As I engineer an ISP network as well and you probably know as well, users will not ALWAYS consume what is available. Look at Universities, they have a small village (~50k people) to provide access for with individual lines between 100Mbps and 1Gbps and somehow manage to only peak up to 40-60% of their lines (2x 1Gbps).
What is really the problem here is that Comcast only has a couple of 10Gbps lines to their provider while those only cost $2500/month and maybe $25,000 installation costs. If Comcast doesn't have a spare $25,000/month, then the business is really bad off.
The problem with Windows is the horrible (or just plain missing) UI guidelines and design. That is the main reason why you just can't transform Windows desktop applications to miniature ones, the developers don't have a uniform way of handling UI. The great thing about developing for either Qt, Java or Mac (and might I say, Gnome as well) is that the UI can be adapted fairly quickly for just about any layout/format. Even though Microsoft tried to change that (poorly) by pressing on MVC and cross-Windows languages with developers, they still required you to re-write the V-part and re-write it in a different way for every platform.
What's funny to me is that the Junk Fax Prevention Act was passed by Congress when nobody cared about faxes anymore, I received my last fax somewhere in 1998.
I mean, faxing has been around since the late 19th century. At that rate they are going to pass the Junk E-mail Prevention Act around 2080?
The thing people don't understand is that either you or Amazon has to keep these machines idling (or put them in some type of sleep mode) just in case you need the capacity. It doesn't matter where they idle, they'll be idling unless somebody oversubscribes. If you oversubscribe and you request all the capacity, the whole thing goes crumbling down very fast. This makes it so that either you're going to pay the price for hosting + commercial profit makeup or you're going to pay the price for not being able to scale when the need arises.
I would especially if those designs are floating around on the Internet. Only one or a group of people needs to make their own interpretations of a product and publish it for free. $400 (initial investment) + $20 for a few sticks of goo can produce some great stuff that goes for a couple of hundred retail.
Non-magnetic anything for example is just well-formed plastic but because hardly anybody needs those products they go for thousands (literally) for the simplest things commercially. I've asked around for custom-built units of what I need and they are cheaper but they still ask ~$400 to make the design and program the CNC.
People in a war zone that aren't wearing uniforms are civilians. Ever been to those countries? I was in Zagreb when there was a civil war there. Everybody has weapons if nothing else to protect themselves. Unless they were being fired upon, they have no right to shoot first, ask questions later unless they did not come there to bring peace and democracy but occupy local resources for the aggressors interests or possibly genocide.
The fact that local tribes protect themselves against foreign aggressors trying to occupy their territory doesn't make them 'illegal' combatants, during WWII the allies called them 'La Resistance'.
You can very quickly find out. When you go on an interview and all they have is Windows Server, Sharepoint and Exchange and all they talk about is this years buzzword (cloud, outsourcing) most likely you got an idiot CIO/IT Manager. The organization gets less points for using TekSystems, PeopleSoft, SAP or related companies or if they keep contractors around for more than 3 months.
Sometimes it's bad drivers and software, most manufacturers think that Windows' controls are not good enough, so provide their own, unique for each card apparently trying to explain how to mirror displays over the phone is hard enough as it is without manufacturers including their own crapware.
Sometimes it's just bad design. If for example you get a brand new Dell with only a VGA port on it for some reason it doesn't detect any external display, so you have to manually enable it after which the main display goes into 320x200. The only way to get it to work is to only enable the internal or the external display (although the drivers say mirror and extend as an availability, it simply doesn't work).
On Mac it's easy to do, just plug it in and it works. Display Preferences can "Detect Displays" in case you have a system that doesn't provide the correct EDID.
The mistake they made was that they forgot (or didn't know how) to monetize the open source solutions they had. OpenSolaris was great, Java was great, OpenOffice was great but there was no option to buy support or custom development for those products. The only way was to go with closed Solaris and StarOffice which were quite different products and required IT folks to migrate. Basically they pushed OpenSolaris as a development vehicle for their closed Solaris which made for a bunch of OpenSolaris installs way ahead and more feature-rich (patch-wise) than Solaris, migrating back was a pain (or impossible if you upgraded your ZFS pools), installing Sun software on it was a pain.
