Did you read who they hire: Harris Corp and similar companies. Those companies are too big and stupid to handle these things and only care about billing out massive amounts for work that is half or not done by the cheapest H1B's and outsourced at multiple levels. You have to look for startups or actually hire competent individuals for this kind of work, nothing a good software/hardware/network engineer couldn't do by himself or with a small team.
Firewall will stop these things. The problem is them not implementing a firewall. VLAN/Firewalling/Subnetting has been appropriate for ages, it's how the Internet works and we connect some pretty sensitive things to these networks which are typically unreachable even if you had fine hacking skills because they are not routed.
Data transfer does NOT cost money, bandwidth does. The infrastructure to handle x-amount of bandwidth has to be in place in order to handle data transfer. Limiting data transfer is an artificial method to incite people to reduce their overall bandwidth use but you're still bursting over your limits if you don't have the capacity to handle it.
Sales people have been able to convince the populace that they need data transfer and that it is a limited resource while what they need to ask for is data bandwidth which is the resource. You can easily transfer 2GB+ wirelessly on 10-year old tech (1G/2G) in a month, providers should be able to provide at least 1G capacity if they're selling 3/4/5G no?
Look at most colo and datacenters, you buy bandwidth (100Mbps/1Gbps) and in very few (typically low-grade) instances you buy a monthly data package (where you are able to burst to a line speed but should self-limit in order to stay within your bandwidth limits).
In the end, most relationships are either scams or based on scams. If you were fully honest during dating, you wouldn't get very far.
People have been married to scam artists, more people than would dare admit. I got married in a whirlwind romance with someone half a world away and divorced 2 years later, in the end all I wonder is whether that person didn't just marry me in order to travel where we decided to live. That or to get away from oppressive religious restrictions on sex.
In the end the only difference is that she never met the guy and/or had sex.
If you're pinching the dollars, there is little better you can do than save money and build it yourself (given that there is no extra labor cost incurred for doing so). Many shops will also assemble a system for ~$250-500 and another $250-1500 for a 3-5 year warranty (depending on the cost of the system etc). You could also go with IBM/HP/Oracle and lease the bunch. It's really up to you what type of support contract you require (generally you won't need it). You could calculate the Amazon/"shared hosting" aka cloud route but I figured out (in my instance) that unless you need the thing less than ~30% of the time in a year, you are better out doing it yourself.
I am currently running several SuperMicro GPU workstations (4U with 4 GPU's each) and several more SuperMicro 1U/2U servers (storage). They are run-of-the-mill and really nothing anyone can improve upon, especially cost (and I've had several salesmen concede that point, most recently Nexenta). Off course if you don't know anything about it, it might be worth having a support/management contract.
Also a rack drawing 25kW peak does not mean you require 25kW of power. IF you run at more than 70% of your peak power as rated by the power supplies, you are running dangerously close to the limits. I run a half rack of storage and a GPU server and it draws a consistent 20-30A@230V (that's 4-6kW) although it's peak power based on power supply alone is closer to 15. The power supplies are really intended for the worst-case scenarios (8x 3.5" HDD, 100% CPU usage, 100% RAM slots filled, 4 5.25" devices, 4 GPU and several other add-ons).
As far as Xeon/Opteron, you would really have to benchmark them both against your application. For some loads one outperforms the other and although AMD is generally cheaper per performance unit, Intel may allow you to get more out of a single machine.
Sure, using FM you can send down near perfect signals but radio stations mangle that using compression and loudness. I listen to 96/128/192 streams (depending on cell signal quality) and it's hands down much better even at it worst than switching to FM.
Why would the government go through the controlled demolition when simply smacking some planes would do damage enough? It only has the potential to leave more evidence.
What wasn't reported much on however, was the subpar quality of both the buildings' designs and materials. The buildings weren't designed to withstand a plane collision or an earthquake even though due to their height, they should've been.
The reasons the buildings collapsed the way they did (catastrophically) was due to American capitalism - get the most profit out of any project regardless of the consequences and lives involved. But pointing the finger at themselves (engineers and architects trying to make a quick buck) is harder than blaming someone else.
Perhaps that's his issue. Now that these services are capable of streaming digital, high quality music, he can't stand listening to himself anymore.
