My favorite is Cranberry juice with red food dye added, WTF??? For milenia Cranberries were USED for red dye! It's great when you have a relative with alergies to red food dye because the stupid idiots put it in all sorts of stuff. Btw cheap real peanutbutter with little added and no preservatives can be bought simply by buying Smuckers all natural, not really any more expensive then Skippy or whatever but none of the added sugars or preservatives.
Are you on crack? I'm 25 and one of my first LEGO sets was in fact a cammo bucket set which was military themed. Of course I mostly used it for making bridges, bases, and other engineering things for my action figures but LEGO most certainly sells and has sold for a long time military themed kits. Of course that stuff pales in comparison to Technicks and Mindstorms (I had the Technicks 4' working car!)
We had just moved buildings a couple months prior from a site with no central UPS to a site with central UPS, massive backup generator, and a warning system for said kit. Well I'm sitting in my cubicle across from the datacenter when the red strobe light for the UPS starts going off along with the loud siren, plus the blue light for the generator isn't lit! I rush into the datacenter to figure out the problem and so that I can think straight I press the surface mount button to silence the alarm, well the surface is greasy and my finger slides down, to the power button! Stupid Liebert UPS had a surface mount power button with no confirmation and no lockout shield like every other freaking UPS I've ever seen. Let me tell you there is nothing worse than the sound of silence in the middle of a multimillion dollar datacenter! I powered the UPS back up and things mostly came back on their own, only a couple of SUN workstations in the development cluster failed to come back on their own and those just needed an fsck.
As to your first point DNS is great because lookups are generally fast and they are cached. I don't think even every host on the internet looking up the TXT records for aol.com every couple of hours at the most frequent is going to tax the kinds of bandwidth and DNS servers AOL employs. Besides the amount of email traffic that they will be able to dump before the session even begins will outweigh the DNS lookups probably a million to one in bandwidth.
As to the second point that is already easily dealt with by most intelligent MTA's, heck my ISP's email servers already flag any message which has a different sending IP and host identifier, and they have informed us that they plan to dump the connection on this condition "real soon now". SPF just makes this easier since it can be used to eliminate false positives from semi-clued admins.
for example employees not being able to send company email while on the road without hassle
Boo hoo a mail admin will have to take the hour or two it takes to properly implement SASL and you will have to roll out a change to the corporate email client that defaults it to talking SASL. Besides most remote users use VPN these days anyways. Also if all the big guys implement it and implement serious negative scoring for those not using it then it will quickly be adopted by those with a clue, those without a clue I do not care to recieve email from =)
Yeah, considering that sending a couple of golf carts to mars cost nearly a billion dollars I can't see how we can get people there for only twice as much per mission and do it safely. Of course R&D dollars are MUCH better spent at NASA then they are at the military suppliers.
Nope, providing cash is an almost infinitly small part of what the treasury does. Basically they have three central rolls: a)setting the interest rate that they charge commercial banks b)buying and selling foreign currencies to nudge their value in relation to the dollar c)regulate financial institutions
That's funny I like supporting HP printers and their Vectra line were some of the easiest computers to work on ever. Of course their consumer line blows goats, maybe you had to work on Pavilions?
Although the IBM Microdrives draw about 2.5-3X the amount of power compared to a memory based CF card their overall impact on a digicam is pretty minimal because the CMOS/CCD sensor and the LCD both draw many, many times more power.
Actually that's most likely a bug in the firmware of your modem. My brother had a similar problem but not related to burst speed. He called his ISP's support and they quickly informed him that the modem's firmware was out of date and that a buggy http cache feature would lock up the modem after a certain amount of transfer (even if it wasn't http!!). Simply going to the manufacturers site and grabbing the most recent firmware version fixed it up.
Actually most blacklights I've seen are either a neon tube with a filter that blocks the non near-violet part or the spectrum or blackbody sources like an incandescent with a similar filter. These are generally not UV tuned bulbs and so the UV exposure isn't any greater than that from a similar light source without the filter attached. My guess would be that the UV energy from blacklights is significantly less than that from the sun and human survived most of their lives in sunlight for thousands of years =)
Yep especially since one of the images I saved from dpchallenge.com might not be editable is the new version of PS because it contains recognizable security features of currency. Here is the picture in question, funny enough I resized it in PS6 so that my ISP doesn't take as much of a hit from the slashdot effect =)
The blacklight thing is mostly for bars where the other measures aren't easily seen. Also the two most important anti-counterfeit measures on the bills are the paper and the color changing ink. The paper can be recreated by buying cranes bright white cotton paper, but it's so expensive that doing anything less than $20's is probably a money losing proposition. The color shift ink is REALLY tough to reproduce. And as the secret service has said they have almost been their own worst enemy, they have kept domestic counterfeiting to such a low percentage of circulated currency that most people have never recieved a fake note so they don't bother checking.
Developing a Linux desktop solution that scales to the size of IBM is going to cost at LEAST 8 million. Then you get into training the internal helpdesk folks, etc and soon it's not really a win just on internal use. The real win is the experience you get so that you can sell the solution to your customers.
