Re:Disconnect and motivation
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This is an interesting thought that they want a copy of everything available but there are a few flaws to that idea.
First the most obvious is quality. Let's suppose that Diana Krall's greatest hits and I can only find it at 96Kbps. That's gonna suck. From a quality standpoint the question would be why? They'd have to spend money to remaster it etc.
Secondly is that not everyone with a collection is online all the time or sharing at all of the times. Would the RIAA appeal to the FCC to "intervere" with our PCs and simulataneously access the web?
As for the business method patent that might be a good idea. I don't know why Linus would though... Can the internet surpass something like FlashCopy? It seems that the web would come to a screaming halt if I tried to back up 18 terabytes of a data to the web.
This is a good point. The US can barely get their shit together enough to launch a shuttle and let it circle the Earth a couple times.
Let's suppose you launch and let the world know your intent. To strip mine an asteroid... Ok, so you'll be back in 7 - 8 years but in the interim Nasa wouldn't even have a plan until 1 - 2 years has passed, they'd take another 3 - 5 years developing a ship (*ahem* smoking crack*) and much more wasted time.
By that time you'd have the support of the world with renewed vigor for space flight. You and your corporation would be heros instantly for revitalizing space flight.
I think that they should be kicking themselves in the arse now. There is one valuable asset elsewhere---land. I don't see any "new" land here on Earth. Like people have said before, "God isn't making any more land". It's true the most valuable asset out there is land.
The problem that exists is the fact that the land isn't something that we can utilize right now. The technology exists to make habitats in extreme places like Mars or the Moon but the technology to get it there is what's lacking.
I think that is the movitation to get into space personally. It's got to be something that we can keep. Wouldn't it be great to have a home here and a condo on a nice flat out on Mars? Sure the ping time would suck when playing your favorite FPS and the commute would be a bitch but new industries would develop. This is where the biggest payoff would be. If someone privately went to the Moon or to Mars and colonized. If the could colonize and sustain they could charge whatever they wanted to allow people to move into their colony. It's kinda like the expansion of America. Once there they'd need a shitload of transportation, communications, etc. $$$.
It's like they (the publishers/writers) want to make it easier for people to figure out what is going on. Or better yet easier to get their personal point of view out into the world of their readers. For a long time in older fiction the point of the fiction was to make you think a short reading was meant to grasp your attention and provoke thought. What was the character feeling?
With LOTR I think it's easy to see that Frodo, Sam, and Aragon have to deal immensely with emotion turmoil and make some serious decisions. Those emotions and character understanding are protrayed through the characters' devoting, for instance Sam did anything and everything for Frodo not do to Fate but because that is the type of person he is. Aragon didn't want to become King he wanted to stay away from it and be a vagabond wandering and "ranging", if it were. Only till about 2/3 of way through his journey did he realize that the world wouldn't survive unless he took the thorne. That the end of the inbalance of power between supernatural and man wouldn't end until he took throne. Did he realize this at first? No. But the readers certainly should have understood the emotional turmoil that the people he to go through.
Another example besides LOTR is another kin to Tolkien, the Chronicles of Narnia. The story is very set in stone with an obvious parallel to Christ and his story but you know that the characters are emotional in depth. They have feelings, needs, cares, wants, etc. Look at the damn fawn! Mr nimbus was it? He was racked with guilt until Aslan forgave him.
Do people not really read anymore? Or perhaps they're reading but not really reading/understanding what it is they're reading. Hmm...
Also check with Cory Doctorow an author who is big on creative common licenses for his books. It's certainly made his books more popular in the long run it might even be the reason that he got his books published in the end.
i know that this is a very difficult task, but why not send it to buyers and Borders and B&N? If they really really like it I'm sure they'll put you in touch with a publisher.
Hmm... Yeah this happens at regular businesses too. If I need something signed, IE contracts, etc. the VPs and Presidents typically accept that I've done my job properly. They hardly ever read what I ask them to sign.
Too bad I don't have access to the forms to assign an increase in pay for myself.;)
That's a good point. Also what about the fees of setting up the cable? Last time I bought micron cables I found that they're seriously expensive, even in the 50 foot variety.
What kind of cable would they use? Micron or something else? Don't even say Cat5e or I'll have to smack you.
It works via USB and uses RF to control the mouse. It basically subs as a mouse and you can program the buttons to do different commands.
I like laser pointer that it comes with too.
I've used this before, it works nicely and I've liked Targus for their notebook companion items a lot. If you have warranty issues they'll take care of it right away. Let me know what you think of it.
