no. Replacing all the wiring, plumbing and insulation in the house - plus retro-fitting cooling ducts in without it looking horrible - is *not* a minor thing that keeps an old house cheaper than a new house. Unless you're doing it completely yourself, and you have months (and the skill...) to do it, you will be spending far more to do all that than it would cost to just get a new house. If you have the time to completely gut and remodel your entire house, then great, but most of us don't.
why would someone buy a 20yo house instead of a 100yo house? Hmm...lets think on that a sec...
Well, off the top of my head, how about the dramatically increased knowledge about, and regulations then concerning, electrical wiring during that time period? How about the dramatically different levels of insulation the houses would likely have? Because while an old house may be quaint, nothing sucks like paying high heating bills in the winter as your heat just runs straight out the walls, cracks, and single-pane windows - and then the cool does the same during the summer (oh wait, cooling? you likely don't have that, or it was cobbled on after-the-fact in a very ugly and inefficient way). Constantly chasing problems with your electronics because not only is the wiring faulty/flaky/without grounding/likely polarity swapped all over is AWESOME, let me tell you. Not having phone wiring in your house is ok these days, because hell - who has landlines anymore anyway. But it would be nice to have cable runs, which yeah - I guess you could run wires along the floor or something. Sounds great.
I mean damn, the old house I owned was built in the 50s, and even it drove me nuts with the cloth-covered non-grounded wiring. Fragile crap I couldn't touch else it would crumble - ended up just throwing up my hands and replacing about 80% of the wiring in the house. And we didn't have an AC, because you know - people in that area just didn't have them in the 50s. But even if we did, it would have been too expensive to run - I took an infrared camera to it one winter and heat came from...everywhere. There wasn't some particular this or that I could improve, it was just...pouring out everywhere. Everyone I've known with an old house has the same problems. You really think that's somehow better? Really?
Mine will live on the kitchen counter, and provide such functions as:
recipies
internet web browsing to prove a point during an argument while at a party, playing a game, etc
looking up cheat codes while playing the PS3
throwing into a small bag to read e-books
etc.
And it will do those things just fine. I have been tempted to buy an ipad for a while, but for goofing off? Nah. I mean really, it's not like my laptop can't sit on the kitchen counter and do all of those things - but better. No, my laptop isn't touch-screen. But would I really want to touch the screen while cooking? Does a keyboard actually slow me down while typing? etc?
They haven't had the entire service go down, ever, and never will. They've had single data centers have problems, and once they had a major thing that caused performance issues in an entire region with EBS volumes, but even that didn't mean "single point of failure." Because guess what, there's this cool thing called geoip which you should be using anyway, and then you could be using multiple regions (which you should be doing anyway, for better performance). And if, for some reason, an entire region fails...then, you serve only from the other regions for a bit. No biggie.
Having survived the great fiasco that took down Netflix earlier this year yet left a tiny guy like me completely unaffected (sans a slight performance hit for the alternate routing) I can speak to this well. I really don't understand why - for many reasons (stability, performance, etc) Netflix was so dependent upon not only a single AWS region, but a single datacenter...that's just so wrong, on so many obvious levels.
...my wife is. I read this and had a few questions, she verified that they were good questions. Questions such as "how do you turn it off in plasmacytoid dendritic cells without...I dunno...dying?" Cholesterol is sortof vital to pretty much everything in the body that is going on. It sounds like they "discovered" that all you have to do is destroy the glycoprotein gp120 and hey! You'll slow the spread of HIV. Alas, you'll also be dead. Point is, as cool as this sounds, it's substantially far off from being useful in an actual living organism.
linkedin? Or using myspace, and not worrying about what college kids were using? Or maybe they were old enough that their "social networking" sites were places like slashdot, fark, etc? What were people in the 16-24yo bracket using in 1598 to do social networking? Oh yeah, actual social events like going to bars, etc. Point is, they were "limited" to the major user market for that type app for that period of time. It wasn't until society more strongly embraced non-nerds being active online (and, in part, until that generation started entering the work force themselves) that most people above that age range mattered to a webapp like that. During that short period, you were pretty much statistically irrelevant.
omg, you're right - they limited themselves to only those who were most likely to early adopt the webapp. That move probably shaved several percentage points off what they could have done during that time! Except, it was "cool" to do facebook instead of myspace, because myspace was seen as being for kids and facebooks for college "adults." Look at who was on myspace during that time, and you can see this "limitation" wasn't one.
