Print costs are really expensive. Maybe some other Slashdotters would have better statistics available at hand
I would imagine that providing a hard copy of said printed material across the entire country to people's homes or businesses _every morning_ within, I guess, 12 hours of it being printed is not cheap either, if not even more than the raw printing costs.
We pay them, but we have to distribute it for them?!
Big companies, who probably have big a** internet connections themselves, should make their wares available for direct download by standard HTTP and/or FTP...
Well, maybe that's just me.
Well, for me, regardless of their fat pipe, I would prefer a torrent download vs a regular HTTP or FTP one.
Why?
It will probably be faster, and its more efficient on the net in general. I don't know about you, but whenever I hop on a hot torrent, the thing screams. I've never had a direct download from a remote server over the internet compare to a torrent with 50 to 100+ seeders and a number of leachers.
What needs to happen is for it to be more transparent for users. To have bittornent as a service running on their machines that is configurable, or autoconfigurable so that it shares x percentage of the upload on the machine, and that it _keeps running_, so that selfish bozos don't immediately close their bittorent client as soon as their download is complete. This _should_ or _may_ be welcomed by ISPs because it _should_ or _may_ reduce their bandwidth to the outside world because peers would be downloading from each other from the same ISP and not going all the way out on the net. Also, ISPs could reconfigure their networks to raise or uncap the bandwidth limits within their network to encourage such peer to peer traffic.
I personally see this as the "way of the future" for all media. Personally, I thought for years that no one should directly pay for media like a CD or DVD, but instead simply pay a monthly fee like we already do for cable and broadband, and simply allow us to download, and lord forbid, share whatever the hell we want.
One thing that the media suppliers seem to forget is that individuals do _NOT_ have infinite storage and time requirements. And we always are looking for something new to watch or listen to. A service type payment would be ideal, and torrents or similar is the best solution.
Not too long ago, the hula hoop was popular for its seamless integration with the waistline and the fact that dumb white kids could pretend to dance without having to move their feet.
Fads happen. Granted there are features of an iPod that make it a decent player for some people, but most of the time I hear the word iPod mentioned, it is in the context of just a generic brandname like Walkman used to be. Also, there are those hipsters that have their eyes glaze over when you mention the work iPod because of its hip popularity, but if hula hoops were still the thing, they would be doing those instead.
For me, the iPod fails to meet my minimum requirements for a portable music player on many counts. Sound quality is a big one. I'm a little more snobby about my music playback equipment than most people, but its certainly not out of ignorance or persuasion of the masses.
On one side you've got their hardware guys who don't want to spend their R&D money and waste time/resources on redesigning and rebuilding playback devices that have worked just fine for years to respect the mandated DRM that the RIAA is trying to get into the law books.
Then you've got the label people pushing Sony's attorneys and reps at the RIAA to get this legislation done!
The power people give to the RIAA is amazing.
You do realize that the RIAA is paid by Sony as a trade group to protect _Sony's_ (and the other's that pay the RIAA) interests, right?
Sony is under no obligation to the RIAA whatsoever. They _voluntarily_ are a member of the RIAA.
It kills me how much power this subordinate organization has achieved over the the past couple of years. They first were known for things like establishing the playback equalization of LPs, more recently things like voluntary and standardized "parental warnings" on albums, and for periodically awarding an artist for their achievements in their record sales by awarding gold, platinum, double platinum, etc milestones.
Then, I guess the RIAA hired an unknown buy very overzealous lawyer that is very persistent in maintaining their job security by perpetuating lawsuits that regardless of the outcome of the suit, the lawyer will win.
Please keep in mind that essentially the RIAA is impotent. They do not produce records, they don't do that much, but basically take the bad rap on behalf of the record labels themselves.
That is fine and useful I would imagine for many to share their thoughts about these patches. I just really have objection to the way slashdot tries to start a flamewar by titling the articles similar to "Microsoft releases eight security updates", and then the anti MS people post "yeah, MS is insecure", when this is merely a regular responsible update that is supplied by MS every second tuesday of every month.
They should at least make a phone call to the party so they don't waste time trying to figure out the problem.
