The question "what was before this?" seems to me to be a fair and predictable one, and one that a LOT of scientific effort has been expended on already. You would be well served to let go of your biases and consider the questions on their merits.
Only because you see it simpler to accept that 'before' the big bang is something to speculate about, while an eternal, omnipotent, omnipresent, supernatural being is preposterous.
Your razor is, to me, poorly suited to this task. But you're certainly not in bad company.
All this science explains 'what'. It barely scratches the surface of 'how'. And is nowhere near explainng either 'who' or 'why'.
For all of you who rail at the clever rhetorical device of 'God is God and gets to do what He wants', consider the equally clever rhetorical device of 'it just happened'.
Faith is the belief in what is unseen. Science need not operate on the basis of faith. It is impelled to see, and correctly. It wasn't that long ago that science was being advanced by theists who saw no contradiction in explaining the physical universe despite believing it was all made by God. Some of us still do that. The accusation by others that that is not consistent, or not possible, is stupid.
"+1 it would be a very foolish government that can not see the value in a fully functioning health care system as part of their national defense strategy"
By this standard, the price of milk is part of your national defense strategy. Not. Go back and try again.
There is a reason you don't drive your rally car in day to day traffic like you do in a race. ABS in a race would be bad for your times. Driving as damned fast as you could in regular traffic would be bad for other drivers.
My $30 refrigerator water filter includes a 'block of carbon'. It even says so on the carton, though I sawed one open to see, and yes, a block of carbon.
Anyways, that's still too porous to be very effective compared to RO or the new RO, Graphene.
And virtually NO public water system in the U.S. relys exclusively on gravity. My birthplace pumped water up to on of two standpipes, which then used gravity to supply us water under pressure, but the pumps were needed. Even New York City pumpsm despite their supply coming from Upstate New York. At higher elevation. Friciton losses from the pipes, canals (?), and aqueucts negate that.
But a graphene filter at the bottom of a standpipe could be a gravity solution, and all you need is a solution to clearing the filter and replacing it occasionally. That seems doable.
MS devised Surface, very clever and a rational progression from Kinect. Quick, how many manufacturers have integrated Kinect into their products? I'm unaware of it being integrated into any hardware. Would a Kinect interface in a laptop be interesting?
So, it's really like this: If you want your innovations in the marketplace fast, you better be putting them there yourself. Apple gets this.
Microsoft can either plead with its 'partners' to build these things, or they can contract with a partner or two to make stuff for them.
Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer, etc are not going to risk much making cool PC stuff, they are just volume manufacturers. Some (Dell) aren't really manufacturers at all.
So Microsoft will contract for stuff that is cool. Apple does this, and iPads get the better technology earlier. Microsoft's Surface would NOT, repeat NOT be on the market before 2014 if left to the manufacturers. They need to noodle over the design, drive out the cost, maximize profit, and guarantee a market. Microsoft needs to establish themselves in the market, get there before someone else does, and provide the MVP to at least leverage their capital and crush the opposition. Surface is a step past whatever the iPad interface is. Gestures that don't even need a touch screen interest me.
Apple strategy. Evil is as evil does, no matter the name on the product.
If you need examples of failure, the HP touchpad and RIM Playbook come to mind first. Toshiba, Acer, etc have tablets that are superfluous in the marketplace. If you want the iPad market, you have to do B E T T E R than the iPad.
If my gym tells me that the member that body slammed me in the locker room wasn't even in the building at the time, because the video shows some other clown used their card, I'll stil be asking for that member to be sent off. If they can match fingerprints and stop this roided-out putsz at the door, fair enough.
I use my fingerprint AND an RFID card to get into work. And I like my job. Biometrics are coming to you. Prepare.
"that Windows Phone 8 won't be coming to current Windows Phone devices."
This is an old tune, from the Windows CE days. No matter the reason, Windows portable devices, from CE on through to now Phone 8, just don't update previous devices.
