I used to regularly spend $3K on Macbook Pros before Apple went corporately insane (and ran linux on them). If you knew what you were talking about you'd be familiar with the formerly large effort to support linux on Apple laptops. It was even a Fedora priority at one point.
Now I'm hard-pressed to find a machine that offers reasonable specs, so the desire to spend much money is lacking. You'll see people here posting about the old Dells with high-res screens that they paid just as much for, and all that was when the market was 1/10th its current size. Lenovo for one makes Linux support available on at least most of its models. That's just because they like to waste money, I'm sure.
And maybe Linus is just out of touch with the linux userbase. That could be... nah, he's not.
Yes, someone can always come along and take it out... and if you don't care to dispute it, yes, they win. But that's how life, not just WP, works.
Certainly, and you fight for the things you care about. But that also means that WP is now [effectively] only editable by people who care to fight, which wasn't the original intent.
You know what drives changes like this. People showing they will pay a premium to have it.
The product has to exist first. I'd gladly pay the price of a standard laptop plus the price of one of these high-res tablets to get the two pieces of hardwaree married (assuming there's linux driver support), and that's a price premium in itself. Except it has to be made by anybody other than Apple - I can't support company that's aggressively using the courts to make my industry worse. OK, not HP either, they have a 24% failure rate, but that leaves a dozen other manufacturers.
But... so far as I can tell it doesn't exist. My laptop just crapped out so I'll probably get a $500 refurb with a crummy screen, hoping that when that one dies this product will exist. Maybe the tablet market can drive it into being a commodity part, the way HDTV ruined computer displays.
I've been buying them by the box since everybody in the family was stealing my pens already.
Now, if I find a pen in the house that won't write, I throw it in the trash. Scribbling to get a pen to start is for people who hate technology.
n.b. it's not the smallest point ever, but we've had cheap reducing technology for 40 years now. If you're trying to put fine details on something drawn too small, you're doing it wrong. Y'know, comic strips are drawn 2' wide, not 6", despite how they might appear in the newspaper.
Color is fine in a UI as long as it means something. If it's just decoration that creates cognitive load with no user benefit. Apple abandoned this idea back with pinstriping, Aqua, and whatever that look they had was called that was supposed to look like metal stereo components. I happened upon a System 7.6 machine the other day. I really felt much less frenetic than the modern machines.
Oh, the same goes for animations. They can be useful or they can be glam. Glam wastes my time and focus.
BTW, good idea, Apple, announcing a top floor slaughter while Wall St. is closed and a natural disaster is playing out.
SSD reliability has been so bad [insert contrary anecdotes here] and Sandforce such a bright-spot of "not broken" that at this point I just specify Sandforce controllers and worry aout other things. Newegg will even let me search by it now. Perhaps Intel gets this sentiment and stands to benefit. Intel has a historical relationship of OEM'ing from LSI and their memory is good, so sign me up if these things don't get hanged in the first couple months.
You have it backwards - nobody expects you to keep your 'retarded brothers'. Rather, it's you who are kept as a weird modern hybrid of serf/helot/slave (but with smartphones) and the current obstruction of the State mechanism for clean power exists for the sake of a few. Cui buono.
Carlin has some good elaboration on this but the long and the short of it is that you learned more than you were supposed to for a 'good worker'.
People who don't want to believe this will now object rather than making a difference.
That's abusurd - fast breeder reactors could provide 100% of the electricity a growing worldwide population needs just cleaning up the existing waste. It's purely a prolem of the State apparatus at this point.
What people want for the internet is a persistent stateless anarchy, with no oversight or governence.
Baloney, they want governance that's driven by the network operators. Or don't you think backbone providers should agree on peering arrangements, BGP carriage, etc.? The network operators work for their customers, so what people really want is customer regulation.
I think this is probably what you meant, but it's important to not play loose with the terms - those gaps are where States and NGO's sneak into the cracks.
Anyway, go support Tonika if you're a tech person interested in making this happen on a massive scale.
So, the question becomes: How do we protect ourselves from these people to make sure nobody gets control, including our service providers, who can at ant moment cut us off completely?
