You are right, VM's are awesome fro QA and Development work. The problem is, how do you keep track of how many VM's are running what? I know its not a problem in the real world. But at your office, do you KNOW that you have licensing for every copy of SQL server, or CALs for windows, etc. Moving things to a virtual environment at my last company was the main driver to start moving things to free/open source, because the time needed to track licensing compliance for all tools and software used got exponentially larger as we added VM's. When a guy can click a button, and fire up yet another image using licenses, it gets to be pain in the ass.
My former employer was not allowed a.EDU address until we passed our final accredidation. the Community College was only a few years old, and operated under the guidance of another college for the first few years. We could have a *.cc.or.us domain name, but not a.edu. When we finally got approved by one of the 7 Department of Education sanctioned accredidaton boards, they wanted a bunch of paperwork to prove we were us, and talked to the accreditation board.
For us, it was a truly big deal, it showed that we had made it..
But anyways, back to my point, there are only a few goverment agencies that oversee banks in most countries.. I could see getting issued a *.fin or *.bank or whatever TLD when you got certified by the FDIC, or NCUA, or office of thrift supervision, etc..
Honestly, if you want the ISP to be a little more responsive, complain to the local Public Utilities Commission, and your area franchise board. If one of them asks, they don't just say "no".
Thats very true, and if you are saving a few million a petabyte, a few hundred thousand sounds darn cheap.. heck, you could buy 5 petabytes, have massive redundancy, so anytime you have a problem, you just yank the power out of hte machine, and replace the drive or part.. and you would still save a millions.. this is why google kicked the crap out of MS and yahoo in search.. Cheap, disposable systems that are managed by very smart software, with massive redundancy..
Japan doesn't have a lot of natural Resources. They can't exactly go building Dams like crazy to make more power.. They have to import anything used to make power there, whether its Oil, Gas, or Nuclear...
And you know.. the drug companies should follow the lead of the game publishers.. Blow your marketing budget on being the "Exclusive pain reliever of the NFL" or the "Only Erectile Dysfunction pill of the PGA tour"..
It takes a lot of money to become the "exclusive....." of anything...
I would just act as interested as I could.. And keep asking purchasing questions.. I figured the longer I managed to tie the f--kers up, the more people I was saving, and the more I was costing them..
Regardless of the usefullness, Tivo made a product, and even sold it. That right there makes them Not A Patent Troll. Sure, they may be a patent but not a Troll. They have a working product, that other people copied. This is exactly what the patent system was designed for.
You are right, I should have said that train engines run in an extremely narrow range, allowing them to be fully optimized to run in that range.(i think its 300-900 RPM).
They use the electric motors to power the resistors, because its the most efficient way of braking. It puts a load on the electric motors, which slows the train down, without having to worry about things like break pads, that would have constant wear, and maintenance. They just dump the load as heat, since battery technology still isn't light/cheap enough to bother with.
I bet that quite a few of your friends know enough about you to reset your password on many popular sites, including online email accounts. they don't have to "break in" they just give the server your dog's name, the town you were born in, etc.. and voila, there is all your very personal information...
Not to mention, just a google search is kinda terrifying. I have several comments archived in google from some very dumb basic questions I asked 8 years ago about IT stuff. Or just smart ass comments. Is my next potential employer going to look me up, and figure I haven't changed in the last 10 years or so? Not all privacy violations are criminal intent.
You hit the nail on the head there.. No transmission, switch between 2 and 4 wheel drive depending on how much power you want to use, not just traction, heck, no expensive batteries to wear out, or weight to have to carry. You could even build some crazy offroad machine, with no axles to get worried about hanging up on things.. Slim, light, and fast..
I would buy one in an instant.. in fact, I've been looking around and some small diesel engines with the thought of someday converting my wife's S10 pickup..
Actually, any Locomotive built since the 1960's is a series hybrid drive diesel. They knew back then how much more efficient it was to have a finely tuned diesel to run at a constant RPM, and turn a Generator to power the electric wheels. (remember reading somewhere that the transmission needed to get a train to its top speed with the old style engine would way more than the whole locomotive!)
Were just now getting back to that.. Kinda sad.. Part of me wonders if the companies have been waiting for some patents on train engines to expire...
really, the only thing a Volt does differently than a locomotive is store the energy in a battery, so the engine can shut down when its not needed, which would have added way too much weight to a train a few decades ago, with lead acid batteries..
The same car with a diesel engine of equivalent power gets about 30% more mileage. So, unless diesel is more than 30% more expensive then gasoline, it is cheaper per mile to drive than Gasoline.. Throw in the ability to use other fuels (such as biodiesel) and you have competition, which helps in case one source gets too expensive.
Thats not including the less moving parts, less maintenance, and longer lasting engine..
My friend drives a Dodge full size diesel pickup that he drag races. It is a 7,000lb, 11 second truck, with the aerodynamics of a barn door. The stock pickup diesel can be modded for relatively cheaply to bump up its power by about 30-50%. His is alot more (and not too cheap), I think it was last up to 900 horsepower, 1900 foot lbs of torque. You really have no idea how powerful diesels are.. (really, if they were gutless, why on earth would anything that does serious towing have one?)
