They've been extremely fast and very responsive. And no, they don't build it for you. That's the point of buying from them so you can have the pleasure of building it yourself. My guess is Newegg got taken on these goods and didn't even know it. I guess we'll see...
and I surely do not experience that amount of 'patching.' I also think updating virus signatures shouldn't be considered a 'patch' per se. Those are essentially database records, not bug fixes. Windows gives me updates about once per month. Once in awhile I get an Adobe or a Java update, but the total is nowhere near what these guys are saying.
the mining communities of the Rockies in Colorado. The miners would come to him with various ailments and would get pissed if he didn't give them anything. He maintained there wasn't anything wrong with them. So he mixed up colored sugar water in the kitchen, poured it in medicinal looking bottles for consumption, and they went away happy and 'cured.' Of course, he couldn't do that today, but in the 1920's? What the hey?
He graduatred from medeical college in 1895. In those days getting an MD meant attending what amounted to a junior college right out of high school.
This may have been brought up. There are over 400 comments now. When I left the corporate world I found catastrophe insurance for which has a $5K deductible. My reasoning was that I could get full coverage for about $500 per month, or $6K per year. The catastrophe insurance was about $150 per month, or $1800 per year. So I "save" $4200 per year if I don't get sick. If I DO get sick, I pay out $6800 per year, pretty close to what I would have been paying for full coverage. I'm gambling that I don't get sick. It's been almost six years now, knock on wood, and I've saved well over $20K so far. When Medicare kicks in in a few years I'll go back to 'full' coverage by a supplementary Medi-Gap plan and pay the equivalent of what I do now for the catastrophe coverage.
Your mileage may vary, but thought I would bring it up as an optional path for you. Lots of companies offer this sort of coverage. Mine is with Group Health--Seattle, an HMO.
Why is this 'insightful'? It's completely wrong. I've been running 7 for awhile now with a constant monitor on CPU and memory. The memory sits at 1.3 gigs no matter what I do. The only time I have EVER seen it go to about 1.8 was when running a DVD backup image. It has NEVER gone to 50% (The machine has 4 gigs). CPU utilization has never to my knowledge gone above 25% and usually sits at 2-3%. The thing boots in 2 minutes flat and is capable of very fast mistakes. I don't run 25 windows open or anything, but I do throw some statistical crunching on it that I would have expected to take a few more cycles. I'm not raving on winblows, but compared to Vista and XP I am a bit surprised that it is working as well as it is. It's true that a gig machine would turn into a brick, but 4 gigs on a new machine is what? $100? I forget, but it's inconsequential.
So, NO, it's not just a pseudonym that is the problem, it's also pseudo facts.
Now back to my Linux servers so I can get some real work done.......
Seems to use 1.3 gig no matter what I do. It's got 4 gig total. Boots in less than 2 minutes. It makes mistakes a lot faster than the old machine, which was just shy of a brick when I switched.
I've gone through about half the comments to see if this has been brought up. I didn't see it, so....Here's the Gates Foundation pledging $10 billion to vaccinate people. It will save lives, no doubt, but it will also place the majority of these millions of people into a life of poverty. (Don't jump at me yet.) So we increase the world's population with millions of more living on less than a dollar a day.
Even if you are Bill Gates, you have a limited amount of money. I just wonder if this is the most cost-effective use of $10 billion. Could this money not be spent on infrastructure issues that would improve the quality of life of people? Stuff like sustainable agriculture, clean water, pollution abatement, etc.? Wouldn't spending money on these things ALSO save lives? Would they save as many lives? (Serious question: I don't pretend to know the answer.)
I certainly agree that saving lives is a good thing, but I worry that injecting money into this part of the cycle (no pun intended) might wind up to be less efective in the long run to keep the greatest number of people alive an well fed. Spending money on vaccines is really kind of a no-brainer, it's so easy. It doesn't take much thought to think up or implement. I just suspect the harder questions re not being asked here and the Foundation is taking an easy path.
The particular velociraptor species pudge boy was referring to in the movie Jurassic Park (You DID catch the reference, did you not?) was about 6 feet tall.
The fact is (and you can look this up for yourself, the top 1% of taxpayers (all those really rich folks) pay 1/3 of all income taxes. The top half of all taxpayers (still considered rich by many here) pay 97% of all income tax. Over 40 million households pay no income tax at all. That's why it is so difficult to give a "fair" (not) tax break to the bottom half of the population. They don't pay enough tax to give them a cut on.
P.S. Of course, that's not the only tax burden people acquire. Sales taxes aren't based on income, so you can say the 'poor' are unfairly burdened by a tax like that. And, so, too do widows on social security being taxed out of their homes because of high property taxes. So I'm not satying the poor are fairly taxed.
