Its funny you mention the micro-USB adapter. On my desk my Mac has 2 Thunderbolt -> DVI adapters sticking out of the, power adapter and a USB -> Ethernet adapter. While my Dell gets dropped into the dock and "just works". I can't imagine how Steve ever thought this was an acceptable solution. Maybe its time that we standardize on a dock configuration so that its not just Lenovo and the enterprise class Dells that have ports for this.
UWB seems like a good solution!
It'll be a long slow death, commercial aviation has been in this position for decades and most commercial ops still require a crew of 2. There are a lot of factors that can go wrong, especially when co-mingling autonomous and non-autonomous vehicles. What you will see though is wage pressure and those jobs will pay less.
I can see how the alternator and starter were removed and replaced with more modern components leveraging the electric assist, Keep in mind that the timing belt did not go through this kind of transformation.
Instead the designers used a timing chain instead of a timing belt, this is a common design practice across ICEs and shouldn't be attributed to the electric motor.
I actually invite automatic and 0-tollorance speed enforcement. This is for a couple of reasons 1) I'd like to see the speed limits changed to what people actually go but the casual enforcement doesn't get people outraged that the speed limit on a road designed for 75 is 55 (US Rt3 in MA) 2) This puts an end speeding tickets as revenue enhancers for the town/city/county/state as the incidences of speeding would drop considerably 3) Its very infrequent that someone going egregiously fast actually gets pulled over, which is a true safety problem. This would address that.
Every law enforcement agency in the land has learned the value of sensationalizing the war on drugs. Every time they take more than an ounce of pot off a college kid there's on the news talking about what a great bust this was. Given that in the last 11 years passengers en route have subdued no less than 3, people in a position to take down the plane :
Shoe bomber
Underwear bomber
Nutzo pilot on Jet Blue
Clearly passengers and crew can handle a wide range of threats in the air. During this time TSA has had exactly 0 of these kinds of press conferences regarding stoping a plot AT the airport what value is the TSA adding again?
On a side note air-charter (14 CFR Part 135) opperators do not have their passengers screened by the TSA, were never required to install bullet proof doors at the cockpit and can and do opperate the same aircraft types that scheduled air cariers opperate.
Civilian __TRANSPORT__ category aircraft certified under 14CFR25 which are most large commercial aircraft (Dash8, 767, etc...) are able to takeoff and climb on a single engine. Light twins (Piper Semonole, Cessna 310) generally are not, as the 2nd engine just buys you time until the forced landings.
This is interesting since the F/A18 would be considered to have longitudinal thrust as neither engine inop can put the aircraft into a spin below a critical speed.
Infact I can't remember the last time I saw a TSA press conference where they were claiming victory for foiling a plot to down an airplane. I can remember quite vividly at least 3 occasions in which triumphant passengers subdued lunatics that could have downed airplanes.
How bout we leave the security to the people who's asses are on the line and send the not-quite-good-enough-to-be-a-cops home?
They're already taking care of this for minor offenses in Massachusetts. Want to contest a speeding ticket? Cough up 25 bucks just to get a hearing with a magistrate. Clearly innocent until proven guilty.
They say its to deter people from frivolously contesting tickets, if they charge $25 for a 10 minute appeal I wonder what they'd charge for a whole week's trial if people starting excersizing their rights in full.
http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrodesk/2011/09/mass-high-court-upholds-fees-for-traffic-ticket-appeals/UxDFWrKT8yeNDmGMa1y41H/index.html
I always look to the "not in my job description" work as an opportunity to grow, either by acquiring new skills for use within the organization or to use on my resume for my next organization.
With "lots of down time" I would question how many of the agreed upon hours were actually performed each week and if what you call off the clock time is actually off the clock. In organizations I've run we don't do 9-5, in fact I don't really care when most people work as long as they actually __work__ and get their projects accomplished. The stars in my teams are the people who take it upon themselves to go out and find ways to improve the product, present them in a clear well stated proposal and then can work to implement them. The people who wait for work to be handed down from above aren't headed anywhere.
Think of the IT system as your product, you may work mainly in 1 area but you're clearly smart enough to think of ways to improve others. Its all about attitude, and this attitude that you're entitled to extra cash for working in other areas even though you already have "lots of down time" would cause me to run not walk you to the door.
Now with the attitude of pitching in and working to make the whole thing better, I would look at you as someone who "gets it" and probably look to help you move up in your career track provided you had done other impressive work. If you're looking to be an IT director some day this is the kind of work you'll be needing to do day in day out not just what you're asked to.
