I worked for a company that got bought by a bigger company. We had an über programmer. He left because rather than exceptional pay, he wanted good enough pay and a small company style work life.
We then got in a pickle where some kernel mode drivers for NT4 needed to be revised and SoftICD'd in. Even though he doc'd everything and gave training to our programming staff about gotchas and pitfalls as well as maintenance, it was something that only about 100 people in the world could really do. All we could get done is a widely variating series of BSODs. We hired him back at $12K/day + travel for 5 days of work. He did work his ass off, further document everything, and provide additional spot training to our two brightest. The job was done and he had a check for $60K. I suspect that the training and docs took the vast majority of his time. I asked him why so much (and why MegaCorp would pay that) and he said it was simple. They were a big company not interested in paying him either in lifestyle changes or money so he didn't stay, but for a short job he charged what it was worth.
The free market did work. (considering his solution was cheaper than a contract with MS for the same work by $40K). -nB
"You can choose not to accept it, and pay the original authors compensation for your use, if you'd rather not follow the terms."
If they'll accept your money.
In this case I bet the answer would be "yes" but I can think of others where the answer most certainly would be "we don't want your money, use our software under the terms of the GPL or don't use it alt all". -nB
Your argument is deeply flawed. Hydrogen and Oxygen do have potential energy, but as water that energy has been expended, leaving the molecule at a lower energy state. There is already proof of concept for changing kinetic energy to electricity, the piazo-electric stuff the MIT guys put on the steps comes to mind. Heck, in a Rube Goldberg sort of way I could imagine the following: Large ship of large mass wants to capture angular momentum from small asteroid: Capture rock in net on long string as string unwinds it spins a flywheel at end of string release rock wheel string back with flywheel use remaining spin on flywheel (energy imparted by (string + rock) - energy used to wind back (string !rock)) to run generator. The only way I know of to burn water either uses pressure and heat we can not create, or requires more energy to be imparted to the reaction than is received back.
Angular momentum is energy. I for one am willing to assume that any technology capable of getting here in a short time span can also convert angular momentum to other usable energy. -nB
On a side note, some of the most secure locks are found on German cars (specifically Porsche and Mercedes Benz, don't know about BMW, but I would assume so). I don't know a lockpick that will work on an AMG SL65. Hotwiring is, of course an option, but a damn hard one. -nB
I think in Terri's case everything except BIOS was gone:/
[rant] It's a sad state when families become politicized such as hers. I understand there was a disagreement, but I don't feel it should have been given the breath and depth of media attention it got. Now, had it been a "special report" type of thing and not involved the 5 o'clock news *every* day that may have been appropriate, but as it turned out no one won, everyone thinks ill of one side of the family or the other, and as a collective whole, we were a bit more depressed than normal. [/rant] sorry 'bout that. I'll cork it now (but it still felt good to blow off that steam).
Any medical professionals care to share the feasability of brain-implants as a way of treating pain or other conditions not limited to the CNS, as TFA suggests the tech's use is for? IINADoctor, but rather I am a patient. I suffer from a condition called essential tremor. In a nutshell it is a kinetic based tremor, where the more precise I attempt to position my hands the more shaky I get (how's that for sucky). Parkinson's, on the other hand, is nearly the opposite, where tremors occur at rest.
Now, to the point. I can be given an implant into the hypo-thalamus(sp?) that when the electrode is active the tremors stop. Or I can be given ablation (burn away part of the thalamus) and the tremors go away forever. In either case they can only treat one half of my body as the success rates are pretty good. If they try to treat both sides of the body there is a likelihood (> 50%) that I will lose the power of speech.
Currently I've opted for drug therapy (propranolol or alcohol, depending on the environmental conditions. Propranolol works slower, less completely, and has worse side effects, but is safer and usable while driving, at work, etc.)
"However alas, if it were possible at all it would be too expensive to do."
It is possible, and it is expensive. L1 Cache is at core cpu speed. It is expensive.
