People that know the most about something have an interest in it *gasp* Smart people in X like to hang around other smart people in X, sometimes even goto conferences *whoa*
This is old news in academia, and yet things still work pretty darn well there. That is because reputation is important, and as soon as you do something unethical or even just stupid, you're toast.
If a field gets too "imbred" as far as their research/reviewing goes (e.g. a group always present at workshops at 3rd rate conferences, and the program committee is always the same 20 people), the community just ignores them.
The web on the other hand, you just whip up a new identity and keep spamming, but that's why most people love it, zero accountability, which of course leads exactly where you expect it to.
Sony loses $300+ per unit. Retailer makes maybe $50 after they pay all the extra security. Ebayers make $500-1500/unit minus... the Ebay makes 5.25% + Paypal 2.90% = 8.15% of that (more then the retailer most likely) And then of course all the violence, injuries, and robberies.
Sony got screwed royally, and everyone else won the lottery.
Console developers need to get their shit together and learn what a Dutch Auction is.
How exactly did Americans get so completely uptight about boobs and yet graphic violence and games about killing cops are just fine. It's completely insane.
Must be a fundamentalist involved in there somewhere, the quesiton is only which religion?
It's really too bad online retailers have had to mark up their goods 5-10% or more to pay for the ads and search engine manipulation needed to get any customers at all to their sites. If you're on the second page of a search result, you're not really in the search result at all.
It's no wonder sale prices at stores (item + tax) have been better then online (item + ad markup + shipping) for a while now. Now online is only good if you want an old item that stores don't stock because newer things are on the shelf.
Google should have a banner day tomorrow, everyone else is pretty much screwed one way or the other merchant and consumer alike. .
the only thing that masonry nails have going for them is that they are thick, slightly harder than common nails, and they have a twist. They will still pull out of wood
Well I wouldn't use them in wood either, but you can find nails with the "new" features this guy is claiming anywhere.
"The guy in this article put ring shanks on the nail, gave it a twist so it wouldn't back out, and put on a larger head. I've never seen a nail like that before."
I have, and I think a couple other posters have already put up links. The twist is usually just a couple more large barbs tho. The added twist does help, but makes them a complete b*tch when you put one in the wrong place.
Also, the screws they use in construction are WEAK.
Oh absolutely! Usually the heads just snap right off when you use any sot of power tool, or even by hand for that matter. You have to pay a bit more to not get crap screws. Him using a better alloy is most of the fix there - in fact that alone would account for most of the strength gains, and he says so.
Having seen how construction is done here in California it's completely amazing anything survives a big truck driving by, let alone a real earthquake.
It's a great nail, no denying that. It's just yet another thing that makes our patent system look like a joke, and the Chinese will copy and sell at Walmart. I'd love to see the patent application for "larger nail head", that's got to be some funny stuff.
"In other words, you're saying that Bostitch's team of researchers spent six years researching and designing a product and accidentally overlooked the screw?"
Yes, they were designing a nail, why would they be looking at screws?
And I assure you I've used more nails and screws then you, or probably 99.99% of/. (I'm sure there are a couple of GC's here). Nice of you to judge with no information tho.
Oh wait, you thought I would put information about myself on the internet;)
They are called screws, and they have been known for a few thousand years to be vastly better then nails. Most any floor that's nailed down squeaks for example. And if you want something really good, you use bolts.
And their "patent pending" features you'll find on most all the masonry nails in the hardware store.
Maybe Japan finally realized with North Korea rattling sabers that having of their youth sitting on a couch being fat, lazy, and brain-dead wasn't so great long term.
Americans reject the idea and make new controllers in 3... 2... 1...
"First came a thick headache, then pains throughout the body, sudden flushes, pressure behind the eyes, sudden skin pains and burning sensations, along with bouts of nausea. Over the weekend, away from the classroom, I felt completely normal."
You're failing to take into account that CPU's stubbed their toes a while back and fell off the Moore's law curve. GPU's are ~40x or so faster now, and AMD was damn smart to grab ATI when they did.
What's really happening is that the CPU doesn't matter to anyone, they are fast enough for Word and Excel, and are falling fast in price. A 2.2 Ghz Athlon 64 core is only $242 for 2, and an Intel 3Ghz is about the same $257 for 2.
Gamers are the only thing still driving the market, and they want GPU's with massive GFLOPS. Everyone else wants low power cheap CPUs with almost no profit margin, because it's good enough.
That's because in Europe, driving drunk isn't as cool. Which accounts for most all of our accidents in the US.
That you have to actually take a class to drive may help also, here in California a large fraction of drivers can't even read the signs, since they aren't in Spanish. Every trip to work is a thrill ride tho!
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Well if they can yank all the copyrighted content off Google and YouTube, they are empty... and screwed.
Maybe someone will find a way to pay the people that MAKE the videos unlike Google and YouTube? Nah!
People that know the most about something have an interest in it *gasp* Smart people in X like to hang around other smart people in X, sometimes even goto conferences *whoa*
This is old news in academia, and yet things still work pretty darn well there. That is because reputation is important, and as soon as you do something unethical or even just stupid, you're toast.
If a field gets too "imbred" as far as their research/reviewing goes (e.g. a group always present at workshops at 3rd rate conferences, and the program committee is always the same 20 people), the community just ignores them.
The web on the other hand, you just whip up a new identity and keep spamming, but that's why most people love it, zero accountability, which of course leads exactly where you expect it to.
India approached parity as far as costs got about a year ago. It's a "show me the money" place now.
Now it's more about things like health insurance and labor laws, but really just outsourcing to Nebraska is cheaper.
In short, India has joined the list of nations that are getting their asses kicked by China.