The problem is that their box has been owned, and they did not know it in the first place. Even if they do try to figure out why their internet is no longer working, it should not take too long to figure it out and call their ISP. If it takes them longer, so what?
The motivation of the ISP (like at the uni where I work) in cutting off the owned box is two fold. 1) To protect others on their network and the internet in general from the havoc that their hacked box is doing and 2) To "punish" the person and get their attention as to what the problem is and hopefully make them aware of what is going on.
If the ISP simply calls the person and says "Your box is owned, you gotta fix it", the person will probably respond with "I don't care, I can still do what I need to do on my computer. I'm a nice guy, and I don't mind sharing my computer with someone from Asia or Russia to send out friendly emails regarding Rolex watches, penis pills, and pirated software. Its not affecting me."
By cutting off their internet connection, it starts affecting the "me" in the situation, and they then will take action.
But, seriously, how many CPU intensive applications outside of the server arena take advantage of SMP?
None and all.
The way I see it, this is how processors need to go for desktop use. Multicore that clocks down for "normal" use, but the multiple cores come into play when a burst of CPU is needed. This will address power requirements because the CPU will be clocked down much of the time, but the processor will perform when needed.
I am not a gamer and I know nothing about the CPU requirements for games, so the multicore stuff may not be applicable here. But in all seriousness, gamers seem to get their necessary hardware one way or another.
Now, for "real computing" such as number crunching and servers. I see real SMP systems, possibly with mulicores happening. Memory bandwidth is critical for these applications and a multicored CPU will not do much in this environment. The OS will have much to say about this in how it allocates processes to cores vs real processors. Some very tight apps that can keep all or most of their datasets on the processors cache will shine with any additional CPU power albeit real CPUs or "fake" ones via multicore processors. But those apps are few and far between. They do however exist.
Get rid of the costly customers, or charge them more.
Just to play devil's advocate here. There will always be a "most costly" group. Anyone in this kind of business that does not realize this is simply ignorant, and will likely be out of business soon. Without seeing a single real stat I would estimate that either 10% or 20% of the users use 90% or 80% of the bandwidth, respectively. Why? Just about everything else is that way.
Also, the big hitters are likely to be more educated in net use, and happy ones will be able to articulate that to others. Your average joe with broadband to look at ESPN and CNN and check his incoming spam likes his broadband because its "always on", does not tie up the phone line, and it loads those web pages quickly. Odds are you could halve or quarter their bandwidth at any time and they would never notice. Also, ISPs advertise with specific upload and download bandwidth measurements. They know who is listening to those numbers.
So why are some people naturally well disposed to figure out how to use search engines and email while others think of a computer as a magical device they cannot use?
Money is simply a standard unit of measure that one receives for work (primarily) and uses it to pay for necessities in life and then extra stuff if there is extra money.
Most people think money is more magical than computers. If you've never really known a poor person, your in for a treat. Let me tell you, poor people suck. Just ask Kenny.
Then you're not going to be writing anything to it anyway.
The best you can do is use a degausser, since you can't open the drive without voiding your warranty.
I used to work with a guy that worked at NASA with some classified stuff. He was the hard drive data destroyer. What he did was he went outside took the drives apart and smashed the platters with a hammer until they were small enough pieces to do nothing with and threw the pieces into a dumpster. Yeah, I guess its possible to get at least some info from a piece of a platter if one was properly motivated, but one would have to be very motivated, and I doubt that much info would be obtained. I also believe he degaussed the drives first.
He also said that he had to negotiate an interesting contract with their hd vendor because he could not return a faulty drive.
Ah, but that was way before young people needed soap operas directed towards them. So, MTV became the soap opera channel for teenagers and young 20 somethings, and then the created VH1 with the motto "Music First". Clearly they are living up to their motto by their schedule. Well, 3AM to 10Am at least.
Did I mention the HD channels they offered were rotten?
No you didn't. But my cable company told me that Voom had exclusive contracts for much of the HD content when I was bitching about the lack of HD options from my cable company. When I heard that, I said to the cable guy "You mean that I have a limited HD programming options due to some exclusive contracts to a company with no business model that will go out of business soon".
