The airborne laser has a problem in that the primary beam used to destroy the target missile is so hot that it turns the air in front of the beam into a plasma, causing the energy to dissipate long before it reaches the target. The result is needing the ability to dynamically focus the beam so that it only reaches its focus on the target (3' diameter at the plane, 1" diameter on the target). The other is that it needs to be fired at as high an altitude as possible which puts the aircraft at the service ceiling, so it isn't exactly a rapid response solution. Third, it is best if it is firing at an ICBM at its apex in flight where the atmosphere is thinnest.
I am a remote administrator for dozens of companies. I have been doing this for many, many years. My business success is directly dependent upon your business success. I have a vested interest in every single one of my customers growing and flourishing in business. As such, I only recommend solutions that are justifiable in direct, easy to understand terms.
You have proprietary information? So what. So does every other company and government agency I do work for - all of which is done remotely. Only on rare occasion do I visit on site.
If you cannot place your trust in the people holding your admin password, then administer it yourself. Otherwise be prepared to pay 2-3 times more for simple administrative tasks.
I'm sure I have access to tons of proprietary information, sensitive information, etc. but so what - I'm an honest guy. If I see the stuff, my first reaction is do we have this properly protected? I know the first reaction in a criminal mind is "What can I do with this?". Criminals don't usually want to work for a living.
More proof that outsourcing of labor is fueled by excessive taxes. Lower the tax burden on Corporations and individuals and watch the economy flourish.. Otherwise you will continue to see business' fleeing to areas where the tax burden is less. Survival of the fittest. You've got to play the game if you want to survive.
Business' cannot get out of California fast enough. Banks that used to be on Wall street are not planning to return. They will go elsewhere. I just don't get what is so difficult to grasp about this concept.
Green lasers have been created by using an infrared diode and running the light through a crystal that would slow the emitted light waves down to the 510nm wavelength to obtain green light. The side effect is that all the extra light energy being absorbed by the crystal generates tremendous heat, nevertheless, the emitted beam still has enough energy to pop balloons and start fires even at 90mw output.
Obviously I'm referring to phytoplankton, not the bacterioplankton that feed on items such as iron. Phytoplankton require sunlight, and CO2 to grow. You just keep making crap up to maintain the premise that CO2 in the ocean is a catastrophic problem.
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My wife just gave birth to a beautiful daughter. This is child process #4 for us, and all 4 were delivered at this same hospital. Because of the eHealthcare record keeping, I've noticed different procedures to the health care as directed by the computer system. When baby was born, they held off on doing any of the 'normal routine' of weighing the baby, measuring, giving shots, putting the ointment in their eyes, etc. until the child was admitted into the record keeping system, otherwise it would have meant time spent reentering data.
In speaking with the doctors, specifically the OBGYN, he stated unequivocally that what is driving costs of health insurance up is the costs of malpractice insurance. People are looking for any mistake or error that they can turn around and sue the doctor or hospital for. It is insane.
Plankton creates photosynthesis converting CO2 back into O2. The oceans will turn green in areas that have high CO2 levels, the fact that they do not turn green is evidence that there is no system that is out of balance, which is further evidenced by current climate patterns wherein record low temperatures have been recorded all over the globe requiring the term of Global Warming to be dropped in favor of "Climate Change".
When I was a kid, "Climate Change" was talked about quite often, but back then it was called "The Weather."
YES, the OCEAN IS a HUGE CO2 Sink, and whenever there is an abundance of CO2 we get an abundance of Plankton and algae, so much that the sea turns green. Oops, but then that solves the problem without need for a manufactured crisis. Lets just ignore that bit of data to keep research funding on track. (on the brighter side, at least it saved the Wales!!)
Why don't we mandate that processor speeds operate at 2 terahertz... I know that Intel is just holding out on us to string us along. They must be heavily invested in big power and big HVAC, those corrupt bastards at Intel. While we're at it, we should also mandate that Ethernet speeds be cranked up to terabit speeds as well, and all by 2012, because we all know there would be NO innovation if left to the companies themselves. If government weren't there to mandate these innovations, why, could you imagine where we would be today?
