Yeah, but pixel density increases increase storage capacity exponentially. Consumer laser printers are up to 1200dpi right now. That's 1200x1200/10 = 140k/square inch. Consumer grade photo printers are already up to 4800dpi, or 2.3mb/square inch. A printing device optimised for quality, and not low cost could easily produce signifigantly higher quality output. Look at presses for commercial DVDs.
44,000dpi would be plenty for this type of application.
If somebody else was making tons of money off of your work and you were only getting a tiny piece of it, wouldn't you hold out for a larger cut before doing any more work? Fox makes way too much money off each new Simpsons episode, especially over the long term, to not give the talent more money.
Get trade deals renegotiated to include human rights and environmental regulations
Unless a $6/hour mininimum wage is a "human right" by your definition, this will not increase the cost of foreign labor nearly enough to make a serious difference. It would make close to zero difference in tech positions anyway, unless you're willing to do tech work for $6 an hour.
I've met lots of low-skilled tech workers that bitch about not being able to get a job, but I haven't met a single one who is willing to work for cheap. We're talking about jobs that were romantisized in the '90s, but require roughly the same level of skill as being the assistant manager at McDonalds without the people skills. Instead of fixing the problem by enforcment, we should be fixing it by setting expections correctly. We have a sociatal problem with accepting change. Nobody is ever expected to learn something new. It's why people stay unemployed so long when they lose there job, wether it be due to a sudden lack of demand, or an injury, even if there are plenty of jobs available in other areas.
UNIONIZE and exercise your power as the consumer and producer.
This isn't the begining of the industrial revolution anymore. This is a global economy now. Unionize every tech worker in the US and all it will do is cause the majority of new investment to be done elsewhere. I don't know if you've bothered to compare the US population with the rest of the world lately, but you're a drop in the bucket. Pusing unions won't guarantee you a well paying job, it'll guarantee that there's no job there for you in the first place.
Yes Virginia, the workers really do control the means of production.
Too bad you don't belong to a majority segment of the working population.
Let me guess: you think nuclear power is pollution free and environmentally responsible because there's no unsightly smokestack?
No, I understand the environmental impact of nuclear power compared to the alternatives. No, it's not polution free, but it's the cleanest option we are currently aware of that provides enough energy.
Also, the quantity of highly radioactive waste can be signifigantly reduced through reprocessing, but I guess you're against that too, huh?
"Healthy dose" was a poor choice of words.
"Healthy" was for you, not for me. Unless you like war and chaos. Bullets can be harmful to your health. There are reasons why there hasn't been a war in the continental US in your lifetime. Throwing away the ability to perpetuate those reasons can be more harmful to your health they you probably realize. Energy builds economies, and strong economies build military power. The types of people who don't care that they are exploiting their natural environment for resources are the same types of countries that use their military capability to expand. There are at least two notable governments with these charactaristics in existance right now. Your economy doesn't have to be in the tank for very long before your military crumbles and your nuclear deterrent starts to deteriorate. Look at Russia if you need an example of that. Mismanagement of energy policy can lead to a major shift of world power in your lifetime. Such a shift will not work out in your favor unless you enjoy repression. Luckily, our elected officials have access to intelligent analysis, and know not to compromise our energy production capabilities. Unfortunatly, as long as there's such a strong anti-nuke lobby that means we'll be building lots of gas and coal plants and energy costs will continue to rise unnessicarily.
Ok, so you're mistrustful of technology, and think we can't deal with nuclear waste. The unfortunate thing is, that the problems that are really in the way of proper, safe disposal are politcal, and not technological. They're also the same political problems that will guarantee that there will never be a signifigant number of wind farms in the US., and that cause us to continue to operate outdated and unsafe nuclear facilities beyond their rated life cycle instead of replacing them with newer, safer facilities.
Instead of being anti-nuke, why don't you do something productive and be pro-something. Pick a viable solution and advocate for it. The problem you'll find is that there are a limited number of viable solutions. The reduction of energy consumption certainly isn't one of them.
Do you want to live next to a nuclear reactor -- ive got an offer, NO ONE HAS TO live next to a nuclear reactor if we get smart about our consumption -- and I mean quick. Western suburbanites need to wake the fuck up.
If you want to build a nuclear power plant right next door to me, I'd be all for it. Not only would I rather have a nuclear plant right next door than have a coal plant 100 miles away, why should I be expected to lower my standard of living, and why should other people be denied the opportunity of achieving whatever standard of living we're capable of providing just because you're afraid of some technology that you think you understand but don't.
