How can Sprint or AT&T stop you? If you have a SIM that's active just pull it from whatever smart-phone it's in and drop it into an android phone. Assuming it's tri-band you should have zero problems and there isn't really anything the telco can do about it, ain't open standards great.
What do you think actually powers many of those SAN/Hardware/NAS/NFS file servers, Linux of course. I really don't think the lack of file systems is holding Linux back, but having more of them that fit into more niches is sure to mean more adoption because Linux will be the hammer that fits the nail for those users.
Stupid employer, you setup unattainable goals and then let the person go for performance reasons. Not that I agree with the tactic, it's just the obvious thing to do if you are the employer.
Actually that's Judeo-christian religions including but not limited to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. You forget that the whole ten commandments thing is in the old testament which is used in all three religions =)
Exactly, unless the clause is payment to sit on the sideline (like almost all executive non-competes were back when they were only routinely used for executives) there is no way it is actual consideration because the power in the negotiation is inherently unequal. I love how some people rail against common sense and think that it's somehow limiting them to keep them from signing away the right to make a living, they've either never been under an onerous NCA or they use them against their employees and don't want to come out and say as much. My personal stance is I am happy to sign an NDA and a non-solicitation agreement but I refuse to ever again be in the position of possible financial ruin just because a former employer wants to be a prick.
How does a non-compete EVER benefit the employee? In most of contract law there must be some consideration to both parties, but I fail to see where it exists in the context of a non-compete. If the employer was forced to compensate you for the duration of the non-compete I could understand it, but as it stands today most non-competes should be invalid on the face yet because business has lobbied the legislatures of many states they can get away with saying that continuing to pay you during your tenure is sufficient consideration.
As an aside, non-competes from small companies are the worst because the owners ego often gets in the way of reason. I had a new employer offer a significant percentage of my annual salary to a past employer to simply loosen the terms of my non-compete from a geographical basis to a simple non-solicitation agreement. Even though there is no possible way that he would derive more benefit from keeping me unemployed he none the less did just that. Luckily I was able to find employment in a line of work that didn't fall under my non-compete, but I can imagine others being not so lucky.
GE smart energy CFL's turn on instantly and have a nice close to incandescent spectrum. I've been running them almost exclusively for the last two years and have yet to replace one bulb. The last holdout was the lights in my basement which are dimmable flood type, but now Sam's Club carries even those in GE CFL so as they break they will be replaced.
This is an area where the Citrix acquisition of XenSource will help them since Citrix realized the value of chargebacks way back in the MetaFrame XP days. My problem with a chargeback model is that it is hard to justify spare capacity in a chargeback environment yet you must have it to provide effective fault tolerance, do you overcharge a fixed amount for spare capacity, or is it a percentage so that as an applications requirements grow you can keep up with the bigger spare hardware needed to accommodate it. How do you sell it to the business if their budget is getting squeezed (I know this applies to physical servers as well, but if you have capacity in the virtual cluster to fit their app in it's a lot harder to say no).
He talks about turning off unused capacity like it's some future panacea, HP and VMWare have been doing it for a couple years already. He also dismisses turning servers off as not being a big deal but anyone who's run a datacenter knows that servers that have been running for years often fail when they are shut off. There are numerous physical reason for this from inrush current to bearing wear. A modern boot from SAN server is probably much less likely to fail at boot then older ones with DAS, but the chance is very much non-zero. Of course with a good dynamic provisioning system a single host failure doesn't matter because that new VM will just get spun up on a different host that's woken up.
I don't know about where you live, but around here both in tee ball and little league the parents are encouraged to go out on the field and help their kids learn. I do so regularly as my son hasn't picked up batting well yet and so I keep coaching him when it's his turn to bat.
HP's RAID controllers can read from all other controllers which take the same physical drives. It's one of the coolest features ever, you can yank drives out of a server and put em in a storage shelf in a SAN and mount em on a new server in minutes.
