You can see this over and over; both the current healthcare problems and the "broadband" provision debacle are instances of the wider problem.
The only problem with health care in the US is that there is a segment of the population that isn't poor enough for government assistance, but falls into a scenario where they aren't provided health insurance through (eg.) their employer, and they are allowed to gamble with their health, as the government hasn't had the good sense to FORCE them to get insurance. The changing economy has made this a major issue, as this group of people has grown vastly larger than it once was.
If you think the broadband issues has a significant impact on the lives of even a significant minority of the population, you are seriously deluded.
So much cheaper that you can employ a team of people to maintain the "homebrew" solution and still save money.
...as long as your data is worthless......and since it's their customers' data, that's probably true, as far as they're concerned (ToS and all).
Those of us who have to maintain such hack-job storage systems know just what a nightmare it is. Drives reporting fine, until a power cycle when they come up as a broken and unrecoverable array... GAH!
There has been a change in-kind in data storage over the past few years. Capacities have grown so significantly that once rare errors are now common, and what was previously a simple job has become a Herculean task.
ZFS promises the world. Sadly, it's licensing is seriously limiting adoption, it's lack of data recovery and repair tools is shocking, and it's still a monster on hogging tons of memory, and will eventually get out of control and cause the system to crash. So the dream of just plugging in another drive when you need more space, and not having to worry about anything, remains unfulfilled. Btrfs remains a very long ways off, and there's little reason to believe it will be notably better on any count.
So, while you can get as many nice cheap drives as you want, the limitation is in the software, and there's no cheap solution out there. Anyone with significant storage needs remains tied to companies like NetApp, where the software works, but its only available tied to the ridiculously expensive hardware.
What reputation? Since the days of the original Thunderbird core (which still ran cooler than comparable P4s, though admittedly didn't have meltdown prevention circuitry), AMD has consistently given Intel a run for their money in that regard.
AMD was extremely sloppy on power management before the K8/Opteron days.
In short, while the maximum power of AMD CPUs was about the same as their P-III equivalents, AMD chips (Thunderbird and Athlon XP) would run at their maximum power ALL THE TIME, even when there was NOTHING to do.
This didn't get resolved until the very end of the Socket-A days, when AMD finally REQUIRED all motherboards be tested to work with the S2K bus disconnect feature of AMD CPUs. Before then, AMD CPUs were undeniably hot. However, Intel screwed-up so bad with the Pentium-4 that they leapfrogged AMD's power management problem with a CPU so hot no ammount of powermanagement could save it...
From the same cite: "not recognized initially as having self-similarity as their attribute."
In other words, just because something out there coincidentally happened to have features like this, doesn't mean it was understood, and does not detract from the discovery.
I'm glad I never went to college otherwise I might be expected to do something about this! - The American Public
Actually, College is another example. A great many companies want to require their employees have a college degree, yet all a degree states is that you did your 4 years of busy-work, and are capable of memorizing the answers to tests. There are innumerable examples of idiots with degrees...
And yet, the cost of a College degree is unbelievable, and student loans have horrible terms. Expect to be paying back your college degree for the next 30 years of your life. It will probably cost you more than buying a home. And there's little evidence that the correlated increase in salary will more than make up for the crushing debt, and 4+ years you were unable to instead earn a living working in your chosen field...
Congress decided they wanted to tax high salaried people. Therefore companies found ways around those laws.
Taxes on the wealthy were VASTLY, UNBELIEVABLY higher in the 50s than they are today.
Today, not only are taxes on the wealthy at an all-time low, but the rich actually pay so much less, that a significantly majority of the tax burden now falls on the middle class.
(I.E. the 'basic radio research' phase of cell phones was forty years ago when they were first introduced.)
Ummm... Have you ever heard of fractal antennas?
Cohen's efforts with a variety of fractal antenna designs were first published in 1995 (thus the first scientific publication on fractal antennas), and a number of patents have been issued from the 1995 filing priority of invention (see list in references, for example). Most allusions to fractal antennas make reference to these 'fractal element antennas'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_antennas
15 is much less than 40... And that's just off the top of my head, from someone who doesn't actually know much about cell phones.
