Here I was thinking they were talking about the lack of a camera flash on the iPhone... I guess Adobe Flash is important too. Whatever makes you happy!
Why don't you go get a Sega 16 if you are really caught up in the nostalgia of a cartridge. I for one am fine with the way things are going (optical disks or digital downloads to embedded storage). It's fast. It's easy. There's no time wasted blowing (the console). The future is here.
in fact, a dell mini10v JUST so that I could run hackintosh sw on it. 100% compat (once you have a mac to sysgen your new mac, that is).
it has a keyboard. it can run any os. I can upgrade things. it has ports!
do I want an ipad? no. not at the current price, features and, well, its almost all that is WRONG with apple these days.
only apple guys are buying the ipad. that's still a very tiny minority. netbooks are still firmly in the sales channels and will be even though apple tries to change our view of reality with their paid-for ads and fake grass-roots posts.
a walled garden can never replace a notebook. we all know that!
So, you detest the Apple experience, that you just bought a netbook to recreate? Um you might want to see a therapist.
*We report* on how the awesome new Ipad is decimating the very existence of the Netbook, then defecating on its already stinking corpse. *You Decide* how long it will take you to open your eyes to the best computing device on earth, and then open your checkbook to the tune of 800 bucks!
They could have done it open: used the resources to video record the classes, and broadcast them on campus (They did this at Stanford when I was there).
Putting in place systems that force learning on someone (for example, tracking attendance) while may seem to improve results short term, actually reduce success long term for the person.
But your suggestion isn't as good at keeping the helicopter parents from pulling their hair out as they fret over the D their snowflake got in Econ 104, and whether or not they skipped half their classes so they can blame it on the teacher... And remember who writes the checks these days.
You are being quite careless with those 'b's and 'B's, a bit is b and a byte is B, SSDs can do 250MB/s, *not* 250Mb/s... A modern platter HDD can easily do 150 MB/s (reading the innermost tracks) which is 1200 Mb/s. However, most activity benefits from 'burst' transferring cached information from the HDD, which can be as fast as 230MB/s or 1840 Mb/s, easily outstripping the 1200Mb/s you get from SATA-I. So that's why we have SATA-II; put two of those on a RAID0 controller and you can see some ridiculous speed, easily outpacing even the theoretical 1000Mb/s speed of gigabit ethernet.
Ah, er, what's that? SATA2 runs at 3Gb/s because the paltry 1.5Gb/s of SATA1 was outpaced by fast hard drives. This isn't even counting RAID0 controllers that can effectively double that. Now, on to Gigabit ethernet. Even with optimization most find.7Gb/s is the practical limit for things like NFS or SMB. You may do better with dedicated storage systems but you're getting away from consumer-grade technology.
Summary: Is 10Gb/s too much for a modern consumer desktop? No; if you have a lot to transfer you WILL see the difference.
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Don't suppose you even got to the last sentence of my post... Let me reiterate: "While this may be a situation where aesthetics is called for over simplicity, that shouldn't stand in the way of a joke." You may now begin regretting the 10 minutes you wasted writing that novella.
You are right, but at the same time you are completely ignoring the elephant in the room. Microsoft is putting HTML5 and *only* h.264 into IE9. This means that as HTML5 gets rolled out, it *will*have*patent*problems* for anyone who wants to do 'Free' video and doesn't want to convince their users to download a different browser.
Meta-rants aside, do you see the problems coming down the road? This is the topic of the article, after all.
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If every book that gets reviewed receives a 7 through 10, what is the point of having a 1-10 scale since you could just as easily express it via a 1-4 scale, or better yet a 0-3 scale and store it directly in a two bit integer.
As an engineer (of any sort, even the armchair type) you should feel compelled to seek out the simplest method that gets the job done. While this may be a situation where aesthetics is called for over simplicity, that shouldn't stand in the way of a joke.