Except in order to get smaller data domains the magnetic coercivity has gone up with each generation of drive so that today you are LESS likely to have a bit randomly flip then you were in the old days. Todays media have a coercivity of around 2500 Oe, or able to withstand about 10,000 times the magnetic field density of the earth at the surface (average). Not to mention that modern drives use very advanced ECC algorithms to account for the occasional bitflip.
Rubbish, the heads are parked when the drive isn't spun up and they NEVER touch the surface of the disk (ok, very rarely, but it's a failure mode you notice immediately because the screeching of a head hitting the platter at 7,200RPM (let alone 15K) is 10 million times worse than nails on a chalkboard). The actual problem you are describing in caused by one of three things, the lubrication in the drive going, a groove being worn into the bearings (for pre-liquid bearing drives), or the head failing to leave the parked position. All three can often be fixed by employing the snap trick, as the drive spins up rapidly rotate it about 90-180 degrees along it's axis of rotation.
How can one dumb operator cause data loss? With multiple sysplexes each with their own backup solutions I find it hard to believe that any bank loses data, did one or both of the DR sites not have backup!?!?
Huh? I've got DLTIV tapes from 1994 that I just had read for discovery purposes, 100% read rate on 14 year old tapes, they might be a bad archival solution for 100 years but they work fine on the 1-2 decade scale.
Here's an LTO2 drive for $800, slightly more capacity for a little more money, of course you'll need a $50 U160 card as well. Tapes are about $10 less so depending on how much and how often you backup it can end up saving you money.
Sure they could the Cray T90 came out in 1995 with up to 8GB of ram and the Y-MP M90 came out in 1992 and had up to 32GB of ram, the T3D came out in 1993 with up to 64GB of ram. Basically your run of the mill supercomputer had several times that much ram by the mid 90's =)
THIS! These people are obviously not busy enough, I have a multi-year backlog of backend projects let alone the stuff that the business adds on a quarterly basis.
Old technology just did not prevent you from recording/copying shows, music etc. That did not mean that you were allowed to do it, but many turned a blind eye to infringements.
Except we DO have those rights, both through constitutional interpretation and through law. See Sony v Universal and the Audio Home Recording Act (AHRA)
The AHRA contains one positive provision for the consumer electronics industry and consumers, section 1008, a "Prohibition on certain infringement actions:"
"No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings."[17]
According to the Senate, this provision was intended to conclusively resolve the debate over audio home taping, and "[create] an atmosphere of certainty to pave the way for the development and availability of new digital recording technologies and new musical recordings."[18] They were partially successful: this provision made the sale of DAT and Minidisc possible in the United States, by protecting device manufacturers, importers and distributors from infringement suits like Cahn v. Sony.
Private, noncommercial copies by consumers using "digital audio recording devices" are explicitly protected by 1008. The Senate report defines noncommercial as "not for direct or indirect commercial advantage", offering examples such as making copies for a family member, or copies for use in a car or portable tape player wikipedia
Why would users be worried, every year during the Superbowl websites crash, Windows Update has crashed in the past, various high profile events bring media sites down fairly often, etc. Yet people continue to use these flawed properties, why because people don't expect perfection, they expect general reliability and are mostly willing to let things slid if you mess up once in a while as long as it doesn't kill or maim someone.
You're correct, I was thinking about the improved imaging available to mobile applications through the use of phased array.
Aperture synthesis by post-processing of motion data from a single moving source, on the other hand, is widely used in space and airborne radar systems.wikipedia
The two concepts are related in that you use a phased array to implement synthetic aperture, but you would not typically use synthetic aperture for weather radar. I think it was the mention of multiple disparate antennas in the article that pulled up the memory banks on synthetic aperture.
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How can Sprint or AT&T stop you? If you have a SIM that's active just pull it from whatever smart-phone it's in and drop it into an android phone. Assuming it's tri-band you should have zero problems and there isn't really anything the telco can do about it, ain't open standards great.
