Wow. We're still two years from decomissioning our Stratus servers. We're still 6 months from decom of SNA. I gotta talk to the other team about stepping it up.
One - If there is redundancy and virtualization, AOL can certainly keep services running while a tech goes in, maybe once a week, and swaps out the failed blades that have already beeen remotely disabled and their usual services relocated. this is not a problem. Our outfit here has a lights-out facility that sees a tech maybe every few weeks, and other than that a janitor keeps the dust bunnies at bay and makes sure the locks work daily. And yes, they've asked him to flip power switches and tell them what color the lights were. He's gotten used to this. that center doesn't have state-of-the-art stuff in it, either.
Two - Didn't AOL run on a mainframe (or more than one) in the 90s? It predated anything useful, even the Web I think. Netscape was being launched in 1998, Berners-Lee was making a NeXT browser in 1990, and AOL for Windows existed in 1991. Mosaic and Lynx were out in 1993. AOL sure didn't need any PC infrastructure, it predated even Trumpet Winsock, I think, and Linux. I don't think I could have surfed the Web in 1991 with a Windows machine, but I could use AOL.
Um, I wouldn't be comfortable my telcomm's switching centers in basements. These are moct commonly the first room to flood when the water comes, and telcomm, switches are everywhere their users are.
I see telcomm switches housed above ground, in plain, sometimes unmarked buildings. There's one a quarter mile from my house, and I drive by two others to go to work. If they have basements, I bet that's where they keep stuff that doesn't matter as much.
And the huge switch that used to work in my old hometown, one of the last crossbar switches in the U.S. to convert to ESS. It was deafening in there, and the basement was empty. Six floors of relays going constantly. The mice ate the insulation like it was licorice. Putting any of that in the basement would be wrong, even if it was built on a hill.
"No amount of carefully worded campaign e-mails are going to convince me to vote for a President who has normalized extra-judicial assassinations of American citizens by the CIA."
Um, just to be clear, George W. Bush isn't running, ok?
You can poll a ham sandwich and get the results you want. Straw polls ditto. there is ONLY one poll that counts, and the next one will be taken next November.
True that. My mother's.300 Savage lever-action is a much more capable rifle, and the old.30-06 is better too. Both are hunting weapons. The Garand is too, it just happens it was designed and used to hunt something other than four-legged game.
You give him as much freedom as practical. Keep him busy.
When I was 13, I was absorbed with all thing space. NASA, Mercury/Gemini/Apollo, Soyuz, KH satellites, Pioneer, Ranger, if it left the atmosphere I was engrossed in it. But I wasn't nearly intelligent enough to get personally involved, so I scrapbooked and watched, and learned all I could. Let him.
When he's worn out science, he may well turn to the arts. Or, perhaps, he will work science in a way that will benefit the arts.
Either way, it seems you don't give much respect to people who focus narrowly to great efffect. So Monet would have benefited greatly from a diversion into, say, science?
I for one don't find Monet to have been diminished one bit for having focused on painting. This kid seems to be doing well. In 5-6 years he'll be able to make his own decisions. Assuming he will be to narrowly focused to make free ones discounts his intelligence. Even now, I suspect he could study any field he cares to.
Android has already won. It's pretty much got the *rest* of the smartphone market, which is nontrivial.
I met the owner of a toothpaste company (there aren't many, so go and guess who) a ling time ago, and he shared with me that getting 2% of the toothpaste market in the U.S made for a good living. He didn't really need 5% to do well. Android doesn't really need 90% of the market, the Android device makers seem to be pretty happy with what they have. And remember, Android has generated a viable competitor to iOS. What was the competitor before Android?
I've got a pen-based tablet. Not really worth the trouble UNLESS you have an app that takes full advantage. The pen is just not as easy to use as the finger, and having something in both your hands doesn't enhance portability.
Now the tablets out now are clever, but the apps they show off are largely intended for tasks that don't rely on a keyboard. Lots of them, but data entry isn't one, and business apps that don't need data entry are limited.
"I don't favor subsidies at all, no matter what it is. In a free market if some people can not afford something then businesses will be created to help people afford them. Or civil society will donate."
We don't, and have never, lived in anything approaching a free market. Excellent in theory if you're willing to suffer the adjustments necessary, but since a genuinely free market is unlikely to exist on Earth any time soon, let's try crafting something that does work. And no, whatever we are doing in the U.S. isn't working very well right now...
"If food prices go up, in a free market that will attract farmers."
Even in an imperfect market, that will happen. Stabilization policies should be used to minimize pricing variations, which is good. The dairy industry for instance benefited from this, and in return we get stable prices and the government used surplus dairy in many useful ways. Subsidizing corn ethanol seemed like a good idea, but unlike dairy it's causing food price instability.
Corn for beef production has been used for quite a while. Introducing ethanol production seems to be the destabilizing event.
"And what does broadband use? Landline services for the most part. Wifi still doesn't cover much area."
