However, the rare earths needed to make solar panels are in short supply; recent estimates conclude the supply peaks within 50-100 years. Probably a lot sooner if we cover the deserts with solar cells. So we have to find a way to make photovoltaic cells without the exotic metals.
But people in the Valley are constantly getting this wrong. The phrase is "see if the dogs eat the dogfood" and it is used when you put something up for sale and see if demand for the product develops.
The other phrase is "eat your own cooking" and is used when your company has created something and you want to see if the employees will use it and love it before you put it up for sale to the general public.
But for some reason, people keep mixing the two up and talking about eating their own dogfood and it makes no sense (because it makes the employees seem like dogs, for one thing).
TFA isn't very helpful, in that it only quotes the market share for Nokia and iPhone. It says that iPhone is ahead of Windows Mobile, so I guess MSFT has around 11% or something. So can we assume that most of the other 33% is RIM? iPhone has a way to go to catch the leaders...
I don't work for Cisco anymore, but when I did, we used Telepresence. It's incredible. You look straight into the eyes of the folks on the other end, they're in hi def, and there is NO LAG in the speech and reactions, even when they are half way around the world.
It an entirely different experience -- it really does feel like you are in the same room with them. The conversations are better, more information dense, your expressions and reactions help speed understanding, and when you're done, you almost automatically start to get up and walk over to shake the other person's hand.
It's very hard to explain the experience here in text; you need to actually do it. I agree that for casual communication, phone calls or simple web cams are fine. But for business communication, joint design sessions, trying to work through complex issues, and avoiding travel, these systems are incredible.
I was as skeptical as anyone before I used it; I've seen teleconferencing for 40 years and it has almost always been more trouble than it's worth. Skype and webcams have changed the low end, and Telepresence will change the high end. If you know someone at Cisco, go ask them to get you in to see one. It's damn impressive, even for cynical tech-heads.
[I don't work for Cisco, don't own their stock, and don't stand to gain anything from their success -- TP just rocks.]
Areas to explore:
1) Multiple Risk Engines, each with their own DB and aggregating to one Risk App DB
a. How many REs in parallel are we attempting to support? Two? Three? Ten?
b. How does data get routed to the Risk Engines?
c. How does the Risk App manage multiple Risk Engines?
d. With all that data going to one Risk App, do we need to split the DB into a âoecurrentâ DB cache and a static Data Warehouse?
i. If so, weâ(TM)ll need to schedule updates to move âoecurrentâ data to the data warehouse
e. Need to keep track of which RE processed each event
f. Can we can move users from one DB to another to re-balance (or to get around catastrophic failure)?
g. What about diagnostics and debugging?
2) Multiple Risk Engines accessing a single DB but with 64-bit JVMs, 16 or 32GB RAM and HUGE caches
3) Multiple Risk Engines holding data in memory (64-bit JVM to get at 16GB RAM) and reading/writing only occasionally to DB
Okay, this is too easy to make fun of, but I do wonder why this took so long to figure out. Surely 900 numbers showing up on a bill would cause at least some of the customers to report the false charges and demand they be removed. Since these were all in the same region, the losses should have mounted quickly and the pattern detected. I realize we don't know the timing of these calls, but why did it take nine months? Or maybe given Verizon's chaotic internal accounting processes, I should simply be amazed Verizon figured it out at all.
It's interesting to note that Andy Rubin founded Danger (before Android) and Danger's first partner was also T-Mobile. So it could be that the existing relationship played a role in starting with T-Mobile. However, it's probably that T-Mobile is more flexible, given that it is smaller and hungrier. It takes a long time to negotiate with the big guys. If/when it's a hit, the big guys will play ball.
And in other news, President George W. Bush stunningly claimed that weapons of mass destruction exist in Iraq. And he says WMDs have been found on several occasions -- but the discovery has been repeatedly covered up by the liberal-biased media for six years. President Bush, 62, said during a radio interview that sources at Homeland Security who had had seen the WMDs described them as 'big devices that look scary to us.'
I put a 3kw system on my roof in February, 2005. (I live in Silicon Valley). My electricity bill has been zero since then -- well, actually, $60/yr in some fee PG&E charges.
My total electricity cost for the previous three years (2002-2004) was $6,730. Installation of the solar panels cost a net of $13,369 after rebates.
So I've saved 50% of the cost already, and my house is worth more due to the presence of the solar power array. I took advantage of California rebates which were higher then than now, though, so that's a bummer.
