You never needed to though. I don't see why you couldn't just enable IMAP on your e-mail server. It has explicit push these days, it always had IDLE which the iPhone is just fine with (uses virtually no energy).
ActiveSync is just another one of those botched protocols that makes sure nobody else can play unless MS lets them. ActiveDirectory is another example, Kerberos, LDAP over proprietary links. ActiveX, again similar to a Java application but it runs only on Windows platforms and is horribly insecure.
The poor are ALREADY being shuffled through to Medicare. It's really easy to get Medicare, just prove your make less than the poverty limit and you're 100% covered for EVERYTHING (tests, doctor's visits etc.). If you're pregnant, disabled or otherwise incapacitated the limit is higher. Also, if your investment income is high enough that you don't have to work (eg. you have $1 effective taxable income even if you make $100,000 of your investment income) you will also be covered.
So the ultra-rich and the poor are already covered, this is to cover anyone in between there. Most likely you if you're working either you lose your job or your employer no longer pays for your insurance, this may become available to you.
Most of the stuff in our solar system, stays in our solar system - you know gravity and such. Most of the stuff in other solar systems likewise stays in their respective solar systems. I don't think there are any known objects that traverse(d) multiple solar systems. Sure, in the beginning (at the birth of our solar system, when the sun was in a cluster of stars) the matter could've all been close enough to each other to share some other solar systems' rocks but at this point in time (astronomically) the stuff in our solar system stays in our solar system.
Textbooks are not kept for many years. Most textbooks change every year and have to be re-purchased. At least in the US.
Also, e-Textbooks can be free. There have been many efforts in that space and I think that's where we should move towards especially now that classic textbooks are being taken over by special interest groups - there have been so much advances in science but the textbooks (even high school and college) still talk about classic Newtonian physics as being the rule of the universe instead of explaining anything about the work being done since Newton.
They're definitely better and cheaper than carrying around a backpack full of books. A basic textbook can cost anywhere from $30 to $150 per class, not even talking about the "specialized" books. An e-book doesn't necessarily have to cost anything (distribution, transportation and replication cost is free/minimal) but usually ranges up to $30 in the worst cases (Pearson and the likes).
- I have an HDHomeRun which has two tuners which can individually receive any feed on either unencrypted cable or free OTA. - I have a Mac Mini running XBMC. It really is the simplest and cheapest way of doing it, no messing with getting HDMI to work (works with audio out of the box). - I have Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, TED, Pandora plugins running on XBMC as well as Ted (The Episode Downloader) with Transmission - HDTV passes audio through digitally to my receiver (optional) - Attached a 2TB WD Passport to it, USB powered (optional depending on the amount of content you have) - Get AirServer if you want your Mini to also receive your iPad/iPhone content over AirPlay (optional)
The things to look out for: - Make sure your Mac Mini does not go to sleep. It uses minimal power but I have an actual Apple TV in the bedroom and 3-4 laptops so it has to remain on to be able to share content also, I want it to get content online. The remote control does wake it up so YMMV - Make sure nothing interrupts your XBMC process (pop ups etc). Make your user not an admin (you won't get interrupted by software updates and the like), login automatically, start the application automatically, make the user get a minimal Finder, uninstall unnecessary software. I'm still working on some of the details but most of the popup stuff is disabled. I am going to create a script that automatically restarts XBMC because it does crash once in a while. You can use Cocktail to disable a lot of things. - Connect your media center to your ethernet if possible if you're going to have multiple devices use content. WiFi (even 5GHz 802.11n) is still too flaky for continuous HD quality in my area
Finland does require an uplink as well. And most European countries (including Finland) have MASSIVE pipes just like the US has massive pipes (already) between and to most states. Do you think the Internet right now works without? The fiber is there, since it's fiber, it has unlimited bandwidth (although currently practical links are ~40-100Gbps per fiber pair)
Repeat after me: = RAID is not HA. = RAID is not backup. = RAID does not protect you against anything.
What does RAID do: = If set up correctly, it will give an individual computer a little bit more availability -OR- = If set up correctly, it will give you better performance -OR- = If set up correctly, it will give you a faster recovery time from catastrophic failure
You won't have five nines because besides hard drives, you also have software (since he's running MS, that means at least a monthly reboot) and you also have other parts in the computer that do go bad.
The best thing to do here is make a truly HA setup with 3 or more servers, separated from each other and no-share hardware. There are various way of setting that up.
