A lot of products are like this now. Through the marvels of science and technology it has become really cheap to produce some good quality products. My mother bought a $500 bike back in the 70's (which promptly got stolen, which is why I know about it) which I just calculated to be equivalent (adjusting for inflation) to over $2000 by today's standards. While you can still buy a $2000 bike, it's hardly necessary, and even a $1000 bike will be much better than a a $500 bike bought in the 70s. Same goes for computers. They are getting fast enough that even a cheap computer is good enough for most people, and they last quite well too. A $400 laptop can be quite good for most task. I wanted to get a laptop in University, but the cheapest ones were close to $1000, and even those were not something most people would want to use for daily work.
What really makes it interesting is that different people can taste different things. In highschool while studying genetics we learned about a chemical that some people perceived as bitter, while other's didn't taste it at all (probably this one). So it's completely probable that a wine that one person might think tastes terrible is actually quite pleasant to others. Even if a wine doesn't have any bitter compounds, it's not unlikely that somebody like a wine taster might have a heightened sense of taste/small, causing them to taste good flavours which aren't perceptible to most people.
While I agree the IT manager is failing, it seems that the employees he's managing are also failing by taking advantage of his incompetence. While the IT manager should have enough knowledge to know better, it's the responsibility of his employees to give him the best advice possible for completion of the projects. Perhaps (if he's doing the hiring) his lack of expertise has caused his staff to be incompetent as well, by hiring the wrong people in the first place, or just following the advice of the other employees, so current employees recommend their friends, because they are friends, not because they are actually qualified. At then end of the day, a manager has to be able to trust their subordinates, and has to have good employees, or there's no chance of them succeeding. If the employees were doing their job, they would make the manager look good, even if he had no idea what he was doing, especially in this situation, where it seems that the manager just does whatever the employees recommend is best.
I'm surprised there's no mention of Doki Doki Panic which is the whole reason that Super Mario Bros. 2 was so different from the other Mario games, and basically explains why the game didn't make any sense.
Not only that, but 1 Gbit is actually faster than a 7200 RPM drive, especially if you take into account that in this case, your hard drive has to switch back and forth between reading different files, so there's doing to be slower transfer rates due to the fact that the data is non-contiguous. Sure you could use multiple drives to bring up the read speed, but you most likely aren't going to need more than 1 Gbit/s. What I want to know is, why do manufacturers still insist on building stuff with 100 Mbit ethernet ports. We should have moved beyond that long ago.
Haven't done any shopping lately, but do most people's home routers support IPV6? I'm pretty sure mine doesn't. I think this is part of the problem with ISPs rolling out IPV6. Many of the customers don't have the hardware at home to deal with it.
The problem is that the cost of living in these cities is so high. I was watching House Hunters of some other similar show, and saw that even tiny houses with no yard were going for $1,000,000 in San Francisco. You'd better bet getting paid $120K per year if it's going to cost that much for a house. Same goes for New York. Good housing is expensive. You can blame the high house prices on high wages, or blame the high wages on the high house prices, but it's a self perpetuating problem.
Them and the lawyers who brought the case to the court. In most of these class action lawsuits, the lawyers "fighting for the little guy" end up getting huge amounts of money. Sure they have to pay their own bills, but it often goes a lot further than that. There shouldn't be any options to give out free stuff in these class action suits. The payouts should be cash only. $50 worth of pizza doesn't cost Poppa John's $50.
I tried that with mine when I first got it. The performance was terrible. And the sound was horrid. Have things improved since then? I was using FCEU. Which emulator do you use?
2. People need to be more careful about how they live their lives and to take responsibility for their bodies.
This is the major problem with most people I know. They do not even attempt to live a healthy lifestyle. They are in a complete complete fantasy world where eating a bowl of instant oatmeal with 15 grams of sugar in it is healthy, simply because it's oatmeal, or that it's ok to eat TV dinners for lunch every day because they are low calorie, nevermind the fact that they have half your day's recommended intake of sodium in a single meal. They don't exercise at all.
Now I'm not the healthiest person in the world, but I do exercise a fair bit, and try to eat healthy on most days. But I also don't delude myself, and I admit when I'm eating something unhealthy, or being lazy about getting my exercise..
