Back in 2005, I was working at Time Warner in Austin, TX. The networks were just getting upgraded segment by segment to support Switched Video technology. HDTV was just now getting rolled out for the masses that the need for more digital bandwidth was imperative. Basically, only the channels being requested per segment got transmitted. Each node (cable box) was updated to map the channel to broadcast in real-time. Essentially the technology was abstracted out from the viewer.
If local cable companies were facing a bandwidth shortages in 2005, I can only imagine the requirements of HDTV content is today. Of course, the Scientific Atlanta boxes then did not use or support H.264 yet but an older MPEG standard if I recall. I doubt the current backbone and ISP infrastructure can support 3rd party IPTV services. Perhaps some of the newer specs of IPv6 will make it possible coupled with H.264.
That's right you database developers you. Take that! And while you're at it, make our race field selectable too. While we (or most of us anyways) are Human, we might have intelligent extraterrestrial visitors soon. Plan ahead!
Agreed. Just because WiFi hardware will be cents on the dollar (or soon at this rate) doesn't mean we should be slapping a WiFi chip on every fucking electronic device just to fart over the airwaves. What's next, an IPv6 address for every single kitchen and household appliance? I suppose I should be so snarky about it. I could see the point in being notified when to replace food or notifying you that the burner or oven was left on (no thanks to the kids or elderly). Regardless, WiFi hardware doesn't need to be installed in gimmicky products just to make name for yourself in the market. So again, your point still stands.
I'm guessing this system meters which car used X amount of electricity and bills accordingly? You pay what you use, right? Or is this some sort of ploy to charge each tax payer a flat monthly fee across the board?
That used to be the case with SSDs, not any longer. One of my clients runs OIC CleanSweep which basically stitches together sidescan / bathymetry data for ocean floor surveys. One project was 90GB in size. It's consume 32GB of RAM easily. While yes, if money wasn't an object I would have recommended a DAS RAID5 spindle array. But a Samsung 840 SSD is rated for sustained sequential writes of up to 520MB/s and 4KB random write IOPS of 90,000.
It helped them considerably save time. Had this been a desktop and not a laptop (there's a good reason for LT, trust me), I would have recommended an OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2. That PCIe SSD card can sling 1.3GB/s on the writes. And you know what, OIC CleanSweep still would have slammed the shit out of it!!!!
IANAP. I don't think we will ever see CPUs clocked to 10Ghz unless there's some asynchronous timing voodoo used. I'm of the understanding that the speed of light and signal propagation is the real limitation here with regards to higher frequencies.
You're right about server grade hardware being more robust and intelligently managed to that of a standard desktop. However, in this context, I was speaking of servers. I'm not sure what kind of units you're talking about, but I work exclusively with Dell PowerEdge units. Take a PE R710 (IU) for example. It's maximum warning threshold is set for 42C (108F) with a failure of 47C (117F). The RPMs will throttle on their own (factory default) based on ambient temp per sensor readings on the IPMI bus. Though it should be noted that excessive high temps will shorten the lives HDDs and in some cases cause a premature SMART failure of the drives. And we haven't even begun looking into the theoretical reduction in MTBF. Perhaps with someone as large as Google and Amazon, the savings in energy is great that it offsets the cost to swap hardware often. I wouldn't know. But for a small to medium business that requires their own off site servers, the risk is not acceptable to me.
80f does cause the server fans to work harder via higher RPMs though. The higher your temps, the less margin of error you have to make corrections in a DC.
One of my co-workers nailed it on the head. The whole point of moving to Metro is that it's easy to replicate and impliment HTML5 for web apps. It's why Office365 looks and feels nearly identical on any modern browser. The point is to design a UI that can be seemless between local devices and over the web. I'm thinking that's exactly why Apple is going the "metro" route too.
Even if they did understand us at some level, would a computer care? I'm seriously asking this question because if the closest thing to a human brain is that of a monkey or ape. Yet we act and interact with the world in completely different ways. Even our desires and expectations are different. In fact, compared to a computer with advanced AI, we would have better luck trying to talk with dolphins. Whatever becomes of AI, it's not going to be HAL 9000. I'm pretty confident of that.
