This is why Mac laptops are doing the best relative to their PC counterparts. Nobody expects to be able to upgrade their laptop, at least not without paying a premium up front. I use a Mac for my laptop because I like the Mac user experience and it doesn't matter that I have to buy a new laptop when it gets too slow, since the same would be true with an equivalent PC and it likely wouldn't last as long, given the plastic construction of most PC laptops. My desktop computer, on the other hand, is a PC that I built from cheap second-hand components, saving me about $600 versus an equivalent new machine at the time. Problem is, it's getting slow now and it's not really "upgradeable" either because it lacks the fundamental tech on the motherboard to make upgrades worth the money. No PCI-Express, no SATA, outdated processor socket...nothing is worth upgrading! My next computer is going to be the latest Mac laptop I can afford, because I just need one computer that'll do everything and be portable. When it gets slow, I'll buy a new one and ultimately save money versus any upgrade route that would actually get me up to the level of performance my new computer will have.
So if it's based on views, and adblock stops us from viewing the ads, what if it also told the site it had loaded the ad so the bandwidth still gets paid for without even using as much of it? If there is some way to tell a site you viewed an ad without wasting the bandwidth to actually download it, then you can avoid viewing ads you'll never click on, and you still support the site whose content you are viewing and whose bandwidth you are using. Everyone wins! (well, everyone I care about, anyways...)
Apparently it wasn't important enough for whoever wrote the headline...
Seriously, this story is totally bogus. Given the nonlinearity of the MPG measure, the drop in mileage ratings for hybrids and nonhybrids are basically the same in terms of percentage change, they just look like bigger changes for hybrids because their numbers are higher to begin with.
"Personally, I was just wondering why it had to be an either-or? Why can't the ultra-economy conscious have the intelligent sensors built into a hybrid car? One would imagine that this would be far better than either."
I thought this at first too, but when you think about it the main advantage of a hybrid car is that it stores a lot of the energy that is usually wasted while braking in the battery for later use. If we didn't waste that energy by accelerating more than necessary just to stop again, a huge part of the advantage of a hybrid would be gone. This regenerative braking technology is why hybrids get better gas mileage in stop-and-go city driving than on the highway. If you just coasted to a stop all the time, then no regenerative braking would occur and hybrids would lose their advantage.
"Erasable paper technology is based on a photochromic concept similar to transition sunglasses which turn dark in bright sunlight and are seen through in a dark room."
What I wonder is whether the paper would work when you take it outside... I don't think documents that couldn't be exposed to the sun would be particularly valuable, except maybe as a security measure. "Here, take this super secret document and give it to our competitors! Just make sure you take it to them in the daytime..."
Actually, if the teacher had been using a Mac, she would be just fine... I personally think that's the lesson here. If your job depends on your computer not doing anything "naughty," you shouldn't be using Windows on the job.
"'Also, sex is something natural, it does not hurt children.'
Uhm sorry, let me rephrase this, so it's not read out of context: ofcourse I meant to say 'sex is something natural, it does not hurt children if they are accidentally confronted with it':-S"
You should rephrase it more like this: "Also, sex is something natural, it does not hurt children; in fact, it creates them!"
"Am I the only one that thinks all marketers should be locked in a dark dungeon?"
I hope not, because the main reason I am going into a career in marketing is so that I can take advantage of the fact that there are people like us who are sick of being lied to in advertising. Hopefully truth in advertising is as important to a large portion of the population as it is to me and my fellow geeks...
"With no regulations whatsoever, telecom companies would be free to merger and reverse-merger and acquisition themselves into a recreation of Ma Bell. Shit, they're already halfway there. "
I believe the parent wasn't talking about removing antitrust regulations, so your whole post is pretty much pointless. He was arguing against the FCC, not the FTC. ISPs, like any company, will still be subject to scrutiny when they merge, and if the merger reduces competition, the FTC will block it. This is not going to be changed by any change in the regulations this thread is (or at least, should be) talking about.
The real problem with the two-tiered internet is that the ISPs want to limit their own customers' ability to use the internet unless the people they use it with switch to the same ISP. This wouldn't be a problem if they weren't trying to get the government to help them. Any ISP thinking of switching to this system should have to sell its reasoning of how this will help the customer to the customer, not to the government! The thing is, the government is easier to persuade and only has to buy your crappy argument once. Customers are far harder to fool, and continue to have the choice of taking their business elsewhere. If the ISPs can convince the government to make all ISPs worse, then the customer's choice no longer threatens the ISP's ability to limit the quality of service they provide to their customers.
"sad day when microsoft products seems like the lesser of two evils"
Um, what about Nintendo? Do they just get ignored completely? I suppose this might actually be a good thing for them, as they have worked hard to differentiate the Revolution from the other consoles, but I'm not sure they wanted to completely remove any ability to say that it just might be a "better" substitute, rather than a nonsubstitute.
