Our Cool Stuff(TM) goes way beyond just the red handle.
Our ToastyBread XL4300 has Wifi and sends you an email and SMS when your toast is done, and has internal cameras that stream video of your toasting bread live to the Internet or your Android Phone. It can even post pictures of the finished product to your Facebook page so you don't even have to do the work to tell the world what you had for breakfast.
In any case, we really only put the Red handle on it for legacy compatibility with older users who still need the interface to be there. All the handle does today is connect to a mechanical linkage that presses the "toast" button internally. We have a Patent on that, too, so don't get any ideas, or I shall sick our team of American lawyers on you.
This is precisely why my company does R&D and Manufacturing in the same location - right here in South Carolina. If we have a manufacturing problem, I can take a walk to the other side of the building from my office in R&D and help them fix it - right now.
No waiting for a convenient time for a world-wide conference call where nothing gets done and my instructions are misunderstood by someone who doesn't speak much English.
It's all coming back to this, now. My previous employer did the globalization experiment and realized it is a miserable failure. But, they couldn't abandon it because of the "religion" of globalization. Guys who graduated Harvard Business School with a Masters in Excel Spreadsheets infect the boards of large companies and insist that globalization results in higher profits, and it doesn't.
We make so much money it's almost disgusting. I have a pretty much unlimited budget for lab equipment and investigatory activities, and we engineer some pretty awesome stuff as a result of having the time and money. The 15 hours/week I _don't_ spend on frustrating conference calls with Asia is time well-spent inventing Cool Stuff(TM).
Sounds like you showed up in a conservative place spouting off your New York City Liberal Bullshit and expecting the inhabitants of your new land to change everything about their lifestyle and culture to your liking, and didn't make any friends doing it.
I've been out of school for a looong time now, and I took their 6002x course recently, and was pretty amazed at how many of the basics I'd forgotten over the years.
Their courses are pretty handy for established professionals to go back and brush up on the long-forgotten basics of yore.
Spend 4 years in the National Guard or one of the major branches. Learn some discipline and responsibility. Not only will you be a better student, but you'll be more likely to get a job.
How many parsecs did it take to zip by the Earth, and how does that compare to the less than 12 Parsecs it took the Millennium Falcon to do the Kessel Run?
Pinch your nose closed and take a bite of your favorite succulent cuisine. You'll quickly realize that taste is not what you think it is, and that what your brain perceives as "taste" depends much more on olfactory stimulation than on your tastebuds.
I learned that first watching Mr. Wizard's World way back in the 80s.:)
Right there with ya on that... The thing is, once you get close to the event horizon, space and time warp badly so you can never really be sure where you are or when you'll actually fall in.
I'd still be willing to bet it is not 100% transparent. Marvell controllers already require drivers to work in most operating systems because they are not truly native AHCI controllers (which is why they don't work in ESXi).
The holy grail is a 100% AHCI-compliant controller with a 100% transparent caching scheme, as a cheap alternative to an expensive HBA with a large battery-backed DRAM cache. I doubt we'll ever see it though.
Indeed, it looks like the setup is done in the UEFI and handled by the motherboard firmware. That's really interesting, since I run ESXi at home and it'd be handy to have this as a performance boost.
It does appear to be limited to that one controller and its two ports. I'd really rather see a generic motherboard port that caches disk use universally, so you can add an SSD cache that covers all disks in the system regardless of which controller they're on. My ESXi box has 14 hard drives in it spanning two controllers (8 on an Intel SASUC8I, 6 on the SB950). Some flexibility would be nice.
All of your workstations should already be image-backed to one of your servers daily, so there should be no need to take any of the workstations with you. If one of your servers has the space, I'd be scrambling to at least get a windows image backup done right now. At least then you'd just be throwing the server boxen in the back of your station wagon since you probably don't have an off-site backup plan.
If it's simply a matter of funds and you can't afford this stuff, at least get some decent rackmount cases for your servers and put them in a 24U rack that you can just wheel out on a hand truck.
Insurance will replace the stuff left behind. If you don't have insurance, you deserve to be bitch-slapped.
