The Carbon Credit thing was added to the Kyoto Accord because it was required for the US to sign on. Turns out that it was required, but not sufficient, and now we're stuck with it for no reason.
The price of gas would have to triple to get me to consider wasting that much more time per day getting to and from work.
Well then the price is obviously not unreasonable.
If the price did triple and people like you were forced to use transit, the transit system would automatically improve: There'd be more money for it and the voters would demand it.
Indeed. The only problem with it is that you sometimes get different products with the same ID. I remember c't (German computer magazine) berating them for doing this with RAM sticks back in the 90's. At least RAM sticks and memory cards don't need drivers...
The vast majority of jail-breakers don't pirate apps. Well that or I hang out with the wrong people -- jailbreaking is extremely common, but I haven't seen an iPhone with a pirated app yet.
The gas/dust clouds would collide, even though few stars do. Detectable. And if even two stars did collide, the explosion would be unlike anything we've seen so far. Impossible to miss.
Galaxies collide a lot. You'd expect at least one of the collisions which we can observe to be antimatter-matter, but it hasn't happened. And it would be REALLY easy to tell if it did.
I don't want movies, music, games, or a camera on a phone. I have better devices for all of that stuff.
Once you're carrying around a device which does movies, music, and games, it seems silly to have to carry an extra device just to make calls. Especially since the former device needs a SIM slot anyway to get on the Internet when not at home.
Sure, if you do a lot of outgoing phone calls, you need something better than a typical smartphone to do them on. The rest of us can live with somewhat limited phone ergonomics.
Why do you care if a 5 year old drive is getting slow? In 5 years it'll be less than half (likely less than a quarter) of the original price to replace.
I have only heard of performance-related bugs, not about any which threaten the actual data. I'm using an original X25M without bothering to upgrade firmware, so it would be nice to know if I'm tempting fate.
When Google offered 1GB mail storage, that was industry changing. They didn't end up with 1GB storage per customer though, most people use far less. The trick was to avoid the pitfall of only getting the heavy users.
Google gets bandwidth quite cheaply in general. Lots of ISP's would happily string a cable to Google or offer them server hosting for free, just to not have to pay for the traffic through their transit providers.
Tier 1 ISP's are probably different, but there aren't all that many of those.
You may wish to try RequestPolicy. It has a tendency to break online payment from sites which redirect to a random payment gateway and back, but other than that it's pretty nice. With RequestPolicy on, I can't tell whether Adblock Plus is on or off, except for looking at the icon at the bottom.
Well it gives IBM a niche to fit the POWER in -- a niche which Intel would have liked to fit the Itanium in as well. Most people won't spend $12k per CPU though.
If processor A can get the job done more cheaply with twice the processors, why would I care?
Because most actual work loads scale worse than TPC-C. For most actual loads you're better off with half as many cores which are twice as fast. Also, the Itanium is a horrible power hog, so you'd likely lose out on your electricity bill too. If your workload scales nicely, go for Xeon or Opteron, nothing in the Itanium or Power space can beat those for performance/price.
No multitasking means no useful SIP applications, except for those which tie in to a specific provider who can provide push service. That might get me to switch to the Nexus One.
The iPhone and the iPod Touch are the same size and (almost?) the same weight... The only reason to go for the Touch is money, and if that means buying a separate world phone with GPS, the iPhone soon looks like a good buy.
If you want to have a smaller phone for when you don't want a smart phone, just get two phones.
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The Carbon Credit thing was added to the Kyoto Accord because it was required for the US to sign on. Turns out that it was required, but not sufficient, and now we're stuck with it for no reason.
The price of gas would have to triple to get me to consider wasting that much more time per day getting to and from work.
Well then the price is obviously not unreasonable.
If the price did triple and people like you were forced to use transit, the transit system would automatically improve: There'd be more money for it and the voters would demand it.
Indeed. The only problem with it is that you sometimes get different products with the same ID. I remember c't (German computer magazine) berating them for doing this with RAM sticks back in the 90's. At least RAM sticks and memory cards don't need drivers...
