The only argument for that might be with Walmart, as they are one of the major off-shorers for the last decade. While they are the world's largest retailer, even in the US they still only account for about 10% of US retail sales. They are stringently anti-union too, so they might be a pretty big driver for keeping retail wages low.
The worst that the RIAA does in terms of economics is charge too much for CDs and keep the wholesale price high as well as a high SRP.
I'm not sure what the MPAA is doing to hurt the economy. While movie tickets are expensive, DVDs are often dirt cheap. When many good DVDs are $8-$13 a piece a year or so after initial release, I have to wonder how theaters can compete. The MPAA members also gives a much higher margin than the RIAA. I also have to wonder how Blockbuster and other rental chains can charge $4 for a rental of an old title on VHS.
Sony was shooting for Apple's 20GB iPod pricing as of two months ago, now that Apple's 20GB is $100 cheaper than Sony's POS, how can they possibly compete and get a market share anywhere near one that "kills" the iPod?
People breaking the law and thinking that it wasn't illegal. What the hell is the world coming to?
I doubt that. The "world" was like this long before P2P and all this other file sharing crap.
I think this is pretty easy if they are setting up public invitations for anyone to go, and on public property or property not owned by anyone attending. That is NOT a private screening by any stretch of the imagination. I'm pretty sure that one hundred strangers attending is hardly a private screening.
Define failure. Arguments like this depend on such a rediculously high standard on success. Is getting a silver medal in the Olympics a failure? Why is being #1 the only measure of success here?
Being #1 can be a Phyrric victory as it might require huge losses, but contestant #2 might actually generate profit.
Betamax lived a LONG time as a basic TV studio video format, despite not winning the consumer format "war".
Is failure simply the case being not the dominant system/format/etc.? In your opinion, can something generate a decent inet profit and still be a failure?
Heck, Minidisc had a 50% market share in japan.
Memory stick is still around, a lot of third party sticks and readers are still begin made. It's not dead yet.
Heck, aren't PS2 and PSOne proprietary formats too? Sure, they are based on "open" media formats but use proprietary code as well as data sector corruption to close the format. Both of those systems dominated.
So much for the assumed general failure of proprietary systems.
I thought the Mac version of D3 wasn't going to be available, so why is the video on an Apple format, and some pictures hosted on a "mac" site? Some people complain about Quicktime not working so well on PCs. I remember people complaining about the inability to "full screen" too.
X86 chips have traditionally been processing heavy, I/O weak
x86 systems CAN have lots of I/O speed. Witness the Serverworks chips which have multiple 64 bit PCI bus segments (up to 133MHz PCI-X, I think), up to four memory channels and dedicated I/O to RAID controllers and the like. Some of Intel's dual CPU chipsets are pretty beefy too, they were dual channel, dual PCI bus, with dedicated off-PCI lines for network, SCSI, IDE and so on.
The thing is that desktop machines generally don't need that I/O so much.
Oops, actually, with stock components, I've managed about 300m range on wireless b. With special antennae, about two miles / three kilometers, and this is through buildings and trees.
2.4 GHz is 2.4 GHz... the radio waves don't really know or care which protocol's being used. I'd be very surprised if Bluetooth can do anything WiFi can't or vice versa given the same power and directional constraints.
There is more to it than that. Modulation is important. Bluetooth isn't meant to go more than 10m, wireless b and g can go up to 100m. wireless b has a few times more usable bandwidth.
You do get more Bluetooth channels though, 79 I think, so more people can use it without interfering with each other.
You can use the same antennas and cabling though, maybe even the same amplifiers assuming the amplifier isn't specific to a signal or modulation type.
Hams can use that power, but the connection can't be encrypted. It's kind of useless for this thing you call "WiFi", you can't use WPA or even just WEP. You can't even legally connect to anything by HTTPS over that link.
With Bluetooth, you can't do any "pairing" which uses encryption.
The difference being that those million years still doesn't mean there aren't occasional problems with the original. This is why people get their biological unit replaced with a mechanical one.
It may take a while to determine the unintended consequences, but unless someone tries. We'll never know unless it is tried. I don't really see this as dangerous, I think stuff like this gets tried on lower mammals before going on to humans.
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It seems odd that you'd think such a macroscale impeller would "slice" such tiny objects.
BTW: I think the difference between propeller and impeller is that propeller is intended to move an object in a medium (boat in water) and impeller is intended to move the medium through a system (water pump for plumbing). Both use spinning blades to perform the task.