This is insightful, if myopic. Just yesterday there was a spirited discussion on the legality of h.264 and the quagmire involved if you have *anything* to do with using it on commercial content. If your idea of a good development experience involves a) coding your site to work with IE and hence being enslaved by the MPEG-LA as soon as you become profitable or b) requiring your audience (a lot of whom WILL be Windows/IE users) to download an entire separate browser just to visit your site, then you have a pretty stiff constitution for punishment. Compared to that, the idea of having a user download a plugin (containing Free/nonFree code) that is unencumbered by legal ramifications sounds pretty benign.
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If you were going to post "Oh my god another review that's a 9/10... why don't they use a scale that doesn't give every single book a 7 or higher" boy have I got good news for you! I am in the process of writing a review of the 2009 Danielle Steele novel "Matters Of The Heart". I don't want to spoil the review (or the book) but I will say that I am prepared to give it a 4/10 for it's lack of detail and an unconvincing plot.
The big problem is that there is probably not going to be another "killer app" for the a new desktop PC, like the WWW was for most people for the past 10 years or so. You went from PCs as an enthusiast market (not selling very many, relatively high cost per unit) to a market where everyone realized they needed to get one, and suppliers sprang up at lightning speed to fill the demand. Look at how fast Dell Inc. grew up and ate into the big traditional companies like HP and IBM. The same thing is about to happen again; the PC market is at the end of it's "killer" phase where everyone needs to have one. For the past ten years, millions upon millions of PCs were sold each year. There is no way that we are ever going to see those kinds of numbers again; even a $300 pc does a passable job at internet, email, and productivity.
People will probably keep their current PC for five or ten years, until it completely breaks, and if they get a new one it will be a bargain PC sold to them with little margin (most of which will go to the big box store that sells it.) For big tech companies, it's time to get behind the "next big thing" or plan on becoming the next Compaq, relegated to the recycle bin of computer history for lack of innovation. The PC market is going to dry up like the Sahara; all the enthusiasts in the world couldn't keep Dell busy the way they were when every last person in the modern world was in the market for a computer. Soon enough every last person in the developed world will be in the market for this next thing, and some people know it and are furiously trying to make sure they are in on it.
You may already know this but the post you replied to was an uber-troll that has been showing up several times in just about every article. Please, don't feed the trolls.
this solar product can be utilized as an energy source by 3rd world peoples in a variety of ways, including direct reconstitution to carbon via a high energy oxygen based deconstruction process that also produces a form of heating, or- get this, this is the part i'm most proud of- the 3rd world residents can consume the solar arrays DIRECTLY and their own bodies can utilize the energy storage medium for biological sustenance
how come nobody thought of this tech before?
So the "3rd world residents" are also trees? If we could convince all the people in the 3rd world to just turn into trees, that would be great! You have to go public with your technology!
Ah, erm, the graph you pointed to represents "capacity" and not "generation" which are two different things especially in energy generation where providers draw from the cheapest sources first. Look at the "net generation" graph and you get a different story about the oil/renewable relationship: 5.7% to 3.8%, respectively.
Is privacy invaded because of people pursuing copyright violators, or is privacy pursued because people want to evade copyright enforcers? Seems that if you decide it's the latter you are prepared to give away the privacy of many (those who arent copyright thieves) for the protection of the few (those that own IP that is being copied)...
You know giving up the first little bit is always the easiest...
Where exactly is a 'citizen scientist' going to get the world's largest supercomputer (the Seti@home cluster)??? Unless by 'citizen scientist' you meant 'black market botnet operator'... because they are probably the only ones with the resources to pull it off with the scale that Seti@home has attained.
How about democratizing the seti@home algorithm design? Maybe some fresh ideas, along with what is arguably the largest most successful distributed computing system ever created, is the best way to go; instead of just starting over from scratch.
