Public transport limits where you can go at the times of the day, or during dates that the public transport service is not running.
Sure, in the US it does. Because FREEDOM! We can't have a public transit system that gets you where you need to go, when you need to go, even if you don't have a car, because cars give you more freedom. And people really wouldn't be able to survive a.1% bump in taxes.
Try going to a country that cares about its citizens having freedom of movement. Without a car. It's really quite liberating.
(Although now I'm a little curious-- where can a Echo go that a Fusion can't? Is there some kind of weird parallel universe Twilight Zone road that rejects cars over a certain weight? Or are you going to make some ludicrous claim, like the Echo can drive through 4 feet of mud?)
Speaking only for myself, there are a lot of places where subcompacts can be easily parked, but mid-size sedans cannot. In EU and Japan, I have been on roads small enough that I would strongly prefer a subcompact over a mid-size.
Some places also have different ownership requirements for ultrasmall vehicles. Japan had a rule that each registered car also had to have a parking space (can't have a 2-car household in a 1-spot apartment complex). The lightest class cars were exempt from this. As you can imagine, it was a pretty serious concern when looking for housing or a new car.
I can relate to this. The only exception is that I don't care as much for live performances. Not because I don't appreciate them, just because I find most small, local bands truly lacking. And anything by a more popular band? Hours of extra traffic, travel, and a huge hassle trying to beat scalpers to tickets. No thanks.
I listen to Spotify because music gets old. I rarely listen to a song more than ten times. Why would I buy the song, let alone the whole album? With subscription-based services, I can listen to new music as it comes out, listen to songs friends suggest, and delete music from my playlist as I get bored of it. That was never the case with purchasing.
It's strange timing that this study is being released around the time Colorado has fully legalized pot, Washington is well on their way to doing so, and you can get "medical marijuana" in other states.
Oh the irony!
I'm related to someone who does research on this topic. There has been a lot of research over the last few years about how marijuana may make people paranoid or have an effect on various mental illnesses. The evidence so far seems to show that prolonged heavy use really does cause problems. Unfortunately, the researchers do have issues getting research subjects because heavy marijuana users tend to think the researchers are government agents running a sting operation.
I am saddened, yet amused, that you think this research is a government conspiracy to continue the war on drugs. How often do you smoke marijuana?
Only for a very limited definition of run. I had dropped calls increase to about 1 in 5 and the software made the phone run sluggish. It cannot be upgraded beyond that and upgrading to that point is a mistake if you actually like to use your phone.
You are all calling me a troll, but I don't like being extorted into hardware upgrades due to lack of continued support for older hardware.
They're calling you a troll because you lied.
When my iPhone 3G could not be upgraded to iOS4, I switched to andriod for security concerns.
It was upgraded to iOS4, but it had some sort of bug, so you switched to a platform that was currently far worse for updates. Statement above? False.
Then my 2 generation intel Macbook Pro was too old to upgrade to Mavericks, so I bought a Lenovo.
Again, false. Do you mean that Mavericks was buggy for you? If you supplied the actual model number and configuration I could tell you why you couldn't upgrade (maybe a bad DIMM so don't meet 2 GB requirement?) .
All second generation MacBook Pros meet the OS X Mavericks System Requirements. As do the bulk of 1st generation MacBook Pros (2007 on).
Not that the truth really matters, since apparently you wanted to switch laptops to get a German keyboard anyways. And you wonder why we call you a troll?
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As I went to post this, noticed in another post that you had defined it as "late 2006 2nd generation". Either wiki is wrong, or your description is. To my knowledge, that is first generation. Either way, good luck getting over 7 years out of your Lenovo laptop.
I'm going to repeat this refrain every chance it even seems remotely applicable:
Party lines in the US form on the nonsensical boundaries they do because of winner-take-all elections and the over-importance of "go team" mentality that requires to succeed.
The two-party system is a result of the US's electoral rules, to be sure. See Duverger's Law.
