The cost of flying people around is almost exactly proportional to the weight carried, with a slight modifier of the number of people you get the the aircraft.
I would propose the simple solution in this case is to set an average person weight, and charge people the same for extra weight regardless of it being baggage or their own body.
I weight very light (60kg, over 6 foot..) as a man, due to a non-eating-related medical condition, which I have no choice over. Why should I be subsidising the costs of people larger than me? BTW I will also die approximately 15-20 year early from the same condition. I got my arse kicked when young for being 'scrawny', so dont try and pull the 'life is hard being large' card on me.
What is next? large people have the right to an extra course in restaurants for free because they 'need' it?
Oh, and as to your item 4, who the hell do you think ends up paying for these extra seats? the tooth fairy?
Also, I am sure there are exceptions, but every airline I deal with DOES give extra luggage if you busy an extra seat. I often have to carry delicate equipment around the world, and quite often book a second seat for that equipment (as it cannot be roughly handled). I explain everything to the airlist before booking and it is NEVER a problem, that ticket comes with a full allocation of luggage allowance, etc even though there is no associated person.
Stop wanting special treatment, grow up, and deal with your situation instead of expecting others to deal with it.
Go read up on copyright, as part of the 'deal' that is copyright, the rights to the item are supposed to become public after copyright runs out (which is getting longer and longer, but that aint the point).
With DRM, how exactly is the public going to get their free access that has been bought and paid for by supplying (through the state..) the protection of the product during its copyright life?
Any copyright holder who uses DRM that does not time out at the end of copyright is reneging on their half of the contract that is copyright, so why should they get any protection through it?
State Copyright OR Private DRM, I say. No state protection for DRM!
Drag does up with speed, and is non-linear and vehicle dependent (a low drag car tends to also increase slower and later)
Other losses (drivetrain, tyres etc) tend to increate, some with RPM, most with speed.
Road surface makes a difference!
Engine efficiency is the complex one, engines are very inefficient at high AND low speeds. for a first-order approximation, your engine is probably (depending on design) most efficient at the lower end of its torque peak.
However, the #1 difference is driving style.
The most efficient styles of driving can be VERY surprising - accellerating at the torque peak until a speed above your target and then coasting slower is one of the best, but a real pain to do. Even for normal driving styles, a variance of 20% is not uncommon, especially in city driving.
The upshot is that slow driving is not by any means the answer to fuel efficiency. Fast driving is even worse though;)
#1 rule of fuel efficiency, learn how to drive your car, and get a realtime fuel consumption monitor, log each tank of gas, and learn!
allowing for around 20A of peak load (fans, lights, ignition, EFI, etc..) thats 240W. By the time we allow for a ton of inefficiency, thats still 1/2hp. Lets say your car cruises at 30HPish, thats 2%, and thats being generous (ie: a lot more load than probably average).
BTW, those metrompg figures are VERY VERY far off, not even close - lossess get re-added in, and cruise HP is also a dreamed up figure.
Now, whats the cost and lifespan of that deep cycle?
This seems to be significantly less nasty than the US using its global monitoring network to intercept commercially valuable information and supply it to its own companies for gain..
You guys are just pissed that China is big enough to throw some weight around also - if you dont like it, dont sell your stuff there. Its their dirt, and it would have to argue this voilates any human rights, so whats the problem?
'During the Clinton administration, NSA agents monitored Japanese communications during auto talks and French communications during talks on world trade.'
'An office was created within the Department of Commerce, the Office of Intelligence Liaison, to forward intercepted materials to major US corporations.'
Funny thing is that Islam has an even stronger moral code against killing innocents than Christianity, yet they are the ones which have the least problem with targeting purely civilian populations.
You havent heard of the Dresden and Tokyo fire bombings, or Hiroshima and Nagasaki, have you....
Because I live in S. Korea, this issue was huge just a few months ago. Everyone was talking about it. Then one of my co-workers tried to convince me that NZ beef was safer than US beef because there was more grass in NZ. Misinformation from the local media.
Why exactly is this misinformation?
NZ beef is completely (and I hate the term) 'Free Range', as is not fed any reprocessed animal products (the primary mad cow vector). There has also never once been a case of this disease in New Zealand. NZ beef is also not grown indoors (nice mild climate), eats primarily fresh grass (and as a backup, hay), and there are very strict slaughtering and testing regulations.
