Nope, Windows 7 32bit limits you to 4GB of ram for driver compatibility reasons. The last 32bit consumer OS from MS that actually supported greater than 4GB of ram was Windows XP SP1.
Heck with visual voicemail you don't have to listen to it either, you can easily delete it without wasting any minutes. I wish my desk phone had visual voicemail, it would make the LCD screen a lot more useful =)
Really, you hate the fact that the mobile core i5 is more powerful than the previous generation while allowing all day battery life? Because that's the biggest way that tablets have affected general purpose computing that I can see. Sure, the current mobile i5 isn't going to transcode video as fast as a current desktop i7, but it'll do it considerably faster than a Core2 era desktop. Plus optimizing idle power is good for the environment, replacing P4 era desktops with current era machines will save you tons of money and drastically reduce emissions. It's not like you can't buy a $1,000 screaming fast desktop today, most people just don't need to.
As to the media playing thing, I haven't had any problems on my Android tablets using strictly free apps from the marketplace.
Yep, I've got three because I've been in the situation where neither of my of my contracted suppliers could fulfill and everyones business office was closed because it was late on a Friday. We ended up paying a stupid high trip charge to have someone bring fuel from 4 hours away. Since then I've gone to having three companies on contract and even then I realize that any single site is still vulnerable and so we have a warm DR site in a different calamity zone and on a different national grid (but still within a 6 hour drive, many people couldn't physically get to their DR site after 9/11).
Median family income for the US is $50k, even in California it's only $57k, if you can't live on $50k post taxes (~$85k pre-tax) then you're an entitled fool.
You think you'll live past 90, to 130? Also for anything with a time horizon of 20+ years I use historical norms, if you think there will still be a country left with a decade or more of 10% inflation then I'd call you an optimist =)
Considering Prescott introduced X86-64 to the P4 in September of 2005 and Cedar Mills made it universal in 1H 2006 I fail to see how your bragging about an Athlon 64 is 2007 has any relevance.
$5M at 7% ARR with 3.5% inflation throws off about $185k per year of todays dollars assuming a 70 year drawdown period. If you can't live on $185k per year then you're a rich entitled idiot.
Actually the guys we gave most of our support to in Afghanistan were the Islamic Unity of Afghanistan Mujahideen most of whom would become the Northern Alliance aka our friends in Afghanistan. They were very much against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, they're mostly Afghan moderates who just want to be left alone. My great aunt spent time traveling in Afghanistan with a female friend between the Russian withdrawal and the Taliban taking over and she had zero hassles while in northern parts of the country including a visit to the Buddhas of Bamiyan, her time in the tribal areas was quite a bit more interesting including being threatened for daring to travel without a male relative.
Yep, when the ipod first came out it retailed for less than the 1.8" drive that was embedded in it, Apple was definitely in it to grow marketshare and build up the itunes ecosystem. It wasn't until much later that the brand had enough power to push up hardware margins.
Yes, because replacing some caps on the ECU is SO much harder than a frame off restoration.... I've done both and I can tell you that reviving an old computer is about 2000x less work than the frame off rotisserie restoration. If a car from the 90's is worth restoring people will find a way and it won't be that much more expensive than restoring a classic muscle car (now the custom plastic pieces might be an issue, but so is restoring or replacing old chrome pieces).
For emergency charging of your cellphone something like this is useful. I normally use it for camping but I took it out last weekend and made sure the battery was powered up so we would have lights and cellphone charging in case of a power outage. The best part is even during the storm on Tuesday it was still able to charge the battery, amorphous panels don't need that much light to keep a cellphone charged.
I've never been charged for number portability, in fact we move a handful of numbers every month at work and we've never paid any additional fee to move one.
That global warming is occurring can not really be debated, even the skeptics who bother to look at the evidence now realize it's assuradly happening and almost assuradly is manmade. The only debate left is what we can do about it and how we should achieve that change.
