This piece of home electronics was engineered and built phenomenally. Not a single problem in 11 years. The picture is great, too. Since I can't really tell the difference by watching high definition video on HD TVs and normal DVDs on my set, I don't think I'll be upgrading anytime soon.
I understand that you like to spend time in the library. Alright, I won't take your library away:) For me it's just much more comfortable to study from home, and I can access as much info from here on my 20" screen as I can from the library, just faster. Also, for people with children, this is unvaluable: if your wife is tired from not sleeping most of the night, you can't just go to the library - someone has to be at home, awake, to take care of the baby when it wakes up (and it -will- wake up, several times). Children, wives, families, this is the reality for billions of people. Doing your studies from home helps a lot, and this is one promotor to have materials accessible online.
I don't think your post was meant to argue mine (correct me if I'm wrong).
Washing your hands before handling antique books is important, though. You seem to imply that you don't do that? And as for the leather shedding: I guess you're talking about red rot. There are consolidants that can help stop its degradation (SC6000/Klucel). What do you guys use for leather bindings affected by red rot?
While I'm at it: what do you do with books/paper affected by foxing??
Wait a minute. Hold your horses: don't you think what you described is the present, without any mention of future trends? The trends are to move more and more books into electronic format, and then make available online. It doesn't take too much of a vision to see that it's going to happen.
Since I started my studies, I spent exactly 0 hours and 0 minutes in the university libraries. I access all the scientific material online, and even the books. Those very few books that I could not find in electronic form online (and by online I mean in our university's electronic library) and I could not do without, I bought them. But the idea of walking into the library, borrow a book and then return in in one week, it just feels impractical at this point, to me.
For antique books, sure, libraries will always exist, but even there I'd prefer to see them as conservation points where they are transferred into electronic format(s) made available online. Being an antique book collector myself, I would hate to know that precious antique books are being touched by people who don't wash their hands, or worse.
So basically, I don't think libraries have much reason to exist in their current form. Perhaps something like a public study-and-discussion place, with refreshments and internet access?
Good point, but even isopropil alcohol will remove most if not all brands of "permanent" markers. And to be honest, I think it's much more likely they use a mixture of isopropilene and water, to clean these boxes, rather than acetone.
I am talking server tasks. Exchange, IIS, Domain Controller (yes, even that had to be segregated), MS SQL - you could not have several of these running on the same NT box. Even Microsoft strongly recommended against in their study material - and in the tests. Yes, the reason was performance but also stability.
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nd being forced to buy alot more servers as Windows is not friendly with using one or 2 more apps on a single server compared to Unix. This is so true! And it has been true way back, already in the days of NT 4.0. Each box was a separate specialized thing, and people who migrated from NetWare or Unix realized that they had to do way more administration work on NT.
This is really true. Landline penetration? Sure thing - but noone uses it for phone traffic, only data.
Of course, an article found on the INTERNET is certainly more truthful than the reality on the ground and the data that my ex-company gathered - but still, I thought I'd list here the people (friends, acquaintances etc.) I at least suspect they have a fixed phone:
In 1999, when I started working for a big telecom equipment company, in Finland mobile phones had a market penetration of about 45-50% (most adults) but pretty much every household had a fixed line as well. In only 3 years almost everybody discontinued their phone subscription - everybody has at least one mobile phone, including kids aged 7 or older. Let me repeat: 3 years.
Things change very fast in the world of telecommunications.
So could it happen that companies like google, yahoo etc. become partly telecoms? Will, what google is trying to do, become a megatrend? I don't have a magic sphere, but from what I can see, I'd say it's more likely than not. And if/once this ball starts rolling, the telcos better have a good strategy or they'll be wiped out or "considerably diminished".
Isn't it an enormous feat already that somebody comes up with this idea and makes it work? Absolutely. I think this initiative is amazing, as well as the tech behind the propulsion of this catamaran.
Euro an ECU are not the same thing, but when the second replaced the first one Sorry for nitpicking with the nitpick, but it's the "first" (the Euro) that replaced "the second" one (ECU).
If Microsoft did some or all the things you mentioned, I guess it would be dead for Europe - Microsoft would never sell a penny's worth of software in the European Union. As a bonus, the fines would still be collected through a lengthy (but ultimately successful) battle at the WTO. The USA may whine a bit at first, but even they have bigger interests than MS to protect.
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Uh, you're right. Thanks for updating me on this. What did AMD get from this spinoff? I don't know, this sounds like a silly move, with the every higher usage of solid-state memory.
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Heh, I "forgot" it because I simply had no idea about it! Thanks a lot for the heads-up! Here in Finland we moved to digital TV already last year, and by may (if I recall correctly) it will be completely mandatory.
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AMD could survive, albeit much diminished, as a foundry - they have a huge fab in Germany, and there are always companies willing to have their designs produced somewhere. Fabs really have no problem getting contracts. AMD makes a ton of FLASH memory. And then there's the GPU division (ATI). It's a bit hard to imagine that both CPU, GPU and Flash RAM will all tank at once.
Could it happen? Yeah. Everything is possible. I would not bet my apartement on it, though.
I was going to post something along those lines but you beat me by a factor of 2 (40MB). I have this vision of using the parts to construct my world-conquering robots. I just never have the time.
What's more convenient? I bet many will find out that it's most convenient just downloading the music sans DRM from BitTorrent. No hassle, and the fact that they got it for free is probably a bonus, too.
