I won't trust any numbers from a site that's a thinly veiled racist anti-immigration site. Besides their predictions are based on projections from 1970's numbers (the last year the Decennial census included questions about parential origin) but the census beuro has more statistical samples performed yearly that include this information, all of the more modern analysis that I've seen shows natural births of native born citizens outstripping death rates. This means that we must be at least at replacement levels for the next generation. Not only that but according to the tables near the end of this page the average age of natural citizens is two years younger than that of foreign born citizens. Also Mexico has a larger problem with aging population than the U.S. does due to falling birth rates so it is probable that Mexican immigration will fall as fewer people fight for the available jobs in Mexico.
Why would they be the ones on your reference list. I don't have any direct supervisors, PHB's, or HR droids on MY reference list. I DO have friendly good natured people that were unit level managers at clients but I pick and choose those. You don't have to list your boss that pissed you off daily as a reference, just someone with some aura of authority that was pleased with your work. Besides I have never had an employer follow up on references, they just want to see that you put something down (there are exceptions, but they are just that exceptions)
Don't run the magnet over the tapes, put the magnet in the tape drive =) Then have a job that deletes key files after you have left, when they go to recover they will blank the tape as they are trying to restore =) This was the meanest thing I have ever heard of someone doing as a parting shot.
Bullshit. Check out the facts. I had heard for years that the U.S. is below replacement level, yadda yadda. Then I went to the U.S. Census Beuro, and low and behold we have greater than 2.1 births per married couple and our birth rate exceeds our death rate. We may have a slowing of population growth and an aging population but there is no population implosion about to occour here. Add to that immigration and the U.S. is fine through the end of this century at least. Certain xenophobic cultures that have also promoted low birth rates might have a problem (Japan and Germany) but the overall population curve won't peak for at least 50 more years. China has finally brought their population growth under controll after 50 years of effort but India isn't even trying yet.
Telomers. Here is a good article on the application of removing telomerase to extend the life of humans. Mice studies have shown that by capping the Telomers to keep them from unwinding that mice can be made which seemingly cease to age and which are almost immune to carcinogens. There have been mice that live several years whereas their untreated brethern die in weeks or months.
That's the same reason a number of my clients include large legaleese signatures to all outgoing email. As healthcare providers they have very specific regulations they must follow and including such signatures is a requirement of HIPAA.
Copper is NOT here to stay, at least not long term. Cat5e/6 is already at its breaking point with Gigabit, there just isn't any frequency capacity left if you want reasonable drop lengths. There is a 10Gbit technology using special encoding schemes but it's limited in length to ~50m.
The 802.3an group has set goals for specifying 10G over 55 to 100 meters of 200-MHz Category 6 or 100 meters of 600-MHz Category 7 cable.
Good Cat7 is about $0.40/foot whereas 2 Strand,MM,62.5/125,CMR is only $0.20/foot. Prices here. If you are going to have to rewire anyways why not do it right, AND save 50% on cable?
Case has had fibre for forever. They were the largest ATM deployment ever. They used ATM to the desktop over fibre physical connections so this was just reusing existing fibre for something faster and better supported (finding PCI ATM cards was getting kind of hard and expensive). As to the annoyance, if you can afford a Case education you are definitly NOT worried about the $200 for a transciever.
They already lost that market. I know quite a few engineers that two years ago couldn't wait for the Opteron to ship so that they could get a cheap fast system to do design work on. They absolutly HAD to have 64bit support as their chip routing would often take 8-12GB of RAM to run in a single process but they were tired of paying SUN prices. When you can get a dual Opteron system with 16GB for less than the 16GB RAM upgrade from SUN you can see why they have lost the market.
The $500 will get me an extra lens which will make the 300D that much more usefull. I don't plan to ding my prosumer camera around, that's what the PowerShot is for =)
p.s. The imaging sensor is EXACTLY the same between the 10D and the 300D.
That's EXACTLY what I was thinking when I read about this project several years ago. OpenBoot is Free/free and proven. Not only that but it's hard to imagine a more flexible system since it includes a Turing Complete programming language at its heart =) After you've used OpenBoot the PC BIOS seems so limiting and mundane.
