It's simple, the uglier the web site, the more you will want to LEAVE. Even if it takes an ad-click, it gets the job done and you dont have to look at godawful fonts and horrible color choices any more. Part 3, as always, is *profit*. Brilliant if you ask me.
How's this for innovative? '100% open, Free applications'. By the time you add a good office suite and the requisite spyware/adware/virus protection, plus whatever other tools you need on a daily basis to XP, how free is it? Linux has been making great progress toward an arsenal of high quality, easy to manage applications and now that they are getting settled in and organizations like Suse and others, the advantage to Linux becomes the fact that you can get *everything* for free in a compatible, easy to manage way. Try getting that on XP at *any* price.
I dont mean to threadcrap, but that's just not right. First off, your cell phone does lag. Depending on how many groups need to carry your call (intra carrier or inter carrier) there can be many stopover points. Why don't you hear it? Humans arent able to discern much beyond 300ms of telephone delay. Want a fun experiment? Call a friend sitting across the table, then cover the mouthpiece on your phone and talk loudly so you can be heard secondhand via your friend's phone. This will demonstrate just how much lag you can't notice when talking to someone you're not looking at.
Secondly, the internet in general does a lot of automatic routing to reduce lag (See: RIP, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, and the million other route-smoothing protocols). Alas, Most of the problems come from second-class end carriers like cable or phone companies running saturated lines and causing transit buffering or dropping, or problems at the server end where an overloaded CPU just cant pick the data up fast enough.
Of why he is right in saying that minor players will not make a big difference in the world of gaming. It was a great concept, the kind of great concept that gifted game developers have the creativity to develop and the courage to pursue to the finish. But alas, it fell WELL short of many standards. It was well liked (by the few that played it). It was buggy. But none of these is as important as its greatest flaw: It set a lofty goal and then fell way short of it.
Let's get into specifics. The first cut of the game was buggy and very hard to play. You could easily tell what the designers had in mind but every 10 minutes you said to yourself 'why the hell doesnt that work the way it should'. After the 'bugs' were fixed, you were left with a very playable game, but that was the problem. Upon maturity, it was still just another game with very few (good) new ideas applied.
Bingo. I work with one of the premiere flywheel technologies companies, we incorporate their technology into industrial power supply systems. The disk is carbon fiber, suspended by magnet in a vacuum, and is spun up to something like 60,000 rpm. It's about the size of a full height rack, and manages to hold a whopping 2/3 of a kilowatt-hour. Yep, thats it. The advantage to this technology comes from the very efficient charge and discharge, not from the net charge itself. A flywheel to actually run a datacenter would have to be outright monstrous.
9 buttons... You didn't count the center, did you? It would be rather inconvenient to catch your breath and insert a stream of the letter r into the conversation. The typical mat actually has 10 buttons, 4 cardinal directions, 4 subcardinal, and select+start. My math reveals about 100 combinations, because you can include the double-foot possibility in the matrix.
What, you expect Microsoft to give you extra functionality for free? If you arent happy with the loading speed buy a 360!
Seriously, though, it is trivial to install a hacked bios (as many others pointed out) without modifying the hardware with the older Xboxes (wont work with boxes MFRd after april 04, i believe) but you will lose LIVE functionality altogether. If you want to retain it, you need a chip that can be installed and set to enabled (running games off the hard drive) or disabled (running games off conventional media and connecting to LIVE). If you try to connect to LIVE without taking this precaution, your specific Xbox serial number will be banned for life from the service.
"Sadly, though the Star-Bulletin has admitted to the plagiarism, they failed to publicly acknowledge that Wikipedia was responsible for bringing this situation to light."
That the story of a journalist plagiarizing wikipedia, that was revealed on wikipedia, was plagiarized by the Star-Bulletin, the paper that employed the plagiarizing writer?
"A survey of US and UK music buyers reveals that although 25 per cent of people admit to downloading music from file-sharing services, only seven per cent of iPod owners do so. Proving that iPod users are either scrupulously honest or more paranoid they'll get sued by RIAA than owners of lesser music players."
