Since oil is not a renewable resource, I think my pessimism is very well placed. Perhaps we won't see the oil run out in our lifetime, but it will eventually. It doesn't matter how much new, dangerous to drill, domestically based oil fields we find. It will eventually all be gone. Especially at the rate we consume it. But then again it's always easier to put off until tomorrow what can be done today, right?
There have been many many articles over the years about a major problem in our schools where kids just get shuffled through the system, without issues being addressed, because teachers are afraid of backlash from p parents and administrators when they want to hold a kid back a grade or put them in a remedial program, or TEACH THEM HOW TO READ at the level they are supposed to be at. Also everyone always complains about how teachers are so "bad". So when a teacher decides to take it upon themselves to call out some of these problem kids it is met with suspension and ridicule? Perhaps a public blog wasn't the best place for this analysis but if we are going to suspend teachers for voicing their professional opinion on a kids academic and personal situation, how will this problem be fixed? They are already scared to even teach certain things. Are we going to scare them into not even wanting to care about our kids at all? Just push them through and get to summer vacation, right?
Oh you mean like GPS that was created and tested in the 70's? First aid has been used in the military since the American Revolution and the founding of the red cross, and the Internet was conceived in the 60's and has been evolving out of the military's hands for many many years. You are referencing things that were created or crafted well before the current bloated defense budget was put in place. The current budget of $712 billion for the Department of Defense could easily have the $53 Billion taken from it to allocate towards high speed rails. There will still be plenty of guns and missiles to appease the trigger happy, gun-toting, xenophobes.
BTW, the anonymous cowards who post things about living in basements are more often than not the ones in the basement themselves, denying reality. Pretending like you know someone hiding behind the Internet is about as stupid as your position on my comments. Thanks for playing.
That's why I said to allocate the $ over from the defense budget. Also I fully understand it isn't the governments money. It isn't even our money. It's the federal reserve's money. Who loans it at interest to the gov't and, essentially, us. But money from "us" has always been used to create things in the US. It just used to be taken more equally. Back when the original national roadways and railways, etc, were built it was all tax money that was used to build that infrastructure. Difference was the tax on the rich back then was between 70 and 90%. Also back then the wealth wasn't so unevenly distributed in America. Today they can't even raise it up a few %. That money could easily be raised from taxes like that today. Regardless I think the pros outweigh the cons when it comes to high speed rails.
High speed trains vs Airplane? With all the crap going on with airlines and privacy and charges every increasing for baggage and less and less room on the planes and higher and higher prices...yea a train sounds nice right now. Plus the jobs in can create and the decrease in commuter traffic and pollution (if it works well and people start using it) will be well worth the $ spent. Perhaps we can take a little money out of that huge defense budget and put it towards something that might be useful for the country for once?
if "diverse" means more than 2 vendors, then I fear for anyone that has to work on that network. Ease of troubleshooting and interoperability means using 1 or 2 vendors if possible. There is no way I want to deal with the CLI of half a dozen different vendors, have that many more companies to deal with for RMA or tech support, and have that many different proprietary protocols/things going on, because each vendor has something that is unique to them alone.
Also, a device that has been up for 800 days does not mean it has been neglected. Upgrading firmware and/or IOS on an enterprise, gov't level network just for the sake up upgrading is asking for issues. People who upgrade just because a new piece of software or code was released are ridiculous and just don't know any better. Sure, if there is a MAJOR security flaw in an edge router or your main ASA, then yea you might want to consider updating something. But the device I'm talking about is a closet switch. Why does a 3560 need to be updated? It sits on the inside of our network. If someone is in the building plugged into a port in a random closet, then no security patch from the latest IOS release is going to save you...
Perhaps, but if i had to choose between an all HP or an all Cisco network I'd go Cisco everytime. And yes, I support all HP networks as well as my main Cisco one. And the Cisco network used to be a "rag-tag" of multiple vendors, including HP. The only vendor that gave me more trouble than HP on that network in terms of failures on the hardware side was Enterasys.
