No one really knows what happened to the South American Indians.
What on earth are you talking about? The Spanish barbarians recorded **exactly** what happened, and seemed to glory in the chaos and destruction they left in their wake. They thought that their vengeful god protected them from the diseases that were killing the heathen native peoples by the millions. When the first Spaniards traveled down the Amazon river they found large, prosperous cities lining the banks. A few years later when the Portuguese traveled up the same river they found ruins of abandoned cities already returning to jungle.
Perhaps you're under the misapprehension that the English and Spanish were the first Europeans (or 'white men' if you prefer) in North America. When Cabeza de Vaca and other Spaniards explored the northern Gulf Coast there were thriving cities and large trade associations. Others exploring (or shipwrecked) on the Atlantic coast found the same. By the time the English and French arrived the countryside was largely empty.
They didn't need gold, for example.
No one needs gold, except for chip manufacturers. Are you trying to point out that other civilizations had different economic systems? If so, then I can only say "Duh!" If that's not what you're saying then please clarify.
Uh, no. You only think that because by the time English and French colonists arrived the population had collapsed as 70 to 90 percent of everyone between Point Barrow and Tierra de Fuego died from introduced European diseases. Many Native American cultures collapsed when they exceeded their environment's carrying capacity, such as the Maya, the Mound Builders and the Anasazi.
Depends on the type of cosmic rays you want to shield. For muons and the like, good luck. Huge amounts of mass are necessary, but then muons probably wouldn't interact much with your computer RAM anyway. The practical worry is alpha particles, which will flip a bit once in a while.
My wife grew up in Puno, Peru, at 3840 meters (12,600 feet) altitude. You will get sunburned so fast you won't believe it, even when you're dark complected like me. Black African tourists get sunburned. IIRC, most of the air molecules belonging to Earth are well below that altitude. If the effect on ultraviolet light shielding is that dramatic I can't help but think that other cosmic radiation is going to be stronger at that altitude as well.
Hardware is a frack of a lot more stable now too. When was the last time you had a video card or a NIC flake out? In a 900-desktop environment that used to be a daily occurrence.
I work in physical security, so will mention some changes that your site may not have implemented but which many larger sites have.
1) Granularity of access - Formerly if you had an access card it got you into the data center and from there you had free range. Today the data center is (or should be) compartmentalized and access to each area dependent on need.
2) Rack Access - There are now several brands of hardware that control technicians' access to individual racks, including front and/or rear rack door.
3) Video Monitoring - Data centers are now full of cameras, often linked to readers or door contacts on individual racks (especially Global Payment System racks).
4) Facility Monitoring - Temperature, power status, UPS state, water sensors, smoke detectors, etc. all come into the alarm system, where they are monitored by guard staff.
5) Computing Pods - Access to container-based computing centers has not only changed power and cooling management but access control as well.
6) Key Tracking - Systems like Traka and Keywatcher can be integrated into the access control system so that hard keys for individual racks/room/pods/equipment can be checked in and out by strict controls.
7) Procedures - Data center staff now have (or should have) documented procedures to follow to grant/allow access, generate/revoke cards, tracking and automated expiration for temporary access cards, etc.
In the field of physical security, I've seen customers with 10 independent access control systems scattered around their various facilities condense into a single centralized and monitored system. Access control system panels used to be connected serially to a "server" which was a cast-off desktop PC shoved under a janitor's desk, but now are actual servers in server rooms, monitored and backed up by IT staff, communicating with panels that might be on the other side of the planet.
Security video was analog cameras connected with R-59 coax cable and plugged directly into a DVR or (gods help us) a VCR. The only way to view live or recorded video was to go to the site where the cameras were physically located, and with many systems the act of viewing recorded video would stop the system from recording until you were done. Recording capacity was measured in days or sometimes hours, and casinos had people whose jobs were to just walk from one VCR to another changing tapes all day. Failures to record were more common than actually capturing an incident. Today's IP cameras record to NVRs that have terabytes of capacity in RAID 10 arrays, often with redundant servers, sometimes recording across the WAN or across the Internet to data centers in other countries.
Integration between card readers, alarm points, monitoring points and cameras are common today. A motion detector set off in a data closet in Mumbai may raise an alarm and pop up video on a guard's computer in Dublin while sending an email with a video clip to smart phones in Los Angles and Sydney. The guard may dispatch local staff in Mumbai on his handheld phone across the IP telephony system, and they may reply on their walkie-talkie. Access to the site might be granted by staff in the SOC in Phoenix, and repair crews may be dispatched by the Facilities department in Houston.