I am sick of people blaming violent video games for real life violence. People make their own choices. If someone tends towards violence, they will be more likely to play violent video games and also more likely to commit acts of violence in real life, but there is not a causal relationship. If violent video games caused real life violence, I would have killed a lot of people by now. But the reality is, the violent impulses a person has can be satisfied in real life or in virtual reality. For some people, violence is addictive, causing them to crave more of it the more they get, so violent games are not good for them, but the effect is no different than if they chose to be violent in real life first. A person who is addicted to violence is a special case, and should not be used as an argument against virtual violence. People who do not have this addiction, but do have a tendency for a certain amount of violence(I think this is a vast majority, judging by how many people play video games vs. how many people go on huge killing sprees), will be positively affected by violent video games, because the virtual violence will satisfy their violent tendencies so that they no longer have a desire to work their violent feelings out in a real life setting.
I have yet to understand why anyone would rather watch a movie on their computer screen when it's available in the theaters. If it's worth 2 hours of your life, it's worth a few bucks too. The only time I understand downloadable movies is when they're only available on DVD, because then you're watching it on a smaller screen/worse sound system either way.
It sure is going for a lot... I wonder if people are bidding on it because they don't realize it's a joke, or because they wonder what they'll actually be getting in the mail if they win the auction.
2. Data transfer rate. In principle, the thousdands of different tips can all return data at the same time, compared to, say, 4 bits returned at once from a 4-platter HDD. Of course, in real situations, not all 4000 bits will necessarily be of interest, but I think with smart caching and device layout the throughput should be very high (i.e.: contiguous bits in a file are spread out so that the entire file is read by the 4000 tips without anything moving).
Hmm... so then this would mean that instead of defragging your hard drive, you'd want to periodically fragment your millipede! Actually, given that data is written in different places by the different tips I suppose as long as no tip writes more than one bit from the same file until all the other tips have written one bit from that file then transfer speed would be pretty optimal. The only other way to make it better would be to try and spread files that are often acessed at the same time as each other across different tips' sectors.
And you know the funny thing about that "do not remove" tag? Ever notice that those things sometimes show up in several places, or that they location of their placement is often totally random? That's because they scare people so much that mattress manufacturers started putting them on top of holes in mattresses to convince customers that what is actually an old beat up mattress is really brand new! Funny how few of the people who write laws actually think of what incentives the laws create, instead of just assuming that their stated purpose will be the real result.
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Anyone who wants to make you look bad need only save this comment and quote you in about 3 years...
Better omit this one, if that's the case...
This is why Mac laptops are doing the best relative to their PC counterparts. Nobody expects to be able to upgrade their laptop, at least not without paying a premium up front. I use a Mac for my laptop because I like the Mac user experience and it doesn't matter that I have to buy a new laptop when it gets too slow, since the same would be true with an equivalent PC and it likely wouldn't last as long, given the plastic construction of most PC laptops. My desktop computer, on the other hand, is a PC that I built from cheap second-hand components, saving me about $600 versus an equivalent new machine at the time. Problem is, it's getting slow now and it's not really "upgradeable" either because it lacks the fundamental tech on the motherboard to make upgrades worth the money. No PCI-Express, no SATA, outdated processor socket...nothing is worth upgrading! My next computer is going to be the latest Mac laptop I can afford, because I just need one computer that'll do everything and be portable. When it gets slow, I'll buy a new one and ultimately save money versus any upgrade route that would actually get me up to the level of performance my new computer will have.
So if it's based on views, and adblock stops us from viewing the ads, what if it also told the site it had loaded the ad so the bandwidth still gets paid for without even using as much of it? If there is some way to tell a site you viewed an ad without wasting the bandwidth to actually download it, then you can avoid viewing ads you'll never click on, and you still support the site whose content you are viewing and whose bandwidth you are using. Everyone wins! (well, everyone I care about, anyways...)
Apparently it wasn't important enough for whoever wrote the headline...
Seriously, this story is totally bogus. Given the nonlinearity of the MPG measure, the drop in mileage ratings for hybrids and nonhybrids are basically the same in terms of percentage change, they just look like bigger changes for hybrids because their numbers are higher to begin with.
"Personally, I was just wondering why it had to be an either-or? Why can't the ultra-economy conscious have the intelligent sensors built into a hybrid car? One would imagine that this would be far better than either."
I thought this at first too, but when you think about it the main advantage of a hybrid car is that it stores a lot of the energy that is usually wasted while braking in the battery for later use. If we didn't waste that energy by accelerating more than necessary just to stop again, a huge part of the advantage of a hybrid would be gone. This regenerative braking technology is why hybrids get better gas mileage in stop-and-go city driving than on the highway. If you just coasted to a stop all the time, then no regenerative braking would occur and hybrids would lose their advantage.
"Erasable paper technology is based on a photochromic concept similar to transition sunglasses which turn dark in bright sunlight and are seen through in a dark room." What I wonder is whether the paper would work when you take it outside... I don't think documents that couldn't be exposed to the sun would be particularly valuable, except maybe as a security measure. "Here, take this super secret document and give it to our competitors! Just make sure you take it to them in the daytime..."