It was pre-ordained, Insurrection was film #9 and all Trek fans know that the odd numbered films suck.
What do you think actually powers many of those SAN/Hardware/NAS/NFS file servers, Linux of course. I really don't think the lack of file systems is holding Linux back, but having more of them that fit into more niches is sure to mean more adoption because Linux will be the hammer that fits the nail for those users.
Stupid employer, you setup unattainable goals and then let the person go for performance reasons. Not that I agree with the tactic, it's just the obvious thing to do if you are the employer.
Actually that's Judeo-christian religions including but not limited to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. You forget that the whole ten commandments thing is in the old testament which is used in all three religions =)
Exactly, unless the clause is payment to sit on the sideline (like almost all executive non-competes were back when they were only routinely used for executives) there is no way it is actual consideration because the power in the negotiation is inherently unequal. I love how some people rail against common sense and think that it's somehow limiting them to keep them from signing away the right to make a living, they've either never been under an onerous NCA or they use them against their employees and don't want to come out and say as much. My personal stance is I am happy to sign an NDA and a non-solicitation agreement but I refuse to ever again be in the position of possible financial ruin just because a former employer wants to be a prick.
How does a non-compete EVER benefit the employee? In most of contract law there must be some consideration to both parties, but I fail to see where it exists in the context of a non-compete. If the employer was forced to compensate you for the duration of the non-compete I could understand it, but as it stands today most non-competes should be invalid on the face yet because business has lobbied the legislatures of many states they can get away with saying that continuing to pay you during your tenure is sufficient consideration.
As an aside, non-competes from small companies are the worst because the owners ego often gets in the way of reason. I had a new employer offer a significant percentage of my annual salary to a past employer to simply loosen the terms of my non-compete from a geographical basis to a simple non-solicitation agreement. Even though there is no possible way that he would derive more benefit from keeping me unemployed he none the less did just that. Luckily I was able to find employment in a line of work that didn't fall under my non-compete, but I can imagine others being not so lucky.
GE smart energy CFL's turn on instantly and have a nice close to incandescent spectrum. I've been running them almost exclusively for the last two years and have yet to replace one bulb. The last holdout was the lights in my basement which are dimmable flood type, but now Sam's Club carries even those in GE CFL so as they break they will be replaced.
This is an area where the Citrix acquisition of XenSource will help them since Citrix realized the value of chargebacks way back in the MetaFrame XP days. My problem with a chargeback model is that it is hard to justify spare capacity in a chargeback environment yet you must have it to provide effective fault tolerance, do you overcharge a fixed amount for spare capacity, or is it a percentage so that as an applications requirements grow you can keep up with the bigger spare hardware needed to accommodate it. How do you sell it to the business if their budget is getting squeezed (I know this applies to physical servers as well, but if you have capacity in the virtual cluster to fit their app in it's a lot harder to say no).
He talks about turning off unused capacity like it's some future panacea, HP and VMWare have been doing it for a couple years already. He also dismisses turning servers off as not being a big deal but anyone who's run a datacenter knows that servers that have been running for years often fail when they are shut off. There are numerous physical reason for this from inrush current to bearing wear. A modern boot from SAN server is probably much less likely to fail at boot then older ones with DAS, but the chance is very much non-zero. Of course with a good dynamic provisioning system a single host failure doesn't matter because that new VM will just get spun up on a different host that's woken up.
I don't know about where you live, but around here both in tee ball and little league the parents are encouraged to go out on the field and help their kids learn. I do so regularly as my son hasn't picked up batting well yet and so I keep coaching him when it's his turn to bat.
HP's RAID controllers can read from all other controllers which take the same physical drives. It's one of the coolest features ever, you can yank drives out of a server and put em in a storage shelf in a SAN and mount em on a new server in minutes.
Won't Iron Mt online allow you to seed with a tape? If you only have 600GB of data I doubt your growth rate is enough to outstrip your T1.