That is the very reason I avoid them. There are some uses for it but too many people were obnoxious doofuses about it. Not only did those around the user have to hear both sides of the conversation, the incomming side with poor quality on an overdriven speaker, there was the damn high pitch start/end sqeak tones for every sentence, and I think that slows down the "conversation" a lot.
Competitors offered ways to have a real conversation without the beeping for the same cost, less botton pressing and less nuisance to surrounding victims.
Keep in mind that good actors really can't break free of a bad script, poor casting or poor direction. Sometimes a good actor can rise above the circumstances but better results come from all four being right rather than having to "swim upstream".
A one year contract isn't so bad, in my opinion, only a handful have two year contracts and that is only for special perks they throw in, like unlimited night and weekend calling. I think they charge the same whether you take their phone or bring your own in, so it is cheaper if you just take a free phone.
Even if your circumstances change, with the carriers I checked, you can "relocate" the phone number to your new area code. I was able to get a number not in my current area code, so I was "local" to certain people.
The only plans where you benefit paying for the phone and service separately are pay-as-you-go. The pay-as-you-go plans cost a lot more per minute. Last I checked, if you use more than 100 minutes per month, you are actually better off with the lowest rate plan contract where you get 300 daytime and 1000 or unlimited night and weekend.
Phones need to be the size of a decent camera if the built-in camera is going to be any good. Lenses and element size definitely has a role, there are too many compromises to pack it into a tiny package. Heck you don't have optical zoom. Digital zoom sucks. Even some pocket camera-only devices have optical zoom, go slightly larger and you can get wide-angle and telephoto add-on lenses to broaden the ranges.
Camera-phones are good for quick, fun snap-shots but will never fully replace a separate camera, and won't make a good photo print, IMO.
What isn't clear is if they are pressed DVDs. Most pressed DVDs are dual layered, and have something like 7+ GB.
I'm simply not seeing nearly the "DVD Rot" that some people claim. I've had a couple discs go bad, but they were clearly cases of bad manufacture. I'm betting that the cost of building a backup system is higher than just replacing the pressed DVDs. If they were writable backup sets, then I'd be concerned.
If writable DVDs are causing problems, I would suggest looking into who made them. They all have manufacturer flags embedded, maybe those 10% were from a different batch from a Taiwan manufacturer versus the Japanese arm.
Given $5000, I'd wonder if tape is a good idea for backups. That way you can keep a history by rotating though a bunch of tapes, and I think TB tape can be bought for $50, the killer is the cost of the drive.
Infiniband helps, but even infiniband on PCI-X slots doesn't keep up with Cray & SGI interconnects, VA-Tech is using such cards.
AGP 8x is silly to implement now, once they are done (it takes a year or two), then everyone will be using PCIe, which is better than AGP in terms of bandwidth and memory access. AGP will take several years to go away, but why not hit the most advanced off-the-shelf system slot right away?
The thing that isn't off-the shelf is making a switch, but that might be helped with multiple ports. Then you have to deal with latencies because of the chips between PCIe and the CPU and memory. What of the costs of the cabling between computers? Will that be standard CAT-6 / CAT-5e? If not, then.
I think in the end, you'd still want an interconnect that connects straight to the northbridge or the CPU, to cut the latencies to a minimum. Custom or changed northbridges, and custom motherboards with them is what would cost money.
Huh? The reason Firefox isn't a good replacement is because so many sites out there have been tuned for IE's non-standard rendering? That's not Firefox's fault. That is the fault of the people that set up those few offending sites.
Few sites are like that, although there are some, like Engenius Tech's site that won't bother serving a page to Firefox, that's not Firefox's fault either.
There are fail-over clusters. I'm not sure if anything has reached the sophistication of what you want. Given that security is a specialized task, for computers configured differently and they need to be at certain points of the network (i.e. at the gateway), there may be little point in letting just any computer anywhere do security. If you want redundancy, just keep a spare next to it.
There are load balancers for web servers, although there may not be much intelligence in the design, I think they just cycle the work around.
I want them to cost less because the distribution and printing should cost less.
If the format is to survive, it MUST present more utility at a minimum start-up cost and less long term cost. I won't pay $58 eBook for a book I can get for $60, and have to read it on a $200-$600 reader. Why should the publisher pocket almost ALL the savings when abandoning paper prints while making the consumer absorb the cost of a potentially fragile, proprietary reader?
