1) The codec may be 10 years old but it's the codec used on every single Apple multimedia product. ALAC is required by Airplay. Thus, opening ALAC will allow third parties to implement Airplay interoperability into their products. Old =/= Useless
Of course it does. I mean - the wheel! That's not only an old invention, it's downright ancient! And don't even get me started on fire... that's so old, even Neanderthals used it.
While this may be true, it is a dangerous way to proceed. If you spend too much time focusing on suspect A, and it later turns out that A did not do what he was suspected of, you now, essentially, have no case (depending on how long you spent focused on A).
Like this particular case. Suppose that these researchers are correct - Bruce Ivins couldn't have done this on his own or he wasn't the perpetrator. There is no way to hold the responsible people accountable now, and there is no incentive to do so either - in fact it might even be career suicide to try to restart an investigation like this, simply because of the number of people who will lose face.
To some extent, police investigations fail scientific rigor. They come up with a hypothesis and try their hardest to find evidence to support it, rather than coming up with a hypothesis and trying to disprove it.
True healthcare improvement would involve things like closing the FDA
This makes me curious
In your opinion, does the FDA serve no purpose (from a patient/consumer point of view) at all? And if it does, what do you suggesting doing with those purposes?
It's a fair stance, but people tend to forget that taxes pay for a shit-ton of things they want themselves, that someone else probably don't want.
Some people don't want taxes to pay for health care. Some people don't want taxes to pay for education. Some people don't want taxes to pay for police. Some people don't want taxes to pay for military. Some people don't want taxes to pay for infrastructure. Some people don't want taxes to pay for fire departments.
And so on and so forth.
Someone, somewhere, doesn't want to either pay taxes or have their taxes paying for something that someone else deems necessary.
So my question is - what is your solution to this quandary?
It is not right for the government to take resources from everyone in the form of taxes, and then use them to provide resources to individuals, even if it's to each individual.
You mean like roads? Municipal water supplies? Sewage treatment?
Put 4 or 6 minimum wage people into that same apartment.
Will get you kicked out of that 270 square foot apartment - not to mention that there's barely room for the beds.
Or move back in with your parents.
Dead, only child, parents lived in an apartment.
I started out as an office clerk making $4 an hour back in 1980.
4 USD in 1980 equals 10.44 USD in 2010. By comparison the Federal minimum wage is 7.25 USD, and Washington has the highest minimum wage of 8.67. In other words, in 2010 dollars, you made between 20 and 44 percent more than minimum wage.
I lived paycheck to paycheck for many years
Now cut that paycheck between the aforementioned 20 and 44. Assuming you only worked 40 hours a week back then, you'd now have to work between 48 and 58 hours a week to make the same paycheck, which would cut significantly into your available time for self-improvement.
The original poster didn't say anything about changing the server configuration after testing. He said:
I moved a small 4TB database from 24x 256G 15k SAS drives to 24x 240G OCZ Vertex 3 SATA3 drives [...] I think our actual rate was around $10 per drive more. However, the system as a whole (array+drives+computer) was $12k less.
So - we're still looking at 24 disks, each about 10$ more than the SAS drives, so that's 240 dollars more. Where did the 12,000 dollars in savings come from? 12,000 dollars buys you one hell of a computer, when you don't have to factor in the storage.
So if it is going for $550 at Amazon, I am sure he can get it for $500 or less
And your point is what, exactly?
Saving 12,000 dollars on a server, when the only apparent difference between two setups is 24 x HDD vs 24 x SSD (he doesn't specify anything else), means he'll have to pay 500 dollars MORE for each HDD than he would for the SSD. That was my point.
And since you can get a 300GB Seagate SAS 15k rpm HDD for less than 250 dollars a pop, the 12,000 dollars savings makes even less sense, as 24 of these will only cost 6,000 dollars. Now, I'm sure there are server manufacturers, who are willing to make you pay another 6,000 dollars for the rest of the server, but then you'd still have to be given a 24 x SSD array + server for free, just to be able to save 12,000 dollars.
This is why I asked my question, as I am pretty sure we're missing some very pertinent information regarding his setup and claim.
