It holds3,196 tons of fuel oil for propulsion and has a range of 12,000 miles if you only travel at 14 knots.
so (3196tons/12000miles)*(2000lbs/ton)*(1 gallon of oil/5 lbs)*(1 barrel of oil/42 gallons)* ($30/barrel for heating oil) = about $46/mile in oil costs. These are the rankest of estimates, but just to give you some idea.
My idea involves converting it to nuclear steam power via an old russion sub reactor, then your fuel costs become $0. They dispose of them when they got too hot to fit in a sub, but with the size of this boat, you could afford to build some extra bulkheads and sheilding around it and run hot n safe.
my friends and I want to buy it. We call our program "captain for a day".
can't find the source right now, but I've read an interview (might have been WSJ or Forbes) that had an interview with a Chinese manufacturing chief. He stated that 10% DOA was an acceptable rate and that people would put up with it because of how inexpensively they could do the manufacturing.
Personally, this scares the crap out of me. So expect to see a lot of cheap junk (more than now) as more manufacturing is outsourced there.
If anyone can find the article, it'd be great. I can't seem to find it on google right now.
check out vonage. www.vonage.com they provide a box that plugs into your network, and has an rj-11 phone jack. really, really cool service, and it's cheap and good. Take the vonage box anywhere, plug it in, and your standard $10 telephone rings there as if it's local.
it's cool stuff. a friend of mine is using it and I'm signing up next week.
this is especially true at charities which is the environment discussed in this article. Many workers are going to be part time with real jobs during the day. It sure would make it easy for them to make their 4 hours a week at the charity productive if they can come in and use the same tools (office/windows) that they use all day at their "real" jobs. As opposed to having an alternative system where they will face a steep learning/remembering curve every time they come in to volunteer. (Especialy if they come in infreuqently and have time to unlearn some of the OSS tools tips/tricks between sessions.)
something is being worked on supposedly to let you track all of your own communication. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1091203,00.as p Supposedly, MS is working on something to let you track all of your correspondence, and stuff you've viewed by subject or date. sounds neat, but only if I am the only one with the keys to my data...
I had a job a few years ago as junior guy. Very helpful, willing to do anything for anyone. What I found was people would never do things for me that I needed done (ie, I didn't have permissions to get it done myself), and even though I was one of the top performers in my company, i didn't get much respect from my peers (although they were not rude, they just didn't respond when i needed things done).
I found that by always looking harried/angry, things changed and people got stuff done for me. I was still friendly and helpfull, but if you wear the right expression, they get the impression that you're a nice guy, but that right under the surface, you're stressed, a bit angry, and ready to boil. I found that I got along much better after that.
Kind of weird, and I'd just as soon be a super nice guy... but sometimes..
Contrast that with my new place. I help everyone with everything (I've quickly become the go-to guy for lots of questions) and enjoy the people I work with, but I don't have to be a hardass and look like i'm ready to explode to get cooperation. I think it depends on your coworkers.
you might want to look seriously at SMS capabilities. Yes, SUS is free, but if you are running into issues where you'd like more control and flexibility as an administrator, I would check out SMS.
I've read quite a few whitepapers/case studies on the subject, and it looks like MS has a stronger ROI than OSS in many cases.
Granted, most of these are biased by whoever is paying for them, but I'm not sure that OSS is clearcut "cheaper" anymore when you figure in all the costs of admin and support. I'm not saying unequivocally the MS or commercial UNIX is either. What's newsworthy to me is that I think MS truly DOES have a good story to tell this time around (for the first time ever in my opinion). We'll see how it all plays out in real world deployments, but it looks pretty strong from what I've seen.
dunno all hte details, but they are aiming at Linux/UNIX from what I can see. There are additional console tools that are much more powerful than in previous windows versions.
Actually, you should see a huge ROI if you move from NT4 to 2003 with Active directory. Also, 2003 server will have fancy UNIX features like controlling/guaranteeing processor/mem to individual programs so you'll be able to take 6 old machines and roll it up into a 2 node, 8 way cluster. HUGE return on your investment from a manageability standpoint and also very flexible to add more servcies to it.
I've been an MS hater for a long time (sellin' commercial UNIX solutions), but honestly, there is a lot of compelling tech wrapped up in this that will pay off big in SOME environments.
Was it the HDD? Mine makes a lot of noise and is starting to frighten me (after about 3 years of constant usage and many moves). I have the philips hdr312 30 hour series one model.
