Un-sung is probably not an apt term for it. Engineers designed materials working for company X, and most of them got a decent bonus/promotion/raise for their work. My professor for Semiconductors1 knew the person who thought up the idea of using a single silicon crystal to control the voltage on a MOSFET device. It's an advance, not a breakthrough. He got a decent raise, a good bonus, and a promotion so that he would be able to have a few people work under him for further research.
My grandfather designed parts of the engine for the SR-71. As the result of his work (some of which he still can't talk about), he still receives a pension. At the time, he was promoted to management.
We can't reward every advance as a breakthrough and put it in the history textbooks. At some point it comes down to "Here is the problem, we need a solution". Some people go out, research a solution and sell it to a company. Or maybe they become private inventors. Just because you solved today's problem in materials science as a material scientist doesn't mean that you get a shiny medal and the Nobel Prize.
I'm sorry, but since when is switching over to Web-based applications a one-time investment and a single learning curve?
"Yes I will take one Internet please" "that'll be $100" "Thanks"
Something that people seem to forget is that using Web-based applications is not free because it comes with increased bandwidth needs when you are talking about it on a business-scale (which is usally payed for on a month-to-month basis).
Also, I feel the need to mention that it is not as if web-based applications and linux-based applications never change. Yes, google office has been the same since the first time I used it, but I would bet my life savings that it will change before the next version of windows comes out. Linux changes all the time, and you have to fight to keep up with it.
I'm sorry, I agree with your point that when you cost-compare using existing computers to run Linux (which will likely run faster/better) to buying new computers that run Vista that Linux will win every time. Of course, this has always been the case. The questions are: 1 - when you buy NEW hardware is it worth it to have Vista? 2 - when Vista comes out, is it worth it to upgrade?
To spoil the answers, it is almost never worth it to upgrade and it is almost always worth it to have on new hardware. This is why there are getting to be an army of old, functional machines that run linux and new, shiny machines that run Vista (which will eventually switch to Linux after the Vista++ comes out).
I'm sorry, but since when is switching over to Web-based applications a one-time investment and a single learning curve?
"Yes I will take one Internet please"
"that'll be $100"
"Thanks"
Something that people seem to forget is that using Web-based applications is not free because it comes with increased bandwidth needs when you are talking about it on a business-scale (which is usally payed for on a month-to-month basis).
Also, I feel the need to mention that it is not as if web-based applications and linux-based applications never change. Yes, google office has been the same since the first time I used it, but I would bet my life savings that it will change before the next version of windows comes out. Linux changes all the time, and you have to fight to keep up with it.
I'm sorry, I agree with your point that when you cost-compare using existing computers to run Linux (which will likely run faster/better) to buying new computers that run Vista that Linux will win every time. Of course, this has always been the case. The questions are:
1 - when you buy NEW hardware is it worth it to have Vista?
2 - when Vista comes out, is it worth it to upgrade?
To spoil the answers, it is almost never worth it to upgrade and it is almost always worth it to have on new hardware. This is why there are getting to be an army of old, functional machines that run linux and new, shiny machines that run Vista (which will eventually switch to Linux after the Vista++ comes out).
I've used it for the same thing... booting from a CD-rom. with a 40gb hard drive, I don't get 4gb to spare as a "just in case I need to inspect an old floppy" partition.
Hahaha, I remember when our DARE cop asked the class "how many of you know your neighborhood cop?" and no one answered. I later told my parents, whose response was "since when was their a cop for every neighborhood?".
That "advertisement" for anti-piracy always bothered me, and one day I realized what it was that bothered me about it. The only time you see it is when you have legitimately purchased/rented the movie that you are about to watch.
That's right, the only people that see the "please don't pirate this" message are the only people who DIDN'T pirate it. Man, talk about alienating your fan-base.
