With google, there is no assurance that *my* problem is being worked on.
While that is true, it is also true of your electricity and net connection. And any other utilities feeding your building that are critical to your business.
Depends where you live. The last time I reported a power outage to my local power company they sent two linemen to look at it. They told me nobody else had called it in, but since I did, they showed up. I suppose most people just sit around in the dark waiting for someone else to notice.
I can only speak from experience with the Canadian system because my dad's side of the family is Canadian.
* One of my relatives had a stroke. They live in Ontario. The hospital in Windsor was too full and had no beds left, so they had to go across to Detroit.
* My Aunt needed a CT scan and the waiting list in her province was over 6 months long because of how equipment is distributed. Again, had to come here to the USA to get a CT scan sooner.
These are only two I can remember offhand. Sure, this is only two examples of being raped by the medical system in Canada, but quality healthcare is certainly not accessible nor available to everyone under such a system. It just forces people who can afford it to come here where there aren't any government restrictions.
Doesn't apply to manuals. If it's in gear and the ignition is off, the engine is still turning and doing all the normal things it would do. This includes power assist for breaks and steering. No need to engage the starter; once you turn the key back to run, it kicks in by itself. Fuel injected engines attached to a stick shift can also shut off the injectors during engine breaking, leading to zero fuel consumption.
Still a VERY BAD IDEA to turn your car off while driving. And I hate the word "hypermiling".
Add to that the fact that the radio sleeps after a certain amount of idle time, which causes an added delay when the radio wakes back up and does its thing.
That's the beauty of the plug-in hybrid model: You still have the gas as a backup and for long trips. Personally, I would jump at the chance to own a plug-in hybrid. The argument that people wouldn't plug them in during off-peak times is a little silly. The most obvious way to use them is to commute to and from work on electric power, and plug them in overnight. How is overnight not off-peak?
If electric demand "off-peak" suddenly goes through the roof because everyone is plugging in their car at night, it it still off-peak?
A company only looking at short term gains is nothing new. Hell, most of society has ADD and only cares about what they can get now now NOW. People being stupid about finance is nothing new. Nobody wants to go read up on what an ARM is, they walk in to the bank because they want that new home NOW and won't leave until they sign something.
Surprisingly, someone being interviewed on one of the national news broadcasts who was facing foreclosure admitted she should have done her homework on the mortgage rather than rushing in blind. It was actually surprising to see someone admin responsibility rather than cry about how the government should have protected them somehow. She had an ARM and admitted she should have purchased a smaller house on a 30-year fixed. There's the other problem. Bank says: "You can get this 30-year fixed, or you can get a bigger house on this 5 year ARM for lower payments (until the rate goes up)!" Person says "OMG super size me!" and signs for the ARM. They don't think about what might happen 5 years later.
People should be allowed to screw up their own lives and learn from it without expecting the government to help them if they make a mistake or babysit them through big decisions. Honestly, we did this to ourselves, and society will always look for a way around the rules to satisfy their greed.
Sometimes the company does this to itself. A place I recently was doing work for decide to stop paying me. They got pissy when I asked if they were going to pay and said my services were no longer needed. (They later told me they didn't think they had to pay me on time because I was an ex-employee turned contractor.) What they didn't know is that I never finished some of the stuff I was doing, and nobody but me has access to it since it was cut off in mid-stride. I certainly won't help them transition to anything; it's their problem now.
Well, maybe I would help. For a metric asston of money upfront in something they can't put a stop payment on like gold bars. I guess one could interpret that as holding them hostage, but i really, really hate them now, so it would have to be a lot of money to make it worth it to me.
All of the the LED traffic signals in my area actually keep working when the power goes out, so those controller boxes certainly have some kind of battery plant inside that also needs to operate said controller and cameras. (Disclaimer: never seen inside of a modern controller.)
Throughput will be just like real-world performance of 802.11b/g/n and USB 2.0. Claim some huge ass number, but reality ends up being nowhere near that value, but it doesn't matter because you can market it at the former.
Google has a *massive* outgoing spam problem and they don't seem to care. Check out the SPAM-L list archives. Of course, everyone else (including a growing number here) goes "yay google is wonderful and they host my domain for free!!1!" and gets everyone they know to use Google. Let the rest of the world not on Google be damned seems to be the goal.
It's no wonder they can filter incoming spam so easily - they have a crapload of spam they spew to the rest of the world to look at and use as an example of what to block from coming back in.
If you want to get even fancier and make your backup link last mile backhoe-proof, Cisco has 3G wireless HWIC cards.
Somewhere on my "fun to try" list is setting up a HWIC-3G-CDMA, set up a tunnel between its router and another one somewhere offsite, exchange BGP routes over it, and use it as a last resort failsafe. Sure, it'll be ugly slow compared to normal, but I'd still be on the air in some capacity if it works.
I love the presentation and attention to detail in their products - software and hardware. I hate how that if it doesn't do what Apple thinks it should be doing, it's a bitch to modify it, and it'll probably self-destruct with the next update.