To expand on what the other posters said. A VM is still vulnerable to a keylogger on the host machine. So any passwords or bank codes you type into the VM can be read by the host OS. The host can most likely intercept the network traffic as well. It can also get information off the "screen" and read the virtual hard disk, unless the virtual hard disk is encrypted, but it can read the password you type in anyway when booting the VM.This is why many recommend booting off a live CD. It's the only way you can be relatively sure the OS itself isn't compromised.
Exactly, what most people seem to forget is that the taser is supposed to only be used when a gun would have been a good choice as well. It should not be used on 90 year old ladies, who have no way of running away or defending themselves. It should not be used on kids. It shouldn't be used on people who are handcuffed. It is a deadly weapon, and must be given proper precautions, similar to a firearm. Sure tasers don't kill all the time, but neither does a gun.
I agree. Except that I bought a $50 black and white laser printer from Walmart. Because sometimes it's just more convenient to print something out at home. Color prints, photos, all those go off to the print shop, but if I want to print off a recipe for my mom, or some directions from Google Maps, I can do that without having to run to the store. And I choose a laser printer because I got tired of ink drying up or the print heads being jammed or dirty every time I needed to print something which was about once every couple of months.
But there is an advantage to selling the product in multiple stores, even if you don't get the same profit as selling it directly to the customer. You can buy Photoshop directly from Adobe, and they keep all the money. Or you can go buy it from Amazon or countless other vendors, in which case you don't keep all the money. If the Windows store uses a similar model to Android and iOS, where the store keeps 30%, it's not much different from when another software store sells the same product in a box, and store gets a certain percentage, as well as the supplier they bought it from.
Yeah, everybody seems to forget about a lot of the products that Microsoft creates. Sure they make a lot of money from Office and Windows, but they still make a lot of money from a lot of other stuff they sell. I really don't understand how anybody thinks there's a better IDE than Visual Studio. You can even use Visual Studio and.Net to develop apps for Android, iOS and Windows. I think that MS has the ability to do well, even if consumers stop buying windows PCs. Because they never made a lot of money off the home market anyway. They'll still continue to dominate in the business sector, which is where the real money is.
But do you really want to reboot your computer every time you want to do banking? Or have a special computer you only use for banking. I guess the second is a viable option with something like Raspberry Pi. Have a little mini computer that you only use for banking, and access it using a KVM switch from your regular desktop.
I think they need to have a Mini ARM computer inside the laptop for running Android/Linux, and you switch back and forth with a KVM switch. Files could be shared between the two computers using a samba share, or some similar mechanism. Remove the optical drive and you could make room for the Android computer, its own battery, and all the switching hardware. Would actually be really nice to do Android development this way.
Exactly. If Windows 8 isn't selling as well as some thought it would, it's because people aren't buying desktops and laptops. Not because there's anything particularly wrong with Windows 8. Personally, I like Windows 8. I really like the new task manager. It's really great that I can finally see which programs are hogging the disk, since 99% of the time, the disk is what's causing my computer to lag. People say the same thing every time MS changes the UI by any significant amount.
I don't see why MS couldn't have an app store that sold regular, non-metro apps. Sure resellers would be free to sell their apps however they want, but having the sales mechanism built right into Windows would probably work great for marketing. Just as selling with Google Play doesn't stop developers also selling their apps/games via the Amazon app store, or Humble Bundle, or as an APK on their website, the Windows store doesn't have to be the only way to buy software for Windows. All they really have to do is make it the easiest way to buy software for Windows, and people will naturally want to use it, and developers will naturally want to put their applications on there. I've spent way more money on software in the Google Play store than I have on all my other software purchases combined (not counting operating system purchases) since I got my Android phone 2 years ago. Because it's just so easy to buy stuff. I don't have to retain any registration keys. I don't have to search around a a million different sites for updates, and I don't even have to worry about whether it will install on my new device when the time comes.