If you still support power structures where one man or group of men can 'legitimately' use force to make another man do his bidding, then stop doing so.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, "but *I* only want to force other people to do good things!" That's what they all say, and think. The FTC, the ITU, the UN, the OAS, et. al.
In the meantime, encrypt everything and work on getting global p2p DNS humming along nicely. If you're building a service that has popular support, do everything you can to ensure that it only works if these sorts of preventative measures aren't taken away (by force, for the children).
Paintballs, eh? The big brains who work on this think that the best thing to do is to launch an ~2-ton spacecraft with an ion engine, position it near the asteroid, and let them do their gravity tango while the spacecraft very slowly changes the orbit of the pair. If it's a nice asteroid, that orbit is one that parks it in Earth's orbit for mining operations.
As compared to painting the asteroid, if the asteroid tumbles at all (space dust, uneven heating, evaporation, etc.) the entire plan doesn't fall apart.
Do you know enoug people who will volunteer to give their lives to charity work as an audiologist to meet the demand? There may be a few, but most need to be paid because they have life expenses. As I understand it, the price of a hearing aid includes lifetime support, which means paying the audiologist for an average of n number of fittings/adjustments.
It's a shame there's not a model where the device costs what the device costs and then support is paid out of pocket. But 90% of people are happy to overpay for their cell phones by $1200 with contract obligations too, so it's not all that surprising.
Sounds like a great idea. I'd pay 10 cents a day for a good weather service, especially one without management problems like the governments' weather program. SpaceX might make this tech affordable now. Maybe this gap will provide the impetus needed to get a better weather prediction system going.
Basically, they're describing four types of data centers. Have you seen the Google data centers with their heat curtains and all that? I surely don't work in any of those types of data centers. Some of the fancier ones around here have hot/cold aisles, but the majority are just machines in racks, sometimes with sides, stuck in a room with A/C. Fortunately it's more split systems than window units these days!
The conventional wisdom was that AC is cheaper than downtime/hardware so they told the building owner what to run the temperature at and they paid for it. Some of those assumptions are now being challenged.
I do dig energy effecient IT - I focus on this whenever I spec gear - but many people just 'go big', 'go cheap', or 'go IBM' (for various values of 'IBM'). Focusing on operating heat is an after-the-fact approach if you have opportunity to cut down on heat (freebie: do you put SSD's in front of your big drives to keep them cooler?)
With that said, there's one very good reason to run a cold room: power failures. I typically see places with decent to nice UPS units, but the A/C units are almost never on battery backup, and generators are too rare (even when they're there, they're rarely sized for or connected to the A/C). A data room can get hot in a hurry without A/C and if you're running at 65, you get to 95 much less slowly than you do when you're running at 82. Yeah, if you're a government contractor you just buy a CAT diesel and go about your day, but for many businesses the monthly cost of A/C is weighed against the purchase of the generator to make it able to sustain those kinds of conditions.
1. "invaded neighboring countries" -- only after being attacked first.
Most often there are guerrilla or terrorist attacks by a small gang, and then Israel retaliates against a nation-State. Ties between the two are always claimed, but rarely substantiated.
And, of course, we're talking about this because Israeli government people keep talking about an unprovoked attack on Iran.
why should Israel stop construction on land it conquered in a defensive conflict if Palestinians never make any serious attempt at peace.
Because it will never win peace with the "but we're the conquerors" attitude. The people who live there have too little to lose and there's too much tribal hatred. The only two solutions that can work are zero or two states, and that's even doubtful. I realize that Britain and the UN royally screwed up the region but just because people draw lines on a map doesn't mean that it will work in the long term. Oh, I guess there is another option: extermination of the Palestinians, but that has to be 100% thorough to be considered successful.
Palestinians are not Israel's people.
Oh, so they're not under Israel's jurisdiction? Israel sure acts like they are. All that matters, in actuality, is who is the controlling military force over an area.
Those in the west bank are governed by Fatah and those in Gaza by Hamas. Becuase they do not hold Israeli citizenship, of course they do not have the same rights in israel. As an American, I do not have the same rights in the EU. That's not apartheid and comparing it to racial separation is offensive.
