In this scenario the entire boat is the float. the boat was then acting against a fin under water, that fin is held down by all the weight of the water above it (or held up by the water below it)
in the wave pushing up situation, the fin is angled so that it has a slope where a few inches of rise, over a few feet of run. So in order for the boat to move up a few inches, it must move forward a few feet at the same time. This fin then flips into the downward position once the pressure swaps directions so then for every few inches the boat moves back down the ship must still move forward a few more feet.
since water is relatively incompressible. Still the fin has to be sized appropriately so water can't more easily circulate around it rather than over it.
my mental math says thats where all the springs come into being, their would be too much energy present for the materials used, that it would immediately break the connections between boat and fin, without some relief.
at a minimum you would have the equivalent power of the entire mass of water displaced by the entire boat through the wave, thats ignoring the likely equal power of surface tension that must be overcome to move in any direction, relative to the surf (you will have a suction effect between the boat and the water, in addition to the weight involved.)
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also a factor, is that 2 years ago AMD's stock price was well over the top, thanks to many factors, mostly market hype, and over optimism on having 2 year head start over intell, in the 64bit chips that could run windows...
following my advice will hurt my long position in AMD.
bought 1,000 shares at $1.00 and then just waited for an invariable 5% change price to $1.05 then have a limit sell then you just made 50 some odd bucks.
-$12 commission. You can do the same thing in Vegas with a $1000. IE you bet $50 a day, and double down until you hit once. Even with $1600 it would be on average 1 month until you lost your initial $1600, by then you would have won $1550, so if you reinvested that you would likely make a year until you lost everything. The casinos hate this, not because they lose money at the table, as many think (eventually they get their share cause the 0, 00 put the odds in their favor eventually,) But these are disciplined gamblers who don't bet enough to be worth the casinos time. Also with comps, the time in the casino they assume more money than $50 a day average will be at stake, so they lose some off the table.
Similar with you "Vampire" strategy, this type of betting actually stabilizes a stocks value, would slow it's growth but also slow any decline. So not really bad for the stock generally, again it may upset the Mutual funds,etc. Because their is a need for the majority of $ invested to be educated to keep a stock in line. These non fundamental purchases encourage movement for movement, not the preferred movement for fundamentals that is supposed to keep the markets efficient.
The problem with American business and the financial "industry" built around it is that there is actually no interest at all in sustainable business, but rather exponential profit growth at all cost
what you describe would be a working open market. IE where if a business is not getting good consistent return on capital/assets then it needs changes. That is something most individual investors don't understand, compounded interest grows exponentially because you get the same return on a growing valuation. I well managed company must do the same. The issues come with building expectations into stock price, when you start expecting PE ratios 10-50x. then the stock price doesn't follow the true assess their managing. So you could expect exponential growth of the company's hard assets, but once the stock price gets inflated, then only using the stock as a leverage to build your company can pay off anymore.
also a $8 Laptop HDD enclosure makes that spare laptop HDD double as a USB drive, and gives a recovery option if your laptop dies (other than the drive). Also per GB the SSD drive in USB form is similar to price of the memcards.
didn't say: enclosure is so if your first cheap laptop dies (most likely only the screen will be cracked by a baggage handler) even if it is the drive (you didn't do the SSD?) you can often still get data off a dieing HD that is unfit to run a OS. I couldn't get my cracked laptop networked to copy on the road, until I was loaned a external monitor from a generous hotel receptionist's work PC (took over a hour of intensive flirting in a coal mining town, get the picture?)
If I were sold on needing Windows: I would buy the 16GB transcend SLC drive (much faster, and costlier than the 32GB above) and install standard OS stuff on that, I would buy the Dell Vostro dual core, for $599 and swap the SLC with its 160GB internal drive, put the old drive into the USB case (Dell cause it's a cheap dual core, duo procs stays responsive in XP even when waiting on a slow write to the SSD.) With the SSD, battery life is better, silent, and live through more vibration, and since it runs much cooler, better for the laptop. As external drive the standard 160 GB if treaty very nicely while in use, should survive nicely even a drop if off.
