The 737 is one of the most cost effective jetliners and the "world's most successful commercial airliner."
They are cranking these thing out (literally) -- they have a moving assembly line building Next Generation 737's.
Boeing also uses this model for it's "custom" build Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) -- if you have a spare 40 million or so, get yours today!
They are actually trying to have less "dependence" on the commercial airline market (which make up close to 70% of their business) because it is way to up and down, they are focusing more on space/military applications.
There is only one problem with this, the PHB factor (pointy haired boss).
PHB: I have one sysadmin on salary, and he seems to be over worked, I could:
Hire another -- NO, HR would want me to fill out a whole pile of forms to justify this, and I wouldn't have time for golf.
Just tell the existing one we will hire another -- YES, but really do nothing, and keep working him into the ground. Then only hire another when this one quits.... eeeexcellent.... when was that tee time again.
It really comes down to "perceived" value, since I.T. does nothing but "suck" money out of the company, them all must be a bunch of slackers who deserve nothing.
PHB at review time: The sysadmin seem to work lots of overtime, but since he's on salary this doesn't cost me anything, he must lack in organizational skills, we'll have to cut his bonus for that (and add it to mine for pointing out this flaw in the employee, I'll be able to get that new driver for my golf game now).
Remember in the PHB's eyes salary == slavery
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Riiiight...
That's why I have DSL in Canada, it only covers what 9,984,670 square km (3,855,102 square miles for you metricly challenged).
I tink the biggest problem in the US (and I lived there for 2 years and had cable internet), is the age of your telephone infristructure, it's old and nobody want to spand any money to upgrade what alreadRiiiight
That's why I have DSL in Canada, it only covers what 9,984,670 square km (3,855,102 square miles for you metrically challenged).
I think the biggest problem in the US (and I lived there for 2 years and had cable internet), is the age of your telephone infrastructure, it's old and nobody want to spend any money to upgrade what already works.
When I was in the Bay Area (Foster City/San Mateo County) literally on one side of the street I could get a nice 43000+ dial-up connection, the other side I was lucky to get 23000, hence why I got cable.
DSL marketing in the US is also very weird (read fsck'd), you get you "Internet" service from one provider, but you still have to get your DSL line from the phone company, when ever I checked, this always had a higher cost than cable.
Here in Canada, I get the "internet" service and the DSL line all from the phone company, there are a few other "competing" phone companies I could look at, but I stick with the "monopoly" one (Telus) as it is most prominent. I pay $80 (CDN) a month for my service (about 53 USD/Euro) and for that I get:
2.5 Mbps downstream
640 Kbps upstream
2 static IP addresses
No blocked ports
12 GB/month Internet connection traffic (8 GB/month down, 4 GB/month up) I have gone passed this and never been dinged - downloading Linux distros @ 260KB/sec is tres cool!)
40 hours dial access per month ($1.50 per hour overtime)
This allows me to run all my own servers (web/mail/etc.) all on stanadrad ports, I could do it with the cheaper service ($40 CND/month - 16 USD/Euro) on non-standard ports but that is not an option for running my home business.
I know many people who have gone from cable to DSL up here, I don't know anybody who has gone DSL to cable.
I've flown on NUMEROUS flights up and down the west coast of Canada and the US, some time, I have forgotten to "turn off" my cell phone. Planes never crashed, and the odd time I remembered an pulled it out a 20,000+ feet, SUPRIZE there was no signal!
Out east I'm note sure, but when a plane is at cruising altitude you are not going to get a standard cell tower signal, I'm sure it would be the old "only after 10,000 feet" rule for the phones on planes as well.
I have yet to figure out why the airlines are so "scared" of electronics, if the RF output of my Visor or some kids GameBoy is enough to bring the plane down there is a serious problem, who needs a box cutter...."I have a GameBoy and I'm not afraid to use it!"
How true, once the machines are out in the wild, if they have a floppy or CD-ROM, user "A" just downloads or gets a copy of the distro you used, boots into Rescue mode and has a grand old time.
