Yep, and the guys that run EVE were one of the first major case studies for FusionIO, they proved that a lightning fast local SSD card can improve database performance more than any other reasonably priced upgrade. It's interesting the kinds of things you have to do when you push the envelope in massive multiplayer.
I agree that they've done a HORRIBLE job about keeping their customers updated, the only reason I didn't lose hope that the upgrade was ever going to get to me was this site, great technical information about the upgrade and the admins do a great job of keeping members updated on the progress of the rollout.
The 850Mhz spectrum they are freeing up with the iDen shutdown will help a ton in the situations you describe (coverage in very large buildings) but it'll be a while before they have it rolled out nationwide and not many (if any) of the current phones support it so you'll have to get a new phone to take advantage.
Sprint's in the middle of a complete network overhaul (called network vision) that will bring LTE to almost every cell site by the end of 2014 while significantly upgrading both the antenna's and backhaul at most locations bringing better coverage and better speeds. It hasn't gone nearly as quickly as Sprint's original timetable laid out, but they're less than 6 months behind that fairly aggressive timetable. I know I come off sounding like fanboi but it really annoys me when people can't get their facts straight and use that lack of knowledge to tear down one of the last hopes we have for real competition in the cellphone market in the US. Not only does Sprint compete against the big boys but by being friendly to MVNO's they foster new concepts that help to drive down costs (see Virgin Mobile (now part of Sprint) and Republic Wireless for examples).
Yeah really, I remember playing Lost Vikings (before they became Blizzard), Blackthorn (first game as Blizzard), and the reviewer demo for Warcraft (one of the voices for the orcs said "give good reviews please" if you clicked on him a few times =) Those are early days =)
I'm not buying it, how could you possibly screwup a USB charger to the point where it would be lethal? I mean the cables aren't generally thick enough to carry enough 220V current to kill someone before they melt and 5.5V DC certainly isn't going to kill someone.
First it's 30 million households, not 30 million people, 30 million households is between 90 and 120 million people or roughly a third of the US. Second, I think the carriers representative is stupid because millions of people in the upper midwest already go to their curbside mailbox to pick up their mail during the winter, everyone around me is 300+' from the road and none of my 80+ year old neighbors has a problem with it.
Snort is an IDS not an IPS, in the role of an IDS it is VERY good (probably the best out there), though with the sourcefire modules it can be a bit annoying because it's hard to tell what exactly might be a false positive (with the community modules you can tell exactly what the rules is doing so you can tell if it's tripping on legitimate traffic). It does take some care and feeding, luckily we outsource that job to a local group that does nothing but security monitoring and management so we didn't have to develop the expertise inhouse.
There has to obviously be an exception to the rule to allow for exigent circumstances, like when someone is kidnapped or they are trying to locate an active shooter.
LOL, power plants are nowhere near 80% efficient, more like 38% thermal to electric, add in a few percent transmission losses and you're not far off from ICE.
It doesn't matter who you transfer your zones to, you need two providers if you want to have reliable DNS these days because basically all the big DNS players have had DNS amplification attacks against them at least once in the last year. We switched off AT&T to DNS Made Easy when AT&T suffered a similar attack about 9 months ago but given the frequency of these attacks it's probably just a matter of time until they get hit as well so I'm going to setup secondary zone transfers to a second provider.
You know absolutely nothing but you say much. HP offers HBA's from the three major players in the FC world, QLogic, Emulex, and Brocade. As far as cost, the 5 year cost of an HP box with 6 hour call to repair support is a fraction of what a Sun box will cost with platinum plus (or whatever they're calling it today, it's been since shortly after the Oracle takeover since I've bothered to get quotes)
There are penalties in the law, it's just that AFAIK nobody has ever convinced the government that a particular abuse was severe enough to implement them (yeah, it's a government for and by the corporations, why bother pretending otherwise)
Homo Sapien is a label we put on a particular set of traits but since we know that Homo Sapien and Homo Neanderthalensis interbred it's unlikely that there was a point where there were exactly two or four individuals you could say were the only members of Homo Sapien.
Not really, I doubt Cuba has some magic missile parts factory, these were missiles being laundered from Russia to NK through Cuba. I'm sure China is a bit pissed at the Kremlin at the moment since the last thing they want is NK stirring up political problems while they are trying to keep their economy from going off the deep end.
Fracking doesn't turn liquid into gas! Fracking was originally developed to release liquid petroleum in the Texas oil fields where they were flaring off the natural gas that came with it as it wasn't worth capturing. Fracking essentially breaks up porous structures and then scrubs the liquid petroleum off the resulting slurry, the fact that it releases natural gas as well wasn't an advantage until it was used or rock formations that contain a much higher ratio of natural gas to liquid petroleum.
Why would you be mad? Each of those people commuting via bike is one less car on the road and anyone who's ever studied complex systems knows that traffic reacts very non-linearly so the removal of even a few percentage of the traffic can mean a significant reduction in the number, severity, and duration of traffic jams.
Agreed and I argued this point effectively with the police officer that taught our biking safety class, he admitted that way too many people are self absorbed idiots while driving and so you probably were safer being able to see them coming while having time to react.
Temp to hire isn't that unusual, I've gotten all my long term jobs through temp to hire offers and as a hiring manager I've had a couple that didn't work out where it was good for the company that I didn't do a direct hire as firing someone is much more expensive and legally risky than not renewing a contract.
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Yep, and the guys that run EVE were one of the first major case studies for FusionIO, they proved that a lightning fast local SSD card can improve database performance more than any other reasonably priced upgrade. It's interesting the kinds of things you have to do when you push the envelope in massive multiplayer.
