I'm not saying that it can't (or even shouldn't) be done by somebody else. But most people think of the FCC and things like the "wardrobe malfunction" of the super bowl and the like, when they do serve other functions. But the sad reality is politicians are typically not very good at understanding the second and third order effects, and I could absolutely see a defunding occur because of politics without considering core business of the agency like spectrum management even being considered.
Shutting down the FCC? Who in the real world cares about the FCC? The only ones I could possibly think of would be religious fundamentalists that still agree with the obscenity regulations the FCC mandates.
I'm not saying that it won't happen... But it would be bad. Pretty much everybody in the real world is cares about the FCC, they probably just don't know it. The most important job they have is spectrum management. The average person probably cares if someone else is using the spectrum allocation allotted to the carrier that is managed by the FCC. And from the government perspective, its all fun and games until someone starts stepping on an x band satellite uplink freq for something critical to national security or military radar system.
Except if you have an AS and playing in BGP, there is a responsibility to maintain your equipment because it is a global network. As ruebarb mentioned, although they can do it, this isn't really what 6500's are made for. There are better, cheaper, and more efficient ways to do it anyway. Even a ASR 1000 would be a better choice. Just because a switch can route, doesn't make it the right choice for a router. And 7600's are at EOL anyway. If you have any left in production, you should be watching them like a hawk at this point.
FWIW, if everyone was IPV6, this problem would have been far worse. TCAM can hold twice as many v4 routes as v6, and the v6 by nature are more fragmented. This wasn't a case of IPV4 breaking the internet... It was a case of poor design and monitoring.
Azure and EC2 don't have an effect on the necessity for networking equipment on the perimeter. They are still going to be sitting behind a screening router handling BGP. Also, in many ways the SDN (regardless of Cisco ACI or VM Ware NSX or whatever pops up next) doesn't eliminate the need for networking equipment in the DC. To move to a single fabric where the software can control traffic flow between hosts and tieds actually performs better with higher end equipment. As you said, Cisco is making their money from $20 routers, and the consolidation to cloud or private cloud (large data centers) vice distributed computing is increasing the move back to their core business, but will ultimately reduce the number of customers. Their problems hasn't been route/switch, its losing out to Riverbed for optimization, to F5 for load balancing, etc... Its a growth issue, and they need UCS or ACI SDN to really take off to expand their market cap.
You forgot probably the largest subset of the population.
Those that believe and providing a TEMPORARY safety net (like 6 months), but want to curtail long term lifelong entitlement distribution to those that aren't children, elderly, or disabled.
I carry two phones, my personal and work phone. For my personal phone where I tend to do more things like gaming, looking at pictures, and web browsing I like a phone more real estate on the screen. For my work phone where I am far more likely type a long email I use a blackberry despite having the option of an iphone, galaxy, or stipend to apply to my personal phone. I have borderline disdain for RIM, and I would leave my blackberry in an instant of in our lineup of phones included a phone with a larger screen AND a qwety keyboard.
Thats just using energy to convert elements and molecules into different molecules, but it doesn't change the fact that you will be constantly losing molecules over time and they will eventually need to be replaced some how.
Even better, impeach Obama give Snowden the Presidency, then you'll have a president that ACTUALLY UPHOLDS THE CONSTITUTION.
You want to put a person into the presidency who is only known for A SINGLE ILLEGAL act??? Are you kidding me?
(He needs at least 3 more before he would be qualified.)
Except DNS lets us use things that make sense. If I'm looking for Cisco, Cisco.com is a logical place to start. 72.163.4.161 holds no significance to me, and I probably won't look there by default. This is not like DNS. blackberry.zeta.pnder would be just as random and unmemorable to the average person as 72.163.4.161 and eliminate what makes DNS useful.
stupid.fucking.standard
These estimates are not based on counting the number of storms that actually occur, they are based on simulations of storm paths.
The probability that another one of these happens in our lifetime is about 10%.