You would be better off giving them a "rescue" CD that reformats their drive and puts the OS back to where it was, painful, but users remember that kind of pain and think "...hmmm last time I tried something I was not quite sure about, I lost everything."
Cuts down on support costs too
User: My computer won't start?
Support: Insert your "rescue" CD and restart your system, have a nice day.
Hmmmm.... a million movies a day, assuming 2 hours movies as an average, and if it is DVD quality, that gives you approx. 4.48 GB per movie (singe layer DVD 4,700,000,000 bytes) so:
I have an 802.11b network at home and the only way I could get my 2.4GHz wireless phone to interfere with it was to have the phone right next to the PCMCIA card and transmitting.
If I was sitting normal in a chair and using the computer, no problems.
I see this a a bigger push from 802.11b, as the 11a components will now demand the high price, 11b components will drop even more.... eeeexcellent Smithers.
I live in Canada and have worked in the US on and off, when I was working in San Fancisco, I got a cable modem for $34.95 for the first six month (I was only there for about 5 months) so it wasn't too bad, about $54 Canadian. When I was in Seattle, I couldn't get broadband in the area, but the best price was $49.95 US (about $77 canadian) plus all the taxes and rental fees. I think the best connection I ever got in SF, was about 1.2 - 1.4 Mbit/s.
Now at home in Canada I pay $74.95 a month ($48.00 USD) for a 2.5Mbit ADSL connection, with two STATIC ip addresses and NO blocked ports. I had to buy the "modem/router" for $70 ($45 USD).
The lower package is $34.95 ($22 USD) plus the modem purchase, which gives you a 1.5 Mbit line, two dynamic IP addresses, and most common posts blocked (WWW, FTP, POP3, SMTP, so you can't run servers on standard ports).
The only people in Canada that I know who are still on dial-up are those who live out in the boonies where they can't get cable, and are more thank 4km from the central office for ADSL.
Heck when I was in Seattle it cost me $22 US a month for unlimited dial-up.
Pay no attention to the US navel vessel charting all the currents and making very detailed charts (for the US teams only). Can't have any of those darn foreigners holding the "Americas Cup" now.
AMD has had this problem with the 2200+ xp processor, the new 2400+, 2600+, and speculation is the 2700+ are using AMD new core, which is on scale with Intels core, but the AMD chips do run at a lower frequency with a greater instructions per clock cycle (IPC) rate to give the equivalent of a higher clocked processor.
The P4 2.8GHZ chip runs a 2.8 GHz, where as the 2700+ XP run at just below 2.2 GHz for the clock frequency, so in theory, AMD has 600 MHz to "use up" before they run into this problem again, by which time I guess they plan to have the new "Barton" core out.
I could never switch, I mean going for this excellent platform to something so weak and inferior... I'll never give up my Mozilla!
First thing I do on any M$ system I work on is install some other browser (was NS62, now Mozilla) I hate IE and try to never used it (if you need to download a Windows update for a machine, MicroSloths update site only works with IE.
Makes my skin crawl everytime I have to use it, leaving me with the not so "fresh" feeling.
Mob rules is not always wrong, some times there needs to be a revolution, and if the mob wins, then the cause was just and worth while. If the mob loses then the "establishment" marks the mob as a bunch of hooligans/traitors.
To the victor goes the spoils, and the privilege of writing the "history";)
When the scales of power are unbalanced, some times circumventing the system is the only way to force change.
This may not be the right way to combat the RIAA, but they have more money, lawyers, and lobbyist in their pockets than "we the people" will ever have.
First they get the ear plug/mic connection for their cell phone and they walk around the airport/mall/street having these conversations and everybody tries to figure out if this is some wacko or somebody talking on a cell phone, sometimes it is hard too tell.
Now we'll all know that the in-duh-vidual having the wild converstaion is on a hands free cell phone call because they are crancking for their life.... and looking like they are having a conversation with their "inner" self.
