California. I would pay the deductible, usually a few thousand at most, and insurance would pay the rest up the covered liability amount of the policy. I'm sure there are subtleties in how it works that I don't understand. But if I caused $200k in damage, and I had to pay $100k, then the insurance wouldn't be doing me much good - I couldn't pay either one.
Do you have a source for this? This is contrary to everything I have ever read. Only a limited number of runways at a limited number of airports even have full auto land capability!
IMHO you buy Dell for the support that is available (albeit usually at additional cost) along with them. If you're not going to maintain your service contracts, then I agree Dell may not offer you a lot of value over Supermicro et al.
On a side note, I think the R310 is about the cheapest server they make, so it wouldn't be fair to judge the company based on those alone.
Mostly agree with you, but there were multiple screen resolution options on both the E6400 and the E6420. I am writing this on a 6420 with a 1600x900 display. Your employer cheaped out with the 1366x768 option.
Me too, and I don't think it's fair to say Lumpy is full of shit. I don't think the lights are any more blinding than any other lights. IMO they're not blinding relative to other HID's and even some halogens. (How can they be so blinding if they don't shine in anyone's eyes or mirrors?) They are bright, but I would say less so than other HID's, and the point was that they were "blinding." I don't see how they are.
4 bags of cement won't fit in the trunk of an S2000!
But more seriously, even if they did (I doubt it!) it wouldn't point the nose if the car up noticeably because the suspension is so stiff and the car is small. Not that I disagree with your general point, but there are much better cars to pick on for this - like the HID's on the short wheelbase SUV towing a trailer!
No bullshit. What Lumpy posted is fact. S2000's have projector lenses that only shine down, not up, with a very visible cutoff. And they're only about 18" off the pavement, so they're not shining in anyone's mirrors or eyes. If yours don't put a visible horizontal line of light on the road, and they shine upwards, then they're not right.
An employer I had a few years ago stated that any electrical device plugged in at work premises would be "theft" and you would be fired and charges pressed against you. No cell phone recharging, no lamp, no fan, nothing that plugged in. You plug it in and they catch you = lose your job and get arrested. Seen the Operations Manager have security pull someone from their desk and walk them out the door for plugging in a cell phone and then putting it in a desk drawer to try to hide it.
And from what you're saying, it sounds like you really liked working there. That operations manager must have been a great guy. Great working environment. Mutual respect all around! So let's make the whole world work that way.
Exactly. If you let people get away with it, they will just plug into the same outlet every day. Over an entire year, the amount would add up. It's like saying why ticket somebody for double parking?
Partly because anyone familiar with the norms of our society expects to get a ticket for double parking. Nobody familiar with the norms of our society expects to get arrested for charging their EV.
A single occurrence probably doesn't cause much problems, but if everybody did it, the streets would be completely jammed, and people would be blocked in all the time.
And, if everyone plugged in their EV to power outlets in public places, then... well, nothing of much consequence would happen.
Not to mention that the punishment is completely out of proportion with the crime! Basically, you're saying it's ok if they randomly picked this guy to make an example out of?
Seriously? What about your cell phone? Should people be arrested for plugging those into a power outlet in a public place? If no, then where do you draw the line?
Sure, but only for an hour or so per day. And you have to come to wherever my car happens to be at the time. And if someone else is taking their 10 cents worth when you get there, you have to come back later.
As an aside, if you were to steal 10c worth of my of gas, assuming hypothetically it was possible to prove you only intended to steal 10c worth, not the whole tank, and that it were possible for you to do so without causing any other damage like breaking into the gas door, do you think the police would go out of their way to throw you in jail for this 10c theft? Even if I didn't report it or care, and they just happened to notice?
I'm getting pretty tired of seeing extension cords snaking through parking lots and parking garages.
I agree to an extent. You could argue that it's a bit tacky. But do you really think that putting this guy in jail for a night is the appropriate level of response by the police?
Also note: When you are sitting at a red light waiting for it to turn green, your slushbox is in top gear. It has to kick all the way down before you have good power.
Are you sure? Citation? I am genuinely curious about this. But it doesn't seem to agree with my experience driving various automatic cars.
