I'm thinking that possibly someone didn't know the difference between (10 cm^2) and (10 cm)^2... I've seen that a LOT of times, where someone talks about two miles squared and actually mean two square miles.
Thus it is very possible that Engadget meant 10x10 cm (hense my title). Obviously they didn't mean 10 cm x 1 cm. And either way, we have two sources giving very different reported sizes - hence my question.
I don't quite understand why being an environmental supporter/nutcase makes you left wing.
What if you're an environmental nutcase who is firmly against abortions? Does that make you centre? Center left if you're also for gun control? Centre right if you're against gun control and gay marriage?
Well, while vegetarian humans may have a seemingly lower environmental impact, everyone seems to forgetting the impact of all the supplements that they have to take, because the human body is evolved as an omnivore and thus needs various things we cannot get from a vegetable diet.
Read a few of the emerging case reports, like the these 68 young people [nih.gov] in Oceania who were in the ICU on heart-lung machines, of whom 1/3 died.
Well, from what I've read, heart-lung machines are pretty much only used in surgeries.
What you may be thinking of is more likely to be an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine combined with a respirator (my sister's on this at the moment, which is the only reason I know about this).
In adults, ECMO survival rates are around 60%, which fits nicely with what the doctors have told us. Usually this is because of sepsis and bleeding (they use anti coagulants). So, having 1/3rd of a group of adults die while on ECMO is within expectations.
Reading the link you posted, I see that you do indeed mean an EMCO, and interestingly the Wiki has another relevant thing to say about that study: ECMO has yet to have proven survival benefit in adults with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
And you're certainly exaggerating your case as well. You claim 1/3rd died. The study says These young adults with severe hypoxemia had a 21% mortality rate at the end of the study period.
In other words, no only is the mortality within what you would expect for ECMO patients, it's significantly (52%) lower than you'd expect.
That doesn't mean that the swine flu isn't a problem, just that the study you picked isn't a valid case to use as a foundation for this.
It seems it will only benefit to those that want to publish their software in an only binary form outside the framework of stablished distributions and that means closed source software.
Really? You cannot possibly imagine that someone making a tiny niche product outside of the purview of the established distributions would want to make binaries available to people?
Well, fuck you and your narrow minded obtuseness.
If I want to build in support for x86 64, i386, Power PC and a range of other platforms to make it easy for new users to get started, why the fuck would that mean PROPRIETARY CLOSED SOURCE SOFTWARE? Or did ease of use suddenly become a closed source model only?
The source tarballs linked here contain a snapshot from SVN: core source package system source package binfilter source package l10n source package extensions source package testautomation source package
Okay, I probably don't need testautomation. Might be able to do without extensions. Wtf is l10n? Okay, I probably don't need that either. Unless it can't build without it - after all, English is technically a localisation.
Screw it - I'll get them all.
2) Compile the damn thing Build instructions. Gotcha, I'm on Windows, I have Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Compiler (well better). Instructions:
This page is moved into the Building Guide. Please make sure to add new information there and make this page a redirect if it only contains duplicate information.
Well, at least the build instructions are completely updated and the wiki-editors have made sure that all the pages are up to date. I mean, it's not like that particular page has remained unchanged for a full quarter of a year.
Cygwin, C/C++ Compiler (VC++ 2008 Express), Windows SDK Server 2008, GDI+ Redistributrable, unicows.dll from Microsoft Layer for Unicode, dbghelp.dll, instsmiw.exe and instmsia.exe, various extra dll files, Apache Ant, Mozilla binary distribution, and yet more dll files.
Now, once you have Cygwin installed, you need to configure that properly. Breaking links to executables, ensuring filemode is unix, installing yet more perl modules and possibly fixing a few issues you might come across.
So, yeah, sure, you could build it yourself, if you have the source. And it comes with build instructions for your platform. And you know what you're doing. Good luck getting Joe Sixpack to compile OpenOffice.org from scratch.
Now, I'm sure some people will argue, that OpenOffice.org isn't free in the proper sense, but it's licensed under LGPL v3.
No, my example wasn't a Linux one. Who cares. The main point is that it's not just that easy to build from source. Especially if you're talking about products, that didn't have that platform as its first intended target.
Besides, what is so horrible about having fat binaries on Linux? Wouldn't it be kinda cool, if you could simply pop your installation dvd of RAGE and support for a Linux installation out of the box, instead of requiring you to buy the game and then download the installer from their website? Or having to hunt down a limited Linux edition somewhere?