Most of the rest of the worlds meat is dogfood in comparison (with some notable exceptions) - the main reason for this is simple, under population and a large supply of pasture. All of this is done without subsidies or trade barriers also.
Then more told me that the US wants to send SK old beef that Americans are unwilling to eat because it's too dangerous. Only beef over three years, they said. In reality, the trade agreement was exclusively for beef under three years (which has the lowest likelihood of being infected). Also misinformation from the local media.
You mean beef under 3 years has the least chance of the disease being testable! not quite the same thing....
Finally, several people I talked to wanted to know if I was brave enough to eat US meat because they had been told that Americans are afraid of their own beef. The media. Meh.
So, why eat the US beef anyway, it is more expensive, more poorly produced, carries additional risk (although small), and supports a corrupt subsidy protected farming practice.
I can see why people would eat Us beef in the US, it is a local product, but in the rest of the world?
You are using faulty logic to try and create a strawman, surprise surprise.
There are plenty of examples of countries with more relaxed gun laws and/or more guns per head that the US, and yet significantly less gun-related crime.
The control, number, and distribution of guns has little to do with their use in crime. Gun based crime is a social problem, nothing else, and one in which the USA has failed miserably.
So, you are surprised that they are willing to cover up the big stuff when it is generally accepted that they are above the law on the smaller things?
Gee, what a shock.
Here we have a speed limit of 100Km/h (around 60mph) maximum, and can get a speeding ticket for 105.. We also have speed cameras, which at times catch police both off duty and on duty without due cause to speed.. NONE have ever been charged with speeding, they are automatically let off.
Most police think they deserve a 'special' version of the law, where any excuse is good enough to avoid punishment, it should be the opposite, as they are supposed to know the law well, NO excuse should be acceptable.
So tell me, just how big a propane grill or petrol fuel tank would you consider illegal in a residential zone?
there is no sense is scaremongering about 'how flammable' as I am sure you know, petrol is a critically dangerous item in that respect, and yet I can keep large quantities in my garage without any form of concern.
Any you really have never seen an AC fire in a non-chemical filled house? wow, must be some high quality houses you are used to where compressors never burn out..
Wrong, it is not uncommmon and a transfer to be marched off the plane, asked to collect bags, then processed back through 'security checks' along with full documentation checks, records, etc and then held until transfer in a 'secure holding location'.
Of course this is not consistently done, apparently terrorists only use certain airports..
That is why I dont even transfer through the US these days if I can avoid it - their loss, less business for their carriers.
Some would argue that I could have evil terrorist items in my luggage allowing me to take over the plane or something, but hell, I just flew in over the US, so had all the opportunity in the world then...
Does it feel good to treat the rest of the world as though they are criminals?
>Here is really the main point, which you're brushing >aside -- this makes the hardware worth more, because >you're making it potentially more usable for end users. >Maybe not all end-users, but certainly some. I don't >understand why you say it's a "very different kettle of >fish" ? Different than releasing the specs? If anything >it means fixes will happen faster.
I am not brushing anything aside, I am saying that a lot of people for a long time have ranted about opensource drivers for advanced video cards - and as yet I have seen no-one discuss it at a level that actually addresses what would be involved.
My 'very different kettle of fish' above is the vendors actually releasing full-stack sourcecode, versus just hardware specs.
My position on the hardware specs (and I am not claiming proof for this, it is only my position) is that it is next to useless for high-performance users. We may well see competent 2d opensource drivers, and 3d ones that can limp along - however graphics hardware has moved a LONG way from there.
I would *love* to see a fully opensource stack with high performance for opengl, however is it practical?
In your reply (sorry, I clipped it back a bit for brevity) you mentioned harddrive makers doing sector remapping - that is probably a whole few pages of code in their controllers. For a full modern opengl stack we are probably talking in the millions of lines region - we are talking of something with a scope not unlike the linux kernel itself, or at least a good proportion of it. This is NOT similar to any other type of driver that I can think of - it is an almost unique case.
Just looking at opengl, the cards driver needs to be able to handle multiple simultaneous execution of overlapped and scheduled code, all in realtime, on in the region of 100-300 semi-linked vector cpus, all without cross-interference, while also maintain multiple streams of data at GB rates in and out of the card, and all while following a VERY explicit and highly complex set of rules governing the results.
Put another way, these devices are bleeding edge modern realtime computers, on a card - and their 'drivers' are really realtime OSs, although highly specialised.
