sigh... It isn't that someone messed with the calendar. It's that the calendar was made during the transition time between the number 0 being discovered, and it's use in calculating the calendar. Thus there is an initial error in that a 1 was used when the calculations were started, and by the time they figured out that 2012 would be the end, they had started using 0. Unfortunately, they didn't go back and re run the numbers starting with the proper year 0.
Yes and no. Living in California is expensive. True. The upside is that for the most part, our pay scales are higher also. This means that if you can save 10% of your income for retirement her, it is dramatically more than saving 10% of your income in cheaper parts of the country. In the short run, there is no benefit, but when it is time to retire, Californians can move to the less expensive places in the country and live like kings because their modest California retirement is twice what the same % of savings would be in the retirement location.
I certainly have considered moving to a less expensive location, but that is a BIG decision. Moving out of CA is easy. Moving in frequently requires a period where you have to live like an illegal immigrant.
No. It is not. That is a myth. All of my C64, Atari 2600, SNES, NES, GENESIS, Vectrex, etc... Software runs just fine on Windows 7. My Windows XP software should run fine too.
It isn't trademarks or copyright that keeps him from mass producing most of his creations. It is that he doesn't design things to be mass produced. Look at most of his stuff. It is heavy on the CNC, and Heavy on having lots of parts. He makes money by producing art. Not for producing technology. The price of his services reflect that. He is like the painter that sells one off custom portraits at very high prices instead as opposed to the one that makes poster designed to sell thousands at a small price. There are plenty of companies that sell replacement cases for consoles, so that is obviously not the problem.
He has a niche business, and he does it amazingly well.
That would be pretty funny since he used a Sony disk changer for the mod. Not that that makes a legal difference, but it would be pretty funny listening to a Sony lawyer try to explain to a judge why hooking a Sony disk changer up to a Sony game console is a problem.
The 50 watt unit is a cheap $500 Gateway SX2802, It has Intel Core 2 Quad core, and GMA X4500 graphics. The previous one was an Athlon II X3 with an ATI video card. A 4950 if I remember correctly. The 200 watt unit was an Athlon something or other and an nVidia graphics. It's been 5 or 6 years, so I don't remember the specific models.
I didn't say that it NEVER makes sense to keep an old machine, but is less common than people think. Most of the things that would have been on cards in the past are built on the motherboard now, and programs that wont run on a faster machine are pretty few and far between. Generally, the situation you describe is on machines that have been hooked to some unusual hardware like special scientific equipment. It isn't generally an issue on desktops.
The difference is that a certain portion of the IT staff - the ones who train users on Microsoft's latest and greatest office suite - won't be required any more.
This is the kind of idea that will cause HUGE problems for businesses that buy into the cloud hype. How in the universe do you think that having the appli8cation hosted off site, will reduced in any way the need to train users on the software? That is just a bizarre statement. The only difference when it comes to training between an app hosted on site and one hosted on the 'cloud' is that the one on the cloud may get upgraded whether your trainers are ready to make the move or not. On site upgrades means that you can schedule your application changes, and can roll them out in a staggered fashion.
FAR more often than that that is absolutely correct. People don't sell used stuff for more than they buy it for. This is particularly true of consumables. Your sarcasm implies that you are the type that consider playing the lottery as an investment.
OK, I looked it up. The P4 is equivalent to the Atom. Some faster, some slower. But they are in the same league at a good cost savings for a lot of people, and we are talking about people who don't really care about speed. If speed is the issue, my Intel Q8300 tops out at 50 watts and is in a totally different class than the P4. So, whether a speed upgrade at a small savings, or staying the same speed for a larger savings, buying new equipment is what a lot of people should be doing if they want to spend the least amount of money.
240 - 120 = 120 watts x 24 hours = 2880 watt hours per day / 1000 = 2.88 kwh per day x $0.32/kwh = $0.9216/day x 550 days = $506.88. if you haven't upgraded in a couple of years, a $500 computer is going to be noticeably faster than anything you would have bought previously.
The numbers get even crazier if you are upgrading from something like a P4. A low end Atom will outpace a P4. I bought an Intel Atom based Acer Revo a couple of years ago for $300. The machine idles at 12 watts. It maxes out under full load at 20 watts. If you are running an old P4 that is pulling 240 watts, the calculation goes like this:
240 - 20 = 220 watts x 24 hours = 5280 watt hours per day / 1000 = 5.28 kwh per day x $0.32/kwh = $1.6896/day x 178 days = $300.75. That is less than 6 months to completely pay for the new computer.
