Probably not. It's most likely looking at server thermal output, server utilization, and the delta between the cold isle and the warm isle to figure out exactly how much cooling needs to be applied to what areas.
While this is awesome, it's light on details. I assume they loaded their datacenter with all kinds of sensors and have an advanced HVAC system that can mix external air when desired. So you look at current server load, predicted load based on past patterns, external temp, predicted external temp, along with internal temp, and then decide what air supply and cooling mix to use. So if you have CRAC units that are more advanced than on/off, and can use outside air with add/remove humidity, you can really draw down your cooling power usage.
What is upsetting, is that this technology isn't making it's way to Nest. Nest doesn't learn, often I'm adjusting as the humidity in the house goes up or down, so I adjust the AC. It doesn't learn my patterns, it just adds in more program points, which don't always apply. Oh, and if I leave it off and need to cool it from 85 to 70, what is the estimated time? 2+. Always 2+. It never actually figures out how long it will take for any value above 2 hours. It's marketed as this "deep learning" product for home HVAC, and it really isn't. I would love to see advances in commercial HVAC controls make their way to homes, but it's just not happening.
Look at any 4K TV listen on amazon and find just one that isn't "SMART". I just did and failed. You position like it's a choice when beyond basic TV's it's not a choice. It's becoming a forced option like power locks & windows. My blue-ray player is "smart". I haven't used those features since I got it. I wish they would have taken the $100 of components and dev time to put towards the primary function, play bluerays. I would love if mono-price came out with a 4k TV that was just a TV. Even if they took the money for SMART functions and put it towards extra ports or better clarity, I'd be happy.
This is becoming a non-choice for many consumers and I don't like it. Which is why I haven't gone 4k yet. I would today if that were different.
Yeah, except that AT&T & the rest still advertise "unlimited XGB" despite it being an oxymoron.
No, what goads me is that the prosecution over false advertisement is very arbitrary in general. Or at least on the cover seems that way given the amount of products out there that literally cannot work as advertised.
Wait, let me get this straight, you can sell herbal supplements with the same claim and weak/non-existent scientific support and be in the clear, but this is worthy of a fine? Or how about selling "unlimited" data plans that are explicitly NOT unlimited, and not be hit with false advertising either?
Oh, wait. I forgot what country this was. They probably didn't give the right bribes out to be in the clear. NM, nothing to see here.
What we need is a data-delivery interoperability standard that shares info between the consumer, provider, and the network.
Rate Limiting sucks because you have to keep the session longer. It actually helps T-Mobile (or any provider) to have you transfer a small file as quick as possible & then shut the connection down. Then there is less session management that has to occur (like what if you're moving between towers). But what that means is that they have to partner with providers on how to handshake the video quality. So you move 480 at LTE speeds and it solves many problems. People hate long load times more than they hate lower quality, you have to do more network management the longer the session has to occur, and the provider has to scale to allow more concurrent connections. What we really need is a good open standard to help facilitate this kind of interoperability. True, it should "just work" for me to select 480 on youtube and I don't get charged. But there is no mechanism to give TMo that info that wouldn't be an infringement on our privacy.
Given that they charge nothing to partner and are open to anyone who is willing to work with them, I don't see it as a problem. I do see it as an engineering challenge to solve this at scale so that it can become "automatic".
This would make so much more sense. Then we can look at actual waste issues and tackle those in a sane matter (radiated parts, debris, etc). Who actually benefits from a no-recycle policy? Miners? Coal & Gas industry? Do regular people have a net benefit or net loss to a no-recycle policy?
I say save a mountain, recycle spent fuel. Prevent an accident, recycle spent fuel. Prevent storing highly radioactive material, recycle spent fuel.
Sure the average is higher, but you can still buy new systems that are that small. Its good I can stuff them in a time (except drive space) VM's and do virtual desktops. Keeping it efficient gives us more to do. Now, if you wanted to have tune points that enable or disable features according to hardware you could make that case. But I do like that Win10 preview was the easiest OS install I've ever done.
I know you're new to the linux world, but while you're at it, dive into the BSD realm while you're at it.
