A spreadsheet is only sufficient if you are a company of 2 people, anything bigger and you need some sort of accounting package. Once you get to a certain size you need tools like SAP/JD Edwards/Peoplesoft etc. You also tend to want good communications so you need to run communications servers, and probably some sort of communications software on the clients, etc. Just because a mom and pop can get along with a slow file server and some workstations running 98 and OpenOffice doesn't mean a large organization can run effectively that way.
You forgot the second quad core CPUs at about $800 per, but still not bad at ~$25K if your workload will fit in 16GB of ram. That also doesn't include iLo advanced licenses or 6Hr CTR support which is standard for us. Oh and you will need more cooling and power for the 360's, there's more management costs, and you can't have dual HBA's and additional NIC's in the 360 which is kind of a requirement for a good ESX server with VMotion. There's a place for most offerings. For instance I use the 5300 equipped BL460's for Citrix servers for an app that is CPU hungry.
You should see 16 core machines with 64GB for a "reasonable" price by fall. The HP DL585G2 will be upgradable to AMD Barcelona. Estimated cost of a 4 way quad machine with 64GB of ram is about $30K by my estimates, that's a 20% premium over a similar machine with near top of the line quad duals today. I know IBM and Dell both have four socket machines that are prequalified for Barcelona upgrades as well.
The reality is it doesn't matter for the vast majority of applications. In most datacenters that haven't done virtualized consolidation the average box is probably 1-30% utilized most of the time. The realities of large scale server deployments are that boxes are generally assigned to applications or projects and going back to load additional software on that box involves so much cost in testing and carries enough risk that buying additional hardware for the new app/project is downright cheap in comparison. It's only through technologies like Solaris containers and VMWare that many shops are able to get a grip on the server room sprawl. I know in my shop we put in 90 servers last year going from 63 to 153, if we had been using containers and VMWare it would have probably been 1/3rd that.
That's funny because ALL OS's suck (infact all hardware and software suck, some just suck less). Even on the S/390 nee zOS mainframes from IBM there is compartmentalization both in hardware and software. If an OS that's been around for over 40 years running the largest companies in the world isn't always trusted to enforce separation of processes I don't see how any other OS stands a chance.
Oh really!?!? I know of a half dozen radar failures at the Cleveland regional air traffic control center over the last 15 or so years, there have been no failures in the GPS system in that time. Besides, it's not like they will fly only with GPS, they will have WAAS and internal gyroscopes along with ground radar and onboard collision avoidance systems using earlier methods including radar on many planes. We already have worlwide coverage with GPS and with the recent announcement that the EU system will augment GPS there will only be better coverage going forward.
4x, normal voice calls go over channelized lines where each channel is 64Kbps with either one 16Kbps D(controll) channel per 2 lines for BRI or a 64Kbps D channels per 23 lines for PRI. Larger than T1 lines keep the same ratio AFAIK.
There ARE plenty of scholarships for the non 4.0 student, but you have to stand out in SOME way. I personally had a 3.3 weighted GPA in HS. I was accepted to MIT but they weren't able to find enough scholarship to make the cost reasonable. RIT on the other hand found me enough to make it cheaper to attend what at the time was the #7 CS program in the US (according to US News) than to attend an instate public university. It helped that I had a job, two independent studies, attended university part time, and was president and co-founder of two different clubs. As I said you don't always have to have perfect grades, but if you don't then you have to find a way to make yourself stand out from the masses.
Actually, it's probably really an ARP request. They probably have a very large, flat network and when the iPhones does an ARP broadcast request the AP gets overloaded by the results. This was a known problem with the old Aironet AP's, one of the senior software guys at Cisco/Aironet produced a one off patch for a large university client for the old VxWorks based AP's when I supported them back around the 2001 timeframe. It was actually one of the best examples of object oriented code I had ever seen, he changed the definition of the ARP buffer in one place, recompiled and everywhere that ARP was used the code was updated, very slick.
Actually, LOTS of people have seen various pieces of MS code. From partners who have access to certain pieces under NDA (such as Citrix which had full access to the NT3 codebase while writing Winframe) to governments that have forced Microsoft to allow auditing of certain pieces of code (again under NDA). I think the general consensus I have heard is most of it is typical commercial code, neither great nor horrible.
Ok, Lake Baikal is slightly larger in volume than the Great Lakes, by a couple percent. The fact remains that the Great Lakes are a tremendous resource and continuing to needlessly pollute them is shortsighted and arrogant. Oh and the Great Lakes are already surrounded by millions of people who depend on it for their drinking water, so the threat to human life is real today, not some theoretical prediction based on models or guessing.
