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They added a clip mechanism in the latest revision of the spec to solve the falling out issue. I would switch to SATA just to get rid of the damned molex power connectors, though; pain to get on and off, and the pins come from the factory loose and out of line.
Just glancing at the table of contents, PowerPC is treated pretty much throughout, often in direct comparison to the Intel Way. I'm not sure what differences you would expect to see between discussion of x86 from and Intel or AMD perspective. Really it would be nice if there were more in there on SPARC, Alpha, or Itanium.
As a self-proclaimed libertarian, I'm all for these guys getting hanged. The same jerk-offs who brush this off as a paperwork thing are the same jerk-offs who said the Patriot Act would only be used in emergencies when traditional searches weren't fast enough. It says there were more than 9,000 letters issued; I have a hard time believing that there were 9,000 events last year that were 'emergencies'. What we said would happen happened, and the people who broke the rules need to pay for violating the liberties of Americans.
The music industry runs considerable margins on successful acts, but the online distributors keep a small percentage of their sales. (source) 26% doesn't go very far when you're essentially bearing all of the costs. There are in theory displaced CD sales, but online music is supposed to capture sales where CDs are not preferred (on-demand availability, single tracks).
I think beyond typical locations for advertising like in game billboards and such, the real opening is similar to what Hollywood has been using for years: the thousands of products used by characters in their daily lives. Auction off the label on what would otherwise be generically named products. Game companies are always going for licenses; these licenses would seem to be optimal since they're paid to use the logos rather than paying for the privledge.
So, what you're saying is that rather than work and have a portion of my pay go to supporting everyone else at my company's medical problems, I should have to work and give a portion of my pay to supporting the medical problems of every jobless waif in the damned country? No thanks.
- The likelihood of a public policy being agreeable to 300 million people is much less than it being agreeable to 3-30 million people. Additionally, there is a tendancy for the 'rich' states to be forced to subsidize the 'poor' states. Before you say it's the poor states' right to be subsidized, is it the right of say Kosovo to be subsidized by Lichtenstein? Coming together for a common defense and free trade doesn't mean coming together for the giving of ones resources to the other.
- Representative governments lose touch with their constituents as the number of constituents rises. My US congressman represents me... and approximately 1 million other people. My state congressman represents a few orders less. Having laws passed by a group whose majority doesn't come from within 1000 miles of my home does not give me a warm fuzzy. What does the Congresswoman from California know of the needs of Connecticuters?
It's not like they were looking at Google like it was a golden brown and delicious, roast turkey.
That is *exactly* how politicians look upon anyone with money, particularly if said money is rather public (say, from the latest internet darling IPO).
Unfortunately, it would seem you left Econ 101 early, because the next part of that lesson describes the producer surplus and the social surplus. If the pizza place is looking to get $1/slice and can get $1.50, they have a producer surplus of $0.50. The social surplus (the benefit to all parties) is the sum of the two, $4. Now, let's say somehow you were made to pay $3 for the slice (the other pizza place closes so this one raises its price in response to the lack of competition). The seller was still willing to let it go for $1, so they now have a surplus of $2. You were willing to pay $5, and got it for $3, so a surplus of $2. Net surplus on your transaction was still $4. While there will be a net loss over all transactions (buyers willing to pay between $1.50 and $3 no longer buy pizza even though the transactions would produce a net social surplus), your particular transaction has not lost any net benefit; some of your benefit was simply transferred to the seller. On eBay in particular, where both parties in a transaction are usually private citizens, it is not even possible to demonize the seller as "big business" or some other perjorative unworthy of any surplus.
This is not to say that bidding up your own auctions isn't a crappy thing to do; basically the seller is trying to institute a reserve price without using the convenient feature provided for the purpose. Not being an eBay seller, I don't know if there is some sort of commission disincentive that causes people to resort to shilling rather than reserve prices, but seeing the amount of work involved and the danger of the shill account winning, there has to be some reason.