It would be even better to buy the 16 SSD SLC for main, and 32GB SSD MLC for USB storage. But I would want to take my movies, so I would want the 160GB at the cost of power, and risk of vib damage.
I don't know anything about the canada process (beyond your post) so I really don't know if it's better or worse. Just that I wasn't convinced by the "we have had one less incident than you."
Here in Canada, we vote on paper ballots, which are hand-counted in the presence of party representatives.
http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/elections/results.html When all the judicial recounts are completed and the final appeals are disposed of, Elections Canada issues the "official results"; these results are usually published 2 or 3 months after election day.
the Florida results were still quicker (I think), even when having to go through a extended audit process. That is a good system (in canada), until you get into the current position of the US. IE their is a growing distrust of the party's, so once you don't trust what is in a chosen political party's interest, then the hand count by the political party becomes meaningless. (ala a growing percentage of Ron Paul supporters general opinion of his chosen Republican party.) So a system that works for Canada would do little to make the US system better today.
controversy around our voting process ala Florida.
Since Canada's entire population, is lower than that of California. And California has also never had that kind of controversy either, we should copy their system instead...
I realize it's no help now, The Dell small business laptops mostly have XP as a option. Their pricing is not that different, and they really don't need to be for a business. Kind of backwards though, many business have OEM XP, and thus just need drivers to adapt. Home users will have to go to ebay, to pick up a $90 XP disk to do the same (or thepiratebay.org I guess.) If you go that route, go to dell.com and findout first if they have XP drivers for your laptop, if not, a linux disk would be much easier.
anyone with half a brain can Google their Vista annoyance and find a FREE solution.
You left out, and a few hours to sort through the incorrect solutions, the "this question was posted to the wrong group, post their" and the "Install XP" posts. Or the Vista is just slow live with it, type of responses. If $20 could get the original Vista partitions on our laptops working anywhere close to the XP new-install, I would pay many times that. As is I have installed XP over vista on 5 different laptops everyone of them was barely able to play a decent Video over the network, and the OS would go un-resposive while playing. The XP version would be unphased on dual core Intel 1.8 - 2.5 Ghz laptops, with 512 MB ram. And by un-phased, I mean the OS was just as quick to respond in XP with or without the video streaming. It seams dual core 32 bit still works much better in XP, apparently for 64bit dual core with 2GB+ of ram, then Vista may be worth it.
90% of guns are used to kill people. Hasn't stopped the gun manufacturers...
really, 4.6 million guns sold per year in the US. less than 11,000 gun related homicides per year (with 800,000 to 2.5 million uses for defensive purposes per year) and 30 million hunters in the us.
so significantly less than 1% of guns are used to kill unjustifiably. 80* more often they are used for self defense. 2000* more often they are used for other legal purposes.
The boss hardly has to account for overtime in his budget if the end result of having his employees working overtime is that he pays them what he has always paid them.
well 15% pay cut means 4 hours of OT to get your old pay (assuming standard OT pay rate of 1.5 X base, less if 2 X sunday). So I suspect that 4 Hours was a IBM average, so IBM's budget may not change, but probably 25% of the departments will have a deficit, and 25% *would* have a surplus. Now for the managers of those who didn't work OT previously will likely have to decide, 1) fight for a pay raise 2) let them work the extra 30 minute after hours. 3) cut lunch hour to 30 minutes (probably not enforce it) 4) lose the most employable
I would guess in the short run many will cut the unpaid portion of lunch by 30 minutes, to be popular, and it will just be a loss for IBM.
also http://www.slingmedia.com/go/slingcatcher available soon. it delivers everything on your PC to your TV. I for one can't wait (hopefully not to be disappointed this time.)
I in no way accused Netflix of throttling. I just said the "it's would not be difficult for netflix to add"
how do you get the most movies out that day?
Well, if you want to let the most people see that one disk ASAP, and thus make the most people happy with the least inventory, you send it to the customers that will return it the quickest first. IE you satisfy more customers that week, if the movie goes to 2 customers, not just one.
Giving highest priority for the highest demand movies to movie squatters wouldn't make business sense either.
