None of these are insurmountable problems, but I doubt you could solve them economically enough to bring the unit price down so that it's competitive with smaller drives. The platter circumferance in the 3.5" drive is 8.64", which at 15,000 RPM is 129590 in/min, which translates to 122.7 MPH.
Sure I could. Just mount 2 3" drives in the 5.25" package and write some glue to RAID0 them. It's not exactly what you're talking about, but it's probably cheaper than the straightforward solution.
Remember when 9600 baud was close to the limit of copper? Then 33.6. Then they changed how the pair was used, and made 128K ISDN. Then they changed it again and we're getting 7-10 MB DSL....sometimes even faster depending.
Yeah. 33.6 is still the limit if you're using a voice line. 128K is 2 channels of a T1 (which has run on a copper pair for the last however long. 7-10M is only possible because we're running equipment at the CO to talk to your DSL bridge.
The point is, almost none of that is a result of technology limitations. Rather, it's a matter of deploying the right equipment and getting the Telcos to actually play ball.
People, you can't CONVICT someone of having a monopoly. It's like convicting someone of owning a car!! To be clear, it's perfectly legal to hold a monopoly. It's what you DO with that monopoly that could get you into trouble.
Okay, fine. Microsoft has been convicted of illegaly leveraging their monopoly. Happy?
Ditto with the 'open relationships' and the social worker. Sims, like us, get kind of jealous if they see their significant other getting intimate with another Sim, and Social Workers will gladly take away a child they feel is neglected. These 'hacks' remove these effects.
Get off your high horse about this people. For legal downloadable music, DRM is entrenched and here to stay. I say be glad that the dominant form is this lenient and easily "breakable". This guy truly had NO CHOICE whatsoever in the matter. He really couldn't do ANYTHING but purchase an iPod. People truly make me sick sometimes...
What license did Real agree to, what evidence is there that they "cracked" Fairplay (rather than reading the publically available documentation from those who actually did crack the scheme), and what legal hot water are they in?
looking the other way, what obligation does Apple have to not lock Real out, and have they violated any licensing agreements with their licensees by locking Real out?
Apple doesn't have a monopoly. They can't charge monopoly rents - people will just buy CDs and rip to mp3. They can't restrict entry - anyone else could negotiate distribution contracts and sell music in just the same way.
Microsoft is different. They control the OS that runs on the majority of desktops in the world, and nobody has any alternative (small users partially excepted). In addition to that, they are a convicted monopolist.
No, that country happens to be America. When people refer to the continent, they say North America. the United States of America is frequently referred to as the States, the USA, and America. Just because you're confused doesn't mean that we are.
Remember, these turncoats gladly accepted a pay cheque to be a representative of their company. Their actions could cause the company to lay off people, perhaps you if it causes financial harm.
They aren't turncoats, they're employees. Turncoat implies some level of loyalty, which is totally absent.
Uh, Canada is parf of America. Take a look at a globe. Do you see that continent called North America? Take a closer look, you will see Canada is part of that continent.
Repeat after me: America is a country. North America is a continent. Kids today...
in almost every instance of a municipal owned FTTH (or cable/broadband, whichever) the only people that benefited from it LIVE IN THE CITY LIMITS where the population density is sufficient to support the economics of rolling out fiber
So what? It's not like every hick town in Japan has fiber.
I'd be willing to bet BillyJoe Bob that lives on the ranch 12 miles outside the city limits didn't get that fiber pipe laid to his house
My aunt, way out by the mason-dixon line 5 miles outside of a small town has DSL, which isn't bad.
Don't have to - somebody else already mentioned the SCOTUS ruling. Corporations are people, mostly. they can't be drfted, imprisoned, or executed, but they have masive temporal power due to their 1st ammendment rights and the right to sue, backed by far more money than nearly any single person can wield. Incidentally, this is all true regardless of whether we like it.
Your misunderstanding is that you see a company as some sort of Frankenstein or Golem, when in fact it is nothing more than constellations of contracts between humans with legal rights.
In fact, a corporation is a person according to US law. I wish that it were not so - then it would be easier to rule on what corporations were allowed to do and to dissolve their charter.
To quote: Blah, blah, blah. 10 minutes or less of fact checking would have saved you a ton of bull.
Good boy, have a cookie. Now go read the rest of the post where I said that it wasn't even relevant. There are communities (in Kansas, even!) that are trying to roll out community fiber, and the Bells are doing their best to stop it. Quit whining that it's too expensive - it isn't - and realize that it isn't happening because it isn't in the financial interest of the phone company.
You know, I was going to moderate but I decided to respond since it seems someone always brings up this point. The USA cannot, under any circumstance dealing with distances (such as laying fiber optic lines and such), be compared to Japan. Japan's land mass is SLIGHTLY SMALLER THAN CALIFORNIA. So, if you compare Cali to Japan - ok. If you compare the continental US to Japan - not ok. There is no comparison. The economy of scale in laying fiber to every home in the US would dwarf, by some orders of magnitude, the laying of fiber in Japan. Or Korea. Or many other nations simply due to geographic diversity and total landmass. Let's face it, a fair amount of Americans do not like to live in a cramped, piss on your neighbor, listen to them fornicating through the thin apartment walls, sirens blaring at all hours, sure is nice to get delivery of (insert favorite food here) at any time of the day, city. The rural population is quite large and is one of the biggest impediments to FTTH covering the entire US.
