recently came out and said that, even with only a 15% ethanol/85% gasoline mixture - your mpg (due to ethanol's lower power density) gets reduced to the point that $3.20 gallon of pure gas becomes a $3.99 of the mixed type.
Somebody should probably check their math. Even if they didn't mix anything with it and sold you 85% of a gallon at $3.20, it still only makes the cost per gallon $3.76.
How many times do you plan on rebuilding the engine during those 350k miles?
Depends on which engine it has. I have an F350 with a 7.3IDI turbo that has 270k miles on it and no rebuild. I wouldn't be surprised to see it hit 350k without a rebuild. The current crop that Ford is fighting with International over haven't done so well.
Btw, that Cummins. No g, and capitalized. Also not available in a Ford F-350.
Most house cats given whatever food they want are fat. Very few outdoor cats are. The vast majority of first-world citizens are the equivalent of house cats.
I have two cats, roughly the same age. Cat #1 I got as a kitten, Cat #2 was a year old when I got her a year later. Both stay indoors. Both have been 'fixed'. One is fat, one is thin. Same diet, same opportunities for exercise.
My mother has two cats. One is about a year older than the other. She got both as kittens. Both cats can go outside whenever it suits them. Both have been 'fixed'. One is fat, one is thin. Same diet, unless augmented by wildlife, same opportunities for exercise.
In both our cases, the thin cats have a nervous personality. Her thin cat paces and gets into fights. Mine runs and hides from loud or unusual noises. And both of our fatter cats have more laid back personalities.
BTW, we both use feeders so that food/water is always available.
Selecting air service gets your package special handling too. I regularly ship $3000 (insured value) packages. They go out UPS blue, come back FedEx ground. Never had any problems.
Why would a server NOT have CGI? Unless what you really mean is the developer doesn't have CGI access on the server. I'm not sure you're understanding what CGI is. It is NOT perl. It is NOT PHP. Although both can be used. My cgi-bin is full of custom EXEs.
In simple terms, here is how CGI works; dynamic information from the client is passed to a process launched by the web server through environment variables and command line. An application runs natively on the machine, such as a script processor like perl/PHP or any appropriately written executable. The output of the application is sent to stdout and that is redirected to the client.
That's not at all surprising, but not for the reason you think. Laptops work by using a battery to moderate the power consumption.
That would be easy to check, remove the battery. My Toshiba and Dell laptops have no appreciable difference whether the battery is installed or not, assuming the battery is fully charged. My Mac Mini (512m RAM, Power, not Intel) uses about the same watts as my laptop. Which makes it slightly higher since that doesn't include the LCD.
The only real question, then, is why desktops don't all have built-in backup batteries in them.
Two reasons; maintenance, and consumers aren't interested. Batteries have a considerably shorter life than most power supplies. And there used to be internal UPSs available for PCs. I haven't seen one in a long time, and I've never seen one in a store. Most likely because consumers don't want to open the case.
I can see what it is, and it's obvious to me, but I'm already familiar with the show and character, so my perception is skewed.
I'm not familiar with the show, and it looks like a cartoon character telling me I'm #1.
Maybe Cartoon Network should sell them on their website. At $20-30, I'd put one in my office at home. Assuming they get the charges dropped against the guys that hung them. I didn't see any mention of that in the settlement. That would make me less annoyed that they settled in the first place.
The question will be, how much money will an ISP have to spend to record everything, in a secure fashion, for years and years?
In my case, a whole lot. Because as soon as someone starts collecting IMs from my system, I'm going to set up a bot to entertain them. I think Chatterbot would like to read War and Peace. Then brush up on world events with the CIA World Factbook. And then maybe work the rest of the way through Project Gutenberg.
I'm not too worried about e-Mail, they already have to sort through all that SPAM. For the web, a crawler for firstgov.gov.
Not that I'm ashamed of reading/., but they should have to work a little to figure out what is live and what isn't. Not only would my ISP need more disk space, but it's not going to help their bandwidth either.
The hold back is not the cost, it's the application availability. Sure, you can do Windows/Citrix but I'm not convinced you're saving anything. You still have to pay for Windows server licenses, client licenses, citric licenses and a few more windows taxes I'm certain.