The probability that another once-in-700-year event happens somewhere in the US even just next year is nearly 100%, since there are many more than 700 sites that keep and report these statistics. In different words, you expect multiple extreme weather events to be reported in the US every year.
Does that answer your question?
Its not even separate sites. Its that "type of storm". One area can be hit with multiple "types" of storms that break the 1 in model.
2005 New Orleans was hit with Katrina a 1 in 400 year storm
2008 New Orleans was hit with Gustav 1 in 100 years
2012 New Orleans was hit with Isaac 1 in 100 years
The events were different... Gustav was really strong, Katrina had the massive storm surge, Isaac sat over the city instead of moving on, etc... So the 1 in whatever is pointless.
You know in the Marine Corps they taught us a couple of things...
1) Treat every weapon as if it were loaded
2) Never point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3) Keep your finger straight and off the trigger until you are ready to fire
4) Keep your weapon on safe until you intend to fire
5) Know your target, and what lies beyond (more of an informal addition in combat zones)
If you do this, and know how to shoot, its pretty hard for someone to get hurt that wasn't intended to be hurt.
I'm not even saying global warming doesn't exist. I personally believe that is / will get warmer regardless of what we do. As I said at the end of my post, theoretically we should be seeing global warming since we are still in the end of an Ice Age. And through the other 4 (or more) Ice Ages, the planet warmed. My point was more along the lines of the data set is no where near big enough. We typically think of a 100 years as a long, because our frame of reference is our life time. But dinosaurs roamed the earth for more then 100x the amount of time that man has. If the temperature drops next year everyone will through it away as an outlier. I'm saying that when an ice age can last 100 million years that a 150 years can be an outlier. What brought this whole post up was just because it was cooler for a for a couple of years all of a sudden some scientists were going to global cooling. And if its cooler for the next 10 years all of them will be. Even though that could still very well be an outlier as well.
As for the article.. The article as a whole supports global warming. I linked the second page because it has several different temperature graphs covering the period since man has been recording temperature. Every temperature graph has trends periods of cooling as well as warming. So now as soon as we have temperatures drop for a a couple of years, now we have reports like the Russian scientists that are now predicting global cooling.
I'm not saying we don't need to take care of the environment. After living in densely populated areas live Southern California and Japan I've seen how poor the air quality is. I'm all for renewable energy, because man will likely outlive natural resources at our current consumption rate. I could go on but you get the point. I'm done with global warming... cooling... climate change. Whatever. I'm just done with the climate change / global warming / global cooling talk.
We'll see.
Thats my point.... In our lifetime, we won't see. I'll be gone in 50 years or less, if I could stick around for say, 50,000.... Maybe we would.
The UN is not as democratic as you might think it is.
The UN General Assembly is, but it is pretty much subservient to the UN Security Council in which a few permanent members (amongst which the US) have veto right.
The first thing I thought of... Conveniently though, Russia is also one of the other 5. So this isn't exactly an altruistic move on anything. It just give them a piece of the action.
The prosecution claimed Zimmerman had a duty to retreat but that same duty applied to Martin too. Martin had a phone, he could have called the police and said someone is following me. He could have tried to lose Zimmerman, but instead, he went to confront the cracker ass cracker or whatever racial slur his friend he was on the phone with said he said before hanging up to put Zimmerman in his place.
This is something it seems like most people are missing out on in their rush to polarize.
Many people are trying to dismiss Zimmerman's duty to retreat by saying it was lawful or he had good intentions or whatever, but the fact is he was following the kid for dubious reasons, got lost, and then was ambushed by the person he was following. He should never have allowed himself to be in that situation, and he should have been prepared for Martin to verbally confront him.
Lots of people dismiss Martin's actions because they feel like Zimmerman's behavior was unwarranted, starting with following him. But that doesn't excuse his confrontation of Zimmerman.
The fact is, both of them made dumb mistakes that night, and both of them have paid for it. It will always seem unfair, because Martin was only 17 and, while he should have known better, it's understandable that he didn't know better. And he paid for it with his life.
