That's assuming some sort of optimum efficiency. Something which in my experience is never achieved by anyone. Short or really ugly pearl script at least.
I'll argue that most of the reason the command line is better though is that there aren't enough competent people developing GUI config tools that actually work.
Actually a measured indication of just how biased to one side or the other an article is may make people who consider themselves middle of the road realize what total flying fruitbats they actually are. I think this is potentially very useful.
I'll buy that somewhat, but flash drives are already designed for unusual resiliency so I'd argue that the engineering cost to improve that to spec is a lot less than the costs it took to get tapes to be that durable. In fact I assume the manufacturing techniques have already been solved and put in industry journals thanks to the requirements of the defense aerospace industry. They were probably solved in the mid-80's at that and the chips themselves have just gotten better to the point that this particular application of the manufacturing knowhow is now practical. A solid state system has some significant engineering advantages over one with a crapload of moving parts.
The testing though is going to be a bitch. I'll admit to that. After all, we're talking the height of technology from half a decade ago being mandated now, so we already have a yardstick of just how much beurocratic inertia is going to impede this: enough to hold up the implementation of an obvious idea for 5 years.
Wait a second? Isn't this the same industry that cooks the books to never run a profit on movies so they don't have to pay their people? I assume these profits must be including all those "services" they charge themselves for. To me that seems a liability. It seems like they just gave the final data points necessary for all those people promised net points of nothing to do the math and find what their movies really made.
Correction. It probably costs a CRAPLOAD more to change the color of the seats. If anything I'm betting that the changeover to solid state storage is going to be making these cheaper by at least an order of magnitude.
Spoken like a man who's never eaten at a Panera's. I can get free WiFi in any major city in Colorado. And that ain't exactly the center of American civilization. Vons/Safeway as well. Just because Starbucks charges doesn't mean they're the rule.
The way I see it there are two big problems:
First there are large portions of the Linux community that have theological issue with the existence of commercial software. That's right I said THEO-logical. I like GPL software as much as the next guy, and I think it's a great way to public-domain something you've worked on in an unexploitable fashion, but I don't think it should be required of everybody as some sort of moral right of the user.
Second is the simple fact that Windows is built on decades of trying to keep at least partial binary compatibility. That and Windows has a slooooow product cycle which allows for support and testing of a few discreet versions. The bewildering array of distros and versions is enough to drive a tech support manager to suicide by itself and almost ensures that binary distribution is impossible except for a few key distributions. At least that's my impression, things may have improved these days with LSB but I've honestly never tried moving complex programs in binary from one Linux box to another and I've never seen it suggested.
Me too. In my case I kept up with the firmware updates and topped it out at 196 (128meg smartmedia) years later. I still have it, but don't use it much because the power switch is acting kinda funny and my Palm, phone, and car stereo can all play MP3's off of cheaper flash with higher capacity these days.
There at least used to be quite a few Quadro features that could on GeForces with the right tweak tool so at least some of the difference is crippleware.
I mean seriously. We've got international intrigue and when you get down to it the phone company is the bad guy. Sounds plenty familiar to me. Only problem is it's not funny when it's real.
I'm not worried about the tech becoming a feature on consumer machines. Network connections are to interdependant on the hardware for it to ever be practical. The part I'd worry about is what happens when a random gamma ray or static shock hits the chip in the field and resets these switches? It creates a single fragile failure point for entire devices. Let the brickings commence!
You've never lived in Utah have you? In a mormon-dominated state a certification like this is going to be virtually a license to print money. Who do you think was keeping Clean Flix and Co running while they were in business?
I'm really not sure if that's sarcasm or not. After all people seem to universally despise Vista to the point where they only get it because it comes with the system.
Phones have no brand loyalty, it's an element built into the economics of the industry and into the wear-and-tear of anything that goes in your pocket. Getting the SDK out so late in the game Apple doesn't even have vendor lock-in of applications to ensure domination.
As for notebooks that are now out I'll use a different analogy: The Diamond Rio was out in various forms years before the iPod. That still didn't prevent Apple's now massive dominance of that market. Early releases in a market are statistical outliers. It's pure adoption numbers that matter, not who gets there first.
As for Surface? It's already being installed in at least one local hotel here. Just because it isn't a consumer product doesn't mean it isn't for sale.
Forget nationalizing health insurance. What we really need is to cut costs.
The first thing is to fully fund medschool. That way we don't condition all our doctors to be money grubbing bastards just so they can pay off their egregious student loans.
Another thing is to find some way to reduce the legal costs of being a doctor. Here is a spot where a national health system makes some sense, not in some sort of mandatory replacement of the insurers but in a different fashion. All you have to do is say "the employer has all liability" when the employer is the state and just watch those lawsuits peter out for state-employed doctors. We already know what a pain in the ass suing the government is, it's time to put that societal quirk to work for us. That or some other system to pull the rug out for legal costs for doctors.
Fix patent law. If we reign in the drug companies so they no longer have the money to waste on the most well-funded commercials on television and have to spend it on research instead maybe we'll get some cost improvement.
There's a lot of things that are screwed up about our society that contribute to healthcare costing so much. It's naive to assume there is only one problem to fix. In fact I'll bet if we just made a national health plan it would cost more due to the rampant inefficiency of anything government run. Unfortunately I don't hold out much hope for this particular issue.
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That's assuming some sort of optimum efficiency. Something which in my experience is never achieved by anyone. Short or really ugly pearl script at least.
