If he is a father already, and the Mars mission won't be for 20 years, his children will be at least 20 years old. It's not like he's dropping off the 5 year old at the babysitter forever.
Except Manning wasn't a lowly clerk. He is/was an intelligence analyst, as in, one who is assigned and allowed to read all of the intelligence and analyze it. To correct your bank analogy, you'd have an auditor, not a "minor clerk."
That's not too hard to calculate. I usually budget 2 A for a dual-CPU 1u server. At 120 V, that's 240 W. 8 kW divided by 240 W = 33u of servers. Multiplied by 12 cores (allowing for the new X5600 series, ignoring hyperthreading on both Atom and Xeon), you get 396 total cores of standard Xeon in 8 kW. Meanwhile, they're advertising 2048 Atom cores in the same amount of power. So, the real question becomes how powerful ~5 Atom cores are compared to 1 Xeon core.
You can download the SDK for free, legally, from http://developer.apple.com/, and use the emulator all you want for $0.00. It costs you $99/year to get a certificate to put the code on your device.
Check Wikipedia -- quad Core i7 CPUs are available, but Apple has chosen not to use them. My guess is that it's because they require more power to run, and are only available at a top speed of 2.0Ghz.
Places such as Amazon and MacMall often heavily discount their existing stock of Macs when new models are released. Just check out any of the major retailers, and you should find them.
It's well known in the aviation industry that GPS altitudes are, for aviation purposes, largely useless. Current transponders use a barometric altimeter's input when in Mode C or Mode S, meaning they're providing their altitude information to radar systems that ask. I wouldn't expect that to change as the radios are upgraded to the GPS capable replacements.
Actually, haven't we essentially solved this in the web world now? Nobody uses javascript:alert("ERROR: 45322626") anymore. Now, we take the user to where the problem can be fixed, or provide them a link directly to it. If it's a form validation problem, the fields with errors can light up and highlight the problem.
My employer deals almost entirely with higher ed clients. Unfortunately, due to budget cuts, our customers basically *aren't* looking to go to conferences. Instead of our yearly training, which goes for 3 solid days, and costs over $1000, we're doing webcasts once a week for free. The end cost to us is about the same (we don't aim to profit off the conferences monetarily, so they break even, and WebEx is relatively cheap), they're getting the training they need, and our customers are happier.
So, to answer your question, I'd say they're either not looking for a conference, or for something really cheap. Try again when the economy picks up.
I'd rather pay $30 (or more) for a season of an enjoyable TV show box set or downloadable content than $50 a month for hundreds of channels of garbage and commercials.
Yes, I have gone in and replaced hard drives and RAM in many Mac Minis, as well as in iMacs. I agree, they're not fun.
I also agree that they're not hot swappable. But, cold swap is better than no-swap. If it requires a shutdown, you can plan it for a convenient time to shut down, replace the drive, and be back up and running. Without RAID, your server goes down immediately, and you're restoring from backup.
This isn't designed for someone who wants a "real server." It's a way to get something basic up and running without spending $2500. on a Mac Pro. And really, what are you doing that requires a cardbus slot? Not a single one of our servers has any sort of expansion card built in, save for a few that have expansion RAID cards.
Interesting. We've got two 1720dn's here, one with almost 60k pages, that are trucking along just fine.
On the other hand, we also had one of their color 3110cn printers, which just so happened to die on month 13 after a 12 month warranty. I don't remember which part needed to be replaced, but the printouts have a dark gray layer of toner on them. It was more expensive to fix it than to buy a new one, so we're now sporting a 3130cn, which has spit out 16k pages with no problems.
This. Then move up to stuff like a 555 timer and a counter, which are incredibly cheap (on the order of a few bucks at most per set).
Finally, if the budget allows, move up to an Arduino.
I'm of the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" persuasion. I'm also a fan of doing away with committees when a group of people have proven that they can do a job well.
If the only complaint is that some things are slow, how on earth is bringing it to a committee going to make things any faster?
Since when are a Core 2 Duo and Nehalem 3000 series processor anywhere near each other in price or performance? I'm assuming you also didn't account for the difference in price/performance between DDR2 and DDR3. Not to forget that I'd want a hard drive greater than 1 GB;)
It's not just passenger load/unload time though - there's a lot more to it than that. Check out http://www.atwonline.com/channels/aircraftEquipment/article.html?articleID=1187 for more info, which basically mentions problems with wingspan. Note that according to http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v155/andzz/747-v-380.jpg the A380 wingspan is approximately 15m wider. This can cause issues with whether or not the aircraft will actually fit at the gate, or contribute to congestion problems on the ground when neighboring taxiways can't be used while an A380 rolls down an adjacent one.
Or just download it from here - the guy has bundled the proper version of WebKit inside the application. If you haven't done that (I'm not aware of how Pacifist works) you're actually just using the new version of WebKit inside the old application.
http://michelf.com/projects/multi-safari/
"You may use the Software to conduct internal performance testing and benchmarking studies, the results of which you (and not unauthorized third parties) may publish or publicly disseminate; provided that VMware has reviewed and approved of the methodology, assumptions and other parameters of the study. Please contact VMware at benchmark@vmware.com to request such review."
From http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/server.html
That's the point, at least in my case. My Master's thesis/project involves benchmarking multiple VM systems - Xen, OpenVZ, and KVM. Unfortunately, VMware's out at this point due to licensing issues, though I'm probably going to run them anyway for my own personal use.
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If he is a father already, and the Mars mission won't be for 20 years, his children will be at least 20 years old. It's not like he's dropping off the 5 year old at the babysitter forever.
Except Manning wasn't a lowly clerk. He is/was an intelligence analyst, as in, one who is assigned and allowed to read all of the intelligence and analyze it. To correct your bank analogy, you'd have an auditor, not a "minor clerk."
