If its light outside you should be out there playing (that's what MY mother always said, anyway)
Movies can usually wait until after dark, and most major TV events are after dark, too, at least on the east coast.
Lamps can be a killer, I'll admit. The old JVCs were 1000h for $750. The new panny claims 5000h on a $300 lamp. That's not pocket change, but if you only watch at night, it'll last quite a while [/rimshot]
FWIW, fixtures hold lamps, lamps produce light, and bulbs are planted in the ground so you get pretty flowers in the spring.
True, but he did point out that for $1600 more you can have the new Panny 1280x720p projector, and he could re-synch the HTPC to the native resolution.
Two years ago I'd have told you to save your cash and go with a desktop. I'm now two years into running my own consulting firm and my attitude has changed a bit. Here's the question you must answer: When your server goes down, how many people will be idled by the failure? How much do they cost (remember to mutliply their hourly rate by 3.0 to incoude overhead and profit, plus the shutdown/startup inefficiencies)? How long will it take to fix the server?
X * 2.5Y * Z * #Failures* / Serverlife is your breakeven point. I'd figure 1 to 3 for faiures per server life if your feeling lucky. Also, without knowing your industry, you're 3.05Y iwill probably range from $25 to $90/hr for the rabble. If your CEO is using mission critical stuff from your server (his stock quotes, for example), he's worth a zillion dollars.
So if you plan on saving $3000 by going with desktops, and with middle of the road numbers ($60/hr, 2 failures), you'll need to take less than 12.5 man-hours per failure to fix. 25 employees? That's 30 minutes to troubleshoot, replace, repair any software hiccups/reinstall drivers/regenerate the drive, reboot, and inform the company that the coffee break is over. (That last part will take about 45 minutes all by itself)
It's rarely worthwile to save money on inferior equipment, unless you have the funds/time to deal with the lower reliability. Though I'm not fully fault tolerant, I've found that it's worth while for me to have a live backup HD for my OS (refreshed about monthly), and weekly backups of my working files. I can't afford more (manpower) and I can't afford less (recreation of work).
*If your server fails, it will be because you chose desktop hardware, and you will not be able to convince a soul that a real server would also have a non-zero failure rate.
Isn't it amazing to see that a ($xxxx.xx) TV cannot auto-synch? I've got monitors ranging from $59 to $499 in my office and all of them will autosynch to just about anything in range, including p and i HD signals.
You can thank the CE folks for this. Everybody has the next greatest thing, and they want IP revenue for it. If you're sending bits, use a simple cable with the bandwidth to hold it. If you're sending analog, use RGB. It's amazing how easy it is to match the red, green, and blue RCA cables to their respectively color ports, just like everyone is used to with red and white audio, or yellow composite video. There's no magic here.
As for royally fucking up HD, you need only look at the multitude formats in the ATSC spec to figure out what the problem is. Amazingly, my $99 (1998 dolllars & tech) KDS 15" computer monitor can sync to 720p without a hiccup. But don't tell the TV manufacturers...they're certain that requiring progressive scan will cost hundreds of dollars extra per TV set.
Unfortunately, we've fallen into the "my solution is marginally better" trap, where each revision must be incorporated to stay current (i.e. video compression). The market is very bad at sorting out winners and losers in this game, because the stakes are so high ($5000 TVs) that many people will sit on the sidelines as long as possible, slowing adoption and preventing a winner from emerging in an efficient fashion.
Before you claim victory with your "scientific solutions," I recommend you remember one of your nursery rhymes..."she swollowed a spider to catch a fly..."
Not all childrens things are void of adult insight.
that the text does not appear to outlaw programs which install themselves without your permission. It appears that it's only illegal to install without your permission AFTER the user declines the installation. Intstalling without asking permission is okay. I was hoping it would make C-dilla illegal.
Talent? You think they lack talent? No, they lack a funding process which is separate from the politcal shenanigans which go on. To the folks on the hill, NASA is a jobs program for their state/district. Ever wonder why NASA is so spread out, and big programs are divvied up into many states? Support. Congressional support comes from making congressmen happy, and happines is jobs and money.