Some users may not get a speed benefit. I'm just pointing out that Windows XP doesn't work just fine for many users and that the faster hardware and more memory do give the system greater capabilities. Claiming otherwise just isn't true. Just because a 600 square foot apartment works fine for some people doesn't mean that a lot of other people are not going to be far more comfortable moving into a 2400 square foot house.
You should also take into consideration that frequently buying a new computer that just happens to come with Windows 7 is cheaper than sticking with their existing system. There have been huge improvements in power requirements for newer systems. Each of my last two upgrades cost me less to buy the new computers than it would have cost to continue to run the older slower systems. Electricity costs money. So, even if there is no speed gain, there is often a financial gain to upgrading.
You personal attacks are ironic given that the used train market is not going to generally be selling used trains for MORE than what they cost new. As well as most trains won't be sold used. So, no. It doesn't take brain damage, ideological differences and American passport or Fox News. To come up with my statement because it is not easily disproved. There also isn't a secondary market for most of the supplies that go along with the trians, AND there is a secondary market for MMO artifacts as well.
The question is, are YOU trying to claim that more than 1% of the people with a model train hobby get more money out of the hobby than they put in? Perhaps you should look in the mirror before you start hurling insults.
The reason Windows doesn't run any faster on new hardware is because it is already running at full speed. Just as getting a faster hard drive won't make movies or music play faster on your computer. We are simply at the point that we are not waiting for the OS. Applications on the other hand are a different story. While many of them are already running at full speed, (MP3 and movie playing for example) many others run WAY faster on newer hardware. Ask the gamers. Re-encoding DVDs to be files that play on my media PC take a fraction of the time they used to. That media PC not only works at as a media PC, but also runs a full Domino server acting as a Web/Database/Email server in a Virtual machine. On top of that, I keep my Quicken in a VM on that system also so that I can access it from any system in the house without conflict.
XP could not handle what this system does effortlessly. If for no other reason than because the multiple VMs require more memory than what XP supports.
Frequently buying new hardware is cheaper than keeping the old stuff. The energy costs savings can frequently mean that buying a brand new computer is cheaper than running the old one. My last two upgrade cycles took me from 200 watts to 120 watts to 50 watts. Each time the system I replaced them with was dramatically more powerful than the one before it. I just watched a demo of Crysis running an an AtomD520. I haven't seen the power profile on it, but my Atom N270 runs at under 20 watts and would run circles around a P2 or K6.
Except that you don't count how long since the first release of software for support. You count how long since the LAST date it was sold. MS was still licensing the sale of XP in 2009. That makes XP 2 years old for anyone that bought a machine with it running at that time. It doesn't matter if a company has been selling a perticular version for 30 years. If they sold you a copy last week, and cut off support today, they are behaving badly and are worse than the company that was first sold 6 years ago, and guts off support after 5 years.
Is 2014 a fair cut off date? That is debatable, but claiming that it is 10+ years old is not valid.
You are still describing the problem with 99% of all hobbies. They are boring as hell to the people that are not into them. Heck, watching professional sports is 10 times worse. Not only are you someones bitch, you don't even DO anything. It is like playing a MMO without the quests. Again, I'm not saying that MMOs are not pointless wastes of time. I'm just saying that I have hobbies that are also pointless wastes of time, and I would suspect that you do also.
Not really. It is just as unlikely that someone who has model trains as a hobby will make money from the trains as it is that someone with a MMO as a hobby will make money from the MMO. 99 out of 100 hobbies are only an investment in entertainment. Often entertainment through long boring tasks.
For you and I, likely not. Just as there will likely never be a Beany Baby, or spoon collecting that is interesting enough. That is the thing about hobbies. They tend not to be interesting to people that don't have that hobby.
That isn't how you do it. You have a relatively low level person with access to information supply the fake information. You then have them spend the next year in a jail cell. I doubt it would be that hard to find someone that would willingly play the roll of the patsy.
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sigh... It isn't that someone messed with the calendar. It's that the calendar was made during the transition time between the number 0 being discovered, and it's use in calculating the calendar. Thus there is an initial error in that a 1 was used when the calculations were started, and by the time they figured out that 2012 would be the end, they had started using 0. Unfortunately, they didn't go back and re run the numbers starting with the proper year 0.
