It's nice that the new generation doesn't easily bend to authority, but I think it's not acts of conscious questioning as just plain old indifference. My experience with people in my generation and in the socio-economic circles in which I associate is that we don't really care about all that much.
At best, folks may think this draconian copyright stuff is stupid because RIAA and judges said something. Great. But, if EFF had sent out brochures talking about how important fair use rights are, I'm not sure how many people my age would care so much.
Then again, maybe I'm just being cynical, countering what you said just because you said it.:)
I noticed yesterday that I left one of my knives in my backpack; I flew with that bag last week and definitely didn't get pulled aside when I went through security.:\
So, the moral I guess is that TSA probably needs more than just laptops to be laid flat on the scanner, or that they should just take the Walter Sobchak approach and say "Fuck it, Dude, let's go bowling."
First of all, this is a really scant article that was posted. More info please? What does this actually do? What are the labels going to be like?
Secondly, I'm not clear exactly as to why this is a bad idea (due to lack of information). I think some kind of rating system for video games is a good idea, to give folks guidance as to what to expect from the game. That said, I think the rating system already in place does a fine job.
Why does the fine senator see the need for a new one, who is going to be handing out the regulations, what is the labeling going to look like?
If this is just a "The State of New York says this game should be rated M" while ESRB says it's rated T, I don't see the big deal. Even if, say, a NY rating is required to sell in the state of NY, I wouldn't support that, but I don't see how it's unconstitutional.
And about the lockout features, don't consoles already do this? I know DVD players do. Is that really such a big change? Parents will always have a lockout system, it's called not giving the kid the money to buy the game. Or telling the kid to not play it. Enforced with a belt, if ya like.
From what I've seen this law is more inefficient than it is sinister...
Maybe, but you've eliminated this one... There's always going to be a limiting factor somewhere, you've just reduced the effect that too little memory will have.
First, not everyone has access to vast clouds of information due to expense and I don't think that's going away any time soon. So we'll still get to understand what's going on around us and not just rely on regression analysis to inform our every decision.
Second, in my experience with large sets of data, you can do all kinds of math to them to bring out interesting relationships but someone with domain expertise is going to have a much better insight into what the data is saying than someone who doesn't. It seems the peak of hubris to think that the techniques taught in every science (social, hard, or otherwise) are worth nothing compared to massive amounts of data. How do you know where to get the data from? How do you apply the data?
I don't think it's quite time to throw out "correlation != causation". In fact, I think now more than ever we need to be able to understand underlying phenomena behind the data precisely because there is so much of it. With so much data, coincidental correlation is going to happen quite often I'm sure.
And, of course, the ultimate reason we need to understand things is for, you know, when the cloud's not there.
What's IT? I'm about to be a new grad. When I hear "IT" I think of tech support for a company, keeping machines running, or working in a data center. Those all sound pretty boring to me (except the last one, if the data center were sufficiently large).
I'd rather do software development, CS research, something along those lines. Heck, my dream job would be working on low cost communication infrastructure in the third world. While I'm sure that all technically falls under the realm of IT, to me that's always be something different. Maybe that's just me, but "IT" to me has always been the boring stuff.
I shouldn't be feeding the troll, but it's obvious you don't really know too much about Islam with the way you've selected and interpreted those passages. If you've read the entire Koran and the Hadiths and gotten the message "lying is good!", then I'm sorry, but I don't think I can cure that kind of stupid.
Oh, and could you please verify the authority of your translation? Because no Muslim would accept a non-Arabic version of the Koran or the Hadith as authorative, since so much is lost in translation. Arabic is a notoriously difficult language to translate due to the complexity of the ideas contained in many of the words. But you know that, of course, as I'm sure you've read Islamic holy documents in their original language, right?
But wait! Maybe you haven't. "Islam" = military domination in Arabic? Wow, never knew that. Astasalama? What the hell are you talking about, is this some kind of blend of "ma salama" ("go with peace") and "hasta la vista"? Seriously man, if you're going to be a critic of Islam from primary texts, at least learn the language.
No, sir, Islam isn't what needs to be destroyed in order to stop terror. It's intolerance, ignorance, and bigotry from people like YOU (whether in Iraq, America, or elsewhere) that has to die to stop terror.
