I was going to say this too.. though it might be more accurate to call it the twilight of punched cards. The transition to using DTE was pretty close to complete though availability of terminals in some cases would see fall back to cards. Cards continued to be used for data in the business world a bit longer.
And that Brit example does sound a bit elitist. Certainly academically you could punch up your code and toss it to the operators as much as you wanted and it would be run as other jobs permitted.
"As for why the higher electric bill, they sell the electricity back at the same price they charge us for it. It is NOT a premium price, it is the same price. We are not forcing you to pay a higher electric bill, you can go get your own solar panel as well. "
False.
The price you claim to be the same in fact includes the cost of delivery and administrative services. Why on earth are you entitled to those markups?
a) it is not an "article" It is an editorial and thus opinion. b) stop taking money from taxes to subsidize installation of solar panels. My school taxes are high enough already thank you. c) why should a private company be forced to buy and resell your product and assume all the delivery expenses? d) why should I or anyone else be forced to pay higher electric bills just so you can sell your solar power back to the grid?
Ex: "Learn how you can sell the electricity you generate back to Georgia Power at a premium price, currently 17.00 cents/kWh."
expensive watches are all about status, not function. the hypothetical iWatch will not fall into the "expensive" category though it will certainly be more than run of the mill stuff.
It is hard to underestimate the iDrones and their propensity to own iAnything. But in an age where fewer young adults (and even older ones) are wearing a watch it better be something uber special. Is being a "fitness" monitor enough? Does the couch potato culture need that (looking at eBay fitness monitor lists, apparently not)? If a person is not now wearing a watch what is going to make them want to wear an iWatch?
So if I store a document in a vault provided by an American company in a foreign country, they must turn it over? Suppose the American company owns a building which they rent space in. Must they turn over documents stored there by third parties who are renting space?
Do the math and please come back. Show us the real world time difference in writting a non-trivial amount of data. Exactly how much is that? 1MB? 10? 1GB? Do typical users read/write GB at a time? 100MB? Which of that data is not already cached (for reads)?
Lets be honest here - outside of a small percentage of users doing raw uncompressed video operations HDD are more than fast enough. Drives and OS both offer large caching of high use objects which reduces seek/startup time differences to a very small amount. The biggest difference is on start up and even there.. do those 5, 10, 15 secons extra really matter that much? How often are you booting? Or even resuming from hibernation if thats your thing?
As to power, idle is now around 5 or 6 watts and standby around 1. Even in a laptop the difference in power use between hdd/sdd is not going to make or break the deal. Your screen, however, another story.
I think you miss my point. At what point was Intel exclusively marketing this hardware to Microsoft? I am unaware of Intel ever saying 'no mr. cheap tablet maker, you can't buy these!'
This just appears to be Microsoft bashing because Intel is "marketing" their hardware to another large OS... other whan windows.. and osx... and various small freebsd and linux based devices... and...
Once again the nanny state rises to save the day! God forbid people take responsibility for their own property. Leave your phone in the bar (or anywhere else)? Is this some how different than leaving your wallet? purse? camera? laptop? Is it different than a purse snatching? Someone grabbing your tote bage or backpack with your laptop in it?
What this really is about is governement asserting more authority over your possessions and your life. And if you are so naive as to think the government will not use this to their advantage I guess you are all ok with RICO too.
If there is some segment of the market for phones that really, really wants this, it will be served. Without government involvement and without forcing it upon everyone.
You'll notice that al Qaeda has gone back to using couriers.
I would say if you use technology which can compromise your location, communications or other private info and you do not want to share that then yes, you are making a mistake to assume safety unless you have personally vetted it. As noted earlier, it comes down to a matter of degree/risk assessment (ignoring that you may be terrible or unqualifed at assessing that) but that there is a non zero probability you have been compromised. And Trust No One should be your default policy, not trust those guys because, well they say the right thing and seem nice!
What right does any government have to do this? What right does any "climatologist" have to do this? These are the new priests? Believe us for we speak the true gospel?
