SSD helps too. I'd use de-dup only for SSD stores or stores that have enormous caches (RAM or SSD). The problem is the disk IO required to store the dedup database on-disk which classic disks are really bad at.
Re-imaging is pretty easy, Apple has wonderful tools for that and whole slews of documents (both online and through their sales staff) outlining how it could work.
Kids intentionally destroying or stolen laptops are rare. There are off course kids with severe problems but those are really outliers. Most kids especially in the lower-income areas are really glad they have any resources. They'll safeguard even a single book (which they often don't have). It's the bratty upper-class areas that are worse and there the parents can afford to be billed for it.
At least some students will be able to access Wikipedia or some other resources they're actually interested in about the subject.
It's pretty bad when your kids can on average learn more from surfing the Internet than going to school. It's pretty bad that IBM can build a computer (Watson) that could ace just about any test that are given to students these days. Schools have become a joke where underpaid and under-qualified teachers have become the norm training under-interested pupils how to pass the latest battery of tests the local/state/federal government shovels forth. It's pretty bad when people consider and are sometimes somewhat successfully re-introducing creationism in the class room, that just goes to show the level of education us parents have had and we as parents are complaining that it has only gone downhill.
The fact that kids graduate high school with any type of faith in God/creation or any sort of religious interest intact is bad. The fact that Jesus-camps and similar faith-based decisions are resurgent among 16-18 year olds is worse. That means they haven't learned to think critically or to think for themselves.
Terminal cancer, severe organ damage, brain damage. I've heard all the stories and you'll sing a few tones lower after they revive you two or three times and then have to give you morphine because there is nothing else they can possibly do to make you comfortable.
I agree with andyring, I dated a doctor who worked on the ICU for a while. Same thing, family will keep their son, father, husband,... alive even if it brings extreme pain to the patient. The doctors already do the utmost to save someone, when they say they can't help any further you might want to listen.
It also hurts the caregivers and makes them burn out faster. I've seen the issues up close, how it affects health care workers and I also work with some people. Euthanasia, abortion, heaven and hell, benevolent god - I've changed my viewpoint on all of those.
Because such cables probably don't pass the HDMI test specs. I think the longest certified (passive copper) cable is somewhere near 35-40'. Longer than that and timing issues as well as attenuation of the signal come into play so you may rather choose an optical transfer method (Gefen makes those transponders) but they are a bit more pricey.
Acts 10 is only valid in case you are 'stumbling' someone by not adhering to the Mosaic law.
Basically, some Jews converted in the second century (when that part of the Bible was actually written) and wanted to impose parts of the Mosaic law onto the Christians (that included Paul of course as evident elsewhere). Paul was trying to say that "we gotta keep these converts so if they rather you not do anything that offends them, don't do it".
I have the same sentiments about size however a decent PHP/SQL system uses an optimizer (such as Zend, eAccelerator or APC) and databases use a cache too (whether it's built-in or memcached or so) so any unchanged pages and even previously used SQL queries are practically loaded from disk or memory. It's true for very large systems that have lots of hits that pre-compiling and caching as static is a lot better but for smaller pages the overhead of implementing it alone is worse than actually taking the hit.
The article says $4/month. WHERE can I find such a phone? I had a dumb phone paid $15 pre-paid monthly (Verizon) and could barely use it. Actual cost for what I use would be closer to $30-45 if I'm careful. Same goes for AT&T and Sprint pre-paid, they're no better than a standard plan with employee discounts.
Yes but they're paying for the tech (aka an implementation of ActiveSync and an Exchange CAL). Through software patents MS gets a couple of dollars every time an Android sells even though they do not have any MS software. I read somewhere that the revenue from Androids is actually rivaling MS'es income on it's licenses for the aberration that's called Windows Phone.
Among other things. You could also get it from you yourself sleeping around, a trusted partner that has never slept around or get it from your parents, a dentist, other forms of blood transfer (such as during fights) or even during "safe" sex (there is really no such thing as safe sex).
Some STD's are so common they don't even routinely test for them anymore (HSV) and many don't know they have a form of it until someone else gets an outbreak.
Also with current medicine most are curable, can be depressed or transfers can be prevented.
The GPL is a license, it requires those that (re-)distribute parts or all of the software to adhere by it. The GPL does not limit your rights in any way if you want to privately use, modify or derive the software.
