In Obama's view the housing, banking, auto, and insurance companies all need very strict government oversight.
Really? Ford doesn't seem to think so. The bailout was intended to try to save U.S. jobs where the free market failed. Most banks have already repaid TARP, Chrysler/Fiat is standing on its own and the administration pretty much left the housing market alone (mortgage company failures notwithstanding.) BTW, these plans were initially put into play by the Bush administration.
I don't have a problem with having the private sector develop the technology for manned spaceflight. The problem is that we scrapped a complete (if misguided) plan and timetable for manned spaceflight, and replaced it with random projects to develop a hodgepodge of technologies with no real plan, goal or timetable.
That was my first thought. Run standard SATA controllers, put one or two drives on each controller, and RAID-0 them. At least then you're CPU-bound. Doesn't fix the TRIM problem, though.
Usually RAM would use the power-of-two definitions and disks would use the power-of-ten definitions.
No; disks used base-two definitions, too. A 360K floppy is 362,496 bytes formatted, and a Seagate ST-225 20 megabyte hard drive had a little over 21,000,000 bytes formatted. It wasn't until some hard drive manufacturer couldn't quite hit a gigabyte that they redefined "gigabyte" so that they could call their 976MB drive "1 gigabyte."
Bonus points if we use the remaining 5% for thermal power generators. Tell people "FREE ELECTRICITY" and they'll be lining up to get one for their basement.
Count me in. A unit the size of a person that produces 400W continuously, degrading to 300W continuous after 20 years? And 3,700W of waste heat that I can put to use heating my house and water? PIMBY. (Please, in my backyard.)
I also do subscribe to the $5 insurance policy for my phone as well. However, my phone has an unsubsidized cost of $650 dollars and a subsidized cost of 300ish. (I actually paid no where near that amount, but it pays to know how to get things cheaply).
I only intended to keep the insurance for the first year. If a new model comes out I will dump this phone on the market for whatever I can get. However, during that time I would like to protect this very easily lost and destroyed object.
This. If I walk out of the T-Mobile store, drop my brand new phone in the parking lot and it gets run over, I'm immediately out the $600 unsubsidized replacement cost. I'm willing to pay $5 a month for that first year, after which I can get a refurb replacement from a variety of sources for $150 or less if I break it.
I think anyone who thinks HTML5 video is going to displace flash has to look to how MP3 was not displaced by better formats like AAC, OGG, etc, etc.
Actually, that's EXACTLY why Flash will be replaced by HTML5. MP3 support is basically built into every media player out there, while AAC and OGG aren't. If HTML5 is built into every browser, but Flash requires a download (and frequent updates because of security holes), HTML5 will win in the long run.
I was worried that the current would be too much for the charger, but I've run them down and back up again and they're fine. I guess the UPS units are made to handle two or so external battery packs, so they handle the lead-acid jumbos just fine.
That's the key. Some el-cheapo UPS units might cook if they're expected to either charge the batteries or provide full power from the batteries for a lot longer than the tiny internal batteries would be able to provide. Look for one that has a fan that runs when either on battery or charging. It's a safe bet that the units designed for external battery packs would have proper cooling to handle this hack.
Also, it's a good idea to use sealed deep cycle batteries (such as Optimas or Exide Orbitals.) Floodies tend to give off hydrogen gas and a fine acid mist when charging, requiring special venting when indoors.
This. We have a Symmetra LX and it's been great. You can wire in panels in the back to output 120V or 240V, so no step-downs are needed. You can also add battery modules for more runtime, power modules for more wattage, and expansion cabinets to house even more. They come in floor-mount and rack-mount flavors.
I've had too many unexpected failures of the SmartUPS units after a couple of years. They pass their self-tests for months, but when put under an actual load, they give a "dead battery" alert within 5 minutes (even when very lightly loaded.) If you continue to use those, I'd recommend replacing the batteries on a fixed schedule even if they appear to not need it.
Since I've been adding batteries to the Symmetra as we've wanted more runtime, I don't have to worry about them all failing at once (and I haven't had a failure of any kind in four years.) Ours now has a runtime of 3 hours and 40 minutes (conveniently indicated on the front panel), and N+1 redundancy in the power modules based on our current load.
If your Windows 7 can be deactivated and essentially blacklisted on Microsoft's whim, what exactly did you purchase? Do you actually own a copy or are you just renting it? Phone reactivation may not be a long drawn-out process, but I still oppose it on principle. It's not my problem that Microsoft is supposedly losing money on piracy, so why should I be inconvenienced in the slightest by it?
How long before Microsoft turns off activation servers for XP? Yeah, I "should" buy a new version of Windows, but what if I have a non-Internet-connected legacy computer somewhere that I have to reload XP onto, and Microsoft has stopped offering activation?
Typically, any business of decent size will be able to get some manner of volume license that doesn't require activation.
Large businesses perhaps. For a smaller business, it's hard to justify paying for a volume license with their crappy restrictions. (The machine must have come with an OEM license, meaning you're paying for Windows twice, and whenever you junk and replace the machine, you technically have to purchase another VLK license for the replacement machine as well.)
