This is why contracts need to be reviewed by lawyers. I'm sure there a few firms would relish the chance to sue Dell for breach of contract and irreparable harm.

If you are running cores are 100% on a routine basis, Turbo Boost should be disabled for maximum stability. It's really that simple. Additionally, a good IT solutions professional will provide management a financial model that shows the ROI of routine an regular hardware upgrades. For development work, don't be stupidly bound to 3-5 year IT lifecycles especially if a newer CPU generation will yield big productivity gains.

To be honest, I would rather focus on .NET / Xamarin / Mono especially in light of the new open source announcement and the fact that it can be used to target multiple OS and form factors. The choice is also based on the assumption just you won't be doing anything really cutting edge in terms of programming. I have yet to run into a capability request that I couldn't make do in c#

You're assuming that current copper last mile links are at full capacity, this isn't the case. The capacity of copper lines is determined by the protocol used to regulate the link. For example, if a cable company in a neighbourhood is using an older Docsis 2.0 modem, all the company has to do is upgrade the hardware at the neighborhood nodes, upgrade the customers' modems to Docsis 3.0, and ensure enough back haul interconnection at the peering site (see #5). There is no digging at all. While copper is not as good as fiber, the progress in multiplexing and switching tech has made copper's long term value continue to far exceed its initial layout costs many times over. Until physicists say, "that's it, copper is at capacity," the idea that copper lines need to be added to existing infrastructure is wrong. Even today, there is a lot of unlit fiber in municipalities, but due to state law, cannot be deployed by munis because of "unfair competition" with private sector. Our current policies at the state and federal level do not have public purpose in mind at all, it is the golden age of monopoly interests.

1. False choice - how a delivery system was engineered is irrelevant. Today fiber technology and capacity exists and the infrastructure investments are not Capital intense.

2. False - Moore's law is the technical constraint. Political will is the social constraint.

3. False - Iptv is better at all distribution workloads for media. Networking tech easily allows for highly efficient compressed or uncompressed media delivery via multicast protocols. It is cable that is inefficient.

4. False - research has proven that assymmeteic last mile connections can never allow for equal peering. The premise that bits flowing in one direction costs more than the other direction is a calculated business decision based on the monopoly and regulatory environment. The same way that international sms messages are technically cost less, same goes for bits traveling in either direction, it's a neutral proposition.

5. The costs you are talking about are less than a few thousands of dollars per link. A drop in the bucket.

6. Drop subscribtion. There are alternative media delivery businesses consumers can choose. Consumers have no such luxury under current US isp arrangements.

Studied electrical & network engineering, public policy and econ. Counterarguments welcome :)

I have fios and still don't really want to keep it. I would gladly give up fios if it meant title 2 became a reality. Luckily it's not an either or proposition.

Use WAAD or Okta, or learn how to setup a proper SSO environment since both platforms you mention offer excellent SSO interop.

Data collected by this type of system would fall under state FOIA laws meaning the data would be available and consumed by the public either directly or indirectly. Additionally the largest municipalities already have open government mandates that include law enforcement reporting that must be machine readable.

Of course cops will need an override button so that it can switch off these functions when patrolling poor neighborhoods of color. /sarcasm

Civil servants used to have these skills in the mid 50's because we built an economic system that wasn't focused on useless financialization. Now we have a legacy 20th century infrastructure that no longer has a 20th century revenue stream. The 21st century revenue streams are so messed up and unbalanced that only Fraudsters and liars can get elected, because no sane person could promise the things most of our elected officials promise.

At the heart of all this is the lack of federal deficit spending. Hasn't been the same since Reaganomics and the economics of Friedman took over. Probably the two most economically destructive influences in modern economic history.

The revenue stream for the speed camera company comes from a share of the traffic citations. The legal contracts are drafted in such a way that incentivized both parties, the municipality and the firm. To deny the soft and hard influence that takes place to "tweak" revenue is just be ignorant.

Sovereign country with its own non-convertible floating exchange rate currency can never be bankrupt.

Bitcoin's value as a payment system isn't really novel. Tommorow if the governement chose to excercise it's authority, it could make bitcoin obsolete by making all currency digital and providing free transaction services via the credit/debit/postal systems. Credit cards would still exist, but debit cards would die, and the credit card industry would be collapse to a fraction of what it is today. Economy would also be better off because business would retain an extra 2-3%, which wouldn't goto Wall Street.

The post summary is forgetting the fact that most machines sold to businesses and in retail are Windows certified which has a far higher spec requirement than minimum. Additionally, low minimum specs is what you want because it forces engineers to build efficient code rather than be adhere to Gates' Law.

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