The maker and hacker communities do a good job of spreading non-official/unsanctioned information about repair/modding/refurbishing many, many items.
It's true that vendors limit parts stocks, as the life of a product is maybe nine months in the marketplace until something new emerges, as consumerism has as its addiction, new stuff with one-upmanship. This means that the parts stocked for any particular model are as absolutely as slim as possible, lest they go into a dumpster, landfill, or on a good day, to a parts remarketer.
The "intellectual property" behind schematics, source code, is the rubric given for not releasing schematics, construction models/diagrams and repair components-- but also because they don't want to support the costs of modders, hackers, and others from whom they make not one penny. A few vendors are smart enough to make a few pennies from these communities, but it's not the focus of their business.
This has also evolved an aftermarket of an array repair businesses, some of which are particularly shady (think cracked screen repair) while others are legitimate and back-fill rotten customer service from the big vendors.
These aren't your dad's Western Electric phones, or the old Selectric, as you imply, but the business models aren't for products with a five year shelf life-- or longer.
And as an appendage, we know that cord cutters are in the group of four hours/day. We don't know how many are viewing as streaming digital, or cable modulated data. How many watch together, or use individual streams? I'm not casting aspersion(s), rather, would like to know the data and its trend.
Organizations like Akamai and others are deploying somewhat massive buildouts to accommodate services like Netflix, and other VoD/streaming services.
Does this help Comcast put on the brakes to other services? We don't know, but the issue of ostensible net neutrality is causing lots of redesign and thinking towards digital, rather than modulated video. If the number of modulated channels shrink, there is more capacity for modulating available bandwidth towards more overall *digital* capacity
Yeah, would love the source. I'd like the breakdown of RT, VoD, modulated digital vs streamed digital. I'd like to see actual vs trend, and forecasts, but I'll take what I can get, consider the source, and digest that.
A non-profit I know of did this last month on their broadband connection: downloaded 34 copies, rather than make a bootable flash drive. They walk among us.
You need inline filtration. You're screwed unless you do. A carrier-grade filter ought to do it. Until then, you face a lot of slime.
Your users are handily making mincemeat out of you. You get to control your SMTP, not them. Without a pipe to stanch the flow yourself, you're part of the problem, and not the solution. I know that sounds insulting, but it's true.
Your knowledge of how RBLs and blocks work means you're spending way too much time dealing with the aftermath in firecontrol, rather than gently reminding your users that they forgot to use data condoms. Your frequency of spam volcanoes means a lot of work. There is a better way: make your users pay attention.
This release is a bag of foam and goo. It's for the PR, and maybe the stocks of both won't slide any more than they have.
Apple risks plenty, as does Cisco, by implementing still more proprietary protocols--- and the details if you'll notice, are scant.
Apple's relationship is fanatically tied to its users. Users count. It's all about the users. The genuinely laughable business response is to take orders. That's it. Apple's Xserve and Xsan, nice as they might have been, are now filling dump sites across the world.
Both of these companies make great stuff, don't get me wrong. Unless they go proprietary and this event is unlikely, this was all for the analysts, 'cause not a thing is going to show up that's meaningful or tangible. For better and worse, Microsoft's AD is what binds businesses together. It's a reality. I don't like this reality but show me something that might break that lock. Sun, Apple, Novell, and many others have tried to break that lock. Do it and you can have the keys to the enterprise kingdoms.
If someone's breaking into your server 3-4x/month, then you have major problems. If you have clients whose accounts are compromised, then SHUT THEM THE FUCK OFF AND MAKE THEM CLEAN THEIR MACHINES.
Spoofing user names and using their lists is old hat. I have one ex-friend who greets me weekly with something new and exciting in an attachment. Luckily, I never open *anything*.
But seriously, if your server's getting broken into that frequently, you need lessons. Numerous ones.
It's a rough news day. This press release is another meaningless Apple Tries To Wear A Suit And Tie tome. Coming just behind the "Oh Gosh I loved Windows 95", post, it must be another dozer week-before-a-US-Federal-Holiday Monday.
You're going to find a lot of cases where the in-situ DSL provider blows away the local cable company.
But not very often. We're still a third world country in the USA, as regards broadband deployed speeds. Where DSL uses twisted pairs, it's defeated by physics, compared to coax. Fiber is the ultimate solution, but requires telcos to invest, which they are loathe to do.
Oh... so your local DSLAM is GB and the backhaul is huge. Much data is against you, but I am always surprised by exceptions, in all of the qualities you purport.
This is all an attempt to get an uptick in revenues by charging more $$$ for the onslaught of 4K Netflix, and other traffic that will constipate their cable in unbelievable ways.
You don't want DSL. The fastest DSL is slower than the worst cable connection Comcast or Charter can make. It's better and faster to get two teenage boys with semaphore flags and binoculars than to attempt DSL.