Then again they make a little more money from those who get the fewest movies, so you don't want to piss off the highest margin customers. BUT the customer with one movie in the queue is not likely to be a customer for long.
Probably why the CEO calls that algorithm a secret. You just can't make all the people happy all the time, and when you come up with a working system letting out details lets in the cheaters and competitors.
for Netflix to have an automated system to throttle.
basically the CEO admits to having a throttle algorithm, and calls it a "trade secret": http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2006/07/hacking_netflix.html although it sounds like it is more of assigning priority's of high demand movies (as you noted.) than holding back on shipping. Since Netflix has definitely already implemented the "flag high use customers" it would be trival to delay marking a movie as returned for a day, based on this flag.
I am almost certainly flagged as one of these high use customers, and I have to agree with the CEO's asertation of "#1 in e-commerce satisfaction" just above amazon.com whatever their currently doing with that flag is OK by me.
your definitely a quick ripper, to get 5 movies on Wed, and mail them back on Wed. Local PO opens 9a to 4:30p (at least to get out that day.) So you have 7.5 hours to watch 10 hours of movies. And no netflix on Saturday, so Tuesday will be the earliest received for the second week.
10 movies a week is reasonable from 5 at a time. 15 would be *possible* every other non holiday week. Unless you have figured out how to hand deliver the movies to netflix yourself. I have been curious to drive by the return address to see the possibility. I do get 6/week out of 3 at a time, just over 50% of the time. Thats watching every Monday night, Tuesday mail out. Then you have Thurs to Sat for the second block.
Rather than your high pressure marathon ripping 3* a week, 2 daily trips to the post-office technique, you could get the same # of movies at a more relaxed, take a day or two rate. On a 7 at a time plan, your only saving $3 a week over keeping them for a entire day and a half before returning.
In a competitive market where 100-core processors cost $100 to produce,
Your talking a long term market force. Their may be many short term in-efficiencies to take advantage of until then. (then again the article is trying to come up with a long term strategy, so you did shoot it down correctly.)
In a long term chip market, 99% of the time your probably correct. But when your talking a laptop market, where the CPU is a small % of the cost. Since AMD doesn't make the laptop, if Dell tells AMD we need Qty 10k, 1.85Ghz dual core chip for under $100. Then AMD isn't going to design a new Chip for this low volume. And they may not want to lose out on the 'entry point' into that market. They may lock-down the 2Ghz chip, and even sell it for a loss, because that is what the customer wants.
Heck I have been in conference rooms on similar deals. IE were not confident in the design of this gear today, a higher quality alloy more expensive gear that we'll use until production begins next quarter on the lower cost one. So we may even sell at a loss for years so we don't lose market share (usually due to a scheduling error) as long as were confident we'll have a profitable, competitive product soon.
All old rumors. This has come up at many Conferences, although I have never heard from nvida, but Intel, AMD have stated that is just false.
A) the volume on each line is too high to be shifting silicon between lines.
B) it just takes too much logic during processing, if A but not B + C... for so few chips that would have a flaw that allowed them to work, but not fully.
C) flaws in silicon almost never affect just one chip, let alone just one section of one chip. (multi core is still a single chip.)
D) QC finds most flaws at the wafer level, before ever entering the container, and it is assumed more is affected, they are never touched. Now this is old, was true 10 years ago, when silicon qualitys weren't as good as now (better silicon yield makes the economics even worse today)
Their is usually more than just the CPU difference between lines, for example you need more cooling and better power source for more/faster CPU's. I don't know about chips, but Cat does on their Diesel engines. The warranty cost will be higher for a higher powered engine, no matter what it was designed for, so that is part of the cost equation. As well as stepped up Power will compete with the next higher line. So to ease the gap in price from one platform to the next...
filesystem fanboys? I have setup a few raid setups (LVM, and ZFS, and hardware based.) where ZFS is nice, their is a nice documented one way to do it. It's biggest advantage (for me) are a single interface for turning on/off encryption, compression, and file system snapshots. Things this does for you for example, is you can turn on compression for a entire volume, or directory within the filesystem but you don't have to take it offline ever, because it will compress new files only (to start), and you can then walk through the rest as CPU allows...
