I'd say let the early adopters go for it. It is usually the early adopters that help pay for the lion's share of the development anyway. A year from now, the same performance will be had for less than half, and there should be several games that can play it.
The Blu-Ray drive and the controller are the only things in the system you won't really use, at least much. The rest of the system is a computer, even if it is an unusual architecture. I don't know if the system can install an OS over a USB drive or CF card vs. optical disc, I've never tried to install Linux.
I'd say it's a very powerful computer for $400, assuming you can program for it.
The problem with a poster child is that it's cherry picked to promote a certain agenda and often not an accurate view, though it may be in this case.
The automaker's problems are much broader in scope than the UAW. Heck, the UAW might not even exist if the companies weren't such big pricks earlier in the last century. The same with state franchise laws. The big three abused their dealership franchisees during the '30s depression, dealerships got franchise laws passed and now GM at al. can't drop a brand without paying out billions of dollars.
Can I get anything to show all photos with my wife in them that I've rated four or above?
Another problem is that you have to have it tagged, if you don't tag all the images with a given person in it, then it's not going to show up in a search.
I think that's also an issue with Semantic web too, not only do items have to be tagged, the tags have to be accurate and trustworthy. It sounds like a nice system that can be undone by a bunch of tag spamming bozos. It will work better under a controlled environment.
The best quality technology doesn't always win. The difference here is that USB 3 will be supported natively by the chipset, FW3200 is most likely going to require a separate host controller chip. That difference will greatly hinder adoption for FW3200. The Firewire standard doesn't readily support human interface devices, whereas it's standardized in USB.
The other major problem is that eSATA is eating away at Firewire's biggest claim to fame. Camcorders are slowly losing Firewire as a required interface, not many people use FW audio interfaces or other media uses, and fast external hard drives are usually much better off using eSATA. With eSATA, it can generally be hot-plugged, and it can be used with a port multiplier, five drives per port without the potential issues of a daisy chain. eSATA is already capable of 3Gbps.
eSATA can also be a native drive to chipset interface, where Firewire is often a chain of connections: PCI(e) to FW to (S)ATA. As such, I expect that the market will increasingly marginalize Firewire, leaving USB 3 for the low end, eSATA for high end drives, and Firewire only remains for certain media creation & capture tasks and other niche needs.
The other down side is that eSATA ports can't power drives as far as I've seen, and I think the limit is five drives per port. That's still not a bad limit given that an inexpensive four port add-in card gets you up to 20 drives connected using their native connections. Add too many drives to a single port and you're going to be limiting performance anyway.
I thought naturally made diamonds always had flaws, the idea is to have the fewest and smallest flaws, so I suppose someone one of those techniques could increase the value of a natural diamonds by reducing them, but not eliminating them.
Speed, heat and power consumption are nifty talking points for those hyping SSDs, but SSDs aren't always very fast, and for the most part, the heat and power consumption savings are usually less significant than people assume.
I think Amdahl had a rule where you try to apply your resources to reduce the most significant piece of the puzzle, and in most notebooks, that's the CPU. Conventional notebook computers have a max consumption of 25-35W, notebook hard drives max out at about 3W. Even if SSDs were zero, your battery life in that situation might extend by 9%, not factoring in other parts of the computer, maybe reducing that figure to 6%. But SSDs do consume power, the charts I looked at was 30-40% savings, so a 3% savings might be a generous estimate. Things are a different with netbooks, because they usually do use much lower power CPUs.
ATI's latest cards give more punch for the cost apiece. and they are designed specifically for being clustered/linked/xfired and whatnot.
I thought the nV Teslas were designed for HPC.
Performance going up, cost going down happens so quickly something like that can easily happen between the time it's ordered and the time it's installed.
You're right, WinModems don't have DSPs. I don't know about printers without rasterizing engines being junky, some may be. I haven't heard much about this issue lately. Frankly, I don't know if some of my printers have them or not. I know I have one that supports PCL 6, but it was a high end business printer when it was new. DSPs can be a bit expensive, so it can make some printer tech more affordable. I think the main objection now might be that they didn't support a printing standard, so there was often no Linux support.
I think the problem is that "if it's free, there has to be a catch" is a hard-won adage, with many people learning for themselves why it was true, and it takes time and education to put them in proper perspective with the way free software is done.