See I have not had this experience at all. We manage many ASA's as well, 5505's, 5520's, etc. Most are in failover setups with one active, and the other in standby. NEVER have issues. They never fall over for no reason. If you have an ASA that falls over for no reason, it is most likely a bug. The one time we had one fail for no reason it just required a quick IOS upgrade. That was 2 years ago. Haven't had an issue with that since. But I definitely know Cisco isn't perfect. There is no such thing as "perfect". But I think when they are stacked up against other vendors, it is hard to deny Cisco being #1 in terms of reliability and support.
Actually Cisco has come in lower on most bids than HP and many other vendors in my experience. It all depends on the discounts you can get and how badly Cisco wants to get into your environment. If you have a school district with only a few branches and a few hundred people that all run off 1 core and a few closet switches, you won't get as much attention as a larger network. And in most cases, a small network like that most admins will not see a need to have Cisco because their budget is so small. A move TO cisco will usually cost more in the SHORT term, especially on a smaller network. It's the long term support, quality, and reliability that suffers outside Cisco. Let alone the issues of connectivity and compatibility between other networks.
In a government-level network that supports many thousands of users and towns, smartnet and 24/7 service with 24 hour replacement is worth the $. The reason a lot of school districts move away from Cisco is that they don't realize that they don't need Cisco for everything. You can easily buy Cisco closet switches and not put smartnet on them, and buy standard off-brand Cisco gbics to save $ and then just have smartnet and the full support contracts for cores and other critical devices like wireless controllers. The argument over the $ that Cisco costs is usually only valid when you include smartnet and full service contracts on ALL devices. Keep a few spare closet switches in stock and you don't need the smartnet but you still get the reliability of a Cisco product.
I definitely agree with you. Cisco is not "perfect" by any means. Anyone who mass-produces anything will have some issues. And like I said, the compatibility between Cisco and other vendors, when using a proprietary protocols from Cisco especially, can be tedious. But if EVERYTHING was Cisco (including any other devices or companies we interface with) I think there would be almost issues.
And yes, all things being equal, their TAC is what should make you go Cisco at the end of the day. I call TAC and get a person on the phone, ready to remote in and help you configure a device, troubleshoot a problem, or process an RMA. Although you may get an outsourced person on the phone with a thick accent, they are always very nice and helpful. And if you request it, they usually can get you a native-English speaking person. Although I've gotten used to the accents so I can understand them.
Honestly, when push comes to shove, who is going to defer to HP over Cisco when it comes to networking? Despite the obvious trolls and flames against Cisco because they are so big, as a network engineer who deals with many different vendors everyday on a huge enterprise level network, I long for the day of an all Cisco environment. Why? Because Cisco stuff just works. All of our main components are Cisco: Firewalls, Wireless controllers and access points, and high-level layer-3 switches and routers. Before we were mostly Cisco, there were nothing but problems, including compatibility on the hardware and protocol level and just general failures of hardware. Since the move to a mostly Cisco network we have less than 50% of the issues we had before. Perhaps it "just works" only because Cisco uses some proprietary protocols and such, but who cares when it all works so well?
Our longest running devices on the network (been up for over 800 consecutive days) are Cisco. We have Juniper, Enterasys, HP, 3Com, Linksys Business-class, IBM, and several other vendors equipment on our network in one form or another, and the only one we never have an issue with is Cisco. I don't think this is coincidence.
So why would anyone go with or defer to HP when it comes to networking? Anyone who has sat in a room with HP delivering a marketing presentation will know they claim "We are better than Cisco because _______" all day long. Problem is, they aren't. And anyone who has configured an HP device from the CLI will tell you that they are so similar to Cisco in terms of the feel it goes well beyond flattery with how much they model after Cisco. Problem is, HP has the same problem that most other networking vendors have: they are still lacking when compared to Cisco. Both in support, quality, and reliability.