Another option is that Ipod owners are scrupulously DIShonest, making their numbers a lot lower. Come on, this is like a survey of inner city people who regularly J-walk. You have three categories, the ones that do and admit it, the ones that don't and are proud of it, and the ones that do but say they don't because they are too self conscious.
If you could clamp yourself to the earth the way your brake caliper clamps the pads to the rotor, then you could argue this either way. As it is, skidding on pavement is a slightly larger problem than skidding brake pads. The advantage to ABS is you can push full tilt on the brakes without the need to read the feedback and adjust your pressure, the car does it for you, and the tires put the maximum force on the ground without breaking free. This is good for control, and moreover, good for your tires since a panic brake at a reasonable speed without ABS could easily wear enough rubber off in a single spot to make the car unsafe to drive.
Bingo, i was just about to post this after reading honda's site in disappointment that he's running only marginally faster than before. Considering ASIMO's rather small size (48 inches tall) running at 10mph would be quite a feat. Thanks for the let-down, slashdot!
It makes conventional power and cooling options look weak too! Imagine the peak consumption on this, the 50KW per rack record will be scorched! I often wonder how long it will be before CIOs realize that space doesn't cost nearly as much as the total associated costs with running a high density system. Then I shut up when I realize it's that misconception that keeps me working:-p
You forgot two other reasons: One: So called Earnings. They can claim, as a company, to have sold x dollars of merchandise, which is the price of the goods going out the door. They look better on paper even though they have the oncoming cost of rebates. Two: balancing out the 30 day return. The rebates are often only sent out under the condition that there is no way to return the item under any sort of no-risk clause. Either they make you mutilate the box and forfeit the reciept, or they hold the rebate until after the return period has expired. This means they only give the discount to good customers who don't cost them by returning their junk.
Ouch. Lets take the context of the article's discussion (which you correctly conclude as 'dribble') into account before we overreact. My statement was based on the conclusion many people made regarding the article, and that is that if they could make one magical huge power supply at the head end, they would need no subsequent supplies at the equipment level. This is false, and the reason is that DC power would fluctuate wildly if converted and transmitted the distances typically in play in a data center (making it unclean or perhaps unstable?). Within a server, tolerances are a volt or less, and you would never meet this without power conversion systems at least at the rack level, if not at every server. But what do I know, I'm not an engineer for a major power equipment manufacturer or anything (or am I).
Is that DC power is naturally unstable. As loads fluctuate, the conversion and distribution system can change dramatically and result in very unclean power. If you are proposing to ditch AC in the server room and run DC from the UPS hardware directly to the rack, you will need to add in a lot of hardware to guarantee that the servers get exactly the voltage they need. This hardware will probably be less costly and wasteful than the AC systems currently in use, but they will also be more proprietary and (in the short term) more expensive to buy into. This is not the magical solution many envision, but it has a good future since transistor technology is getting a lot better and hence voltage management will be easier and easier as time goes on.
The opportunity to move the conversion heat away from the inside of the server allows for better heat management, since you can let a transformer/transistor power system toil away only cooling it from the air duct on the roof and save the crisp AC for the servers.
Any decent sized company is going to have a true on line UPS anyway, which will convert ALL electricity used to DC, run it across the bus inside the UPS to maintain the batteries, and then convert it back to AC for distribution in the building. Contrary to the article, most companies do the conversion well before the PDU and use that only for voltage step-down and branch circuit monitoring.
There's something wrong, namely that I can think of plenty of BAD uses for all of the above. Supporting an oppressive dictatorship, for example, in defiance of a trade embargo, for example, would be a bad use since those supplies let the opposition stay strong (and continue oppressing and whatnot). Don't bother reminding me that there are lots of furry, cuddly, nice countries that earn embargoes for political reasons. I don't care.