No, google doesn't get a pass. A number of us weren't using chrome for reasons just like this - do you see a lot of enterprises pushing out chrome? Nope. If FF does the same thing as chrome, why use FF? The market needs versioned (6-9+ months minumum) browser other than IE. Guess that's going to have to be Opera instead of FF now.
you want to keep your movie collection in raw, uncompressed files and I'm the pompous one? Funny, in my universe, a blueray disk only holds 25GB per layer, and I have several that play 1080p movies from a single-layer disk. That works out because a typical 2hour 1080p movie should be 15-20GB as commercially available. That's enough for 4 hours of play per day for a year - at 1080p - before repeating anything. Twice as much at 720p.
So you're going out to the movie production companies and getting the raw, uncompressed film - and then storing it, uncompressed - presumably because you think you can see the difference...and I'm the pompous one? But you're obviously not doing that, so...yeah, you're just downloading a bunch of stuff and want to rationalize it. You don't need to - I'm an anarchist. You don't even need to be honest about it, I don't care. But don't pretend to "intellectually" defend it, that's just silliness.
people don't "need" to spend 3 hours a day watching tv, which is what the discussion was about (3hrs a day for 5 years to get to 12TB). Also, your brain does indeed behave substantially different while you're reading something versus watching something on TV.
yeah, was curious about this...lasers are a very specific frequency, yeah? A blue laser won't let a red sign look red, for instance. Also, there's the fact that we WANT the light to be diffused. Headlights should fade out in a couple hundred yards, not be blinding people from 10 miles away. LED lights are already enough of a problem (as others have said).
fail, troll. Welcome to 2011, and the conventions of saying "Linux" but meaning "the major distributions such as Fedora, Red Hat, SuSE, Ubuntu, and etc that bundle gnu tools, the Linux kernel, and various OSS apps." In almost every major distribution, mounting an ISO image in Linux has been beyond trivial for ages, based primarily on the fact that if the kernel (or these days, user-space drivers) knows how to mount a particular filesystem, it can be mounted whether it is a partition, a file, or whatever else.
"Linux" doesn't mean just the kernel, and hasn't for a long time now. That said, it's the kernel that supports mounting ISOs. It's not a double-standard; it's a different method of abstraction and such that simply prevented Microsoft from having a basic functionality that it should have had back in Win95. Next you'll be saying it's unfair 3rd-party tools that keeps MS from still having useful ACL support even now. Why is there not a well-known IIS context template I can relabel the system with? poor Microsoft, held back by 3rd parties!
of a world with people thinking of what is best for us and not what is best for me. You want something for free, and think that's categorically at odds with the idea of getting what is best for everyone versus what is best for you? Have you considered the possibility that maybe sometimes some IP benefits the greater good, even when it doesn't benefit you specifically?
Microsoft lost on the.NET battle because their efforts were commercial. Quite a lot of things in the OSS community survive (this type battle) based on the fact that they are not commercial - they're community-driven.
and it is coming out as DC. So, convert it to AC, and put it on your lines...you're losing lots of power in transmission and conversion. I never said batteries are dead - what the heck do you think is in the flashlight, pixie dust? A car couldn't handle normal draw for more than a short-term emergency, and during a short-term emergency...you can live off flashlights. That's all I was saying. If the power is out for your block, maybe you should live without an AC for a bit, perhaps. If electricity is out everywhere for a couple weeks, it isn't going to do any good for you to have a running frig when the town itself is dead.
There was a time when people discussed the idea of having natural gas be the fuel for a small fuel cell system in homes, with the hydrolyzer being there at the house. Then, when you got home with your fuel cell car, you plugged in, fueled up, and then the fuel cell plant in your car would add to the power generation capability in the house. The idea was that when you're not home, you don't need as much power at your house. I was hoping that future would eventually happen, now we're just talking about batteries. Much less...sci-fi, cool, etc. Charge a battery so the battery can power a house later? Why not just...have battery powered LED lights for the short term emergencies (since that's all your car would cover well, anyway) instead of the extreme waste from the energy you'd bleed off during conversion and transmission?
