True, American companies treat outsourcing the way they tried treating robotics back in the day. Just about every American company that tried failed while the Japanese kept rocking at it. Same tool but totally different mindset for why they used it, Americans to save costs, Japanese to improve efficiency, which saved costs but that wasn't the main goal so they didn't cut corners to save.50 cents today and lose a million tomorrow.
I see companies like Virgin Galactic as the Japanese Robot users... whether NASA does it for efficiency/better idea creation/stoke the space fires of private business or just a way to save a buck so that it fails miserably remains to be seen.
No, we do. That's why I'm far more excited that things like Virgin Galactic exist, even if they fail, than whatever NASA's doing these days. Getting this stuff into private companies hands instead of locked in the governmental fist means there is a much higher chance I'll actually be able to walk across another body mass than earth before I die.
All the old time sci-fi writers predicted private corporations would get us into space, so far, they haven't been proved wrong by government controlled space programs.
He had the configs saved off site at a secure location and recoverable via modem, as many have mentioned. The fact that you don't think the possibility of theft is higher than the possibility of a power outage doesn't mean that's unlikely. I have a router that's been on for over 5 years without power loss, even though the building has lost power multiple times. Its also not been stolen, but I think the security guards and multiple doors with different keys help with that.
In his particular case he knew that some equipment would be in places where they could be stolen much easier than a secure room with guards. So he implemented a system that guaranteed no information could be stolen. His priority was security not convenience. On the convenience side he had a system in place that could quickly bring the device back online. As a bonus it also means that a totally different device, such as a new one after a failure, could be brought online almost as fast. So just because your willing to accept a lower level of security doesn't mean he did. If I had you and him vying for the same job to secure a network, I'd hire him in a heartbeat if I could trace your anon post back to you.
I'm glad that "someone else" deleted the entire share while he was in jail. I'm also glad that person didn't get caught. It's unfortunate they weren't able to have their say in court though.
Hrm, perhaps. I'm not sure that's true at the world class/elite level. But even so there may be certain sports where male/female makes a greater difference than 120lbs 5'2" vs 185lbs 5'11"... but there are many where it doesn't. Skiing for instance doesn't need to be separated by sex at least. Perhaps a study done by getting the top athletes of both sexes to see if it really mattered. They're experts of their own sport at the very least so having them work together for a few months and then submit their opinion if a different classification can be done that's superior to one based purely on male/female.
Weight classes? Works in boxing and a/. article a few weeks/months ago they were talking about how they may have to start doing the same for swimming... if its true in one sport it may be true in another. Skill matters but when you get to the elite level they are all of fairly equal skill so its less of an issue... blinking at the wrong time could be the entire difference between gold and going home with nothing.
Please tell me how the hell does a lawsuit in USA prevent Project Gutenberg Australia from digitizing works in the public domain?
While we like to think we're the center of the universe, we aren't. As for orphaned works I don't think Project Gutenberg USA has any official stance on them, at least when I search them the only orphaned works item that comes up is an ebook published in 2008.
So everyone flying around the globe with laptops don't have valid licenses? I don't remember anyone mentioning that the license is only valid if installed in a particular country but could then be used globally. So which is it? Globally valid or globally invalid?
Agreed, I zapped a buddy with a 50,000v aftermarket one by accident... and while it made him jump farther than I've ever seen him move in less than 1/2 second he's still around to not laugh at it:)
Go read Cadillac Desert. Damns do more harm to the environment that you might expect.
- Dams stop natural sediment flow, resulting in downstream river erosion
There are solutions to that these days, the cost of mucking out reservoirs that get filled with sediment is the main incentive though not the environment. Tree huggers shouldn't complain on why a "green" change is done, they should simply be happy its being done.
- Fish breeding / migration
Ditto, sports fishermen are probably the incentive here.
- Increased irrigation enabled by dams causes pollution of ground water aquifers (increased salinity etc)
No clue, Bob is prob working on it though:-)
- Methane released decaying plant matter in non-oxygenated stagnant dam water
Hey, no cheating you already covered the natural sediment/nutrient flow in the first complaint. While its true that Dam's aren't exactly perfect they're working on making them better for a multitude of reasons.
