Okay, so you're saying, you don't need a full word processor, you need a document reader that can read your documents you prepared somewhere else. Two different things. You saying you don't need the entire Office suit to be able to run, just something that can open and display your prepared documents.
So, having a word processor really isn't a necessity.
Treating them like Hyper-Threading is still the wrong solution. AMD should have done everything it could have to get patches included in Windows that include a performance tweek for it's processor, and gotten patches included in the Linux kernel. It looks like they tried to do both (Windows 8 has support, there are patches out there for the Linux kernel, but not included as far as I'm aware), but failed to get it done before their product launched. Either they started the process at the last minute, or they failed to work with the teams to reach a solution everybody was happy with.
Treating it like Hyper-Threading probably would have helped and been better than nothing, but I doubt it's the correct solution
Yes and no. The iPod Touch was the replacement for the iPod, and the iPhone was an iPod Touch with GSM telephony. While it's true people who buy an iPhone probably won't buy the iPod Touch since the iPhone is just a better iPod Touch, people who want just an iPod can get one. Since the iPhone costs more more money than the iPod Touch does, they increased their profits by figuring out a way to get away with selling even more expensive iPods than they were before.
Since the iPod and the iPhone are the same platform, the iPhone is no threat to the existence of the iPod. Instead of competing with each other, they complement each other.
That's fine in theory. The problem isn't the theory though. The problem is the implementation of Sun / Oracle JAVA is full of security bugs. And Oracle doesn't patch them; they only do new full versions. And those new full versions always break some existing apps in ways that require the developers to put out fixes. So you are always stuck either running the known vulnerable version of Java or having some of your critical enterprise applications not run. It is a nightmare on the desktop. Not because a JVM is a bad idea. Because Oracle JRE is bad code.
programs are full of security holes because I can run any app I want and it can exploit my system and fails to fix them.
I don't understand what you are saying either. Because desktop java isn't a security "magic bullet" doesn't mean it's crap. Don't use it to run untrusted code. Native applications have the same problem with untrusted code, as do interpreted languages and everything else that runs on a computer. If you want safe computing, unplug your computer and go outside.
You can save a few bucks by building your own (or going to a custom whitebox builder), but the Dell comes with 3 years of next business day support. Last time I priced out a whitebox builder, they beat Dell's best discounted price by about 10% and only offered a 1 year warranty.
Rubbish.
SYS-6026T-URF - $1200
Xeon X5647 - $850 each
4GB ECC Registered - $50 each
1TB SATA 7200RPM - $120 each (WD RE4 or equiv)
Chassis + 2xXeon + 24GB RAM + 2x SATA drives =~ $3500. Drop the chassis down to 1U and you're looking at ~$3200. I'm assuming the $5k Dell is an H200 controller, and not a H700 card.
These prices are retail prices, not wholesale, and most are on the conservative side, so a system builder is going to have better wholesale prices on parts than what I quoted even. Unless your system builder is making 50%+ margins an their hardware, your system builder is trying to rip you off, or you're not comparing apples to apples.
I'd say it depends on the compression, and how fast you can compress.
If you use one of the newer processors that has the AES instruction set and take advantage of that, you could easily compress faster than you can write to disk. With a 2 to 1 compression ratio, you've theoretically doubled how fast you can hibernate.
Okay, so I did a Google search for 30,000 RPM hard drive, 30k RPM hard drive, and all I could find is an article from 2006 saying that Hitachi was developing some technology about it, and then a whole bunch of stuff about exploding hard drives. I call shenanigans.
Google Voice charges for calls outside the US. They could easily monetize Google Voice (cheap cellphone calls over WiFi), especially if they can offer more competitive rates than your cell phone provider. They could make a "Google Phone" which is a cheap IP phone for your home, powered by Google Voice and go after the IP phone market.
Google Voice has a use for their Google Apps users, and I don't think they're going to piss off their current (paying) userbase. Google Talk is all integrated with the Google Voice, so I don't see that going anywhere. The two products have a lot of overlap. Removing Google Docs/Spreadsheets would also further piss off their Google Apps users. Those products are making money, people pay for Google Apps not for just mail, but because they offer a suite of productivity tools (GMail, GDocs, GChat, GVoice).
I don't know anything about Picnik and SketchUp, so I can't comment there.
