Alright so lets calculate the cost of storing 2 bytes vs. 4 bytes using your 1 gigabyte in 1980 dollars.
For 10^9 of storage containing 16 byte fixed length entries will store 62,500,000 records. At a cost of 0.00017 for 2 byte length dates would total $10,625. At 0.00034 dollars per 4 byte length entries would cost $21,250. Double yes but only 6.25% savings over the 170k. A not too bad return actually after calculating it. But the big question is the total cost. Like why did ls return 19100 date in the year 2000? I sort of agree that cost were huge back in the 50's and into the 80's but when the 90's rolled around, simple functions shouldn't have self imposed legacy restraints.
Who made the decision to only make it last 30 years? Programmers, Vendors, the Government? What is the incentive of an Engineer to build something that will fail in time (other than money). Wouldn't it be easier to make something that can handle change? If I was ask to build this and I was on a committee and read the report that the VIN would only last 30 years, I would have said what cost, financial, productivity impact would it have if we made it last longer for I would have known that cars would last longer than 30 years. Even today, I expect cars to last longer than 30 years.
The Society of Automotive Engineers, which established the existing VIN system in 1981 and expected it to last 30 years, has formed a committee to address the impending shortage.
Good thing we survived the 80's so we can always point at mistakes on how not to build things to last. I really hate to see someone that points out that "It'll Last for X years" and it never does. Like IPv4, now we have IPv6 - which I can almost say for certain it will outlast most of us (IIRC it has more digits than atoms in the universe). 640k anyone, the list goes on and on. All of you as engineers have to think a little harder; did we really really save that much money when we used 2 digit dates verses 4 digits. Even into the 90's now the 00's how many use 04 are their checks - what if the Declaration of Independence just had 2-digit year? Its not like were running cat7 in the walls but now maybe there is a list long enough where we can start saying why don't we add a few spare digits for buffering.
So I wonder who will first develop a Camcorder that has a focusing mechanism that can't be seen buy night goggles? The focusing mechanism uses a beam similar to the light coming out of a remote control. If you watch the screen on a camcorder while someone is pushing buttons on a remote, you can see the light being emitted from the remote. I suspect, not actually having night goggles at hand, that the front piece of the camcorder would light up like a flashlight while wearing the goggles.
So back to the question about who will develop the first camcorder that doesn't use this light touting it as a safety mechanism to prevent attention from terrorist (whatever marketing department can come up with). Do you think Sony, JVC, or Panasonic? Sony owns film distribution so I don't think they will be first; Panasonic takes current technology and mostly reuses it for good lower end stuff so they are out of the running. JVC probably could use a few emails to their R&D department giving the Infrared-less feature a spin towards safety.
On Bonic web page: Status
BOINC is under development. We are conducting a beta test of BOINC using the SETI@home and Astropulse applications. The public release will be announced on the SETI@home web site. Several other distributed computing projects are evaluating BOINC.
Bonic has been "released" for use for a long time; I thought when a release annoucment arrives then the product is no longer beta. So which is it - Released means ready for use or does it mean Please beta test now?
proliferation of wearable electronic devices such as wristwatches
For every patent somone says, "Why Didn't I patent that?". Now if I would have gathered a team of lawyers and a little money; I could collect roylties for all the users of wristwatches (by the way I better cease wearing mine)....
All this talk about closed hardware and non-vendor support reminds me of Diamond Video cards from 1997. Diamond was a video card company based on S3 chips and wouldn't give details on the hardware; therefore, to setup a Linux machine you had to guess at the settings or use someone else's trial and error data. Now does anyone today know whom Diamond manufacturing is? Very people know unless you happened to own one of those cards that were good on windows machine.
Thus to the point, I wonder if there is a Mathematical Function that can be plotted about a company's success, not quite directly related to Linux support but some hardware layer support, owing to its success?
Gmail Machine makes you hit refresh until the number 1337 commes up. Anyone have a refresh perl script to do this until it captures the string? Looks like nothing complicated; I may try and do it unless someone else has one already built.
I don't quite see the correlation to a plague and healthcare. Wouldn't you think that that a plague would cause health care to boom and actually move money away from said web monkey? Lets see, I could buy Internet access for a year or go to the doctor to try treat/prevent a plague - which would you choose?
I did the calculations and didn't believe them so I did it in excel. I saw your post and was about to reply and said woops $324 - you know in calculus you the first test to determine if the numbers are correct is to just look and see if they are plausible - well I shouldn't have done that. Man I need to get a sales job like that.
NPR ran a story about an initiative of larger companies simply turning off monitors when not in use. It goes into detail about green PCs and why it hasn't been a larger impact. It goes on to saying that a small group of people is ultimately making the decisions costing billions but in today's economy companies are doing more and more to survive - I'll stop and let you can read and make an interpretation.
