Two channels for subs? Why? Bass is non directional. It's one thing to have multiple subs on one channel, but it doesn't make sense to have a 2nd channel.
My TV hardware is not in an evolutionary arms race with the media that runs on it.
Yes it is. Or have you missed the ongoing 3D wars and the emerging "smart tv" market with internet and on-demand content?
Just because you don't care about these things doesn't mean the market isn't fundamentally changing while you aren't looking.
Bad example. The vast majority of our society don't care about 3D TV. They don't want it and they don't want to pay for it. Just because there is something new available doesn't mean that it will become the new standard.
How many user replaceable parts has your TV got? What's that you say? A little louder. None! So does that make you a fool too?
The fool is the person that didn't realise that computers will go the same way as every other technology. More advanced, more integrated, more miniaturised, less user serviceable.
Actually my Samsung DLP TV has several user replaceable parts. Most notably is the lamp.
I believe the point of the "no user-replaceable parts" jab is that desktop and notebook computers have generally had user replaceable parts in them which makes them easier to maintain. When parts are no longer replaceable you either end up with a very expensive paper weight or must ship the unit to be fixed. Whereas previously the part was purchased and inserted by the user.
Cloud can have defined scope. Its a network philosophy, like any other.
Nope. The term "cloud" was coined over a decade ago when using diagrams to display network topology. The cloud was a stencil or icon that represented the Internet or a group of unknown hardware that was managed by someone else.
It's like taking the term "broadband" whose original meaning was the ability to perform frequency multiplexing, whereas now it supposedly means high speed Internet access. The two definitions for broadband have absolutely nothing in common.
It's called the "cloud" because in network diagrams we used an image of a cloud to describe the part of a network that isn't managed by us or the contents of the hardware is unknown. So to call something a "private cloud" means that while it's 100% under your control you have no fucking clue what hardware is running or how it is configured.
Congratulations. You just described yourself as being an admin of a network of which you have no clue.
I have a friend who operates a small ISP in rural Iowa. I believe he's using ImageStream routers. Just a quick look at their lineup and I'm guessing that they can cover small to mid size businesses. They claim to be able to replace Cisco 3945 and 7206 routers. I'm not sure about hardware redundancy though.
I still by CDs and DVD-Audio discs because I want to rip the files into a lossless format. Plus I still listen to entire albums from start to finish. I guess I'm just old school at the ripe old age of 33.
Today's content providers seem to jump through every possible hoop to defeat caching. You would think that a video provider would use some indirect URL to first log the access attempt and then point to a static location where the actual video is provided, and that can be cached locally, but no... In a new deployment, including a caching proxy probably is a waste. E.g. our existing proxy now has a byte-% hit ratio of 11%, falling all the time.
You would be correct if your first sentence said "for-profit content providers". Content providers geared towards education and other non-profits should be making their content as cheap as possible to access. Notice I said *should*. Caching web content is absolutely the smart and responsible thing to do when the same content is going to be viewed over and over - especially with content that is static.
There's an AC that responded to this post citing advertising and hit counts as reasons why caching won't work. I would certainly hope that educational content providers are not making their content difficult to cache.
And it all passes through the single point of failure that is RIM's server farm before reaching the client, and what could be more secure than an email that is never delivered, right?
The BES "single point of failure" is often over hyped. Most people that I personally know that complain about this single point of failure are also running a single mail server, single core switch, single Internet router, single ISP, etc. There are many single points of failure.
Don't get me wrong, you should always try to limit the number of single points of failure.
And to point out RIM's excellent uptime I will point out that RIM has had fewer hours of downtime in the last 10 years than Apple's iCloud service in the last 18 months.
The first two examples are a complete IP address. I know that the address is complete and doesn't contain a port number at the end. HOWEVER, the third example doesn't tell me shit. Does "fe80::202:b3ff:fe1e:8329" actually stand for an IP address of "fe80:0000:0000:0000:0202:b3ff:fe1e:8329" or does it stand for "fe80:0000:0000:0000:0000:0202:b3ff:fe1e with port 8329"?
Wow. Fear monger much? And if you think our government was "small" when the bad events happened I would really hate to see your idea of a big government.
You act as if people are forced to use Windows. They are not. Just like people aren't forced forced to use Photoshop. HOWEVER, if I wanted a PC with supported software from both Microsoft and Adobe I would have only paid $200 to Microsoft over 12 years and over $1,000 to Adobe.
I know that Windows support isn't free. Neither is Mac OS. And technically some Linux support isn't free either. The cost of owning and receiving security/bug fixes (and sometimes new features) is built into the price.
With HTML5, write an app once and you're done. Currently you must create an app for iOS, Android, BB OS, Win Mobile, etc.
Besides, most popular apps on mobile devices are fetching information from websites anyway. Look at how many websites have apps. What's the point? Why should I load an app on my smartphone to access the same content by actually using the browser? I'm tired of seeing posts on websites like "hey, I can't get to this with my iPhone app". Why deal with keeping apps updated and working. It doesn't make sense.
They just look cheaper on the surface, because the cost is amortized across BILLIONS of forced Windows licenses, instead of MILLIONS of Photoshop licenses.
