Well, if he is working for a bank then I think the cost per gigabyte could be justified. Lets says that the banking information for a given customer consumes 10 megabytes(this number is subject to a great variance), basically its all just text though right? Now per terabyte we have 100,000 customers. Im taking the cost per gigabyte to be cost per year, so the cost per customer is $36 per year or $3 per month. Now if you have any loans as do most people 3$ out of your monthly payment is pretty much insignificant. I would imagine that the redundancy involved here for a bank is 2 steps above insane, and it works because a bank can afford to do it.
That said, I imagine the number the author is giving us is skewed somehow to include to include the cost of something that should not have been included in the figure. Even if it is just from very expensive IT, the cost of in house software, and crazy good testing you can see that the cost per gigabyte means very little compared to the value of information on that gigabyte.
In a thorium reactor some Thorium 233 will be produced, but it has half life on the order of minutes. The Thorium 233 decays into Protactinium 233 which decays into Uranium 233 after 27 days. My point is that the actual fuel is not what would be used as a weapon.
I have a prof doing research with it, I have heard his pitch for thorium more times than I can count, it is supposed to be abundant enough to provide energy for 30,000 years for the entire planet, I suppose that number would change with growth and increased energy use but even so it seems to be a big part of thte puzzle to our energy woes.
The future of energy is in thorium. It a) cant be weaponized, b) is cleaner, c) does not need to be throttled up like uranium. They are developing these plants in other parts of the world such as india.
So clearly they are not actually recouping 'damages' done to them, so this is basically evidence that they are doing this for spite/obviously they have the money to spare. I read some article today(may have been on/.) that the artists only pull in like 23$/1000$ on record sales. Idk how realistic that is but it backs up that the RIAA does not care about anybody or anything.
I had never heard of this happening before a week and a half ago, my cousin and his wife were crossing the street in Rio de Janeiro and a manhole cover blew off throwing her a few meters and burning 80% of her body and cousin only had 35% of his body burned. They are both doing ok, luckily no third degree burns, but the idea that this can happen is absurd. I thought that is was ridiculous that this could happen in South American country, but especially so that it happens in NYC.
I completely agree with your points but just to make a small comment, I bought my first mac 6 months after vista had gone retail, 3 months after that Leopard was out. My MBP is (at least) 2 years ahead of Windows 7 in "it just works".
I have a mac because I was tired of dealing with a PC, i value my time. I understand how to work with files, I still prefer itunes so I dont have to waste my time. My time is much more valuable that being used to deal with computer problems. If I actually had to count the number of hours that I would waste on windows trying to do they simple things that 'just work' on mymac I am sure it would exceed any price difference in the hardware. Also I am done with hardware trouble shooting and trying to fix computers or deal with not as stable as could be custom builds.
Not to open up a flame war but I need to make a quick point on how useful the ability to tether, use linux and flash, I will keep it to a minimal here. I do not mean just on one smart phone, if you are using you laptop, you are sitting down somewhere which in all likelihood has (free) wifi, mainstream consumers(read: non technically inclined people) have little use with linux(not to fault distros like ubuntu which will serve most users needs but most people do not want to learn something new), and flash is a good way to heat up my computer.
If you want to give citations for your 'better' network, 'cheaper' data plan(inexpensive was the word you were looking for, which I still think would be inaccurate) and 'better' data service, that would be nice. That does not include tv ads demonstrating 3g speed differences, some form of 3rd least biased party, please.
seriously, the patriot drive out performs the seagate hybrid third run by a factor of 2-3 in everything except the 'media center' benchmark. What appears to be a 10% difference if you dont look at/or understand the scale between the patriot and seagate 7200.11 is a factor of 2 difference. In short the graph is bullshit trying to make the seagate hybrid look comparable to the patriot.
because it is also aimed towards being a consumer product, and on that note, what makes you thinks the average consumer understands what a (shortish)long-term investment is?