Intel, in its infinite wisdom, as about to try and take that to the next level - making such cards x86ish, with an eye I suspect to reducing the complexity of software entry, after having failed miserably to write working drivers for their existing (965, g35, g45 so far) hardware.
All I say is lets cut these guys some slack - the capability of the hardware/software combination of a 9600gt, for around $150, is simply astounding. Should they expect 'help' from kernel developers, etc? of course not. Should they be punished? I say no.
Anyhow, I know that is bordering on preaching, and of course very opinionated - however I do like to see things treated with an even hand, and I have not always seen that happen with the issue of opensource 3d graphics drivers.
Yes, thats why we see the good ole US of A protecting its citizens rights so very very well these days.
Tell people that it will stop the terrorism, drug problems, and help them buy new Hummers, and people will be voting FOR it, not against.
After all, pretty quickly the majority will see that this would be a great way to accurately identify those 'troublemakers' you mentioned, and keep them out of their nice safe middle-class lives.
I estimate that if you chipped the soldiers overseas, at least 20% of the US population would get chips just to show their support!
You seem to miss the point... Dead bodies break down nicely and help to increase the fertility of the soil. The point is to help the trees grow.
And I would not be surprised if this is being done in an area a touch short of such organic matter..
Of course, if people really cared they may want to consider that GPS is rarely accurate to 5m, its not uncommon to get an EPE of 15-20m in that arts of the world..
SAS bandwidth, 1.5 or 3.0 GBit/second, SATA bandwidth, 1.5 or 3.0 GBit/second SAS has TCQ, SATA has NCQ for command overlapping. SAS has multipath IO, SATA has port multipliers SAS cables are rated to 8m, SATA at 1m, hmm an actual difference! Try to learn something before you start spouting crap. SAS is available with lower latency drives (15krpm), SATA can easy match it in bandwidth.
Anyone serious uses FC for big arrays anyway, go look at a TPC-C lead benchmark some time.
And where exactly do you think the noise floor of a real LP player is?
That is after all all we are talking about, although I have doubts that that is often appreciated.
Of course, on a modern CD you are missing a lot of the harmonic distortion, random noise, and limited (yes, go look at the actual figures) high and low frequency response of a normal LP, but hey, who needs them.
MP3 is in a lot of ways a good match to vinyl, it actually tracks a lot of the same problems rather nicely.
And when the US did their anti-satellite tests previously, it was different how? I refer you to October 13, 1985.
"In April 1988, the two Democratic chambers of Congress voted against extending the ASAT ban"
"The ban on using the MIRACL laser against space targets lapsed in 1996, when the new Republican Congress opted not to renew it."
"in August 2004 the U.S. Air Force published a doctrine on "Counterspace Operations" which affirmed its readiness to conduct "operations to deceive, disrupt, deny, degrade, or destroy adversary space capabilities" in order to maintain U.S. space superiority."
Exactly, if he actually went and researched a little he would find that vinyl required a good deal MORE compression and severely limited frequency response (as the needle can only track certain features). It also has severe inter-channel crosstalk, poor low frequency response, and a much higher noise floor.
Of course, as a fashion statement, none of these things matter.
However to claim it is in any way technically better is just laughable.
I really really really do hope that you know that South Korea is quite a strong US ally, with a very strong US military presence, and quite a low chance of being at all interested in US 'secrets', hmmm?
Well, being as how the whole social contract of copyright was established on the basis that:
1 - producers would produce items and were
free to declare a limited copyright (see fair use) 2 - society at a whole would donate to the
producers of copyrighted items the cost of enforcement 3 - in return the full and complete OWNERSHIP of the
items would in return default to the PUBLIC 4 - the period at which this transfer of ownership was
(in the US) fixed at the creators life + 50 years
And that with no public agreement that period has been redefined in 2 very serious ways (corporate ownership and period extension)
Would you agree that in return for OUR support of YOUR income, you will meet all likely costs of GUARANTEEING availability and transfer of ownership?
DRM has destroyed this social contract, corporate ownership has also, there are continuing attempts to undermine it for individuals through period extensions. Why should we (society) not be free to renege on the whole social contract? There will be noting stopping you from carrying the cost of protecting YOUR ownership of YOUR content without our help...
Where exactly are the provisions allowing me to make backups of the media I *paid* *for*?
DRM is a method of breaking the social contract whereby society agrees to police the rights of 'rights holders' in return for the eventual access to the created entity. Why should be put protections in place for that DRM?
