But giving your stuff away doesn't make you money. Any exposure you got was immediately lost to those exposed who either wanted your product or didn't even want it for nothing.
I don't know about software, but I've downloaded hundreds of free ebooks from Amazon and Smashwords and when they turned out to be good I've then bought other books by the same author for real money. In those cases that's money they would never have made if their book hadn't been free.
Your computer is going to be a MID that docks when you get to your desk and then syncs to the cloud storage (intra/inter-net). When it docks up it will be much like a traditional desktop you see now.
Right. So you're going to take your corporate desktop home with you in your pocket, and when you accidentally leave it on a train...
No corporation in their right mind wants people walking out the door with documents and software that they don't have to take out of the building with them.
A jump in income of 100,000 to 200,000 is worth much less in terms of quality of life than from 10,000 to 20,000.
Were it not for punitive income tax, an extra $100k a year on my salary would allow me to comfortably retire after a decade; an extra $10k certainly wouldn't. I don't believe lottery winnings are taxed, so a $1 million win would be enough for me to never have to work at anything I didn't want to do for the rest of my life.
If you can't handle that, go back to you mac where your daddy Steve Jobs decides what you can install and when.
Better yet, switch to Linux where the vast majority of upgrades don't need a reboot.
I was highly amused when I had to use a Windows machine recently and it told me I had to update Adobe PDF viewer and after upgrading it told me I had to reboot the machine. Who builds an OS so retarded that upgrading a stupid document viewer requires a reboot?
If Congress passed a bill that balanced the budget by confiscating all private property, should Obama sign it?
You'd only get a law like that if Democrats ran Congress. And Obama would sign it in an instant; in fact, he'd probably be dancing around the White House at the prospect of imposing communism on America.
What did surprise me, though, are the return rates on hard disks. Multiple percent in a single year seems high to me! I'm glad I'm not in the hardware business.
I would guess that most of the failures are due to damage during shipping or installation. I'm still amazed by the limited protection on some of the disks I've received through the mail.
Have you ever seen SMART perform in a useful way on a mechanical disk?
Yes. When my laptop drive failed the problem was very obvious from a perpetually increasing reallocated sector count; that gave me long enough to copy off my data files to a new disk and replace the old one.
I had a similar experience with the only other hard drive I've had fail; they both went gracefully with plenty of warning and plenty of time to get the data off.
I have over 100 Intel 320 and X25-M drives in my organization and not had one fail yet.
Good luck. The 320 has a known bug where it will power up claiming to only have an 8MB capacity and requires a complete wipe to recover (do a web search for intel 320 8mb).
Sadly this was discovered about a week after I bought one.
I use SSDs on systems I want to boot fast, but that's about the only use I have for them and find the 'no, don't upgrade CPU/RAM/whatever, get an SSD it's the best upgrade for any system' nutters rather amusing.
I have seen people saying that SSDs speed up compilation a lot though I'm surprised because header files and the like should pretty quickly go into the disk cache and never require another read from disk. However, those same people also say they have to replace the SSDs at least once a year because they wear out... which isn't a bad deal if a $100 SSD saves you an hour of programmer time every week.
My most used SSD here has about 1500 hours and has used 1% of its write cycles; but that one is set up to put all the regular writes (/tmp,/var/tmp,/var/log, etc) into a RAM disk instead of going to the SSD.
Maybe you could, you know, let people buy the vehicles they want to buy and then if gas is expensive most won't buy gas guzzlers?
In this case I'm guessing the auto makers are salivating at the prospect of being 'forced' to load up cars with hybrid crap that will allow them to push up prices and make more profit.
You have until 2020 to claim a free space station. Think of it as the next step in space tourism.
They don't need it. ISS is in a stupid orbit and is extremely expensive to run, whereas Bigelow already has two of their own space station modules in orbit for long-term testing before they start flying tourists up there; if I remember correctly the development and launch costs for those two modules was a small fraction of the cost of just launching a single ISS module on a space shuttle.
Hell, the ISS doesn't have a purpose now. It's sole purpose was justification for the shuttle program.