Actually they could NEVER be turned off all the way. The BIOS patches just disabled them during startup, and Windows didn't turn it back on. But if you knew the correct sequence and a little assembly you could reactivate the PID 'feature' and query the number. I don't think there was ever a real program that did this but there were a few demo pieces that were enough proof of concept to show that it was possible.
Yep, they are usually to make different traces either equidistant or to introduce necessary delays. Another reason to use non-straight paths is to avoid RF interference and induced current between PCB layers. Also hard bends in a trace can often lead to leakage and singaling problems so you might need two smooth curves to avoid a single hard corner.
Not even close to a cpu second per message. Barracude appliances can do up to ten million messages per day filtering both spam and virus's. Their accuracy is pretty damn good too.
What are you talking about, getting to anything takes an extra click in XP. To get to anything under Admin tools for instance it's Start->All Programs->Programs->Admin Tools->item instead of just Start->Programs->Admin Tools->item, getting to right click items on My Computer is similarly an extra click (click on start menu, then right click my computer). Anything that causes routine actions to take an extra click and which kills the muscle memory I have built up both for mouse movements and keyboard flow is a BAD thing. THAT is why I turn off XP's start menu and also why I don't like spatial views. If it was going to improve my work flow I might take the time to learn it, but if it's just different for the sake of being different then it's a waste of my time.
No, real men make the change in the lab, once they are sure of the consequences of the change they place it into the central mount location and the next time the servers are rebooted they pick up the changes. Of course that's how you do it when you have to admin hundreds or thousands of systems across many locations =)
The problem is essentially this: All previos Linux distro's and windows LISTEN to the BIOS when it says it's in CHS mode and calculate their geometry in accordance with that. FC2 on the other hand goes directly for the more modern LBA mode table and uses it regardless of whether the BIOS is currently in CHS mode. This leads to FC2 writing the table based on data that COULD be correct if the bios were in LBA mode but which everything else under the sun will be unable to interpret because they are looking for CHS data based on the state of the BIOS.
Under windows this behavior can be avoided by enabling the DisablePagingExecutive registry key. At the consultancy where I work we do this to all machines with >=512MB or RAM including all servers. This keeps them from swapping the kernel during extreme situations which often means we can recover from runaway processes.
Here's an idea, mod the kernel to kill process's by niceness level when you fail on a page allocate. That way you Oracle database is the last process to get killed and that cleanup script or indexing process is among the first. Btw I'm of the opinion that for critical servers if you EVER go to swap you've already failed. Responsiveness takes such a dive that the server usually needs to be rebooted anyway. Of course it might give you the ability to do a clean shutdown instead of just panicing.
It's that kind of attitude that leads to things like Novell's ConsoleOne. It's so slow loading up that I literally cringe every time I start it. It takes several minutes to load up with only the basic plugins, if you have a complex Netware environment with Groupwise, GWAVA, and other plugins you might as well take a coffee, smoke, and bathroom break because the app MIGHT be up by the time you get back.
CNG requires minimal infrastructure improvements. Most parts of the US have high pressure natural gas available so all that is needed is a holding vessel and pumps. Beyond that it is possible to make a vehicle which will run on either gasoline/gas or diesel/gas. For more info on so called Bi-fuel vehicles see this government link. Such vehicles make TONS of sense for fleet vehicles as they can run on cleaner cheaper fuel when available but also can use standard fuel if away from the alternative stations for extended periods of time.
It's no secret, UltraSparc II's at 400 and 450 MHz had bad cache modules. Initially Sun blamed it on cellphones, particularly Nextel's because they do such a good job of creating sympathetic noise in unshielded speakers. Eventually enough info came to light and Sun was able to find the real problem. They instituted a program to replace all effected modules if requested. I know because Cisco had a LOT of them and it became routine to replace them during any scheduled downtime on affected systems whether there had been any indication of the fault or not.
Point to point video can be done on as few as 2 ISDN lines (4B channels or 256kbps), and looks extremely good with 3 lines (6B or 384kbps), anything more than that is gravey. This is from my experience with Polycom units doing ITU-T H.264. At 1Gbps the limiting factor in most transactions becomes the disk subsystem of one of the hosts, and there isn't a non-multimillion dollar computer that could saturate 10Gbps for any length of time.
