You should listen to Romney speak, he kind of gives it away:
- Eliminate public mandate on health care - Eliminate food stamps - Eliminate NPR - Eliminate school lunches - Eliminate all tax deductions for everyone - Eliminate health care for veterans and everything that doesn't fall under medicare - Reduce the eligibility for medicare - Leave all education and health matters to the individual states to pick up the bill - Lower taxes on the top 5% of the companies and investments that are considered job creators (the ones earning 250M+)
Where are we consumers informed of this? Does your local Wal-Mart store have badges on the bags of frozen tilapia that says which ones were raised on shit and which ones weren't?
The free market dictates that consumers shouldn't hear about this because that would impede the demand for the product and thus drive the prices and profit ranges down.
- Plenty of storage, cabinets and containers for a variety of screws and sets of electronics - Garbage cans - Sink with standard faucet, rinsing hose and a separate inline distilled water filtration system (for cleaning up print boards and keyboards without rusting them) - Drying racks, small drying oven (actually an old bacteria incubation oven), regular oven, microwave oven (marked 'chemicals only') - Fume hood - Microscope - Vacuum pumps - Belt sander - Band saw - Large drill press - Dremel drill press - Dremel tools and variety of additions - Weller soldering station - Larger soldering iron - Huge soldering iron - Weller PortaSol soldering iron (butane) - Portable soldering iron - 2 channel scope and test leads - Fluke digital multi-meter with variety of test leads - Circular saw - Miter saw - Saw blades and drill bits for plexiglass/plastic as well as metal and wood - Extensive craftsman toolkits (wrenches, ratchets) - Various repair kits for non-regular screw-devices (Torx etc.) - Set of spatula's for opening no-screw enclosures, tweezers in various sizes, magnetic screw-picker-uppers, spudgers, suction cups - Mac Mini and PC, couple of LCD's and a CRT - Converter pieces for everything you will ever need to repair (DisplayPort, mini-DisplayPort, mini-DVI, DVI, VGA, HDMI, FireWire, USB)... - Set of many size PCB's (pre-drilled and plain) and Proto-Boxes - PCB etching chemicals and various chemically resistant enclosures to develop them in. You could use also small glass aquariums for that, but put in some slots so you can do multiple at a time. - Set of Arduino's - Large array of cabling but the main ones you should have is 4 wire and 8 wire CAT5 and CAT7, coax, jumper wires in a couple of sizes, speaker cable ~18AWG (4 and 2 leads), 3 lead 12AWG (for 110/220V power) and some bigger cable like 4AWG and 0AWG if you ever want to do low-voltage/high-amp (as from car batteries) or electric motors. - Replacement and testing components for the stuff you'll be repairing (hard drives both known good and known bad ones, flash memory, RAM modules, switches,...) - Variety of clamps (small to big) and 'helping hand' tools (the little 'men' with lights and crocodile clamps) - Variety of colored electrical tape - Variety of size and color heat shrink stuff - Crimp tools for coax, RJ-11 and RJ-45, strippers and crimpers from 0000AWG - 22AWG (beyond that use heat to melt the insulation) - Cleaning tools and supplies
I have some fiber optic tools as well but unless you're going to use fiber optics, you won't need them. I also inherited a cryo-safe and centrifuge but you won't need that.
How much does a safety deposit box cost per month? And how much gas money will you need to swap out your hard disks on a daily basis? Oh, you are going to be good about swapping them weekly? Monthly isn't too bad once in a while? You forgot to do it this month but you are going to tomorrow?
I doubt your NAS is keeping multiple copies across several devices. Backblaze does. Also, your NAS can't self-heal broken devices, Backblaze does. Also Backblaze doesn't complain about you having your shit in his house and his girlfriend doesn't unplug it to vacuum nor does Backblaze have friends that spill beer over it when there is a party.
a) How much data do you really have? b) How much of it can be de-duplicated (they do data-center wide de-duplication) c) What is your upload speed?
