Yeah, what I forgot to put in was inorganic fertilizers. I think it's the excessive nitrogen compounds in chemical fertilizers that are the big culprits in environmental problems.
There is validity to both points, it just depends on the use and the user.
I just retired a nine year old computer for my Dad, that said, it was a dual 500MHz Xeon/w 1GB RAM, that I bought for him several years ago. I only upgraded it to a new computer because my sister's workplace had $100 computers, pretty nice, 2.8GHz P4/w gigE, XP, nearly a gig of RAM.
My parents are still using a six year old notebook for web browsing, I have a 4-5 year old notebook just for that feature.
I think this makes the most sense. I haven't heard of anyone so paranoid so as to go cash-only since I've heard stories about my Grandpa after the Great Depression.
If the system doesn't allow the phone to ring, but accepts a voice message, then most of the time, it's not a problem. If "stranded grandma" has a phobia of leaving a voice messages, then she f**king needs to get over it.
If the results are truly so open, that makes me wonder why they don't want journalists. The stated reason quoted from the chairman doesn't really seem to cover it well enough.
It's just a shame that the right decision comes down on the side of the spammer.
I think it's a dumb snake-oil product with a dumb ad campaign, but "spammer" is not the correct word to use as far as I know. Spam is not used to describe TV ads that help pay for what you are watching. The OED's definition is about bulk messaging over the Internet.
The studios, on the other hand, might be totally different animals!
Well, maybe Moore has already got his money out of the movie once his movie was "picked up". The movie distributor certainly hasn't, even though they've invested a lot of marketing and film distribution (IIRC, film prints cost ~$50,000+ for each screen.
There are indeed significant and very difficult limitations that need to be surmounted. Maybe not technically impossible, but very difficult. Then there is the cost, which would be politically very difficult.
Should an interstellar transport system be needed due to a catastrophe, I wonder if it could be built by the time it is needed.
One big one is that the Earth has its magnetic field and the Sun's magnetic field to protect us from the majority of cosmic rays. Even leaving the Earth's field significantly increases exposure. How do we protect against cosmic ray damage while in the interstellar void?
The school I went to had A through D and then F. Get a D as a course grade, and you generally had to retake the course and get a C or higher to have it count towards a degree. Just showing up to class and taking all the tests isn't enough to pass the class.
The testing for iPhone isn't quite right, if they need to test the iPhone-specific AJAX calls. It does remove one excuse for not testing for Safari, Windows-centric shops can test against Firefox because it's available for Windows, Safari was not.
Rumor is that Apple gets $2M a month for search engine referrals with the box in the upper right corner. Assume they double it, that's another $24M a year, something that should more than pay off the development quite handily.
Typically grading the test is just the matter of summing up right answers (perhaps with partial credit) and then chopping the distribution into three parts As, Bs and Cs.
Is this an example of the places too sissy to hand out a failing grade for crap?
The Science Friday radio show had a hurricane center prediction rep on the show, and he basically owned up to it. He did say that 15 out of 16 of the annual predictions turned out to underpredict the hurricanes. It turned out that they missed the El Nino, which has the effect of chopping off the upper part of the hurricane storm, weakening them and reducing their likelihood of formation.
I don't watch the news channels but every time a weather scientist, geologist, biologist or glaciologist is on Science Friday, they are quick to say that it's hard to discern exactly how much of an effect that global warming had on a specific situation vs. normal cyclical weather.
I don't think that broadcast TV is over. The radio was supposed to kill the newspaper, TV was supposed to kill radio, and the Internet was supposed to kill everything else, and personal audio players was supposed to kill radio too. The problem is that all four media types are still around, even though the first three are down a little, I think that's happened several times when a new media entered the public consciousness. Other than in the case of gimmicks, I don't think the succeeding medium had completely killed off the previous medium.
I think the DVR does reduce the necessity for prime time shows. It doesn't matter to me if the show airs at 3am, I will just see it the next evening, and I can watch it when I want to and in what order I like.
It's kind of silly. Outside of the premium channels, I don't think any money of consequence goes to the networks that operate the channels. Non-premium channels get most of their money from the ads.
It's kind of funny about F/X too, it's not offered to C-band customers *because* Murdoch doesn't like the fact that analog C-band customers were able to buy just the channels that they want. The VideoCipher system allows subscribers to buy authorizations to packages, selected channels or packages plus selected channels.
I think this is a classic argument by someone distracted by specs without actually getting concerned with real world differences or really going through the numbers.
You've been saying that a lot, but basically, an x16 slot is not going to net twice the graphics performance as the same card in an x8 slot. The benchmarks I've seen show about a 2% difference, which few people would notice.
I suspect that the same would be true about your other other points. A single PCIe lane has the bandwidth to handle five drives without choking, so your RAID comment isn't of much merit. One doesn't benefit from having two high end video cards for video editing work. So there's still 7 lanes left after dealing with RAID and video cards. Add five more drives (for a total of ten), take away a lane, leaving 6 left. Take two lanes away for HD-SDI IO, and for grins, take another one for HDMI IO (like with BlackMagic's Intensity card), and you still have three lanes left. And this hasn't even figured in the 6 SATA ports that the 5000X chipset has built-in, which bypasses the PCIe system.
