That's like saying that cars are broken because there's so much traffic.
That depends. In reality and in the metaphor, cars are often misused or overused, they take a lot of space, pollute and are generally very inefficient. The entire infrastructure needs to be updated to provide more acceptable mass transit, especially for many urban areas. There are several cities that have become major "no car zones", at least one in Canada, several in Asia and the EU.
Is there an SMS program for a desktop / notebook computer? Can you send a lot more than 200 characters per message with SMS? Then it's not really an alternative. I think even mobile phones resort to email to send pictures. I don't like the retarded shorthand that SMS encourages.
It might take years to design and ratify a new email standard and years to transition, assuming enough people go along with it. So many devices, services and programs use the current email standards, they will all have to be updated or replaced.
Just as "Athlon" and "Opteron" are the same chip already.
Has AMD started enabling multiple hypertransport links in the Athlon chips? Opterons have two or three hypertransport links, Athlons only have one link active. Yes, it is artificial, but that makes sure the people that are likely to need it are going to pay for the feature. The multiple links are needed to chain or mesh multiple CPUs together. Maybe the "4x4" chipset is another crosspoint switch to get around the limit of the single link, though it might add latency by adding another hop or two.
I think that's a problem. eBay has one that if you don't fill it in quickly enough, they'll say that you entered it incorrectly and you try again. Once, it put me in a loop, making me enter a new one every time and each time, it actually does send the response email, but it doesn't tell me that, so my customer got five copies of the same email.
Sites should have alternate means, but even the ones that claim to have alternate means never really follow up on anyone.
Unauthorized redistribution of copyrighted works is in violation of the Berne Convention, which Sweden is a signatory, so it IS illegal for Pirate Bay to do what they are doing. It doesn't matter what some polls say, unless they vote get Sweden to back out of that treaty, it is against the law.
The point is, even if there is a legal right to sue, does it make sense to do it? Do you sue your customers and prospective owners, such that they can vote you off the board, or dump the shares on the open market and sign up to Packet8 or other services? That sounds retarded. I don't care if it was a breach of contract, it is dumb to enforce this contract. That is, if there ever was a contract, the press release isn't clear.
Given that the stock price dropped quickly, I think it shows that the IPO price was excessive in the first place.
So, seen the price of a CD lately? If 'the market' had 'sorted it out', it ought to be around a few cents for the more widely produced mass produced products. Oops, nope, not there. And the amortized cost of Windows should be a couple of bucks. Oh, not there either.
The cost of replicating a CD does NOT reflect the cost of producing what is ON that CD. Audio production with good equipment and experienced people is expensive, and so is marketing and distribution. A $15 CD is still a bit steep for what is provided, but suggesting that it should be a few cents is completely unrealistic.
I think your assumptions are not only a bit one-sided, but also that it is using a limited understanding of market forces. Market economics doesn't guarantee minimal prices. New automobiles might cost a tenth of what they do now, but that's only if they don't redesign the car every few years. If you want a Yugo or some Eastern Block auto for $2000 new, that might be possible if there was a demand for that, but people pay more for more features and newer designs.
The Seagates aren't very loud, I think their noise is negligible except for the fussiest people, and improving case accoustics helps a lot more than reducing the number of drives.
I have five Seagates in my workstation here, 1x 15kRPM and 4x 7.2kRPM, and the sound really isn't objectionable.
I have one single 10k RPM drive in my HTPC, and it's not a problem, and wouldn't mind adding more. My refrigerator and video projector are both louder.
RAID 5 isn't necessarily faster, but it's a lot better for data redundancy, so you can keep going when a drive fails. I wouldn't bother with RAID 0 unless you have a heavy backup system (like 0+1), and mirroring is a bit inefficient.
I just set up a 4x400GB drive array because Best Buy had the Seagates on sale, and then bought an old PCI-X 3Ware Escalade and put it in a 64bit / 66MHz PCI slot, giving me a pretty fast 1.2TB volume.
The problems with adsense are just as anecdotal as those with PayPal. I haven't had any issues with either, but it just pays to pay attention. Google has gotten a little on the big side, so it pays to be as wary as with buying into a product of any company of that size, like Microsoft or AT&T.
Look at it this way, using a stationary computer can kill without ingesting, injecting, smoking or any kind of violence. When people wise up and start ingesting, injecting or smoking computers then that will make what Kurt Cobain used look like girl scout cookies in comparison.
All of those dollars the BSA is claiming as economic losses are actually being spent elsewhere.
