Either the car takes too god damn much energy to run; it has too huge of a battery; or it can't power a whole house for long.
Cars DO use lots of energy.
That's why I laugh when people go about hunting down wall warts and turning off LCDs in sleep mode, but still drive a big SUV (and keep alternating between the brakes and accelerator;) ).
That said, SUVs normally run on petroleum while the wall warts normally don't.
I thought he gets a junior lineman to short the line for him. That way he gets to go home at night... Whether he sleeps well at night depends on what happens to the junior and his conscience;).
Bargaining power is not the same as rights. Some free market people seem to like the idea of being able to sign away some rights for a price.
I'm more of an "evil socialist" myself. Why? Coz I think a possible future might be one where there just won't be jobs for a very large percentage of the people.
Most dogs in the world don't have jobs. No matter how much training you give them there won't be enough jobs in the world for all of them. But we keep them around as pets.
So the less evil options are a) creating a culture where rich and powerful humans/posthumans/"homo superior" (think of the modifications and upgrades the rich could afford) keep other humans around as pets, or b) Socialism (e.g. like in Sweden, Norway etc).
There are differences between a) and b), one being pets usually don't have a vote and stuff like that...
You were saying that Mr "can replace 10 people" would not have bargaining power in a down economy, I'm saying he would whereas the 10 wouldn't have much if any.
Those 10 techs probably wouldn't have much bargaining power even if they weren't out of work and full employed. And if they're out of work it could be for the same reason why they don't have bargaining power in the first place - they're not as good.
Alan Cox could be out of work for 2 years, doesn't matter unless it's because he got severely impaired by a bus/stroke or something. He could still walk in to a company state his terms and say "I'm going create non-work related software in my free time and it's 100% mine/GPL" and if the company doesn't agree to it, he can always find another that will.
Whereas a burger flipper has got to be an amazing burger flipper to have much bargaining power...
That's the reality of the world.
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The thing about the Brits is somehow you have the chutzpah to hold a "Commonwealth Games"[1] and people actually show up;).
Heck a few countries that weren't ex-colonies actually applied (and got) the privilege of pretending to be like an ex-colony...
FWIW, I live in an excolony and in that colony the Brits were probably a lesser evil compared to the rulers they supplanted.
Uh in a down economy they'd sack the 10 techs and keep/hire him, as long as he cost them less than maybe 3 techs (assuming the downturn = 50% drop in work).
Those 10 techs might be out of work for 2 years or more, but why are you so sure he would be (unless he's intentionally taking a long break)?
And, while you're at it, stop victimizing the customers. Some poor chump can't build a satisfying relationship, so he resorts to soliciting a prostitute
Plus it might actually be better if some guys would stick to using prostitutes than break many girls' hearts.
Arbitrage is exploiting the difference in different markets. This is happening in the same market.
Seems closer to front running than arbitrage. Only the ones with the 30 millisecond advantage can do it. The differences between this and front-running is: 1) Front running is when a broker buys stuff before buying the same stuff for their customer. This is being able to buy anything before everyone else AFTER you see that they want to buy lots of it. In short they can "front-run" anybody who does not also have the 30 millisecond advantage. 2) This is currently legal, front running is illegal.
A lot of the money does go to (a few people in) the US. Whether some of it flows to the poor in the USA is a different matter...
But my main point remains - As long as the rest of the world continues to use the US dollar to buy and sell stuff, the US doesn't have to actually make anything except US dollars.
If you make it so that a person's job just involves deciding whether to push a button or not, some wiseguy will offer to take push 1000 buttons for the same wage.
And so on till there is the same level of pain and suffering;).
How many people are able to maintain or design robots?
A dog isn't going to be able to repair a robot or design one. And that's true for the vast majority of humans.
So either you go socialist or create a culture where the rich humans keep around the poor humans as pets. The difference between the former and the latter is, pets do not legally have the right to vote (barring some "irregularities" in dubious places;) ).
That said, the robots do have stiff competition: humans only consume about 100 watts at idle. That's pretty good for what they can do, and they have onboard self-repair features. But building a human takes about 5 or so years (if you allow child labour... ).
As long as the rest of the world continues to use the US dollar to buy and sell stuff, the US doesn't have to actually make anything except US dollars.
One day people might switch, but meanwhile the US gets a "free ride". As far as I know oil and many commodities are still mostly bought and sold using US dollars.