...does that somehow change the point? Of course I know that, we were talking about 40's America, and the whole old-fashioned-values bit. And who manifests that more than John Wayne? He's the epitome of that very genre. So since you don't think it's valid to use an example of a horiffic movie from Mr Epitome, how about a quote from him while he wasn't actually doing a scene..."Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home"
Is that better? Enough not-shakespear for you? Is that whooshing sound over your head from earlier flying a little lower now? We glorify the morals of the past, always have. It's nothing new to this century, last century, last millenium...
The past always looks more simple, more black-and-white. We haven't figured out how to deal with our modern problems yet, that's the only reason they seem complex (hindsight, anyone?). Take John Wayne, for instance...good! Wholesome! Honest, upright, etc! Now, watch a movie like McLintock...where the moral seems to be that if your woman doesn't do what you say, just beat her. She'll like it! She'll start behaving! Hell, she might not even be your woman yet...just beat her, and she will be! No need to be private about it, either - chase her around town, beating her while she's crying, begging for help, and her clothes are being torn off her. The town will follow behind - men, women, and children alike all knowing that once she submits to the beating, all will end happily.
I'll take my complicated world over that, thanks. Call me cynical, call me oh-so-knowing, but I'd like to think civilization has evolved. We don't abide ownership of other humans as a general rule, anymore. Hell, in western cultures we don't even abide mistreatment of other species. We're shocked and horrified when someone who is a part of our society, whom we've embraced and whom has lived with the benefit and luxury of our modern social mores, suddenly abandons those mores and kills 76 people. If that's cynicism, I'll take it.
Pure, raw, actual Linux doesn't have any sort of user interface at all!, except for perhaps the Magic SysRq key
Indeed - I'm just less direct with my points;) That said, 99.9999% of the Linux installs I've ever done, didn't even come with XWindows. And 99% of the work I do for my job doesn't involve XWindows; so long as I can count an XTerm as not really...err...XWindows. My desktop has a gui, yes, but just because I like to use graphical web browsers sometimes.
that's an Ubuntu problem, not a "Linux" problem. There are Linux distros that are accessibility-friendly. Pure, raw, actual Linux doesn't really have a gui anyway.
because states request manpower from federal agencies. The number of boarder patrol agents in Arizona is heavily influenced by Arizona, even if the agents themselves are from a federal agency.
If apple wants to try to make an A/V receiver...then great, fine. But in the mean time, unless the thing he's putting out is going to have the ability to sync the accoustics of my room with the video signal, from input sources such as broadcast TV, a Wii, a PS3 (doing netflix), etc...
A TV should do nothing other than handle the video signal given to it by the A/V unit. That A/V unit is what they should be targeting, if anything.
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no. Replacing all the wiring, plumbing and insulation in the house - plus retro-fitting cooling ducts in without it looking horrible - is *not* a minor thing that keeps an old house cheaper than a new house. Unless you're doing it completely yourself, and you have months (and the skill...) to do it, you will be spending far more to do all that than it would cost to just get a new house. If you have the time to completely gut and remodel your entire house, then great, but most of us don't.
why would someone buy a 20yo house instead of a 100yo house? Hmm...lets think on that a sec... Well, off the top of my head, how about the dramatically increased knowledge about, and regulations then concerning, electrical wiring during that time period? How about the dramatically different levels of insulation the houses would likely have? Because while an old house may be quaint, nothing sucks like paying high heating bills in the winter as your heat just runs straight out the walls, cracks, and single-pane windows - and then the cool does the same during the summer (oh wait, cooling? you likely don't have that, or it was cobbled on after-the-fact in a very ugly and inefficient way). Constantly chasing problems with your electronics because not only is the wiring faulty/flaky/without grounding/likely polarity swapped all over is AWESOME, let me tell you. Not having phone wiring in your house is ok these days, because hell - who has landlines anymore anyway. But it would be nice to have cable runs, which yeah - I guess you could run wires along the floor or something. Sounds great. I mean damn, the old house I owned was built in the 50s, and even it drove me nuts with the cloth-covered non-grounded wiring. Fragile crap I couldn't touch else it would crumble - ended up just throwing up my hands and replacing about 80% of the wiring in the house. And we didn't have an AC, because you know - people in that area just didn't have them in the 50s. But even if we did, it would have been too expensive to run - I took an infrared camera to it one winter and heat came from...everywhere. There wasn't some particular this or that I could improve, it was just...pouring out everywhere. Everyone I've known with an old house has the same problems. You really think that's somehow better? Really?
recipies
internet web browsing to prove a point during an argument while at a party, playing a game, etc
looking up cheat codes while playing the PS3
throwing into a small bag to read e-books
etc.
