The question was not what is a blog, which is also an interesting question in its own right, but what is the use of a blog.
It's a question everyone contemplating starting a blog should have a clear answer to before going on with things; and the very reason I do not have one is because I have never been able to formulate a clear answer.
Are you saying that everybody who is going to buy a dual-core processor has already bought one, and next such CPU's wont be sold until 2007-2008??
No, what he is saying is that the early adopters, those who have legitimate imediate need and those who purchase simply because "it's better" have already bought one and that it won't be a conventional purpose for a couple more years.
The Cycle: A concetration of buying from the early adopters, a slow dribble for awhile, then commodity buying.
Poster is not suggesting that Intel won't sell any dual core chips, merely that they are entering the market just as the market shifts to slow dribble sales. That they've missed the boat on the early buyers who you rely on to return your capital investment.
MIT was MIT when Harvard was a pup And MIT will be MIT when Harvard's time is up And if any Harvard son of a bitch thinks he's in our class He can pucker up his rosey lips and kiss the beaver's ass
And should we find a Harvard man within our sacred walls We'll take him to the physics lab and amputate his balls And if he should cry uncle well I'll tell ya what we'll do We'll stuff his ass with broken glass and seal it up with glue
Mules require feeding, housing, care and medical attention even when they are not being used. The people who provide this care require feeding, housing, care, medical attention and money even when the mule is not being used. Given our petrol based way of doing everything (like growing oats) all of this actually means that a mule burns more petrol over its useful life than a machine does, because it's burning it 24/7.
Mules are also notoriously, well, mulish.
The car did not replace the horse because it was more luxurious. At the the time it was anything but. It replaced the horse because it was less expensive to purchase and own, as well as far less trouble.
The primary problem with this device is, however, what you allude to. It can run out of gas. We're not talking about Patton's tank column here. We're talking about an ordinary dogface soldier, a grunt, becoming dependant on petrol to carry his pack for him
Join the Army. Learn to be a wuss.
I'm not sure this is a good tactic just at a time when wars are becoming increasingly about petrol, because it's in short supply. The Nez Perce might well have ground our modern army to a halt and made good their escape to Canada.
Why don't you stick to the argument instead of making irrelevant and silly assumptions about what I drive?
It doesn't matter what you drive. Only that you drive.
Petroleum is found concentrated energy. All other alternative fuels require large quanties of themselves to produce themselves . ..or large quantities of petroleum.
The current cost of soybean oil is directly related to the low cost of petroleum. Remove the petroleum from the equation and the cost skyrockets; and with increased demand will skyrocket even more, because you cannot grow enough soybeans to replace the quatity of found petroleum we are currently burning, let alone future needs.
You seem to be living in a world where you believe your wishes make things so.
I'm afraid they don't. Welcome to reality. Get used to it. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
But compare the cost of food grade high proof alcohol to the cost of industrial alcohol and you'll see why your argument falls flat on its face.
Non food grade alcohol is actually just as, if not more, expensive to produce.
The difference in cost is primarly made up of a tax. For high end shit you also add in the price of aging, which fuel doesn't require, because it doesn't have to taste good.
My argument stands. If you doubt it try empirical test and produce some yourself. I have.
One of the things you will find is that biofuel production requires large quantities of energy to run. And where do you suppose that energy is going to come from?
No perpetual motion machines need apply.
Here's the deal. As oil stocks diminish fuel is going to get scarcer and more expensive, because even the cost of biofuel is highly dependant on oil prices. The farming machinery does not run on pixie dust, nor does the oil extract itself from the soybeans, or ship iteself to your local filling station.
You can, of course, use people instead of machines. Lots of people. People need fuel. Like, oh, I don't know, soybeans, to run.
I'd sell the SUV and learn how to bicycle properly if I were you.
The sun does not automagically plant and tend and harvest the soybean plants. Now figure in the energy cost of extracting the oil. Then shipping it to you.
If you wish to be solar powered why not just put solar cells on the roof of your car?
Aha! The sun doens't provide enough energy for that. You need many acres of concentrated solar energy.