Just to present an opposing side of he argument ilustrated with an example from my life:
I live with 2 rooommates and we are all college students in a major metropolitan area. We have 3 television sets (all donated to us), but we do not have cable. "Why?" you ask. Cable is $50/month, internet varies in price, but the best/most expensive is $45/month. We have long said that we would reduce the quality of our internet in order to get a few select cable channels (comedy central, GSN, discovery, fox (which we curently get broadcast, but it sucks) ).
So, channels that we enjoy are not receiving income from us because of the overhead cost that the cable company is mandating (that we pay for close to 200 channels that we don't want).
There was a cost breakdown in the local area paper and the conclusion was this:
If you buy solar panels for you home, they will pay for themselves in 20 years.
Also, to do this, you have to have something like 27K up front (if you loan/lease it will be longer before they pay for themselves).
Of course this makes the assumptions that the solar panels never break/fail and that the price of electricity is fairly constant. This is in Florida, where it is sunny most of the day, with torrential downfall for 2 hours/day.
Essentially, if you had 27K in you bank account, you would be better to invest it in a moderate-risk stock portfolio and use the returns to pay your power bill.
Oh man! He is one step away from going into Best Buy and smashing all the violent games; just as several people did with bars and alcohol, respectively.
Just to be counter-example, I feel like saying that I am currently doing the following: 1 - going to college full time (12 credits in the coming fall/spring) at a 4-year college, majoring in Electrical Engineering 2 - studying for the GRE (which I will take to pursue my masters while working full time) 3 - working 32 hours/week 4 - in a committed long-term relationship (she is also in college, also persuing a technical degree: microbiology) 5 - living on less than half of what I make. I make ~$12/hour at my internship. This + scholarships (high GPA and minimal volunteering payed for my tuition) pay for books/books/rent. 6 - this one will come as a shock, I have over $5000 in investments (staying at home through high school, investing everything I made) 7 - I do not own a credit card (my bank has provided me with a debit card, however) 8 - I will own a house within 15 years, easily, living inside of my income, investing the rest 9 - I live off-campus with several roommates (including my brother atm, but I have always had roommates) 10 - my monthly payments are as follows: rent, electricity, phone/internet. I have no cell phone, I have no car payment (paid in cash with part of saved money when my Saturn died last Thanksgiving), we split three payments that we have to make.
Also, my parents are middle class and divorced. My mother makes ~40K/year, my father makes ~30K/year, my step-mother and step-father are retired. Although they pay for gas/food when I come home, I get little aid.
I am happy to be in America, where capitalism (if not Republicanism) rules the day. I am proud that my money has value, my bank is insured, and hard work pays off.
We are not all deadbeat Social Services majors questing for what used to be a high school diploma and finding only crushing debt.
Someone has already mentioned using laser-controlled fission/fusion with this laser that requires significantly less power. Cheaper, lighter power = more and longer burn times for spacecraft = more acceleration = get to other planets quicker (in on lifetime, maybe).
Hahahahahaha, fair. No really, fair. It's not fair. It's business, it is called a competitive edge. It works like this:
your money ----> ISPS (---- money from websites for services
Or in Slashdot terms: 1. Charge customers for services 2. Charge service providers for customers 3. Make this legal??? 4. Profit!
Imagine that you getting internet it is process, like baking a cake. The websites are the ingredients in your cake, and the bakers are the ISP. You paying for a internet and downloading content is like having the cake. Then, ISPs charge individual sites for the right to be purchased (eaten/consumed). In a very real sense, this is them having the cake AND EATING IT TOO.
In the last election where I voted (2 years ago), we simplified the system down to 2 buttons for ammendments ('Yes, I vote in favor of this change' and 'No, I do not support this change'). For the presidency, we had 3 buttons, the Republican party candidate, the Democratic party candidate, and 'other'. These buttons filled the screen.