Well, feel free to correct me about the content part, but it looks like I was right about the business part.
Porn gets you excited and the probability of you jerking off to it is very high.
A lot of legitimate art contains nudity, or representations thereof - should art galleries be forced into the.xxx category?
Beauty is another very abstract thing, but a nude picture (even Playboy style) is not at least in my book porn.
What about plastic surgery clinic websites with 'before' and 'after' pictures of things such as breast enlargement?
This too is not for excitement. It is for getting more bucks into the plastic surgeons pocket.
I'm personally of the opinion that the only person capable of making a judgement about what your kids can and can't see is you
True, but lets make damn sure that every child never, ever, ever, makes a typo in an URL. Hell, or even you as the parent in front of your child.
Although this could go way too far to "protect the children". Let me tell you, no child is going to explode or have any other real physical or emotional problem. But its simply awkward, and something that a child simply does not understand. I would image that most all parents still have sex. I have never heard anywhere from anyone where it was customary for parents to have sex in front of their children. Kinda like they don't push calculus or physics on children either. Its just simply not something that they are ready or capable of understanding.
Hell, I was 19 years old and still did not understand anal sex.
The problem I've always had with Windows permissions is that it's damned-near impossible to debug permissions problems.
True. I love it how Windows does not even allow you to see the current permissions in some cases so that you don't even know who to ask to either change them or to ask your admin to get added to an additional group or whatever to get proper permissions.
I'm not too familiar with Windows (nor did i RTFA), but from what I gather its ACLs are superior to the offerings of UNIXlike systems. When I did use NT or whatever it was, I was a developer and I logged in with administrator privileges because I simply could not close out my work, log in as admin, do one simple thing, log back in as me, figure out I needed to go back to admin, rinse & repeat.
Its only under extremely rare circumstances that I log in directly as root (administrator) on a UNIXlike environment. Usually its when something like the NFS mounted home directories are having problems and I need to log in with a user that has a locally attached home directory, or when a box is completely new and I'm setting it up.
Windows does not have a su or sudo command like UNIX does. I've heard that there is a "run as" or something like that, but I've heard that it does not work very well.
This limitation and its consequences are one of many things that I cannot and will not tolerate about Windows. There are too many fundamentally broken or braindead design decisions that simply drive me up a wall.
Personally, I have not ran into issues with unix permissions being limiting, but I have heard people bitch about them, and I can see where their simplicity can be a bit limiting.
This reminds me of one of my favorite OS quotes: "I'd rather fix a UNIX system, than deal with Windows". So very true in my experience.
Most farmers like DST so they don't need to get up so early in order to get chores done.
Maybe things have changed, but I thought farmers got up at dawn, regardless of what time that was. Maybe its changed, and that is just a myth from the good ol days, but that is what I thought. Also, being that I would imagine that farmers don't have any set schedule aside from plant and harvest time, I don't see too much of a problem here.
Now as for the poor kids going to school in the dark. I always thought that the time of going and stopping school was pretty arbitrary, and it could be any time. The same goes for going to work.
What has become so important in the recent human schedule that the fucking Sun that has been around quite a while is interfering with?
Sure, they're crappy PC speakers, but why bother with anything better if I simply cannot tell the difference.
That is fine for you. I would save lots of money, time, and effort if I was content with listening to low quality MP3s on crappy PC speakers.
I however, do not use crappy PC speakers, and I can and have been able to tell the difference between a late 90s or newer studio recording that was encoded to MP3 on my stereo that a friend brought over, and my friend and roommate asked "How can you tell it was from MP3?". I said, can't you? The CD changer then switched to an unprofessionally recorded live recording from the late 70s, and I then asked them, "Now can you tell the difference?".
Then then said, "Yes".
Hey, all of life is about perception. Look at what most people have in terms of their car, wife, house, etc. If thats good enough for them. Fine. I guess I'm just an overachiever.
True. I didn't know what FOSE was until reading your post.
Another weird thing is this whole "learning by osmosis" phrase. I guess I first it in 6th or 7th grade science class when I learned what osmosis was, and never understood the phrase.
