These products don't need to survive very long because the companies pushing them are going to find new ingenius ways for you to buy the latest one. And you wanna know what? That's good for the economy. Nobody's interested in building a fridge that'll last 25 years anymore. Your business dries up real fast.
Bad for the economy, good for society - what would youp be building if you weren't building all those 10 year fridges?
If you took the $9.95 you save for saying "NO!" to these things every time this is offered to yo and put it in an interest-bearing bank account, you'll have enough money to replace gadgets that aren't even broken.
As a side note, Best Buy employees have a quota for those stupid things - sell warranties to enough people or be fired.
The average age of refrigerators and washing machines in the US gets older every year, despite the homebuilding boom of the '90s. Here's [tnr.com] an article from the New Republic that argues that it's precisely these improvements that holds the economy back.
Sounds like the new republic guy has lost it. Producing a steady stream of cheap disposable junk isn't particuarly good for society as a whole - we should expect that things like fridges and washing machines become progressively more reliable and less of a profit center. Replacing something like a fridge when it isn't broken doesn't make any sense, since there isn't much new stuff or much in the way of improvements.
What we really need is to start producing new stuff. Either that or start selling this stuff to the third world - wouldn't it be nice if the people who make our Nikes had running water and fridges?
You're assuming they don't treat each radioactive case with the utmost care. It sounds like they are. I'm sorry, when someone comes through and sets off radioactive alarms, I just doubt the subway workers are going to get all ho-hum about it. "Aww, you look like a cancer patient, go ahead."
It's human nature - if there are anough false positives, an alarm will be disregarded, radiation or no.
So, what you're saying ia that we should build less newer tech because your telco has a backwards pricing structure. My suggestion would be to fix the actual problem.
Given your application and the reasonable maximum resolution of 1920x1440, a 4kx4k texture map should be sufficient - just downsample your original map and display it. Even if you made your map zoomable, you wouldn't need gobs of ram. Ideally, you could store the large map on disk as a series of large squares, thus allowing efficent access to data in the shape you're likely to need. No a major memory requirement and probably fairly interesting to build.
When you purchase any items in which copyright subsists, you gain an implicit license to use the copyright content. That license and its extent is governed by common law, and is generally taken to mean that you have a limited set of rights over a particular copy of the content.
When I buy a book, I own the book. I do not license anything, and the thing that allows me to use its contents is the fact that it's my book.
You are explicitly wrong about loaning out the item you purchased. This is one of the reversed rights under copyright law, the same as reproduction, publication, broadcast, etc. You cannot let any copyright work without permission. Most countries have blanket exclusions for public libraries and certain cinemographic works, but that's it.
Actually, he's right. According to the us copyright code, the only thing banned is loan of a particular copy for commerical advantage. You can still loan a book to your friend. The reserved rights you refer to specify loan as a possible method for publication, but that's a fair bit different from loan of an already published copy.
I use my cordless drill around the house for a good many things, but yet it matters not a single iota to me exactly how the thing works.
To extend your analogy, what happens when you try to drill a hole in 4 inch concrete using your regular metal bits? If you don't know how the thing works and why, you burn a few bits and a few drills, while making little progress. If you do know the how and why, you get a large hammer drill and go through on the first try. You will always need to know why your tools work the way they do.
What does the ubiquity of nitrogen have to do with issues about temperatures for semiconductors?
Easy: Refrigeration is usually achieved by using a phase change because phase changes embody a rather large energy gradient; this means that you can't cool (much) below the tempurature of fusion of your given refrigerant. Liquid nitrogen is cheap, so if you have a superconductor that runs at 100K or whatever, you can operate it very cheaply.
The things that pass for insightful now days.... You have assualt weapons? Morters? A recoiless rifle? A T-72? A MiG-29? Yeah, fat lot of good those seem to be doing those who choose to face off against a 1st world military.
Conveniently dodging the point that, in the past, every time a mandatory gun registration program is instituted, the powers that be promise that the list won't be used for confiscation, only to do just that a few years later.
