Ohh, the evil Fed, printing money and causing the dollar to lose 1.2% of its value over the course of a year. Never mind that bitcoin just lost 50% of its value in a week.
Technically diesel would be a great match with how the Volt engine is operated (steady at the optimal RPM). But given diesel prices nowadays, is it still a win over gasoline in miles per dollar?
The fact he works from home certainly raises the stakes.
Secondly, what may have been OK 5 years ago is not necessarily OK today. When tech is available, it tends to become implicitly mandatory. There are now many jobs where it would be frowned upon to not carry a cell phone, for example. Expectations rise - not just our own expectations but those placed upon us. I don't think this is recognized enough among people who always feel we should be "thankful" for everything.
There doesn't seem to any provision for the fans. I glean this from two statements:
The Sochi network will serve 30,000 athletes, administrators and staff, media, IOC officials, and volunteers with data, voice, video, and full Internet access through the Games sites.
And secondly:
In Sochi, Avayaâ(TM)s Wi-Fi network will be split into five virtual SSID-based networks. There will be one network for the athletes, two for media (one free, one paid), one for Olympics staff, and one for dignitaries.
So it sounds like this network will be just to support the games themselves, not for the general public.
Can you name any piece of land for which long-term possession was determined by flag-planting? Keep in mind the north American continent has been occupied (and fought over) for at least 12,000 years.
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Even if you include only the separate European nations that made claims after Columbus, there was a lot of back-and-forth for hundreds of years and "I called it first!" was practically never the determining factor in the outcome. In the end the territory was all taken by newly-organized nations that didn't identify with any of the original claimants. (What percentage of GDP in the western hemisphere comes from colonies currently ruled by Spain or Portugal?)
It's seems like your comment is based on the premise that IBM is suing somebody. It's the reverse; IBM is being sued. (Or are you saying it's the Louisiana Sheriffs' Pension & Relief Fund that's losing ground and looking to place blame?)
The new next-gen consoles are all a bit lackluster, if you ask me. And Oculus Rift, though probably usable with existing games and GPUs, would really benefit with a big raft of new games and hardware made just for it. Sony, or Microsoft, or Nintendo, should have partnered with Oculus Rift and built their new generation of consoles around it.
I'm surprised it costs this much to bring to market. Oculus Rift first fundraiser on kickstarter was targeted to raise $250,000. I'm not judging; rather, it is revealing how much more it costs to bring something to market than develop a working prototype.
This plant is 45 MW. Assuming 90% capacity factor for nuclear vs. 25% for wind, you'd need a 160 MW wind plant for the same average output. (All of the top dozen wind farms are at least triple that.) Assuming $2M/MW for wind (second source), that's $320M for something equivalent to this $226M nuclear plant. I assume the nuclear plant cost includes waste disposal, although fuel, maintenance, and decommissioning costs would seemingly be lower for wind. For nuclear there is the question of pricing in possible catastrophe.
We must be pretty close to some sort of concrete wall right now. I just replaced a 3-year-old MacBook pro that had a 4 core 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 processor. The new one has, wait for it... a 4 core 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 processor. I know, MHz myth, yadda yadda yaddah... the fact is, it is hardly any faster. I've been using computers since the C64 and this has never happened before. (Granted, the new one is smaller, has better battery life, twice the RAM, the SSD has twice the capacity, and the screen has nearly twice the linear resolution... but still, it is hardly any faster.)
The two layers of porcelain, which are separated by a hollow cavity, act as a perfect insulator for hot and cold beverages and ensure that you wonâ(TM)t burn your fingers. A silicone stopper in the cupâ(TM)s base prevents water from entering the hollow cavity when washing the mug.
So, take out the plug, fill with melted wax, replace plug, and enjoy?
The drawback with G.fast is that it will only work over short distances, so 1Gbps will only be possible at distances of up to about 100 meters. The technology is being designed to work at distances up to 250 meters, though transmission speed is slower at that distace.
OK. So long as G.fast is an improvement over what they're using now, that's a good thing. But until/unless I can get 1 gbps at my desktop, I don't think they should be allowed to advertise it as "Gigabit Internet."