That's not too hard to calculate. I usually budget 2 A for a dual-CPU 1u server. At 120 V, that's 240 W. 8 kW divided by 240 W = 33u of servers. Multiplied by 12 cores (allowing for the new X5600 series, ignoring hyperthreading on both Atom and Xeon), you get 396 total cores of standard Xeon in 8 kW. Meanwhile, they're advertising 2048 Atom cores in the same amount of power. So, the real question becomes how powerful ~5 Atom cores are compared to 1 Xeon core.
You can download the SDK for free, legally, from http://developer.apple.com/, and use the emulator all you want for $0.00. It costs you $99/year to get a certificate to put the code on your device.
Check Wikipedia -- quad Core i7 CPUs are available, but Apple has chosen not to use them. My guess is that it's because they require more power to run, and are only available at a top speed of 2.0Ghz.
Places such as Amazon and MacMall often heavily discount their existing stock of Macs when new models are released. Just check out any of the major retailers, and you should find them.
It's well known in the aviation industry that GPS altitudes are, for aviation purposes, largely useless. Current transponders use a barometric altimeter's input when in Mode C or Mode S, meaning they're providing their altitude information to radar systems that ask. I wouldn't expect that to change as the radios are upgraded to the GPS capable replacements.
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transponder_(aviation) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_Autonomous_Integrity_Monitoring
Haven't you seen Back to the Future? Watch the beginning again. Doc's solved this problem already, 25 years ago! :)
Done and done. http://www.eucalyptus.com/ - it even replicates the Amazon AWS API, and is available on Ubuntu.
Actually, haven't we essentially solved this in the web world now? Nobody uses javascript:alert("ERROR: 45322626") anymore. Now, we take the user to where the problem can be fixed, or provide them a link directly to it. If it's a form validation problem, the fields with errors can light up and highlight the problem.
My employer deals almost entirely with higher ed clients. Unfortunately, due to budget cuts, our customers basically *aren't* looking to go to conferences. Instead of our yearly training, which goes for 3 solid days, and costs over $1000, we're doing webcasts once a week for free. The end cost to us is about the same (we don't aim to profit off the conferences monetarily, so they break even, and WebEx is relatively cheap), they're getting the training they need, and our customers are happier.
So, to answer your question, I'd say they're either not looking for a conference, or for something really cheap. Try again when the economy picks up.
I'd rather pay $30 (or more) for a season of an enjoyable TV show box set or downloadable content than $50 a month for hundreds of channels of garbage and commercials.
Yes, I have gone in and replaced hard drives and RAM in many Mac Minis, as well as in iMacs. I agree, they're not fun.
I also agree that they're not hot swappable. But, cold swap is better than no-swap. If it requires a shutdown, you can plan it for a convenient time to shut down, replace the drive, and be back up and running. Without RAID, your server goes down immediately, and you're restoring from backup.
This isn't designed for someone who wants a "real server." It's a way to get something basic up and running without spending $2500. on a Mac Pro. And really, what are you doing that requires a cardbus slot? Not a single one of our servers has any sort of expansion card built in, save for a few that have expansion RAID cards.
...except that you can actually do (software) RAID-1 on this Mini, and not the original, without an external drive.
Interesting. We've got two 1720dn's here, one with almost 60k pages, that are trucking along just fine.
On the other hand, we also had one of their color 3110cn printers, which just so happened to die on month 13 after a 12 month warranty. I don't remember which part needed to be replaced, but the printouts have a dark gray layer of toner on them. It was more expensive to fix it than to buy a new one, so we're now sporting a 3130cn, which has spit out 16k pages with no problems.
This. Then move up to stuff like a 555 timer and a counter, which are incredibly cheap (on the order of a few bucks at most per set). Finally, if the budget allows, move up to an Arduino.
I'm of the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" persuasion. I'm also a fan of doing away with committees when a group of people have proven that they can do a job well. If the only complaint is that some things are slow, how on earth is bringing it to a committee going to make things any faster?
Since when are a Core 2 Duo and Nehalem 3000 series processor anywhere near each other in price or performance? I'm assuming you also didn't account for the difference in price/performance between DDR2 and DDR3. Not to forget that I'd want a hard drive greater than 1 GB ;)
I'd hope not, considering Apple actually licensed that from Microsoft, whereas Palm reverse engineered their way in.
It's not just passenger load/unload time though - there's a lot more to it than that. Check out http://www.atwonline.com/channels/aircraftEquipment/article.html?articleID=1187 for more info, which basically mentions problems with wingspan. Note that according to http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v155/andzz/747-v-380.jpg the A380 wingspan is approximately 15m wider. This can cause issues with whether or not the aircraft will actually fit at the gate, or contribute to congestion problems on the ground when neighboring taxiways can't be used while an A380 rolls down an adjacent one.
Or just download it from here - the guy has bundled the proper version of WebKit inside the application. If you haven't done that (I'm not aware of how Pacifist works) you're actually just using the new version of WebKit inside the old application. http://michelf.com/projects/multi-safari/
"You may use the Software to conduct internal performance testing and benchmarking studies, the results of which you (and not unauthorized third parties) may publish or publicly disseminate; provided that VMware has reviewed and approved of the methodology, assumptions and other parameters of the study. Please contact VMware at benchmark@vmware.com to request such review." From http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/server.html
That's the point, at least in my case. My Master's thesis/project involves benchmarking multiple VM systems - Xen, OpenVZ, and KVM. Unfortunately, VMware's out at this point due to licensing issues, though I'm probably going to run them anyway for my own personal use.
You could transmit ads over it... ad-supported wireless power? *ducks*
Try reinstalling. From my experience, the image provided by Dell SUCKS. Reinstalling fixed lots of issues related to crashing and such.