I suspect that standard off the shelf grommets would work just fine. The dampeners don't need to be so fancy and the drive modules don't really seem to justify the cost, it's just that they were sold to a market that has more money than time. But thankfully, there are ever more chassis that will just accept bare drives.
Also, I have a couple 15k RPM drives screwed directly into an undamped metal cage in a workstation type computer and it hasn't caused me any trouble in the past few years. The ones I have actually operate better than a lot of 7.2k drives in terms of vibration.
How about using sensible figures? It's hard to respect an opinion when they are backed up with the sloppy use of facts, or exaggeration.
For one, if a movie really sucks, why even download it? It's a paper-thin excuse to justify the activity. It's not hard to look at the rotten tomato score or a couple reviews to see that it's not worth the money or the bandwidth.
Most movies that I've seen for sale don't cost $30 at a typical store unless you're buying a special edition (fancy package, extra discs, bonus features, Blu-Ray) or it's selling into a really niche market. Lots of standard edition movies I've seen are available for $15-$20. And that's for a new release. Eventually, in maybe one to three years, most movies get down to $5-$7 a piece.
The problem is you're comparing two machines that most people wouldn't buy for the asking price. The MacBook Air is a corner case. It's a niche machine for a niche market, and the same goes for Adamo. The regular MacBook is really what should be used as a comparison case against the rest of the market, I think that's Apple's most popular model too.
The comparisons are very difficult, but a problem is that Apple bundles features in ways that others generally don't. If the only thing you care about is a 17" notebook, you are going to find competitors at half the price, being slower machines with fewer features notwithstanding, but Apple has their 17" set as a professional machine and offers no consumer 17" notebook.
I recall that India, China and Japan have ongoing lunar orbiter missions right now, Japan having an HD feed to earth, I've heard there is a real-time satellite channel that retransmits that feed to any household that tunes to that channel. I can't say much for Russia, I don't recall much from them. Russia gets a lot of money from oil and gas, and the prices aren't what they were in the past couple years.
Hubble may have been a bit too successful, Hubble images have entered mainstream culture in a way few other big science projects have, that is going to be hard to follow. Webb may be a little more obscure given that it's infrared and peering deeper into space, but we'll see.
The problem is that it's mostly pixel peepers that benefit from more mpix. There are people that benefit, it looks like for most people, the benefit is more psychological. And if you're shooting for the web, you're throwing most of the information away. You need to print pretty large or crop pretty aggressively to get a significant benefit from extra pixels.
Olympus actually has some pretty good optics, though their noise certainly isn't where the 5DII is. Their sensor is pretty small, a 12mpix sensor is roughly equivalent to a 48mpix 35mm sensor in terms of pixel pitch. It's all kind of a trade-off, I crunch the numbers and replacing what I have for a full frame replacement of my camera & lenses with equivalent effective focal lengths is a lot more expensive, less portable and a lot heavier.
The only time I've had throttling be a problem is when I had the movie come on one day and turn around and mail it out on the next day for a sustained period of time. I was getting maybe 16 rentals for $16, which is quite a good deal, I think it takes a whiner to not see how good of a deal that was.
I agree, I don't think gopher would have become popular as just a text protocol. The internet might have stagnated waiting for multimedia to be shoehorned into gopher. People seem to like the pictures, movies, motion and all the other bling, preventing all that probably would have stunted the internet's popularity. If people didn't really want the pictures, they could just stick with lynx, and that really doesn't seem to be retaining any traction.
Sounds like a broken window fallacy to me. All those jobs might not have existed if it weren't for the criminal behavior, so I don't understand the idea of just letting it go.
I don't know what sort of problems that you dealt with, but I haven't had a problem writing DVDs that some people seem to.
But I too am not so concerned about how quickly data can be burned, I usually write at a rate a lot slower than the max the media is rated for. I haven't bought fancy high quality media, but I didn't buy any store brand media either. I haven't had anyone tell me that a disc I give them is unreadable.
I just tried a couple pieces of the oldest DVD writables that I could find, a six year old DVD+RW and five year old DVD-RW and their data is still 100% intact, without errors or rereads.
Probably like a person with a very broken business model, but that's just me.
Let's see you do better. The people that yap about broken business models generally aren't doing anything better, or anything at all. As far as I can tell, it's just hot air used to make excuses, I've never seen anyone that cite "broken business model" suggest a better alternative.
