Also by breaking up the system into physically separate CPUs I suspect that an interesting memory accessing architecture could be conjured up preventing another potential choke point.
I suspect you mean it would have to be conjured up, or you'd spend all the time waiting to access RAM on other cores rather than doing anything useful.
We tell them, if they want someone to fix their problems at weekends, they can pay $50,000 a year to have them on call. Seems to work for us, and people line up to be on call for the extra few hundred dollars a week.
Same here, though I don't even check the phone when I'm on call, just wait for a text message if something goes wrong.
I'll check work email at weekends after we've just rolled out a major software upgrade or something else that could break things in a big way, but otherwise weekends are time away from work. And that's only because if I screw up and don't fix it, I could be seeing news stories about the consequences by Monday.
Publishers are the ones tying books to devices, with DRM. No-one is forced to put DRM on their Kindle books, it's a publisher's option.
Then, after those publishers have tied readers to their Kindle by putting DRM on their books, they complain that other stores can't compete with Amazon because all the readers have Kindles.
The biggest myth with capitalism is that pricing has ANYTHING to do with costs.
That 'myth' is nothing to do with capitalism, it's basically the labour theory of value, which people were laughing at even when Marx was promoting it in the 19th century. Of course sane companies charge what their customers are willing to pay, in order to maximize profits.
I would also assume that Amazon taking the 20% cut for an ebook is very similar to the cut they would take on a regular book as well.
I believe for hardbacks and trade paperbacks, the retailer typically buys the books at about a 50% discount (which is why book stores can afford to have tables of new best-sellers at 30-40% off the list price). They can also return them if they don't sell, so the publisher has to cover the cost of those books too, and the shipping, and pulping the ones they can't sell.
Mass market paperbacks typically aren't returned, they're just binned and the cover sent back for credit.
The whispernet fees are uniquely Amazon and only for kindle users, so I don't think that should calculate in.
It's also added on top of the e-book price, so has no effect on the publisher's royalties.
EVERY book has to be professionally edited by multiple people. no matter how good or popular the author is.
Uh, no. You think there's an editor who tells Stephen King to rewrite his story?
And at the other end of the scale, mid-list authors have been complaining that no-one did a story edit on their novel and the copy editors left typos in the back-cover blurb, not just the interior of the book.
In any case, that's work that only has to be done once and can be purchased on the open market for at most a couple of thousand dollars. It's cheap compared to printing 10,000 copies of the book, and once you've produced the edited print version you just reformat it for the e-book.
Do you actually know anything about British history?
Because if there was 'no notable ownership of guns in urban areas', how come the police a hundred years ago could often manage to borrow guns from those people who didn't own any when they were chasing armed criminals?
And then someone else sees someone shooting someone and that someone shoots the someone shooting someone else who sees someone shooting someone....
Yeah, I remember how that was going to happen in Florida after they legalised concealed carry.
Fortunately it doesn't happen in the real world. You're far more likely to be shot by a cop than by an armed bystander, because the cop turns up while the crime is in progress and has to figure out who the bad guys are, while the armed bystander already knows.
Nor did it happen in late Victorian times when an armed criminal in London would find said bystanders shooting at them and loaning guns to unarmed police who were chasing them.
Hell, I could pay both my rent and electricity bill for two fucking months for the price of one GTX Titan card.
Then you're not the target market.
Some people buy $250,000 cars, some people buy $1,000 video cards, some people pay $2500 for Mac with the same hardware as a $1000 Windows PC. To most of us, they're just a curiosity.
According to today's news, the 'security services' had run into these men several times in previous investigations, so if that hadn't tipped them off that they were going to do something, snooping on their email would unlikely to do so.
As much as that may or may not be true, Canadians actually elected them.
To be fair, it was more of a suicide pact by the left. They forced an election when most people were profoundly sick of being expected to vote for a new government every year or so, and were rewarded with a right-wing majority.
Bingo. Eisenhower warned about the Military-Industrial Complex, but everyone seems to forget his other warning in the same speech about the government-science complex.
At least 90% of the results I see from government-funded 'science' look to be a total waste of my tax dollars.
While I'm no great fan of Harper, that might have something to do with being in a global depression where every government is trying to borrow and spend their way out. Take a look at how much the national debt has exploded in other Western nations.
Uh, in the sense that many people who, years ago, might have stumped up the cash for Oracle because there was no viable free competition now use MySQL or Postgres because they're good enough to live without that mosquito-killing sledgehammer?
The longer you wait, the less chance there is of it still being a 'drop-in replacement'. Both sides are likely to make incompatible changes to the database format, and while that's OK when you're running a 1GB database that you can just dump out and restore, it's a problem when you're dealing with 60TB of data.
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Also by breaking up the system into physically separate CPUs I suspect that an interesting memory accessing architecture could be conjured up preventing another potential choke point.
I suspect you mean it would have to be conjured up, or you'd spend all the time waiting to access RAM on other cores rather than doing anything useful.
I feel so bad about having a cheap, efficient, and above all, quiet box.
So do I. I can't even hear my i7 machine when playing games on it, whereas the old Pentium-4 sounded like a vacuum cleaner.
We tell them, if they want someone to fix their problems at weekends, they can pay $50,000 a year to have them on call. Seems to work for us, and people line up to be on call for the extra few hundred dollars a week.
Same here, though I don't even check the phone when I'm on call, just wait for a text message if something goes wrong.