You can do Firewalling with packet filter instead of iptables (better session tracking). BSD is generally better as a network appliance than linux for a number of reasons, and for firewalling especially. Better session tracking, better dynamic protocol handling, better error and flow control, and generally more robust. Iptables is powerful, but it has its downsides that can be felt these days with higher network speeds, IPv6, and dynamic network protocols which is why the linux kernel is moving away from it to NFTables. But NFTables is not yet complete, hence we circle back to BSD with its pf package.
pfSense offers exactly what you're looking for and probably more. It provides a gui and cli to manage the device and a robust user/support community. Beyond firewalling you can do proxy, captive portal, VPN, DNS, DHCP, NAT, IPS/IDS, and a whole lot more. It has a webGUI and sets up in all of about 10 minutes.
It packs all of the features you would see on "enterprise class" firewalls, just open source.
https://www.pfsense.org/
Encrypts the file, has a portable exe for simple use, and wipes the password out of clipboard when the program is closed. You can set password complexity requirements on the random generation either for all passwords, a group of passwords, or a single password. Set password aging if you have to, and make notes on each password entry. I use it extensively and it is a great convenience.
I have a Thermaltake 5.25" drive bay cup-holder/cigarette lighter. How is it that there is more of a market demand for THAT than a braille printer? Or all of the other useless tech junk out there? I remember sitting next to a blind pastor on a flight. He was trying to use his laptop, but was having some difficulty because of a program error. We just haven't built these awesome "freedom machines" to be really utilized by anyone with handicaps. All the gaming keyboards, mice, and other gee-wiz devices have more of a market to flood with "mee-to" crap, yet not one real piece of assistance tech in all of MicroCenter or NewEgg? Really?
The real point, and what makes it interesting, is that is was a 12 year-old who built the thing from Lego's and spare junk. He saw a need, and went to fill it. Good on him, that is the point of these science fair projects, make kids think about the world around them and how to solve problems, even simple ones. Hopefully it sets an example as to how we should be thinking about the world; as a place filled with people who have needs and desires. With these types of kits making it into the homes of regular people, I look forward to the engineering boom that could come out of it. I say an arduino, pi, makerbot, and lego mindstorm for every kid. Let their imagination run wild.
Why is everyone in such a rush to spend huge wads of money and violate privacy to protect American Copyright industry interests? When will the world stand up to the US?
Seems to me that simple proxy or encryption usage will prevent this anyways. Don't the Aussies have better things to spend money on, like sourcing more fresh water or expanding internet coverage? Seems priorities are screwy if they are willing to go through all of this effort. I guess the corruption knows no boarders.
While true, they are limited in usefulness. The real point is that continuing education is not even really a focus of current colleges. Besides which, many graduate certificates carries their own "not really required" requirements and precludes community colleges, what most of us could actually afford out-of-pocket.
Background: I am an adjunct instructor and an IT professional. As such, this is a common discussion topic.
The education industry, meaning colleges and universities, need a way to "add on" additional skill emphasis to degrees without requiring whole new degrees. I think, instead of detracting from current products (associates, bachelors, masters degrees), this will add revenue abilities from lifetime learning requirements that tech people have.
This would allow people to add the 2-3 courses that they need to refresh their skills, get students into the halls paying tuition (out of pocket, or company money), allow current students to brush up and work with more experienced folks IN CLASS, and show what HR is looking for, current accredited skills improvement.
But we seem stuck in the past. So we have to suffer through $1,000 a day "boot camps" that still require you to do a lot of on-your-own learning. We NEED something better. Colleges, be they 4 year or community, need to have programs that carry through the whole career ladder for skills improvement. I think that will help all of us overcome the "no training dollars this year" dilemma we constantly find.
Here's the deal, there was hay made that the DoEd was making profits off of student loans, yet that isn't quite the problem that it seems to be. For a long time SS made a "profit" (income was greater than expenses). A DoEd that makes a "profit" means it doesn't have to borrow as much to lend to future students (theoretically). As long as it is saved and used to fund future students that is. The real issue is that is not what we are doing, and even for STEM degrees, many people in this country are paying a much larger percentage of their income to repay their education than the rest of the world.
The real issue is how they make these profits. Giant fees on default and late payments, no checks on degree mills that charge the maximum DoEd borrowing limit, and no way for students to "start over". It is unconscionable for these institutions (for profit or not) to be price gouging like they are and delivering so little in value in many cases. I honestly think that the current generation of students need & deserve debt relief; if for anything because of all of the deception that was played out by the education and education financing industry in the last 20 years.
