It shouldn't. If you look back in my comment history, you can see that I've proposed something similar to the grandparent on several occasions going back several years. (short term, unlimited renewals, exponentially increasing fees).
I'm just saying that the terms should be the same for every work. They shouldn't be tied to what the creator decides to do charge for their work.
Why should protection be tied to profitability? All works should be treated the same, whether they are profitable or not. Why should somebody have to pay more to renew because they chose to charge less (or not at all) for their work?
Actually, living an active lifestyle and having a physical job (something like construction) is a great substitute for exercise. In many cases better than exercise for exercise sake...
And DDR probably uses more muscles than running (unless you add some dodges and weaves, etc to your runs)... It just doesn't use the main ones as much...
As for red-light cameras, if they were designed properly, they wouldn't penalize cars that were already in the intersection when the light turned red.
They don't. And that wouldn't solve anything, since the problem is caused by the fear of getting a ticket, not some action taken by the camera itself. Putting a sign on the road mentioning the next intersection had a red-light camera would probably have the same effect.
Wouldn't "astroturf" imply being paid to have a particular agenda? I didn't realize that truthfully answering the question posted by in the original comment meant that I "didn't like solar". The fact of the matter is that it *does* have downsides.
And if you think the panel being black makes it heat up any quicker when it's covered in snow, clearly you've never had a panel on your roof. Additionally, tilting it so snow doesn't collect (has to be fairly steep) is frequently incompatible with optimum summertime exposure.
Lastly, you say "save", but with a basic setup, even at the panel prices listed, there is still a pretty good chance that your installation will fail before you see return on investment.
It's not that I don't like solar. I do. I'm a big fan of trying all sorts of independent generation solutions. It's just that very few are practical yet for the vast majority of the population. Including solar, even when the panels are $1/watt. Until there is something out there that has zero (or close to zero) maintenance, and reaches ROI within 5 years, these are all just toys for geeks and activists. You may think that by painting a rosier picture than reality you'll encourage adoption, but what will really happen is that you'll convince somebody to buy solar, they'll have all the problems I mentioned and that you didn't tell them about, and they'll put more effort into talking people out of solar than you could ever undo.
I'll stop there, but you can google for dozens more, because every experiment with red-light cameras has had the same effect: Increased rear-end collisions when people stop fast to avoid a ticket.
A: That's an enormous load of bull. The average visual impact of a single block error on uncompressed video compared to theoretical 10x lossless compression would be effectively nil even before you take into account that the increased data loss from an error is canceled out by the increased likelihood of errors when you archive a larger amount of data.
B: Even if you don't compress it, that kind of data can be archived indefinitely (including making new copies every few years) for prices in the sub-$5000 range. sub-$10000/year, it could be continuously and readily accessible on a mid-range SAN storage device including electricity.
Even without lossless compression, the numbers you describe simply don't add up to very much data in today's terms. (310MB/sec * 3600 (seconds in an hour) * 3 (hours in a long movie) / 1024 (megabytes in a gigabyte) = 3270 / 1024 (gigabytes in a terabyte) = 3.2TB) A 6TB mid-tier (EMC Clariion, for example) SAN array will run you in the $8000 range after discounts. Archival storage only gets cheaper than that.
This is just another bullshit number Hollywood can spit out to include in the shady math it does to tell everybody they're not making any profit on their $300million blockbuster.
$50k per year if you want to copy it to a new dual-redundant Fibre Channel RAID array with hot-spares every year, counting the previous year's array as a complete loss, and assuming no change in the price/capacity of disk over the next few years.
If you're comfortable with 6 or seven sets of tapes in geographically separated vaults, copying the data when the tapes have reached 5% of their archival expectancy to be extra careful you're talking somewhere in the $3000 + labor + storage range. In other words: Not much.
Depending on your application, turning on PAE can easily provide worse performance than running with 3GB of memory. It makes sense for systems with 16GB of memory using the majority of it as disk/database cache, but to get an extra 1GB that your applications will not realize has performance penalties to access can cause more problems than it's worth.
Keep in mind that your system will flush it's caches and TLB every time you access an OS page when you have PAE turned on in Windows. Run some system call latency benchmarks with and without it turned on. You may be surprised.