Perhaps someone has had bad experiences with Cisco, and that turned them off to them for life, but most people who work in networking everyday will tell you they'd rather be on a Cisco device than any other.
That is what we call a poor attempt to get a reaction out of modders here. If it weren't, then all this crap you have tried to use to prove my analysis wrong would have been contained in the initial post. Sorry, but I don't buy it.
The actions of the women are NOT irrelevant by any means. If there were ANY wrong doing on the part of Assange in these cases, what woman waits a week and continues living with the guy, throws him a party, then after he leaves the country goes to the police? Regardless of their motives, what really happened, and what the Swedish definition of "rape" is, blah blah blah, what they did is reprehensible at best. And you coming in here and saying "Real heroes also don't rape women" basically says "He raped women". Are you Swedish? If you live in Sweden and grew up Swedish, then I apologize and understand your definition is different than ours for "rape". If, however, you aren't from Sweden, which I doubt you are since you would have brought it up already, then you are just an ass. Anyone from western or non-Swedish descent will view your comment the same way: in Western terms of the definition of rape.
Got me into eating small white pills. And don't even get me started on "candy"-land. And Battleship? I heard it trains terrorists on how to sink ships.
Honestly, they can find the most ridiculous things to try and turn something harmless into a big deal. D&D is not what created gangs. Gangs create gangs. And they certainly aren't running around screaming "lightning bolt" and talking about going into unexplored caves to find treasure out on the streets. This is beyond hilarious for anyone who has any kind of knowledge of both D&D and gang-related activities.
You saying he has raped women when he has only been ACCUSED and NOT CONVICTED of rape is what is "muddying the waters".. Innocent until proven guilty buddy. Spewing diarrhea of the keyboard and saying he has already raped women is exactly the kind of guilty before proven innocent trash talk that has dirtied this whole situation. You call my response a troll? I call it supporting fair trial and justice. Until there is a sentence, you don't know anything more than anyone else. Sorry if you can't see this from the top of your soap box, trying to get +5 comments from reactionary/. modders.
Experience. A close friend of mine was raped. She didn't throw a party for her attacker. The only thing she did was report it to police, who were immediately able to administer a rape kit, get samples, including semen, photos of forced entry bruising and tearing, and testified in court against him. She did not throw him a party nor did she let him stay at her place for a week after the attack.
...never looked so awesome. Although including a lifetime supply of Doritos and Snacky-cakes would sweeten the deal to where all the 30-somethings still living at home wouldn't be able to resist.
...when AT&T is already having issues with dropped calls and slow 3G traffic? Did they do an infrastructure and/or backbone overhaul when nobody was looking?
Steve Job's undisclosed location during his "medical leave". I just really REALLY hope he isn't planning on doing any photo shoots while he is there *shudder*
Every time a shooting happens, it seems like video games are brought into the mix somehow. The news is reporting that this guy is "crazy", but what they aren't reporting is that there were TONS of people who KNEW is was totally nuts, and didn't report it. Then he was able to go to a Walmart to buy ammo (he actually got denied by 1 walmart and had to go to the next because the first realized something was "off" about him).
Perhaps what we need is a National "You're Freakin' Nuts" Database, which will have to be checked not just for gun and ammo purchasing, but also for game purchases over a rating of E?
How far are we going to go in blaming games for the actions of PEOPLE though? If there WAS a database of crazies, but he bought "Rapala Pro Bass Fishing", too the included rod and reel and sharpened the end of it like a shiv, and killed someone with it, is it the video game's fault?
Exaggeration? Yes. Just as stupid as blaming games for a shooting? Yes.
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Since oil is not a renewable resource, I think my pessimism is very well placed. Perhaps we won't see the oil run out in our lifetime, but it will eventually. It doesn't matter how much new, dangerous to drill, domestically based oil fields we find. It will eventually all be gone. Especially at the rate we consume it. But then again it's always easier to put off until tomorrow what can be done today, right?