You seem to be somewhat misinformed yourself. Observe:
"My government has no business spying on my private life. The warrantless wiretap program is a blatant violation of the constitutional checks and balances. The installation of gunshot microphones is a mere stepping stone to a program to suppress public speech."
My door: intact. But I should not need to demonstrate this; just over the weekend there was a massive rally against the government right in front of the capital building. Protesters spray-painted their messages on the steps, for heaven's sake.
This is not to say that our freedoms are not in danger. It is important that all Americans act against restriction while we still can.
The difference between banking on a Univac and flying a spaceship with a radiation-hardened 386 is that improvements on the 386 aren't necessarily reflected in spaceship-flying performance, whereas improvements on the Univac show distinct benefits in banking. The laws of physics work just like they did the first time we put a shuttle in space; on the other hand, transaction volume and reporting complexity has increased tremendously since the first mechanical accounting machines. When we build a new shuttle with more complicated flight control requirements, we'll need new computers to fly it. Until then, there's really no sense screwing with the known-good system.
To head off the anticipated "but the shuttle is crap" argument, I'm not going to contradict that. As a reusable spacecraft, the shuttle is woefully obsolete and inappropriate for the task. We should have started designing and building a new one years ago. The limited capabilities of the shuttle have in turn led to some questionable design decisions on the ISS and limited development of out capability to do something other than go to LEO and come back. I'm just saying that if you're going to fly a space shuttle, the stock flight computer is all you need.
Actually, as a Libertarian, my preferred inflation-reducing scheme is to not print so much of the crap in the first place; ie, for the government to not run a debt. Not that I'm all against currency destruction; I think that traffic fines would be more reasonably enforced if they were required to be paid in cash and the cash were burned at the roadside rather than spent by the municipality.
Norway isn't asking Apple to take extra steps to interoperate with competitors' hardware, they're asking them to take less steps to prevent interoperability. There is a difference between dictating that the music be offered in an arbitrary codec and dictating that the music be offered in a form usable by a player supporting the codec that is used.
When I first tried Vista, it was running in a VM and there were serious problems with the Minesweep implementation, actually: It was difficult to distinguish the zero tiles from unexplored tiles, and there was significant lag. It ran much better when I moved to actual hardware, but you wouldn't think that emulation would cause that big a performance hit for something like that.
The subscription pays for the paper. The research and the researcher were paid for by your taxes (through the NSF and other funds), private foundations, and students everywhere (through tuition). These guys are scared that their services won't be needed anymore, like the French buttonmakers afraid of cloth buttons.
Intel, like all corporations, likes money. I see it far more likely for them to use the space for a few more K of L1 cache than to implement some secret doomsday circuit so that someone else can make money.
The best return on investment is the source with the plant/supply pipeline already built, followed closely by the source without any sort of expensive permits or regulations.
I hear that. The number of times I've searched and the article titled with my exact search phrase comes in at 5th place astounds me. Of course, this is when search is actually working and they don't just redirect you to the 'try Google or Yahoo' page.
I was under the impression that most of the task for suspension bridge foundations was to maintain tension in the cables. Since most of the weight being held up by that tension is the road deck and the vehicles crossing the bridge, lighter cables don't seem like that much of a boon. If these cables are more resistant to degradation from, say, saltwater spray, though, that could be a useful property. Since it seems like they're made out of some kind of plastic they could be useful crossing bodies of saltwater.
Having watched HDTV (1080i) transcoded to Xvid (not off P2P; from a QAM tuner with HD cable service), it's definately not worth the filesize (something like 750MB/hr). It's just as fuzzy as a normal DVD rip. I mean, the HD signal is a definate improvement over SD, but in terms of compressed video there just isn't a point.
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In a democracy, all government-inflicted wounds are self-inflicted.
They added a clip mechanism in the latest revision of the spec to solve the falling out issue. I would switch to SATA just to get rid of the damned molex power connectors, though; pain to get on and off, and the pins come from the factory loose and out of line.