Agreed with PowerShell. In fact, the GUI of Exchange 2007, 2010, 2012, and Server 2012 are just wrappers for creating and executing PS scripts under the hood. That said however, I'm a little pissed how my Exchange commandlets get changed after a new service pack. I haven't written a single PS script from scratch yet, but I understand how to read them. And honestly, it's a lot easier to just GoogleFu them online. I'm willing to bet 99% of the sysadmins out there do the same.
I work for a MSP. My job these days has been tier 3 support, system administration, and deployment of desktops/servers/firewalls. You must be able to fly by the seat of your pants in the MSP industry. It's doable but stressful cramming 30+ corporate networks in your head (most of you fuckers on/. only have to learn 1 or 2 at most for your single job). The burn-out is high too. What makes it all palatable however is one thing; Asking the right questions to your clients. Everything else falls into place from there on out. Usually at any rate.
Business level experience such as cost justification belongs to either the only sysadmin in the company, or the IT director in a large corp. Technicians have no reason to be concerned with that minutia other than pure reactive break fix work and proactive infrastructure maintenance.
If I'm not mistaken, fingerprinting is now all digital. Perhaps it depends on your jurisdiction; I wouldn't know. But when I did contract IT work for a city hall that involved touching Police equipment, I was required to have my prints taken. That, and we had to undergo CLETS training.
Fluid materials behave differently in zero-g. For example, the surface tension of water is radically altered with and without gravity present. While it ultimately may not be an issue, I think it's worth mentioning.
Square Enix has released a lot of games for iOS. Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy, you name it. Sega too. They sell both Sonic the Hedgehog and Phantasy Star II.
The 3rd generation of AppleTV includes a single core Apple A5 (ARM Cortex-A9) CPU and dual-core SGX543MP2 graphics chip. Basically the same as an iPad2. There's technically nothing preventing Apple from turning the AppleTV into a console for iOS gaming. All you really need is a game pad to relive the nostalgia of the 16bit era.
Give it a few generation. Nintendo will be the one that publishes games to an AppleTV 5 or 6 (Apple Pippin redo).;-)
It's prolonging a much bigger issue however. Eventually, that antique hardware will also have to be replaced and out goes the need for RS232. One would hope anyways. This problem is a yarn ball of a discussion that need to happen now and not later.
1. When will the 20year old printing hardware be replaced or decommissioned? 2. How much will it cost? 3. Does the company plan on investing in upgrades, or flip the company leaving the next owners with a money pit? (if yes, GTFO and find another job. There is no future for you) 4. When will the upgrade plan to take place? This will determine how much old hardware you will need to ensure an adequate support overlap. 5. If upgrades are to occur, what (if any) ancillary effects will this cause throughout the rest of the company's network infrastructure (software, client, server, etc). Are you looking at just the tip of the iceberg in capital expenditures?
I canceled my Butterflylabs Bitcoin Miner order when I was presented the opportunity.
All alternative currency that can be converted to US dollars is subjected to taxation. Fuck that. I don't need to deal with the buttache for one. Secondly, you will make more money if you out-right by and sell BTs on the market vs mining them. Don't waste your time with ASICs. Those that can profit from them will be the people sinking hundreds of thousands of dollars into this. The average 'Joe' with his small fry ASIC and GPU won't even be a drop in the bucket.
The problem with BYOD is that users often want access to corporate data. But companies have a right, no, make that a duty to protect their own data. The problem is that in order to do that, the company has to have some control of your hardware. Mainly with regards to encryption and holding the keys from you. Again, your device, their data. And that's often the point of contention between staff and IT personnel.
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Back in 2005, I was working at Time Warner in Austin, TX. The networks were just getting upgraded segment by segment to support Switched Video technology. HDTV was just now getting rolled out for the masses that the need for more digital bandwidth was imperative. Basically, only the channels being requested per segment got transmitted. Each node (cable box) was updated to map the channel to broadcast in real-time. Essentially the technology was abstracted out from the viewer.