(1) The installation of a cover over a lawfully parked vehicle to protect it from the weather and the elements does not constitute a violation of this subdivision. A peace officer or other regularly salaried employee of a public agency designated to enforce laws, including local ordinances, relating to the parking of vehicles may temporarily remove so much of the cover as is necessary to inspect any license plate, tab, or indicia of registration on a vehicle.
(2) The installation of a license plate security cover is not a violation of this subdivision if the device does not obstruct or impair the recognition of the license plate information, including, but not limited to, the issuing state, license plate number, and registration tabs, and the cover is limited to the area directly over the top of the registration tabs. No portion of a license plate security cover shall rest over the license plate number.
(c) A casing, shield, frame, border, product, or other device that obstructs or impairs the reading or recognition of a license plate by an electronic device operated by state or local law enforcement, an electronic device operated in connection with a toll road, high-occupancy toll lane, toll bridge, or other toll facility, or a remote emission sensing device, as specified in Sections 44081 and 44081.6 of the Health and Safety Code, shall not be installed on, or affixed to, a vehicle.....end paste.
It's also not illegal in California to put a temporary cover on your license plate when it's not in motion, parked on public or private property. When in motion on public streets/lots, it's fair game.
The scanners, if they're in radio contact with something, can easily give up GPS information about the locus of what was seen. Whether or not a governmental body/public safety unit will dash out and do something remains to be seen.
License plate covers can easily made from scrap cardboard. But what will happen next is a closeup of the VIN # on the dash. When VINs eventually go to an RFID tag, there'll be covers for the tag to prevent identification. This cat and mouse game will go on until California actually *does* run out of water, at which point, who cares?
They can buy their own machines, software, and add-ins if they need it. Not one of them is too poor to do so. Instead, this is all about politicking because there's not a shred of fact in the letter sent.
Takes all of about two minutes to show how to use the Linux payload. And if Skype isn't on the approved software payload.... maybe there's a reason for that.
My opinion of the Munich complainers reverses what I thought about the project overall; someone didn't take the time to see this one coming, and that's a sign of immaturity. Should the mayor decide to switch to Windows, he further compounds the problem by rejecting years of planning, conversion, and implementation.
You're not talking about the variations of capital I'm familiar with, rather, you're talking about political systems. Private banking is not Silicon Valley, and is a different subject altogether. And we're talking about the USA, which has models that are vastly more entrepreneurial than those of other countries. Yes, a few of those private banks fuel small portions of Silicon Valley, but as a fraction, it's almost insignificant.
You use extremes. You can learn a lot on the way through failures. If you're looking for founder-stock success on the way to your life of penthouses in Vegas, then yeah, you're stupid. If you're looking for a decent living evolving stuff, you might have success.
If you add up Apple, HP, Oracle, and other organizations that were born somewhere near Silicon Valley, and look at their market cap, it's larger than you can imagine. There is money seeking other fortune. It's how Capitalism works. Yeah, there are other tawdry forms of capitalism and elements that make you want to hurl. It's a pressure cooker of an existence for coders in an über high priced area.
We disagree. People put their lives and karma in to trying to get a payoff, and there are certainly the charlatans and the self-deluded that believe that many/all of them could be huge.
Imitators have been rewarded, sometimes large, too. The great lie of entrepreneurship is that if you build a better mousetrap, the world will march to your door. Indeed invention plus innovation are only perhaps a third of the equation. St Steve Jobs taught us that extreme, vicious, unerring diligence can succeed, but first comes a relationship with a user, a human, that needs to feel as though they're satisfied.
VA Linux and the ascendency of Slashdot has to do with cashcow-mentality among its publishers, where Slashdot as a medium is a herd to be ridden. Look to Reddit and what happens when you don't understand your audience if you had any further questions. Slashdot is up for sale for less than the price of a good McDonald's location.
The graveyard from Santa Cruz, San Jose, all the way to Sacramento is huge, but this isn't amnesia. This is hope, and hope sells, and occasionally, hope pays off in huge ways. On the way through the graveyard, you get to learn what worked and what didn't.
Eventually, a handful get to the Holy Gates of IPOs, and maybe things go well from there. Slashdot, financially, is a mirror of being a member of this very set, a long ago huge IPO that kept becoming sold off in hopes of future success, but now itself is on the block.
Slashdot Mirror
The maker and hacker communities do a good job of spreading non-official/unsanctioned information about repair/modding/refurbishing many, many items.
It's true that vendors limit parts stocks, as the life of a product is maybe nine months in the marketplace until something new emerges, as consumerism has as its addiction, new stuff with one-upmanship. This means that the parts stocked for any particular model are as absolutely as slim as possible, lest they go into a dumpster, landfill, or on a good day, to a parts remarketer.
