I agree with much of what has already been stated here. You want to keep things as simple as possible while meeting the business needs of the customer.
The first step is to outline what those business needs are. What applications are they using? How much network traffic do they pass? What about their printing environment? Faxing? Are they using VOIP or video conferencing? What kind of downtime can they endure? If they want to keep all of this in house, are they prepared to build out a small data center type of area?
Then you need to understand their growth and their support capabilities. Can your solution scale to meet their needs in six months? Will they be able to cope if something goes south?
Also, what is your budget? They can ask for anything they want to, but if they don't give you the money to build it, you are done before you start.
If it is that critical, then you should have a redundant network connection. Preferably one that eliminates last mile issues, whether it be 3G or a fiber pull that is completely separate from the primary all the way out to a different CO and provider. A 3G connection will only run you roughly $100 a month and while it isn't ideal, especially with the usage caps, it will hold you over until your primary line comes back up. Keeping a small office connected is not that difficult.
Considering the achievement system (a otherwise useless construct designed to keep people playing via compulsive behavior), they're not cheating anybody.
I stopped reading after I saw the author of the first article lament that phone manufacturers had been neglecting touchscreens right after putting up a picture of a Palm Treo as an example of the older phones.
Why is it the responsibility of the game companies to police their users for addictive tendencies and then treat them? If those people weren't playing games, they'd be on IRC or Facebook all day or the next episode of hoarders or something. Games are the outlet, not the cause.
Who leaves a minefield unattended? The point of them is either to divert the enemy to a preferred route or to stop the enemy at a known point so you can blow the crap out of them. Either way, you have somebody watching them. You don't just toss them out there and hope that they kill people. Minefields aren't very efficient in that role.
Why a robot? Because Combat Engineers are too squishy and MCLC Monsters (a pair of MCLCs mounted on an AVLB) are too huge.
As has already been said, they work that magic by bridging an Nvidia NF200 that provides the additional lanes and that communicates over the same shared 2GB/s DMI as everything else. The P55 still only provides 16 PCI-E 2.0 lanes via the CPU and 8 PCI-E 2.0 lanes (that are signal rate limited) via the chipset. This limit is what potentially hurts USB 3.0 and SATA 6.0 cards.
In contrast, the 890FX has 42 PCI-E 2.0 lanes. 32 dedicated to graphics slots, 4 to a PCI-E x4 slot and the rest are for single x1 slots.
As far as it making a difference...crossfire slot speed only makes a difference when you are using it, but USB 3.0 and SATA 6 can make a difference all of the time.
It is an unfair comparison. The 890FX is a top end board while the P55 is midrange.
The lack of a card slot is a bad design choice, but it doesn't have the memory limitations that the other smart phones have either. It has twice the RAM of the iPhone 3GS and Droid. The 16GB of storage can be limiting, but that is still quite a bit. On the positive side, the mobile hotspot feature is really awesome and no other phone can do it right now and the OS is much friendlier.
As far as there being no GSM version for a long time...The iPhone has been exclusive with a carrier for a while now too. That's common practice...Blackberry does the same thing with their devices. AT&T will have their hardware available in a couple of weeks and GSM versions have been available in Europe for quite a while now.
The Palm does have fewer native WebOS apps right now (if you include PalmOS apps, it is up there with the iPhone except with a higher ratio of useful apps, but classic is a clunky way to run apps), but the iPhone didn't have its current 10,000 fart simulation apps in its first year either. Palm is missing some WebOS apps that it needs to get in order to be a top contender, but the iPhone and Android don't have all of the apps that people need either, if you can even find them after wading through all of the garbage. If Palm (or whoever buys them) can keep the platform above water long enough to get it onto all of the carriers and they start to market it, the apps will come.
The difference is that the Tivo, Xbox, and Palm Pre are all appliances that have not traditionally been sold with separate operating systems. Operating systems in phones and gaming consoles are a relatively new development. In contrast, computers and operating systems for them have been sold as separate products since at least the 1980's.
Apple does sell their software without hardware. They just try to tell you how you are allowed to use it once you own it.
Kevlar will stop things like knives and tazers. That's what flak vests are for. A "bullet proof" vest is not a flak vest, however, and one will not protect you like the other. The military's body armor is designed to do both jobs.
Relative to your comment about superstition, several studies have indicated that people who hold do not believe in a god are more likely to hold to superstitious beliefs (Bigfoot is real, UFO's are aliens, the number 13 is unlucky, etc) than those who are strongly Christian (this may extend to Jews and Muslims, but I do not recall for sure).
I find that highly unlikely since every single person that believes in a god by definition holds superstitious beliefs.
BGG's rankings system has nothing to do with availability. The fact is that Space Hulk nosedived on the charts because people pulled or changed their good ratings in protest over the C&D letter.