Actually most GA aircraft have a secondary static system which while less accurate because the input is in the cockpit instead of outside the plane is fully functional. For pressurized aircraft there are redundant ports on the outside of the craft. The difficulty is in determining the instrumentation failure and responding to it correctly. The private pilot training material is very specific about the kinds of issues that arrive from clogged pitot static ports.
I've been wondering what would happen if someone appeared to be visibly enjoying the pat down. Maybe instead of a boycott we should all have a mass fake orgasm day
So where is the responsibility to familiarise one's self with the vehicle you're driving? For years there were at least 2 common ways of engaging the high-beams in a passenger car one by pulling on the directional stick until it clicked the other by pushing it forward. HID changes are not uncommon and I would fault the driver for a lack of familiarity with the vehicle.
If you ask me... Intel, Bottling companies, and others like them, are creating the bulk of the scarcity problem, and they should foot the bill for the additional delivery infrastructure their presence is causing to be required.
I'm not sure how it works where you live but where I am water is metered as it exits the house or industrial facility. This discharge is billed at some rate determined by the local water delivery company. I assume (without any evidence) that China does the same thing. Which means that Intel and CocaCola DO pay for this use.
In addition it is China both as a society and the reigning party that gain something from the existence of Intel and CocaCola. It would be up them to determine if the gains outweigh the costs and ensuring that profit (as defined by them) is achieved from the relationship.
I'm also very very pro-nuclear and as I see it the NRC has 2 choices here:
1) get out in front of this, shut down the plant and show they're committed to safe nuclear power
2) keep Vermont Yankee operating despite being in violation of numerous EPA requirements and call all the doubters silly
I can't see #2 working as it will only fuel the anti-nuke crowd since they will be showing they're not even committed to safety with the plants we have now what happens when there are hundreds more. #1 I suspect is overly simplistic and you can't simply shut down a nuke plant by turning a light switch, sure you can drop the control rods and shut down the reactor but draining the plant is a non-trivial task.
That's great that you have that cache memory but it ends up being entirely unused for writes as you run in writethrough mode. Writes are the slow ops reads are significantly faster so by running in write through mode you're unnceessarily compromising the performance of your array. Most RAID controllers with battery backup are good for 3+ days of backup if you're so concerned about being power free for longer than that I suggest you need a generator my friend.
Also the VPN endpoint is a more security focused device IOW it specializes in allowing/disallowing access where as the database server specializes in fetching/storing gobs of information. If you are utilizing VPN and you disable a user's account they can't even get to the open database server's port to try to wreak havoc instead they get stopped by a presumably much more robust piece of access control software. If you don't use a VPN that user who's account has been disabled is left with several possibilities including trying to brute force it or using some other password that they can gain through social engineering because remember they can't get access using their credentials but they still have access to the open port.
The point is that the law may require fine tuning once passed and by making it sunset after a year requires the topic to be revisited for a variety of reasons including implimentability, unintended side effects, etc... Personally I think that all laws should sunset 3 years after initially passed and again at 50 years so that if there is no interest in renewing them they find their way off the books which avoids stupid laws like one in MA requiring all adult males to carry weapons to church. While I have faith that that law would have been renewed after 3 years I doubt it would have been renewed at 50 years. In the US we have the problem that many bills are signed into law with great fanfare but due to any number of reasons they are never enforced properly yet are never repealed leading to an unnecessarily complicated criminal code.
I've been using my EV-DO enabled cell phone for mobile data and can reliably get 1.2mbit downstream though I've forgotten what my upstream bandwidth is. This would seem like a reasonable possibility as you've stated that cell phones do work in your area. Linksys and Netgear both sell routers for the PC Card form factor mobile data cards.
Does anyone see this bringing a whole new meaning to phoning home? Think of all the data they could collect but owning the platform, they could mine where your contacts live how often you talk to each of them, all sorts of usagine information not relating to the phone depending on the feature set. This seems like a data miner's mother lode.
If you were a peon and you acted alone you should be punished, if you were told to do so by your manager or several peons worked together then the manager should get pulled in with the peons. Basically I'm advocating that if you misbehave in a way that a reasonable person would know is wrong at the behest of a supervisior then everyone should get some kind of punishment.
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Its funny you mention the micro-USB adapter. On my desk my Mac has 2 Thunderbolt -> DVI adapters sticking out of the, power adapter and a USB -> Ethernet adapter. While my Dell gets dropped into the dock and "just works". I can't imagine how Steve ever thought this was an acceptable solution. Maybe its time that we standardize on a dock configuration so that its not just Lenovo and the enterprise class Dells that have ports for this. UWB seems like a good solution!
