I'd argue that the end-users are at fault just as much. It's hardly been a secret that the iphone you buy was manufactured by smog factories and assembled by slave labor.
Apple isn't the only company that calls a product "green" as long as the pollution takes place on the other side of the world. Google "china" and "mercury poisoning".
Mind you, I have a fairly recent quad core Intel proc in my Windows 7 workstation, and it runs software only available on Windows (which is why I have it) pretty well.
But, rightly or wrongly, I associate Intel with big hot power hungry hardware, that you *must* have if you have apps that need Windows, and ARM with low power battery sipping appliances. Android seems made for the latter, and out of place on the former. I can understand why Intel wants to get a piece of the Android pie -- they are protecting their market, and they want to have a cohesive appliance design that will run both Metro and Android. But do we really *need* Android on Intel?
I don't really need Android running on my workstation. That's what Winders is for. On the other hand, I don't really want a white hot Intel proc in my tablet. What am I missing?
Adobe is working on porting their products to Android/touch, and eventually I may be able to jettison Windows [1]. At the same time, my intention is to jettison the traditional KVM and switch to touch. [2] At that point I'm not sure why I would still need Intel.
[1] Parenthetically, Microsoft had a chance to jump on the touch market early, with a superior interface, but chose to relegate Surface to Movie Prop status and missed their chance to survive when Windows finally becomes irrelevant. But that's another story.
[2] It should be repeated, Windows is not an application, it's a program loader and resource manager. All those effects we struggle to turn off just makes the hardware run hotter.
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The Occupy Wall Street movement descended into self-parody shortly after it started. The participants themselves trivialized whatever issues they had by their own actions during the protest. Like a lot of people, I cared about the issues, but had to cringe at how silly and empty the protest became, and now wouldn't be associated with them for a big bag of gold.
The name had ceased to mean anything long before we started making fun of it.
I remember looking at the Rambus approach back in the nineties, and it didn't look practical. High latency, high power consumption, high cost, high complexity (which implies lower yield, which drives cost) and my most favorite of all, a single vendor. I didn't see why anyone would buy their stuff. Yes, they had the fastest throughput for awhile, but throughput isn't everything.
Does this mean they're finished as a company? Does anyone still buy Rambus devices?
I personally am looking forward to a bunch of people stumbling around with a human inventor whom they call "Doctor Who" as they remake one of the more pedestrian and overused storylines. That would be so much better than, say, bringing back Paul McGann (who got robbed in my opinion) and filling in the final time war and destruction of Gallifrey that occurred between Doctor Who (1996) and Rose (2005) but was never filmed.
You might be right about cloud services, but I'm not sure people will see that much of a difference. Most of the speed increases advertised are for *down* speed, with only a minor increase in *up* speed, which you'd need to back up large amounts of data to "the cloud". Personally, I back up my stuff to a removable hard drive. (I use raw drives plugged into a "drive toaster" rather than paying premium for drives in their own enclosure.) Plug it in, ghost it, mark it with Sharpie, put it on the shelf. Faster than any network bandwidth I'm likely to be able to afford. Disaster Recovery is a mutual agreement to hold a backup drive for a friend if he will hold one for me.
But I'm a professional photographer, and I have thousands of raw photos online. I'm hardly a normal consumer. I would expect consumers who needed that kind of storage to be less than 5%.
I completely agree with the part about throttling. The only reason to have that kind of speed is if you're going to move massive amounts of data. The ISP wants you to pay for speed without actually using it for it's only practical purpose. (Moving massive amounts of data to and from "the cloud".) Is it any wonder that there are few takers?
Parenthetically, I'm waiting for an "oops" moment from one or more of "the cloud" services, and poof, your grandchildren's photos are gone. It's not like it's never happened before.
First of all, upgrading to fiber and provisioning for "superfast" are two different things. Putting fiber infrastructure in place, (having it run to your house when available) makes sense for future expansion even if you're not provisioned at the maximum rate.
