Yes, they wanted something that could do VoIP with POTS fallback (probably for 911) including POE for the phones, WiFi, and be able to connect to whatever physical interface was available at each site all with dual power supplies. They got exactly what they wanted. It's possible to meet those requirements with less capital costs using a variety of different separate devices but your OpEx will go up and you won't be able to pool spares as easily (assuming they were doing self-sparing instead of SmartNet).
They specced redundant power, POE, VoIP with POTS fallback and wireless, that was the lowest unit that could complete the wishlist. I've done similar things before, given a VAR a list of needs and wants and ended up with sticker shock, the only difference is I turned around and refactored the solution, the guys at the state weren't spending their own money so they had little/no incentive to do that.
Actually, a state probably can't do so, so long as you operate within the bounds of the law it's pretty hard to justify stopping someone from bidding on future RFP's or open bids.
We're $20T or so behind on infrastructure spending, we basically stopped spending any significant percentage of GDP on maintenance and replacement about the time the interstate highway system was completed so we have nearly a half century of debt to pay down.
The ASA 5505 isn't EOL, or even EOS, but the ASA 5512-X IS a much better deal and a much better piece of kit. It wasn't available when these contracts were being written. The biggest difference for the intended use case is that the 3945 is modular which means they can put the appropriate interface for whatever technology is used at each site without requiring something to convert from say ADSL to ethernet.
Are people really using 7" tablets for navigation? 3.5-4" smartphones are much closer to the form factor of traditional GPS units and they have the advantage that they have cellular data for realtime traffic updates and access to rich POI databases with reviews.
He's sold 15M copies of his own work (including NWA), and been the producer on another 100+M in total sales, how many successful albums have you written/produced?
I agree, if I'm listening to music on my good speakers I generally put it into quad stereo mode (unprocessed where left and right front channels are duplicated to the rears) because all of the surround options just end up distorting the nice music I'm trying to listen to.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of fraudsters, though it does go to prove that nobody beats the recording industry when it comes to shady deals.
Yeah, we accidentally blinded a Verizon tower, we used a certified installer but something was wrong with the amp used and we had effectively shouted over all other users on a sector of the tower, basically shutting off Verizon service for one of the biggest business areas in our region. Verizon recommended a different installer who fixed the system and we scheduled a test with them on a Saturday to make sure we weren't going to cause any further interference issues.
Orders of magnitude? Less than one. The last quote I got was $519 for a 100GB drive or ~$5/GB, consumer SSD's look to be running about $1/GB. I'll gladly pay 5x as much for a drive that's not going to eat my data and where performance over the life of the drive will be mostly consistent.
We've only lost one of the couple dozen SAS SSD's we've purchased through HP and all of our FusionIO cards are going strong, even the original 160GB SLC one that now has 3+ years as the primary storage for the hottest tables in our OLTP ERP database. I guess the moral is the OEM's are doing something for those inflated hardware dollars we give them.
I agree with this, we have a guy that spent several stupid years working through a staffing firm when he could have been a fulltime employee. He's brilliant (went to ITT, the Indian equivalent of MIT), a hard worker, and knew more about one of our LOB apps than 90% of the folks working for the vendor. We paid for his greencard and would have gladly paid a headhunting fee to the staffing firm to be able to make him a fulltime employee.
Ha, we just implemented it because the IE DOM is too retarded to handle a couple tens (or was it hundreds?) of thousands of objects that are in the BI reports created by OBIEE 11g, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari handle it just fine but of those only FF with the Frontmotion extensions can be centrally managed to the degree we need.
Anyone using SSD in an EMC VNX or VMAX array is using SLC as they have yet to qualify any MLC drive to meet their 5 year guarantee. I know the SSD's in our new 3Par array are also SLC. I've used a mix of eMLC and SLC drives in our database servers, SLC for our OLTP ERP database and eMLC for our data warehouse BI database.
There's also spare capacity, say you have 1TB of raw flash space, typically you'll only see 750GB of pre-formatted space available with the remaining 25% set aside for housekeeping tasks like wear leveling, sparing, and most importantly pre-erase which is the only way to get decent write performance on MLC.
