301 wouldn't really help... The cruise along the Eastern shore is pleasant enough, but eventually it would merge back onto 95 and you'd still have to deal with that nightmare of a 95/495/Deleware Memorial split near Wilmington. I don't think truckers would take the extra miles that 301 requires just to miss the Baltimore traffic, while still having to tackle route 50.
I think what we really need is a beltway all the way around Baltimore AND Washington:) Take that new ICC (route 200) and keep going! Or maybe a giant tunnel under the whole area... they do like tunnels around DC.
I'm pulling from memory here, but I think that they did consider fuel. However, the planes today hold more fuel, they did not account for the missing (destroyed) fireproofing, they did not account for the furniture getting piled up in one area and concentrating the fire, and I don't think that they conceived that the inner wall would be breached.
I think "miracle" is a bit strong, but I certainly felt that my first iPod was the coolest electronic thing that I'd ever owned... at the time everything else had either too little storage or was too bulky, and the firewire meant that you didn't have to wait for hours while it loaded up. Even later once Toshiba managed to release one about the same size, they f'd up the DRM so badly that the USB2 connection behaved like a USB1.1 connection on the hardware of the day.
I don't have one myself, but the iPhone really changed the game in that you now had a credible web browser in pocket-able form factor, and it even had a mediocre phone capability. Considering that I remember when a StarTac was really amazing, I'd say the iPhone was close to miraculous.
The Macs are mostly just computers. But even there they manage to do things like Time Machine, which is really, even now, the only backup solution worth a shit for the unwashed masses. And one of their laptops paired with one of their Time Capsules is pretty close to laptop Nirvana between the 801.11n and the automatic backup... all setup with a big "On" switch and virtually nothing else.
But miracles is still some pretty big hyperbole...
I wonder if he appreciates that he'd have been unable to do this if everyone operated the way Microsoft does.
I think you misread. A company essentially contracted him to come in and fix bugs. Are you telling me that MS wouldn't let you see their code if they contracted with you to come in and fix bugs?
My God, look at the man... I didn't know this was even in question.
Anyway, anyone who went as out-of-the-way as he did to get computing time back in the day is a geek in my book. I wasn't alive back then, so I can't say for sure - but I doubt I would have spent that much effort trying to get little slivers of mainframe time.
And what exactly is your educational background? I'm not going to pretend to be anything but a mechanical engineer, but your post seems to indicate a weak science background.
But to answer your question:
but does that mean that low effect over time = no result at all?
Your microwave cooks food by pumping in hundreds of watts worth of photons which are absorbed by the food. The food cannot emit the same number of photons at the same pace, so it heats up. Proteins and other materials change when heated beyond a certain temperature... and so you have cooked food. If you pump in fewer photons... like say a few miliwatts, the food is able to emit that and doesn't heat up... so no, you won't have the same effect.
Why, how do you think a microwave works? And how does this apply to very small wattages?
Any engineer worth his (or her) salt knows that RPN is the way to numerically solve an equation. The algebraic entry using parentheses is for suckers. So that got me thinking... why not use RPN for equation entry? As usual, I'm late to the game. There is a Mac app here. Sorry, the site is Japanese...
There is a web app here. Seems to work well. You can make pretty big equations quickly, and the result is in tex.
No one is talking about sending 600 watts of continuous EM waves at airline passengers. My grandfather used to heat up hot dogs in front of the radar dish of his ship during WW2... microwave ovens aren't news for the even remotely educated, and the effect of high-powered EM waves are not being debated. Regular old sunlight is EM, and that makes you hot as well. Put your hand too close to a lightbulb and you'll get a nice burn from all of that "dangerous" EM.
Further, these waves can't pass through water... so unless we're worried about skin cancer I'm pretty sure any health claims are going to be overblown.
It may be - case law is mixed on End User License Agreements... but it shouldn't be on their side. If you want to impose terms on a sale, then you should make me agree to a contract as a condition of sale. Post-sale terms are sleazy, no matter how legal.