Additionally, at the rate of change in most fields these days, the standard degree does not prepare you for a full career; eventually you are going to have to learn new things; possibly meaning more school. Lifetime learning models need to be developed, some kind of "advanced associates", bachelors+, or "advanced bachelors certificate" to allow prior graduates to add additional skills at their current level and demonstrate achievement. The education industry currently has few products that employees can put on a resume to demonstrate additional learning, and that is a problem for us.
What this really demonstrates is that America clearly lacks the policy innovation that the rest of the world has. We are stuck with old policies and constructs for no good reason other than the current crop of leaders have so little imagination that they can't come up with ways that both their big donation backers and the people can win. That's what previous generations had. Sure, there was always corruption, but they played the role of giving us something for it. Now it is just blatant, naked fleecing of the people. We need a better class of corrupt politicians really, these people aren't even fit for third world politics.
Plenty of veterans have never been in a combat zone. The American Legion allows any veteran with an honorable discharge to join. The VFW requires time in a recognized foreign combat zone.
So, while I could join the VFW because of my time in OIF, my uncle can't because he served during peace (80's & 90's) and did not see combat.
You know its funny, these guys once in a while get to a market too early, then because revenue is too weak, decide it isn't promising enough to invest in. Players enter the market (Nest, Google, etc) and it slowly starts to pick up steam. MBA's higher up decide it's been "long enough" so divest themselves of the endeavor. Mark my words, within the next 36 months there will be an explosion in that marketspace, some Verizon executive is going to scream "why didn't we see this" and then they will take 2 years reentering the market they tried to start.
This is why I laugh at large corporation "innovation".
But when I do, it's to protest Slashdot Beta.
Been on slashdot in one form or another since 2000. If Slashdot Beta is pushed to me, the final end date will be Feb 2014.
All of the news here can be gotten from my RSS reader, and is all of the articles are there anyways from the original sources. Everytime a new news sources is linked to by Slashdot, it goes into my RSS feed. I go to Slashdot for the community, even if I don't comment. Take that away, all I need is my RSS feed that I already have.
http://www.theunincorporatedman.com/
The book started off well, had some great, original concepts and ideas, but the characters were flat and the writing was..ok.
The big problem I had was the reasoning behind many character actions was "just because". Or they build up a series of actions to just then reverse themselves, and the big motivation reveal, "I like messing around". While promising to explore some meaty issues, it never actually did that.
However there is one particular scene involving a family in the book that I still have nightmares about. I actually had to step away from the book for about a week before I could pick it up again. It was tasteful, well done, and really advanced the story, and was the one real example of how well the authors could have done if they explained the other motivations in similar ways. It actually worked in making me question and change some views that I had before.
I recently interviewed for a very interesting position. I had to turn it down because of conflict-of-interest, but it was for an internal corporate training department. They evidently wanted to create a streamlined, formal way of providing continued education to their employees to allow them to move around and improve themselves. I was highly honored to have even been asked for such a position, and still wish I could take it.
That is the only organization that I've seen that actually thought further ahead than next fiscal statement. It's a real shame that internal training doesn't exist in more organizations. Or at least a closer partnership with local training organizations (colleges, tech centers, ect).
It seems that organizations these days want to put as little into their employees as possible and expect stellar performance. When exactly is the rest of the team supposed to learn the new technology that you send your golden child to training for? I see too often where people are not sent to training, or training isn't brought in house, because it's "too expensive", yet we are still expected to know the material. When exactly is that learning supposed to take place, and on what dime? Is it the two weeks a year you give me to get out of the office? Or on the salary that is destroyed by modern student loans?
More and more I support FOSS, it's the only way I can stay current in my field. Fuck the proprietary garbage with a walled off knowledge base.
Yeah, while they say that they are incorperating unversities as well, the list of corps and their prior uses of patents is what makes me cautious about cheering this on. CERN may be the last organization alive that just invents things and gives it away.
I really would like to see the US dangle large money like this for R&D, but with the string that it must be released public domain for all to use and enjoy. THAT would be a good use of tax dollars that is fair to everyone.
Both the tech that comes from it, and the funding process model if it is successful. I wonder how much Nokia is going to try to solo this project vs. working with other science entities. This has the potential of showing the world either how to, or how not to, do research.
