The engineering computing* group at my company don't like Vista. I trust their opinion, thus I don't like vista. -nB
* NOT IT, vastly different purposes in life. IT is about mainstream hardware, standard servers, only having to deploy 2-3 images across 90% of the company. Engineering Computing is about the other 10%. Almost as many images as users, custom hardware specs, support for *every* OS available, back to Win3.1 and across 17 different linux distros. If they say "no way" to Vista, then I'm sold on the opinion and won't touch it (incidentally, nor will IT for the same reason).
I'm not sure I understand your point. I pay my hosting bill based on three factors: Bandwidth consumed, disk space used, and CPU used. I can set up in my account panel limits on any of these three. Since I don't want my sites to go dead just because I exceeded my bandwidth I simply throttle my connection speed once the bandwidth hits 80%. Sure my site gets slower, but it's not down. Upstream and downstream bandwidth is set in the modem on most cable and dsl modems, so all you need is a user side app that lets you see where you are in the billable elements and choose how to deal with it: Kill the connection for the last couple days of the month, or slow it down. Set the defaults such that the average customer won't pass the 80% point (so a peak month results in no additional or a minimal bill), but a power user can up the limits as needed. The infrastructure is all there already, all you need is one additional application and you're done.
Tiered plans that have a higher base price but allow more bandwidth are already available, and they change the plans almost monthly for their new customers or for "specials" so it's not like that's an issue either.
All in all it's an ideal technical solution, and like a gp post mentioned, in the long run it's both cheaper and more honest than the current cat and mouse game. -nB
Actually, their primary concern was the EVA its self. The suits are showing possible signs of aging (a 2 inch tear in the top two layers of a glove on the last EVA). They don't want an astronaut to be at risk of decompression while attempting a repair that is not life threatening. -nB
If you don't like a site's ads, don't visit the site If the site did not have burdensome* ads, I wouldn't block them. I'm building a site based on ad supported revenue. Since it is going to be targeted towards a largely technical audience I expect most (if not all) of the ads to be blocked. I myself use ABP. My solution is two-fold. I point out to my guests that the site is supported by advertising revenue, and provide a "donation ware" link that allows those who would rather not see ads, but still want to support my site to donate towards my hosting and bandwidth bill. I realize that this may not be viable for others, but for me at least, it is fine.
-nB
* Any ad that tends to blink, scroll, move, clash, interrupt the content, etc. is burdensome. Google text ads are the answer to this. -nB
FWIW When I was facing litigation from Farmers and/or Zürich Financial for my gripe site, the two lawyers who were going to handle the case for me gave me a no win/no pay provision. That was awfully generous of them, but they could have also fronted me the retainer and forgiven any unpaid money had we lost*. As it turned out Farmers blew (an estimated) $750K litigating a case in Washington with another gripe site owner and all but lost the case (it was settled out of court, but the website is still up, and the owner is not in bankruptcy, which in my book is a win). -nB
* we were planning on filing a SLAPP motion with a SLAPP-back rider in the event of charges being filed. A total of three lawyers gave me pro-bono time on the issue (about 10 hours in total) valued as high as $1K/hour. There are *good-(guy|gal)* lawyers out there, I have a feeling/.'s resident (and only?) IAAL guy is one of them. Count this as my nomination for both the "Slashdot Sticking-It-To-The-Man prize" and "Good lawyer hall 'o fame, founding member" awards;)
Not entirely. We have five levels of "classification": [company name] top secret [company name] restricted secret [company name] secret [company name] confidential [company name] public
While I agree that this is not the same as US Gov Top Secret, it leverages people's basic understanding of what those words mean and their impressions as to equality to the government. Just as the US would not want Top Secret notes passed to Iran, we would not want [company name] Top Secret passed to our competitors though we may share with a "friendly" company.
I fully understand how this gets under your skin, as I've been (accidentally) involved with USAF Top Secret materials and it is a whole 'nother sport (never mind ballpark) than company classified data. -nB
"(When was the last time someone called you a Low-Ping Bastard?:-) )" Fairly recently. I can select from proxy servers across the world as exit points and my local site has OC48. Not telling where though. -nB
Maximus kicked ass. I ran a BBS on it in the dying days of the BBS era. There are times I want to bring it back (ala, dialup to initiate a circuit connection, then DSL to DSLAM connection, but the TelCos won't allow that because they are asshats). -nB
Time to fire up the old BBS server and serial console port into it for fun:)
A typical CPU by AMD or Intel is about 9-12 layers, only on of which (the bottom doped Si layer) has transistors. Everything else is poly or metal. -nB
Want to lose flab? one word: Butterfly. Once your cardio gets to the point that you can do one full lap without gassing, start alternating one fly one breast or back to catch your wind, then up it to 2:1, 3:1 as you gain. It was my favorite stroke till I got sidelined and fell out of shape. -nB
Please tell me that's an LA thing! Here in NorCal we would normally expect that from San Francisco, but on those streets it would be suicide, if not from the hills, then from the cars (specifically their drivers).
