In fairness, cost is typically a function of 95th percentile usage rather than a true peak. Most pruning plans use this as a benchmark. That is the difference between port cost and switch/uplink costs.
Depends on the neighborhood in LA. At work we have Level 3, TWTelecom, XO, and with a little effort could get SCE, DWP, and a few others. Home is FIOS, TimeWarner, and with a lot of effort a few others are available, albeit at business rates.
Downtown in a condo getting a competing provider in is relativelyeasy for building-level access (especially the closer you get to 1 Wilshire).
As much as I despise both companies, they have their place in printers.
At home we have a cheap HP 4620 multi-function unit that is wifi and USB only. Works with Apple's AirPrint for iOS devices which is huge for me. It has been a pain to deal with, but it can handle the basics ok for light duty, must-have-a-printer needs.
At work we have a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Printers with the compact Samsung duplex laser printers. $99 each, and pretty fast. Cost per page is comparable to our 15-year old Canon workhorse, but much faster for graphics. They die and you get another one.
Having problems for the past hour with cursed Java on my Mac. Really pisses me off that my Insteon controller absolutely requires it to update the system!!!
$7MM would only buy them about 800 square feet of datacenter, but it could be about 3,500 square feet of dispatch or emergency response. Essential Facilities in seismic zones tend to be base-isolated structures, which drives up costs.
I think for $7MM Los Angeles can just build a radio tower and shelter...
The paperwork is quite substantial. As a trite example, we had interns working on a project. In order for them to get site access, they needed to be formally on the project, $15 billing rate and all. Getting them on the project requires them to have a professional resume on our letterhead. All of this took about 5 (billable) hours... for 60 minutes of site access that wasn't actually billed. (We don't bill out interns time...). But, all that other time does actually have to get billed.
FAR time sheets and accounting requirements are likewise a bear.
You need to prevent corruption, but at the same time you need to actually get work done. There is a limit to how much distrust you can have without major impact on costs.
Government contracting is a bear and adds at least 30% inefficiency to the process for a small project; can't say on a large project but I imagine the percentage remains fairly constant. Just dealing with the timesheets and accounting is a nightmare.
BUT, to the GP's point, successful government contractors are the ones that have project managers whose sole purpose is to bastardize scope to justify additional services along every step of the way. They trap you into the additional work; it is an art in a way.
As to the WMBE participation, it does lead to abuses, but the idea is that it keeps *everything* from being centralized into a company like Lockheed Martin or Northrop Grumman, and instead makes them spread things out at worst, and gives competition at best.
This hasn't been a problem since 2000 when the EU mandated power factor correction and harmonic mitigation in computer power supplies. It was really big news back in the mid to late 1990's though. The theoretical maximum from triplen harmonics though is 1.73x phase current. Back in the day it was a problem for office buildings that had reduced-size neutrals in their bus risers, and for low voltage transformers.
Today it is rare that we see more than 10% current THD in an electrical power system.
I'm pretty sure it was EYP/HP doing the design of the data center; I know Skanska was part of the GC JV. They knew what they needed to do for capacity.
What likely happened is they assumed a high-performance PUE, but installed equipment in more of a low-performance PUE mindset (no cold aisle containment, insufficient hot air stratification for return, tighter humidity control requirements, etc. It is easy to think you will have a 1.3PUE looking at the system, but a few small changes can bump that up to 1.6 quickly. If you size your generators and transformers for the 1.3PUE then you are 25% overloaded. But, by the rate they are apparently adding generators at the site I imagine things will be resolved pretty soon.
And what was a lost or damaged textbook? Back in my youth, IIRC about $35 to replace my 3rd grade Social Studies book about the wonders of the Tasady People. I think it was a couple years later that they realized the Tasady were a hoax. With inflation, that would place a single textbook loss at about $85-100.
Not being able to opt-out is a bit of a bummer, but I appreciate the challenges of BYOD in K-12.