Don't they teach ANY history in school anymore?
It will only take decades if you deny usage patterns and the existence of math.
Residential.
Yes and no. Living in California is expensive. True. The upside is that for the most part, our pay scales are higher also. This means that if you can save 10% of your income for retirement her, it is dramatically more than saving 10% of your income in cheaper parts of the country. In the short run, there is no benefit, but when it is time to retire, Californians can move to the less expensive places in the country and live like kings because their modest California retirement is twice what the same % of savings would be in the retirement location.
I certainly have considered moving to a less expensive location, but that is a BIG decision. Moving out of CA is easy. Moving in frequently requires a period where you have to live like an illegal immigrant.
No. It is not. That is a myth. All of my C64, Atari 2600, SNES, NES, GENESIS, Vectrex, etc... Software runs just fine on Windows 7. My Windows XP software should run fine too.
It isn't trademarks or copyright that keeps him from mass producing most of his creations. It is that he doesn't design things to be mass produced. Look at most of his stuff. It is heavy on the CNC, and Heavy on having lots of parts. He makes money by producing art. Not for producing technology. The price of his services reflect that. He is like the painter that sells one off custom portraits at very high prices instead as opposed to the one that makes poster designed to sell thousands at a small price. There are plenty of companies that sell replacement cases for consoles, so that is obviously not the problem.
He has a niche business, and he does it amazingly well.
That would be pretty funny since he used a Sony disk changer for the mod. Not that that makes a legal difference, but it would be pretty funny listening to a Sony lawyer try to explain to a judge why hooking a Sony disk changer up to a Sony game console is a problem.
The 50 watt unit is a cheap $500 Gateway SX2802, It has Intel Core 2 Quad core, and GMA X4500 graphics. The previous one was an Athlon II X3 with an ATI video card. A 4950 if I remember correctly. The 200 watt unit was an Athlon something or other and an nVidia graphics. It's been 5 or 6 years, so I don't remember the specific models.
I didn't say that it NEVER makes sense to keep an old machine, but is less common than people think. Most of the things that would have been on cards in the past are built on the motherboard now, and programs that wont run on a faster machine are pretty few and far between. Generally, the situation you describe is on machines that have been hooked to some unusual hardware like special scientific equipment. It isn't generally an issue on desktops.
The difference is that a certain portion of the IT staff - the ones who train users on Microsoft's latest and greatest office suite - won't be required any more.
This is the kind of idea that will cause HUGE problems for businesses that buy into the cloud hype. How in the universe do you think that having the appli8cation hosted off site, will reduced in any way the need to train users on the software? That is just a bizarre statement. The only difference when it comes to training between an app hosted on site and one hosted on the 'cloud' is that the one on the cloud may get upgraded whether your trainers are ready to make the move or not. On site upgrades means that you can schedule your application changes, and can roll them out in a staggered fashion.
FAR more often than that that is absolutely correct. People don't sell used stuff for more than they buy it for. This is particularly true of consumables. Your sarcasm implies that you are the type that consider playing the lottery as an investment.
OK, I looked it up. The P4 is equivalent to the Atom. Some faster, some slower. But they are in the same league at a good cost savings for a lot of people, and we are talking about people who don't really care about speed. If speed is the issue, my Intel Q8300 tops out at 50 watts and is in a totally different class than the P4. So, whether a speed upgrade at a small savings, or staying the same speed for a larger savings, buying new equipment is what a lot of people should be doing if they want to spend the least amount of money.
California. The first 300 kwh are $0.12. The next 100 kwh are $0.14 after that 400-600 kwh is $0.29, then you hit $0.32, $0.37, $0.42...
Even at $0.09/kwh the math still works out.
240 - 120 = 120 watts x 24 hours = 2880 watt hours per day / 1000 = 2.88 kwh per day x $0.32/kwh = $0.9216/day x 550 days = $506.88. if you haven't upgraded in a couple of years, a $500 computer is going to be noticeably faster than anything you would have bought previously.
