Here is an example of a line of commercials that Holiday Inn Express did. The best one is a guy who saves a nuclear power plant from a three mile island style nuclear disaster.
Most RAID-1 card's do NOT require the heads to move in synchronous movements, in fact you get MUCH lower performance if you do, because you can't get simultanous reads of different data off the two drives if you do. There were (are?) some packages of drives and controllers for the hyper paranoid that would force head sync, but I don't think they are out there anymore because the majority of failure modes are going to make the head sync irrelevant.
I don't know what world you live in but MSDE is the foundation to WAY more products than I care to think about. Of course most of those products are targeted at mid to small companies so the performance will never really matter, but it's interesting none the less to see how the free, open stuff compares to what you can get gratis from the commercial houses.
Why? All purchases to the poverty level (or poverty level +15% depending on who's pitching the idea) are tax free, so poor people pay no taxes, which is less than what they pay now in most instances (sales taxes are collected on all purchases save food in many states). If rich people save their money then they are helping indirectly to lower the national debt, and when they finally do spend their money they get taxed on it then. The only major drawback that I have seen to the fairtax is that people who are now goaded into giving donations to charity by the current tax system might not be so generous under fairtax.
Actually there is a legal remedy which is commonly refered to as the corporate death penalty. The specifics are a revocation of the companies charter and a forced disolution of its assets. It is very infrequently applied, especially in the last half century, which is probably a reason that you see so much white collar crime, there is little or no penalty for it, either to the individual or the company.
A lot of banks internal politics won't let them run a solution that isn't supported by a "major vendor". Besides which Diebold no longer loads new ATM's with OS/2 so they would have to develop their own or work with a smaller player who would.
Uh, two years ago I did a MASSIVE rollout of OS/2 under Virtual PC. The client was replacing dual workstation and KVM's with single, more powerfull machines running OS/2 under VPC. This was for tens of thousands of seats nationwide with single sites consisting of several thousand workstations. And then there all the ATM's which run OS/2 which will now have to be converted to much crappier, more failure prone windows models. Of I don't know why IBM doesn't steer people to eComStation. It's the product of the company that bought the rights and code to OS/2, so if you have a custom app and need it to run on more modern hardware they are the people to talk to.
I'm not sure why this was modded funny, it is one of the most insightful and scary posts on slashdot in a long time. Just follow his link and you will understand how truely evil the DMCA is.
I guess this is a good time to bring up the storagereview reliability database. It's the only third party tracking of HDD reliability that I am aware of. Whenever I buy a new HDD or have one die or taken out of service I go to storagereview and update my profile. Other people may not be so reliable, and people with problems are probably more likely to report then happy customers, but it WILL give you a good idea model vs model of the reliability of a drive.
All hospitals have slack labor capacity, they are in a very boom and bust style of business, so as long as they can work with the delivery companies to schedule deliveries during their historical slow periods they are probably acruing no additional cost.
For protecting again slugs you need a level IIIa vest with level IV balistic inserts. My in-law's are both police officers in Ohio and they both wear such vests, I'm not sure how common this is around the country since they are rather heavy and hot but their departments have decided that it is worth it (btw they both work in low crime suburbs so it's not like they need their vests on any regular basis). Reducing the weight of the vests they wear would definitly make their lives a little better, and having the vest work better means I'm less likely to be attending a funeral should they ever need the protection of that vest.
I would hardly call the country with the worlds fourth largest standing army third world! Btw if you think that this war secured resources then why the hell has the price of crude doubled since the invasion?
You bring up an interesting point, how well would this work as a floor lining material for a humvee? Put in a solid liner of this material and stack the sandbags on the floor to absorb the energy of the blast and you might have a vehicle likely to survive many IED's (though not all, they've taken out APC's and tanks with some large burried bombs).
Damn, this kind of deserves an insightful mod. If you had been around since the beginning you would realize that slashdot kind of started out with Rob posting one of the origional blogs =)
McCain will probably never get the nomination, he had his shot and he lost to Karl Rove. He is too old to be a likely candidate. That said, if he does win the primary I will probably cross the line and vote for a Republican for only the second time in my life.
Downtime that has a company wide affect costs on the order of $10K/hour for my company. That's for a midsized company with a bit over 150 professionals, not some large company. If we have a business impacting outage you better believe I want that 4 hour contract, it pays for itself many, many times over the first time I have to use it.
Which reminds me of my weirdest ISDN troubleshooting call. We had 4 lines (8xB channels) setup for use with a video confrencing system. Well one day the system just refused to dial. We tried all the basic troubleshooting, but all the lines showed as up. So we call out the telco guys. They check the lines and say everything looks good. This is at the end of the day. The next day we go to make a call, and again can't dial out. So we make another call to the telco. The telco technician comes out with some go awful expensive ISDN protocol analyzer and STILL can't find a problem, so he falls back to basic tools. He starts calling loopback numbers. He calls on each B channel sequentially, all the local loopbacks check out, but while calling the LD loopback he gets an error while calling on the second B channel of the second line! It turns out the telco computer had somehow dropped the LD calling plan from only one of the eight B channels! I still applaud that tech because that has to be the only time in history he ever saw that issue =)
So? I have 5Mbps cable, unlimited in state calling with international rates at 3.9 cents per minute, and a decent cable package. Total cost: $80/month. Of course that's $US, but the way our currency is going that's about to become the same as $Canadian.
