I take it you've never had a cellphone with true Internet connectivity? Every one of my friends who has would never go back to being without it. Realtime directions and the ability to do a quick search anytime anywhere is almost priceless. For instance I was recently on vacation in NC and due to weather running late so the BBQ place I had planned on having dinner at would have been closed by the time I got there. I pulled up Google Maps Mobile and entered the zip of the city I was approaching and the keyword brewpub. I started calling and on the second call found a place with an open kitchen, so instead of eating some horrible fastfood I had a great shepherds pie made with elk and ostrich. That alone was worth several months of my data plan.
Actually I like the idea of a constitutional amendment making all Congressional Bills have an automatic sunset clause of say 10 years and require that all bills be read into law in a Congressional session. That way the legislature has to decide that a bill is still worth the effort to renew. Not only that but it conveniently also limits the size of the law by limiting it to what can be read in x hours. If the founding fathers had any idea how large the federal government would become I'm fairly sure they would have included some similar clause to naturally limit its growth.
Well, Windows 2000 is currently in extended support which means technically only security related patches are supposed to be released for it, and that stops Jan 2010 I believe. This was a big problem for many companies as MS refused to issue a standard patch for the DST updates for Windows 2000. They had a convoluted manual/policy based process which didn't allow for easy confirmation that systems were updated. XP will enter this same quasi-supported phase in August of next year.
Their website isn't alive and well though! Their Danika ad apparently slashdotted their site into oblivion. Glad I'm not trying to do any domain operations with them tonight, I'd be pissed that they fucked up their site with a stupid ad stunt that they should have been prepared for.
Yeah when people say things like that to me it's an immediate logoff and new password required along with an email to our it security team and their manager. If it's the second time it's usually cc'd to their departments director/senior vp. Not sharing passwords is covered in new employee orientation as well as the annual IT policy update that everyone has to sign, and it's been like that at ever midsized or larger company I've ever worked at. Where do these people get the idea that sharing their password is ok?!?
That's based on CAL's, figures I've seen based on active seats are closer to parity. Active seats for Notes grew by 15% last year, impressive growth for any company or product. Since MS counts every core CAL as an Exchange CAL it's not too surprising. In fact most companies that run Notes probably own Exchange (I know we do) but choose to pay for Notes anyways, that says a LOT for Notes doesn't it =) Btw I'm an Exchange certified professional who's earned a good part of my living supporting Exchange at times so it's not like I have some Notes bias.
Exchange has nowhere near a monopoly, there's Notes which has about the same number of seats as Exchange and there's Groupwise which still has a fairly large installed base.
According to Alexa Yahoo runs the #1 and #17 websites, MS runs the #4, #5, and #18. I would say they both have plenty of experience running large data centers.
But I know that my ISP has no signed contract with me that allows them to put other customer's needs before mine. Make no mistake whether big business or home user they are both customers and should be treated equally.
Quite the opposite I'm sure, the ISP almost assuredly has a contract with you that specifies that they guarantee nothing more than a signal. Now with at least some of their corporate customers they probably DO have hard SLA's requiring certain minimum bandwidths and certain availability levels, that's why a T1 costs so much more than your home line with more bandwdith.
In fiber?!? That would be one giant leap in science. Now from what I've read the NSA does have a way to tap fiber, but when they used it on the Russians they didn't need to disrupt service.
The problem in Cuyahoga County was never one of a verifiable paper trail, we've had that since we went to electronic voting. The problem was that the machines were often broken causing polling places to be so backed up as to cause people to give up. They also had a server crash during tallying which obviously doesn't instill confidence in the results of the electronic process. This means that we would basically have to hand count every ballot every election (not just in close or disputed elections) at a cost of millions per election, millions Cuyahoga County doesn't have (we're one of the poorest large counties in the country). I'm sure if there was time and money we'd ideally have scantron machines at every polling place but there isn't before the primary and probably not before the general election. Going back to the electronic machines probably isn't possible because of the time needed to get all the techies to fix and deploy the machines.