As it is, there is not much for a sustainable business model for video producers on the internet. The people that are really good might be able to support one family, if they're lucky, maybe two families, but even people with millions of views often make little or no money at all, even lose money because there's so little money to be made.
Also, Hulu's ads are played in the video. How are they being deprived of advertising revenue?
I don't think it's directly about the internet or software, but what it's replacing.
If Boxee is being used at the TV to replace the cable box or directly watching broadcast TV, then they lose a lot of ad revenue because online video ads don't pay a tenth as much per viewer as it does on TV or cable.
They're trying to straddle two worlds, the old broadcast model, which paid a lot better, but is weakening, and trying to transition to the internet model, the medium is strong but the money is very weak.
The point of lifting the ban is to allow research on real stem cells, to understand how development works and how early development diseases start. It's to understand deadly and debilitating diseases.
The anti-stem cell research crowd seem to conveniently leave out why real stem cells are desired, there are a set of properties that make embryonic stem cells a "gold standard". There are other ways to get stem cells, but apparently they don't actually behave the exact same way.
I think there is a misconception on both sides that embryos are going to be used to cure people, that's not really true, there might never be enough embryos made to treat everyone with the debilitating and deadly diseases, but the research coming out of it should help understand the diseases and cellular biology for better treatment, and to learn how to improve the other means of making stem cells.
There are now 8 planets in the UNIVERSE because they defined a planet as a body orbiting the sun. The definition sucks so I have no problem if states are defining a planet as something else than a small club of grey men(IAU).
You can say that it's "just a definition", but I don't see where it's the place of a legislature to make scientific definitions to scientists. Legislatures supposedly have better things to do. If they don't, they should recess until that changes.
The IAU definition of a planet is more extensive than that. Also, while I haven't read the IAU text, I doubt their definition means that there are only eight planets in the universe. The only thing I don't like about their definition is that their use of "dwarf" in "dwarf planet" basically means "not a planet", and I think that's inconsistent and improper use of the word.
eSATA is hardly necessary for the data rate needed to run a media server. Consumer media can be very easily streamed over a USB jack. FW800 gives you some opportunities as well, I think the limit for an eSATA port is five drives with a port multiplier, where Firewire 800 can be used to chain many more than that.
Do these programs even tell you in any plain manner that they are sharing the contents of the computer? I get the impression that they don't, that you have to know that it defaults to "open kimono mode" (i.e., it shares your entire computer) and specifically turn it off in the settings.
But I think it's a low bar to set to say that one "hand builds" something when it's just assembling six prefabricated components. By that standard, just about every computer is "hand built", it's just a matter of who did it and where.
So? Given that people seem to sue for anything and everything, being threatened with the loss of everything you own because you own some shares in a company is excessive, and that basically the end result from taking away from that protection. There is some amount of personal accountability, it is limited to the value of those shares and nothing more.
What are you going to do if the site was hosted out of state by a company with no physical assets in your state? Or on an overseas site, by an overseas company? Google doesn't discriminate based on location unless your search specifically requests it, but it is outside any legal jurisdiction you have access to? Are you going to go to Canada to press a case?
We don't need laws and we don't need this sort of thing presented as an excuse for socialism, we need people that aren't so stupid and recognize that things posted on the internet often aren't true.
The likes of an Apple, HP and such to start out making hardware out of a garage like these people do, seem to be diminishing. I don't know if any US garage company can build a custom phone from the circuits on up these days. Designing computers from circuits is probably too expensive of a job now for a garage company. Assuming they do it, the buyer is not going to be consumer, maybe commercial, industrial, government or military uses can justify the expense, but a garage company probably has too low of a profile to tap into those markets without some heavy hitting contacts.
I think another part of the problem is when engineers, mathematicians and so on graduate and work for the financial services industry. So they design the latest fad financial service rather than the latest fad electronic device.
At least electronic devices don't up end entire economies like intellectually bankrupt financial services apparently can.
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I'm surprised that IBM doesn't have their own edition of Linux, but it's probably a very complicated set of considerations that they must weigh.
I suspect that standard off the shelf grommets would work just fine. The dampeners don't need to be so fancy and the drive modules don't really seem to justify the cost, it's just that they were sold to a market that has more money than time. But thankfully, there are ever more chassis that will just accept bare drives.
