How about running the AC and all onboard electronics and going to electric power steering, that would probably increase efficiency by ~10%, the equivilant of pulling millions of vehicles off the road if done industry wide (electric power assist is already moving down market due to being an easy fuel efficiency gain).
You could EASILY save $50k on cert's considering an EV cert is ~$1K/server/year, if you have a few dozen domains and a handful of servers being load balanced then over the three year (conservative) life of the device it could save you money. If you have a large LB farm it's pretty much a no brainer. Of course there are few organizations that buy a BigIP just to save on SSL certs, they are usually bought to allow a scalable, reconfigurable, dynamic farm of servers to handle high traffic loads.
Because consumers wouldn't spend it they would save it or pay down debt (same thing) therefore not increasing the velocity of money significantly. In this one particular instance the supply side guys are right.
1000W, what freaking system draws 1000W and only has 32GB?!?!? One of my most power hungry systems is a DL585 G5 with 2x3.2 Ghz quad core Opteron's and 128GB of ram and a few HBA's and it draws less than half that typical.
Nothing the government can spend money on is as wasteful as having one in four able bodied adults sitting around doing nothing productive! If you don't get that point then I'm sorry but you have no reason. I'm not a fan of big government but unfortunately when the financial system implodes the only entity big enough to even attempt to fix it is government. There will be waste, graft, back room deals and wasteful spending on the way to recovery, but hopefully a large percentage of that waste will end up entering the money stream and accelerating the flow of money which is the ONLY thing that will stave off mass unemployment. Money is only better spent in the private sector when the private sector is actually willing to make use of it, at the moment almost everyone in the private sector is hording cash and decelerating the flow of money.
Mixed content is BAD, it allows for easy man in the middle and cross site scripting attacks. That's why every modern browser warns you about it and EV certs don't work with mixed content.
Not when you include the man months to do all the configuration and tweaking needed to get it working perfectly. Plus it's not like you can really simulate the real world load these types of boxes experience so you would have to put your homebrew solution in front of a webfarm where downtime is many multiples the cost of the BigIP solution. The fact is only a cash poor startup is likely to use such a solution because it's about the only situation where you would have sufficient traffic without the revenue to justify the commercial solution.
I see you aren't an electronics geek, it's simple to make a crystal radio that's powered by nothing more than the radio waves floating around you =) Oh and the solution is simple, you use a feedback loop. You have a continue signal on the ground that tells the satellite to send power, if the beam gets misaligned the ground station loses power and the continue signal stops and the satellite shuts down transmission.
I was doing 4K random writes to the entire drive using IOMeter, that should be as punishing as anything can possibly be from a small file write perspective.
Perhaps the SLC cells in the X25e are just faster than the controller can cope with but after leaving one writing random data for 24 hours I saw no degradation in speed, if my numbers are right that was about 275 writes to every cell in the SSD assuming a 2:1 flash:usable ratio (.170GB/s*3600s/hr*24 hours*.5). I've also not heard of this kind of severe wear penalty for other SLC based devices like the FusionI/O.
The fact that it was fixed AND QA'd in 3 weeks proves it was easy to fix! If you've ever worked for any large company you know three weeks is kind of the minimum for this kind of thing, you need a couple days for meetings to discuss the problem and brainstorm problems, a few days to formulate actual solutions, a few days to test, a few days for QA (minimum) and then a day or two to package it up, get with the outside content providing group and then hand something over to marketing.
Nonsense. If that was true, then why don't we have a state-sanctioned monopoly on all foodstuffs so we don't run the risk of 'unreliable' supply? I mean, food is so crucial.
Uh, perhaps you haven't heard but most of the western world has HUGE subsidies for farmers to control and cap the production of certain key foodstuffs to ensure that overproduction does not lead to a collapse of the market price for those items and an eventual mass exodus from producing those crops?
Exactly, look at wholesale bandwidth charges where there is fierce competition and see how price per GB has gone down in a very non-linear curve. Contrast that with home broadband which is generally controlled by a monopoly or a small oligopoly, price per GB has actually tripled (compare dialup 53Kbps @ $10/month in the 90's to TW's lowest tier @$30/month for the same amount of transfer).
