FWIW, your cost to store 1TB on Amazon's S3 is about $140/mo. Your actual cost to store 1TB as reliably as they do is probably pretty high too, and takes a certain amount of your time and - more importantly - if you were to disappear, might not be easily recovered. Also, you're slightly likely to screw something up and manually cause an error. Its not cheap, but for the stuff that's really important to you its not that expensive.
More realistically would be identifying the "very important" information (probably a relatively small subset of your 1TB), tagging it or moving it to a different location, and having it automatically push to (and never delete from) S3. That would get you your 99.99999999% likelihood of data storage for $10-20/mo, and a local RAID6 copy of everything for another $20-30/mo (randomly amortized price of server, disks, controllers, &c not including your time).
Why should I continue to be taxed for as long as I own the house?
Depends. Do you want someone to maintain the fantastically expensive street that leads to that house? The police officer and fire fighters who protect it? Even the code enforcement people that make sure that your neighbor's new house doesn't fall over onto it?
The good news, and some more truth, is that most of the people - even those with cancer - don't need to
The people dying of cancer right now probably disagree with you.
I'm sure they do. According to cancer.org there are around 1.6 million of them in this country. Which one would you like the "best oncologist" in the US to see first? Or should she just stop sleeping and try to spend a full 19 seconds with each?
Or is it just barely possible that having some of those people dying of more normal instances of cancer see, oh, the 2nd best oncologist while the best one focuses just a wee bit more might be more productive?
Okay. So now you're sitting on all this inventory you're not selling. You now have a reduced cash flow because your money is tied up in these parts that aren't moving. In the mean time the lower priced stores reaps a short term cash flow increase, with no impact on the long term cash flow, while continuing to sell at their current pricing.
Really?
Supplier S has a large stock of widgets. It sells them, wholesale, for $1 each (in large lots but who cares).
Retailer A buys some from S at $1/each and advertises them for sale at $.9 each in order to drive traffic to their store.
Now let's say that Retailer B wants to sell some widgets themselves at the normal price of $2. They have a choice to make: - Option 1 : buy them from S at $1 each. No impact on Retailer A - Option 2 : buy them from A at $.9 each. This is cheaper for Retailer B and a guaranteed loss for Retailer A, also wasting an expensive ad buy and annoying their customers
Either way, they own the same number and plan to sell them for $2, so we can ignore that as a comparison point.
Still think that selling them to B is a Good Deal for A?
There are companies that use rfids to keep track of their employees. I honestly see no problem in that, if it doesn't go outside the scope of my workplace.
You never drive your private car outside the scope of your workplace?
it doesn't solve the problem of identifying the party at the other end of the connection - it leaves that to other applications, typically hand-installed pre-shared passwords or else password tokens.
Maybe we could figure out some system of signed certificates in order to validate identity. Nah - the trouble with that is that I'd never be able to get the actual certs from the people I wanted to authenticate - it'd be a real PITA to have to pull them onto a USB key from my bank (or whomever) every time.
Aha - what if we had a few, highly trusted, centralized "authorities" who I could trust, whose public key information was widely available through a vast array of sources (to widely ensure that it wasn't corrupted), who would then "sign" the identity certificates belonging to of each of the businesses that we wanted to communicate with over ipv6?
Surely that would be better than the current system, whatever it might be, right?
What do they call the person who graduates last from Medical School?
Doctor.
As a patient, I'd like to know what sources my provider has consulted and based a diagnosis on. I don't want my health dependant on which PA or GP I get when I go to the doctors office or to the hospital. Doctors may catch the obvious things, but when its not obvious, your life literally depends on who you happen to get lucky enough to see. That's a pretty sad state of affairs, and its great if this helps.
Here's some truth for you. There are ~310 million people in the US alone. There is one "best oncologist." Most of the people are never going to see him or her.
The good news, and some more truth, is that most of the people - even those with cancer - don't need to.
The bad news is that many of them will think that they do and bitch and moan when they don't.
True. This will last as long as the cost of the pollution is off-loaded to us and not factored into the cost of the fuel they use (marine diesel is the clean version of what they normally burn and it's a huge contribution to the CO2 issues we have). Would that be the case, then shipping cost would rise sharply.
s/sharply/a little bit/
Doubling the cost of transporting a container would be a massive hit in real money to many organizations operating on razor-thin margins. It would also increase the cost of your iPad by, oh, a nickel. You can fit a stunningly large number of iPads into a shipping container.
Why not create a more concrete experiment. Strip Linux and FreeBSD down to just a window manager, compare the versions of Xorg, do alternate native 3D benchmarks. Give us something to take seriously. Telling me some games run faster on PC-BSD than they do on Ubuntu isn't giving me a lot to work with.