As to where the lines are drawn, that's a different story. I'd say the lines are drawn where they are because America is so batshit crazy (politically) that the only presently viable coalitions capable of 50%+1 votes are what you see today. If most of the voting electorate actually wanted something else, they would have it.
Worth noting that the Polar Star hit its expiration date, retired, got refurbished, and has not been on a real operation since being refurbished. It will probably do just fine, but there is a little room for failure here.
You are entirely correct, of course... but you're missing an important point. Those screaming about "alarmism" don't really mean what they say.
If we weren't being alarmist they would use our nonchalance as proof that we did not really believe AGW would have serious consequences.
Most AGW deniers are on the right-far right. How often do we see them railing against "socialism alarmists" or "gay alarmists"? Alarmism about those things is just fine because those things are bad, whereas alarmism about AGW is bad because communists.
Say, RAID-6? That's what you do for drive failures. The problem with drive failure isn't replacing the drive, but the data and the downtime.
With most workstations, this is easy, you can get a RAID controller, usually integrated on the board (Dell's PERC 710s are great) and you can knock in a bunch of drives and go. High performance, high resilience. No such luck on this new Pro.
Another option would be a good external system. Maybe a heavy hitting iSCSI or FC array. That's where you go for really high end, lots of storage, reliability, etc. Ahh well you are kinda screwed there too. No cards to add FC to the pro, and OS-X has no iSCSI initiator, which is shocking for a modern OS, Windows got it in 2003 and Linux in 2005.
Also you might want to look in to SSD failure rates. They aren't particularly high, but they aren't particularly low either. Oh, and they are workload dependent as well. I loves me some SSDs, but don't think they are rocks on which you can build your house.
Your analysis misses a few important implementation details.
First, at least one company (ATTO) already makes thunderbolt adapters for 10GbE and FC. ATTO and SNS makes iSCSI initiators for OSX. I've used both. They work fine. But iSCSI on Mac rarely makes sense.
Second, the typical usecase for these is for a video editor. Few use iSCSI, and the better funded ones will be connecting to a nice SAN or NAS over 10 GbE.
Third, who cares? The SSD fails, you get it replaced. These are workstations, not servers, and any important data should be going to a more redundant system.
it would take tens of thousands of years at current technological levels to simply reach another other world beyond our solar system
False. At current (or even decades-old) technological levels, it would take a couple years, a few decades at most. At current political levels, yes, it would take forever.
(emphasis mine) I really hate it when people either lie or fail to read their own links... The "Momentum Limited" Orion would have been 133 years on-way to Alpha Centauri.
Care to share a real plan for faster-than-light travel?
You have $30-50/hr staff doing $15/hr work. Just quantify it. You have an easy case to make, although the current IT manager should have done this by now.
Document the hours spent on helpdesk work by higher paid staff. That should be enough justification on its own. But also document any delays, setbacks, or lost productivity from having you guys cover helpdesk crap.
Management will see that they are losing high-value productivity to low-value tasks. That is only acceptable your IT department is overstaffed.
I can't speak for the GP, but I think you're conflating "not all that complicated" with "so easy even master_kaos could do it in ten minutes".
From my own experience, a person with a small business, 5 rental properties, a house, a recent divorce, and two kids in college has a moderately complicated return. Extremely complicated (and far out of my league) would be the 500-page returns of the top 0.1%.
There are plenty of mistakes that tax software can't help you with. Common issues I have seen: incorrect filing of amended W-2s/1099s (IRS now thinks you have more unreported income), failure to retain source documents, failure to take any deductions for 1099s, failure to deduct mileage/vehicle expenses. From some larger tax firms that employ barely trained seasonal workers: blatant lies that will get flagged.
If you get a single W-2, don't buy or sell securities, have no other income, rent a small flat, and are absolutely sure you don't get any other deductions or credits, file an EZ on your own. For anything else, I would at least consult with a tax firm that is open year-round.
To boot, the robodialers that do work in the US are quite good at assets around. If they violate a law and trigger fines, the corporation doing the work shuts down... but that company has no assets. The assets including HR are in the name of a secondary holding corporation. So, ABC robodialer goes under, XYZ forms the next day with the same records, business goes as usual.
