That's only true if you have a limited budget. Ideally, your office or household would have a panopoly of computers, sharing data, and you would just pick up the computer that fits your needs at the time? Do I need a keyboard?A large monitor? Something that can be used in one hand.. etc..
I mean, suppose you want to read a novel. If it's a sunny day, and glare is a problem, you pick the kindle.If you want color, you pick a tablet--eg. the retina ipad.
The problem is that we sell rights to monopolize spectrum. It's time to let everyone compete. If you want to put up a few cell phone towers, have at it.
If you want to use an ipad, all you need do is pick it. If you need a stylus-- well, those tend to get lost. Like remote controls, they can disappear between couch cushions.
As for the web being entertaining-- that's really a judgement call. Now, people can waste a lot of time on the web, so a device that lets you waste even more time, more comfortably, is a easy sale.
Perhaps the iPad is best understood as a recreational device, not as a device that lets you get more work done. To a certain extent, it's this generation's portable DVD player,or portable TV.
The PC community needs a killer app-- something that needs the brawn of a full scale CPU and graphics card, yet is so sensitive to latency that the thin client server model can't work. I Know! Gaming! Zynga should talk to Crytek about making a killer farming game
The iPad Retina display makes things prettier, and possibly easier to read. It's nice enough that the iPad 2 looks crude by comparison. But my 1080*1920 22" display is far more useful than my ipad's 10 inch display-- because I can display multiple windows, and (with a mouse) interact with hundreds of very small widgets. The ipad's useful resolution is determined by the size of my fingers.
The iPad 10" is great for carrying around the house, but I feel like I need a bag, or a shoulder strap to carry it outside. I'd love something that I can put in a jacket pocket. I tried the iPhone, at the store-- it feels cramped.
My own personal experience is that the iPad is a reasonably portable version of the web. Yes, it can do other things
It's is great for reading scientific papers in pdf form the kindle app is pretty good if you don't want e-ink And, of course, there's internet videos, except from the wankers who believe that "mobile video" should be subject to it's own special set of restrictions But Safari is excellent. If the iPad didn't have an internet browser (and couldn't run an internet browser) it wouldn't be useful.
These 486 tablets you speak of: Were they lightweight?-- two pounds will do. Could they run a internet browser? Was the web that entertaining at the time? Did they require a stylus?
It'll be just like your stereo, or your tv. Everthing a mass of cables running in and out of a single receiver, which you haven't needed to upgrade since 1965. HDMI is for suckers, and surround sound is a mere fad. 525 lines of resolution is all that's needed,
In elementary school in Connecticut, we had commodore 64s and messed about with logo. The high school's computer lab had Franklin ACE clones. My family had an Apple IIe.
In middle school (in VirginiaI programmed basic on an Atari --might have been an 800, did word processing stuff on Apple IIe s. In High school, we did desktop publishing with a few mac pluses, and a SE. I didn't go to the school with the "supercomputer".
The library of Congress specializes in certain things.In many areas, they're no better than a college library
Instructional Support level: A collection that in a university is adequate to support undergraduate and most graduate instruction, or sustained independent study; that is, adequate to maintain knowledge of a subject required for limited or generalized purposes, of less than research intensity
In some areas, they are truly awesome:
Comprehensive Level: A collection which, so far as is reasonably possible, includes all significant works of recorded knowledge (publications, manuscripts, and other forms), in all applicable languages, for a necessarily defined and limited field. This level of collecting intensity is one that maintains a " special collection." The aim, if not achievement, is exhaustiveness.
Even Toqueville's definition is at odds with the contemporary Democratic thought, though both would probably admire a broad middle class society.
Politics is too complex to be controlled by one sentence definitions. After all, the fundamental break between a liberal and a conservative is that the liberal believes that we should aim for a "a government of laws, not of men" and a conservative tends to believe that such an aim is not only impossible, but counter productive as well. This is philosophy, not lexicography.
Our portfolios for Scenarios A and B do not include the Nicholas U. Mayall, Wisconsin-Indiana-Yale-NOAO (WIYN), and 2.1-meter telescopes at Kitt Peak National Observatory, the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, the Very Long Baseline Array, nor the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope. We recommend that AST divest from these facilities before FY17.