There is still plenty to gain, depending on your organization.
The ability to swap someone's "desktop" in a matter of minutes is good if your support staff is limited. Same for setting up new PCs.
Lifecycle can be 2 - 3 times longer than PCs. If you upgrade an app and it needs resources, you handle it at the server.
Software patches/upgrades are all at the server level. Everybody always has the right version.
If you have to have licenses, having them in once place beats any license management system I have seen.
User shadowing. Nothing like connecting to a user's session 6 states away and walking them through a problem.
If you aren't fully accounting for support costs, then the numbers will never look good.
2. Limited variety in software between departments
This isn't a problem, at least with Citrix. You can publish to specific user groups. So apps for departments like AP, HR, or IT are not accessible to other departments.
3. Software writen for thin-client/server environment
You don't need to write specifically for thin client, but the apps need to be multi-user aware. Another windows example; your application should install to the normal program files structure and store it's user specific info in Documents and Settings or HKEY_Current_User. Writing to other locations would be limited to admin installation and configuring. Basically, following the guidelines MS has been giving for at least 7 years.
Otherwise, an app that behaves badly on the server is a badly behaving app running on the client too.
How is placing a maximum ebay bid different from this? Guess what it isn't. That's what you bid, and that's what the bidding went to. In fact, ebay is rather less harsh given the above scenario. If the bidding on ebay was at $10 and you bid $20, it would only up the bid to $11 and then bid for you should the price go higher.
You are confusing eBay's automatic proxy bidding with an actual bid. If you want to talk analogies with real auctions, consider the brokers that attend and bid for their clients. When a client tells their agent "I'll go up to $200 for xxxx", they don't expect their agent to open bidding at $200. What is happening on eBay is a perversion of the automated proxy bidding. And while sniping has bad connotations with some people, it's the only way for eBay buyers to battle shill bidding if eBay won't enforce their own rules.
Well, they will tell you what T-Mobile told my mom. You can take the crappy new phone or not, but it's included in the cost of the new contract. She put the SIM in her Motorola and gave the Nokia (3390) to charity. According to the sales rep, they aren't going to force you to take a phone, but they aren't giving you a discount for refusing it either.
3000 hits to the main page in 45 minutes. I've got to find better hosting.
Wikis seem to be fairly processor intensive. I looked at MediaWiki when I was setting up one of mine, and besides being slow it was a pain to set up. I don't know why they don't include a lot of the stock help pages in the distribution. I ended up using DokuWiki for user documentation for my apps. My production documentation server runs in a VM and the CPU spikes to 100% every time it serves a page. I doubt my hosted site over at GoDaddy would fare much better.
Complain as much as you like, the problem is that I think for a non-camera phone to exist, people need to be willing to pay more for them.
There is some truth to this. It's not necessarily that there aren't people who want to buy them, it's that those people aren't the ones that companies want to appeal to. I've had my Samsung E105 for a little over two years. During the same period, a friend has had at least 6 different phones. He's had camera phones from various manufacturers, PDA phones, and in just the last 3 months two aircards.
The only new feature for years that has had any appeal to me is the integrated MP3 players. I looked at his newly acquired red Razor, and it has so much crap on it that apparently the only place they could find for the SD card was under the battery. That's real convenient. So as a customer there isn't a whole lot I'm going to contributing to their bottom line.
Just to play devil's advocate, wouldn't a lack of initiative on the job while excelling on open source projects be a bad thing? As an employer, I don't think I'd want to pay a programmer to coast all day (on my dime) while devoting his/her energy to OS projects. Unless those projects benefited the company, but then it wouldn't be "no signs of growth".
In my opinion, a Senior Developer role is more a skill related thing than an age related thing. Old people need to work too. You shouldn't worry too much, especially if you are well liked.
I would say he shouldn't get too hung up on job title. There are so many different titles for programmers/developers/software engineers, and each company handles them differently, that employers are going to be looking more at experience than title. I know the last time I had my business cards done, my boss said I could put anything (within reason) on them I wanted.
