Just out of curiosity, how do you think all those commercial satellites currently in orbit got there? Most of them got launched by NASA, especially the ones that have been there for more than five or six years.
It can be. Any large software product rollout is inherently risky, SAP more than most. Not just because it's a big, complex thing with a lot of parts that don't necessarily fit together well, but because of the cost. By the time SAP has been purchased it has gone up the food chain as high as it can because of the obscene cost of the product, its implementation, and its ongoing fees. Once executives are involved that bane of the corporate world, the executive ego, is deeply committed. Money pours into the project by the dump truck load, as the executives get more and more desperate for the project to at least be functional enough to be declared, if not a success, at least not an utter catastrophe. I've seen two Oracle rollouts follow this exact path.
Elon Musk is not one to make decisions in a vacuum. It's likely they were unhappy with their existing SAP install (almost everyone is), and were looking at a massive multimillion dollar multi-month (or multi-year) project that would take over the resources of their IT staff for the duration, for an upgrade whose value is questionable at best. If they tried rolling their own the worst that could happen is that they've spent a couple of months on a project that won't be implemented and will still have to do the SAP project, while having gotten a better handle on their own internal business practices. I imagine the conversation went something like:
IT Director: I can't believe the cost for this freaking upgrade. It's such a piece of crap, and now we have to cough up a big pile of money just to upgrade. I swear, we could probably write our own code for less.
Over a decade ago WalMart let slip an internal white paper about their ultimate dream for RFID. They want every product in their store to have an individually serialized RFID tag. When you walk though the door the tags on your clothes, which were purchased on your credit card, are correlated with your name. Since your pants are three years old the factory might be spending on higher quality fabric than necessary, but since you sometimes buy laundry soap for a high efficiency washing machine that might not be the case. A voice will tell you that your prescription will be ready by the time you get to the pharmacy counter. As you walk through the store the ads on the end caps will change to reflect your buying history. The televisions will change to a movie by a director that you've favored in the past but which you haven't purchased. As you walk past the magazine section you'll hear that the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition is available, since you bought that last year. Fortunately push-back from manufacturers has delayed the advent of that marketing Eden.
By all the gods, are you really that frightened of the terriers? Wow, that's a level of cowardice that I'm almost unable to imagine.
The largest threat to the US government isn't from outside at all, it's an internal coup from inside the military/intel establishment (if it hasn't already happened).
I remember when Indira Gandhi declared that India was going to spend millions of dollars on universities and educational subsidies people said the very same thing, "They're wasting their money when there are people starving!"
Paruro, about 30 straight-line miles (2 1/2 hours by bus, as there are no straight lines) from Cusco. The connectivity in Cusco is great, in Paruro the single local cell tower covers several thousand people and is frequently saturated just with phone usage. ADSL might be the only option, but land-line connectivity is flaky at best and sometimes will go down for days at a time (which partly accounts for the number of cellphone users).
You haven't spent any time in South America, I take it. My house in Paruro is only about 30 miles from Cusco. The line would have to cross 80+ farmers' fields, cross three mountain ranges, one of them over 14,000 feet, cross two rivers, and require planting poles in bedrock, clay, landslide zones and swamp. IOW, you have no fucking idea what the hell you're talking about.
They were referring to the possibility of a future site in Alaska.
Hughes told me (a couple of years ago) that the price for the service depended on the country where I would be receiving it. The price was much lower in the US than it would have been from Peru. Can I pay for the service in the US but get it in Peru? I think it would use a different satellite, wouldn't it?
What about terminal server access? I'm looking at semi-retiring to Peru, to do some part-time work from there on contract basis. I first used remote desktop with a dial-up modem so I know that I can back off the video settings to lower the amount of data to be transmitted, I'm hoping that RDP handling has improved enough that a mouse stays useable during the entire session (which used to be a real problem).
As far as I can see THE THREAT is coming from the frelling intel agencies. I assume you mean THE THREAT to freedom and liberty, but if you mean THE THREAT to life and property instead you don't need to look far to find the very, very long list of false flag attacks generated by those same intel agencies.
The law says that they're allowed to spy on non-US citizens. When you propose to let them ignore that law because you're afraid of the boogie man under your bed what makes you think they'll not ignore all the other laws that were created to rein them in?
Depends on where you are. Seattle? Great home school movement, plenty of support groups, lots of support from the public school system even. Louisiana? By all the gods you don't even want to talk to most of those people. My niece looked at home schooling her kids, since the public school system is so bad there, but just being Latina was enough to make the home school groups treat her like crap.
