I've found the pre-emptive reboot will trigger hidden system problems, but at a time when you're actually ready for them, rather than at a time when they happen spontaneously ( 2:30 in the morning ).
Funny; 2:30am is when I tend to schedule maintenance on servers so that users don't experience downtime.
I would be just fine with Sony protecting their PSN by banning modded consoles. That's good for gamers and means pirates will probably not be able to play their copies for long online. The part I have a problem with is Sony's assumption that the hardware is intertwined with PSN and therefore must litigate to erase all knowledge of how to uncouple the two. Why should Sony care if I want to buy 3 consoles to start a small Pov-Ray rendering farm? There's nothing wrong with trying to erase Sony's software from the console. The bit that is wrong is trying to modify their software to allow pirated games or hacks on the PSN. Geohot did not reveal how to add infinate ammo cheats to Call Of Duty. He simply provided access to the hardware that was originally part of the design.
One thing I notice is that things never move as fast as bureaucrats want/declare them to. If they do succeed magically it's because one of two things happened. First; questionable practices, lack of transparency, or lack of industry input occurred. Second, what came out is a pile of poo or is drastically under scope of what the dream was. If success happens, everyone pats each other on the back and doesn't ask how it happened. If things fail or arn't the success they were hoping for, then it just gets swept under the rug.
If you throw money at the problem, that doesn't always fix things. In the software industry you can't just pull a developer out of a hat and get 100% productivity immediately to solve a federal ambition because someone gave you some money. Governments have to bid for resources just like any utility does. If more utilities are asking for software that works and does what they need today in the field, that's what is going to happen. If the government pulls the trump card (FERC, NERC, NARUC, PUCs), then it hurts the industry as a hole because that time that was going into awesome software is now forced into federal compliance instead.
The Great Zero Challenge only is targeting data recovering businesses, not governments. If the NSA really wanted the data on that drive they may be able to do it. However, if they did the general public wouldn't know.
My house has crappy upload speeds which are just fine for everyday browsing, but not seeding. Additionally with a larger number of connections my router tends to slow down. Finally, I'd prefer not to get caught up in MAFIAA dragnet lawsuits. Even if everything is legal, the burden of disproof against mercenary "experts" is time out of my day and pocketbook.
This all being said, as soon as I can provide a reasonable upload speed without fear of lawsuit I'll be glad to just leave my machine seeding for the benefit of humanity.
How about we just go ahead and call it "the unpronounceable symbol which stands for the project formerly known as OpenOffice.org". We could totally pick some obscure symbol in unicode and just let that be the new name (I'm thinking of you opensarcasm).
This sounds an awful lot like other patent/export issues we've had in the past. Linux support for WMV, MP3, or DVD codecs as well as SSL encryption are restricted in various countries for patent and export reasons; yet many successful projects have enabled users to make the choice on these features. If a linux user chooses not to pay the appropriate patent license fees, it's not the media player's fault that a user made that choice. Likewise, shouldn't Mozilla simply find a way to load this support as a plugin for those on the planet not bound by US patent trolls?
I wouldn't mind having my vehicle gauges and GPS moved onto my windshield. Additionally, it would be nice to play movies on it too (in park of course) since my car has a reasonable surround sound system and soundproofing.
While it is nice to be able to play with nice maps, the amount of extra effort to create/find/buy them is a deterrent. Our group does just fine with a laminated piece of posterboard and dry erase markers. It's extremely quick, reusable, and flexible in the amount of data it can hold. So until I see something actually marketed with that same set of features+, and I'm rich enough to afford it, it makes no difference. The only thing we can't do very well, and neither can a Surface interface is a 3 dimensional playing field.
The area where automation comes in the most handy is in the combat accounting. A more beneficial piece of software would be a projectable or multiview system in which information such as damage, status effects, turn order, and turn progression was displayed to everyone. It would mean no more having to ask who needs healing, or who's turn it is because somebody delayed their actions. The players are still in control of their own characters and the specific character accounting such as what powers have been used, but basic information such as maximum hit points and initiative are all that is required.
If you are interested in using an online dating site, there is basically only one important factor. The site that has the most people in your area. There are some really well-built, expensive, or high SNR sites out there. I'll leave out the commercial sites I've played with, but the freebie sites that I've used, and been pleased with, are PlentyOfFish and OkCupid.com. I've used craigslist as well, but got too much spam to pay attention to the good responses.
I would think something like nanotechnology or enhancing existing renewable energy sources. It would be really cool for consumer-grade solar power to actually create competition with the electric utility industry. As well as the extremely broad applications of nanomanufacturing and biotech that could be gained by learning to manipulate/control objects smaller than any current instruments can match.