If anything I would say they didn't open source enough of their products for it to be a success. OpenSolaris would've been great in a well-marketed product like Nexenta did - take the closed source out of it, allow for the great amount of Linux software to run directly on it and make it easy as Ubuntu. But their stock repositories were crap and hard to find requiring signing up to get keys or stick to the handful of community repos. Their HA and Storage solutions are still the best you can find in the market but again, hard to install on OpenSolaris and not very compatible with other software and systems.
Their hardware was also overpriced which pushed them right out of the market. I can understand the higher pricing on their SPARC products but not for their generic x86 systems.
Neither Germans nor Russians were complaining back then. It was the people they disenfranchised that were complaining. The poor and those that dared oppose the government were the ones suffering much like now.
Sun's Sparc processors have a lot of cores which are great for large amounts of concurrent connections to either an (open source) database, file or webserver (as most of the open source designs spawn processes for a limited number of connections).
I think Oracle is trying to compete with Sparc processors in an area Sparc processors were never designed for -- low-end server systems.
Sparc is great with a well designed system and application underneath it and will beat the crap out of a 48U rack of x86 machines on those specific applications in only 6U worth of space. The cost however is heavy initially with the cheapest machinery coming in at ~$10k+ and easily going into the 100k+ for a full set.
With the current wording and laws you can be arrested simply for playing a movie in the wrong device. Some devices (cheap DVD players and computer programs) don't necessarily have paid for a license to playback the media. Also, any device that copies the content into buffers is technically infringing. If you have HDMI or DVI outputs and need a converter you infringe by circumventing the encryption on those channels.
If you want to host it in the US, I would suggesting getting the ammo box with you to the datacenter and be prepared to defend your actions in front of sham courts in far-away-istan if you get a court at all. You won't have access to a lawyer after the fact so I suggest you make an arrangement with one before you do so. Alternatively you might never be heard from again.
It sounds a lot like I'm describing the Soviet Empire or Third Reich here but that's what it has come to now in the US.
Blackwater (now Xe "Services") wouldn't even blink while doing it. They didn't blink at doing the dirty work in Somalia in their "take no prisoners" pirate hunting for rich multinational companies and the US Gov.
Look up the local rape/crime statistics in your neighborhood. How much of those investigations do you think lead to a SUSPECT that has left the area? How many do you see on the FBI or Interpol wanted list? How many SUSPECTS do you see on the local wanted list at your police office? Unless you killed somebody or a suspected serial rapist you simply don't end up on those lists.
These works have been forgotten about a long time ago. They should have been in public domain since nobody is profiting from them anymore.
Nitpicking that magazines don't fall under the charter of the organization isn't valuable, ALL this information should be free if not only for archiving purposes. Those books are literally falling apart unless they were expensive hardcovers.
What should be upsetting is that the US uses embassy officials to spy on people, collect fingerprints, iris scans, dna samples, encryption keys etc. etc.
The embassy is supposed to be there for foreign relations and helping out citizens that are in that country. Leave the spying to the spying organizations like CIA, FBI and NSA.
Why should you trust the US with anything? China has so far not been tampering with the worldwide independent organization of either DNS or ICANN. Something the US can't really say anymore.
It would be similar to saying, should we give control to Hitler, Stalin or Mussolini.
That's because you can't win a war based on ideologies. Everyone there doesn't like the westerner countries. The only way to win such a war would be to go in, kill every one and then repatriate volunteers/criminals to fill up the empty space much like how the America's and Australia was created.
Don't worry, they already know enough they don't even bother asking you because the airlines already provided that type of information when you reserved that ticket and your credit card company complies as well when they need to see which hotels/cars/taxis you booked.
Sometimes they do ask some or all of these questions as part of the TSA procedure for domestic flights. Either way, it doesn't matter. The questions don't help because people lie. As one comedian put it: They ask "Are you a terrorist" you won't say "Now you got me, yeah, my evil plans are foiled".
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As I engineer an ISP network as well and you probably know as well, users will not ALWAYS consume what is available. Look at Universities, they have a small village (~50k people) to provide access for with individual lines between 100Mbps and 1Gbps and somehow manage to only peak up to 40-60% of their lines (2x 1Gbps).
