Your chips need to be fast, or they need to be small and mobile.
Back in AMD good days, People bought PCs for different reasons, You had the Power User who got as big and fast as they can afford, you got the budget PC where you buy a PC not for its speed but because you need a cheap Computer. Laptop/Notbook computers were the ultra mobile devices, and they were much more expensive than a PC.
That isn't as much the case anymore. If you are going to get a cheap Computer, you are going to get an iPad, or a netbook, that gives you mobility, you are going be less likely to buy a cheap Desktop. If you are going to power you are going to get it with the fastest chips. AMD has been lagging so they can't compete there either.
Cheap Desktop CPU that under perform are not going to sell well, because the new Ultra Mobile Devices are at a price point where it competes with the cheap PC.
Ok, But so what if your iPhone doesn't give the same flare, then your other phone. Ok with an iPhone and Leathermen you are equipt to handle 99% of our daily tasks. Although none of such tasks are optimal.
the Funky Visual effect isn't that big of a deal unless you like taking pictures of the sun. the iPhone Camera is still just a phone camera. It gets the job done.
Apple had a trade off when they got thinner. The trade off was you get a different flare when you take the picture of the sun....
Correlation may not lead to causation... However it tends to give a clue on the causation.
For example a Correlation between the number of tattoos vs. the number of Motorcycle accidents. Well ink in your skin doesn't cause you to get in an accident. However people who are more apt to taking risks will more likely get a tattoo. People who take more risks get into accidents more.
In terms of policy, you want to reduce motorcycle accidents, telling people you need to stop getting tattoos will not be effective. However with this correlation you may get results by posting motorcycle safety information at the tattoo parlors.
But using Correlation != causation as a way to short circuit an argument isn't that effective. Because if your goal is to dig for the truth or a solution, the correlation is important, and if the correlation seems reasonable to create the causation it is worth further investigation.
Todays culture we have too much information, and most of us are not taught to leave it alone unless it really affects us. Yes a lot of the information is important, but it really isn't important to use to get all ruffled up about.
We hear all this stuff back and forth digging up dirt on everyone. And what do we learn? Nothing, because this information really isn't important to us. We get emotional about it but we are not enlighten from it.
During the engineering process we come up with small roadblocks. We need a little help an extra eye a new idea. It is one of those setbacks that you have already adjusted in your quote for... If the customer gets that information they will get all emotional about it... however they will not gain any real insight from it. I am going to use a plastic part instead of metal, because it will save the unit cost down, and the metal has a tendency to bend and will need more servicing. The customer will see this as just a cost cutting measure and they will be getting an inferior product, while it is just a case where plastic is a better material than metal for that component. The customer rarely understands the process and if shown to them will panic because there is a degree of testing and fixing a caos involved, and it isn't just draft, produce, and sell.
I have seen a relatively stupid argument with people who support extreme gun control. If we stopped selling guns, then we won't have guns, it is not like they can make their own guns.
I pointed out how a lot of crimes are committed from hand made guns, and they can make a deadly gun with normal parts in their workshed. And by Banning legal guns, people who want to perform other crimes will still have guns.
"In fact he even says not to believe him until you do your own research" Unfortunately a lot of people take this to mean what I am saying is true, and you need to prove me wrong. Then you get stuck into conspiracy logic reasoning, where lack of evidence only means the conspiracy is deeper.
For example the Birther Movement. Some Guy Pull out of his ass that Obama wasn't born in the united states, because his father wasn't a native citizen. Demand research, so they demand a copy of the birth certificate. They finally get it, well it could be fake, They find newspaper articles, about his birth, They figure that it was paid to be placed in there. They track it down to the hospital. they assume the hospital was paid off...
For some reason a half white and half black child from a modest middle class family must be groomed to be president of the United States, as a plot for the UN communist to take over the United States.
For average vote Joe, they do not have the research skills to realize they are going down a dead end path, and will research and pull more crazy and bad sourced information.
You know sometimes these things do happen. Having done work with state and local government, I see things like this happening all the time.
Government employment culture is the idea on what you do wrong will hurt you, vs what you do right will promote you. So there is little effort in telling people how to do things right, and if some one makes a mistake they will keep quiet and hope they don't get caught.
