8% efficient cells might not be sufficient to provide ALL the power for a house, but they can make a heck of a dent. I have a very modest home (~1,600 sq ft roof area with attached garage) and if you take the tiny solar insolation we get here in NE Ohio (~4kWh/m^2/day) and multiply it out with the 8% you get ~360kWh/month which is almost half my average monthly power draw. If I could buy these cells for little more than what shingles cost then paying for the inverter to reduce my power bill by half would have a pretty quick ROI.
There are Blackberries with both CDMA and GSM radios, they have a SIM installed by Verizon too. Nice for people who live in a GSM deadzone but travel internationally.
The only way that I see SQL server ahead in is pricing. When we implemented Oracle 10gR2 about 3 years ago we got such good pricing out of Oracle that MS refused to match for SQL Enterprise. Now that quad core is the norm and 8 core is on the horizon Oracles per core pricing model is insane.
In the enterprise destructors would be really nice. Depending on average object size the JVM's for our various applications can't use more than 1-1.5GB of ram because worst case GC times become bad enough to become noticeable at the display level. This leads to all sort of fun hacks for load balancing a bunch of JVM's. If GC were just used to catch the occasional leaked memory it could be scheduled for off hours where the performance impact would be minimal.
No, it's because of exclusive redistribution contracts with foreign media companies. They could find plenty of international advertisers and even national advertisers using IP location services just like everything else on the web. The problem is that the media companies have divided up the world into a ton of little markets and their existing contracts don't allow them to do internet based distribution. It's an old business model that will change over time but it could take quite a while.
But the number of slots scale with the number of processors and the ratio of ram:cores for Nehalem works out fairly well for most peoples workloads today. Not only that but I have to question how many slots you can cram into a motherboard, a four way Nehalem EX could theoretically have 64 DIMM's without the 4x ASIC. Even if they go with a daughtercard setup like the DL585 G1 you'd still have trouble fitting it all into a 4U server.
Because in a large datacenter you can save millions on reduced wiring, cooling, devices and ports. It's really only for greenfield installs but you'd be very foolish NOT to look at it for a new rollout.
Nope, in most states even if you cancel your wireline service the LEC is required or general does provide soft dialtone service meaning 911. It's there for people who get their service cut due to lack of payment but who the state thinks should still have access to emergency services. According to consumer reports the following states have soft dialtone provisions:
* Arizona
* California
* Colorado
* Delaware
* Florida
* Georgia
* Hawaii
* Idaho
* Iowa
* Massachusetts
* Minnesota
* Montana
* New York
* North Dakota
* Ohio
* Oklahoma
* Oregon
* Pennsylvania
* South Dakota
* Utah
* Vermont
* Washington
* Wyoming
Yeah instead of working with HP/IBM to support their servers they are going to have to train all their field engineers how to properly service and diagnose their new server line. Oh and IBM announced a big deal with Brocade for FC gear the day after the launch of Cisco's blade servers, I wonder how much revenue they will make on the servers vs what they are going to lose in other markets by pissing off all their partners. Unless you have a lot of clueless CTO type get snowballed by the Cisco rep I really don't see these things going anywhere.
It's worse than that, the only server on the list that is more expandable than the servers I can buy TODAY from any of the major players is the top line 2U one. Today I can buy a DL360 G6 (1U) from HP and stuff it with 18 DIMM's and 8 SFF HDD's, in fact I have 3 waiting in my datacenter that were delivered yesterday (though they are the 4x SFF variety with optical drive, they are going to be SAN connected so I only needed 2 drives for the OS). 48 DIMM's is a technical tour de force, but I wonder if they can pull it off at a competitive price to alternative solutions. I also wonder how many people will find that their real workloads work well with that many VM's for each core (unless they have really memory hungry VM's). Also Beckton comes out a quarter later so 1U servers from the competition could have 16 cores (32 with hyperthreading) and 32DIMM slots (though at the cost and power cost of FB-DIMM's).