I can't speak to the veracity of your claim, but this is what piercing the corporate veil is for. Any decent lawyer should be able to win that sort of case and get through to real parties with real assets.
As drives get larger (4TB is now readily available) they are not getting any faster.
Sequential I/O increases with bit/area density although perhaps not at the same rate.
Definitely not the same rate, and sequential I/O is rarely the determining factor (at least in my field). For many applications, when deciding the number/type of drives, IOPS are the determining factor.
Even if 4x denser drives had 4x the sequential performance, it often comes down to random reads or writes. And for that you will want (36) 1 TB drives over (18) 2 TB drives. Spending extra on larger disks is counter-productive.
This is why low capacity 10-15K SAS drives are still so popular.
Actually, the professionals (both military and private) have been saying for years that we can dramatically cut defense spending.
Isn't fully true. The military does want to cut certain wasteful parts of the budget, but the Pentagon isn't asking for a significantly smaller overall budget. They want to modernize a lot of the old crap that will be very expensive, and they know they need to get other costs down to do it.
One big example: the USAF. They're still flying planes that saw action in Vietnam. They have serious maintenance problems and want to modernize. The bulk of their airframes are either past retirement age or scheduled for it. They want a bigger budget...
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Public transport limits where you can go at the times of the day, or during dates that the public transport service is not running.
Sure, in the US it does. Because FREEDOM! We can't have a public transit system that gets you where you need to go, when you need to go, even if you don't have a car, because cars give you more freedom. And people really wouldn't be able to survive a .1% bump in taxes.
Try going to a country that cares about its citizens having freedom of movement. Without a car. It's really quite liberating.
(Although now I'm a little curious-- where can a Echo go that a Fusion can't? Is there some kind of weird parallel universe Twilight Zone road that rejects cars over a certain weight? Or are you going to make some ludicrous claim, like the Echo can drive through 4 feet of mud?)
Speaking only for myself, there are a lot of places where subcompacts can be easily parked, but mid-size sedans cannot. In EU and Japan, I have been on roads small enough that I would strongly prefer a subcompact over a mid-size.
Some places also have different ownership requirements for ultrasmall vehicles. Japan had a rule that each registered car also had to have a parking space (can't have a 2-car household in a 1-spot apartment complex). The lightest class cars were exempt from this. As you can imagine, it was a pretty serious concern when looking for housing or a new car.
I can relate to this. The only exception is that I don't care as much for live performances. Not because I don't appreciate them, just because I find most small, local bands truly lacking. And anything by a more popular band? Hours of extra traffic, travel, and a huge hassle trying to beat scalpers to tickets. No thanks.
I listen to Spotify because music gets old. I rarely listen to a song more than ten times. Why would I buy the song, let alone the whole album? With subscription-based services, I can listen to new music as it comes out, listen to songs friends suggest, and delete music from my playlist as I get bored of it. That was never the case with purchasing.
I'm just amazed nobody mentioned the pressure. A breath brought down from the surface won't get very far at 60 feet.
>The whole idea of paying farmers not to farm is wrong headed.
Yet another person who doesn't understand land and soil conversation, and the long term effects of farming on soil health.
Since your name has "troll" in it, I don't feel bad doing this...
Somehow I doubt anybody understands soil conversation.
It's strange timing that this study is being released around the time Colorado has fully legalized pot, Washington is well on their way to doing so, and you can get "medical marijuana" in other states.
Oh the irony!
I'm related to someone who does research on this topic. There has been a lot of research over the last few years about how marijuana may make people paranoid or have an effect on various mental illnesses. The evidence so far seems to show that prolonged heavy use really does cause problems. Unfortunately, the researchers do have issues getting research subjects because heavy marijuana users tend to think the researchers are government agents running a sting operation.
I am saddened, yet amused, that you think this research is a government conspiracy to continue the war on drugs. How often do you smoke marijuana?