Lastly despite what you think, the US actually does produce a lot of stuff you can go look it up yourself- they are the top or amongst the top producers/exporters for food like maize/corn. Around the world people still buy tons of Coca Cola, Intel CPUs etc.
I don't know about the rest of you but if I'm going to waste my life, reading Slashdot and surfing the rest of the Internet is still better than counting ceiling tiles...
So how much more is he being paid? If it's a million dollars a year, I'd skip slashdot and do that job for a year or maybe two:).
Yeah I use noscript and adblockplus. I did a search in my browser's cookies for km_ and I didn't find anything. So I don't think their tracking stuff is that "undodgeable".
Google and Facebook are more likely to be able to track you despite you trying to avoid it. Their stuff is "everywhere". If you use their services and go somewhere else but somehow still load stuff (images/scripts) from their servers (or servers they can get info from) they know who you are and what IP you are currently using. Even if you are using Tor. One hundred other people might be using the same Tor IP, but over time they can narrow things down if they want - people have habits. If they see you login to facebook/gmail from a Tor IP and then see that IP hit a few other sites around that time, and if it keeps happening then they can figure out you are the one who visits those sites.
If you don't keep changing your IP and flushing your cookies etc at the same time[1], Google will be able to give you a unique ID and link that to what you search for and a zillion other things.
And if you use noscript and log on to facebook/google using the same browser you use to visit other sites, you'd probably have enabled scripting for facebook and google, and noscript will not block their stuff even if the "main page/url" is not a google/facebook domain.
If noscript allowed users to limit a list of allow/deny script decisions to be tied to a domain/domain pattern then it'll be harder for unwanted scripts to run when the main page is some other site.
[1] IIRC Google Chrome sets a new cookie with Google every time you flush everything. And even if you use firefox, if you're not careful you just have to visit google and they can just set another cookie and link it to "might be the same guy as 'old cookie'" because you're using the same IP address.
The difference between other countries creating money and the US Gov doing this is: Petroleum, electronics, grains (wheat), sugar and zillions of other stuff are bought and sold in US dollars.
When Zimbabwe prints Zimbabwe dollars the rest of the world laughs at Zimbabwe. When the USA prints US dollars, most of the world is living in USA's Zimbabwe, so they shouldn't be laughing...
The other thing: the USA has already created trillions of dollars: http://www.google.com/search?q=trillions+federal+reserve
Just because they call them loans doesn't mean the money isn't created out of thin air. After all when the Federal Reserve loans out those trillions where do the minus figures appear? Under whose bank account?
Lastly, if the US is going to create trillions, the US citizens better insist that the US Gov actually builds and does some stuff for them with the money.... Before the rest of the world realizes the US dollar is not worth quite as much;).
p.s. it's not convincing to say it doesn't cause inflation when you create the money and it doesn't "enter the system". If the money doesn't actually do anything, then there was no need to create it right? The fact that you need to create it means it is doing something.
AFAIK companies were already selling equipment for listening in on GSM calls back in the 1990s. This was normally installed at the telco level.
The thing is such telco equipment in those days was usually very expensive, so it's not likely that some random hacker would be able to afford one for personal use, add the necessary other equipment and run his own "proxying" cellphone station.
But the TLAs/secret services of many countries were certainly already eavesdropping on GSM calls back then.
That said, back then (and even today) HAM radio enthusiasts could listen in on analog cellphones and cordless phones.
Ultimately, the French-English language barrier was responsible for how hyped-up this information became. Sites like Mac Observer and ZDNet incorrectly reported these figures as "failure rates" based on a Google Translation.
A drive failure implies the device is no longer functioning. However, returns can occur for a multitude of reasons. This presents a challenge because we donâ(TM)t have any additional information on the returned drivesâ"were they dead-on-arrival, did they stop working over time, or was there simply an incompatibility that prevented the customer from using the SSD
You will see that Intel has 0.3% and 0.59% return rates respectively.
So the difference in the return rates should tell anyone with brains that the non-intel SSDs (particularly OCZ SSDs) are crap, the Intel ones are decent. Saying bullshit like "returns can occur for a multitude of reasons. This presents a challenge" seems to be more spin than a 15krpm drive.
It's also shit. For most of the known period, SSDs are worse than HDDs. It's mainly his estimates/projections that show SSDs as better.
Go figure how stupid that is, it's like saying: "Oh look, most SSDs are worse than most HDDs for the actual data we have, this means that SSDs are more reliable than HDDs"
And one wonders how many data points he actually has on the graph for SSDs, if it's just from the french retailer, I think it's two points for each drive brand/model.
