I imagine if it were cheaper to get it to a higher orbit that didn't require constant boosts of energy just to keep it in place that is what they would have done. Completely escaping Earth's gravity is not an easy task - look at the size of the Saturn V versus our other rockets - and that was just to get a relatively small package to the moon and back. The ISS is a heck of a lot larger than the moon lander.
not an issue of worth, but of danger. Things degrade pretty quickly in space. This isn't really news, they did the same things with MIR for the same reason.
Let's look at it this way: I painted my house a few years ago and it needs a fresh coat. I already have a basic understanding of what needs to be done, the layout of the house, and the materials needed to complete the job (as I have done it before). Is it cheaper to paint my own house or to hire a painter to do it? Privatization dictates that it is both cheaper to let the painter do it and that I should also allow him to run it as a bread and breakfast while it is being painted.
When the heck did you start that timer? Bios on many computers takes 5 to 15 seconds. Starting after post I can (and do) boot XP on a 1.6 Ghz single core celeron with 1Gb ram in 20 seconds. By the same yardstick I would hardly call that "instant".
great until they max out the consumer market and IT won't allow it anywhere near a corporate lan. lack of group policy support out of the box (on a windows or linux domain) combined with lack of rackmountable options combined with lack of (legal) ability to virtualize means there is really no good solution from apple for medium or large businesses. Apple can say screw you to IT, but as a mac user I can say screw you right back from the server room. I have customers that would go all apple if support for group policies and enterprise tools were better, but instead only have a half dozen macs for creative departments.
Have you ever looked at a government contract? They almost never go to the lowest bidder. In fact many specifically state that price will not be considered unless you fall outside of the budget range which is stated in the requirements. You are mixing up road construction with defense spending.
Seriously forget "illegal" websites. I could go on for an hour rant about how paypal has given my customers (legitimate registered 501c3 not for profit groups) the runaround freezing their legally earned money seemingly at random with the explanation of "maintaining compliance". They have required fax and email after letter and voided check to "verify" the account because the not-for-profit was not comfortable tying paypal to their bank account (with good reason it seems). In the end they had to tie it to a bank account, and are uncomfortable with the arrangement to this day. Paypal needs independent oversight, not arrangements with MAFIAA and police.
So I suppose you don't use webmail google apps or any online storage? If the government wants to know what you are doing there are a lot of other ways they can find out beyond asking RIM for a copy. After all, it is *email* which is sent plain text over public networks. Remember those special rooms in the at&t facilities that were oh so controversial a while back? I'll give you a hint, they weren't being used to store old bollywood films.
that you had hired someone incapable of managing the security you need for a target that large
*that large*? really? Their security wasn't up to snuff if they were a small business. Running old software with known security vulnerabilities isn't just poor practice it is just flat out lazy.
bad idea. Those usb powered drives tend to fail more often because many draw more power than the usb spec allows (which is why some ship with two usb connectors), sure they might spin up, but the low amperage is pretty hard on them long term.
If you think tape is a bad idea you clearly haven't done any serious work in archiving or backup. Where would I get a tape drive in an emergency? I would probably use the one mounted in the rack attached to the backup server like I did yesterday, or if that failed I would use the spare we keep in case of failures, and if it all burned down I would drive over to the other facility and use one of the two drives located there.
This is right on. I actually do backups for an enterprise company (and numerous smaller ones). My enterprise customer uses raid for live data, raided disk arrays for current backups, intranet transfer to an alternate facility on another continent for mirroring and current backups, daily and weekly to tape and tapes are rotated out to Iron Mountain weekly for a month of offsite data. It is expensive, but so is losing the information your business relies on. For this person though, let's be realistic - get a couple external hard drives, flash storage media, blueray, or tapes - pick any two and keep them in two different locations. test them on a regular basis to make sure they are readable and refresh the media as specified by the manufacturer (replace optical at least every year, replace tape based on wear or every 3-5 years and replace hard drives and flash media based on wear or when they are out of warranty.
ATMs became popular because they fired most of the tellers and the line is 30 minutes long and you have to fill out paperwork for a basic deposit and many banks charge you to talk to the teller on top of all that. ATMs still suck. Especially the Bank of America ones. Give me back tellers and envelopes over some B.S. machine that won't take the checks I am trying to deposit because it can't read them.
Christ, I stopped using those registry cleaners around windows 98 SE. They do more damage than they do good these days. If you don't know how to identify and remove crapola from the system and registry by hand, don't mess with it. That said it is fine to use a tool to assist you, but use one that identifies the keys for you to remove so you can use your good judgement too, not one that goes through and tells you it used some sort of voodoo to fix 9,218 errors and now your computer will be 1000% faster.
by that argument how is it that my firewire 400 devices are far faster than by usb 2 devices? It ain't all about industry speed claims, some of it comes down to real life. Now get off my lawn.
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I imagine if it were cheaper to get it to a higher orbit that didn't require constant boosts of energy just to keep it in place that is what they would have done. Completely escaping Earth's gravity is not an easy task - look at the size of the Saturn V versus our other rockets - and that was just to get a relatively small package to the moon and back. The ISS is a heck of a lot larger than the moon lander.
not an issue of worth, but of danger. Things degrade pretty quickly in space. This isn't really news, they did the same things with MIR for the same reason.
