If you go to amazon, you should be able to get an automatic self winder Invicta with a japanese movement that looks like a Rolex Submariner for about $90. Would that count as a fake rolex?
You know, the baseball bat thing is a good idea, but it's missing details: buy the bat with cash, wait a week or two, keep it in a plastic bag, and wear cheap gloves. When you're done, leave the bat and dispose of the gloves later on - use the plastic bag and a public trash can somewhere you don't buy anything. It's the little things that are so important.
Actually, making the last mile a local utility has a lot to recommend it - no locked in monopoly, easier entry for competitors, and better services for consumers. You can also conceivably run servers at home without jumping through insane hoops. Comcast et al. would still exist as service providers of various stripes.
Okay, I was a bit off - been buying 12 port switches. Here's a SMC 24 port switch for $200. This one is managed and runs $300. I did see them running about twice as much, but I don't know enough to really say why you'd buy those ones.
The point here is that thin clients make the 'switch box first' approach a full fix from the perspective of downtime. And yes, you can set up GP so that saving to disk is hard to impossible, but most places I've been don't do that.
Why would any user voluntarily give up the features, and freedoms of local computing just because the IT guys say it makes their job easier.
Cost of maintenance, loss of value when someone loses unbacked up data in a machine failure. Downtime due to hardware failure (thin clients => simpler repair procedure). It's not a 100% win, but it's great for a number of use cases, so use it where it works. Of course, I'm a dev, so I get a fancy box, or a slice of a monster build box sitting in the closet.
Extra switches cost about $100 for the leaf versions, possibly $300 if you want management. If your company is as cheap and irrational as what you describe, you're basically fucked.
Hogwash, economic starting points are a bigger indicator of success than raw brains - when you're poor and smart, getting ahead is HARD. When you're rich, you don't have to worry about paying for college, summer jobs, or much of that - you have a lot of free time for sports and networking, which helps you get ahead later on.
it's cheaper to manage and back up a more centralized installation. You can also build a thin client about the size of a book that is pretty much silent. Stick a shared monster box on the back end and maybe you'll think differently.
There is a legal concept of 'coming to the nuisance' - it was obvious that the asphalt plant was in operation, so it makes me wonder how these guys aren't laughed out of court. "you built a subdivision next to an industrial plant? Really?". The fact is, there's more than simply pollution - industrial areas are loud and smelly. If we're just talking about an extant externality, the existence of the residential area would be irrelevant - a developer could buy land, sue the neighbor, then build.
They aren't paying for the manufacture of superior hardware or some crap like that, they're paying for some goods that function as advertised. It doesn't matter whether they're overspec or not, they work: if you want to try for more, good luck to you, but you're on your own. The environmental angle is fairly specious anyway - you're arguing that we shoudl force manufacturers to do... something so you don't toss hardware as frequently, but we do that anyway. Sure that's a problem, but this isn't the solution.
I have an iPhone and it's the first phone that doesn't break in stupid ways that piss me off. What can I say, I like having something that actually works.
Your analogy is a bit weak - you buy the crap chevy (seriously, 6k redline?) and tweak it to run at 6/8 - that means a balanced crank, beefy connecting rods, and upgraded vavletrain. it may not be as reliable as the crap baseline version, but that's because it's a faster design and those tend to require more care. The analogous CPU already has the upgrades because it costs about the same to make the fast version as the slow. You just mark them as slow so you can maintain market segments. Sure, this only happens after the process is mature, but that takes a few months to a year (generally).
But yes, the CPU is pretty cheap these days; my next build will be spending more on each of the SSD and GPU. I don't OC because it's never been my bottleneck.
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If you go to amazon, you should be able to get an automatic self winder Invicta with a japanese movement that looks like a Rolex Submariner for about $90. Would that count as a fake rolex?
Some of us have friends that suck at spelling.
You know, the baseball bat thing is a good idea, but it's missing details: buy the bat with cash, wait a week or two, keep it in a plastic bag, and wear cheap gloves. When you're done, leave the bat and dispose of the gloves later on - use the plastic bag and a public trash can somewhere you don't buy anything. It's the little things that are so important.
If the lecture wasn't 3 hours long, I wouldn't fall asleep. I use a laptop because it's less annoying than me snoring.
