Actually, Apple wants to be in areas with high concentrations of wealthy millennials and hipsters. Fuck it! Let them. There are better options than Apple out there - less expensive too.
This thing is just an epic fail. It is a piece of a junk. Microsoft is just not a hardware company and every attempt that it makes to develop a piece of hardware ends up a failure.
One of the first things I learned in Computer Science 101 was to test properly. If you do a proper internal and external testing you can actually prove that your code will do exactly what it should under any circumstances. There can no be any overflows or unexpected behavior because the tests will already have tested that and revealed the problem.
The problem is - even a very simple program requires hundreds of tests. A slightly more complex program quickly ends up with many thousands. I wrote a simple chess program (simulates just the board and validates moves, not any AI to make moves) and the number of tests required to test it was in the neighborhood of 300.000 tests. Doing such testing on an OS or major application requires billions of tests and that is simply not feasible. Then you cut corners and approximate, testing only a tiny subset and catch maybe 80-90% of the issues. But the devil is in the details and that's where the hackers find their gold.
There is no monetary incentive in good programming. If the software is well-written and stable then companies won't have to purchase expensive support contracts in addition to the purchase and licensing prices of said software.
The MBAs have pushed software products to market without adequately testing and troubleshooting. The bean counters want to reduce the expense of research and development when it comes to software and hardware so the result is a crappier end product with security holes. The whole thing began when these business types discovered a vertical market based on support of the shitty software. They would just force a product still in beta onto the public, have the public buy the product and do the testing, and have the public pay for "support" when the inevitable problems arose. From a business standpoint, it's genius. From a moral, ethical, and quality standpoint it rings of a scoundrel.
Beyond the costs and regulations, which were initially implemented in order to help whiny cry babies like you net neutrality asshats, there's getting tied into the Internet itself; which, if you're too small, you have to pay to gain access, or you have to obtain some kind of mutual agreement from the big boys (that you helped make big btw, w/ all yo rules, regs, and req)... so all I'll say is pfft!
What!? So you have to buy some internet access from the big boys - that's a given. I live in an area served by Verizon fios. So in theory, I could distribute the cost of 1-2 business grade lines amongst several households and not really break much of a sweat. If I got even just 1 gigabit fios line and was able to find 10 house holds to subscribe, the cost per customer is around 22.00 per month. I could limit the speeds to around 80mbps per line which is more than enough speed to do just about anything.
Then with some commodity components, build a router/gateway better than that shitty little one that Verizon provides. With some high quality Intel ethernet cards, OpenBSD, and some tweaks, everyone will be cruising. I would use wireless technology from Ubiquiti and with a little help from the neighbors, we have a network that is less expensive and one that we own.
With proper power management and a butterfly network type of design, bandwidth can increase with the ln of the number of nodes. Much better than uniformly. The problem is your latency becomes abysmal as your number of nodes increases. In a circular city of 200,000 you will have 80 to 250 hops to transit that city. Using cheap CPU based routing you will introduce seconds of latency. You won't care if you are watching a movie and have a decent buffer, but Skype will be very clunky, game play impossible.
One way to lessen the latency is have several different gateways out to the internet at large. Maybe if you had 1 dedicated gateway for each class C network, it might help.
It's about time to just fork the internet and place this new network in the hands of the people. It looks like Big Telecom is going to get its way and we will be paying even more and getting substantially less. Soon we'll have to pay a base price of around 50.00. Then add 5.00 extra for streaming, 5.00 extra for HD streaming, 5.00 for social network access, and so on and so forth.
With the abundance of commodity hardware, open source software, and the relative ease of wireless deployments, it is easier to do than it has ever been. I am about to move into a new neighborhood and I am going to see if I could do something like this and maybe help Big Telco bleed some customers. It will be small, community network projects like this that will begin the process of subverting the Comcast, Verizon, and AT&Ts.
I am most often against mergers but this is in retaliation by the Trump Administration for perceived slights. Usually, I am dead against the orange cheeto dude with small hands, but on this one, I'll agree.
