according to some industry experts.'The most common threat to reliability is excessive maintenance,' said Steve Fairfax of 'science risk' consultant MTechnology. 'We get the perception that lots of testing improves component reliability. It does not.' In some cases, poorly documented maintenance can lead to conflicts with automated systems, he warned. Other speakers at the recent 7x24 Exchange conference urged data center operators to focus on understanding their own facilities, and then evaluating which maintenance programs are essential, including offerings from equipment vendors
Well, yeah, now that you identified the weasel words and marketing speak, it sounds a lot less worse. In other news: government says it needs to expand itself, banks say you should put your money with them and Coca-Cola says they deliver a better product than Pepsi.
I clicked through to the website - I get such magazines for 'free' every month that praise vendor after vendor for their proprietary products to help manage some or other problem that is simply fixed by any decent sysadmin. The whole article is just fluff about common sense - yes, if you PM a component it's not going to be available in a double setup, that's why if you really need availability the mantra that a system is not truly redundant unless you have 3 independent systems - this has been long known by those that build high availability clusters (as in really high availability) but due to cost "savings" by upper levels it's often down to two systems or one real and one virtual system.
Interpretation and enforcement of laws is typically a shade of grey though. There is not a single law that says do x and pay y, there's always exceptions, loopholes and if you have enough money to afford lawyers, judges and lawmakers you're typically going to be on the white side of the law, if you don't have enough money you're typically on the black side.
There is no such service (as CDDB) to get DVD chapters. DVD "chapters" don't really exist outside the menu-software of the DVD (a random software or hardware DVD player will never enumerate chapter names), Handbrake can handle CSV's if you really want to name them.
Yes, but these days we have computers and satellite coverage that should be able to figure out things a lot more accurate and faster than ye olde yardstick and paper drawings. I guess you could even write a program in less than a year to auto-draw a track using Google Maps and Government data including figuring out the amount of track needed down to the centimeter and how much of the track will shrink in winter and expand in summer.
I simply use a Gefen DVI Detective for that little problem. Sure HDCP isn't supported but it seems most systems don't care and fallback on simply displaying the source.
I usually pay what I think it's worth, about $5-10 per game and a couple of bucks for charity so it usually ends up being between $25 and $50. They also got the option if you pay more than $3 per game (or somewhere around that) you'll get more stuff in the future (still waiting on Splot though). But some games are definitely worth it, I think Trine alone is worth $25, Trine 2 will definitely be a buy for me. I understand there are those that can't pay for it but that's regardless of the game. Limiting the coverage of your game simply because you don't get payed for it doesn't really help selling your games in the future. I couldn't pay for SC1 in the past (I was a poor kid) but now that I have grown up I bought the collectors edition ($100) of SC2 and I will pay for all 3.
I don't think transaction costs are really a problem, they'll probably pay a percentage on all the transactions.
Well, VALVe has no obligation to keep their servers or software alive. If at any point they get into trouble, they'll be more than happy to pull the plug for some quick quarterly revenue. Even large companies like Microsoft pull their original Xbox online platform, EA regularly pulls down the servers for 3 year old games. Walmart and Microsoft (again) have pulled the plug on their music stores. VALVe won't do it now but I wouldn't trust them not to do it within a couple of years.
Currently Steam is better than any other DRM but it's still DRM, they're managing your rights to a product you bought. When you find a CD within 20 years and want to play a game for nostalgic reasons (I recently found and loaded my stash of Amiga MOD music for example) you're not going to be able to play it because that company that once existed is no more.
We're going head first into a digital dark age. When our great-grandkids are going to look back, they won't be able to do anything with any content we are currently creating because we're so afraid that someone might steal it and lose 3% revenue that we forget that those pirating bastards are at one point going to be the historians and librarians.
