Hrm. I'm sorry, I work in a datacenter full of 2-4 processor servers that are 4U (in addition to some 1 and 2U machines as well). I have also built "server class" (hot-swappable drives, RAIDed) into those "desktop cases with rails" you speak of.
We're clearly not connecting thoughts here, you and I' but it's presumptious to suggest that because he wants dev and sim boxes he NEEDS 1U servers with low-profile heatsinks and power supplies and much higher costs.
Informative? I find the parent ignorant. There are 4-5U rackmountable standard ATX cases available for around $75, and take standard PSUs and motherboards. I have built one myself, and was pleased with the cost... about $50 more than a standard PC, all because if the case.
The parent is only valid if you are building a custom 1-2U system, or are going for higher-end rackmount cases.
Apple's sales alone have generated $32.5 million US for the labels-- that's 65 cents per song, times their 50 million downloads. At virtually no cost to them, other than somebody to manage the checks coming in.
Think about how many people the RIAA have settled legal action with so far... at last check I saw a number of 1200. Their own numbers say they are averaging settlements of $2000 with each file sharer. That works out to $2.4 million US, LESS LEGAL COSTS, which I would imagine to be consistent.
Which market strategy is more profitable?
(I guess the counter-argument would be: keep suing a few people to keep up public education about piracy AND collect money from online music sales. But nobody's factoring in negative press and ill will generated by companies suing their own customers. And make no mistake, file sharers are, in bulk, RIAA customers.)
1) Not every troubled kid has bad parents, 2) Not all crappy parents have bad kids, and 3) Define "bad parents" in precise language.
I'm the oldest of 7 kids. I have two stepbrothers, two adopted brothers, a sister, and a half-sister. My parents provided for us very well. My dad (workaholic and emotionally distant) has always worked 70-100 hours a week (never home), and my mom is... insane is about how I would charcterize it, although "extremely emotionally unstable and prone to manic behavior" is more specific. We all had TVs and later, computers with modems, in our rooms.
Out of the 7 of us, from different genetics but identical environment of upbringing, now all in our 20s:
Our IQs range from 90 to 143 We range from college graduate to high school dropout We range in income from $0 to $55,000 a year One of us is in jail for dealing drugs One of us is in the Army, just back from Iraq, following 4 years in the Marines One of us is divorced with two kids, fathered by a convicted felon One of us moved out with a woman a dozen years older and has stopped speaking to us Two of us are respectably married and happy One of us is finishing an undergraduate degree, majoring in pre-law
Are my parents bad parents? They tried to watch out for us as best as you can with seven kids (which is something neither of them expected having to do until circumstances and decisions led them to find it was the best thing for all of the kids, to have two parents), but some of us handled this lack of supervision differently than one another.
FWIW, I consider my parent both some of the best examples, and worst cautionary tales, you could provide for good and bad parenting alike.
Or am I missing a US/UK difference here? Does the UK just not have these kind of "walk in and buy it" type shops?
No, the reason he wants to buy here is that the weak dollar means that his Pounds Sterling spend bigger here. He's spending the equivalent of $2000 US for $3000 US in merchandise, theoretically.
I'd like to have seen THG actually buy one of these alleged machines...
They asked for a review unit repeatedly, were denied in person and emails went unanswered.
Not that I blame you for not reading the article, Tom only puts fifteen words per ad-page. There used to be a "Print this Article" link that would give it to you all at once, but I couldn't find it today.
Parent clearly did not read the article, however he may have clicked on a couple of the pictures to draw his conclusion.
He "hates sites like" this, and uses examples why that appear nowhere on the page. He compares it to flamewars that have nothing to do with the source material. For this, he is currently ranked at Score 5.
Parent: read the text of the article, this was hardly a prejudiced review. It was in-depth and analytical, and gave good reasons to choose (or not choose) each codec, based on quality, speed, and cost.
It was humor, and you've removed your funny bone (and sense of rationality as well, apparently) to fit more activism. Not only that, you presume to judge me as an incompassionate war-monger based on an off-the-cuff (and VERY funny) comment I put together, parodying the stereotype of Berkeley-area activists. Who's close-minded now?
All things in moderation. I pick my battles, after learning at about age 17 that there is no way one person can fight all of the world's injustice without going insane and effecting no change whatsoever. Learn about scope of influence and scope of control, and work to improve things that you have control or can realistically gain influence over. Just some friendly advice.
