You clearly never did any programming: A) Unicode is a beast if you don't use any libraries that take that complexity out. Doing something as complex as Unicode for the sake of 20 bytes is ridiculous. Doing something the Unicode way for anything other than charsets is idiotic to begin with. B) Things that are of fixed width tend to work better as you just put a struct/record over them which is a cost-free thing. Things of variable length require additional complexity and work for the processing side (NIC or IPv6 stack or some ASIC).
A nicely done analysis. However, the argument that Europe or Asia or just about any other place except for Canada and Mexico is more difficult to reach than to an European is mostly invalid. Getting from any European Capital to any place in Asia is as difficult as it is for Americans. Same for South America. Futhermore, Europeans tend to travel to the US quite extensively. I know I went there about 4 times for a total of 7 months.
I guess I just don't understand the average European outrage at the US when it is their own politicians selling them out. We didn't cave, your politicians did.
The rage is with the US for becoming a disgrace after 9/11. Everyone mourned the 9/11 tragedy. It still doesn't mean that it should be used as an excuse to bomb the hell out of everyone. The US policy is now ignorance for the sovereignty of other nations (like in this case). It's incredibly one-sided (and one could argue short-sighted) in the middle-east issues. It's lack of responsibility in some and meddling in others. US soldiers, like any other soldiers screw-up on occasion around the world. However, the US is the only one that doesn't allow the soldiers to be responsible in front of the local justice system.
I'd actually encourage a tit for tat retaliation against the US for two reasons 1) Make people in the US wake up and realize that this is going on (though most wouldn't care), and 2) push the US and EU further apart, which is long overdue.
1) Fighting for civic liberties requires understanding them and that takes you to the major problem of education. The US education system is propagandistic on the "virtues" and "freedoms", but it does not really do a comparative assessment of all the options. It's just indoctrination, which leads to the two party system that is currently hurting you. Europeans being pissed at americans won't help your civil liberties issue, but it will create dangerous ripple effects in society. 2) I couldn't really say that the US and the EU are in any way close. They are about as developed, which means that the interactions are balanced, but not particularly close. The US is just as close with all the other countries of similar development (Japan, Australia, Canada, etc.).
Most americans will be quite happy with just seeing the Grand Canyon and Hawaii, once in their lifetime, in clear contrast with Europeans that make it one of their biggest achievements stepping on each continent and seeing a bit of each of the now 27 countries in the EU. At least most of us can name more than half the EU states. Can't imagine Americans being able to name more than 10 of theirs.
There's a big difference between investing $100M into reducing the manufacturing costs of a printer cartridge by $.05 and investing $100M into fusion reactors or a space telescope. US investments are not in general directed towards fundamental research, although at the height of the cold war they mostly were. Furthermore, IMHO, such research should generally be government coordinated in order to make sure that it benefits everyone and to make sure that there are no duplicated efforts. Having multiple private labs investing in the same field duplicates a lot of effort and as such it wastes the precious funds available towards the field.
A war won't be needed. Economically they will be ruined soon enough.
They have a non sustainable debt (a budget deficit of 40+% with no end in sight).
They have no fundamental research left.
All their young are training to be either lawyers (to sue each other to oblivion), salesmen (to sell imported goods at a "profit"), marketing (need a description of that?) or managers (to stay in never ending meetings that create more confusion and reach no conclusion).
From (1), (2) and (3) we can clearly see how they will only be able to import and not design or produce anything in the future. Their economic success plan relies on never-ending movie/music copyrights and suing (maybe soon enough bombing) countries that don't pay the tribute to the all-mighty Hollywood.
Well, our 4% of the population has the largest GDP per capita than anyone else in the world. In other words, yeah, we use the most energy, but we also produce the most stuff with that oil.
Not really the largest GDP/capita, but point taken when compared to the EU.
What do you produce with that oil? More planes than Airbus? More electronics than Foxconn? The American industry is slowly fading away and I expect that trend to continue. Your investments in fundamental research (i.e.: not immediate profit oriented) are ridiculously small compared to the ones made by EU (CERN, ESA, etc.) and even China (indirectly by investing heavily in their education at this stage). This in turn leads to a technologically outdate America in the near future. You've already outsourced production, if you also loose the technological edge, you have nothing (except a "service based economy").
