It's a duct fan so I would say it doesn't have the inherent unsafe problems facing a helicopter as it relates to air-lifting someone out of a dense urban area. See footage of the helicopter in Brazil which snagged a power line and caused mayhem.
Buildings already have water in them. What the building needs is people to direct said water, people to know where you should cut holes and where you need to keep areas sealed off and people trained in respirators, first aid and rescue.
Look at what happened the last time we had a massive fire in a sky scraper: NYC september 11. The elevators went out and fire fighters had to haul ass up hundreds of flights of stairs. Now, the blaze in the WTC almost certainly couldn't have been fought but when you're talking about multiple $1.5B structures $3m in firefighting equipment to deliver fire expert personnel isn't unreasonable. For comparison the NYPD uses Bell 429s for rescue operations and they cost about $6m each and can only carry 7 people. So 20 person capacity for $3m or 7 person capacity for $6m. I'm not saying there isn't also a place for a civil rescue agency to have a helicopter, just that I don't think it's all that crazy to have a fast response team on personal helicopters as well. If you save one penthouse suite in the Burj thanks to additional fire fighting resources the $3m will look like money well spent.
Many NYFD fire fighters died on 9/11 running up stairs to fight a fire. If the elevators are out on a 2,000 foot tall building, a jet pack could get a fire fighter to the roof or even theoretically in through a port installed mid-way up. Put 20 firefighters on the roof and work their way down by stairs a few stories. They can then use the tools which are already stashed in lockers. Having expert eyes on-location is what matters, they can direct non-professionals in attacking the blaze. And I imagine a $150k jetpack is cheaper than keeping a fire marshall on-staff in a penthouse 24/7.
I was really surprised by Lincoln, NE. I wouldn't live there but it really is at its heart a college town and has everything that generally goes along with that.
Boulder/Denver has everything Lincoln, NE doesn't have in the way of mountains and outdoor activities while also doing pretty well on the tech and lifestyle front.
Bozeman I hear is doing pretty well right now as well. Again, Big Sky is nearby so lots of outdoor goodness.
If a transit provider charges around $8/mbps then it's pretty safe to say those numbers are similar to Comcast's expenses to provide that much capacity. So considering that most Comcast plans are around 20-40mbps/month that means the actual cost of building and maintaining their backhaul is around $240/month per subscription. Which means their $50/month subscription rate is probably at least 4:1 oversubscribed. Which is good. It makes sense to push through data as fast as possible from a user standpoint. Like cloud computing it's better to use 1,000 computers for 1 minute than wait 1,000 minutes for 1 computer if the price is equal. Similarly with bandwidth it's better to have 300GB of bandwidth at 300GB/s to download 300GB of data than to have a speed cap of 1.15mbps 24/7.
If I pay for X Mb/s, then I am well within my rights to keep my pipe running at X Mb/s for every single second of my subscription. If my Internet provider knows it can't keep up, while taking my money, then that is stealing from me.
You clearly have no idea how much X Mb/s actually costs. A 100mbps cable connection costs about $90/month. A dedicated 100mbps pipe costs $1,000+/month. You're getting a massive fucking discount being subsidized by grandparents sending email and then bitching about how you're being robbed.
You're also advocating for the most ass backwards form of service imaginable. When I want something, I want it now. The ideal service is that when I want to download a 3GB file I get 3GB/s and it takes 1 second to download. The ideal service from a customer standpoint is total bandwidth used not speed. Let's say tonight I want to watch a 4k video but I will be working the next 3 nights. That means I want 4 nights worth of bandwidth NOW not spread out over 4 days of downloading. Your ISP could give you 10GB/day of bandwidth speed. Or give you 40GB/week of unlimited speed to use as you see fit. If you aren't home or awake 75% of the day it makes sense to get 4x burst speed that is oversubscribed so that you can only use it 6 hours a day but 400% faster.
Sadly it's a false option for as much as 70% of the country that has no practical choice of provider
It's not bait and switch if you only have one provider. Who did they bait you from if there is no other practical choice? Nobody. If the monopoly offers you something. And then takes it away you're going to be using the monopoly by definition either way. If there isn't a monopoly then when they change the terms the contract is void and you can change carriers for free. Neither way is screwing you.