You do have all these options for LVM, with ext3, but in the truly linux tradition, their are many, many different ways to do the same thing. So if you don't want to spend hours researching the how's and whys you easily end up creating more work for yourself. But I am sure if you do all the research you can create a more efficient solution. But you'll also end up with many different interfaces (that has advantages too). For example I am replacing a RHEL hardware raid with Solaris zfs raid now. To admin the RHEL solution, I use LVM to admin allocations, use ext3 to look for file system corruption, use the Raid manager program to add/remove/grow drives, and NFS to export partitions/permisions, and various webmin plugins for backups restores, file versions. All of these are now within the zfstools on solaris.
, nobody in their right mind would ever think that thing could ever be made to fly safely
yeah, that realization killed my interest. If I owned this that would be my one goal, go higher than it has ever gone. Since I am not ready to die yet, best not get close to it.
It does matter what you consider flying. If this was refined enough to fly over party cove at the local lake 6' off the ground, it would literly blow the tops off the gals.:)
be very interesting when http://slingmedia.com/go/slingcatcher is released. If it truly works as advertised then only quality, and the need to leave the PC always on remain. Although all other Sling products claim Vista compatibilty, I doubt this one can deliver Vista and "can project anything that's playing on your computer screen" Vista is not a issue I will personally worry about in the next couple years.
Machines that count paper votes can be tested by manually counting a sample.
same is true of e-voting. Do you know the path of the results from the paper votes to TV results? History shows their are so many ways found to hack paper ballots, be it creative printing, creative handling, or messing with phone lines used to transmit, or losing a box, or even substituting a box for another (you give the real voters the counterfeit ballots, and boxes. You fill in the real ballots and boxes.)
With e-voting their has to be so many more avenues to detect cheating if done correctly. For example, you could contract out a dozen completely independent server implementations, they all should agree to the vote (which is impossible with paper) You let people choose a key, and send them a Public encryption string, they encrypt their private string along with their votes. That way a concerned voter could have a piece of their ballot packet that is verify-able, without the "sell-able vote" privacy issue.
What you probably can't do with a E-Voting machine is make my Grandparents feel like their vote is being counted. (or even much of slashdot apparently) Now I can't make up the whole system in a slashdot post, other than to say it is theoretically possible to have no dead trees, and fully verifiable results, and manually counted samples is easy (example you would choose trusted individuals who re-use their keys, and re-check their voting results from multiple locations. and by trusted, I just mean trusted to not change their vote to make the system look bad.)
Now by e-voting, I don't mean using your same windows PC, that 10% are own3d a hundred times over, that part I don't know. But those smarter than me will find something, be it a usb addon...
Thing that are more difficult for diesels: 1) You don't have a nice easy feedback of a O2 sensor. 2) Gas engine is controlled by air flow into the engine. So basically you just watch the MAF sensor, and RPM, and have a lookup table that tells how much fuel to inject, adjust slightly based on the O2 sensor (if a emission vehicle). Diesel needs to know RPM, and boost, and Throttle position to try and get to where the driver wants to be. You only have to control fuel, but you can only control fuel (and maybe a waste gate of the turbo.) 3) Rev limiter/governor. With gas, you cut the spark. With D-turbo, if you suddenly unload the engine, you got a-lott of air coming in, and you can't stop it. But a diesel can spend much of it's life on the limiter, so you can't just cut the injectors or you could find yourself in a engine destroying oscillation. So you do your best to back off, but you have to have some oscillation detection, and hope load comes back nicely (IE you better have integrated trans controller or log a warranty ending event if a manual.) 4) soot burn. Now they got soot collectors in the exhaust, so they watch exhaust pressure, if it gets high (at high load most likely), then when air-flow is next low, you turn on a heater in the soot collector, when it's hot you over inject, so it won't burn, and get it into the collector so the soot is burned.
It's all port injection. Either that, or gasoline direct injection, which is more complex than a diesel, because you've got to do everything the diesel
actually no US manufacture has gone mas-production with GDI (gas Direct Injection), generally direct port injection is no different interims of computational complexity than Throttle body. IE they do not time the injection pulse's, to valve operation (except SPFI, which most cars drop out of at full power.)
