Dell isn't "interested" in sparking the interest of anybody. They just want to sell boxes.
See, I think the ideas can be connected. Can you say "product pairing" and branding? If Kellogg's Raisin Bran can raise its visibility by exclusively using Sun Maid raisins, both companies benefit by essentially sharing their non-competing customer bases. In other words, if Dell can successfully get more people to use Ubuntu, they stand a good chance of benefiting from the Dell brand being associated with the Ubuntu "brand" and vice versa. It's a bit of a roundabout strategy, but I think it makes sense in a long term situation.
The system wouldn't work because it's just too complicated for end-users
Dude, that's a pretty weak argument. I think an end user can handle pressing the up or down arrows at boot time to select the Ubuntu partition if they want to boot into it, GRUB ain't rocket science.
the reason the pricing wouldn't work is because craplet suppliers are not going to pay Dell to install them when users are being offered the opportunity to bypass them.
Sure they will. They're going to bet on the same morons they are now (that is, those who'll click on that crap and sign up for it). Besides, you can bypass that stuff now, by deleting it immeidately. Hell, you can wipe your hard drive and install whatever you want for an OS (either free from crap or loaded with it).
if Linux becomes popular, what is probably going to happen is we'll simply see the same craplets pre-installed on Linux.
This part's probably true, but you know what, if we're going to see desktop Linux be well received by the masses, this is unfortunately an inevitability as companies look for ways to offset revenue losses or any "costs" associated with providing Linux as an alternative.
Dell will need to address this, and offer these dellbuntu boxes at lower price.
Agreed. Moreover, if Dell is REALLY interested in sparking the interest of "Joe Sixpack" in test driving Linux, I'd recommend they offer an option to have a desktop/laptop preconfigured to Dual Boot for the same price as a Windows Only machine. I agree with some of the other posters in that it's unlikely that your average user is going to be terribly interested in Linux preinstalled (unless there's a considerable price difference). If, however, there is the option to have a dual boot machine for the same price as a Windows Only machine, and both are equally supported by Dell, average PC users might take the plunge and try it out. What would they have to lose?
I've been specifying "occupancy sensors" in commercial HVAC systems for years. Not only do they control the lights (so they turn off when someone leaves the room without hitting the switch) but they tie into the building management system/central HVAC control to handle things like ventilation cycles and temperature setbacks.
You mean like, oh I don't know, THERMOSTATS? With all due respect, I work in commercial real estate engineering, and we run a 1,000,000 sq ft campus with 6 buildings, all of which are controlled by a Building Automation System. I assure you, all of our zone thermostats are fully capable of determining whether a zone/space needs more/less air conditioning. As for the lights, they're all tied in to motion sensors with time delays. No motion for 20-30 minutes means lights go off (except for emergency egress lighting).
Generally, RIAA investigators monitor peer-to-peer file-sharing networks - in the UW-Madison case those were the Gnutella and AresWarez networks - and take down the IP addresses of those who are sharing files.
The 53 UW-Madison IP addresses accounted for 24,977 shared audio files, according to court documents.
How does monitoring which IP addresses were on these networks necessarily imply that they were trading copyrighted material? The same goes for the 24,977 shared audio files, who can say that those weren't audio recordings of lectures given by professors, or poetry, or local bands trying to get promotion, etc? Hell, for that matter, who's to say they were music/movies at all? Couldn't they have been ISO's of Linux Distro's, JPG's of the topless drunk prom queen, PowerPoint presentations that study groups were collaborating on via the internet?
I realize that probably not everyone is innocent here, but in terms of PROOF, I just don't know about "facts" like these.
I hope after this reunion show, that we loyal fans of all things rocking will see the Clash of the Titans as the almighty Tap (the loudest band on earth) tours with Tenacious D (the greatest band on earth). Imagine the non-stop rocking!
unless they have an extremely high resistance to bullshit and doing crap jobs for a few years post graduation "so they build experience" to forget about it, and do something more constructive for society than work for the computing industry.
While I agree that this is truly sound advice, I must interject that this is true for many, if not ALL jobs/fields.
An electrician actually contributes more to society, is well paid and has a respected profession that will be in demand for most of his professional life. I'm not sure i can say the same for most of the IT profession.