It's too bad that the US and the EU can't work together in a more efficient way to develop material sciences. How much tech is being held up by the slow advances in materials development? Batteries, solar, next-gen computing, ect, ect, ect.
At least someone is starting to push hard into this.
I wonder if that number contains things like dedicated backup space and recovery partition. I couldn't imagine that 8RT would be larger than enterprise. There has to be more going on. Did they say if it comes with Office RT installed?
With office, restore point and recovery partitions, I could see how you get to 40 gigs pretty quickly. If it is the case, then Redmond, for all their "the PC is dead" talk, still act like they are building a PC OS.
I couldn't agree more. A "use-it-or-loose-it" model is desperately needed for copyright. I also agree with the sentiment about arbitrary number requirements. I've seen proposals that get around this by making is a variable factor of the original run to help cover indie releases.
I would also like to see public performances addressed as well. I think the death of single screen theaters has a lot to do with the fact that they can't compete on price for blockbusters and have little other choices to bring in an audience.
But let us not forget patents. I really think that the only real borked up part of the process is that prior-art, obviousness, and novelty requirements are just too damned low. How many different shapes are there to make a computing device? Not many, and any engineer should auto-deny a patent on a shape of a device. Trademark, on a stretch maybe; patent, no.
If you look at Palo Alto Networks, you'll see that all of those features exist...For Enterprises.
The real issue is that comsumer networking is slim margins. How many people are still running their original 2003.11g firmware?
DDWRT gets you closer, but managing several "firewalls" for consumers? I don't think the average "Joe Sixpack" has more than the one at his network gateway. And they usually don't even configure that. Walk down a densly populated street and tell me how many open wifi networks you find and you'll see why a lot of these features haven't made it to the consumer market.
The real question is why the networking "prosumer" market hasn't gotten bigger. And that's mostly because of price. You could look at a Checkpoint UTM-1 that has all the features you'll looking for, logging, IPS, Content Aware Firewall, but you'll pay out the nose for it. Even a Cisco ASA is ~$700 and it doesn't have all of those features.
Would you drop a cool grand on a small box that "just sits there"? That's the mentality that you're facing.
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Probably not. It's most likely looking at server thermal output, server utilization, and the delta between the cold isle and the warm isle to figure out exactly how much cooling needs to be applied to what areas.
While this is awesome, it's light on details. I assume they loaded their datacenter with all kinds of sensors and have an advanced HVAC system that can mix external air when desired. So you look at current server load, predicted load based on past patterns, external temp, predicted external temp, along with internal temp, and then decide what air supply and cooling mix to use. So if you have CRAC units that are more advanced than on/off, and can use outside air with add/remove humidity, you can really draw down your cooling power usage.
What is upsetting, is that this technology isn't making it's way to Nest. Nest doesn't learn, often I'm adjusting as the humidity in the house goes up or down, so I adjust the AC. It doesn't learn my patterns, it just adds in more program points, which don't always apply. Oh, and if I leave it off and need to cool it from 85 to 70, what is the estimated time? 2+. Always 2+. It never actually figures out how long it will take for any value above 2 hours. It's marketed as this "deep learning" product for home HVAC, and it really isn't. I would love to see advances in commercial HVAC controls make their way to homes, but it's just not happening.
Look at any 4K TV listen on amazon and find just one that isn't "SMART". I just did and failed. You position like it's a choice when beyond basic TV's it's not a choice. It's becoming a forced option like power locks & windows. My blue-ray player is "smart". I haven't used those features since I got it. I wish they would have taken the $100 of components and dev time to put towards the primary function, play bluerays. I would love if mono-price came out with a 4k TV that was just a TV. Even if they took the money for SMART functions and put it towards extra ports or better clarity, I'd be happy.
This is becoming a non-choice for many consumers and I don't like it. Which is why I haven't gone 4k yet. I would today if that were different.
Yeah, except that AT&T & the rest still advertise "unlimited XGB" despite it being an oxymoron.
No, what goads me is that the prosecution over false advertisement is very arbitrary in general. Or at least on the cover seems that way given the amount of products out there that literally cannot work as advertised.
Wait, let me get this straight, you can sell herbal supplements with the same claim and weak/non-existent scientific support and be in the clear, but this is worthy of a fine? Or how about selling "unlimited" data plans that are explicitly NOT unlimited, and not be hit with false advertising either?
