This facility may indeed be high-tech offices, but is by no stretch of the imagination a proper incubator.
Re:I hope they are "warmer" than fluorescent lamps
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I wonder why they do not paint fluorescent tube with a yellowish hue to make them warmer. I bet if they would do this, they would conquer a greater market.
Compact Fluorescent bulbs come in colour temperatures from 2700-6500K. Higher colour temperatures equal "cooler" light with more blue.
I started using CF bulbs a few years ago simply b/c of the geek factor. I've found that quality varies and few remain bright throughout their entire useful life. Some run hotter than others. Also found that different rooms / applications call for different colours. YMMV.
Of course this varies widely depending on your electricity costs and maintenance costs. I found a break-even point at 42 months - and I didn't include labour for changing bulbs. Don't discount the real cost of sending someone through a building once a week to check and change bulbs.
when owners start breeding from them and selling on the kittens??? Will there be a strict EULA that forbids the owner from breeding and that they must have them neutered at the first available opportunity???
Indeed this happens with dogs today. Our golden retriever came with such a no-breed agreement. She'd have cost over five times her already considerable price if we had wanted to breed her.
Our cats, on the other hand, have always been adopted from rescue shelters. Some internal bias prevents me from ever considering paying money for a cat. I think it would be slavery...
You can get used to the cold, just like anything else. Hypothermia is an absurd myth perpetuated by the heating and clothing companies to sell you their expensive and unnecessary products.
Ha! You must be from New Zealand, where central heat and double glazed windows still haven't caught on.
We can only hope that the future of wireless networks will include encrypted or otherwise protected routers/access points. The number of open networks around my apartment is somewhat disturbing (in a good way, when I'm bored).
What's wrong with an open WiFi network? If Internet bandwidth is near-free and the local network is firewalled off from the wireless, why bother restricting or encrypting? Security is the responsibility of the application, anyway. Email (AT&T Worldnet) uses SSL for POP3/SMTP, web browsers have SSL, and for remote access is ssh or scp. I don't see any reason not to leave my wifi open.
And yet, this attitude magically disappears in an MP3 or movie piracy article? Suddenly, THAT kind of piracy isn't "theft?" Honestly, what's the difference?
Easy. Piracy is different when you start selling pirated works online. I have no idea about the legal differences, but the moral implications are pretty clear to me.
Everyone is missing the forest for the trees on this one. We already pay a fee to connect a device in our homes to a network around the world.
$25/month is $25/month too much for VoIP (when you already have a cable modem).
What is it that we want to pay for exactly? Is it that we want to rent the VoIP hardware phone? Are we insecure putting our voicemail on our PCs at home instead of a SAN at some over-hyped corp?
We pay to allow the rest of the non-technical world to use POTS to call us. And to allow us to call said rest of world. We likely also pay so we don't have to depend on a soft-phone on our likely unreliable home PC. We're not all living in our mom's basement, you know...
"Staggered stud construction eliminates the thermal bridging of wall studs and allows space for a high density blown cellulose insulation giving the walls and R-Value of 30. Wall studs are placed at 24" on-center with a single top plate. The roof trusses are lined up directly over the wall studs."
Does anyone do this? Do carpenters / framers anywhere know how to do this the right way?
"I find it amusing that they are rolling these high speed services. If you have 50,000 people in a reasonably sized city all with 15mbps connectivity, do you really think they will all get that? I don't know how much ATM bandwidth is coming into any one CO, but I will bet it isn't 750,000mbps. Or better yet, wherever those DSL ATM connections terminate, I bet they don't have that much bandwidth available."
If you have 50,000 people watching 50 channels of HDTV, which just happen to be multicast within the city, you're still well within the limits of OC12 (or, more economically, GigE) out of the CO, while you may be delivering an aggregate 350,000mbps to your customers.
Big pipes to the home are most certainly *not* for surfing Slashdot - they're for delivering "value added" services that companies like Verizon can make a mint on.
We've all been on roads where it is actually unsafe, even potentially lethal, to drive the actual speed limit.
It's been a good eight years since I've had a speeding ticket. I have however, much more recently, been given a citation for driving faster than conditions reasonably allowed. I know, and the Connecticut State Trooper both knew I wasn't speeding, but he pulled me over anyway because he thought the weather was too poor for me to be doing the speed limit on I-95. Or at least that's what the citation said. $70. No points, no whatever. I mailed in nolo contendere to get rid of it.