Scenarios A and B are as follows:
This Portfolio Review Committee was convened to recommend AST portfolios best suited to achieving the decadal survey goals under two budget scenarios: (A) AST purchasing power drops to 90% of FY11 levels, then rises to 106% of FY11 by FY22, and (B) AST purchasing power drops to 80% of FY11 levels by mid-decade, and remains flat through FY22. By FY22, the projected AST budget is only 65% in Scenario A and 50% in Scenario B of the budget NWNH assumed in recommending an AST portfolio. Indeed the AST budget is already $45M short of NWNH projections for FY12. This presents a considerable challenge in implementing the strong NWNH recommendations for both new facilities and for maintaining the strength of the grants programs. AST must find the proper balance between current facilities and new endeavors, between large projects and small grants, and between risk and reward. It must continue to invest in the training of a highly skilled and creative workforce.
So to get the GBT back on line would require that austerity be fucked long and hard.
There are 24 hours in a day. If you consume a million watts continuously for nonproductive purposes you can waste 24,000 kWH of electricity. If each kWH costs you 3.5 cents, you can waste 840 dollars per day of electricity. If your contract requires you to use $70,000 dollars worth of electricity by the end of the year,or face a more expensive penalty, you can save money by running those heaters continuously for 83 straight days. But the deadline is in only 14 days! What to do? Easy. Just increase the wastage to 6 million watts.
The logistics of this little operation sound impressive.
That is when Microsoft threatened to waste tremendous amounts of power by simply running giant heaters for no purpose, according to utility officials who said they were briefed on the matter by Microsoft, unless the penalty was largely forgiven. The idea was to burn the power fast enough to move closer to the forecast before year’s end.
Documents related to the case and interviews with utility officials show that Microsoft started burning roughly an additional five million to seven million watts — well over half of the consumption of the entire town of Quincy — in mid-December.
Quincy, Washington has a population of 6750 in case you're wondering.
integral component, not integral opponent. Cripes. the cops must have implanted something on my iPad that neutralizes my impassioned political critiques.
Its the responsibility of the local community to design regulations that will appeal to amoral actors such as Microsoft. It doesn't matter if the proper action is intrinsically good-- if it doesn't make economic sense to choose that action, it won't be chosen.
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That's only true if you have a limited budget. Ideally, your office or household would have a panopoly of computers, sharing data, and you would just pick up the computer that fits your needs at the time? Do I need a keyboard?A large monitor? Something that can be used in one hand.. etc..
I mean, suppose you want to read a novel. If it's a sunny day, and glare is a problem, you pick the kindle.If you want color, you pick a tablet--eg. the retina ipad.
konsole transparency? why? Don't you read the console?
if you ever want to experience 1G again, you'd better exercise.
The problem is that we sell rights to monopolize spectrum. It's time to let everyone compete. If you want to put up a few cell phone towers, have at it.
If you want to use an ipad, all you need do is pick it. If you need a stylus-- well, those tend to get lost. Like remote controls, they can disappear between couch cushions.
As for the web being entertaining-- that's really a judgement call. Now, people can waste a lot of time on the web, so a device that lets you waste even more time, more comfortably, is a easy sale.
Perhaps the iPad is best understood as a recreational device, not as a device that lets you get more work done. To a certain extent, it's this generation's portable DVD player,or portable TV.
The PC community needs a killer app-- something that needs the brawn of a full scale CPU and graphics card, yet is so sensitive to latency that the thin client server model can't work. I Know! Gaming! Zynga should talk to Crytek about making a killer farming game
The iPad Retina display makes things prettier, and possibly easier to read. It's nice enough that the iPad 2 looks crude by comparison. But my 1080*1920 22" display is far more useful than my ipad's 10 inch display-- because I can display multiple windows, and (with a mouse) interact with hundreds of very small widgets. The ipad's useful resolution is determined by the size of my fingers.
Lots of ipads can be seen on Metrorail/Metrobus (Washington DC area)
The iPad 10" is great for carrying around the house, but I feel like I need a bag, or a shoulder strap to carry it outside. I'd love something that I can put in a jacket pocket. I tried the iPhone, at the store-- it feels cramped.
My own personal experience is that the iPad is a reasonably portable version of the web. Yes, it can do other things
It's is great for reading scientific papers in pdf form
the kindle app is pretty good if you don't want e-ink
And, of course, there's internet videos, except from the wankers who believe that "mobile video" should be subject to it's own special set of restrictions
But Safari is excellent. If the iPad didn't have an internet browser (and couldn't run an internet browser) it wouldn't be useful.
These 486 tablets you speak of: Were they lightweight?-- two pounds will do. Could they run a internet browser? Was the web that entertaining at the time? Did they require a stylus?
My local PBS channel subdivides its OTA feed 4 ways:
26-1: 720p 7.5 Mbps
26-2: 480i 3 Mbps
26-3: 480i 2.5 Mbs
26-4: 480i 3 Mbps
It's pretty awful.