Another way to do it, which you hinted at is interleaved memory. Not the same as dual channel DDR, but genuine interleaved memory. Tektronix does this for scope and logic analyzer acquisition memory. 100MHz sdrSRAM has the potential of 100Mbps/lane if you instead pipe the rising edge of the clock to one chip and the falling edge to another you get 200Mbps/lane, add quadrature clock and phase offsets and you can get 8 chips sharing a "single" clock giving you 800Mbps/lane. This is how the scopes ultimately achieve 10GHz sampling and waveform acquisition.
The catch? you go through gobs of memory, timing has to be perfect, and it costs a bundle. But, it is possible. -nB
Actually he's right. For my family, it is a losing proposition to pay for daycare. If we did not have a special needs kid* it would still be a push. Ultimately the plan will be for me to move over to a swing shift and stay at home days, while my wife works (once she finishes her MS). We are a family of two, and yes we have a couple luxuries, but not that many (no cable/satellite, no cell phone, no movies at the theater, infrequent dinner out, etc.)
In the case of a less educated couple I could easily see daycare for two children being vastly more than the income produced by a parent. Furthermore, you get what you pay for. cheap daycare is normally just babysitting in a group, as opposed to some measure of education, etc. So, a less skilled, but motivated parent (increasingly rare, I know) could provide better for their child by staying home. -nB
*my son has hemophilia, so no regular day care will take him. A day care with a RN on staff and a lower kid/adult ratio costs almost $450/week. Remind me again what jobs pay that much after taxes and still leave anything left over for food, rent, electricity?
What's so hard to believe? If they shot in front of a fixed color backdrop there are automated tools to overlay images (weather guy on the local news anyone?) Even if they didn't all a video is, is a series of still images shown in rapid succession. Sure it takes a while, but it is *very* doable. -nB
That's because Works is a shitty product, offering little, with a viable (superior) free replacement.
A free phone is more useful, even if it is ad supported. Add to that a browser and the Google touch and it's OK. As I said earlier, I would use this, while in the case of Works I'll stick with notepad. -nB
Still not pointless. I just canceled my phone two days ago because I use it so little that I ended up paying an average of $2.00+/minute. The current plan is a pre-paid phone, to be purchased when I next need a phone. If this ad supported phone comes out first then I'll get it. -nB
I would imagine similar to a non-activated phone still dialing 911, the google phone not blocking 911 calls with an ad. I'd likely get one, so long as that single criteria was met. -nB
bright side (cynically), if one of those girls parents then kills him they should expect (16/3)-x-y-z = (-6) years in prision. x - killing a bad guy (as opposed to an innocent like a child) y - obvious emotional distress of losing your child z - parole an average of 9 years early on murder
So there is the answer to your question. Sell OOo and Ubuntu*. $20 on the shelf ($10 wholesale, ~$5.00 cost). The devs get funding, the consumer gets exposed to good software that is inexpensive, the retailer gets a 100% markup. What's not to love? -nB
* one DVD can have both available, either independently or bundled, as needed.
Nothing, But id the user already has office (Either through MS HUP program or other means) then there is no good reason to replace it other than idealistic thinking. Very similar situation to why a home user should ditch XP on their computer for Ubuntu. Fact is, they shouldn't. For new installs I can give you loads of reasons, from cost, to legality, through idealism and security. -nB
Last time I went to a movie it was $8.50. I went and saw transformers the other day and nearly shit myself when I heard the price. Movies are *not* worth that much for me to see (to get out with my spouse on a date night with someone watching the kids, sure, but as value for a movie? no.)
On a side note last time we went to the movies my father in-law went with us. He has to carry a phone and when the door man gave him grief about leaving it on and it's internal camera, he soon learned about trying to tell a cop "you can't do that" as a fruitless exercise. Phone has to be on at all times, camera is integrated to allow for immediate (if low-res) shots of a crime scene or victim even before the official photographer can get there.
Look at the 360 and its propensity to scratch disks. Look at the average car usage (theft, heat, densely packed electronics, thus tight clearances in the head unit, accidents). I only use burned CDs in my cars.