Ah, I just found the FCC information, apparently your local PSAP has to make a formal request for E9-1-1 services to the carrier and they have 60 days to comply. To make the request they must have the capability to receive the information. The FCC has quarterly reports from the major carriers on the progress but they just stop in mid 2006, I have to assume this was one of those freaking 'but it's too expensive for us to supply the reports' whines that the telco's seem to do all the time.
The amazing thing to me is looking over the information from Cingular/AT&T from Aug 06 it appears at least in Ohio that the rural counties were first to get the service. Meanwhile not a single PSAP in the most populous county in the state had service, not even the wealthy suburbs full of million dollar homes.
GPS isn't required, e911 IS. The providers can provide e911 data through triangulation. In fact indoors they often have to since GPS doesn't work well.
Uh, no. The majority of cell sites do not have any significant amount of backup runtime. The reason is they weren't built out like POP's and weren't under anywhere near the same level of regulation because they aren't considered a lifeline service. If one or two sites have power go out due to local damage they will generally pull up a portable generator to the site but during a widespread outage most sites will go out. Of the dozen sites near my house only two have a site shelter with large battery arrays and an onsite generator, since I have marginal service anyways it's likely I wouldn't be able to talk to one of the towers with generator if there were a grid-wide outage. I know during the 2003 NE blackout my cell didn't work away from my apartment (we were in a small pocket that had power, was lots of fun since everyone for miles around came to the couple of gas stations nearby that had power for their pumps).
Are you seriously arguing that incarcerating nearly 1% of the population and spending hundreds of billion dollars on failed attempts at squashing drug supply is what's best for society? Really? Sounds to me more like government has grown used to feeding off the teat of the 'war on drugs' and doesn't want to give up all that money and power.
Doesn't matter, we put up with distracted drivers every day which are just as/more dangerous than people intoxicated by marijuana. The issue of DUI enforcement shouldn't allow us to continue on a proven failed path that is bankrupting the country and ruining peoples lives (disproportionally minority lives). Bust the people who pose a danger for reckless operation with video showing the improper operation and let a jury decide if they posed a risk.
Cool, I'll try that and get back to you from the unemployment line. Like I said I'm not burning political capital to force through a change when the rest of our security systems minimize the risks from IE6. As you said there are plenty of qualified people looking for work and that includes IT people. In a year or two when our 3 mainline apps are upgraded to versions that support IE7/8 I'll push through the upgrade. The browser's already almost a decade old, 18-24 months more usage isn't really going to hurt.
You're forgetting the XP virtual machine in Win7, it can be made to run IE6 seemlessly. That wouldn't even be that unusual of a situation for a large enterprise. Back in 2003/04 I was on a team that switched out a VERY large mortgage originator from all the loan processors having two PC's to one. The second PC's were used to run OS/2 with a custom origination software, we were upgrading their XP machines so that they could run VirtualPC with OS/2 as the guest. That app had millions in development costs behind it and was certified in almost every state, there was no way in hell it was going to be scrapped.
How about, the version of enterprise apps x,y,z,q, etc that we run are certified and supported running in IE6 with ActiveX controls a,b,c,d,l,m. We have a strategy of moving to the current version of those apps over then next N years as we reach the current systems end of life (which may be extended from the originally planned EOL by the lack of capital for the replacement systems). The only possible strategy for us would be to move to Firefox for general web browsing but that requires significant additional effort and buy-in from the users. Sorry but I'll use my limited resources and political capital for projects that make sense to me and the business, not to make some web developers life easier.
This has a double effect. The AT&T sales rep might actually pass it on to the people that need to know, and if not, the NSA will pass it on for them!
HAHAHAHA, thanks I needed that laugh. I see you've never dealt with AT&T before, the chances of the rep passing that info along are about the same as the sun going nova tomorrow. Oh and I have little faith in the NSA, nothing in that message would have been caught by first level filtering so while it might be stored for some time there's basically no change of it being read.
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8% efficient cells might not be sufficient to provide ALL the power for a house, but they can make a heck of a dent. I have a very modest home (~1,600 sq ft roof area with attached garage) and if you take the tiny solar insolation we get here in NE Ohio (~4kWh/m^2/day) and multiply it out with the 8% you get ~360kWh/month which is almost half my average monthly power draw. If I could buy these cells for little more than what shingles cost then paying for the inverter to reduce my power bill by half would have a pretty quick ROI.
