Typical oversubscribe rates for residential service are between 12:1 and 25:1, assuming the operators can achieve near the top end (I'm sure that's their hope) then you'll see ~.5Mbps if everyone is maxing their connection which is better than current tech where that's near max usable speed.
So? Homosapien has been going to war since before we left the trees (at least we're pretty sure since most of our closest relatives wage war). We've had war since we've been around and it's never come close to wiping us out, on the other hand we're pretty damn sure that glaciation has come really close to killing us off. I'll take a bit more war over a near extinction event that we can't control.
How do you know that? Some models predict increased desertification in the mid latitudes but then many show increasing crop productivity at more northern latitudes. What we do know is that during previous ice ages the human species went through some bottleneck events that reduced our numbers to what we would now considered near extinction for a large animal species.
Yep, it was funny when you'd call from the US to Europe, you could tell when the transatlantic cables were full because instead of a near-normal conversation you'd have the more half-duplex type of experience of satellite.
Kodak offered a WIDE variety of products from high resolution nearly six figure backs for large and medium format cameras to the cheapo plastic lens jobs you mention (cheap as in build, not necessarily price).
The problem with Solara isn't that the government invested in them, it's that the Chinese government invested 20x as much in the competition in order to take over the market.
If you want no-admin required FF updates you can use portable firefox. Install in once and then just run updates as normal. A nice bonus is that it keeps everything under one directory so moving to a new PC is copying a folder over and adding a desktop link, much more convenient than the old way of moving FF profiles (I haven't tried the sync feature of 4+).
Let's see, ~2.5 crashes per 100 active daily users, convert that to crashes per year for an average user and you get 8-9 crashes a year. I've been on Chrome for about 14 months and I have yet to crash it, the closest I have come is an extension that was consuming 100% cpu on load which meant I had to kill the Chrome process and clear out that extensions folder.
Yes, and supporting a release for 6-12 months is no support at ALL. Seriously the other day people were (incorrectly) calling out MS for only supporting an OS for 10 years but you're giving Mozilla a pass on possibly less than 12 months? No, I need a browser that will have security fixes for at LEAST 3 years, but prefer 5. When we upgrade a major piece of software like our ERP platform or content management system it takes 6-12 months to do full regression testing, with FF we would now be out of support by the time we were ready to go to production.
Really, states funded basic science research? Other than California and a few other states I'm not aware of any serious state level funding for research of any kind. Also having just completed a 2,500 mile road trip let me assure you that state highways suck compared to interstate highways.
Yes, QE does contribute to inflation, but inflation is not what you should be worrying about unless you are retired or nearing retirement, instead you should be worried about possible deflation. Inflation is a slow death through a thousand papercuts, deflation is death by a broadsword. I know I probably continue to have a job because of QE, I work in an industry that is absolutely reliant on access to capital, if the money supply starts to seriously constrain it's possible it would destroy my employer (as it almost did in 2008, our stock went from $70 to $1.20 in less than 18 months mostly due to fears that we would not be able to renew our loans).
Correct though if it was not for virtualization we would be at three as we were at about 110% of design capacity a few years ago prior to starting a serious VMWare deployment (we had grown from 60 to 170 servers at the primary datacenter, today we're down to 87 and might be at 60 or fewer by the end of the year if we have enough time to virtualize everything we want to in between all our other projects).
You think 3,133 datacenters across 1,300 agencies is a lot? No, this is just the number of redundant facilities they are planning to close I'm sure there are five times as many remaining open. Heck even then that's only one datacenter per 150 employees which is high but only about double what my S&P 500 employer has (two for 600 employees).
So for my 14TB of backup data I need ~70GB of ram, cool since 144GB is my most common build these days, it's really cheap now that 8GB DIMM's are only ~$200.
Since most file servers have about 95% unused processor cycles and a limited amount of disk I/O both compression and dedupe can be significant wins provided they don't create an I/O profile that is a smaller percentage more random than their effective compression (ie if they add 10% randomness to the I/O profile but provide 30% compression then it's probably a net win). The fact that they potentially increase cache effectiveness is just gravy since cache is a few orders of magnitude faster than spinning disk and at least an order of magnitude faster than even SSD's.