Fine. I dropped my iPad like a complete idiot from 5' onto a concrete surface at approximately 15mph impact velocity. (Riding bike, fell out of unzipped backpack.) Unit hit dead on the corner, cracked the screen (chipped in the corner and two long cracks across the screen). Still fully functional, although it likely has a reduced life now. It happens, it sucks, but my only regret is that it has 64GB storage and replacing the body and screen cost $200+ which really isn't worth it for a 3rd generation iPad. Two more weeks and I should be able to get an upgrade...
The problem with answering any questions is that the deck is stacked against you already, and answering without a lawyer that restores some semblance of balance to the ordeal is legal suicide.
To the society question, well this is what happens when the system is rigged against individuals. "Innocent Bystanders" are rarely good witnesses to the accuracy of events anyway, so the benefit to an investigation is limited.
They problem with HydrOx is that you need very deep deco stops as the bubbles will form with smaller pressure gradients. It was studied for a while, but I don't think it ever got too far. Well, that and you don't want to open the valve to clean your regulator any where near the boat. The tank itself is stable though...
Heat transfer is proportional to the temperature difference between the return water and the surrounding (approach temperature), the surface area, and the thermal conductivity of the medium. Higher temperature differences reduce the thermodynamic efficiency, and fouling of the heat exchanger is going to reduce the thermal conductivity, as will the thicker metal that will withstand the corrosion. You also need to deal that without inducing water flow across the heat exchanger you are going to get stratification of warmer water and further reduce heat transfer.
But, the problem has been solved for a long time. In Hong Kong they use harbor water to run through the chillers for cooling buildings. You can't possibly get worse water than that no matter how hard you try. It takes a lot of maintenance and multiple stages of filters, but it works pretty well.
Yeah... still pining for the previous round. Hope the adblock filters are easy enough to set up to get rid of the useless pictures on the home page.
Really though... does a website that caters to people that don't have the attention span to read even the headlines really sound like a place you want to spend time..?
Are you kidding or what?! Android fragmentation (was) an issue with newly released devices and units that are less than a year old. Anybody that is able to keep a smartphone for four years today is a rare case.
With the iPhone you get iOS 7 support for a 3-year old phone model (which granted could be purchased a month ago); the youngest phone sold new that is not supported by iOS 7 is the 3GS, which hasn't been available for a year, and when it was available it was free with contract.
I got a kick out of the summary as well... why throw in analyst garbage like that. According to several analysis, the US sales of the 5S outnumber the 5C by 3.7:1, and in Japan it is closer to 5:1. Globally, it is likely that there were about 7MM 5S and 2MM 5C units sold... which is a hell of a lot more than the 5 sold on launch, and also a lot more than any other manufacturer has ever sold on launch.
A large number of smaller sites (than Facebook) has a lower value than Facebook due to network effects.
What happens when you look at the Internet as just another commodity? Would Brazil want the US to create legislation to ensure that all planes flown in US airspace must be made in the US?
Transit vectors are notoriously hard to trend; it is easy to know how many people are on a segment of road at a given time, but much harder to understand origin, destination, and choices of route without something like this.
Transit vectors help you to develop long-range planning for busses, trains, and road improvements.
Simple theoretical example-- 30% of people use exit 33 when exit 31 is a shorter route, because of a traffic light after the exit. Your capital upgrade can either to improve exit 33 (which just makes problems worse), or re work the intersection with the traffic light.
Of course this doesn't preclude nefarious uses, but there is a legitimate purpose.
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In fairness, cost is typically a function of 95th percentile usage rather than a true peak. Most pruning plans use this as a benchmark. That is the difference between port cost and switch/uplink costs.
Depends on the neighborhood in LA. At work we have Level 3, TWTelecom, XO, and with a little effort could get SCE, DWP, and a few others. Home is FIOS, TimeWarner, and with a lot of effort a few others are available, albeit at business rates.