You ain't kidding about that. My brother was in an auto accident some years back at highway speed (rear ended by an idiot while his exit ramp was backed up onto the highway) and since then he's been in extreme chronic pain. He's already gone through two potentially life ending back surgeries (any time you are working within millimeters of the spine it's a big deal) and had his liver so messed up by oxycottin and all the other meds he's on that he had to go on a low fat vegetarian diet or risk dying for liver failure. I can guarantee you that any product or procedure that could actually eliminate his pain and had a fairly low risk of death would be greatly appreciated by him, his employer, and everyone who knows and cares about him.
Actually I've done some reading and there is some information available at decode time that allows DVD based scalers to do a better job then even relatively expensive tv based scalers. I too wondered how it was possible for a $100-200 DVD player to do a better job then a $1-5K tv, but I read an article explaining exactly why it was true. Unfortunately I don't remember enough of the details to Google it, but I do remember reading it and understanding (at least temporarily) how it worked.
I'm sorry but I keep reading about how one of the most precious natural resources over the next 50 years will be freshwater. Well, the Great Lakes are THE largest source of freshwater on the planet. Using the lakes as a dumping ground for chemical and heavy metal pollution is just asinine. My dad works in the industrial chemical business in NE Ohio and almost all of his customers have zero outflow systems. There's little reason to be dumping this stuff in the lakes other than greed and shortsightedness.
Don't say you will read./ or any other news, because that would imply you will waste time at work doing something you really should be doing at home
WTF? How is reading tech related news something I should be doing at home?!? I pick up plenty of job related stories from slashdot and the other tech news sites I read to fully justify expending company time doing it. My company pays me to work while I am at work, and occasionally to take an on call page, they don't pay me to do company research at home.
What's wrong with joint stereo?!? I know that using a crappy encoder it can make things worse, but that's no reason to blame the feature. In fact using a good encoder like LAME or Fraunhoffer it makes things significantly better because it only goes to joint stereo when the channels are truly the same leaving more bits in the bucket to encode the detail in the music.
The three solder points could EASILY be replaced with an edge connector that would interface with an edge connector on the battery. It would cost about 2 cents on the phone and the same on the battery. It would allow a larger surface area and hence less resistance so it would (minutely) increase battery life. In fact by doing it as a surface mount machine operation it would probably save them money as that would be one less station on the assembly line!
The C-S2 extended life battery for the Blackberry 7100/8300/8700 is about $40 online with the cover or about $5 less without. The normal battery can be had for even less, $15-20. Even directly from RIM the extended life batteries are only C$55!
Wow, I figured you were way off with the desolder comment, then I looked up the dissection photos and sure enough they were stupid enough to solder the battery in! WTF were they thinking? Anyone who's owned a phone for more than a year knows you will eventually have to replace the battery, and with the drain that these things go through it's even more certain. Why they didn't use edge contacts like everyone else in the industry I can't even fathom.
In a well run operation you wouldn't be ABLE to install this software, BES has policies to prevent you from installing unapproved software available to the BES administrator.
Since fuel tanks are far enough underground to reach equilibrium with earth fairly quickly they and the fuel they contain should average darn close to 55 degrees. There will be some heating of the contents of the supply tube from the tank to the pump, which is probably why the standard was set at 60 =) In fact as someone else pointed out the fuel is more likely to be warm in the tanker delivering to the station, but even then unless it's in the desert SW I doubt it's significant as the fuel load for a delivery truck is around 9200 gallons which would be a hell of a thermal sink.
Yep, in fact temperature has a MUCH higher degree of change on my vehicle. I generally get about 24-25MPG in the summer and only 22-23 in the winter. Of course most of that probably has to do with people not knowing how to drive on snow thus causing my commute to be longer with more stop and go.
If you had a properly fun childhood you're probably already on a watchlist or two... I know I'm on at least a few. I had two field agents come to my work when I was in high school to ask me some questions. Turns out a customer had hear me talking to a coworker about setting off pipebombs in the woods. After I told them what and where we had been experimenting with they let me be, but I'm sure my name and social was flagged in some database somewhere.
I'm not sure of any observation of warfare in gorillas (and searching for gorilla warfare is obviously futile for search about the other primates) I know there have been several studies of warfare in chimps including Jane Goodall's ground breaking field observations from 1974-1977.
