Let me explain again. You need to check your email and slashdot, ok?
Old rig: takes 10 minutes. You turn off your rig. New rig: takes 9 minutes. You turns off yer rig.
Voila, less power!.
It's true that if you sit there using it constantly you will have less total run time, but my point is that you will get more done in less time (same total power use if you run the bat flat) with a faster drive.
I guess there are some people that only care about total run time. They'll just poke around until their battery dies. You're right that those people are better off with a slower drive, but they're not really doing anything anyway.
Judging from my observations, Americans want to download the most irritating $3.99 ringtone they can find. They change them constantly. Tiny phones are hot. Oh, and they make really horrible noises when you just open them up or push a button. Super bright color screens. Has to take pictures, preferably with a flash.
I think it's completely retarded. But I'm in a tiny minority in the US.
Good rant. I'm never getting a phone until they improve the UI to "PC LOAD LETTER" quality or above.
It's really sad how many phones get landfilled, most of them still work fine, even have a good battery. I'd be more likely to consider a phone that was built to last, focused on simple things like being pleasant to use and high voice quality. Oh well, if I won't buy a new phone every few months I'm not who they're designing these things for. Works for me!
More people die from lightning every year than died from SARS ever.
It's sad so many retards get all worked up over something so insignificant. 58 million people die every year. That number will only go up unless we're dying as a species. When a disease or natural disaster or attack approaches 1/100th of this is the time to freak out. Not at 1/1,000,000.
Appeals to emotion never enhance the issue, by the way.
The cheap flash memory (like in my 1GB thumbdrive) has ~100,000 r/w cycles. If your internet cache was there, you'd hose that memory within hours.
It would make a lot of sense to have 10% of your disk solid state, only spin up the real drive as necessary. I don't think multigigabyte memory will be affordable anytime real soon.
If the computer runs faster you may use less power. If it takes 10 minutes to check email and slashdot with the old drive and 9 minutes with the new, you've just saved 10% time spending 3.5% higher power rate. That's about 7% less power consumed.
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Both of these ideas are handily defeated by man-in-the-middle attacks.
You visit a website. It visits your banks website. You type in your account number. It types in your account number. Etc.
Same for the phone. It could simply conference you to your bank and listen in to everything you do. You're dealing with your own bank, so you wouldn't suspect anything. They'd have all your info.
Now that chase finally bought my regional bank I can look forward to spam "directed" at me. I feel paranoid since they bought my mortgage a while back and now this. I must be very tempting as a customer for them to buy a whole bank just to get my business!
Despite every possible explanation of liability and the loss of proprietary information, the decision was made in order to satisfy a 'need' that the employees have expressed.
Apparently the decision has been made.
Upper management feels offering this service to our employees will separate us from our competitors, and is so committed to this that they have allocated a special budget for tools, software and new hires to handle this particular segment of IT.
Apparently they realize it will cost them money. They're doing it because a lot of people think like you do. Maybe it will differentiate them from their competitors. I know a lot of users that would stay at a job for free support. Or at least stay in touch and buy me beer once in a while.
The way it works at my job is authenticated users. In order to get authenticated on the vpn you need a valid login, current patches from wsus, current av from our av servers and current wireless/firewall protection from our servers. Naturally you have access to wsus, av, etc without authentication.
You're right about the purchase price not being worth it for home users.
About the chip, you can use cheap p2 chips that take 10 watts. It's actually not completely stupid. Maybe have the controller monitor prices to take advantage of on-the-fly pricing. The plant I work at pays continually variable pricing. Intel even has info for embedded systems.
I don't understand his website very much. You can only stream, and there are these weird subscription plans. Something about listening to 3 different episodes as many times as you wanted for x number of days.
Apparently he protects his IP very aggressively. I can't find very many episodes around these days.
I suffer from this disorder sometimes, thankfully it is mild.
I think it's largely a visceral dislike of a single entity having so much power. I'd prefer to have dozens of chipmakers all competing bitterly. Maybe 5 big standard architectures.
Anyway, when one powerhouse controls 90%+ of the market I get nervous. Especially when there are allegations of abuse, innovation slows, prices are high, or the situation lasts for a long time.
It seems in many industries we are headed to 1-3 (whatever the situation and antitrust law allows) Megacorps that write their own ticket.
I am flexible about most things, but tend to prefer the underdog if price and performance are comparable.
It'll make a lot of US-based mp3/shoutcast stations die. There'll still be offshore alternatives.
I'm willing to record in realtime off the soundcard for something I really want that is only available via secure streaming. Right now there is one thing in that category (joe frank) but I can do it for more.
Reminds me of the old days, recording dr. demento on my mono tape deck from a nearby transistor am radio.
Damn congress, stop trying to legislate me back to the 70s!
Selling copies of music by the meg is a lot like selling copies of paintings by the yard. Which they do. The cost of production is bandwidth & servers for copies of music, paper & ink & presses for posters. Tack on a bit for creators and there you go. (not getting into whether allofmp3 does it properly)
Seems you could install linux on them and sell them for $150 instead of 'recycling' them. Why is nobody doing this? Do I have to move to china and become insanely rich?! I am very lazy. Please, somebody do this so I don't have to.
