Bejeweled, the same game, tetris, etc. I'd just like to comment that the same game (google for it) is the most addictive little game I've ever played. It's so simple, but has this, "I have to beat the high score" attribute. If you don't feel like googling, the same game is a game in which you remove groups of two or more objects of the same color connected to each other, after they are removed the objects above them fall down. Tricky strategies involve getting all of one color at once, without losing too many of the other colors. Don't try it at work, unless you have several days to waste.
The past three months or so, I've had a few people come and ask my advice on a computer, (all but one from Dell), nothing hard just what should I buy how much ram etc. I got a friend a sweet deal on an old Kayak workstation. After some navel gazing I've realized why dell does so well. They have a free sales force. And it's one that the customer already trusts. Think about it, computers and cars are both expensive, complex items that have an operating life of several years. How many car salespeople are there? Now think about the last time you met a home user computer salesperson. There are a few, but most people buy from Dell or similar and ask a friend who's savvy what to buy.
That's amazing, I remember just before I graduated from college (it was only 3 years ago) I was shopping around for an SPARCStation and these were in the $100-$200 range, and 10s and 20s were in the $150 and up range depending on ram and processors installed. I ended up getting an HP 735, a little different, but pretty cool. Those old workstations were built like tanks.
Coming from an area that has predominatly hydro power, I've always thought it odd that those areas seem much more concerned about efficiency. Given that we had some of the cheapest power in the USA, (about a penny per kWh) it was always odd to me that you never saw baseboard heat, and houses were always well insulated. Now I live in Montana (about $0.07 per kWh) and if you don't have gas heat, houses still use baseboard heaters, if you don't have them they are just an electric heating element, and are surprisingly poorly insulated. Certainly the average age of houses is a factor, but I'd presume that even if you corrected for that, the hydro area is much more power effecient.
I did shooting in college, and we usually wore heavy (stiff, mostly) leather coat, gloves, and pants, to reduce involentary motion and usually shot only with breath at a natural state (neither in or out and not holding it either). We'd usually take about 2 hrs to shoot 60 rounds or so, 20 sighting in and 40 scored shots. We weren't anywhere near olympic class, to do that you have to it a pin head at 50 ft, about 35 or more times out of 40 (you get 0 for missing a target the size of a quarter).
You've solved the budget problems, we'll finance it, oh wait a minute...dang they already tried that. It is sort of ironic that the society that hasn't saved a dime in something like 30 years, is now so concerned about 12 billion annually (is it less than that now) that largely goes to provide really good engineering jobs (maybe we'll just let India have those, too), on space research and exploration.
There actually are several Kalishnikovs (I'm sure I spelled it incorrectly) used as sniper rifles, of course they were bolt action, and might have used different rounds. The main reason sniper rifles use such big bullets is to allow much longer effective range, and reduce windage. You can take down an elk with a.270, a 7.62 mm round will easily incapacitate a person, even jacketed ones. Accurate games would make the sniper move very slowly, force a laydown to shoot, and significantly slow rate of fire.
A defined benefit (traditional) pension plan would be the prefered choice of left wingers for retirement plans. A 401k is just a way for employeers to push market risk back on the plan participants, very capitalistic if you ask me.
Using spam to sell viagra vs. using it to defraud people out of thousands of dollars You do realize that these are the same thing. I highly doubt that Lilly (or is it Pfizer) really allows legit sales of Viagra through something as dodgy as spam marketing (at huge discounts no less). It would be nice to see some rational reccomendations, the technical community is regularly complaining that no policy makers understand technical issues, here they are admitting that they don't and asking for help and we're collectivly squandering our chance.
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I remember downloading the game when it was re-released in like 97 or 98 and feeling ripped off for the time it took to download. I think the real point of the game was antagonizing Derek on message boards, perhaps that was the first MMO game, and he didn't know he developed it.
I don't know if huge RAM means over 4 Gigs or if you software runs on Windows or Linux, but Dell has a pretty nice PC workstation (SCSI, Fire or Wildcat graphics, dual Xeons and the like) in the Prcision 650 or 450s, the 250 seems to be Dimension/Optiplex internals. I've never used Dell's PC workstations, but HPs older (PII and PIII) machines were well (perhaps even over-) built little buggers. I think Verizon bought these to replace their engineers' proprietary workstations last spring.
