It's all about cost-benefit analysis. If, by credit card company, you mean the likes of Visa, then there is no benefit; all the risks of fraudulent charges are held by the merchant.
If, by credit card company, you mean the companies that will actually forward the CC data to the likes of Visa, then it's a little more difficult. However, doing this in batch fashion is far more economical for the CC, in terms of fees, than is to do so in an transactional manner.
And the merchant who provided services to the holder of the fraudulent card will be held accountable. Still a good enough reason to cancel those cards.
I wonder if my.jp-issued Visa will do the same. *months* go by with me putting all of $30 on the card, total. I recently bought a suit and an overcoat. I'm now curious:)
My Yamaha 4x is working still, after burning at least 5CD's/week (no, not warez) for the past 5-6 years. After going through warantee service at two weeks, it outlived the following:
AMD K6-200
AMD K6-400
FIC Motherboard for the above processors
a pair of PII-300
Asus P2B-D
Adaptec 2940 SCSI card
Matrox Millenium II
TNT-based video card
A generic case
An equally generic 250W PS
Even more generic 300W PS to replace the above
It is now sitting in my gf's computer, still happily burning CD's (mainly audio CD's now, so she can leave those in her truck and not worry about them melting).
I'm going to Akibahara this weekend to go pick me up a pair of Yamaha's. SCSI if I can find it (with various boxes around, it's just less hassle), but IDE will do just fine.
Totally agree. If you already have a service running, why put up another if you don't need it? One less thing to track for bugs, maintain, and cause a potential remote exploit.
Incidentally, this is the same reason why you don't run services you don't need.
Well, if you switch off PASV, you'll have issues with poor saps like me who live behind a stupid NAT that doesn't understand why the silly FTP server is now trying to make a connection to me.
Actually, FTP is only here by inertia and laziness on the part of admins to set up something like rsync.
Just a quick question. You're alleging that HIV != AIDS. Now, doesn't the burden of proof rest firmly upon your shoulders? (no, I haven't read the site yet).
not to mention that the GeForce FX isn't exactly getting trounced by the 9700. it's just not the fastest.
But between cost-of-ownership, time-to-market, *and* performance, GeForce FX got trounced. It doesn't matter that the GeForce FX, depending on which benchmark you look at, is 90-110% of the Radeon 9700 Pro. It matters that the 9700 Pro is making money for ATI *now*.
Why/. doesn't allow me to reply a quick one-liner is beyond me. *sigh*:P
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But the screenshot also *looks* like it's a PowerBook Ti of sorts. Or do you mean the original-rev PowerBook Ti?
I'm just a little confused, will appreciate a clarification:)
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Well, it's *possible* that the lady's oven didn't heat things evenly. I admit it's a remote possibility, and I also don't want to invest in a PowerBook just to bake the bloody thing just to see if it'll survive, so I guess we won't find out:)
Well, just to back-up and clarify my point, the Japanese love *perceived* quality. One of the datapoints in the perception is size. Back in 1970's, when the likes of Sony and Mitsubishi began invading the American coast, the American-made tellies had large cabinetwork. The Japanese-built ones were smaller for the same screen size, leading to better adoption in the small confines of the Japanese houses.
Same things can be said about the washing machines and the like; the US-built ones that I'm used to (from Kenmore, GE, et. al) are pretty large. The ones in Japan are quite a bit smaller, with more "whizzy" features. Whether or not those features actually help in getting your clothes clean is a topic for another debate:)
American cars suffer from another dent in the perceived quality issue. They still have the stigma of "poor build quality" inherited from the 1960's or thereabouts. Nevermind that their beloved Toyota's and the like have parts built in Mexico (made-in-Mexico has even lower perceived quality here), but we won't go there.
I think my point is that each manufacturer has a "perceived quality index" attached to them. European companies tend to have the highest PQI (Bulgari, Louis Vuitton, and Rolex in fashion, BMW, Mercedes-Benz (oops, Daimler-Chrysler now), and to a lesser extent, Peugeot in cars). Since there are no major.eu manufacturers of consumer electronics, the Sony's and Mitsubishi's, occupying the second-tier in PQI get the top bidding here. Finally, the North American manufacturers and the Korean/Taiwanese manufacturers come into play. Nevermind that in the electronics component level, these companies are all using the same bloody components built by the lowest bidder.
You're perfectly correct, though, in one respect. The Japanese government did use protectionist tactics to keep American (and other foreign) goods out of the Japanese market. BMW and friends worked around by cultivating an air of exclusivity, while the Fords lost out by trying to compete on (artificial) prices.
