Agreed. If you have to eat the waste, you'll think a bit more about what you put into a product. Sure this adds a bit of cost, but if a product is designed for recycling then it will cost less to recycle. The sooner the producers get the bill, the sooner they'll think more about it.
What makes the e-industry e-worse is that there is no practical use for many junked items. Sure, you can reuse the aluminium etc, but there's so little for the amount of work involved in stripping it. Car bodies can be recycled quite easily because there's lots of metal for relatively little effort.
If you've read any reliable reports you will know that the total cost of owership of a MS-based PC is far less than a Linux one. Therefore your company should be able to afford to fit many PCs on your desk and you won't have to use virtual desktops.
That's what the water cooling is for. Regular clocking probably does OK with air cooling.
Again, the water cooling could just be engineering overkill for market hype purposes.
Sometimes overclocking can be achieved by screening regular chips, and overclocked chips are justscreened to be able to perform higher than specced. Of course, with non critical parts they just let the consumer do the sceening.
MS makes their money from corporates who buy PCs whole. MS does not make money from the sort of people that build their own PCs and upgrade motherboards. Because these people don't make MS monet, they are a pain in the ass and there is no need, from a business perspective, to keep them happy.
Are parents supposed to act like little police states, spying on their kids at every moment?
Well almost. Children have no right to privacy from their parents. They can earn some privilege to some privacy, but this is not a right.
I could see the parents being held liable if they knew about this whole fiasco before it got shut down by MySpace. But what about the far more likely case that they had no idea?
That is for the courts to determine on a case-by-case basis. But, it is right that parents should be prosecuted, even if they are not guilty, or found guilty, in this case. There is a big difference between prosecution and guilt. If the parents have failed in their duties then they are responsible. If they had no idea, then they should be the ones taking corrective measures to ensure that they limit access to internet etc.
What is very good about this is that parents are being **prosecuted** which sends the message that they cannot abdicate resposibility.
The industry spends so much time and effort trying to bodyslam the competition. "Kill the baby", "eat their lunch" etc etc. THis is a very unhealthy and typically only inflates egos and does very little for a companie's bottom line. In an OSS world, the notion of this kind of competitive mindset is very disturbing.
Listening to a user base and delivering will do a lot more than trying to expend effort in trying to compete against MS/IE.
Folks, if you keep pitbulls, you have a responsibility to train them, fence them in and keep them muzzled in pullic places. If you're going to breed, then you have a responsibility to make sure your offspring are behaving properly until they are adults. If you give them the car keys, make sure they behave properly with the car or take it away. If you give them an internet connection then make sure they behave well online. Sure, kids will try to test their limits - that's how they learn - but ultimately if a kid screws up you should be there to take the heat.
Raising kids is hard work (got 2 me'self), and it is **your** work, not the state's or school's work or myspace's work!
... has never lived in the third world. The $100 laptop is an attempt to fit a geek-driven square peg into a round hole. I'm a geek, but I also lived in rural Africa for 30 years and can speak two African languages (bit rusty now having been away for a few years). The geek in me would like to be able to apply my geek-knowledge in a way that can help, but in reality appropriate technology is far better suited to these situations.
How exactly is a $100 PC going to improve the lives of third-worlder? Most third-worlders don't have $100 in their back pockets. If they did they'd probably put it into something a bit more practical like a well to provide clean water or a hay box cooker or a bicycle. Many/most third-world schools are short very basic things like paper,pencils and erasers, so to think they're going to have internet connections etc is crazy.
Sure, cities have reasonable services, but in some areas I am well aquainted with, absolulutely nobody has a bank account (let alone a credit card), phone (in fact only one in ten or so have ever used a phone), Fedex, etc. If something breaks, there is no support structure to fix it.
If you really want to help these people send something practical. Hook up with a charity that supports a school and send them money for pencils and books, or sends them seeds and vegetable growing starter packs or funds digging village wells or anything remotely practical.
Put any discussion like this in a technical/Geek forum and the debate becomes about what kind of technology will make this all work. Sorry folks, even with a perfect UI or whatever, this is fundamentally a people problem. The major limitations are not how to deal with html, flash, IRC or whatever, but about how to deal with clashing egos, language & cultural barriers etc and how to arbitrate when experts disagree etc.