P.S. Unless you are going with something like the dell studio hybrid which starts at 500$ then you will have greater power consumption than a mac mini which maxes out at 110W, a big consideration in enterprise.
its apples and oranges, pun intended. It is unreasonable to assume you have to buy an apple monitor with the mini, just buy a 125$ 20" from newegg, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009158 , and a keyboard/mouse combo for another 20$. Without question, out of the box, Macs are geared for creativity, aka iLife, which is just about useless in an enterprise environment. But also out of the box you have iCal, mail, address book, itunes, preview and time machine. I will state upfront, i have used win7 for less than 15 minutes of my life so I am not up to date with windows. Also I learned just now that XP has an address book. I think that for out of the box something that syncs your phone contacts, calendar and mail as well as macs do is pretty awesome. Also something(itunes) that can sync that with your email account(gmail, yahoo at least) with your contacts is very nice. Our of the box you have preview with opens pdfs, pretty much any type of images, also OS X makes previews of psds, docx, xlsx, etc available in the finder cover flow. To my knowledge windows does not do this without the help of adobe reader or the previews like OS X at all. Time machine can backup locally(usb disk) or over a network to a server drive, and restoring after a HD crash or to new hardware is very simple and easy. I have upgraded the hard drive in my MBP and it was an amazing feeling when i just hit restore after installing snow leopard and a few hours later I was back to where I was when I last shut down my mac, its like nothing happened.
Nice to haves, but not out of the box are, iWork and mobile me. MS Office business edition(no student and home for enterprise which is still $150)for mac is $400, http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office2008/shop-now.mspx. iWork is 80$, excuse the possible bias but ms office for mac is overpriced and crippled. It seems office 2007 small business($450) is closer to mac ms office business in features but office standard is the most comparable to iWork and matches the mac ms office cost at $400. Again you cannot use the cheaper home and student editions on windows, you have to go full versions in business. So for the average cubicle worker (non engineer/science type) word excel power point, pages, numbers, keynote will do just fine. MobileMe: nice to sync on the go if you did not sync over usb before you left, or if you drop your iphone in a puddle after you added meeting times and contact information.
Worth noting, mac hardware is the same price in their business store, http://store.apple.com/us_smb_78313?cid=AOSA10000022131, as their regular store. I will leave it to the parent author to provide a link to a 500$ system with windows, a 20" monitor from a business computer division of a company.
So out of the box all you have to install on a mac is iWork, which you can order preinstalled, not nearly the same case for windows.
So cost for average cubicle worker(excuse my lingo), windows = 500hardware + 400office = 900$, mac = 700+80+125+20 = $925, negligible difference IMHO, I leave the final score up to you.
somehow i doubt apple will be changing the hardware architecture every 3 years. This is a one time only valid argument in reference to snow leopard and G5's, but since you went down that road, at least apple sells hardware that runs the operating system it is advertised to run.
Wait until Dec. 31, 9999. Watch as people panic about there being 5 digits in the year and how programs were only written to accommodate 4 digit years for the past 8000 years!
I wouldnt sweat the 5 dgits, we only have 2 years 350 days +/- a few hours till the earth goes back to zero(if even that, possibly even negative relative to the next sentient species that comes to be on earth)
Not that I disagree on telling some one they are going to burn in hell is an abusive thing to say, but they still should have the right to say it. I have heard it go something like, "I do not agree with what you say, but I will die defending your right to say it". In short fuck off for advocating civil rights infringements. For the record, I am of the agnostic persuasion.
government based debit card? do you know how much the IRS would love have every single transaction electronically documented? Not to mention how hard this would make drug transactions among other things. I actually wouldn't mind getting rid of checks/cash, I think I have only written a check once, maybe twice, and the only reason I use cash is if someone gave it to me, otherwise I just use my debit/credit card. For my generation at least it seems that checks are just as useless as being able to write in cursive. I remember through like 3rd grade they had us practicing cursive, because its faster and thats how you write business letters and whatever. My little rant aside, checks are a waste of time, money and efficiency.
