The people that design these things are smart. Smarter than the average poster here in their field. If Joe Armchairengineer can think it up, I'm pretty damn confident that the engineers behind ABE thought of it too.
In fact, from the WHOI release, there's this nugget:
ABE was equipped with several independent systems to bring it back to the surface at the end of a dive or should a fault occur. The Melville remained in the vicinity to see if ABE had resurfaced, at first searching for ABE’s strobe lights in the darkness. Researchers tried to establish radio contact with ABE in the event it had surfaced, but attempts turned up nothing.
Parents complain about child's safety. Check. School responds by putting up fence. Check. Parents complain about putting children in fenced areas. Check.
3 S 399-BBB. PROHIBITION ON SALT; RESTAURANTS. 1. NO OWNER OR OPERATOR 4 OF A RESTAURANT IN THIS STATE SHALL USE SALT IN ANY FORM IN THE PREPARA- 5 TION OF ANY FOOD FOR CONSUMPTION BY CUSTOMERS OF SUCH RESTAURANT, 6 INCLUDING FOOD PREPARED TO BE CONSUMED ON THE PREMISES OF SUCH RESTAU- 7 RANT OR OFF OF SUCH PREMISES.
I can fully agree, and to an extend sympathize, with the point that we sometimes expect too much of our elected officials, in that we are dependent on them to craft bills ranging from water contamination to embezzlement to treaties and no one can be a master of all trades.
But while I don't expect them to know everything about anything, I DO expect them to know how to FIND people that know everything about anything. Even the most elementary background work on a bill like this would have shown Rep Ortiz Duh-Brooklyn the massive quagmire he was about to open up. I wouldn't expect a master's thesis before crafting a bill, but what I would have done, in his case, is go to a favorite higher-end restaurant and make arrangements to speak with the chef for a while, to get a grasp of the subject.
From my viewpoint, which is likely more amateur armchair as it were, it just sounded like they were testing the extra load, not so much peak usage. And even then they were having to shuffle load around.
One could question the logic of trying to stress test your live servers when you're the size of MySpace as well.
Of course it could have been a third thing they were trying to accomplish as TFA was pretty weak.
But those are package patches most of the time. Are you actually using those packages?
In my case, my most recent batch had a few CUPS updates. If I was retentive about it I'd have removed that whole package from my laptop a while ago since it does not now, nor will in the forseeable future, have a printer attached to it.
I usually get weekly batches of stuff for my ubuntu box, BUT the converse is most of it is for stuff from the default installation that I haven't bothered removing (or shouldn't have installed in the first place).
For example, today I saw CUPS had about 3-4 various package updates, but I don't have a printer attached to my laptop at all in any way.
Yeah, but that's LA county. This is OC. An entirely different demographic. For one example, LA is solidly blue on a political demographic map. OC is bright red.
You're willing to chip in for the water bill then? OC is a DESERT. Grass does not naturally grow there in the quality and quantity that you find on the golf course. The fact these two have taken CA's water conservation messages, messages that get commercial time during droughts, that have gigs of website data devoted them, to heart and then being smacked down by the same government that put them in place is nothing short of blisteringly ironic.
It sucks that these two are being dragged through the court system, but this should get loads of attention from on high and show just how moronic city codes like this truly are.
I hadn't even thought of this possibility: "While suggestions to close local post offices always draw complaints, Potter said the current system could be improved by opening more postal facilities in places like convenience stores and supermarkets. A few Office Depot stores are already doing this, he said."
Of course, 60% of the apps they tested were web applications, leaving 40%...
(Yeah, yeah, it's unlikely that the only apps that failed were web apps, I just thought it a spiffy coincidence that the % of apps that failed testing also equaled the % of web apps tested.)
Well, this is just going to require (a) people not waiting to the last minute, (b) federal law saying 'Day X+1' = 'Day X' for the purposes of bill collection (c) counting Saturday as a business day for certain circumstances or (d) some combination of the above.
If USPS is to stay buoyant, something is going to have to give.
There's obviously not going to be a quick, easy and flawless solution, but there is going to have to be one at some point.
I wouldn't call it emotional. I don't know anyone who's attached to the penny
You may not, but there's a lot out there.