The "intellectual property" behind schematics, source code, is the rubric given for not releasing schematics, construction models/diagrams and repair components-- but also because they don't want to support the costs of modders, hackers, and others from whom they make not one penny. A few vendors are smart enough to make a few pennies from these communities, but it's not the focus of their business.
This has also evolved an aftermarket of an array repair businesses, some of which are particularly shady (think cracked screen repair) while others are legitimate and back-fill rotten customer service from the big vendors.
These aren't your dad's Western Electric phones, or the old Selectric, as you imply, but the business models aren't for products with a five year shelf life-- or longer.
And as an appendage, we know that cord cutters are in the group of four hours/day. We don't know how many are viewing as streaming digital, or cable modulated data. How many watch together, or use individual streams? I'm not casting aspersion(s), rather, would like to know the data and its trend.
Organizations like Akamai and others are deploying somewhat massive buildouts to accommodate services like Netflix, and other VoD/streaming services.
Does this help Comcast put on the brakes to other services? We don't know, but the issue of ostensible net neutrality is causing lots of redesign and thinking towards digital, rather than modulated video. If the number of modulated channels shrink, there is more capacity for modulating available bandwidth towards more overall *digital* capacity
Then what happens with 4K,and eventually, 8K?
The link sucked, frankly.
Yeah, would love the source. I'd like the breakdown of RT, VoD, modulated digital vs streamed digital. I'd like to see actual vs trend, and forecasts, but I'll take what I can get, consider the source, and digest that.
I cut the cord long ago, but do you have a citation for the national avg video usage/day?
A non-profit I know of did this last month on their broadband connection: downloaded 34 copies, rather than make a bootable flash drive. They walk among us.
In reality, they know no better.
There comes a point where the speed of light gets into your way doing downloads. You're talking only 80 copies of Windows 10 per month you know.
You need inline filtration. You're screwed unless you do. A carrier-grade filter ought to do it. Until then, you face a lot of slime.
Your users are handily making mincemeat out of you. You get to control your SMTP, not them. Without a pipe to stanch the flow yourself, you're part of the problem, and not the solution. I know that sounds insulting, but it's true.
Your knowledge of how RBLs and blocks work means you're spending way too much time dealing with the aftermath in firecontrol, rather than gently reminding your users that they forgot to use data condoms. Your frequency of spam volcanoes means a lot of work. There is a better way: make your users pay attention.
This release is a bag of foam and goo. It's for the PR, and maybe the stocks of both won't slide any more than they have.
Apple risks plenty, as does Cisco, by implementing still more proprietary protocols--- and the details if you'll notice, are scant.
Apple's relationship is fanatically tied to its users. Users count. It's all about the users. The genuinely laughable business response is to take orders. That's it. Apple's Xserve and Xsan, nice as they might have been, are now filling dump sites across the world.
Both of these companies make great stuff, don't get me wrong. Unless they go proprietary and this event is unlikely, this was all for the analysts, 'cause not a thing is going to show up that's meaningful or tangible. For better and worse, Microsoft's AD is what binds businesses together. It's a reality. I don't like this reality but show me something that might break that lock. Sun, Apple, Novell, and many others have tried to break that lock. Do it and you can have the keys to the enterprise kingdoms.
If someone's breaking into your server 3-4x/month, then you have major problems. If you have clients whose accounts are compromised, then SHUT THEM THE FUCK OFF AND MAKE THEM CLEAN THEIR MACHINES.
Spoofing user names and using their lists is old hat. I have one ex-friend who greets me weekly with something new and exciting in an attachment. Luckily, I never open *anything*.
But seriously, if your server's getting broken into that frequently, you need lessons. Numerous ones.
It's a rough news day. This press release is another meaningless Apple Tries To Wear A Suit And Tie tome. Coming just behind the "Oh Gosh I loved Windows 95", post, it must be another dozer week-before-a-US-Federal-Holiday Monday.
Good for you!
You're going to find a lot of cases where the in-situ DSL provider blows away the local cable company.
But not very often. We're still a third world country in the USA, as regards broadband deployed speeds. Where DSL uses twisted pairs, it's defeated by physics, compared to coax. Fiber is the ultimate solution, but requires telcos to invest, which they are loathe to do.
This is Internet Lite. Can't stream even a minnow at that speed, sadly. Better than ISDN or a dial-up, but not as good as even a sad dish.
Oh... so your local DSLAM is GB and the backhaul is huge. Much data is against you, but I am always surprised by exceptions, in all of the qualities you purport.
What kind of speedtest result do you get?
This is all an attempt to get an uptick in revenues by charging more $$$ for the onslaught of 4K Netflix, and other traffic that will constipate their cable in unbelievable ways.
You don't want DSL. The fastest DSL is slower than the worst cable connection Comcast or Charter can make. It's better and faster to get two teenage boys with semaphore flags and binoculars than to attempt DSL.
