Aside from the kids, a lot of it depends on where you live too. In my area, the median income for a family was $37k in 2000 (gross, of course). My income AFTER TAXES, probably around $40k (my job's got some nice benefits, so I don't always see cash immediately).
I'm guessing I'd be just below the median for a family currently after taxes, which means I'm doing better for myself (single) than what quite a few couples and other singles are doing. If someone was in a similar situation as I am (single, new home, paid off car, about $15k in student loans), if you're pulling down $100k, chances are good, after taxes, you're probably pulling in more money than I am. If you're in a similar area, you're also MUCH better off than I am (housing's gone up so $100k a year gross will get you at least 2000 sq ft homes here for only 2x your gross PPY)--at this point, I'd consider you rich (making lots of money in a fairly poor area).
Now, for comparison... to become a member of Responsible Wealth, you have to be in the top 5% of earners in the country--currently this is around $125k. Now realize 125k doesn't go as far in CA or the northeast, but it still makes you friggin' rich compared to the 95% that's below you.
Well, that's actually rather misleading seeing as you need to buy deep into your means to pay enough interest to actually get a nice portion of your money back. If you buy a house you can REALLY afford, that's not likely to happen so much.
Same is true with student loans, the interest on enough loans to go to an affordable state school generally isn't enough to give you a sizeable deduction.
Also, your interest paid in a year drops as your principle is paid, meaning you get smaller and smaller deductions. The fact that they're only deductions means that you can only get a fraction of your money back, as well.
To me, it just sounds like they try to give a break to people who go farthest into debt.
Are you kidding about the DVD part? For $5 each, I've had 5 DVD's in my hands before I knew what I was doing. They don't even have to be that good and I'll still buy 5 before I think stop to think about what I'm buying.
I think it has to do with NOX and sulpher emissions and the laws in some states being too harsh for diesels (CA comes to mind). Several companies are working on fixing this situation--technologically. It's looking promising.
They were in on the talks with the rest of the memory standards organization JEDEC. JEDEC's rules say that members must disclose all IP and licensing terms.
Rambus not only didn't do that, they pimped their own knowledge of ram and techniques to speed up ram AND applied for/lengthened patents crucial to SDRAM and DDR SDRAM. When it started to become obvious that RDRAM was simply not going to make it in the market (Intel's RDRAM chipsets could NOT compete against it's own SDRAM chipsets--i820/i840 vs 440BX), Rambus decided sue anybody and everybody who produced SDRAM and DDR SDRAM but didn't buy licenses.
Intel really didn't have anything that showed off RDRAM's abilities until they went dual channel with the P4's i850. At that time, RDRAM still cost too much and DDR SDRAM went dual channel soon after.
Don't think the high cost of RDRAM was all to blame on the manufacturers and Rambus' license either. A lot of that was in the fabrication and packaging issues. At the time Rambus came out, SDRAM ran at 100/133 MHz while Rambus was at 800 MHz--really 400 Mhz DDR. So there were OBVIOUS electrical characteristics issues that had to be taken care of at the fab and package levels to bring yields up at a time when memory manufacturers were LOSING money per part. Had RDRAM come out sooner, or come out faster at a later date, things probably would have turned out differently.
Actually it has to be installed in pairs because the chipsets were made dual channel for performance reasons(see the i850E based motherboards from intel), while the sticks were still single channel.
You can now find dual channel sticks for dual channel chipsets, however (sis is the only maker, IIRC).
Actually that's the reason why most food from cultures not heavily associated with the west have little or no dairy. I think the numbers are that 80% of the world's population are lactose intolerant because humans are one of the few animals that regularly eat/drink dairy products into adulthood, and even among humans, that's mostly restricted to the west.
Isn't there a formula relating thrust, lift, mass, wing area, and the force of gravity on an object? That said, with that formula, making thrust and wing area large, produces enough lift to allow an object of a particular mass to defy the acceleration of gravity?
I think your point may have been that proofs aren't simple truths in the world, but the exploitation of a true(or true enough, for engineering) mathematical model from the real world allows you to create a repeatable experiment and thus, engineer a solution to your problem.
^_^ Well I was just making commentary on cost per unit given total cost.
