You mean the ones that keep having multiday outages? Yeah like I believe that will be 40-50% of new IT spend in only 4 years...
My org is fairly pro SaaS but we just got hit by a half day outage with Salesforce on the golive day for a new solution that of course uses Salesforce as the user interface. That was egg on our face that we couldn't fix and which made quite a few people sit up and take notice. I'm not sure that it's a death nail for new projects being based around cloud/SaaS here but significantly more downtime and it's going to be a serious risk flagged by project sponsors and auditors.
Well then it's a good thing that VMWare just put up a big old toll plaza on the road to the cloud that will slow things down significantly for many organizations. For those that aren't aware VMWare just announced their pricing model for ESX 5 and it's pretty freaking outrageous, $90/GB list bought in $2800 increments if you want Enterprise with most of the good features.
Not GE, they shut down their last incandescent plant and have gone in full force on CFL's and LED technology. In fact since they can patent things around those technologies I'd bet they would be lobbying for the ban.
There are CFL's with a CRI of 85+, significantly more expensive than the cheapies but they exist. I have 4' 85 CRI's in the overheads over my cube and they've helped me avoid seasonal affective disorder the last 3 winters as well as producing less eye strain. They cost about $4 each vs the $.85 for traditional florescent tubes but I'd say it's worth it considering I've received about 800 days of better light from them so far.
I'm out in cow country at the edge of town, I doubt few people around me are farther from the substation on the far end of town than I am. My guess would be bad step down transformer on a pole near you rather than distance from the substation, ask your power company to look into it.
Your wiring and/or local power utility must really, really suck. I've replaced 3 bulbs in 6 years and two of those were physically broken. These are all GE from Sam's Club. The only traditional bulb I won't replace is the one on my front porch because the CFL's don't operate well at very low outdoor temperatures (the motion detection going from dim to bright takes too long). The dimmable floods in the basement work fine but they do take an extra second or two to turn on (the 40,60, and 100's are instant).
Yeah, but their average number doesn't make any sense if there was a worse storm 20 years ago. 32" of snow is equivalent to ~3.2" of rain, that's 800x the quoted.04" which would throw off that number by 100% alone.
Oh, and I wonder if there's going to be a spectacular dessert bloom like there was in Death Valley in 2005 or if so long without rain means that there are no viable seeds or spores to take advantage of the moisture.
Some towers do talk to each other wirelessly, microwave backhaul ftw =) I actually do agree with you for the most part but I just wanted to pick that nit.
G.711u is actually superior to POTS for call quality as almost all POTS today ends up on G.711 carrier anyways but on the far end of a very long cable. Get a SIP adapter and provider that support it if you're worried about call quality.
Most CO's already have generators, and for cell towers a 5 or 10kw generator is going to cost less than the monthly lease on the tower so it's not like it's undoable (though admittedly maintenance and fuel service for all the generators would be non-trivial).
Uh, the cell towers can be provided with backup power just as easily as the CO, the FCC just needs to mandate it for all new installations after date X and that all existing towers without a proven obstacle to installation be retrofitted by date Y.
I was thinking the same thing, our PBX with hundreds of lines ties into the PSTN through a bunch of PRI cards, in fact we just upgraded it and added a few more PRI's on the recovery module (basically disaster recovery for the phone system) we'd be fairly pissed if the whole thing was shut down in only 7 years.
I envy you, I've unfortunately never been within 1,000 miles of the cape for a launch. This Christmas break there's a chance I'll be in Florida for a planned Delta I V Heavy launch, if so I'll definitely be taking the family.
You know, you would think that's all true, and it applies to homebrewing as well which is also a fairly common geek hobby, but it doesn't explain why baking is fairly ignored by the geek set. Afterall baking might be one of the finest examples of applied chemistry there is, but I don't know too many geeks that are big into baking. Perhaps it's the risk vs reward threshold, if you're off by much in baking you tend to get an inedible result whereas with homebrewing or BBQing even when it's bad it's still pretty darn good.