So what if the corruption/strange bug does occur on supported versions? Your data is just as lost and all you can hope for is somebody on the line that can walk you through a re-install. Licenses/support agreements NEVER EVER covers data corruption and recovery even if you're paying Sun/Oracle/MS 250k/year for support. Same goes in the cloud, I don't know any provider guaranteeing your data 100%.
MySQL is not a toy (anymore). It's been very good for at least half a decade and has been ACID compliant if you have a half-way competent DBA. Also, MySQL is the fastest of the set you just mentioned in the most basic SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE benchmarks (although each of the rest do excel in solving some really specific problems).
Also, the comparison is kind of off - Tiffany's is a jeweler, a place where you want to compensate people enough so they don't compensate themselves. Also, I wouldn't hire any kid for my high-end jeweler store. Apple Store employee is just like any other store at the mall, $12/h is pretty high for a mall job, places like Old Navy or Radio Shack barely have their store managers make more than $12.
The problem with the convertible tablets was (and still is) always the same: - Ran an OS not suited for that type of input (Win2k-Win7 and still no decent touch?) even tablet versions of Windows didn't work well - Ran an underpowered battery hungry x86 with no innovative battery (even though it was available at the time) - Ran desktop programs which required fine mouse inputs - Ran an OS where you couldn't just substitute a library to convert the look and feel of the OS because everyone had to implement their own look and feel because the standard API was poor and documented even worse. - Was too heavy to be carried around - Was marketed as both a laptop and a tablet but did neither very well - Was sold at the price point of a high-end laptop but the only difference with a low-end laptop was the flip-screen gimmick - The gimmick was gimmicky and broke very often and fast
There are quite some differences in the firmware though. You're right, same chipset, same card layout, Quadro may have more memory but deep down, the Quadro is optimized (and tested) for certain workstation applications (scientific, CAD etc.) while GeForce is optimized (and certainly not well tested) for games. And that is prevalent in a lot of features the Quadro has over the GeForce (ECC memory, multi-window rendering).
But how things worked in the beginning worked very well, every country gets a TLD and multinational organizations (commercial, non-profit etc.) also get their TLD and it worked well because that were the capabilities of the day.
If you could completely overhaul it, I would keep the current TLD's for backwards compatibility and then add a range of local TLD's (.local,.lan,...) and some simple "custom" TLD (.custom) which browsers could implement to auto-append on any non-TLD'ed and non-local domain. Let someone else worry about the.custom subdomains. This would clean things up on the root resolvers and move the problem to someone who is interested in expanding the TLD space.
On the other hand, I would also keep the servers free from outside influence by having a distributed root system and a requirement/mechanism for any resolver to regularly check whether your closest resolver is being truthful to you. If they're not being truthful (eg. ICE or DHS meddling with the records), that IP loses points on the distributed trust list and administrators could configure what trust level they will accept (larger ISP's may want a high threshold of trust while smaller systems that can't afford or don't have enough traffic to warrant the multiple checks keep it lower).
I don't know if you have kept up with the last few decades of law because the law (the constitution actually says the President's executive orders have the force of law) clearly defines that the US Government can do whatever the fuck it wants to do regardless of the rest of the constitution:
Patriot Act DMCA no-fly list DHS COINTELPRO SAR Military Commissions Act of 2006 Bybee memo Ensuring Lawful Interrogations...
Building a "standard" building (1000 sq ft home) in the US costs about $250,000-350,000 without the lot (just building costs). The lot is not necessarily the expensive part, where I live you can get a residential zoned lot at $20k for half an acre although there are more expensive parts to the country.
In Europe where a lot can cost EUR 15,000/m or more, yes the lot can be expensive (the houses are also smaller, my parents' lot is ~50m).
In either locale, if you can half or quarter the cost of the building, that would be great. You can see how popular modular homes (or trailers) have been. They only cost a fraction of the price (~$8000-16,000/room brand new).
With a strong enough light (especially laser or x-ray) you can see through the envelopes and look at the contents. All it would really take is enough sensitivity and some post processing which could probably be automated.
If you wonder when they implement this within 5 years why the implementation costs $500k per device and a couple of data centers you might remember this.
I would leave all the cable behind really, no time to pack those up, just gets annoying. It might actually be easier to go through them with some hedge cutters (after you turn off the power off course).
If you have small racks to move, just make sure they're free to move and put them on a cart with casters, just be careful they don't tip over but a decent forklift will help with that. That only works for racks that are not fully used (like half racks or smaller). 42U racks that are filled can't be moved, get a battery powered drill to unscrew the devices and pull them out. Don't waste time unplugging the hard drives or anything as some others mention, your data should be backed up and hard drives that aren't spinning can withstand quite some abuse.