They are doing something much more far-reaching... brainwashing the populace into thinking they need the treatment in the first place, or will need the treatment if they let their internet browsing get out of hand. All they have to do is make this clinic look as unappealing as possible and fill it with 'self-proclaimed' internet addicts who are all on the verge of death, and all of a sudden people are afraid to touch a computer. Clever clever...
GPS receivers will have to come a long way before they will be capable of picking up enough usable signal from your pocket to trilateralize your location, AND do it all in a power-friendly package. GPS positioning in phones is hype, the only way to get a reliable location is through tower triangulation.
If you were on the spaceweather.com mailing list... You would know that the CME was from the sun's eastern limb and unlikely to produce aurora borealis for you to see (since you're at 56N), but since its an extremely active sunspot it could produce ejections in a few days that will hit the earth delivering some good auroras to watch.
artificial intelligence could either produce a utopia where everyone could be free from the drudgery of labor, or one where a small number of rich people prosper while hundreds of millions are left unemployed
I haven't read this particular book altho i'm a fan of sci-fi, but i thought i would point out the irony in someone suggesting this might happen in the future. Either everyone is unemployed and happy or everyone is unemployed and unhappy? Instinctive drive for success will dictate how hard people will push for resources, now and forever, and when our robotic AI overlords come to rule we will get just as pissed off when we can't all afford cars and houses, and we will set it right. Everyone gets bewildered by society, thinking that it could change into something wholly unsatisfactory and we will all have no choice in the matter. Guess what, society is what WE make of it and if at some point we're all unemployed and unhappy, take a look in the mirror and then get back to work!
Actually thats the POINT of supply/demand curve analysis. Changes in supply (as in making a product cheaper) influences the point at which it intersects the demand curve, and a new market-clearing price will be found.
Aside from that, the ultimate rule of economics is COMPETITION. When you can make a product for less, you can better compete by lowering your price.
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It's simple, the uglier the web site, the more you will want to LEAVE. Even if it takes an ad-click, it gets the job done and you dont have to look at godawful fonts and horrible color choices any more. Part 3, as always, is *profit*. Brilliant if you ask me.
How's this for innovative? '100% open, Free applications'. By the time you add a good office suite and the requisite spyware/adware/virus protection, plus whatever other tools you need on a daily basis to XP, how free is it? Linux has been making great progress toward an arsenal of high quality, easy to manage applications and now that they are getting settled in and organizations like Suse and others, the advantage to Linux becomes the fact that you can get *everything* for free in a compatible, easy to manage way. Try getting that on XP at *any* price.
I dont mean to threadcrap, but that's just not right. First off, your cell phone does lag. Depending on how many groups need to carry your call (intra carrier or inter carrier) there can be many stopover points. Why don't you hear it? Humans arent able to discern much beyond 300ms of telephone delay. Want a fun experiment? Call a friend sitting across the table, then cover the mouthpiece on your phone and talk loudly so you can be heard secondhand via your friend's phone. This will demonstrate just how much lag you can't notice when talking to someone you're not looking at.
Secondly, the internet in general does a lot of automatic routing to reduce lag (See: RIP, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, and the million other route-smoothing protocols). Alas, Most of the problems come from second-class end carriers like cable or phone companies running saturated lines and causing transit buffering or dropping, or problems at the server end where an overloaded CPU just cant pick the data up fast enough.
Of why he is right in saying that minor players will not make a big difference in the world of gaming. It was a great concept, the kind of great concept that gifted game developers have the creativity to develop and the courage to pursue to the finish. But alas, it fell WELL short of many standards. It was well liked (by the few that played it). It was buggy. But none of these is as important as its greatest flaw: It set a lofty goal and then fell way short of it.
Let's get into specifics. The first cut of the game was buggy and very hard to play. You could easily tell what the designers had in mind but every 10 minutes you said to yourself 'why the hell doesnt that work the way it should'. After the 'bugs' were fixed, you were left with a very playable game, but that was the problem. Upon maturity, it was still just another game with very few (good) new ideas applied.