Zimmerman's life is changed forever because of this, too, but it will never really seem fair because he's incompetent and an idiot who definitely should have known better and got off light compared to Martin.
The whole thing is just a tragedy that didn't need to happen.
This may be the single best summary of this situation I've read. Well done sir.
I thought the same thing. The single best use for app's like this would be for criminals to reduce threat when they are going after a house. I don't currently own a firearm, but I would tag myself on this app.
I've heard time and time again, that Canadian (and American) men are highly desired by women in Japan. I've also heard time and time again, that the reason is because too many Japanese men are downright useless and misogynistic assholes.
Are you a genuinely nice North American dude with a real job? If so, it really is remarkably easy to meet wonderful women in Japan.
I spent a year stationed in Japan in the military... Being 6'3" 220 the women were very nice to me. For a 21 year old kid, it was a pretty good year.
I'm sure this has absolutely nothing to do with forecasts of employers have large layoffs. Wouldn't want that before a midterm now would we? Kind of like releasing the notification as people are leaving work holiday.
I'm in OKC. I had offers for some other areas for more money, but the what I make here compared to cost of living is pretty damn good. My co-workers are ALL proficient, its a pretty good gig.
If the physical presence makes no difference (software development, for example) -- then you want the CHEAPEST place you can build an office and still be able to hire good talent. I think what many companies would find if they actually thought "outside the box" a bit, is that there's a LOT of great computer talent in the small, rural communities. Kids growing up there don't have as much to do, so many gravitate towards the home computer and the internet, and spend a lot of time with it. The technical minded who don't envision themselves working the family farm like their parents did constitute a good hiring pool that's neglected.
If a place is cheap is because nobody will like to to stay or have a business in that place most of the time. If you are building a factory with the working turns and an internal dining room and is so big that you have a private railway inside is a thing. If you are a tech company and your employees can't fill a 10 m bus and it's possible that you have to ask flex hours it's another thing.
Having a choice between herding goats and making tech support by phone I'll prefer herding goats. You can always butcher a obxonious goat.
This is why the growing approach is the combination of the two. RTP in North Carolina, Austin, New Orleans, Oklahoma City... All places people are willing to live, with stuff to do, much cheaper in terms of real estate / utilities / taxes, and a talent pool available. For a start up Cali or NYC make sense, but for an already established company? For example if Cisco will pay you the same amount of cash to work in RTP, Herndon, or San Jose why would you not go to RTP?
I'm a tech guy in Oklahoma... And well, they are moving here (and recently moved here because of this). Google just built its largest data center in the US, Farmers / 21st Century built their largest data center here, Cox, Dell, AT&T moved HQ here... Not a bad place for a network engineer / developer / sysadmin type.
I swear i NEVER thought I would ever see the day that M$ was more responsive to it's customers needs than either Apple or Google. Looks like the "Big Bad Beast" has gotten a conscience.. while the "do no evil" camp has slowly become the devil incarnate... I think I like those guys at Redmond just a tiny bit more....;-)
Make no mistake, this had nothing to do conscience and EVERYTHING to do with getting killed on pre-orders. That they came up with this in the first place proves they have nothing in the way of conscience about what the consumer wants.
I am a reformed PC gamer that plays console games exclusively now. I play predominantly online, and the reason behind the departure were three fold.
1.) Being able to play with multiple people in the living room. Yea, I did LAN parties back in the day, but that really is inconvenient.
2.) Cheating - I'm very competitive and I know it still happens on consoles (took awhile for the PS3), but there are far less people with modded games on consoles then PC. I need Valve and Steam and Pipe or whoever have helped rectify that to an extent, but its still far more common on PC
3.) And last, and probably the biggest... Everyone's console is the same. If I'm getting smoked at an FPS, its because the foul mouthed 12 year old on the other end is better then me.. Not because I didn't shell out $600-1000 on a video card and his mommy and daddy did. Kind of like Tom Curise in Days of Thunder "stock cars are built to run equal. I won't be beaten by a car, only by a driver".
