I am writing this on a 2 year old X60 tablet. The display hinge has been replaced 4 times already and the battery once. Since these are the only non-standard parts on the laptop, I must say the quality is atrocious. Since I got it with a few others under a corporate 4 hour warranty program and since everyone else also had the issue with the hinge and display, the evidence is not just ancedotal.
The CPU, memory and other parts are off-the-shelf and so obviously has worked well so far.
I have no basis to compare with other Thinkpads though, maybe they were equally bad. My previous Dell 610 worked two years without fail, but it did not have a rotating hinge (was not a tablet) and had the "fire hazard" battery recall. So I won't compare these two. YMMV
China has only about 20% incarceration rate as USA. But it does execute about 3 times more. But since the overall execution rate is still about 5,000 a year, this does not make up for the lower incarceration rate.
So really, China is not all that more barbaric than US. India has an extremely low incarceration rate.
Europe on the other hand, executes nobody and jails much less number of people than USA. One could possibly have a world with Europe as the central power and still have a better world . No prison rapes, open to many languages and cultures and pretty liberal and secular.
Most of the crimes have real world analogies. But I can't think of equivalent for "virtual thefts" in MMOGs , Griefings, "Anonymous" etc.
If person X had a restraining order against person Y, then Y would be barred from coming near person X. But I wonder what happens if person Y knows that person X plays online games and stalks the person there ? Nothing more needs to be done other than using full name and joining the same game server for X to know that Y was still keeping tabs on him/her.
CDMA has twice the radius as old-style GSM. That said, 40 mile radius seems stretching it. The rule of thumb I heard was 20 Km diameter for GSM and 40 km diameter for CDMA for a South African company. That's about 25 miles diameter for CDMA. And this is over relatively flat land. In New York you probably need a tower in every building.
Look, bandwidth really cannot be the problem because otherwise Japan would already be hitting the limits. They already have tons more of people per square mile and use cellphone data networks much more than America. Same goes for India - Cities like Mumbai have a lot more people than NY and still the phone rates are about 10% of what it is in USA. Now I agree that labor is cheaper in India, but the cellphone towers cost the same as the US (and land rental rates are the same as NY in Mumbai).
AT&T has a lot more room to give and if US would simply introduce more providers and increase competition, the prices would drop.
I did argue against your main point. You were saying that off shoring saves costs and that is obvious.
What is not obvious is that it actually increased performance.That was the news. That may not be just due to off shoring and at least in this case seems to be due to architectural differences and the ability to modify Linux kernel and user space (and lack of a.NET layer slowing things down).
Yes, but MSFT is not saying that people will need 2^128 bytes of RAM. All it would mean is that 2^64 won't be enough.
Now 2^64 is still pretty large for RAM. But I am guessing that MSFT is thinking that as more hard-disks become solid state, the difference between RAM and HDD will vanish and that file system might be directly addressed by CPU.
Well, they also increased performance. If throwing money/systems at a problem can't get you performance maybe the other guys are really better ?
Oh, it is interesting that an ex consultant would spell "Disclosure" as "Discloser". On an internet forum where your spelling/language becomes a major indicator of credibility, you might want to use a browser like Firefox which will correct errors for you.
Actually, hedge funds have moved offices right across from exchange datacenters or closer to users.
http://www.a-teamgroup.com/article/rti-moves-closer-to-its-low-latency-users-on-wall-street-and-makes-four-key-hires/http://www.westwatercorp.com/documents/Westwater_JimLeman_SecurityIndustryNews.pdf
From the second article "That latency is outsize 'when you are trying to make
decisions in a time frame of under 20 milliseconds,' says Jerome Downey, senior managing director in
Bear Stearns' equities analytics and systematic trading division in New York"
So far the problem has been to get closest to the main parent network since switching delays are important. But I think we'll soon start to see people moving entire offices, now that stock exchanges (and the so called Black Pools) are simply networks of information without any people associated with it.
I am not arguing with that. But what I was talking about is the original comment When you go that fast, there's no point in being scared of much.
The poster said that there is no point being scared because you can't say when you will die. But it appears to me that , Jeremy Clarkson is not afraid not because of the unpredictability, but because he is not afraid of dying in a crash.
If you were a person who wanted to die in your sleep, you have reason to be afraid at higher speeds than at lower speeds.
