That is only part of the cost, you need new memory as the old won't fit. There aren't enough PCI slots, no IDE support that I can see and not enough SATA connectors. An upgrade for me to run win7 (my Intel MB is not 64 bit) will cost between $370 (AMD) to $445 (Inte i5). I'm on full disability, this is something I need to plan and save up for as I have a very limited budget.
Upgrading software to a new OS can cost $30k/seat and up as any changes require re certifying the software. Even AMD vs Intel cpu requires certification.
Getting some software re certified to run in a new environment can cost $10m +. I know at least one company that is running 60's era emulators just due to the expense of getting their software re certified. All test cases MUST match previous results. rewriting the software might cost $10m, getting the certification might cost over $100m. The software is used to certify aircraft components design and testing.
If E10 is so good, why does my fuel consumption go up more then 10% when I use E10 vs pure gasoline? With E10 I actually use more petroleum gas per mile then with 100% gasoline. I track my mileage. A friend of mine reports the same problem and he also tracks his mileage.
I can see E85 saving petroleum fuel, but as best I can tell and anyone I know who tracks mileage, E10 INCREASES petroleum consumption.
I started using Chrome for a couple online games as the extensions were easier to deal with in chrome. If those extensions get blocked I have no use for chrome and it will go poof. I use FF as my main browser, but it seems the newer versions have become pretty unstable. Under my normal use I can usually crash FF hard enough it can't restore my sessions as when it tries it again crashes. The EA online game is very hard to play without the extensions and these are the extensions approved by EA.
Instantaneous communications does exist via ansible, mentioned/explained in the movie. The fleets had to slow down to interplanetary speeds to interact with the planets and enemy fleets.
The big problem is the contractor didn't even get the blueprint right so the entire project from start to finish needs to be tossed and redesigned go back to specs and then get the specs cleaned up as from reading between the lines, part of the problem is the spec is also screwed up. This is a case of GIGO, Garbage in, Garbage out.
They need to ban the bible as well. A minister at school in HSS once told the class that the bible has more sex in it then most erotic books. Most people just don't realize it because of the way it is worded, not to mention incest, etc.
Just because there are jobs, does not mean that the person(s) on welfare are qualified for any of those jobs and/or have the ability to even get to the job if they are qualified.
Some of those jobs pay so little that people on welfare can't afford to get the job. With the job they could not afford housing, food, transport to/from work, child care, medical expense, etc.
I am not saying that there is no fraud in the system, but the job situation is not that simple.
One way to improve the situation is to maybe do something like instead of benefits being a binary situation, ie you either qualify or don't to make it a graduated situation. You loose maybe $1 in benefits for every $2 you earn.
I'm also not sure how many of those jobs are not real, i.e., the advertized job may kinda exist, but the employer has no plans to actual hire anyone.
X86 is just one of the followers. The privilege rings started with Multics design back in the mid 60's/late 60's. Up to then most systems that had any protection used at most a 'kernel' mode and a user mode. Some used a start address and length/end registers loaded by the OS before transferring control to the user program. OS-360 used a 4 bit lock/key system. A key of 0 was only used by the OS and could access all memory. Each running program (up to 15) was assigned a key between 1 and 15 and could only access memory with the same key. IIRC keys worked on 4K boundaries so each 4K of memory could have a different key.
I'm sure there will be an internet sales tax. There is too much money involved for politicians to not tax it. Since this is inevitable, I think the best thing to do is design a tax system that causes the least complication for retailers. I propose the following:
1) An internet sales tax based solely on the shipping address.
2) The tax rate be set at 5% (no more then 7%).
3) The money is collected by the IRS or a separate federal sales tax division.
4) The collected money is divided as follows:
4a) 1% goes to the federal government general fund.
4b) 3% goes to the state according to item 1 above.
4c).9% (or less then 1% depending on the amounts involved with the rest going to the federal government) goes to R&D for the internet, support of public exchange points, support of public high speed links, and the rest goes to college/university scholarships, general research, the current general research emphases should be development of new new sources of energy such as fusion, wind, water, etc.
4d).1% should go into an emergency relief fund to help deal with emergencies so relief organizations do not have to wait for congress to authorize funds. This money would also go to the military to cover costs of military assistance when military resources are used to transport relief supplies any where in the world.
5) All merchants have to report is $$$'s collected by city, state, zip/postal code, and country.