Per the topic, I think black boxes are great. One would have helped me contest tickets in Virginia and Arkansas from my university days. Redneck fucking hick troopers see an out-of-state plate with a mountain bike on the car and see $$$. Virginia threatened to arrest me and tow my car when I asked to see the radar gun. Arkansas took my license and gave me a paper receipt - they mailed it back when I paid the fine.
IDE RAID hit mainstream over five years ago, when Adaptec released an IDE RAID card. This card happened to have four separate IDE controllers chips on it, and four cable connectors. I installed a solution using this card with four 73GB IDE drives from IBM (as big as they came in 1999, I think) in an 0+1 configuration. Mirrored striped sets, total usable capacity of 130GB, I think. (Not bad considering I had replaced mirrored 9GB SCSI drives.)
Wouldn't you know it, but one drive failed after three months. No problem, it was taken out and replaced with anohter (FedEx overnight from Dirt Cheap Drives) at a cost of 30 minutes after-hours downtime. And it was done by a technician who'd never seen the configuration before. I was overseas when it happened.
AFAIK, this machine (SuperMicro dual PPro 200, 384MB RAM) is still chugging along, running Windows NT Server 4.0, doing its thing as a file server for an engineering department who still haven't filled it up.
I think the Apple is the cheapest any sane person or organization would go. They have engineered a solution, as opposed to assembling a solution as you propose. All sorts of things can go wrong with such an assembled solution, such as heat, vibrations, power fluctuations, drive failure, data corruption, etc. The Apple solution takes all these in to account, and does so at a reasonable price. Better yet it can be replaced or repaired at any time, as opposed to an assembled solution, which needs the original assembler to be present (not fired or on vacation) if it breaks.
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but when was the last time you saw a multimode ATM DS3 interface, or a multichannel T3 interface for a PC?
Who needs to stick a router on the end of a DS3 pipe anymore?. Consider the price of 10/100/1000/10,000 ethernet, and ask yourself again.
If you have a campus (large business, research, or education) network with existing ATM, it's now cheaper for you to rip out everything you have and replace it with switched or routed gigabit ethernet than it is to maintain your existing kit.
If you're a MAN (Metropolitan Area Network) provider, you're already using gigE.
PC routers have been around for ten years now, and every year they've gained on Cisco and the like. High end routers will still be required for large telcos with real pipes (can we say OC192?) but forget about "multimode ATM DS3 interface, or a multichannel T3" please! Just maintaining your software licenses is more expensive than buying and running a much more capable linux box.
I think they mean 802.11b/g. While I've seen single-chip 802.11b/g solutions, I've yet to see a single chip 802.11a/g. Also there are antennas to consider - a broadband antenna for 1.8-2.4 GHZ (supporting GSM and 802.11b/g) isn't particularly difficult to do, but if the phone supported 802.11a (5.3 and 5.8 GHz) it'd have to have more and different antennas. Couple that with the battery drain from 5GHz and I somehow doubt the phone on the market today is really a/g.
When you fill up, the pump will tell you how many gallons you just pumped into your car. When I get back into my car, I reset the tripmeter (the "second" odometer which can be reset) after noting the number of miles I've driven since the last fuel stop.
A couple of things get in the way of this practice giving you an accurate reading - namely temperature and gas tank construction. I drove a TDI Golf for a few years and found that the plastic gas tank caused for different readings dependant on air temperature and car temperature.
(The Golf did 37/42, and I frightened everyone with my Boston driving.)
ERP systems implementations fail due to people and organizations, not due to technology.
Give a university administrator a system she doesn't know or like, and she's not going to put any effort in to making it work.
Give an IT department a mandate that they don't feel they had an adequate role in bringing about, and they're going to blame the technology, no matter what the real problem is.
Slap down a system made for a sane business in front of a university and tell that university to behave like a sane business in order to make the system work... well, it won't work.
Having seen PeopleSoft and Oracle Financials implementations from several angles, I firmly believe that the technology is fine - nothing spectacular or earth-shattering - but fine. The problem lies entirely with the organization implementing.