Probably because most people who want to use their machines to game with casually don't do this, and comparing performance of out-of-the-box distros is actually far more useful for people who wouldn't be able (or interested enough) to just run their own benchmarks?
Outrageous because the setup is too different, if you really want to compare the performance of the kernel using the same desktop would be a good start, no?
If however you really want to compare the performance of the distribution, however, especially as used by "normal" users (who are playing 3D games, not running warehouses, on their l33t b0x3n), then this approach makes perfect sense.
Tons of people already sell them - here's one example ( http://www.speedlaces.com/ ), but there are many, many more. They're cheap, popular, and common. Why is this even an issue?
So double-knot them. Your running shoes should be loose enough that you can slip them on and off without untying them (or breaking them) anyway, if you're running significant distances. Wear, run, retie once or twice to get them just right, double-knot, repeat in 400 miles. What is problem?
And what's wrong with that? Until you need hiking shoes or lace-up dress shoes, why not wear slip-ons?
Snarkiness aside, probably because the first time you do need hiking shoes or dress shoes, you won't have time to adequately master the skill. And you'll feel like an ass for not knowing it, causing you to bypass potentially useful entertainment and mate-seeking activities, which is ultimately destructive.
Its like being proud of not knowing how to drive a stick. You don't have to be good at it to have it as a tool in your arsenal, and trying to learn shortly after your hiking buddy (who drove) broke her left foot and needs medical attention won't exactly make you Mr. Popularity. See also riding a bicycle and lighting a fire.
Maybe if you'd gone to them with "This is a bad idea, it has a xx% chance every month we're doing it of costing us $$$ in direct fees and around $$$ in indirect bad press. I can rectify it for $ plus $ per month," they'd have taken you up on the suggestion?
Alternately, maybe you would have realized as they did (correctly in some cases, not so in others, I'm sure) that the economics actually supported not fixing the problem?
You can tell the federal government favors offshoring because it's zealously enforcing an Indian law that it has no obligation to enforce and that the Indians themselves apparently don't care about.
Actually, the US has treaty obligations to do just that, which are actually enforceable at basically the same level as constitutional amendments. Treaty violations are a big, big deal legally.
1) Shipping the product across the globe costs a lot of money. You can save money buy building near where you sell it
Actually, that's just totally not true. You can send a shipping container halfway around the world for ~$3,000US. Its scary cheap. And you can fit a truly unbelievable amount of product into a shipping container.
Yup, Measles is nasty. I was one of the few thousand people who got it in the last resurgence back in '91, despite having had the shots, because my immune system was compromised due to CMV mononucleosis at the time. Nasty, nasty stuff - as in a 10 day hospital stay nasty, with sustained high fever. "Luckily" I only remember a couple of days of it. More luckily my doctor got me to the hospital in time (it only took probably 4-5 hours from the time I started showing spots to the beginning of the time I lost awareness of my surroundings).
Please, everyone, get your shots and have your dependents vaccinated too. Its not just their lives you might be saving.
Of course, if each monthly actually told a useful and interesting story itself, that worked together to form a bigger story arc, that problem just wouldn't exist... If you're going to serialize something, each episode needs to be able to stand-alone - this applies in many other industries, so why should comics be any different? If something needs all n portions to be readable, why not release them all together?
Not that I care about Starcraft, but what makes sports so special that they must always take precedent?
Well, the article is about sports bars, the patrons of which generally visit them to purchase beer and other drinks with the expectation that they will receive an overwhelming amount of sports coverage on a plethora of televisions....
Even if it did use real HIV, in many cases the life-span for HIV is around 24 years after infection in the US.
Even so, if this "harmless form of HIV" does mutate back into the AIDS-causing variant and gives you the average 24 years to live after you've beat the cancer, you're cured of cancer but can't be intimate with your wife or husband or domesti^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H (fuck political correctness, let's just say SO) without infecting them. Is it really worth the cure?
It turns out that, for most couples at least, not only can you not be intimate with your wife after you're dead, she can't be intimate with you either. So I'd say that the cure's affect on your sex life is, basically, irrelevant to this discussion.
Agreed. After all, who wants to actually know something about their RDBMS before they start playing DBA? God forbid!
Yup. And by the same token, anyone who wishes to use their computer to store and retrieve email should be able to install and configure sendmail while we're at it!
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FWIW, your cost to store 1TB on Amazon's S3 is about $140/mo. Your actual cost to store 1TB as reliably as they do is probably pretty high too, and takes a certain amount of your time and - more importantly - if you were to disappear, might not be easily recovered. Also, you're slightly likely to screw something up and manually cause an error. Its not cheap, but for the stuff that's really important to you its not that expensive.
