It's hosted Exchange with the enterprise addons, it's not like their file and backoffice operations are moving into the cloud (Azure). The only critical thing that would possibly go down during an attack is email and that can be brought down by an attack no matter where it's hosted because by definition it must be open to the Internet writ large. We looked at it very seriously but decided to go in house due to the large number of custom blackberry apps we have that provide inside the firewall access to corporate data that just couldn't be supported with the MS offering.
And blacklisted as well. I thank my lucky stars that our SVP of IT is just a gadget freak and willing to do cutting edge rather than an idiot like in your example. He hates vendors and actually listens to his technical people when they bring up legitimate technical concerns.
DDR3-1333 RDIMM's use about 5W each, multiply that by the 18 DIMM's available in a fairly typical 1U or 2U server and it adds up. For an even more extreme example look at the HP DL980, 128 slots so 640W just for the memory.
Loved their tape robots (still do actually since we have an HP badged version of the SL500) but StorageTek was never a significant player in the disk world and as you say Sun ran even that into the ground.
Their x86 servers were right in line with HP and IBM, the difference was the cost of the support contract which was just insane with Sun. Given the fact that they had no desktop or laptop line and didn't have a useful storage line there was very little cross sell so unless you were a legacy SPARC/Solaris shop there was little reason to pick Sun over HP/IBM/Dell. Heck these days I think Cisco has a more compelling story in the x86 space!
The Athlon used the EV6 bus from the Alpha, in fact the AMD 751 and 761 northbridge chipsets designed for the Athlon were used by Samsung for Alpha 21264 based systems!
Heck look at what open systems can do, HP DL980 can scale to the same CPU performance and half the ram of the M9000 and a fully decked DL980 (64 core, 128 thread and 2TB of ram with 4x 8Gb FC ports, 2x QDR Infiniband and 4x 10Gbe ports) costs $233k with 5 years of 6 hour call to repair support where the M9000 starts at twice that for a very underpowered config and doesn't include the ~20% per year maintenance.
Because DB2 is less universally supported by LOB apps than Oracle. You are right that Linux on x86 has been eating a big part of all the traditional Unix vendors lunch. It might not be good enough for the top 1% of shops but for the other 99% that used to make up a large market for those vendors they've priced themselves out of the market and their corporate culture is a turnoff to a lot of folks. Heck even 4 years ago when we were looking at platforms for our ERP system they weren't really competitive (IBM was almost 3x more expensive than the next most expensive system when we asked for a box with more than a couple PCI-X slots) and Sun's 5 year cost was almost 2x that of the HP AMD system due to support contracts costing over 20% of purchase price per year vs 15% total for the HP open solution. I have no reason to think that Sun solutions have gotten any cheaper under Oracle.
Yes, STEREO currently is out at L4 and L5 and so can see CME's pointed towards earth however they are not in a stable orbit there so that ability will be lost for a bit during 2015 when their orbits put them on the far side of the sun.
Actually this is the opposite of the MHz wars as it is about being more efficient, and since getting the rendering done faster means you can put the processor back into deep sleep it's about better battery life as well.
It's not legal in most jurisdictions to "check up on your tenant regularly". In fact in my state it requires 24 hour notice and "A landlord cannot harass the tenant by repeatedly coming into his/her apartment." Because of this most landlords tread lightly and only access the property for repairs, neighbor complaints, and between tenants.
Nope, at the federal level you just need a Type-10 FFL ($3000/3 years) and have to pay for your Special Occupational Tax Stamp at $500/year and you can avoid the making tax for DD's. Also there is no background check beyond the normal NICS gun ownership check and it requires no justification. Local and state laws may further restrict you but that's a per jurisdiction situation so way to complex to get into.
The fed dumped $559B into treasury bills hoping to weaken the dollar by forcing that money into other currencies, and it worked for a short time but the Ireland crisis caused the market to surge back into the dollar.
