"Sometimes, however, we canâ(TM)t shut off that light even when we can make the underlying repair."
Are you sure they are making the repair?
Have you never heard of disconnecting the battery? I've found that resets the trouble codes.
I used an audi reader to read the trouble codes off my Ford Escort with 200,000 miles, replaced the faulty sensor, disconnected the battery for 5 minutes. Problem solved.
Can they restrict the export of the following too? Lead paint(makes kids retarded), melanine(kills cats), drywall(poisons houses), heparin(kills people dead) and keep them for their own internal market?
Seagate ST3500320NS. One batch of 500GB drives were particular horrible. Horrible horrible horrible in terms of failures. I think we are approaching 10% over 1 year. Which is ridiculous.
Our disks are doing read / write operations 24/7. I dunno if that makes a difference.
How do you replace disks in the chassis? We've got 1,000 spinning disks and we've got a few failures a month. With 45 disks in each unit you are going to have to replace a few consumer grade drives.
I don't blame the consumer. I blame the people who wrote the trade laws that allow for slave labor to have equal playing field. Those trade laws completely destroy the fundamental American principle of freedom.
I blame the trade laws which basically guarantee that if you build a product in a responsible manner, it's not going to succeed, because the people who ignore environmental and safety standards can build it cheaper.
I also don't need my fillings to be made in China, but I bet that's where they were made. Out of the reach of the legal system, so they don't have to worry about any pesky legal problems.
Keep outsourcing. Eventually everyone will realize that their food (melamine) , medicine (heparin), or building materials(dry wall) will be poisoning them. It's cool because you get 20% off.
9 servers. 50 million messages a week. Those 9 servers cost maybe $3,000 each. We have 9 servers because we want some redundancy. So let say you multiply that by 7. So you get ~50 machines to handle the army's volume. $150,000. Plus all the extras, so multiply that by 6. That's about a million dollars.
Seriously? From the article they say it would cost $100 million. Do you really think that is going to cost $100 million dollars? Seriously?
Just checked my auth logs and I'm seeing hundreds of various IPs, some of which are connecting up to 20 times. Definitely a new twist. I'll have to do some poking around to see what kind of machines are doing the probing. ( Is it compromised windows boxes?)
My experience with sinusitis definitely confirms this. Every 3 months or so I would come down with another sinus infection. Each time I would goto the doctor and get a prescription for antibiotics. I wasn't asking for antibiotics. I was looking for a solution to the problem. One time the doctor wanted me to switch to a much more expensive antibiotic. Sure enough I ended up getting some nerve damage from the antibiotic. Nothing permanent, but the numbness lingered for over a year.
What the kicker here is that if the doctor had looked at my chart and said, maybe we should take another approach after the 5 or 6th time, the whole situation would have been avoided.
I got a neti pot and I haven't had a sinus infection since, I just use the neti pot whenever I feel my head getting clogged up. $20 dollar solution.
So if I understand the problem correctly, they want to push back the transition date because of confusion & the backlog of coupons that have yet to be sent out.
The coupons aren't being sent out because the program was only allocated a limited amount of money and they've already sent it all out in the form of coupons. They are waiting for current coupons to expire before sending more coupons out. Well, increase funding to send the remaining requested coupons out seems like the most obvious solution to the coupon problem. I bet a majority of them end up expiring anyway, so the program would be able to return that money to congress.
So that leaves the other problem, which is confusion. People are going to be confused no matter what. They will be even more confused when the date moves. Might as well get it over with.
As for myself, I can currently watch TV via an antenna. I doubt I'll be able to after the transition, as I'm pretty far from the broadcast towers.
Seems like once you start jacking up the price of everything on the dollar menu to $3 because all the corn is going to make fuel, what you thought was a great idea (ethanol) looks foolish.
Palm oil = destruction of rain forest ethanol = drives up food prices
I'm sure we can figure something out in the future, but right now this stuff has some pretty nasty side effects.
I believe verizon sold/spun off their paging service to American Messaging. We use still use pagers for notifications.
On the plus side, not only are they reliable, but my pager gives me some serious street cred, Every thinks I'm a drug dealer, or still living in 8th grade.