Another good point, IMHO, is that patching holes allows for hackers to reverse engineer the patch quicker. It's easier to reverse engineer than to develop
Software companies should work to patch less. In particular Microsoft should save patches for Service Packs. This would keep worms and viruses out longer.
It all depends on how many slots you have available. DDR ram is going up and most laptops only have two slots. 512 DIMMS are averaging at 90-130 right now.
If you have a desktop you could put in 4 256s but you overall savings wouldn't be that great 10 -20%.
Unfortunately my notebook only allows a max of 512MB so I can go with 2 256s. Right now I'm at 384MB.
XP Pro runs fine with 128MB at 16-Bit graphics without any special services running (ie IIS). I can reduce the load to 60MB without a number of stupid services like indexing, searching, etc. It's much more preferable with 256 or more.
Gmail wouldn't solve problems like this, they only offer one 1GB. I work with secretaries who would use up 1GB of storage a year if they didn't delete any emails. The organisation I do systems administration for isn't even that big, so I could easily imagine that other people running into problems earlier.
I agree. What the users need to do is to move the files off of their Outlook account on to a PST file. They could then eat up local disk storage.
(Apologies for mentioning MS)
Me, I've been at my current position for two years and I've used about.96 GB of personal space. This is attritubed to large attachments, etc (maxed out at 4mb). Our email accounts are limited to 65 MB and then the emails don't get deleted but as motivation to move your files you are locked out from being able to send emails. That is definitely a motivational tool.
PS. I'm a beta tester for Gmail. There is no way that Gmail compares, for business use, to using an application. (Expect in portability)
Yeah it is interesting what happened to the PC market when HP and Compaq merged. It shot Dell to #2 and eMachines to #3. Scary thought. Luckily it allowed a lot of others (who we still don't see enough of) to get better marketshare. We'll see what happens in the next few years.
I agree with your comment. I was originally going to make reference to the other MFGs such as the card makers themselves but really they only improve their own product, which is what the PC makers do. They improve the product that they sell they don't innovate it to new products.
Apart from that I really see a lot of innovations in the home market in LCD TVs, DVRs, etc. We'll see a lot of copycat productions here over the next decade.
"The days of engineering-led technology companies are coming to an end," Mr. Dell declared.
This reminds me a lot of IBM and their IBM Compatible PC days. It's exactly what Dell is doing is what allowed others like Compaq to grow into the PC market. They took what was compatible to the IBM sys arch and built around it. Eventually IBM started playing the engineering-led game where they wouldn't release specs until they had their IBM PCs on the market then the PC-Compatibles could go after it. Innovators are kind of setting themselves up for competition like this when they're keeping the innovations a secret. Back to Compaq, for a while they innovated the items that were sold with their PCs but just like Dell they pushed it back on the MFGs to do the R&D.
Look where Compaq is now. In the belly of the beast that said Dell isn't doing anything. It's just distributing other people's products.. That's what Ms Fiorina said and that is exactly what Compaq was before HP bought them up.
Space travel will not allievate overcrowding on earth.
Yes it was Clarke but he also brought up in 2069 that there would be a whole generation of people who would want to return to Earth.
Meaning that the space faring exploring type would go out there and colonize one or two sites and then the 1st born and 2nd born generations would want nothing more than to come back to Earth.
So essentially the equation balances itself out. Some people go out there but their kids and kids kids are going to want to come back making growth either flat or positive (for Earth).
I was actually thinking back to the day where we had PCI memory bays. I was wondering if you could get quicker access to your RAM through a PCIe bus than reg arch.
I was obviously hit by the stupid tree before I wrote that. The sys arch would most likely always have better access time b/c it's a direct access to the processor. If it were through the PCI bus it would go through PCI then to the proc thus there would be latency.
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This is an interesting thought that they want a copy of everything available but there are a few flaws to that idea.
First the most obvious is quality. Let's suppose that Diana Krall's greatest hits and I can only find it at 96Kbps. That's gonna suck. From a quality standpoint the question would be why? They'd have to spend money to remaster it etc.
Secondly is that not everyone with a collection is online all the time or sharing at all of the times. Would the RIAA appeal to the FCC to "intervere" with our PCs and simulataneously access the web?
As for the business method patent that might be a good idea. I don't know why Linus would though... Can the internet surpass something like FlashCopy? It seems that the web would come to a screaming halt if I tried to back up 18 terabytes of a data to the web.
Oh shit, I just blew up the internet.
Maybe they can destory Live Update so that Symantec can finally create a copy that isn't a resource hog.... wait....