We had people that could not figure out this system. Really, COULD NOT figure it out. How, I do not understand, because there WERE ONLY TWO BUTTONS. Anyone that cannot figure out to touch the button that corresponds to their opinion after being told to do so more than twice (while waiting) is not worthy of having a vote. Also, on every step there was the option to go back, with a display of your choices at the end of every section (with the option to go back and change). Really, this was too complicated for some people. Really. Point and laugh at us.
Yes, in the above statement, I made 6 assumptions. The number (and nature) of assumptions was purposely unrealistic to reflect upon what lawmakers are likely attempting to plan for. Yes, it does yeild to the conclusion that we should ban phone numbers, which is also an unreallistic and unlikely conclusion. Sarcasm, I am afraid, was not transmitted effectively.
No, you can reverse-lookup a phone number without too much problem to find the address that it is registered under. It can only be assumed once someone has done this that the exposed person was a girl, and that she will be stalked, kidnapped, beaten, raped, and killed. No other scenario will be address.
Perhaps you knew that supercooled matter has a tendency to form one giant particle (Bosones and Fermions). What do we know about these fused matter states? Actually very little, because supercooling things is hard.
With all due respect, that wasn't the point. The point was to get there and get a settlement up and runnning. For this purpose, caste systems, democracy in charge, or even a "The strongest rule because they killed the last guy" system works just fine as long as the air generators, food-makers, and other technology keep maintained.
Jamestown wasn't founded by the brightest, most hardworking, or even tolerant people; it was founded by the bottom rung of society (Georgia was essentially a prison colony) and religious fanatics. As long as they realize that they have to eat and breathe and what to do to be able to do that, things should work out fine.
Except, of course, that Starship Troopers did not have a Protoss race. Come to think of it, the only similiarities are an insectoid alien races and humans in suits (in space). Of course you know that Starship Troopers was more a commentary of society than a war story, well, if you read it.
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Un-sung is probably not an apt term for it. Engineers designed materials working for company X, and most of them got a decent bonus/promotion/raise for their work. My professor for Semiconductors1 knew the person who thought up the idea of using a single silicon crystal to control the voltage on a MOSFET device. It's an advance, not a breakthrough. He got a decent raise, a good bonus, and a promotion so that he would be able to have a few people work under him for further research.
My grandfather designed parts of the engine for the SR-71. As the result of his work (some of which he still can't talk about), he still receives a pension. At the time, he was promoted to management.
We can't reward every advance as a breakthrough and put it in the history textbooks. At some point it comes down to "Here is the problem, we need a solution". Some people go out, research a solution and sell it to a company. Or maybe they become private inventors. Just because you solved today's problem in materials science as a material scientist doesn't mean that you get a shiny medal and the Nobel Prize.
I'm sorry, but since when is switching over to Web-based applications a one-time investment and a single learning curve?
"Yes I will take one Internet please"
"that'll be $100"
"Thanks"
Something that people seem to forget is that using Web-based applications is not free because it comes with increased bandwidth needs when you are talking about it on a business-scale (which is usally payed for on a month-to-month basis).
Also, I feel the need to mention that it is not as if web-based applications and linux-based applications never change. Yes, google office has been the same since the first time I used it, but I would bet my life savings that it will change before the next version of windows comes out. Linux changes all the time, and you have to fight to keep up with it.
I'm sorry, I agree with your point that when you cost-compare using existing computers to run Linux (which will likely run faster/better) to buying new computers that run Vista that Linux will win every time. Of course, this has always been the case. The questions are:
1 - when you buy NEW hardware is it worth it to have Vista?
2 - when Vista comes out, is it worth it to upgrade?
To spoil the answers, it is almost never worth it to upgrade and it is almost always worth it to have on new hardware. This is why there are getting to be an army of old, functional machines that run linux and new, shiny machines that run Vista (which will eventually switch to Linux after the Vista++ comes out).