It's different because the GOP doesn't receive $3B a year in support from the state department. Israel is playing with fire with its belligerence. If they become too partisan then their bipartisan American support will evaporate and they'll end up with nothing since neither party can act unilaterally. If the State of Israel becomes the State of The GOP in Israel then you can be certain that Israel will no longer be viewed as a "Friend of America" by the majority party (Democrats) in America. The GOP has only won one national majority in nearly 24 years (GWB 2nd term). Clinton won every majority vote in the 90s, George W. lost the 2000 majority (but won the electoral college) and then Obama won the popular vote again twice in 2008 and 2012. So if you take the popular vote as a "poll" of Americans the GOP hasn't polled terribly well at the national level.
I've never exactly gotten this. Why does anyone who is giving something away particularly care if someone who is getting it for free uses it or not?
People like their work to be useful. I know I like to see my projects used and appreciated. If you spend 2 weeks working on something and its ultimate life is just to sit on github without any attention then those 2 weeks seem like a bit of a waste. But if you see it actively used by lots of people then you get that warm fuzzy feeling that you made the world a little bit better for someone else. That being said, threats don't foster that warm fuzzy feeling and anyone who says that my free labor isn't enough will get a f-off in response.
I've seen all of this with my freely available code or tools. And I always say the same thing "Thanks for bring the bug to my attention..." and then if I'm currently busy with other things or I don't care that much about the code anymore I follow up with "I'm currently busy with other projects, my hourly rate is $xxx if you need it fixed ASAP I would be happy to provide an estimate and invoice for the work. Otherwise it probably won't be fixed for a few weeks if ever."
Everyone so far has been very understanding and a number of them have paid for the addition or fix. I'll even list the sponsoring party in the changelog.
--Fixed crash from XYZ. Fix sponsored by AnimationCorp LLC. I get paid to work on a free tool that I use too, they get something they need, I get some minor self promotion for the tool being used by more people and they get some minor promotion in the changelog/release notes.
Professional like who? I have probably around 20-30TB of footage that I've filmed. I mostly use Backblaze who doesn't complain. Still I use OneDrive as a professional. Professionals use Backblaze, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, Amazon, Azure, everything. OneDrive is as professional as Dropbox and Dropbox is advertised as first and foremost a business tool.
If anything using something like Glacier is less professional than OneDrive since it has no sync client. Also as a professional I use the service with the best cost/benefit. For me that's Backblaze and OneDrive.
There are a lot of things that can be done in the open source arena but things like AI are too valuable for universities to give away and often require physical datacenters to train and use. Siri, Cortana etc. are not in my opinion likely to emerge through part time collaboration and unlike drivers, there isn't really an incentive for the big players such as Google to give it away. The good news is that most consumer facing AI/Digital Assistants will simply be a web service that someone could write a front end to. So it might not ever be truly built into the OS but it will be accessible through any platform. The real impediment to open operating systems is that there needs to be an incentive to develop a feature and currently if it doesn't make for a better server (e.g. file system, networking, super computer fabric, virtualization, webhosting etc) it probably won't get much attention from the community or industry.
A contract can also require when a job is done, such as "paint the walls of our building using [specific brand and color code] paint, work will be performed after hours between 5PM and 8AM,
To be clear, they can state that you can only work between 5pm and 8am but they wouldn't be able to dictate that you in fact show up every day between 5pm and 8am as long as you complete the work within that time frame before the deadline unless it was necessary for some other specific contractual reason.
Good for China. They should be doing everything they can to non-violently gather intelligence that benefits their citizens. And I hope the NSA and CIA are also hacking everybody else. This is basic state craft. What deserves our ire is when the state (china) uses intelligence to benefit business interests and steal intellectual property for economic gain not China trying to gather intelligence for its government to benefit its citizens.
It sounds like he'll be fine. Your cynicism has been well cultivated to blind you to our exploitation by the investing class. Most of the $70k raises came out of his own pocket as majority shareholder and didn't cost "the company" anything, they just cost him personally dividend (and that's why his brother is suing).
Look at a company like Boeing, as old and stable just about as they come. Boeing reported $5.5B in profits last year. They have 162,000 employees. That profit works out to $34,000 in profit per employee. If they turned off the profit spigot going to investors and added that on top of the average salary of $63,000 per year they would give almost every single employee on average a 50% raise.
If his business is anything like Square's business it's a very low margin business but also scales nearly linearly. For +n customers you need +n/x employees and you make n*profit margin profit. So if he doubles his business and doubles his employee count he probably increase his profitability slightly since he has slightly less overhead for economies of scale internally while his client facing costs scale to match.
