Well, the service that Google offers is Pay-per-click not pay-per-lead or pay-per-sale. And services that sell ads per-view. But what Google does is pay-per-click.
The other style services all work, and have worked for a long time. Even the pay-per-sale systems are suceptable to fraud, CC charge backs and all. But they are different systems with different problems and benifits. If Google started doing pay-per-sale, then it would be an additional service, not a replacement service.
Well, thats not quite true. Wireless receivers resonate back, the power being a function of the frequency, antenna and other stuff. Thats how rfid works, after all.
I remember being told to turn off/all/ electronic gear during take of and landing (still?) because some of the various radio systems used during that phase are very close to commercial FM. FM receivers do resonate back in that range (which could cause a problem).
Dell has sold IA-64 systems for a while now, and according to dell.com, are now selling 64bit Xeon (x86_64) systems. The GP never said he was buying 32 bit systems. And, for that matter, he never said he was buying 64bit systems, either... and for some apps you're not going to get much from a 64bit system.
As for the Celeron, you might be right. And there might actually be a difference in manufacturing costs, but it would be pennies. The major cost of CPUs is R&D, the major cost of manufacturing is the plant itself, ie high fixed costs and low (close to $0) per unit costs.
And as the other poster points out, while the SX started out as "faulty" chips, they were eventually built intentionally broken. The same, to a lesser extent, is true with current chips and their clock speeds. For example, a P166 and P200 are exactly the same, and came off exactly the same manufacturing line. At the end they are tested and assigined a speed based on the heat they produce. But were some perfectly fine 200's chips sold as 166's because of market demands? Almost definitly.
It is actually quite common, perhaps especially in the IT world.
CPUs are the prime example, 486SXs, Celerons, Semperons. The big money on R&D was spent, then someone came by later and made them worse on purpose. The alternative here is rather then having a (somewhat artifical) price range of $75-$1000 for a processor, you would have one processor sold at $600. Which is great if you currently are buying the artifically high priced CPUs, but for the other 99% of us, crappy.
I think at least 50% of the various computer and electronic parts Ive ever seen have holes on the board for extra stuff. They desigined it, they have the plants to build it, the parts are almost nothing. But its necessary to provide a range of pricing.
Thats how I remembered it from a number of years ago, but, from its homepage
Gnoppix is a linux live cd based upon Ubuntu . It can be compared to Knoppix but Gnoppix uses GNOME as desktop environment.
In fact, Im not so sure that it was ever based on Knoppix, just inspired by it. It may have gotten its live-cd-ness from Knoppix, but its Gnome packages drirect from Debian (and now Ubuntu). That sounds like a plausable history, but its just a guess. Either way, today it is based on Ubuntu.
A good example for lawyers, and suits in general, is not accadamia, but case law. Not every case has to argue every point of law, or at least that argument can be reduced down to a citation. The ability to reuse the works of past lawyers sure has hell not destroyed the profession, or put them out of work.
Ok. Expand the costs out then.. Its not just hardware. Supporting a single/collection of centerlized systems is cheaper then supporting many smaller systems.
And we do have a thin client, its called the browser. But more so, while a thin client may be the buzzword, and the way of the dinosaurs, it need not be the way of the future. A PC and GigE is more then capable of saturating my senses (or will be in some finite amount of time). If the network can deliver, and my destop present, more then my brain can handle, then thats a thick as the client needs to be. At the point that the network pipe to my desk can saturate my brain, networks need not get any faster, for desktop applications, and the market will force prices down significantly.
As for networks forever being more expensive then computers, I dont think so. Look at clustering.. The entire concept is based on the theory that the network is cheaper then the processing.
The "ASP" model of computing was not an invention of the Internet generation. Multics, which everyone has heard of but few people used, was developed for the very purpose of writing an OS for an "computer utility". CompuServe, Tymnet were services started in the 1960s that sold computer time. The purpose of ARPANET was to allow remote access to expensive, centerlized, scarce computing resources.
It could be argued that the ASP model of computing is the most natural. The late 80s, 90s and early 00s are a freakish period where computers were cheaper then networks. Think clients are not very powerfull, and with extreemly fast networks, accessing extreemly powerfull and reliable centerlized machines. Duh.
The FSF must have had their heads in their asses if they diddnt see this coming.