And, by the way, did you happen to see what happened in Chechnya? the Russians couldn't hold the cities on account of local resistance and basically had to level the place with artillery. How's that for the power of small arms?
The costs issues you quote was between Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Windows 2000 Server...nothing about *nix.
And $15M is nothing to sneeze at. That's probably on par with the hardware cost.
As for the whitepaper, it seems to me it was written by a *nix admin with little Windows server experience (which describes a majority of/. readers as well).
I dunno, looks fairly accurate - in windowsland, admins are prone to Retry, Reboot, Reinstall because it's often difficult or impossible to find out what is really happening. Also, keep in mind that this guy and his team probably have access to the devs who wrote this stuff, which is more than you can say for almost everybody else (on windows, anyway)
Oh...and interdependencies? Look in the Services console and click on Dependencies. Most even have a short description so you know what it does.
He's probably referring to the compex and non-obvious interactions going on in a windows system. When something breaks, your first clue is when something seemingly unrelated falls over. This is the problem with tight integration.
Once again, the Services console could really help this guy get a clue.
Where ddid he ssay that he had no clue? He merely stated that Unix made it easier
As for random ports being open, that's one reason we have these things called firewalls.
And you're supposed to use both. It's this thing called defense in depth - you don't want to be compromised by a single failure.
I think what he meant to say was, "it is never clear TO ME OR MY TEAM which services are necessary". Others do quite well at it.
Bullshit. given that he is working on a high-profile project within MS, it's probably as clear to him as to anybody. The fact is that another company, when doing a large deployment will have trouble.
You seem to have a rather large chip on your shoulder. Just because some admin says that some specific things in windows are lacking, or overly confusing does not make him a high school dropout with an MCSE.
When they made DOS, they looked at Unix for an example.
They didn't make DOS, they bought it for something like $50k.
When they started to do networking, [...] MicroSoft cam up with NetBeui.
I think that one is IBM's fault.
And where is SSH or even telnet on Windows? True, there's a telnet _client_, but MicroSoft is still behing on the rest of the world here (which isn't so bad for desktop systems, but it certainly is for servers).
You can get an ssh client several places, and I'm fairly certain that win2k ships with a telnet server, though I don't know how useful that is, since windows software is so gui oriented. A better remoting solution is to use VNC or to get XP pro and use their single-client term server.
Really? Is that why TR went after the Railroads even though they had done nothing wrong yet (other than not wanting to go under a standardized rate umbrella.)
What, you mean like charging farmers usurious rates to transport their crops simply because they can?
But if you read Sherman, et al. you'll find that monopolies are illegal because they COULD lead to abuse.
No, monopolies are illegal when abused. One example would be leveraging a monopoly position to force entry into another market. Another would be taking actions specifically designed to discourage competition. The rules change when you become a monopoly, but it's still legal.
The fact that Microsoft is using sales of its other products to continue to produce infirior hardware is not fair to the consumers who have already choosen Logitech and Genius.
What's that got to do with anything? It's Microsoft's money and they can subsidize other business units if they so desire - it's called growing a business horizontally. The basic idea is that the customer will eventually choose to buy MS hardware and the cashflow will be positive. Unless they require MS hardware in order to use their software, it's perfectly above board, too.
Well, check out Gord's page on the subject. It's just a little bit more factual than something you heard somewhere. Also check this out. Finally, note that it would probably be illegal for sony, sega, or nintendo to sell consoles below cost.
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These products don't need to survive very long because the companies pushing them are going to find new ingenius ways for you to buy the latest one. And you wanna know what? That's good for the economy. Nobody's interested in building a fridge that'll last 25 years anymore. Your business dries up real fast.
Bad for the economy, good for society - what would youp be building if you weren't building all those 10 year fridges?
Can this be done?
Nope, unless you want to armor lightbulbs against power spikes and baseball bats.
If you took the $9.95 you save for saying "NO!" to these things every time this is offered to yo and put it in an interest-bearing bank account, you'll have enough money to replace gadgets that aren't even broken.