People who die remove critical knowledge and skills from the economy that makes a society function.
Your line of reasoning would mean that unemployed people should be taxed more than employed people, because by not working they remove skills from society. Taking this line of reasoning further, people who earn less must be taxed more to induce them to work harder for the "society".
Basically you are advocating 2 things
1) A person owes something to society. This is just plain stupid. No one owes anything to society. If society can take something from you, they will, but it does not necessarily make it right.
2) A retrogressive tax system. This might arguably be beneficial economically, but nevertheless will never be implemented in a democracy.
And the biggest problem of all -- Since when did the government become the enforcers of insurance companies ? And even if it was, I would think that people who die faster have lower costs overall compared to people who keep lingering on. I don't think making people live longer actually reduces health care costs.It probably increases it.
It would, if you dropped it from high enough and the object was thin enough. You keep accelerating at 9.8 m/s^2 , so it would only take half a minute to hit the required 170 m/s speed. Terminal velocity depends on air resistance and hence the weight and shape of the body. So you just have to make the object really thin and heavy - Balls of depleted uranium would not do it, but if he had really long hair made of depleted uranium, maybe.
You are taking advice from Jeremy Clarkson ?
He is the one who thinks that going backwards through Pearly Gates is a good way to die. And his friend Hammond nearly succeeded . OK, he was about to get in upside down through the gates, not backwards, but still. Clarkson: "If you go through the pearly gates backwards in a fireball, that's a cool way to die!" Hammond: "I love that vision of just blasting through the gates, backwards, in a flaming Swedish supercar! 'Yes! I'm here! Where are the women?'"
An average MBA internship at a top 20 college pays about $7500 a month (perks etc. included). If you intern at an I-Bank, the net benefits are >$10,000.
Before you decide to do an MBA, also consider that the total cost of an MBA over 15 months( not counting internship period) is close to $150,000. That means spending about $10,000 a month on education. It also puts a big dent on your bank balance and unless you have significant savings, prevents you from starting any small-scale start up . You can never get on a Bill Gates career path after an MBA. On the other hand you can try the Ballmer career path. Or you can go to an Investment Bank, make some money and try the Jeff Bezos route.
Yes, but that was not an alternative that Gordon Brown had. He could do two things - either do nothing or apologize. He , or afaik anyone in the current government (excepting the queen possibly), had nothing to do with what was done to Turing. Gordon Brown could not have apologized in Turing's lifetime since he was not in a position of power then.
Opening up the copyrights won't quite solve the problem. Someone then search for all these books and scan them and put it in a central database. This is the step that cost money.
Without the database the local bookstore can't publish it. Gutenberg is the only guys who could possibly step in and do that step. Microsoft won't do it (obvious) and neither will the book companies (or else they already would have).
Anyway, as long as Google does not charge for internet access, I don't really care what they do with the dead tree copies or how much they charge for it.
Google has already agreed to provide access to libraries. The plan is to set up a google terminal in libraries so that people can access them.
It seems unlikely that they will allow Project Gutenberg any access though.
Maybe you will like this book and will buy it.
But considering that the prologue is going to cost $2.99, the new book better be something like "Terminator 2" if it has to make the entire series popular.
I was thinking of catching a bunch of ants and putting in tiny radio control electrodes into their brains. Then I'll teach them to steal death lasers from the sharks and TNT from Osama. I still need to figure out how to get them to swim to the island fortress though.
Your question does not solve the dilemma. If you mean that bio-engineering cows to not feel pain makes it OK to murder human beings who do not feel pain, it would also imply that murder is OK with normal human beings since we kill animals which feel pain. Similarly your assumption would also imply that if you believe murder is wrong, then killing animals is wrong.
The error (as I see it) in your assumption is the idea that anything that is OK in animals is OK with humans. I think of animals as slightly lesser than human beings, but nevertheless capable of thought and feeling pain/sadness. I cannot see how making them not feel pain is worse than making them feeling pain and then killing them.
Well you can already build such an army out of insects if you were going the non-human route. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of fire ants loaded with TNT!!!
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I am writing this on a 2 year old X60 tablet. The display hinge has been replaced 4 times already and the battery once. Since these are the only non-standard parts on the laptop, I must say the quality is atrocious. Since I got it with a few others under a corporate 4 hour warranty program and since everyone else also had the issue with the hinge and display, the evidence is not just ancedotal.