Considering the weight of a main battle tank, it's not like it'll be severely hampered by being equipped with a hundred or so autonomous quad copters equipped with high power spotlights (possibly infrared) and enough battery light for say 15 minutes.
They probably wouldn't even be very expensive, as they'd be designed as disposable units.
For that to work, you'd need to split both Oracle and Sun into separate companies in the EU (i.e. Oracle EU and Oracle Global) and in such a fashion that they aren't just shell corporations (and legislators tend to really antsy when you set up shell corporations to try to weasel your way out of things you don't want).
And if you do that, you'd inevitably end up in situations where Oracle World and Oracle EU are bidding on the same contracts, making them compete against each other. I'm pretty sure that'd be a worse situation.
Well, Oracle is of course allowed to stop doing business in the EU if they do not like the rules there.
It might make some people (like you) and even some of their shareholders happy. But allow me to show you some numbers.
Oracle's fiscal 2011 income: Total income: 35,622 million dollars Americas (North and South): 18,352 million dollars Europe, Middle East & Africa: 11,497 million dollars
Realistically most of the EMEA income is from the EU, just like most of the Americas income is from the US.
What you're suggesting is that they dump 32% of their revenue from day to day.
Some of that will be offset by laying off 22,394 employees in the EMEA, but that only makes up 20% of their total number of employees. Compare that to the 45,887 employees in the Americas.
The EMEA is a more profitable area for Oracle than the Americas from a pure income/employee point of view (514,000 vs 400,000 dollars)
But if we ignore the financial consequences, the competitive consequences of giving your main rivals 11 billion dollars a year and the sheer idiocy of believing that you shouldn't have to live up to the rules of the countries you operate in, then yeah - you have a really good idea there.
Go for it - I'm sure you'll have a lot of success at Oracle's next shareholders meeting.
With a sport, you can see all the player on the field at once and you can tell what they are doing.
So... cycling is not a sport? How about golf? Marathon?
There are plenty of sports that are pretty big TV spectator sports where it is impossible to see all contestants at once, even with the advantage of cameras.
I'm not at all looking forward to choosing whether to lie back or bend over before I get rightly screwed by whatever carrier I go with when I return.
Don't be ridiculous. You have lots and lots of choices in the US, when it comes to your cell phone service.
You get to choose how much, what colour, what scent, what taste, what manufacturer and what type of lube they use when they're raping your ass. That right there is hundreds if not thousands of combinations and choices.
Attention Germ freaks: A LITTLE GRIME WILL NEVER KILL YOU.
That definitely depends on the grime and where it ends up. If it's a nice mix of viable Ebola, MRSA, e-coli and bacillus anthracis, you probably don't want to swallow it.
The companies buying the raw materials are at fault, really.
They knowingly buy their raw materials from mining companies that they know will jack up prices as soon as their slightly more expensive competitors are out of business. The companies are idiots, because they're looking at quarterly financial statements rather than long term.
Sure, you may be able to buy the raw materials slightly cheaper now, but in two years you've helped drive the mining companies' competitors out of business, and you can bet your ass, that the savings you've had will be gone in months.
Say what you will about Apple, Apple's products and their prices, but they are more than capable of looking at long term goals. Just look at their massive deals for flash and displays - people thought they were stupid for locking themselves into such deals, but really they were shoring up their supply line for years and years, to the point where they weren't really affected by fluctuating market supply and pricing.
But hey - I'm not a financial genius who only knows how to extract the most money out of a company for my own personal gain in the shortest amount of time.
There are 21 times as many words in the English language that break this "rule" than do not.
It's weird how some of these sayings have come into being with no basis in truth, isn't it? I can only that society would break down if this was the case for other sayings.
No doubt the veil of ignorance is being torn down as I type.
Considering how detailed the fingerprint are, I suspect this could be a boon for police and similar when it comes to getting fingerprints from people. No more messy ink - instantly digital copy.
But I wonder how well it'd work for picking up fingerprints from objects.
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I can't speak for others, but I'm man enough to keep bees.
