With regards to SDSL, I've had it for nearly 6 years now and the number of outagaes caused by equipment off my property can be counted on one hand, and the only outage that lasted more than a few minutes was a few hours.
This is with Covad (resold by uunet) and with Rhythms (After they were bought out by uunet).
At the same time, lightning-caused damage and power outages have caused several week-long outages... but when nobody in the neighborhood has electricity for a week it's hard to complain about your SDSL not working:-)
A big difference. I get roughly 50 MBytes of
spam a day (at the peak of the E-mail Windows
worms, it was closer to 250 Mbytes a day).
Now your typical user doesn't have their E-mail address on as many web pages as I do (probably a quarter-million pages?) and thus doesn't get nearly as much spam.
The method of awarding a fixed number of shares (ten) in this contest guarantees that it will skew upwards the price of the stock.
If you made the choice of betting on $1, you would get $10 worth of stock. If you made the choice of betting on $200, you'd get $2000 worth of stock.
Now obviously you don't want to bet too high because if you do then you won't be right at all. But you will tend to bet on the high end, rather than the low end.
P.S. Everything I know about Economics I learned from The Price Is Right.
The article is about running video cards in parallel... and I've been running video cards in parallel for many years. And X11 has had support for this since day zero. So I am hereby posting this additional article just to give even more screwballs the ability to mod me lower.
And CERN (birthplace of the web yadda yadda yadda) had long been using PATCHY as a way of distribing software patches since the mid-70's.
Be careful when you claim that "X" came first or second or third, because "X" has been used for umpteen different products (some related,some not) before you ever came along.
I don't get your math complaint. 80% accuracy means that most words will have a single character error and some will have double character errors. Professional documents that have less than a few hundred words are typically powerpoint presentations. (Which arguably have no real information content at all!)
Just because a single word passes the spellechecker doesn't mean that you got the right word!
For the past many years I've been supporting Linux/XFree86
configurations of up to 8 CRT's, usually via
multi-head PCI cards. Often it's a mix-and-match
of hardware consisting of multiple PCI video cards
and whatever video is on the motherboard.
How is this different than this vaporware configuration that the article is about? I read the article and I see nothing useful in terms of details.
80% accuracy is far from perfect. For instance, an OCR application that returned only 80% accuracy would probably be rejected by the vast majority of users, as this means hundreds of errors to be corrected per page.
OTOH if all you want is a 6-character password, and it's typed a couple of times a day, then listening with 80% accuracy for a day may well be enough.
For a long time now gasoline-powered cars with
sticks have had "shift up" lights on the dash.
The sole purpose of which is to boost their EPA
scores... few drivers obey the light and there's
nothing to force you to.
A lot of the automotive engineers I've worked with
over the years admit that the EPA tests suck
and complain about them, but at the same time they
know that all their current products are built
to take full advantage of the EPA tests wherever
possible. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Some proposals that have circulated in the US congress could have limited the flow of open source software across international borders and/or taxed the open-source software at some arbitrary value supposedly related to commercial packages. These proposals never got out of the press release stage, at least as far as I can see. And it was probably never worthwhile to worry about them, as very press-release level laws get any more than the most minimal attention. (OTOH RIAA press releases seem to be closely scrutinized here... and they aren't even a lawmaker or lawmaking body!)
At least the proposed Illinois tax only appears to only tax the cash that changes hands. But again, it's only at the press release level and there's no real wording that I've seen.
The depression certainly did negatively impact industrial science jobs.
And before WWII, most academic jobs at colleges/universities were very tightly focused around teaching, not research. The situation in the past 50 years where there were a lot of pure-research academic jobs is not perfectly sustainable (and there have been pains for at least fifteen or twenty years in some academic science sectors).
As things re-align, and the focus goes more back towards teaching, I think the situation (for college students and even high-school students)
ought to improve some. But there will be some
pain along the way (like with any readjustment).
From WWII onwards, most science fields grew greatly as a result of government spending. Without a doubt the military money was significant, but there was a lot of money going to science of all kinds, some of it "trickle-down" through defense contractors and their contractors.
Problem is, this boom was seriously unsustainable.
What we are seeing now is a readjustment to the more normal situation, but we are still doing substantially better than pre-WWII levels in terms of science spending/graduates/jobs. I don't necessarily believe this is a zero-sum game,
our investment over the past fifty years has paid off very well, and I think we are a better nation and a better world as a result.
Just to give an example of pre-WWII science job market: Feynman's first job was as a plastic chemist, and he spent some time as basically a mechanical engineer (albeit a high-powered one) before he got into the Manhattan project. The point is, only for the past 50 years has there been much money at all for "basic unapplied" research.
These cars are not economic to repair... true, only if you are buying parts from the dealer.
Most of these cars get "written off", bought
by salvage specialists, and then rebuilt using
parts from other wrecked cars (which are also "too expensive" to repair). It makes perfect
economic sense to do so. But the way the laws
and insurance companies work, it's almost impossible for the original owner to do this. It pretty much has to be done through a salvage title.
The rise in parts prices isn't limited to brand new cars... I've seen some normal maintenance items (belts, filters, etc.) on my 1992 car rise by a factor of three in the past few years (and yes, the new models use those same parts!)