You needn't fear there are no dreamers at NASA. Or technical talent to make the dreams happen. If you feel you're wasting your money, you are, but not for the reasons you think.
Oh, the shuttle is safe to fly again. It's as safe or safer than any other vehicle in its class. The problem is that it's not safe ENOUGH. How safe is safe enough? Perfect. Anything less is unacceptable. That's not the line you'll here from the Administrator...but the fact is if anything goes wrong you end up on the front page of the newspaper, and if it's big enough to end up on P1, it's big enough to make sure it doesn't happen.
I'm sorry, sir, but if you could step to the side.
You see, rational thinking like this is what can get you in trouble. If you refuse to be a sheep, we can no longer allow you to speak in public.
Please repeat after me: "Baaaaaaaaa"... Very good. Now this one: "We must be protected at all costs"... Not very convincing; you work on that one. Okay, one more: "The government will take care of us"... Sir, you need to stop laughing. No, really, if you don't stop laughing...
Gentlement, I think this man needs assistance. Would you escort him to the comfortable room. Good.
You make it sound like it's happening behind their backs / without their knowledge. Now, I'll be the first to say that W has more on his plate than he expected and/or than he can reasonably handle, but I'm sure that the key people in industry have key people in the administration who are making sure these things can get through.
Don't get me wrong...these kinds of things happen in BOTH parties, though generally for a different (though overlapping) subset of industries. However, the "you're with us or against us" all or nothing doctrine which has been adopted has offered a great number of anti-free-market and anti-privacy measures the opportunity to sail through without noticable dissent. It really IS like the McCarthy era, with many reasonable people afraid to speak up for being labelled as "pro-terrorism" or "anti-American." This has gone as far as suggesting that voting for a particular political candidate would directly result in another 9/11/01-scale attack against the US.
This has fostered the atmosphere. Well, that and the fact that both the legeslative and executive branches are controlled by one party, and there have been almost no judicial appointments for 12 years, and the same party controlled the appointment process for the 12 years prior to that. The deck is stacked.
Now, you know better. They cut speed limits to conserve gasoline. They _kept_ them low because they found out they generated more revenue with the artificially low limits.
But he said it. That's all that's important in a sound bite.
Kind of like the comment about voting for non-citizens, which makes no general sense. Makes anyone sound like a nut-job. However, allowing non-citizen parents of public-school childern to vote for the school board does make sense.
If you're a republican and are worried about all those illegal immigrants voting an Hispanic onto the school board, I suggest you re-form your thoughts. Imagine a family comes over from Englad or Germany for a job in an international firm located in the states. They have visas, they pay taxes. They cart the kids to soccer games (okay, don't hold soccer against them). Should they get a vote to determine who is on the school board for their kids?
It's kinda like American culture, politics, and education.
Oh, you want American culture, you just don't want to admit it to anyone else. Unless you're 60 or older, in which case not only don't you wnat it, you're certain that it's corrupting your kids. Which it probably is.
Nobody want's american politics, including americans. Actually, I think the lobbyists like it, and some of the larger corporations who pay the lobbyists. Heck, half of the politicians don't want it either.
Education...well...that's a toss up. You couldn't give away primary and secondary education, but colleges in the US are pretty much in demand. How else could they charge $30k/yr (that's US, about $250k Can, right?) and STILL end up full of international students. Okay, aside from the sleeper cell recruits.
1. Global warming is real. The warming/cooling cycles have a far shorter period than 4By. Our ability to make a meaningful difference in the current trend it is still up for debate.
2. North Korea isn't allowed to have nukes. We've just been ignoring their transgression because we're preoccupied with other events.
That's mostly true. If you are personally negligent in your organization or acts, you can be held personally liable for damages. The advatage to the "corporate veil" is that it's harder to due you, not impossible. If you have lotsa money, and the corporation is broke (it will be after you take any profits out), you'll probably get a letter.
Unless you really think you're an attractive target for a lawsuit, draft up some terms, incorporate and "go naked". Sadly, having a lawyer review your disclaimer and incorporating (inc or llc) will cost you more than your insurance, though it will be good for future years.
btw, IANAL, but I practice structural engineering, which is the worst type to get liability insurance for. We're the anesthesiologists of the architectural insurance world.