A lot of it comes down to how fast and how accurately you can move the mouse and how quickly you could press the keys and buttons. If you made the requirement that any computer cotrolled player had to give their input through the mouse and keyboard using robotic hands, and only seeing through cameras, you would probably have a decent competition. But that's only because we don't really have robotics that are as precise as human hands. The computer would be easier to hook up to a trackball, and would probable be easier to program for than a mouse that had to be picked up and put back on a mouse pad every few seconds. If however, you let the computer "play" by sending direct inputs, even just via the USB/PS2 by being directly wired into the other computer, then the computer would win every time, as it would always aim perfectly, and never misstep.
Personally, I look at how much training is required to compete among the elite of the sport, and how far off from the elite the average player is. For games like Golf, its amazing how much better the pros are than the average Joe who goes golfing every weekend. Most golfers will never break 100, which puts them about 28 above par. Which is just dismal. Compare that with something like darts, billiards, or bowling, where it's not uncommon to see a "pefect game". To me, the whole concept of an achievable perfect game means that the game/sport isn't difficult enough.
Well at $45 vs $35, it costs about 30% more than the Pi. So while you can say it's only $10 difference, the price difference is real. Sure the Beaglebone has some onboard storage, but you're going to run up against that measly 2GB of storage pretty fast. From my most recent experience on the RPi, you can't even install all the updates without first expanding the default 2GB partition to use the whole SD card. 2GB doesn't give you must space these days. Perhaps it would be OK if you were planning to go console/text only.
You're right, except that they'd spend their life savings on the power required to run the thing. I can run my Raspberry Pi off a couple of cheap 18650s for about 5 hours. Basically, a 2 cell laptop battery, except that the 2 cells aren't even close to as good quality as what you'd find in a commercial laptop. Most laptops don't even run for 3 hours on a 6 cell battery to give you a comparison. And if they were unlucky enough to find a Pentium IV in the dumpster (which is common), then they would spend more in powering the machine then they would go through so much power they would be better off just buying a better computer.
We can feed the world without killing most of the animals we do. I'm not against eating animals, but I think we eat way too much meat as a society. You only need about 6 ounces of meat in a day, but you'll rarely find anything on any menu that doesn't give you at least 8 ounces, and that's for a single meal. As long as we properly control the amount of wild animals we kill, we can do so without harming populations of the animal, and in some cases, actually helping other endangered species to survive.
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A lot of products are like this now. Through the marvels of science and technology it has become really cheap to produce some good quality products. My mother bought a $500 bike back in the 70's (which promptly got stolen, which is why I know about it) which I just calculated to be equivalent (adjusting for inflation) to over $2000 by today's standards. While you can still buy a $2000 bike, it's hardly necessary, and even a $1000 bike will be much better than a a $500 bike bought in the 70s. Same goes for computers. They are getting fast enough that even a cheap computer is good enough for most people, and they last quite well too. A $400 laptop can be quite good for most task. I wanted to get a laptop in University, but the cheapest ones were close to $1000, and even those were not something most people would want to use for daily work.
What really makes it interesting is that different people can taste different things. In highschool while studying genetics we learned about a chemical that some people perceived as bitter, while other's didn't taste it at all (probably this one). So it's completely probable that a wine that one person might think tastes terrible is actually quite pleasant to others. Even if a wine doesn't have any bitter compounds, it's not unlikely that somebody like a wine taster might have a heightened sense of taste/small, causing them to taste good flavours which aren't perceptible to most people.
While I agree the IT manager is failing, it seems that the employees he's managing are also failing by taking advantage of his incompetence. While the IT manager should have enough knowledge to know better, it's the responsibility of his employees to give him the best advice possible for completion of the projects. Perhaps (if he's doing the hiring) his lack of expertise has caused his staff to be incompetent as well, by hiring the wrong people in the first place, or just following the advice of the other employees, so current employees recommend their friends, because they are friends, not because they are actually qualified. At then end of the day, a manager has to be able to trust their subordinates, and has to have good employees, or there's no chance of them succeeding. If the employees were doing their job, they would make the manager look good, even if he had no idea what he was doing, especially in this situation, where it seems that the manager just does whatever the employees recommend is best.
I'm surprised there's no mention of Doki Doki Panic which is the whole reason that Super Mario Bros. 2 was so different from the other Mario games, and basically explains why the game didn't make any sense.
