Correct. I never indicated that they were taking pictures but were able to "generate an image" based upon the stylus' deflection from the forces in the atomic bonds (it's why I used the record player analogy). I recall first hearing about this when scientists used this method of visualizing atoms when they arranged some atoms to form the acronym IBM. See this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_(atoms) and This for information on the Scanning Tunneling Microscope they used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_(atoms)
I remember so many years of visualizing the molecule structures in school and learning how and why the atoms arrange themselves in molecules. The diagrams drawn and the physical models helped but always the thought of (Camelot)"It's just a model." (/Camelot) was there. Seeing the images created of these molecules by something actually measuring them was pretty damn cool and shows us just how accurate those models are. The technology which allows us to obtain these images is always pretty amazing too. To obtain these images.. "Non-contact atomic force microscopy uses a very fine, sharp point to read the electrical forces produced by molecules; as the tip is moved near a molecule’s surface, it’s deflected by different charges, producing an image of how the atoms and bonds are aligned."
So, it's in a way, similar to old record players where the stylus drags across the surface of an album and through the physical interactions with the play surface, converts the grooves and ridges to sound.. The stylus used in the article to measure the layout of the atomic forces is one atom thick at the end and is deflected by the forces which allows the generation of an image (it never physically touches anything).. All very cool stuff.
I guess that would be one way to move those off-shore jobs from India back to the US. We'd have a sudden increase in call-center jobs here and when speaking to "Jim" or "Tammy" on the phone trying to fix a problem, they'd have no hint of a foreign accent..;-)
Agreed. My company refuses to switch to Window 8. I suspect that Windows 7 will be the new Windows XP for years to come (if you need to run Windows in your environment, it will be Windows 7). The issue with Microsoft is that they went about this wrong. They forced significant changes upon users where changes were not really warranted. This is particularly a big issue in companies where users are accustomed to working on the same style of desktop etc. These are people that complain when an icon is moved on their desktop or get confused with minor changes to applications so a full UI overhaul in the corporate space was truly a bad idea and one which will cost Microsoft dearly in the years ahead. Giving options to use their new interface components is a better approach (one which Apple has taken with their desktop OS via the Launchpad which brings up pages of icons representing applications to launch, identical to their IOS devices). I understand that Microsoft sees the writing on the wall and that mobile devices and operating systems is the future source of revenue, but dumping these changes so suddenly upon the masses was a bad decision.
I've never been a fan of seeing the significant UI changes made each time a new version of Windows is released. I have worked on Windows servers for years and really hated the changes introduced with Server 2008. I still need to figure out where certain functions are when I have to work on a Windows server (I spend much more time on Linux servers now). I've heard similar complaints from friends who work in IT as well.
I recall hearing that Howie Mandel ran into serious issues with his hands from obsessively cleaning them with hospital grade anti-biotic soap. For those who don't know, he is a celebrity who is also a germaphobe (Mysophobia). His obsessive cleaning of his hands resulted in killing off the healthy bacteria which is present on all of our hands / skin. This let other microbial things take hold and he developed some warts on his hands (plus they were badly peeling etc).
I do admit that the reports of people getting sick from being in a hospital concerns me. There are various steps which hospitals can take to significantly mitigate the risks of spreading germs but they don't. It's unfortunate that a hospital had to resort to such tactics to ensure that their staff are washing their hands but remember, this can be a difference of living or dying, or from a 2 day hospital stay vs a 4 week hospital stay recovering from severe infections. The CDC estimates that almost two million Americans get hospital infections each year, and 90,000 of those people die from them. Anyone who spends time in the hospital is at risk for infection, but the chances are greater for those who stay in an intensive care unit.
The episode 'Fun on a Bun' where Bender digs up a 30,000 year old Woolly Mammoth from the ice to make sausages.. Should make for some tasty sausages!!
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun_on_a_Bun " Meanwhile, Bender discovers that chef Elzar is there, ready to win the sausage-making challenge using pork that has been aged over 3000 years. Bender is determined to win the event, and takes a despondent Fry with him in the Planet Express ship to look for woolly mammoths frozen in a nearby glacier within Neander Valley, believing that meat aged over 30,000 years should certainly win. Bender is successful at finding a woolly mammoth, and with Fry's help, proceeds to grind the woolly mammoth into sausages."
I don't see why you are complaining about this. Every civilization will place themselves central to the map. I grew up in North America and so the North American continent was always central with Europe etc. on the right side and Asia etc. on the left. Australia will place itself central and so will Europe (as seen here) and Asia on their respective maps. Having North at the top of the map is an international standard (to my knowledge). This has nothing to do with North being good (and therefore S being bad?)
