I see this comment a lot and it makes me cringe. The Pi, the Arduino and these Android mini-PC's have totally different markets though.
The Arduino has a power usage of ~1-25mA (depending on what your code does), the core can get down to 0.2mA at 1MHz and if necessary in the picoamps range in standby mode.
The Pi has a power usage of 300mA (model A) to 700mA (model B)
The Androids have a power usage of ~2500mA
This makes a huge difference in development and powering these types of devices. The Androids will probably never run on battery (unless it's a car battery), the Pi will run for a while on a set of AA or D batteries (depending on what you want to do), the Arduino runs a really long time on a 9V battery.
The Arduino is built for RT, the Pi less so but has nifty I/O anyway and the Androids will probably never even have an SPI header.
There is already legislation AGAINST Net Neutrality so this would block any legislation repealing net neutrality and a host of other laws (unconstitutional searches, wiretapping, DMCA,...).
Unless your OS is Linux, also be prepared to shell out 3x $300 for a 'full' version of your OS. And I don't know any decent computer even hand-built that would cost less than $1200. Sure you CAN build something for $600 but don't compare them to the higher-priced items.
There are some open source products that imply some sort of free and open source enterprise version/support but only later you find out the enterprise options are closed source and not included and sometimes will even be dependent on those options.
Make it very clear on your site and download list what you offer and what support costs. Also, make the full version and all options open source, you'll get a lot better feedback from others in your community. I hate it especially as I help with development in my free time when there are enterprise hooks that I have to think off which do absolutely nothing for me, I only publish gpl code, not lgpl.
Also, make sure your documentation is clear and the product works out of the box so they don't have to call you for simple things.
Amazon is huge because it has great customer service. I rather work with Amazon than even Wal-Mart (which has a very liberal return policy) or any of the big-box retailers and I rather go through Amazon than any other local retailer simply because their returns and shipping policies.
But the shutdown of the site also coincided with a recovering economic situation. That could also be the reason more people go to see movies in theaters. Who knows what affected a particular set of sales, could be the election, the hurricane,... I doubt MegaUpload or TPB has much to do with blockbuster sales, they are good and have been improving regardless of the witch-hunt against free speech.
You really think the 'commercial' document shredder companies do what they say? No, they take the paper or hard disks or whatever off your hands and now your manager has a false sense of security.
What does the shredder company do: they try to make money on both ends. Selling large amounts of recycled paper as confetti paper is a pretty good deal as a) they get paid for it and b) the confetti company doesn't have to pay for brand new paper.
Do you really think the hard disks you gave them will get shredded as they say? No, it will get taken apart and the individual pieces (rare earth magnets, platters etc.) will get recycled wherever it is cheapest.
It's not uncommon for corporations to put their cases in courts that best suit them, they just hope you'd never find out and even then, there is rarely any repercussion for anyone involved in the scam, it's just retried under a different judge that best suits them. You can see that not only with patent cases in Texas but similar discoveries have been made in most of the high-profile RIAA cases where it has been discovered that judges were directly involved with RIAA companies.
The way it works in the US, they can even fund entire campaigns anonymously (through PAC's - see how Stephen Colbert did it) for a specific judge (as they are voted in) to take the bench while they are building a case.
The US government in all branches all the way to the President, Congress and Supreme Court is simply bought and paid for already 4-8 years in advance. Clinton, Bush, Mittens, whoever is even considered to be next is already on the pay roll.
Yes. We don't regulate either. You may have some issues obtaining a fighter jet given you don't have a couple of million dollars laying around to develop and build one but (certain rich) people regularly (once every couple of years) buy an old MIG or something similar to spruce up their back yard (at least that's what I imagine they do with it).
I think there is a separate regulation on the 50mil cannons and rocketry on fighter jets for most states (or federally regulated) but that's an entirely different thing.
Humans are considered primates, simians, hominidae (great apes) and of the genus homo which in itself has ~15 species (most extinct, homo sapiens sapiens being the only extant species in "modern times" - the last roughly 100,000 years). For the first half of our species existence we had about 5 other species (the 3 major erectus, neanderthal and rhodesiensis) of the genus homo to contend with which we potentially/intermittently/allegedly interbred with and eventually caused them to be non extant.
Although recently (last 100 years or so) we have seen a new parasitic homo sapiens species develop - homo sapiens jurisconsultus which seems to want to extinguish all progress made on the evolutionary ladder by homo sapiens sapiens.
Really? The RCC sure did justify themselves for their actions back then as the crusades being a 'justified war' bringing 'the peace of Christ' to all those newly converted ones.
