Got hands one at PDXLAN in Portland a few weeks ago. What can I say but holy crap, I gotta have one. It's a like an oversized dreamcast controller with a LCD screen. It's streaming seemed flawless. We ran Borderlands and a few other games without issue. They were stating a pretty insane battery life, but that will be left to see what it really is. The screen was beautiful, it has a large number of games, and more coming. It was also running steam if I remember correctly. I know this isn't much of are review, but more of just saying, this thing rocks.
PON is just an example, but there are other fiber options. We handle it by controlling the endpoints and not allowing user supplied endpoints. Or official hand off is the Ethernet port, not the fiber.
I'm assuming Verizon was your ILEC. Even if you had 8 DSL providers, they all used Verizon copper and either leased Verizon lines, or resold Verizon services. So they all had to deal with Verizon. In my case, Qwest, now Centurylink is the ILEC. They hate to share, they make it nearly impossible charge exorbitant fees, and their local techs flat out blackmail and lie to us on repair issues. So we are doing more and more fiber. We still have to fight the power company for pole space, but once on we are good and we own our own plant, so we are not just renting lines and losing money. xDSL is still good in a lot of cases, but it is becoming harder and harder to deal with. What we need is the FCC to for cable providers to share. Right now they have monopolies in their markets and are overcharging for services they could make much better.
As someone with an ISP in the DSL game. WTF? So Gigabit at 100 meters? Isn't this really just Gigabit Ethernet over a single pair? And really, who is within 100 Meters of their DSLAM. That would cover maybe four homes.
Except in the real world. I purchased a new Honda Civic just as E10 was being release. My vehicle before the stations had E10 was getting from 30 to 40 miles per gallon highway. This is normal driving with a mix of city and highway calculated from a tank at about 3/4 full and filling without top off at each pump visit. After E10 was at the pumps I went down to about 27 to 33 miles per gallon. After noticing this I double checked and cleaned all filters to eliminate a possible issue. No fix. I found a station that still sold non-ethanol, my mileage went up to about 35 to 37 mile per gallon after a couple tanks. Not back to where I was, but a measurable increase. So even ignoring the pollution caused by creation of the fuel I was burning more fuel, causing more pollution, and costing more money. If cars ran on pure ethanol, it would be different, but E10, and god I hope we don't get E15 aren't an answer.
They aren't the devil, but this quote always makes me think Microsoft "Why would anybody assume Microsoft funded this? I suppose maybe because it's something Yosemite Sam would do."
Except we will pay. BP will raise prices, so will all the others, BP just will have to pay back out for cleanup while the other companies will collect profits off BPs screw up.
Gas consumption wouldn't work as more and more cars are getting better and better gas mileage. Let alone electric or alternative fuels which aren't taxed.
As an administrator for a regional ISP that this has happened to. SORBS made our life a living hell. They blacklisted our IP space not for spam, but because they thought our static IP space rDNS appeared like a dynamic block. We lost customers, were on and off their list until we threatened to sick lawyers on them. Then magically we were off the list and white listed.
Good riddance. I may through a "ding dong the witch is dead" party on July 20th. But I don't know where to find 50 midgets to dance around singing about it.
I to went through that. At my peak I calculated I was having more then a gram of caffeine a day. Considering 8oz of diet pepsi has 24mg, that should give you a rough idea. I decided at one point I was addicted and had to stop, so I went cold turkey.
First there was the headache, then the vomiting, then the unable to even move without throwing up. This went on for about a week before it was all out of my system. When I was done I felt great. I could hold my hand steady, I had more relative energy, and was more focused. I have since gone back to the well, but in moderation, usually under 200mg a day. Though now when I get an energy drink I feel it.
If the people who watch the show were so stupid as to try and use some of the chemicals that are used in the show (and harm themselves or someone else) I'd wager that they are probably too stupid to even know where to order them..
That would be the contradiction of the average geek. We are curious, have a collected almost unlimited resources, and love to blow things up. How do you think we ended up with the atomic bomb. Lets get a few of the biggest geeks in the world, shove them in a room and see what happens.
In other words, give 10,000 geeks unlmited resources and infinite time and we will blow up the moon. Either that or invent a perfect robotic woman.
Even properly mounted high speed drives can be susceptible to shake damage. In installing a new rack in our datacenter a wire monkey used a hammer drill in our concrete floor next to a rack full of running servers. We had a number of 15000rpm drives have bad sectors from that. They were properly mounted servers and drives. Now if they were 7200rpm drives we probably would have been fine, but what data center needed high speed data access wouldn't use 15000rpm drives.
Long story short, I would love to see the sector analysis from those hard drives.
A number of companies here in the US pacific northwest put names or serial numbers on their copper they put in place. So when the thieves show up to collect they give a call to the company listed to ask if it is on the up and up.
Then of course there are the brainiacs that broke into a power substation to steal copper. They took out their bolt cutters, and BAM, power out for a few blocks and more person up for a darwin award.
