When I was the network admin/tech support guy for a small ISP, we had a Cisco AS5200 with PRI so our customers could get a full 56kbd connection. First of all, it wasn't 56kbs, under best conditions it was 46 to 48kbs. I figure for at least a third of our customers, and well over three quarters of our rural customers, 56kbs had to be disables on their modems to achieve a stable connection. Line conditions have to be pretty good to stay above 28.8kbs. Exacerbating this problem were winmodems, which because they pegged the CPU to do decoding, and usually required a damned good CPU and near optimal line conditions.
Perhaps they could have called their video service "Twerk". Microsoft could have moved from cheesy advertising to something like this. Just replace Robin Thicke with John Hodgman, and man oh man, Justin Long won't look hip and cool no more.
Because moving the coastal sections of a major North American urban center to new territory, some of which almost certainly is going to be privately owned, won't cost nearly as much.
I think you need new glasses. I'm looking at that graph and it's an upward trend. That's a helluva a spin you put on it, but even the graph itself shows that sea level has not slowed to nothing at that station in the last 30 years.
It's more pronounced in some areas than others, but still, it's rising. So if you live in a low-lying coastal area, then this ought to be of concern to you.
In the short or long term? Remember, in this world of corporate profits, the long term is absolutely fucking meaningless. Long term to the sociopaths we've put in charge of the global economy is no more six to eight quarters.
I've kind of given up on that. Between the noxious attacks by oil company shill organizations like the Heartland Institute, halfwits who buy into anything that means they can fool themselves for a few more years, and a total lack of meaningful political will, I think we're fucked.
AiG's claim was long ago debunked. At this point, the Weekly World News is probably a more reliable source of information than the lying mentally ill nutbars who write for AiG.
You know, at some point, whether you like it or not, we will probably be making organic computers I've some kind or another that are, for all intents and purposes, grown brains. Creepy, perhaps, but inevitable.
The question being where the rebels would have got the weapon from. That seems to be the crux of the matter, that US and the rest of NATO believe that only the regime has custody of these weapons, and if one or more were used, then only the regime could have done it.
It seems the next logical step to me. I think at this point it's going to be hard in the long term for Microsoft to compete in the consumer world. I don't think the PC will ever go completely away in the consumer world, but the day of everyone having a desktop (and a little later a notebook) running Windows is dying, and dying very rapidly. Tablets and smartphones are rendering the PC pointless. We have a notebook and a netbook at home, and the netbook only gets used when I'm on business trips, and then only in the hotel room at night when I need to do some longer emails (my Nexus 7 and iPhone are the email workhorses the rest of the time). The notebook only gets used when my wife wants to type out a long letter or when I need to do some coding or correspondence at home (not that I like coding on it, terrible fucking keyboard). Seriously, there was like two weeks where neither computer even got turned on. I have a Nexus 7, my wife has a Kobo Arc, and pretty much all our recreational computing are on those two devices.
And while it's anecdotal, a growing number of people I talk to are the same way. PCs have their place, but with decreased usage, the frequency of replacement is dropping off the map. Even five or six years ago, most of the people I dealt with were gifting their old desktops and notebooks to Aunt Mildred or Grandpa Joe and going and buying a new one. Now, having three or four year old PCs is considered perfectly fine.
Basically that's where we are. The bulk of our workstations are Vista Pro, good enough to support most of the newer GPO features found in Server 2012, good enough to run Office 2010, Photoshop and a few other oddball apps we use. In fact, when we had one die recently, I went and bought a refurbished Dell box with Vista Pro on it for something like $120 with shipping. Even XP would work, though it lacks some of the GPO support that we use now, but the fact is that most of our XP boxes have died or been given away, so it's really going to be much of an issue when they finally shut down all support.
And therein lies the problem. Five or six year old hardware is good enough for almost all business use. There may be some compelling reasons to upgrade the backoffice stuff, and indeed, we're moving away from our Server 2003/Exchange 2003 network to Server 2012/Exchange 2010 (not going to Exchange 2013 because we can't do a direct migration from Exchange 2003). I can't foresee any other major upgrades in the near future. At some point I suppose we'll have to go to a newer version of Windows for the workstations, but by that point we will be looking at Windows 9, and possibly, if other desktop/notebook options like Chromebooks show sufficient promise, we may even consider walking away from Windows for at least some of our staff.
It ain't 2000 anymore, and Microsoft isn't the "must-have" it once was.
Doomsday Device is my absolutely favorite ST of any iteration. That was one fucking awesome episode. Well-written, full of tension and suspense. The fact that the Device looks like a badly-rolled joint is besides the point. That was some damned fine writing.
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In some cases, they're singular talent is knowing which family to be born to.
The max is actually 48kbs. A channel is reserved.
I remember taking several days to downloads the full Slackware distro floppy image set.
When I was the network admin/tech support guy for a small ISP, we had a Cisco AS5200 with PRI so our customers could get a full 56kbd connection. First of all, it wasn't 56kbs, under best conditions it was 46 to 48kbs. I figure for at least a third of our customers, and well over three quarters of our rural customers, 56kbs had to be disables on their modems to achieve a stable connection. Line conditions have to be pretty good to stay above 28.8kbs. Exacerbating this problem were winmodems, which because they pegged the CPU to do decoding, and usually required a damned good CPU and near optimal line conditions.