He has some pretty poor vocals and tape/radio compression and some very good engineers have so far saved him. Now that digital services (all of them) are streaming 128kbps or better (192 is not uncommon eg. iTunes/Pandora which have been proven to be indistinguishable from uncompressed), perhaps even from a digital master digitized by younger engineers which most having less analog 'voice warming' technique as their predecessors, his voice sounds as awful as it actually is.
Digital distortion (AutoTune) can make awful singers sing slightly better works for a quick summer hit song if it has a catchy beat but the same singers will no longer maintain a career for very long (see: any hit singer of the last decade). Previously the industry would pump money in an 'artist' and engineers would be able to fix a lot of things by compression and equalizing. In the digital age where we have concert quality sound at all times, the use of compression and other analog tricks (such as running things through a tube amp) sounds, well, compressed and analog.
The charger was being used on a train, not a building and the worry was about the device catching fire, not the outlet or it's wiring. And "up to code" is also a common mistake people make as no building is ever "up to code". Building codes do not apply to train cars or RV's or anything anyone ever creates that is not part of a building, heck some buildings are not even covered by building code (depending on your jurisdiction that could be anything from porches, garages, additions etc).
A huge socket that isn't yours and is labeled "do not use" could have anything on it. If I build a device that uses a regular outlet socket I could provide 1000V/20A DC on it. It would fry your phone and your phone would start a fire or electrocute you, not the wiring nor the outlet.
Pulling off the battery and alternator wouldn't work? Most engines will shut down when power is removed, you could even short the battery leads for a second to blow the alternator fuse.
First class or not, the flight takes ~8-10 hours which is exhausting for anyone. If you can do it in 3, you're saving about a day's work or ~$1600 in wages for your average lawyer, probably closer to $5-6000 because usually you're not sending the $200/h over the atlantic for a job, you'll send the $500-1000/h guy.
There is a market for this, it is smaller than the regular flights but the flight would also have to be able to leg it cross-USA and cross-Europe, even reach Asia at similar speeds in order to be universally acceptable. Given there are probably about two dozen or more regular flights daily, even skimming the 1% of that, would probably fill these smaller planes.
There are several things that require widespread adoption of public transport: - Cheaper than driving yourself (that's easy) and have an easy payment mechanism (as in a subscription) - An extensive network across the local city, a bus stop within ~1km of anyone - Bus terminals that connect to the places you want to go - airports, other forms of public transport and shopping centers - Trips should be no more than 50% slower than driving (adding 10m on a 20m driving trip is already stretching it) - Most routes should avoid busy inner city traffic and not cause traffic (wheel/spoke systems in the US don't work) - I shouldn't have to transfer onto more than 2 buses for a trip (bus routes should be engineered to be gridded into itself) - Keep them safe and clean; regular checks that everyone pays for the trip and integrated law enforcement would keep most unwanted off the system - Major arteries should run 24/7 at 30m intervals but even remote places should be serviced at least hourly between 5 am and 10 pm/22:00. Rush hours should have 10-15m intervals.
"filler at the end with numerous appendices of publicly available information" "how can a virtual server survive the failure of its hosting hypervisor or physical server?..."
So they moved the filler to the start of the book? Everything about this book seems to be filler since there is no such thing as a 'cloud'. Shared hosting and virtual servers have been around forever, everything about it has been worked out.
1 good employee is cheaper than 3 bad ones. Bad employees cause your company to go under due to bad service and reputation. Even McDonalds doesn't let you slack off that bad and they have probably the worst hiring pool imaginable to a company.
The way it works in some European countries (at least it did ~10 years ago, don't know if the EU changed these rules), but you would have to sell the software with no further restrictions at a set price regardless of your customer.
Microsoft couldn't bundle or tie the software to a hardware or person; they couldn't sell just to a certain company or set of companies, they couldn't even limit the resale or number of times it was reinstalled on different machines (as long as it didn't exceed the licensed number of concurrent installations) - copyright as it was intended, the customers retained their rights. Even a EULA couldn't break the customers' right.
The market value is what the software cost Microsoft including labor, localization, support, marketing, printing and pressing the media etc. They couldn't sell the software for less than what it cost them to do all of that on a local basis given a projected number of sales (you could make a loss only if your product flopped).
And it wasn't just Microsoft, no company could do these things. No special promotions or sales or loss leaders, it simply is too uncompetitive for a grocery store to push out the local ones by selling under value because they got more money to survive longer.