The vast majority of jail-breakers don't pirate apps. Well that or I hang out with the wrong people -- jailbreaking is extremely common, but I haven't seen an iPhone with a pirated app yet.
We'll need a bit more evidence than 2 cases.
Anyway, that would be an effective way to encourage people to try out alternate ways to acquire the same software...
The gas/dust clouds would collide, even though few stars do. Detectable. And if even two stars did collide, the explosion would be unlike anything we've seen so far. Impossible to miss.
We can see galaxies from way back in time, there's no way we could miss it.
Galaxies collide a lot. You'd expect at least one of the collisions which we can observe to be antimatter-matter, but it hasn't happened. And it would be REALLY easy to tell if it did.
I don't want movies, music, games, or a camera on a phone. I have better devices for all of that stuff.
Once you're carrying around a device which does movies, music, and games, it seems silly to have to carry an extra device just to make calls. Especially since the former device needs a SIM slot anyway to get on the Internet when not at home.
Sure, if you do a lot of outgoing phone calls, you need something better than a typical smartphone to do them on. The rest of us can live with somewhat limited phone ergonomics.
Why do you care if a 5 year old drive is getting slow? In 5 years it'll be less than half (likely less than a quarter) of the original price to replace.
I have only heard of performance-related bugs, not about any which threaten the actual data. I'm using an original X25M without bothering to upgrade firmware, so it would be nice to know if I'm tempting fate.
Anyway - sooner or later we will have flash drives instead, and then this isn't a problem.
Actually this problem is potentially much worse on SSD's. Erase blocks are huge, and read-modify-write really sucks on flash.
then set the network up using a protocol that can handle thousands of hops.
Right, I wonder which one of all the myriad thousand-hop routing protocols I should pick from... Perhaps you can recommend one?
When Google offered 1GB mail storage, that was industry changing. They didn't end up with 1GB storage per customer though, most people use far less. The trick was to avoid the pitfall of only getting the heavy users.
Perhaps they can pull the same trick with fiber.
Google gets bandwidth quite cheaply in general. Lots of ISP's would happily string a cable to Google or offer them server hosting for free, just to not have to pay for the traffic through their transit providers.
Tier 1 ISP's are probably different, but there aren't all that many of those.
You may wish to try RequestPolicy. It has a tendency to break online payment from sites which redirect to a random payment gateway and back, but other than that it's pretty nice. With RequestPolicy on, I can't tell whether Adblock Plus is on or off, except for looking at the icon at the bottom.
The same things I would have used an iPod Touch for, plus GPS.
Well it gives IBM a niche to fit the POWER in -- a niche which Intel would have liked to fit the Itanium in as well. Most people won't spend $12k per CPU though.
1/4th the power envelope of the Power6
I don't read it that way. I read it as 1/4th the power/performance. I bet they'll be 100W+ like the Power 6, just 4 times as powerful.
The question here is whether it can run Linux - followed shortly by a debate on how terrible Ubuntu is.
Yes, it can. And approximately <------> this horrible.
If processor A can get the job done more cheaply with twice the processors, why would I care?
Because most actual work loads scale worse than TPC-C. For most actual loads you're better off with half as many cores which are twice as fast. Also, the Itanium is a horrible power hog, so you'd likely lose out on your electricity bill too. If your workload scales nicely, go for Xeon or Opteron, nothing in the Itanium or Power space can beat those for performance/price.
Spending 5,000$ to increase the power a measly 20% is rather foolish either way you look at it by comparison.
Not if your work load doesn't scale with additional cores. Then $5000 for 20% extra speed can be worth it.
Linus invented zerocopy splice() and tee(). You probably haven't heard of them, but that doesn't stop them from being inventive.
I would also call git inventive, even if many of the concepts appear in Mercurial as well.
No multitasking means no useful SIP applications, except for those which tie in to a specific provider who can provide push service. That might get me to switch to the Nexus One.
The iPhone and the iPod Touch are the same size and (almost?) the same weight... The only reason to go for the Touch is money, and if that means buying a separate world phone with GPS, the iPhone soon looks like a good buy.
If you want to have a smaller phone for when you don't want a smart phone, just get two phones.