Really, why are you even moving stuff out? You should already have a backup in place for your most important stuff, with automatic fail overs.
Great response, thanks. I eventually checked out your Kickstarter project and it's a lot better than what the summary or news articles make it out to be.
Not necessarily want to poke holes at it but how much would it cost to get your own set of sensors on there and can the camera (and other devices) be pointed the other way (into space, not towards earth)? What would be really great is if you can get some type of radium clock on there. According to some earth-bound experiments, the sun influences the randomness off radioactive decay so having something in space to test it would be great.
The low cost may be great for a high school science experiment but I think if you shop this idea around some universities, they might be interested.
Rules yes, spying on someone not. Courts have upheld that if someone does personal things at work (even when they're not supposed to) the employer still has no right to read it or use your personal life against you (I believe it was regarding personal e-mail using corporate systems)
As you said, there are degrees of trust. The place of employment for the poster has apparently no trust in their employees at all so they shouldn't be trusted in return. At some point, your employer has to trust you're going to do the job.
There is no reason for this snooping to go on unless he works in a highly secure environment and at that point he'd be sufficiently rewarded for his inconvenience and he wouldn't even mention that he worked in such place. The only reason for such behavior is because you're being micromanaged and that never ends well.
V2 was launched first, V1 was then launched later, they were both launched at a time so they could take advantage of a gravity assist but (if I'm not mistaken) V1 was sent directly to outer space while V2 was sent to do a flyby and take some pictures of some of the nearby planets (but not Pluto, basically it was a decision of do we go see Pluto or Titan) which is why it couldn't be accelerated as much.
They overtook the Pioneer probes as they were faster, they also found out that the solar system is asymmetrical as both went in different directions and both reached the beginning of the edge in different distances.
The thing is that if you launch a probe right now at the right time it will eventually take over the rest of them because the technological advances in both artificial propulsions and the calculations to have gravity do the dirty work.
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You never needed to though. I don't see why you couldn't just enable IMAP on your e-mail server. It has explicit push these days, it always had IDLE which the iPhone is just fine with (uses virtually no energy).
ActiveSync is just another one of those botched protocols that makes sure nobody else can play unless MS lets them. ActiveDirectory is another example, Kerberos, LDAP over proprietary links. ActiveX, again similar to a Java application but it runs only on Windows platforms and is horribly insecure.
The poor are ALREADY being shuffled through to Medicare. It's really easy to get Medicare, just prove your make less than the poverty limit and you're 100% covered for EVERYTHING (tests, doctor's visits etc.). If you're pregnant, disabled or otherwise incapacitated the limit is higher. Also, if your investment income is high enough that you don't have to work (eg. you have $1 effective taxable income even if you make $100,000 of your investment income) you will also be covered.
So the ultra-rich and the poor are already covered, this is to cover anyone in between there. Most likely you if you're working either you lose your job or your employer no longer pays for your insurance, this may become available to you.
Most of the stuff in our solar system, stays in our solar system - you know gravity and such. Most of the stuff in other solar systems likewise stays in their respective solar systems. I don't think there are any known objects that traverse(d) multiple solar systems. Sure, in the beginning (at the birth of our solar system, when the sun was in a cluster of stars) the matter could've all been close enough to each other to share some other solar systems' rocks but at this point in time (astronomically) the stuff in our solar system stays in our solar system.
Textbooks are not kept for many years. Most textbooks change every year and have to be re-purchased. At least in the US.
Also, e-Textbooks can be free. There have been many efforts in that space and I think that's where we should move towards especially now that classic textbooks are being taken over by special interest groups - there have been so much advances in science but the textbooks (even high school and college) still talk about classic Newtonian physics as being the rule of the universe instead of explaining anything about the work being done since Newton.
They're definitely better and cheaper than carrying around a backpack full of books. A basic textbook can cost anywhere from $30 to $150 per class, not even talking about the "specialized" books. An e-book doesn't necessarily have to cost anything (distribution, transportation and replication cost is free/minimal) but usually ranges up to $30 in the worst cases (Pearson and the likes).
- I have an HDHomeRun which has two tuners which can individually receive any feed on either unencrypted cable or free OTA.
- I have a Mac Mini running XBMC. It really is the simplest and cheapest way of doing it, no messing with getting HDMI to work (works with audio out of the box).
