Depending on _how_ deep they go into these countries, I think the larger issue will be simply getting backhaul into these areas, and working through the bureaucracy to get it done.
Near as I can tell, some of these countries regulations are on the level of "I thought it up when you asked the question".
They might have more success with setting up in-nation intranets for instruction and governance purposes (the society change that comes with instant communications, without necessarily, the buybuybuy aspects, at least initially or exclusively).
At least if the lease agreement is written to the _potential_ power consumption, rather than the actual power used, that is a fundamentally different proposition than taking power and marking it up, or otherwise being registered as a utility.
e.g. you could potentially increase your power draw to the maximum provisioned, and the data center would be contractually bound to be able to provide that level of power, certainly on a particular circuit if there is a redundant power supply failure or other sudden spike in load.
I know in my space (telecom), the logistics of ensuring the correct provisioning of power (access to 48V power, cooling, not overdrawing power slack batteries) can be as complicated as the provisioning of other, more typical server services.
I think the larger issue with Solaris is that Oracle is intentionally murdering the "mindshare" of their users.
At least part of vendor support is aftermarket support.. right now you can't get patch clusters, bug reports or documentation without a current support contract.
Same with downloading of Solaris media.. if you want to run solaris sparc on your old blade 1500 to compile/debug stuff before moving it to a production machine.. you can't, not without a hardware contract.. at least not easily.
Oracle/Sun has always been a premium value proposition.. nobody gets them because they were the cheapest, but shutting out your users entirely is more than counterproductive for the amount of revenue realized.
As far as Solaris x86.. IDK, back when it was a going concern, Sun was dabbling in linux, was competing with a half dozen unix on x86 vendors, and was pushing JAVA as a "run anywhere" / platform agnostic environment.
in other words, very few people were hampered by the lack of a Solaris/86 version of their application.
Unfortunately, even in (sizable) niches like telecom, the days of exclusively SPARC shops are long over.
There will be some markets that continue to use Oracle hardware for business continuity sake (Sun/Oracle has ridiculously long hardware lifecycles by industry standards). But as a mass (server) market influence, I think Oracle is done.
.. ham radio has little slices all over the spectrum.. with the only ones in commercially useful bands being so small that there wouldn't be enough to even make them commercially viable..
e.g. the little slice of 10mhz at 2.4ghz won't make a bit of difference, and the allocations going much higher than that have a very high cost for deployment due to attenuation unless you are doing something point-to-point, and there is plenty of bandwidth for that sort of thing.
I'll look at buying a new Ipad (currently have an ipad 2) when they upgrade the base model to 32 gigs.
16GB (11.5 useable) was fine 2 years ago. If you sideload any amount of video or use some of the newer games, it'll fill up too quick. (e.g. Disney second screen media sucking up 2 gigs).
Problem is, there are not any significant bands in the VHF range that are unallocated or easily reallocated. Certainly not in the 60-100mhz quantity that would be required for a useable deployment of wi-fi style connections.
Look at the allocation listings for LF-VHF.. it looks like somebody took a blender to frequency listings and put names on the pieces.
Another problem is inherent distance characteristics. Even at the milliwatt range of home wifi, you'd still get a useable signal at several hundred feet with basic omnidirectional antennas.. to say nothing of the longer antenna requirements.
Such a system would be inherently clashing with your neighbors.
Time Warner at 15/1 for $50 a month, with various options going up to $120 a month for 50/5 AT&T Uverse - unsure of pricing, but maxes out at ~18/1 Everest/Surewest maxes out at 50/50 symetrical.. this is what I'm converting to soon and when they build it Google Fiber 1Gb symmetrical for $70 a month.. might be a year or so before it's built, but once there -- hell yes
Small point of clarification here -- Nextel never used GSM, they have only ever used iden. iden had sim cards like GSM and the backend / MSC "felt" like GSM, but the air interface -- the shoveling of bits across the air between tower and handset, have always been IDEN.