In the Physical Security industry the future is now, and it's exciting.
Have to admit, this has been one of the more entertaining threads. I've been threatened with injury, dismemberment, and death online many times, but this is the first time that my offense was simply pointing out some of the virtues of civilization.
BTW, it doesn't matter how long you live in the UP, those people are never going to consider you a local. If you, and probably your parents, weren't born there you'll never be a real Yuper.
Different areas in the cathedral have different marks which, according to the staff at the Catederal de Santiago, signified the team that built that section of wall or column. The Stone Mason Guild would have been responsible for all the work crews, I'm not sure if there were a different guild responsible for the details and decorations in the stonework but I don't think so.
There is even graffiti from the masons who built the Egyptian pyramids, and on many ancient monuments you can see the mark of the individual stone masons on different pieces of construction signing their portion of the work. In two of the cathedrals in Spain, Santiago and another one (Salamanca?), I saw the mark of the same mason (or perhaps family of masons) on multiple columns.
From an executive point of view MeeGo was an unknown with almost no apps and almost no community developing to write those apps. MS had had successful phone OSs in the past (remember that Windows Embedded ran the first real smart phones), there was a full stable of applications already available and an enormous community of people already accustomed to writing Windows applications.
Was it the right choice? We'll never know, Ballmer played out his typical scenario of making it too expensive and too late to market. I can't help but think that if Gates had still been at the helm it might well have been a different story. I'm not convinced that MeeGo would have been any more successful. I just looked at the project's home page and it hasn't been updated since 2011, and Tizen's major selling point seems to be that it supports HTML5.
They would never tell their readers to go get a job.
Huh? Public radio and TV views tend to be above average in income and education. Rush Limbaugh's audience is the opposite, and I've never heard him tell his audience to "go get a job" either.
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No one really knows what happened to the South American Indians.
What on earth are you talking about? The Spanish barbarians recorded **exactly** what happened, and seemed to glory in the chaos and destruction they left in their wake. They thought that their vengeful god protected them from the diseases that were killing the heathen native peoples by the millions. When the first Spaniards traveled down the Amazon river they found large, prosperous cities lining the banks. A few years later when the Portuguese traveled up the same river they found ruins of abandoned cities already returning to jungle.
Perhaps you're under the misapprehension that the English and Spanish were the first Europeans (or 'white men' if you prefer) in North America. When Cabeza de Vaca and other Spaniards explored the northern Gulf Coast there were thriving cities and large trade associations. Others exploring (or shipwrecked) on the Atlantic coast found the same. By the time the English and French arrived the countryside was largely empty.
They didn't need gold, for example.
No one needs gold, except for chip manufacturers. Are you trying to point out that other civilizations had different economic systems? If so, then I can only say "Duh!" If that's not what you're saying then please clarify.
Uh, no. You only think that because by the time English and French colonists arrived the population had collapsed as 70 to 90 percent of everyone between Point Barrow and Tierra de Fuego died from introduced European diseases. Many Native American cultures collapsed when they exceeded their environment's carrying capacity, such as the Maya, the Mound Builders and the Anasazi.
Depends on the type of cosmic rays you want to shield. For muons and the like, good luck. Huge amounts of mass are necessary, but then muons probably wouldn't interact much with your computer RAM anyway. The practical worry is alpha particles, which will flip a bit once in a while.
Almost no cosmic rays come from our local sun, mostly just slower solar wind particles.
My wife grew up in Puno, Peru, at 3840 meters (12,600 feet) altitude. You will get sunburned so fast you won't believe it, even when you're dark complected like me. Black African tourists get sunburned. IIRC, most of the air molecules belonging to Earth are well below that altitude. If the effect on ultraviolet light shielding is that dramatic I can't help but think that other cosmic radiation is going to be stronger at that altitude as well.
Hardware is a frack of a lot more stable now too. When was the last time you had a video card or a NIC flake out? In a 900-desktop environment that used to be a daily occurrence.
He thinks the writer is in a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
I work in physical security, so will mention some changes that your site may not have implemented but which many larger sites have.
1) Granularity of access - Formerly if you had an access card it got you into the data center and from there you had free range. Today the data center is (or should be) compartmentalized and access to each area dependent on need.
2) Rack Access - There are now several brands of hardware that control technicians' access to individual racks, including front and/or rear rack door.
3) Video Monitoring - Data centers are now full of cameras, often linked to readers or door contacts on individual racks (especially Global Payment System racks).