I think it varies greatly depending on the area. Here in Seattle the local school system is very supportive of the home school families, providing suggested curricula, phys ed classes, and making available space where the home-school students can socialize. In Louisiana, where my niece lives, pretty much all the home school families are ultra-conservative religious fanatics who think even the pitiful LA school system is too liberal. Dunno the situation in Nova Scotia.
Now that pot is legal in both Washington and Colorado the companies like Target are scratching their heads about what to do with the drug test results. I think for now they're ignoring positive marijuana results, but that's not an actual policy yet.
building codes requiring large windows in all new structures
Those are called "egress windows", they've been required by the fire code since the late 1970s in most large cities and since the 1980s in most of the rest of the country. They're so that the fire department can extract residents in an emergency.
Nope. Representative republic, the people we vote for are supposed to be our voice. We've let them get away with becoming the voice of the rich and powerful instead.
Do you know why the Stasi operated essentially without any outside controls? They either had or manufactured dirt on everyone who was supposed to keep them in check. Why do you think the NSA has been operating essentially without any outside controls?
Hope you're looking forward to being stopped at the checkpoint on your way to work and asked, "Your papers please, comrade." That's where this goes if we give the alphabet soup of intel agencies free rein.
Yes,, yes, and no. Why do you think the US is stuck with overpriced and under-performing Internet connectivity? Private sector collusion and price gouging.
Have you ever lived with a public electrical provider rather than a corporate provider? Electrical customers in Snohomish County can choose whether to stay with the Public Utility District or pay more for inferior service from Puget Sound Energy. Believe it or not, for some odd reason the vast majority stay with the PUD.
Have you ever had to live with a private water or sewer provider? No? Consider yourself lucky.
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Just out of curiosity, how do you think all those commercial satellites currently in orbit got there? Most of them got launched by NASA, especially the ones that have been there for more than five or six years.
It can be. Any large software product rollout is inherently risky, SAP more than most. Not just because it's a big, complex thing with a lot of parts that don't necessarily fit together well, but because of the cost. By the time SAP has been purchased it has gone up the food chain as high as it can because of the obscene cost of the product, its implementation, and its ongoing fees. Once executives are involved that bane of the corporate world, the executive ego, is deeply committed. Money pours into the project by the dump truck load, as the executives get more and more desperate for the project to at least be functional enough to be declared, if not a success, at least not an utter catastrophe. I've seen two Oracle rollouts follow this exact path.
Elon Musk is not one to make decisions in a vacuum. It's likely they were unhappy with their existing SAP install (almost everyone is), and were looking at a massive multimillion dollar multi-month (or multi-year) project that would take over the resources of their IT staff for the duration, for an upgrade whose value is questionable at best. If they tried rolling their own the worst that could happen is that they've spent a couple of months on a project that won't be implemented and will still have to do the SAP project, while having gotten a better handle on their own internal business practices. I imagine the conversation went something like:
IT Director: I can't believe the cost for this freaking upgrade. It's such a piece of crap, and now we have to cough up a big pile of money just to upgrade. I swear, we could probably write our own code for less.
Musk: You think so?
IT Director: Umm, yeah, probably.
Musk: Go do it.
IT Director: Oh, shit.
Over a decade ago WalMart let slip an internal white paper about their ultimate dream for RFID. They want every product in their store to have an individually serialized RFID tag. When you walk though the door the tags on your clothes, which were purchased on your credit card, are correlated with your name. Since your pants are three years old the factory might be spending on higher quality fabric than necessary, but since you sometimes buy laundry soap for a high efficiency washing machine that might not be the case. A voice will tell you that your prescription will be ready by the time you get to the pharmacy counter. As you walk through the store the ads on the end caps will change to reflect your buying history. The televisions will change to a movie by a director that you've favored in the past but which you haven't purchased. As you walk past the magazine section you'll hear that the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition is available, since you bought that last year. Fortunately push-back from manufacturers has delayed the advent of that marketing Eden.
That's why I asked, I've dealt with limited bandwidth (i.e. modems) connections, but never long-lag.
By all the gods, are you really that frightened of the terriers? Wow, that's a level of cowardice that I'm almost unable to imagine.
The largest threat to the US government isn't from outside at all, it's an internal coup from inside the military/intel establishment (if it hasn't already happened).
You apparently didn't live in Appalachia at the time. India at least has electricity and most of the country can read.