Wait, how many Israelis are living in the refugee camps? How many Israelis are subject to the blockade on Gaza? For those unfamiliar with the situation, here' some background.
Are you saying that it's not true that 99%+ of the people affected by Israel's blockade are Arabs?
Three hundred million Chinese would move here at once.
Why? They'd mostly freeze and starve. The social safety net is about as stretched as it can get, and certainly could not accommodate 300M more. The economy could not gear up that quickly to provide them all with jobs.
They may not love their current situation, but moving en masse to the US would be a worse situation. People don't usually act against their own self-interest.
corporations are trying to return us to 1800's regulation
Not a chance. The massive regulatory structure severely cripples their would-be competitors. Heck, industry lobbyists write most of the regulatory statutes and they swap their people into the revolving door of government to keep it in place.
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens the door for the U.S. to respond using traditional military force.
But not if it's STUXNET or FLAME, right?
Similarly, the media would have us believe that if a country in the Middle East refused to sign the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, invaded neighboring countries, ignored condemnation from the UN Security Council of its actions, and repressed its people into poverty and apartheid, while also developing a nuclear weapons program, that the USG should intervene militarily to take out its nuclear program and probably impose new leadership.
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Don't look now, but your ignorance is showing.
I used to regularly spend $3K on Macbook Pros before Apple went corporately insane (and ran linux on them). If you knew what you were talking about you'd be familiar with the formerly large effort to support linux on Apple laptops. It was even a Fedora priority at one point.
Now I'm hard-pressed to find a machine that offers reasonable specs, so the desire to spend much money is lacking. You'll see people here posting about the old Dells with high-res screens that they paid just as much for, and all that was when the market was 1/10th its current size. Lenovo for one makes Linux support available on at least most of its models. That's just because they like to waste money, I'm sure.
And maybe Linus is just out of touch with the linux userbase. That could be ... nah, he's not.
Yes, someone can always come along and take it out ... and if you don't care to dispute it, yes, they win. But that's how life, not just WP, works.
Certainly, and you fight for the things you care about. But that also means that WP is now [effectively] only editable by people who care to fight, which wasn't the original intent.
You know what drives changes like this. People showing they will pay a premium to have it.
The product has to exist first. I'd gladly pay the price of a standard laptop plus the price of one of these high-res tablets to get the two pieces of hardwaree married (assuming there's linux driver support), and that's a price premium in itself. Except it has to be made by anybody other than Apple - I can't support company that's aggressively using the courts to make my industry worse. OK, not HP either, they have a 24% failure rate, but that leaves a dozen other manufacturers.
But ... so far as I can tell it doesn't exist. My laptop just crapped out so I'll probably get a $500 refurb with a crummy screen, hoping that when that one dies this product will exist. Maybe the tablet market can drive it into being a commodity part, the way HDTV ruined computer displays.
I've been buying them by the box since everybody in the family was stealing my pens already.
Now, if I find a pen in the house that won't write, I throw it in the trash. Scribbling to get a pen to start is for people who hate technology.
n.b. it's not the smallest point ever, but we've had cheap reducing technology for 40 years now. If you're trying to put fine details on something drawn too small, you're doing it wrong. Y'know, comic strips are drawn 2' wide, not 6", despite how they might appear in the newspaper.
Color is fine in a UI as long as it means something. If it's just decoration that creates cognitive load with no user benefit. Apple abandoned this idea back with pinstriping, Aqua, and whatever that look they had was called that was supposed to look like metal stereo components. I happened upon a System 7.6 machine the other day. I really felt much less frenetic than the modern machines.
Oh, the same goes for animations. They can be useful or they can be glam. Glam wastes my time and focus.
BTW, good idea, Apple, announcing a top floor slaughter while Wall St. is closed and a natural disaster is playing out.
SSD reliability has been so bad [insert contrary anecdotes here] and Sandforce such a bright-spot of "not broken" that at this point I just specify Sandforce controllers and worry aout other things. Newegg will even let me search by it now. Perhaps Intel gets this sentiment and stands to benefit. Intel has a historical relationship of OEM'ing from LSI and their memory is good, so sign me up if these things don't get hanged in the first couple months.