He loves pissing off corvette owners by whooping their ass on the track, or the passing lanes of the highways..
City of Ashland, OR has had this exact system for almost a decade. The city laid the fiber, you choose your TV company, ISP, and internet speed. http://www.ashlandfiber.net/
I agree, I think the point others have been trying to make is that proper traffic shaping is fine, as long as the company is forthright about what it is doing. What Comcast was doing was straight out blocking, and in an extremely underhanded way, even when their pipes were not full, without any disclosure.
I would be supportive of having the company knock your Cable modem down to 128k/s, enough to browse the web if you have to, but so painful, you wouldn't want to run over your bandwith cap again. (assuming the publish bandwith caps)
I guess that one device, at 50% efficiency would probably be a ton better than 3-4 devices at >75% efficiency, but you are right..
They need to have a low power (damn near off mode) and then when something is placed nearby, then ramp up the power.. going back to low power mode again as soon as its removed.
So the question is, what do they do with the test version when they are done? That would power my house, and my neighbors.. or my house, with a conversion to all electric heat...
When your talking about space, spending a fortune on exotic, super lightweight materials will save you many times more than that cost in launches. Weight is the main factor in the number of things that can go up in a rocket. I think I remember hearing someone mention in the ballpark of $25,000 per pound. So while you look at Cheap as the total cost, they look at it a bit differently.
DBAN takes alot of time. You have to get a few dozen machines lined up, booted off the media, and it can literally take hours to do. (this is assuming all the hardware is still in good working order as well, if not, it takes even longer to get the machine functional, so you can nuke it.
If you are replacing a few hundred machines at a location, this manual method would only take a half hour or so, DBAN would take days, perhaps weeks.
My take, keep the hard drives, and dispose/return the rest of the equipment. Then, give them to a certified destruction company. (they do make full disk shredders.. they are nifty!)
Your talking of a society that loves shows like 24, where there are Nuclear bombs going off in cities, gunfights, torturing suspects, etc. These are primetime, middle of the early evening shows. But show one quick flash of Boob on a football game, and boy do we get pissed. Think of the children that boob could have corrupted.
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where "in the real world" = At Microsoft.. Opps
You are right, VM's are awesome fro QA and Development work. The problem is, how do you keep track of how many VM's are running what? I know its not a problem in the real world. But at your office, do you KNOW that you have licensing for every copy of SQL server, or CALs for windows, etc. Moving things to a virtual environment at my last company was the main driver to start moving things to free/open source, because the time needed to track licensing compliance for all tools and software used got exponentially larger as we added VM's. When a guy can click a button, and fire up yet another image using licenses, it gets to be pain in the ass.
My former employer was not allowed a .EDU address until we passed our final accredidation. the Community College was only a few years old, and operated under the guidance of another college for the first few years. We could have a *.cc.or.us domain name, but not a .edu. When we finally got approved by one of the 7 Department of Education sanctioned accredidaton boards, they wanted a bunch of paperwork to prove we were us, and talked to the accreditation board.
For us, it was a truly big deal, it showed that we had made it..
But anyways, back to my point, there are only a few goverment agencies that oversee banks in most countries.. I could see getting issued a *.fin or *.bank or whatever TLD when you got certified by the FDIC, or NCUA, or office of thrift supervision, etc..
Honestly, if you want the ISP to be a little more responsive, complain to the local Public Utilities Commission, and your area franchise board. If one of them asks, they don't just say "no".
Thats very true, and if you are saving a few million a petabyte, a few hundred thousand sounds darn cheap.. heck, you could buy 5 petabytes, have massive redundancy, so anytime you have a problem, you just yank the power out of hte machine, and replace the drive or part.. and you would still save a millions.. this is why google kicked the crap out of MS and yahoo in search.. Cheap, disposable systems that are managed by very smart software, with massive redundancy..
Japan doesn't have a lot of natural Resources. They can't exactly go building Dams like crazy to make more power.. They have to import anything used to make power there, whether its Oil, Gas, or Nuclear...
General Accountants of Financial Indications of Desperate Acronyms...
And you know.. the drug companies should follow the lead of the game publishers.. Blow your marketing budget on being the "Exclusive pain reliever of the NFL" or the "Only Erectile Dysfunction pill of the PGA tour".. It takes a lot of money to become the "exclusive....." of anything...
I would just act as interested as I could.. And keep asking purchasing questions.. I figured the longer I managed to tie the f--kers up, the more people I was saving, and the more I was costing them..
Regardless of the usefullness, Tivo made a product, and even sold it. That right there makes them Not A Patent Troll. Sure, they may be a patent but not a Troll. They have a working product, that other people copied. This is exactly what the patent system was designed for.
The US Federal government is also moving to IPv6 as well. It is now required that their vendors support it.
