This older lady tells her younger friend about how she doesn't need deodorant any more, that her body chemistry seems to have changed over time. As they walk along, the younger lady says "have you noticed how people's sense of smell kinda dies off as they get older"...
Badda bing...
If you're not checking, how do you know you're virus-free?
1) They signed a treaty saying they would not do these things; they must be held accountable.
2) They *are* ruled by mad suicidal clerics; their stated goal is to dominate the world with Islam, they don't care who they kill or if they die trying.
3) They have said multiple times that they would "wipe Israel off the map" if they had the means.
4) These newly disclosed enrichment facilities have nothing to do with the "peaceful Busher nuclear power station".
Even if we are entirely the products of our genetics and biology - mere biological automatons - that automaton is making choices in real time, weighing alternatives (well, most of us), making judgements based on the external data and stimuli. That near-automaton that you seem to envision might be shackled to its actions in response to that external stimuli or data, but the stimuli and data still matter.
Laws exist for multiple reasons, and one of those is to act as a deterrent to certain behaviors. Your automaton may "choose" to react to a given stimulus in a predetermined way, but the existence of a deterring law will be a factor that is part of the mix of genetics and biology. For many of us poor automatons, such deterrents are very important. For others, they are not. The fact that a given automaton does not "value" that deterrent sufficiently to prevent unwanted behavior does not diminish the law's value, as it still deters other automatons.
The punishment associated with breaking a law is the deterrent, so even poor automatons that were pre-ordained to commit a crime must still receive the punishment, or the law is no longer a deterrent for the rest of us.
The big difference between a hybrid and the Volt is that a hybrid's gasoline engine is hooked to the drive train, and is the primary means of locomotion. The electric motor is used to enhance the gasoline engine, primarily by using energy captured during braking, to improve efficiency.
The Volt is a pure electric vehicle. The only means of propulsion is via the electric motor. The gasoline engine is actually an electric generator, that runs at a single, highly-efficient RPM, and only runs when the battery runs low. With a hybrid, you WILL use the gasoline engine once you reach a certain speed (which varies by model). With the Volt, you may never use the gasoline engine at all, if you drive 40 miles or less, and you will recharge that battery at home from the grid.
The big attraction of the 40 miles is that 80% or more of the population of the U.S. commute that far or less for their workday. Most of those folks will not use the gasoline engine during normal use. BUT, the generator is there to extend the range of the vehicle whenever necessary.
Of course there is little change in the CPU benchmarks: the CPUs changed only very slightly. The real meat in these new machines is the significantly upgraded graphics chips. If you are a gamer, these machines are now acceptable for all but the most extreme requirements. The ATI 4850 is ATI's #2 performer right now, which is pretty good for an iMac. I consider this to be a *value* upgrade, as well, since you are now getting a bit more machine, 2x ram, faster graphics, for a little less than before.
When Apple went into retail, they got a guy from the nice Gap stores to set it up. When Microsoft does the same thing, they get a guy from WalMart.
That pretty much sums up the difference between Apple and Microsoft.
It seems that most/.'rs are missing the point entirely. The Long Tail is not about making an obscure product popular, or about making blockbusters less popular. It's about being able to make a lot of money selling a very few copies of each of a lot of different titles. It's based on the assumption that the population has become so large that a even tiny percentage of people that like a given title is still a large number, and that there are a ton of tiny percentages, "micro niches", if you will, that in aggregate make up a respectable volume. The low overhead makes each sale profitable.
Anderson gives several examples of companies actually making money in the long tail, including Netflix, which rents out a heck of a lot of movies that are not available at Blockbuster.
I, for one, think the biggest thing that holds this back is the one mentioned in TFA - there are too many choices to be able to make a rational selection, so you buy the thing that "everyone" is recommending.
is pretty much like this. Only without the sunshine - I did that for 8 years. In other words, I have absolutely no sympathy for someone that commits a crime and then bitches about how uncomfortable prison is.
He's just providing the data. The data is what the data is - you are drawing your own conclusions. How would you personally like to characterize this data?
Maybe it's just that non-Caucasians love their family more and don't fall into this depression trap.
I agree.:)
I just got off an hour-long conversation with my eBay rep, and he's telling me it is their belief that the "bad buyer" thing will, indeed, affect all sellers equally, and that positive percentages will get down into the low 90% range. But, the bad sellers will fall off the map. Maybe. If that happens, I can live with it.:)
I can tell you that the problem with feedback is that we get negative feedback from buyers when it is absolutely uncalled for. We have had buyers leave negative feedback because they didn't like the music on the CD they bought from us. We've had negative feedback when the USPS lost the package and we replaced it for free. We've had negative feedback when a buyer thought the package should arrive in two days.
