I was booting computers in milliseconds in the mid 90's (to the point where users space applications were getting scheduled time). It really depends on what you considered 'booted' and what hardware checks you are willing to skip. RAM test? walking ones test? read/write test?
Sometimes you have to set up a piece of hardware to fail and wait for it to time out to verify that a system is working and that alone can take an arbitrary amount of time. 40ms? 2 minutes? Depends on the hardware and what you're looking for. Eg, set something up so it overheats and BIT catches and shuts you down verifying that the hardware to catch overtemp works. Or maybe not do the test at all.
I remember when so many people on slashdot and reddit argued that it was impossible for a private company to launch anything into orbit because of the cost and the technical requirements were only in the scope of the largest governments like the US, Russia, Japan and China. That was maybe 7+ years ago. More recently I've read that, yeah, private companies can get to orbit, but they'll never venture beyond Earth orbit because there is no profit in it.
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Once you are in orbit, you are 60% of the way to the surface of the moon (soft landing) and pretty much anywhere else in the solar system.
Whose fault is that? This goes for many things in life. You don't get to buy food that doesn't have to pass a wall full of health and safety regulations that didn't exist 50 years ago either.
I only randomly checked about 6 prices of things that I knew for sure because I had bought them yesterday and everything was ore or less the same. Bread, meat a few vegetables. The only noticeable difference was lettuce and but a dime or so. Canned tuna is much cheaper now.
OK, what are the things that make a difference in the quality of living? As a side, I remember paying (parents paying) $2.25 to see star wars. That's $9.02 inflation adjusted. I paid $9 last weekend at a matinee to see Hidden Figures
Beggars in the US have a higher quality of life than even upper classes in a lot of places that I've been. Until you experience it, there no way for you to be able to comprehend this because there is no common reference,
Parents are the biggest influence. I have a friend with a kid and all that she ever does is complain about how he plays minecraft all weekend and everyday after school. I'm like wtf, take it away from him. Oh, no no no, I couldn't do that. Well then stfu. I guess his grades haveslid considerably.
Exactly what I did (and retired (ish)). I've met a few, three to be exact, oil field workers who did the same thing. High pay and nothing to spend it on other than hookers and drugs, which apparently many do, adds up quickly. I think all three of them had quit long before they turned 40, about the age that engineers are put out to pasture.
Critical thinking was replaced with ask your social group for the answer because it provides for better, faster results and critical thinking leads in the wrong direction and gets you into trouble.
If it can be, why haven't I ever seen it being done? Not disagreeing, but if it worked as well as a person mowing a yard, I would think that they would be much more prevalent.
C-corps are easier to go public with. S-Corps don't pay corporate taxes and taxes are paid as income share holders (who have to be 50 or less). C-corps get tangled up in all the corporate taxes and everything that entails. Never was part of one of those.
When you incorporate, you need something like 4 officers (pres, vp. treas, secretary), are given 10,000 shares (which you distribute however you want and gives the shareholder that percentage of claim to the business). And taxes are paid on the amout that the share holder takes out. So if your business has $100k in the bank of profit, a shareholder, say the treasurer, can take an agreed upon amount of that money out of the bank, say $10k for work put in and they'll have to declare that on their income tax. If no other money is taken out, no other taxes are paid. The VP can add another $10k of his own money, say in exchange for 1,000 shares of stock.
At the beginning, the ownership was split equally at 100 shares each with 9,600 belonging to the corporation. After the VP buys, he owns 1,100 and everyone else owns 100. At the end of the year, all the shareholders are given 1,000 shares for the amount of work they've put in. Press-1100, vp-2100, treas-1100, sec- 1100. The secretary decides to buy 900 more shares for agreed on price of $500 (the money goes into the bank where it can be used to buy coffee, computers, desk, whatever).
Year two, they make $1M and decide they don't want to work anymore. Pres takes (1100/6400)*1M $172k, vp takes (2100/6400)*1M $328k, treas(1100/6400)*1M $172k, sec (2000/6400)*1M $312k and adds that number on their 1040 income tax.
I'm a corporation. I've owned (or part owner) in a few corporations (as a founder). It costs $35+ $200 in lawyers to start a corporation + few hundred / year for registration). I've known maybe two dozen people who've started corporations.
A corporation is a state (not federal) level entity and trivial to do
How is that any better than the phone that I have with a sticker picture of my girlfriend who is worth a lot more than $151k? Not only that, but she's the only one in the whole world. Bill Gates doesn't even own one.
As for more car, you get what you pay for. New cars are much safer, have things like ABS and airbags (add ons like that aren't free and are now required), are more efficient, more reliable, are much nicer overall (no sharp pokey things inside). If $ amount is all that you are concerned about, you can buy a nice used 1980 car for a couple thousand dollars.
My first computer had 16k of RAM, no storage and ran at 2MHz. It cost me 2 years of labor to save enough to buy it. My current computer is a million times (objectively) more and is given away often for free on craigslist. A 4-line newspaper classified ad cost $20 (inflation adjusted) and reached a few tens of thousands of people, it's now free and reaches billions of people.If I wanted to know anything, I had to take the bus to the library and spend half a day looking for something that I'd usually not find, now have for free on my free laptop.
The average house price in the 1970's was $132k (inflation adjusted). You can buy the same house now for the same price (using my parents house as an example since I know the numbers exactly). Newer houses are more, but you get a lot more house. Eggs were $3.69/dozen (pulling random numbers http://www.thepeoplehistory.co...), I bought a dozen yesterday for $2.59. Median wage in 1970 was $38,716 (https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/AWI.html). Median wage in 2016 was $44,148 (https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf).
