You're comparing apples and oranges. He's not advocating stopping someone from taking multiple sources of income, only that the days of $20million CEO's come to an end. When the lowest paid person in the company is paid $10 an hour, then at a 40x salary cap, the CEO only makes $400. At THAT job.
except, all you people buying Xboxes thinking you're chewing into Microsoft's bottom line are deluding yourself.
Every Xbox sold gets to be another point in their lineup. It's their grand scheme for putting Sony and Nintendo out of business. Dump hardware on the market so everyone buys it, and get lock-in.
You'd screw them more buy not buying an Xbox at all.
300,000 volt step-up transformer that smacks anyone who attempts to unplug the machine without entering the 32 character password while dancing on one foot singing "mary had a little lamb".
Something about coolant leaks. Last datacenter I was responsible for had considerable trouble with thermostats and coolant leaks. Now imagine shitloads of watercooled computers tied into this. Instead of needing redundant AC units, you'll now need redundant coolant circuits or risk having one hole put all your servers at risk of heat death.
Joy.:-) Nevermind the electrical shorting issue of having coolant lying around your datacenter.
I think your math is wrong. Maybe 50-90 gallons per mile per passenger. But that seems a bit too high.
Take the 747-400 for example: http://www.boeing.com/commercial/747fami ly/technic al.html
Max Fuel Load: 57,285 Gal US. Range: 7,260 nm. ===== 7 Gal US. / mile With a passenger load of 524 people you get.015gpm/passenger. 1m /.015 == 66.4 mpg/passenger.
Guess your math isn't wrong.:-/ (miles * passenger) / gallons
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/777family/777te ch nical.html Whereas the 777-300 gets 72.4 mpg/passenger.
Remember a year or two ago when turbo-charging your Celerons was all the rage? Intel fixed this with an ondie switch that was lasered shut at the factory to stop this. Nothing, not one thing, is preventing a manufacturer from adding $0.10 to a part for a hard-wired switch that makes a $200 part into a $400 part. If it's in software, you're still taking the chance some enterprising developer is going to figure it all out, and ruin your party.
Most people, especially saavy ones, are not loathe to trying out new drivers. MANY are very afraid of taking soldering irons to their $200 parts.
...because MS holds patents on most of the implementation of.NET.
How is that possible? How is.Net NOT a copy of Java and every language independant VM that has come before it? CORBA, RMI, RPC, really? I'm REALLY REALLY curious about this.
If I develop an extensible application, I would *not* want users writing plugins using VB.
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Why not? Aren't you in effect giving the users ultimate control over your product; the great OSS feature we all want, without having to GPL your product? I would want my customers using my product with any programming language they wanted. It only boosts my ability to sell said product.
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C++ software can cause your component hell just as easily (if not more so) than a VB program. Protecting your own nuts (so to speak) is YOUR problem, and if you want to write shitty code that VB can break, C++ and Java will break it just as easily.
<P>
Although the technical nitty-gritty of COM sucks, Microsoft got it right. Easy to use component based architectures make building applications easy. Unix really doesn't have this today, although EJB and CORBA are striving for it.
If you made a mistake, take the hit. If you assumed information, say so. If you blatantly fucked up, say so. If someone else fucked up, don't lay blame, but say, shit has hit the fan, here's step one to mitigating disaster. Don't play the blame game.
If you lie about a fuckup, and get called on it, you'll get booted. If you accept blame, nine times out of ten, unless you fuck up a lot, you'll get a stern looking at, a finger pointed at you, and life will go on and you'll fix your shit.
Some people want to know what the mistake was, how it happened, so that it can be prevented in the future. Ignoring it isn't always an option.
The Progress slammed into Mir because the human being on Mir controlling it forgot to account for some additional trash weight installed upon it, and didn't apply enough thrust to prevent the collision. Not a computers fault.
But yes, 20 or 30 at micro/nanomater distances is a challenge. Pulling that off on earth with stationary objects is difficult enough.
Corn pretty much grows itself dude. fertilize it once or twice, water it if it hasn't rained in a few days, start picking it in late july, early august, keep picking until the end of september.
You are still correct in that it is a poor analogy.
Hot damn!! You've got to be the 3rd person on this planet to play that game....:-) I so enjoyed Mantis for this simple reason, realistic physics. Hey, storylines sucked, what do want for a 386 based alien invader sim, but damn i miss that game. Descent only barely matched said physics model.
The method I used was much less messy, and a lot less interesting. I perched on a stairway until the little fuckers stuck their noses in the open, and dropped a one gallon bottle of anti-freeze on em. Man, those suckers pop (the moles, not the bottle)...
Then my buddy makes me chase the OTHER mole around for 30 minutes instead of killing it so he could "score some pussy".
Dudes, women respect you more if you have the courage to squash creepy crawlies with your boot. Screw this pansy save the animals crap...:-)
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You're comparing apples and oranges. He's not advocating stopping someone from taking multiple sources of income, only that the days of $20million CEO's come to an end. When the lowest paid person in the company is paid $10 an hour, then at a 40x salary cap, the CEO only makes $400. At THAT job.
Does that make sense?
-Chris
Massachusetts beat that whole thing by requiring you to pay sales tax on the car at the time of registration. First-use does not apply.
Bastards!
-Chris
What, and Ultrasparcs are using 266mhz PCI?
except, all you people buying Xboxes thinking you're chewing into Microsoft's bottom line are deluding yourself.