Some countries don't allow bundling or selling stuff under it's market value in order to prevent monopolies. In those cases, MS would have to sell Windows licenses at full price.
What resource limitations do solar and wind have? Does the sun ever stop shining forever or does wind stop blowing forever (outside of the obvious death of the star)? In principal, sun could be close to free, once that is true, we can recycle our current trash pretty much for 'free' and if we did, there is plenty of plastic and oil to go around for the upcoming centuries.
The guy seems to also have extorted and bullied people and swatted those that didn't do as he said and he seems to have done this repeatedly. He is an adult after all, 1.25 year in prison with records that get sealed or expunged when he hits 18 seems to be too little for what he did (23 charges is just what they found out, I bet you there is at least a number more they didn't find). You get more years in prison for copying a few songs.
You're forgetting the pork attached to the thing. How much does freeze-dried food cost? How much does it cost when NASA buys it? A freeze dried yoghurt will require cows from Wisconsin to supply the milk to a yoghurt factory in Vermont after which it is shipped to a freeze drying place in Alabama and then it is shipped to a packing place in Texas before finally getting to the launch site in California, all transported by a New York transportation company.
I've worked with government contractors, they typically charge 2-3x the price on commodity items (such as network switches and the like) simply because before the order is placed, there will be about 2 FTE working full time for at least 6 months to get through the bidding process, then there will be the delays and modifications to the contract before the final approval, finally the order will be delivered and installed for at least 1 year before the actual payment goes through.
Many small companies simply do not have the capacity to keep their company running for about 1-2 years without seeing an actual payment, so it goes to the big ones that can absorb such cost and as a result not only do they retail at a much higher price, the final cost is even higher.
Compiling to binary seems to be an access control. If you read the DMCA, I as an engineer am able to read it as such that circumventing 'access controls' includes compiling to binary and removing the symbols necessary to 'access' the data in the program. If I read it as such, I'm pretty sure at some point, some lawyer with sufficient skill will do as well.
Or get a sane carrier like Sprint that simply gives everyone unlimited data. If enough people switched over to an unlimited data plan, the providers would get the idea that it's what we NEED.
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Did you read who they hire: Harris Corp and similar companies. Those companies are too big and stupid to handle these things and only care about billing out massive amounts for work that is half or not done by the cheapest H1B's and outsourced at multiple levels. You have to look for startups or actually hire competent individuals for this kind of work, nothing a good software/hardware/network engineer couldn't do by himself or with a small team.
Firewall will stop these things. The problem is them not implementing a firewall. VLAN/Firewalling/Subnetting has been appropriate for ages, it's how the Internet works and we connect some pretty sensitive things to these networks which are typically unreachable even if you had fine hacking skills because they are not routed.
Data transfer does NOT cost money, bandwidth does. The infrastructure to handle x-amount of bandwidth has to be in place in order to handle data transfer. Limiting data transfer is an artificial method to incite people to reduce their overall bandwidth use but you're still bursting over your limits if you don't have the capacity to handle it.
Sales people have been able to convince the populace that they need data transfer and that it is a limited resource while what they need to ask for is data bandwidth which is the resource. You can easily transfer 2GB+ wirelessly on 10-year old tech (1G/2G) in a month, providers should be able to provide at least 1G capacity if they're selling 3/4/5G no?
Look at most colo and datacenters, you buy bandwidth (100Mbps/1Gbps) and in very few (typically low-grade) instances you buy a monthly data package (where you are able to burst to a line speed but should self-limit in order to stay within your bandwidth limits).
Care to elaborate?
How about just rendering everything as text? Avoid rendering URL's or HTML and you'll solve most of the problems.
In the end, most relationships are either scams or based on scams. If you were fully honest during dating, you wouldn't get very far.
People have been married to scam artists, more people than would dare admit. I got married in a whirlwind romance with someone half a world away and divorced 2 years later, in the end all I wonder is whether that person didn't just marry me in order to travel where we decided to live. That or to get away from oppressive religious restrictions on sex.
In the end the only difference is that she never met the guy and/or had sex.
If you're pinching the dollars, there is little better you can do than save money and build it yourself (given that there is no extra labor cost incurred for doing so). Many shops will also assemble a system for ~$250-500 and another $250-1500 for a 3-5 year warranty (depending on the cost of the system etc). You could also go with IBM/HP/Oracle and lease the bunch. It's really up to you what type of support contract you require (generally you won't need it). You could calculate the Amazon/"shared hosting" aka cloud route but I figured out (in my instance) that unless you need the thing less than ~30% of the time in a year, you are better out doing it yourself.