Thermal solar produces power at night just fine. Solar also has the advantage of matching peak demand to peak production for most of the inhabited parts of the world. Oh, and with electric vehicles we'll all have enough storage capacity to last several days in a blackout or when there is a temporary drop in output due to something like a calm wind over a multistate area.
Right now an effective anti mortar and rocket system could be saving a LOT of lives in Misurata and the other cities Ghadafi has been sieging. Heck if we could effectively stop his offense it would even save lives on his side as we wouldn't have a reason to bomb his armor columns.
I was thinking the same thing, heck when I order from monoprice I usually throw in a couple extra 6' HDMI cables to give away to friends and family since it costs me so little (my monoprice orders usually have more in shipping due to weight than the cost of the extra couple cables).
Ford probably sells as many turbocharged cars as any European badge and will probably sell as many as all of them combined by mid decade as the ecoboost line moves into every model.
Uh, even the ITU relented and says that LTE and HSPA+ are 4G technologies. When LTE Advanced becomes available sometime around the end of the decade it might be called 4.5G or perhaps 5G for marketing purposes.
The bigger problem isn't the update method, it's that they aren't backporting security fixes to a stable release stream. With many enterprise systems it can take a year or more to test, debug, fix, and rollout a version upgrade, in that amount of time with the new release schedule you'll be using a browser that no longer has security fixes available. This is one reason Enterprise customers like IE so much, MS continues to port as many security fixes as is architecturally possible to IE for the support life of the OS. I know our last ERP minor version upgrade took almost 9 months from hardware order to golive, we're already doing preliminary work for our next major version upgrade that probably won't go live for 18-24 months.
Quite the opposite, if you want to have someone to wipe your ass when you're in a nursing home we need to continue to allow immigration. If we want to continue to be an economic powerhouse we also need to let smart people in, both to work and to go to school (the vast majority of smart people who come here for education stay because they see the opportunities available to smart people here).
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You mean the ones that keep having multiday outages? Yeah like I believe that will be 40-50% of new IT spend in only 4 years...
My org is fairly pro SaaS but we just got hit by a half day outage with Salesforce on the golive day for a new solution that of course uses Salesforce as the user interface. That was egg on our face that we couldn't fix and which made quite a few people sit up and take notice. I'm not sure that it's a death nail for new projects being based around cloud/SaaS here but significantly more downtime and it's going to be a serious risk flagged by project sponsors and auditors.
Well then it's a good thing that VMWare just put up a big old toll plaza on the road to the cloud that will slow things down significantly for many organizations. For those that aren't aware VMWare just announced their pricing model for ESX 5 and it's pretty freaking outrageous, $90/GB list bought in $2800 increments if you want Enterprise with most of the good features.
Not GE, they shut down their last incandescent plant and have gone in full force on CFL's and LED technology. In fact since they can patent things around those technologies I'd bet they would be lobbying for the ban.
There are CFL's with a CRI of 85+, significantly more expensive than the cheapies but they exist. I have 4' 85 CRI's in the overheads over my cube and they've helped me avoid seasonal affective disorder the last 3 winters as well as producing less eye strain. They cost about $4 each vs the $.85 for traditional florescent tubes but I'd say it's worth it considering I've received about 800 days of better light from them so far.
You don't have a Home Depot, Lowes,or other location you can find through recyclebulb.com near you? I find that very hard to believe.
I'm out in cow country at the edge of town, I doubt few people around me are farther from the substation on the far end of town than I am. My guess would be bad step down transformer on a pole near you rather than distance from the substation, ask your power company to look into it.
Your wiring and/or local power utility must really, really suck. I've replaced 3 bulbs in 6 years and two of those were physically broken. These are all GE from Sam's Club. The only traditional bulb I won't replace is the one on my front porch because the CFL's don't operate well at very low outdoor temperatures (the motion detection going from dim to bright takes too long). The dimmable floods in the basement work fine but they do take an extra second or two to turn on (the 40,60, and 100's are instant).
There are EIGHT of those projectors on that 71' dome.