If you haven't bought yet, you might look at HPs Itainum 2 workstations (I think they have generally replaced the Kayak and PC Visualize systems there), I think they were a bit cheaper than the PA-RISC stuff. The zx2000 started at around $2000.
Looking cool on the PHB's desk or filling a big trading room. Who do you think has enough to buy these overpriced PCs. As much as I don't want to reccomend them, it seems like an HP Itanium system or a Dell Xeon would be better for getting actual work done. The Itanium systems are surprisingly reasonable, in the workstation world). If IBM has a Power4 workstation out that would rock, too. Also shortly after the g5 PowerMacs were announced I heard a rumor that IBM would be building a cheaper workstation based on the PPC970 chip, are they still planning this?
I think the SPARC IV is due sometime in the next few months (probably just for the big iron for 6 months or so), if I recall correctly it's largely a dual core SPARC III with more incremental improvements. There is at least speculation that SUN will offer an Opteron based workstation in addition to the already announced entry-level server. I think there is development on a SPARC V, Fujitsu seems to be having better luck with their SPAEC implementations currently. There are also rumors that a bigger partnership will develop between the two firm's development.
And MS would be a tiny software company if Compaq/Pheonix hadn't figured out how to reverse engineer IBM's only secret part of the PC (the rest was from off the shelf components. Unlike all the other myriad of personal computers the rest of the companies largely did in house operating systems, like Apple. Even if you somehow built a Mac what you you run on it, if you were an OEM, not a geek.
I got the powerpad one Christmas before the Summer Olympics, it was pretty fun to step up to the fast dots and try to beat the gold medalist's time or distance.
Back in highschool we found that some of best lifts for cranking your max were incremental lifts, stop 10 times up and down, you could only do about 1/2 as many reps as you would normally do with that weight. You'd only want to do this on your last rep. Incidentally Fran Dresser (the Nanny gal) claims that her secret to looking good (say what you will about her voice, she has a nice bod) is isometric excercises anytime she sits.
Your last statement sums up the situation nicely. I think all these executives realize that the PC and then later the internet were basically just giving some specialty manufacturers that revolutionised how business operates. Then crediting anything that had an ancillary connection to a network as being ready to do it again. Now that that happened, their stockholders expect it to happen again (preferably regularly). Ironically even if this or another idea does spark a revolution, the stocks won't perform nearly as well as they did, because most of the performance came from investors realization that they had changed the way business operates, not from the actual change. As a result these CEOs go around saying that this new thing will be the spark of the next revolution.
The only example I've ever heard that made any sense for onDemand computing was Wimbledon's sponsors (a British Tennis organisation) that needed signifcicantly more web hosting capability around the two weeks of the tourney, so they used OnDemand servicess to add like 10x the servers and bandwidth to their web page, and take it away a week after the tourney ended. Kind of a limited use technology, but great for seasonal businesses. The rest of their case studies were "on demand" applied to the same thing they did for the past three years stuff like automated ordering/manufacturing/sales etc.
I'd guess that the cost of a manned moon shot would have declined now, not increased. Yeah the cost of many raw materials, and certainly employee costs have increased by almost 2 orders of magnitude, but one major cost has declined. When they needed sensor or system to control something, they couldn't very well go to dell.com or whip out their TI book and order it, they had to design it, and probably have it custom built, now they could do significantly more testing in software and utilize many off the shelf parts, greatly reducing time and costs. In addition since some of the one time investments are done, I'd be surprised if it took more than two or three years which helps reduce the cost, as well. My guess is no more than $20 billion in modern dollars.
It's just XML based data transfers with a bunch of new names, the nebulous part comes from all the comapnies selling everything, IBM and MS this is mostly you two, under this new brand name. Remember when everything from MS was.NET, "new from Microsoft Socks.NET (they have our logo on them). Now IBM is selling everything as onDemand, and HP is selling adaptive everything, regardless of what it used to be called or how tortured the path back to XML data transfers would be.
It really is a cool idea, and once implimented in everything, it will boost productivity, and ease communications, which is why all the enterprise sellers are selling the crap out of it. Either that or they thought that it was the e- everything that was driving the bubble.