You obviously never lived in a city. If you leave enough space for the two second rule to apply, some asswipe will actually cut you off and insert his Hummer between you and the driver in front of you. Then the same scenario applies again.
BS. Even if you just flip the bits twice (once to 0, once to 1) the data is virtually unrecoverable. There is not a single disk recovery company that can recover a deleted disk. Also, scrubbing with brushes would require you to open it and the particles you release by scrubbing the plates may be dangerous to your health. Use a magnet, fire or thermite.
I consider all of IT as a group which helps end-users. If an IT group can't manage a 100:1 ratio then you're either extremely bad or you got extremely incompetent end-users.
I do include in my figure (me) doing all the servers (e-mail, web, database,...), managing web content, creating disk images, managing 2 SANs doing about 100TB of storage and backups and most of my machines being shared among 250 users (it's a research lab), I receive all the phone calls for everything from 'install this program' and 'my x doesn't work' to 'I have this new gadget, help me' and 'so I have this idea to transfer data to another site, how do I do that'.
The only thing that's really outsourced for us is our Internet connection, web design and the actual construction of the network (running the wires and drilling holes in the walls).
The 1 to 100 machines ratio is only valid for Windows machines and 1 to 20 for Windows Server w/ Microsoft platforms like Exchange, MSSQL. I personally manage 60 Linux and Mac machines, 10 Windows machines and 10 Linux/Solaris servers. The Windows machines is where I spend most of my time (cleaning up crap others do like inadvertently installing spyware or viruses even though we have antivirus, even with Windows 7 certain software requires Admin privileges) and the rest of the day I can play video games. Beyond updates and permission updates I don't need to touch the Linux servers or workstations. Mac machines are a bit more involved in updates because they don't have a central software repository and because people can muck up their preferences. The Solaris systems literally have several hundred days of uptime and require hardly an update.
6 - I did the finances for a local church and their regional committees. I've also heard from others in different churches. Money hardly goes to the intended recipients, it all remains hanging in the church. Even their charity work, at some point there was construction to be done which was given to a church member who had a contracting business. He 'donated' his time and only charged for the actual materials (off course with a tax receipt) but the items were generously overpriced and some even purchased multiple times. I did multiple projects all over the state and it was the same deal everywhere. The projects were all volunteered but still went 15-25% over budget. That was one of the many reasons I quit the church.
8 - The media only cares about high story values, not necessarily about those that really need it. 9 - The politicians do too.
10 - If you have disposable income and advertise this to friends and family the "charity" will quickly become your family and friends that want you to tide them over for a couple of bucks. I am still expecting $750 back for a family deadbeat who eventually lost his house and everything he had (his own fault) and I have been promised several times now to expect a 'care package' from someone I helped in the past buying a house in a divorce case.
I don't know if this is interesting to you but if you buy the Humble Indie Bundle's you can give to EFF and Child's Play both charities in nerd culture. Depending on your disposable income you can compete with guys like Notch for the rankings on their website.
I agree, I RTFA, most of the stuff isn't even dangerous (as far as I consider dangerous) and some of the other stuff should (or is) recalled for being either badly constructed or using certain (what should be illegal) chemicals.
Trampoline - who never used a trampoline? Just because the lingo is lawyer-proof doesn't make it a bad toy. Foam-shooting Bow - As with any shooting toys (Nerf comes to mind) kids should be thought how to use it well. I made freaking real bows by soaking hard wood tree branches in water, some rope and a couple of my mother's plant-straightening bamboo sticks as arrows. Yeah, I bruised and cut my fingers and hands several times either making the bow or shooting the arrow with it's sharp edges and it was inaccurate as shit but I didn't aim to kill anyone. Are kids really that stupid these days? Plastic sword - Same as the bow or a baseball bat. You learn real quickly that these things hurt if you get hit yourself. Several wooden sword fights with my brother and other kids made that clear to me. Very low stilts - How is that dangerous? You can fall and hit your head or twist your ankle but that's how kids learn. You want to tie them down to a chair so they'll die of boredom? Shrinky dinks - What's dangerous about a heating chamber? Those things zapping anyone how exactly? Unless there's some really shoddy engineering and the wires are exposed inside I don't understand. A halogen light bulb is hot. I touched one before. A stove exhaust pipe is hot, found out when standing too close to it trying to heat up in winter. Playmobil - Make it illegal with huge fines to make products with such chemicals intended for kids. Not slap-of-the-wrist pay this $500k settlement so everyone gets a $1 coupon on their next purchase but "the families affected will own 30% of your company if you fuck up". Swiss army weapon - You're a moron. Couldn't find anything dangerous after 4?
