The people responsible for specifying the environmental constraints for the asphalt mixture messed up. Plain and simple.
Polymer reinforced bitumen binder can be made to wildly varying environmental specs to make sure that this sort of thing does not happen.
The problem is not the distance but the fuel required to cover that distance. My diesel family car takes >10s to get to 62mph but delivers 45 mpg in real world driving. It is an average size family car (Peugeot 308SW). An average size family car in the US will be much quicker (which is useless while commuting) and will be much less economical because of it.
A SPOC is never a good idea. So putting everything on one SAN isn't either. Why would you purposely introduce so much fragmentation in your data when you could just build a proper SAN environment which had high availability built in?
Use tools like Webex/GoToMeeting/OCS where you can have an integrated A/V meeting and use local telco numbers to control costs. Be aware about the telco plan of the vendor (included or not and at what cost per minute). Webex used to charge for the telco minutes but I don't know what they do these days. GoToMeeting is free as far as I know but check to make sure.
Set up a collaboration environment like BaseCamp (if it's for Project Management) or MS Team Studio, Atlassian JIRA/Confluence if it's for development work.
If possible implement a way to easily work on documents together (either in-house or externally with something like Google Docs/Office 365 depending on what's allowed by company security policy).
Heavily promote the use of these tools and train people in effectively using them. Some people have difficulty starting up with these tools and end up not using them to initiate anything.
Doing your due diligence as an attorney could also mean backchecking this with Blizzard first and *then* firing off the C&D if it is still wanted.
I'm sure Legal would have the means to check this quickly with someone like Pardo or Metzen or even Morhaime.
Blizzard first gets you intimidated by their figurative muscle, before the Don walks up to you, making you an offer you can't refuse?
Basically Activision Legal fires off the first shot before people with real brains realize the potential for something like this.
The people with the brains probably did not know this existed before the C&D became news.
I was recently in an office building where the elevators had no buttons at all. In front of the elevator was a keypad where you typed which floor you needed to go to, the system assigned you an elevator and you could only get on and be delivered to your earlier chosen floor.
Slight difference: when locomotive driver fails the deadman's switch kicks in and the train stops. Or in an extreme case: part of the tracks are powered down so the train will cruise to a halt.
There 's no deadman's switch in a plane and where would it go if it did? Trains are riding on terra firma. Plane's will crash either way.
Same with the discussion about bus drivers. Bus driver fails --> passenger takes over --> stops bus in controlled fashion. Pilot fails --> passenger has 0 skills --> plane goes down.
They probably still don't mind just as long as the host doesn't start a commercial business out of it.
And in this case, whichever way you look at it, $ 3 million is well beyond the "hobby" stage.
You have got to be kidding me. Any decent storage system can do synchronous offsite data replication nowadays and for cemetary data I'm guessing the I/O requirement is pretty low.......
Add a decent tape library at both ends with secure storage in some DoD extra secure vault somewhere (hell, put it at NORAD for all I care) and you're done.
First order of business for them is to get an electronic backup of the physical records which can be done in frigging Excel 2010 if need be. Then start thinking about fancy features like GPS tagging etc. And those features are not even reaching the boundaries of current IT capabilities either.
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Wow, tethering. Been doing that with my Windows Mobile 6 phone for two years now. That may be considered dancing with the devil but actually it is one of the things that on WM6 actually works, works very well and right out of the box.
Speeds on Vodafone have been great too.
Yes, because those CPU's are now running 100% load all the time. So no speedstepping down to a couple of hundred Mhz and saving power that way (which can be a lot).
Plus he probably left them running 24x7.
And all sorts of business critical applications that use unscalable texts in the UI.
Now you can blame the application for not scaling but usually just buying a bigger screen for the user is a lot cheaper than having the application fixed (if it is even fixable at all).
rather than the battle-tested pilot sitting up front
Yeah right, been watching Aircrash Investigations lately? How many crashes are from pilot error like the one near Amsterdam where not two but three of those "battle tested" pilots plowed their plane into the ground because one (of five!) altimeters was broken.
These guys do it a little different. They were on Discovery Channel's "Stunt Junkies" show. Couldn't find video from that show but here's another one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ7zbta79vo
Sure, but when they come around one year later the guy reviewing your licenses has nothing to do with the guy who sold them to you.
He doesn't even report to the same manager.
Yadda yadda, if Oracle doesn't fix it's own licensing policy than they still will be looking to take you hard for database licenses. They don't recognize software partitioning as a valid means of buying less licenses than there are CPU's in the physical box and when you run VMware in a cluster they want you to license your whole cluster.
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The people responsible for specifying the environmental constraints for the asphalt mixture messed up. Plain and simple. Polymer reinforced bitumen binder can be made to wildly varying environmental specs to make sure that this sort of thing does not happen.
The problem is not the distance but the fuel required to cover that distance. My diesel family car takes >10s to get to 62mph but delivers 45 mpg in real world driving. It is an average size family car (Peugeot 308SW). An average size family car in the US will be much quicker (which is useless while commuting) and will be much less economical because of it.