Using food sources for bio-fuels has resulted in people STARVING to death in developing nations.
A butterfly flapping its wings results in people starving to death somewhere in the world...
Any change in the status quo is going to have consequences. If we were to switch to solar-powered electric cars, there'd be people starving in Saudi Arabia, impoverised former coal miners, etc.
That doesn't mean we should never change ANYTHING.
In fact, low-priced food is one of the big criticisms of the US... 3rd world countries get it so cheap that local farmers can't compete, and have no way to make a living... Reversing this trend, even if traumatic at first, is likely to become a boon to these same 3rd world countries.
If it was that easy, it would have been broken before now.
No. There are a vast number of things which are easy to do, but NOBODY cares enough to bother with... Steam-powered vehicles being one of them.
Even if some new million-dollar racket could guarantee you'd win every round of badminton, do you really think anybody would buy one? Even at the Olympic level... who cares?
Phishing is one small step away from spam. Just as soon as you give your bank account details to a spammer, you can bet it will affect your life...
And don't try to rant about how everyone should be smarter than that... The differences between a real and fake website are minuscule, and even the most knowledgeable can let their guard down for just a moment in some routine activity, and get scammed.
I once heard that wikipedia was just a bunch of nerds roleplaying a bureaucracy, and I'm convinced that's true.
Bravo. It's the joke of a moderation system that convinced me to quick WP and never go back. However, that was just the final straw in a long chain of crap. I once started writing up a concise explanation of why WP is doomed, but I later found Citizendium (the current Wiki project of THAT OTHER Wikipedia founder who dare not speak his name in Jimbo's presence) had already explained it better:
have conceded that Low Carb diets are "safe and effective for weight loss".
Of course.
while the conclusions of those studies say that low-carb diets were "as effective" as low-fat, the actual data show them to be more effective.
Statistically insignificant, hence the EXPERT conclusion, versus the idiot conclusion.
were more likely to comply with their diet and most importantly liked the diets better.
Irrelevant, because it has NOTHING to do with the subject at hand. AND a blatant false dichotomy... If you each fewer calories, YOU WILL LOSE WEIGHT AND BE HEALTHIER. Whether those calories come entirely from carbs, entirely from protein, or any arbitrary combination of the two, is utterly irrelevant.
The US should and can, and must for its survival, implement a tariff on imports of cars, textiles, furniture, IT services, customer service calls to India and China, etc, and so on.
What happened to good old Jap' hate?
Its time to get past this irrational hysteria about tariffs. Tariffs are good and can help this countries economy rebound. There is nothing wrong with it since it simply allows americans to make products for other americans.
There's nothing irrational about it. Tariffs were a major contributing cause of The Great Depression.
Why is it that everyone thinks themselves an expert in every subject that affects their lives? I've got friends telling me I need to hook my car battery up to a tank of water and run my car on hydrogen... Others trying to convince me that the latest pyramid scheme is the greatest investment opportunity ever... What makes your hair-brained idea of how economics work, based on absolutely no study of economics, and clearly no knowledge of history, any less idiotic?
You either need to have few enough workers you can pay them when not operating,
Traditional forms of energy are not expensive. You'll very quickly find that having your employees working on days when the wind isn't blowing is vastly less expensive than paying them for doing nothing.
or have something else for them to do. (Call center?)
You don't want machinists doubling as phone reps. Not to mention that a small company will find it impossible to contract out their "only when we feel like it" call-center services to other companies...
But there is no reason why the diesel engine, which is only connected to a generator, would have to vary its speed.
Of course it does. If you need less power, the engine needs to reduce it's power output and speed. The excess electricity will not float off into space, unused. And the reverse scenario is even more true... excess energy will not magically appear when you need it, the engine needs to increase its power output and speed to do so.
build your plant, and run it only when the wind is blowing and power is very cheap.
Spoken like someone who has never been in a position of any responsibility in any company...
Just a hint: Your employees aren't going to be too happy when they show up for work in the morning, and you tell them they don't get paid today, and just need to go home...
Ditto for when they go home in the middle of the day, and they get a call that they need to return immediately...