I suspect the first thing to be done to bring broadband to the rural masses will be to replace those landlines. If they could work, they would be used. We don't have much to make use of that old copper, so it's gone.
Oh, and actually I know of an ISP in Maine that drives DSL over some fairly long distances. He's made a nice business, but it requires a lot of work, and capital. And risk. Telcoms don't much care for risk.
"An opposed piston engine has two (well, at least two) crankshafts at opposite ends of a cylinder, with a piston on each. The pistons then "meet" in the middle.
The advantage is that you don't need a cylinder head, so the engine can be lighter, and often smaller and go to higher pressures, which makes it ideal for aircraft and submarines and areas where you want to maximise power to weight."
IANAE, but...
Losing the cylinder head saves weight. Two crankshafts gain weight. Two crankshafts = more rotating mass Two crankshafts = two output shafts or gearing down to one shaft? Net improvement?
And he's making it a four-stroke, so I'm dyin to see how the valves actually last. Something about 'sleeve vavles'. It just sounds like magic.
What DHS thing? You think I was claiming that DHS wanted to run speed cams in Arizona? Our federal government doesn;t like Airxona much, but it's not at that level.
Wait, you didn't know Janet Napolitano was previously the governor of Arizona?
The head of DHS was previously our Governor. She really liked the cameras.
We still have red light cameras, and if you ignore those tickets you get your license suspended. And bigger fines. Arizona once has the highest rate of fatalities from failure to stop of any state. We're just plain bad.
Smart employers don't counter. If you're willing to leave for money, you're willing to leave.
Their question is 'how did that other company find you?'. Your protests that someone offered you as an option without your knowledge will fall on deaf ears, true or not.
As an aside, for me, I would give notice, offer to do training off-hours at a fair but not cheap contractor rate, answer questions overnight or as time permits, and not look back. I still answer questions for past clients from +7 years ago, because you never know, and it doesn't take much time. None have asked me to take a half-hour call or log in and do work, so it's just goodwill.
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I'm thinking of Mosaic browsers. Before Windows 3.11.
Wow. We're still two years from decomissioning our Stratus servers. We're still 6 months from decom of SNA. I gotta talk to the other team about stepping it up.
I was thinking of the browser, not the company.
One - If there is redundancy and virtualization, AOL can certainly keep services running while a tech goes in, maybe once a week, and swaps out the failed blades that have already beeen remotely disabled and their usual services relocated. this is not a problem. Our outfit here has a lights-out facility that sees a tech maybe every few weeks, and other than that a janitor keeps the dust bunnies at bay and makes sure the locks work daily. And yes, they've asked him to flip power switches and tell them what color the lights were. He's gotten used to this. that center doesn't have state-of-the-art stuff in it, either.
Two - Didn't AOL run on a mainframe (or more than one) in the 90s? It predated anything useful, even the Web I think. Netscape was being launched in 1998, Berners-Lee was making a NeXT browser in 1990, and AOL for Windows existed in 1991. Mosaic and Lynx were out in 1993. AOL sure didn't need any PC infrastructure, it predated even Trumpet Winsock, I think, and Linux. I don't think I could have surfed the Web in 1991 with a Windows machine, but I could use AOL.
Um, I wouldn't be comfortable my telcomm's switching centers in basements. These are moct commonly the first room to flood when the water comes, and telcomm, switches are everywhere their users are.
I see telcomm switches housed above ground, in plain, sometimes unmarked buildings. There's one a quarter mile from my house, and I drive by two others to go to work. If they have basements, I bet that's where they keep stuff that doesn't matter as much.
And the huge switch that used to work in my old hometown, one of the last crossbar switches in the U.S. to convert to ESS. It was deafening in there, and the basement was empty. Six floors of relays going constantly. The mice ate the insulation like it was licorice. Putting any of that in the basement would be wrong, even if it was built on a hill.
Sorry, but the accusation has been made against multiple presidents. Just trying to clarify which one.
"No amount of carefully worded campaign e-mails are going to convince me to vote for a President who has normalized extra-judicial assassinations of American citizens by the CIA."
Um, just to be clear, George W. Bush isn't running, ok?
You can poll a ham sandwich and get the results you want. Straw polls ditto. there is ONLY one poll that counts, and the next one will be taken next November.
True that. My mother's .300 Savage lever-action is a much more capable rifle, and the old .30-06 is better too. Both are hunting weapons. The Garand is too, it just happens it was designed and used to hunt something other than four-legged game.
Don't leave so quickly. The whole religion angle is totally nerd. As in socially ignorant.
You give him as much freedom as practical. Keep him busy.
When I was 13, I was absorbed with all thing space. NASA, Mercury/Gemini/Apollo, Soyuz, KH satellites, Pioneer, Ranger, if it left the atmosphere I was engrossed in it. But I wasn't nearly intelligent enough to get personally involved, so I scrapbooked and watched, and learned all I could. Let him.