How to fix this? There's the ten million dollar question. A hint at the answer is this: look at Oracle Financials and PeopleSoft implementations in organizations with strict heirarchical (read militaristic) management. Success rates?
"The other thing I saw was that you tuned the antenna for a frequency with components - does this mean potentiometers or does it mean scrapping it and buying another 2d helix tuned to the specific wavelenghth?"
Licensed-frequency type kit tends to operate in small bandwidth - 10mhz or less. For a broadband application, I imagine you could print an array with tiny variations.
I still haven't figured out why people think L2 switching for wireless is so sexy, especially for fixed wireless installs such as this new McCaw deal.
kid in 32 Oak Road and kid in 35 Oak Road are going to tie up a lot more network resources sharing DivX movies than they would with a mesh-routed layer 3 network, 'cause in WiMax the IP stuff isn't getting routed until it hits the backhaul point.
WiMax
subscriber 1 --(802.16)--> cell site --(802.16)--> cell site --(DMR)--> POP (now do the routing) --(DMR)--> cell site --(802.16)--> cell site --(802.16)--> subscriber 2
WiFi Mesh
subscriber 1 --(802.11)--> subscriber 2
Granted this is the case on WiMax gear I've researched. I wish it'd die a quick, painless death, but I'm afraid it's going to be more like ATM - a great idea, but not worth the costs.
The words "queue" and "qos" don't appear anywhere in there.
The words "queue" and "QoS" don't appear anywhere when you're talking about the Internet. They can't. Only a network managed end-to-end can possibly have any QoS.
Sending traffic bound to Vonage via non-optimal routes will do just as much harm, and will be a hell of a lot cheaper than attempting to packet shape at layer 7.
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This facility may indeed be high-tech offices, but is by no stretch of the imagination a proper incubator.
I wonder why they do not paint fluorescent tube with a yellowish hue to make them warmer. I bet if they would do this, they would conquer a greater market.
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Compact Fluorescent bulbs come in colour temperatures from 2700-6500K. Higher colour temperatures equal "cooler" light with more blue.
Check these links for an explanation:
* http://www.tvtechnology.com/features/Tech-Corner/
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White
I started using CF bulbs a few years ago simply b/c of the geek factor. I've found that quality varies and few remain bright throughout their entire useful life. Some run hotter than others. Also found that different rooms / applications call for different colours. YMMV.
Current annual electricity costs: $5.69
Of course this varies widely depending on your electricity costs and maintenance costs. I found a break-even point at 42 months - and I didn't include labour for changing bulbs. Don't discount the real cost of sending someone through a building once a week to check and change bulbs.
when owners start breeding from them and selling on the kittens??? Will there be a strict EULA that forbids the owner from breeding and that they must have them neutered at the first available opportunity???
Indeed this happens with dogs today. Our golden retriever came with such a no-breed agreement. She'd have cost over five times her already considerable price if we had wanted to breed her.
Our cats, on the other hand, have always been adopted from rescue shelters. Some internal bias prevents me from ever considering paying money for a cat. I think it would be slavery...
See Cringely for a well thought out idea along the same lines:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030724
You can get used to the cold, just like anything else. Hypothermia is an absurd myth perpetuated by the heating and clothing companies to sell you their expensive and unnecessary products.
Ha! You must be from New Zealand, where central heat and double glazed windows still haven't caught on.
We can only hope that the future of wireless networks will include encrypted or otherwise protected routers/access points. The number of open networks around my apartment is somewhat disturbing (in a good way, when I'm bored).
What's wrong with an open WiFi network? If Internet bandwidth is near-free and the local network is firewalled off from the wireless, why bother restricting or encrypting? Security is the responsibility of the application, anyway. Email (AT&T Worldnet) uses SSL for POP3/SMTP, web browsers have SSL, and for remote access is ssh or scp. I don't see any reason not to leave my wifi open.
And yet, this attitude magically disappears in an MP3 or movie piracy article? Suddenly, THAT kind of piracy isn't "theft?" Honestly, what's the difference?
Easy. Piracy is different when you start selling pirated works online. I have no idea about the legal differences, but the moral implications are pretty clear to me.
Everyone is missing the forest for the trees on this one. We already pay a fee to connect a device in our homes to a network around the world.
$25/month is $25/month too much for VoIP (when you already have a cable modem).