Interestingly, as a child, I always thought that maps were the same everywhere (North America central) and so was surprised when I first saw maps from other countries. I paused a moment and realized why and that I was naive for assuming otherwise. I had wondered at that time if, to simplify things, Australia or other countries towards the Southern end of the planet, taught geography with South at the top.
Back on track, the interpretations were interesting to view. It shows us all that we perceive things in the world differently from others (as I learned so long ago with the maps)
I am at a loss as to why people and in particular, celebrities (regardless of how minor) continue to take nude pictures on their cell phones. They have to or should know by now that phones go missing, computers get hacked and all of those pictures can and will wind up on the internet. This has happened so many times in the past with the releases being quite publicly discussed and yet there seems to be no end to people shooting pictures of themselves which they do not want the public to see. The worst issue is with teens sending pictures to their girlfriend / boyfriend, trusting them and believing that they will always be together as these pictures can be quite damaging to the individual if / when released to their peers. I guess we still need to educate the masses about the risks inherent to these types of media devices.
We've seen similar approaches in the past where some company installs a root kit into their product. Sony did this with some music CD once and there have been other instances. The problem arises when the hacking community discovers the rootkit (and they always do) and they make use of the rootkit for their own purposes and it turns into a gateway for malware getting onto the person's computer. Again, this is not conjecture, this has already happened. Additionally, this would lead the way to false positives where a company thinks a person has pirated software but has in fact not. Look at the headaches with Windows activations where the software suddenly assumes that it has been pirated and is disabled / crippled until the user gets it sorted out.. Like any weapon, this kind of stuff can be turned against lawful people and it is not worth implementing.
If companies are so worried about piracy and the costs to them, they should stop attacking the enduser sitting at home and go after the large organized crime groups in other countries where piracy is rampant and effectively sanctioned by the local government. THAT is where the big numbers for revenue lost to piracy comes from, not from some kid at home downloading games or music to try a few times.
I am guessing that this is their attempt to replace the cash cow that left with the advent of smartphones and builtin messaging apps like iMessage on the iPhone. We all know that the Telco's were totally screwing over their customers with these ridiculous charges for sending and receiving SMS messages. (there are various calculations out there which place the rate to be at about $1200.00 / MB). Since people are moving away from using SMS as heavily as they once did, AT&T is making up for that loss of huge profit by adding in this fee. There's no basis in reality for the justification that is presented. Where are the current monthly subscription fees going if they are't being used to maintain the infrastructure? It's a money grab, plain and simple and it's completely slimy of them to add it in as a fee, thus negating the ability to tell them off and leave without the ETF.
The reduction in pain for the patients was significant and consistent. I had first heard of this when NPR was talking about soldiers returning from Iraq and how this helped them deal with pain. It's amazing what this kind of technology can do to help people, particularly those who have been injured. I am sure that VR will be able to help those who suffer from PTSD and who knows what else. The SnowWorld stuff is quite fascinating and worth a read. Do a Google search and you'll find plenty of information on it.
We have seen this happen on other Windows platforms (aka Personal Computers) as well as other systems which need to store the OS and applications on the hard drive. Manufacturers don't list the free remaining space, just the total capacity of the hard drive. There is however a difference with these new devices. The total storage is much smaller than computer systems with spinning disks. A long time ago, when total storage capacity on spinning disks was quite small in consumer PC's, the operating system was very small (DOS for example) and applications were similarly small (sent on 2 or three floppy disks). So, the impact on a 40 GB hard drive was minimal back then. Fast forward to today and we see a very bloated operating system (to maintain ridiculous backwards compatibility), bloated applications and the pre-installed crapware (sample "free" programs that are pre-installed and which you need to pay to use beyond a few weeks etc). all of this adds up and would have filled that 40 GB hard drive of the old days. when the pre-installed OS and applications etc. consume such a large percentage of the total available storage, they really should identify this on the specs for consumers. "The device contained within this packaging has a 64 GB total storage capacity however the available storage to you is actually 36% of the total leaving you with 23 GB to store documents and install other applications." This would be a good thing to force the companies to do as it would probably give them incentive to optimize their operating system and applications and also get rid of crapware pre-installations.
Using some worst case / high profit scenarios.. It's not overly technical..
