I suspect the tree cost of printing and shipping 200 books would be a lot more than the cost of making the device.
Really? Because I have absolutely no idea if that's true. What is the "environmental backpack" of one book versus one modern gadget? Seems to be a fairly difficult thing to measure. I'd wager that books are much cheaper and gadgets are much more expensive in terms of environmental impact than it might seem at first glance.
I don't think it's a gimmick. If you add wireless data to the package, you've got a device that you don't need to connect to a plug. Ever. I think that's pretty fucking cool. The fact that e-ink readers don't need all that much power is why this could work; leaving it on the window sill for a couple of hours per week might be enough.
And I don't know in what kind of caves you people live, but virtually all my electronics get plenty of direct sunlight, minus the UV the windows filter.
Hosting companies could tell very easily, both because those accounts contained nothing but a bunch of 2.88 MB files with similar names and by the fact that traffic on those accounts immediately rose far beyond a normal Geocities account. The lifetime of most accounts could be measured in hours rather than days.
A guy from Bioware had some things to say about this on Blue's News. He (obviously) was very adamant about how the content had not been removed from the game to make a quick buck. Bioware has had a dedicated team working on DLC for a long time, working in parallel with the main game team. The DLC would not have been ready early enough to pass through QA etc, there was no time to have it in the game on release day; obviously the QA process for just the expansion is faster than for the whole game -- I'd assume the criteria are more relaxed, as well, if the DLC breaks, it is optional after all. There is free DLC on launch day, as well.
That said, the obvious question is, if the people working on the dedicated DLC team had been part of the main team, wouldn't they have had the resources to include more content in the released game? In that way, it still seems like they're "cheating" customers out of content. On the other hand, while it started out controversial, DLC in general is very accepted these days, and it seems arbitrary to react differently to it simply because it's released on launch day. Should they have simply let the DLC lie on a HDD somewhere for a few weeks?
BTW, the developer (Derek French, I think) implied they founded the dedicated DLC team after very positive experiences with NWN, which let them support the game for another couple of years, and which was very well received from the community IIRC.
Yes, but the better consumer routers already have a USB port which could be used for booting, and of course all routers have an Ethernet port for netboot. As a first step short of actually booting from an external device, halfway bricked routers could try to copy a firmware image from an attached USB device and flash that -- I actually wouldn't be surprised to see some routers already offering this feature. OTOH, normal consumers probably don't brick their routers all that often.
I also bought a (cheap) UPS, because a lot of people say it's power surges that tend to cause routers to lock up.
My router (Bufallo WZR2-G300N, no open firmware available...) locks up or slows to a crawl all the time, and we don't really have power surges here. Overheating and software bugs -- these aren't simple devices any more -- are much more likely, I think those routers just aren't build for the kind of heavy usage they sometimes get. Aunt Tillie's wireless router probably runs for a year and still routes less traffic than mine does in a week.
I would have hoped the open firmwares solved the crashes/slow-downs, so it's too bad that your OpenWRT device still does it. Maybe you could try DD-WRT even if it's not your favorite? Or maybe it really is a heat issue?
If you don't want to spend that much though, just get a WRT54GL and drop openwrt/ddwrt/tomato on it. You'll get essentially the same performance minus the wireless N support.
Minus Gigabit Ethernet, minus 1 USB port.
The Routerstation looks pretty sweet though, too bad it's not available outside North America.
Most (all?) of the firmware is just an operating system image as opposed to firmware for the router's components. So typically we're just dealing with the usual problem of how to boot a system. Ideally, the routers would offer all of the options a desktop does, e.g. boot from USB, boot over the wired network in addition to booting from the internal memory. Unless you're flashing some component firmware you should not be able to brick a router any more than you can brick a PC when mis-installing a Linux distribution.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but describe scenarios where the seller provides a description (or a "review") of an item, instead of publishing reviews written by others. Maybe there are things that apply to one thing but not the other. For instance, a reasonable person might assume that if you publish dozens or hundreds of reviews, you're not censoring some of them. This assumption might be fueled by the fact that in most instances, negative reviews are, in fact, not removed. The same reasonable person might assume that your own voiced opinions about your product will not be as impartial; an assumption which is easily understood.
