I love Assimov but feel it's more junior high level than junior/senior year level. Heinlein and Vonnegut are great for that age group as are some of the others on your list. As to your suggestion of 20-30 pages per week, you have to be kidding! That's more like the daily reading requirement for any English class I was ever in.
Or the application install steps tell you to install redistributable package x.y.z from MS KB12345 if it's not already installed. I find that's probably about ~1/3rd of the software I install.
We bring in $100+M/ quarter, if we can make the business even slightly more efficient a couple million dollar project easily sees a positive ROI. You just have to do your due diligence and not take on projects that are unlikely to have a positive impact on the business. If you are spending money without justification then of course it can be a problem for the business, but then you're not really doing your job, are you? IT is a tool, not a goal or an end unto itself.
Uh, the vast majority of businesses are just fine paying for MS licenses to run software. There are a few all Linux/Unix shops out there but they are by far in the minority. I know most of the software we buy absolutely dwarfs the cost of the hardware + MS licenses (most of the purchases we've made in the last couple years have been mid 6-figures to 7 figures + equal costs for implementation consultants, the cost of our MS licenses barely breaks into the 6 figure range across all systems). It's a cost of doing business just like any other.
For the kind of money you would have had to spend to get 64MB in a 486 you could buy a computer today with an SSD RAID10 array, 16GB+ of memory, the best graphics card you care to find, etc. RAM back then was a little over $100/MB by the end of the 486 erra so you're talking $8k+ for the PC. The fact is you can get a peppier PC today for a fraction of the cost, people are just used to buying cheap low-end PC's and living with the "slowness".
I ran into the exact same issue on Linux, when 2.4 came out the standard libc still had lots of 16bit UID calls internally so even though the kernel supported 32bit UID's and some applications did you had to have side by side libc's installed so you didn't break older applications. The 32bit compatible libc didn't ship with any distro at the time so we had to install it ourselves. This was necessary for us because we were using NIS+ and had more than 32k total accounts that had been created.
We take advantage of MSDN, it's MUCH cheaper to pay for MSDN subscriptions for our technical staff then it is to pay for ~2/3rd's of our environment (Dev+Test). It's also nice to use Windows Datacenter licenses to pay for an entire stack of VM's.
Ford's top 6 executives made collectively over $64M last year and they have 300k employees = $213 per employee, but that is beside the point. I never mentioned Ford, I talked about the telecom sector. The top executives at AT&T listed here made $186M, slash that to a couple million and you can pay for your $B infrastructure project in 5-6 years. Do you really think the company would be any less well run if the top brass only made a few million a year instead of upwards of $80M?
$yM x number of "senior" executives = $$$$$. I know telecom isn't nearly as bad as the financial sector but there are still a lot of people making more per year then the average citizen will make in a lifetime.
You're right, the 1505n does appear to actually have a brain =) For some reason that model didn't come up when I was logged in. Regardless, the majority of 1xxx series printers past and present are stupid winprinters. I'd rather buy a 2xxx series with PS (I'm aware they don't all have PS, I'd spend the extra bucks and get one with it).
Every single 1xxx series printer currently for sale at HP.com has host-based listed under the language section in specs, so it's hardly wrong. In the past they may have offered 1xxx series that weren't host-based but as of this writing ALL of them are host-based. Sure they currently have drivers for popular linux distro's but that doesn't mean it will be usable on windows 2020 or whatever the language of the day is by then.
I don't think a 1xxx will fulfill his needs, the 1xxx series are almost all win-printers (host based). For duty cycle it would absolutely be enough as 30,000 pages is the monthly duty cycle for a 2xxx series printer. If you need a more substantial printer I think the 4xxx series are the best built printers HP still makes. They are nothing like the LJ3/4 printers though, I once repaired a decade old LJ3 that had over a million pages on it, the only reason it needed repair is that a tooth on the single plastic gear had broken (everything else in the unit was metal). Personally I have an old Lexmark laser with a 500 page feeder and the backup is a LJ4. My primary color need is photos and those are best done by a mini-lab on real photo paper.
Yes, TPC is a trade organization with all of the major players being members. They actually offer a very valuable service which is independently audited and certified results on vendor neutral benchmarks which fairly accurately reflect real workloads. Any changes from the base configuration of the OS or product have to be documented as does the hardware configuration used and the price of the solution. (including discounts, but you better believe I'm asking for at least their published discount)
I find that it's a good place to start when looking for solutions as it gives you a good idea of product performance, pricing level for your needed performance, etc. It also can give you some ideas on what tweaks can bring big performance gains as the vendors generally have their best people helping with these type of published benchmarks so the documented config changes can be very useful if they aren't pure benchmark fluff.