Again, while I agree that there is certainly career longevity in going into the electrical field (especially Critical Electrical like Static Switches, UPS's, ATS's, etc), bear in mind that the "entry level" positions in this field also unfortunately require "doing crap jobs for a few years". The same experienced and well paid electrician you are thinking of was once the apprentice who had to crawl under disgusting houses to repair burnt wires or spent hours at 3 in the morning running conduit under a floor on a Saturday night because it had to be done while the UPS was offline. I guess I'm saying, everyone has to pay their dues, regardless of the field. Additionally, while the electrical field (for example) might be a little better insulated from rapid changes in technology, I don't know that I can necessarily agree that it "contributes more to society". Unfortunately, IT (and all the workers in it) don't get nearly enough credit with how much their work contributes to society. It might not always feel like it while you're doing to work, but I bet that electrician feels the same way a lot of the time.
This is an excellent point. While this is a tragic and inexcusable event, we should not allow our emotions and sympathy to blind us from glaring procedural mistakes (or complete lacks of policy). Where I work, we have just under 4000 employees on our campus, and we have VERY strict emergency/hazard communication procedures that we practice regularly. I'm not saying that the apparent lack of this is necessarily the cause in this particular case, but it's worth asking why in the world students had no idea there had been a shooting on campus until almost 2 hours later.
Imagine it like this: someone comes into your office 2 hours before you do and shoots someone there. You would naturally expect to know about it before waltzing in to work as though it were any other day, right? Why wasn't this the case here?
When you add it all up you're approaching 50% of the total power consumption.
This is an "industry standard" that is a little on the high side. Actually, if the datacenter is designed (and maintained) properly, it's actually quite reasonable to run closer to 33% as far as HVAC electrical loads go. I can tell you that at our datacenter, we've been trending these numbers since opening the building, and we've been hitting the 30-35% range consistently. In fact, this ratio has maintained even as equipment (i.e. servers, silos, etc) has been added to the floor. If the capacity is there and distributed properly, the building infrastructure should be able to handle the heat load.
Cooling oil is no more efficient than cooling air and convection won't be the final word at an industrial scale - they'll need pumps which consume as much energy as fans
I'm not sure I'd agree with you there either. The cooling oil may well be more efficient as the heat transfer is likely to be better with the increased surface area. While obviously, the same amount of the components' surface is exposed, you do get better heat transfer with a fluid than with air. This is evidenced by the presence of Water Cooled HVAC systems in Datacenters as opposed to DX (direct expansion). There's nothing wrong with DX, but it just plainly doesn't transfer heat as efficiently as water cooled applications go (DX is also limited as to how far the heat can be "moved" whereas chilled water, you're limited only by pump size and piping).
they'll need pumps which consume as much energy as fans
The pumps aren't where the major energy consumption comes from in the HVAC systems, it's the compressors. Particularly with the increased usage of Variable Frequency Drives on pumps and proper modulation via Building Automation, the circulation of the cooling fluid (in this case oil) should be negligable. While using the oil as the heat transfer vehicle doesn't inherently make this miraculously cheaper, it would likely build in more efficiency for heat transfer.
The principal's daughter was emotionally distraught when she discovered the pages, as well as the principal. The student's work was malicious in nature. An apology isn't going to make up for the harm that was done.
To quote the great Dennis Miller, "Life is tough, get a helmet."
I agree that this was a juvenile and "typically teenager" thing to do, but this guy is out of his mind by reacting in the way that he is (and has). I mean, come on, "emotionally distraught"?? Geez, who in this world hasn't been the target of some form of ridicule/satire/mockery? Sure he's got a right to be annoyed about it, but dude, they're teenagers, and you're their principal, they're going to hate you and make fun of you, that's probably in the job description.
I don't play WoW (or any MMORPG for that matter) so maybe I'm out of touch here. Why should it be that Blizzard feels they have the right to sue someone (individual or company) for finding a way to "cheat" at their game? I guess I'm having a hard time reconciling how this is realistically going to affect them. I understand their argument that this could devalue the experience of playing the game and thus create an environment where less people want to play for fear of having to play against bots, but isn't that presuming a lot?