Technically, it was the British who burnt down the White House. And technically, it wasnt the White House. I don't know what colour it was before, but it was painted white after the fire to cover the chard black wood.
What I have never understood is why servers virtually always have AC power supplies. Yes, you can get NEBS(?) compliant servers that take DC, but this isnt really a general option, but a distinct model line compleatly.
UPSs take AC, turn it to DC, charge their batteries. A sepearate system takes DC from batteries, inverts it and sends out AC. (Good UPSs, anyway. Otherwise they are "battery backups", not uninteruptable) Computer power supplies take AC and distribute DC inside the case. WTF?
Why doesn't APC start selling ATX power supplies? Directly swap out AC powersupplies, have them plug into the DC providing UPS and/or per-rack (or even per-room) powersupplies.
Electrical codes are a BS excuse. Even if you needed verdor specific racks, a DC providing rack is, so far as the fire marshal should be concerned, just a very large blade enclosure, which are clearly acceptable.
I cant beleive that Im the first one to ever come up with this idea. So there must be some problem with it.... Some EE want to explain why this wouldnt work?
Rember that Canada has almost as much frozen wasteland as does Russia. Pleanty of room for "reeducation" camps. Scratch that, this is Americans we're talking about... Pleanty of room for "education" camps.
It is entrely possible that when you pulled up to the booth, a camera got your plates, and pulled up the drivers license pictures of everyone who lives at the same address as where the car is registered.
The Bill of Rights applies to anyone located witin the United States. Which is the reason why the non-criminals, non-POWs are stored in Cuba. If they so much as touched US soil, then they would instantly gain rights such as habius corpus and due process.
Unfortunatly, only next-day on site service, for one year, is included in the base price. If you want the paramedics to come now you should upgrade to 24/7 "gold" support, for only 5x the sticker price.
Thats what I was thinking.. Does the poster have to be within +/- 1', everywhere, or are there specific points of interest? If the later, just tag the points of interest.
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Man, you speek the english good.
Well, the service that Google offers is Pay-per-click not pay-per-lead or pay-per-sale. And services that sell ads per-view. But what Google does is pay-per-click.
The other style services all work, and have worked for a long time. Even the pay-per-sale systems are suceptable to fraud, CC charge backs and all. But they are different systems with different problems and benifits. If Google started doing pay-per-sale, then it would be an additional service, not a replacement service.
Well, thats not quite true. Wireless receivers resonate back, the power being a function of the frequency, antenna and other stuff. Thats how rfid works, after all.
/all/ electronic gear during take of and landing (still?) because some of the various radio systems used during that phase are very close to commercial FM. FM receivers do resonate back in that range (which could cause a problem).
I remember being told to turn off
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A Beowolf cluster of spider monkeys using these 21st century PowerGloves could do a better job then Bush.
Find it funny that an IBM microprocessor is going in a portable product named "360"?
It is called "rice wine" but that is incorrect.
Wine is fermented fruit juice. Apple wine, peach wine, grape wine.
Beer is fermented grain.
If you take you beer and distal it, you get whisky.
Rice is a grain. Thus, fermented rice is beer.
Dell has sold IA-64 systems for a while now, and according to dell.com, are now selling 64bit Xeon (x86_64) systems. The GP never said he was buying 32 bit systems. And, for that matter, he never said he was buying 64bit systems, either... and for some apps you're not going to get much from a 64bit system.
As for the Celeron, you might be right. And there might actually be a difference in manufacturing costs, but it would be pennies. The major cost of CPUs is R&D, the major cost of manufacturing is the plant itself, ie high fixed costs and low (close to $0) per unit costs.
And as the other poster points out, while the SX started out as "faulty" chips, they were eventually built intentionally broken. The same, to a lesser extent, is true with current chips and their clock speeds. For example, a P166 and P200 are exactly the same, and came off exactly the same manufacturing line. At the end they are tested and assigined a speed based on the heat they produce. But were some perfectly fine 200's chips sold as 166's because of market demands? Almost definitly.
It is actually quite common, perhaps especially in the IT world.
CPUs are the prime example, 486SXs, Celerons, Semperons. The big money on R&D was spent, then someone came by later and made them worse on purpose. The alternative here is rather then having a (somewhat artifical) price range of $75-$1000 for a processor, you would have one processor sold at $600. Which is great if you currently are buying the artifically high priced CPUs, but for the other 99% of us, crappy.
