That sounds like a good idea. Some intrigue and puzzle solving might be fun. Toss in a bit of design/build that doesn't become an obsession for a grinder as well.
I played a lot of RPG before this whole *internet thing* came along. My favorite system was Rolemaster (http://www.ironcrown.com/index.php?page=igames/IntroRMC) one of my favorite things about that game was that all classes could buy all skills but at different costs. So a Wizard could buy Armour skills but it was crazy expensive. and so on with the other classes. There was also a non-profession profession with all skill costs at the baseline. My most diverse and character rich characters where always non-professions.
And why don't they have the missing fourth class? Doesn't anyone like to sneak? Isn't there a place for stealthy thief? Or I guess that would fall into the (avoid getting to zero category)
I guess you were using the "on-demand" pricing. If you use a reserved instance on a 3-year term you start at $4900 + $0.42/hour. I think this works out to only $15,937 over the three years which is less then half the $36k you quoted.
I am looking at a single smaller machine. My current dedicated server is ~$200/month. Thats about $7.5k over 3 years. The equivalent EC2 reserved instance is only $350+$0.03/hour. That's $788 total for 3 years or a tenth of the price! Sounds like a hot deal to me:)
Of course at this time you can only reserve Linux instances and I happen to need a windows one so I have to go with the on-demand prices:(
Look I am not saying that China are eco darlings. I am saying that it is pretty bad form on our part to say that we are not going to clean up our act unless they do. Its childish.
China is also far ahead of most of the west (Canada in particular) when it comes to bringing renewables online. They are home to the largest Solar energy company, have the largest solar and wind farms being developed and by all accounts moving faster in that direction than most.
Have their emissions been growing fast? Yes but in the last 25 years they have gone from having 60% of their population living on less then a $1/day to only 10% now. That is also the fastest poverty reduction in the history of the world. Could you imagine the US having 1 in 10 people living on $1/day?
So do you want their politicians to tell those 100 million Chinese still living under $1/day that they have to wait for their electricity due to climate change concerns so that WE can continue living high on the hog for a few more years? And you want this in the name of "fairness"?
Nation states may be where the regulations come from, but the ethics are per person. To be someone spewing our 20+ tons of GHG emissions a year being upset at those dirty Chinese spewing 5 ton each while that drag themselves out of abject poverty is the height of absurdity.
Under Kyoto we were supposed to reduce our emissions by an incredible modest 5.2% of 1990 levels. Instead our (Canada) emissions have gone up over 25%! Hard to demonstrate any kind of moral leadership when we can't even keep our word. I am ashamed for all of us.
btw: "carbon free economy" is short hand for "Green House Gas free energy production". It sure would be hard to have an economy free of all organic compounds.
Like my government in Canada complaining that it doesn't want to make a move and give an unfair advantage to china, and then hearing that the EU is having a hard time passing its laws because their industry complains that Canadian companies will have an unfair advantage.
Per person China uses less then a quarter of the emissions than we do and they have been doing it for 100 years less then us! Quite being such big babies!
Speaking of big babies, when industry wants something it makes announcements about brave and bold entrepreneurial spirit etc etc. When faced with a small amount of regulation they cry like old ladies about risk.
We here are an advanced western society. Technologically advanced with a well developed civil society, justice system and financial industry. If we can't handle changing to a carbon free economy who the hell can?
I say grow a pair and live up to your responsibilities.
Yes it is an unfortunately named website. I had read the book he references called "Hamlets Mill" and it was an excellent book which I recommend to anyone with an interest in History and/or literature.
Except that the oceans are reaching their limits. In fact according to the NOAA the oceans may stop being a sink soon and start releases CO2 back out into the atmosphere.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127163403.htm
*warning do not read if you possess a handgun or large bottle of sedatives.
I agree. In this case the insurance company could have used the information to see how many other patience relied on a diagnoses from the same doctor and perhaps launched an investigation into the doctor if they felt he was committing fraud. Or if they felt his diagnoses where hinky, they could have lodged a complaint with the collage of physicians and let them handle the matter.
But as you say it is not their place to reverse a diagnoses based on a few photos on facebook.
For me the problem comes a year after completing a project and the client calls and wants a change made.