I have a supply of mod chips, mostly used in my console repair business. In my heyday I made good side money repairing consoles that others tried to mod (without any clue how to solder). Some times the only way to bring a console back to life was the addition of a mod chip. I understand that the bulk of the use was for piracy, but there are other uses. I never specifically offered mods for sale (and now I'm glad I didn't), but I think this effort may have been a bit misguided. -nB
The irony of this, of course, is that HDMI/DVI is the last place that anyone would try to copy the stream, the bandwidth and data handling concerns are enormous, with SDI cards still costing $5K and HDMI I/O cards costing trivially more.
I mean ultimately I *could* put a logic analyzer with gobs of memory connected to a FC array and simply sniff the signals as they go to the DLP chip, then re-construct the image, but now you're talking terabytes of data for a full length movie. -nB
In fact, while I was in the camera business, I got people all the time bringing those Kodak Star cameras in to ask for film. When I explained why I had no film they would invariably ask how much it was worth so they could sell it. Whenever I said nothing they would get all pissed because they spent good money on the camera, and I would have to explain that they could still get a partial refund from Kodak, but no one would buy the camera because you can't get film.
Since Polaroid makes money from film (the cameras are loss leaders) I never understood why they didn't work out a deal with Kodak by which they (Pol) would make film and Kodak could continue making the cameras, but was enjoined from the film side (obviously Kodak would shortly quit making the cameras on their own). -nB
you can get 2 gigs on a single die, you can stack that die with a block storage controller in a single chip. In 10K unit quantities those sell for about $12-20 so since this is ASUS and Intel, I'm betting the price is closer to the $12 range and is a single TSOP48 chip, or the board may have 4 lands on it for 4 2gig chips and a separate controller, thus "modders" will be able to upgrade the machine for under $50 as a single 2Gig in a TSOP48 can now be had in the $8.00 range. -nB
Slashdot Mirror
We have them.
They are protecting us from Canada (the border patrol a governmental agency after all).
-nB
I worked for a company that got bought by a bigger company.
We had an über programmer. He left because rather than exceptional pay, he wanted good enough pay and a small company style work life.
We then got in a pickle where some kernel mode drivers for NT4 needed to be revised and SoftICD'd in. Even though he doc'd everything and gave training to our programming staff about gotchas and pitfalls as well as maintenance, it was something that only about 100 people in the world could really do. All we could get done is a widely variating series of BSODs. We hired him back at $12K/day + travel for 5 days of work. He did work his ass off, further document everything, and provide additional spot training to our two brightest. The job was done and he had a check for $60K. I suspect that the training and docs took the vast majority of his time. I asked him why so much (and why MegaCorp would pay that) and he said it was simple. They were a big company not interested in paying him either in lifestyle changes or money so he didn't stay, but for a short job he charged what it was worth.
The free market did work. (considering his solution was cheaper than a contract with MS for the same work by $40K).
-nB
"You can choose not to accept it, and pay the original authors compensation for your use, if you'd rather not follow the terms."
If they'll accept your money.
In this case I bet the answer would be "yes" but I can think of others where the answer most certainly would be "we don't want your money, use our software under the terms of the GPL or don't use it alt all".
-nB
Your argument is deeply flawed. Hydrogen and Oxygen do have potential energy, but as water that energy has been expended, leaving the molecule at a lower energy state. There is already proof of concept for changing kinetic energy to electricity, the piazo-electric stuff the MIT guys put on the steps comes to mind.
Heck, in a Rube Goldberg sort of way I could imagine the following:
Large ship of large mass wants to capture angular momentum from small asteroid:
Capture rock in net on long string
as string unwinds it spins a flywheel
at end of string release rock
wheel string back with flywheel
use remaining spin on flywheel (energy imparted by (string + rock) - energy used to wind back (string !rock)) to run generator.
The only way I know of to burn water either uses pressure and heat we can not create, or requires more energy to be imparted to the reaction than is received back.