And in every hotel room that's used for illicit affairs, depraved sex acts, and other deviant behavior there's...wait for it..A BIBLE!
I'd say that's a 1 to 1 correlation which, if you're trying to prove a point, equates to direct causality and then clearly the BIBLE CAUSES DEVIANT BEHAVIOR.
You may have a child (poor kid), but the mods who gave you anything but "troll" are idiots.
Of course you wouldn't put a leash on your three month old. You don't have to worry about getting separated from your 3 month old unless you put the infant carrier down and walk away.
Children ARE foolish, and parents are NOT perfect. As careful as I am with my 2 year old, I wouldn't hesitate to slap a gps wristwatch/pager on my kid if I took here to a place where she had any possibility of getting lost. No matter how attentive I am, there is still a chance - remote though it may be - of us getting separated. She's highly mobile at this age, and though knows her name (yes, first and last) just try to get that information out of here if she's lost and scared and surrounded by strangers.
Don't think it's worthwile? Explain that to the mother and father of the six year old who was playing with friends in the woods behind their house. The kids were playing hind-and-seek, and he hid just a little too well. Problem was, he got lost in the woods cause he forgot which way was out. They did find him. Three days later. Dead from hypothermia. Imagine how scared he must have been. With a three month old, you can't understand how your relationship changes over the course of a couple of years, but you shuld start thinking about it now. If your child ins't the center of your world, I suggest you ask yourself why.
If you haven't changed your mind, I can only hope that your child will turn out to be sterile and that will end your genetic line right there, for, in my opinion you are not fit to be a parent.
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Too bad that half of them are utterly incompetent for that job.
Being mighty generous today, aren't we:-0
Heck, half of them can't even stay married...and they got to choose that person.
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"Doctors get free samples of random drugs, for godsake."
Isn't that the stuff they're testing for in all the sports stars?
First funny post I've seen today. Too bad I'm modpointless.
If its light outside you should be out there playing (that's what MY mother always said, anyway)
Movies can usually wait until after dark, and most major TV events are after dark, too, at least on the east coast.
Lamps can be a killer, I'll admit. The old JVCs were 1000h for $750. The new panny claims 5000h on a $300 lamp. That's not pocket change, but if you only watch at night, it'll last quite a while [/rimshot]
FWIW, fixtures hold lamps, lamps produce light, and bulbs are planted in the ground so you get pretty flowers in the spring.
True, but he did point out that for $1600 more you can have the new Panny 1280x720p projector, and he could re-synch the HTPC to the native resolution.
Maybe his day job is in marketing?
Two years ago I'd have told you to save your cash and go with a desktop. I'm now two years into running my own consulting firm and my attitude has changed a bit. Here's the question you must answer: When your server goes down, how many people will be idled by the failure? How much do they cost (remember to mutliply their hourly rate by 3.0 to incoude overhead and profit, plus the shutdown/startup inefficiencies)? How long will it take to fix the server?
X * 2.5Y * Z * #Failures* / Serverlife is your breakeven point. I'd figure 1 to 3 for faiures per server life if your feeling lucky. Also, without knowing your industry, you're 3.05Y iwill probably range from $25 to $90/hr for the rabble. If your CEO is using mission critical stuff from your server (his stock quotes, for example), he's worth a zillion dollars.
So if you plan on saving $3000 by going with desktops, and with middle of the road numbers ($60/hr, 2 failures), you'll need to take less than 12.5 man-hours per failure to fix. 25 employees? That's 30 minutes to troubleshoot, replace, repair any software hiccups/reinstall drivers/regenerate the drive, reboot, and inform the company that the coffee break is over. (That last part will take about 45 minutes all by itself)
It's rarely worthwile to save money on inferior equipment, unless you have the funds/time to deal with the lower reliability. Though I'm not fully fault tolerant, I've found that it's worth while for me to have a live backup HD for my OS (refreshed about monthly), and weekly backups of my working files. I can't afford more (manpower) and I can't afford less (recreation of work).
*If your server fails, it will be because you chose desktop hardware, and you will not be able to convince a soul that a real server would also have a non-zero failure rate.
