You probably wouldn't lose anything as a modern freezer will keep the stuff frozen for 24-48 hours, and everything but dairy and eggs should be good in the fridge for 12+ hours. If they weren't that well insulated they would cost a fortune to run! Besides you can buy an electric start generator and a remote starting power transfer switch, if I bother to get a generator for my house that's definitly the way I'm going as it only costs about $300 extra.
They're insanely expensive and not that easy to find. I've been looking into a backup generator because the two most likely times for me to lose power are during a thunderstorm where the lack of power would be a problem due to needing a sump for my basement, and during an ice storm where the lack of power to the blower means no heat. I though natural gas would be a natural due to the zero maintenance and unlimited fuel supply aspects, but I have had little luck finding midsized units and those that I have found are significantly more expensive then their gasoline counterparts, probably due to lack of scales of economy.
Yes, the Navy Museum in Washington, DC. They already have the Trieste (the ship which reached the bottom of the Marianas Trench) there, it would be quite cool to have the two most famous submarines in the same place. Alvin WAS used for Navy operations (as were two sister ships) so it should qualify.
Wow, CMU was backwards enough to use T-1's? Back in 1997 RIT had a T-3 dedicated to resnet access and all of the dorms and student housing units were interconnected through a 100Mbps fibre network. There was another T-3 for the academic network and some other connectivity to the Internet plus the big pipe to Internet2 (or was it called something else back then). The robot is cool, the computer science house never completed their delivery robot for Big Drink.
Actually last months Scientific American had a good article on this. Basically we are finding that what we once thought was junk (non coding areas and RNA coding areas which do not code for proteins) is probably some of the more important aspects of the nucleus. I quote:
"But investigators have since sequenced the genomes of diverse species, and it has become abundantly clear that to correlation between numbers of conventional genes and complexity truly is poor. The simple nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans (made up of only about 1,000 cells) has about 19,000 protein-coding genes, almost 50 percent more than insects (13,500) and nearly as many as humans (around 25,000). Conversely, the relation between the amount of nonprotein-coding DNA sequences and organism complexity is more sonsistent.
Since the muxing is generally done over a fiber line this is actually a situation that can lead to the highest speed DSL being available. All that is needed is for a remote shelf DSLAM to be put into the neighborhood box to do the DSL->fiber conversion. SBC called their project to do this Project Pronto, it's since been mostly abandoned as a large scale goal but they still do it in places where demand warants it. Get your neighbors to sign something saying they are interested in DSL and take it to your telco, there's a good chance you can get a remote shelf put in the local box if enough people want the service.
No, Reduced regulation = more assured profit from investments. The problem the RBOC's had with improving the infrastructure with remote shelfs and fiber DSL extensions was that forced line sharing allowed anyone with an IP network to come in and provide their customers with service without the huge capital investment. If they can once again own the lines they might have some incentive to put the HUGE investment into an infrastructure rollout. The counter argument is that the majority of their current infrastructure was paid for by a captive audience that paid too high of prices for decades when the Bell company was a government mandated monopoly.
Well you can remote controll/shadow another RDP/ICA session if the user is on a terminal/Citrix server, in fact I do this on a weekly basis. For fat clients VNC is obviously the way to go since XP's Remote Desktop feature doesn't allow shared sessions unless you use the remote help ticket system. Another good system that all the big boys use is WebEX which runs some remote controll protocol from an ActiveX controll, great for helping people who don't have your remote controll software already installed.
Then switch to another bank. I know that my bank Fleet Boston/Bank of America's website renders and functions just fine in Mozilla, and has ever since I put in a ticket requesting that they fix the one page that had problems when I first signed up. If your bank tells you that you can not use the browser of your choice then tell them you will take your business otherwise. With one million downloads in under 100 hours it's not an insignificant amount of business to turn away.
No, it requires an AMD Athlon64, Opteron, or Intel Nocona Xeon processor. Going forward it should be a feature of all future designs of both companies CPU's.
and the cases burned really well due to the fact that they were cast magnesium =) Back in the mid 90's I lusted after a beutiful black cube of my own, even when Jobs was making high end workstations he had good asthetics.
The difference is that overflows which previously allowed the attacker to execute arbitrary machine code will instead crash before the code is executed.
Almost, it's more like they will crash and there is a near zero chance of the code being executed even by another running process because the area has been flagged as non-executable and the cpu will refuse to run anything found in that memory space.