I want to be able to heat my house without burning oil, wood, or coal (it doesn't have to be a 3000 square foot house either. I live in 800 square feet right now). I want to drive to work without burining gasoline (and I don't have an SUV), or be able to take a train without it burning diesel (to generate electricity no less!). I want the population of the planet to have all the luxuries I have without having to cull about 4 billion people for it to be sustainable. The only technology we're currently capable of that can provide these things is nuclear. If we're going to maintain our current sociatal situation, or if we're going to regress, then what's the point?
Oh, then there's this:
This can best be summed up by my saying I am... Pro Reality.
Let me give you a healthy dose of reality. People don't like to change. Hell, people don't like other people to change. THere's tons of bullshit out there about preserving cultures to the point that we have cities full of old worthless buildings we can't knock down for historical reasons and people who try to revivie dead languages. People go to war over cultural differences, yet we even try to preserve the cultural differences that cause war. Changing the behavior of people enough to gain the "efficiency" and "responsiblilty" nescicary to stop burning carbon fuels *and* not have nuclear power is not just as close as you can get to impossible without going over, it's also far more dangerous to our society than the worst nuclear power accident we're capable of.
So, do you have a backup phone like to your house that runs over different poles to a different CO?
I didn't think so. There's just no way to make the last mile wire services redundant to an average residence or business in a way that is cost justifiable. Go buy a cell phone.
Unless you are very rich, it's likely that you are in worse financial shape now then you were under the Clinton administration.
Any homeowner anywhere in the entire country who is paying attention would disagree with you. Not only that, but the percentage of Americans that own homes is at the highest level ever (68.6%).
In fact, there's only two types of people who are financially worse off now than they were during the Clinton administration: People wo lost their jobs (a vast minority of the population), and people who had a lot of money invested in tech stocks (rich people?).
The American public has already shown a willingness to basically pay whatever they have to for their entertainment (look at ticket prices to any event nowadays for proof!)
Yeah! Cut that shit out!
If even half of you just don't go the next time the price of a movie goes up, they'll drop that price back down quickly.
You don't need to break the rules to make money at video poker (as the casino I mean). Make the odds the same as a 52 card deck, but don't pay out unless you get something with sufficiently low odds. Why cheat when you can make a fortune playing by the rules.
The US isn't going to make up it's mind about an international treaty to protect the likes of Henry Kissinger. Joining the ICC would prevent the US Government from providing US citizens protections that are guaranteed them under the US constitution. If congress ratifed a treaty joining the ICC, it would get thrown out by the US Supreme court. Nothing short of a constitutional amendment would make it possible for the US to join. Unlike most european countries, the US has a fairly static constitution. Such a change isn't likely.
Secondly, Milosovich is being tried by an independant tribunal, not by the ICC. The ICC has only just begun investigations for it's first case, and it's against members of the government of Isreal. On one hand, members of the court acknowledge the court will only have the capacity to try a small number of cases, and on the other they say they won't pick and choose cases for political reasons. Well, they have to weed out the few they can try some how, and if they wanted to convince people of their political neutrality you'd thing they'd have started with a less sensitive case. There are plenty of cases where there's essentually unanimous agreement amongst the world community of the commitment of war crimes and human rights violations, yet they decided to put those off. If you ask me the whole thing is a sham.
Along with all the very good points that have already been made in reply to your comment, there is always a signifigant latency associated with incoming connections when an authenticated protocol is used. This can be because you're waiting for your machine to re-login after a keepalive timeout, or for a variety of other reasons. When I'm somewhere with a fast connection and I type 'ssh my.machine.com' I want that password prompt to snap up. I don't want to wait 30-45 seconds to log in. Same goes for when I hit some data on my web server from my cell phone.
It's also a matter of control. I want to be the one managing my connection. The types of things that PPPoE allows the provider to do are exactly the types of things I don't want my provider doing. They should route my packets to the next machine. That's it. If I want statistics, or traffic shaping, or password controlled access I'll do it myself.
That's funny, I'm quite pleased with the SLA I have with Worldcom, and quite turned off by the lack of SLA with any non telco options.
There's a difference between DSL and shitty DSL. Pick a company that *guarantees* the quality.
Now, if this stuff they're planning involves any encapsulation like PPPoE, or any "value added" services beyond a gateway and a block of static IP addresses, they can keep it, but I'd much prefer the phone company over the cable company any day otherwise. It's a lesser of two evils thing. When the phone company sells you something, you get what they sold you. Cable companies have a habit of changing the service you signed up for on a whim, and regularly. That combined the willingness to take responsibilty for problems (provided you pay for the right agreements) makes the phone company a no-brainer choice between those two options.