The fuck I trust any of the above to fix anything nor do they have to right to start fucking with the atmosphere, oceans, etc.
That is what "education" is. Were the (insert nationality) kids able to read 50? 75? 100 years ago? Without doubt, those who went through the school system could. Yet at every opporunity since, the so called educators felt compelled to try something different. Why? Because a) life would be boring if they did not and b) it is the only way to increase their ranks and funding (ie, no crisis, less funding).
You can apply the same to math and the varoius sciences as well.
Would we be seeing this same faux "privacy" outrage if it were Hillary Clinton or some other person from Obama's national security team? Has not the surveillance state expanded exponentially under the current administration? Doubtful. And what exactly was Rice's "central role in creating the surveillance state"? That she, at the President's direction, authorized NSA to spy on foreign diplomats? WTF do you think intel agencies are there for? Considering her not very good relations with Darth Vader..er Dick Cheney, the man behind a lot of the worst stuff of the Bush admin. I think it grossly unfair to paint her as having a central role.
It really will be hilarious to juxtapose the silence as Obama admin security and foreign policy officials end up in similar positions over the next few years. Afterall, Kos and others have said 'not a big deal' to all the nsa stuff - but only if you have a D after your name.
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BTW - tell us how long SGI provided free support to all users of IRIX?
For certain Software, SGI will provide limited telephone support for a period of ninety (90) days. Telephone technical support will include available Software patches and Software workarounds and generally available fixes to common SGI Software issues; however, such support shall not include consulting services or any other software development. Software updates are not included. This support applies only to operating systems preinstalled by SGI.
So guess if you dumped a ton of dough on some SGI hardware you would get "free" IRIX updates. That is analagous to Windows XP how?
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I was going to say this too.. though it might be more accurate to call it the twilight of punched cards. The transition to using DTE was pretty close to complete though availability of terminals in some cases would see fall back to cards. Cards continued to be used for data in the business world a bit longer.
And that Brit example does sound a bit elitist. Certainly academically you could punch up your code and toss it to the operators as much as you wanted and it would be run as other jobs permitted.
"As for why the higher electric bill, they sell the electricity back at the same price they charge us for it. It is NOT a premium price, it is the same price. We are not forcing you to pay a higher electric bill, you can go get your own solar panel as well. "
False.
The price you claim to be the same in fact includes the cost of delivery and administrative services. Why on earth are you entitled to those markups?
a) it is not an "article" It is an editorial and thus opinion.
b) stop taking money from taxes to subsidize installation of solar panels. My school taxes are high enough already thank you.
c) why should a private company be forced to buy and resell your product and assume all the delivery expenses?
d) why should I or anyone else be forced to pay higher electric bills just so you can sell your solar power back to the grid?
Ex: "Learn how you can sell the electricity you generate back to Georgia Power at a premium price, currently 17.00 cents/kWh."
A safe deposit box is a rental.
expensive watches are all about status, not function. the hypothetical iWatch will not fall into the "expensive" category though it will certainly be more than run of the mill stuff.
It is hard to underestimate the iDrones and their propensity to own iAnything. But in an age where fewer young adults (and even older ones) are wearing a watch it better be something uber special. Is being a "fitness" monitor enough? Does the couch potato culture need that (looking at eBay fitness monitor lists, apparently not)? If a person is not now wearing a watch what is going to make them want to wear an iWatch?
So if I store a document in a vault provided by an American company in a foreign country, they must turn it over? Suppose the American company owns a building which they rent space in. Must they turn over documents stored there by third parties who are renting space?
encrypted smoke signals. the hard part is keeping the decoy fires going
a rare moment when someone posts something potentially useful and not well known on /. kudos
Do the math and please come back. Show us the real world time difference in writting a non-trivial amount of data. Exactly how much is that? 1MB? 10? 1GB? Do typical users read/write GB at a time? 100MB? Which of that data is not already cached (for reads)?
I do have a small SSD drive. That I don't bother to put all that much on it goes to show the difference it did not make.
And you, as per the title of my post are in that 2% who might benefit from a SSD.