Or are you sure a frothing at the mouth fanatic, that the very idea of having ANY kind of proprietary software taint your harddrive makes you go into anaphylactic shock? If you are, you need to go find your epinephrine pen, because the hardware platform you're using is very likely to be closed off for mere mortals by the sheer number of patents covering it.
Some of us would like to use our computers as tools. If
If you use SSD in a e.g. ZIL, if you have lot's of writes (meaning that your write journal is always at or near capacity) you will be lucky to get a tenth of the stated performance from most SSDs.
And why would you want to use most types of SSDs in an enterprise solution?
Most cars would be hopelessly useless in a Formula 1 race. Obviously there is absolutely no point in even having those kinds of races, as the useless cars to useful cars ratio for Formula 1 is several hundred million to one.
Hint: Don't use crappy products and expect stellar performance.
On those occasions where I need a big chunk of permanent storage, I'll just get some sort of external hard disk that will undoubtedly continue to plummet in price.
Well, Nokia uses the Micro USB connector. And Sony Ericsson seems to be on board as well.
Just by market share alone those two make up more than 45% of the world wide market for new phones.
Get any of LG, Samsung or Motorola to sign up for this, and you're looking at more than 50% of the market for new cell phones.
But even with 45% of the market for new phones, it's still a massive incentive for the rest of the market. You could end up with a situation where new phones don't come with a charger, and you pay maybe 10 bucks for a new one if you need it. After all, with 45% of new cell phones needing this kind og charger, that's a huge opportunity for selling them separately.
I, for one, would like to see something similar happen to laptops as well, even though my 95W power brick is over sized for a netbook, it'd be nice not to have to pay a minor fortune to find the right one.
If you're looking at hundreds of thousands of writes a day to your database, you really only need somewhere between 10 and 100 IO/second (there are 86,400 seconds in a day). Most hard drives handle that somewhat decently, especially if you use a good RAID configuration.
In other words, for a single track, the Intel drive will be almost 5 times as quick to start the write, and on average the Intel drive will be 38 times faster.
Or looking at it in another way, the absolute best case scenario where we simply ignore actually writing something, the Seagate drive can achieve 205,714,286 write operations per day (86,400 seconds/0.42 milliseconds). The Intel drive will hit 1.016.470.588.
While I can't find anyone benchmarking Intel's SSD offerings directly against the Savvio, I can find a mix of tests. From Tom's Hardware we see that SAS drives tops out at about 400 IOPS for any given task.
Using Tom's Hardware for a comparison, their review of the X25-M had it bottoming out at around 900 IPOS, making it perform 225% better at its worst, compared to the SAS drive's best.
Prices: Newegg.com doesn't have the Savvio, so I'm using Google instead: Seagate Savvio 15k.2 146 GB edition: US$ 226.44 or US$1.55/GB Intel X25-M 160 GB edition: US$ 439 or US$ 2.74/GB
Considering the performance advantage of at least 225%, you'd have to spend at least US$ 509.49 just to get the same kind of performance as you'd get from the US$ 439 drive from Intel. And that's just their mainstream edition. AND we're talking SSD's worst case scenario vs. SAS's best case scenario. Realistically we're talking much greater advantages for the SSD.
And you keep talking about "commodity SSDs" but refer to datacenters. A commodity harddrive is a 7.200 RPM 8 MB SATA drive, and they aren't suitable for a datacenter either. Duh! So why the fixation of comparing commodity hardware from one technology to enterprise hardware from another? Stop buying commodity hardware for your datacenter needs.
Sorry, the FACT that SSD has had write performance problems, wear leveling, and write endurance issues is by no means 10 year old information.
And yet you haven't caught on to the fact, that this isn't that big of a problem. Anandtech wrote an excellent paper on write performance problems, and his benchmarks are based on used drives (the drive has to perform deletes before writing), and he got these performances:
4KB Random Write Speed Intel X25-E 31.7 MB/s Intel X25-M 23.1 MB/s Western Digital VelociRaptor 1.63 MB/s
Isn't that double dipping? How is that even legal?
I can understand it, IF the parties are charged an amount equal to half (a third or however many parties there are) of the original property tax, but otherwise there will be absolutely no interest in settling this from the perspective of the government.
