We had about 400 GX270 in a Hospital. Operating rooms, Emergency rooms, etc. Most running 24/7.
We saw what they state in the Article, that is about a 97% failure rate in 3 years. And that is not counting the additional failures we saw of about %50 for the Hard drives, as well as substantial failures with power supplies.
Dell gave us 10 extra Motherboards to use, and they would send us a replacement board the next day. Some days we would go through all 10 boards.
Even with Dell paying us $50 every time we replaced a motherboard, it was unacceptable in a hospital to have such low quality hardware.
With the GX270's we started to see Hard Drive failures at 6 months, and then Mother board failures at 1 year.
Initially Dell was sending faulty boards as replacements for the motherboards. later they sent out boards with most of the bad capacitors replaced, but not all. They finally sent out replacement boards that appeared to be problem free, but by this time we started having power supplies going out. And then the 3 year warranty was over. Which was extended to 5 years for the Motherboards only.(not much good without a power supply)
In the end it was not uncommon for a single Dell GX270 to have seen multiple Motherboards, Hard drives, and power supplies. If you were lucky enough to have all of them replaced with the newest/fixed versions the GX270 was actually not a bad computer.
In this case the the process was not in place for the State Government to be able to override the University's decision.
If the State Government really wants to put a process in place to override University decisions that can be done.
Denying this speaker would in no way set any legal precedence for who can and who cannot speak at the University. If Joe crazy decides to sue for the opportunity to speak at the University, he is going to lose.
The constitution does not guarantee anyone a forum in which to express their freedom of speech. Only that you have freedom of speech.
This is a state funded University, and has made the decision to invite Dawkins to speak. The University is Governed by the state Government, which in this case has decided they don't like the decision made by the University.
This is not a case about First Amendment rights, but a case of how much control the state Government has over their Universities.
Many small businesses still haven't upgraded their LAN's from 100MB to 1GB. Wireless hasn't officially finalized a spec more than 54MB.
What would gigabit benefit a wireless home user?
This just sounds like wasted money. I manage a network with around 500 nodes, and when I moved from 100MB to 1GB across the board the users didn't notice much speed difference on the LAN. And the 100MB broadband Internet connection we have shared between our users works well shared between 500 nodes, even downloading large linux distros while streaming HD video to to multiple sites we have no problems.
I expect Obama to be confronted by the same conflicts, doubts, and difficulties faced by Bush. But I expect him to make far better decisions and implement them in far better fashion. He could hardly do worse.
The first 9 days Obama has already done worse than Bush had done his first year.
You talk about screwing up budgets and here Democrats and Obama are looking at the largest pork spending bill in history. This bill actually has things in it that will hurt the economy, with very little that will stimulate it.
Obama is in the process of screwing up:The Federal Budget, Environmental Policy, Foreign Policy, The Economy, and Freedom in America. And doing it without any resistance from congress.
The worse thing Bush did in his 8 years as president was try to work with Democrats. Together they increased Social Spending, increased Federal Government involvement in Education, and then there were the billions in bailout money that was full of pork.
How is this following Palin's lead, when Palin and Alaska have nothing to do with National Security. Palin has never been part of the Federal Government.
So if the Government takes over for my ISP do I have to: 1. Have my computer pass a safety and emissions test once every other year? 2. Pass a computer driving test to get a computer operator license? 3. Pay a fee to register my computer every year? 4. Pay for tickets if I go too fast on the Internet? 5. Put a license plate on my computer? 6. Put up with construction delays during peak usage times, because they won't pay someone to work on it during off hours?
Liberals tend to be against road projects, because they would rather spend the money on mass transit, or school teachers.
In my opinion Mass Transit should not be publicly funded by State, or Federal Government. And School teachers even in the worst paying states start out around $22 per hour and go up to $40 per hour, with better benefits than most of the private sector, and have more time off than nearly all the private sector.
USPS actually costs much more to deliver a letter than what you pay for. It is subsidized by Tax dollars. USPS may charge less to deliver a letter, but they charge more to deliver a package. USPS pretty much has a Monopoly on letter delivery. If you want it delivered faster then others also provide that service.
