Find me a Best Buy in North America that actually has a Wii on it's shelves. There are 5+ Best Buys with a dozen miles; none of them have had any Wii's on the shelves for a long time (since before Christmas.)
Best Buy (et.al) tend to push open-box, and returns to eBay because they can get near retail or better prices for them. If they put them in the store, they have to mark them down. (I've seen very few open items on the shelves around here in several years.)
And this means what? Absoluting, f'ing, NOTHING AT ALL. I long ago stopped counting the number of times sellers have sold shit on eBay they didn't have. (One might assume they never had it in the first place.) The seller still pays the listing and final sales fees, so eBay never gives a damn about this "violation".
Have you seen buy.scum's website recently? If I wanted to do business with them (which will NEVER EVER happen), I'd run screaming from their horrible website to eBay with cash in hand. For God sake, they have google text ads all over their listings. (in violation of Goggle Ads policies, I might add.)
That all fine if people are bidding what they genuinely want to pay for something. It doesn't work when people intentionally outbid each other well beyond their intended limit. Sniping works because you can see what the current highest bid is and will outbid it. I've done the snipe a few times, but it's usually due to my returning to a computer late. The times I've done so intentionally was where I know people will constantly resubmit their bid to outbid me.
eBay is(was) a useful thing, but it's been increasingly annoying for many years... an ever growing den of theives.
Except this is exactly the sort of shit that's ruining everything. eBay has had "stores" for many years. Yet, now, these STORES are allowed to list their entire f'ing inventory as AUCTIONS. If the only option is "Buy It Now(tm)", then it's not a damned auction. If you're listing your store inventory on eBay and continuing to see the same item in your actual store, then it's not an auction. How much shit has been "sold" on eBay that the seller didn't even have? I've grown tired of counting.
Now we have buy.scum polluting the place with a half million auctions. They, apparently, have been a member since '02, however, yesturday was the first time the filthy little [censored] have ever shown up in any of my searches. Now, they show up everywhere. And there's NO WAY AT ALL to filter this shit out. (I hate Buy.Scum with the fire out a thousand suns. They are, hands down, the most incompetent, inconsiderate, unprofessional [censored] on Earth, possibly in the entire universe.)
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Funny. I remember that comment... and others like it. The more time spent working with oddball hardware, the more you feel like someone is screwing you with a chainsaw.
The AC adapters they've bundled in recent years are smaller than a deck of cards, yet I'm supposed to believe that they can put out 3 amps of current at 5VDC indefinitely?
Yes and no. Yes, a power supply the size of 2 US quarters can (and does) generate stable 5VDC@3A forever provided you never exceed specs (lightning, bath tubs, overheating, etc.) However, these things cost more than the pennies cheap hardware makers are willing to put into the process. They go as cheap as possible... huge coil of chinese wire (read: transformer), a diode, capacitor, and regulator (ala 7805) (if it's a "good" one.) [Note: most cheap hardware has the regulator in the unit, not the wall-wart.] [Note 2: USR/3com is even cheaper... the wall-wart is 100% transformer. It turns 120AC into 20AC.]
The conversation is what makes the cellphone dangerous while driving (there have been studies, including the pseudo-scientific Myth Busters.) The conversations people have via phone tend to be more involving than those with passengers. And passengers are aware of what's going on around the car; the person(s) on the other end of the phone may not even be aware you're in a car at all -- they almost certainly don't know what's going on around you. Bottomline... passengers can yell and point "RED LIGHT"; the person on the phone only hears the crash.
With high fuel prices people are dumping their SUVs.
Not really. Sales are down near zero, but people are still driving the damned things.
I almost believe that maybe there should be a law against talking on a cellphone without a hands free set while driving.
In many places, there are. But they don't do any good if a) no one knows about them, b) no one is enforcing them, and c) no one bothers to obey them. People speed all the time; so what makes you think an "anti-cellphone" law will be any different?
Well, that's always going to be a bit of voodoo. There's no way to tell how much traffic is going to cross a connection at the time it's setup, which is when it gets bound to a specific link.
The weight of each path will control how often it's selected. By default 1:1, or equal cost, means connections will be evenly distributed across all paths. Please note the use of the word connections. Despite this, for most cases, on average, it does tend to evenly utilize the bandwidth of all links. (be that my normal daily use, all the way up to an entire dorm of college kids.)