The problem is, the computerized system ALREADY centralizes the vote counting, and in a MUCH less transparent way. The memory cards containing the vote tallies from the machines are brought to the board of elections and the votes downloaded to the server there (the server that repeatedly crashed during the last election causing the switch to scantron ballots). Now both parties have numerous people there overseeing the process and if they think there is something wrong they will of course ask for a hand recount where the ballots are tallied twice by a representative from each party. My problem with the ACLU petition is that NO system can be idiot proofed and so demanding a perfect system before we can switch off the damned electronic machines is asnine. Sure if there was time and money ideally they could get scantron machines for each polling station and train the poll workers to use them but there isn't and I think it's MUCH less dangerous to a fair and transparent election to go with the proposed scantron method. If this lawsuit proceeds it's likely I will be disenfranchised from the primary election (because I seriously doubt there is time to lineup all the technicians needed to oversee the electronic machines in time) and I am pissed about that.
The problem with using a railgun to launch anything but raw materials into space is acceleration. If you have to impart enough energy into the object over a track that at a maximum is a couple kilometers long you're going to be impacting too many g's for much of anything to stand up to.
Actually my informations is only 5 years out of date and from a quick Google search the 1300 series AP which is their next to newest offering is also ASIC based, so I wouldn't consider it so out of date =) They considered the stuff they could build into the ASIC to be a competitive advantage and knew that they could be to market with a new product months before the major chip houses would have even engineering samples. To be more on-topic their 1250AP which is 802.11n draft 2 compliant is only supported with one radio if powered by a 802.3af switch but you can use two radios if you have a Catalyst switch with 18.5W power capability or if you use the power injector. They claim 16.9W max power draw with 2 radios or 12.95W with one radio.
Why not, GMR technology was already on its way out of the lab by 1996, the only HDD tech more advanced than that is vertical recording which is still new and only used in a handful of drives.
Actually you're wrong. Cisco makes their own ASICs for their AP's, or at least they did in late 90's early 2000's when I supported their wireless division (formerly Aironet Communications). They were making enough cards and AP's that it was deemed worth it to spin their own chips. The biggest reason is they could do crypto at full wire speed in an AP that was powered by PoE, something that their competitors couldn't do at the time. I don't know if they've gotten away from ASICS as process improvements have enabled general purpose CPU's to do more with the power budget, but I'd bet they've found a new reason to spin an ASIC, like per client crypto keys.
You are wrong, in fact the small feature size of modern HDD's actually makes it easier in some cases as the smaller magnetic domains are harder to flip so even small changes in alignment will mean that recoverable data will be left behind.
Um? Actually video cards are an inherently parallizable problem set. You see this in every modern video card where the difference between the top and bottom of a product line is often simply the amount of parallel execution units that passed QC. All they are doing here is combining two of the largest economically producible dies together into one superchip. Oh and I already have multiprocessor network cards, their called multiport TCP Offload cards =)
The height was Technics, just enough customization to build useful real world stuff without being so specific that it hamstringed you into just one thing.
Huh? The reason Alexander Graham Bell got the patent on the telephone is that he filed something like an hour before Elisha Gray who had a very similar device.
So if you're a CEO and want to keep your job all you need to do is start a lawsuit? Oh and stopping a corporations ability to use financial instruments would basically cripple most companies whether they won the lawsuit or not, issuing short term debt is critical to most companies balance sheets.
Yeah but there's significant overhead for each additional file in the torrent and there ARE limits in the protocol. I would imagine this volume of small files would break either the protocol or at least many clients badly. The reason for RAR's is that many people distribute through various channels including NNTP where having the autosegment of a commandline rar tool is very useful.