Lets say the client wants something that sounds to them and you like a small change. How do you explain to them that it will take 1 hour to make the change and then 9 hours to conduct a thorough regression tests. Testing that is all the harder because you haven't worked with the code for over a year and it might take an hour or two to really get back into the groove of it.
Typically what I will do is spend a modest amount of time considering what the implications will be for the change. Then I preserve any code I am about to change with a comment about why I changed it.
It can be hard sometimes to find the middle ground between responsible development practices and not going broke:)
Oil sands and shales were never counted as oil reserves before. They were bitmum reserves. There is a world of difference between the two. The reclassifying of the Alberta oil Sands as "oil reserves" did a fine job of artificially inflating the worlds oil reserves.
If we start running short again, we can just reclassify the boreal forest as "future oil reserves". I don't see the problem.
Of course columnists are just bloggers. But, they are bloggers with lawyers and editors leaning over their shoulders ready to can their asses if they make shit up, liable anyone, or otherwise mis-represent the truth (well the editors version of truth anyway:).
Yes that and also it is still taking carbon from fossil fuels and adding it to the surface system. So it only delays releasing the carbon into the atmosphere until it hits a waste treatment centre in some city somewhere.
I can admit to shortcoming in a lot of M$ products. But MS SQL? Isn't it the one product from MS that not only does not suck but is actually pretty damn good?
Precisely. Is there some mysterious reason that there couldn't be a non-anonymous network within the open network. VPNAN? Virtual Public Non-Anonymous Network?
I think you are correct but it might be counter productive. GoogleBot obeys robots.txt so if the hacker listed the infected page in robots.txt google shouldn't ever request it. However, if you are a hacker and you have infected a page then I assume they want people to view it. Hiding the page from google probably lowers the number of visitors to an unacceptable low number.
Also, I think allot of infected pages are a result of SQL injection or simply dropping some cross-site scripting code into form field of completely insecure website. This is a lot more trivial than gaining enough access to the machine to modify the robots.txt file. If they had that kind of access they are probably already hosting a dozen of their own sites on your server and sending spam from it:)
However, I think your idea is sound in the context you presented it.
Now please excuse me, I have to scurry off and make sure my robots.txt file is set to deny-writes.
It was a few years ago but I heard someone on radio talking about using plants (modified maybe) to suck up the contaminants. Basically plant a bunch of blackberries that have a taste for XYZ, cut them down and transport them to your destruction facility. The idea was that this helped in the separation process.
Yes, I am sure that there are plenty of happy hackers knowing that their SQL injection or cross site scripting code is encrypted before being successfully injected.
Can't someone please berate me for developing web apps in ASP Classic. I know that my clients are happy because I always deliver the features they want on time and on budget and my apps always pass website security audits and are very stable and all but surely there must be someone out there who can tell me how wrong I am for using it.
He is offering evidence to warrant his claim. If the evidence is false his claim is not supported and should be tossed out unless better evidence is provided. So regardless of whether he knew the evidence was false or not his claim, and the law, should be discarded.
afaik the public through their elected representatives already posses the ability to revoke the charter of any company they feel is not acting in the best interest of the community.
Basically corporations exist at the pleasure of the people we just forgot how to exercise this control.
I was rather surprised to find this document at the USGS website. It calculates total sea level rise of 80m if we lose both Antartica and Greenland ice. 80m is a rather large number in this context don't you think?
http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs2-00/
I was happy to install and use SharePoint but as soon as I found that I couldn't add the info for my mailserver (mailenable) it lost all its luster.
I think Sharepoint is a fine program when used for purpose (Intranet). But you might as well call it an Exchange Add-on.
Where is support for iCal, rss, etc.
Sure it integrates with MS Outlook but Outlook is the devil himself so why would you want to? Burdening peoples PC and laptops with 2gb PST files instead of leaving mail on the server where it belongs causes heaps of problems IMHO.
If you purchase a safe for storing back up media, make sure its rated for it. Most fire safes are only rated to protect paper for x amount of time. Most computer storage media will melt much much sooner.
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That sounds like a good idea. Some intrigue and puzzle solving might be fun. Toss in a bit of design/build that doesn't become an obsession for a grinder as well.