It is of course already exactly as illegal to break copyright as it has always been, why are we looking at introducing another level of protection for only one side of the equation?
Really, and how does carrying a DVcam and a DSLR make life easier for the user than carry a small point-and-shoot? Or were you just telling a little lie about using my logic..
Hell, my brother in law just came back from holiday having taken all his pictures on his (rather nice) 3MP camera phone, and also some movies, converted all of them on to a dvd for the family to see and they looked very nice on a TV (PAL,720x576).. so he didnt even need a camera.
The original story made a LOT of assumptions, never stated, about users requirements, my point is that a lot of those assumptions are pure rubbish, many cameras are more than good enough these days for a LOT less money than the cheapest DSLR, and have other advantages the DSLR cannot have such as size, added functionality, etc.
Quite a few of the point-and-shoot digital cameras now have respectable movie modes, DSLRs do not have them (in fact basically not have them). I must say this recomendation smacks of one-upmanship, sure we could all go and buy porsches to do the grocery shopping, but should we? Horses for courses boys, DSLRs have their advantages, and their limitations. Ever tried to carry one in a pocket?
Wow, AMD Really are spnning evrything they can get their hands on in the last few weeks - could it be that they are trying to divert attention away from something? Let me think.. what was AMDs last real news?? When is the next major milestone in their processor lineup?
What goes around comes around.. Intel have been busy beavers for a while, relying on their rapidly aging netburst architecure, and hurting for it, while they got their next generation in order - perhaps AMD should have done a bit more work to have an answer ready... oh well.
IBM of course will do anything to divert server attention away from Intel, due to the fact that they have their own large-systems architecture to support - Power, and Intels ia64 is a competitor, whereas AMD have nothing even close to that market - of course IBM want people to like AMD and avoid Intel...
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You really dont have much of a clue do you?
The cost of flying people around is almost exactly proportional to the weight carried, with a slight modifier of the number of people you get the the aircraft.
I would propose the simple solution in this case is to set an average person weight, and charge people the same for extra weight regardless of it being baggage or their own body.
I weight very light (60kg, over 6 foot..) as a man, due to a non-eating-related medical condition, which I have no choice over. Why should I be subsidising the costs of people larger than me? BTW I will also die approximately 15-20 year early from the same condition. I got my arse kicked when young for being 'scrawny', so dont try and pull the 'life is hard being large' card on me.
What is next? large people have the right to an extra course in restaurants for free because they 'need' it?
Oh, and as to your item 4, who the hell do you think ends up paying for these extra seats? the tooth fairy?
Also, I am sure there are exceptions, but every airline I deal with DOES give extra luggage if you busy an extra seat. I often have to carry delicate equipment around the world, and quite often book a second seat for that equipment (as it cannot be roughly handled). I explain everything to the airlist before booking and it is NEVER a problem, that ticket comes
with a full allocation of luggage allowance, etc even though there is no associated person.
Stop wanting special treatment, grow up, and deal with your situation instead of expecting others to deal with it.
Go read up on copyright, as part of the 'deal' that is copyright, the rights to the item are supposed to become public after copyright runs out (which is getting longer and longer, but that aint the point).
With DRM, how exactly is the public going to get their free access that has been bought and paid for by supplying (through the state..) the protection of the product during its copyright life?
Any copyright holder who uses DRM that does not time out at the end of copyright is reneging on their half of the contract that is copyright, so why should they get any protection through it?
State Copyright OR Private DRM, I say. No state protection for DRM!
There are a lot of factors.
Drag does up with speed, and is non-linear and vehicle dependent (a low drag car tends to also increase slower and later)
Other losses (drivetrain, tyres etc) tend to increate, some with RPM, most with speed.
Road surface makes a difference!
Engine efficiency is the complex one, engines are very inefficient at high AND low speeds.
for a first-order approximation, your engine is probably (depending on design) most efficient at the lower end of its torque peak.
However, the #1 difference is driving style.
The most efficient styles of driving can be VERY surprising - accellerating at the torque peak until a speed above your target and then coasting slower is one of the best, but a real pain to do.
Even for normal driving styles, a variance of 20% is not uncommon, especially in city driving.
The upshot is that slow driving is not by any means the answer to fuel efficiency. ;)
Fast driving is even worse though
#1 rule of fuel efficiency, learn how to drive your car, and get a realtime fuel consumption monitor, log each tank of gas, and learn!