Although I don't know that much more computation is needed for DI vs MPI, except you need to control more outputs. I guess if your main controller had to control the interrupts for these outputs.
if you put that solar electricity on the grid, you need to burn that much less *actual* oil, so you have no energy loss at all...
considering over 1/2 of the cost of electricity is in the delivery, where as less than 5% of the cost of gasoline is in the delivery. got that from the (pump price - taxes) - the cost of fuel at the refinery (from bloomberg.com)
Means if I run my car on electric I double the cost of electric getting it to my house/work, then I lose 40% when I charge the batteries. So if they can get 30% efficiency in this transition, then sell me that. Put that in a prius, and your much better off than a electric car delivery through the grid.
this does not remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
Yes, but it is carbon neutral. IE it is re-using carbon from the atmosphere to be burned later. So it is clean energy transport, cleaner than putting it on the grid.
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In this scenario the entire boat is the float.
the boat was then acting against a fin under water, that fin is held down by all the weight of the water above it (or held up by the water below it)
in the wave pushing up situation, the fin is angled so that it has a slope where a few inches of rise, over a few feet of run.
So in order for the boat to move up a few inches, it must move forward a few feet at the same time. This fin then flips into the downward position once the pressure swaps directions so then for every few inches the boat moves back down the ship must still move forward a few more feet.
since water is relatively incompressible. Still the fin has to be sized appropriately so water can't more easily circulate around it rather than over it.
my mental math says thats where all the springs come into being, their would be too much energy present for the materials used, that it would immediately break the connections between boat and fin, without some relief.
at a minimum you would have the equivalent power of the entire mass of water displaced by the entire boat through the wave, thats ignoring the likely equal power of surface tension that must be overcome to move in any direction, relative to the surf (you will have a suction effect between the boat and the water, in addition to the weight involved.)
guess I missed the advice part of your post.
what, you don't think it would be appropriate to put your servers in geosynch orbit as well?
-$12 commission. You can do the same thing in Vegas with a $1000. IE you bet $50 a day, and double down until you hit once. Even with $1600 it would be on average 1 month until you lost your initial $1600, by then you would have won $1550, so if you reinvested that you would likely make a year until you lost everything. The casinos hate this, not because they lose money at the table, as many think (eventually they get their share cause the 0, 00 put the odds in their favor eventually,) But these are disciplined gamblers who don't bet enough to be worth the casinos time. Also with comps, the time in the casino they assume more money than $50 a day average will be at stake, so they lose some off the table.
Similar with you "Vampire" strategy, this type of betting actually stabilizes a stocks value, would slow it's growth but also slow any decline. So not really bad for the stock generally, again it may upset the Mutual funds,etc. Because their is a need for the majority of $ invested to be educated to keep a stock in line. These non fundamental purchases encourage movement for movement, not the preferred movement for fundamentals that is supposed to keep the markets efficient.
what you describe would be a working open market. IE where if a business is not getting good consistent return on capital/assets then it needs changes.
That is something most individual investors don't understand, compounded interest grows exponentially because you get the same return on a growing valuation. I well managed company must do the same.
The issues come with building expectations into stock price, when you start expecting PE ratios 10-50x. then the stock price doesn't follow the true assess their managing. So you could expect exponential growth of the company's hard assets, but once the stock price gets inflated, then only using the stock as a leverage to build your company can pay off anymore.
also a $8 Laptop HDD enclosure makes that spare laptop HDD double as a USB drive, and gives a recovery option if your laptop dies (other than the drive).
Also per GB the SSD drive in USB form is similar to price of the memcards.
didn't say: enclosure is so if your first cheap laptop dies (most likely only the screen will be cracked by a baggage handler) even if it is the drive (you didn't do the SSD?) you can often still get data off a dieing HD that is unfit to run a OS. I couldn't get my cracked laptop networked to copy on the road, until I was loaned a external monitor from a generous hotel receptionist's work PC (took over a hour of intensive flirting in a coal mining town, get the picture?)
also: whatever the laptop buy a usb enclosure for the hard drive, since the asus is likely a ide get: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FNBYKW (this drive needs no power supply, only USB power from the PC)
it would be even better to get a $200 32GB SSD with your operating system of choice ready to install, to put inside.