What is really the problem here is that Comcast only has a couple of 10Gbps lines to their provider while those only cost $2500/month and maybe $25,000 installation costs. If Comcast doesn't have a spare $25,000/month, then the business is really bad off.
That's why they turn off their lights on most routine traffic stops (especially during the day). At least that's how it works over here in NYS.
The problem with Windows is the horrible (or just plain missing) UI guidelines and design. That is the main reason why you just can't transform Windows desktop applications to miniature ones, the developers don't have a uniform way of handling UI. The great thing about developing for either Qt, Java or Mac (and might I say, Gnome as well) is that the UI can be adapted fairly quickly for just about any layout/format. Even though Microsoft tried to change that (poorly) by pressing on MVC and cross-Windows languages with developers, they still required you to re-write the V-part and re-write it in a different way for every platform.
What's funny to me is that the Junk Fax Prevention Act was passed by Congress when nobody cared about faxes anymore, I received my last fax somewhere in 1998.
I mean, faxing has been around since the late 19th century. At that rate they are going to pass the Junk E-mail Prevention Act around 2080?
The thing people don't understand is that either you or Amazon has to keep these machines idling (or put them in some type of sleep mode) just in case you need the capacity. It doesn't matter where they idle, they'll be idling unless somebody oversubscribes. If you oversubscribe and you request all the capacity, the whole thing goes crumbling down very fast. This makes it so that either you're going to pay the price for hosting + commercial profit makeup or you're going to pay the price for not being able to scale when the need arises.
I would especially if those designs are floating around on the Internet. Only one or a group of people needs to make their own interpretations of a product and publish it for free. $400 (initial investment) + $20 for a few sticks of goo can produce some great stuff that goes for a couple of hundred retail.
Non-magnetic anything for example is just well-formed plastic but because hardly anybody needs those products they go for thousands (literally) for the simplest things commercially. I've asked around for custom-built units of what I need and they are cheaper but they still ask ~$400 to make the design and program the CNC.
People in a war zone that aren't wearing uniforms are civilians. Ever been to those countries? I was in Zagreb when there was a civil war there. Everybody has weapons if nothing else to protect themselves. Unless they were being fired upon, they have no right to shoot first, ask questions later unless they did not come there to bring peace and democracy but occupy local resources for the aggressors interests or possibly genocide.
The fact that local tribes protect themselves against foreign aggressors trying to occupy their territory doesn't make them 'illegal' combatants, during WWII the allies called them 'La Resistance'.
You can very quickly find out. When you go on an interview and all they have is Windows Server, Sharepoint and Exchange and all they talk about is this years buzzword (cloud, outsourcing) most likely you got an idiot CIO/IT Manager. The organization gets less points for using TekSystems, PeopleSoft, SAP or related companies or if they keep contractors around for more than 3 months.
Sometimes it's bad drivers and software, most manufacturers think that Windows' controls are not good enough, so provide their own, unique for each card apparently trying to explain how to mirror displays over the phone is hard enough as it is without manufacturers including their own crapware.
Sometimes it's just bad design. If for example you get a brand new Dell with only a VGA port on it for some reason it doesn't detect any external display, so you have to manually enable it after which the main display goes into 320x200. The only way to get it to work is to only enable the internal or the external display (although the drivers say mirror and extend as an availability, it simply doesn't work).
On Mac it's easy to do, just plug it in and it works. Display Preferences can "Detect Displays" in case you have a system that doesn't provide the correct EDID.
The mistake they made was that they forgot (or didn't know how) to monetize the open source solutions they had. OpenSolaris was great, Java was great, OpenOffice was great but there was no option to buy support or custom development for those products. The only way was to go with closed Solaris and StarOffice which were quite different products and required IT folks to migrate. Basically they pushed OpenSolaris as a development vehicle for their closed Solaris which made for a bunch of OpenSolaris installs way ahead and more feature-rich (patch-wise) than Solaris, migrating back was a pain (or impossible if you upgraded your ZFS pools), installing Sun software on it was a pain.