When people reach informational saturation and miss a live conversation I hear them exclaim, "sorry I was multitasking", but it's just an excuse for mismanaged prioities.
Mismanaged priorities? I disagree. Finding an odd fact or surfing something of interest is infinitely more rewarding than listening to someone complain about work or whatever mediocre subject matter they bring up. Talk about something fascinating and you'll get pushed up higher in the priority list. I've got at least 2 conversations I'm ignoring right now to respond because while your post may not be the most fascinating it is more interesting than listening to friends jabber on about how work sucked today. So its not mismanaged priorities, it is just different priorities than others of a more social inclination may have.
Yup, Netcraft confirms that 3 of the top 10 most reliable hosting sites use FreeBSD. 3 use Windows, 2 use Linux, and 2 use unknown... so there is the possibility that 4 use Linux.
Btw, I love all three OS's, they're all great for different reasons.
Kittens are the solution. Once I got my cat I stopped having mosquito issues. Heck the first day I brought her home as a kitten she jumped into the air and ate the buzzing bastard and I knew I'd made the right choice between cat or dog.
Do you by any chance have a single court case showing your scenario? One where someone made a substantial change to BSD code? 1% can be quite substantial if its the right kind and then where they were only able to claim 1% of the offenders revenue?
If not, then please don't create strawmen, GPL & BSD are both excellent FOSS licenses. Neither is superior as they serve utterly different functions. Comparing them is like asking what sort of boat gets the best mileage on the highway, it just doesn't work.
Being a non verizon customer the link you provided worked fine for me. Perhaps they just fubared their own network? Or maybe they fixed it after having the 404 page slashdotted.
Your right that the OS file system can do it more efficiently than the onboard SSD controller. Problem is, how many years do you want to wait until we get usable SSD's? Every OS would need their filesystem updated to speak to SSD drives or we present the same IDE/SATA/SCSI/SAS command interface to the OS like we have for decades and handle all the new specialized items internally. Which gets the product out there as quick as possible? When you've spent years R&Ding a product most companies would rather get it out there as quick as possible to recoup their costs and then fix bugs/errors as they go along rather than wait for some thirdparty they have no control over to do it for them... someday...
While your solution is the *better* one, the current method is more practical and yes that matters. We can only hope that eventually SSD's create an alternate interface that allows the OS to bypass the SCSI/whatever interface and speak in raw SSD lingo to the device.
Being someone who lives in the heart of downtown LA... It takes a couple hundred feet to even get the barest hint of smog in the air on the *worst* smoggy days, thousands and thousands of feet otherwise. On the other hand I can barely see a smokers face when they exhale, much less trying to see inside their mouth. Now when it comes to stench I'd rather stand next to a bum who hasn't showered in weeks than a smoker... I get to smell both far too often while waiting for the walk sign to light up so this isn't theory.
Although I'll give you anyone who preaches to a smoker about the health issues is a tool, those people should just stfu, smokers know.
I think the point isn't that the hardware doesn't support it, but that the software can't access it. It's like a ready and willing woman in the other room but there is a lock with no key blocking the way.
Hmm, you made me curious what countries wont allow a wife to take control of your bank account regardless of what an american judge says that she owns 50% of your assets or whatever. Just thinking ahead for the day that will inevitably come where I'll fall into the idea that marriage is a good thing... I'd like to know a safe place to put part of my assets that no one else can get ahold of, even if I'm dead.
By the same token the only reason people work is to make money for themselves, they don't give a damn about the shareholders or the owners. Perhaps the owner just got tired of working a crap job and decided that working 20hours/day doing something they loved was more fulfilling than having loads of free time but working 8 hours/day doing something they hated.
If you believe a person is corrupt for risking their lives to protect others from harm... then your a prime example of the pathetic human animal you project onto those officers. Look in the damn mirror, thats who you should be hating.
So your solution is to create even more useless bullshit lawsuits? I'd rather the worst nightmares of net neutrality become true. We have enough frivolous lawsuits as it is, we need to figure out how to stem the flood not take it up a notch.