No, the framework also has a software renderer and on many cards you get significantly better overall game performance by using it (I know this is true for my 9600 GSO 384, I got an ~22% FPS boost by uninstalling the driver component for PhysX and using the software renderer). The software renderer is also significantly less likely to crash your system. So unless you have a slow CPU with a monster GPU and are willing to accept more crashes there's really not a lot of reason to use the GPU tied renderer.
The problem wasn't really with the numbers, vendors will give you unpublished TPC results frequently but they have to note that they are not certified results. The big problem was publishing the claims very publicly by putting them in a national paper. To me as a consumer the biggest issue is non-certified results almost never have the accompanying audit report which gives the exact config and cost of the solution. Saying that you have a more scalable platform doesn't mean much to most shops if the cost is $20M to beat IBM's $2M result or if you are doing something hankie like running RAID0.
Google Maps already has that mode, it's called Satellite view =) Seriously, pulling down all those JPG tiles using XMLHTTPRequest on WiFi is painful enough.
I just use WiFi and UMA on my Blackberry 8900 on T-Mobile, since it's only one relatively low power radio for both voice and data it allows for a couple days with normal usage (playing with apps, doing email, some phone calls, etc). I'm not sure why all the GSM providers don't do UMA since it eliminates dead spots for most people and requires little capital investment.
The standard for death has been lack of brain activity for quite some time, there are literally hundreds of occurrences a day of people who lost a pulse who were far from being dead thanks to modern medicine.
But it's even better than a car lease, because you can end the lease on the VM with no penalty. If you have a really big batch job that needs to run once a month then you just spin up the VM's for the duration of the batch job paying for your usage and them deprovision them for the rest of the month.
The GP's comment was that other industries haven't shown the same kind of astronomic product growth that the semiconductor industry has, I gave a counterexample of an industry that has actually had faster growth than the semiconductor industry.
This sound very similar to the phase change crystals in CDRW disks though obviously they are reading these electrically rather than optically since at 20nm you're well into the x-ray part of the spectrum.
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I love Assimov but feel it's more junior high level than junior/senior year level. Heinlein and Vonnegut are great for that age group as are some of the others on your list. As to your suggestion of 20-30 pages per week, you have to be kidding! That's more like the daily reading requirement for any English class I was ever in.
Or the application install steps tell you to install redistributable package x.y.z from MS KB12345 if it's not already installed. I find that's probably about ~1/3rd of the software I install.
We bring in $100+M/ quarter, if we can make the business even slightly more efficient a couple million dollar project easily sees a positive ROI. You just have to do your due diligence and not take on projects that are unlikely to have a positive impact on the business. If you are spending money without justification then of course it can be a problem for the business, but then you're not really doing your job, are you? IT is a tool, not a goal or an end unto itself.
Uh, the vast majority of businesses are just fine paying for MS licenses to run software. There are a few all Linux/Unix shops out there but they are by far in the minority. I know most of the software we buy absolutely dwarfs the cost of the hardware + MS licenses (most of the purchases we've made in the last couple years have been mid 6-figures to 7 figures + equal costs for implementation consultants, the cost of our MS licenses barely breaks into the 6 figure range across all systems). It's a cost of doing business just like any other.
For the kind of money you would have had to spend to get 64MB in a 486 you could buy a computer today with an SSD RAID10 array, 16GB+ of memory, the best graphics card you care to find, etc. RAM back then was a little over $100/MB by the end of the 486 erra so you're talking $8k+ for the PC. The fact is you can get a peppier PC today for a fraction of the cost, people are just used to buying cheap low-end PC's and living with the "slowness".
I ran into the exact same issue on Linux, when 2.4 came out the standard libc still had lots of 16bit UID calls internally so even though the kernel supported 32bit UID's and some applications did you had to have side by side libc's installed so you didn't break older applications. The 32bit compatible libc didn't ship with any distro at the time so we had to install it ourselves. This was necessary for us because we were using NIS+ and had more than 32k total accounts that had been created.
We take advantage of MSDN, it's MUCH cheaper to pay for MSDN subscriptions for our technical staff then it is to pay for ~2/3rd's of our environment (Dev+Test). It's also nice to use Windows Datacenter licenses to pay for an entire stack of VM's.
Ford's top 6 executives made collectively over $64M last year and they have 300k employees = $213 per employee, but that is beside the point. I never mentioned Ford, I talked about the telecom sector. The top executives at AT&T listed here made $186M, slash that to a couple million and you can pay for your $B infrastructure project in 5-6 years. Do you really think the company would be any less well run if the top brass only made a few million a year instead of upwards of $80M?