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Bejeweled, the same game, tetris, etc. I'd just like to comment that the same game (google for it) is the most addictive little game I've ever played. It's so simple, but has this, "I have to beat the high score" attribute.
If you don't feel like googling, the same game is a game in which you remove groups of two or more objects of the same color connected to each other, after they are removed the objects above them fall down. Tricky strategies involve getting all of one color at once, without losing too many of the other colors. Don't try it at work, unless you have several days to waste.
The past three months or so, I've had a few people come and ask my advice on a computer, (all but one from Dell), nothing hard just what should I buy how much ram etc. I got a friend a sweet deal on an old Kayak workstation. After some navel gazing I've realized why dell does so well. They have a free sales force. And it's one that the customer already trusts. Think about it, computers and cars are both expensive, complex items that have an operating life of several years. How many car salespeople are there? Now think about the last time you met a home user computer salesperson. There are a few, but most people buy from Dell or similar and ask a friend who's savvy what to buy.
That's amazing, I remember just before I graduated from college (it was only 3 years ago) I was shopping around for an SPARCStation and these were in the $100-$200 range, and 10s and 20s were in the $150 and up range depending on ram and processors installed. I ended up getting an HP 735, a little different, but pretty cool. Those old workstations were built like tanks.
I don't think the average /.er has heard of or seen a real Sparc 5.
Coming from an area that has predominatly hydro power, I've always thought it odd that those areas seem much more concerned about efficiency. Given that we had some of the cheapest power in the USA, (about a penny per kWh) it was always odd to me that you never saw baseboard heat, and houses were always well insulated. Now I live in Montana (about $0.07 per kWh) and if you don't have gas heat, houses still use baseboard heaters, if you don't have them they are just an electric heating element, and are surprisingly poorly insulated. Certainly the average age of houses is a factor, but I'd presume that even if you corrected for that, the hydro area is much more power effecient.
I did shooting in college, and we usually wore heavy (stiff, mostly) leather coat, gloves, and pants, to reduce involentary motion and usually shot only with breath at a natural state (neither in or out and not holding it either). We'd usually take about 2 hrs to shoot 60 rounds or so, 20 sighting in and 40 scored shots. We weren't anywhere near olympic class, to do that you have to it a pin head at 50 ft, about 35 or more times out of 40 (you get 0 for missing a target the size of a quarter).
You've solved the budget problems, we'll finance it, oh wait a minute...dang they already tried that. It is sort of ironic that the society that hasn't saved a dime in something like 30 years, is now so concerned about 12 billion annually (is it less than that now) that largely goes to provide really good engineering jobs (maybe we'll just let India have those, too), on space research and exploration.
There actually are several Kalishnikovs (I'm sure I spelled it incorrectly) used as sniper rifles, of course they were bolt action, and might have used different rounds. The main reason sniper rifles use such big bullets is to allow much longer effective range, and reduce windage. You can take down an elk with a .270, a 7.62 mm round will easily incapacitate a person, even jacketed ones. Accurate games would make the sniper move very slowly, force a laydown to shoot, and significantly slow rate of fire.
A defined benefit (traditional) pension plan would be the prefered choice of left wingers for retirement plans. A 401k is just a way for employeers to push market risk back on the plan participants, very capitalistic if you ask me.
This has been my solution, for flash and the occasional webcast that is ie only.
Using spam to sell viagra vs. using it to defraud people out of thousands of dollars
You do realize that these are the same thing. I highly doubt that Lilly (or is it Pfizer) really allows legit sales of Viagra through something as dodgy as spam marketing (at huge discounts no less).
It would be nice to see some rational reccomendations, the technical community is regularly complaining that no policy makers understand technical issues, here they are admitting that they don't and asking for help and we're collectivly squandering our chance.
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I remember downloading the game when it was re-released in like 97 or 98 and feeling ripped off for the time it took to download. I think the real point of the game was antagonizing Derek on message boards, perhaps that was the first MMO game, and he didn't know he developed it.
I don't know if huge RAM means over 4 Gigs or if you software runs on Windows or Linux, but Dell has a pretty nice PC workstation (SCSI, Fire or Wildcat graphics, dual Xeons and the like) in the Prcision 650 or 450s, the 250 seems to be Dimension/Optiplex internals. I've never used Dell's PC workstations, but HPs older (PII and PIII) machines were well (perhaps even over-) built little buggers. I think Verizon bought these to replace their engineers' proprietary workstations last spring.
