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by Tamerlin 16y ago
The rate of the reaction would be the net, which is by definition 0 at equilibrium, as you described. So the answer SHOULD have been 0, but to be a question worth putting on a mid-term for biochemistry, the question should have specified st
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Be did a couple of things that prevented BeOS from going anywhere. One was basing the machine on PPC processors initially, because it limited their audience. I thought it was a cool idea, but wasn't willing to buy outdated hardware to get t
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Same here. I knew people who memorized their way through their mid-term and final exams, but couldn't explain any of what they'd memorized. That applied to some of the professors also -- one even put a question on a mid-term for biochemistr
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I agree -- there are a lot of disinterested 9-5ers who are burned out by their environment, not the technology.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
It's a circular problem actually. Sparc is failing because Solaris is failing, and Solaris is failing because Sparc is inferior. Cray got reborn in the form of SGI's Altix, which to abuse the analogy would be a pack of wolves compared to th
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
IBM has a LOT of facilities in Dutchess County -- including their own HQ in Armonk. There are several significant plants there, and I think they still have some semiconductor manufacturing there -- which might help explain the severe pollut
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
That's a good point. I suppose I should have specifically labelled DB2 and SQL Server as competitors to Oracle 10x or whatever their current DBMS version is. :)
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
IBM's done worse before. In the late 90's my father was part of a first round of IBM layoffs -- in which they cut 6000 jobs... in Dutchess County, New York. That was the <i>first round</i> of layoffs. Another few thousand go
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I forgot to mention in my AT&T diatribe... when they ended my contract there, in customer support (where believe it or not, our phones did not work), the person that they brought in to replace me was internal. Internal transfer displace
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Other than the aforementioned DB2, the only other competitor out there for Oracle is SQL Server. That has some big customers -- a large part of Disney's online infrastructure relies on SQL Server, for example.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
" they own a great processor (Sparc)" I'm not so sure about that. For years x86 has been chewing up the market for Sparc processors, and one of the reasons that Sun had such poor finances is that it was selling x86-based servers more than S
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
That was one of the things that destroyed NCR after AT&T bought it. AT&T had no technical career path, and effectively cut its own head off. As a result, AT&T bought NCR for something like $9 billion, and ended up spinning it of
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Good point.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I wish more people would take the small amount of time required to find out what Moore's Law really is. Since it only addresses increases in transistor budgets (due to density), it has nothing to do with price. Another point that more peopl
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I suspect that Intel is also intent on entering the high end GPU market. The margins in mainstream processors are decreasing, and the new ARM cores aren't going to help with that. Margins on high-end GPU's on the other hand are quite high.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
The part that threw me off was where you said that the Canon sensor contains 3 photosites per pixel -- which based on this pots leads me to believe that you meant that it uses 3 photo sites to record each pixel, which is still not entirely
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
40-bit addressing is probably enough for a lot of applications that Intel isn't a significant player in yet, also -- like console gaming, streaming video, and that sort of thing. That would also explain the target 2.5 GHz clock speed, 8 cor
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
No, the Canon sensors also have only one photosite per pixel -- they're still using a Bayer filter on a monochromatic sensor.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
That's exactly the problem, IMO -- the bar for entry in the tech industry is altogether too low. The glut of unqualified but formerly employed tech workers is symptomatic of that. And if anyone ever had any doubt about the veracity of claim
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"I think that's the problem. Everyone wants talented developers. Many companies can no longer afford to hire less talented developers who many have been able to get a job in a booming economy." They're also trying to take advantage of the e
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
That is, however, precisely what they did during the .com boom.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
The Every Child Left Behind program suggests that it's not a theory. Placing an emphasis on standardized testing is symptomatic of exactly that -- train the intellect and imagination out of the populace... they're easier to control then. Te
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
The muddled presentation is due a combination of factors. One is that the scientists tend not to counter the pseudo-scientific idiocy that's rampant -- even though it's mind-numbingly obvious to anyone who isn't a complete idiot that it's p
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"On the other hand, things like climate science seem (to me at least) to rely much more on the argument from authority for gaining lay support." Have you looked at any of the actual research? It sounds more like you're criticizing the very
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"May be the number of patents that are being produced has to be increased, to generate enough jobs to overcome the producctivty gains caused by new technology?" What productivity gains? So far as I can tell, it doesn't take any less time to
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Sigh... typical response. I suppose I should have known better than to expect an intelligent response, eh? (Then again, people actually believed Apple in spite of their equally transparent gaming of their SPEC tests.) The best way to see th
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
I can't do with digital what I do with film... the technology in its current state is simply too limiting.
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Not even remotely. The luminous landscape comparisons were complete rubbish. The best prints that I've seen from digital imagers, including modern full-frame 35mm digital cameras, look miserably blurry if you approach the print closely enou
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
"will give lead to eventual loss of technology leadership itself" I'm not convinced that you're using the correct tense here. Consider -- what technology do we develop here in the US now? Most of the world's major high-tech fabrication is n
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by Tamerlin 16y ago
Also an excellent quote, and entirely appropriate.

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