Agreed. Second paragraph: "It's been well established that Air France Flight 447 went down because on-board computers received conflicting information from sensors on the outside of the plane." Does this come from CNN or the wild speculation on airliners.net? It certainly doesn't come from accident investigators, who really have no idea yet what happened. What was cause and what was effect has not been at all established.
As to the point: Airbus does have alternate laws and direct law, when situations warrant it. Basically the logic, reading the technical briefs linked off airliners.net, is that if the computer isn't sure what's going on, it puts up big warning signs telling the pilot they're in control. Depending on what sensors and information is missing or contradictory, different protections get disabled, with corresponding indicators displaying warnings. It wouldn't surprise me if there wasn't a way to override the systems in the first place and place the plane into alternate or direct laws. The author quotes no technical documentation whatsoever and just says "Boeing" and "Airbus" which is a ridiculously broad brush.
The blogger is, in short, presenting wild speculation and misleading generalizations as fact, and rewarded by the/. community with healthy ad revenue and page views.
The reason I always found when griping that my plasma couldn't send audio, or even output SPDIF, was that it was a DRM restriction imposed on the manufacturers. No clue if that was true, and what might have changed.
I think Ubuntu is way overhyped, and I'm having a lot of issues getting it to do even basic things without hours of Internet research and command line wrangling. That being said, though, I don't think it should have been included in the list; most of the things on the list should not have been included. The entire article was a high-school or college undergrad level view without a good understanding of the technologies or the actual picture of the technology marketplace.
That logic works for small-time installs and your home. When you're talking enterprise with thousands of runs that have to work for decades, "probably works just fine" isn't going to cut it. You have cable installed to spec, tested, certified, and then if it doesn't work there's a warranty. It's not worth the time and effort to hunt down elusive cable problems and lose business and productivity because of some savings up front in cheaping out with the cable plant. Also, you have to try to anticipate what cable might be needed five years down the road; tearing up the ceilings and walls of an active business to recable everything isn't particularly attractive of an option either.
This, in fact, is one of the reasons why, when we explored this idea, it was rejected from the get go. That and jobs, reports etc. that run automatically, defragging that happens at night, patch updates that may take a long time, backups, and the erratic work schedules of academians in general.
Many vendors, such as HP and Dell, sell cabinets on wheels for laptops meant for classrooms. The laptops dock within the cabinet, so they can always be fully charged and connected to the network for maintenance without hassle of power adapters and plugging them in. You wheel the cabinet in the class, hand out the laptops, do your thing, collect the laptops, put them back in the cabinet, lock the door, done.
The only technical data I can find is for the T-Mobile G1, and it uses the oddball UMTS / WCMDA frequency bands specific to T-Mobile. My understanding is that consequently it won't work on any other 3G network on the planet, including AT&T. I'd love to be proven wrong.
Indeed. There's no need for dual SIMs, which is why the feature vanished from European phones -- you just put multiple lines on one SIM and let the phone handle it. It's quite commonplace in Finland among my former colleagues. A lot of people at work in the US want to do this, but none of the carriers we've talked to, as a large university, are interested in offering this functionality.
The directions were pretty clear, but this is a completely unnecessary failure mode. The choice between aborting and casting a vote should be obvious. In this case, you make your selections, select OK, and see a summary; when you pull the card the voter was given no indication that the voting process was interrupted. This is a really easy error to make. Also, it was reported that in some cases the machine would not register the second OK, or would register it only after a long delay. It may be that people DID follow the instructions, but did not know to wait around for the machine to acknowledge their button press, instead pulling the card out after pressing the button but before the machine had processed the action. To me this is very clearly bad UI design. Much worse is the fact that there is no paper trail.
T-Mobile also is doing its best to put little barbs in people's way. I'm out of contract and checked what it would take for me to get a G1. I can get it for the same price as a new customer, which is good, but T-Mobile tossed silly things like "transaction fees" into the cart when I got closer to the checkout point. While it's a minuscule amount in the big picture, it really did piss me off as a completely fake charge. Not to mention the on-hold time with their customer service and totally useless voice response system.
Worse than that. Both my school's international student & scholar department and several law professionals said it's so complicated, you must have it done by an actively practicing specialized immigration attorney. A general attorney or someone who hasn't done a case in a year or two is almost guaranteed to get something wrong.
Having been on an H1B, that's not too far from what happened. My employer refused to let me take any deductions on my W2 due to my status. Also, it should be noted, that H1B workers pay full social security and FICA taxes but aren't actually eligible to any of the benefits, so they are in fact subsidizing American employees.
Also, any real business (even my university) is using WPA2-Enterprise, which is AES / 802.1X based. There are not pre-shared passwords that suffer from possibly being too short, and each client negotiates the actual encryption per connection, and there's re-keying so even if you could crack the encryption for one client at one time, you still would have to repeat the task for every other client and other sessions.
I think I am old enough to recall that. There was talk about IrLAN based on IrDA, with pods in office ceilings that computers, printers etc. would connect to for networking. The bandwidth wouldn't have been sufficient to last us through the Internet explosion, but the idea of free range optics of those days were apparently ahead of their time.
