Because AMD unlike Intel (nawadays) makes next gen chips available for previous gen motherboards. So total cost of ownership is substantially lower with AMD than Intel. I got 3x performance boost on a several year old system this way. Because their motherboards are cheaper and use normal RAM (RDRAM debacle, anyone?). Because Intel has tried and failed to screw the enthusiast consumer for decades (except for that celeron 300 -> 450 thing, that rocked). Because their multithreaded performance is better, because their 8 core chips are cheaper, and some of us run an operating system and compute jobs that take full advantage of multiple cores. Because some of us _like_ AMD, and their continued existence means lower CPU prices for everyone.
Just because you don't want one (Tesla) doesn't make it suck. Electric cars are interesting, potentially awesome. I'm glad someone is building them. At least its an American car that is better than most/all of its competition. Which is pretty rare. And the wide availability of recharge cuts the gasoline cord. Most people drive within its roundtrip range most of the time. There are inexpensive rental cars for long journeys. It makes sense if you want it to. If you don't want it to it never will.
I used to bike commute and I consumed way more calories than my peers who did not, once I dropped down to my healthy minimum. In fact, it was more expensive to bike commute than drive (first level analysis neglecting health benefits, quality of life, etc), because I have an efficient cheap car, and (decent) food is expensive. I guess it would have been cheaper eating raw sugar cubes and canned beans, but I was going to all you can eat places and loading up and it was still pricier.
Not that I wouldn't recommend biking more, especially for ordinary tasks. I have bought exactly one tank of gas this year so far, and am trying to keep it under four tanks for the year (excepting out of town travel). But I don't think bike vs drive has any real impact on carbon balance, unless the need to limit travel distance keeps commutes/stores/etc closer. All money spent eventually generates carbon, whether you do it yourself or the processes that generate the things you spend money on do.
It shouldn't have been possible to "miswire" an aerospace battery, the connectors should have been coded, the wires, and the inspectors should have seen and tested this. Battery failure is still a process failure. Unfortunately, process failures are the most systemic failures possible. Lets hope I'm wrong....
Good idea calling it a Merkur, not an XR4Ti. Those exroti fans are pretty rabid. My roommate in college still Loves, with a capital L, his. They were just quirky. Like the first turbo four Toyotas, Nissans, and Mitsus. Oh, wait, it predated most/all of those. And had the intrinsic rain shedding coating on the glass, no rainx required. Shoulda kept the all wheel drive from europe tho.
Farm with racks of those, hot and cold aisles, cold aisles were freezing, hot aisles were sweltering. Run it opposite the LHC to balance the electricity usage.
You need to cite a source for those numbers, the linked article says 464M$ average launch price for ULA (Atlas V/Delta IV). SpaceX costs look like all up, 125M$ for AtlasV looks like launch vehicle itself, maybe, no integration or launch costs or sustainment or etc. additional costs. What does ULA get, total, from the Federal and State Govt, for how many launches?
Proton M looks same, vehicle only.
Not criticizing, but would love to see the source of that data.
Boeing and Airbus actually compete on jetliners. Embraer et. al. would jump in if they slacked off.
Boeing and Lockheed-Martin got the federal government to fund the development of two separate EELV rockets, so there would be competition, then spun their rocket businesses off into United Launch Alliance and got rid of the competition between them. Amaze anyone that costs are now half a billion to orbit?
People will still need human jobs, robot bartenders/wait staff will be a novelty. Rich people will always want to show how rich they are, the economy will cope with machines.
Strippers, for example, make far more than the minimum wage. There will always be a human market.
Fashion, art, archtecture, none are machine driven.
Science, engineering, have survived the computer age, they will continue to do so.
All this does if free us from some of the boring jobs leaving us free to do interesting ones.
If the only existence you can imagine for yourself is 40 hours a week doing production line assembly, I really feel for you, you are missing the whole point of being human.
I have gotten 4.1 and 4.2 basically the day it was released on my Galaxy Nexus, and any updates same (4.2.1 currently). Rox. T-Mobile prepaid. Rox. Don't see why I would go with anything else, ever; half price of iPhone, half price for service, does everything I need it to.
App for everything. I'm sure there are corner cases, but I don't need paper maps, a GPS, flashlight, camera, laptop (for travelling anyway...), or a music player, in addition to a phone, anymore.
I used to think like that. I have worked for a defense contractor now, and they are wasteful entities. Not as wasteful as government entities, but damn close. Elon did an interview with Wired, it was good. He looked for ways to do things cheaper better faster. In the world of defense contractors, that's very easy pickings. He also put up his own money to start. I think you would be suprised how cheap a lot of big government purchases could be, if done the same way. We have the examples, SpaceX rockets, Predator drones, Wright Brothers.
The only reason government contractors complain about requirements is they are taking government money to do the DESIGN, PROTOTYPING, and production. If you do it all on your own, you get to do it your way; but if it fails, you get nothing.
I think you have that wrong way round, the Hubble mirror is the size it is because Lockheed (prime) could build it cheaper if it was sized the same as satellites they were already building. See wikipedia article on kh-11 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennan these were 2.4m space telescopes first launched in 1976, same prime as Hubble.