I agree that the difficulties of preserving technological hardware are going to be more expensive than most are capable of (noble as it may be).
I would do as others have suggested and videotape the process of the hardware in operation. In addition however I would build a virtualized environment using purely open-source projects. That way you are preserving the memory of the physical actions, the real user/software interaction, and the code necessary to keep the project usable in the future.
Consider the case where someone wanted to preserve their commodore64 experience a long time ago. The hardware itself is scarce to find working even now at less than 50 years. The video would preserve the painstaking data entry and big cartridge mentality in the design. With modern virtualization technology, you could preserve any software environment in use today practically. This preserves the ability for future generations to develop and use these antiquated systems in the future for historical discovery. Additionally you would have to preserve a copy of the source code used to operate the virtualization software at the time in which the preservation is made. Giving people data formats that don't exist anymore is useless, but giving them the code needed to resurrect a working example has value. Even today, there are still ways for people to compile and execute programs written decades ago, provided they have the source.
After just graduating from a 4 year liberal arts institution, I believe some of the material in a standard CS degree can be taught to younger children and highschoolers.
For instance, you can teach younger children logic and problem solving skills by teaching a basic programming language. It would also be useful to teach upper-classmen things like basic algorithms and object-oriented design.
There are some aspects you would have a difficult time teaching in many cases, such as algorithm time complexity, extreme low level programming, or theoretical computation.
I don't see this as an attainable goal for the ACM to go after. Teachers just arn't equipped to teach this kind of material right now. The technology basis for CS was in its infancy and not generally accessible by the masses during the education of many of the teachers out there now. Also the recent graduates coming out of universities often only know how to use technology, not teach CS concepts. If this goes through CS teachers will join the ranks of chemistry, physics, calculus, and algebra teachers in shortage.
You're displaying things because upper management told you to do so. You're hiding things because you don't want the public to gather information about your infrastructure.
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I don't suspect the author was aware of Ksplice. You can actually perform kernel upgrades without a reboot.
I've found the pre-emptive reboot will trigger hidden system problems, but at a time when you're actually ready for them, rather than at a time when they happen spontaneously ( 2:30 in the morning ).
Funny; 2:30am is when I tend to schedule maintenance on servers so that users don't experience downtime.
I wonder if this might play into future decisions by GM.
I would be just fine with Sony protecting their PSN by banning modded consoles. That's good for gamers and means pirates will probably not be able to play their copies for long online. The part I have a problem with is Sony's assumption that the hardware is intertwined with PSN and therefore must litigate to erase all knowledge of how to uncouple the two. Why should Sony care if I want to buy 3 consoles to start a small Pov-Ray rendering farm? There's nothing wrong with trying to erase Sony's software from the console. The bit that is wrong is trying to modify their software to allow pirated games or hacks on the PSN. Geohot did not reveal how to add infinate ammo cheats to Call Of Duty. He simply provided access to the hardware that was originally part of the design.
Didn't the same thing happen to torrent-finder not long ago.
One thing I notice is that things never move as fast as bureaucrats want/declare them to. If they do succeed magically it's because one of two things happened. First; questionable practices, lack of transparency, or lack of industry input occurred. Second, what came out is a pile of poo or is drastically under scope of what the dream was. If success happens, everyone pats each other on the back and doesn't ask how it happened. If things fail or arn't the success they were hoping for, then it just gets swept under the rug.
If you throw money at the problem, that doesn't always fix things. In the software industry you can't just pull a developer out of a hat and get 100% productivity immediately to solve a federal ambition because someone gave you some money. Governments have to bid for resources just like any utility does. If more utilities are asking for software that works and does what they need today in the field, that's what is going to happen. If the government pulls the trump card (FERC, NERC, NARUC, PUCs), then it hurts the industry as a hole because that time that was going into awesome software is now forced into federal compliance instead.
The Great Zero Challenge only is targeting data recovering businesses, not governments. If the NSA really wanted the data on that drive they may be able to do it. However, if they did the general public wouldn't know.
My house has crappy upload speeds which are just fine for everyday browsing, but not seeding. Additionally with a larger number of connections my router tends to slow down. Finally, I'd prefer not to get caught up in MAFIAA dragnet lawsuits. Even if everything is legal, the burden of disproof against mercenary "experts" is time out of my day and pocketbook.
This all being said, as soon as I can provide a reasonable upload speed without fear of lawsuit I'll be glad to just leave my machine seeding for the benefit of humanity.
How about we just go ahead and call it "the unpronounceable symbol which stands for the project formerly known as OpenOffice.org". We could totally pick some obscure symbol in unicode and just let that be the new name (I'm thinking of you opensarcasm).