If anything I would say they didn't open source enough of their products for it to be a success. OpenSolaris would've been great in a well-marketed product like Nexenta did - take the closed source out of it, allow for the great amount of Linux software to run directly on it and make it easy as Ubuntu. But their stock repositories were crap and hard to find requiring signing up to get keys or stick to the handful of community repos. Their HA and Storage solutions are still the best you can find in the market but again, hard to install on OpenSolaris and not very compatible with other software and systems.
Their hardware was also overpriced which pushed them right out of the market. I can understand the higher pricing on their SPARC products but not for their generic x86 systems.
They already do, buy a bit more dense memory than you're used to (or can afford) and you'll see it happen.
This I believe is talking about stacking multiple chips on one of the sides, probably in the same packaging as a single chip.
Kinda ironic that the guy who started the Nobel prize was the inventor of dynamite, patent holder and an arms dealer.
Neither Germans nor Russians were complaining back then. It was the people they disenfranchised that were complaining. The poor and those that dared oppose the government were the ones suffering much like now.
Sun's Sparc processors have a lot of cores which are great for large amounts of concurrent connections to either an (open source) database, file or webserver (as most of the open source designs spawn processes for a limited number of connections).
I think Oracle is trying to compete with Sparc processors in an area Sparc processors were never designed for -- low-end server systems.
Sparc is great with a well designed system and application underneath it and will beat the crap out of a 48U rack of x86 machines on those specific applications in only 6U worth of space. The cost however is heavy initially with the cheapest machinery coming in at ~$10k+ and easily going into the 100k+ for a full set.
With the current wording and laws you can be arrested simply for playing a movie in the wrong device. Some devices (cheap DVD players and computer programs) don't necessarily have paid for a license to playback the media. Also, any device that copies the content into buffers is technically infringing. If you have HDMI or DVI outputs and need a converter you infringe by circumventing the encryption on those channels.
Python?
If you want to host it in the US, I would suggesting getting the ammo box with you to the datacenter and be prepared to defend your actions in front of sham courts in far-away-istan if you get a court at all. You won't have access to a lawyer after the fact so I suggest you make an arrangement with one before you do so. Alternatively you might never be heard from again.
It sounds a lot like I'm describing the Soviet Empire or Third Reich here but that's what it has come to now in the US.
There are solutions for that similar to how decentralized logins work (OpenID). DNSSEC would probably help a lot.
All they have to do is replicate the current roots and then just replicate a separate list with the illegally seized domain names.
Blackwater (now Xe "Services") wouldn't even blink while doing it. They didn't blink at doing the dirty work in Somalia in their "take no prisoners" pirate hunting for rich multinational companies and the US Gov.
Look up the local rape/crime statistics in your neighborhood. How much of those investigations do you think lead to a SUSPECT that has left the area? How many do you see on the FBI or Interpol wanted list? How many SUSPECTS do you see on the local wanted list at your police office? Unless you killed somebody or a suspected serial rapist you simply don't end up on those lists.
These works have been forgotten about a long time ago. They should have been in public domain since nobody is profiting from them anymore.
Nitpicking that magazines don't fall under the charter of the organization isn't valuable, ALL this information should be free if not only for archiving purposes. Those books are literally falling apart unless they were expensive hardcovers.
What should be upsetting is that the US uses embassy officials to spy on people, collect fingerprints, iris scans, dna samples, encryption keys etc. etc.
The embassy is supposed to be there for foreign relations and helping out citizens that are in that country. Leave the spying to the spying organizations like CIA, FBI and NSA.
Why should you trust the US with anything? China has so far not been tampering with the worldwide independent organization of either DNS or ICANN. Something the US can't really say anymore.
It would be similar to saying, should we give control to Hitler, Stalin or Mussolini.
That's because you can't win a war based on ideologies. Everyone there doesn't like the westerner countries. The only way to win such a war would be to go in, kill every one and then repatriate volunteers/criminals to fill up the empty space much like how the America's and Australia was created.
Don't worry, they already know enough they don't even bother asking you because the airlines already provided that type of information when you reserved that ticket and your credit card company complies as well when they need to see which hotels/cars/taxis you booked.
Sometimes they do ask some or all of these questions as part of the TSA procedure for domestic flights. Either way, it doesn't matter. The questions don't help because people lie. As one comedian put it: They ask "Are you a terrorist" you won't say "Now you got me, yeah, my evil plans are foiled".