That's a bad argument. I mean, I can always take what isn't legally mine and suggest that the money is better spent elsewhere. Violating copyright isn't something to cheer on if you are the type to send hate mail to (or at least "boo") anyone that violates the GPL. Money not spent on proper licence could be "better" spent elsewhere, but not spending the money on the proper licence is outside the law and outside the creator's wishes.
The difference is that 3D Realms was a good company with a good product gone horribly wrong. Infinium labs was an inherently corrupt idea from the start.
Either way, in comparison, NASA, an often misdirected of an agency, was able to make Deep Space One from project concept approval to launch pad in three years. Deep Space One, a project that tested twelve previously untested technologies in space and every one of those technologies succeeded.
The fastest spinning notebook drive consumes a maximum of 2.5W. The lowest powered notebook CPU is 6W, but the T series Core Duo currently consumes up to 31W. I think from that information, it should be obvious where to put the heat minimization effort, i.e. you don't worry about the heat of the smallest item when the biggest consumer is more than 10x that.
The Science Channel is a digital-only service. The Military Channel has a lot of interesting aviation shows, especially regarding the history of aviation. I wish I could tune the National Geographic, but that's a $200 tuner for my system because it's on the Ku band and my tuner is C band only.
I also record a lot of Comedy Central, Daily, Colbert, Drawn Together, Mencia and a lot of stand-up acts too. That channel is the best $10/yr I've ever spent.
In-home non-commercial use is fine. Offering it as a commercial service is not. The home equivalent for this would be for you to time-shift for your neighbors and charge them for the service.
I really doubt you can get that 32GB solid state drive for less than $1000. Solid state drives are a silicon-based product, and solid state drives have about the same order of magnitude complexity as regular old DRAM, so I don't expect those drives to be several orders of magnitude cheaper than the same amount of DRAM. 32GB of DRAM would run for maybe less than $3000, so I am suspicious of any claim that you can get a 32GB SSD for $160.
Sadly, the article exerpt skirts the question of drive capacity, normally people don't skip that part, but for this, they have reason to. It appears to be 32GB, which is about the capacity of my four year old notebook but the drive, if sold by itself, probably would cost a couple thousand dollars, meanwhile a 160GB mechanical notebook drive costs about $250.
If you have a lot of money and don't use much space, then I suppose it is a fine option. It probably would go well in the more rugged of the Toughbook series.
And yet, only one of those formats is supported by more than one major browser. A better format that saves a little server costs doesn't help if it eliminates most of your audience in the mean time. That'll really save your server costs - no one will be able to see your site!
Microsoft can probably force the issue though, they support it and use it as a standard output for all their software, then everyone else will have to support it. I wonder if there are anti-trust implications if they don't support older versions of IE, particularly for Windows 98SE, which a lot of people still seem to use. Forcing the elderly to upgrade is surely going to get those voters tweaked and demand investigations.
External moving parts are the ones that have the greatest damage potential, so the "ears" could prove to be a liability.
Whether the Jobs OS X offer was genuine or not, or the motivations thereof, is kind of an academic exercise, but I can't imagine the bad press Apple would get if Negroponte accepted but later Apple retracted the offer. If it was a bluff, then the blowback potential would have been huge. The offer was made but declined, so I don't know what else Apple could have done to make you happy, short of opening the source for these notebooks, but I don't think that is realistic.
I don't understand the assertion that Apache would be subject to anti-trust laws if it were made by a business. Apache may be the #1 web server, but IIS isn't very far behind in terms of percentage of web servers, it is probably used on less than 50% of the active web servers, and I'm not understanding what else they do that could possibly invoke anti-trust statutes. Please elaborate.
PCI-X is an extention to the PCI standard that was available in workstations and servers, which was available I think starting around 2002. It used the 64 bit PCI slot and allowed it to operate at up to 133MHz, I am not sure if 266MHz ever made it to production). It was primarily used for high speed RAID and network cards.
True to historical form, PCI-Express group made a completely different, incompatible standard (electrically and physically) but still used the same name. If you want a video card, you want a PCIe card. I'm not sure there ever was a PCI-X video card.
What do you expect of something that needs a heat sink and fan? Granted, it is smaller than that of the common CPUs and faster GPUs, I currently don't run a graphics card that has a fan and the heat sink is pretty small.
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That's like saying that cars are broken because there's so much traffic.