That's some pretty amazing pricing. A server with 2xdual core Opterons, 8GB of ECC ram, 4x146GB 15k RPM SCSI HDD's and a raid controller for $10K. The only thing that's really lacking is a DVD drive, more of my server software is coming on DVD every month.
I did this with a small group of server operators using NWN, the biggest problem was transfering character files. The world transition mechanism for NWN expected the character file to be available as soon as the world transfer mechanism started, but the file wasn't saved out until the transition began. This wasn't a problem on a local server or servers, but once you started using a distributed filesystem it didn't work so well. We tried hacking around it by using the SQL extensions for NWN but it ended up being unreliable. It was a real shame since we put lots of work into policy and policy enforcement scripts to allow for a lowest common denominator set of rules with local customization.
It's only obsolete if it doesn't get the job done. AFAIK there is no reason you can't run the plugin under x86-64 since the chip is capable of running legacy x86-32 code without problems.
No way you can get 100Gb/s, no PC interface can handle 10GB/s. Hell most PC's don't have that kind of bandwidth from the CPU to main memory (DDR2-533 maxs at around 6.4GB/s as seen here). Actually after a little searching the Internet 2 speed record is more like 7.21Gb/s for IPv4 traffic.
MANY users? I would guess the percentage of isolated personal workstations on non-x86 (or PPC MAC) platforms at.000001% of total users. Seriously, the number of people who only have non PC workstations is so low as to be complete noise.
Yes, because it would be so silly for the average user to not backup large media files, not! I know I don't have backups of all my mp3's, it would take stacks of cd's/dvd's to do that, and lots of time. I personally have the origional cd's, but I wouldn't assume that I have to backup my iTunes files, Apple has all the originals, and my account info. It sure as hell doesn't cost them 99c in bandwidth so they should be able to resend me the files, or charge me a much smaller fee to regrab them, most of the cost is in licensing the content from the copyright holder.
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Here is an example of a line of commercials that Holiday Inn Express did. The best one is a guy who saves a nuclear power plant from a three mile island style nuclear disaster.
Most RAID-1 card's do NOT require the heads to move in synchronous movements, in fact you get MUCH lower performance if you do, because you can't get simultanous reads of different data off the two drives if you do. There were (are?) some packages of drives and controllers for the hyper paranoid that would force head sync, but I don't think they are out there anymore because the majority of failure modes are going to make the head sync irrelevant.
I don't know what world you live in but MSDE is the foundation to WAY more products than I care to think about. Of course most of those products are targeted at mid to small companies so the performance will never really matter, but it's interesting none the less to see how the free, open stuff compares to what you can get gratis from the commercial houses.
Why? All purchases to the poverty level (or poverty level +15% depending on who's pitching the idea) are tax free, so poor people pay no taxes, which is less than what they pay now in most instances (sales taxes are collected on all purchases save food in many states). If rich people save their money then they are helping indirectly to lower the national debt, and when they finally do spend their money they get taxed on it then. The only major drawback that I have seen to the fairtax is that people who are now goaded into giving donations to charity by the current tax system might not be so generous under fairtax.
Actually there is a legal remedy which is commonly refered to as the corporate death penalty. The specifics are a revocation of the companies charter and a forced disolution of its assets. It is very infrequently applied, especially in the last half century, which is probably a reason that you see so much white collar crime, there is little or no penalty for it, either to the individual or the company.
A lot of banks internal politics won't let them run a solution that isn't supported by a "major vendor". Besides which Diebold no longer loads new ATM's with OS/2 so they would have to develop their own or work with a smaller player who would.
Uh, two years ago I did a MASSIVE rollout of OS/2 under Virtual PC. The client was replacing dual workstation and KVM's with single, more powerfull machines running OS/2 under VPC. This was for tens of thousands of seats nationwide with single sites consisting of several thousand workstations. And then there all the ATM's which run OS/2 which will now have to be converted to much crappier, more failure prone windows models. Of I don't know why IBM doesn't steer people to eComStation. It's the product of the company that bought the rights and code to OS/2, so if you have a custom app and need it to run on more modern hardware they are the people to talk to.
I'm not sure why this was modded funny, it is one of the most insightful and scary posts on slashdot in a long time. Just follow his link and you will understand how truely evil the DMCA is.
