Thats just it. The cost is already in there. A plane or two blows up. No big deal. It's not like auto insurance - they don't raise your rates because somebody with a grudge makes an aero flambe. Now, if your planes start dropping out of the sky becuase you don't maintain them...well, then it will make a difference.
It actually makes some sense. Every item has a shock limit, measured in Gs. Sensitive avionics can be down in the 15-20G (multiples of gravity) range. CRT monitors are somewhere around 75G on average. Typical fine dinnerware goes about 100-125G.
Here's the key - take the box drop height and divide it by the distance from the nearest point of your item to the nearest point on the outer box. That is the minimum G force your item will receive if you have the perfect packaging material for that exact drop. You can only do worse, and the real figure is often 2-5 times that number. Soft foams, eggcrate, cutouts, and collapsable cardboard are all ways to try an linearize that shock response to minimize damage.
Given that a box in shipping can easily be dropped 4-5 feet from a truck tot he ground, or off a loading dock, and add a couple of feet for the masculine "throw" by the operator, and you can easily get 6 feet. In a 2' square box, with a 12" wide laptop, there's only 6" of space from edge to outside if it's perfectly centered. 72/6=12Gs. Now, that's for the perfect system; theirs is probably at 25-33% efficiency, which is pretty good, so now we're in the 36-48G range. And for a piece of electronic equipment costing $1000-3000, that's probably about right.
Oh, and just to let you know, a box full of packing peanuts probably has a 10% efficiency, with light resilient foam coming in around 15%. It's really _really_ hard to get above 50%.
(Yes, I've actually done a bit of packaging engineering to make sure some sensitive gear could withstant MIL-810 shipping requirements)
Born in the year of Sesame Street. Me too. Unfortunately, all my friends got MTV, but I was just outside of where Cable TV went. I never got my MTV, but in truth, I'm not sure it was really much of a loss.
Oddly, two years ago my folks sold the old place, and still hadn't put in Cable. They were surrounded by McMansions and Starter Castles on "estate lots" in new subdivisions that all had cable, but the cableco wanted $3500 to pull the line 1000' up their driveway (which could have only served 4 houses).
Yeah, that quote was floating just below the surface as I was reading the summary. And if you remember that quote, you're too old. That was dead on my generation.
So we don't "need" social networking to set up events. Most are well planned due to the baggage that are small children. I don't hang out with large groups of friends, so there's no need to broadcast where I'll be bar hopping so everyone I know can join me. Which really brings me back to "I'm too old". Not to do all that stuff, but to need that kind of networking. Families do that to people, and they (usually) don't need internet sites to organize impromtu get togethers.
Well, I'll admit I've had my moments. Back in the mid 90s, I had a secretary show me this "new thing" she'd found online called Mosaic. It used http and brought up web pages. After watching her patiently for a couple of mintues, I told her it was neat, but that I could already get that kind of information, and more, on gopher. Three months later I was a convert, and remarked to friends that they would see web addresses replace 800 numbers in advertising in just a couple of years. Sometimes we all miss something at first blush when we're too entrenched in our ways.
I actually have been to some of the sites, but they really don't hold any interest for me and I don't maintain a site. I do participate on several different forums, some for social interaction and some for exchange of enthusiast information. I've also built my own personal blog site (very manual, all http, back in 1999-2000), but found it cumbersome to keep up with and discontinued it back in 2001. My sister blogs all the time - it's a public diary for her. I don't worry about an online presence as I own a business that bears my name and has a short bio that is probably cataloged in most search engines. Since I have a slightly unusual name, there aren't too many false hits. Heck, my wife was looking up people and typed in my name and got practically all my current information in one of the "free" people search sites. I guess I'm saying I don't need a myspace account for people to find me.