There are free-as-in-cost AV programs, the way to think about it is the home use license is considered the "promotional" version, if you want more features or if it's for organizational use (business, gov, non-profit), then there is a fee.
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I don't think bot nets physically destroy things directly, but they still can cost a lot of money as more and more of our economies depend on the internet.
I think it may be possible to take small countries off the internet, which can be quite damaging. I thought this happened with Estonia, but the details I find are a little sketchy.
I can't help but think maybe your impression of engineering is a little off.
The practice of computer science / development and various fields of engineering are very similar in many ways.
There is or can be an art or even zen to engineering work too. There is plenty of room for creativity that the stereotype or public impression doesn't even hint at.
OK, so you're saying that government isn't going to protect us, so the answer is to demand that financial institutions be held accountable to laws passed by a government that you said won't protect us?
Does it take a lot more work to vacate a default judgment vs having been there to make the defense in the first place? Does it double the hours? More? Less?
And to those of you who think that it's okay to bring suits against helpless people, I repeat what I've said to you before; that is not a legal question, it's a moral question.
I agree with you.
The fact that the RIAA and its legal team are dirty rotten scumbags isn't really news.
You say it's a moral question, but the crux of the problem is that there are still legal questions here. Now that she's in this legal fix, what is her recourse? Is there an effective legal defense that that would help her?
its WAY STUPID to be complaining about a 4 k text file request creating any kind of load on a server.
I think it's WAY STUPID to misunderstand what I said and call me stupid based on your misunderstanding of what I said.
I'm not saying anyone complaining about Google hitting robots.txt. It wasn't just about that, it was about Google grabbing a real page somewhere on the site, every two seconds. Some pages on sites really are intensive to generate, it's good to crawl and have it available, but not every two seconds. Once a day should have been fine.
I was also saying that the suggested complete blocking was undesirable, an all-or-nothing approach, such as your deny all suggestion is not an intelligent answer to the problem.
I don't see a way to use robots.txt to limit the number of crawler hits per interval other than just denying it. So you can block it, but that's undesirable if you want people to find it. It's also undesirable to have a robot hit your site every two seconds if ShieldW0lf is saying the truth, but robots.txt only address it in a simplistic allow / disallow.
I don't know if it's so simple. Stuff like that does protect the smaller retailers from big B&Ms and online stores. Online stores don't have nearly as many expenses and big B&Ms tend to cut costs by just hiring much cheaper, less skilled and largely ignorant workers. In that particular market (hobby model stuff), the small shop tends to have people that know what they are selling, know how to help the customer and have a bigger variety of kits, supplies & equipment. Online, you do get variety, but then there's the issue of time for delivery unless you pay a lot for next day. I am personally getting more and more resigned to having to order things in.
But I see your argument too, I don't really like any entity having undue power over other entities, but that means I should also bring up the government's power to cancel provisions in private contracts because certain groups of lobbyists don't like what's in the contract. Which I think is a more serious issue than the others, and shouldn't be taken lightly. Laws are not very easy to overturn, if a law should have undesirable consequences, there's a good delay and maybe a big fight to overturn it. That part's not so easy, is it?
Dell and HP are selling a lot of hardware. That's not the problem, though they might be selling fewer units, or with very little growth. It's the margins on that hardware is where they are taking a beating.
WiFi isn't a very good technology to use for a city wide mesh anyway. I'm sure it can be done, but number of failed citywide WiFi networks vs. the few that are said to be effective reinforces my opinion on this. It looks to me that by and large, the people that set them up didn't understand and compensate for the weaknesses of such a network.
I don't know about you, but it looks like Tesla is trying to push the costs down. Yes, right now, they are making a pretty pricey car. They next project will be a sedan which they're looking to charge half the price, which puts it in reach of a lot more people. If they can get a loan to push the development more quickly, I'd say they are at least as deserving as the incumbent carmakers. Hopefully the production scale-up will allow for more innovation in battery research, mostly in cheaper high capacity batteries.
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I'd say let the early adopters go for it. It is usually the early adopters that help pay for the lion's share of the development anyway. A year from now, the same performance will be had for less than half, and there should be several games that can play it.