Realistically and I am a heavy geek user have: a) about 2TB (costs about $250 / 3 years today or $7/mo) b) around 18% (ZFS tells me so) c) 1Mbps
Realistically most users have a) around 50GB (at the $250 for 2TB cost this is about $7 for the whole 3 years) b) around 25% (ZFS tells me so at work for ~300 home directories) c) 1Mbps or less
So for the average user, the build cost of storing the documents is recovered in one month, the cost to run the operation is another month, the rest is pure profit once the overhead costs are reduced. The $250 / 3 years is the build cost for their storage systems (which where I work we have currently 90TB in a similar configuration) and the cost for racking, power and cooling is roughly $250 / 2TB (yield per pod is ~100TB / 4U) in those three years as well although we don't account for my cost which really we should but Backblaze has mentioned they run their entire multi-PB operation on 1 guy racking and a dozen or so people to do the rest (programmers, administration etc).
Now imagine most documents, music and video files can be de-duplicated 100% given a large-enough user base. Most documents are downloaded from a site, most music and video is from the same sources (2000 seeders in Torrents, music from official shops).
What's wrong with NPR that it needs a replacement? What is the replacement? What's wrong with the Public Health Mandate (besides that there is a lot missing such as a public option due to Republican push-back)? What's the replacement? What's wrong with Food Stamps and Subsidized Housing and COBRA all of which he slams but offers no replacement for.
Jobs won't appear magically when you cut those programs and Romney says he will make jobs by cutting those programs which is a tautology. People use those programs because they've lost their jobs, cutting them and replacing them for the 'very needy' (who falls under that definition?) won't help anyone but the very rich as people are going to be forced to work for the lowest pay they're being offered without any collective rights.
Aren't all items eventually intended to be sold in those countries as well as the US.
I can see major legal loopholes in your argument if they would allow it. Simply import everything that is 'intended' for another market and you won't have the right to resell it anymore?
Have you looked recently at any component. I have here an electronic prototype box (plastic and PCB) that has 9 patent numbers printed on it. My car has a laundry list of them, computers and software have a bunch of them attached to them.
Almost everything you buy (including certain screws - see Torx) have patents attached to them.
Maybe you need to listen to what Romney is saying.
From the debate: - He says he will reduce the tax burden on the businesses that create the most jobs in this country. - He says later on that the top 5% of businesses create most of the jobs in this country - He admits even later that all of those businesses are raking in lots of money through existing tax cuts and benefits. - He reiterates that he will cut taxes for the job creators
Yes, Romney will cut taxes for the top 5% of the corporate income brackets where the subsidiaries of Exxon-Mobil and Donald Trump live. This will be payed by cutting NPR, Public Health Mandate, Food Stamps, Subsidized Housing and COBRA aka everything the poorest among us have to not fall into desperate poverty, disease and hunger.
I have seen the same problem on various Androids and other devices. I think the problem is that Mini and even Micro-USB has simply too long and too fine of a connector so it basically becomes a blunt knife when the device drops. Also, they're usually soldered directly onto a PCB where the solder or PCB cracks or comes loose, some people have been known to fix their bad connections by simply reheating the connector with a soldering iron so the cracked solder re-flows onto the PCB.
On the other hand, micro-USB is a pain in the neck to get right in the middle of the night and simply stepping on the connector usually gets the metal crooked which probably doesn't help when people jam it back into the connector. Also, it seems like the Samsung Galaxy S2 of my significant other has a slightly varying size so 'OTC' connectors are a little more loose inside the sleeve while the original fits snuggly
I don't think you know how these so-called fixed-price bids work for governments. They're not fixed at all as the contract or language implies. They are just starting points for negotiations on more contracts as the scopes and costs change on both ends of the contract.
Basically a government fixed-price request is a very vague description of an idea. The fixed-price bid is a very vague description of a project and associated budget. Whether or not the budget then balloons to eclipse the specified price is irrelevant to the bureaucracy on either side.
I remember first grade I had some contact with Logo on a Mac. All 20 of us around one machine and writing programs on paper to test one by one on the machine. It was a simple drawing of a house. Then nothing until first grade of high school to learn typing on 8086's in a time when 486's were top of the line. Had to load a 5.25 floppy with DOS, then the typing program. Took 15 minutes out of the 50 to get setup. Off course I had had Amiga and C64 and every x86 to 386dx with 1x external CDROM at home.
