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Unless whatever contract the person signed when then applied for the university prohibitied this behavior, isn't this just good business sense? All businesses twist the laws and contracts to wring every bit of usefulness out of them. In that sense, wouldn't finding out information ahead of time be a wise business tactic? Or would it be a better business tactic for the 119 applicants to get together and hire a lawyer sue Harvard for this?

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I would think that the people designing the bots would test them first. Or did the bots beat all of the designers in arm wrestling? If they did, I wouldn't be too suprised.

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I don't think there is any implication in the leaked information that Apple was doing something the least bit wrong with the mini. I'm guessing that fact that the leaked information revealed good things that Apple was doing (and that others can copy for profit) had a large part to play in the decision. If Apple was using young children to build the products, then the blogger might have a case.

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Given the speed at which the industry moves, I'm guessing yes. Intel quickly created a Mac Mini clone so having extra time to figure out how to copy Apple could result in a nice chunk of sales. This is also more important for Apple since a lot of their high profile innovations (nothing high tech about a 10GB MP3 player by itself) aren't based on strange tech which makes it easy to replicate once you know what's happening. Ideas are worth big money in the design market.

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Pretty much. It's the same reasoning protecting trade secrets that protects copyrights for private companies. Unless the public is at risk (E.g. company dumping toxic wastes in a daycare center), there is no constitutional reason to allow people to disclose trade secrets like that. Journalistic protection against governments is because the people have the right to know what their leaders are doing. Customers and other companies don't have those rights.

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Look at their privacy policy.

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Also, good to see Google isn't doing an eternal beta on this product like its Google News offering (the whole beta thing gets annoying after 2 continuous years!)

That's a legal issue. If Google starts making money from other news sites without actually paying them, then they risk legal action for use of copyrighted material. Right now, they have no ads because this (in theory) puts them in the fair use section

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Maybe they could jump ship and try for one of the proposed manned space programs in other countries. The pilots and engineers shouldn't have a problem finding jobs in the private sector as it begins to take off (no pun intended) since there will be a need for people who know how to get a hunk of metal moving at 7km/s on the ground in once piece. The scientists and other mission personal would have trouble finding spots in the private sector unless it becomes profitable. This would require something like feasible zero-gee engineering that NASA has always been looking at. Maybe one of the big biotech or chemical companies would pay for a science team to spend some time in orbit to do some material engineering research. However, it would be harder to get private science crews into space who can't show short term profits. This would probably require a government for funding.

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If anyone is interested, simdtech.org is probably the best resource you can find for AltiVec (or any other SIMD) programming. They have a number of tutorials and technical resources and the mailing list is the best there is. Motorola, Apple, and IBM engineers frequent the list so you can get help and information directly from the guys that created AltiVec as well as from those who program for it.

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When you use a mouse, do you have your forearm at an angle to the mouse with your index finger on the left button (assuming right-handedness), your middle finger on the right button, and your ring finger on the "forward" button on 5-button mice? I've found that having my forearm parallel to the mouse with my middle finger on the scroll, my ring finger on the right mouse button, and my pinky on the forward button reduces the stress on my wrist since my wrist is no longer twisted at an odd angle. I was wondering if anyone else did this too.

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The editors should just link to mirrordot in each story. Story Picture

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That is completely untrue. It has been years since MTV has shown videos.

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The last time the FCC tried to do this, they were struck down by the SCotUS who agreed with a lower court which ruled that the FCC can't censor cable broadcasts the way they wanted to. This is seperate from the airwaves since cable TV isn't a public right like access to the EM spectrum. This ruling pretty much said that cable operators can do whatever they want with regards to content since the customer always has the option of not subscribing to the cable network. Most channels still self-censor, but they are under no legal requirement to do so. In fact, MTV sometimes airs uncensored videos at odd hours of the night and there is nothing the right wing can do about it but complain to the advertisers.

I also believe that cable TV will pretty much die out once we have enough bandwith that the majority of people can legally order shows in real time over their Internet connection. It's just going to take a while for the big dinosaurs to realize that they have to adapt or die.