Only for a very limited definition of run. I had dropped calls increase to about 1 in 5 and the software made the phone run sluggish. It cannot be upgraded beyond that and upgrading to that point is a mistake if you actually like to use your phone.
You are all calling me a troll, but I don't like being extorted into hardware upgrades due to lack of continued support for older hardware.
They're calling you a troll because you lied.
When my iPhone 3G could not be upgraded to iOS4, I switched to andriod for security concerns.
It was upgraded to iOS4, but it had some sort of bug, so you switched to a platform that was currently far worse for updates. Statement above? False.
Then my 2 generation intel Macbook Pro was too old to upgrade to Mavericks, so I bought a Lenovo.
Again, false. Do you mean that Mavericks was buggy for you? If you supplied the actual model number and configuration I could tell you why you couldn't upgrade (maybe a bad DIMM so don't meet 2 GB requirement?) .
All second generation MacBook Pros meet the OS X Mavericks System Requirements. As do the bulk of 1st generation MacBook Pros (2007 on).
Not that the truth really matters, since apparently you wanted to switch laptops to get a German keyboard anyways. And you wonder why we call you a troll?
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As I went to post this, noticed in another post that you had defined it as "late 2006 2nd generation". Either wiki is wrong, or your description is. To my knowledge, that is first generation. Either way, good luck getting over 7 years out of your Lenovo laptop.
On OS X, you can do all of this with SizeUp. Been using it for years.
I'm going to repeat this refrain every chance it even seems remotely applicable:
Party lines in the US form on the nonsensical boundaries they do because of winner-take-all elections and the over-importance of "go team" mentality that requires to succeed.
The two-party system is a result of the US's electoral rules, to be sure. See Duverger's Law.
As to where the lines are drawn, that's a different story. I'd say the lines are drawn where they are because America is so batshit crazy (politically) that the only presently viable coalitions capable of 50%+1 votes are what you see today. If most of the voting electorate actually wanted something else, they would have it.
Worth noting that the Polar Star hit its expiration date, retired, got refurbished, and has not been on a real operation since being refurbished. It will probably do just fine, but there is a little room for failure here.
You are entirely correct, of course... but you're missing an important point. Those screaming about "alarmism" don't really mean what they say.
If we weren't being alarmist they would use our nonchalance as proof that we did not really believe AGW would have serious consequences.
Most AGW deniers are on the right-far right. How often do we see them railing against "socialism alarmists" or "gay alarmists"? Alarmism about those things is just fine because those things are bad, whereas alarmism about AGW is bad because communists.
I agree with about everything you said, but feel it is worth noting that the Slashdot consensus was: "Cancel the F-22, the F-35 is plenty capable"
Say, RAID-6? That's what you do for drive failures. The problem with drive failure isn't replacing the drive, but the data and the downtime.
With most workstations, this is easy, you can get a RAID controller, usually integrated on the board (Dell's PERC 710s are great) and you can knock in a bunch of drives and go. High performance, high resilience. No such luck on this new Pro.
Another option would be a good external system. Maybe a heavy hitting iSCSI or FC array. That's where you go for really high end, lots of storage, reliability, etc. Ahh well you are kinda screwed there too. No cards to add FC to the pro, and OS-X has no iSCSI initiator, which is shocking for a modern OS, Windows got it in 2003 and Linux in 2005.
Also you might want to look in to SSD failure rates. They aren't particularly high, but they aren't particularly low either. Oh, and they are workload dependent as well. I loves me some SSDs, but don't think they are rocks on which you can build your house.
Your analysis misses a few important implementation details.
First, at least one company (ATTO) already makes thunderbolt adapters for 10GbE and FC. ATTO and SNS makes iSCSI initiators for OSX. I've used both. They work fine. But iSCSI on Mac rarely makes sense.
Second, the typical usecase for these is for a video editor. Few use iSCSI, and the better funded ones will be connecting to a nice SAN or NAS over 10 GbE.
