I didn't intend to imply they weren't real or anything. What I meant is they are less functional than their more powerful cousins. People keep overlooking this. They think "omg 3 cores at 3.2GHz omg omg!!!!!!11111111".
Same way the 3 cores on the xbox360 aren't the same as 3 cores on a normal processor. You give up a lot to get that stuff to fit into the budget of the console. I don't recall offhand exactly what the details are, but I know that in the 360's case those 3 cores are not full PPC970's.
The problem is not limited to the President. I was not singling the Executive branch out. This problem is government-wide. The voters no longer have the ability to change government policy, because the people they elect are not representing them, but merely representing enough of their desires to get themselves into office, and then ignoring them except when they need to save their collective asses.
The voters in this country have been completely marginalized. Their vote no longer really matters, because it doesn't matter who gets elected. If Kerry had won, the boat we are in wouldn't really be that much different. The President isn't the only person in our government who makes things how they are.
He has a lot of influence sure, but the gears of our bureaucracies can't be stopped or slowed by just one man in most cases. The real problem we have is with the way our government is setup and the way that corporations have infected it. The original idea of the 3 branches of government was a good one for its time, but it is much less applicable in our era.
Take into account also, that the majority of the people who live in this country probably wouldn't score over 1000 on their SAT (based on the old 1600 scale, don't think they've determined what "average" is on the 2400 scale yet, but I don't know). These are the ones that buy into the hype of the candidate and all of his or her claims, who vote based on emotional pull rather than logic.
The sad part here though, is that there is no solution. No change you can make will fix this, because it is a problem with human nature.
Let's stuff a bunch of bullshit into an already bullshit-clogged legal system.
Seriously, the only way our problems with the recording industry are going to be solved is if they change their business model to reflect the 21st century. Until then, it'll just be the same old shit over and over again. Our legal system is warped beyond belief, so it's not going to help anyone here.
Sure, you might have enough confidence in your setup to operate under root, but why would you intentionally do it when you could run things with fewer permissions? This is like saying "hey my router is l33t so i'm just gonna keep the DMZ on 24/7".
Never remove support beams from the building if you don't have to, eh?
I do realize it was a joke, my reply wasn't directly at you but more exploratory to begin with, you responded with what seemed like real analysis so I responded in kind.
Try again, factor in the costs of running the storage farm, maintainence, keeping the data safe, actually setting up the system to even do the archiving, factor in bandwidth costs that this facility would suck down, not to mention the costs of even having the facility.
You just didn't even begin to factor in anything but the pure cost of 1 gigabyte in some situations, a 500 gig drive is not $500.
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I didn't intend to imply they weren't real or anything. What I meant is they are less functional than their more powerful cousins. People keep overlooking this. They think "omg 3 cores at 3.2GHz omg omg!!!!!!11111111".
When in reality, it's not the same thing.
I agree with you.
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/librar y/pa-fpfxbox/?ca=dgr-lnxw09XBoxDesign
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB23/07-01 .htm
Educated guess anyway.
disturbing...
You know it'll be there.
He will not be impeached.
The problem is not limited to the President. I was not singling the Executive branch out. This problem is government-wide. The voters no longer have the ability to change government policy, because the people they elect are not representing them, but merely representing enough of their desires to get themselves into office, and then ignoring them except when they need to save their collective asses.
The voters in this country have been completely marginalized. Their vote no longer really matters, because it doesn't matter who gets elected. If Kerry had won, the boat we are in wouldn't really be that much different. The President isn't the only person in our government who makes things how they are.
He has a lot of influence sure, but the gears of our bureaucracies can't be stopped or slowed by just one man in most cases. The real problem we have is with the way our government is setup and the way that corporations have infected it. The original idea of the 3 branches of government was a good one for its time, but it is much less applicable in our era.
Take into account also, that the majority of the people who live in this country probably wouldn't score over 1000 on their SAT (based on the old 1600 scale, don't think they've determined what "average" is on the 2400 scale yet, but I don't know). These are the ones that buy into the hype of the candidate and all of his or her claims, who vote based on emotional pull rather than logic.
The sad part here though, is that there is no solution. No change you can make will fix this, because it is a problem with human nature.
Let's stuff a bunch of bullshit into an already bullshit-clogged legal system.
Seriously, the only way our problems with the recording industry are going to be solved is if they change their business model to reflect the 21st century. Until then, it'll just be the same old shit over and over again. Our legal system is warped beyond belief, so it's not going to help anyone here.
Unless you're wardriving.
need more love than internet bandwidth does right now.
You could have a 10 terabit connection, but if your HD writes are 8-12mb/s it's kinda pointless.
Basically ;)
the comet horoscopes YOU!
250 million clueless morons voting = nothing changes.
polarism@gmail.com
:)
Thanks.
Will fix all of these problems.
=)
for 100% prevention of all those nasty things like babies and STD's.
dead serious.
Sure, you might have enough confidence in your setup to operate under root, but why would you intentionally do it when you could run things with fewer permissions? This is like saying "hey my router is l33t so i'm just gonna keep the DMZ on 24/7".
Never remove support beams from the building if you don't have to, eh?
http://cyborgcentral.dynip.com/~pd/images/site/dar kforce.jpg
lol ;)
I do realize it was a joke, my reply wasn't directly at you but more exploratory to begin with, you responded with what seemed like real analysis so I responded in kind.
:)
No need to whip out the six shooters here.
Try again, factor in the costs of running the storage farm, maintainence, keeping the data safe, actually setting up the system to even do the archiving, factor in bandwidth costs that this facility would suck down, not to mention the costs of even having the facility.
You just didn't even begin to factor in anything but the pure cost of 1 gigabyte in some situations, a 500 gig drive is not $500.
the middle.
That's ~183 Terabytes per year.
Do the math.
they will demand eleventy billion dollars.