They have been wrapping themselves up in the title Utility whenever money comes up, being a sponge for taxpayer's cash whenever infrastructure comes up. And then they post their quarterly reports, screaming nothing but profit.
It's time for the telecoms to assume fiscal responsibility for their dealings just like how banks are being forced into.
He should have had AT&T sales reps in the conference room with him, working out a deal for "commercial" service, not their DSL crap. Sure, it would have cost more, but the speed and binding agreements for performance and up-time are on paper, signed by both parties. And AT&T has done duties to bury fiber for more than a few clients wanting the service and willing to pay the coin for it.
Smartcar tried to go cheap and got bitten on the a$$ for it.
Try computing that using Octol. That's the same explosive they used at one point to set off nuclear weapons before they shifted to another composition to reduce cost.
Yeah, they were pumping like 25 million to place DSLAMS at every SLC, enabling everyone to connect and surf at the (then) astounding 1Mbps.
Sadly they realized their infrastructure was not up to snuff to handle the increased traffic.
Soo, they tried to wrangle permits and easements to get the new wiring or fiber laid. Sadly, the NIMBY's and politicals pretty much screwed things over for them so most of the money got sank into permits and (maybe) bribes just to get to 15% of the roll out goals.
Soo, the project got flipped to lightspeed, which was fiber to pole, then U-Verse.
It's also used in LED's, plus military applications like active phased array radar systems. This breakthrough will make the LED market cost plummet, plus bring the modern radar systems cost down even lower to where other gov't agencies like NOAA and even upper crust civilian markets to own the radar for their own uses.
Library storage sounds like that may be your best choice. Several high end vendors sell such systems and may need to have RFS and RFQ's submitted, not to mention seeing the systems in action. This is not going to be cheap, but it's best on the long term investment. Ensure that it is scalable and can handle any future expansions without investing in whole new kit or that will simply put your department back to square one.
They have their own internal DNS and DHCP, but the latter is needed to operate the former, sadly. I'd like to see an up to date instruction sheet to set up and place into production both services sometime. The current set is vague and wooly.
Remember that disaster in a can? This was during the Big Deal when DSL was the trend maker. The problem with DSL or any ISP service over telecom copper needs to be operating at or on spec. Most of the locations where Pronto was slated to roll out on had crap copper. So guess where the money went? Almost all of it got sunk into infrastructure improvement and service roll out to high income, high density areas, leaving the blue collars and rural folks high and dry.
Take a guess where the FTH is going to be rolled out to. You guessed right, the moneybags districts.
Their mistakes have multiplied greatly over the past 5 years, ranging from basic testing errors that wiped out the hopes for several thousand students, to outages that shackled tens of thousands of applicants for a variety of programs, not just in the academic field.
Questions abound over how they managed to obtain half-billion dollar contracts with states. This stems from non-profit organizations that are attached to the corporate body itself. Plus the heavy-handed lobbying and borderline monopoly they have over the instructional book, testing and exam industry.
Sounds like Pearson needs to come under a congressional audit and grilled until they are past well done.
Past the first person with eye problems (particularly photosensitive people) being blinded permanently....
Eyes are a lot more durable than most people think. Even staring at the sun *won't* cause permanent damage, contrary to what your Mom may have told you. What it will do is give you a sunburn on your retina, and being somewhere you can neither get aloe on, or scratch or anything else... well, yeah, that'd suck. But it goes away. The sun isn't bright enough, nor the area of your iris large enough, to create enough heat to cause damage.
That is if the eye is not already damaged... If someone has cataracts or similiar myopia and their eye's cannot respond properly, then damage can and will result even during a time exposure that would not damage a normal eye.
At a bank, they put in gold-tinted reflective panels as exterior decoration. Shortly afterward they realized that the reflection was roasting their vehicles. So they called in a contractor and they lightly blasted the panels, making them opaque. I forgot what material they used, probably something soft to keep from knocking too much of the gold coating off, just to soften the mirror finish.
Reprogram them so they can go to work in schools as touchscreen systems for pre-k to 6th graders. They were built to take a beating so a bunch of kids could not put much of a hurt on them, right?
How NVIDIA had laid out the hardware specs of their chipset put EVGA on the spot. The chip die does not allow for efficient heat transfer (the dammed thing's as small as an AMD Athlon 4), plus the form factor limits how much cooling they could add to the card. EVGA did their best in putting the leaf blower on it plus the Precision software. I'm planning to deploy the Omega drivers onto my GTX285 1G here shortly to see how it reacts to it.
They'll delve into the masses of data accumulated over the years, peering at impact traces, peeling back gig after gig of data in search for that miracle that would flip the universe as we know it upside down...
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They have been wrapping themselves up in the title Utility whenever money comes up, being a sponge for taxpayer's cash whenever infrastructure comes up. And then they post their quarterly reports, screaming nothing but profit.
It's time for the telecoms to assume fiscal responsibility for their dealings just like how banks are being forced into.
He should have had AT&T sales reps in the conference room with him, working out a deal for "commercial" service, not their DSL crap. Sure, it would have cost more, but the speed and binding agreements for performance and up-time are on paper, signed by both parties. And AT&T has done duties to bury fiber for more than a few clients wanting the service and willing to pay the coin for it.
Smartcar tried to go cheap and got bitten on the a$$ for it.
Try computing that using Octol. That's the same explosive they used at one point to set off nuclear weapons before they shifted to another composition to reduce cost.