Hey look Ugg. Your club hurts, but I added a rock to the end of mine. Oh yea, well I have made a thinner club with a pointy edge to it so I can throw it at a distance. Oh yea. I put a sharp stone at the end of it so it will cut into my enemy further (and yes it has hunting applications too).
oh yea. Well I now can launch it with an other stick. Heck I beat you with a more compact stick on a string. By the way I have found to put sharper rocks at the end of sticks...
Hey check this out I found out how to melt rocks into this shiny stuff that doesn't shatter like a rock does, and I can grind it to make it sharper.
Yea I took your idea and made mine longer.
Yea, Well mine is sharper and better balanced.
Hey I just came back from China, I found this neat stuff that explodes.
Yea. I found I could make the direction better if I encase it metal that can contain and direct the explosion.
It is not enough to follow the law you need to embrace it and advertise it too.
Don't get me wrong Extended Warranties tend to be the biggest rip-off because they tend to not cover most of the reasons why your device will break, and cover things that will last forever anyways. However why should apple be under so much pressure for trying to sell as an add on an extended Warrantee. Shouldn't their customers know the law?
We have reached a usage rate where speed in terms of doubling isn't really that big of a deal. over 10mbs is usually fast enough for netflix. So we can watch a movie over the internet without waiting for hours... That is good speed.
It isn't like the days of the 300, 1200, 2400, 9600, 14.4k, 28.8k, 57.6k modems where just downloading a picture was a big deal. For the most part we go to a site, it gives us the content we need. If there is a video we click on it and it plays and streams fast. We are not waiting for hours, or minutes.
Going from 15mbs to 30mbs is not feeling from going to slow to fast. But from good to snappy.
There is a difference between Can't handle, vs. not handling it well.
SQL Server and mySQL share the same data set range. A few million records per table. A million record table is a lot of data, more than what we need for most applications, and organizations.
Oracle is a billion records per table. That it a lot of data. This is for serving data for a good percentage of the population. Can you get SQL Server to handle that data. Sure you can, however you are going beyond it optimal design. I can sustain 100mph with my prius... However I will get better gas milage if I used a sports car, for that job.
Being famus for the man who invented the Personal Computer. And now Decades later your invention is starting to dwindel popularity, being replaced with the ultra-mobile computer like iPads and iPhone and other smart phones.
With your new endevers in life is the decline of the Personal Computer effecting your preception?
You must realy hate Time Sharing err um, managed hosted err umm SaaS err umm Could yea that it, you must really hate Cloud computing. That is the buzward that makes it evil.
The trends were towards going to smaller PC hardware, with systems like Microsoft SQL and MySQL that are designed for the smaller Database. There is less of a demmand towards the ultra big and heavy gear anymore. You are not going to want to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for an oracle license, for a database that has under a billion records in it. And your down time isn't going to cost you enough to make up for the expense.
However with Cloud systems, it bring back the big iron again. You are dealing with Huge Datasets, and even a small amount of downtime can cost your millions, plus the bad press from the Rabid Anti-Coud group.
The Cloud is the Silver Lining for Oracle. However it is what is hurting Microsoft.
Money and raises are important but not the best short term incentives. The raises will make sure employees won't head out if their pay is competitive. However incentives are good for the short term. The $10 pizza for someone working over lunch. Is a way to give a little thanks for the short term thanks. Going too long term and just paying people more will not work to get the immediate done. And stop the frustration to quit.
I see this as more of a Cyber Bulling then really trolling. Trolling is usually a way to either get someone flustered up so to avoid an honest factual discussion. I see in the news a couple of great trolls out there.
The birther movement and Obama is a Muslim troll: Why debate issues when you try to keep debate going on some lame conspiracy theory that really facts will do nothing to stop it.
The Romney Quotes, most of those quotes that he said are often taken well out of context. However they are used out of context to get am emotional response.
It doesn't hurt that the media tends to be against him, playing over and over again every misspoken or out of context word.
Like that stint about him "Liking to fire people". Where the context was being about to drop out of services that are not performing well. But noo, lets not use it in conext, just use is as sentance fragment to show how evil he is.