The DVD burner will be your best investment. As you probably know, Disney movies have 30 minutes of commercials up front and either you can wait until the startup gets to the point where you can actually hit play or you have to hid forward for 5 minutes to skip the commercials.
I would highly suggest you go get a DVD burner really soon, the prices of even a Dual Layer Burner are below a 100 bucks. You can then rip out all those commercials and simply insert the DVD and Walk away and it will play automatically. Download DVD Decrypted and DVD Shrink. You will never touch the originals again. The convenience of a movie playing when you insert the disk is the greatest thing for kids (no waiting no fussing you'll agree).
Why is it when my DVD, CD, TAPE, LP, 8 Track, Reel-Reel, or whatever media I paid for, I cant install another copy when the media is destroyed? I wouldn't mind at buying a license for music and movies but I should have a perpetual license for the "art" until I sell it. I should be able to get another copy, download it, install it on my media center, whatever I want to do with it until I sell that property rights.
I would rather have a license but the media industry wants you to buy a new copy based on media. So why should I buy something I already own (especial just because a new media format is released like DVDs and CDs)?
Funny. When I went to read this article. The Add at the top of the page shows a shirless (maybe naked) guy setting behind a desk with the flashing caption Megahertz. I believe its an omen of what its like to work at SCO.
Windows XP dosnt have a 2gb limit on a NTFS partiion. I know complied function like FTP have the 2^32 index size limit but I downloaded the 4gb DVD iso using cygwin's NCFTP.
I used jigdo in an attempt to grab debian DVD ISOs. I gave up with all the crashes, slow work, crazy user feedback, and unknown status - I worked on it, but couldn't get it right, I may try again someday. I went and downloaded the Fedoria DVD in about 3 hours. Fedoria RC2 had a few issues and found an older (6 months) slackware cd in the pile. Booted the entire system on a single cd and used dropline to update. Still running slackware today. I think in retrospect, the slackware bunch has things going pretty good - why the single cd concept (i know two now) and the massively wicked update features.
Great my email account has been upgraded to 100mb but I would rather have my briefacse.yahoo.com expanded. Its currently at 30mb - will this also get to be 100mb?
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Alright so lets calculate the cost of storing 2 bytes vs. 4 bytes using your 1 gigabyte in 1980 dollars.
For 10^9 of storage containing 16 byte fixed length entries will store 62,500,000 records. At a cost of 0.00017 for 2 byte length dates would total $10,625. At 0.00034 dollars per 4 byte length entries would cost $21,250. Double yes but only 6.25% savings over the 170k. A not too bad return actually after calculating it. But the big question is the total cost. Like why did ls return 19100 date in the year 2000? I sort of agree that cost were huge back in the 50's and into the 80's but when the 90's rolled around, simple functions shouldn't have self imposed legacy restraints.
Who made the decision to only make it last 30 years? Programmers, Vendors, the Government? What is the incentive of an Engineer to build something that will fail in time (other than money). Wouldn't it be easier to make something that can handle change? If I was ask to build this and I was on a committee and read the report that the VIN would only last 30 years, I would have said what cost, financial, productivity impact would it have if we made it last longer for I would have known that cars would last longer than 30 years. Even today, I expect cars to last longer than 30 years.
The Society of Automotive Engineers, which established the existing VIN system in 1981 and expected it to last 30 years, has formed a committee to address the impending shortage.
Good thing we survived the 80's so we can always point at mistakes on how not to build things to last. I really hate to see someone that points out that "It'll Last for X years" and it never does. Like IPv4, now we have IPv6 - which I can almost say for certain it will outlast most of us (IIRC it has more digits than atoms in the universe). 640k anyone, the list goes on and on. All of you as engineers have to think a little harder; did we really really save that much money when we used 2 digit dates verses 4 digits. Even into the 90's now the 00's how many use 04 are their checks - what if the Declaration of Independence just had 2-digit year? Its not like were running cat7 in the walls but now maybe there is a list long enough where we can start saying why don't we add a few spare digits for buffering.
So I wonder who will first develop a Camcorder that has a focusing mechanism that can't be seen buy night goggles? The focusing mechanism uses a beam similar to the light coming out of a remote control. If you watch the screen on a camcorder while someone is pushing buttons on a remote, you can see the light being emitted from the remote. I suspect, not actually having night goggles at hand, that the front piece of the camcorder would light up like a flashlight while wearing the goggles.
So back to the question about who will develop the first camcorder that doesn't use this light touting it as a safety mechanism to prevent attention from terrorist (whatever marketing department can come up with). Do you think Sony, JVC, or Panasonic? Sony owns film distribution so I don't think they will be first; Panasonic takes current technology and mostly reuses it for good lower end stuff so they are out of the running. JVC probably could use a few emails to their R&D department giving the Infrared-less feature a spin towards safety.
