Posts by Aitor 1 1568 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jun 2009
Nope, it is the company that uses a broken system.
They should pay a lump sum at the end that includes all money, with an explanation.
That is the law in Spain, and it works okish. Not really ok because I have yet to receive the correct ammount (ussually I have received a bit too much).
This is normal in spain when you change jobs (in any way).
Err, there is a difference between "the truth" and "a part of the truth"
You are ommiting important parts, as the previous party being ousted in a paid for coup, it being made illegal, dirty ellections, repression, etc. Ukraine is not a democracy right now. Of course the previous administration were proxies too, but does not change my opinion.
As for the invasion of Crimea, I agree with you. The Crimea vote was as clean as the general ukraine election. This is, not at all!
As for 32.000 russian troops dead, no way, I dont know where your are geting your facts from, but just think about it... the numbers are so inflated as to seem to come from the onion or north korea... Russia coulkd not withstand that number of casualties. If they thought they could, they would have gone to full war in Ukraine and Syria, and probably elsewhere.
And now you see it confirmed: you cannot trust US software companies, as the US will steal your company secrets. The fact that they take this decission without any kind of proof whatsoever should make people think about US security agencies activity and the gag orders behind those activities.
The most expensive part of the network is the last mile.
And the reson for it is mainly population density and complexity of coordinating with the customers/victims.
The higher the density, the cheaper it is to provide each of them with a connection, so high rises are great for telcos benefits.
Now, as for London, the problem is oligopoly and a covert backbone monopoly, some but worse happens in New York, for example.
So why give better options while you can charge a lot for crap DSL?
I have cable... but only because it is less oversubscribed than DSL, I would be happy with 12/4 Mb DSL line IF it was not oversubscribed.
Of course, that would mean paying more than a 100Mb Docsis connection.. and that makes absolute no sense.
Same as child porn.
People who pay for child porn create the incintives for kids to be exploited.
So the intelligence services provide exactly the same incentives as child porn buyers.
All of this damages the population, and creates thousands of millions in damages. That economic damage translates into lack of money for hospitals, improving roads, etc. That means people die because of this.
It will be great.
The screen is the same as my iMac 5k, so very nice.
My iMac does have some cooling issues.. if I compile for 5 minutes, it will get quite warm and the fam will spin madly, I wonder how much noise/heat issues will de Xeons have.. will they throttle while rendering?
As for rendering, etc.. well, I would rather have a threadripper, much faster and cheaper. But sure not as pretty, and if you like Mac OS...
It is mandatory in Europe. And has saved many lives.
It is not in the US, I guess it will if someone who is really loaded dies or has a loved one die and sues both the owner of the semi and the manufacturer, or a class action is started.
And that is exactly the reason it should be mandatory.
With or without autodriving, semis are too dangerous without proper safety devices like these.
Also, the guard rails are just stupid!! PLenty of better designs from the usual ones have been done, yet states and countries continue to put the unsafe ones, even if they are not always cheaper.
The reason being any navy dangerous enough to have real chances of sinking your carrier locating it by radio will know (sound, satellites) its location.
So this is either for interoperability with the us (that makes kind of sense.. but how much are we going to pay them for their benefit?) or it makes no sense at all.
The thing is.. the problem is mostly to get the data in and out of the base stations, and route it afterwards, not between the mobile phones and the base stations.
So while yes, it would be more efficient, it will only solve a minor problem in specific parts of the network.. so it is NOT worth spending so much money.
And cmon, most people have had 4g only for the las 3 years.. with many 800band deployments in 2016, for example... so now, no 5G in europe for quite some time unless the spectrum gets cheaper or they do not require population coverage.
You forgot to add that we should ban importing electricity, so we should be demothballing those lovely coal operated power stations, using local coal.
As cuts will demand that one day a week schools close, we could use that underused child working force to shovel coal, and therefore get cheap coal. It will also help with long term costs, as these children will pay their retirement but will probably die before from silicosis. You see, short and long term covered with a single well thought decision.
In my microelectronics experience, a custom/task specific micro es 10-30x as efficient as a non specific part.
Of course this is only for the processor.. then you have memory, fabric connectors, etc.. I still believe you could pull a 5x efficiency on a HTTP or mariadb or whatever task specific task you can give the micro.
It is a question of determining the instructions being executed by the micros, and optimizing as much as possible the platform for those.
It does not make sense for the kind of operations I run, but it certainly would for google, amazon, etc.
Of course, this creates additional problems.. as then changing your stack becomes slow and expensive... your processors are custom made for your stack!!
I would prefer we dont go that route, as those are benefits we the non titanic size operations, would not benefit from.
We currently benefit from the investments these companies do: we can also buy these processors and put them in our servers, or rent them.. but if they all go custom, we would be left to run "legacy" platforms, and unable to compete.
And if the cost of entering the market and exiting is huge, there would be no free market, but and oligopoly of internet companies.
But two identical systems capable of taking over each other is not 2x the expense, but 4x the expense.
So the intelligent thing here would be to have systems as light as possible (jo Java, please, PLEASE), and have them replicated in three places.
Now, knowing this type of company, I can imagine many fat servers with complicated setups.. the 90s on steroids.
The solution, of course, is to have critical systems that are LIGHT. It saves a ton of money, and they could be working right now, just a small hiccup.
Note: you would need 4x identical systems, + 4 smaller ones for being "bomb proof"
2x identical systems on production. Different locations
2x the above, for preproduction tests, as you cant test with your clients.
4x for developing and integration. They can be smaller, but have to retain the architecture.
At best, you can get rid of integration and be the same as preproduction.
These days, almost nobody does this.. too expensive.
Cost.
They could have made a room available just by the airport, with no cables to be cut..
But hey, that is expensive. Also that is reasonable.
Also..HD screens. Really? A wall of frameless 8k screens would allow the controllers to use binoculars.THAT would make sense...but hey 40 8k panels consumes a huge amount of bandwidth.... I wo der if their solution is H264 compressed video..that adds latency..a lot. Forvet about the fiber latency of maybe 2ms..the problem.here is compression and display. They are landing planes..problaby with a 100ms lag...that is unacceptable.
Well of course, why host the things yourself when you can dog out your (not paying with money) users for free bandwidth? I also do it!
The problem with allowing this is you are allowing code injection. It should not work, crosssite is a very very bad idea.
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