That sucks. We've got 80,000 mailboxes here running cyrus, no quota. I think management still asks us to tell people we've got 2GB quotas despite the fact we haven't had quotas in 3 or 4 years. The usage pattern has been constant over the last few years, (except for the CS prof who had a 16GB mailbox because he liked to store files in mail). The reason we've been able to not use quotas is because disk is constantly getting cheaper.
We had to put quite a bit of work into cyrus to make it scale to this size reliably, but currently we run it with only 2 FTEs. One of the best features of the system we have is we replicate the data to 2 additional sites, so even if we lose an individual server ( there are 20 in each site) we'll be back online in less than 15 minutes.
I kinda wish all the tricks we have learned would get shared, but I dunno how much has made it back out into the community.
The other place where we save cash is essentially using commodity hardware instead of a SAN.
That said, if we hit a serious bug like that, I bet there would be a push to outsource. We've hit them before with cyrus, but not since any of the alternatives were available.
So is problem with doping is that people are cheating or that people are doing dangerous things?
I think the problem here is that they assume people won't cheat if safe drugs are made legal.
Unless you legalize everything, that doesn't make sense, because the incentive to cheat will still be there. It gives you a competitive advantage even if it makes your skull giant like Barry Bonds and shrinks your nads.
I dunno about the rest of you, but I'm not interested in watching athletes that are doped up. Great example for the kids, because you know that if you allow it at the professional levels, its eventually going to bleed down into high school and junior high sports.
Its hilarious how much effort is put into ranking how healthy people while effort to determine the effectiveness of the treatment is ignored.
Take tracking joint replacements and a database to track the effectiveness.
"Eight years ago, he alerted another implant producer, Sulzer Orthopedics, that patients with one of its hip implants were having such pain they needed replacement surgery almost immediately. Sulzer withdrew the device six months later, but about 3,000 patients got replacements for the implant, which had become contaminated by oil during manufacturing. Sulzer, deluged by lawsuits, threatened to file for bankruptcy protection.
But because of their registry, Swedish doctors were alerted after just 30 patients got the Sulzer hip that it had an alarmingly high replacement rate, Dr. Malchau said."
30,000 - 40,000 for a hip replacement * 3,000 replacements
90,000,000 - 120,000,000 million for defective hips?! Awesome. Good thing we don't have a tracking system.
Given my own problems getting doctors to connect my severe joint pain with cipro, it'd be nice if there was some national database. They don't like to use google to see the connection.
He is accused of lying on his annual Senate financial disclosure reports between 1999 and 2006 â" an indictment that caps a lengthy FBI investigation that has upended Alaska politics and brought unfavorable attention to both Stevens and his congressional colleague, GOP Rep. Don Young. Both are running for re-election this year.
Young, who is under scrutiny for his fundraising practices involving VECO, called Stevens "one of the most effective and honest legislators I have ever worked with."
"He has worked diligently to serve Alaska and has fought to make life better for people in every region of our state," Young said in a statement. "I hope people will not rush to judgment and will let the judicial process work. The process is based on being innocent until proven guilty."
I should also point out that at my family gathering this weekend average blue collar americans don't like his middle name. Like really hate his middle name. They hate George with a passion, but having a middle name of Hussein is something they are having a hard time with. There are a lot more of those than there are people who know what FISA is.
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"Sometimes, however, we canâ(TM)t shut off that light even when we can make the underlying repair."
Are you sure they are making the repair?
Have you never heard of disconnecting the battery? I've found that resets the trouble codes.
I used an audi reader to read the trouble codes off my Ford Escort with 200,000 miles, replaced the faulty sensor, disconnected the battery for 5 minutes. Problem solved.
It pays part of the bill. It was never indexed for inflation, which means that it's horribly underfunded.
Can they restrict the export of the following too? Lead paint(makes kids retarded), melanine(kills cats), drywall(poisons houses), heparin(kills people dead) and keep them for their own internal market?
Or maybe someone could be held accountable.
Seagate ST3500320NS. One batch of 500GB drives were particular horrible. Horrible horrible horrible in terms of failures. I think we are approaching 10% over 1 year. Which is ridiculous.