I played a lot of RPG before this whole *internet thing* came along. My favorite system was Rolemaster (http://www.ironcrown.com/index.php?page=igames/IntroRMC) one of my favorite things about that game was that all classes could buy all skills but at different costs. So a Wizard could buy Armour skills but it was crazy expensive. and so on with the other classes. There was also a non-profession profession with all skill costs at the baseline. My most diverse and character rich characters where always non-professions.
And why don't they have the missing fourth class? Doesn't anyone like to sneak? Isn't there a place for stealthy thief? Or I guess that would fall into the (avoid getting to zero category)
I guess you were using the "on-demand" pricing. If you use a reserved instance on a 3-year term you start at $4900 + $0.42/hour. I think this works out to only $15,937 over the three years which is less then half the $36k you quoted.
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I am looking at a single smaller machine. My current dedicated server is ~$200/month. Thats about $7.5k over 3 years. The equivalent EC2 reserved instance is only $350+$0.03/hour. That's $788 total for 3 years or a tenth of the price! Sounds like a hot deal to me
Of course at this time you can only reserve Linux instances and I happen to need a windows one so I have to go with the on-demand prices
Look I am not saying that China are eco darlings. I am saying that it is pretty bad form on our part to say that we are not going to clean up our act unless they do. Its childish.
There is much good reading, and listening, concerning the ethics of the situation. http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/briefings/data/RSA_summary
China is also far ahead of most of the west (Canada in particular) when it comes to bringing renewables online. They are home to the largest Solar energy company, have the largest solar and wind farms being developed and by all accounts moving faster in that direction than most.
Have their emissions been growing fast? Yes but in the last 25 years they have gone from having 60% of their population living on less then a $1/day to only 10% now. That is also the fastest poverty reduction in the history of the world. Could you imagine the US having 1 in 10 people living on $1/day?
So do you want their politicians to tell those 100 million Chinese still living under $1/day that they have to wait for their electricity due to climate change concerns so that WE can continue living high on the hog for a few more years? And you want this in the name of "fairness"?
Nation states may be where the regulations come from, but the ethics are per person. To be someone spewing our 20+ tons of GHG emissions a year being upset at those dirty Chinese spewing 5 ton each while that drag themselves out of abject poverty is the height of absurdity.
Under Kyoto we were supposed to reduce our emissions by an incredible modest 5.2% of 1990 levels. Instead our (Canada) emissions have gone up over 25%! Hard to demonstrate any kind of moral leadership when we can't even keep our word. I am ashamed for all of us.
btw: "carbon free economy" is short hand for "Green House Gas free energy production". It sure would be hard to have an economy free of all organic compounds.
Like my government in Canada complaining that it doesn't want to make a move and give an unfair advantage to china, and then hearing that the EU is having a hard time passing its laws because their industry complains that Canadian companies will have an unfair advantage.
Per person China uses less then a quarter of the emissions than we do and they have been doing it for 100 years less then us! Quite being such big babies!
Speaking of big babies, when industry wants something it makes announcements about brave and bold entrepreneurial spirit etc etc. When faced with a small amount of regulation they cry like old ladies about risk.
We here are an advanced western society. Technologically advanced with a well developed civil society, justice system and financial industry. If we can't handle changing to a carbon free economy who the hell can?
I say grow a pair and live up to your responsibilities.
Yes it is an unfortunately named website. I had read the book he references called "Hamlets Mill" and it was an excellent book which I recommend to anyone with an interest in History and/or literature.
The four corners of the earth is better said as the four corners of the world and has nothing to do with a flat (square) earth.
The reference is astronomical. http://www.believeallthings.com/2810/corners-earth
Except that the oceans are reaching their limits. In fact according to the NOAA the oceans may stop being a sink soon and start releases CO2 back out into the atmosphere. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127163403.htm *warning do not read if you possess a handgun or large bottle of sedatives.
I agree. In this case the insurance company could have used the information to see how many other patience relied on a diagnoses from the same doctor and perhaps launched an investigation into the doctor if they felt he was committing fraud. Or if they felt his diagnoses where hinky, they could have lodged a complaint with the collage of physicians and let them handle the matter.
But as you say it is not their place to reverse a diagnoses based on a few photos on facebook.
For me the problem comes a year after completing a project and the client calls and wants a change made.