There are Blackberries with both CDMA and GSM radios, they have a SIM installed by Verizon too. Nice for people who live in a GSM deadzone but travel internationally.
The only way that I see SQL server ahead in is pricing. When we implemented Oracle 10gR2 about 3 years ago we got such good pricing out of Oracle that MS refused to match for SQL Enterprise. Now that quad core is the norm and 8 core is on the horizon Oracles per core pricing model is insane.
In the enterprise destructors would be really nice. Depending on average object size the JVM's for our various applications can't use more than 1-1.5GB of ram because worst case GC times become bad enough to become noticeable at the display level. This leads to all sort of fun hacks for load balancing a bunch of JVM's. If GC were just used to catch the occasional leaked memory it could be scheduled for off hours where the performance impact would be minimal.
2008 R2 is based on the Win7 codebase.
AD also does multi-master replication out of the box and it's been scale tested to the very largest of implementations.
No, it's because of exclusive redistribution contracts with foreign media companies. They could find plenty of international advertisers and even national advertisers using IP location services just like everything else on the web. The problem is that the media companies have divided up the world into a ton of little markets and their existing contracts don't allow them to do internet based distribution. It's an old business model that will change over time but it could take quite a while.
But the number of slots scale with the number of processors and the ratio of ram:cores for Nehalem works out fairly well for most peoples workloads today. Not only that but I have to question how many slots you can cram into a motherboard, a four way Nehalem EX could theoretically have 64 DIMM's without the 4x ASIC. Even if they go with a daughtercard setup like the DL585 G1 you'd still have trouble fitting it all into a 4U server.
Because in a large datacenter you can save millions on reduced wiring, cooling, devices and ports. It's really only for greenfield installs but you'd be very foolish NOT to look at it for a new rollout.
Nope, in most states even if you cancel your wireline service the LEC is required or general does provide soft dialtone service meaning 911. It's there for people who get their service cut due to lack of payment but who the state thinks should still have access to emergency services. According to consumer reports the following states have soft dialtone provisions:
* Arizona
* California
* Colorado
* Delaware
* Florida
* Georgia
* Hawaii
* Idaho
* Iowa
* Massachusetts
* Minnesota
* Montana
* New York
* North Dakota
* Ohio
* Oklahoma
* Oregon
* Pennsylvania
* South Dakota
* Utah
* Vermont
* Washington
* Wyoming
Yeah instead of working with HP/IBM to support their servers they are going to have to train all their field engineers how to properly service and diagnose their new server line. Oh and IBM announced a big deal with Brocade for FC gear the day after the launch of Cisco's blade servers, I wonder how much revenue they will make on the servers vs what they are going to lose in other markets by pissing off all their partners. Unless you have a lot of clueless CTO type get snowballed by the Cisco rep I really don't see these things going anywhere.
They'll have to be custom parts at the top end since the memory expander ASIC is a proprietary part they got from an acquisition.
It's worse than that, the only server on the list that is more expandable than the servers I can buy TODAY from any of the major players is the top line 2U one. Today I can buy a DL360 G6 (1U) from HP and stuff it with 18 DIMM's and 8 SFF HDD's, in fact I have 3 waiting in my datacenter that were delivered yesterday (though they are the 4x SFF variety with optical drive, they are going to be SAN connected so I only needed 2 drives for the OS). 48 DIMM's is a technical tour de force, but I wonder if they can pull it off at a competitive price to alternative solutions. I also wonder how many people will find that their real workloads work well with that many VM's for each core (unless they have really memory hungry VM's). Also Beckton comes out a quarter later so 1U servers from the competition could have 16 cores (32 with hyperthreading) and 32DIMM slots (though at the cost and power cost of FB-DIMM's).