Our disks are doing read / write operations 24/7. I dunno if that makes a difference.
We've since switched to WD.
How do you replace disks in the chassis? We've got 1,000 spinning disks and we've got a few failures a month. With 45 disks in each unit you are going to have to replace a few consumer grade drives.
It's a trick. Get an axe.
I don't blame the consumer. I blame the people who wrote the trade laws that allow for slave labor to have equal playing field. Those trade laws completely destroy the fundamental American principle of freedom.
I blame the trade laws which basically guarantee that if you build a product in a responsible manner, it's not going to succeed, because the people who ignore environmental and safety standards can build it cheaper.
This is what our factories have to compete with. Plants which poison children.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090820/ap_on_re_as/as_china_lead_poisoning
Laws that protect us from this kind of behavior add costs that push companies to these countries.
Democracy isn't cheap.
I replace my mercury fillings for this?
"BPA is also found in dentistry composites"
I don't need pliability in my fillings.
I also don't need my fillings to be made in China, but I bet that's where they were made. Out of the reach of the legal system, so they don't have to worry about any pesky legal problems.
Keep outsourcing. Eventually everyone will realize that their food (melamine) , medicine (heparin), or building materials(dry wall) will be poisoning them. It's cool because you get 20% off.
9 servers. 50 million messages a week. Those 9 servers cost maybe $3,000 each. We have 9 servers because we want some redundancy. So let say you multiply that by 7. So you get ~50 machines to handle the army's volume. $150,000. Plus all the extras, so multiply that by 6. That's about a million dollars.
Seriously? From the article they say it would cost $100 million. Do you really think that is going to cost $100 million dollars? Seriously?
WTF. I need to become a DoD contractor.
Just checked my auth logs and I'm seeing hundreds of various IPs, some of which are connecting up to 20 times. Definitely a new twist. I'll have to do some poking around to see what kind of machines are doing the probing. ( Is it compromised windows boxes?)
My experience with sinusitis definitely confirms this. Every 3 months or so I would come down with another sinus infection. Each time I would goto the doctor and get a prescription for antibiotics. I wasn't asking for antibiotics. I was looking for a solution to the problem. One time the doctor wanted me to switch to a much more expensive antibiotic. Sure enough I ended up getting some nerve damage from the antibiotic. Nothing permanent, but the numbness lingered for over a year.
What the kicker here is that if the doctor had looked at my chart and said, maybe we should take another approach after the 5 or 6th time, the whole situation would have been avoided.
I got a neti pot and I haven't had a sinus infection since, I just use the neti pot whenever I feel my head getting clogged up. $20 dollar solution.
I thought being a geek was chic at the moment. They want to move away from being cool because..... of brilliant marketing ideas?
Smart move there.
So if I understand the problem correctly, they want to push back the transition date because of confusion & the backlog of coupons that have yet to be sent out.
The coupons aren't being sent out because the program was only allocated a limited amount of money and they've already sent it all out in the form of coupons. They are waiting for current coupons to expire before sending more coupons out. Well, increase funding to send the remaining requested coupons out seems like the most obvious solution to the coupon problem. I bet a majority of them end up expiring anyway, so the program would be able to return that money to congress.
So that leaves the other problem, which is confusion. People are going to be confused no matter what. They will be even more confused when the date moves. Might as well get it over with.
As for myself, I can currently watch TV via an antenna. I doubt I'll be able to after the transition, as I'm pretty far from the broadcast towers.
Still? Were they ever economically feasible?
Seems like once you start jacking up the price of everything on the dollar menu to $3 because all the corn is going to make fuel, what you thought was a great idea (ethanol) looks foolish.
Palm oil = destruction of rain forest
ethanol = drives up food prices
I'm sure we can figure something out in the future, but right now this stuff has some pretty nasty side effects.
More like 7.4 trillion last I looked, so its more like $24,000 per person.
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/12/more-bailout-comparisons/
Personally I'd like to see the banks give an as detailed presentation to congress as the auto industry is today.
http://www.americanmessaging.net/paging/index.asp
I believe verizon sold/spun off their paging service to American Messaging. We use still use pagers for notifications.
