Yes, for the moment, assuming you believe in such a distinction.
Anyways, desktop CPUs are going the same way. There's nothing else to do with all the transistors. (Kudos to Intel for 45nm btw).
Besides, the jump from supporting 4 cores to 6 is nonexistent. 1 to 2 was the hard one, really, and admittedly a lot of apps never made that jump and don't need to. But photoshop, nonlinear video editors, etc... anything with fine-grained multithreading will use 6 cores just fine.
It would be interesting to know what percent of the time existing laptops are used plugged in. My guess is 95%. I use my laptop plugged in all day, then go on a 3 hour flight a couple of times per month. Flying is almost the only time you need batteries. I had a laptop that was power hungry for a while, and the heat and noise actually bothered me more than the short battery life.
It would serve as a good reminder to corporate interests, domestic and abroad, that they operate at the will of the citizens of countries that protect them. That is part of what those taxes are funding.
I doubt the US govt. would ever hang a company out to dry. Look at all these companies incorporated in the Cayman Islands, but which for all other intents and purposes are US companies. They still seem to enjoy all the benefits of being legitimate. And US ships (flying the US flag) in international waters still seem to enjoy the protection of the US, I'm sure oil drilling platforms are the same.
Even if this story weren't just speculation that will never happen, you know google would be smart enough to somehow make sure they could have their cake and eat it too, like anybody else with enough money to pay lots of lawyers.
Bad news, I'm already using one serial port for my IR receiver, and the other to set the channel on my Tivax STB-9 Digital TV converter for recording with my PVR.
So I guess I'm just too geeky for the HD44780 microcontroller. Wow.
(But seriously, do these work with USB to Serial converters?)
What does "homeopathic" medicine really mean? I submit it amounts to, "medicine that doesn't really work, and thus was not eventually adopted by mainstream medicine." Just as a cult is religion we don't like, murder is killing we don't allow, and superstition is a cause/effect link that turned out to be false.
It is ridiculous to ask why any of things exist because they are only defined either subjectively or relative to greater knowledge. Our knowledge of the world is tiny, we have no way of knowing for sure whether it is true, so to ask why we don't just quit being wrong sometimes (i.e. why people have superstitions) is silly.
I fail to see the problem. Some investors jumped the gun and sold stock that was worth more than they sold it for, because they relied on bad information. The fact that they used automated systems to do this is irrelevant. There was no deception here; anybody could have checked the story themselves in a few seconds and realized what happened. So, you can always be first, or always be right, take your pick. Let the market choose a tradeoff between speed and accuracy.
In case anybody thinks this is far-fetched, it's not: "Current and former Justice Department officials who used a political litmus test in violation of civil service laws to guide the hiring process at the agency won't be prosecuted or disciplined, Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday. In a speech before the American Bar Association (ABA) in New York, Mukasey said the public humiliation the former officials endured upon resigning from the Department of Justice last year was punishment enough."
Selling pretty computers is something of a niche anyways. Dell makes the bulk of its sales to corporations who buy computers to spec, thousands at a time, and want them cheap with decent reliability and service. That's how Dell built his business. (And that's fine with me. I buy high-end laptops and I buy them for specs and quality, not lime-green cases.)
Besides, it seems kinda wrong that a company that manufactures computers is outsourcing manufacturing of computers.
"American" companies like Nike and Levi's don't actually do anything except decide which Chinese products to buy, then import and market them (at huge markups of course). Guess Dell's just getting with the times.
But yeah, it does seem kinda wrong. Like, what what value are we really adding here.
If you can't find a bank that gives you interest at a few percentage points over inflation, you need a new bank. I have a current account in the US that gives me around 5% - savings accounts give much higher numbers.
Cite? I have one, bankrate.com, which shows that the highest savings / MMA account is currently 3.60. This is below inflation, i.e. use it or lose it. The "time value of money" right now is negative.
No, because mass investment would simply drive down returns. We're already seeing this with the changing demographics of the aging boomers - a huge pile of "unwanted" money from mutual funds and mortgages looking anywhere and everywhere for a decent return - so we got the.com bubble, the real estate bubble, then the gasoline bubble.
No matter how you play with the numbers, it's simply not possible for everybody - or even a large portion - of society to become wealthy simply by investing. Somebody has to actually do the work and produce the value that nonworkers (investors) consume. If you want to spend $1, somebody has to make good on that by working to make what you want.
My grandfather worked for an oil company for 25 years, then drew an inflation-adjusted pension from them for 25 years. Those days are over! It's not about responsibility, it's about demographics. American was in the growth stage of mushrooming population since its inception, but now those days are ending, if not by choice, then by rising prices for everything as land, water, and energy become ever more expensive. That changes things in a major way. Just ask Europe.