Does anyone have any hard facts on this question. ie. will it be better to have the partition you want most performance from at the beginning or the end of the disk?
It depends on the disk manufacturer. It's fairly easy to tell though. Modern disks have track zones, with a different number of sectors per track in each zone. The length of a track increases towards the outside of the disk, so the zone with the most sectors per track is the outside of the disk. On scsi disks you can get the zone data with the scsiinfo utility under linux.
In my home town when I was little the house up the street got hit my a meteorite. Ten years eariler another house on the same street (but almost a mile away) was hit by a similarly sized meteorite. There are pictures of the second one online, and you can go see them at the Yale Peabody museum.
I wouldn't be surprised if insurance agencies specifically added meteorite clauses to their policies around there after that.
A google search for "wethersfield meteorite" turns up lots of interesting articles about them.
Ever hear the saying "The first million is the hardest?"
I'm about the same age now as Bill Gates was when he started Microsoft. I wish I could be out starting a company instead of working to dig myself out of the debt that was created when I obtained an education. If I had a million dollars now, I bet I could turn it into 10 million in 8-9 years. Instead, I'll be lucky to have a half-million saved up by then, and if I do it will be as equity in a house, not as liquid assets.
I'm not trying to diminish his acomplishments, but you can't really hold him up as an icon for what anybody can achieve.
WPI was well on it's way to having a good rep before they started pushing their certificate programs. Now I feel the weight of my student loans crushing me even more every time I see one of their commercials and know that the value of my degree is slowly dropping...
Just curious, do you happen to know more MIT grads and undergrads in general?
When the last company I worked for went out of business I ended up cleaning out the hiring engineering manager's file cabinet. He had three resume folders: Employee referrals, MIT grads, and Other. There's still something to be said for the MIT name.
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Yeah, but pixel density increases increase storage capacity exponentially. Consumer laser printers are up to 1200dpi right now. That's 1200x1200/10 = 140k/square inch. Consumer grade photo printers are already up to 4800dpi, or 2.3mb/square inch. A printing device optimised for quality, and not low cost could easily produce signifigantly higher quality output. Look at presses for commercial DVDs.
44,000dpi would be plenty for this type of application.
If somebody else was making tons of money off of your work and you were only getting a tiny piece of it, wouldn't you hold out for a larger cut before doing any more work? Fox makes way too much money off each new Simpsons episode, especially over the long term, to not give the talent more money.
Did you even read the articles listed? Try reading the first one.
Get trade deals renegotiated to include human rights and environmental regulations
Unless a $6/hour mininimum wage is a "human right" by your definition, this will not increase the cost of foreign labor nearly enough to make a serious difference. It would make close to zero difference in tech positions anyway, unless you're willing to do tech work for $6 an hour.
I've met lots of low-skilled tech workers that bitch about not being able to get a job, but I haven't met a single one who is willing to work for cheap. We're talking about jobs that were romantisized in the '90s, but require roughly the same level of skill as being the assistant manager at McDonalds without the people skills. Instead of fixing the problem by enforcment, we should be fixing it by setting expections correctly. We have a sociatal problem with accepting change. Nobody is ever expected to learn something new. It's why people stay unemployed so long when they lose there job, wether it be due to a sudden lack of demand, or an injury, even if there are plenty of jobs available in other areas.
UNIONIZE and exercise your power as the consumer and producer.
This isn't the begining of the industrial revolution anymore. This is a global economy now. Unionize every tech worker in the US and all it will do is cause the majority of new investment to be done elsewhere. I don't know if you've bothered to compare the US population with the rest of the world lately, but you're a drop in the bucket. Pusing unions won't guarantee you a well paying job, it'll guarantee that there's no job there for you in the first place.
Yes Virginia, the workers really do control the means of production.
Too bad you don't belong to a majority segment of the working population.
Let me guess: you think nuclear power is pollution free and environmentally responsible because there's no unsightly smokestack?
No, I understand the environmental impact of nuclear power compared to the alternatives. No, it's not polution free, but it's the cleanest option we are currently aware of that provides enough energy.
Also, the quantity of highly radioactive waste can be signifigantly reduced through reprocessing, but I guess you're against that too, huh?
"Healthy dose" was a poor choice of words.