Another potential pitfall to open source implementations is patents. Due to their usefulness as a product differentiator in the storage business many of the clever implementations have been patented.
I think even two years is being generous, the plurality of devices being offered by carriers *today* are not slated to receive ICS which means for most users purchasing right now they won't get ICS+ until their contract expires in two years.
There are MDM's that provide those capabilities, heck just hook most Android phones up to any ActiveSync compatible server or service and you get basic remote wipe. If it weren't for the fact that we provide Citrix for remote access the limitations on getting most Android devices working with ASA would have been a serious redmark against adoption, but as it stands the huge number of usability problems we ran into trumped everything else. Android is great as a geek OS, and fairly good for a consumer OS (my wife likes her Optimus V just fine), but the persistent issues like WiFi clients that randomly failed to work or the email clients that just stopped receiving email from the Exchange server and required a device wipe and resync to reestablish communications to the weird certificate errors we would get all made it so we were not going to foist it as a platform on our users. We offered them iOS or Blackberry and 2/3rds chose to stay on Blackberry for the superior core email capabilities. Personally I'm still on my Android test device because for me the small nagging flaws are outweighed by a physical keyboard (big plus over an iphone) and huge selection of applications and a decent browser (big win over Blackberry).
See here. As I said private money was not really involved in US Federal elections prior to 1984, there may have been some behind the scenes machine building in places like Chicago but for the most part money didn't enter into the election.
10 years for a single OS release is better than any other manufacturer except maybe IBM with a multi-million dollar support contract (and MS will do extended patches for I believe 3 years if you want to give them that kind of money). No Linux release is supported longer, SunOS/Solaris has never been supported longer, no version of HPUX is supported longer, nor AIX. If you can point me to a single IT vendor that supports an OS release for more than ten years in a normal COTS contract I'd love to know because AFAIK there are none.
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Typical oversubscribe rates for residential service are between 12:1 and 25:1, assuming the operators can achieve near the top end (I'm sure that's their hope) then you'll see ~.5Mbps if everyone is maxing their connection which is better than current tech where that's near max usable speed.
So? Homosapien has been going to war since before we left the trees (at least we're pretty sure since most of our closest relatives wage war). We've had war since we've been around and it's never come close to wiping us out, on the other hand we're pretty damn sure that glaciation has come really close to killing us off. I'll take a bit more war over a near extinction event that we can't control.
How do you know that? Some models predict increased desertification in the mid latitudes but then many show increasing crop productivity at more northern latitudes. What we do know is that during previous ice ages the human species went through some bottleneck events that reduced our numbers to what we would now considered near extinction for a large animal species.
I don't know, is a bit more war and some starvation worse than having the entire northern hemisphere uninhabitable?
They can't if the site is using HTTPS\SSL unless they are doing bad things like requiring you install a cert for their proxy.
Yep, it was funny when you'd call from the US to Europe, you could tell when the transatlantic cables were full because instead of a near-normal conversation you'd have the more half-duplex type of experience of satellite.
Why don't you use an IMAP client with scheduled pulls instead of the web interface if it takes 60s to load?
No, physics says that 600ms is right, ~280ms in each direction plus some delay for networking equipment.
Kodak offered a WIDE variety of products from high resolution nearly six figure backs for large and medium format cameras to the cheapo plastic lens jobs you mention (cheap as in build, not necessarily price).
The problem with Solara isn't that the government invested in them, it's that the Chinese government invested 20x as much in the competition in order to take over the market.
If you want no-admin required FF updates you can use portable firefox. Install in once and then just run updates as normal. A nice bonus is that it keeps everything under one directory so moving to a new PC is copying a folder over and adding a desktop link, much more convenient than the old way of moving FF profiles (I haven't tried the sync feature of 4+).
Let's see, ~2.5 crashes per 100 active daily users, convert that to crashes per year for an average user and you get 8-9 crashes a year. I've been on Chrome for about 14 months and I have yet to crash it, the closest I have come is an extension that was consuming 100% cpu on load which meant I had to kill the Chrome process and clear out that extensions folder.
