Basically we can't answer this question without having some clue of what and how much he's printing. Is it 5000 B&W text documents? Is he a big photo nut printing 500 full 8x10 photos? Does he only print in red ink?:P
Once you understand what he's trying to do you can attack this from 2 ways.
1) Get a printer that suits his need. 2) make him aware about how he's using so much ink.
The delay for Ultrasparc III is not really Ti's fault. It was just the shear complexity of the processor and people underestimated the man hours it would take to get the design working and out the door. Heads at Sun were rolled for the delay.
It was just a complex CPU in design - not quite as bad as IA-64, but complex enough to get it working right.
Well, I think the internal CPU memory bus is shared, for Intel anyways. Other I/O stuff (SATA, PCIe) are all point to point protocols no? So there's no I/O contention there. Of course, that doesn't help if you're all trying to access 1 disk, but then, yeah i agree with you.
What do you mean by implicit parallelism. I wikied it but that's at the software layer. Are you saying you should move that into the processor? What level of parallelism are we talking about here?
No new Starcraft copies are being sold? Dude. They still sell the Battle Chest at Fry's for an outrageous $20. Outrageous in the fact that the game has been out 10+ years. And you gotta think it sells some to be on the store shelves for that long.
Of course, $15 a month is probably a lot more money...
Yes. This is huge burden on the Digital Preservation community. The only real way we have of guaranteeing that the bit stay around for a long long time, is to make many many copies of it and spread them out. I believe the current limit is 3 copies, which is ridiculous.
Theres a group in charge of changing this part of the copyright code:
While I see your point, I can't help but get the feeling that you're more likely to get into an accident with the swerving dude in front of you rather than behind you. I mean if he cuts across 4 lanes of traffic behind you, you're probably okay. If he does it in front of you, even with a 3 second gap... I dunno. That scares me still.
Parent has a good point. We should now be able to get direct access to our non DRM tracks on our iPods in Hard Drive mode. Make it happen Apple iPod engineers!
Here's a radical idea.... Perhaps they could do both? Have a "classic" mode, with updated 3d graphics and such, and have a new starcraft 2 mode. Of course, it wouldn't be a trivial thing to make sure classic mode entirely mimicked every detail/feature/bug of the original, but it might be interesting to take a stab at it.
I don't have any specific references, but aren't there road rage cases out there of people shooting each other over being cut off on the highway? Maybe someone less lazy than I can look one up.
fine fine. Split hairs with me. It's a free market in the sense that, yes, as you mentioned, nobody is forcing you to buy these packs. You have the free market choice of buying them or not. That's the going rate. Is it worth it to you? There's no need to be emotional about it. Being annoyed is not going to change the price you pay...
Yes, I actually read both letters, *GASP*. I think both sides have good points. Basically whose responsibility is it to identify and remove infringing copyright material? It's obviously hard for Viacom to keep track of all possible places that copyrighted material could end up, and on the flip side, it's hard for YouTube to keep track of all copyrighted material to see if any of that is infringing. Basically whoever loses has to pay for the time and effort needed to keep copyrighted stuff off the web...
I'm not a lawyer or anything, but it seems easier (from a tech perspective) for YouTube to control what's going on it's site than Viacom policing all sites. Even if they had a little button there that said, "flag this video for copyright infringement", that might be enough? again, I'm not a lawyer...
As a mid-level racer and uber-geek, I've got a power meter hooked up on both my race bike & tt bike. ---- okay dude. being a mid level _racer_ AND having a TT bike, already makes you not the norm. right there you put yourself in the top 10% of _all_ riders out there. If you're CAT3/4 sure you can put out 200 watts sustained. I'm talking about the average recreational cyclist or even the average gym rat that doesn't care if they run 10 minute miles or average more than 10mph on a bike. They are there for fun and for more of a workout than sitting at a desk in front of a computer posting on slashdot all day.:P And even then those people are probably fitter than 80% of the general population in America today.