Here's a fascinating article where the true costs of bandwidth are calculated by yielding very high profits (300%) with a worst case scenario where all customers want to watch 3 hi-def shows / customer (3 people in the same house) streamed simultaneously.. The costs are still very low.. I really do urge you all to read this article written in 2011.. It really puts things in perspective and shows just how greedy these corporations are...
I think a bigger concern with this type of stuff is the potential for someone to gain access to the decrypted streams. They would have access to a treasure trove of personal information. While this type of activity can come from an external source, the biggest vector is from internal staff. I would not be comfortable having something being operated by Nokia etc. having full access to my sessions. How often do we see headlines describing xx number of people's personal information being compromised... by BIG companies who most would have assumed would be experts at security.. Another big problem with this is that people using these devices ASSUME that their sessions are secured between their end and the end point (a bank, online retailer, etc) because this is what they have been told time and again by experts in trying to educate the masses. If a device is going to intercept these historically secured point to point sessions, a warning / disclaimer should pop up for each session explaining (in clear, short terms) what is happening.. I understand and accept the good intentions and reasoning behind this approach but good intentions have so often been the cause for bad results..
Yeah, I don't use Comcast for anything other than internet. We ditched Cable for getting my content off the internet either via streaming, buying seasons from Apple, ripping my DVD's and dumping as much as I can to a NAS which feeds several Apple TV's in the house. Any live TV we may want is pulled off the air in sharp looking HD. I don't miss commercials, I don't miss all of the junk channels which I used to have to pay for just to get a few decent channels. Our cable bill dropped from over $200.00 / month to about $50. I've left Cable and will never go back..:-)
.. the cable companies would compress the signal as they presently do with "HDTV" to the point that it looks like crap. They have ruined the HDTV quality with this compression and I can only imagine how much they would ruin 4k TV content. The best HDTV experience I have ever had was pulling HDTV signals from the Over The Air broadcasts. The first time I saw this (after spending so much time watching compressed HDTV on Comcast) I couldn't believe how great it looked. If you don't believe me, give it a try. The OTA HDTV signals blow Comcast's HDTV signals out of the water with crispness and detail. Hopefully the means of getting this type of signal dramatically improves so that compression is not needed and we can watch 4k the way it was meant to be..
..if people who raise a big stink over how horrible gun control is and that it's their right to possess fire arms etc. would stop using these absurd arguments like "only bad people will have guns" and "we need our guns in case we are invaded" (yes, I have a relative who said this to me.. and he's a police officer). They should just come clean and say "hey, I like guns and I want guns and I don't want anyone to tell me I can't have guns when I want them". At least they would be honest and not sound (in my opinion) like a crackpot talking about fighting off a non-existant invasion force. (cue references to Red Dawn now.. I need a good laugh).
I'm sorry, assault weapons are designed for one reason; to kill people. I've trained with them to kill people (in the Army). They are very good at killing people. There's a reason why police forces and the military use assault weapons and not bolt action rifles with 5 round magazines and that's because you significantly reduce the effectiveness and ability to kill people with these types of weapons. Semi-automatic is the preferred mode for assault weapons if you want maximum efficiency at hitting a target. Full automatic is for movies and close quarter combat as far as assault weapons go. Effectively trained forces do not do the spray and pray method. It looks cool but you waste ammunition.
The suggestion to use technology to prevent future mass killings is never going to work. The better way to reduce these types of events (you'll never totally stop them though) is to reduce the availability of guns to the public. It has worked everywhere it has been implemented and it will work here in the US. It will take time (a long time) for a full effect as guns will still be widely available in the hands of people but over time, as guns break, get lost, are destroyed, etc. Society will be safer and better off..
A Raspberry Pi was on my son's Christmas list for 2012 and they were sold out from the primary vendors. Instead I had to buy one from an Amazon Marketplace seller at 2x the cost. Some folks made some good money by buying them up and reselling them with a 100% markup. I don't begrudge them, I paid my money and got it for my son, along with all of the other components needed to make good use of it. It's an amazing piece of kit for anyone who wants to play around with it. As mentioned, it's cheap and can be used in a variety of ways. People are very creative and I can't wait to see what they do with these..
Lots of SPAM advertising Dancing Monkey Man brand Anti-Persperants (Zoo Strength). For those on the go who feel the need to jump around on stage like an angry gorilla but don't want to be embarrassed by sweat marks..