Something is notable in Wikipedia if enough people edit it, but that doesn't mean it is.
Something is accurate in Wikipedia if it's in line with the thinking of the person that edits it the most, which may be the one putting in false info.
In MOST cases that works out rather well, but I know of many many articles full of complete BS, which only makes sense when you look at the history.
Await the return? Every war over oil (all current wars) is exactly that.
What exactly do you do with an iPod in a country with almost no electricity and no internet?
That list of items is really gonna hurt, if you can't have HDTV in your hut with no clean water and not enough food, life just isn't worth living.
*laughs* And yet every worm, trojan, and rootkit uses officially documented API's to install and do what they do.
I think you were looking for the language war article. This one is about ignorant users clicking "OK" to things.
Sony loses $300+ per unit.
Retailer makes maybe $50 after they pay all the extra security.
Ebayers make $500-1500/unit minus...
the Ebay makes 5.25% + Paypal 2.90% = 8.15% of that (more then the retailer most likely)
And then of course all the violence, injuries, and robberies.
Sony got screwed royally, and everyone else won the lottery.
Console developers need to get their shit together and learn what a Dutch Auction is.
Actually, everything on /. is usually in
#4. In widespread use for 10-20 years before the patent was filed.
How exactly did Americans get so completely uptight about boobs and yet graphic violence and games about killing cops are just fine. It's completely insane.
Must be a fundamentalist involved in there somewhere, the quesiton is only which religion?
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It's really too bad online retailers have had to mark up their goods 5-10% or more to pay for the ads and search engine manipulation needed to get any customers at all to their sites. If you're on the second page of a search result, you're not really in the search result at all.
It's no wonder sale prices at stores (item + tax) have been better then online (item + ad markup + shipping) for a while now. Now online is only good if you want an old item that stores don't stock because newer things are on the shelf.
Google should have a banner day tomorrow, everyone else is pretty much screwed one way or the other merchant and consumer alike.
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Other way around. Plasma screens burn and burn in bad. Don't use them with any game console, you're just asking for trouble.
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the only thing that masonry nails have going for them is that they are thick, slightly harder than common nails, and they have a twist. They will still pull out of wood
Well I wouldn't use them in wood either, but you can find nails with the "new" features this guy is claiming anywhere.
"The guy in this article put ring shanks on the nail, gave it a twist so it wouldn't back out, and put on a larger head. I've never seen a nail like that before."
I have, and I think a couple other posters have already put up links. The twist is usually just a couple more large barbs tho. The added twist does help, but makes them a complete b*tch when you put one in the wrong place.
Also, the screws they use in construction are WEAK.
Oh absolutely! Usually the heads just snap right off when you use any sot of power tool, or even by hand for that matter. You have to pay a bit more to not get crap screws. Him using a better alloy is most of the fix there - in fact that alone would account for most of the strength gains, and he says so.
Having seen how construction is done here in California it's completely amazing anything survives a big truck driving by, let alone a real earthquake.
It's a great nail, no denying that. It's just yet another thing that makes our patent system look like a joke, and the Chinese will copy and sell at Walmart. I'd love to see the patent application for "larger nail head", that's got to be some funny stuff.
"In other words, you're saying that Bostitch's team of researchers spent six years researching and designing a product and accidentally overlooked the screw?"
/. (I'm sure there are a couple of GC's here). Nice of you to judge with no information tho.
;)
Yes, they were designing a nail, why would they be looking at screws?
And I assure you I've used more nails and screws then you, or probably 99.99% of
Oh wait, you thought I would put information about myself on the internet
They are called screws, and they have been known for a few thousand years to be vastly better then nails. Most any floor that's nailed down squeaks for example. And if you want something really good, you use bolts.
And their "patent pending" features you'll find on most all the masonry nails in the hardware store.
You completely missed the point. The Japanese don't want to turn into Americans!
Maybe Japan finally realized with North Korea rattling sabers that having of their youth sitting on a couch being fat, lazy, and brain-dead wasn't so great long term.
Americans reject the idea and make new controllers in 3... 2... 1...
"First came a thick headache, then pains throughout the body, sudden flushes, pressure behind the eyes, sudden skin pains and burning sensations, along with bouts of nausea. Over the weekend, away from the classroom, I felt completely normal."
It's the HVAC. Classic infrasound symptoms.
He's not nuts at least.
The informative article didn't have enough ads to be linked from /. - not for enough kickbacks!
You didn't think the 370 Trillion in derivatives was traded by humans did you?
Of course, the entire planet's GDP is only 60 trillion, so even a little mistake means complete global meltdown.
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No, you want a fast GPU for the eye candy.
From what I've read Vista with the eye candy off takes no more CPU or RAM then XP did.
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You're failing to take into account that CPU's stubbed their toes a while back and fell off the Moore's law curve. GPU's are ~40x or so faster now, and AMD was damn smart to grab ATI when they did.
What's really happening is that the CPU doesn't matter to anyone, they are fast enough for Word and Excel, and are falling fast in price. A 2.2 Ghz Athlon 64 core is only $242 for 2, and an Intel 3Ghz is about the same $257 for 2.
Gamers are the only thing still driving the market, and they want GPU's with massive GFLOPS. Everyone else wants low power cheap CPUs with almost no profit margin, because it's good enough.
That's because in Europe, driving drunk isn't as cool. Which accounts for most all of our accidents in the US.
That you have to actually take a class to drive may help also, here in California a large fraction of drivers can't even read the signs, since they aren't in Spanish. Every trip to work is a thrill ride tho!
I agree, Yahoo Finance is better then any other site.
But it's free.
So as a business, it sucks.
Not the first... Not even the first publicized one.
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Not really a dupe article, hrm... maybe Wired writers can't read Korean