Now I am not a Romney Supporter and will not vote for him... However. The media hasn't been fare with him.
I find it funny how the public will equally go nuts over a small problem vs a large one. My Maps are not as good as the last time. Vs. Company has been embezling and misusing our tax money. Same amount of anger and fustration. Why do you think companies are staying corrupt. Because if they try to be the good guys whatever minor mistake they will get the same slack is if they make a major problem.
Can't be the good guy, so let just be the bad guy.
We should save our bickering for the big stuff, and let the little stuff slide a litte bit. Sure in this case report the problem. OK the CEO appologizes. No that isn't good enough we want Blood because we were 10 minutes lake to that party.
Because he was a swimming coach. He probably had their cell and their parents too. To notify them things like when and where they should have their swim meet.
Unlike say 20 years ago. It is common for a family to have more then 1 phone. And the kid is more resposnible for their information.
They could have gotten apple to call the app Google Maps, Have a full color logo on particular screens... There is a bunch of stuff they could do.
However do you realize that McDonalds isn't doing too many Disney Theamed Happy Meals. It was due to the same problem. Disney didn't want any of the McDonalds Branding on the happy meals.
For the most part people who buy the latestest and greatest do it to expand the obsoletness era. Get 400gb now Then in 10 years get 1 TB.
In 10 years you are most likely going to need to replace your gear anyways.
If they go 1.1Tb now and say it will take 15 years for the 2 tb. you will be running for a long time with a well under utilized connection and probably will need to replace your gear in 10 years anyways. So you spent a lot of money for underutilized gear.
Yes, Howerver I think for Terabit-ethernet, There is other factors too then just money. Like the speed to process and store the data being sent. If performance is that big of an issue, you are not going to trust your information with TCP/IP over a twisted pare cable. You would use a different type of bus for that.
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I mean an Astronomer with a job is a rare thing.
The PC landscape is changing.
Your chips need to be fast, or they need to be small and mobile.
Back in AMD good days, People bought PCs for different reasons, You had the Power User who got as big and fast as they can afford, you got the budget PC where you buy a PC not for its speed but because you need a cheap Computer. Laptop/Notbook computers were the ultra mobile devices, and they were much more expensive than a PC.
That isn't as much the case anymore.
If you are going to get a cheap Computer, you are going to get an iPad, or a netbook, that gives you mobility, you are going be less likely to buy a cheap Desktop. If you are going to power you are going to get it with the fastest chips. AMD has been lagging so they can't compete there either.
Cheap Desktop CPU that under perform are not going to sell well, because the new Ultra Mobile Devices are at a price point where it competes with the cheap PC.
Ok, But so what if your iPhone doesn't give the same flare, then your other phone.
Ok with an iPhone and Leathermen you are equipt to handle 99% of our daily tasks. Although none of such tasks are optimal.
the Funky Visual effect isn't that big of a deal unless you like taking pictures of the sun. the iPhone Camera is still just a phone camera. It gets the job done.
Apple had a trade off when they got thinner. The trade off was you get a different flare when you take the picture of the sun....
Correlation may not lead to causation... However it tends to give a clue on the causation.
For example a Correlation between the number of tattoos vs. the number of Motorcycle accidents.
Well ink in your skin doesn't cause you to get in an accident. However people who are more apt to taking risks will more likely get a tattoo. People who take more risks get into accidents more.
In terms of policy, you want to reduce motorcycle accidents, telling people you need to stop getting tattoos will not be effective. However with this correlation you may get results by posting motorcycle safety information at the tattoo parlors.
But using Correlation != causation as a way to short circuit an argument isn't that effective. Because if your goal is to dig for the truth or a solution, the correlation is important, and if the correlation seems reasonable to create the causation it is worth further investigation.
Todays culture we have too much information, and most of us are not taught to leave it alone unless it really affects us.
Yes a lot of the information is important, but it really isn't important to use to get all ruffled up about.
We hear all this stuff back and forth digging up dirt on everyone. And what do we learn? Nothing, because this information really isn't important to us. We get emotional about it but we are not enlighten from it.
