What's really interesting is that they aren't using a western ISA either, this is a Chinese developed one that is not compatible with x86 or ARM etc. It seems to have been developed from scratch and it's not entirely clear what software supports it, but it's exciting because apparently the performance is excellent and anything that is not x86/ARM is interesting.
Companies like Intel and AMD actually do have their own domestic fabs. It's one reason AMD has had such a hard time keeping up with Intel - these facilities literally cost billions.
Anything related to installation and connectivity would be handled by the municipality. Those are the people who operate the outside plant. Just like if you buy telephone service from an CLEC and if you have problems they dispatch the ILEC.
Sending e-mail? Sure, if you wanted to also offer e-mail services. Not a requirement. For that matter, who uses ISP email these days? I can count on one hand the number of @isp email addresses I've seen in the last decade.
For another option the Model 3 would be $28k with the same credit and have around twice the range (200 vs 100) if you can wait until 2017. Remember the federal tax credit is phased out after 200,000 vehicles.
Tech support for what? They don't manage the outside plant. That's all handled by the municipality. Basically anyone can come along and buy bandwidth from a Tier 1/2 provider, interconnect into the city MAN and "become an ISP". All they would do is handle the sales/billing services and the one or two interconnects to the upstream providers.
Unfortunately about 9/10 CCNA and CCNP are just cheating on the tests. It's seriously devalued it. There are entire websites devoted to "brain dumps" and other things to cheat on the lower end exams. As a hiring manager I don't even take them seriously anymore, which is sad, because as someone who's read BCMSN and BSCI the people who really are CCNP level candidates are some sharp guys (i'm not one of them). CCIE however is much more difficult to cheat on.
Consider that CCIE typically is only needed in major metro areas so there is a cost of living adjustment to consider as well. $200k in New York City is equivalent to just over $100k where I live. A surgeon in the US, depending on specialty, can easily make 4-5x as much as a CCIE, if not considerably more. The average salary for an ortho surgeon in the US is around $500k/year.
That description of the exam is more or less correct. Also worth pointing out that it's two parts. The first part is a written exam and you have to pass that before you can attempt the lab. You can read more about it here. That's specifically for the Routing and Switching exam (there are currently six different CCIE certifications). You have 18 months from passing the written to pass the lab. The lab itself is broken down into: "[...] a 2 hour Troubleshooting section, a 30 minute Diagnostic section, and a 5 hour and 30 minute Configuration section."
My instructor said he knew a guy (don't they all?) who had a CCIE and worked as an independent contractor making six figures for about six months of work a year.
It's easily possible to make six figures for six months of work, especially if this is gov contract work overseas or in other remote specialized environments.
In what world is Windows behind Android on a tablet for "serious content creation" ? What Android tablets have anything approaching a "professional-grade digitizer" ?
So YOU'RE specifically referring to high end Android tablets? Samsung tried higher end business tablets and it was a disaster. The Android tablet ecosystem is horrible. The only chick and egg problem is that no one will buy an Android tablet because of the horrible state of Android tablet apps, and no one will build Android tablet apps because, well, Android tablets are cheap garbage.
. I know I'm so not the typical consumer, but then most people don't know what they are missing either.
What are they missing? Lugging around an old, mediocre tablet or using a terrible flip phone? As someone who has a smartphone, tablet and laptop (all with integrated 4G) I think you're the one who doesn't know what he's missing.
I don't think anyone will find my KeePass database (spoiler:/usr/lib64/libxmlrpc.so.2.19) and then somehow guess my sentence length, multiple word password with special characters and numbers.
I'll take that over reusing passwords or constantly forgetting them all the time.
Samsung already made a 15TB SSD so the demand is presumably there, at least in the enterprise space. Really makes you wonder how much longer spinning disks will be around. 10 years? 20? If Moore's law keeps up, in 20 years we'd have another 13 iterations of Moore's law (lets pretends its not dead now, or by then).
You can get a 1TB SSD for $255 (or less) today from several real name brand manufacturers. That means after 13 iterations of doubling transistor density, we'd have 8,192TB SSD (someone double check my math please). I'm sure there are lots of other issues, like how can we really have that many die shrinks and heat and a million other factors, but I seriously doubt we'll see HDD competing for anything near 20 more years.
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What's really interesting is that they aren't using a western ISA either, this is a Chinese developed one that is not compatible with x86 or ARM etc. It seems to have been developed from scratch and it's not entirely clear what software supports it, but it's exciting because apparently the performance is excellent and anything that is not x86/ARM is interesting.
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But...but...but..Aren't the Chinese supposed to be just imitators?
And you think their CPU design built on copied DEC Alpha ISA proves otherwise?