While I'm sure what you're saying is only giving a brief outline of what happens, it sounds as if you could use this method to ruin people you don't like.
Just cook up four or five fake deeds to their land, give it to shady people and have them press forward with lawsuits etc., and the county is getting plenty of money from the new "owners" and as such they have no interest in speeding up procedures.
And when someone finally folds, they'll get even MORE money in the land auctions. And as you said, now the actual owner have to spend even more money on buying his land, and the original perpetrator can now swoop in and buy the land and have it white washed through the county itself. Brilliant.
Not only is Cook County the second most populous county in the US (5.3 million by US census data), it ranks 17 by population density, 18 by housing density but only 411th of 3,141 by area(unsurprisingly the top 9 are all in Alaska, as well as 13 of the top 20).
And being the sheriff for 43% of the population of Illinois (1.91% of the entire US population) makes the "local sheriff" moniker sound like an attempt to make him sound like a hillbilly. Keep in mind he's the sheriff of a bigger populace than 30 US States can muster on their own. In fact he's the sheriff of a population bigger than Delaware, South Dakota, Alaska, North Dakota, Vermont, District of Columbia, Wyoming, Guam, US Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa combined.
Now, if the poster was talking about the Sheriff of Loving County (population 65), that'd be different. It's one of the few counties, where a single person will make a big difference to the population numbers.
The thing is, OK translates as "OK" into pretty much every language I know of.
"Accept", "encrypt", "agree" and any other suitable verb I can think of do not.
But - what do you suggest they should use instead? And considering that the "OK" button is quite common if not omnipresent in Windows, I take it you doubt that anyone has ever looked into any of Windows' issues.
Another possibility is that the people working on the GUI don't consider themselves suitable or knowledgeable enough to work on the more deep rooted things, and figured they'd pitch in where they couldn't do much harm. Is that really such a bad thing?
The last thing I want to be is 75 in a grocery store being told by a 19 year old that they can't give me change because the machine is, "like all broke or something", while the cash tray is open and all they have to do is reach in and grab it. Oh wait... that was last week. Of course there are the good days too. When another young person get's handed a 100 dollar bill to pay for something and I get handed back 160 dollars as change. Of course I sweetly pointed out that she should check her math again and she blushed and said thank you. I wish I was kidding about those two incidents. Sadly I am not.
The sad thing is, if you can do the fairly simple math in your head, you're treated like some kind of oddity. I had a stint in a bakery outlet, and insisted on keeping a running tally of the current total as people kept asking for stuff. It's easy to do when you know the prices. And yet it was as if 90% of the customers were watching a magic trick.
I can understand that a 10-year-old is somewhat impressed that I can hold a conversation, answer questions, keep track of the current total, tell them what various items cost and still add up. But when you're serving a 40-year-old and he's equally impressed, it's rather sad.
Sadly the 'death threat' I received via email wasn't some kind of advertisement and merely an attempt to scam me out of money:
Look here you bastard. You think i have time for this your stupid talk, i just inform you that some one paid me to kill you and you are here talking no sence to me. this is like the same warning pass on to the america government when they ignore it and it became and ignorance to them, and this is the same warning also pass to the most polular MUSICIAN WHO WAS SHORT DEAD IN SOUTH AFRICA. am also passing this warning to you so if you want to ignore it then you too will face in hell and join the devil.
If you do not comply and cooperate with me in your reply to this email, you will leave me no option as to instruct my Boys to get you shot, for your informations you are to Pay the sum of $3,500 Usd to live your life as a free Citizen, but if you ignore.... As a matter of fact the person whom insructed me to get you killed is waiting for your Funeral news.
That said, the US is much more regionally diverse (read 'f'ing big and spread out) compared to EU countries so it's much more challenging.
So? This isn't an EU wide law, it only applies to Finland. If the US can have state by state legislation on homosexuals marrying, why can't they have similar things for ISPs?
Let's pick a moderately small, rich and denser populated state - that way the state will look favourable compared to Finland in all aspects.
New York: Area: 54,555 sq mi Population 19,490,297 (2008 est.)
- Density 408.7/sq mi GDP: 1,144,481 million US$ Per capita: $58,720
Finland Area 130,596 sq mi Population 5,346,927 (2009 est.)