NOTE: Your not that important, and nobody want to hear it.
...and if they could distribute movies to the theaters in the same way, look at all the MORE money they could make screwing the consumer with second and third rate Sugar Honey Ice Tea.
You figure it cost about $2,500 to create a single copy of the film and get it to a theater, so if your movie is going to premire on 1000 screens, that is $2,500,000 it costs just to get it out there (moderen multiplexes will show the same movie in multiple theaters with a single copy, I know).
But if we could "beam" the movie to the theaters we could charge the theater owners a "subscription fee" to the "network" to get the movie. Even if the distibution is by DVD, the mastering costs (which they are going to do anyway) are what $10,000 (not including menus and "bonus" discs), and then $10 bucks for every copy and $10 to ship it to the theater, now it only cost them $30,000 to get the movie on 1,000 screens, and really since they were going to make the DVD anyway, its only $20,000.
Hollywood Bean Counter: "We just saved $2.48 million dollars!"
Studio Exec: "My wife's second cousin twice removed has this screen play..."
Imagine the crap they could put out for that "pitance".
Why DVD-R? DVD+RW makes more sense
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The DVD-R drive is good, but limiting in making of actual "DVD" compatable disc. They do not suppport lossless linking or variable bit rate MPEGs. I think a DVD+RW drive would have been the better choice.
If you want to play back a DVD home movie, you would need to encrypt it, i.e. ReCCS so that it would play on a DVD player. I wonder how the MPAA would feel about that? I'm sure they would try to sue or jail somebody.
With my current setup I can get close to 40 minutes of DVD quality video on a CD-R disc with SVCD encoding, with a DVD+RW I could fit almost 5 hours of DVD quality video on one DVD disk. This if your DVD player support SVCD format (you can find out at VCD Helper)
For those of "us" that already have FireWire and a digital video camera, I say bring it on!
I can definatly see the use for a home MP3 player, but why do all these companies want to limit their systems with a build in HD? If it's in my house, I'll just hook it to the network.
I have found one produce (it was on SlashDot a while back) called the AudioTron from Turtle Beach. It connects to your network (Ethernet or SPLN -- silly phone line networking), scans it, and plays your MP3's. It can index 30,000 MP3 files off your network and read standard M3U playlists.
Looks like a standard component, has a REMOTE, and not a bad looking interface.
I think what is really questionable is how Microsoft releases basically the same mediocre software every couple of years with new eye candy (directly proportional to the code bloat factor) and then wants $150 to $300 for an "upgrade".
It is quite humorous that you chose science as a analogy to open source software. If it weren't for the open source practices of all the great scientist of the past, you would have to pay a royalty every time you fell down! "Sorry about that, but you used gravity, 0.10 please." Remember the quote Linus stated in his article (if you didn't read it, you should get your head out of the sand) for Sir Isaac Newton "If I have seen farther it is only because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." Which is conflicting to Microsoft's own vision "If we have seen farther it is only because we trampled all the little people."
I think Microsoft's biggest issue with open source software is that you can't buy the rights to it because the public owns it, and since there is no main competitor to go after, so you attack the license.
I would tend to agree on the point about the DVD-RAM drives, I never considered one because I could not burn something and read it on anything except the DVD-RAM drive.
Now on the point of DVD-R drives (and I bet once that is out, you'll see the whole "RW" scam proliferated again on this media) being expensive, yeah they cost upwards of $5000 right now, but so did CD-R drives when they first came out, heck I paid over $800 for my first 2x CD-R drive. DVD-R media is expensive, again CD-R's were the same when they came out.
It will be expensive for a while for DVD-R because the people who make this stuff up (Sony, Panasonic, etc.) want their R&D money back, so if you want to be first, you pay. I won't be first, but I'll probably have one before they become common place.
You wouldn't even need a big hard drive, like I do with my CD collection, I have about 100 of my favorite CD's ripped as MP3's and burned onto five disk that I carry when I travel so when I'm working I can slap one in and it lasts the whole day.