Oh, wait. I forgot what country this was. They probably didn't give the right bribes out to be in the clear. NM, nothing to see here.
What we need is a data-delivery interoperability standard that shares info between the consumer, provider, and the network.
Rate Limiting sucks because you have to keep the session longer. It actually helps T-Mobile (or any provider) to have you transfer a small file as quick as possible & then shut the connection down. Then there is less session management that has to occur (like what if you're moving between towers). But what that means is that they have to partner with providers on how to handshake the video quality. So you move 480 at LTE speeds and it solves many problems. People hate long load times more than they hate lower quality, you have to do more network management the longer the session has to occur, and the provider has to scale to allow more concurrent connections. What we really need is a good open standard to help facilitate this kind of interoperability. True, it should "just work" for me to select 480 on youtube and I don't get charged. But there is no mechanism to give TMo that info that wouldn't be an infringement on our privacy.
Given that they charge nothing to partner and are open to anyone who is willing to work with them, I don't see it as a problem. I do see it as an engineering challenge to solve this at scale so that it can become "automatic".
So why don't we recycle the spent fuel? http://www.world-nuclear.org/i...
This would make so much more sense. Then we can look at actual waste issues and tackle those in a sane matter (radiated parts, debris, etc). Who actually benefits from a no-recycle policy? Miners? Coal & Gas industry? Do regular people have a net benefit or net loss to a no-recycle policy?
I say save a mountain, recycle spent fuel. Prevent an accident, recycle spent fuel. Prevent storing highly radioactive material, recycle spent fuel.
Sure the average is higher, but you can still buy new systems that are that small. Its good I can stuff them in a time (except drive space) VM's and do virtual desktops. Keeping it efficient gives us more to do. Now, if you wanted to have tune points that enable or disable features according to hardware you could make that case. But I do like that Win10 preview was the easiest OS install I've ever done.
I know you're new to the linux world, but while you're at it, dive into the BSD realm while you're at it.
You can do Firewalling with packet filter instead of iptables (better session tracking). BSD is generally better as a network appliance than linux for a number of reasons, and for firewalling especially. Better session tracking, better dynamic protocol handling, better error and flow control, and generally more robust. Iptables is powerful, but it has its downsides that can be felt these days with higher network speeds, IPv6, and dynamic network protocols which is why the linux kernel is moving away from it to NFTables. But NFTables is not yet complete, hence we circle back to BSD with its pf package.
pfSense offers exactly what you're looking for and probably more. It provides a gui and cli to manage the device and a robust user/support community. Beyond firewalling you can do proxy, captive portal, VPN, DNS, DHCP, NAT, IPS/IDS, and a whole lot more. It has a webGUI and sets up in all of about 10 minutes.
It packs all of the features you would see on "enterprise class" firewalls, just open source.
https://www.pfsense.org/
Encrypts the file, has a portable exe for simple use, and wipes the password out of clipboard when the program is closed. You can set password complexity requirements on the random generation either for all passwords, a group of passwords, or a single password. Set password aging if you have to, and make notes on each password entry. I use it extensively and it is a great convenience.
I have a Thermaltake 5.25" drive bay cup-holder/cigarette lighter. How is it that there is more of a market demand for THAT than a braille printer? Or all of the other useless tech junk out there? I remember sitting next to a blind pastor on a flight. He was trying to use his laptop, but was having some difficulty because of a program error. We just haven't built these awesome "freedom machines" to be really utilized by anyone with handicaps. All the gaming keyboards, mice, and other gee-wiz devices have more of a market to flood with "mee-to" crap, yet not one real piece of assistance tech in all of MicroCenter or NewEgg? Really?
The real point, and what makes it interesting, is that is was a 12 year-old who built the thing from Lego's and spare junk. He saw a need, and went to fill it. Good on him, that is the point of these science fair projects, make kids think about the world around them and how to solve problems, even simple ones. Hopefully it sets an example as to how we should be thinking about the world; as a place filled with people who have needs and desires. With these types of kits making it into the homes of regular people, I look forward to the engineering boom that could come out of it. I say an arduino, pi, makerbot, and lego mindstorm for every kid. Let their imagination run wild.
Why is everyone in such a rush to spend huge wads of money and violate privacy to protect American Copyright industry interests? When will the world stand up to the US?
