Actually, as a moderately hairy individual (legs/arms/chest...oh how I pine for the 70s), I can say that even small amounts of hair, relative to hairy/furry animals is very effective as a sunscreen. If I ahd to guess, I'd say that I have about an equavalent SPF factor of 4-8 on my covered areas. It seems that humans have been losing hair for quite some time. Possibly due to the use of clothing (pelts, etc), which gives the breeding population some independance from bodily hair, and provides a summertime advantage to the non-haired.
And, of course, as others have pointed out there is little natural selection can do for post-breeding-age onset diseases (aka the "evil side" of sun exposure).
My Motorola 810 has the ability to synch with my computer via software from Motorola. Alsthough certain models allow the trasnfer of multimedeia, it is a disabled function on the v810. Why? According to Motorola, the vendor (US Cellular) requested that the data be unavailable so that all photos taken and any multimedeia apps be transferred through their EasyEdge(tm) service.
I have a camera phone which can take pictures, but which cannot send them anywhere to be viewed/transferred/printed without a $0.25/image fee, in addition to the $5.95 per month EasyEdge service fee. All because US Cellular is greedy.
It's a good thing he didn't try to tangle with Macrovision. As lightning-uk almost found out, it's hard to code when you're fingers are broken and your eyes have swollen shut from contusions.
It's not about downloading a hundred gigs a day. For most of us, it's about sitting down at the computer, checking our email, and getting Aunt Ginnie's holiday photos (all 100megs of them) without having to go find something else to do for 15 minutes. ITs about having ebays home page fully loaded in a second or two, instead of ten. It's about getting a driver or a utility app in a couple of seconds versus a couple of minutes.
That may seem trivial - a few seconds here, a minute or two there - but when you have a real life, you don't have a couple of hours in an evening or on a weekend day to sit in front of the computer waiting for a download. Fast internet makes browsing the web more like browsing a book. I never thought I'd say this, but with 6Mb over Adelphia, I'm starting to get annoyed at the lag (latency) for web pages. I can click through pages pretty fast when I'm trying to research somehting, and my connection is still a bit laggy.
The speed is there to minimize the time spent staring at a static screen on the computer, not to increase the total download capability of the system.
I suspect his bank account is healthy enough that he doesn't really care much about $.99 a song. For most busy people, the money spent for full service is well worth it (properly tagged and indexed songs, for example).
Besides, even if he does d/l the occasional song/movie he sure as hell isn't going to admit to it on/.
Well, one of the engineers replied below, but I'll parrot it here: the craft was a demonstration of the reverse-flow stability of the rotor design (I couldn't get to the site to RTFA, its down already).
Future craft will have vertical hover ability.
The engineer who responded was also the webmaster, and he's currently shitting his pants over the unexpected/. traffic, so he's not posting much right now;-)
Well, as someone who has tried and been burned by "free shipping" I find amazon prime a great advantage and a good marketing gimmick. With estimated shipping at 7-10 days, the actual shipping has been anywhere from 6 days to over two months (it went out of stock while I was waiting to have it shipped). Free shipping from Amazon, Buy, etc. is worth exactly what you pay for it, somtimes less.
Its certainly good for Amazon. I usually will check Amazon's prices before I buy somewhere else, and if they're within a dollar or two (or a couple percent on bigger/more expensive tiems), I'll buy from them to get the 2nd day or overnight service. It's good for me, as I tend to buy a lot of books related to my job, usually one or two at a time, as I need them. A' is fantastic for this, especially when I need the book ASAP for reference. Most books I can order by 4pm and get them the next morning for $4. I don't live near a big city with a good technical bookstore, so Amazon is a good option for me.
I do have a good library close, but I know that I will spend 2hrs to get a technical reference (travel, university parking, lookup, checkout), IF it isn't in storage. That's $200 in billable time. If Amazon has it in stock, I can usually get it ordered in under 10 minutes.
Well, since your (second) 2) is probably far too easy on the usenet, and since usenet is one-way and creates no demand or - in the case of good providers - trace of the downloader, I'd say there's no danger of increasing the exploitation though this purely political maneuver.
Okay, I'm no CS major, but don't you have to have the same number of bits regardless of the transfer type (assuming complete compression)? I mean, if I send you 500MB of file and 500MB of PARs to reconstruct the 1GB image, have I really saved any download bandwidth? I thought the whole idea of the PAR2 files was you could get just as many segments as you needed (ie - were corrupted) by proving a 1-2-4-8 type sequnce of par files, not that you could send less information from which the orignal file could be reconstructed.