First there's the obvious issue of "negative intelligence" where plugging stupid people into a system has a detramental effect. How the hell will a system onf connected people filter out good input from stupid input? Plugging together more people just seems to make things worse. Decsisions by committees are generally worse than those by individuals.
Then there is the less obvious issue that intelligence is not uniformly good or bad. What makes sense in one situation (problem, country, culture, etc) does not necessarily make sense in another. Globbing together intelligence strips away the judgement.
Of course I didn't RTFA because that's cheating. It causes coagulation of the blood. Good on the outside, but you probably would not want any of this stuff to get inside your circulatory system and cause all your blood to change to jello.
Forced obsolesence is an attempt to force peopleto move on up. DOing this to XP is to help build the mindset that XP is old and it is time to think about Vista...
However, lots of people are still using W98, so their obsolecence program is not necessarily working all that well in personal user space. I'm sure that in corporate space (where they make their money) it works a treat.
There is a very big difference between the mathematical definition of randomness and what people mean when they say they want randomness. When you design a product and say it is random, then you're bbetter off trying to fit in with what people expect when they say random, rather than a strict mathematical definition.
THe Ministry of Food, or whatever they were, had a glut of carrots. To help convince people to eat more carrots they helped build this story that carrots were the secret weapon. Fighter pilots etc were heros to the kids of the day, so the story helped a lot of kids get munching... "Now Johnny, eat your carrots, all the fighter pilots do!". There was also an element of FUDing the Germans, but that was a lesser thing.
C'mon bullshit folks! Exactly how is suspended animation on a massive scale useful?
Sure, manybe a few people need to be placed in suspended animation to be sent into deep space or such, but for such small numbers freezing is probably OK.
This is not supposed to be a substitute for RFID, well not in all applications anyway.
Unfortunately people, and in this case TFA, often compare technologies that have different intended uses (eg. Bluetooth vs Wifi). Sure they have some overlap, but they differ in many ways too.
Sure it helps to have real weapons that work, but so often weapons of dubious ability get unwarranted iconic status, mainly in the war of the minds to convince friendlies that they have the edge. This is nothing new and dates back to shamans claiming they have the gods on their side.
Recently we've had the Patriot Missile BS where pretty hopeless systems were claimed to be invincible. During WW2 there were carrots (gave the British superior night vision) and the Americans had the Norton Bombsight - both of which have over-hype PR which exists to this day. No doubt this will continue as long as conflict of any sort exists.
Considering our space boffins have a problem seeing large asteroids really close up -- not even one light second away -- http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/06/20/asteroid. miss/ why should we believe that they have seen all the black holes many light years away?
Most of the business MS cares about are corporations that don't "rush out and buy", but plan the expenditure many months in advance. Many organisations would have budgeted IT expenditure on Vista. For many, finalcial year == calendar year. That means people want to be able to spend their money before the end of the year to keep their budgets clean.
So, regardless of the state of Vista, something is very likely going to get shipped before the end of the year, even if it gets followed in a few months with a service pack that makes it half-decent.
You'd think then that the same basic argument would then be applied to those doing online gambling on offshore sites. In other words, the US constitution & law should have no control over offshre sites.
Unfortunately it would seem that governments are pretty selective to get what they want.
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What makes the e-industry e-worse is that there is no practical use for many junked items. Sure, you can reuse the aluminium etc, but there's so little for the amount of work involved in stripping it. Car bodies can be recycled quite easily because there's lots of metal for relatively little effort.
If you've read any reliable reports you will know that the total cost of owership of a MS-based PC is far less than a Linux one. Therefore your company should be able to afford to fit many PCs on your desk and you won't have to use virtual desktops.
Yeah!
Again, the water cooling could just be engineering overkill for market hype purposes.
Sometimes overclocking can be achieved by screening regular chips, and overclocked chips are justscreened to be able to perform higher than specced. Of course, with non critical parts they just let the consumer do the sceening.
MS makes their money from corporates who buy PCs whole. MS does not make money from the sort of people that build their own PCs and upgrade motherboards. Because these people don't make MS monet, they are a pain in the ass and there is no need, from a business perspective, to keep them happy.