Consider moving your access 2003 executable into a cantral server-side VM, using VMWare View. Your VM can be Win XP with Access 2003 or whatever is needed to run that app, along with whatever weird hacks are needed on the client side. You could even use a hosts file for those server names if you want. Changes to the client image happen in one place for all users. Easy. And the users get to move on to Win 7 with newer office etc etc without worry of conflicts or convoluted configurations every time someone gets a new desktop, to support this one app.
Clearly you'd prefer to get rid of that app altogether. Good luck with that! But if that doesn't happen, this could be your plan B. I've had success with it.
Then your ether an idiot or (even more then me) are a believer in active, every day evolution.
I don't think he's an idiot. Why the attitude?
Do you know what kind of pavement you need to drive 200mph?
Smooth pavement? I think when the AC poster wrote "normal" in quotes he was implying that it would require some modifications to handle the speed as well as the automation. But this wouldn't require anything magical.
What kind of tires? How long these tires last in use?
It's just a stupid suggestion. Rubber tires on pavement is at it's limits at 200mph.
Citation needed. Is there some limit around 200 where the physics change dramatically, like it's the speed of sound or something?
The only ones that go faster then that last about 1/2 mile (half slowing down) and are thrown away after one use.
It seems you are referring to drag race tires? That's because they are engineered that way, and race teams can afford to throw them away after every run to get every.001s of speed. Not to mention that in some cases they handle thousands of HP. That doesn't mean they couldn't be engineered for longevity instead. Consider also Indycar or Nascar tires which go ~100mi at 200mph, under RACE conditions, and then only wear out because they are made so soft to begin with. Or whatever tires they use on the Bugatti Veyron. Z and Y rated tires are widely available. I don't think it's a stretch to think that a 200mph rated tire could be mass produced if there was some demand.
It also freed IT departments from dealing with restarting the phone, repushing servicebooks restarting the BES server and all the other hassle that went with BES. I know companies that moved to iPhone/Android and either fired or repurposed an full time employee that had been previously dedicated to BES.
This, times 1,000. I'm amazed more people aren't talking about this.
All the cool BES security and management stuff is amazing, in theory. But in reality, BES is cumbersome, overly complicated, and downright unreliable, with crappy support. As just one particularly infuriating example: I used to run a BES server for about 100 users, and I couldn't migrate any Exchange mailboxes between mailbox databases because BES would corrupt the users' blackberry contacts. I had a ticket open with RIM support for well over a year, and now I've moved to new job, but AFAIK they never fixed that bug. When I complained through their sales channel at contract renewal time, their sales person said it was a feature request, and they couldn't be bothered. What IT department wants to support that? We like happy users, not angry users with broken phones and no help from the vendor. Forget not keeping up with new market trends -- RIM has driven away those who used to be its core supporters in what is supposedly its core market. And we're not coming back.
Because any competent IT manager realizes that a computer that's locked down yet works consistently for it's intended purpose is clearly better than a computer that's not locked down and is virtually non-functional.
They are middle school students!! 90% of their generic catch-all insults are "of a sexual nature." I'm guessing that, in their minds at the time, without having thought things through completely, they thought that calling the teacher a pedophile was no more serious than calling something they don't like "gay." IMO the conclusion you jump to is completely unfounded.
U3 enabled flash drives emulate a CD-ROM from the *hardware* level - it's not just software on the drive, but actually seems to appear on the USB bus as a CD-ROM as well as a flash drive. So a virus on a standard flash drive couldn't do this. Perhaps the contents of the emulated CD-ROM on a U3 drive could be hacked to load a virus, but that part of the drive is not user-writable in any apparent way, so it wouldn't be trivial.
He didn't "make anything up." If you're going to disagree, don't do it by being pedantic. The government took $78k, plus several thousand more, so let's call it $85k. That's 42.5% (while we're being pedantic) which most would agree is "half" when the word is used in imprecise terms, and even if you want to be technical about it that 7.5% inaccuracy doesn't invalidate his argument.
It's not like it was actually only 10% but he was calling it "half."
Not likely, unfortunately. They'll just write it off as another technology change they don't understand, and get a new TV so they can keep watching Desperate Housewives.
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California. I would pay the deductible, usually a few thousand at most, and insurance would pay the rest up the covered liability amount of the policy. I'm sure there are subtleties in how it works that I don't understand. But if I caused $200k in damage, and I had to pay $100k, then the insurance wouldn't be doing me much good - I couldn't pay either one.
