I think it is hasty of you to suggest that the person that asked the original question is corrupt and stupid and cast everyone in the entire industry as such too.
Not everyone has or can afford the Microsoft product. I use Open Office and a very old version of Word Perfect Office.
I don't have significant issues with Open Office, but then, I don't use or need many of the more advanced features of any office-type suite, just something to write letters, document things, calculations and so on.
I know I could just get the Microsoft stuff through illicit sources but I won't go that route. I would like people to respect my works and give me due credit and compensation if I request it, it would be hypocritical of me to not respect other people's works in like manner.
The article implies that Netflix isn't working on an internet distribution of movies. It also implies that Sony is the lone creator and crusader of Blu-Ray. I wasn't aware that Sun was supposedly starting the drive to power efficient servers, that may be my fault, bit I don't remember any SPARC variants being known for power efficiency. I don't use Linux much but I wonder if they are a bit hard on Linus. It may very well be that he intended Linux to be bigger than himself because he can't do it all or control it all. He's the kernel maintainer and most of the visible stuff about Linux is in the applications - the thing that drives computer use in the first place. It's a great foundation, but if the "Linux space" didn't have a plethora of applications to make Linux useful, then the kernel project would be pointless.
China is not interested in economic competition with the United States. It wants to eliminate the U.S. from the world scene as a viable competitor.
I really don't understand why you think that the US is being singled out here, Europe and Japan are feeling the same pressures from China as well, and they are all hurting from China's pressure too.
I think it might help get rules of thumb, but they do need to simulate objects being thrown at them, of random types and at random locations from random angles.
I saw a Science Channel show that showed that the biggest weakness of any structure is the windows. The biggest improvement can be had by just using a plastic film over both sides so they can hold the wind out once it's been hit by a large object. Once it lets wind in, the wind tends to gut a building.
Don't forget that ECS is known for the faked cache, and I think faked chipsets. Many ECS boards had no cache and the BIOS simply reported a certain fixed cache size, depending on what their buyers wanted. I think they had fake chipsets, using some generic chipset but used stickers on the chips to give the impression they were made by a better known chip maker.
I have one ECS part, a PC/Chips TV tuner / video captuer card. It works fine, but the shipped drivers were worthless and I had somehow managed to download functional drivers. Shortly afterward, their site didn't even acknowledge the fact they ever made such a device in the sales or promotional site or in the driver download page, so I'm thankful I kept a copy of that driver download.
I think the idea is potentially suspect because you have no guarantee that both sections of the split line will have equivalent flow resistance. if one is more resistant than the other, more of your flow will go to the path of least resistance. It seems overkill to liquid cool the chipset's core chip. I'd suggest doing a series connection, cool water going to the chipset then CPU because its heat output should be much smaller than the CPU.
I wish I knew what bill number or other identifying information that was to see whether that was in the proposed bill. But that lobbyist guy was vomiting so many lies and halftruths, I wonder if this is true.
The association that Blu-Ray is a Sony proprietary technology is, as far as I can tell, plain wrong. It is proprietary to a large group which Sony happens to be a member of. I'm not convinced that the constant association with Sony is anything but deliberate FUD. All but two hardware makers on the DVD forum collaborated on the Blu-Ray standard.
I would expect competing drives to offer it soon enough. I don't think it is to try to phase out CDs.
I think CD compatibility would require a tri-laser head, which exist but might not be production ready yet. CD/DVD burners are generally, one for each medium because each has its own optimal frequency. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are a third, significantly separated frequency from the other two.
Frankly, I don't see the problem. At that price, it is probably marketed as an authoring test drive or a very rich nerd toy. Many nerds and many media authors tend to have multiple optical drives anyway.
As much as I hate to say it, I think this sort of thing needs a counter-propaganda system. Every mantra needs a counter mantra. "It's for the children" should be thrown back as being "for the police state". I can't come up with a clever phrase to say it's against due process, but one can at least honestly say the police are being lazy for not following proper procedure. Or maybe say "I will not jeopardize your investigation by complying with an illegal request".
Several new HPs don't include an on-board speaker. Personally I think that's a crime.