I mean, the one that nearly trashed Chelyabinsk was the most recorded bolide to date, but this one was in the middle of the South Atlantic.
Yeah, they were pumping like 25 million to place DSLAMS at every SLC, enabling everyone to connect and surf at the (then) astounding 1Mbps.
Sadly they realized their infrastructure was not up to snuff to handle the increased traffic.
Soo, they tried to wrangle permits and easements to get the new wiring or fiber laid. Sadly, the NIMBY's and politicals pretty much screwed things over for them so most of the money got sank into permits and (maybe) bribes just to get to 15% of the roll out goals.
Soo, the project got flipped to lightspeed, which was fiber to pole, then U-Verse.
When I posted this foreboding warning to Reddit, I got downvoted so hard, I swore that I was brigaded. People said that MS would not do that.
Well, here it is folks, the first 10 bucks that you'll get to spend for software to run in Win10, ad-free.
It's also used in LED's, plus military applications like active phased array radar systems. This breakthrough will make the LED market cost plummet, plus bring the modern radar systems cost down even lower to where other gov't agencies like NOAA and even upper crust civilian markets to own the radar for their own uses.
Library storage sounds like that may be your best choice. Several high end vendors sell such systems and may need to have RFS and RFQ's submitted, not to mention seeing the systems in action. This is not going to be cheap, but it's best on the long term investment. Ensure that it is scalable and can handle any future expansions without investing in whole new kit or that will simply put your department back to square one.
They have their own internal DNS and DHCP, but the latter is needed to operate the former, sadly. I'd like to see an up to date instruction sheet to set up and place into production both services sometime. The current set is vague and wooly.
Just sayin'...
And beat managers over the head with a cluebat, stating "the most damaging phrase in the English language is `We've always done it this way.'"
I know of a few dozen or so managers to this day that needs that cluebat applied to...
And then some.
Remember that disaster in a can? This was during the Big Deal when DSL was the trend maker. The problem with DSL or any ISP service over telecom copper needs to be operating at or on spec. Most of the locations where Pronto was slated to roll out on had crap copper. So guess where the money went? Almost all of it got sunk into infrastructure improvement and service roll out to high income, high density areas, leaving the blue collars and rural folks high and dry.
Take a guess where the FTH is going to be rolled out to. You guessed right, the moneybags districts.
Their mistakes have multiplied greatly over the past 5 years, ranging from basic testing errors that wiped out the hopes for several thousand students, to outages that shackled tens of thousands of applicants for a variety of programs, not just in the academic field.
Questions abound over how they managed to obtain half-billion dollar contracts with states. This stems from non-profit organizations that are attached to the corporate body itself. Plus the heavy-handed lobbying and borderline monopoly they have over the instructional book, testing and exam industry.
Sounds like Pearson needs to come under a congressional audit and grilled until they are past well done.
Past the first person with eye problems (particularly photosensitive people) being blinded permanently....
Eyes are a lot more durable than most people think. Even staring at the sun *won't* cause permanent damage, contrary to what your Mom may have told you. What it will do is give you a sunburn on your retina, and being somewhere you can neither get aloe on, or scratch or anything else... well, yeah, that'd suck. But it goes away. The sun isn't bright enough, nor the area of your iris large enough, to create enough heat to cause damage.
That is if the eye is not already damaged... If someone has cataracts or similiar myopia and their eye's cannot respond properly, then damage can and will result even during a time exposure that would not damage a normal eye.
There is the point of my concern.
Past the first person with eye problems (particularly photosensitive people) being blinded permanently....
They were both predicted to fail in spectacular fashion due to the already entrenched CDs and VCR cassettes.
Erm, this was postulated by (respectively) RIAA and MPAA...
Both live and strive to this day, despite the industry's best (and worst) efforts.
How do we give TomTom a nice mug of STFU and don't resell, distribute or donate my information?
And it'll be curtains for the data center's infrastructure.
Very, very poor location for a high level center people.
The MAFIAA tried this tactic during the early days of their little war against the pirates, and the judges swatted them down hard.
This bunch never caught the precedence and got smacked for it. Money wasted.
There was talk about a child's version being tested. I think that this might be just that. The adult version is a bit bulky.
At a bank, they put in gold-tinted reflective panels as exterior decoration. Shortly afterward they realized that the reflection was roasting their vehicles. So they called in a contractor and they lightly blasted the panels, making them opaque. I forgot what material they used, probably something soft to keep from knocking too much of the gold coating off, just to soften the mirror finish.
Reprogram them so they can go to work in schools as touchscreen systems for pre-k to 6th graders. They were built to take a beating so a bunch of kids could not put much of a hurt on them, right?
Shades of Raul Julia: "FIIFTY MILLLION!!" And there was great rejoicing (while the ball went down the drain).
Tilting: "Heh heh heh, you're a funny guy!"
That thing sucked more quarters out of my pocket in one day compared to when Gauntlet hit the streets.
I don't think Cousin Itt is ever going to like me; I used him as target practice every time he came up.
How NVIDIA had laid out the hardware specs of their chipset put EVGA on the spot. The chip die does not allow for efficient heat transfer (the dammed thing's as small as an AMD Athlon 4), plus the form factor limits how much cooling they could add to the card. EVGA did their best in putting the leaf blower on it plus the Precision software. I'm planning to deploy the Omega drivers onto my GTX285 1G here shortly to see how it reacts to it.
They'll delve into the masses of data accumulated over the years, peering at impact traces, peeling back gig after gig of data in search for that miracle that would flip the universe as we know it upside down...