Sometimes there is a reason why companies break large projects into multiple facets, each managed by a specialist and overseen by an overall PM. This can work provided the teams consist of high quality professionals (A-list players). I've seen many projects doomed because there is a lack of strong and competent leadership overseeing a project (the last company I worked for was shut down because of this). If your company gets a lot of specialists and consultants who don't listen to input from the staff working on it, there is a high chance of failure. If leadership is too passive and doesn't get people on task and on target, there is a good chance for failure. Finding people who have a vested interest in the success of the project is vital and finding people who take pride in their work is vital. Having husks sitting at a desk doing their part without passion or caring is a recipe for disaster. You've done your part. You've built the specs and now it's time for the other folks to do their part. Hopefully your company has quality people and strong leadership so that your project will succeed.
The share value was not tied to this (or just to this report) There are other silly reasons out there which apparently fed this.. People continue to be short sighted and to be honest, these market fluctuations are normal and if people worry over these dips, then they should not own stock. Those who invest for the long term are quite fine with such things as stocks always fluctuate. Instead of focusing on the minor issues, analysts should keep in mind how much profit margin Apple has on everything they sell compared to other manufacturers. Look at the PC market. Apple has always focused on high quality and high margins. They have never been interested in the low margin purchasers and it has worked well for them. Look at smart phones and tablets and it's the same thing. I'd rather have stock in a company with a healthy profit margin than one which cuts it so low that they need to count on volume of sales to make it worth while. This makes for a far healthier company. If company A's margins are super low and a competing product hits the shelves which is superior and customers flock to that instead, Company A will suffer greatly.
I don't understand how people can look for reasons to justify that stuff like this is nothing to worry over and vigorously fight to discredit people who raise it as a concern. Even if there was a small chance that global warming due to human activities was to blame for this, shouldn't we all be concerned? The predictions of the impact to global coastlines due to land-based ice sheets melting is pretty much the same across the board; many millions of people will be directly impacted and displaced. I'd say that a slim chance of that happening is quite concerning and is reason enough to take action to try to get this under control. If this does impact the world as many fear, I hope that those who fought to discredit the vast majority of scientists are remembered in history accordingly.
If Canada had the oil the middle east does maybe that thinking would be different. It's not all middle easterners that hate the west. Some embrace it, the same with Islam. A true religion should teach tolerance no matter what, otherwise it's just a perversion of what everyone should know to be true, not that there is a god, not that theirs is right, but just to respect people in general, if for no other reason than they are your neighbor, if that's not enough then because we share the same planet.
Uh, did you know that Canada is the USA's largest source of foreign oil? In fact twenty-one percent of the oil imported to the United States in June of 2009 came from Canada, making Canada the largest single-country source of foreign oil for the United States. America even imports more oil from Canada than it does all Persian Gulf countries combined; nations from the Persian Gulf region supplied just 13 percent of America's oil in June of 2009 [source: Energy Information Administration].
Sounds great, most managers refuse to allot time for IT to do this. do you give them 4-8 hours a week to get documentation proper?
I'm sorry but documentation must always be accounted for when working and planning projects. Much of the documentation should have been drawn up even before the project starts with the rest of it being completed once the project is completed. I have a hard time finding pity for those who build a server and don't document it or add on a service or recurring task through a scheduled script without writing it all out on paper. I have on several occasions had to sort out the resulting mess when moving into a new job. (in fact, I am working through such a situation now). Any manager who does not allow time for documentation is either incompetent or lacks experience. When I leave a position with a company, I always leave a wealth of documentation behind. Don't forget how much time is saved trying to troubleshoot a problem because you have some documentation available. It sucks being in a position of trying to figure out how something is configured and is supposed to work when it is down and you have people crowding around you waiting for it to be fixed.
To the original poster, the reality is that you failed to properly document the environment. Now you have to suffer by being available to constantly answer questions as your replacement tries to sort out the mess he has inherited from you. The organization suffers because it is exposed to risk as the administrator does't know how everything works and has no resource (documentation) to refer to. Your replacement has to suffer as he tries to sort out what you've left behind. If I left a mess like that behind me, I would be embarrassed and take steps to ensure that it does not happen again. Since you'll still be working there (in a different position) you'll have the pleasure of walking around knowing that your co-workers know what a mess you left behind. If you want a solution, spend a lot of time going through each system and write up detailed documentation and prepare an overview or summary of the entire environment which shows how it all interconnects etc. From now on, take some pride in what you do by doing it properly.