In Ohio, the minimum wage is $7.30. This means that someone working 40 hours/week would earn roughly $14,600 a year. Our GDP per capita is about $48,000, so someone earning minimum wage is getting about 30% of the average. In china, GDP per capita is $3,266. Someone earning 50 cents/hour, working 40 hours a week, earns $1,000 US a year. Hey, look at that, right about 30%. So, these factory workers are basically earning the equivalent minimum wage in china (*if* scaling based on GDP is appropriate). This is to say nothing about actual cost of living, or the actual working conditions, but dollar for dollar if we expect someone in the US to work for $7.30 an hour when the average is much higher, we should have no problem expecting someone in China to work for $.50 an hour considering what everyone else makes.
I am not trying to be an apologist, but try to think outside the story for one quick minute. Did it mention that they were picked up out of their village, by force, and dropped in this factory-prison to work for a meager wage in intolerable conditions? Nope. These people did it on their own free will. Now if there is illegal coercion, harassment, or any other nonsense going on then by all means prosecute. I am all for equal rights, safe working conditions, and fair wages; but when workers willingly go to work somewhere, knowing full well what the conditions are, and they keep on working there year after year, what exactly is evil about it? People are great subconscious economists; if something isn't worth doing, they probably won't do it.
Things could be a lot better in China... They could be a lot worse too. One picture of some napping factory workers is just a stunt to get people riled up.
In China, it is common in many places to take a 30-45 minute nap after lunch, just sitting at your desk/workspace. While I cannot say that this is the case in this picture, it may not be as sinister as you would think at first glance. If there are 6 or 8 people sleeping and there isn't a manager with a cattle prod or whip in the background waking them up so they can get back to working, the conditions might not be *that* bad.
It's true that if you generate a product devoid of features but so enriched with marketing hype, you can then sell a million of them before people realize what's going on. Then, use that money to go back and include the features that should have been there in the first place. In this respect, Jobs is unique in his ability to pull it off more than once.
It is certainly a novel way to go about new product development. However, the notion that it's the best way is something only the author of TFA is completely certain of. The rest of us, in the real world, know it's just another (successful) gimmick.
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Here I was thinking they were talking about the lack of a camera flash on the iPhone... I guess Adobe Flash is important too. Whatever makes you happy!
Why don't you go get a Sega 16 if you are really caught up in the nostalgia of a cartridge. I for one am fine with the way things are going (optical disks or digital downloads to embedded storage). It's fast. It's easy. There's no time wasted blowing (the console). The future is here.
in fact, a dell mini10v JUST so that I could run hackintosh sw on it. 100% compat (once you have a mac to sysgen your new mac, that is).
it has a keyboard. it can run any os. I can upgrade things. it has ports!
do I want an ipad? no. not at the current price, features and, well, its almost all that is WRONG with apple these days.
only apple guys are buying the ipad. that's still a very tiny minority. netbooks are still firmly in the sales channels and will be even though apple tries to change our view of reality with their paid-for ads and fake grass-roots posts.
a walled garden can never replace a notebook. we all know that!
So, you detest the Apple experience, that you just bought a netbook to recreate? Um you might want to see a therapist.
*We report* on how the awesome new Ipad is decimating the very existence of the Netbook, then defecating on its already stinking corpse. *You Decide* how long it will take you to open your eyes to the best computing device on earth, and then open your checkbook to the tune of 800 bucks!
Fair.And.Balanced.
Hey, look out! There's something behind you!
They could have done it open: used the resources to video record the classes, and broadcast them on campus (They did this at Stanford when I was there).
Putting in place systems that force learning on someone (for example, tracking attendance) while may seem to improve results short term, actually reduce success long term for the person.
But your suggestion isn't as good at keeping the helicopter parents from pulling their hair out as they fret over the D their snowflake got in Econ 104, and whether or not they skipped half their classes so they can blame it on the teacher... And remember who writes the checks these days.
You are being quite careless with those 'b's and 'B's, a bit is b and a byte is B, SSDs can do 250MB/s, *not* 250Mb/s... A modern platter HDD can easily do 150 MB/s (reading the innermost tracks) which is 1200 Mb/s. However, most activity benefits from 'burst' transferring cached information from the HDD, which can be as fast as 230MB/s or 1840 Mb/s, easily outstripping the 1200Mb/s you get from SATA-I. So that's why we have SATA-II; put two of those on a RAID0 controller and you can see some ridiculous speed, easily outpacing even the theoretical 1000Mb/s speed of gigabit ethernet.
