1) You have the grouping wrong - it's not "(Super Unleaded) Gas", it's "Super (Unleaded Gas)".
(which is actually an anti-knock formulation for poorly designed or aging vehicles, but labeled premium to make people think it's "better") 2) While I agree with you on the second point, it's not an "anti-knock" formulation, it simply has a higher flash point. And you got it backwards - most older cars can't burn (ignite) the higher flash point as well and will actually lose power on "premium" fuel. The premium fuel is for higher performance vehicles which push compression ratios higher to achieve more power and thus generate more heat and need a higher-flash point fuel or else they will knock, or rather their anti-knock sensors will kick in and retard the timing thus again losing power.
I'm a pilot as well, if that somehow qualifies one to speak in this discussion. Anyway, you seem hung up specifically on mileage / air resistance. So let me point out a few things:
1) A Cessna 152 (a 30+ year old plane) burns ~6 GPH at 111 knots (Vno), which is about double the fuel mileage of your plane and is quite in line with Terrafugia's numbers. It would seem that your plane just gets poor mileage.
2) Yes, air resistance is exponential, it's relative to the square of the speed - your math is correct. But drag at 30 mph is VERY low, so just saying "16 times that" doesn't mean much. Secondly, to get actual drag you also need to consider drag coefficient and frontal surface area. Frontal surface area is two dimensions - you seem only focused on narrowness. The plane in the article is wide - but it's also a lower profile than "normal" planes. We'd have to have more specific dimensions to know if the overall frontal surface area is more or less than an equivalent plane. Third, as I mentioned above the drag coefficient comes into play. Aerodynamics have come a long way since Cessna's were designed and since your Falcon was designed (20+ years). If you can sufficiently reduce the coefficient, you can increase surface area and end up with the same amount of drag or even less.
Unless I read incorrectly there was no prior point to dispute... but if you'd like to iterate said features then we could maybe have a discussion about them, as the inverse is true. The GP post wasn't meant to be a complete list of the ways OOo is better than MSO.
there still isn't much agreement as to what exactly is a "word" in Japanese If this is the case then how can you be sure that MS Word does it accurately? How does this not contradict your own statement?
While I agree with the general premise here, you're statement is true only if you interpret the number as a whole: (8.04). The problem with software releases is that they don't follow a normal decimal number notation, as 8.04.1 will eventually be released. So for software releases many/most people treat the number between each dot separately, as (8).(04).(1) which would still make (8).(4) less than (8).(10).
The linux kernel follows this "each number is separate" theory as well; the current kernel version is 2.6.25.1.
Beta is just a term loosely applied, it doesn't exactly have defined criteria. I assure you Firefox 3b5 is much more stable than KDE 4. KDE 4 *should* still be in beta from my experience. Mozilla just seems to have higher standards, and especially so with Fx 3 - they're really taking their time.
GoDaddy is awesome, honestly I don't know why anybody would still use NSI. Even if you get on their bulk rate plan and negotiate their price down, they're still more expensive then GoDaddy and they keep pulling stuff like this. Network Solutions clearly feels they're entitled to do anything they want with your domain / dns.
You are correct, my math ended up at 16 megabits/sec which is the same as 2MB/s. You are also correct that it's not a "huge" amount of traffic; it's less than half of a DS-3. Depending on the content you might need a couple servers to serve it up with reasonable speed but it's really not that much for a decent website.
what is wrong with a second touch sensitive screen as the keyboard? Because it is just not possible to effectively touch-type on a hard surface that has no tactile feedback.
It's not making use of extra memory (a good thing), it REQUIRES that amount to even run in the first place - a default install of Vista when finished booting the first time uses something like 580MB of ram without opening a single program. XP is 80MB in use, default install first boot no programs running. Also "RAM is cheap" is a relative claim - if a RAM upgrade on 50, 200, or 2,000 computers on a company's network is required to upgrade to Vista it is most certainly not cheap.
Current SSD drives are about HALF as fast as 5400 RPM drives in writing Really? Can you point me to a 5400 RPM drive that has a 90MBps sustained write speed? Because I'm pretty sure you can't. There are different speed SSD's, but the faster performing ones are easily on par with current spinning drives for transfer rate, and are WAY faster for random I/O. They are a noticeable improvement.