Where I work in the semiconductor industry, we can spend millions to develop a product and then sell it for under a quarter each. That's factored for number of units sold over a set period of time (5+ years for some parts and under 3 for others). However, if we don't expect to sell much in the way of volume, the cost per unit (to the customer AND for us) quickly rises.
Quite frankly, I'm fascinated by how fast cost per unit drops towards zero as volume scales.
Well, given the costs of producing the record and spreading the price of that over the number of units possibly sold over several years, it is probably closer (if not higher than) 50 cents per CD.
Now if you're talking blank disks, the fab house for those is probably making them for under a penny each depending on what kind of volume they have and what kinds of losses they have associated with production.
My logitech MX500 and Trackball are both run through PS/2 ports (home and work respectively). This is to take advantage of the higher report rates that PS/2 supports vs the 100 reports/s on USB.
Now, why would I need this? 100 report/s still looks jerky to me, and that's annoying thing to deal with when I'm working in CAD software. It's still a preference thing, but PS/2 is STILL better for a mouse in my book, but I guess a keyboard doesn't need it anymore.
Have you tried Ace's HardwareThey have a server guide comparing Dual Xeons and Opterons along with a Quad Opteron system. You can also cross reference with their workstation tests for some dual Athlon MP tests.
I know they used Linux in their server guide review, but I'm foggy on their older reviews since I haven't read those for quite some time.
As much as I don't trust the government to do a lot of things, I don't trust industry to do a lot of things either.
In other words, fear 'big brother'--who doesn't have to be the government, he just has to be someone who can force his will on you with money or power.
Power generation and distribution's a hard issue because of several issues. One problem I see is the question of how willing are they to take a short term loss (which could be huge) to make long term gains. Also, do you just want your power system to be 'good' enough or heavily over engineered and do you expect a company (private OR public) to spend the money to over engineer?
Didn't he say he was planning on giving most of it away by the time he's dead and leaving just $1 millon per dependent (though they may not be so dependent by that time)?
Actually, since most of the cost of production is fixed--everything except physical production. The more units they make (and can sell) the lower the cost per unit to them (at infinite units, they would only be paying for the physical production of the CD).
It's mostly a question of HOW MANY can they sell at the lower price point. If they keep on making crap, they'll just go out of business faster because they couldn't move the product.
I just hope they ruin the life of someone particularly unstable and has lots of guns. The bloodshed at the corporate offices promises to be amusing. I just hope whoever the gunman is shows a little discrimination in who gets targeted--letting the office workers go while attacking the execs.
They probably don't deserve that level of retribution, but what do you expect when you ruin someone's life (even if that's only from the victim's viewpoint).
I think it's more worrying that I'm amused by this prospect.
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Just curious, what exactly are you building up to that you spent so much? My last build probably didn't top $1000 and that's including the rather large sum I spent on the case and video card.
Nah, even MS tries to make a product worth more to the buyer. Look at how much butt kissing they put in with every revision, too bad everytime the OS puckers up, it grows teeth and bites too. Now if only they could come up with an OS that would truly suck without the teeth.
Only problem is that it's QWORST!!!! I'd freakin' kill to have some other company handling the lines, or better yet, 3 to 10 companies! Forget the ISP's, that's easy, I want a phone company that offers better than 2 mbps bothways for $50!
The idea's the same, but Herbert's line was "Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase that reluctance."
Brin's is, I believe, "It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
As far as I'm concerned, they're both right, and depending on the whole quote, I'd rather credit for the whole quote.
As to being a hack or not, I make no judgements of that nature.
I for one welcome our new robot overlords and promise to work my hardest at appeasing them and aiding them in crushing the flimsy meat bags that resist their logical rulership!
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I could have sworn they used microwave dishes for this and got OC3 level performance out of them (at least). Last I heard, Lucent had functional 10 Gbit lasers, didn't they?
I personally can't wait until the penalties are so harsh that copyright infringers may as well start committing murder for fun and profit. After all, if you're going to get punished for the crime, may as well make the punishment fit.
Nah, AMD's not a platform provider, and as such don't have an in-house compiler. They do work hard to make sure other compilers do an adequate job on their processors though (reference Aceshardware.com's early SSE/SSE2 benchmarks and compare MS's vs Intels on the Intel and AMD systems).