I'd like to know how they're still in business with all the lawyer fees they've racked up.
a)They cut a deal to cap their legal fees at $31 million, plus a contingency fee should they should they win a case. They paid $12.6 million (the outstanding at the time) down and $2 million a quarter until December when the $31 mil was scheduled to be paid off.
b)Just because they cut the checks doesn't mean that they are the ultimate source of the money. A couple years ago the Big Mc said in an interview that one of SCO's motivations in filing these suits was that they were approached by other companies and asked to do what they could to "monitize Linux." We don't know, like, fer sure, just who these companies are, but it might be interesting to look at who has been cutting SCO really, really big checks for really, really dubious license rights.
Hint: They both have a capital S in their names; and they've both used the SCO case to promote indemnification FUD to promote sales of their own software.
KFG
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"Typically when someone yells, "fore!" they are yelling to the people they just hit into in front on them. So insteand of fore, why don't they yell "Aft!"
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The final part of the quote: "They're not always better for the consumer" needs to be looked at differently.
No, it doesn't. Thank you for getting out of the business.
KFG
Hack is gone. His blog had a clear and necessary use and the Wonkette cannot replace him.
KFG
. . .it's anything you want it to be.
The question was not what is a blog, which is also an interesting question in its own right, but what is the use of a blog.
It's a question everyone contemplating starting a blog should have a clear answer to before going on with things; and the very reason I do not have one is because I have never been able to formulate a clear answer.
KFG
Good question.
KFG
And new computers are being sold to companies/people all the time.
I not only did not say anything to deny this, I avered that it was so.
KFG
Are you saying that everybody who is going to buy a dual-core processor has already bought one, and next such CPU's wont be sold until 2007-2008??
No, what he is saying is that the early adopters, those who have legitimate imediate need and those who purchase simply because "it's better" have already bought one and that it won't be a conventional purpose for a couple more years.
The Cycle: A concetration of buying from the early adopters, a slow dribble for awhile, then commodity buying.
Poster is not suggesting that Intel won't sell any dual core chips, merely that they are entering the market just as the market shifts to slow dribble sales. That they've missed the boat on the early buyers who you rely on to return your capital investment.
KFG
Um, Harvard's between 223 and 229 years older than MIT
Yes. Harvard's development has always been a bit, well, retarded.
KFG
MIT was MIT when Harvard was a pup
And MIT will be MIT when Harvard's time is up
And if any Harvard son of a bitch thinks he's in our class
He can pucker up his rosey lips and kiss the beaver's ass
And should we find a Harvard man within our sacred walls
We'll take him to the physics lab and amputate his balls
And if he should cry uncle well I'll tell ya what we'll do
We'll stuff his ass with broken glass and seal it up with glue
KFG
. . .are they so different that this won't be possible?
Yes.
KFG
By the way, did you hear about the new twelve-blade razor for Gillete? It's the best razor ever!
I'm waiting for the thirteen-blade with ultrasonic action, an iPod interface - and a frickin' laser beam on its head.
A shave so "close" it'll expose your esophagus, while sounding great.
KFG
Capture a soldier, capture a Mr. Fusion.
Cool!
KFG
Mules require feeding, housing, care and medical attention even when they are not being used. The people who provide this care require feeding, housing, care, medical attention and money even when the mule is not being used. Given our petrol based way of doing everything (like growing oats) all of this actually means that a mule burns more petrol over its useful life than a machine does, because it's burning it 24/7.
Mules are also notoriously, well, mulish.
The car did not replace the horse because it was more luxurious. At the the time it was anything but. It replaced the horse because it was less expensive to purchase and own, as well as far less trouble.
The primary problem with this device is, however, what you allude to. It can run out of gas. We're not talking about Patton's tank column here. We're talking about an ordinary dogface soldier, a grunt, becoming dependant on petrol to carry his pack for him
Join the Army. Learn to be a wuss.
I'm not sure this is a good tactic just at a time when wars are becoming increasingly about petrol, because it's in short supply. The Nez Perce might well have ground our modern army to a halt and made good their escape to Canada.
KFG
My definition of success is how many people use it.
Mine is if it works. So much for Oracle and the other major technological corporations.
KFG
I DON'T DRIVE, RETARD.
Cool. Let's go for a bike ride.
Although I might point out that the person who brought us our fuel for our bike ride drove it to us.