I think at least 50% of the various computer and electronic parts Ive ever seen have holes on the board for extra stuff. They desigined it, they have the plants to build it, the parts are almost nothing. But its necessary to provide a range of pricing.
I had a chance to use a Gnoppix Live CD last week (Gnoppix being based on ubuntu).. You can "sudo sh" and get a root prompt....
A good example for lawyers, and suits in general, is not accadamia, but case law. Not every case has to argue every point of law, or at least that argument can be reduced down to a citation. The ability to reuse the works of past lawyers sure has hell not destroyed the profession, or put them out of work.
Ok. Expand the costs out then.. Its not just hardware. Supporting a single/collection of centerlized systems is cheaper then supporting many smaller systems.
And we do have a thin client, its called the browser. But more so, while a thin client may be the buzzword, and the way of the dinosaurs, it need not be the way of the future. A PC and GigE is more then capable of saturating my senses (or will be in some finite amount of time). If the network can deliver, and my destop present, more then my brain can handle, then thats a thick as the client needs to be. At the point that the network pipe to my desk can saturate my brain, networks need not get any faster, for desktop applications, and the market will force prices down significantly.
As for networks forever being more expensive then computers, I dont think so. Look at clustering.. The entire concept is based on the theory that the network is cheaper then the processing.
The "ASP" model of computing was not an invention of the Internet generation. Multics, which everyone has heard of but few people used, was developed for the very purpose of writing an OS for an "computer utility". CompuServe, Tymnet were services started in the 1960s that sold computer time. The purpose of ARPANET was to allow remote access to expensive, centerlized, scarce computing resources.
It could be argued that the ASP model of computing is the most natural. The late 80s, 90s and early 00s are a freakish period where computers were cheaper then networks. Think clients are not very powerfull, and with extreemly fast networks, accessing extreemly powerfull and reliable centerlized machines. Duh.
The FSF must have had their heads in their asses if they diddnt see this coming.
Tip: Your WiFi isnt very secure!
Technically, it was the British who burnt down the White House. And technically, it wasnt the White House. I don't know what colour it was before, but it was painted white after the fire to cover the chard black wood.
I think your missing the point of my question/discussion. The question is why is it a pain in the ass to find DC power supplies?
What I have never understood is why servers virtually always have AC power supplies. Yes, you can get NEBS(?) compliant servers that take DC, but this isnt really a general option, but a distinct model line compleatly.
UPSs take AC, turn it to DC, charge their batteries. A sepearate system takes DC from batteries, inverts it and sends out AC. (Good UPSs, anyway. Otherwise they are "battery backups", not uninteruptable) Computer power supplies take AC and distribute DC inside the case. WTF?
Why doesn't APC start selling ATX power supplies? Directly swap out AC powersupplies, have them plug into the DC providing UPS and/or per-rack (or even per-room) powersupplies.
Electrical codes are a BS excuse. Even if you needed verdor specific racks, a DC providing rack is, so far as the fire marshal should be concerned, just a very large blade enclosure, which are clearly acceptable.
I cant beleive that Im the first one to ever come up with this idea. So there must be some problem with it.... Some EE want to explain why this wouldnt work?
Rember that Canada has almost as much frozen wasteland as does Russia. Pleanty of room for "reeducation" camps. Scratch that, this is Americans we're talking about... Pleanty of room for "education" camps.
It is entrely possible that when you pulled up to the booth, a camera got your plates, and pulled up the drivers license pictures of everyone who lives at the same address as where the car is registered.
The Bill of Rights applies to anyone located witin the United States. Which is the reason why the non-criminals, non-POWs are stored in Cuba. If they so much as touched US soil, then they would instantly gain rights such as habius corpus and due process.
Unfortunatly, only next-day on site service, for one year, is included in the base price. If you want the paramedics to come now you should upgrade to 24/7 "gold" support, for only 5x the sticker price.
As is Dolby Labs. I think that MIPS still makes some chips, but they are mainly IP too.
Thats what I was thinking.. Does the poster have to be within +/- 1', everywhere, or are there specific points of interest? If the later, just tag the points of interest.