Finally in 4th grade of high school we started getting Pascal on 386 and machines and because of the courses I took, assembler and a c-variant for PIC micro controllers.
Then got dropped into the work environment when people started using.net and PHP was ubiquitous.
Yes, that may be true for computer systems but working with micro controllers and radio frequency and encryption is a whole other beast.
(Good) encryption requires no-fault transmission (or error correction/resend mechanics a la TCP), key exchanges, authentication and authorization on both sides and calculating large factors on-demand. If you don't do that, you'll get stuck with garbage data, one extraction leading to all devices being compromised, impostors and scammers or very weak keys.
Doing that in the conditions demanded here (fractions of a second on multiple moving, bouncing, variable targets) is really hard. Doing it really cheap even harder. Making it so such things can be installed correctly by the average gear head...
WPA2 can also be cracked these days depending on the 'strength' of your password. If you use anything that's in the dictionary or any derivative of it it can be hacked in a matter of minutes. Random passwords with at least 8 characters are the least acceptable.
Either way, given governments around the world's ineptitude with security (see the various chip ID or bus card systems snafu's) in combination with the car manufacturers ineptitude in the same area (see BMW). I doubt this system will be very secure because of it's nature alone, it needs to be cheap, easy and work in various circumstances, the cost of cryptology will be too high.
In the US the same thing happens. I pay for a 10/1 connection from TWC which barely gets 8/256k on the best of days but launching Speedtest gives me a clean 25/5 link.
Ya know, YouTube has this setting where you can watch movies in HTML5 instead of Flash and then put the setting higher than 360p, maybe closer to 720p.
As far as an independent demo, this is pretty awesome. This isn't a multi-million dollar Hollywood cutscene or even a video game cutscene - this is a freaking demo made by some art students and a set of programmers that is supposed to show off how these scenes render natively without any post-production modification or filtering.
If you ask me, the effects were on par with the effects in the Transformers blockbusters in terms of quality. The render could use some polishing up in some places but for a tech demo this is pretty good.
There is no such thing as hate speech. There is free speech and not free speech and as a society we have to pick between them. In the end, free speech is the best solution.
Hate speech is currently being uttered by hundreds if not thousands of evangelical Christian religious groups in the US. If it is absolutely necessary to limit speech, how about before we start limiting speech that may be controversial, limit the speech that has actually already harmed hundreds of helpless children and indoctrinated and brainwashed thousands of people.
The only difference between Mormonism and Christianity or any other large religious group is time. Look at the shit some dude named Moses or Jesus made up. People were laughing at them in their times as well, eventually it became history, then stories, myths and currently there is so little left that most of it is conjecture.
Why is he a jerk? Usually the really geeky brilliant people are nice although somewhat difficult to deal with socially (they're a different breed after all) but the jerks are those not-so-brilliant ones that pose as being the end-all-be-all of the business while their escapades appear on thedailywtf a couple of years later after they've flown the coop.
Back to the point, if he is really brilliant and he is really a jerk, keep him away from your customers and that's about it. Give him what he wants and you'll have a happy jerk that nobody needs to interact with.
Same here, they (TWC) charge nearly $70 for 10/1 which blows out every so often (frequently the modem restarts and has to re-sync) and I barely get 8Mbps. YouTube test site tells me I get 8Mbps but the statistics shows me it actually averages out to 5 Mbps, the well-known SpeedTest and SpeakEasy test sites say I get up to 25Mbps down, the federal test sites say I get 15Mbps but that's ONLY to those sites, even my job which has 500 Mbps synchronous directly connected to the TWC PoP which I am terminated to myself still gets barely 5Mbps during the evening hours when everyone is active. I could be pulling down a full 8Mbps on Torrent and still get any test site to say that I get over 100% of my 10Mbps so they are fucking with the statistics but then rate limit the rest of my connection.