I'll argue that most of the reason the command line is better though is that there aren't enough competent people developing GUI config tools that actually work.
Actually a measured indication of just how biased to one side or the other an article is may make people who consider themselves middle of the road realize what total flying fruitbats they actually are. I think this is potentially very useful.
I'll buy that somewhat, but flash drives are already designed for unusual resiliency so I'd argue that the engineering cost to improve that to spec is a lot less than the costs it took to get tapes to be that durable. In fact I assume the manufacturing techniques have already been solved and put in industry journals thanks to the requirements of the defense aerospace industry. They were probably solved in the mid-80's at that and the chips themselves have just gotten better to the point that this particular application of the manufacturing knowhow is now practical. A solid state system has some significant engineering advantages over one with a crapload of moving parts. The testing though is going to be a bitch. I'll admit to that. After all, we're talking the height of technology from half a decade ago being mandated now, so we already have a yardstick of just how much beurocratic inertia is going to impede this: enough to hold up the implementation of an obvious idea for 5 years.
Wait a second? Isn't this the same industry that cooks the books to never run a profit on movies so they don't have to pay their people? I assume these profits must be including all those "services" they charge themselves for. To me that seems a liability. It seems like they just gave the final data points necessary for all those people promised net points of nothing to do the math and find what their movies really made.
Correction. It probably costs a CRAPLOAD more to change the color of the seats. If anything I'm betting that the changeover to solid state storage is going to be making these cheaper by at least an order of magnitude.
But probably being compiled binaries instead of scripts Dayum do your apps run fast.
Spoken like a man who's never eaten at a Panera's. I can get free WiFi in any major city in Colorado. And that ain't exactly the center of American civilization. Vons/Safeway as well. Just because Starbucks charges doesn't mean they're the rule.
The way I see it there are two big problems: First there are large portions of the Linux community that have theological issue with the existence of commercial software. That's right I said THEO-logical. I like GPL software as much as the next guy, and I think it's a great way to public-domain something you've worked on in an unexploitable fashion, but I don't think it should be required of everybody as some sort of moral right of the user. Second is the simple fact that Windows is built on decades of trying to keep at least partial binary compatibility. That and Windows has a slooooow product cycle which allows for support and testing of a few discreet versions. The bewildering array of distros and versions is enough to drive a tech support manager to suicide by itself and almost ensures that binary distribution is impossible except for a few key distributions. At least that's my impression, things may have improved these days with LSB but I've honestly never tried moving complex programs in binary from one Linux box to another and I've never seen it suggested.
Me too. In my case I kept up with the firmware updates and topped it out at 196 (128meg smartmedia) years later. I still have it, but don't use it much because the power switch is acting kinda funny and my Palm, phone, and car stereo can all play MP3's off of cheaper flash with higher capacity these days.
There at least used to be quite a few Quadro features that could on GeForces with the right tweak tool so at least some of the difference is crippleware.
I mean seriously. We've got international intrigue and when you get down to it the phone company is the bad guy. Sounds plenty familiar to me. Only problem is it's not funny when it's real.
I'm not worried about the tech becoming a feature on consumer machines. Network connections are to interdependant on the hardware for it to ever be practical. The part I'd worry about is what happens when a random gamma ray or static shock hits the chip in the field and resets these switches? It creates a single fragile failure point for entire devices. Let the brickings commence!
Nonono! Boarding is obviously a linear traversal. So the tree should be a splay tree, that oughta make it n.
You've never lived in Utah have you? In a mormon-dominated state a certification like this is going to be virtually a license to print money. Who do you think was keeping Clean Flix and Co running while they were in business?
I'm really not sure if that's sarcasm or not. After all people seem to universally despise Vista to the point where they only get it because it comes with the system.
Work for hire (which is what you describe) can be done and often IS done. It's just significantly more expensive.
Doesn't matter.
Phones have no brand loyalty, it's an element built into the economics of the industry and into the wear-and-tear of anything that goes in your pocket. Getting the SDK out so late in the game Apple doesn't even have vendor lock-in of applications to ensure domination.
As for notebooks that are now out I'll use a different analogy: The Diamond Rio was out in various forms years before the iPod. That still didn't prevent Apple's now massive dominance of that market. Early releases in a market are statistical outliers. It's pure adoption numbers that matter, not who gets there first.
As for Surface? It's already being installed in at least one local hotel here. Just because it isn't a consumer product doesn't mean it isn't for sale.
Forget nationalizing health insurance. What we really need is to cut costs.
The first thing is to fully fund medschool. That way we don't condition all our doctors to be money grubbing bastards just so they can pay off their egregious student loans.
Another thing is to find some way to reduce the legal costs of being a doctor. Here is a spot where a national health system makes some sense, not in some sort of mandatory replacement of the insurers but in a different fashion. All you have to do is say "the employer has all liability" when the employer is the state and just watch those lawsuits peter out for state-employed doctors. We already know what a pain in the ass suing the government is, it's time to put that societal quirk to work for us. That or some other system to pull the rug out for legal costs for doctors.
Fix patent law. If we reign in the drug companies so they no longer have the money to waste on the most well-funded commercials on television and have to spend it on research instead maybe we'll get some cost improvement.
There's a lot of things that are screwed up about our society that contribute to healthcare costing so much. It's naive to assume there is only one problem to fix. In fact I'll bet if we just made a national health plan it would cost more due to the rampant inefficiency of anything government run. Unfortunately I don't hold out much hope for this particular issue.