Scramjets are so rediculously energy inefficient that I don't see them in widespread use other than in the military. It isn't like electronics technology where smaller transistors can be made to do more with less electricity, there are fundemental physics at issue here. The same goes for space passenger services, the amount of energy needed to get into orbit is staggering that I'm skeptical that it can ever be made affordable for middle class use.
If I may be so bold, if you know enough to know the difference between KDE and gnome, you aren't the target user. What matters is that it works, not whether it caters to a particular set of preferences. Even giving a neophyte choices can build up to rejection if there are too many choices that seem redundant or unimportant to them and their needs.
...if you aren't charging for support to a computer you didn't supply, or supplied while giving no illusions of personal support, then you are getting screwed. Expertise and personal attention together is worth something. I even charge my grandparents, though at a heavily discounted rate. I can't afford to divert much time and gas to help them, so them paying me makes it a little easier.
Even the OSS advocate/comic writer Illiad admitted to not using GIMP and he had an amusing little comic last week or so explaining some of his reasons. Commercial software isn't necessarily evil, it is a different development method. If the tools fit, use them. If you can use OSS, then good for you! Not everyone can do that, and I think it is good that OSS advocates admit what the stumbling blocks are. The hurdles show where the developers can improve the software.
That's not saying much. Might this be because there was no hard drive at the time? For a long time, that was the only affordable way to store software and operating systems. Now, files are stored on hard drives, and you can just transfer files over the network, so there's not as much need for a portable storage medium.
I'm thankful for the current media players, especially the compact portable ones. Radio is annoying as crap with ads and constantly recycled media, at least with portable media players, *I* can control what and when I can play the audio. The ability to record and distribute videos within a short time, low cost and low difficulties is nice too.
I'm thankful for duplexing laser printers. I'm sorry, while the dot matrix units were nice, they only printed one side, printed incredibly crude pictures and were loud. It's nice to get rid of fan-fold paper too.
Mail order was incredibly slow, now it is easier to find a certain item and pay for it and if you paid for it, you might see the item on the next business day.
Point taken, but I think an automatic restart is necessary to minimize intrusions into off-work-time with maintainaince and such. If the service hangs and there's no one there to tend to it, then it will stay hung until someone notices. This is not good if you want to keep going and not lose potential business if the site is down.
Anyway, I'm glad I'm not a server admin. I'd like to live my private life NOT being on-call.
Isn't DRM on a monitor like water wings on a fish?
Probably. It may be necessary to have it for certain "protected" media in Windows Vista, but the easy solution is to not buy that protected media. And not buy Vista as well, assuming it comes out.
Just as employers can many times drop employees on a whim, depending on laws of course, employees can change employers as well. It is a two-way street, any manager expecting it to be a one-way street is fooling themselves. Still, I wonder if it is legal to fire someone just for having looked for alternate employment options. Maybe it is legal, but that would be one scary hostile workplace.
iPod batteries are pretty easily removable. Just because there isn't an obvious latch or screw holes doesn't mean it is hard to get inside the unit. I'd think that a crowd that has so many people that are proud of themselves for being able to "build" computers would be able to figure out how to get inside them.
i carry with me: ibook g3. ipod, newton, airport express, external modem, 2x usb 2 cables 2x firewire cables one 6-4 pin adapter, an ipod psu and dock, ibook charger, spare battery, backup HD, first gen 5GB ipod with extra long 21 hour battery, xbox 360 headset and memory card with my profile and portable saves, 360 games in a cd book with OS X disks windows 2k, XP 2k3 server, office 2003, office 2004 mac, adobe creative suit 2 full, DVD with random usefull utilities, external bluetooth usb adapter thingy, bluetooth mouse, toothbrush, toothpase, spare pair of boxers and socks, 5m cat 6 ethernet cable with crossover adapter, modem cable, null modem cable, 25 pack DVD cake, 25 pack CD cake, mini ITX pc i build from a K6-2 mobo 1.8" HD and slimline slot loading dvd drive inside a fake book. yet i still dont have a mobile phone.