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Aside from the kids, a lot of it depends on where you live too. In my area, the median income for a family was $37k in 2000 (gross, of course). My income AFTER TAXES, probably around $40k (my job's got some nice benefits, so I don't always see cash immediately).
I'm guessing I'd be just below the median for a family currently after taxes, which means I'm doing better for myself (single) than what quite a few couples and other singles are doing. If someone was in a similar situation as I am (single, new home, paid off car, about $15k in student loans), if you're pulling down $100k, chances are good, after taxes, you're probably pulling in more money than I am. If you're in a similar area, you're also MUCH better off than I am (housing's gone up so $100k a year gross will get you at least 2000 sq ft homes here for only 2x your gross PPY)--at this point, I'd consider you rich (making lots of money in a fairly poor area).
Now, for comparison... to become a member of Responsible Wealth, you have to be in the top 5% of earners in the country--currently this is around $125k. Now realize 125k doesn't go as far in CA or the northeast, but it still makes you friggin' rich compared to the 95% that's below you.
Well, that's actually rather misleading seeing as you need to buy deep into your means to pay enough interest to actually get a nice portion of your money back. If you buy a house you can REALLY afford, that's not likely to happen so much.
Same is true with student loans, the interest on enough loans to go to an affordable state school generally isn't enough to give you a sizeable deduction.
Also, your interest paid in a year drops as your principle is paid, meaning you get smaller and smaller deductions. The fact that they're only deductions means that you can only get a fraction of your money back, as well.
To me, it just sounds like they try to give a break to people who go farthest into debt.
Are you kidding about the DVD part? For $5 each, I've had 5 DVD's in my hands before I knew what I was doing. They don't even have to be that good and I'll still buy 5 before I think stop to think about what I'm buying.
I think it has to do with NOX and sulpher emissions and the laws in some states being too harsh for diesels (CA comes to mind). Several companies are working on fixing this situation--technologically. It's looking promising.
They were in on the talks with the rest of the memory standards organization JEDEC. JEDEC's rules say that members must disclose all IP and licensing terms.
Rambus not only didn't do that, they pimped their own knowledge of ram and techniques to speed up ram AND applied for/lengthened patents crucial to SDRAM and DDR SDRAM. When it started to become obvious that RDRAM was simply not going to make it in the market (Intel's RDRAM chipsets could NOT compete against it's own SDRAM chipsets--i820/i840 vs 440BX), Rambus decided sue anybody and everybody who produced SDRAM and DDR SDRAM but didn't buy licenses.
Intel really didn't have anything that showed off RDRAM's abilities until they went dual channel with the P4's i850. At that time, RDRAM still cost too much and DDR SDRAM went dual channel soon after.
Don't think the high cost of RDRAM was all to blame on the manufacturers and Rambus' license either. A lot of that was in the fabrication and packaging issues. At the time Rambus came out, SDRAM ran at 100/133 MHz while Rambus was at 800 MHz--really 400 Mhz DDR. So there were OBVIOUS electrical characteristics issues that had to be taken care of at the fab and package levels to bring yields up at a time when memory manufacturers were LOSING money per part. Had RDRAM come out sooner, or come out faster at a later date, things probably would have turned out differently.
Actually it has to be installed in pairs because the chipsets were made dual channel for performance reasons(see the i850E based motherboards from intel), while the sticks were still single channel.
You can now find dual channel sticks for dual channel chipsets, however (sis is the only maker, IIRC).
Actually that's the reason why most food from cultures not heavily associated with the west have little or no dairy. I think the numbers are that 80% of the world's population are lactose intolerant because humans are one of the few animals that regularly eat/drink dairy products into adulthood, and even among humans, that's mostly restricted to the west.
Isn't there a formula relating thrust, lift, mass, wing area, and the force of gravity on an object? That said, with that formula, making thrust and wing area large, produces enough lift to allow an object of a particular mass to defy the acceleration of gravity?
I think your point may have been that proofs aren't simple truths in the world, but the exploitation of a true(or true enough, for engineering) mathematical model from the real world allows you to create a repeatable experiment and thus, engineer a solution to your problem.