People talk about how bad paper use is for the environment, but silicon manufacturing used for displays and ICs is horrible for the environment, one fab consumes as much water as a small city. That fab also consumes a lot of dangerous chemicals. At least trees are renewable and paper is recyclable.
Don't give me 50dpi raster diagrams when the paper version has 600dpi+ detail. At least make it a vector drawing whenever possible.
Ouch. I guess it is getting continually tougher to justify the single-system supercomputer approach. Someone mentioned that linpack doesn't emphasize interconnect performance enough. I think it is worth noting that the I2 processors are a lot cheaper now then they were a year ago, 1.4 GHz I2s with 3MB cache are selling for $1400 on pricewatch, that's a pretty good price for big-iron type CPUs. The PR doesn't say what speed and L3 size the CPUs use though.
Others have mentioned other hardware differences, but WET supports Power over Ethernet. I'm pretty sure the WGA does not. A lot of Linksys products do not support this yet. You need the WAPPOE kit to do it.
Interestingly, WAPPOE, which has both injector and splitter costs less than an injector-only product I bought a month before that. WET + the active injector I have involves two less boxes because the splitter is unnecessary and the other injector I bought has a built-in AC->DC converter rather than use yet another power brick.
PoE is cool, but the typical kit rarely costs much less than $40. It is simpler to set up than extending the power wiring though, I wonder if one is better off in the long run to just extend the power wiring anyway.
I'd want one system that generally has 85% to 90% of the performance on every measurement rather than being the best at something but then being the worst at something else.
Generally, I'm not going to bother with so many different options. I'm not going to play with multiple partitions on one drive to get the optimal use for every kind of file, nor am I going to let the size or type of file dictate where it goes in the sytem simply because it works best with a particular file system. I suppose it would be less wasteful if file systems can be dynamically allocated or repartitioned at will, but then, that seems kind of risky.
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The only argument for that might be with Walmart, as they are one of the major off-shorers for the last decade. While they are the world's largest retailer, even in the US they still only account for about 10% of US retail sales. They are stringently anti-union too, so they might be a pretty big driver for keeping retail wages low.
The worst that the RIAA does in terms of economics is charge too much for CDs and keep the wholesale price high as well as a high SRP.
I'm not sure what the MPAA is doing to hurt the economy. While movie tickets are expensive, DVDs are often dirt cheap. When many good DVDs are $8-$13 a piece a year or so after initial release, I have to wonder how theaters can compete. The MPAA members also gives a much higher margin than the RIAA. I also have to wonder how Blockbuster and other rental chains can charge $4 for a rental of an old title on VHS.
Do people still have cable modem at home? (or that silly phone line thing)
Silly phone line thing as in DSL or silly phone line thing as in POTS modem?
Sony was shooting for Apple's 20GB iPod pricing as of two months ago, now that Apple's 20GB is $100 cheaper than Sony's POS, how can they possibly compete and get a market share anywhere near one that "kills" the iPod?
People breaking the law and thinking that it wasn't illegal. What the hell is the world coming to?
I doubt that. The "world" was like this long before P2P and all this other file sharing crap.
I think this is pretty easy if they are setting up public invitations for anyone to go, and on public property or property not owned by anyone attending. That is NOT a private screening by any stretch of the imagination. I'm pretty sure that one hundred strangers attending is hardly a private screening.
Define failure. Arguments like this depend on such a rediculously high standard on success. Is getting a silver medal in the Olympics a failure? Why is being #1 the only measure of success here?
Being #1 can be a Phyrric victory as it might require huge losses, but contestant #2 might actually generate profit.
Betamax lived a LONG time as a basic TV studio video format, despite not winning the consumer format "war".
Is failure simply the case being not the dominant system/format/etc.? In your opinion, can something generate a decent inet profit and still be a failure?
Heck, Minidisc had a 50% market share in japan.
Memory stick is still around, a lot of third party sticks and readers are still begin made. It's not dead yet.
Heck, aren't PS2 and PSOne proprietary formats too? Sure, they are based on "open" media formats but use proprietary code as well as data sector corruption to close the format. Both of those systems dominated.
So much for the assumed general failure of proprietary systems.
Sony requiring ATRAC is still stupid though.