No, you get a contender to animatedGIF. After 5+ years of development and 3rd party toolkits, you might get flash.
This sounds an awful lot like other patent/export issues we've had in the past. Linux support for WMV, MP3, or DVD codecs as well as SSL encryption are restricted in various countries for patent and export reasons; yet many successful projects have enabled users to make the choice on these features. If a linux user chooses not to pay the appropriate patent license fees, it's not the media player's fault that a user made that choice. Likewise, shouldn't Mozilla simply find a way to load this support as a plugin for those on the planet not bound by US patent trolls?
I wouldn't mind having my vehicle gauges and GPS moved onto my windshield. Additionally, it would be nice to play movies on it too (in park of course) since my car has a reasonable surround sound system and soundproofing.
Hey, that's my information! I think I've been haxor'd!
The concept of a tab based OS has been done before with Windows 3.1 & 95 when Xerox introduced their TabWorks GUI.
While it is nice to be able to play with nice maps, the amount of extra effort to create/find/buy them is a deterrent. Our group does just fine with a laminated piece of posterboard and dry erase markers. It's extremely quick, reusable, and flexible in the amount of data it can hold. So until I see something actually marketed with that same set of features+, and I'm rich enough to afford it, it makes no difference. The only thing we can't do very well, and neither can a Surface interface is a 3 dimensional playing field.
The area where automation comes in the most handy is in the combat accounting. A more beneficial piece of software would be a projectable or multiview system in which information such as damage, status effects, turn order, and turn progression was displayed to everyone. It would mean no more having to ask who needs healing, or who's turn it is because somebody delayed their actions. The players are still in control of their own characters and the specific character accounting such as what powers have been used, but basic information such as maximum hit points and initiative are all that is required.
If you are interested in using an online dating site, there is basically only one important factor. The site that has the most people in your area. There are some really well-built, expensive, or high SNR sites out there. I'll leave out the commercial sites I've played with, but the freebie sites that I've used, and been pleased with, are PlentyOfFish and OkCupid.com. I've used craigslist as well, but got too much spam to pay attention to the good responses.
Good Luck.
I would think something like nanotechnology or enhancing existing renewable energy sources. It would be really cool for consumer-grade solar power to actually create competition with the electric utility industry. As well as the extremely broad applications of nanomanufacturing and biotech that could be gained by learning to manipulate/control objects smaller than any current instruments can match.
Sounds to me like a nice cover story... *puts on tinfoil hat*
It's good for parents to teach kids real life skills they will need when they get older.
I can mute the sounds from my phone pretty well by just covering the speaker with my thumb.
I agree that the difficulties of preserving technological hardware are going to be more expensive than most are capable of (noble as it may be).
I would do as others have suggested and videotape the process of the hardware in operation. In addition however I would build a virtualized environment using purely open-source projects. That way you are preserving the memory of the physical actions, the real user/software interaction, and the code necessary to keep the project usable in the future.
Consider the case where someone wanted to preserve their commodore64 experience a long time ago. The hardware itself is scarce to find working even now at less than 50 years. The video would preserve the painstaking data entry and big cartridge mentality in the design. With modern virtualization technology, you could preserve any software environment in use today practically. This preserves the ability for future generations to develop and use these antiquated systems in the future for historical discovery. Additionally you would have to preserve a copy of the source code used to operate the virtualization software at the time in which the preservation is made. Giving people data formats that don't exist anymore is useless, but giving them the code needed to resurrect a working example has value. Even today, there are still ways for people to compile and execute programs written decades ago, provided they have the source.
Little do they know they are being broadcast on Fox.
After just graduating from a 4 year liberal arts institution, I believe some of the material in a standard CS degree can be taught to younger children and highschoolers. For instance, you can teach younger children logic and problem solving skills by teaching a basic programming language. It would also be useful to teach upper-classmen things like basic algorithms and object-oriented design. There are some aspects you would have a difficult time teaching in many cases, such as algorithm time complexity, extreme low level programming, or theoretical computation.
I don't see this as an attainable goal for the ACM to go after. Teachers just arn't equipped to teach this kind of material right now. The technology basis for CS was in its infancy and not generally accessible by the masses during the education of many of the teachers out there now. Also the recent graduates coming out of universities often only know how to use technology, not teach CS concepts. If this goes through CS teachers will join the ranks of chemistry, physics, calculus, and algebra teachers in shortage.
It's called failover and high availability.
You're displaying things because upper management told you to do so. You're hiding things because you don't want the public to gather information about your infrastructure.
Pretty simple to me.