Seems to me that simple proxy or encryption usage will prevent this anyways. Don't the Aussies have better things to spend money on, like sourcing more fresh water or expanding internet coverage? Seems priorities are screwy if they are willing to go through all of this effort. I guess the corruption knows no boarders.
While true, they are limited in usefulness. The real point is that continuing education is not even really a focus of current colleges. Besides which, many graduate certificates carries their own "not really required" requirements and precludes community colleges, what most of us could actually afford out-of-pocket.
Background: I am an adjunct instructor and an IT professional. As such, this is a common discussion topic.
The education industry, meaning colleges and universities, need a way to "add on" additional skill emphasis to degrees without requiring whole new degrees. I think, instead of detracting from current products (associates, bachelors, masters degrees), this will add revenue abilities from lifetime learning requirements that tech people have.
For Example: BSCS, Purdue University, 1990
CS Advanced Programming Topics, Coursera, 2013.
This would allow people to add the 2-3 courses that they need to refresh their skills, get students into the halls paying tuition (out of pocket, or company money), allow current students to brush up and work with more experienced folks IN CLASS, and show what HR is looking for, current accredited skills improvement.
But we seem stuck in the past. So we have to suffer through $1,000 a day "boot camps" that still require you to do a lot of on-your-own learning. We NEED something better. Colleges, be they 4 year or community, need to have programs that carry through the whole career ladder for skills improvement. I think that will help all of us overcome the "no training dollars this year" dilemma we constantly find.
Here's the deal, there was hay made that the DoEd was making profits off of student loans, yet that isn't quite the problem that it seems to be. For a long time SS made a "profit" (income was greater than expenses). A DoEd that makes a "profit" means it doesn't have to borrow as much to lend to future students (theoretically). As long as it is saved and used to fund future students that is. The real issue is that is not what we are doing, and even for STEM degrees, many people in this country are paying a much larger percentage of their income to repay their education than the rest of the world.
The real issue is how they make these profits. Giant fees on default and late payments, no checks on degree mills that charge the maximum DoEd borrowing limit, and no way for students to "start over". It is unconscionable for these institutions (for profit or not) to be price gouging like they are and delivering so little in value in many cases. I honestly think that the current generation of students need & deserve debt relief; if for anything because of all of the deception that was played out by the education and education financing industry in the last 20 years.
Additionally, at the rate of change in most fields these days, the standard degree does not prepare you for a full career; eventually you are going to have to learn new things; possibly meaning more school. Lifetime learning models need to be developed, some kind of "advanced associates", bachelors+, or "advanced bachelors certificate" to allow prior graduates to add additional skills at their current level and demonstrate achievement. The education industry currently has few products that employees can put on a resume to demonstrate additional learning, and that is a problem for us.
What this really demonstrates is that America clearly lacks the policy innovation that the rest of the world has. We are stuck with old policies and constructs for no good reason other than the current crop of leaders have so little imagination that they can't come up with ways that both their big donation backers and the people can win. That's what previous generations had. Sure, there was always corruption, but they played the role of giving us something for it. Now it is just blatant, naked fleecing of the people. We need a better class of corrupt politicians really, these people aren't even fit for third world politics.
Plenty of veterans have never been in a combat zone. The American Legion allows any veteran with an honorable discharge to join. The VFW requires time in a recognized foreign combat zone.
So, while I could join the VFW because of my time in OIF, my uncle can't because he served during peace (80's & 90's) and did not see combat.
You know its funny, these guys once in a while get to a market too early, then because revenue is too weak, decide it isn't promising enough to invest in. Players enter the market (Nest, Google, etc) and it slowly starts to pick up steam. MBA's higher up decide it's been "long enough" so divest themselves of the endeavor. Mark my words, within the next 36 months there will be an explosion in that marketspace, some Verizon executive is going to scream "why didn't we see this" and then they will take 2 years reentering the market they tried to start.
This is why I laugh at large corporation "innovation".