If local cable companies were facing a bandwidth shortages in 2005, I can only imagine the requirements of HDTV content is today. Of course, the Scientific Atlanta boxes then did not use or support H.264 yet but an older MPEG standard if I recall. I doubt the current backbone and ISP infrastructure can support 3rd party IPTV services. Perhaps some of the newer specs of IPv6 will make it possible coupled with H.264.
That's right you database developers you. Take that! And while you're at it, make our race field selectable too. While we (or most of us anyways) are Human, we might have intelligent extraterrestrial visitors soon. Plan ahead!
Agreed. Just because WiFi hardware will be cents on the dollar (or soon at this rate) doesn't mean we should be slapping a WiFi chip on every fucking electronic device just to fart over the airwaves. What's next, an IPv6 address for every single kitchen and household appliance? I suppose I should be so snarky about it. I could see the point in being notified when to replace food or notifying you that the burner or oven was left on (no thanks to the kids or elderly). Regardless, WiFi hardware doesn't need to be installed in gimmicky products just to make name for yourself in the market. So again, your point still stands.
I'm guessing this system meters which car used X amount of electricity and bills accordingly? You pay what you use, right? Or is this some sort of ploy to charge each tax payer a flat monthly fee across the board?
That used to be the case with SSDs, not any longer. One of my clients runs OIC CleanSweep which basically stitches together sidescan / bathymetry data for ocean floor surveys. One project was 90GB in size. It's consume 32GB of RAM easily. While yes, if money wasn't an object I would have recommended a DAS RAID5 spindle array. But a Samsung 840 SSD is rated for sustained sequential writes of up to 520MB/s and 4KB random write IOPS of 90,000.
It helped them considerably save time. Had this been a desktop and not a laptop (there's a good reason for LT, trust me), I would have recommended an OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2. That PCIe SSD card can sling 1.3GB/s on the writes. And you know what, OIC CleanSweep still would have slammed the shit out of it!!!!
IANAP. I don't think we will ever see CPUs clocked to 10Ghz unless there's some asynchronous timing voodoo used. I'm of the understanding that the speed of light and signal propagation is the real limitation here with regards to higher frequencies.
Looks like a subwoofer cylinder, to be quite honest.
You're right about server grade hardware being more robust and intelligently managed to that of a standard desktop. However, in this context, I was speaking of servers. I'm not sure what kind of units you're talking about, but I work exclusively with Dell PowerEdge units. Take a PE R710 (IU) for example. It's maximum warning threshold is set for 42C (108F) with a failure of 47C (117F). The RPMs will throttle on their own (factory default) based on ambient temp per sensor readings on the IPMI bus. Though it should be noted that excessive high temps will shorten the lives HDDs and in some cases cause a premature SMART failure of the drives. And we haven't even begun looking into the theoretical reduction in MTBF. Perhaps with someone as large as Google and Amazon, the savings in energy is great that it offsets the cost to swap hardware often. I wouldn't know. But for a small to medium business that requires their own off site servers, the risk is not acceptable to me.
80f does cause the server fans to work harder via higher RPMs though. The higher your temps, the less margin of error you have to make corrections in a DC.
One of my co-workers nailed it on the head. The whole point of moving to Metro is that it's easy to replicate and impliment HTML5 for web apps. It's why Office365 looks and feels nearly identical on any modern browser. The point is to design a UI that can be seemless between local devices and over the web. I'm thinking that's exactly why Apple is going the "metro" route too.
No no no. You swipe at the NSA Prism icon just to unlock your phone. Now all your apps are being properly...ahem..."managed".
Learned to use Red Star OS. The intentions of N. Korea are pretty strait forward. If you can trust that OS, you can trust -any- OS.
Even if they did understand us at some level, would a computer care? I'm seriously asking this question because if the closest thing to a human brain is that of a monkey or ape. Yet we act and interact with the world in completely different ways. Even our desires and expectations are different. In fact, compared to a computer with advanced AI, we would have better luck trying to talk with dolphins. Whatever becomes of AI, it's not going to be HAL 9000. I'm pretty confident of that.