Not only that, but 1 Gbit is actually faster than a 7200 RPM drive, especially if you take into account that in this case, your hard drive has to switch back and forth between reading different files, so there's doing to be slower transfer rates due to the fact that the data is non-contiguous. Sure you could use multiple drives to bring up the read speed, but you most likely aren't going to need more than 1 Gbit/s. What I want to know is, why do manufacturers still insist on building stuff with 100 Mbit ethernet ports. We should have moved beyond that long ago.
Haven't done any shopping lately, but do most people's home routers support IPV6? I'm pretty sure mine doesn't. I think this is part of the problem with ISPs rolling out IPV6. Many of the customers don't have the hardware at home to deal with it.
The problem is that the cost of living in these cities is so high. I was watching House Hunters of some other similar show, and saw that even tiny houses with no yard were going for $1,000,000 in San Francisco. You'd better bet getting paid $120K per year if it's going to cost that much for a house. Same goes for New York. Good housing is expensive. You can blame the high house prices on high wages, or blame the high wages on the high house prices, but it's a self perpetuating problem.
Them and the lawyers who brought the case to the court. In most of these class action lawsuits, the lawyers "fighting for the little guy" end up getting huge amounts of money. Sure they have to pay their own bills, but it often goes a lot further than that. There shouldn't be any options to give out free stuff in these class action suits. The payouts should be cash only. $50 worth of pizza doesn't cost Poppa John's $50.
From the screenshot, it looks like they are finally completing the project of making Firefox completely indistinguishable from Chrome.
I tried that with mine when I first got it. The performance was terrible. And the sound was horrid. Have things improved since then? I was using FCEU. Which emulator do you use?
This is the major problem with most people I know. They do not even attempt to live a healthy lifestyle. They are in a complete complete fantasy world where eating a bowl of instant oatmeal with 15 grams of sugar in it is healthy, simply because it's oatmeal, or that it's ok to eat TV dinners for lunch every day because they are low calorie, nevermind the fact that they have half your day's recommended intake of sodium in a single meal. They don't exercise at all.
Now I'm not the healthiest person in the world, but I do exercise a fair bit, and try to eat healthy on most days. But I also don't delude myself, and I admit when I'm eating something unhealthy, or being lazy about getting my exercise..
To expand on what the other posters said. A VM is still vulnerable to a keylogger on the host machine. So any passwords or bank codes you type into the VM can be read by the host OS. The host can most likely intercept the network traffic as well. It can also get information off the "screen" and read the virtual hard disk, unless the virtual hard disk is encrypted, but it can read the password you type in anyway when booting the VM.This is why many recommend booting off a live CD. It's the only way you can be relatively sure the OS itself isn't compromised.
Exactly, what most people seem to forget is that the taser is supposed to only be used when a gun would have been a good choice as well. It should not be used on 90 year old ladies, who have no way of running away or defending themselves. It should not be used on kids. It shouldn't be used on people who are handcuffed. It is a deadly weapon, and must be given proper precautions, similar to a firearm. Sure tasers don't kill all the time, but neither does a gun.
I agree. Except that I bought a $50 black and white laser printer from Walmart. Because sometimes it's just more convenient to print something out at home. Color prints, photos, all those go off to the print shop, but if I want to print off a recipe for my mom, or some directions from Google Maps, I can do that without having to run to the store. And I choose a laser printer because I got tired of ink drying up or the print heads being jammed or dirty every time I needed to print something which was about once every couple of months.
But there is an advantage to selling the product in multiple stores, even if you don't get the same profit as selling it directly to the customer. You can buy Photoshop directly from Adobe, and they keep all the money. Or you can go buy it from Amazon or countless other vendors, in which case you don't keep all the money. If the Windows store uses a similar model to Android and iOS, where the store keeps 30%, it's not much different from when another software store sells the same product in a box, and store gets a certain percentage, as well as the supplier they bought it from.
Yeah, everybody seems to forget about a lot of the products that Microsoft creates. Sure they make a lot of money from Office and Windows, but they still make a lot of money from a lot of other stuff they sell. I really don't understand how anybody thinks there's a better IDE than Visual Studio. You can even use Visual Studio and .Net to develop apps for Android, iOS and Windows. I think that MS has the ability to do well, even if consumers stop buying windows PCs. Because they never made a lot of money off the home market anyway. They'll still continue to dominate in the business sector, which is where the real money is.