Bingo. I work with one of the premiere flywheel technologies companies, we incorporate their technology into industrial power supply systems. The disk is carbon fiber, suspended by magnet in a vacuum, and is spun up to something like 60,000 rpm. It's about the size of a full height rack, and manages to hold a whopping 2/3 of a kilowatt-hour. Yep, thats it. The advantage to this technology comes from the very efficient charge and discharge, not from the net charge itself. A flywheel to actually run a datacenter would have to be outright monstrous.
9 buttons... You didn't count the center, did you? It would be rather inconvenient to catch your breath and insert a stream of the letter r into the conversation. The typical mat actually has 10 buttons, 4 cardinal directions, 4 subcardinal, and select+start. My math reveals about 100 combinations, because you can include the double-foot possibility in the matrix.
What, you expect Microsoft to give you extra functionality for free? If you arent happy with the loading speed buy a 360! Seriously, though, it is trivial to install a hacked bios (as many others pointed out) without modifying the hardware with the older Xboxes (wont work with boxes MFRd after april 04, i believe) but you will lose LIVE functionality altogether. If you want to retain it, you need a chip that can be installed and set to enabled (running games off the hard drive) or disabled (running games off conventional media and connecting to LIVE). If you try to connect to LIVE without taking this precaution, your specific Xbox serial number will be banned for life from the service.
The correct question is:
Are there 11 channels of porn?
"Sadly, though the Star-Bulletin has admitted to the plagiarism, they failed to publicly acknowledge that Wikipedia was responsible for bringing this situation to light."
That the story of a journalist plagiarizing wikipedia, that was revealed on wikipedia, was plagiarized by the Star-Bulletin, the paper that employed the plagiarizing writer?
Irony meter broken!!! Alert Alert!!!
"A survey of US and UK music buyers reveals that although 25 per cent of people admit to downloading music from file-sharing services, only seven per cent of iPod owners do so. Proving that iPod users are either scrupulously honest or more paranoid they'll get sued by RIAA than owners of lesser music players."
Another option is that Ipod owners are scrupulously DIShonest, making their numbers a lot lower. Come on, this is like a survey of inner city people who regularly J-walk. You have three categories, the ones that do and admit it, the ones that don't and are proud of it, and the ones that do but say they don't because they are too self conscious.
If you could clamp yourself to the earth the way your brake caliper clamps the pads to the rotor, then you could argue this either way. As it is, skidding on pavement is a slightly larger problem than skidding brake pads. The advantage to ABS is you can push full tilt on the brakes without the need to read the feedback and adjust your pressure, the car does it for you, and the tires put the maximum force on the ground without breaking free. This is good for control, and moreover, good for your tires since a panic brake at a reasonable speed without ABS could easily wear enough rubber off in a single spot to make the car unsafe to drive.
Bingo, i was just about to post this after reading honda's site in disappointment that he's running only marginally faster than before. Considering ASIMO's rather small size (48 inches tall) running at 10mph would be quite a feat. Thanks for the let-down, slashdot!
It makes conventional power and cooling options look weak too! Imagine the peak consumption on this, the 50KW per rack record will be scorched! I often wonder how long it will be before CIOs realize that space doesn't cost nearly as much as the total associated costs with running a high density system. Then I shut up when I realize it's that misconception that keeps me working :-p
You forgot two other reasons: One: So called Earnings. They can claim, as a company, to have sold x dollars of merchandise, which is the price of the goods going out the door. They look better on paper even though they have the oncoming cost of rebates. Two: balancing out the 30 day return. The rebates are often only sent out under the condition that there is no way to return the item under any sort of no-risk clause. Either they make you mutilate the box and forfeit the reciept, or they hold the rebate until after the return period has expired. This means they only give the discount to good customers who don't cost them by returning their junk.