That depends. In reality and in the metaphor, cars are often misused or overused, they take a lot of space, pollute and are generally very inefficient. The entire infrastructure needs to be updated to provide more acceptable mass transit, especially for many urban areas. There are several cities that have become major "no car zones", at least one in Canada, several in Asia and the EU.
The article doesn't mention SMS.
Is there an SMS program for a desktop / notebook computer? Can you send a lot more than 200 characters per message with SMS? Then it's not really an alternative. I think even mobile phones resort to email to send pictures. I don't like the retarded shorthand that SMS encourages.
It might take years to design and ratify a new email standard and years to transition, assuming enough people go along with it. So many devices, services and programs use the current email standards, they will all have to be updated or replaced.
Just as "Athlon" and "Opteron" are the same chip already.
Has AMD started enabling multiple hypertransport links in the Athlon chips? Opterons have two or three hypertransport links, Athlons only have one link active. Yes, it is artificial, but that makes sure the people that are likely to need it are going to pay for the feature. The multiple links are needed to chain or mesh multiple CPUs together. Maybe the "4x4" chipset is another crosspoint switch to get around the limit of the single link, though it might add latency by adding another hop or two.
I think that's a problem. eBay has one that if you don't fill it in quickly enough, they'll say that you entered it incorrectly and you try again. Once, it put me in a loop, making me enter a new one every time and each time, it actually does send the response email, but it doesn't tell me that, so my customer got five copies of the same email.
Sites should have alternate means, but even the ones that claim to have alternate means never really follow up on anyone.
Unauthorized redistribution of copyrighted works is in violation of the Berne Convention, which Sweden is a signatory, so it IS illegal for Pirate Bay to do what they are doing. It doesn't matter what some polls say, unless they vote get Sweden to back out of that treaty, it is against the law.
What is legal doesn't make business sense.
The point is, even if there is a legal right to sue, does it make sense to do it? Do you sue your customers and prospective owners, such that they can vote you off the board, or dump the shares on the open market and sign up to Packet8 or other services? That sounds retarded. I don't care if it was a breach of contract, it is dumb to enforce this contract. That is, if there ever was a contract, the press release isn't clear.
Given that the stock price dropped quickly, I think it shows that the IPO price was excessive in the first place.
...they are MIRV warheads. RUN!
So, seen the price of a CD lately? If 'the market' had 'sorted it out', it ought to be around a few cents for the more widely produced mass produced products. Oops, nope, not there. And the amortized cost of Windows should be a couple of bucks. Oh, not there either.
The cost of replicating a CD does NOT reflect the cost of producing what is ON that CD. Audio production with good equipment and experienced people is expensive, and so is marketing and distribution. A $15 CD is still a bit steep for what is provided, but suggesting that it should be a few cents is completely unrealistic.
I think your assumptions are not only a bit one-sided, but also that it is using a limited understanding of market forces. Market economics doesn't guarantee minimal prices. New automobiles might cost a tenth of what they do now, but that's only if they don't redesign the car every few years. If you want a Yugo or some Eastern Block auto for $2000 new, that might be possible if there was a demand for that, but people pay more for more features and newer designs.
The Seagates aren't very loud, I think their noise is negligible except for the fussiest people, and improving case accoustics helps a lot more than reducing the number of drives.
I have five Seagates in my workstation here, 1x 15kRPM and 4x 7.2kRPM, and the sound really isn't objectionable.
I have one single 10k RPM drive in my HTPC, and it's not a problem, and wouldn't mind adding more. My refrigerator and video projector are both louder.
RAID 5 isn't necessarily faster, but it's a lot better for data redundancy, so you can keep going when a drive fails. I wouldn't bother with RAID 0 unless you have a heavy backup system (like 0+1), and mirroring is a bit inefficient.
I just set up a 4x400GB drive array because Best Buy had the Seagates on sale, and then bought an old PCI-X 3Ware Escalade and put it in a 64bit / 66MHz PCI slot, giving me a pretty fast 1.2TB volume.
The problems with adsense are just as anecdotal as those with PayPal. I haven't had any issues with either, but it just pays to pay attention. Google has gotten a little on the big side, so it pays to be as wary as with buying into a product of any company of that size, like Microsoft or AT&T.
Look at it this way, using a stationary computer can kill without ingesting, injecting, smoking or any kind of violence. When people wise up and start ingesting, injecting or smoking computers then that will make what Kurt Cobain used look like girl scout cookies in comparison.
Yes, I am kidding.
