Yeah, kids these days =) Oh, and I forgot it was completed in 96, so closer to 30 years than 40. They were so proud of the fact that they used no government funds to preserve the rocket, I say screw that if we can spend billions to fund the program we can spend a few million to preserve the rocket. Besides, if they wanted it to cost the taxpayers nothing then float a bond and repay it from the donations and ticket sales, don't wait 30+ years while you raise the funds.
Me, I'm voting for the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, which does a great job of preserving and displaying really big machinery, gets a *ton* of visitors, and could use a centerpiece like this.
You know what, that's probably the best answer I've seen after the Smithsonian.
Yeah really, considering how long Canaveral had their Saturn V outside exposed to UV and Florida thunderstorms that's a bit presumptuous, the Saturn V was a MUCH more import vehicle and yet for ~40 years NASA themselves couldn't/wouldn't spend the money to preserve it to last even 100 years.
No, RAM is by far the most expensive resource in a modern virtualized environment followed quickly by IOPS. SSD's can help address both issues. I just wish my SAN had the same kind of auto-tiering that ZFS offers with L2ARC.
It's WAY cheaper to drop a slightly bigger cable in the trench then it is to dig a new trench or use some kind of gizmo that has to be powered and maintained at the node level. Heck, for our new building (~200k sq ft) they brought in 3x 100 pair even though it's unlikely more than a hundred would ever be used even if we get a bunch of smaller tenants using POTS.
This would be used to connect to mini-DSLAM's at the node level, not to the CO (Exchange). Besides, in the US there was always plenty of spare capacity in the 500 pair trunks for extra revenue services like multi-line businesses, and with somewhere approaching half of all households dropping landlines and businesses going with VoIP offerings I bet there's more spare pairs then ever.
No, an FDA fast-tracked drug still has to go through Phase I & II trials, but the barriers and length of the trials are shorter. Certain critical medications that treat already fatal conditions are fine to be less stringent on because they only need to lead to fewer deaths than the existing treatments to be a net gain. Decade long processes are fine for a new formulation for Viagra, but for something that can save tens or hundreds of thousands of lives a year it only makes sense to be less stringent.
Since the side effects don't appear to significantly increase mortality this should obviously be given an immediate fastrack for human trials and should get to Phase III ASAP.
By units, revenue, gross profit, or net profit? Because I'm pretty sure Intel is the biggest in all those categories except units shipped.
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At $10M per and a significant fraction of that just to do a teardown and evaluation I'm not sure that anyone wants to fund that kind of research. Perhaps the government could do it with surplus engines from retired F-16's or something.
Every time people ask why we fund the space agencies, here is your answer. The majority of the data we DO have in this situation is from downlooking satellites from ESA and NASA.The The Deep Space Climate Observatory was mothballed for almost a decade and yet it has sensors on it that could be helping significantly with measuring ash density source. There are several other vehicles that can help significantly with this and other problems that cost many, many times the project cost, but all people see is the big number at the end of each budget, not the benefits.
Nehalem is about 800 DMIPS/Watt (75500/95W), Cortex A9 is about 8,000 (4000/.5W). The Nehalem figure is based on Sandra results for the Core i7 870 link, Cortex is based on ARM's numbers for their power efficient model link
Another feature is to have standard forms available on the unit so you don't have to find them on a file store and print them, you just walk up and select them from a list.
Nope, centralized management and reporting mean it's valuable to have a single device doing the decision making. It also makes it much easier to do IDS/IPS if 99% of the attacks are stopped at the perimeter because it makes the remaining single:noise much easier to deal with. I can't imagine what trying to sort through our SNORT logs would look like if I had to account for all of the failed attacks that are dropped by the firewall.
Additional device based firewalls are often a good idea, but at least for shared servers the rules can become so complex as to be either unwieldy or useless.
Yeah really, it's like a salami attack against the entire investment community (economy) but for some reason it's legal (at least for now, I'm hoping the SEC comes out with something substantive from their current call for comments).
That's exactly what happened to a friends father, he had knee surgery to correct a weakened tendon which lead to several months of immobility (physical therapy wasn't really possible for him for some reason) which lead to weight gain which lead to an inability to do exercise, etc. He eventually got up to over 350 lbs from ~160 before the surgery. He finally went on Atkins and was able to shed enough weight that he was able to start walking around the house, then around the block, etc until he was back down to near his original weight. It's one of the few instances where I'd advocate Atkins.
Uh, that could be years. The last time this particular volcano erupted it spewed ash for *2 years*. I don't think the airlines are going to survive that kind of downtime, and I'm not sure the fragile world economy could take a complete loss of fast transport in and out of Europe and Northern Russia.
I don't see how fungability has anything to do with it, they have been tried and convicted and are now facing a variety of possible punishments, a decision has to be made as to which one to apply, you might as well use the best information available to make the decision.
Uh, I'm saying that an ideal algorithm would pick the best (most likely to result in non-recidivism) program for the offender to avoid future costs to the individual and society, that's kind of the point of having more options than just throwing everyone into juvenile hall for x months for offense y.
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Yeah, kids these days =) Oh, and I forgot it was completed in 96, so closer to 30 years than 40. They were so proud of the fact that they used no government funds to preserve the rocket, I say screw that if we can spend billions to fund the program we can spend a few million to preserve the rocket. Besides, if they wanted it to cost the taxpayers nothing then float a bond and repay it from the donations and ticket sales, don't wait 30+ years while you raise the funds.