It'll be a long slow death, commercial aviation has been in this position for decades and most commercial ops still require a crew of 2. There are a lot of factors that can go wrong, especially when co-mingling autonomous and non-autonomous vehicles. What you will see though is wage pressure and those jobs will pay less.
I can see how the alternator and starter were removed and replaced with more modern components leveraging the electric assist, Keep in mind that the timing belt did not go through this kind of transformation. Instead the designers used a timing chain instead of a timing belt, this is a common design practice across ICEs and shouldn't be attributed to the electric motor.
Credit Suisse did their own inhouse development that they spun off in DynamicOps which is now VMWare's vCAC product
I actually invite automatic and 0-tollorance speed enforcement. This is for a couple of reasons
1) I'd like to see the speed limits changed to what people actually go but the casual enforcement doesn't get people outraged that the speed limit on a road designed for 75 is 55 (US Rt3 in MA)
2) This puts an end speeding tickets as revenue enhancers for the town/city/county/state as the incidences of speeding would drop considerably
3) Its very infrequent that someone going egregiously fast actually gets pulled over, which is a true safety problem. This would address that.
Every law enforcement agency in the land has learned the value of sensationalizing the war on drugs. Every time they take more than an ounce of pot off a college kid there's on the news talking about what a great bust this was. Given that in the last 11 years passengers en route have subdued no less than 3, people in a position to take down the plane :
Shoe bomber
Underwear bomber
Nutzo pilot on Jet Blue
Clearly passengers and crew can handle a wide range of threats in the air. During this time TSA has had exactly 0 of these kinds of press conferences regarding stoping a plot AT the airport what value is the TSA adding again?
On a side note air-charter (14 CFR Part 135) opperators do not have their passengers screened by the TSA, were never required to install bullet proof doors at the cockpit and can and do opperate the same aircraft types that scheduled air cariers opperate.
Civilian __TRANSPORT__ category aircraft certified under 14CFR25 which are most large commercial aircraft (Dash8, 767, etc...) are able to takeoff and climb on a single engine. Light twins (Piper Semonole, Cessna 310) generally are not, as the 2nd engine just buys you time until the forced landings. This is interesting since the F/A18 would be considered to have longitudinal thrust as neither engine inop can put the aircraft into a spin below a critical speed.
Infact I can't remember the last time I saw a TSA press conference where they were claiming victory for foiling a plot to down an airplane. I can remember quite vividly at least 3 occasions in which triumphant passengers subdued lunatics that could have downed airplanes. How bout we leave the security to the people who's asses are on the line and send the not-quite-good-enough-to-be-a-cops home?
They're already taking care of this for minor offenses in Massachusetts. Want to contest a speeding ticket? Cough up 25 bucks just to get a hearing with a magistrate. Clearly innocent until proven guilty. They say its to deter people from frivolously contesting tickets, if they charge $25 for a 10 minute appeal I wonder what they'd charge for a whole week's trial if people starting excersizing their rights in full. http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrodesk/2011/09/mass-high-court-upholds-fees-for-traffic-ticket-appeals/UxDFWrKT8yeNDmGMa1y41H/index.html
I always look to the "not in my job description" work as an opportunity to grow, either by acquiring new skills for use within the organization or to use on my resume for my next organization. With "lots of down time" I would question how many of the agreed upon hours were actually performed each week and if what you call off the clock time is actually off the clock. In organizations I've run we don't do 9-5, in fact I don't really care when most people work as long as they actually __work__ and get their projects accomplished. The stars in my teams are the people who take it upon themselves to go out and find ways to improve the product, present them in a clear well stated proposal and then can work to implement them. The people who wait for work to be handed down from above aren't headed anywhere. Think of the IT system as your product, you may work mainly in 1 area but you're clearly smart enough to think of ways to improve others. Its all about attitude, and this attitude that you're entitled to extra cash for working in other areas even though you already have "lots of down time" would cause me to run not walk you to the door. Now with the attitude of pitching in and working to make the whole thing better, I would look at you as someone who "gets it" and probably look to help you move up in your career track provided you had done other impressive work. If you're looking to be an IT director some day this is the kind of work you'll be needing to do day in day out not just what you're asked to.