If the beeps had a standardized or at least properly documented meaning, then they might be useful. Otherwise all the "cute" noises a computer made in the past was annoying. If you want something overtly mechanical, then I would suggest some sort of machine design class at the local community college. The electronic speaker noises aren't worth it.
Someday soon is more like some year. You can get 16 and 32GB drives, but for something in the thousands. You can get a 160GB notebook hard drive for about $250. Frankly, notebook hard drives are so quiet that I don't see why anyone is clamoring for solid state storage.
I would think that could be intended for telescopes and satellites. Assuming 10cm resolution, you can shoot a square kilometer in one shot in good detail, though atmospherics will be a big issue.
I am curious. Who are the customers? What does Craig do to pay for the sites? I thought he doesn't charge for listings, he doesn't charge for browsing, doesn't take ads. I don't really use the service, so I don't know.
I do think it is hypocritical of people to demand a high quality site with no ads and no fee to use. It takes work and not a lot of people don't want to do that work without a tangible return. I know I wouldn't spend hundreds of hours in the service of the stingy. If someone else wants to do that, that's there prerogative. I personally would find some other hobby, maintaining a site isn't my idea of a fun hobby.
I honestly don't see their problem. With iTunes, you might get "package art" but unless Apple changes things, you get VCD resolution video with a single stereo audio track and no extras, with no package costs, no shipping, warehousing, no distributor markup, as well as a video DRM that hasn't been cracked yet. I'd say that 9.99 is a pretty good price if I had a video to sell. The market is too young with too small of an installed base to try to force higher price points when you can get the full DVD with multiple audio tracks, multiple languages, commentaries, outtakes and such. They tried to sell UMDs for $15-$20 but that was rejected by the market, and those were higher resolution than what iTunes sells.
Actually, the real lesson is to not make homogenized crap. The media industries are pretty short-sighted as to what they'll fund. Nothing that caters to anything that looks like a niche is acceptable, it must be accessible to anyone and everyone, so therefore no one likes it. I would love it if more shows like Firefly and Wonderfalls was made. That is partially the problem with the "gatekeepers" of the mass media, they really don't understand their market very well.
I find it hard to believe that everybody INCLUDING MICROSOFT was talking about 3GHz machines and 1GB of RAM at a minimum last year, and now suddenly we're down to 800MHz CPUs?
I think it might be that Microsoft finalized the farm-to-GPU capabilities on all the special effects.
Charge the CD costs to the CD profits, not the download. My understanding is that the downloaded version is the highest profit margin product by the recording industry. Included in the cost of CDs but not in the (actual) cost of the download is breakage, storage, shipping, printing, jewel case, stamping, then there's the markup that both the distributor and the retailer takes. The recording industry is still charging breakage to the file downloads, something that doesn't happen. Charging the cost to make the entire CD against the singles download sales is too much, it may very well be that many of those tracks on many CDs are lesser tracks to pad out a CD.
Add to that that the US was the only nuclear armed nation that didn't have bomb manufacturing capacity in a good while. I think the previous factory was shut down due to contamination issues, and I think the LANL security fiasco hindered it as well.
I would prefer no nuclear weapons, but unfortunately, the nuclear genie is out of the bottle, I don't see any practical way out. A total global disarmament just doesn't seem likely, and is possibly hopelessly idealistic. I think history shows too many times that those without a strategic deterrence are the conquerred ones, and at times, they are are ones that get massacred.
Did the Atari do dynamic WYSIWYG editing? Were you able to have twenty programs running and half a dozen services at the same time? I know there are fans of command line and character mode software, but I usually avoid that whenever possible. The old method of running one program at a time was a drag, quitting one program just to run something else.
Federal funding of local schools is so small that it's laughable, it is the state that foots pretty much all of the bill. The majority of the control of a school district is usually very local, under the oversight of the particular state (North Carolina).
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Unfortunately, small businesses can and do have pretty dumb owner-operators too. It's hard to explain, but any individual can have quirks to serious personality flaws, but not fatal to the business that get in the way of good sense, and that carries into how they operate a business, they can survive and succeed, but not as well as they could.
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I think it is hasty of you to suggest that the person that asked the original question is corrupt and stupid and cast everyone in the entire industry as such too.