At one time, this was just an annoyance, realizing you were going to have to buy a new phone/etc. But we are in a different world. Phone 7 devices are pretty capable. Microsoft just doesn't get it - they leave every generation behind, even a month or two later, and are doing it now.
Good luck, guys. We're really gonna invest in Windows phones now, you betcha.
Ok, if you're using Wordpress, your expectations of security are without foundation. Password or not, Wordpress is not what I would use even if I weren't pissing people off by the thousands.
Laptops/notebooks, tablets where possible. Anything that can be used in a zipper case is a plus.
Wireless of course. Several sets of access points, two in the trailer. The production ones can be left behind to burn.
Many of today's notebooks can do a good job as a server, remember to use power settings that make sense for server duty.
Backups of course, but probably external drives.
If you have the flexibility to choose your server OS, one that offers a resilient filesystem is good, since you may have to power down in a vehicle of some sort. Pulling the external drive off when running will exercise the resilience.
Bugging out would consist mostly of closing lids, zipping up cases (maybe) and running. Servers go the same way. IF you can grab the APs, fine. For 50 users, this will not take a half hour. Crates to take the zip cases should let you essentially drop stations in there. You can build crates that cushion your servers better. External drives get better cushioning also, but using notebook drives enhances their durability, some. Everything else can survive.
Keep a set of UPSes in the trailer, or at least by the back door, charging. These will get handy when you arrive at the new location, and if you save the old ones, you may use two sets to give you instant power while you get everything running, and find the outlets for permanent power. A generator would be handy, and it need not be big. Propane rigs are easier to handle than gasoline. If your evac point is within 2 hours' drive, you may even be able to safe the servers, park the drives, and take them on the trip running. You ARE writing scripts to do emergency shutdowns, safe modes, parks, and closing critical apps/saving data, riiiight?
I'm assuming you may not always have 24 hours' notice. If you will have a guaranteed 2 hour notice, then use short racks that can be wheeled around, and you can have fairly conventional servers and wired network, just plan on abandoning the cabling, which is entirely expendable IMHO. Leaving the servers and switches cabled together is helpful, and sme simplified interconnect to mutiple cabinets will help. Plenty of cables in the trailer, and a spool of cable with a bag of plugs and at least 2 crimpers also. And a simple tester. Trust me on this, no point in guessing if you made it right. Making those 200' cables to solve a problem would be handy.
Lots of diagrams laminated to the cabinets is handy, even a grease penciled fill in the blanks chart to show what was built is a blessing when you reconnect.
Somehow, I suspect the military has some advice for you on this. Someone in Interior or the Forest Service must have a contact.
I would love to be in that business. Nothing like having to make DR plans that have to accomodate the loss of the facility to sharpen your focus and get the juices flowing. The last project like that I was in, a financial institution needed a similar plan, and we even has a BOM at a distributor ready to be ordered and shipped on notice, updated quarterly. Almost got to do it for real, but they fixed the gas leak without blowing up the building. Darn.:)
True. But Liberals seem to think their decisions are not just better for themselves, but the decisions they want to make for everyone else are better also.
And the decisions are different. Bad Conservative, stop polluting our environment. Now, 'scuse me while I hop in my private jet and get to Cannes in time for lunch with the gang. OK? We good here?
Those of us who fit that description largely (!) got there the same way you've come up with your post. It makes you feel better, somehow, and satisfies some animal instinct you cannot otherwise neither satisfy nor tame.
Let me guess. You're not of the right-wing persuasion, eh? How's your country doing?
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The question "what was before this?" seems to me to be a fair and predictable one, and one that a LOT of scientific effort has been expended on already. You would be well served to let go of your biases and consider the questions on their merits.
Only because you see it simpler to accept that 'before' the big bang is something to speculate about, while an eternal, omnipotent, omnipresent, supernatural being is preposterous.
Your razor is, to me, poorly suited to this task. But you're certainly not in bad company.
Typical ignorant misconception.
All this science explains 'what'. It barely scratches the surface of 'how'. And is nowhere near explainng either 'who' or 'why'.