Third, who cares? The SSD fails, you get it replaced. These are workstations, not servers, and any important data should be going to a more redundant system.
Wow... thank you for sharing that! Can't believe how low it is :|
it would take tens of thousands of years at current technological levels to simply reach another other world beyond our solar system
False. At current (or even decades-old) technological levels, it would take a couple years, a few decades at most. At current political levels, yes, it would take forever.
(emphasis mine) I really hate it when people either lie or fail to read their own links... The "Momentum Limited" Orion would have been 133 years on-way to Alpha Centauri.
Care to share a real plan for faster-than-light travel?
Laugh all you want, but it is a very pretty cable.
And you didn't even mention the vibration resistance!
Do they seriously consider linux sysadmin to be the same task as Windows admin? Do they at least differentiate other admins, like storage and network?
You have $30-50/hr staff doing $15/hr work. Just quantify it. You have an easy case to make, although the current IT manager should have done this by now.
Document the hours spent on helpdesk work by higher paid staff. That should be enough justification on its own. But also document any delays, setbacks, or lost productivity from having you guys cover helpdesk crap.
Management will see that they are losing high-value productivity to low-value tasks. That is only acceptable your IT department is overstaffed.
I can't speak for the GP, but I think you're conflating "not all that complicated" with "so easy even master_kaos could do it in ten minutes".
From my own experience, a person with a small business, 5 rental properties, a house, a recent divorce, and two kids in college has a moderately complicated return. Extremely complicated (and far out of my league) would be the 500-page returns of the top 0.1%.
There are plenty of mistakes that tax software can't help you with. Common issues I have seen: incorrect filing of amended W-2s/1099s (IRS now thinks you have more unreported income), failure to retain source documents, failure to take any deductions for 1099s, failure to deduct mileage/vehicle expenses. From some larger tax firms that employ barely trained seasonal workers: blatant lies that will get flagged.
If you get a single W-2, don't buy or sell securities, have no other income, rent a small flat, and are absolutely sure you don't get any other deductions or credits, file an EZ on your own. For anything else, I would at least consult with a tax firm that is open year-round.
Aren't those only for reading glasses?
To boot, the robodialers that do work in the US are quite good at assets around. If they violate a law and trigger fines, the corporation doing the work shuts down... but that company has no assets. The assets including HR are in the name of a secondary holding corporation. So, ABC robodialer goes under, XYZ forms the next day with the same records, business goes as usual.
I can't speak to the veracity of your claim, but this is what piercing the corporate veil is for. Any decent lawyer should be able to win that sort of case and get through to real parties with real assets.
The question has never been (aside from the fringe people) about if CO2 adds a heating component - it was always been HOW MUCH.
Sure, by at least 1.5 degrees to >90% probability.
Ok, not technically accurate for CO2, just total GHG, but you're a truthful cynic so I am sure you will agree.
As drives get larger (4TB is now readily available) they are not getting any faster.
Sequential I/O increases with bit/area density although perhaps not at the same rate.
Definitely not the same rate, and sequential I/O is rarely the determining factor (at least in my field). For many applications, when deciding the number/type of drives, IOPS are the determining factor.
Even if 4x denser drives had 4x the sequential performance, it often comes down to random reads or writes. And for that you will want (36) 1 TB drives over (18) 2 TB drives. Spending extra on larger disks is counter-productive.
This is why low capacity 10-15K SAS drives are still so popular.
I've been waiting a few years to have a reason to post this on Slashdot...
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Your points are all valid, but it's worth noting:
Actually, the professionals (both military and private) have been saying for years that we can dramatically cut defense spending.
Isn't fully true. The military does want to cut certain wasteful parts of the budget, but the Pentagon isn't asking for a significantly smaller overall budget. They want to modernize a lot of the old crap that will be very expensive, and they know they need to get other costs down to do it.
One big example: the USAF. They're still flying planes that saw action in Vietnam. They have serious maintenance problems and want to modernize. The bulk of their airframes are either past retirement age or scheduled for it. They want a bigger budget...