Who's to say that they don't make the choice to implement some type of Captcha or equivalent method for keeping this out of gameplay? Why not consider the possibility that someone (individual or company) might find a way to take advantage of these bots to their advantage as a sort of backlash? (like figuring out automated players' responses to various events and then exploiting that, thus making the prospect of using the Glider less attractive to those who would) I guess I'm wondering, isn't this an awfully rash lawsuit? I confess, I am no legal expert, but I really wonder if this thing has merit, and I think being able to PROVE that their revenue stream is going to be majorly impacted is going to be a stretch at best.
How on earth did this get modded Insightful?? Care to tell me where you're going to get this gigantic mirror, and how you're going to get it there, and what happens when it gets broken? (imagine the bad luck)
From TFA: In all, it will cost about $100,000 to outfit a plane with less than 100 pounds of equipment, and the work can be done overnight by airline maintenance workers, AirCell says.
Paradoxically, he said, the change will reduce weight.
"We're putting in about 50 pounds of wiring and taking out about 200 pounds of other gear" including wireless antennae, wireless access points and thickened ceiling panels, said Sinnett.
So I'm wondering, what's changed? Are there key details being left out? Or is this just yet another tease of connectivity on a long flight without all the "what if's" being considered?
Pssssss...everyone knows this has been done
on
Hacking Our Five Senses
·
· Score: 0, Redundant
I still don't get it . . . Maybe you could use a car analogy.
Sure. If you park your car in a poorly lit parking lot/deck with no security and leave the top down with the key in the ignition and the stereo blaring with a giant sign on the windshield that says "Please steal me" and....
God-money I'll do anything for you God-money just tell me what you want me to God-money nail me up against the wall God-money don't want anything he wants it all
to just put them on straight commission-only? Then everyone wins. If they're not performing (and thus not generating any revenue for the company), the company doesn't have to pay them. If they're selling a lot, they get a piece of it and are thus motivated to continue to sell well and often.
It's like any other type of sales, the product is irrelevant. Just follow the money!
From TFA: Customer names and addresses were not included with any of the payment card data believed stolen from the Framingham systems, TJX said. Also, the company "generally" did not store Track 2 data from the magnetic stripe on the back of payment cards for transactions
Also from TFA: It is hard to know exactly what kind of data was stolen because a lot of the information accessed by intruders was deleted by the company in the normal course of business. "In addition, the technology used by the intruder has, to date, made it impossible for us to determine the contents of most of the files we believe were stolen in 2006," the company said.
Sounds like they're just desparately trying to control the obviously egregious oversights that happened here. It also sounds like they're still trying to figure out what has happened. To say that heads are rolling is probably the biggest understatement ever.
Slashdot Mirror
See, I think the ideas can be connected. Can you say "product pairing" and branding? If Kellogg's Raisin Bran can raise its visibility by exclusively using Sun Maid raisins, both companies benefit by essentially sharing their non-competing customer bases. In other words, if Dell can successfully get more people to use Ubuntu, they stand a good chance of benefiting from the Dell brand being associated with the Ubuntu "brand" and vice versa. It's a bit of a roundabout strategy, but I think it makes sense in a long term situation.
Dude, that's a pretty weak argument. I think an end user can handle pressing the up or down arrows at boot time to select the Ubuntu partition if they want to boot into it, GRUB ain't rocket science.
Sure they will. They're going to bet on the same morons they are now (that is, those who'll click on that crap and sign up for it). Besides, you can bypass that stuff now, by deleting it immeidately. Hell, you can wipe your hard drive and install whatever you want for an OS (either free from crap or loaded with it).
This part's probably true, but you know what, if we're going to see desktop Linux be well received by the masses, this is unfortunately an inevitability as companies look for ways to offset revenue losses or any "costs" associated with providing Linux as an alternative.
Agreed. Moreover, if Dell is REALLY interested in sparking the interest of "Joe Sixpack" in test driving Linux, I'd recommend they offer an option to have a desktop/laptop preconfigured to Dual Boot for the same price as a Windows Only machine. I agree with some of the other posters in that it's unlikely that your average user is going to be terribly interested in Linux preinstalled (unless there's a considerable price difference). If, however, there is the option to have a dual boot machine for the same price as a Windows Only machine, and both are equally supported by Dell, average PC users might take the plunge and try it out. What would they have to lose?