With a barge setup, your redundancy plan can be to move the whole data center to another area with fiber connections waiting to fire up. In fact, in case of a hurricane, I'd assume that would be the plan anyway. Sure, that means a 24hr downtime, unless you have redundant barges in your plan, in which case it's all a mute argument. If you think 24hr downtime is a long time, try figuring out what Californians just suffered when so many parts of a normally dry network infrastructure were sitting under 3+ feet of water. My company just suffered from that storm last weekend, so don't tell me that land based data centers are less vulnerable.
Your location is obviously bad. Long power outages, massive floods, etc. were limited to California. Over on the other side of the hill (Nevada), we got a lot of rain and snow, but that's about it. Even when there were massive floods a few years ago, the power stayed on. There's enough crazy terrain around here that as long as you don't put your stuff next to the Truckee River, you'll never get flooded. Keep important stuff *away* from flat land, coasts, and rivers, and let a mountain range run blocking for you for weather. As for power, pick a city that doesn't rely on buying it from other states. You don't need a ship that can move your datacenter from one bad location to another bad location depending on the season, you just need to pick a better place on land.
Analog is only cell signal you can count on in this state. I'd always try to buy a cell phone with analog mode in case I ever wanted to drive anywhere that's not Reno or Vegas, but the selection has dwindled to nothing. And on a PDA phone? Forget it. Instead, I keep an old Nokia TDMA/AMPS phone in my car just in case since it'll still dial 911 and gets better range than any current phone.
I've never gotten a hard drive in a retail box from Newegg; usually they're wrapped in bubble wrap. I have ordered OEM Seagate drives from other places like provantage.com where the drive comes in a super-padded Seagate box and a plastic shell within said box that could probably survive any crazy abuse ground delivery count throw at it. It's not a shiny retail box and the only thing inside is the bare drive. My guess is Newegg is trying to save shelf space in the warehouse.
Even that doesn't fly. Where I live, there was an advisory question on the ballot asking of people would support some minuscule tax increase to hire more firefighters, police officers, and buy a fire truck or two to serve the expansion of the city. It came back with a huge "NO". I'm sure the city will do it anyway - it would be irresponsible not to - but I don't think people get any farther than the word "tax" and instantly say no.
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With google, there is no assurance that *my* problem is being worked on.
While that is true, it is also true of your electricity and net connection. And any other utilities feeding your building that are critical to your business.
Depends where you live. The last time I reported a power outage to my local power company they sent two linemen to look at it. They told me nobody else had called it in, but since I did, they showed up. I suppose most people just sit around in the dark waiting for someone else to notice.
I can only speak from experience with the Canadian system because my dad's side of the family is Canadian.
* One of my relatives had a stroke. They live in Ontario. The hospital in Windsor was too full and had no beds left, so they had to go across to Detroit.
* My Aunt needed a CT scan and the waiting list in her province was over 6 months long because of how equipment is distributed. Again, had to come here to the USA to get a CT scan sooner.
These are only two I can remember offhand. Sure, this is only two examples of being raped by the medical system in Canada, but quality healthcare is certainly not accessible nor available to everyone under such a system. It just forces people who can afford it to come here where there aren't any government restrictions.
Doesn't apply to manuals. If it's in gear and the ignition is off, the engine is still turning and doing all the normal things it would do. This includes power assist for breaks and steering. No need to engage the starter; once you turn the key back to run, it kicks in by itself. Fuel injected engines attached to a stick shift can also shut off the injectors during engine breaking, leading to zero fuel consumption.
Still a VERY BAD IDEA to turn your car off while driving. And I hate the word "hypermiling".
Add to that the fact that the radio sleeps after a certain amount of idle time, which causes an added delay when the radio wakes back up and does its thing.
That's the beauty of the plug-in hybrid model: You still have the gas as a backup and for long trips. Personally, I would jump at the chance to own a plug-in hybrid. The argument that people wouldn't plug them in during off-peak times is a little silly. The most obvious way to use them is to commute to and from work on electric power, and plug them in overnight. How is overnight not off-peak?
If electric demand "off-peak" suddenly goes through the roof because everyone is plugging in their car at night, it it still off-peak?
A company only looking at short term gains is nothing new. Hell, most of society has ADD and only cares about what they can get now now NOW. People being stupid about finance is nothing new. Nobody wants to go read up on what an ARM is, they walk in to the bank because they want that new home NOW and won't leave until they sign something.
Surprisingly, someone being interviewed on one of the national news broadcasts who was facing foreclosure admitted she should have done her homework on the mortgage rather than rushing in blind. It was actually surprising to see someone admin responsibility rather than cry about how the government should have protected them somehow. She had an ARM and admitted she should have purchased a smaller house on a 30-year fixed. There's the other problem. Bank says: "You can get this 30-year fixed, or you can get a bigger house on this 5 year ARM for lower payments (until the rate goes up)!" Person says "OMG super size me!" and signs for the ARM. They don't think about what might happen 5 years later.
People should be allowed to screw up their own lives and learn from it without expecting the government to help them if they make a mistake or babysit them through big decisions. Honestly, we did this to ourselves, and society will always look for a way around the rules to satisfy their greed.