Blah blah blah. Most of the people live on one coast or the other, so our population density for those regions isn't that different. Also, keep in mind that the people doing FTTH as a municipal thing are frequently the places that have been ignored by the bells. Now that they want to do this, the Bells are fighting it tooth and nail - if they spent the money used on lobbying against fiber to just build the damn thing, it'd probably be done already. Seriously, though, cost is not the issue - it'll cost more, but not by much, and people are willing to pony up $100 or so per year for fiber.
Oh, and one thing that Japan does that's really cool is love hotels (not just for affairs with teenagers). Sure the apartment walls are thin, but you can leave the kids with a neighbor and go rent a nice room for a couple hours and screw in provacy.
The most unexpected result here, and the most insightful to me, is "Similarity to Previous Projects." This is a factor that I think deserves more attention - you can have a great staff, great management, and all the resources, but stick them in unfamiliar territory and your chance of failure goes up.
That's exactly when you have to use proper design (simple and clear) and write one or two prototypes.
Wake up! We're not special.. the construction industry has been doing huge projects of equal complexity for centuries. Get past your intellectual snobbery and start working together..
It's not snobbery - we're not properly respected by our management, so when we bring up these issues, we are often ignored. Project failure is usually a management failure.
And how does he hook up a parallel GBA flasher? How does he hook the thing up to a TV?
Woops - I forgot that I do have video out, so I can play DVDs on a large screen. Fact is, I don't need or want a parallel port, and my P3 laptop does what I want it to. It's a whole computer, and it works.
Thanks for pointing that out. I'm going to buy more Dominoes Pizza. Even if I don't like the pizza, at least they're supporting good causes.
Yes, Operation Rescue is such an upstanding organization - keeping poor women from getting abortions is such a worthy cause. Of course, rich women can just go to europe.
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None of these are insurmountable problems, but I doubt you could solve them economically enough to bring the unit price down so that it's competitive with smaller drives. The platter circumferance in the 3.5" drive is 8.64", which at 15,000 RPM is 129590 in/min, which translates to 122.7 MPH.
Sure I could. Just mount 2 3" drives in the 5.25" package and write some glue to RAID0 them. It's not exactly what you're talking about, but it's probably cheaper than the straightforward solution.
Remember when 9600 baud was close to the limit of copper? Then 33.6. Then they changed how the pair was used, and made 128K ISDN. Then they changed it again and we're getting 7-10 MB DSL....sometimes even faster depending.
Yeah. 33.6 is still the limit if you're using a voice line. 128K is 2 channels of a T1 (which has run on a copper pair for the last however long. 7-10M is only possible because we're running equipment at the CO to talk to your DSL bridge.
The point is, almost none of that is a result of technology limitations. Rather, it's a matter of deploying the right equipment and getting the Telcos to actually play ball.
The company said it considered the dictionary definition too rare to hinder the chip's prospects.
"The Turion - it's a green processor."
People, you can't CONVICT someone of having a monopoly. It's like convicting someone of owning a car!! To be clear, it's perfectly legal to hold a monopoly. It's what you DO with that monopoly that could get you into trouble.
Okay, fine. Microsoft has been convicted of illegaly leveraging their monopoly. Happy?
Ditto with the 'open relationships' and the social worker. Sims, like us, get kind of jealous if they see their significant other getting intimate with another Sim, and Social Workers will gladly take away a child they feel is neglected. These 'hacks' remove these effects.
Cool - the sims was too much like work anyway.
Plutonium Edition would be plausible.
At least you wouldn't have to worry about their children...
the same obligation that microsoft cannot modify windows to make 3rd party DOS not work with it.
Why? Is Apple a convicted monopolist?
Get off your high horse about this people. For legal downloadable music, DRM is entrenched and here to stay. I say be glad that the dominant form is this lenient and easily "breakable". This guy truly had NO CHOICE whatsoever in the matter. He really couldn't do ANYTHING but purchase an iPod. People truly make me sick sometimes...
Lock-in isn't illegal, you know...
What license did Real agree to, what evidence is there that they "cracked" Fairplay (rather than reading the publically available documentation from those who actually did crack the scheme), and what legal hot water are they in?
looking the other way, what obligation does Apple have to not lock Real out, and have they violated any licensing agreements with their licensees by locking Real out?
Apple doesn't have a monopoly. They can't charge monopoly rents - people will just buy CDs and rip to mp3. They can't restrict entry - anyone else could negotiate distribution contracts and sell music in just the same way.
Microsoft is different. They control the OS that runs on the majority of desktops in the world, and nobody has any alternative (small users partially excepted). In addition to that, they are a convicted monopolist.
That country happens to be part OF America.
No, that country happens to be America. When people refer to the continent, they say North America. the United States of America is frequently referred to as the States, the USA, and America. Just because you're confused doesn't mean that we are.