I'm surprised Spain didn't have this long ago. My understanding is that a lot of other countries have this sort of levy.
Not everyone has or can afford the Microsoft product. I use Open Office and a very old version of Word Perfect Office.
I don't have significant issues with Open Office, but then, I don't use or need many of the more advanced features of any office-type suite, just something to write letters, document things, calculations and so on.
I know I could just get the Microsoft stuff through illicit sources but I won't go that route. I would like people to respect my works and give me due credit and compensation if I request it, it would be hypocritical of me to not respect other people's works in like manner.
The article implies that Netflix isn't working on an internet distribution of movies. It also implies that Sony is the lone creator and crusader of Blu-Ray. I wasn't aware that Sun was supposedly starting the drive to power efficient servers, that may be my fault, bit I don't remember any SPARC variants being known for power efficiency. I don't use Linux much but I wonder if they are a bit hard on Linus. It may very well be that he intended Linux to be bigger than himself because he can't do it all or control it all. He's the kernel maintainer and most of the visible stuff about Linux is in the applications - the thing that drives computer use in the first place. It's a great foundation, but if the "Linux space" didn't have a plethora of applications to make Linux useful, then the kernel project would be pointless.
China is not interested in economic competition with the United States. It wants to eliminate the U.S. from the world scene as a viable competitor.
I really don't understand why you think that the US is being singled out here, Europe and Japan are feeling the same pressures from China as well, and they are all hurting from China's pressure too.
I've seen The Onion newspaper sold by homeless people, and I am told that The Onion does this a lot all over the US.
I think it might help get rules of thumb, but they do need to simulate objects being thrown at them, of random types and at random locations from random angles.
I saw a Science Channel show that showed that the biggest weakness of any structure is the windows. The biggest improvement can be had by just using a plastic film over both sides so they can hold the wind out once it's been hit by a large object. Once it lets wind in, the wind tends to gut a building.
Don't forget that ECS is known for the faked cache, and I think faked chipsets. Many ECS boards had no cache and the BIOS simply reported a certain fixed cache size, depending on what their buyers wanted. I think they had fake chipsets, using some generic chipset but used stickers on the chips to give the impression they were made by a better known chip maker.
I have one ECS part, a PC/Chips TV tuner / video captuer card. It works fine, but the shipped drivers were worthless and I had somehow managed to download functional drivers. Shortly afterward, their site didn't even acknowledge the fact they ever made such a device in the sales or promotional site or in the driver download page, so I'm thankful I kept a copy of that driver download.
I think the idea is potentially suspect because you have no guarantee that both sections of the split line will have equivalent flow resistance. if one is more resistant than the other, more of your flow will go to the path of least resistance. It seems overkill to liquid cool the chipset's core chip. I'd suggest doing a series connection, cool water going to the chipset then CPU because its heat output should be much smaller than the CPU.
I wish I knew what bill number or other identifying information that was to see whether that was in the proposed bill. But that lobbyist guy was vomiting so many lies and halftruths, I wonder if this is true.
The association that Blu-Ray is a Sony proprietary technology is, as far as I can tell, plain wrong. It is proprietary to a large group which Sony happens to be a member of. I'm not convinced that the constant association with Sony is anything but deliberate FUD. All but two hardware makers on the DVD forum collaborated on the Blu-Ray standard.
I would expect competing drives to offer it soon enough. I don't think it is to try to phase out CDs.
I think CD compatibility would require a tri-laser head, which exist but might not be production ready yet. CD/DVD burners are generally, one for each medium because each has its own optimal frequency. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are a third, significantly separated frequency from the other two.
Frankly, I don't see the problem. At that price, it is probably marketed as an authoring test drive or a very rich nerd toy. Many nerds and many media authors tend to have multiple optical drives anyway.
As much as I hate to say it, I think this sort of thing needs a counter-propaganda system. Every mantra needs a counter mantra. "It's for the children" should be thrown back as being "for the police state". I can't come up with a clever phrase to say it's against due process, but one can at least honestly say the police are being lazy for not following proper procedure. Or maybe say "I will not jeopardize your investigation by complying with an illegal request".
Several new HPs don't include an on-board speaker. Personally I think that's a crime.