And how does this solve the problem, exactly?
I leave my browser open for weeks at a time. Allowing some other app to close it would be... unwise. Practically speaking, this is what VMs are for.
Actually, making the last mile a local utility has a lot to recommend it - no locked in monopoly, easier entry for competitors, and better services for consumers. You can also conceivably run servers at home without jumping through insane hoops. Comcast et al. would still exist as service providers of various stripes.
How do you propose setting up a network so that you can lose any switch without impacting any users?
Okay, I was a bit off - been buying 12 port switches. Here's a SMC 24 port switch for $200. This one is managed and runs $300. I did see them running about twice as much, but I don't know enough to really say why you'd buy those ones.
The point here is that thin clients make the 'switch box first' approach a full fix from the perspective of downtime. And yes, you can set up GP so that saving to disk is hard to impossible, but most places I've been don't do that.
Why would any user voluntarily give up the features, and freedoms of local computing just because the IT guys say it makes their job easier.
Cost of maintenance, loss of value when someone loses unbacked up data in a machine failure. Downtime due to hardware failure (thin clients => simpler repair procedure). It's not a 100% win, but it's great for a number of use cases, so use it where it works. Of course, I'm a dev, so I get a fancy box, or a slice of a monster build box sitting in the closet.
Extra switches cost about $100 for the leaf versions, possibly $300 if you want management. If your company is as cheap and irrational as what you describe, you're basically fucked.
Hogwash, economic starting points are a bigger indicator of success than raw brains - when you're poor and smart, getting ahead is HARD. When you're rich, you don't have to worry about paying for college, summer jobs, or much of that - you have a lot of free time for sports and networking, which helps you get ahead later on.
And only the top percentile of humanity gets to have a job in the medicine/science professions? What sort of Gattaca-fueled world do you live in?
Ok, top 2 or 3. This has little to do with IQ (although you need that). It's more about willingness to work.
it's cheaper to manage and back up a more centralized installation. You can also build a thin client about the size of a book that is pretty much silent. Stick a shared monster box on the back end and maybe you'll think differently.
What is a switch dies and takes out sixteen users?
Replace switch with spare. Back online in an hour or so.
I wondered about that, being an occasional user of firearms. I'm still not going to use my range bag as carryon, though.
fine; pick any other country. We still jail more people than them.
Use metal detectors and bomb sniffers and you're done. What did you think a knife was going to do on an airplane?
per capita? We imprison more people than China period.
There is a legal concept of 'coming to the nuisance' - it was obvious that the asphalt plant was in operation, so it makes me wonder how these guys aren't laughed out of court. "you built a subdivision next to an industrial plant? Really?". The fact is, there's more than simply pollution - industrial areas are loud and smelly. If we're just talking about an extant externality, the existence of the residential area would be irrelevant - a developer could buy land, sue the neighbor, then build.
And it is illegal as you pointed out in most jurisdictions to know about a child in danger and do nothing about it.
Only for mandatory reporters - are computer techs included there? Yes, I know what the right thing is, I'm talking about legal obligations.
They aren't paying for the manufacture of superior hardware or some crap like that, they're paying for some goods that function as advertised. It doesn't matter whether they're overspec or not, they work: if you want to try for more, good luck to you, but you're on your own. The environmental angle is fairly specious anyway - you're arguing that we shoudl force manufacturers to do... something so you don't toss hardware as frequently, but we do that anyway. Sure that's a problem, but this isn't the solution.
I have an iPhone and it's the first phone that doesn't break in stupid ways that piss me off. What can I say, I like having something that actually works.
Your analogy is a bit weak - you buy the crap chevy (seriously, 6k redline?) and tweak it to run at 6/8 - that means a balanced crank, beefy connecting rods, and upgraded vavletrain. it may not be as reliable as the crap baseline version, but that's because it's a faster design and those tend to require more care. The analogous CPU already has the upgrades because it costs about the same to make the fast version as the slow. You just mark them as slow so you can maintain market segments. Sure, this only happens after the process is mature, but that takes a few months to a year (generally).
But yes, the CPU is pretty cheap these days; my next build will be spending more on each of the SSD and GPU. I don't OC because it's never been my bottleneck.