BTW, the original case of US v. Playboy: http://www.fcc.gov/ogc/documents/opinions/2000/98- 1682.html

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The last time the FCC tried to do this, they were struck down by the SCotUS who agreed with a lower court which ruled that the FCC can't censor cable broadcasts the way they wanted to. This is seperate from the airwaves since cable TV isn't a public right like access to the EM spectrum. This ruling pretty much said that cable operators can do whatever they want with regards to content since the customer always has the option of not subscribing to the cable network. Most channels still self-censor, but they are under no legal requirement to do so. In fact, MTV sometimes airs uncensored videos at odd hours of the night and there is nothing the right wing can do about it but complain to the advertisers.

I also believe that cable TV will pretty much die out once we have enough bandwith that the majority of people can legally order shows in real time over their Internet connection. It's just going to take a while for the big dinosaurs to realize that they have to adapt or die.

BTW, the original case of US v. Playboy: http://www.fcc.gov/ogc/documents/opinions/2000/98- 1682.html

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Is adding Apple's "look and feel" to a product that most users seem to like as it is really the best business move? I know I don't want Apples look and feel on my computer OR any of my television appliances. But maybe that's just because I don't have a mac.

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Not necessarily. Just because the code will be running on PPC processors doesn't necessarily mean that you'll be seeing a lot of games for the Mac platform. The bigger problem is the libraries and operating systems the games will be running on.

Yes, it will be a good thing to have people optimizing code specifically for PPC processors. More people will likely be learning AltiVec and writing code for it. And the code will hopefully be optimized well for the PPC platform taking its strengths and weaknesses into account. But that doesn't make a Mac port easy or practical. Games for the NeXT XBox will be coded to Windows APIs (Win32, DirectX, etc.) and so they'll probably be much easier to port to Windows. They may not be optimized as well for x86 processors, but it'll be much easier to get the games running.

If anything there'll probably be more opportunities for people with PPC and AltiVec optimization experience (assuming they want to work in the sweat-shop environment the gaming industry provides).

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Wake me onces TV companies begin to distribute shows (either paid or free w/ commercials) over something like BitTorrent. If they release an "offical" video file onto the web and then attack anyone who distributes a version without commercials, then there won't be that big of a problem with P2P sites since everyone who watches the show will also see the commercials. The only people who would object would be cable TV providers since they no longer have a purpose. This would also get around any FCC problems.

To make sure people watch the commercials, you can use a custom player/P2P app that disable fast forwarding during commercials the first time it is downloaded or some other method to make sure they watch X seconds commercials for every Y minutes of the show.
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Dan Simmons included this idea in his Hyperion book series, where evolving digital life spead into the "infosphere" and became artifically intelligent. Later it tried to exploit the human race and wipe out large portions of it. People who download the project beware!

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Other than the different managers setting the prices for their groups, does Dell use an automated pricing system that sets the final price based on past sales of an item at a given price and a customer group's willingness to pay a certain price? I'm sure they spend a lot of money researching the price points that result in maximum profits for a given customer and I wouldn't be suprised if their website set an "optimally profitable" price point based on the latest market data.
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Even on systems with limited resources, the lack of proper thread priorities makes the system seem slower than it should be. When MS Word does it's automatic spell check, there shouldn't be a noticeable drop in UI performance (lag between hitting a key and a seeing letter appear) if the CPU intensive tasks ran in the background. The same applies to how FF lags badly when I open a PDF inline or how Explorer's interface locks and doesn't refresh properly when it's previewing a video file or reading from a slow CD drive. The same should apply to background tasks like virus scanners, but they tend to have the added overhead of using IO which is harder to multitask smoothly.

If the program was designed so that the functional part of the application had the highest priority and the eye candy and fluff ran in the background, the user wouldn't be as annoyed with the high peak performance requirements of certain programs.
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float af1 [] = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9};
stdext::valarray <float> v1 (af1, 10); // construct from first 10 elements of af1
stdext::valarray <float> v2 (10, 3.0f); // construct with 10 repeats of 3.0f
stdext::valarray <float> v3 (10); // construct with 10 repeats of 0.0f

v3 = sin (v1) * cos (v2) + sin (v2) * cos (v1);

So, my question is: could an std::valarray specialization for processor-supported types serve as a basis for portable SIMD support in C++?

That's exactly what this is. If you read the part on his website about valarray then you'll see that it does extensive SIMD optimizations for valarray for both Altivec and MMX/SSE/SSE2/SSE3 platforms. He's even added "parallelized algorithms such as integer division, trigonometric functions and complex number arithmetic" which you'd have to code yourself in either assembly or using the C-based intrinsics if you wanted do the SIMD programming by hand.