Thank goodness these were just VANDALS executing a well coordinated and flawlessly executed act of random senseless destruction and not the work of some domestic terrorists... could you imagine?
Not all linear problems can be solved with parallel processing. It takes 1 woman 9 months to produce a baby - but 9 women cannot produce a baby in a single month...
Software operates primarily on a linear function: Process A needs to be done before B, and B before C and so forth. The real issue is that dividing a linear process across parallel processors is notoriously difficult: Task "D" is sent to processor 2, however the data it needs to process is already sitting in the cache of processor 0... this slows things down and E finishes before D and the app crashes.
This is where the design of Microsoft's Hyper-V platform shows real promise. By placing a virtualization layer (Hypervisor) between the OS and the processor, the added abstraction layer can distribute dissimilar or unrelated processes to different cores. It can also assist with non-linear computing tasks that work well with parallel processing and even provide the framework by which
Look at it this way: there is no way that Microsoft is going to leave spare resources sitting idle. They'll figure out some way to consume every single one. It's the Microsoft way!
HP released a palm-held page scanner that you would wipe across the paper like a squeegee. It would scan the text and assemble the entire page based upon the unique grain pattern in the paper. The market didn't understand the concept, wasn't ready for a briefcase document scanner, whatever the case was, but it failed and was withdrawn from market.
If this were my project - I would purchase a new Dell or HP server. Servers today have all the HA and redundant features built in, and when you have all your eggs in one basket, you need to have a very strong basket.
On this server, I would run VMware 3i Hypervisor (AKA VMware ESX) - this gives you the ability to access all the cores and ram on the modern server, otherwise you will have CPU cores sitting idle (irrespective of the os you install).
Run ~4 instances of Microsoft Server 2003 or 2008. Have two of the servers clustered or load balanced for the web services. The other two for AD/Email, whatever else you need.
Let's get one thing straight here: I have absolutely nothing but 100% sympathy for the workers. Yet, I have nothing but disgust for their union overlords. I support the workers, not their union. Collective Bargaining also means Collective Suffering.
Funny that your entire reply brings up issues I did not even present in my argument, yet proposes to refute anything I said. Who the hell cares that China, Japan, EU will have higher Fuel mileage STANDARDS for 2020, or even 2012? We're talking about the current problem here, not some future scenario that MAY or MAY NOT pan out.
As an engineer, it drives me nuts to watch someone troubleshoot the wrong problem. American auto makers have no problems competing outside the USA. Why? Well, they are not subject to asinine CAFE standards, congressional regulations and miles and miles of red tape that have been added on to BIG EVIL AUTO MANUFACTURERS by the US Congress. Not to mention that each car made is heavily taxed at every level, from the top to the bottom. The feds, the state and local governments soak the BIG AUTO companies, they've been doing it for years, and now they've finally killed them.
It is also the Unions. Did you know that GM has roughly 90,000 workers, yet provides health coverage for nearly 10x that? Yes, nearly a MILLION people are getting lifetime health insurance benefits because of the Auto unions squeezing the tit of BIG AUTO, "those big evvvvvil auto bastards that make billions of dollars"... well, the auto unions should be jumping with glee, they've been working to kill the industry for decades just to prove that they hold all the power. Well, they proved their point and in doing so they have killed the goose - and we all know what that means; no more golden eggs. Today, GM is nothing more than an HMO health care provider that just so happens to have a side business of making cars. People blame the auto makers for signing the contracts allowing such generous compensation. However, what they do not realize is that the auto unions threatened massive amounts of immediate pain (strikes) for a labor contract that would meet with disaster in 10-20 years. The industry has had a gun to its head for the past 30-40 years, I just can't believe it took this long to kill them.
Every single other industry in America, when faced with similar treatment (Big EVVVVil oil, or evil [insert industry here]) they simply pulled up stumps and moved their industry overseas. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out when you're not wanted. Big auto doesn't have that luxury of moving away.