Even in metro areas, there isn't much choice. Cable vs. DSL is still basically it... from your monopoly cable company or monopoly phone company. There are fringe alternatives like cellular data (sprint/nextel, verizon, at&t), but they tend to be available where ever there's cell coverage, and it's both expensive and slow. Clearwire has some coverage in Raleigh, NC, but it's still slower than the Big Two, and more expensive. If I were in Durham, I'd have FiOS -- but I'm 12 miles too far east.
We USED to have some competition in the DSL market, but access to the last mile (read: Bellsouth's greed) killed pretty much all of them. Today, Covad still runs a few DSLAMs, but I don't think they have any in NC anymore. BTI (ITC^Deltacom) may still have DSLAMs around, but they were business priced to begin with (SDSL and IDSL.) Bellsouth makes it very expensive to put equipment in their COs -- by law they're required to allow it, but it's otherwise unregulated. And there's no such requirement for "remote offices".
There are several places in NC where you cannot get a T1. There's no facilities to get it to you unless you want to pay to have them installed -- for that price, you can build a microwave tower (as some have.) In the apartment I used to live in, they'd have trouble getting a T1 in there. Back in '97 when I ordered ISDN, they had to trench 4 miles of cable to do it. And that's in the middle of Raleigh, NC.
(Note: they'd have no trouble doing it today as that pad has had fiber running through it for at least a few years -- they saw the value of selling DSL to 800+ apartments AFTER everyone had a cable modem.)
I don't know. Go ask an apple fanboy. It's based on BSD, so it shouldn't be out of the question, but like linux 2.4, it might take some measure of work.
Most power companies in the US keep up with limb removal. Esp. for distribution lines. However, telco's never even look at it. ("It's the power company's job.") Lightening can destroy anything... on a pole or in the ground, even fiber can be damanged by strikes if it's near enough to the bundle. (glass melts, people.)
Negative. Linux can do this in practice. Without complicated patches or hacks. Failover is a bit tricky since the physical link rarely drops when using an external modem (be that cable modem, dsl modem, etc.) But in most cases, DHCP/PPPoE failure is Good Enough(tm). Inbound load balancing is, and always has been, voodoo; you have very little control over how people get to you. Outbound load balancing has been a simple multipath default route for many years. (How long has 2.6 been around?)
(I used to sell linux based LB's. I don't anymore because it hasn't taken any real work for many years; any untrained monkey can build a linux LB these days. Many distro's can set this stuff up out of the box.)
That hasn't been true for +/- a decade. However, it does mean installation MUST be done by a professional as the dish is a rather powerful microwave transmitter requiring far more precise aiming than most people can handle. (plus, only they know exactly where to point it. there are several sats used for various internet via sat services.)
Engineer? Not that I know of, but I trust his 25 years of experience. It's not necessarily the steel you need be worried about. It's the concentration of force at the floor supports -- which is a 1" box steel with a nut and bolt level adjuster up to the rail plate; the ~35lb steel/cement floor tiles sit on the rails. We're on the 3rd floor. The base floor is ~1ft cement poured over a steel deck on pretty beefy steel I-beams. (I'd measure them, but I don't have a 20ft a-frame ladder.)
I have a raised floor for the sole purpose of air flow. 2800cfm with minimal obstructions.
Negative. I asked the guy who installed the floor. Before it was installed. The concrete floor under it might not be rated to the load the raised floor creates, but that's not my problem -- it's the engineer's license who signed the plans.
Oh yes! Carpet in a server room. I wouldn't even put "NSA carpet" in there -- it has conductive filaments to ground out any EMI.
I had the same several month long arguements in planning our new office. It's expensive. We cannot raise the ceiling (the building HVAC systems are in the plenum.) Do we really need 5ton air handlers. Do we have to have 2 of them. etc. etc. Well, my 12" floor became a 10" floor -- a compromise to make the ramp 2ft shorter, and 2 Lieberts became one because no one listened to my original specs and the landlords wouldn't buy the second one. (those things are expen$ive.)
Btw, that single point of failure failed within *4* months requiring basically the entire office to be shutdown all day to get it fixed. It was over 100F in there in less than an hour.
I have ~3000lb racks on a raised floor. If your floor is built correctly, it will hold the weight of a fully loaded rack. (and yes, it deforms the vinyl covering on the floor tiles. That's why those tiles are bolted down.)
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... and there are people who intentionally avoid Buy.scum. Suddenly seeing their 500k+ "auctions" littering every corner of the place is revolting.
