I think that would have gotten ugly, considering they were licensing tech from Intel. I don't remember the details but I remember their being some kind of reciprocity there. I'm sure someone more informed than me will clarify.
I had an interesting thought about "making available". What if I use a bittorrent client and I disable all uploading, I just leech. Then I use mrtg or some network traffic logging software and I can show that no data is ever uploaded. Then I download everything I want, get sued and when they claim I should pay some insane fine because I "made it available" I produce all the logs and proof that no one ever downloaded it from me. If even a fraction of people did this, you could make it probably impossibly expensive for them to continue to legally pursue downloaders in general, because so many of the lawsuits would end up failing and become prohibitively expensive.
I think the kid knows he sucks at chemistry, but arent you kind of making his point for him? The kid sucks at chemistry, why not have him spend his time elsewhere?
The start button is garbage but at least it was consistent garbage. Now we have new garbage that we have to learn for no reason other than Microsoft news to sell some more software licenses.
Depends on what she does the performance difference between an HDD and an SSD can be shocking. I tried the original Vertex years ago and haven't gone back since. I have a large-ish fileserver for mass storage, so I don't really miss the capacity.
That's not really accurate. The current generation of consumer laptops are really focused on the "Ultrabook" segment. Most of which come with an SSD. It's also pretty much standard equipment in Apple laptops now, which account for over 27% of the US market.
The current generation is Vertex 4. I have a Vertex 2 and it's been great. Judging by the feedback the vast majority of people have positive experiences. But yeah earlier generations had their issues.
Hard to know what that means without context. Sounds to me like he just dangled some very jewish statements out and let the psychos work up a lather about it.
By all means, and in the interim you can use the free office converter in 2003 to view the new formats, which you should have done about 5 years ago when Office 2007 was launched.
They're replacing the old document formats (XLS, DOC) with the new ones (.DOCX,.XSLX). This won't matter for 99% of people using Google Docs. Personally I'm really excited, I didn't know they supported the new formats at all.
Agreed, you have to look at the total cost of ownership vs the output. At $32k/decade you're pretty close to salary in China (4-5k/year USD is a very good salary there). There's a lot of other costs we're not considering as well, not just power but also training (programming) the robot and maintenance costs. You would have to assume these are relatively high skill jobs, and wouldn't be cheap, certainly not $15k/year in the US. If it takes 40 employee hours a year to maintain them by an individual who's salary is say, $75k, you're looking at around another $1500/robot/year, or $15k/decade.
But the big difference of course is that the robot will work 24 hours a day, which makes it far more effective. But remember that it's not uncommon to work 12-16 hour shifts in China. The problem is, from watching the video, a human appears to be probably at least five times, if not ten times, as efficient.
Well it's not quite that simple. See if you have the outstanding liability of the service contract you would either have to ETF out of the contract (min $350 on vzw) or buy an off contract device. And off-contract 16GB iPhone 4S costs $654. I don't know why everyone forgets the whole $199 subsidized on a 2 year contract thing - maybe its a US vs Europe issue?
Initially developed in the 1960s and relaunched in 2006 for the first iPhone, Gorilla Glass by 2010 had been used in approximately 20 percent of mobile handsets worldwide, roughly 200 million units.[4]
I don't know if they still use Gorilla Glass or something else, but I'd like to see your source that says the iPhone uses a "cheaper, weaker material". You also make the assumption that the only thing that can break is the glass. The iPhone is uses an aluminium band around the edge, which is much tougher than my plastic Galaxy Nexus (which I love). It actually makes the nexus feel a lot lighter than an iPhone, which is one of the reasons I switched, although the ACTUAL weight is very similar.
No one is arguing that billions of people don't own a computer. Having electricity has nothing to do with having seen a computer somewhere else.
I will quote the grandparent for you:
Most people have never seen a computer.
Now if you want to have a separate discussion about whether or not most (read: over 50%) of humanity has seen a computer, not including movies, then we could discuss it. But you can't add criteria to someone else's comment, after the fact. Although I don't think it matters because most humans have probably seen a computer in some form. Would you like to further amend that to say "personal (desktop) computers" ?
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They're the top dogs because x86 is the stanrdard for desktops, and it's only still the standard because it's cheap.
No, they're top dogs because of "Wintel". If Windows had been running on ARM since XP it would be a whole different story.
I think that would have gotten ugly, considering they were licensing tech from Intel. I don't remember the details but I remember their being some kind of reciprocity there. I'm sure someone more informed than me will clarify.