Painkillers like Advil and Tylenol can be easily and much more cheaply replaced with their herbal options. Palliative care, oncology and minor surgical procedures would be a lot cheaper when patients (or a hospital) can just grow their own medicine.
In order to get the magnetic fields necessary to do imaging you're going to generate a big magnetic field which is contained to a room and the coils itself are going to make a lot of noise as their fields get switched several hundreds times per second.
The good thing is that a lot of books on iPad are "open" (ePub or PDF format) without DRM. Can't say that of most other e-book readers.
Also, have you ever used those other e-book readers? My girlfriend has the Kindle which is probably one of the most well-known examples of an 'alternative' but compared to my iPad, it's too small of a screen compared to a paper book unless you're reading romance novels (I have to flip through the page every 10 seconds) and the buttons have the most awkward placement it actually cramps up my thumb. The refresh rate sucks, it's black & white and it's menu's are hard to navigate.
I worked for a large clothing company (name not disclosed) in the advertisement department. They didn't use dolls but they did use a human and then they just photoshopped the different clothing lines and color options onto the models. It was cheaper than paying for models + photographer for several hours trying on different clothing. The photographer could take pictures of the clothing by himself and the models were only there to give the human form.
The actual RMA data (I've read the study but forgot where to find it) shows that SSD's are (percentage-wise) slightly less reliable than hard drives but the speed more than makes up for both the price and reliability issues.
MTBF is a useless metric, you want MTTDL (Mean Time TO Data Loss) and you shouldn't trust either an SSD or HDD without both a fail-resistant data model (RAID or similar solution) and at least 1 layer of backups, optimally 2 or 3.
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SSD helps too. I'd use de-dup only for SSD stores or stores that have enormous caches (RAM or SSD). The problem is the disk IO required to store the dedup database on-disk which classic disks are really bad at.
I can concur with that. I work in education.
Re-imaging is pretty easy, Apple has wonderful tools for that and whole slews of documents (both online and through their sales staff) outlining how it could work.
Kids intentionally destroying or stolen laptops are rare. There are off course kids with severe problems but those are really outliers. Most kids especially in the lower-income areas are really glad they have any resources. They'll safeguard even a single book (which they often don't have). It's the bratty upper-class areas that are worse and there the parents can afford to be billed for it.
At least some students will be able to access Wikipedia or some other resources they're actually interested in about the subject.
It's pretty bad when your kids can on average learn more from surfing the Internet than going to school. It's pretty bad that IBM can build a computer (Watson) that could ace just about any test that are given to students these days. Schools have become a joke where underpaid and under-qualified teachers have become the norm training under-interested pupils how to pass the latest battery of tests the local/state/federal government shovels forth. It's pretty bad when people consider and are sometimes somewhat successfully re-introducing creationism in the class room, that just goes to show the level of education us parents have had and we as parents are complaining that it has only gone downhill.
The fact that kids graduate high school with any type of faith in God/creation or any sort of religious interest intact is bad. The fact that Jesus-camps and similar faith-based decisions are resurgent among 16-18 year olds is worse. That means they haven't learned to think critically or to think for themselves.
Does Canada have virus programmers? I thought they would be too nice of a
Terminal cancer, severe organ damage, brain damage. I've heard all the stories and you'll sing a few tones lower after they revive you two or three times and then have to give you morphine because there is nothing else they can possibly do to make you comfortable.
I agree with andyring, I dated a doctor who worked on the ICU for a while. Same thing, family will keep their son, father, husband, ... alive even if it brings extreme pain to the patient. The doctors already do the utmost to save someone, when they say they can't help any further you might want to listen.
It also hurts the caregivers and makes them burn out faster. I've seen the issues up close, how it affects health care workers and I also work with some people. Euthanasia, abortion, heaven and hell, benevolent god - I've changed my viewpoint on all of those.