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And so enters a new age of a gigantic battle between vi vs emacs users in Iraq.
The team at SETI@Home have finally released Bonic
On Bonic web page: Status BOINC is under development. We are conducting a beta test of BOINC using the SETI@home and Astropulse applications. The public release will be announced on the SETI@home web site. Several other distributed computing projects are evaluating BOINC.
Bonic has been "released" for use for a long time; I thought when a release annoucment arrives then the product is no longer beta. So which is it - Released means ready for use or does it mean Please beta test now?
proliferation of wearable electronic devices such as wristwatches
For every patent somone says, "Why Didn't I patent that?". Now if I would have gathered a team of lawyers and a little money; I could collect roylties for all the users of wristwatches (by the way I better cease wearing mine)....
All this talk about closed hardware and non-vendor support reminds me of Diamond Video cards from 1997. Diamond was a video card company based on S3 chips and wouldn't give details on the hardware; therefore, to setup a Linux machine you had to guess at the settings or use someone else's trial and error data. Now does anyone today know whom Diamond manufacturing is? Very people know unless you happened to own one of those cards that were good on windows machine.
Thus to the point, I wonder if there is a Mathematical Function that can be plotted about a company's success, not quite directly related to Linux support but some hardware layer support, owing to its success?
You realize that $3/$0 is infinitly higher right?
Gmail Machine makes you hit refresh until the number 1337 commes up. Anyone have a refresh perl script to do this until it captures the string? Looks like nothing complicated; I may try and do it unless someone else has one already built.
I don't quite see the correlation to a plague and healthcare. Wouldn't you think that that a plague would cause health care to boom and actually move money away from said web monkey? Lets see, I could buy Internet access for a year or go to the doctor to try treat/prevent a plague - which would you choose?
So whoever got the contract to install them shouldn't get paid. The cards have been sitting on a dock for 5 yearss.
I did the calculations and didn't believe them so I did it in excel. I saw your post and was about to reply and said woops $324 - you know in calculus you the first test to determine if the numbers are correct is to just look and see if they are plausible - well I shouldn't have done that. Man I need to get a sales job like that.
Preferably something below $32.43.
NPR ran a story about an initiative of larger companies simply turning off monitors when not in use. It goes into detail about green PCs and why it hasn't been a larger impact. It goes on to saying that a small group of people is ultimately making the decisions costing billions but in today's economy companies are doing more and more to survive - I'll stop and let you can read and make an interpretation.
The DVD burner will be your best investment. As you probably know, Disney movies have 30 minutes of commercials up front and either you can wait until the startup gets to the point where you can actually hit play or you have to hid forward for 5 minutes to skip the commercials.
I would highly suggest you go get a DVD burner really soon, the prices of even a Dual Layer Burner are below a 100 bucks. You can then rip out all those commercials and simply insert the DVD and Walk away and it will play automatically. Download DVD Decrypted and DVD Shrink. You will never touch the originals again. The convenience of a movie playing when you insert the disk is the greatest thing for kids (no waiting no fussing you'll agree).
Why is it when my DVD, CD, TAPE, LP, 8 Track, Reel-Reel, or whatever media I paid for, I cant install another copy when the media is destroyed? I wouldn't mind at buying a license for music and movies but I should have a perpetual license for the "art" until I sell it. I should be able to get another copy, download it, install it on my media center, whatever I want to do with it until I sell that property rights.
I would rather have a license but the media industry wants you to buy a new copy based on media. So why should I buy something I already own (especial just because a new media format is released like DVDs and CDs)?
what makes them think they can keep their AV software up to date?
It just goes to show you that business isn't about who's right or who's wrong but who can make it sound good.
Funny. When I went to read this article. The Add at the top of the page shows a shirless (maybe naked) guy setting behind a desk with the flashing caption Megahertz. I believe its an omen of what its like to work at SCO.
Windows XP dosnt have a 2gb limit on a NTFS partiion. I know complied function like FTP have the 2^32 index size limit but I downloaded the 4gb DVD iso using cygwin's NCFTP.
I used jigdo in an attempt to grab debian DVD ISOs. I gave up with all the crashes, slow work, crazy user feedback, and unknown status - I worked on it, but couldn't get it right, I may try again someday. I went and downloaded the Fedoria DVD in about 3 hours. Fedoria RC2 had a few issues and found an older (6 months) slackware cd in the pile. Booted the entire system on a single cd and used dropline to update. Still running slackware today. I think in retrospect, the slackware bunch has things going pretty good - why the single cd concept (i know two now) and the massively wicked update features.
It is time for Blue Tooth technology to enter the Remote Control department.
Great my email account has been upgraded to 100mb but I would rather have my briefacse.yahoo.com expanded. Its currently at 30mb - will this also get to be 100mb?
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