I'm going to release an app of my own titled "Cathector has a number of friends in SF" - the app is just advertising for someone's point of view, and is using apple's app search as cheap forced advertising.
The app was named that way as advertising of their point of view. I don't think people searching for "cure" should be subjected to such blatant advertising via app name.
Just because a majority believe something, doesn't make it right. A majority of people in the US seem to believe in deities (I could be wrong as athiests don't advertise as much as theists and could be under-represented), and a majority of white landowners in the south used to believe slavery was fine.
Hardocp.com has very in-depth power supply reviews where they not only test efficiency at ideal temps, but they also test efficiency in a heated environment -- which may be the case if your PSU is running at high loads. I'm not sure about the 20% usage efficiencies though.
So are you willing to pay at least 2x the current going rate for electricity, and force your neighbors to do so as well? I figure as more natural resources get consumed, nations will eventually have to do as you say, but we haven't reached that point yet.
So how strong is strong enough? Suppose for each level of magnitude for the reactor to withstand involves a 10x cost. Would you design a magnitude 12 reactor for 10,000x the cost just so the current situation would never occur? What if the next earthquake was mag 13? What if the next Tsunami is 100 ft tall? There is a point where if they cost too much money, the reactors wouldn't have been made and then what? They just do without electricity?
That's very easy to say in hindsight. As in the 9/11 disaster, this was an unprecedented failure, but right now, there are more fault tolerant gravity-fed cooling designs. What you need to realize with over-designing, is that it involves increased costs. You have to determine the increased costs verses the odds and results of any foreseeable disasters. Maybe back in the 70s, they didn't have enough spare cash to throw around? Or maybe they were just gambling? Who knows.
If it makes said network actually accessible when before it was not, then it seems rather world-changing. I'll agree that without the internet, the smart-phones would be much less useful.
How does the content make it's way to each local data center? Do they rip it on site at each location or do they do so once and send it to the other locations? Do you think they use their own direct links, or do they use oh, the internet?
Maybe that would work if you have huge wall sized tables, and nothing blocking the sun like trees, other buildings, or your own roof. For most people it wouldn't work so well, and the cost effectiveness break-even point is sure to be laughable.
You make the assumption that even one of those competing services is any better than than the company he is advised to leave. Having a choice between equally bad providers is not especially useful.
For $300, at Microcenter, I picked up both a 2500K i5 (quad core) and a good ASUS motherboard. Then I used the windows based overclocking software for easy 4.4GHz overclocks on demand. Most of the time the computer idles at 2.somethng GHz at reduced voltage to save on electricity.
I think you've misread the parent. Basically, you can't trust the vendors to have actually solved the database problems as they'll say anything for their "fat commission checks" on any upgrades.
The only real way to check for stripped screws is to test the torque on every single screw. Do you really suggest that QA should do that? They'd probably cause more failures checking screw torque than they would ever catch.
You've obviously never repaired someone's compaq laptop that had the cpu heatsink come lose because it was screwed down to nuts that were soldered to the top of the motherboard -- in essence, the heatsink was attached via solder! and this was on a laptop - a machine that would get jarred around quite a bit.
I think the problem comes from the word cheap. It has two connotations-- inexpensive and low quality. I agree that "cheap" labor isn't automatically inferior -- it would be quite easy to hire some expensive poor workers in America and also have it assembled incorrectly. As for the article, stripping screws happens, and other than tossing the part, what can a worker really do to fix it? Often there is enough redundancy in the design that it doesn't matter.
You're absolutely right. I demand that in the interests of political correctness, and stories relating to Chinese hackers have the words Chinese and hacker removed. Who cares if people are less informed because we are dropping pertinent information. Really, who cares. It's not like this is some sort of racial snub. I suppose it's only a matter of time before this happens to other 3rd party app markets.
That's what I was thinking as well. Even as a tech, I expect there to be poorly written apps that claim to need more permissions than they actually need. I don't expect average users to be any more prudent or knowledgeable.
You appear to be arguing that the majority of the population should buy iphones if they want a smart phone. Or maybe you have more faith in your fellow humanity than i do.
Much like many windows viruses/trojans, it would be fairly easy to put instructions on a web page showing the steps to disable your phones security to install your app if the user is desperate enough for your apps supposed functionality.
I've found people are far too trusting of dubious sites. Occasionally I'll clean someone's virus infested computer, and the majority of them have Limewire installed. Apparently they have no problem trusting software that's main purpose in life is downloading illegal songs. The same also goes for politics and people blindly trusting those who claim to have similar beliefs.
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I'm going to release an app of my own titled "Cathector has a number of friends in SF" - the app is just advertising for someone's point of view, and is using apple's app search as cheap forced advertising.