You have to clear the snow off of it, it only works when the sun is out so you need a crap-load of batteries or $15-20k worth of automated switching equipment which allows you to be simultaneously connected to the grid without electrocuting the lineman who is working on your pole and thinks the power is off, you probably need to multiply your number by at least 4, because you need to generate power for the 75% of the time you're not getting good sun in the 25% of the time that you are, and you need some pricey inverters if you want to run devices designed for 110V AC...
Additionally, they're not actually $1/watt. That's the theoretical cost if they are able to ramp up production as planned. If you had $1 for every startup that failed in that phase, you wouldn't care how much your solar panels cost.
The problem is that the high initial investment required in purchasing a vehicle means that "rarely" is frequently enough for some (if not most) people to consider long recharge times to be a deal breaker. They simply can't afford to have a separate vehicle (or to rent one) simply for those "rare" occasions.
And then they'll use the power to pass these same surveillance laws, because if they aren't opposed to them when they've got the slim majority, they're not going to be opposed to them when they've got a vast majority either.
Partisanship is awesome. It gives people something to argue about to distract them from what's actually going on.
I have this argument with a co-worker all the time.
What good is the ideal solution with an optimal design and the lowest long-term cost if you never have the luxury of achieving that because you disapprove of (and thus never implement) practical intermediate steps?
Of course, the answer invariably is something along the lines of "If we make those compromises now, we'll never go back and fix them later". So the question becomes "Would you rather fail entirely at the optimal solution, or be stuck forever with the compromise?"
how is exactly is that different then campaigning to get elected for a government position ?
Presumably the set of decision makers deciding on whether you get the position or not has been strongly limited based on qualifications. Whereas, anybody who's managed to survive for 18 years can vote.
Home users are actually least likely to notice compatibility issues (dispite your stated "conventional wisdom"). Microsoft actually did a pretty good job of ensuring that mainstream consumer apps are fully compatible, and that popular hardware is supported.
The problem actually comes when running business apps, even if you're using a "more capable" edition of Vista. Many of these apps are not widely distributed, and even some which are weren't the focus of Microsoft's compatibility efforts. In my experience, it is these applications that have the largest array of compatibility issues. If you are a manufacturing company, it doesn't matter to you all that much if Acrobat, and Office, and Photoshop, and all those work fine when your CAM app, payroll, AP/AR, and inventory applications won't install. If you have a call-center, 99.99% backwards compatibility doesn't help you if your VOIP phone system's predictive placement application doesn't run. Many proprietary business applications use hardware copy-protection dongles, who's drivers no longer load under Vista...
The home apps, however, seem to work great, because Microsoft focused on the most publicly visible applications when they worked on compatibility.
SDHC is a software enhancement. The branding is required simply because many devices can't have their software modified after sale. Electrically, the devices are the same.
As somebody learning to play the guitar, let me tell you... It is much harder to learn to play a real guitar with any decency than it is to be fairly good at guitar hero. At least for me it is... You can do quite well at guitar hero after a couple tries. It can take months, or years to be any good at all at a real guitar.
But that's not the point, anyway. The reason people play guitar hero is because it's fun. It's fun like karaoke night at your local bar, and a party video game all at once.
For over 50 years, US schools have been about teaching kids to obey authority, not to think. It has nothing to do with some "test"... It has nothing to do with "this generation"... The primary purpose of the public education system has seemed to be producing obedient, law-abiding citizens.
Any kid with half a brain can figure that out, and game the system to his/her advantage, and learn to think critically in the process. This particular kid probably learned how to handle situations like this online from his FPS buddies, or from his parents who don't believe in discipline.
Don't say that too loud if you have children under five years old, or child services will come take them away.
You cannot legally seat more than two children age five or under in a sedan. They need to be in a car seat, or booster seat in one of the two outer rear seats. You can fit two infants and one adult passenger. Comfort has nothing to do with it. There is no "trick".
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It shouldn't. If you look back in my comment history, you can see that I've proposed something similar to the grandparent on several occasions going back several years. (short term, unlimited renewals, exponentially increasing fees).
I'm just saying that the terms should be the same for every work. They shouldn't be tied to what the creator decides to do charge for their work.
