If 95% of your drives should last 5 years, you'd give a warranty that long to persuade customers to buy them over the other brands. Even at the far end of the bell curve you'll cover drives that have a much higher rate of failure because a large portion of the customer base will not RMA them for many issues, mostly because after 5 years something much better is out or they are lazy.
Well, first a bunch of time has passed giving people time to think. It's not an 'unfolding story' either, all the details are out there. And lastly, 5 years is time for many slashdotters to get older/grow up. It's easy to make a weird judgement on property when you're young and don't have any, but all of a sudden you're 30 and you have a house, car, and a well paying job you tend to look at things differently.
If you look to deliver exceptional value in just one market you are going to get your lunch ate eventually. Microsoft dominated the desktop OS market for years, then all of a sudden Apple, and now Google have taken over the phone/tablet market while the desktop market continues to shrink. Microsoft didn't try to provide exceptional value to the phone market for years (WinCE and its 6 versions of the OS were total crap for that purpose). Microsoft has also spent billions in the console market and only has done marginally well, but it has kept Sony and other competitors from making inroads too far in to it's OS/gaming market because of it.
No, eventually you make all the businesses pay huge amounts in taxes for using robots to support social welfare, unless you want to end up in a Manna world. http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Unless of course, you want millions of unemployed hungry people to riot and burn your infrastructure down.
I like how you conveniently forgot about the great depression and the reason why we have price supports, oh and the reasons we supply social welfare. They almost did starve. There were riots and deaths on the capitol steps. Lets not do that again.
>Except Amazon can't consume anyone's business. A customer decides where to spend money.
Yea. You don't understand how 'huge' business works.
Once you're big enough you can afford lobbying solely in your favor. With size you can use the 'walmart effect' by buying so much production the manufactures are more dependent on your then the smaller shops. When it comes down to it, the most powerful influence of consumers is price. If you have a huge enough amount of capitol you can find ways to sell your product cheaper then cost while remaining legal.
Um, I'd think this would be a pretty big deal for computers. I'm not sure if you've looked lately, but the boards are covered in caps made of all kinds of materials, some rather rare. Direct integration with SSDs is the first major use I can see off the top of my head.
>their support told us to update the firmware on the drive, which bricked it. They then refused to return/repair the drive because "firmware updates void your warranty."
I think my response to OCZ would have been: "I am contacting my state attorney general and petitioning that your products be banned from sales here."
Have you ever thought that this isn't a recession, it's the entire economic system re-balancing due to the efficiencies of technology and the large amount of jobs shed or changed because of it?
In general windows use it speeds up the programs you use often quite a bit.
> and one wonders how exactly that is done while still being OS agnostic.
You write/read to sectors mapped as blocks, if you read/write to the same block more then a few times then it's worth caching. That's how block caches work.
The comments on the site (as of this time) give some pretty good reasons why using slices of a circle aren't the best way to describe fractions. Most of the time it is easier for the mind to tell if two lengths are the same versus if two slices of a circle are the same. It is a much simpler calculation to determine length (line) then volume (pie piece).
If you've ever used GoDaddy's economy webhosting you'll see the storage backend of the VM or shared host you get is terribly over committed. Actual bandwidth to machine seems fine, so if your site/web app fits in memory and doesn't do too much seeking around on the disk, you'll be ok.
>But, yes, there was an instance where a news network skipped mentioning the #3 place in delegate count or some such because it was Ron Paul and they didn't want to mention Ron Paul on TV.
>-yes, that's like saying "don't download virii from the net and run it" - of course.
No, it is nothing like that at all. It is saying "Are you on the guest list? No?, then you cannot run at all, and I am going to call security on you."
> When it's an obfuscated "trusted" host service being exploited it makes it that much more obfuscated.
What, are these Windows boxes directly connected to the internet without a firewall or IDS in between them? If my Windows Service Host is trying to contact port 443 at wherethefuckever.x389af389w8.ch that should set off an even bigger alarm bell then the damn web browser doing so.
If 99% of the 50% get cancelled in early stages and 1% get cancelled some other time before completion, then far less then 50% of what you do is hot air.
It's far more likely that they would spread wide open goatse.cx style for the NSA without having to be hacked for a stipend. Probably some other gov'ts trojan.
Anti-virus is a failure. I can whip up a trojan in pretty short order that will not be (and may possibly never be) detected by A/V. First order of failure is allowing unsigned executables from running. Second order of failure is allowing new executables on the system and nobody hears anything about it. An offline style tripwire type scan should be ran once a week or so on the systems to detect changes in the filesystem. The final failure is unaudited egress traffic to any system. Who cares if the traffic is encrypted, why is it occurring in the first place should be the question.
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>We've had free space optical networking for decades.
I hope renewed interest both raises speeds and reduces cost of FSO, as someone who runs a lot of p-t-p wireless links the more options the better.
>Can I call this planned obsolescence yet?
It's called a tolerance interval.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolerance_interval
If 95% of your drives should last 5 years, you'd give a warranty that long to persuade customers to buy them over the other brands. Even at the far end of the bell curve you'll cover drives that have a much higher rate of failure because a large portion of the customer base will not RMA them for many issues, mostly because after 5 years something much better is out or they are lazy.