Yet small indie games make over a million dollar in sales in a week (Humble Bundle). Minecraft has just come out of beta and has several millions of dollars in sales. Indie games are being developed in countries with some of the highest employee costs (Sweden, Finland) and they're not only having little media coverage but they're very cheap and still making a profit while companies like EA and Ubisoft that seem to employ the lowest cost programmers they can find are complaining?
The issue is that all the current big name games that are out and supposedly popular (because they are on console) are very, very bad to play on a PC. BF3, MW3, Skyrim, Duke Nukem are such a bad quality and practically unplayable on PC that honest reviewers say it's not worth buying and then every month you have to buy $10 DLC and every update (such as is the case with BF & CoD franchises) is full price.
Also, the price for those games is $50+ while Indie games of the same quality (they are out there) are priced at $5 to $15. Yes, Starcraft 2 and WoW are outliers but they really show you what PC gamers want: fun gameplay online and offline and not being nickeled to death with DLC. SC2 has so much free content and users can create their own and they have a good track record with SC1 being supported over a decade after release and WC3 still being played. Even GTA and Saints Row are decent enough examples of fun games that aren't pirated overly much.
I thought the iPhone 4S had 2 cores as well as the Motorola Atrix and a few other newer Androids.
Either way, nobody cares in consumer-space whether or not you have more than 1 core. Can it call and download Angry Birds is all they're interested in.
Police these days are hired thugs for the rich. They have practically become a standing army in your own countries. They have access to assault rifles, drones, grenades, high powered sniper rifles anything the army has they have but because it's a different color, it's ok.
If you want to do research/find a job in the biocomputing field (such as programming clusters or designing data analysis) either will work very well. PhD's in business, I don't know, not really a good idea as you'd be overqualified and the perception would be not practical enough to work outside of academia or the (again) medical/biology fields.
If possible, get your degree from both places. If you're in a 'pretty good' EU University (such as Geneva, Italy, Paris or other well-known institutions) I wouldn't bother with Ivy League who have been getting a bad rep among the hiring personnel in other institutions in the last few years among other things the 'rich snob' syndrome, the quality has gone down in general and the expected salary being much higher. It also doesn't look good on your resume if you transferred at the end just to get a title from an Ivy League. EU schools are much higher regarded in the US.
Disclaimer: I work at a very well-regarded educational institution in the US.
If you limit how I say it then you get laws like this, it's a very slippery slope. If we allow the government to say I can't say it with a bull horn (as the laws will never specify what type of bull horn) then the government can limit it equally on a 200Mbps Internet connection because you already granted them to do so before, from there on it's just re-defining every so often what bull horn and speed of Internet connection you may use and what it means until you have nothing left.
Again, I do agree that one should be liable for any damages caused by your free speech (such as the medical costs and wages lost because someone loses hearing or sleep) but those should be civil cases brought on by those who feel they have been negatively affected not criminal cases or broad legislation brought on by the governments.
All government will work towards limiting freedoms, it's in the governments best interests to limit freedom or else they may be overthrown.
Freedom of speech gives you the freedom to speak whenever, wherever and however you want as long as you do not harm the peace and security of others or infringe on their freedoms. Yes you can speak in a 200dB sound system as long as you don't blow anyone's eardrums out or block a public place with your installation. You can call every number in the phone book but you can't do it at 2am or make others pay for it (such as calling cell phones), others have the right to have a healthy sleep and shouldn't have to pay to listen to someone's drivel.
Any such right we gave to the government should be revoked as it is overbearing and possibly unconstitutional. The government should only be able to specify what infringes on someone else's rights (such as calling at 2am in the morning).
You would need a full stack (kernel etc.) that understands this but you could devise a partitioning/container scheme where the encrypted data interleaves with 'fake' data so that the only way to know if there is a hidden partition is to do a low-level read of the whole thing. In combination with hardware-level full disk encryption this may be made totally impossible.