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A spreadsheet is only sufficient if you are a company of 2 people, anything bigger and you need some sort of accounting package. Once you get to a certain size you need tools like SAP/JD Edwards/Peoplesoft etc. You also tend to want good communications so you need to run communications servers, and probably some sort of communications software on the clients, etc. Just because a mom and pop can get along with a slow file server and some workstations running 98 and OpenOffice doesn't mean a large organization can run effectively that way.
You forgot the second quad core CPUs at about $800 per, but still not bad at ~$25K if your workload will fit in 16GB of ram. That also doesn't include iLo advanced licenses or 6Hr CTR support which is standard for us. Oh and you will need more cooling and power for the 360's, there's more management costs, and you can't have dual HBA's and additional NIC's in the 360 which is kind of a requirement for a good ESX server with VMotion. There's a place for most offerings. For instance I use the 5300 equipped BL460's for Citrix servers for an app that is CPU hungry.
You should see 16 core machines with 64GB for a "reasonable" price by fall. The HP DL585G2 will be upgradable to AMD Barcelona. Estimated cost of a 4 way quad machine with 64GB of ram is about $30K by my estimates, that's a 20% premium over a similar machine with near top of the line quad duals today. I know IBM and Dell both have four socket machines that are prequalified for Barcelona upgrades as well.
The reality is it doesn't matter for the vast majority of applications. In most datacenters that haven't done virtualized consolidation the average box is probably 1-30% utilized most of the time. The realities of large scale server deployments are that boxes are generally assigned to applications or projects and going back to load additional software on that box involves so much cost in testing and carries enough risk that buying additional hardware for the new app/project is downright cheap in comparison. It's only through technologies like Solaris containers and VMWare that many shops are able to get a grip on the server room sprawl. I know in my shop we put in 90 servers last year going from 63 to 153, if we had been using containers and VMWare it would have probably been 1/3rd that.
That's funny because ALL OS's suck (infact all hardware and software suck, some just suck less). Even on the S/390 nee zOS mainframes from IBM there is compartmentalization both in hardware and software. If an OS that's been around for over 40 years running the largest companies in the world isn't always trusted to enforce separation of processes I don't see how any other OS stands a chance.
And satellites are far less reliable than radars
Oh really!?!? I know of a half dozen radar failures at the Cleveland regional air traffic control center over the last 15 or so years, there have been no failures in the GPS system in that time. Besides, it's not like they will fly only with GPS, they will have WAAS and internal gyroscopes along with ground radar and onboard collision avoidance systems using earlier methods including radar on many planes. We already have worlwide coverage with GPS and with the recent announcement that the EU system will augment GPS there will only be better coverage going forward.
4x, normal voice calls go over channelized lines where each channel is 64Kbps with either one 16Kbps D(controll) channel per 2 lines for BRI or a 64Kbps D channels per 23 lines for PRI. Larger than T1 lines keep the same ratio AFAIK.
There ARE plenty of scholarships for the non 4.0 student, but you have to stand out in SOME way. I personally had a 3.3 weighted GPA in HS. I was accepted to MIT but they weren't able to find enough scholarship to make the cost reasonable. RIT on the other hand found me enough to make it cheaper to attend what at the time was the #7 CS program in the US (according to US News) than to attend an instate public university. It helped that I had a job, two independent studies, attended university part time, and was president and co-founder of two different clubs. As I said you don't always have to have perfect grades, but if you don't then you have to find a way to make yourself stand out from the masses.
Actually, it's probably really an ARP request. They probably have a very large, flat network and when the iPhones does an ARP broadcast request the AP gets overloaded by the results. This was a known problem with the old Aironet AP's, one of the senior software guys at Cisco/Aironet produced a one off patch for a large university client for the old VxWorks based AP's when I supported them back around the 2001 timeframe. It was actually one of the best examples of object oriented code I had ever seen, he changed the definition of the ARP buffer in one place, recompiled and everywhere that ARP was used the code was updated, very slick.
Actually, LOTS of people have seen various pieces of MS code. From partners who have access to certain pieces under NDA (such as Citrix which had full access to the NT3 codebase while writing Winframe) to governments that have forced Microsoft to allow auditing of certain pieces of code (again under NDA). I think the general consensus I have heard is most of it is typical commercial code, neither great nor horrible.
Ok, Lake Baikal is slightly larger in volume than the Great Lakes, by a couple percent. The fact remains that the Great Lakes are a tremendous resource and continuing to needlessly pollute them is shortsighted and arrogant. Oh and the Great Lakes are already surrounded by millions of people who depend on it for their drinking water, so the threat to human life is real today, not some theoretical prediction based on models or guessing.
