Of course not. As a developer you have different needs.
BUT, in doing so you have even more reponsibility to keep your house in order: it would be you hanging on a thread if a virus/worm/whatever infects your machine, net, or ultimate product.
since most uses of electricity will be converted to heat, and if we make it cheap enough, won't we ultimately cause as many problems, especially when every human, every household has an electric air-conditioner and many assorted electric bits? I am unsure of Earth's thermal budget, but will we need to then put a space-umbrella to shield us from the sun to balance the Earth's thermal equilibrium?
Doesn't IBM ultimately have to actually *eat* what it recommends? Isn't IBM Global Services the biggest moneymaker in IBM? In this space, Everything IBM talks about is to implement something.
Is the same of MS? I recall clearly MS recommended Windows as a large-scale solution when there were no tools to actually do the job, efficiently or effectively. And, I don't just mean by just the already pious.
This doesn't give creds to either, but an observation.
I read that some are so twitchy that a couple days delay is too much for them to bear: I read some that say Netflix is too expensive:
As compared to what?
As a WalMart Rental ejectee, I find Netflix to be fair, honest, fast, and have a great selection.
I suggest that being so twitchy is nothing to be proud of, and those who don't consider it a fair deal ~$20/month, a large pizza, for three outstanding to say what a fair deal is? Is $5 too much? If so, it should, and effectively is, a free service, so just say so.
If you hand someone a disc with hundreds or thousands of jpg/mpg/mp3s of their family, and they can show it with the automatic slide-show program in their video player (today, DVD), with music or sound on a huge screen, and then copy it for the entire family for basically nothing, forever.
Nonsense; Printing services have bumper stickers and more.
I won't comment on them all, but you must be a very young or naive, maybe urbanite, who may never have the ability to EVER own property or real estate where you live; basically a hand-to-mouth, rent-payer, forever. No labels describe me except as new home, no mortgage, and pay my share of taxes every day.
The point is basing taxation on market value is made up to begin with. It might work OK when property values increase at traditional, single digit rates. When property values jump 150%, through some other spooky action, does that mean the cities tax *needs* jump 150% - in your plan it does. Cities should get what they need to run, thats it, they have no other purpose, and certainly not to support people's financial fantasies. Why not base it on actual cost, or other real number?
You *will* be older someday, and if you are ever work hard enough to own something, you will not be happy when it is wrenched from you in said motions. Or, your old folks apartment will be ripped from under you to put in a sports stadium. Just kill the older people, or those who don't want to run on the income treadmill. Importantly, no retirement, pension, savings, or Social Security plan can ever afford to live in your city. Move them every few months when the tax equation shifts, or, send them out of your city, because that is what your plan is about. I didn't say it before, but will now; That is why it IS the stupidest thing ever written.
If the property was going to be SO valuable, why didn't the developer buy it twenty years ago? How about the City? Oh, -you- took the financial risk - that is why it is YOURS.
Poor Developer; was in Grade School at the time. Poor City - made a committment to lock taxes at lower rate for a then good reason; now they want to change it back?
It is your property. Not the City's.
So many problems with the idea it isn't worth any more time.
when every government "believed" that by tearing down every "old" building, paving over the downtown streets in small towns to make them pedestrian-friendly, would "revitalize" them. It turned them into ghost towns for over twenty years.
And, what is Market Value - it is very complicated, but it means at tax-time, you are valued the highest by their calculations, and when they want to buy, it is the lowest number they can come up with - it is *their* rules, remember.
Yes, and both parties are different sides of the same card: if someone isn't there to reap a taxable profit, the government is there to create a revenue stream from it, to manage it, even if they have to create the industry.
And, many think DIY'ers are stupid...
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...like many Ph.D.s, administrators, bureucrats, lawyers - you know, those people in charge of things that you get jobs, raises and stuff. Either envious or unappreciative, they find these things trivial, unless of course, it is *their* hobby like collecting old iron horse shoes or old bits of cloth, etc. High-performance computing people that pooh-pooh the embedded systems people, or the engineer that disdains micropower problems.
I myself learned to design a radio receiver, weld, turn a spindle in wood or an end mill a gear blank, and fluid power, but that was quickly thrashed from me to do higher-value stuff like XML and Java. Note the sarcasm.
