Maybe it's because Linus Torvalds was 12 when the first shuttle launched in 1981 and they kind of needed a computer system then? The software for the Shuttle is some of the most bug-free code around... check out http://www.fastcompany.com/online/06/writestuff.ht ml for details.
Where exactly do you live? If you live pretty much anywhere in the United States, there's some natural disaster that can come along and level your town/city.
I used to live in New Orleans and I can confirm that when you get away from the "beautiful" sections, there's a lot of "ugly". But New Orleans is/was one of the (if not THE) largest ports on the Gulf of Mexico, controlling shipments of food to and from the US, not to mention, oil, gas and so on.
Many other parts of the country are completely artificial, and the result of billions of invested infrastructure that the "locals" didn't pay for. I bet whatever part of the country you choose to reside in is reliant in some way on government spending and infrastructure. And you certainly would expect that in the event of a natural disaster someone would pick up the costs so that you could get back to making toothpicks, raising chickens, growing corn or whatever it is that your part of the world does "best".
They can deliver a DC-powered rack that will do the A/C conversion in the rack using a rectifier, so you save power by making the conversion only once. They also can take DC to the rack, and put pretty much whatever you want into the systems. Not to mention the high density you can get.
Blade enclosures also use a similar trick, the blades all get DC. And many data centers also have DC available already, you just have to ask.
Yes, I can get the DVD's through Netflix, the wife and I plan on watching them together someday.... but I want it now.
I (eventually) would like to do the Myth box, but we have been running with the TiVo for some time now without issue. And given the time to spend on geeky habits, in addition to playing with the kid, I need to grow my language knowledge (read earning power/ability to work on cooler projects), upgrade my site (so someone other than Jakob Nielsen will love it), do woodworking, take the car to the track and so on I don't want to sit around futzing with it.... plus I'd need to get the budget allowance for the newer hardware.... cause I know the 400 mhz clunker won't cut it. Thank goodness for the work laptops....
6a. Realize that your friend was right about Stargate and start recording all ten years of it. 6b. Wife reads Entertainment Weekly and adds new stuff all the time. 6c. PBS does a fine job of self-promotion. 6d. I watch too much TV anyway. Wife will alert me if there's something interesting. 7a. Netflix rocks 7b. Bittorrent not worth my time to download to pc, transfer to cd/dvd, get a new card and so on. I get enough computer problem crap at work. Plus I have 10 years of stargate to catch up on (see 6a). 7c. Teaching wife to use bittorrent, and associated stuff to watch a show -- not worth her or my time.
There are a few stages of tivo-lution: 1. Get the box, leave the suggestions on. Schedule the shows you want. Yet you are still somehow tied to the network schedule and still remember when your shows air. Like a Pavlonian dog, you sit down to watch TV at the appointed time. 2. You realize you can show up 20 minutes late and skip commercials. You turn off suggestions because you realize that you will never watch them all. 3. You start realizing that the TiVo just works, records the shows you want. Network schedules become a distant memory and your only worry is not overhearing spoilers about shows you have nto watched yet.
What we do is to broadcast the time packets over the network then have the clients pick them up. So there's no "forced" synchronization with a central server. You might want to give that approach a try rather than having the clients poll the server frequently. We use this approach for the 1000+ machines in our building.
Does Google Calendar let you keep your data inside your corporate network? I know my management would not be happy with not having the company's data under our firm control.
Anyone who can afford to make payments on a $20K automobile could probably afford it.... at least the tenofovir. And these days, 20K is pretty much where the "family sedan" starts, I don't even think you have hit too far into "minivan" territory. And certainly it's "small SUV".
Just think of all the health benefits you get from walking/cycling because you don't have a car, but have to take your meds:)
Trader Joe's is great, but I wouldn't consider 200 stores nationwide a small operation. I shop there regularly and I live in Massachusetts. The thing that makes them an optional stop for me is that you don't always know what's going to be there. With the regular supermarket, you can make a food list and pretty much know you are going to be able to get everything you need for the week. I go to Trader Joe's if I have the time or especially if we are having a get-together since the appetizer selection is great. Also the frozen stuff is really good (and unique), not to mention the fantastic thai-lime cashews.
I guess that you have refused any part of a raise due to the "cost of living" adjustment, then?:)
There are production costs, to be sure. Someone has to take phone calls, someone has to take complaints, someone has to pay the light bill, someone has to pay the people, someone has to process the registrations, someone has to fix it when it breaks, etc. I'm sure it's 99% automated, but SOMEONE has to do SOMETHING at some point.