72% of your oil is used for transport and only 22% for industrial use. At this rate it's clear that your transport system is inefficient. By comparison, the EU-27 countries use 33% for transport, 24% for industry, 12% for services and 26% for households. Since 2007-2008 there has been a 10% decrease in consumption in Transport after a continuous increase according to Eurostat.
Consider that the EU is using less oil while at the same time having a larger population in a more climatically challenging environment. And while the GDP figures don't show it, I certainly wouldn't suggest that the US is the most advanced in the world at anything except a failing polarizing political environment.
You're using the GDP values to the fact that you're to comfortable to get your phat arses to work in anything lighter than 2 tons.
We produce smaller cars that are simply more efficient. A normal European 2004 diesel sedan car will easily do 50 (US) MPG without being a hybrid. A normal European car is anywhere between 1.2 and 1.5 metric tons and the engines tend to be between 1.3 and 2 litters in capacity. That is the reason why even in eastern Europe a (US) gallon of Diesel is $7.5
Since the electric grid actually benefits from night charging cars by flattening the load curve, I expect that soon enough we'll have small electric city cars everywhere for zero transport emissions.
Okay, the only possible explanation is you are a troll.
Not usually, but I needed to see if it's even possible to dent my excellent karma. I'd like a fresh start in 2012.
With the exception of the United Kingdom and possibly Germany, Europe is in deep trouble. And that is by using many different metrics.
I happen to see it with different eyes. I see the UK as being in trouble next (after Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Italy) since they are the only country in the EU that plays on both sides.
Consider borrowing costs. The rate the United States pays to borrow just recently (yesterday) inched above 2% for the first time in a month. Romania (one of the better-off EU members) borrows money at 6% interest.
Romania either had visionaries for it's executive (and honestly, I can't see the sailor and his crew as visionaries), or it just made the right bet in 2009 by accident. That being said, it used it's loans mostly to increase the reserves of the central bank in order to increase confidence, as opposed to using them to stimulate the governmental spending in infrastructure projects or others. How they got that part mostly right is beyond me, but I guess good things happen to undeserving politicians.
As an aside, the current rate of return on investments is compelling me to make some decisions that are very good for the local economy: I am paying to do some work on my home. The market is still volatile, there is no action on the treasuries, and a jumbo certificate of deposit only pays 1%. Literally the best thing I can do with my money is pay a professional to perform some efficiency-related home improvements to improve the value of my home.
Investing in real estate is always a smart thing to do after the bubble bursts. It pays off to invest in construction when builders don't have enough projects to feed their employees. An apartment in Central Park in Bucharest that was €230.000 now goes for half that and with a second parking place. The old blocs of flats in Victoriei Square are moving from targeting small business offices to residential and there are a lot of examples like that.
The Euro is certainly at a crossroads, but I am not as enthusiastic as you are about it. Let me be clear that I am not going to dance in the street if it collapses: The Euro is so big that its collapse will be felt worldwide.
I wouldn't be so dramatic. Except for the Brits, all the other EU countries would loose too much if the Euro went bust. They are taking their time coming up with the fixes for two reasons: 1) not to put too much pressure on the population (given the social impact in Greece as an example). 2) This uncharted territory for the EU and especially uncharted territory for a currency that is not (yet) tied together by a fiscal and executive union. They want to take it slow to make sure that there are no unintended consequences.
If the Euro does however break up, make sure that all your banknotes have an X in the serial number. The Bundesbank will only exchange the ones with an X to Deutsche Mark.
