Bullsit, I buy and build IT sysyems for the government projects and we buy COTS systems for ~the same price as commercial projects I work. Only extra expense is the government likes the keep your drive warranties which all the vendors charge for.
They did. Get it through your head pay an engineer for 3months ~$15000 and buy only 10 of what he designed then by Pentagon accounting rules each item cost $1500 even if the additional cost of materials for the next item is $10 the Pentagon now reports a cost of ~$1366 each not $10 for the eleventh seat.
Actually no, several years ago the SCOTUS decided that the police could not use an infrared gun to gain proof of a growing operation without a warrant. I believe the reasoning was that the infrared could give the police additional information not related to the growing information such as when you were taking a hot bath or shower.
Agree that the support from the TAC is excellent. The problems is more with product roadmaps and their propensity to remove support for in production hardware from new versions of IOS. Those CSM module is mention were less than 1 yr old at the time and now an new version of IOS comes out that drops support for them. The only choice was no VSS or buy ACE blades for approximately 40K each plus maintenance.
Cisco can fail on firmware ugrades too. We had bunch of 3750s to update and the first three all bricked. Turns out Cisco had a bad batch that the upgrade code would ID as counterfeit. Cisco replaced 25 production switches for me without asking for the old one back.
Sure Cisco support is great until the only fix is an IOS upgrade.
Want VSS support for your 6509 switches, sure, upgrade your IOS but we removed support for your CSM modules so you need to buy ACE blades. We don't care that you bought the CSM modules six months ago, just give us more money. True story and no it wasn't spelled out on the roadmap.
Same with Cisco. The real profit for Cisco is in SmartNet maitenance fees, 22.5% each and every year you own the box. HP sells lifetime maintenance with their boxes. Huge difference in lifecycle costs. If you are buying generic switches and routers for the comm closet HP is the way to go. Only use the fancy boxes from Cisco/Juniper at the boundary and maybe in the network core where the fancy stuff MIGHT be needed.
Where did you get $13 billion loss from? It is a $13 billion program that has been poorly managed so the replacement satellite is behind schedule, that does not mean the $13 billion ia a loss. Let me guess you do Romney's books too.
Sometimes you define the acronym if used only once because the acronym is more recognizable to the majority than the fully spelled out term. You use both the full term and the acronym to be certain that everyone can understand what you are referring to.
For example: as a military network guy I immediately recognize the term NIPRNET but you, as a civilian network guy better recognize Non-Classified Internet Protocol Network, or maybe not:-O
Four moves overseas in the US military, don't worry about shipping damage, worry about shrinkage, lots of sticky fingers out there. Pay attention ta Backing up the data snd hope the thieves don't get your hardware.
As to how long it takes, your stuff is packed into a wood crate that waits at the moving companies warehouse until a full truckload is going to the overseas shipper who then will only ship when he has a full overseas container going to ypur port, long time if going to an obscure port. Then you get the reverse in the destination country. Most of the shipping time is waiting in warehouses.
To be fair the american consumer is not fond of diesels after the GM fiasco of the 70s/80s. Personnally the Volkswagen Passat CC TDI that I rented in Europe was almost perfect, 40+ mpg, 6-speed manual and drove like a bat out of hell. To be fair the driver had something to do with the last part but I enjoyed driving it almost as much as my S2000.
Went to the local VW dealer to buy one when I got back to find out VW doesn't sell the TDI CC in america.
Are you talking about Colorado or Wisconsin because I have experienced both during the winter and Wisconsin is way better than Colorado when it comes to plowing, Of course that was before Walker and all his cutbacks.
That's why you can't buy a 16:9 pivot -- it'd be even more useless than 16:9 landscape is.
Really, I am typing this on a really nice Dell 16:9 pivoted to 9x16. In fact I have two of them side by side works great for my 50+ year old eyes. No need for reading glasses when I am working on the computer. An I can pivot them back when designing networks in Visio.
You might be right about only the lawyers winning but the consumer has already lost if it gets to class action. In a system with forced arbitration the Corporation never loses and never has an incentive to fix a problem, at least with a class-action suit the corporation stands some small chance of losing and may attempt to fix the problem.