The CPU, memory and other parts are off-the-shelf and so obviously has worked well so far.
I have no basis to compare with other Thinkpads though, maybe they were equally bad. My previous Dell 610 worked two years without fail, but it did not have a rotating hinge (was not a tablet) and had the "fire hazard" battery recall. So I won't compare these two. YMMV
China has only about 20% incarceration rate as USA. But it does execute about 3 times more. But since the overall execution rate is still about 5,000 a year, this does not make up for the lower incarceration rate.
So really, China is not all that more barbaric than US.
India has an extremely low incarceration rate.
Europe on the other hand, executes nobody and jails much less number of people than USA.
One could possibly have a world with Europe as the central power and still have a better world . No prison rapes, open to many languages and cultures and pretty liberal and secular.
Most of the crimes have real world analogies. But I can't think of equivalent for "virtual thefts" in MMOGs , Griefings, "Anonymous" etc.
If person X had a restraining order against person Y, then Y would be barred from coming near person X. But I wonder what happens if person Y knows that person X plays online games and stalks the person there ? Nothing more needs to be done other than using full name and joining the same game server for X to know that Y was still keeping tabs on him/her.
CDMA has twice the radius as old-style GSM. That said, 40 mile radius seems stretching it. The rule of thumb I heard was 20 Km diameter for GSM and 40 km diameter for CDMA for a South African company. That's about 25 miles diameter for CDMA. And this is over relatively flat land. In New York you probably need a tower in every building.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4868004.stm -- News article from 2006 about Mobile TV in Japan. Korea already has a couple of million users .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPTV#Markets
Look, bandwidth really cannot be the problem because otherwise Japan would already be hitting the limits. They already have tons more of people per square mile and use cellphone data networks much more than America. Same goes for India - Cities like Mumbai have a lot more people than NY and still the phone rates are about 10% of what it is in USA. Now I agree that labor is cheaper in India, but the cellphone towers cost the same as the US (and land rental rates are the same as NY in Mumbai).
AT&T has a lot more room to give and if US would simply introduce more providers and increase competition, the prices would drop.
I did argue against your main point. You were saying that off shoring saves costs and that is obvious. .NET layer slowing things down).
What is not obvious is that it actually increased performance.That was the news. That may not be just due to off shoring and at least in this case seems to be due to architectural differences and the ability to modify Linux kernel and user space (and lack of a
Yes, but MSFT is not saying that people will need 2^128 bytes of RAM. All it would mean is that 2^64 won't be enough.
Now 2^64 is still pretty large for RAM. But I am guessing that MSFT is thinking that as more hard-disks become solid state, the difference between RAM and HDD will vanish and that file system might be directly addressed by CPU.
Well, they also increased performance. If throwing money/systems at a problem can't get you performance maybe the other guys are really better ?
Oh, it is interesting that an ex consultant would spell "Disclosure" as "Discloser". On an internet forum where your spelling/language becomes a major indicator of credibility, you might want to use a browser like Firefox which will correct errors for you.
Actually, hedge funds have moved offices right across from exchange datacenters or closer to users. http://www.a-teamgroup.com/article/rti-moves-closer-to-its-low-latency-users-on-wall-street-and-makes-four-key-hires/ http://www.westwatercorp.com/documents/Westwater_JimLeman_SecurityIndustryNews.pdf From the second article "That latency is outsize 'when you are trying to make decisions in a time frame of under 20 milliseconds,' says Jerome Downey, senior managing director in Bear Stearns' equities analytics and systematic trading division in New York"
So far the problem has been to get closest to the main parent network since switching delays are important. But I think we'll soon start to see people moving entire offices, now that stock exchanges (and the so called Black Pools) are simply networks of information without any people associated with it.
I am not arguing with that. But what I was talking about is the original comment
When you go that fast, there's no point in being scared of much.
The poster said that there is no point being scared because you can't say when you will die. But it appears to me that , Jeremy Clarkson is not afraid not because of the unpredictability, but because he is not afraid of dying in a crash.
If you were a person who wanted to die in your sleep, you have reason to be afraid at higher speeds than at lower speeds.