Three orders of magnitude is very large in real life.
Does not compute. Windows XP has been around for a decade. XP will have received "free" updates for 12 years when support is finally dropped. On the other hand, Adobe Photoshop has had 8 major version releases during that time. According to Adobe's website site, 4 of those versions are no longer supported...and apparently we need to add another few versions to the list.
Bitch about MS all you want, but their support of security fixes for Windows and Office has been excellent compared to companies like Adobe. If I were a Photoshop user I would have spent thousands of dollars to keep my version in support compared to the $200 that XP costs up front. And yes, it really isn't fair to compare OS support to application support.
Conservative dogma debunked by.....pretty much the rest of the industrialized world. Universal health care provides better care for less money. Students getting a free education in Canada or France can start their own business without having to worry about paying off $50k in student loan debt and attract employees without having to provide them health insurance.
The sad part is that you really believe that education in those countries is free. There is no such thing. Someone is paying for it. They might not have $50k of debt when they graduate, but they pay for more in taxes over their lifetime for this "free" service and keep less of their own money.
My local service costs me $25/mo before LD rates. I'd say that's pretty good considering inflation for the last 15 years. Hell, the price of a Coke has doubled since then. I'd say that the market has worked in this case.
The US used to have telephone monopoly, too. Remember AT&T? After the government broke them up it became more affordable to purchase your own phone from any store (as opposed to only buying from AT&T) and monthly rates are now competitive and low. The entire telephone industry reconstructed itself without much government oversight and regulation. We are now paying less than 5 cents/min for LD calls and in most cases less than 2 cents.
But don't let those pesky facts get in your way, comrade!
Yeah, because in your world apparently Medicare, Medicaid and Title 19 don't exist. All of them are government programs that have massive amounts of waste and drive up the cost of health care.
The cost of college education in the US has skyrocketed ever since the government started messing around with supply and demand by keeping student load rates artificially low. Whenever our government gets their hands on something for the sake of making it "affordable" they always end up increasing the cost of it.
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There's also dialup for CC authorization and the old paper swipe machines that they can use for backups.
"The cloud" is most definitely not the answer if SQL uptime is the goal.
Two channels for subs? Why? Bass is non directional. It's one thing to have multiple subs on one channel, but it doesn't make sense to have a 2nd channel.
No need to remove. Just boot in Target mode, connect a TB cable to it, mount the drive to another running system, and wipe away.
You must have missed this crucial part: "and they broke down". Meaning it was no longer working at all.
Yes it is. Or have you missed the ongoing 3D wars and the emerging "smart tv" market with internet and on-demand content?
Just because you don't care about these things doesn't mean the market isn't fundamentally changing while you aren't looking.
Bad example. The vast majority of our society don't care about 3D TV. They don't want it and they don't want to pay for it. Just because there is something new available doesn't mean that it will become the new standard.
How many user replaceable parts has your TV got?
What's that you say? A little louder. None!
So does that make you a fool too?
The fool is the person that didn't realise that computers will go the same way as every other technology. More advanced, more integrated, more miniaturised, less user serviceable.
Actually my Samsung DLP TV has several user replaceable parts. Most notably is the lamp.
I believe the point of the "no user-replaceable parts" jab is that desktop and notebook computers have generally had user replaceable parts in them which makes them easier to maintain. When parts are no longer replaceable you either end up with a very expensive paper weight or must ship the unit to be fixed. Whereas previously the part was purchased and inserted by the user.
Cloud can have defined scope. Its a network philosophy, like any other.
Nope. The term "cloud" was coined over a decade ago when using diagrams to display network topology. The cloud was a stencil or icon that represented the Internet or a group of unknown hardware that was managed by someone else.
It's like taking the term "broadband" whose original meaning was the ability to perform frequency multiplexing, whereas now it supposedly means high speed Internet access. The two definitions for broadband have absolutely nothing in common.
It's called the "cloud" because in network diagrams we used an image of a cloud to describe the part of a network that isn't managed by us or the contents of the hardware is unknown. So to call something a "private cloud" means that while it's 100% under your control you have no fucking clue what hardware is running or how it is configured.
Congratulations. You just described yourself as being an admin of a network of which you have no clue.
I have a friend who operates a small ISP in rural Iowa. I believe he's using ImageStream routers. Just a quick look at their lineup and I'm guessing that they can cover small to mid size businesses. They claim to be able to replace Cisco 3945 and 7206 routers. I'm not sure about hardware redundancy though.
I still by CDs and DVD-Audio discs because I want to rip the files into a lossless format. Plus I still listen to entire albums from start to finish. I guess I'm just old school at the ripe old age of 33.
Today's content providers seem to jump through every possible hoop to defeat caching.
You would think that a video provider would use some indirect URL to first log the access attempt and then point to a static location where the actual video is provided, and that can be cached locally, but no...
In a new deployment, including a caching proxy probably is a waste.
E.g. our existing proxy now has a byte-% hit ratio of 11%, falling all the time.