The numbers get even crazier if you are upgrading from something like a P4. A low end Atom will outpace a P4. I bought an Intel Atom based Acer Revo a couple of years ago for $300. The machine idles at 12 watts. It maxes out under full load at 20 watts. If you are running an old P4 that is pulling 240 watts, the calculation goes like this:
240 - 20 = 220 watts x 24 hours = 5280 watt hours per day / 1000 = 5.28 kwh per day x $0.32/kwh = $1.6896/day x 178 days = $300.75. That is less than 6 months to completely pay for the new computer.
Some users may not get a speed benefit. I'm just pointing out that Windows XP doesn't work just fine for many users and that the faster hardware and more memory do give the system greater capabilities. Claiming otherwise just isn't true. Just because a 600 square foot apartment works fine for some people doesn't mean that a lot of other people are not going to be far more comfortable moving into a 2400 square foot house.
You should also take into consideration that frequently buying a new computer that just happens to come with Windows 7 is cheaper than sticking with their existing system. There have been huge improvements in power requirements for newer systems. Each of my last two upgrades cost me less to buy the new computers than it would have cost to continue to run the older slower systems. Electricity costs money. So, even if there is no speed gain, there is often a financial gain to upgrading.
You personal attacks are ironic given that the used train market is not going to generally be selling used trains for MORE than what they cost new. As well as most trains won't be sold used. So, no. It doesn't take brain damage, ideological differences and American passport or Fox News. To come up with my statement because it is not easily disproved. There also isn't a secondary market for most of the supplies that go along with the trians, AND there is a secondary market for MMO artifacts as well.
The question is, are YOU trying to claim that more than 1% of the people with a model train hobby get more money out of the hobby than they put in? Perhaps you should look in the mirror before you start hurling insults.
You don't count the length of support from the time the software was release. You count it from the last time MS was selling it.
The reason Windows doesn't run any faster on new hardware is because it is already running at full speed. Just as getting a faster hard drive won't make movies or music play faster on your computer. We are simply at the point that we are not waiting for the OS. Applications on the other hand are a different story. While many of them are already running at full speed, (MP3 and movie playing for example) many others run WAY faster on newer hardware. Ask the gamers. Re-encoding DVDs to be files that play on my media PC take a fraction of the time they used to. That media PC not only works at as a media PC, but also runs a full Domino server acting as a Web/Database/Email server in a Virtual machine. On top of that, I keep my Quicken in a VM on that system also so that I can access it from any system in the house without conflict.
XP could not handle what this system does effortlessly. If for no other reason than because the multiple VMs require more memory than what XP supports.
Frequently buying new hardware is cheaper than keeping the old stuff. The energy costs savings can frequently mean that buying a brand new computer is cheaper than running the old one. My last two upgrade cycles took me from 200 watts to 120 watts to 50 watts. Each time the system I replaced them with was dramatically more powerful than the one before it. I just watched a demo of Crysis running an an AtomD520. I haven't seen the power profile on it, but my Atom N270 runs at under 20 watts and would run circles around a P2 or K6.
Except that you don't count how long since the first release of software for support. You count how long since the LAST date it was sold. MS was still licensing the sale of XP in 2009. That makes XP 2 years old for anyone that bought a machine with it running at that time. It doesn't matter if a company has been selling a perticular version for 30 years. If they sold you a copy last week, and cut off support today, they are behaving badly and are worse than the company that was first sold 6 years ago, and guts off support after 5 years.
Is 2014 a fair cut off date? That is debatable, but claiming that it is 10+ years old is not valid.
You are still describing the problem with 99% of all hobbies. They are boring as hell to the people that are not into them. Heck, watching professional sports is 10 times worse. Not only are you someones bitch, you don't even DO anything. It is like playing a MMO without the quests. Again, I'm not saying that MMOs are not pointless wastes of time. I'm just saying that I have hobbies that are also pointless wastes of time, and I would suspect that you do also.
Not really. It is just as unlikely that someone who has model trains as a hobby will make money from the trains as it is that someone with a MMO as a hobby will make money from the MMO. 99 out of 100 hobbies are only an investment in entertainment. Often entertainment through long boring tasks.
For you and I, likely not. Just as there will likely never be a Beany Baby, or spoon collecting that is interesting enough. That is the thing about hobbies. They tend not to be interesting to people that don't have that hobby.
Uhhh....Did you miss that this thread is about WikiLeaks?
That isn't how you do it. You have a relatively low level person with access to information supply the fake information. You then have them spend the next year in a jail cell. I doubt it would be that hard to find someone that would willingly play the roll of the patsy.