Osmosis is the transfer of _water_ through a semi-permeable membrane. I don't get where putting cellulose (wood or paper) on your head will even metaphorically promote "learning by osmosis". I can see learning by diffusion, but I guess that does not sound as smart as osmosis.
In 2003, I purchased a P4 3.06ghz, which I'm using right now to type this message. 2005-2003 = 2 years. Where are the 6.12ghz machines?
I was wondering the same thing. I just bought two new machines and was doing price/performance considerations of the Xeon processors that were available, and I decided on the 3.0 GHz. I don't have the prices handy but here are the percent increase in at least clockspeed for two years of processors
Yet (I dont have them handy) the prices go up substantially for each 0.2 GHz increase. I don't consider the difference between 3.0 and 3.4 to even be significant. So many other variables like software optimization or whatever could easily account for 13% difference. Even 26% is not that exciting to me either.
So yeah, is Moore's theory holding true? If the # of transistors are still being increased 2x every 18 months, I'm not seeing anything near that in performance.
In a smaller company if you lease your office, the furniture, the computer hardware, basically no real assets, when you get sued (which seems to be a when not if thing, in the US market) and if you lose, you have nothing to give up.
So, let me get this straight. If you lease everything and own nothing and get sued your left with nothing. If you buy everything and get sued and all assets are taken and your left with nothing.
To me that sounds like a loose/loose situation.
Also, if leasing is more cost effective, then your likely to have more cash lying around, which is what people sue for anyway.
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Print costs are really expensive. Maybe some other Slashdotters would have better statistics available at hand
I would imagine that providing a hard copy of said printed material across the entire country to people's homes or businesses _every morning_ within, I guess, 12 hours of it being printed is not cheap either, if not even more than the raw printing costs.
We pay them, but we have to distribute it for them?!
Big companies, who probably have big a** internet connections themselves, should make their wares available for direct download by standard HTTP and/or FTP...
Well, maybe that's just me.
Well, for me, regardless of their fat pipe, I would prefer a torrent download vs a regular HTTP or FTP one.
Why?
It will probably be faster, and its more efficient on the net in general. I don't know about you, but whenever I hop on a hot torrent, the thing screams. I've never had a direct download from a remote server over the internet compare to a torrent with 50 to 100+ seeders and a number of leachers.
What needs to happen is for it to be more transparent for users. To have bittornent as a service running on their machines that is configurable, or autoconfigurable so that it shares x percentage of the upload on the machine, and that it _keeps running_, so that selfish bozos don't immediately close their bittorent client as soon as their download is complete. This _should_ or _may_ be welcomed by ISPs because it _should_ or _may_ reduce their bandwidth to the outside world because peers would be downloading from each other from the same ISP and not going all the way out on the net. Also, ISPs could reconfigure their networks to raise or uncap the bandwidth limits within their network to encourage such peer to peer traffic.
I personally see this as the "way of the future" for all media. Personally, I thought for years that no one should directly pay for media like a CD or DVD, but instead simply pay a monthly fee like we already do for cable and broadband, and simply allow us to download, and lord forbid, share whatever the hell we want.
One thing that the media suppliers seem to forget is that individuals do _NOT_ have infinite storage and time requirements. And we always are looking for something new to watch or listen to. A service type payment would be ideal, and torrents or similar is the best solution.
How faithful to the spirit of the book will the movie be?
You mean the radio play, right?
The Hitchhikers series was a radio play first, and a book second.
Not too long ago, the hula hoop was popular for its seamless integration with the waistline and the fact that dumb white kids could pretend to dance without having to move their feet.
Fads happen. Granted there are features of an iPod that make it a decent player for some people, but most of the time I hear the word iPod mentioned, it is in the context of just a generic brandname like Walkman used to be. Also, there are those hipsters that have their eyes glaze over when you mention the work iPod because of its hip popularity, but if hula hoops were still the thing, they would be doing those instead.
For me, the iPod fails to meet my minimum requirements for a portable music player on many counts. Sound quality is a big one. I'm a little more snobby about my music playback equipment than most people, but its certainly not out of ignorance or persuasion of the masses.
