I don't think single player is any more valuable than multiplayer. The ridiculous amount of time spent by the population on Call of Duty is a good indicator of this.
I would also say that games like Mario Kart, WiiPlay and the various Rock Band titles have given me and my family significantly more than 20 hours of play-person-hours.
All of my company's documentation is provided online. It's an internet company, it makes sense to do that.
However, the real problem is that highly technical people (and beancounters) skimp on people like you and we get really shitty documentation. I use easily 15-20% of my time dealing with issues that are undocumented/poorly documented. Many customers demand good documentation and unfortunately that's one of the first places that technical companies like to cut.
From what little I know about these companies, I would prefer if they actually passed the savings on to their employees, with higher wages or better hours.
$60 (or $40 for an older game) for 20 hours of gameplay is pretty good $/hour of entertainment.
If everyone used condoms all the time, we also wouldn't have that other problem of reproducing. We could solve a lot of problems if we just let all the humans expire. I figure it would take about 75 years or so.
There are a number of gypsy cabs in NYC. They are usually black, and are more in the style of a town car than a traditional cab. They're harder to find if you're not looking, but frequently pull up on a busy/rainy night when you are trying to hail a legitimate cab. They generally charge more than the yellow cabs, and many people see them as unsafe, so they don't use them. It's not the most straightforward market, but what underground market is?
For clarification, these cabs are not licensed, and they operate outside of the authority of the rest of the cabs.
Yeah, the AT&T Communication Manager is a rough install. I recently got a Intel SSD and had to install it. What a nightmare. Easily 10 minutes on a new install of Windows 7 on a recent Thinkpad. I have no idea what was taking so long with the install, but eventually it completed.
Once the software is loaded, however, it seems to be pretty stable and lightweight.
I think the best comparison would be something like a mall, or a big department store. While I'm on private property, shopping in their facility, I expect to be monitored. Conceivably, they can observe my every move, notice that I try on some pants, then send me a notice next time those pants go on sale. Pretty creepy, yes, but useful for both entities. This also assumes that they can identify that this is me as opposed to "shopper #1". I expect stores to collect information like: "people are stopping and looking at this display with lots of bright colors."
I think we need to consider browsing a webpage on a domain as similar as being on someone's private property. How is this different from a company monitoring that this page gets more click-throughs than that page? Monitoring what is being selected allows them to see what the really interesting parts of the story are.
I explicitly reject that such monitoring is immoral.
Good points all around, especially legally speaking.
Considering you've correctly evaluated that the legal argument is bunk, would you consider that it's not actually hurting the end user?
Someone knowing that you're copying text and analyzing that is not actually preventing your fair use of the content. They are also not demanding payment for this content, so what is the end user concern?
I don't understand what the big deal is. I'm stealing someone's content to quote verbatim in an email, or something like that, they have the right to know they're being quoted. Maybe not the "right", but they should have the ability.
I also like that it recently added the trackback URL below the text I was copying. This is something I usually do when I send a quote to someone, and this saved me step. Pretty cool feature, if you ask me. I could see how it would be annoying, but it can also be handy.
Read the article -- they state that the debate over tiered pricing is over. The ISP will be implementing tiered pricing. The new debate is over how much can the government involve themselves in the matters of maintaining a network.
And the problem with putting non-techies in charge of tech companies, concludes Lyons, is that they have blind spots
I don't think this is necessarily true. A company like Cisco has done great things with a business guy (Chambers) in charge. He probably gets it better than Ballmer, but he's proof that a business guy can be a good CEO of a technology company.
For Microsoft, it's both - Software and Company. They create software and they are a profit machine. I don't think that having Ballmer or Gates at the helm is really driving either culture.
I am not 100% sure (I'm not a big book reader, I mostly read the news on the web) but this is a complaint I hear frequently from my family.
My best guess is that flipping pages gives you:
1. Concrete evidence that you have accomplished something. There are pages behind you, and pages to go.
2. The concept discrete parts. This page has words on it and it is easy to remember where words were on this page, which ties the words to memory. If the page is constantly scrolling up and down, it makes it harder to remember where something was.
This is kind of like the equivalent of a CD Burner for the early MP3 days. If they can shrink this to a normal printer size and sell it for $100, I think they're in business. Of course, that doesn't appear to be the business they want to be in (nor does it seem technically possible with the technology they're using).