Ok, BS, lets do some calcs.
allowing for around 20A of peak load (fans, lights, ignition, EFI, etc..) thats 240W.
By the time we allow for a ton of inefficiency, thats still 1/2hp.
Lets say your car cruises at 30HPish, thats 2%, and thats being generous (ie: a lot more load than probably average).
BTW, those metrompg figures are VERY VERY far off, not even close - lossess get re-added in, and cruise HP is also a dreamed up figure.
Now, whats the cost and lifespan of that deep cycle?
This seems to be significantly less nasty than the US using its global monitoring network to intercept commercially valuable information and supply it to its own companies for gain..
You guys are just pissed that China is big enough to throw some weight around also - if you dont like it, dont sell your stuff there. Its their dirt, and it would have to argue this voilates any human rights, so whats the problem?
'During the Clinton administration, NSA agents monitored Japanese communications during auto talks and French communications during talks on world trade.'
'An office was created within the Department of Commerce, the Office of Intelligence Liaison, to forward intercepted materials to major US corporations.'
http://cndyorks.gn.apc.org/mhs/mhscommerce.htm
http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/clinteons.htm
Funny thing is that Islam has an even stronger moral code against killing innocents than Christianity, yet they are the ones which have the least problem with targeting purely civilian populations.
You havent heard of the Dresden and Tokyo fire bombings, or Hiroshima and Nagasaki, have you....
Because I live in S. Korea, this issue was huge just a few months ago. Everyone was talking about it.
Then one of my co-workers tried to convince me that NZ beef was safer than US beef because there was more grass in NZ.
Misinformation from the local media.
Why exactly is this misinformation?
NZ beef is completely (and I hate the term) 'Free Range', as is not fed any reprocessed animal products (the primary mad cow vector).
There has also never once been a case of this disease in New Zealand.
NZ beef is also not grown indoors (nice mild climate), eats primarily fresh grass (and as a backup, hay), and there are very strict slaughtering and testing regulations.
Most of the rest of the worlds meat is dogfood in comparison (with some notable exceptions) - the main reason for this is simple, under population and a large supply of pasture. All of this is done without subsidies or trade barriers also.
Then more told me that the US wants to send SK old beef that Americans are unwilling to eat because it's too dangerous. Only beef over three years, they said. In reality, the trade agreement was exclusively for beef under three years (which has the lowest likelihood of being infected).
Also misinformation from the local media.
You mean beef under 3 years has the least chance of the disease being testable! not quite the same thing....
Finally, several people I talked to wanted to know if I was brave enough to eat US meat because they had been told that Americans are afraid of their own beef.
The media. Meh.
So, why eat the US beef anyway, it is more expensive, more poorly produced, carries additional risk (although small), and supports a corrupt subsidy protected farming practice.
I can see why people would eat Us beef in the US, it is a local product, but in the rest of the world?
You are using faulty logic to try and create a strawman, surprise surprise.
There are plenty of examples of countries with more relaxed gun laws and/or more guns per head that the US, and yet significantly less gun-related crime.
The control, number, and distribution of guns has little to do with their use in crime. Gun based crime is a social problem, nothing else, and one in which the USA has failed miserably.
So, you are surprised that they are willing to cover up the big stuff when it is generally accepted that they are above the law on the smaller things?
Gee, what a shock.
Here we have a speed limit of 100Km/h (around 60mph) maximum, and can get a speeding ticket for 105..
We also have speed cameras, which at times catch police both off duty and on duty without due cause to speed.. NONE have ever been charged with speeding, they are automatically let off.
Most police think they deserve a 'special' version of the law, where any excuse is good enough to avoid punishment, it should be the opposite, as they are supposed to know the law well, NO excuse should be acceptable.
So tell me, just how big a propane grill or petrol fuel tank would you consider illegal in a residential zone?
there is no sense is scaremongering about 'how flammable' as I am sure you know, petrol is a critically dangerous item in that respect, and yet I can keep large quantities in my garage without any form of concern.
Any you really have never seen an AC fire in a non-chemical filled house? wow, must be some high quality houses you are used to where compressors never burn out..
Wrong, it is not uncommmon and a transfer to be marched off the plane, asked to collect bags, then processed back through 'security checks' along with full documentation checks, records, etc and then held until transfer in a 'secure holding location'.
Of course this is not consistently done, apparently terrorists only use certain airports..