When he's worn out science, he may well turn to the arts. Or, perhaps, he will work science in a way that will benefit the arts.
Either way, it seems you don't give much respect to people who focus narrowly to great efffect. So Monet would have benefited greatly from a diversion into, say, science?
I for one don't find Monet to have been diminished one bit for having focused on painting. This kid seems to be doing well. In 5-6 years he'll be able to make his own decisions. Assuming he will be to narrowly focused to make free ones discounts his intelligence. Even now, I suspect he could study any field he cares to.
Jealousy rears its ugly head. That anonymous thing works for you, by the way.
She's been doing that for two years.
If you're that clever, it wasn't meant for you.
Android has already won. It's pretty much got the *rest* of the smartphone market, which is nontrivial.
I met the owner of a toothpaste company (there aren't many, so go and guess who) a ling time ago, and he shared with me that getting 2% of the toothpaste market in the U.S made for a good living. He didn't really need 5% to do well. Android doesn't really need 90% of the market, the Android device makers seem to be pretty happy with what they have. And remember, Android has generated a viable competitor to iOS. What was the competitor before Android?
I specifically LOVE Starbuck coffee. I prefer a French roast, or cappuchino/espresso roast.
There are people who think Dunkin Donuts' coffee is great. I haven't been one of them for about 16 years. Maybe you prefer DD, eh?
ps - you're a coffee snob. How big is a standard cup of coffee?
I've got a pen-based tablet. Not really worth the trouble UNLESS you have an app that takes full advantage. The pen is just not as easy to use as the finger, and having something in both your hands doesn't enhance portability.
Now the tablets out now are clever, but the apps they show off are largely intended for tasks that don't rely on a keyboard. Lots of them, but data entry isn't one, and business apps that don't need data entry are limited.
"I don't favor subsidies at all, no matter what it is. In a free market if some people can not afford something then businesses will be created to help people afford them. Or civil society will donate."
We don't, and have never, lived in anything approaching a free market. Excellent in theory if you're willing to suffer the adjustments necessary, but since a genuinely free market is unlikely to exist on Earth any time soon, let's try crafting something that does work. And no, whatever we are doing in the U.S. isn't working very well right now...
"If food prices go up, in a free market that will attract farmers."
Even in an imperfect market, that will happen. Stabilization policies should be used to minimize pricing variations, which is good. The dairy industry for instance benefited from this, and in return we get stable prices and the government used surplus dairy in many useful ways. Subsidizing corn ethanol seemed like a good idea, but unlike dairy it's causing food price instability.
Corn for beef production has been used for quite a while. Introducing ethanol production seems to be the destabilizing event.
"And what does broadband use? Landline services for the most part. Wifi still doesn't cover much area."
I suspect the first thing to be done to bring broadband to the rural masses will be to replace those landlines. If they could work, they would be used. We don't have much to make use of that old copper, so it's gone.
Oh, and actually I know of an ISP in Maine that drives DSL over some fairly long distances. He's made a nice business, but it requires a lot of work, and capital. And risk. Telcoms don't much care for risk.
"An opposed piston engine has two (well, at least two) crankshafts at opposite ends of a cylinder, with a piston on each. The pistons then "meet" in the middle.
The advantage is that you don't need a cylinder head, so the engine can be lighter, and often smaller and go to higher pressures, which makes it ideal for aircraft and submarines and areas where you want to maximise power to weight."
IANAE, but...
Losing the cylinder head saves weight.
Two crankshafts gain weight.
Two crankshafts = more rotating mass
Two crankshafts = two output shafts or gearing down to one shaft?
Net improvement?
And he's making it a four-stroke, so I'm dyin to see how the valves actually last. Something about 'sleeve vavles'. It just sounds like magic.
What DHS thing? You think I was claiming that DHS wanted to run speed cams in Arizona? Our federal government doesn;t like Airxona much, but it's not at that level.
Wait, you didn't know Janet Napolitano was previously the governor of Arizona?
The head of DHS was previously our Governor. She really liked the cameras.
We still have red light cameras, and if you ignore those tickets you get your license suspended. And bigger fines. Arizona once has the highest rate of fatalities from failure to stop of any state. We're just plain bad.
Great stuff, but I didn't need a song, no matter how inspired, to figure this out. More or less.
Smart employers don't counter. If you're willing to leave for money, you're willing to leave.
Their question is 'how did that other company find you?'. Your protests that someone offered you as an option without your knowledge will fall on deaf ears, true or not.
As an aside, for me, I would give notice, offer to do training off-hours at a fair but not cheap contractor rate, answer questions overnight or as time permits, and not look back. I still answer questions for past clients from +7 years ago, because you never know, and it doesn't take much time. None have asked me to take a half-hour call or log in and do work, so it's just goodwill.
"...it should be possible to pinpoint potential "troublemakers" and neutralize them."
So long as we agree on the definition of 'troublemakers'. I, for one, don't have a problem labeling you as a troublemaker.
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