But trust me - it's hell getting a collar onto the bastards!
Of course it does. I mean - the wheel! That's not only an old invention, it's downright ancient! And don't even get me started on fire ... that's so old, even Neanderthals used it.
While this may be true, it is a dangerous way to proceed. If you spend too much time focusing on suspect A, and it later turns out that A did not do what he was suspected of, you now, essentially, have no case (depending on how long you spent focused on A).
Like this particular case. Suppose that these researchers are correct - Bruce Ivins couldn't have done this on his own or he wasn't the perpetrator. There is no way to hold the responsible people accountable now, and there is no incentive to do so either - in fact it might even be career suicide to try to restart an investigation like this, simply because of the number of people who will lose face.
To some extent, police investigations fail scientific rigor. They come up with a hypothesis and try their hardest to find evidence to support it, rather than coming up with a hypothesis and trying to disprove it.
They will. Oh, how they will! This year they'll only get 95% of the bonuses they got last year. That'll teach them!
This makes me curious
In your opinion, does the FDA serve no purpose (from a patient/consumer point of view) at all? And if it does, what do you suggesting doing with those purposes?
I take it you don't want any taxes levied at all?
It's a fair stance, but people tend to forget that taxes pay for a shit-ton of things they want themselves, that someone else probably don't want.
Some people don't want taxes to pay for health care.
Some people don't want taxes to pay for education.
Some people don't want taxes to pay for police.
Some people don't want taxes to pay for military.
Some people don't want taxes to pay for infrastructure.
Some people don't want taxes to pay for fire departments.
And so on and so forth.
Someone, somewhere, doesn't want to either pay taxes or have their taxes paying for something that someone else deems necessary.
So my question is - what is your solution to this quandary?
You mean like roads? Municipal water supplies? Sewage treatment?
I never presented a point of view - merely pointed out that the grandparent wasn't nearly as bad off as he made himself out to be.
Will get you kicked out of that 270 square foot apartment - not to mention that there's barely room for the beds.
Dead, only child, parents lived in an apartment.
4 USD in 1980 equals 10.44 USD in 2010. By comparison the Federal minimum wage is 7.25 USD, and Washington has the highest minimum wage of 8.67. In other words, in 2010 dollars, you made between 20 and 44 percent more than minimum wage.
Now cut that paycheck between the aforementioned 20 and 44. Assuming you only worked 40 hours a week back then, you'd now have to work between 48 and 58 hours a week to make the same paycheck, which would cut significantly into your available time for self-improvement.
Well, if Seagate is really using temp workers for their consumer HDDs, I suspect their read and write speeds would be horribly slow.
Not to mention possibly illegal?
The original poster didn't say anything about changing the server configuration after testing. He said:
So - we're still looking at 24 disks, each about 10$ more than the SAS drives, so that's 240 dollars more. Where did the 12,000 dollars in savings come from? 12,000 dollars buys you one hell of a computer, when you don't have to factor in the storage.
Or am I still being obtuse?
And there's such a thing called 'common sense'.
And your point is what, exactly?
Saving 12,000 dollars on a server, when the only apparent difference between two setups is 24 x HDD vs 24 x SSD (he doesn't specify anything else), means he'll have to pay 500 dollars MORE for each HDD than he would for the SSD. That was my point.
And since you can get a 300GB Seagate SAS 15k rpm HDD for less than 250 dollars a pop, the 12,000 dollars savings makes even less sense, as 24 of these will only cost 6,000 dollars. Now, I'm sure there are server manufacturers, who are willing to make you pay another 6,000 dollars for the rest of the server, but then you'd still have to be given a 24 x SSD array + server for free, just to be able to save 12,000 dollars.
This is why I asked my question, as I am pretty sure we're missing some very pertinent information regarding his setup and claim.
How do you save $12k, when switching from 24 HDD to 24 SSDs, when the SSDs are more expensive?
I'm especially curious, as you seem to somehow be given $500 for each SSD you bought.
Quad copters to the rescue?
Considering the weight of a main battle tank, it's not like it'll be severely hampered by being equipped with a hundred or so autonomous quad copters equipped with high power spotlights (possibly infrared) and enough battery light for say 15 minutes.