It is (i^2)*R actually, and for a typical computer power cable we are looking at 18 gauge wire which is 6.5/1000 feet, http://www.interfacebus.com/Copper_Wire_AWG_SIze.html (i hate the customary system but god dammit I hate mixed units even more) and at 1030 watts, http://www.dell.com/us/en/business/servers/server-poweredge-r900/pd.aspx?refid=server-poweredge-r900&s=bsd&cs=04, which will vary from server to server. The line voltage to the servers will all be the same so the resistive losses will increase exponentially relative current or linearly relative to the line length. So when you need to run on backup power, having the backup power supply immediately next to the server will either allow you to buy relatively less powerful units and or just get equally powerful units and run longer in case of a power outage. For the sake of argument lets say its only 100 feet between the servers and backup power units, which at 120volts on the power cable(assuming its the same as desktop computers) we have ~8.6 amps. Which at 100ft and 6.5/1000 ft we get ~48 watts of power losses which is a 4.6% loss before you get any power to the actually server which Im sure will take at least another 15% loss.
better question, how would they physically handle a processor that small, 4004 has 2300 transistors, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004 , and the i7 has 731 million transistors at 45nm at 263 mm^2, http://www.legitreviews.com/article/824/1/ , So by those numbers the 4004 on a 45 nm process would have an area of.00082749 mm^2 or 1/317826th the physical size of an i7 die. Disclaimer: this is a very rough calculation, but in any case it is more than 5 orders of magnitude smaller than an i7. On the other hand you could have the king of multicore processors....
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Well, if he is working for a bank then I think the cost per gigabyte could be justified. Lets says that the banking information for a given customer consumes 10 megabytes(this number is subject to a great variance), basically its all just text though right? Now per terabyte we have 100,000 customers. Im taking the cost per gigabyte to be cost per year, so the cost per customer is $36 per year or $3 per month. Now if you have any loans as do most people 3$ out of your monthly payment is pretty much insignificant. I would imagine that the redundancy involved here for a bank is 2 steps above insane, and it works because a bank can afford to do it.
That said, I imagine the number the author is giving us is skewed somehow to include to include the cost of something that should not have been included in the figure. Even if it is just from very expensive IT, the cost of in house software, and crazy good testing you can see that the cost per gigabyte means very little compared to the value of information on that gigabyte.
That bit rate gonna byte you in the ass when the bill comes!
In a thorium reactor some Thorium 233 will be produced, but it has half life on the order of minutes. The Thorium 233 decays into Protactinium 233 which decays into Uranium 233 after 27 days. My point is that the actual fuel is not what would be used as a weapon.
I have a prof doing research with it, I have heard his pitch for thorium more times than I can count, it is supposed to be abundant enough to provide energy for 30,000 years for the entire planet, I suppose that number would change with growth and increased energy use but even so it seems to be a big part of thte puzzle to our energy woes.
The future of energy is in thorium. It a) cant be weaponized, b) is cleaner, c) does not need to be throttled up like uranium. They are developing these plants in other parts of the world such as india.
So clearly they are not actually recouping 'damages' done to them, so this is basically evidence that they are doing this for spite/obviously they have the money to spare. I read some article today(may have been on /.) that the artists only pull in like 23$/1000$ on record sales. Idk how realistic that is but it backs up that the RIAA does not care about anybody or anything.
I had never heard of this happening before a week and a half ago, my cousin and his wife were crossing the street in Rio de Janeiro and a manhole cover blew off throwing her a few meters and burning 80% of her body and cousin only had 35% of his body burned. They are both doing ok, luckily no third degree burns, but the idea that this can happen is absurd. I thought that is was ridiculous that this could happen in South American country, but especially so that it happens in NYC.
So this means that the Dark Side is stronger than the Light Side it seems.
I completely agree with your points but just to make a small comment, I bought my first mac 6 months after vista had gone retail, 3 months after that Leopard was out. My MBP is (at least) 2 years ahead of Windows 7 in "it just works".
I have a mac because I was tired of dealing with a PC, i value my time. I understand how to work with files, I still prefer itunes so I dont have to waste my time. My time is much more valuable that being used to deal with computer problems. If I actually had to count the number of hours that I would waste on windows trying to do they simple things that 'just work' on mymac I am sure it would exceed any price difference in the hardware. Also I am done with hardware trouble shooting and trying to fix computers or deal with not as stable as could be custom builds.