Travel by other than foot is a privilege and provided by the good will of corporations and government, maybe I should have heard a woosh when i read that but would you kindly point me to the Article of the Constitution that says or even implies the US government has the authority to regulate all forms of travel, and as for corporations, are you implying that I must buy a bicycle, I can't build my own because that will cause some corporation to lose money.
Not many hurricanes in Colorado but we do get BLIZZARDS and they use the gates to close the road during them. Seems to me I remember a few blizzards growing up in Wisconsin so ya think that might be part of the reason.
Why are you convinced that the profit motive reduces costs? It doesn't when you have a non-competiitve environment as we currently have and have had for decades in the medical field. Admit that the free-market/profit oriented method has failed to hold down costs and let another method, proven to work in several first-world countries be tried here in the US.
Problem is urgent care is all that the poor get in the US. They can go to the emergency and get that care because the hospital builds the cost into everyone else's bill but they can't get the routine care that would be cheaper and maybe keep them waiting until they are sick enough to need urgent care.
I agree for the top 10% the US has the best care but if you are poor you can go without or go bankrupt. Guess what if they declare bankruptcy you and I pay anyway through higher bills or insurance premiums. Why not provide affordable care up front by socializing medicine and keeping everything healthy, The good of the masses versus the individual, yeah I know not the American way but probably cheaper and more humane.
You are correct that one does not have to experience to have a valid opinion on something, but solid evidence should be used. Unfortunately too many individuals that claim socialized medicine is bad do so not from empirical evidence but from the belief that anything socialized has to be bad or even worse if we don't do it here in America then by default it is worse.
As to your point of lowering costs you conveniently forget that if you remove the profit motive from health care you can also reduce costs but I suppose you will try to tell me that the free market rules all.
We are going to have to agree to disagree on the worth of a well implemented socialized medicine regime, even though many countries have successfully implemented socialized medicine with results that provide better care for less money than the United States.
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My kingdom for mod points. As well stated as I have ever seen. Mind if I steal your argument for the antiGovernment health trolls at work?
Except they are doing business here and using accounting tricks to move the profits to the low tax countries. Do business here pay your taxes here.
Bullsit, I buy and build IT sysyems for the government projects and we buy COTS systems for ~the same price as commercial projects I work. Only extra expense is the government likes the keep your drive warranties which all the vendors charge for.
They did. Get it through your head pay an engineer for 3months ~$15000 and buy only 10 of what he designed then by Pentagon accounting rules each item cost $1500 even if the additional cost of materials for the next item is $10 the Pentagon now reports a cost of ~$1366 each not $10 for the eleventh seat.
Actually no, several years ago the SCOTUS decided that the police could not use an infrared gun to gain proof of a growing operation without a warrant. I believe the reasoning was that the infrared could give the police additional information not related to the growing information such as when you were taking a hot bath or shower.
Agree that the support from the TAC is excellent. The problems is more with product roadmaps and their propensity to remove support for in production hardware from new versions of IOS. Those CSM module is mention were less than 1 yr old at the time and now an new version of IOS comes out that drops support for them. The only choice was no VSS or buy ACE blades for approximately 40K each plus maintenance.
Cisco can fail on firmware ugrades too. We had bunch of 3750s to update and the first three all bricked. Turns out Cisco had a bad batch that the upgrade code would ID as counterfeit. Cisco replaced 25 production switches for me without asking for the old one back.
Sure Cisco support is great until the only fix is an IOS upgrade.
Want VSS support for your 6509 switches, sure, upgrade your IOS but we removed support for your CSM modules so you need to buy ACE blades. We don't care that you bought the CSM modules six months ago, just give us more money. True story and no it wasn't spelled out on the roadmap.
Same with Cisco. The real profit for Cisco is in SmartNet maitenance fees, 22.5% each and every year you own the box. HP sells lifetime maintenance with their boxes. Huge difference in lifecycle costs. If you are buying generic switches and routers for the comm closet HP is the way to go. Only use the fancy boxes from Cisco/Juniper at the boundary and maybe in the network core where the fancy stuff MIGHT be needed.
Where did you get $13 billion loss from? It is a $13 billion program that has been poorly managed so the replacement satellite is behind schedule, that does not mean the $13 billion ia a loss. Let me guess you do Romney's books too.