There are plenty of enterprise SSD's that use SLC, both FusionIO and STEC offer SLC options and since STEC has been replaced by Samsung in many applications I assume they do as well. I know HP also offers them as an option for their Proliant servers.
True, those are typical values for value oriented parts, there's also high endurance SLC at ~1M cycles and eMLC at ~30k cycles, the downside is a much higher $/GB so it only makes sense to use them in environments where you know you'll have long periods of high write intensity (like write cache for a SAN or ZIL for a ZFS volume).
I have a flagship Android phone with a sealed battery, it recently survived an accidental trip in the bath so I'll take not being able to swap batteries for all the advantages it brings.
Really? How does current Bluetooth protocol allow you to tell Siri/Google Voice search to expect input? The answer is it doesn't! You have to put your phone somewhere where you can reach it and use whatever method you use to launch it when you're not operating hands free (Siri is actually better than Google voice search in this regard as it's tied to a hardware button by default, but it's still less safe/convenient than having a button on the HU or steering wheel controls that does this for you).
I agree with this 100% and it's one of my biggest pet peeves about modern head units, onscreen displays are really unsafe. The one thing I want more than hardware buttons though is a single hardware button that tells my smartphone over Bluetooth to listen for a voice command, I don't want a head unit with built in apps that will be dead long before the 10-12 year typical car life, I want a standard way to use my more or less disposable smartphone.
On a related topic, when do we get voice control of Amazon cloud player for Android/iOS?
Their process uses isopropyl alcohol and water and the setting/cleaning agents, hardly what I'd classify as nasty chemicals. My bigger problem is the $3,300 price for the printer and the $150/pint (looks like) resin cost and the UV sensitivity of the generated parts (though if they're temperature resistant they'd have some significant advantages versus other homebrew 3D printer systems).
Wow, the fact that his wife's company failed causing him to default on personal obligations is SO relevant to this article. Oh, wait, no it's not at all. Take your astroturfing campaign to somewhere where there are fewer rational people.
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Yes, they wanted something that could do VoIP with POTS fallback (probably for 911) including POE for the phones, WiFi, and be able to connect to whatever physical interface was available at each site all with dual power supplies. They got exactly what they wanted. It's possible to meet those requirements with less capital costs using a variety of different separate devices but your OpEx will go up and you won't be able to pool spares as easily (assuming they were doing self-sparing instead of SmartNet).
They specced redundant power, POE, VoIP with POTS fallback and wireless, that was the lowest unit that could complete the wishlist. I've done similar things before, given a VAR a list of needs and wants and ended up with sticker shock, the only difference is I turned around and refactored the solution, the guys at the state weren't spending their own money so they had little/no incentive to do that.
Actually, a state probably can't do so, so long as you operate within the bounds of the law it's pretty hard to justify stopping someone from bidding on future RFP's or open bids.
We're $20T or so behind on infrastructure spending, we basically stopped spending any significant percentage of GDP on maintenance and replacement about the time the interstate highway system was completed so we have nearly a half century of debt to pay down.
The ASA 5505 isn't EOL, or even EOS, but the ASA 5512-X IS a much better deal and a much better piece of kit. It wasn't available when these contracts were being written. The biggest difference for the intended use case is that the 3945 is modular which means they can put the appropriate interface for whatever technology is used at each site without requiring something to convert from say ADSL to ethernet.
Are people really using 7" tablets for navigation? 3.5-4" smartphones are much closer to the form factor of traditional GPS units and they have the advantage that they have cellular data for realtime traffic updates and access to rich POI databases with reviews.
He's sold 15M copies of his own work (including NWA), and been the producer on another 100+M in total sales, how many successful albums have you written/produced?
I agree, if I'm listening to music on my good speakers I generally put it into quad stereo mode (unprocessed where left and right front channels are duplicated to the rears) because all of the surround options just end up distorting the nice music I'm trying to listen to.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of fraudsters, though it does go to prove that nobody beats the recording industry when it comes to shady deals.