Okay, so I've read all 970(ish) bytes of the article text (that includes their summary) and it doesn't look like the text matches the graphics all that well. The top 10 "social networking" sites combined have less than half of the visitors as the top 2 search sites. They've barely doubled their aggregate visitors in the high-growth 30 months preceding. Heck, if you look at the graph from October '04 to March '06, Google alone matched the volume increase of the entire top-10 SNS.
Sorry, but I find it hard to call this earth shattering.
Maybe/. is a social networking site, and we've just missed the reclassification that everything from the usenet (well, bbs, for that matter) on up to forums and the personal blog sites have been social networking. It's just a new flashy term for what we've always been doing. *shrug*
Oddly, even though my/. time has been somewhat limited of late, I seem to have gotten in inordinate number of first posts in recent weeks. Several years to get the first one, a couple of months to score another three. Go figure.
kIND OF FUNNY...shit, been in autocad all morning. ( really should look at the monitor instead of my fingers when I type)
Anyway, the bit about architecture is true. Though I did have a friend/CAD tech who wrote a small lisp routine for AutoCAD at a previous employer that would reverse the caps lock functionality in AutoCAD only. By leaving the caps lock off, you had normal text everywhere else and caps in CAD. it was spiffy, but I didn't take it with me when I moved.
I'm guessing that your family are republicans, and yo ujust don't quite trust the democrats to get it right if there's any doubt. I'm a fiscal conservative, social moderate, environmental liberal (okay, moderate leaning left). My family was mostly democrats, and I generally trust the repulicans less than the dems. I suppose I could justify it by saying that we can always make more money to pay for wasteful government spending, but we can't put back a broken environment.
Your tolerance of other views actually makes you more of a liberal than you think. You just can't quite accept the baggage that comes with it.
Oh, and don't worry, I won't vote for Hillary either.
Well, they certianly kept them long enough to generate lengthy trails of queries. I don't see why they wouldn't keep the mapping, if for no other reason than continued logging.
Why do I care if it's 1TB or 0.91TB? I mean, really I'm going to be comparing it to the 200-300GB drives I've got now and seeing if I can replace them. Hmmm....three 300G drives will easily fit on TB drive. Two 200s and two 300s will fit, too. Why? Because somewhere across those four discs, there's probably going to be 2% of space that's not used. If it were, I'd probably have more than four drives, so I'll need 2 TB drives.
Of course, this is even less critical when you transfer within orders / 1 GB - 999 GB has no loss, just as 1TB to 999TB doesn't, so we won't have to worry about it until we hit PB drives. And don't even think about bitching about your.gif porn collection you still store on the 300MB drives you got with your Gateway2000. If you're crossing two 1000/1024 barriers, I'm guessing you don't have to worry about "enough" storage on the new drive.
I think its time to get over the 2^10/10^3 debate, and realize the most people are getting relative storage, and nobody is getting cheated.
And that, dear friends, brings the US has the fifth amendment to the constitution into relief. Not that this administration (or any, to be honest) would give a flying shit about the constitution when battling "evil." (should that be capitalized?) But still, it's interesting to watch the laws of other countries play out.
The constitution may be largely ignored stateside, but it does exist if you should have a 7-8 figure checking account to bring them into play.
Of course, for Enron, that doesn't exist - there's no self incrimination as the entity is a corporation, and there are many people who can decrypt the data.
And, in a way, that was the beauty of it. The time marks elimated the slow groups; the all-four-must-finish elimated a lot of the groups that (c)wouldn't work together. Clearly Mark has gone where the money is, but I really prefered his eco-challenge setups. Well, the real ones, before he thought that (random group of otherwise unfit competitors) should be inserted for better TV play.
OT, but I tried gimp, and the "otherness" of it made me give up. After 30 minutes of searching (about 28 minutes too long in a business environment, and about 15 minutes too long at home), I couldn't figure out how to print a multi-layer image without flattening it as a separate file, then printing it, then reloading the layered image. Add that to the difficulty of using it under WIN (loading dependencies...I know, simple stuff) and most of my "patience" budget was used up by the time I had it installed. I gave up after a couple of sessions.