I am autistic and I too have that same difficulty that James Damore has. I always have someone else look at a letter or document first to get their interpretation, even when I am invited to give my own unadulterated opinion. Why? Well, in the neurotypical (i.e. non-autistic) world people rarely say what they mean. The hidden meaning behind this opinion invitation could be, "Please compliment and flatter my decision or do not bother me. You risk sneaky retaliation if you disagree." I have to remember that the workplace is not a democracy, and in rigid oligarchies, you tow the line or your expunged.
James Damore made the classic mistake that some high functioning autistics make, they fire from the hip and sometimes act impulsively in matters that they are unable to understand or visualize the ultimate outcome. I found that it was key to recognizing this to make my behaviour more socially acceptable and I had to learn how to put myself in someone else's shoes, so to speak. If I have to send a letter or document that I even suspect might offend or alienate, I *always* have a neutral third party read it and then tell me their interpretation. Also, like some people on the sprectrum, I tend to have no filter and do not suffer fools very well so I have to take extra caution when dealing with people so I do not alienate them.
I actually suspect that James Damore was not really fired as a result of his memo itself but rather as a result of a behavioral-threat model. Damore's memo might have erroneously pinged a warning sign for workplace violence and Google let him go out of an abundance of caution. This is also the problem with the classic behavioral-threat model, it is geared towards analysis of non-autistic behaviour. Autistic behaviour could easily be misinterpreted as potentially dangerous. Most autistics however do not suffer from anti-social personality disorder or psychopathy. The differences between classic autism and Anti-Social Personality Disorder are rather stark. The easiest way for Google to rid itself of this perceived threat was just to terminate him for discrimination.
Why don't you build one? A space that small should have a trivial tax burden, so your money would go even further.
It's an excellent idea but I don't have the means to purchase the land nor the savvy to be able to do it. Plus, I have to live in at least a suburban area because I am a security officer and most things that need security are not in the boon docks.:-(
And this is exactly what I am looking for. I am a single, 40 y/o man who does not even need a space the size of a one bedroom apartment. I would like something small and studios are hard to find in my area. There is not a huge demand for them. The prices are sky high. By choice, I work in a low-skilled, fairly menial job so I would like to make my meager earnings go a little bit farther. Instead of paying almost 1,000.00 per month for this one bedroom, I could really like a 300 sq foot space with common living room and other areas. All I really need would be a kitchenette, a bed, and maybe a tiny bathroom. This is all about sustainable living from an environmental and wage standpoint.
A trailer could be designed with solar cells specifically to provide power to the cab as well as auxiliary systems, the top of a trailer is essential a rolling flat roof anyway. One challenge would be container freight, stacking them without busting the cells could be challenging.
This would work very well for conventional 48 and 53 foot trailers and really extend the operational range. However, lots of heavy freight is moved via flat bed so it would take some creative work to get extra power. About the only viable place to mount solar panels would be on the roof of the cab. You might also be able to harness the wind generated from the forward movement of the truck by placing an air duct underneath the trailer and have that air drive a turbine. Newer trailers include a wind scoop and side skirts underneath to keep them more stable for highway driving. Why not channel this wind energy and convert it into electric power.
No more awkward hacked-on solutions to avoid idling; the climate control is electric to begin with, and the cab has all the power you could dream of.
The current opti-idle technology is terrible! Every time the diesel starts and stops, I would get jarred awake. There has also been attempts at using something called EPUs which are essentially a battery bank that has enough power to run climate controls for about 5-6 hours. So in a hot climate, you will probably only get about that much sleep. The best solution so far for the condo cabs is the single cylinder, diesel APU which burns about an 8oz cup worth of fuel in 10 hours. But APUs, being a mechanical contraption, tend to fail and it sucks when they fail and it's 102 degrees outside at night.
If the big boys decided to go with these in their fleets, I would strongly consider going back to truck driving. This would make the job a whole lot more comfortable and fun.
from descending on this little town and crushing this? Just wondering. There's been podunk towns in the middle of nowhere who suggested doing muni-broadband and were shut down by a gaggle of lawyers chanting some nonsense about free enterprise and it not being fair they have to compete with government.