Wouldn't a flood of emails crash a mail server rather than a web site? I sure hope they're not running their web sites on a single machine that doubles as a mail server too!
I also got a HD-DVD player with the logic that it comes with free disks, new disks are pretty cheap on Amazon due to the format war, and even if it goes bellyup it's a decent upconverting DVD player. I'm unhappy HD-DVD lost, but Blu-Ray players are still outrageously expensive, and the movies are now twice the price of regular DVDs. I'll wait until the prices become reasonable, or I can just get all I want as HD on demand.
I tried setting up a SMB file share in Ubuntu 8.04. I still haven't figured out how to do so. I haven't figured out how to browse to other SMB shares without the "Connect to server" from scratch every single time. I haven't figured out how I can mount a new hard drive through any of the tools. Video acceleration on my ATI 9600 card was not simple to set up, but not impossible. Too bad it broke video so I had to back out of it. Many video players fail horribly in panning xvid content, and I experience frequent crashes and hangs with video players, audio players and Nautilus. I've been quite unimpressed by all of this, especially in comparison to CentOS which I use daily at work and just seems to work without a glitch.
Because you need functionality that integrates with the router. Or because you want something that can be tested and provisioned at HQ, then mailed down to a bunch of remote sites that don't have the facilities or expertise to set up a separate box, let alone reliably. This isn't a "server" that's going to be running user-interactive tasks or application serving or email etc. It's a way for people to build business-specific applications into the router to tailor its functionality for a specific business.
There have been basically linux-based blades in Cisco world ever since the Catalyst 5500 doing various security and service things. There's really nothing new in this story, apart from the opening of these things to third-party development. Saying that Cisco is copying 3Com is quite ironic, considering where 3Com gets most of its network gear.
No. This is so the ISR can do wacky stuff that's more complex / third party developed than just the IOS / Firewall / LWAPP / VoIP feature set at remote office or smaller facilities. It's absolutely not going to try to replace a real server of any kind.
True. I don't really expect rules to do that for a player, of course. However, in presenting the setting and explaining the classes, skills, and general idea of the game a lot can be accomplished to guide people from roll playing to role playing. The review, as well as everything else I've read and watched about 4th edition, don't seem to put particular weight on those aspects.
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Agreed. Second paragraph: "It's been well established that Air France Flight 447 went down because on-board computers received conflicting information from sensors on the outside of the plane." Does this come from CNN or the wild speculation on airliners.net? It certainly doesn't come from accident investigators, who really have no idea yet what happened. What was cause and what was effect has not been at all established.
As to the point: Airbus does have alternate laws and direct law, when situations warrant it. Basically the logic, reading the technical briefs linked off airliners.net, is that if the computer isn't sure what's going on, it puts up big warning signs telling the pilot they're in control. Depending on what sensors and information is missing or contradictory, different protections get disabled, with corresponding indicators displaying warnings. It wouldn't surprise me if there wasn't a way to override the systems in the first place and place the plane into alternate or direct laws. The author quotes no technical documentation whatsoever and just says "Boeing" and "Airbus" which is a ridiculously broad brush.
The blogger is, in short, presenting wild speculation and misleading generalizations as fact, and rewarded by the /. community with healthy ad revenue and page views.
The reason I always found when griping that my plasma couldn't send audio, or even output SPDIF, was that it was a DRM restriction imposed on the manufacturers. No clue if that was true, and what might have changed.
I think Ubuntu is way overhyped, and I'm having a lot of issues getting it to do even basic things without hours of Internet research and command line wrangling. That being said, though, I don't think it should have been included in the list; most of the things on the list should not have been included. The entire article was a high-school or college undergrad level view without a good understanding of the technologies or the actual picture of the technology marketplace.
That logic works for small-time installs and your home. When you're talking enterprise with thousands of runs that have to work for decades, "probably works just fine" isn't going to cut it. You have cable installed to spec, tested, certified, and then if it doesn't work there's a warranty. It's not worth the time and effort to hunt down elusive cable problems and lose business and productivity because of some savings up front in cheaping out with the cable plant.
Also, you have to try to anticipate what cable might be needed five years down the road; tearing up the ceilings and walls of an active business to recable everything isn't particularly attractive of an option either.
This, in fact, is one of the reasons why, when we explored this idea, it was rejected from the get go. That and jobs, reports etc. that run automatically, defragging that happens at night, patch updates that may take a long time, backups, and the erratic work schedules of academians in general.
Many vendors, such as HP and Dell, sell cabinets on wheels for laptops meant for classrooms. The laptops dock within the cabinet, so they can always be fully charged and connected to the network for maintenance without hassle of power adapters and plugging them in. You wheel the cabinet in the class, hand out the laptops, do your thing, collect the laptops, put them back in the cabinet, lock the door, done.
It will work at GSM / GPRS speeds, but not 3G. To me this is pretty silly. You're still 3G locked to a provider by your radio hardware.