More realistically would be identifying the "very important" information (probably a relatively small subset of your 1TB), tagging it or moving it to a different location, and having it automatically push to (and never delete from) S3. That would get you your 99.99999999% likelihood of data storage for $10-20/mo, and a local RAID6 copy of everything for another $20-30/mo (randomly amortized price of server, disks, controllers, &c not including your time).
Why should I continue to be taxed for as long as I own the house?
Depends. Do you want someone to maintain the fantastically expensive street that leads to that house? The police officer and fire fighters who protect it? Even the code enforcement people that make sure that your neighbor's new house doesn't fall over onto it?
That's why.
The good news, and some more truth, is that most of the people - even those with cancer - don't need to
The people dying of cancer right now probably disagree with you.
I'm sure they do. According to cancer.org there are around 1.6 million of them in this country. Which one would you like the "best oncologist" in the US to see first? Or should she just stop sleeping and try to spend a full 19 seconds with each?
Or is it just barely possible that having some of those people dying of more normal instances of cancer see, oh, the 2nd best oncologist while the best one focuses just a wee bit more might be more productive?
Okay. So now you're sitting on all this inventory you're not selling. You now have a reduced cash flow because your money is tied up in these parts that aren't moving. In the mean time the lower priced stores reaps a short term cash flow increase, with no impact on the long term cash flow, while continuing to sell at their current pricing.
Really?
Supplier S has a large stock of widgets. It sells them, wholesale, for $1 each (in large lots but who cares).
Retailer A buys some from S at $1/each and advertises them for sale at $.9 each in order to drive traffic to their store.
Now let's say that Retailer B wants to sell some widgets themselves at the normal price of $2. They have a choice to make:
- Option 1 : buy them from S at $1 each. No impact on Retailer A
- Option 2 : buy them from A at $.9 each. This is cheaper for Retailer B and a guaranteed loss for Retailer A, also wasting an expensive ad buy and annoying their customers
Either way, they own the same number and plan to sell them for $2, so we can ignore that as a comparison point.
Still think that selling them to B is a Good Deal for A?
There are companies that use rfids to keep track of their employees. I honestly see no problem in that, if it doesn't go outside the scope of my workplace.
You never drive your private car outside the scope of your workplace?
it doesn't solve the problem of identifying the party at the other end of the connection - it leaves that to other applications, typically hand-installed pre-shared passwords or else password tokens.
Maybe we could figure out some system of signed certificates in order to validate identity. Nah - the trouble with that is that I'd never be able to get the actual certs from the people I wanted to authenticate - it'd be a real PITA to have to pull them onto a USB key from my bank (or whomever) every time.
Aha - what if we had a few, highly trusted, centralized "authorities" who I could trust, whose public key information was widely available through a vast array of sources (to widely ensure that it wasn't corrupted), who would then "sign" the identity certificates belonging to of each of the businesses that we wanted to communicate with over ipv6?
Surely that would be better than the current system, whatever it might be, right?
Right?
Hmm...
Here's a joke for you:
What do they call the person who graduates last from Medical School?
Doctor.
As a patient, I'd like to know what sources my provider has consulted and based a diagnosis on. I don't want my health dependant on which PA or GP I get when I go to the doctors office or to the hospital. Doctors may catch the obvious things, but when its not obvious, your life literally depends on who you happen to get lucky enough to see. That's a pretty sad state of affairs, and its great if this helps.
Here's some truth for you. There are ~310 million people in the US alone. There is one "best oncologist." Most of the people are never going to see him or her.
The good news, and some more truth, is that most of the people - even those with cancer - don't need to.
The bad news is that many of them will think that they do and bitch and moan when they don't.
True. This will last as long as the cost of the pollution is off-loaded to us and not factored into the cost of the fuel they use (marine diesel is the clean version of what they normally burn and it's a huge contribution to the CO2 issues we have). Would that be the case, then shipping cost would rise sharply.
s/sharply/a little bit/
Doubling the cost of transporting a container would be a massive hit in real money to many organizations operating on razor-thin margins. It would also increase the cost of your iPad by, oh, a nickel. You can fit a stunningly large number of iPads into a shipping container.
Why not create a more concrete experiment. Strip Linux and FreeBSD down to just a window manager, compare the versions of Xorg, do alternate native 3D benchmarks. Give us something to take seriously. Telling me some games run faster on PC-BSD than they do on Ubuntu isn't giving me a lot to work with.