For all of you who rail at the clever rhetorical device of 'God is God and gets to do what He wants', consider the equally clever rhetorical device of 'it just happened'.
Faith is the belief in what is unseen. Science need not operate on the basis of faith. It is impelled to see, and correctly. It wasn't that long ago that science was being advanced by theists who saw no contradiction in explaining the physical universe despite believing it was all made by God. Some of us still do that. The accusation by others that that is not consistent, or not possible, is stupid.
"+1 it would be a very foolish government that can not see the value in a fully functioning health care system as part of their national defense strategy"
By this standard, the price of milk is part of your national defense strategy. Not. Go back and try again.
ABS fits the F1 model perfectly. NASCAR not so well. Dirt track idunno. Motorcycles?
We've been reforesting the U.S. for at least the past 15 years, and probably longer, but of course it is not enough.
Depends on the crops, and your expectations, or how high your house is off the surf.
"if the freeway part of your rush hour commute... ...and you have a car that’s smart enough to guide itself during predictable, low-speed conditions."
Ok, why do these two things not *seem* to go together?
There is a reason you don't drive your rally car in day to day traffic like you do in a race. ABS in a race would be bad for your times. Driving as damned fast as you could in regular traffic would be bad for other drivers.
Please don't become a judge.
Then come over and drive me on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Otherwise, get off my lawn.
My $30 refrigerator water filter includes a 'block of carbon'. It even says so on the carton, though I sawed one open to see, and yes, a block of carbon.
Anyways, that's still too porous to be very effective compared to RO or the new RO, Graphene.
And virtually NO public water system in the U.S. relys exclusively on gravity. My birthplace pumped water up to on of two standpipes, which then used gravity to supply us water under pressure, but the pumps were needed. Even New York City pumpsm despite their supply coming from Upstate New York. At higher elevation. Friciton losses from the pipes, canals (?), and aqueucts negate that.
But a graphene filter at the bottom of a standpipe could be a gravity solution, and all you need is a solution to clearing the filter and replacing it occasionally. That seems doable.
Then you are free to use the free software that doesn't exist.
CM Studio is inadequate? Every issue of Computer Music comes with a DVD, CMStudio being the centerpiece, with loads of samples etc.
No, not free. Usually about $15 in the US, £6+ in UK, more elsewhere I bet.
If you don't wanna pay $15, well, have at it.
Old story, months ago. really? This is the best you all can do?
that the 1% are preparing their children.
MS devised Surface, very clever and a rational progression from Kinect. Quick, how many manufacturers have integrated Kinect into their products? I'm unaware of it being integrated into any hardware. Would a Kinect interface in a laptop be interesting?
So, it's really like this: If you want your innovations in the marketplace fast, you better be putting them there yourself. Apple gets this.
Microsoft can either plead with its 'partners' to build these things, or they can contract with a partner or two to make stuff for them.
Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer, etc are not going to risk much making cool PC stuff, they are just volume manufacturers. Some (Dell) aren't really manufacturers at all.
So Microsoft will contract for stuff that is cool. Apple does this, and iPads get the better technology earlier. Microsoft's Surface would NOT, repeat NOT be on the market before 2014 if left to the manufacturers. They need to noodle over the design, drive out the cost, maximize profit, and guarantee a market. Microsoft needs to establish themselves in the market, get there before someone else does, and provide the MVP to at least leverage their capital and crush the opposition. Surface is a step past whatever the iPad interface is. Gestures that don't even need a touch screen interest me.
Apple strategy. Evil is as evil does, no matter the name on the product.
If you need examples of failure, the HP touchpad and RIM Playbook come to mind first. Toshiba, Acer, etc have tablets that are superfluous in the marketplace. If you want the iPad market, you have to do B E T T E R than the iPad.
'as good as' leads me to just buy an iPad. Feh.
If my gym tells me that the member that body slammed me in the locker room wasn't even in the building at the time, because the video shows some other clown used their card, I'll stil be asking for that member to be sent off. If they can match fingerprints and stop this roided-out putsz at the door, fair enough.
