's not a problem because the process is completely automatic. You only need a couple of operators to change the molds and some QC, that's about it.
Doing this in China could cost just a little less than doing it in Denmark, proving that legos are expensive "just because", and not because the manufacturing process is necessarily complex to require human intervention in every stage (like, say, clothes, that need to be sewn manually).
It's high tech not to have high quality, but to have less operators. You can either have low automatization in factories in low wage countries or high automatization in high wage countries, but the quality is the same (is plastic, god damn it. The product is only as good as the plastic it's made of).
I know very well how these things react to heat. In my area 42-45 degrees (celsius!) aren't unusual, and these things can't handle it. I stacked my router (routerboard.com, bare board) gigabit switch (3com officeconnect 8-port), fast ethernet switch (3com officeconnect 16-port), adsl modem (zoom X5), access point (airlive?).
The 16-port at the bottom was a stackable (it even has an accessory that comes in the box), it was happy all along. The routerboard is pretty cool even at 50 degree ambient, but the modem just didn't want to work that hot. It was sandwiched between the routerboard and the 8-port gigabit switch. I had to place an 80mm low noise fan in one side of the stack and the temperature dropped A LOT, no more problems since.
As a side note, the 8-port 3com was so hot that the bottom label got loose (!) but the thing kept working. It has TINY holes at the sides but enough for the fan. The 16-port, designed to be stackable, has a much clever "convective" cooling and heatsinks on the two chips. Also the fact that the case is made of metal helps a lot too.
You should check your connection, your comments for the other guys running pentium 2's with Linux or BSD as routers didn't go through. Or maybe you are just trolling him because he's using Windows.
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Not true.
http://merlin.obs.coe.int/iris/2005/2/article35.en.html
you need all 4 pairs for gigabit ethernet.
you said you don't have any formal knowledge on CS. then don't think about neural networks yet, you have to build from the ground up. you need to take algorithms (doesn't matter if you're a programmer) and language theory (languages, regex, ... turing machines) at the very least. after that you can start experimenting with AI.
you mean,it's no longer a snapshot.
Some people learn from their mistakes, but smart people learn from other people's mistakes.
http://dar.linux.free.fr/ try dar. It's like tar but for disks. it also generates PAR files (FEC data) which can help rebuild damaged media.
So the fact that a language is "hard" to figure out, means it's better?
Take a moment to think. You say you hate people who bluff about their skills and get a job. If they don't have the skills and they still succeed, then you, a certified admin, do have the skills. You're just a PUSSY, you're scared, you should try something else if you don't like this industry. This is how it works -- get used to it. Next time, bluff about your skills and you will get a job. Don't get scared if it seems too big: you're a cert. linux admin, you CAN do it. You know very well that training only gets you so far, the rest is practice, trial and error. So stop whining now and prove yourself better than these kids.
BTW, I also have competition, clients usually call me to say they found someone that will do it cheaper than me. I just tell them, well, what are you waiting for? They're just bluffing, they're scared of hiring the cheap option. And if they do, they call you a couple of months later, desperate, and that's where you get your sweet revenge.
I really really really hope you will royally screw up some day, end up as news, and get fired. Who the fuck do you think you are to give that kind of "advice"? You seem to be convinced that "trained, skilled people" don't make mistakes. Wrong, we all make mistakes, no matter how trained, skilled, or experienced you are. Instead of that troll of a comment, why don't you post a list of books he can read, sites he can visit, or stuff he can get? Oh, because you're just a stupid troll who has no idea either? Thought so.
and you sound like you're trying to save management a few cents here and there. you know where that leads to? removing 1 olive from each salad served in first class, to save $40.000 a year.
that kind of thinking is what leaving the US way behind broadband providers in the rest of the world, starting with japan where 100mbps residential connections are common. the max you're getting in the US is 20 or 30 mbit fios. FAIL. point? It's doable, it's just big corps trying to convince YOU (and succeeding) what's setting you back.
and btw a 12x12 fibre can hold 40gbps in each fibre or 5.76Tbps combined. asshole.
First: when you lay fibre, you usually install 12 or 16 buffers of 12 fibres each, totaling 96/96 fibres (full duplex). 40Gbps per fibre is 3.8Tbps total.
Second: do some basic math, will ya? there are, what? 50 million residential broadband connections in the US? Each one pays what? $ 10 a month? Isn't that 500M a month, or 6 Billion a year, only from residential connections? I think that's a fucking lot of money to cover for the "expenses"? And considering that the internet networks run side-by-side with the cellular networks, and that phone companies have more than 300 million subscribers paying what? $20 a month? Or about 72Bn a year?
You know what? Just -- just shut the fuck up.
Oh and by the way, in Tokyo (among other places) they have 100Mbps residential connections for about the same prace. And their networks don't melt. And they pay the same price for the networking gear.
the BIG SWITCH can be as big as a Cisco CRS-1, with a switching capacity of 92 TERABITS PER SECOND. I think that's enough for switching the whole internet, considering this article, dated 2005: http://gigaom.com/2005/09/08/us-still-the-bandwidth-daddy/
and by the way, the CRS-1 was released 4 years ago. cunt.
ISPs get their bandwidth from PEERING AGREEMENTS, if you don't know what that is, I'll spell it out for you:
THEY THROW A FIBRE FROM EACH BIG ISP TO A BIG SWITCH AND EXCHANGE TRAFFIC FREELY
That is correct: they buy nothing and sell you internet. What you're paying is operational costs, NOT product. A T1 line has nothing to do with this because the bonus you pay is for GOOD support and guaranteed service.