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I take it you've never had a cellphone with true Internet connectivity? Every one of my friends who has would never go back to being without it. Realtime directions and the ability to do a quick search anytime anywhere is almost priceless. For instance I was recently on vacation in NC and due to weather running late so the BBQ place I had planned on having dinner at would have been closed by the time I got there. I pulled up Google Maps Mobile and entered the zip of the city I was approaching and the keyword brewpub. I started calling and on the second call found a place with an open kitchen, so instead of eating some horrible fastfood I had a great shepherds pie made with elk and ostrich. That alone was worth several months of my data plan.
Actually I like the idea of a constitutional amendment making all Congressional Bills have an automatic sunset clause of say 10 years and require that all bills be read into law in a Congressional session. That way the legislature has to decide that a bill is still worth the effort to renew. Not only that but it conveniently also limits the size of the law by limiting it to what can be read in x hours. If the founding fathers had any idea how large the federal government would become I'm fairly sure they would have included some similar clause to naturally limit its growth.
Well, Windows 2000 is currently in extended support which means technically only security related patches are supposed to be released for it, and that stops Jan 2010 I believe. This was a big problem for many companies as MS refused to issue a standard patch for the DST updates for Windows 2000. They had a convoluted manual/policy based process which didn't allow for easy confirmation that systems were updated. XP will enter this same quasi-supported phase in August of next year.
Their website isn't alive and well though! Their Danika ad apparently slashdotted their site into oblivion. Glad I'm not trying to do any domain operations with them tonight, I'd be pissed that they fucked up their site with a stupid ad stunt that they should have been prepared for.
Yeah when people say things like that to me it's an immediate logoff and new password required along with an email to our it security team and their manager. If it's the second time it's usually cc'd to their departments director/senior vp. Not sharing passwords is covered in new employee orientation as well as the annual IT policy update that everyone has to sign, and it's been like that at ever midsized or larger company I've ever worked at. Where do these people get the idea that sharing their password is ok?!?
That's based on CAL's, figures I've seen based on active seats are closer to parity. Active seats for Notes grew by 15% last year, impressive growth for any company or product. Since MS counts every core CAL as an Exchange CAL it's not too surprising. In fact most companies that run Notes probably own Exchange (I know we do) but choose to pay for Notes anyways, that says a LOT for Notes doesn't it =) Btw I'm an Exchange certified professional who's earned a good part of my living supporting Exchange at times so it's not like I have some Notes bias.
Exchange has nowhere near a monopoly, there's Notes which has about the same number of seats as Exchange and there's Groupwise which still has a fairly large installed base.
Alexa still has Yahoo as #1, but there are a ton of google sites in the top 50 so collectively they probably outrank Yahoo.com.
According to Alexa Yahoo runs the #1 and #17 websites, MS runs the #4, #5, and #18. I would say they both have plenty of experience running large data centers.
But I know that my ISP has no signed contract with me that allows them to put other customer's needs before mine. Make no mistake whether big business or home user they are both customers and should be treated equally.
Quite the opposite I'm sure, the ISP almost assuredly has a contract with you that specifies that they guarantee nothing more than a signal. Now with at least some of their corporate customers they probably DO have hard SLA's requiring certain minimum bandwidths and certain availability levels, that's why a T1 costs so much more than your home line with more bandwdith.
Ever heard of induction?
In fiber?!? That would be one giant leap in science. Now from what I've read the NSA does have a way to tap fiber, but when they used it on the Russians they didn't need to disrupt service.
The problem in Cuyahoga County was never one of a verifiable paper trail, we've had that since we went to electronic voting. The problem was that the machines were often broken causing polling places to be so backed up as to cause people to give up. They also had a server crash during tallying which obviously doesn't instill confidence in the results of the electronic process. This means that we would basically have to hand count every ballot every election (not just in close or disputed elections) at a cost of millions per election, millions Cuyahoga County doesn't have (we're one of the poorest large counties in the country). I'm sure if there was time and money we'd ideally have scantron machines at every polling place but there isn't before the primary and probably not before the general election. Going back to the electronic machines probably isn't possible because of the time needed to get all the techies to fix and deploy the machines.