Sodium Pentothal. No inhabitions, no fear. Stress becomes water off a ducks back.
Agreed with PowerShell. In fact, the GUI of Exchange 2007, 2010, 2012, and Server 2012 are just wrappers for creating and executing PS scripts under the hood. That said however, I'm a little pissed how my Exchange commandlets get changed after a new service pack. I haven't written a single PS script from scratch yet, but I understand how to read them. And honestly, it's a lot easier to just GoogleFu them online. I'm willing to bet 99% of the sysadmins out there do the same.
I work for a MSP. My job these days has been tier 3 support, system administration, and deployment of desktops/servers/firewalls. You must be able to fly by the seat of your pants in the MSP industry. It's doable but stressful cramming 30+ corporate networks in your head (most of you fuckers on /. only have to learn 1 or 2 at most for your single job). The burn-out is high too. What makes it all palatable however is one thing; Asking the right questions to your clients. Everything else falls into place from there on out. Usually at any rate.
Business level experience such as cost justification belongs to either the only sysadmin in the company, or the IT director in a large corp. Technicians have no reason to be concerned with that minutia other than pure reactive break fix work and proactive infrastructure maintenance.
These children just need a hug. Just don't set off the bomb in doing so.
If I'm not mistaken, fingerprinting is now all digital. Perhaps it depends on your jurisdiction; I wouldn't know. But when I did contract IT work for a city hall that involved touching Police equipment, I was required to have my prints taken. That, and we had to undergo CLETS training.
Fluid materials behave differently in zero-g. For example, the surface tension of water is radically altered with and without gravity present. While it ultimately may not be an issue, I think it's worth mentioning.
Square Enix has released a lot of games for iOS. Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy, you name it. Sega too. They sell both Sonic the Hedgehog and Phantasy Star II.
The 3rd generation of AppleTV includes a single core Apple A5 (ARM Cortex-A9) CPU and dual-core SGX543MP2 graphics chip. Basically the same as an iPad2. There's technically nothing preventing Apple from turning the AppleTV into a console for iOS gaming. All you really need is a game pad to relive the nostalgia of the 16bit era.
Give it a few generation. Nintendo will be the one that publishes games to an AppleTV 5 or 6 (Apple Pippin redo). ;-)
It's prolonging a much bigger issue however. Eventually, that antique hardware will also have to be replaced and out goes the need for RS232. One would hope anyways. This problem is a yarn ball of a discussion that need to happen now and not later.
1. When will the 20year old printing hardware be replaced or decommissioned?
2. How much will it cost?
3. Does the company plan on investing in upgrades, or flip the company leaving the next owners with a money pit? (if yes, GTFO and find another job. There is no future for you)
4. When will the upgrade plan to take place? This will determine how much old hardware you will need to ensure an adequate support overlap.
5. If upgrades are to occur, what (if any) ancillary effects will this cause throughout the rest of the company's network infrastructure (software, client, server, etc). Are you looking at just the tip of the iceberg in capital expenditures?
I canceled my Butterflylabs Bitcoin Miner order when I was presented the opportunity.
All alternative currency that can be converted to US dollars is subjected to taxation. Fuck that. I don't need to deal with the buttache for one. Secondly, you will make more money if you out-right by and sell BTs on the market vs mining them. Don't waste your time with ASICs. Those that can profit from them will be the people sinking hundreds of thousands of dollars into this. The average 'Joe' with his small fry ASIC and GPU won't even be a drop in the bucket.
That, and the fact they want more users purchasing iTunes content even if that means providing a cheaper "gateway drug" platform.
The problem with BYOD is that users often want access to corporate data. But companies have a right, no, make that a duty to protect their own data. The problem is that in order to do that, the company has to have some control of your hardware. Mainly with regards to encryption and holding the keys from you. Again, your device, their data. And that's often the point of contention between staff and IT personnel.
I'm proud to be anti-Islam. Islam, is a social cancer to humanity. Its "infection" needs to be stopped.