- Density 40/sq mi GDP: 271,867 million US$ Per capita: $51,588
So, New York state is richer than Finland (even per capita), it's denser populated, and it has almost four times as many potential customers. There is no reason New York state couldn't mandate similar requirements for ISPs operating there.
Hell, to avoid forcing it onto ISPs in essentially desolated areas, add a loop hole: Only required in counties with a population density above 50/sq mi. This is denser than Finland, but they're leaving out a bit of their essentially desolate areas as well.
Using Census.gov on counties and population density as the base, that leaves out the following counties: Allegany County, Herkimer County, St, Lawrence County, Delaware County, Franklin County, Essex County, Lewis County, Hamilton County.
Total population missing out: 396,648 (2.03%).
Hell, double the density requirements to >100/sq mi, and you only increase it to 1,412,872 (7.25%).
Considering the requirement to have nutritional values written onto the menus isn't subsidised by the state and it is only an extra expense forced onto the food industry who then either pass it on to the consumer or reduce their profit, I think mandated broadband access and requirements is a positive for New York state.
It would make it easier to start internet connected companies outside of the extremely dense cities, leading to cheaper rent and lower costs for the company, thus higher profits. This in turn would mean you can cut down on commute through dense traffic, it would make it cheaper to live near your job and generally could lead to less dense population centres.
And while I don't have hard numbers to back it up, I suspect you'll see less crime/population when the population density drops off. For instance, I would expect Montana to have less crime/population than New York State does.
I have a hard time seeing the downside to this kind of legislation in New York State.
Some will argue that it will result in higher costs for everyone, but why? If you have to live up to these requirements to be an ISP in New York State, it will add incentive for competition. If a low density county want to create their own ISP, then they simply have to add a local requirement for ISPs that they need to live up to the state legislation. If no outside ISPs want to do that, then they can build their own infrastructure. And since the county is only living up to state legislation, I doubt see any court willing to block it.
Sure, grandma who is happy with her modem, might not see a point in having broad band. Until she tries it. She was probably fine with having to pull water out of a well and using the outhouse until she tried running water and indoor plumbing - try convincing her to go without it now.
Who pays for this right not to have paint thinners in your milk? Is it completely subsidized by the government? Why shouldn't milk wholesalers in China be allowed to sell their idea of "milk" to US customers? Shouldn't the market be the one who decides, if this tainted milk should be sold or not? Isn't that the whole idea behind capitalism - letting the markets decide.
The Finnish government has simply changed the rules of what is required, if you want to be an ISP in Finland.
If you want to be an ISP, now you also have to provide 1 Mb/s connections to all your customers.
If the Finnish people (the ones paying the taxes and the ones that'll be customers) doesn't like this idea, they can fire the government.
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I'm thinking that possibly someone didn't know the difference between (10 cm^2) and (10 cm)^2 ... I've seen that a LOT of times, where someone talks about two miles squared and actually mean two square miles.
Thus it is very possible that Engadget meant 10x10 cm (hense my title). Obviously they didn't mean 10 cm x 1 cm. And either way, we have two sources giving very different reported sizes - hence my question.
The Engadget article says "10-centimeter wide image" where as the Register article that Engadget uses at its source says a 10cm^2 object.
That's quite a difference. If the image displayed is also in 4:3, that makes the Engadget image 7.5 times larger (10x7.5 cms).
I don't quite understand why being an environmental supporter/nutcase makes you left wing.
What if you're an environmental nutcase who is firmly against abortions? Does that make you centre? Center left if you're also for gun control? Centre right if you're against gun control and gay marriage?
Why am I reminded of the new vegetarian pot noodles they're selling in Korea?
Not Poodles.
Well, while vegetarian humans may have a seemingly lower environmental impact, everyone seems to forgetting the impact of all the supplements that they have to take, because the human body is evolved as an omnivore and thus needs various things we cannot get from a vegetable diet.
First of all, if it wasn't for strippers, quite a lot of nerds wouldn't get close to a real life naked woman.
Or do you mean that they strip down, run in and rob convenience stores? That'd be awesome ...
"Give me the money, or I'll do the helicopter!"
Well, from what I've read, heart-lung machines are pretty much only used in surgeries.
What you may be thinking of is more likely to be an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine combined with a respirator (my sister's on this at the moment, which is the only reason I know about this).
In adults, ECMO survival rates are around 60%, which fits nicely with what the doctors have told us. Usually this is because of sepsis and bleeding (they use anti coagulants). So, having 1/3rd of a group of adults die while on ECMO is within expectations.