What GW is probably trying to do is protect their resellers' profit margins.
For instance, what a lot of people do is talk to the local guy, use up all his time and ideas, and then buy online from someone who is cheaper because they don't spend all day helping customers and providing a value-add. Therefore, you see the people who were providing all the quality customer service go out of business because they can't spend all that time helping people and compete with the low price guys. The same thing is in retail computer space, that's why the level of customer service is so abysmal IMHO. People would go pick the brains of the people who would spend time with them, and then go and order online or from some cheap guy that doesn't help them.
So, this makes it so that the stores which ostensibly put in the effort to educate customers and generate sales get crushed and the stores that add no value do well... BUT once the stores that provided the value go away, then you tend to get the whole manufacturer's sales go down because no one is helping the customers. You'll get some guys that will keep buying, but you'll not get many new customers.
THere are exceptions to this, and it sounds like they do need more resellers if their nearest one is over an hour away for someone, but they probably do have channel management reasons for wanting to make all their people compete evenly.
oh, oh, youjust made me think of something negative about this.
Let me pose a question. What's one of the best things about PDA software? One answer is it's simple, small, and works because the programmers are constrained to limited resources.
What are they going to do when they have 1.5GB to fill up with junk?
I think that where this is a bona-fide threat to MS is in changing the paradigm.
change may take place in two ways. The first is as mentioned by some other posters, you would get centralized management of the app and be able to reduce your TCO by not having to install/upgrade on every machine.
the second possible shift is where the real potential is. People don't just buy websphere and drop it in, they customize it to do something for them... so, now that there's going to be an office suite in websphere, companies that make customizations to websphere and have custom apps running on it can count on a standardized, cross application office suite being there that they can wrap their application around.
I think that's where the most potential for this is to truly change things.
I think it would be more like like saying that win98 doesn't support DECNET. A less used (but still important) protocol that isn't necessarily clearly superior to the other options available.
It was just a design decision, not a religious decision to not use Jabber's protocol IMHO.
I bought a used 21" Sun/Sony trinitron monitor from my.bomb when it went under. fully db15 compatible with pc/mac, and sony has drivers for it (it's the GDM 500PS with a Sun label).
I read a lot of reviews after I bought it, and no one seems to have trouble with them. I don't know what your budget or needs are since you don't mention them, but you can get this consistently excellent monitor starting around $200 online (used). I wouldn't let used scare you as they seem to be built really well. You can pay a bit more for one with a longer warranty on it if you choose.
If this one ever dies (doubtful), then I will get immediately online and buy another just like it. Everyone who spends time on their monitor should get the best picture they can. It's a lot less fatiguing.
Google for the model if you're interested. this place http://www.monitormania.com/itm00113.htm seems to have a good price, but I dont' know anything about them.
I'm getting it at 186KB/sec on a home cable connection. maybe it's being proxied on our network, but i'm not configured to use a proxy, so hard to say. this is at 5:30pm Pacific.
Are you sure you'll get 5 years out of that PC? I'm been surpassingly unimpressed with the quality of PC hardware in the last couple of years. Yes, you may have plenty of processing power, but do the capicitors on your MB have the bad formula in them so that they'll only last half the life of the good capacitors. I've also been unimpressed with some of the new HDD's and CD-ROMS.
for instance, my 2x creative cd-rom and ISA SB-16 (with JUMPERS), will probably last until hell freezes over, but i've been through several generations of follow on devices with mixed reliability.
I think that as "consumers" have gotten more nickel and dime price conscious, there has become a much larger market for cheap crap. The "good" companies have had to lower price/quality to compete with a lot of these cheap products to keep in the game. End result = cheap stuff that is marginal or unpredictable quality.
I wouldn't consider 100 year helf lifes to be "long". I would term that intermediate at worst. Long is 240,000 year half lifes. We can actually contain stuff for a few hundred years until it decays.
I remember hearing two things regarding the WTC's and disaster recovery planning.
1. In the first bombing attack (in '93?), hundreds of businesses went permanently under because they lost their invoices and were unable to get back up and bill their customers (had no offsite backup).
2. Many businesses that had primary operations in WTC on 9-11-01 were running real time mirroring to remote sites and had zero downtime from an equipment/data availability perspective. Of course, they lost a lot of key people too, so I don't know that they didn't have business interruption, but it was actually very brief. I had a vendor tell me that of the 70 or 80 businesses in WTC that were all running their high availability products, not one had a substantial downtime or interruption in service.
