BTW, is Microsoft paying for the constant annoying updates of its OS, as well as Apple for the annoying connections of Quicktime (and iTunes) and Acrobat for their automated downloads too?
I'd let them measure, but I was wondering a couple of things:
Users that don't know much about internet, are those thinking they just look emails, now, what kind of emails? I've seen people (still) sending 40MB files attached to emails.
A virus, popups and advertisement, download flash animations that people would believe they can't be charged for. How do the companies will deal with the "advertisment" issue, given that most of the advertisement these days is heavy and flash based? Moreover, how do they deal with viruses?
People normally buy a wireless router and place it there, if it works, works. Now, your neighbors can steal your signal and use internet for whatever they want. Now, I know is customer responsibility, but then, are they planning to track down people in such cases and start legal action against "people using open wireless networks"?
What about a wave cleaner, we all know that waves get dirty from crossing through walls, and it's even worse if they have to go through carpets, kitchens and bathrooms.
BTW, make it $449 just to still Denon's market, and hope not to be sued by them for business malpractices
I don't believe there are no options. There are tons of options. Unluckily, the average/. reader wants to have the performance of a BlueGene, the durability of a rugged laptop and the size of a MacBookAir. Of course, it needs to run Linux.
Although, I posted that video, I'm on the other side of the fence. It turns out that I know that if I want all that I should be willing to spend lots of money and I don't think it's worth it.
My laptop is a 15.4" Toshiba Satellite, the cheapest they have. I love the hardware platform, I hate bloatware but I can always remove it. If I want linux, I'd put it, but I sincerely cannot get use to it because I know already the tricks around Windows, and for me is good enough. No mystery about software, tons of options, either paid, or open source, and compatibility with several of my devices.
Summary, I like the idea of the commercial, I think is funny, funnier than those "I'm a fat PC", but I'm sincerely not willing to pay such amounts for something I'm going to use to SSH to a powerful machine and do the performance jobs I need to do.
I've been in both sides, reviewer and reviewed. Unluckily, they never control who's doing such peer review. If there is some sort of control of it. Then yes, but many times, advisers give papers to their students to review them. At the end, a poor review can do very bad things. One, hide a good paper from others, just because the reviewer is a complete ignorant (or an idiot), or two, accept and give credit for something really stupid (I've seen papers that I hit my head against a wall asking why they accepted such thing).
If they can come up with a great idea about reviewing papers, that doesn't deal with these problems:
1. Well known names. Some people tend to believe that if one of the authors is famous, the paper has to be good and that's retarded. (This normally can be solved by blinded/ double blinded review).
2. Certify that the reviewers take time and have the knowledge to read the papers. Sometimes people from the area you're working on, believe they know everything about other areas, even if they don't have a clue. So, trying to use some theory from other areas, result in people talking no sense about what they thing is done.
3. Verify the results of the evaluation. Some people is just too lazy that they either accept or reject, without even carefully reading it. Some, because afraid of their ignorance, accept stupid papers, some because of their pedantry reject everything because nothing is good for them.
So, yes, quality control is important. But, literally thousands of probably papers vanish during a year because of a poor review. Although I think, you're right, I think, journals should change and be oriented to make the information available but index the information depending on some scoring or ranking system according to evaluation and grading from users in the network. That would be a great filter.
Turns out that "repairing" wasn't never the option. I had to uninstall it and install it again, and it works now. Thanks! Knowing that it probably should work, made me try again.
is the Windows Media Player plug-in for Windows Vista. It doesn't seem to be working for me. (Well, besides of the regular constantly growing memory problem).
They did that since RC1, I guess they don't want to fill your computer with tons of copies as they did with Beta 2, Beta 3, etc, that I installed and remain there in different directories.
People with PDAs (I don't know if particularly iPhones), fail to realize that the PDA security is not the problem but the confidence they have that their PDAs can't fall into wrong hands. It doesn't really matter if your PDA is the most secure device against attacks, if something like a phone can be easily lost or stolen and you only have to "slide" your finger to unlock sensitive information.
Does Costco really sell electronic devices cheaper than you can find them on online retailers (including buying at Circuit City online to pick up)? I'm not sure about that. Although, I believe Costco provides really cheap food and some clothing, I don't believe they provide the cheapest electronics.