I had forgotten about the BHO that they use to block known infection vectors. I don't use IE as my normal browser so I wouldn't notice any slowdown and of course BHO's don't show up as their own processes (which is a large part of the problem with the BHO model to begin with).
Uh, my biggest complaint is that Ad-Aware and Spybot AREN'T realtime scanners, the do little to protect the system from reinfection. Therefore they don't slow the system down except when they are activly scanning. Btw all you need to do to get infected with spyware is run a computer with IE. I have the internet zone set to high security, have all pre-SP2 patches installed and yet if I surf for more than an hour I can guarentee you that Spybot or Ad-Aware will show something on their next nightly scan.
The fourth spyware tool I use is Bazooka Spyware Scanner. While it won't actually clean any spyware it detects a TON of stuff missed by Ad-aware and Spybot and does it in about.1 seconds on modern PC's. It then links you to precise step by step instructions on how to clean the infection. The stuff Bazooka finds is typically stuff you have to reboot into safe mode in order to clean.
Odd time?
Dude unless you have Silver or Gold support you are guarenteed to get someone in a call center in India. Hell even with Silver my first line contact is Indian probably 50% of the time. I spend a lot of time talking to Dell support (i'm a computer consultant and a lot of my SMB clients use Dell hardware exclusivly) and so I can tell you that calling back is going to do you almost no good. Now if you get someone with such a thick accent that you can't communicate then calling back may help but chances are very, very good that your first line contact will be Indian unless you have Gold support (which essentially bypasses firstline anyways).
Well I'm not sure about today, but when the XBox first came out the variable cost of the XBox was in fact greater than the MSRP. I will quote a Cnet article from 2001:
And production costs are expected to be an unusually high $375 per machine because of the console's advanced features, Blodget said in the report.
Blodget estimates Microsoft will "lose $125 on every Xbox console--and that's before taking into account" sales, marketing and other administrative costs. linky
I don't doubt that the cost of parts have come down enough that today MS is in fact no longer losing much if any money on the XBox, but they most certainly aren't making a whole lot of money on them either. The console industry is all about licensing costs from content creators. Why else do you think three titles cost as much as the console?
Wtf would the landing zone be ANYWHERE near an occupied area? They have this huge basically uninhabited area called the Gobi Desert to land big space probes in with a statistically zero chance of hitting anything. Instead they land it in the middle of one of the more populated parts of the country? That makes zero sense to me.
I call bullshit on sounds better. The iPod has one of the best preamps out there as has been noted all over including an article several months back here on slashdot. Add to that the fact that the iPod can do 320kbps MP3's or Apple Lossless decoding I think you will have a hard time finding ANYTHING that sounds much better than an iPod with good headphones, let alone another portable.
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Wow, I guess people just don't get it. Most PDA's these days are just a "small overpriced laptop". You pay for convenience, and I for one think I might very well buy one of these. I currently use a 750MHz P3 laptop which needs a big cushioned bag to lug around, on the other hand this thing probably would be fine with a small lined carrying case that would fit in the oversized pockets in my wool coat. I could always have my computer with me, including all of my apps and the ability to connection to any client network and use just about any external peripheral. That sounds damn usefull to me.
Steve doesn't want to get into the smartphone market because he can't controll the experience enough. They wouldn't controll the price, they wouldn't controll support, and they wouldn't controll the network it runs on (unless they did an exclusive deal which would be stupid as it would be too niche a market to justify the development costs). Not only that but Steve seems to have a personal grudge against PDA's since the Newton was the first project he killed on his return since it was a pet project for the man that ousted him.
Because you no longer have to physically move lines when you do move, adds, changes, there is no need to run new lines to new locations, and there is no need to add it to new sites. The fact of the matter is that you lose voice service if your T1 goes down if the interfacing device is an NBX or a classic PBX, or do you put both voice and data through a single T1, that seems kind of stupid.
Of course. For almost any business purchasing per seat licensing is more about support than it is about aquiring the software. Heck half the time you double pay for OS licensing with MS agreements but it's part of a larger package which includes support for all of your software.
btw whoever modded my origional post flaimbait is a complete moron, I was seriously inquiring about volume pricing.
Unfortunatly OpenMail went EOL at HP and the company that bought it doesn't have the resources to really support it. It's unfortunatly a legacy product at this point. You're right though if HP had held onto it I would be using it at quite a few places right now.
