And then you get people like me, where I use Linux instead of Windows because Windows just doesn't do what I want it to. Huge gap in software availability, and the performance hit is just abysmal. Gotta download all kinds of programs just to get a functional system, and then keep those programs updated by checking the web periodically and downloading and installing the new versions. Not to mention that multimedia on Linux just works. A single player for almost all files, instead of 15 different players to support everything you might want to do.
Did your DEC Microvax do WYSIWYG word processing apps, spreadsheets, multiple windows, web browsing (including flash-style animations) for all those users?
Didn't think so. The performance he's getting from his hardware investment is dependent entirely on the type of job he's attempting to accomplish, and how much he paid for it. Your vaunted DEC Microvax didn't even have enough power to run a single instance of, say, Firefox.
Really? I set my aunt up with Ubuntu, and she loves it. The wireless is EASIER for her to set up than in XP. Hell, it's easier for most people. XP's wireless setup tool is abysmal and very confusing for non-techies. As for driver updates, it gets set up once and they don't have to pay attention to it again. They didn't install Windows, so if you install Linux for them, they won't even have to worry about it.
How long ago did you last use Linux? Because I know that network-manager has been in Ubuntu since at least 2007, and I think Fedora around the same timeframe. Using outdated arguments doesn't bolster your cause.
That's why they're talking about using a tokamak plasma here... why linearly accelerate neutrons if a plasma will get the energies high enough up there? You also then get the benefits of magnetic containment of said neutrons as well.
So... rather than teaching memorization and repetition, schools should teach research, inference, and how to solve problems.
The problem is that people for the most part are stupid and lazy, and don't want to actually learn how to do things. They want to learn what actions they need to perform to get their treat. Most people are hardly more advanced than monkeys. Hit the big green button, get a banana, hit the big black one, get a shock. They just want to know what button to push, they don't want to figure out WHY.
Where's "E. Tell him to download one of many free for personal use antivirus scanning programs that are available"?
That's why I've always hated any kind of certification tests. They're always bullshit, they only show you who could memorize the book the best. I can count on one hand the number of competent MCSE's I've met, and I can't count the total number of MCSE's that I've met.
What did your mother and sister do over the summers, and during winter breaks? What did you do over the same time periods?
I'm not against paying teachers more, but if they're only going to work 3/4ths of the year, they should only make 3/4ths of a normal salary.
Don't forget the PERA retirement packages and such that your mother and sister have, either. They don't have to pay into those to get a pretty nice retirement, whereas you and I (who make more yearly) should budget a fairly large chunk of our own income for retirement.
Teaching is an important job. But they aren't the only ones who work long hours for no extra pay, and they have some pretty nice benefits when you take all of their compensation into consideration.
Teachers also get 3 months off every year. They're "under compensated" because they get paid what many people make in a year for only 9 months of work. I'd love to have that kind of time off in my job.
Of course! He should expect that in a school, a place of learning, he would be forbidden to have information. We should burn all the chemistry books too, because they have information about how to make things that might cause damage. And the history books, because they're full of all kinds of violence and stuff. It could warp their fragile little minds, and force the innocent children to do something bad! They would never do something bad without those influences!
Were the drives attached to the PERC4 when you did the software RAID? If not, was it possible you were limited by PCI bandwidth? That's one thing I've noticed... MD performance is severely affected by where the drives are attached. I get 15-20MB/s slower transfer rates if I attach my SATA drives to a PCI card instead of the internal SATA ports, which are on the PCIe bus.
Because the hardware standard doesn't use your CPU for the encryption and decryption? Specialized hardware will always be faster and use less power to do a specific job than general-purpose hardware like your CPU.
The GIMP works quite well for it's developers. It's people who expect it to be a Photoshop clone that are disappointed. Especially when you start working with multiple monitors, you'll appreciate the way the GIMP treats windows and toolbars and such as compared to Photoshop.
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And then there are those of us who travel for business, and work on the airplane. Or don't bring a power adapter to the conference room because that's a pain in the ass to unplug the adapter and haul it with for a 2 hour meeting. Or a 20 minute meeting.
Your thinking is wrong that most people don't care about battery life. Most people DO care about it. Even people who don't use their computers for work don't want to have to plug in while they're surfing in the armchair.
Amen. And that's why I don't like letting certain members of my family bring their dogs over. Or children. They can't figure out how to properly relate to or control either.
Hell yeah! If it makes you happy, do it! Why care if it's "right" or not, or encourages horribly unhealthy perceptions, both societally and personally.