I thought the Mac version of D3 wasn't going to be available, so why is the video on an Apple format, and some pictures hosted on a "mac" site? Some people complain about Quicktime not working so well on PCs. I remember people complaining about the inability to "full screen" too.
X86 chips have traditionally been processing heavy, I/O weak
x86 systems CAN have lots of I/O speed. Witness the Serverworks chips which have multiple 64 bit PCI bus segments (up to 133MHz PCI-X, I think), up to four memory channels and dedicated I/O to RAID controllers and the like. Some of Intel's dual CPU chipsets are pretty beefy too, they were dual channel, dual PCI bus, with dedicated off-PCI lines for network, SCSI, IDE and so on.
The thing is that desktop machines generally don't need that I/O so much.
Oops, actually, with stock components, I've managed about 300m range on wireless b. With special antennae, about two miles / three kilometers, and this is through buildings and trees.
2.4 GHz is 2.4 GHz... the radio waves don't really know or care which protocol's being used. I'd be very surprised if Bluetooth can do anything WiFi can't or vice versa given the same power and directional constraints.
There is more to it than that. Modulation is important. Bluetooth isn't meant to go more than 10m, wireless b and g can go up to 100m. wireless b has a few times more usable bandwidth.
You do get more Bluetooth channels though, 79 I think, so more people can use it without interfering with each other.
You can use the same antennas and cabling though, maybe even the same amplifiers assuming the amplifier isn't specific to a signal or modulation type.
Hams can use that power, but the connection can't be encrypted. It's kind of useless for this thing you call "WiFi", you can't use WPA or even just WEP. You can't even legally connect to anything by HTTPS over that link.
With Bluetooth, you can't do any "pairing" which uses encryption.
Not that this stops anyone.
One thing I haven't found was HOW did Google end up setting 100+ dollars per share? If a dutch auction was really used, who bid it up that high?
I wish Google the best of luck, but dollar for dollar on earnings, there are many far better stock deals out there.
The difference being that those million years still doesn't mean there aren't occasional problems with the original. This is why people get their biological unit replaced with a mechanical one.
It may take a while to determine the unintended consequences, but unless someone tries. We'll never know unless it is tried. I don't really see this as dangerous, I think stuff like this gets tried on lower mammals before going on to humans.
It seems odd that you'd think such a macroscale impeller would "slice" such tiny objects.
BTW: I think the difference between propeller and impeller is that propeller is intended to move an object in a medium (boat in water) and impeller is intended to move the medium through a system (water pump for plumbing). Both use spinning blades to perform the task.
Nextel had a great niche with the wireless 2-way,
That is the very reason I avoid them. There are some uses for it but too many people were obnoxious doofuses about it. Not only did those around the user have to hear both sides of the conversation, the incomming side with poor quality on an overdriven speaker, there was the damn high pitch start/end sqeak tones for every sentence, and I think that slows down the "conversation" a lot.
Competitors offered ways to have a real conversation without the beeping for the same cost, less botton pressing and less nuisance to surrounding victims.
Keep in mind that good actors really can't break free of a bad script, poor casting or poor direction. Sometimes a good actor can rise above the circumstances but better results come from all four being right rather than having to "swim upstream".
A one year contract isn't so bad, in my opinion, only a handful have two year contracts and that is only for special perks they throw in, like unlimited night and weekend calling. I think they charge the same whether you take their phone or bring your own in, so it is cheaper if you just take a free phone.
Even if your circumstances change, with the carriers I checked, you can "relocate" the phone number to your new area code. I was able to get a number not in my current area code, so I was "local" to certain people.
The only plans where you benefit paying for the phone and service separately are pay-as-you-go. The pay-as-you-go plans cost a lot more per minute. Last I checked, if you use more than 100 minutes per month, you are actually better off with the lowest rate plan contract where you get 300 daytime and 1000 or unlimited night and weekend.
Phones need to be the size of a decent camera if the built-in camera is going to be any good. Lenses and element size definitely has a role, there are too many compromises to pack it into a tiny package. Heck you don't have optical zoom. Digital zoom sucks. Even some pocket camera-only devices have optical zoom, go slightly larger and you can get wide-angle and telephoto add-on lenses to broaden the ranges.
Camera-phones are good for quick, fun snap-shots but will never fully replace a separate camera, and won't make a good photo print, IMO.
What isn't clear is if they are pressed DVDs. Most pressed DVDs are dual layered, and have something like 7+ GB.
