Yes, but (at least in my part of the country) a house in the city will not appreciate nearly as quickly as a house in the suburbs. I suppose that trend could reverse itself, and maybe it's a local thing, but I don't think the math is as simple as you make it out to be.
The trend, in server-class hardware at least, is toward lower power consumption. With the move toward smaller servers, many companies are finding that it's difficult to provide power and cooling to a rack of power-hugry 1U servers.
power consumption worldwide has been exploding as more CPUs come online
I think you've made a huge leap there. You've tried to imply that CPUs are what's causing the increased demand for power. That's the logical fallacy of Correlation implies causation. I'd be willing to bet that computers use very little of the additional power consumed. Think about if you lived in a developing country and had limited resources to spend, but increasing energy supplies. Would you be more likely to spend money on a PC, air conditioning, a laundry washing machine, or a TV? And of those, the PC probably uses the least energy already.
You don't need to ask him. He's blogged the whole thing! He's got a separate patch for each change in functionality, with explanations of each. Some "explanations" are just a single sentence as a link to the patch. Others are full blog entries. The blog provides a pretty good history of his thinking on the changes as he went along and tracked his progress. The patches are also commented to a reasonable degree explaining what's going on.
If this isn't enough info, I don't know what is. I suppose code for regression tests, etc. would be nice. But complaining about this is more likely to piss off Apple/Hyatt than to help. Plus, he does have his email address posted on his blog if you have questions. Or just post a comment, and I'd bet he'd answer it.
PoE for a vacuum? Not likely! My vacuum, and most that I've seen around here are in the 12 Amp range (around 1500 Watts). About 100 times more juice that PoE can provide.
So the law says that any "device" that can be used to store copyrighted digital media must be taxed? Why not subvert the system then? Develop and publicize a method to record and play back copyrighted material from paper, so that they politicians will need to tax paper. Or food. Or -- oh, this one is good -- money.
Can you imagine? Go to the bank and ask for 100 Euro from your account:
TELLER: "That'll be 25 Euro, sir."
CUSTOMER: "WHAT?"
TELLER: "The tax on your media is 25 Euro."
CUSTOMER: "So I have to pay 25 Euro to get 100 Euro in cash?"
TELLER: "Yes sir, because you could copy music onto the bills."
I've been told that Anheuser-Busch (the US' largest beer brewer) is taxed about $0.12 per bottle of beer, and the revenue (not sure if it's net or gross) on a bottle of beer is about $0.05. And beer is the taxed much lower than distilled alcoholic beverages.
I share with others, because that's what communities do. Open Source is all about community. Users share experiences with each other, and point out useful things to others. Programmers share their programs and their fixes.
Heck, much of the Internet is about community. Looking for a specific program? Search Google -- it does an excellent job of telling you what others think about programs that do what you're looking for. How does Google know what's out there and what's popular? It looks at the links between web sites. Basically an ad hoc community of opinions about everything, with the link being the measure of interest.
Why be a part of a community? Because I get more than I give. I might have a web page talking about 5 programs (or other topics) that are important to me. Those pages become part of the community. But I've gotten info on dozens of programs (and other topics) from that same community. What if I didn't contribute to the community? Then the community would break down if everyone did the same.
There are other reasons I try to "push" my own choices on others. If more people use the software, more people will support it, making it better for all of us in the future. I also get to stroke my ego some when I recommend cool new things to others. I feel like I'm part of the "in crowd" or the "leading edge" or whatever.
That said, I try not to be overzealous. Pushing things on people who won't benefit from the thing being pushed is counter-productive. They'll think that I don't know what's good for them, and won't believe me next time I suggest something. And they'll think that the community is not right for them, when perhaps I just suggested the wrong portion of the community.
And if you are a developer using other OSS for your development, you're also secure because OSS licenses cannot be terminated, except by violating them.
To be more specific, if you violate the terms, it only terminates YOUR license. Everyone else's license still remains valid. So the original developer cannot revoke everyone's license by violating the license himself.
One suspects that The Hindu wrote it that way because The Hindu takes a special interest in Indians around the world and their achievements -- does this make them racists?
No, that makes them nationalists. Though not in any negative way necessarily. (Nationalism is only bad when it's overly exclusive of other nationalities.)
Hmm. The Audigy 2 NX or Extigy would be great, but the Creative site doesn't mention any Mac support. (Nor for the Live! external you mentioned.) I'll look into them though. Thanks for the idea.