Yeah, but their average number doesn't make any sense if there was a worse storm 20 years ago. 32" of snow is equivalent to ~3.2" of rain, that's 800x the quoted .04" which would throw off that number by 100% alone.
Oh, and I wonder if there's going to be a spectacular dessert bloom like there was in Death Valley in 2005 or if so long without rain means that there are no viable seeds or spores to take advantage of the moisture.
Some towers do talk to each other wirelessly, microwave backhaul ftw =) I actually do agree with you for the most part but I just wanted to pick that nit.
G.711u is actually superior to POTS for call quality as almost all POTS today ends up on G.711 carrier anyways but on the far end of a very long cable. Get a SIP adapter and provider that support it if you're worried about call quality.
Most CO's already have generators, and for cell towers a 5 or 10kw generator is going to cost less than the monthly lease on the tower so it's not like it's undoable (though admittedly maintenance and fuel service for all the generators would be non-trivial).
Uh, the cell towers can be provided with backup power just as easily as the CO, the FCC just needs to mandate it for all new installations after date X and that all existing towers without a proven obstacle to installation be retrofitted by date Y.
I was thinking the same thing, our PBX with hundreds of lines ties into the PSTN through a bunch of PRI cards, in fact we just upgraded it and added a few more PRI's on the recovery module (basically disaster recovery for the phone system) we'd be fairly pissed if the whole thing was shut down in only 7 years.
I envy you, I've unfortunately never been within 1,000 miles of the cape for a launch. This Christmas break there's a chance I'll be in Florida for a planned Delta I V Heavy launch, if so I'll definitely be taking the family.
You know, you would think that's all true, and it applies to homebrewing as well which is also a fairly common geek hobby, but it doesn't explain why baking is fairly ignored by the geek set. Afterall baking might be one of the finest examples of applied chemistry there is, but I don't know too many geeks that are big into baking. Perhaps it's the risk vs reward threshold, if you're off by much in baking you tend to get an inedible result whereas with homebrewing or BBQing even when it's bad it's still pretty darn good.
Thermal solar produces power at night just fine. Solar also has the advantage of matching peak demand to peak production for most of the inhabited parts of the world. Oh, and with electric vehicles we'll all have enough storage capacity to last several days in a blackout or when there is a temporary drop in output due to something like a calm wind over a multistate area.
Right now an effective anti mortar and rocket system could be saving a LOT of lives in Misurata and the other cities Ghadafi has been sieging. Heck if we could effectively stop his offense it would even save lives on his side as we wouldn't have a reason to bomb his armor columns.
No, it isn't. The idiot included the cost of infrastructure like roads in Afghanistan into his calculations, the numbers are utter BS.
I was thinking the same thing, heck when I order from monoprice I usually throw in a couple extra 6' HDMI cables to give away to friends and family since it costs me so little (my monoprice orders usually have more in shipping due to weight than the cost of the extra couple cables).
And who updates the data and who is responsible if the data is incorrect?
Ford probably sells as many turbocharged cars as any European badge and will probably sell as many as all of them combined by mid decade as the ecoboost line moves into every model.
Uh, even the ITU relented and says that LTE and HSPA+ are 4G technologies. When LTE Advanced becomes available sometime around the end of the decade it might be called 4.5G or perhaps 5G for marketing purposes.
The bigger problem isn't the update method, it's that they aren't backporting security fixes to a stable release stream. With many enterprise systems it can take a year or more to test, debug, fix, and rollout a version upgrade, in that amount of time with the new release schedule you'll be using a browser that no longer has security fixes available. This is one reason Enterprise customers like IE so much, MS continues to port as many security fixes as is architecturally possible to IE for the support life of the OS. I know our last ERP minor version upgrade took almost 9 months from hardware order to golive, we're already doing preliminary work for our next major version upgrade that probably won't go live for 18-24 months.
Quite the opposite, if you want to have someone to wipe your ass when you're in a nursing home we need to continue to allow immigration. If we want to continue to be an economic powerhouse we also need to let smart people in, both to work and to go to school (the vast majority of smart people who come here for education stay because they see the opportunities available to smart people here).