The same way Toyota or some other manufacturer engineer safety margins, alloy tolerances and so on to trade-off factors to get an an all-around desired target of reliability, power, efficiency, safety. The engineering team most likely knows what they are doing.
An individual or small time shop can modify things to get characteristics they desire more, at their own risk and usually without the engineering and testing tools to verify the changes as being safe. Push the envelope just so, and most parts work fine, a few might fail prematurely as a result.
Too often, overclockers and hot rodders just go by assumption, hearsay and flat out guessing. If one can afford to lose a part, then by all means, go on ahead.
Let's see, Utah gets demoted to "territory" or "occupied state" while Mormons from the world over try to smuggle in supplies and suicide bombers in an attempt to drive out the occupying army.
Actually, I want SCO to sue the SEC. Nothing like a halt in trading to drive down stock prices.
I think this is one of the better cases where software agnosticism comes in handy.
No "holy war" and no single platform will fill everyone's needs. Very few geeks have the skill, motivation and the need to start and maintain such a project as F/OSS.
I think the tracing might motivate unfriendly nations to tightly control their bombs and material, for fear of retaliation if something should slip, accidentally or otherwise. This would hypothetically make it harder for individuals and small unfriendly groups to get a hold of the material or bombs.
I don't see any problem in gathering this information, but I do see a potential problem of rushing to a premature judgement and making nuked mincemeat of another country's military facilities, and of course, civilians.
IIRC, in Hebrew, it is four consonants, and the devout Hebrews do some sort of quick motion pattern (I forget what it is) every time they have to say it out of respect for the name. I think a devout person adding vowels to the name is considered a no-no, the consonants are sounded out one at a time.
I do find it interesting that people use the cost of assembling their own computer against the cost of a pre-assembled computer, and not consider the value of the time and experience they put into assembling that computer, and that of loading the OS, drivers and software onto it.
That comparison works great for geeks, but the bigger issue is that few people really do assemble their own computers, so they can't just add up the cost of the parts and say they are getting ripped.
Another issue is that the PC equivalent parts are IMO vastly substandard in some places, particularly on the case and cooling, getting quality parts narrows the gap. Adding bluetooth, PCI-X and firewire narrows it even more.
One thing I do find nice is that it only takes an extra $500 to add a second processor, doing that with an Opteron or Xeon based system costs that much extra just for a DP motherboard, ignoring the CPU, the extra power requirements meaning better cooling and a larger case.
Given that it is a Money article, I think they have an interest not necessarily in the products, but the profits those products may or may not bring to the stock's value or as dividends.
I am guessing that the writer probably wouldn't mind iPod being Mac-only to try to drive computer sales, but I think that would be stupid. I think it would only create resentment against Apple and severely limit iPod sales.
Let's see, a huge cargo container of US Soldiers that look potentially ready to pounce is being passed off as contraband relief supplies lands in Iran or Cuba, but all it really does (for now) is phone home to GW Bush and say "I'm here". Would you expect the Cubans or Iranians to be happy about it?
A lossy format is never going to be more accurate than a CD.
From what I understand, iTune's AAC is often encoded from higher sampling frequency and bit depth masters than what ends up on the CD. If the resulting file is encoded to play back with a higher sampling rate and bit depth then it is possible that the lossy format to be better than the CD.
There are some people like myself that actually WANT some of that "trash". The case, media and notes, although not celo wrap and security stuff.
I'd keep the CD as a bakup medium that won't disappear should the hard drive crash or the company running the DRM go out of business, etc. If the prevailing standard changes, the CD can be reencoded.
1152x864 is closer than that (995,328) but still not a megapixel.
I think there are better things to do than fuss over a 0.5% difference, this is much less than the alleged shortfall made by hard drive MB claims, but those marketing distinctions are often pretty clearly marked on the box of the hard drive. If it were maybe ten percent, then maybe I would agree.
A lot of industries go by nominal sizes anyway, which is often spelled out in the technical specs. Often, it's not as if they are out to short the consumer. A 72" wide desk is really 71.88", this is so desks and tops can be stacked end for end and still fit within an alloted panel size with gaps. Please don't tell me you'd fuss over that, and that is 1.7% size difference.
