If your client's business is so dependent on a single machine being up all the time, then your client is doing it wrong. I'm in operations and I carry around a spare laptop and three 3G GSM/CDMA dongles because I/must/ have the ability to get on and fix things wherever I am. Machines fail, parts fail.. everything fails. If it's business critical and you don't have a backup, then you need to get one, now.
That's the thing about pure democracy, it is essentially the tyranny of the majority. This means that as a necessary consequence of a purely democratic download system only the most popular is the easiest to download. It's very similar to a free market, in that respect, in that it is exceedingly easy to get say, captain crunch cereal, versus something rarer, like say, unbleached nightshade flower. In a system where nothing is limited you can get anything you want, but it doesn't go hand-in-hand with being able to get whatever you want easily.
The allegations that Google collected private data is false. Any unencrypted publicly broadcast information is just that, public. They did nothing technically wrong (if slightly immoral and creepy, as any data collection by a large corporation can be seen as in this day and age), but they don't need me to defend them, what with their lawering money and all.
Also, stop eating my comments slashdot! If this post shows up like 30 times its cuz the submit button seems to work, then fail.
The allegations that Google collected private data is false. Any unencrypted publicly broadcast information is just that, public. They did nothing technically wrong (if slightly immoral and creepy, as any data collection by a large corporation can be seen as in this day and age), but they don't need me to defend them, what with their lawering money and all.
The allegations that Google collected private data is false. Any unencrypted publicly broadcast information is just that, public. They did nothing technically wrong, but they don't need me to defend them, what with their disposable lawering money and all.
The allegation that the data they scanned is false. Any unencrypted broadcast wifi data is public, which is all they stored. Not that they need me to help their defense, what with them having billion dollar style lawyering at their disposal.
Hopefully power companies will start charging different rates for on-peak and off-peak residential usage...
Say goodbye another reason to get CFLs then. They mostly provide light at night, but if power becomes cheap (or even free, or in rare cases PROFITABLE) at night, who will want to use them?
Yep, you're absolutely right in that bandwidth and latency aren't the same. However, when used by TCP in latency sensitive environments, common asymmetric connections can quickly saturate their available upstream bandwidth. This means that they're not able to ACK incoming packets, effectively increasing their link latency and reducing its throughput. So, in reality, total throughput is a combination of link latency and the ability to quickly respond to the protocol stream to keep the bits flowing. This is why QoS for TCP is so important on heavily utilised asymmetric connections.
>That should be the standard, if you can't perform live or sing without autotune, you are not a musician. Actually, they do make a version of autotune that can be used in live performances, and often enough artists do use it, even if they don't admit it.
Money of course also prevents "clean" fuels from being clean. Where do you think we get "clean" fuels in the US? Hydrogen comes from methane, and will come from electrolysis powered by coal power plants afterwards. Natural gas is a fossil fuel. Electric cars will be charged by coal.
We should not focus on a clean energy carrier until we have a clean energy source. Solar power is nowhere near affordable enough yet, and the environmentalists hate wind (kills birds) and hydroelectric (ruins rivers) and nuclear (OMG NUKE) more than fossil fuels, despite these being actually semi-sustainable clean(er) energy sources.
(opinion) Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. The least of which is Recycle.
People get fooled into thinking they can buy more and reuse less because they practice "feel good" recycling. Recycling at an energy/material loss (such as with paper), is more harmful than simply dumping or incinerating it, partly because of the actual net loss, but also partly because of the smug mindset people enter into. Compare hybrid owners who drive more because they own a hybrid.
Without "feel good" recycling, people might be more inclined to think about purchases (which comparable food comes in the less reusable less wasteful container), and manufacturers might be more inclined to adjust the market accordingly.
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Google's Chrome OS is based on Linux.
If your client's business is so dependent on a single machine being up all the time, then your client is doing it wrong. I'm in operations and I carry around a spare laptop and three 3G GSM/CDMA dongles because I /must/ have the ability to get on and fix things wherever I am. Machines fail, parts fail.. everything fails. If it's business critical and you don't have a backup, then you need to get one, now.