You mention the Muslims being involved in 100/120 wars but the Christians are just as much involved in them and HAVE ALWAYS BEEN in all the great 20th century wars. Christian churches blessed and prayed for Hitler's troops and the genocide of the Jews was encouraged and hailed by all mainstream and even less mainstream churches.
Given my age I am on the border of that possibility but I didn't come out of my basement quite early enough for that so I won't have grandkids (hopefully) for another 20 years or so.
When I lived there, many countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Germany?, Spain even Canada) had laws where they paid extra taxes on media to pay specifically into funds for artists (which were managed by their versions of the RIAA/MPAA) in order that they would still get reimbursed for downloaded movies and music.
Ergo I would argue that if you pay a tax to pay the RIAA/MPAA for downloaded movies and music, that doing that act wouldn't be illegal.
You wouldn't pay taxes on your car if it's illegal to drive said car.
Plus most countries except the US have legalized downloading media for personal use - they pay extra taxes on certain products to fund the equivalents of the *AA in their countries to offset the economic cost of downloading thus making it legal to copy media for home use.
Your on-demand water heater uses ~100A (@220V which is line power in the US) continuously? That is my entire house's electricity supply (100A breaker) and would cost me about $3-4/hour, that is half a minimum wage in the US.
Are you talking about RHEL or Windows? Because I know Linux can support 16TB de-duplicated volumes for a variety of file systems. Windows however is the one who can't support anything.
Most rare and collectible books are also never lent out except between libraries and museums. The destructive non-librarian humans tend to damage such books as they don't know how to properly take care of it.
I would say for those rare books, use a cover (if it isn't there already) and put stuff ON that cover. RFID's are just a fancy bar-code, useful only if you don't have or don't want an optical readout.
I doubt that. The administrators have little to say. It's the corporate leadership that tells you what you will use and so far decisions in IT have generally been made on golf tournaments with the marketing dudes.
If the populace wants Mac, they'll have Mac (they already have). Enterprise management is not hard on Apple systems, it's all built-in already and there are plenty of 3rd parties that will gladly take money from you to re-implement it's native capabilities.
Apple has a really big influence in schools right now as 90% of our incoming student population in engineering either owns or buys a MacBook of some sorts. All-over the student population, the ratio is roughly 60/40 in favor of AAPL in 2011 a jump from ~40/60 in 2010.
Recently one of the IT Directors made the joke they soon may have to learn managing the Mac platform while practically all management-types at the place already have a portable Mac they prefer to use over their stock Dell's.
Microsoft is coming late to the party with Windows 8 and tries to imitate the iOS feel on big computers which is horrendous.
You can't disable the Metro interface anymore, customizing the system for individual users has become infinitely harder as you can't easily customize the Metro interface at deployment. IF you have the chance to use it, try it, it's an absolute UI mess.
The All Programs button has moved to the absolute bottom right which on a 28" screen is an absolute horrendous travel time - actually getting any icon (I launch and close multiple programs many times in short time) on a 28" screen is a horrible hunt-and-seek, the 'hot corners' get in the way and activate when you're in desktop mode and there is no way to disable them, if you need the hot corner you inadvertently click icons and launch whatever program is in your task bar, if you have more than one screen, trying to get to the right bar (where some random functions are hidden) will inadvertently pop your mouse on the second display so it disappears again.
Besides that just about anything you may use in an enterprise environment has changed location. The place where you put your Start menu items, your startup scripts, where programs have to install stuff - it's all been changed. All automation scripts have to be rewritten.
Windows 8 is what Windows Vista should've been sans the Metro or Aero interface. Ready for portables, ready for the modern age of information security, using the capabilities of modern computers and good enough to keep users working but keep the fucking Lego Duplo interface only on small screens (8" or less).
Really? I would never hire any admin that can't handle at least a handful of OS'es. If there is a new OS, as an admin, I am supposed to learn about it and get some hands-on experience. It's built-in to my job to learn new things.
It's solid state flash so it doesn't need refresh nor does it have destructive reads. It's just faster than current SSD's but slower than current gen RAM (1ms vs 100ns vs ~10ns)
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I see this comment a lot and it makes me cringe. The Pi, the Arduino and these Android mini-PC's have totally different markets though.
The Arduino has a power usage of ~1-25mA (depending on what your code does), the core can get down to 0.2mA at 1MHz and if necessary in the picoamps range in standby mode.