Almost as important is if they build up a large patent portfolio, because then they can rake in money even if they never make another electric vehicle themselves. For instance I wouldn't be surprised at all if Toyota make as much or more on licensing their hybrid technology as they do on the Prius since it's used in tons of models from other manufacturers.
Actually, yes even chips have economies of scale. The more units you sell the less the R&D cost per unit is and hence the more profitable you are overall. Also if you have sufficient demand you can build a (very expensive) plant with larger wafer size which again brings down the per unit cost. It's why Intel managed to stay in the game through the P4 era despite the fact that AMD made a better product.
1)Well, the deaths per 100k are among the lowest in modern times so I guess it's a fair statement.
2)Yes and this is the part that wikileaks and useful for exposing, their methods happen to be a little more strategic than tactical but I think it's better than the alternative (a little embarrassment about private embassy wires aside).
3)Agreed, I support our troops and said for years the best way to support them was to get them out of Iraqi cities =)
People act like wikileaks has never released anything but the diplomatic wires (which do show some interesting things like the suidi's encouraging Isreal to bomb Iran), but they have also released things like the helicopter video which showed our army indiscriminately killing civilians and two journalists, something Reuters had been seeking and unable to obtain through FOIA.
What is the difference between wikileaks and the pentagon papers? Both used material that the government wanted to keep quite, was classified, and illegally leaked to the press. Yet one wins the Pulitzer and a generation later people are advocating for the others death?
Actually they were repeating the previous experiment with new, better technology to show the progress that's been made since the first attempt. Note that they had a 100% success rate this time vs.5% last time.
That's Paul Allen's yacht not Ballmer's, though I heard that Gates once quipped that he was going to purchase a surplus supertanker and convert it to a yacht just to shut Allen and Elison both up =)
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It's hosted Exchange with the enterprise addons, it's not like their file and backoffice operations are moving into the cloud (Azure). The only critical thing that would possibly go down during an attack is email and that can be brought down by an attack no matter where it's hosted because by definition it must be open to the Internet writ large. We looked at it very seriously but decided to go in house due to the large number of custom blackberry apps we have that provide inside the firewall access to corporate data that just couldn't be supported with the MS offering.
And blacklisted as well. I thank my lucky stars that our SVP of IT is just a gadget freak and willing to do cutting edge rather than an idiot like in your example. He hates vendors and actually listens to his technical people when they bring up legitimate technical concerns.
It's true, I haven't belly laughed like that in quite some time.
DDR3-1333 RDIMM's use about 5W each, multiply that by the 18 DIMM's available in a fairly typical 1U or 2U server and it adds up. For an even more extreme example look at the HP DL980, 128 slots so 640W just for the memory.
Loved their tape robots (still do actually since we have an HP badged version of the SL500) but StorageTek was never a significant player in the disk world and as you say Sun ran even that into the ground.
Their x86 servers were right in line with HP and IBM, the difference was the cost of the support contract which was just insane with Sun. Given the fact that they had no desktop or laptop line and didn't have a useful storage line there was very little cross sell so unless you were a legacy SPARC/Solaris shop there was little reason to pick Sun over HP/IBM/Dell. Heck these days I think Cisco has a more compelling story in the x86 space!
The Athlon used the EV6 bus from the Alpha, in fact the AMD 751 and 761 northbridge chipsets designed for the Athlon were used by Samsung for Alpha 21264 based systems!
Heck look at what open systems can do, HP DL980 can scale to the same CPU performance and half the ram of the M9000 and a fully decked DL980 (64 core, 128 thread and 2TB of ram with 4x 8Gb FC ports, 2x QDR Infiniband and 4x 10Gbe ports) costs $233k with 5 years of 6 hour call to repair support where the M9000 starts at twice that for a very underpowered config and doesn't include the ~20% per year maintenance.
