Not necessarily northern Canada. You'ld want to make sure that the land you buy is going to get an adequate amount of rainfall. If you're in a region with only 6 inches of rainfall, even moderate temperatures aren't enough to grow crops. Take for instance the rangeland of wyoming.
I don't think that's totally accurate. He did support the extension of energy credits to renewable energy sources such as wind and solar.
I certainly don't support the extension of drilling rights to the protected areas in Alaska, but to say that he's totally anti renewable energy sources is incorrect as well.
This sounds pretty much like data-flow computing. Not really new. Just a new name. I'm sure it's quite fast, if all it does is look at an incoming stream and decide on which output stream it goes to. Databases have always been slow compared with in-memory tables. Of course I'm sure this system doesn't have to deal with all the record locking ans synchronization issures that an actual database would be doing.
My BJC-4400 uses the same system. It was purchased used at a swap meet for about $15. Works hunky dorie, and without those expensive H-P ink cartridges. I had been using an H-P printer, which works fine too. Just that the ink is so gosh darn expensive.
HP's business plan, for a number of years now, has been to sell printers dirt cheap, probably at or below costs, and to make their money selling ink cartridges. The low initial cost of the printer lures the consumer into buying into their system. Once a consumer has bought one of their printers, there's a really good chance they'll be buying the manufacturer's ink as well. They expect the consumer to make multiple purchases of the ink for a single printer purchase, meaning the consumer effectivly pays for their use of the item, not the item itself. Charging an arm and a leg for ink is their way of making money on the system.
This regional coding is an effort by H-P to preserve their cash cow. Their bottom line is highly dependant upon profitable sales of ink cartridges.
H-P would sell the printers even more cheaply, except then people would just buy new printers when they were out of ink instead of just buying the cartridges. And since H-P doesn't make any money (and might in fact be loosing money) on the sale of a printer, that would be bad for the bottom line.
As the value of the U.S. dollar goes down, the manufacturing sector in the U.S. should slowly improve because goods mfctd in the U.S. will become less costly to foreigners. Eventually things will even out, but in my opinion, in the longer term, expect the value of the dollar to drop by even more than the 20%-30% stated by the grandparent, much more.
HP representative in Europe claims the company doesn't make any money off regional coding for cartridges
Obviously a blatant lie. It costs them money to implement region code the cartridges and printers.
If there weren't money in it they wouldn't be doing it, there would be no reason to. A bold faced lie.
Nope, that's not it. It would DWARF a 747. It's not a converted 747, it would be an entirely new plane. One that uses that totally composite MONSTER wing described in an earlier post.
I think Boeing also realized the market for larger than 747 passenger aircraft, but I expect they saw that Airbus was designing a plane to meet that market, and they didn't think the passenger market would be big enough to support another one. So rather than design one, and have both Boeing and Airbus loose money in the market, they just shelved the idea for now.
On the other hand, a Boeing insider tells me that they are considering making a very, very large cargo plane, one that could transport a number of those 40 ton containers. It would dwarf a 747.
There was a bad series of Seagate drives once. It wasn't the drive mechanism itself that was bad, it was the controller board. These were SCSI drives. A power glitch would sometimes fry the board. A company I used to work for unfortunately had purchased these for some of their systems. On two occasions in two years I had drives go bad on me. Both went bad after brief power outages (like 1 second ). This was back 5-6 years ago and I'm sure they've corrected the problem since then.
I do have SCSI drives in my system. They are fast and I do like them. However, I'll agree with what you've said, they're too difficult for the average computer user, and with the newer ATA/ SATA drives, don't offer a whole lot of increased performance. Oh, yes they are considerably more expensive. This probably comes from being sold primarily to companies, which use them in servers. The benefits of SCSI are more apparent in this situation.
Well if we are going to avoid rewriting the laws of physics (no they don't only exist to make money for the evil batter manufacturers) you had better tell me which non-battery source you want to power your non-existent harddrive. I hate to break it to you, but even if I could encode data at the quantum level using some insanely advanced storage technology.... it would still require some power.
Maybe he was thinking of hand-cranking. Or maybe spring-wound? Of course he'ld be kept busy winding or cranking them.
Comapred to the $1 / MB as it was back about 1992, any capacity these days is a bargain. The price for disk space in the late 1970's was about $1000 / MB.
That's more than a million times more expensive back then than it is today. So to buy 200 Gigs of space back in about 1978 you'ld have to spend
$200,000,000.00.