I am currently running several SuperMicro GPU workstations (4U with 4 GPU's each) and several more SuperMicro 1U/2U servers (storage). They are run-of-the-mill and really nothing anyone can improve upon, especially cost (and I've had several salesmen concede that point, most recently Nexenta). Off course if you don't know anything about it, it might be worth having a support/management contract.
Also a rack drawing 25kW peak does not mean you require 25kW of power. IF you run at more than 70% of your peak power as rated by the power supplies, you are running dangerously close to the limits. I run a half rack of storage and a GPU server and it draws a consistent 20-30A@230V (that's 4-6kW) although it's peak power based on power supply alone is closer to 15. The power supplies are really intended for the worst-case scenarios (8x 3.5" HDD, 100% CPU usage, 100% RAM slots filled, 4 5.25" devices, 4 GPU and several other add-ons).
As far as Xeon/Opteron, you would really have to benchmark them both against your application. For some loads one outperforms the other and although AMD is generally cheaper per performance unit, Intel may allow you to get more out of a single machine.
Sure, using FM you can send down near perfect signals but radio stations mangle that using compression and loudness. I listen to 96/128/192 streams (depending on cell signal quality) and it's hands down much better even at it worst than switching to FM.
Why would the government go through the controlled demolition when simply smacking some planes would do damage enough? It only has the potential to leave more evidence.
What wasn't reported much on however, was the subpar quality of both the buildings' designs and materials. The buildings weren't designed to withstand a plane collision or an earthquake even though due to their height, they should've been.
The reasons the buildings collapsed the way they did (catastrophically) was due to American capitalism - get the most profit out of any project regardless of the consequences and lives involved. But pointing the finger at themselves (engineers and architects trying to make a quick buck) is harder than blaming someone else.
Still better than FM radio (which would be equivalent to ~32-48kbps)
Perhaps that's his issue. Now that these services are capable of streaming digital, high quality music, he can't stand listening to himself anymore.
He has some pretty poor vocals and tape/radio compression and some very good engineers have so far saved him. Now that digital services (all of them) are streaming 128kbps or better (192 is not uncommon eg. iTunes/Pandora which have been proven to be indistinguishable from uncompressed), perhaps even from a digital master digitized by younger engineers which most having less analog 'voice warming' technique as their predecessors, his voice sounds as awful as it actually is.
Digital distortion (AutoTune) can make awful singers sing slightly better works for a quick summer hit song if it has a catchy beat but the same singers will no longer maintain a career for very long (see: any hit singer of the last decade). Previously the industry would pump money in an 'artist' and engineers would be able to fix a lot of things by compression and equalizing. In the digital age where we have concert quality sound at all times, the use of compression and other analog tricks (such as running things through a tube amp) sounds, well, compressed and analog.
The charger was being used on a train, not a building and the worry was about the device catching fire, not the outlet or it's wiring. And "up to code" is also a common mistake people make as no building is ever "up to code". Building codes do not apply to train cars or RV's or anything anyone ever creates that is not part of a building, heck some buildings are not even covered by building code (depending on your jurisdiction that could be anything from porches, garages, additions etc).
A huge socket that isn't yours and is labeled "do not use" could have anything on it. If I build a device that uses a regular outlet socket I could provide 1000V/20A DC on it. It would fry your phone and your phone would start a fire or electrocute you, not the wiring nor the outlet.
Pulling off the battery and alternator wouldn't work? Most engines will shut down when power is removed, you could even short the battery leads for a second to blow the alternator fuse.
First class or not, the flight takes ~8-10 hours which is exhausting for anyone. If you can do it in 3, you're saving about a day's work or ~$1600 in wages for your average lawyer, probably closer to $5-6000 because usually you're not sending the $200/h over the atlantic for a job, you'll send the $500-1000/h guy.
There is a market for this, it is smaller than the regular flights but the flight would also have to be able to leg it cross-USA and cross-Europe, even reach Asia at similar speeds in order to be universally acceptable. Given there are probably about two dozen or more regular flights daily, even skimming the 1% of that, would probably fill these smaller planes.
That's not how science works.
