when your CTO is a moron and demands you do it with the minimal needed and then he puts in his "suggestion" that we stripe everything across the cages for more performance. Ignoring all the suggestions that it is a REALLY BAD IDEA.
We should have had 4 cages, and spread out the mirrors like it is supposed to be setup.
Have you met a "journalist" lately? They are not what you think they are. They make up things all the time, or inflame something to blow it out of proportion to only get page hits.
I have more respect for Hookers on the street than a Journalist. at leas the hooker is being up front with you.
If we were to get teachers that actually could use computers, and administration actually interested in education instead of the sports programs, things would be very different.
But spending $22,000,000 on a new gym is far more important than computers in the computer lab or a chemistry classroom that is fully stocked with modern equipment, reagents, and textbooks.
Because, they now have to do what apple does, and start a big PR spread about it. Apple already has the press over it, so one press release later it's all over the news.
Nokia doing this will go un noticed so they have to buy advertising all over, to say, "Ohh we are copying what apple is doing!"
I never saw a police helicopter with rocket launchers. The worst they can do it put holes in the plane in hopes of killing the pilot. That is the last thing they want to do.
Honestly, if apple was to say, "Oh ok, in fact world wide 2 year warranty" they would have created a gigantic PR buzz that would have hurt everyone else at ZERO cost to them.
Honestly, the failure rate difference between 1 year and 2 years cant be big enough to cost them anything. It's almost a Zero cost to them with gigantic gains in PR if they embraced it.
Plus it would give all their competitors gigantic headaches.
She will be getting a few years of pay from illegal dismissal.
the school screwed up big time. Michigan is not a right to work state, so they cant fire you for any reason. and this school was retarded enough to publicize WHY she was fired so now it's a slam dunk in court.
If she get's a good lawyer, she will walk away with 10 years of her salary from the school.
I would buy that if both side have not recently done utterly dasdardly things.
For example, the bill to help the 9/11 first responders that was passed. It is a joke and a disgrace. Every senator needs to be kicked hard in the balls for passing that crap.
You dont have the software skills and Electronics engineering skills to build it yourself, so the Cheap option is out.
You need to BUY Crestron or AMX for the real stuff that impresses friends. anything else will get them unimpressed when your X10 does not work, or your cobbled together setup fail yet again.
I know people that can set up up, Less than $28,000 for whole house audio, all lights controlled, and 4" color touchscreens everywhere + ipad control. Add another $20,000 for whole house HDMI distribution using Crestron DM (the only 16X16 HDMI matrix mixer that actually works with HDCP) and you can watch anything in any room. with only a TV in the room and all the cruddy gear in a rack in the utility room.
If you want a real high tech home, you gotta have money or be an electronics engineer and have really exceptional coding skills in embedded systems.
And no, none of the wireless systems work 100%. You will also need to run wires everywhere inside the walls. That's the easy part.
Surprisingly the areas where humanity have been the longest have been farmed to oblivion.
So why are we trying to turn the large expanses of aird semi-desert into farmland? How about getting them to stop living in the bad areas and have them move to the good areas to start with?
Honestly, this is like trying to start a rice farm in the middle of the Sahara desert. it's just stupid to even try it there. Step 1 is to identify the areas where it's possible, step 2 is to use sustainable processes like crop rotation, irrigation, and fertilizer (cow poo is sustainable) to make the marginal areas farm-able.
This is not rocket science. any homesteading book from the 1800's will have every bit of information needed to do what is needed in africa with some tweaks.
I dont think it's the farming problem causing the food shortages, let's start with the scumbag leaders of most of the countries and the rampant militias and gangs.
"You would still need the same base load provided by something other than solar (eg coal, gas, nuclear etc) for nights and cloudy days..."
Come back when you know what you are talking about.
If you are off grid, you have battery storage. I have a friend that has 300% capacity in solar panels and a battery capacity to match it that will charge from empty to full in 6 hours of bright sun. he can go for 4 days on battery. most cloudy days it generates what he uses.
Coal, gas, nuclear. really? do you have any clue as to how solar installations work? Even large scale molton sodium salt towers generate electricity for 4-6 hours after the sun sets. But solar is stupid in large scale. you focus on powering ONE building and call it done. once done, repeat for every other building.
It's not profitable if you are trying to make money by selling the energy you make from it.
But I dont give a rats ass about that. I use it to reduce my expenses. I make up 50% of my electrical use in solar. I hope to increase that in the next 4 years to be 110% of my electrical use in solar.