Reading the link you posted, I see that you do indeed mean an EMCO, and interestingly the Wiki has another relevant thing to say about that study: ECMO has yet to have proven survival benefit in adults with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
And you're certainly exaggerating your case as well. You claim 1/3rd died. The study says These young adults with severe hypoxemia had a 21% mortality rate at the end of the study period.
In other words, no only is the mortality within what you would expect for ECMO patients, it's significantly (52%) lower than you'd expect.
That doesn't mean that the swine flu isn't a problem, just that the study you picked isn't a valid case to use as a foundation for this.
Well, kick whomever decided to call it "free software" instead of "liberated software" in the nuts.
Free has meant 'no charge' for a lot longer than it has meant 'free (as in liberated) software'.
Really? You cannot possibly imagine that someone making a tiny niche product outside of the purview of the established distributions would want to make binaries available to people?
Well, fuck you and your narrow minded obtuseness.
If I want to build in support for x86 64, i386, Power PC and a range of other platforms to make it easy for new users to get started, why the fuck would that mean PROPRIETARY CLOSED SOURCE SOFTWARE? Or did ease of use suddenly become a closed source model only?
. Yes ... you can.
Let's use OpenOffice.org as an example, if for no other reason than I was looking into building it optimized specifically for my computer (Windows).
Step 1) Getting the source
Okay, I probably don't need testautomation. Might be able to do without extensions. Wtf is l10n ? Okay, I probably don't need that either. Unless it can't build without it - after all, English is technically a localisation.
Screw it - I'll get them all.
2) Compile the damn thing
Build instructions. Gotcha, I'm on Windows, I have Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Compiler (well better). Instructions:
Well, at least the build instructions are completely updated and the wiki-editors have made sure that all the pages are up to date. I mean, it's not like that particular page has remained unchanged for a full quarter of a year.
Anyway, onwards and upwards. Build guide for Windows. Software requirements:
Now, once you have Cygwin installed, you need to configure that properly. Breaking links to executables, ensuring filemode is unix, installing yet more perl modules and possibly fixing a few issues you might come across.
So, yeah, sure, you could build it yourself, if you have the source. And it comes with build instructions for your platform. And you know what you're doing. Good luck getting Joe Sixpack to compile OpenOffice.org from scratch.
Now, I'm sure some people will argue, that OpenOffice.org isn't free in the proper sense, but it's licensed under LGPL v3.
No, my example wasn't a Linux one. Who cares. The main point is that it's not just that easy to build from source. Especially if you're talking about products, that didn't have that platform as its first intended target.
Besides, what is so horrible about having fat binaries on Linux? Wouldn't it be kinda cool, if you could simply pop your installation dvd of RAGE and support for a Linux installation out of the box, instead of requiring you to buy the game and then download the installer from their website? Or having to hunt down a limited Linux edition somewhere?
Or are you sure a frothing at the mouth fanatic, that the very idea of having ANY kind of proprietary software taint your harddrive makes you go into anaphylactic shock? If you are, you need to go find your epinephrine pen, because the hardware platform you're using is very likely to be closed off for mere mortals by the sheer number of patents covering it.
Some of us would like to use our computers as tools. If
And why would you want to use most types of SSDs in an enterprise solution?
Most cars would be hopelessly useless in a Formula 1 race. Obviously there is absolutely no point in even having those kinds of races, as the useless cars to useful cars ratio for Formula 1 is several hundred million to one.
Hint: Don't use crappy products and expect stellar performance.
This is why I love eSATA :D
Well, Nokia uses the Micro USB connector. And Sony Ericsson seems to be on board as well.
Just by market share alone those two make up more than 45% of the world wide market for new phones.
Get any of LG, Samsung or Motorola to sign up for this, and you're looking at more than 50% of the market for new cell phones.
But even with 45% of the market for new phones, it's still a massive incentive for the rest of the market. You could end up with a situation where new phones don't come with a charger, and you pay maybe 10 bucks for a new one if you need it. After all, with 45% of new cell phones needing this kind og charger, that's a huge opportunity for selling them separately.
I, for one, would like to see something similar happen to laptops as well, even though my 95W power brick is over sized for a netbook, it'd be nice not to have to pay a minor fortune to find the right one.