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Correct. I never indicated that they were taking pictures but were able to "generate an image" based upon the stylus' deflection from the forces in the atomic bonds (it's why I used the record player analogy). I recall first hearing about this when scientists used this method of visualizing atoms when they arranged some atoms to form the acronym IBM. See this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_(atoms) and This for information on the Scanning Tunneling Microscope they used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_(atoms)
I remember so many years of visualizing the molecule structures in school and learning how and why the atoms arrange themselves in molecules. The diagrams drawn and the physical models helped but always the thought of (Camelot)"It's just a model." (/Camelot) was there. Seeing the images created of these molecules by something actually measuring them was pretty damn cool and shows us just how accurate those models are. The technology which allows us to obtain these images is always pretty amazing too. To obtain these images .. "Non-contact atomic force microscopy uses a very fine, sharp point to read the electrical forces produced by molecules; as the tip is moved near a molecule’s surface, it’s deflected by different charges, producing an image of how the atoms and bonds are aligned."
So, it's in a way, similar to old record players where the stylus drags across the surface of an album and through the physical interactions with the play surface, converts the grooves and ridges to sound.. The stylus used in the article to measure the layout of the atomic forces is one atom thick at the end and is deflected by the forces which allows the generation of an image (it never physically touches anything).. All very cool stuff.
I guess that would be one way to move those off-shore jobs from India back to the US. We'd have a sudden increase in call-center jobs here and when speaking to "Jim" or "Tammy" on the phone trying to fix a problem, they'd have no hint of a foreign accent.. ;-)
Agreed. My company refuses to switch to Window 8. I suspect that Windows 7 will be the new Windows XP for years to come (if you need to run Windows in your environment, it will be Windows 7). The issue with Microsoft is that they went about this wrong. They forced significant changes upon users where changes were not really warranted. This is particularly a big issue in companies where users are accustomed to working on the same style of desktop etc. These are people that complain when an icon is moved on their desktop or get confused with minor changes to applications so a full UI overhaul in the corporate space was truly a bad idea and one which will cost Microsoft dearly in the years ahead. Giving options to use their new interface components is a better approach (one which Apple has taken with their desktop OS via the Launchpad which brings up pages of icons representing applications to launch, identical to their IOS devices). I understand that Microsoft sees the writing on the wall and that mobile devices and operating systems is the future source of revenue, but dumping these changes so suddenly upon the masses was a bad decision.
I've never been a fan of seeing the significant UI changes made each time a new version of Windows is released. I have worked on Windows servers for years and really hated the changes introduced with Server 2008. I still need to figure out where certain functions are when I have to work on a Windows server (I spend much more time on Linux servers now). I've heard similar complaints from friends who work in IT as well.
I recall hearing that Howie Mandel ran into serious issues with his hands from obsessively cleaning them with hospital grade anti-biotic soap. For those who don't know, he is a celebrity who is also a germaphobe (Mysophobia). His obsessive cleaning of his hands resulted in killing off the healthy bacteria which is present on all of our hands / skin. This let other microbial things take hold and he developed some warts on his hands (plus they were badly peeling etc).
I do admit that the reports of people getting sick from being in a hospital concerns me. There are various steps which hospitals can take to significantly mitigate the risks of spreading germs but they don't. It's unfortunate that a hospital had to resort to such tactics to ensure that their staff are washing their hands but remember, this can be a difference of living or dying, or from a 2 day hospital stay vs a 4 week hospital stay recovering from severe infections. The CDC estimates that almost two million Americans get hospital infections each year, and 90,000 of those people die from them. Anyone who spends time in the hospital is at risk for infection, but the chances are greater for those who stay in an intensive care unit.
The episode 'Fun on a Bun' where Bender digs up a 30,000 year old Woolly Mammoth from the ice to make sausages.. Should make for some tasty sausages!!
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun_on_a_Bun
" Meanwhile, Bender discovers that chef Elzar is there, ready to win the sausage-making challenge using pork that has been aged over 3000 years. Bender is determined to win the event, and takes a despondent Fry with him in the Planet Express ship to look for woolly mammoths frozen in a nearby glacier within Neander Valley, believing that meat aged over 30,000 years should certainly win. Bender is successful at finding a woolly mammoth, and with Fry's help, proceeds to grind the woolly mammoth into sausages."
I don't see why you are complaining about this. Every civilization will place themselves central to the map. I grew up in North America and so the North American continent was always central with Europe etc. on the right side and Asia etc. on the left. Australia will place itself central and so will Europe (as seen here) and Asia on their respective maps. Having North at the top of the map is an international standard (to my knowledge). This has nothing to do with North being good (and therefore S being bad?)