The wind speed might have only reached a cat 2 but it was among the strongest storms ever for storm surge intensity and the lowest pressure storm to ever make landfall north of Cape Hatteras. In fact Sandy packed the second highest total energy (IKE) of any storm in modern history.
Set your critical VM's to power on with host, highest priority. Now your problem is solved, it's not like the problem hasn't been run into many years ago and solved.
As far as NTP is concerned, I run that on core switches, it's a nice stable location (how often do you change them out versus other boxes) and if they aren't available then the fact that your clock is drifting is the least of your problems.
Because the person who has the phone while it's on may not be the party that took it? Yeah you can try to pop them for receiving stolen property, but that requires proving intent which can be difficult and doesn't stop the theft from happening. Now if you take away the profit motive the theft is much less likely to occur.
Because during a disaster utilities including natural gas aren't guaranteed to be up, plus if diesel is considered a fire hazard then natural gas is probably verboten. Oh, and high pressure natural gas of the type needed for 100kw+ generators isn't available everywhere. Diesel generators also tend to be cheaper per rated and true kw.
NYU's generators were fine, it was their fuel supply that got fouled. Fire regs don't allow them to have thousands of gallons of diesel anywhere but underground holding tanks and those were overcome by seawater. Bellevue lost two of their primary generators due to water in the basement but was still running on another on the 13th floor but they had the same limited fuel problem Peer1 is running into. They considered having the national guard bucket brigade fuel up to the 13th floor but after some analysis it was decided it would be better to transfer folks to other hospitals (I'm not sure how many generators were on the 13th floor but it was probably only a single one and so they were down to a SPOF so better to transfer people in an orderly manner while you still have working facilities than to try it after the generator went down).
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Nope, Windows 7 32bit limits you to 4GB of ram for driver compatibility reasons. The last 32bit consumer OS from MS that actually supported greater than 4GB of ram was Windows XP SP1.
Heck with visual voicemail you don't have to listen to it either, you can easily delete it without wasting any minutes. I wish my desk phone had visual voicemail, it would make the LCD screen a lot more useful =)
Quadrillions of operations per second per second? So these machines only do scalar operations? I thought Linpack was a matrix test =)
Really, you hate the fact that the mobile core i5 is more powerful than the previous generation while allowing all day battery life? Because that's the biggest way that tablets have affected general purpose computing that I can see. Sure, the current mobile i5 isn't going to transcode video as fast as a current desktop i7, but it'll do it considerably faster than a Core2 era desktop. Plus optimizing idle power is good for the environment, replacing P4 era desktops with current era machines will save you tons of money and drastically reduce emissions. It's not like you can't buy a $1,000 screaming fast desktop today, most people just don't need to.
As to the media playing thing, I haven't had any problems on my Android tablets using strictly free apps from the marketplace.
Yep, I've got three because I've been in the situation where neither of my of my contracted suppliers could fulfill and everyones business office was closed because it was late on a Friday. We ended up paying a stupid high trip charge to have someone bring fuel from 4 hours away. Since then I've gone to having three companies on contract and even then I realize that any single site is still vulnerable and so we have a warm DR site in a different calamity zone and on a different national grid (but still within a 6 hour drive, many people couldn't physically get to their DR site after 9/11).
Actually, no. The HFT guys are colocated with NYSE over in Jersey where they've been since a bit after 9/11.
Median family income for the US is $50k, even in California it's only $57k, if you can't live on $50k post taxes (~$85k pre-tax) then you're an entitled fool.
You think you'll live past 90, to 130? Also for anything with a time horizon of 20+ years I use historical norms, if you think there will still be a country left with a decade or more of 10% inflation then I'd call you an optimist =)
Considering Prescott introduced X86-64 to the P4 in September of 2005 and Cedar Mills made it universal in 1H 2006 I fail to see how your bragging about an Athlon 64 is 2007 has any relevance.
The long term ARR for the NYSE is 8%, the current 10 year average is an abnormality at 6.4% ARR which is close enough to 7% to let the point stand.