Yes, Berkeley-ites! With our patented "Hippie Assist" functionality, you can flee the tyranny of pepper-spray-wielding police at up to three times the speed! And the titanium-alloy supports allow you to carry up to SIX times as many picket sign bearing snappy slogans!
Worry no more as you march around protesting the cause of the day, as you can taunt the pigs with impunity!
Who is this "consumer"? Do you really think there are people out there whose sole function in society is to consume goods?
I know at least ten of them, and some are relatives.
(Sad, but true.)
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Everyone wanted 10 cents per minute. Then 9. Then 8. Then 5. Then 4. If a telco doesn't offer it, everybody dumps them.
Two questions:
Who needs support for long-distance phone service?
And how many "infrastructure improvements" did the Telcos make back when they were charging us 26 cents a minute?
I pay $23 a month, plus fee, plus charge, plus tax, plus levy, plus surcharge, just to have a dialtone on a phone I use MAYBE 15 times a month. The only reason I have it and don't go VOIP is that my DSL connection is contingent upon having a dialtone through the same carrier. Which sucks.
That's right, because everything is conveniently bucketed into "Democrat" and "Republican." It's easy when 90% of your principles come from which of the two labels you stick on your chest when you go campaigning.
***This thread is veering offtopic quickly, so I'll let you partisans have your way with eachother. Us cynnical folks with disdain for party politics and lovers of logic and compromise will swill another beer and grumble incoherently about the coming days where only the morons vote, and only vote how their party tells them. Like in about... 8.5 months.
And which charity did you donate your tax cut to, or which grandchild's trust fund did you invest in, since you disagree so strongly with haveing less money taken out of your paycheck?
Thank you for an informative reply. I see that people have exploited the commercial potential in Google, and that it needs to be more consistent.
Unfortunately, the grandparent is getting savaged in moderation, so your Insightful parent may go unnoticed. I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to explain why I should care.:)
"I'm sorry, the correct answer is 'who gives a shit?'":)
Seriously, I'm sure we're all deeply concerned about which search engine Yahoo is using today. I forget, do we WANT Google to become the master search engine, or not? Or is that another thing we change day by day?
What are the perceived implications? That will answer my follow-on question, "Why is this newsworthy?"
With support for up to 256MB of RAM and 256MB of ROM...
I suppose this is a lot for a Palm, but what's the imitation? Address space/overhead? Nowadays you can fit a gig into an area that the first Palms fit 512K into, so size isn't an issue... voltage/battery life might be a consideration, but probably not a showstopper.
Eh, I suppose the design of the Palm is really not meant to handle things requiring that much memory. But guys at work are cramming 512meg memory cards on their iPaqs and watching movies; does the 256MB limitation in the OS mean that "external memory" cannot exceed that amount as well?
All microsoft needs to do is require you to open up a windows share...
Opening a Windows share... right. Considering 2000/XP's file sharing is already fairly complicated to n00bs, that might be a fun exercise.
And on a tongue-in-cheek note, I think this is the first time I've seen a comment encouraging people to use windows and open guest-enabled shared... modded to +5!:)
I had Adelphia cable, their customer service and billing sucks. I found out my town actually has WideOpenWest cable also, who gave me a great package deal with broadband. I am happy with their cable TV service, but they do have very long hold times if you call for customer service. Easy online billing management.
If you have a crappy cable provider like some folks out there do, try out satellite. I will say that I only know one satisfied satellite customer out of a dozen or so friends that have it. Weather outages, local channel issues, and setup fees ($$$) are their biggest complaints. With DirecTV's well-documented shenanigans and few viable alternatives, I sleep better with cable.:)
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Hrm. I'm sorry, I work in a datacenter full of 2-4 processor servers that are 4U (in addition to some 1 and 2U machines as well). I have also built "server class" (hot-swappable drives, RAIDed) into those "desktop cases with rails" you speak of.
We're clearly not connecting thoughts here, you and I' but it's presumptious to suggest that because he wants dev and sim boxes he NEEDS 1U servers with low-profile heatsinks and power supplies and much higher costs.
Informative? I find the parent ignorant. There are 4-5U rackmountable standard ATX cases available for around $75, and take standard PSUs and motherboards. I have built one myself, and was pleased with the cost... about $50 more than a standard PC, all because if the case.