Actually most GA aircraft have a secondary static system which while less accurate because the input is in the cockpit instead of outside the plane is fully functional. For pressurized aircraft there are redundant ports on the outside of the craft. The difficulty is in determining the instrumentation failure and responding to it correctly. The private pilot training material is very specific about the kinds of issues that arrive from clogged pitot static ports.
I've been wondering what would happen if someone appeared to be visibly enjoying the pat down. Maybe instead of a boycott we should all have a mass fake orgasm day
Its pronounced like Fiat but with an See instead of an Fi. But I lived in Europe for a while
So where is the responsibility to familiarise one's self with the vehicle you're driving? For years there were at least 2 common ways of engaging the high-beams in a passenger car one by pulling on the directional stick until it clicked the other by pushing it forward. HID changes are not uncommon and I would fault the driver for a lack of familiarity with the vehicle.
If you ask me... Intel, Bottling companies, and others like them, are creating the bulk of the scarcity problem, and they should foot the bill for the additional delivery infrastructure their presence is causing to be required.
I'm not sure how it works where you live but where I am water is metered as it exits the house or industrial facility. This discharge is billed at some rate determined by the local water delivery company. I assume (without any evidence) that China does the same thing. Which means that Intel and CocaCola DO pay for this use. In addition it is China both as a society and the reigning party that gain something from the existence of Intel and CocaCola. It would be up them to determine if the gains outweigh the costs and ensuring that profit (as defined by them) is achieved from the relationship.
I'm also very very pro-nuclear and as I see it the NRC has 2 choices here: 1) get out in front of this, shut down the plant and show they're committed to safe nuclear power 2) keep Vermont Yankee operating despite being in violation of numerous EPA requirements and call all the doubters silly I can't see #2 working as it will only fuel the anti-nuke crowd since they will be showing they're not even committed to safety with the plants we have now what happens when there are hundreds more. #1 I suspect is overly simplistic and you can't simply shut down a nuke plant by turning a light switch, sure you can drop the control rods and shut down the reactor but draining the plant is a non-trivial task.
I call schinanigans on this, I have a 6spd VW and trust me it doesn't prevent you from using the throttle and brake at the same time
That's great that you have that cache memory but it ends up being entirely unused for writes as you run in writethrough mode. Writes are the slow ops reads are significantly faster so by running in write through mode you're unnceessarily compromising the performance of your array. Most RAID controllers with battery backup are good for 3+ days of backup if you're so concerned about being power free for longer than that I suggest you need a generator my friend.
Also the VPN endpoint is a more security focused device IOW it specializes in allowing/disallowing access where as the database server specializes in fetching/storing gobs of information. If you are utilizing VPN and you disable a user's account they can't even get to the open database server's port to try to wreak havoc instead they get stopped by a presumably much more robust piece of access control software. If you don't use a VPN that user who's account has been disabled is left with several possibilities including trying to brute force it or using some other password that they can gain through social engineering because remember they can't get access using their credentials but they still have access to the open port.
Ummmm those US troops didn't all volunteer there was a pretty sizable draft at the time too.
The point is that the law may require fine tuning once passed and by making it sunset after a year requires the topic to be revisited for a variety of reasons including implimentability, unintended side effects, etc... Personally I think that all laws should sunset 3 years after initially passed and again at 50 years so that if there is no interest in renewing them they find their way off the books which avoids stupid laws like one in MA requiring all adult males to carry weapons to church. While I have faith that that law would have been renewed after 3 years I doubt it would have been renewed at 50 years. In the US we have the problem that many bills are signed into law with great fanfare but due to any number of reasons they are never enforced properly yet are never repealed leading to an unnecessarily complicated criminal code.
As has been pointed out before their updates are to support the platform as manufactured by them, not as modified by you without their knowledge.
I've been using my EV-DO enabled cell phone for mobile data and can reliably get 1.2mbit downstream though I've forgotten what my upstream bandwidth is. This would seem like a reasonable possibility as you've stated that cell phones do work in your area. Linksys and Netgear both sell routers for the PC Card form factor mobile data cards.
Does anyone see this bringing a whole new meaning to phoning home? Think of all the data they could collect but owning the platform, they could mine where your contacts live how often you talk to each of them, all sorts of usagine information not relating to the phone depending on the feature set. This seems like a data miner's mother lode.
If you were a peon and you acted alone you should be punished, if you were told to do so by your manager or several peons worked together then the manager should get pulled in with the peons. Basically I'm advocating that if you misbehave in a way that a reasonable person would know is wrong at the behest of a supervisior then everyone should get some kind of punishment.