Once a buyer leaves a negative, it's there in the count. Folks evaluating our trustworthiness rarely look at the actual feedback - they just look at the numbers. We have been able to track dips in sales and prove that they follow a rise in negatives.
Buyers are "customers". There's a million of them out there, and many of them are really, really looking to pick a fight. I'm sure you've seen those types at retail counters. The only thing a seller has to prevent frivolous and undeserved negatives is the ability to leave similar negative feedback for the buyer.
That particular model is selling well because they totally slashed the price to move them out. No other Zune is selling well, and this one was a bomb until then.
Yes, I can find all the EAB manifolds in the engine room, upper and lower levels. I've used them in for-real situations many times. But then, I am an old-timer. Got out in '78 after 9 years in the nuclear navy.
You have hit on one of the biggest reasons I got out after that long: the new kids didn't give a damn about qualifying. They didn't care where the fire extinguishers were, let alone where an important valve or breaker was. They laughed when reminded that they were serving on a warship, not a kiddy cruiser. It was just too damn scary being out there (on a submarine for Christ's sake), with people that barely knew where their watch station was! And *none* of them were drafted.
I imagine things are even worse now than they were back then.
It's been stated pretty clearly: implementing some of the things Apple wanted is a lot of work for the carrier. I think the "visual voice mail" is one of the bigger ones. Someone has to pay that freight, and a good way to do that is to offer a time-limited lock-in to the carrier, allowing them to recoup their investment and make a profit as well. Verizon turned Apple down, so we get Cingular.
We get the Presidents we do because the average American would do well on Leno's Jaywalking All-stars. Because they vote based on charisma and whatever the media feeds them.
I'm not sure exactly what the problem is that you are trying to describe, but:
1) Macs can connect at login. Just drag a mounted share point into Login Items. Duh. 2) Macs do give you a notification when a server becomes disconnected. All the way back to OS 7, I think. 3) You can actually use bash, applescript, whatever, to write a script to automatically re-mount on disconnect. Go learn how. 4) We have roughly the same number of PC's here as Macs, and I certainly can't distinguish any difference in the frequency of disconnects. Maybe that's because the PC's get rebooted more often.:) 5) Making it work the Windows way is a stupid, stupid suggestion. Think about it. Providing the same functionality in a *better* way is what Apple has to do.
Here's a quote from a gent at MacInTouch that I think is relevant:
[Christian Kent] I was forwarded this today by a Macintosh MPEG software developer:
Okay, stop, I have to make an argument about why this article fails, before I explode. MySQL has a disgusting tendency to fork() at random moments, which is bad for performance essentially everywhere but Linux. OS X server includes a version of MySQL that doesn't have this issue.
No real arguments that Power Macs are somewhat behind the times on memory latency, but that's because they're still using PC3200 DDR1 memory from 2003. AMD/Intel chips use DDR2 or Rambus now... this could be solved without switching CPUs.
The article also goes out of its way to get bad results for PPC. Why are they using an old version of GCC (3.3.x has no autovectorization, much worse performance on non-x86 platforms), then a brand spanking new version of mySQL (see above)? The floating point benchmark was particularly absurd:
"The results are quite interesting. First of all, the gcc compiler isn't very good in vectorizing. With vectorizing, we mean generating SIMD (SSE, Altivec) code. From the numbers, it seems like gcc was only capable of using Altivec in one test, the third one. In this test, the G5 really shows superiority compared to the Opteron and especially the Xeons"
In fact, gcc 3.3 is unable to generate AltiVec code ANYWHERE, except on x86 where they added a special SSE mode because x87 floating point is so miserable. This could have been discovered with about 5 minutes of Google research. It wouldn't had to have been discovered at all if they hadn't gone out of their way to use a compiler which is the non-default on OS X 10.4. Alarm bells should have been going off in the benchmarkers head when an AMD chips outperforms an Intel one by 3x, but, anyway...
I hate to seem like I'm just blindly defending Apple here, but this article seems to have been written with an agenda. There's no way one guy could stuff this much stuff up. To claim there's something inherently wrong with OS X's ability to be a server is going against so much publicly available information it's not even funny. Notice Apple seems to have no trouble getting Apache to run with Linux-like performance.
1) You pump the water up, using a lot of energy. 2) You circulate that water around in various heat exchangers, but it *never leaves the pipes* and is never exposed to anything. 3) The water goes back down - recovering almost all of the enrgy required to get it up, only losing the friction costs.
So, all you've done is warm the water up a bit, and use a little energy to overcome friction.