On one side you've got their hardware guys who don't want to spend their R&D money and waste time/resources on redesigning and rebuilding playback devices that have worked just fine for years to respect the mandated DRM that the RIAA is trying to get into the law books.
Then you've got the label people pushing Sony's attorneys and reps at the RIAA to get this legislation done!
The power people give to the RIAA is amazing.
You do realize that the RIAA is paid by Sony as a trade group to protect _Sony's_ (and the other's that pay the RIAA) interests, right?
Sony is under no obligation to the RIAA whatsoever. They _voluntarily_ are a member of the RIAA.
It kills me how much power this subordinate organization has achieved over the the past couple of years. They first were known for things like establishing the playback equalization of LPs, more recently things like voluntary and standardized "parental warnings" on albums, and for periodically awarding an artist for their achievements in their record sales by awarding gold, platinum, double platinum, etc milestones.
Then, I guess the RIAA hired an unknown buy very overzealous lawyer that is very persistent in maintaining their job security by perpetuating lawsuits that regardless of the outcome of the suit, the lawyer will win.
Please keep in mind that essentially the RIAA is impotent. They do not produce records, they don't do that much, but basically take the bad rap on behalf of the record labels themselves.
That is fine and useful I would imagine for many to share their thoughts about these patches. I just really have objection to the way slashdot tries to start a flamewar by titling the articles similar to "Microsoft releases eight security updates", and then the anti MS people post "yeah, MS is insecure", when this is merely a regular responsible update that is supplied by MS every second tuesday of every month.
Hmm, Microsoft security updates. Must be the 2nd Tuesday of the month.
I don't even use MS products and I know about their update schedule, yet every 2nd Tuesday of the month
They should at least make a phone call to the party so they don't waste time trying to figure out the problem.
The problem is that their box has been owned, and they did not know it in the first place. Even if they do try to figure out why their internet is no longer working, it should not take too long to figure it out and call their ISP. If it takes them longer, so what?
The motivation of the ISP (like at the uni where I work) in cutting off the owned box is two fold. 1) To protect others on their network and the internet in general from the havoc that their hacked box is doing and 2) To "punish" the person and get their attention as to what the problem is and hopefully make them aware of what is going on.
If the ISP simply calls the person and says "Your box is owned, you gotta fix it", the person will probably respond with "I don't care, I can still do what I need to do on my computer. I'm a nice guy, and I don't mind sharing my computer with someone from Asia or Russia to send out friendly emails regarding Rolex watches, penis pills, and pirated software. Its not affecting me."
By cutting off their internet connection, it starts affecting the "me" in the situation, and they then will take action.
Its not that big of a deal.
But, seriously, how many CPU intensive applications outside of the server arena take advantage of SMP?
None and all.
The way I see it, this is how processors need to go for desktop use. Multicore that clocks down for "normal" use, but the multiple cores come into play when a burst of CPU is needed. This will address power requirements because the CPU will be clocked down much of the time, but the processor will perform when needed.
I am not a gamer and I know nothing about the CPU requirements for games, so the multicore stuff may not be applicable here. But in all seriousness, gamers seem to get their necessary hardware one way or another.
Now, for "real computing" such as number crunching and servers. I see real SMP systems, possibly with mulicores happening. Memory bandwidth is critical for these applications and a multicored CPU will not do much in this environment. The OS will have much to say about this in how it allocates processes to cores vs real processors. Some very tight apps that can keep all or most of their datasets on the processors cache will shine with any additional CPU power albeit real CPUs or "fake" ones via multicore processors. But those apps are few and far between. They do however exist.
Who'd really be stupid enough to fake a judge's signature?
You are drastically overrationalizing the behavior of the irrational.
Get rid of the costly customers, or charge them more.
Just to play devil's advocate here. There will always be a "most costly" group. Anyone in this kind of business that does not realize this is simply ignorant, and will likely be out of business soon. Without seeing a single real stat I would estimate that either 10% or 20% of the users use 90% or 80% of the bandwidth, respectively. Why? Just about everything else is that way.