The Pi has a power usage of 300mA (model A) to 700mA (model B)
The Androids have a power usage of ~2500mA
This makes a huge difference in development and powering these types of devices. The Androids will probably never run on battery (unless it's a car battery), the Pi will run for a while on a set of AA or D batteries (depending on what you want to do), the Arduino runs a really long time on a 9V battery.
The Arduino is built for RT, the Pi less so but has nifty I/O anyway and the Androids will probably never even have an SPI header.
You well overpaid for everything. Even Amazon has this stuff for cheaper.
5V USB wall-wart: $4 + free shipping
USB cable: $2 + free shipping
16GB SD Card: $12 + free shipping
Case for Raspberry Pi: $10
Total: $63
And that's simply for prototyping. If you buy the necessary items in bulk you can get the add-ons down to $10.
There is already legislation AGAINST Net Neutrality so this would block any legislation repealing net neutrality and a host of other laws (unconstitutional searches, wiretapping, DMCA, ...).
Unless your OS is Linux, also be prepared to shell out 3x $300 for a 'full' version of your OS. And I don't know any decent computer even hand-built that would cost less than $1200. Sure you CAN build something for $600 but don't compare them to the higher-priced items.
There are some open source products that imply some sort of free and open source enterprise version/support but only later you find out the enterprise options are closed source and not included and sometimes will even be dependent on those options.
Make it very clear on your site and download list what you offer and what support costs. Also, make the full version and all options open source, you'll get a lot better feedback from others in your community. I hate it especially as I help with development in my free time when there are enterprise hooks that I have to think off which do absolutely nothing for me, I only publish gpl code, not lgpl.
Also, make sure your documentation is clear and the product works out of the box so they don't have to call you for simple things.
So if someone can find a mirror.
Amazon is huge because it has great customer service. I rather work with Amazon than even Wal-Mart (which has a very liberal return policy) or any of the big-box retailers and I rather go through Amazon than any other local retailer simply because their returns and shipping policies.
But the shutdown of the site also coincided with a recovering economic situation. That could also be the reason more people go to see movies in theaters. Who knows what affected a particular set of sales, could be the election, the hurricane, ... I doubt MegaUpload or TPB has much to do with blockbuster sales, they are good and have been improving regardless of the witch-hunt against free speech.
You really think the 'commercial' document shredder companies do what they say? No, they take the paper or hard disks or whatever off your hands and now your manager has a false sense of security.
What does the shredder company do: they try to make money on both ends. Selling large amounts of recycled paper as confetti paper is a pretty good deal as a) they get paid for it and b) the confetti company doesn't have to pay for brand new paper.
Do you really think the hard disks you gave them will get shredded as they say? No, it will get taken apart and the individual pieces (rare earth magnets, platters etc.) will get recycled wherever it is cheapest.
Why would it make any difference? Judges are still primarily politicians in the US regardless of the court they're in.
Do you really think criminal court is any different than civil court? Do you really think it's a coincident that the judge has ties to the company?
It's not uncommon for corporations to put their cases in courts that best suit them, they just hope you'd never find out and even then, there is rarely any repercussion for anyone involved in the scam, it's just retried under a different judge that best suits them. You can see that not only with patent cases in Texas but similar discoveries have been made in most of the high-profile RIAA cases where it has been discovered that judges were directly involved with RIAA companies.
The way it works in the US, they can even fund entire campaigns anonymously (through PAC's - see how Stephen Colbert did it) for a specific judge (as they are voted in) to take the bench while they are building a case.
The US government in all branches all the way to the President, Congress and Supreme Court is simply bought and paid for already 4-8 years in advance. Clinton, Bush, Mittens, whoever is even considered to be next is already on the pay roll.
Yes. We don't regulate either. You may have some issues obtaining a fighter jet given you don't have a couple of million dollars laying around to develop and build one but (certain rich) people regularly (once every couple of years) buy an old MIG or something similar to spruce up their back yard (at least that's what I imagine they do with it).
I think there is a separate regulation on the 50mil cannons and rocketry on fighter jets for most states (or federally regulated) but that's an entirely different thing.
Humans are considered primates, simians, hominidae (great apes) and of the genus homo which in itself has ~15 species (most extinct, homo sapiens sapiens being the only extant species in "modern times" - the last roughly 100,000 years). For the first half of our species existence we had about 5 other species (the 3 major erectus, neanderthal and rhodesiensis) of the genus homo to contend with which we potentially/intermittently/allegedly interbred with and eventually caused them to be non extant.
Although recently (last 100 years or so) we have seen a new parasitic homo sapiens species develop - homo sapiens jurisconsultus which seems to want to extinguish all progress made on the evolutionary ladder by homo sapiens sapiens.
