Your math is a little skewed but you get the idea. Remember that money today isn't worth the same thing as money tommorow. If you compute for the money you will have in 30 years using your numbers:
for a house: take that 6% 30 years loan for a house that is worth 150000 today. Your monthly payments will be 899.33$
you will have payed in total: 899.33*12*30=323758$
lets say the house gains value at a 2% annual rate. in 30 years it will be worth 271704%.
So that is the value you will end up with.
Now take that same 899.33. Live in a 500$ a month (6000$ year) appartment and invest the rest at the end of each year. 399.33$ X 12 = 4791.96$. your investment assuming a secure 4% annual rate will be worth 268756$ which is just about the same you are left with would you have gone with the house.
Of course the interest rates play a big role here. If your house gains value at a rate of 3% instead of 2% it will be worth 364089$ in 30 years so you will have made almost 100000$
Also if you can make investments that perform better than 4% living in an appartment would be highly profitable.
Actually in most urban areas I think renting an appartment is generally cheaper that buying a house. That is somewhat due to the fact that you usually have less space and less land in an appartment. You share everything and use space a lot more effeciently. Buying a house should be done because you want the advantages of a house, not because you want to save money. House payments are greater than appartment payments. Investing the difference you save by living in an appartment would in the long run give you as much or even more than the selling price of a house. You have to consider the fact that you will have to pay for maintnance on the house. Of course you can do some by yourself but that is considered another cost. A house can be cheaper in some circumstances, there are a lot af variables that affect the prices of houses and appartments. I don't have a reference but that info I just gave you is based on something I read not too long ago.
However, I do agree that spending on hardware technology is just about the worst thing you can do with your money. Technology changes so fast that it will all be worth nothing in two years.
also genomics, and bioinformatic. Im studdying CS right now and last week I saw a presentation on bioinformatic. It was quite interesting. Biologist are dying to get better, machine learning/information retreival/data mining tools to mine the genome. If you have background in medecine it should be easyer to relate to that field.
While I'm ranting, what's with filling out "applications". If I'm applying for a sysadmin or programmer position, you have my resume. It details everything I'm required to copy onto your damn 6 page, small type, not-enough-room, non-online-pen-online-sore-fingers application.
To apply for the students goverment jobs here you need to fill out a huge Scantron with all your information. It takes like 5 minutes just to write your name for god sakes. The alphabet is reapeated across the pages and you have to darken every letter one at a time. Then you have to lookup in a dictionnary of numerical codes to find skills you posses, so you darken the numbers for these. It takes forever. They sould really hire a student to make a little web site with a simple perl script.
Makes me think of the SunPCI card I used to have at work. We were working on sun workstations running solaris but our computers contained SunPCI cards. These were basicelly PCs on a card. You just had to type "sunpci" in your terminal and the SunPCI card would boot with windows and it would display in a Xwindows window. It would use a 2GB file on the sun hardrive for its hardrive. It was uselfull for e-mail and words and stuff like that. We didn't have to clutter our desk with a PC. and it worked in hardware so in didn't use all the processing power to run 2 OSs at the same time. I wonder if you could run these cards on Linux.
I am all for capitalism, I think it is the only system that can really work. It is proven by mathematics and economics. It mimics evolution, it makes the strong and hard worker survive, which makes the whole country function better.
There are some limits though. Often the rich people are rich because they were born rich or in an advantageous setting, not because they were intelligent, hard working or creative.
Having social programs, free health care etc is good for the country in all ways possible. Even the most money driven corporations make their employee receive part of their salary in health insurance and other programs similar to what a socialist government would give. They do that because they know that having healthy and content employees makes the company more productive. They are not just trying to be nice. If you look at a country as a financially responsible entity it only makes sense that it provides these services to its people in order to make an efficient country. And not only does it stimulate the economy, it makes the population generally happier. Killing two bird with one stone! If you don't do that, you get all the costs of a sick unhappy population. A unhappy population stimulates crimes, drugs, lunatics in your backyard and inefficiency.
Here in Canada, our economy is so strong that it is able to pay health care for every citizen dispite the fact that it is much more costly to live in our climate. Food only grows for 4 months of the year here and we have to spend enormous amounts of money for heating in the winter. We also feel we have much more freedom than in the United-States. Our government is not continually controlling us or passing crazy laws by spreading fear of continuous war against terrorism. (not unlike Big Brother of 1984 I might add).