Speaking of which, anyone else find it funny that the same folks who tell you gov't can't do anything right also tell you gov't can't be allowed to compete with private business because it would be unfair? What are they afraid of, the gov't's just gonna fail anyway, right?
For one, this is not a government effort so fighting it might actually be more costly because the citizens are fully invested in it and a few lawyers might actually defend the project pro-bono because it is a good cause to serve. It's very hard to fight a group of people united in a single purpose. Plus, the big ISPs probably do their profit/loss calculations and see that there is only money to lose. I am sure that they will be keeping an eye on the project with some concern that this citizen initiative might spread like a disease. Then they'll get concerned.
The whole effort started last summer with enlisting digital stewards, locals from each neighborhood who were interested in working for the nonprofit coalition, doing everything from spreading the word, to teaching digital literacy, to installing routers and pulling fiber. Many of these stewards started out with little or no tech expertise, but after a 20-week-long training period, they've become experts able to install, troubleshoot, and maintain a network from end to end.
Fucking impossible. Everybody knows tech skills can't be taught. Tech bros are born, not trained. You have to be young, bro. Youth is skill. Old people can't do shit, ever.
Sounds like someone has some bias against older people. When people want to learn something and they set their minds to learn it, they will. Youth might represent skill but time and time again, represents a lack of work ethic. The older people have work developed work ethics from years of experience in the workplace. A blend of youth and older is far better. I taught myself tech skills and continue to do so. I am 40 but I am still sharp as a tack and can run rings around the people that just graduate with Information Technology degrees or others that just get vendor certifications.
This is an example of what people can achieve when they come together for a common good, without politics involved. If I lived in Detroit, I would love to be a part of this. It just goes to show that you need neither Corporate America nor politics to get anything done. Arguably, it happens faster when neither of them get involved in the first place. There's less lip service to progress and MUCH more actual progress achieved.
I have my Class A CDL and would love to get a chance to drive one of those. I'll bet the visibility is phenomenal when you're sitting centered in the cab. Furthermore, I'll bet the ride is much smoother due to the lower center of gravity when compared to conventional tractors. This thing would be a driver's dream because you don't have to worry so much about emission system failures and other breakdowns well-known to diesel. The only thing that the driver would still need to be concerned with would be the air brake system. Air brake systems these days are very reliable with the automatic slack adjusters and redundant air supplies. Hell, you could put a solar panel somewhere and make some serious mileage in the desert southwest. You might be able to run the entire truck off of the solar panel and just use the batteries for the night time.
As it is right now, re-fueling takes about 15-30 minutes of time off of a driver's clock. By the time the tanks are filled, mirrors and windshields cleaned, and other miscellaneous activities, an appreciable amount of time gets burned. Truck drivers constantly race against their 14 hour drive window.
We must control content that would undermine our authority. I can't believe the Chinese Communist Party actually thinks people are dumb enough to believe the shit that they spew.
I don't like Trump at all but I think American Colleges and Universities need to be for Americans first and foremost. I am not xenophobic but I am definitely not in favor of throwing the doors wide open to foreigners at the expense of citizens wanting a college education. I feel the same way about the importation of labor when we have the labor domestically to address industry needs. And, in the few cases where we do not, there should be programs to invest in the domestic labor force. The importation of labor is not about a lack of skills in the domestic labor pool, it's about foreigners accepting substantially less money to perform a task. Often they will accept offerings that are substantially below market value.
I really and truly hope this works because it will open the door for creating better lives for people with other genetic diseases. Cures are always better than medicines to mitigate symptoms!
I live in the USA and you're mostly treated as a disposable liability. It's sad how in America they pay lip service to making workplaces safer and friendlier but they only do this to comply with some law, regulation, or trend. It's all token. Any time you take any action, it's assumed that you're the problem child. Not good at all.
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Sir, I wholeheartedly agree!
Actually, Apple wants to be in areas with high concentrations of wealthy millennials and hipsters. Fuck it! Let them. There are better options than Apple out there - less expensive too.