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True, American companies treat outsourcing the way they tried treating robotics back in the day. Just about every American company that tried failed while the Japanese kept rocking at it. Same tool but totally different mindset for why they used it, Americans to save costs, Japanese to improve efficiency, which saved costs but that wasn't the main goal so they didn't cut corners to save .50 cents today and lose a million tomorrow.
I see companies like Virgin Galactic as the Japanese Robot users... whether NASA does it for efficiency/better idea creation/stoke the space fires of private business or just a way to save a buck so that it fails miserably remains to be seen.
No, we do. That's why I'm far more excited that things like Virgin Galactic exist, even if they fail, than whatever NASA's doing these days. Getting this stuff into private companies hands instead of locked in the governmental fist means there is a much higher chance I'll actually be able to walk across another body mass than earth before I die.
All the old time sci-fi writers predicted private corporations would get us into space, so far, they haven't been proved wrong by government controlled space programs.
He had the configs saved off site at a secure location and recoverable via modem, as many have mentioned. The fact that you don't think the possibility of theft is higher than the possibility of a power outage doesn't mean that's unlikely. I have a router that's been on for over 5 years without power loss, even though the building has lost power multiple times. Its also not been stolen, but I think the security guards and multiple doors with different keys help with that.
In his particular case he knew that some equipment would be in places where they could be stolen much easier than a secure room with guards. So he implemented a system that guaranteed no information could be stolen. His priority was security not convenience. On the convenience side he had a system in place that could quickly bring the device back online. As a bonus it also means that a totally different device, such as a new one after a failure, could be brought online almost as fast. So just because your willing to accept a lower level of security doesn't mean he did. If I had you and him vying for the same job to secure a network, I'd hire him in a heartbeat if I could trace your anon post back to you.
I'm glad that "someone else" deleted the entire share while he was in jail. I'm also glad that person didn't get caught. It's unfortunate they weren't able to have their say in court though.
Hrm, perhaps. I'm not sure that's true at the world class/elite level. But even so there may be certain sports where male/female makes a greater difference than 120lbs 5'2" vs 185lbs 5'11"... but there are many where it doesn't. Skiing for instance doesn't need to be separated by sex at least. Perhaps a study done by getting the top athletes of both sexes to see if it really mattered. They're experts of their own sport at the very least so having them work together for a few months and then submit their opinion if a different classification can be done that's superior to one based purely on male/female.
Weight classes? Works in boxing and a /. article a few weeks/months ago they were talking about how they may have to start doing the same for swimming... if its true in one sport it may be true in another. Skill matters but when you get to the elite level they are all of fairly equal skill so its less of an issue ... blinking at the wrong time could be the entire difference between gold and going home with nothing.
Please tell me how the hell does a lawsuit in USA prevent Project Gutenberg Australia from digitizing works in the public domain?
While we like to think we're the center of the universe, we aren't. As for orphaned works I don't think Project Gutenberg USA has any official stance on them, at least when I search them the only orphaned works item that comes up is an ebook published in 2008.
Login, read at -1, no clicking involved. You are sometimes forced to read comments like yours but its a price worth paying.
So everyone flying around the globe with laptops don't have valid licenses? I don't remember anyone mentioning that the license is only valid if installed in a particular country but could then be used globally. So which is it? Globally valid or globally invalid?
Agreed, I zapped a buddy with a 50,000v aftermarket one by accident... and while it made him jump farther than I've ever seen him move in less than 1/2 second he's still around to not laugh at it :)
Go read Cadillac Desert. Damns do more harm to the environment that you might expect.
- Dams stop natural sediment flow, resulting in downstream river erosion
There are solutions to that these days, the cost of mucking out reservoirs that get filled with sediment is the main incentive though not the environment. Tree huggers shouldn't complain on why a "green" change is done, they should simply be happy its being done.
- Fish breeding / migration
Ditto, sports fishermen are probably the incentive here.
- Increased irrigation enabled by dams causes pollution of ground water aquifers (increased salinity etc)
No clue, Bob is prob working on it though :-)
- Methane released decaying plant matter in non-oxygenated stagnant dam water
Hey, no cheating you already covered the natural sediment/nutrient flow in the first complaint. While its true that Dam's aren't exactly perfect they're working on making them better for a multitude of reasons.