Of course not, but then they are common carriers selling network access services. You are not in an employer/employee relationship where you are using a privately owned network subject to the terms and conditions of your employment.
Being in a recession doesn't mean everyone's poor. Hell, I not only changed jobs, but got a huge raise, during this recession.
In any case, this plan is insane. I don't think they did their math correctly in their "let's stick it to the consumer" focus group meetings.
My wife and I would have to spend $50/month more to switch from our current AT&T plan, AND give up simultaneous voice and data since CDMA sucks balls...
This article is obviously trying to make it out to be "our fault" that this new transportation vector has been created to destroy the Earth.
Not so. This vector has always existed. It's not as if it was impossible for a Tsunami to pick up debris from inland and transport it out to sea. Debris such as trees, limbs, leaves, and other similarly large items have been fair game for as long as the Earth has existed.
Can't blame this one on human activity. Sorry. You'll have to feel your liberal guilt about something else.
Except, of course, if it's integrated into the car, and the manufacturer of that car has spent millions bribing Congress to adopt the paradigm that any amount of tech in a vehicle is perfectly safe so long as it is integrated and the manufacturer got to profit from it.
GDP has not increased in 40 years, but the population and number of workers has increased, meaning that productivity per employee has been steadily decreasing for the last 40 years.
Wages and salaries are monies paid in exchange for productivity. Why do you think people deserve to be paid more for doing less?
The only reason any phones have been advertised as 4G is because the US FTC gave the industry assurances that it would not sue manufacturers for falsely labeling 3G products like LTE and HSPA+ as 4G. Call it an under-the-table economic stimulus plan - get everyone to buy new phones even though they are nothing new.
Neither HSPA+ nor LTE are 4G technologies. The only 4G network that meets the ITU 4G specification is LTE-Advanced, and there are currently no consumer devices that support it.
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Our Cool Stuff(TM) goes way beyond just the red handle.
Our ToastyBread XL4300 has Wifi and sends you an email and SMS when your toast is done, and has internal cameras that stream video of your toasting bread live to the Internet or your Android Phone. It can even post pictures of the finished product to your Facebook page so you don't even have to do the work to tell the world what you had for breakfast.
In any case, we really only put the Red handle on it for legacy compatibility with older users who still need the interface to be there. All the handle does today is connect to a mechanical linkage that presses the "toast" button internally. We have a Patent on that, too, so don't get any ideas, or I shall sick our team of American lawyers on you.
This is precisely why my company does R&D and Manufacturing in the same location - right here in South Carolina. If we have a manufacturing problem, I can take a walk to the other side of the building from my office in R&D and help them fix it - right now.
No waiting for a convenient time for a world-wide conference call where nothing gets done and my instructions are misunderstood by someone who doesn't speak much English.
It's all coming back to this, now. My previous employer did the globalization experiment and realized it is a miserable failure. But, they couldn't abandon it because of the "religion" of globalization. Guys who graduated Harvard Business School with a Masters in Excel Spreadsheets infect the boards of large companies and insist that globalization results in higher profits, and it doesn't.
We make so much money it's almost disgusting. I have a pretty much unlimited budget for lab equipment and investigatory activities, and we engineer some pretty awesome stuff as a result of having the time and money. The 15 hours/week I _don't_ spend on frustrating conference calls with Asia is time well-spent inventing Cool Stuff(TM).
Honestly, no, I don't think that's possible, believe it or not.
Sounds like you showed up in a conservative place spouting off your New York City Liberal Bullshit and expecting the inhabitants of your new land to change everything about their lifestyle and culture to your liking, and didn't make any friends doing it.
What did you expect?
Sincerely, General Beringer
I've been out of school for a looong time now, and I took their 6002x course recently, and was pretty amazed at how many of the basics I'd forgotten over the years.
Their courses are pretty handy for established professionals to go back and brush up on the long-forgotten basics of yore.
Spend 4 years in the National Guard or one of the major branches. Learn some discipline and responsibility. Not only will you be a better student, but you'll be more likely to get a job.
How many parsecs did it take to zip by the Earth, and how does that compare to the less than 12 Parsecs it took the Millennium Falcon to do the Kessel Run?