It is the foreign car makers that do not have to comply with CAFE standards, they're doing just fine. Nobody makes big, rugged hard working vehicles like the Americans can. People WANT to buy American vehicles, if they weren't so expensive due to regulations, taxes added to production costs, and union overhead added on to the sticker price of each vehicle.
Reminds me of the time that Developers at Viewpoint DataLabs in Orem UT created an 'inside joke' error message that got out back in 1998. The error was:
Setup is unable to locate a suitable version of DirectX on your machine. You will need to install DirectX before you can use LiveArt98, dumbass!
Obviously, when testing the software, as the product release date approached all the machines in the office had Directx installed. OOPS!
I don't care who wins, per se - but what has driven me nuts is the Bush Bashing. I know that he didn't lie, the very claim that he did is itself a lie. Yet it is repeated so often it is actually believed.
So: what history is being rewritten? Just look at this article from The New York Times, as reported from the Wall Street Journal:
According to the six-year narrative of the press and political class, the Bush Administration's counterterrorism policies fall somewhere between the Spanish Inquisition and the Ministry of Love in "1984." So it was something of a shock to read a remarkable front-page story in the New York Times yesterday, the abridged version being: Never mind.
In their 1,600-word dispatch "Next President Will Face Test on Detainees," reporters William Glaberson and Margot Williams discover that, gee whiz, many of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay really are dangerous terrorists. The Times reviewed "thousands of pages" of evidence that the government has so far made public and concludes that perhaps the reality is more complicated than the critics claim.
Lo and behold, detainees are implicated in such terror attacks as the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole. Those with "serious terrorism credentials" include al Qaeda operatives Abu Zubaydah, Ramzi bin al-Shibh and the so-called "Dirty 30," Osama bin Laden's cadre of bodyguards. The Times didn't mention Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of 9/11, though he's awaiting a war-crimes tribunal at Gitmo too.
I dare say that the big loser of the past 8 years has been the American people and how we've let ourselves be brainwashed by the agenda driven Media.
I've heard that one before somewhere. The entire premise of your argument is false. Even so, the pools discussed in this article are SEASONAL! They appear every spring, and disappear every summer, so the pools dry out annually and these animals DIE annually. It is called a life cycle. A natural process. So, how is it that we humans are now responsible for this?
Funny thing is that this is all based upon emotion. I see no difference between this magical thinking and some evangelical seeing the Virgin Mary in a snow drift and thinking that it is a sign from God. Seasonal pools are just that, seasonal. To use this now as a tool to blame/attack/control those who don't follow the dictum's of your religion (the religion of environmentalism) is transparent. The clincher is that the followers of the EnviroReligious movement claim that it is the Christian evangelicals that want to control the lives of others.
So, pools of water didn't dry up prior to global warming? Frogs and salamanders didn't die prior to all this? Is there any animal population from humans to flies that have not gone through expansion and contraction?
Recovering laptops from spills, electronics from moisture, etc. I even recovered my brother-in-law's equipment out of hurricane Katrina.
Step 1) Wash in distilled water. Distilled water does not conduct electricity, but it will cause oxidizaiton. You need H20 to dissolve the water soluble contaminants. Feel free to immerse the products in the distilled water.
Step 2) Get 99.9% isopropyl alcohol and rinse away the water.
Step 3) Get a couple cans of Chemtronics DPL - Spray the surface, it will return all electrical properties back to original.
http://www.all-spec.com/1/viewitem/ES1626/ALLSPEC/prodinfo/i=rss The DPL® ES1626 is a Deep Penetrating Lubricant.
* Chemtronics ES1626 Features:Safe for use on plastics
* Non-flammable
* Displaces moisture from electrical and electronic components
* Special corrosion inhibitors prevent corrosion under high humidity and salt spray conditions
* Minimizes friction and metal wear
* Protects metal surfaces; works on most metals including aluminum
* Excellent dielectric properties
* Cleans, protects, and lubricates all electrical and electronic switches, contacts, relays, plugs, and sockets
* Fine for use in applications exposed to extreme weather conditions
* Loosens rusted cabinets and hinges
* RoHS Compliant
* 11 oz. aerosol can
This is how I restore all water damaged electronics. Steps 1 and 2 alone will result in corrosion.
