Thats handy, if all your offices are in one town. If you have offices all over the country, its difficult to deal with multiple providers, and SLA's, and creating VPN links between them. (and the fun of monitoring all that!)
Also, with T1's, if you have a bunch going out to different offices, you can have the provider MUX them together, so your core location has one DS3 coming in, carrying all your T1's on it, instead of dozens of CSU/DSU devices plugged into routers.
unless they are physically damaged, or get too much voltage applied to them, and fry the boards, etc.
Tape is designed to be a long term, shelf stable investment. How many old MDF hard drives can you access now? You can go to IBM right now, and order tape drives that work with mainframes from the same era. You will pay out the nose, but they are available.
the united states used to dissolve the charters of thousands of corporations a year. Way back when, it was a valid punishment for fucking up. Then, suddenly, corporations became people too.
Chevron is just as much in Collusion as Exxon and BP. Have you noticed how much gas has dropped in the last 2 weeks? right before the big 3 day weekend, when more drivers were supposed to hit the road than in the last few years? If I was a smart better, I would think, that because Demand is going up, and supply is going down, (a few million gallons are sitting in the ocean, instead of at the refinery) price SHOULD go up.
However, price has dropped 30Cents/gallon here in the last 2 weeks or so. As the oil companies are getting lots of flak. Almost like they are trying very hard to make us happy, so we won't push congress to get to nasty to them.
HP doesn't own any yachts, but they do have a Fleet of lear jets.. I remember the last big layoff Carly did at HP, she also authorized a half dozen new jets. Those leases have got to be coming due.
If you tell people your snake oil kills HIV, and you have a patent on snake oil, and using snake oil to kill HIV, and dozens of other things, then you can charge "licensing" fees for people that want to use it. You just made it impossible for any researcher to disprove any of your claims, except by statistics, which would take YEARS to get enough numbers to show significance. (if you release those numbers at all!)
Must be nice to have a fast pipe. Rural areas still have lots of slow spots. I get 600k/s. I can watch Hulu and Youtube at low quality, but need to let it buffer.
That won't matter.. If California really wants to scare Texas, threaten to raise taxes on oil in the state, and raise the state gas mileage averages and emissions requirements. there are another 10-15 states who's car laws are basically "Do what California does"
Steve jobs once developed a factory that was almost entirely automated, requiring a very minimum number of employees to build 20,000 computers a month. they spent alot of time and energy developing and refining the process, and it was an achievement that he was really proud of..
We ditched Dell for lenovo thinkpads.. A bunch of executives came from other companies that had used them when they where owned by IBM.. Damn was it a big mistake. yes, they are more solidly made. We have less repairs. However, replacing a motherboard (and because of the USB layout on the T400 laptop, you will be replacing lots of motherboards) take 4 times as long as the Dells, we counted 44 screws! Of course, you can only replace the motherboard when you get a new one. Enjoy waiting a week or more, for your next day parts warranty. If you want it fixed quicker, ship it to their Depot's which get priority on parts.
The other fun things, is an ordering system that is hideous. We have averaged 4 weeks for delivery of stock systems the last several orders. Full of promises of "oh, they shipped yesterday, oops, no, they will ship tomorrow" Their warranty site is horrible.. They will send you 3 items in 2 boxes.. If you don't return it in 3 boxes, you will get billed for missing parts. (they billed us for missing masking tape strips that were not returned) Dell, we could just say "we need a new motherboard" and they would send all the parts. Lenovo you have to specify all the part numbers for the MB, a "Seal kit" which is the tape, CPU grease, etc.
Lenovo was a big pusher of their onsite techs next day. I have never had them show up without spending 3 hours on the phone first, since our orders never seem to show that service as being attached. In fact, one of their favoritte things to tell us is that Lenovo's Systems and IBM's systems aren't integrated yet, and they blame EVERYTHING on it.. (cmon, its been years since lenovo bought them)
Seriously, we have learned the hard way that performance is really only a small part of the difference. Don't just compare the price, and make the same mistake we did.
At my school, after sniffing one lecture, I went right on down to the IT department, and showed them my packet sniffings of a proffessors machine infecting 6 unpatched machines in the library. They thanked me for it.
No, HTML5 is too open for their Customers (IE, the big TV companies that they partner with, and the Advertisers that PAY THEM). we are viewers, a product that Hulu sells their customers, the advertisers. If their customers are not interested in HTML5 (or are very much against it) then they should do what their customers want.
Where are these technical schools that the economists refer to?