The whole "security through obscurity" argument about Mac OS is pure Redmond FUD. Sure, hackers aren't attracted to Macs yet, and sure, there will be more exploits when they are. However, it is also true that the OS is inherently more secure than Windows. Executing downloaded stuff automatically requires an Admin password, for example, and no one is ever logged in as root. Very few of the global things we see done to Windows are even possible.
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Any wonder why we have so many problems?
Badda bing...
If you're not checking, how do you know you're virus-free?
2) They *are* ruled by mad suicidal clerics; their stated goal is to dominate the world with Islam, they don't care who they kill or if they die trying.
3) They have said multiple times that they would "wipe Israel off the map" if they had the means.
4) These newly disclosed enrichment facilities have nothing to do with the "peaceful Busher nuclear power station".
Is that enough for you?
Even if we are entirely the products of our genetics and biology - mere biological automatons - that automaton is making choices in real time, weighing alternatives (well, most of us), making judgements based on the external data and stimuli. That near-automaton that you seem to envision might be shackled to its actions in response to that external stimuli or data, but the stimuli and data still matter.
Laws exist for multiple reasons, and one of those is to act as a deterrent to certain behaviors. Your automaton may "choose" to react to a given stimulus in a predetermined way, but the existence of a deterring law will be a factor that is part of the mix of genetics and biology. For many of us poor automatons, such deterrents are very important. For others, they are not. The fact that a given automaton does not "value" that deterrent sufficiently to prevent unwanted behavior does not diminish the law's value, as it still deters other automatons.
The punishment associated with breaking a law is the deterrent, so even poor automatons that were pre-ordained to commit a crime must still receive the punishment, or the law is no longer a deterrent for the rest of us.
The Volt is a pure electric vehicle. The only means of propulsion is via the electric motor. The gasoline engine is actually an electric generator, that runs at a single, highly-efficient RPM, and only runs when the battery runs low. With a hybrid, you WILL use the gasoline engine once you reach a certain speed (which varies by model). With the Volt, you may never use the gasoline engine at all, if you drive 40 miles or less, and you will recharge that battery at home from the grid.
The big attraction of the 40 miles is that 80% or more of the population of the U.S. commute that far or less for their workday. Most of those folks will not use the gasoline engine during normal use. BUT, the generator is there to extend the range of the vehicle whenever necessary.
A mind (or a mainframe) is a terrible thing to waste.
You just can't upgrade iMacs or Minis. By the way, exactly what modern GPU can you buy for a 5-year-old machine's bus?
Of course there is little change in the CPU benchmarks: the CPUs changed only very slightly. The real meat in these new machines is the significantly upgraded graphics chips. If you are a gamer, these machines are now acceptable for all but the most extreme requirements. The ATI 4850 is ATI's #2 performer right now, which is pretty good for an iMac. I consider this to be a *value* upgrade, as well, since you are now getting a bit more machine, 2x ram, faster graphics, for a little less than before.
When Apple went into retail, they got a guy from the nice Gap stores to set it up. When Microsoft does the same thing, they get a guy from WalMart. That pretty much sums up the difference between Apple and Microsoft.
Did anyone notice the predicted year of the storm is also the year that the Mayan calendar runs out?
Anderson gives several examples of companies actually making money in the long tail, including Netflix, which rents out a heck of a lot of movies that are not available at Blockbuster.
I, for one, think the biggest thing that holds this back is the one mentioned in TFA - there are too many choices to be able to make a rational selection, so you buy the thing that "everyone" is recommending.
Actually, clicking with two fingers is equal to a right-click.
no, not Sauron. That is clearly the Mote in God's Eye.
is pretty much like this. Only without the sunshine - I did that for 8 years. In other words, I have absolutely no sympathy for someone that commits a crime and then bitches about how uncomfortable prison is.
He's just providing the data. The data is what the data is - you are drawing your own conclusions. How would you personally like to characterize this data? Maybe it's just that non-Caucasians love their family more and don't fall into this depression trap.
I agree. :)
I just got off an hour-long conversation with my eBay rep, and he's telling me it is their belief that the "bad buyer" thing will, indeed, affect all sellers equally, and that positive percentages will get down into the low 90% range. But, the bad sellers will fall off the map. Maybe. If that happens, I can live with it. :)
I can tell you that the problem with feedback is that we get negative feedback from buyers when it is absolutely uncalled for. We have had buyers leave negative feedback because they didn't like the music on the CD they bought from us. We've had negative feedback when the USPS lost the package and we replaced it for free. We've had negative feedback when a buyer thought the package should arrive in two days.
Once a buyer leaves a negative, it's there in the count. Folks evaluating our trustworthiness rarely look at the actual feedback - they just look at the numbers. We have been able to track dips in sales and prove that they follow a rise in negatives.
