There's nothing inherent to today's storage technologies that requires power-of-two capacities. We're not even using a fraction of the address space we already have, so sticking to a power-of-two size doesn't have any real benefits.
The hardrive may not need to be based on powers of two, but the filesystem does.
You are, however, somewhat correct about the hijacking of the powers of ten nomenclature.
The buying older method is rather shoddy. You'll get a minimally better price on an older spec new computer, and a used computer may have dozens of problems with the hardware, and no way to get warranty coverage on them. Newer hardware thats designed to be low end also has a major advantage in terms of power consumption over weaker old hardware. (The computer I'm at saves my 20 a month on power bills compared to a much weaker ex-high end machine from around the turn of the century).
(It's not even as much a hypothetical example, because it used to happen in the first world too, in the not so distant past. E.g., back when the Titanic was built, the norm was IIRC to have one dead worker for every million dollars worth of ship built. The Titanic was remarkable in that they only had IIRC 3 dead workers in accidents during building. But anyway, roll that in your head, they actually made statistics and found it acceptable to kill people rather than spend money on safety. It's not a funny thought.)
The Titanic also (probably) sank because somebody bought sub quality steel bolts. Their worker safety record doesn't really counteract that part.
Also, it is a hilarious thought. But then I'm a horrible person.
Um, of course the x box hardware is unprofitable, it costs more to make a unit than its sold for. Its called a razor blade product, or something like that. Sell the main piece cheap, sell components (games, game updates, online play etc).
This is potentially a *massively* profitable business model. Sony did quite well on the PS and PS2. Gillette (for whom the business model is named) can afford ridiculously expensive advertising campaigns, and everyone involved in printers manages it as well.
The transistors were for creating a basic 1 dollar noisemaker, which was then fed through the amplifier (except it didn't work, so I had to use a friends). And yes, the amp was analog, or at least used an analog input.
Not *that* long ago... 11 years? Was in highschool. I also bought integrated circuits from them, when I couldn't find an old computer that had the parts I needed (You know you can turn a 386 machine into an amplifier?)
The problem with this is the ridiculousness of the 'weaknesses'. The missing link is one of my favorites, while there are some incidents of macroevolution where we lack all the fossils, there are others (like the entire homo line) where there is such an incredibly gradual variation that there isn't any certainty where one species ends and another begins.
Irreducible complexity is another fun one, while it would be a very big problem for evolution, there is no evidence of irreducible complexity in any of the well studied lineages. We can actually thank creationists for this, since their claims that an eye/heart/immune system etc could not evolve lead directly to the study of the evolution of said systems. In the meantime, the creationist/ID crowd has refused to run the experiments that would discover evidence of irreducible complexity. In at least one case, Michael Behe, he has a large set of the knowledge (math) needed to search known DNA sequences for alleles that could not have been achieved by mutation.
1. These servers were honeypots with nothing important on them- one never admits to a honeypot;
To not reveal that the systems hacked were honeypots would be an extreme violation of the justice system, especially in the US, were the severity of the crime is based on financial harm. If they are honeypots, the prosecution is in fact committing a far more serious crime by not revealing this, (and beyond that, claiming financial damage when there was none) than he did by hacking into military networks.
Training costs more than 3 grand most of the time. My last job spent 3000 *just* to get people certified for the job, actual training was 6 more weeks after that.
Admittedly, Brittanica has always been a great source for academic quality articles, especially back when basic information was hard to come by.
No, it is a horrible source for academic quality articles. Keep in mind Brittanica has nearly as many errors per article as Wikipedia, and their articles are substantially shorter. The short part is very limiting as well, since Brittanica rarely has information detailed enough to justify using it for academic purposes, and since the articles are not primary sources, its extremely difficult for peer review to judge what mistakes the article has.
People bitch and moan about professors not allowing wikipedia as a source, but in truth, no encyclopedia is a suitable source for anything more substantial than population figures, and even then you should be looking up the census.