They are often called Community Colleges, or Junior colleges. Most of them have Excellent programs doing just what you are lamenting is lost.
Problems is, in many states, these colleges fall under the same umbrella as Primary education, and not under higher education for funding. Also, there are perception problems. They are often in the community, so people drive to campus, take their classes (they usually also have an excellent selection of weekend and night classes to accomodate people that work) and then go home. To many high school students, they don't appear as exciting, they don't have huge dorms, lots of college night life and partying, etc. And that they are big in re-training people so the average age of the students is quite a bit higher than a 4 years school. Most of the time, they are made fun of (see the TV show "community") when really, they provide the best bang for the buck, and their graduates tend to stay in the local area, contributing more to the local area region.
Uranium/plutonium is incredibly dense. I doubt the pressure at 5000 feet could do much to it. But most conventional explosives, they might have some very interesting issues at those kinds of pressures.
I would gladly pay a buck (or maybe 2) for an hour long episode with no comercials.
Yet the industry say's that its not enough.
My cable company pays a few dollars per subscriber month to the biggest media companies. (thats a holdover from the early days, when cable TV wasn't supposed to have commercials, cause WE were paying for it) If I pay for a few episodes (like say, a buck a week for 30 Rock) then they should end up making even more money off of me, than they would with the local cable company. Granted they would have some overhead in data and storage costs, but that just gets cheaper.
ABC did the exact same thing, with a show on the same timeslot the year before, named Kings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_(U.S._TV_series). I liked both of them, and both of them got stopped partway through the season, then eventually bounced to another time, unanounced months later, and finished out.
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Yes, right after Netflix announces an iPad app.
Heck, Wired's ipad app is apparently 300MB. That's 1/6 of your monthly allotment of data.
Thats handy, if all your offices are in one town. If you have offices all over the country, its difficult to deal with multiple providers, and SLA's, and creating VPN links between them. (and the fun of monitoring all that!)
Also, with T1's, if you have a bunch going out to different offices, you can have the provider MUX them together, so your core location has one DS3 coming in, carrying all your T1's on it, instead of dozens of CSU/DSU devices plugged into routers.
unless they are physically damaged, or get too much voltage applied to them, and fry the boards, etc.
Tape is designed to be a long term, shelf stable investment. How many old MDF hard drives can you access now? You can go to IBM right now, and order tape drives that work with mainframes from the same era. You will pay out the nose, but they are available.
the united states used to dissolve the charters of thousands of corporations a year. Way back when, it was a valid punishment for fucking up. Then, suddenly, corporations became people too.
Chevron is just as much in Collusion as Exxon and BP. Have you noticed how much gas has dropped in the last 2 weeks? right before the big 3 day weekend, when more drivers were supposed to hit the road than in the last few years? If I was a smart better, I would think, that because Demand is going up, and supply is going down, (a few million gallons are sitting in the ocean, instead of at the refinery) price SHOULD go up.
However, price has dropped 30Cents/gallon here in the last 2 weeks or so. As the oil companies are getting lots of flak. Almost like they are trying very hard to make us happy, so we won't push congress to get to nasty to them.
I want to know when the movie about Second life is going to be made?
Oh, wait.. Sorry, Snow Crash, not Second Life.
Kind of creepy how accurate that book was in many ways, for how old it is.
Um, California isn't part of the Pacific Northwest. That's Washington and Oregon.
It does kind of make you wonder what happens at the end of your Term to your textbook. Are they going to have the publishers demand that they yank it?
HP doesn't own any yachts, but they do have a Fleet of lear jets.. I remember the last big layoff Carly did at HP, she also authorized a half dozen new jets. Those leases have got to be coming due.
If you tell people your snake oil kills HIV, and you have a patent on snake oil, and using snake oil to kill HIV, and dozens of other things, then you can charge "licensing" fees for people that want to use it. You just made it impossible for any researcher to disprove any of your claims, except by statistics, which would take YEARS to get enough numbers to show significance. (if you release those numbers at all!)
Basic cable has lots of Shopping channels that you don't get over the air :)
Must be nice to have a fast pipe. Rural areas still have lots of slow spots. I get 600k/s. I can watch Hulu and Youtube at low quality, but need to let it buffer.
Google now has a public DNS server at 8.8.8.8, which is also very easy to remember. (and very fast)
That won't matter.. If California really wants to scare Texas, threaten to raise taxes on oil in the state, and raise the state gas mileage averages and emissions requirements. there are another 10-15 states who's car laws are basically "Do what California does"
Steve jobs once developed a factory that was almost entirely automated, requiring a very minimum number of employees to build 20,000 computers a month. they spent alot of time and energy developing and refining the process, and it was an achievement that he was really proud of..