You are correct, and this is perhaps why they are going after Pystar. Does Apple care if someone with more money than time buys a cheap PC and a copy of OSX and makes a FrankenMac? No, probably not unless they are power tripping.
Do they care if a company starts selling a lot of these low-margin machines and taking away from their high-margin Mini and iMac sales? Oh, yeah.
I have a feeling the processor itself is not all that expensive in most "browse the web" computers. If ARM or some other processor is to make inroads it will have to be in the power department. A more efficient processor means a cheaper, lighter laptops with smaller batteries.
Yes, there are - but they all pale compared to reducing the number of autos on the road, which we definitely do NOT pursue. Instead we build more roads. We also have been raising rather than lowering speed limits.
Rural areas have higher auto death rates than cities do, because everyone must get around via car. If we were serious about reducing death, we'd go for the low-hanging fruit and at least TRY to get some cars off of the road. I would think that this would mean smarter urban planning and better public transit. Also education... if you just need a gallon of milk and the store is half a mile away, do you really need to drive?
The only other non-medical death heavy-hitters in this country are very hard to control more than they already are (poisonings, falls), or are completely unacceptable to control politically (firearms). In the case of firearms, very few of the deaths are accidents anyway.
That said, I'm just as fallible as everyone else and live where I need a car. In fact, I just moved here from NYC where I didn't need a car. I have a weakness for more space, fresh air, and cheaper prices:)
You are right - and people also need to realize just how dangerous cars are. In the US, we have 40,000+ deaths every year from automobile accidents, not to mention the maiming.
Look how wound up people get about war casualties... the Iraq war killed about 10x fewer Americans, and over 7 years, and they were (mostly) not American civilians.
Or look at the flu hysteria. 5000 dead worldwide, with emergencies getting declared. Where is the "automotive emergency"?
Every time we get into a car, we roll the dice. It is perhaps the most dangerous thing any of us will ever do, and yet we do it every day and whine about not being able to use our gadgets or drink our coffee! It's a true testament to our species inability to judge risk that we will fear a roller coaster but not the family minivan.
Don't take it too personally. It's just information. I moved away from New York and bought two cars... I've vastly increased my families footprint - but that doesn't change my decision to leave based on $$$.
I'm not sure that it was a million in one shot... let's say old-man McCain had a heart attack late in the campaign and some redneck clown got lucky and offed Obama... not exactly a one in a million chance:)
The sad thing is that the LP probably wouldn't win even if the other two candidates were dead.
Yeah a gold standard doesn't make any sense. Historically - under the gold standard - there were huge swings in the value of a dollar that were IMHO far more damaging than gradual inflation, which really only hurts long-term lenders and people who stuff paper money under their mattresses.
But I think you are wrong about there being no large boom or bust cycles. Our nation's (and the world's, for that matter) history is peppered with booms and busts.
It's a very complicated thing - regulating the money supply. The big surprise for me in this recession was how inexpensively the US government was able to borrow money. Normally, I'd be absolutely horrified at the amount of debt that we accrued... but the interest rate that they got kind of shut me right up. I'd borrow as much as I could at that rate, too!
Read about the Federal Reserve and it's role in banking. Then get back to me and tell me with a straight face that we have a "free market" in the US.
It is true that our banking system is very market-oriented, and I probably even agree with you that regulation is needed to avoid large boom and bust cycles at the cost of overall efficiency. But don't get disingenuous with your critiques.
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301 wouldn't really help... The cruise along the Eastern shore is pleasant enough, but eventually it would merge back onto 95 and you'd still have to deal with that nightmare of a 95/495/Deleware Memorial split near Wilmington. I don't think truckers would take the extra miles that 301 requires just to miss the Baltimore traffic, while still having to tackle route 50.
I think what we really need is a beltway all the way around Baltimore AND Washington :) Take that new ICC (route 200) and keep going! Or maybe a giant tunnel under the whole area... they do like tunnels around DC.