Megapixels is the most idiotic resolution measurement system ever.......IF THE CAMERA HAS A RESOLUTION OF 1152x864, just fucking say so.
Who, outside of the techie nerd community, wants to memorize such petty numbers?
I think it is annoying when people say 1024x768 when they could just say XGA, it is pretty established in the digital projector industry and community. Or 1280x1024 (or IMO better, 1280x960) when they could just say SXGA. Geeks like flapping their mouths to say large numbers to the last decimal place, I guess.
The idea that a threatening asteroid could be kept secret (or that anyone would want to keep it secret) is ludicrous.
I should hope so, but a few weeks ago, wasn't there a potential threat known before passing that wasn't announced after it had already passed? The time was small, so delaying an announcement by a day isn't hard.
Some solutions, they may or may not work depending on your situation:
I guess if I had to continue working there, I would cancel the mobile and just get a land line. That way, recieving calls doesn't cost you and that they can't pester you when you are out and about.
I think the zero tolerance policy on cell phones are pretty asinine though.
If you drive, another solution is to leave the phone on and leave it in your car. That way you don't forget to turn it back on.
Seriously, I would love to see one of these programs that just turns the victims internet connection OFF. Granted, I don't think it would spread very well.
It could spread for a week on a particular host machine THEN shut off the internet ports. Or just shut off the HTTP, mail and a bunch of IM ports.
What's sad is that they have menus and options on all four sides of the "page's" text. It's almost as if you can get to any point of their site from any page. As well as half the internet's ads.
I wonder if it is because of the Hard OCP / "Phantom Console" issue.
I'm not convinced that Infinium Labs has any leg to stand on on that one though, I'm not convinced there is any libel, but they can still try to sue and harass. The Tom's writer is possibly just being CYA about it.
How many people stopped respecting PC World (once upon a time highly respected) after they endorsed Windows Me?
Heck, PC World endorsed Pinnacle Studio 8, which is IMO even worse than Win ME. I really don't believe they've even used it. An early copy crashes about once per hour. Patched, it crashes once per evening, or crashes if you try to page through too many video clips at once. It crashes if you try to save or edit a video with hundreds of clips. The video encoding is dirt slow. This behavior is similar on several different computers I've tried.
I know this is supposed to be funny, but women are a little bit better drivers than men. People can point to statistics and try to claim say otherwise, but if you take the "long haul" drivers (mostly men) out of the picture, men are slightly worse per mile than women.
Truckers are generally better drivers because they have to be because of the insurance climate, and that they get such a rediculous number of miles of experience. Thus including them in a comparison skews the picture because of the different kind of driving.
Right now, in the US, broadband customers are actually a minority. I think the home market penetration just passed 25% several months ago. That will go up but somewhat slowly.
The thing is, telling what the problem is doesn't clear the fault code if there is a "check engine" or "service" light on. Fixing the problem often doesn't clear the fault code. I'm not sure what the problem is as Snap-On sells a diagnostic system that can read and clear these computer codes from most major manufacturers. It costs money, I think $1k or so, but that's business.
That is why having the operational codes are important, to identify the problem and clear the flag.
The nepotism thing can be a huge problem. Not unmanageable, but if the family & friends gets treated differently from "non" then expect problems from the outsiders.
If everyone gets the same treatment for the same behaviour, then the friends and family may feel insulted that the relationship doesn't get them any favors. One potential problem is that family members might not think they have to put in the effort because they won't get fired, and thus drag the company down. Also, be careful to assign people tasks they can do well. If they can't perform their assigned task well, change their assignment to something else or let them go, don't allow substandard work.
Expect problems. They may create tension, but usually it should be manageable.
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Pushing boundaries does entail greater risks.
The same way Toyota or some other manufacturer engineer safety margins, alloy tolerances and so on to trade-off factors to get an an all-around desired target of reliability, power, efficiency, safety. The engineering team most likely knows what they are doing.