Except they didn't sell 20,000 Next cubes a month. Probably not even in the first year!
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/02/26/73121/index.htm
From the article "Says Jobs: ''I'm as proud of the factory as I am of the computer.''"
Sigh... Backup Exec was so awesome before it got bought by Symantec.. So simple, and easy..
Symantec has turned into he modern day CA. Its where good products go to die.
Really, how is CA still in business? Most people can't even name their products!
We ditched Dell for lenovo thinkpads.. A bunch of executives came from other companies that had used them when they where owned by IBM.. Damn was it a big mistake. yes, they are more solidly made. We have less repairs. However, replacing a motherboard (and because of the USB layout on the T400 laptop, you will be replacing lots of motherboards) take 4 times as long as the Dells, we counted 44 screws! Of course, you can only replace the motherboard when you get a new one. Enjoy waiting a week or more, for your next day parts warranty. If you want it fixed quicker, ship it to their Depot's which get priority on parts.
The other fun things, is an ordering system that is hideous. We have averaged 4 weeks for delivery of stock systems the last several orders. Full of promises of "oh, they shipped yesterday, oops, no, they will ship tomorrow" Their warranty site is horrible.. They will send you 3 items in 2 boxes.. If you don't return it in 3 boxes, you will get billed for missing parts. (they billed us for missing masking tape strips that were not returned) Dell, we could just say "we need a new motherboard" and they would send all the parts. Lenovo you have to specify all the part numbers for the MB, a "Seal kit" which is the tape, CPU grease, etc.
Lenovo was a big pusher of their onsite techs next day. I have never had them show up without spending 3 hours on the phone first, since our orders never seem to show that service as being attached. In fact, one of their favoritte things to tell us is that Lenovo's Systems and IBM's systems aren't integrated yet, and they blame EVERYTHING on it.. (cmon, its been years since lenovo bought them)
Seriously, we have learned the hard way that performance is really only a small part of the difference. Don't just compare the price, and make the same mistake we did.
At my school, after sniffing one lecture, I went right on down to the IT department, and showed them my packet sniffings of a proffessors machine infecting 6 unpatched machines in the library. They thanked me for it.
No, HTML5 is too open for their Customers (IE, the big TV companies that they partner with, and the Advertisers that PAY THEM). we are viewers, a product that Hulu sells their customers, the advertisers. If their customers are not interested in HTML5 (or are very much against it) then they should do what their customers want.
Where are these technical schools that the economists refer to?
They are often called Community Colleges, or Junior colleges. Most of them have Excellent programs doing just what you are lamenting is lost.
Problems is, in many states, these colleges fall under the same umbrella as Primary education, and not under higher education for funding. Also, there are perception problems. They are often in the community, so people drive to campus, take their classes (they usually also have an excellent selection of weekend and night classes to accomodate people that work) and then go home. To many high school students, they don't appear as exciting, they don't have huge dorms, lots of college night life and partying, etc. And that they are big in re-training people so the average age of the students is quite a bit higher than a 4 years school. Most of the time, they are made fun of (see the TV show "community") when really, they provide the best bang for the buck, and their graduates tend to stay in the local area, contributing more to the local area region.
Uranium/plutonium is incredibly dense. I doubt the pressure at 5000 feet could do much to it. But most conventional explosives, they might have some very interesting issues at those kinds of pressures.
I think it would make a great Reality TV show! Winning Sattelite gets a pass on getting kicked out of orbit this week!
Are they going to start Invalidating trades that are "Too good" too?
Or is this more of Privatize Profit, socialize losses.
I would love the see people lose their shorts, so maybe they would be a bit more careful next time
I would gladly pay a buck (or maybe 2) for an hour long episode with no comercials.
Yet the industry say's that its not enough.
My cable company pays a few dollars per subscriber month to the biggest media companies. (thats a holdover from the early days, when cable TV wasn't supposed to have commercials, cause WE were paying for it) If I pay for a few episodes (like say, a buck a week for 30 Rock) then they should end up making even more money off of me, than they would with the local cable company. Granted they would have some overhead in data and storage costs, but that just gets cheaper.
ABC did the exact same thing, with a show on the same timeslot the year before, named Kings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_(U.S._TV_series). I liked both of them, and both of them got stopped partway through the season, then eventually bounced to another time, unanounced months later, and finished out.