The app was named that way as advertising of their point of view. I don't think people searching for "cure" should be subjected to such blatant advertising via app name.
Just because a majority believe something, doesn't make it right. A majority of people in the US seem to believe in deities (I could be wrong as athiests don't advertise as much as theists and could be under-represented), and a majority of white landowners in the south used to believe slavery was fine.
Hardocp.com has very in-depth power supply reviews where they not only test efficiency at ideal temps, but they also test efficiency in a heated environment -- which may be the case if your PSU is running at high loads. I'm not sure about the 20% usage efficiencies though.
So are you willing to pay at least 2x the current going rate for electricity, and force your neighbors to do so as well? I figure as more natural resources get consumed, nations will eventually have to do as you say, but we haven't reached that point yet.
So how strong is strong enough? Suppose for each level of magnitude for the reactor to withstand involves a 10x cost. Would you design a magnitude 12 reactor for 10,000x the cost just so the current situation would never occur? What if the next earthquake was mag 13? What if the next Tsunami is 100 ft tall? There is a point where if they cost too much money, the reactors wouldn't have been made and then what? They just do without electricity?
That's very easy to say in hindsight. As in the 9/11 disaster, this was an unprecedented failure, but right now, there are more fault tolerant gravity-fed cooling designs. What you need to realize with over-designing, is that it involves increased costs. You have to determine the increased costs verses the odds and results of any foreseeable disasters. Maybe back in the 70s, they didn't have enough spare cash to throw around? Or maybe they were just gambling? Who knows.
Have you seen Warhol's movies? They are amazingly bad, if subjectively artsy.
If it makes said network actually accessible when before it was not, then it seems rather world-changing. I'll agree that without the internet, the smart-phones would be much less useful.
I suppose you've never wasted any time ever in your entire life. Oh wait, the post you just made seems less than useful.
How does the content make it's way to each local data center? Do they rip it on site at each location or do they do so once and send it to the other locations? Do you think they use their own direct links, or do they use oh, the internet?
Maybe that would work if you have huge wall sized tables, and nothing blocking the sun like trees, other buildings, or your own roof. For most people it wouldn't work so well, and the cost effectiveness break-even point is sure to be laughable.
You make the assumption that even one of those competing services is any better than than the company he is advised to leave. Having a choice between equally bad providers is not especially useful.
That's a rather lengthy and well thought-out list. I can't help but wonder if it's really true, or you're joking.
For $300, at Microcenter, I picked up both a 2500K i5 (quad core) and a good ASUS motherboard. Then I used the windows based overclocking software for easy 4.4GHz overclocks on demand. Most of the time the computer idles at 2.somethng GHz at reduced voltage to save on electricity.
I think you've misread the parent. Basically, you can't trust the vendors to have actually solved the database problems as they'll say anything for their "fat commission checks" on any upgrades.
The only real way to check for stripped screws is to test the torque on every single screw. Do you really suggest that QA should do that? They'd probably cause more failures checking screw torque than they would ever catch.
You've obviously never repaired someone's compaq laptop that had the cpu heatsink come lose because it was screwed down to nuts that were soldered to the top of the motherboard -- in essence, the heatsink was attached via solder! and this was on a laptop - a machine that would get jarred around quite a bit.
I think the problem comes from the word cheap. It has two connotations-- inexpensive and low quality. I agree that "cheap" labor isn't automatically inferior -- it would be quite easy to hire some expensive poor workers in America and also have it assembled incorrectly. As for the article, stripping screws happens, and other than tossing the part, what can a worker really do to fix it? Often there is enough redundancy in the design that it doesn't matter.
You're absolutely right. I demand that in the interests of political correctness, and stories relating to Chinese hackers have the words Chinese and hacker removed. Who cares if people are less informed because we are dropping pertinent information. Really, who cares. It's not like this is some sort of racial snub. I suppose it's only a matter of time before this happens to other 3rd party app markets.
Wait, they sell blackberries the size of golf balls now? That's rather disturbing.
That's what I was thinking as well. Even as a tech, I expect there to be poorly written apps that claim to need more permissions than they actually need. I don't expect average users to be any more prudent or knowledgeable.
You appear to be arguing that the majority of the population should buy iphones if they want a smart phone. Or maybe you have more faith in your fellow humanity than i do.
Much like many windows viruses/trojans, it would be fairly easy to put instructions on a web page showing the steps to disable your phones security to install your app if the user is desperate enough for your apps supposed functionality.
I've found people are far too trusting of dubious sites. Occasionally I'll clean someone's virus infested computer, and the majority of them have Limewire installed. Apparently they have no problem trusting software that's main purpose in life is downloading illegal songs. The same also goes for politics and people blindly trusting those who claim to have similar beliefs.