I'd have expected less than 5% adoption for 24 Mb/sec. Most consumers don't need that kind of bandwidth for anything legal except for bragging rights or because they don't understand the difference between speed and latency. Most of the performance issues I've seen appear to be on the other (hosting) end anyway, where bandwidth to your house doesn't help at all. Even if the server side had unlimited upload bandwidth, who cares if a web page refreshes in 1/32 of a second instead of 1/16 of a second?
I had 25 down for awhile (on fiber) but only paid for that because it gave me 5 up and I was hosting websites at the time. I never got even close to needing 25 down, not even with a Roku box downstairs and Netflix plugin in media center upstairs, going at the same time while I was torrenting the latest CentOS release. I've since backed it off to 15 down 3 up and didn't notice the difference other than in my wallet. I'm still glad I have fiber to the house (uptime has been phenomenal) but let's be practical here.
Oh man, me too. Wife and daughter find this really irritating. I have a habit during the show of shouting out "that's actually true!" and "CERN reported that just last week!"
I especially like Howard's bits because his mishaps and adventures are so often connected to real life -- like the ISS toilet episode, and the time he got Spirit stuck in the sand.
You can bet Chuck Lorre will put something about this finding in a future episode. Hopefully it won't be a chili bean joke.
There is a second verse. My daughter knows the words and sings it after the first verse at the beginning of every show. (I have a very small part -- I shout "they froze their asses off" at the right time.)
Only show with physics problems in the vanity card.
Let me let you in on a little secret -- corporations don't pay taxes. They "pass through" the taxes as higher prices. So the poor pay taxes, they just don't realize it. But try to say that at Occupy Wall Street, and the nooses start to come out.
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And that's entirely different from the Great China Firewall because... no wait...
What, you mean there isn't a big tastefully designed white and chrome machine in Cupertino that turns fairy dust into iphones?
(Where do they find the fairies, and do they shake them or just stuff them into the hopper?)
I'd argue that the end-users are at fault just as much. It's hardly been a secret that the iphone you buy was manufactured by smog factories and assembled by slave labor.
Apple isn't the only company that calls a product "green" as long as the pollution takes place on the other side of the world. Google "china" and "mercury poisoning".
My prediction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Pluto_Nash
Mind you, I have a fairly recent quad core Intel proc in my Windows 7 workstation, and it runs software only available on Windows (which is why I have it) pretty well.
But, rightly or wrongly, I associate Intel with big hot power hungry hardware, that you *must* have if you have apps that need Windows, and ARM with low power battery sipping appliances. Android seems made for the latter, and out of place on the former. I can understand why Intel wants to get a piece of the Android pie -- they are protecting their market, and they want to have a cohesive appliance design that will run both Metro and Android. But do we really *need* Android on Intel?
I don't really need Android running on my workstation. That's what Winders is for. On the other hand, I don't really want a white hot Intel proc in my tablet. What am I missing?
Adobe is working on porting their products to Android/touch, and eventually I may be able to jettison Windows [1]. At the same time, my intention is to jettison the traditional KVM and switch to touch. [2] At that point I'm not sure why I would still need Intel.
[1] Parenthetically, Microsoft had a chance to jump on the touch market early, with a superior interface, but chose to relegate Surface to Movie Prop status and missed their chance to survive when Windows finally becomes irrelevant. But that's another story.
[2] It should be repeated, Windows is not an application, it's a program loader and resource manager. All those effects we struggle to turn off just makes the hardware run hotter.
The Occupy Wall Street movement descended into self-parody shortly after it started. The participants themselves trivialized whatever issues they had by their own actions during the protest. Like a lot of people, I cared about the issues, but had to cringe at how silly and empty the protest became, and now wouldn't be associated with them for a big bag of gold.
The name had ceased to mean anything long before we started making fun of it.
But it *is* funny!
> Clearly the "Occupy" meme is being abused now.
Now?? Where have you been??
I remember looking at the Rambus approach back in the nineties, and it didn't look practical. High latency, high power consumption, high cost, high complexity (which implies lower yield, which drives cost) and my most favorite of all, a single vendor. I didn't see why anyone would buy their stuff. Yes, they had the fastest throughput for awhile, but throughput isn't everything.
Does this mean they're finished as a company? Does anyone still buy Rambus devices?
Ok, that's informative. Two followon questions:
(1) Do you have to be the size of the SEIU in order to quit the AFL-CIO?