Isn't it amazing to see that a ($xxxx.xx) TV cannot auto-synch? I've got monitors ranging from $59 to $499 in my office and all of them will autosynch to just about anything in range, including p and i HD signals.
You can thank the CE folks for this. Everybody has the next greatest thing, and they want IP revenue for it. If you're sending bits, use a simple cable with the bandwidth to hold it. If you're sending analog, use RGB. It's amazing how easy it is to match the red, green, and blue RCA cables to their respectively color ports, just like everyone is used to with red and white audio, or yellow composite video. There's no magic here.
As for royally fucking up HD, you need only look at the multitude formats in the ATSC spec to figure out what the problem is. Amazingly, my $99 (1998 dolllars & tech) KDS 15" computer monitor can sync to 720p without a hiccup. But don't tell the TV manufacturers...they're certain that requiring progressive scan will cost hundreds of dollars extra per TV set.
Unfortunately, we've fallen into the "my solution is marginally better" trap, where each revision must be incorporated to stay current (i.e. video compression). The market is very bad at sorting out winners and losers in this game, because the stakes are so high ($5000 TVs) that many people will sit on the sidelines as long as possible, slowing adoption and preventing a winner from emerging in an efficient fashion.
He forgot to mention that his hobby is lighting those farts.
Before you claim victory with your "scientific solutions," I recommend you remember one of your nursery rhymes..."she swollowed a spider to catch a fly..."
Not all childrens things are void of adult insight.
that the text does not appear to outlaw programs which install themselves without your permission. It appears that it's only illegal to install without your permission AFTER the user declines the installation. Intstalling without asking permission is okay. I was hoping it would make C-dilla illegal.
Talent? You think they lack talent? No, they lack a funding process which is separate from the politcal shenanigans which go on. To the folks on the hill, NASA is a jobs program for their state/district. Ever wonder why NASA is so spread out, and big programs are divvied up into many states? Support. Congressional support comes from making congressmen happy, and happines is jobs and money.
You needn't fear there are no dreamers at NASA. Or technical talent to make the dreams happen. If you feel you're wasting your money, you are, but not for the reasons you think.
But they flew a man in it anyway.
Call it progress or call it recklessness in the face of money. This is why Rutan did it for $25M vs. NASA spending a fortune.
I'm looking forward to the next design, since it sounds like BR has some ideas now that the push to win is done.
Oh, the shuttle is safe to fly again. It's as safe or safer than any other vehicle in its class. The problem is that it's not safe ENOUGH. How safe is safe enough? Perfect. Anything less is unacceptable. That's not the line you'll here from the Administrator...but the fact is if anything goes wrong you end up on the front page of the newspaper, and if it's big enough to end up on P1, it's big enough to make sure it doesn't happen.
So is my Moller Air Car.
I'm sorry, sir, but if you could step to the side.
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You see, rational thinking like this is what can get you in trouble. If you refuse to be a sheep, we can no longer allow you to speak in public.
Please repeat after me: "Baaaaaaaaa"
Very good.
Now this one: "We must be protected at all costs"
Not very convincing; you work on that one.
Okay, one more: "The government will take care of us"
Sir, you need to stop laughing. No, really, if you don't stop laughing...
Gentlement, I think this man needs assistance. Would you escort him to the comfortable room. Good.
You make it sound like it's happening behind their backs / without their knowledge. Now, I'll be the first to say that W has more on his plate than he expected and/or than he can reasonably handle, but I'm sure that the key people in industry have key people in the administration who are making sure these things can get through.
Don't get me wrong...these kinds of things happen in BOTH parties, though generally for a different (though overlapping) subset of industries. However, the "you're with us or against us" all or nothing doctrine which has been adopted has offered a great number of anti-free-market and anti-privacy measures the opportunity to sail through without noticable dissent. It really IS like the McCarthy era, with many reasonable people afraid to speak up for being labelled as "pro-terrorism" or "anti-American." This has gone as far as suggesting that voting for a particular political candidate would directly result in another 9/11/01-scale attack against the US.
This has fostered the atmosphere. Well, that and the fact that both the legeslative and executive branches are controlled by one party, and there have been almost no judicial appointments for 12 years, and the same party controlled the appointment process for the 12 years prior to that. The deck is stacked.