I think you may be able to do this with a variation on ZFS - create 2 ZFS filesystems in a pool, one that is encrypted and hidden and the other encrypted and visible. The encryption keys contain the disk labels and it's file table etc. first encryption key is a dud and can only encrypt the first part and contains the layout on the first partition but not the second, the second encryption key can unlock both and also contains the information (layout etc) on both filesystems. Attempting to use the first (dud) encryption key results in the inadvertent overwriting of portions of the second partition because it's unaware of the second partition in it's own free spaces.
Welcome to the world of not-BIOS. Open Firmware (PowerPC) and EFI had HTTP boot image support since forever (Mac OS X 10.3?), they just required your DHCP to give the coordinates, now they just have skipped the whole DHCP discovery part and just pointed the coordinates to an Apple iCloud server.
Take a look at LiveDrive for example, it's a little over $500/year for 2TB and $1600/year for 10TB I think for business accounts. Amazon S3 is one of the most expensive solutions I have seen. You can build a HA SAS petabyte solution for ~$500/TB buy-in price.
Braveheart comes to mind. You can run and you will live, at least for a while but you can fight today and tell them they may take our lives but they can't take our freedom.
I have literally put those words into actions before, I have fought for my freedom and won even though I lost a lot in the process.
You Americans need to go Occupy Capitol Hill. Use your freaking guns, the second amendment is there for a reason they won't listen to you sitting in a park, all over the place, in every city I've heard of you'll get moved out and arrested for your peaceful protesting. Don't move, chain yourself down, make a barrier, provoke an attack and counter.
You guys are pussies really when it comes down to protesting. The PD's will use their less-than-lethal weapons on you and you let it happen. As clearly demonstrated, there is no political willpower to change anything, there is no interest from the commercial space to improve your situation. All they care about is when you will move out and in the mean time they'll just vote into law who goes into the Baseball Hall of Fame or whether God should appear on the dollar bill (literally, that's what Republicans are voting on).
You gave the answer yourself, HLS is an open standard and already widely used in the next gen internet access devices (you really think everyone's staying on Windows-based desktops?), it also works on Mac's and in Windows with the Safari browser and both Firefox and Chrome should probably implement it.
There is no need to develop yet another patent encumbered closed standard (like RTSP or MS'es IIS streaming protocol)
You my friend, apparently never installed any Windows before XP. They didn't play embedded video as well (or anything really) and thus relied on Real Player, Flash and QuickTime to be installed, later also DivX. A usable Windows Media format only came to be used about a decade ago and Flash was already established by then.
How about implementing the DRM into a JavaScript container? For DRM to work, you give the keys to whatever device is playing anyway, implementing a simple encryption/decryption scheme in JavaScript shouldn't be too hard.
I myself was a contractor for a few years and although I do agree with you that not all of us are corrupt, you and me are some of the very few that take pride in our work and actually know what they're doing. The sad thing is, there are a few that are through and through corrupt and the majority doesn't know what they are doing so they waste insane amounts of time and money simply because they have no idea so they also get enumerated as corrupt. Then there are the contracting companies that are corrupt and tell their employees to stretch out time. I am very good at my job and can usually finish way before a deadline, one of the contracting companies wanted me to stretch a 2 day job to 2 weeks. I've seen a group of contractors try to implement an e-mail system and they wasted a full year of their employer's time and still had nothing to show. The local sysadmin finally got sick of it, sat down for a weekend and implemented the whole thing on his own time.
That's the state we are in right now, companies and governments are afraid to hire because of unions that made it so they can't fire them so they hire contractors. Contractors don't work for the people that hire them, they work for their own or for their contracting companies so the loyalties lay elsewhere and they can't get fired because they have a contract.
The problem is... we can't choose ISP's in the US. I don't know where you live but I have a choice between 10/1 cable (which behaves like 8/512k) and if I'm lucky 1/128k (DSL). Verizon FiOS said they were coming for the last couple of years and we even had a petition to urge them to come but they never did.
My parents have a choice between 5/128k cable and... that's it. They can't even get cell phone reception at their house so 4G is out too.