What is it that we want to pay for exactly? Is it that we want to rent the VoIP hardware phone? Are we insecure putting our voicemail on our PCs at home instead of a SAN at some over-hyped corp?
We pay to allow the rest of the non-technical world to use POTS to call us. And to allow us to call said rest of world. We likely also pay so we don't have to depend on a soft-phone on our likely unreliable home PC. We're not all living in our mom's basement, you know...
I'd be interested to hear comments on staggered stud construction. I had not heard of the technique until I RTFA. Google finds:
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http://www.mnpower.com/energyhome/technology/sh
"Staggered stud construction eliminates the thermal bridging of wall studs and allows space for a high density blown cellulose insulation giving the walls and R-Value of 30. Wall studs are placed at 24" on-center with a single top plate. The roof trusses are lined up directly over the wall studs."
Does anyone do this? Do carpenters / framers anywhere know how to do this the right way?
"I find it amusing that they are rolling these high speed services. If you have 50,000 people in a reasonably sized city all with 15mbps connectivity, do you really think they will all get that? I don't know how much ATM bandwidth is coming into any one CO, but I will bet it isn't 750,000mbps. Or better yet, wherever those DSL ATM connections terminate, I bet they don't have that much bandwidth available."
If you have 50,000 people watching 50 channels of HDTV, which just happen to be multicast within the city, you're still well within the limits of OC12 (or, more economically, GigE) out of the CO, while you may be delivering an aggregate 350,000mbps to your customers.
Big pipes to the home are most certainly *not* for surfing Slashdot - they're for delivering "value added" services that companies like Verizon can make a mint on.
We've all been on roads where it is actually unsafe, even potentially lethal, to drive the actual speed limit.
It's been a good eight years since I've had a speeding ticket. I have however, much more recently, been given a citation for driving faster than conditions reasonably allowed. I know, and the Connecticut State Trooper both knew I wasn't speeding, but he pulled me over anyway because he thought the weather was too poor for me to be doing the speed limit on I-95. Or at least that's what the citation said. $70. No points, no whatever. I mailed in nolo contendere to get rid of it.
Per the topic, I think black boxes are great. One would have helped me contest tickets in Virginia and Arkansas from my university days. Redneck fucking hick troopers see an out-of-state plate with a mountain bike on the car and see $$$. Virginia threatened to arrest me and tow my car when I asked to see the radar gun. Arkansas took my license and gave me a paper receipt - they mailed it back when I paid the fine.
900Mhz phones:
0) Are available only in places where 900 MHz isn't already in use by GSM.
Forget all this competition thing. Use a 2.4GHz WiFi phone w/ a VoIP gateway and be done with it.
No fucking way! So this is why that so-common Mac font is called "Helvetica"
"In RAID, IDE has the disadvantage..."
IDE RAID hit mainstream over five years ago, when Adaptec released an IDE RAID card. This card happened to have four separate IDE controllers chips on it, and four cable connectors. I installed a solution using this card with four 73GB IDE drives from IBM (as big as they came in 1999, I think) in an 0+1 configuration. Mirrored striped sets, total usable capacity of 130GB, I think. (Not bad considering I had replaced mirrored 9GB SCSI drives.)
Wouldn't you know it, but one drive failed after three months. No problem, it was taken out and replaced with anohter (FedEx overnight from Dirt Cheap Drives) at a cost of 30 minutes after-hours downtime. And it was done by a technician who'd never seen the configuration before. I was overseas when it happened.
AFAIK, this machine (SuperMicro dual PPro 200, 384MB RAM) is still chugging along, running Windows NT Server 4.0, doing its thing as a file server for an engineering department who still haven't filled it up.
(What was it you were saying about IDE RAID?)
I think the Apple is the cheapest any sane person or organization would go. They have engineered a solution, as opposed to assembling a solution as you propose. All sorts of things can go wrong with such an assembled solution, such as heat, vibrations, power fluctuations, drive failure, data corruption, etc. The Apple solution takes all these in to account, and does so at a reasonable price. Better yet it can be replaced or repaired at any time, as opposed to an assembled solution, which needs the original assembler to be present (not fired or on vacation) if it breaks.
but when was the last time you saw a multimode ATM DS3 interface, or a multichannel T3 interface for a PC?