If we stop for a moment and assume the drive itself is not able to really flush all those big cache entries during a hard power fail, you'd have to ask why.
Does the power supplies being used have any excess capacitive storage? (No, they're switchers). Does the power supply power off voltage curve go down too fast after power fail signal? (Probably)
Is it because they got into cache-size competition? Is buffer-size truly limited only by how much time during a hard power fail they have to physically write it out? Has the manufacturers, from said competition, pushed the envelope to the edge?
As areal density increases, and buffers increase, speed from linear data increases clock rate and therefore logic requirements, but lower-power logic appears, spinning mass probably stayed the similar, RPMs similar.
Could there be a system constraint that is being exceeded? One that only shows during hard power fault?
Inquiring minds want to know (but too lazy and not wnough hardware to find out himself)
I have read on and off - and I agree. I only suggest that the idea that there is a single WSJ house, vs. many houses, is an antiquated concept. For example, what if someone lured the WSJ expertise away to start their own web-only service? What would the orginal WSJ look like?
I know, low probability in the short term, but that is why I ask.
The ignorance thing is big in my mind; we already can achieve very granular focus, though, that is why I return to slashdot; not too narrowly focused on geek-ware, but the broader ideas that support geekdom.
but does the world work like that any longer? I mean, domain experts and reporters all in one place? under one roof, under one set of political control, beliefs, and political slant? Spewing News at you through their brand of trumpet?
Or, is News ala Carte from here on out and they just have not fell over yet? (despite the WWJ success; people look for familiar, for the short term.)
They have had the opportunity; we'd still be waiting for the information revolution to occur if we waited for Corporate interests, paternalism, to decide it is a Good Thing for us to have. If it wasn't for self-motivated engineers all around the world, finding ways to make this stuff so cheap and functional, where would we be?
And before some would say the telecomms did the hard part, dark fiber and equipment as some kind of visionaries, they were just chasing the already lucrative telecomm dollar and the potential investment opportunity to squeeze you even more.
Government is profitable; they get careers, revenue streams and lease agreements where they spend the profits, in your name, that they will resist giving up. So they are worthy of suspicion as well, but possibly the lesser of evils.
Addison-Wesley had published the ROM code, and I think maybe the OS code? How many hours did I spend drifting through the source listing to see how it was all architected...
Though the Unix source was available to schools, I was unable to get a copy at the time, and, well DOS was being reverse-engineered in pieces in books and mags. It was the first big OS I could start to understand (Atari 400/800 also published their rom listings IIRC).
And, I would add if IIRC, the Amiga had an intelligent chipset and a local bus (chip vs. fast ram) for video and sound, and the autonomous chipset would DMA from/to using an abstracted display (command list) list, fully using interrupts to inform of events like retrace, both horizontal and vertical, I think, full hardware sprites and collision support; the audio could dma and play audio autonomously; set registers and a dma pointer and go. The CPU was doing other very important things like OS work and calculations, etc., which with the OS made it the first true multitasking home PC OS I had ever used, and it was smooth; not perfect, but it was doing everything, mouse, gui, video on many screens,stereo sound on a 10MHZ 68000!
And, the elephant in the room, WalMart, is already in the business. Don't think they won't cut prices to bottom when possible. In fact, they may already use Netflix as a subcontractor?
I have been a user of the DVD rental for well over a year or so; they have had a fairly good selection, and when I requested a title they didn't have; bang, it showed up.
And, that nonsense of full-screen bias may be in the stores, but not their rental.
Only recently have their "Customer Service" become crap; example: they keep insisting that "20,000 Leagues" is available; Disney, not the silent. It's not now but was there before, and I get canned answers from support saying it is. I see that some Disney things are no longer available, and Brazil is gone!
to get people to install a DRM'd viewer on their machines than to actually provide some content they want to watch, maybe temporarily Free until they Embrace and Extend, then Control. People will make significant long term tradeoffs for short term gain, as VISA and MC already know.
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Of course not. As a developer you have different needs.
BUT, in doing so you have even more reponsibility to keep your house in order: it would be you hanging on a thread if a virus/worm/whatever infects your machine, net, or ultimate product.
since most uses of electricity will be converted to heat, and if we make it cheap enough, won't we ultimately cause as many problems, especially when every human, every household has an electric air-conditioner and many assorted electric bits? I am unsure of Earth's thermal budget, but will we need to then put a space-umbrella to shield us from the sun to balance the Earth's thermal equilibrium?