I haven't been to tomshardware for a while till today. And it seems to have got even worse from the time when I stopped reading their articles because they were too crap.
You want something that's not so crap, go to Anandtech. They're not perfect, but this Tom's Hardware article makes Anandtech look like the Richard Feynman of IT reviewers.
Yes I know these are return rates and not failure rates. But "spinning disk drives" should in theory more vulnerable to "shipping and mishandling" and "oops user dropped it" than SSDs.
And if Intel can get 0.3- 0.59% and OCZ 2.9 - 3.5% I don't think we can blame shipping and the users for the difference;).
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In contrast with Windows, for the average computer user it is as easy as buying a PC that already comes with Windows preinstalled.
It can even be cheaper than Linux in upfront costs, since someone is paying the PC maker to let them put their crapware on it...
I suspect it'll be harder to do it while the LEDs are on and shining brightly ;).
If you're thinking of using a separate bunch of LEDs as light sensors why wouldn't you use something better than LEDs for the task?
Either the car takes too god damn much energy to run; it has too huge of a battery; or it can't power a whole house for long.
Cars DO use lots of energy.
That's why I laugh when people go about hunting down wall warts and turning off LCDs in sleep mode, but still drive a big SUV (and keep alternating between the brakes and accelerator ;) ).
That said, SUVs normally run on petroleum while the wall warts normally don't.
I thought he gets a junior lineman to short the line for him. That way he gets to go home at night... Whether he sleeps well at night depends on what happens to the junior and his conscience ;).
Bargaining power is not the same as rights. Some free market people seem to like the idea of being able to sign away some rights for a price.
I'm more of an "evil socialist" myself. Why? Coz I think a possible future might be one where there just won't be jobs for a very large percentage of the people.
Most dogs in the world don't have jobs. No matter how much training you give them there won't be enough jobs in the world for all of them. But we keep them around as pets.
So the less evil options are
a) creating a culture where rich and powerful humans/posthumans/"homo superior" (think of the modifications and upgrades the rich could afford) keep other humans around as pets,
or
b) Socialism (e.g. like in Sweden, Norway etc).
There are differences between a) and b), one being pets usually don't have a vote and stuff like that...
You were saying that Mr "can replace 10 people" would not have bargaining power in a down economy, I'm saying he would whereas the 10 wouldn't have much if any.
Those 10 techs probably wouldn't have much bargaining power even if they weren't out of work and full employed. And if they're out of work it could be for the same reason why they don't have bargaining power in the first place - they're not as good.
Alan Cox could be out of work for 2 years, doesn't matter unless it's because he got severely impaired by a bus/stroke or something. He could still walk in to a company state his terms and say "I'm going create non-work related software in my free time and it's 100% mine/GPL" and if the company doesn't agree to it, he can always find another that will.
Whereas a burger flipper has got to be an amazing burger flipper to have much bargaining power...
That's the reality of the world.
The thing about the Brits is somehow you have the chutzpah to hold a "Commonwealth Games"[1] and people actually show up ;).
Heck a few countries that weren't ex-colonies actually applied (and got) the privilege of pretending to be like an ex-colony...
FWIW, I live in an excolony and in that colony the Brits were probably a lesser evil compared to the rulers they supplanted.
[1] Interesting thing to call it too right?
Uh in a down economy they'd sack the 10 techs and keep/hire him, as long as he cost them less than maybe 3 techs (assuming the downturn = 50% drop in work).
Those 10 techs might be out of work for 2 years or more, but why are you so sure he would be (unless he's intentionally taking a long break)?
And, while you're at it, stop victimizing the customers. Some poor chump can't build a satisfying relationship, so he resorts to soliciting a prostitute
Plus it might actually be better if some guys would stick to using prostitutes than break many girls' hearts.
Arbitrage is exploiting the difference in different markets. This is happening in the same market.
Seems closer to front running than arbitrage. Only the ones with the 30 millisecond advantage can do it. The differences between this and front-running is:
1) Front running is when a broker buys stuff before buying the same stuff for their customer. This is being able to buy anything before everyone else AFTER you see that they want to buy lots of it. In short they can "front-run" anybody who does not also have the 30 millisecond advantage.
2) This is currently legal, front running is illegal.
Q: How can we bring jobs back home? ;)
A: Convince the rest of the world to emulate you - in at least the disadvantageous bits...