But holding steady isn't good enough if you want to have some huge nanny state (universal health care, Social Security, etc.)
Nanny state has little to do with it. Historical quality of life expectations are based on a certain ratio of workers to retirees, and that ratio is dropping. Even if all those retirees responsibly piled up investments and pensions for retirement, those are just contracts - pieces of paper that mean nothing, unless there's somebody there, able and willing to empty your bedpan because you're willing to pay them.
Why the hell would the people's republic of china suddenly want to let unfiltered, uncensored text messages into the country while it keeps an iron fist on what their citizens see and hear even over the internet?
Oooh, scary. Did you even read the summary? "A bit of snooping tells me that Vodafone is the only network from which it is possible to send SMS to a Chinese registered mobile phone." If it's already possible via Vodafone, that indicates it's a business rather than government issue.
Yes this is bad, and yes it's RedHat's fault.
But I will say, it's much harder to regression test for performance than for correctness. Actually it would be very nice if VMWare could make a common platform for performance testing, that runs equally fast/slow on any hardware exceeding some minimum requirements.
I have been wondering how much bandwidth i use a mounth listening to shoutcast via winamp?
Not much. Let's say you stream 128 kbps audio around the clock for 31 days. That works out to 37 gig per month, or 14.5% of the cap.
Still, your concern is exactly what comcast fears - people worrying about it because they don't really know, and not liking that nagging feeling, and going elsewhere even though they don't use that much.
the lifetime of interface specs is getting shorter and shorter
No, it is getting longer and longer. Used to be only a few people had computers, yet lots of different companies made them, and the technology was evolving more rapidly than it is now. For instance, there are *billions* of CD's out there, they've been selling since 1982 (26 years) and show no sign of fading away. The odds of working CD readers being hard to find 25 years from now are 0. There are just too many discs lying around.
Instead of a normal flash drive, use write once media. It's more durable (this claims 100 years). Throw in a USB SD reader if you really want to be sure.
Really, 25 years isn't all *that* long. 9 pin serial has been around longer than that, and USB and SD are much more broadly adopted than it ever was.
Aside from the battlefield, it has obvious applications for photography as well.
I don't think any special hardware would be required.
Take a second or two of shots at 8fps (which modern DSLRs can do at full resolution), then stitch together a composite image using whichever frame is sharpest for each image region. You would have to warp the swatches to fit together to undo the atmospheric distortion as well.
This is somewhat similar to the existing HDR (high dynamic range) filter in photoshop, except you use the image providing the sharpest detail instead of the most correctly exposed image for each pixel of output.
Which side of the argument are you taking? The whole article affirms my point:
"Cities such as Houston and Atlanta, which have few growth restrictions, have shown that. They've been able to add enough housing to meet demand, so their home prices have risen more moderately than heavily regulated San Francisco and Boston, which have a harder time increasing housing."
It's just another way of saying that people will pay extra to live somewhere that isn't endless sprawling suburbia, because it's nicer. San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, and Boulder are in a different class from Atlanta and Houston. To say that it's "just" regulations is meaningless - people have to choose to buy into those select markets, and they have to be able to pay.
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Yes, for the moment, assuming you believe in such a distinction.
Anyways, desktop CPUs are going the same way. There's nothing else to do with all the transistors. (Kudos to Intel for 45nm btw).
Besides, the jump from supporting 4 cores to 6 is nonexistent. 1 to 2 was the hard one, really, and admittedly a lot of apps never made that jump and don't need to. But photoshop, nonlinear video editors, etc... anything with fine-grained multithreading will use 6 cores just fine.
It would be interesting to know what percent of the time existing laptops are used plugged in. My guess is 95%. I use my laptop plugged in all day, then go on a 3 hour flight a couple of times per month. Flying is almost the only time you need batteries. I had a laptop that was power hungry for a while, and the heat and noise actually bothered me more than the short battery life.
I doubt the US govt. would ever hang a company out to dry. Look at all these companies incorporated in the Cayman Islands, but which for all other intents and purposes are US companies. They still seem to enjoy all the benefits of being legitimate. And US ships (flying the US flag) in international waters still seem to enjoy the protection of the US, I'm sure oil drilling platforms are the same.
Even if this story weren't just speculation that will never happen, you know google would be smart enough to somehow make sure they could have their cake and eat it too, like anybody else with enough money to pay lots of lawyers.
They're smart to design a concert that provides a non-downloadable experience.
Bad news, I'm already using one serial port for my IR receiver, and the other to set the channel on my Tivax STB-9 Digital TV converter for recording with my PVR.
So I guess I'm just too geeky for the HD44780 microcontroller. Wow.
(But seriously, do these work with USB to Serial converters?)