Yes I was just setting an example. There are several places I know they still use CRTs, and I'd guess in that case it makes a little sense to use black. But if by turning your computer off, you are completely avoiding consumption, then makes much more sense, than any pseudo-screensaver.
Well, as you can use your CPU cycles to help research, I guess you can also help by not wasting energy too. Both are common efforts and achieve better results as more people join. If blackle has any numbers that only by changing the background (I have all my windows with dark background anyways, just because I don't get so tired of my eyes at the end of the day), you can help. I think, that as a common effort to achieve different goals, you are free to chose either one, independently on how much it cost to each individual.
I can't remember Firefox 1 pushing to install Firefox 2. You kept having updates as 1.x, but never insisted to move to Firefox 2. So I don't know where did you get that idea from. (Perhaps my Firefox 1 was broken?)
I think the reason of failure in HDD is different from discs. The thing is how to correctly physically partition a disc to get gain out of it.
For the case of the hard drive, the problem is that several things can fail, including the heads, and I remember at some points even the heads would scratch the media and break it. In this case, the media is independent of the "reading" mechanism, the laser doesn't need to be even close. However, the failure is more likely related to scratches that can be located in particular places, since the data is written sequentially in the disc, a scratch will cause the loss of a sequential chunk. In the case of a DVD, randomly accessing the information will translate into delays reading the data, but if data can be read at 100MB (probably sequential too), perhaps a good rate can be achieved reading randomly. But that's just a thought.
Yes, that's my point. They keep trying to put more and more information in a single disc without any sign of improving reliability. This way, the only thing they are increasing is the amount of data you lose when the disc goes bad. As you are not supposed to trust the media (even more when you are in charge of the backups), they should give some sense on increased reliability to the people so they can safely move to a new technology.
Although, what I said is an application, doing it in hardware would probably improve the speed that you are talking about, when you need to break backups into multiple RAR files. Even worse, when you know that a missing RAR file could cause the whole backup to be unrecoverable. (I don't know if they have implemented some sort of algorithm to make those pieces redundant and recoverable from an accident on one of the files, but certainly, would be the same kind of application I'm talking about).
I would say, next thing to do, is to break that 1T into 5 x 200G (Which is still plenty of room) and make a RAID 6 type of algorithm to overcome to scratches, and improve the longevity of the disks and resistance to abuse.
As far as I understood, you can hear it once with no charge, then you have to pay to put it in your locker and listen to it as many times you want.
Although, I think the idea is not bad at all, I believe is way ahead of its time for one reason:
I could use my cellphone (smartphone, iphone like) and listen music over internet, but I'd need an Internet plan. That's not a problem for people using iPhones, but they will certainly prefer to use iTunes. I don't know about the rest. If I'm not able to listen to my music, without paying for an additional Internet service, the music turns out to be more expensive than it really looks like, and it will interfere with my eventual browsing due to bandwidth consumption.
Why would anyone buy a sub-laptop for a mere hundred or two less than a full laptop?
I think you lost the track here. There are two main ways to go with computers starting from a "full laptop":
1. You want a powerful yet small computer.
2. You want just a small computer.
From that perspective, I'd buy a sub-laptop, because for less, I can obtain more portability. Rather than buying a toshiba, sony, lenovo or a MacBook Air that give the portability increasing the price in 300% (or more). Now, if you want a powerful laptop / desktop replacement, you're looking at the wrong range of prices. You pay for small things more, like cellphones, mp3 players.
I have to add, that the new trend is having something really compact with a rather large screen.
To me, your question sounds more like "Why would you get an iPhone for $400 if you can get cellphones for free and a $400 laptop?". And my answer is simple, because you want something smaller that does the simple things you want it to do, not what market is driving you to think you need them to do.
I wonder why a particular frequency? Maybe because it's not regulated?
Lucky for them, I think I'm getting together with several of my friends and ban the whole band from 40 to 80Hz. 60Hz in particular produces me lots of headaches, specially when writing in forums! 50Hz makes my stomach upset when I'm in Europe.
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I guess you didn't RTFA, or that you missed this picture
BTW, is Microsoft paying for the constant annoying updates of its OS, as well as Apple for the annoying connections of Quicktime (and iTunes) and Acrobat for their automated downloads too?