That's also roughly 4 million Libraries of Congress. Something I've always wondered... when measuring a Library of Congress, are we talking about the text data from the books, or each page of the book as perhaps an image? I'd imagine that for many of those books, there is a good deal of relevant information that is not in the book's text, such as the condition of the book, etc. Not to mention the many historical documents I am sure are in the Library; the information contained within them is richer than just their text. Has this been taken into account in your calculations?:P
I find that hard to believe. Looking around their products pages, it appears that 1TB is the highest capacity offered for some of their models. Am I just missing something?
Either way, congrats to Seagate, it is a very remarkable milestone.
The calendar based release cycle isn't necessarily bad. Look at Ubuntu. 8.04, 7.10, 7.04... Those are year/month combinations. However they manage to put out successively better packages.
Conversely, DNF is distinctly not on a calendar based schedule. That's probably not something we want with an operating system when we have a proven model such as Ubuntu's.
Philanthropy is great - organizations worldwide are short on funds and would be able to do so much more with additional funding. I don't think we should underestimate the needs in non-technology areas, remembering that almost a third of the world's population lives in "extreme poverty" (\\
Where I really see a large portion of that money going is to "triple bottom line" ventures, for profit companies that consider their social and environmental bottom line equally with their financial bottom line. The people who are actually on the ground, implementing these projects that philanthropists fund, realize that the most difficult part of any project is making it sustainable after the sponsoring organization leaves. So I think many are launching these social ventures to "invest" the beneficiaries in the projects, as well as create a sustainable source of wealth for the local community. There are a lot of amazing ideas in this space that are just waiting for funding, and I think that these types of ventures would be able to benefit from not only the funding from rich philanthropists but their business acumen as well.
Pull down refers to some type of weight exercises. I'd imagine that's what he's talking about in the article: pull down machines are for this.
And about the kilos, that's how the weight on those machines is measured in countries that use the metric system. So while it's not technically correct, it's conventional to refer to the weights on the machine in terms of kilos, since that's how they are labeled. Everyone knows what a 90kilo mass is and how hard it is to pick up. Less so for an 882N weight.
Perhaps it's not fair to expect the/. crowd to know much about weight training though.:P I kid, I kid...
Yes... we say the same thing (last paragraph). I know very well what MTBF means and how it's calculated. In your words, I put my stock in the warranty, because "that's what they're willing to put their money behind." The warranty is set so that most devices don't stop working until after the warranty period ends. This more accurately reflects the amount of time a drive lasts under normal use.
I'm not saying that MTBF isn't a completely unreliable number. I'd imagine there is a correlation between higher MTBF numbers and warranty.
Great post, by the way. Very informative and well worded.:)
The best metric is probably going to be the length of warranty the manufacturer offers. They have financial incentive to find out the REAL mean time until failure in calculating the warranty.
Nope! Their nodes are from Accton, independently produced. And unbranded, too. They actually run on the same Atheros chipset that the Meraki nodes and the Fonera nodes use, so performance is very similar. Also, ROBIN will run on several other hardware platforms. Take a look at the ROBIN forums to see what other platforms people have gotten it to run on.
This decline was something people have foreseen for a while. There is a rapidly maturing collection of open source projects to create a real open source Meraki replacement (disclaimer: I am helping develop one of these).
ROBIN is an open source mesh firmware that can run on reflashed Meraki nodes (well, I don't think it's "allowed" by Meraki anymore, since they've changed their license agreement to forbid 3rd party firmware and have made it really difficult to access the bootloader).
Open-Mesh is the dashboard management service that ROBIN nodes are configured to use. The guy who develops this actually started working on this dashboard when Meraki was still Roofnet - compare the Open-Mesh dashboard to the Meraki dashboard, the similarity is obvious. Also, you can buy pre-flashed, fully featured ROBIN nodes from Open-Mesh.com for $50 each, the same price that Meraki sells their crippled "standard version" of their nodes.
OrangeMesh, is an open-source version of the dashboard being developed that will allow you to host your own dashboard server, completely freeing you from reliance on any third party. You can check out it's progress here.
Hmm... I think I see your point actually. It's really unclear though, to me, based on the GP's post, and I'm sure it's unclear to others as well. However thank you for pointing that out.
For those who want to build their own mesh, check out the open-source ROBIN project. They are building a complete plug-and-play mesh networking package. they are even configured to automatically connect to the Open Mesh Dashboard so you can manage your network. Open Mesh will start selling pre-flashed nodes this week at their site.
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You just know Little Bobby Tables is going to grow up to be a terrorist one day.