With DeCSS I could rip a DVD from home (I have about 175 of them) recompress the MPEG2 into DivX or MPEG4 and easily fit a movie on my laptop.
Heck, once DVD-R becomes affordable, I could burn 3 or 4 movies on to one dual-layer disk.
With the new and bigger storage device coming out (Seagates 180GB HD, the prototype 1TB glass cube), it won't be long that I could store all my movies on the server and have them streamed to my Home Theater via FireWire.
Some major cities are starting to replace their regualar old bulb and coloured lens traffic lights with the newer solid state trafic lights the contain LED's. The new light are way more expensive but come with the added bonus of not having to change the bulb every year.
If you want your own personal LED flashlight, you can check out Photonlight. Way cool LED flaghlights that are visible for one mile and not much bigger around that a quarter.
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They are cranking these thing out (literally) -- they have a moving assembly line building Next Generation 737's.
Boeing also uses this model for it's "custom" build Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) -- if you have a spare 40 million or so, get yours today!
They are actually trying to have less "dependence" on the commercial airline market (which make up close to 70% of their business) because it is way to up and down, they are focusing more on space/military applications.
PHB: I have one sysadmin on salary, and he seems to be over worked, I could:
- Hire another -- NO, HR would want me to fill out a whole pile of forms to justify this, and I wouldn't have time for golf.
- Just tell the existing one we will hire another -- YES, but really do nothing, and keep working him into the ground. Then only hire another when this one quits.... eeeexcellent.... when was that tee time again.
It really comes down to "perceived" value, since I.T. does nothing but "suck" money out of the company, them all must be a bunch of slackers who deserve nothing.PHB at review time: The sysadmin seem to work lots of overtime, but since he's on salary this doesn't cost me anything, he must lack in organizational skills, we'll have to cut his bonus for that (and add it to mine for pointing out this flaw in the employee, I'll be able to get that new driver for my golf game now).
Remember in the PHB's eyes salary == slavery
That's why I have DSL in Canada, it only covers what 9,984,670 square km (3,855,102 square miles for you metricly challenged).
I tink the biggest problem in the US (and I lived there for 2 years and had cable internet), is the age of your telephone infristructure, it's old and nobody want to spand any money to upgrade what alreadRiiiight
That's why I have DSL in Canada, it only covers what 9,984,670 square km (3,855,102 square miles for you metrically challenged).
I think the biggest problem in the US (and I lived there for 2 years and had cable internet), is the age of your telephone infrastructure, it's old and nobody want to spend any money to upgrade what already works.
When I was in the Bay Area (Foster City/San Mateo County) literally on one side of the street I could get a nice 43000+ dial-up connection, the other side I was lucky to get 23000, hence why I got cable.
DSL marketing in the US is also very weird (read fsck'd), you get you "Internet" service from one provider, but you still have to get your DSL line from the phone company, when ever I checked, this always had a higher cost than cable.
Here in Canada, I get the "internet" service and the DSL line all from the phone company, there are a few other "competing" phone companies I could look at, but I stick with the "monopoly" one (Telus) as it is most prominent. I pay $80 (CDN) a month for my service (about 53 USD/Euro) and for that I get:
- 2.5 Mbps downstream
- 640 Kbps upstream
- 2 static IP addresses
- No blocked ports
- 12 GB/month Internet connection traffic (8 GB/month down, 4 GB/month up) I have gone passed this and never been dinged - downloading Linux distros @ 260KB/sec is tres cool!)
- 40 hours dial access per month ($1.50 per hour overtime)
This allows me to run all my own servers (web/mail/etc.) all on stanadrad ports, I could do it with the cheaper service ($40 CND/month - 16 USD/Euro) on non-standard ports but that is not an option for running my home business.I know many people who have gone from cable to DSL up here, I don't know anybody who has gone DSL to cable.