During the engineering process we come up with small roadblocks. We need a little help an extra eye a new idea. It is one of those setbacks that you have already adjusted in your quote for... If the customer gets that information they will get all emotional about it... however they will not gain any real insight from it. I am going to use a plastic part instead of metal, because it will save the unit cost down, and the metal has a tendency to bend and will need more servicing. The customer will see this as just a cost cutting measure and they will be getting an inferior product, while it is just a case where plastic is a better material than metal for that component.
The customer rarely understands the process and if shown to them will panic because there is a degree of testing and fixing a caos involved, and it isn't just draft, produce, and sell.
Lead has a low melting point.
We know how to make gun powder.
Yes we can make amo in our back tool shed too.
I have seen a relatively stupid argument with people who support extreme gun control. If we stopped selling guns, then we won't have guns, it is not like they can make their own guns.
I pointed out how a lot of crimes are committed from hand made guns, and they can make a deadly gun with normal parts in their workshed. And by Banning legal guns, people who want to perform other crimes will still have guns.
"In fact he even says not to believe him until you do your own research"
Unfortunately a lot of people take this to mean what I am saying is true, and you need to prove me wrong. Then you get stuck into conspiracy logic reasoning, where lack of evidence only means the conspiracy is deeper.
For example the Birther Movement.
Some Guy Pull out of his ass that Obama wasn't born in the united states, because his father wasn't a native citizen.
Demand research, so they demand a copy of the birth certificate.
They finally get it, well it could be fake,
They find newspaper articles, about his birth,
They figure that it was paid to be placed in there.
They track it down to the hospital.
they assume the hospital was paid off...
For some reason a half white and half black child from a modest middle class family must be groomed to be president of the United States, as a plot for the UN communist to take over the United States.
For average vote Joe, they do not have the research skills to realize they are going down a dead end path, and will research and pull more crazy and bad sourced information.
You know sometimes these things do happen. Having done work with state and local government, I see things like this happening all the time.
Government employment culture is the idea on what you do wrong will hurt you, vs what you do right will promote you.
So there is little effort in telling people how to do things right, and if some one makes a mistake they will keep quiet and hope they don't get caught.
Say it ain't so!
Hey look Ugg. Your club hurts, but I added a rock to the end of mine. Oh yea, well I have made a thinner club with a pointy edge to it so I can throw it at a distance. Oh yea. I put a sharp stone at the end of it so it will cut into my enemy further (and yes it has hunting applications too).
oh yea. Well I now can launch it with an other stick.
Heck I beat you with a more compact stick on a string.
By the way I have found to put sharper rocks at the end of sticks...
Hey check this out I found out how to melt rocks into this shiny stuff that doesn't shatter like a rock does, and I can grind it to make it sharper.
Yea I took your idea and made mine longer.
Yea, Well mine is sharper and better balanced.
Hey I just came back from China, I found this neat stuff that explodes.
Yea. I found I could make the direction better if I encase it metal that can contain and direct the explosion.
Well mine is bigger.
Well mine is more portable.
Well mine is more accurate.
Well mine can reload faster.
Well mine I can mass produce.
Well my big ones explode more.....
It is not enough to follow the law you need to embrace it and advertise it too.
Don't get me wrong Extended Warranties tend to be the biggest rip-off because they tend to not cover most of the reasons why your device will break, and cover things that will last forever anyways. However why should apple be under so much pressure for trying to sell as an add on an extended Warrantee. Shouldn't their customers know the law?
We have reached a usage rate where speed in terms of doubling isn't really that big of a deal.
over 10mbs is usually fast enough for netflix. So we can watch a movie over the internet without waiting for hours... That is good speed.
It isn't like the days of the 300, 1200, 2400, 9600, 14.4k, 28.8k, 57.6k modems where just downloading a picture was a big deal. For the most part we go to a site, it gives us the content we need. If there is a video we click on it and it plays and streams fast. We are not waiting for hours, or minutes.
Going from 15mbs to 30mbs is not feeling from going to slow to fast. But from good to snappy.
There is a difference between Can't handle, vs. not handling it well.
SQL Server and mySQL share the same data set range.
A few million records per table. A million record table is a lot of data, more than what we need for most applications, and organizations.
Oracle is a billion records per table.
That it a lot of data. This is for serving data for a good percentage of the population.
