The elements are probably down there because we've been dumping all our e-Waste into the ocean. We could probably just build a drilling platform on that texas-sized mass of plastic floating out there and start raking in the dough.
What a load of crap. You can in fact "prove a negative" just like you can "prove a positive" . For example, you can prove the moon is NOT made of cheese by simply visiting it which we have done. And we do, in fact, have more than conjecture and computer models. We have enormous volumes of data on air and water temperatures, weather patterns, damage costs, solar minimums and maximums, etc.
This is incorrect. I'm a T-Mobile customer. I have unlimited talk/text and supposedly unlimited data (which I believe becomes "slow" at around 5GB). My monthly bill is officially $79.99 (no contract). Additionally, I can use my Nexus S phone as a mobile wi-fi hotspot so I can connect to the interwebz using my netbook wherever I have phone signal. Granted, there are some taxes on top but it still comes in well under $100. For equivalent service on AT&T, I would in fact pay $150 a month -- roughly double. I'm pissed about this merger.
I'm always surprised at how energetic the pro-nuke zealots are on/. The fact is nuclear energy has some nasty-ass waste AND IT SUCKS. Yes I know there are other designs that don't make the 4.5-billion-year stuff. Anybody who says it isn't a big deal can volunteer to host it in their own fucking back yard (for pay of course and only provided those in the affected radius approve).
Please note these facts stand quite independently of any controversial discussions about the environment or evil petroleum dictatorships.
More importantly, whatever happened to innovation? People moaning about the government funding research in renewable energy while they drive their Hummer and watch the Miami Heat on their giant screen plasma TV while they play Playstation over the Internet need to STFU. If it weren't for government-funded innovation, there'd be no Hummer, no computers, and no Internet.
Paying for research is good. It makes things better for everyone. Clean energy is good because it doesn't leave nasty shit behind (as much anyway). Lastly, you can make money building it and exporting it. Surely people on/. can appreciate that.
I noticed this problem with Firefox and bought tons of RAM for both my Windows 7 64-bit and my Ubuntu-64 machines. Weirdly, they don't take full advantage of the extra RAM and I still get sluggishness as these programs appear to be paging to disk. I therefore welcome this advancement.
PS: If anyone has tips about how to get more memory to FF, I would greatly appreciate it.
I am not exactly super router knowledge guy, but I bought an ASUS RT-N16 because it was on sale. The specs were great but the ASUS firmware was garbage so I installed DD-WRT (http://dd-wrt.com) and it *rocks* now. I get great throughput, it's very very stable (currently up for 51 days without a reboot -- last reboot was only because I was cleaning behind my desk and unplugged it). It also has quite a few options that you don't get in your typical consumer-grade router. You can block certain services/apps/games (e.g., bittorent, tor, aim, skype, team fortress). You can block websites by url or keyword. You can limit your blocking policies to certain times of day if you like. You can apply blocking policies to specific MAC addresses which lets you target offenders. You can even serve ads to folks who use your router for access. It does all sorts of other stuff I don't understand. It's pretty amazing.
DD-WRT is free, but if you choose to use it, please consider donating to the developers.
That's a pretty good point. Kinect is a really cool technology. I've seen Kinect used by those crazy quad copters to help them assess their environment -- it's a lot like how people were hacking Wii controllers back in the day. Unfortunately, I can't really see this giving microsoft a huge boost or anything. It's a neat technology development and a first-rate piece of R&D, but it sort of pales in comparison (in my opinion) to the strategic master stroke apple has made by positioning themselves between millions of customers with mobile phones and pretty much the entire entertainment and software industries. Hardware has a nasty tendency to become commodified, but content (music, movies, games, software) tends to resist commodification and retain its profitability. Because Apple has positioned themselves as a toll bridge between folks and their media, their market position is really, really good.
What I'm moaning about is not that I wish M$ would create a tablet. Like I said in my original post, I don't plan to get one and could care less who creates a tablet. What I'm moaning about is that the once-great company hasn't really done anything innovative or exciting in a dog's age. After amazing growth in the late 90's, their stock price has been flat for 10 years. I do wish M$ would do *something* interesting. Anything would be nice. XBOX live is pretty interesting from an innovation perspective. They used to be such a great company.