This is the typical phone company thing... "buy Internet service from us!" How fast will it be at my house? "Um, we have no idea!"
Do people not even read the summary any more? What AT&T wants is for their competitor, google, to be regulated as a utility, as AT&T is, before using the utility poles. It's not that unreasonable. If the outcome is that the regulations are out of date and eased for both AT&T and google, that's fine too.
I suppose you are technically correct in some narrow philosophical sense, for for all intents and purposes, science has proven innumerable facts: that DNA is the primary means of heritable traits, that the earth is round and orbits the sun; that disease spreads by microscopic organisms; that dinosaurs once roamed the earth, which is 4.5 billion years old; that smashing atoms together can quickly release vast energy; and on and on and on...
Science has also disproven many claims about god. True, as a totally abstract concept with no specific definition, god cannot be disproven. But as soon as scripture is written, it cannot help but make specific claims about the nature of god and the universe. In general those claims have not weathered well under the ever further-reaching methods of science.
People talk about limiting the ability of banks to speculate with deposits backed with estimates of future income, but ignore that is exactly what most of the population is doing with thier savings when they buy a car, house or expensive vacation.
A home or auto loan is backed by collateral - the home or auto. That's why an auto loan is 2.5% while a vacation loan (credit card) is 15%. But even if you've paid off the car, you can't use it as collateral for a dozen loans totaling ten times the car's value. Mortgage-backed securities gave the illusion of being collateralized but really they were so highly leveraged that the collateral was virtually nil, so a small increase in delinquencies toppled the whole house of cards. The banks didn't even know how leveraged they were.
But all that assumes that for some unexplained reason the demand for cars would just dry up.
The reason demand suddenly dried up is explained perfectly well - because most people buy cars on credit, and there was a run on the banks (mostly by each other) and thus no money to lend for buying cars. It's the same reason other companies would not have had the capital to step up and take GM's place.
This experiment has been done before, in the 1930s. Sure, the economy recovered eventually, but the cost was catastrophic - not "just" the human cost, but the entirely avoidable decade-long reduction in GDP. We just re-ran the experiment with a different intervention and a much better outcome, except it doesn't seem like we made any fundamental changes to stop it from happening again.
Typing is maybe #1 among the courses in highschool that I remember and that has had a concrete benefit to me. That said, each of my kids has been taught keyboard in 3rd or 4th grade so it's not highschool material any more.
The same old IT department at your employer is now a Cloud Provider.
No, the real difference is that a diminishing number of companies have an IT department - at least one that operates any significant number of servers. An increasing number of functions are carried out on "on the cloud" - i.e. hosted by some other company whose server farm is largely application-neutral, and which your company shares with any number of others.
I guess your point is that this doesn't change things for hosting companies, but the point is that more companies in general are using hosting in the first place.
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Ohh, the evil Fed, printing money and causing the dollar to lose 1.2% of its value over the course of a year. Never mind that bitcoin just lost 50% of its value in a week.
Technically diesel would be a great match with how the Volt engine is operated (steady at the optimal RPM). But given diesel prices nowadays, is it still a win over gasoline in miles per dollar?
It has a MicroSD slot. Funny how only low-end devices are expandable these days.
Secondly, what may have been OK 5 years ago is not necessarily OK today. When tech is available, it tends to become implicitly mandatory. There are now many jobs where it would be frowned upon to not carry a cell phone, for example. Expectations rise - not just our own expectations but those placed upon us. I don't think this is recognized enough among people who always feel we should be "thankful" for everything.
And secondly:
So it sounds like this network will be just to support the games themselves, not for the general public.
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Even if you include only the separate European nations that made claims after Columbus, there was a lot of back-and-forth for hundreds of years and "I called it first!" was practically never the determining factor in the outcome. In the end the territory was all taken by newly-organized nations that didn't identify with any of the original claimants. (What percentage of GDP in the western hemisphere comes from colonies currently ruled by Spain or Portugal?)
I think you're nuts. Automating transportation will dwarf the search business.
It's seems like your comment is based on the premise that IBM is suing somebody. It's the reverse; IBM is being sued. (Or are you saying it's the Louisiana Sheriffs' Pension & Relief Fund that's losing ground and looking to place blame?)
