I have to wonder if there is another motive to bringing manufacturing back on shore.. It's easy for a judge to decide to block a few shipments of phones from china because of a patent dispute. It's going to be a tougher decision to lay down a patent ruling that may shut down a factory putting US workers on unemployment.
Rather than trying to get the kids reading the adult shorts and novels try the books they wrote for kids
Asimov has the Luckey Starr series. This was probably the first Sci-fi book I remember my dad reading to me.
David Starr, Space Ranger (1952)
Lucky Starr and the Pirates of the Asteroids (1953)
Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus (1954)
Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury (1956)
Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter (1957)
Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn (1958)
From Heinlein
Rocket Ship Galileo, 1947
Space Cadet, 1948
Red Planet, 1949
Between Planets, 1951
The Rolling Stones aka Space Family Stone, 1952
Farmer in the Sky, 1953
Starman Jones, 1953
The Star Beast, 1954
Tunnel in the Sky, 1955
Time for the Stars, 1956
Citizen of the Galaxy, 1957
Have Space Suit—Will Travel, 1958
Yeah whatever.. I was a Dish subscriber for 13 years.. Last year we turned it all off, bumped up our netflix subscription to get everyone in the house streaming at once and got a unlimited blockbuster store pass. It works for us.. If I want local news I get it OTA and thanks to digital broadcasting it looks better than on cable or dish.
You know what else I have now? Free time.. I'm no longer sucked into watching endless crap reality shows..
Take it from someone who is currently working on a cloud environment..
At the end of the line you still have a user causing you issues.
Keyboards, mice and thin clients will still have issues.
VDI's still have printers to deal with and all the related driver problems.
Executives will still want a fancy laptop to show off to their buddies that needs TLC.
Power users will still declare they need a desktop to do their job.
"The cloud" isn't some magical happy place where IT support isn't needed..
Its just a virtual server infrastructure that may be located somewhere else.
Someone still has to install,monitor, patch, upgrade and support those virtual servers and related apps.
Under all there is a physical server and network infrastructure that needs upgrades and maintenance.
All the same support tasks need to be done.. You just moved them to another office and paid them to do it for you.
What scares me is I hear managers talk of a bring your own device to work system where the user brings the hardware and runs web apps or a VDI session from it. Talk about a desktop support nightmare..
I agree.. Costco..
http://www.costcophotocenter.com
Upload from home
4x6 for 13 cents
8x10 for $1.50
20x30 for $9
I think the 600hp was a mistake..
http://www.voltavolare.com/specifications
The Volta web site shows the motor as 300hp..
The backup gas generator is 180hp
Find a surplus sale and buy a used 42U rack.
Home run all the Cat 6 into the rack (you are having all the phones wired with Cat 6 right?) and add a patch pannel
Also have all the house cable home run into the rack plus a couple runs of fiber from the telco service entrance just to be future proof.
Feed the rack a dedicated 220v circuit with an in rack PDU.
If possible have a 2-3" conduit run from the entertainment center to the rack for media PC use so you can run HDMI or whatever comes next without opening up walls.
In 2005 we started looking at blade chassis and tested a rack of HP BL series blades.
That system came with a 48v DC power enclosure with 6 hot swap power supplies. It sat in the bottom of the rack and had a buss bar system to feed every chassis in the rack.
As others have stated.. 48v is a long standing standard for telecom power.
Poor dude had his hands full chasing down all her boyfriends.
I heard from her a year later.. She'd gotten a divorce,got married again and had a baby on the way.
She married her BOSS! lol..
I tried online dating.
I met and dated a beautiful intelligent girl.
A few months into the relationship I met her very angry husband.
That could be because of the adaptive tests they started using at the time..
If you missed a question on a specific topic it would come back with more questions on that subject.
I knew a few people who would intentionally blow a question on a well known subject to get the test to focus on that topic.
Another point is everyone got a slightly different question set. I remember friends advising me to study certain topics they got lots of questions one but I saw none of them on my tests.
The only MS test I was ever proud to pass and got some respect for was the 70-240 Windows 2000 upgrade. The one you could only take once.
The lady at the test center said she'd never seen anyone pass it before.. I guess lots of people never bothered to study because it was free to they just tried to wing it.
And so is much of the current KC-135 fleet, they were commercial 707's bought during the 80's and converted.
No The C-135/ KC-135/ NC-135 (plus a few other variants) is not a converted 707.. It's it's own model.
Boeing stopped building the 135 series after 1965 the military just keeps refitting them.
Like its sibling, the commercial Boeing 707 jet airliner, the KC-135 was derived from the Boeing 367-80 jet transport "proof of concept" demonstrator, which was commonly called the "Dash-80". As such the KC-135 is similar in appearance to the 707, but has a narrower fuselage and is shorter than the 707. The KC-135 predates the 707, and is structurally quite different from the civilian airliner. Boeing gave the future KC-135 tanker the initial designation Model 717.
Some KC-135's were refitted with used 707 engines in the 80's (known as the KC-135E)
It's not a KC-135.. The Air force wouldn't give any up to convert so they bought used 707-300s to build the EC-8 fleet..
This one (number 93-0597) was built in December 1966 and delivered to Quantas in March of 1967 http://www.707.adastron.com/qantas/VH-EBU.htm
It was built in 1966
Details on it's service life here
http://www.707.adastron.com/qantas/VH-EBU.htm
What I don't get is, if you say there's 25M of damage, isn't that supposed to mean it would cost 25M to repair? If you have an estimate for the repair, that means you can repair it; so why is it written off, instead?
Well for several reasons..
1.. The EC-8 fleet was built using USED commercial Boeing 707's This one was built in 1966. See the Service History
2. The airframe may be close to the end of it's service life. The fleet was only designed to operate until 2025..
The cost to repair my well exceed the return on investment over the next 10 years vs it's value as a source of spare parts.
They have 17 more to continue operations with so that may also be a factor in their decision.
http://defensetech.org/2012/01/27/a-basic-mistake-that-trashed-a-jstars/
"The chain which can be yanked is not the eternal chain." -- G. Fitch