Find me a Best Buy in North America that actually has a Wii on it's shelves. There are 5+ Best Buys with a dozen miles; none of them have had any Wii's on the shelves for a long time (since before Christmas.)
Best Buy (et.al) tend to push open-box, and returns to eBay because they can get near retail or better prices for them. If they put them in the store, they have to mark them down. (I've seen very few open items on the shelves around here in several years.)
And this means what? Absoluting, f'ing, NOTHING AT ALL. I long ago stopped counting the number of times sellers have sold shit on eBay they didn't have. (One might assume they never had it in the first place.) The seller still pays the listing and final sales fees, so eBay never gives a damn about this "violation".
Have you seen buy.scum's website recently? If I wanted to do business with them (which will NEVER EVER happen), I'd run screaming from their horrible website to eBay with cash in hand. For God sake, they have google text ads all over their listings. (in violation of Goggle Ads policies, I might add.)
patents + lawyers (stupid as all hell, but that stops a lot of good ideas.)
That all fine if people are bidding what they genuinely want to pay for something. It doesn't work when people intentionally outbid each other well beyond their intended limit. Sniping works because you can see what the current highest bid is and will outbid it. I've done the snipe a few times, but it's usually due to my returning to a computer late. The times I've done so intentionally was where I know people will constantly resubmit their bid to outbid me.
eBay is(was) a useful thing, but it's been increasingly annoying for many years... an ever growing den of theives.
Except this is exactly the sort of shit that's ruining everything. eBay has had "stores" for many years. Yet, now, these STORES are allowed to list their entire f'ing inventory as AUCTIONS. If the only option is "Buy It Now(tm)", then it's not a damned auction. If you're listing your store inventory on eBay and continuing to see the same item in your actual store, then it's not an auction. How much shit has been "sold" on eBay that the seller didn't even have? I've grown tired of counting.
Now we have buy.scum polluting the place with a half million auctions. They, apparently, have been a member since '02, however, yesturday was the first time the filthy little [censored] have ever shown up in any of my searches. Now, they show up everywhere. And there's NO WAY AT ALL to filter this shit out. (I hate Buy.Scum with the fire out a thousand suns. They are, hands down, the most incompetent, inconsiderate, unprofessional [censored] on Earth, possibly in the entire universe.)
Funny. I remember that comment... and others like it. The more time spent working with oddball hardware, the more you feel like someone is screwing you with a chainsaw.
Yes and no. Yes, a power supply the size of 2 US quarters can (and does) generate stable 5VDC@3A forever provided you never exceed specs (lightning, bath tubs, overheating, etc.) However, these things cost more than the pennies cheap hardware makers are willing to put into the process. They go as cheap as possible... huge coil of chinese wire (read: transformer), a diode, capacitor, and regulator (ala 7805) (if it's a "good" one.) [Note: most cheap hardware has the regulator in the unit, not the wall-wart.] [Note 2: USR/3com is even cheaper... the wall-wart is 100% transformer. It turns 120AC into 20AC.]
The conversation is what makes the cellphone dangerous while driving (there have been studies, including the pseudo-scientific Myth Busters.) The conversations people have via phone tend to be more involving than those with passengers. And passengers are aware of what's going on around the car; the person(s) on the other end of the phone may not even be aware you're in a car at all -- they almost certainly don't know what's going on around you. Bottomline... passengers can yell and point "RED LIGHT"; the person on the phone only hears the crash.
Not really. Sales are down near zero, but people are still driving the damned things.
In many places, there are. But they don't do any good if a) no one knows about them, b) no one is enforcing them, and c) no one bothers to obey them. People speed all the time; so what makes you think an "anti-cellphone" law will be any different?
Well, that's always going to be a bit of voodoo. There's no way to tell how much traffic is going to cross a connection at the time it's setup, which is when it gets bound to a specific link.
The weight of each path will control how often it's selected. By default 1:1, or equal cost, means connections will be evenly distributed across all paths. Please note the use of the word connections. Despite this, for most cases, on average, it does tend to evenly utilize the bandwidth of all links. (be that my normal daily use, all the way up to an entire dorm of college kids.)
Even in metro areas, there isn't much choice. Cable vs. DSL is still basically it... from your monopoly cable company or monopoly phone company. There are fringe alternatives like cellular data (sprint/nextel, verizon, at&t), but they tend to be available where ever there's cell coverage, and it's both expensive and slow. Clearwire has some coverage in Raleigh, NC, but it's still slower than the Big Two, and more expensive. If I were in Durham, I'd have FiOS -- but I'm 12 miles too far east.