I use my fingerprint AND an RFID card to get into work. And I like my job. Biometrics are coming to you. Prepare.
"that Windows Phone 8 won't be coming to current Windows Phone devices."
This is an old tune, from the Windows CE days. No matter the reason, Windows portable devices, from CE on through to now Phone 8, just don't update previous devices.
At one time, this was just an annoyance, realizing you were going to have to buy a new phone/etc. But we are in a different world. Phone 7 devices are pretty capable. Microsoft just doesn't get it - they leave every generation behind, even a month or two later, and are doing it now.
Good luck, guys. We're really gonna invest in Windows phones now, you betcha.
Ok, if you're using Wordpress, your expectations of security are without foundation. Password or not, Wordpress is not what I would use even if I weren't pissing people off by the thousands.
Laptops/notebooks, tablets where possible. Anything that can be used in a zipper case is a plus.
Wireless of course. Several sets of access points, two in the trailer. The production ones can be left behind to burn.
Many of today's notebooks can do a good job as a server, remember to use power settings that make sense for server duty.
Backups of course, but probably external drives.
If you have the flexibility to choose your server OS, one that offers a resilient filesystem is good, since you may have to power down in a vehicle of some sort. Pulling the external drive off when running will exercise the resilience.
Bugging out would consist mostly of closing lids, zipping up cases (maybe) and running. Servers go the same way. IF you can grab the APs, fine. For 50 users, this will not take a half hour. Crates to take the zip cases should let you essentially drop stations in there. You can build crates that cushion your servers better. External drives get better cushioning also, but using notebook drives enhances their durability, some. Everything else can survive.
Keep a set of UPSes in the trailer, or at least by the back door, charging. These will get handy when you arrive at the new location, and if you save the old ones, you may use two sets to give you instant power while you get everything running, and find the outlets for permanent power. A generator would be handy, and it need not be big. Propane rigs are easier to handle than gasoline. If your evac point is within 2 hours' drive, you may even be able to safe the servers, park the drives, and take them on the trip running. You ARE writing scripts to do emergency shutdowns, safe modes, parks, and closing critical apps/saving data, riiiight?
I'm assuming you may not always have 24 hours' notice. If you will have a guaranteed 2 hour notice, then use short racks that can be wheeled around, and you can have fairly conventional servers and wired network, just plan on abandoning the cabling, which is entirely expendable IMHO. Leaving the servers and switches cabled together is helpful, and sme simplified interconnect to mutiple cabinets will help. Plenty of cables in the trailer, and a spool of cable with a bag of plugs and at least 2 crimpers also. And a simple tester. Trust me on this, no point in guessing if you made it right. Making those 200' cables to solve a problem would be handy.
Lots of diagrams laminated to the cabinets is handy, even a grease penciled fill in the blanks chart to show what was built is a blessing when you reconnect.
Somehow, I suspect the military has some advice for you on this. Someone in Interior or the Forest Service must have a contact.
I would love to be in that business. Nothing like having to make DR plans that have to accomodate the loss of the facility to sharpen your focus and get the juices flowing. The last project like that I was in, a financial institution needed a similar plan, and we even has a BOM at a distributor ready to be ordered and shipped on notice, updated quarterly. Almost got to do it for real, but they fixed the gas leak without blowing up the building. Darn. :)
True. But Liberals seem to think their decisions are not just better for themselves, but the decisions they want to make for everyone else are better also.
And the decisions are different. Bad Conservative, stop polluting our environment. Now, 'scuse me while I hop in my private jet and get to Cannes in time for lunch with the gang. OK? We good here?
Other than the Moon landings, which weren't really LEO missions.
Nor the Skylab missions, which lasted longer than a few days, nor the ISS crews.
But you were swooshing me, right?
Those of us who fit that description largely (!) got there the same way you've come up with your post. It makes you feel better, somehow, and satisfies some animal instinct you cannot otherwise neither satisfy nor tame.
Let me guess. You're not of the right-wing persuasion, eh? How's your country doing?
Bubbles got feet!