Because such cables probably don't pass the HDMI test specs. I think the longest certified (passive copper) cable is somewhere near 35-40'. Longer than that and timing issues as well as attenuation of the signal come into play so you may rather choose an optical transfer method (Gefen makes those transponders) but they are a bit more pricey.
Acts 10 is only valid in case you are 'stumbling' someone by not adhering to the Mosaic law.
Basically, some Jews converted in the second century (when that part of the Bible was actually written) and wanted to impose parts of the Mosaic law onto the Christians (that included Paul of course as evident elsewhere). Paul was trying to say that "we gotta keep these converts so if they rather you not do anything that offends them, don't do it".
I have the same sentiments about size however a decent PHP/SQL system uses an optimizer (such as Zend, eAccelerator or APC) and databases use a cache too (whether it's built-in or memcached or so) so any unchanged pages and even previously used SQL queries are practically loaded from disk or memory. It's true for very large systems that have lots of hits that pre-compiling and caching as static is a lot better but for smaller pages the overhead of implementing it alone is worse than actually taking the hit.
The article says $4/month. WHERE can I find such a phone? I had a dumb phone paid $15 pre-paid monthly (Verizon) and could barely use it. Actual cost for what I use would be closer to $30-45 if I'm careful. Same goes for AT&T and Sprint pre-paid, they're no better than a standard plan with employee discounts.
Yes but they're paying for the tech (aka an implementation of ActiveSync and an Exchange CAL). Through software patents MS gets a couple of dollars every time an Android sells even though they do not have any MS software. I read somewhere that the revenue from Androids is actually rivaling MS'es income on it's licenses for the aberration that's called Windows Phone.
Among other things. You could also get it from you yourself sleeping around, a trusted partner that has never slept around or get it from your parents, a dentist, other forms of blood transfer (such as during fights) or even during "safe" sex (there is really no such thing as safe sex).
Some STD's are so common they don't even routinely test for them anymore (HSV) and many don't know they have a form of it until someone else gets an outbreak.
Also with current medicine most are curable, can be depressed or transfers can be prevented.
Autistic people can be quite high functioning. Jenny McCarthy can't.
The GPL is a license, it requires those that (re-)distribute parts or all of the software to adhere by it. The GPL does not limit your rights in any way if you want to privately use, modify or derive the software.
You obviously never lived in a city. If you leave enough space for the two second rule to apply, some asswipe will actually cut you off and insert his Hummer between you and the driver in front of you. Then the same scenario applies again.
BS. Even if you just flip the bits twice (once to 0, once to 1) the data is virtually unrecoverable. There is not a single disk recovery company that can recover a deleted disk. Also, scrubbing with brushes would require you to open it and the particles you release by scrubbing the plates may be dangerous to your health. Use a magnet, fire or thermite.
I consider all of IT as a group which helps end-users. If an IT group can't manage a 100:1 ratio then you're either extremely bad or you got extremely incompetent end-users.
I do include in my figure (me) doing all the servers (e-mail, web, database, ...), managing web content, creating disk images, managing 2 SANs doing about 100TB of storage and backups and most of my machines being shared among 250 users (it's a research lab), I receive all the phone calls for everything from 'install this program' and 'my x doesn't work' to 'I have this new gadget, help me' and 'so I have this idea to transfer data to another site, how do I do that'.
The only thing that's really outsourced for us is our Internet connection, web design and the actual construction of the network (running the wires and drilling holes in the walls).
The 1 to 100 machines ratio is only valid for Windows machines and 1 to 20 for Windows Server w/ Microsoft platforms like Exchange, MSSQL. I personally manage 60 Linux and Mac machines, 10 Windows machines and 10 Linux/Solaris servers. The Windows machines is where I spend most of my time (cleaning up crap others do like inadvertently installing spyware or viruses even though we have antivirus, even with Windows 7 certain software requires Admin privileges) and the rest of the day I can play video games. Beyond updates and permission updates I don't need to touch the Linux servers or workstations. Mac machines are a bit more involved in updates because they don't have a central software repository and because people can muck up their preferences. The Solaris systems literally have several hundred days of uptime and require hardly an update.
I definitely don't agree with 6 or 8-10.