I was thinking he can ditch the big and clunky laptop, PDAs can do so much that laptops aren't that necessary. Besides, a PDA is almost instant-on, laptops are not nearly so quick.
I don't understand how a Microsoft hire helped IBM outdo Intel for the 360 box. It may well be that the products this person designed were good, but the business model for which he had no control over, was flawed. Usually when a product or business fails, it isn't because of the product itself but the PHBs that didn't know what to do with the product or were trying to sell a product that didn't have a sustainable market.
They are aiming for the less tech-savvy user, and hoping to create the (not entirely incorrect) impression that Mac's are easier to use than pretty much any other OS based machine on the market.
Mac OS X and its software can and does have some issues, but I haven't run into maintainance issues with it that were on the level of what I've had with Windows or Linux.
I don't think you or the RIAA necessarily have it completely right. Basically, you are railing against the name of the very concept that you are advocating, which puzzles me, unless there is a different name I am not remembering.
Profit maximization isn't about maximizing the profit per-unit but maximizing the total profit, sales volume in units times net profit per unit. Sometimes to maximize profits, you reduce the prices, sometimes, you increase them. It really depends on how the market responds and what volume you can sell. If maximizing profit means increasing the prices, whether "piracy" is increased is not the issue, the hypothetical total net profit/sales volume curve is supposed to take that into account.
Still, how many units would have sold at a different price is always a bit of a guess.
Given that S3 has been in and out of the graphics market several times,
The Linux market is chicken and egg. I don't think there are enough Linux folk that are willing to pay a decent enough of a premium for the development of totally open drivers.
Journaling beyond metadata? Wouldn't that aid file recovery if the writing software screws up a write?
If ZFS is included, it may be a sign that Apple is considering a bigger plunge into the enterprise markets because that seems to be where ZFS can shine. They are big in the storage markets with XServe RAID enclosures, both drive capacities and even orders seem to be going up.
Going from a 286 to a Pentium is about a decade's leap in technology. A 5900 to a 7900 is about a couple year's leap. I think that might be why you weren't "wowed".
I have good news and bad news. The good news is that your post is buzz word and hip-speak compliant. The bad news is that I have no idea what you are saying.
I agree on this point, I would never hire another photographer unless I owned the exclusive and complete rights to the pictures. But for software, the developer might bring in their own library that they made over the years to simplify often-coded tasks, and I don't think that should necessarily fall under complete customer ownership, but a subset that allows them to continue to use it for that software.
But I know that people can be very vocal on the subject of advertising, especially on community sites where the revenue goes to the "owner" rather than the "community"
My take on that depends on whether the community has consistently footed the bill in getting the server hosting and such. I know the site is worthless without the people that visit it, I don't see why a few ads is going to cause problems except for the whiners because hosting and bandwidth costs money, not to mention administration headaches that the visitors generally don't seem to understand. Now, if the ad type is annoying, doesn't fit the site, or takes up too much of a page, then that's a different thing. Motion graphic ads on a site whose primary content is text is clearly out of place.
I wouldn't be against the site owner providing the site out of pocket, but I think it's very out of place for visitors to demand it especially as the ad money likely isn't huge and that administration takes a lot of time too.
Something to consider is to make the site something like a co-op, where the community manages the money and management.
doesn't mean much unless you've locked down every network port, every USB & Firewire port, optical writing drive and any other means of transferrring files. Otherwise some yokel can walk in with a thumb drive and copy a good amount of data, now up to 4GB per drive, and walk out without anyone knowing who did it, when or who they sold the data to. Any information they can get to, they probably can copy.
I'm not convinced that iSight or web cams have much value other than just for novelty. I could use iChat, but I don't because I don't know many Mac users, and even if I did, I don't think the visual helps. Just pick up the phone and make a call.
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Scramjets are so rediculously energy inefficient that I don't see them in widespread use other than in the military. It isn't like electronics technology where smaller transistors can be made to do more with less electricity, there are fundemental physics at issue here. The same goes for space passenger services, the amount of energy needed to get into orbit is staggering that I'm skeptical that it can ever be made affordable for middle class use.