If you're looking at hundreds of thousands of writes a day to your database, you really only need somewhere between 10 and 100 IO/second (there are 86,400 seconds in a day). Most hard drives handle that somewhat decently, especially if you use a good RAID configuration.
Looking at 100,000,000 updates a day (1,158 writes/second)? Intel's X25-M is rated at more than 4 times that
Let's compare that to a 15k.2 Seagate Savvio harddrive. Oh, right, they don't list their IOPS ratings. Let's look at what they do have though:
Intel lists these figures:
In other words, for a single track, the Intel drive will be almost 5 times as quick to start the write, and on average the Intel drive will be 38 times faster.
Or looking at it in another way, the absolute best case scenario where we simply ignore actually writing something, the Seagate drive can achieve 205,714,286 write operations per day (86,400 seconds/0.42 milliseconds). The Intel drive will hit 1.016.470.588.
While I can't find anyone benchmarking Intel's SSD offerings directly against the Savvio, I can find a mix of tests. From Tom's Hardware we see that SAS drives tops out at about 400 IOPS for any given task.
Using Tom's Hardware for a comparison, their review of the X25-M had it bottoming out at around 900 IPOS, making it perform 225% better at its worst, compared to the SAS drive's best.
Prices:
Newegg.com doesn't have the Savvio, so I'm using Google instead:
Seagate Savvio 15k.2 146 GB edition: US$ 226.44 or US$1.55/GB
Intel X25-M 160 GB edition: US$ 439 or US$ 2.74/GB
Considering the performance advantage of at least 225%, you'd have to spend at least US$ 509.49 just to get the same kind of performance as you'd get from the US$ 439 drive from Intel. And that's just their mainstream edition. AND we're talking SSD's worst case scenario vs. SAS's best case scenario. Realistically we're talking much greater advantages for the SSD.
And you keep talking about "commodity SSDs" but refer to datacenters. A commodity harddrive is a 7.200 RPM 8 MB SATA drive, and they aren't suitable for a datacenter either. Duh! So why the fixation of comparing commodity hardware from one technology to enterprise hardware from another? Stop buying commodity hardware for your datacenter needs.
And yet you haven't caught on to the fact, that this isn't that big of a problem. Anandtech wrote an excellent paper on write performance problems, and his benchmarks are based on used drives (the drive has to perform deletes before writing), and he got these performances:
The VelociRaptor i
Isn't that double dipping? How is that even legal?
I can understand it, IF the parties are charged an amount equal to half (a third or however many parties there are) of the original property tax, but otherwise there will be absolutely no interest in settling this from the perspective of the government.
While I'm sure what you're saying is only giving a brief outline of what happens, it sounds as if you could use this method to ruin people you don't like.
Just cook up four or five fake deeds to their land, give it to shady people and have them press forward with lawsuits etc., and the county is getting plenty of money from the new "owners" and as such they have no interest in speeding up procedures.
And when someone finally folds, they'll get even MORE money in the land auctions. And as you said, now the actual owner have to spend even more money on buying his land, and the original perpetrator can now swoop in and buy the land and have it white washed through the county itself. Brilliant.
I swear to The Flying Spaghetti Monster that I read that as
Not only is Cook County the second most populous county in the US (5.3 million by US census data), it ranks 17 by population density, 18 by housing density but only 411th of 3,141 by area(unsurprisingly the top 9 are all in Alaska, as well as 13 of the top 20).
And being the sheriff for 43% of the population of Illinois (1.91% of the entire US population) makes the "local sheriff" moniker sound like an attempt to make him sound like a hillbilly. Keep in mind he's the sheriff of a bigger populace than 30 US States can muster on their own. In fact he's the sheriff of a population bigger than Delaware, South Dakota, Alaska, North Dakota, Vermont, District of Columbia, Wyoming, Guam, US Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands and American Samoa combined.
Now, if the poster was talking about the Sheriff of Loving County (population 65), that'd be different. It's one of the few counties, where a single person will make a big difference to the population numbers.
The thing is, OK translates as "OK" into pretty much every language I know of.
"Accept", "encrypt", "agree" and any other suitable verb I can think of do not.
But - what do you suggest they should use instead? And considering that the "OK" button is quite common if not omnipresent in Windows, I take it you doubt that anyone has ever looked into any of Windows' issues.