The problem is, the computerized system ALREADY centralizes the vote counting, and in a MUCH less transparent way. The memory cards containing the vote tallies from the machines are brought to the board of elections and the votes downloaded to the server there (the server that repeatedly crashed during the last election causing the switch to scantron ballots). Now both parties have numerous people there overseeing the process and if they think there is something wrong they will of course ask for a hand recount where the ballots are tallied twice by a representative from each party. My problem with the ACLU petition is that NO system can be idiot proofed and so demanding a perfect system before we can switch off the damned electronic machines is asnine. Sure if there was time and money ideally they could get scantron machines for each polling station and train the poll workers to use them but there isn't and I think it's MUCH less dangerous to a fair and transparent election to go with the proposed scantron method. If this lawsuit proceeds it's likely I will be disenfranchised from the primary election (because I seriously doubt there is time to lineup all the technicians needed to oversee the electronic machines in time) and I am pissed about that.
No, these were ASIC's. I know because they talked about cost to have a mask made and the minimum units expected in order to justify doing one.
The problem with using a railgun to launch anything but raw materials into space is acceleration. If you have to impart enough energy into the object over a track that at a maximum is a couple kilometers long you're going to be impacting too many g's for much of anything to stand up to.
Actually my informations is only 5 years out of date and from a quick Google search the 1300 series AP which is their next to newest offering is also ASIC based, so I wouldn't consider it so out of date =) They considered the stuff they could build into the ASIC to be a competitive advantage and knew that they could be to market with a new product months before the major chip houses would have even engineering samples. To be more on-topic their 1250AP which is 802.11n draft 2 compliant is only supported with one radio if powered by a 802.3af switch but you can use two radios if you have a Catalyst switch with 18.5W power capability or if you use the power injector. They claim 16.9W max power draw with 2 radios or 12.95W with one radio.
Why not, GMR technology was already on its way out of the lab by 1996, the only HDD tech more advanced than that is vertical recording which is still new and only used in a handful of drives.
Actually you're wrong. Cisco makes their own ASICs for their AP's, or at least they did in late 90's early 2000's when I supported their wireless division (formerly Aironet Communications). They were making enough cards and AP's that it was deemed worth it to spin their own chips. The biggest reason is they could do crypto at full wire speed in an AP that was powered by PoE, something that their competitors couldn't do at the time. I don't know if they've gotten away from ASICS as process improvements have enabled general purpose CPU's to do more with the power budget, but I'd bet they've found a new reason to spin an ASIC, like per client crypto keys.
You are wrong, in fact the small feature size of modern HDD's actually makes it easier in some cases as the smaller magnetic domains are harder to flip so even small changes in alignment will mean that recoverable data will be left behind.
Um? Actually video cards are an inherently parallizable problem set. You see this in every modern video card where the difference between the top and bottom of a product line is often simply the amount of parallel execution units that passed QC. All they are doing here is combining two of the largest economically producible dies together into one superchip. Oh and I already have multiprocessor network cards, their called multiport TCP Offload cards =)
I had read that they were discontinued. Reading through wikipedia it appears it might have been TechPlay a subline of Technics, not the entire range.
The height was Technics, just enough customization to build useful real world stuff without being so specific that it hamstringed you into just one thing.
Huh? The reason Alexander Graham Bell got the patent on the telephone is that he filed something like an hour before Elisha Gray who had a very similar device.
So if you're a CEO and want to keep your job all you need to do is start a lawsuit? Oh and stopping a corporations ability to use financial instruments would basically cripple most companies whether they won the lawsuit or not, issuing short term debt is critical to most companies balance sheets.
Yeah but there's significant overhead for each additional file in the torrent and there ARE limits in the protocol. I would imagine this volume of small files would break either the protocol or at least many clients badly. The reason for RAR's is that many people distribute through various channels including NNTP where having the autosegment of a commandline rar tool is very useful.