:-)
Just off the top of my head
Ouch. Lets take the context of the article's discussion (which you correctly conclude as 'dribble') into account before we overreact. My statement was based on the conclusion many people made regarding the article, and that is that if they could make one magical huge power supply at the head end, they would need no subsequent supplies at the equipment level. This is false, and the reason is that DC power would fluctuate wildly if converted and transmitted the distances typically in play in a data center (making it unclean or perhaps unstable?). Within a server, tolerances are a volt or less, and you would never meet this without power conversion systems at least at the rack level, if not at every server. But what do I know, I'm not an engineer for a major power equipment manufacturer or anything (or am I).
Is that DC power is naturally unstable. As loads fluctuate, the conversion and distribution system can change dramatically and result in very unclean power. If you are proposing to ditch AC in the server room and run DC from the UPS hardware directly to the rack, you will need to add in a lot of hardware to guarantee that the servers get exactly the voltage they need. This hardware will probably be less costly and wasteful than the AC systems currently in use, but they will also be more proprietary and (in the short term) more expensive to buy into. This is not the magical solution many envision, but it has a good future since transistor technology is getting a lot better and hence voltage management will be easier and easier as time goes on. The opportunity to move the conversion heat away from the inside of the server allows for better heat management, since you can let a transformer/transistor power system toil away only cooling it from the air duct on the roof and save the crisp AC for the servers.
Any decent sized company is going to have a true on line UPS anyway, which will convert ALL electricity used to DC, run it across the bus inside the UPS to maintain the batteries, and then convert it back to AC for distribution in the building. Contrary to the article, most companies do the conversion well before the PDU and use that only for voltage step-down and branch circuit monitoring.
There's something wrong, namely that I can think of plenty of BAD uses for all of the above. Supporting an oppressive dictatorship, for example, in defiance of a trade embargo, for example, would be a bad use since those supplies let the opposition stay strong (and continue oppressing and whatnot). Don't bother reminding me that there are lots of furry, cuddly, nice countries that earn embargoes for political reasons. I don't care.
But it's not really dead or alive, until you observe it... I think that's it.
the article is dealing with modIFYing, not modERATEing. similar, not equal...
They are doing something much more far-reaching... brainwashing the populace into thinking they need the treatment in the first place, or will need the treatment if they let their internet browsing get out of hand. All they have to do is make this clinic look as unappealing as possible and fill it with 'self-proclaimed' internet addicts who are all on the verge of death, and all of a sudden people are afraid to touch a computer. Clever clever...
GPS receivers will have to come a long way before they will be capable of picking up enough usable signal from your pocket to trilateralize your location, AND do it all in a power-friendly package. GPS positioning in phones is hype, the only way to get a reliable location is through tower triangulation.
If you were on the spaceweather.com mailing list... You would know that the CME was from the sun's eastern limb and unlikely to produce aurora borealis for you to see (since you're at 56N), but since its an extremely active sunspot it could produce ejections in a few days that will hit the earth delivering some good auroras to watch.
artificial intelligence could either produce a utopia where everyone could be free from the drudgery of labor, or one where a small number of rich people prosper while hundreds of millions are left unemployed
I haven't read this particular book altho i'm a fan of sci-fi, but i thought i would point out the irony in someone suggesting this might happen in the future. Either everyone is unemployed and happy or everyone is unemployed and unhappy? Instinctive drive for success will dictate how hard people will push for resources, now and forever, and when our robotic AI overlords come to rule we will get just as pissed off when we can't all afford cars and houses, and we will set it right. Everyone gets bewildered by society, thinking that it could change into something wholly unsatisfactory and we will all have no choice in the matter. Guess what, society is what WE make of it and if at some point we're all unemployed and unhappy, take a look in the mirror and then get back to work!
Actually thats the POINT of supply/demand curve analysis. Changes in supply (as in making a product cheaper) influences the point at which it intersects the demand curve, and a new market-clearing price will be found.
Aside from that, the ultimate rule of economics is COMPETITION. When you can make a product for less, you can better compete by lowering your price.