So the "Proof" of global warming is basically that we have no better theory? Yet patterns of warming don't match very well with patterns of CO2(with the exception of the last 40 years or so). We are being told that Global temperatures have gone up by fractions of a degree. I would be amazed if they could actually get all that data together without the margin of error being at least fractions of a degree. I can have 3 different digital thermometers in different places in my yard and they will all read different. Going back 100 years they didn't have digital thermometers. Temperatures in Cities are warmer than outside cities.
Global warming appears to me to be science with an agenda behind it. With something as big and as complex as this, I think you could try to have the numbers say just about whatever you want them to say.
And surely it isn't too hard to comprehend that there are cycles and some are longer than others. We know there have been cycles that have lasted for more than fifty years. So who is to say that we are not seeing just another cycle? Why is it that when it is getting warmer is it caused by humans and when it is getting colder it is caused by a cycle?
According to the charts used by the Global Warming crowd there was a warming period from 1860-1880 but then a cooling period from 1880-1910 then a warming period from 1910-1940 then cooling from 1940-1950 Then several ups and downs since that have been equated to a general warming.
Did the sea level continue to rise by 1.7 mm during the cooling trends?
"Humans have been burning fossil fuels for more than 100 years."
If C02 levels have been elevated for over 100 years then why have we continued to see long periods of cooling?
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We had about 400 GX270 in a Hospital. Operating rooms, Emergency rooms, etc. Most running 24/7.
We saw what they state in the Article, that is about a 97% failure rate in 3 years. And that is not counting the additional failures we saw of about %50 for the Hard drives, as well as substantial failures with power supplies.
Dell gave us 10 extra Motherboards to use, and they would send us a replacement board the next day. Some days we would go through all 10 boards.
Even with Dell paying us $50 every time we replaced a motherboard, it was unacceptable in a hospital to have such low quality hardware.
With the GX270's we started to see Hard Drive failures at 6 months, and then Mother board failures at 1 year.
Initially Dell was sending faulty boards as replacements for the motherboards. later they sent out boards with most of the bad capacitors replaced, but not all. They finally sent out replacement boards that appeared to be problem free, but by this time we started having power supplies going out. And then the 3 year warranty was over. Which was extended to 5 years for the Motherboards only.(not much good without a power supply)
In the end it was not uncommon for a single Dell GX270 to have seen multiple Motherboards, Hard drives, and power supplies. If you were lucky enough to have all of them replaced with the newest/fixed versions the GX270 was actually not a bad computer.
"Jesus was a liberal".....
What Jesus taught would be considered liberal if he was asking the Government to implement his teachings.
Jesus was asking the people(not Government) to take care of the sick, and help the poor, etc.
On the topic of Government Jesus did not advocate more Government.
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Jesus was a conservative
In this case the the process was not in place for the State Government to be able to override the University's decision.
If the State Government really wants to put a process in place to override University decisions that can be done.
Denying this speaker would in no way set any legal precedence for who can and who cannot speak at the University. If Joe crazy decides to sue for the opportunity to speak at the University, he is going to lose.
The constitution does not guarantee anyone a forum in which to express their freedom of speech. Only that you have freedom of speech.
This is a state funded University, and has made the decision to invite Dawkins to speak. The University is Governed by the state Government, which in this case has decided they don't like the decision made by the University.
This is not a case about First Amendment rights, but a case of how much control the state Government has over their Universities.
And for every 1 pot user there are more than 20 alcohol users.
Where I live the sale of Alcohol is prohibited. I have no problem with that.
Lay off the pot, your logic and reasoning skills have obviously been impaired.
I know people who have been hurt and killed by others impaired by pot. It is dangerous even if you are too impaired to wrap your brain around it!
As for your second argument, I will say nothing more than refer you to my first argument.
There may be unjust laws, but this is not one of them.
And even if you disagree with the law, blame those that made the law, not those who enforce the law.
I think Moab is more famous for it's Biking than for it's four wheel driving.
There are some cities that are completely dry, and do not allow any alcoholic beverage to be sold within city limits.