(2) Can you quit the SEIU?
It all depends on whom gets to define "steal".
Can you quit the AFL-CIO?
Both, probably.
I've seen I Spy. It sounds just like something Hollywood would do. Avoid at all costs.
You're right, and -- bonus -- we pay for the abuse. I'm thinking unless something truly amazing happens, I'll be avoiding this.
In other words, there's no news here. I'm actually a little relieved.
I personally am looking forward to a bunch of people stumbling around with a human inventor whom they call "Doctor Who" as they remake one of the more pedestrian and overused storylines. That would be so much better than, say, bringing back Paul McGann (who got robbed in my opinion) and filling in the final time war and destruction of Gallifrey that occurred between Doctor Who (1996) and Rose (2005) but was never filmed.
You might be right about cloud services, but I'm not sure people will see that much of a difference. Most of the speed increases advertised are for *down* speed, with only a minor increase in *up* speed, which you'd need to back up large amounts of data to "the cloud". Personally, I back up my stuff to a removable hard drive. (I use raw drives plugged into a "drive toaster" rather than paying premium for drives in their own enclosure.) Plug it in, ghost it, mark it with Sharpie, put it on the shelf. Faster than any network bandwidth I'm likely to be able to afford. Disaster Recovery is a mutual agreement to hold a backup drive for a friend if he will hold one for me.
But I'm a professional photographer, and I have thousands of raw photos online. I'm hardly a normal consumer. I would expect consumers who needed that kind of storage to be less than 5%.
I completely agree with the part about throttling. The only reason to have that kind of speed is if you're going to move massive amounts of data. The ISP wants you to pay for speed without actually using it for it's only practical purpose. (Moving massive amounts of data to and from "the cloud".) Is it any wonder that there are few takers?
Parenthetically, I'm waiting for an "oops" moment from one or more of "the cloud" services, and poof, your grandchildren's photos are gone. It's not like it's never happened before.
First of all, upgrading to fiber and provisioning for "superfast" are two different things. Putting fiber infrastructure in place, (having it run to your house when available) makes sense for future expansion even if you're not provisioned at the maximum rate.
I'd have expected less than 5% adoption for 24 Mb/sec. Most consumers don't need that kind of bandwidth for anything legal except for bragging rights or because they don't understand the difference between speed and latency. Most of the performance issues I've seen appear to be on the other (hosting) end anyway, where bandwidth to your house doesn't help at all. Even if the server side had unlimited upload bandwidth, who cares if a web page refreshes in 1/32 of a second instead of 1/16 of a second?
I had 25 down for awhile (on fiber) but only paid for that because it gave me 5 up and I was hosting websites at the time. I never got even close to needing 25 down, not even with a Roku box downstairs and Netflix plugin in media center upstairs, going at the same time while I was torrenting the latest CentOS release. I've since backed it off to 15 down 3 up and didn't notice the difference other than in my wallet. I'm still glad I have fiber to the house (uptime has been phenomenal) but let's be practical here.
Oh man, me too. Wife and daughter find this really irritating. I have a habit during the show of shouting out "that's actually true!" and "CERN reported that just last week!"
I especially like Howard's bits because his mishaps and adventures are so often connected to real life -- like the ISS toilet episode, and the time he got Spirit stuck in the sand.
You can bet Chuck Lorre will put something about this finding in a future episode. Hopefully it won't be a chili bean joke.
C'mon, join in!
The Earth began to cool,
The autotrophs began to drool,
Neanderthals developed tools,
We built a wall (we built the pyramids),
Math, science, history, unraveling the mystery,
That all started with a big bang! Bang!"
There is a second verse. My daughter knows the words and sings it after the first verse at the beginning of every show. (I have a very small part -- I shout "they froze their asses off" at the right time.)
Only show with physics problems in the vanity card.
Let me let you in on a little secret -- corporations don't pay taxes. They "pass through" the taxes as higher prices. So the poor pay taxes, they just don't realize it. But try to say that at Occupy Wall Street, and the nooses start to come out.
The problem is, autocratic governments tend only to institutionalize greed and confine it to the people in power.