I'm sorry, but since when is switching over to Web-based applications a one-time investment and a single learning curve? "Yes I will take one Internet please" "that'll be $100" "Thanks" Something that people seem to forget is that using Web-based applications is not free because it comes with increased bandwidth needs when you are talking about it on a business-scale (which is usally payed for on a month-to-month basis). Also, I feel the need to mention that it is not as if web-based applications and linux-based applications never change. Yes, google office has been the same since the first time I used it, but I would bet my life savings that it will change before the next version of windows comes out. Linux changes all the time, and you have to fight to keep up with it. I'm sorry, I agree with your point that when you cost-compare using existing computers to run Linux (which will likely run faster/better) to buying new computers that run Vista that Linux will win every time. Of course, this has always been the case. The questions are: 1 - when you buy NEW hardware is it worth it to have Vista? 2 - when Vista comes out, is it worth it to upgrade? To spoil the answers, it is almost never worth it to upgrade and it is almost always worth it to have on new hardware. This is why there are getting to be an army of old, functional machines that run linux and new, shiny machines that run Vista (which will eventually switch to Linux after the Vista++ comes out).
I've used it for the same thing... booting from a CD-rom. with a 40gb hard drive, I don't get 4gb to spare as a "just in case I need to inspect an old floppy" partition.
Linux
Hahaha, I remember when our DARE cop asked the class "how many of you know your neighborhood cop?" and no one answered. I later told my parents, whose response was "since when was their a cop for every neighborhood?".
Those were for real? I always answered that I did lots of drugs... my immature humor thought it was funnier that way.
That "advertisement" for anti-piracy always bothered me, and one day I realized what it was that bothered me about it. The only time you see it is when you have legitimately purchased/rented the movie that you are about to watch.
That's right, the only people that see the "please don't pirate this" message are the only people who DIDN'T pirate it. Man, talk about alienating your fan-base.
Just to present an opposing side of he argument ilustrated with an example from my life: I live with 2 rooommates and we are all college students in a major metropolitan area. We have 3 television sets (all donated to us), but we do not have cable. "Why?" you ask. Cable is $50/month, internet varies in price, but the best/most expensive is $45/month. We have long said that we would reduce the quality of our internet in order to get a few select cable channels (comedy central, GSN, discovery, fox (which we curently get broadcast, but it sucks) ). So, channels that we enjoy are not receiving income from us because of the overhead cost that the cable company is mandating (that we pay for close to 200 channels that we don't want).
There was a cost breakdown in the local area paper and the conclusion was this: If you buy solar panels for you home, they will pay for themselves in 20 years. Also, to do this, you have to have something like 27K up front (if you loan/lease it will be longer before they pay for themselves). Of course this makes the assumptions that the solar panels never break/fail and that the price of electricity is fairly constant. This is in Florida, where it is sunny most of the day, with torrential downfall for 2 hours/day. Essentially, if you had 27K in you bank account, you would be better to invest it in a moderate-risk stock portfolio and use the returns to pay your power bill.
You actually make a valid point. At more than one point in my college environment I took up writing an alternate symbol to represent something.
My drink of choice is 70% water, 30% juice (pure, not from concentrate, 100% juice). I'm afraid I can't see why fruit juice made your hit-list.
Oh man! He is one step away from going into Best Buy and smashing all the violent games; just as several people did with bars and alcohol, respectively.
Just to be counter-example, I feel like saying that I am currently doing the following:
1 - going to college full time (12 credits in the coming fall/spring) at a 4-year college, majoring in Electrical Engineering
2 - studying for the GRE (which I will take to pursue my masters while working full time)
3 - working 32 hours/week
4 - in a committed long-term relationship (she is also in college, also persuing a technical degree: microbiology)
5 - living on less than half of what I make. I make ~$12/hour at my internship. This + scholarships (high GPA and minimal volunteering payed for my tuition) pay for books/books/rent.