"Healthy" was for you, not for me. Unless you like war and chaos. Bullets can be harmful to your health. There are reasons why there hasn't been a war in the continental US in your lifetime. Throwing away the ability to perpetuate those reasons can be more harmful to your health they you probably realize. Energy builds economies, and strong economies build military power. The types of people who don't care that they are exploiting their natural environment for resources are the same types of countries that use their military capability to expand. There are at least two notable governments with these charactaristics in existance right now. Your economy doesn't have to be in the tank for very long before your military crumbles and your nuclear deterrent starts to deteriorate. Look at Russia if you need an example of that. Mismanagement of energy policy can lead to a major shift of world power in your lifetime. Such a shift will not work out in your favor unless you enjoy repression. Luckily, our elected officials have access to intelligent analysis, and know not to compromise our energy production capabilities. Unfortunatly, as long as there's such a strong anti-nuke lobby that means we'll be building lots of gas and coal plants and energy costs will continue to rise unnessicarily.
Ok, so you're mistrustful of technology, and think we can't deal with nuclear waste. The unfortunate thing is, that the problems that are really in the way of proper, safe disposal are politcal, and not technological. They're also the same political problems that will guarantee that there will never be a signifigant number of wind farms in the US., and that cause us to continue to operate outdated and unsafe nuclear facilities beyond their rated life cycle instead of replacing them with newer, safer facilities.
Instead of being anti-nuke, why don't you do something productive and be pro-something. Pick a viable solution and advocate for it. The problem you'll find is that there are a limited number of viable solutions. The reduction of energy consumption certainly isn't one of them.
Do you want to live next to a nuclear reactor -- ive got an offer, NO ONE HAS TO live next to a nuclear reactor if we get smart about our consumption -- and I mean quick. Western suburbanites need to wake the fuck up.
... Pro Reality.
If you want to build a nuclear power plant right next door to me, I'd be all for it. Not only would I rather have a nuclear plant right next door than have a coal plant 100 miles away, why should I be expected to lower my standard of living, and why should other people be denied the opportunity of achieving whatever standard of living we're capable of providing just because you're afraid of some technology that you think you understand but don't.
I want to be able to heat my house without burning oil, wood, or coal (it doesn't have to be a 3000 square foot house either. I live in 800 square feet right now). I want to drive to work without burining gasoline (and I don't have an SUV), or be able to take a train without it burning diesel (to generate electricity no less!). I want the population of the planet to have all the luxuries I have without having to cull about 4 billion people for it to be sustainable. The only technology we're currently capable of that can provide these things is nuclear. If we're going to maintain our current sociatal situation, or if we're going to regress, then what's the point?
Oh, then there's this:
This can best be summed up by my saying I am
Let me give you a healthy dose of reality. People don't like to change. Hell, people don't like other people to change. THere's tons of bullshit out there about preserving cultures to the point that we have cities full of old worthless buildings we can't knock down for historical reasons and people who try to revivie dead languages. People go to war over cultural differences, yet we even try to preserve the cultural differences that cause war. Changing the behavior of people enough to gain the "efficiency" and "responsiblilty" nescicary to stop burning carbon fuels *and* not have nuclear power is not just as close as you can get to impossible without going over, it's also far more dangerous to our society than the worst nuclear power accident we're capable of.
So, do you have a backup phone like to your house that runs over different poles to a different CO?
I didn't think so. There's just no way to make the last mile wire services redundant to an average residence or business in a way that is cost justifiable. Go buy a cell phone.
Unless you are very rich, it's likely that you are in worse financial shape now then you were under the Clinton administration.
Any homeowner anywhere in the entire country who is paying attention would disagree with you. Not only that, but the percentage of Americans that own homes is at the highest level ever (68.6%).
In fact, there's only two types of people who are financially worse off now than they were during the Clinton administration: People wo lost their jobs (a vast minority of the population), and people who had a lot of money invested in tech stocks (rich people?).
The American public has already shown a willingness to basically pay whatever they have to for their entertainment (look at ticket prices to any event nowadays for proof!)
Yeah! Cut that shit out!
If even half of you just don't go the next time the price of a movie goes up, they'll drop that price back down quickly.
You don't need to break the rules to make money at video poker (as the casino I mean). Make the odds the same as a 52 card deck, but don't pay out unless you get something with sufficiently low odds. Why cheat when you can make a fortune playing by the rules.
iLink == Firewire without power.
It's also called 4-pin IEEE 1394
The US isn't going to make up it's mind about an international treaty to protect the likes of Henry Kissinger. Joining the ICC would prevent the US Government from providing US citizens protections that are guaranteed them under the US constitution. If congress ratifed a treaty joining the ICC, it would get thrown out by the US Supreme court. Nothing short of a constitutional amendment would make it possible for the US to join. Unlike most european countries, the US has a fairly static constitution. Such a change isn't likely.