Huh? Do you think there is no cost to take water from a lake or river and treat it to modern levels of cleanliness? In most places people inhabit you are free to get whatever surface water is available, but you probably won't live too long. Water treatment and the eradication of water born infections was a major part of what makes modern lifespans possible.
If you're close enough to the Great Lakes to know about the compact then I think you will find solar hot water doesn't work. You either need a double transfer glycol system (to avoid possible contamination of drinking water with glycol) or a drain back system with pump. Both have ROI greater than mean expected lifetime so unless you are going it to be off grid or for altruistic environmental benefits then I think you will be disappointed.
What?!? Oracle has 3 of the top 5 ERP platforms, 2 of the top 3 middleware platforms, and a few of the top BI platforms. In fact at this point Oracle probably makes as much or more of their revenue from application and middleware licensing than they do from database licensing. They also have a 10,000+ employee consulting arm.
You're missing the point, nowhere near 100% of Office or Windows sales can be attributed to the anti-piracy measures built into their activation systems. In fact I would suggest that the number is near zero as pirated copies of Windows and Office releases are available for download before the product even launches for all who care to pirate them. So now Microsoft has the cost of developing the activation system, the cost of maintaining the activation servers, the cost of implementing Genuine Advantage, and now the cost of this judgement. All because some PHB honestly believes that Microsofts paltry activation systems significantly contribute to revenue retention and growth. Much of the software industry has been infected with the notion since before the days of MS DOS despite the mountain of evidence to the contrary.
But if your real power demands are going down by a factor of 4 or 5 compared to the load they are replacing there should be plenty of capacity for even a doubling of reactive power reserves, so all that needs to change is the compensation structure not the facilities. Not only that but as another poster pointed out CFL's act opposite of typical reactive loads like motors and so should actually reduce the need for reactive power generation to some extent.
And hopefully you are using a source that is significantly cheaper per BTU than electric! Even with the recent rise in cost for natural gas it's still about 2/5th's the cost per BTU if burned in a 93% efficient furnace. Fuel oil and propane aren't as efficient due to high delivery costs but they are still in the realm of 1/2 to 3/5ths the cost per BTU.
Not remotely possible unless you are buying really cheap bulbs and have bad power. Even pessimistic predictions for decent CFL's are in the couple thousand hour range, let's say 2,000 hours. During those 2,000 hours the bulb has saved you 64kwhr of electricity. At the national average residential rate of $.11/kwhr that's a savings of $6.40. Even if 100% of the cost of the bulb was energy the ~$1.50 per bulb you can pay for GE Energy Saver 13W bulbs makes your hypothesis next to impossible. Those bulbs would have to last less than 500 hours at 100% energy to retail sales price for them to be net energy drains. My personal average even if all my bulbs died tomorrow would be about 2,500 hours per bulb, in reality I have lost one of twelve bulbs in four years.
Ok, your numbers were 19W real power for 1250 lumens vs 105W real power for 2100 lumens. That comes to 56.8 lumens per watt (loss corrected) vs 20 lumens/watt or 284% more lumens per watt. Not as good as the 400% optimistic pie in the sky claims but still pretty damn huge. For commercial use the story is even better, the bulbs I recently purchased at work are 62.5 lumens per watt and the T8 ballast has a.95 PF rating.
Nah, they may eventually need to outlay some capital to invest in PF correction gear to keep from needing to upgrade facilities but even the interest on the already realized capital savings will probably cover that. NZ power estimates are $.78/W for infrastructure, Ontario power's are $1/W. If every bulb saves them 50W and they delay upgrades for 10 years due to decreased peak loads then they have saved $40 assuming 8% simple interest. I assume they can build PF correction facilities for less than 80% the cost per W of current full transmission systems.
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$20 thermostats ARE programmable and pay for themselves in the first month or two, people are just too lazy to use them.