First, you cannot possibly test your application with all the different versions and patch versions of DLLs that are out there, because patch releases now are way too fast. Reliability, right now, not performance, is the pre-eminent problem in the software community.
No. Security has been the pre-eminent problem, then reliability, then performance.
I think you misread GP. The increase to binary size is small due to OPT:REF and it reduces distribution size, since you only distribute your application plus those parts of the lib you need, instead of distributing your application plus the complete library. The dynamically linked distribution needs to contain both since you don't want to rely on the library being available on the system.
That said, I think the security argument is pretty convincing. I'm sure there are still a lot of apps out there with a vulnerable, statically-linked libpng.
Hey, thanks for the reply, and that's pretty much exactly why I need it. I'd prefer not to change the display resolution or turn the second monitor off, I really want to run it windowed and confine the cursor until I alt-tab or something. I think the Jail application only confines the movement to one screen (in an X multi-screen setup), but maybe I can modify it to confine it to a window...
We have that regulation in Germany (possible all of the EU), but the permission to spam you or redistribute your data can not be buried in the fine print, it's got to be it's own paragraph with it's own checkmark, unchecked by default.
I once played around with that, 10, 12 years ago, writing emails using telnet -- ostentatiously with an address billgates@microsoft.de (or some such shenanigans). Apparently I did something wrong, because a couple of days later I got a stern but friendly mail from a Microsoft admin. I probably sent it to myself, misspelled my own address and it got bounced back to them.
Okay you first rant about how the colour of one's skin doesn't matter -- that's true, it should not. However, it sadly does matter to a lot of people, who have associations deeply rooted in their minds. Not sure why you then go on about diversity -- presumably, you're saying that since the colour of people's skin is irrelevant, the colour of the skin of people in ads is irrelevant as well, and does not represent diversity. Well, the colour is not irrelevant, since people are racist, and displaying this kind of faux-diversity is a way of showing that you do not support this racism. The same goes for gender, incidently.
And then you rant about how there's an internal struggle to deal with an "invading" culture, disrupted worlds and forced changes to the environment. I'm not sure what you imagine Poland looks like, but I'm pretty sure that going by the statistics and not racist propaganda, there is no invading culture, no disrupted world and no changes to the environment that weren't brought on by other reasons. According to WP, Poland is very ethnically homogeneous, although I hasten to add that it's dangerous to quote WP on such possibly disputed topics.
Oh yeah and then you go and refer to the Balkans - the Balkans! - on an example why a mix of different ethnicities has to result in chaos. Well if it's in a society built on 500 years of stupidly reinforced mutual hatred it might result in chaos. People's culture doesn't need to be very different for that to happen.
The last paragraph tops it off with stale racist, oh sorry, xenophobic rhetoric. Good job! Enjoy your fences, maybe you should build a wall!
I does, actually. I'd guess Poland, simply because it's the largest country which fits the description, but it could also be the Czech Republic, or maybe Slovakia or Hungary, although with the latter two we're arguably starting to get into Southern Europe.;)
Well, the Government is taking 6.2% of my money for social "security", which will be bankrupt by the time I reach retirement age and from which I'll be lucky to recoup the money I've put in, let alone any extra monies above and beyond that.
Why would you recoup social security? It's a contribution you make to help other people in society who are not as well off as you -- apparently you have even a job! The only way you should recoup it is if you lose that, or in some other way get into a really bad place. Maybe you don't like being forced to help other people, that's fair, and you've got all kinds of ways to fight against it, as indeed market liberals have very effectively been doing forever in your fine country.
Lets say I did not miss your point, I just conveniently ignored it while making my own.;) Apart from my facetious suggestion I agree that add-on modules would be a really good idea for an iPhone dictionary.
Since it seems to work fine on much slower CPUs, I imagine that it'll just gobble up whatever you can give it (with one core). Something like a frame rate limiter would probably help.
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I suspect the tree cost of printing and shipping 200 books would be a lot more than the cost of making the device.