Dropping delivery on a weekday is a really bad idea. Timebound stuff like bills and legal documents are never obligated for weekend time, but they ARE obligated for every weekday (that 10 days you get to pay or respond is counted in business days only). If they have to drop a day, Saturday makes more sense.
Saturday is one of, if not the, heaviest load days for mail. Middle of the week is actually the slowest. And they were just talking about home delivery, not closing branches at the same time.
They are, actually, well aware of their operating costs. Unfortunatly, closures of low performing USPS branches are met with heavy public outrage. They're doing what they can, but when you have to fight tooth and nail to remove even a blue dropbox, well, you have to pick your battles.
Furthermore, there's been talk from USPS about going to a 5-day delivery schedule (likely dropping Tuesday or Wednesday) for years now but approval for something like that has to come from Congress.
USPS, in a lot of ways, is like the penny. It costs nearly 2 cents to stamp a coin with a 1c face value, but try to remove it and there's a sudden emotional public outcry.
FedEx has been going up and down as well, and DHL stopped much of their US operation. (Guess who took over for DHL? Come on, guess! Give up? USPS.)
This argument simply proves that you don't actually look up the business performance of the companies you quote, you just assume that "oh, these non-government companies MUST be doing better" when the truth is more nebulous.
USPS WAS operating in the green actually for most of the decade, up til 2007 when the increased gas prices really started to impact the bottom line. When you operate the largest vehicle fleet in the world, even a penny increase is going to be massively damaging..
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Touché, vulgar anonymous poster.
The people that design these things are smart. Smarter than the average poster here in their field. If Joe Armchairengineer can think it up, I'm pretty damn confident that the engineers behind ABE thought of it too.
In fact, from the WHOI release, there's this nugget:
Parents complain about child's safety. Check.
School responds by putting up fence. Check.
Parents complain about putting children in fenced areas. Check.
And thus another ouroborous was born.
Yeah, my problem is if I went into politics, I'd ring up people at universities or that otherwise actually do the work instead of K Street...
I believe they're alluding to death sentences (especially Texas) and their hawkish attitude toward war.
Someone standing next to him explaining what words like "daily," "allowance," and "recommended" mean.
Any real cooks using sodium would likely have blown up their kitchen long ago. Sodium and water don't exactly get along, you know.
Which, if you actually read the bill is an outright lie by Ortiz:
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=+A10129%09%09&Summary=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y
3 S 399-BBB. PROHIBITION ON SALT; RESTAURANTS. 1. NO OWNER OR OPERATOR
4 OF A RESTAURANT IN THIS STATE SHALL USE SALT IN ANY FORM IN THE PREPARA-
5 TION OF ANY FOOD FOR CONSUMPTION BY CUSTOMERS OF SUCH RESTAURANT,
6 INCLUDING FOOD PREPARED TO BE CONSUMED ON THE PREMISES OF SUCH RESTAU-
7 RANT OR OFF OF SUCH PREMISES.
Fail troll is fail.
I can fully agree, and to an extend sympathize, with the point that we sometimes expect too much of our elected officials, in that we are dependent on them to craft bills ranging from water contamination to embezzlement to treaties and no one can be a master of all trades.
But while I don't expect them to know everything about anything, I DO expect them to know how to FIND people that know everything about anything. Even the most elementary background work on a bill like this would have shown Rep Ortiz Duh-Brooklyn the massive quagmire he was about to open up. I wouldn't expect a master's thesis before crafting a bill, but what I would have done, in his case, is go to a favorite higher-end restaurant and make arrangements to speak with the chef for a while, to get a grasp of the subject.
Otherwise we're just whizzing down tubes.
Doesn't explain the minutes being off as well.
From my viewpoint, which is likely more amateur armchair as it were, it just sounded like they were testing the extra load, not so much peak usage. And even then they were having to shuffle load around.
One could question the logic of trying to stress test your live servers when you're the size of MySpace as well.
Of course it could have been a third thing they were trying to accomplish as TFA was pretty weak.
They were adding 77k hits/sec to their live traffic, not testing against 77k hits/sec.