Every Xbox sold gets to be another point in their lineup. It's their grand scheme for putting Sony and Nintendo out of business. Dump hardware on the market so everyone buys it, and get lock-in.
You'd screw them more buy not buying an Xbox at all.
In Soviet Russia, bacteria battery eats you!
And I shall be happy to toil for our new bacteria overlords in their sugar mines.
All hail Rhodoferax ferriducens!!
In a cupboard? I didn't know they made cupboards that big. I'm lucky if I can get a cereal box in MY cupboards... :(
300,000 volt step-up transformer that smacks anyone who attempts to unplug the machine without entering the 32 character password while dancing on one foot singing "mary had a little lamb".
Whatever happened to gopher, man?
<toke toke> Those were the days....
Something about coolant leaks. Last datacenter I was responsible for had considerable trouble with thermostats and coolant leaks. Now imagine shitloads of watercooled computers tied into this. Instead of needing redundant AC units, you'll now need redundant coolant circuits or risk having one hole put all your servers at risk of heat death.
:-) Nevermind the electrical shorting issue of having coolant lying around your datacenter.
Joy.
Is it even POSSIBLE to find a non-winmodem these days? It seems like they're all winmodems... :-/
I think your math is wrong. Maybe 50-90 gallons per mile per passenger. But that seems a bit too high.
i ly/technic al.html
.015gpm/passenger. .015 == 66.4 mpg/passenger.
:-/
e ch nical.html
Take the 747-400 for example:
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/747fam
Max Fuel Load: 57,285 Gal US.
Range: 7,260 nm.
=====
7 Gal US. / mile
With a passenger load of 524 people you get
1m /
Guess your math isn't wrong.
(miles * passenger) / gallons
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/777family/777t
Whereas the 777-300 gets 72.4 mpg/passenger.
Hmm... learn something new everyday.
Windows NT 3.5 :
Native OpenGL support that helped annihilate an entire market for expensive graphics workstations.
And it looks like an iMac! ;-)
Bingo!
The shuttle may be a maintenance nightmare, but engineering did not kill Challenger or Columbia, poor risk management did.
Remember a year or two ago when turbo-charging your Celerons was all the rage? Intel fixed this with an ondie switch that was lasered shut at the factory to stop this. Nothing, not one thing, is preventing a manufacturer from adding $0.10 to a part for a hard-wired switch that makes a $200 part into a $400 part. If it's in software, you're still taking the chance some enterprising developer is going to figure it all out, and ruin your party.
Most people, especially saavy ones, are not loathe to trying out new drivers. MANY are very afraid of taking soldering irons to their $200 parts.
-Chris
How is that possible? How is .Net NOT a copy of Java and every language independant VM that has come before it? CORBA, RMI, RPC, really? I'm REALLY REALLY curious about this.
If I develop an extensible application, I would *not* want users writing plugins using VB.
<P>
Why not? Aren't you in effect giving the users ultimate control over your product; the great OSS feature we all want, without having to GPL your product? I would want my customers using my product with any programming language they wanted. It only boosts my ability to sell said product.
<P>
C++ software can cause your component hell just as easily (if not more so) than a VB program. Protecting your own nuts (so to speak) is YOUR problem, and if you want to write shitty code that VB can break, C++ and Java will break it just as easily.
<P>
Although the technical nitty-gritty of COM sucks, Microsoft got it right. Easy to use component based architectures make building applications easy. Unix really doesn't have this today, although EJB and CORBA are striving for it.
If you made a mistake, take the hit. If you assumed information, say so. If you blatantly fucked up, say so. If someone else fucked up, don't lay blame, but say, shit has hit the fan, here's step one to mitigating disaster. Don't play the blame game.
If you lie about a fuckup, and get called on it, you'll get booted. If you accept blame, nine times out of ten, unless you fuck up a lot, you'll get a stern looking at, a finger pointed at you, and life will go on and you'll fix your shit.
Some people want to know what the mistake was, how it happened, so that it can be prevented in the future. Ignoring it isn't always an option.
My Ti-85 still has the original batteries in it from 1995. Guess I must not use it very much...
-Chris
The Progress slammed into Mir because the human being on Mir controlling it forgot to account for some additional trash weight installed upon it, and didn't apply enough thrust to prevent the collision. Not a computers fault.
But yes, 20 or 30 at micro/nanomater distances is a challenge. Pulling that off on earth with stationary objects is difficult enough.
PLEASE tell me that's a hoax... If not, I think someone needs to have the DEA raid the USPTO, because they're obviously on some serious ass drugs.
Or maybe they should just give ME some to numb the pain...
<shudder>
Corn pretty much grows itself dude. fertilize it once or twice, water it if it hasn't rained in a few days, start picking it in late july, early august, keep picking until the end of september.
You are still correct in that it is a poor analogy.
Cheers.
Hot damn!! You've got to be the 3rd person on this planet to play that game.... :-) I so enjoyed Mantis for this simple reason, realistic physics. Hey, storylines sucked, what do want for a 386 based alien invader sim, but damn i miss that game. Descent only barely matched said physics model.
The method I used was much less messy, and a lot less interesting. I perched on a stairway until the little fuckers stuck their noses in the open, and dropped a one gallon bottle of anti-freeze on em. Man, those suckers pop (the moles, not the bottle)...
:-)
Then my buddy makes me chase the OTHER mole around for 30 minutes instead of killing it so he could "score some pussy".
Dudes, women respect you more if you have the courage to squash creepy crawlies with your boot. Screw this pansy save the animals crap...