Yup, on the server side AMD was ahead from the first Opteron until Shanghai, and then Intel launch Nehalem and they've been ahead ever since. One the desktop Intel got competitive again with the Core2 but on a performance per $ metric it wasn't until Nehalem that they dominated.
Sony's part of the LTO consortium so I'd assume the technology would end up there unless Sony strongly feels they have everyone else beat and can convince enough shops that they can go it alone (I know I wouldn't touch a single vendor tape standard with a 10' pole but plenty of folks use the proprietary StorageTek and IBM formats).
Be careful with multiplexing, it speeds backups but can make restores brutal. We did a test restore of our full file server once and realized we couldn't hit the 72 hour SLA due to shoe shining during restore, we ended up pulling our multiplexing back from 8 to 2 which required a few more drives in the library to complete weekly backups in the same timeframe.
LOL, no. LTO is normally about 1/3rd the $/GB of SATA drives and 1/5th the price of NL drives. As an example LTO5 tapes are currently around $20 each when bought in reasonable quantities and hold 1.5TB uncompressed for a cost of $.0133/GB, the cheapest 3TB SATA drive at Newegg right now is $105 for a cost of $.035/GB.
The Spark EV isn't a compliance car, it's available for sale, today, even in non-California emissions states (though they have only sold 369 as of end of April so I guess it misses one of their metrics on a technicality). That article is 2 years old.
Good to see, those rates are still at least double what they should be though. I'm willing to bet that only came about after T-Mobile switched their pricing structure.
I'm not sure what you consider a POS device, but you can get a Moto G for $99 off contract, or a Moto X for $300 (phonedog and others consider the Moto X one of the best smartphones available at any price), on contract you're probably paying that much is subsidies in less than a year.
You CAN take it to Sprint or AT&T, but you'll pay the same monthly charge as someone who didn't bring their own device (ie paying a monthly subsidy for a phone you didn't receive), there are sometimes exceptions, but in general that's how it works.
You can always connect to a compatible tower, even without a roaming agreement in place. As an example when I was in upstate NY with a T-Mobile phone I couldn't make a phone call or do any data because T-Mobile didn't have coverage and had no AT&T roaming agreement but I did get an AT&T GSM indication on my phone that said emergency only (ie only 911 calls would connect).
Unlimited also means you aren't getting gouged when you happen to go over some arbitrary limit which has been the modus operandi of the wireless industry since the inception. Paying a flat $25/month for 5GB/unlimited/unlimited means I'll never have a surprise $900 bill.
In 2010 first class mail brought in $34B, standard mail (ie junk mail) brought in $17B, not sure what 2013 numbers looked like but I know they've taken on a LOT of final delivery services for Fedex and UPS so the numbers are likely similar or perhaps even a lower percentage for bulk mail.
In 2010 the USPS brought in $17,300 million dollars from standard mail, there were 117.5 million households in 2010 which means the USPS was paid roughly $147 per household to deliver bulk mailings.
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There's an upgrade, FX-9590.
Yup, on the server side AMD was ahead from the first Opteron until Shanghai, and then Intel launch Nehalem and they've been ahead ever since. One the desktop Intel got competitive again with the Core2 but on a performance per $ metric it wasn't until Nehalem that they dominated.
Get rid of traffic fines and my taxes go up
Oliver Wendell Holmes once said: 'I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization"
Having armed thugs hitting up random citizens for funding is the antithesis of civilization.
And people said carrier grade NAT was a bad thing...
Sony's part of the LTO consortium so I'd assume the technology would end up there unless Sony strongly feels they have everyone else beat and can convince enough shops that they can go it alone (I know I wouldn't touch a single vendor tape standard with a 10' pole but plenty of folks use the proprietary StorageTek and IBM formats).
I've always said if you don't have an offsite, offline, and verified backup you don't have a backup at all =)
Be careful with multiplexing, it speeds backups but can make restores brutal. We did a test restore of our full file server once and realized we couldn't hit the 72 hour SLA due to shoe shining during restore, we ended up pulling our multiplexing back from 8 to 2 which required a few more drives in the library to complete weekly backups in the same timeframe.
2 in 12,000 isn't in anecdote, it's data.
Are you including power and cooling into the TCO calculation for disk?
Either way we're backing up around 38TB just for weeklies so it's obviously cheaper for us, and we're a midsized enterprise.
Our failure rate for LTO is 2 in 12,000 (and one of those was dropped) over the last 10 years.
LOL, no. LTO is normally about 1/3rd the $/GB of SATA drives and 1/5th the price of NL drives. As an example LTO5 tapes are currently around $20 each when bought in reasonable quantities and hold 1.5TB uncompressed for a cost of $.0133/GB, the cheapest 3TB SATA drive at Newegg right now is $105 for a cost of $.035/GB.
The Spark EV isn't a compliance car, it's available for sale, today, even in non-California emissions states (though they have only sold 369 as of end of April so I guess it misses one of their metrics on a technicality). That article is 2 years old.
Good to see, those rates are still at least double what they should be though. I'm willing to bet that only came about after T-Mobile switched their pricing structure.
I'm not sure what you consider a POS device, but you can get a Moto G for $99 off contract, or a Moto X for $300 (phonedog and others consider the Moto X one of the best smartphones available at any price), on contract you're probably paying that much is subsidies in less than a year.
You CAN take it to Sprint or AT&T, but you'll pay the same monthly charge as someone who didn't bring their own device (ie paying a monthly subsidy for a phone you didn't receive), there are sometimes exceptions, but in general that's how it works.
You can always connect to a compatible tower, even without a roaming agreement in place. As an example when I was in upstate NY with a T-Mobile phone I couldn't make a phone call or do any data because T-Mobile didn't have coverage and had no AT&T roaming agreement but I did get an AT&T GSM indication on my phone that said emergency only (ie only 911 calls would connect).
Unlimited also means you aren't getting gouged when you happen to go over some arbitrary limit which has been the modus operandi of the wireless industry since the inception. Paying a flat $25/month for 5GB/unlimited/unlimited means I'll never have a surprise $900 bill.
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Or, they could do their own 2D barcodes that do the same thing and allow you to deduct from a prepaid account, just like EZ-pass toll commissions do.
Nope, those are broken out for just Tablet, mobile is a separate category for phones.
Old data is old, Android is up to 24% globally, and 35% in Asia and the trend lines are pretty obvious.
Yup, I was going to say CPI calculator says $39M in 1965 == $293M in 2014.
Yes, $12.27 per month according to my calculator, or only 41c per day =)
In 2010 first class mail brought in $34B, standard mail (ie junk mail) brought in $17B, not sure what 2013 numbers looked like but I know they've taken on a LOT of final delivery services for Fedex and UPS so the numbers are likely similar or perhaps even a lower percentage for bulk mail.
In 2010 the USPS brought in $17,300 million dollars from standard mail, there were 117.5 million households in 2010 which means the USPS was paid roughly $147 per household to deliver bulk mailings.