You mean like, oh I don't know, THERMOSTATS? With all due respect, I work in commercial real estate engineering, and we run a 1,000,000 sq ft campus with 6 buildings, all of which are controlled by a Building Automation System. I assure you, all of our zone thermostats are fully capable of determining whether a zone/space needs more/less air conditioning. As for the lights, they're all tied in to motion sensors with time delays. No motion for 20-30 minutes means lights go off (except for emergency egress lighting).
How does monitoring which IP addresses were on these networks necessarily imply that they were trading copyrighted material? The same goes for the 24,977 shared audio files, who can say that those weren't audio recordings of lectures given by professors, or poetry, or local bands trying to get promotion, etc? Hell, for that matter, who's to say they were music/movies at all? Couldn't they have been ISO's of Linux Distro's, JPG's of the topless drunk prom queen, PowerPoint presentations that study groups were collaborating on via the internet?
I realize that probably not everyone is innocent here, but in terms of PROOF, I just don't know about "facts" like these.
Have you tried Thingamablog? I love it. Easy, small, quick, works great whether you're hosting your blog locally or remotely.
AndthenIstartsomelyricsandyoucan'tbelieveI'msingin gandI'mneverfuckingstopingandI'malwaysfuckingsingi ng....
I hope after this reunion show, that we loyal fans of all things rocking will see the Clash of the Titans as the almighty Tap (the loudest band on earth) tours with Tenacious D (the greatest band on earth). Imagine the non-stop rocking!
While I agree that this is truly sound advice, I must interject that this is true for many, if not ALL jobs/fields.
Again, while I agree that there is certainly career longevity in going into the electrical field (especially Critical Electrical like Static Switches, UPS's, ATS's, etc), bear in mind that the "entry level" positions in this field also unfortunately require "doing crap jobs for a few years". The same experienced and well paid electrician you are thinking of was once the apprentice who had to crawl under disgusting houses to repair burnt wires or spent hours at 3 in the morning running conduit under a floor on a Saturday night because it had to be done while the UPS was offline.
I guess I'm saying, everyone has to pay their dues, regardless of the field. Additionally, while the electrical field (for example) might be a little better insulated from rapid changes in technology, I don't know that I can necessarily agree that it "contributes more to society". Unfortunately, IT (and all the workers in it) don't get nearly enough credit with how much their work contributes to society. It might not always feel like it while you're doing to work, but I bet that electrician feels the same way a lot of the time.
You could always use this.
This is an excellent point. While this is a tragic and inexcusable event, we should not allow our emotions and sympathy to blind us from glaring procedural mistakes (or complete lacks of policy). Where I work, we have just under 4000 employees on our campus, and we have VERY strict emergency/hazard communication procedures that we practice regularly. I'm not saying that the apparent lack of this is necessarily the cause in this particular case, but it's worth asking why in the world students had no idea there had been a shooting on campus until almost 2 hours later.
Imagine it like this: someone comes into your office 2 hours before you do and shoots someone there. You would naturally expect to know about it before waltzing in to work as though it were any other day, right? Why wasn't this the case here?
Ok, man, I swear this isn't a troll, but I have to know, what the heck, are you doing to these books?
I mean, it's none of my business, but do you have some insane reading technique?
This is an "industry standard" that is a little on the high side. Actually, if the datacenter is designed (and maintained) properly, it's actually quite reasonable to run closer to 33% as far as HVAC electrical loads go. I can tell you that at our datacenter, we've been trending these numbers since opening the building, and we've been hitting the 30-35% range consistently. In fact, this ratio has maintained even as equipment (i.e. servers, silos, etc) has been added to the floor. If the capacity is there and distributed properly, the building infrastructure should be able to handle the heat load.
I'm not sure I'd agree with you there either. The cooling oil may well be more efficient as the heat transfer is likely to be better with the increased surface area. While obviously, the same amount of the components' surface is exposed, you do get better heat transfer with a fluid than with air. This is evidenced by the presence of Water Cooled HVAC systems in Datacenters as opposed to DX (direct expansion). There's nothing wrong with DX, but it just plainly doesn't transfer heat as efficiently as water cooled applications go (DX is also limited as to how far the heat can be "moved" whereas chilled water, you're limited only by pump size and piping).
