Posts by Sproing 17 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Mar 2013
Indeed, almost the same mechanism by which China defeated the invading Mongol empire, within a couple of generations they were assimilated despite having nominally "won".
Mind you, on a brief glance around it appears that process is highly advanced on this side of the pond :(
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and eternal surveillance and control is the price of ... err, hold on, freedom? They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.
But it's only for terrorists and paedophiles, so good, honest, upstanding folks like us have nothing to worry about. I'm actually surprised they haven't arrested them all already, given that they obviously know who they are, i.e. not us. Obviously.
Eat the Rich had the right idea ( and easily one of the most charismatic Home Secretaries, although Nosher might have displayed a touch too much integrity for the current lot ... )
Every government seems to be pushing for more and more surveillance, which is odd, given the apparent inability to extract meaningful information from the captured data already being gathered by existing methods.
It's almost like the intent is to ease retroactive meaasures rather than proactive prevention, which is the stated aim.
'That includes applying existing Windows XP security patches, antivirus updates, “heightened security vigilance,” escalated security procedure and “reinforced staff awareness on security risks,” '
Seriously? They are now getting around to applying the fixes that have been released? And updating anti-virus? The business of not having a comprehensive security policy is pretty much standard ( alkthough deplorable ).
OK, I appreciate patches et al need to be tested against the apps they already have, assuming we're not looking at standard desktops here, but oh dear oh dear oh dear ....
This smacks of the old extended/expanded memory cards (shudder). And it's great, non-volatile and all - but useful only for single user workloads, unless we're talking about stuffing servers full of these things, in which case the bottleneck shifts elsewhere as always. Most of what we deal with is either insanely large seismic survey datasets ( your costs in having multiple copies of that are unlikely to make bean counters happy ) or stuff which needs to be collaboratively dealt with, in which case you are usually better off operating in the fully connected model with access and tracking mediated by a central resource.
If you've got the right workload, then fine, but otherwise ...
The joy was always in trying to balance up a mix of workloads to get maximum utilisation of all the layers, something you could only achieve with a clear understanding of what your apps did and how hard they were used. Doesn't matter if it's one box, two boxes or a shiny n-tier load balanced doo-dah, baselining the workload and profiling it is king. Once you've got that, you understand what to scale and how far.
YMMV - but not likely.
Having been involved in getting Highly Immersive Visualisation Environments up and going ( basically three high resolution projectors giving you a curved screen roughly the size of the local cinema ), you find that the main use is not for the display of spiffy, multi-coloured spinny super-shiny graphics, but for spreadsheets.
Apparently it's all about the number of cells on display.
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