If the title of the torrent is "Lord of the Rings" I think it would be fairly hard to prove that you were not intending to violate copyright.
And suppose Roger Ebert is my hero, and I decide to set up a torrent of my movie reviews. (I'm expecting my opinion to be really popular) Wouldn't it be logical of me to call my files 'Blood Diamond.mpg' or 'Casino Royale.mpg'? Because they are all in my Reviews subdirectory on my server.
So next you'll say check the file size? I could be long winded. Or maybe instead reviews I'm into parodies. There is one floating around for Star Trek that is 550 meg. Or I'm a really, really big LoTR fanatic. So much so that a LoTR theme isn't enough, I'm going to put together Lord of the Rings Linux. I always wanted my own distro.
OTOH, you're assuming I even know what Lord of the Rings is. Hard to believe, but it is possible to live outside the realm of pop culture. I'm not saying you can't prove intent, just that you can't assume it.
In this case, the MPAA is not forcing you to download the torrent, you are choosing to do so freely. You may not have infringed copyright by doing so, but you definitely flag yourself as a person who is ATTEMPTING to violate copyright.
Not necessarily. There are plenty of legitimate uses of P2P. So they would still need to prove that you intended to infringe on someone's copyright. From your undercover police officer analogy, I don't know of ANY legitimate reason for purchasing cocaine under those circumstances. Another problem is the criminal vs civil aspect. IANAL, but I would question whether you can bring civil charges for intent. The RIAA is not damaged by your intent do download something.
(witness the number of "geeks" who instinctively change the Windows XP Start Menu back to the "Classic" style despite the newer layout being better in pretty much every way)
How is moving everything around and forcing users to relearn the interface with every release better in ANY way? Changes in Windows are about milking the cash cow. Flashy new UIs are created because it makes it easy for marketing to show changes in the new version and because programmers hate doing maintenance work.
Try comparing adding a one-second delay to something you do less frequently than push down a key on your keyboard.
Imagine having to wait a second after you turn the key before your door unlocks.
I use CFLs and regular fluorescents for most of my lighting. But not for lights that are rarely used or only used for short periods of time. I haven't noticed the delay, but some of my older bulbs take a minute to get to full illumination. The reason I don't change the others is they haven't burnt out in the last 6 years, a CFL in those fixtures would last longer than me.
You are so far outside the realm of economics, I hardly know where to start. Your view of monopolies and capitalism is completely distorted.
Capitalism is supposed to be a market--which is a highly regulated environment in a lot of ways--and not just highway robbery.
Pure Capitalism is unregulated. It is controlled by supply and demand. Regulation is anti-capitalism, but rarely do consumers want pure capitalism.
As far as Google is concerned, their 'monopoly' is as tenuous as CNN's. It is as simple as changing the channel. If someone provides a better search, people will migrate to it. Right now, if you run the same search on Google, Live(MSN), Ask, and Yahoo, you will get virtually the same set of results. Live and Ask have even copied Google's simple search page. That is the reason Google is working to diversify. Some things they do well (GMail, Google Maps), others still need work (Google home pages). But it's silly to believe people would remain loyal to Google if they added something distasteful to their search engine. Imagine how quickly people would leave if there were pop-ups or click-through ads to get to the results.
Other Search Engines don't exist. Face it, Google is by and far the only option.
Once upon a time, the same could be said for Altavista. Once, 'no one could compete' with phone companies for Internet access because 'they own the lines'. Things change.
And even though Google doesn't yet have a complete monopoly even by that definition, it's headed there because search engines, like electric utilities, are natural monopolies.
Please, go back and do some more reading on natural monopolies, and 'barriers to entry' in general. Operating Systems and search engines are NOT like utilities.
Consider a utility. To enter the market you need licenses from federal, state, and local governments. Property easements. And capital costs for plants and infrastructure. Monopolies are allowed because the local governments don't want utility companies cherry picking customers. They want one company providing universal service.
With Operating Systems it takes millions of man hours to put together something competitive. That alone could be considered a huge barrier to entry. Ironically, the better Linux becomes, the lower this barrier becomes. But the real issue was the exclusive OEM contracts anyway. Not a natural monopoly, but one created by predatory business practices.