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Amdahl's law
And you are 0.01% of the market
And more transistors means lower yield.
I was booting computers in milliseconds in the mid 90's (to the point where users space applications were getting scheduled time). It really depends on what you considered 'booted' and what hardware checks you are willing to skip. RAM test? walking ones test? read/write test?
Sometimes you have to set up a piece of hardware to fail and wait for it to time out to verify that a system is working and that alone can take an arbitrary amount of time. 40ms? 2 minutes? Depends on the hardware and what you're looking for. Eg, set something up so it overheats and BIT catches and shuts you down verifying that the hardware to catch overtemp works. Or maybe not do the test at all.
I remember when so many people on slashdot and reddit argued that it was impossible for a private company to launch anything into orbit because of the cost and the technical requirements were only in the scope of the largest governments like the US, Russia, Japan and China. That was maybe 7+ years ago. More recently I've read that, yeah, private companies can get to orbit, but they'll never venture beyond Earth orbit because there is no profit in it.
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Once you are in orbit, you are 60% of the way to the surface of the moon (soft landing) and pretty much anywhere else in the solar system.
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Slighly related, see Baumol's cost disease
I only randomly checked about 6 prices of things that I knew for sure because I had bought them yesterday and everything was ore or less the same. Bread, meat a few vegetables. The only noticeable difference was lettuce and but a dime or so. Canned tuna is much cheaper now.
OK, what are the things that make a difference in the quality of living? As a side, I remember paying (parents paying) $2.25 to see star wars. That's $9.02 inflation adjusted. I paid $9 last weekend at a matinee to see Hidden Figures
Beggars in the US have a higher quality of life than even upper classes in a lot of places that I've been. Until you experience it, there no way for you to be able to comprehend this because there is no common reference,
Parents are the biggest influence. I have a friend with a kid and all that she ever does is complain about how he plays minecraft all weekend and everyday after school. I'm like wtf, take it away from him. Oh, no no no, I couldn't do that. Well then stfu. I guess his grades haveslid considerably.
Exactly what I did (and retired (ish)). I've met a few, three to be exact, oil field workers who did the same thing. High pay and nothing to spend it on other than hookers and drugs, which apparently many do, adds up quickly. I think all three of them had quit long before they turned 40, about the age that engineers are put out to pasture.
Critical thinking was replaced with ask your social group for the answer because it provides for better, faster results and critical thinking leads in the wrong direction and gets you into trouble.
Just over 100 years ago the us did not have any taxes.
The ACLU disagrees with you.
The 80's were awesome!
and probably won't be making swimming pools of it for a long time.
That's an A- at my highschool.
So the US is becoming more like the rest of the world?
If it can be, why haven't I ever seen it being done? Not disagreeing, but if it worked as well as a person mowing a yard, I would think that they would be much more prevalent.
When you incorporate, you need something like 4 officers (pres, vp. treas, secretary), are given 10,000 shares (which you distribute however you want and gives the shareholder that percentage of claim to the business). And taxes are paid on the amout that the share holder takes out. So if your business has $100k in the bank of profit, a shareholder, say the treasurer, can take an agreed upon amount of that money out of the bank, say $10k for work put in and they'll have to declare that on their income tax. If no other money is taken out, no other taxes are paid. The VP can add another $10k of his own money, say in exchange for 1,000 shares of stock. At the beginning, the ownership was split equally at 100 shares each with 9,600 belonging to the corporation. After the VP buys, he owns 1,100 and everyone else owns 100. At the end of the year, all the shareholders are given 1,000 shares for the amount of work they've put in. Press-1100, vp-2100, treas-1100, sec- 1100. The secretary decides to buy 900 more shares for agreed on price of $500 (the money goes into the bank where it can be used to buy coffee, computers, desk, whatever). Year two, they make $1M and decide they don't want to work anymore. Pres takes (1100/6400)*1M $172k, vp takes (2100/6400)*1M $328k, treas(1100/6400)*1M $172k, sec (2000/6400)*1M $312k and adds that number on their 1040 income tax.
I'm a corporation. I've owned (or part owner) in a few corporations (as a founder). It costs $35+ $200 in lawyers to start a corporation + few hundred / year for registration). I've known maybe two dozen people who've started corporations.
A corporation is a state (not federal) level entity and trivial to do
How is that any better than the phone that I have with a sticker picture of my girlfriend who is worth a lot more than $151k? Not only that, but she's the only one in the whole world. Bill Gates doesn't even own one.
As for more car, you get what you pay for. New cars are much safer, have things like ABS and airbags (add ons like that aren't free and are now required), are more efficient, more reliable, are much nicer overall (no sharp pokey things inside). If $ amount is all that you are concerned about, you can buy a nice used 1980 car for a couple thousand dollars.
The average house price in the 1970's was $132k (inflation adjusted). You can buy the same house now for the same price (using my parents house as an example since I know the numbers exactly). Newer houses are more, but you get a lot more house. Eggs were $3.69/dozen (pulling random numbers http://www.thepeoplehistory.co...), I bought a dozen yesterday for $2.59. Median wage in 1970 was $38,716 (https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/AWI.html). Median wage in 2016 was $44,148 (https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf).
And lived in mud houses with thatched roofs and did not own smart phones.