I love that AMD makes current gen processors that fit in previous gen mb, so I can do a cheap mid-life upgrade. Athlon X2 to Phenom 2 X4 (945) chip; AM2 mb. Awesome! Cheap. It will be a sad day if AMD goes away, left with only Intel expensive for homebuilds.... Only AMD has made sense for me, pretty much every time I was building a machine. Their cost-performance was the best for complete machine builds, not withstanding the cheap mid life upgrade bonus above.
Music? You do know that Tipper Gore (Mrs. Al Gore) was cofounder of the PMRC, who absolutely tried to control the music we listen to. They all the same man, two sides of the same coin.
This music witchhunt, that was during the time when climate change was the most important thing in the world, to Al, that he never did a damn thing about, in all his years of public service.
T-Mobile Monthly. 60$, 2GB 4G, unlimited slow after that. Unlimited text and voice. Spotty coverage for data, but sometimes blazing fast (SF bay area, LA, etc).
Most importantly, no hassles! Pay. Works. Don't pay, doesn't work. No contract. No activation fees. No fee fees. OMFG awesome.
You have to provide your own phone. Google Galaxy Nexus was my choice, but then I like the Google infrastructure.
Worked well when we used it. Email to the network owner, log excerpts, etc; they found machine and fixed it. One was in Italy at some university, they were really cool, emailed us back and everything. Didn't work all the time, but you would be amazed how well a nice note to the network folks works. They don't want to pollute the net; they are much like you in that way.
Might be a cool study tho, anti-vaxx schools. Then when their kids die or get sick IN DROVES, people will forget about this stupid anti-vaxx movement. Think about how fast a contagion will move through a completely defenseless population. Would only take 1 or 2 examples for parents to wake the fsck up. Especially since its the wealthy heli perents who are anti-vaxx and relying on others to protect their preciouses....
I was painfully honest. They had real issues. I had previously on several occasions told my boss what they were. Nothing changed. I asked for a layoff and was told the company would never lay someone who was skilled off. So I quit for unemployment. Told them so. Won't change anything I'm sure, but my conscience is clear.
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Because AMD unlike Intel (nawadays) makes next gen chips available for previous gen motherboards. So total cost of ownership is substantially lower with AMD than Intel. I got 3x performance boost on a several year old system this way. Because their motherboards are cheaper and use normal RAM (RDRAM debacle, anyone?). Because Intel has tried and failed to screw the enthusiast consumer for decades (except for that celeron 300 -> 450 thing, that rocked). Because their multithreaded performance is better, because their 8 core chips are cheaper, and some of us run an operating system and compute jobs that take full advantage of multiple cores. Because some of us _like_ AMD, and their continued existence means lower CPU prices for everyone.
Maybe that's why.
andy
Just because you don't want one (Tesla) doesn't make it suck. Electric cars are interesting, potentially awesome. I'm glad someone is building them. At least its an American car that is better than most/all of its competition. Which is pretty rare. And the wide availability of recharge cuts the gasoline cord. Most people drive within its roundtrip range most of the time. There are inexpensive rental cars for long journeys. It makes sense if you want it to. If you don't want it to it never will.
andy
I used to bike commute and I consumed way more calories than my peers who did not, once I dropped down to my healthy minimum. In fact, it was more expensive to bike commute than drive (first level analysis neglecting health benefits, quality of life, etc), because I have an efficient cheap car, and (decent) food is expensive. I guess it would have been cheaper eating raw sugar cubes and canned beans, but I was going to all you can eat places and loading up and it was still pricier.
Not that I wouldn't recommend biking more, especially for ordinary tasks. I have bought exactly one tank of gas this year so far, and am trying to keep it under four tanks for the year (excepting out of town travel). But I don't think bike vs drive has any real impact on carbon balance, unless the need to limit travel distance keeps commutes/stores/etc closer. All money spent eventually generates carbon, whether you do it yourself or the processes that generate the things you spend money on do.
andy
I just checked, and the most expensive monster cable on bestbuy.com is 583.61$, still totally rediculous.
andy
I agree.
It shouldn't have been possible to "miswire" an aerospace battery, the connectors should have been coded, the wires, and the inspectors should have seen and tested this. Battery failure is still a process failure. Unfortunately, process failures are the most systemic failures possible. Lets hope I'm wrong....
andy
Good idea calling it a Merkur, not an XR4Ti. Those exroti fans are pretty rabid. My roommate in college still Loves, with a capital L, his. They were just quirky. Like the first turbo four Toyotas, Nissans, and Mitsus. Oh, wait, it predated most/all of those. And had the intrinsic rain shedding coating on the glass, no rainx required. Shoulda kept the all wheel drive from europe tho.
andy
Space heater?
Farm with racks of those, hot and cold aisles, cold aisles were freezing, hot aisles were sweltering. Run it opposite the LHC to balance the electricity usage.
andy
Watch? Old person or fashionista.
Talk on cell phone? Old person or poor.
I'm sure there are exceptions, but first impression.
