How about instead of paper, you'd have your own Kindle-type device. Except unlike Amazon's version, you'd have bluetooth to push presentation docs to everyone. And wifi, for grabbing content of the Intranet. Paper!? We don't need no stickin' paper!
I've worked with several large IP transit providers who don't always filter prefixes properly, either due to technical or bureaucratic reasons. Simply look at the problem YouTube ran into when a Pakistan ISP tried to blackhole YouTube only in Pakistan, but due to prefixes not being filtered properly, their announcement propagated out to the net.
While I'm glad you've been able to work with organizations that filter prefixes properly, it doesn't always work out the way you've experienced.
On the other hand, if Hans serves his time and finds out where she ran off to (if she wasn't murdered), there might not be too pleasant of an outcome (double jeopardy and all that jazz).
I think a lot of people like seeing the technology and how it could make life better/more interesting/whatever when used outside of a military context.
Agreed. I also think for us Slashdot types (IT and engineering folk), there's an "awww that's cool" factor. Where else but the military are they going to build a vehicle capable of Mach 3 that supposedly can reach 50 miles+ of altitude, evades surface to air attacks by simply speeding up, and can travel coast to coast in under 60 minutes (with a running head start, of course).
Although war is bad (though, depending on your viewpoint, a necessary evil), some of the tools of war (UAVs, etc) are engineering marvels. An example would be the SR-71 blackbird.
Mailtrust rocks. I don't use their Exchange offering, just the standard mail offering for a couple hundred clients, but their customer service is excellent and the pricing is just right.
At $100/user, it still out of the grasp of most small businesses. Makes more sense from a cash flow perspective to pay $5-10/month/user (as capital is usually tight at most small businesses). Call me when you can ASP license it monthly like you can with Exchange.
At least Ubuntu has community support, whereas XP will have no support?
Wow. Community support. I'm sure that has tons of SLAs associated with it. As long as I've got the cash, Microsoft is gonna support XP, even if I have to pay for the calls/issues.
I'm no expert in climatology, but I've done enough hobbyist research to understand the amount of joules it requires to raise the average temperature of a planet 1 degree Fahrenheit. Suffice it to say, I'm terrified of things to come.
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When I worked for a large technology consulting firm in Chicago, I was issued thousands of stock options although the company stock wasn't public. When I tendered my resignation, I was offered the opportunity to purchase the stock at the current valuation. One of the conditions was that if I sold the private stock to someone else, the company has to approve the transaction.
Getting wealthy in IT, then dumping the cash into bioresearch. It'll be faster than me relearning the wheel while others are already working on the problems.
You my friend need a lesson in patent law and the Tesla Roadster.
First, when someone sinks millions or billions of dollars into R&D, and than patents the resulting technology, you don't get the pleasure of buying the end product, reverse engineering it, and then making/selling said products yourself for pennies on the dollar. If patented, it's illegal, and personally I think people who think that's OK to do the above should be dragged out back for a "conversation".
Second, Tesla Motors (or more specifcally, Elon Musk) has sunk $35-$50 million dollars into R&D for the Roadster. If, like you say, "there's not really much innovation in the Tesla", why the hell aren't billion dollar car manufacturers churning them out by the train-car loads? Better yet, if it's "just a Prius with a casemod and a Coolermaster", why aren't you building one? Because the design wasn't easy and someone had to sink money and time into researching how to mate all the technology together and provide a consumer-friendly product.
Only on Slashdot can the majority of users bitch and complain about intellectual property law, yet most of said Slashdot users' employers exist because intellectual property law exists.
Bingo. And after Musk got hosed by the whole Paypal fiasco, I doubt he's going to let Fisker pull this crap based on principal alone, no matter how much he has to spend to fight him.
But for write few, read many data warehousing tasks, SSDs are an enourmous benefit. Think about Google, where the filesystem is optimized for reading due to large files being created and read from all the time for search results (yet the files aren't constantly rewritten). Or think about Netflix needing a huge video library to serve movies over the web. The movie content isn't changing, so it would make sense to have huge libraries of SSDs that save power by not spinning, get written to once with a block of movies at a time, and get read from all the time from customer devices.
SSDs have their place now. And they're only going to get more popular as the price comes down.
I agree that nuclear is not a perfect solution, but it is the best solution. There are only so many rivers to damn up, and I can't flip the wind on when I need it.
CO2 has the lowest CO2 emissions compared to coal and natural gas (the only other practical base load generation facility types in the US. Also, nuclear material can be recycled without the need to dispose of it through the use of Breeder reactors:
A breeder reactor is a nuclear reactor that consumes fissile and fertile material at the same time as it creates new fissile material. These reactors were initially (1950's and 1960's) considered appealing due to their superior fuel economy; a normal reactor can consume less than 1% of the natural Uranium that begins the fuel cycle, whereas a breeder can use much more with a once-through cycle and nearly all of it with reprocessing. Also, breeders can be designed to utilize Thorium, which is more abundant than Uranium. Renewed interest is also due to the dramatic reduction in waste they produce and especially long-lived radioactive waste components.
The only reason we currently don't reuse nuclear fuel and use a once-through method is because Jimmy Carter enacted legislation during his administration to prevent it (due to his thoughts on nuclear material proliferation).