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You should listen to Romney speak, he kind of gives it away:
- Eliminate public mandate on health care
- Eliminate food stamps
- Eliminate NPR
- Eliminate school lunches
- Eliminate all tax deductions for everyone
- Eliminate health care for veterans and everything that doesn't fall under medicare
- Reduce the eligibility for medicare
- Leave all education and health matters to the individual states to pick up the bill
- Lower taxes on the top 5% of the companies and investments that are considered job creators (the ones earning 250M+)
Where are we consumers informed of this? Does your local Wal-Mart store have badges on the bags of frozen tilapia that says which ones were raised on shit and which ones weren't?
The free market dictates that consumers shouldn't hear about this because that would impede the demand for the product and thus drive the prices and profit ranges down.
What I have:
- Plenty of storage, cabinets and containers for a variety of screws and sets of electronics ... ...)
- Garbage cans
- Sink with standard faucet, rinsing hose and a separate inline distilled water filtration system (for cleaning up print boards and keyboards without rusting them)
- Drying racks, small drying oven (actually an old bacteria incubation oven), regular oven, microwave oven (marked 'chemicals only')
- Fume hood
- Microscope
- Vacuum pumps
- Belt sander
- Band saw
- Large drill press
- Dremel drill press
- Dremel tools and variety of additions
- Weller soldering station
- Larger soldering iron
- Huge soldering iron
- Weller PortaSol soldering iron (butane)
- Portable soldering iron
- 2 channel scope and test leads
- Fluke digital multi-meter with variety of test leads
- Circular saw
- Miter saw
- Saw blades and drill bits for plexiglass/plastic as well as metal and wood
- Extensive craftsman toolkits (wrenches, ratchets)
- Various repair kits for non-regular screw-devices (Torx etc.)
- Set of spatula's for opening no-screw enclosures, tweezers in various sizes, magnetic screw-picker-uppers, spudgers, suction cups
- Mac Mini and PC, couple of LCD's and a CRT
- Converter pieces for everything you will ever need to repair (DisplayPort, mini-DisplayPort, mini-DVI, DVI, VGA, HDMI, FireWire, USB)
- Set of many size PCB's (pre-drilled and plain) and Proto-Boxes
- PCB etching chemicals and various chemically resistant enclosures to develop them in. You could use also small glass aquariums for that, but put in some slots so you can do multiple at a time.
- Set of Arduino's
- Large array of cabling but the main ones you should have is 4 wire and 8 wire CAT5 and CAT7, coax, jumper wires in a couple of sizes, speaker cable ~18AWG (4 and 2 leads), 3 lead 12AWG (for 110/220V power) and some bigger cable like 4AWG and 0AWG if you ever want to do low-voltage/high-amp (as from car batteries) or electric motors.
- Replacement and testing components for the stuff you'll be repairing (hard drives both known good and known bad ones, flash memory, RAM modules, switches,
- Variety of clamps (small to big) and 'helping hand' tools (the little 'men' with lights and crocodile clamps)
- Variety of colored electrical tape
- Variety of size and color heat shrink stuff
- Crimp tools for coax, RJ-11 and RJ-45, strippers and crimpers from 0000AWG - 22AWG (beyond that use heat to melt the insulation)
- Cleaning tools and supplies
I have some fiber optic tools as well but unless you're going to use fiber optics, you won't need them. I also inherited a cryo-safe and centrifuge but you won't need that.
How much does a safety deposit box cost per month? And how much gas money will you need to swap out your hard disks on a daily basis? Oh, you are going to be good about swapping them weekly? Monthly isn't too bad once in a while? You forgot to do it this month but you are going to tomorrow?
I doubt your NAS is keeping multiple copies across several devices. Backblaze does. Also, your NAS can't self-heal broken devices, Backblaze does. Also Backblaze doesn't complain about you having your shit in his house and his girlfriend doesn't unplug it to vacuum nor does Backblaze have friends that spill beer over it when there is a party.
a) How much data do you really have?
b) How much of it can be de-duplicated (they do data-center wide de-duplication)
c) What is your upload speed?
