infrastructures.org looks interesting, but then I see they mention things like 'NetSaint' which was renamed to be Nagios about 7 years ago, and references to "LISA '98".
Some of this information looks old. Am I right? These days, shouldn't we be thinking more about virtualization and cloud infrastructure?
That said, they do touch upon many good ideas. It seems that many mid-sized shops do follow some similar ideas.
Our thumper has 32.5GB alonep>
Did you mean 32.5TB, not GB?
I'm on a long drive. The passenger in my car is bored and wants to browse the Internet. There are kids in the back who are bored with their books and want to play on pbskids.org . I'm driving, my wife has a laptop and wants to check the Traffic on Google Maps. We want to stream Pandora.com through our car stereo.
Yes, there are other options for some of these issues but a Mobile Hotspot seems better and cheaper then many of the alternatives.
I'm not sure why Slashdot has an article on this. Mobile 3G Hotspots for cars have been around for a couple years now, but they seem really expensive. Crutchfeld.com had one for about $300.
That doesn't change the fact that we remain a nation of wasteful asses...
A couple shirts doesn't mean much, in the grand scheme of things - but if 350 million American made a similar decision each and every day, our economy would begin to turn around.
I'm not disputing that. In fact, I think we agree.
I was disputing the parent post's believe that the US doesn't "make anything itself". This is a pessimistic and uneducated belief.
I pointed out that the US *does* make many things, and we still export many, many goods.
The rumors of our death have been greatly exaggerated.
The United States still makes many things, and is still one of the worlds largest exporters, with over $1 Trillion in exports in 2009.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_exports
http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/pres10_e/pr598_e.htm
It appears that cars accounted for 11% of those exports:
http://www.trademap.org/tradestaz/Country_SelProductCountry_TS.aspx
Yes, sometimes I'm immature. But it's fun to find Easter eggs like this:
guest@xkcd:/$ go left
You cannot go left.
guest@xkcd:/$ go right
You cannot go right.
guest@xkcd:/$ go forward
You cannot go forward.
guest@xkcd:/$ kill
Terminator deployed to 1984
guest@xkcd:/$ fuck
I have a headache.
guest@xkcd:/$ help fuck
That would be cheating!
How do you know that I'm not a replicant? Maybe you are just dreaming, and we're all just figments of your imagination.
Blade Runner: Re-imagined, by J. J. Abrams
Blade Runner 2: Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
Blade Runner Prequel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner#Prequel
Here's an article that describes another reason for the cuts. There does seem to be alot of back and forth regarding this system.
http://www.insidegnss.com/node/1806
Although the Federal Register notice also indicates that a decision has not been made on the need for a GPS backup, the announcement apparently brings to a close a seemingly interminable process of preserving and upgrading the terrestrial radionavigation system to provide an enhanced Loran (eLoran) capability that could serve as a multimodal backup to failures or interference to the Global Positioning System.
That process spanned several years, two administrations, and the expenditure of $160 million over the last 10 years to partially modernize a network of Loran stations that now will be phased out. It also flies in the face of an independent assessment team’s unanimous recommendation to establish eLoran as a GPS backup, as well as the efforts of navigation counterparts in other nations, notably the United Kingdom, to implement eLoran.
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