*sighs*
nevermind
which reentry? i know with a name like Bigelow the type of entry is under question...
oh wait that's bigalow.
I think that heat shield is big question it totally changes the dynamic of the ship.
What about finding out where stuff is? I hate going to some tourist oriented area and not having any information.
I like to go online and brag about where I am too. That's always fun!
This is a good point. The US can barely get their shit together enough to launch a shuttle and let it circle the Earth a couple times.
Let's suppose you launch and let the world know your intent. To strip mine an asteroid... Ok, so you'll be back in 7 - 8 years but in the interim Nasa wouldn't even have a plan until 1 - 2 years has passed, they'd take another 3 - 5 years developing a ship (*ahem* smoking crack*) and much more wasted time.
By that time you'd have the support of the world with renewed vigor for space flight. You and your corporation would be heros instantly for revitalizing space flight.
Yes, I'll go laugh my ass off too.
I think that they should be kicking themselves in the arse now. There is one valuable asset elsewhere---land. I don't see any "new" land here on Earth. Like people have said before, "God isn't making any more land". It's true the most valuable asset out there is land.
The problem that exists is the fact that the land isn't something that we can utilize right now. The technology exists to make habitats in extreme places like Mars or the Moon but the technology to get it there is what's lacking.
I think that is the movitation to get into space personally. It's got to be something that we can keep. Wouldn't it be great to have a home here and a condo on a nice flat out on Mars? Sure the ping time would suck when playing your favorite FPS and the commute would be a bitch but new industries would develop. This is where the biggest payoff would be. If someone privately went to the Moon or to Mars and colonized. If the could colonize and sustain they could charge whatever they wanted to allow people to move into their colony. It's kinda like the expansion of America. Once there they'd need a shitload of transportation, communications, etc. $$$.
Thanks for the tip. I'm going to bookmark your cid and come back to it later this evening.
=Scott
This is too true!
It's like they (the publishers/writers) want to make it easier for people to figure out what is going on. Or better yet easier to get their personal point of view out into the world of their readers. For a long time in older fiction the point of the fiction was to make you think a short reading was meant to grasp your attention and provoke thought. What was the character feeling?
With LOTR I think it's easy to see that Frodo, Sam, and Aragon have to deal immensely with emotion turmoil and make some serious decisions. Those emotions and character understanding are protrayed through the characters' devoting, for instance Sam did anything and everything for Frodo not do to Fate but because that is the type of person he is. Aragon didn't want to become King he wanted to stay away from it and be a vagabond wandering and "ranging", if it were. Only till about 2/3 of way through his journey did he realize that the world wouldn't survive unless he took the thorne. That the end of the inbalance of power between supernatural and man wouldn't end until he took throne. Did he realize this at first? No. But the readers certainly should have understood the emotional turmoil that the people he to go through.
Another example besides LOTR is another kin to Tolkien, the Chronicles of Narnia. The story is very set in stone with an obvious parallel to Christ and his story but you know that the characters are emotional in depth. They have feelings, needs, cares, wants, etc. Look at the damn fawn! Mr nimbus was it? He was racked with guilt until Aslan forgave him.
Do people not really read anymore? Or perhaps they're reading but not really reading/understanding what it is they're reading. Hmm...
Also check with Cory Doctorow an author who is big on creative common licenses for his books. It's certainly made his books more popular in the long run it might even be the reason that he got his books published in the end.
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i know that this is a very difficult task, but why not send it to buyers and Borders and B&N? If they really really like it I'm sure they'll put you in touch with a publisher.
PS>>> I work at Borders (ahem)
Good luck.
Hmm... Yeah this happens at regular businesses too. If I need something signed, IE contracts, etc. the VPs and Presidents typically accept that I've done my job properly. They hardly ever read what I ask them to sign.
;)
Too bad I don't have access to the forms to
assign an increase in pay for myself.
I don't get it? Either he doesn't get it either or he wasn't paying attention while he was signing these bills. ...Anyone think he was busy pumping?
I agree that Cisco has some crazy-ass pricing schemes.
Let me tell you though if you need pricing just PM me. I have 41% (that's 1% better than most).
If you need it for the super cluster just let me know.
PS. I'm not a seller. I'm a buyer.
TTYL.
Ultima is the greatest. Thanks for getting me hooked. :)
That's a good point. Also what about the fees of setting up the cable? Last time I bought micron cables I found that they're seriously expensive, even in the 50 foot variety.
What kind of cable would they use? Micron or something else? Don't even say Cat5e or I'll have to smack you.