With search engines, what does it really take to compete? A web crawler, a huge database, and an efficient search algorithm.
I think you should be looking someplace else for a windmill...
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Last time I checked, US laws mostly only apply inside the US, but maybe the Bush-empire grew while I was sleeping?
Apparently it has. We now have this little vacation spot in Cuba.
recently came out and said that, even with only a 15% ethanol/85% gasoline mixture - your mpg (due to ethanol's lower power density) gets reduced to the point that $3.20 gallon of pure gas becomes a $3.99 of the mixed type.
Somebody should probably check their math. Even if they didn't mix anything with it and sold you 85% of a gallon at $3.20, it still only makes the cost per gallon $3.76.
How many times do you plan on rebuilding the engine during those 350k miles?
Depends on which engine it has. I have an F350 with a 7.3IDI turbo that has 270k miles on it and no rebuild. I wouldn't be surprised to see it hit 350k without a rebuild. The current crop that Ford is fighting with International over haven't done so well.
Btw, that Cummins. No g, and capitalized. Also not available in a Ford F-350.
Most house cats given whatever food they want are fat. Very few outdoor cats are. The vast majority of first-world citizens are the equivalent of house cats.
I have two cats, roughly the same age. Cat #1 I got as a kitten, Cat #2 was a year old when I got her a year later. Both stay indoors. Both have been 'fixed'. One is fat, one is thin. Same diet, same opportunities for exercise.
My mother has two cats. One is about a year older than the other. She got both as kittens. Both cats can go outside whenever it suits them. Both have been 'fixed'. One is fat, one is thin. Same diet, unless augmented by wildlife, same opportunities for exercise.
In both our cases, the thin cats have a nervous personality. Her thin cat paces and gets into fights. Mine runs and hides from loud or unusual noises. And both of our fatter cats have more laid back personalities.
BTW, we both use feeders so that food/water is always available.
Selecting air service gets your package special handling too. I regularly ship $3000 (insured value) packages. They go out UPS blue, come back FedEx ground. Never had any problems.
Many servers do not have CGI
Why would a server NOT have CGI? Unless what you really mean is the developer doesn't have CGI access on the server. I'm not sure you're understanding what CGI is. It is NOT perl. It is NOT PHP. Although both can be used. My cgi-bin is full of custom EXEs.
In simple terms, here is how CGI works; dynamic information from the client is passed to a process launched by the web server through environment variables and command line. An application runs natively on the machine, such as a script processor like perl/PHP or any appropriately written executable. The output of the application is sent to stdout and that is redirected to the client.
That's not at all surprising, but not for the reason you think. Laptops work by using a battery to moderate the power consumption.
That would be easy to check, remove the battery. My Toshiba and Dell laptops have no appreciable difference whether the battery is installed or not, assuming the battery is fully charged. My Mac Mini (512m RAM, Power, not Intel) uses about the same watts as my laptop. Which makes it slightly higher since that doesn't include the LCD.
The only real question, then, is why desktops don't all have built-in backup batteries in them.
Two reasons; maintenance, and consumers aren't interested. Batteries have a considerably shorter life than most power supplies. And there used to be internal UPSs available for PCs. I haven't seen one in a long time, and I've never seen one in a store. Most likely because consumers don't want to open the case.
I can see what it is, and it's obvious to me, but I'm already familiar with the show and character, so my perception is skewed.
I'm not familiar with the show, and it looks like a cartoon character telling me I'm #1.
Maybe Cartoon Network should sell them on their website. At $20-30, I'd put one in my office at home. Assuming they get the charges dropped against the guys that hung them. I didn't see any mention of that in the settlement. That would make me less annoyed that they settled in the first place.
The question will be, how much money will an ISP have to spend to record everything, in a secure fashion, for years and years?
/., but they should have to work a little to figure out what is live and what isn't. Not only would my ISP need more disk space, but it's not going to help their bandwidth either.
In my case, a whole lot. Because as soon as someone starts collecting IMs from my system, I'm going to set up a bot to entertain them. I think Chatterbot would like to read War and Peace. Then brush up on world events with the CIA World Factbook. And then maybe work the rest of the way through Project Gutenberg.