The amount of data that these systems store will probably amaze you. I have one customer running a 2-till store that puts in almost a million rows of data into one table every year. You and I must have dramatically different ideas of what a lot of data is. I've seen MS Access db's with 1,000,000+ records in a table. I run about a half dozen 150GB+ SQL server DB's where a couple hundred million records in a table is pretty common, and those are for 60 day logs that are cleaned out regularly. Granted it's not for a small retail shop, but in this situation with the traffic of a retail store performance shouldn't be an issue, and if it is you'll see it coming a mile away. Just have a relatively normalized and decently indexed db schema and it should be fine. Most of the stuff you'll find on SF.net shouldn't have problems. Remember the current solution is "a low-tech register that tracks general areas of sales". The ROI of having a real inventory system can be very real in this situation.
Again, I see very little risk to trying something new here. Keep the existing register as a backup if the new system fails whether temporarily or permanently. Maybe he starts the project with a vision for improving 10 different things and only ends up improving 2 of them - it's still a process improvement, and you probably learned something about the business in the mean time.
This kind of thinking is bad - that the status quo is good enough and it's not worth trying to improve something essential to a business out of fear of messing it up.
How do you know the boss isn't open to this? An opportunity for an easier to use, more efficient system that provides more accurate metrics? How do you know the current system is some commercial product with "24/24" [sic] support and not some other home-grown process developed by an employee who is no longer there?
I wish I had more employees that saw problems, or at least room for improvement, and wanted to solve them and were willing to do the research / testing as a side project. Nothing is set in stone here, the existing system works and can continue working, there is really very little risk to trying something new here. This guy should be encouraged to research, explore, and experiment. So what if he doesn't get paid for it? Maybe this IS fun for him. It's an experience he'll be able to draw on in the future. Solving a valid business problem is much more useful than just "tinkering" with some Linux desktop.
I hope you enjoy your dead-end job, because you're going to be there a while.
For capacity, yes, you're correct that a DVD burner and some disks are the cheapest option and easy to mail. However it completely fails the rugged and portable tests. Optical drives are just not ideal for this, and while flash media will be more expensive, it will be smaller / lighter / more durable. The response above me also brings a good idea if you MUST mail DVDs out.
"Serious performance penalties"? I've been running a few whole-disk-encrypted laptops for over a year now and I have to say the performance drop is not noticeable for me. What encryption program specifically did you try? When you say "every bit must pass through the CPU" - only bits read from and written to the drive, and drive I/O is pretty slow compared to modern CPUs. Maybe your company has extremely high performance requirements but in my experience there is not a "very noticeable delay".
What difference, specifically, will the exact number of units sold make to you? Top selling PC at the nation's largest retailer in the month before Christmas? Here's your answer - a lot. What is the exact number of these Vista competitor PC's you keep mentioning that Walmart sold complete with digital cameras? Oh yeah - you don't have that number either.
While you're being pedantic, I'll have to ask you for references to back up your claim that MS is outperforming Google, Apple and the entire tech sector by 20%. Mostly, because, you're full of shit.
Give it up. Vista sucks, everybody knows it. The only reason people buy it at all is when the computer they otherwise want ships with it. People are "downgrading" to XP every chance they get. Open your eyes. MS is rushing the next OS, Vista will become the next ME.
I don't know how I keep getting wrapped up in arguments with trolls.
The gPC was consistently sold out, they sold them as fast as they could make them, and Walmart for a period of time said it was their top selling PC.
So Microsoft sold a lot of product in Q4 2007 over the holidays? Wow great observation, thanks, I never would have thought. Maybe you should check their stock price this week.
I'm not sure what you mean by "high-test jet fuel", Jet-A and the military equivalent JP-5/JP-8 are pretty much the same as diesel fuel / kerosene / fuel oil - they can all be pretty much interchanged if you're in a jam, and actually the military grade stuff is pretty inflammable (very high flash point).
Pen and paper Mr. redwagon. Pen and paper. My wife just started using the online shopping list generator at Giant Food (supermarkets in PA). It's nice because it reminds you of stuff you normally buy so it's less likely you'll forget something (not just on your way to the store, but that you need it at all). It also prints the list out by isle. So I can see the ShopRite system having value, basically they're doing the same thing but eliminating the need to actually print a piece of paper and take it with you. They also show you things on sale that week so you can adjust and plan ahead before you get to the store.
I just get a bit more exercise, maybe walk down a wrong isle, another 2-3 minutes in the store... that's all. Now you're justifying your own inconvenience.
Anyway, ads are the price for the convenience, as with everything else. If the ads become too intrusive into the functionality of the actual system, then people will stop using the system and they'll scale back the ads. Remember X10 popups? I believe it goes "too far" only if they start selling your name, address and buying habits to third parties. As long as you are in control of how much information you give / how much convenience you get, then it's fine.
They're not presenting the TV's themselves, they're using the TV's to present something else. A magnified image of the speaker's face, a video of the actual product & features, etc. There are typically multiple displays involved.
