Do you really think they will be supply constrained on this?! There aren't any fancy parts that are new to the market; it's almost a re-hash of the cube with more standard parts and a different case!
I hope they can put out a million a quarter... they need to for success. I can't imagine what would hold them up on it.
It's actually a perfect play; they also get to diversify on chip suppliers with a new product line! If IBM has a major problem it won't destroy sales now like it did six months ago.
Isn't the real issue here wing loading? With a small wing, you have to be going fast to land safely (which is hard without wheels), and increasing the wing size of the squirrel suits would pose an unmanagable force on the arms and legs.
We use Postini as well... not too impressed! One bad crash on their side made for a rough week on e-mail. Three days for them to institute a backup system when the primary server had a hard crash-- no company e-mail for three days, and crippled e-mail for a week.
Out-sourcing has its places, but... I'm thinking it is companies with fewer than 50 employees.
Well, I'd guess it is more like there is a 1:4550 chance of being in a commercial airline crash over the next 100 years. If airline flight stays at a constant level, that's more like one in a half-million per year.
It would also make a cool hosting environment... cheap cooling for the servers, nearly double the hours of solar exposure compared to the ground (and no temperature issues). Lots of cool applications could come of it...
And finally, weight would be a viable consideration for the Intel et al, justifying the higher density solutions...
...but most of the companies have a proprietary format for the data. If I recall correctly, with Suunto you can just get some really basic data (max depth, time, duration?), and everything else is requires their own software to run.
So, your data transfer is one problem, then reading the data won't be easy either.
The knob and tube can be a problem because of the separation of conductors, not the shielding, but it can definately cause some serious issues with enough harmonic distortion.
In general, the biggest problem with dimmable ballasts is when they are not properly grounded. Check the grounds, make sure they are installed with the phase conductors, and make sure that they run with the phase and neutral wiring.
Also along these lines, if you have three-way switching check and make sure the switch leg properly installed; you don't want the current in the switch leg to form a loop with the neutral.
Last option is to look at your ballasts and make sure they have integral EMI filters. The CF retrofit bulbs won't have anything, but evereything else should be workable. If your problem CF lamps are in downlights, rip them out with retrofit kits. It isn't a horrible project.
intel's (future) ceo: "Our view is that an evolutionary version of the PC will win that space," he said. "Do you want a rack of single-purpose devices costing from $100 to $250 each or do you want one $400 to $500 device, the PC? The key to the home is networking, and the PC is much better suited to do that."
Somebody get these guys a clue while I go sell my stock!
In their markets, this is the most bone-headed idea I can imagine! Why not go and sell people 4-5 $150 purpose-built devices rather than one $500 one!? He catches on in the last half of his statement, but thinking in terms of services instead of servers might get them back on track.
Agree again. The only real problem for me right now is AutoCAD. Almost everything else can be solved, but I can't ditch the work Dell for a mac until Autodesk gets on board.
The real problem for Apple, though, is not software but hardware supply issues. Software is the difference between a 10% and a 25% market share; hardware is the difference between 6% and 10%. Have to get over the first hurdle before you worry about the second!
You just have to know what to look for. The significant article would be the one covering the Compaq Personal DJ (Something like the PDJ-100; can't find any references anymore). It showed the future.
Although people here will continually obsess about things like Ogg support, sometimes their whining has value. If you have something that works technically, and has enough marketing muscle behind it, you have a winner.
Oddly, some of the best "tips" I've gotten have come from Slashdot. Both short term positions and long-term strategies. The complaints Taco made about the iPod give a useful insight into all the iPod killer reviews today, and the future direction... just know what to look for!
The number of switchers alone, regardless of the cause, is probably enough to move the stock like that; historically it swings wildly on market and mindshare reports, rather than on eps.