My point about the EU not being in as much danger as the US comes from comparing the industry. Sure, they have Apple and Google, but it's hard to compare the other aspects of the industry: a) Airbus kicks Boeing arse bigtime (1378 orders vs 778 orders) b) The car industry can't even be compared (heck the small italian Fiat actually is buying Chrysler) c) EU infrastructure is doing a lot better. Better and newer highways in most of the EU (except for the newly joined). The US hasn't touched it's highway infrastructure from the 50s. The EU has a better, much faster, ever-growing train infrastructure (you just can't compare the two). And fortunately, in the EU we still have public transport. d) Furthermore, the value of the debt is not even the real problem. The problem is the prospects of the debt. The US debt is
At least we're cleaning up our own problems back here. How are you guys doing with your debt? How's your deficit? For us (snotty Europeans) a 5% deficit is huge. For the former rebellious colonies 45% still seems to be acceptable. Don't worry, we'll be happy to hire your grandsons to do our laundry and lawns in half a century. Anyway, things here are still better than in the States for now. The future? Nobody can tell, but Wall St. keeps trying (and failing).
Joking aside, while the Euro is having it's puberty phase right now, it will most probably work quite well for a long time. There's a a simple reason: it's way cheaper to fix it than to ditch it.
It's easy, if nobody else helps you with fiber make a neighborhood association and invest in your own last mile. You own it, operate it and can easily get a 1Gbps connection from a large carrier in most places for less than $5.000, now divide that to the 200 households and they each pay $25 for 5Mbps if they all use all the available bandwidth at once (CIR) or more likely 100+Mbps (synchronous) in normal home usage patterns. You can upgrade the bandwidth by renegotiating the contract every 1 year. The real cost of bandwidth at the carrier (excluding the circuit to your POP) is currently at $2-5/Mbps. In Romania the bulk price for guaranteed bandwidth is €2.5 for 100Mbps and lower for higher capacities. The real question when you do this is where do you get a service provider to give you IPTV. Internet is easy to solve, just like voice. ATT probably will refuse to come and provide IPTV over your own infrastructure in order to protect their monopoly.
This would be a great business opportunity, to help communities build their own infrastructure and provide them with IPTV, Telephone and Internet at their POP with bulk pricing and letting them figure it out further.
You can always run Lion Server on a Mac Mini Server. It would also be a very fast NAS especially if you add a Thunderbolt disk array. Might not be the cheapest option, but it gives you your own disgustingly easy to configure web/wiki/email/calendar/vpn/dhcp/radius/file server (with push support for email/calendar). If you can also get a static IP address at home from your ISP you're all set. This last part might actually be the most difficult one in the States, but in other countries it's either free (upon request) or for 1-2 Euros.
As you pointed out, it's not a fault of TLS as a protocol. TLS is a decent protocol, but the trusted roots part is not the best approach. I really have much better trust in DNSSEC as an approach. I just wish there was a generic way of publishing all keys over DNS (instead of LDAP) for SSH, PGP, S/MIME, SSL and anything else.
My Mid 2010 15" MBP (Core i7, 8GB, SSD) has no problems on Lion. My girlfriend's Late 2009 15" MBP (Core 2 Duo, 8GB, SSD) did occasionally lock after upgrading to Lion. What I've done to solve that was to disable HDD sleeping since it's pointless on SSDs anyway. I noticed that it happened only when the computer was idle for some time (at least enough for the screen to go blank) and when it did resume, I got a black screen with the rainbow spinning wheel.
The results are mixed, as can be expected with a brand new OS, but it's not a tragedy. You can always restore to the pre-upgrade backups that you should always make as a responsible admin.
All new OS versions have bugs, that's why we get the first 1-2 fixes quite soon after the release. Apple is already working on 10.7.2, as 10.7.1 is in QA by now.
Most modern diesels give clouds of smoke only when the particulate filter is regenerating in the absence of proper fuel additives. Diesel particulate filters burn the particles during regeneration. The burning temperature is 600 Centigrade, which is not easily attainable in a filter unless you have some sort of a fuel burner in the exhaust. If you use proper Euro 5 diesel fuel in your car, it already contains the proper catalysts and the burn temperature drops to 300-400 centigrade, which is something that you would see in the exhaust system. If you see a modern BMW, VW or Mercedes giving occasional black smoke clouds it means that the driver is going for the cheap diesel fuel instead of the one recommended by the manufacturer. Euro5 diesel fuel is supposed to be mandatory soon enough so we are getting rid of this problem.