Here in Seattle we have Dick's burgers which is very similar. $15+ wages. 401k 50% matching. $2,000 a year towards tuition or daycare. Paid vacation and sick leave. Paid volunteer hours.
What happens is that people take pride in their job and without constant churn they retain their institutional knowledge (yes there is knowledge on how to most efficiently work in any business). The result is increased productivity and decreased labor expenses.
They've been in business since the 70s and they still sell burgers for $1.30.
I would think that using an official government organization Facebook page to promote a candidate would be a minor violation but a violation none the less.
There is a loop but it's the massive cooling tower. If however though the piping between the containment vessel and the cooling tower is destroyed you want a means of cooling outside of the intended infrastructure.
Besides, anyone here who can honestly say he never did the "magic" thing, i.e. delete a line and retype it only to have it suddenly work for no good reason whatsoever?
It's practically standard practice in python coding where you might copy/paste another line which gets converted into tabs instead of 3 spaces or 3 spaces instead of tabs depending on your IDE.
Is it possible to get a 40gbe uplink to Amazon ? Any cloud service ?
Azure has ExpressRoute https://azure.microsoft.com/en... which looks like it would cost $20,000/month for 40gb/s. They have several ways to connect your network to their internal network.
Amazon similary has DirectConnect which lets you plug straight into a 10gbe port in select buildings.
And, to be honest, Cloud is really just the new name for "external hosted". It's nothing fancy.
Externally hosted generally used to be co-located. You would either lease rack space or you would sign a lease on equipment and rack space. I would say that "Cloud" means software-defined networking combined with as low as per-minute usage contracts. I don't remember any colo facilities offering me the option of configuring the network remotely. Nor was it easy and quick to just literally move a slider and say "MOAR POWER!" without a lot of hassle.
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It's a duct fan so I would say it doesn't have the inherent unsafe problems facing a helicopter as it relates to air-lifting someone out of a dense urban area. See footage of the helicopter in Brazil which snagged a power line and caused mayhem.
Buildings already have water in them. What the building needs is people to direct said water, people to know where you should cut holes and where you need to keep areas sealed off and people trained in respirators, first aid and rescue.
Look at what happened the last time we had a massive fire in a sky scraper: NYC september 11. The elevators went out and fire fighters had to haul ass up hundreds of flights of stairs. Now, the blaze in the WTC almost certainly couldn't have been fought but when you're talking about multiple $1.5B structures $3m in firefighting equipment to deliver fire expert personnel isn't unreasonable. For comparison the NYPD uses Bell 429s for rescue operations and they cost about $6m each and can only carry 7 people. So 20 person capacity for $3m or 7 person capacity for $6m. I'm not saying there isn't also a place for a civil rescue agency to have a helicopter, just that I don't think it's all that crazy to have a fast response team on personal helicopters as well. If you save one penthouse suite in the Burj thanks to additional fire fighting resources the $3m will look like money well spent.
Many NYFD fire fighters died on 9/11 running up stairs to fight a fire. If the elevators are out on a 2,000 foot tall building, a jet pack could get a fire fighter to the roof or even theoretically in through a port installed mid-way up. Put 20 firefighters on the roof and work their way down by stairs a few stories. They can then use the tools which are already stashed in lockers. Having expert eyes on-location is what matters, they can direct non-professionals in attacking the blaze. And I imagine a $150k jetpack is cheaper than keeping a fire marshall on-staff in a penthouse 24/7.
I was really surprised by Lincoln, NE. I wouldn't live there but it really is at its heart a college town and has everything that generally goes along with that.
Boulder/Denver has everything Lincoln, NE doesn't have in the way of mountains and outdoor activities while also doing pretty well on the tech and lifestyle front.
Bozeman I hear is doing pretty well right now as well. Again, Big Sky is nearby so lots of outdoor goodness.
Warning, Nashville was just featured on NPR as the place everyone was going now. It won't be long now. :D
And yet fuel stations are over-subscribed.
http://withfriendship.com/imag...
This is what happens when suddenly everybody tries to buy $20 worth of gas. There isn't enough gas to supply every car at the same time gas.