If the US would take care of its citizens more they would probably be a lot more productive. Furthermore, because you guys live in a really low cost climate, you would all be very rich and prosperous. Too bad your goverment is wasting all your money on military, killing all these people, and not taking care of its citizens.
Hey thats a pretty good resume you got there. You must cost big bucks. I went to high scool in montreal.
Don't bother answering my second question. I don't know what I'm talking about. I was just speculating. Im sure doubling everything would just be inneficient. I don't know enough about CPUs to make such claims.
but theoritically couln't you just double all the necessary buses and registers so that the CPU doesn't get any performance degradation. Everything works the same way but with doubble the word width.
I guess I can see that it coutld take more gates to process a bigger word size in each CPU cycle so that it would maybe cause a new limiting factor on your maximum clock speed.
Were you refering to that when you said there is an advantage to smaller pointers?
Reminds me of one time I cut a golf ball in half. The boxed claimed that it had a Titanium core, and showed a drawing of a ball cut in half with a small metalic ball in the center.
when I cut the ball I found only an homogenous pink plastic-y substance inside. I dunno it might hace contained titanium powder or something. The bix didn't mention how much titanium was inside. The drawing on the box was definitely not a representation of the real thing
I am all for capitalism, I think it is the only system that can really work. It is proven by mathematics and economics. It mimics evolution, it makes the strong and hard worker survive, which makes the whole country function better.
There are some limits though. Often the rich people are rich because they were born rich or in an advantageous setting, not because they were intelligent, hard working or creative.
Having social programs, free health care etc is good for the country in all ways possible. Even the most money driven corporations make their employee receive part of their salary in health insurance and other programs similar to what a socialist government would give. They do that because they know that having healthy and content employees makes the company more productive. They are not just trying to be nice. If you look at a country as a financially responsible entity it only makes sense that it provides these services to its people in order to make an efficient country. And not only does it stimulate the economy, it makes the population generally happier. Killing two bird with one stone! If you don't do that, you get all the costs of a sick unhappy population. A unhappy population stimulates crimes, drugs and inefficiency.
Here in Canada, our economy is so strong that it is able to pay health care for every citizen dispite the fact that it is much more costly to live in our climate. Food only grows for 4 months of the year here and we have to spend enormous amounts of money for heating in the winter. We also feel we have much more freedom than in the United-States. Our government is not continually controlling us or passing crazy laws by spreading fear of continuous war against terrorism. (not unlike Big Brother of 1984 I might add).
I wonder if they accept donations from people outside of the United-States. I know a lot of people that think the current administration is a menace to the world and I think some of them would even be willing to pay to help its competitors. It would be an interesting phenomenon if it ever happens.
Hey is there a web site that lists projects that could to be done on Linux? You know, things that need improvements. Graduate students are always looking for course projects ideas, or subjects for their thesis. The nice thing about it is that whatever code comes out of this, it sould be well researched and documented with research papers etc.
Just wondering
It is kind of ironic that the old Discman were the smallest. I always thought Discman were shrinking. In this1988 model the Discman doesn't even fit an entire disk.
(I Posted that one too fast)
kind of ironic that the old diskmen were the smallest. I always tought diskmen were shrinking. In this1988 model the diskmen doesn't even fit an entirer disk.
Yes that's what I was thinking adapting this technology to computers could be an easy way to bring liquid cooling to CPU's. It is passive so you don't need an expensive and pump.
I have built a similar device which can be found here
I didn't realize it was so dangerous. We use to put up to 120 PSI of pressure inside.
It was great though. We could launch potatoes at insane distances. We were no even able to measure the distance because the potato was going too fast and too far to track with the eye. Even when launching completely vertically we would lose sight immediately. Once, I think I heard a sonic boom while the potato was ejected.
This is a good point. Linux is very integrated everywhere including many vital parts government including national security and counter terrorism.
You could even say: "If you go against Linux you are helping terrorism."
Now that! would be talking in words Bush can understand.
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but it's not a very obscure technique once it has been published on /.
Your math is a little skewed but you get the idea. Remember that money today isn't worth the same thing as money tommorow. If you compute for the money you will have in 30 years using your numbers:
for a house:
take that 6% 30 years loan for a house that is worth 150000 today. Your monthly payments will be 899.33$
you will have payed in total:
899.33*12*30=323758$
lets say the house gains value at a 2% annual rate. in 30 years it will be worth 271704%.