The only logical place to go geographically would be Mexico, but corruption and violence there is so bad that I don't see that happening. I know auto manufacturing has stuff in Mexico, but only in the far North. However, at the rate Mexico is going, I'm not sure how long that is going to last.
Other countries with cheaper labor don't have the infrastructure that China has, or the resources to create the infrastructure that China has. There really are little overseas alternatives to China at this point. Once the Chinese advantage is gone, I forsee a lot of manufacturing move back to North America. It just not going to happen overnight, unfortunately.
Actually, they're finding the opposite to be true, especially for large bulky products. A lot of manufacturing is being moved out of China. Companies are realizing two things
1) Shipping the product across the globe costs a lot of money. You can save money buy building near where you sell it
2) Labor costs are going up year after year, much faster than they are going up here in the US
3) Corruption in China is bad. Your cost savings start going out the window when you have to bribe the local protection racket (aka the local police)
4) Corruption in China is bad. Things can go "missing". Namely factory workers walking off with the goods and plans.
5) Corruption in China is bad. The factory next door has copied your product design and is now making knock off products. Patent protection? Copyright law? Go fuck yourself, you're in China.
So at first, the bean counters might think it's cheaper to manufacture in China, but after you count the beans, they're starting to realize the cost savings just aren't there after having to deal with all the new problems created by being in China. For smaller things, like small electronics, cheap toys, it's still cheaper in China, but larger, bulkier things, like planes, cars, they're all moving out. And companies who are sick and tired of their IP being stolen, they're moving out too.
As wages continue to go up, this trend is going to continue.
The lightbulb is more complicated than that. For instance, Edison figured out that using carbonized bamboo produces a long lasting filament. You couldn't claim that some geek would have popped that out of his head. Even if you were an expert in the subject, you wouldn't be able to figure that out without spending hours and hours in a lab, testing every combination of carbon this or that until you found one that worked well. Remember, before this, people have toyed with carbon, but never figured out how to make it last long. And people had been trying this for years, and nobody could figure it out. That's actual innovation.
Making a headphone jack smaller? I can come up with several ways:
1) Make it shorter
2) Make it thinner
3) Make it flatter
They added a magnet, but I'm sure somewhere you will find prior art. There is a for the power cable on Apple laptops, I'm sure somebody somewhere made an audio connector with a magnet. Apple's design is a combination of 2 and 3 with a magnet.
So you tell me, why hasn't anybody thought of this before? Because it's a solution looking for a problem. Nobody thought of it because it's not a problem worth solving.
If I tried to patent an automatic system for killing bears with a hot fire poker, and it involved using an engine, furnace, and a fire poker, it might be novel and something that nobody ever thought of before, but who cares? What problem am I trying to solve? Is this even a problem that is worth solving?
Last time I looked, factoring in the whole cost of the system actually made Intel look worse. Intel motherboards are generally quite a bit more expensive than AMD ones...
I just looked on Newegg to get a price comparasion. Picked AM3 boards vs LGA1155 (both are most popular), picked MSI as the manufacturer to get the closest apples to apples comparison. The difference between the cheapest AMD board and the cheapest Intel board (for desktops) was $10, and $50 for the most expensive. $10 is going to be significant difference with your Walmart special, however, it's not going to make a difference targeting higher end systems. Neither is $50.
Put it this way. If you're going to spend $200 more total to buy the Intel system. Your AMD processor was $200, your Intel was $350, your Intel motherboard cost $50 more. Add all the components (RAM, disks) and say your total system cost came to $2000. Your AMD system would come to $1800. If your Intel system gets more than 10% better performance for the same money, it comes out ahead on the price/performance, even though their processor itself cost 75% more.
AMD still wins on the low-end, since even a $50 split on a $400-450 system is significant.
You know, people keep saying this, and I just don't see how this is the case. Factor this over the cost of the whole machine, and AMD ends up coming out behind.
AMD offering 80% the power for 50% the cost on the CPU, with the CPU is only a small portion of the system's cost, can suddenly turn into 80% of the performance for 90% of the cost. If you're just buying processors, sure, but people buy systems not processors. In the server market, people generally buy a system, put it into production, and run it until it gets retired. At most, add some RAM later in the lifecycle. Cost/Performance on the system is really the factor you should be looking at, and I just don't see AMD having a good value proposition for anything other than the Walmart special.