Of course, we all know who the largest importer of PCs are, don't we? PC's are consumer electronics, and the bulk of the components within (motherboards and the like) are from the low-PQI areas like Taiwan and Korea. *Perceived* Quality Index is not an indication of real quality. *sigh*.
# just as a standard disclaimer, I *am* Japanese. A relative works for Sony, and my employer does business with Sony (and other Japanese companies), but my opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my employer or my family.
Huh? The Japanese *adore* foreign-made products. It's also that they're quite a bit pickier about the (perceived) quality. Look at the bunch of dokushin-kizoku driving BMW's, or all those girls with Louis-Vuitton bags. Both are indicative of perceived quality, and both are "foreign" goods to them. Let's see, culturally, it's still "cool" to be American. That's still foreign. I have been in this country for a few months, and I have *yet* to hear the gov't say "buy Japanese".
The reason Xbox isn't doing well isn't the foreign vs domestic bit, but the fact that the genre popular in Japan (RPGs, puzzles, etc) aren't there on the Xbox.
And, the 64bits requirement is becoming irrelevant with Hammer on the horizon and Itanium being available *now*. IIRC, Linux already runs on Itanium, and is reported to run on Hammer. All we need now are the applications.
I've no doubt that Linux will soon outpace the "big boys" of UNIX. Especially with IBM and SGI and SUN behind it.
the only "big boy" of UNIX you didn't mention there was HP (and *maybe* Apple). With IBM and Sun in the mix, companies like BEA will begin shifting their focus to Linux.
Five years ago, if you told me that IBM would going to not only support Linux but announce the death of AIX, I would've called you a liar. Amazing.
Indeed. My first introduction to Linux was around 93-94. Around 97 or thereabouts, I was at a $LFE [0], and the IBM consultant [1] from there was raving about Linux, as was the SQL Server DBA [1].
Back then, we were seeing "Can Linux Do ${TASK}?" kind of articles, and the answers from the three of us was, "bloody hell yes!" to most of them.
[0] It was a huge mostly AIX shop that was introducing PC servers for some of the smaller apps. Little did the PHB's know that some of us were having Linux do the work they thought Windows NT was going. It wasn't that NT couldn't do those jobs, it was that none of us wanted to step into the datacenter to do anything [3].
[1] Bloody brilliant people. Hey Ray [2], Gordon, if you're reading this, let me know. You know who you are:P
[2] The guy was old enough to be my dad, and definitely not old enough to be conservative! Most of the client-side stuff he wrote was in Tcl/Tk, for example. Kind of amusing, actually.
[3] The one NT box in the datacenter (the SQL server) would frequently, for no apparent reason, hang, requiring a hard reboot. Gordon (the SQL Server DBA) installed a remotely controlled power switch (controlled by an analogue modem), then had to go find an external modem and an analogue line. It was almost funny, if it weren't for the fact that he was doing near-nightly trips to the datacenter.
Don't know about your TP, but my 600E uses NiMH batteries, IIRC. I don't have the thing in front of me now, and well, it's been years since the bloody thing died (the hdd is going as well--not sinking any more money into hardware *that* obsolete), so my memory could be quite fuzzy. Lector Emptor.
Well, that's one way of looking at it. Using Photoshop, a fairly well-written app on both platforms, one can measure the relative peaks on the architecture -- from the performance deltas, you could reasonably argue that the *very best* performance on the P4 will top that of the G4.
What the author is measuring, however, are the peak *real world* performance for the given task. Using your pi example, if the P4 variant is only available as written in BASIC, and the G4 variants are available as absolutely the best possible, and the G4 spanks the P4 *on that task alone*, it's still a meaningful comparison. In this (albeit contrived) case, *currently*, the G4 is faster than the P4 at calculating pi. Does that make sense?
That, sir, was the most painful thing I read in a looooooong time.:P
You are a terrorist.
Foreign national, check. Non-caucasian, check. Use Linux and other open-source products, check. Enough of an environmentalist to think that the fuel-cell research isn't going fast enough, check.
Why yes, you're absolutely correct. I *am* a terrorist *g*.
ISTR my 90MHz Pentium had little problems decoding mp3's (mind you, doing anything else was rather painful, and I think the mp3's in question were topped at 129kbps). However, a friend's P-75MHz had issues with stereo streams.
Not an excuse for having 1:1 Fax:Dept relationship, but one thing a Fax has over email is the ability to transfer a legally-binding signature for contracts.