You have it backwards - nobody expects you to keep your 'retarded brothers'. Rather, it's you who are kept as a weird modern hybrid of serf/helot/slave (but with smartphones) and the current obstruction of the State mechanism for clean power exists for the sake of a few. Cui buono.
Carlin has some good elaboration on this but the long and the short of it is that you learned more than you were supposed to for a 'good worker'.
People who don't want to believe this will now object rather than making a difference.
That's abusurd - fast breeder reactors could provide 100% of the electricity a growing worldwide population needs just cleaning up the existing waste. It's purely a prolem of the State apparatus at this point.
What people want for the internet is a persistent stateless anarchy, with no oversight or governence.
Baloney, they want governance that's driven by the network operators. Or don't you think backbone providers should agree on peering arrangements, BGP carriage, etc.? The network operators work for their customers, so what people really want is customer regulation.
I think this is probably what you meant, but it's important to not play loose with the terms - those gaps are where States and NGO's sneak into the cracks.
Anyway, go support Tonika if you're a tech person interested in making this happen on a massive scale.
So, the question becomes: How do we protect ourselves from these people to make sure nobody gets control, including our service providers, who can at ant moment cut us off completely?
If you still support power structures where one man or group of men can 'legitimately' use force to make another man do his bidding, then stop doing so.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, "but *I* only want to force other people to do good things!" That's what they all say, and think. The FTC, the ITU, the UN, the OAS, et. al.
In the meantime, encrypt everything and work on getting global p2p DNS humming along nicely. If you're building a service that has popular support, do everything you can to ensure that it only works if these sorts of preventative measures aren't taken away (by force, for the children).
To be honest, it looks more like a river cruiser than a blue water international cruiser. Maybe he intended it to drift around a local lake?
Probably the only viable use for this ship is to dock it at Monterey and make it a $30 admission museum dedicated to Steve Jobs's ego.
Seriously, it's a winning business model, assuming the ship will be purchased for $1 over scrap value.
Paintballs, eh? The big brains who work on this think that the best thing to do is to launch an ~2-ton spacecraft with an ion engine, position it near the asteroid, and let them do their gravity tango while the spacecraft very slowly changes the orbit of the pair. If it's a nice asteroid, that orbit is one that parks it in Earth's orbit for mining operations.
As compared to painting the asteroid, if the asteroid tumbles at all (space dust, uneven heating, evaporation, etc.) the entire plan doesn't fall apart.
How old was the book?
From the 30's.
Do you know enoug people who will volunteer to give their lives to charity work as an audiologist to meet the demand? There may be a few, but most need to be paid because they have life expenses. As I understand it, the price of a hearing aid includes lifetime support, which means paying the audiologist for an average of n number of fittings/adjustments.
It's a shame there's not a model where the device costs what the device costs and then support is paid out of pocket. But 90% of people are happy to overpay for their cell phones by $1200 with contract obligations too, so it's not all that surprising.
Sounds like a great idea. I'd pay 10 cents a day for a good weather service, especially one without management problems like the governments' weather program. SpaceX might make this tech affordable now. Maybe this gap will provide the impetus needed to get a better weather prediction system going.
If the owners of the building could run cooler I would think they would.
Have a look here for more background.
Basically, they're describing four types of data centers. Have you seen the Google data centers with their heat curtains and all that? I surely don't work in any of those types of data centers. Some of the fancier ones around here have hot/cold aisles, but the majority are just machines in racks, sometimes with sides, stuck in a room with A/C. Fortunately it's more split systems than window units these days!
The conventional wisdom was that AC is cheaper than downtime/hardware so they told the building owner what to run the temperature at and they paid for it. Some of those assumptions are now being challenged.
I do dig energy effecient IT - I focus on this whenever I spec gear - but many people just 'go big', 'go cheap', or 'go IBM' (for various values of 'IBM'). Focusing on operating heat is an after-the-fact approach if you have opportunity to cut down on heat (freebie: do you put SSD's in front of your big drives to keep them cooler?)