The following is mostly unopinionated and uses actual cited facts.
Of the total cellphone market the iphone is around the 3% mark, although I do not have a source for this. You specifically said *smartphone market*, which according to http://comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2010/4/comScore_Reports_February_2010_U.S._Mobile_Subscriber_Market_Share and http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/02/google-makes-biggest-gain-in-smartphone-market-share.ars Apple holds 25 % market share. Now android may be growing fast but it will reach a market saturation point. It is worth noting that at launch, iPhones were $600 and Droids were $200 http://blog.flurry.com/bid/31410/Day-74-Sales-Apple-iPhone-vs-Google-Nexus-One-vs-Motorola-Droid and they had almost identical sales figures in the first 74 days. Granted, that is just the droid and not all android phones, but as my previous citations indicate, the iPhone still has greater market share despite lower priced android based phones on multiple carriers.
As far as your data plan pricing goes http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/splash/plansingleline.jsp?lid=//global//plans//individual for a 3g 'smartphone' you will need the $29.99 a month, exactly the same as an iPhone data plan. Even with sprint http://shop.sprint.com/NASApp/onlinestore/en/Action/DisplayPlans the base plan with unlimited data is $69.99 a month, same as iPhone. Im not going to bother looking at tmobile.
Not to open up a flame war but I need to make a quick point on how useful the ability to tether, use linux and flash, I will keep it to a minimal here. I do not mean just on one smart phone, if you are using you laptop, you are sitting down somewhere which in all likelihood has (free) wifi, mainstream consumers(read: non technically inclined people) have little use with linux(not to fault distros like ubuntu which will serve most users needs but most people do not want to learn something new), and flash is a good way to heat up my computer.
If you want to give citations for your 'better' network, 'cheaper' data plan(inexpensive was the word you were looking for, which I still think would be inaccurate) and 'better' data service, that would be nice. That does not include tv ads demonstrating 3g speed differences, some form of 3rd least biased party, please.
seriously, the patriot drive out performs the seagate hybrid third run by a factor of 2-3 in everything except the 'media center' benchmark. What appears to be a 10% difference if you dont look at/or understand the scale between the patriot and seagate 7200.11 is a factor of 2 difference. In short the graph is bullshit trying to make the seagate hybrid look comparable to the patriot.
because it is also aimed towards being a consumer product, and on that note, what makes you thinks the average consumer understands what a (shortish)long-term investment is?
P.S. Unless you are going with something like the dell studio hybrid which starts at 500$ then you will have greater power consumption than a mac mini which maxes out at 110W, a big consideration in enterprise.
its apples and oranges, pun intended. It is unreasonable to assume you have to buy an apple monitor with the mini, just buy a 125$ 20" from newegg, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009158 , and a keyboard/mouse combo for another 20$. Without question, out of the box, Macs are geared for creativity, aka iLife, which is just about useless in an enterprise environment. But also out of the box you have iCal, mail, address book, itunes, preview and time machine.
I will state upfront, i have used win7 for less than 15 minutes of my life so I am not up to date with windows. Also I learned just now that XP has an address book.
I think that for out of the box something that syncs your phone contacts, calendar and mail as well as macs do is pretty awesome. Also something(itunes) that can sync that with your email account(gmail, yahoo at least) with your contacts is very nice. Our of the box you have preview with opens pdfs, pretty much any type of images, also OS X makes previews of psds, docx, xlsx, etc available in the finder cover flow. To my knowledge windows does not do this without the help of adobe reader or the previews like OS X at all.
Time machine can backup locally(usb disk) or over a network to a server drive, and restoring after a HD crash or to new hardware is very simple and easy. I have upgraded the hard drive in my MBP and it was an amazing feeling when i just hit restore after installing snow leopard and a few hours later I was back to where I was when I last shut down my mac, its like nothing happened.