I'm still waiting for someone to tell me how Bush made people sign for mortgages they didn't understand and/or simply couldn't afford to begin with.
Do you really believe that Bush made all those banks/lenders have people sign for mortgages they couldn't afford?
Sometimes the company does this to itself. A place I recently was doing work for decide to stop paying me. They got pissy when I asked if they were going to pay and said my services were no longer needed. (They later told me they didn't think they had to pay me on time because I was an ex-employee turned contractor.) What they didn't know is that I never finished some of the stuff I was doing, and nobody but me has access to it since it was cut off in mid-stride. I certainly won't help them transition to anything; it's their problem now.
Well, maybe I would help. For a metric asston of money upfront in something they can't put a stop payment on like gold bars. I guess one could interpret that as holding them hostage, but i really, really hate them now, so it would have to be a lot of money to make it worth it to me.
Well... they both cause cancer, just to bring this back on topic. =P
George Bush: Coal - $100/ton
Barrack Obama: Corn - $20/ton
Obama wants to replace our coal with corn?
All of the the LED traffic signals in my area actually keep working when the power goes out, so those controller boxes certainly have some kind of battery plant inside that also needs to operate said controller and cameras. (Disclaimer: never seen inside of a modern controller.)
Don't forget ADSL2. I'd be happy with that at home. Will I ever see it? Nope.
This must be a flatlander problem... around these parts, cell "towers" are often on sides of buildings or tiny towers on the sides of mountains. Of course, we do have the ugly-ass "tree" towers.
Throughput will be just like real-world performance of 802.11b/g/n and USB 2.0. Claim some huge ass number, but reality ends up being nowhere near that value, but it doesn't matter because you can market it at the former.
Google has a *massive* outgoing spam problem and they don't seem to care. Check out the SPAM-L list archives. Of course, everyone else (including a growing number here) goes "yay google is wonderful and they host my domain for free!!1!" and gets everyone they know to use Google. Let the rest of the world not on Google be damned seems to be the goal.
It's no wonder they can filter incoming spam so easily - they have a crapload of spam they spew to the rest of the world to look at and use as an example of what to block from coming back in.
Maybe they don't want their messages to be forwarded without their consent and intentionally publish SPF to prohibit it.
If you want to get even fancier and make your backup link last mile backhoe-proof, Cisco has 3G wireless HWIC cards.
Somewhere on my "fun to try" list is setting up a HWIC-3G-CDMA, set up a tunnel between its router and another one somewhere offsite, exchange BGP routes over it, and use it as a last resort failsafe. Sure, it'll be ugly slow compared to normal, but I'd still be on the air in some capacity if it works.
It's the episode called "Spider". One of my favorites of the bunch.
http://www.section508.gov/
I love the presentation and attention to detail in their products - software and hardware. I hate how that if it doesn't do what Apple thinks it should be doing, it's a bitch to modify it, and it'll probably self-destruct with the next update.
With a barge setup, your redundancy plan can be to move the whole data center to another area with fiber connections waiting to fire up. In fact, in case of a hurricane, I'd assume that would be the plan anyway. Sure, that means a 24hr downtime, unless you have redundant barges in your plan, in which case it's all a mute argument. If you think 24hr downtime is a long time, try figuring out what Californians just suffered when so many parts of a normally dry network infrastructure were sitting under 3+ feet of water. My company just suffered from that storm last weekend, so don't tell me that land based data centers are less vulnerable.
Your location is obviously bad. Long power outages, massive floods, etc. were limited to California. Over on the other side of the hill (Nevada), we got a lot of rain and snow, but that's about it. Even when there were massive floods a few years ago, the power stayed on. There's enough crazy terrain around here that as long as you don't put your stuff next to the Truckee River, you'll never get flooded. Keep important stuff *away* from flat land, coasts, and rivers, and let a mountain range run blocking for you for weather. As for power, pick a city that doesn't rely on buying it from other states. You don't need a ship that can move your datacenter from one bad location to another bad location depending on the season, you just need to pick a better place on land.
Hey, I live in the Nevada desert!
Analog is only cell signal you can count on in this state. I'd always try to buy a cell phone with analog mode in case I ever wanted to drive anywhere that's not Reno or Vegas, but the selection has dwindled to nothing. And on a PDA phone? Forget it. Instead, I keep an old Nokia TDMA/AMPS phone in my car just in case since it'll still dial 911 and gets better range than any current phone.
I've never gotten a hard drive in a retail box from Newegg; usually they're wrapped in bubble wrap. I have ordered OEM Seagate drives from other places like provantage.com where the drive comes in a super-padded Seagate box and a plastic shell within said box that could probably survive any crazy abuse ground delivery count throw at it. It's not a shiny retail box and the only thing inside is the bare drive. My guess is Newegg is trying to save shelf space in the warehouse.
Paying the police and fire department?
Even that doesn't fly. Where I live, there was an advisory question on the ballot asking of people would support some minuscule tax increase to hire more firefighters, police officers, and buy a fire truck or two to serve the expansion of the city. It came back with a huge "NO". I'm sure the city will do it anyway - it would be irresponsible not to - but I don't think people get any farther than the word "tax" and instantly say no.