So that is the value you will end up with.
Now take that same 899.33. Live in a 500$ a month (6000$ year) appartment and invest the rest at the end of each year. 399.33$ X 12 = 4791.96$. your investment assuming a secure 4% annual rate will be worth 268756$
which is just about the same you are left with would you have gone with the house.
Of course the interest rates play a big role here. If your house gains value at a rate of 3% instead of 2% it will be worth 364089$ in 30 years so you will have made almost 100000$
Also if you can make investments that perform better than 4% living in an appartment would be highly profitable.
Actually in most urban areas I think renting an appartment is generally cheaper that buying a house. That is somewhat due to the fact that you usually have less space and less land in an appartment. You share everything and use space a lot more effeciently. Buying a house should be done because you want the advantages of a house, not because you want to save money. House payments are greater than appartment payments. Investing the difference you save by living in an appartment would in the long run give you as much or even more than the selling price of a house. You have to consider the fact that you will have to pay for maintnance on the house. Of course you can do some by yourself but that is considered another cost. A house can be cheaper in some circumstances, there are a lot af variables that affect the prices of houses and appartments. I don't have a reference but that info I just gave you is based on something I read not too long ago.
However, I do agree that spending on hardware technology is just about the worst thing you can do with your money. Technology changes so fast that it will all be worth nothing in two years.
Or when he asked about celebrating the new year in febuary because of Canada's "metric time". People answered seriously about this!
Sometimes I cannot believe you americans.
also genomics, and bioinformatic. Im studdying CS right now and last week I saw a presentation on bioinformatic. It was quite interesting. Biologist are dying to get better, machine learning/information retreival/data mining tools to mine the genome. If you have background in medecine it should be easyer to relate to that field.
"gumstix.org has a brief but titillating description"
Main Entry: titillate
Function: verb Inflected Form(s): -lated; -lating
1 : to excite pleasurably : arouse by stimulation
what the???
"gumstix.org has a brief but titillating description"
Main Entry: titillate
Function: verb Inflected Form(s): -lated; -lating
1 : to excite pleasurably : arouse by stimulation
Ah yes... The kind of story that makes geeks titillate.
While I'm ranting, what's with filling out "applications". If I'm applying for a sysadmin or programmer position, you have my resume. It details everything I'm required to copy onto your damn 6 page, small type, not-enough-room, non-online-pen-online-sore-fingers application.
To apply for the students goverment jobs here you need to fill out a huge Scantron with all your information. It takes like 5 minutes just to write your name for god sakes. The alphabet is reapeated across the pages and you have to darken every letter one at a time. Then you have to lookup in a dictionnary of numerical codes to find skills you posses, so you darken the numbers for these. It takes forever. They sould really hire a student to make a little web site with a simple perl script.
Makes me think of the SunPCI card I used to have at work. We were working on sun workstations running solaris but our computers contained SunPCI cards.
These were basicelly PCs on a card. You just had to type "sunpci" in your terminal and the SunPCI card would boot with windows and it would display in a Xwindows window. It would use a 2GB file on the sun hardrive for its hardrive.
It was uselfull for e-mail and words and stuff like that. We didn't have to clutter our desk with a PC. and it worked in hardware so in didn't use all the processing power to run 2 OSs at the same time.
I wonder if you could run these cards on Linux.
I am all for capitalism, I think it is the only system that can really work. It is proven by mathematics and economics. It mimics evolution, it makes the strong and hard worker survive, which makes the whole country function better.
There are some limits though. Often the rich people are rich because they were born rich or in an advantageous setting, not because they were intelligent, hard working or creative.
Having social programs, free health care etc is good for the country in all ways possible. Even the most money driven corporations make their employee receive part of their salary in health insurance and other programs similar to what a socialist government would give. They do that because they know that having healthy and content employees makes the company more productive. They are not just trying to be nice. If you look at a country as a financially responsible entity it only makes sense that it provides these services to its people in order to make an efficient country. And not only does it stimulate the economy, it makes the population generally happier. Killing two bird with one stone! If you don't do that, you get all the costs of a sick unhappy population. A unhappy population stimulates crimes, drugs, lunatics in your backyard and inefficiency.
Here in Canada, our economy is so strong that it is able to pay health care for every citizen dispite the fact that it is much more costly to live in our climate. Food only grows for 4 months of the year here and we have to spend enormous amounts of money for heating in the winter. We also feel we have much more freedom than in the United-States. Our government is not continually controlling us or passing crazy laws by spreading fear of continuous war against terrorism. (not unlike Big Brother of 1984 I might add).