If I were sold on needing Windows: I would buy the 16GB transcend SLC drive (much faster, and costlier than the 32GB above) and install standard OS stuff on that, I would buy the Dell Vostro dual core, for $599 and swap the SLC with its 160GB internal drive, put the old drive into the USB case (Dell cause it's a cheap dual core, duo procs stays responsive in XP even when waiting on a slow write to the SSD.) With the SSD, battery life is better, silent, and live through more vibration, and since it runs much cooler, better for the laptop. As external drive the standard 160 GB if treaty very nicely while in use, should survive nicely even a drop if off.
It would be even better to buy the 16 SSD SLC for main, and 32GB SSD MLC for USB storage. But I would want to take my movies, so I would want the 160GB at the cost of power, and risk of vib damage.
the Florida results were still quicker (I think), even when having to go through a extended audit process.
That is a good system (in canada), until you get into the current position of the US. IE their is a growing distrust of the party's, so once you don't trust what is in a chosen political party's interest, then the hand count by the political party becomes meaningless. (ala a growing percentage of Ron Paul supporters general opinion of his chosen Republican party.)
So a system that works for Canada would do little to make the US system better today.
Since Canada's entire population, is lower than that of California. And California has also never had that kind of controversy either, we should copy their system instead...
I realize it's no help now,
The Dell small business laptops mostly have XP as a option. Their pricing is not that different, and they really don't need to be for a business.
Kind of backwards though, many business have OEM XP, and thus just need drivers to adapt. Home users will have to go to ebay, to pick up a $90 XP disk to do the same (or thepiratebay.org I guess.)
If you go that route, go to dell.com and findout first if they have XP drivers for your laptop, if not, a linux disk would be much easier.
You left out, and a few hours to sort through the incorrect solutions, the "this question was posted to the wrong group, post their"
and the "Install XP" posts. Or the Vista is just slow live with it, type of responses.
If $20 could get the original Vista partitions on our laptops working anywhere close to the XP new-install, I would pay many times that. As is I have installed XP over vista on 5 different laptops everyone of them was barely able to play a decent Video over the network, and the OS would go un-resposive while playing. The XP version would be unphased on dual core Intel 1.8 - 2.5 Ghz laptops, with 512 MB ram. And by un-phased, I mean the OS was just as quick to respond in XP with or without the video streaming. It seams dual core 32 bit still works much better in XP, apparently for 64bit dual core with 2GB+ of ram, then Vista may be worth it.
really, 4.6 million guns sold per year in the US. less than 11,000 gun related homicides per year (with 800,000 to 2.5 million uses for defensive purposes per year) and 30 million hunters in the us.
so significantly less than 1% of guns are used to kill unjustifiably. 80* more often they are used for self defense. 2000* more often they are used for other legal purposes.
well 15% pay cut means 4 hours of OT to get your old pay (assuming standard OT pay rate of 1.5 X base, less if 2 X sunday). So I suspect that 4 Hours was a IBM average, so IBM's budget may not change, but probably 25% of the departments will have a deficit, and 25% *would* have a surplus.
Now for the managers of those who didn't work OT previously will likely have to decide, 1) fight for a pay raise 2) let them work the extra 30 minute after hours. 3) cut lunch hour to 30 minutes (probably not enforce it) 4) lose the most employable
I would guess in the short run many will cut the unpaid portion of lunch by 30 minutes, to be popular, and it will just be a loss for IBM.
also http://www.slingmedia.com/go/slingcatcher available soon.
it delivers everything on your PC to your TV. I for one can't wait (hopefully not to be disappointed this time.)
Well, if you want to let the most people see that one disk ASAP, and thus make the most people happy with the least inventory, you send it to the customers that will return it the quickest first. IE you satisfy more customers that week, if the movie goes to 2 customers, not just one.
