Blade clusters. Back when I did marketing for one of the other big companies, that's what we sold them. Racks and racks of blades, running virtual servers.
Not when I discovered that the same HDMI cable they wanted $40 could be had online for $5. Last time I tried to check their website for cheap stuff I could pick up today (specifically, a wireless dongle), the only stuff they had in price range was not kept in stores, and could not even be delivered to the stores - you had to pay $5 for shipping for a one ounce part, even though for the more expensive items they offered "ship to store" pickup for no charge at all. After a frustrating fifteen minutes I said screw it and ordered a similar from Amazon, who got it to me in two days for 99 cents.
At least that area of Georgia is seismically stable and inland and quite a bit away from the nearest major river, which also has very firm flood controls in place. I grew up about 60 miles away from Plant Vogtle. When I was young, I could climb a very high hill about a mile away from my house, and on clear days I could see the giant cooling towers in the distance.
Backup "tapes" currently grind along at 10,000 RPM or so, depending on the device. Their primary purpose is to write data; you hope you never have to read from it. The thought of writing backups at 150K RPM - finishing what is currently a three hour backup in about fifteen minutes - that would be spectacular. Sure, the data restore would still take 3+ hours - but again, you cross your fingers and hope you never have to do that restore anyway.
Biology can be fun when taught by a competent teacher. My anatomy class in high school had one of the best, and she'd obtained a grant which she used to buy crazy supplies to supplement her lessons. Pool noodles became striated muscles and we spent a food amount of time shoving the noodles in sort of an interlaced pattern while she shouted "Calcium uptake! Calcium ion release!" I guarantee you ever single student in that class is fully aware that it is the calcium channel that moves striated muscle, to this date, even though that class was 15 years ago.
That was my first thought too. Knowing what little I do of him, he'd probably be the first in line to volunteer for human experimental studies of this.
It's my own fault for hanging around Slashdot, computer part stores, and video game websites all the time. Apparently things like Bath & Body Works and Lane Bryant don't cancel it out.
Considering that Google thought I was an 18-24 year old male when I am well above that age range and most definitely a female, I'm not too worried about my demographics being out there for the world to see.
We did already have this. It was called report cards, and when I was in K-12 school, it got sent home on paper with me once every six weeks so my parents could look at it and see how I was doing and if necessary ground me for not paying attention in school.
I know, I was one of them. But back when I was 10-12, we didn't have constant online access or cell phones or Facebook. The most I got was an hour of PC time at a computer lab on Saturdays, and what connection time I could steal from my best friend's house (I did have one of those, at least) since her family had a family computer and Prodigy. (I think I just dated myself.) So we were stuck with some mild social skills impairment due to natural introversion, but no other outlet for our desire for human communication. So I read books all the time instead.
I think it's easier when you're an adult. You can turn off the computer and go visit an actual real life friend and just get drunk with them, like I did earlier this evening. We actually turned off the television and just chatted for a few hours. Social skills can be acquired more readily once you're not a little kid.
And many companies don't realize what a problem it is to outsource overseas until their product is delivered and it is a buggy piece of junk or missed half the requirements.
That argument would hold more water if there weren't thousands of grumpy unemployed IT workers running around the US. Some of them were in the wrong field to begin with, some of them are entry level and don't have enough experience to satisfy the needs of the industry, but a good many of them just want too much money for companies to bother paying because they are so highly skilled and have so much experience.
The issue is that we're graduate students, working professionals, and live scattered hither and thon. We've run into enough problems trying to coordinate group sessions when half the group lives in one city, half the group lives in another city an hour and a half away, half the group has small children, and everyone in the group is unavailable from 8AM to 6PM during the week. Trying to share a textbook under those conditions would be nightmarish.
My systems analysis textbook set me back almost two hundred dollars brand new. My database management book was $120 used. My professor was the author of the latter; he had said he had asked his publisher about eBook editions, and they demurred, because their profits would be cut in half.
The textbook industry needed this swift kick in the nuts to break up the racket.
And there are some pro-choice folks who are quite against "partial birth" abortions of fetuses that are viable, and strongly condemn women who "use abortion as birth control" (which is less than 1% of abortions, by the by.) But we also recognize that it is a medical procedure that must be protected in the name of medical science, and the best way to prevent abortions is to prevent pregnancies in the first place, through comprehensive sex education and making sure that birth control is accessible and affordable for both men and women.
Except a great many pro-lifers are also against birth control, even though the hormones in oral contraceptives have non-pregnancy related medical uses (e.g. endometriosis, PCS, ovarian cysts, etc.) They also ignore the fact that over half of pregnancies are naturally terminated by the uterus due to DNA transcriptions errors or other factors. The human reproductive system has an automatic debugger system, and that's called miscarriage.
This was the case. They paid a million dollars for their house at the height of the housing boom, although it had dropped down to $800K when the market bottomed out. Amazing, beautiful home. He had made it big in Silicon Valley and she was a head nurse at a hospital. They were like the perfect charmed couple when I met them (I am friends with their daughter) and they let my husband and I stay in their beautiful home for two weeks while we were in CA on vacation. When we saw the house, we were like, "She never told us her parents were rich."
Well, there was that incident a few months ago where they accidentally deleted the password protocols in the server code, so anyone who had your email address could access all your private folders. I think it lasted like that for four hours before they fixed it. Oops.
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I picked the capitalist solution: I use Metro PCS instead. Their 4G unlimited dataplan is unthrottled and unlimited, and cheaper to boot.
Blade clusters. Back when I did marketing for one of the other big companies, that's what we sold them. Racks and racks of blades, running virtual servers.