Really? Because I have absolutely no idea if that's true. What is the "environmental backpack" of one book versus one modern gadget? Seems to be a fairly difficult thing to measure. I'd wager that books are much cheaper and gadgets are much more expensive in terms of environmental impact than it might seem at first glance.
I don't think it's a gimmick. If you add wireless data to the package, you've got a device that you don't need to connect to a plug. Ever. I think that's pretty fucking cool. The fact that e-ink readers don't need all that much power is why this could work; leaving it on the window sill for a couple of hours per week might be enough.
And I don't know in what kind of caves you people live, but virtually all my electronics get plenty of direct sunlight, minus the UV the windows filter.
Hosting companies could tell very easily, both because those accounts contained nothing but a bunch of 2.88 MB files with similar names and by the fact that traffic on those accounts immediately rose far beyond a normal Geocities account. The lifetime of most accounts could be measured in hours rather than days.
A guy from Bioware had some things to say about this on Blue's News. He (obviously) was very adamant about how the content had not been removed from the game to make a quick buck. Bioware has had a dedicated team working on DLC for a long time, working in parallel with the main game team. The DLC would not have been ready early enough to pass through QA etc, there was no time to have it in the game on release day; obviously the QA process for just the expansion is faster than for the whole game -- I'd assume the criteria are more relaxed, as well, if the DLC breaks, it is optional after all. There is free DLC on launch day, as well.
That said, the obvious question is, if the people working on the dedicated DLC team had been part of the main team, wouldn't they have had the resources to include more content in the released game? In that way, it still seems like they're "cheating" customers out of content. On the other hand, while it started out controversial, DLC in general is very accepted these days, and it seems arbitrary to react differently to it simply because it's released on launch day. Should they have simply let the DLC lie on a HDD somewhere for a few weeks?
BTW, the developer (Derek French, I think) implied they founded the dedicated DLC team after very positive experiences with NWN, which let them support the game for another couple of years, and which was very well received from the community IIRC.
Yes, but the better consumer routers already have a USB port which could be used for booting, and of course all routers have an Ethernet port for netboot. As a first step short of actually booting from an external device, halfway bricked routers could try to copy a firmware image from an attached USB device and flash that -- I actually wouldn't be surprised to see some routers already offering this feature. OTOH, normal consumers probably don't brick their routers all that often.
I also bought a (cheap) UPS, because a lot of people say it's power surges that tend to cause routers to lock up.
My router (Bufallo WZR2-G300N, no open firmware available...) locks up or slows to a crawl all the time, and we don't really have power surges here. Overheating and software bugs -- these aren't simple devices any more -- are much more likely, I think those routers just aren't build for the kind of heavy usage they sometimes get. Aunt Tillie's wireless router probably runs for a year and still routes less traffic than mine does in a week.
I would have hoped the open firmwares solved the crashes/slow-downs, so it's too bad that your OpenWRT device still does it. Maybe you could try DD-WRT even if it's not your favorite? Or maybe it really is a heat issue?
If you don't want to spend that much though, just get a WRT54GL and drop openwrt/ddwrt/tomato on it. You'll get essentially the same performance minus the wireless N support.
Minus Gigabit Ethernet, minus 1 USB port.
The Routerstation looks pretty sweet though, too bad it's not available outside North America.
Right. You paid $40 bucks for your old, vastly inferior product, so clearly nobody will buy this router.
Most (all?) of the firmware is just an operating system image as opposed to firmware for the router's components. So typically we're just dealing with the usual problem of how to boot a system. Ideally, the routers would offer all of the options a desktop does, e.g. boot from USB, boot over the wired network in addition to booting from the internal memory. Unless you're flashing some component firmware you should not be able to brick a router any more than you can brick a PC when mis-installing a Linux distribution.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but describe scenarios where the seller provides a description (or a "review") of an item, instead of publishing reviews written by others. Maybe there are things that apply to one thing but not the other. For instance, a reasonable person might assume that if you publish dozens or hundreds of reviews, you're not censoring some of them. This assumption might be fueled by the fact that in most instances, negative reviews are, in fact, not removed. The same reasonable person might assume that your own voiced opinions about your product will not be as impartial; an assumption which is easily understood.