Also, I have a couple 15k RPM drives screwed directly into an undamped metal cage in a workstation type computer and it hasn't caused me any trouble in the past few years. The ones I have actually operate better than a lot of 7.2k drives in terms of vibration.
Huh. The whining.
How about using sensible figures? It's hard to respect an opinion when they are backed up with the sloppy use of facts, or exaggeration.
For one, if a movie really sucks, why even download it? It's a paper-thin excuse to justify the activity. It's not hard to look at the rotten tomato score or a couple reviews to see that it's not worth the money or the bandwidth.
Most movies that I've seen for sale don't cost $30 at a typical store unless you're buying a special edition (fancy package, extra discs, bonus features, Blu-Ray) or it's selling into a really niche market. Lots of standard edition movies I've seen are available for $15-$20. And that's for a new release. Eventually, in maybe one to three years, most movies get down to $5-$7 a piece.
I really do want my car to be able to talk to my electric razor.
The parlor trick of 2025 will be to hack a car so when someone revs it, its signal will be rerouted to a neighbor's razor to suck their face off.
The problem is you're comparing two machines that most people wouldn't buy for the asking price. The MacBook Air is a corner case. It's a niche machine for a niche market, and the same goes for Adamo. The regular MacBook is really what should be used as a comparison case against the rest of the market, I think that's Apple's most popular model too.
The comparisons are very difficult, but a problem is that Apple bundles features in ways that others generally don't. If the only thing you care about is a 17" notebook, you are going to find competitors at half the price, being slower machines with fewer features notwithstanding, but Apple has their 17" set as a professional machine and offers no consumer 17" notebook.
I recall that India, China and Japan have ongoing lunar orbiter missions right now, Japan having an HD feed to earth, I've heard there is a real-time satellite channel that retransmits that feed to any household that tunes to that channel. I can't say much for Russia, I don't recall much from them. Russia gets a lot of money from oil and gas, and the prices aren't what they were in the past couple years.
Hubble may have been a bit too successful, Hubble images have entered mainstream culture in a way few other big science projects have, that is going to be hard to follow. Webb may be a little more obscure given that it's infrared and peering deeper into space, but we'll see.
The problem is that it's mostly pixel peepers that benefit from more mpix. There are people that benefit, it looks like for most people, the benefit is more psychological. And if you're shooting for the web, you're throwing most of the information away. You need to print pretty large or crop pretty aggressively to get a significant benefit from extra pixels.
Olympus actually has some pretty good optics, though their noise certainly isn't where the 5DII is. Their sensor is pretty small, a 12mpix sensor is roughly equivalent to a 48mpix 35mm sensor in terms of pixel pitch. It's all kind of a trade-off, I crunch the numbers and replacing what I have for a full frame replacement of my camera & lenses with equivalent effective focal lengths is a lot more expensive, less portable and a lot heavier.
The only time I've had throttling be a problem is when I had the movie come on one day and turn around and mail it out on the next day for a sustained period of time. I was getting maybe 16 rentals for $16, which is quite a good deal, I think it takes a whiner to not see how good of a deal that was.
I agree, I don't think gopher would have become popular as just a text protocol. The internet might have stagnated waiting for multimedia to be shoehorned into gopher. People seem to like the pictures, movies, motion and all the other bling, preventing all that probably would have stunted the internet's popularity. If people didn't really want the pictures, they could just stick with lynx, and that really doesn't seem to be retaining any traction.
That's why I use only the top notch dark matter to make my fries.
Sounds like a broken window fallacy to me. All those jobs might not have existed if it weren't for the criminal behavior, so I don't understand the idea of just letting it go.
I don't know what sort of problems that you dealt with, but I haven't had a problem writing DVDs that some people seem to.
But I too am not so concerned about how quickly data can be burned, I usually write at a rate a lot slower than the max the media is rated for. I haven't bought fancy high quality media, but I didn't buy any store brand media either. I haven't had anyone tell me that a disc I give them is unreadable.
I just tried a couple pieces of the oldest DVD writables that I could find, a six year old DVD+RW and five year old DVD-RW and their data is still 100% intact, without errors or rereads.
Probably like a person with a very broken business model, but that's just me.
