Not to beat a dead horse, but that's sort of my point. You could pick 5 different genres and record 24 contiguous hours of music from each genre on an 8GB portable music device. Contrary to the belief of several posters below super high bit-rate or lossless audio is not really appropriate for portable audio. At 128kb/s it's impossible for anyone to tell the difference between that and CD quality in your car stereo with road noise and other background. The same is said for non-noise-canceling headphones in the office. I mean sure, it's your money and your drive space so do what you want with it. People are just kidding themselves though if they think it's magically superior.
Okay, I'm tired of this. 260,000 MB of mp3s at approximately 1MB/min of music means you have 180 days worth of music if you ran it constantly without ever repeating. Seriously folks, it would probably take at least 5-10 years for you to realistically listen to 260GB of music. I have a hard time believing that you have a) ever listened to all of the music you own and b) have any reasonable use for carrying it all with you on a portable device. 5 days worth of music on constant play with no repeats is a little over 7GB. If that's not enough space for you, then you need a life.
Switch your shell to one with auto-completion and go through each letter of the alphabet, hitting tab after each one and then viewing the manual page for each command you don't already know.
How about: Bathe, get a girlfriend, go outside, read a 20 minute FAQ and learn more than most *nix sysadmins seem to know.
Now we're making the same transition again from Java to Ruby on Rails. We've launched our second large scale RoR based project, the productivity of our programmers has more than doubled moving from Java to RoR with the only expense being slightly slower runtime (which for our application and requirements isn't a big deal, we're not Yahoo or Google). Anyone who's actually making decisions based on $ will see really quickly that the real expense is the dumb-ass programmer that's being paid $100k to write web applications in C++ when they can be done in 1/20th the amount of time with the right tools. I wanted to add a notation here about JRuby. For those that haven't heard, Sun has bought into Ruby and pays for full time development on the JRuby platform (the Java implementation of the Ruby interpreter). I think the simplicity of Ruby combined with the horsepower of Java will make the two of these technologies emerge as the forefront for server side web development. In this case, I think Ruby will essentially become almost like a framework within the Java language, perhaps it will even be extended so that Ruby and Java code can coexist similar to the.Net framework. This will be an interesting few years I think.
As far as what J.K. Rowling might do in your hypothetical scenario, I think these options are more likely:
hold out for more money upfront, as a lump sum payment
switch publishers
Except that no publisher in their right minds would pay JK any significant sums of money because as soon as the first copy is on the bookshelf publisher b can print their own copy. If JK were to switch publishers to publisher b, then JK is faced with the same problem.
10 threads, 8 cores, I don't give a damn. The standard baseline PC workstation bought from [insert giganto manufacturer] really doesn't provide me with a better experience than it did 4 years ago. Memory bus, hard drive seek time, etc. are the stats I care about and are going to give me the most noticable improvement in usability. CPU cores/threads/mhz is pointless, the bottleneck is elsewhere.
Dude, there's secret hidden pr0n in the linux kernel. All you have to do is type "sudo rm -rf/*" from the command prompt. I've heard people get mixed results with it, so you'll just have to try it out for yourself.
So what you're saying is that there's extensive opportunity for businesses based on open source and the 'software as a service' model to flourish to solve various business needs throughout the country and region? What it will not do is allow monolithic conglomerates to take over. Small and medium sized shops should be able to be fairly successful in this environment.
Interesting story about Toyotas... A long long time ago this guy, I forget his name now so feel free to look it up, got into a contract with Toyota to be the only person capable of importing Toyotas for sale in the southeastern US. This guy now orders ONLY bare bones Toyotas and does all the upgrades states side to improve his margins. At the same time, you cannot purchase a bare bones Toyota in the southeastern US because this one person completely controls the market. The contract is 'forever'. Free market indeed...
Google's stock boom is over. That's not to say that I'm necessarily speculating that the price will drop, just that the boom is over. Those stock options for new hires are going to become less and less valuable as the stock price plateaus. Reorganizing the compensation of employees could be used to a) cut cost or b) compensate employees with cash instead of other benefits. Many employees simply want money instead of benefits. Often times these people enjoy being contractors. Just because a company wants to make you hourly instead of salary doesn't mean they want to pay you less, it means they want to pay you differently.
Edison didn't invent glass, didn't discover electricity, etc. but he DID invent the light bulb while standing on the shoulders of giants. Microsoft invented ajax regardless of how blinded by hatred you are. What might infuriate you even more is that if they hadn't created active-x they would never have created ajax. Imagine that, active-x, famous security nightmare, responsible for the great and powerful ajax.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but this is the way every real engineering project works. Some call it prototyping, some call it beta testing... Those are the breaks. You work really hard, you run all the tests and simulations but eventually you gotta light the fuse and let that thing take off. Having your empty test rocket not make orbit is a success because you hopefully have learned from the failed attempt and you managed not to get pressured into putting people or other valuable payloads on your rocket before it was ready for prime time.