I agree that they've done a HORRIBLE job about keeping their customers updated, the only reason I didn't lose hope that the upgrade was ever going to get to me was this site, great technical information about the upgrade and the admins do a great job of keeping members updated on the progress of the rollout.
The 850Mhz spectrum they are freeing up with the iDen shutdown will help a ton in the situations you describe (coverage in very large buildings) but it'll be a while before they have it rolled out nationwide and not many (if any) of the current phones support it so you'll have to get a new phone to take advantage.
Sprint's in the middle of a complete network overhaul (called network vision) that will bring LTE to almost every cell site by the end of 2014 while significantly upgrading both the antenna's and backhaul at most locations bringing better coverage and better speeds. It hasn't gone nearly as quickly as Sprint's original timetable laid out, but they're less than 6 months behind that fairly aggressive timetable. I know I come off sounding like fanboi but it really annoys me when people can't get their facts straight and use that lack of knowledge to tear down one of the last hopes we have for real competition in the cellphone market in the US. Not only does Sprint compete against the big boys but by being friendly to MVNO's they foster new concepts that help to drive down costs (see Virgin Mobile (now part of Sprint) and Republic Wireless for examples).
Yeah really, I remember playing Lost Vikings (before they became Blizzard), Blackthorn (first game as Blizzard), and the reviewer demo for Warcraft (one of the voices for the orcs said "give good reviews please" if you clicked on him a few times =)
Those are early days =)
I'm not buying it, how could you possibly screwup a USB charger to the point where it would be lethal? I mean the cables aren't generally thick enough to carry enough 220V current to kill someone before they melt and 5.5V DC certainly isn't going to kill someone.
First it's 30 million households, not 30 million people, 30 million households is between 90 and 120 million people or roughly a third of the US. Second, I think the carriers representative is stupid because millions of people in the upper midwest already go to their curbside mailbox to pick up their mail during the winter, everyone around me is 300+' from the road and none of my 80+ year old neighbors has a problem with it.
Yeah but compare it to a GPGPU and you start to realize how slow it is, a $200 660 GTX does 1880 GFLOPS in 140W.
1 GFLOPS/$ versus 9.4 GFLOPS/$
10 GFLOPS/Watt versus 13.4 GFLOPS/Watt
Snort is an IDS not an IPS, in the role of an IDS it is VERY good (probably the best out there), though with the sourcefire modules it can be a bit annoying because it's hard to tell what exactly might be a false positive (with the community modules you can tell exactly what the rules is doing so you can tell if it's tripping on legitimate traffic). It does take some care and feeding, luckily we outsource that job to a local group that does nothing but security monitoring and management so we didn't have to develop the expertise inhouse.
Yep, Pernod which owns HP bought it and reopened it, the guys from HP travel down the road to run it a couple days a month.
Have some scotch from the Scapa distillery while you're in the area, it's my favorite =)
Meh, it's like the AI designed antenna, we don't have to know WHY it works better, just that it does and how to build a working copy.
There has to obviously be an exception to the rule to allow for exigent circumstances, like when someone is kidnapped or they are trying to locate an active shooter.
LOL, power plants are nowhere near 80% efficient, more like 38% thermal to electric, add in a few percent transmission losses and you're not far off from ICE.
It doesn't matter who you transfer your zones to, you need two providers if you want to have reliable DNS these days because basically all the big DNS players have had DNS amplification attacks against them at least once in the last year. We switched off AT&T to DNS Made Easy when AT&T suffered a similar attack about 9 months ago but given the frequency of these attacks it's probably just a matter of time until they get hit as well so I'm going to setup secondary zone transfers to a second provider.
You know absolutely nothing but you say much. HP offers HBA's from the three major players in the FC world, QLogic, Emulex, and Brocade. As far as cost, the 5 year cost of an HP box with 6 hour call to repair support is a fraction of what a Sun box will cost with platinum plus (or whatever they're calling it today, it's been since shortly after the Oracle takeover since I've bothered to get quotes)
There are penalties in the law, it's just that AFAIK nobody has ever convinced the government that a particular abuse was severe enough to implement them (yeah, it's a government for and by the corporations, why bother pretending otherwise)
Homo Sapien is a label we put on a particular set of traits but since we know that Homo Sapien and Homo Neanderthalensis interbred it's unlikely that there was a point where there were exactly two or four individuals you could say were the only members of Homo Sapien.
Not really, I doubt Cuba has some magic missile parts factory, these were missiles being laundered from Russia to NK through Cuba. I'm sure China is a bit pissed at the Kremlin at the moment since the last thing they want is NK stirring up political problems while they are trying to keep their economy from going off the deep end.
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Fracking doesn't turn liquid into gas! Fracking was originally developed to release liquid petroleum in the Texas oil fields where they were flaring off the natural gas that came with it as it wasn't worth capturing. Fracking essentially breaks up porous structures and then scrubs the liquid petroleum off the resulting slurry, the fact that it releases natural gas as well wasn't an advantage until it was used or rock formations that contain a much higher ratio of natural gas to liquid petroleum.
The APU battery is in the back and is the one that went fully engulfed in the incident that grounded the entire 787 fleet.
Why would you be mad? Each of those people commuting via bike is one less car on the road and anyone who's ever studied complex systems knows that traffic reacts very non-linearly so the removal of even a few percentage of the traffic can mean a significant reduction in the number, severity, and duration of traffic jams.
Agreed and I argued this point effectively with the police officer that taught our biking safety class, he admitted that way too many people are self absorbed idiots while driving and so you probably were safer being able to see them coming while having time to react.
Temp to hire isn't that unusual, I've gotten all my long term jobs through temp to hire offers and as a hiring manager I've had a couple that didn't work out where it was good for the company that I didn't do a direct hire as firing someone is much more expensive and legally risky than not renewing a contract.