The only technical data I can find is for the T-Mobile G1, and it uses the oddball UMTS / WCMDA frequency bands specific to T-Mobile. My understanding is that consequently it won't work on any other 3G network on the planet, including AT&T. I'd love to be proven wrong.
Indeed. There's no need for dual SIMs, which is why the feature vanished from European phones -- you just put multiple lines on one SIM and let the phone handle it. It's quite commonplace in Finland among my former colleagues. A lot of people at work in the US want to do this, but none of the carriers we've talked to, as a large university, are interested in offering this functionality.
The directions were pretty clear, but this is a completely unnecessary failure mode. The choice between aborting and casting a vote should be obvious. In this case, you make your selections, select OK, and see a summary; when you pull the card the voter was given no indication that the voting process was interrupted. This is a really easy error to make. Also, it was reported that in some cases the machine would not register the second OK, or would register it only after a long delay. It may be that people DID follow the instructions, but did not know to wait around for the machine to acknowledge their button press, instead pulling the card out after pressing the button but before the machine had processed the action. To me this is very clearly bad UI design. Much worse is the fact that there is no paper trail.
T-Mobile also is doing its best to put little barbs in people's way. I'm out of contract and checked what it would take for me to get a G1. I can get it for the same price as a new customer, which is good, but T-Mobile tossed silly things like "transaction fees" into the cart when I got closer to the checkout point. While it's a minuscule amount in the big picture, it really did piss me off as a completely fake charge.
Not to mention the on-hold time with their customer service and totally useless voice response system.
Apparently someone did. I just tried to view it and got "This video is no longer available."
I think so, so there's a conditional chance of them counting. But let's not even get into the process of getting said green card...
Worse than that. Both my school's international student & scholar department and several law professionals said it's so complicated, you must have it done by an actively practicing specialized immigration attorney. A general attorney or someone who hasn't done a case in a year or two is almost guaranteed to get something wrong.
Having been on an H1B, that's not too far from what happened. My employer refused to let me take any deductions on my W2 due to my status. Also, it should be noted, that H1B workers pay full social security and FICA taxes but aren't actually eligible to any of the benefits, so they are in fact subsidizing American employees.
Also, any real business (even my university) is using WPA2-Enterprise, which is AES / 802.1X based. There are not pre-shared passwords that suffer from possibly being too short, and each client negotiates the actual encryption per connection, and there's re-keying so even if you could crack the encryption for one client at one time, you still would have to repeat the task for every other client and other sessions.
I think I am old enough to recall that. There was talk about IrLAN based on IrDA, with pods in office ceilings that computers, printers etc. would connect to for networking. The bandwidth wouldn't have been sufficient to last us through the Internet explosion, but the idea of free range optics of those days were apparently ahead of their time.
Wouldn't a flood of emails crash a mail server rather than a web site? I sure hope they're not running their web sites on a single machine that doubles as a mail server too!
I also got a HD-DVD player with the logic that it comes with free disks, new disks are pretty cheap on Amazon due to the format war, and even if it goes bellyup it's a decent upconverting DVD player. I'm unhappy HD-DVD lost, but Blu-Ray players are still outrageously expensive, and the movies are now twice the price of regular DVDs. I'll wait until the prices become reasonable, or I can just get all I want as HD on demand.
I tried setting up a SMB file share in Ubuntu 8.04. I still haven't figured out how to do so. I haven't figured out how to browse to other SMB shares without the "Connect to server" from scratch every single time. I haven't figured out how I can mount a new hard drive through any of the tools. Video acceleration on my ATI 9600 card was not simple to set up, but not impossible. Too bad it broke video so I had to back out of it. Many video players fail horribly in panning xvid content, and I experience frequent crashes and hangs with video players, audio players and Nautilus. I've been quite unimpressed by all of this, especially in comparison to CentOS which I use daily at work and just seems to work without a glitch.
3Com/Huawei vs. Cisco in patent dispute
Because you need functionality that integrates with the router. Or because you want something that can be tested and provisioned at HQ, then mailed down to a bunch of remote sites that don't have the facilities or expertise to set up a separate box, let alone reliably.
This isn't a "server" that's going to be running user-interactive tasks or application serving or email etc. It's a way for people to build business-specific applications into the router to tailor its functionality for a specific business.
There have been basically linux-based blades in Cisco world ever since the Catalyst 5500 doing various security and service things. There's really nothing new in this story, apart from the opening of these things to third-party development. Saying that Cisco is copying 3Com is quite ironic, considering where 3Com gets most of its network gear.
No. This is so the ISR can do wacky stuff that's more complex / third party developed than just the IOS / Firewall / LWAPP / VoIP feature set at remote office or smaller facilities. It's absolutely not going to try to replace a real server of any kind.
True. I don't really expect rules to do that for a player, of course. However, in presenting the setting and explaining the classes, skills, and general idea of the game a lot can be accomplished to guide people from roll playing to role playing. The review, as well as everything else I've read and watched about 4th edition, don't seem to put particular weight on those aspects.