If a transit provider charges around $8/mbps then it's pretty safe to say those numbers are similar to Comcast's expenses to provide that much capacity. So considering that most Comcast plans are around 20-40mbps/month that means the actual cost of building and maintaining their backhaul is around $240/month per subscription. Which means their $50/month subscription rate is probably at least 4:1 oversubscribed. Which is good. It makes sense to push through data as fast as possible from a user standpoint. Like cloud computing it's better to use 1,000 computers for 1 minute than wait 1,000 minutes for 1 computer if the price is equal. Similarly with bandwidth it's better to have 300GB of bandwidth at 300GB/s to download 300GB of data than to have a speed cap of 1.15mbps 24/7.
If I pay for X Mb/s, then I am well within my rights to keep my pipe running at X Mb/s for every single second of my subscription. If my Internet provider knows it can't keep up, while taking my money, then that is stealing from me.
You clearly have no idea how much X Mb/s actually costs. A 100mbps cable connection costs about $90/month. A dedicated 100mbps pipe costs $1,000+ /month. You're getting a massive fucking discount being subsidized by grandparents sending email and then bitching about how you're being robbed.
You're also advocating for the most ass backwards form of service imaginable. When I want something, I want it now. The ideal service is that when I want to download a 3GB file I get 3GB/s and it takes 1 second to download. The ideal service from a customer standpoint is total bandwidth used not speed. Let's say tonight I want to watch a 4k video but I will be working the next 3 nights. That means I want 4 nights worth of bandwidth NOW not spread out over 4 days of downloading. Your ISP could give you 10GB/day of bandwidth speed. Or give you 40GB/week of unlimited speed to use as you see fit. If you aren't home or awake 75% of the day it makes sense to get 4x burst speed that is oversubscribed so that you can only use it 6 hours a day but 400% faster.
Sadly it's a false option for as much as 70% of the country that has no practical choice of provider
It's not bait and switch if you only have one provider. Who did they bait you from if there is no other practical choice? Nobody. If the monopoly offers you something. And then takes it away you're going to be using the monopoly by definition either way. If there isn't a monopoly then when they change the terms the contract is void and you can change carriers for free. Neither way is screwing you.
It's different because the GOP doesn't receive $3B a year in support from the state department. Israel is playing with fire with its belligerence. If they become too partisan then their bipartisan American support will evaporate and they'll end up with nothing since neither party can act unilaterally. If the State of Israel becomes the State of The GOP in Israel then you can be certain that Israel will no longer be viewed as a "Friend of America" by the majority party (Democrats) in America. The GOP has only won one national majority in nearly 24 years (GWB 2nd term). Clinton won every majority vote in the 90s, George W. lost the 2000 majority (but won the electoral college) and then Obama won the popular vote again twice in 2008 and 2012. So if you take the popular vote as a "poll" of Americans the GOP hasn't polled terribly well at the national level.
I've never exactly gotten this. Why does anyone who is giving something away particularly care if someone who is getting it for free uses it or not?
People like their work to be useful. I know I like to see my projects used and appreciated. If you spend 2 weeks working on something and its ultimate life is just to sit on github without any attention then those 2 weeks seem like a bit of a waste. But if you see it actively used by lots of people then you get that warm fuzzy feeling that you made the world a little bit better for someone else. That being said, threats don't foster that warm fuzzy feeling and anyone who says that my free labor isn't enough will get a f-off in response.
I've seen all of this with my freely available code or tools. And I always say the same thing "Thanks for bring the bug to my attention..." and then if I'm currently busy with other things or I don't care that much about the code anymore I follow up with "I'm currently busy with other projects, my hourly rate is $xxx if you need it fixed ASAP I would be happy to provide an estimate and invoice for the work. Otherwise it probably won't be fixed for a few weeks if ever."
Everyone so far has been very understanding and a number of them have paid for the addition or fix. I'll even list the sponsoring party in the changelog.
--Fixed crash from XYZ. Fix sponsored by AnimationCorp LLC.
I get paid to work on a free tool that I use too, they get something they need, I get some minor self promotion for the tool being used by more people and they get some minor promotion in the changelog/release notes.
Obama is befuddled like Sarat, they both erroneously believed that Israel wants peace.
Professional like who? I have probably around 20-30TB of footage that I've filmed. I mostly use Backblaze who doesn't complain. Still I use OneDrive as a professional. Professionals use Backblaze, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, Amazon, Azure, everything. OneDrive is as professional as Dropbox and Dropbox is advertised as first and foremost a business tool.