It's also worth pointing out that nextel used what is called the SMR band.. ~800mhz. This frequency typically propagates further than the 1900mhz the rest of Sprint is operating on, so it is entirely possible for the new phone tower in the same location wouldn't reach you, while an iden at 800mhz would.
Honestly, if law enforcement has, and can demonstrate, probable cause, they'll have no problem getting a warrant very quickly.
I've read of officers getting warrants during the duration of a traffic stop in a couple of rural counties around my location in the middle of the night.
All that this ruling will do is cut back on "hunches" and make sure an officer can get at least one other person agrees that there is something worth investigating and/or worth tracking.
In a world where autos can be thought of as price points for a certain size and feature set (with most comparable models being in the a narrow power/accessories/size/price range).. it makes sense that they'd make the software a value-add way to differenciate themselves.
The experience in my Toyota Prius is similar, the 2004-2009 models come standard with a touch screen, and a lot of the functions center around it (backup camera, sound system, battery monitor, engine diagnostic code and testing). It was something that people noticed when getting into the car and added value above what was perceived by competetors. (it's no longer standard equipment btw, several thousand dollar upgrade just to get the camera).
Yeah, amazing how a system tailor built for non-persistent network connections (store and forward) can be adapted to regions without persistent network connections.
Last I looked at it, it was still very popular (relatively) in Africa and SE Asia, with the actual nodelist being bigger now than it was in it's heyday.. though the observance of zonemail hour is probably nil and I have no idea if echomail or netmail is reliable in any sense.
I just find it funny that there is still a couple nodes left on my old local 1:280 , one of which appears to be a zombie BBS with the last user listed as logged in being myself from a year or more previously.
Because american corporate style would see fit to wave people onto planes with no screening whatsoever if it saved them a few bucks to pass to the shareholders if they could get away with it. You can't go "oops" with people's lives like you can with the performance or failure of a company's stock.
Sorry Forbes, but public safety is not one of those things that free market economics has any chance of doing better than government standardized or government run schemes.
It'd be almost an exact parallel of health care in the US. An organization responsible for something generally considered in the public interest, but with motivations other than, and sometimes in direct conflict with, that public interest.
As far as grievous things done by the TSA.. yeah, they are grievous and demand changes to only perform functions that directly relate to security.
As far as the specific example.. it's unfortunate, but as soon as TSA says they won't examine women who have had mastectomy is the day certain nefarious organizations start recruiting women who have had a mastectomy to take a defacto one way flight somewhere.
I won't comment on the aesthetics of the building, but it seems a no brainer for a company like Apple to build a thoroughly modern building like this.
At least I don't see Apple going out of business anytime soon and they can practically write a check for the whole thing. The money being an opportunity cost that will pay back over the longer term with less building energy costs and having everyone in one place / no lease costs for other locations.
Only downside might be if they ever did need to sell it or lease space to others in the future. (this doesn't seem structured like say the Sprint Nextel campus in Overland Park Kansas.. where the buildings were restructured for other companies use after the original occupant didn't need them anymore for various reasons.
I know this is obvious, but from the photographer's perspective and humans needing to perceive up from down.. how he chose his up from down to take the photo.
Somebody make a Descent map of the ISS already. (if 15 years late)
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Depending on _how_ deep they go into these countries, I think the larger issue will be simply getting backhaul into these areas, and working through the bureaucracy to get it done.
Near as I can tell, some of these countries regulations are on the level of "I thought it up when you asked the question".
They might have more success with setting up in-nation intranets for instruction and governance purposes (the society change that comes with instant communications, without necessarily, the buybuybuy aspects, at least initially or exclusively).
Wouldn't this be two different things?
At least if the lease agreement is written to the _potential_ power consumption, rather than the actual power used, that is a fundamentally different proposition than taking power and marking it up, or otherwise being registered as a utility.
e.g. you could potentially increase your power draw to the maximum provisioned, and the data center would be contractually bound to be able to provide that level of power, certainly on a particular circuit if there is a redundant power supply failure or other sudden spike in load.