So, it is possible to build against this kind of thing. Like people have said earlier however, you have to weigh the risk against the costs.
But, like the '93 incident shows, all businesses, even tiny ones, need to at least have good offsite backups of critical accounting/billing data to survive even the smallest of fires, floods, disasters.
I can agree with you that a lot of products today are pretty junky, but I have to disagree on the T720. I got mine from ATT so maybe there's a different version of software on it, but it works dandy. i've had it two months and put probably 30 voice hours on it plus 5 wireless web hours and it's been great.
I'm sorry you've had bad experiences though, I hope mine doesn't suffer a similar fate.
I would kill to see more diesel tech in the US. I would love a midsize SUV (read that as Grand Cherokee or Explorer sized) that had an efficient turbo diesel.
The diesels of today are reliable, trouble free, get great mileage, and are quiet and powerfull. But, americans still remember the bad old days of 70's diesels that were loud, unreliable, etc.
OK detroit, here's the deal. I will write a check the day you deliver what I want. otherwise I'll stick with BMW coupes (in gasoline, alas)
i had a 90 geo metro. 3 cylinder 1 liter engine. No AC or power anything. Manual transmission. Running good gas and good synthetic oil in the crankcase, i averaged 49 MPG on the highway and 42 MPG in town. This was on a (at the time) $3000 5 year old car.
when you consider the environmental impact of the things you do, make sure to not just count the gasoline you will save over the life of it, but also the environmental costs to make it. so your 30K hybrid may actually cause more damage than that 10K geo, even though there is a slight difference in mileage. (and for those who must have more features, they did have automatics and AC for slightly more $$ and slightly worse gas mileage).
Not to troll, but I think a lot of people going for the expensive alternative cars are not doing it based purely on what's best for the environment. I'm sure a lot of owners have good intentions, but do your research first.
PS, for those in California running on electric cars... how does California generate it's power?
Just my $.02
PS, I do think that continued research and advancement is necessary and possible, but I think people get too wrapped up in spending a lot of money to save that last 10% mileage that could be better applied to other uses.
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OK, I did some basic analysis.
It holds3,196 tons of fuel oil for propulsion and has a range of 12,000 miles if you only travel at 14 knots.
so (3196tons/12000miles)*(2000lbs/ton)*(1 gallon of oil/5 lbs)*(1 barrel of oil/42 gallons)* ($30/barrel for heating oil) = about $46/mile in oil costs. These are the rankest of estimates, but just to give you some idea.
My idea involves converting it to nuclear steam power via an old russion sub reactor, then your fuel costs become $0. They dispose of them when they got too hot to fit in a sub, but with the size of this boat, you could afford to build some extra bulkheads and sheilding around it and run hot n safe.
my friends and I want to buy it. We call our program "captain for a day".
can't find the source right now, but I've read an interview (might have been WSJ or Forbes) that had an interview with a Chinese manufacturing chief. He stated that 10% DOA was an acceptable rate and that people would put up with it because of how inexpensively they could do the manufacturing.
Personally, this scares the crap out of me. So expect to see a lot of cheap junk (more than now) as more manufacturing is outsourced there.
If anyone can find the article, it'd be great. I can't seem to find it on google right now.
check out vonage. www.vonage.com they provide a box that plugs into your network, and has an rj-11 phone jack. really, really cool service, and it's cheap and good. Take the vonage box anywhere, plug it in, and your standard $10 telephone rings there as if it's local.
it's cool stuff. a friend of mine is using it and I'm signing up next week.
this is especially true at charities which is the environment discussed in this article. Many workers are going to be part time with real jobs during the day. It sure would make it easy for them to make their 4 hours a week at the charity productive if they can come in and use the same tools (office/windows) that they use all day at their "real" jobs. As opposed to having an alternative system where they will face a steep learning/remembering curve every time they come in to volunteer. (Especialy if they come in infreuqently and have time to unlearn some of the OSS tools tips/tricks between sessions.)
something is being worked on supposedly to let you track all of your own communication. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1091203,00.as p Supposedly, MS is working on something to let you track all of your correspondence, and stuff you've viewed by subject or date. sounds neat, but only if I am the only one with the keys to my data...
I had a job a few years ago as junior guy. Very helpful, willing to do anything for anyone. What I found was people would never do things for me that I needed done (ie, I didn't have permissions to get it done myself), and even though I was one of the top performers in my company, i didn't get much respect from my peers (although they were not rude, they just didn't respond when i needed things done).
