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ParticipantI am an SUV owner and I’m loving it. We’re a family of four who does most all shopping and errands on the weekends, in the SUV. 15MPG in the city for about 50 miles a week.
During the week I drive a 125cc scooter to work, 22 miles round drip. 75MPG in the city for about 110 miles a week.
If you do the math I think I’m beaing a Prius driver hands down. 😀 And yes, I wear my birkenstoks on the weekends, driving my big bad SUV. 😀
What I’m trying to get to is this, there are different vehicles that are suited best for different situations. I have absolutely 0 need to drive an SUV to work, as I’m the only rider, thus I ride a scooter. However, when I take the family out, the scooter stays home.
“Simple logic.” – Spock
ParticipantI am an SUV owner and I’m loving it. We’re a family of four who does most all shopping and errands on the weekends, in the SUV. 15MPG in the city for about 50 miles a week.
During the week I drive a 125cc scooter to work, 22 miles round drip. 75MPG in the city for about 110 miles a week.
If you do the math I think I’m beaing a Prius driver hands down. 😀 And yes, I wear my birkenstoks on the weekends, driving my big bad SUV. 😀
What I’m trying to get to is this, there are different vehicles that are suited best for different situations. I have absolutely 0 need to drive an SUV to work, as I’m the only rider, thus I ride a scooter. However, when I take the family out, the scooter stays home.
“Simple logic.” – Spock
ParticipantI am an SUV owner and I’m loving it. We’re a family of four who does most all shopping and errands on the weekends, in the SUV. 15MPG in the city for about 50 miles a week.
During the week I drive a 125cc scooter to work, 22 miles round drip. 75MPG in the city for about 110 miles a week.
If you do the math I think I’m beaing a Prius driver hands down. 😀 And yes, I wear my birkenstoks on the weekends, driving my big bad SUV. 😀
What I’m trying to get to is this, there are different vehicles that are suited best for different situations. I have absolutely 0 need to drive an SUV to work, as I’m the only rider, thus I ride a scooter. However, when I take the family out, the scooter stays home.
“Simple logic.” – Spock
ParticipantI am an SUV owner and I’m loving it. We’re a family of four who does most all shopping and errands on the weekends, in the SUV. 15MPG in the city for about 50 miles a week.
During the week I drive a 125cc scooter to work, 22 miles round drip. 75MPG in the city for about 110 miles a week.
If you do the math I think I’m beaing a Prius driver hands down. 😀 And yes, I wear my birkenstoks on the weekends, driving my big bad SUV. 😀
What I’m trying to get to is this, there are different vehicles that are suited best for different situations. I have absolutely 0 need to drive an SUV to work, as I’m the only rider, thus I ride a scooter. However, when I take the family out, the scooter stays home.
“Simple logic.” – Spock
ParticipantThat said, I can tell you what i think is the latest buzzwords in the IT space these days. “Service Oriented Architecture”, “Cloud computing”, “grid computing”. Fancy terms for having a pool of computing/storage resources that you can reuse. In other words, buy your IBM stock now. It’s only a matter of time before mainframe makes a comeback.
I completely agree, nothing does back-end storage, processing, and delivery better than a mainframe. You can put whatever you want on your front-end servers that format and spew out web documents in XHTML/XML to your clients, but the real back-end storage and processing that will be necessary to support 100Mbps on-demant IPTV/streaming media to homes and mobile devices (100Mbps on Cellular networks has already been demonstrated) is going to be run on big iron. No cluster/grid networks of computers will be able to keep up with the kinds of demands we’re going to see in the coming days.
I am a network tech today but I do have mainframe operations experience, and it is all coming full circle. I can’t wait to get back to running mainframes again!
ParticipantThat said, I can tell you what i think is the latest buzzwords in the IT space these days. “Service Oriented Architecture”, “Cloud computing”, “grid computing”. Fancy terms for having a pool of computing/storage resources that you can reuse. In other words, buy your IBM stock now. It’s only a matter of time before mainframe makes a comeback.
I completely agree, nothing does back-end storage, processing, and delivery better than a mainframe. You can put whatever you want on your front-end servers that format and spew out web documents in XHTML/XML to your clients, but the real back-end storage and processing that will be necessary to support 100Mbps on-demant IPTV/streaming media to homes and mobile devices (100Mbps on Cellular networks has already been demonstrated) is going to be run on big iron. No cluster/grid networks of computers will be able to keep up with the kinds of demands we’re going to see in the coming days.
I am a network tech today but I do have mainframe operations experience, and it is all coming full circle. I can’t wait to get back to running mainframes again!