Excellent plan! Then we can burn the coal to make electricity to electrolyze water. Or, we could liquify the coal, and crack it to generate hydrogen.
Just glancing at the table of contents, PowerPC is treated pretty much throughout, often in direct comparison to the Intel Way. I'm not sure what differences you would expect to see between discussion of x86 from and Intel or AMD perspective. Really it would be nice if there were more in there on SPARC, Alpha, or Itanium.
As a self-proclaimed libertarian, I'm all for these guys getting hanged. The same jerk-offs who brush this off as a paperwork thing are the same jerk-offs who said the Patriot Act would only be used in emergencies when traditional searches weren't fast enough. It says there were more than 9,000 letters issued; I have a hard time believing that there were 9,000 events last year that were 'emergencies'. What we said would happen happened, and the people who broke the rules need to pay for violating the liberties of Americans.
The music industry runs considerable margins on successful acts, but the online distributors keep a small percentage of their sales. (source) 26% doesn't go very far when you're essentially bearing all of the costs. There are in theory displaced CD sales, but online music is supposed to capture sales where CDs are not preferred (on-demand availability, single tracks).
I think beyond typical locations for advertising like in game billboards and such, the real opening is similar to what Hollywood has been using for years: the thousands of products used by characters in their daily lives. Auction off the label on what would otherwise be generically named products. Game companies are always going for licenses; these licenses would seem to be optimal since they're paid to use the logos rather than paying for the privledge.
So, what you're saying is that rather than work and have a portion of my pay go to supporting everyone else at my company's medical problems, I should have to work and give a portion of my pay to supporting the medical problems of every jobless waif in the damned country? No thanks.
There are two reasons I support state's rights:
... and approximately 1 million other people. My state congressman represents a few orders less. Having laws passed by a group whose majority doesn't come from within 1000 miles of my home does not give me a warm fuzzy. What does the Congresswoman from California know of the needs of Connecticuters?
- The likelihood of a public policy being agreeable to 300 million people is much less than it being agreeable to 3-30 million people. Additionally, there is a tendancy for the 'rich' states to be forced to subsidize the 'poor' states. Before you say it's the poor states' right to be subsidized, is it the right of say Kosovo to be subsidized by Lichtenstein? Coming together for a common defense and free trade doesn't mean coming together for the giving of ones resources to the other.
- Representative governments lose touch with their constituents as the number of constituents rises. My US congressman represents me
It's not like they were looking at Google like it was a golden brown and delicious, roast turkey.
That is *exactly* how politicians look upon anyone with money, particularly if said money is rather public (say, from the latest internet darling IPO).
The question I ask everyone who complains about 60Hz CRTs is: How do you do movie theaters? The 48Hz refresh there must be insanely painful.
Unfortunately, it would seem you left Econ 101 early, because the next part of that lesson describes the producer surplus and the social surplus. If the pizza place is looking to get $1/slice and can get $1.50, they have a producer surplus of $0.50. The social surplus (the benefit to all parties) is the sum of the two, $4. Now, let's say somehow you were made to pay $3 for the slice (the other pizza place closes so this one raises its price in response to the lack of competition). The seller was still willing to let it go for $1, so they now have a surplus of $2. You were willing to pay $5, and got it for $3, so a surplus of $2. Net surplus on your transaction was still $4. While there will be a net loss over all transactions (buyers willing to pay between $1.50 and $3 no longer buy pizza even though the transactions would produce a net social surplus), your particular transaction has not lost any net benefit; some of your benefit was simply transferred to the seller. On eBay in particular, where both parties in a transaction are usually private citizens, it is not even possible to demonize the seller as "big business" or some other perjorative unworthy of any surplus.
This is not to say that bidding up your own auctions isn't a crappy thing to do; basically the seller is trying to institute a reserve price without using the convenient feature provided for the purpose. Not being an eBay seller, I don't know if there is some sort of commission disincentive that causes people to resort to shilling rather than reserve prices, but seeing the amount of work involved and the danger of the shill account winning, there has to be some reason.