Really? The RCC sure did justify themselves for their actions back then as the crusades being a 'justified war' bringing 'the peace of Christ' to all those newly converted ones.
You mention the Muslims being involved in 100/120 wars but the Christians are just as much involved in them and HAVE ALWAYS BEEN in all the great 20th century wars. Christian churches blessed and prayed for Hitler's troops and the genocide of the Jews was encouraged and hailed by all mainstream and even less mainstream churches.
Given my age I am on the border of that possibility but I didn't come out of my basement quite early enough for that so I won't have grandkids (hopefully) for another 20 years or so.
Sigh, it's sad when people are referring to Atari owners as grandfathers.
Problem had already been solved by a number of HPC schedulers.
Whoever this person is doesn't know shot about running a cluster but the problem has long been solved somewhere in the mid-80s
When I lived there, many countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Germany?, Spain even Canada) had laws where they paid extra taxes on media to pay specifically into funds for artists (which were managed by their versions of the RIAA/MPAA) in order that they would still get reimbursed for downloaded movies and music.
Ergo I would argue that if you pay a tax to pay the RIAA/MPAA for downloaded movies and music, that doing that act wouldn't be illegal.
You wouldn't pay taxes on your car if it's illegal to drive said car.
Plus most countries except the US have legalized downloading media for personal use - they pay extra taxes on certain products to fund the equivalents of the *AA in their countries to offset the economic cost of downloading thus making it legal to copy media for home use.
Your on-demand water heater uses ~100A (@220V which is line power in the US) continuously? That is my entire house's electricity supply (100A breaker) and would cost me about $3-4/hour, that is half a minimum wage in the US.
Are you talking about RHEL or Windows? Because I know Linux can support 16TB de-duplicated volumes for a variety of file systems. Windows however is the one who can't support anything.
Most rare and collectible books are also never lent out except between libraries and museums. The destructive non-librarian humans tend to damage such books as they don't know how to properly take care of it.
I would say for those rare books, use a cover (if it isn't there already) and put stuff ON that cover. RFID's are just a fancy bar-code, useful only if you don't have or don't want an optical readout.
I doubt that. The administrators have little to say. It's the corporate leadership that tells you what you will use and so far decisions in IT have generally been made on golf tournaments with the marketing dudes.
If the populace wants Mac, they'll have Mac (they already have). Enterprise management is not hard on Apple systems, it's all built-in already and there are plenty of 3rd parties that will gladly take money from you to re-implement it's native capabilities.
There are plenty of competitors these days.
Apple has a really big influence in schools right now as 90% of our incoming student population in engineering either owns or buys a MacBook of some sorts. All-over the student population, the ratio is roughly 60/40 in favor of AAPL in 2011 a jump from ~40/60 in 2010.
Recently one of the IT Directors made the joke they soon may have to learn managing the Mac platform while practically all management-types at the place already have a portable Mac they prefer to use over their stock Dell's.
Microsoft is coming late to the party with Windows 8 and tries to imitate the iOS feel on big computers which is horrendous.
You can't disable the Metro interface anymore, customizing the system for individual users has become infinitely harder as you can't easily customize the Metro interface at deployment. IF you have the chance to use it, try it, it's an absolute UI mess.
The All Programs button has moved to the absolute bottom right which on a 28" screen is an absolute horrendous travel time - actually getting any icon (I launch and close multiple programs many times in short time) on a 28" screen is a horrible hunt-and-seek, the 'hot corners' get in the way and activate when you're in desktop mode and there is no way to disable them, if you need the hot corner you inadvertently click icons and launch whatever program is in your task bar, if you have more than one screen, trying to get to the right bar (where some random functions are hidden) will inadvertently pop your mouse on the second display so it disappears again.
Besides that just about anything you may use in an enterprise environment has changed location. The place where you put your Start menu items, your startup scripts, where programs have to install stuff - it's all been changed. All automation scripts have to be rewritten.
Windows 8 is what Windows Vista should've been sans the Metro or Aero interface. Ready for portables, ready for the modern age of information security, using the capabilities of modern computers and good enough to keep users working but keep the fucking Lego Duplo interface only on small screens (8" or less).
Really? I would never hire any admin that can't handle at least a handful of OS'es. If there is a new OS, as an admin, I am supposed to learn about it and get some hands-on experience. It's built-in to my job to learn new things.
It's solid state flash so it doesn't need refresh nor does it have destructive reads. It's just faster than current SSD's but slower than current gen RAM (1ms vs 100ns vs ~10ns)
100ns RAM was common circa the 486