All of those dollars the BSA is claiming as economic losses are actually being spent elsewhere.
That's a bad argument. I mean, I can always take what isn't legally mine and suggest that the money is better spent elsewhere. Violating copyright isn't something to cheer on if you are the type to send hate mail to (or at least "boo") anyone that violates the GPL. Money not spent on proper licence could be "better" spent elsewhere, but not spending the money on the proper licence is outside the law and outside the creator's wishes.
The difference is that 3D Realms was a good company with a good product gone horribly wrong. Infinium labs was an inherently corrupt idea from the start.
Either way, in comparison, NASA, an often misdirected of an agency, was able to make Deep Space One from project concept approval to launch pad in three years. Deep Space One, a project that tested twelve previously untested technologies in space and every one of those technologies succeeded.
"Web 2.0" is basically a bunch of old technologies repackaged, so I say let O'Rielly have their lame name.
The fastest spinning notebook drive consumes a maximum of 2.5W. The lowest powered notebook CPU is 6W, but the T series Core Duo currently consumes up to 31W. I think from that information, it should be obvious where to put the heat minimization effort, i.e. you don't worry about the heat of the smallest item when the biggest consumer is more than 10x that.
The Science Channel is a digital-only service. The Military Channel has a lot of interesting aviation shows, especially regarding the history of aviation. I wish I could tune the National Geographic, but that's a $200 tuner for my system because it's on the Ku band and my tuner is C band only.
I also record a lot of Comedy Central, Daily, Colbert, Drawn Together, Mencia and a lot of stand-up acts too. That channel is the best $10/yr I've ever spent.
In-home non-commercial use is fine. Offering it as a commercial service is not. The home equivalent for this would be for you to time-shift for your neighbors and charge them for the service.
I really doubt you can get that 32GB solid state drive for less than $1000. Solid state drives are a silicon-based product, and solid state drives have about the same order of magnitude complexity as regular old DRAM, so I don't expect those drives to be several orders of magnitude cheaper than the same amount of DRAM. 32GB of DRAM would run for maybe less than $3000, so I am suspicious of any claim that you can get a 32GB SSD for $160.
Sadly, the article exerpt skirts the question of drive capacity, normally people don't skip that part, but for this, they have reason to. It appears to be 32GB, which is about the capacity of my four year old notebook but the drive, if sold by itself, probably would cost a couple thousand dollars, meanwhile a 160GB mechanical notebook drive costs about $250.
If you have a lot of money and don't use much space, then I suppose it is a fine option. It probably would go well in the more rugged of the Toughbook series.
And yet, only one of those formats is supported by more than one major browser. A better format that saves a little server costs doesn't help if it eliminates most of your audience in the mean time. That'll really save your server costs - no one will be able to see your site!
Microsoft can probably force the issue though, they support it and use it as a standard output for all their software, then everyone else will have to support it. I wonder if there are anti-trust implications if they don't support older versions of IE, particularly for Windows 98SE, which a lot of people still seem to use. Forcing the elderly to upgrade is surely going to get those voters tweaked and demand investigations.
External moving parts are the ones that have the greatest damage potential, so the "ears" could prove to be a liability.
Whether the Jobs OS X offer was genuine or not, or the motivations thereof, is kind of an academic exercise, but I can't imagine the bad press Apple would get if Negroponte accepted but later Apple retracted the offer. If it was a bluff, then the blowback potential would have been huge. The offer was made but declined, so I don't know what else Apple could have done to make you happy, short of opening the source for these notebooks, but I don't think that is realistic.
I don't understand the assertion that Apache would be subject to anti-trust laws if it were made by a business. Apache may be the #1 web server, but IIS isn't very far behind in terms of percentage of web servers, it is probably used on less than 50% of the active web servers, and I'm not understanding what else they do that could possibly invoke anti-trust statutes. Please elaborate.
PCI-X is an extention to the PCI standard that was available in workstations and servers, which was available I think starting around 2002. It used the 64 bit PCI slot and allowed it to operate at up to 133MHz, I am not sure if 266MHz ever made it to production). It was primarily used for high speed RAID and network cards.
True to historical form, PCI-Express group made a completely different, incompatible standard (electrically and physically) but still used the same name. If you want a video card, you want a PCIe card. I'm not sure there ever was a PCI-X video card.
What do you expect of something that needs a heat sink and fan? Granted, it is smaller than that of the common CPUs and faster GPUs, I currently don't run a graphics card that has a fan and the heat sink is pretty small.