6) Other countries can sign on to the tax agreement by meeting the same
requirements for simplicity, ie reporting is done like item 5 above and each country can decide how to apply the 5% between federal and local authorities.
7) Tax should be collected on all sales, no exceptions even if the sale
is to a government, church, state, college, university, etc.
This is my basic opinion and plan. KEEP IT SIMPLE!!!!
I recommend looking at some of the Multics features, particularly the use of segmentation and paging instead of a more normal file system. see http://www.multicians.org/features.html for an introduction to Multics features and the references for how they really work. Multics was written to run on an SMP system so a system with 1 processor was the special case.
I would also suggest looking into security, again both the permissions an perhaps the ring based permission levels. The more the cpu can help with building in security from the start the easier it will be in the long run.
You might also want to look into the NS32xxx series from National Semiconductor in the late 80's/90's( not sure exactly when). The NS3200 all had the same instruction set, however you could get the chip with 8bit, 16bit, and 32bit memory/data access. At this stage of CPU's I'd suggest looking into detaching the instruction set from the 'bit' size so the external access to memory/data was independent of the bit size. With a 32 bit data/address bus it may take 2 transfers to handle a 64 bit data item, but that can be done by the hardware without the software having to know about it. All the software sees is a 64 bit (or maybe later on with added instructions a 128bit) address/data path with the actual path width hidden by the hardware. A 64 bit program might run a little slower on a 32 bit bus, but it will run.
If you are a computer science/computer geek type then it is probably a bad thing. If you are not involved in computer technology then it doesn't matter.
I can disagree with the dating there. I started working for Honeywell Federal Systems Operations in Nov 1977 on a project at Rome Air Development Center (RADC) called NSW (National software works). At the time I joined the project, email was used to communicate among the many vendors working on NSW including HIS/FSO (me on Multics), UCLA (IBM 360), RADC (DEC-20 and Multics), MCA/Compass, BBN, MIT (while they participated), and the Air Force (contractor). This was over the Arpanet and I believe I got my first spam either in 1977 or 1978;) These days, NSW might be considered an early cloud project.
The addresses were in the same form as current addresses, user@machine (there were no domains yet so each machine had a unique name).
I worked for Honeywell from 1977 to 1979 in a multi-company ARPA contract. We exchanged informaton with all the other developers around the country via email. I can see him claiming to have written a specific email system for a specific purpose, but he did not invent email.
Go to a real office furniture company and get good chairs. don't go to Walmart, Officemax, Staples, etc. Back in 1995 I spent $600 to buy a heavy duty 24/7 office manager's chair. It came with a 12 year warranty. The chair is still in use.
I'd also suggest a comfy cot/lazy-boy/ez chair. I'm assuming there are multiple people on duty all the time. This allows one at a time to take a break away from the monitors.
You should make sure everyone can take a 10 minute break out of every hour to rest their eyes.
A company I worked for got around this by ordering all their hardware from dell and always specifying the same hardware so the drivers would be the same. The configured the first system to work the way they wanted with their MS server and then cloned the working drive for all the other workstations. All data was stored on the server. suspect an infected machine, reclone the drive.
Back when I was younger and a grad student I'd typically work 8 to 12 hours a day, 7 days a week on work projects, particularly when there were deadlines. I'd do this for several months at a time, meet the deadline, do some cleanup for a week and take a week off. Most of this was creating new code as I was developing software. I've done this for shorter times since then, like a few days at a time to solve problems for customers at another job. I've done the 8 to 12 hours/day 7 days a week for a couple months several times.
I'm now diabetic and have diabetic eye problems and can't focus on the computer screen well enough to reliably do more then around 10 hours computer work a week. I really miss the ability to program or read tech manuals.
The biggest problem I've been having with firefox is each of the last few releases seems to have become less stable then the one before it as well as taking a big performance hit. I think this may be the biggest challenge to firefox.
I think they need to take a break on adding/developing new features and take some time to do some serious bug stomping.
I'm starting to think about trying opera and/or chrome due to the crashing problems and sometimes erratic performance issues.
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That is only part of the cost, you need new memory as the old won't fit. There aren't enough PCI slots, no IDE support that I can see and not enough SATA connectors. An upgrade for me to run win7 (my Intel MB is not 64 bit) will cost between $370 (AMD) to $445 (Inte i5). I'm on full disability, this is something I need to plan and save up for as I have a very limited budget.
Upgrading software to a new OS can cost $30k/seat and up as any changes require re certifying the software. Even AMD vs Intel cpu requires certification.