-nB
Angular momentum is energy. I for one am willing to assume that any technology capable of getting here in a short time span can also convert angular momentum to other usable energy.
-nB
On a side note, some of the most secure locks are found on German cars (specifically Porsche and Mercedes Benz, don't know about BMW, but I would assume so). I don't know a lockpick that will work on an AMG SL65. Hotwiring is, of course an option, but a damn hard one.
-nB
I think in Terri's case everything except BIOS was gone :/
[rant]
It's a sad state when families become politicized such as hers. I understand there was a disagreement, but I don't feel it should have been given the breath and depth of media attention it got. Now, had it been a "special report" type of thing and not involved the 5 o'clock news *every* day that may have been appropriate, but as it turned out no one won, everyone thinks ill of one side of the family or the other, and as a collective whole, we were a bit more depressed than normal.
[/rant]
sorry 'bout that. I'll cork it now (but it still felt good to blow off that steam).
-nB
Now, to the point. I can be given an implant into the hypo-thalamus(sp?) that when the electrode is active the tremors stop. Or I can be given ablation (burn away part of the thalamus) and the tremors go away forever. In either case they can only treat one half of my body as the success rates are pretty good. If they try to treat both sides of the body there is a likelihood (> 50%) that I will lose the power of speech.
Currently I've opted for drug therapy (propranolol or alcohol, depending on the environmental conditions. Propranolol works slower, less completely, and has worse side effects, but is safer and usable while driving, at work, etc.)
Cheers,
-nB
"However alas, if it were possible at all it would be too expensive to do."
It is possible, and it is expensive.
L1 Cache is at core cpu speed. It is expensive.
Another way to do it, which you hinted at is interleaved memory. Not the same as dual channel DDR, but genuine interleaved memory.
Tektronix does this for scope and logic analyzer acquisition memory.
100MHz sdrSRAM has the potential of 100Mbps/lane if you instead pipe the rising edge of the clock to one chip and the falling edge to another you get 200Mbps/lane, add quadrature clock and phase offsets and you can get 8 chips sharing a "single" clock giving you 800Mbps/lane. This is how the scopes ultimately achieve 10GHz sampling and waveform acquisition.
The catch? you go through gobs of memory, timing has to be perfect, and it costs a bundle. But, it is possible.
-nB
Actually he's right.
For my family, it is a losing proposition to pay for daycare. If we did not have a special needs kid* it would still be a push.
Ultimately the plan will be for me to move over to a swing shift and stay at home days, while my wife works (once she finishes her MS). We are a family of two, and yes we have a couple luxuries, but not that many (no cable/satellite, no cell phone, no movies at the theater, infrequent dinner out, etc.)
In the case of a less educated couple I could easily see daycare for two children being vastly more than the income produced by a parent. Furthermore, you get what you pay for. cheap daycare is normally just babysitting in a group, as opposed to some measure of education, etc. So, a less skilled, but motivated parent (increasingly rare, I know) could provide better for their child by staying home.
-nB
*my son has hemophilia, so no regular day care will take him. A day care with a RN on staff and a lower kid/adult ratio costs almost $450/week. Remind me again what jobs pay that much after taxes and still leave anything left over for food, rent, electricity?
I had no idea how to spell it. I will forget again shortly :-)
Specifically do this at a farm auction. They are less forgiving than southbees (sp?).
-nB
What's so hard to believe?
If they shot in front of a fixed color backdrop there are automated tools to overlay images (weather guy on the local news anyone?)
Even if they didn't all a video is, is a series of still images shown in rapid succession.
Sure it takes a while, but it is *very* doable.
-nB
That's because Works is a shitty product, offering little, with a viable (superior) free replacement.
A free phone is more useful, even if it is ad supported. Add to that a browser and the Google touch and it's OK.
As I said earlier, I would use this, while in the case of Works I'll stick with notepad.
-nB
Still not pointless.
I just canceled my phone two days ago because I use it so little that I ended up paying an average of $2.00+/minute.