When a manufacturer does present a brand new product, they don't present the final production version, they have either a model or customized prototype version of it. They can do whatever they want to it, including disabling the IR receiver internally. So even if they were presenting the TV as the product itself, it still wouldn't be an issue. Again, we're talking about a trade show display mechanism. Did you even watch the Gizmodo video?
We're talking about 40" and larger displays here, not a 5" phone. 1/2" of tape (or less) isn't going to be noticed.
IR receivers are black, most electrical tape is black. It's not going to really be visible or look any different. If the IR receiver is inset or covered by fabric or disguised in some other way (often residing on a black border, at least), you won't see the electrical tape at all.
They use large displays to show images for people who are watching from far away. You don't give somebody a presentation on a 60" display while there standing 2 feet in front of it. I assure you, they won't see the tape.
Trade shows make you rent display devices from them 99% of the time, you can't bring your own. The shows are setup by union labor, you don't have much control over the products they use and how they're setup - you just order a 50" display and they give you what they have.
But if you really think it's a better idea to give your sales and marketing people a laptop, a serial cable and a script to run to reprogram a trade show display that doesn't have a serial input or remote IR input in the first place rather than giving them a roll of electrical tape, then by all means you have fun with that.
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I'm a pilot as well, if that somehow qualifies one to speak in this discussion. Anyway, you seem hung up specifically on mileage / air resistance. So let me point out a few things:
1) A Cessna 152 (a 30+ year old plane) burns ~6 GPH at 111 knots (Vno), which is about double the fuel mileage of your plane and is quite in line with Terrafugia's numbers. It would seem that your plane just gets poor mileage.
2) Yes, air resistance is exponential, it's relative to the square of the speed - your math is correct. But drag at 30 mph is VERY low, so just saying "16 times that" doesn't mean much. Secondly, to get actual drag you also need to consider drag coefficient and frontal surface area. Frontal surface area is two dimensions - you seem only focused on narrowness. The plane in the article is wide - but it's also a lower profile than "normal" planes. We'd have to have more specific dimensions to know if the overall frontal surface area is more or less than an equivalent plane. Third, as I mentioned above the drag coefficient comes into play. Aerodynamics have come a long way since Cessna's were designed and since your Falcon was designed (20+ years). If you can sufficiently reduce the coefficient, you can increase surface area and end up with the same amount of drag or even less.
Unless I read incorrectly there was no prior point to dispute... but if you'd like to iterate said features then we could maybe have a discussion about them, as the inverse is true. The GP post wasn't meant to be a complete list of the ways OOo is better than MSO.
While I agree with the general premise here, you're statement is true only if you interpret the number as a whole: (8.04). The problem with software releases is that they don't follow a normal decimal number notation, as 8.04.1 will eventually be released. So for software releases many/most people treat the number between each dot separately, as (8).(04).(1) which would still make (8).(4) less than (8).(10).
The linux kernel follows this "each number is separate" theory as well; the current kernel version is 2.6.25.1.
I was just thinking that I don't see these incorrectly used on /. that often... then I scrolled down
Beta is just a term loosely applied, it doesn't exactly have defined criteria. I assure you Firefox 3b5 is much more stable than KDE 4. KDE 4 *should* still be in beta from my experience. Mozilla just seems to have higher standards, and especially so with Fx 3 - they're really taking their time.
GoDaddy is awesome, honestly I don't know why anybody would still use NSI. Even if you get on their bulk rate plan and negotiate their price down, they're still more expensive then GoDaddy and they keep pulling stuff like this. Network Solutions clearly feels they're entitled to do anything they want with your domain / dns.
You are correct, my math ended up at 16 megabits/sec which is the same as 2MB/s. You are also correct that it's not a "huge" amount of traffic; it's less than half of a DS-3. Depending on the content you might need a couple servers to serve it up with reasonable speed but it's really not that much for a decent website.
It's not making use of extra memory (a good thing), it REQUIRES that amount to even run in the first place - a default install of Vista when finished booting the first time uses something like 580MB of ram without opening a single program. XP is 80MB in use, default install first boot no programs running. Also "RAM is cheap" is a relative claim - if a RAM upgrade on 50, 200, or 2,000 computers on a company's network is required to upgrade to Vista it is most certainly not cheap.
It's in Fx 2.x as well, there are multiple ways to restore closed tabs.
Again, I see very little risk to trying something new here. Keep the existing register as a backup if the new system fails whether temporarily or permanently. Maybe he starts the project with a vision for improving 10 different things and only ends up improving 2 of them - it's still a process improvement, and you probably learned something about the business in the mean time.