Nerds are by their very natures polymaths. We like to stick our curious little noses in a lot of things people wouldn't expect us to be interested in.
Not when I discovered that the same HDMI cable they wanted $40 could be had online for $5. Last time I tried to check their website for cheap stuff I could pick up today (specifically, a wireless dongle), the only stuff they had in price range was not kept in stores, and could not even be delivered to the stores - you had to pay $5 for shipping for a one ounce part, even though for the more expensive items they offered "ship to store" pickup for no charge at all. After a frustrating fifteen minutes I said screw it and ordered a similar from Amazon, who got it to me in two days for 99 cents.
At least that area of Georgia is seismically stable and inland and quite a bit away from the nearest major river, which also has very firm flood controls in place. I grew up about 60 miles away from Plant Vogtle. When I was young, I could climb a very high hill about a mile away from my house, and on clear days I could see the giant cooling towers in the distance.
Since they got it so very wrong, wrong, wrong on the first go round.
Backup "tapes" currently grind along at 10,000 RPM or so, depending on the device. Their primary purpose is to write data; you hope you never have to read from it. The thought of writing backups at 150K RPM - finishing what is currently a three hour backup in about fifteen minutes - that would be spectacular. Sure, the data restore would still take 3+ hours - but again, you cross your fingers and hope you never have to do that restore anyway.
*A good amount of time. We may remember the calcium, but we still do not always proof read...
Biology can be fun when taught by a competent teacher. My anatomy class in high school had one of the best, and she'd obtained a grant which she used to buy crazy supplies to supplement her lessons. Pool noodles became striated muscles and we spent a food amount of time shoving the noodles in sort of an interlaced pattern while she shouted "Calcium uptake! Calcium ion release!" I guarantee you ever single student in that class is fully aware that it is the calcium channel that moves striated muscle, to this date, even though that class was 15 years ago.
That's me. Haven't played an Ubisoft game in years. Haven't missed it, either.
That was my first thought too. Knowing what little I do of him, he'd probably be the first in line to volunteer for human experimental studies of this.
Was there first.
It's my own fault for hanging around Slashdot, computer part stores, and video game websites all the time. Apparently things like Bath & Body Works and Lane Bryant don't cancel it out.
Considering that Google thought I was an 18-24 year old male when I am well above that age range and most definitely a female, I'm not too worried about my demographics being out there for the world to see.
We did already have this. It was called report cards, and when I was in K-12 school, it got sent home on paper with me once every six weeks so my parents could look at it and see how I was doing and if necessary ground me for not paying attention in school.
I know, I was one of them. But back when I was 10-12, we didn't have constant online access or cell phones or Facebook. The most I got was an hour of PC time at a computer lab on Saturdays, and what connection time I could steal from my best friend's house (I did have one of those, at least) since her family had a family computer and Prodigy. (I think I just dated myself.) So we were stuck with some mild social skills impairment due to natural introversion, but no other outlet for our desire for human communication. So I read books all the time instead.
I think it's easier when you're an adult. You can turn off the computer and go visit an actual real life friend and just get drunk with them, like I did earlier this evening. We actually turned off the television and just chatted for a few hours. Social skills can be acquired more readily once you're not a little kid.
And many companies don't realize what a problem it is to outsource overseas until their product is delivered and it is a buggy piece of junk or missed half the requirements.
That argument would hold more water if there weren't thousands of grumpy unemployed IT workers running around the US. Some of them were in the wrong field to begin with, some of them are entry level and don't have enough experience to satisfy the needs of the industry, but a good many of them just want too much money for companies to bother paying because they are so highly skilled and have so much experience.
The issue is that we're graduate students, working professionals, and live scattered hither and thon. We've run into enough problems trying to coordinate group sessions when half the group lives in one city, half the group lives in another city an hour and a half away, half the group has small children, and everyone in the group is unavailable from 8AM to 6PM during the week. Trying to share a textbook under those conditions would be nightmarish.
Nope. But good guess.
My systems analysis textbook set me back almost two hundred dollars brand new. My database management book was $120 used. My professor was the author of the latter; he had said he had asked his publisher about eBook editions, and they demurred, because their profits would be cut in half.
The textbook industry needed this swift kick in the nuts to break up the racket.
And there are some pro-choice folks who are quite against "partial birth" abortions of fetuses that are viable, and strongly condemn women who "use abortion as birth control" (which is less than 1% of abortions, by the by.) But we also recognize that it is a medical procedure that must be protected in the name of medical science, and the best way to prevent abortions is to prevent pregnancies in the first place, through comprehensive sex education and making sure that birth control is accessible and affordable for both men and women.
Except a great many pro-lifers are also against birth control, even though the hormones in oral contraceptives have non-pregnancy related medical uses (e.g. endometriosis, PCS, ovarian cysts, etc.) They also ignore the fact that over half of pregnancies are naturally terminated by the uterus due to DNA transcriptions errors or other factors. The human reproductive system has an automatic debugger system, and that's called miscarriage.
This was the case. They paid a million dollars for their house at the height of the housing boom, although it had dropped down to $800K when the market bottomed out. Amazing, beautiful home. He had made it big in Silicon Valley and she was a head nurse at a hospital. They were like the perfect charmed couple when I met them (I am friends with their daughter) and they let my husband and I stay in their beautiful home for two weeks while we were in CA on vacation. When we saw the house, we were like, "She never told us her parents were rich."
Well, there was that incident a few months ago where they accidentally deleted the password protocols in the server code, so anyone who had your email address could access all your private folders. I think it lasted like that for four hours before they fixed it. Oops.