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The airborne laser has a problem in that the primary beam used to destroy the target missile is so hot that it turns the air in front of the beam into a plasma, causing the energy to dissipate long before it reaches the target. The result is needing the ability to dynamically focus the beam so that it only reaches its focus on the target (3' diameter at the plane, 1" diameter on the target). The other is that it needs to be fired at as high an altitude as possible which puts the aircraft at the service ceiling, so it isn't exactly a rapid response solution. Third, it is best if it is firing at an ICBM at its apex in flight where the atmosphere is thinnest.
Cool stuff though...
The password is $h3riff!
I am a remote administrator for dozens of companies. I have been doing this for many, many years. My business success is directly dependent upon your business success. I have a vested interest in every single one of my customers growing and flourishing in business. As such, I only recommend solutions that are justifiable in direct, easy to understand terms.
You have proprietary information? So what. So does every other company and government agency I do work for - all of which is done remotely. Only on rare occasion do I visit on site.
If you cannot place your trust in the people holding your admin password, then administer it yourself. Otherwise be prepared to pay 2-3 times more for simple administrative tasks.
I'm sure I have access to tons of proprietary information, sensitive information, etc. but so what - I'm an honest guy. If I see the stuff, my first reaction is do we have this properly protected? I know the first reaction in a criminal mind is "What can I do with this?". Criminals don't usually want to work for a living.
More proof that outsourcing of labor is fueled by excessive taxes. Lower the tax burden on Corporations and individuals and watch the economy flourish.. Otherwise you will continue to see business' fleeing to areas where the tax burden is less. Survival of the fittest. You've got to play the game if you want to survive.
Business' cannot get out of California fast enough. Banks that used to be on Wall street are not planning to return. They will go elsewhere. I just don't get what is so difficult to grasp about this concept.
Green lasers have been created by using an infrared diode and running the light through a crystal that would slow the emitted light waves down to the 510nm wavelength to obtain green light. The side effect is that all the extra light energy being absorbed by the crystal generates tremendous heat, nevertheless, the emitted beam still has enough energy to pop balloons and start fires even at 90mw output.
Obviously I'm referring to phytoplankton, not the bacterioplankton that feed on items such as iron.
Phytoplankton require sunlight, and CO2 to grow. You just keep making crap up to maintain the premise that CO2 in the ocean is a catastrophic problem.
My wife just gave birth to a beautiful daughter. This is child process #4 for us, and all 4 were delivered at this same hospital. Because of the eHealthcare record keeping, I've noticed different procedures to the health care as directed by the computer system. When baby was born, they held off on doing any of the 'normal routine' of weighing the baby, measuring, giving shots, putting the ointment in their eyes, etc. until the child was admitted into the record keeping system, otherwise it would have meant time spent reentering data.
In speaking with the doctors, specifically the OBGYN, he stated unequivocally that what is driving costs of health insurance up is the costs of malpractice insurance. People are looking for any mistake or error that they can turn around and sue the doctor or hospital for. It is insane.
Plankton creates photosynthesis converting CO2 back into O2. The oceans will turn green in areas that have high CO2 levels, the fact that they do not turn green is evidence that there is no system that is out of balance, which is further evidenced by current climate patterns wherein record low temperatures have been recorded all over the globe requiring the term of Global Warming to be dropped in favor of "Climate Change".
When I was a kid, "Climate Change" was talked about quite often, but back then it was called "The Weather."
YES, the OCEAN IS a HUGE CO2 Sink, and whenever there is an abundance of CO2 we get an abundance of Plankton and algae, so much that the sea turns green. Oops, but then that solves the problem without need for a manufactured crisis. Lets just ignore that bit of data to keep research funding on track. (on the brighter side, at least it saved the Wales!!)