Also, the big hitters are likely to be more educated in net use, and happy ones will be able to articulate that to others. Your average joe with broadband to look at ESPN and CNN and check his incoming spam likes his broadband because its "always on", does not tie up the phone line, and it loads those web pages quickly. Odds are you could halve or quarter their bandwidth at any time and they would never notice. Also, ISPs advertise with specific upload and download bandwidth measurements. They know who is listening to those numbers.
So why are some people naturally well disposed to figure out how to use search engines and email while others think of a computer as a magical device they cannot use?
Money is simply a standard unit of measure that one receives for work (primarily) and uses it to pay for necessities in life and then extra stuff if there is extra money.
Most people think money is more magical than computers. If you've never really known a poor person, your in for a treat. Let me tell you, poor people suck. Just ask Kenny.
Then you're not going to be writing anything to it anyway.
The best you can do is use a degausser, since you can't open the drive without voiding your warranty.
I used to work with a guy that worked at NASA with some classified stuff. He was the hard drive data destroyer. What he did was he went outside took the drives apart and smashed the platters with a hammer until they were small enough pieces to do nothing with and threw the pieces into a dumpster. Yeah, I guess its possible to get at least some info from a piece of a platter if one was properly motivated, but one would have to be very motivated, and I doubt that much info would be obtained. I also believe he degaussed the drives first.
He also said that he had to negotiate an interesting contract with their hd vendor because he could not return a faulty drive.
Remember when MTV was only about Music Videos?
Ah, but that was way before young people needed soap operas directed towards them. So, MTV became the soap opera channel for teenagers and young 20 somethings, and then the created VH1 with the motto "Music First". Clearly they are living up to their motto by their schedule. Well, 3AM to 10Am at least.
Did I mention the HD channels they offered were rotten?
No you didn't. But my cable company told me that Voom had exclusive contracts for much of the HD content when I was bitching about the lack of HD options from my cable company. When I heard that, I said to the cable guy "You mean that I have a limited HD programming options due to some exclusive contracts to a company with no business model that will go out of business soon".
Well, feel free to correct me about the content part, but it looks like I was right about the business part.
But what is your definition of pornography?
.xxx category?
Porn gets you excited and the probability of you jerking off to it is very high.
A lot of legitimate art contains nudity, or representations thereof - should art galleries be forced into the
Beauty is another very abstract thing, but a nude picture (even Playboy style) is not at least in my book porn.
What about plastic surgery clinic websites with 'before' and 'after' pictures of things such as breast enlargement?
This too is not for excitement. It is for getting more bucks into the plastic surgeons pocket.
I'm personally of the opinion that the only person capable of making a judgement about what your kids can and can't see is you
True, but lets make damn sure that every child never, ever, ever, makes a typo in an URL. Hell, or even you as the parent in front of your child.
Although this could go way too far to "protect the children". Let me tell you, no child is going to explode or have any other real physical or emotional problem. But its simply awkward, and something that a child simply does not understand. I would image that most all parents still have sex. I have never heard anywhere from anyone where it was customary for parents to have sex in front of their children. Kinda like they don't push calculus or physics on children either. Its just simply not something that they are ready or capable of understanding.
Hell, I was 19 years old and still did not understand anal sex.
The problem I've always had with Windows permissions is that it's damned-near impossible to debug permissions problems.
True. I love it how Windows does not even allow you to see the current permissions in some cases so that you don't even know who to ask to either change them or to ask your admin to get added to an additional group or whatever to get proper permissions.
Never, ever understood that.
Are Unix permissions fine-grained enough?
For a desktop, or small userbase. Yes.
Beyond that, NO.
I'm not too familiar with Windows (nor did i RTFA), but from what I gather its ACLs are superior to the offerings of UNIXlike systems. When I did use NT or whatever it was, I was a developer and I logged in with administrator privileges because I simply could not close out my work, log in as admin, do one simple thing, log back in as me, figure out I needed to go back to admin, rinse & repeat.
Its only under extremely rare circumstances that I log in directly as root (administrator) on a UNIXlike environment. Usually its when something like the NFS mounted home directories are having problems and I need to log in with a user that has a locally attached home directory, or when a box is completely new and I'm setting it up.
