Still not enough to make a simulation of the universe on the subatomic level. (Granted making a universe on a subatomic level, would require a system the size of the universe, unless you are going to make shortcuts)
$2,400 for a higher end system isn't that bad. Yes you can build yourself a computer with better specs for less. But for a pre-made system that is about on par.
It is for a 16bit program. During that type most applications could fit in 64k of RAM, that has enough room for the OS and a fully operational BASIC interpreter.
Then we wanted 80 column display, then graphics then we wanted the graphics with higher resolution and more colors....
There is an 20/80 rules. 20% of the data is used 80% of the time. For a Database server of a modest size of 600 gigs. 128 gig ram, would be handy for most of your data requests that are handled. Speeding up the data access on the app.
I happen to do a lot of data processing, the more I can stuff in RAM normally the better, because I don't need to go back and optimize code to handle slower drive reads, or because my OS is thrashing because I gave it too much data.
For home use not so much. My Laptop has 32gigs of RAM and it is way more then I currently need.
I guess it would depend on the beer. America makes some good beers. I don't remember the last time I went to a party and someone actually served Budwiser or Coors beer. It was normally some sort of craft beer that actually has a a taste.
I doubt a spike in beer prices will get peoples attention.
Also to note, Climate change in term of agriculture will in general shift production locations (further north in the norther hemisphere) So total output will in general remain constant.
Also there can be a lot of other factors that can affect the price of beer, other then just climate change. Factors such changes in demand (people may be wanting less beer, or substitute it with something else (Hard Cider is my preference). Or just other countries not wanting to import American products will lower the cost.
Yes I took Philosophy 101, And I am well aware, the argument about a simulation environment (brain in a jar) cannot be taken at value. Because we can only operate our life based on how we experience it, and there is no evidence that we are being fed fake data, as fake data would normally just get us killed.
It wasn't as much a phone, but a 2 way radio, that may have been hooked up to a Telephone. This type of technology would only scale so far. Perhaps a few dozen people per city. Also you cannot have any real confidential call because it would be so easy for anyone to listen to you radio signal.
Me too, and that was cheaper then the RIPOFF Lan lanes the college offered. Which they thought it would be a good idea to charge students $50 per month for the phone, and then charge then $0.10 per minute for local call, and way more for long distance.
We can keep playing this game. However by 2009 Cell phones were quite common with the masses. (Not smart phones, but normal cell phones) I would say general ability of Cell phone was actually 1997/1998 when they stopped roaming fees, and a reasonable amount of minutes for around $25. This point it was more affordable then some LAN Line phone services. At around this time, people with Cell phones became common occurrence, not not something particularly impressive, compared to the late 1980's and early 1990's where having a Cell phone was only something for the rich and powerful. Also of note I had and unlimited plans for my cell phone in 2007. Because I was working consulting and needed my phone for a lot of my work.
I need to agree. Colleges seem to try their best to shove humanities to tech majors. With a 4 year degree you get a 2 year degree worth of a humanity major. I have seen a lot of studytaking a double major in comp-sci and English mostly because it is an easy thing to do without cramming their workload. However for Humanity degrees there is almost no serious classes in math and science. They seem to have these Topics in Math class which is a Humanity approach to math. While not actually studying math.
My problem with both sides right now, is each are out for blood. People in group X are suffering, So party 1 wants to help them, while party 2 doesn't because group Y is suffering from different conditions that party 2 wants to help. Party 1 will discredit group Y pain and make them seem like bad people not deserving help. While Party 2 will discredit group X and make them seem like they are not worthy to help.
Posted on a website, who aggregates news of the day and displays them on a single page.
We normally only have a small number of "Trusted" sources. Of news targeted to giving us news that we actually care about. The rest we ignore in ignorance. This actually is good at keeping us sane. Because getting overloaded with too many problems of the world that you can do nothing about just drives you batty.
I have a book mark to my Local NPR stations site, to keep me advised on what is happening locally. Then I have a link to a National News site, for what is happening nationally and globally. Then I have sights like Slashdot which gives me a bit more focus on Tech items.
I am well aware there is stuff going on that I don't know about. But to keep me sane I am willing to be ignorant on it, and have some trust that if anything important goes out that my main sources will tell me.
Yes we want to be sure people who are allowed to vote should be able to vote. We don't want people who are not allowed to vote to be able to vote. However the current trend of interference in the election isn't hacking the system and casting fake votes. But from foreign groups working hard to make us distrust our neighbor, who happens to have a different view of politics. And Radicalize you and them to prevent consensus to actually move forward.
If you are left of center, anyone right of you are racist bible thumping bigots who will avoid all science, and would let the world die just as long the GDP stays positive. If you are right of center, anyone left of you are spoiled brats who just want freebees without contributing to society. Who would let society collapse just to save a tree.
We should know that both depictions isn't true for either group, while they may have some people who may go to those levels. However most people will be more reasonable when faced with the actual issues. But the media combined with other groups trying to egg on these differences really cause people to take sides, once they take sides, they will move from near the center and more firmly into the stupid Territory of their particular political leanings.