But I do get sick and tired of people claiming the burden of income taxes is on the rich when the 'rich' (depending on how you define them: Usually those who make more than you do) pay 97% of the income taxes already.
You are speaking of periodicals in academia; I am speaking of books in public libraries, especially, which was the original point in the article. The original claim was about books, not periodicals. That's bait & switch.
You've also touched upon one of the biggest publishing rip-offs that exists. Publishers such as you mentioned have academic libraries over a barrel because the academics "must have" the publication because of its reputation. The subscription cost of these periodicals is far above the actual cost to reproduce. It makes pharmaceuticals profit margins pale in comparison.
The best thing that could happen is for academics to destroy this process by developing their own peer review process independent of paper and directly on the Net. The physics community has made some serious headway in doing exactly that. Would that other disciplines follow suit. If libraries and academia 'just said no' to these bottom feeders they would die overnight.
That's usually the case. Librarians will give those books a once-over to see if there's anything that pops out that should be included in the collection, but it's usually more cost-effective and efficient to get as much as you can for them and pour that money back into the book budget. If you donate a brand new hardback of the latest Harry Potter, they'll grab it in a heartbeat. But if you've got some old paperbacks, it's unlikely they'll be added.
Granted, but publishers really do think like this. There is serious antagonism from publishers about libraries and has been for decades. Librarians are not really welcome at publisher conventions. I've experienced this first hand. Authors can get sucked into this, too. "You mean I could have earned royalties for this many check-outs? I'd be rich!" No, actually you wouldn't because libraries helped create your fan base.
In some countries, such as Australia, there is something called a 'Public lending right' where the government pays publishers a fee to compensate for publishers' 'losses' because libraries check out books to more than one person. Every time a new media comes out (VHS, CD, DVD) the publishers of those formats, having not encountered the situation before, raise a big stink. With the digitization of books and the rise of Kindle-type reading, I believe the library will be presented with even greater challenges.
Fact 1: Public libraries are just about the best return on investment for your tax dollar. For every dollar you spend supporting the public library, you get about $8.00 back in services. If you had to pay retail (or even discounted) for every book borrowed from the public library, that's the ROI you would see. Name another government organization that can give you a better ROI. (Note: You can't.)
Fact 2: If you have a recession, usage of the public library goes up. Ironically, the library budget is subject to the recession as much as any other business or government entity. For most businesses, if traffic goes up, so does income. It's the opposite for a public library.
Fact 3: If it were not for public libraries, many books would not be published at all. That's because publishers factor in the public library market in their decision to publish. Larger public libraries buy a given title in the hundreds of copies. There are over 16,000 public libraries in the US. The market is not trivial.
Fact 4: Public libraries are largely responsible for publishers' 'Backlists' of older titles. Nobody else buys them.
Fact 5: It is an established fact that people who use public libraries buy far more books than people who do not. Public libraries help create the market that gives profits to publishers.
Fact 6: Research libraries, especially, are a captive audience for the over-priced, rip-off "scientific" journals that cost hundreds, even thousands of dollars a year that academics "must have." No individual can afford them. If libraries "just said no" those journals would fail in a heartbeat.
Fact 7: Cutting off libraries is a stupid idea. It's cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Wherever did you get this silly idea? Libraries pay the same discounted rate as bookstores, usually in the neighborhood of 45-55% BELOW retail. Most books are purchased from Ingram or Baker & Taylor, wholesalers. If you do the math on this, it winds up that a million dollar book budget buys 2 million dollars worth of books. (Take the 45% you just saved; buy more books. Take the 45% you just saved; buy more books. Repeat until funds=0.) I supervised the Technical Services Department of my library (and IT) for 25 years, which included the book budget.
Actually, yes. When I was commercial fishing on a troller in Alaska we used Loran grid coordinates, spoken in Danish, to tell our brothers where the fish were. No one else could understand us. If we said "Over and out" the conversation was finished, but if we said "I'm off," that meant to change frequencies, tell how many King's you'd caught, and give the coordinates. Without the Loran our sneaky ways will have to be changed.
Excuse me, fella. This is/., not the Red Cross. Do you really expect us to discuss news stories on here? Why not Reid's remarks about Obama, the Massachussetts senate race, or what ever will Conan O'Brien do now, or your mama's corn bread recipe? Because they are largely irrelevant. You wanna talk earthquakes, go where they are discussed.
Sure they are. Sony, the electronics conglomerate, successfully sued a woman named 'Sony' who used her own given name in the name of her restaurant, "Sony's Restaurant." She laid out tens of thousands of dollars in lawyer fees and still lost.