The fact that you'd say that you'd kill people to save an animal is... disturbing.
An animal is a hell of a companion, and I've loved the dogs and cats that I've had, but they're animals. Period, end of story. If you get more out of your relationships with your animals than with people, perhaps the problem is not with other people, but with you?
...that link you posted shows that you can get a Hauppage HVR-1250 for $50, and many other models right at $60. Which kind of undermines your entire argument.
A lot of your problems sound like they're because most of the digital channels are running on separate transmitters, and lower power than they'll be running on after the switch.
Try aiming your antenna better (and telling your friends to). Are you or they using a different antenna for digital than what you did with analog? Don't forget that with the switch, digital transmissions will get much more power, so they will come in better for you.
As for the syncing... does the box have a setting for that? Many times there's a delay introduced by the TV for various reasons that the box may be incorrectly compensating for.
If your dad is elderly and impoverished, $30-$70 for a DTV converter can't be that much for you to afford, right? Why in the hell does the government have to start being a charity as well when it's trying to open up spectrum to improve emergency services and communications for everyone?
This entitlement bullshit is what's killing America. We think we deserve everything, and we don't want to pay for it. If you know someone who's going to be affected by the DTV switch and can't afford to deal with it, is it really that big of a deal to brown-bag lunch for 2 weeks instead of eating out with your co-workers?
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Bah... toasters are useless without Linux!
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5 years old at 2.4GHz... you sure a new laptop doesn't have anything to offer you? That sounds like a mobile P4, which has abysmal battery life. Hell, I get almost 4 hours out of my 2GHz Core 2 Duo T61 here, which is certainly faster than yours, and uses much less power to do much more work.
It's true that the old CPU's are fast enough, but that's not the only variable in the equation, especially when you're talking about a laptop.
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Not necessarily. For some AI problems that may be true, but what about doing things like recognizing a picture, a face, a rock, a tree? That takes some massive image processing bandwidth. If you take cues from biology, it's a massively parallel fuzzy logic thing, but still, it's a LOT of computational power. AI advances are still not purely in the algorithm.
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For those of us (like me) who were confused when the DAQ acronym started being peppered in the parent post, it means "Data AcQuisition".
And then you get people like me, where I use Linux instead of Windows because Windows just doesn't do what I want it to. Huge gap in software availability, and the performance hit is just abysmal. Gotta download all kinds of programs just to get a functional system, and then keep those programs updated by checking the web periodically and downloading and installing the new versions. Not to mention that multimedia on Linux just works. A single player for almost all files, instead of 15 different players to support everything you might want to do.
For every anecdote, there's a counter-anecdote.
Did your DEC Microvax do WYSIWYG word processing apps, spreadsheets, multiple windows, web browsing (including flash-style animations) for all those users?
Didn't think so. The performance he's getting from his hardware investment is dependent entirely on the type of job he's attempting to accomplish, and how much he paid for it. Your vaunted DEC Microvax didn't even have enough power to run a single instance of, say, Firefox.
Really? I set my aunt up with Ubuntu, and she loves it. The wireless is EASIER for her to set up than in XP. Hell, it's easier for most people. XP's wireless setup tool is abysmal and very confusing for non-techies. As for driver updates, it gets set up once and they don't have to pay attention to it again. They didn't install Windows, so if you install Linux for them, they won't even have to worry about it.
How long ago did you last use Linux? Because I know that network-manager has been in Ubuntu since at least 2007, and I think Fedora around the same timeframe. Using outdated arguments doesn't bolster your cause.
That's why they're talking about using a tokamak plasma here... why linearly accelerate neutrons if a plasma will get the energies high enough up there? You also then get the benefits of magnetic containment of said neutrons as well.
So... rather than teaching memorization and repetition, schools should teach research, inference, and how to solve problems.
The problem is that people for the most part are stupid and lazy, and don't want to actually learn how to do things. They want to learn what actions they need to perform to get their treat. Most people are hardly more advanced than monkeys. Hit the big green button, get a banana, hit the big black one, get a shock. They just want to know what button to push, they don't want to figure out WHY.
Where's "E. Tell him to download one of many free for personal use antivirus scanning programs that are available"?
That's why I've always hated any kind of certification tests. They're always bullshit, they only show you who could memorize the book the best. I can count on one hand the number of competent MCSE's I've met, and I can't count the total number of MCSE's that I've met.