Let's see you do better. The people that yap about broken business models generally aren't doing anything better, or anything at all. As far as I can tell, it's just hot air used to make excuses, I've never seen anyone that cite "broken business model" suggest a better alternative.
As it is, there is not much for a sustainable business model for video producers on the internet. The people that are really good might be able to support one family, if they're lucky, maybe two families, but even people with millions of views often make little or no money at all, even lose money because there's so little money to be made.
Also, Hulu's ads are played in the video. How are they being deprived of advertising revenue?
I don't think it's directly about the internet or software, but what it's replacing.
If Boxee is being used at the TV to replace the cable box or directly watching broadcast TV, then they lose a lot of ad revenue because online video ads don't pay a tenth as much per viewer as it does on TV or cable.
They're trying to straddle two worlds, the old broadcast model, which paid a lot better, but is weakening, and trying to transition to the internet model, the medium is strong but the money is very weak.
The point of lifting the ban is to allow research on real stem cells, to understand how development works and how early development diseases start. It's to understand deadly and debilitating diseases.
The anti-stem cell research crowd seem to conveniently leave out why real stem cells are desired, there are a set of properties that make embryonic stem cells a "gold standard". There are other ways to get stem cells, but apparently they don't actually behave the exact same way.
I think there is a misconception on both sides that embryos are going to be used to cure people, that's not really true, there might never be enough embryos made to treat everyone with the debilitating and deadly diseases, but the research coming out of it should help understand the diseases and cellular biology for better treatment, and to learn how to improve the other means of making stem cells.
There are now 8 planets in the UNIVERSE because they defined a planet as a body orbiting the sun. The definition sucks so I have no problem if states are defining a planet as something else than a small club of grey men(IAU).
You can say that it's "just a definition", but I don't see where it's the place of a legislature to make scientific definitions to scientists. Legislatures supposedly have better things to do. If they don't, they should recess until that changes.
The IAU definition of a planet is more extensive than that. Also, while I haven't read the IAU text, I doubt their definition means that there are only eight planets in the universe. The only thing I don't like about their definition is that their use of "dwarf" in "dwarf planet" basically means "not a planet", and I think that's inconsistent and improper use of the word.
eSATA is hardly necessary for the data rate needed to run a media server. Consumer media can be very easily streamed over a USB jack. FW800 gives you some opportunities as well, I think the limit for an eSATA port is five drives with a port multiplier, where Firewire 800 can be used to chain many more than that.
Do these programs even tell you in any plain manner that they are sharing the contents of the computer? I get the impression that they don't, that you have to know that it defaults to "open kimono mode" (i.e., it shares your entire computer) and specifically turn it off in the settings.
I know, I was pulling your chain, more or less.
But I think it's a low bar to set to say that one "hand builds" something when it's just assembling six prefabricated components. By that standard, just about every computer is "hand built", it's just a matter of who did it and where.
So? Given that people seem to sue for anything and everything, being threatened with the loss of everything you own because you own some shares in a company is excessive, and that basically the end result from taking away from that protection. There is some amount of personal accountability, it is limited to the value of those shares and nothing more.
If you had the skills to hand build a 3.2GHz CPU, I think you should be able to afford something more portable than a desk side furnace.
What are you going to do if the site was hosted out of state by a company with no physical assets in your state? Or on an overseas site, by an overseas company? Google doesn't discriminate based on location unless your search specifically requests it, but it is outside any legal jurisdiction you have access to? Are you going to go to Canada to press a case?
We don't need laws and we don't need this sort of thing presented as an excuse for socialism, we need people that aren't so stupid and recognize that things posted on the internet often aren't true.
The likes of an Apple, HP and such to start out making hardware out of a garage like these people do, seem to be diminishing. I don't know if any US garage company can build a custom phone from the circuits on up these days. Designing computers from circuits is probably too expensive of a job now for a garage company. Assuming they do it, the buyer is not going to be consumer, maybe commercial, industrial, government or military uses can justify the expense, but a garage company probably has too low of a profile to tap into those markets without some heavy hitting contacts.
I think another part of the problem is when engineers, mathematicians and so on graduate and work for the financial services industry. So they design the latest fad financial service rather than the latest fad electronic device.
At least electronic devices don't up end entire economies like intellectually bankrupt financial services apparently can.