I'll check work email at weekends after we've just rolled out a major software upgrade or something else that could break things in a big way, but otherwise weekends are time away from work. And that's only because if I screw up and don't fix it, I could be seeing news stories about the consequences by Monday.
Publishers are the ones tying books to devices, with DRM. No-one is forced to put DRM on their Kindle books, it's a publisher's option.
Then, after those publishers have tied readers to their Kindle by putting DRM on their books, they complain that other stores can't compete with Amazon because all the readers have Kindles.
The biggest myth with capitalism is that pricing has ANYTHING to do with costs.
That 'myth' is nothing to do with capitalism, it's basically the labour theory of value, which people were laughing at even when Marx was promoting it in the 19th century. Of course sane companies charge what their customers are willing to pay, in order to maximize profits.
I would also assume that Amazon taking the 20% cut for an ebook is very similar to the cut they would take on a regular book as well.
I believe for hardbacks and trade paperbacks, the retailer typically buys the books at about a 50% discount (which is why book stores can afford to have tables of new best-sellers at 30-40% off the list price). They can also return them if they don't sell, so the publisher has to cover the cost of those books too, and the shipping, and pulping the ones they can't sell.
Mass market paperbacks typically aren't returned, they're just binned and the cover sent back for credit.
The whispernet fees are uniquely Amazon and only for kindle users, so I don't think that should calculate in.
It's also added on top of the e-book price, so has no effect on the publisher's royalties.
EVERY book has to be professionally edited by multiple people. no matter how good or popular the author is.
Uh, no. You think there's an editor who tells Stephen King to rewrite his story?
And at the other end of the scale, mid-list authors have been complaining that no-one did a story edit on their novel and the copy editors left typos in the back-cover blurb, not just the interior of the book.
In any case, that's work that only has to be done once and can be purchased on the open market for at most a couple of thousand dollars. It's cheap compared to printing 10,000 copies of the book, and once you've produced the edited print version you just reformat it for the e-book.
True. It's not as though Amazon have any competition in the e-book business other than B&N. Like, you know, Apple, Kobo, Sony, etc, etc...
For the sarcasm-impaired, I believe Apple and Kobo are now #2 and #3 in e-book sales with B&N trailing behind because they're US-only.
Cool. I think I'll build one in my basement tonight.
ATM is the future of networking.
No notable ownership of guns in urban areas.
Do you actually know anything about British history?
Because if there was 'no notable ownership of guns in urban areas', how come the police a hundred years ago could often manage to borrow guns from those people who didn't own any when they were chasing armed criminals?
And then someone else sees someone shooting someone and that someone shoots the someone shooting someone else who sees someone shooting someone....
Yeah, I remember how that was going to happen in Florida after they legalised concealed carry.
Fortunately it doesn't happen in the real world. You're far more likely to be shot by a cop than by an armed bystander, because the cop turns up while the crime is in progress and has to figure out who the bad guys are, while the armed bystander already knows.
Nor did it happen in late Victorian times when an armed criminal in London would find said bystanders shooting at them and loaning guns to unarmed police who were chasing them.
Meanwhile, my $200 graphics card runs all the games I own at max or high settings at 1920x1080.
This is a card for fanatics who want to run six monitors at > 1920x1080, not Joe Sixpack who bought a PC from Walmart.
With the new consoles, we'll be back to seeing benefit from better video cards.
Except the new consoles' graphics will probably be just about on par with next year's integrated GPUs.
Hell, I could pay both my rent and electricity bill for two fucking months for the price of one GTX Titan card.
Then you're not the target market.
Some people buy $250,000 cars, some people buy $1,000 video cards, some people pay $2500 for Mac with the same hardware as a $1000 Windows PC. To most of us, they're just a curiosity.
Indeed. If it's real, he just needs to give a few away to customers who'll use them for a year or two and tell everyone how wonderful they are.
Of course, if it's real, you might wonder why the government is letting him build unlicensed nuclear reactors. Clearly they don't think it is.
According to today's news, the 'security services' had run into these men several times in previous investigations, so if that hadn't tipped them off that they were going to do something, snooping on their email would unlikely to do so.
Unlike in this incident, where they got one and were shot by armed police (because the regular force refuse to carry firearms).
About twenty minutes later, after they'd spent that time posing for cameras rather than murdering more people.
The only reason this wasn't dramatically worse was because most terrorists are -- fortunately -- idiots.
As much as that may or may not be true, Canadians actually elected them.
To be fair, it was more of a suicide pact by the left. They forced an election when most people were profoundly sick of being expected to vote for a new government every year or so, and were rewarded with a right-wing majority.
Bingo. Eisenhower warned about the Military-Industrial Complex, but everyone seems to forget his other warning in the same speech about the government-science complex.
At least 90% of the results I see from government-funded 'science' look to be a total waste of my tax dollars.
While I'm no great fan of Harper, that might have something to do with being in a global depression where every government is trying to borrow and spend their way out. Take a look at how much the national debt has exploded in other Western nations.
In what sense?
Uh, in the sense that many people who, years ago, might have stumped up the cash for Oracle because there was no viable free competition now use MySQL or Postgres because they're good enough to live without that mosquito-killing sledgehammer?
The longer you wait, the less chance there is of it still being a 'drop-in replacement'. Both sides are likely to make incompatible changes to the database format, and while that's OK when you're running a 1GB database that you can just dump out and restore, it's a problem when you're dealing with 60TB of data.
That's an awful idea. Poor people will spend every cent they earn and pay sales tax on that expenditure.
Since poor people get most of the benefits the government hands out, it's only fair that they should pay for them.