Remember, these turncoats gladly accepted a pay cheque to be a representative of their company. Their actions could cause the company to lay off people, perhaps you if it causes financial harm.
They aren't turncoats, they're employees. Turncoat implies some level of loyalty, which is totally absent.
Uh, Canada is parf of America. Take a look at a globe. Do you see that continent called North America? Take a closer look, you will see Canada is part of that continent.
Repeat after me: America is a country. North America is a continent. Kids today...
in almost every instance of a municipal owned FTTH (or cable/broadband, whichever) the only people that benefited from it LIVE IN THE CITY LIMITS where the population density is sufficient to support the economics of rolling out fiber
So what? It's not like every hick town in Japan has fiber.
I'd be willing to bet BillyJoe Bob that lives on the ranch 12 miles outside the city limits didn't get that fiber pipe laid to his house
My aunt, way out by the mason-dixon line 5 miles outside of a small town has DSL, which isn't bad.
Now be a good boy and fetch me my cookie.
Here you go - it's chocolate chip.
If you still believe otherwise, cite some law.
Don't have to - somebody else already mentioned the SCOTUS ruling. Corporations are people, mostly. they can't be drfted, imprisoned, or executed, but they have masive temporal power due to their 1st ammendment rights and the right to sue, backed by far more money than nearly any single person can wield. Incidentally, this is all true regardless of whether we like it.
Your misunderstanding is that you see a company as some sort of Frankenstein or Golem, when in fact it is nothing more than constellations of contracts between humans with legal rights.
In fact, a corporation is a person according to US law. I wish that it were not so - then it would be easier to rule on what corporations were allowed to do and to dissolve their charter.
To quote: Blah, blah, blah. 10 minutes or less of fact checking would have saved you a ton of bull.
Good boy, have a cookie. Now go read the rest of the post where I said that it wasn't even relevant. There are communities (in Kansas, even!) that are trying to roll out community fiber, and the Bells are doing their best to stop it. Quit whining that it's too expensive - it isn't - and realize that it isn't happening because it isn't in the financial interest of the phone company.
Um, 2Ki doesn't mean anything. 2k is either 2000 or 2048, depending on context.
You know, I was going to moderate but I decided to respond since it seems someone always brings up this point. The USA cannot, under any circumstance dealing with distances (such as laying fiber optic lines and such), be compared to Japan. Japan's land mass is SLIGHTLY SMALLER THAN CALIFORNIA. So, if you compare Cali to Japan - ok. If you compare the continental US to Japan - not ok. There is no comparison. The economy of scale in laying fiber to every home in the US would dwarf, by some orders of magnitude, the laying of fiber in Japan. Or Korea. Or many other nations simply due to geographic diversity and total landmass. Let's face it, a fair amount of Americans do not like to live in a cramped, piss on your neighbor, listen to them fornicating through the thin apartment walls, sirens blaring at all hours, sure is nice to get delivery of (insert favorite food here) at any time of the day, city. The rural population is quite large and is one of the biggest impediments to FTTH covering the entire US.
Blah blah blah. Most of the people live on one coast or the other, so our population density for those regions isn't that different. Also, keep in mind that the people doing FTTH as a municipal thing are frequently the places that have been ignored by the bells. Now that they want to do this, the Bells are fighting it tooth and nail - if they spent the money used on lobbying against fiber to just build the damn thing, it'd probably be done already. Seriously, though, cost is not the issue - it'll cost more, but not by much, and people are willing to pony up $100 or so per year for fiber.
Oh, and one thing that Japan does that's really cool is love hotels (not just for affairs with teenagers). Sure the apartment walls are thin, but you can leave the kids with a neighbor and go rent a nice room for a couple hours and screw in provacy.
Government run businesses have the efficiency of the USPO, prices of the IRS, and customer service of the DMV. Who can say no?
Damn, I wanted the efficiency of the USPS, the prices of the USPS, and the cutomer service of the public library.
The most unexpected result here, and the most insightful to me, is "Similarity to Previous Projects." This is a factor that I think deserves more attention - you can have a great staff, great management, and all the resources, but stick them in unfamiliar territory and your chance of failure goes up.
That's exactly when you have to use proper design (simple and clear) and write one or two prototypes.
Well, Duh! Everyone knows you have to use switch statements in that kind of project.
Pretty much. It's just that the switch looks a lot like public class CustomerImpl implements Customization.
Wake up! We're not special.. the construction industry has been doing huge projects of equal complexity for centuries. Get past your intellectual snobbery and start working together..
It's not snobbery - we're not properly respected by our management, so when we bring up these issues, we are often ignored. Project failure is usually a management failure.
And how does he hook up a parallel GBA flasher? How does he hook the thing up to a TV?
Woops - I forgot that I do have video out, so I can play DVDs on a large screen. Fact is, I don't need or want a parallel port, and my P3 laptop does what I want it to. It's a whole computer, and it works.
Thanks for pointing that out. I'm going to buy more Dominoes Pizza. Even if I don't like the pizza, at least they're supporting good causes.
Yes, Operation Rescue is such an upstanding organization - keeping poor women from getting abortions is such a worthy cause. Of course, rich women can just go to europe.