Secondly, Milosovich is being tried by an independant tribunal, not by the ICC. The ICC has only just begun investigations for it's first case, and it's against members of the government of Isreal. On one hand, members of the court acknowledge the court will only have the capacity to try a small number of cases, and on the other they say they won't pick and choose cases for political reasons. Well, they have to weed out the few they can try some how, and if they wanted to convince people of their political neutrality you'd thing they'd have started with a less sensitive case. There are plenty of cases where there's essentually unanimous agreement amongst the world community of the commitment of war crimes and human rights violations, yet they decided to put those off. If you ask me the whole thing is a sham.
Curse you for thinking a word means what everybody else (except for the quy who wrote that summary) thinks it means!
Not if you heat them up and dunk them in liquid oxygen. They don't last very long at all if you do that.
Along with all the very good points that have already been made in reply to your comment, there is always a signifigant latency associated with incoming connections when an authenticated protocol is used. This can be because you're waiting for your machine to re-login after a keepalive timeout, or for a variety of other reasons. When I'm somewhere with a fast connection and I type 'ssh my.machine.com' I want that password prompt to snap up. I don't want to wait 30-45 seconds to log in. Same goes for when I hit some data on my web server from my cell phone.
It's also a matter of control. I want to be the one managing my connection. The types of things that PPPoE allows the provider to do are exactly the types of things I don't want my provider doing. They should route my packets to the next machine. That's it. If I want statistics, or traffic shaping, or password controlled access I'll do it myself.
That's funny, I'm quite pleased with the SLA I have with Worldcom, and quite turned off by the lack of SLA with any non telco options.
There's a difference between DSL and shitty DSL. Pick a company that *guarantees* the quality.
Now, if this stuff they're planning involves any encapsulation like PPPoE, or any "value added" services beyond a gateway and a block of static IP addresses, they can keep it, but I'd much prefer the phone company over the cable company any day otherwise. It's a lesser of two evils thing. When the phone company sells you something, you get what they sold you. Cable companies have a habit of changing the service you signed up for on a whim, and regularly. That combined the willingness to take responsibilty for problems (provided you pay for the right agreements) makes the phone company a no-brainer choice between those two options.
Does anyone have any hard facts on this question. ie. will it be better to have the partition you want most performance from at the beginning or the end of the disk?
It depends on the disk manufacturer. It's fairly easy to tell though. Modern disks have track zones, with a different number of sectors per track in each zone. The length of a track increases towards the outside of the disk, so the zone with the most sectors per track is the outside of the disk. On scsi disks you can get the zone data with the scsiinfo utility under linux.
In my home town when I was little the house up the street got hit my a meteorite. Ten years eariler another house on the same street (but almost a mile away) was hit by a similarly sized meteorite. There are pictures of the second one online, and you can go see them at the Yale Peabody museum.
I wouldn't be surprised if insurance agencies specifically added meteorite clauses to their policies around there after that.
A google search for "wethersfield meteorite" turns up lots of interesting articles about them.
Right, but ClearType is sub-pixel rendering that specifically takes advangage of the physical geometry of LCD displays. It helps if you don't get your information from the rabid slashdot hoards as they scream "Prior Art"! They usually don't know what they are talking about.
Optimizing SQL server code doesn't exactly come under the category of innovative basic research either.
Perhaps not, but it's what they do there. We're talking about wether they pay the bills, not whther what they do there is any good.
ClearType was an idea used on the Apple II...
I wasn't aware they made Apple IIs with color LCD displays. Perhaps you're thinking about something else.
It didn't go out of business because of the hiring practices, but because of the financial decisions.
And that diniminishes my point, how?
Ever hear the saying "The first million is the hardest?"
I'm about the same age now as Bill Gates was when he started Microsoft. I wish I could be out starting a company instead of working to dig myself out of the debt that was created when I obtained an education. If I had a million dollars now, I bet I could turn it into 10 million in 8-9 years. Instead, I'll be lucky to have a half-million saved up by then, and if I do it will be as equity in a house, not as liquid assets.
I'm not trying to diminish his acomplishments, but you can't really hold him up as an icon for what anybody can achieve.
WPI was well on it's way to having a good rep before they started pushing their certificate programs. Now I feel the weight of my student loans crushing me even more every time I see one of their commercials and know that the value of my degree is slowly dropping...
Just curious, do you happen to know more MIT grads and undergrads in general?
When the last company I worked for went out of business I ended up cleaning out the hiring engineering manager's file cabinet. He had three resume folders: Employee referrals, MIT grads, and Other. There's still something to be said for the MIT name.