Say the settlement to the victim is $50K. The insurance company pays $25K and the driver pays $25K
Where does insurance work like that? Not in the USA...
Do you have a source for this? This is contrary to everything I have ever read. Only a limited number of runways at a limited number of airports even have full auto land capability!
Why again are we buying Dell?
IMHO you buy Dell for the support that is available (albeit usually at additional cost) along with them. If you're not going to maintain your service contracts, then I agree Dell may not offer you a lot of value over Supermicro et al.
On a side note, I think the R310 is about the cheapest server they make, so it wouldn't be fair to judge the company based on those alone.
Mostly agree with you, but there were multiple screen resolution options on both the E6400 and the E6420. I am writing this on a 6420 with a 1600x900 display. Your employer cheaped out with the 1366x768 option.
Me too, and I don't think it's fair to say Lumpy is full of shit. I don't think the lights are any more blinding than any other lights. IMO they're not blinding relative to other HID's and even some halogens. (How can they be so blinding if they don't shine in anyone's eyes or mirrors?) They are bright, but I would say less so than other HID's, and the point was that they were "blinding." I don't see how they are.
4 bags of cement won't fit in the trunk of an S2000! But more seriously, even if they did (I doubt it!) it wouldn't point the nose if the car up noticeably because the suspension is so stiff and the car is small. Not that I disagree with your general point, but there are much better cars to pick on for this - like the HID's on the short wheelbase SUV towing a trailer!
No bullshit. What Lumpy posted is fact. S2000's have projector lenses that only shine down, not up, with a very visible cutoff. And they're only about 18" off the pavement, so they're not shining in anyone's mirrors or eyes. If yours don't put a visible horizontal line of light on the road, and they shine upwards, then they're not right.
An employer I had a few years ago stated that any electrical device plugged in at work premises would be "theft" and you would be fired and charges pressed against you. No cell phone recharging, no lamp, no fan, nothing that plugged in. You plug it in and they catch you = lose your job and get arrested. Seen the Operations Manager have security pull someone from their desk and walk them out the door for plugging in a cell phone and then putting it in a desk drawer to try to hide it.
And from what you're saying, it sounds like you really liked working there. That operations manager must have been a great guy. Great working environment. Mutual respect all around! So let's make the whole world work that way.
Exactly. If you let people get away with it, they will just plug into the same outlet every day. Over an entire year, the amount would add up. It's like saying why ticket somebody for double parking?
Partly because anyone familiar with the norms of our society expects to get a ticket for double parking. Nobody familiar with the norms of our society expects to get arrested for charging their EV.
A single occurrence probably doesn't cause much problems, but if everybody did it, the streets would be completely jammed, and people would be blocked in all the time.
And, if everyone plugged in their EV to power outlets in public places, then... well, nothing of much consequence would happen.
Not to mention that the punishment is completely out of proportion with the crime! Basically, you're saying it's ok if they randomly picked this guy to make an example out of?
Seriously? What about your cell phone? Should people be arrested for plugging those into a power outlet in a public place? If no, then where do you draw the line?
Sure, but only for an hour or so per day. And you have to come to wherever my car happens to be at the time. And if someone else is taking their 10 cents worth when you get there, you have to come back later.
As an aside, if you were to steal 10c worth of my of gas, assuming hypothetically it was possible to prove you only intended to steal 10c worth, not the whole tank, and that it were possible for you to do so without causing any other damage like breaking into the gas door, do you think the police would go out of their way to throw you in jail for this 10c theft? Even if I didn't report it or care, and they just happened to notice?
I'm getting pretty tired of seeing extension cords snaking through parking lots and parking garages.
I agree to an extent. You could argue that it's a bit tacky. But do you really think that putting this guy in jail for a night is the appropriate level of response by the police?
No, a better analogy might be if you used the water fountain to fill your water bottle.
Personally, I think those people should be driving... that Nissan uber thingamabobber.
This made me laugh. It's so true on so many levels.
Also note: When you are sitting at a red light waiting for it to turn green, your slushbox is in top gear. It has to kick all the way down before you have good power.