I'm not too worried about e-Mail, they already have to sort through all that SPAM. For the web, a crawler for firstgov.gov.
Not that I'm ashamed of reading
There is still plenty to gain, depending on your organization.
If you aren't fully accounting for support costs, then the numbers will never look good.
2. Limited variety in software between departments
This isn't a problem, at least with Citrix. You can publish to specific user groups. So apps for departments like AP, HR, or IT are not accessible to other departments.
3. Software writen for thin-client/server environment
You don't need to write specifically for thin client, but the apps need to be multi-user aware. Another windows example; your application should install to the normal program files structure and store it's user specific info in Documents and Settings or HKEY_Current_User. Writing to other locations would be limited to admin installation and configuring. Basically, following the guidelines MS has been giving for at least 7 years.
Otherwise, an app that behaves badly on the server is a badly behaving app running on the client too.
How is placing a maximum ebay bid different from this? Guess what it isn't. That's what you bid, and that's what the bidding went to. In fact, ebay is rather less harsh given the above scenario. If the bidding on ebay was at $10 and you bid $20, it would only up the bid to $11 and then bid for you should the price go higher.
You are confusing eBay's automatic proxy bidding with an actual bid. If you want to talk analogies with real auctions, consider the brokers that attend and bid for their clients. When a client tells their agent "I'll go up to $200 for xxxx", they don't expect their agent to open bidding at $200. What is happening on eBay is a perversion of the automated proxy bidding. And while sniping has bad connotations with some people, it's the only way for eBay buyers to battle shill bidding if eBay won't enforce their own rules.
Well, they will tell you what T-Mobile told my mom. You can take the crappy new phone or not, but it's included in the cost of the new contract. She put the SIM in her Motorola and gave the Nokia (3390) to charity. According to the sales rep, they aren't going to force you to take a phone, but they aren't giving you a discount for refusing it either.
3000 hits to the main page in 45 minutes. I've got to find better hosting.
Wikis seem to be fairly processor intensive. I looked at MediaWiki when I was setting up one of mine, and besides being slow it was a pain to set up. I don't know why they don't include a lot of the stock help pages in the distribution. I ended up using DokuWiki for user documentation for my apps. My production documentation server runs in a VM and the CPU spikes to 100% every time it serves a page. I doubt my hosted site over at GoDaddy would fare much better.
Complain as much as you like, the problem is that I think for a non-camera phone to exist, people need to be willing to pay more for them.
There is some truth to this. It's not necessarily that there aren't people who want to buy them, it's that those people aren't the ones that companies want to appeal to. I've had my Samsung E105 for a little over two years. During the same period, a friend has had at least 6 different phones. He's had camera phones from various manufacturers, PDA phones, and in just the last 3 months two aircards.
The only new feature for years that has had any appeal to me is the integrated MP3 players. I looked at his newly acquired red Razor, and it has so much crap on it that apparently the only place they could find for the SD card was under the battery. That's real convenient. So as a customer there isn't a whole lot I'm going to contributing to their bottom line.
Just to play devil's advocate, wouldn't a lack of initiative on the job while excelling on open source projects be a bad thing? As an employer, I don't think I'd want to pay a programmer to coast all day (on my dime) while devoting his/her energy to OS projects. Unless those projects benefited the company, but then it wouldn't be "no signs of growth".
In my opinion, a Senior Developer role is more a skill related thing than an age related thing. Old people need to work too. You shouldn't worry too much, especially if you are well liked.
I would say he shouldn't get too hung up on job title. There are so many different titles for programmers/developers/software engineers, and each company handles them differently, that employers are going to be looking more at experience than title. I know the last time I had my business cards done, my boss said I could put anything (within reason) on them I wanted.
If the title of the torrent is "Lord of the Rings" I think it would be fairly hard to prove that you were not intending to violate copyright.
And suppose Roger Ebert is my hero, and I decide to set up a torrent of my movie reviews. (I'm expecting my opinion to be really popular) Wouldn't it be logical of me to call my files 'Blood Diamond.mpg' or 'Casino Royale.mpg'? Because they are all in my Reviews subdirectory on my server.