Interestingly, as a child, I always thought that maps were the same everywhere (North America central) and so was surprised when I first saw maps from other countries. I paused a moment and realized why and that I was naive for assuming otherwise. I had wondered at that time if, to simplify things, Australia or other countries towards the Southern end of the planet, taught geography with South at the top.
Back on track, the interpretations were interesting to view. It shows us all that we perceive things in the world differently from others (as I learned so long ago with the maps)
I am at a loss as to why people and in particular, celebrities (regardless of how minor) continue to take nude pictures on their cell phones. They have to or should know by now that phones go missing, computers get hacked and all of those pictures can and will wind up on the internet. This has happened so many times in the past with the releases being quite publicly discussed and yet there seems to be no end to people shooting pictures of themselves which they do not want the public to see.
The worst issue is with teens sending pictures to their girlfriend / boyfriend, trusting them and believing that they will always be together as these pictures can be quite damaging to the individual if / when released to their peers. I guess we still need to educate the masses about the risks inherent to these types of media devices.
We've seen similar approaches in the past where some company installs a root kit into their product. Sony did this with some music CD once and there have been other instances. The problem arises when the hacking community discovers the rootkit (and they always do) and they make use of the rootkit for their own purposes and it turns into a gateway for malware getting onto the person's computer. Again, this is not conjecture, this has already happened.
Additionally, this would lead the way to false positives where a company thinks a person has pirated software but has in fact not. Look at the headaches with Windows activations where the software suddenly assumes that it has been pirated and is disabled / crippled until the user gets it sorted out..
Like any weapon, this kind of stuff can be turned against lawful people and it is not worth implementing.
If companies are so worried about piracy and the costs to them, they should stop attacking the enduser sitting at home and go after the large organized crime groups in other countries where piracy is rampant and effectively sanctioned by the local government. THAT is where the big numbers for revenue lost to piracy comes from, not from some kid at home downloading games or music to try a few times.
I am guessing that this is their attempt to replace the cash cow that left with the advent of smartphones and builtin messaging apps like iMessage on the iPhone. We all know that the Telco's were totally screwing over their customers with these ridiculous charges for sending and receiving SMS messages. (there are various calculations out there which place the rate to be at about $1200.00 / MB). Since people are moving away from using SMS as heavily as they once did, AT&T is making up for that loss of huge profit by adding in this fee. There's no basis in reality for the justification that is presented. Where are the current monthly subscription fees going if they are't being used to maintain the infrastructure? It's a money grab, plain and simple and it's completely slimy of them to add it in as a fee, thus negating the ability to tell them off and leave without the ETF.
I heard about a project where Virtual Reality was used to help burn patients suffer less. They participate in a VR world called SnowWorld Link http://www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/vrpain/ and a report about it http://www.npr.org/2012/02/12/146775049/virtual-penguins-a-prescription-for-pain
The reduction in pain for the patients was significant and consistent. I had first heard of this when NPR was talking about soldiers returning from Iraq and how this helped them deal with pain. It's amazing what this kind of technology can do to help people, particularly those who have been injured. I am sure that VR will be able to help those who suffer from PTSD and who knows what else. The SnowWorld stuff is quite fascinating and worth a read. Do a Google search and you'll find plenty of information on it.
We have seen this happen on other Windows platforms (aka Personal Computers) as well as other systems which need to store the OS and applications on the hard drive. Manufacturers don't list the free remaining space, just the total capacity of the hard drive.
There is however a difference with these new devices. The total storage is much smaller than computer systems with spinning disks. A long time ago, when total storage capacity on spinning disks was quite small in consumer PC's, the operating system was very small (DOS for example) and applications were similarly small (sent on 2 or three floppy disks). So, the impact on a 40 GB hard drive was minimal back then. Fast forward to today and we see a very bloated operating system (to maintain ridiculous backwards compatibility), bloated applications and the pre-installed crapware (sample "free" programs that are pre-installed and which you need to pay to use beyond a few weeks etc). all of this adds up and would have filled that 40 GB hard drive of the old days. when the pre-installed OS and applications etc. consume such a large percentage of the total available storage, they really should identify this on the specs for consumers. "The device contained within this packaging has a 64 GB total storage capacity however the available storage to you is actually 36% of the total leaving you with 23 GB to store documents and install other applications."
This would be a good thing to force the companies to do as it would probably give them incentive to optimize their operating system and applications and also get rid of crapware pre-installations.
Using some worst case / high profit scenarios.. It's not overly technical..