People who die remove critical knowledge and skills from the economy that makes a society function.
Your line of reasoning would mean that unemployed people should be taxed more than employed people, because by not working they remove skills from society. Taking this line of reasoning further, people who earn less must be taxed more to induce them to work harder for the "society".
Basically you are advocating 2 things
1) A person owes something to society. This is just plain stupid. No one owes anything to society. If society can take something from you, they will, but it does not necessarily make it right.
2) A retrogressive tax system. This might arguably be beneficial economically, but nevertheless will never be implemented in a democracy.
And the biggest problem of all -- Since when did the government become the enforcers of insurance companies ? And even if it was, I would think that people who die faster have lower costs overall compared to people who keep lingering on. I don't think making people live longer actually reduces health care costs.It probably increases it.
Does a battle tank count as a motorcycle then ? It has only two wheels, even though they are not exactly circular.
It would, if you dropped it from high enough and the object was thin enough. You keep accelerating at 9.8 m/s^2 , so it would only take half a minute to hit the required 170 m/s speed. Terminal velocity depends on air resistance and hence the weight and shape of the body. So you just have to make the object really thin and heavy - Balls of depleted uranium would not do it, but if he had really long hair made of depleted uranium, maybe.
You are taking advice from Jeremy Clarkson ?
He is the one who thinks that going backwards through Pearly Gates is a good way to die. And his friend Hammond nearly succeeded . OK, he was about to get in upside down through the gates, not backwards, but still.
Clarkson: "If you go through the pearly gates backwards in a fireball, that's a cool way to die!" Hammond: "I love that vision of just blasting through the gates, backwards, in a flaming Swedish supercar! 'Yes! I'm here! Where are the women?'"
What has .NET got to do with this ?
Microsoft, no just for Windows! Now keeping your toilets clean.
An average MBA internship at a top 20 college pays about $7500 a month (perks etc. included). If you intern at an I-Bank, the net benefits are >$10,000.
Before you decide to do an MBA, also consider that the total cost of an MBA over 15 months( not counting internship period) is close to $150,000. That means spending about $10,000 a month on education. It also puts a big dent on your bank balance and unless you have significant savings, prevents you from starting any small-scale start up . You can never get on a Bill Gates career path after an MBA. On the other hand you can try the Ballmer career path. Or you can go to an Investment Bank, make some money and try the Jeff Bezos route.
Yes, but that was not an alternative that Gordon Brown had. He could do two things - either do nothing or apologize. He , or afaik anyone in the current government (excepting the queen possibly), had nothing to do with what was done to Turing. Gordon Brown could not have apologized in Turing's lifetime since he was not in a position of power then.
Opening up the copyrights won't quite solve the problem. Someone then search for all these books and scan them and put it in a central database. This is the step that cost money.
Without the database the local bookstore can't publish it. Gutenberg is the only guys who could possibly step in and do that step. Microsoft won't do it (obvious) and neither will the book companies (or else they already would have).
Anyway, as long as Google does not charge for internet access, I don't really care what they do with the dead tree copies or how much they charge for it.
Google has already agreed to provide access to libraries. The plan is to set up a google terminal in libraries so that people can access them.
It seems unlikely that they will allow Project Gutenberg any access though.
Maybe you will like this book and will buy it.
But considering that the prologue is going to cost $2.99, the new book better be something like "Terminator 2" if it has to make the entire series popular.
I was thinking of catching a bunch of ants and putting in tiny radio control electrodes into their brains. Then I'll teach them to steal death lasers from the sharks and TNT from Osama. I still need to figure out how to get them to swim to the island fortress though.
Don't think so
Your question does not solve the dilemma. If you mean that bio-engineering cows to not feel pain makes it OK to murder human beings who do not feel pain, it would also imply that murder is OK with normal human beings since we kill animals which feel pain. Similarly your assumption would also imply that if you believe murder is wrong, then killing animals is wrong.
The error (as I see it) in your assumption is the idea that anything that is OK in animals is OK with humans. I think of animals as slightly lesser than human beings, but nevertheless capable of thought and feeling pain/sadness. I cannot see how making them not feel pain is worse than making them feeling pain and then killing them.
Well you can already build such an army out of insects if you were going the non-human route. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of fire ants loaded with TNT!!!