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However, the rare earths needed to make solar panels are in short supply; recent estimates conclude the supply peaks within 50-100 years. Probably a lot sooner if we cover the deserts with solar cells. So we have to find a way to make photovoltaic cells without the exotic metals.
But people in the Valley are constantly getting this wrong. The phrase is "see if the dogs eat the dogfood" and it is used when you put something up for sale and see if demand for the product develops. The other phrase is "eat your own cooking" and is used when your company has created something and you want to see if the employees will use it and love it before you put it up for sale to the general public. But for some reason, people keep mixing the two up and talking about eating their own dogfood and it makes no sense (because it makes the employees seem like dogs, for one thing).
TFA isn't very helpful, in that it only quotes the market share for Nokia and iPhone. It says that iPhone is ahead of Windows Mobile, so I guess MSFT has around 11% or something. So can we assume that most of the other 33% is RIM? iPhone has a way to go to catch the leaders...
I don't work for Cisco anymore, but when I did, we used Telepresence. It's incredible. You look straight into the eyes of the folks on the other end, they're in hi def, and there is NO LAG in the speech and reactions, even when they are half way around the world. It an entirely different experience -- it really does feel like you are in the same room with them. The conversations are better, more information dense, your expressions and reactions help speed understanding, and when you're done, you almost automatically start to get up and walk over to shake the other person's hand. It's very hard to explain the experience here in text; you need to actually do it. I agree that for casual communication, phone calls or simple web cams are fine. But for business communication, joint design sessions, trying to work through complex issues, and avoiding travel, these systems are incredible. I was as skeptical as anyone before I used it; I've seen teleconferencing for 40 years and it has almost always been more trouble than it's worth. Skype and webcams have changed the low end, and Telepresence will change the high end. If you know someone at Cisco, go ask them to get you in to see one. It's damn impressive, even for cynical tech-heads. [I don't work for Cisco, don't own their stock, and don't stand to gain anything from their success -- TP just rocks.]
Areas to explore: 1) Multiple Risk Engines, each with their own DB and aggregating to one Risk App DB a. How many REs in parallel are we attempting to support? Two? Three? Ten? b. How does data get routed to the Risk Engines? c. How does the Risk App manage multiple Risk Engines? d. With all that data going to one Risk App, do we need to split the DB into a âoecurrentâ DB cache and a static Data Warehouse? i. If so, weâ(TM)ll need to schedule updates to move âoecurrentâ data to the data warehouse e. Need to keep track of which RE processed each event f. Can we can move users from one DB to another to re-balance (or to get around catastrophic failure)? g. What about diagnostics and debugging? 2) Multiple Risk Engines accessing a single DB but with 64-bit JVMs, 16 or 32GB RAM and HUGE caches 3) Multiple Risk Engines holding data in memory (64-bit JVM to get at 16GB RAM) and reading/writing only occasionally to DB
Okay, this is too easy to make fun of, but I do wonder why this took so long to figure out. Surely 900 numbers showing up on a bill would cause at least some of the customers to report the false charges and demand they be removed. Since these were all in the same region, the losses should have mounted quickly and the pattern detected. I realize we don't know the timing of these calls, but why did it take nine months? Or maybe given Verizon's chaotic internal accounting processes, I should simply be amazed Verizon figured it out at all.
It's interesting to note that Andy Rubin founded Danger (before Android) and Danger's first partner was also T-Mobile. So it could be that the existing relationship played a role in starting with T-Mobile. However, it's probably that T-Mobile is more flexible, given that it is smaller and hungrier. It takes a long time to negotiate with the big guys. If/when it's a hit, the big guys will play ball.
And in other news, President George W. Bush stunningly claimed that weapons of mass destruction exist in Iraq. And he says WMDs have been found on several occasions -- but the discovery has been repeatedly covered up by the liberal-biased media for six years. President Bush, 62, said during a radio interview that sources at Homeland Security who had had seen the WMDs described them as 'big devices that look scary to us.'
I put a 3kw system on my roof in February, 2005. (I live in Silicon Valley). My electricity bill has been zero since then -- well, actually, $60/yr in some fee PG&E charges. My total electricity cost for the previous three years (2002-2004) was $6,730. Installation of the solar panels cost a net of $13,369 after rebates. So I've saved 50% of the cost already, and my house is worth more due to the presence of the solar power array. I took advantage of California rebates which were higher then than now, though, so that's a bummer.
Cernan accidentally tore the fender off right after they unloaded the rover from the lunar module. They hadn't driven anywhere yet.
People like to press buttons without looking.
Tactile keyboard feedback is a beautiful thing.