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I won't trust any numbers from a site that's a thinly veiled racist anti-immigration site. Besides their predictions are based on projections from 1970's numbers (the last year the Decennial census included questions about parential origin) but the census beuro has more statistical samples performed yearly that include this information, all of the more modern analysis that I've seen shows natural births of native born citizens outstripping death rates. This means that we must be at least at replacement levels for the next generation. Not only that but according to the tables near the end of this page the average age of natural citizens is two years younger than that of foreign born citizens. Also Mexico has a larger problem with aging population than the U.S. does due to falling birth rates so it is probable that Mexican immigration will fall as fewer people fight for the available jobs in Mexico.
Why would they be the ones on your reference list. I don't have any direct supervisors, PHB's, or HR droids on MY reference list. I DO have friendly good natured people that were unit level managers at clients but I pick and choose those. You don't have to list your boss that pissed you off daily as a reference, just someone with some aura of authority that was pleased with your work. Besides I have never had an employer follow up on references, they just want to see that you put something down (there are exceptions, but they are just that exceptions)
Don't run the magnet over the tapes, put the magnet in the tape drive =) Then have a job that deletes key files after you have left, when they go to recover they will blank the tape as they are trying to restore =) This was the meanest thing I have ever heard of someone doing as a parting shot.
Bullshit. Check out the facts. I had heard for years that the U.S. is below replacement level, yadda yadda. Then I went to the U.S. Census Beuro, and low and behold we have greater than 2.1 births per married couple and our birth rate exceeds our death rate. We may have a slowing of population growth and an aging population but there is no population implosion about to occour here. Add to that immigration and the U.S. is fine through the end of this century at least. Certain xenophobic cultures that have also promoted low birth rates might have a problem (Japan and Germany) but the overall population curve won't peak for at least 50 more years. China has finally brought their population growth under controll after 50 years of effort but India isn't even trying yet.
Telomers. Here is a good article on the application of removing telomerase to extend the life of humans. Mice studies have shown that by capping the Telomers to keep them from unwinding that mice can be made which seemingly cease to age and which are almost immune to carcinogens. There have been mice that live several years whereas their untreated brethern die in weeks or months.
That's the same reason a number of my clients include large legaleese signatures to all outgoing email. As healthcare providers they have very specific regulations they must follow and including such signatures is a requirement of HIPAA.
Copper is NOT here to stay, at least not long term. Cat5e/6 is already at its breaking point with Gigabit, there just isn't any frequency capacity left if you want reasonable drop lengths. There is a 10Gbit technology using special encoding schemes but it's limited in length to ~50m.
The 802.3an group has set goals for specifying 10G over 55 to 100 meters of 200-MHz Category 6 or 100 meters of 600-MHz Category 7 cable.
Good Cat7 is about $0.40/foot whereas 2 Strand,MM,62.5/125,CMR is only $0.20/foot. Prices here. If you are going to have to rewire anyways why not do it right, AND save 50% on cable?
Case has had fibre for forever. They were the largest ATM deployment ever. They used ATM to the desktop over fibre physical connections so this was just reusing existing fibre for something faster and better supported (finding PCI ATM cards was getting kind of hard and expensive). As to the annoyance, if you can afford a Case education you are definitly NOT worried about the $200 for a transciever.
They already lost that market. I know quite a few engineers that two years ago couldn't wait for the Opteron to ship so that they could get a cheap fast system to do design work on. They absolutly HAD to have 64bit support as their chip routing would often take 8-12GB of RAM to run in a single process but they were tired of paying SUN prices. When you can get a dual Opteron system with 16GB for less than the 16GB RAM upgrade from SUN you can see why they have lost the market.
The $500 will get me an extra lens which will make the 300D that much more usefull. I don't plan to ding my prosumer camera around, that's what the PowerShot is for =)
p.s.
The imaging sensor is EXACTLY the same between the 10D and the 300D.
That's EXACTLY what I was thinking when I read about this project several years ago. OpenBoot is Free/free and proven. Not only that but it's hard to imagine a more flexible system since it includes a Turing Complete programming language at its heart =) After you've used OpenBoot the PC BIOS seems so limiting and mundane.
Actually they could NEVER be turned off all the way. The BIOS patches just disabled them during startup, and Windows didn't turn it back on. But if you knew the correct sequence and a little assembly you could reactivate the PID 'feature' and query the number. I don't think there was ever a real program that did this but there were a few demo pieces that were enough proof of concept to show that it was possible.