For years prior, AMD had the price/performance on their side, but now I really don't see this being the case.
Unless I'm missing something also, it's probably the fact that a large majority of the population doesn't actually understand what the the word irony actually means.
You mean, like you?
"Oh, the irony" is an ironic statement. Claiming irony when there is no irony, is an ironic statement.
Nope, cash is king, and will always be king for me. I've had too many cards "flagged" for "suspicious activity" and locked when I try to use it. And by suspicious, I mean buying groceries at the same place I've always bought groceries for the past 5 years (this has happened to more more than once on multiple cards).
After dealing with that bullshit twice a month for a year, I cancelled my cards and just bring cash. Nobody ever turns down cash.
Try blueprints for example. The avatar blueprint costs 67.5 billion (with a B) isk. That's about $169 and it goes directly to an NPC. Where's the outrage for that? Is that not high enough?
Add a 0 to the end of your $169 figure and you'll be closer to the truth
It's most certainly a contributing factor for the continued unrest. If somehow the unrest and fighting could be squashed and stable local governments were able to develop, you could certainly prevent more unrest going forward. The problem is I don't think there is a natural path to actually get there that doesn't involve foreign involvement. So much of this would require cooperation from all parties, but the warlords and militia are only looking after their short term interests, in a tragedy of the commons type scenario.
It won't happen. Too much of Africa is unstable due to tribal struggles, any investment in their infrastructure by a foreign nation is a huge gamble. The local governments can't protect themselves from insurgents now, it has nothing to do with having nothing worth protecting.
Either the fighting needs to die down on it's own (history tells me that it will probably never happen), or a foreign nation is going to need to maintain a military presence to help maintain the local governments.
Either way, China only has an interest in Africa for their rare-earth metals and gems. Most of the common raw materials needed for high-tech industry are found in abundance in Africa.
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Okay, so you're saying, you don't need a full word processor, you need a document reader that can read your documents you prepared somewhere else. Two different things. You saying you don't need the entire Office suit to be able to run, just something that can open and display your prepared documents.
So, having a word processor really isn't a necessity.
It'll prevent them from doing this, but then the software won't run until you let it install the DRM all over the place. Nothing will change.
Treating them like Hyper-Threading is still the wrong solution. AMD should have done everything it could have to get patches included in Windows that include a performance tweek for it's processor, and gotten patches included in the Linux kernel. It looks like they tried to do both (Windows 8 has support, there are patches out there for the Linux kernel, but not included as far as I'm aware), but failed to get it done before their product launched. Either they started the process at the last minute, or they failed to work with the teams to reach a solution everybody was happy with.
Treating it like Hyper-Threading probably would have helped and been better than nothing, but I doubt it's the correct solution
Sure you can. You create a bunch of shell corporations and funnel all the money through them, because they're all separate entities now.
Yes and no. The iPod Touch was the replacement for the iPod, and the iPhone was an iPod Touch with GSM telephony. While it's true people who buy an iPhone probably won't buy the iPod Touch since the iPhone is just a better iPod Touch, people who want just an iPod can get one. Since the iPhone costs more more money than the iPod Touch does, they increased their profits by figuring out a way to get away with selling even more expensive iPods than they were before.
Since the iPod and the iPhone are the same platform, the iPhone is no threat to the existence of the iPod. Instead of competing with each other, they complement each other.
That's fine in theory. The problem isn't the theory though. The problem is the implementation of Sun / Oracle JAVA is full of security bugs. And Oracle doesn't patch them; they only do new full versions. And those new full versions always break some existing apps in ways that require the developers to put out fixes. So you are always stuck either running the known vulnerable version of Java or having some of your critical enterprise applications not run. It is a nightmare on the desktop. Not because a JVM is a bad idea. Because Oracle JRE is bad code.
programs are full of security holes because I can run any app I want and it can exploit my system and fails to fix them.
I don't understand what you are saying either. Because desktop java isn't a security "magic bullet" doesn't mean it's crap. Don't use it to run untrusted code. Native applications have the same problem with untrusted code, as do interpreted languages and everything else that runs on a computer. If you want safe computing, unplug your computer and go outside.