I know in my space (telecom), the logistics of ensuring the correct provisioning of power (access to 48V power, cooling, not overdrawing power slack batteries) can be as complicated as the provisioning of other, more typical server services.
Snarky comment aside, it is true that most of any ordinance from that era would be malfunctioning, the problem is that not _all_ of it would.
Little in the way of actual damage to infrastructure, but it would still rattle the residents of SK knowing that it could cause damage.
I think the larger issue with Solaris is that Oracle is intentionally murdering the "mindshare" of their users.
At least part of vendor support is aftermarket support .. right now you can't get patch clusters, bug reports or documentation without a current support contract.
Same with downloading of Solaris media .. if you want to run solaris sparc on your old blade 1500 to compile/debug stuff before moving it to a production machine .. you can't, not without a hardware contract .. at least not easily.
Oracle/Sun has always been a premium value proposition .. nobody gets them because they were the cheapest, but shutting out your users entirely is more than counterproductive for the amount of revenue realized.
As far as Solaris x86 .. IDK, back when it was a going concern, Sun was dabbling in linux, was competing with a half dozen unix on x86 vendors, and was pushing JAVA as a "run anywhere" / platform agnostic environment.
in other words, very few people were hampered by the lack of a Solaris/86 version of their application.
Unfortunately, even in (sizable) niches like telecom, the days of exclusively SPARC shops are long over.
There will be some markets that continue to use Oracle hardware for business continuity sake (Sun/Oracle has ridiculously long hardware lifecycles by industry standards). But as a mass (server) market influence, I think Oracle is done.
Small point, but the main reason for preferring sea salt is that it tastes different than "normal" table salt.
Whether that is a good or bad thing is up to the individual
Why does this sound like Weyland-Yutani?
Perhaps the company had humble roots as a Linux graphical toolkit developer instead of heavy industry.
Actually, malpractice insurance is around 2.4% of the overall cost.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/medical-liability-costs-us/
as others likely know, the model M was virtually indestructible.
I have one from my old PS/2 model 50 that still gets 8+ hours a day of pounding.
e.g. the little slice of 10mhz at 2.4ghz won't make a bit of difference, and the allocations going much higher than that have a very high cost for deployment due to attenuation unless you are doing something point-to-point, and there is plenty of bandwidth for that sort of thing.
I'll look at buying a new Ipad (currently have an ipad 2) when they upgrade the base model to 32 gigs.
16GB (11.5 useable) was fine 2 years ago. If you sideload any amount of video or use some of the newer games, it'll fill up too quick. (e.g. Disney second screen media sucking up 2 gigs).
Problem is, there are not any significant bands in the VHF range that are unallocated or easily reallocated. Certainly not in the 60-100mhz quantity that would be required for a useable deployment of wi-fi style connections.
Look at the allocation listings for LF-VHF .. it looks like somebody took a blender to frequency listings and put names on the pieces.
Another problem is inherent distance characteristics. Even at the milliwatt range of home wifi, you'd still get a useable signal at several hundred feet with basic omnidirectional antennas .. to say nothing of the longer antenna requirements.
Such a system would be inherently clashing with your neighbors.
Well .. here I can get
Time Warner at 15/1 for $50 a month, with various options going up to $120 a month for 50/5 .. this is what I'm converting to soon .. might be a year or so before it's built, but once there -- hell yes
AT&T Uverse - unsure of pricing, but maxes out at ~18/1
Everest/Surewest maxes out at 50/50 symetrical
and when they build it
Google Fiber 1Gb symmetrical for $70 a month
Small point of clarification here -- Nextel never used GSM, they have only ever used iden. iden had sim cards like GSM and the backend / MSC "felt" like GSM, but the air interface -- the shoveling of bits across the air between tower and handset, have always been IDEN.