But do you really want to reboot your computer every time you want to do banking? Or have a special computer you only use for banking. I guess the second is a viable option with something like Raspberry Pi. Have a little mini computer that you only use for banking, and access it using a KVM switch from your regular desktop.
I think they need to have a Mini ARM computer inside the laptop for running Android/Linux, and you switch back and forth with a KVM switch. Files could be shared between the two computers using a samba share, or some similar mechanism. Remove the optical drive and you could make room for the Android computer, its own battery, and all the switching hardware. Would actually be really nice to do Android development this way.
Exactly. If Windows 8 isn't selling as well as some thought it would, it's because people aren't buying desktops and laptops. Not because there's anything particularly wrong with Windows 8. Personally, I like Windows 8. I really like the new task manager. It's really great that I can finally see which programs are hogging the disk, since 99% of the time, the disk is what's causing my computer to lag. People say the same thing every time MS changes the UI by any significant amount.
I don't see why MS couldn't have an app store that sold regular, non-metro apps. Sure resellers would be free to sell their apps however they want, but having the sales mechanism built right into Windows would probably work great for marketing. Just as selling with Google Play doesn't stop developers also selling their apps/games via the Amazon app store, or Humble Bundle, or as an APK on their website, the Windows store doesn't have to be the only way to buy software for Windows. All they really have to do is make it the easiest way to buy software for Windows, and people will naturally want to use it, and developers will naturally want to put their applications on there. I've spent way more money on software in the Google Play store than I have on all my other software purchases combined (not counting operating system purchases) since I got my Android phone 2 years ago. Because it's just so easy to buy stuff. I don't have to retain any registration keys. I don't have to search around a a million different sites for updates, and I don't even have to worry about whether it will install on my new device when the time comes.
A lot of it comes down to how fast and how accurately you can move the mouse and how quickly you could press the keys and buttons. If you made the requirement that any computer cotrolled player had to give their input through the mouse and keyboard using robotic hands, and only seeing through cameras, you would probably have a decent competition. But that's only because we don't really have robotics that are as precise as human hands. The computer would be easier to hook up to a trackball, and would probable be easier to program for than a mouse that had to be picked up and put back on a mouse pad every few seconds. If however, you let the computer "play" by sending direct inputs, even just via the USB/PS2 by being directly wired into the other computer, then the computer would win every time, as it would always aim perfectly, and never misstep.
Personally, I look at how much training is required to compete among the elite of the sport, and how far off from the elite the average player is. For games like Golf, its amazing how much better the pros are than the average Joe who goes golfing every weekend. Most golfers will never break 100, which puts them about 28 above par. Which is just dismal. Compare that with something like darts, billiards, or bowling, where it's not uncommon to see a "pefect game". To me, the whole concept of an achievable perfect game means that the game/sport isn't difficult enough.
Well at $45 vs $35, it costs about 30% more than the Pi. So while you can say it's only $10 difference, the price difference is real. Sure the Beaglebone has some onboard storage, but you're going to run up against that measly 2GB of storage pretty fast. From my most recent experience on the RPi, you can't even install all the updates without first expanding the default 2GB partition to use the whole SD card. 2GB doesn't give you must space these days. Perhaps it would be OK if you were planning to go console/text only.
You're right, except that they'd spend their life savings on the power required to run the thing. I can run my Raspberry Pi off a couple of cheap 18650s for about 5 hours. Basically, a 2 cell laptop battery, except that the 2 cells aren't even close to as good quality as what you'd find in a commercial laptop. Most laptops don't even run for 3 hours on a 6 cell battery to give you a comparison. And if they were unlucky enough to find a Pentium IV in the dumpster (which is common), then they would spend more in powering the machine then they would go through so much power they would be better off just buying a better computer.
We can feed the world without killing most of the animals we do. I'm not against eating animals, but I think we eat way too much meat as a society. You only need about 6 ounces of meat in a day, but you'll rarely find anything on any menu that doesn't give you at least 8 ounces, and that's for a single meal. As long as we properly control the amount of wild animals we kill, we can do so without harming populations of the animal, and in some cases, actually helping other endangered species to survive.