I'd let them measure, but I was wondering a couple of things:
Users that don't know much about internet, are those thinking they just look emails, now, what kind of emails? I've seen people (still) sending 40MB files attached to emails.
A virus, popups and advertisement, download flash animations that people would believe they can't be charged for. How do the companies will deal with the "advertisment" issue, given that most of the advertisement these days is heavy and flash based? Moreover, how do they deal with viruses?
People normally buy a wireless router and place it there, if it works, works. Now, your neighbors can steal your signal and use internet for whatever they want. Now, I know is customer responsibility, but then, are they planning to track down people in such cases and start legal action against "people using open wireless networks"?
Just wondering.
What about a wave cleaner, we all know that waves get dirty from crossing through walls, and it's even worse if they have to go through carpets, kitchens and bathrooms. BTW, make it $449 just to still Denon's market, and hope not to be sued by them for business malpractices
I don't believe there are no options. There are tons of options. Unluckily, the average /. reader wants to have the performance of a BlueGene, the durability of a rugged laptop and the size of a MacBookAir. Of course, it needs to run Linux.
Although, I posted that video, I'm on the other side of the fence. It turns out that I know that if I want all that I should be willing to spend lots of money and I don't think it's worth it.
My laptop is a 15.4" Toshiba Satellite, the cheapest they have. I love the hardware platform, I hate bloatware but I can always remove it. If I want linux, I'd put it, but I sincerely cannot get use to it because I know already the tricks around Windows, and for me is good enough. No mystery about software, tons of options, either paid, or open source, and compatibility with several of my devices.
Summary, I like the idea of the commercial, I think is funny, funnier than those "I'm a fat PC", but I'm sincerely not willing to pay such amounts for something I'm going to use to SSH to a powerful machine and do the performance jobs I need to do.
Here's the docking option for Macs ;)
I think the most insightful comment on this thread, and it's the funniest one too.
I've been in both sides, reviewer and reviewed. Unluckily, they never control who's doing such peer review. If there is some sort of control of it. Then yes, but many times, advisers give papers to their students to review them. At the end, a poor review can do very bad things. One, hide a good paper from others, just because the reviewer is a complete ignorant (or an idiot), or two, accept and give credit for something really stupid (I've seen papers that I hit my head against a wall asking why they accepted such thing).
If they can come up with a great idea about reviewing papers, that doesn't deal with these problems:
1. Well known names. Some people tend to believe that if one of the authors is famous, the paper has to be good and that's retarded. (This normally can be solved by blinded/ double blinded review).
2. Certify that the reviewers take time and have the knowledge to read the papers. Sometimes people from the area you're working on, believe they know everything about other areas, even if they don't have a clue. So, trying to use some theory from other areas, result in people talking no sense about what they thing is done.
3. Verify the results of the evaluation. Some people is just too lazy that they either accept or reject, without even carefully reading it. Some, because afraid of their ignorance, accept stupid papers, some because of their pedantry reject everything because nothing is good for them.
So, yes, quality control is important. But, literally thousands of probably papers vanish during a year because of a poor review. Although I think, you're right, I think, journals should change and be oriented to make the information available but index the information depending on some scoring or ranking system according to evaluation and grading from users in the network. That would be a great filter.
Turns out that "repairing" wasn't never the option. I had to uninstall it and install it again, and it works now. Thanks! Knowing that it probably should work, made me try again.
Yes, that worked fine on my XP PC, but for some reason keeps complaining that I'm missing it when I tried to install it on the Vista PC.
More important, do they have to be defended by lawyers, or can the fax machine do the job?
is the Windows Media Player plug-in for Windows Vista. It doesn't seem to be working for me. (Well, besides of the regular constantly growing memory problem).
They did that since RC1, I guess they don't want to fill your computer with tons of copies as they did with Beta 2, Beta 3, etc, that I installed and remain there in different directories.
People with PDAs (I don't know if particularly iPhones), fail to realize that the PDA security is not the problem but the confidence they have that their PDAs can't fall into wrong hands. It doesn't really matter if your PDA is the most secure device against attacks, if something like a phone can be easily lost or stolen and you only have to "slide" your finger to unlock sensitive information.