Yep, they are usually to make different traces either equidistant or to introduce necessary delays. Another reason to use non-straight paths is to avoid RF interference and induced current between PCB layers. Also hard bends in a trace can often lead to leakage and singaling problems so you might need two smooth curves to avoid a single hard corner.
Not even close to a cpu second per message. Barracude appliances can do up to ten million messages per day filtering both spam and virus's. Their accuracy is pretty damn good too.
Really, you mean if you manually add a shortcut to the top level of the start menu, yeah THERE is a solution! NOT.
What are you talking about, getting to anything takes an extra click in XP. To get to anything under Admin tools for instance it's Start->All Programs->Programs->Admin Tools->item instead of just Start->Programs->Admin Tools->item, getting to right click items on My Computer is similarly an extra click (click on start menu, then right click my computer). Anything that causes routine actions to take an extra click and which kills the muscle memory I have built up both for mouse movements and keyboard flow is a BAD thing. THAT is why I turn off XP's start menu and also why I don't like spatial views. If it was going to improve my work flow I might take the time to learn it, but if it's just different for the sake of being different then it's a waste of my time.
No, real men make the change in the lab, once they are sure of the consequences of the change they place it into the central mount location and the next time the servers are rebooted they pick up the changes. Of course that's how you do it when you have to admin hundreds or thousands of systems across many locations =)
The problem is essentially this: All previos Linux distro's and windows LISTEN to the BIOS when it says it's in CHS mode and calculate their geometry in accordance with that. FC2 on the other hand goes directly for the more modern LBA mode table and uses it regardless of whether the BIOS is currently in CHS mode. This leads to FC2 writing the table based on data that COULD be correct if the bios were in LBA mode but which everything else under the sun will be unable to interpret because they are looking for CHS data based on the state of the BIOS.
Under windows this behavior can be avoided by enabling the DisablePagingExecutive registry key. At the consultancy where I work we do this to all machines with >=512MB or RAM including all servers. This keeps them from swapping the kernel during extreme situations which often means we can recover from runaway processes.
Here's an idea, mod the kernel to kill process's by niceness level when you fail on a page allocate. That way you Oracle database is the last process to get killed and that cleanup script or indexing process is among the first. Btw I'm of the opinion that for critical servers if you EVER go to swap you've already failed. Responsiveness takes such a dive that the server usually needs to be rebooted anyway. Of course it might give you the ability to do a clean shutdown instead of just panicing.
It's that kind of attitude that leads to things like Novell's ConsoleOne. It's so slow loading up that I literally cringe every time I start it. It takes several minutes to load up with only the basic plugins, if you have a complex Netware environment with Groupwise, GWAVA, and other plugins you might as well take a coffee, smoke, and bathroom break because the app MIGHT be up by the time you get back.
A lone moron and his publishist trying to sell copy by being sensational about a fairly popular and current topic?
CNG requires minimal infrastructure improvements. Most parts of the US have high pressure natural gas available so all that is needed is a holding vessel and pumps. Beyond that it is possible to make a vehicle which will run on either gasoline/gas or diesel/gas. For more info on so called Bi-fuel vehicles see this government link. Such vehicles make TONS of sense for fleet vehicles as they can run on cleaner cheaper fuel when available but also can use standard fuel if away from the alternative stations for extended periods of time.
It's no secret, UltraSparc II's at 400 and 450 MHz had bad cache modules. Initially Sun blamed it on cellphones, particularly Nextel's because they do such a good job of creating sympathetic noise in unshielded speakers. Eventually enough info came to light and Sun was able to find the real problem. They instituted a program to replace all effected modules if requested. I know because Cisco had a LOT of them and it became routine to replace them during any scheduled downtime on affected systems whether there had been any indication of the fault or not.
Point to point video can be done on as few as 2 ISDN lines (4B channels or 256kbps), and looks extremely good with 3 lines (6B or 384kbps), anything more than that is gravey. This is from my experience with Polycom units doing ITU-T H.264. At 1Gbps the limiting factor in most transactions becomes the disk subsystem of one of the hosts, and there isn't a non-multimillion dollar computer that could saturate 10Gbps for any length of time.