You are right, I should have said that train engines run in an extremely narrow range, allowing them to be fully optimized to run in that range.(i think its 300-900 RPM). They use the electric motors to power the resistors, because its the most efficient way of braking. It puts a load on the electric motors, which slows the train down, without having to worry about things like break pads, that would have constant wear, and maintenance. They just dump the load as heat, since battery technology still isn't light/cheap enough to bother with.
I bet that quite a few of your friends know enough about you to reset your password on many popular sites, including online email accounts. they don't have to "break in" they just give the server your dog's name, the town you were born in, etc.. and voila, there is all your very personal information... Not to mention, just a google search is kinda terrifying. I have several comments archived in google from some very dumb basic questions I asked 8 years ago about IT stuff. Or just smart ass comments. Is my next potential employer going to look me up, and figure I haven't changed in the last 10 years or so? Not all privacy violations are criminal intent.
You hit the nail on the head there.. No transmission, switch between 2 and 4 wheel drive depending on how much power you want to use, not just traction, heck, no expensive batteries to wear out, or weight to have to carry. You could even build some crazy offroad machine, with no axles to get worried about hanging up on things.. Slim, light, and fast.. I would buy one in an instant.. in fact, I've been looking around and some small diesel engines with the thought of someday converting my wife's S10 pickup..
Actually, any Locomotive built since the 1960's is a series hybrid drive diesel. They knew back then how much more efficient it was to have a finely tuned diesel to run at a constant RPM, and turn a Generator to power the electric wheels. (remember reading somewhere that the transmission needed to get a train to its top speed with the old style engine would way more than the whole locomotive!) Were just now getting back to that.. Kinda sad.. Part of me wonders if the companies have been waiting for some patents on train engines to expire... really, the only thing a Volt does differently than a locomotive is store the energy in a battery, so the engine can shut down when its not needed, which would have added way too much weight to a train a few decades ago, with lead acid batteries..
The same car with a diesel engine of equivalent power gets about 30% more mileage. So, unless diesel is more than 30% more expensive then gasoline, it is cheaper per mile to drive than Gasoline.. Throw in the ability to use other fuels (such as biodiesel) and you have competition, which helps in case one source gets too expensive. Thats not including the less moving parts, less maintenance, and longer lasting engine..
It is unfortunate that GMs design errors stained the diesel in the US market for such a long time.
Don't worry, GM's Management errors will stain the US automotive market much worse!!
My friend drives a Dodge full size diesel pickup that he drag races. It is a 7,000lb, 11 second truck, with the aerodynamics of a barn door. The stock pickup diesel can be modded for relatively cheaply to bump up its power by about 30-50%. His is alot more (and not too cheap), I think it was last up to 900 horsepower, 1900 foot lbs of torque. You really have no idea how powerful diesels are.. (really, if they were gutless, why on earth would anything that does serious towing have one?) He loves pissing off corvette owners by whooping their ass on the track, or the passing lanes of the highways..
City of Ashland, OR has had this exact system for almost a decade. The city laid the fiber, you choose your TV company, ISP, and internet speed. http://www.ashlandfiber.net/
I agree, I think the point others have been trying to make is that proper traffic shaping is fine, as long as the company is forthright about what it is doing. What Comcast was doing was straight out blocking, and in an extremely underhanded way, even when their pipes were not full, without any disclosure.
I would be supportive of having the company knock your Cable modem down to 128k/s, enough to browse the web if you have to, but so painful, you wouldn't want to run over your bandwith cap again. (assuming the publish bandwith caps)
I guess that one device, at 50% efficiency would probably be a ton better than 3-4 devices at >75% efficiency, but you are right..
They need to have a low power (damn near off mode) and then when something is placed nearby, then ramp up the power.. going back to low power mode again as soon as its removed.
So the question is, what do they do with the test version when they are done? That would power my house, and my neighbors.. or my house, with a conversion to all electric heat...
When your talking about space, spending a fortune on exotic, super lightweight materials will save you many times more than that cost in launches. Weight is the main factor in the number of things that can go up in a rocket. I think I remember hearing someone mention in the ballpark of $25,000 per pound. So while you look at Cheap as the total cost, they look at it a bit differently.
DBAN takes alot of time. You have to get a few dozen machines lined up, booted off the media, and it can literally take hours to do. (this is assuming all the hardware is still in good working order as well, if not, it takes even longer to get the machine functional, so you can nuke it.
If you are replacing a few hundred machines at a location, this manual method would only take a half hour or so, DBAN would take days, perhaps weeks.
My take, keep the hard drives, and dispose/return the rest of the equipment. Then, give them to a certified destruction company. (they do make full disk shredders.. they are nifty!)
Your talking of a society that loves shows like 24, where there are Nuclear bombs going off in cities, gunfights, torturing suspects, etc. These are primetime, middle of the early evening shows. But show one quick flash of Boob on a football game, and boy do we get pissed. Think of the children that boob could have corrupted.