Looks like there's a commercial driver, but at $60, that's a lot of money compared to the price of the hardware. According to Apple, Core Audio (at least in Tiger) will support "most" USB and FireWire devices without extra software.
We all know that only a morally void character will flip-flop when presented with new evidence.
New relevant evidence will always affect the decisions of a rational/perfect reasoner unless that evidence is totally redundant with respect to evidence that was already known.
Umm. If the new evidence is redundant, it's not really new relevant information, is it? The poster's comment is valid if you add the implied "non-redundant" modifier to "new evidence".
Exactly. While this is a nice addition, it's not the add-on I'm most interested in. (It's just a hub and a hard drive.) I'm using my mini as an HDTV receiver (with EyeTV 500) and DVD player, and the thing I'm really missing on my Mac mini is 5.1 audio. I'd love to get 5.1 digital AND analog output, and digital and analog input. (I think such external sound cards exist, they're just a bit pricey, and not quite what I'm looking for.)
Also, I'd rather have a better form-factor than just stacking the thing below my Mac mini. (I already have my EyeTV stacked below it, even though they are different sizes.) I'd much rather have the whole system in a more stereo-component form factor than an SFF Shuttle PC form.
The operating system should really prevent this type of problem. The whole purpose of the OS is to mediate access to resources such as CPU. So if one process is able to monopolize the CPU and prevent other processes from getting CPU time, then the OS has failed to do its job. (I'm not sure Linux would do a better job or not -- I've seen cases where it had similar problems.)
Umm. Bush would have found a way/reason to attack Iraq even if September 11 had never happened. For one, they're not really even linked -- we didn't bomb Iraq because they caused 9/11. The only real effect that 9/11 might have had was that we were then able to commit to a war on "Terror" and call Saddam a terrorist. But Bush was already planning on attacking Iraq, and would have come up with more good reasons.
You should include the date reported as well as the date(s) of the incident and the date of discovery. You should also explain what data was lost (SSNs, CC#s, credit info, medical info, etc.) and whether there are any know uses of the stolen data. (I'd also include a likelihood ranking of whether the data will/could be used. For this incident, I'd give it a very low likelihood.) You should include the recent DSW incident, and probably ChoicePoint. (The ChoicePoint incident was discovered in October 2004, but not reported until 2005.)
uh...why not create wave files and then compress the hell out of it with a separate data compression program
That's pretty much what FLAC is -- it's a specialized data compression program. To a "normal" data compression program (ZIP, gzip, etc.), audio data looks pretty random, so it wouldn't do a very good job. The important lesson here: knowing more about your data allows you to compress it better.
A 90% price cut? That's pretty incredible. To me it says one of 2 things:
The company makes more than 90% profit on every copy of Windows they sell.
Microsoft was attempting to "dump" the software for less than their cost, and should be prosecuted for that crime.
If it's the first one, then people and companies need to start paying attention. If it's the second one, then the government(s) need to start paying attention.
A lot of what a person receives from the government is protection of his property, wealth, and "standard of living". That is, if the society were to break down into anarchy, the person would be likely to lose his or her property and wealth. And if the country were to be attacked and go to war, or if the country were to go into a serious depression, the "standard of living" would suffer. Of course, these things are hard to measure, but you could say that they're roughly proportional to the amount of wealth and/or income. Hence, those with more wealth/income should pay more than those with less.
But you're dead! So it's NOT your decision! That's the point. Dead people do not HAVE property. You have no use for the money or property when you're dead. If you want your kids to have some of your money, give it to them while you're still alive.
You earned the money by contributing to society. If your kids inherit all your money (assuming you're mega-rich), then they don't have to contribute to society. That's exactly the kind of thing we left England for -- people who had power because of who they were, no matter what they did.
Another reason for taxing the extremely wealthy is that they benefit the most from government. The government protects other people from stealing their wealth, and protects their method of generating wealth.
Besides, your argument would apply to any tax, and you don't seem to be particularly against any other form of taxation.
I have to agree with you. I'm normally not against GM food. Heck, humans have been genetically modifying food the old-fashioned way (cross-breeding, hybridization) for thousands of years. But when you're using GM modified plants to create pharmaceutical products, you're no longer talking about food.
The biggest problem I see with GM plants is the cross-pollination problem. Crop A is for human consumption, and has been growing fine. Crop B is growing some new rat poison. Crop A gets cross-pollinated by Crop B. Now you've got people eating rat poison. Unfortunately, there's no easy way to prevent cross-pollination of outside crops. A truly closed system is the only way to prevent it. And Ventria's claim that an outdoor field could be considered a closed system is ridiculous.