Or the game that comes out 3 years from now will work on my console without needed X Y or Z. So for the 50 people in this thread that keep saying just do PC gaming... That's why not.
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I'm not saying that it can't (or even shouldn't) be done by somebody else. But most people think of the FCC and things like the "wardrobe malfunction" of the super bowl and the like, when they do serve other functions. But the sad reality is politicians are typically not very good at understanding the second and third order effects, and I could absolutely see a defunding occur because of politics without considering core business of the agency like spectrum management even being considered.
Shutting down the FCC? Who in the real world cares about the FCC? The only ones I could possibly think of would be religious fundamentalists that still agree with the obscenity regulations the FCC mandates.
I'm not saying that it won't happen... But it would be bad. Pretty much everybody in the real world is cares about the FCC, they probably just don't know it. The most important job they have is spectrum management. The average person probably cares if someone else is using the spectrum allocation allotted to the carrier that is managed by the FCC. And from the government perspective, its all fun and games until someone starts stepping on an x band satellite uplink freq for something critical to national security or military radar system.
Except if you have an AS and playing in BGP, there is a responsibility to maintain your equipment because it is a global network. As ruebarb mentioned, although they can do it, this isn't really what 6500's are made for. There are better, cheaper, and more efficient ways to do it anyway. Even a ASR 1000 would be a better choice. Just because a switch can route, doesn't make it the right choice for a router. And 7600's are at EOL anyway. If you have any left in production, you should be watching them like a hawk at this point. FWIW, if everyone was IPV6, this problem would have been far worse. TCAM can hold twice as many v4 routes as v6, and the v6 by nature are more fragmented. This wasn't a case of IPV4 breaking the internet... It was a case of poor design and monitoring.
Azure and EC2 don't have an effect on the necessity for networking equipment on the perimeter. They are still going to be sitting behind a screening router handling BGP. Also, in many ways the SDN (regardless of Cisco ACI or VM Ware NSX or whatever pops up next) doesn't eliminate the need for networking equipment in the DC. To move to a single fabric where the software can control traffic flow between hosts and tieds actually performs better with higher end equipment. As you said, Cisco is making their money from $20 routers, and the consolidation to cloud or private cloud (large data centers) vice distributed computing is increasing the move back to their core business, but will ultimately reduce the number of customers. Their problems hasn't been route/switch, its losing out to Riverbed for optimization, to F5 for load balancing, etc... Its a growth issue, and they need UCS or ACI SDN to really take off to expand their market cap.
You forgot probably the largest subset of the population. Those that believe and providing a TEMPORARY safety net (like 6 months), but want to curtail long term lifelong entitlement distribution to those that aren't children, elderly, or disabled.
I carry two phones, my personal and work phone. For my personal phone where I tend to do more things like gaming, looking at pictures, and web browsing I like a phone more real estate on the screen. For my work phone where I am far more likely type a long email I use a blackberry despite having the option of an iphone, galaxy, or stipend to apply to my personal phone. I have borderline disdain for RIM, and I would leave my blackberry in an instant of in our lineup of phones included a phone with a larger screen AND a qwety keyboard.
Thats just using energy to convert elements and molecules into different molecules, but it doesn't change the fact that you will be constantly losing molecules over time and they will eventually need to be replaced some how.
... Big ass hose dropping into the atmosphere?
Just snowballin' ideas here.
I was thinking more of something like megamaid
Even better, impeach Obama give Snowden the Presidency, then you'll have a president that ACTUALLY UPHOLDS THE CONSTITUTION.
You want to put a person into the presidency who is only known for A SINGLE ILLEGAL act??? Are you kidding me? (He needs at least 3 more before he would be qualified.)
I'm wondering where the hell the "sophisticated missile equipment" was manufactured, because it sure as shit didn't originate in Cuba.