Oh yeah? I keeeel you!!!
Oh, crap, I forgot to click the Anonymous Coward Box...
Why don't we mandate that processor speeds operate at 2 terahertz... I know that Intel is just holding out on us to string us along. They must be heavily invested in big power and big HVAC, those corrupt bastards at Intel. While we're at it, we should also mandate that Ethernet speeds be cranked up to terabit speeds as well, and all by 2012, because we all know there would be NO innovation if left to the companies themselves. If government weren't there to mandate these innovations, why, could you imagine where we would be today?
The levels of insanity...
Thank goodness these were just VANDALS executing a well coordinated and flawlessly executed act of random senseless destruction and not the work of
some domestic terrorists... could you imagine?
Not all linear problems can be solved with parallel processing.
It takes 1 woman 9 months to produce a baby - but 9 women cannot produce a baby in a single month...
Software operates primarily on a linear function: Process A needs to be done before B, and B before C and so forth. The real issue is that dividing a linear process across parallel processors is notoriously difficult: Task "D" is sent to processor 2, however the data it needs to process is already sitting in the cache of processor 0... this slows things down and E finishes before D and the app crashes.
This is where the design of Microsoft's Hyper-V platform shows real promise. By placing a virtualization layer (Hypervisor) between the OS and the processor, the added abstraction layer can distribute dissimilar or unrelated processes to different cores. It can also assist with non-linear computing tasks that work well with parallel processing and even provide the framework by which
Look at it this way: there is no way that Microsoft is going to leave spare resources sitting idle. They'll figure out some way to consume every single one. It's the Microsoft way!
HP released a palm-held page scanner that you would wipe across the paper like a squeegee. It would scan the text and assemble the entire page based upon the unique grain pattern in the paper. The market didn't understand the concept, wasn't ready for a briefcase document scanner, whatever the case was, but it failed and was withdrawn from market.
If this were my project - I would purchase a new Dell or HP server. Servers today have all the HA and redundant features built in, and when you have all your eggs in one basket, you need to have a very strong basket.
On this server, I would run VMware 3i Hypervisor (AKA VMware ESX) - this gives you the ability to access all the cores and ram on the modern server, otherwise you will have CPU cores sitting idle (irrespective of the os you install).
Run ~4 instances of Microsoft Server 2003 or 2008. Have two of the servers clustered or load balanced for the web services. The other two for AD/Email, whatever else you need.
Joel
The server names I use for my hacker training classes are: Hindenburg and Titanic :)
The domain is going.down
Let's get one thing straight here: I have absolutely nothing but 100% sympathy for the workers. Yet, I have nothing but disgust for their union overlords. I support the workers, not their union. Collective Bargaining also means Collective Suffering.
Funny that your entire reply brings up issues I did not even present in my argument, yet proposes to refute anything I said. Who the hell cares that China, Japan, EU will have higher Fuel mileage STANDARDS for 2020, or even 2012? We're talking about the current problem here, not some future scenario that MAY or MAY NOT pan out.
As an engineer, it drives me nuts to watch someone troubleshoot the wrong problem. American auto makers have no problems competing outside the USA. Why? Well, they are not subject to asinine CAFE standards, congressional regulations and miles and miles of red tape that have been added on to BIG EVIL AUTO MANUFACTURERS by the US Congress. Not to mention that each car made is heavily taxed at every level, from the top to the bottom. The feds, the state and local governments soak the BIG AUTO companies, they've been doing it for years, and now they've finally killed them.
It is also the Unions. Did you know that GM has roughly 90,000 workers, yet provides health coverage for nearly 10x that? Yes, nearly a MILLION people are getting lifetime health insurance benefits because of the Auto unions squeezing the tit of BIG AUTO, "those big evvvvvil auto bastards that make billions of dollars"... well, the auto unions should be jumping with glee, they've been working to kill the industry for decades just to prove that they hold all the power. Well, they proved their point and in doing so they have killed the goose - and we all know what that means; no more golden eggs. Today, GM is nothing more than an HMO health care provider that just so happens to have a side business of making cars. People blame the auto makers for signing the contracts allowing such generous compensation. However, what they do not realize is that the auto unions threatened massive amounts of immediate pain (strikes) for a labor contract that would meet with disaster in 10-20 years. The industry has had a gun to its head for the past 30-40 years, I just can't believe it took this long to kill them.
