12 years ago I got an 800 on my math SATS and got A's in every math class I took in high school and college. These days, I struggle with the simplest day to day mathematical problems. I imagine it's just a matter of practice, but it's alarming nevertheless.
Can China field a $200 billion bet on black for us? If we win, we can pay $100 billion towards the fine and another $100 billion to distribute $300 worth of Chinese electronics to every American. If we lose, who cares. It's only another $200 billion in debt to China, just a drop in the bucket.
So you really care about the noise a computer makes, not the power level. Maybe in 10 years, todays computers won't seem ridiculously slow, but in 30 years, they will.
But I will answer the question anyway. Moore's law is not a law, it's just an observation of a set of economic principles. Namely that there is enough financial reward for developing faster chips and the technology is easy enough to advance that speeds will increase rapidly. $100 laptops aren't going to take away the financial reward for high end chips, because there are limitless uses for fast computers.
On a separate point, to say that a computer is "ridiculously fast" is incredibly small minded. Todays fast computers will seem insanely, ridiculously slow in a decade. Also, no one cares about the power consumption of their CPU!
I have gotten numerous sites into the top 75k of Alexa ratings by simply installing the toolbar on a couple of machines and regularly browsing through the entire site. On the other hand, I have sites that receive 3000 unique hits a day ranked around 300,000 on Alexa. That being said, I still use Alexa all the time to figure out which sites are well trafficked, and I imagineit is far more accurate than the author is giving it credit for. If you eliminate obvious exceptions (sites that cater to SEO folk and sites that cater to certain audiences such as Linux users) I think you will find that Alexa makes for a useful although not 100% accurate tool.
While Europe may want to be perceived as one country for trading purposes, this sort of data is so much more interesting to see on a country to country level. Each European country has such a unique culture, set of laws, and place on the Internet, that grouping them together would be somewhat pointless.
I almost never use email as a way to communicate with my friends, and when I do, the emails resemble text messages more than email anyway. One the other hand, I use email as the primary way to communicate with my business associates.
There is another significant difference, which is the complete faith you must give to technology you had nothing to do with. If you are driving in a car, and the engine stops working, you have a very good job of coming to a slow stop. In a plane if a component stops working, you are dead. Human nature is more prone to be concerned with this type of problem. Ironically, technology is so reliable these days that you are far more likely to die due to human error in a car (your own mistakes behind the wheel or another drivers mistakes behind the wheel) than you are in a plane due to machine failure.
Google makes money when people leave their site (assuming they click on adwords), so the quicker people exit the site, the better off Google will be. The only way this hurts Google is in some artificial rating score that has no bearing on Google's profitability or usefulness as a service.
Perhaps this has been explained elsewhere, but here seems as good a place as any for me to ask the question: How is Cingular/AT&T not being to be a disaster for Apple. Everyone I know who has had Cingular has been unhappy with their service. The majority end up switching to Verizon and become fairly satisfied.
I always felt Cingular made cell phone virtually unuseable. Has AT&T/Cingular massively improved their network in the past year? Is everyone going to end up thinking the iPhone is awful simply because their service is so bad? Am I missing something?
He was the founder of the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, NM. I think that makes it necessary to take his death bed statement with a grain of salt.
Interesting point, although this concept of "free and easy download to anyone on the planet" certainly doesn't seem to be affecting the amount of new adult material being generated.
Actually, one benefit of this piping arrangement will be that if your toilet clogs, you can just pull the google wire up and down a bit, shake up the debris, and move on with your life. No snake needed!
We have a rule at work. If you are going to say something nice, feel free to send an email. If you are going to send something critical or mean, pick up the phone or walk over to the persons desk.
When I attended University of Maryland, they used SSNs on our Student ID cards. The number was pretty much iniquitous throughout everything they did. I remember many, many occasions where the teachers would have SSNs, IDs, and more displayed on overhead projectors. Most interesting to me was how unphased everyone was by the whole system. Teachers were reckless with the numbers and the student's didn't care.
Well, since the majority of the news on the Internet comes from the same companies that publish newspapers and run the TV stations (cnn.com, foxnews.com, washingtonpost.com, etc), for all intents and purposes the Internet is almost exactly equally trustworthy as them. As for Fox News, their spin is hard to deal with and makes them almost untrustworthy. Not that the other networks are a whole lot better, although Tucker Carlson is running a great show with a pretty objective and fair perspective on everything these days. He is not the "Partisan Hack" that John Stewart once called him any longer.
Predicting that Microsoft is dead in the water is a little premature. They still have a huge market advantage in virtually every field they compete in because of their size and cash flow. They will always have the ability to buy out competitors and throw more money at any problem than anyone else. They still get to hire the smartest people coming out of college.
If you can craft an email that uses a persons name and the city they live in, it's pretty obvious that the response rate is going to go up. Ultimately, we need spam shutdown at the SMTP servers. Since spam is free to send, it doesn't matter what the hit rate is, people are going to keep doing it.
I'll buy it for the superior hardware, not gonna get into choosing which company is more ethical, Microsoft or Sony. That's a losing battle no matter how you look at it.
OK, now that I am in my 30s and I have no clue what is going on in the gaming world, I have a simple question. Should I buy an XBox 360 or is the Playstation 3 going to blow it away? I don't really want two systems, so if the Playstation is going to be vastly more popular, superior, or have a better game selection, I'd rather have that. I would have bought the Xbox 6 months ago, but it wasn't available. Now the playstation will be out soon enough that I am willing to wait. Thanks!
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Only 30.5 more hours than it took me to read this boring 6 page glorification of this maniac.
12 years ago I got an 800 on my math SATS and got A's in every math class I took in high school and college. These days, I struggle with the simplest day to day mathematical problems. I imagine it's just a matter of practice, but it's alarming nevertheless.