I found that by always looking harried/angry, things changed and people got stuff done for me. I was still friendly and helpfull, but if you wear the right expression, they get the impression that you're a nice guy, but that right under the surface, you're stressed, a bit angry, and ready to boil. I found that I got along much better after that.
Kind of weird, and I'd just as soon be a super nice guy... but sometimes..
Contrast that with my new place. I help everyone with everything (I've quickly become the go-to guy for lots of questions) and enjoy the people I work with, but I don't have to be a hardass and look like i'm ready to explode to get cooperation. I think it depends on your coworkers.
you might want to look seriously at SMS capabilities. Yes, SUS is free, but if you are running into issues where you'd like more control and flexibility as an administrator, I would check out SMS.
FYI Idaho's was $300 a week. I went from a 6 figure income to $300/week. But, I've relocated and am working again (albeit for substantially less.)
I've read quite a few whitepapers/case studies on the subject, and it looks like MS has a stronger ROI than OSS in many cases.
Granted, most of these are biased by whoever is paying for them, but I'm not sure that OSS is clearcut "cheaper" anymore when you figure in all the costs of admin and support. I'm not saying unequivocally the MS or commercial UNIX is either. What's newsworthy to me is that I think MS truly DOES have a good story to tell this time around (for the first time ever in my opinion). We'll see how it all plays out in real world deployments, but it looks pretty strong from what I've seen.
dunno all hte details, but they are aiming at Linux/UNIX from what I can see. There are additional console tools that are much more powerful than in previous windows versions.
Actually, you should see a huge ROI if you move from NT4 to 2003 with Active directory. Also, 2003 server will have fancy UNIX features like controlling/guaranteeing processor/mem to individual programs so you'll be able to take 6 old machines and roll it up into a 2 node, 8 way cluster. HUGE return on your investment from a manageability standpoint and also very flexible to add more servcies to it.
I've been an MS hater for a long time (sellin' commercial UNIX solutions), but honestly, there is a lot of compelling tech wrapped up in this that will pay off big in SOME environments.
Was it the HDD? Mine makes a lot of noise and is starting to frighten me (after about 3 years of constant usage and many moves). I have the philips hdr312 30 hour series one model.
What GW is probably trying to do is protect their resellers' profit margins.
For instance, what a lot of people do is talk to the local guy, use up all his time and ideas, and then buy online from someone who is cheaper because they don't spend all day helping customers and providing a value-add. Therefore, you see the people who were providing all the quality customer service go out of business because they can't spend all that time helping people and compete with the low price guys. The same thing is in retail computer space, that's why the level of customer service is so abysmal IMHO. People would go pick the brains of the people who would spend time with them, and then go and order online or from some cheap guy that doesn't help them.
So, this makes it so that the stores which ostensibly put in the effort to educate customers and generate sales get crushed and the stores that add no value do well... BUT once the stores that provided the value go away, then you tend to get the whole manufacturer's sales go down because no one is helping the customers. You'll get some guys that will keep buying, but you'll not get many new customers.
THere are exceptions to this, and it sounds like they do need more resellers if their nearest one is over an hour away for someone, but they probably do have channel management reasons for wanting to make all their people compete evenly.
oh, oh, youjust made me think of something negative about this.
Let me pose a question. What's one of the best things about PDA software? One answer is it's simple, small, and works because the programmers are constrained to limited resources.
What are they going to do when they have 1.5GB to fill up with junk?
But, overall, i'm excited about this new product.
I think that where this is a bona-fide threat to MS is in changing the paradigm.
change may take place in two ways. The first is as mentioned by some other posters, you would get centralized management of the app and be able to reduce your TCO by not having to install/upgrade on every machine.
the second possible shift is where the real potential is. People don't just buy websphere and drop it in, they customize it to do something for them... so, now that there's going to be an office suite in websphere, companies that make customizations to websphere and have custom apps running on it can count on a standardized, cross application office suite being there that they can wrap their application around.
I think that's where the most potential for this is to truly change things.
I think it would be more like like saying that win98 doesn't support DECNET. A less used (but still important) protocol that isn't necessarily clearly superior to the other options available.
It was just a design decision, not a religious decision to not use Jabber's protocol IMHO.
I bought a used 21" Sun/Sony trinitron monitor from my .bomb when it went under. fully db15 compatible with pc/mac, and sony has drivers for it (it's the GDM 500PS with a Sun label).
