I don't have time right now to fully read your essay, but I would like to respond to a few points which are erroneous.
Organic molecules are not extremely stable as you imply. They are very easy to destroy with UV radiation. Which happens to be pretty abundant on earth. It's why you get sunburnt.
Evolutionary theory does not apply to molecular chemistry. Molecules don't live or die, and the strongest survive to reproduce, while the weaker ones don't get stomped out of existance.
Genetic errors are more common and probable to pass on than better characteristics. As with any kind of data corruption. (Your floppy disk went bad, you mean your essay has random characters in it instead of shakespeare? Naw) Child diabetes didn't 'evolve' into the human genome after insulin was developed. It's been there for along time, yet the children died very earily in life. (Before they could reproduce.) This is due to the fact that genetic changes in reproductive organs (which are necessary to pass on the error.) don't affect the parent (Thus natural selection doesn't work). While the parent may be a very prosperous individual maybe he has 8 kids. 3 of those kids die from diabetes, another 3 have the gene but it's inactive (and will pass it to their children), and the last 2 don't have it at all. This goes on and on, and it's why we have the genetic problems we do.
Natural selection does not guarantee that bad genes will be pruned from the genome. It is simply what happens when a subset of a population survives a cataclysm. Those survivors may or may not end up all having the same gene which "allowed" them to survive. You can see how this would be the case from the previous point I made.
Did you read my post? Responding mindlessly hurts. Maybe if you weren't just trolling you would have posted as something other than an AC.
TFA only mentions "average cost per chip" nowhere is there stated what is included in that. As I stated in MY post, that most likely is total expenditures/units shipped. In which case it COVERS all the gdamn marketting costs. I'm not reading a 100 page financial report thatI don't even care about in order to refute your trolling. I seriously, however, doubt that it includes detailed information on all of their costs. That would imply the total expenditures would have been used as it is the most easy to obtain. It also gives you the most accurate cost per chip.
If you want to be a punk, why don't you go email wired and ask them for their calculations....
Typically people stating this also go on to insult the article as obviously being written some hippie anti-corporation person. Which leads me to believe their opinion is the bias one.
While the article does not mention what exactly they're figuring into their average cost, one would assume since they don't say average fabrication cost that they mean ALL cost. They probably took the total expenditures from the financial report and divided it by the number of units shipped. This would figure in R&D cost....
You mean to tell me that layoffs don't make the company more profitable?!?!! What are you talking about!! You are clearly insane!!!! THIS FLIES IN THE FACE OF BUSHITE ECONOMIC THEORY!!!!!
Alternative energy would do the same thing to our foreign policy. Why on earth would we want to keep using fossil fuels when we can start doing more sane things?
I was talking about usable frequency in digital rf communications. Usable frequency is limited by the how much transmitters bleed into surrounding unintended frequencies. As this can be minimized, the amount of usable frequency will increase.
As another poster ineptly stated, wireless spectrum is not finite. There is a specific subset of all wireless spectrum which is useable for communications. However, within that subset there is still an infinite number of frequencies. The more that become usable depend on technologies' ability to differentiate between two frequencies and produce specific frequencies during transmission.
Currently, all wireless communications systems, that I am aware of, produce a lot of interference. Thus, more sensitive receiving equipment is useless. However, There was an article on slashdot a few years ago about researchers having discovered a way to get magnetrons to produce very specific frequencies. This is in contract to what they currently produce, which is a normal distribution centered around the frequency desired. If this technology becomes commercialized, the amount of frequency that will be useable will become several orders of magnitude larger.
For example, 802.11 has 11 frequencies available to it in the 2.4ghz range. If you put multiple devices on immediately adjacent frequencies(IE: 6 and 7), you end up with alot of interference and start losing packets. With better technology not only would all 11 of them be usable, but you could have frequencies for use in between what is labeled 6 and 7. Currently, the in between frequencies wouldn't even work at all due to interference.
I just recently bought a Maxtor 160GB hard disk for 130 dollars. Three mail in rebates for a grand total of 100 dollars off the item. I'm still waiting for 2 of the rebates over 3 months later. I'm about to get seriously friggin' pissed. The single compUSA rebate came, but the 2 manufacturer's rebates are still waiting. Fuck Maxtor.
Nope, sorry. In that case it's a warning message. Having an error message and compiling are mutually exclusive. Don't let your head blow up trying to figure that one out.
Heh.. Yeah when I clicked the link I was looking for something revolutionary. I looked at the first screenshot and thought he was comparing firefox to IE, but then I saw the E logo.
Sure, and it's funny. I got a good laugh out of it. It was even more riotous that it got modded insightful. Sorry for the tone of my original response.:)
How did that get rated insightful? Do you mods have no idea what bogomips are? It stands for BOGUS MIPS. It's how linux deals with certain timing issues. Basically, how long it takes to go through a loop that does absolutly nothing. It has no meaning in terms of flops or even MIPS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogomips
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Reminds me of a sci-fi novel where one man was asked a ton of questions and that was used to determine the president. I believe it was by asimov.