I agree with you on the biking to the gym thing tho. Tho really suburbia is a catch-22 since everything is optimized around the car. I'm waiting for the day some city bans cars and optimizes transportation around the bicycle.
Actaully the top peak wattage of sprinters is somewhere in the 1200-1600 range. But that's peak. Lance on a 1 hr TT, sustains about 400-450 watts.
And from my experience, 200W is pretty high for the average person that I know. I'm thinking 150W sustatined is probably more realistic for average weekend riders.
I think 1 hr is a better measure than 100 miles, since I don't think people will sit on an exercise bike for 5 hours.
Also I think the bike is probably going to be the most efficient transfer mechanism to generate power. Somehow I don't think you'll get the same efficiency on an elliptical or a treadmill...
Dude, the only way to make people change is to hit them in the pocketbook, which requires taxes and goverment intervetion. It fulfills Branson's requirement to not have any adverse effects on the environment.
Obviously, we need to tax energy usage. so basically,
- Gasoline. - Electricity.
I bet we could decrease CO2 emissions a whole ton, by just doubling or tripling the taxes on these 2 items alone.
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Ah... but are you a moderately smartass white guy with an asian fetish? :P
PS.
I'm a moderately smartass asian guy.
Well, a Benz doesn't save everyone.
Of course, being drunk, driving at high speeds, and not wearing your seatbelts, isn't exactly Mercedes' fault.
It was not coincidence. Do they even say the word Gattaca in the movie? I don't remember them ever doing so.
Basically we can't answer this question without having some clue of what and how much he's printing. Is it 5000 B&W text documents? Is he a big photo nut printing 500 full 8x10 photos? Does he only print in red ink? :P
Once you understand what he's trying to do you can attack this from 2 ways.
1) Get a printer that suits his need.
2) make him aware about how he's using so much ink.
The delay for Ultrasparc III is not really Ti's fault. It was just the shear complexity of the processor and people underestimated the man hours it would take to get the design working and out the door. Heads at Sun were rolled for the delay.
It was just a complex CPU in design - not quite as bad as IA-64, but complex enough to get it working right.
Well, I think the internal CPU memory bus is shared, for Intel anyways. Other I/O stuff (SATA, PCIe) are all point to point protocols no? So there's no I/O contention there. Of course, that doesn't help if you're all trying to access 1 disk, but then, yeah i agree with you.
What do you mean by implicit parallelism. I wikied it but that's at the software layer. Are you saying you should move that into the processor? What level of parallelism are we talking about here?
No new Starcraft copies are being sold? Dude. They still sell the Battle Chest at Fry's for an outrageous $20. Outrageous in the fact that the game has been out 10+ years. And you gotta think it sells some to be on the store shelves for that long.
Of course, $15 a month is probably a lot more money...
Yes. This is huge burden on the Digital Preservation community. The only real way we have of guaranteeing that the bit stay around for a long long time, is to make many many copies of it and spread them out. I believe the current limit is 3 copies, which is ridiculous.
Theres a group in charge of changing this part of the copyright code:
http://www.loc.gov/section108/
While I see your point, I can't help but get the feeling that you're more likely to get into an accident with the swerving dude in front of you rather than behind you. I mean if he cuts across 4 lanes of traffic behind you, you're probably okay. If he does it in front of you, even with a 3 second gap ... I dunno. That scares me still.
What!?? Is the death rate astronomical in large cities in China, where people bike to work/school everyday?
Are you saying we're smart enough to operate a 3000lbs vehicle at 60mph, but we'd only commit mass suicide operating a 25lbs bike going 10-15 mph?
Whoa.
Parent has a good point. We should now be able to get direct access to our non DRM tracks on our iPods in Hard Drive mode. Make it happen Apple iPod engineers!
Here's a radical idea.... Perhaps they could do both? Have a "classic" mode, with updated 3d graphics and such, and have a new starcraft 2 mode. Of course, it wouldn't be a trivial thing to make sure classic mode entirely mimicked every detail/feature/bug of the original, but it might be interesting to take a stab at it.
