Compared to the amount of space in the United States, the amount of things that end up in landfills is minimal. There was an article several years ago in the New York Times Magazine that wrote about this extensively. One notable fact - a landfill site the size of the Grand Canyon would take us 1,000 years to fill with trash at our current rates of throwing away useless things. If it's cheaper to throw things away than to fix them (including the disposal costs), does it really matter?
After all the tech bubble boom money that was sunk into pulling unused fiber it's a wonder anyone would think / worry about overutilization.
To the editors of slashdot - please post newsworthy items!!! Doomsday news stories only contribute to lowering the quality of intelligent posts on this rag.
Fair enough. I was speaking from the hobbyist's point of view.... You're right, the Zaurus is not being sold in the US anymore, though any PDA would probably do in a pinch.
I'm just not convinced there would really be a mass market for something like this - as another poster mentioned, paper is a proven technology. It is cheap, easily obtainable, easy on the eyes over long durations and quite durable. Personally I think these e-book readers are solutions in search of a problem to fix.
This sounds similar to my old Zaurus, though its missing the nice front end to the indexing features. I think you could still cobble this together from what's out there in open source land.
It's decades of poor European policy to blame here, not US. The Sunni / Shi'a situation on the ground in Iraq falls squarely on British colonization after the end of World War I. Drawing lines on a map does not a country make. The rest of the Middle East has the same story to tell - http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index .html.
IMHO, PoE isn't designed with the desktop in mind.
In terms of reducing the sheer number of cables needed to support a server in a datacenter (redundant power, possibly multiple redundant network cables, redundant fibre channel/scsi), removing the both power cable, and all the sub-floor power runs represent a real dollar amount in savings. When combined with scsi over IP, this could result in servers with only a single (or perhaps dual) network connection, representing still more savings in deployment and maintence costs.
Games are expensive things to make. The ones that get extensive funding are "surefire" hits. In order to obtain funding, game producers have to make a good business case the game will succeed. And one easy way to do that is to base it on something else that has succeeded, hence the well defined categories Dvorak references in his article.
In the past, independant game developers took on the risk of creating projects (think DOOM) that broke the gaming mold. One problem with relying on independants for new ideas is the ever increasing cost of creating a decent game. At some point the dollar amount will exceed the amount of money any independant programmer can raise. Afterwhich the game industry will implode with stale old ideas. Hence Dvorak's argument.
The flip side of this argument is when you've a problem with one of your Oracle databases, you can always call up Oracle and complain. Moreover, the fact that there is a new version, means bugs are actively being addressed and closed out. Many times, it's bugs you may not have hit yet, but someone else in the community has, and it's being addressed. With Postgres or MYSQL, it's not the same story. Most of the time, it's up to you to stumbled into bugs and then figure out the best solution. That's not something I want to be actively involved in. I'm a database user, not a programmer.
Not to mention the code quality of Oracle (even version 7/8) is way better than either Postgres or MYSQL. IMHO, the later two databases aren't in the same league as Oracle anyway.
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Compared to the amount of space in the United States, the amount of things that end up in landfills is minimal. There was an article several years ago in the New York Times Magazine that wrote about this extensively. One notable fact - a landfill site the size of the Grand Canyon would take us 1,000 years to fill with trash at our current rates of throwing away useless things. If it's cheaper to throw things away than to fix them (including the disposal costs), does it really matter?
Moderators, please mod parent up.
After all the tech bubble boom money that was sunk into pulling unused fiber it's a wonder anyone would think / worry about overutilization.
To the editors of slashdot - please post newsworthy items!!! Doomsday news stories only contribute to lowering the quality of intelligent posts on this rag.
No way. Have you ever met someone with dementia?
The first job of any bank / fund is to provide liquidity to the economy in the form of funding. Where exactly do you think that funding comes from?
Fair enough. I was speaking from the hobbyist's point of view.... You're right, the Zaurus is not being sold in the US anymore, though any PDA would probably do in a pinch. I'm just not convinced there would really be a mass market for something like this - as another poster mentioned, paper is a proven technology. It is cheap, easily obtainable, easy on the eyes over long durations and quite durable. Personally I think these e-book readers are solutions in search of a problem to fix.
This sounds similar to my old Zaurus, though its missing the nice front end to the indexing features. I think you could still cobble this together from what's out there in open source land.
It's decades of poor European policy to blame here, not US. The Sunni / Shi'a situation on the ground in Iraq falls squarely on British colonization after the end of World War I. Drawing lines on a map does not a country make. The rest of the Middle East has the same story to tell - http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index .html.
How so? Decreasing the window size to zero would accomplish this.
In terms of reducing the sheer number of cables needed to support a server in a datacenter (redundant power, possibly multiple redundant network cables, redundant fibre channel/scsi), removing the both power cable, and all the sub-floor power runs represent a real dollar amount in savings. When combined with scsi over IP, this could result in servers with only a single (or perhaps dual) network connection, representing still more savings in deployment and maintence costs.
Games are expensive things to make. The ones that get extensive funding are "surefire" hits. In order to obtain funding, game producers have to make a good business case the game will succeed. And one easy way to do that is to base it on something else that has succeeded, hence the well defined categories Dvorak references in his article.
In the past, independant game developers took on the risk of creating projects (think DOOM) that broke the gaming mold. One problem with relying on independants for new ideas is the ever increasing cost of creating a decent game. At some point the dollar amount will exceed the amount of money any independant programmer can raise. Afterwhich the game industry will implode with stale old ideas. Hence Dvorak's argument.
The flip side of this argument is when you've a problem with one of your Oracle databases, you can always call up Oracle and complain. Moreover, the fact that there is a new version, means bugs are actively being addressed and closed out. Many times, it's bugs you may not have hit yet, but someone else in the community has, and it's being addressed. With Postgres or MYSQL, it's not the same story. Most of the time, it's up to you to stumbled into bugs and then figure out the best solution. That's not something I want to be actively involved in. I'm a database user, not a programmer. Not to mention the code quality of Oracle (even version 7/8) is way better than either Postgres or MYSQL. IMHO, the later two databases aren't in the same league as Oracle anyway.