This system that I just outlined would be a killer video editing system, allowing two 30" monitors, one HDTV video monitor, sixteen drives and more video I/O options than you would know what to do with.
Keep in mind that the "V8" is an eight-core system (or quad-dual core system). It looks like the AMD QuadFX is still "just" a dual dual core system.
Also, this is a very extreme system, and like quad-SLI, is probably only for those that are willing to throw money away to no extra benefit to almost all home users. Anyone that truly needs the power should just get a workstation system instead, that way, you don't get the pimp-style marketing rubbish, and probably get a cheaper system too.
Just as you complain that the chip makers aren't concerned with your problems, you don't even pretend to understand their problems. Their problem is that the number of transistors you fit on a chip is doubling every year and a half, and they have to do SOMETHING with those transistors. There is only so much you can use transistors to make a chip faster before you've long passed anything resembling a cost/benefit ratio.
Maybe if Intel and AMD weren't so concerned with power consumption, they would release 5GHz chips, but they wouldn't be practical.
Do you really have an HDTV, or do you just have a 480p TV? DVDs do generally look nice, but even on an XGA screen, HD-DVD is noticeably nicer, much nicer on higher resolution screens. On something that's 1080p, there is simply no contest, it's not worth passing over the HD discs.
I'm in the market for an HD player because of how nice the 1080p trailers look when I play them through my HTPC, basically looks like a film projection, but without the drawbacks of film projection.
I personally would expect to see $100 HD players in the fall of 2008.
People willing to pay $500-$600 for a game system are probably not the same market segment as those willing to spend the same on a phone. There is probably some overlap between the two markets, but you would need to suggest that the two products target the same market, but that's probably not true.
I really don't think the fact that $600 video cards exist mean anything about whether a console at that price will be viable. Historically, consoles at that price generally did not succeed.
BTW: I am considering a PS3 but I haven't made the decision just yet.
That's quite true, basically, it's a political problem. The likes of Ralph Nader have greatly exaggerated the danger that plutonium poses, and that's a major roadblock. Even though RTGs have been determined to be able to survive something like the Challenger explosion intact without loss of containment, people still don't even like launching them for a deep space mission.
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Yeah, what I forgot to put in was inorganic fertilizers. I think it's the excessive nitrogen compounds in chemical fertilizers that are the big culprits in environmental problems.
Comparing your chemical-fed and chemical-protected family farm to a closed-system all-organic greenhouse on cost of structure alone isn't really fair.
The person you replied to didn't mention fertilizers, so why are you assuming said person is using them? Your argument sounds very strawman-y to me.
There is validity to both points, it just depends on the use and the user.
/w 1GB RAM, that I bought for him several years ago. I only upgraded it to a new computer because my sister's workplace had $100 computers, pretty nice, 2.8GHz P4 /w gigE, XP, nearly a gig of RAM.
I just retired a nine year old computer for my Dad, that said, it was a dual 500MHz Xeon
My parents are still using a six year old notebook for web browsing, I have a 4-5 year old notebook just for that feature.
Sorry, people said many of the same things when XP came out.
I think this makes the most sense. I haven't heard of anyone so paranoid so as to go cash-only since I've heard stories about my Grandpa after the Great Depression.
If the system doesn't allow the phone to ring, but accepts a voice message, then most of the time, it's not a problem. If "stranded grandma" has a phobia of leaving a voice messages, then she f**king needs to get over it.
Are they honestly crying in public because a competitor wants to... compete with them?
There's competing, and then there is the hubris or desire to extinguish the competition totally.
Yes, because a third slice saying "other" is so confusing.
If the results are truly so open, that makes me wonder why they don't want journalists. The stated reason quoted from the chairman doesn't really seem to cover it well enough.
The article quotes the chairman as saying that reporters would have been turned away anyway.
It's just a shame that the right decision comes down on the side of the spammer.
I think it's a dumb snake-oil product with a dumb ad campaign, but "spammer" is not the correct word to use as far as I know. Spam is not used to describe TV ads that help pay for what you are watching. The OED's definition is about bulk messaging over the Internet.
The studios, on the other hand, might be totally different animals!
Well, maybe Moore has already got his money out of the movie once his movie was "picked up". The movie distributor certainly hasn't, even though they've invested a lot of marketing and film distribution (IIRC, film prints cost ~$50,000+ for each screen.
There are indeed significant and very difficult limitations that need to be surmounted. Maybe not technically impossible, but very difficult. Then there is the cost, which would be politically very difficult.
Should an interstellar transport system be needed due to a catastrophe, I wonder if it could be built by the time it is needed.
One big one is that the Earth has its magnetic field and the Sun's magnetic field to protect us from the majority of cosmic rays. Even leaving the Earth's field significantly increases exposure. How do we protect against cosmic ray damage while in the interstellar void?
The school I went to had A through D and then F. Get a D as a course grade, and you generally had to retake the course and get a C or higher to have it count towards a degree. Just showing up to class and taking all the tests isn't enough to pass the class.