Nice to haves, but not out of the box are, iWork and mobile me. MS Office business edition(no student and home for enterprise which is still $150)for mac is $400, http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office2008/shop-now.mspx. iWork is 80$, excuse the possible bias but ms office for mac is overpriced and crippled. It seems office 2007 small business($450) is closer to mac ms office business in features but office standard is the most comparable to iWork and matches the mac ms office cost at $400. Again you cannot use the cheaper home and student editions on windows, you have to go full versions in business. So for the average cubicle worker (non engineer/science type) word excel power point, pages, numbers, keynote will do just fine.
MobileMe: nice to sync on the go if you did not sync over usb before you left, or if you drop your iphone in a puddle after you added meeting times and contact information.
Worth noting, mac hardware is the same price in their business store, http://store.apple.com/us_smb_78313?cid=AOSA10000022131, as their regular store. I will leave it to the parent author to provide a link to a 500$ system with windows, a 20" monitor from a business computer division of a company.
So out of the box all you have to install on a mac is iWork, which you can order preinstalled, not nearly the same case for windows.
So cost for average cubicle worker(excuse my lingo), windows = 500hardware + 400office = 900$, mac = 700+80+125+20 = $925, negligible difference IMHO, I leave the final score up to you.
somehow i doubt apple will be changing the hardware architecture every 3 years. This is a one time only valid argument in reference to snow leopard and G5's, but since you went down that road, at least apple sells hardware that runs the operating system it is advertised to run.
i just dont see the point your trying to make
Wait until Dec. 31, 9999. Watch as people panic about there being 5 digits in the year and how programs were only written to accommodate 4 digit years for the past 8000 years!
I wouldnt sweat the 5 dgits, we only have 2 years 350 days +/- a few hours till the earth goes back to zero(if even that, possibly even negative relative to the next sentient species that comes to be on earth)
Not that I disagree on telling some one they are going to burn in hell is an abusive thing to say, but they still should have the right to say it. I have heard it go something like, "I do not agree with what you say, but I will die defending your right to say it". In short fuck off for advocating civil rights infringements. For the record, I am of the agnostic persuasion.
government based debit card? do you know how much the IRS would love have every single transaction electronically documented? Not to mention how hard this would make drug transactions among other things. I actually wouldn't mind getting rid of checks/cash, I think I have only written a check once, maybe twice, and the only reason I use cash is if someone gave it to me, otherwise I just use my debit/credit card. For my generation at least it seems that checks are just as useless as being able to write in cursive. I remember through like 3rd grade they had us practicing cursive, because its faster and thats how you write business letters and whatever. My little rant aside, checks are a waste of time, money and efficiency.
*engineers - not scientists, get it right
exactly, thats why /.ers will never die of viral/bacterial diseases, just heart attacks and strokes
It is (i^2)*R actually, and for a typical computer power cable we are looking at 18 gauge wire which is 6.5/1000 feet, http://www.interfacebus.com/Copper_Wire_AWG_SIze.html (i hate the customary system but god dammit I hate mixed units even more) and at 1030 watts, http://www.dell.com/us/en/business/servers/server-poweredge-r900/pd.aspx?refid=server-poweredge-r900&s=bsd&cs=04, which will vary from server to server. The line voltage to the servers will all be the same so the resistive losses will increase exponentially relative current or linearly relative to the line length. So when you need to run on backup power, having the backup power supply immediately next to the server will either allow you to buy relatively less powerful units and or just get equally powerful units and run longer in case of a power outage.
For the sake of argument lets say its only 100 feet between the servers and backup power units, which at 120volts on the power cable(assuming its the same as desktop computers) we have ~8.6 amps. Which at 100ft and 6.5/1000 ft we get ~48 watts of power losses which is a 4.6% loss before you get any power to the actually server which Im sure will take at least another 15% loss.
better question, how would they physically handle a processor that small, 4004 has 2300 transistors, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004 , and the i7 has 731 million transistors at 45nm at 263 mm^2, http://www.legitreviews.com/article/824/1/ , So by those numbers the 4004 on a 45 nm process would have an area of .00082749 mm^2 or 1/317826th the physical size of an i7 die. Disclaimer: this is a very rough calculation, but in any case it is more than 5 orders of magnitude smaller than an i7. On the other hand you could have the king of multicore processors....