The poster wasn't asking that. He was asking how to make the information available 25 years later after it's been buried. If you don't have an answer for that, there's a whole internet of things where you can stick your nose into. Just try to keep on topic. Jeez.
what's that got to do with the whole point of the question? WELD SHUT a capsule and bury it 25 years, that's the idea.
look at my other comments where I talk about other stuff I deal with.
oh the nationalism.
duh, marketing. sheesh.
ok, ok, I get it. only europe and the US can do it right, the rest of the world can't. whatever.
1. you think the foam mattresses are made of grows on trees? I know it doesn't. The engineer here in charge of QC discards complete batches of the stuff if there's an error in the mix or process.
2. seriously, I really think there must be some talented chinese that can do the job right. I'm also in the consumer electronics area, and most of the TV's we fix are made in Brazil or Argentina, and they're really really picky about finishings. Most new stuff now is shiny black and I bet that one isn't particularly easy to make. And I can tell you Philips products made in Argentina, Brazil and China have the same quality of finishing in the plastics as the ones made in the Netherlands. My point wasn't that you can just blow and make legos (we have a saying in my language "it's not just blowing and making bottles"), but that you can certainly do it right anywhere in the world. QC is the key, not country of origin (we can say that German-made BMWs are better than US-made ones, for that matter. Cause Germany is far more automated than the US *hint*illegal mexicans*hint*).
ok temperature? pressure? sensors anyone? come on, when you have a process like that, they know every aspect of it, every variable has been figured out and programmed into the machine. there's no magic involved, no "this is so secret we can't tell anyone". you just fucking program the machine to keep that shit at the right pressure and temperature and that's it.
I see no reason why these molds can't be made in whatever place they make them and shipped to china for manufacturing, and now for some reality check, so excuse the upper case:
THERE'S OVER ONE FUCKING BILLION CHINESE, ARE YOU GOING TO TELL ME THAT THEY CAN'T FIND ONE ENGINEER THAT CAN DO IT RIGHT? CHINA MAKES RAM CHIPS, MICROPROCESSORS, HARD FUCKING DRIVES, LCD PANELS, PLASMA SCREENS, AND THEY CAN'T MAKE A GOD DAMN LEGO?
Besides, "important" jobs are always handled by non-locals (if it's an american company, then the manager is american).
There's a misconception that chinese products are "bad". Chinese products are as good as you're willing to pay for. It's like an internet connection, you can get a regular DSL line, or get a T3 with an SLA.
But we got two things mixed in this discussion: quality and price. My point is that stuff manufactured in china doesn't have to be bad. It can be as good as stuff made in europe. The difference is how they cut down on personnel in europe, and I know this first hand. I work for a mattress factory and we buy big machines. But the salesman is always showing us two options: the full auto or the semi auto. Example: to sew the mattress top to the sides you sew all around, flip the mattress and sew the other side, then remove it and load another one. The full-auto machine has a huge mechanism (that takes up a lot of room too) that flips the mattress and tilts it off the table when it's done. The semi-auto doesn't have that. The salesman always suggest we buy the semi-auto, given that it has low mantainance costs, and it's not really cost-effective (example: full auto vs semi-auto is $50K vs $25K. That difference is the YEARLY salary of 4 or 5 employees in the factory I work (in Argentina). That's why you see such nice, tidy, clean european factories. They have to be clean so that delicate machines can work, tidy so that automated transport machines can roll, and nice to keep the few employees left happy.
If you ever try to manufacture something in China they're very happy to do it. They require all CAD drawings and stuff like that, and you have to specify every aspect of it. They will ask you what material, tolerances... and that's where you can be cheap, especially in tolerances. Need tighter tolerances? No problem, but the price is going to be much higher. Want to bring your own raw materials? No problem. Want them to develop a process to make your product? They even go as far as that. You supply them with an idea, they make it happen, you just have to be very specific about what you want.
care to enlighten us? you obviously don't know either but it's easier to troll than to make a lego.
so what's your point? Factories move to china for low wages,but obviously here that's not a problem because the process is completely automatic. You only need a couple of operators to change the molds and some QC, that's about it.
Doing this in China could cost just a little less than doing it in Denmark, proving that legos are expensive "just because", and not because the manufacturing process is necessarily complex to require human intervention in every stage (like, say, clothes, that need to be sewn manually).
It's high tech not to have high quality, but to have less operators. You can either have low automatization in factories in low wage countries or high automatization in high wage countries, but the quality is the same (is plastic, god damn it. The product is only as good as the plastic it's made of).
then just removing the cover will do.
I know very well how these things react to heat. In my area 42-45 degrees (celsius!) aren't unusual, and these things can't handle it. I stacked my router (routerboard.com, bare board) gigabit switch (3com officeconnect 8-port), fast ethernet switch (3com officeconnect 16-port), adsl modem (zoom X5), access point (airlive?).
The 16-port at the bottom was a stackable (it even has an accessory that comes in the box), it was happy all along. The routerboard is pretty cool even at 50 degree ambient, but the modem just didn't want to work that hot. It was sandwiched between the routerboard and the 8-port gigabit switch. I had to place an 80mm low noise fan in one side of the stack and the temperature dropped A LOT, no more problems since.
As a side note, the 8-port 3com was so hot that the bottom label got loose (!) but the thing kept working. It has TINY holes at the sides but enough for the fan. The 16-port, designed to be stackable, has a much clever "convective" cooling and heatsinks on the two chips. Also the fact that the case is made of metal helps a lot too.
You should check your connection, your comments for the other guys running pentium 2's with Linux or BSD as routers didn't go through. Or maybe you are just trolling him because he's using Windows.