You need to cite a source for those numbers, the linked article says 464M$ average launch price for ULA (Atlas V/Delta IV). SpaceX costs look like all up, 125M$ for AtlasV looks like launch vehicle itself, maybe, no integration or launch costs or sustainment or etc. additional costs. What does ULA get, total, from the Federal and State Govt, for how many launches?
Proton M looks same, vehicle only.
Not criticizing, but would love to see the source of that data.
andy
Boeing and Airbus actually compete on jetliners. Embraer et. al. would jump in if they slacked off.
Boeing and Lockheed-Martin got the federal government to fund the development of two separate EELV rockets, so there would be competition, then spun their rocket businesses off into United Launch Alliance and got rid of the competition between them. Amaze anyone that costs are now half a billion to orbit?
Spacex can crush them.
andy
People will still need human jobs, robot bartenders/wait staff will be a novelty. Rich people will always want to show how rich they are, the economy will cope with machines.
Strippers, for example, make far more than the minimum wage. There will always be a human market.
Fashion, art, archtecture, none are machine driven.
Science, engineering, have survived the computer age, they will continue to do so.
All this does if free us from some of the boring jobs leaving us free to do interesting ones.
If the only existence you can imagine for yourself is 40 hours a week doing production line assembly, I really feel for you, you are missing the whole point of being human.
andy
I have gotten 4.1 and 4.2 basically the day it was released on my Galaxy Nexus, and any updates same (4.2.1 currently). Rox. T-Mobile prepaid. Rox. Don't see why I would go with anything else, ever; half price of iPhone, half price for service, does everything I need it to.
App for everything. I'm sure there are corner cases, but I don't need paper maps, a GPS, flashlight, camera, laptop (for travelling anyway...), or a music player, in addition to a phone, anymore.
andy
I used to think like that. I have worked for a defense contractor now, and they are wasteful entities. Not as wasteful as government entities, but damn close. Elon did an interview with Wired, it was good. He looked for ways to do things cheaper better faster. In the world of defense contractors, that's very easy pickings. He also put up his own money to start.
I think you would be suprised how cheap a lot of big government purchases could be, if done the same way. We have the examples, SpaceX rockets, Predator drones, Wright Brothers.
The only reason government contractors complain about requirements is they are taking government money to do the DESIGN, PROTOTYPING, and production. If you do it all on your own, you get to do it your way; but if it fails, you get nothing.
andy
I think you have that wrong way round, the Hubble mirror is the size it is because Lockheed (prime) could build it cheaper if it was sized the same as satellites they were already building. See wikipedia article on kh-11
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennan
these were 2.4m space telescopes first launched in 1976, same prime as Hubble.
andy
I love that AMD makes current gen processors that fit in previous gen mb, so I can do a cheap mid-life upgrade. Athlon X2 to Phenom 2 X4 (945) chip; AM2 mb. Awesome! Cheap. It will be a sad day if AMD goes away, left with only Intel expensive for homebuilds.... Only AMD has made sense for me, pretty much every time I was building a machine. Their cost-performance was the best for complete machine builds, not withstanding the cheap mid life upgrade bonus above.
andy
Music? You do know that Tipper Gore (Mrs. Al Gore) was cofounder of the PMRC, who absolutely tried to control the music we listen to. They all the same man, two sides of the same coin.
This music witchhunt, that was during the time when climate change was the most important thing in the world, to Al, that he never did a damn thing about, in all his years of public service.
Or something.
andy
How did you do that, get in my brain?
*grin*
This is awesome! Fake post to slashdot, fake website for kitchen faucets...is this the intarwebs everyone else gets?
I don't have my abuse numbers anymore, can someone rid the net of this scum please?
andy
T-Mobile Monthly. 60$, 2GB 4G, unlimited slow after that. Unlimited text and voice. Spotty coverage for data, but sometimes blazing fast (SF bay area, LA, etc).
Most importantly, no hassles! Pay. Works. Don't pay, doesn't work. No contract. No activation fees. No fee fees. OMFG awesome.
You have to provide your own phone. Google Galaxy Nexus was my choice, but then I like the Google infrastructure.
andy
Worked well when we used it. Email to the network owner, log excerpts, etc; they found machine and fixed it. One was in Italy at some university, they were really cool, emailed us back and everything. Didn't work all the time, but you would be amazed how well a nice note to the network folks works. They don't want to pollute the net; they are much like you in that way.
andy
This situation was made for lawyers. Or something.
andy
Might be a cool study tho, anti-vaxx schools. Then when their kids die or get sick IN DROVES, people will forget about this stupid anti-vaxx movement. Think about how fast a contagion will move through a completely defenseless population. Would only take 1 or 2 examples for parents to wake the fsck up. Especially since its the wealthy heli perents who are anti-vaxx and relying on others to protect their preciouses....
andy
We call this practice, bottom feeding....
Makes you wonder why HR would do this if their hires will jump ship at the earliest opportunity...Oh w8, its HR. Lowest dollar hire wins! Id10ts.
andy
I was painfully honest. They had real issues. I had previously on several occasions told my boss what they were. Nothing changed. I asked for a layoff and was told the company would never lay someone who was skilled off. So I quit for unemployment. Told them so. Won't change anything I'm sure, but my conscience is clear.
andy
This, exactly.