I'm pulling from memory here, but I think that they did consider fuel. However, the planes today hold more fuel, they did not account for the missing (destroyed) fireproofing, they did not account for the furniture getting piled up in one area and concentrating the fire, and I don't think that they conceived that the inner wall would be breached.
We're just nit-picking, so this is all in good fun...
First, you used 56 instead of 58, so your math is wrong. It's 2.52 times.
Anyway, I can totally see the thinking that got the 3x swag. if you round everything to a single significant digit, the math works out like this:
$58 -> $60
$23 -> $20
60 / 20 = 3x
I think "miracle" is a bit strong, but I certainly felt that my first iPod was the coolest electronic thing that I'd ever owned... at the time everything else had either too little storage or was too bulky, and the firewire meant that you didn't have to wait for hours while it loaded up. Even later once Toshiba managed to release one about the same size, they f'd up the DRM so badly that the USB2 connection behaved like a USB1.1 connection on the hardware of the day.
I don't have one myself, but the iPhone really changed the game in that you now had a credible web browser in pocket-able form factor, and it even had a mediocre phone capability. Considering that I remember when a StarTac was really amazing, I'd say the iPhone was close to miraculous.
The Macs are mostly just computers. But even there they manage to do things like Time Machine, which is really, even now, the only backup solution worth a shit for the unwashed masses. And one of their laptops paired with one of their Time Capsules is pretty close to laptop Nirvana between the 801.11n and the automatic backup... all setup with a big "On" switch and virtually nothing else.
But miracles is still some pretty big hyperbole...
I wonder if he appreciates that he'd have been unable to do this if everyone operated the way Microsoft does.
I think you misread. A company essentially contracted him to come in and fix bugs. Are you telling me that MS wouldn't let you see their code if they contracted with you to come in and fix bugs?
Since when?
My God, look at the man... I didn't know this was even in question.
Anyway, anyone who went as out-of-the-way as he did to get computing time back in the day is a geek in my book. I wasn't alive back then, so I can't say for sure - but I doubt I would have spent that much effort trying to get little slivers of mainframe time.
your naiveness is striking.
And what exactly is your educational background? I'm not going to pretend to be anything but a mechanical engineer, but your post seems to indicate a weak science background.
But to answer your question:
but does that mean that low effect over time = no result at all?
Your microwave cooks food by pumping in hundreds of watts worth of photons which are absorbed by the food. The food cannot emit the same number of photons at the same pace, so it heats up. Proteins and other materials change when heated beyond a certain temperature... and so you have cooked food. If you pump in fewer photons... like say a few miliwatts, the food is able to emit that and doesn't heat up... so no, you won't have the same effect.
Why, how do you think a microwave works? And how does this apply to very small wattages?
Any engineer worth his (or her) salt knows that RPN is the way to numerically solve an equation. The algebraic entry using parentheses is for suckers. So that got me thinking... why not use RPN for equation entry? As usual, I'm late to the game. There is a Mac app here. Sorry, the site is Japanese...
There is a web app here. Seems to work well. You can make pretty big equations quickly, and the result is in tex.
how there are obvious dangers associated with EM
No one is talking about sending 600 watts of continuous EM waves at airline passengers. My grandfather used to heat up hot dogs in front of the radar dish of his ship during WW2... microwave ovens aren't news for the even remotely educated, and the effect of high-powered EM waves are not being debated. Regular old sunlight is EM, and that makes you hot as well. Put your hand too close to a lightbulb and you'll get a nice burn from all of that "dangerous" EM.
Further, these waves can't pass through water... so unless we're worried about skin cancer I'm pretty sure any health claims are going to be overblown.
but the law looks to be on Apple's side.
It may be - case law is mixed on End User License Agreements... but it shouldn't be on their side. If you want to impose terms on a sale, then you should make me agree to a contract as a condition of sale. Post-sale terms are sleazy, no matter how legal.