Giving highest priority for the highest demand movies to movie squatters wouldn't make business sense either.
Then again they make a little more money from those who get the fewest movies, so you don't want to piss off the highest margin customers. BUT the customer with one movie in the queue is not likely to be a customer for long.
Probably why the CEO calls that algorithm a secret. You just can't make all the people happy all the time, and when you come up with a working system letting out details lets in the cheaters and competitors.
basically the CEO admits to having a throttle algorithm, and calls it a "trade secret":
http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2006/07/hacking_netflix.html
although it sounds like it is more of assigning priority's of high demand movies (as you noted.)
than holding back on shipping. Since Netflix has definitely already implemented the "flag high use customers" it would be trival to delay marking a movie as returned for a day, based on this flag.
I am almost certainly flagged as one of these high use customers, and I have to agree with the CEO's asertation of "#1 in e-commerce satisfaction" just above amazon.com whatever their currently doing with that flag is OK by me.
your definitely a quick ripper, to get 5 movies on Wed, and mail them back on Wed.
Local PO opens 9a to 4:30p (at least to get out that day.) So you have 7.5 hours to watch 10 hours of movies.
And no netflix on Saturday, so Tuesday will be the earliest received for the second week.
10 movies a week is reasonable from 5 at a time. 15 would be *possible* every other non holiday week. Unless you have figured out how to hand deliver the movies to netflix yourself. I have been curious to drive by the return address to see the possibility.
I do get 6/week out of 3 at a time, just over 50% of the time. Thats watching every Monday night, Tuesday mail out. Then you have Thurs to Sat for the second block.
Rather than your high pressure marathon ripping 3* a week, 2 daily trips to the post-office technique, you could get the same # of movies at a more relaxed, take a day or two rate. On a 7 at a time plan, your only saving $3 a week over keeping them for a entire day and a half before returning.
Your talking a long term market force. Their may be many short term in-efficiencies to take advantage of until then. (then again the article is trying to come up with a long term strategy, so you did shoot it down correctly.)
In a long term chip market, 99% of the time your probably correct. But when your talking a laptop market, where the CPU is a small % of the cost. Since AMD doesn't make the laptop, if Dell tells AMD we need Qty 10k, 1.85Ghz dual core chip for under $100. Then AMD isn't going to design a new Chip for this low volume. And they may not want to lose out on the 'entry point' into that market. They may lock-down the 2Ghz chip, and even sell it for a loss, because that is what the customer wants.
Heck I have been in conference rooms on similar deals. IE were not confident in the design of this gear today, a higher quality alloy more expensive gear that we'll use until production begins next quarter on the lower cost one. So we may even sell at a loss for years so we don't lose market share (usually due to a scheduling error) as long as were confident we'll have a profitable, competitive product soon.
All old rumors. This has come up at many Conferences, although I have never heard from nvida, but Intel, AMD have stated that is just false.
A) the volume on each line is too high to be shifting silicon between lines.
B) it just takes too much logic during processing, if A but not B + C... for so few chips that would have a flaw that allowed them to work, but not fully.
C) flaws in silicon almost never affect just one chip, let alone just one section of one chip. (multi core is still a single chip.)
D) QC finds most flaws at the wafer level, before ever entering the container, and it is assumed more is affected, they are never touched.
Now this is old, was true 10 years ago, when silicon qualitys weren't as good as now (better silicon yield makes the economics even worse today)
Their is usually more than just the CPU difference between lines, for example you need more cooling and better power source for more/faster CPU's.
I don't know about chips, but Cat does on their Diesel engines. The warranty cost will be higher for a higher powered engine, no matter what it was designed for, so that is part of the cost equation. As well as stepped up Power will compete with the next higher line. So to ease the gap in price from one platform to the next...
filesystem fanboys?
I have setup a few raid setups (LVM, and ZFS, and hardware based.)
where ZFS is nice, their is a nice documented one way to do it. It's biggest advantage (for me) are a single interface for turning on/off encryption, compression, and file system snapshots. Things this does for you for example, is you can turn on compression for a entire volume, or directory within the filesystem but you don't have to take it offline ever, because it will compress new files only (to start), and you can then walk through the rest as CPU allows...