Another possibility is that the people working on the GUI don't consider themselves suitable or knowledgeable enough to work on the more deep rooted things, and figured they'd pitch in where they couldn't do much harm. Is that really such a bad thing?
Silly question, but what speed is Mach 1 in a vacuum?
Or is it Mach 1 for the exhaust fumes?
The sad thing is, if you can do the fairly simple math in your head, you're treated like some kind of oddity. I had a stint in a bakery outlet, and insisted on keeping a running tally of the current total as people kept asking for stuff. It's easy to do when you know the prices. And yet it was as if 90% of the customers were watching a magic trick.
I can understand that a 10-year-old is somewhat impressed that I can hold a conversation, answer questions, keep track of the current total, tell them what various items cost and still add up. But when you're serving a 40-year-old and he's equally impressed, it's rather sad.
Sadly the 'death threat' I received via email wasn't some kind of advertisement and merely an attempt to scam me out of money:
Oddly enough that email cheered me up when I received it.
They make money when you convert Linden$ to real money. And they make money from land rentals. I suspect the last one is the large money maker.
So? This isn't an EU wide law, it only applies to Finland. If the US can have state by state legislation on homosexuals marrying, why can't they have similar things for ISPs?
Let's pick a moderately small, rich and denser populated state - that way the state will look favourable compared to Finland in all aspects.
New York:
Area: 54,555 sq mi
Population 19,490,297 (2008 est.)
- Density 408.7/sq mi
GDP: 1,144,481 million US$
Per capita: $58,720
Finland
Area 130,596 sq mi
Population 5,346,927 (2009 est.)
- Density 40/sq mi
GDP: 271,867 million US$
Per capita: $51,588
So, New York state is richer than Finland (even per capita), it's denser populated, and it has almost four times as many potential customers. There is no reason New York state couldn't mandate similar requirements for ISPs operating there.
Hell, to avoid forcing it onto ISPs in essentially desolated areas, add a loop hole: Only required in counties with a population density above 50/sq mi. This is denser than Finland, but they're leaving out a bit of their essentially desolate areas as well.
Using Census.gov on counties and population density as the base, that leaves out the following counties:
Allegany County, Herkimer County, St, Lawrence County, Delaware County, Franklin County, Essex County, Lewis County, Hamilton County.
Total population missing out: 396,648 (2.03%).
Hell, double the density requirements to >100/sq mi, and you only increase it to 1,412,872 (7.25%).
Considering the requirement to have nutritional values written onto the menus isn't subsidised by the state and it is only an extra expense forced onto the food industry who then either pass it on to the consumer or reduce their profit, I think mandated broadband access and requirements is a positive for New York state.
It would make it easier to start internet connected companies outside of the extremely dense cities, leading to cheaper rent and lower costs for the company, thus higher profits. This in turn would mean you can cut down on commute through dense traffic, it would make it cheaper to live near your job and generally could lead to less dense population centres.
And while I don't have hard numbers to back it up, I suspect you'll see less crime/population when the population density drops off. For instance, I would expect Montana to have less crime/population than New York State does.
I have a hard time seeing the downside to this kind of legislation in New York State.
Some will argue that it will result in higher costs for everyone, but why? If you have to live up to these requirements to be an ISP in New York State, it will add incentive for competition. If a low density county want to create their own ISP, then they simply have to add a local requirement for ISPs that they need to live up to the state legislation. If no outside ISPs want to do that, then they can build their own infrastructure. And since the county is only living up to state legislation, I doubt see any court willing to block it.
Sure, grandma who is happy with her modem, might not see a point in having broad band. Until she tries it. She was probably fine with having to pull water out of a well and using the outhouse until she tried running water and indoor plumbing - try convincing her to go without it now.
Shh ... don't tell them that. They'll just think we're liberal, commie bastards.
Who pays for this right not to have paint thinners in your milk? Is it completely subsidized by the government? Why shouldn't milk wholesalers in China be allowed to sell their idea of "milk" to US customers? Shouldn't the market be the one who decides, if this tainted milk should be sold or not? Isn't that the whole idea behind capitalism - letting the markets decide.
The Finnish government has simply changed the rules of what is required, if you want to be an ISP in Finland.
If you want to be an ISP, now you also have to provide 1 Mb/s connections to all your customers.
If the Finnish people (the ones paying the taxes and the ones that'll be customers) doesn't like this idea, they can fire the government.
Why is that an issue?