6 - this one will come as a shock, I have over $5000 in investments (staying at home through high school, investing everything I made)
7 - I do not own a credit card (my bank has provided me with a debit card, however)
8 - I will own a house within 15 years, easily, living inside of my income, investing the rest
9 - I live off-campus with several roommates (including my brother atm, but I have always had roommates)
10 - my monthly payments are as follows: rent, electricity, phone/internet. I have no cell phone, I have no car payment (paid in cash with part of saved money when my Saturn died last Thanksgiving), we split three payments that we have to make.
Also, my parents are middle class and divorced. My mother makes ~40K/year, my father makes ~30K/year, my step-mother and step-father are retired. Although they pay for gas/food when I come home, I get little aid.
I am happy to be in America, where capitalism (if not Republicanism) rules the day. I am proud that my money has value, my bank is insured, and hard work pays off.
We are not all deadbeat Social Services majors questing for what used to be a high school diploma and finding only crushing debt.
Someone has already mentioned using laser-controlled fission/fusion with this laser that requires significantly less power. Cheaper, lighter power = more and longer burn times for spacecraft = more acceleration = get to other planets quicker (in on lifetime, maybe).
There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order.
-- Ed Howdershelt
He was partially right, the internet is not a big truck.
Hahahahahaha, fair. No really, fair. It's not fair. It's business, it is called a competitive edge. It works like this:
your money ----> ISPS (---- money from websites for services
Or in Slashdot terms:
1. Charge customers for services
2. Charge service providers for customers
3. Make this legal???
4. Profit!
Imagine that you getting internet it is process, like baking a cake. The websites are the ingredients in your cake, and the bakers are the ISP. You paying for a internet and downloading content is like having the cake. Then, ISPs charge individual sites for the right to be purchased (eaten/consumed). In a very real sense, this is them having the cake AND EATING IT TOO.
I live in Florida. Yes, point and laugh at me.
In the last election where I voted (2 years ago), we simplified the system down to 2 buttons for ammendments ('Yes, I vote in favor of this change' and 'No, I do not support this change'). For the presidency, we had 3 buttons, the Republican party candidate, the Democratic party candidate, and 'other'. These buttons filled the screen.
We had people that could not figure out this system. Really, COULD NOT figure it out. How, I do not understand, because there WERE ONLY TWO BUTTONS. Anyone that cannot figure out to touch the button that corresponds to their opinion after being told to do so more than twice (while waiting) is not worthy of having a vote. Also, on every step there was the option to go back, with a display of your choices at the end of every section (with the option to go back and change). Really, this was too complicated for some people. Really. Point and laugh at us.
Yes, in the above statement, I made 6 assumptions. The number (and nature) of assumptions was purposely unrealistic to reflect upon what lawmakers are likely attempting to plan for. Yes, it does yeild to the conclusion that we should ban phone numbers, which is also an unreallistic and unlikely conclusion. Sarcasm, I am afraid, was not transmitted effectively.
No, you can reverse-lookup a phone number without too much problem to find the address that it is registered under. It can only be assumed once someone has done this that the exposed person was a girl, and that she will be stalked, kidnapped, beaten, raped, and killed. No other scenario will be address.
Perhaps you knew that supercooled matter has a tendency to form one giant particle (Bosones and Fermions). What do we know about these fused matter states? Actually very little, because supercooling things is hard.
With all due respect, that wasn't the point. The point was to get there and get a settlement up and runnning. For this purpose, caste systems, democracy in charge, or even a "The strongest rule because they killed the last guy" system works just fine as long as the air generators, food-makers, and other technology keep maintained.
Jamestown wasn't founded by the brightest, most hardworking, or even tolerant people; it was founded by the bottom rung of society (Georgia was essentially a prison colony) and religious fanatics. As long as they realize that they have to eat and breathe and what to do to be able to do that, things should work out fine.
Except, of course, that Starship Troopers did not have a Protoss race. Come to think of it, the only similiarities are an insectoid alien races and humans in suits (in space). Of course you know that Starship Troopers was more a commentary of society than a war story, well, if you read it.
Linux also has that feature, and has for the past year or so.