Getting some software re certified to run in a new environment can cost $10m +.
I know at least one company that is running 60's era emulators just due to the expense of getting their software re certified. All test cases MUST match previous results. rewriting the software might cost $10m, getting the certification might cost over $100m. The software is used to certify aircraft components design and testing.
Project MAC started in 1963 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MAC#Project_MAC). You are Thinking of CTSS.
If E10 is so good, why does my fuel consumption go up more then 10% when I use E10 vs pure gasoline? With E10 I actually use more petroleum gas per mile then with 100% gasoline. I track my mileage. A friend of mine reports the same problem and he also tracks his mileage.
I can see E85 saving petroleum fuel, but as best I can tell and anyone I know who tracks mileage, E10 INCREASES petroleum consumption.
I started using Chrome for a couple online games as the extensions were easier to deal with in chrome. If those extensions get blocked I have no use for chrome and it will go poof. I use FF as my main browser, but it seems the newer versions have become pretty unstable. Under my normal use I can usually crash FF hard enough it can't restore my sessions as when it tries it again crashes. The EA online game is very hard to play without the extensions and these are the extensions approved by EA.
FTL travel does not exist in the Ender universe.
Instantaneous communications does exist via ansible, mentioned/explained in the movie. The fleets had to slow down to interplanetary speeds to interact with the planets and enemy fleets.
The big problem is the contractor didn't even get the blueprint right so the entire project from start to finish needs to be tossed and redesigned go back to specs and then get the specs cleaned up as from reading between the lines, part of the problem is the spec is also screwed up. This is a case of GIGO, Garbage in, Garbage out.
They need to ban the bible as well. A minister at school in HSS once told the class that the bible has more sex in it then most erotic books. Most people just don't realize it because of the way it is worded, not to mention incest, etc.
Just because there are jobs, does not mean that the person(s) on welfare are qualified for any of those jobs and/or have the ability to even get to the job if they are qualified.
Some of those jobs pay so little that people on welfare can't afford to get the job. With the job they could not afford housing, food, transport to/from work, child care, medical expense, etc.
I am not saying that there is no fraud in the system, but the job situation is not that simple.
One way to improve the situation is to maybe do something like instead of benefits being a binary situation, ie you either qualify or don't to make it a graduated situation. You loose maybe $1 in benefits for every $2 you earn.
I'm also not sure how many of those jobs are not real, i.e., the advertized job may kinda exist, but the employer has no plans to actual hire anyone.
Congress and house both sounding like the chipmunks they are ;)
So when the first killer robot starts killing the politicians they might decide the policy is bad?
Guess Hyundai hasn't heard of the Moller flying car:
http://youtu.be/rgjug_0OAF0 youtube video.
http://moller.com/dev/ company website.
still in R&D but getting closer.
X86 is just one of the followers. The privilege rings started with Multics design back in the mid 60's/late 60's. Up to then most systems that had any protection used at most a 'kernel' mode and a user mode. Some used a start address and length/end registers loaded by the OS before transferring control to the user program. OS-360 used a 4 bit lock/key system. A key of 0 was only used by the OS and could access all memory. Each running program (up to 15) was assigned a key between 1 and 15 and could only access memory with the same key. IIRC keys worked on 4K boundaries so each 4K of memory could have a different key.
I'm sure there will be an internet sales tax. There is too much money
involved for politicians to not tax it. Since this is inevitable, I
think the best thing to do is design a tax system that causes the least
complication for retailers. I propose the following:
1) An internet sales tax based solely on the shipping address.
2) The tax rate be set at 5% (no more then 7%).
3) The money is collected by the IRS or a separate federal sales tax
division.
4) The collected money is divided as follows:
4a) 1% goes to the federal government general fund.
4b) 3% goes to the state according to item 1 above.
4c) .9% (or less then 1% depending on the amounts involved with the
rest going to the federal government) goes to R&D for the internet,
support of public exchange points, support of public high speed links,
and the rest goes to college/university scholarships, general research,
the current general research emphases should be development of new new
sources of energy such as fusion, wind, water, etc.
4d) .1% should go into an emergency relief fund to help deal with
emergencies so relief organizations do not have to wait for congress to
authorize funds. This money would also go to the military to cover
costs of military assistance when military resources are used to
transport relief supplies any where in the world.
5) All merchants have to report is $$$'s collected by city, state,
zip/postal code, and country.