Bifurcati, I would suggest the Targus Notebook Wireless Presenter. It retails at 49.99 but I've seen it online for as low as 41.
It works via USB and uses RF to control the mouse. It basically subs as a mouse and you can program the buttons to do different commands.
I like laser pointer that it comes with too.
I've used this before, it works nicely and I've liked Targus for their notebook companion items a lot. If you have warranty issues they'll take care of it right away.
Let me know what you think of it.
Another good point, IMHO, is that patching holes allows for hackers to reverse engineer the patch quicker. It's easier to reverse engineer than to develop
Software companies should work to patch less. In particular Microsoft should save patches for Service Packs. This would keep worms and viruses out longer.
That's my IMHO. What do you think?
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It all depends on how many slots you have available. DDR ram is going up and most laptops only have two slots. 512 DIMMS are averaging at 90-130 right now.
If you have a desktop you could put in 4 256s but you overall savings wouldn't be that great 10 -20%.
Unfortunately my notebook only allows a max of 512MB so I can go with 2 256s. Right now I'm at 384MB.
XP Pro runs fine with 128MB at 16-Bit graphics without any special services running (ie IIS). I can reduce the load to 60MB without a number of stupid services like indexing, searching, etc. It's much more preferable with 256 or more.
Gmail wouldn't solve problems like this, they only offer one 1GB. I work with secretaries who would use up 1GB of storage a year if they didn't delete any emails. The organisation I do systems administration for isn't even that big, so I could easily imagine that other people running into problems earlier.
.96 GB of personal space. This is attritubed to large attachments, etc (maxed out at 4mb). Our email accounts are limited to 65 MB and then the emails don't get deleted but as motivation to move your files you are locked out from being able to send emails. That is definitely a motivational tool.
I agree. What the users need to do is to move the files off of their Outlook account on to a PST file. They could then eat up local disk storage.
(Apologies for mentioning MS)
Me, I've been at my current position for two years and I've used about
PS. I'm a beta tester for Gmail. There is no way that Gmail compares, for business use, to using an application. (Expect in portability)
i really liked the ending of MI3, I have to admit.
:)
isn't that the one with the phlegm contest? mix the drink, hock a loogie.
didn't MI4 come out for the PS? i don't remember it for the PC...
Yeah it is interesting what happened to the PC market when HP and Compaq merged. It shot Dell to #2 and eMachines to #3. Scary thought. Luckily it allowed a lot of others (who we still don't see enough of) to get better marketshare. We'll see what happens in the next few years.
I agree with your comment. I was originally going to make reference to the other MFGs such as the card makers themselves but really they only improve their own product, which is what the PC makers do. They improve the product that they sell they don't innovate it to new products.
Apart from that I really see a lot of innovations in the home market in LCD TVs, DVRs, etc. We'll see a lot of copycat productions here over the next decade.
"The days of engineering-led technology companies are coming to an end," Mr. Dell declared.
This reminds me a lot of IBM and their IBM Compatible PC days. It's exactly what Dell is doing is what allowed others like Compaq to grow into the PC market. They took what was compatible to the IBM sys arch and built around it. Eventually IBM started playing the engineering-led game where they wouldn't release specs until they had their IBM PCs on the market then the PC-Compatibles could go after it. Innovators are kind of setting themselves up for competition like this when they're keeping the innovations a secret. Back to Compaq, for a while they innovated the items that were sold with their PCs but just like Dell they pushed it back on the MFGs to do the R&D.
Look where Compaq is now. In the belly of the beast that said Dell isn't doing anything. It's just distributing other people's products.. That's what Ms Fiorina said and that is exactly what Compaq was before HP bought them up.
Mr Dell watch out. Your company might be next.
Space travel will not allievate overcrowding on earth.
Yes it was Clarke but he also brought up in 2069 that there would be a whole generation of people who would want to return to Earth.
Meaning that the space faring exploring type would go out there and colonize one or two sites and then the 1st born and 2nd born generations would want nothing more than to come back to Earth.
So essentially the equation balances itself out. Some people go out there but their kids and kids kids are going to want to come back making growth either flat or positive (for Earth).
I was actually thinking back to the day where we had PCI memory bays. I was wondering if you could get quicker access to your RAM through a PCIe bus than reg arch.
I was obviously hit by the stupid tree before I wrote that. The sys arch would most likely always have better access time b/c it's a direct access to the processor. If it were through the PCI bus it would go through PCI then to the proc thus there would be latency.
There I go answering my own question again.