Except in order to get smaller data domains the magnetic coercivity has gone up with each generation of drive so that today you are LESS likely to have a bit randomly flip then you were in the old days. Todays media have a coercivity of around 2500 Oe, or able to withstand about 10,000 times the magnetic field density of the earth at the surface (average). Not to mention that modern drives use very advanced ECC algorithms to account for the occasional bitflip.
Rubbish, the heads are parked when the drive isn't spun up and they NEVER touch the surface of the disk (ok, very rarely, but it's a failure mode you notice immediately because the screeching of a head hitting the platter at 7,200RPM (let alone 15K) is 10 million times worse than nails on a chalkboard). The actual problem you are describing in caused by one of three things, the lubrication in the drive going, a groove being worn into the bearings (for pre-liquid bearing drives), or the head failing to leave the parked position. All three can often be fixed by employing the snap trick, as the drive spins up rapidly rotate it about 90-180 degrees along it's axis of rotation.
How can one dumb operator cause data loss? With multiple sysplexes each with their own backup solutions I find it hard to believe that any bank loses data, did one or both of the DR sites not have backup!?!?
Huh? I've got DLTIV tapes from 1994 that I just had read for discovery purposes, 100% read rate on 14 year old tapes, they might be a bad archival solution for 100 years but they work fine on the 1-2 decade scale.
Here's an LTO2 drive for $800, slightly more capacity for a little more money, of course you'll need a $50 U160 card as well. Tapes are about $10 less so depending on how much and how often you backup it can end up saving you money.
Uh, IDE dates to 1986 which was 22 years ago by my calculations.
Sure they could the Cray T90 came out in 1995 with up to 8GB of ram and the Y-MP M90 came out in 1992 and had up to 32GB of ram, the T3D came out in 1993 with up to 64GB of ram. Basically your run of the mill supercomputer had several times that much ram by the mid 90's =)
THIS! These people are obviously not busy enough, I have a multi-year backlog of backend projects let alone the stuff that the business adds on a quarterly basis.
Old technology just did not prevent you from recording/copying shows, music etc. That did not mean that you were allowed to do it, but many turned a blind eye to infringements.
Except we DO have those rights, both through constitutional interpretation and through law. See Sony v Universal and the Audio Home Recording Act (AHRA)
The AHRA contains one positive provision for the consumer electronics industry and consumers, section 1008, a "Prohibition on certain infringement actions:"
"No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings."[17]
According to the Senate, this provision was intended to conclusively resolve the debate over audio home taping, and "[create] an atmosphere of certainty to pave the way for the development and availability of new digital recording technologies and new musical recordings."[18] They were partially successful: this provision made the sale of DAT and Minidisc possible in the United States, by protecting device manufacturers, importers and distributors from infringement suits like Cahn v. Sony.
Private, noncommercial copies by consumers using "digital audio recording devices" are explicitly protected by 1008. The Senate report defines noncommercial as "not for direct or indirect commercial advantage", offering examples such as making copies for a family member, or copies for use in a car or portable tape player
wikipedia
Why would users be worried, every year during the Superbowl websites crash, Windows Update has crashed in the past, various high profile events bring media sites down fairly often, etc. Yet people continue to use these flawed properties, why because people don't expect perfection, they expect general reliability and are mostly willing to let things slid if you mess up once in a while as long as it doesn't kill or maim someone.
You're correct, I was thinking about the improved imaging available to mobile applications through the use of phased array.
Aperture synthesis by post-processing of motion data from a single moving source, on the other hand, is widely used in space and airborne radar systems.wikipedia
The two concepts are related in that you use a phased array to implement synthetic aperture, but you would not typically use synthetic aperture for weather radar. I think it was the mention of multiple disparate antennas in the article that pulled up the memory banks on synthetic aperture.
Yeah I think they confused DS3 with E1 =)