Why are the atheists wearing ceremonial robes and hoods?
You are correct, and this is perhaps why they are going after Pystar. Does Apple care if someone with more money than time buys a cheap PC and a copy of OSX and makes a FrankenMac? No, probably not unless they are power tripping.
Do they care if a company starts selling a lot of these low-margin machines and taking away from their high-margin Mini and iMac sales? Oh, yeah.
A more efficient processor means the same laptop, with massively better longevity
That too :)
I have a feeling the processor itself is not all that expensive in most "browse the web" computers. If ARM or some other processor is to make inroads it will have to be in the power department. A more efficient processor means a cheaper, lighter laptops with smaller batteries.
Yes, there are - but they all pale compared to reducing the number of autos on the road, which we definitely do NOT pursue. Instead we build more roads. We also have been raising rather than lowering speed limits.
Rural areas have higher auto death rates than cities do, because everyone must get around via car. If we were serious about reducing death, we'd go for the low-hanging fruit and at least TRY to get some cars off of the road. I would think that this would mean smarter urban planning and better public transit. Also education... if you just need a gallon of milk and the store is half a mile away, do you really need to drive?
The only other non-medical death heavy-hitters in this country are very hard to control more than they already are (poisonings, falls), or are completely unacceptable to control politically (firearms). In the case of firearms, very few of the deaths are accidents anyway.
That said, I'm just as fallible as everyone else and live where I need a car. In fact, I just moved here from NYC where I didn't need a car. I have a weakness for more space, fresh air, and cheaper prices :)
You are right - and people also need to realize just how dangerous cars are. In the US, we have 40,000+ deaths every year from automobile accidents, not to mention the maiming.
Look how wound up people get about war casualties... the Iraq war killed about 10x fewer Americans, and over 7 years, and they were (mostly) not American civilians.
Or look at the flu hysteria. 5000 dead worldwide, with emergencies getting declared. Where is the "automotive emergency"?
Every time we get into a car, we roll the dice. It is perhaps the most dangerous thing any of us will ever do, and yet we do it every day and whine about not being able to use our gadgets or drink our coffee! It's a true testament to our species inability to judge risk that we will fear a roller coaster but not the family minivan.
people who are genuinely bemused that anyone would want such a thing
That's how most people feel about me posting on Slashdot ;p
Don't take it too personally. It's just information. I moved away from New York and bought two cars... I've vastly increased my families footprint - but that doesn't change my decision to leave based on $$$.
Cars are one of the most completely recycled things on the planet.
I'm not sure that it was a million in one shot... let's say old-man McCain had a heart attack late in the campaign and some redneck clown got lucky and offed Obama... not exactly a one in a million chance :)
The sad thing is that the LP probably wouldn't win even if the other two candidates were dead.
Yeah, I didn't mean Barr - it was the New York guys that were running for the local offices that were up.
I'm having trouble coming up with the name of a GNU project that is an effective monopoly like Windows where you would be forced to develop on it.
Yeah a gold standard doesn't make any sense. Historically - under the gold standard - there were huge swings in the value of a dollar that were IMHO far more damaging than gradual inflation, which really only hurts long-term lenders and people who stuff paper money under their mattresses.
But I think you are wrong about there being no large boom or bust cycles. Our nation's (and the world's, for that matter) history is peppered with booms and busts.
It's a very complicated thing - regulating the money supply. The big surprise for me in this recession was how inexpensively the US government was able to borrow money. Normally, I'd be absolutely horrified at the amount of debt that we accrued... but the interest rate that they got kind of shut me right up. I'd borrow as much as I could at that rate, too!
Nice troll. I'll bite.
Read about the Federal Reserve and it's role in banking. Then get back to me and tell me with a straight face that we have a "free market" in the US.
It is true that our banking system is very market-oriented, and I probably even agree with you that regulation is needed to avoid large boom and bust cycles at the cost of overall efficiency. But don't get disingenuous with your critiques.