Ah, I just found the FCC information, apparently your local PSAP has to make a formal request for E9-1-1 services to the carrier and they have 60 days to comply. To make the request they must have the capability to receive the information. The FCC has quarterly reports from the major carriers on the progress but they just stop in mid 2006, I have to assume this was one of those freaking 'but it's too expensive for us to supply the reports' whines that the telco's seem to do all the time.
The amazing thing to me is looking over the information from Cingular/AT&T from Aug 06 it appears at least in Ohio that the rural counties were first to get the service. Meanwhile not a single PSAP in the most populous county in the state had service, not even the wealthy suburbs full of million dollar homes.
GPS isn't required, e911 IS. The providers can provide e911 data through triangulation. In fact indoors they often have to since GPS doesn't work well.
Uh, no. The majority of cell sites do not have any significant amount of backup runtime. The reason is they weren't built out like POP's and weren't under anywhere near the same level of regulation because they aren't considered a lifeline service. If one or two sites have power go out due to local damage they will generally pull up a portable generator to the site but during a widespread outage most sites will go out. Of the dozen sites near my house only two have a site shelter with large battery arrays and an onsite generator, since I have marginal service anyways it's likely I wouldn't be able to talk to one of the towers with generator if there were a grid-wide outage. I know during the 2003 NE blackout my cell didn't work away from my apartment (we were in a small pocket that had power, was lots of fun since everyone for miles around came to the couple of gas stations nearby that had power for their pumps).
911 service works even if you have no local provider.
Are you seriously arguing that incarcerating nearly 1% of the population and spending hundreds of billion dollars on failed attempts at squashing drug supply is what's best for society? Really? Sounds to me more like government has grown used to feeding off the teat of the 'war on drugs' and doesn't want to give up all that money and power.
Doesn't matter, we put up with distracted drivers every day which are just as/more dangerous than people intoxicated by marijuana. The issue of DUI enforcement shouldn't allow us to continue on a proven failed path that is bankrupting the country and ruining peoples lives (disproportionally minority lives). Bust the people who pose a danger for reckless operation with video showing the improper operation and let a jury decide if they posed a risk.
The Trieste is very cool, you can see it in person at the the US Navy Museum which coincidentally is next door to NCIS headquarters.
Cool, I'll try that and get back to you from the unemployment line. Like I said I'm not burning political capital to force through a change when the rest of our security systems minimize the risks from IE6. As you said there are plenty of qualified people looking for work and that includes IT people. In a year or two when our 3 mainline apps are upgraded to versions that support IE7/8 I'll push through the upgrade. The browser's already almost a decade old, 18-24 months more usage isn't really going to hurt.
You're forgetting the XP virtual machine in Win7, it can be made to run IE6 seemlessly. That wouldn't even be that unusual of a situation for a large enterprise. Back in 2003/04 I was on a team that switched out a VERY large mortgage originator from all the loan processors having two PC's to one. The second PC's were used to run OS/2 with a custom origination software, we were upgrading their XP machines so that they could run VirtualPC with OS/2 as the guest. That app had millions in development costs behind it and was certified in almost every state, there was no way in hell it was going to be scrapped.
How about, the version of enterprise apps x,y,z,q, etc that we run are certified and supported running in IE6 with ActiveX controls a,b,c,d,l,m. We have a strategy of moving to the current version of those apps over then next N years as we reach the current systems end of life (which may be extended from the originally planned EOL by the lack of capital for the replacement systems). The only possible strategy for us would be to move to Firefox for general web browsing but that requires significant additional effort and buy-in from the users. Sorry but I'll use my limited resources and political capital for projects that make sense to me and the business, not to make some web developers life easier.
Some sites are remote enough to use microwave backhauls, there are a few in Yellowstone and a few around the grand canyon that I've seen.
This has a double effect. The AT&T sales rep might actually pass it on to the people that need to know, and if not, the NSA will pass it on for them!
HAHAHAHA, thanks I needed that laugh. I see you've never dealt with AT&T before, the chances of the rep passing that info along are about the same as the sun going nova tomorrow. Oh and I have little faith in the NSA, nothing in that message would have been caught by first level filtering so while it might be stored for some time there's basically no change of it being read.