It'll be just like your stereo, or your tv. Everthing a mass of cables running in and out of a single receiver, which you haven't needed to upgrade since 1965. HDMI is for suckers, and surround sound is a mere fad. 525 lines of resolution is all that's needed,
Asymmetric effects of economic growth and decline on CO2 emissions (full text).
It appears to be open access.
In elementary school in Connecticut, we had commodore 64s and messed about with logo. The high school's computer lab had Franklin ACE clones. My family had an Apple IIe.
In middle school (in VirginiaI programmed basic on an Atari --might have been an 800, did word processing stuff on Apple IIe s. In High school, we did desktop publishing with a few mac pluses, and a SE. I didn't go to the school with the "supercomputer".
He believes that he needs to be on the front lines of the war against secular humanism.How else can he make a meaningful difference?
The library of Congress specializes in certain things.In many areas, they're no better than a college library
Instructional Support level: A collection that in a university is adequate to support undergraduate and most graduate instruction, or sustained independent study; that is, adequate to maintain knowledge of a subject required for limited or generalized purposes, of less than research intensity
In some areas, they are truly awesome:
Comprehensive Level: A collection which, so far as is reasonably possible, includes all significant works of recorded knowledge (publications, manuscripts, and other forms), in all applicable languages, for a necessarily defined and limited field. This level of collecting intensity is one that maintains a " special collection." The aim, if not achievement, is exhaustiveness.
Their areas of interests are defined here
Marx had a slightly different conception of democracy in mind
Even Toqueville's definition is at odds with the contemporary Democratic thought, though both would probably admire a broad middle class society.
Politics is too complex to be controlled by one sentence definitions. After all, the fundamental break between a liberal and a conservative is that the liberal believes that we should aim for a "a government of laws, not of men" and a conservative tends to believe that such an aim is not only impossible, but counter productive as well. This is philosophy, not lexicography.
The onion owns many subsidiaries, it seems.
I didn't see a link to the actual portfolio review (pdf)
Programs at risk:
Our portfolios for Scenarios A and B do not include the Nicholas U. Mayall, Wisconsin-Indiana-Yale-NOAO (WIYN), and 2.1-meter telescopes at Kitt Peak National Observatory, the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, the Very Long Baseline Array, nor the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope. We recommend that AST divest from these facilities before FY17.
Scenarios A and B are as follows:
This Portfolio Review Committee was convened to recommend AST portfolios best suited to achieving the decadal survey goals under two budget scenarios: (A) AST purchasing power drops to 90% of FY11 levels, then rises to 106% of FY11 by FY22, and (B) AST purchasing power drops to 80% of FY11 levels by mid-decade, and remains flat through FY22. By FY22, the projected AST budget is only 65% in Scenario A and 50% in Scenario B of the budget NWNH assumed in recommending an AST portfolio. Indeed the AST budget is already $45M short of NWNH projections for FY12. This presents a considerable challenge in implementing the strong NWNH recommendations for both new facilities and for maintaining the strength of the grants programs. AST must find the proper balance between current facilities and new endeavors, between large projects and small grants, and between risk and reward. It must continue to invest in the training of a highly skilled and creative workforce.
So to get the GBT back on line would require that austerity be fucked long and hard.
There are 24 hours in a day. If you consume a million watts continuously for nonproductive purposes you can waste 24,000 kWH of electricity. If each kWH costs you 3.5 cents, you can waste 840 dollars per day of electricity. If your contract requires you to use $70,000 dollars worth of electricity by the end of the year,or face a more expensive penalty, you can save money by running those heaters continuously for 83 straight days. But the deadline is in only 14 days! What to do? Easy. Just increase the wastage to 6 million watts.
The logistics of this little operation sound impressive.
Some sort of heater.
That is when Microsoft threatened to waste tremendous amounts of power by simply running giant heaters for no purpose, according to utility officials who said they were briefed on the matter by Microsoft, unless the penalty was largely forgiven. The idea was to burn the power fast enough to move closer to the forecast before year’s end.
Documents related to the case and interviews with utility officials show that Microsoft started burning roughly an additional five million to seven million watts — well over half of the consumption of the entire town of Quincy — in mid-December.
Quincy, Washington has a population of 6750 in case you're wondering.
integral component, not integral opponent. Cripes. the cops must have implanted something on my iPad that neutralizes my impassioned political critiques.
Indeed. There's no reason to assume that the courts are not an integral. opponent of a functioning police state.
Its the responsibility of the local community to design regulations that will appeal to amoral actors such as Microsoft. It doesn't matter if the proper action is intrinsically good-- if it doesn't make economic sense to choose that action, it won't be chosen.
Again with the handwaving. These consequences don't matter to me; therefore I shall ignore them.