- I have Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, TED, Pandora plugins running on XBMC as well as Ted (The Episode Downloader) with Transmission
- HDTV passes audio through digitally to my receiver (optional)
- Attached a 2TB WD Passport to it, USB powered (optional depending on the amount of content you have)
- Get AirServer if you want your Mini to also receive your iPad/iPhone content over AirPlay (optional)
The things to look out for:
- Make sure your Mac Mini does not go to sleep. It uses minimal power but I have an actual Apple TV in the bedroom and 3-4 laptops so it has to remain on to be able to share content also, I want it to get content online. The remote control does wake it up so YMMV
- Make sure nothing interrupts your XBMC process (pop ups etc). Make your user not an admin (you won't get interrupted by software updates and the like), login automatically, start the application automatically, make the user get a minimal Finder, uninstall unnecessary software. I'm still working on some of the details but most of the popup stuff is disabled. I am going to create a script that automatically restarts XBMC because it does crash once in a while. You can use Cocktail to disable a lot of things.
- Connect your media center to your ethernet if possible if you're going to have multiple devices use content. WiFi (even 5GHz 802.11n) is still too flaky for continuous HD quality in my area
Finland does require an uplink as well. And most European countries (including Finland) have MASSIVE pipes just like the US has massive pipes (already) between and to most states. Do you think the Internet right now works without? The fiber is there, since it's fiber, it has unlimited bandwidth (although currently practical links are ~40-100Gbps per fiber pair)
Repeat after me:
= RAID is not HA.
= RAID is not backup.
= RAID does not protect you against anything.
What does RAID do:
= If set up correctly, it will give an individual computer a little bit more availability
-OR-
= If set up correctly, it will give you better performance
-OR-
= If set up correctly, it will give you a faster recovery time from catastrophic failure
You won't have five nines because besides hard drives, you also have software (since he's running MS, that means at least a monthly reboot) and you also have other parts in the computer that do go bad.
The best thing to do here is make a truly HA setup with 3 or more servers, separated from each other and no-share hardware. There are various way of setting that up.
So what if the corruption/strange bug does occur on supported versions? Your data is just as lost and all you can hope for is somebody on the line that can walk you through a re-install. Licenses/support agreements NEVER EVER covers data corruption and recovery even if you're paying Sun/Oracle/MS 250k/year for support. Same goes in the cloud, I don't know any provider guaranteeing your data 100%.
No, they were barely able to do normal touch (with a stylus, not with a finger)
MySQL is not a toy (anymore). It's been very good for at least half a decade and has been ACID compliant if you have a half-way competent DBA. Also, MySQL is the fastest of the set you just mentioned in the most basic SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE benchmarks (although each of the rest do excel in solving some really specific problems).
You can get more than 10M IOPS on certain RAM-based SSD, they're just mighty expensive.
Also, the comparison is kind of off - Tiffany's is a jeweler, a place where you want to compensate people enough so they don't compensate themselves. Also, I wouldn't hire any kid for my high-end jeweler store. Apple Store employee is just like any other store at the mall, $12/h is pretty high for a mall job, places like Old Navy or Radio Shack barely have their store managers make more than $12.
The problem with the convertible tablets was (and still is) always the same:
- Ran an OS not suited for that type of input (Win2k-Win7 and still no decent touch?) even tablet versions of Windows didn't work well
- Ran an underpowered battery hungry x86 with no innovative battery (even though it was available at the time)
- Ran desktop programs which required fine mouse inputs
- Ran an OS where you couldn't just substitute a library to convert the look and feel of the OS because everyone had to implement their own look and feel because the standard API was poor and documented even worse.
- Was too heavy to be carried around
- Was marketed as both a laptop and a tablet but did neither very well
- Was sold at the price point of a high-end laptop but the only difference with a low-end laptop was the flip-screen gimmick
- The gimmick was gimmicky and broke very often and fast
There are quite some differences in the firmware though. You're right, same chipset, same card layout, Quadro may have more memory but deep down, the Quadro is optimized (and tested) for certain workstation applications (scientific, CAD etc.) while GeForce is optimized (and certainly not well tested) for games. And that is prevalent in a lot of features the Quadro has over the GeForce (ECC memory, multi-window rendering).
I think you may have forgotten the TPB case.
But how things worked in the beginning worked very well, every country gets a TLD and multinational organizations (commercial, non-profit etc.) also get their TLD and it worked well because that were the capabilities of the day.