Can China field a $200 billion bet on black for us? If we win, we can pay $100 billion towards the fine and another $100 billion to distribute $300 worth of Chinese electronics to every American. If we lose, who cares. It's only another $200 billion in debt to China, just a drop in the bucket.
Yep, but after about 2 years people will just think of Cisco as the company that sells the cheap routers you see at Best Buy.
So you really care about the noise a computer makes, not the power level. Maybe in 10 years, todays computers won't seem ridiculously slow, but in 30 years, they will.
But I will answer the question anyway. Moore's law is not a law, it's just an observation of a set of economic principles. Namely that there is enough financial reward for developing faster chips and the technology is easy enough to advance that speeds will increase rapidly. $100 laptops aren't going to take away the financial reward for high end chips, because there are limitless uses for fast computers.
On a separate point, to say that a computer is "ridiculously fast" is incredibly small minded. Todays fast computers will seem insanely, ridiculously slow in a decade. Also, no one cares about the power consumption of their CPU!
If you really want good Alexa ratings, just put a link to the toolbar at the top of slashdot.org. Soon you'll probably be in the top 20.
I have gotten numerous sites into the top 75k of Alexa ratings by simply installing the toolbar on a couple of machines and regularly browsing through the entire site. On the other hand, I have sites that receive 3000 unique hits a day ranked around 300,000 on Alexa. That being said, I still use Alexa all the time to figure out which sites are well trafficked, and I imagineit is far more accurate than the author is giving it credit for. If you eliminate obvious exceptions (sites that cater to SEO folk and sites that cater to certain audiences such as Linux users) I think you will find that Alexa makes for a useful although not 100% accurate tool.
Seems fairly barbaric - one day this will be done by microscopic robots that can fly.
While Europe may want to be perceived as one country for trading purposes, this sort of data is so much more interesting to see on a country to country level. Each European country has such a unique culture, set of laws, and place on the Internet, that grouping them together would be somewhat pointless.
I almost never use email as a way to communicate with my friends, and when I do, the emails resemble text messages more than email anyway. One the other hand, I use email as the primary way to communicate with my business associates.
There is another significant difference, which is the complete faith you must give to technology you had nothing to do with. If you are driving in a car, and the engine stops working, you have a very good job of coming to a slow stop. In a plane if a component stops working, you are dead. Human nature is more prone to be concerned with this type of problem. Ironically, technology is so reliable these days that you are far more likely to die due to human error in a car (your own mistakes behind the wheel or another drivers mistakes behind the wheel) than you are in a plane due to machine failure.
Google makes money when people leave their site (assuming they click on adwords), so the quicker people exit the site, the better off Google will be. The only way this hurts Google is in some artificial rating score that has no bearing on Google's profitability or usefulness as a service.
Perhaps this has been explained elsewhere, but here seems as good a place as any for me to ask the question: How is Cingular/AT&T not being to be a disaster for Apple. Everyone I know who has had Cingular has been unhappy with their service. The majority end up switching to Verizon and become fairly satisfied.
I always felt Cingular made cell phone virtually unuseable. Has AT&T/Cingular massively improved their network in the past year? Is everyone going to end up thinking the iPhone is awful simply because their service is so bad? Am I missing something?
Thank you.
He was the founder of the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, NM. I think that makes it necessary to take his death bed statement with a grain of salt.
Interesting point, although this concept of "free and easy download to anyone on the planet" certainly doesn't seem to be affecting the amount of new adult material being generated.
Actually, one benefit of this piping arrangement will be that if your toilet clogs, you can just pull the google wire up and down a bit, shake up the debris, and move on with your life. No snake needed!
Bathroom toilets prebuilt for Google wiring!
We have a rule at work. If you are going to say something nice, feel free to send an email. If you are going to send something critical or mean, pick up the phone or walk over to the persons desk.
When I attended University of Maryland, they used SSNs on our Student ID cards. The number was pretty much iniquitous throughout everything they did. I remember many, many occasions where the teachers would have SSNs, IDs, and more displayed on overhead projectors. Most interesting to me was how unphased everyone was by the whole system. Teachers were reckless with the numbers and the student's didn't care.
I was talking about American's as a whole, not myself. Although to be honest, I don't read outside of my country. Send me a few links:)
Well, since the majority of the news on the Internet comes from the same companies that publish newspapers and run the TV stations (cnn.com, foxnews.com, washingtonpost.com, etc), for all intents and purposes the Internet is almost exactly equally trustworthy as them. As for Fox News, their spin is hard to deal with and makes them almost untrustworthy. Not that the other networks are a whole lot better, although Tucker Carlson is running a great show with a pretty objective and fair perspective on everything these days. He is not the "Partisan Hack" that John Stewart once called him any longer.
Predicting that Microsoft is dead in the water is a little premature. They still have a huge market advantage in virtually every field they compete in because of their size and cash flow. They will always have the ability to buy out competitors and throw more money at any problem than anyone else. They still get to hire the smartest people coming out of college.
If you can craft an email that uses a persons name and the city they live in, it's pretty obvious that the response rate is going to go up. Ultimately, we need spam shutdown at the SMTP servers. Since spam is free to send, it doesn't matter what the hit rate is, people are going to keep doing it.
I'll buy it for the superior hardware, not gonna get into choosing which company is more ethical, Microsoft or Sony. That's a losing battle no matter how you look at it.
OK, now that I am in my 30s and I have no clue what is going on in the gaming world, I have a simple question. Should I buy an XBox 360 or is the Playstation 3 going to blow it away? I don't really want two systems, so if the Playstation is going to be vastly more popular, superior, or have a better game selection, I'd rather have that. I would have bought the Xbox 6 months ago, but it wasn't available. Now the playstation will be out soon enough that I am willing to wait. Thanks!