The parent is only valid if you are building a custom 1-2U system, or are going for higher-end rackmount cases.
I don't like what Apple did (with this lawsuit)
*Looks around...* Lawsuit?
What lawsuit?
A Cease and Desist letter stating believed copyright infringement (per the DMCA) is not a lawsuit.
Vote for any non-Republicrat candidate.
Does this include uber-capitalists such as Libertarians?
Just checking.
In the words of Jamie Kennedy,
"Don't be hatin'!"
This neo-hipster urban language (I call it Pimp) is the new Jive/Ebonics/Ghetto dialect. Cope.
Mea culpa, I meant to say legal costs were considerable, not consistent.
Here's an interesting thought (to me, anyway):
Apple's sales alone have generated $32.5 million US for the labels-- that's 65 cents per song, times their 50 million downloads. At virtually no cost to them, other than somebody to manage the checks coming in.
Think about how many people the RIAA have settled legal action with so far... at last check I saw a number of 1200. Their own numbers say they are averaging settlements of $2000 with each file sharer. That works out to $2.4 million US, LESS LEGAL COSTS, which I would imagine to be consistent.
Which market strategy is more profitable?
(I guess the counter-argument would be: keep suing a few people to keep up public education about piracy AND collect money from online music sales. But nobody's factoring in negative press and ill will generated by companies suing their own customers. And make no mistake, file sharers are, in bulk, RIAA customers.)
I'd like to point out that:
1) Not every troubled kid has bad parents,
2) Not all crappy parents have bad kids, and
3) Define "bad parents" in precise language.
I'm the oldest of 7 kids. I have two stepbrothers, two adopted brothers, a sister, and a half-sister. My parents provided for us very well. My dad (workaholic and emotionally distant) has always worked 70-100 hours a week (never home), and my mom is... insane is about how I would charcterize it, although "extremely emotionally unstable and prone to manic behavior" is more specific. We all had TVs and later, computers with modems, in our rooms.
Out of the 7 of us, from different genetics but identical environment of upbringing, now all in our 20s:
Our IQs range from 90 to 143
We range from college graduate to high school dropout
We range in income from $0 to $55,000 a year
One of us is in jail for dealing drugs
One of us is in the Army, just back from Iraq, following 4 years in the Marines
One of us is divorced with two kids, fathered by a convicted felon
One of us moved out with a woman a dozen years older and has stopped speaking to us
Two of us are respectably married and happy
One of us is finishing an undergraduate degree, majoring in pre-law
Are my parents bad parents? They tried to watch out for us as best as you can with seven kids (which is something neither of them expected having to do until circumstances and decisions led them to find it was the best thing for all of the kids, to have two parents), but some of us handled this lack of supervision differently than one another.
FWIW, I consider my parent both some of the best examples, and worst cautionary tales, you could provide for good and bad parenting alike.
Or am I missing a US/UK difference here? Does the UK just not have these kind of "walk in and buy it" type shops?
No, the reason he wants to buy here is that the weak dollar means that his Pounds Sterling spend bigger here. He's spending the equivalent of $2000 US for $3000 US in merchandise, theoretically.
A Mac-fanatic Democrat, in case you couldn't tell...
You're proud of your labels, aren't you?
Thanks for sharing, anyway.
(A human being, in case you couldn't tell...)
Order laptop in advance via credit card. Have the laptop shipped to a trusted friend or colleague. Pick up when you are in town.
Many retail establishments can offer mechandise on the spot here, thought not always the same level of customization that Dell offers.
I'm not a slashdot subscriber, so I can't see all 163 of my comments. But I'm pretty sure you are just repeating my post from six to nine months ago.
:)
Mine was funnier.
I'd like to have seen THG actually buy one of these alleged machines...
They asked for a review unit repeatedly, were denied in person and emails went unanswered.
Not that I blame you for not reading the article, Tom only puts fifteen words per ad-page. There used to be a "Print this Article" link that would give it to you all at once, but I couldn't find it today.
Parent clearly did not read the article, however he may have clicked on a couple of the pictures to draw his conclusion.
He "hates sites like" this, and uses examples why that appear nowhere on the page. He compares it to flamewars that have nothing to do with the source material. For this, he is currently ranked at Score 5.