Downtown in a condo getting a competing provider in is relativelyeasy for building-level access (especially the closer you get to 1 Wilshire).
As much as I despise both companies, they have their place in printers.
At home we have a cheap HP 4620 multi-function unit that is wifi and USB only. Works with Apple's AirPrint for iOS devices which is huge for me. It has been a pain to deal with, but it can handle the basics ok for light duty, must-have-a-printer needs.
At work we have a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Printers with the compact Samsung duplex laser printers. $99 each, and pretty fast. Cost per page is comparable to our 15-year old Canon workhorse, but much faster for graphics. They die and you get another one.
Having problems for the past hour with cursed Java on my Mac. Really pisses me off that my Insteon controller absolutely requires it to update the system!!!
$7MM would only buy them about 800 square feet of datacenter, but it could be about 3,500 square feet of dispatch or emergency response. Essential Facilities in seismic zones tend to be base-isolated structures, which drives up costs.
I think for $7MM Los Angeles can just build a radio tower and shelter...
The paperwork is quite substantial. As a trite example, we had interns working on a project. In order for them to get site access, they needed to be formally on the project, $15 billing rate and all. Getting them on the project requires them to have a professional resume on our letterhead. All of this took about 5 (billable) hours... for 60 minutes of site access that wasn't actually billed. (We don't bill out interns time...). But, all that other time does actually have to get billed.
FAR time sheets and accounting requirements are likewise a bear.
You need to prevent corruption, but at the same time you need to actually get work done. There is a limit to how much distrust you can have without major impact on costs.
Government contracting is a bear and adds at least 30% inefficiency to the process for a small project; can't say on a large project but I imagine the percentage remains fairly constant. Just dealing with the timesheets and accounting is a nightmare.
BUT, to the GP's point, successful government contractors are the ones that have project managers whose sole purpose is to bastardize scope to justify additional services along every step of the way. They trap you into the additional work; it is an art in a way.
As to the WMBE participation, it does lead to abuses, but the idea is that it keeps *everything* from being centralized into a company like Lockheed Martin or Northrop Grumman, and instead makes them spread things out at worst, and gives competition at best.
This hasn't been a problem since 2000 when the EU mandated power factor correction and harmonic mitigation in computer power supplies. It was really big news back in the mid to late 1990's though. The theoretical maximum from triplen harmonics though is 1.73x phase current. Back in the day it was a problem for office buildings that had reduced-size neutrals in their bus risers, and for low voltage transformers.
Today it is rare that we see more than 10% current THD in an electrical power system.
I'm pretty sure it was EYP/HP doing the design of the data center; I know Skanska was part of the GC JV. They knew what they needed to do for capacity.
What likely happened is they assumed a high-performance PUE, but installed equipment in more of a low-performance PUE mindset (no cold aisle containment, insufficient hot air stratification for return, tighter humidity control requirements, etc. It is easy to think you will have a 1.3PUE looking at the system, but a few small changes can bump that up to 1.6 quickly. If you size your generators and transformers for the 1.3PUE then you are 25% overloaded. But, by the rate they are apparently adding generators at the site I imagine things will be resolved pretty soon.
And what was a lost or damaged textbook? Back in my youth, IIRC about $35 to replace my 3rd grade Social Studies book about the wonders of the Tasady People. I think it was a couple years later that they realized the Tasady were a hoax. With inflation, that would place a single textbook loss at about $85-100.
Not being able to opt-out is a bit of a bummer, but I appreciate the challenges of BYOD in K-12.
Fine. I dropped my iPad like a complete idiot from 5' onto a concrete surface at approximately 15mph impact velocity. (Riding bike, fell out of unzipped backpack.) Unit hit dead on the corner, cracked the screen (chipped in the corner and two long cracks across the screen). Still fully functional, although it likely has a reduced life now. It happens, it sucks, but my only regret is that it has 64GB storage and replacing the body and screen cost $200+ which really isn't worth it for a 3rd generation iPad. Two more weeks and I should be able to get an upgrade...