Probably something ordered out of a skymall magazine or sharper image catalog.
Except DNS lets us use things that make sense. If I'm looking for Cisco, Cisco.com is a logical place to start. 72.163.4.161 holds no significance to me, and I probably won't look there by default. This is not like DNS. blackberry.zeta.pnder would be just as random and unmemorable to the average person as 72.163.4.161 and eliminate what makes DNS useful. stupid.fucking.standard
These estimates are not based on counting the number of storms that actually occur, they are based on simulations of storm paths.
The probability that another one of these happens in our lifetime is about 10%.
The probability that another once-in-700-year event happens somewhere in the US even just next year is nearly 100%, since there are many more than 700 sites that keep and report these statistics. In different words, you expect multiple extreme weather events to be reported in the US every year.
Does that answer your question?
Its not even separate sites. Its that "type of storm". One area can be hit with multiple "types" of storms that break the 1 in model. 2005 New Orleans was hit with Katrina a 1 in 400 year storm 2008 New Orleans was hit with Gustav 1 in 100 years 2012 New Orleans was hit with Isaac 1 in 100 years The events were different... Gustav was really strong, Katrina had the massive storm surge, Isaac sat over the city instead of moving on, etc... So the 1 in whatever is pointless.
You know in the Marine Corps they taught us a couple of things... 1) Treat every weapon as if it were loaded 2) Never point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3) Keep your finger straight and off the trigger until you are ready to fire 4) Keep your weapon on safe until you intend to fire 5) Know your target, and what lies beyond (more of an informal addition in combat zones) If you do this, and know how to shoot, its pretty hard for someone to get hurt that wasn't intended to be hurt.
We'll see.
Thats my point.... In our lifetime, we won't see. I'll be gone in 50 years or less, if I could stick around for say, 50,000.... Maybe we would.
"UN is not the governmemt, its the planet"
The UN is not as democratic as you might think it is. The UN General Assembly is, but it is pretty much subservient to the UN Security Council in which a few permanent members (amongst which the US) have veto right.
The first thing I thought of... Conveniently though, Russia is also one of the other 5. So this isn't exactly an altruistic move on anything. It just give them a piece of the action.
This is something it seems like most people are missing out on in their rush to polarize.
Many people are trying to dismiss Zimmerman's duty to retreat by saying it was lawful or he had good intentions or whatever, but the fact is he was following the kid for dubious reasons, got lost, and then was ambushed by the person he was following. He should never have allowed himself to be in that situation, and he should have been prepared for Martin to verbally confront him.
Lots of people dismiss Martin's actions because they feel like Zimmerman's behavior was unwarranted, starting with following him. But that doesn't excuse his confrontation of Zimmerman.
The fact is, both of them made dumb mistakes that night, and both of them have paid for it. It will always seem unfair, because Martin was only 17 and, while he should have known better, it's understandable that he didn't know better. And he paid for it with his life.
Zimmerman's life is changed forever because of this, too, but it will never really seem fair because he's incompetent and an idiot who definitely should have known better and got off light compared to Martin.
The whole thing is just a tragedy that didn't need to happen.
This may be the single best summary of this situation I've read. Well done sir.
The US was no on he ground in Libya
I LOL'd at this....
I'm done being invested in anything climate change / global warming related. We had the global cooling in the 70's / global warming / now in the last few months there have been several reports of global cooling now: http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v2/n12/full/nclimate1589.html http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2013/05/26/to-the-horror-of-global-warming-alarmists-global-cooling-is-here/ http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20130503/alaskans-alarmed-russian-specter-global-cooling Backed up by the NASA chart: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GISSTemperature/giss_temperature2.php So now we are at Climate Change/Global Warming/Global Cooling. Anyway you look at it man is far too myopic to be objective on this. We have what 50 years of really good temperature data? 150 years of historical data (of varying quality)? For a planet that is 4.5 billion years old? Besides shouldn't we be in global warming anyway if we are still in an ice age? Flame away...
