This!
People only use these things for examinations. Nobody that I know uses these to do Real Work® . If you are in the field, you use a laptop with Matlab and/or Mathematica, and for surprise stuff, there are very good apps you can carry in your phone.
Also make sure there is a decent lock on the door, that the bare minimum number of people can physically get into the room, and that all access is logged electronically. That way you can find out who knocked some random cable out of position causing an outage and you can cancel their access and/or shout at them.
Also works wonders to have a camera recording all the activity in the server room.
Also worth mentioning, DirectX made gaming possible without the need to directly manipulate the interruptions, adding a much needed abstraction layer.
Before that, the games needed to be able to recognize the soundboard, sometimes you were manually requested to do it.
Let us lobby him to use Windows to do it. This way, nothing will happen at all.
TFA cites the 3Mbs mithical barrier.
For me, this is good enough, as I don't use streaming or am a heavy downloader.
Just ten years ago, my broadband was 512kbps, and it was damn fast.
My first reading of the article:
"1.6-GHz POWER BBQ chips."
Well, that is some fast barbecue.
There is a nice $ (dollar sign) in front of the 350, you insensitive clod.
In Brazil at least, the main reason one gets an auto insurance is for theft insurance, not for damages and accidents.
In Brazil we have a lot of fast food chains that deliver burgers, including BK and MacDonalds, but also many others that non-Brazilians would not know.
Also, many types of stuff that you would not expect to be delivered I normally order here.
The list is long
I work in a brokerage house in brazil, and the (sole) brazilian exchange has a lot of procedures regarding this fact of large orders, being thinked throughly, accidental, or manipulative (one can't rapdily jugde anyway).
The real problem is: If the volume of a stock raises a lot rapidily (even it is a single order) there is reason to believe a significant piece of news came regarding that company, and that the current stated price is not valid. So the stock enters in a state of Eletronic Auction, where orders can be inserted, but not closed. The brazilian market reacted very diffently to the flash crash, in a way that most of our stocks entered Auction state for about 10 minutes, because all HFT who wanted to arbitrage the spread between Brazil and US. In this ten minutes, everyone saw that nothing bad had really happend, and purchased the stocks from the HFTs, gaining a profit. Other exchanges in the U.S. were much more affected by this happening because of not having this kind of safety projected.
All the regulation (english): http://www.bmfbovespa.com.br/en-us/regulation/equities/operational-procedures-manual/operational-procedures-manual.aspx?Idioma=en-us
Just the auction procedures(english): http://www.bmfbovespa.com.br/en-us/regulation/download/Operational-Procedures-Manual-Chapter4.pdf
60 year old glass? Most enterprises can't even think past the next couple quarters or to the next FY, much less this far. Almost any other company would have long since chucked the manufacturing process for it because it wasn't immediately profitable.
Alos Ground-breaking achievments sometimes are from misguided R&D, like post-it, or many medicines that were created poisonous bacteria and plantae.
We are not a clone.