...to ensure we are ready for the day when the oil runs out by embracing clean energy and slowly phasing out our dependence on foreign oil...
Oh wait, that was a dream I had. Shit.
There have been many many articles over the years about a major problem in our schools where kids just get shuffled through the system, without issues being addressed, because teachers are afraid of backlash from p parents and administrators when they want to hold a kid back a grade or put them in a remedial program, or TEACH THEM HOW TO READ at the level they are supposed to be at. Also everyone always complains about how teachers are so "bad". So when a teacher decides to take it upon themselves to call out some of these problem kids it is met with suspension and ridicule? Perhaps a public blog wasn't the best place for this analysis but if we are going to suspend teachers for voicing their professional opinion on a kids academic and personal situation, how will this problem be fixed? They are already scared to even teach certain things. Are we going to scare them into not even wanting to care about our kids at all? Just push them through and get to summer vacation, right?
Oh you mean like GPS that was created and tested in the 70's? First aid has been used in the military since the American Revolution and the founding of the red cross, and the Internet was conceived in the 60's and has been evolving out of the military's hands for many many years. You are referencing things that were created or crafted well before the current bloated defense budget was put in place. The current budget of $712 billion for the Department of Defense could easily have the $53 Billion taken from it to allocate towards high speed rails. There will still be plenty of guns and missiles to appease the trigger happy, gun-toting, xenophobes.
BTW, the anonymous cowards who post things about living in basements are more often than not the ones in the basement themselves, denying reality. Pretending like you know someone hiding behind the Internet is about as stupid as your position on my comments. Thanks for playing.
That's why I said to allocate the $ over from the defense budget. Also I fully understand it isn't the governments money. It isn't even our money. It's the federal reserve's money. Who loans it at interest to the gov't and, essentially, us. But money from "us" has always been used to create things in the US. It just used to be taken more equally. Back when the original national roadways and railways, etc, were built it was all tax money that was used to build that infrastructure. Difference was the tax on the rich back then was between 70 and 90%. Also back then the wealth wasn't so unevenly distributed in America. Today they can't even raise it up a few %. That money could easily be raised from taxes like that today. Regardless I think the pros outweigh the cons when it comes to high speed rails.
High speed trains vs Airplane? With all the crap going on with airlines and privacy and charges every increasing for baggage and less and less room on the planes and higher and higher prices...yea a train sounds nice right now. Plus the jobs in can create and the decrease in commuter traffic and pollution (if it works well and people start using it) will be well worth the $ spent. Perhaps we can take a little money out of that huge defense budget and put it towards something that might be useful for the country for once?
if "diverse" means more than 2 vendors, then I fear for anyone that has to work on that network. Ease of troubleshooting and interoperability means using 1 or 2 vendors if possible. There is no way I want to deal with the CLI of half a dozen different vendors, have that many more companies to deal with for RMA or tech support, and have that many different proprietary protocols/things going on, because each vendor has something that is unique to them alone.
Also, a device that has been up for 800 days does not mean it has been neglected. Upgrading firmware and/or IOS on an enterprise, gov't level network just for the sake up upgrading is asking for issues. People who upgrade just because a new piece of software or code was released are ridiculous and just don't know any better. Sure, if there is a MAJOR security flaw in an edge router or your main ASA, then yea you might want to consider updating something. But the device I'm talking about is a closet switch. Why does a 3560 need to be updated? It sits on the inside of our network. If someone is in the building plugged into a port in a random closet, then no security patch from the latest IOS release is going to save you...
Perhaps, but if i had to choose between an all HP or an all Cisco network I'd go Cisco everytime. And yes, I support all HP networks as well as my main Cisco one. And the Cisco network used to be a "rag-tag" of multiple vendors, including HP. The only vendor that gave me more trouble than HP on that network in terms of failures on the hardware side was Enterasys.