Realistically and I am a heavy geek user have:
a) about 2TB (costs about $250 / 3 years today or $7/mo)
b) around 18% (ZFS tells me so)
c) 1Mbps
Realistically most users have
a) around 50GB (at the $250 for 2TB cost this is about $7 for the whole 3 years)
b) around 25% (ZFS tells me so at work for ~300 home directories)
c) 1Mbps or less
So for the average user, the build cost of storing the documents is recovered in one month, the cost to run the operation is another month, the rest is pure profit once the overhead costs are reduced. The $250 / 3 years is the build cost for their storage systems (which where I work we have currently 90TB in a similar configuration) and the cost for racking, power and cooling is roughly $250 / 2TB (yield per pod is ~100TB / 4U) in those three years as well although we don't account for my cost which really we should but Backblaze has mentioned they run their entire multi-PB operation on 1 guy racking and a dozen or so people to do the rest (programmers, administration etc).
Now imagine most documents, music and video files can be de-duplicated 100% given a large-enough user base. Most documents are downloaded from a site, most music and video is from the same sources (2000 seeders in Torrents, music from official shops).
Cheap hookers from foreign countries whom Notch already paid $10k for and about 250,000 people before you have had for a buck?
What's wrong with NPR that it needs a replacement? What is the replacement?
What's wrong with the Public Health Mandate (besides that there is a lot missing such as a public option due to Republican push-back)? What's the replacement?
What's wrong with Food Stamps and Subsidized Housing and COBRA all of which he slams but offers no replacement for.
Jobs won't appear magically when you cut those programs and Romney says he will make jobs by cutting those programs which is a tautology. People use those programs because they've lost their jobs, cutting them and replacing them for the 'very needy' (who falls under that definition?) won't help anyone but the very rich as people are going to be forced to work for the lowest pay they're being offered without any collective rights.
Yes, but at least then nobody will be skirting any sales taxes anymore. win-win for the politicians.
Aren't all items eventually intended to be sold in those countries as well as the US.
I can see major legal loopholes in your argument if they would allow it. Simply import everything that is 'intended' for another market and you won't have the right to resell it anymore?
Have you looked recently at any component. I have here an electronic prototype box (plastic and PCB) that has 9 patent numbers printed on it. My car has a laundry list of them, computers and software have a bunch of them attached to them.
Almost everything you buy (including certain screws - see Torx) have patents attached to them.
Maybe you need to listen to what Romney is saying.
From the debate:
- He says he will reduce the tax burden on the businesses that create the most jobs in this country.
- He says later on that the top 5% of businesses create most of the jobs in this country
- He admits even later that all of those businesses are raking in lots of money through existing tax cuts and benefits.
- He reiterates that he will cut taxes for the job creators
Yes, Romney will cut taxes for the top 5% of the corporate income brackets where the subsidiaries of Exxon-Mobil and Donald Trump live. This will be payed by cutting NPR, Public Health Mandate, Food Stamps, Subsidized Housing and COBRA aka everything the poorest among us have to not fall into desperate poverty, disease and hunger.
I have seen the same problem on various Androids and other devices. I think the problem is that Mini and even Micro-USB has simply too long and too fine of a connector so it basically becomes a blunt knife when the device drops. Also, they're usually soldered directly onto a PCB where the solder or PCB cracks or comes loose, some people have been known to fix their bad connections by simply reheating the connector with a soldering iron so the cracked solder re-flows onto the PCB.
On the other hand, micro-USB is a pain in the neck to get right in the middle of the night and simply stepping on the connector usually gets the metal crooked which probably doesn't help when people jam it back into the connector. Also, it seems like the Samsung Galaxy S2 of my significant other has a slightly varying size so 'OTC' connectors are a little more loose inside the sleeve while the original fits snuggly
I don't think you know how these so-called fixed-price bids work for governments. They're not fixed at all as the contract or language implies. They are just starting points for negotiations on more contracts as the scopes and costs change on both ends of the contract.
Basically a government fixed-price request is a very vague description of an idea. The fixed-price bid is a very vague description of a project and associated budget. Whether or not the budget then balloons to eclipse the specified price is irrelevant to the bureaucracy on either side.
I remember first grade I had some contact with Logo on a Mac. All 20 of us around one machine and writing programs on paper to test one by one on the machine. It was a simple drawing of a house. Then nothing until first grade of high school to learn typing on 8086's in a time when 486's were top of the line. Had to load a 5.25 floppy with DOS, then the typing program. Took 15 minutes out of the 50 to get setup. Off course I had had Amiga and C64 and every x86 to 386dx with 1x external CDROM at home.