Regarding the smell, I have some serious doubts. You either have an inhuman smell or you forgot to wash your hands while leaving the petrol station. Modern diesels don't smell! Ever!
I do remember reading somewhere in the manual of my car that depending on the temperature, if you don't have winter diesel fuel available, for a diesel engine you should add Kerosene. IIRC at -40 Centigrade it suggested that you should use 80% Kerosene and 20% diesel fuel.
Here's the question: you can't get Winter Diesel at your local pump in winter? In Germany, Austria, France, Hungary and Romania I am quite sure that you can at all gas stations. Winter diesel has a lower oceanic number (48 instead of 52) however it doesn't loose freeze and it keeps it's viscosity down to -40 Centigrade. If it's less than -40 in Europe, it's a bad idea to get out of the house anyway.
Oh, you poor thing... One can only dream. I do applaud your child-like innocence. Who knows, sometimes south dreams might come true.
Four of the hundreds of kids that 40 years ago dreamed to be astronauts, are now in orbit, so maybe, just maybe, your dream can come to life.
</sarcasm>
I'm sure that NASA would have decent funding if it wasn't for the Middle-East conflicts.
And I've almost finished my 6h recording of NasaTV for this historical day for a total of 2.9GBytes. I wasn't alive to witness the first launch of the space shuttle, but I was alive to catch and save this one.
I would also like to thank Apple for it's HTTP Live Streaming protocol. It takes only a few lines of Bash to dump the the complete 3Mbps MPEG Transport Stream (H.264+AVC) to the hard-drive. I want to be able to watch this again.
And lack of hardware accelerated encryption and hardware assisted virtualization (LDOMs) doesn't impact your dev/sandbox/test environment? In ours, moving to a T series with the same otherwise cpu specs (8x 1,4GHz) made a huge difference that we couldn't account for until we noticed the hardware encryption engine.
Virtualizing old installs is quite easy actually, you can migrate to branded zones in Solaris 10.
As such, regarding your prediction, I can only recommend that you don't go bet your savings at race track. Itanium is dead and PPC is going only in consoles. There's no incentive to run Linux on PPC, and AIX is moribund, going the way of Ultrix, Tru64, Unixware and HP-UX, unlike Solaris that is still kicking arse.
There's nothing wrong with SPARC. Solaris/SPARC is still powerful, innovative, scalable and secure. AIX/Power would of been a good match, but Big Blue doesn't invest in AIX. Solaris had more new features added in the past 5 years than AIX in the past 15. SPARC is still going strong because Sun realized that it's not the GHz but the 6,8,16 cores/die that are the requirements for a server and because Solaris is still going strong. The Sun Fire T1000 is still unbeatable in cost/performance even if it's 5 years old.
All the Linux vendors (HP, Dell, IBM) keep trying to migrate users from Solaris to Linux claiming that it's dead. Yet, they are wrong. HP-UX, Unixware, AIX, Tru64 are however dead or dying.
Think about Solaris the following way: Oracle Exadata 2. Still nothing on the face of earth like it, because of Solaris and Sun hardware.
SPARC is going to do even better once Oracle ports it's Linux distribution to it. Since Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle Solaris are eventually going to be the only operating systems certified for Oracle Software, you're going to see a lot of them, especially on SPARC. Oracle, after the acquisition of Sun is slowly changing into an appliance vendor, and I can't blame them for it.
File management is what we have an OS for! Apple doesn't have a common file open and save dialog box on iOS. Anyone who wants to use DAV (iDisk or others) needs to write quite a lot of code for that.
*What* file management experience (terrible or not)?
Some apps support iDisk integration, most don't. Most depend on iTunes synchronization or Mail.App to add and remove files from their small individual Documents folder. That's the terrible (lack of) file management that I meant.
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You clearly never did any programming:
A) Unicode is a beast if you don't use any libraries that take that complexity out. Doing something as complex as Unicode for the sake of 20 bytes is ridiculous. Doing something the Unicode way for anything other than charsets is idiotic to begin with.