Well, since systems can't have identical specs between intel and apple (that processor thing, you know), it looks like he chose a component with an exact duplicate in teh PC world.
You've chosen to compare an entire system (with unknown base-price margin) and look at an add-in.
Here's the Dell precision part, should you buy it separately:
Now, that looks like a bargain compared to the a la carte price from apple on the identical part. The fact that Dell is willing to sell you the part for an extra $110 installed in their PC, whereas Apple will discount it $550 if they install it for you is interesting. If it were me, I would guess that when the bare box leaves Apple, they've made their profit. If a Bare box leaves Dell, there's probably no margin. Dell hopes you'll just configure your machine and add the extra wihtout checking prices. Also, Dell tends to float 20-25% off coupons for systems on a (daily?) basis, but rarely goes that high with memory and other select peripherals, so it's not suprising that they have priced in a reduction. I don't see many 25% off system coupons in the apple store.
(Disclaimer: I happen to be typing this post on a Dell Precision M70 mobile workstation with a 1.86GHz P4M, 1920x1200 screen, 2GB RAM, 100GB HD, 256MB nVidia Quadra FX Go1400, DVD+/-DL RW, with a 4 year "anything happens and we fix it next day for free", docking station, stand, and extra primary battery that I got for about $1800 after tax. I can say, without a doubt, that coupons can make for an attractive price at Dell)
So, this is a "total pirated software" number. 33 Billion at the absolute outside, even knowingly inflated. Microsoft and Oracle alone have a market cap of nearly 350 Billion.
You're telling me that total (not anuual, but total value today) piracy numbers for the whole freaking world are less than 10% of the value of the two largest software companies?
They're looking for employees, not owners. They want somebody who can do the dirty, shit-shoveling work that makes Steve Jobs so wealthy. They don't want some know-it-all kid coming in and changing things, damnit. The work isn't going to do itself, and Jobs sure as hell isn't going to sit down and code it!
"He had the right product in the 70's at the absolute best time."
Which just goes to prove what I always believe - being in the right place at the right time will do more for your career than everything else combined.
If you can't be luckly, the next best thing is to get some wealthy and/or powerful parents. Sadly, neither of those are on college curricula these days.
Depends. Around me (and it's nearly 90 outside today) the groundwater temperature is about 59 degrees (both in F, of course). Even the taps come out low 60s year round, once the slug of heated water in the house is gone.
Not green, as the water is just getting wasted, but it may be cheaper for the water than the electricity + air conditioning. Especially if you're not paying for the water bill;-)
Well I didn't RTFA, but based on the text someone posted here (just above you) this is not a swamp cooler. Those work by an evaprative process where the temperature of the air drops as it passes over a wet wick. The evaporation removes energy from the air, reducing the temperature. Unfortunately, they also add moisture to the air, so you get a cooler, more humid environment. They also don't work when the humidity is high (saturation=no evaporation). They're good for desert climates, but not good anywhere else.
This is a simple energy transfer - he's using a bucket to store sub-room temperature water, then passing that water past a fan through a coil (hey, fan-coil...that sounds catchy). The air flowing over the coil gives up some of its energy to the water, which is "circulated" and disposed of via gravity.
What I didn't see is whether he set his heat excnager up to maximize his return. Specifically, did he have the "beginning" of the coil closest to the fan? With this setup, the air temperature will be as low as possible - theoretically it can be very clost to the water temperature. Reversing the coils, so the outlet (to the drain) of the coil is closest to the fan, the best temerature you can hope to achieve is (mdot*T1+mdotT2)/2. With balanced mass flow, that means only half way to water temperature, even if it was perfect.
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I thought iWood was what fanboys got when they walked into an apple store.
Actually, as a moderately hairy individual (legs/arms/chest...oh how I pine for the 70s), I can say that even small amounts of hair, relative to hairy/furry animals is very effective as a sunscreen. If I ahd to guess, I'd say that I have about an equavalent SPF factor of 4-8 on my covered areas. It seems that humans have been losing hair for quite some time. Possibly due to the use of clothing (pelts, etc), which gives the breeding population some independance from bodily hair, and provides a summertime advantage to the non-haired.
