As someone who ran a 4 node BBS on a single 386-40 with 4 high speed nodes (USR Sportsters and Dual Standards) using DesqView and PCBoard, I think your description of "fancy menu / full screen task switcher" is a touch off. DesqView could easily handle running all 4 nodes at once plus an operators console. It was always interesting watching all 4 nodes in operation at once (windowed mode - in text).

Ron

OK, so here is how they can solve the problem...

Since it is presumed that the Kinect will only "work" with Kinect enabled games, sell the Kinect at it's "discounted" price of $150 or whatever it's current sell price is when purchased with a Kinect enabled game. If the Kinect is sold stand alone (no game bought at the same time), then sell it for $50 more. Of course, you then have to make sure that all the Kinect enabled games are at least $50 to make sure that isn't an advantage route to getting just the Kinect for less.

R

This looks to me like the video equivalent of audio compression - squeezing the life out of the media to make it fit within a certain constraint,

Thanks but until the entire chain is HDR, I'll pass.

Ron

I have an "older" LED based alarm clock. Depending on the time of night, I can see 21 LEDs on it alone: 9:58p == 6 segments + 2 dots + 5 segments + 7 segments + 1 segment for the "alarm on" indicator (the AM/PM indicator is lit for AM).

That latency can be a real bitch let me tell you - at least with the Post Orifice. Took them over 12 days to deliver a priority package to me from Detroit to Chicago. Their response to that: sorry about that.

Never again....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mod_Squad

Link is going to be pissed about this...

I think the first amendment part of this stems from the "you shall not tell anyone about this" issue. It's from the perspective of the recipient of the letter. She is commanded to "tell no one about this" under pain of incarceration. This is all backed up with the power of law. Since you have an abridgment of the right to free speech and that abridgment is codified in law (a federal law - wrote by Congress no less), that is a pretty on-it's-face contravention of the First Amendment.

Now as others have wrote, this may fall into the "obstructing an investigation" trap and that may prove a valid issue, not being to even talk with a lawyer about this makes this pretty simply a First Amendment issue.

Like many others are saying on here - you need to give us a lot more information here. There is a huge difference in the cost per gig between a Netgear and a NetApp. You also didn't mention if your cost analysis includes your OpEx costs (Operational Expenses) - things like hard costs (labor) and soft costs (power, hvac, floorspace, etc).

Tell us more and we'll be able to help you out better.

Probably because we don't have a requirements doc of any sort here. I would be quite surprised if they weren't trying to do something highly fancy (web/AJAX front end, GIS tie in, method of attaching scans of important documents to each burial (birth records, military records, death cert, etc...), method of attaching pictures to each burial, public access with requisite security and high availability, offsite data replication and encryption (EMC/NetApp), distributed database with full read/write capabilities across all nodes (MySQL probably wouldn't cut it here though it might with DRDB behind it).

I don't know - but I would bet that this really isn't that trivial a problem - especially the GIS tie in part (drawing maps/plots on a screen in an accurate manner).

Nothing felt in either Forest Park Illinois or Westland (burb of Detroit) Michigan.

For what it's worth...

I was in Chicago for a couple of months at the beginning of the year. While there, I subscribed to Clear Internet (http://www.clear.com) - a 4G provider with (I think) Sprint backing it.

My results were absolutely horrible - on average, I was getting 51k download speeds. This was as measured on the modem itself (no router/firewall/PC - right from the status screen on the modem). There was nothing I could do to improve this and the people at Clear were completely baffled by this. According to the Clear folk, I was about 1/10 mile from the nearest tower. I was getting excellent signal and PSNR.

In my mind, either Clear was totally messed up or 4G has a lot more hype than delivery.

So (pulling numbers out of the air), you are suggesting that 80% of $20,000 is more than 20% of $250,000 (presuming ridiculous levels of spending for the low income earner and ridiculous levels of savings by the "high" income earner)?