:)
Lets say the client wants something that sounds to them and you like a small change. How do you explain to them that it will take 1 hour to make the change and then 9 hours to conduct a thorough regression tests. Testing that is all the harder because you haven't worked with the code for over a year and it might take an hour or two to really get back into the groove of it.
Typically what I will do is spend a modest amount of time considering what the implications will be for the change. Then I preserve any code I am about to change with a comment about why I changed it.
It can be hard sometimes to find the middle ground between responsible development practices and not going broke
Oil sands and shales were never counted as oil reserves before. They were bitmum reserves. There is a world of difference between the two. The reclassifying of the Alberta oil Sands as "oil reserves" did a fine job of artificially inflating the worlds oil reserves.
If we start running short again, we can just reclassify the boreal forest as "future oil reserves". I don't see the problem.
I think you are missing the "reasonable accommodation" it sounds like this fellow suggested several to them already.
Of course columnists are just bloggers. But, they are bloggers with lawyers and editors leaning over their shoulders ready to can their asses if they make shit up, liable anyone, or otherwise mis-represent the truth (well the editors version of truth anyway :).
Yes that and also it is still taking carbon from fossil fuels and adding it to the surface system. So it only delays releasing the carbon into the atmosphere until it hits a waste treatment centre in some city somewhere.
I am curious, is the cost of the chain and doing your own redundent Q&A still cheaper then buying elseware?
I can admit to shortcoming in a lot of M$ products. But MS SQL? Isn't it the one product from MS that not only does not suck but is actually pretty damn good?
Precisely. Is there some mysterious reason that there couldn't be a non-anonymous network within the open network. VPNAN? Virtual Public Non-Anonymous Network?
I think you are correct but it might be counter productive. GoogleBot obeys robots.txt so if the hacker listed the infected page in robots.txt google shouldn't ever request it. However, if you are a hacker and you have infected a page then I assume they want people to view it. Hiding the page from google probably lowers the number of visitors to an unacceptable low number.
:)
Also, I think allot of infected pages are a result of SQL injection or simply dropping some cross-site scripting code into form field of completely insecure website. This is a lot more trivial than gaining enough access to the machine to modify the robots.txt file. If they had that kind of access they are probably already hosting a dozen of their own sites on your server and sending spam from it
However, I think your idea is sound in the context you presented it.
Now please excuse me, I have to scurry off and make sure my robots.txt file is set to deny-writes.
It was a few years ago but I heard someone on radio talking about using plants (modified maybe) to suck up the contaminants. Basically plant a bunch of blackberries that have a taste for XYZ, cut them down and transport them to your destruction facility. The idea was that this helped in the separation process.
So is there anything to that? or is it just bunk?
Yes, I am sure that there are plenty of happy hackers knowing that their SQL injection or cross site scripting code is encrypted before being successfully injected.
I feel so lonely.
Can't someone please berate me for developing web apps in ASP Classic. I know that my clients are happy because I always deliver the features they want on time and on budget and my apps always pass website security audits and are very stable and all but surely there must be someone out there who can tell me how wrong I am for using it.
He is offering evidence to warrant his claim. If the evidence is false his claim is not supported and should be tossed out unless better evidence is provided. So regardless of whether he knew the evidence was false or not his claim, and the law, should be discarded.
afaik the public through their elected representatives already posses the ability to revoke the charter of any company they feel is not acting in the best interest of the community.
Basically corporations exist at the pleasure of the people we just forgot how to exercise this control.
I was rather surprised to find this document at the USGS website. It calculates total sea level rise of 80m if we lose both Antartica and Greenland ice. 80m is a rather large number in this context don't you think? http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs2-00/
I was happy to install and use SharePoint but as soon as I found that I couldn't add the info for my mailserver (mailenable) it lost all its luster.
I think Sharepoint is a fine program when used for purpose (Intranet). But you might as well call it an Exchange Add-on.
Where is support for iCal, rss, etc.
Sure it integrates with MS Outlook but Outlook is the devil himself so why would you want to? Burdening peoples PC and laptops with 2gb PST files instead of leaving mail on the server where it belongs causes heaps of problems IMHO.
If you purchase a safe for storing back up media, make sure its rated for it. Most fire safes are only rated to protect paper for x amount of time. Most computer storage media will melt much much sooner.