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according to some industry experts.'The most common threat to reliability is excessive maintenance,' said Steve Fairfax of 'science risk' consultant MTechnology. 'We get the perception that lots of testing improves component reliability. It does not.' In some cases, poorly documented maintenance can lead to conflicts with automated systems, he warned. Other speakers at the recent 7x24 Exchange conference urged data center operators to focus on understanding their own facilities, and then evaluating which maintenance programs are essential, including offerings from equipment vendors
Well, yeah, now that you identified the weasel words and marketing speak, it sounds a lot less worse. In other news: government says it needs to expand itself, banks say you should put your money with them and Coca-Cola says they deliver a better product than Pepsi.
I clicked through to the website - I get such magazines for 'free' every month that praise vendor after vendor for their proprietary products to help manage some or other problem that is simply fixed by any decent sysadmin. The whole article is just fluff about common sense - yes, if you PM a component it's not going to be available in a double setup, that's why if you really need availability the mantra that a system is not truly redundant unless you have 3 independent systems - this has been long known by those that build high availability clusters (as in really high availability) but due to cost "savings" by upper levels it's often down to two systems or one real and one virtual system.
Interpretation and enforcement of laws is typically a shade of grey though. There is not a single law that says do x and pay y, there's always exceptions, loopholes and if you have enough money to afford lawyers, judges and lawmakers you're typically going to be on the white side of the law, if you don't have enough money you're typically on the black side.
There is no such service (as CDDB) to get DVD chapters. DVD "chapters" don't really exist outside the menu-software of the DVD (a random software or hardware DVD player will never enumerate chapter names), Handbrake can handle CSV's if you really want to name them.
Yes, but these days we have computers and satellite coverage that should be able to figure out things a lot more accurate and faster than ye olde yardstick and paper drawings. I guess you could even write a program in less than a year to auto-draw a track using Google Maps and Government data including figuring out the amount of track needed down to the centimeter and how much of the track will shrink in winter and expand in summer.
I simply use a Gefen DVI Detective for that little problem. Sure HDCP isn't supported but it seems most systems don't care and fallback on simply displaying the source.
I usually pay what I think it's worth, about $5-10 per game and a couple of bucks for charity so it usually ends up being between $25 and $50. They also got the option if you pay more than $3 per game (or somewhere around that) you'll get more stuff in the future (still waiting on Splot though). But some games are definitely worth it, I think Trine alone is worth $25, Trine 2 will definitely be a buy for me. I understand there are those that can't pay for it but that's regardless of the game. Limiting the coverage of your game simply because you don't get payed for it doesn't really help selling your games in the future. I couldn't pay for SC1 in the past (I was a poor kid) but now that I have grown up I bought the collectors edition ($100) of SC2 and I will pay for all 3.
I don't think transaction costs are really a problem, they'll probably pay a percentage on all the transactions.
Well, VALVe has no obligation to keep their servers or software alive. If at any point they get into trouble, they'll be more than happy to pull the plug for some quick quarterly revenue. Even large companies like Microsoft pull their original Xbox online platform, EA regularly pulls down the servers for 3 year old games. Walmart and Microsoft (again) have pulled the plug on their music stores. VALVe won't do it now but I wouldn't trust them not to do it within a couple of years.
Currently Steam is better than any other DRM but it's still DRM, they're managing your rights to a product you bought. When you find a CD within 20 years and want to play a game for nostalgic reasons (I recently found and loaded my stash of Amiga MOD music for example) you're not going to be able to play it because that company that once existed is no more.
We're going head first into a digital dark age. When our great-grandkids are going to look back, they won't be able to do anything with any content we are currently creating because we're so afraid that someone might steal it and lose 3% revenue that we forget that those pirating bastards are at one point going to be the historians and librarians.
Yet small indie games make over a million dollar in sales in a week (Humble Bundle). Minecraft has just come out of beta and has several millions of dollars in sales. Indie games are being developed in countries with some of the highest employee costs (Sweden, Finland) and they're not only having little media coverage but they're very cheap and still making a profit while companies like EA and Ubisoft that seem to employ the lowest cost programmers they can find are complaining?