Well almost. Children have no right to privacy from their parents. They can earn some privilege to some privacy, but this is not a right.
I could see the parents being held liable if they knew about this whole fiasco before it got shut down by MySpace. But what about the far more likely case that they had no idea?
That is for the courts to determine on a case-by-case basis. But, it is right that parents should be prosecuted, even if they are not guilty, or found guilty, in this case. There is a big difference between prosecution and guilt. If the parents have failed in their duties then they are responsible. If they had no idea, then they should be the ones taking corrective measures to ensure that they limit access to internet etc.
What is very good about this is that parents are being **prosecuted** which sends the message that they cannot abdicate resposibility.
Listening to a user base and delivering will do a lot more than trying to expend effort in trying to compete against MS/IE.
Raising kids is hard work (got 2 me'self), and it is **your** work, not the state's or school's work or myspace's work!
Now how did that work?
from some nice people who want me to cum like a porn star. If it works I'll put it in cvs.
How exactly is a $100 PC going to improve the lives of third-worlder? Most third-worlders don't have $100 in their back pockets. If they did they'd probably put it into something a bit more practical like a well to provide clean water or a hay box cooker or a bicycle. Many/most third-world schools are short very basic things like paper,pencils and erasers, so to think they're going to have internet connections etc is crazy.
Sure, cities have reasonable services, but in some areas I am well aquainted with, absolulutely nobody has a bank account (let alone a credit card), phone (in fact only one in ten or so have ever used a phone), Fedex, etc. If something breaks, there is no support structure to fix it.
If you really want to help these people send something practical. Hook up with a charity that supports a school and send them money for pencils and books, or sends them seeds and vegetable growing starter packs or funds digging village wells or anything remotely practical.
These "studies" are hardly statistically valid and you can pick and choose studies to support any case you want to make.
Put any discussion like this in a technical/Geek forum and the debate becomes about what kind of technology will make this all work. Sorry folks, even with a perfect UI or whatever, this is fundamentally a people problem. The major limitations are not how to deal with html, flash, IRC or whatever, but about how to deal with clashing egos, language & cultural barriers etc and how to arbitrate when experts disagree etc.
Then there is the less obvious issue that intelligence is not uniformly good or bad. What makes sense in one situation (problem, country, culture, etc) does not necessarily make sense in another. Globbing together intelligence strips away the judgement.
However, lots of people are still using W98, so their obsolecence program is not necessarily working all that well in personal user space. I'm sure that in corporate space (where they make their money) it works a treat.
There is a very big difference between the mathematical definition of randomness and what people mean when they say they want randomness. When you design a product and say it is random, then you're bbetter off trying to fit in with what people expect when they say random, rather than a strict mathematical definition.
THe Ministry of Food, or whatever they were, had a glut of carrots. To help convince people to eat more carrots they helped build this story that carrots were the secret weapon. Fighter pilots etc were heros to the kids of the day, so the story helped a lot of kids get munching... "Now Johnny, eat your carrots, all the fighter pilots do!". There was also an element of FUDing the Germans, but that was a lesser thing.
Sure, manybe a few people need to be placed in suspended animation to be sent into deep space or such, but for such small numbers freezing is probably OK.
Unfortunately people, and in this case TFA, often compare technologies that have different intended uses (eg. Bluetooth vs Wifi). Sure they have some overlap, but they differ in many ways too.
Recently we've had the Patriot Missile BS where pretty hopeless systems were claimed to be invincible. During WW2 there were carrots (gave the British superior night vision) and the Americans had the Norton Bombsight - both of which have over-hype PR which exists to this day. No doubt this will continue as long as conflict of any sort exists.
And as history has shown, people cling to fashions and style for a long time which is why we still see bustles and hooped skirts.
Considering our space boffins have a problem seeing large asteroids really close up -- not even one light second away -- http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/06/20/asteroid. miss/ why should we believe that they have seen all the black holes many light years away?
So, regardless of the state of Vista, something is very likely going to get shipped before the end of the year, even if it gets followed in a few months with a service pack that makes it half-decent.
Unfortunately it would seem that governments are pretty selective to get what they want.