Doesn't IBM ultimately have to actually *eat* what it recommends? Isn't IBM Global Services the biggest moneymaker in IBM? In this space, Everything IBM talks about is to implement something.
Is the same of MS? I recall clearly MS recommended Windows as a large-scale solution when there were no tools to actually do the job, efficiently or effectively. And, I don't just mean by just the already pious.
This doesn't give creds to either, but an observation.
I read that some are so twitchy that a couple days delay is too much for them to bear: I read some that say Netflix is too expensive:
As compared to what?
As a WalMart Rental ejectee, I find Netflix to be fair, honest, fast, and have a great selection.
I suggest that being so twitchy is nothing to be proud of, and those who don't consider it a fair deal ~$20/month, a large pizza, for three outstanding to say what a fair deal is? Is $5 too much? If so, it should, and effectively is, a free service, so just say so.
If you hand someone a disc with hundreds or thousands of jpg/mpg/mp3s of their family, and they can show it with the automatic slide-show program in their video player (today, DVD), with music or sound on a huge screen, and then copy it for the entire family for basically nothing, forever.
Nonsense; Printing services have bumper stickers and more.
Ok, so a watermark is added while streaming.
Would it not be difficult to eliminate, or even detect, such a watermark which gives a traceable signature back to the source?
I won't comment on them all, but you must be a very young or naive, maybe urbanite, who may never have the ability to EVER own property or real estate where you live; basically a hand-to-mouth, rent-payer, forever. No labels describe me except as new home, no mortgage, and pay my share of taxes every day.
The point is basing taxation on market value is made up to begin with. It might work OK when property values increase at traditional, single digit rates. When property values jump 150%, through some other spooky action, does that mean the cities tax *needs* jump 150% - in your plan it does. Cities should get what they need to run, thats it, they have no other purpose, and certainly not to support people's financial fantasies. Why not base it on actual cost, or other real number?
You *will* be older someday, and if you are ever work hard enough to own something, you will not be happy when it is wrenched from you in said motions. Or, your old folks apartment will be ripped from under you to put in a sports stadium. Just kill the older people, or those who don't want to run on the income treadmill. Importantly, no retirement, pension, savings, or Social Security plan can ever afford to live in your city. Move them every few months when the tax equation shifts, or, send them out of your city, because that is what your plan is about. I didn't say it before, but will now; That is why it IS the stupidest thing ever written.
If the property was going to be SO valuable, why didn't the developer buy it twenty years ago? How about the City? Oh, -you- took the financial risk - that is why it is YOURS.
Poor Developer; was in Grade School at the time. Poor City - made a committment to lock taxes at lower rate for a then good reason; now they want to change it back?
It is your property. Not the City's.
So many problems with the idea it isn't worth any more time.
when every government "believed" that by tearing down every "old" building, paving over the downtown streets in small towns to make them pedestrian-friendly, would "revitalize" them. It turned them into ghost towns for over twenty years.
And, what is Market Value - it is very complicated, but it means at tax-time, you are valued the highest by their calculations, and when they want to buy, it is the lowest number they can come up with - it is *their* rules, remember.
Yes, and both parties are different sides of the same card: if someone isn't there to reap a taxable profit, the government is there to create a revenue stream from it, to manage it, even if they have to create the industry.
...like many Ph.D.s, administrators, bureucrats, lawyers - you know, those people in charge of things that you get jobs, raises and stuff. Either envious or unappreciative, they find these things trivial, unless of course, it is *their* hobby like collecting old iron horse shoes or old bits of cloth, etc. High-performance computing people that pooh-pooh the embedded systems people, or the engineer that disdains micropower problems.
I myself learned to design a radio receiver, weld, turn a spindle in wood or an end mill a gear blank, and fluid power, but that was quickly thrashed from me to do higher-value stuff like XML and Java. Note the sarcasm.
and helped the discussion, alot.
If we stop for a moment and assume the drive itself is not able to really flush all those big cache entries during a hard power fail, you'd have to ask why.