Sometimes you define the acronym if used only once because the acronym is more recognizable to the majority than the fully spelled out term. You use both the full term and the acronym to be certain that everyone can understand what you are referring to.
For example: as a military network guy I immediately recognize the term NIPRNET but you, as a civilian network guy better recognize Non-Classified Internet Protocol Network, or maybe not :-O
Except those states that have voucher programs, then the private school is just a worried about getting the $30 a day check for attendance.
Until the local customs officer asks for the duties on that nice shiny furniture. And yes I made the move from USA to Oz. God I miss Woomera!
Four moves overseas in the US military, don't worry about shipping damage, worry about shrinkage, lots of sticky fingers out there. Pay attention ta Backing up the data snd hope the thieves don't get your hardware.
As to how long it takes, your stuff is packed into a wood crate that waits at the moving companies warehouse until a full truckload is going to the overseas shipper who then will only ship when he has a full overseas container going to ypur port, long time if going to an obscure port. Then you get the reverse in the destination country. Most of the shipping time is waiting in warehouses.
To be fair the american consumer is not fond of diesels after the GM fiasco of the 70s/80s. Personnally the Volkswagen Passat CC TDI that I rented in Europe was almost perfect, 40+ mpg, 6-speed manual and drove like a bat out of hell. To be fair the driver had something to do with the last part but I enjoyed driving it almost as much as my S2000.
Went to the local VW dealer to buy one when I got back to find out VW doesn't sell the TDI CC in america.
Are you talking about Colorado or Wisconsin because I have experienced both during the winter and Wisconsin is way better than Colorado when it comes to plowing, Of course that was before Walker and all his cutbacks.
That's why you can't buy a 16:9 pivot -- it'd be even more useless than 16:9 landscape is.
Really, I am typing this on a really nice Dell 16:9 pivoted to 9x16. In fact I have two of them side by side works great for my 50+ year old eyes. No need for reading glasses when I am working on the computer. An I can pivot them back when designing networks in Visio.
You might be right about only the lawyers winning but the consumer has already lost if it gets to class action. In a system with forced arbitration the Corporation never loses and never has an incentive to fix a problem, at least with a class-action suit the corporation stands some small chance of losing and may attempt to fix the problem.
Travel by other than foot is a privilege and provided by the good will of corporations and government, maybe I should have heard a woosh when i read that but would you kindly point me to the Article of the Constitution that says or even implies the US government has the authority to regulate all forms of travel, and as for corporations, are you implying that I must buy a bicycle, I can't build my own because that will cause some corporation to lose money.
You need help.
Not many hurricanes in Colorado but we do get BLIZZARDS and they use the gates to close the road during them. Seems to me I remember a few blizzards growing up in Wisconsin so ya think that might be part of the reason.
Yes true but on my thinkpad the battery will die then I remove the old battery and replace it with a new one. Try that with your sealed MBPwRD
Woomera?
Why are you convinced that the profit motive reduces costs? It doesn't when you have a non-competiitve environment as we currently have and have had for decades in the medical field. Admit that the free-market/profit oriented method has failed to hold down costs and let another method, proven to work in several first-world countries be tried here in the US.
Problem is urgent care is all that the poor get in the US. They can go to the emergency and get that care because the hospital builds the cost into everyone else's bill but they can't get the routine care that would be cheaper and maybe keep them waiting until they are sick enough to need urgent care.
I agree for the top 10% the US has the best care but if you are poor you can go without or go bankrupt. Guess what if they declare bankruptcy you and I pay anyway through higher bills or insurance premiums. Why not provide affordable care up front by socializing medicine and keeping everything healthy, The good of the masses versus the individual, yeah I know not the American way but probably cheaper and more humane.
You are correct that one does not have to experience to have a valid opinion on something, but solid evidence should be used. Unfortunately too many individuals that claim socialized medicine is bad do so not from empirical evidence but from the belief that anything socialized has to be bad or even worse if we don't do it here in America then by default it is worse.
As to your point of lowering costs you conveniently forget that if you remove the profit motive from health care you can also reduce costs but I suppose you will try to tell me that the free market rules all.
We are going to have to agree to disagree on the worth of a well implemented socialized medicine regime, even though many countries have successfully implemented socialized medicine with results that provide better care for less money than the United States.