Starting from scratch (if I had never used PS) might have resulted in a different outcome.
Well they do get it, if you're about to go buy your first computer.
The thing is, most of us already have computers, and are already trained in the programs we use, some of which are non-trivial. Maybe I'm not as typical as I thought, but most of the people I know who aren't secretaries tend to use purpose specific software for 30-60% of their computer interaction, and those are rarely cross platform.
Why would I want to buy two computers - one for email and text editing and surfing, and one for engineering work? That seems silly. And wasteful. Ditto with dual boot machines. Why would I reboot to do a lookup on the net, or send an email to a colleage, while I'm designing in AutoCAD? I may as well go back to the DOS days when you could only run one program at a time, and had to exit one application to start another.
No, it's everything or nothing - I don't want to have to have two computers or two operating systems on one computer for business. Business is about money, and double-purchasing is wasted money.
(FWIW, I do have clients who are on MACs. We normally don't have too many issues, but I always have to charge them more because the translation between packages requires extra "clean up". Personally, I despise AutoDesk and think they're products are crap, but with most of my clients using it, import/export filters for the engineering apps made for it, and all my legacy work and training already in their format, I don't have much chioce if I want to stay competitive.)
You mean everyone except just about every engineering desktop in America, right? Installing all the S/W required for non-admin types is an IT killer. Even if they don't fuck up the installs, it takes them forever to prep each new machine. Hell, we figure one to two weeks of end-user downtime into every machine upgrade.
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Thats just it. The cost is already in there. A plane or two blows up. No big deal. It's not like auto insurance - they don't raise your rates because somebody with a grudge makes an aero flambe. Now, if your planes start dropping out of the sky becuase you don't maintain them...well, then it will make a difference.
None, they're covered by insurance, and the chance of losing a plane is still extremely remote. I say it's already accounted for.
It actually makes some sense. Every item has a shock limit, measured in Gs. Sensitive avionics can be down in the 15-20G (multiples of gravity) range. CRT monitors are somewhere around 75G on average. Typical fine dinnerware goes about 100-125G.
Here's the key - take the box drop height and divide it by the distance from the nearest point of your item to the nearest point on the outer box. That is the minimum G force your item will receive if you have the perfect packaging material for that exact drop. You can only do worse, and the real figure is often 2-5 times that number. Soft foams, eggcrate, cutouts, and collapsable cardboard are all ways to try an linearize that shock response to minimize damage.
Given that a box in shipping can easily be dropped 4-5 feet from a truck tot he ground, or off a loading dock, and add a couple of feet for the masculine "throw" by the operator, and you can easily get 6 feet. In a 2' square box, with a 12" wide laptop, there's only 6" of space from edge to outside if it's perfectly centered. 72/6=12Gs. Now, that's for the perfect system; theirs is probably at 25-33% efficiency, which is pretty good, so now we're in the 36-48G range. And for a piece of electronic equipment costing $1000-3000, that's probably about right.
Oh, and just to let you know, a box full of packing peanuts probably has a 10% efficiency, with light resilient foam coming in around 15%. It's really _really_ hard to get above 50%.
(Yes, I've actually done a bit of packaging engineering to make sure some sensitive gear could withstant MIL-810 shipping requirements)
I've given up on replacements. I just carefully scrub the old adhesive off and expoxy them in place now.
Born in the year of Sesame Street. Me too. Unfortunately, all my friends got MTV, but I was just outside of where Cable TV went. I never got my MTV, but in truth, I'm not sure it was really much of a loss.
Oddly, two years ago my folks sold the old place, and still hadn't put in Cable. They were surrounded by McMansions and Starter Castles on "estate lots" in new subdivisions that all had cable, but the cableco wanted $3500 to pull the line 1000' up their driveway (which could have only served 4 houses).
