I got marked overrated for this article but it was an enlightening discussion never-the-less.
No the $1 thing people couldn't get over that and discuss the real issue of return per tree. You can move the decimal forward as much as you need to get the fixed cost return to pay off the asset. So by the estimates everyone has replied to, it sounds like each one of you are going to buy one of these machines. Now with the highest estimate of 40,000 per tree then you would expect to get $360,000 per hour thus paying off the machine in about 2 hours. Anyone stepping up to buy the machine?
One point I was trying to make, not very clearly, is that in all areas of business you try to get someone else to do the actual work. In this case I was implying that I would rather sell the machines than try to do the work myself as in any business or management its not you that does the work but someone else. What prevents the manufacture of gathering these logs? Because if it was that profitable everyone would be doing it - gold rush anyone.
cuts around 9 trees an hour...
Sawfish submarines for sale $750,000...
I wonder what the buyers of expect to get per tree? If the pure profit is 1 dollar per tree minus other operating expense than it will take 83333 hours or 3472 days or 9 years to pay off the machine. Hmmm, I would rather be selling these guys for 750k than buying it and hopping for a return on investment.
I hope the trend has shifted whereby people that would have otherwise sought an MBA were moving towards a CS degree and let the real CS people get back to work.
Remeber that Network lines (CAT) are in paris of 4. So the speed of 10gbs is over 4 cables 2.5gbs each. I know that RG6 operates at 2200 MgHz. We have a room to grow from Cat5e (350 MgHz).
Well' get there - Looking forward to Cat6 and Cat7. Here is the current rating for network lines:
CAT-3 = Category 3, 3 pair 24 ga. solid wire - up to 16Mhz (No twist)
CAT-5 = Category 5, 4 pair 24 ga. solid wire - up to 200Mbps. (avg. 13 twists per foot)
CAT-5e = Enhanced Category 5, 4 pair 24 ga. solid wire - up to 350Mbps
CAT-6 = Category 6, 4 pair 24 ga. solid wire - up to 550Mpbs
CAT-6e = Enhanced Category 6, 4 pair 24 ga. solid wire - up to 1000Mbps
CAT-7 = Category 7, 4 pair 24 ga solid wire - up to 2.4Gbps
Soon as we develop a shielded style RG6 in pairs of 4 the 10Gbs would be achievable. Copper is limited by our switching technology - the major factor with Optical and Copper is the length of drops. You can run optical a greater distance.
This just goes to show how important open source is.
You have one company decided when, how, and why your using software. I just hope that the development community decides to make a new editor/format to replace PDF (insert any format you see appropriate) and make it better.
This way no company can say that you can no longer use this format. The community decides when they will stop using the format. Adobe has taken the decisions out of your hands.
One item this article didn't explicitly look at was the network saturation percentage.
Most servers can handle a greater load than the network traffic can handle. To demonstrate a proper test you would need to test outside of your routers and firewall. This means that the test machines should be located outside of your local area network while testing or at least a certain quantitative percentage for statistical purposes.
Odds are most people are going to work within the LAN and lay Siege to their machines but forget that there is an outside world.
I almost like the way AOL uses keywords instead of name.whatever - AOL it would be just "name". For example you wouldn't use www.slashdot.org it would be keyword slashdot. Does the WWW. and.org add much value?
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All IT people at some point shutdown. They one day wake up and say "I have learned enough, I don't want to learn anything new". And these people simply work with what they have learned.
Now it may take 40 years for this to happen but it happens to all (alright most for those mathematicians) IT workers; People hate change and IT is all about change everyday (every hour?). It is stressful fighting for your job everyday when new college people are released ever year with fresh training and new ideas without any legacy burden. I'm not in anyway bashing College Hires but the younger you are the more resilient you are. The more resilient you are the better you perform. So as you're moving in the IT field you need to look at moving on or up to prevent yourself from being exterminated.
Grab something to move into when you start heading into retirement age. God knows I don't want to be in IT at age 70 fending off those young whipper snappers.
This clip mostly focused on the Windows manager and the Background of the Desktop - My favorite background is pretty much black and along with a blank screen saver. In XP I have all pretty windows option set to off for system speed increase.
The highlight of the video was when a window was flipped and he wrote notes on the back. Not quite revolutionary - neat yeah but this won't save Sun from the onslaught movement towards Linux. No, I won't think you'll see a bump in Sun's stock price due to this.
I think Decoupling lends itself to lower usage where as Coupling means a higher level of usage. Who's right? We will see soon as KDE or GNOME becomes an integrated app - I may find that your correct about security but I bet the usage would be much much higher.
Every SlashDotter should click on every advertisement that you see on Slashdot. Slashodot will get paid and the advertisers will get a heavy bill - everyone wins.
That would be a nice technology to add to Mozilla 1.x where it automatically hides the advertisement and treats it like a click through where advertisers get tired of paying out.