4) Facility Monitoring - Temperature, power status, UPS state, water sensors, smoke detectors, etc. all come into the alarm system, where they are monitored by guard staff.
5) Computing Pods - Access to container-based computing centers has not only changed power and cooling management but access control as well.
6) Key Tracking - Systems like Traka and Keywatcher can be integrated into the access control system so that hard keys for individual racks/room/pods/equipment can be checked in and out by strict controls.
7) Procedures - Data center staff now have (or should have) documented procedures to follow to grant/allow access, generate/revoke cards, tracking and automated expiration for temporary access cards, etc.
In the field of physical security, I've seen customers with 10 independent access control systems scattered around their various facilities condense into a single centralized and monitored system. Access control system panels used to be connected serially to a "server" which was a cast-off desktop PC shoved under a janitor's desk, but now are actual servers in server rooms, monitored and backed up by IT staff, communicating with panels that might be on the other side of the planet.
Security video was analog cameras connected with R-59 coax cable and plugged directly into a DVR or (gods help us) a VCR. The only way to view live or recorded video was to go to the site where the cameras were physically located, and with many systems the act of viewing recorded video would stop the system from recording until you were done. Recording capacity was measured in days or sometimes hours, and casinos had people whose jobs were to just walk from one VCR to another changing tapes all day. Failures to record were more common than actually capturing an incident. Today's IP cameras record to NVRs that have terabytes of capacity in RAID 10 arrays, often with redundant servers, sometimes recording across the WAN or across the Internet to data centers in other countries.
Integration between card readers, alarm points, monitoring points and cameras are common today. A motion detector set off in a data closet in Mumbai may raise an alarm and pop up video on a guard's computer in Dublin while sending an email with a video clip to smart phones in Los Angles and Sydney. The guard may dispatch local staff in Mumbai on his handheld phone across the IP telephony system, and they may reply on their walkie-talkie. Access to the site might be granted by staff in the SOC in Phoenix, and repair crews may be dispatched by the Facilities department in Houston.
In the Physical Security industry the future is now, and it's exciting.
Nah, no need for that, they already own a big chunk of the US gov't.
well respect advertising firm
And there, ladies and gentlemen, is our winner for "Oxymoron Of The Day".
Toronto's mayor is calling, he needs a distraction . . .
Gotse-guy, is that you?
A lot of them seem anxious to pay for the opportunity.
And you get modded 'Insightful'. Gotta love it.
Have to admit, this has been one of the more entertaining threads. I've been threatened with injury, dismemberment, and death online many times, but this is the first time that my offense was simply pointing out some of the virtues of civilization.
BTW, it doesn't matter how long you live in the UP, those people are never going to consider you a local. If you, and probably your parents, weren't born there you'll never be a real Yuper.
Different areas in the cathedral have different marks which, according to the staff at the Catederal de Santiago, signified the team that built that section of wall or column. The Stone Mason Guild would have been responsible for all the work crews, I'm not sure if there were a different guild responsible for the details and decorations in the stonework but I don't think so.
I tend to dislike the celebrity business owners, but the more I hear Musk talk the more I like him.
Is that why you never get any pussy?
I think you have to fix it so that it only operates in semi-automatic mode, don't you?
That started with Ronnie Raygun's War On Some Drugs, when he decided that posse comitus didn't apply to anti-drug operations.
There is even graffiti from the masons who built the Egyptian pyramids, and on many ancient monuments you can see the mark of the individual stone masons on different pieces of construction signing their portion of the work. In two of the cathedrals in Spain, Santiago and another one (Salamanca?), I saw the mark of the same mason (or perhaps family of masons) on multiple columns.
Damn, the ACs are getting dumber all the time. He's not saying it's better, just that if you removed the central government it's inevitable.
From an executive point of view MeeGo was an unknown with almost no apps and almost no community developing to write those apps. MS had had successful phone OSs in the past (remember that Windows Embedded ran the first real smart phones), there was a full stable of applications already available and an enormous community of people already accustomed to writing Windows applications.
Was it the right choice? We'll never know, Ballmer played out his typical scenario of making it too expensive and too late to market. I can't help but think that if Gates had still been at the helm it might well have been a different story. I'm not convinced that MeeGo would have been any more successful. I just looked at the project's home page and it hasn't been updated since 2011, and Tizen's major selling point seems to be that it supports HTML5.
They would never tell their readers to go get a job.
Huh? Public radio and TV views tend to be above average in income and education. Rush Limbaugh's audience is the opposite, and I've never heard him tell his audience to "go get a job" either.