The problem with answering any questions is that the deck is stacked against you already, and answering without a lawyer that restores some semblance of balance to the ordeal is legal suicide.
To the society question, well this is what happens when the system is rigged against individuals. "Innocent Bystanders" are rarely good witnesses to the accuracy of events anyway, so the benefit to an investigation is limited.
They problem with HydrOx is that you need very deep deco stops as the bubbles will form with smaller pressure gradients. It was studied for a while, but I don't think it ever got too far. Well, that and you don't want to open the valve to clean your regulator any where near the boat. The tank itself is stable though...
Jellyfish abound in HK harbor. About the only living thing there; they seem to thrive on pollution.
Heat transfer is proportional to the temperature difference between the return water and the surrounding (approach temperature), the surface area, and the thermal conductivity of the medium. Higher temperature differences reduce the thermodynamic efficiency, and fouling of the heat exchanger is going to reduce the thermal conductivity, as will the thicker metal that will withstand the corrosion. You also need to deal that without inducing water flow across the heat exchanger you are going to get stratification of warmer water and further reduce heat transfer.
But, the problem has been solved for a long time. In Hong Kong they use harbor water to run through the chillers for cooling buildings. You can't possibly get worse water than that no matter how hard you try. It takes a lot of maintenance and multiple stages of filters, but it works pretty well.
Yeah... still pining for the previous round. Hope the adblock filters are easy enough to set up to get rid of the useless pictures on the home page.
Really though... does a website that caters to people that don't have the attention span to read even the headlines really sound like a place you want to spend time..?
The energy use is mainly a function of the quantity and not the pressure (within reasonable limits).
Go green... use Hydrogen instead. (Just be sure to keep that PPO2 under 4% and not breathe the stuff above 20m.)
Seriously though, isn't the point of Trimix to limit O2 toxicity more than nitrogen narcosis? Maybe compared to using EANx10 at 60m...
Back OT though, with all the natural gas liquification isn't distilling out the helium easy enough?
...and people stealing screen names!
Samsung claimed 20MM Galaxy 4's shipped in the first two months. Sales estimates for the time period were much lower though.
Are you kidding or what?! Android fragmentation (was) an issue with newly released devices and units that are less than a year old. Anybody that is able to keep a smartphone for four years today is a rare case.
With the iPhone you get iOS 7 support for a 3-year old phone model (which granted could be purchased a month ago); the youngest phone sold new that is not supported by iOS 7 is the 3GS, which hasn't been available for a year, and when it was available it was free with contract.
I got a kick out of the summary as well... why throw in analyst garbage like that. According to several analysis, the US sales of the 5S outnumber the 5C by 3.7:1, and in Japan it is closer to 5:1. Globally, it is likely that there were about 7MM 5S and 2MM 5C units sold... which is a hell of a lot more than the 5 sold on launch, and also a lot more than any other manufacturer has ever sold on launch.
A large number of smaller sites (than Facebook) has a lower value than Facebook due to network effects.
What happens when you look at the Internet as just another commodity? Would Brazil want the US to create legislation to ensure that all planes flown in US airspace must be made in the US?
Speak for yourself.
One more job lost...
Really is absurd that you need equipment to do this task in the first place.
Transit vectors are notoriously hard to trend; it is easy to know how many people are on a segment of road at a given time, but much harder to understand origin, destination, and choices of route without something like this.
Transit vectors help you to develop long-range planning for busses, trains, and road improvements.
Simple theoretical example-- 30% of people use exit 33 when exit 31 is a shorter route, because of a traffic light after the exit. Your capital upgrade can either to improve exit 33 (which just makes problems worse), or re work the intersection with the traffic light.
Of course this doesn't preclude nefarious uses, but there is a legitimate purpose.