There's tons of cheap, decent laptops on eBay, not too old. Buyer has to know what they are doing, they all need a cleaning, and Linux would "have to do".
More grassroots, workplaces replace their laptops and usually toss very good used ones all the time. (Speaking from experience). Do some calling around and you may find yourself sitting on a stack of 100 of them very quickly.
I like the idea of phone as computer, everyone seems to shell out for phones and they are quite powerful. Peripheral-izing them could be costly tho.
Flies See the World In Slo-Mo? To them it passes at regular speed, we are just slow moving creatures to them. Watch an elephant. Or better if possible a big dinosaur. Do we see the world moving in Slo-Mo because we aren't the size of a dinosaur? It's only a perspective thing, every creature has the perspective of life moving at the "regular" speed of course.
Anything published anywhere is bound to have errors, look at technical books, corrections get made through revisions. Wikipedia corrections get found and corrected faster because it is used and edited more than perhaps any other source. Newspapers are thrown together with such short deadlines they are littered with errors, but once printed can't easily be corrected
$0.80 Retail profit $1.70 Label profit $2.40 Marketing/promotion $2.91 Label overhead $3.89 Retail overhead --------- $11.90 - this is crazy, especially when multiplied by 1 million CDs for a hit album. $3.89 million for "retail overhead"??? The ratios should be seen as sliding ratios, a CD that "only" sells 10,000 will have a different breakdown, as will an indie one that sells 1,000
I dont get it, why have a doubly complicated system, we all know that means more to go wrong, when a simple electric system would mean absolutely no gas consumption, and a very easy to maintain machine.
As far as saying everybody will be doing this or that by 2030, I think Ray is forgetting that most of the worlds population is below or barely above the poverty line - food, water and shelter are hard to come by, and this stuff will just be for those who can afford it...
Extrapolations like this need to be balanced by others. Just look at the degredation of quality of life, the environment, the looming oil crisis and think again. We will be lucky if its not World War 3 for the Earths resources and cities like in Blade Runner by the time 2030 rolls around.
Sounds like a good question, but the biochemical companies must have thought about this as well. How do they get benefit out of it? And hopefully their denatured state is not a dangerous one...
i started with LOGO(?) drawing program, then BASIC, then PASCAL, and when I finally got to C, I wished the education system hadn't wasted so much of my time! I suggest: Python, and C, in that order. I wish I had got my feet wet in OO sooner as well...
i vote for BeOS for desktops (audio / video streaming work), and Mac is OK too (the Adobe / DTP box). both could be very good (and user friendly) for "Office use" as well.
as far as servers go, maybe application specific installs (ie. webserver only, or fileserver only, or db only, or any combination) of Linux or FreeBSD should be fine - chosen on install. but i suppose something written from scratch would have performance advantages (?? do Unix's have legacy software/hardware support the same way that Windows does? probably not to the same extent)
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There's tons of cheap, decent laptops on eBay, not too old. Buyer has to know what they are doing, they all need a cleaning, and Linux would "have to do".
More grassroots, workplaces replace their laptops and usually toss very good used ones all the time. (Speaking from experience). Do some calling around and you may find yourself sitting on a stack of 100 of them very quickly.
I like the idea of phone as computer, everyone seems to shell out for phones and they are quite powerful. Peripheral-izing them could be costly tho.
Careful where you point that thing
Turn 'em in to schools, or data centers... or how about storage units? They seem to be in demand
Snowden for President!
Why? I'm sure it's great, but...
Now if it was only printed on paper it might actually have some value; but don't - there's not enough trees on the planet to do so
Flies See the World In Slo-Mo? To them it passes at regular speed, we are just slow moving creatures to them. Watch an elephant. Or better if possible a big dinosaur. Do we see the world moving in Slo-Mo because we aren't the size of a dinosaur? It's only a perspective thing, every creature has the perspective of life moving at the "regular" speed of course.
Anything published anywhere is bound to have errors, look at technical books, corrections get made through revisions. Wikipedia corrections get found and corrected faster because it is used and edited more than perhaps any other source. Newspapers are thrown together with such short deadlines they are littered with errors, but once printed can't easily be corrected
Yes, just cover the earth with solar panels - kill 2 birds with one stone - and don't kill birds the way wind power does
$0.80 Retail profit
$1.70 Label profit
$2.40 Marketing/promotion
$2.91 Label overhead
$3.89 Retail overhead
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$11.90 - this is crazy, especially when multiplied by 1 million CDs for a hit album. $3.89 million for "retail overhead"???
The ratios should be seen as sliding ratios, a CD that "only" sells 10,000 will have a different breakdown, as will an indie one that sells 1,000
I dont get it, why have a doubly complicated system, we all know that means more to go wrong, when a simple electric system would mean absolutely no gas consumption, and a very easy to maintain machine.
Like this:
http://www.gwev.com/wholevtelsco.html
http://www.e-cycle.ca/
Hi-energy battery tech:
http://www.a123systems.com/html/apps/trans.html
If its such a problem, why not a simple solution like string? Worked with my mittens when I was a young'n
Exactly. It's just a marketing ploy. Why pay for a campaign when you can get the word out for free?
Nov. 24, 2004: "Killer fungus hits Vancouver Island; kills four, dozens of animals"a rticleID=1 774730&pageID=bc_archive
http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?
long shot but who knows
I'll believe it when I see it - although for some strange reason I almost wrote "I'll see it when I see believe it"
What happens if you miss? Does the laser fry some unfortunate location on the ground, ocean, moon, someplace light years away?
Does it ozonize the atmoshpere?
As far as saying everybody will be doing this or that by 2030, I think Ray is forgetting that most of the worlds population is below or barely above the poverty line - food, water and shelter are hard to come by, and this stuff will just be for those who can afford it...
Extrapolations like this need to be balanced by others. Just look at the degredation of quality of life, the environment, the looming oil crisis and think again. We will be lucky if its not World War 3 for the Earths resources and cities like in Blade Runner by the time 2030 rolls around.
Sounds like a good question, but the biochemical companies must have thought about this as well. How do they get benefit out of it? And hopefully their denatured state is not a dangerous one...
i started with LOGO(?) drawing program, then BASIC, then PASCAL, and when I finally got to C, I wished the education system hadn't wasted so much of my time!
I suggest: Python, and C, in that order.
I wish I had got my feet wet in OO sooner as well...
First we need a list of all open source RDBMS's, then go from there...
to add my 2 bits to the 2 million already here,
i vote for BeOS for desktops (audio / video streaming work), and Mac is OK too (the Adobe / DTP box). both could be very good (and user friendly) for "Office use" as well.
as far as servers go, maybe application specific installs (ie. webserver only, or fileserver only, or db only, or any combination) of Linux or FreeBSD should be fine - chosen on install. but i suppose something written from scratch would have performance advantages (?? do Unix's have legacy software/hardware support the same way that Windows does? probably not to the same extent)