I remember when Indira Gandhi declared that India was going to spend millions of dollars on universities and educational subsidies people said the very same thing, "They're wasting their money when there are people starving!"
Its salescritters see no end of value, maybe not to their customers but certainly to them.
my Symantec VPN
Well, there's your problem . . .
O3B is not in operation yet. They've just launched their first satellite and are still constructing ground stations.
Paruro, about 30 straight-line miles (2 1/2 hours by bus, as there are no straight lines) from Cusco. The connectivity in Cusco is great, in Paruro the single local cell tower covers several thousand people and is frequently saturated just with phone usage. ADSL might be the only option, but land-line connectivity is flaky at best and sometimes will go down for days at a time (which partly accounts for the number of cellphone users).
Tachyon's web site only shows options for Government and Enterprise. I take it SMB isn't of interest to your company?
You haven't spent any time in South America, I take it. My house in Paruro is only about 30 miles from Cusco. The line would have to cross 80+ farmers' fields, cross three mountain ranges, one of them over 14,000 feet, cross two rivers, and require planting poles in bedrock, clay, landslide zones and swamp. IOW, you have no fucking idea what the hell you're talking about.
They were referring to the possibility of a future site in Alaska.
Hughes told me (a couple of years ago) that the price for the service depended on the country where I would be receiving it. The price was much lower in the US than it would have been from Peru. Can I pay for the service in the US but get it in Peru? I think it would use a different satellite, wouldn't it?
What about terminal server access? I'm looking at semi-retiring to Peru, to do some part-time work from there on contract basis. I first used remote desktop with a dial-up modem so I know that I can back off the video settings to lower the amount of data to be transmitted, I'm hoping that RDP handling has improved enough that a mouse stays useable during the entire session (which used to be a real problem).
As far as I can see THE THREAT is coming from the frelling intel agencies. I assume you mean THE THREAT to freedom and liberty, but if you mean THE THREAT to life and property instead you don't need to look far to find the very, very long list of false flag attacks generated by those same intel agencies.
The law says that they're allowed to spy on non-US citizens. When you propose to let them ignore that law because you're afraid of the boogie man under your bed what makes you think they'll not ignore all the other laws that were created to rein them in?
On the other hand, the statistics about SAP rollouts would tend to indicate a very high degree of risk inherent in attempting to use that system.
Depends on where you are. Seattle? Great home school movement, plenty of support groups, lots of support from the public school system even. Louisiana? By all the gods you don't even want to talk to most of those people. My niece looked at home schooling her kids, since the public school system is so bad there, but just being Latina was enough to make the home school groups treat her like crap.
I think it varies greatly depending on the area. Here in Seattle the local school system is very supportive of the home school families, providing suggested curricula, phys ed classes, and making available space where the home-school students can socialize. In Louisiana, where my niece lives, pretty much all the home school families are ultra-conservative religious fanatics who think even the pitiful LA school system is too liberal. Dunno the situation in Nova Scotia.
Did you see where it only took 4 months? I haven't seen an SAP **upgrade** that went that fast, much less a deployment.
Now that pot is legal in both Washington and Colorado the companies like Target are scratching their heads about what to do with the drug test results. I think for now they're ignoring positive marijuana results, but that's not an actual policy yet.
building codes requiring large windows in all new structures
Those are called "egress windows", they've been required by the fire code since the late 1970s in most large cities and since the 1980s in most of the rest of the country. They're so that the fire department can extract residents in an emergency.
Nope. Representative republic, the people we vote for are supposed to be our voice. We've let them get away with becoming the voice of the rich and powerful instead.
Do you know why the Stasi operated essentially without any outside controls? They either had or manufactured dirt on everyone who was supposed to keep them in check. Why do you think the NSA has been operating essentially without any outside controls?
Hope you're looking forward to being stopped at the checkpoint on your way to work and asked, "Your papers please, comrade." That's where this goes if we give the alphabet soup of intel agencies free rein.
Yes,, yes, and no. Why do you think the US is stuck with overpriced and under-performing Internet connectivity? Private sector collusion and price gouging.
Have you ever lived with a public electrical provider rather than a corporate provider? Electrical customers in Snohomish County can choose whether to stay with the Public Utility District or pay more for inferior service from Puget Sound Energy. Believe it or not, for some odd reason the vast majority stay with the PUD.
Have you ever had to live with a private water or sewer provider? No? Consider yourself lucky.