You do have all these options for LVM, with ext3, but in the truly linux tradition, their are many, many different ways to do the same thing. So if you don't want to spend hours researching the how's and whys you easily end up creating more work for yourself. But I am sure if you do all the research you can create a more efficient solution. But you'll also end up with many different interfaces (that has advantages too). For example I am replacing a RHEL hardware raid with Solaris zfs raid now. To admin the RHEL solution, I use LVM to admin allocations, use ext3 to look for file system corruption, use the Raid manager program to add/remove/grow drives, and NFS to export partitions/permisions, and various webmin plugins for backups restores, file versions. All of these are now within the zfstools on solaris.
yeah, that realization killed my interest. If I owned this that would be my one goal, go higher than it has ever gone. Since I am not ready to die yet, best not get close to it.
It does matter what you consider flying. If this was refined enough to fly over party cove at the local lake 6' off the ground, it would literly blow the tops off the gals.
be very interesting when http://slingmedia.com/go/slingcatcher is released.
If it truly works as advertised then only quality, and the need to leave the PC always on remain.
Although all other Sling products claim Vista compatibilty, I doubt this one can deliver Vista and "can project anything that's playing on your computer screen"
Vista is not a issue I will personally worry about in the next couple years.
same is true of e-voting. Do you know the path of the results from the paper votes to TV results? History shows their are so many ways found to hack paper ballots, be it creative printing, creative handling, or messing with phone lines used to transmit, or losing a box, or even substituting a box for another (you give the real voters the counterfeit ballots, and boxes. You fill in the real ballots and boxes.)
With e-voting their has to be so many more avenues to detect cheating if done correctly. For example, you could contract out a dozen completely independent server implementations, they all should agree to the vote (which is impossible with paper) You let people choose a key, and send them a Public encryption string, they encrypt their private string along with their votes. That way a concerned voter could have a piece of their ballot packet that is verify-able, without the "sell-able vote" privacy issue.
What you probably can't do with a E-Voting machine is make my Grandparents feel like their vote is being counted. (or even much of slashdot apparently) Now I can't make up the whole system in a slashdot post, other than to say it is theoretically possible to have no dead trees, and fully verifiable results, and manually counted samples is easy (example you would choose trusted individuals who re-use their keys, and re-check their voting results from multiple locations. and by trusted, I just mean trusted to not change their vote to make the system look bad.)
Now by e-voting, I don't mean using your same windows PC, that 10% are own3d a hundred times over, that part I don't know. But those smarter than me will find something, be it a usb addon...
1) You don't have a nice easy feedback of a O2 sensor.
2) Gas engine is controlled by air flow into the engine. So basically you just watch the MAF sensor, and RPM, and have a lookup table that tells how much fuel to inject, adjust slightly based on the O2 sensor (if a emission vehicle). Diesel needs to know RPM, and boost, and Throttle position to try and get to where the driver wants to be. You only have to control fuel, but you can only control fuel (and maybe a waste gate of the turbo.)
3) Rev limiter/governor. With gas, you cut the spark. With D-turbo, if you suddenly unload the engine, you got a-lott of air coming in, and you can't stop it. But a diesel can spend much of it's life on the limiter, so you can't just cut the injectors or you could find yourself in a engine destroying oscillation. So you do your best to back off, but you have to have some oscillation detection, and hope load comes back nicely (IE you better have integrated trans controller or log a warranty ending event if a manual.)
4) soot burn. Now they got soot collectors in the exhaust, so they watch exhaust pressure, if it gets high (at high load most likely), then when air-flow is next low, you turn on a heater in the soot collector, when it's hot you over inject, so it won't burn, and get it into the collector so the soot is burned.
actually no US manufacture has gone mas-production with GDI (gas Direct Injection), generally direct port injection is no different interims of computational complexity than Throttle body. IE they do not time the injection pulse's, to valve operation (except SPFI, which most cars drop out of at full power.)
Although I don't know that much more computation is needed for DI vs MPI, except you need to control more outputs. I guess if your main controller had to control the interrupts for these outputs.