Tell them to "harmonize" their laws with yours otherwise you won't buy their stuff.
The HFT traders who know what they are doing are NOT doing arbitrage. Because they get a 30 millisecond advantage:
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/07/24/business/0724-webBIZ-trading.ready.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/business/24trading.html
When the favoured companies screw up they get the trades rolled back.
When they get beaten by "normal humans", they prosecute the humans: http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/security/3244186/norwegian-traders-convicted-for-outsmarting-us-stock-broker-algorithm/
When they beat the humans, they keep the profit as "rightfully earned".
A lot of the money does go to (a few people in) the US. Whether some of it flows to the poor in the USA is a different matter...
But my main point remains - As long as the rest of the world continues to use the US dollar to buy and sell stuff, the US doesn't have to actually make anything except US dollars.
If you make it so that a person's job just involves deciding whether to push a button or not, some wiseguy will offer to take push 1000 buttons for the same wage.
;).
And so on till there is the same level of pain and suffering
How many people are able to maintain or design robots?
;) ).
A dog isn't going to be able to repair a robot or design one. And that's true for the vast majority of humans.
So either you go socialist or create a culture where the rich humans keep around the poor humans as pets. The difference between the former and the latter is, pets do not legally have the right to vote (barring some "irregularities" in dubious places
That said, the robots do have stiff competition: humans only consume about 100 watts at idle. That's pretty good for what they can do, and they have onboard self-repair features. But building a human takes about 5 or so years (if you allow child labour... ).
Maybe you're living 30 years in the future.
As long as the rest of the world continues to use the US dollar to buy and sell stuff, the US doesn't have to actually make anything except US dollars.
One day people might switch, but meanwhile the US gets a "free ride". As far as I know oil and many commodities are still mostly bought and sold using US dollars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Crude
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Mercantile_Exchange#Commodities_traded
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_traded_commodities
Iran of course is busily not making the US happy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_oil_bourse
Lastly despite what you think, the US actually does produce a lot of stuff you can go look it up yourself- they are the top or amongst the top producers/exporters for food like maize/corn. Around the world people still buy tons of Coca Cola, Intel CPUs etc.
Coz the voters are the stupid ones. Most voters don't realize that ultimately they are part of government.
If the reasoning that less government is always better, than it should also apply to voters: e.g. Fewer voters = better.
But that's not true right? Quality matters more than quantity.
I don't know about the rest of you but if I'm going to waste my life, reading Slashdot and surfing the rest of the Internet is still better than counting ceiling tiles...
:).
So how much more is he being paid? If it's a million dollars a year, I'd skip slashdot and do that job for a year or maybe two
Yeah I use noscript and adblockplus. I did a search in my browser's cookies for km_ and I didn't find anything. So I don't think their tracking stuff is that "undodgeable".
Google and Facebook are more likely to be able to track you despite you trying to avoid it. Their stuff is "everywhere". If you use their services and go somewhere else but somehow still load stuff (images/scripts) from their servers (or servers they can get info from) they know who you are and what IP you are currently using. Even if you are using Tor. One hundred other people might be using the same Tor IP, but over time they can narrow things down if they want - people have habits. If they see you login to facebook/gmail from a Tor IP and then see that IP hit a few other sites around that time, and if it keeps happening then they can figure out you are the one who visits those sites.
If you don't keep changing your IP and flushing your cookies etc at the same time[1], Google will be able to give you a unique ID and link that to what you search for and a zillion other things.
And if you use noscript and log on to facebook/google using the same browser you use to visit other sites, you'd probably have enabled scripting for facebook and google, and noscript will not block their stuff even if the "main page/url" is not a google/facebook domain.
If noscript allowed users to limit a list of allow/deny script decisions to be tied to a domain/domain pattern then it'll be harder for unwanted scripts to run when the main page is some other site.
[1] IIRC Google Chrome sets a new cookie with Google every time you flush everything. And even if you use firefox, if you're not careful you just have to visit google and they can just set another cookie and link it to "might be the same guy as 'old cookie'" because you're using the same IP address.
The difference between other countries creating money and the US Gov doing this is: Petroleum, electronics, grains (wheat), sugar and zillions of other stuff are bought and sold in US dollars.
;).
When Zimbabwe prints Zimbabwe dollars the rest of the world laughs at Zimbabwe. When the USA prints US dollars, most of the world is living in USA's Zimbabwe, so they shouldn't be laughing...