See I have not had this experience at all. We manage many ASA's as well, 5505's, 5520's, etc. Most are in failover setups with one active, and the other in standby. NEVER have issues. They never fall over for no reason. If you have an ASA that falls over for no reason, it is most likely a bug. The one time we had one fail for no reason it just required a quick IOS upgrade. That was 2 years ago. Haven't had an issue with that since. But I definitely know Cisco isn't perfect. There is no such thing as "perfect". But I think when they are stacked up against other vendors, it is hard to deny Cisco being #1 in terms of reliability and support.
Actually Cisco has come in lower on most bids than HP and many other vendors in my experience. It all depends on the discounts you can get and how badly Cisco wants to get into your environment. If you have a school district with only a few branches and a few hundred people that all run off 1 core and a few closet switches, you won't get as much attention as a larger network. And in most cases, a small network like that most admins will not see a need to have Cisco because their budget is so small. A move TO cisco will usually cost more in the SHORT term, especially on a smaller network. It's the long term support, quality, and reliability that suffers outside Cisco. Let alone the issues of connectivity and compatibility between other networks.
In a government-level network that supports many thousands of users and towns, smartnet and 24/7 service with 24 hour replacement is worth the $. The reason a lot of school districts move away from Cisco is that they don't realize that they don't need Cisco for everything. You can easily buy Cisco closet switches and not put smartnet on them, and buy standard off-brand Cisco gbics to save $ and then just have smartnet and the full support contracts for cores and other critical devices like wireless controllers. The argument over the $ that Cisco costs is usually only valid when you include smartnet and full service contracts on ALL devices. Keep a few spare closet switches in stock and you don't need the smartnet but you still get the reliability of a Cisco product.
I definitely agree with you. Cisco is not "perfect" by any means. Anyone who mass-produces anything will have some issues. And like I said, the compatibility between Cisco and other vendors, when using a proprietary protocols from Cisco especially, can be tedious. But if EVERYTHING was Cisco (including any other devices or companies we interface with) I think there would be almost issues.
And yes, all things being equal, their TAC is what should make you go Cisco at the end of the day. I call TAC and get a person on the phone, ready to remote in and help you configure a device, troubleshoot a problem, or process an RMA. Although you may get an outsourced person on the phone with a thick accent, they are always very nice and helpful. And if you request it, they usually can get you a native-English speaking person. Although I've gotten used to the accents so I can understand them.
Honestly, when push comes to shove, who is going to defer to HP over Cisco when it comes to networking? Despite the obvious trolls and flames against Cisco because they are so big, as a network engineer who deals with many different vendors everyday on a huge enterprise level network, I long for the day of an all Cisco environment. Why? Because Cisco stuff just works. All of our main components are Cisco: Firewalls, Wireless controllers and access points, and high-level layer-3 switches and routers. Before we were mostly Cisco, there were nothing but problems, including compatibility on the hardware and protocol level and just general failures of hardware. Since the move to a mostly Cisco network we have less than 50% of the issues we had before. Perhaps it "just works" only because Cisco uses some proprietary protocols and such, but who cares when it all works so well?
Our longest running devices on the network (been up for over 800 consecutive days) are Cisco. We have Juniper, Enterasys, HP, 3Com, Linksys Business-class, IBM, and several other vendors equipment on our network in one form or another, and the only one we never have an issue with is Cisco. I don't think this is coincidence.
So why would anyone go with or defer to HP when it comes to networking? Anyone who has sat in a room with HP delivering a marketing presentation will know they claim "We are better than Cisco because _______" all day long. Problem is, they aren't. And anyone who has configured an HP device from the CLI will tell you that they are so similar to Cisco in terms of the feel it goes well beyond flattery with how much they model after Cisco. Problem is, HP has the same problem that most other networking vendors have: they are still lacking when compared to Cisco. Both in support, quality, and reliability.
Perhaps someone has had bad experiences with Cisco, and that turned them off to them for life, but most people who work in networking everyday will tell you they'd rather be on a Cisco device than any other.