Why should protection be tied to profitability? All works should be treated the same, whether they are profitable or not. Why should somebody have to pay more to renew because they chose to charge less (or not at all) for their work?
Is there an intersection between the people who decide what goes on the whitelist, and what is "notable" for inclusion in Wikipedia?
I thought so. Your solution is already broken.
Presidential candidate Duncan Hunter has raised a million bucks too, and you've probably never heard of him from the mainstream news...
Actually, living an active lifestyle and having a physical job (something like construction) is a great substitute for exercise. In many cases better than exercise for exercise sake...
And DDR probably uses more muscles than running (unless you add some dodges and weaves, etc to your runs)... It just doesn't use the main ones as much...
They don't. And that wouldn't solve anything, since the problem is caused by the fear of getting a ticket, not some action taken by the camera itself. Putting a sign on the road mentioning the next intersection had a red-light camera would probably have the same effect.
Wouldn't "astroturf" imply being paid to have a particular agenda? I didn't realize that truthfully answering the question posted by in the original comment meant that I "didn't like solar". The fact of the matter is that it *does* have downsides.
And if you think the panel being black makes it heat up any quicker when it's covered in snow, clearly you've never had a panel on your roof. Additionally, tilting it so snow doesn't collect (has to be fairly steep) is frequently incompatible with optimum summertime exposure.
Lastly, you say "save", but with a basic setup, even at the panel prices listed, there is still a pretty good chance that your installation will fail before you see return on investment.
It's not that I don't like solar. I do. I'm a big fan of trying all sorts of independent generation solutions. It's just that very few are practical yet for the vast majority of the population. Including solar, even when the panels are $1/watt. Until there is something out there that has zero (or close to zero) maintenance, and reaches ROI within 5 years, these are all just toys for geeks and activists. You may think that by painting a rosier picture than reality you'll encourage adoption, but what will really happen is that you'll convince somebody to buy solar, they'll have all the problems I mentioned and that you didn't tell them about, and they'll put more effort into talking people out of solar than you could ever undo.
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/07/740.asp
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/04/430.asp
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/03/AR2005100301844.html
I'll stop there, but you can google for dozens more, because every experiment with red-light cameras has had the same effect: Increased rear-end collisions when people stop fast to avoid a ticket.
Two things:
A: That's an enormous load of bull. The average visual impact of a single block error on uncompressed video compared to theoretical 10x lossless compression would be effectively nil even before you take into account that the increased data loss from an error is canceled out by the increased likelihood of errors when you archive a larger amount of data.
B: Even if you don't compress it, that kind of data can be archived indefinitely (including making new copies every few years) for prices in the sub-$5000 range. sub-$10000/year, it could be continuously and readily accessible on a mid-range SAN storage device including electricity.
Even without lossless compression, the numbers you describe simply don't add up to very much data in today's terms. (310MB/sec * 3600 (seconds in an hour) * 3 (hours in a long movie) / 1024 (megabytes in a gigabyte) = 3270 / 1024 (gigabytes in a terabyte) = 3.2TB) A 6TB mid-tier (EMC Clariion, for example) SAN array will run you in the $8000 range after discounts. Archival storage only gets cheaper than that.
This is just another bullshit number Hollywood can spit out to include in the shady math it does to tell everybody they're not making any profit on their $300million blockbuster.
$50k per year if you want to copy it to a new dual-redundant Fibre Channel RAID array with hot-spares every year, counting the previous year's array as a complete loss, and assuming no change in the price/capacity of disk over the next few years.
If you're comfortable with 6 or seven sets of tapes in geographically separated vaults, copying the data when the tapes have reached 5% of their archival expectancy to be extra careful you're talking somewhere in the $3000 + labor + storage range. In other words: Not much.
Trying to store data without realizing lossless compression exists: Priceless.
Depending on your application, turning on PAE can easily provide worse performance than running with 3GB of memory. It makes sense for systems with 16GB of memory using the majority of it as disk/database cache, but to get an extra 1GB that your applications will not realize has performance penalties to access can cause more problems than it's worth.
Keep in mind that your system will flush it's caches and TLB every time you access an OS page when you have PAE turned on in Windows. Run some system call latency benchmarks with and without it turned on. You may be surprised.