Let's look at it this way: I painted my house a few years ago and it needs a fresh coat. I already have a basic understanding of what needs to be done, the layout of the house, and the materials needed to complete the job (as I have done it before). Is it cheaper to paint my own house or to hire a painter to do it? Privatization dictates that it is both cheaper to let the painter do it and that I should also allow him to run it as a bread and breakfast while it is being painted.
but it feels so light...
don't even end at people asking for a full listing of webpages
haha reminds me of the yellowpages aol used to publish for that very reason. I think I have a copy somewhere that I got just for shits and giggles.
...only if you run cyanogenmod. Have you seen the crap support from venders?
When the heck did you start that timer? Bios on many computers takes 5 to 15 seconds. Starting after post I can (and do) boot XP on a 1.6 Ghz single core celeron with 1Gb ram in 20 seconds. By the same yardstick I would hardly call that "instant".
(IE: Go with RedHat/CentOS Enterprise and not Fedora.)
In other news, go for stable releases instead of using nightly builds for increased reliability.
great until they max out the consumer market and IT won't allow it anywhere near a corporate lan. lack of group policy support out of the box (on a windows or linux domain) combined with lack of rackmountable options combined with lack of (legal) ability to virtualize means there is really no good solution from apple for medium or large businesses. Apple can say screw you to IT, but as a mac user I can say screw you right back from the server room. I have customers that would go all apple if support for group policies and enterprise tools were better, but instead only have a half dozen macs for creative departments.
Have you ever looked at a government contract? They almost never go to the lowest bidder. In fact many specifically state that price will not be considered unless you fall outside of the budget range which is stated in the requirements. You are mixing up road construction with defense spending.
Seriously forget "illegal" websites. I could go on for an hour rant about how paypal has given my customers (legitimate registered 501c3 not for profit groups) the runaround freezing their legally earned money seemingly at random with the explanation of "maintaining compliance". They have required fax and email after letter and voided check to "verify" the account because the not-for-profit was not comfortable tying paypal to their bank account (with good reason it seems). In the end they had to tie it to a bank account, and are uncomfortable with the arrangement to this day. Paypal needs independent oversight, not arrangements with MAFIAA and police.
So I suppose you don't use webmail google apps or any online storage? If the government wants to know what you are doing there are a lot of other ways they can find out beyond asking RIM for a copy. After all, it is *email* which is sent plain text over public networks. Remember those special rooms in the at&t facilities that were oh so controversial a while back? I'll give you a hint, they weren't being used to store old bollywood films.
if you don't like being left out incorporate and stop complaining.
that you had hired someone incapable of managing the security you need for a target that large
*that large*? really? Their security wasn't up to snuff if they were a small business. Running old software with known security vulnerabilities isn't just poor practice it is just flat out lazy.
They also updated the Air lineup, dropping the old white MacBooks entirely.
There was a white macbook air?
bad idea. Those usb powered drives tend to fail more often because many draw more power than the usb spec allows (which is why some ship with two usb connectors), sure they might spin up, but the low amperage is pretty hard on them long term.
If you think tape is a bad idea you clearly haven't done any serious work in archiving or backup. Where would I get a tape drive in an emergency? I would probably use the one mounted in the rack attached to the backup server like I did yesterday, or if that failed I would use the spare we keep in case of failures, and if it all burned down I would drive over to the other facility and use one of the two drives located there.
This is right on. I actually do backups for an enterprise company (and numerous smaller ones). My enterprise customer uses raid for live data, raided disk arrays for current backups, intranet transfer to an alternate facility on another continent for mirroring and current backups, daily and weekly to tape and tapes are rotated out to Iron Mountain weekly for a month of offsite data. It is expensive, but so is losing the information your business relies on. For this person though, let's be realistic - get a couple external hard drives, flash storage media, blueray, or tapes - pick any two and keep them in two different locations. test them on a regular basis to make sure they are readable and refresh the media as specified by the manufacturer (replace optical at least every year, replace tape based on wear or every 3-5 years and replace hard drives and flash media based on wear or when they are out of warranty.
Leaves - "invented" by Monsanto(R)
...FTFY.
ATMs became popular because they fired most of the tellers and the line is 30 minutes long and you have to fill out paperwork for a basic deposit and many banks charge you to talk to the teller on top of all that. ATMs still suck. Especially the Bank of America ones. Give me back tellers and envelopes over some B.S. machine that won't take the checks I am trying to deposit because it can't read them.
Sorry MIT - that was Rutgers students. MIT actually made the database.
So they got data from an existing database, plugged it into some graphs, said "look it is interesting" and got credit at MIT? Really?
Christ, I stopped using those registry cleaners around windows 98 SE. They do more damage than they do good these days. If you don't know how to identify and remove crapola from the system and registry by hand, don't mess with it. That said it is fine to use a tool to assist you, but use one that identifies the keys for you to remove so you can use your good judgement too, not one that goes through and tells you it used some sort of voodoo to fix 9,218 errors and now your computer will be 1000% faster.
actually apple has offered fiber channel for many years as an expansion card. It is just too expensive for a consumer device at this point.
by that argument how is it that my firewire 400 devices are far faster than by usb 2 devices? It ain't all about industry speed claims, some of it comes down to real life. Now get off my lawn.