I don't think this will be nearly as widespread as music pirating. The reason is because with music, the medium changed, but the experience didn't change for enjoying it. Years ago, before iPods were really popular, and MP3s were still being pirated widely, people would routinely burn CDs and listen to them on their CD players, portable or otherwise. Once the iPod revolution came about, people actually started taking their CDs and moving them to MP3s, to listen to them on their MP3 device. Put another way, there was an easy translation ability from the new way to the old way.
Books, on the other hand, for the next 10 years (at least) will still predominantly be read on actual paper and not on e-books. Further, people can't take an e-book illegally downloaded and turn it into a real paper book, like you could with CDs. Until ebooks can recreate the experience of flipping pages, and bookmarking a physical part of the book, they probably will never get people to completely switch. The physical part of a book is an important experience. The physical part of music (swapping disks, repairing scratches, rewinding tapes) is nothing more than a hassle.
CSA is actually probably Cisco Security Agent, although a lot of schools have been calling it Client Security Agent. It's a rather innocuous program that scans for virus' and the like. Unfortunately, the realities of networks today means that there's a lot of uneducated users on it - spreading legitimate filth, like virus' and malware because they were never trained properly in how to use a computer. The school has taken a very legitimate stance here: "When you plug your computer into my network, we reserve the right to make sure you're not an idiot." Does it suck compared to your parents internet? Yeah, probably, it's going to be more restrictive. However, it's less restrictive than most corporations and you should be grateful that they're not doing ridiculous things like banning Gmail or BitTorrent, like some companies do. When they do stuff like that, it's time to organize a student rally.
I don't understand why you would go with a Quad Core. If you're looking to trim costs, get a Core 2 Duo and overclock the hell out of it. Spend your money on a better graphics card if it's for gaming. I have a quad core and it really only gets utilized for video encoding.
I live in NJ, close to NYC and take the train whenever I go into NYC. This is because parking is a nightmare in NYC, the train is usually faster and I'm usually going to have a few drinks in NYC.
I work in NJ, I drive a few days a week (part time telecommuter). Here's the math:
Car Insurance Cost: $100/month
Gas Mileage: ~24MPG
Round trip to work: 45 miles
Commute time: 30-40 minutes, depending on traffic
Assuming about $2.50 for gas, which is above what I'm currently paying, I figure it costs me 1.875 gallons, or $4.68, plus insurance and maintenance. I have an older car, so let's say maintenance costs about $100 a month, or $1200 a year. This seems high. I drive to work 3 times a day for 48 weeks, or 144 times. For a years worth of driving, this is $3073.92. Not surprisingly the gas is only $600, the other $2400 is insurance and maintenance.
The train is a different story. The train starts right next to my apartment (3 blocks) and drops me off at work (about a 5 minute walk). One of the biggest problems is that I have to transfer, making the ride kind of a nightmare that doesn't allow for a peaceful ride.
Cost of round trip ticket: $13.25
One-Way Time: 55-70 minutes, depending on time of day - rush hour trains are faster.
Train frequency: every 45-60 minutes
If I lived in a perfect world, I could ditch my car and take the train every day (let's ignore that I like to use the car for weekend trips). So I wouldn't have to pay for maintenance or insurance - awesome! I would have to buy train tickets, a whopping $1908 worth of them (13.25 x 144 trips). This means that I'm saving $1000 a year taking the train.
So why don't I take the train? The commute time. I would waste, on average, 40-60 minutes a day taking the train.* Let's assume I value my time, even a little bit, at $10/hour. This is another $1440 a year that I would be "spending" in terms of time. All of a sudden, driving doesn't look that bad.
*For those of you who say that I can get work done on the train or other such non-sense, you need to actually take the train to understand. It's broken up by a transfer so I can barely get my laptop open on the 55 minute trip before I have to move - it turns out to not be worth it. I've found the train slightly more relaxing than driving and usually bring a book. However, I'm also fairly relaxed in my car, listening to music. Finally, in the car I can be on conference calls or personal calls and not feel like I am being rude to those around me. At best, the comfort level of the train is equal to that of my car.
Higher speeds, same tricks. I had 30 Mbps service and was guaranteed 512 Kbps - or 1/58th of the "up to speeds." You had 768 Kbps and were guaranteed 16 Kbps - or 1/48th of the "up to speeds."
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I don't think single player is any more valuable than multiplayer. The ridiculous amount of time spent by the population on Call of Duty is a good indicator of this.
I would also say that games like Mario Kart, WiiPlay and the various Rock Band titles have given me and my family significantly more than 20 hours of play-person-hours.
