Dodge City was an armed society and not very polite. We tried the everyone be armed thing in the west of the 1800s and then we grew up and decided to settle our disputes in a more appropriate manner.
Other than the Slingshot most of those are fairly difficult to carry in a concealed manner.
I often use the fact that I never saw an accidental drive-by knifing in twelve years of EMT work. Saw a few accidental drive-by shootings.
I will defend your right to own guns but the concealed carry laws that all the 2nd Amendment defenders seem to favor are just a bit out there IMO. We tried that during the Dodge City and the wild west days and abandoned it sometime around 1900.
Oh Reagan had no problem cutting the number if personnel in uniform to pay for one of those shiny pieces of hardware his buddies were trying to sell him.
WTF is a Catch-21? I know what a Catch-22 is seeing as how I worked for Captain Major before he was promoted to Major Major but again what is a Catch-21.
No argument but it is not as cheap as the GP was making it out to be. Setting up a robust environment is not cheap nor easy. If you are setting up a new environment from scratch there are a lot of costs unrelated to computing hardware that individuals often fail to account for. A co-location or cloud environment may, and I emphasize may, be a way to go. In my experience the way the cloud vendors wind up nickel and diming you makes it not such a no-brainer.
Sure, then cost out the electrical and HVAC infrastructure to make sure that the wonderous blade server always has power and cooling. And no a simple UPS in the rack is not going to suffice for that AD/E-mail/File server infrastructure that supports 200 lawyers in three different buildings across six blocks in downtown Madison Wisconsin.
Not a fan of "Cloud Computing" but it is not as simple as buying a Blade server and plugging in an internet connections.
Exaggerating just a wee bit aren't we. A wing of B-52s was at Beale, max of 26 at any one time. Each B-52 could carry up to 8 nukes if they were the smaller type. A BUFF (Big Ugly Flying Fucker) or (Big Ugly Fat Fellow) could carry a max of 26 750Lb iron bombs using both internal and external store.
A lot of firepower but hardly hundreds of BUFFs at a single base each with hundreds of nukes on board.
Lots of hours on SAC parking ramps pulling firefighter standby on nuke loaded B-52s.
Try doing a DC Promo of a very, very large Active Directory (think Air Force large) to an island with a satellite link of 512K then tell me the SneakerNet is dead.
Yeah we did the DC Promo on a machine here then sent the disks via the next plane. I think that qualifies as a SneakerNet for today's kids.
Yep, and in the military no one seems to have the balls to make the user learn and use the new shiny. Speaking from experience, the AF in my username stands for Air Force
Not just landlords, lost a book from the local library. The only way to pay for the book is a check, won't take cash unless I go to the central office, won't take a credit card.
The last personal check I wrote was 8 years ago. Now I have to do downtown or go to my Credit Union and get a bank check to pay for the book.
Lots of GIs like to take their gaming box with them to the desert. Not always an Internet connection for them to use there. That XBox Next is gonna be pretty useless if it has to connect once a day.
And now you know why I always bring a case or two of Point Special back with me whenever I get back to WI. The magnesium salts in the local water makes all the difference.
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Dodge City was an armed society and not very polite. We tried the everyone be armed thing in the west of the 1800s and then we grew up and decided to settle our disputes in a more appropriate manner.
Other than the Slingshot most of those are fairly difficult to carry in a concealed manner.
I often use the fact that I never saw an accidental drive-by knifing in twelve years of EMT work. Saw a few accidental drive-by shootings.
I will defend your right to own guns but the concealed carry laws that all the 2nd Amendment defenders seem to favor are just a bit out there IMO. We tried that during the Dodge City and the wild west days and abandoned it sometime around 1900.
Oh Reagan had no problem cutting the number if personnel in uniform to pay for one of those shiny pieces of hardware his buddies were trying to sell him.
WTF is a Catch-21? I know what a Catch-22 is seeing as how I worked for Captain Major before he was promoted to Major Major but again what is a Catch-21.
Surface???
No argument but it is not as cheap as the GP was making it out to be. Setting up a robust environment is not cheap nor easy. If you are setting up a new environment from scratch there are a lot of costs unrelated to computing hardware that individuals often fail to account for. A co-location or cloud environment may, and I emphasize may, be a way to go. In my experience the way the cloud vendors wind up nickel and diming you makes it not such a no-brainer.
Sure, then cost out the electrical and HVAC infrastructure to make sure that the wonderous blade server always has power and cooling. And no a simple UPS in the rack is not going to suffice for that AD/E-mail/File server infrastructure that supports 200 lawyers in three different buildings across six blocks in downtown Madison Wisconsin.
Not a fan of "Cloud Computing" but it is not as simple as buying a Blade server and plugging in an internet connections.
I connect all the time at 9500 feet. Maybe because I live in Cripple Creek, CO.
Billy Joel -- Cristy Brinkley now that was marrying above his pay grade. Gives hope to us all
Exaggerating just a wee bit aren't we. A wing of B-52s was at Beale, max of 26 at any one time. Each B-52 could carry up to 8 nukes if they were the smaller type. A BUFF (Big Ugly Flying Fucker) or (Big Ugly Fat Fellow) could carry a max of 26 750Lb iron bombs using both internal and external store.
A lot of firepower but hardly hundreds of BUFFs at a single base each with hundreds of nukes on board.
Lots of hours on SAC parking ramps pulling firefighter standby on nuke loaded B-52s.
Yeah the probability of carbon based life is 100%, just look into a mirror.
Try doing a DC Promo of a very, very large Active Directory (think Air Force large) to an island with a satellite link of 512K then tell me the SneakerNet is dead.
Yeah we did the DC Promo on a machine here then sent the disks via the next plane. I think that qualifies as a SneakerNet for today's kids.
Isn't it about time to migrate to ethernet?
Except ever since the Reagan era we have to outsource everything. Can't let the military do stuff when we can pay a contractor twice as much to do it.
And when you have it figured out Congress decides to tweak something just for fun.
Yep, and in the military no one seems to have the balls to make the user learn and use the new shiny. Speaking from experience, the AF in my username stands for Air Force
Sorry, I forgot to use the sarcasm font.
Isn't the Post Office a non-Government agency now? What with having to turn a profit and all.
Not just landlords, lost a book from the local library. The only way to pay for the book is a check, won't take cash unless I go to the central office, won't take a credit card.
The last personal check I wrote was 8 years ago. Now I have to do downtown or go to my Credit Union and get a bank check to pay for the book.
But is she an NSA employee or just a contractor?
Really would love to load an alternate ROM on my Toshiba Excite but you know Toshiba would have to unlock the bootloader for that to happen.
Yeah, I should have checked before buying but C'est la vie. Live and Learn.
Multiple user logon capability for Android should have been a core capability on the first version for tablets.
No, on a tablet.
My pet peeve is when one of my kids borrows my tablet and it comes back cluttered with all his/her stuff.
Yeah right, I work for a fortune 500 tech company and over half the desktops are still XP they just made Win7 the standard desktop last month.
Lots of GIs like to take their gaming box with them to the desert. Not always an Internet connection for them to use there. That XBox Next is gonna be pretty useless if it has to connect once a day.
And now you know why I always bring a case or two of Point Special back with me whenever I get back to WI. The magnesium salts in the local water makes all the difference.