Another scary aspect of this is that the only court case I've heard regarding GM crops was a situation in which the "manufacturer" of Crop B seeds sued and won against a Crop A farmer who ended up with some Crop B in his fields.
While I think GM is a net positive, I think the GM industry needs to figure out a way to prevent cross-pollination. (Unfortunately, this probably means growing in greenhouses, or perhaps infertile crops.) If they don't, I think they should be sued into oblivion by the first organic farmer who gets "infected" by GM.
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Yes, but (at least in my part of the country) a house in the city will not appreciate nearly as quickly as a house in the suburbs. I suppose that trend could reverse itself, and maybe it's a local thing, but I don't think the math is as simple as you make it out to be.
The trend, in server-class hardware at least, is toward lower power consumption. With the move toward smaller servers, many companies are finding that it's difficult to provide power and cooling to a rack of power-hugry 1U servers.
I think you've made a huge leap there. You've tried to imply that CPUs are what's causing the increased demand for power. That's the logical fallacy of Correlation implies causation. I'd be willing to bet that computers use very little of the additional power consumed. Think about if you lived in a developing country and had limited resources to spend, but increasing energy supplies. Would you be more likely to spend money on a PC, air conditioning, a laundry washing machine, or a TV? And of those, the PC probably uses the least energy already.
If this isn't enough info, I don't know what is. I suppose code for regression tests, etc. would be nice. But complaining about this is more likely to piss off Apple/Hyatt than to help. Plus, he does have his email address posted on his blog if you have questions. Or just post a comment, and I'd bet he'd answer it.
And they'll rename Tiger to KTiger (or Kiger) to get around the lawsuit from TigerDirect.
PoE for a vacuum? Not likely! My vacuum, and most that I've seen around here are in the 12 Amp range (around 1500 Watts). About 100 times more juice that PoE can provide.
Can you imagine? Go to the bank and ask for 100 Euro from your account:
TELLER: "That'll be 25 Euro, sir."
CUSTOMER: "WHAT?"
TELLER: "The tax on your media is 25 Euro."
CUSTOMER: "So I have to pay 25 Euro to get 100 Euro in cash?"
TELLER: "Yes sir, because you could copy music onto the bills."
I've been told that Anheuser-Busch (the US' largest beer brewer) is taxed about $0.12 per bottle of beer, and the revenue (not sure if it's net or gross) on a bottle of beer is about $0.05. And beer is the taxed much lower than distilled alcoholic beverages.
Better yet, add something to the protocol that includes the coordinates (location) of the caller when making the VOIP connection.
I share with others, because that's what communities do. Open Source is all about community. Users share experiences with each other, and point out useful things to others. Programmers share their programs and their fixes.
Heck, much of the Internet is about community. Looking for a specific program? Search Google -- it does an excellent job of telling you what others think about programs that do what you're looking for. How does Google know what's out there and what's popular? It looks at the links between web sites. Basically an ad hoc community of opinions about everything, with the link being the measure of interest.
Why be a part of a community? Because I get more than I give. I might have a web page talking about 5 programs (or other topics) that are important to me. Those pages become part of the community. But I've gotten info on dozens of programs (and other topics) from that same community. What if I didn't contribute to the community? Then the community would break down if everyone did the same.
There are other reasons I try to "push" my own choices on others. If more people use the software, more people will support it, making it better for all of us in the future. I also get to stroke my ego some when I recommend cool new things to others. I feel like I'm part of the "in crowd" or the "leading edge" or whatever.
That said, I try not to be overzealous. Pushing things on people who won't benefit from the thing being pushed is counter-productive. They'll think that I don't know what's good for them, and won't believe me next time I suggest something. And they'll think that the community is not right for them, when perhaps I just suggested the wrong portion of the community.
To be more specific, if you violate the terms, it only terminates YOUR license. Everyone else's license still remains valid. So the original developer cannot revoke everyone's license by violating the license himself.
No, that makes them nationalists. Though not in any negative way necessarily. (Nationalism is only bad when it's overly exclusive of other nationalities.)
Hmm. The Audigy 2 NX or Extigy would be great, but the Creative site doesn't mention any Mac support. (Nor for the Live! external you mentioned.) I'll look into them though. Thanks for the idea.
Looks like there's a commercial driver, but at $60, that's a lot of money compared to the price of the hardware. According to Apple, Core Audio (at least in Tiger) will support "most" USB and FireWire devices without extra software.