Almost the exact same story was posted on Monday, April 27 .
May I recomend everyone begin submitting as many stories as they can find about cell phones being used to track traffic patterns. After all,/. has never posted a story about it. NEVER! Can you believe it?! It's amazing! Hopefully, one day they'll come to their senses, and post a story or two on the subject.
I'm of the option that fat - esp saturated fat - is a much heather macro nutrient that carbs.
Tell that to ANYONE who has ever run a marathon. Unless you are painfully skinny, it's NOT "fat" that your body runs out of sources for after sustained physical activity.
I don't see why it wouldn't work. Similar to how wind turbines work, they are always turning at a constant RPM even though their power output varies with the speed of the wind.
The analogy doesn't make any sense, I'm afraid.
Air will move around an obstacle like a turbine. Trains/tracks won't.
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The only problem with health care in the US is that there is a segment of the population that isn't poor enough for government assistance, but falls into a scenario where they aren't provided health insurance through (eg.) their employer, and they are allowed to gamble with their health, as the government hasn't had the good sense to FORCE them to get insurance. The changing economy has made this a major issue, as this group of people has grown vastly larger than it once was.
If you think the broadband issues has a significant impact on the lives of even a significant minority of the population, you are seriously deluded.
Those of us who have to maintain such hack-job storage systems know just what a nightmare it is. Drives reporting fine, until a power cycle when they come up as a broken and unrecoverable array... GAH!
There has been a change in-kind in data storage over the past few years. Capacities have grown so significantly that once rare errors are now common, and what was previously a simple job has become a Herculean task.
ZFS promises the world. Sadly, it's licensing is seriously limiting adoption, it's lack of data recovery and repair tools is shocking, and it's still a monster on hogging tons of memory, and will eventually get out of control and cause the system to crash. So the dream of just plugging in another drive when you need more space, and not having to worry about anything, remains unfulfilled. Btrfs remains a very long ways off, and there's little reason to believe it will be notably better on any count.
So, while you can get as many nice cheap drives as you want, the limitation is in the software, and there's no cheap solution out there. Anyone with significant storage needs remains tied to companies like NetApp, where the software works, but its only available tied to the ridiculously expensive hardware.
Sega thought so... Hence the symbol of all failure that is the Nomad...
AMD was extremely sloppy on power management before the K8/Opteron days.
See my old /. Journal on the subject: http://slashdot.org/~evilviper/journal/70512
In short, while the maximum power of AMD CPUs was about the same as their P-III equivalents, AMD chips (Thunderbird and Athlon XP) would run at their maximum power ALL THE TIME, even when there was NOTHING to do.
This didn't get resolved until the very end of the Socket-A days, when AMD finally REQUIRED all motherboards be tested to work with the S2K bus disconnect feature of AMD CPUs. Before then, AMD CPUs were undeniably hot. However, Intel screwed-up so bad with the Pentium-4 that they leapfrogged AMD's power management problem with a CPU so hot no ammount of powermanagement could save it...
From the same cite:
"not recognized initially as having self-similarity as their attribute."
In other words, just because something out there coincidentally happened to have features like this, doesn't mean it was understood, and does not detract from the discovery.
Actually, College is another example. A great many companies want to require their employees have a college degree, yet all a degree states is that you did your 4 years of busy-work, and are capable of memorizing the answers to tests. There are innumerable examples of idiots with degrees...
And yet, the cost of a College degree is unbelievable, and student loans have horrible terms. Expect to be paying back your college degree for the next 30 years of your life. It will probably cost you more than buying a home. And there's little evidence that the correlated increase in salary will more than make up for the crushing debt, and 4+ years you were unable to instead earn a living working in your chosen field...
Taxes on the wealthy were VASTLY, UNBELIEVABLY higher in the 50s than they are today.
Today, not only are taxes on the wealthy at an all-time low, but the rich actually pay so much less, that a significantly majority of the tax burden now falls on the middle class.
Ummm... Have you ever heard of fractal antennas?
15 is much less than 40... And that's just off the top of my head, from someone who doesn't actually know much about cell phones.
A butterfly flapping its wings results in people starving to death somewhere in the world...