Back in the BBS days the 'Olympic' BBS in Silverdale, Washington, pretty close to the Olympic Mountains, was sued by the Olympic Committee for daring to name their BBS after the nearby mountain range.
This is case law. All you folks claiming trademark infringement does not count across industries are just plain wrong, as these cases prove.
No, but a book is not 6 feet tall. The issue is, is the MRI, slow as it is, faster than flipping each page manually 300 times and taking individual scans? I agree the tech isn't there yet, but it isn't inherently impossible.
We've had airport security for decades. When did it start? Early seventies? The only time we needed airport security to work, it didn't. Why do we have to shut down an entire airport because one hapless person entered the wrong room? It's a terrible over-reaction, making us all look like wusses. It's like seeing people freak out because they see a spider. Big deal. Take the spider outside, end of story. No evancualtions. No freak-outs. No delays.
The thing is, the last time we had a real incident, at Christmas, the guy managed to get on and do everything necessary to kill a few hundered people. Only the incompetence of the bomb maker saved the plane and the guy burned his nuts.
So what did we do? Throw him in jail. Get him lawyered up so he won't talk, and THEN our illustrious Czar of Homeland Security gets up and says, "The system worked."
WTF????? Just WHAT about the system worked? What is she smoking?
It did NOT work. It was epic fail. With all these regulatons, with all this taking your shoes off, go through the detectors, 3 oz of liquid max, the delays, evacuations, and freak outs over nothing, the system still is epic fail.
Good Lord. DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, part of the Department of Defense. It's a few guys sitting in offices soliciting ideas, many of which will not work. But a few do, like the Internet, for example.
I know of one organization, for example, that was originally awarded 11 Class C's. These are permanently assigned. One Class C was used to knit together nine routers (That's all.) Another was assigned to a branch office that had five PCs, one hub, and one router. Later they added an IP-addressable copy machine and printer, so that's nine IPs hard coded out of one Class C. When their main office got a little crowded they did manage to subnet this Class C into two and swipe half of it away, but overall I think they had 2700+ IPs and were using about 300 of them. There are so many other ways they could have handled it, but in the early years they gave them away. Who knew?
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They've been extremely fast and very responsive. And no, they don't build it for you. That's the point of buying from them so you can have the pleasure of building it yourself. My guess is Newegg got taken on these goods and didn't even know it. I guess we'll see...
and I surely do not experience that amount of 'patching.' I also think updating virus signatures shouldn't be considered a 'patch' per se. Those are essentially database records, not bug fixes. Windows gives me updates about once per month. Once in awhile I get an Adobe or a Java update, but the total is nowhere near what these guys are saying.
It was there for less than 15 seconds. Bricked it.
the mining communities of the Rockies in Colorado. The miners would come to him with various ailments and would get pissed if he didn't give them anything. He maintained there wasn't anything wrong with them. So he mixed up colored sugar water in the kitchen, poured it in medicinal looking bottles for consumption, and they went away happy and 'cured.' Of course, he couldn't do that today, but in the 1920's? What the hey?
He graduatred from medeical college in 1895. In those days getting an MD meant attending what amounted to a junior college right out of high school.
This may have been brought up. There are over 400 comments now. When I left the corporate world I found catastrophe insurance for which has a $5K deductible. My reasoning was that I could get full coverage for about $500 per month, or $6K per year. The catastrophe insurance was about $150 per month, or $1800 per year. So I "save" $4200 per year if I don't get sick. If I DO get sick, I pay out $6800 per year, pretty close to what I would have been paying for full coverage. I'm gambling that I don't get sick. It's been almost six years now, knock on wood, and I've saved well over $20K so far. When Medicare kicks in in a few years I'll go back to 'full' coverage by a supplementary Medi-Gap plan and pay the equivalent of what I do now for the catastrophe coverage.
Your mileage may vary, but thought I would bring it up as an optional path for you. Lots of companies offer this sort of coverage. Mine is with Group Health--Seattle, an HMO.
Why is this 'insightful'? It's completely wrong. I've been running 7 for awhile now with a constant monitor on CPU and memory. The memory sits at 1.3 gigs no matter what I do. The only time I have EVER seen it go to about 1.8 was when running a DVD backup image. It has NEVER gone to 50% (The machine has 4 gigs). CPU utilization has never to my knowledge gone above 25% and usually sits at 2-3%. The thing boots in 2 minutes flat and is capable of very fast mistakes. I don't run 25 windows open or anything, but I do throw some statistical crunching on it that I would have expected to take a few more cycles. I'm not raving on winblows, but compared to Vista and XP I am a bit surprised that it is working as well as it is. It's true that a gig machine would turn into a brick, but 4 gigs on a new machine is what? $100? I forget, but it's inconsequential.
