Let's examine the economic viability over the life of a new SSD versus that of, say, a Western Digital 7200 RPM drive? It seems to me that anything from Western Digital LARGER than 80GB is practically guaranteed to fail within two years. I'd imagine the SSDS are more reliable, unless the hard-drive failures are related more to Windows' use of the drive (i.e. the OS corrupts the drive through cr@ppy management).
I'm simply suggesting that high initial cost is not the same as life-time cost.
You want installed user base? How about the number of PSX users out there.
The success of the Wii can be easily summarized:
1) Price point (in relation to competition) - for a good indication of how important this is, look at PS2 sales. http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/08/technology/persona ltech/harrison/index.htm
2) Hype - new control system differentiates the product
3) Ready to play OUT OF THE BOX - the pre-loaded games (Wii bowling, golf, etc.) allow the consumer to use their new system as soon as they hook it up, without the need to buy new software. This has been the major struggle for the PS3 (A superior console IMHO).
Commercial campaigns featuring the Yoshida brothers always helps too.:D
All sorts of things were "BS" until they were proven otherwise. Most things are unbelievable because we lack the knowledge/experience to understand how something could be possible. All I asked was whether anyone participating in this search had applied such knowledge.
From a purely practical standpoint, I find the position of "My proven methods are not working, but I'm not even going to TRY you're unproven methods because I'M SURE they won't work either" to be a particularly weak one - especially when concerning the recovery of human life.
I consider this method a curiosity, not a way of life. That said, all I can do is present the material - your opinion is ultimately yours.
Sure, this method of thinking is total crock and would never actually find anyone as readily and easily as traditional search and rescue methods. Oh? Traditional methods haven't worked? Oh.
RTFA, RTFB, then render your opinion. I look forward to hearing your input.:)
FTFA:
I decided I'd organize a group that would predict where an object would drift in that period If anyone's read James Surowiecki's "The Wisdom of Crowds", they'd be familiar with a story in which a lost ship was located by tabulating/averaging the guesses from individuals (most with no search and rescue experience). This technique is roughly based on the idea of nature's bell-curve; collect enough guesses and the mean will be RIGHT ON.
Anyways, I was simply curious if this technique was employed. How poetic would it be for Jim to be found because of a database's average?
People have been futzing with the concept through data-mining for years...it's about time it went into a search engine. And what an engine! I tried it out, and compared it to Google (I had to re-enter the search query in a different syntax to get relevant results) - and I found it more useful! Who knew?
Two bones to pick:
1) "7 search evolutions" seems like one idea rehashed into seven bullet points. A little redundant.
2) FTFA:
"However, heavy users of search already understand that the average search takes 11 minutes and 50 percent of searches are abandoned." Um... no, I didn't know that. Where did you collect the data? How did you calculate that percentage and average?
From the article:
"The data are very clear," said ViaGen President Mark Walton. "You really can't tell them apart."
Out of context, one might say: "No $h1T, they're clones!", but he's referring to the difference between cloned meat and your individually bred, pampered, and free-ranged meat: THERE IS NONE.
Actually, NewSkin has been an invaluable comliment to most first aid kits for quite a while now...and it's basically rubber cement. Hopefully this stuff is a little different, I wouldn't want my eye to get glued to its lid.
Agreed. The PBS show was Scientific American Frontiers (show 401: "Bionics") where they had a guy who could control his sailboat and a flight simulator with his mind. The transcript for the show is available here: http://www.pbs.org/saf/transcripts/transcript401.h tm#6
I miss Alan Alda:(
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And speaking of crash recovery...
Let's examine the economic viability over the life of a new SSD versus that of, say, a Western Digital 7200 RPM drive? It seems to me that anything from Western Digital LARGER than 80GB is practically guaranteed to fail within two years. I'd imagine the SSDS are more reliable, unless the hard-drive failures are related more to Windows' use of the drive (i.e. the OS corrupts the drive through cr@ppy management).
I'm simply suggesting that high initial cost is not the same as life-time cost.
More importantly, it's a statistically insignificant study if 12 people can skew your results.
That's why we have IE Tab. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/141 9
Exactly - it seems like an "intelligent car" could be cheaply outdone by an intelligent driver.
You want installed user base? How about the number of PSX users out there.
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:D
The success of the Wii can be easily summarized:
1) Price point (in relation to competition) - for a good indication of how important this is, look at PS2 sales. http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/08/technology/person
2) Hype - new control system differentiates the product
3) Ready to play OUT OF THE BOX - the pre-loaded games (Wii bowling, golf, etc.) allow the consumer to use their new system as soon as they hook it up, without the need to buy new software. This has been the major struggle for the PS3 (A superior console IMHO).
Commercial campaigns featuring the Yoshida brothers always helps too.
All sorts of things were "BS" until they were proven otherwise. Most things are unbelievable because we lack the knowledge/experience to understand how something could be possible. All I asked was whether anyone participating in this search had applied such knowledge. From a purely practical standpoint, I find the position of "My proven methods are not working, but I'm not even going to TRY you're unproven methods because I'M SURE they won't work either" to be a particularly weak one - especially when concerning the recovery of human life. I consider this method a curiosity, not a way of life. That said, all I can do is present the material - your opinion is ultimately yours.
Sure, this method of thinking is total crock and would never actually find anyone as readily and easily as traditional search and rescue methods. Oh? Traditional methods haven't worked? Oh. RTFA, RTFB, then render your opinion. I look forward to hearing your input. :)
Too lazy? You mean both your hands are busy...
PCWORLD ran a similar article six months ago http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,122099-page,2-c, plugins/article.html... can we expect to see pathetic FF extension opinions updated regularly?
LOST...then shouldn't it be a Voyager movie?
I have the distinct feeling MIT will be entering the next DARPA (driverless car) competition this year - and that this research is directly related. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge #2007_Urban_Challenge
From the article: "The data are very clear," said ViaGen President Mark Walton. "You really can't tell them apart." Out of context, one might say: "No $h1T, they're clones!", but he's referring to the difference between cloned meat and your individually bred, pampered, and free-ranged meat: THERE IS NONE.
Actually, NewSkin has been an invaluable comliment to most first aid kits for quite a while now...and it's basically rubber cement. Hopefully this stuff is a little different, I wouldn't want my eye to get glued to its lid.
Agreed. The PBS show was Scientific American Frontiers (show 401: "Bionics") where they had a guy who could control his sailboat and a flight simulator with his mind. The transcript for the show is available here: http://www.pbs.org/saf/transcripts/transcript401.h tm#6
I miss Alan Alda :(