For just $9.95 a minute you can have the time of your life billed to your credit card or phone bill. Just be sure the person you are talking to is what you want, some surprises are could be far worse in 3d then 2d.
"The internet: where the men are men, the women are men and the children are federal agents"
All this is well and good. But for the thousands of CLECs, Competitive Local Exchange Carriers, they are out of luck. What Verizon and other incumbent carriers need is to be forced, because otherwise they won't, to sell dark fiber like they had to sell unbundled copper loops. Without this unbundled copper there would be no speakeasy or other non-bell dsl carriers.
#4 The depreciation rate is held up by popular opinion. This is true in all vehicles, but the steep cliff at year 6 is going to make most people unhappy, and the battery replacement at year 8 will be a very large cost to shoulder and may drive many people out of this market all togeather.
Can you prove this steep drop off in value at year 6? If not, than why state it? Let's assume for a moment that this year 6 valuation drop-off occurs. How much is that going to matter to someone who has held the car for 6 years? Probably little at that point.
Actually having just purchased a new car and looked into a hybrid I do have answers to this. After talking to various Honda dealers they will not take trades in on the early hybrids unless the batteries have been changed after year four. Toyota currently claims to not have taken any batteries in yet in their dealerships. But I have my doubts on that. I myself choose to not go with a hybrid but with a very efficient and clean burning civic coupe. There is also issues with early hybrids and safety to emergency crews. If they are unfamiliar with them, and again this is from a dealer, the early ones had high voltage running near the frame. When cutting through the car to get someone out, they could get electrocuted. Again, only on the early models.
Ok, so I just traded in my Mazda b2300 pickup for a 2007 Civic Coupe. I put on about 4000 highway miles every three months and maybe another 500 city miles on my vehicle. The highway miles are in 80 mile stretches. I also check my MPG ever time I fill up. So far I have come up with some interesting numbers. My truck was getting an average of 26mpg combined with an average of 70 to 75 mph on the highway. I tried slowing down a bit to 65, but saw little change. Pretty good for a truck.
Going the same on my civic which now only has 300 miles on it, I got around 31mpg. However, I dropped my highway speed down to 65, set the cruise control and let it go, 37.5mpg on the highway. So it appears it depends on the vehicle. It appears different vehicles have different sweet spots for mpg. The Honda's seem to be 65mph. I am wondering if that is more computer controlled. Can I adjust my timing to get maybe not as good mileage at 65, but maybe get 35 at 70 or 75 mph?
Besides he was one of the guys who dealt with the retail stores (circuit city, best buy, etc) Didn't work with the general public directly. But he was an ass anyway. Still they didn't outsource that entire department.
Ok, off shoring does cost american jobs. I had a friend who worked for HP a few years ago in their customer service department. Guess where his job went.
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Yep, but that's not a shield in my pocket, I'm just happy to see you.
So your saying netbook isn't portable? Portable doesn't mean pocketsize.
Got hands one at PDXLAN in Portland a few weeks ago. What can I say but holy crap, I gotta have one. It's a like an oversized dreamcast controller with a LCD screen. It's streaming seemed flawless. We ran Borderlands and a few other games without issue. They were stating a pretty insane battery life, but that will be left to see what it really is. The screen was beautiful, it has a large number of games, and more coming. It was also running steam if I remember correctly. I know this isn't much of are review, but more of just saying, this thing rocks.
PON is just an example, but there are other fiber options. We handle it by controlling the endpoints and not allowing user supplied endpoints. Or official hand off is the Ethernet port, not the fiber.
I'm assuming Verizon was your ILEC. Even if you had 8 DSL providers, they all used Verizon copper and either leased Verizon lines, or resold Verizon services. So they all had to deal with Verizon. In my case, Qwest, now Centurylink is the ILEC. They hate to share, they make it nearly impossible charge exorbitant fees, and their local techs flat out blackmail and lie to us on repair issues. So we are doing more and more fiber. We still have to fight the power company for pole space, but once on we are good and we own our own plant, so we are not just renting lines and losing money. xDSL is still good in a lot of cases, but it is becoming harder and harder to deal with. What we need is the FCC to for cable providers to share. Right now they have monopolies in their markets and are overcharging for services they could make much better.
If your running fiber to the curb, just run PON and go fiber to the home. less latency, cheaper, better overall.
As someone with an ISP in the DSL game. WTF? So Gigabit at 100 meters? Isn't this really just Gigabit Ethernet over a single pair? And really, who is within 100 Meters of their DSLAM. That would cover maybe four homes.
Except in the real world. I purchased a new Honda Civic just as E10 was being release. My vehicle before the stations had E10 was getting from 30 to 40 miles per gallon highway. This is normal driving with a mix of city and highway calculated from a tank at about 3/4 full and filling without top off at each pump visit. After E10 was at the pumps I went down to about 27 to 33 miles per gallon. After noticing this I double checked and cleaned all filters to eliminate a possible issue. No fix. I found a station that still sold non-ethanol, my mileage went up to about 35 to 37 mile per gallon after a couple tanks. Not back to where I was, but a measurable increase. So even ignoring the pollution caused by creation of the fuel I was burning more fuel, causing more pollution, and costing more money. If cars ran on pure ethanol, it would be different, but E10, and god I hope we don't get E15 aren't an answer.