Now, you know better. They cut speed limits to conserve gasoline. They _kept_ them low because they found out they generated more revenue with the artificially low limits.
I thought they'd just increase the soylent green production.
It's a joke. Sick, but a joke.
But he said it. That's all that's important in a sound bite.
Kind of like the comment about voting for non-citizens, which makes no general sense. Makes anyone sound like a nut-job. However, allowing non-citizen parents of public-school childern to vote for the school board does make sense.
If you're a republican and are worried about all those illegal immigrants voting an Hispanic onto the school board, I suggest you re-form your thoughts. Imagine a family comes over from Englad or Germany for a job in an international firm located in the states. They have visas, they pay taxes. They cart the kids to soccer games (okay, don't hold soccer against them). Should they get a vote to determine who is on the school board for their kids?
Hahaha.. that's true.
It's kinda like American culture, politics, and education.
Oh, you want American culture, you just don't want to admit it to anyone else. Unless you're 60 or older, in which case not only don't you wnat it, you're certain that it's corrupting your kids. Which it probably is.
Nobody want's american politics, including americans. Actually, I think the lobbyists like it, and some of the larger corporations who pay the lobbyists. Heck, half of the politicians don't want it either.
Education...well...that's a toss up. You couldn't give away primary and secondary education, but colleges in the US are pretty much in demand. How else could they charge $30k/yr (that's US, about $250k Can, right?) and STILL end up full of international students. Okay, aside from the sleeper cell recruits.
Just a couple of clarifications...
1. Global warming is real. The warming/cooling cycles have a far shorter period than 4By. Our ability to make a meaningful difference in the current trend it is still up for debate.
2. North Korea isn't allowed to have nukes. We've just been ignoring their transgression because we're preoccupied with other events.
That's mostly true. If you are personally negligent in your organization or acts, you can be held personally liable for damages. The advatage to the "corporate veil" is that it's harder to due you, not impossible. If you have lotsa money, and the corporation is broke (it will be after you take any profits out), you'll probably get a letter.
Unless you really think you're an attractive target for a lawsuit, draft up some terms, incorporate and "go naked". Sadly, having a lawyer review your disclaimer and incorporating (inc or llc) will cost you more than your insurance, though it will be good for future years.
btw, IANAL, but I practice structural engineering, which is the worst type to get liability insurance for. We're the anesthesiologists of the architectural insurance world.
And in every hotel room that's used for illicit affairs, depraved sex acts, and other deviant behavior there's...wait for it..A BIBLE!
I'd say that's a 1 to 1 correlation which, if you're trying to prove a point, equates to direct causality and then clearly the BIBLE CAUSES DEVIANT BEHAVIOR.
My sig is just way too appropriate in this case.
You may have a child (poor kid), but the mods who gave you anything but "troll" are idiots.
Of course you wouldn't put a leash on your three month old. You don't have to worry about getting separated from your 3 month old unless you put the infant carrier down and walk away.
Children ARE foolish, and parents are NOT perfect. As careful as I am with my 2 year old, I wouldn't hesitate to slap a gps wristwatch/pager on my kid if I took here to a place where she had any possibility of getting lost. No matter how attentive I am, there is still a chance - remote though it may be - of us getting separated. She's highly mobile at this age, and though knows her name (yes, first and last) just try to get that information out of here if she's lost and scared and surrounded by strangers.
Don't think it's worthwile? Explain that to the mother and father of the six year old who was playing with friends in the woods behind their house. The kids were playing hind-and-seek, and he hid just a little too well. Problem was, he got lost in the woods cause he forgot which way was out. They did find him. Three days later. Dead from hypothermia. Imagine how scared he must have been. With a three month old, you can't understand how your relationship changes over the course of a couple of years, but you shuld start thinking about it now. If your child ins't the center of your world, I suggest you ask yourself why.
If you haven't changed your mind, I can only hope that your child will turn out to be sterile and that will end your genetic line right there, for, in my opinion you are not fit to be a parent.
Too bad that half of them are utterly incompetent for that job.
:-0
Being mighty generous today, aren't we
Heck, half of them can't even stay married...and they got to choose that person.