On a side note, I've always wanted to line up a jump from Van Ness over the last bit of obstacles and into the bay and do it on rollerblades... Again, suicide...
Nah, that's hydrogen dioxide. or di hydrogen monoxide oxide? duo oxidized di hydride? oxyhydrate? (I like that one, wonder if you could bottle it and stupid people would drink it? "Oxygen and water in one bottle? Must be good... Gimmie, gimmie!") or how's about D2O2 (or as my buddy has a small sample of: T2O2) di deuteride dioxide -nB
Add to this that the power curve of a DC motor meas a transmission is desirable (but robs you of energy), whereas the AC induction motor's power curve is conducive to direct drive-trains. As to the regen braking issue, DC motors are optomised towards the production of kinetic energy at an expense of not so good generation capability. In fact, some DC motors can not be generators as part of the DC is used to energize a coil as a reaction magnet (rather than having ultra high cost rare earth magnets), to use them as generators would require energizing that coil(s) and since the circuit is integral to the motor that is not possible. -nB
If it's owned by the state isn't it public domain? Thus if the state's call to block it was predicated on their claim to ownership, it would fall through. -nB
True enough, but one should only allow active content such as Java on sites one explicitly trusts (like a bank). Sadly, most are not as aware and leave their browsers in "whore mode". -nB
The only real gripe I've heard of the Canadian system is the "slow factor". If they could add supplemental coverage (i.e. the individual or employer could sponsor additional monies) that allowed for premium coverage, I think it would be close to the perfect plan. -nB
If you consider his knowledge of the NT4 kernel that no one on our team had as mediocre then sure. If you consider that his documentation was approaching 4:1 against lines of code then sure. If you consider that even with the 1:1 coaching that he gave our resident programmers they could barely keep up then sure. And finally... If you consider that we bid this to MS and they conceded that it was a touchy application that required a team of at least three programmers, then sure he was a mediocre programmer.
More likely he was light years ahead of anyone else we employed. I read his code and I fully understood the principle of the operation (with the help of the comments), but my capability of the execution would have been grossly lacking.
Seeing as you're an AC I likely wasted my time on a troll, but whatever. -nB
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dude, enough already.
If your UID wasn't as low as it is I would accuse you of being a troll, registering the account just to spam.
-nb
The engineering computing* group at my company don't like Vista. I trust their opinion, thus I don't like vista.
-nB
* NOT IT, vastly different purposes in life. IT is about mainstream hardware, standard servers, only having to deploy 2-3 images across 90% of the company. Engineering Computing is about the other 10%. Almost as many images as users, custom hardware specs, support for *every* OS available, back to Win3.1 and across 17 different linux distros. If they say "no way" to Vista, then I'm sold on the opinion and won't touch it (incidentally, nor will IT for the same reason).
I'm not sure I understand your point.
I pay my hosting bill based on three factors: Bandwidth consumed, disk space used, and CPU used. I can set up in my account panel limits on any of these three. Since I don't want my sites to go dead just because I exceeded my bandwidth I simply throttle my connection speed once the bandwidth hits 80%. Sure my site gets slower, but it's not down. Upstream and downstream bandwidth is set in the modem on most cable and dsl modems, so all you need is a user side app that lets you see where you are in the billable elements and choose how to deal with it: Kill the connection for the last couple days of the month, or slow it down. Set the defaults such that the average customer won't pass the 80% point (so a peak month results in no additional or a minimal bill), but a power user can up the limits as needed. The infrastructure is all there already, all you need is one additional application and you're done.
Tiered plans that have a higher base price but allow more bandwidth are already available, and they change the plans almost monthly for their new customers or for "specials" so it's not like that's an issue either.
All in all it's an ideal technical solution, and like a gp post mentioned, in the long run it's both cheaper and more honest than the current cat and mouse game.
-nB
Actually, their primary concern was the EVA its self. The suits are showing possible signs of aging (a 2 inch tear in the top two layers of a glove on the last EVA). They don't want an astronaut to be at risk of decompression while attempting a repair that is not life threatening.
-nB
I'm building a site based on ad supported revenue. Since it is going to be targeted towards a largely technical audience I expect most (if not all) of the ads to be blocked. I myself use ABP. My solution is two-fold. I point out to my guests that the site is supported by advertising revenue, and provide a "donation ware" link that allows those who would rather not see ads, but still want to support my site to donate towards my hosting and bandwidth bill. I realize that this may not be viable for others, but for me at least, it is fine.
-nB
* Any ad that tends to blink, scroll, move, clash, interrupt the content, etc. is burdensome. Google text ads are the answer to this.
-nB
FWIW
/.'s resident (and only?) IAAL guy is one of them. Count this as my nomination for both the "Slashdot Sticking-It-To-The-Man prize" and "Good lawyer hall 'o fame, founding member" awards ;)
When I was facing litigation from Farmers and/or Zürich Financial for my gripe site, the two lawyers who were going to handle the case for me gave me a no win/no pay provision. That was awfully generous of them, but they could have also fronted me the retainer and forgiven any unpaid money had we lost*. As it turned out Farmers blew (an estimated) $750K litigating a case in Washington with another gripe site owner and all but lost the case (it was settled out of court, but the website is still up, and the owner is not in bankruptcy, which in my book is a win).