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You probably wouldn't lose anything as a modern freezer will keep the stuff frozen for 24-48 hours, and everything but dairy and eggs should be good in the fridge for 12+ hours. If they weren't that well insulated they would cost a fortune to run! Besides you can buy an electric start generator and a remote starting power transfer switch, if I bother to get a generator for my house that's definitly the way I'm going as it only costs about $300 extra.
Why would you go with a crappy little 1500W generator for $475 when you can get a 5,000W generator for only $499 from the same site?
They're insanely expensive and not that easy to find. I've been looking into a backup generator because the two most likely times for me to lose power are during a thunderstorm where the lack of power would be a problem due to needing a sump for my basement, and during an ice storm where the lack of power to the blower means no heat. I though natural gas would be a natural due to the zero maintenance and unlimited fuel supply aspects, but I have had little luck finding midsized units and those that I have found are significantly more expensive then their gasoline counterparts, probably due to lack of scales of economy.
Yes, the Navy Museum in Washington, DC. They already have the Trieste (the ship which reached the bottom of the Marianas Trench) there, it would be quite cool to have the two most famous submarines in the same place. Alvin WAS used for Navy operations (as were two sister ships) so it should qualify.
Wow, CMU was backwards enough to use T-1's? Back in 1997 RIT had a T-3 dedicated to resnet access and all of the dorms and student housing units were interconnected through a 100Mbps fibre network. There was another T-3 for the academic network and some other connectivity to the Internet plus the big pipe to Internet2 (or was it called something else back then). The robot is cool, the computer science house never completed their delivery robot for Big Drink.
Actually last months Scientific American had a good article on this. Basically we are finding that what we once thought was junk (non coding areas and RNA coding areas which do not code for proteins) is probably some of the more important aspects of the nucleus. I quote:
"But investigators have since sequenced the genomes of diverse species, and it has become abundantly clear that to correlation between numbers of conventional genes and complexity truly is poor. The simple nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans (made up of only about 1,000 cells) has about 19,000 protein-coding genes, almost 50 percent more than insects (13,500) and nearly as many as humans (around 25,000). Conversely, the relation between the amount of nonprotein-coding DNA sequences and organism complexity is more sonsistent.
Since the muxing is generally done over a fiber line this is actually a situation that can lead to the highest speed DSL being available. All that is needed is for a remote shelf DSLAM to be put into the neighborhood box to do the DSL->fiber conversion. SBC called their project to do this Project Pronto, it's since been mostly abandoned as a large scale goal but they still do it in places where demand warants it. Get your neighbors to sign something saying they are interested in DSL and take it to your telco, there's a good chance you can get a remote shelf put in the local box if enough people want the service.
Reduced regulation = improved services?
No, Reduced regulation = more assured profit from investments. The problem the RBOC's had with improving the infrastructure with remote shelfs and fiber DSL extensions was that forced line sharing allowed anyone with an IP network to come in and provide their customers with service without the huge capital investment. If they can once again own the lines they might have some incentive to put the HUGE investment into an infrastructure rollout. The counter argument is that the majority of their current infrastructure was paid for by a captive audience that paid too high of prices for decades when the Bell company was a government mandated monopoly.
Well you can remote controll/shadow another RDP/ICA session if the user is on a terminal/Citrix server, in fact I do this on a weekly basis. For fat clients VNC is obviously the way to go since XP's Remote Desktop feature doesn't allow shared sessions unless you use the remote help ticket system. Another good system that all the big boys use is WebEX which runs some remote controll protocol from an ActiveX controll, great for helping people who don't have your remote controll software already installed.
Then switch to another bank. I know that my bank Fleet Boston/Bank of America's website renders and functions just fine in Mozilla, and has ever since I put in a ticket requesting that they fix the one page that had problems when I first signed up. If your bank tells you that you can not use the browser of your choice then tell them you will take your business otherwise. With one million downloads in under 100 hours it's not an insignificant amount of business to turn away.
No, it requires an AMD Athlon64, Opteron, or Intel Nocona Xeon processor. Going forward it should be a feature of all future designs of both companies CPU's.
and the cases burned really well due to the fact that they were cast magnesium =) Back in the mid 90's I lusted after a beutiful black cube of my own, even when Jobs was making high end workstations he had good asthetics.
The difference is that overflows which previously allowed the attacker to execute arbitrary machine code will instead crash before the code is executed.
Almost, it's more like they will crash and there is a near zero chance of the code being executed even by another running process because the area has been flagged as non-executable and the cpu will refuse to run anything found in that memory space.