*disclaimer* I work for IBM in a rollout and customer service capacity.
Yeah I VJ in the midwest, not the bible belt but probably more conservative then the coasts. Of course the crowds that tend to go to the clubs and parties I VJ are pretty liberal. I think it has more to do with it being porn and the objectification of women then the sex part, hell I've seen people having sex in the corners and that didn't really raise any eyebrows. Besides there's nowhere better than the rust belt for good electronic music Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh has probably one of the best scenes in the world.
Actually I've found that doing porn really tends to not go over so well with most crowds. Instead I use a lot of kung-fu, anime, war shots, and old black and white films. Nuclear weapons test footage also works well. I add to that custom 3D renders and live effects, and get a show that most people like. I tend to do this while I am mixing live and let Geiss's Milkdrop run when I'm taking a break =)
Apple sold 3/4 of a million $300+ iPod's LAST QUARTER. I think they will sell a significant number of these smaller units as well, Apple has a pretty damn good market research team, they just aren't willing to wade into the huge volume/crap quality part of the market.
The problem there is that neither Creative labs nor VIA understand the PCI 2.1 spec. That's why I've made my last 4 PC's with SiS mobo's, I can change the chipset but there isn't another sub $100 soundcard with ASIO drivers that is well supported under the various sound tools I use.
I gave up caffeine cold turkey for about 3 months several years ago because I got some physically debilitating migraines that anecdotal evidence suggested were linked to my morning consumption. Back then I would consume several liters of Mt Dew or iced tea per day, now I drink a can of something a couple times a month.
50 machines is NOT a large sample. I'm sorry for your bad luck but I personally was responsible for a remote office datacenter with more Sun's than that and enterprise wide we had nearly 15K units and we did NOT have significant issues other than the bad cache modules on the 450Mhz US II CPU's.
I might call Sun hardware a lot of things but unreliable ain't one of em. Sorry but the only x86 hardware that comes close is the top end of the Proliant line and the "mainframe" stuff from Unisys. As far as performance goes remember that mainframes are often several generations behind the bleeding edge and yet most of the worlds usefull computing is done on em, some of the time its about knowing that a job will get done on time, not how quickly it *might* get done.
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My favorite is Cranberry juice with red food dye added, WTF??? For milenia Cranberries were USED for red dye! It's great when you have a relative with alergies to red food dye because the stupid idiots put it in all sorts of stuff. Btw cheap real peanutbutter with little added and no preservatives can be bought simply by buying Smuckers all natural, not really any more expensive then Skippy or whatever but none of the added sugars or preservatives.
Are you on crack?
I'm 25 and one of my first LEGO sets was in fact a cammo bucket set which was military themed. Of course I mostly used it for making bridges, bases, and other engineering things for my action figures but LEGO most certainly sells and has sold for a long time military themed kits. Of course that stuff pales in comparison to Technicks and Mindstorms (I had the Technicks 4' working car!)
We had just moved buildings a couple months prior from a site with no central UPS to a site with central UPS, massive backup generator, and a warning system for said kit. Well I'm sitting in my cubicle across from the datacenter when the red strobe light for the UPS starts going off along with the loud siren, plus the blue light for the generator isn't lit! I rush into the datacenter to figure out the problem and so that I can think straight I press the surface mount button to silence the alarm, well the surface is greasy and my finger slides down, to the power button! Stupid Liebert UPS had a surface mount power button with no confirmation and no lockout shield like every other freaking UPS I've ever seen. Let me tell you there is nothing worse than the sound of silence in the middle of a multimillion dollar datacenter! I powered the UPS back up and things mostly came back on their own, only a couple of SUN workstations in the development cluster failed to come back on their own and those just needed an fsck.
3Ware has SATA Raid-5 cards up to 12 devices.
Besides the limiting factor on most systems will be the 133MB/s PCI 33Mhz/32bit bus!
Actually once the manufacturers get the inertia going SATA will be CHEAPER than PATA because of reduced part counts and other factors.
As to your first point DNS is great because lookups are generally fast and they are cached. I don't think even every host on the internet looking up the TXT records for aol.com every couple of hours at the most frequent is going to tax the kinds of bandwidth and DNS servers AOL employs. Besides the amount of email traffic that they will be able to dump before the session even begins will outweigh the DNS lookups probably a million to one in bandwidth.
As to the second point that is already easily dealt with by most intelligent MTA's, heck my ISP's email servers already flag any message which has a different sending IP and host identifier, and they have informed us that they plan to dump the connection on this condition "real soon now". SPF just makes this easier since it can be used to eliminate false positives from semi-clued admins.
for example employees not being able to send company email while on the road without hassle
Boo hoo a mail admin will have to take the hour or two it takes to properly implement SASL and you will have to roll out a change to the corporate email client that defaults it to talking SASL. Besides most remote users use VPN these days anyways. Also if all the big guys implement it and implement serious negative scoring for those not using it then it will quickly be adopted by those with a clue, those without a clue I do not care to recieve email from =)
Yeah, considering that sending a couple of golf carts to mars cost nearly a billion dollars I can't see how we can get people there for only twice as much per mission and do it safely. Of course R&D dollars are MUCH better spent at NASA then they are at the military suppliers.