I read a lot of reviews after I bought it, and no one seems to have trouble with them. I don't know what your budget or needs are since you don't mention them, but you can get this consistently excellent monitor starting around $200 online (used). I wouldn't let used scare you as they seem to be built really well. You can pay a bit more for one with a longer warranty on it if you choose.
If this one ever dies (doubtful), then I will get immediately online and buy another just like it. Everyone who spends time on their monitor should get the best picture they can. It's a lot less fatiguing.
Google for the model if you're interested. this place http://www.monitormania.com/itm00113.htm seems to have a good price, but I dont' know anything about them.
I'm getting it at 186KB/sec on a home cable connection. maybe it's being proxied on our network, but i'm not configured to use a proxy, so hard to say. this is at 5:30pm Pacific.
Are you sure you'll get 5 years out of that PC? I'm been surpassingly unimpressed with the quality of PC hardware in the last couple of years. Yes, you may have plenty of processing power, but do the capicitors on your MB have the bad formula in them so that they'll only last half the life of the good capacitors. I've also been unimpressed with some of the new HDD's and CD-ROMS.
for instance, my 2x creative cd-rom and ISA SB-16 (with JUMPERS), will probably last until hell freezes over, but i've been through several generations of follow on devices with mixed reliability.
I think that as "consumers" have gotten more nickel and dime price conscious, there has become a much larger market for cheap crap. The "good" companies have had to lower price/quality to compete with a lot of these cheap products to keep in the game. End result = cheap stuff that is marginal or unpredictable quality.
Just my $.02
I wouldn't consider 100 year helf lifes to be "long". I would term that intermediate at worst. Long is 240,000 year half lifes. We can actually contain stuff for a few hundred years until it decays.
just my $.02
I remember hearing two things regarding the WTC's and disaster recovery planning.
1. In the first bombing attack (in '93?), hundreds of businesses went permanently under because they lost their invoices and were unable to get back up and bill their customers (had no offsite backup).
2. Many businesses that had primary operations in WTC on 9-11-01 were running real time mirroring to remote sites and had zero downtime from an equipment/data availability perspective. Of course, they lost a lot of key people too, so I don't know that they didn't have business interruption, but it was actually very brief. I had a vendor tell me that of the 70 or 80 businesses in WTC that were all running their high availability products, not one had a substantial downtime or interruption in service.
So, it is possible to build against this kind of thing. Like people have said earlier however, you have to weigh the risk against the costs.
But, like the '93 incident shows, all businesses, even tiny ones, need to at least have good offsite backups of critical accounting/billing data to survive even the smallest of fires, floods, disasters.
most of the iraqi air force has been french. in fact, they've been accused of shipping replacement fighter parts to Iraq as recently as JANUARY 2003.
7 0. htm
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030307-5455
I can agree with you that a lot of products today are pretty junky, but I have to disagree on the T720. I got mine from ATT so maybe there's a different version of software on it, but it works dandy. i've had it two months and put probably 30 voice hours on it plus 5 wireless web hours and it's been great.
I'm sorry you've had bad experiences though, I hope mine doesn't suffer a similar fate.
I would kill to see more diesel tech in the US. I would love a midsize SUV (read that as Grand Cherokee or Explorer sized) that had an efficient turbo diesel.
The diesels of today are reliable, trouble free, get great mileage, and are quiet and powerfull. But, americans still remember the bad old days of 70's diesels that were loud, unreliable, etc.
OK detroit, here's the deal. I will write a check the day you deliver what I want. otherwise I'll stick with BMW coupes (in gasoline, alas)
i had a 90 geo metro. 3 cylinder 1 liter engine. No AC or power anything. Manual transmission. Running good gas and good synthetic oil in the crankcase, i averaged 49 MPG on the highway and 42 MPG in town. This was on a (at the time) $3000 5 year old car.
when you consider the environmental impact of the things you do, make sure to not just count the gasoline you will save over the life of it, but also the environmental costs to make it. so your 30K hybrid may actually cause more damage than that 10K geo, even though there is a slight difference in mileage. (and for those who must have more features, they did have automatics and AC for slightly more $$ and slightly worse gas mileage).
Not to troll, but I think a lot of people going for the expensive alternative cars are not doing it based purely on what's best for the environment. I'm sure a lot of owners have good intentions, but do your research first.
PS, for those in California running on electric cars... how does California generate it's power?
Just my $.02
PS, I do think that continued research and advancement is necessary and possible, but I think people get too wrapped up in spending a lot of money to save that last 10% mileage that could be better applied to other uses.