If I may be so bold, if you know enough to know the difference between KDE and gnome, you aren't the target user. What matters is that it works, not whether it caters to a particular set of preferences. Even giving a neophyte choices can build up to rejection if there are too many choices that seem redundant or unimportant to them and their needs.
...if you aren't charging for support to a computer you didn't supply, or supplied while giving no illusions of personal support, then you are getting screwed. Expertise and personal attention together is worth something. I even charge my grandparents, though at a heavily discounted rate. I can't afford to divert much time and gas to help them, so them paying me makes it a little easier.
Even the OSS advocate/comic writer Illiad admitted to not using GIMP and he had an amusing little comic last week or so explaining some of his reasons. Commercial software isn't necessarily evil, it is a different development method. If the tools fit, use them. If you can use OSS, then good for you! Not everyone can do that, and I think it is good that OSS advocates admit what the stumbling blocks are. The hurdles show where the developers can improve the software.
I used floppies more than I'll ever use flash.
That's not saying much. Might this be because there was no hard drive at the time? For a long time, that was the only affordable way to store software and operating systems. Now, files are stored on hard drives, and you can just transfer files over the network, so there's not as much need for a portable storage medium.
I'm thankful for the current media players, especially the compact portable ones. Radio is annoying as crap with ads and constantly recycled media, at least with portable media players, *I* can control what and when I can play the audio. The ability to record and distribute videos within a short time, low cost and low difficulties is nice too.
I'm thankful for duplexing laser printers. I'm sorry, while the dot matrix units were nice, they only printed one side, printed incredibly crude pictures and were loud. It's nice to get rid of fan-fold paper too.
Mail order was incredibly slow, now it is easier to find a certain item and pay for it and if you paid for it, you might see the item on the next business day.
The downside is that techology seems to be getting more unreliable, from a user perspective.
I'm on my third PS2 right now, but my Atari 2600 (still fun!) works like new...
That's pretty true, though I wonder if Sony's build quality is the worst in that industry.
Besides, the original list price of that Atari was $199, making that about $656 in today's money.
Point taken, but I think an automatic restart is necessary to minimize intrusions into off-work-time with maintainaince and such. If the service hangs and there's no one there to tend to it, then it will stay hung until someone notices. This is not good if you want to keep going and not lose potential business if the site is down.
Anyway, I'm glad I'm not a server admin. I'd like to live my private life NOT being on-call.
Isn't DRM on a monitor like water wings on a fish?
Probably. It may be necessary to have it for certain "protected" media in Windows Vista, but the easy solution is to not buy that protected media. And not buy Vista as well, assuming it comes out.
Just as employers can many times drop employees on a whim, depending on laws of course, employees can change employers as well. It is a two-way street, any manager expecting it to be a one-way street is fooling themselves. Still, I wonder if it is legal to fire someone just for having looked for alternate employment options. Maybe it is legal, but that would be one scary hostile workplace.
Nice joke, but it is based on false impressions.
iPod batteries are pretty easily removable. Just because there isn't an obvious latch or screw holes doesn't mean it is hard to get inside the unit. I'd think that a crowd that has so many people that are proud of themselves for being able to "build" computers would be able to figure out how to get inside them.
i carry with me: ibook g3. ipod, newton, airport express, external modem, 2x usb 2 cables 2x firewire cables one 6-4 pin adapter, an ipod psu and dock, ibook charger, spare battery, backup HD, first gen 5GB ipod with extra long 21 hour battery, xbox 360 headset and memory card with my profile and portable saves, 360 games in a cd book with OS X disks windows 2k, XP 2k3 server, office 2003, office 2004 mac, adobe creative suit 2 full, DVD with random usefull utilities, external bluetooth usb adapter thingy, bluetooth mouse, toothbrush, toothpase, spare pair of boxers and socks, 5m cat 6 ethernet cable with crossover adapter, modem cable, null modem cable, 25 pack DVD cake, 25 pack CD cake, mini ITX pc i build from a K6-2 mobo 1.8" HD and slimline slot loading dvd drive inside a fake book. yet i still dont have a mobile phone.
Is your luggage cart self-propelled too?