The testing for iPhone isn't quite right, if they need to test the iPhone-specific AJAX calls. It does remove one excuse for not testing for Safari, Windows-centric shops can test against Firefox because it's available for Windows, Safari was not.
Rumor is that Apple gets $2M a month for search engine referrals with the box in the upper right corner. Assume they double it, that's another $24M a year, something that should more than pay off the development quite handily.
Typically grading the test is just the matter of summing up right answers (perhaps with partial credit) and then chopping the distribution into three parts As, Bs and Cs.
Is this an example of the places too sissy to hand out a failing grade for crap?
The Science Friday radio show had a hurricane center prediction rep on the show, and he basically owned up to it. He did say that 15 out of 16 of the annual predictions turned out to underpredict the hurricanes. It turned out that they missed the El Nino, which has the effect of chopping off the upper part of the hurricane storm, weakening them and reducing their likelihood of formation.
I don't watch the news channels but every time a weather scientist, geologist, biologist or glaciologist is on Science Friday, they are quick to say that it's hard to discern exactly how much of an effect that global warming had on a specific situation vs. normal cyclical weather.
I don't think that broadcast TV is over. The radio was supposed to kill the newspaper, TV was supposed to kill radio, and the Internet was supposed to kill everything else, and personal audio players was supposed to kill radio too. The problem is that all four media types are still around, even though the first three are down a little, I think that's happened several times when a new media entered the public consciousness. Other than in the case of gimmicks, I don't think the succeeding medium had completely killed off the previous medium.
I think the DVR does reduce the necessity for prime time shows. It doesn't matter to me if the show airs at 3am, I will just see it the next evening, and I can watch it when I want to and in what order I like.
It's kind of silly. Outside of the premium channels, I don't think any money of consequence goes to the networks that operate the channels. Non-premium channels get most of their money from the ads.
It's kind of funny about F/X too, it's not offered to C-band customers *because* Murdoch doesn't like the fact that analog C-band customers were able to buy just the channels that they want. The VideoCipher system allows subscribers to buy authorizations to packages, selected channels or packages plus selected channels.
I think this is a classic argument by someone distracted by specs without actually getting concerned with real world differences or really going through the numbers.
You've been saying that a lot, but basically, an x16 slot is not going to net twice the graphics performance as the same card in an x8 slot. The benchmarks I've seen show about a 2% difference, which few people would notice.
I suspect that the same would be true about your other other points. A single PCIe lane has the bandwidth to handle five drives without choking, so your RAID comment isn't of much merit. One doesn't benefit from having two high end video cards for video editing work. So there's still 7 lanes left after dealing with RAID and video cards. Add five more drives (for a total of ten), take away a lane, leaving 6 left. Take two lanes away for HD-SDI IO, and for grins, take another one for HDMI IO (like with BlackMagic's Intensity card), and you still have three lanes left. And this hasn't even figured in the 6 SATA ports that the 5000X chipset has built-in, which bypasses the PCIe system.
This system that I just outlined would be a killer video editing system, allowing two 30" monitors, one HDTV video monitor, sixteen drives and more video I/O options than you would know what to do with.
Keep in mind that the "V8" is an eight-core system (or quad-dual core system). It looks like the AMD QuadFX is still "just" a dual dual core system.
Also, this is a very extreme system, and like quad-SLI, is probably only for those that are willing to throw money away to no extra benefit to almost all home users. Anyone that truly needs the power should just get a workstation system instead, that way, you don't get the pimp-style marketing rubbish, and probably get a cheaper system too.
Just as you complain that the chip makers aren't concerned with your problems, you don't even pretend to understand their problems. Their problem is that the number of transistors you fit on a chip is doubling every year and a half, and they have to do SOMETHING with those transistors. There is only so much you can use transistors to make a chip faster before you've long passed anything resembling a cost/benefit ratio.
Maybe if Intel and AMD weren't so concerned with power consumption, they would release 5GHz chips, but they wouldn't be practical.
Do you really have an HDTV, or do you just have a 480p TV? DVDs do generally look nice, but even on an XGA screen, HD-DVD is noticeably nicer, much nicer on higher resolution screens. On something that's 1080p, there is simply no contest, it's not worth passing over the HD discs.
I'm in the market for an HD player because of how nice the 1080p trailers look when I play them through my HTPC, basically looks like a film projection, but without the drawbacks of film projection.
I personally would expect to see $100 HD players in the fall of 2008.
People willing to pay $500-$600 for a game system are probably not the same market segment as those willing to spend the same on a phone. There is probably some overlap between the two markets, but you would need to suggest that the two products target the same market, but that's probably not true.
I really don't think the fact that $600 video cards exist mean anything about whether a console at that price will be viable. Historically, consoles at that price generally did not succeed.
BTW: I am considering a PS3 but I haven't made the decision just yet.
That's quite true, basically, it's a political problem. The likes of Ralph Nader have greatly exaggerated the danger that plutonium poses, and that's a major roadblock. Even though RTGs have been determined to be able to survive something like the Challenger explosion intact without loss of containment, people still don't even like launching them for a deep space mission.