That is why I dont even transfer through the US these days if I can avoid it - their loss, less business for their carriers.
Some would argue that I could have evil terrorist items in my luggage allowing me to take over the plane or something, but hell, I just flew in over the US, so had all the opportunity in the world then...
Does it feel good to treat the rest of the world as though they are criminals?
I posted this over at RWT a month or so ago..
>Here is really the main point, which you're brushing
>aside -- this makes the hardware worth more, because
>you're making it potentially more usable for end users.
>Maybe not all end-users, but certainly some. I don't
>understand why you say it's a "very different kettle of
>fish" ? Different than releasing the specs? If anything
>it means fixes will happen faster.
I am not brushing anything aside, I am saying that a lot of people for a long time have ranted about opensource drivers for advanced video cards - and as yet I have seen no-one discuss it at a level that actually addresses what would be involved.
My 'very different kettle of fish' above is the vendors actually releasing full-stack sourcecode, versus just hardware specs.
My position on the hardware specs (and I am not claiming proof for this, it is only my position) is that it is next to useless for high-performance users. We may well see competent 2d opensource drivers, and 3d ones that can limp along - however graphics hardware has moved a LONG way from there.
I would *love* to see a fully opensource stack with high performance for opengl, however is it practical?
In your reply (sorry, I clipped it back a bit for brevity) you mentioned harddrive makers doing sector remapping - that is probably a whole few pages of code in their controllers. For a full modern opengl stack we are probably talking in the millions of lines region - we are talking of something with a scope not unlike the linux kernel itself, or at least a good proportion of it.
This is NOT similar to any other type of driver that I can think of - it is an almost unique case.
Just looking at opengl, the cards driver needs to be able to handle multiple simultaneous execution of overlapped and scheduled code, all in realtime, on in the region of 100-300 semi-linked vector cpus, all without cross-interference, while also maintain multiple streams of data at GB rates in and out of the card, and all while following a VERY explicit and highly complex set of rules governing the results.
Put another way, these devices are bleeding edge modern realtime computers, on a card - and their 'drivers' are really realtime OSs, although highly specialised.
Intel, in its infinite wisdom, as about to try and take that to the next level - making such cards x86ish, with an eye I suspect to reducing the complexity of software entry, after having failed miserably to write working drivers for their existing (965, g35, g45 so far) hardware.
All I say is lets cut these guys some slack - the capability of the hardware/software combination of a 9600gt, for around $150, is simply astounding. Should they expect 'help' from kernel developers, etc? of course not. Should they be punished? I say no.
Anyhow, I know that is bordering on preaching, and of course very opinionated - however I do like to see things treated with an even hand, and I have not always seen that happen with the issue of opensource 3d graphics drivers.
ROTFL
Yes, thats why we see the good ole US of A protecting its citizens rights so very very well these days.
Tell people that it will stop the terrorism, drug problems, and help them buy new Hummers, and people will be voting FOR it, not against.
After all, pretty quickly the majority will see that this would be a great way to accurately identify those 'troublemakers' you mentioned, and keep them out of their nice safe middle-class lives.
I estimate that if you chipped the soldiers overseas, at least 20% of the US population would get chips just to show their support!
I've been running one for close to 2 years for just this purpose.
Runs symbian putty perfectly, does 802.11 for when you can get to it, has an ok real web browser, and does real email (imap/pop/smtp).
And on the plus side, actually fits in a pocket, and can support real typing.
Pity nokia seem to consider it a dead-end product, and go out of their way to ignore it.
You seem to miss the point...
Dead bodies break down nicely and help to increase the fertility of the soil. The point is to help the trees grow.
And I would not be surprised if this is being done in an area a touch short of such organic matter..
Of course, if people really cared they may want to consider that GPS is rarely accurate to 5m, its not uncommon to get an EPE of 15-20m in that arts of the world..
SAS bandwidth, 1.5 or 3.0 GBit/second, SATA bandwidth, 1.5 or 3.0 GBit/second
SAS has TCQ, SATA has NCQ for command overlapping.
SAS has multipath IO, SATA has port multipliers
SAS cables are rated to 8m, SATA at 1m, hmm an actual difference!
Try to learn something before you start spouting crap.
SAS is available with lower latency drives (15krpm), SATA can easy match it in bandwidth.
Anyone serious uses FC for big arrays anyway, go look at a TPC-C lead benchmark some time.
And where exactly do you think the noise floor of a real LP player is?