Here's a fascinating article where the true costs of bandwidth are calculated by yielding very high profits (300%) with a worst case scenario where all customers want to watch 3 hi-def shows / customer (3 people in the same house) streamed simultaneously.. The costs are still very low.. I really do urge you all to read this article written in 2011.. It really puts things in perspective and shows just how greedy these corporations are...
http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2011/04/07/what-does-a-gigabyte-of-internet-service-really-cost-a-look-at-the-worst-case-scenario/
Well, I think that girth tends to matter more than length..
I think a bigger concern with this type of stuff is the potential for someone to gain access to the decrypted streams. They would have access to a treasure trove of personal information. While this type of activity can come from an external source, the biggest vector is from internal staff. I would not be comfortable having something being operated by Nokia etc. having full access to my sessions. How often do we see headlines describing xx number of people's personal information being compromised... by BIG companies who most would have assumed would be experts at security.. Another big problem with this is that people using these devices ASSUME that their sessions are secured between their end and the end point (a bank, online retailer, etc) because this is what they have been told time and again by experts in trying to educate the masses. If a device is going to intercept these historically secured point to point sessions, a warning / disclaimer should pop up for each session explaining (in clear, short terms) what is happening..
I understand and accept the good intentions and reasoning behind this approach but good intentions have so often been the cause for bad results..
Yeah, I don't use Comcast for anything other than internet. We ditched Cable for getting my content off the internet either via streaming, buying seasons from Apple, ripping my DVD's and dumping as much as I can to a NAS which feeds several Apple TV's in the house. Any live TV we may want is pulled off the air in sharp looking HD. I don't miss commercials, I don't miss all of the junk channels which I used to have to pay for just to get a few decent channels. Our cable bill dropped from over $200.00 / month to about $50. I've left Cable and will never go back.. :-)
.. the cable companies would compress the signal as they presently do with "HDTV" to the point that it looks like crap. They have ruined the HDTV quality with this compression and I can only imagine how much they would ruin 4k TV content. The best HDTV experience I have ever had was pulling HDTV signals from the Over The Air broadcasts. The first time I saw this (after spending so much time watching compressed HDTV on Comcast) I couldn't believe how great it looked. If you don't believe me, give it a try. The OTA HDTV signals blow Comcast's HDTV signals out of the water with crispness and detail.
Hopefully the means of getting this type of signal dramatically improves so that compression is not needed and we can watch 4k the way it was meant to be..
..if people who raise a big stink over how horrible gun control is and that it's their right to possess fire arms etc. would stop using these absurd arguments like "only bad people will have guns" and "we need our guns in case we are invaded" (yes, I have a relative who said this to me.. and he's a police officer). They should just come clean and say "hey, I like guns and I want guns and I don't want anyone to tell me I can't have guns when I want them". At least they would be honest and not sound (in my opinion) like a crackpot talking about fighting off a non-existant invasion force. (cue references to Red Dawn now.. I need a good laugh).
I'm sorry, assault weapons are designed for one reason; to kill people. I've trained with them to kill people (in the Army). They are very good at killing people. There's a reason why police forces and the military use assault weapons and not bolt action rifles with 5 round magazines and that's because you significantly reduce the effectiveness and ability to kill people with these types of weapons. Semi-automatic is the preferred mode for assault weapons if you want maximum efficiency at hitting a target. Full automatic is for movies and close quarter combat as far as assault weapons go. Effectively trained forces do not do the spray and pray method. It looks cool but you waste ammunition.
The suggestion to use technology to prevent future mass killings is never going to work. The better way to reduce these types of events (you'll never totally stop them though) is to reduce the availability of guns to the public. It has worked everywhere it has been implemented and it will work here in the US. It will take time (a long time) for a full effect as guns will still be widely available in the hands of people but over time, as guns break, get lost, are destroyed, etc. Society will be safer and better off..
A Raspberry Pi was on my son's Christmas list for 2012 and they were sold out from the primary vendors. Instead I had to buy one from an Amazon Marketplace seller at 2x the cost. Some folks made some good money by buying them up and reselling them with a 100% markup. I don't begrudge them, I paid my money and got it for my son, along with all of the other components needed to make good use of it. It's an amazing piece of kit for anyone who wants to play around with it. As mentioned, it's cheap and can be used in a variety of ways. People are very creative and I can't wait to see what they do with these..
Lots of SPAM advertising Dancing Monkey Man brand Anti-Persperants (Zoo Strength). For those on the go who feel the need to jump around on stage like an angry gorilla but don't want to be embarrassed by sweat marks..