Yes, Hallowed are they Ham on Rye.(I think you mean Ori, as in Origin.)
Did you read my post? Responding mindlessly hurts. Maybe if you weren't just trolling you would have posted as something other than an AC.
TFA only mentions "average cost per chip" nowhere is there stated what is included in that. As I stated in MY post, that most likely is total expenditures/units shipped. In which case it COVERS all the gdamn marketting costs. I'm not reading a 100 page financial report thatI don't even care about in order to refute your trolling. I seriously, however, doubt that it includes detailed information on all of their costs. That would imply the total expenditures would have been used as it is the most easy to obtain. It also gives you the most accurate cost per chip.
If you want to be a punk, why don't you go email wired and ask them for their calculations....
Bah that's nothing.. I use to jump up and down when I played Mario Brothers.
You must have missed the part about it being a gyroscopic controller. If you've ever used a gyroscopic mouse, you'd know that they rock.
Typically people stating this also go on to insult the article as obviously being written some hippie anti-corporation person. Which leads me to believe their opinion is the bias one.
While the article does not mention what exactly they're figuring into their average cost, one would assume since they don't say average fabrication cost that they mean ALL cost. They probably took the total expenditures from the financial report and divided it by the number of units shipped. This would figure in R&D cost....
You mean to tell me that layoffs don't make the company more profitable?!?!! What are you talking about!! You are clearly insane!!!! THIS FLIES IN THE FACE OF BUSHITE ECONOMIC THEORY!!!!!
And isn't this figured into the per chip cost average? If not then the story is misrepresented.
Aside from the Sliders episode mentioning this, there was actually a movie somewhat similar to this...
http://imdb.com/title/tt0193283/
Alternative energy would do the same thing to our foreign policy. Why on earth would we want to keep using fossil fuels when we can start doing more sane things?
I would definately pay to be able to have my amputated leg grow back. Sounds to me like you're downplaying this a bit.
I can find you examples of sigular "them" usage in thousands of books. Get off your high horse you pedantic bastard.
See:
http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/austheir.html
Funny the newer captchas are easier for me to read. They use to be illegible.
Idle power the the entire system is approximately 120 Watts. Max power consumption is 406 watts.
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See:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86
Great! Lets demolish Manhattan and put in 3 more of these things!
Did you notice how many acres of land it takes up?
Bandwidth in what sense of the word?
I was talking about usable frequency in digital rf communications. Usable frequency is limited by the how much transmitters bleed into surrounding unintended frequencies. As this can be minimized, the amount of usable frequency will increase.
As another poster ineptly stated, wireless spectrum is not finite. There is a specific subset of all wireless spectrum which is useable for communications. However, within that subset there is still an infinite number of frequencies. The more that become usable depend on technologies' ability to differentiate between two frequencies and produce specific frequencies during transmission.
Currently, all wireless communications systems, that I am aware of, produce a lot of interference. Thus, more sensitive receiving equipment is useless. However, There was an article on slashdot a few years ago about researchers having discovered a way to get magnetrons to produce very specific frequencies. This is in contract to what they currently produce, which is a normal distribution centered around the frequency desired. If this technology becomes commercialized, the amount of frequency that will be useable will become several orders of magnitude larger.
For example, 802.11 has 11 frequencies available to it in the 2.4ghz range. If you put multiple devices on immediately adjacent frequencies(IE: 6 and 7), you end up with alot of interference and start losing packets. With better technology not only would all 11 of them be usable, but you could have frequencies for use in between what is labeled 6 and 7. Currently, the in between frequencies wouldn't even work at all due to interference.
I just recently bought a Maxtor 160GB hard disk for 130 dollars. Three mail in rebates for a grand total of 100 dollars off the item. I'm still waiting for 2 of the rebates over 3 months later. I'm about to get seriously friggin' pissed. The single compUSA rebate came, but the 2 manufacturer's rebates are still waiting. Fuck Maxtor.
Nope, sorry. In that case it's a warning message. Having an error message and compiling are mutually exclusive. Don't let your head blow up trying to figure that one out.
Heh.. Yeah when I clicked the link I was looking for something revolutionary. I looked at the first screenshot and thought he was comparing firefox to IE, but then I saw the E logo.
Sure, and it's funny. I got a good laugh out of it. It was even more riotous that it got modded insightful. Sorry for the tone of my original response. :)
How did that get rated insightful? Do you mods have no idea what bogomips are? It stands for BOGUS MIPS. It's how linux deals with certain timing issues. Basically, how long it takes to go through a loop that does absolutly nothing. It has no meaning in terms of flops or even MIPS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogomips
That's basically what the Pentium M is....