An individual or small time shop can modify things to get characteristics they desire more, at their own risk and usually without the engineering and testing tools to verify the changes as being safe. Push the envelope just so, and most parts work fine, a few might fail prematurely as a result.
Too often, overclockers and hot rodders just go by assumption, hearsay and flat out guessing. If one can afford to lose a part, then by all means, go on ahead.
Let's see, Utah gets demoted to "territory" or "occupied state" while Mormons from the world over try to smuggle in supplies and suicide bombers in an attempt to drive out the occupying army.
Actually, I want SCO to sue the SEC. Nothing like a halt in trading to drive down stock prices.
I think this is one of the better cases where software agnosticism comes in handy.
No "holy war" and no single platform will fill everyone's needs. Very few geeks have the skill, motivation and the need to start and maintain such a project as F/OSS.
I think the tracing might motivate unfriendly nations to tightly control their bombs and material, for fear of retaliation if something should slip, accidentally or otherwise. This would hypothetically make it harder for individuals and small unfriendly groups to get a hold of the material or bombs.
I don't see any problem in gathering this information, but I do see a potential problem of rushing to a premature judgement and making nuked mincemeat of another country's military facilities, and of course, civilians.
So they had the capability but abandoned it? Is it mostly a matter of tracking down sources of materials from new sources from Pakistan, India, etc.?
jehovah in hebrew
IIRC, in Hebrew, it is four consonants, and the devout Hebrews do some sort of quick motion pattern (I forget what it is) every time they have to say it out of respect for the name. I think a devout person adding vowels to the name is considered a no-no, the consonants are sounded out one at a time.
I do find it interesting that people use the cost of assembling their own computer against the cost of a pre-assembled computer, and not consider the value of the time and experience they put into assembling that computer, and that of loading the OS, drivers and software onto it.
That comparison works great for geeks, but the bigger issue is that few people really do assemble their own computers, so they can't just add up the cost of the parts and say they are getting ripped.
Another issue is that the PC equivalent parts are IMO vastly substandard in some places, particularly on the case and cooling, getting quality parts narrows the gap. Adding bluetooth, PCI-X and firewire narrows it even more.
One thing I do find nice is that it only takes an extra $500 to add a second processor, doing that with an Opteron or Xeon based system costs that much extra just for a DP motherboard, ignoring the CPU, the extra power requirements meaning better cooling and a larger case.
Given that it is a Money article, I think they have an interest not necessarily in the products, but the profits those products may or may not bring to the stock's value or as dividends.
I am guessing that the writer probably wouldn't mind iPod being Mac-only to try to drive computer sales, but I think that would be stupid. I think it would only create resentment against Apple and severely limit iPod sales.
Let's see, a huge cargo container of US Soldiers that look potentially ready to pounce is being passed off as contraband relief supplies lands in Iran or Cuba, but all it really does (for now) is phone home to GW Bush and say "I'm here". Would you expect the Cubans or Iranians to be happy about it?
A lossy format is never going to be more accurate than a CD.
From what I understand, iTune's AAC is often encoded from higher sampling frequency and bit depth masters than what ends up on the CD. If the resulting file is encoded to play back with a higher sampling rate and bit depth then it is possible that the lossy format to be better than the CD.
There are some people like myself that actually WANT some of that "trash". The case, media and notes, although not celo wrap and security stuff.
I'd keep the CD as a bakup medium that won't disappear should the hard drive crash or the company running the DRM go out of business, etc. If the prevailing standard changes, the CD can be reencoded.
I agree, if a rock that size landed in a metropolis before burning up in the atmosphere, I think it could kill hundreds, if not more.
1152x864 is closer than that (995,328) but still not a megapixel.
I think there are better things to do than fuss over a 0.5% difference, this is much less than the alleged shortfall made by hard drive MB claims, but those marketing distinctions are often pretty clearly marked on the box of the hard drive. If it were maybe ten percent, then maybe I would agree.