How about running the AC and all onboard electronics and going to electric power steering, that would probably increase efficiency by ~10%, the equivilant of pulling millions of vehicles off the road if done industry wide (electric power assist is already moving down market due to being an easy fuel efficiency gain).
You could EASILY save $50k on cert's considering an EV cert is ~$1K/server/year, if you have a few dozen domains and a handful of servers being load balanced then over the three year (conservative) life of the device it could save you money. If you have a large LB farm it's pretty much a no brainer. Of course there are few organizations that buy a BigIP just to save on SSL certs, they are usually bought to allow a scalable, reconfigurable, dynamic farm of servers to handle high traffic loads.
Because consumers wouldn't spend it they would save it or pay down debt (same thing) therefore not increasing the velocity of money significantly. In this one particular instance the supply side guys are right.
Oh yes it can be, Intel Core2 based Xeon system's fully loaded with FBDIMM's can easily use as much power for RAM as CPU.
1000W, what freaking system draws 1000W and only has 32GB?!?!? One of my most power hungry systems is a DL585 G5 with 2x3.2 Ghz quad core Opteron's and 128GB of ram and a few HBA's and it draws less than half that typical.
Nothing the government can spend money on is as wasteful as having one in four able bodied adults sitting around doing nothing productive! If you don't get that point then I'm sorry but you have no reason. I'm not a fan of big government but unfortunately when the financial system implodes the only entity big enough to even attempt to fix it is government. There will be waste, graft, back room deals and wasteful spending on the way to recovery, but hopefully a large percentage of that waste will end up entering the money stream and accelerating the flow of money which is the ONLY thing that will stave off mass unemployment. Money is only better spent in the private sector when the private sector is actually willing to make use of it, at the moment almost everyone in the private sector is hording cash and decelerating the flow of money.
Mixed content is BAD, it allows for easy man in the middle and cross site scripting attacks. That's why every modern browser warns you about it and EV certs don't work with mixed content.
Not when you include the man months to do all the configuration and tweaking needed to get it working perfectly. Plus it's not like you can really simulate the real world load these types of boxes experience so you would have to put your homebrew solution in front of a webfarm where downtime is many multiples the cost of the BigIP solution. The fact is only a cash poor startup is likely to use such a solution because it's about the only situation where you would have sufficient traffic without the revenue to justify the commercial solution.
Feedback is a mechanism, process or signal that is looped back to control a system within itself. Such a loop is called a feedback loop. link
I see you aren't an electronics geek, it's simple to make a crystal radio that's powered by nothing more than the radio waves floating around you =) Oh and the solution is simple, you use a feedback loop. You have a continue signal on the ground that tells the satellite to send power, if the beam gets misaligned the ground station loses power and the continue signal stops and the satellite shuts down transmission.
I was doing 4K random writes to the entire drive using IOMeter, that should be as punishing as anything can possibly be from a small file write perspective.
Perhaps the SLC cells in the X25e are just faster than the controller can cope with but after leaving one writing random data for 24 hours I saw no degradation in speed, if my numbers are right that was about 275 writes to every cell in the SSD assuming a 2:1 flash:usable ratio (.170GB/s*3600s/hr*24 hours*.5). I've also not heard of this kind of severe wear penalty for other SLC based devices like the FusionI/O.
The fact that it was fixed AND QA'd in 3 weeks proves it was easy to fix! If you've ever worked for any large company you know three weeks is kind of the minimum for this kind of thing, you need a couple days for meetings to discuss the problem and brainstorm problems, a few days to formulate actual solutions, a few days to test, a few days for QA (minimum) and then a day or two to package it up, get with the outside content providing group and then hand something over to marketing.
Nonsense. If that was true, then why don't we have a state-sanctioned monopoly on all foodstuffs so we don't run the risk of 'unreliable' supply? I mean, food is so crucial.
Uh, perhaps you haven't heard but most of the western world has HUGE subsidies for farmers to control and cap the production of certain key foodstuffs to ensure that overproduction does not lead to a collapse of the market price for those items and an eventual mass exodus from producing those crops?