It is amazing how many customers have had "someone come fix their computer" and that person used a Windows XP Pro CD with key to "fix" the problem.
I think part of the problem is how Microsoft ties the serial number to the disc. For instance, you're reinstalling Windows on a Dell machine. If you don't have the Dell recovery discs, you can't use a retail, generic OEM or HP OEM disc; the perfectly legitimate serial number on the side of the machine will fail. Thus, some less-prepared folks will just reinstall with whatever pirated CD and serial number they have.
And in some countries (like mine) it's illegal having a motor running in an empty car.
And in some states and municipalities in the U.S. as well. In my hometown, idiots would go out on a 50 degree morning and start up their car, then let it idle for 10 minutes while they got ready for work. When it was determined that the majority of car thefts (and this town is nestled between the two highest car-theft cities in California) were of cars left to warm up, a law was passed that cites individuals for leaving a running car unattended.
My Touch Pro 2 has no problem sending/receiving email while on a call while in 3G. If it's not working, maybe you're out of the 3G area and the handset has fallen back to EDGE?
The fastest HST modems got up to 16,800 bps. Since they had v.42bis compression, you obviously wanted to have your PC connecting to them at a faster rate to handle the burst of compressed data. To maintain compatibility with some terminals or BBS software that couldn't handle a connect string like "CONNECT 16800/ARQ/HST", you could just have it report the DTE speed, i.e. "CONNECT 19200". A lot of people confused this with actually connecting at 19,200 bps.
I was one of the first kids on the block, at about 16, to get a Courier HST 14,400 modem, through sheer luck. (Guy sold it for cheap because it would overheat and fail and was out of warranty, but USR took pity on me and swapped it out for free for a nice HST 16,800. Great folks.)
THANK YOU. And not the half-assed ones that are out there. I'm talking RPC over HTTP, calendar invites, tasks and contacts handled properly, PST file support, the works. When OpenOffice Calc supports pivot tables properly and Evolution supports Exchange Server properly, you'll see a massive switch in my company and many others.
IPCop on a white box is another option, and does excellent point-to-point VPN tunneling as well. You'd be hard-pressed to talk me into paying more for MPLS ever again.
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In Obama's view the housing, banking, auto, and insurance companies all need very strict government oversight.
Really? Ford doesn't seem to think so. The bailout was intended to try to save U.S. jobs where the free market failed. Most banks have already repaid TARP, Chrysler/Fiat is standing on its own and the administration pretty much left the housing market alone (mortgage company failures notwithstanding.) BTW, these plans were initially put into play by the Bush administration.
I don't have a problem with having the private sector develop the technology for manned spaceflight. The problem is that we scrapped a complete (if misguided) plan and timetable for manned spaceflight, and replaced it with random projects to develop a hodgepodge of technologies with no real plan, goal or timetable.
That was my first thought. Run standard SATA controllers, put one or two drives on each controller, and RAID-0 them. At least then you're CPU-bound. Doesn't fix the TRIM problem, though.
Or, pick up a free junker PC off Freecycle, install FreeNAS on it, and mirror a couple of 1 TB drives in it.
Usually RAM would use the power-of-two definitions and disks would use the power-of-ten definitions.
No; disks used base-two definitions, too. A 360K floppy is 362,496 bytes formatted, and a Seagate ST-225 20 megabyte hard drive had a little over 21,000,000 bytes formatted. It wasn't until some hard drive manufacturer couldn't quite hit a gigabyte that they redefined "gigabyte" so that they could call their 976MB drive "1 gigabyte."
And how much was the cost of waste disposal again?
Bonus points if we use the remaining 5% for thermal power generators. Tell people "FREE ELECTRICITY" and they'll be lining up to get one for their basement.
Count me in. A unit the size of a person that produces 400W continuously, degrading to 300W continuous after 20 years? And 3,700W of waste heat that I can put to use heating my house and water? PIMBY. (Please, in my backyard.)
By comparison, Southern will be paying over $6,000 / kW of capacity.
Ouch. You can get PV panels for $1,760/kW... and that's the retail cost.
Breeder reactors?
I also do subscribe to the $5 insurance policy for my phone as well. However, my phone has an unsubsidized cost of $650 dollars and a subsidized cost of 300ish. (I actually paid no where near that amount, but it pays to know how to get things cheaply).
I only intended to keep the insurance for the first year. If a new model comes out I will dump this phone on the market for whatever I can get. However, during that time I would like to protect this very easily lost and destroyed object.
This. If I walk out of the T-Mobile store, drop my brand new phone in the parking lot and it gets run over, I'm immediately out the $600 unsubsidized replacement cost. I'm willing to pay $5 a month for that first year, after which I can get a refurb replacement from a variety of sources for $150 or less if I break it.
I think anyone who thinks HTML5 video is going to displace flash has to look to how MP3 was not displaced by better formats like AAC, OGG, etc, etc.
Actually, that's EXACTLY why Flash will be replaced by HTML5. MP3 support is basically built into every media player out there, while AAC and OGG aren't. If HTML5 is built into every browser, but Flash requires a download (and frequent updates because of security holes), HTML5 will win in the long run.