You can save a few bucks by building your own (or going to a custom whitebox builder), but the Dell comes with 3 years of next business day support. Last time I priced out a whitebox builder, they beat Dell's best discounted price by about 10% and only offered a 1 year warranty.
Rubbish.
Chassis + 2xXeon + 24GB RAM + 2x SATA drives =~ $3500. Drop the chassis down to 1U and you're looking at ~$3200. I'm assuming the $5k Dell is an H200 controller, and not a H700 card.
These prices are retail prices, not wholesale, and most are on the conservative side, so a system builder is going to have better wholesale prices on parts than what I quoted even. Unless your system builder is making 50%+ margins an their hardware, your system builder is trying to rip you off, or you're not comparing apples to apples.
I'd say it depends on the compression, and how fast you can compress.
If you use one of the newer processors that has the AES instruction set and take advantage of that, you could easily compress faster than you can write to disk. With a 2 to 1 compression ratio, you've theoretically doubled how fast you can hibernate.
Okay, so I did a Google search for 30,000 RPM hard drive, 30k RPM hard drive, and all I could find is an article from 2006 saying that Hitachi was developing some technology about it, and then a whole bunch of stuff about exploding hard drives. I call shenanigans.
Google Voice charges for calls outside the US. They could easily monetize Google Voice (cheap cellphone calls over WiFi), especially if they can offer more competitive rates than your cell phone provider. They could make a "Google Phone" which is a cheap IP phone for your home, powered by Google Voice and go after the IP phone market.
Google Voice has a use for their Google Apps users, and I don't think they're going to piss off their current (paying) userbase. Google Talk is all integrated with the Google Voice, so I don't see that going anywhere. The two products have a lot of overlap. Removing Google Docs/Spreadsheets would also further piss off their Google Apps users. Those products are making money, people pay for Google Apps not for just mail, but because they offer a suite of productivity tools (GMail, GDocs, GChat, GVoice).
I don't know anything about Picnik and SketchUp, so I can't comment there.
The only logical place to go geographically would be Mexico, but corruption and violence there is so bad that I don't see that happening. I know auto manufacturing has stuff in Mexico, but only in the far North. However, at the rate Mexico is going, I'm not sure how long that is going to last.
Other countries with cheaper labor don't have the infrastructure that China has, or the resources to create the infrastructure that China has. There really are little overseas alternatives to China at this point. Once the Chinese advantage is gone, I forsee a lot of manufacturing move back to North America. It just not going to happen overnight, unfortunately.
Actually, they're finding the opposite to be true, especially for large bulky products. A lot of manufacturing is being moved out of China. Companies are realizing two things
1) Shipping the product across the globe costs a lot of money. You can save money buy building near where you sell it
2) Labor costs are going up year after year, much faster than they are going up here in the US
3) Corruption in China is bad. Your cost savings start going out the window when you have to bribe the local protection racket (aka the local police)
4) Corruption in China is bad. Things can go "missing". Namely factory workers walking off with the goods and plans.
5) Corruption in China is bad. The factory next door has copied your product design and is now making knock off products. Patent protection? Copyright law? Go fuck yourself, you're in China.
So at first, the bean counters might think it's cheaper to manufacture in China, but after you count the beans, they're starting to realize the cost savings just aren't there after having to deal with all the new problems created by being in China. For smaller things, like small electronics, cheap toys, it's still cheaper in China, but larger, bulkier things, like planes, cars, they're all moving out. And companies who are sick and tired of their IP being stolen, they're moving out too.
As wages continue to go up, this trend is going to continue.
The lightbulb is more complicated than that. For instance, Edison figured out that using carbonized bamboo produces a long lasting filament. You couldn't claim that some geek would have popped that out of his head. Even if you were an expert in the subject, you wouldn't be able to figure that out without spending hours and hours in a lab, testing every combination of carbon this or that until you found one that worked well. Remember, before this, people have toyed with carbon, but never figured out how to make it last long. And people had been trying this for years, and nobody could figure it out. That's actual innovation.
Making a headphone jack smaller? I can come up with several ways:
1) Make it shorter
2) Make it thinner
3) Make it flatter
They added a magnet, but I'm sure somewhere you will find prior art. There is a for the power cable on Apple laptops, I'm sure somebody somewhere made an audio connector with a magnet. Apple's design is a combination of 2 and 3 with a magnet.