Not really true. ISS would have been cancelled before it even flew, but it was pushed as a means of funnelling money to Russian rocket scientists so that they wouldn't go to work for Saddam Hussein or some other wacko dictator. Hence why it's in an orbit that makes it difficult to reach from America and is pretty much useless for anything.
ISS was basically a US-funded Russian jobs program, so it's probably fitting that the only way for US astronauts to reach it now is on Russian rockets.
There is nothing preventing the US fro building additional shuttles with upgraded components, other than those that see it as a waste of money.
That and because it would be insane as anything other than a jobs program.
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Storing large volumes of binary data in an archived fashion is a job for a filesystem, not a CVS. A CVS is not intended as a backup solution, nor should it be used as such.
So when I want to release a critical patch to an old version of our software I shouldn't just be able to extract everything from the repo, make the change and build the release installer, I should also have to find where any required binary files for that release were stored and copy them to my machine and hope that no-one deleted them in the meantime?
I really know very little about git, but from the numerous 'Git doesn't do X, Y, Z', 'But you shouldn't be doing X, Y, or Z!' posts here I don't see a reason why I would I want to.
It's probably still a minor win for power efficiency, but it's not like there's been a huge efficiency breakthrough.
I disagree: one reason why I decided to replace my Atom with an i5 is that the Sandy Bridge systems are extremely power-efficient compared to PCs of a few years ago. I haven't measured the power consumption of mine yet, but online benchmarks show i5 systems with integrated graphics idling at half the power usage of my Atom system.
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But giving your stuff away doesn't make you money. Any exposure you got was immediately lost to those exposed who either wanted your product or didn't even want it for nothing.
I don't know about software, but I've downloaded hundreds of free ebooks from Amazon and Smashwords and when they turned out to be good I've then bought other books by the same author for real money. In those cases that's money they would never have made if their book hadn't been free.
Your computer is going to be a MID that docks when you get to your desk and then syncs to the cloud storage (intra/inter-net). When it docks up it will be much like a traditional desktop you see now.
Right. So you're going to take your corporate desktop home with you in your pocket, and when you accidentally leave it on a train...
No corporation in their right mind wants people walking out the door with documents and software that they don't have to take out of the building with them.
Another new UI that makes getting to the thing I use regularly (like, you know, bookmarks) slower and more annoying.
WTF is up with FOSS developers these days?
You do know that Arnold ran on the Republican ticket, right?
But he married a Kennedy, which says a lot more about his political beliefs.
The big boys do this on the stock exchanges...
But that the game is fixed: the banks always win.
A jump in income of 100,000 to 200,000 is worth much less in terms of quality of life than from 10,000 to 20,000.
Were it not for punitive income tax, an extra $100k a year on my salary would allow me to comfortably retire after a decade; an extra $10k certainly wouldn't. I don't believe lottery winnings are taxed, so a $1 million win would be enough for me to never have to work at anything I didn't want to do for the rest of my life.
If you can't handle that, go back to you mac where your daddy Steve Jobs decides what you can install and when.
Better yet, switch to Linux where the vast majority of upgrades don't need a reboot.
I was highly amused when I had to use a Windows machine recently and it told me I had to update Adobe PDF viewer and after upgrading it told me I had to reboot the machine. Who builds an OS so retarded that upgrading a stupid document viewer requires a reboot?
Translation: China is pro-business while America is full of Marxists who want to put business out of business.
If Congress passed a bill that balanced the budget by confiscating all private property, should Obama sign it?
You'd only get a law like that if Democrats ran Congress. And Obama would sign it in an instant; in fact, he'd probably be dancing around the White House at the prospect of imposing communism on America.
This can be dodged by disabling javascript, like everyone already does, who cares about privacy.
I also appear to have dodged it by having their servers blocked in /etc/hosts. Not sure at which point I did that.
any bets this gives some idiot in the US Gov't an idea and they add this to the next save the children legislation.
Presumably you've forgotten the Clipper Chip?
What else did you expect them to say?
What did surprise me, though, are the return rates on hard disks. Multiple percent in a single year seems high to me! I'm glad I'm not in the hardware business.
I would guess that most of the failures are due to damage during shipping or installation. I'm still amazed by the limited protection on some of the disks I've received through the mail.