I had forgotten about the BHO that they use to block known infection vectors. I don't use IE as my normal browser so I wouldn't notice any slowdown and of course BHO's don't show up as their own processes (which is a large part of the problem with the BHO model to begin with).
Uh, my biggest complaint is that Ad-Aware and Spybot AREN'T realtime scanners, the do little to protect the system from reinfection. Therefore they don't slow the system down except when they are activly scanning. Btw all you need to do to get infected with spyware is run a computer with IE. I have the internet zone set to high security, have all pre-SP2 patches installed and yet if I surf for more than an hour I can guarentee you that Spybot or Ad-Aware will show something on their next nightly scan.
The fourth spyware tool I use is Bazooka Spyware Scanner. While it won't actually clean any spyware it detects a TON of stuff missed by Ad-aware and Spybot and does it in about .1 seconds on modern PC's. It then links you to precise step by step instructions on how to clean the infection. The stuff Bazooka finds is typically stuff you have to reboot into safe mode in order to clean.
Odd time? Dude unless you have Silver or Gold support you are guarenteed to get someone in a call center in India. Hell even with Silver my first line contact is Indian probably 50% of the time. I spend a lot of time talking to Dell support (i'm a computer consultant and a lot of my SMB clients use Dell hardware exclusivly) and so I can tell you that calling back is going to do you almost no good. Now if you get someone with such a thick accent that you can't communicate then calling back may help but chances are very, very good that your first line contact will be Indian unless you have Gold support (which essentially bypasses firstline anyways).
Well I'm not sure about today, but when the XBox first came out the variable cost of the XBox was in fact greater than the MSRP. I will quote a Cnet article from 2001:
And production costs are expected to be an unusually high $375 per machine because of the console's advanced features, Blodget said in the report. Blodget estimates Microsoft will "lose $125 on every Xbox console--and that's before taking into account" sales, marketing and other administrative costs.
linky
I don't doubt that the cost of parts have come down enough that today MS is in fact no longer losing much if any money on the XBox, but they most certainly aren't making a whole lot of money on them either. The console industry is all about licensing costs from content creators. Why else do you think three titles cost as much as the console?
Wtf would the landing zone be ANYWHERE near an occupied area? They have this huge basically uninhabited area called the Gobi Desert to land big space probes in with a statistically zero chance of hitting anything. Instead they land it in the middle of one of the more populated parts of the country? That makes zero sense to me.
I call bullshit on sounds better. The iPod has one of the best preamps out there as has been noted all over including an article several months back here on slashdot. Add to that the fact that the iPod can do 320kbps MP3's or Apple Lossless decoding I think you will have a hard time finding ANYTHING that sounds much better than an iPod with good headphones, let alone another portable.
Wow, I guess people just don't get it. Most PDA's these days are just a "small overpriced laptop". You pay for convenience, and I for one think I might very well buy one of these. I currently use a 750MHz P3 laptop which needs a big cushioned bag to lug around, on the other hand this thing probably would be fine with a small lined carrying case that would fit in the oversized pockets in my wool coat. I could always have my computer with me, including all of my apps and the ability to connection to any client network and use just about any external peripheral. That sounds damn usefull to me.
Steve doesn't want to get into the smartphone market because he can't controll the experience enough. They wouldn't controll the price, they wouldn't controll support, and they wouldn't controll the network it runs on (unless they did an exclusive deal which would be stupid as it would be too niche a market to justify the development costs). Not only that but Steve seems to have a personal grudge against PDA's since the Newton was the first project he killed on his return since it was a pet project for the man that ousted him.
Because you no longer have to physically move lines when you do move, adds, changes, there is no need to run new lines to new locations, and there is no need to add it to new sites. The fact of the matter is that you lose voice service if your T1 goes down if the interfacing device is an NBX or a classic PBX, or do you put both voice and data through a single T1, that seems kind of stupid.
Of course. For almost any business purchasing per seat licensing is more about support than it is about aquiring the software. Heck half the time you double pay for OS licensing with MS agreements but it's part of a larger package which includes support for all of your software.
btw whoever modded my origional post flaimbait is a complete moron, I was seriously inquiring about volume pricing.
Unfortunatly OpenMail went EOL at HP and the company that bought it doesn't have the resources to really support it. It's unfortunatly a legacy product at this point. You're right though if HP had held onto it I would be using it at quite a few places right now.