ParticipantThat said, I can tell you what i think is the latest buzzwords in the IT space these days. “Service Oriented Architecture”, “Cloud computing”, “grid computing”. Fancy terms for having a pool of computing/storage resources that you can reuse. In other words, buy your IBM stock now. It’s only a matter of time before mainframe makes a comeback.
I completely agree, nothing does back-end storage, processing, and delivery better than a mainframe. You can put whatever you want on your front-end servers that format and spew out web documents in XHTML/XML to your clients, but the real back-end storage and processing that will be necessary to support 100Mbps on-demant IPTV/streaming media to homes and mobile devices (100Mbps on Cellular networks has already been demonstrated) is going to be run on big iron. No cluster/grid networks of computers will be able to keep up with the kinds of demands we’re going to see in the coming days.
I am a network tech today but I do have mainframe operations experience, and it is all coming full circle. I can’t wait to get back to running mainframes again!
ParticipantThat said, I can tell you what i think is the latest buzzwords in the IT space these days. “Service Oriented Architecture”, “Cloud computing”, “grid computing”. Fancy terms for having a pool of computing/storage resources that you can reuse. In other words, buy your IBM stock now. It’s only a matter of time before mainframe makes a comeback.
I completely agree, nothing does back-end storage, processing, and delivery better than a mainframe. You can put whatever you want on your front-end servers that format and spew out web documents in XHTML/XML to your clients, but the real back-end storage and processing that will be necessary to support 100Mbps on-demant IPTV/streaming media to homes and mobile devices (100Mbps on Cellular networks has already been demonstrated) is going to be run on big iron. No cluster/grid networks of computers will be able to keep up with the kinds of demands we’re going to see in the coming days.
I am a network tech today but I do have mainframe operations experience, and it is all coming full circle. I can’t wait to get back to running mainframes again!
ParticipantThat said, I can tell you what i think is the latest buzzwords in the IT space these days. “Service Oriented Architecture”, “Cloud computing”, “grid computing”. Fancy terms for having a pool of computing/storage resources that you can reuse. In other words, buy your IBM stock now. It’s only a matter of time before mainframe makes a comeback.
I completely agree, nothing does back-end storage, processing, and delivery better than a mainframe. You can put whatever you want on your front-end servers that format and spew out web documents in XHTML/XML to your clients, but the real back-end storage and processing that will be necessary to support 100Mbps on-demant IPTV/streaming media to homes and mobile devices (100Mbps on Cellular networks has already been demonstrated) is going to be run on big iron. No cluster/grid networks of computers will be able to keep up with the kinds of demands we’re going to see in the coming days.
I am a network tech today but I do have mainframe operations experience, and it is all coming full circle. I can’t wait to get back to running mainframes again!
ParticipantQ: What should I do with my stimulus check?
A: You should do your duty to the country.Q: So I should spend it, not pay down debt with it?
A: Why not, it works for the government.Q: So what you’re really doing is encouraging me to spend money I haven’t earned yet, considering I’m paying for it from future taxes?
A: Why not, the rest of the country is doing that every day.Q: Isn’t that what got us into this mess in the first place?
A: Oh will you just SHUT UP!ParticipantQ: What should I do with my stimulus check?
A: You should do your duty to the country.Q: So I should spend it, not pay down debt with it?
A: Why not, it works for the government.Q: So what you’re really doing is encouraging me to spend money I haven’t earned yet, considering I’m paying for it from future taxes?
A: Why not, the rest of the country is doing that every day.Q: Isn’t that what got us into this mess in the first place?
A: Oh will you just SHUT UP!ParticipantQ: What should I do with my stimulus check?
A: You should do your duty to the country.Q: So I should spend it, not pay down debt with it?
A: Why not, it works for the government.Q: So what you’re really doing is encouraging me to spend money I haven’t earned yet, considering I’m paying for it from future taxes?
A: Why not, the rest of the country is doing that every day.Q: Isn’t that what got us into this mess in the first place?
A: Oh will you just SHUT UP!ParticipantQ: What should I do with my stimulus check?
A: You should do your duty to the country.Q: So I should spend it, not pay down debt with it?
A: Why not, it works for the government.Q: So what you’re really doing is encouraging me to spend money I haven’t earned yet, considering I’m paying for it from future taxes?
A: Why not, the rest of the country is doing that every day.Q: Isn’t that what got us into this mess in the first place?
A: Oh will you just SHUT UP!ParticipantQ: What should I do with my stimulus check?
A: You should do your duty to the country.Q: So I should spend it, not pay down debt with it?
A: Why not, it works for the government.Q: So what you’re really doing is encouraging me to spend money I haven’t earned yet, considering I’m paying for it from future taxes?
A: Why not, the rest of the country is doing that every day.Q: Isn’t that what got us into this mess in the first place?
A: Oh will you just SHUT UP! -
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