The issue is that all the current big name games that are out and supposedly popular (because they are on console) are very, very bad to play on a PC. BF3, MW3, Skyrim, Duke Nukem are such a bad quality and practically unplayable on PC that honest reviewers say it's not worth buying and then every month you have to buy $10 DLC and every update (such as is the case with BF & CoD franchises) is full price.
Also, the price for those games is $50+ while Indie games of the same quality (they are out there) are priced at $5 to $15. Yes, Starcraft 2 and WoW are outliers but they really show you what PC gamers want: fun gameplay online and offline and not being nickeled to death with DLC. SC2 has so much free content and users can create their own and they have a good track record with SC1 being supported over a decade after release and WC3 still being played. Even GTA and Saints Row are decent enough examples of fun games that aren't pirated overly much.
I thought the iPhone 4S had 2 cores as well as the Motorola Atrix and a few other newer Androids.
Either way, nobody cares in consumer-space whether or not you have more than 1 core. Can it call and download Angry Birds is all they're interested in.
Police these days are hired thugs for the rich. They have practically become a standing army in your own countries. They have access to assault rifles, drones, grenades, high powered sniper rifles anything the army has they have but because it's a different color, it's ok.
If you want to do research/find a job in the biocomputing field (such as programming clusters or designing data analysis) either will work very well. PhD's in business, I don't know, not really a good idea as you'd be overqualified and the perception would be not practical enough to work outside of academia or the (again) medical/biology fields.
If possible, get your degree from both places. If you're in a 'pretty good' EU University (such as Geneva, Italy, Paris or other well-known institutions) I wouldn't bother with Ivy League who have been getting a bad rep among the hiring personnel in other institutions in the last few years among other things the 'rich snob' syndrome, the quality has gone down in general and the expected salary being much higher. It also doesn't look good on your resume if you transferred at the end just to get a title from an Ivy League. EU schools are much higher regarded in the US.
Disclaimer: I work at a very well-regarded educational institution in the US.
The Nuremberg trials called, they want their interpretations back.
If you limit how I say it then you get laws like this, it's a very slippery slope. If we allow the government to say I can't say it with a bull horn (as the laws will never specify what type of bull horn) then the government can limit it equally on a 200Mbps Internet connection because you already granted them to do so before, from there on it's just re-defining every so often what bull horn and speed of Internet connection you may use and what it means until you have nothing left.
Again, I do agree that one should be liable for any damages caused by your free speech (such as the medical costs and wages lost because someone loses hearing or sleep) but those should be civil cases brought on by those who feel they have been negatively affected not criminal cases or broad legislation brought on by the governments.
All government will work towards limiting freedoms, it's in the governments best interests to limit freedom or else they may be overthrown.
Freedom of speech gives you the freedom to speak whenever, wherever and however you want as long as you do not harm the peace and security of others or infringe on their freedoms. Yes you can speak in a 200dB sound system as long as you don't blow anyone's eardrums out or block a public place with your installation. You can call every number in the phone book but you can't do it at 2am or make others pay for it (such as calling cell phones), others have the right to have a healthy sleep and shouldn't have to pay to listen to someone's drivel.
Any such right we gave to the government should be revoked as it is overbearing and possibly unconstitutional. The government should only be able to specify what infringes on someone else's rights (such as calling at 2am in the morning).
You would need a full stack (kernel etc.) that understands this but you could devise a partitioning/container scheme where the encrypted data interleaves with 'fake' data so that the only way to know if there is a hidden partition is to do a low-level read of the whole thing. In combination with hardware-level full disk encryption this may be made totally impossible.