And, of course, as others have pointed out there is little natural selection can do for post-breeding-age onset diseases (aka the "evil side" of sun exposure).
My Motorola 810 has the ability to synch with my computer via software from Motorola. Alsthough certain models allow the trasnfer of multimedeia, it is a disabled function on the v810. Why? According to Motorola, the vendor (US Cellular) requested that the data be unavailable so that all photos taken and any multimedeia apps be transferred through their EasyEdge(tm) service.
I have a camera phone which can take pictures, but which cannot send them anywhere to be viewed/transferred/printed without a $0.25/image fee, in addition to the $5.95 per month EasyEdge service fee. All because US Cellular is greedy.
Free speech (even if no one listens): Priceless
It's a good thing he didn't try to tangle with Macrovision. As lightning-uk almost found out, it's hard to code when you're fingers are broken and your eyes have swollen shut from contusions.
It's not about downloading a hundred gigs a day. For most of us, it's about sitting down at the computer, checking our email, and getting Aunt Ginnie's holiday photos (all 100megs of them) without having to go find something else to do for 15 minutes. ITs about having ebays home page fully loaded in a second or two, instead of ten. It's about getting a driver or a utility app in a couple of seconds versus a couple of minutes.
That may seem trivial - a few seconds here, a minute or two there - but when you have a real life, you don't have a couple of hours in an evening or on a weekend day to sit in front of the computer waiting for a download. Fast internet makes browsing the web more like browsing a book. I never thought I'd say this, but with 6Mb over Adelphia, I'm starting to get annoyed at the lag (latency) for web pages. I can click through pages pretty fast when I'm trying to research somehting, and my connection is still a bit laggy.
The speed is there to minimize the time spent staring at a static screen on the computer, not to increase the total download capability of the system.
Funny, but true. And since they only ask about the fries if you're getting a sandwich, it's contectual.
Of course, this does not invalidate the patent, as Amazon is doing this _on the internet_, which makes it completely novel.
I suspect his bank account is healthy enough that he doesn't really care much about $.99 a song. For most busy people, the money spent for full service is well worth it (properly tagged and indexed songs, for example).
/.
Besides, even if he does d/l the occasional song/movie he sure as hell isn't going to admit to it on
btw - very nice interview.
Well, one of the engineers replied below, but I'll parrot it here: the craft was a demonstration of the reverse-flow stability of the rotor design (I couldn't get to the site to RTFA, its down already).
/. traffic, so he's not posting much right now ;-)
Future craft will have vertical hover ability.
The engineer who responded was also the webmaster, and he's currently shitting his pants over the unexpected
Well, as someone who has tried and been burned by "free shipping" I find amazon prime a great advantage and a good marketing gimmick. With estimated shipping at 7-10 days, the actual shipping has been anywhere from 6 days to over two months (it went out of stock while I was waiting to have it shipped). Free shipping from Amazon, Buy, etc. is worth exactly what you pay for it, somtimes less.
Its certainly good for Amazon. I usually will check Amazon's prices before I buy somewhere else, and if they're within a dollar or two (or a couple percent on bigger/more expensive tiems), I'll buy from them to get the 2nd day or overnight service.
It's good for me, as I tend to buy a lot of books related to my job, usually one or two at a time, as I need them. A' is fantastic for this, especially when I need the book ASAP for reference. Most books I can order by 4pm and get them the next morning for $4. I don't live near a big city with a good technical bookstore, so Amazon is a good option for me.
I do have a good library close, but I know that I will spend 2hrs to get a technical reference (travel, university parking, lookup, checkout), IF it isn't in storage. That's $200 in billable time. If Amazon has it in stock, I can usually get it ordered in under 10 minutes.
I'll bet Google looks like the servers at the Vatican compared to Easynews.
Well, since your (second) 2) is probably far too easy on the usenet, and since usenet is one-way and creates no demand or - in the case of good providers - trace of the downloader, I'd say there's no danger of increasing the exploitation though this purely political maneuver.
I suspect he's part of the Executive branch, but he may have contacts in the Legeslative as well ;-)
Please stop infusing this /. discussion with facts and relevent links. It will only confuse us.
Sorry, I think Virginia already took that one. ;-)
My thoughts exactly. I thought the idea was to _not_ have trolls on /., but apparently its okay to be a troll as long as you post it as a story.
So, who should have gotten modded down, elohim or Zonk?
Oh, shit. Wish I had mod points tonight.