They probably wouldn't even be very expensive, as they'd be designed as disposable units.
For that to work, you'd need to split both Oracle and Sun into separate companies in the EU (i.e. Oracle EU and Oracle Global) and in such a fashion that they aren't just shell corporations (and legislators tend to really antsy when you set up shell corporations to try to weasel your way out of things you don't want).
And if you do that, you'd inevitably end up in situations where Oracle World and Oracle EU are bidding on the same contracts, making them compete against each other. I'm pretty sure that'd be a worse situation.
Well, Oracle is of course allowed to stop doing business in the EU if they do not like the rules there.
It might make some people (like you) and even some of their shareholders happy. But allow me to show you some numbers.
Oracle's fiscal 2011 income:
Total income: 35,622 million dollars
Americas (North and South): 18,352 million dollars
Europe, Middle East & Africa: 11,497 million dollars
Realistically most of the EMEA income is from the EU, just like most of the Americas income is from the US.
What you're suggesting is that they dump 32% of their revenue from day to day.
Some of that will be offset by laying off 22,394 employees in the EMEA, but that only makes up 20% of their total number of employees. Compare that to the 45,887 employees in the Americas.
The EMEA is a more profitable area for Oracle than the Americas from a pure income/employee point of view (514,000 vs 400,000 dollars)
But if we ignore the financial consequences, the competitive consequences of giving your main rivals 11 billion dollars a year and the sheer idiocy of believing that you shouldn't have to live up to the rules of the countries you operate in, then yeah - you have a really good idea there.
Go for it - I'm sure you'll have a lot of success at Oracle's next shareholders meeting.
So ... cycling is not a sport? How about golf? Marathon?
There are plenty of sports that are pretty big TV spectator sports where it is impossible to see all contestants at once, even with the advantage of cameras.
Don't be ridiculous. You have lots and lots of choices in the US, when it comes to your cell phone service.
You get to choose how much, what colour, what scent, what taste, what manufacturer and what type of lube they use when they're raping your ass. That right there is hundreds if not thousands of combinations and choices.
What more could you possibly ask for?
Which would be really cool. That way we'd have lots more rockets with which to launch ... uhm ... what, exactly?
That definitely depends on the grime and where it ends up. If it's a nice mix of viable Ebola, MRSA, e-coli and bacillus anthracis, you probably don't want to swallow it.
The companies buying the raw materials are at fault, really.
They knowingly buy their raw materials from mining companies that they know will jack up prices as soon as their slightly more expensive competitors are out of business. The companies are idiots, because they're looking at quarterly financial statements rather than long term.
Sure, you may be able to buy the raw materials slightly cheaper now, but in two years you've helped drive the mining companies' competitors out of business, and you can bet your ass, that the savings you've had will be gone in months.
Say what you will about Apple, Apple's products and their prices, but they are more than capable of looking at long term goals. Just look at their massive deals for flash and displays - people thought they were stupid for locking themselves into such deals, but really they were shoring up their supply line for years and years, to the point where they weren't really affected by fluctuating market supply and pricing.
But hey - I'm not a financial genius who only knows how to extract the most money out of a company for my own personal gain in the shortest amount of time.
Are those 20 dollars adjusted by inflation? Because 20 dollars would buy a hell of a lot more stuff in in 1776 than it would in 2010.
The relative worth of $20.00 from 1776 is
$515.00 using the Consumer Price Index
$10,500.00 using the unskilled wage index
There are 21 times as many words in the English language that break this "rule" than do not.
It's weird how some of these sayings have come into being with no basis in truth, isn't it? I can only that society would break down if this was the case for other sayings.
No doubt the veil of ignorance is being torn down as I type.
Considering how detailed the fingerprint are, I suspect this could be a boon for police and similar when it comes to getting fingerprints from people. No more messy ink - instantly digital copy.
But I wonder how well it'd work for picking up fingerprints from objects.
Indeed.
We only have to look at the United States to see just how effective the death penalty is for preventing capital offenses.