Buyers are "customers". There's a million of them out there, and many of them are really, really looking to pick a fight. I'm sure you've seen those types at retail counters. The only thing a seller has to prevent frivolous and undeserved negatives is the ability to leave similar negative feedback for the buyer.
By the way, our store is http://stores.ebay.com/CD-Velocity?refid=store
That particular model is selling well because they totally slashed the price to move them out. No other Zune is selling well, and this one was a bomb until then.
Yes, I can find all the EAB manifolds in the engine room, upper and lower levels. I've used them in for-real situations many times. But then, I am an old-timer. Got out in '78 after 9 years in the nuclear navy.
You have hit on one of the biggest reasons I got out after that long: the new kids didn't give a damn about qualifying. They didn't care where the fire extinguishers were, let alone where an important valve or breaker was. They laughed when reminded that they were serving on a warship, not a kiddy cruiser. It was just too damn scary being out there (on a submarine for Christ's sake), with people that barely knew where their watch station was! And *none* of them were drafted.
I imagine things are even worse now than they were back then.
It's been stated pretty clearly: implementing some of the things Apple wanted is a lot of work for the carrier. I think the "visual voice mail" is one of the bigger ones. Someone has to pay that freight, and a good way to do that is to offer a time-limited lock-in to the carrier, allowing them to recoup their investment and make a profit as well. Verizon turned Apple down, so we get Cingular.
We get the Presidents we do because the average American would do well on Leno's Jaywalking All-stars. Because they vote based on charisma and whatever the media feeds them.
I'm not sure exactly what the problem is that you are trying to describe, but:
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1) Macs can connect at login. Just drag a mounted share point into Login Items. Duh.
2) Macs do give you a notification when a server becomes disconnected. All the way back to OS 7, I think.
3) You can actually use bash, applescript, whatever, to write a script to automatically re-mount on disconnect. Go learn how.
4) We have roughly the same number of PC's here as Macs, and I certainly can't distinguish any difference in the frequency of disconnects. Maybe that's because the PC's get rebooted more often.
5) Making it work the Windows way is a stupid, stupid suggestion. Think about it. Providing the same functionality in a *better* way is what Apple has to do.
I call troll, and/or a really lousy IT guy.
[Christian Kent] I was forwarded this today by a Macintosh MPEG software developer:
Okay, stop, I have to make an argument about why this article fails, before I explode. MySQL has a disgusting tendency to fork() at random moments, which is bad for performance essentially everywhere but Linux. OS X server includes a version of MySQL that doesn't have this issue.
No real arguments that Power Macs are somewhat behind the times on memory latency, but that's because they're still using PC3200 DDR1 memory from 2003. AMD/Intel chips use DDR2 or Rambus now ... this could be solved without switching CPUs.
The article also goes out of its way to get bad results for PPC. Why are they using an old version of GCC (3.3.x has no autovectorization, much worse performance on non-x86 platforms), then a brand spanking new version of mySQL (see above)? The floating point benchmark was particularly absurd: "The results are quite interesting. First of all, the gcc compiler isn't very good in vectorizing. With vectorizing, we mean generating SIMD (SSE, Altivec) code. From the numbers, it seems like gcc was only capable of using Altivec in one test, the third one. In this test, the G5 really shows superiority compared to the Opteron and especially the Xeons" In fact, gcc 3.3 is unable to generate AltiVec code ANYWHERE, except on x86 where they added a special SSE mode because x87 floating point is so miserable. This could have been discovered with about 5 minutes of Google research. It wouldn't had to have been discovered at all if they hadn't gone out of their way to use a compiler which is the non-default on OS X 10.4. Alarm bells should have been going off in the benchmarkers head when an AMD chips outperforms an Intel one by 3x, but, anyway ...
I hate to seem like I'm just blindly defending Apple here, but this article seems to have been written with an agenda. There's no way one guy could stuff this much stuff up. To claim there's something inherently wrong with OS X's ability to be a server is going against so much publicly available information it's not even funny. Notice Apple seems to have no trouble getting Apache to run with Linux-like performance.
Everyone seems to be missing the point.
1) You pump the water up, using a lot of energy.
2) You circulate that water around in various heat exchangers, but it *never leaves the pipes* and is never exposed to anything.
3) The water goes back down - recovering almost all of the enrgy required to get it up, only losing the friction costs.
So, all you've done is warm the water up a bit, and use a little energy to overcome friction.
The whole "security through obscurity" argument about Mac OS is pure Redmond FUD. Sure, hackers aren't attracted to Macs yet, and sure, there will be more exploits when they are. However, it is also true that the OS is inherently more secure than Windows. Executing downloaded stuff automatically requires an Admin password, for example, and no one is ever logged in as root. Very few of the global things we see done to Windows are even possible.