B) Things that are of fixed width tend to work better as you just put a struct/record over them which is a cost-free thing. Things of variable length require additional complexity and work for the processing side (NIC or IPv6 stack or some ASIC).
At least most of us can name more than half the EU states. Can't imagine Americans being able to name more than 10 of theirs.
I hope you're not serious. This is second grade material, along with the capitals of each state.
A bit of reading on USians and passports/travel.
A nicely done analysis. However, the argument that Europe or Asia or just about any other place except for Canada and Mexico is more difficult to reach than to an European is mostly invalid. Getting from any European Capital to any place in Asia is as difficult as it is for Americans. Same for South America. Futhermore, Europeans tend to travel to the US quite extensively. I know I went there about 4 times for a total of 7 months.
I guess I just don't understand the average European outrage at the US when it is their own politicians selling them out. We didn't cave, your politicians did.
The rage is with the US for becoming a disgrace after 9/11. Everyone mourned the 9/11 tragedy. It still doesn't mean that it should be used as an excuse to bomb the hell out of everyone. The US policy is now ignorance for the sovereignty of other nations (like in this case). It's incredibly one-sided (and one could argue short-sighted) in the middle-east issues. It's lack of responsibility in some and meddling in others.
US soldiers, like any other soldiers screw-up on occasion around the world. However, the US is the only one that doesn't allow the soldiers to be responsible in front of the local justice system.
I'd actually encourage a tit for tat retaliation against the US for two reasons 1) Make people in the US wake up and realize that this is going on (though most wouldn't care), and 2) push the US and EU further apart, which is long overdue.
1) Fighting for civic liberties requires understanding them and that takes you to the major problem of education. The US education system is propagandistic on the "virtues" and "freedoms", but it does not really do a comparative assessment of all the options. It's just indoctrination, which leads to the two party system that is currently hurting you. Europeans being pissed at americans won't help your civil liberties issue, but it will create dangerous ripple effects in society.
2) I couldn't really say that the US and the EU are in any way close. They are about as developed, which means that the interactions are balanced, but not particularly close. The US is just as close with all the other countries of similar development (Japan, Australia, Canada, etc.).
Most americans will be quite happy with just seeing the Grand Canyon and Hawaii, once in their lifetime, in clear contrast with Europeans that make it one of their biggest achievements stepping on each continent and seeing a bit of each of the now 27 countries in the EU.
At least most of us can name more than half the EU states. Can't imagine Americans being able to name more than 10 of theirs.
There's a big difference between investing $100M into reducing the manufacturing costs of a printer cartridge by $.05 and investing $100M into fusion reactors or a space telescope. US investments are not in general directed towards fundamental research, although at the height of the cold war they mostly were. Furthermore, IMHO, such research should generally be government coordinated in order to make sure that it benefits everyone and to make sure that there are no duplicated efforts. Having multiple private labs investing in the same field duplicates a lot of effort and as such it wastes the precious funds available towards the field.
A war won't be needed. Economically they will be ruined soon enough.
From (1), (2) and (3) we can clearly see how they will only be able to import and not design or produce anything in the future. Their economic success plan relies on never-ending movie/music copyrights and suing (maybe soon enough bombing) countries that don't pay the tribute to the all-mighty Hollywood.
Well, our 4% of the population has the largest GDP per capita than anyone else in the world. In other words, yeah, we use the most energy, but we also produce the most stuff with that oil.
Not really the largest GDP/capita, but point taken when compared to the EU.
What do you produce with that oil? More planes than Airbus? More electronics than Foxconn? The American industry is slowly fading away and I expect that trend to continue. Your investments in fundamental research (i.e.: not immediate profit oriented) are ridiculously small compared to the ones made by EU (CERN, ESA, etc.) and even China (indirectly by investing heavily in their education at this stage). This in turn leads to a technologically outdate America in the near future. You've already outsourced production, if you also loose the technological edge, you have nothing (except a "service based economy").