So long as an officer can lift a cover while the vehicle is at rest, you're good.
CAL. VEH. CODE Â 5201 .....paste
(1) The installation of a cover over a lawfully parked vehicle to ....end paste.
protect it from the weather and the elements does not constitute a
violation of this subdivision. A peace officer or other regularly
salaried employee of a public agency designated to enforce laws,
including local ordinances, relating to the parking of vehicles may
temporarily remove so much of the cover as is necessary to inspect
any license plate, tab, or indicia of registration on a vehicle.
(2) The installation of a license plate security cover is not a
violation of this subdivision if the device does not obstruct or
impair the recognition of the license plate information, including,
but not limited to, the issuing state, license plate number, and
registration tabs, and the cover is limited to the area directly over
the top of the registration tabs. No portion of a license plate
security cover shall rest over the license plate number.
(c) A casing, shield, frame, border, product, or other device that
obstructs or impairs the reading or recognition of a license plate
by an electronic device operated by state or local law enforcement,
an electronic device operated in connection with a toll road,
high-occupancy toll lane, toll bridge, or other toll facility, or a
remote emission sensing device, as specified in Sections 44081 and
44081.6 of the Health and Safety Code, shall not be installed on, or
affixed to, a vehicle.
It's also not illegal in California to put a temporary cover on your license plate when it's not in motion, parked on public or private property. When in motion on public streets/lots, it's fair game.
The scanners, if they're in radio contact with something, can easily give up GPS information about the locus of what was seen. Whether or not a governmental body/public safety unit will dash out and do something remains to be seen.
License plate covers can easily made from scrap cardboard. But what will happen next is a closeup of the VIN # on the dash. When VINs eventually go to an RFID tag, there'll be covers for the tag to prevent identification. This cat and mouse game will go on until California actually *does* run out of water, at which point, who cares?
They can buy their own machines, software, and add-ins if they need it. Not one of them is too poor to do so. Instead, this is all about politicking because there's not a shred of fact in the letter sent.
Takes all of about two minutes to show how to use the Linux payload. And if Skype isn't on the approved software payload.... maybe there's a reason for that.
My opinion of the Munich complainers reverses what I thought about the project overall; someone didn't take the time to see this one coming, and that's a sign of immaturity. Should the mayor decide to switch to Windows, he further compounds the problem by rejecting years of planning, conversion, and implementation.
You're on to something. This earth is not unlike an egg. Get the right angle to stress its plates across each other, and it comes apart.
There's also that handy moon thing nearby; cause its orbit to go a-kilter and let the fun ensue.
You're not talking about the variations of capital I'm familiar with, rather, you're talking about political systems. Private banking is not Silicon Valley, and is a different subject altogether. And we're talking about the USA, which has models that are vastly more entrepreneurial than those of other countries. Yes, a few of those private banks fuel small portions of Silicon Valley, but as a fraction, it's almost insignificant.
You use extremes. You can learn a lot on the way through failures. If you're looking for founder-stock success on the way to your life of penthouses in Vegas, then yeah, you're stupid. If you're looking for a decent living evolving stuff, you might have success.
If you add up Apple, HP, Oracle, and other organizations that were born somewhere near Silicon Valley, and look at their market cap, it's larger than you can imagine. There is money seeking other fortune. It's how Capitalism works. Yeah, there are other tawdry forms of capitalism and elements that make you want to hurl. It's a pressure cooker of an existence for coders in an über high priced area.
Darwin wasn't wrong, just cruel.
We disagree. People put their lives and karma in to trying to get a payoff, and there are certainly the charlatans and the self-deluded that believe that many/all of them could be huge.
Imitators have been rewarded, sometimes large, too. The great lie of entrepreneurship is that if you build a better mousetrap, the world will march to your door. Indeed invention plus innovation are only perhaps a third of the equation. St Steve Jobs taught us that extreme, vicious, unerring diligence can succeed, but first comes a relationship with a user, a human, that needs to feel as though they're satisfied.
VA Linux and the ascendency of Slashdot has to do with cashcow-mentality among its publishers, where Slashdot as a medium is a herd to be ridden. Look to Reddit and what happens when you don't understand your audience if you had any further questions. Slashdot is up for sale for less than the price of a good McDonald's location.
The graveyard from Santa Cruz, San Jose, all the way to Sacramento is huge, but this isn't amnesia. This is hope, and hope sells, and occasionally, hope pays off in huge ways. On the way through the graveyard, you get to learn what worked and what didn't.
Eventually, a handful get to the Holy Gates of IPOs, and maybe things go well from there. Slashdot, financially, is a mirror of being a member of this very set, a long ago huge IPO that kept becoming sold off in hopes of future success, but now itself is on the block.