So, NO, it's not just a pseudonym that is the problem, it's also pseudo facts.
Now back to my Linux servers so I can get some real work done.......
Seems to use 1.3 gig no matter what I do. It's got 4 gig total. Boots in less than 2 minutes. It makes mistakes a lot faster than the old machine, which was just shy of a brick when I switched.
I've gone through about half the comments to see if this has been brought up. I didn't see it, so....Here's the Gates Foundation pledging $10 billion to vaccinate people. It will save lives, no doubt, but it will also place the majority of these millions of people into a life of poverty. (Don't jump at me yet.) So we increase the world's population with millions of more living on less than a dollar a day.
Even if you are Bill Gates, you have a limited amount of money. I just wonder if this is the most cost-effective use of $10 billion. Could this money not be spent on infrastructure issues that would improve the quality of life of people? Stuff like sustainable agriculture, clean water, pollution abatement, etc.? Wouldn't spending money on these things ALSO save lives? Would they save as many lives? (Serious question: I don't pretend to know the answer.)
I certainly agree that saving lives is a good thing, but I worry that injecting money into this part of the cycle (no pun intended) might wind up to be less efective in the long run to keep the greatest number of people alive an well fed. Spending money on vaccines is really kind of a no-brainer, it's so easy. It doesn't take much thought to think up or implement. I just suspect the harder questions re not being asked here and the Foundation is taking an easy path.
The particular velociraptor species pudge boy was referring to in the movie Jurassic Park (You DID catch the reference, did you not?) was about 6 feet tall.
I'm a CNE.
The fact is (and you can look this up for yourself, the top 1% of taxpayers (all those really rich folks) pay 1/3 of all income taxes. The top half of all taxpayers (still considered rich by many here) pay 97% of all income tax. Over 40 million households pay no income tax at all. That's why it is so difficult to give a "fair" (not) tax break to the bottom half of the population. They don't pay enough tax to give them a cut on.
P.S. Of course, that's not the only tax burden people acquire. Sales taxes aren't based on income, so you can say the 'poor' are unfairly burdened by a tax like that. And, so, too do widows on social security being taxed out of their homes because of high property taxes. So I'm not satying the poor are fairly taxed.
But I do get sick and tired of people claiming the burden of income taxes is on the rich when the 'rich' (depending on how you define them: Usually those who make more than you do) pay 97% of the income taxes already.
You are speaking of periodicals in academia; I am speaking of books in public libraries, especially, which was the original point in the article. The original claim was about books, not periodicals. That's bait & switch.
You've also touched upon one of the biggest publishing rip-offs that exists. Publishers such as you mentioned have academic libraries over a barrel because the academics "must have" the publication because of its reputation. The subscription cost of these periodicals is far above the actual cost to reproduce. It makes pharmaceuticals profit margins pale in comparison.
The best thing that could happen is for academics to destroy this process by developing their own peer review process independent of paper and directly on the Net. The physics community has made some serious headway in doing exactly that. Would that other disciplines follow suit. If libraries and academia 'just said no' to these bottom feeders they would die overnight.
That's usually the case. Librarians will give those books a once-over to see if there's anything that pops out that should be included in the collection, but it's usually more cost-effective and efficient to get as much as you can for them and pour that money back into the book budget. If you donate a brand new hardback of the latest Harry Potter, they'll grab it in a heartbeat. But if you've got some old paperbacks, it's unlikely they'll be added.
Granted, but publishers really do think like this. There is serious antagonism from publishers about libraries and has been for decades. Librarians are not really welcome at publisher conventions. I've experienced this first hand. Authors can get sucked into this, too. "You mean I could have earned royalties for this many check-outs? I'd be rich!" No, actually you wouldn't because libraries helped create your fan base.
In some countries, such as Australia, there is something called a 'Public lending right' where the government pays publishers a fee to compensate for publishers' 'losses' because libraries check out books to more than one person. Every time a new media comes out (VHS, CD, DVD) the publishers of those formats, having not encountered the situation before, raise a big stink. With the digitization of books and the rise of Kindle-type reading, I believe the library will be presented with even greater challenges.
Fact 1: Public libraries are just about the best return on investment for your tax dollar. For every dollar you spend supporting the public library, you get about $8.00 back in services. If you had to pay retail (or even discounted) for every book borrowed from the public library, that's the ROI you would see. Name another government organization that can give you a better ROI. (Note: You can't.)