This thing is just an epic fail. It is a piece of a junk. Microsoft is just not a hardware company and every attempt that it makes to develop a piece of hardware ends up a failure.
One of the first things I learned in Computer Science 101 was to test properly. If you do a proper internal and external testing you can actually prove that your code will do exactly what it should under any circumstances. There can no be any overflows or unexpected behavior because the tests will already have tested that and revealed the problem.
The problem is - even a very simple program requires hundreds of tests. A slightly more complex program quickly ends up with many thousands. I wrote a simple chess program (simulates just the board and validates moves, not any AI to make moves) and the number of tests required to test it was in the neighborhood of 300.000 tests. Doing such testing on an OS or major application requires billions of tests and that is simply not feasible. Then you cut corners and approximate, testing only a tiny subset and catch maybe 80-90% of the issues. But the devil is in the details and that's where the hackers find their gold.
There is no monetary incentive in good programming. If the software is well-written and stable then companies won't have to purchase expensive support contracts in addition to the purchase and licensing prices of said software.
The MBAs have pushed software products to market without adequately testing and troubleshooting. The bean counters want to reduce the expense of research and development when it comes to software and hardware so the result is a crappier end product with security holes. The whole thing began when these business types discovered a vertical market based on support of the shitty software. They would just force a product still in beta onto the public, have the public buy the product and do the testing, and have the public pay for "support" when the inevitable problems arose. From a business standpoint, it's genius. From a moral, ethical, and quality standpoint it rings of a scoundrel.
Beyond the costs and regulations, which were initially implemented in order to help whiny cry babies like you net neutrality asshats, there's getting tied into the Internet itself; which, if you're too small, you have to pay to gain access, or you have to obtain some kind of mutual agreement from the big boys (that you helped make big btw, w/ all yo rules, regs, and req)... so all I'll say is pfft!
What!? So you have to buy some internet access from the big boys - that's a given. I live in an area served by Verizon fios. So in theory, I could distribute the cost of 1-2 business grade lines amongst several households and not really break much of a sweat. If I got even just 1 gigabit fios line and was able to find 10 house holds to subscribe, the cost per customer is around 22.00 per month. I could limit the speeds to around 80mbps per line which is more than enough speed to do just about anything.
Then with some commodity components, build a router/gateway better than that shitty little one that Verizon provides. With some high quality Intel ethernet cards, OpenBSD, and some tweaks, everyone will be cruising. I would use wireless technology from Ubiquiti and with a little help from the neighbors, we have a network that is less expensive and one that we own.
With proper power management and a butterfly network type of design, bandwidth can increase with the ln of the number of nodes. Much better than uniformly. The problem is your latency becomes abysmal as your number of nodes increases. In a circular city of 200,000 you will have 80 to 250 hops to transit that city. Using cheap CPU based routing you will introduce seconds of latency. You won't care if you are watching a movie and have a decent buffer, but Skype will be very clunky, game play impossible.
One way to lessen the latency is have several different gateways out to the internet at large. Maybe if you had 1 dedicated gateway for each class C network, it might help.
It's about time to just fork the internet and place this new network in the hands of the people. It looks like Big Telecom is going to get its way and we will be paying even more and getting substantially less. Soon we'll have to pay a base price of around 50.00. Then add 5.00 extra for streaming, 5.00 extra for HD streaming, 5.00 for social network access, and so on and so forth.
With the abundance of commodity hardware, open source software, and the relative ease of wireless deployments, it is easier to do than it has ever been. I am about to move into a new neighborhood and I am going to see if I could do something like this and maybe help Big Telco bleed some customers. It will be small, community network projects like this that will begin the process of subverting the Comcast, Verizon, and AT&Ts.
The real problem is not UEFI but Intel's ME.
I am most often against mergers but this is in retaliation by the Trump Administration for perceived slights. Usually, I am dead against the orange cheeto dude with small hands, but on this one, I'll agree.