As a side note, Best Buy employees have a quota for those stupid things - sell warranties to enough people or be fired.
The average age of refrigerators and washing machines in the US gets older every year, despite the homebuilding boom of the '90s. Here's [tnr.com] an article from the New Republic that argues that it's precisely these improvements that holds the economy back.
Sounds like the new republic guy has lost it. Producing a steady stream of cheap disposable junk isn't particuarly good for society as a whole - we should expect that things like fridges and washing machines become progressively more reliable and less of a profit center. Replacing something like a fridge when it isn't broken doesn't make any sense, since there isn't much new stuff or much in the way of improvements.
What we really need is to start producing new stuff. Either that or start selling this stuff to the third world - wouldn't it be nice if the people who make our Nikes had running water and fridges?
You're assuming they don't treat each radioactive case with the utmost care. It sounds like they are. I'm sorry, when someone comes through and sets off radioactive alarms, I just doubt the subway workers are going to get all ho-hum about it. "Aww, you look like a cancer patient, go ahead."
It's human nature - if there are anough false positives, an alarm will be disregarded, radiation or no.
So, what you're saying ia that we should build less newer tech because your telco has a backwards pricing structure. My suggestion would be to fix the actual problem.
Given your application and the reasonable maximum resolution of 1920x1440, a 4kx4k texture map should be sufficient - just downsample your original map and display it. Even if you made your map zoomable, you wouldn't need gobs of ram. Ideally, you could store the large map on disk as a series of large squares, thus allowing efficent access to data in the shape you're likely to need. No a major memory requirement and probably fairly interesting to build.
When you purchase any items in which copyright subsists, you gain an implicit license to use the copyright content. That license and its extent is governed by common law, and is generally taken to mean that you have a limited set of rights over a particular copy of the content.
When I buy a book, I own the book. I do not license anything, and the thing that allows me to use its contents is the fact that it's my book.
You are explicitly wrong about loaning out the item you purchased. This is one of the reversed rights under copyright law, the same as reproduction, publication, broadcast, etc. You cannot let any copyright work without permission. Most countries have blanket exclusions for public libraries and certain cinemographic works, but that's it.
Actually, he's right. According to the us copyright code, the only thing banned is loan of a particular copy for commerical advantage. You can still loan a book to your friend. The reserved rights you refer to specify loan as a possible method for publication, but that's a fair bit different from loan of an already published copy.
I use my cordless drill around the house for a good many things, but yet it matters not a single iota to me exactly how the thing works.
To extend your analogy, what happens when you try to drill a hole in 4 inch concrete using your regular metal bits? If you don't know how the thing works and why, you burn a few bits and a few drills, while making little progress. If you do know the how and why, you get a large hammer drill and go through on the first try. You will always need to know why your tools work the way they do.
Ah, I cough up scarier things before breakfast.
Also Note: the Shack has one of the most tolerant, liberal intellectual property waivers ever.
Yeah, because store clerks generate so much IP every day...
What does the ubiquity of nitrogen have to do with issues about temperatures for semiconductors?
Easy: Refrigeration is usually achieved by using a phase change because phase changes embody a rather large energy gradient; this means that you can't cool (much) below the tempurature of fusion of your given refrigerant. Liquid nitrogen is cheap, so if you have a superconductor that runs at 100K or whatever, you can operate it very cheaply.
The things that pass for insightful now days.... You have assualt weapons? Morters? A recoiless rifle? A T-72? A MiG-29? Yeah, fat lot of good those seem to be doing those who choose to face off against a 1st world military.
Conveniently dodging the point that, in the past, every time a mandatory gun registration program is instituted, the powers that be promise that the list won't be used for confiscation, only to do just that a few years later.
And, by the way, did you happen to see what happened in Chechnya? the Russians couldn't hold the cities on account of local resistance and basically had to level the place with artillery. How's that for the power of small arms?
Another example is using your own accounting software to maintain your own books.