If anything using something like Glacier is less professional than OneDrive since it has no sync client. Also as a professional I use the service with the best cost/benefit. For me that's Backblaze and OneDrive.
There are a lot of things that can be done in the open source arena but things like AI are too valuable for universities to give away and often require physical datacenters to train and use. Siri, Cortana etc. are not in my opinion likely to emerge through part time collaboration and unlike drivers, there isn't really an incentive for the big players such as Google to give it away. The good news is that most consumer facing AI/Digital Assistants will simply be a web service that someone could write a front end to. So it might not ever be truly built into the OS but it will be accessible through any platform. The real impediment to open operating systems is that there needs to be an incentive to develop a feature and currently if it doesn't make for a better server (e.g. file system, networking, super computer fabric, virtualization, webhosting etc) it probably won't get much attention from the community or industry.
A contract can also require when a job is done, such as "paint the walls of our building using [specific brand and color code] paint, work will be performed after hours between 5PM and 8AM,
To be clear, they can state that you can only work between 5pm and 8am but they wouldn't be able to dictate that you in fact show up every day between 5pm and 8am as long as you complete the work within that time frame before the deadline unless it was necessary for some other specific contractual reason.
Good for China. They should be doing everything they can to non-violently gather intelligence that benefits their citizens. And I hope the NSA and CIA are also hacking everybody else. This is basic state craft. What deserves our ire is when the state (china) uses intelligence to benefit business interests and steal intellectual property for economic gain not China trying to gather intelligence for its government to benefit its citizens.
It sounds like he'll be fine. Your cynicism has been well cultivated to blind you to our exploitation by the investing class. Most of the $70k raises came out of his own pocket as majority shareholder and didn't cost "the company" anything, they just cost him personally dividend (and that's why his brother is suing).
Look at a company like Boeing, as old and stable just about as they come. Boeing reported $5.5B in profits last year. They have 162,000 employees. That profit works out to $34,000 in profit per employee. If they turned off the profit spigot going to investors and added that on top of the average salary of $63,000 per year they would give almost every single employee on average a 50% raise.
If his business is anything like Square's business it's a very low margin business but also scales nearly linearly. For +n customers you need +n/x employees and you make n*profit margin profit. So if he doubles his business and doubles his employee count he probably increase his profitability slightly since he has slightly less overhead for economies of scale internally while his client facing costs scale to match.
Here in Seattle we have Dick's burgers which is very similar. $15+ wages. 401k 50% matching. $2,000 a year towards tuition or daycare. Paid vacation and sick leave. Paid volunteer hours.
What happens is that people take pride in their job and without constant churn they retain their institutional knowledge (yes there is knowledge on how to most efficiently work in any business). The result is increased productivity and decreased labor expenses.
They've been in business since the 70s and they still sell burgers for $1.30.
I would think that using an official government organization Facebook page to promote a candidate would be a minor violation but a violation none the less.
There is a loop but it's the massive cooling tower. If however though the piping between the containment vessel and the cooling tower is destroyed you want a means of cooling outside of the intended infrastructure.
Or they are copy pasting their own code. Most of my clipboard usage is just moving code.
Besides, anyone here who can honestly say he never did the "magic" thing, i.e. delete a line and retype it only to have it suddenly work for no good reason whatsoever?
It's practically standard practice in python coding where you might copy/paste another line which gets converted into tabs instead of 3 spaces or 3 spaces instead of tabs depending on your IDE.
Is it possible to get a 40gbe uplink to Amazon ? Any cloud service ?
Azure has ExpressRoute https://azure.microsoft.com/en... which looks like it would cost $20,000/month for 40gb/s. They have several ways to connect your network to their internal network.
Amazon similary has DirectConnect which lets you plug straight into a 10gbe port in select buildings.
Looks like 40gb/s of connectivity would cost you around $6,500 a month.
https://aws.amazon.com/directc...
And, to be honest, Cloud is really just the new name for "external hosted". It's nothing fancy.
Externally hosted generally used to be co-located. You would either lease rack space or you would sign a lease on equipment and rack space. I would say that "Cloud" means software-defined networking combined with as low as per-minute usage contracts. I don't remember any colo facilities offering me the option of configuring the network remotely. Nor was it easy and quick to just literally move a slider and say "MOAR POWER!" without a lot of hassle.