Agreed. The sample size was only 200 people. However, looking at the EPS trend for apple, the analysts aren't really doing much work at estimating future EPS. For the first quarter since its introduction, their sales aren't constrained by supply problems on the iPOD and mini; sales for both are expected to double for the current quarter. Furthermore, they actually have a consumer computer (also not supply-constrained) for the entire quarter.
For Apple to justify the PE of 90, they have to introduce (and make available) new laptops next quarter. Who knows what will shake out in the next 12 months, but Apple has to be positioned well for at least that long!
Not sure what you are looking at, but my 401k has a 2% fee for an index fund. This is for a 600+ person company. In the olden days ('95), when companies managed the records themselves, you got a much better yeild.
SFGate had an article stating that the cost to manage a 401k account is $350/year, above and beyond the fund management! The average account value has to be $100k for the overhead to be negligible. What percentage of people stay with a company long enough to *deposit* that much money into the account? Eight years minimum...
The reason people want Windows on the ATM's is so they can display interesting advertisements, and offer the user a multimedia experience. The ads don't come from the mainframe in BFE; they are in a wintel server farm somewhere else. The communications channel between the ATM and the mainframe is encrypted, but the other data is more or less raw from what I understand.
Unless banks charge for every transaction on an ATM, they want to find ways to bring in revenue from the damn things. Pick your poison...
Secondly and much more importantly, that private entity is non-partisan... there is nothing in their rules which on it's face discriminates against the Libertarian party.
No, it is a bi-partisan entity. That is the whole complaint! Read a little...
Every few months I send a love letter to Senator Feinstien regarding copyright issues. Every time, I get the same letter back, praising her efforts to strengthen Copyrights to support the California economy, citing specifically the DMCA.
After the first letter, I started asking her to use a different form letter, as the DMCA was exactly why I was critical of her efforts.
The reaction leads me to believe that congress just doesn't realize that there is anybody out there but the copyright holders. She even refers to her constituents as "consumers!"
The power output might be flat, but the efficiency drops off dramatically. Net effect is that you have larger blades than you would need for the rated output given a higher speed, which begs the question if you would be better off with a bigger generator...
There are two variables; the utility companies keep trying to have one "stable" grid, when it would often be more efficient to have multiple grids with different levels of power quality.
The other issue is that with multiple wind farms in geographically diverse areas on a single grid, the spinning reserve from conventional generation really need to support only a smaller percentage of the load.
If real time capacity information is available to the consumer (or can be inferred from the grid frequency), control networks can reduce the load to further reduce the need for spinning reserves. (Ramp down a chiller, let the temperature coast up a degree or two; do the same for fans on VFD's. Dim the lights a little. If the grid can see a 10% drop in consumption as a result in the reduction in capacity, things are more efficient for everybody. Nobody wants to pay for spinning reserve...
Here, Here on the Feinstein issue. Every few months I voice my complaints in a letter to her office, and always get the same form letter back touting her support for the DMCA.
The truth of the matter is that the net energy potential of nuclear power is about 1.06. That means you only get 6% more energy out of the plant over its life than what you put in.
As much as I would love for nuclear power to be the answer, all it really provides is a high density source of power. It doesn't solve any of the important problems.
While certainly not the pinnacle of industrial design, it is amazingly functional! I have console/command center applications with six to ten displays that could be instantly migrated to this, and avoid the long cable runs and kludge.
When you factor in the ease of using the VESA mount, it can really make for a clean installation wherever you have a bunch of monitors, or a dearth of space.
But, it does beg the question of "where do you go from here?" I can't imagine Apple going the wearable route in the next few years...
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Do you really think they will be supply constrained on this?! There aren't any fancy parts that are new to the market; it's almost a re-hash of the cube with more standard parts and a different case!
I hope they can put out a million a quarter... they need to for success. I can't imagine what would hold them up on it.
It's actually a perfect play; they also get to diversify on chip suppliers with a new product line! If IBM has a major problem it won't destroy sales now like it did six months ago.