Okay, I'm no CS major, but don't you have to have the same number of bits regardless of the transfer type (assuming complete compression)? I mean, if I send you 500MB of file and 500MB of PARs to reconstruct the 1GB image, have I really saved any download bandwidth? I thought the whole idea of the PAR2 files was you could get just as many segments as you needed (ie - were corrupted) by proving a 1-2-4-8 type sequnce of par files, not that you could send less information from which the orignal file could be reconstructed.
Well, since systems can't have identical specs between intel and apple (that processor thing, you know), it looks like he chose a component with an exact duplicate in teh PC world.
You've chosen to compare an entire system (with unknown base-price margin) and look at an add-in.
Here's the Dell precision part, should you buy it separately:
1 GB DDR2 PC3200 for $280 each ($560 for 2GB worth).
Now, that looks like a bargain compared to the a la carte price from apple on the identical part. The fact that Dell is willing to sell you the part for an extra $110 installed in their PC, whereas Apple will discount it $550 if they install it for you is interesting. If it were me, I would guess that when the bare box leaves Apple, they've made their profit. If a Bare box leaves Dell, there's probably no margin. Dell hopes you'll just configure your machine and add the extra wihtout checking prices. Also, Dell tends to float 20-25% off coupons for systems on a (daily?) basis, but rarely goes that high with memory and other select peripherals, so it's not suprising that they have priced in a reduction. I don't see many 25% off system coupons in the apple store.
(Disclaimer: I happen to be typing this post on a Dell Precision M70 mobile workstation with a 1.86GHz P4M, 1920x1200 screen, 2GB RAM, 100GB HD, 256MB nVidia Quadra FX Go1400, DVD+/-DL RW, with a 4 year "anything happens and we fix it next day for free", docking station, stand, and extra primary battery that I got for about $1800 after tax. I can say, without a doubt, that coupons can make for an attractive price at Dell)
So, this is a "total pirated software" number. 33 Billion at the absolute outside, even knowingly inflated. Microsoft and Oracle alone have a market cap of nearly 350 Billion.
You're telling me that total (not anuual, but total value today) piracy numbers for the whole freaking world are less than 10% of the value of the two largest software companies?
Forgive me if I don't shed a tear.
They're looking for employees, not owners. They want somebody who can do the dirty, shit-shoveling work that makes Steve Jobs so wealthy. They don't want some know-it-all kid coming in and changing things, damnit. The work isn't going to do itself, and Jobs sure as hell isn't going to sit down and code it!
"He had the right product in the 70's at the absolute best time."
Which just goes to prove what I always believe - being in the right place at the right time will do more for your career than everything else combined.
If you can't be luckly, the next best thing is to get some wealthy and/or powerful parents. Sadly, neither of those are on college curricula these days.
"...use their college degrees to do amazing things like sell real estate..."
Which really just goes to prove that having a college education is no match for the earning power of price fixing.
Depends. Around me (and it's nearly 90 outside today) the groundwater temperature is about 59 degrees (both in F, of course). Even the taps come out low 60s year round, once the slug of heated water in the house is gone.
;-)
Not green, as the water is just getting wasted, but it may be cheaper for the water than the electricity + air conditioning. Especially if you're not paying for the water bill
Well I didn't RTFA, but based on the text someone posted here (just above you) this is not a swamp cooler. Those work by an evaprative process where the temperature of the air drops as it passes over a wet wick. The evaporation removes energy from the air, reducing the temperature. Unfortunately, they also add moisture to the air, so you get a cooler, more humid environment. They also don't work when the humidity is high (saturation=no evaporation). They're good for desert climates, but not good anywhere else.
This is a simple energy transfer - he's using a bucket to store sub-room temperature water, then passing that water past a fan through a coil (hey, fan-coil...that sounds catchy). The air flowing over the coil gives up some of its energy to the water, which is "circulated" and disposed of via gravity.
What I didn't see is whether he set his heat excnager up to maximize his return. Specifically, did he have the "beginning" of the coil closest to the fan? With this setup, the air temperature will be as low as possible - theoretically it can be very clost to the water temperature. Reversing the coils, so the outlet (to the drain) of the coil is closest to the fan, the best temerature you can hope to achieve is (mdot*T1+mdotT2)/2. With balanced mass flow, that means only half way to water temperature, even if it was perfect.
Boy, that was a waste of time.