Windows does not have a su or sudo command like UNIX does. I've heard that there is a "run as" or something like that, but I've heard that it does not work very well.
This limitation and its consequences are one of many things that I cannot and will not tolerate about Windows. There are too many fundamentally broken or braindead design decisions that simply drive me up a wall.
Personally, I have not ran into issues with unix permissions being limiting, but I have heard people bitch about them, and I can see where their simplicity can be a bit limiting.
This reminds me of one of my favorite OS quotes: "I'd rather fix a UNIX system, than deal with Windows". So very true in my experience.
They may not sell any units. But all of the HTPCs that I have seen that run the Windows media center OS are in the $1,500 to $2,500 range.
Because banks, stores, and employees are authoritative. The Sun is not.
Most farmers like DST so they don't need to get up so early in order to get chores done.
Maybe things have changed, but I thought farmers got up at dawn, regardless of what time that was. Maybe its changed, and that is just a myth from the good ol days, but that is what I thought. Also, being that I would imagine that farmers don't have any set schedule aside from plant and harvest time, I don't see too much of a problem here.
Now as for the poor kids going to school in the dark. I always thought that the time of going and stopping school was pretty arbitrary, and it could be any time. The same goes for going to work.
What has become so important in the recent human schedule that the fucking Sun that has been around quite a while is interfering with?
Am I missing something here?
Sure, they're crappy PC speakers, but why bother with anything better if I simply cannot tell the difference.
That is fine for you. I would save lots of money, time, and effort if I was content with listening to low quality MP3s on crappy PC speakers.
I however, do not use crappy PC speakers, and I can and have been able to tell the difference between a late 90s or newer studio recording that was encoded to MP3 on my stereo that a friend brought over, and my friend and roommate asked "How can you tell it was from MP3?". I said, can't you? The CD changer then switched to an unprofessionally recorded live recording from the late 70s, and I then asked them, "Now can you tell the difference?".
Then then said, "Yes".
Hey, all of life is about perception. Look at what most people have in terms of their car, wife, house, etc. If thats good enough for them. Fine. I guess I'm just an overachiever.
True. I didn't know what FOSE was until reading your post.
Another weird thing is this whole "learning by osmosis" phrase. I guess I first it in 6th or 7th grade science class when I learned what osmosis was, and never understood the phrase.
Osmosis is the transfer of _water_ through a semi-permeable membrane. I don't get where putting cellulose (wood or paper) on your head will even metaphorically promote "learning by osmosis". I can see learning by diffusion, but I guess that does not sound as smart as osmosis.
Yes, I'm a geek.
In 2003, I purchased a P4 3.06ghz, which I'm using right now to type this message. 2005-2003 = 2 years. Where are the 6.12ghz machines?
I was wondering the same thing. I just bought two new machines and was doing price/performance considerations of the Xeon processors that were available, and I decided on the 3.0 GHz. I don't have the prices handy but here are the percent increase in at least clockspeed for two years of processors
3.0->3.2 _6.67%
3.0->3.4 13.33% 3.2->3.4 6.25%
3.0->3.6 20.00% 3.4->3.6 5.88%
3.0->3.8 26.67% 3.6->3.8 5.56%
Yet (I dont have them handy) the prices go up substantially for each 0.2 GHz increase. I don't consider the difference between 3.0 and 3.4 to even be significant. So many other variables like software optimization or whatever could easily account for 13% difference. Even 26% is not that exciting to me either.
So yeah, is Moore's theory holding true? If the # of transistors are still being increased 2x every 18 months, I'm not seeing anything near that in performance.
In a smaller company if you lease your office, the furniture, the computer hardware, basically no real assets, when you get sued (which seems to be a when not if thing, in the US market) and if you lose, you have nothing to give up.
So, let me get this straight. If you lease everything and own nothing and get sued your left with nothing. If you buy everything and get sued and all assets are taken and your left with nothing.
To me that sounds like a loose/loose situation.
Also, if leasing is more cost effective, then your likely to have more cash lying around, which is what people sue for anyway.