It is ridiculous to ask why any of things exist because they are only defined either subjectively or relative to greater knowledge. Our knowledge of the world is tiny, we have no way of knowing for sure whether it is true, so to ask why we don't just quit being wrong sometimes (i.e. why people have superstitions) is silly.
I fail to see the problem. Some investors jumped the gun and sold stock that was worth more than they sold it for, because they relied on bad information. The fact that they used automated systems to do this is irrelevant. There was no deception here; anybody could have checked the story themselves in a few seconds and realized what happened. So, you can always be first, or always be right, take your pick. Let the market choose a tradeoff between speed and accuracy.
In case anybody thinks this is far-fetched, it's not: "Current and former Justice Department officials who used a political litmus test in violation of civil service laws to guide the hiring process at the agency won't be prosecuted or disciplined, Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday. In a speech before the American Bar Association (ABA) in New York, Mukasey said the public humiliation the former officials endured upon resigning from the Department of Justice last year was punishment enough."
Nope, a lottery system where everybody gets 1 ticket would satisfy those conditions.
Selling pretty computers is something of a niche anyways. Dell makes the bulk of its sales to corporations who buy computers to spec, thousands at a time, and want them cheap with decent reliability and service. That's how Dell built his business. (And that's fine with me. I buy high-end laptops and I buy them for specs and quality, not lime-green cases.)
Good luck with that, Dell, because your computers have never been renowned (or purchased) for their design. You're not Apple.
"American" companies like Nike and Levi's don't actually do anything except decide which Chinese products to buy, then import and market them (at huge markups of course). Guess Dell's just getting with the times.
But yeah, it does seem kinda wrong. Like, what what value are we really adding here.
Cite? I have one, bankrate.com, which shows that the highest savings / MMA account is currently 3.60. This is below inflation, i.e. use it or lose it. The "time value of money" right now is negative.
Unfortunately it's not perfect for my kids with no flash. Kids sites are full of flash. In particular my kids like to play the games.
No matter how you play with the numbers, it's simply not possible for everybody - or even a large portion - of society to become wealthy simply by investing. Somebody has to actually do the work and produce the value that nonworkers (investors) consume. If you want to spend $1, somebody has to make good on that by working to make what you want.
My grandfather worked for an oil company for 25 years, then drew an inflation-adjusted pension from them for 25 years. Those days are over! It's not about responsibility, it's about demographics. American was in the growth stage of mushrooming population since its inception, but now those days are ending, if not by choice, then by rising prices for everything as land, water, and energy become ever more expensive. That changes things in a major way. Just ask Europe.
Nanny state has little to do with it. Historical quality of life expectations are based on a certain ratio of workers to retirees, and that ratio is dropping. Even if all those retirees responsibly piled up investments and pensions for retirement, those are just contracts - pieces of paper that mean nothing, unless there's somebody there, able and willing to empty your bedpan because you're willing to pay them.
Oooh, scary. Did you even read the summary? "A bit of snooping tells me that Vodafone is the only network from which it is possible to send SMS to a Chinese registered mobile phone." If it's already possible via Vodafone, that indicates it's a business rather than government issue.
That is so cool, it even supports striping across up to 6 SSD cards. But where's the price?
Yes this is bad, and yes it's RedHat's fault. But I will say, it's much harder to regression test for performance than for correctness. Actually it would be very nice if VMWare could make a common platform for performance testing, that runs equally fast/slow on any hardware exceeding some minimum requirements.
128 / 8 / 2**20 * 3600 * 24 * 31 = kbps -> kBps -> GBps -> GB/hour -> GB/day -> GB->month = 40.869 GB/month
Not much. Let's say you stream 128 kbps audio around the clock for 31 days. That works out to 37 gig per month, or 14.5% of the cap.
Still, your concern is exactly what comcast fears - people worrying about it because they don't really know, and not liking that nagging feeling, and going elsewhere even though they don't use that much.
No, it is getting longer and longer. Used to be only a few people had computers, yet lots of different companies made them, and the technology was evolving more rapidly than it is now. For instance, there are *billions* of CD's out there, they've been selling since 1982 (26 years) and show no sign of fading away. The odds of working CD readers being hard to find 25 years from now are 0. There are just too many discs lying around.
Really, 25 years isn't all *that* long. 9 pin serial has been around longer than that, and USB and SD are much more broadly adopted than it ever was.
This is somewhat similar to the existing HDR (high dynamic range) filter in photoshop, except you use the image providing the sharpest detail instead of the most correctly exposed image for each pixel of output.
It's just another way of saying that people will pay extra to live somewhere that isn't endless sprawling suburbia, because it's nicer. San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, and Boulder are in a different class from Atlanta and Houston. To say that it's "just" regulations is meaningless - people have to choose to buy into those select markets, and they have to be able to pay.