Why 110%? so I can have a reserve, maybe even be wasteful. I might shoot for 150% and buy an electric hot tub.
The companies selling quality panels are doing just fine. In fact they are quite profitable. What is not profitable in solar is the cheap and low end, or trying to make money off of selling power from it.
That is the problem. It's perfect for meeting a need so that you get free power - costs of maintenance. It also requires the owner to have a higher than normal IQ and education. This is what keeps it from being wide spread.
"I wish solar energy was the end all be all solution to our energy problems. But it is not. Simply put, when the sun isn't shining, you have no power."
Odd, I have power when the sun is not shining. Oh wait, I have a battery bank that the solar panels charge. Like most normal solar installations. If the sun does not rise tomorrow morning, I'm borked. but I'm betting you are as screwed as I am if the sun stops rising.
Thin film has horrible efficiency and really REALLY bad longevity compared to monocrystalline. In fact right now you can buy mono crystalline CHEAPER than thin film if you go for watts generated.
One, $200.00 100 watt monocrystalline panel versus having to have 6 15 watt thin film panels. My 100 watt panel is the size of the 15 watt panels.
A lot of the china junk is just that. junk. talk to anyone that has been suckered into the harbor freight 45 watt kit.
"Nobody believes the UK couldn't take Sealand if they want to. "
Last time they were seen in action was the Falkland Islands wher they had their asses handed to them by a bunch of natives. They are a shadow of what they once were.
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It needs to be very ugly and nasty. It needs to be the catalyst that starts patent reform to eliminate software patents.
It stifles creativity and progress.
When you have the cash to do it right? yes.
when your CTO is a moron and demands you do it with the minimal needed and then he puts in his "suggestion" that we stripe everything across the cages for more performance. Ignoring all the suggestions that it is a REALLY BAD IDEA.
We should have had 4 cages, and spread out the mirrors like it is supposed to be setup.
Have you met a "journalist" lately? They are not what you think they are. They make up things all the time, or inflame something to blow it out of proportion to only get page hits.
I have more respect for Hookers on the street than a Journalist. at leas the hooker is being up front with you.
IT's more fun than that.
Two storage vaults with 12 Hard drives each.
Running a nice Raid 5 or raid 6 or even a raid 50 or 60.
Knock loose ONE of those USCSI connectors going to a drive cage.
Raid is toast. I dont care WHAT raid you are running, none of them can withstand a loss of 50% of the drives.
Raid is NOT a backup. it's high availability mitigating the highest failure rate part, the hard drives.
I prefer raid 60.
your "test" will tell you nothing at all.
If you are a PHB that thinks that "testing" is important and apply it to everything then hire someone at $8.00 to waste their time.
You might have them run some software to test the server enclosures and 19" racks at the same time.
If we were to get teachers that actually could use computers, and administration actually interested in education instead of the sports programs, things would be very different.
But spending $22,000,000 on a new gym is far more important than computers in the computer lab or a chemistry classroom that is fully stocked with modern equipment, reagents, and textbooks.
You mean the RIAA was LYING to us?
I just cant believe that!
Because, they now have to do what apple does, and start a big PR spread about it. Apple already has the press over it, so one press release later it's all over the news.
Nokia doing this will go un noticed so they have to buy advertising all over, to say, "Ohh we are copying what apple is doing!"
Makes it a pain, causes CEO's to throw chairs.
Not even by the most wildest dreams. It's a road able aircraft that will have an impossible time getting govt approval to drive on the road.
Second, very few people will buy it, One nimrod in the parking lot backing into it and it loses it's airworthy certification.
I never saw a police helicopter with rocket launchers. The worst they can do it put holes in the plane in hopes of killing the pilot.
That is the last thing they want to do.
Honestly, if apple was to say, "Oh ok, in fact world wide 2 year warranty" they would have created a gigantic PR buzz that would have hurt everyone else at ZERO cost to them.
Honestly, the failure rate difference between 1 year and 2 years cant be big enough to cost them anything. It's almost a Zero cost to them with gigantic gains in PR if they embraced it.
Plus it would give all their competitors gigantic headaches.
She will be getting a few years of pay from illegal dismissal.
the school screwed up big time. Michigan is not a right to work state, so they cant fire you for any reason. and this school was retarded enough to publicize WHY she was fired so now it's a slam dunk in court.
If she get's a good lawyer, she will walk away with 10 years of her salary from the school.
I would buy that if both side have not recently done utterly dasdardly things.
For example, the bill to help the 9/11 first responders that was passed. It is a joke and a disgrace. Every senator needs to be kicked hard in the balls for passing that crap.