You seem to be somewhat misinformed yourself. Observe:
"My government has no business spying on my private life. The warrantless wiretap program is a blatant violation of the constitutional checks and balances. The installation of gunshot microphones is a mere stepping stone to a program to suppress public speech."
My door: intact. But I should not need to demonstrate this; just over the weekend there was a massive rally against the government right in front of the capital building. Protesters spray-painted their messages on the steps, for heaven's sake.
This is not to say that our freedoms are not in danger. It is important that all Americans act against restriction while we still can.
The difference between banking on a Univac and flying a spaceship with a radiation-hardened 386 is that improvements on the 386 aren't necessarily reflected in spaceship-flying performance, whereas improvements on the Univac show distinct benefits in banking. The laws of physics work just like they did the first time we put a shuttle in space; on the other hand, transaction volume and reporting complexity has increased tremendously since the first mechanical accounting machines. When we build a new shuttle with more complicated flight control requirements, we'll need new computers to fly it. Until then, there's really no sense screwing with the known-good system.
To head off the anticipated "but the shuttle is crap" argument, I'm not going to contradict that. As a reusable spacecraft, the shuttle is woefully obsolete and inappropriate for the task. We should have started designing and building a new one years ago. The limited capabilities of the shuttle have in turn led to some questionable design decisions on the ISS and limited development of out capability to do something other than go to LEO and come back. I'm just saying that if you're going to fly a space shuttle, the stock flight computer is all you need.
Actually, as a Libertarian, my preferred inflation-reducing scheme is to not print so much of the crap in the first place; ie, for the government to not run a debt. Not that I'm all against currency destruction; I think that traffic fines would be more reasonably enforced if they were required to be paid in cash and the cash were burned at the roadside rather than spent by the municipality.
Norway isn't asking Apple to take extra steps to interoperate with competitors' hardware, they're asking them to take less steps to prevent interoperability. There is a difference between dictating that the music be offered in an arbitrary codec and dictating that the music be offered in a form usable by a player supporting the codec that is used.
When I first tried Vista, it was running in a VM and there were serious problems with the Minesweep implementation, actually: It was difficult to distinguish the zero tiles from unexplored tiles, and there was significant lag. It ran much better when I moved to actual hardware, but you wouldn't think that emulation would cause that big a performance hit for something like that.
The subscription pays for the paper. The research and the researcher were paid for by your taxes (through the NSF and other funds), private foundations, and students everywhere (through tuition). These guys are scared that their services won't be needed anymore, like the French buttonmakers afraid of cloth buttons.
People. We've just been getting 'em back.
Intel, like all corporations, likes money. I see it far more likely for them to use the space for a few more K of L1 cache than to implement some secret doomsday circuit so that someone else can make money.
Worldwide supply of gasoline/mileage 10^6-1 miles ;)
The best return on investment is the source with the plant/supply pipeline already built, followed closely by the source without any sort of expensive permits or regulations.
I hear that. The number of times I've searched and the article titled with my exact search phrase comes in at 5th place astounds me. Of course, this is when search is actually working and they don't just redirect you to the 'try Google or Yahoo' page.
I was under the impression that most of the task for suspension bridge foundations was to maintain tension in the cables. Since most of the weight being held up by that tension is the road deck and the vehicles crossing the bridge, lighter cables don't seem like that much of a boon. If these cables are more resistant to degradation from, say, saltwater spray, though, that could be a useful property. Since it seems like they're made out of some kind of plastic they could be useful crossing bodies of saltwater.
Having watched HDTV (1080i) transcoded to Xvid (not off P2P; from a QAM tuner with HD cable service), it's definately not worth the filesize (something like 750MB/hr). It's just as fuzzy as a normal DVD rip. I mean, the HD signal is a definate improvement over SD, but in terms of compressed video there just isn't a point.