Nope, providing cash is an almost infinitly small part of what the treasury does. Basically they have three central rolls:
a)setting the interest rate that they charge commercial banks
b)buying and selling foreign currencies to nudge their value in relation to the dollar
c)regulate financial institutions
That's funny I like supporting HP printers and their Vectra line were some of the easiest computers to work on ever. Of course their consumer line blows goats, maybe you had to work on Pavilions?
Although the IBM Microdrives draw about 2.5-3X the amount of power compared to a memory based CF card their overall impact on a digicam is pretty minimal because the CMOS/CCD sensor and the LCD both draw many, many times more power.
Fortunatly those addresses will usually be used for core routers that can take and brush off the extra traffic =)
Actually that's most likely a bug in the firmware of your modem. My brother had a similar problem but not related to burst speed. He called his ISP's support and they quickly informed him that the modem's firmware was out of date and that a buggy http cache feature would lock up the modem after a certain amount of transfer (even if it wasn't http!!). Simply going to the manufacturers site and grabbing the most recent firmware version fixed it up.
Actually most blacklights I've seen are either a neon tube with a filter that blocks the non near-violet part or the spectrum or blackbody sources like an incandescent with a similar filter. These are generally not UV tuned bulbs and so the UV exposure isn't any greater than that from a similar light source without the filter attached. My guess would be that the UV energy from blacklights is significantly less than that from the sun and human survived most of their lives in sunlight for thousands of years =)
Yep especially since one of the images I saved from dpchallenge.com might not be editable is the new version of PS because it contains recognizable security features of currency. Here is the picture in question, funny enough I resized it in PS6 so that my ISP doesn't take as much of a hit from the slashdot effect =)
The blacklight thing is mostly for bars where the other measures aren't easily seen. Also the two most important anti-counterfeit measures on the bills are the paper and the color changing ink. The paper can be recreated by buying cranes bright white cotton paper, but it's so expensive that doing anything less than $20's is probably a money losing proposition. The color shift ink is REALLY tough to reproduce. And as the secret service has said they have almost been their own worst enemy, they have kept domestic counterfeiting to such a low percentage of circulated currency that most people have never recieved a fake note so they don't bother checking.
Developing a Linux desktop solution that scales to the size of IBM is going to cost at LEAST 8 million. Then you get into training the internal helpdesk folks, etc and soon it's not really a win just on internal use. The real win is the experience you get so that you can sell the solution to your customers.
*disclaimer*
I work for IBM in a rollout and customer service capacity.
Yeah I VJ in the midwest, not the bible belt but probably more conservative then the coasts. Of course the crowds that tend to go to the clubs and parties I VJ are pretty liberal. I think it has more to do with it being porn and the objectification of women then the sex part, hell I've seen people having sex in the corners and that didn't really raise any eyebrows. Besides there's nowhere better than the rust belt for good electronic music Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh has probably one of the best scenes in the world.
Actually I've found that doing porn really tends to not go over so well with most crowds. Instead I use a lot of kung-fu, anime, war shots, and old black and white films. Nuclear weapons test footage also works well. I add to that custom 3D renders and live effects, and get a show that most people like. I tend to do this while I am mixing live and let Geiss's Milkdrop run when I'm taking a break =)
Apple sold 3/4 of a million $300+ iPod's LAST QUARTER. I think they will sell a significant number of these smaller units as well, Apple has a pretty damn good market research team, they just aren't willing to wade into the huge volume/crap quality part of the market.
The problem there is that neither Creative labs nor VIA understand the PCI 2.1 spec. That's why I've made my last 4 PC's with SiS mobo's, I can change the chipset but there isn't another sub $100 soundcard with ASIO drivers that is well supported under the various sound tools I use.
I gave up caffeine cold turkey for about 3 months several years ago because I got some physically debilitating migraines that anecdotal evidence suggested were linked to my morning consumption. Back then I would consume several liters of Mt Dew or iced tea per day, now I drink a can of something a couple times a month.
50 machines is NOT a large sample. I'm sorry for your bad luck but I personally was responsible for a remote office datacenter with more Sun's than that and enterprise wide we had nearly 15K units and we did NOT have significant issues other than the bad cache modules on the 450Mhz US II CPU's.
"...(and unreliable) hardware" *cough* *sputter*
I might call Sun hardware a lot of things but unreliable ain't one of em. Sorry but the only x86 hardware that comes close is the top end of the Proliant line and the "mainframe" stuff from Unisys. As far as performance goes remember that mainframes are often several generations behind the bleeding edge and yet most of the worlds usefull computing is done on em, some of the time its about knowing that a job will get done on time, not how quickly it *might* get done.