Umm. If the new evidence is redundant, it's not really new relevant information, is it? The poster's comment is valid if you add the implied "non-redundant" modifier to "new evidence".
Exactly. While this is a nice addition, it's not the add-on I'm most interested in. (It's just a hub and a hard drive.) I'm using my mini as an HDTV receiver (with EyeTV 500) and DVD player, and the thing I'm really missing on my Mac mini is 5.1 audio. I'd love to get 5.1 digital AND analog output, and digital and analog input. (I think such external sound cards exist, they're just a bit pricey, and not quite what I'm looking for.)
Also, I'd rather have a better form-factor than just stacking the thing below my Mac mini. (I already have my EyeTV stacked below it, even though they are different sizes.) I'd much rather have the whole system in a more stereo-component form factor than an SFF Shuttle PC form.
The operating system should really prevent this type of problem. The whole purpose of the OS is to mediate access to resources such as CPU. So if one process is able to monopolize the CPU and prevent other processes from getting CPU time, then the OS has failed to do its job. (I'm not sure Linux would do a better job or not -- I've seen cases where it had similar problems.)
Umm. Bush would have found a way/reason to attack Iraq even if September 11 had never happened. For one, they're not really even linked -- we didn't bomb Iraq because they caused 9/11. The only real effect that 9/11 might have had was that we were then able to commit to a war on "Terror" and call Saddam a terrorist. But Bush was already planning on attacking Iraq, and would have come up with more good reasons.
Wow, that sounds amazingly close to the Chewbacca defense.
Damn, where's my mod points when I need them? Parent: +1 Insightful
You should include the date reported as well as the date(s) of the incident and the date of discovery. You should also explain what data was lost (SSNs, CC#s, credit info, medical info, etc.) and whether there are any know uses of the stolen data. (I'd also include a likelihood ranking of whether the data will/could be used. For this incident, I'd give it a very low likelihood.) You should include the recent DSW incident, and probably ChoicePoint. (The ChoicePoint incident was discovered in October 2004, but not reported until 2005.)
- The company makes more than 90% profit on every copy of Windows they sell.
- Microsoft was attempting to "dump" the software for less than their cost, and should be prosecuted for that crime.
If it's the first one, then people and companies need to start paying attention. If it's the second one, then the government(s) need to start paying attention.A lot of what a person receives from the government is protection of his property, wealth, and "standard of living". That is, if the society were to break down into anarchy, the person would be likely to lose his or her property and wealth. And if the country were to be attacked and go to war, or if the country were to go into a serious depression, the "standard of living" would suffer. Of course, these things are hard to measure, but you could say that they're roughly proportional to the amount of wealth and/or income. Hence, those with more wealth/income should pay more than those with less.
But you're dead! So it's NOT your decision! That's the point. Dead people do not HAVE property. You have no use for the money or property when you're dead. If you want your kids to have some of your money, give it to them while you're still alive.
You earned the money by contributing to society. If your kids inherit all your money (assuming you're mega-rich), then they don't have to contribute to society. That's exactly the kind of thing we left England for -- people who had power because of who they were, no matter what they did.
Another reason for taxing the extremely wealthy is that they benefit the most from government. The government protects other people from stealing their wealth, and protects their method of generating wealth.
Besides, your argument would apply to any tax, and you don't seem to be particularly against any other form of taxation.
I have to agree with you. I'm normally not against GM food. Heck, humans have been genetically modifying food the old-fashioned way (cross-breeding, hybridization) for thousands of years. But when you're using GM modified plants to create pharmaceutical products, you're no longer talking about food.
The biggest problem I see with GM plants is the cross-pollination problem. Crop A is for human consumption, and has been growing fine. Crop B is growing some new rat poison. Crop A gets cross-pollinated by Crop B. Now you've got people eating rat poison. Unfortunately, there's no easy way to prevent cross-pollination of outside crops. A truly closed system is the only way to prevent it. And Ventria's claim that an outdoor field could be considered a closed system is ridiculous.
Another scary aspect of this is that the only court case I've heard regarding GM crops was a situation in which the "manufacturer" of Crop B seeds sued and won against a Crop A farmer who ended up with some Crop B in his fields.
While I think GM is a net positive, I think the GM industry needs to figure out a way to prevent cross-pollination. (Unfortunately, this probably means growing in greenhouses, or perhaps infertile crops.) If they don't, I think they should be sued into oblivion by the first organic farmer who gets "infected" by GM.