Yes, and supporting a release for 6-12 months is no support at ALL. Seriously the other day people were (incorrectly) calling out MS for only supporting an OS for 10 years but you're giving Mozilla a pass on possibly less than 12 months? No, I need a browser that will have security fixes for at LEAST 3 years, but prefer 5. When we upgrade a major piece of software like our ERP platform or content management system it takes 6-12 months to do full regression testing, with FF we would now be out of support by the time we were ready to go to production.
Or use a flash drive and tape it to the inside of the case =)
Really, states funded basic science research? Other than California and a few other states I'm not aware of any serious state level funding for research of any kind. Also having just completed a 2,500 mile road trip let me assure you that state highways suck compared to interstate highways.
Yes, QE does contribute to inflation, but inflation is not what you should be worrying about unless you are retired or nearing retirement, instead you should be worried about possible deflation. Inflation is a slow death through a thousand papercuts, deflation is death by a broadsword. I know I probably continue to have a job because of QE, I work in an industry that is absolutely reliant on access to capital, if the money supply starts to seriously constrain it's possible it would destroy my employer (as it almost did in 2008, our stock went from $70 to $1.20 in less than 18 months mostly due to fears that we would not be able to renew our loans).
Correct though if it was not for virtualization we would be at three as we were at about 110% of design capacity a few years ago prior to starting a serious VMWare deployment (we had grown from 60 to 170 servers at the primary datacenter, today we're down to 87 and might be at 60 or fewer by the end of the year if we have enough time to virtualize everything we want to in between all our other projects).
You think 3,133 datacenters across 1,300 agencies is a lot? No, this is just the number of redundant facilities they are planning to close I'm sure there are five times as many remaining open. Heck even then that's only one datacenter per 150 employees which is high but only about double what my S&P 500 employer has (two for 600 employees).
So for my 14TB of backup data I need ~70GB of ram, cool since 144GB is my most common build these days, it's really cheap now that 8GB DIMM's are only ~$200.
Since most file servers have about 95% unused processor cycles and a limited amount of disk I/O both compression and dedupe can be significant wins provided they don't create an I/O profile that is a smaller percentage more random than their effective compression (ie if they add 10% randomness to the I/O profile but provide 30% compression then it's probably a net win). The fact that they potentially increase cache effectiveness is just gravy since cache is a few orders of magnitude faster than spinning disk and at least an order of magnitude faster than even SSD's.
Another potential pitfall to open source implementations is patents. Due to their usefulness as a product differentiator in the storage business many of the clever implementations have been patented.
I think even two years is being generous, the plurality of devices being offered by carriers *today* are not slated to receive ICS which means for most users purchasing right now they won't get ICS+ until their contract expires in two years.
There are MDM's that provide those capabilities, heck just hook most Android phones up to any ActiveSync compatible server or service and you get basic remote wipe. If it weren't for the fact that we provide Citrix for remote access the limitations on getting most Android devices working with ASA would have been a serious redmark against adoption, but as it stands the huge number of usability problems we ran into trumped everything else. Android is great as a geek OS, and fairly good for a consumer OS (my wife likes her Optimus V just fine), but the persistent issues like WiFi clients that randomly failed to work or the email clients that just stopped receiving email from the Exchange server and required a device wipe and resync to reestablish communications to the weird certificate errors we would get all made it so we were not going to foist it as a platform on our users. We offered them iOS or Blackberry and 2/3rds chose to stay on Blackberry for the superior core email capabilities. Personally I'm still on my Android test device because for me the small nagging flaws are outweighed by a physical keyboard (big plus over an iphone) and huge selection of applications and a decent browser (big win over Blackberry).
See here. As I said private money was not really involved in US Federal elections prior to 1984, there may have been some behind the scenes machine building in places like Chicago but for the most part money didn't enter into the election.
10 years for a single OS release is better than any other manufacturer except maybe IBM with a multi-million dollar support contract (and MS will do extended patches for I believe 3 years if you want to give them that kind of money). No Linux release is supported longer, SunOS/Solaris has never been supported longer, no version of HPUX is supported longer, nor AIX. If you can point me to a single IT vendor that supports an OS release for more than ten years in a normal COTS contract I'd love to know because AFAIK there are none.