Sometimes there is a reason why companies break large projects into multiple facets, each managed by a specialist and overseen by an overall PM. This can work provided the teams consist of high quality professionals (A-list players). I've seen many projects doomed because there is a lack of strong and competent leadership overseeing a project (the last company I worked for was shut down because of this). If your company gets a lot of specialists and consultants who don't listen to input from the staff working on it, there is a high chance of failure. If leadership is too passive and doesn't get people on task and on target, there is a good chance for failure. Finding people who have a vested interest in the success of the project is vital and finding people who take pride in their work is vital. Having husks sitting at a desk doing their part without passion or caring is a recipe for disaster.
You've done your part. You've built the specs and now it's time for the other folks to do their part. Hopefully your company has quality people and strong leadership so that your project will succeed.
The share value was not tied to this (or just to this report) There are other silly reasons out there which apparently fed this.. People continue to be short sighted and to be honest, these market fluctuations are normal and if people worry over these dips, then they should not own stock. Those who invest for the long term are quite fine with such things as stocks always fluctuate.
Instead of focusing on the minor issues, analysts should keep in mind how much profit margin Apple has on everything they sell compared to other manufacturers. Look at the PC market. Apple has always focused on high quality and high margins. They have never been interested in the low margin purchasers and it has worked well for them. Look at smart phones and tablets and it's the same thing. I'd rather have stock in a company with a healthy profit margin than one which cuts it so low that they need to count on volume of sales to make it worth while. This makes for a far healthier company. If company A's margins are super low and a competing product hits the shelves which is superior and customers flock to that instead, Company A will suffer greatly.
I don't understand how people can look for reasons to justify that stuff like this is nothing to worry over and vigorously fight to discredit people who raise it as a concern. Even if there was a small chance that global warming due to human activities was to blame for this, shouldn't we all be concerned? The predictions of the impact to global coastlines due to land-based ice sheets melting is pretty much the same across the board; many millions of people will be directly impacted and displaced. I'd say that a slim chance of that happening is quite concerning and is reason enough to take action to try to get this under control. If this does impact the world as many fear, I hope that those who fought to discredit the vast majority of scientists are remembered in history accordingly.
If Canada had the oil the middle east does maybe that thinking would be different. It's not all middle easterners that hate the west. Some embrace it, the same with Islam. A true religion should teach tolerance no matter what, otherwise it's just a perversion of what everyone should know to be true, not that there is a god, not that theirs is right, but just to respect people in general, if for no other reason than they are your neighbor, if that's not enough then because we share the same planet.
Uh, did you know that Canada is the USA's largest source of foreign oil? In fact twenty-one percent of the oil imported to the United States in June of 2009 came from Canada, making Canada the largest single-country source of foreign oil for the United States. America even imports more oil from Canada than it does all Persian Gulf countries combined; nations from the Persian Gulf region supplied just 13 percent of America's oil in June of 2009 [source: Energy Information Administration].
Sounds great, most managers refuse to allot time for IT to do this. do you give them 4-8 hours a week to get documentation proper?
I'm sorry but documentation must always be accounted for when working and planning projects. Much of the documentation should have been drawn up even before the project starts with the rest of it being completed once the project is completed. I have a hard time finding pity for those who build a server and don't document it or add on a service or recurring task through a scheduled script without writing it all out on paper. I have on several occasions had to sort out the resulting mess when moving into a new job. (in fact, I am working through such a situation now).
Any manager who does not allow time for documentation is either incompetent or lacks experience. When I leave a position with a company, I always leave a wealth of documentation behind. Don't forget how much time is saved trying to troubleshoot a problem because you have some documentation available. It sucks being in a position of trying to figure out how something is configured and is supposed to work when it is down and you have people crowding around you waiting for it to be fixed.
To the original poster, the reality is that you failed to properly document the environment. Now you have to suffer by being available to constantly answer questions as your replacement tries to sort out the mess he has inherited from you. The organization suffers because it is exposed to risk as the administrator does't know how everything works and has no resource (documentation) to refer to. Your replacement has to suffer as he tries to sort out what you've left behind. If I left a mess like that behind me, I would be embarrassed and take steps to ensure that it does not happen again. Since you'll still be working there (in a different position) you'll have the pleasure of walking around knowing that your co-workers know what a mess you left behind. If you want a solution, spend a lot of time going through each system and write up detailed documentation and prepare an overview or summary of the entire environment which shows how it all interconnects etc. From now on, take some pride in what you do by doing it properly.