...is the sincerest form of flattery
Is anyone really surprised by this? Microsoft has been "borrowing" and "copying" since it's first iteration of Windows.
Your Quote: "Real heroes also don't rape women!"
That is what we call a poor attempt to get a reaction out of modders here. If it weren't, then all this crap you have tried to use to prove my analysis wrong would have been contained in the initial post. Sorry, but I don't buy it.
The actions of the women are NOT irrelevant by any means. If there were ANY wrong doing on the part of Assange in these cases, what woman waits a week and continues living with the guy, throws him a party, then after he leaves the country goes to the police? Regardless of their motives, what really happened, and what the Swedish definition of "rape" is, blah blah blah, what they did is reprehensible at best. And you coming in here and saying "Real heroes also don't rape women" basically says "He raped women". Are you Swedish? If you live in Sweden and grew up Swedish, then I apologize and understand your definition is different than ours for "rape". If, however, you aren't from Sweden, which I doubt you are since you would have brought it up already, then you are just an ass. Anyone from western or non-Swedish descent will view your comment the same way: in Western terms of the definition of rape.
Got me into eating small white pills. And don't even get me started on "candy"-land. And Battleship? I heard it trains terrorists on how to sink ships.
Honestly, they can find the most ridiculous things to try and turn something harmless into a big deal. D&D is not what created gangs. Gangs create gangs. And they certainly aren't running around screaming "lightning bolt" and talking about going into unexplored caves to find treasure out on the streets. This is beyond hilarious for anyone who has any kind of knowledge of both D&D and gang-related activities.
You saying he has raped women when he has only been ACCUSED and NOT CONVICTED of rape is what is "muddying the waters".. Innocent until proven guilty buddy. Spewing diarrhea of the keyboard and saying he has already raped women is exactly the kind of guilty before proven innocent trash talk that has dirtied this whole situation. You call my response a troll? I call it supporting fair trial and justice. Until there is a sentence, you don't know anything more than anyone else. Sorry if you can't see this from the top of your soap box, trying to get +5 comments from reactionary /. modders.
Experience. A close friend of mine was raped. She didn't throw a party for her attacker. The only thing she did was report it to police, who were immediately able to administer a rape kit, get samples, including semen, photos of forced entry bruising and tearing, and testified in court against him. She did not throw him a party nor did she let him stay at her place for a week after the attack.
...never looked so awesome. Although including a lifetime supply of Doritos and Snacky-cakes would sweeten the deal to where all the 30-somethings still living at home wouldn't be able to resist.
Last I checked, rape victims don't throw their attackers a party after they are raped.
...when AT&T is already having issues with dropped calls and slow 3G traffic? Did they do an infrastructure and/or backbone overhaul when nobody was looking?
Steve Job's undisclosed location during his "medical leave". I just really REALLY hope he isn't planning on doing any photo shoots while he is there *shudder*
...they forgot the duct tape! How do they expect it to stay up on those gas containers in strong winter winds?!
Every time a shooting happens, it seems like video games are brought into the mix somehow. The news is reporting that this guy is "crazy", but what they aren't reporting is that there were TONS of people who KNEW is was totally nuts, and didn't report it. Then he was able to go to a Walmart to buy ammo (he actually got denied by 1 walmart and had to go to the next because the first realized something was "off" about him).
Perhaps what we need is a National "You're Freakin' Nuts" Database, which will have to be checked not just for gun and ammo purchasing, but also for game purchases over a rating of E?
How far are we going to go in blaming games for the actions of PEOPLE though? If there WAS a database of crazies, but he bought "Rapala Pro Bass Fishing", too the included rod and reel and sharpened the end of it like a shiv, and killed someone with it, is it the video game's fault?
Exaggeration? Yes. Just as stupid as blaming games for a shooting? Yes.
...I see it not sucking.
...And the more they tighten their grip, the more star systems will slip through their fingers...
...oh wait...