Because DB2 is less universally supported by LOB apps than Oracle. You are right that Linux on x86 has been eating a big part of all the traditional Unix vendors lunch. It might not be good enough for the top 1% of shops but for the other 99% that used to make up a large market for those vendors they've priced themselves out of the market and their corporate culture is a turnoff to a lot of folks. Heck even 4 years ago when we were looking at platforms for our ERP system they weren't really competitive (IBM was almost 3x more expensive than the next most expensive system when we asked for a box with more than a couple PCI-X slots) and Sun's 5 year cost was almost 2x that of the HP AMD system due to support contracts costing over 20% of purchase price per year vs 15% total for the HP open solution. I have no reason to think that Sun solutions have gotten any cheaper under Oracle.
Yes, STEREO currently is out at L4 and L5 and so can see CME's pointed towards earth however they are not in a stable orbit there so that ability will be lost for a bit during 2015 when their orbits put them on the far side of the sun.
Actually this is the opposite of the MHz wars as it is about being more efficient, and since getting the rendering done faster means you can put the processor back into deep sleep it's about better battery life as well.
I'm sorry that you see it as negligence but the law in most states disagrees with you.
no, it calls for symmetrical download and upload. Basically it's wimax on steroids (wimax has a maximum effective rage of 50km).
It's not legal in most jurisdictions to "check up on your tenant regularly". In fact in my state it requires 24 hour notice and "A landlord cannot harass the tenant by repeatedly coming into his/her apartment." Because of this most landlords tread lightly and only access the property for repairs, neighbor complaints, and between tenants.
Nope, at the federal level you just need a Type-10 FFL ($3000/3 years) and have to pay for your Special Occupational Tax Stamp at $500/year and you can avoid the making tax for DD's. Also there is no background check beyond the normal NICS gun ownership check and it requires no justification. Local and state laws may further restrict you but that's a per jurisdiction situation so way to complex to get into.
The fed dumped $559B into treasury bills hoping to weaken the dollar by forcing that money into other currencies, and it worked for a short time but the Ireland crisis caused the market to surge back into the dollar.
Almost as important is if they build up a large patent portfolio, because then they can rake in money even if they never make another electric vehicle themselves. For instance I wouldn't be surprised at all if Toyota make as much or more on licensing their hybrid technology as they do on the Prius since it's used in tons of models from other manufacturers.
Actually LG's making the cells for the Volt and production costs should come down in 2012 when their Michigan plant opens.
Actually, yes even chips have economies of scale. The more units you sell the less the R&D cost per unit is and hence the more profitable you are overall. Also if you have sufficient demand you can build a (very expensive) plant with larger wafer size which again brings down the per unit cost. It's why Intel managed to stay in the game through the P4 era despite the fact that AMD made a better product.
Heck the fed is already trying to devalue the dollar but the euro is in worse shape so it didn't work.
1)Well, the deaths per 100k are among the lowest in modern times so I guess it's a fair statement.
2)Yes and this is the part that wikileaks and useful for exposing, their methods happen to be a little more strategic than tactical but I think it's better than the alternative (a little embarrassment about private embassy wires aside).
3)Agreed, I support our troops and said for years the best way to support them was to get them out of Iraqi cities =)
People act like wikileaks has never released anything but the diplomatic wires (which do show some interesting things like the suidi's encouraging Isreal to bomb Iran), but they have also released things like the helicopter video which showed our army indiscriminately killing civilians and two journalists, something Reuters had been seeking and unable to obtain through FOIA.
What is the difference between wikileaks and the pentagon papers? Both used material that the government wanted to keep quite, was classified, and illegally leaked to the press. Yet one wins the Pulitzer and a generation later people are advocating for the others death?
Actually they were repeating the previous experiment with new, better technology to show the progress that's been made since the first attempt. Note that they had a 100% success rate this time vs .5% last time.
That's Paul Allen's yacht not Ballmer's, though I heard that Gates once quipped that he was going to purchase a surplus supertanker and convert it to a yacht just to shut Allen and Elison both up =)