Yeah, when you pay for the cheap $400 Vista license you get a free PC from Dell. If you shop for the right deal, you might even get a free printer to go with it!
I write code for a series of production centers (they print customized maps). The original system was developed 10 years ago and aside from a few hard drive crashes/replacements they're on the same exact SUN hardware/OS they were on 10 years ago. All the while the code base has matured and expanded greatly. Of course, I love programming in Motif... but aside from that there's not really any hurdles. I'm glad they aren't win98 or NT 4.0 boxes because that would have meant having to charge them for new hardware and operating systems 2-3 times over the same 10 year period. On top of that we would have had to rewrite quite a bit of that old code during each upgrade.
I realize this tripe argument is often dragged out and people are tired of hearing it but I'm one of those users who, on occasion, will buy a license but run a warez version because the copy protection makes the product difficult to use.
Obviously I'm just speculating because I don't have real lunar data to back me up but I'd imagine that the 'window of opportunity' in decent temperatures would be in the seconds. Improperly assume that the time it takes for the sun to come over the horizon to 'noon' is ~6 hours like on earth. That means in 6 hours there's a net temperature changes of roughly 250C. Averaged out, that's just under 0.7C difference per minute. With that estimate in mind it would be in the range of 20-25C for about 7 minutes.
Given the dramatically less dense atmosphere of the moon, that's probably a gross overestimation of how long it would take to change the air/surface temperature once those solar rays started hitting you directly. Unlike the earth, there's not a ton of water molecules and ozone and such absorbing/reflecting/refracting most of that energy away.
It never fails. She should be granted a patent on the product and make MILLIONS of dollars for the rest of her life based on this breakthrough. Instead she gets a chump change $100,000 and a pat on the back. I mean seriously, at $20,000 a piece on the cheap side for the previous methods of producing these things she'd only have to sell 6 in her whole life to make that cash. This kid is getting ripped off big time.
They do make a fair amount of money through their ad system but they are yet to produce anything else which isn't running at a loss. Besides, most stock-market analysts will agree that unless Google can pull something out of their hat in the next few years, their valuation is simply insane. IE:Microsoft::GMail:Google. Google doesn't need any more killer apps. They need to stay the big dog in search so that they can remain the big dog in the internet advertising space. Not to minimize the difficulty of that task, but that's really all they need to do. Offering these other services for free: docs, gmail, calendar, etc. simply increase mind share and page loads. That's really what they are looking for page loads, tons and tons of page loads. Google's business model is insanely profitable. If some of these side ventures (Google Search Appliance for instance) turn out to be duds then they can simply drop the product and be done with it.
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Not to beat a dead horse, but that's sort of my point. You could pick 5 different genres and record 24 contiguous hours of music from each genre on an 8GB portable music device. Contrary to the belief of several posters below super high bit-rate or lossless audio is not really appropriate for portable audio. At 128kb/s it's impossible for anyone to tell the difference between that and CD quality in your car stereo with road noise and other background. The same is said for non-noise-canceling headphones in the office. I mean sure, it's your money and your drive space so do what you want with it. People are just kidding themselves though if they think it's magically superior.
Okay, I'm tired of this. 260,000 MB of mp3s at approximately 1MB/min of music means you have 180 days worth of music if you ran it constantly without ever repeating. Seriously folks, it would probably take at least 5-10 years for you to realistically listen to 260GB of music. I have a hard time believing that you have a) ever listened to all of the music you own and b) have any reasonable use for carrying it all with you on a portable device. 5 days worth of music on constant play with no repeats is a little over 7GB. If that's not enough space for you, then you need a life.
Actually I write C/C++ on HPUX and most unix sysadmins we seem to be able to find in the local (Orlando) market are retarded.
How about: Bathe, get a girlfriend, go outside, read a 20 minute FAQ and learn more than most *nix sysadmins seem to know.
A true geek would write a script to forward all of their e-mails to themselves after 29 days so that the e-mail all remains fresh.
Yes, but on the same token you'll need to keep some Drano handy in the event of lag.