Ah, er, what's that? SATA2 runs at 3Gb/s because the paltry 1.5Gb/s of SATA1 was outpaced by fast hard drives. This isn't even counting RAID0 controllers that can effectively double that. Now, on to Gigabit ethernet. Even with optimization most find .7Gb/s is the practical limit for things like NFS or SMB. You may do better with dedicated storage systems but you're getting away from consumer-grade technology.
Summary: Is 10Gb/s too much for a modern consumer desktop? No; if you have a lot to transfer you WILL see the difference.
Don't suppose you even got to the last sentence of my post... Let me reiterate: "While this may be a situation where aesthetics is called for over simplicity, that shouldn't stand in the way of a joke." You may now begin regretting the 10 minutes you wasted writing that novella.
You are right, but at the same time you are completely ignoring the elephant in the room. Microsoft is putting HTML5 and *only* h.264 into IE9. This means that as HTML5 gets rolled out, it *will*have*patent*problems* for anyone who wants to do 'Free' video and doesn't want to convince their users to download a different browser.
Meta-rants aside, do you see the problems coming down the road? This is the topic of the article, after all.
If every book that gets reviewed receives a 7 through 10, what is the point of having a 1-10 scale since you could just as easily express it via a 1-4 scale, or better yet a 0-3 scale and store it directly in a two bit integer.
As an engineer (of any sort, even the armchair type) you should feel compelled to seek out the simplest method that gets the job done. While this may be a situation where aesthetics is called for over simplicity, that shouldn't stand in the way of a joke.
This is insightful, if myopic. Just yesterday there was a spirited discussion on the legality of h.264 and the quagmire involved if you have *anything* to do with using it on commercial content. If your idea of a good development experience involves a) coding your site to work with IE and hence being enslaved by the MPEG-LA as soon as you become profitable or b) requiring your audience (a lot of whom WILL be Windows/IE users) to download an entire separate browser just to visit your site, then you have a pretty stiff constitution for punishment. Compared to that, the idea of having a user download a plugin (containing Free/nonFree code) that is unencumbered by legal ramifications sounds pretty benign.
If you were going to post "Oh my god another review that's a 9/10... why don't they use a scale that doesn't give every single book a 7 or higher" boy have I got good news for you! I am in the process of writing a review of the 2009 Danielle Steele novel "Matters Of The Heart". I don't want to spoil the review (or the book) but I will say that I am prepared to give it a 4/10 for it's lack of detail and an unconvincing plot.
WTF LOL 12 INCHES. Hell the 24' monitors have a higher resolution than any hd tv
I imagine that when the screen size breaches twenty feet you need a lot more resolution to keep the pixel size down.
The big problem is that there is probably not going to be another "killer app" for the a new desktop PC, like the WWW was for most people for the past 10 years or so. You went from PCs as an enthusiast market (not selling very many, relatively high cost per unit) to a market where everyone realized they needed to get one, and suppliers sprang up at lightning speed to fill the demand. Look at how fast Dell Inc. grew up and ate into the big traditional companies like HP and IBM. The same thing is about to happen again; the PC market is at the end of it's "killer" phase where everyone needs to have one. For the past ten years, millions upon millions of PCs were sold each year. There is no way that we are ever going to see those kinds of numbers again; even a $300 pc does a passable job at internet, email, and productivity.
People will probably keep their current PC for five or ten years, until it completely breaks, and if they get a new one it will be a bargain PC sold to them with little margin (most of which will go to the big box store that sells it.) For big tech companies, it's time to get behind the "next big thing" or plan on becoming the next Compaq, relegated to the recycle bin of computer history for lack of innovation. The PC market is going to dry up like the Sahara; all the enthusiasts in the world couldn't keep Dell busy the way they were when every last person in the modern world was in the market for a computer. Soon enough every last person in the developed world will be in the market for this next thing, and some people know it and are furiously trying to make sure they are in on it.