IBM is doing well because of international sales. There are two things that must be considered though. The rest of the world is quickly being dragged down with the US. And IBM has a lot of employees who won't have anything to do if nobody is buying locally. (Think service technicians, consultants, all the fun stuff like that).
DDR3 is supposedly nonvolatile, so it would be (theoretically) possible with standby as well. Though this appear to only be the display that does it, so its actually neither.
The beagle board is also three times the cost of a Via mainboard.
I'd also bitch that using the 25 watt peak draw for comparison is unfair, since the idle draw is apparently only.5 watt, but I've seen what flash does to processors, and this thing is meant for the internet.
Nah, if you have a cross-dressing fetish you should advertise it. Yeah most women will be offput, but there will be a fair number who like guys in dresses too. In fact, thats how most of the sexual crossdressers I know *got* the fetish in the first place.
While thats the ultimate goal of 7, the beta doesn't really reflect that. Only about half the drivers worked for me (the system is Vista compatible), and it crashed frequently (possibly because the drivers that did install were faulty?). The beta is overall, far more buggy than I'm used to in a beta product (though other people I've spoken too have said its about normal for a beta, so it could be me being used to open source betas.)
That said, Microsoft should be able to fix the problems over the next year, and if not, hopefully they'll learn from Vista, and not try to force it on people until its ready.
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You haven't met many geek girls have you?
There's nothing inherent to today's storage technologies that requires power-of-two capacities. We're not even using a fraction of the address space we already have, so sticking to a power-of-two size doesn't have any real benefits.
The hardrive may not need to be based on powers of two, but the filesystem does.
You are, however, somewhat correct about the hijacking of the powers of ten nomenclature.
The buying older method is rather shoddy. You'll get a minimally better price on an older spec new computer, and a used computer may have dozens of problems with the hardware, and no way to get warranty coverage on them. Newer hardware thats designed to be low end also has a major advantage in terms of power consumption over weaker old hardware. (The computer I'm at saves my 20 a month on power bills compared to a much weaker ex-high end machine from around the turn of the century).
I say probably, because there is no guarantee that the iceberg would have left the ship afloat even if the bolts had not snapped off.
Of course, A hell of a lot of lives could have been saved if it had been a slower process.
(It's not even as much a hypothetical example, because it used to happen in the first world too, in the not so distant past. E.g., back when the Titanic was built, the norm was IIRC to have one dead worker for every million dollars worth of ship built. The Titanic was remarkable in that they only had IIRC 3 dead workers in accidents during building. But anyway, roll that in your head, they actually made statistics and found it acceptable to kill people rather than spend money on safety. It's not a funny thought.)
The Titanic also (probably) sank because somebody bought sub quality steel bolts. Their worker safety record doesn't really counteract that part.
Also, it is a hilarious thought. But then I'm a horrible person.
Seems pointless. If you overclock all that way and the temperature is still below zero, wouldn't a cheaper cooling system make more sense?
Um, of course the x box hardware is unprofitable, it costs more to make a unit than its sold for. Its called a razor blade product, or something like that. Sell the main piece cheap, sell components (games, game updates, online play etc).
This is potentially a *massively* profitable business model. Sony did quite well on the PS and PS2. Gillette (for whom the business model is named) can afford ridiculously expensive advertising campaigns, and everyone involved in printers manages it as well.
The only people who might dislike it are those who have learned the intricacies of the Office menu structure
Sorry, but no, I don't know the intricacies of either, I hate the ribbon because without fucking *words* I don't know what a button does.
The transistors were for creating a basic 1 dollar noisemaker, which was then fed through the amplifier (except it didn't work, so I had to use a friends). And yes, the amp was analog, or at least used an analog input.
Don't hard drives decay quickly if unused?
Also, you might want a cracked version of windows, Microsoft probably won't have the activation servers running in 50 years.