Yeah, that quote was floating just below the surface as I was reading the summary. And if you remember that quote, you're too old. That was dead on my generation.
So we don't "need" social networking to set up events. Most are well planned due to the baggage that are small children. I don't hang out with large groups of friends, so there's no need to broadcast where I'll be bar hopping so everyone I know can join me. Which really brings me back to "I'm too old". Not to do all that stuff, but to need that kind of networking. Families do that to people, and they (usually) don't need internet sites to organize impromtu get togethers.
Well, I'll admit I've had my moments. Back in the mid 90s, I had a secretary show me this "new thing" she'd found online called Mosaic. It used http and brought up web pages. After watching her patiently for a couple of mintues, I told her it was neat, but that I could already get that kind of information, and more, on gopher. Three months later I was a convert, and remarked to friends that they would see web addresses replace 800 numbers in advertising in just a couple of years. Sometimes we all miss something at first blush when we're too entrenched in our ways.
I actually have been to some of the sites, but they really don't hold any interest for me and I don't maintain a site. I do participate on several different forums, some for social interaction and some for exchange of enthusiast information. I've also built my own personal blog site (very manual, all http, back in 1999-2000), but found it cumbersome to keep up with and discontinued it back in 2001. My sister blogs all the time - it's a public diary for her. I don't worry about an online presence as I own a business that bears my name and has a short bio that is probably cataloged in most search engines. Since I have a slightly unusual name, there aren't too many false hits. Heck, my wife was looking up people and typed in my name and got practically all my current information in one of the "free" people search sites. I guess I'm saying I don't need a myspace account for people to find me.
Okay, so I've read all 970(ish) bytes of the article text (that includes their summary) and it doesn't look like the text matches the graphics all that well. The top 10 "social networking" sites combined have less than half of the visitors as the top 2 search sites. They've barely doubled their aggregate visitors in the high-growth 30 months preceding. Heck, if you look at the graph from October '04 to March '06, Google alone matched the volume increase of the entire top-10 SNS.
Sorry, but I find it hard to call this earth shattering.
Maybe /. is a social networking site, and we've just missed the reclassification that everything from the usenet (well, bbs, for that matter) on up to forums and the personal blog sites have been social networking. It's just a new flashy term for what we've always been doing. *shrug*
/. time has been somewhat limited of late, I seem to have gotten in inordinate number of first posts in recent weeks. Several years to get the first one, a couple of months to score another three. Go figure.
Oddly, even though my
2 out of every 3 people online visited a social networking site
/.)?
I don't get it. Maybe I'm just too old, but they hold practically zero interest for me. Too old or just too busy (but not to busy for
kIND OF FUNNY...shit, been in autocad all morning. ( really should look at the monitor instead of my fingers when I type)
Anyway, the bit about architecture is true. Though I did have a friend/CAD tech who wrote a small lisp routine for AutoCAD at a previous employer that would reverse the caps lock functionality in AutoCAD only. By leaving the caps lock off, you had normal text everywhere else and caps in CAD. it was spiffy, but I didn't take it with me when I moved.
I'm guessing that your family are republicans, and yo ujust don't quite trust the democrats to get it right if there's any doubt. I'm a fiscal conservative, social moderate, environmental liberal (okay, moderate leaning left). My family was mostly democrats, and I generally trust the repulicans less than the dems. I suppose I could justify it by saying that we can always make more money to pay for wasteful government spending, but we can't put back a broken environment.
Your tolerance of other views actually makes you more of a liberal than you think. You just can't quite accept the baggage that comes with it.
Oh, and don't worry, I won't vote for Hillary either.
Well, they certianly kept them long enough to generate lengthy trails of queries. I don't see why they wouldn't keep the mapping, if for no other reason than continued logging.
Yeah, it's a good thing that "good" companies like Google don't do this sort of loggin... ...aw, shit.