6 - I did the finances for a local church and their regional committees. I've also heard from others in different churches. Money hardly goes to the intended recipients, it all remains hanging in the church. Even their charity work, at some point there was construction to be done which was given to a church member who had a contracting business. He 'donated' his time and only charged for the actual materials (off course with a tax receipt) but the items were generously overpriced and some even purchased multiple times. I did multiple projects all over the state and it was the same deal everywhere. The projects were all volunteered but still went 15-25% over budget. That was one of the many reasons I quit the church.
8 - The media only cares about high story values, not necessarily about those that really need it.
9 - The politicians do too.
10 - If you have disposable income and advertise this to friends and family the "charity" will quickly become your family and friends that want you to tide them over for a couple of bucks. I am still expecting $750 back for a family deadbeat who eventually lost his house and everything he had (his own fault) and I have been promised several times now to expect a 'care package' from someone I helped in the past buying a house in a divorce case.
I don't know if this is interesting to you but if you buy the Humble Indie Bundle's you can give to EFF and Child's Play both charities in nerd culture. Depending on your disposable income you can compete with guys like Notch for the rankings on their website.
I agree, I RTFA, most of the stuff isn't even dangerous (as far as I consider dangerous) and some of the other stuff should (or is) recalled for being either badly constructed or using certain (what should be illegal) chemicals.
Trampoline - who never used a trampoline? Just because the lingo is lawyer-proof doesn't make it a bad toy.
Foam-shooting Bow - As with any shooting toys (Nerf comes to mind) kids should be thought how to use it well. I made freaking real bows by soaking hard wood tree branches in water, some rope and a couple of my mother's plant-straightening bamboo sticks as arrows. Yeah, I bruised and cut my fingers and hands several times either making the bow or shooting the arrow with it's sharp edges and it was inaccurate as shit but I didn't aim to kill anyone. Are kids really that stupid these days?
Plastic sword - Same as the bow or a baseball bat. You learn real quickly that these things hurt if you get hit yourself. Several wooden sword fights with my brother and other kids made that clear to me.
Very low stilts - How is that dangerous? You can fall and hit your head or twist your ankle but that's how kids learn. You want to tie them down to a chair so they'll die of boredom?
Shrinky dinks - What's dangerous about a heating chamber? Those things zapping anyone how exactly? Unless there's some really shoddy engineering and the wires are exposed inside I don't understand. A halogen light bulb is hot. I touched one before. A stove exhaust pipe is hot, found out when standing too close to it trying to heat up in winter.
Playmobil - Make it illegal with huge fines to make products with such chemicals intended for kids. Not slap-of-the-wrist pay this $500k settlement so everyone gets a $1 coupon on their next purchase but "the families affected will own 30% of your company if you fuck up".
Swiss army weapon - You're a moron. Couldn't find anything dangerous after 4?
Painkillers like Advil and Tylenol can be easily and much more cheaply replaced with their herbal options.
Palliative care, oncology and minor surgical procedures would be a lot cheaper when patients (or a hospital) can just grow their own medicine.
Physics a bitch ain't it.
In order to get the magnetic fields necessary to do imaging you're going to generate a big magnetic field which is contained to a room and the coils itself are going to make a lot of noise as their fields get switched several hundreds times per second.
The good thing is that a lot of books on iPad are "open" (ePub or PDF format) without DRM. Can't say that of most other e-book readers.
Also, have you ever used those other e-book readers? My girlfriend has the Kindle which is probably one of the most well-known examples of an 'alternative' but compared to my iPad, it's too small of a screen compared to a paper book unless you're reading romance novels (I have to flip through the page every 10 seconds) and the buttons have the most awkward placement it actually cramps up my thumb. The refresh rate sucks, it's black & white and it's menu's are hard to navigate.
I worked for a large clothing company (name not disclosed) in the advertisement department. They didn't use dolls but they did use a human and then they just photoshopped the different clothing lines and color options onto the models. It was cheaper than paying for models + photographer for several hours trying on different clothing. The photographer could take pictures of the clothing by himself and the models were only there to give the human form.
The actual RMA data (I've read the study but forgot where to find it) shows that SSD's are (percentage-wise) slightly less reliable than hard drives but the speed more than makes up for both the price and reliability issues.
MTBF is a useless metric, you want MTTDL (Mean Time TO Data Loss) and you shouldn't trust either an SSD or HDD without both a fail-resistant data model (RAID or similar solution) and at least 1 layer of backups, optimally 2 or 3.