Who needs to stick a router on the end of a DS3 pipe anymore?. Consider the price of 10/100/1000/10,000 ethernet, and ask yourself again.
If you have a campus (large business, research, or education) network with existing ATM, it's now cheaper for you to rip out everything you have and replace it with switched or routed gigabit ethernet than it is to maintain your existing kit.
If you're a MAN (Metropolitan Area Network) provider, you're already using gigE.
PC routers have been around for ten years now, and every year they've gained on Cisco and the like. High end routers will still be required for large telcos with real pipes (can we say OC192?) but forget about "multimode ATM DS3 interface, or a multichannel T3" please! Just maintaining your software licenses is more expensive than buying and running a much more capable linux box.
I think they mean 802.11b/g. While I've seen single-chip 802.11b/g solutions, I've yet to see a single chip 802.11a/g. Also there are antennas to consider - a broadband antenna for 1.8-2.4 GHZ (supporting GSM and 802.11b/g) isn't particularly difficult to do, but if the phone supported 802.11a (5.3 and 5.8 GHz) it'd have to have more and different antennas. Couple that with the battery drain from 5GHz and I somehow doubt the phone on the market today is really a/g.
When you fill up, the pump will tell you how many gallons you just pumped into your car. When I get back into my car, I reset the tripmeter (the "second" odometer which can be reset) after noting the number of miles I've driven since the last fuel stop.
A couple of things get in the way of this practice giving you an accurate reading - namely temperature and gas tank construction. I drove a TDI Golf for a few years and found that the plastic gas tank caused for different readings dependant on air temperature and car temperature.
(The Golf did 37/42, and I frightened everyone with my Boston driving.)
ERP systems implementations fail due to people and organizations, not due to technology.
Give a university administrator a system she doesn't know or like, and she's not going to put any effort in to making it work.
Give an IT department a mandate that they don't feel they had an adequate role in bringing about, and they're going to blame the technology, no matter what the real problem is.
Slap down a system made for a sane business in front of a university and tell that university to behave like a sane business in order to make the system work... well, it won't work.
Having seen PeopleSoft and Oracle Financials implementations from several angles, I firmly believe that the technology is fine - nothing spectacular or earth-shattering - but fine. The problem lies entirely with the organization implementing.
How to fix this? There's the ten million dollar question. A hint at the answer is this: look at Oracle Financials and PeopleSoft implementations in organizations with strict heirarchical (read militaristic) management. Success rates?
"The other thing I saw was that you tuned the antenna for a frequency with components - does this mean potentiometers or does it mean scrapping it and buying another 2d helix tuned to the specific wavelenghth?"
Licensed-frequency type kit tends to operate in small bandwidth - 10mhz or less. For a broadband application, I imagine you could print an array with tiny variations.
SS1 -- 802.16 BS -- SS2 is feasible and real.
Tasty! If I were from Missouri, I'd have two words for you: "Show Me".
I certainly haven't seen/heard/read of this being done anywhere in the world. Would certainly like to.
I still haven't figured out why people think L2 switching for wireless is so sexy, especially for fixed wireless installs such as this new McCaw deal.
kid in 32 Oak Road and kid in 35 Oak Road are going to tie up a lot more network resources sharing DivX movies than they would with a mesh-routed layer 3 network, 'cause in WiMax the IP stuff isn't getting routed until it hits the backhaul point.
WiMax
subscriber 1 --(802.16)--> cell site --(802.16)--> cell site --(DMR)--> POP (now do the routing) --(DMR)--> cell site --(802.16)--> cell site --(802.16)--> subscriber 2
WiFi Mesh
subscriber 1 --(802.11)--> subscriber 2
Granted this is the case on WiMax gear I've researched. I wish it'd die a quick, painless death, but I'm afraid it's going to be more like ATM - a great idea, but not worth the costs.
Most of my friends in Tokyo who are in their 20's and still not married still live with their parents
For God's Sake! Would somebody please think of the parents!
The words "queue" and "qos" don't appear anywhere in there.
The words "queue" and "QoS" don't appear anywhere when you're talking about the Internet. They can't. Only a network managed end-to-end can possibly have any QoS.
Sending traffic bound to Vonage via non-optimal routes will do just as much harm, and will be a hell of a lot cheaper than attempting to packet shape at layer 7.