"Yes, I'd like to trade mine in for a Galaxy S4."
I expect their new CEO to begin lobbing patent bombs. That's how I expect them to rebuild their monopoly.
Perhaps they could have called their video service "Twerk". Microsoft could have moved from cheesy advertising to something like this. Just replace Robin Thicke with John Hodgman, and man oh man, Justin Long won't look hip and cool no more.
Because moving the coastal sections of a major North American urban center to new territory, some of which almost certainly is going to be privately owned, won't cost nearly as much.
I think you need new glasses. I'm looking at that graph and it's an upward trend. That's a helluva a spin you put on it, but even the graph itself shows that sea level has not slowed to nothing at that station in the last 30 years.
You are aware, I trust, that it is rising.
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sealevel.html
It's more pronounced in some areas than others, but still, it's rising. So if you live in a low-lying coastal area, then this ought to be of concern to you.
In the short or long term? Remember, in this world of corporate profits, the long term is absolutely fucking meaningless. Long term to the sociopaths we've put in charge of the global economy is no more six to eight quarters.
I've kind of given up on that. Between the noxious attacks by oil company shill organizations like the Heartland Institute, halfwits who buy into anything that means they can fool themselves for a few more years, and a total lack of meaningful political will, I think we're fucked.
http://www.chem.tufts.edu/science/franksteiger/grandcyn.htm
AiG's claim was long ago debunked. At this point, the Weekly World News is probably a more reliable source of information than the lying mentally ill nutbars who write for AiG.
Fuck! Now I'll never get rid of Bob in Accounting!
I wonder when the firmware update for mine will be coming out. Frankly, I'd like to toss the proprietary OS, but I wonder if they'll run Linux.
You know, at some point, whether you like it or not, we will probably be making organic computers I've some kind or another that are, for all intents and purposes, grown brains. Creepy, perhaps, but inevitable.
You understand, I trust, that these are "mini-brains" and almost certainly not capable of consciousness of any kind.
What you've written is a little long, but if we etch it really small, it ought to fit on a tombstone in the Graveyard of Famous Last Words.
We would, but seeing as you haven't left the Holy Sepulchre at the Church of Microsoft, we'd have to yell really loud.
The question being where the rebels would have got the weapon from. That seems to be the crux of the matter, that US and the rest of NATO believe that only the regime has custody of these weapons, and if one or more were used, then only the regime could have done it.
Frankly, I think by Windows 9, the Start Menu will be back. It will be a Metro-ized smart Start menu to be sure, but nevertheless it will return.
It seems the next logical step to me. I think at this point it's going to be hard in the long term for Microsoft to compete in the consumer world. I don't think the PC will ever go completely away in the consumer world, but the day of everyone having a desktop (and a little later a notebook) running Windows is dying, and dying very rapidly. Tablets and smartphones are rendering the PC pointless. We have a notebook and a netbook at home, and the netbook only gets used when I'm on business trips, and then only in the hotel room at night when I need to do some longer emails (my Nexus 7 and iPhone are the email workhorses the rest of the time). The notebook only gets used when my wife wants to type out a long letter or when I need to do some coding or correspondence at home (not that I like coding on it, terrible fucking keyboard). Seriously, there was like two weeks where neither computer even got turned on. I have a Nexus 7, my wife has a Kobo Arc, and pretty much all our recreational computing are on those two devices.
And while it's anecdotal, a growing number of people I talk to are the same way. PCs have their place, but with decreased usage, the frequency of replacement is dropping off the map. Even five or six years ago, most of the people I dealt with were gifting their old desktops and notebooks to Aunt Mildred or Grandpa Joe and going and buying a new one. Now, having three or four year old PCs is considered perfectly fine.
Basically that's where we are. The bulk of our workstations are Vista Pro, good enough to support most of the newer GPO features found in Server 2012, good enough to run Office 2010, Photoshop and a few other oddball apps we use. In fact, when we had one die recently, I went and bought a refurbished Dell box with Vista Pro on it for something like $120 with shipping. Even XP would work, though it lacks some of the GPO support that we use now, but the fact is that most of our XP boxes have died or been given away, so it's really going to be much of an issue when they finally shut down all support.
And therein lies the problem. Five or six year old hardware is good enough for almost all business use. There may be some compelling reasons to upgrade the backoffice stuff, and indeed, we're moving away from our Server 2003/Exchange 2003 network to Server 2012/Exchange 2010 (not going to Exchange 2013 because we can't do a direct migration from Exchange 2003). I can't foresee any other major upgrades in the near future. At some point I suppose we'll have to go to a newer version of Windows for the workstations, but by that point we will be looking at Windows 9, and possibly, if other desktop/notebook options like Chromebooks show sufficient promise, we may even consider walking away from Windows for at least some of our staff.
It ain't 2000 anymore, and Microsoft isn't the "must-have" it once was.
My prediction is that by Windows 9, Metro will be an optional (and thus ultimately destined to be scrapped) feature.
Doomsday Device is my absolutely favorite ST of any iteration. That was one fucking awesome episode. Well-written, full of tension and suspense. The fact that the Device looks like a badly-rolled joint is besides the point. That was some damned fine writing.