If you haven't bought yet, you might look at HPs Itainum 2 workstations (I think they have generally replaced the Kayak and PC Visualize systems there), I think they were a bit cheaper than the PA-RISC stuff. The zx2000 started at around $2000.
Looking cool on the PHB's desk or filling a big trading room. Who do you think has enough to buy these overpriced PCs. As much as I don't want to reccomend them, it seems like an HP Itanium system or a Dell Xeon would be better for getting actual work done. The Itanium systems are surprisingly reasonable, in the workstation world). If IBM has a Power4 workstation out that would rock, too. Also shortly after the g5 PowerMacs were announced I heard a rumor that IBM would be building a cheaper workstation based on the PPC970 chip, are they still planning this?
I think the SPARC IV is due sometime in the next few months (probably just for the big iron for 6 months or so), if I recall correctly it's largely a dual core SPARC III with more incremental improvements. There is at least speculation that SUN will offer an Opteron based workstation in addition to the already announced entry-level server. I think there is development on a SPARC V, Fujitsu seems to be having better luck with their SPAEC implementations currently. There are also rumors that a bigger partnership will develop between the two firm's development.
And MS would be a tiny software company if Compaq/Pheonix hadn't figured out how to reverse engineer IBM's only secret part of the PC (the rest was from off the shelf components. Unlike all the other myriad of personal computers the rest of the companies largely did in house operating systems, like Apple. Even if you somehow built a Mac what you you run on it, if you were an OEM, not a geek.
I got the powerpad one Christmas before the Summer Olympics, it was pretty fun to step up to the fast dots and try to beat the gold medalist's time or distance.
Back in highschool we found that some of best lifts for cranking your max were incremental lifts, stop 10 times up and down, you could only do about 1/2 as many reps as you would normally do with that weight. You'd only want to do this on your last rep. Incidentally Fran Dresser (the Nanny gal) claims that her secret to looking good (say what you will about her voice, she has a nice bod) is isometric excercises anytime she sits.
Great now all gamers will have RSI in their backs.
Your last statement sums up the situation nicely. I think all these executives realize that the PC and then later the internet were basically just giving some specialty manufacturers that revolutionised how business operates. Then crediting anything that had an ancillary connection to a network as being ready to do it again. Now that that happened, their stockholders expect it to happen again (preferably regularly). Ironically even if this or another idea does spark a revolution, the stocks won't perform nearly as well as they did, because most of the performance came from investors realization that they had changed the way business operates, not from the actual change. As a result these CEOs go around saying that this new thing will be the spark of the next revolution.
The only example I've ever heard that made any sense for onDemand computing was Wimbledon's sponsors (a British Tennis organisation) that needed signifcicantly more web hosting capability around the two weeks of the tourney, so they used OnDemand servicess to add like 10x the servers and bandwidth to their web page, and take it away a week after the tourney ended. Kind of a limited use technology, but great for seasonal businesses. The rest of their case studies were "on demand" applied to the same thing they did for the past three years stuff like automated ordering/manufacturing/sales etc.
I'd guess that the cost of a manned moon shot would have declined now, not increased. Yeah the cost of many raw materials, and certainly employee costs have increased by almost 2 orders of magnitude, but one major cost has declined. When they needed sensor or system to control something, they couldn't very well go to dell.com or whip out their TI book and order it, they had to design it, and probably have it custom built, now they could do significantly more testing in software and utilize many off the shelf parts, greatly reducing time and costs. In addition since some of the one time investments are done, I'd be surprised if it took more than two or three years which helps reduce the cost, as well. My guess is no more than $20 billion in modern dollars.
It's just XML based data transfers with a bunch of new names, the nebulous part comes from all the comapnies selling everything, IBM and MS this is mostly you two, under this new brand name. Remember when everything from MS was .NET, "new from Microsoft Socks.NET (they have our logo on them). Now IBM is selling everything as onDemand, and HP is selling adaptive everything, regardless of what it used to be called or how tortured the path back to XML data transfers would be.
It really is a cool idea, and once implimented in everything, it will boost productivity, and ease communications, which is why all the enterprise sellers are selling the crap out of it. Either that or they thought that it was the e- everything that was driving the bubble.