And it will do those things just fine. I have been tempted to buy an ipad for a while, but for goofing off? Nah. I mean really, it's not like my laptop can't sit on the kitchen counter and do all of those things - but better. No, my laptop isn't touch-screen. But would I really want to touch the screen while cooking? Does a keyboard actually slow me down while typing? etc?
They haven't had the entire service go down, ever, and never will. They've had single data centers have problems, and once they had a major thing that caused performance issues in an entire region with EBS volumes, but even that didn't mean "single point of failure." Because guess what, there's this cool thing called geoip which you should be using anyway, and then you could be using multiple regions (which you should be doing anyway, for better performance). And if, for some reason, an entire region fails...then, you serve only from the other regions for a bit. No biggie.
Having survived the great fiasco that took down Netflix earlier this year yet left a tiny guy like me completely unaffected (sans a slight performance hit for the alternate routing) I can speak to this well. I really don't understand why - for many reasons (stability, performance, etc) Netflix was so dependent upon not only a single AWS region, but a single datacenter...that's just so wrong, on so many obvious levels.
try re-reading what I wrote.
...my wife is. I read this and had a few questions, she verified that they were good questions. Questions such as "how do you turn it off in plasmacytoid dendritic cells without...I dunno...dying?" Cholesterol is sortof vital to pretty much everything in the body that is going on. It sounds like they "discovered" that all you have to do is destroy the glycoprotein gp120 and hey! You'll slow the spread of HIV. Alas, you'll also be dead. Point is, as cool as this sounds, it's substantially far off from being useful in an actual living organism.
linkedin? Or using myspace, and not worrying about what college kids were using? Or maybe they were old enough that their "social networking" sites were places like slashdot, fark, etc? What were people in the 16-24yo bracket using in 1598 to do social networking? Oh yeah, actual social events like going to bars, etc. Point is, they were "limited" to the major user market for that type app for that period of time. It wasn't until society more strongly embraced non-nerds being active online (and, in part, until that generation started entering the work force themselves) that most people above that age range mattered to a webapp like that. During that short period, you were pretty much statistically irrelevant.
omg, you're right - they limited themselves to only those who were most likely to early adopt the webapp. That move probably shaved several percentage points off what they could have done during that time! Except, it was "cool" to do facebook instead of myspace, because myspace was seen as being for kids and facebooks for college "adults." Look at who was on myspace during that time, and you can see this "limitation" wasn't one.
No, google doesn't get a pass. A number of us weren't using chrome for reasons just like this - do you see a lot of enterprises pushing out chrome? Nope. If FF does the same thing as chrome, why use FF? The market needs versioned (6-9+ months minumum) browser other than IE. Guess that's going to have to be Opera instead of FF now.
you want to keep your movie collection in raw, uncompressed files and I'm the pompous one? Funny, in my universe, a blueray disk only holds 25GB per layer, and I have several that play 1080p movies from a single-layer disk. That works out because a typical 2hour 1080p movie should be 15-20GB as commercially available. That's enough for 4 hours of play per day for a year - at 1080p - before repeating anything. Twice as much at 720p.
So you're going out to the movie production companies and getting the raw, uncompressed film - and then storing it, uncompressed - presumably because you think you can see the difference...and I'm the pompous one? But you're obviously not doing that, so...yeah, you're just downloading a bunch of stuff and want to rationalize it. You don't need to - I'm an anarchist. You don't even need to be honest about it, I don't care. But don't pretend to "intellectually" defend it, that's just silliness.
people don't "need" to spend 3 hours a day watching tv, which is what the discussion was about (3hrs a day for 5 years to get to 12TB). Also, your brain does indeed behave substantially different while you're reading something versus watching something on TV.
you're funny.
yeah, was curious about this...lasers are a very specific frequency, yeah? A blue laser won't let a red sign look red, for instance. Also, there's the fact that we WANT the light to be diffused. Headlights should fade out in a couple hundred yards, not be blinding people from 10 miles away. LED lights are already enough of a problem (as others have said).
fail, troll. Welcome to 2011, and the conventions of saying "Linux" but meaning "the major distributions such as Fedora, Red Hat, SuSE, Ubuntu, and etc that bundle gnu tools, the Linux kernel, and various OSS apps." In almost every major distribution, mounting an ISO image in Linux has been beyond trivial for ages, based primarily on the fact that if the kernel (or these days, user-space drivers) knows how to mount a particular filesystem, it can be mounted whether it is a partition, a file, or whatever else.