There is only one thing holding linux back - an integrated API for desktops. If the developers for Linux could develop API for all the applications that they write and the Desktop then becomes integrated with each application at the API layer, you will have what M$ has now. That is the only item the article missed. It went over embedded systems and how cheap Linux is (free).
We have come upon a point in processor technology that Active cooling other than passive radiant exchange with active air movement technology (IE cooling block and a noisy fan) will be exceeded very shortly.
Running at 178 degrees these guys will require active cooling system such as water, refrigerant. But there is a third type of cooling technology that is micro channel cooling: http://www.cooligy.com/micro_channel_cooling.html
I would like to see a rock solid active cooling system implemented and run as well as today's fans or even refrigerators. As more money is invested in the area then we will see more active cooling systems.
I hope Peter Jackson has enough time to make an all inclusive DVD set whereby there isn't really a Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and Return of the King, but a whole series combined where you can't really tell that they were different movies. Plop in DVD 1 finish on DVD 6.
As you can guess I'm not going to agree with you on a few points.
First in American corportations and society, hacking is an illegal activity. Now, I know it's cool to be in the 2600 club and doing goofy stuffy to peoples computers but the core result is the enigma of illegal activities. If the article was produced it would be addressing CMU focusing on hacking at not on good quality software.
A reporter of today, if he wanted sensationalism, would say that even Carnegie Mellon doesn't ensure software quality within their own compound, why should we listen to their quality garbage hype?
Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly would like to attend CMU and I read numerous articles from that institute. I infarct enjoy and promote what they have done for software. All of use in the software community has a kind-of obligation to produce better software or it affects the entire population...
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I got marked overrated for this article but it was an enlightening discussion never-the-less.
No the $1 thing people couldn't get over that and discuss the real issue of return per tree.
You can move the decimal forward as much as you need to get the fixed cost return to pay off the asset. So by the estimates everyone has replied to, it sounds like each one of you are going to buy one of these machines. Now with the highest estimate of 40,000 per tree then you would expect to get $360,000 per hour thus paying off the machine in about 2 hours. Anyone stepping up to buy the machine?
One point I was trying to make, not very clearly, is that in all areas of business you try to get someone else to do the actual work. In this case I was implying that I would rather sell the machines than try to do the work myself as in any business or management its not you that does the work but someone else. What prevents the manufacture of gathering these logs? Because if it was that profitable everyone would be doing it - gold rush anyone.
cuts around 9 trees an hour...
Sawfish submarines for sale $750,000...
I wonder what the buyers of expect to get per tree? If the pure profit is 1 dollar per tree minus other operating expense than it will take 83333 hours or 3472 days or 9 years to pay off the machine. Hmmm, I would rather be selling these guys for 750k than buying it and hopping for a return on investment.
I hope the trend has shifted whereby people that would have otherwise sought an MBA were moving towards a CS degree and let the real CS people get back to work.
i guess you guys have seen this too many times. :D
can't blame me its the karma whore trying to get out....
Remeber that Network lines (CAT) are in paris of 4. So the speed of 10gbs is over 4 cables 2.5gbs each. I know that RG6 operates at 2200 MgHz. We have a room to grow from Cat5e (350 MgHz).
Well' get there - Looking forward to Cat6 and Cat7. Here is the current rating for network lines:
CAT-3 = Category 3, 3 pair 24 ga. solid wire - up to 16Mhz (No twist)
CAT-5 = Category 5, 4 pair 24 ga. solid wire - up to 200Mbps. (avg. 13 twists per foot)
CAT-5e = Enhanced Category 5, 4 pair 24 ga. solid wire - up to 350Mbps
CAT-6 = Category 6, 4 pair 24 ga. solid wire - up to 550Mpbs
CAT-6e = Enhanced Category 6, 4 pair 24 ga. solid wire - up to 1000Mbps
CAT-7 = Category 7, 4 pair 24 ga solid wire - up to 2.4Gbps
Soon as we develop a shielded style RG6 in pairs of 4 the 10Gbs would be achievable. Copper is limited by our switching technology - the major factor with Optical and Copper is the length of drops. You can run optical a greater distance.
This just goes to show how important open source is.
You have one company decided when, how, and why your using software. I just hope that the development community decides to make a new editor/format to replace PDF (insert any format you see appropriate) and make it better.
This way no company can say that you can no longer use this format. The community decides when they will stop using the format. Adobe has taken the decisions out of your hands.
introduction of controllers that are compatible with all Windows and Xbox game players
Wasn't it M$ that made the XBox controllers similar to USB but added an additional pin? Seems like they should start by adhering to standards.
One item this article didn't explicitly look at was the network saturation percentage.
Most servers can handle a greater load than the network traffic can handle. To demonstrate a proper test you would need to test outside of your routers and firewall. This means that the test machines should be located outside of your local area network while testing or at least a certain quantitative percentage for statistical purposes.
