That's a naiive view of system architecture. DNS, Kerberos, databases, and file serving can all be implemented in redundant configurations. Your entire argument is instantly invalidated by your admission that the mainframe constitutes a true single point of failure. Your specific mention of DNS indicates you are not even aware that the standard configuration uses one secondary server at minimum. Even in a boorly designed, nonclustered multiple server environment, an outage usually means something can be done, while with a mainframe nothing can be done. Assuming that the mainframe will be more reliable is just as foolhardy as assuming that distributing services over multiple machines will make the system more available. Mainframes may use old, unreliable hardware and small systems can use the latest high-end, redundant hardware. Assumptions stink, design rules.
Blood is over half the price of HP ink. Considering that human blood is donated for free, I think that there is room for some improvement in the supply chain! I don't think that handling and refrigeration should cost that much.
Are you thick? These are very old regulations, and they have nothing to do with any one party. You could have at least looked up the regs first instead of proving to everyone that you don't know what you're talking about. Class B from memory:
The device must not create any harmful interference,
The device must accept any interference that may cause undesired operation.
This smacks of social conditioning. There's no real reason why this has to, or even ought to, be the case, it's merely the way that Western Christian society has developed.
So, asian women just spread their legs for the first good-looking unemployed underachiever who walks by? Fabulous!
Sorry, but your humorous exaggerations on US airport security don't hide the fact that you get a frickin' $5,000 fine for a joke in Oz, but not in the USA. FAIL
All it takes is for one "scientist" to mention something like this in public and some right-wing nutbag will be talking about how the commie-pinko-homosexual wind turbines are STEALING YOUR WIND and KILLING YOUR CHILDREN.
If that's the case, it's only because pseudo-scientists have been claiming that a CO2 increase of 80 parts per million in the last 250 years is causing glaciers to melt; and that the gulf stream can come to a halt, freezing Manhattan and hitting it with tsunamis in a matter of days. Why shouldn't impeding the wind affect the climate as well?
In that case, if he paid $100 for a 4.5 GB disk last year he really got ripped. That's something you put up for $10 and hope you get one bid. He must be sandbagging his hidden "labor cost" just in case the customer reads Slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
That's a naiive view of system architecture. DNS, Kerberos, databases, and file serving can all be implemented in redundant configurations. Your entire argument is instantly invalidated by your admission that the mainframe constitutes a true single point of failure. Your specific mention of DNS indicates you are not even aware that the standard configuration uses one secondary server at minimum. Even in a boorly designed, nonclustered multiple server environment, an outage usually means something can be done, while with a mainframe nothing can be done. Assuming that the mainframe will be more reliable is just as foolhardy as assuming that distributing services over multiple machines will make the system more available. Mainframes may use old, unreliable hardware and small systems can use the latest high-end, redundant hardware. Assumptions stink, design rules.
I tried that once. It created a 10 foot deep crater and registered 6.9 on the Richter scale.
Patents do expire, you know.
Maybe you mean 4si? Or 4v? A 4L is a small personal printer that I can carry under one arm.
$30? I wonder how Dollar Tree sells them for $1 (admittedly, they are only 3' long and probably too short for a printer).
Blood is over half the price of HP ink. Considering that human blood is donated for free, I think that there is room for some improvement in the supply chain! I don't think that handling and refrigeration should cost that much.
Does that thing use proprietary bus adapters or something that you couldn't use a newer VAX-4000 or an emulator like Charon-VAX?
Shhh... the poor loser doesn't get much exposure to actual enterprise systems working at Best Buy.
Mmm... steamed hams.
Sorry, but your humorous exaggerations on US airport security don't hide the fact that you get a frickin' $5,000 fine for a joke in Oz, but not in the USA. FAIL
That's a bah-ah-ah-ah-ahd joke.
2020: Jon Katz
2030: metamod
2055: Linux on the desktop
pwned
In a world of right-hand drivers, the left-handed swordsman is king!
Philadelphia still has a limited trolley line. The cars obey the traffic lights, as far as I can tell.
New Jersey: All the corruption of New York government, without the ingenuity.
The CEO was heading out for lunch and your clue-by-four impaled him the head. Congrats!
Forgot to mention the Wii console?
Excuse me, but you may only measure storage in Libraries of Congress or Volkswagen Beetles.
In that case, if he paid $100 for a 4.5 GB disk last year he really got ripped. That's something you put up for $10 and hope you get one bid. He must be sandbagging his hidden "labor cost" just in case the customer reads Slashdot.
Youe Briytes suiree diou louvee youir voiweils!