That is after all all we are talking about, although I have doubts that that is often appreciated.
Of course, on a modern CD you are missing a lot of the harmonic distortion, random noise, and limited (yes, go look at the actual figures) high and low frequency response of a normal LP, but hey, who needs them.
MP3 is in a lot of ways a good match to vinyl, it actually tracks a lot of the same problems rather nicely.
And when the US did their anti-satellite tests previously, it was different how? I refer you to October 13, 1985.
"In April 1988, the two Democratic chambers of Congress voted against extending the ASAT ban"
"The ban on using the MIRACL laser against space targets lapsed in 1996, when the new Republican Congress opted not to renew it."
"in August 2004 the U.S. Air Force published a doctrine on "Counterspace Operations" which affirmed its readiness to conduct "operations to deceive, disrupt, deny, degrade, or destroy adversary space capabilities" in order to maintain U.S. space superiority."
Exactly, if he actually went and researched a little he would find
that vinyl required a good deal MORE compression and severely limited
frequency response (as the needle can only track certain features).
It also has severe inter-channel crosstalk, poor low frequency
response, and a much higher noise floor.
Of course, as a fashion statement, none of these things matter.
However to claim it is in any way technically better is just laughable.
I really really really do hope that you know that South Korea is quite a strong US ally, with
a very strong US military presence, and quite a low chance of being at all interested
in US 'secrets', hmmm?
Well, being as how the whole social contract of copyright was established on the basis that:
1 - producers would produce items and were
free to declare a limited copyright (see fair use)
2 - society at a whole would donate to the
producers of copyrighted items the cost of enforcement
3 - in return the full and complete OWNERSHIP of the
items would in return default to the PUBLIC
4 - the period at which this transfer of ownership was
(in the US) fixed at the creators life + 50 years
And that with no public agreement that period has been redefined
in 2 very serious ways (corporate ownership and period extension)
Would you agree that in return for OUR support of YOUR income, you will
meet all likely costs of GUARANTEEING availability and transfer of ownership?
DRM has destroyed this social contract, corporate ownership has also,
there are continuing attempts to undermine it for individuals through period
extensions. Why should we (society) not be free to renege on the whole social
contract? There will be noting stopping you from carrying the cost of protecting
YOUR ownership of YOUR content without our help...
And where in there is fair use protected?
Where exactly are the provisions allowing me to make backups of the media I *paid* *for*?
DRM is a method of breaking the social contract whereby society agrees to police the rights of 'rights holders' in return for the eventual access to the created entity. Why should be put protections in place for that DRM?
It is of course already exactly as illegal to break copyright as it has always been, why are we looking at introducing another level of protection for only one side of the equation?
Really, and how does carrying a DVcam and a DSLR make life easier for the user than carry a small point-and-shoot?
Or were you just telling a little lie about using my logic..
Hell, my brother in law just came back from holiday having taken all his pictures on his (rather nice) 3MP camera phone, and also some movies, converted all of them on to a dvd for the family to see and they looked very nice on a TV (PAL,720x576).. so he didnt even need a camera.
The original story made a LOT of assumptions, never stated, about users requirements, my point is that a lot of those assumptions are pure rubbish, many cameras are more than good enough these days for a LOT less money than the cheapest DSLR, and have other advantages the DSLR cannot have such as size, added functionality, etc.
Quite a few of the point-and-shoot digital cameras now have respectable movie modes, DSLRs do not have them (in fact basically not have them).
I must say this recomendation smacks of one-upmanship, sure we could all go and buy porsches to do the grocery shopping, but should we?
Horses for courses boys, DSLRs have their advantages, and their limitations.
Ever tried to carry one in a pocket?
Sigh.
Wow, AMD Really are spnning evrything they can get their hands on in the last few weeks - could it be that they are trying to divert attention away from something?
Let me think.. what was AMDs last real news?? When is the next major milestone in their processor lineup?
What goes around comes around.. Intel have been busy beavers for a while, relying on their rapidly aging netburst architecure, and hurting for it, while they got their next generation in order - perhaps AMD should have done a bit more work to have an answer ready... oh well.
IBM of course will do anything to divert server attention away from Intel, due to the fact that they have their own large-systems architecture to support - Power, and Intels ia64 is a competitor, whereas AMD have nothing even close to that market - of course IBM want people to like AMD and avoid Intel...
I think the correct technical term is 'Duh!'