Can you get SQL Server to handle that data. Sure you can, however you are going beyond it optimal design. I can sustain 100mph with my prius... However I will get better gas milage if I used a sports car, for that job.
I am talking about the billions or records database.
I don't bring up access, because if you use access for a production system you are either suck in the early 1990's or an idiot.
Microsoft SQL server can work for huge data sets... However it isn't it optimal design range.
Being famus for the man who invented the Personal Computer. And now Decades later your invention is starting to dwindel popularity, being replaced with the ultra-mobile computer like iPads and iPhone and other smart phones.
With your new endevers in life is the decline of the Personal Computer effecting your preception?
You must realy hate Time Sharing err um, managed hosted err umm SaaS err umm Could yea that it, you must really hate Cloud computing. That is the buzward that makes it evil.
The cloud is the sliver lining for Oracle.
The trends were towards going to smaller PC hardware, with systems like Microsoft SQL and MySQL that are designed for the smaller Database. There is less of a demmand towards the ultra big and heavy gear anymore. You are not going to want to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for an oracle license, for a database that has under a billion records in it. And your down time isn't going to cost you enough to make up for the expense.
However with Cloud systems, it bring back the big iron again. You are dealing with Huge Datasets, and even a small amount of downtime can cost your millions, plus the bad press from the Rabid Anti-Coud group.
The Cloud is the Silver Lining for Oracle. However it is what is hurting Microsoft.
Money and raises are important but not the best short term incentives. The raises will make sure employees won't head out if their pay is competitive. However incentives are good for the short term. The $10 pizza for someone working over lunch. Is a way to give a little thanks for the short term thanks. Going too long term and just paying people more will not work to get the immediate done. And stop the frustration to quit.
I see this as more of a Cyber Bulling then really trolling. Trolling is usually a way to either get someone flustered up so to avoid an honest factual discussion. I see in the news a couple of great trolls out there.
The birther movement and Obama is a Muslim troll: Why debate issues when you try to keep debate going on some lame conspiracy theory that really facts will do nothing to stop it.
The Romney Quotes, most of those quotes that he said are often taken well out of context. However they are used out of context to get am emotional response.
It doesn't hurt that the media tends to be against him, playing over and over again every misspoken or out of context word.
Like that stint about him "Liking to fire people". Where the context was being about to drop out of services that are not performing well. But noo, lets not use it in conext, just use is as sentance fragment to show how evil he is.
Now I am not a Romney Supporter and will not vote for him... However. The media hasn't been fare with him.
I find it funny how the public will equally go nuts over a small problem vs a large one.
My Maps are not as good as the last time. Vs. Company has been embezling and misusing our tax money. Same amount of anger and fustration. Why do you think companies are staying corrupt. Because if they try to be the good guys whatever minor mistake they will get the same slack is if they make a major problem.
Can't be the good guy, so let just be the bad guy.
We should save our bickering for the big stuff, and let the little stuff slide a litte bit. Sure in this case report the problem. OK the CEO appologizes. No that isn't good enough we want Blood because we were 10 minutes lake to that party.
Because he was a swimming coach. He probably had their cell and their parents too. To notify them things like when and where they should have their swim meet.
Unlike say 20 years ago. It is common for a family to have more then 1 phone. And the kid is more resposnible for their information.
They could have gotten apple to call the app Google Maps,
Have a full color logo on particular screens...
There is a bunch of stuff they could do.
However do you realize that McDonalds isn't doing too many Disney Theamed Happy Meals. It was due to the same problem. Disney didn't want any of the McDonalds Branding on the happy meals.
For the most part people who buy the latestest and greatest do it to expand the obsoletness era. Get 400gb now Then in 10 years get 1 TB.
In 10 years you are most likely going to need to replace your gear anyways.
If they go 1.1Tb now and say it will take 15 years for the 2 tb. you will be running for a long time with a well under utilized connection and probably will need to replace your gear in 10 years anyways. So you spent a lot of money for underutilized gear.
Yes, Howerver I think for Terabit-ethernet, There is other factors too then just money. Like the speed to process and store the data being sent. If performance is that big of an issue, you are not going to trust your information with TCP/IP over a twisted pare cable. You would use a different type of bus for that.