I'm simply not seeing nearly the "DVD Rot" that some people claim. I've had a couple discs go bad, but they were clearly cases of bad manufacture. I'm betting that the cost of building a backup system is higher than just replacing the pressed DVDs. If they were writable backup sets, then I'd be concerned.
If writable DVDs are causing problems, I would suggest looking into who made them. They all have manufacturer flags embedded, maybe those 10% were from a different batch from a Taiwan manufacturer versus the Japanese arm.
Given $5000, I'd wonder if tape is a good idea for backups. That way you can keep a history by rotating though a bunch of tapes, and I think TB tape can be bought for $50, the killer is the cost of the drive.
IIRC, your suggestion takes a bit of tweaking.
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Infiniband helps, but even infiniband on PCI-X slots doesn't keep up with Cray & SGI interconnects, VA-Tech is using such cards.
AGP 8x is silly to implement now, once they are done (it takes a year or two), then everyone will be using PCIe, which is better than AGP in terms of bandwidth and memory access. AGP will take several years to go away, but why not hit the most advanced off-the-shelf system slot right away?
The thing that isn't off-the shelf is making a switch, but that might be helped with multiple ports. Then you have to deal with latencies because of the chips between PCIe and the CPU and memory. What of the costs of the cabling between computers? Will that be standard CAT-6 / CAT-5e? If not, then
I think in the end, you'd still want an interconnect that connects straight to the northbridge or the CPU, to cut the latencies to a minimum. Custom or changed northbridges, and custom motherboards with them is what would cost money.
Huh? The reason Firefox isn't a good replacement is because so many sites out there have been tuned for IE's non-standard rendering? That's not Firefox's fault. That is the fault of the people that set up those few offending sites.
Few sites are like that, although there are some, like Engenius Tech's site that won't bother serving a page to Firefox, that's not Firefox's fault either.
There are fail-over clusters. I'm not sure if anything has reached the sophistication of what you want. Given that security is a specialized task, for computers configured differently and they need to be at certain points of the network (i.e. at the gateway), there may be little point in letting just any computer anywhere do security. If you want redundancy, just keep a spare next to it.
There are load balancers for web servers, although there may not be much intelligence in the design, I think they just cycle the work around.
I want them to cost less because the distribution and printing should cost less.
If the format is to survive, it MUST present more utility at a minimum start-up cost and less long term cost. I won't pay $58 eBook for a book I can get for $60, and have to read it on a $200-$600 reader. Why should the publisher pocket almost ALL the savings when abandoning paper prints while making the consumer absorb the cost of a potentially fragile, proprietary reader?
People talk about how bad paper use is for the environment, but silicon manufacturing used for displays and ICs is horrible for the environment, one fab consumes as much water as a small city. That fab also consumes a lot of dangerous chemicals. At least trees are renewable and paper is recyclable.
Don't give me 50dpi raster diagrams when the paper version has 600dpi+ detail. At least make it a vector drawing whenever possible.
Ouch. I guess it is getting continually tougher to justify the single-system supercomputer approach. Someone mentioned that linpack doesn't emphasize interconnect performance enough. I think it is worth noting that the I2 processors are a lot cheaper now then they were a year ago, 1.4 GHz I2s with 3MB cache are selling for $1400 on pricewatch, that's a pretty good price for big-iron type CPUs. The PR doesn't say what speed and L3 size the CPUs use though.
Others have mentioned other hardware differences, but WET supports Power over Ethernet. I'm pretty sure the WGA does not. A lot of Linksys products do not support this yet. You need the WAPPOE kit to do it.
Interestingly, WAPPOE, which has both injector and splitter costs less than an injector-only product I bought a month before that. WET + the active injector I have involves two less boxes because the splitter is unnecessary and the other injector I bought has a built-in AC->DC converter rather than use yet another power brick.
PoE is cool, but the typical kit rarely costs much less than $40. It is simpler to set up than extending the power wiring though, I wonder if one is better off in the long run to just extend the power wiring anyway.
I'd want one system that generally has 85% to 90% of the performance on every measurement rather than being the best at something but then being the worst at something else.
Generally, I'm not going to bother with so many different options. I'm not going to play with multiple partitions on one drive to get the optimal use for every kind of file, nor am I going to let the size or type of file dictate where it goes in the sytem simply because it works best with a particular file system. I suppose it would be less wasteful if file systems can be dynamically allocated or repartitioned at will, but then, that seems kind of risky.