So you tell me, why hasn't anybody thought of this before? Because it's a solution looking for a problem. Nobody thought of it because it's not a problem worth solving.
If I tried to patent an automatic system for killing bears with a hot fire poker, and it involved using an engine, furnace, and a fire poker, it might be novel and something that nobody ever thought of before, but who cares? What problem am I trying to solve? Is this even a problem that is worth solving?
If you're testing against the version number instead of testing for the existence of the quirk, you're doing it wrong.
Last time I looked, factoring in the whole cost of the system actually made Intel look worse. Intel motherboards are generally quite a bit more expensive than AMD ones...
I just looked on Newegg to get a price comparasion. Picked AM3 boards vs LGA1155 (both are most popular), picked MSI as the manufacturer to get the closest apples to apples comparison. The difference between the cheapest AMD board and the cheapest Intel board (for desktops) was $10, and $50 for the most expensive. $10 is going to be significant difference with your Walmart special, however, it's not going to make a difference targeting higher end systems. Neither is $50.
Put it this way. If you're going to spend $200 more total to buy the Intel system. Your AMD processor was $200, your Intel was $350, your Intel motherboard cost $50 more. Add all the components (RAM, disks) and say your total system cost came to $2000. Your AMD system would come to $1800. If your Intel system gets more than 10% better performance for the same money, it comes out ahead on the price/performance, even though their processor itself cost 75% more.
AMD still wins on the low-end, since even a $50 split on a $400-450 system is significant.
You know, people keep saying this, and I just don't see how this is the case. Factor this over the cost of the whole machine, and AMD ends up coming out behind.
AMD offering 80% the power for 50% the cost on the CPU, with the CPU is only a small portion of the system's cost, can suddenly turn into 80% of the performance for 90% of the cost. If you're just buying processors, sure, but people buy systems not processors. In the server market, people generally buy a system, put it into production, and run it until it gets retired. At most, add some RAM later in the lifecycle. Cost/Performance on the system is really the factor you should be looking at, and I just don't see AMD having a good value proposition for anything other than the Walmart special.
For years prior, AMD had the price/performance on their side, but now I really don't see this being the case.
Unless I'm missing something also, it's probably the fact that a large majority of the population doesn't actually understand what the the word irony actually means.
You mean, like you?
"Oh, the irony" is an ironic statement. Claiming irony when there is no irony, is an ironic statement.
aid is a reference to a.id
bid is a reference to b.id
START TRANSACTION;
INSERT INTO a (id, bid) VALUES(1,2);
INSERT INTO b (id, aid) VALUES(2,1);
COMMIT;
Doesn't work.
A good command line tool would still be faster to use than the the existing GP GUI.
Group Policy is a framework, not an interface. Group Policy is nice because of the architecture, not because of it's interface.
Not for audio.
Nope, cash is king, and will always be king for me. I've had too many cards "flagged" for "suspicious activity" and locked when I try to use it. And by suspicious, I mean buying groceries at the same place I've always bought groceries for the past 5 years (this has happened to more more than once on multiple cards).
After dealing with that bullshit twice a month for a year, I cancelled my cards and just bring cash. Nobody ever turns down cash.
Try blueprints for example. The avatar blueprint costs 67.5 billion (with a B) isk. That's about $169 and it goes directly to an NPC. Where's the outrage for that? Is that not high enough?
Add a 0 to the end of your $169 figure and you'll be closer to the truth
It's most certainly a contributing factor for the continued unrest. If somehow the unrest and fighting could be squashed and stable local governments were able to develop, you could certainly prevent more unrest going forward. The problem is I don't think there is a natural path to actually get there that doesn't involve foreign involvement. So much of this would require cooperation from all parties, but the warlords and militia are only looking after their short term interests, in a tragedy of the commons type scenario.
It won't happen. Too much of Africa is unstable due to tribal struggles, any investment in their infrastructure by a foreign nation is a huge gamble. The local governments can't protect themselves from insurgents now, it has nothing to do with having nothing worth protecting.
Either the fighting needs to die down on it's own (history tells me that it will probably never happen), or a foreign nation is going to need to maintain a military presence to help maintain the local governments.
Either way, China only has an interest in Africa for their rare-earth metals and gems. Most of the common raw materials needed for high-tech industry are found in abundance in Africa.