I'm unfamiliar with the nuclear power plants in Scotland, but I have to disagree with your statement that they go off-line unpredictably and for long periods (your case excluded). I surfed around the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission [http://www.nrc.gov/] website for half an hour, and the only failure of a reactor in the US was Three Mile Island [http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html]. Other than that, most reactors in the US hum away day and night, some for over 20 years. Nuclear is a low-carbon power source, and it's not that dangerous if handled properly. Unfortunately, renewables aren't going to be able to supply 100% of our power (at least here in the US), so luckily we can fall back on nuclear to provide our base load reliably.
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*goes home to work on hacking his Kindle*
While I'm glad you've been able to work with organizations that filter prefixes properly, it doesn't always work out the way you've experienced.
You don't need to control a backbone to announce an AS number and a chunk of address space.
On the other hand, if Hans serves his time and finds out where she ran off to (if she wasn't murdered), there might not be too pleasant of an outcome (double jeopardy and all that jazz).
Agreed. I also think for us Slashdot types (IT and engineering folk), there's an "awww that's cool" factor. Where else but the military are they going to build a vehicle capable of Mach 3 that supposedly can reach 50 miles+ of altitude, evades surface to air attacks by simply speeding up, and can travel coast to coast in under 60 minutes (with a running head start, of course).
Although war is bad (though, depending on your viewpoint, a necessary evil), some of the tools of war (UAVs, etc) are engineering marvels. An example would be the SR-71 blackbird.
Mailtrust rocks. I don't use their Exchange offering, just the standard mail offering for a couple hundred clients, but their customer service is excellent and the pricing is just right.
At $100/user, it still out of the grasp of most small businesses. Makes more sense from a cash flow perspective to pay $5-10/month/user (as capital is usually tight at most small businesses). Call me when you can ASP license it monthly like you can with Exchange.
Wow. Community support. I'm sure that has tons of SLAs associated with it. As long as I've got the cash, Microsoft is gonna support XP, even if I have to pay for the calls/issues.
OS Security != Application Securty
My friend, the bill has already come due. We just haven't realized it yet.
I'm no expert in climatology, but I've done enough hobbyist research to understand the amount of joules it requires to raise the average temperature of a planet 1 degree Fahrenheit. Suffice it to say, I'm terrified of things to come.
When I worked for a large technology consulting firm in Chicago, I was issued thousands of stock options although the company stock wasn't public. When I tendered my resignation, I was offered the opportunity to purchase the stock at the current valuation. One of the conditions was that if I sold the private stock to someone else, the company has to approve the transaction.
Getting wealthy in IT, then dumping the cash into bioresearch. It'll be faster than me relearning the wheel while others are already working on the problems.
Ahh! So I'm not the only person who feels the same way. W00t.
(with apologies to BSG)
Wiki is the hammer used on everything because many believe open collaboration is the key to the success of many different projects and ideas.
First, when someone sinks millions or billions of dollars into R&D, and than patents the resulting technology, you don't get the pleasure of buying the end product, reverse engineering it, and then making/selling said products yourself for pennies on the dollar. If patented, it's illegal, and personally I think people who think that's OK to do the above should be dragged out back for a "conversation".
Second, Tesla Motors (or more specifcally, Elon Musk) has sunk $35-$50 million dollars into R&D for the Roadster. If, like you say, "there's not really much innovation in the Tesla", why the hell aren't billion dollar car manufacturers churning them out by the train-car loads? Better yet, if it's "just a Prius with a casemod and a Coolermaster", why aren't you building one? Because the design wasn't easy and someone had to sink money and time into researching how to mate all the technology together and provide a consumer-friendly product.
Only on Slashdot can the majority of users bitch and complain about intellectual property law, yet most of said Slashdot users' employers exist because intellectual property law exists.
Bingo. And after Musk got hosed by the whole Paypal fiasco, I doubt he's going to let Fisker pull this crap based on principal alone, no matter how much he has to spend to fight him.
Thank you!
SSDs have their place now. And they're only going to get more popular as the price comes down.
I agree that nuclear is not a perfect solution, but it is the best solution. There are only so many rivers to damn up, and I can't flip the wind on when I need it.
Correction: Nuclear has the lowest CO2 emissions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor
A breeder reactor is a nuclear reactor that consumes fissile and fertile material at the same time as it creates new fissile material. These reactors were initially (1950's and 1960's) considered appealing due to their superior fuel economy; a normal reactor can consume less than 1% of the natural Uranium that begins the fuel cycle, whereas a breeder can use much more with a once-through cycle and nearly all of it with reprocessing. Also, breeders can be designed to utilize Thorium, which is more abundant than Uranium. Renewed interest is also due to the dramatic reduction in waste they produce and especially long-lived radioactive waste components.The only reason we currently don't reuse nuclear fuel and use a once-through method is because Jimmy Carter enacted legislation during his administration to prevent it (due to his thoughts on nuclear material proliferation).
I'm unfamiliar with the nuclear power plants in Scotland, but I have to disagree with your statement that they go off-line unpredictably and for long periods (your case excluded). I surfed around the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission [http://www.nrc.gov/] website for half an hour, and the only failure of a reactor in the US was Three Mile Island [http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html]. Other than that, most reactors in the US hum away day and night, some for over 20 years. Nuclear is a low-carbon power source, and it's not that dangerous if handled properly. Unfortunately, renewables aren't going to be able to supply 100% of our power (at least here in the US), so luckily we can fall back on nuclear to provide our base load reliably.