Yeah, we accidentally blinded a Verizon tower, we used a certified installer but something was wrong with the amp used and we had effectively shouted over all other users on a sector of the tower, basically shutting off Verizon service for one of the biggest business areas in our region. Verizon recommended a different installer who fixed the system and we scheduled a test with them on a Saturday to make sure we weren't going to cause any further interference issues.
Orders of magnitude? Less than one. The last quote I got was $519 for a 100GB drive or ~$5/GB, consumer SSD's look to be running about $1/GB. I'll gladly pay 5x as much for a drive that's not going to eat my data and where performance over the life of the drive will be mostly consistent.
We've only lost one of the couple dozen SAS SSD's we've purchased through HP and all of our FusionIO cards are going strong, even the original 160GB SLC one that now has 3+ years as the primary storage for the hottest tables in our OLTP ERP database. I guess the moral is the OEM's are doing something for those inflated hardware dollars we give them.
I agree with this, we have a guy that spent several stupid years working through a staffing firm when he could have been a fulltime employee. He's brilliant (went to ITT, the Indian equivalent of MIT), a hard worker, and knew more about one of our LOB apps than 90% of the folks working for the vendor. We paid for his greencard and would have gladly paid a headhunting fee to the staffing firm to be able to make him a fulltime employee.
Ha, we just implemented it because the IE DOM is too retarded to handle a couple tens (or was it hundreds?) of thousands of objects that are in the BI reports created by OBIEE 11g, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari handle it just fine but of those only FF with the Frontmotion extensions can be centrally managed to the degree we need.
Anyone using SSD in an EMC VNX or VMAX array is using SLC as they have yet to qualify any MLC drive to meet their 5 year guarantee. I know the SSD's in our new 3Par array are also SLC. I've used a mix of eMLC and SLC drives in our database servers, SLC for our OLTP ERP database and eMLC for our data warehouse BI database.
There's also spare capacity, say you have 1TB of raw flash space, typically you'll only see 750GB of pre-formatted space available with the remaining 25% set aside for housekeeping tasks like wear leveling, sparing, and most importantly pre-erase which is the only way to get decent write performance on MLC.
There are plenty of enterprise SSD's that use SLC, both FusionIO and STEC offer SLC options and since STEC has been replaced by Samsung in many applications I assume they do as well. I know HP also offers them as an option for their Proliant servers.
True, those are typical values for value oriented parts, there's also high endurance SLC at ~1M cycles and eMLC at ~30k cycles, the downside is a much higher $/GB so it only makes sense to use them in environments where you know you'll have long periods of high write intensity (like write cache for a SAN or ZIL for a ZFS volume).
Since the project has been going on since 2006 the hardware is probably EOL (unless they did a tech refresh).
More doesn't do horizontal scrolling which is necessary for any non-trivial data set.
I have a flagship Android phone with a sealed battery, it recently survived an accidental trip in the bath so I'll take not being able to swap batteries for all the advantages it brings.
Really? How does current Bluetooth protocol allow you to tell Siri/Google Voice search to expect input? The answer is it doesn't! You have to put your phone somewhere where you can reach it and use whatever method you use to launch it when you're not operating hands free (Siri is actually better than Google voice search in this regard as it's tied to a hardware button by default, but it's still less safe/convenient than having a button on the HU or steering wheel controls that does this for you).
I agree with this 100% and it's one of my biggest pet peeves about modern head units, onscreen displays are really unsafe. The one thing I want more than hardware buttons though is a single hardware button that tells my smartphone over Bluetooth to listen for a voice command, I don't want a head unit with built in apps that will be dead long before the 10-12 year typical car life, I want a standard way to use my more or less disposable smartphone.
On a related topic, when do we get voice control of Amazon cloud player for Android/iOS?
Their process uses isopropyl alcohol and water and the setting/cleaning agents, hardly what I'd classify as nasty chemicals. My bigger problem is the $3,300 price for the printer and the $150/pint (looks like) resin cost and the UV sensitivity of the generated parts (though if they're temperature resistant they'd have some significant advantages versus other homebrew 3D printer systems).
Wow, the fact that his wife's company failed causing him to default on personal obligations is SO relevant to this article. Oh, wait, no it's not at all. Take your astroturfing campaign to somewhere where there are fewer rational people.