When people reach informational saturation and miss a live conversation I hear them exclaim, "sorry I was multitasking", but it's just an excuse for mismanaged prioities.
Mismanaged priorities? I disagree. Finding an odd fact or surfing something of interest is infinitely more rewarding than listening to someone complain about work or whatever mediocre subject matter they bring up. Talk about something fascinating and you'll get pushed up higher in the priority list. I've got at least 2 conversations I'm ignoring right now to respond because while your post may not be the most fascinating it is more interesting than listening to friends jabber on about how work sucked today. So its not mismanaged priorities, it is just different priorities than others of a more social inclination may have.
Yup, Netcraft confirms that 3 of the top 10 most reliable hosting sites use FreeBSD. 3 use Windows, 2 use Linux, and 2 use unknown ... so there is the possibility that 4 use Linux.
Btw, I love all three OS's, they're all great for different reasons.
I'm guessing he doesn't.
Kittens are the solution. Once I got my cat I stopped having mosquito issues. Heck the first day I brought her home as a kitten she jumped into the air and ate the buzzing bastard and I knew I'd made the right choice between cat or dog.
Do you by any chance have a single court case showing your scenario? One where someone made a substantial change to BSD code? 1% can be quite substantial if its the right kind and then where they were only able to claim 1% of the offenders revenue?
If not, then please don't create strawmen, GPL & BSD are both excellent FOSS licenses. Neither is superior as they serve utterly different functions. Comparing them is like asking what sort of boat gets the best mileage on the highway, it just doesn't work.
Being a non verizon customer the link you provided worked fine for me. Perhaps they just fubared their own network? Or maybe they fixed it after having the 404 page slashdotted.
Your right that the OS file system can do it more efficiently than the onboard SSD controller. Problem is, how many years do you want to wait until we get usable SSD's? Every OS would need their filesystem updated to speak to SSD drives or we present the same IDE/SATA/SCSI/SAS command interface to the OS like we have for decades and handle all the new specialized items internally. Which gets the product out there as quick as possible? When you've spent years R&Ding a product most companies would rather get it out there as quick as possible to recoup their costs and then fix bugs/errors as they go along rather than wait for some thirdparty they have no control over to do it for them ... someday ...
While your solution is the *better* one, the current method is more practical and yes that matters. We can only hope that eventually SSD's create an alternate interface that allows the OS to bypass the SCSI/whatever interface and speak in raw SSD lingo to the device.
Being someone who lives in the heart of downtown LA ... It takes a couple hundred feet to even get the barest hint of smog in the air on the *worst* smoggy days, thousands and thousands of feet otherwise. On the other hand I can barely see a smokers face when they exhale, much less trying to see inside their mouth. Now when it comes to stench I'd rather stand next to a bum who hasn't showered in weeks than a smoker ... I get to smell both far too often while waiting for the walk sign to light up so this isn't theory.
Although I'll give you anyone who preaches to a smoker about the health issues is a tool, those people should just stfu, smokers know.
I think the point isn't that the hardware doesn't support it, but that the software can't access it. It's like a ready and willing woman in the other room but there is a lock with no key blocking the way.
Hmm, you made me curious what countries wont allow a wife to take control of your bank account regardless of what an american judge says that she owns 50% of your assets or whatever. Just thinking ahead for the day that will inevitably come where I'll fall into the idea that marriage is a good thing ... I'd like to know a safe place to put part of my assets that no one else can get ahold of, even if I'm dead.
That pretty much jives with a study by google. They found SMART to be pretty damn dumb.
By the same token the only reason people work is to make money for themselves, they don't give a damn about the shareholders or the owners. Perhaps the owner just got tired of working a crap job and decided that working 20hours/day doing something they loved was more fulfilling than having loads of free time but working 8 hours/day doing something they hated.
If you believe a person is corrupt for risking their lives to protect others from harm ... then your a prime example of the pathetic human animal you project onto those officers. Look in the damn mirror, thats who you should be hating.
So your solution is to create even more useless bullshit lawsuits? I'd rather the worst nightmares of net neutrality become true. We have enough frivolous lawsuits as it is, we need to figure out how to stem the flood not take it up a notch.