The current plan is a pre-paid phone, to be purchased when I next need a phone. If this ad supported phone comes out first then I'll get it.
-nB
I would imagine similar to a non-activated phone still dialing 911, the google phone not blocking 911 calls with an ad.
I'd likely get one, so long as that single criteria was met.
-nB
bright side (cynically), if one of those girls parents then kills him they should expect (16/3)-x-y-z = (-6) years in prision.
x - killing a bad guy (as opposed to an innocent like a child)
y - obvious emotional distress of losing your child
z - parole an average of 9 years early on murder
So there is the answer to your question.
Sell OOo and Ubuntu*. $20 on the shelf ($10 wholesale, ~$5.00 cost). The devs get funding, the consumer gets exposed to good software that is inexpensive, the retailer gets a 100% markup. What's not to love?
-nB
* one DVD can have both available, either independently or bundled, as needed.
Nothing,
But id the user already has office (Either through MS HUP program or other means) then there is no good reason to replace it other than idealistic thinking. Very similar situation to why a home user should ditch XP on their computer for Ubuntu. Fact is, they shouldn't. For new installs I can give you loads of reasons, from cost, to legality, through idealism and security.
-nB
Last time I went to a movie it was $8.50. I went and saw transformers the other day and nearly shit myself when I heard the price. Movies are *not* worth that much for me to see (to get out with my spouse on a date night with someone watching the kids, sure, but as value for a movie? no.)
On a side note last time we went to the movies my father in-law went with us. He has to carry a phone and when the door man gave him grief about leaving it on and it's internal camera, he soon learned about trying to tell a cop "you can't do that" as a fruitless exercise. Phone has to be on at all times, camera is integrated to allow for immediate (if low-res) shots of a crime scene or victim even before the official photographer can get there.
-nB
Doesn't do 1080p, thus is not on par with the SDI cards, but still impressive, and seeing as my TV and camera are 720p I think I may get one.
:-)
Gotta love the relentless march of technology
-nB
Look at the 360 and its propensity to scratch disks.
Look at the average car usage (theft, heat, densely packed electronics, thus tight clearances in the head unit, accidents). I only use burned CDs in my cars.
I have a supply of mod chips, mostly used in my console repair business. In my heyday I made good side money repairing consoles that others tried to mod (without any clue how to solder). Some times the only way to bring a console back to life was the addition of a mod chip. I understand that the bulk of the use was for piracy, but there are other uses. I never specifically offered mods for sale (and now I'm glad I didn't), but I think this effort may have been a bit misguided.
-nB
The irony of this, of course, is that HDMI/DVI is the last place that anyone would try to copy the stream, the bandwidth and data handling concerns are enormous, with SDI cards still costing $5K and HDMI I/O cards costing trivially more.
I mean ultimately I *could* put a logic analyzer with gobs of memory connected to a FC array and simply sniff the signals as they go to the DLP chip, then re-construct the image, but now you're talking terabytes of data for a full length movie.
-nB
In fact, while I was in the camera business, I got people all the time bringing those Kodak Star cameras in to ask for film. When I explained why I had no film they would invariably ask how much it was worth so they could sell it. Whenever I said nothing they would get all pissed because they spent good money on the camera, and I would have to explain that they could still get a partial refund from Kodak, but no one would buy the camera because you can't get film.
Since Polaroid makes money from film (the cameras are loss leaders) I never understood why they didn't work out a deal with Kodak by which they (Pol) would make film and Kodak could continue making the cameras, but was enjoined from the film side (obviously Kodak would shortly quit making the cameras on their own).
-nB
you can get 2 gigs on a single die, you can stack that die with a block storage controller in a single chip.
In 10K unit quantities those sell for about $12-20
so since this is ASUS and Intel, I'm betting the price is closer to the $12 range and is a single TSOP48 chip, or the board may have 4 lands on it for 4 2gig chips and a separate controller, thus "modders" will be able to upgrade the machine for under $50 as a single 2Gig in a TSOP48 can now be had in the $8.00 range.
-nB