Actually, if the teacher had been using a Mac, she would be just fine... I personally think that's the lesson here. If your job depends on your computer not doing anything "naughty," you shouldn't be using Windows on the job.
"'Also, sex is something natural, it does not hurt children.' Uhm sorry, let me rephrase this, so it's not read out of context: ofcourse I meant to say 'sex is something natural, it does not hurt children if they are accidentally confronted with it' :-S"
You should rephrase it more like this: "Also, sex is something natural, it does not hurt children; in fact, it creates them!"
"Am I the only one that thinks all marketers should be locked in a dark dungeon?"
I hope not, because the main reason I am going into a career in marketing is so that I can take advantage of the fact that there are people like us who are sick of being lied to in advertising. Hopefully truth in advertising is as important to a large portion of the population as it is to me and my fellow geeks...
"With no regulations whatsoever, telecom companies would be free to merger and reverse-merger and acquisition themselves into a recreation of Ma Bell. Shit, they're already halfway there. " I believe the parent wasn't talking about removing antitrust regulations, so your whole post is pretty much pointless. He was arguing against the FCC, not the FTC. ISPs, like any company, will still be subject to scrutiny when they merge, and if the merger reduces competition, the FTC will block it. This is not going to be changed by any change in the regulations this thread is (or at least, should be) talking about. The real problem with the two-tiered internet is that the ISPs want to limit their own customers' ability to use the internet unless the people they use it with switch to the same ISP. This wouldn't be a problem if they weren't trying to get the government to help them. Any ISP thinking of switching to this system should have to sell its reasoning of how this will help the customer to the customer, not to the government! The thing is, the government is easier to persuade and only has to buy your crappy argument once. Customers are far harder to fool, and continue to have the choice of taking their business elsewhere. If the ISPs can convince the government to make all ISPs worse, then the customer's choice no longer threatens the ISP's ability to limit the quality of service they provide to their customers.
"sad day when microsoft products seems like the lesser of two evils" Um, what about Nintendo? Do they just get ignored completely? I suppose this might actually be a good thing for them, as they have worked hard to differentiate the Revolution from the other consoles, but I'm not sure they wanted to completely remove any ability to say that it just might be a "better" substitute, rather than a nonsubstitute.
I am sick of people blaming violent video games for real life violence. People make their own choices. If someone tends towards violence, they will be more likely to play violent video games and also more likely to commit acts of violence in real life, but there is not a causal relationship. If violent video games caused real life violence, I would have killed a lot of people by now. But the reality is, the violent impulses a person has can be satisfied in real life or in virtual reality. For some people, violence is addictive, causing them to crave more of it the more they get, so violent games are not good for them, but the effect is no different than if they chose to be violent in real life first. A person who is addicted to violence is a special case, and should not be used as an argument against virtual violence. People who do not have this addiction, but do have a tendency for a certain amount of violence(I think this is a vast majority, judging by how many people play video games vs. how many people go on huge killing sprees), will be positively affected by violent video games, because the virtual violence will satisfy their violent tendencies so that they no longer have a desire to work their violent feelings out in a real life setting.
I have yet to understand why anyone would rather watch a movie on their computer screen when it's available in the theaters. If it's worth 2 hours of your life, it's worth a few bucks too. The only time I understand downloadable movies is when they're only available on DVD, because then you're watching it on a smaller screen/worse sound system either way.
"shut the fuck up and bring different points to the table"
I really want to see someone accomplish both of these at once...
It sure is going for a lot... I wonder if people are bidding on it because they don't realize it's a joke, or because they wonder what they'll actually be getting in the mail if they win the auction.
-Tim
2. Data transfer rate. In principle, the thousdands of different tips can all return data at the same time, compared to, say, 4 bits returned at once from a 4-platter HDD. Of course, in real situations, not all 4000 bits will necessarily be of interest, but I think with smart caching and device layout the throughput should be very high (i.e.: contiguous bits in a file are spread out so that the entire file is read by the 4000 tips without anything moving).
Hmm... so then this would mean that instead of defragging your hard drive, you'd want to periodically fragment your millipede! Actually, given that data is written in different places by the different tips I suppose as long as no tip writes more than one bit from the same file until all the other tips have written one bit from that file then transfer speed would be pretty optimal. The only other way to make it better would be to try and spread files that are often acessed at the same time as each other across different tips' sectors.
Ahh! Fallacy has been horribly misspelled twice in one thread! This is a sad, sad day for, um, me... *rummages around looking for sanity*
And you know the funny thing about that "do not remove" tag? Ever notice that those things sometimes show up in several places, or that they location of their placement is often totally random? That's because they scare people so much that mattress manufacturers started putting them on top of holes in mattresses to convince customers that what is actually an old beat up mattress is really brand new! Funny how few of the people who write laws actually think of what incentives the laws create, instead of just assuming that their stated purpose will be the real result.