I don't think the Tech community has a Dim view of our ability to impact the world on a large scale. But our ability to affect on a small scale that affects our lives seems to be the harder push. Trying to get work to make business decision on products not from the sales of the product, but from a good understanding of the underlining infrastructure behind it. Trying to get your friends and family to be more secure with their systems, so they are not breaking down all the time and asking you to fix it. Having people realize as a tech professional your Job isn't "Fixing Computers" (My apologies to those who are actually in systems repair you are a professional too) Having people with with basic understanding trying to tell us how to do things, and get pissed off because what we do is too complex for them.
Sure if there is a big problem with Microsoft, Google, Facebook. The tech community on the whole has a power to put them in their place. But most of our chips on our shoulder is from the small things that happen daily.
Got fired did yea. I just got that vibe, due to lack of any detail, on what the issues are. And you just want to hurt Google, who probably had hurt you. I am not saying Google is a saint. But if you are going to preface your opinion with "As a former Google engineer" it is implying that you have some insider knowledge on sometime on some interesting tidbits. Then when you elaborate with reasons such as "censorship, spying, and information control is unforgivable" this isn't anything new to us.
However if I am going to pay $700 for a washer with Wi-Fi and the Wi-Fi breaks I should be able to fix the Wi-Fi, without worrying about bringing it back for a warranty replacement because I replaced the $20 Wi-Fi board. When the $300 motor broke.
Especially this is based off a 1975 bill. The nature of products including electronics was much different and much more easily fixed.
We can take a Commodore 64 or an Apple II computer which is broken, very easily open it up. And with a consumer grade volt meter we can normally find the problem component. De-solder it, and replace it with a working part, or put a connection to work around it. Any person with basic electrical engineering skills can do this type of work.
However today, even with a standard PC or Laptop. At best we can open the case and replace large complex components. Replace a full drive (vs fixing the drive), swapping out full memory sticks (vs finding the one failed IC) Replacing a battery, swapping out a video card.... Because of the degree of complexity of the replacement parts. You really should have the OEM replacement part, and not some third party build. Because it is no longer just make sure it is resisting at a particular ohm, or have so much capacitance. It is a lot more complex. Which you could break the device more then if you tried to fix it. Even for skilled repair people.
Don't get me wrong, I want my right to repair. however we need to realize repairing something today is different then it was in 1975
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That with all the people still using edge.
Still not enough to make a simulation of the universe on the subatomic level. (Granted making a universe on a subatomic level, would require a system the size of the universe, unless you are going to make shortcuts)
Most laptops are 16gb maxed. Some of the newer ones are now 32 or 64gigs. But those are harder to find.
$2,400 for a higher end system isn't that bad. Yes you can build yourself a computer with better specs for less. But for a pre-made system that is about on par.
It is for a 16bit program. During that type most applications could fit in 64k of RAM, that has enough room for the OS and a fully operational BASIC interpreter.
Then we wanted 80 column display, then graphics then we wanted the graphics with higher resolution and more colors....
There is an 20/80 rules. 20% of the data is used 80% of the time.
For a Database server of a modest size of 600 gigs. 128 gig ram, would be handy for most of your data requests that are handled. Speeding up the data access on the app.
I happen to do a lot of data processing, the more I can stuff in RAM normally the better, because I don't need to go back and optimize code to handle slower drive reads, or because my OS is thrashing because I gave it too much data.
For home use not so much. My Laptop has 32gigs of RAM and it is way more then I currently need.
I guess it would depend on the beer.
America makes some good beers. I don't remember the last time I went to a party and someone actually served Budwiser or Coors beer. It was normally some sort of craft beer that actually has a a taste.
I doubt a spike in beer prices will get peoples attention.
Also to note, Climate change in term of agriculture will in general shift production locations (further north in the norther hemisphere) So total output will in general remain constant.
Also there can be a lot of other factors that can affect the price of beer, other then just climate change. Factors such changes in demand (people may be wanting less beer, or substitute it with something else (Hard Cider is my preference). Or just other countries not wanting to import American products will lower the cost.
Yes I took Philosophy 101,
And I am well aware, the argument about a simulation environment (brain in a jar) cannot be taken at value.
Because we can only operate our life based on how we experience it, and there is no evidence that we are being fed fake data, as fake data would normally just get us killed.
OK. However a cheap Cell phone plan, is cheaper then a LAN Phone connection.
It wasn't as much a phone, but a 2 way radio, that may have been hooked up to a Telephone.
This type of technology would only scale so far. Perhaps a few dozen people per city. Also you cannot have any real confidential call because it would be so easy for anyone to listen to you radio signal.
The CB Radio was probably far more common then.
Me too, and that was cheaper then the RIPOFF Lan lanes the college offered. Which they thought it would be a good idea to charge students $50 per month for the phone, and then charge then $0.10 per minute for local call, and way more for long distance.
I had an unlimited plan before that IN THE US.
We can keep playing this game. However by 2009 Cell phones were quite common with the masses. (Not smart phones, but normal cell phones)
I would say general ability of Cell phone was actually 1997/1998 when they stopped roaming fees, and a reasonable amount of minutes for around $25. This point it was more affordable then some LAN Line phone services.