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It's all about cost-benefit analysis. If, by credit card company, you mean the likes of Visa, then there is no benefit; all the risks of fraudulent charges are held by the merchant.
If, by credit card company, you mean the companies that will actually forward the CC data to the likes of Visa, then it's a little more difficult. However, doing this in batch fashion is far more economical for the CC, in terms of fees, than is to do so in an transactional manner.
Welcome to 2003. We still can't get it right.
And the merchant who provided services to the holder of the fraudulent card will be held accountable. Still a good enough reason to cancel those cards.
I wonder if my .jp-issued Visa will do the same. *months* go by with me putting all of $30 on the card, total. I recently bought a suit and an overcoat. I'm now curious :)
What, you mean you didn't put the VTEC-sticker on it? For shame! *g*.
A friend of mine drives a Honda. She loves her civic too. Me, I find it too small, even in the front seat. Now, it's moot. I take the train
It is now sitting in my gf's computer, still happily burning CD's (mainly audio CD's now, so she can leave those in her truck and not worry about them melting).
I'm going to Akibahara this weekend to go pick me up a pair of Yamaha's. SCSI if I can find it (with various boxes around, it's just less hassle), but IDE will do just fine.
Just found the /. article, but the link was removed. According to the /. article, it was around 28,000-30,000 RPMs. That's still pretty darned fast :)
Totally agree. If you already have a service running, why put up another if you don't need it? One less thing to track for bugs, maintain, and cause a potential remote exploit.
Incidentally, this is the same reason why you don't run services you don't need.
Well, if you switch off PASV, you'll have issues with poor saps like me who live behind a stupid NAT that doesn't understand why the silly FTP server is now trying to make a connection to me.
Actually, FTP is only here by inertia and laziness on the part of admins to set up something like rsync.
Just a thought. With IE (not sure about 5, definitely on 6), you can designate the cache directory. I have mine set to the larger partition.
Just a quick question. You're alleging that HIV != AIDS. Now, doesn't the burden of proof rest firmly upon your shoulders? (no, I haven't read the site yet).
But between cost-of-ownership, time-to-market, *and* performance, GeForce FX got trounced. It doesn't matter that the GeForce FX, depending on which benchmark you look at, is 90-110% of the Radeon 9700 Pro. It matters that the 9700 Pro is making money for ATI *now*.
closer to $400.
/. doesn't allow me to reply a quick one-liner is beyond me. *sigh* :P
Why
But the screenshot also *looks* like it's a PowerBook Ti of sorts. Or do you mean the original-rev PowerBook Ti?
:)
I'm just a little confused, will appreciate a clarification
Well, it's *possible* that the lady's oven didn't heat things evenly. I admit it's a remote possibility, and I also don't want to invest in a PowerBook just to bake the bloody thing just to see if it'll survive, so I guess we won't find out :)
Well, just to back-up and clarify my point, the Japanese love *perceived* quality. One of the datapoints in the perception is size. Back in 1970's, when the likes of Sony and Mitsubishi began invading the American coast, the American-made tellies had large cabinetwork. The Japanese-built ones were smaller for the same screen size, leading to better adoption in the small confines of the Japanese houses.
:)
.eu manufacturers of consumer electronics, the Sony's and Mitsubishi's, occupying the second-tier in PQI get the top bidding here. Finally, the North American manufacturers and the Korean/Taiwanese manufacturers come into play. Nevermind that in the electronics component level, these companies are all using the same bloody components built by the lowest bidder.
Same things can be said about the washing machines and the like; the US-built ones that I'm used to (from Kenmore, GE, et. al) are pretty large. The ones in Japan are quite a bit smaller, with more "whizzy" features. Whether or not those features actually help in getting your clothes clean is a topic for another debate
American cars suffer from another dent in the perceived quality issue. They still have the stigma of "poor build quality" inherited from the 1960's or thereabouts. Nevermind that their beloved Toyota's and the like have parts built in Mexico (made-in-Mexico has even lower perceived quality here), but we won't go there.
I think my point is that each manufacturer has a "perceived quality index" attached to them. European companies tend to have the highest PQI (Bulgari, Louis Vuitton, and Rolex in fashion, BMW, Mercedes-Benz (oops, Daimler-Chrysler now), and to a lesser extent, Peugeot in cars). Since there are no major
You're perfectly correct, though, in one respect. The Japanese government did use protectionist tactics to keep American (and other foreign) goods out of the Japanese market. BMW and friends worked around by cultivating an air of exclusivity, while the Fords lost out by trying to compete on (artificial) prices.