What did your mother and sister do over the summers, and during winter breaks? What did you do over the same time periods?
I'm not against paying teachers more, but if they're only going to work 3/4ths of the year, they should only make 3/4ths of a normal salary.
Don't forget the PERA retirement packages and such that your mother and sister have, either. They don't have to pay into those to get a pretty nice retirement, whereas you and I (who make more yearly) should budget a fairly large chunk of our own income for retirement.
Teaching is an important job. But they aren't the only ones who work long hours for no extra pay, and they have some pretty nice benefits when you take all of their compensation into consideration.
Teachers also get 3 months off every year. They're "under compensated" because they get paid what many people make in a year for only 9 months of work. I'd love to have that kind of time off in my job.
Of course! He should expect that in a school, a place of learning, he would be forbidden to have information. We should burn all the chemistry books too, because they have information about how to make things that might cause damage. And the history books, because they're full of all kinds of violence and stuff. It could warp their fragile little minds, and force the innocent children to do something bad! They would never do something bad without those influences!
Were the drives attached to the PERC4 when you did the software RAID? If not, was it possible you were limited by PCI bandwidth? That's one thing I've noticed... MD performance is severely affected by where the drives are attached. I get 15-20MB/s slower transfer rates if I attach my SATA drives to a PCI card instead of the internal SATA ports, which are on the PCIe bus.
Because the hardware standard doesn't use your CPU for the encryption and decryption? Specialized hardware will always be faster and use less power to do a specific job than general-purpose hardware like your CPU.
The GIMP works quite well for it's developers. It's people who expect it to be a Photoshop clone that are disappointed. Especially when you start working with multiple monitors, you'll appreciate the way the GIMP treats windows and toolbars and such as compared to Photoshop.
And then there are those of us who travel for business, and work on the airplane. Or don't bring a power adapter to the conference room because that's a pain in the ass to unplug the adapter and haul it with for a 2 hour meeting. Or a 20 minute meeting.
Your thinking is wrong that most people don't care about battery life. Most people DO care about it. Even people who don't use their computers for work don't want to have to plug in while they're surfing in the armchair.
Amen. And that's why I don't like letting certain members of my family bring their dogs over. Or children. They can't figure out how to properly relate to or control either.
Hell yeah! If it makes you happy, do it! Why care if it's "right" or not, or encourages horribly unhealthy perceptions, both societally and personally.
The fact that you'd say that you'd kill people to save an animal is... disturbing.
An animal is a hell of a companion, and I've loved the dogs and cats that I've had, but they're animals. Period, end of story. If you get more out of your relationships with your animals than with people, perhaps the problem is not with other people, but with you?
...that link you posted shows that you can get a Hauppage HVR-1250 for $50, and many other models right at $60. Which kind of undermines your entire argument.
A lot of your problems sound like they're because most of the digital channels are running on separate transmitters, and lower power than they'll be running on after the switch.
Try aiming your antenna better (and telling your friends to). Are you or they using a different antenna for digital than what you did with analog? Don't forget that with the switch, digital transmissions will get much more power, so they will come in better for you.
As for the syncing... does the box have a setting for that? Many times there's a delay introduced by the TV for various reasons that the box may be incorrectly compensating for.
If your dad is elderly and impoverished, $30-$70 for a DTV converter can't be that much for you to afford, right? Why in the hell does the government have to start being a charity as well when it's trying to open up spectrum to improve emergency services and communications for everyone?
This entitlement bullshit is what's killing America. We think we deserve everything, and we don't want to pay for it. If you know someone who's going to be affected by the DTV switch and can't afford to deal with it, is it really that big of a deal to brown-bag lunch for 2 weeks instead of eating out with your co-workers?
Bah... toasters are useless without Linux!
5 years old at 2.4GHz... you sure a new laptop doesn't have anything to offer you? That sounds like a mobile P4, which has abysmal battery life. Hell, I get almost 4 hours out of my 2GHz Core 2 Duo T61 here, which is certainly faster than yours, and uses much less power to do much more work.
It's true that the old CPU's are fast enough, but that's not the only variable in the equation, especially when you're talking about a laptop.
Not necessarily. For some AI problems that may be true, but what about doing things like recognizing a picture, a face, a rock, a tree? That takes some massive image processing bandwidth. If you take cues from biology, it's a massively parallel fuzzy logic thing, but still, it's a LOT of computational power. AI advances are still not purely in the algorithm.
I dunno... even here in the US I was taught that it was 9.8m/s^2