Some eMac models also made the hard drive extremely difficult to get at.
I was worried that the current would be too much for the charger, but I've run them down and back up again and they're fine. I guess the UPS units are made to handle two or so external battery packs, so they handle the lead-acid jumbos just fine.
That's the key. Some el-cheapo UPS units might cook if they're expected to either charge the batteries or provide full power from the batteries for a lot longer than the tiny internal batteries would be able to provide. Look for one that has a fan that runs when either on battery or charging. It's a safe bet that the units designed for external battery packs would have proper cooling to handle this hack.
Also, it's a good idea to use sealed deep cycle batteries (such as Optimas or Exide Orbitals.) Floodies tend to give off hydrogen gas and a fine acid mist when charging, requiring special venting when indoors.
This. We have a Symmetra LX and it's been great. You can wire in panels in the back to output 120V or 240V, so no step-downs are needed. You can also add battery modules for more runtime, power modules for more wattage, and expansion cabinets to house even more. They come in floor-mount and rack-mount flavors.
I've had too many unexpected failures of the SmartUPS units after a couple of years. They pass their self-tests for months, but when put under an actual load, they give a "dead battery" alert within 5 minutes (even when very lightly loaded.) If you continue to use those, I'd recommend replacing the batteries on a fixed schedule even if they appear to not need it.
Since I've been adding batteries to the Symmetra as we've wanted more runtime, I don't have to worry about them all failing at once (and I haven't had a failure of any kind in four years.) Ours now has a runtime of 3 hours and 40 minutes (conveniently indicated on the front panel), and N+1 redundancy in the power modules based on our current load.
If your Windows 7 can be deactivated and essentially blacklisted on Microsoft's whim, what exactly did you purchase? Do you actually own a copy or are you just renting it? Phone reactivation may not be a long drawn-out process, but I still oppose it on principle. It's not my problem that Microsoft is supposedly losing money on piracy, so why should I be inconvenienced in the slightest by it?
How long before Microsoft turns off activation servers for XP? Yeah, I "should" buy a new version of Windows, but what if I have a non-Internet-connected legacy computer somewhere that I have to reload XP onto, and Microsoft has stopped offering activation?
Typically, any business of decent size will be able to get some manner of volume license that doesn't require activation.
Large businesses perhaps. For a smaller business, it's hard to justify paying for a volume license with their crappy restrictions. (The machine must have come with an OEM license, meaning you're paying for Windows twice, and whenever you junk and replace the machine, you technically have to purchase another VLK license for the replacement machine as well.)
It is amazing how many customers have had "someone come fix their computer" and that person used a Windows XP Pro CD with key to "fix" the problem.
I think part of the problem is how Microsoft ties the serial number to the disc. For instance, you're reinstalling Windows on a Dell machine. If you don't have the Dell recovery discs, you can't use a retail, generic OEM or HP OEM disc; the perfectly legitimate serial number on the side of the machine will fail. Thus, some less-prepared folks will just reinstall with whatever pirated CD and serial number they have.
And in some countries (like mine) it's illegal having a motor running in an empty car.
And in some states and municipalities in the U.S. as well. In my hometown, idiots would go out on a 50 degree morning and start up their car, then let it idle for 10 minutes while they got ready for work. When it was determined that the majority of car thefts (and this town is nestled between the two highest car-theft cities in California) were of cars left to warm up, a law was passed that cites individuals for leaving a running car unattended.
It was very buggy on the Gamecube.
My Touch Pro 2 has no problem sending/receiving email while on a call while in 3G. If it's not working, maybe you're out of the 3G area and the handset has fallen back to EDGE?
How about Starhunter 2300? It ended in a cliffhanger, for crying out loud.
THANK YOU. Free coffee but the sodas are 70 cents?
The fastest HST modems got up to 16,800 bps. Since they had v.42bis compression, you obviously wanted to have your PC connecting to them at a faster rate to handle the burst of compressed data. To maintain compatibility with some terminals or BBS software that couldn't handle a connect string like "CONNECT 16800/ARQ/HST", you could just have it report the DTE speed, i.e. "CONNECT 19200". A lot of people confused this with actually connecting at 19,200 bps.
I was one of the first kids on the block, at about 16, to get a Courier HST 14,400 modem, through sheer luck. (Guy sold it for cheap because it would overheat and fail and was out of warranty, but USR took pity on me and swapped it out for free for a nice HST 16,800. Great folks.)
THANK YOU. And not the half-assed ones that are out there. I'm talking RPC over HTTP, calendar invites, tasks and contacts handled properly, PST file support, the works. When OpenOffice Calc supports pivot tables properly and Evolution supports Exchange Server properly, you'll see a massive switch in my company and many others.
Increase your fee by 75 bucks and throw in a 750GB hard drive. Give their old drive back to them with a "do not boot" sticker on it. Problem solved.
IPCop on a white box is another option, and does excellent point-to-point VPN tunneling as well. You'd be hard-pressed to talk me into paying more for MPLS ever again.