Any change in the status quo is going to have consequences. If we were to switch to solar-powered electric cars, there'd be people starving in Saudi Arabia, impoverised former coal miners, etc.
That doesn't mean we should never change ANYTHING.
In fact, low-priced food is one of the big criticisms of the US... 3rd world countries get it so cheap that local farmers can't compete, and have no way to make a living... Reversing this trend, even if traumatic at first, is likely to become a boon to these same 3rd world countries.
No. There are a vast number of things which are easy to do, but NOBODY cares enough to bother with... Steam-powered vehicles being one of them.
Even if some new million-dollar racket could guarantee you'd win every round of badminton, do you really think anybody would buy one? Even at the Olympic level... who cares?
Your need to justify your deeply held dogma is not my problem... Neither is your lack of reading ability.
Legal or not, Spam makes it possible. Otherwise, it would stand out and get serious attention.
Phishing is one small step away from spam. Just as soon as you give your bank account details to a spammer, you can bet it will affect your life...
And don't try to rant about how everyone should be smarter than that... The differences between a real and fake website are minuscule, and even the most knowledgeable can let their guard down for just a moment in some routine activity, and get scammed.
Bravo. It's the joke of a moderation system that convinced me to quick WP and never go back. However, that was just the final straw in a long chain of crap. I once started writing up a concise explanation of why WP is doomed, but I later found Citizendium (the current Wiki project of THAT OTHER Wikipedia founder who dare not speak his name in Jimbo's presence) had already explained it better:
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/CZ:Why_Citizendium%3F
Of course.
Statistically insignificant, hence the EXPERT conclusion, versus the idiot conclusion.
Irrelevant, because it has NOTHING to do with the subject at hand. AND a blatant false dichotomy... If you each fewer calories, YOU WILL LOSE WEIGHT AND BE HEALTHIER. Whether those calories come entirely from carbs, entirely from protein, or any arbitrary combination of the two, is utterly irrelevant.
What happened to good old Jap' hate?
There's nothing irrational about it. Tariffs were a major contributing cause of The Great Depression.
Why is it that everyone thinks themselves an expert in every subject that affects their lives? I've got friends telling me I need to hook my car battery up to a tank of water and run my car on hydrogen... Others trying to convince me that the latest pyramid scheme is the greatest investment opportunity ever... What makes your hair-brained idea of how economics work, based on absolutely no study of economics, and clearly no knowledge of history, any less idiotic?
Traditional forms of energy are not expensive. You'll very quickly find that having your employees working on days when the wind isn't blowing is vastly less expensive than paying them for doing nothing.
You don't want machinists doubling as phone reps. Not to mention that a small company will find it impossible to contract out their "only when we feel like it" call-center services to other companies...
Of course it does. If you need less power, the engine needs to reduce it's power output and speed. The excess electricity will not float off into space, unused. And the reverse scenario is even more true... excess energy will not magically appear when you need it, the engine needs to increase its power output and speed to do so.
Spoken like someone who has never been in a position of any responsibility in any company...
Just a hint: Your employees aren't going to be too happy when they show up for work in the morning, and you tell them they don't get paid today, and just need to go home...
Ditto for when they go home in the middle of the day, and they get a call that they need to return immediately...
30 years ago is recent in satellite tech? As opposed to those 200 year-old satellites up in orbit, propelled by horse and buggy...?
I'd have to say, well in excess of 23.12 m (75 ft 10.2 in).
May I recomend everyone begin submitting as many stories as they can find about cell phones being used to track traffic patterns. After all, /. has never posted a story about it. NEVER! Can you believe it?! It's amazing! Hopefully, one day they'll come to their senses, and post a story or two on the subject.
You can read more here:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/31/168228
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/19/143247
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/19/0745248
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/01/159241
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/16/076217
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/30/1243247
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/13/0428229
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/10/2337259
Tell that to ANYONE who has ever run a marathon. Unless you are painfully skinny, it's NOT "fat" that your body runs out of sources for after sustained physical activity.
Except for the fact that it doesn't.
The analogy doesn't make any sense, I'm afraid.
Air will move around an obstacle like a turbine. Trains/tracks won't.