I was thinking he can ditch the big and clunky laptop, PDAs can do so much that laptops aren't that necessary. Besides, a PDA is almost instant-on, laptops are not nearly so quick.
I don't understand how a Microsoft hire helped IBM outdo Intel for the 360 box. It may well be that the products this person designed were good, but the business model for which he had no control over, was flawed. Usually when a product or business fails, it isn't because of the product itself but the PHBs that didn't know what to do with the product or were trying to sell a product that didn't have a sustainable market.
They are aiming for the less tech-savvy user, and hoping to create the (not entirely incorrect) impression that Mac's are easier to use than pretty much any other OS based machine on the market.
Mac OS X and its software can and does have some issues, but I haven't run into maintainance issues with it that were on the level of what I've had with Windows or Linux.
Apple did claim their G4 dowers were supercomputers, though that was a tenuous claim.
The history of the "PC" term came from the IBM model PC and it "stuck", such that it meant anything sold with DOS or Windows.
I don't think you or the RIAA necessarily have it completely right. Basically, you are railing against the name of the very concept that you are advocating, which puzzles me, unless there is a different name I am not remembering.
Profit maximization isn't about maximizing the profit per-unit but maximizing the total profit, sales volume in units times net profit per unit. Sometimes to maximize profits, you reduce the prices, sometimes, you increase them. It really depends on how the market responds and what volume you can sell. If maximizing profit means increasing the prices, whether "piracy" is increased is not the issue, the hypothetical total net profit/sales volume curve is supposed to take that into account.
Still, how many units would have sold at a different price is always a bit of a guess.
Given that S3 has been in and out of the graphics market several times,
The Linux market is chicken and egg. I don't think there are enough Linux folk that are willing to pay a decent enough of a premium for the development of totally open drivers.
Journaling beyond metadata? Wouldn't that aid file recovery if the writing software screws up a write?
If ZFS is included, it may be a sign that Apple is considering a bigger plunge into the enterprise markets because that seems to be where ZFS can shine. They are big in the storage markets with XServe RAID enclosures, both drive capacities and even orders seem to be going up.
Going from a 286 to a Pentium is about a decade's leap in technology. A 5900 to a 7900 is about a couple year's leap. I think that might be why you weren't "wowed".
I have good news and bad news. The good news is that your post is buzz word and hip-speak compliant. The bad news is that I have no idea what you are saying.
I agree on this point, I would never hire another photographer unless I owned the exclusive and complete rights to the pictures. But for software, the developer might bring in their own library that they made over the years to simplify often-coded tasks, and I don't think that should necessarily fall under complete customer ownership, but a subset that allows them to continue to use it for that software.
But I know that people can be very vocal on the subject of advertising, especially on community sites where the revenue goes to the "owner" rather than the "community"
My take on that depends on whether the community has consistently footed the bill in getting the server hosting and such. I know the site is worthless without the people that visit it, I don't see why a few ads is going to cause problems except for the whiners because hosting and bandwidth costs money, not to mention administration headaches that the visitors generally don't seem to understand. Now, if the ad type is annoying, doesn't fit the site, or takes up too much of a page, then that's a different thing. Motion graphic ads on a site whose primary content is text is clearly out of place.
I wouldn't be against the site owner providing the site out of pocket, but I think it's very out of place for visitors to demand it especially as the ad money likely isn't huge and that administration takes a lot of time too.
Something to consider is to make the site something like a co-op, where the community manages the money and management.
doesn't mean much unless you've locked down every network port, every USB & Firewire port, optical writing drive and any other means of transferrring files. Otherwise some yokel can walk in with a thumb drive and copy a good amount of data, now up to 4GB per drive, and walk out without anyone knowing who did it, when or who they sold the data to. Any information they can get to, they probably can copy.
I'm not convinced that iSight or web cams have much value other than just for novelty. I could use iChat, but I don't because I don't know many Mac users, and even if I did, I don't think the visual helps. Just pick up the phone and make a call.
(for those of you outside Europe, RIPE is the European counterpart to ARIN
That's nice to know. Then what is ARIN?