Does the power supplies being used have any excess capacitive storage? (No, they're switchers). Does the power supply power off voltage curve go down too fast after power fail signal? (Probably)
Is it because they got into cache-size competition? Is buffer-size truly limited only by how much time during a hard power fail they have to physically write it out? Has the manufacturers, from said competition, pushed the envelope to the edge?
As areal density increases, and buffers increase, speed from linear data increases clock rate and therefore logic requirements, but lower-power logic appears, spinning mass probably stayed the similar, RPMs similar.
Could there be a system constraint that is being exceeded? One that only shows during hard power fault?
Inquiring minds want to know (but too lazy and not wnough hardware to find out himself)
Did it take 15 years to get it back!?
I have read on and off - and I agree. I only suggest that the idea that there is a single WSJ house, vs. many houses, is an antiquated concept. For example, what if someone lured the WSJ expertise away to start their own web-only service? What would the orginal WSJ look like?
I know, low probability in the short term, but that is why I ask.
The ignorance thing is big in my mind; we already can achieve very granular focus, though, that is why I return to slashdot; not too narrowly focused on geek-ware, but the broader ideas that support geekdom.
but does the world work like that any longer? I mean, domain experts and reporters all in one place? under one roof, under one set of political control, beliefs, and political slant? Spewing News at you through their brand of trumpet?
Or, is News ala Carte from here on out and they just have not fell over yet? (despite the WWJ success; people look for familiar, for the short term.)
They have had the opportunity; we'd still be waiting for the information revolution to occur if we waited for Corporate interests, paternalism, to decide it is a Good Thing for us to have. If it wasn't for self-motivated engineers all around the world, finding ways to make this stuff so cheap and functional, where would we be?
And before some would say the telecomms did the hard part, dark fiber and equipment as some kind of visionaries, they were just chasing the already lucrative telecomm dollar and the potential investment opportunity to squeeze you even more.
Government is profitable; they get careers, revenue streams and lease agreements where they spend the profits, in your name, that they will resist giving up. So they are worthy of suspicion as well, but possibly the lesser of evils.
Addison-Wesley had published the ROM code, and I think maybe the OS code? How many hours did I spend drifting through the source listing to see how it was all architected...
Though the Unix source was available to schools, I was unable to get a copy at the time, and, well DOS was being reverse-engineered in pieces in books and mags. It was the first big OS I could start to understand (Atari 400/800 also published their rom listings IIRC).
You are of course correct! I swapped the 68000 with a 68010, maybe that is why I remember 10, oh, something!? Maybe a 10% increase in speed.
And, I would add if IIRC, the Amiga had an intelligent chipset and a local bus (chip vs. fast ram) for video and sound, and the autonomous chipset would DMA from/to using an abstracted display (command list) list, fully using interrupts to inform of events like retrace, both horizontal and vertical, I think, full hardware sprites and collision support; the audio could dma and play audio autonomously; set registers and a dma pointer and go. The CPU was doing other very important things like OS work and calculations, etc., which with the OS made it the first true multitasking home PC OS I had ever used, and it was smooth; not perfect, but it was doing everything, mouse, gui, video on many screens ,stereo sound on a 10MHZ 68000!
So, the "preponderance of evidence" is diluted even further, in a big way...
Only the old transformer "ballasts" work that way. Solid-state ones run at 25khz or more.
A google search will explain.
And,
the elephant in the room, WalMart, is already in the business. Don't think they won't cut prices to bottom when possible. In fact, they may already use Netflix as a subcontractor?
I have been a user of the DVD rental for well over a year or so; they have had a fairly good selection, and when I requested a title they didn't have; bang, it showed up.
And, that nonsense of full-screen bias may be in the stores, but not their rental.
Only recently have their "Customer Service" become crap; example: they keep insisting that "20,000 Leagues" is available; Disney, not the silent. It's not now but was there before, and I get canned answers from support saying it is. I see that some Disney things are no longer available, and Brazil is gone!
to get people to install a DRM'd viewer on their machines than to actually provide some content they want to watch, maybe temporarily Free until they Embrace and Extend, then Control. People will make significant long term tradeoffs for short term gain, as VISA and MC already know.
clink, clink,,,,clink, clink,..... cl,,clink,...
electronic or bills, and I hate electronic...