There are several things that require widespread adoption of public transport:
- Cheaper than driving yourself (that's easy) and have an easy payment mechanism (as in a subscription)
- An extensive network across the local city, a bus stop within ~1km of anyone
- Bus terminals that connect to the places you want to go - airports, other forms of public transport and shopping centers
- Trips should be no more than 50% slower than driving (adding 10m on a 20m driving trip is already stretching it)
- Most routes should avoid busy inner city traffic and not cause traffic (wheel/spoke systems in the US don't work)
- I shouldn't have to transfer onto more than 2 buses for a trip (bus routes should be engineered to be gridded into itself)
- Keep them safe and clean; regular checks that everyone pays for the trip and integrated law enforcement would keep most unwanted off the system
- Major arteries should run 24/7 at 30m intervals but even remote places should be serviced at least hourly between 5 am and 10 pm/22:00. Rush hours should have 10-15m intervals.
"filler at the end with numerous appendices of publicly available information"
"how can a virtual server survive the failure of its hosting hypervisor or physical server?..."
So they moved the filler to the start of the book? Everything about this book seems to be filler since there is no such thing as a 'cloud'. Shared hosting and virtual servers have been around forever, everything about it has been worked out.
1 good employee is cheaper than 3 bad ones. Bad employees cause your company to go under due to bad service and reputation. Even McDonalds doesn't let you slack off that bad and they have probably the worst hiring pool imaginable to a company.
The way it works in some European countries (at least it did ~10 years ago, don't know if the EU changed these rules), but you would have to sell the software with no further restrictions at a set price regardless of your customer.
Microsoft couldn't bundle or tie the software to a hardware or person; they couldn't sell just to a certain company or set of companies, they couldn't even limit the resale or number of times it was reinstalled on different machines (as long as it didn't exceed the licensed number of concurrent installations) - copyright as it was intended, the customers retained their rights. Even a EULA couldn't break the customers' right.
The market value is what the software cost Microsoft including labor, localization, support, marketing, printing and pressing the media etc. They couldn't sell the software for less than what it cost them to do all of that on a local basis given a projected number of sales (you could make a loss only if your product flopped).
And it wasn't just Microsoft, no company could do these things. No special promotions or sales or loss leaders, it simply is too uncompetitive for a grocery store to push out the local ones by selling under value because they got more money to survive longer.
Some countries don't allow bundling or selling stuff under it's market value in order to prevent monopolies. In those cases, MS would have to sell Windows licenses at full price.
What resource limitations do solar and wind have? Does the sun ever stop shining forever or does wind stop blowing forever (outside of the obvious death of the star)? In principal, sun could be close to free, once that is true, we can recycle our current trash pretty much for 'free' and if we did, there is plenty of plastic and oil to go around for the upcoming centuries.
The guy seems to also have extorted and bullied people and swatted those that didn't do as he said and he seems to have done this repeatedly. He is an adult after all, 1.25 year in prison with records that get sealed or expunged when he hits 18 seems to be too little for what he did (23 charges is just what they found out, I bet you there is at least a number more they didn't find). You get more years in prison for copying a few songs.
You're forgetting the pork attached to the thing. How much does freeze-dried food cost? How much does it cost when NASA buys it? A freeze dried yoghurt will require cows from Wisconsin to supply the milk to a yoghurt factory in Vermont after which it is shipped to a freeze drying place in Alabama and then it is shipped to a packing place in Texas before finally getting to the launch site in California, all transported by a New York transportation company.
I've worked with government contractors, they typically charge 2-3x the price on commodity items (such as network switches and the like) simply because before the order is placed, there will be about 2 FTE working full time for at least 6 months to get through the bidding process, then there will be the delays and modifications to the contract before the final approval, finally the order will be delivered and installed for at least 1 year before the actual payment goes through.
Many small companies simply do not have the capacity to keep their company running for about 1-2 years without seeing an actual payment, so it goes to the big ones that can absorb such cost and as a result not only do they retail at a much higher price, the final cost is even higher.
Compiling to binary seems to be an access control. If you read the DMCA, I as an engineer am able to read it as such that circumventing 'access controls' includes compiling to binary and removing the symbols necessary to 'access' the data in the program. If I read it as such, I'm pretty sure at some point, some lawyer with sufficient skill will do as well.
Or get a sane carrier like Sprint that simply gives everyone unlimited data. If enough people switched over to an unlimited data plan, the providers would get the idea that it's what we NEED.