72% of your oil is used for transport and only 22% for industrial use. At this rate it's clear that your transport system is inefficient. By comparison, the EU-27 countries use 33% for transport, 24% for industry, 12% for services and 26% for households. Since 2007-2008 there has been a 10% decrease in consumption in Transport after a continuous increase according to Eurostat.
Consider that the EU is using less oil while at the same time having a larger population in a more climatically challenging environment. And while the GDP figures don't show it, I certainly wouldn't suggest that the US is the most advanced in the world at anything except a failing polarizing political environment.
You're using the GDP values to the fact that you're to comfortable to get your phat arses to work in anything lighter than 2 tons.
We produce smaller cars that are simply more efficient. A normal European 2004 diesel sedan car will easily do 50 (US) MPG without being a hybrid. A normal European car is anywhere between 1.2 and 1.5 metric tons and the engines tend to be between 1.3 and 2 litters in capacity. That is the reason why even in eastern Europe a (US) gallon of Diesel is $7.5
Since the electric grid actually benefits from night charging cars by flattening the load curve, I expect that soon enough we'll have small electric city cars everywhere for zero transport emissions.
Okay, the only possible explanation is you are a troll.
Not usually, but I needed to see if it's even possible to dent my excellent karma. I'd like a fresh start in 2012.
With the exception of the United Kingdom and possibly Germany, Europe is in deep trouble. And that is by using many different metrics.
I happen to see it with different eyes. I see the UK as being in trouble next (after Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Italy) since they are the only country in the EU that plays on both sides.
Consider borrowing costs. The rate the United States pays to borrow just recently (yesterday) inched above 2% for the first time in a month. Romania (one of the better-off EU members) borrows money at 6% interest.
Romania either had visionaries for it's executive (and honestly, I can't see the sailor and his crew as visionaries), or it just made the right bet in 2009 by accident. That being said, it used it's loans mostly to increase the reserves of the central bank in order to increase confidence, as opposed to using them to stimulate the governmental spending in infrastructure projects or others. How they got that part mostly right is beyond me, but I guess good things happen to undeserving politicians.
As an aside, the current rate of return on investments is compelling me to make some decisions that are very good for the local economy: I am paying to do some work on my home. The market is still volatile, there is no action on the treasuries, and a jumbo certificate of deposit only pays 1%. Literally the best thing I can do with my money is pay a professional to perform some efficiency-related home improvements to improve the value of my home.
Investing in real estate is always a smart thing to do after the bubble bursts. It pays off to invest in construction when builders don't have enough projects to feed their employees. An apartment in Central Park in Bucharest that was €230.000 now goes for half that and with a second parking place. The old blocs of flats in Victoriei Square are moving from targeting small business offices to residential and there are a lot of examples like that.
The Euro is certainly at a crossroads, but I am not as enthusiastic as you are about it. Let me be clear that I am not going to dance in the street if it collapses: The Euro is so big that its collapse will be felt worldwide.
I wouldn't be so dramatic. Except for the Brits, all the other EU countries would loose too much if the Euro went bust. They are taking their time coming up with the fixes for two reasons:
1) not to put too much pressure on the population (given the social impact in Greece as an example).
2) This uncharted territory for the EU and especially uncharted territory for a currency that is not (yet) tied together by a fiscal and executive union. They want to take it slow to make sure that there are no unintended consequences.
If the Euro does however break up, make sure that all your banknotes have an X in the serial number. The Bundesbank will only exchange the ones with an X to Deutsche Mark.