All of my company's documentation is provided online. It's an internet company, it makes sense to do that.
However, the real problem is that highly technical people (and beancounters) skimp on people like you and we get really shitty documentation. I use easily 15-20% of my time dealing with issues that are undocumented/poorly documented. Many customers demand good documentation and unfortunately that's one of the first places that technical companies like to cut.
From what little I know about these companies, I would prefer if they actually passed the savings on to their employees, with higher wages or better hours.
$60 (or $40 for an older game) for 20 hours of gameplay is pretty good $/hour of entertainment.
If everyone used condoms all the time, we also wouldn't have that other problem of reproducing. We could solve a lot of problems if we just let all the humans expire. I figure it would take about 75 years or so.
There are a number of gypsy cabs in NYC. They are usually black, and are more in the style of a town car than a traditional cab. They're harder to find if you're not looking, but frequently pull up on a busy/rainy night when you are trying to hail a legitimate cab. They generally charge more than the yellow cabs, and many people see them as unsafe, so they don't use them. It's not the most straightforward market, but what underground market is?
For clarification, these cabs are not licensed, and they operate outside of the authority of the rest of the cabs.
You're comparing a switch backplane vs. a router line rate capability
How many Watts will it take your 48xGE switch to route at 10Gbps?
CRS-3 runs IOS XR, not IOS. Grandparent is correct.
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Yeah, the AT&T Communication Manager is a rough install. I recently got a Intel SSD and had to install it. What a nightmare. Easily 10 minutes on a new install of Windows 7 on a recent Thinkpad. I have no idea what was taking so long with the install, but eventually it completed. Once the software is loaded, however, it seems to be pretty stable and lightweight.
I think the best comparison would be something like a mall, or a big department store. While I'm on private property, shopping in their facility, I expect to be monitored. Conceivably, they can observe my every move, notice that I try on some pants, then send me a notice next time those pants go on sale. Pretty creepy, yes, but useful for both entities. This also assumes that they can identify that this is me as opposed to "shopper #1". I expect stores to collect information like: "people are stopping and looking at this display with lots of bright colors."
I think we need to consider browsing a webpage on a domain as similar as being on someone's private property. How is this different from a company monitoring that this page gets more click-throughs than that page? Monitoring what is being selected allows them to see what the really interesting parts of the story are.
I explicitly reject that such monitoring is immoral.
Good points all around, especially legally speaking.
Considering you've correctly evaluated that the legal argument is bunk, would you consider that it's not actually hurting the end user?
Someone knowing that you're copying text and analyzing that is not actually preventing your fair use of the content. They are also not demanding payment for this content, so what is the end user concern?
I don't understand what the big deal is. I'm stealing someone's content to quote verbatim in an email, or something like that, they have the right to know they're being quoted. Maybe not the "right", but they should have the ability.
I also like that it recently added the trackback URL below the text I was copying. This is something I usually do when I send a quote to someone, and this saved me step. Pretty cool feature, if you ask me. I could see how it would be annoying, but it can also be handy.
Read the article -- they state that the debate over tiered pricing is over. The ISP will be implementing tiered pricing. The new debate is over how much can the government involve themselves in the matters of maintaining a network.
And I wish that the Internet were as simple as Electricity. Looks like we're both not getting what we want this Christmas.
And the problem with putting non-techies in charge of tech companies, concludes Lyons, is that they have blind spots
I don't think this is necessarily true. A company like Cisco has done great things with a business guy (Chambers) in charge. He probably gets it better than Ballmer, but he's proof that a business guy can be a good CEO of a technology company.
For Microsoft, it's both - Software and Company. They create software and they are a profit machine. I don't think that having Ballmer or Gates at the helm is really driving either culture.
You mean something like this? Cisco Building Mediator.
I am not 100% sure (I'm not a big book reader, I mostly read the news on the web) but this is a complaint I hear frequently from my family.
My best guess is that flipping pages gives you:
1. Concrete evidence that you have accomplished something. There are pages behind you, and pages to go.
2. The concept discrete parts. This page has words on it and it is easy to remember where words were on this page, which ties the words to memory. If the page is constantly scrolling up and down, it makes it harder to remember where something was.
Now maybe not, but I think this will change a lot in the future. http://www.ondemandbooks.com/home.htm
This is kind of like the equivalent of a CD Burner for the early MP3 days. If they can shrink this to a normal printer size and sell it for $100, I think they're in business. Of course, that doesn't appear to be the business they want to be in (nor does it seem technically possible with the technology they're using).