6) Other countries can sign on to the tax agreement by meeting the same
requirements for simplicity, ie reporting is done like item 5 above and
each country can decide how to apply the 5% between federal and local
authorities.
7) Tax should be collected on all sales, no exceptions even if the sale
is to a government, church, state, college, university, etc.
This is my basic opinion and plan. KEEP IT SIMPLE!!!!
I recommend looking at some of the Multics features, particularly the use of segmentation and paging instead of a more normal file system.
see http://www.multicians.org/features.html for an introduction to Multics features and the references for how they really work. Multics was written to run on an SMP system so a system with 1 processor was the special case.
I would also suggest looking into security, again both the permissions an perhaps the ring based permission levels. The more the cpu can help with building in security from the start the easier it will be in the long run.
You might also want to look into the NS32xxx series from National Semiconductor in the late 80's/90's( not sure exactly when). The NS3200 all had the same instruction set, however you could get the chip with 8bit, 16bit, and 32bit memory/data access. At this stage of CPU's I'd suggest looking into detaching the instruction set from the 'bit' size so the external access to memory/data was independent of the bit size. With a 32 bit data/address bus it may take 2 transfers to handle a 64 bit data item, but that can be done by the hardware without the software having to know about it. All the software sees is a 64 bit (or maybe later on with added instructions a 128bit) address/data path with the actual path width hidden by the hardware. A 64 bit program might run a little slower on a 32 bit bus, but it will run.
If you are a computer science/computer geek type then it is probably a bad thing. If you are not involved in computer technology then it doesn't matter.
Have you ever heard of/used Multics?
I like readerware which also has programs to handle cd's and dvd's ad if you ave the isbn to download most of the information from te net.
http://www.readerware.com/ witch is Available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Android. Not free, but I like it.
I have an older version that allows me to export to a old palm so I can take a copy with me when I go book shopping.
I can disagree with the dating there. I started working for Honeywell Federal Systems Operations in Nov 1977 on a project at Rome Air Development Center (RADC) called NSW (National software works). At the time I joined the project, email was used to communicate among the many vendors working on NSW including HIS/FSO (me on Multics), UCLA (IBM 360), RADC (DEC-20 and Multics), MCA/Compass, BBN, MIT (while they participated), and the Air Force (contractor). This was over the Arpanet and I believe I got my first spam either in 1977 or 1978 ;) These days, NSW might be considered an early cloud project.
The addresses were in the same form as current addresses, user@machine (there were no domains yet so each machine had a unique name).
I see a resurgence in folk music and classical music and anything no longer covered by copyright. I wonder how they will handle filksongs?
I worked for Honeywell from 1977 to 1979 in a multi-company ARPA contract. We exchanged informaton with all the other developers around the country via email. I can see him claiming to have written a specific email system for a specific purpose, but he did not invent email.
Go to a real office furniture company and get good chairs. don't go to Walmart, Officemax, Staples, etc. Back in 1995 I spent $600 to buy a heavy duty 24/7 office manager's chair. It came with a 12 year warranty. The chair is still in use.
I'd also suggest a comfy cot/lazy-boy/ez chair. I'm assuming there are multiple people on duty all the time. This allows one at a time to take a break away from the monitors.
You should make sure everyone can take a 10 minute break out of every hour to rest their eyes.
A company I worked for got around this by ordering all their hardware from dell and always specifying the same hardware so the drivers would be the same. The configured the first system to work the way they wanted with their MS server and then cloned the working drive for all the other workstations. All data was stored on the server. suspect an infected machine, reclone the drive.
Back when I was younger and a grad student I'd typically work 8 to 12 hours a day, 7 days a week on work projects, particularly when there were deadlines. I'd do this for several months at a time, meet the deadline, do some cleanup for a week and take a week off. Most of this was creating new code as I was developing software. I've done this for shorter times since then, like a few days at a time to solve problems for customers at another job. I've done the 8 to 12 hours/day 7 days a week for a couple months several times.
I'm now diabetic and have diabetic eye problems and can't focus on the computer screen well enough to reliably do more then around 10 hours computer work a week. I really miss the ability to program or read tech manuals.
The biggest problem I've been having with firefox is each of the last few releases seems to have become less stable then the one before it as well as taking a big performance hit. I think this may be the biggest challenge to firefox.
I think they need to take a break on adding/developing new features and take some time to do some serious bug stomping.
I'm starting to think about trying opera and/or chrome due to the crashing problems and sometimes erratic performance issues.