You would be correct if your first sentence said "for-profit content providers". Content providers geared towards education and other non-profits should be making their content as cheap as possible to access. Notice I said *should*. Caching web content is absolutely the smart and responsible thing to do when the same content is going to be viewed over and over - especially with content that is static.
There's an AC that responded to this post citing advertising and hit counts as reasons why caching won't work. I would certainly hope that educational content providers are not making their content difficult to cache.
And it all passes through the single point of failure that is RIM's server farm before reaching the client, and what could be more secure than an email that is never delivered, right?
The BES "single point of failure" is often over hyped. Most people that I personally know that complain about this single point of failure are also running a single mail server, single core switch, single Internet router, single ISP, etc. There are many single points of failure.
Don't get me wrong, you should always try to limit the number of single points of failure.
And to point out RIM's excellent uptime I will point out that RIM has had fewer hours of downtime in the last 10 years than Apple's iCloud service in the last 18 months.
I was very impressed with how Cisco integrated the tablet into the only device an end user would ever need. Check out the 10 minute demo on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2wueml_qOmA#t=1280s
So, in other words, they changed something that didn't need to be changed.
Are you really afraid of colons instead of dots?
I'm not sure about the parent, but using colons as separators was insanely stupid. For example:
fe80:0000:0000:0000:0202:b3ff:fe1e:8329
fe80:0:0:0:202:b3ff:fe1e:8329
fe80::202:b3ff:fe1e:8329
The first two examples are a complete IP address. I know that the address is complete and doesn't contain a port number at the end. HOWEVER, the third example doesn't tell me shit. Does "fe80::202:b3ff:fe1e:8329" actually stand for an IP address of "fe80:0000:0000:0000:0202:b3ff:fe1e:8329" or does it stand for "fe80:0000:0000:0000:0000:0202:b3ff:fe1e with port 8329"?
The creators of IPv6 tried too hard.
Wow. Fear monger much? And if you think our government was "small" when the bad events happened I would really hate to see your idea of a big government.
XP Mode. If they fail, it's indeed the government IT's fault - for not deploying it with the XP machine included.
Yeah - let's kick the can further down the road. That will solve the problem!
You act as if people are forced to use Windows. They are not. Just like people aren't forced forced to use Photoshop. HOWEVER, if I wanted a PC with supported software from both Microsoft and Adobe I would have only paid $200 to Microsoft over 12 years and over $1,000 to Adobe.
I know that Windows support isn't free. Neither is Mac OS. And technically some Linux support isn't free either. The cost of owning and receiving security/bug fixes (and sometimes new features) is built into the price.
With HTML5, write an app once and you're done. Currently you must create an app for iOS, Android, BB OS, Win Mobile, etc.
Besides, most popular apps on mobile devices are fetching information from websites anyway. Look at how many websites have apps. What's the point? Why should I load an app on my smartphone to access the same content by actually using the browser? I'm tired of seeing posts on websites like "hey, I can't get to this with my iPhone app". Why deal with keeping apps updated and working. It doesn't make sense.
MS security fixes are not "no cost".
They just look cheaper on the surface, because the cost is amortized across BILLIONS of forced Windows licenses, instead of MILLIONS of Photoshop licenses.
Three orders of magnitude is very large in real life.
Does not compute. Windows XP has been around for a decade. XP will have received "free" updates for 12 years when support is finally dropped. On the other hand, Adobe Photoshop has had 8 major version releases during that time. According to Adobe's website site, 4 of those versions are no longer supported...and apparently we need to add another few versions to the list.
Bitch about MS all you want, but their support of security fixes for Windows and Office has been excellent compared to companies like Adobe. If I were a Photoshop user I would have spent thousands of dollars to keep my version in support compared to the $200 that XP costs up front. And yes, it really isn't fair to compare OS support to application support.
Conservative dogma debunked by.....pretty much the rest of the industrialized world. Universal health care provides better care for less money. Students getting a free education in Canada or France can start their own business without having to worry about paying off $50k in student loan debt and attract employees without having to provide them health insurance.
The sad part is that you really believe that education in those countries is free. There is no such thing. Someone is paying for it. They might not have $50k of debt when they graduate, but they pay for more in taxes over their lifetime for this "free" service and keep less of their own money.
My local service costs me $25/mo before LD rates. I'd say that's pretty good considering inflation for the last 15 years. Hell, the price of a Coke has doubled since then. I'd say that the market has worked in this case.
The US used to have telephone monopoly, too. Remember AT&T? After the government broke them up it became more affordable to purchase your own phone from any store (as opposed to only buying from AT&T) and monthly rates are now competitive and low. The entire telephone industry reconstructed itself without much government oversight and regulation. We are now paying less than 5 cents/min for LD calls and in most cases less than 2 cents.
But don't let those pesky facts get in your way, comrade!
Yeah, because in your world apparently Medicare, Medicaid and Title 19 don't exist. All of them are government programs that have massive amounts of waste and drive up the cost of health care.
The cost of college education in the US has skyrocketed ever since the government started messing around with supply and demand by keeping student load rates artificially low. Whenever our government gets their hands on something for the sake of making it "affordable" they always end up increasing the cost of it.
Always.
Stop manipulating the market.
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