I had an interesting thought about "making available". What if I use a bittorrent client and I disable all uploading, I just leech. Then I use mrtg or some network traffic logging software and I can show that no data is ever uploaded. Then I download everything I want, get sued and when they claim I should pay some insane fine because I "made it available" I produce all the logs and proof that no one ever downloaded it from me. If even a fraction of people did this, you could make it probably impossibly expensive for them to continue to legally pursue downloaders in general, because so many of the lawsuits would end up failing and become prohibitively expensive.
I think the kid knows he sucks at chemistry, but arent you kind of making his point for him? The kid sucks at chemistry, why not have him spend his time elsewhere?
The start button is garbage but at least it was consistent garbage. Now we have new garbage that we have to learn for no reason other than Microsoft news to sell some more software licenses.
And about 500 times the performance (7200 RPM SATA disk at 100 4k iops vs 50k iops, which is very conservative for modern SSD).
It would be faster and far more reliable using SLC, assuming you had a workload that included lots of writing.
Depends on what she does the performance difference between an HDD and an SSD can be shocking. I tried the original Vertex years ago and haven't gone back since. I have a large-ish fileserver for mass storage, so I don't really miss the capacity.
That's not really accurate. The current generation of consumer laptops are really focused on the "Ultrabook" segment. Most of which come with an SSD. It's also pretty much standard equipment in Apple laptops now, which account for over 27% of the US market.
They run mail in rebates some times and knock another $20 or $30 off.
The current generation is Vertex 4. I have a Vertex 2 and it's been great. Judging by the feedback the vast majority of people have positive experiences. But yeah earlier generations had their issues.
Honestly, if I sent that example to my peers and my boss, they would laugh me out of the room.
Hard to know what that means without context. Sounds to me like he just dangled some very jewish statements out and let the psychos work up a lather about it.
Google is just discontinuing exporting to XLS, DOC, etc (2003/XP and prior format). They still support exporting to XLSX/DOCX.
By all means, and in the interim you can use the free office converter in 2003 to view the new formats, which you should have done about 5 years ago when Office 2007 was launched.
The best part is, you can use Microsoft's FREE office document converter to view the new formats seamlessly in Office 2003/XP.
http://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=49115
.XSLX). This won't matter for 99% of people using Google Docs. Personally I'm really excited, I didn't know they supported the new formats at all.
They're replacing the old document formats (XLS, DOC) with the new ones (.DOCX,
"Introduction to Computing [...] boring and pretty useless for someone who's used PCs for about 20 years"
Is this some kind of elaborate joke?
Agreed, you have to look at the total cost of ownership vs the output. At $32k/decade you're pretty close to salary in China (4-5k/year USD is a very good salary there). There's a lot of other costs we're not considering as well, not just power but also training (programming) the robot and maintenance costs. You would have to assume these are relatively high skill jobs, and wouldn't be cheap, certainly not $15k/year in the US. If it takes 40 employee hours a year to maintain them by an individual who's salary is say, $75k, you're looking at around another $1500/robot/year, or $15k/decade.
But the big difference of course is that the robot will work 24 hours a day, which makes it far more effective. But remember that it's not uncommon to work 12-16 hour shifts in China. The problem is, from watching the video, a human appears to be probably at least five times, if not ten times, as efficient.
Robots have capital and operational costs, and usable lifespan. Working out an "hourly salary" is pretty easy once you know those.
Actually they're integrated directly onto motherboards now: Smart Response Technology.
Well it's not quite that simple. See if you have the outstanding liability of the service contract you would either have to ETF out of the contract (min $350 on vzw) or buy an off contract device. And off-contract 16GB iPhone 4S costs $654. I don't know why everyone forgets the whole $199 subsidized on a 2 year contract thing - maybe its a US vs Europe issue?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_glass
Initially developed in the 1960s and relaunched in 2006 for the first iPhone, Gorilla Glass by 2010 had been used in approximately 20 percent of mobile handsets worldwide, roughly 200 million units.[4]
I don't know if they still use Gorilla Glass or something else, but I'd like to see your source that says the iPhone uses a "cheaper, weaker material". You also make the assumption that the only thing that can break is the glass. The iPhone is uses an aluminium band around the edge, which is much tougher than my plastic Galaxy Nexus (which I love). It actually makes the nexus feel a lot lighter than an iPhone, which is one of the reasons I switched, although the ACTUAL weight is very similar.
Most people have never seen a computer.
Now if you want to have a separate discussion about whether or not most (read: over 50%) of humanity has seen a computer, not including movies, then we could discuss it. But you can't add criteria to someone else's comment, after the fact. Although I don't think it matters because most humans have probably seen a computer in some form. Would you like to further amend that to say "personal (desktop) computers" ?
There's a big difference between "never seen a computer" (as the grandparent claimed) and "never OWNED a computer".