The Blu-Ray drive and the controller are the only things in the system you won't really use, at least much. The rest of the system is a computer, even if it is an unusual architecture. I don't know if the system can install an OS over a USB drive or CF card vs. optical disc, I've never tried to install Linux.
I'd say it's a very powerful computer for $400, assuming you can program for it.
The problem with a poster child is that it's cherry picked to promote a certain agenda and often not an accurate view, though it may be in this case.
The automaker's problems are much broader in scope than the UAW. Heck, the UAW might not even exist if the companies weren't such big pricks earlier in the last century. The same with state franchise laws. The big three abused their dealership franchisees during the '30s depression, dealerships got franchise laws passed and now GM at al. can't drop a brand without paying out billions of dollars.
Can I get anything to show all photos with my wife in them that I've rated four or above?
Another problem is that you have to have it tagged, if you don't tag all the images with a given person in it, then it's not going to show up in a search.
I think that's also an issue with Semantic web too, not only do items have to be tagged, the tags have to be accurate and trustworthy. It sounds like a nice system that can be undone by a bunch of tag spamming bozos. It will work better under a controlled environment.
Doesn't the current Napster service already do that, at a price only slightly higher than that?
The best quality technology doesn't always win. The difference here is that USB 3 will be supported natively by the chipset, FW3200 is most likely going to require a separate host controller chip. That difference will greatly hinder adoption for FW3200. The Firewire standard doesn't readily support human interface devices, whereas it's standardized in USB.
The other major problem is that eSATA is eating away at Firewire's biggest claim to fame. Camcorders are slowly losing Firewire as a required interface, not many people use FW audio interfaces or other media uses, and fast external hard drives are usually much better off using eSATA. With eSATA, it can generally be hot-plugged, and it can be used with a port multiplier, five drives per port without the potential issues of a daisy chain. eSATA is already capable of 3Gbps.
eSATA can also be a native drive to chipset interface, where Firewire is often a chain of connections: PCI(e) to FW to (S)ATA. As such, I expect that the market will increasingly marginalize Firewire, leaving USB 3 for the low end, eSATA for high end drives, and Firewire only remains for certain media creation & capture tasks and other niche needs.
The other down side is that eSATA ports can't power drives as far as I've seen, and I think the limit is five drives per port. That's still not a bad limit given that an inexpensive four port add-in card gets you up to 20 drives connected using their native connections. Add too many drives to a single port and you're going to be limiting performance anyway.
I thought naturally made diamonds always had flaws, the idea is to have the fewest and smallest flaws, so I suppose someone one of those techniques could increase the value of a natural diamonds by reducing them, but not eliminating them.
Oh well.
Speed, heat and power consumption are nifty talking points for those hyping SSDs, but SSDs aren't always very fast, and for the most part, the heat and power consumption savings are usually less significant than people assume.
I think Amdahl had a rule where you try to apply your resources to reduce the most significant piece of the puzzle, and in most notebooks, that's the CPU. Conventional notebook computers have a max consumption of 25-35W, notebook hard drives max out at about 3W. Even if SSDs were zero, your battery life in that situation might extend by 9%, not factoring in other parts of the computer, maybe reducing that figure to 6%. But SSDs do consume power, the charts I looked at was 30-40% savings, so a 3% savings might be a generous estimate. Things are a different with netbooks, because they usually do use much lower power CPUs.
Just an aside, I think you should leave monospaced fonts on MySpace.
ATI's latest cards give more punch for the cost apiece. and they are designed specifically for being clustered/linked/xfired and whatnot.
I thought the nV Teslas were designed for HPC.
Performance going up, cost going down happens so quickly something like that can easily happen between the time it's ordered and the time it's installed.
You're right, WinModems don't have DSPs. I don't know about printers without rasterizing engines being junky, some may be. I haven't heard much about this issue lately. Frankly, I don't know if some of my printers have them or not. I know I have one that supports PCL 6, but it was a high end business printer when it was new. DSPs can be a bit expensive, so it can make some printer tech more affordable. I think the main objection now might be that they didn't support a printing standard, so there was often no Linux support.
I think the problem is that "if it's free, there has to be a catch" is a hard-won adage, with many people learning for themselves why it was true, and it takes time and education to put them in proper perspective with the way free software is done.