$5M at 7% ARR with 3.5% inflation throws off about $185k per year of todays dollars assuming a 70 year drawdown period. If you can't live on $185k per year then you're a rich entitled idiot.
Actually the guys we gave most of our support to in Afghanistan were the Islamic Unity of Afghanistan Mujahideen most of whom would become the Northern Alliance aka our friends in Afghanistan. They were very much against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, they're mostly Afghan moderates who just want to be left alone. My great aunt spent time traveling in Afghanistan with a female friend between the Russian withdrawal and the Taliban taking over and she had zero hassles while in northern parts of the country including a visit to the Buddhas of Bamiyan, her time in the tribal areas was quite a bit more interesting including being threatened for daring to travel without a male relative.
Yep, when the ipod first came out it retailed for less than the 1.8" drive that was embedded in it, Apple was definitely in it to grow marketshare and build up the itunes ecosystem. It wasn't until much later that the brand had enough power to push up hardware margins.
Yes, because replacing some caps on the ECU is SO much harder than a frame off restoration....
I've done both and I can tell you that reviving an old computer is about 2000x less work than the frame off rotisserie restoration. If a car from the 90's is worth restoring people will find a way and it won't be that much more expensive than restoring a classic muscle car (now the custom plastic pieces might be an issue, but so is restoring or replacing old chrome pieces).
I hate to reply to myself but I was able to find the kit on their non-ebay page which won't just go away like the ebay listing will.
For emergency charging of your cellphone something like this is useful. I normally use it for camping but I took it out last weekend and made sure the battery was powered up so we would have lights and cellphone charging in case of a power outage. The best part is even during the storm on Tuesday it was still able to charge the battery, amorphous panels don't need that much light to keep a cellphone charged.
I've never been charged for number portability, in fact we move a handful of numbers every month at work and we've never paid any additional fee to move one.
That global warming is occurring can not really be debated, even the skeptics who bother to look at the evidence now realize it's assuradly happening and almost assuradly is manmade. The only debate left is what we can do about it and how we should achieve that change.
The wind speed might have only reached a cat 2 but it was among the strongest storms ever for storm surge intensity and the lowest pressure storm to ever make landfall north of Cape Hatteras. In fact Sandy packed the second highest total energy (IKE) of any storm in modern history.
Set your critical VM's to power on with host, highest priority. Now your problem is solved, it's not like the problem hasn't been run into many years ago and solved.
As far as NTP is concerned, I run that on core switches, it's a nice stable location (how often do you change them out versus other boxes) and if they aren't available then the fact that your clock is drifting is the least of your problems.
Yes, because there's never been an instance of two services on Linux/Unix needing mutually exclusive versions of a shared library....
Because the person who has the phone while it's on may not be the party that took it? Yeah you can try to pop them for receiving stolen property, but that requires proving intent which can be difficult and doesn't stop the theft from happening. Now if you take away the profit motive the theft is much less likely to occur.
Because during a disaster utilities including natural gas aren't guaranteed to be up, plus if diesel is considered a fire hazard then natural gas is probably verboten. Oh, and high pressure natural gas of the type needed for 100kw+ generators isn't available everywhere. Diesel generators also tend to be cheaper per rated and true kw.
NYU's generators were fine, it was their fuel supply that got fouled. Fire regs don't allow them to have thousands of gallons of diesel anywhere but underground holding tanks and those were overcome by seawater. Bellevue lost two of their primary generators due to water in the basement but was still running on another on the 13th floor but they had the same limited fuel problem Peer1 is running into. They considered having the national guard bucket brigade fuel up to the 13th floor but after some analysis it was decided it would be better to transfer folks to other hospitals (I'm not sure how many generators were on the 13th floor but it was probably only a single one and so they were down to a SPOF so better to transfer people in an orderly manner while you still have working facilities than to try it after the generator went down).
Of all the times to be without mod points, kudos to you sir!