It's nice that the new generation doesn't easily bend to authority, but I think it's not acts of conscious questioning as just plain old indifference. My experience with people in my generation and in the socio-economic circles in which I associate is that we don't really care about all that much.
:)
At best, folks may think this draconian copyright stuff is stupid because RIAA and judges said something. Great. But, if EFF had sent out brochures talking about how important fair use rights are, I'm not sure how many people my age would care so much.
Then again, maybe I'm just being cynical, countering what you said just because you said it.
I noticed yesterday that I left one of my knives in my backpack; I flew with that bag last week and definitely didn't get pulled aside when I went through security. :\
So, the moral I guess is that TSA probably needs more than just laptops to be laid flat on the scanner, or that they should just take the Walter Sobchak approach and say "Fuck it, Dude, let's go bowling."
First of all, this is a really scant article that was posted. More info please? What does this actually do? What are the labels going to be like?
Secondly, I'm not clear exactly as to why this is a bad idea (due to lack of information). I think some kind of rating system for video games is a good idea, to give folks guidance as to what to expect from the game. That said, I think the rating system already in place does a fine job.
Why does the fine senator see the need for a new one, who is going to be handing out the regulations, what is the labeling going to look like? If this is just a "The State of New York says this game should be rated M" while ESRB says it's rated T, I don't see the big deal. Even if, say, a NY rating is required to sell in the state of NY, I wouldn't support that, but I don't see how it's unconstitutional.
And about the lockout features, don't consoles already do this? I know DVD players do. Is that really such a big change? Parents will always have a lockout system, it's called not giving the kid the money to buy the game. Or telling the kid to not play it. Enforced with a belt, if ya like.
From what I've seen this law is more inefficient than it is sinister...
Maybe, but you've eliminated this one... There's always going to be a limiting factor somewhere, you've just reduced the effect that too little memory will have.
First, not everyone has access to vast clouds of information due to expense and I don't think that's going away any time soon. So we'll still get to understand what's going on around us and not just rely on regression analysis to inform our every decision.
Second, in my experience with large sets of data, you can do all kinds of math to them to bring out interesting relationships but someone with domain expertise is going to have a much better insight into what the data is saying than someone who doesn't. It seems the peak of hubris to think that the techniques taught in every science (social, hard, or otherwise) are worth nothing compared to massive amounts of data. How do you know where to get the data from? How do you apply the data?
I don't think it's quite time to throw out "correlation != causation". In fact, I think now more than ever we need to be able to understand underlying phenomena behind the data precisely because there is so much of it. With so much data, coincidental correlation is going to happen quite often I'm sure.
And, of course, the ultimate reason we need to understand things is for, you know, when the cloud's not there.
What's IT? I'm about to be a new grad. When I hear "IT" I think of tech support for a company, keeping machines running, or working in a data center. Those all sound pretty boring to me (except the last one, if the data center were sufficiently large).
I'd rather do software development, CS research, something along those lines. Heck, my dream job would be working on low cost communication infrastructure in the third world. While I'm sure that all technically falls under the realm of IT, to me that's always be something different. Maybe that's just me, but "IT" to me has always been the boring stuff.
I shouldn't be feeding the troll, but it's obvious you don't really know too much about Islam with the way you've selected and interpreted those passages. If you've read the entire Koran and the Hadiths and gotten the message "lying is good!", then I'm sorry, but I don't think I can cure that kind of stupid.
Oh, and could you please verify the authority of your translation? Because no Muslim would accept a non-Arabic version of the Koran or the Hadith as authorative, since so much is lost in translation. Arabic is a notoriously difficult language to translate due to the complexity of the ideas contained in many of the words. But you know that, of course, as I'm sure you've read Islamic holy documents in their original language, right?
But wait! Maybe you haven't. "Islam" = military domination in Arabic? Wow, never knew that. Astasalama? What the hell are you talking about, is this some kind of blend of "ma salama" ("go with peace") and "hasta la vista"? Seriously man, if you're going to be a critic of Islam from primary texts, at least learn the language.
No, sir, Islam isn't what needs to be destroyed in order to stop terror. It's intolerance, ignorance, and bigotry from people like YOU (whether in Iraq, America, or elsewhere) that has to die to stop terror.
I find that hard to believe. Looking around their products pages, it appears that 1TB is the highest capacity offered for some of their models. Am I just missing something?