It's also worth pointing out that nextel used what is called the SMR band .. ~800mhz. This frequency typically propagates further than the 1900mhz the rest of Sprint is operating on, so it is entirely possible for the new phone tower in the same location wouldn't reach you, while an iden at 800mhz would.
Oh I know .. it's hard to imagine a theme park that doesn't use commercial gear .. but that isn't the requirement laid out in askslashdot.
I agree, it sounds like you'd want something a bit more professional than random cobbled together solutions.
That said, machines like the Raspberry Pi (or other small ARM based machines you might actually be able to acquire in quantity) might be one answer.
At least, the ability to output a sound file from an SD card and have an editable playlist is a pretty low entry requirement..
Just buy a dozen extras and swap them out if they die ..
Honestly, if law enforcement has, and can demonstrate, probable cause, they'll have no problem getting a warrant very quickly.
I've read of officers getting warrants during the duration of a traffic stop in a couple of rural counties around my location in the middle of the night.
All that this ruling will do is cut back on "hunches" and make sure an officer can get at least one other person agrees that there is something worth investigating and/or worth tracking.
A rare moment of sanity from a court known for some otherwise insane rulings (Citizens United / corporate personhood among them).
He might or might not be found guilty .. but if he is, it won't be based "dirty" evidence.
In a world where autos can be thought of as price points for a certain size and feature set (with most comparable models being in the a narrow power/accessories/size/price range) .. it makes sense that they'd make the software a value-add way to differenciate themselves.
The experience in my Toyota Prius is similar, the 2004-2009 models come standard with a touch screen, and a lot of the functions center around it (backup camera, sound system, battery monitor, engine diagnostic code and testing). It was something that people noticed when getting into the car and added value above what was perceived by competetors. (it's no longer standard equipment btw, several thousand dollar upgrade just to get the camera).
Yeah, amazing how a system tailor built for non-persistent network connections (store and forward) can be adapted to regions without persistent network connections.
Last I looked at it, it was still very popular (relatively) in Africa and SE Asia, with the actual nodelist being bigger now than it was in it's heyday .. though the observance of zonemail hour is probably nil and I have no idea if echomail or netmail is reliable in any sense.
I just find it funny that there is still a couple nodes left on my old local 1:280 , one of which appears to be a zombie BBS with the last user listed as logged in being myself from a year or more previously.
Because american corporate style would see fit to wave people onto planes with no screening whatsoever if it saved them a few bucks to pass to the shareholders if they could get away with it. You can't go "oops" with people's lives like you can with the performance or failure of a company's stock.
Sorry Forbes, but public safety is not one of those things that free market economics has any chance of doing better than government standardized or government run schemes.
It'd be almost an exact parallel of health care in the US. An organization responsible for something generally considered in the public interest, but with motivations other than, and sometimes in direct conflict with, that public interest.
As far as grievous things done by the TSA .. yeah, they are grievous and demand changes to only perform functions that directly relate to security.
As far as the specific example .. it's unfortunate, but as soon as TSA says they won't examine women who have had mastectomy is the day certain nefarious organizations start recruiting women who have had a mastectomy to take a defacto one way flight somewhere.
I won't comment on the aesthetics of the building, but it seems a no brainer for a company like Apple to build a thoroughly modern building like this.
At least I don't see Apple going out of business anytime soon and they can practically write a check for the whole thing. The money being an opportunity cost that will pay back over the longer term with less building energy costs and having everyone in one place / no lease costs for other locations.
Only downside might be if they ever did need to sell it or lease space to others in the future. (this doesn't seem structured like say the Sprint Nextel campus in Overland Park Kansas .. where the buildings were restructured for other companies use after the original occupant didn't need them anymore for various reasons.
I know this is obvious, but from the photographer's perspective and humans needing to perceive up from down .. how he chose his up from down to take the photo.
Somebody make a Descent map of the ISS already. (if 15 years late)