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This piece of home electronics was engineered and built phenomenally. Not a single problem in 11 years. The picture is great, too.
Since I can't really tell the difference by watching high definition video on HD TVs and normal DVDs on my set, I don't think I'll be upgrading anytime soon.
I understand that you like to spend time in the library. Alright, I won't take your library away :) For me it's just much more comfortable to study from home, and I can access as much info from here on my 20" screen as I can from the library, just faster.
Also, for people with children, this is unvaluable: if your wife is tired from not sleeping most of the night, you can't just go to the library - someone has to be at home, awake, to take care of the baby when it wakes up (and it -will- wake up, several times). Children, wives, families, this is the reality for billions of people. Doing your studies from home helps a lot, and this is one promotor to have materials accessible online.
So far I have full marks. Studying from home has great advantages, and as I said, I have access to all the information I need.
And I didn't say that on line==public access, did I.
But I do hold that having the material in electronic form is the conditio sine qua non for having them, one day, accessible publicly.
I don't think your post was meant to argue mine (correct me if I'm wrong).
Washing your hands before handling antique books is important, though. You seem to imply that you don't do that? And as for the leather shedding: I guess you're talking about red rot. There are consolidants that can help stop its degradation (SC6000/Klucel). What do you guys use for leather bindings affected by red rot?
While I'm at it: what do you do with books/paper affected by foxing??
Wait a minute. Hold your horses: don't you think what you described is the present, without any mention of future trends? The trends are to move more and more books into electronic format, and then make available online. It doesn't take too much of a vision to see that it's going to happen.
Since I started my studies, I spent exactly 0 hours and 0 minutes in the university libraries. I access all the scientific material online, and even the books. Those very few books that I could not find in electronic form online (and by online I mean in our university's electronic library) and I could not do without, I bought them. But the idea of walking into the library, borrow a book and then return in in one week, it just feels impractical at this point, to me.
For antique books, sure, libraries will always exist, but even there I'd prefer to see them as conservation points where they are transferred into electronic format(s) made available online. Being an antique book collector myself, I would hate to know that precious antique books are being touched by people who don't wash their hands, or worse.
So basically, I don't think libraries have much reason to exist in their current form. Perhaps something like a public study-and-discussion place, with refreshments and internet access?
If they hadn't resorted to suing Wikipedia, I'd never hear about this corruption.
Now I know. And their lawsuit doesn't make me thing for a SECOND that they're not guilty. Quite the opposite.
Good point, but even isopropil alcohol will remove most if not all brands of "permanent" markers. And to be honest, I think it's much more likely they use a mixture of isopropilene and water, to clean these boxes, rather than acetone.
Engineering works of art don't break as often as an Xbox 360.
I am talking server tasks. Exchange, IIS, Domain Controller (yes, even that had to be segregated), MS SQL - you could not have several of these running on the same NT box. Even Microsoft strongly recommended against in their study material - and in the tests. Yes, the reason was performance but also stability.
...he probably got someone else's broken Xbox360.
You say "Vista works well on old hardware" - and then you mention a PC with 3 GHz CPU - wtf is the "new hardware" in your book?
That whole post sounds like disguised elitist shit: "hey, f* you guys, get some newer machines or move to the poor house"
This is really true. Landline penetration? Sure thing - but noone uses it for phone traffic, only data.
Of course, an article found on the INTERNET is certainly more truthful than the reality on the ground and the data that my ex-company gathered - but still, I thought I'd list here the people (friends, acquaintances etc.) I at least suspect they have a fixed phone:
In 1999, when I started working for a big telecom equipment company, in Finland mobile phones had a market penetration of about 45-50% (most adults) but pretty much every household had a fixed line as well. In only 3 years almost everybody discontinued their phone subscription - everybody has at least one mobile phone, including kids aged 7 or older. Let me repeat: 3 years.
Things change very fast in the world of telecommunications.
So could it happen that companies like google, yahoo etc. become partly telecoms? Will, what google is trying to do, become a megatrend? I don't have a magic sphere, but from what I can see, I'd say it's more likely than not. And if/once this ball starts rolling, the telcos better have a good strategy or they'll be wiped out or "considerably diminished".
If Microsoft did some or all the things you mentioned, I guess it would be dead for Europe - Microsoft would never sell a penny's worth of software in the European Union. As a bonus, the fines would still be collected through a lengthy (but ultimately successful) battle at the WTO. The USA may whine a bit at first, but even they have bigger interests than MS to protect.
Uh, you're right. Thanks for updating me on this. What did AMD get from this spinoff? I don't know, this sounds like a silly move, with the every higher usage of solid-state memory.
Heh, I "forgot" it because I simply had no idea about it! Thanks a lot for the heads-up!
Here in Finland we moved to digital TV already last year, and by may (if I recall correctly) it will be completely mandatory.
AMD could survive, albeit much diminished, as a foundry - they have a huge fab in Germany, and there are always companies willing to have their designs produced somewhere. Fabs really have no problem getting contracts.
AMD makes a ton of FLASH memory.
And then there's the GPU division (ATI). It's a bit hard to imagine that both CPU, GPU and Flash RAM will all tank at once.
Could it happen? Yeah. Everything is possible. I would not bet my apartement on it, though.
More and more aspects of that movie are becoming reality. I am not comfortable with this aspect of our future, guys. This is not good.
I was going to post something along those lines but you beat me by a factor of 2 (40MB). I have this vision of using the parts to construct my world-conquering robots. I just never have the time.