I use the dollar sign to underline the fact that Microsoft is expensive if you are a software developer. You have to pay for your desktop OS. You have to pay for your laptop OS. You have to pay for your server OS. You have to pay for your integrated development environment if you want anything half decent. Just to get started requires a substantial up-front investment.
There's a big difference between abandoning a crowded market with meager margins and reaping enormous revenues from a product with outrageous margins like the iPad. Additionally, the hardware is only half the story. The iPad is not so much about the hardware as about the app and media purchasing ecosystem that it provides access to. Apple is the largest music retailer in the world, and collects about 30% of every dollar paid for songs, movies, and applications in this application and media ecosystem. It's not so much about the iPad alone as the bigger picture. Rather than innovating and providing leadership, Microsoft is getting its lunch eaten.
I don't have a keyboard-free laptop and don't plan to get one, but this is just sad really. What self-respecting company would pass up the chance to over-charge gullible consumers and make bazillions of dollars? It makes me wonder if M$ might be entering some long, slow death spiral. I'm imagining they have been entirely drained of all the dynamic, daring innovators who all defected to Google and Facebook and the only employees left are the boring, fearful, lifer types who just want to keep punching the clock and paying off their mortgages. Whither now, Micro$oft?
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The elements are probably down there because we've been dumping all our e-Waste into the ocean. We could probably just build a drilling platform on that texas-sized mass of plastic floating out there and start raking in the dough.
What a load of crap. You can in fact "prove a negative" just like you can "prove a positive" . For example, you can prove the moon is NOT made of cheese by simply visiting it which we have done. And we do, in fact, have more than conjecture and computer models. We have enormous volumes of data on air and water temperatures, weather patterns, damage costs, solar minimums and maximums, etc.
I know I'm wasting my time here because no amount of factual discussion is going to change your opinion:
http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2008/09/does-ideology-trump-facts-studies-say-it-often-does.ars
Haven't you ever heard of price fixing? Same idea, but it's feature fixing. It's tacit collusion and highly profitable.
mod parent up.
This is incorrect. I'm a T-Mobile customer. I have unlimited talk/text and supposedly unlimited data (which I believe becomes "slow" at around 5GB). My monthly bill is officially $79.99 (no contract). Additionally, I can use my Nexus S phone as a mobile wi-fi hotspot so I can connect to the interwebz using my netbook wherever I have phone signal. Granted, there are some taxes on top but it still comes in well under $100. For equivalent service on AT&T, I would in fact pay $150 a month -- roughly double. I'm pissed about this merger.
It's entirely acceptable. It would still be acceptable if he tried to conceal his beliefs, although somewhat annoying.
Mod parent up.
I'm always surprised at how energetic the pro-nuke zealots are on /. The fact is nuclear energy has some nasty-ass waste AND IT SUCKS. Yes I know there are other designs that don't make the 4.5-billion-year stuff. Anybody who says it isn't a big deal can volunteer to host it in their own fucking back yard (for pay of course and only provided those in the affected radius approve).
That folks say renewables will "never" work is also irritating. Some facts::
1) according to a government agency, Nuclear produces 9% of US energy, Renewables produce 8%. That's not the huge difference some would have you believe:
http://www.eia.gov/cneaf/alternate/page/renew_energy_consump/rea_prereport.html
2) More than half our the US trade deficit is due to Petroleum imports:
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2011/06/trade-deficit-decreased-to-437-billion.html
Please note these facts stand quite independently of any controversial discussions about the environment or evil petroleum dictatorships.
More importantly, whatever happened to innovation? People moaning about the government funding research in renewable energy while they drive their Hummer and watch the Miami Heat on their giant screen plasma TV while they play Playstation over the Internet need to STFU. If it weren't for government-funded innovation, there'd be no Hummer, no computers, and no Internet.
Paying for research is good. It makes things better for everyone. Clean energy is good because it doesn't leave nasty shit behind (as much anyway). Lastly, you can make money building it and exporting it. Surely people on /. can appreciate that.
Doesn't this make them griefers?
Cheers. Good info. Thank you.
I am truly sorry for your lots. It's kind of pricey to get more than 4GB in a laptop.
Legacy apps like the JVM?
You assembler snobs make me sick.