Every single other industry in America, when faced with similar treatment (Big EVVVVil oil, or evil [insert industry here]) they simply pulled up stumps and moved their industry overseas. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out when you're not wanted. Big auto doesn't have that luxury of moving away.
It is the foreign car makers that do not have to comply with CAFE standards, they're doing just fine. Nobody makes big, rugged hard working vehicles like the Americans can. People WANT to buy American vehicles, if they weren't so expensive due to regulations, taxes added to production costs, and union overhead added on to the sticker price of each vehicle.
I'm reading this article, and writing this post on my blackberry as I meander home through rush hour traffic...
Reminds me of the time that Developers at Viewpoint DataLabs in Orem UT created an 'inside joke' error message that got out back in 1998. The error was:
Obviously, when testing the software, as the product release date approached all the machines in the office had Directx installed. OOPS!
I don't care who wins, per se - but what has driven me nuts is the Bush Bashing. I know that he didn't lie, the very claim that he did is itself a lie. Yet it is repeated so often it is actually believed.
So: what history is being rewritten? Just look at this article from The New York Times, as reported from the Wall Street Journal:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122575933265095405.html
I dare say that the big loser of the past 8 years has been the American people and how we've let ourselves be brainwashed by the agenda driven Media.
LET THEM EAT CAKE!
I've heard that one before somewhere. The entire premise of your argument is false. Even so, the pools discussed in this article are SEASONAL! They appear every spring, and disappear every summer, so the pools dry out annually and these animals DIE annually. It is called a life cycle. A natural process. So, how is it that we humans are now responsible for this?
Funny thing is that this is all based upon emotion. I see no difference between this magical thinking and some evangelical seeing the Virgin Mary in a snow drift and thinking that it is a sign from God. Seasonal pools are just that, seasonal. To use this now as a tool to blame/attack/control those who don't follow the dictum's of your religion (the religion of environmentalism) is transparent. The clincher is that the followers of the EnviroReligious movement claim that it is the Christian evangelicals that want to control the lives of others.
The amount of transference is amazing.
So, pools of water didn't dry up prior to global warming? Frogs and salamanders didn't die prior to all this? Is there any animal population from humans to flies that have not gone through expansion and contraction?
Recovering laptops from spills, electronics from moisture, etc. I even recovered my brother-in-law's equipment out of hurricane Katrina.
Step 1) Wash in distilled water. Distilled water does not conduct electricity, but it will cause oxidizaiton. You need H20 to dissolve the water soluble contaminants. Feel free to immerse the products in the distilled water.
Step 2) Get 99.9% isopropyl alcohol and rinse away the water.
Step 3) Get a couple cans of Chemtronics DPL - Spray the surface, it will return all electrical properties back to original.
http://www.all-spec.com/1/viewitem/ES1626/ALLSPEC/prodinfo/i=rss
The DPL® ES1626 is a Deep Penetrating Lubricant.
* Chemtronics ES1626 Features:Safe for use on plastics
* Non-flammable
* Displaces moisture from electrical and electronic components
* Special corrosion inhibitors prevent corrosion under high humidity and salt spray conditions
* Minimizes friction and metal wear
* Protects metal surfaces; works on most metals including aluminum
* Excellent dielectric properties
* Cleans, protects, and lubricates all electrical and electronic switches, contacts, relays, plugs, and sockets
* Fine for use in applications exposed to extreme weather conditions
* Loosens rusted cabinets and hinges
* RoHS Compliant
* 11 oz. aerosol can
This is how I restore all water damaged electronics. Steps 1 and 2 alone will result in corrosion.