Why do I care if it's 1TB or 0.91TB? I mean, really I'm going to be comparing it to the 200-300GB drives I've got now and seeing if I can replace them. Hmmm....three 300G drives will easily fit on TB drive. Two 200s and two 300s will fit, too. Why? Because somewhere across those four discs, there's probably going to be 2% of space that's not used. If it were, I'd probably have more than four drives, so I'll need 2 TB drives.
.gif porn collection you still store on the 300MB drives you got with your Gateway2000. If you're crossing two 1000/1024 barriers, I'm guessing you don't have to worry about "enough" storage on the new drive.
Of course, this is even less critical when you transfer within orders / 1 GB - 999 GB has no loss, just as 1TB to 999TB doesn't, so we won't have to worry about it until we hit PB drives. And don't even think about bitching about your
I think its time to get over the 2^10/10^3 debate, and realize the most people are getting relative storage, and nobody is getting cheated.
And that, dear friends, brings the US has the fifth amendment to the constitution into relief. Not that this administration (or any, to be honest) would give a flying shit about the constitution when battling "evil." (should that be capitalized?) But still, it's interesting to watch the laws of other countries play out.
The constitution may be largely ignored stateside, but it does exist if you should have a 7-8 figure checking account to bring them into play.
Of course, for Enron, that doesn't exist - there's no self incrimination as the entity is a corporation, and there are many people who can decrypt the data.
And, in a way, that was the beauty of it. The time marks elimated the slow groups; the all-four-must-finish elimated a lot of the groups that (c)wouldn't work together. Clearly Mark has gone where the money is, but I really prefered his eco-challenge setups. Well, the real ones, before he thought that (random group of otherwise unfit competitors) should be inserted for better TV play.
...the old Eco-challenge (pre-playboy bunny), where there were real challeneges.
OT, but I tried gimp, and the "otherness" of it made me give up. After 30 minutes of searching (about 28 minutes too long in a business environment, and about 15 minutes too long at home), I couldn't figure out how to print a multi-layer image without flattening it as a separate file, then printing it, then reloading the layered image. Add that to the difficulty of using it under WIN (loading dependencies...I know, simple stuff) and most of my "patience" budget was used up by the time I had it installed. I gave up after a couple of sessions.
Starting from scratch (if I had never used PS) might have resulted in a different outcome.
You mean, after reading all the AOL serach log stories for the last couple of days, there still aren't enough reasons?
...by buying works from the members of the RIAA, and lining their pockets to litigate against dead people's children.
See, no matter how how try, it's still your fault!
*grin*
Well they do get it, if you're about to go buy your first computer.
The thing is, most of us already have computers, and are already trained in the programs we use, some of which are non-trivial. Maybe I'm not as typical as I thought, but most of the people I know who aren't secretaries tend to use purpose specific software for 30-60% of their computer interaction, and those are rarely cross platform.
Why would I want to buy two computers - one for email and text editing and surfing, and one for engineering work? That seems silly. And wasteful. Ditto with dual boot machines. Why would I reboot to do a lookup on the net, or send an email to a colleage, while I'm designing in AutoCAD? I may as well go back to the DOS days when you could only run one program at a time, and had to exit one application to start another.
No, it's everything or nothing - I don't want to have to have two computers or two operating systems on one computer for business. Business is about money, and double-purchasing is wasted money.
(FWIW, I do have clients who are on MACs. We normally don't have too many issues, but I always have to charge them more because the translation between packages requires extra "clean up". Personally, I despise AutoDesk and think they're products are crap, but with most of my clients using it, import/export filters for the engineering apps made for it, and all my legacy work and training already in their format, I don't have much chioce if I want to stay competitive.)
You mean everyone except just about every engineering desktop in America, right? Installing all the S/W required for non-admin types is an IT killer. Even if they don't fuck up the installs, it takes them forever to prep each new machine. Hell, we figure one to two weeks of end-user downtime into every machine upgrade.
We're all about zero tolerance these days, right? I say it's time to apply it where it counts.