They aren't the devil, but this quote always makes me think Microsoft "Why would anybody assume Microsoft funded this? I suppose maybe because it's something Yosemite Sam would do."
Hey, don't knock unobtainium. Of course me and buddies watch the core at the budget theater and MST3Ked it
Yep, and I give you the horrible truth, CSI is for the brain dead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
Except we will pay. BP will raise prices, so will all the others, BP just will have to pay back out for cleanup while the other companies will collect profits off BPs screw up.
7/11 franchises to follow shortly on the space station.
Gas consumption wouldn't work as more and more cars are getting better and better gas mileage. Let alone electric or alternative fuels which aren't taxed.
As an administrator for a regional ISP that this has happened to. SORBS made our life a living hell. They blacklisted our IP space not for spam, but because they thought our static IP space rDNS appeared like a dynamic block. We lost customers, were on and off their list until we threatened to sick lawyers on them. Then magically we were off the list and white listed.
Good riddance. I may through a "ding dong the witch is dead" party on July 20th. But I don't know where to find 50 midgets to dance around singing about it.
I'm still waiting for my Mr. Fusion
I to went through that. At my peak I calculated I was having more then a gram of caffeine a day. Considering 8oz of diet pepsi has 24mg, that should give you a rough idea. I decided at one point I was addicted and had to stop, so I went cold turkey.
First there was the headache, then the vomiting, then the unable to even move without throwing up. This went on for about a week before it was all out of my system. When I was done I felt great. I could hold my hand steady, I had more relative energy, and was more focused. I have since gone back to the well, but in moderation, usually under 200mg a day. Though now when I get an energy drink I feel it.
If the people who watch the show were so stupid as to try and use some of the chemicals that are used in the show (and harm themselves or someone else) I'd wager that they are probably too stupid to even know where to order them..
That would be the contradiction of the average geek. We are curious, have a collected almost unlimited resources, and love to blow things up. How do you think we ended up with the atomic bomb. Lets get a few of the biggest geeks in the world, shove them in a room and see what happens.
In other words, give 10,000 geeks unlmited resources and infinite time and we will blow up the moon. Either that or invent a perfect robotic woman.
Even properly mounted high speed drives can be susceptible to shake damage. In installing a new rack in our datacenter a wire monkey used a hammer drill in our concrete floor next to a rack full of running servers. We had a number of 15000rpm drives have bad sectors from that. They were properly mounted servers and drives. Now if they were 7200rpm drives we probably would have been fine, but what data center needed high speed data access wouldn't use 15000rpm drives.
Long story short, I would love to see the sector analysis from those hard drives.
A number of companies here in the US pacific northwest put names or serial numbers on their copper they put in place. So when the thieves show up to collect they give a call to the company listed to ask if it is on the up and up.
Then of course there are the brainiacs that broke into a power substation to steal copper. They took out their bolt cutters, and BAM, power out for a few blocks and more person up for a darwin award.
For just $9.95 a minute you can have the time of your life billed to your credit card or phone bill. Just be sure the person you are talking to is what you want, some surprises are could be far worse in 3d then 2d.
"The internet: where the men are men, the women are men and the children are federal agents"
All this is well and good. But for the thousands of CLECs, Competitive Local Exchange Carriers, they are out of luck. What Verizon and other incumbent carriers need is to be forced, because otherwise they won't, to sell dark fiber like they had to sell unbundled copper loops. Without this unbundled copper there would be no speakeasy or other non-bell dsl carriers.
Ok, so I just traded in my Mazda b2300 pickup for a 2007 Civic Coupe. I put on about 4000 highway miles every three months and maybe another 500 city miles on my vehicle. The highway miles are in 80 mile stretches. I also check my MPG ever time I fill up. So far I have come up with some interesting numbers. My truck was getting an average of 26mpg combined with an average of 70 to 75 mph on the highway. I tried slowing down a bit to 65, but saw little change. Pretty good for a truck.
Going the same on my civic which now only has 300 miles on it, I got around 31mpg. However, I dropped my highway speed down to 65, set the cruise control and let it go, 37.5mpg on the highway. So it appears it depends on the vehicle. It appears different vehicles have different sweet spots for mpg. The Honda's seem to be 65mph. I am wondering if that is more computer controlled. Can I adjust my timing to get maybe not as good mileage at 65, but maybe get 35 at 70 or 75 mph?
Besides he was one of the guys who dealt with the retail stores (circuit city, best buy, etc) Didn't work with the general public directly. But he was an ass anyway. Still they didn't outsource that entire department.
Ok, off shoring does cost american jobs. I had a friend who worked for HP a few years ago in their customer service department. Guess where his job went.