My point about the EU not being in as much danger as the US comes from comparing the industry. Sure, they have Apple and Google, but it's hard to compare the other aspects of the industry:
a) Airbus kicks Boeing arse bigtime (1378 orders vs 778 orders)
b) The car industry can't even be compared (heck the small italian Fiat actually is buying Chrysler)
c) EU infrastructure is doing a lot better. Better and newer highways in most of the EU (except for the newly joined). The US hasn't touched it's highway infrastructure from the 50s. The EU has a better, much faster, ever-growing train infrastructure (you just can't compare the two). And fortunately, in the EU we still have public transport.
d) Furthermore, the value of the debt is not even the real problem. The problem is the prospects of the debt. The US debt is
At least we're cleaning up our own problems back here. How are you guys doing with your debt? How's your deficit? For us (snotty Europeans) a 5% deficit is huge. For the former rebellious colonies 45% still seems to be acceptable. Don't worry, we'll be happy to hire your grandsons to do our laundry and lawns in half a century. Anyway, things here are still better than in the States for now. The future? Nobody can tell, but Wall St. keeps trying (and failing).
Joking aside, while the Euro is having it's puberty phase right now, it will most probably work quite well for a long time. There's a a simple reason: it's way cheaper to fix it than to ditch it.
It's easy, if nobody else helps you with fiber make a neighborhood association and invest in your own last mile. You own it, operate it and can easily get a 1Gbps connection from a large carrier in most places for less than $5.000, now divide that to the 200 households and they each pay $25 for 5Mbps if they all use all the available bandwidth at once (CIR) or more likely 100+Mbps (synchronous) in normal home usage patterns. You can upgrade the bandwidth by renegotiating the contract every 1 year. The real cost of bandwidth at the carrier (excluding the circuit to your POP) is currently at $2-5/Mbps. In Romania the bulk price for guaranteed bandwidth is €2.5 for 100Mbps and lower for higher capacities. The real question when you do this is where do you get a service provider to give you IPTV. Internet is easy to solve, just like voice. ATT probably will refuse to come and provide IPTV over your own infrastructure in order to protect their monopoly. This would be a great business opportunity, to help communities build their own infrastructure and provide them with IPTV, Telephone and Internet at their POP with bulk pricing and letting them figure it out further.
Don't equations imply an equal somewhere?
But does the SSH client check them?
You can always run Lion Server on a Mac Mini Server. It would also be a very fast NAS especially if you add a Thunderbolt disk array. Might not be the cheapest option, but it gives you your own disgustingly easy to configure web/wiki/email/calendar/vpn/dhcp/radius/file server (with push support for email/calendar). If you can also get a static IP address at home from your ISP you're all set. This last part might actually be the most difficult one in the States, but in other countries it's either free (upon request) or for 1-2 Euros.
As you pointed out, it's not a fault of TLS as a protocol. TLS is a decent protocol, but the trusted roots part is not the best approach. I really have much better trust in DNSSEC as an approach. I just wish there was a generic way of publishing all keys over DNS (instead of LDAP) for SSH, PGP, S/MIME, SSL and anything else.
My Mid 2010 15" MBP (Core i7, 8GB, SSD) has no problems on Lion. My girlfriend's Late 2009 15" MBP (Core 2 Duo, 8GB, SSD) did occasionally lock after upgrading to Lion. What I've done to solve that was to disable HDD sleeping since it's pointless on SSDs anyway. I noticed that it happened only when the computer was idle for some time (at least enough for the screen to go blank) and when it did resume, I got a black screen with the rainbow spinning wheel.
The results are mixed, as can be expected with a brand new OS, but it's not a tragedy. You can always restore to the pre-upgrade backups that you should always make as a responsible admin.
All new OS versions have bugs, that's why we get the first 1-2 fixes quite soon after the release. Apple is already working on 10.7.2, as 10.7.1 is in QA by now.
Most modern diesels give clouds of smoke only when the particulate filter is regenerating in the absence of proper fuel additives. Diesel particulate filters burn the particles during regeneration. The burning temperature is 600 Centigrade, which is not easily attainable in a filter unless you have some sort of a fuel burner in the exhaust. If you use proper Euro 5 diesel fuel in your car, it already contains the proper catalysts and the burn temperature drops to 300-400 centigrade, which is something that you would see in the exhaust system. If you see a modern BMW, VW or Mercedes giving occasional black smoke clouds it means that the driver is going for the cheap diesel fuel instead of the one recommended by the manufacturer. Euro5 diesel fuel is supposed to be mandatory soon enough so we are getting rid of this problem.