"Linux" doesn't mean just the kernel, and hasn't for a long time now. That said, it's the kernel that supports mounting ISOs. It's not a double-standard; it's a different method of abstraction and such that simply prevented Microsoft from having a basic functionality that it should have had back in Win95. Next you'll be saying it's unfair 3rd-party tools that keeps MS from still having useful ACL support even now. Why is there not a well-known IIS context template I can relabel the system with? poor Microsoft, held back by 3rd parties!
of a world with people thinking of what is best for us and not what is best for me.
You want something for free, and think that's categorically at odds with the idea of getting what is best for everyone versus what is best for you? Have you considered the possibility that maybe sometimes some IP benefits the greater good, even when it doesn't benefit you specifically?
Microsoft lost on the .NET battle because their efforts were commercial. Quite a lot of things in the OSS community survive (this type battle) based on the fact that they are not commercial - they're community-driven.
and it is coming out as DC. So, convert it to AC, and put it on your lines...you're losing lots of power in transmission and conversion. I never said batteries are dead - what the heck do you think is in the flashlight, pixie dust? A car couldn't handle normal draw for more than a short-term emergency, and during a short-term emergency...you can live off flashlights. That's all I was saying. If the power is out for your block, maybe you should live without an AC for a bit, perhaps. If electricity is out everywhere for a couple weeks, it isn't going to do any good for you to have a running frig when the town itself is dead.
There was a time when people discussed the idea of having natural gas be the fuel for a small fuel cell system in homes, with the hydrolyzer being there at the house. Then, when you got home with your fuel cell car, you plugged in, fueled up, and then the fuel cell plant in your car would add to the power generation capability in the house. The idea was that when you're not home, you don't need as much power at your house. I was hoping that future would eventually happen, now we're just talking about batteries. Much less...sci-fi, cool, etc. Charge a battery so the battery can power a house later? Why not just...have battery powered LED lights for the short term emergencies (since that's all your car would cover well, anyway) instead of the extreme waste from the energy you'd bleed off during conversion and transmission?
Is that better? Enough not-shakespear for you? Is that whooshing sound over your head from earlier flying a little lower now? We glorify the morals of the past, always have. It's nothing new to this century, last century, last millenium...
I'll take my complicated world over that, thanks. Call me cynical, call me oh-so-knowing, but I'd like to think civilization has evolved. We don't abide ownership of other humans as a general rule, anymore. Hell, in western cultures we don't even abide mistreatment of other species. We're shocked and horrified when someone who is a part of our society, whom we've embraced and whom has lived with the benefit and luxury of our modern social mores, suddenly abandons those mores and kills 76 people. If that's cynicism, I'll take it.
Indeed - I'm just less direct with my points ;) That said, 99.9999% of the Linux installs I've ever done, didn't even come with XWindows. And 99% of the work I do for my job doesn't involve XWindows; so long as I can count an XTerm as not really...err...XWindows. My desktop has a gui, yes, but just because I like to use graphical web browsers sometimes.
that's an Ubuntu problem, not a "Linux" problem. There are Linux distros that are accessibility-friendly. Pure, raw, actual Linux doesn't really have a gui anyway.
Sounds like someone feels entitled to an exclusive/"cool" definition of "geek" that has non-negative connotations.
because states request manpower from federal agencies. The number of boarder patrol agents in Arizona is heavily influenced by Arizona, even if the agents themselves are from a federal agency.
If apple wants to try to make an A/V receiver...then great, fine. But in the mean time, unless the thing he's putting out is going to have the ability to sync the accoustics of my room with the video signal, from input sources such as broadcast TV, a Wii, a PS3 (doing netflix), etc... A TV should do nothing other than handle the video signal given to it by the A/V unit. That A/V unit is what they should be targeting, if anything.