No replaceable battery. Less speed than a 3g phone. Lame.
How'd that prediction turn out? I'm not saying that you're wrong on any of those points, but it's gonna sell cause it's a shiny status symbol.
I don't have any specific references, but aren't there road rage cases out there of people shooting each other over being cut off on the highway? Maybe someone less lazy than I can look one up.
Wow. That would be seriously chaotic. Armed innocents shooting armed innocents. Not to mention the utter confusion for law enforcement...
fine fine. Split hairs with me. It's a free market in the sense that, yes, as you mentioned, nobody is forcing you to buy these packs. You have the free market choice of buying them or not. That's the going rate. Is it worth it to you? There's no need to be emotional about it. Being annoyed is not going to change the price you pay...
People, chill out. This is not some great travesty. If 3 songs at $10 dollars is worth it to you, then buy it. Otherwise don't. Quit yapping about it.
It totally made Quake 1. I was wondering if anyone was going to bring that up as a bug...
I'm acatully slightly on viacom's side here...
Yes, I actually read both letters, *GASP*. I think both sides have good points. Basically whose responsibility is it to identify and remove infringing copyright material? It's obviously hard for Viacom to keep track of all possible places that copyrighted material could end up, and on the flip side, it's hard for YouTube to keep track of all copyrighted material to see if any of that is infringing. Basically whoever loses has to pay for the time and effort needed to keep copyrighted stuff off the web...
I'm not a lawyer or anything, but it seems easier (from a tech perspective) for YouTube to control what's going on it's site than Viacom policing all sites. Even if they had a little button there that said, "flag this video for copyright infringement", that might be enough? again, I'm not a lawyer...
I dare you to name five.
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Hrm.. I'll attempt, tho possibly it depends on your definition of "from scratch" is an possibly what a new product is.
1) Windows
2) Money (tho they did try to buy Intuit)
3) Xbox
4) Office
5) Internet Explorer
Tho they do buy a lot of things from competitors too...
Actaully they do have a billion to spare...
9 4653
http://finance.google.com/finance?fstype=bi&cid=6
I'm not an expert reading balance sheets, but under Cash & Equivalents - 3.5 billion dollars. Maybe Equivalents mean something else.
As a mid-level racer and uber-geek, I've got a power meter hooked up on both my race bike & tt bike. :P And even then those people are probably fitter than 80% of the general population in America today.
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okay dude. being a mid level _racer_ AND having a TT bike, already makes you not the norm. right there you put yourself in the top 10% of _all_ riders out there. If you're CAT3/4 sure you can put out 200 watts sustained. I'm talking about the average recreational cyclist or even the average gym rat that doesn't care if they run 10 minute miles or average more than 10mph on a bike. They are there for fun and for more of a workout than sitting at a desk in front of a computer posting on slashdot all day.
I agree with you on the biking to the gym thing tho. Tho really suburbia is a catch-22 since everything is optimized around the car. I'm waiting for the day some city bans cars and optimizes transportation around the bicycle.
Actaully the top peak wattage of sprinters is somewhere in the 1200-1600 range. But that's peak. Lance on a 1 hr TT, sustains about 400-450 watts.
And from my experience, 200W is pretty high for the average person that I know. I'm thinking 150W sustatined is probably more realistic for average weekend riders.
I think 1 hr is a better measure than 100 miles, since I don't think people will sit on an exercise bike for 5 hours.
Also I think the bike is probably going to be the most efficient transfer mechanism to generate power. Somehow I don't think you'll get the same efficiency on an elliptical or a treadmill...
Dude, the only way to make people change is to hit them in the pocketbook, which requires taxes and goverment intervetion. It fulfills Branson's requirement to not have any adverse effects on the environment.
Obviously, we need to tax energy usage. so basically,
- Gasoline.
- Electricity.
I bet we could decrease CO2 emissions a whole ton, by just doubling or tripling the taxes on these 2 items alone.