Either that or the quotes I've gotten were trying to rip me off... Joke's on them though, 'cause I didn't buy.
You have to clear the snow off of it, it only works when the sun is out so you need a crap-load of batteries or $15-20k worth of automated switching equipment which allows you to be simultaneously connected to the grid without electrocuting the lineman who is working on your pole and thinks the power is off, you probably need to multiply your number by at least 4, because you need to generate power for the 75% of the time you're not getting good sun in the 25% of the time that you are, and you need some pricey inverters if you want to run devices designed for 110V AC...
Additionally, they're not actually $1/watt. That's the theoretical cost if they are able to ramp up production as planned. If you had $1 for every startup that failed in that phase, you wouldn't care how much your solar panels cost.
The problem is that the high initial investment required in purchasing a vehicle means that "rarely" is frequently enough for some (if not most) people to consider long recharge times to be a deal breaker. They simply can't afford to have a separate vehicle (or to rent one) simply for those "rare" occasions.
And then they'll use the power to pass these same surveillance laws, because if they aren't opposed to them when they've got the slim majority, they're not going to be opposed to them when they've got a vast majority either.
Partisanship is awesome. It gives people something to argue about to distract them from what's actually going on.
I have this argument with a co-worker all the time.
What good is the ideal solution with an optimal design and the lowest long-term cost if you never have the luxury of achieving that because you disapprove of (and thus never implement) practical intermediate steps?
Of course, the answer invariably is something along the lines of "If we make those compromises now, we'll never go back and fix them later". So the question becomes "Would you rather fail entirely at the optimal solution, or be stuck forever with the compromise?"
Presumably the set of decision makers deciding on whether you get the position or not has been strongly limited based on qualifications. Whereas, anybody who's managed to survive for 18 years can vote.
Home users are actually least likely to notice compatibility issues (dispite your stated "conventional wisdom"). Microsoft actually did a pretty good job of ensuring that mainstream consumer apps are fully compatible, and that popular hardware is supported.
The problem actually comes when running business apps, even if you're using a "more capable" edition of Vista. Many of these apps are not widely distributed, and even some which are weren't the focus of Microsoft's compatibility efforts. In my experience, it is these applications that have the largest array of compatibility issues. If you are a manufacturing company, it doesn't matter to you all that much if Acrobat, and Office, and Photoshop, and all those work fine when your CAM app, payroll, AP/AR, and inventory applications won't install. If you have a call-center, 99.99% backwards compatibility doesn't help you if your VOIP phone system's predictive placement application doesn't run. Many proprietary business applications use hardware copy-protection dongles, who's drivers no longer load under Vista...
The home apps, however, seem to work great, because Microsoft focused on the most publicly visible applications when they worked on compatibility.
SDHC is a software enhancement. The branding is required simply because many devices can't have their software modified after sale. Electrically, the devices are the same.
microSD caps out at 8GB right now, and even those aren't readily available...
Doubling capacity isn't press-release worthy anymore?
As somebody learning to play the guitar, let me tell you... It is much harder to learn to play a real guitar with any decency than it is to be fairly good at guitar hero. At least for me it is... You can do quite well at guitar hero after a couple tries. It can take months, or years to be any good at all at a real guitar.
But that's not the point, anyway. The reason people play guitar hero is because it's fun. It's fun like karaoke night at your local bar, and a party video game all at once.
Insightful? Give me a break...
For over 50 years, US schools have been about teaching kids to obey authority, not to think. It has nothing to do with some "test"... It has nothing to do with "this generation"... The primary purpose of the public education system has seemed to be producing obedient, law-abiding citizens.
Any kid with half a brain can figure that out, and game the system to his/her advantage, and learn to think critically in the process. This particular kid probably learned how to handle situations like this online from his FPS buddies, or from his parents who don't believe in discipline.
Don't say that too loud if you have children under five years old, or child services will come take them away.
You cannot legally seat more than two children age five or under in a sedan. They need to be in a car seat, or booster seat in one of the two outer rear seats. You can fit two infants and one adult passenger. Comfort has nothing to do with it. There is no "trick".
Just run without a desktop environment. Pick up and go. 100% of your screen can be used for application, and 0% for "desktop".
You may never go back.