KFG
90% of the world's methanol is produced from petroleum stocks.Much of the rest comes from coal. It's easier and cheaper that way.
KFG
Why don't you stick to the argument instead of making irrelevant and silly assumptions about what I drive?
.or large quantities of petroleum.
It doesn't matter what you drive. Only that you drive.
Petroleum is found concentrated energy. All other alternative fuels require large quanties of themselves to produce themselves . .
The current cost of soybean oil is directly related to the low cost of petroleum. Remove the petroleum from the equation and the cost skyrockets; and with increased demand will skyrocket even more, because you cannot grow enough soybeans to replace the quatity of found petroleum we are currently burning, let alone future needs.
You seem to be living in a world where you believe your wishes make things so.
I'm afraid they don't. Welcome to reality. Get used to it. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
KFG
That's because the industrial stuff is intentionally contaminated to make it undrinkable
Which raises the cost of production. It is, of course, denatured with petroleum products.
KFG
Wow, are you gonna demand that your vehicle fuels be efficient and delcious?
See my other post on food grade vs. non food grade alcohol.
KFG
But compare the cost of food grade high proof alcohol to the cost of industrial alcohol and you'll see why your argument falls flat on its face.
Non food grade alcohol is actually just as, if not more, expensive to produce.
The difference in cost is primarly made up of a tax. For high end shit you also add in the price of aging, which fuel doesn't require, because it doesn't have to taste good.
My argument stands. If you doubt it try empirical test and produce some yourself. I have.
One of the things you will find is that biofuel production requires large quantities of energy to run. And where do you suppose that energy is going to come from?
No perpetual motion machines need apply.
Here's the deal. As oil stocks diminish fuel is going to get scarcer and more expensive, because even the cost of biofuel is highly dependant on oil prices. The farming machinery does not run on pixie dust, nor does the oil extract itself from the soybeans, or ship iteself to your local filling station.
You can, of course, use people instead of machines. Lots of people. People need fuel. Like, oh, I don't know, soybeans, to run.
I'd sell the SUV and learn how to bicycle properly if I were you.
KFG
I'm a farmer, among other things.
You, obviously, are not.
The sun does not automagically plant and tend and harvest the soybean plants. Now figure in the energy cost of extracting the oil. Then shipping it to you.
If you wish to be solar powered why not just put solar cells on the roof of your car?
Aha! The sun doens't provide enough energy for that. You need many acres of concentrated solar energy.
There's no such thing as a free lunch.
KFG
I'm sure large scale production and consumption would help things along.
Dude, it's already produced in large enough scale that you can buy gallons of it in any supermarkt; and hightened demand will only raise the price.
Sorry, no magical silver bullet to be seen here. Move along.
KFG
Its about $2.50/gallon ... not much savings currently.
And expect its price to go up, in a hurry, soon. Its production is petroleum dependant.
Of course you could use the soybean oil to grow the soybeans, to power the farm, to grow the soybeans, to power the farm, to grow the. . .
There's a hole in the bucket, dean Liza, dear Liza. There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza.
A hole.
KFG
I don't think MS has capitalized the S since the early 90's though...
Sorry, I'm old. I didn't mean to be, it just sort of happened while I was paying attention to other things.
KFG
I'd like to know how they're still in business with all the lawyer fees they've racked up.
a)They cut a deal to cap their legal fees at $31 million, plus a contingency fee should they should they win a case. They paid $12.6 million (the outstanding at the time) down and $2 million a quarter until December when the $31 mil was scheduled to be paid off.
b)Just because they cut the checks doesn't mean that they are the ultimate source of the money. A couple years ago the Big Mc said in an interview that one of SCO's motivations in filing these suits was that they were approached by other companies and asked to do what they could to "monitize Linux." We don't know, like, fer sure, just who these companies are, but it might be interesting to look at who has been cutting SCO really, really big checks for really, really dubious license rights.
Hint: They both have a capital S in their names; and they've both used the SCO case to promote indemnification FUD to promote sales of their own software.
KFG
"Typically when someone yells, "fore!" they are yelling to the people they just hit into in front on them. So insteand of fore, why don't they yell "Aft!"
Because there's no accounting for people.
KFG