I don't think this will be nearly as widespread as music pirating. The reason is because with music, the medium changed, but the experience didn't change for enjoying it. Years ago, before iPods were really popular, and MP3s were still being pirated widely, people would routinely burn CDs and listen to them on their CD players, portable or otherwise. Once the iPod revolution came about, people actually started taking their CDs and moving them to MP3s, to listen to them on their MP3 device. Put another way, there was an easy translation ability from the new way to the old way.
Books, on the other hand, for the next 10 years (at least) will still predominantly be read on actual paper and not on e-books. Further, people can't take an e-book illegally downloaded and turn it into a real paper book, like you could with CDs. Until ebooks can recreate the experience of flipping pages, and bookmarking a physical part of the book, they probably will never get people to completely switch. The physical part of a book is an important experience. The physical part of music (swapping disks, repairing scratches, rewinding tapes) is nothing more than a hassle.
CSA is actually probably Cisco Security Agent, although a lot of schools have been calling it Client Security Agent. It's a rather innocuous program that scans for virus' and the like. Unfortunately, the realities of networks today means that there's a lot of uneducated users on it - spreading legitimate filth, like virus' and malware because they were never trained properly in how to use a computer. The school has taken a very legitimate stance here: "When you plug your computer into my network, we reserve the right to make sure you're not an idiot." Does it suck compared to your parents internet? Yeah, probably, it's going to be more restrictive. However, it's less restrictive than most corporations and you should be grateful that they're not doing ridiculous things like banning Gmail or BitTorrent, like some companies do. When they do stuff like that, it's time to organize a student rally.
Can you grab the few volts of electricity off of the line that the phone company is sending you for free?
I don't understand why you would go with a Quad Core. If you're looking to trim costs, get a Core 2 Duo and overclock the hell out of it. Spend your money on a better graphics card if it's for gaming. I have a quad core and it really only gets utilized for video encoding.
I live in NJ, close to NYC and take the train whenever I go into NYC. This is because parking is a nightmare in NYC, the train is usually faster and I'm usually going to have a few drinks in NYC.
I work in NJ, I drive a few days a week (part time telecommuter). Here's the math:
Car Insurance Cost: $100/month
Gas Mileage: ~24MPG
Round trip to work: 45 miles
Commute time: 30-40 minutes, depending on traffic
Assuming about $2.50 for gas, which is above what I'm currently paying, I figure it costs me 1.875 gallons, or $4.68, plus insurance and maintenance. I have an older car, so let's say maintenance costs about $100 a month, or $1200 a year. This seems high. I drive to work 3 times a day for 48 weeks, or 144 times. For a years worth of driving, this is $3073.92. Not surprisingly the gas is only $600, the other $2400 is insurance and maintenance.
The train is a different story. The train starts right next to my apartment (3 blocks) and drops me off at work (about a 5 minute walk). One of the biggest problems is that I have to transfer, making the ride kind of a nightmare that doesn't allow for a peaceful ride.
Cost of round trip ticket: $13.25
One-Way Time: 55-70 minutes, depending on time of day - rush hour trains are faster.
Train frequency: every 45-60 minutes
If I lived in a perfect world, I could ditch my car and take the train every day (let's ignore that I like to use the car for weekend trips). So I wouldn't have to pay for maintenance or insurance - awesome! I would have to buy train tickets, a whopping $1908 worth of them (13.25 x 144 trips). This means that I'm saving $1000 a year taking the train.
So why don't I take the train? The commute time. I would waste, on average, 40-60 minutes a day taking the train.* Let's assume I value my time, even a little bit, at $10/hour. This is another $1440 a year that I would be "spending" in terms of time. All of a sudden, driving doesn't look that bad.
*For those of you who say that I can get work done on the train or other such non-sense, you need to actually take the train to understand. It's broken up by a transfer so I can barely get my laptop open on the 55 minute trip before I have to move - it turns out to not be worth it. I've found the train slightly more relaxing than driving and usually bring a book. However, I'm also fairly relaxed in my car, listening to music. Finally, in the car I can be on conference calls or personal calls and not feel like I am being rude to those around me. At best, the comfort level of the train is equal to that of my car.
One word answer: Unions.
Higher speeds, same tricks. I had 30 Mbps service and was guaranteed 512 Kbps - or 1/58th of the "up to speeds." You had 768 Kbps and were guaranteed 16 Kbps - or 1/48th of the "up to speeds."