Not *that* long ago... 11 years? Was in highschool. I also bought integrated circuits from them, when I couldn't find an old computer that had the parts I needed (You know you can turn a 386 machine into an amplifier?)
My high quality PSU has this as well, however, I've never heard of a major OEM using quality PSUs in desktops.
Even so, the point is to have lower power consumption by default, instead of expecting end users to do it themselves.
The problem with this is the ridiculousness of the 'weaknesses'. The missing link is one of my favorites, while there are some incidents of macroevolution where we lack all the fossils, there are others (like the entire homo line) where there is such an incredibly gradual variation that there isn't any certainty where one species ends and another begins.
Irreducible complexity is another fun one, while it would be a very big problem for evolution, there is no evidence of irreducible complexity in any of the well studied lineages. We can actually thank creationists for this, since their claims that an eye/heart/immune system etc could not evolve lead directly to the study of the evolution of said systems. In the meantime, the creationist/ID crowd has refused to run the experiments that would discover evidence of irreducible complexity. In at least one case, Michael Behe, he has a large set of the knowledge (math) needed to search known DNA sequences for alleles that could not have been achieved by mutation.
1. These servers were honeypots with nothing important on them- one never admits to a honeypot;
To not reveal that the systems hacked were honeypots would be an extreme violation of the justice system, especially in the US, were the severity of the crime is based on financial harm. If they are honeypots, the prosecution is in fact committing a far more serious crime by not revealing this, (and beyond that, claiming financial damage when there was none) than he did by hacking into military networks.
Training costs more than 3 grand most of the time. My last job spent 3000 *just* to get people certified for the job, actual training was 6 more weeks after that.
The sad thing is, I used to be able to go to radio shack and have a conversation about the right transistor to buy for a given project.
A pity.
Admittedly, Brittanica has always been a great source for academic quality articles, especially back when basic information was hard to come by.
No, it is a horrible source for academic quality articles. Keep in mind Brittanica has nearly as many errors per article as Wikipedia, and their articles are substantially shorter. The short part is very limiting as well, since Brittanica rarely has information detailed enough to justify using it for academic purposes, and since the articles are not primary sources, its extremely difficult for peer review to judge what mistakes the article has.
People bitch and moan about professors not allowing wikipedia as a source, but in truth, no encyclopedia is a suitable source for anything more substantial than population figures, and even then you should be looking up the census.
IBM is doing well because of international sales. There are two things that must be considered though. The rest of the world is quickly being dragged down with the US. And IBM has a lot of employees who won't have anything to do if nobody is buying locally. (Think service technicians, consultants, all the fun stuff like that).
Modern PCs draw power while 'off'. It's only a trickle, but its there.
DDR3 is supposedly nonvolatile, so it would be (theoretically) possible with standby as well. Though this appear to only be the display that does it, so its actually neither.
9 webkit and khtml were remerged
3 is a good reason, 2 I'd argue with, but is very subjective.
The rest? Who cares? I use KDE and have no issues running them.
The beagle board is also three times the cost of a Via mainboard.
I'd also bitch that using the 25 watt peak draw for comparison is unfair, since the idle draw is apparently only .5 watt, but I've seen what flash does to processors, and this thing is meant for the internet.
I still haven't seen a whole system comparison, but I'm betting that the 945 chipset the Atom uses kills its low power advantage.
Nah, if you have a cross-dressing fetish you should advertise it. Yeah most women will be offput, but there will be a fair number who like guys in dresses too. In fact, thats how most of the sexual crossdressers I know *got* the fetish in the first place.
While thats the ultimate goal of 7, the beta doesn't really reflect that. Only about half the drivers worked for me (the system is Vista compatible), and it crashed frequently (possibly because the drivers that did install were faulty?). The beta is overall, far more buggy than I'm used to in a beta product (though other people I've spoken too have said its about normal for a beta, so it could be me being used to open source betas.)
That said, Microsoft should be able to fix the problems over the next year, and if not, hopefully they'll learn from Vista, and not try to force it on people until its ready.