^_^ Well I was just making commentary on cost per unit given total cost. Where I work in the semiconductor industry, we can spend millions to develop a product and then sell it for under a quarter each. That's factored for number of units sold over a set period of time (5+ years for some parts and under 3 for others). However, if we don't expect to sell much in the way of volume, the cost per unit (to the customer AND for us) quickly rises. Quite frankly, I'm fascinated by how fast cost per unit drops towards zero as volume scales.
Well, given the costs of producing the record and spreading the price of that over the number of units possibly sold over several years, it is probably closer (if not higher than) 50 cents per CD.
Now if you're talking blank disks, the fab house for those is probably making them for under a penny each depending on what kind of volume they have and what kinds of losses they have associated with production.
I'll back up the other comment about this.
My logitech MX500 and Trackball are both run through PS/2 ports (home and work respectively). This is to take advantage of the higher report rates that PS/2 supports vs the 100 reports/s on USB.
Now, why would I need this? 100 report/s still looks jerky to me, and that's annoying thing to deal with when I'm working in CAD software. It's still a preference thing, but PS/2 is STILL better for a mouse in my book, but I guess a keyboard doesn't need it anymore.
Have you tried Ace's HardwareThey have a server guide comparing Dual Xeons and Opterons along with a Quad Opteron system. You can also cross reference with their workstation tests for some dual Athlon MP tests.
I know they used Linux in their server guide review, but I'm foggy on their older reviews since I haven't read those for quite some time.
As much as I don't trust the government to do a lot of things, I don't trust industry to do a lot of things either.
In other words, fear 'big brother'--who doesn't have to be the government, he just has to be someone who can force his will on you with money or power.
Power generation and distribution's a hard issue because of several issues. One problem I see is the question of how willing are they to take a short term loss (which could be huge) to make long term gains. Also, do you just want your power system to be 'good' enough or heavily over engineered and do you expect a company (private OR public) to spend the money to over engineer?
Didn't he say he was planning on giving most of it away by the time he's dead and leaving just $1 millon per dependent (though they may not be so dependent by that time)?
Actually, since most of the cost of production is fixed--everything except physical production. The more units they make (and can sell) the lower the cost per unit to them (at infinite units, they would only be paying for the physical production of the CD).
It's mostly a question of HOW MANY can they sell at the lower price point. If they keep on making crap, they'll just go out of business faster because they couldn't move the product.
I just hope they ruin the life of someone particularly unstable and has lots of guns. The bloodshed at the corporate offices promises to be amusing. I just hope whoever the gunman is shows a little discrimination in who gets targeted--letting the office workers go while attacking the execs.
They probably don't deserve that level of retribution, but what do you expect when you ruin someone's life (even if that's only from the victim's viewpoint).
I think it's more worrying that I'm amused by this prospect.
Ace's Hardware has a review you might be interested in reading:
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Just curious, what exactly are you building up to that you spent so much? My last build probably didn't top $1000 and that's including the rather large sum I spent on the case and video card.
Nah, even MS tries to make a product worth more to the buyer. Look at how much butt kissing they put in with every revision, too bad everytime the OS puckers up, it grows teeth and bites too. Now if only they could come up with an OS that would truly suck without the teeth.
Only problem is that it's QWORST!!!! I'd freakin' kill to have some other company handling the lines, or better yet, 3 to 10 companies! Forget the ISP's, that's easy, I want a phone company that offers better than 2 mbps bothways for $50!
The idea's the same, but Herbert's line was "Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase that reluctance."
Brin's is, I believe, "It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
As far as I'm concerned, they're both right, and depending on the whole quote, I'd rather credit for the whole quote.
As to being a hack or not, I make no judgements of that nature.
I for one welcome our new robot overlords and promise to work my hardest at appeasing them and aiding them in crushing the flimsy meat bags that resist their logical rulership!
I could have sworn they used microwave dishes for this and got OC3 level performance out of them (at least). Last I heard, Lucent had functional 10 Gbit lasers, didn't they?
I personally can't wait until the penalties are so harsh that copyright infringers may as well start committing murder for fun and profit. After all, if you're going to get punished for the crime, may as well make the punishment fit.
Nah, AMD's not a platform provider, and as such don't have an in-house compiler. They do work hard to make sure other compilers do an adequate job on their processors though (reference Aceshardware.com's early SSE/SSE2 benchmarks and compare MS's vs Intels on the Intel and AMD systems).