If you could completely overhaul it, I would keep the current TLD's for backwards compatibility and then add a range of local TLD's (.local, .lan, ...) and some simple "custom" TLD (.custom) which browsers could implement to auto-append on any non-TLD'ed and non-local domain. Let someone else worry about the .custom subdomains. This would clean things up on the root resolvers and move the problem to someone who is interested in expanding the TLD space.
On the other hand, I would also keep the servers free from outside influence by having a distributed root system and a requirement/mechanism for any resolver to regularly check whether your closest resolver is being truthful to you. If they're not being truthful (eg. ICE or DHS meddling with the records), that IP loses points on the distributed trust list and administrators could configure what trust level they will accept (larger ISP's may want a high threshold of trust while smaller systems that can't afford or don't have enough traffic to warrant the multiple checks keep it lower).
I don't know if you have kept up with the last few decades of law because the law (the constitution actually says the President's executive orders have the force of law) clearly defines that the US Government can do whatever the fuck it wants to do regardless of the rest of the constitution:
Patriot Act ...
DMCA
no-fly list
DHS
COINTELPRO
SAR
Military Commissions Act of 2006
Bybee memo
Ensuring Lawful Interrogations
Building a "standard" building (1000 sq ft home) in the US costs about $250,000-350,000 without the lot (just building costs). The lot is not necessarily the expensive part, where I live you can get a residential zoned lot at $20k for half an acre although there are more expensive parts to the country.
In Europe where a lot can cost EUR 15,000/m or more, yes the lot can be expensive (the houses are also smaller, my parents' lot is ~50m).
In either locale, if you can half or quarter the cost of the building, that would be great. You can see how popular modular homes (or trailers) have been. They only cost a fraction of the price (~$8000-16,000/room brand new).
With a strong enough light (especially laser or x-ray) you can see through the envelopes and look at the contents. All it would really take is enough sensitivity and some post processing which could probably be automated.
If you wonder when they implement this within 5 years why the implementation costs $500k per device and a couple of data centers you might remember this.
I would leave all the cable behind really, no time to pack those up, just gets annoying. It might actually be easier to go through them with some hedge cutters (after you turn off the power off course).
If you have small racks to move, just make sure they're free to move and put them on a cart with casters, just be careful they don't tip over but a decent forklift will help with that. That only works for racks that are not fully used (like half racks or smaller). 42U racks that are filled can't be moved, get a battery powered drill to unscrew the devices and pull them out. Don't waste time unplugging the hard drives or anything as some others mention, your data should be backed up and hard drives that aren't spinning can withstand quite some abuse.
Really, why are you even moving stuff out? You should already have a backup in place for your most important stuff, with automatic fail overs.
Great response, thanks. I eventually checked out your Kickstarter project and it's a lot better than what the summary or news articles make it out to be.
Not necessarily want to poke holes at it but how much would it cost to get your own set of sensors on there and can the camera (and other devices) be pointed the other way (into space, not towards earth)? What would be really great is if you can get some type of radium clock on there. According to some earth-bound experiments, the sun influences the randomness off radioactive decay so having something in space to test it would be great.
The low cost may be great for a high school science experiment but I think if you shop this idea around some universities, they might be interested.
Also, will these devices be radiation shielded?
Rules yes, spying on someone not. Courts have upheld that if someone does personal things at work (even when they're not supposed to) the employer still has no right to read it or use your personal life against you (I believe it was regarding personal e-mail using corporate systems)
As you said, there are degrees of trust. The place of employment for the poster has apparently no trust in their employees at all so they shouldn't be trusted in return. At some point, your employer has to trust you're going to do the job.
There is no reason for this snooping to go on unless he works in a highly secure environment and at that point he'd be sufficiently rewarded for his inconvenience and he wouldn't even mention that he worked in such place. The only reason for such behavior is because you're being micromanaged and that never ends well.
Ugh, keep up on your space programme.
V2 was launched first, V1 was then launched later, they were both launched at a time so they could take advantage of a gravity assist but (if I'm not mistaken) V1 was sent directly to outer space while V2 was sent to do a flyby and take some pictures of some of the nearby planets (but not Pluto, basically it was a decision of do we go see Pluto or Titan) which is why it couldn't be accelerated as much.
They overtook the Pioneer probes as they were faster, they also found out that the solar system is asymmetrical as both went in different directions and both reached the beginning of the edge in different distances.
The thing is that if you launch a probe right now at the right time it will eventually take over the rest of them because the technological advances in both artificial propulsions and the calculations to have gravity do the dirty work.