Me, I'm voting for the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, which does a great job of preserving and displaying really big machinery, gets a *ton* of visitors, and could use a centerpiece like this.
You know what, that's probably the best answer I've seen after the Smithsonian.
Yeah really, considering how long Canaveral had their Saturn V outside exposed to UV and Florida thunderstorms that's a bit presumptuous, the Saturn V was a MUCH more import vehicle and yet for ~40 years NASA themselves couldn't/wouldn't spend the money to preserve it to last even 100 years.
No, RAM is by far the most expensive resource in a modern virtualized environment followed quickly by IOPS. SSD's can help address both issues. I just wish my SAN had the same kind of auto-tiering that ZFS offers with L2ARC.
It's WAY cheaper to drop a slightly bigger cable in the trench then it is to dig a new trench or use some kind of gizmo that has to be powered and maintained at the node level. Heck, for our new building (~200k sq ft) they brought in 3x 100 pair even though it's unlikely more than a hundred would ever be used even if we get a bunch of smaller tenants using POTS.
This would be used to connect to mini-DSLAM's at the node level, not to the CO (Exchange). Besides, in the US there was always plenty of spare capacity in the 500 pair trunks for extra revenue services like multi-line businesses, and with somewhere approaching half of all households dropping landlines and businesses going with VoIP offerings I bet there's more spare pairs then ever.
Yes there are, AT&T U-Verse is typically done over distances between 400m-1km (the max distance for availability is 2500ft or 762m)
No, an FDA fast-tracked drug still has to go through Phase I & II trials, but the barriers and length of the trials are shorter. Certain critical medications that treat already fatal conditions are fine to be less stringent on because they only need to lead to fewer deaths than the existing treatments to be a net gain. Decade long processes are fine for a new formulation for Viagra, but for something that can save tens or hundreds of thousands of lives a year it only makes sense to be less stringent.
Not at all, the top price/performance MLC and SLC drives are from Intel (X-25M G2 and X-25E).
Since the side effects don't appear to significantly increase mortality this should obviously be given an immediate fastrack for human trials and should get to Phase III ASAP.
By units, revenue, gross profit, or net profit? Because I'm pretty sure Intel is the biggest in all those categories except units shipped.
At $10M per and a significant fraction of that just to do a teardown and evaluation I'm not sure that anyone wants to fund that kind of research. Perhaps the government could do it with surplus engines from retired F-16's or something.
Every time people ask why we fund the space agencies, here is your answer. The majority of the data we DO have in this situation is from downlooking satellites from ESA and NASA.The The Deep Space Climate Observatory was mothballed for almost a decade and yet it has sensors on it that could be helping significantly with measuring ash density source. There are several other vehicles that can help significantly with this and other problems that cost many, many times the project cost, but all people see is the big number at the end of each budget, not the benefits.
i860/MIPS/Alpha/PPC/x86/x64/IA64 are the platforms that are known to have been supported by NT over the generations.
Nehalem is about 800 DMIPS/Watt (75500/95W), Cortex A9 is about 8,000 (4000/.5W). The Nehalem figure is based on Sandra results for the Core i7 870 link, Cortex is based on ARM's numbers for their power efficient model link
Another feature is to have standard forms available on the unit so you don't have to find them on a file store and print them, you just walk up and select them from a list.
Nope, centralized management and reporting mean it's valuable to have a single device doing the decision making. It also makes it much easier to do IDS/IPS if 99% of the attacks are stopped at the perimeter because it makes the remaining single:noise much easier to deal with. I can't imagine what trying to sort through our SNORT logs would look like if I had to account for all of the failed attacks that are dropped by the firewall.
Additional device based firewalls are often a good idea, but at least for shared servers the rules can become so complex as to be either unwieldy or useless.
Yeah really, it's like a salami attack against the entire investment community (economy) but for some reason it's legal (at least for now, I'm hoping the SEC comes out with something substantive from their current call for comments).
Except the cows are largely fed plants that were grown with fertilizer derived from fossil fuels, not at all a natural equilibrium.
That's exactly what happened to a friends father, he had knee surgery to correct a weakened tendon which lead to several months of immobility (physical therapy wasn't really possible for him for some reason) which lead to weight gain which lead to an inability to do exercise, etc. He eventually got up to over 350 lbs from ~160 before the surgery. He finally went on Atkins and was able to shed enough weight that he was able to start walking around the house, then around the block, etc until he was back down to near his original weight. It's one of the few instances where I'd advocate Atkins.
Uh, that could be years. The last time this particular volcano erupted it spewed ash for *2 years*. I don't think the airlines are going to survive that kind of downtime, and I'm not sure the fragile world economy could take a complete loss of fast transport in and out of Europe and Northern Russia.
I'm sure the folks at Mojave air & space port and Pinal Airpark would be getting calls before that would happen.
I don't see how fungability has anything to do with it, they have been tried and convicted and are now facing a variety of possible punishments, a decision has to be made as to which one to apply, you might as well use the best information available to make the decision.
other than providing an education those are the parents responsibility, not the states.
Uh, I'm saying that an ideal algorithm would pick the best (most likely to result in non-recidivism) program for the offender to avoid future costs to the individual and society, that's kind of the point of having more options than just throwing everyone into juvenile hall for x months for offense y.