With that said, there's one very good reason to run a cold room: power failures. I typically see places with decent to nice UPS units, but the A/C units are almost never on battery backup, and generators are too rare (even when they're there, they're rarely sized for or connected to the A/C). A data room can get hot in a hurry without A/C and if you're running at 65, you get to 95 much less slowly than you do when you're running at 82. Yeah, if you're a government contractor you just buy a CAT diesel and go about your day, but for many businesses the monthly cost of A/C is weighed against the purchase of the generator to make it able to sustain those kinds of conditions.
You forgot to use the word "Zionist" in your post. You should fix that.
Assignment of motivation is irrelevant - it's actions that matter. Words are just that, though the war-drummers would like you to believe otherwise.
Apparently I failed to deliver on that thesis.
1. "invaded neighboring countries" -- only after being attacked first.
Most often there are guerrilla or terrorist attacks by a small gang, and then Israel retaliates against a nation-State. Ties between the two are always claimed, but rarely substantiated.
And, of course, we're talking about this because Israeli government people keep talking about an unprovoked attack on Iran.
why should Israel stop construction on land it conquered in a defensive conflict if Palestinians never make any serious attempt at peace.
Because it will never win peace with the "but we're the conquerors" attitude. The people who live there have too little to lose and there's too much tribal hatred. The only two solutions that can work are zero or two states, and that's even doubtful. I realize that Britain and the UN royally screwed up the region but just because people draw lines on a map doesn't mean that it will work in the long term. Oh, I guess there is another option: extermination of the Palestinians, but that has to be 100% thorough to be considered successful.
Palestinians are not Israel's people.
Oh, so they're not under Israel's jurisdiction? Israel sure acts like they are. All that matters, in actuality, is who is the controlling military force over an area.
Those in the west bank are governed by Fatah and those in Gaza by Hamas. Becuase they do not hold Israeli citizenship, of course they do not have the same rights in israel. As an American, I do not have the same rights in the EU. That's not apartheid and comparing it to racial separation is offensive.
Wait, how many Israelis are living in the refugee camps? How many Israelis are subject to the blockade on Gaza? For those unfamiliar with the situation, here' some background.
Are you saying that it's not true that 99%+ of the people affected by Israel's blockade are Arabs?
I would even support this with our friends to the south, once their economy is on par with US/Canada.
Viscente Fox has said this is scheduled for around 2030. If you listen to Mitt Romney, he keeps saying "north american energy independence".
The honest question is "Why is lawful immigration such a long process?"
Efficient bureaucrats get each other laid off.
Three hundred million Chinese would move here at once.
Why? They'd mostly freeze and starve. The social safety net is about as stretched as it can get, and certainly could not accommodate 300M more. The economy could not gear up that quickly to provide them all with jobs.
They may not love their current situation, but moving en masse to the US would be a worse situation. People don't usually act against their own self-interest.
corporations are trying to return us to 1800's regulation
Not a chance. The massive regulatory structure severely cripples their would-be competitors. Heck, industry lobbyists write most of the regulatory statutes and they swap their people into the revolving door of government to keep it in place.
c.f. Monsanto
Really? Last numbers I saw put the iPhone ahead of Android.
Was that in 2008?
Exactly. I don't want a touch phone, I want a slider keyboard phone. HTC made great ones and now I can't find any.
I just picked up a refurbished Droid 3 from eBay for $199. Decent.
WSJ reports:
But not if it's STUXNET or FLAME, right?
Similarly, the media would have us believe that if a country in the Middle East refused to sign the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, invaded neighboring countries, ignored condemnation from the UN Security Council of its actions, and repressed its people into poverty and apartheid, while also developing a nuclear weapons program, that the USG should intervene militarily to take out its nuclear program and probably impose new leadership.
But not if it's Israel, right?
But, it's OK, because Iran has such an aggressive history that it's worth the US getting into a war with Russia over. In fact, if the USG needs to kill half a million Iranian children to impose its will, that's just breaking a few eggs, right?
After all, there is no higher concern that the US Petrodollar, right?
The fellow who wrote the Declaration of Independence and our third President described the appropriate role of the United States in the world as:
But whose interests does that serve, really?