Incidentally, doesn't MS use SAP for its books?
The costs issues you quote was between Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Windows 2000 Server...nothing about *nix.
And $15M is nothing to sneeze at. That's probably on par with the hardware cost.
As for the whitepaper, it seems to me it was written by a *nix admin with little Windows server experience (which describes a majority of /. readers as well).
I dunno, looks fairly accurate - in windowsland, admins are prone to Retry, Reboot, Reinstall because it's often difficult or impossible to find out what is really happening. Also, keep in mind that this guy and his team probably have access to the devs who wrote this stuff, which is more than you can say for almost everybody else (on windows, anyway)
Oh...and interdependencies? Look in the Services console and click on Dependencies. Most even have a short description so you know what it does.
He's probably referring to the compex and non-obvious interactions going on in a windows system. When something breaks, your first clue is when something seemingly unrelated falls over. This is the problem with tight integration.
Once again, the Services console could really help this guy get a clue.
Where ddid he ssay that he had no clue? He merely stated that Unix made it easier
As for random ports being open, that's one reason we have these things called firewalls.
And you're supposed to use both. It's this thing called defense in depth - you don't want to be compromised by a single failure.
I think what he meant to say was, "it is never clear TO ME OR MY TEAM which services are necessary". Others do quite well at it.
Bullshit. given that he is working on a high-profile project within MS, it's probably as clear to him as to anybody. The fact is that another company, when doing a large deployment will have trouble.
You seem to have a rather large chip on your shoulder. Just because some admin says that some specific things in windows are lacking, or overly confusing does not make him a high school dropout with an MCSE.
When they made DOS, they looked at Unix for an example.
They didn't make DOS, they bought it for something like $50k.
When they started to do networking, [...] MicroSoft cam up with NetBeui.
I think that one is IBM's fault.
And where is SSH or even telnet on Windows? True, there's a telnet _client_, but MicroSoft is still behing on the rest of the world here (which isn't so bad for desktop systems, but it certainly is for servers).
You can get an ssh client several places, and I'm fairly certain that win2k ships with a telnet server, though I don't know how useful that is, since windows software is so gui oriented. A better remoting solution is to use VNC or to get XP pro and use their single-client term server.
They don't even like Koreans, who look (don't tell them this) exactly like they do.
And you certainly don't want to tell them that they are likely descended from Koreans.
To hit a slowly rolling ball needs several MFLOPS,
You don't really believe that a toddler is doing differential equations do you? It's mainly a matter of practice.
Just the hearing phrase "computer scientist" causes most women to stop ovulating immediately already.
Excellent! That means I never have to worry about the 'call' six weeks later.
Really? Is that why TR went after the Railroads even though they had done nothing wrong yet (other than not wanting to go under a standardized rate umbrella.)
What, you mean like charging farmers usurious rates to transport their crops simply because they can?
But if you read Sherman, et al. you'll find that monopolies are illegal because they COULD lead to abuse.
No, monopolies are illegal when abused. One example would be leveraging a monopoly position to force entry into another market. Another would be taking actions specifically designed to discourage competition. The rules change when you become a monopoly, but it's still legal.
The fact that Microsoft is using sales of its other products to continue to produce infirior hardware is not fair to the consumers who have already choosen Logitech and Genius.
What's that got to do with anything? It's Microsoft's money and they can subsidize other business units if they so desire - it's called growing a business horizontally. The basic idea is that the customer will eventually choose to buy MS hardware and the cashflow will be positive. Unless they require MS hardware in order to use their software, it's perfectly above board, too.
Wow, I've never had a garage ask me to sign anything before work was started.
Really. I have never not received a written estimate, with expected costs before work is commenced at a mechanic.
Well, check out Gord's page on the subject. It's just a little bit more factual than something you heard somewhere. Also check this out. Finally, note that it would probably be illegal for sony, sega, or nintendo to sell consoles below cost.
Well, what you've heard is wrong. The only consoles to sell at a loss are Dreamcast and Xbox.