At around this time, people with Cell phones became common occurrence, not not something particularly impressive, compared to the late 1980's and early 1990's where having a Cell phone was only something for the rich and powerful.
Also of note I had and unlimited plans for my cell phone in 2007. Because I was working consulting and needed my phone for a lot of my work.
I need to agree. Colleges seem to try their best to shove humanities to tech majors. With a 4 year degree you get a 2 year degree worth of a humanity major. I have seen a lot of studytaking a double major in comp-sci and English mostly because it is an easy thing to do without cramming their workload.
However for Humanity degrees there is almost no serious classes in math and science. They seem to have these Topics in Math class which is a Humanity approach to math. While not actually studying math.
I said a consensus not an agreement.
My problem with both sides right now, is each are out for blood. People in group X are suffering, So party 1 wants to help them, while party 2 doesn't because group Y is suffering from different conditions that party 2 wants to help. Party 1 will discredit group Y pain and make them seem like bad people not deserving help. While Party 2 will discredit group X and make them seem like they are not worthy to help.
We are just aspect of some grand algorithm. I cannot even prove my existence.
And how much of this is actually useful in your life, Other then getting you pissed off at the other guy.
Posted on a website, who aggregates news of the day and displays them on a single page.
We normally only have a small number of "Trusted" sources. Of news targeted to giving us news that we actually care about. The rest we ignore in ignorance. This actually is good at keeping us sane. Because getting overloaded with too many problems of the world that you can do nothing about just drives you batty.
I have a book mark to my Local NPR stations site, to keep me advised on what is happening locally. Then I have a link to a National News site, for what is happening nationally and globally. Then I have sights like Slashdot which gives me a bit more focus on Tech items.
I am well aware there is stuff going on that I don't know about. But to keep me sane I am willing to be ignorant on it, and have some trust that if anything important goes out that my main sources will tell me.
Yes we want to be sure people who are allowed to vote should be able to vote. We don't want people who are not allowed to vote to be able to vote.
However the current trend of interference in the election isn't hacking the system and casting fake votes. But from foreign groups working hard to make us distrust our neighbor, who happens to have a different view of politics. And Radicalize you and them to prevent consensus to actually move forward.
If you are left of center, anyone right of you are racist bible thumping bigots who will avoid all science, and would let the world die just as long the GDP stays positive.
If you are right of center, anyone left of you are spoiled brats who just want freebees without contributing to society. Who would let society collapse just to save a tree.
We should know that both depictions isn't true for either group, while they may have some people who may go to those levels. However most people will be more reasonable when faced with the actual issues. But the media combined with other groups trying to egg on these differences really cause people to take sides, once they take sides, they will move from near the center and more firmly into the stupid Territory of their particular political leanings.
I don't think the Tech community has a Dim view of our ability to impact the world on a large scale. But our ability to affect on a small scale that affects our lives seems to be the harder push.
Trying to get work to make business decision on products not from the sales of the product, but from a good understanding of the underlining infrastructure behind it.
Trying to get your friends and family to be more secure with their systems, so they are not breaking down all the time and asking you to fix it.
Having people realize as a tech professional your Job isn't "Fixing Computers" (My apologies to those who are actually in systems repair you are a professional too)
Having people with with basic understanding trying to tell us how to do things, and get pissed off because what we do is too complex for them.
Sure if there is a big problem with Microsoft, Google, Facebook. The tech community on the whole has a power to put them in their place. But most of our chips on our shoulder is from the small things that happen daily.
Got fired did yea. I just got that vibe, due to lack of any detail, on what the issues are. And you just want to hurt Google, who probably had hurt you.
I am not saying Google is a saint. But if you are going to preface your opinion with "As a former Google engineer" it is implying that you have some insider knowledge on sometime on some interesting tidbits. Then when you elaborate with reasons such as "censorship, spying, and information control is unforgivable" this isn't anything new to us.
Unless Duck-Duck-Go releases who has been using the service.
However if I am going to pay $700 for a washer with Wi-Fi and the Wi-Fi breaks I should be able to fix the Wi-Fi, without worrying about bringing it back for a warranty replacement because I replaced the $20 Wi-Fi board. When the $300 motor broke.
Especially this is based off a 1975 bill.
The nature of products including electronics was much different and much more easily fixed.
We can take a Commodore 64 or an Apple II computer which is broken, very easily open it up. And with a consumer grade volt meter we can normally find the problem component. De-solder it, and replace it with a working part, or put a connection to work around it. Any person with basic electrical engineering skills can do this type of work.
However today, even with a standard PC or Laptop. At best we can open the case and replace large complex components. Replace a full drive (vs fixing the drive), swapping out full memory sticks (vs finding the one failed IC) Replacing a battery, swapping out a video card.... Because of the degree of complexity of the replacement parts. You really should have the OEM replacement part, and not some third party build. Because it is no longer just make sure it is resisting at a particular ohm, or have so much capacitance. It is a lot more complex. Which you could break the device more then if you tried to fix it. Even for skilled repair people.
Don't get me wrong, I want my right to repair. however we need to realize repairing something today is different then it was in 1975