$yM x number of "senior" executives = $$$$$. I know telecom isn't nearly as bad as the financial sector but there are still a lot of people making more per year then the average citizen will make in a lifetime.
You're right, the 1505n does appear to actually have a brain =) For some reason that model didn't come up when I was logged in. Regardless, the majority of 1xxx series printers past and present are stupid winprinters. I'd rather buy a 2xxx series with PS (I'm aware they don't all have PS, I'd spend the extra bucks and get one with it).
Every single 1xxx series printer currently for sale at HP.com has host-based listed under the language section in specs, so it's hardly wrong. In the past they may have offered 1xxx series that weren't host-based but as of this writing ALL of them are host-based. Sure they currently have drivers for popular linux distro's but that doesn't mean it will be usable on windows 2020 or whatever the language of the day is by then.
That was my point =)
Get a roller maintenance kit, might also need the cork grip pad (can't remember the technical name).
I don't think a 1xxx will fulfill his needs, the 1xxx series are almost all win-printers (host based). For duty cycle it would absolutely be enough as 30,000 pages is the monthly duty cycle for a 2xxx series printer. If you need a more substantial printer I think the 4xxx series are the best built printers HP still makes. They are nothing like the LJ3/4 printers though, I once repaired a decade old LJ3 that had over a million pages on it, the only reason it needed repair is that a tooth on the single plastic gear had broken (everything else in the unit was metal). Personally I have an old Lexmark laser with a 500 page feeder and the backup is a LJ4. My primary color need is photos and those are best done by a mini-lab on real photo paper.
Yes, TPC is a trade organization with all of the major players being members. They actually offer a very valuable service which is independently audited and certified results on vendor neutral benchmarks which fairly accurately reflect real workloads. Any changes from the base configuration of the OS or product have to be documented as does the hardware configuration used and the price of the solution. (including discounts, but you better believe I'm asking for at least their published discount)
I find that it's a good place to start when looking for solutions as it gives you a good idea of product performance, pricing level for your needed performance, etc. It also can give you some ideas on what tweaks can bring big performance gains as the vendors generally have their best people helping with these type of published benchmarks so the documented config changes can be very useful if they aren't pure benchmark fluff.
No, the framework also has a software renderer and on many cards you get significantly better overall game performance by using it (I know this is true for my 9600 GSO 384, I got an ~22% FPS boost by uninstalling the driver component for PhysX and using the software renderer). The software renderer is also significantly less likely to crash your system. So unless you have a slow CPU with a monster GPU and are willing to accept more crashes there's really not a lot of reason to use the GPU tied renderer.
The problem wasn't really with the numbers, vendors will give you unpublished TPC results frequently but they have to note that they are not certified results. The big problem was publishing the claims very publicly by putting them in a national paper. To me as a consumer the biggest issue is non-certified results almost never have the accompanying audit report which gives the exact config and cost of the solution. Saying that you have a more scalable platform doesn't mean much to most shops if the cost is $20M to beat IBM's $2M result or if you are doing something hankie like running RAID0.
Google Maps already has that mode, it's called Satellite view =) Seriously, pulling down all those JPG tiles using XMLHTTPRequest on WiFi is painful enough.
I just use WiFi and UMA on my Blackberry 8900 on T-Mobile, since it's only one relatively low power radio for both voice and data it allows for a couple days with normal usage (playing with apps, doing email, some phone calls, etc). I'm not sure why all the GSM providers don't do UMA since it eliminates dead spots for most people and requires little capital investment.
The standard for death has been lack of brain activity for quite some time, there are literally hundreds of occurrences a day of people who lost a pulse who were far from being dead thanks to modern medicine.
But it's even better than a car lease, because you can end the lease on the VM with no penalty. If you have a really big batch job that needs to run once a month then you just spin up the VM's for the duration of the batch job paying for your usage and them deprovision them for the rest of the month.
one thing I see as a potential downer is the requirement to host it in a browser.. you lose things like new message notification, which is a biggie.
I take it you aren't familiar with the concept of XMLHTTPRequest aka AJAX? The gchat html client works just fine for notification.
The GP's comment was that other industries haven't shown the same kind of astronomic product growth that the semiconductor industry has, I gave a counterexample of an industry that has actually had faster growth than the semiconductor industry.
HDD capacity has actually grown faster than Moore's Law.
This sound very similar to the phase change crystals in CDRW disks though obviously they are reading these electrically rather than optically since at 20nm you're well into the x-ray part of the spectrum.