Exactly, look at wholesale bandwidth charges where there is fierce competition and see how price per GB has gone down in a very non-linear curve. Contrast that with home broadband which is generally controlled by a monopoly or a small oligopoly, price per GB has actually tripled (compare dialup 53Kbps @ $10/month in the 90's to TW's lowest tier @$30/month for the same amount of transfer).
Huh? Do you think there is no cost to take water from a lake or river and treat it to modern levels of cleanliness? In most places people inhabit you are free to get whatever surface water is available, but you probably won't live too long. Water treatment and the eradication of water born infections was a major part of what makes modern lifespans possible.
If you're close enough to the Great Lakes to know about the compact then I think you will find solar hot water doesn't work. You either need a double transfer glycol system (to avoid possible contamination of drinking water with glycol) or a drain back system with pump. Both have ROI greater than mean expected lifetime so unless you are going it to be off grid or for altruistic environmental benefits then I think you will be disappointed.
What?!? Oracle has 3 of the top 5 ERP platforms, 2 of the top 3 middleware platforms, and a few of the top BI platforms. In fact at this point Oracle probably makes as much or more of their revenue from application and middleware licensing than they do from database licensing. They also have a 10,000+ employee consulting arm.
You're missing the point, nowhere near 100% of Office or Windows sales can be attributed to the anti-piracy measures built into their activation systems. In fact I would suggest that the number is near zero as pirated copies of Windows and Office releases are available for download before the product even launches for all who care to pirate them. So now Microsoft has the cost of developing the activation system, the cost of maintaining the activation servers, the cost of implementing Genuine Advantage, and now the cost of this judgement. All because some PHB honestly believes that Microsofts paltry activation systems significantly contribute to revenue retention and growth. Much of the software industry has been infected with the notion since before the days of MS DOS despite the mountain of evidence to the contrary.
But if your real power demands are going down by a factor of 4 or 5 compared to the load they are replacing there should be plenty of capacity for even a doubling of reactive power reserves, so all that needs to change is the compensation structure not the facilities. Not only that but as another poster pointed out CFL's act opposite of typical reactive loads like motors and so should actually reduce the need for reactive power generation to some extent.
And hopefully you are using a source that is significantly cheaper per BTU than electric! Even with the recent rise in cost for natural gas it's still about 2/5th's the cost per BTU if burned in a 93% efficient furnace. Fuel oil and propane aren't as efficient due to high delivery costs but they are still in the realm of 1/2 to 3/5ths the cost per BTU.
Not remotely possible unless you are buying really cheap bulbs and have bad power. Even pessimistic predictions for decent CFL's are in the couple thousand hour range, let's say 2,000 hours. During those 2,000 hours the bulb has saved you 64kwhr of electricity. At the national average residential rate of $.11/kwhr that's a savings of $6.40. Even if 100% of the cost of the bulb was energy the ~$1.50 per bulb you can pay for GE Energy Saver 13W bulbs makes your hypothesis next to impossible. Those bulbs would have to last less than 500 hours at 100% energy to retail sales price for them to be net energy drains. My personal average even if all my bulbs died tomorrow would be about 2,500 hours per bulb, in reality I have lost one of twelve bulbs in four years.
Ok, your numbers were 19W real power for 1250 lumens vs 105W real power for 2100 lumens. That comes to 56.8 lumens per watt (loss corrected) vs 20 lumens/watt or 284% more lumens per watt. Not as good as the 400% optimistic pie in the sky claims but still pretty damn huge. For commercial use the story is even better, the bulbs I recently purchased at work are 62.5 lumens per watt and the T8 ballast has a .95 PF rating.
Nah, they may eventually need to outlay some capital to invest in PF correction gear to keep from needing to upgrade facilities but even the interest on the already realized capital savings will probably cover that. NZ power estimates are $.78/W for infrastructure, Ontario power's are $1/W. If every bulb saves them 50W and they delay upgrades for 10 years due to decreased peak loads then they have saved $40 assuming 8% simple interest. I assume they can build PF correction facilities for less than 80% the cost per W of current full transmission systems.