Fact 2: If you have a recession, usage of the public library goes up. Ironically, the library budget is subject to the recession as much as any other business or government entity. For most businesses, if traffic goes up, so does income. It's the opposite for a public library.
Fact 3: If it were not for public libraries, many books would not be published at all. That's because publishers factor in the public library market in their decision to publish. Larger public libraries buy a given title in the hundreds of copies. There are over 16,000 public libraries in the US. The market is not trivial.
Fact 4: Public libraries are largely responsible for publishers' 'Backlists' of older titles. Nobody else buys them.
Fact 5: It is an established fact that people who use public libraries buy far more books than people who do not. Public libraries help create the market that gives profits to publishers.
Fact 6: Research libraries, especially, are a captive audience for the over-priced, rip-off "scientific" journals that cost hundreds, even thousands of dollars a year that academics "must have." No individual can afford them. If libraries "just said no" those journals would fail in a heartbeat.
Fact 7: Cutting off libraries is a stupid idea. It's cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Wherever did you get this silly idea? Libraries pay the same discounted rate as bookstores, usually in the neighborhood of 45-55% BELOW retail. Most books are purchased from Ingram or Baker & Taylor, wholesalers. If you do the math on this, it winds up that a million dollar book budget buys 2 million dollars worth of books. (Take the 45% you just saved; buy more books. Take the 45% you just saved; buy more books. Repeat until funds=0.) I supervised the Technical Services Department of my library (and IT) for 25 years, which included the book budget.
Actually, yes. When I was commercial fishing on a troller in Alaska we used Loran grid coordinates, spoken in Danish, to tell our brothers where the fish were. No one else could understand us. If we said "Over and out" the conversation was finished, but if we said "I'm off," that meant to change frequencies, tell how many King's you'd caught, and give the coordinates. Without the Loran our sneaky ways will have to be changed.
Excuse me, fella. This is /., not the Red Cross. Do you really expect us to discuss news stories on here? Why not Reid's remarks about Obama, the Massachussetts senate race, or what ever will Conan O'Brien do now, or your mama's corn bread recipe? Because they are largely irrelevant. You wanna talk earthquakes, go where they are discussed.
WTF???? You actually READ the article? What's wrong with you???
And for the record, Ted Bundy was a psychology major, class of 1972, University of Washington.
Sure they are. Sony, the electronics conglomerate, successfully sued a woman named 'Sony' who used her own given name in the name of her restaurant, "Sony's Restaurant." She laid out tens of thousands of dollars in lawyer fees and still lost.
Back in the BBS days the 'Olympic' BBS in Silverdale, Washington, pretty close to the Olympic Mountains, was sued by the Olympic Committee for daring to name their BBS after the nearby mountain range.
This is case law. All you folks claiming trademark infringement does not count across industries are just plain wrong, as these cases prove.
No, but a book is not 6 feet tall. The issue is, is the MRI, slow as it is, faster than flipping each page manually 300 times and taking individual scans? I agree the tech isn't there yet, but it isn't inherently impossible.
We've had airport security for decades. When did it start? Early seventies? The only time we needed airport security to work, it didn't. Why do we have to shut down an entire airport because one hapless person entered the wrong room? It's a terrible over-reaction, making us all look like wusses. It's like seeing people freak out because they see a spider. Big deal. Take the spider outside, end of story. No evancualtions. No freak-outs. No delays.
The thing is, the last time we had a real incident, at Christmas, the guy managed to get on and do everything necessary to kill a few hundered people. Only the incompetence of the bomb maker saved the plane and the guy burned his nuts.
So what did we do? Throw him in jail. Get him lawyered up so he won't talk, and THEN our illustrious Czar of Homeland Security gets up and says, "The system worked."
WTF????? Just WHAT about the system worked? What is she smoking?
It did NOT work. It was epic fail. With all these regulatons, with all this taking your shoes off, go through the detectors, 3 oz of liquid max, the delays, evacuations, and freak outs over nothing, the system still is epic fail.
Good Lord. DARPA: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, part of the Department of Defense. It's a few guys sitting in offices soliciting ideas, many of which will not work. But a few do, like the Internet, for example.
I know of one organization, for example, that was originally awarded 11 Class C's. These are permanently assigned. One Class C was used to knit together nine routers (That's all.) Another was assigned to a branch office that had five PCs, one hub, and one router. Later they added an IP-addressable copy machine and printer, so that's nine IPs hard coded out of one Class C. When their main office got a little crowded they did manage to subnet this Class C into two and swipe half of it away, but overall I think they had 2700+ IPs and were using about 300 of them. There are so many other ways they could have handled it, but in the early years they gave them away. Who knew?
You man the surface of Mars is all space with no gravity? Gee, I didn't know that.