Pinch your nose closed and take a bite of your favorite succulent cuisine. You'll quickly realize that taste is not what you think it is, and that what your brain perceives as "taste" depends much more on olfactory stimulation than on your tastebuds.
I learned that first watching Mr. Wizard's World way back in the 80s. :)
Right there with ya on that... The thing is, once you get close to the event horizon, space and time warp badly so you can never really be sure where you are or when you'll actually fall in.
I'd still be willing to bet it is not 100% transparent. Marvell controllers already require drivers to work in most operating systems because they are not truly native AHCI controllers (which is why they don't work in ESXi).
The holy grail is a 100% AHCI-compliant controller with a 100% transparent caching scheme, as a cheap alternative to an expensive HBA with a large battery-backed DRAM cache. I doubt we'll ever see it though.
Oh, I guess you haven't heard. I was under the impression that everyone had heard.
Indeed, it looks like the setup is done in the UEFI and handled by the motherboard firmware. That's really interesting, since I run ESXi at home and it'd be handy to have this as a performance boost.
It does appear to be limited to that one controller and its two ports. I'd really rather see a generic motherboard port that caches disk use universally, so you can add an SSD cache that covers all disks in the system regardless of which controller they're on. My ESXi box has 14 hard drives in it spanning two controllers (8 on an Intel SASUC8I, 6 on the SB950). Some flexibility would be nice.
All of your workstations should already be image-backed to one of your servers daily, so there should be no need to take any of the workstations with you. If one of your servers has the space, I'd be scrambling to at least get a windows image backup done right now. At least then you'd just be throwing the server boxen in the back of your station wagon since you probably don't have an off-site backup plan.
If it's simply a matter of funds and you can't afford this stuff, at least get some decent rackmount cases for your servers and put them in a 24U rack that you can just wheel out on a hand truck.
Insurance will replace the stuff left behind. If you don't have insurance, you deserve to be bitch-slapped.
Of course not, but then they are common carriers selling network access services. You are not in an employer/employee relationship where you are using a privately owned network subject to the terms and conditions of your employment.
It's not your network. You have neither a right to nor an expectation of privacy.
Does that require software or drivers to operate or is it completely invisible to the operating system?
Being in a recession doesn't mean everyone's poor. Hell, I not only changed jobs, but got a huge raise, during this recession.
In any case, this plan is insane. I don't think they did their math correctly in their "let's stick it to the consumer" focus group meetings.
My wife and I would have to spend $50/month more to switch from our current AT&T plan, AND give up simultaneous voice and data since CDMA sucks balls...
"... a judge having lawful jurisdiction to preside over the evidence."
And that's all I have to say about that.
This article is obviously trying to make it out to be "our fault" that this new transportation vector has been created to destroy the Earth.
Not so. This vector has always existed. It's not as if it was impossible for a Tsunami to pick up debris from inland and transport it out to sea. Debris such as trees, limbs, leaves, and other similarly large items have been fair game for as long as the Earth has existed.
Can't blame this one on human activity. Sorry. You'll have to feel your liberal guilt about something else.
Except, of course, if it's integrated into the car, and the manufacturer of that car has spent millions bribing Congress to adopt the paradigm that any amount of tech in a vehicle is perfectly safe so long as it is integrated and the manufacturer got to profit from it.
GDP has not increased in 40 years, but the population and number of workers has increased, meaning that productivity per employee has been steadily decreasing for the last 40 years.
Wages and salaries are monies paid in exchange for productivity. Why do you think people deserve to be paid more for doing less?
How can you expect 40 years of wage increases when there have been 40 years of no GDP increases?
The only reason any phones have been advertised as 4G is because the US FTC gave the industry assurances that it would not sue manufacturers for falsely labeling 3G products like LTE and HSPA+ as 4G. Call it an under-the-table economic stimulus plan - get everyone to buy new phones even though they are nothing new.
Neither HSPA+ nor LTE are 4G technologies. The only 4G network that meets the ITU 4G specification is LTE-Advanced, and there are currently no consumer devices that support it.