On the plus side, not only are they reliable, but my pager gives me some serious street cred, Every thinks I'm a drug dealer, or still living in 8th grade.
That sucks. We've got 80,000 mailboxes here running cyrus, no quota. I think management still asks us to tell people we've got 2GB quotas despite the fact we haven't had quotas in 3 or 4 years. The usage pattern has been constant over the last few years, (except for the CS prof who had a 16GB mailbox because he liked to store files in mail). The reason we've been able to not use quotas is because disk is constantly getting cheaper.
We had to put quite a bit of work into cyrus to make it scale to this size reliably, but currently we run it with only 2 FTEs. One of the best features of the system we have is we replicate the data to 2 additional sites, so even if we lose an individual server ( there are 20 in each site) we'll be back online in less than 15 minutes.
I kinda wish all the tricks we have learned would get shared, but I dunno how much has made it back out into the community.
The other place where we save cash is essentially using commodity hardware instead of a SAN.
That said, if we hit a serious bug like that, I bet there would be a push to outsource. We've hit them before with cyrus, but not since any of the alternatives were available.
So is problem with doping is that people are cheating or that people are doing dangerous things?
I think the problem here is that they assume people won't cheat if safe drugs are made legal.
Unless you legalize everything, that doesn't make sense, because the incentive to cheat will still be there. It gives you a competitive advantage even if it makes your skull giant like Barry Bonds and shrinks your nads.
I dunno about the rest of you, but I'm not interested in watching athletes that are doped up. Great example for the kids, because you know that if you allow it at the professional levels, its eventually going to bleed down into high school and junior high sports.
Its hilarious how much effort is put into ranking how healthy people while effort to determine the effectiveness of the treatment is ignored.
Take tracking joint replacements and a database to track the effectiveness.
"Eight years ago, he alerted another implant producer, Sulzer Orthopedics, that patients with one of its hip implants were having such pain they needed replacement surgery almost immediately. Sulzer withdrew the device six months later, but about 3,000 patients got replacements for the implant, which had become contaminated by oil during manufacturing. Sulzer, deluged by lawsuits, threatened to file for bankruptcy protection.
But because of their registry, Swedish doctors were alerted after just 30 patients got the Sulzer hip that it had an alarmingly high replacement rate, Dr. Malchau said."
30,000 - 40,000 for a hip replacement * 3,000 replacements
90,000,000 - 120,000,000 million for defective hips?! Awesome. Good thing we don't have a tracking system.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/business/29hip.html?em&ex=1217649600&en=71b09c9571a2af01&ei=5087%0A
Given my own problems getting doctors to connect my severe joint pain with cipro, it'd be nice if there was some national database. They don't like to use google to see the connection.
http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=joint+pain+cipro&btnG=Google+Search
He is accused of lying on his annual Senate financial disclosure reports between 1999 and 2006 â" an indictment that caps a lengthy FBI investigation that has upended Alaska politics and brought unfavorable attention to both Stevens and his congressional colleague, GOP Rep. Don Young. Both are running for re-election this year.
Young, who is under scrutiny for his fundraising practices involving VECO, called Stevens "one of the most effective and honest legislators I have ever worked with."
"He has worked diligently to serve Alaska and has fought to make life better for people in every region of our state," Young said in a statement. "I hope people will not rush to judgment and will let the judicial process work. The process is based on being innocent until proven guilty."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080729/ap_on_go_co/stevens_indictment
This Young guy is pretty hilarious.
alfred worked for the burmese government?!!
seriously wtf.
( ok they were a democracy between 1948 and 1962, still...)
Wait a second!??????????1!!
Did you read TFA and understand what was going on?!!!!
SHAME ON YOU!
Don't you know this is slashdot?
I should also point out that at my family gathering this weekend average blue collar americans don't like his middle name. Like really hate his middle name. They hate George with a passion, but having a middle name of Hussein is something they are having a hard time with. There are a lot more of those than there are people who know what FISA is.
John McCain.
Three supreme court nominees.
Just think about that.