Does Costco really sell electronic devices cheaper than you can find them on online retailers (including buying at Circuit City online to pick up)? I'm not sure about that. Although, I believe Costco provides really cheap food and some clothing, I don't believe they provide the cheapest electronics.
Yes I was just setting an example. There are several places I know they still use CRTs, and I'd guess in that case it makes a little sense to use black. But if by turning your computer off, you are completely avoiding consumption, then makes much more sense, than any pseudo-screensaver.
Well, as you can use your CPU cycles to help research, I guess you can also help by not wasting energy too. Both are common efforts and achieve better results as more people join. If blackle has any numbers that only by changing the background (I have all my windows with dark background anyways, just because I don't get so tired of my eyes at the end of the day), you can help. I think, that as a common effort to achieve different goals, you are free to chose either one, independently on how much it cost to each individual.
I can't remember Firefox 1 pushing to install Firefox 2. You kept having updates as 1.x, but never insisted to move to Firefox 2. So I don't know where did you get that idea from. (Perhaps my Firefox 1 was broken?)
I think the reason of failure in HDD is different from discs. The thing is how to correctly physically partition a disc to get gain out of it.
For the case of the hard drive, the problem is that several things can fail, including the heads, and I remember at some points even the heads would scratch the media and break it. In this case, the media is independent of the "reading" mechanism, the laser doesn't need to be even close. However, the failure is more likely related to scratches that can be located in particular places, since the data is written sequentially in the disc, a scratch will cause the loss of a sequential chunk. In the case of a DVD, randomly accessing the information will translate into delays reading the data, but if data can be read at 100MB (probably sequential too), perhaps a good rate can be achieved reading randomly. But that's just a thought.
Yes, that's my point. They keep trying to put more and more information in a single disc without any sign of improving reliability. This way, the only thing they are increasing is the amount of data you lose when the disc goes bad. As you are not supposed to trust the media (even more when you are in charge of the backups), they should give some sense on increased reliability to the people so they can safely move to a new technology.
Although, what I said is an application, doing it in hardware would probably improve the speed that you are talking about, when you need to break backups into multiple RAR files. Even worse, when you know that a missing RAR file could cause the whole backup to be unrecoverable. (I don't know if they have implemented some sort of algorithm to make those pieces redundant and recoverable from an accident on one of the files, but certainly, would be the same kind of application I'm talking about).
I would say, next thing to do, is to break that 1T into 5 x 200G (Which is still plenty of room) and make a RAID 6 type of algorithm to overcome to scratches, and improve the longevity of the disks and resistance to abuse.
As far as I understood, you can hear it once with no charge, then you have to pay to put it in your locker and listen to it as many times you want.
Although, I think the idea is not bad at all, I believe is way ahead of its time for one reason:
I could use my cellphone (smartphone, iphone like) and listen music over internet, but I'd need an Internet plan. That's not a problem for people using iPhones, but they will certainly prefer to use iTunes. I don't know about the rest.
If I'm not able to listen to my music, without paying for an additional Internet service, the music turns out to be more expensive than it really looks like, and it will interfere with my eventual browsing due to bandwidth consumption.
So, why would I use it anyways?
1. You want a powerful yet small computer.
2. You want just a small computer.
From that perspective, I'd buy a sub-laptop, because for less, I can obtain more portability. Rather than buying a toshiba, sony, lenovo or a MacBook Air that give the portability increasing the price in 300% (or more). Now, if you want a powerful laptop / desktop replacement, you're looking at the wrong range of prices. You pay for small things more, like cellphones, mp3 players.
I have to add, that the new trend is having something really compact with a rather large screen.
To me, your question sounds more like "Why would you get an iPhone for $400 if you can get cellphones for free and a $400 laptop?". And my answer is simple, because you want something smaller that does the simple things you want it to do, not what market is driving you to think you need them to do.
I wonder why a particular frequency? Maybe because it's not regulated?
Lucky for them, I think I'm getting together with several of my friends and ban the whole band from 40 to 80Hz. 60Hz in particular produces me lots of headaches, specially when writing in forums! 50Hz makes my stomach upset when I'm in Europe.