In some circles, headers and footers must be counted for the total words.
Isn't the real issue here wing loading? With a small wing, you have to be going fast to land safely (which is hard without wheels), and increasing the wing size of the squirrel suits would pose an unmanagable force on the arms and legs.
We use Postini as well... not too impressed! One bad crash on their side made for a rough week on e-mail. Three days for them to institute a backup system when the primary server had a hard crash-- no company e-mail for three days, and crippled e-mail for a week.
Out-sourcing has its places, but... I'm thinking it is companies with fewer than 50 employees.
Well, I'd guess it is more like there is a 1:4550 chance of being in a commercial airline crash over the next 100 years. If airline flight stays at a constant level, that's more like one in a half-million per year.
It would also make a cool hosting environment... cheap cooling for the servers, nearly double the hours of solar exposure compared to the ground (and no temperature issues). Lots of cool applications could come of it...
And finally, weight would be a viable consideration for the Intel et al, justifying the higher density solutions...
...but most of the companies have a proprietary format for the data. If I recall correctly, with Suunto you can just get some really basic data (max depth, time, duration?), and everything else is requires their own software to run.
So, your data transfer is one problem, then reading the data won't be easy either.
Good luck!
The knob and tube can be a problem because of the separation of conductors, not the shielding, but it can definately cause some serious issues with enough harmonic distortion.
In general, the biggest problem with dimmable ballasts is when they are not properly grounded. Check the grounds, make sure they are installed with the phase conductors, and make sure that they run with the phase and neutral wiring.
Also along these lines, if you have three-way switching check and make sure the switch leg properly installed; you don't want the current in the switch leg to form a loop with the neutral.
Last option is to look at your ballasts and make sure they have integral EMI filters. The CF retrofit bulbs won't have anything, but evereything else should be workable. If your problem CF lamps are in downlights, rip them out with retrofit kits. It isn't a horrible project.
intel's (future) ceo:
"Our view is that an evolutionary version of the PC will win that space," he said. "Do you want a rack of single-purpose devices costing from $100 to $250 each or do you want one $400 to $500 device, the PC? The key to the home is networking, and the PC is much better suited to do that."
Somebody get these guys a clue while I go sell my stock!
In their markets, this is the most bone-headed idea I can imagine! Why not go and sell people 4-5 $150 purpose-built devices rather than one $500 one!? He catches on in the last half of his statement, but thinking in terms of services instead of servers might get them back on track.
Agree again. The only real problem for me right now is AutoCAD. Almost everything else can be solved, but I can't ditch the work Dell for a mac until Autodesk gets on board.
The real problem for Apple, though, is not software but hardware supply issues. Software is the difference between a 10% and a 25% market share; hardware is the difference between 6% and 10%. Have to get over the first hurdle before you worry about the second!
Well, the analysts suggest that (subtracting cash reserves) the iPod constitutes half their worth, and the Mac platform the remainder.
Without the iPod, Apple would have been lucky to be in Sun's position today. Compare the 5-year stock graphs of the two companies.
Now, the real opportunity is if Apple can leverage what it has with the iPod to expand overall growth in a long-term, meaningful fashion.
You just have to know what to look for. The significant article would be the one covering the Compaq Personal DJ (Something like the PDJ-100; can't find any references anymore). It showed the future.
Although people here will continually obsess about things like Ogg support, sometimes their whining has value. If you have something that works technically, and has enough marketing muscle behind it, you have a winner.
Oddly, some of the best "tips" I've gotten have come from Slashdot. Both short term positions and long-term strategies. The complaints Taco made about the iPod give a useful insight into all the iPod killer reviews today, and the future direction... just know what to look for!
The number of switchers alone, regardless of the cause, is probably enough to move the stock like that; historically it swings wildly on market and mindshare reports, rather than on eps.