If the US would take care of its citizens more they would probably be a lot more productive. Furthermore, because you guys live in a really low cost climate, you would all be very rich and prosperous. Too bad your goverment is wasting all your money on military, killing all these people, and not taking care of its citizens.
Hey thats a pretty good resume you got there. You must cost big bucks. I went to high scool in montreal.
Don't bother answering my second question. I don't know what I'm talking about. I was just speculating. Im sure doubling everything would just be inneficient. I don't know enough about CPUs to make such claims.
but theoritically couln't you just double all the necessary buses and registers so that the CPU doesn't get any performance degradation. Everything works the same way but with doubble the word width.
I guess I can see that it coutld take more gates to process a bigger word size in each CPU cycle so that it would maybe cause a new limiting factor on your maximum clock speed.
Were you refering to that when you said there is an advantage to smaller pointers?
The you should just have 128 bit buses for 64 bit code. and you would get the same performance
Reminds me of one time I cut a golf ball in half. The boxed claimed that it had a Titanium core, and showed a drawing of a ball cut in half with a small metalic ball in the center.
when I cut the ball I found only an homogenous pink plastic-y substance inside. I dunno it might hace contained titanium powder or something. The bix didn't mention how much titanium was inside. The drawing on the box was definitely not a representation of the real thing
I am all for capitalism, I think it is the only system that can really work. It is proven by mathematics and economics. It mimics evolution, it makes the strong and hard worker survive, which makes the whole country function better.
There are some limits though. Often the rich people are rich because they were born rich or in an advantageous setting, not because they were intelligent, hard working or creative.
Having social programs, free health care etc is good for the country in all ways possible. Even the most money driven corporations make their employee receive part of their salary in health insurance and other programs similar to what a socialist government would give. They do that because they know that having healthy and content employees makes the company more productive. They are not just trying to be nice. If you look at a country as a financially responsible entity it only makes sense that it provides these services to its people in order to make an efficient country. And not only does it stimulate the economy, it makes the population generally happier. Killing two bird with one stone! If you don't do that, you get all the costs of a sick unhappy population. A unhappy population stimulates crimes, drugs and inefficiency.
Here in Canada, our economy is so strong that it is able to pay health care for every citizen dispite the fact that it is much more costly to live in our climate. Food only grows for 4 months of the year here and we have to spend enormous amounts of money for heating in the winter. We also feel we have much more freedom than in the United-States. Our government is not continually controlling us or passing crazy laws by spreading fear of continuous war against terrorism. (not unlike Big Brother of 1984 I might add).
I wonder if they accept donations from people outside of the United-States. I know a lot of people that think the current administration is a menace to the world and I think some of them would even be willing to pay to help its competitors.
It would be an interesting phenomenon if it ever happens.
Hey is there a web site that lists projects that could to be done on Linux? You know, things that need improvements.
Graduate students are always looking for course projects ideas, or subjects for their thesis. The nice thing about it is that whatever code comes out of this, it sould be well researched and documented with research papers etc.
Just wondering
Mandrake is great!
They have a really great product. Probably the easyest to use Linux distro. Red Hat was succesfull, why couldn't they?
It is kind of ironic that the old Discman were the smallest. I always thought Discman were shrinking. In this1988 model the Discman doesn't even fit an entire disk.
(I Posted that one too fast)
kind of ironic that the old diskmen were the smallest. I always tought diskmen were shrinking. In this1988 model the diskmen doesn't even fit an entirer disk.
Yes that's what I was thinking adapting this technology to computers could be an easy way to bring liquid cooling to CPU's. It is passive so you don't need an expensive and pump.
I have built a similar device which can be found here
I didn't realize it was so dangerous. We use to put up to 120 PSI of pressure inside.
It was great though. We could launch potatoes at insane distances. We were no even able to measure the distance because the potato was going too fast and too far to track with the eye. Even when launching completely vertically we would lose sight immediately. Once, I think I heard a sonic boom while the potato was ejected.
This is a good point. Linux is very integrated everywhere including many vital parts government including national security and counter terrorism.
You could even say: "If you go against Linux you are helping terrorism."
Now that! would be talking in words Bush can understand.
Can you even get a free player for real format these days? I think there is only 14 day demo but prove me wrong.