I am autistic and I too have that same difficulty that James Damore has. I always have someone else look at a letter or document first to get their interpretation, even when I am invited to give my own unadulterated opinion. Why? Well, in the neurotypical (i.e. non-autistic) world people rarely say what they mean. The hidden meaning behind this opinion invitation could be, "Please compliment and flatter my decision or do not bother me. You risk sneaky retaliation if you disagree." I have to remember that the workplace is not a democracy, and in rigid oligarchies, you tow the line or your expunged.
James Damore made the classic mistake that some high functioning autistics make, they fire from the hip and sometimes act impulsively in matters that they are unable to understand or visualize the ultimate outcome. I found that it was key to recognizing this to make my behaviour more socially acceptable and I had to learn how to put myself in someone else's shoes, so to speak. If I have to send a letter or document that I even suspect might offend or alienate, I *always* have a neutral third party read it and then tell me their interpretation. Also, like some people on the sprectrum, I tend to have no filter and do not suffer fools very well so I have to take extra caution when dealing with people so I do not alienate them.
I actually suspect that James Damore was not really fired as a result of his memo itself but rather as a result of a behavioral-threat model. Damore's memo might have erroneously pinged a warning sign for workplace violence and Google let him go out of an abundance of caution. This is also the problem with the classic behavioral-threat model, it is geared towards analysis of non-autistic behaviour. Autistic behaviour could easily be misinterpreted as potentially dangerous. Most autistics however do not suffer from anti-social personality disorder or psychopathy. The differences between classic autism and Anti-Social Personality Disorder are rather stark. The easiest way for Google to rid itself of this perceived threat was just to terminate him for discrimination.
Why don't you build one? A space that small should have a trivial tax burden, so your money would go even further.
It's an excellent idea but I don't have the means to purchase the land nor the savvy to be able to do it. Plus, I have to live in at least a suburban area because I am a security officer and most things that need security are not in the boon docks. :-(
But Richard Stallman is just nauseating. He's the Michael Moore of Open Source Software - so radically left as to be obnoxious and turn people away.
And this is exactly what I am looking for. I am a single, 40 y/o man who does not even need a space the size of a one bedroom apartment. I would like something small and studios are hard to find in my area. There is not a huge demand for them. The prices are sky high. By choice, I work in a low-skilled, fairly menial job so I would like to make my meager earnings go a little bit farther. Instead of paying almost 1,000.00 per month for this one bedroom, I could really like a 300 sq foot space with common living room and other areas. All I really need would be a kitchenette, a bed, and maybe a tiny bathroom. This is all about sustainable living from an environmental and wage standpoint.
A trailer could be designed with solar cells specifically to provide power to the cab as well as auxiliary systems, the top of a trailer is essential a rolling flat roof anyway. One challenge would be container freight, stacking them without busting the cells could be challenging.
This would work very well for conventional 48 and 53 foot trailers and really extend the operational range. However, lots of heavy freight is moved via flat bed so it would take some creative work to get extra power. About the only viable place to mount solar panels would be on the roof of the cab. You might also be able to harness the wind generated from the forward movement of the truck by placing an air duct underneath the trailer and have that air drive a turbine. Newer trailers include a wind scoop and side skirts underneath to keep them more stable for highway driving. Why not channel this wind energy and convert it into electric power.
No more awkward hacked-on solutions to avoid idling; the climate control is electric to begin with, and the cab has all the power you could dream of.
The current opti-idle technology is terrible! Every time the diesel starts and stops, I would get jarred awake. There has also been attempts at using something called EPUs which are essentially a battery bank that has enough power to run climate controls for about 5-6 hours. So in a hot climate, you will probably only get about that much sleep. The best solution so far for the condo cabs is the single cylinder, diesel APU which burns about an 8oz cup worth of fuel in 10 hours. But APUs, being a mechanical contraption, tend to fail and it sucks when they fail and it's 102 degrees outside at night.