The pumps aren't where the major energy consumption comes from in the HVAC systems, it's the compressors. Particularly with the increased usage of Variable Frequency Drives on pumps and proper modulation via Building Automation, the circulation of the cooling fluid (in this case oil) should be negligable. While using the oil as the heat transfer vehicle doesn't inherently make this miraculously cheaper, it would likely build in more efficiency for heat transfer.
To quote the great Dennis Miller, "Life is tough, get a helmet."
I agree that this was a juvenile and "typically teenager" thing to do, but this guy is out of his mind by reacting in the way that he is (and has). I mean, come on, "emotionally distraught"?? Geez, who in this world hasn't been the target of some form of ridicule/satire/mockery? Sure he's got a right to be annoyed about it, but dude, they're teenagers, and you're their principal, they're going to hate you and make fun of you, that's probably in the job description.
I like that it's A Bill Gates. Makes me wonder if it's THE Bill Gates. Maybe this isn't such a big story after all.
I don't play WoW (or any MMORPG for that matter) so maybe I'm out of touch here. Why should it be that Blizzard feels they have the right to sue someone (individual or company) for finding a way to "cheat" at their game? I guess I'm having a hard time reconciling how this is realistically going to affect them. I understand their argument that this could devalue the experience of playing the game and thus create an environment where less people want to play for fear of having to play against bots, but isn't that presuming a lot?
Who's to say that they don't make the choice to implement some type of Captcha or equivalent method for keeping this out of gameplay? Why not consider the possibility that someone (individual or company) might find a way to take advantage of these bots to their advantage as a sort of backlash? (like figuring out automated players' responses to various events and then exploiting that, thus making the prospect of using the Glider less attractive to those who would) I guess I'm wondering, isn't this an awfully rash lawsuit? I confess, I am no legal expert, but I really wonder if this thing has merit, and I think being able to PROVE that their revenue stream is going to be majorly impacted is going to be a stretch at best.
"I must've....put a decimal in the wrong place. DAMMIT! I always do that!"
How on earth did this get modded Insightful?? Care to tell me where you're going to get this gigantic mirror, and how you're going to get it there, and what happens when it gets broken? (imagine the bad luck)
In all, it will cost about $100,000 to outfit a plane with less than 100 pounds of equipment, and the work can be done overnight by airline maintenance workers, AirCell says.
However, according to the article in this post
So I'm wondering, what's changed? Are there key details being left out? Or is this just yet another tease of connectivity on a long flight without all the "what if's" being considered?
I mean, come on, it's obvious.
Sure. If you park your car in a poorly lit parking lot/deck with no security and leave the top down with the key in the ignition and the stereo blaring with a giant sign on the windshield that says "Please steal me" and....
ah, forget it.
From TFA
...has always maintained that he was motivated by curiosity and that he only managed to get into the networks because of lax security.
So by that rationale, if I can kick in your front door to get into your house, is it your fault for not having a better door lock/frame?
God-money I'll do anything for you
God-money just tell me what you want me to
God-money nail me up against the wall
God-money don't want anything he wants it all
to just put them on straight commission-only? Then everyone wins. If they're not performing (and thus not generating any revenue for the company), the company doesn't have to pay them. If they're selling a lot, they get a piece of it and are thus motivated to continue to sell well and often.
It's like any other type of sales, the product is irrelevant. Just follow the money!
From TFA:
Customer names and addresses were not included with any of the payment card data believed stolen from the Framingham systems, TJX said. Also, the company "generally" did not store Track 2 data from the magnetic stripe on the back of payment cards for transactions
Also from TFA:
It is hard to know exactly what kind of data was stolen because a lot of the information accessed by intruders was deleted by the company in the normal course of business. "In addition, the technology used by the intruder has, to date, made it impossible for us to determine the contents of most of the files we believe were stolen in 2006," the company said.
Sounds like they're just desparately trying to control the obviously egregious oversights that happened here. It also sounds like they're still trying to figure out what has happened. To say that heads are rolling is probably the biggest understatement ever.