I know of one large government agency that recently had to turn off all linux machines. Why? There was no anti-virus software installed on them, and the "security czar" required such software on all servers.
Will this be like the web-censoring software that.
on
Auto-Censoring DVD Player
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Will this be like the web-censoring software that prohibits users from visiting the Scunthrope United soccer team website, or the Essex County College website?
Remember when Compaq bought DEC? Fired all the really good people, let the really good technology (64-bit Alpha) wither and die (not due to lack of innovation, but complete lack of marketing and executive support), and became just another brand of PC-clone?
Then Fiorina gets involved, HP gets sucked in, and bam, another really good technology company gone, now just a PC-clone seller?
Yeah, I have some grudges. I'm not the world's hugest fan of Sun... but I see all the really innovative stuff they've done (even though I'm
not a Java nut!) going away. And the computer world will be worse off without it.
Slashdot Mirror
perl -e 'fork while 1'
Of course we thought it was an enormous resource hog back then too :-). And I didn't see how the web could possibly replace gopher!
And the score was by Peter Schickele (which may or may not mean anything to you... PDQ Bach is a different cult for the most part).
This is with Covad (resold by uunet) and with Rhythms (After they were bought out by uunet).
At the same time, lightning-caused damage and power outages have caused several week-long outages... but when nobody in the neighborhood has electricity for a week it's hard to complain about your SDSL not working :-)
Now your typical user doesn't have their E-mail address on as many web pages as I do (probably a quarter-million pages?) and thus doesn't get nearly as much spam.
Didn't early brochures for the 747 show a small swimming pool in first class?
If you made the choice of betting on $1, you would get $10 worth of stock. If you made the choice of betting on $200, you'd get $2000 worth of stock.
Now obviously you don't want to bet too high because if you do then you won't be right at all. But you will tend to bet on the high end, rather than the low end.
P.S. Everything I know about Economics I learned from The Price Is Right.
Be careful when you claim that "X" came first or second or third, because "X" has been used for umpteen different products (some related,some not) before you ever came along.
Just because a single word passes the spellechecker doesn't mean that you got the right word!
How is this different than this vaporware configuration that the article is about? I read the article and I see nothing useful in terms of details.
OTOH if all you want is a 6-character password, and it's typed a couple of times a day, then listening with 80% accuracy for a day may well be enough.
I do not think this is a solution to slashdotting :-)
A lot of the automotive engineers I've worked with over the years admit that the EPA tests suck and complain about them, but at the same time they know that all their current products are built to take full advantage of the EPA tests wherever possible. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
At least the proposed Illinois tax only appears to only tax the cash that changes hands. But again, it's only at the press release level and there's no real wording that I've seen.
And before WWII, most academic jobs at colleges/universities were very tightly focused around teaching, not research. The situation in the past 50 years where there were a lot of pure-research academic jobs is not perfectly sustainable (and there have been pains for at least fifteen or twenty years in some academic science sectors).
As things re-align, and the focus goes more back towards teaching, I think the situation (for college students and even high-school students) ought to improve some. But there will be some pain along the way (like with any readjustment).
Problem is, this boom was seriously unsustainable.
What we are seeing now is a readjustment to the more normal situation, but we are still doing substantially better than pre-WWII levels in terms of science spending/graduates/jobs. I don't necessarily believe this is a zero-sum game, our investment over the past fifty years has paid off very well, and I think we are a better nation and a better world as a result.
Just to give an example of pre-WWII science job market: Feynman's first job was as a plastic chemist, and he spent some time as basically a mechanical engineer (albeit a high-powered one) before he got into the Manhattan project. The point is, only for the past 50 years has there been much money at all for "basic unapplied" research.
Oh, come on. I saw the documentary starring Harrison Ford and I'm 100% sure that the Prez would bail out in his escape capsule first.
Typical comment from someone who thinks that "Database" == "Oracle".
Go outside, get some fresh air, kiss a girl.
Yes, bring on the flames. I can feel their warmth already.
Most of these cars get "written off", bought by salvage specialists, and then rebuilt using parts from other wrecked cars (which are also "too expensive" to repair). It makes perfect economic sense to do so. But the way the laws and insurance companies work, it's almost impossible for the original owner to do this. It pretty much has to be done through a salvage title.
The rise in parts prices isn't limited to brand new cars... I've seen some normal maintenance items (belts, filters, etc.) on my 1992 car rise by a factor of three in the past few years (and yes, the new models use those same parts!)
During Futurama's last season there was a two-month stretch where no Futurama was shown at all (even though it was in the schedule).
I know of one large government agency that recently had to turn off all linux machines. Why? There was no anti-virus software installed on them, and the "security czar" required such software on all servers.
Will this be like the web-censoring software that prohibits users from visiting the Scunthrope United soccer team website, or the Essex County College website?
Remember when Compaq bought DEC? Fired all the really good people, let the really good technology (64-bit Alpha) wither and die (not due to lack of innovation, but complete lack of marketing and executive support), and became just another brand of PC-clone?
Then Fiorina gets involved, HP gets sucked in, and bam, another really good technology company gone, now just a PC-clone seller?
Yeah, I have some grudges. I'm not the world's hugest fan of Sun... but I see all the really innovative stuff they've done (even though I'm not a Java nut!) going away. And the computer world will be worse off without it.