There are free-as-in-cost AV programs, the way to think about it is the home use license is considered the "promotional" version, if you want more features or if it's for organizational use (business, gov, non-profit), then there is a fee.
I don't think bot nets physically destroy things directly, but they still can cost a lot of money as more and more of our economies depend on the internet.
I think it may be possible to take small countries off the internet, which can be quite damaging. I thought this happened with Estonia, but the details I find are a little sketchy.
I can't help but think maybe your impression of engineering is a little off.
The practice of computer science / development and various fields of engineering are very similar in many ways.
There is or can be an art or even zen to engineering work too. There is plenty of room for creativity that the stereotype or public impression doesn't even hint at.
OK, so you're saying that government isn't going to protect us, so the answer is to demand that financial institutions be held accountable to laws passed by a government that you said won't protect us?
Does it take a lot more work to vacate a default judgment vs having been there to make the defense in the first place? Does it double the hours? More? Less?
And to those of you who think that it's okay to bring suits against helpless people, I repeat what I've said to you before; that is not a legal question, it's a moral question.
I agree with you.
The fact that the RIAA and its legal team are dirty rotten scumbags isn't really news.
You say it's a moral question, but the crux of the problem is that there are still legal questions here. Now that she's in this legal fix, what is her recourse? Is there an effective legal defense that that would help her?
I don't, I was going from what ShieldW0lf said happened with his(?) site.
its WAY STUPID to be complaining about a 4 k text file request creating any kind of load on a server.
I think it's WAY STUPID to misunderstand what I said and call me stupid based on your misunderstanding of what I said.
I'm not saying anyone complaining about Google hitting robots.txt. It wasn't just about that, it was about Google grabbing a real page somewhere on the site, every two seconds. Some pages on sites really are intensive to generate, it's good to crawl and have it available, but not every two seconds. Once a day should have been fine.
I was also saying that the suggested complete blocking was undesirable, an all-or-nothing approach, such as your deny all suggestion is not an intelligent answer to the problem.
You so totally misunderstood my post.
You're proposong all-or-nothing, I asked for something in between. Was it really that hard to understand?
I don't see a way to use robots.txt to limit the number of crawler hits per interval other than just denying it. So you can block it, but that's undesirable if you want people to find it. It's also undesirable to have a robot hit your site every two seconds if ShieldW0lf is saying the truth, but robots.txt only address it in a simplistic allow / disallow.
I don't know if it's so simple. Stuff like that does protect the smaller retailers from big B&Ms and online stores. Online stores don't have nearly as many expenses and big B&Ms tend to cut costs by just hiring much cheaper, less skilled and largely ignorant workers. In that particular market (hobby model stuff), the small shop tends to have people that know what they are selling, know how to help the customer and have a bigger variety of kits, supplies & equipment. Online, you do get variety, but then there's the issue of time for delivery unless you pay a lot for next day. I am personally getting more and more resigned to having to order things in.
But I see your argument too, I don't really like any entity having undue power over other entities, but that means I should also bring up the government's power to cancel provisions in private contracts because certain groups of lobbyists don't like what's in the contract. Which I think is a more serious issue than the others, and shouldn't be taken lightly. Laws are not very easy to overturn, if a law should have undesirable consequences, there's a good delay and maybe a big fight to overturn it. That part's not so easy, is it?
Dell and HP are selling a lot of hardware. That's not the problem, though they might be selling fewer units, or with very little growth. It's the margins on that hardware is where they are taking a beating.
WiFi isn't a very good technology to use for a city wide mesh anyway. I'm sure it can be done, but number of failed citywide WiFi networks vs. the few that are said to be effective reinforces my opinion on this. It looks to me that by and large, the people that set them up didn't understand and compensate for the weaknesses of such a network.
I don't know about you, but it looks like Tesla is trying to push the costs down. Yes, right now, they are making a pretty pricey car. They next project will be a sedan which they're looking to charge half the price, which puts it in reach of a lot more people. If they can get a loan to push the development more quickly, I'd say they are at least as deserving as the incumbent carmakers. Hopefully the production scale-up will allow for more innovation in battery research, mostly in cheaper high capacity batteries.