Good luck trying to cross the border with your "forged" passport.
I've flown on a passport that doesn't scan and it hasn't been an issue for me. It isn't like they've never run into issues with things not scanning before.
Don't you think you guys have a problem if it takes you days to replace a dead motherboard? At the co-location our company uses, we had a server fail on us which was fixed in a matter of hours. The server is hosted in the US so it wasn't even during their office hours.
It depends completely on your warranty terms and whether or not the part you need is available. Not everybody has a 24x7x4 warranty on their equipment.
Just because a company's short term business model is pulling in a profit doesn't mean your shares will be worth anything in a few years time! If you disagree with that, perhaps you'd like to buy my shares in the company that made Tamagotchi?
You mean Bandai? http://www.bandai.com/ Yeah, what a failure *that* company turned out to be.
That link has good information for anyone interested in the actual math. The short of it is that if you grabbed the terminals with metal pliers, your resistance would be 2500 Ohms at worst. 12 volts divided by 2500 Ohms is only 4.8mA if my math is right, far short of the 500mA lethal dose.
If you were doing this just after getting out of the shower, your resistance would be 500 Ohms which would equal 24mA (again, if my math is right) which is still far short of the 500 needed to kill you.
Bah! I was kidding about the ring (note the smiley for the internet impared.)
My point was that in order to get shocked at all, your skin would have to be wet and then the current is going to travel along the liquid and not through the body. It will hurt, but it wont kill you unless you really work hard at it.
"Could you be more wrong?"
Considering that I'm not wrong at all, yes I could.
Amps is what kills you, but voltage differential is what allows the electrons to flow. The body has too much resistance for 12 volts to penetrate. That's why a 9 volt battery doesn't shock you, but a stun gun powered by that same 9 volt battery does. Anyone who understands electricity understands that.
"That sentence makes no sense to anyone who understand electricity."
Maybe it's just you?
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I agree with much of what has already been stated here. You want to keep things as simple as possible while meeting the business needs of the customer.
The first step is to outline what those business needs are. What applications are they using? How much network traffic do they pass? What about their printing environment? Faxing? Are they using VOIP or video conferencing? What kind of downtime can they endure? If they want to keep all of this in house, are they prepared to build out a small data center type of area?
Then you need to understand their growth and their support capabilities. Can your solution scale to meet their needs in six months? Will they be able to cope if something goes south?
Also, what is your budget? They can ask for anything they want to, but if they don't give you the money to build it, you are done before you start.
If it is that critical, then you should have a redundant network connection. Preferably one that eliminates last mile issues, whether it be 3G or a fiber pull that is completely separate from the primary all the way out to a different CO and provider. A 3G connection will only run you roughly $100 a month and while it isn't ideal, especially with the usage caps, it will hold you over until your primary line comes back up. Keeping a small office connected is not that difficult.
Considering the achievement system (a otherwise useless construct designed to keep people playing via compulsive behavior), they're not cheating anybody.
Offering people a choice of murder weapons *and* cold beer? Not many people would go to such lengths.
http://www.postgazette.com/pg/10258/1087582-454.stm
The contract was ending next month anyway.
I stopped reading after I saw the author of the first article lament that phone manufacturers had been neglecting touchscreens right after putting up a picture of a Palm Treo as an example of the older phones.
Why is it the responsibility of the game companies to police their users for addictive tendencies and then treat them? If those people weren't playing games, they'd be on IRC or Facebook all day or the next episode of hoarders or something. Games are the outlet, not the cause.
Who leaves a minefield unattended? The point of them is either to divert the enemy to a preferred route or to stop the enemy at a known point so you can blow the crap out of them. Either way, you have somebody watching them. You don't just toss them out there and hope that they kill people. Minefields aren't very efficient in that role.
Why a robot? Because Combat Engineers are too squishy and MCLC Monsters (a pair of MCLCs mounted on an AVLB) are too huge.
As has already been said, they work that magic by bridging an Nvidia NF200 that provides the additional lanes and that communicates over the same shared 2GB/s DMI as everything else. The P55 still only provides 16 PCI-E 2.0 lanes via the CPU and 8 PCI-E 2.0 lanes (that are signal rate limited) via the chipset. This limit is what potentially hurts USB 3.0 and SATA 6.0 cards.
In contrast, the 890FX has 42 PCI-E 2.0 lanes. 32 dedicated to graphics slots, 4 to a PCI-E x4 slot and the rest are for single x1 slots.
Block diagram of the P55 is found here: http://techreport.com/articles.x/17513
Block diagram of the 890FX is found here: http://techreport.com/articles.x/18825
As far as it making a difference...crossfire slot speed only makes a difference when you are using it, but USB 3.0 and SATA 6 can make a difference all of the time.