What's really interesting is that they aren't using a western ISA either, this is a Chinese developed one that is not compatible with x86 or ARM etc
It's based on DEC Alpha.
Companies like Intel and AMD actually do have their own domestic fabs. It's one reason AMD has had such a hard time keeping up with Intel - these facilities literally cost billions.
AMD has been fabless since 2009.
So you want to drug test people before TAKING their money and they think that's the same as drug testing someone before you GIVE them OUR money?
Anything related to installation and connectivity would be handled by the municipality. Those are the people who operate the outside plant. Just like if you buy telephone service from an CLEC and if you have problems they dispatch the ILEC.
Sending e-mail? Sure, if you wanted to also offer e-mail services. Not a requirement. For that matter, who uses ISP email these days? I can count on one hand the number of @isp email addresses I've seen in the last decade.
Why would you think the "ISP" would do repairs on the infrastructure owned by the city? Who would be responsible for a pole shared by 10 ISPs?
For another option the Model 3 would be $28k with the same credit and have around twice the range (200 vs 100) if you can wait until 2017. Remember the federal tax credit is phased out after 200,000 vehicles.
Tech support for what? They don't manage the outside plant. That's all handled by the municipality. Basically anyone can come along and buy bandwidth from a Tier 1/2 provider, interconnect into the city MAN and "become an ISP". All they would do is handle the sales/billing services and the one or two interconnects to the upstream providers.
Unfortunately about 9/10 CCNA and CCNP are just cheating on the tests. It's seriously devalued it. There are entire websites devoted to "brain dumps" and other things to cheat on the lower end exams. As a hiring manager I don't even take them seriously anymore, which is sad, because as someone who's read BCMSN and BSCI the people who really are CCNP level candidates are some sharp guys (i'm not one of them). CCIE however is much more difficult to cheat on.
Why do they pay you so much for such easy work?
LOL! "Easy work". Good one.
Consider that CCIE typically is only needed in major metro areas so there is a cost of living adjustment to consider as well. $200k in New York City is equivalent to just over $100k where I live. A surgeon in the US, depending on specialty, can easily make 4-5x as much as a CCIE, if not considerably more. The average salary for an ortho surgeon in the US is around $500k/year.
My instructor said he knew a guy (don't they all?) who had a CCIE and worked as an independent contractor making six figures for about six months of work a year.
It's easily possible to make six figures for six months of work, especially if this is gov contract work overseas or in other remote specialized environments.
CCIE jobs typically start at $250K.
No they don't.
In what world is Windows behind Android on a tablet for "serious content creation" ? What Android tablets have anything approaching a "professional-grade digitizer" ?
Windows doesn't count, for a number of reasons.
Original post doesn't specify an operating system, and you can run Linux on Surface tablets. There's an entire subreddit devoted to the practice.
So YOU'RE specifically referring to high end Android tablets? Samsung tried higher end business tablets and it was a disaster. The Android tablet ecosystem is horrible. The only chick and egg problem is that no one will buy an Android tablet because of the horrible state of Android tablet apps, and no one will build Android tablet apps because, well, Android tablets are cheap garbage.
Why not just buy/build some docks for them that keep them charged? Something like this.
Why does everyone keep saying there aren't high end tablets? You can get a Surface Pro 4 with 16GB of RAM, 256GB SSD and an i7.
. I know I'm so not the typical consumer, but then most people don't know what they are missing either.
What are they missing? Lugging around an old, mediocre tablet or using a terrible flip phone? As someone who has a smartphone, tablet and laptop (all with integrated 4G) I think you're the one who doesn't know what he's missing.
Take your pick of 2-in-1 devices. Surface Pro, Lenovo Miix 700, Acer Transformer, etc.
Great example of a logical fallacy.
Basically the same policy we have with secure government networks in the US?
Why not both? Pinning all your hopes on building some utopian system without loopholes seems pretty unreasonable, too.
I don't think anyone will find my KeePass database (spoiler: /usr/lib64/libxmlrpc.so.2.19) and then somehow guess my sentence length, multiple word password with special characters and numbers.
I'll take that over reusing passwords or constantly forgetting them all the time.
Samsung already made a 15TB SSD so the demand is presumably there, at least in the enterprise space. Really makes you wonder how much longer spinning disks will be around. 10 years? 20? If Moore's law keeps up, in 20 years we'd have another 13 iterations of Moore's law (lets pretends its not dead now, or by then).
You can get a 1TB SSD for $255 (or less) today from several real name brand manufacturers. That means after 13 iterations of doubling transistor density, we'd have 8,192TB SSD (someone double check my math please). I'm sure there are lots of other issues, like how can we really have that many die shrinks and heat and a million other factors, but I seriously doubt we'll see HDD competing for anything near 20 more years.