First, you cannot possibly test your application with all the different versions and patch versions of DLLs that are out there, because patch releases now are way too fast. Reliability, right now, not performance, is the pre-eminent problem in the software community.
No. Security has been the pre-eminent problem, then reliability, then performance.
I think you misread GP. The increase to binary size is small due to OPT:REF and it reduces distribution size, since you only distribute your application plus those parts of the lib you need, instead of distributing your application plus the complete library. The dynamically linked distribution needs to contain both since you don't want to rely on the library being available on the system.
That said, I think the security argument is pretty convincing. I'm sure there are still a lot of apps out there with a vulnerable, statically-linked libpng.
Hey, thanks for the reply, and that's pretty much exactly why I need it. I'd prefer not to change the display resolution or turn the second monitor off, I really want to run it windowed and confine the cursor until I alt-tab or something. I think the Jail application only confines the movement to one screen (in an X multi-screen setup), but maybe I can modify it to confine it to a window...
I come here for the predictable "I come here for..." jokes. Oh, and the recursive ones.
Google Mail gives you an activity log: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=gmail&answer=45938
It's pretty damn cool.
We have that regulation in Germany (possible all of the EU), but the permission to spam you or redistribute your data can not be buried in the fine print, it's got to be it's own paragraph with it's own checkmark, unchecked by default.
I once played around with that, 10, 12 years ago, writing emails using telnet -- ostentatiously with an address billgates@microsoft.de (or some such shenanigans). Apparently I did something wrong, because a couple of days later I got a stern but friendly mail from a Microsoft admin. I probably sent it to myself, misspelled my own address and it got bounced back to them.
Okay you first rant about how the colour of one's skin doesn't matter -- that's true, it should not. However, it sadly does matter to a lot of people, who have associations deeply rooted in their minds. Not sure why you then go on about diversity -- presumably, you're saying that since the colour of people's skin is irrelevant, the colour of the skin of people in ads is irrelevant as well, and does not represent diversity. Well, the colour is not irrelevant, since people are racist, and displaying this kind of faux-diversity is a way of showing that you do not support this racism. The same goes for gender, incidently.
And then you rant about how there's an internal struggle to deal with an "invading" culture, disrupted worlds and forced changes to the environment. I'm not sure what you imagine Poland looks like, but I'm pretty sure that going by the statistics and not racist propaganda, there is no invading culture, no disrupted world and no changes to the environment that weren't brought on by other reasons. According to WP, Poland is very ethnically homogeneous, although I hasten to add that it's dangerous to quote WP on such possibly disputed topics.
Oh yeah and then you go and refer to the Balkans - the Balkans! - on an example why a mix of different ethnicities has to result in chaos. Well if it's in a society built on 500 years of stupidly reinforced mutual hatred it might result in chaos. People's culture doesn't need to be very different for that to happen.
The last paragraph tops it off with stale racist, oh sorry, xenophobic rhetoric. Good job! Enjoy your fences, maybe you should build a wall!
That's impressive considering the first CDs were only available in 1982 or 1983. Must've been a pre-order...
Where'd you get the figure for the power draw of the chipset? Intel claims a TDP of 8-11W for Atom + 945GSE combined.
I does, actually. I'd guess Poland, simply because it's the largest country which fits the description, but it could also be the Czech Republic, or maybe Slovakia or Hungary, although with the latter two we're arguably starting to get into Southern Europe. ;)
Why would you recoup social security? It's a contribution you make to help other people in society who are not as well off as you -- apparently you have even a job! The only way you should recoup it is if you lose that, or in some other way get into a really bad place. Maybe you don't like being forced to help other people, that's fair, and you've got all kinds of ways to fight against it, as indeed market liberals have very effectively been doing forever in your fine country.
Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not.
Lets say I did not miss your point, I just conveniently ignored it while making my own. ;) Apart from my facetious suggestion I agree that add-on modules would be a really good idea for an iPhone dictionary.
Since it seems to work fine on much slower CPUs, I imagine that it'll just gobble up whatever you can give it (with one core). Something like a frame rate limiter would probably help.