Venture-capital funds aren't exactly cheap either.
The new next-gen consoles are all a bit lackluster, if you ask me. And Oculus Rift, though probably usable with existing games and GPUs, would really benefit with a big raft of new games and hardware made just for it. Sony, or Microsoft, or Nintendo, should have partnered with Oculus Rift and built their new generation of consoles around it.
I'm surprised it costs this much to bring to market. Oculus Rift first fundraiser on kickstarter was targeted to raise $250,000. I'm not judging; rather, it is revealing how much more it costs to bring something to market than develop a working prototype.
That is the thing called "capacity factor" in my calculation.
This plant is 45 MW. Assuming 90% capacity factor for nuclear vs. 25% for wind, you'd need a 160 MW wind plant for the same average output. (All of the top dozen wind farms are at least triple that.) Assuming $2M/MW for wind (second source), that's $320M for something equivalent to this $226M nuclear plant. I assume the nuclear plant cost includes waste disposal, although fuel, maintenance, and decommissioning costs would seemingly be lower for wind. For nuclear there is the question of pricing in possible catastrophe.
We must be pretty close to some sort of concrete wall right now. I just replaced a 3-year-old MacBook pro that had a 4 core 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 processor. The new one has, wait for it... a 4 core 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 processor. I know, MHz myth, yadda yadda yaddah... the fact is, it is hardly any faster. I've been using computers since the C64 and this has never happened before. (Granted, the new one is smaller, has better battery life, twice the RAM, the SSD has twice the capacity, and the screen has nearly twice the linear resolution... but still, it is hardly any faster.)
So, take out the plug, fill with melted wax, replace plug, and enjoy?
OK. So long as G.fast is an improvement over what they're using now, that's a good thing. But until/unless I can get 1 gbps at my desktop, I don't think they should be allowed to advertise it as "Gigabit Internet."
This is the typical phone company thing... "buy Internet service from us!" How fast will it be at my house? "Um, we have no idea!"
Do people not even read the summary any more? What AT&T wants is for their competitor, google, to be regulated as a utility, as AT&T is, before using the utility poles. It's not that unreasonable. If the outcome is that the regulations are out of date and eased for both AT&T and google, that's fine too.
Science has also disproven many claims about god. True, as a totally abstract concept with no specific definition, god cannot be disproven. But as soon as scripture is written, it cannot help but make specific claims about the nature of god and the universe. In general those claims have not weathered well under the ever further-reaching methods of science.
That's what /. always says about everything. And then progress keeps right on happening anyways.
A home or auto loan is backed by collateral - the home or auto. That's why an auto loan is 2.5% while a vacation loan (credit card) is 15%. But even if you've paid off the car, you can't use it as collateral for a dozen loans totaling ten times the car's value. Mortgage-backed securities gave the illusion of being collateralized but really they were so highly leveraged that the collateral was virtually nil, so a small increase in delinquencies toppled the whole house of cards. The banks didn't even know how leveraged they were.
The reason demand suddenly dried up is explained perfectly well - because most people buy cars on credit, and there was a run on the banks (mostly by each other) and thus no money to lend for buying cars. It's the same reason other companies would not have had the capital to step up and take GM's place.
This experiment has been done before, in the 1930s. Sure, the economy recovered eventually, but the cost was catastrophic - not "just" the human cost, but the entirely avoidable decade-long reduction in GDP. We just re-ran the experiment with a different intervention and a much better outcome, except it doesn't seem like we made any fundamental changes to stop it from happening again.
Typing is maybe #1 among the courses in highschool that I remember and that has had a concrete benefit to me. That said, each of my kids has been taught keyboard in 3rd or 4th grade so it's not highschool material any more.
Where did you get that idea? Watch this video, starting 34 seconds in.
No, the real difference is that a diminishing number of companies have an IT department - at least one that operates any significant number of servers. An increasing number of functions are carried out on "on the cloud" - i.e. hosted by some other company whose server farm is largely application-neutral, and which your company shares with any number of others.
I guess your point is that this doesn't change things for hosting companies, but the point is that more companies in general are using hosting in the first place.
For that matter logging is purely sequential so a hard drive should work very well in the first place.