Finally in 4th grade of high school we started getting Pascal on 386 and machines and because of the courses I took, assembler and a c-variant for PIC micro controllers.
Then got dropped into the work environment when people started using .net and PHP was ubiquitous.
Yes, that may be true for computer systems but working with micro controllers and radio frequency and encryption is a whole other beast.
(Good) encryption requires no-fault transmission (or error correction/resend mechanics a la TCP), key exchanges, authentication and authorization on both sides and calculating large factors on-demand. If you don't do that, you'll get stuck with garbage data, one extraction leading to all devices being compromised, impostors and scammers or very weak keys.
Doing that in the conditions demanded here (fractions of a second on multiple moving, bouncing, variable targets) is really hard. Doing it really cheap even harder. Making it so such things can be installed correctly by the average gear head...
WPA2 can also be cracked these days depending on the 'strength' of your password. If you use anything that's in the dictionary or any derivative of it it can be hacked in a matter of minutes. Random passwords with at least 8 characters are the least acceptable.
Either way, given governments around the world's ineptitude with security (see the various chip ID or bus card systems snafu's) in combination with the car manufacturers ineptitude in the same area (see BMW). I doubt this system will be very secure because of it's nature alone, it needs to be cheap, easy and work in various circumstances, the cost of cryptology will be too high.
That would be a colossal waste of money. Everybody knows there is no such thing as intelligent life in Congress.
In the US the same thing happens. I pay for a 10/1 connection from TWC which barely gets 8/256k on the best of days but launching Speedtest gives me a clean 25/5 link.
I don't think you understand the short movie art style. Go back to seeing Battleship or Spiderman you oaf.
Ya know, YouTube has this setting where you can watch movies in HTML5 instead of Flash and then put the setting higher than 360p, maybe closer to 720p.
As far as an independent demo, this is pretty awesome. This isn't a multi-million dollar Hollywood cutscene or even a video game cutscene - this is a freaking demo made by some art students and a set of programmers that is supposed to show off how these scenes render natively without any post-production modification or filtering.
If you ask me, the effects were on par with the effects in the Transformers blockbusters in terms of quality. The render could use some polishing up in some places but for a tech demo this is pretty good.
There is no such thing as hate speech. There is free speech and not free speech and as a society we have to pick between them. In the end, free speech is the best solution.
Hate speech is currently being uttered by hundreds if not thousands of evangelical Christian religious groups in the US. If it is absolutely necessary to limit speech, how about before we start limiting speech that may be controversial, limit the speech that has actually already harmed hundreds of helpless children and indoctrinated and brainwashed thousands of people.
The only difference between Mormonism and Christianity or any other large religious group is time. Look at the shit some dude named Moses or Jesus made up. People were laughing at them in their times as well, eventually it became history, then stories, myths and currently there is so little left that most of it is conjecture.
Why is he a jerk? Usually the really geeky brilliant people are nice although somewhat difficult to deal with socially (they're a different breed after all) but the jerks are those not-so-brilliant ones that pose as being the end-all-be-all of the business while their escapades appear on thedailywtf a couple of years later after they've flown the coop.
Back to the point, if he is really brilliant and he is really a jerk, keep him away from your customers and that's about it. Give him what he wants and you'll have a happy jerk that nobody needs to interact with.
Same here, they (TWC) charge nearly $70 for 10/1 which blows out every so often (frequently the modem restarts and has to re-sync) and I barely get 8Mbps. YouTube test site tells me I get 8Mbps but the statistics shows me it actually averages out to 5 Mbps, the well-known SpeedTest and SpeakEasy test sites say I get up to 25Mbps down, the federal test sites say I get 15Mbps but that's ONLY to those sites, even my job which has 500 Mbps synchronous directly connected to the TWC PoP which I am terminated to myself still gets barely 5Mbps during the evening hours when everyone is active. I could be pulling down a full 8Mbps on Torrent and still get any test site to say that I get over 100% of my 10Mbps so they are fucking with the statistics but then rate limit the rest of my connection.