- MODEL NO. FC01001
- POWER 1000 Continuous Watts
- OVERLOAD CAPACITY 1600 VA for 2 Seconds
- VOLTS 120 VAC +/-3%
- FREQUENCY 60 Hertz
- WAVEFORM Perfect Sine-Wave
- NOISE 65 dba @ 1 Meter
- FUEL CELL Ballard NexaTM Power Module
- SURGE PROTECTION 360 Joules
- BATTERIES Sealed Lead Acid
- WEIGHT (LESS FUEL) 101 lbs.
- DIMENSIONS 27.3" x 15.8" x 19"
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- CSA APPROVED Yes
- WARRANTY 1 Year
I though the point was to eliminate batteries?CLR Instantly disolves Watermarking! How long before some teenager figures out how to remove these?
Out east I'm note sure, but when a plane is at cruising altitude you are not going to get a standard cell tower signal, I'm sure it would be the old "only after 10,000 feet" rule for the phones on planes as well.
I have yet to figure out why the airlines are so "scared" of electronics, if the RF output of my Visor or some kids GameBoy is enough to bring the plane down there is a serious problem, who needs a box cutter...."I have a GameBoy and I'm not afraid to use it!"
You would be better off giving them a "rescue" CD that reformats their drive and puts the OS back to where it was, painful, but users remember that kind of pain and think "...hmmm last time I tried something I was not quite sure about, I lost everything."
Cuts down on support costs too
User: My computer won't start?
Support: Insert your "rescue" CD and restart your system, have a nice day.
It won't stop them all, but it will stop some.
1,000,000 * 4,700,000,000 / 86400 = 50.66 GigaBytes/Sec!
I wish I could get a connection like that!
Even at VCD quality for a movie you would need 14.69 GB/sec!
Either way you slice it, nobody has that kind of bandwidth, and it will be quite some time before we do.
In the words of Bugs Bunny: "What a maroon!"
If I was sitting normal in a chair and using the computer, no problems.
I see this a a bigger push from 802.11b, as the 11a components will now demand the high price, 11b components will drop even more.... eeeexcellent Smithers.
Now at home in Canada I pay $74.95 a month ($48.00 USD) for a 2.5Mbit ADSL connection, with two STATIC ip addresses and NO blocked ports. I had to buy the "modem/router" for $70 ($45 USD).
The lower package is $34.95 ($22 USD) plus the modem purchase, which gives you a 1.5 Mbit line, two dynamic IP addresses, and most common posts blocked (WWW, FTP, POP3, SMTP, so you can't run servers on standard ports).
The only people in Canada that I know who are still on dial-up are those who live out in the boonies where they can't get cable, and are more thank 4km from the central office for ADSL.
Heck when I was in Seattle it cost me $22 US a month for unlimited dial-up.
Wonder how much that cost the tax payers.
The P4 2.8GHZ chip runs a 2.8 GHz, where as the 2700+ XP run at just below 2.2 GHz for the clock frequency, so in theory, AMD has 600 MHz to "use up" before they run into this problem again, by which time I guess they plan to have the new "Barton" core out.
First thing I do on any M$ system I work on is install some other browser (was NS62, now Mozilla) I hate IE and try to never used it (if you need to download a Windows update for a machine, MicroSloths update site only works with IE.
Makes my skin crawl everytime I have to use it, leaving me with the not so "fresh" feeling.
To the victor goes the spoils, and the privilege of writing the "history" ;)
When the scales of power are unbalanced, some times circumventing the system is the only way to force change.
This may not be the right way to combat the RIAA, but they have more money, lawyers, and lobbyist in their pockets than "we the people" will ever have.
Now we'll all know that the in-duh-vidual having the wild converstaion is on a hands free cell phone call because they are crancking for their life.... and looking like they are having a conversation with their "inner" self.
NOTE: Your not that important, and nobody want to hear it.
You figure it cost about $2,500 to create a single copy of the film and get it to a theater, so if your movie is going to premire on 1000 screens, that is $2,500,000 it costs just to get it out there (moderen multiplexes will show the same movie in multiple theaters with a single copy, I know).