If the big boys decided to go with these in their fleets, I would strongly consider going back to truck driving. This would make the job a whole lot more comfortable and fun.
from descending on this little town and crushing this? Just wondering. There's been podunk towns in the middle of nowhere who suggested doing muni-broadband and were shut down by a gaggle of lawyers chanting some nonsense about free enterprise and it not being fair they have to compete with government. Speaking of which, anyone else find it funny that the same folks who tell you gov't can't do anything right also tell you gov't can't be allowed to compete with private business because it would be unfair? What are they afraid of, the gov't's just gonna fail anyway, right?
For one, this is not a government effort so fighting it might actually be more costly because the citizens are fully invested in it and a few lawyers might actually defend the project pro-bono because it is a good cause to serve. It's very hard to fight a group of people united in a single purpose. Plus, the big ISPs probably do their profit/loss calculations and see that there is only money to lose. I am sure that they will be keeping an eye on the project with some concern that this citizen initiative might spread like a disease. Then they'll get concerned.
The whole effort started last summer with enlisting digital stewards, locals from each neighborhood who were interested in working for the nonprofit coalition, doing everything from spreading the word, to teaching digital literacy, to installing routers and pulling fiber. Many of these stewards started out with little or no tech expertise, but after a 20-week-long training period, they've become experts able to install, troubleshoot, and maintain a network from end to end.
Fucking impossible. Everybody knows tech skills can't be taught. Tech bros are born, not trained. You have to be young, bro. Youth is skill. Old people can't do shit, ever.
Sounds like someone has some bias against older people. When people want to learn something and they set their minds to learn it, they will. Youth might represent skill but time and time again, represents a lack of work ethic. The older people have work developed work ethics from years of experience in the workplace. A blend of youth and older is far better. I taught myself tech skills and continue to do so. I am 40 but I am still sharp as a tack and can run rings around the people that just graduate with Information Technology degrees or others that just get vendor certifications.
This is an example of what people can achieve when they come together for a common good, without politics involved. If I lived in Detroit, I would love to be a part of this. It just goes to show that you need neither Corporate America nor politics to get anything done. Arguably, it happens faster when neither of them get involved in the first place. There's less lip service to progress and MUCH more actual progress achieved.
I have my Class A CDL and would love to get a chance to drive one of those. I'll bet the visibility is phenomenal when you're sitting centered in the cab. Furthermore, I'll bet the ride is much smoother due to the lower center of gravity when compared to conventional tractors. This thing would be a driver's dream because you don't have to worry so much about emission system failures and other breakdowns well-known to diesel. The only thing that the driver would still need to be concerned with would be the air brake system. Air brake systems these days are very reliable with the automatic slack adjusters and redundant air supplies. Hell, you could put a solar panel somewhere and make some serious mileage in the desert southwest. You might be able to run the entire truck off of the solar panel and just use the batteries for the night time. As it is right now, re-fueling takes about 15-30 minutes of time off of a driver's clock. By the time the tanks are filled, mirrors and windshields cleaned, and other miscellaneous activities, an appreciable amount of time gets burned. Truck drivers constantly race against their 14 hour drive window.
We must control content that would undermine our authority. I can't believe the Chinese Communist Party actually thinks people are dumb enough to believe the shit that they spew.
I don't like Trump at all but I think American Colleges and Universities need to be for Americans first and foremost. I am not xenophobic but I am definitely not in favor of throwing the doors wide open to foreigners at the expense of citizens wanting a college education. I feel the same way about the importation of labor when we have the labor domestically to address industry needs. And, in the few cases where we do not, there should be programs to invest in the domestic labor force. The importation of labor is not about a lack of skills in the domestic labor pool, it's about foreigners accepting substantially less money to perform a task. Often they will accept offerings that are substantially below market value.
Sounds like a whole lot of IT departments need to set up some egress filtering...
It's not a question of egress filtering. I'll bet most of the binge watching is being done on smartphones and tablets using cellular data.
I really and truly hope this works because it will open the door for creating better lives for people with other genetic diseases. Cures are always better than medicines to mitigate symptoms!
I live in the USA and you're mostly treated as a disposable liability. It's sad how in America they pay lip service to making workplaces safer and friendlier but they only do this to comply with some law, regulation, or trend. It's all token. Any time you take any action, it's assumed that you're the problem child. Not good at all.