That's the thing about pure democracy, it is essentially the tyranny of the majority. This means that as a necessary consequence of a purely democratic download system only the most popular is the easiest to download. It's very similar to a free market, in that respect, in that it is exceedingly easy to get say, captain crunch cereal, versus something rarer, like say, unbleached nightshade flower. In a system where nothing is limited you can get anything you want, but it doesn't go hand-in-hand with being able to get whatever you want easily.
They tried to outlaw alcohol once.. look where it got them. Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
Also, stop eating my comments slashdot! If this post shows up like 30 times its cuz the submit button seems to work, then fail.
Also, stop eating my comments slashdot!
The allegations that Google collected private data is false. Any unencrypted publicly broadcast information is just that, public. They did nothing technically wrong, but they don't need me to defend them, what with their disposable lawering money and all.
The allegation that the data they scanned is false. Any unencrypted broadcast wifi data is public, which is all they stored. Not that they need me to help their defense, what with them having billion dollar style lawyering at their disposal.
Playboy has been doing this sort of thing for a while (this from 1994). T
I only read slashdot for the +5 comments. Geeking out and squeeing as copyleft and open source take over is in no way my motivation.
"This must never happen again"
DARPA turned us into generators.
Technically correct is the best kind of correct.
And it has been done before, starting 240 years ago.
[Nelson Muntz]
Where's WALDO?
Hopefully power companies will start charging different rates for on-peak and off-peak residential usage...
Say goodbye another reason to get CFLs then. They mostly provide light at night, but if power becomes cheap (or even free, or in rare cases PROFITABLE) at night, who will want to use them?
Step 2: FUD+Lawsuit
Nitrogen oxides go into stone (if there is concrete evidence of this, har har) while nitrous oxide (N2O) gets you stoned.
...of course, someone will still confuse the two later in these comments.
"The accuracy of an atomic clock" decided by basically a median, a robot committee?
Well, you do get what you pay for. Not that it won't be awesome, I just don't think it will find applications where such accuracy is actually needed.
Yep, you're absolutely right in that bandwidth and latency aren't the same. However, when used by TCP in latency sensitive environments, common asymmetric connections can quickly saturate their available upstream bandwidth. This means that they're not able to ACK incoming packets, effectively increasing their link latency and reducing its throughput. So, in reality, total throughput is a combination of link latency and the ability to quickly respond to the protocol stream to keep the bits flowing. This is why QoS for TCP is so important on heavily utilised asymmetric connections.
iPhone is best (NSFW language)
>That should be the standard, if you can't perform live or sing without autotune, you are not a musician. Actually, they do make a version of autotune that can be used in live performances, and often enough artists do use it, even if they don't admit it.
Money of course also prevents "clean" fuels from being clean. Where do you think we get "clean" fuels in the US? Hydrogen comes from methane, and will come from electrolysis powered by coal power plants afterwards. Natural gas is a fossil fuel. Electric cars will be charged by coal.
We should not focus on a clean energy carrier until we have a clean energy source. Solar power is nowhere near affordable enough yet, and the environmentalists hate wind (kills birds) and hydroelectric (ruins rivers) and nuclear (OMG NUKE) more than fossil fuels, despite these being actually semi-sustainable clean(er) energy sources.
(opinion) Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. The least of which is Recycle.
People get fooled into thinking they can buy more and reuse less because they practice "feel good" recycling. Recycling at an energy/material loss (such as with paper), is more harmful than simply dumping or incinerating it, partly because of the actual net loss, but also partly because of the smug mindset people enter into. Compare hybrid owners who drive more because they own a hybrid.
Without "feel good" recycling, people might be more inclined to think about purchases (which comparable food comes in the less reusable less wasteful container), and manufacturers might be more inclined to adjust the market accordingly.
~sigh~
"Should We Throw Hazardous Waste Into Volcanoes?". Heavy metals and nuclear waste would just get dispersed into the atmosphere.
Do both! Get a Dr Mario UI for it.