But when I do, it's to protest Slashdot Beta. Been on slashdot in one form or another since 2000. If Slashdot Beta is pushed to me, the final end date will be Feb 2014. All of the news here can be gotten from my RSS reader, and is all of the articles are there anyways from the original sources. Everytime a new news sources is linked to by Slashdot, it goes into my RSS feed. I go to Slashdot for the community, even if I don't comment. Take that away, all I need is my RSS feed that I already have.
http://www.theunincorporatedman.com/ The book started off well, had some great, original concepts and ideas, but the characters were flat and the writing was..ok. The big problem I had was the reasoning behind many character actions was "just because". Or they build up a series of actions to just then reverse themselves, and the big motivation reveal, "I like messing around". While promising to explore some meaty issues, it never actually did that. However there is one particular scene involving a family in the book that I still have nightmares about. I actually had to step away from the book for about a week before I could pick it up again. It was tasteful, well done, and really advanced the story, and was the one real example of how well the authors could have done if they explained the other motivations in similar ways. It actually worked in making me question and change some views that I had before.
I recently interviewed for a very interesting position. I had to turn it down because of conflict-of-interest, but it was for an internal corporate training department. They evidently wanted to create a streamlined, formal way of providing continued education to their employees to allow them to move around and improve themselves. I was highly honored to have even been asked for such a position, and still wish I could take it. That is the only organization that I've seen that actually thought further ahead than next fiscal statement. It's a real shame that internal training doesn't exist in more organizations. Or at least a closer partnership with local training organizations (colleges, tech centers, ect). It seems that organizations these days want to put as little into their employees as possible and expect stellar performance. When exactly is the rest of the team supposed to learn the new technology that you send your golden child to training for? I see too often where people are not sent to training, or training isn't brought in house, because it's "too expensive", yet we are still expected to know the material. When exactly is that learning supposed to take place, and on what dime? Is it the two weeks a year you give me to get out of the office? Or on the salary that is destroyed by modern student loans? More and more I support FOSS, it's the only way I can stay current in my field. Fuck the proprietary garbage with a walled off knowledge base.
Yeah, while they say that they are incorperating unversities as well, the list of corps and their prior uses of patents is what makes me cautious about cheering this on. CERN may be the last organization alive that just invents things and gives it away. I really would like to see the US dangle large money like this for R&D, but with the string that it must be released public domain for all to use and enjoy. THAT would be a good use of tax dollars that is fair to everyone.
Both the tech that comes from it, and the funding process model if it is successful. I wonder how much Nokia is going to try to solo this project vs. working with other science entities. This has the potential of showing the world either how to, or how not to, do research. It's too bad that the US and the EU can't work together in a more efficient way to develop material sciences. How much tech is being held up by the slow advances in materials development? Batteries, solar, next-gen computing, ect, ect, ect. At least someone is starting to push hard into this.
I wonder if that number contains things like dedicated backup space and recovery partition. I couldn't imagine that 8RT would be larger than enterprise. There has to be more going on. Did they say if it comes with Office RT installed? With office, restore point and recovery partitions, I could see how you get to 40 gigs pretty quickly. If it is the case, then Redmond, for all their "the PC is dead" talk, still act like they are building a PC OS.
I couldn't agree more. A "use-it-or-loose-it" model is desperately needed for copyright. I also agree with the sentiment about arbitrary number requirements. I've seen proposals that get around this by making is a variable factor of the original run to help cover indie releases. I would also like to see public performances addressed as well. I think the death of single screen theaters has a lot to do with the fact that they can't compete on price for blockbusters and have little other choices to bring in an audience. But let us not forget patents. I really think that the only real borked up part of the process is that prior-art, obviousness, and novelty requirements are just too damned low. How many different shapes are there to make a computing device? Not many, and any engineer should auto-deny a patent on a shape of a device. Trademark, on a stretch maybe; patent, no.
If you look at Palo Alto Networks, you'll see that all of those features exist...For Enterprises. The real issue is that comsumer networking is slim margins. How many people are still running their original 2003 .11g firmware?
DDWRT gets you closer, but managing several "firewalls" for consumers? I don't think the average "Joe Sixpack" has more than the one at his network gateway. And they usually don't even configure that. Walk down a densly populated street and tell me how many open wifi networks you find and you'll see why a lot of these features haven't made it to the consumer market.
The real question is why the networking "prosumer" market hasn't gotten bigger. And that's mostly because of price. You could look at a Checkpoint UTM-1 that has all the features you'll looking for, logging, IPS, Content Aware Firewall, but you'll pay out the nose for it. Even a Cisco ASA is ~$700 and it doesn't have all of those features.
Would you drop a cool grand on a small box that "just sits there"? That's the mentality that you're facing.