I thought the same thing. The single best use for app's like this would be for criminals to reduce threat when they are going after a house. I don't currently own a firearm, but I would tag myself on this app.
I've heard time and time again, that Canadian (and American) men are highly desired by women in Japan. I've also heard time and time again, that the reason is because too many Japanese men are downright useless and misogynistic assholes. Are you a genuinely nice North American dude with a real job? If so, it really is remarkably easy to meet wonderful women in Japan.
I spent a year stationed in Japan in the military... Being 6'3" 220 the women were very nice to me. For a 21 year old kid, it was a pretty good year.
I'm sure this has absolutely nothing to do with forecasts of employers have large layoffs. Wouldn't want that before a midterm now would we? Kind of like releasing the notification as people are leaving work holiday.
I'm in OKC. I had offers for some other areas for more money, but the what I make here compared to cost of living is pretty damn good. My co-workers are ALL proficient, its a pretty good gig.
If the physical presence makes no difference (software development, for example) -- then you want the CHEAPEST place you can build an office and still be able to hire good talent. I think what many companies would find if they actually thought "outside the box" a bit, is that there's a LOT of great computer talent in the small, rural communities. Kids growing up there don't have as much to do, so many gravitate towards the home computer and the internet, and spend a lot of time with it. The technical minded who don't envision themselves working the family farm like their parents did constitute a good hiring pool that's neglected.
If a place is cheap is because nobody will like to to stay or have a business in that place most of the time. If you are building a factory with the working turns and an internal dining room and is so big that you have a private railway inside is a thing. If you are a tech company and your employees can't fill a 10 m bus and it's possible that you have to ask flex hours it's another thing.
Having a choice between herding goats and making tech support by phone I'll prefer herding goats. You can always butcher a obxonious goat.
This is why the growing approach is the combination of the two. RTP in North Carolina, Austin, New Orleans, Oklahoma City... All places people are willing to live, with stuff to do, much cheaper in terms of real estate / utilities / taxes, and a talent pool available. For a start up Cali or NYC make sense, but for an already established company? For example if Cisco will pay you the same amount of cash to work in RTP, Herndon, or San Jose why would you not go to RTP?
I'm a tech guy in Oklahoma... And well, they are moving here (and recently moved here because of this). Google just built its largest data center in the US, Farmers / 21st Century built their largest data center here, Cox, Dell, AT&T moved HQ here... Not a bad place for a network engineer / developer / sysadmin type.
I swear i NEVER thought I would ever see the day that M$ was more responsive to it's customers needs than either Apple or Google. Looks like the "Big Bad Beast" has gotten a conscience.. while the "do no evil" camp has slowly become the devil incarnate... I think I like those guys at Redmond just a tiny bit more.... ;-)
Make no mistake, this had nothing to do conscience and EVERYTHING to do with getting killed on pre-orders. That they came up with this in the first place proves they have nothing in the way of conscience about what the consumer wants.
I am a reformed PC gamer that plays console games exclusively now. I play predominantly online, and the reason behind the departure were three fold. 1.) Being able to play with multiple people in the living room. Yea, I did LAN parties back in the day, but that really is inconvenient. 2.) Cheating - I'm very competitive and I know it still happens on consoles (took awhile for the PS3), but there are far less people with modded games on consoles then PC. I need Valve and Steam and Pipe or whoever have helped rectify that to an extent, but its still far more common on PC 3.) And last, and probably the biggest... Everyone's console is the same. If I'm getting smoked at an FPS, its because the foul mouthed 12 year old on the other end is better then me.. Not because I didn't shell out $600-1000 on a video card and his mommy and daddy did. Kind of like Tom Curise in Days of Thunder "stock cars are built to run equal. I won't be beaten by a car, only by a driver". Or the game that comes out 3 years from now will work on my console without needed X Y or Z. So for the 50 people in this thread that keep saying just do PC gaming... That's why not.