So basically, this allows you to code using std::valarray using normal C++ and then plug this in under the hood to get a nice speed boost.

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A better resource for Altivec and SIMD in general is the SIMDtech.org website and Altivec mailing list. There are tutorials and technical manuals available and the email list is indispensable. While the mailing list is mostly geared towards Altivec optimizations and discussions all SIMD discussion is welcome, including MMX/SSE. There are Apple engineers that read and contribute to the list as well as Motorola/Freescale engineers. It's probably the single best resource available to Altivec programmers and you get to talk directly to the Wizards that created it.

I'm a relative newcomer to the list and it's been an invaluable resource as I've optimized with Altivec.

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Aycock acknowledges there is a potential for viruses and other malicious software to spread outside the classroom.

He says that's why there are precautions, such as security cameras and a ban on all outside electronic equipment in the classroom.

Each student signs a legal form that says a breach of the security means an automatic "F" and a potential criminal investigation.

I guess they think that there is a high risk that a person will intentionally wreak havoc with the knowledge he learns in that class. Then again, this might just be a publicity thing for the class. I doubt that it's more dangerous than a class on computer security and virus/malware prevention in terms of the risk of damage being done.

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If their customers don't get any spam because they have good filtering, then they have nothing to lose (as long as outgoing bandwidth is properly paid for) from hosting spam. As long as MCI can tell their customers that they're fighting spam, they'll keep their customers. At least, until some other ISPs block them out completely.

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The counterargument is probably that because google is ubiquitous in search, they have an unfair position in the market from which to do things like this. However, they are anything but a monopoly, so that argument really doesn't wash - especially since it's not illegal to sell LV and a competing product in the same store (unless the competing product is illegal anyway) so it makes no sense to make it illegal to mention them together on the same web page. For reasons intentional or otherwise, MSN Search doesn't show competitor's ads when Searching for LV or GEICO. If it's intentional, then the customer is getting screwed since restricting information like that castrates the power of the search engine.

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Here, I have to disagree. Putting up billboards across the street is not the same thing. This is more like putting a phone tap on the line, and setting it up so that each time someone calls Geico, they get an intercept telling them how wonderful State Farm is.

Except that a phone intercept prevents the person from talking to Geico. This would be more like the Time magazine have an ad in Newsweek or cable providers carries ads for satellite TV. Neither interferes with the customer's ability to achieve their original goal.

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You probably won't get any magic behavior such as your house suddenly turing sentient while you take a nap, but you will definitely see tons of bugs due to the interconnections. Imagine all the problems that occur in companies because software A won't work with software B and extend that to include your room sensors, thermostat, and lights when your sensor system decides to download an upgrade to its firmware but the other systems don't notice.

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Hmm...since Cairo is out and Avalon isn't, the Penguin now has a step up on Redmond in terms of graphics. Granted, Avalon includes some other spiffy 3d eye candy, but this is a first where the Linux GUI beats out the Windows one.

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I don't believe that Microsoft ever intended to push OS/2 even if apps couldn't run in protected mode. Microsoft was going to push Windows no matter how crappie or inferior it was to OS/2. Their flirtation with OS/2 (telling people that it was the future and that they should support it) only made other large developers of the time, namely Wordperfect, spend their time on creating OS/2 versions of their software instead of Windows versions.

When Microsoft put their full push into Windows they were able to put MS Word (along with their other apps) out ahead of everyone else and drive Wordperfect into obscurity. That's not to say that Wordperfect didn't expect this. I used to work with a former Wordperfect executive and they knew full well what Microsoft was up to but they thought that the combination of Wordperfect and IBM would be able to beat Microsoft and so they put pretty much everything into OS/2. By the time they realized that OS/2 wasn't going to catch on it was too late, and the rest is history.

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So will Yahoo! use this "service" to track what web pages you view and what you're interested in when you view them? A quick preview of their terms of service links to their privacy policy which states:

Yahoo! collects personal information when you register with Yahoo!, when you use Yahoo! products or services, when you visit Yahoo! pages or the pages of certain Yahoo! partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. Yahoo! may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies.

So Yahoo! will be tracking what you view and what you search for when you view it.

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