I guess this is a good time to bring up the storagereview reliability database. It's the only third party tracking of HDD reliability that I am aware of. Whenever I buy a new HDD or have one die or taken out of service I go to storagereview and update my profile. Other people may not be so reliable, and people with problems are probably more likely to report then happy customers, but it WILL give you a good idea model vs model of the reliability of a drive.
All hospitals have slack labor capacity, they are in a very boom and bust style of business, so as long as they can work with the delivery companies to schedule deliveries during their historical slow periods they are probably acruing no additional cost.
For protecting again slugs you need a level IIIa vest with level IV balistic inserts. My in-law's are both police officers in Ohio and they both wear such vests, I'm not sure how common this is around the country since they are rather heavy and hot but their departments have decided that it is worth it (btw they both work in low crime suburbs so it's not like they need their vests on any regular basis). Reducing the weight of the vests they wear would definitly make their lives a little better, and having the vest work better means I'm less likely to be attending a funeral should they ever need the protection of that vest.
I would hardly call the country with the worlds fourth largest standing army third world! Btw if you think that this war secured resources then why the hell has the price of crude doubled since the invasion?
You bring up an interesting point, how well would this work as a floor lining material for a humvee? Put in a solid liner of this material and stack the sandbags on the floor to absorb the energy of the blast and you might have a vehicle likely to survive many IED's (though not all, they've taken out APC's and tanks with some large burried bombs).
Damn, this kind of deserves an insightful mod. If you had been around since the beginning you would realize that slashdot kind of started out with Rob posting one of the origional blogs =)
McCain will probably never get the nomination, he had his shot and he lost to Karl Rove. He is too old to be a likely candidate. That said, if he does win the primary I will probably cross the line and vote for a Republican for only the second time in my life.
Downtime that has a company wide affect costs on the order of $10K/hour for my company. That's for a midsized company with a bit over 150 professionals, not some large company. If we have a business impacting outage you better believe I want that 4 hour contract, it pays for itself many, many times over the first time I have to use it.
Which reminds me of my weirdest ISDN troubleshooting call. We had 4 lines (8xB channels) setup for use with a video confrencing system. Well one day the system just refused to dial. We tried all the basic troubleshooting, but all the lines showed as up. So we call out the telco guys. They check the lines and say everything looks good. This is at the end of the day. The next day we go to make a call, and again can't dial out. So we make another call to the telco. The telco technician comes out with some go awful expensive ISDN protocol analyzer and STILL can't find a problem, so he falls back to basic tools. He starts calling loopback numbers. He calls on each B channel sequentially, all the local loopbacks check out, but while calling the LD loopback he gets an error while calling on the second B channel of the second line! It turns out the telco computer had somehow dropped the LD calling plan from only one of the eight B channels! I still applaud that tech because that has to be the only time in history he ever saw that issue =)
So? I have 5Mbps cable, unlimited in state calling with international rates at 3.9 cents per minute, and a decent cable package. Total cost: $80/month. Of course that's $US, but the way our currency is going that's about to become the same as $Canadian.
That's some pretty amazing pricing. A server with 2xdual core Opterons, 8GB of ECC ram, 4x146GB 15k RPM SCSI HDD's and a raid controller for $10K. The only thing that's really lacking is a DVD drive, more of my server software is coming on DVD every month.
I did this with a small group of server operators using NWN, the biggest problem was transfering character files. The world transition mechanism for NWN expected the character file to be available as soon as the world transfer mechanism started, but the file wasn't saved out until the transition began. This wasn't a problem on a local server or servers, but once you started using a distributed filesystem it didn't work so well. We tried hacking around it by using the SQL extensions for NWN but it ended up being unreliable. It was a real shame since we put lots of work into policy and policy enforcement scripts to allow for a lowest common denominator set of rules with local customization.
It's only obsolete if it doesn't get the job done. AFAIK there is no reason you can't run the plugin under x86-64 since the chip is capable of running legacy x86-32 code without problems.
No way you can get 100Gb/s, no PC interface can handle 10GB/s. Hell most PC's don't have that kind of bandwidth from the CPU to main memory (DDR2-533 maxs at around 6.4GB/s as seen here). Actually after a little searching the Internet 2 speed record is more like 7.21Gb/s for IPv4 traffic.
MANY users? I would guess the percentage of isolated personal workstations on non-x86 (or PPC MAC) platforms at .000001% of total users. Seriously, the number of people who only have non PC workstations is so low as to be complete noise.
I thought that they had removed the offending concrete and rebuilt the hall back to how it was previous to the renovation?
Yes, because it would be so silly for the average user to not backup large media files, not! I know I don't have backups of all my mp3's, it would take stacks of cd's/dvd's to do that, and lots of time. I personally have the origional cd's, but I wouldn't assume that I have to backup my iTunes files, Apple has all the originals, and my account info. It sure as hell doesn't cost them 99c in bandwidth so they should be able to resend me the files, or charge me a much smaller fee to regrab them, most of the cost is in licensing the content from the copyright holder.