Probably because most people who want to use their machines to game with casually don't do this, and comparing performance of out-of-the-box distros is actually far more useful for people who wouldn't be able (or interested enough) to just run their own benchmarks?
that might be a noop, or the reason why suspend fails for me.
Ah, Linux.
Outrageous because the setup is too different, if you really want to compare the performance of the kernel using the same desktop would be a good start, no?
If however you really want to compare the performance of the distribution, however, especially as used by "normal" users (who are playing 3D games, not running warehouses, on their l33t b0x3n), then this approach makes perfect sense.
That would be a very good point... if it were true. Its not, unfortunately for your declaration, but it most certainly would have been.
Tons of people already sell them - here's one example ( http://www.speedlaces.com/ ), but there are many, many more. They're cheap, popular, and common. Why is this even an issue?
So double-knot them. Your running shoes should be loose enough that you can slip them on and off without untying them (or breaking them) anyway, if you're running significant distances. Wear, run, retie once or twice to get them just right, double-knot, repeat in 400 miles. What is problem?
And what's wrong with that? Until you need hiking shoes or lace-up dress shoes, why not wear slip-ons?
Snarkiness aside, probably because the first time you do need hiking shoes or dress shoes, you won't have time to adequately master the skill. And you'll feel like an ass for not knowing it, causing you to bypass potentially useful entertainment and mate-seeking activities, which is ultimately destructive.
Its like being proud of not knowing how to drive a stick. You don't have to be good at it to have it as a tool in your arsenal, and trying to learn shortly after your hiking buddy (who drove) broke her left foot and needs medical attention won't exactly make you Mr. Popularity. See also riding a bicycle and lighting a fire.
Maybe if you'd gone to them with "This is a bad idea, it has a xx% chance every month we're doing it of costing us $$$ in direct fees and around $$$ in indirect bad press. I can rectify it for $ plus $ per month," they'd have taken you up on the suggestion?
Alternately, maybe you would have realized as they did (correctly in some cases, not so in others, I'm sure) that the economics actually supported not fixing the problem?
More so - this is to electronics tinkering what subscribing to the "stamp sheet of the month" club is to stamp collecting.
You can tell the federal government favors offshoring because it's zealously enforcing an Indian law that it has no obligation to enforce and that the Indians themselves apparently don't care about.
Actually, the US has treaty obligations to do just that, which are actually enforceable at basically the same level as constitutional amendments. Treaty violations are a big, big deal legally.
1) Shipping the product across the globe costs a lot of money. You can save money buy building near where you sell it
Actually, that's just totally not true. You can send a shipping container halfway around the world for ~$3,000US. Its scary cheap. And you can fit a truly unbelievable amount of product into a shipping container.
Yup, Measles is nasty. I was one of the few thousand people who got it in the last resurgence back in '91, despite having had the shots, because my immune system was compromised due to CMV mononucleosis at the time. Nasty, nasty stuff - as in a 10 day hospital stay nasty, with sustained high fever. "Luckily" I only remember a couple of days of it. More luckily my doctor got me to the hospital in time (it only took probably 4-5 hours from the time I started showing spots to the beginning of the time I lost awareness of my surroundings).
Please, everyone, get your shots and have your dependents vaccinated too. Its not just their lives you might be saving.
Of course, if each monthly actually told a useful and interesting story itself, that worked together to form a bigger story arc, that problem just wouldn't exist... If you're going to serialize something, each episode needs to be able to stand-alone - this applies in many other industries, so why should comics be any different? If something needs all n portions to be readable, why not release them all together?
Not that I care about Starcraft, but what makes sports so special that they must always take precedent?
Well, the article is about sports bars, the patrons of which generally visit them to purchase beer and other drinks with the expectation that they will receive an overwhelming amount of sports coverage on a plethora of televisions....
Try a triathlon sometime - or most any endurance sport, actually. Hills, surf, weather conditions that actually make a huge difference...
Even so, if this "harmless form of HIV" does mutate back into the AIDS-causing variant and gives you the average 24 years to live after you've beat the cancer, you're cured of cancer but can't be intimate with your wife or husband or domesti^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H (fuck political correctness, let's just say SO) without infecting them. Is it really worth the cure?
It turns out that, for most couples at least, not only can you not be intimate with your wife after you're dead, she can't be intimate with you either. So I'd say that the cure's affect on your sex life is, basically, irrelevant to this discussion.
Agreed. After all, who wants to actually know something about their RDBMS before they start playing DBA? God forbid!
Yup. And by the same token, anyone who wishes to use their computer to store and retrieve email should be able to install and configure sendmail while we're at it!