So next you'll say check the file size? I could be long winded. Or maybe instead reviews I'm into parodies. There is one floating around for Star Trek that is 550 meg. Or I'm a really, really big LoTR fanatic. So much so that a LoTR theme isn't enough, I'm going to put together Lord of the Rings Linux. I always wanted my own distro.
OTOH, you're assuming I even know what Lord of the Rings is. Hard to believe, but it is possible to live outside the realm of pop culture. I'm not saying you can't prove intent, just that you can't assume it.
In this case, the MPAA is not forcing you to download the torrent, you are choosing to do so freely. You may not have infringed copyright by doing so, but you definitely flag yourself as a person who is ATTEMPTING to violate copyright.
Not necessarily. There are plenty of legitimate uses of P2P. So they would still need to prove that you intended to infringe on someone's copyright. From your undercover police officer analogy, I don't know of ANY legitimate reason for purchasing cocaine under those circumstances. Another problem is the criminal vs civil aspect. IANAL, but I would question whether you can bring civil charges for intent. The RIAA is not damaged by your intent do download something.
How will I make it go faster then?
It's a Chevy, it's not supposed to be fast....
(witness the number of "geeks" who instinctively change the Windows XP Start Menu back to the "Classic" style despite the newer layout being better in pretty much every way)
How is moving everything around and forcing users to relearn the interface with every release better in ANY way? Changes in Windows are about milking the cash cow. Flashy new UIs are created because it makes it easy for marketing to show changes in the new version and because programmers hate doing maintenance work.
Try comparing adding a one-second delay to something you do less frequently than push down a key on your keyboard.
Imagine having to wait a second after you turn the key before your door unlocks.
I use CFLs and regular fluorescents for most of my lighting. But not for lights that are rarely used or only used for short periods of time. I haven't noticed the delay, but some of my older bulbs take a minute to get to full illumination. The reason I don't change the others is they haven't burnt out in the last 6 years, a CFL in those fixtures would last longer than me.
You are so far outside the realm of economics, I hardly know where to start. Your view of monopolies and capitalism is completely distorted.
Capitalism is supposed to be a market--which is a highly regulated environment in a lot of ways--and not just highway robbery.
Pure Capitalism is unregulated. It is controlled by supply and demand. Regulation is anti-capitalism, but rarely do consumers want pure capitalism.
As far as Google is concerned, their 'monopoly' is as tenuous as CNN's. It is as simple as changing the channel. If someone provides a better search, people will migrate to it. Right now, if you run the same search on Google, Live(MSN), Ask, and Yahoo, you will get virtually the same set of results. Live and Ask have even copied Google's simple search page. That is the reason Google is working to diversify. Some things they do well (GMail, Google Maps), others still need work (Google home pages). But it's silly to believe people would remain loyal to Google if they added something distasteful to their search engine. Imagine how quickly people would leave if there were pop-ups or click-through ads to get to the results.
Other Search Engines don't exist. Face it, Google is by and far the only option.
Once upon a time, the same could be said for Altavista. Once, 'no one could compete' with phone companies for Internet access because 'they own the lines'. Things change.
And even though Google doesn't yet have a complete monopoly even by that definition, it's headed there because search engines, like electric utilities, are natural monopolies.
Please, go back and do some more reading on natural monopolies, and 'barriers to entry' in general. Operating Systems and search engines are NOT like utilities.
Consider a utility. To enter the market you need licenses from federal, state, and local governments. Property easements. And capital costs for plants and infrastructure. Monopolies are allowed because the local governments don't want utility companies cherry picking customers. They want one company providing universal service.
With Operating Systems it takes millions of man hours to put together something competitive. That alone could be considered a huge barrier to entry. Ironically, the better Linux becomes, the lower this barrier becomes. But the real issue was the exclusive OEM contracts anyway. Not a natural monopoly, but one created by predatory business practices.
With search engines, what does it really take to compete? A web crawler, a huge database, and an efficient search algorithm.
I think you should be looking someplace else for a windmill...