Parent: read the text of the article, this was hardly a prejudiced review. It was in-depth and analytical, and gave good reasons to choose (or not choose) each codec, based on quality, speed, and cost.
It was humor, and you've removed your funny bone (and sense of rationality as well, apparently) to fit more activism. Not only that, you presume to judge me as an incompassionate war-monger based on an off-the-cuff (and VERY funny) comment I put together, parodying the stereotype of Berkeley-area activists. Who's close-minded now?
All things in moderation. I pick my battles, after learning at about age 17 that there is no way one person can fight all of the world's injustice without going insane and effecting no change whatsoever. Learn about scope of influence and scope of control, and work to improve things that you have control or can realistically gain influence over. Just some friendly advice.
Yes, Berkeley-ites! With our patented "Hippie Assist" functionality, you can flee the tyranny of pepper-spray-wielding police at up to three times the speed! And the titanium-alloy supports allow you to carry up to SIX times as many picket sign bearing snappy slogans!
Worry no more as you march around protesting the cause of the day, as you can taunt the pigs with impunity!
(Hemp-shoe compatibility guaranteed!)
Who is this "consumer"? Do you really think there are people out there whose sole function in society is to consume goods?
I know at least ten of them, and some are relatives.
(Sad, but true.)
Everyone wanted 10 cents per minute. Then 9. Then 8. Then 5. Then 4. If a telco doesn't offer it, everybody dumps them.
Two questions:
Who needs support for long-distance phone service?
And how many "infrastructure improvements" did the Telcos make back when they were charging us 26 cents a minute?
I pay $23 a month, plus fee, plus charge, plus tax, plus levy, plus surcharge, just to have a dialtone on a phone I use MAYBE 15 times a month. The only reason I have it and don't go VOIP is that my DSL connection is contingent upon having a dialtone through the same carrier. Which sucks.
That's right, because everything is conveniently bucketed into "Democrat" and "Republican." It's easy when 90% of your principles come from which of the two labels you stick on your chest when you go campaigning.
***This thread is veering offtopic quickly, so I'll let you partisans have your way with eachother. Us cynnical folks with disdain for party politics and lovers of logic and compromise will swill another beer and grumble incoherently about the coming days where only the morons vote, and only vote how their party tells them. Like in about... 8.5 months.
And which charity did you donate your tax cut to, or which grandchild's trust fund did you invest in, since you disagree so strongly with haveing less money taken out of your paycheck?
Thank you for an informative reply. I see that people have exploited the commercial potential in Google, and that it needs to be more consistent.
:)
Unfortunately, the grandparent is getting savaged in moderation, so your Insightful parent may go unnoticed. I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to explain why I should care.
"I'm sorry, the correct answer is 'who gives a shit?'" :)
Seriously, I'm sure we're all deeply concerned about which search engine Yahoo is using today. I forget, do we WANT Google to become the master search engine, or not? Or is that another thing we change day by day?
What are the perceived implications? That will answer my follow-on question, "Why is this newsworthy?"
With support for up to 256MB of RAM and 256MB of ROM...
I suppose this is a lot for a Palm, but what's the imitation? Address space/overhead? Nowadays you can fit a gig into an area that the first Palms fit 512K into, so size isn't an issue... voltage/battery life might be a consideration, but probably not a showstopper.
Eh, I suppose the design of the Palm is really not meant to handle things requiring that much memory. But guys at work are cramming 512meg memory cards on their iPaqs and watching movies; does the 256MB limitation in the OS mean that "external memory" cannot exceed that amount as well?
All microsoft needs to do is require you to open up a windows share...
:)
Opening a Windows share... right. Considering 2000/XP's file sharing is already fairly complicated to n00bs, that might be a fun exercise.
And on a tongue-in-cheek note, I think this is the first time I've seen a comment encouraging people to use windows and open guest-enabled shared... modded to +5!
I had Adelphia cable, their customer service and billing sucks. I found out my town actually has WideOpenWest cable also, who gave me a great package deal with broadband. I am happy with their cable TV service, but they do have very long hold times if you call for customer service. Easy online billing management.
:)
If you have a crappy cable provider like some folks out there do, try out satellite. I will say that I only know one satisfied satellite customer out of a dozen or so friends that have it. Weather outages, local channel issues, and setup fees ($$$) are their biggest complaints. With DirecTV's well-documented shenanigans and few viable alternatives, I sleep better with cable.