Are you sure? Citation? I am genuinely curious about this. But it doesn't seem to agree with my experience driving various automatic cars.
Consider moving your access 2003 executable into a cantral server-side VM, using VMWare View. Your VM can be Win XP with Access 2003 or whatever is needed to run that app, along with whatever weird hacks are needed on the client side. You could even use a hosts file for those server names if you want. Changes to the client image happen in one place for all users. Easy. And the users get to move on to Win 7 with newer office etc etc without worry of conflicts or convoluted configurations every time someone gets a new desktop, to support this one app. Clearly you'd prefer to get rid of that app altogether. Good luck with that! But if that doesn't happen, this could be your plan B. I've had success with it.
Then your ether an idiot or (even more then me) are a believer in active, every day evolution.
I don't think he's an idiot. Why the attitude?
Do you know what kind of pavement you need to drive 200mph?
Smooth pavement? I think when the AC poster wrote "normal" in quotes he was implying that it would require some modifications to handle the speed as well as the automation. But this wouldn't require anything magical.
What kind of tires? How long these tires last in use?
It's just a stupid suggestion. Rubber tires on pavement is at it's limits at 200mph.
Citation needed. Is there some limit around 200 where the physics change dramatically, like it's the speed of sound or something?
The only ones that go faster then that last about 1/2 mile (half slowing down) and are thrown away after one use.
It seems you are referring to drag race tires? That's because they are engineered that way, and race teams can afford to throw them away after every run to get every .001s of speed. Not to mention that in some cases they handle thousands of HP. That doesn't mean they couldn't be engineered for longevity instead. Consider also Indycar or Nascar tires which go ~100mi at 200mph, under RACE conditions, and then only wear out because they are made so soft to begin with. Or whatever tires they use on the Bugatti Veyron. Z and Y rated tires are widely available. I don't think it's a stretch to think that a 200mph rated tire could be mass produced if there was some demand.
It also freed IT departments from dealing with restarting the phone, repushing servicebooks restarting the BES server and all the other hassle that went with BES. I know companies that moved to iPhone/Android and either fired or repurposed an full time employee that had been previously dedicated to BES.
This, times 1,000. I'm amazed more people aren't talking about this.
All the cool BES security and management stuff is amazing, in theory. But in reality, BES is cumbersome, overly complicated, and downright unreliable, with crappy support. As just one particularly infuriating example: I used to run a BES server for about 100 users, and I couldn't migrate any Exchange mailboxes between mailbox databases because BES would corrupt the users' blackberry contacts. I had a ticket open with RIM support for well over a year, and now I've moved to new job, but AFAIK they never fixed that bug. When I complained through their sales channel at contract renewal time, their sales person said it was a feature request, and they couldn't be bothered. What IT department wants to support that? We like happy users, not angry users with broken phones and no help from the vendor. Forget not keeping up with new market trends -- RIM has driven away those who used to be its core supporters in what is supposedly its core market. And we're not coming back.
Because any competent IT manager realizes that a computer that's locked down yet works consistently for it's intended purpose is clearly better than a computer that's not locked down and is virtually non-functional.
They are middle school students!! 90% of their generic catch-all insults are "of a sexual nature." I'm guessing that, in their minds at the time, without having thought things through completely, they thought that calling the teacher a pedophile was no more serious than calling something they don't like "gay." IMO the conclusion you jump to is completely unfounded.
U3 enabled flash drives emulate a CD-ROM from the *hardware* level - it's not just software on the drive, but actually seems to appear on the USB bus as a CD-ROM as well as a flash drive. So a virus on a standard flash drive couldn't do this. Perhaps the contents of the emulated CD-ROM on a U3 drive could be hacked to load a virus, but that part of the drive is not user-writable in any apparent way, so it wouldn't be trivial.
He didn't "make anything up." If you're going to disagree, don't do it by being pedantic. The government took $78k, plus several thousand more, so let's call it $85k. That's 42.5% (while we're being pedantic) which most would agree is "half" when the word is used in imprecise terms, and even if you want to be technical about it that 7.5% inaccuracy doesn't invalidate his argument. It's not like it was actually only 10% but he was calling it "half."
Not likely, unfortunately. They'll just write it off as another technology change they don't understand, and get a new TV so they can keep watching Desperate Housewives.