-nB
* we were planning on filing a SLAPP motion with a SLAPP-back rider in the event of charges being filed. A total of three lawyers gave me pro-bono time on the issue (about 10 hours in total) valued as high as $1K/hour. There are *good-(guy|gal)* lawyers out there, I have a feeling
only if you're sane.
Not entirely.
We have five levels of "classification":
[company name] top secret
[company name] restricted secret
[company name] secret
[company name] confidential
[company name] public
While I agree that this is not the same as US Gov Top Secret, it leverages people's basic understanding of what those words mean and their impressions as to equality to the government. Just as the US would not want Top Secret notes passed to Iran, we would not want [company name] Top Secret passed to our competitors though we may share with a "friendly" company.
I fully understand how this gets under your skin, as I've been (accidentally) involved with USAF Top Secret materials and it is a whole 'nother sport (never mind ballpark) than company classified data.
-nB
"(When was the last time someone called you a Low-Ping Bastard? :-) )"
Fairly recently.
I can select from proxy servers across the world as exit points and my local site has OC48.
Not telling where though.
-nB
you had diodes you lucky SOBs?
All we had was a block of galena and a cat whisker.
Maximus kicked ass.
:)
I ran a BBS on it in the dying days of the BBS era. There are times I want to bring it back (ala, dialup to initiate a circuit connection, then DSL to DSLAM connection, but the TelCos won't allow that because they are asshats).
-nB
Time to fire up the old BBS server and serial console port into it for fun
interconnect planes, yes.
Transistor planes, no.
A typical CPU by AMD or Intel is about 9-12 layers, only on of which (the bottom doped Si layer) has transistors. Everything else is poly or metal.
-nB
but google controls their code. They don't need to worry about external changes breaking compatibility with some part of their rather complex system.
Wow I must have some serious foes with mod points.
HTF is that a troll?
Want to lose flab? one word: Butterfly.
Once your cardio gets to the point that you can do one full lap without gassing, start alternating one fly one breast or back to catch your wind, then up it to 2:1, 3:1 as you gain. It was my favorite stroke till I got sidelined and fell out of shape.
-nB
Please tell me that's an LA thing!
Here in NorCal we would normally expect that from San Francisco, but on those streets it would be suicide, if not from the hills, then from the cars (specifically their drivers).
On a side note, I've always wanted to line up a jump from Van Ness over the last bit of obstacles and into the bay and do it on rollerblades...
Again, suicide...
Nah,
that's hydrogen dioxide.
or di hydrogen monoxide oxide?
duo oxidized di hydride?
oxyhydrate? (I like that one, wonder if you could bottle it and stupid people would drink it? "Oxygen and water in one bottle? Must be good... Gimmie, gimmie!")
or how's about D2O2 (or as my buddy has a small sample of: T2O2) di deuteride dioxide
-nB
Add to this that the power curve of a DC motor meas a transmission is desirable (but robs you of energy), whereas the AC induction motor's power curve is conducive to direct drive-trains.
As to the regen braking issue, DC motors are optomised towards the production of kinetic energy at an expense of not so good generation capability. In fact, some DC motors can not be generators as part of the DC is used to energize a coil as a reaction magnet (rather than having ultra high cost rare earth magnets), to use them as generators would require energizing that coil(s) and since the circuit is integral to the motor that is not possible.
-nB
Yes, because this particular harm is what even joe sixpack (and a non-technically minded judge) understands as *bad*.
FWIW I bet if MS was offered exclusive rights to the kernel for $40bn they would take it in a heartbeat.
If it's owned by the state isn't it public domain?
Thus if the state's call to block it was predicated on their claim to ownership, it would fall through.
-nB
True enough, but one should only allow active content such as Java on sites one explicitly trusts (like a bank).
Sadly, most are not as aware and leave their browsers in "whore mode".
-nB
The only real gripe I've heard of the Canadian system is the "slow factor". If they could add supplemental coverage (i.e. the individual or employer could sponsor additional monies) that allowed for premium coverage, I think it would be close to the perfect plan.
-nB
If you consider his knowledge of the NT4 kernel that no one on our team had as mediocre then sure.
If you consider that his documentation was approaching 4:1 against lines of code then sure.
If you consider that even with the 1:1 coaching that he gave our resident programmers they could barely keep up then sure.
And finally...
If you consider that we bid this to MS and they conceded that it was a touchy application that required a team of at least three programmers, then sure he was a mediocre programmer.
More likely he was light years ahead of anyone else we employed. I read his code and I fully understood the principle of the operation (with the help of the comments), but my capability of the execution would have been grossly lacking.
Seeing as you're an AC I likely wasted my time on a troll, but whatever.
-nB