But if we could "beam" the movie to the theaters we could charge the theater owners a "subscription fee" to the "network" to get the movie. Even if the distibution is by DVD, the mastering costs (which they are going to do anyway) are what $10,000 (not including menus and "bonus" discs), and then $10 bucks for every copy and $10 to ship it to the theater, now it only cost them $30,000 to get the movie on 1,000 screens, and really since they were going to make the DVD anyway, its only $20,000.
Hollywood Bean Counter: "We just saved $2.48 million dollars!"
Studio Exec: "My wife's second cousin twice removed has this screen play..."
Imagine the crap they could put out for that "pitance".
The DVD-R drive is good, but limiting in making of actual "DVD" compatable disc. They do not suppport lossless linking or variable bit rate MPEGs. I think a DVD+RW drive would have been the better choice.
Check out DVDplusRW.org for more info.
With my current setup I can get close to 40 minutes of DVD quality video on a CD-R disc with SVCD encoding, with a DVD+RW I could fit almost 5 hours of DVD quality video on one DVD disk. This if your DVD player support SVCD format (you can find out at VCD Helper)
For those of "us" that already have FireWire and a digital video camera, I say bring it on!
PETA - People for the Eating of Tasty Animals
I have found one produce (it was on SlashDot a while back) called the AudioTron from Turtle Beach. It connects to your network (Ethernet or SPLN -- silly phone line networking), scans it, and plays your MP3's. It can index 30,000 MP3 files off your network and read standard M3U playlists.
Looks like a standard component, has a REMOTE, and not a bad looking interface.
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I think what is really questionable is how Microsoft releases basically the same mediocre software every couple of years with new eye candy (directly proportional to the code bloat factor) and then wants $150 to $300 for an "upgrade".
It is quite humorous that you chose science as a analogy to open source software. If it weren't for the open source practices of all the great scientist of the past, you would have to pay a royalty every time you fell down! "Sorry about that, but you used gravity, 0.10 please." Remember the quote Linus stated in his article (if you didn't read it, you should get your head out of the sand) for Sir Isaac Newton "If I have seen farther it is only because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." Which is conflicting to Microsoft's own vision "If we have seen farther it is only because we trampled all the little people."
I think Microsoft's biggest issue with open source software is that you can't buy the rights to it because the public owns it, and since there is no main competitor to go after, so you attack the license.
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I would tend to agree on the point about the DVD-RAM drives, I never considered one because I could not burn something and read it on anything except the DVD-RAM drive.
Now on the point of DVD-R drives (and I bet once that is out, you'll see the whole "RW" scam proliferated again on this media) being expensive, yeah they cost upwards of $5000 right now, but so did CD-R drives when they first came out, heck I paid over $800 for my first 2x CD-R drive. DVD-R media is expensive, again CD-R's were the same when they came out.
It will be expensive for a while for DVD-R because the people who make this stuff up (Sony, Panasonic, etc.) want their R&D money back, so if you want to be first, you pay. I won't be first, but I'll probably have one before they become common place.
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You wouldn't even need a big hard drive, like I do with my CD collection, I have about 100 of my favorite CD's ripped as MP3's and burned onto five disk that I carry when I travel so when I'm working I can slap one in and it lasts the whole day.
With DeCSS I could rip a DVD from home (I have about 175 of them) recompress the MPEG2 into DivX or MPEG4 and easily fit a movie on my laptop.
Heck, once DVD-R becomes affordable, I could burn 3 or 4 movies on to one dual-layer disk.
With the new and bigger storage device coming out (Seagates 180GB HD, the prototype 1TB glass cube), it won't be long that I could store all my movies on the server and have them streamed to my Home Theater via FireWire.
If you want your own personal LED flashlight, you can check out Photonlight. Way cool LED flaghlights that are visible for one mile and not much bigger around that a quarter.
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