Windmills are typically used to mill grain, such as turning wheat into flour. Last I checked, windmills aren't usually made in China or Germany.

"Wind Turbines" is the accepted term for the units that convert Wind into electricity, and they're not "made in China and Germany mostly":
- Vestas is the presently the world's largest turbine manufacturer and is based in Denmark. It has manufacturing operations the same country.
- Siemens Gamesa (SGRE) is based in Spain and has most of its manufacturing operations there.
- GE Renewable Energy is based in the US, and they have manufacturing operations in Brazil, Mexico and the US.

Other players are smaller outfits and hail from a variety of countries including South Korea, India, Brazil, Japan and as you stated, China and Germany.

So long my friend, thanks for all the fish. May you rest in peace...

When I auditioned chairs at a previous job, I greatly preferred the Embody (also by Herman Miller) to the Aeron. I probably sat in it for 4-5 years before changing jobs, and was quite happy with it.

This acquisition doesn't make any sense to me. Broadcom is buying all of Brocade, selling off the pieces poised to grow in the wireless and IP networking segments, and keeping the part that serves the shrinking storage-specific networking market? Can somebody explain this to me?

I hope they don't wreck the IP networking and wireless companies. I really like the Brocade VCS fabric stuff and Ruckus wireless kit..

The two I care about are that it supports larger file attachments and it's encrypted.

Do you have a source for this? All I've seen is that Akamai/Prolexic was unwilling to keep doing it for free, because it was getting really expensive. That seems like a significant difference, especially from the perspective of somebody intending to pay money for the services rendered.

That's interesting. My recollection from working on them a bunch of years ago was that our mainframes were IPLed on a regular, scheduled basis, because the folks responsible for them were disciplined about it and wanted to make sure there would be no surprises when one needed to be restarted. The fault tolerance you mention was used to make sure that the scheduled IPL's were the only times they went down though, and I never saw any unplanned downtime on them.

I use Cloak on iOS, and it supports this functionality. I configure it to allow unencrypted traffic on specific trusted networks, and the VPN auto-connects on any network that I haven't approved, blocking other traffic until the VPN comes up. It seems to use the enterprise features Apple has provided to do this via a VPN profile, and it works very well. I have no idea what features it supports on Android and/or Windows Phones, but I'm very happy with it on Apple devices.

So true! I wish I had mod points!

Golf! What a great idea!

It demonstrates either a lack of understanding or more than a passing familiarity with the applications. MS Office has used AES for the built-in encryption since Office 2007. That would seem like a reasonable choice for sending a file to a contact, provided you choose a strong password and communicate it out-of-band.

According to the Boston Globe, police pay in Massachusetts can exceed $250k, not including benefits.

They could change the timeouts. If an iMessage is sent to a destination that's a phone number (instead of an email address), and a device configured to receive messages for that phone number has not checked in within the past 5-7 days, deactivate iMessage for that phone number until a configured device checks in again.

I agree this is mostly user error and haven't had any problems resolving it for people who've asked me about it, but people don't typically anticipate this result when switching phones, so containing the undesired effects to a shorter transition window would seem like a helpful thing to do.

If your tapes are writing that slowly, something is wrong, and I'd be worried about shoe-shining. Without putting much effort into it, my LTO5 jobs currently run at around 125-135MB/s. With modern tape, it helps a lot to stage to disk first, or get software that can multiplex backup streams to keep the tape buffers fed.

Hah! I see what you did there!