Odds are most people are going to work within the LAN and lay Siege to their machines but forget that there is an outside world.
If you're fast enough you can go view the briefing live, if not its archived on this web page: Briefing
Discovery flew safely 30 times with the defective actuator
When does a defect become a problem? I wonder if this was really a Critical problem because shouldn't some indication have already been seen by now?
I mean since they have fixed this problem will two other problems surface that are more critical and maybe they should have left it alone?
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.org add much value?
I almost like the way AOL uses keywords instead of name.whatever - AOL it would be just "name". For example you wouldn't use www.slashdot.org it would be keyword slashdot. Does the WWW. and
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Do you want a *real* speed increase?
Even better - change the LILO Setting from default of XP to [insert you're favorite flavor of linux]
All IT people at some point shutdown. They one day wake up and say "I have learned enough, I don't want to learn anything new". And these people simply work with what they have learned.
Now it may take 40 years for this to happen but it happens to all (alright most for those mathematicians) IT workers; People hate change and IT is all about change everyday (every hour?). It is stressful fighting for your job everyday when new college people are released ever year with fresh training and new ideas without any legacy burden. I'm not in anyway bashing College Hires but the younger you are the more resilient you are. The more resilient you are the better you perform. So as you're moving in the IT field you need to look at moving on or up to prevent yourself from being exterminated.
Grab something to move into when you start heading into retirement age. God knows I don't want to be in IT at age 70 fending off those young whipper snappers.
This clip mostly focused on the Windows manager and the Background of the Desktop - My favorite background is pretty much black and along with a blank screen saver. In XP I have all pretty windows option set to off for system speed increase.
The highlight of the video was when a window was flipped and he wrote notes on the back. Not quite revolutionary - neat yeah but this won't save Sun from the onslaught movement towards Linux. No, I won't think you'll see a bump in Sun's stock price due to this.
Very cool but memory chips aren't really gigantic. I would be more interested in speed or parallel memory access.
Go to Delware - the home tax free shopping.
http://www.state.de.us/revenue/sales_tax.htm
Yeah - Cause and effects are difficult to predict concerning opinion and forecasting.
I swear one of the web pages today that was slashdoted couldn't even show an advertisement because it was so loaded... Ironic huh?
Time will tellm l?tid=109
Linux is doing OK - it's grabbing market share.
M$ is doing OK - it has ~40 Billion dollars cash on hand, not too bad. ref http://slashdot.org/articles/02/05/06/1455246.sht
I think Decoupling lends itself to lower usage where as Coupling means a higher level of usage. Who's right? We will see soon as KDE or GNOME becomes an integrated app - I may find that your correct about security but I bet the usage would be much much higher.
Every SlashDotter should click on every advertisement that you see on Slashdot. Slashodot will get paid and the advertisers will get a heavy bill - everyone wins.
That would be a nice technology to add to Mozilla 1.x where it automatically hides the advertisement and treats it like a click through where advertisers get tired of paying out.
There is only one thing holding linux back - an integrated API for desktops. If the developers for Linux could develop API for all the applications that they write and the Desktop then becomes integrated with each application at the API layer, you will have what M$ has now. That is the only item the article missed. It went over embedded systems and how cheap Linux is (free).
We have come upon a point in processor technology that Active cooling other than passive radiant exchange with active air movement technology (IE cooling block and a noisy fan) will be exceeded very shortly. Running at 178 degrees these guys will require active cooling system such as water, refrigerant. But there is a third type of cooling technology that is micro channel cooling: http://www.cooligy.com/micro_channel_cooling.html I would like to see a rock solid active cooling system implemented and run as well as today's fans or even refrigerators. As more money is invested in the area then we will see more active cooling systems.
I hope Peter Jackson has enough time to make an all inclusive DVD set whereby there isn't really a Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and Return of the King, but a whole series combined where you can't really tell that they were different movies. Plop in DVD 1 finish on DVD 6.
Thanks so much.
That is so usefull that I have added you to my friends list!!!!!!
I put splash screens #4 on my anoyance list followed by Spam, Pop-Ups, Framed web pages.
If given an option, I simply turn off Splash Screens.
As you can guess I'm not going to agree with you on a few points.
First in American corportations and society, hacking is an illegal activity. Now, I know it's cool to be in the 2600 club and doing goofy stuffy to peoples computers but the core result is the enigma of illegal activities. If the article was produced it would be addressing CMU focusing on hacking at not on good quality software.
A reporter of today, if he wanted sensationalism, would say that even Carnegie Mellon doesn't ensure software quality within their own compound, why should we listen to their quality garbage hype?
Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly would like to attend CMU and I read numerous articles from that institute. I infarct enjoy and promote what they have done for software. All of use in the software community has a kind-of obligation to produce better software or it affects the entire population...