A lot of industries go by nominal sizes anyway, which is often spelled out in the technical specs. Often, it's not as if they are out to short the consumer. A 72" wide desk is really 71.88", this is so desks and tops can be stacked end for end and still fit within an alloted panel size with gaps. Please don't tell me you'd fuss over that, and that is 1.7% size difference.
Megapixels is the most idiotic resolution measurement system ever.......IF THE CAMERA HAS A RESOLUTION OF 1152x864, just fucking say so.
Who, outside of the techie nerd community, wants to memorize such petty numbers?
I think it is annoying when people say 1024x768 when they could just say XGA, it is pretty established in the digital projector industry and community. Or 1280x1024 (or IMO better, 1280x960) when they could just say SXGA. Geeks like flapping their mouths to say large numbers to the last decimal place, I guess.
The idea that a threatening asteroid could be kept secret (or that anyone would want to keep it secret) is ludicrous.
I should hope so, but a few weeks ago, wasn't there a potential threat known before passing that wasn't announced after it had already passed? The time was small, so delaying an announcement by a day isn't hard.
Well, that sucks.
Some solutions, they may or may not work depending on your situation:
I guess if I had to continue working there, I would cancel the mobile and just get a land line. That way, recieving calls doesn't cost you and that they can't pester you when you are out and about.
I think the zero tolerance policy on cell phones are pretty asinine though.
If you drive, another solution is to leave the phone on and leave it in your car. That way you don't forget to turn it back on.
You could leave it on vibrate.
Seriously, I would love to see one of these programs that just turns the victims internet connection OFF. Granted, I don't think it would spread very well.
It could spread for a week on a particular host machine THEN shut off the internet ports. Or just shut off the HTTP, mail and a bunch of IM ports.
What's sad is that they have menus and options on all four sides of the "page's" text. It's almost as if you can get to any point of their site from any page. As well as half the internet's ads.
I wonder if it is because of the Hard OCP / "Phantom Console" issue.
I'm not convinced that Infinium Labs has any leg to stand on on that one though, I'm not convinced there is any libel, but they can still try to sue and harass. The Tom's writer is possibly just being CYA about it.
How many people stopped respecting PC World (once upon a time highly respected) after they endorsed Windows Me?
Heck, PC World endorsed Pinnacle Studio 8, which is IMO even worse than Win ME. I really don't believe they've even used it. An early copy crashes about once per hour. Patched, it crashes once per evening, or crashes if you try to page through too many video clips at once. It crashes if you try to save or edit a video with hundreds of clips. The video encoding is dirt slow. This behavior is similar on several different computers I've tried.
Law dramas are over used as well. It's gotten to the point where there is practically a Law and Order: Fratricide show.
We know women don't make good drivers.
I know this is supposed to be funny, but women are a little bit better drivers than men. People can point to statistics and try to claim say otherwise, but if you take the "long haul" drivers (mostly men) out of the picture, men are slightly worse per mile than women.
Truckers are generally better drivers because they have to be because of the insurance climate, and that they get such a rediculous number of miles of experience. Thus including them in a comparison skews the picture because of the different kind of driving.
Right now, in the US, broadband customers are actually a minority. I think the home market penetration just passed 25% several months ago. That will go up but somewhat slowly.
The thing is, telling what the problem is doesn't clear the fault code if there is a "check engine" or "service" light on. Fixing the problem often doesn't clear the fault code. I'm not sure what the problem is as Snap-On sells a diagnostic system that can read and clear these computer codes from most major manufacturers. It costs money, I think $1k or so, but that's business.
That is why having the operational codes are important, to identify the problem and clear the flag.
The nepotism thing can be a huge problem. Not unmanageable, but if the family & friends gets treated differently from "non" then expect problems from the outsiders.
If everyone gets the same treatment for the same behaviour, then the friends and family may feel insulted that the relationship doesn't get them any favors. One potential problem is that family members might not think they have to put in the effort because they won't get fired, and thus drag the company down. Also, be careful to assign people tasks they can do well. If they can't perform their assigned task well, change their assignment to something else or let them go, don't allow substandard work.
Expect problems. They may create tension, but usually it should be manageable.