Of course, we all know who the largest importer of PCs are, don't we? PC's are consumer electronics, and the bulk of the components within (motherboards and the like) are from the low-PQI areas like Taiwan and Korea. *Perceived* Quality Index is not an indication of real quality. *sigh*.
# just as a standard disclaimer, I *am* Japanese. A relative works for Sony, and my employer does business with Sony (and other Japanese companies), but my opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my employer or my family.
Huh? The Japanese *adore* foreign-made products. It's also that they're quite a bit pickier about the (perceived) quality. Look at the bunch of dokushin-kizoku driving BMW's, or all those girls with Louis-Vuitton bags. Both are indicative of perceived quality, and both are "foreign" goods to them. Let's see, culturally, it's still "cool" to be American. That's still foreign. I have been in this country for a few months, and I have *yet* to hear the gov't say "buy Japanese".
The reason Xbox isn't doing well isn't the foreign vs domestic bit, but the fact that the genre popular in Japan (RPGs, puzzles, etc) aren't there on the Xbox.
The almost-same in Java, "thank Object" just doesn't sound the same. Score: C++ 1, Java 0?
Yes, I like Java over C++ ;p
And, the 64bits requirement is becoming irrelevant with Hammer on the horizon and Itanium being available *now*. IIRC, Linux already runs on Itanium, and is reported to run on Hammer. All we need now are the applications.
the only "big boy" of UNIX you didn't mention there was HP (and *maybe* Apple). With IBM and Sun in the mix, companies like BEA will begin shifting their focus to Linux.
Five years ago, if you told me that IBM would going to not only support Linux but announce the death of AIX, I would've called you a liar. Amazing.
Indeed. My first introduction to Linux was around 93-94. Around 97 or thereabouts, I was at a $LFE [0], and the IBM consultant [1] from there was raving about Linux, as was the SQL Server DBA [1].
:P
Back then, we were seeing "Can Linux Do ${TASK}?" kind of articles, and the answers from the three of us was, "bloody hell yes!" to most of them.
[0] It was a huge mostly AIX shop that was introducing PC servers for some of the smaller apps. Little did the PHB's know that some of us were having Linux do the work they thought Windows NT was going. It wasn't that NT couldn't do those jobs, it was that none of us wanted to step into the datacenter to do anything [3].
[1] Bloody brilliant people. Hey Ray [2], Gordon, if you're reading this, let me know. You know who you are
[2] The guy was old enough to be my dad, and definitely not old enough to be conservative! Most of the client-side stuff he wrote was in Tcl/Tk, for example. Kind of amusing, actually.
[3] The one NT box in the datacenter (the SQL server) would frequently, for no apparent reason, hang, requiring a hard reboot. Gordon (the SQL Server DBA) installed a remotely controlled power switch (controlled by an analogue modem), then had to go find an external modem and an analogue line. It was almost funny, if it weren't for the fact that he was doing near-nightly trips to the datacenter.
Don't know about your TP, but my 600E uses NiMH batteries, IIRC. I don't have the thing in front of me now, and well, it's been years since the bloody thing died (the hdd is going as well--not sinking any more money into hardware *that* obsolete), so my memory could be quite fuzzy. Lector Emptor.
Well, that's one way of looking at it. Using Photoshop, a fairly well-written app on both platforms, one can measure the relative peaks on the architecture -- from the performance deltas, you could reasonably argue that the *very best* performance on the P4 will top that of the G4.
What the author is measuring, however, are the peak *real world* performance for the given task. Using your pi example, if the P4 variant is only available as written in BASIC, and the G4 variants are available as absolutely the best possible, and the G4 spanks the P4 *on that task alone*, it's still a meaningful comparison. In this (albeit contrived) case, *currently*, the G4 is faster than the P4 at calculating pi. Does that make sense?
That, sir, was the most painful thing I read in a looooooong time. :P
Foreign national, check. Non-caucasian, check. Use Linux and other open-source products, check. Enough of an environmentalist to think that the fuel-cell research isn't going fast enough, check.
Why yes, you're absolutely correct. I *am* a terrorist *g*.
ISTR my 90MHz Pentium had little problems decoding mp3's (mind you, doing anything else was rather painful, and I think the mp3's in question were topped at 129kbps). However, a friend's P-75MHz had issues with stereo streams.
Not an excuse for having 1:1 Fax:Dept relationship, but one thing a Fax has over email is the ability to transfer a legally-binding signature for contracts.