Slashdot Mirror
Old rig: takes 10 minutes. You turn off your rig.
New rig: takes 9 minutes. You turns off yer rig.
Voila, less power!.
It's true that if you sit there using it constantly you will have less total run time, but my point is that you will get more done in less time (same total power use if you run the bat flat) with a faster drive.
I guess there are some people that only care about total run time. They'll just poke around until their battery dies. You're right that those people are better off with a slower drive, but they're not really doing anything anyway.
I think it's completely retarded. But I'm in a tiny minority in the US.
It's really sad how many phones get landfilled, most of them still work fine, even have a good battery. I'd be more likely to consider a phone that was built to last, focused on simple things like being pleasant to use and high voice quality. Oh well, if I won't buy a new phone every few months I'm not who they're designing these things for. Works for me!
It's sad so many retards get all worked up over something so insignificant. 58 million people die every year. That number will only go up unless we're dying as a species. When a disease or natural disaster or attack approaches 1/100th of this is the time to freak out. Not at 1/1,000,000.
Appeals to emotion never enhance the issue, by the way.
It would make a lot of sense to have 10% of your disk solid state, only spin up the real drive as necessary. I don't think multigigabyte memory will be affordable anytime real soon.
If the computer runs faster you may use less power. If it takes 10 minutes to check email and slashdot with the old drive and 9 minutes with the new, you've just saved 10% time spending 3.5% higher power rate. That's about 7% less power consumed.
You visit a website. It visits your banks website. You type in your account number. It types in your account number. Etc.
Same for the phone. It could simply conference you to your bank and listen in to everything you do. You're dealing with your own bank, so you wouldn't suspect anything. They'd have all your info.
Then why do they always want your pin?
I wonder if any scambait has been set up at probable misdials "near" the real 800 number. That'd be truly devious.
BofA. Bastard Operator From AOL
Despite every possible explanation of liability and the loss of proprietary information, the decision was made in order to satisfy a 'need' that the employees have expressed.
Apparently the decision has been made.
Upper management feels offering this service to our employees will separate us from our competitors, and is so committed to this that they have allocated a special budget for tools, software and new hires to handle this particular segment of IT.
Apparently they realize it will cost them money. They're doing it because a lot of people think like you do. Maybe it will differentiate them from their competitors. I know a lot of users that would stay at a job for free support. Or at least stay in touch and buy me beer once in a while.
The way it works at my job is authenticated users. In order to get authenticated on the vpn you need a valid login, current patches from wsus, current av from our av servers and current wireless/firewall protection from our servers. Naturally you have access to wsus, av, etc without authentication.
About the chip, you can use cheap p2 chips that take 10 watts. It's actually not completely stupid. Maybe have the controller monitor prices to take advantage of on-the-fly pricing. The plant I work at pays continually variable pricing. Intel even has info for embedded systems.
I don't understand his website very much. You can only stream, and there are these weird subscription plans. Something about listening to 3 different episodes as many times as you wanted for x number of days.
Apparently he protects his IP very aggressively. I can't find very many episodes around these days.
I think it's largely a visceral dislike of a single entity having so much power. I'd prefer to have dozens of chipmakers all competing bitterly. Maybe 5 big standard architectures.
Anyway, when one powerhouse controls 90%+ of the market I get nervous. Especially when there are allegations of abuse, innovation slows, prices are high, or the situation lasts for a long time.
It seems in many industries we are headed to 1-3 (whatever the situation and antitrust law allows) Megacorps that write their own ticket.
I am flexible about most things, but tend to prefer the underdog if price and performance are comparable.
It's um been a while...
How about audience members taking pictures? taking video? putting such on the web?
Things may have to change as our society drifts closer to everything being recorded and public all the time.
I'm willing to record in realtime off the soundcard for something I really want that is only available via secure streaming. Right now there is one thing in that category (joe frank) but I can do it for more.
Reminds me of the old days, recording dr. demento on my mono tape deck from a nearby transistor am radio.
Damn congress, stop trying to legislate me back to the 70s!
Both of these refuse to learn Hokan.
I'm glad I don't live in Southern California anymore.
Instead of adjusting pricing to fight piracy, they resort to unfair laws, unfair practices, and lawsuits.
[sorry, I'm feeling old today too]
That was legal.
Now that technology has improved we have less rights. I think that's wrong.
Selling copies of music by the meg is a lot like selling copies of paintings by the yard. Which they do. The cost of production is bandwidth & servers for copies of music, paper & ink & presses for posters. Tack on a bit for creators and there you go. (not getting into whether allofmp3 does it properly)
Seems you could install linux on them and sell them for $150 instead of 'recycling' them. Why is nobody doing this? Do I have to move to china and become insanely rich?! I am very lazy. Please, somebody do this so I don't have to.
A wiki is a type of website.
Wikipedia is a specific wiki.
www.battlestarwiki.org is a wiki but is not wikipedia