If the beeps had a standardized or at least properly documented meaning, then they might be useful. Otherwise all the "cute" noises a computer made in the past was annoying. If you want something overtly mechanical, then I would suggest some sort of machine design class at the local community college. The electronic speaker noises aren't worth it.
Someday soon is more like some year. You can get 16 and 32GB drives, but for something in the thousands. You can get a 160GB notebook hard drive for about $250. Frankly, notebook hard drives are so quiet that I don't see why anyone is clamoring for solid state storage.
I would think that could be intended for telescopes and satellites. Assuming 10cm resolution, you can shoot a square kilometer in one shot in good detail, though atmospherics will be a big issue.
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I am curious. Who are the customers? What does Craig do to pay for the sites? I thought he doesn't charge for listings, he doesn't charge for browsing, doesn't take ads. I don't really use the service, so I don't know.
I do think it is hypocritical of people to demand a high quality site with no ads and no fee to use. It takes work and not a lot of people don't want to do that work without a tangible return. I know I wouldn't spend hundreds of hours in the service of the stingy. If someone else wants to do that, that's there prerogative. I personally would find some other hobby, maintaining a site isn't my idea of a fun hobby.
I honestly don't see their problem. With iTunes, you might get "package art" but unless Apple changes things, you get VCD resolution video with a single stereo audio track and no extras, with no package costs, no shipping, warehousing, no distributor markup, as well as a video DRM that hasn't been cracked yet. I'd say that 9.99 is a pretty good price if I had a video to sell. The market is too young with too small of an installed base to try to force higher price points when you can get the full DVD with multiple audio tracks, multiple languages, commentaries, outtakes and such. They tried to sell UMDs for $15-$20 but that was rejected by the market, and those were higher resolution than what iTunes sells.
Actually, the real lesson is to not make homogenized crap. The media industries are pretty short-sighted as to what they'll fund. Nothing that caters to anything that looks like a niche is acceptable, it must be accessible to anyone and everyone, so therefore no one likes it. I would love it if more shows like Firefly and Wonderfalls was made. That is partially the problem with the "gatekeepers" of the mass media, they really don't understand their market very well.
I find it hard to believe that everybody INCLUDING MICROSOFT was talking about 3GHz machines and 1GB of RAM at a minimum last year, and now suddenly we're down to 800MHz CPUs?
I think it might be that Microsoft finalized the farm-to-GPU capabilities on all the special effects.
Charge the CD costs to the CD profits, not the download. My understanding is that the downloaded version is the highest profit margin product by the recording industry. Included in the cost of CDs but not in the (actual) cost of the download is breakage, storage, shipping, printing, jewel case, stamping, then there's the markup that both the distributor and the retailer takes. The recording industry is still charging breakage to the file downloads, something that doesn't happen. Charging the cost to make the entire CD against the singles download sales is too much, it may very well be that many of those tracks on many CDs are lesser tracks to pad out a CD.
Add to that that the US was the only nuclear armed nation that didn't have bomb manufacturing capacity in a good while. I think the previous factory was shut down due to contamination issues, and I think the LANL security fiasco hindered it as well.
I would prefer no nuclear weapons, but unfortunately, the nuclear genie is out of the bottle, I don't see any practical way out. A total global disarmament just doesn't seem likely, and is possibly hopelessly idealistic. I think history shows too many times that those without a strategic deterrence are the conquerred ones, and at times, they are are ones that get massacred.
Did the Atari do dynamic WYSIWYG editing? Were you able to have twenty programs running and half a dozen services at the same time? I know there are fans of command line and character mode software, but I usually avoid that whenever possible. The old method of running one program at a time was a drag, quitting one program just to run something else.
because they accept Federal funding
Federal funding of local schools is so small that it's laughable, it is the state that foots pretty much all of the bill. The majority of the control of a school district is usually very local, under the oversight of the particular state (North Carolina).
Unfortunately, small businesses can and do have pretty dumb owner-operators too. It's hard to explain, but any individual can have quirks to serious personality flaws, but not fatal to the business that get in the way of good sense, and that carries into how they operate a business, they can survive and succeed, but not as well as they could.