Agreed. The sample size was only 200 people. However, looking at the EPS trend for apple, the analysts aren't really doing much work at estimating future EPS. For the first quarter since its introduction, their sales aren't constrained by supply problems on the iPOD and mini; sales for both are expected to double for the current quarter. Furthermore, they actually have a consumer computer (also not supply-constrained) for the entire quarter.
For Apple to justify the PE of 90, they have to introduce (and make available) new laptops next quarter. Who knows what will shake out in the next 12 months, but Apple has to be positioned well for at least that long!
Not sure what you are looking at, but my 401k has a 2% fee for an index fund. This is for a 600+ person company. In the olden days ('95), when companies managed the records themselves, you got a much better yeild.
SFGate had an article stating that the cost to manage a 401k account is $350/year, above and beyond the fund management! The average account value has to be $100k for the overhead to be negligible. What percentage of people stay with a company long enough to *deposit* that much money into the account? Eight years minimum...
The reason people want Windows on the ATM's is so they can display interesting advertisements, and offer the user a multimedia experience. The ads don't come from the mainframe in BFE; they are in a wintel server farm somewhere else. The communications channel between the ATM and the mainframe is encrypted, but the other data is more or less raw from what I understand.
Unless banks charge for every transaction on an ATM, they want to find ways to bring in revenue from the damn things. Pick your poison...
Having seen the Fleet Bank data centers, I assure you... you're in better hands now! It can't be any worse than that...
Secondly and much more importantly, that private entity is non-partisan... there is nothing in their rules which on it's face discriminates against the Libertarian party.
No, it is a bi-partisan entity. That is the whole complaint! Read a little...
Every few months I send a love letter to Senator Feinstien regarding copyright issues. Every time, I get the same letter back, praising her efforts to strengthen Copyrights to support the California economy, citing specifically the DMCA.
After the first letter, I started asking her to use a different form letter, as the DMCA was exactly why I was critical of her efforts.
The reaction leads me to believe that congress just doesn't realize that there is anybody out there but the copyright holders. She even refers to her constituents as "consumers!"
Too bad there isn't a better choice...
Good link! While towing 300# of cargo up a San Francisco hill would be a bit of work, it's nice to know that there is something out there for it!
The power output might be flat, but the efficiency drops off dramatically. Net effect is that you have larger blades than you would need for the rated output given a higher speed, which begs the question if you would be better off with a bigger generator...
There are two variables; the utility companies keep trying to have one "stable" grid, when it would often be more efficient to have multiple grids with different levels of power quality.
The other issue is that with multiple wind farms in geographically diverse areas on a single grid, the spinning reserve from conventional generation really need to support only a smaller percentage of the load.
If real time capacity information is available to the consumer (or can be inferred from the grid frequency), control networks can reduce the load to further reduce the need for spinning reserves. (Ramp down a chiller, let the temperature coast up a degree or two; do the same for fans on VFD's. Dim the lights a little. If the grid can see a 10% drop in consumption as a result in the reduction in capacity, things are more efficient for everybody. Nobody wants to pay for spinning reserve...
Here, Here on the Feinstein issue. Every few months I voice my complaints in a letter to her office, and always get the same form letter back touting her support for the DMCA.
The truth of the matter is that the net energy potential of nuclear power is about 1.06. That means you only get 6% more energy out of the plant over its life than what you put in.
As much as I would love for nuclear power to be the answer, all it really provides is a high density source of power. It doesn't solve any of the important problems.
While certainly not the pinnacle of industrial design, it is amazingly functional! I have console/command center applications with six to ten displays that could be instantly migrated to this, and avoid the long cable runs and kludge.
When you factor in the ease of using the VESA mount, it can really make for a clean installation wherever you have a bunch of monitors, or a dearth of space.
But, it does beg the question of "where do you go from here?" I can't imagine Apple going the wearable route in the next few years...
Can we PLEASE get some slashcode additions to filter out Roland in the preferences!!! Worthless stories/blog spam like this need a filter!