Either way, congrats to Seagate, it is a very remarkable milestone.
The calendar based release cycle isn't necessarily bad. Look at Ubuntu. 8.04, 7.10, 7.04... Those are year/month combinations. However they manage to put out successively better packages.
Conversely, DNF is distinctly not on a calendar based schedule. That's probably not something we want with an operating system when we have a proven model such as Ubuntu's.
Philanthropy is great - organizations worldwide are short on funds and would be able to do so much more with additional funding. I don't think we should underestimate the needs in non-technology areas, remembering that almost a third of the world's population lives in "extreme poverty" (\\
Where I really see a large portion of that money going is to "triple bottom line" ventures, for profit companies that consider their social and environmental bottom line equally with their financial bottom line. The people who are actually on the ground, implementing these projects that philanthropists fund, realize that the most difficult part of any project is making it sustainable after the sponsoring organization leaves. So I think many are launching these social ventures to "invest" the beneficiaries in the projects, as well as create a sustainable source of wealth for the local community. There are a lot of amazing ideas in this space that are just waiting for funding, and I think that these types of ventures would be able to benefit from not only the funding from rich philanthropists but their business acumen as well.
Pull down refers to some type of weight exercises. I'd imagine that's what he's talking about in the article: pull down machines are for this.
/. crowd to know much about weight training though. :P I kid, I kid...
And about the kilos, that's how the weight on those machines is measured in countries that use the metric system. So while it's not technically correct, it's conventional to refer to the weights on the machine in terms of kilos, since that's how they are labeled. Everyone knows what a 90kilo mass is and how hard it is to pick up. Less so for an 882N weight.
Perhaps it's not fair to expect the
There, fixed that for you...
Yes... we say the same thing (last paragraph). I know very well what MTBF means and how it's calculated. In your words, I put my stock in the warranty, because "that's what they're willing to put their money behind." The warranty is set so that most devices don't stop working until after the warranty period ends. This more accurately reflects the amount of time a drive lasts under normal use.
:)
I'm not saying that MTBF isn't a completely unreliable number. I'd imagine there is a correlation between higher MTBF numbers and warranty.
Great post, by the way. Very informative and well worded.
The best metric is probably going to be the length of warranty the manufacturer offers. They have financial incentive to find out the REAL mean time until failure in calculating the warranty.
Looks like we're still going to be using XP seven years from now...
Nope! Their nodes are from Accton, independently produced. And unbranded, too. They actually run on the same Atheros chipset that the Meraki nodes and the Fonera nodes use, so performance is very similar. Also, ROBIN will run on several other hardware platforms. Take a look at the ROBIN forums to see what other platforms people have gotten it to run on.
Check Open Mesh. Just like Meraki, but open.
This decline was something people have foreseen for a while. There is a rapidly maturing collection of open source projects to create a real open source Meraki replacement (disclaimer: I am helping develop one of these).
ROBIN is an open source mesh firmware that can run on reflashed Meraki nodes (well, I don't think it's "allowed" by Meraki anymore, since they've changed their license agreement to forbid 3rd party firmware and have made it really difficult to access the bootloader).
Open-Mesh is the dashboard management service that ROBIN nodes are configured to use. The guy who develops this actually started working on this dashboard when Meraki was still Roofnet - compare the Open-Mesh dashboard to the Meraki dashboard, the similarity is obvious. Also, you can buy pre-flashed, fully featured ROBIN nodes from Open-Mesh.com for $50 each, the same price that Meraki sells their crippled "standard version" of their nodes.
OrangeMesh, is an open-source version of the dashboard being developed that will allow you to host your own dashboard server, completely freeing you from reliance on any third party. You can check out it's progress here.
Thanks :)
Looks like the update servers are being hit pretty hard. Does anyone have a link to the torrent?
Hmm... I think I see your point actually. It's really unclear though, to me, based on the GP's post, and I'm sure it's unclear to others as well. However thank you for pointing that out.
No she doesn't. That is a false statement. Please check your facts before you make statements like this.
Obama still has a lead in overall delegates (86) and pledged/non-superdelegates (130).
Please mod parent down (-1, wrong).
For those who want to build their own mesh, check out the open-source ROBIN project. They are building a complete plug-and-play mesh networking package. they are even configured to automatically connect to the Open Mesh Dashboard so you can manage your network. Open Mesh will start selling pre-flashed nodes this week at their site.