No beer.
No cigs
No pot
No cell phone
No tv.
Should be able to eat now.
Lets be honest here - outside of a small percentage of users doing raw uncompressed video operations HDD are more than fast enough. Drives and OS both offer large caching of high use objects which reduces seek/startup time differences to a very small amount. The biggest difference is on start up and even there.. do those 5, 10, 15 secons extra really matter that much? How often are you booting? Or even resuming from hibernation if thats your thing?
As to power, idle is now around 5 or 6 watts and standby around 1. Even in a laptop the difference in power use between hdd/sdd is not going to make or break the deal. Your screen, however, another story.
I think you miss my point. At what point was Intel exclusively marketing this hardware to Microsoft? I am unaware of Intel ever saying 'no mr. cheap tablet maker, you can't buy these!'
This just appears to be Microsoft bashing because Intel is "marketing" their hardware to another large OS... other whan windows.. and osx... and various small freebsd and linux based devices... and...
Once again the nanny state rises to save the day! God forbid people take responsibility for their own property. Leave your phone in the bar (or anywhere else)? Is this some how different than leaving your wallet? purse? camera? laptop? Is it different than a purse snatching? Someone grabbing your tote bage or backpack with your laptop in it?
What this really is about is governement asserting more authority over your possessions and your life. And if you are so naive as to think the government will not use this to their advantage I guess you are all ok with RICO too.
If there is some segment of the market for phones that really, really wants this, it will be served. Without government involvement and without forcing it upon everyone.
with nearly 2x the LOC.
You'll notice that al Qaeda has gone back to using couriers.
I would say if you use technology which can compromise your location, communications or other private info and you do not want to share that then yes, you are making a mistake to assume safety unless you have personally vetted it. As noted earlier, it comes down to a matter of degree/risk assessment (ignoring that you may be terrible or unqualifed at assessing that) but that there is a non zero probability you have been compromised. And Trust No One should be your default policy, not trust those guys because, well they say the right thing and seem nice!
I'm not seeing what Intel marking bay trail etc to Chinese tab makers has to do with their use by Microsoft (or anyone else for that matter).
Are you able to verify all of the distribution yourself? Are you able to vet the contributors? Are they able to vet each other? Is Tor really safe?
It all comes down to a matter of degree but in the end... Trust No One
What right does any government have to do this? What right does any "climatologist" have to do this? These are the new priests? Believe us for we speak the true gospel?
The fuck I trust any of the above to fix anything nor do they have to right to start fucking with the atmosphere, oceans, etc.
what's next? researchers use beads to do arithmetic?
That is what "education" is. Were the (insert nationality) kids able to read 50? 75? 100 years ago? Without doubt, those who went through the school system could. Yet at every opporunity since, the so called educators felt compelled to try something different. Why? Because a) life would be boring if they did not and b) it is the only way to increase their ranks and funding (ie, no crisis, less funding).
You can apply the same to math and the varoius sciences as well.
shocking.. you mean she is not an NSA plant? I thought for sure that Rice was still on Obama's payroll alone with Cheney.
Would we be seeing this same faux "privacy" outrage if it were Hillary Clinton or some other person from Obama's national security team? Has not the surveillance state expanded exponentially under the current administration? Doubtful. And what exactly was Rice's "central role in creating the surveillance state"? That she, at the President's direction, authorized NSA to spy on foreign diplomats? WTF do you think intel agencies are there for? Considering her not very good relations with Darth Vader..er Dick Cheney, the man behind a lot of the worst stuff of the Bush admin. I think it grossly unfair to paint her as having a central role.
It really will be hilarious to juxtapose the silence as Obama admin security and foreign policy officials end up in similar positions over the next few years. Afterall, Kos and others have said 'not a big deal' to all the nsa stuff - but only if you have a D after your name.
My older brother shuffled your deck.
BTW - tell us how long SGI provided free support to all users of IRIX?
So guess if you dumped a ton of dough on some SGI hardware you would get "free" IRIX updates. That is analagous to Windows XP how?