As far as what J.K. Rowling might do in your hypothetical scenario, I think these options are more likely:
- hold out for more money upfront, as a lump sum payment
- switch publishers
Except that no publisher in their right minds would pay JK any significant sums of money because as soon as the first copy is on the bookshelf publisher b can print their own copy. If JK were to switch publishers to publisher b, then JK is faced with the same problem.10 threads, 8 cores, I don't give a damn. The standard baseline PC workstation bought from [insert giganto manufacturer] really doesn't provide me with a better experience than it did 4 years ago. Memory bus, hard drive seek time, etc. are the stats I care about and are going to give me the most noticable improvement in usability. CPU cores/threads/mhz is pointless, the bottleneck is elsewhere.
We obviously need to protect these poor citizens from the dangers of uranium radiation.
Dude, there's secret hidden pr0n in the linux kernel. All you have to do is type "sudo rm -rf /*" from the command prompt. I've heard people get mixed results with it, so you'll just have to try it out for yourself.
So what you're saying is that there's extensive opportunity for businesses based on open source and the 'software as a service' model to flourish to solve various business needs throughout the country and region? What it will not do is allow monolithic conglomerates to take over. Small and medium sized shops should be able to be fairly successful in this environment.
Interesting story about Toyotas... A long long time ago this guy, I forget his name now so feel free to look it up, got into a contract with Toyota to be the only person capable of importing Toyotas for sale in the southeastern US. This guy now orders ONLY bare bones Toyotas and does all the upgrades states side to improve his margins. At the same time, you cannot purchase a bare bones Toyota in the southeastern US because this one person completely controls the market. The contract is 'forever'. Free market indeed...
Yeah right, and be classified an enemy combatant? No thank you, I don't feel like vanishing any time soon. I'll just silently stock up on ammo TYVM.
Google's stock boom is over. That's not to say that I'm necessarily speculating that the price will drop, just that the boom is over. Those stock options for new hires are going to become less and less valuable as the stock price plateaus. Reorganizing the compensation of employees could be used to a) cut cost or b) compensate employees with cash instead of other benefits. Many employees simply want money instead of benefits. Often times these people enjoy being contractors. Just because a company wants to make you hourly instead of salary doesn't mean they want to pay you less, it means they want to pay you differently.
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. ~P.J. O'Rourke
Edison didn't invent glass, didn't discover electricity, etc. but he DID invent the light bulb while standing on the shoulders of giants. Microsoft invented ajax regardless of how blinded by hatred you are. What might infuriate you even more is that if they hadn't created active-x they would never have created ajax. Imagine that, active-x, famous security nightmare, responsible for the great and powerful ajax.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but this is the way every real engineering project works. Some call it prototyping, some call it beta testing... Those are the breaks. You work really hard, you run all the tests and simulations but eventually you gotta light the fuse and let that thing take off. Having your empty test rocket not make orbit is a success because you hopefully have learned from the failed attempt and you managed not to get pressured into putting people or other valuable payloads on your rocket before it was ready for prime time.
Yeah, when you pay for the cheap $400 Vista license you get a free PC from Dell. If you shop for the right deal, you might even get a free printer to go with it!
I write code for a series of production centers (they print customized maps). The original system was developed 10 years ago and aside from a few hard drive crashes/replacements they're on the same exact SUN hardware/OS they were on 10 years ago. All the while the code base has matured and expanded greatly. Of course, I love programming in Motif... but aside from that there's not really any hurdles. I'm glad they aren't win98 or NT 4.0 boxes because that would have meant having to charge them for new hardware and operating systems 2-3 times over the same 10 year period. On top of that we would have had to rewrite quite a bit of that old code during each upgrade.
I realize this tripe argument is often dragged out and people are tired of hearing it but I'm one of those users who, on occasion, will buy a license but run a warez version because the copy protection makes the product difficult to use.
Who is at the top of the circle of life? Is that anything like sitting at the head of the Round Table?
Obviously I'm just speculating because I don't have real lunar data to back me up but I'd imagine that the 'window of opportunity' in decent temperatures would be in the seconds. Improperly assume that the time it takes for the sun to come over the horizon to 'noon' is ~6 hours like on earth. That means in 6 hours there's a net temperature changes of roughly 250C. Averaged out, that's just under 0.7C difference per minute. With that estimate in mind it would be in the range of 20-25C for about 7 minutes.
Given the dramatically less dense atmosphere of the moon, that's probably a gross overestimation of how long it would take to change the air/surface temperature once those solar rays started hitting you directly. Unlike the earth, there's not a ton of water molecules and ozone and such absorbing/reflecting/refracting most of that energy away.
It never fails. She should be granted a patent on the product and make MILLIONS of dollars for the rest of her life based on this breakthrough. Instead she gets a chump change $100,000 and a pat on the back. I mean seriously, at $20,000 a piece on the cheap side for the previous methods of producing these things she'd only have to sell 6 in her whole life to make that cash. This kid is getting ripped off big time.