You may already know this but the post you replied to was an uber-troll that has been showing up several times in just about every article. Please, don't feed the trolls.
this solar product can be utilized as an energy source by 3rd world peoples in a variety of ways, including direct reconstitution to carbon via a high energy oxygen based deconstruction process that also produces a form of heating, or- get this, this is the part i'm most proud of- the 3rd world residents can consume the solar arrays DIRECTLY and their own bodies can utilize the energy storage medium for biological sustenance
how come nobody thought of this tech before?
So the "3rd world residents" are also trees? If we could convince all the people in the 3rd world to just turn into trees, that would be great! You have to go public with your technology!
Ah, erm, the graph you pointed to represents "capacity" and not "generation" which are two different things especially in energy generation where providers draw from the cheapest sources first. Look at the "net generation" graph and you get a different story about the oil/renewable relationship: 5.7% to 3.8%, respectively.
Is privacy invaded because of people pursuing copyright violators, or is privacy pursued because people want to evade copyright enforcers? Seems that if you decide it's the latter you are prepared to give away the privacy of many (those who arent copyright thieves) for the protection of the few (those that own IP that is being copied)...
You know giving up the first little bit is always the easiest...
It may have been cheaper but you don't even want to know what the 3g data plans were going to cost!
Don't forget BOOST! and Revol, two pay-as-you-go carriers.
Where exactly is a 'citizen scientist' going to get the world's largest supercomputer (the Seti@home cluster)??? Unless by 'citizen scientist' you meant 'black market botnet operator'... because they are probably the only ones with the resources to pull it off with the scale that Seti@home has attained.
How about democratizing the seti@home algorithm design? Maybe some fresh ideas, along with what is arguably the largest most successful distributed computing system ever created, is the best way to go; instead of just starting over from scratch.
In Ohio, the minimum wage is $7.30. This means that someone working 40 hours/week would earn roughly $14,600 a year. Our GDP per capita is about $48,000, so someone earning minimum wage is getting about 30% of the average. In china, GDP per capita is $3,266. Someone earning 50 cents/hour, working 40 hours a week, earns $1,000 US a year. Hey, look at that, right about 30%. So, these factory workers are basically earning the equivalent minimum wage in china (*if* scaling based on GDP is appropriate). This is to say nothing about actual cost of living, or the actual working conditions, but dollar for dollar if we expect someone in the US to work for $7.30 an hour when the average is much higher, we should have no problem expecting someone in China to work for $.50 an hour considering what everyone else makes.
I am not trying to be an apologist, but try to think outside the story for one quick minute. Did it mention that they were picked up out of their village, by force, and dropped in this factory-prison to work for a meager wage in intolerable conditions? Nope. These people did it on their own free will. Now if there is illegal coercion, harassment, or any other nonsense going on then by all means prosecute. I am all for equal rights, safe working conditions, and fair wages; but when workers willingly go to work somewhere, knowing full well what the conditions are, and they keep on working there year after year, what exactly is evil about it? People are great subconscious economists; if something isn't worth doing, they probably won't do it.
Things could be a lot better in China... They could be a lot worse too. One picture of some napping factory workers is just a stunt to get people riled up.
In China, it is common in many places to take a 30-45 minute nap after lunch, just sitting at your desk/workspace. While I cannot say that this is the case in this picture, it may not be as sinister as you would think at first glance. If there are 6 or 8 people sleeping and there isn't a manager with a cattle prod or whip in the background waking them up so they can get back to working, the conditions might not be *that* bad.
It's true that if you generate a product devoid of features but so enriched with marketing hype, you can then sell a million of them before people realize what's going on. Then, use that money to go back and include the features that should have been there in the first place. In this respect, Jobs is unique in his ability to pull it off more than once.
It is certainly a novel way to go about new product development. However, the notion that it's the best way is something only the author of TFA is completely certain of. The rest of us, in the real world, know it's just another (successful) gimmick.