Have you ever seen SMART perform in a useful way on a mechanical disk?
Yes. When my laptop drive failed the problem was very obvious from a perpetually increasing reallocated sector count; that gave me long enough to copy off my data files to a new disk and replace the old one.
I had a similar experience with the only other hard drive I've had fail; they both went gracefully with plenty of warning and plenty of time to get the data off.
I have over 100 Intel 320 and X25-M drives in my organization and not had one fail yet.
Good luck. The 320 has a known bug where it will power up claiming to only have an 8MB capacity and requires a complete wipe to recover (do a web search for intel 320 8mb).
Sadly this was discovered about a week after I bought one.
I use SSDs on systems I want to boot fast, but that's about the only use I have for them and find the 'no, don't upgrade CPU/RAM/whatever, get an SSD it's the best upgrade for any system' nutters rather amusing.
I have seen people saying that SSDs speed up compilation a lot though I'm surprised because header files and the like should pretty quickly go into the disk cache and never require another read from disk. However, those same people also say they have to replace the SSDs at least once a year because they wear out... which isn't a bad deal if a $100 SSD saves you an hour of programmer time every week.
My most used SSD here has about 1500 hours and has used 1% of its write cycles; but that one is set up to put all the regular writes (/tmp, /var/tmp, /var/log, etc) into a RAM disk instead of going to the SSD.
Maybe you could, you know, let people buy the vehicles they want to buy and then if gas is expensive most won't buy gas guzzlers?
In this case I'm guessing the auto makers are salivating at the prospect of being 'forced' to load up cars with hybrid crap that will allow them to push up prices and make more profit.
I wonder how this will hold up to the extremes of -10F and 100F
I laugh at your idea of -10F being 'extreme'. -50F is starting to get unpleasantly cold (for us and our cars), but -10F is a nice winter's day.
I'm still waiting for a proper HUD on the windshield
Why? What exactly is so important that you need a HUD for it in a car? It's not like you'll crash into the ground if your speed drops below 200mph.
And if you're driving in weather so bad that you want IR enhanced video then you should... slow down.
No what we need is simple, effective, efficient public transportation.
LOL.
You have until 2020 to claim a free space station. Think of it as the next step in space tourism.
They don't need it. ISS is in a stupid orbit and is extremely expensive to run, whereas Bigelow already has two of their own space station modules in orbit for long-term testing before they start flying tourists up there; if I remember correctly the development and launch costs for those two modules was a small fraction of the cost of just launching a single ISS module on a space shuttle.
Hell, the ISS doesn't have a purpose now. It's sole purpose was justification for the shuttle program.
Not really true. ISS would have been cancelled before it even flew, but it was pushed as a means of funnelling money to Russian rocket scientists so that they wouldn't go to work for Saddam Hussein or some other wacko dictator. Hence why it's in an orbit that makes it difficult to reach from America and is pretty much useless for anything.
ISS was basically a US-funded Russian jobs program, so it's probably fitting that the only way for US astronauts to reach it now is on Russian rockets.
There is nothing preventing the US fro building additional shuttles with upgraded components, other than those that see it as a waste of money.
That and because it would be insane as anything other than a jobs program.
Storing large volumes of binary data in an archived fashion is a job for a filesystem, not a CVS. A CVS is not intended as a backup solution, nor should it be used as such.
So when I want to release a critical patch to an old version of our software I shouldn't just be able to extract everything from the repo, make the change and build the release installer, I should also have to find where any required binary files for that release were stored and copy them to my machine and hope that no-one deleted them in the meantime?
I really know very little about git, but from the numerous 'Git doesn't do X, Y, Z', 'But you shouldn't be doing X, Y, or Z!' posts here I don't see a reason why I would I want to.
It's probably still a minor win for power efficiency, but it's not like there's been a huge efficiency breakthrough.
I disagree: one reason why I decided to replace my Atom with an i5 is that the Sandy Bridge systems are extremely power-efficient compared to PCs of a few years ago. I haven't measured the power consumption of mine yet, but online benchmarks show i5 systems with integrated graphics idling at half the power usage of my Atom system.