They can't have level prices year over year for 12 years since their costs will rise with inflation, and there might be additional costs they don't know about. So they peg it at 7% to cover the risk that the gap between inflaton (think 3-4% for the US, different elsewhere) and the additional costs they may incur still nets them a profit. Having 7% laid out as the plan for X number of years is preferable to commercial enterprises, as they can plan the costs over that number of years rather than having to guess at what revewal may be each year.
Sure, the costs are pretty small overall for most businesses, but that's the basic reason they can increase the cost overall year over year.
Oh great, more ways for people to go unprepared into the wilderness, then get caught and expect people to risk life and limb for them.
Should this become more of a problem than it already is, I hope the people are charged for the rescue so that the parks can spend more of their meager budgets on keeping the parks in good shape and not saving the guy who didn't take water, food and a map with him.
Most likely. Many states have realized that with multimillon dollart contracts, sports stars coming in for a week represent significant income for the state, since they are working in the state. It's great for MA when the Yankees come to town:)
What do they need to do their job of teaching? Spreadsheet? Word processor? Presentation? Graphics? Photo editing? Programming languages? Internet technologies?
If you know what classes the labs are supporting, you should be able to know what you need to install. It also probably goes without saying that you need to provide good documentation (or scripts) as to how to configure the machines since you probably can't be around all the time.
128 MB RAM
1 GB hard drive
Pentium III @ 400 Mhz... all to tell you are out of eggs? Will the handle be replaced by a "Start" bar? Will it use DHCP?
And of course, will it run Linux, imagine a Beowulf cluster of appliances, etc.
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Maybe it's because Linus Torvalds was 12 when the first shuttle launched in 1981 and they kind of needed a computer system then? The software for the Shuttle is some of the most bug-free code around ... check out http://www.fastcompany.com/online/06/writestuff.ht ml for details.
The iTV is based on equal parts marketing, product mock-ups, and Reality Distortion Field :)
Where exactly do you live?
If you live pretty much anywhere in the United States, there's some natural disaster that can come along and level your town/city.
I used to live in New Orleans and I can confirm that when you get away from the "beautiful" sections, there's a lot of "ugly". But New Orleans is/was one of the (if not THE) largest ports on the Gulf of Mexico, controlling shipments of food to and from the US, not to mention, oil, gas and so on.
Many other parts of the country are completely artificial, and the result of billions of invested infrastructure that the "locals" didn't pay for. I bet whatever part of the country you choose to reside in is reliant in some way on government spending and infrastructure. And you certainly would expect that in the event of a natural disaster someone would pick up the costs so that you could get back to making toothpicks, raising chickens, growing corn or whatever it is that your part of the world does "best".
They can deliver a DC-powered rack that will do the A/C conversion in the rack using a rectifier, so you save power by making the conversion only once. They also can take DC to the rack, and put pretty much whatever you want into the systems. Not to mention the high density you can get.
Blade enclosures also use a similar trick, the blades all get DC. And many data centers also have DC available already, you just have to ask.
http://www.rackable.com/
one would expect to find things that didn't quite make it in the universe.
Do it the old-fashioned way:
Open cmd window
type "ftp"
Yes, I can get the DVD's through Netflix, the wife and I plan on watching them together someday .... but I want it now.
.... plus I'd need to get the budget allowance for the newer hardware .... cause I know the 400 mhz clunker won't cut it. Thank goodness for the work laptops ....
I (eventually) would like to do the Myth box, but we have been running with the TiVo for some time now without issue. And given the time to spend on geeky habits, in addition to playing with the kid, I need to grow my language knowledge (read earning power/ability to work on cooler projects), upgrade my site (so someone other than Jakob Nielsen will love it), do woodworking, take the car to the track and so on I don't want to sit around futzing with it
6a. Realize that your friend was right about Stargate and start recording all ten years of it.
6b. Wife reads Entertainment Weekly and adds new stuff all the time.
6c. PBS does a fine job of self-promotion.
6d. I watch too much TV anyway. Wife will alert me if there's something interesting.
7a. Netflix rocks
7b. Bittorrent not worth my time to download to pc, transfer to cd/dvd, get a new card and so on. I get enough computer problem crap at work. Plus I have 10 years of stargate to catch up on (see 6a).
7c. Teaching wife to use bittorrent, and associated stuff to watch a show -- not worth her or my time.