It is an unfair comparison. The 890FX is a top end board while the P55 is midrange.
Yup. Good thing.
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The lack of a card slot is a bad design choice, but it doesn't have the memory limitations that the other smart phones have either. It has twice the RAM of the iPhone 3GS and Droid. The 16GB of storage can be limiting, but that is still quite a bit. On the positive side, the mobile hotspot feature is really awesome and no other phone can do it right now and the OS is much friendlier.
As far as there being no GSM version for a long time...The iPhone has been exclusive with a carrier for a while now too. That's common practice...Blackberry does the same thing with their devices. AT&T will have their hardware available in a couple of weeks and GSM versions have been available in Europe for quite a while now.
The Palm does have fewer native WebOS apps right now (if you include PalmOS apps, it is up there with the iPhone except with a higher ratio of useful apps, but classic is a clunky way to run apps), but the iPhone didn't have its current 10,000 fart simulation apps in its first year either. Palm is missing some WebOS apps that it needs to get in order to be a top contender, but the iPhone and Android don't have all of the apps that people need either, if you can even find them after wading through all of the garbage. If Palm (or whoever buys them) can keep the platform above water long enough to get it onto all of the carriers and they start to market it, the apps will come.
The difference is that the Tivo, Xbox, and Palm Pre are all appliances that have not traditionally been sold with separate operating systems. Operating systems in phones and gaming consoles are a relatively new development. In contrast, computers and operating systems for them have been sold as separate products since at least the 1980's.
Apple does sell their software without hardware. They just try to tell you how you are allowed to use it once you own it.
Kevlar will stop things like knives and tazers. That's what flak vests are for. A "bullet proof" vest is not a flak vest, however, and one will not protect you like the other. The military's body armor is designed to do both jobs.
Any drugs, even asprin must be administered by a school nurse. Always.
Always? Including when they are at home as in this case?
Relative to your comment about superstition, several studies have indicated that people who hold do not believe in a god are more likely to hold to superstitious beliefs (Bigfoot is real, UFO's are aliens, the number 13 is unlucky, etc) than those who are strongly Christian (this may extend to Jews and Muslims, but I do not recall for sure).
I find that highly unlikely since every single person that believes in a god by definition holds superstitious beliefs.
They make you set up an entire network while hang gliding.
BGG's rankings system has nothing to do with availability. The fact is that Space Hulk nosedived on the charts because people pulled or changed their good ratings in protest over the C&D letter.
Good luck trying to cross the border with your "forged" passport.
I've flown on a passport that doesn't scan and it hasn't been an issue for me. It isn't like they've never run into issues with things not scanning before.
Don't you think you guys have a problem if it takes you days to replace a dead motherboard? At the co-location our company uses, we had a server fail on us which was fixed in a matter of hours. The server is hosted in the US so it wasn't even during their office hours.
It depends completely on your warranty terms and whether or not the part you need is available. Not everybody has a 24x7x4 warranty on their equipment.
Just because a company's short term business model is pulling in a profit doesn't mean your shares will be worth anything in a few years time! If you disagree with that, perhaps you'd like to buy my shares in the company that made Tamagotchi?
You mean Bandai? http://www.bandai.com/ Yeah, what a failure *that* company turned out to be.
The computer you typed your post on...is it made of tea leaves?
No, but it did steal the wireless signal from a Holiday Inn Express last night.
http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_1/chpt_3/4.html
That link has good information for anyone interested in the actual math. The short of it is that if you grabbed the terminals with metal pliers, your resistance would be 2500 Ohms at worst. 12 volts divided by 2500 Ohms is only 4.8mA if my math is right, far short of the 500mA lethal dose.
If you were doing this just after getting out of the shower, your resistance would be 500 Ohms which would equal 24mA (again, if my math is right) which is still far short of the 500 needed to kill you.
Bah! I was kidding about the ring (note the smiley for the internet impared.)
My point was that in order to get shocked at all, your skin would have to be wet and then the current is going to travel along the liquid and not through the body. It will hurt, but it wont kill you unless you really work hard at it.
12 volts just isn't enough to penetrate the body.
"Could you be more wrong?" Considering that I'm not wrong at all, yes I could. Amps is what kills you, but voltage differential is what allows the electrons to flow. The body has too much resistance for 12 volts to penetrate. That's why a 9 volt battery doesn't shock you, but a stun gun powered by that same 9 volt battery does. Anyone who understands electricity understands that. "That sentence makes no sense to anyone who understand electricity." Maybe it's just you?
I know this is /. but you could try reading the article. You'll only get ganked if you go someplace (well marked) that has RvR active.