We USED to have some competition in the DSL market, but access to the last mile (read: Bellsouth's greed) killed pretty much all of them. Today, Covad still runs a few DSLAMs, but I don't think they have any in NC anymore. BTI (ITC^Deltacom) may still have DSLAMs around, but they were business priced to begin with (SDSL and IDSL.) Bellsouth makes it very expensive to put equipment in their COs -- by law they're required to allow it, but it's otherwise unregulated. And there's no such requirement for "remote offices".
Indeed... cable modem/dsl: $50/month (or less), free install, free equipment. T1: $500-700/month, $$$$ install, $$$$ equipment.
There are several places in NC where you cannot get a T1. There's no facilities to get it to you unless you want to pay to have them installed -- for that price, you can build a microwave tower (as some have.) In the apartment I used to live in, they'd have trouble getting a T1 in there. Back in '97 when I ordered ISDN, they had to trench 4 miles of cable to do it. And that's in the middle of Raleigh, NC.
(Note: they'd have no trouble doing it today as that pad has had fiber running through it for at least a few years -- they saw the value of selling DSL to 800+ apartments AFTER everyone had a cable modem.)
I don't know. Go ask an apple fanboy. It's based on BSD, so it shouldn't be out of the question, but like linux 2.4, it might take some measure of work.
No moron. "more or less a decade"
Most power companies in the US keep up with limb removal. Esp. for distribution lines. However, telco's never even look at it. ("It's the power company's job.") Lightening can destroy anything... on a pole or in the ground, even fiber can be damanged by strikes if it's near enough to the bundle. (glass melts, people.)
Negative. Linux can do this in practice. Without complicated patches or hacks. Failover is a bit tricky since the physical link rarely drops when using an external modem (be that cable modem, dsl modem, etc.) But in most cases, DHCP/PPPoE failure is Good Enough(tm). Inbound load balancing is, and always has been, voodoo; you have very little control over how people get to you. Outbound load balancing has been a simple multipath default route for many years. (How long has 2.6 been around?)
(I used to sell linux based LB's. I don't anymore because it hasn't taken any real work for many years; any untrained monkey can build a linux LB these days. Many distro's can set this stuff up out of the box.)
That hasn't been true for +/- a decade. However, it does mean installation MUST be done by a professional as the dish is a rather powerful microwave transmitter requiring far more precise aiming than most people can handle. (plus, only they know exactly where to point it. there are several sats used for various internet via sat services.)
Engineer? Not that I know of, but I trust his 25 years of experience. It's not necessarily the steel you need be worried about. It's the concentration of force at the floor supports -- which is a 1" box steel with a nut and bolt level adjuster up to the rail plate; the ~35lb steel/cement floor tiles sit on the rails. We're on the 3rd floor. The base floor is ~1ft cement poured over a steel deck on pretty beefy steel I-beams. (I'd measure them, but I don't have a 20ft a-frame ladder.)
I have a raised floor for the sole purpose of air flow. 2800cfm with minimal obstructions.
Negative. I asked the guy who installed the floor. Before it was installed. The concrete floor under it might not be rated to the load the raised floor creates, but that's not my problem -- it's the engineer's license who signed the plans.
Oh yes! Carpet in a server room. I wouldn't even put "NSA carpet" in there -- it has conductive filaments to ground out any EMI.
I had the same several month long arguements in planning our new office. It's expensive. We cannot raise the ceiling (the building HVAC systems are in the plenum.) Do we really need 5ton air handlers. Do we have to have 2 of them. etc. etc. Well, my 12" floor became a 10" floor -- a compromise to make the ramp 2ft shorter, and 2 Lieberts became one because no one listened to my original specs and the landlords wouldn't buy the second one. (those things are expen$ive.)
Btw, that single point of failure failed within *4* months requiring basically the entire office to be shutdown all day to get it fixed. It was over 100F in there in less than an hour.
Like this... http://pics.cheggit.nl/pics/2008/06/17/753-1datacenter.jpg (cut-n-paste or turn off referers)
I have ~3000lb racks on a raised floor. If your floor is built correctly, it will hold the weight of a fully loaded rack. (and yes, it deforms the vinyl covering on the floor tiles. That's why those tiles are bolted down.)