There are a few stages of tivo-lution:
1. Get the box, leave the suggestions on. Schedule the shows you want. Yet you are still somehow tied to the network schedule and still remember when your shows air. Like a Pavlonian dog, you sit down to watch TV at the appointed time.
2. You realize you can show up 20 minutes late and skip commercials. You turn off suggestions because you realize that you will never watch them all.
3. You start realizing that the TiVo just works, records the shows you want. Network schedules become a distant memory and your only worry is not overhearing spoilers about shows you have nto watched yet.
We use NTP on Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc. Our choice is the standard NTP client (see http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Main/ExternalTimeRelat edLinks#Microsoft_Windows), but it sounds like you already tried that.
What we do is to broadcast the time packets over the network then have the clients pick them up. So there's no "forced" synchronization with a central server. You might want to give that approach a try rather than having the clients poll the server frequently. We use this approach for the 1000+ machines in our building.
Does Google Calendar let you keep your data inside your corporate network? I know my management would not be happy with not having the company's data under our firm control.
http://www.realultimatepower.net/
Anyone who can afford to make payments on a $20K automobile could probably afford it .... at least the tenofovir. And these days, 20K is pretty much where the "family sedan" starts, I don't even think you have hit too far into "minivan" territory. And certainly it's "small SUV".
:)
Just think of all the health benefits you get from walking/cycling because you don't have a car, but have to take your meds
Trader Joe's is great, but I wouldn't consider 200 stores nationwide a small operation. I shop there regularly and I live in Massachusetts. The thing that makes them an optional stop for me is that you don't always know what's going to be there. With the regular supermarket, you can make a food list and pretty much know you are going to be able to get everything you need for the week. I go to Trader Joe's if I have the time or especially if we are having a get-together since the appetizer selection is great. Also the frozen stuff is really good (and unique), not to mention the fantastic thai-lime cashews.
I recall one summer almost watching a friendship dissolve over Star Control person to person ..... great game.
I guess that you have refused any part of a raise due to the "cost of living" adjustment, then? :)
There are production costs, to be sure. Someone has to take phone calls, someone has to take complaints, someone has to pay the light bill, someone has to pay the people, someone has to process the registrations, someone has to fix it when it breaks, etc. I'm sure it's 99% automated, but SOMEONE has to do SOMETHING at some point.
They can't have level prices year over year for 12 years since their costs will rise with inflation, and there might be additional costs they don't know about. So they peg it at 7% to cover the risk that the gap between inflaton (think 3-4% for the US, different elsewhere) and the additional costs they may incur still nets them a profit. Having 7% laid out as the plan for X number of years is preferable to commercial enterprises, as they can plan the costs over that number of years rather than having to guess at what revewal may be each year.
Sure, the costs are pretty small overall for most businesses, but that's the basic reason they can increase the cost overall year over year.
Oh great, more ways for people to go unprepared into the wilderness, then get caught and expect people to risk life and limb for them.
Should this become more of a problem than it already is, I hope the people are charged for the rescue so that the parks can spend more of their meager budgets on keeping the parks in good shape and not saving the guy who didn't take water, food and a map with him.
Most likely. Many states have realized that with multimillon dollart contracts, sports stars coming in for a week represent significant income for the state, since they are working in the state. It's great for MA when the Yankees come to town :)
Forget Amazon! Use the local library! They probably have alot of these books, and the occasional "clunker" doesn't hurt much when it's free.
The best book I read recently was "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay", by Michael Chabon. Simply brilliant.
What do they need to do their job of teaching?
Spreadsheet?
Word processor?
Presentation?
Graphics?
Photo editing?
Programming languages?
Internet technologies?
If you know what classes the labs are supporting, you should be able to know what you need to install. It also probably goes without saying that you need to provide good documentation (or scripts) as to how to configure the machines since you probably can't be around all the time.
Maybe this site was translated by a moonlighting Zero Wing translator. ALL YOUR BOOTS ARE BELONG TO US SOMEONE SET US UP THE VIRUS HA HA HA HA
Got me going on a post-holiday boring work morning!
128 MB RAM 1 GB hard drive Pentium III @ 400 Mhz ... all to tell you are out of eggs? Will the handle be replaced by a "Start" bar? Will it use DHCP?
And of course, will it run Linux, imagine a Beowulf cluster of appliances, etc.
Disclaimers:
I know the statement was taken out of context.
I know may people think Al should be president.
http://us.imdb.com/Title?0089886