Well, first a bunch of time has passed giving people time to think. It's not an 'unfolding story' either, all the details are out there. And lastly, 5 years is time for many slashdotters to get older/grow up. It's easy to make a weird judgement on property when you're young and don't have any, but all of a sudden you're 30 and you have a house, car, and a well paying job you tend to look at things differently.
If you look to deliver exceptional value in just one market you are going to get your lunch ate eventually. Microsoft dominated the desktop OS market for years, then all of a sudden Apple, and now Google have taken over the phone/tablet market while the desktop market continues to shrink. Microsoft didn't try to provide exceptional value to the phone market for years (WinCE and its 6 versions of the OS were total crap for that purpose). Microsoft has also spent billions in the console market and only has done marginally well, but it has kept Sony and other competitors from making inroads too far in to it's OS/gaming market because of it.
>Or will you pass a law against that, too?
No, eventually you make all the businesses pay huge amounts in taxes for using robots to support social welfare, unless you want to end up in a Manna world. http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Unless of course, you want millions of unemployed hungry people to riot and burn your infrastructure down.
I like how you conveniently forgot about the great depression and the reason why we have price supports, oh and the reasons we supply social welfare. They almost did starve. There were riots and deaths on the capitol steps. Lets not do that again.
>Except Amazon can't consume anyone's business. A customer decides where to spend money.
Yea. You don't understand how 'huge' business works.
Once you're big enough you can afford lobbying solely in your favor. With size you can use the 'walmart effect' by buying so much production the manufactures are more dependent on your then the smaller shops. When it comes down to it, the most powerful influence of consumers is price. If you have a huge enough amount of capitol you can find ways to sell your product cheaper then cost while remaining legal.
Um, I'd think this would be a pretty big deal for computers. I'm not sure if you've looked lately, but the boards are covered in caps made of all kinds of materials, some rather rare. Direct integration with SSDs is the first major use I can see off the top of my head.
>their support told us to update the firmware on the drive, which bricked it. They then refused to return/repair the drive because "firmware updates void your warranty."
I think my response to OCZ would have been: "I am contacting my state attorney general and petitioning that your products be banned from sales here."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HardOCP#Hard.7CForum
It is likely they run them two separate businesses to protect each other from liability.
The only flaw I see here is that you imagine there will always be something useful or valued for a person to do.
Have you ever thought that this isn't a recession, it's the entire economic system re-balancing due to the efficiencies of technology and the large amount of jobs shed or changed because of it?
I take it you've never used one.
In general windows use it speeds up the programs you use often quite a bit.
> and one wonders how exactly that is done while still being OS agnostic.
You write/read to sectors mapped as blocks, if you read/write to the same block more then a few times then it's worth caching. That's how block caches work.
The comments on the site (as of this time) give some pretty good reasons why using slices of a circle aren't the best way to describe fractions. Most of the time it is easier for the mind to tell if two lengths are the same versus if two slices of a circle are the same. It is a much simpler calculation to determine length (line) then volume (pie piece).
If you've ever used GoDaddy's economy webhosting you'll see the storage backend of the VM or shared host you get is terribly over committed. Actual bandwidth to machine seems fine, so if your site/web app fits in memory and doesn't do too much seeking around on the disk, you'll be ok.
Detection is the hard part. There is very little difference between some of these bot nets and legitimate traffic in most cases.
>But, yes, there was an instance where a news network skipped mentioning the #3 place in delegate count or some such because it was Ron Paul and they didn't want to mention Ron Paul on TV.
An instance? Way more then one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR7oBdgazJI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff#Government_access
Are you retarded? 'Made off' was ignored for near a decade while committing questionable acts.
>-yes, that's like saying "don't download virii from the net and run it" - of course.
No, it is nothing like that at all. It is saying "Are you on the guest list? No?, then you cannot run at all, and I am going to call security on you."
> When it's an obfuscated "trusted" host service being exploited it makes it that much more obfuscated.
What, are these Windows boxes directly connected to the internet without a firewall or IDS in between them? If my Windows Service Host is trying to contact port 443 at wherethefuckever.x389af389w8.ch that should set off an even bigger alarm bell then the damn web browser doing so.
http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4437.html
http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4436.html
Chicago to DC is around 730 miles. Your light flight time is just under 4ms alone over open air. Around 1ms more via a straight fiber.
If 99% of the 50% get cancelled in early stages and 1% get cancelled some other time before completion, then far less then 50% of what you do is hot air.
It's far more likely that they would spread wide open goatse.cx style for the NSA without having to be hacked for a stipend. Probably some other gov'ts trojan.
Anti-virus is a failure. I can whip up a trojan in pretty short order that will not be (and may possibly never be) detected by A/V. First order of failure is allowing unsigned executables from running. Second order of failure is allowing new executables on the system and nobody hears anything about it. An offline style tripwire type scan should be ran once a week or so on the systems to detect changes in the filesystem. The final failure is unaudited egress traffic to any system. Who cares if the traffic is encrypted, why is it occurring in the first place should be the question.
Jamming is dangerous. Start jamming something and you are going to get an ALARM or a HARM right up your antenna.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-radiation_missile