How can you say he did absolutely nothing wrong? What he did is illegal.
In many places even possession of drug paraphernalia is illegal.
You may disagree with the law, but you cannot disagree that he broke the law.
Many small businesses still haven't upgraded their LAN's from 100MB to 1GB. Wireless hasn't officially finalized a spec more than 54MB.
What would gigabit benefit a wireless home user?
This just sounds like wasted money. I manage a network with around 500 nodes, and when I moved from 100MB to 1GB across the board the users didn't notice much speed difference on the LAN. And the 100MB broadband Internet connection we have shared between our users works well shared between 500 nodes, even downloading large linux distros while streaming HD video to to multiple sites we have no problems.
I expect Obama to be confronted by the same conflicts, doubts, and difficulties faced by Bush. But I expect him to make far better decisions and implement them in far better fashion. He could hardly do worse.
The first 9 days Obama has already done worse than Bush had done his first year.
You talk about screwing up budgets and here Democrats and Obama are looking at the largest pork spending bill in history. This bill actually has things in it that will hurt the economy, with very little that will stimulate it.
Obama is in the process of screwing up:The Federal Budget, Environmental Policy, Foreign Policy, The Economy, and Freedom in America. And doing it without any resistance from congress.
The worse thing Bush did in his 8 years as president was try to work with Democrats. Together they increased Social Spending, increased Federal Government involvement in Education, and then there were the billions in bailout money that was full of pork.
How is this following Palin's lead, when Palin and Alaska have nothing to do with National Security. Palin has never been part of the Federal Government.
So if the Government takes over for my ISP do I have to:
1. Have my computer pass a safety and emissions test once every other year?
2. Pass a computer driving test to get a computer operator license?
3. Pay a fee to register my computer every year?
4. Pay for tickets if I go too fast on the Internet?
5. Put a license plate on my computer?
6. Put up with construction delays during peak usage times, because they won't pay someone to work on it during off hours?
Liberals tend to be against road projects, because they would rather spend the money on mass transit, or school teachers.
In my opinion Mass Transit should not be publicly funded by State, or Federal Government. And School teachers even in the worst paying states start out around $22 per hour and go up to $40 per hour, with better benefits than most of the private sector, and have more time off than nearly all the private sector.
USPS actually costs much more to deliver a letter than what you pay for. It is subsidized by Tax dollars. USPS may charge less to deliver a letter, but they charge more to deliver a package. USPS pretty much has a Monopoly on letter delivery. If you want it delivered faster then others also provide that service.
Could it be regional warming? Antarctica has if anything seen an increase in ice over the past 30 years.
Actually I live in the Desert no where near the NE US.
So the "Proof" of global warming is basically that we have no better theory? Yet patterns of warming don't match very well with patterns of CO2(with the exception of the last 40 years or so). We are being told that Global temperatures have gone up by fractions of a degree. I would be amazed if they could actually get all that data together without the margin of error being at least fractions of a degree. I can have 3 different digital thermometers in different places in my yard and they will all read different. Going back 100 years they didn't have digital thermometers. Temperatures in Cities are warmer than outside cities.
Global warming appears to me to be science with an agenda behind it. With something as big and as complex as this, I think you could try to have the numbers say just about whatever you want them to say.
And surely it isn't too hard to comprehend that there are cycles and some are longer than others. We know there have been cycles that have lasted for more than fifty years. So who is to say that we are not seeing just another cycle? Why is it that when it is getting warmer is it caused by humans and when it is getting colder it is caused by a cycle?
According to the charts used by the Global Warming crowd there was a warming period from 1860-1880 but then a cooling period from 1880-1910 then a warming period from 1910-1940 then cooling from 1940-1950 Then several ups and downs since that have been equated to a general warming.
Did the sea level continue to rise by 1.7 mm during the cooling trends?
"Humans have been burning fossil fuels for more than 100 years."
If C02 levels have been elevated for over 100 years then why have we continued to see long periods of cooling?
No thanks, There is plenty of land where I live. Population density is 2 people per square mile.
So it is not Global warming, it is really just an extended North pole region warming?