DDR3 Memory is DIRT CHEAP now. I'd strongly encourage you to buy more. If you are on a 32-bit OS, then upgrade!
e.g.: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231277
I noticed this problem with Firefox and bought tons of RAM for both my Windows 7 64-bit and my Ubuntu-64 machines. Weirdly, they don't take full advantage of the extra RAM and I still get sluggishness as these programs appear to be paging to disk. I therefore welcome this advancement.
PS: If anyone has tips about how to get more memory to FF, I would greatly appreciate it.
I saw this among the submissions and am amazed it made it through. So much for the moderation process.
I am not exactly super router knowledge guy, but I bought an ASUS RT-N16 because it was on sale. The specs were great but the ASUS firmware was garbage so I installed DD-WRT (http://dd-wrt.com) and it *rocks* now. I get great throughput, it's very very stable (currently up for 51 days without a reboot -- last reboot was only because I was cleaning behind my desk and unplugged it). It also has quite a few options that you don't get in your typical consumer-grade router. You can block certain services/apps/games (e.g., bittorent, tor, aim, skype, team fortress). You can block websites by url or keyword. You can limit your blocking policies to certain times of day if you like. You can apply blocking policies to specific MAC addresses which lets you target offenders. You can even serve ads to folks who use your router for access. It does all sorts of other stuff I don't understand. It's pretty amazing.
DD-WRT is free, but if you choose to use it, please consider donating to the developers.
Mod this up.
Dubya didn't go to Harvard as an undergrad. You can blame Yale for that. He did, however, go to Harvard B-School which would be a different test.
That would depend on your concentration. Find someone in VES who can do anything on that test.
WOW. Thanks for the data...I guess. Now I'm really sad.
That's a pretty good point. Kinect is a really cool technology. I've seen Kinect used by those crazy quad copters to help them assess their environment -- it's a lot like how people were hacking Wii controllers back in the day. Unfortunately, I can't really see this giving microsoft a huge boost or anything. It's a neat technology development and a first-rate piece of R&D, but it sort of pales in comparison (in my opinion) to the strategic master stroke apple has made by positioning themselves between millions of customers with mobile phones and pretty much the entire entertainment and software industries. Hardware has a nasty tendency to become commodified, but content (music, movies, games, software) tends to resist commodification and retain its profitability. Because Apple has positioned themselves as a toll bridge between folks and their media, their market position is really, really good.
On what evidence do you base your statement? This article says otherwise, noting that the app store generated over $400 million in revenue and the entire iTunes store has generated 3.6 billion in revenue:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/06/23/app-store-1-of-apples-gross-profit/
What I'm moaning about is not that I wish M$ would create a tablet. Like I said in my original post, I don't plan to get one and could care less who creates a tablet. What I'm moaning about is that the once-great company hasn't really done anything innovative or exciting in a dog's age. After amazing growth in the late 90's, their stock price has been flat for 10 years. I do wish M$ would do *something* interesting. Anything would be nice. XBOX live is pretty interesting from an innovation perspective. They used to be such a great company.
I use the dollar sign to underline the fact that Microsoft is expensive if you are a software developer. You have to pay for your desktop OS. You have to pay for your laptop OS. You have to pay for your server OS. You have to pay for your integrated development environment if you want anything half decent. Just to get started requires a substantial up-front investment.
There's a big difference between abandoning a crowded market with meager margins and reaping enormous revenues from a product with outrageous margins like the iPad. Additionally, the hardware is only half the story. The iPad is not so much about the hardware as about the app and media purchasing ecosystem that it provides access to. Apple is the largest music retailer in the world, and collects about 30% of every dollar paid for songs, movies, and applications in this application and media ecosystem. It's not so much about the iPad alone as the bigger picture. Rather than innovating and providing leadership, Microsoft is getting its lunch eaten.
I don't have a keyboard-free laptop and don't plan to get one, but this is just sad really. What self-respecting company would pass up the chance to over-charge gullible consumers and make bazillions of dollars? It makes me wonder if M$ might be entering some long, slow death spiral. I'm imagining they have been entirely drained of all the dynamic, daring innovators who all defected to Google and Facebook and the only employees left are the boring, fearful, lifer types who just want to keep punching the clock and paying off their mortgages. Whither now, Micro$oft?