I.e., if 4 mil live users were hitting MySpace during the test, MySpace's servers were actually feeling the impact of 5 mil.
But those are package patches most of the time. Are you actually using those packages?
In my case, my most recent batch had a few CUPS updates. If I was retentive about it I'd have removed that whole package from my laptop a while ago since it does not now, nor will in the forseeable future, have a printer attached to it.
I usually get weekly batches of stuff for my ubuntu box, BUT the converse is most of it is for stuff from the default installation that I haven't bothered removing (or shouldn't have installed in the first place).
For example, today I saw CUPS had about 3-4 various package updates, but I don't have a printer attached to my laptop at all in any way.
I didn't know you could add Adobe and Blackberry updates to WSUS, incredible!
Yeah, but that's LA county. This is OC. An entirely different demographic. For one example, LA is solidly blue on a political demographic map. OC is bright red.
You're willing to chip in for the water bill then? OC is a DESERT. Grass does not naturally grow there in the quality and quantity that you find on the golf course. The fact these two have taken CA's water conservation messages, messages that get commercial time during droughts, that have gigs of website data devoted them, to heart and then being smacked down by the same government that put them in place is nothing short of blisteringly ironic.
It sucks that these two are being dragged through the court system, but this should get loads of attention from on high and show just how moronic city codes like this truly are.
Incidentally, AP just released this article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100302/ap_on_bi_ge/us_postal_future
I hadn't even thought of this possibility:
"While suggestions to close local post offices always draw complaints, Potter said the current system could be improved by opening more postal facilities in places like convenience stores and supermarkets. A few Office Depot stores are already doing this, he said."
...One might even say they moved the earth for it.
Sony caused the Chilean earthquake?
Since the PS3 was released 11 November, 2006, how do we know this bug did not happen 01 Mar, 2006?
Of course, 60% of the apps they tested were web applications, leaving 40%...
(Yeah, yeah, it's unlikely that the only apps that failed were web apps, I just thought it a spiffy coincidence that the % of apps that failed testing also equaled the % of web apps tested.)
Well, this is just going to require (a) people not waiting to the last minute, (b) federal law saying 'Day X+1' = 'Day X' for the purposes of bill collection (c) counting Saturday as a business day for certain circumstances or (d) some combination of the above.
If USPS is to stay buoyant, something is going to have to give.
There's obviously not going to be a quick, easy and flawless solution, but there is going to have to be one at some point.
I wouldn't call it emotional. I don't know anyone who's attached to the penny
You may not, but there's a lot out there.
Dropping delivery on a weekday is a really bad idea. Timebound stuff like bills and legal documents are never obligated for weekend time, but they ARE obligated for every weekday (that 10 days you get to pay or respond is counted in business days only). If they have to drop a day, Saturday makes more sense.
Saturday is one of, if not the, heaviest load days for mail. Middle of the week is actually the slowest. And they were just talking about home delivery, not closing branches at the same time.
USPS is in a Catch-22 position here, now.
They are, actually, well aware of their operating costs. Unfortunatly, closures of low performing USPS branches are met with heavy public outrage. They're doing what they can, but when you have to fight tooth and nail to remove even a blue dropbox, well, you have to pick your battles.
Furthermore, there's been talk from USPS about going to a 5-day delivery schedule (likely dropping Tuesday or Wednesday) for years now but approval for something like that has to come from Congress.
USPS, in a lot of ways, is like the penny. It costs nearly 2 cents to stamp a coin with a 1c face value, but try to remove it and there's a sudden emotional public outcry.
I love, love, LOVE this argument.
You know why?
FedEx has been going up and down as well, and DHL stopped much of their US operation. (Guess who took over for DHL? Come on, guess! Give up? USPS.)
This argument simply proves that you don't actually look up the business performance of the companies you quote, you just assume that "oh, these non-government companies MUST be doing better" when the truth is more nebulous.
USPS WAS operating in the green actually for most of the decade, up til 2007 when the increased gas prices really started to impact the bottom line. When you operate the largest vehicle fleet in the world, even a penny increase is going to be massively damaging..
http://www.usps.com/history/anrpt07/summary.htm
So yeah, it's fun to mock USPS, but it's not often warranted.