The other thing: the USA has already created trillions of dollars: http://www.google.com/search?q=trillions+federal+reserve
Just because they call them loans doesn't mean the money isn't created out of thin air. After all when the Federal Reserve loans out those trillions where do the minus figures appear? Under whose bank account?
Lastly, if the US is going to create trillions, the US citizens better insist that the US Gov actually builds and does some stuff for them with the money.... Before the rest of the world realizes the US dollar is not worth quite as much
p.s. it's not convincing to say it doesn't cause inflation when you create the money and it doesn't "enter the system". If the money doesn't actually do anything, then there was no need to create it right? The fact that you need to create it means it is doing something.
What a narrow mind you must have
Who has the narrower mind?
The one who does not even know that Pasteur, Salk and Fleming were not multi-billionaires?
The one who does not even bother looking them up before posting a reply accusing someone of having a narrow mind?
The one who does not understand what the OP was actually saying?
AFAIK companies were already selling equipment for listening in on GSM calls back in the 1990s. This was normally installed at the telco level.
The thing is such telco equipment in those days was usually very expensive, so it's not likely that some random hacker would be able to afford one for personal use, add the necessary other equipment and run his own "proxying" cellphone station.
But the TLAs/secret services of many countries were certainly already eavesdropping on GSM calls back then.
That said, back then (and even today) HAM radio enthusiasts could listen in on analog cellphones and cordless phones.
So how long would it take for you to notice you had the "time warp" problem to actually start restoring from backups?
Given you don't appear to have read what I posted, you might not be one of those who would notice in time.
IMO whoever wrote that article is a shill, full of shit or an idiot. The article is not analysis, it's far closer to "anal-related" stuff...
Example: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-reliability-failure-rate,2923-3.html
Ultimately, the French-English language barrier was responsible for how hyped-up this information became. Sites like Mac Observer and ZDNet incorrectly reported these figures as "failure rates" based on a Google Translation.
A drive failure implies the device is no longer functioning. However, returns can occur for a multitude of reasons. This presents a challenge because we donâ(TM)t have any additional information on the returned drivesâ"were they dead-on-arrival, did they stop working over time, or was there simply an incompatibility that prevented the customer from using the SSD
But from the french retailer's stats:
Released in April 2011
http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/French-Website-Publishes-HDD-SSD-and-Motherboard-RMA-Statistics-4.png/
Released in December 2010
http://www.behardware.com/articles/810-6/components-returns-rates.html
You will see that Intel has 0.3% and 0.59% return rates respectively.
So the difference in the return rates should tell anyone with brains that the non-intel SSDs (particularly OCZ SSDs) are crap, the Intel ones are decent. Saying bullshit like "returns can occur for a multitude of reasons. This presents a challenge" seems to be more spin than a 15krpm drive.
As for the stupid graph in http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-reliability-failure-rate,2923-9.html
Larger version: http://media.bestofmicro.com/4/A/302122/original/ssdfailurerates_1024.png
It's also shit. For most of the known period, SSDs are worse than HDDs. It's mainly his estimates/projections that show SSDs as better.
Go figure how stupid that is, it's like saying:
"Oh look, most SSDs are worse than most HDDs for the actual data we have, this means that SSDs are more reliable than HDDs"
And one wonders how many data points he actually has on the graph for SSDs, if it's just from the french retailer, I think it's two points for each drive brand/model.
I haven't been to tomshardware for a while till today. And it seems to have got even worse from the time when I stopped reading their articles because they were too crap.
You want something that's not so crap, go to Anandtech. They're not perfect, but this Tom's Hardware article makes Anandtech look like the Richard Feynman of IT reviewers.
Apparently Intel's SSDs are more reliable than HDDs.
April 2011
http://news.softpedia.com/news/French-Website-Publishes-HDD-SSD-and-Motherboard-RMA-Statistics-196538.shtml
http://news.softpedia.com/newsImage/French-Website-Publishes-HDD-SSD-and-Motherboard-RMA-Statistics-4.png/
December 2010
http://www.behardware.com/articles/810-6/components-returns-rates.html
Yes I know these are return rates and not failure rates. But "spinning disk drives" should in theory more vulnerable to "shipping and mishandling" and "oops user dropped it" than SSDs.
And if Intel can get 0.3- 0.59% and OCZ 2.9 - 3.5% I don't think we can blame shipping and the users for the difference ;).
So the non-intel SSDs seem pretty bad.