Sorry kid, but Good, Fast, Cheap. Pick any two.
You dont have the software skills and Electronics engineering skills to build it yourself, so the Cheap option is out.
You need to BUY Crestron or AMX for the real stuff that impresses friends. anything else will get them unimpressed when your X10 does not work, or your cobbled together setup fail yet again.
I know people that can set up up, Less than $28,000 for whole house audio, all lights controlled, and 4" color touchscreens everywhere + ipad control. Add another $20,000 for whole house HDMI distribution using Crestron DM (the only 16X16 HDMI matrix mixer that actually works with HDCP) and you can watch anything in any room. with only a TV in the room and all the cruddy gear in a rack in the utility room.
If you want a real high tech home, you gotta have money or be an electronics engineer and have really exceptional coding skills in embedded systems.
And no, none of the wireless systems work 100%. You will also need to run wires everywhere inside the walls. That's the easy part.
He can bring broadband to rural Africa, but he cant bring broadband to rural Michigan. Most of Michigan has ZERO broadband in the rural areas.
"current administration's incompetent and often counter-productive attempts to deal with it"
You are talking about the moron Republicans in the House and Senate who rally against ANYTHING brought up by the democrats?
Because every single republican is as much at fault as the democrats up there.
Surprisingly the areas where humanity have been the longest have been farmed to oblivion.
So why are we trying to turn the large expanses of aird semi-desert into farmland? How about getting them to stop living in the bad areas and have them move to the good areas to start with?
Honestly, this is like trying to start a rice farm in the middle of the Sahara desert. it's just stupid to even try it there. Step 1 is to identify the areas where it's possible, step 2 is to use sustainable processes like crop rotation, irrigation, and fertilizer (cow poo is sustainable) to make the marginal areas farm-able.
This is not rocket science. any homesteading book from the 1800's will have every bit of information needed to do what is needed in africa with some tweaks.
I dont think it's the farming problem causing the food shortages, let's start with the scumbag leaders of most of the countries and the rampant militias and gangs.
"You would still need the same base load provided by something other than solar (eg coal, gas, nuclear etc) for nights and cloudy days..."
Come back when you know what you are talking about.
If you are off grid, you have battery storage. I have a friend that has 300% capacity in solar panels and a battery capacity to match it that will charge from empty to full in 6 hours of bright sun. he can go for 4 days on battery. most cloudy days it generates what he uses.
Coal, gas, nuclear. really? do you have any clue as to how solar installations work? Even large scale molton sodium salt towers generate electricity for 4-6 hours after the sun sets. But solar is stupid in large scale. you focus on powering ONE building and call it done. once done, repeat for every other building.
It's not profitable if you are trying to make money by selling the energy you make from it.
But I dont give a rats ass about that. I use it to reduce my expenses. I make up 50% of my electrical use in solar. I hope to increase that in the next 4 years to be 110% of my electrical use in solar.
Why 110%? so I can have a reserve, maybe even be wasteful. I might shoot for 150% and buy an electric hot tub.
The companies selling quality panels are doing just fine. In fact they are quite profitable. What is not profitable in solar is the cheap and low end, or trying to make money off of selling power from it.
That is the problem. It's perfect for meeting a need so that you get free power - costs of maintenance. It also requires the owner to have a higher than normal IQ and education. This is what keeps it from being wide spread.
"I wish solar energy was the end all be all solution to our energy problems. But it is not. Simply put, when the sun isn't shining, you have no power."
Odd, I have power when the sun is not shining. Oh wait, I have a battery bank that the solar panels charge. Like most normal solar installations. If the sun does not rise tomorrow morning, I'm borked. but I'm betting you are as screwed as I am if the sun stops rising.
Thin film has horrible efficiency and really REALLY bad longevity compared to monocrystalline. In fact right now you can buy mono crystalline CHEAPER than thin film if you go for watts generated.
One, $200.00 100 watt monocrystalline panel versus having to have 6 15 watt thin film panels. My 100 watt panel is the size of the 15 watt panels.
A lot of the china junk is just that. junk. talk to anyone that has been suckered into the harbor freight 45 watt kit.
"Nobody believes the UK couldn't take Sealand if they want to. "
Last time they were seen in action was the Falkland Islands wher they had their asses handed to them by a bunch of natives. They are a shadow of what they once were.
I work for one with 100 employees and we have one.
If your business is sending 10 people at $900 a pop to Google i/o you can spend $49.00 on getting some ID's made.
Company name on ticket, company ID required to get in.