I'll agree. Because of limited write cycles with flash, it won't completely eliminate the need for hard disks. But for things that aren't rewritten all that often, executable programs for instance, flash will be just the thing. Several Gigs of flash, along with your 200 Gb drive may be just the thing in the not too distant future. Later as flash prices fall, I'm sure that the ratio of flash to hard drive capacity will increas.
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I thought it stood for Fscked Over Rebuild Dodge.
Famous last words.
They're still around, you know. They happen to hide very, very well. c.f. Bob in the Dilbert comic strip.
Well, it's better than what the device actually is -- an inverter, a simple 'not' gate.
We'll be producing energy from nuclear fusion any year now. Physicists just made and important step on the pathway to this largely untapped resource..
Not necessarily northern Canada. You'ld want to make sure that the land you buy is going to get an adequate amount of rainfall. If you're in a region with only 6 inches of rainfall, even moderate temperatures aren't enough to grow crops. Take for instance the rangeland of wyoming.
I certainly don't support the extension of drilling rights to the protected areas in Alaska, but to say that he's totally anti renewable energy sources is incorrect as well.
It's not global warming, it's global 'climate change'. Haven't you been listening to George Bush?
My parents have one. It's really an antique. An old black bell telephone, still in use.
You're right there. At about $150/Gig, and not using disk space, that $1500 PC system could possibly be an Athlon 64 with 8 Gig of memory.
This sounds pretty much like data-flow computing. Not really new. Just a new name. I'm sure it's quite fast, if all it does is look at an incoming stream and decide on which output stream it goes to. Databases have always been slow compared with in-memory tables. Of course I'm sure this system doesn't have to deal with all the record locking ans synchronization issures that an actual database would be doing.
My BJC-4400 uses the same system. It was purchased used at a swap meet for about $15. Works hunky dorie, and without those expensive H-P ink cartridges. I had been using an H-P printer, which works fine too. Just that the ink is so gosh darn expensive.
This regional coding is an effort by H-P to preserve their cash cow. Their bottom line is highly dependant upon profitable sales of ink cartridges.
H-P would sell the printers even more cheaply, except then people would just buy new printers when they were out of ink instead of just buying the cartridges. And since H-P doesn't make any money (and might in fact be loosing money) on the sale of a printer, that would be bad for the bottom line.
Yep. I'ld expect moderate levels of inflation here in the U.S. for the next 4 to 6 years. (that's between 5 and 10 percent inflation).
As the value of the U.S. dollar goes down, the manufacturing sector in the U.S. should slowly improve because goods mfctd in the U.S. will become less costly to foreigners. Eventually things will even out, but in my opinion, in the longer term, expect the value of the dollar to drop by even more than the 20%-30% stated by the grandparent, much more.
Obviously a blatant lie. It costs them money to implement region code the cartridges and printers. If there weren't money in it they wouldn't be doing it, there would be no reason to. A bold faced lie.
Nope, that's not it. It would DWARF a 747. It's not a converted 747, it would be an entirely new plane. One that uses that totally composite MONSTER wing described in an earlier post.
On the other hand, a Boeing insider tells me that they are considering making a very, very large cargo plane, one that could transport a number of those 40 ton containers. It would dwarf a 747.
There was a bad series of Seagate drives once. It wasn't the drive mechanism itself that was bad, it was the controller board. These were SCSI drives. A power glitch would sometimes fry the board. A company I used to work for unfortunately had purchased these for some of their systems. On two occasions in two years I had drives go bad on me. Both went bad after brief power outages (like 1 second ). This was back 5-6 years ago and I'm sure they've corrected the problem since then.
When you earn what Bill Gates does.
Would this be called a Medusa drive?
I do have SCSI drives in my system. They are fast and I do like them. However, I'll agree with what you've said, they're too difficult for the average computer user, and with the newer ATA/ SATA drives, don't offer a whole lot of increased performance. Oh, yes they are considerably more expensive. This probably comes from being sold primarily to companies, which use them in servers. The benefits of SCSI are more apparent in this situation.
Maybe he was thinking of hand-cranking. Or maybe spring-wound? Of course he'ld be kept busy winding or cranking them.
Comapred to the $1 / MB as it was back about 1992, any capacity these days is a bargain. The price for disk space in the late 1970's was about $1000 / MB. That's more than a million times more expensive back then than it is today. So to buy 200 Gigs of space back in about 1978 you'ld have to spend $200,000,000.00.
I'll agree. Because of limited write cycles with flash, it won't completely eliminate the need for hard disks. But for things that aren't rewritten all that often, executable programs for instance, flash will be just the thing. Several Gigs of flash, along with your 200 Gb drive may be just the thing in the not too distant future. Later as flash prices fall, I'm sure that the ratio of flash to hard drive capacity will increas.