I think you may be able to do this with a variation on ZFS - create 2 ZFS filesystems in a pool, one that is encrypted and hidden and the other encrypted and visible. The encryption keys contain the disk labels and it's file table etc. first encryption key is a dud and can only encrypt the first part and contains the layout on the first partition but not the second, the second encryption key can unlock both and also contains the information (layout etc) on both filesystems. Attempting to use the first (dud) encryption key results in the inadvertent overwriting of portions of the second partition because it's unaware of the second partition in it's own free spaces.
Welcome to the world of not-BIOS. Open Firmware (PowerPC) and EFI had HTTP boot image support since forever (Mac OS X 10.3?), they just required your DHCP to give the coordinates, now they just have skipped the whole DHCP discovery part and just pointed the coordinates to an Apple iCloud server.
Take a look at LiveDrive for example, it's a little over $500/year for 2TB and $1600/year for 10TB I think for business accounts. Amazon S3 is one of the most expensive solutions I have seen. You can build a HA SAS petabyte solution for ~$500/TB buy-in price.
Braveheart comes to mind. You can run and you will live, at least for a while but you can fight today and tell them they may take our lives but they can't take our freedom.
I have literally put those words into actions before, I have fought for my freedom and won even though I lost a lot in the process.
You Americans need to go Occupy Capitol Hill. Use your freaking guns, the second amendment is there for a reason they won't listen to you sitting in a park, all over the place, in every city I've heard of you'll get moved out and arrested for your peaceful protesting. Don't move, chain yourself down, make a barrier, provoke an attack and counter.
You guys are pussies really when it comes down to protesting. The PD's will use their less-than-lethal weapons on you and you let it happen. As clearly demonstrated, there is no political willpower to change anything, there is no interest from the commercial space to improve your situation. All they care about is when you will move out and in the mean time they'll just vote into law who goes into the Baseball Hall of Fame or whether God should appear on the dollar bill (literally, that's what Republicans are voting on).
You gave the answer yourself, HLS is an open standard and already widely used in the next gen internet access devices (you really think everyone's staying on Windows-based desktops?), it also works on Mac's and in Windows with the Safari browser and both Firefox and Chrome should probably implement it.
There is no need to develop yet another patent encumbered closed standard (like RTSP or MS'es IIS streaming protocol)
You my friend, apparently never installed any Windows before XP. They didn't play embedded video as well (or anything really) and thus relied on Real Player, Flash and QuickTime to be installed, later also DivX. A usable Windows Media format only came to be used about a decade ago and Flash was already established by then.
How about implementing the DRM into a JavaScript container? For DRM to work, you give the keys to whatever device is playing anyway, implementing a simple encryption/decryption scheme in JavaScript shouldn't be too hard.
I myself was a contractor for a few years and although I do agree with you that not all of us are corrupt, you and me are some of the very few that take pride in our work and actually know what they're doing. The sad thing is, there are a few that are through and through corrupt and the majority doesn't know what they are doing so they waste insane amounts of time and money simply because they have no idea so they also get enumerated as corrupt. Then there are the contracting companies that are corrupt and tell their employees to stretch out time. I am very good at my job and can usually finish way before a deadline, one of the contracting companies wanted me to stretch a 2 day job to 2 weeks. I've seen a group of contractors try to implement an e-mail system and they wasted a full year of their employer's time and still had nothing to show. The local sysadmin finally got sick of it, sat down for a weekend and implemented the whole thing on his own time.
That's the state we are in right now, companies and governments are afraid to hire because of unions that made it so they can't fire them so they hire contractors. Contractors don't work for the people that hire them, they work for their own or for their contracting companies so the loyalties lay elsewhere and they can't get fired because they have a contract.
Don't worry, HP ink cartridges are more expensive I think.
The problem is... we can't choose ISP's in the US. I don't know where you live but I have a choice between 10/1 cable (which behaves like 8/512k) and if I'm lucky 1/128k (DSL). Verizon FiOS said they were coming for the last couple of years and we even had a petition to urge them to come but they never did.
My parents have a choice between 5/128k cable and... that's it. They can't even get cell phone reception at their house so 4G is out too.