A SPOC is never a good idea. So putting everything on one SAN isn't either. Why would you purposely introduce so much fragmentation in your data when you could just build a proper SAN environment which had high availability built in?
So how is this tech news?
Use tools like Webex/GoToMeeting/OCS where you can have an integrated A/V meeting and use local telco numbers to control costs. Be aware about the telco plan of the vendor (included or not and at what cost per minute). Webex used to charge for the telco minutes but I don't know what they do these days. GoToMeeting is free as far as I know but check to make sure.
Set up a collaboration environment like BaseCamp (if it's for Project Management) or MS Team Studio, Atlassian JIRA/Confluence if it's for development work.
If possible implement a way to easily work on documents together (either in-house or externally with something like Google Docs/Office 365 depending on what's allowed by company security policy).
Heavily promote the use of these tools and train people in effectively using them. Some people have difficulty starting up with these tools and end up not using them to initiate anything.
Doing your due diligence as an attorney could also mean backchecking this with Blizzard first and *then* firing off the C&D if it is still wanted. I'm sure Legal would have the means to check this quickly with someone like Pardo or Metzen or even Morhaime.
Blizzard first gets you intimidated by their figurative muscle, before the Don walks up to you, making you an offer you can't refuse?
Basically Activision Legal fires off the first shot before people with real brains realize the potential for something like this. The people with the brains probably did not know this existed before the C&D became news.
Not if he had 1.21 Gigawatts first.
It's Symmetric 100Mbps over Cable. And a sizeable number already have 100Mbps (like with UPC Fiber) but that still is asymmetric. Yes that is news.
This was a ThyssenKrupp design: http://twin.thyssenkrupp-elevator.com/#/en/entdecken
I was recently in an office building where the elevators had no buttons at all. In front of the elevator was a keypad where you typed which floor you needed to go to, the system assigned you an elevator and you could only get on and be delivered to your earlier chosen floor.
Slight difference: when locomotive driver fails the deadman's switch kicks in and the train stops. Or in an extreme case: part of the tracks are powered down so the train will cruise to a halt.
There 's no deadman's switch in a plane and where would it go if it did? Trains are riding on terra firma. Plane's will crash either way.
Same with the discussion about bus drivers. Bus driver fails --> passenger takes over --> stops bus in controlled fashion. Pilot fails --> passenger has 0 skills --> plane goes down.
They probably still don't mind just as long as the host doesn't start a commercial business out of it. And in this case, whichever way you look at it, $ 3 million is well beyond the "hobby" stage.
You have got to be kidding me. Any decent storage system can do synchronous offsite data replication nowadays and for cemetary data I'm guessing the I/O requirement is pretty low....... Add a decent tape library at both ends with secure storage in some DoD extra secure vault somewhere (hell, put it at NORAD for all I care) and you're done. First order of business for them is to get an electronic backup of the physical records which can be done in frigging Excel 2010 if need be. Then start thinking about fancy features like GPS tagging etc. And those features are not even reaching the boundaries of current IT capabilities either.
+1 Wow, tethering. Been doing that with my Windows Mobile 6 phone for two years now. That may be considered dancing with the devil but actually it is one of the things that on WM6 actually works, works very well and right out of the box. Speeds on Vodafone have been great too.
Yes, because those CPU's are now running 100% load all the time. So no speedstepping down to a couple of hundred Mhz and saving power that way (which can be a lot). Plus he probably left them running 24x7.
Go tell that to the CEO who usually also falls in the same user/age group with regards to this particular issue.
And all sorts of business critical applications that use unscalable texts in the UI. Now you can blame the application for not scaling but usually just buying a bigger screen for the user is a lot cheaper than having the application fixed (if it is even fixable at all).
rather than the battle-tested pilot sitting up front
Yeah right, been watching Aircrash Investigations lately? How many crashes are from pilot error like the one near Amsterdam where not two but three of those "battle tested" pilots plowed their plane into the ground because one (of five!) altimeters was broken.
FT only supports a single vCPU from my understanding... Not too many people running single CPU VM's, at least in my experience...
You should be running single vCPU machines by default and only scale CPU's if absolutely necessary and if the app is fully SMP aware and functional.
ESX whiteboxing information can be found in a number of places but you might want to start here: http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/archives/338-The-complete-white-box-list.html http://ultimatewhitebox.com/
You can always install VMware Server (which is free) to make the image
These guys do it a little different. They were on Discovery Channel's "Stunt Junkies" show. Couldn't find video from that show but here's another one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ7zbta79vo
Sure, but when they come around one year later the guy reviewing your licenses has nothing to do with the guy who sold them to you. He doesn't even report to the same manager.
Yadda yadda, if Oracle doesn't fix it's own licensing policy than they still will be looking to take you hard for database licenses. They don't recognize software partitioning as a valid means of buying less licenses than there are CPU's in the physical box and when you run VMware in a cluster they want you to license your whole cluster.