This kind of thinking is bad - that the status quo is good enough and it's not worth trying to improve something essential to a business out of fear of messing it up.
How do you know the boss isn't open to this? An opportunity for an easier to use, more efficient system that provides more accurate metrics? How do you know the current system is some commercial product with "24/24" [sic] support and not some other home-grown process developed by an employee who is no longer there?
I wish I had more employees that saw problems, or at least room for improvement, and wanted to solve them and were willing to do the research / testing as a side project. Nothing is set in stone here, the existing system works and can continue working, there is really very little risk to trying something new here. This guy should be encouraged to research, explore, and experiment. So what if he doesn't get paid for it? Maybe this IS fun for him. It's an experience he'll be able to draw on in the future. Solving a valid business problem is much more useful than just "tinkering" with some Linux desktop.
I hope you enjoy your dead-end job, because you're going to be there a while.
Obligatory xkcd reference.
For capacity, yes, you're correct that a DVD burner and some disks are the cheapest option and easy to mail. However it completely fails the rugged and portable tests. Optical drives are just not ideal for this, and while flash media will be more expensive, it will be smaller / lighter / more durable. The response above me also brings a good idea if you MUST mail DVDs out.
"Serious performance penalties"? I've been running a few whole-disk-encrypted laptops for over a year now and I have to say the performance drop is not noticeable for me. What encryption program specifically did you try? When you say "every bit must pass through the CPU" - only bits read from and written to the drive, and drive I/O is pretty slow compared to modern CPUs. Maybe your company has extremely high performance requirements but in my experience there is not a "very noticeable delay".
What difference, specifically, will the exact number of units sold make to you? Top selling PC at the nation's largest retailer in the month before Christmas? Here's your answer - a lot. What is the exact number of these Vista competitor PC's you keep mentioning that Walmart sold complete with digital cameras? Oh yeah - you don't have that number either.
While you're being pedantic, I'll have to ask you for references to back up your claim that MS is outperforming Google, Apple and the entire tech sector by 20%. Mostly, because, you're full of shit.
Give it up. Vista sucks, everybody knows it. The only reason people buy it at all is when the computer they otherwise want ships with it. People are "downgrading" to XP every chance they get. Open your eyes. MS is rushing the next OS, Vista will become the next ME.
I don't know how I keep getting wrapped up in arguments with trolls.
The gPC was consistently sold out, they sold them as fast as they could make them, and Walmart for a period of time said it was their top selling PC.
So Microsoft sold a lot of product in Q4 2007 over the holidays? Wow great observation, thanks, I never would have thought. Maybe you should check their stock price this week.
I'm not sure what you mean by "high-test jet fuel", Jet-A and the military equivalent JP-5/JP-8 are pretty much the same as diesel fuel / kerosene / fuel oil - they can all be pretty much interchanged if you're in a jam, and actually the military grade stuff is pretty inflammable (very high flash point).
Anyway, ads are the price for the convenience, as with everything else. If the ads become too intrusive into the functionality of the actual system, then people will stop using the system and they'll scale back the ads. Remember X10 popups? I believe it goes "too far" only if they start selling your name, address and buying habits to third parties. As long as you are in control of how much information you give / how much convenience you get, then it's fine.
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all that said I actually like Ford, for an American car company...
- They're not presenting the TV's themselves, they're using the TV's to present something else. A magnified image of the speaker's face, a video of the actual product & features, etc. There are typically multiple displays involved.
- When a manufacturer does present a brand new product, they don't present the final production version, they have either a model or customized prototype version of it. They can do whatever they want to it, including disabling the IR receiver internally. So even if they were presenting the TV as the product itself, it still wouldn't be an issue. Again, we're talking about a trade show display mechanism. Did you even watch the Gizmodo video?
- We're talking about 40" and larger displays here, not a 5" phone. 1/2" of tape (or less) isn't going to be noticed.
- IR receivers are black, most electrical tape is black. It's not going to really be visible or look any different. If the IR receiver is inset or covered by fabric or disguised in some other way (often residing on a black border, at least), you won't see the electrical tape at all.
- They use large displays to show images for people who are watching from far away. You don't give somebody a presentation on a 60" display while there standing 2 feet in front of it. I assure you, they won't see the tape.
- Trade shows make you rent display devices from them 99% of the time, you can't bring your own. The shows are setup by union labor, you don't have much control over the products they use and how they're setup - you just order a 50" display and they give you what they have.
But if you really think it's a better idea to give your sales and marketing people a laptop, a serial cable and a script to run to reprogram a trade show display that doesn't have a serial input or remote IR input in the first place rather than giving them a roll of electrical tape, then by all means you have fun with that.HERF gun. Look it up.