Regarding the smell, I have some serious doubts. You either have an inhuman smell or you forgot to wash your hands while leaving the petrol station. Modern diesels don't smell! Ever!
I do remember reading somewhere in the manual of my car that depending on the temperature, if you don't have winter diesel fuel available, for a diesel engine you should add Kerosene. IIRC at -40 Centigrade it suggested that you should use 80% Kerosene and 20% diesel fuel. Here's the question: you can't get Winter Diesel at your local pump in winter? In Germany, Austria, France, Hungary and Romania I am quite sure that you can at all gas stations. Winter diesel has a lower oceanic number (48 instead of 52) however it doesn't loose freeze and it keeps it's viscosity down to -40 Centigrade. If it's less than -40 in Europe, it's a bad idea to get out of the house anyway.
Oh, you poor thing... One can only dream. I do applaud your child-like innocence. Who knows, sometimes south dreams might come true. Four of the hundreds of kids that 40 years ago dreamed to be astronauts, are now in orbit, so maybe, just maybe, your dream can come to life.
</sarcasm>
I'm sure that NASA would have decent funding if it wasn't for the Middle-East conflicts.
s/AVC/AAC/
And I've almost finished my 6h recording of NasaTV for this historical day for a total of 2.9GBytes. I wasn't alive to witness the first launch of the space shuttle, but I was alive to catch and save this one. I would also like to thank Apple for it's HTTP Live Streaming protocol. It takes only a few lines of Bash to dump the the complete 3Mbps MPEG Transport Stream (H.264+AVC) to the hard-drive. I want to be able to watch this again.
And lack of hardware accelerated encryption and hardware assisted virtualization (LDOMs) doesn't impact your dev/sandbox/test environment? In ours, moving to a T series with the same otherwise cpu specs (8x 1,4GHz) made a huge difference that we couldn't account for until we noticed the hardware encryption engine.
Virtualizing old installs is quite easy actually, you can migrate to branded zones in Solaris 10. As such, regarding your prediction, I can only recommend that you don't go bet your savings at race track. Itanium is dead and PPC is going only in consoles. There's no incentive to run Linux on PPC, and AIX is moribund, going the way of Ultrix, Tru64, Unixware and HP-UX, unlike Solaris that is still kicking arse.
There's nothing wrong with SPARC. Solaris/SPARC is still powerful, innovative, scalable and secure. AIX/Power would of been a good match, but Big Blue doesn't invest in AIX. Solaris had more new features added in the past 5 years than AIX in the past 15. SPARC is still going strong because Sun realized that it's not the GHz but the 6,8,16 cores/die that are the requirements for a server and because Solaris is still going strong. The Sun Fire T1000 is still unbeatable in cost/performance even if it's 5 years old.
All the Linux vendors (HP, Dell, IBM) keep trying to migrate users from Solaris to Linux claiming that it's dead. Yet, they are wrong. HP-UX, Unixware, AIX, Tru64 are however dead or dying.
Think about Solaris the following way: Oracle Exadata 2. Still nothing on the face of earth like it, because of Solaris and Sun hardware. SPARC is going to do even better once Oracle ports it's Linux distribution to it. Since Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle Solaris are eventually going to be the only operating systems certified for Oracle Software, you're going to see a lot of them, especially on SPARC. Oracle, after the acquisition of Sun is slowly changing into an appliance vendor, and I can't blame them for it.
File management is what we have an OS for! Apple doesn't have a common file open and save dialog box on iOS. Anyone who wants to use DAV (iDisk or others) needs to write quite a lot of code for that.
Remux to anything you want as it's MPEG2-TS with H.264/AAC 720p Stereo_48kHz. Thank God for HTML5 Video and HTTP Live Streaming.
P.S.: Slashdot might add an URL domain description to the edgesuite.net parts of the commands. Can't do anything about that.
*What* file management experience (terrible or not)?
Some apps support iDisk integration, most don't. Most depend on iTunes synchronization or Mail.App to add and remove files from their small individual Documents folder. That's the terrible (lack of) file management that I meant.