You ain't kidding about that. My brother was in an auto accident some years back at highway speed (rear ended by an idiot while his exit ramp was backed up onto the highway) and since then he's been in extreme chronic pain. He's already gone through two potentially life ending back surgeries (any time you are working within millimeters of the spine it's a big deal) and had his liver so messed up by oxycottin and all the other meds he's on that he had to go on a low fat vegetarian diet or risk dying for liver failure. I can guarantee you that any product or procedure that could actually eliminate his pain and had a fairly low risk of death would be greatly appreciated by him, his employer, and everyone who knows and cares about him.
Actually I've done some reading and there is some information available at decode time that allows DVD based scalers to do a better job then even relatively expensive tv based scalers. I too wondered how it was possible for a $100-200 DVD player to do a better job then a $1-5K tv, but I read an article explaining exactly why it was true. Unfortunately I don't remember enough of the details to Google it, but I do remember reading it and understanding (at least temporarily) how it worked.
I'm sorry but I keep reading about how one of the most precious natural resources over the next 50 years will be freshwater. Well, the Great Lakes are THE largest source of freshwater on the planet. Using the lakes as a dumping ground for chemical and heavy metal pollution is just asinine. My dad works in the industrial chemical business in NE Ohio and almost all of his customers have zero outflow systems. There's little reason to be dumping this stuff in the lakes other than greed and shortsightedness.
Because everyone knows it's unpossible to clone a MAC address....
Don't say you will read ./ or any other news, because that would imply you will waste time at work doing something you really should be doing at home
WTF? How is reading tech related news something I should be doing at home?!? I pick up plenty of job related stories from slashdot and the other tech news sites I read to fully justify expending company time doing it. My company pays me to work while I am at work, and occasionally to take an on call page, they don't pay me to do company research at home.
What's wrong with joint stereo?!? I know that using a crappy encoder it can make things worse, but that's no reason to blame the feature. In fact using a good encoder like LAME or Fraunhoffer it makes things significantly better because it only goes to joint stereo when the channels are truly the same leaving more bits in the bucket to encode the detail in the music.
The three solder points could EASILY be replaced with an edge connector that would interface with an edge connector on the battery. It would cost about 2 cents on the phone and the same on the battery. It would allow a larger surface area and hence less resistance so it would (minutely) increase battery life. In fact by doing it as a surface mount machine operation it would probably save them money as that would be one less station on the assembly line!
The C-S2 extended life battery for the Blackberry 7100/8300/8700 is about $40 online with the cover or about $5 less without. The normal battery can be had for even less, $15-20. Even directly from RIM the extended life batteries are only C$55!
Wow, I figured you were way off with the desolder comment, then I looked up the dissection photos and sure enough they were stupid enough to solder the battery in! WTF were they thinking? Anyone who's owned a phone for more than a year knows you will eventually have to replace the battery, and with the drain that these things go through it's even more certain. Why they didn't use edge contacts like everyone else in the industry I can't even fathom.
In a well run operation you wouldn't be ABLE to install this software, BES has policies to prevent you from installing unapproved software available to the BES administrator.
Since fuel tanks are far enough underground to reach equilibrium with earth fairly quickly they and the fuel they contain should average darn close to 55 degrees. There will be some heating of the contents of the supply tube from the tank to the pump, which is probably why the standard was set at 60 =) In fact as someone else pointed out the fuel is more likely to be warm in the tanker delivering to the station, but even then unless it's in the desert SW I doubt it's significant as the fuel load for a delivery truck is around 9200 gallons which would be a hell of a thermal sink.
Yep, in fact temperature has a MUCH higher degree of change on my vehicle. I generally get about 24-25MPG in the summer and only 22-23 in the winter. Of course most of that probably has to do with people not knowing how to drive on snow thus causing my commute to be longer with more stop and go.
If you had a properly fun childhood you're probably already on a watchlist or two... I know I'm on at least a few. I had two field agents come to my work when I was in high school to ask me some questions. Turns out a customer had hear me talking to a coworker about setting off pipebombs in the woods. After I told them what and where we had been experimenting with they let me be, but I'm sure my name and social was flagged in some database somewhere.
I'm not sure of any observation of warfare in gorillas (and searching for gorilla warfare is obviously futile for search about the other primates) I know there have been several studies of warfare in chimps including Jane Goodall's ground breaking field observations from 1974-1977.