Yes it would take longer for scientists to figure out that they are not in the center of the universe. Those cycles would take much more calculations to figure out that they are orbiting a planet that is orbiting the sun. Then when they point their telescopes towards Sol they figure there is no life there as there arn't any hot Gas Giant Planets close enough to the Sun. To create to support a moon that can keep life.
"I can't imagine why more companies don't do this." 1. Phone systems are expensive. 2. Most are not using VOIP yet, so they will have to pay for long distance calls back. 3. Their current system uses "On Hold" as a performance measure.
Luckally we are reaching our biological limit of our bandwidth needs. Lets say 2 80" 1:1 at 1000PPI Display Streaming at 120 FPS 32bit color. with 32 channel stereo 128bit sound, uncompressed per person.
So a 3tbs bandwith per person should be more then enough for anyone, for home use.
1. Birth Control is far more commonly used now then in the previous generation. Perhaps there are less unwanted kids and more planned children who are better cared for so they don't become criminals.
2. Revival in religion. Yea I know this is Slashdot and a lot of the readers here are Atheists or against religion in one form or an other, but there has been a resurgence in religious people. Which teaches at least to stop people from doing unorganized violence.
3. Greater tolerance. Towards People of difference races, religions, and sexual preferences. I am not saying it is perfect but it is getting better.
4. Improved conditions for the poor. Sure the gap between the rich and the poor is growing however the poor now have a better standard of life then they did in the past.
5. Internet, A wealth of stuff to keep you pacified for long periods of time.
6. Stranger Danger. We as a culture has grew up in fear of everyone outside your house, there is a lot less talking and gossiping with neighbors, thus less violence as everyone is so afraid of everyone else that they will dare not to do anything to shake the cage.
7. Aging population. A good part of the population is getting too old to beat the crap out of each other.
8. 9/11 changed everything. Knowing or at least reconfirming that there are "outsiders" who are after us keep us united.
9. Gang awareness and prevention programs, including suburban towns.
10. To many camera, Every (well nearly every) one has a phone with a camera, any crime can have someone taking a picture or a hd movie of it.
With Google g-mail and many other "Cloud" based email servers Spam isn't nearly as much of a problem as it was back in 2004. Sure they are still spammer but the stuff really gets filtered away into the Spam bucket very well now. The biggest Spam gettters are people who think they should host their own email server because they figure they can do it much better then Google.
Or if you live a hundred miles north for that money you can probably find yourself a 1500+ square foot 3 bedroom house with land, in a decent location and a Car. For us Upstaters you are talking a quality of life that someone on welfare lives like.
Yet services like shazam can take music from a radio over the air into the tiny iPhone microphone go to a server and it knows what song it is? By clearing out the MetaData all you did was raise a Red Flag.
That might have worked 10 years ago... Today voice/sound recognition has gotten much better.
Stage 1. Find all Songs with meta data not belonging to it owner or with blank or empty meta data. Stage 2. Sound analysis of the music to see how well it matches copy-written songs on the list. Stage 3. Sue person. Stage 4. Profit.
Most corporations don't need Silverlight anyways even with HTML 4 and ASP.NET you were able to make apps that needs to get done on a corporate level. AJAX killed ActiveX, To bad those Old guys at IT in those corporations don't know that.
It is probably from a Linux user who thinks the Desktop still has a bright future too. Being that the desktop is the only Market where Microsoft Dominates, (Other markets Microsoft may lead, but with competition close behind where they can just run away with it), but in the rest of the industry Microsoft while a major player isn't as big as it use to be, and cannot survive with the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish anymore, they kinda need to play by the standards and do what the standards say.
Silverlight "developers" never really got a good market mindset, and I think only Netflix is the major app that used it. Sorry for the people who expected it to be the next big thing, life sucks bet get over it. HTML 5 seems to be the winner here, As you can code for different platforms.
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Not really... What are most of the applications that we use today? Forms that fill out do some processing and give us back an answer. That is a perfect fit of HTML 5 (Heck HTML 4). And is HTML really that far off then the syntax that is needed to send windows forms controls to the OS to display... No not really. It is a dumb idea to you because you are too much of an old fart to realize that it is probably a better way of doing things.
An OS level parsing of HTML can make the speed quite fast. Programs can be accessed to other OS's and browsers, it really makes things better.
The real reason Firefox isn't making an OS is because there is more to an OS then the Interface Layer. You are still going to need to access hardware, Windows 8 is still doing that, you can still run platform binaries off the OS, for those things that need real processing power.
But right now Bandwidth is cheap, and processing is expensive. You are better off having a remote server that processes data and send it over the network. This will change, then change back and change again.... It is the way things are.
I am glad that C++ is still evolving. That last major improvement I remember was the addition of the string class. Then shortly after that my professional focus moved away from C and C++ and towards higher level languages (.NET, PHP, Python, Java, etc...). I just recently started my own personal project so I decided to relearn C++ again, and I noticed there is a fair amount of new stuff that wasn't there before (or I was never taught)
Change = Cripple when you don't have a solid plan, or expect 300 million to change there ways very quickly.
"Oh I am sorry you need to leave you house now because it is too far of a commute for you, we want you to move to a crowded, noisy and full of crime city. I don't care if you own the house, that makes it worse that means you are rich and therefore must give up more, I don't care how much harder you worked to get the money you must all live like us"
If you want Green you will need to come up with ways that would not cause people to change their way of life that they worked hard to obtain.
No you shouldn't applaud their effort! This could have a huge damage,and hurting the good people more then the bad ones. OK fine the backs should have better security, most of them have an upgrade scheduled and budgeted. All you did was force it up the pipeline and make the job more expensive... And who will pay for it, the average consumer. Companies may not like to pass the cost savings down to the consumer, but they are quick on passing on the expense. And how is going to stop bribery and backroom deals? Do you think they are going to be written down as such... No, Unless you know what exactly you are looking for, you are not going to find it by looking at the data. So you just made everyone's lives miserable. Without coming up with any really exciting information.
Heck those Wiki-leaks wan't really that useful information anyways too.
It could be argued that Microsoft Kept it alive longer then it would have lasted... I am thinking of systems like Powerbuilder, and Borland Development languages.
FoxPro was one of those "Database Driven" Languages (Think of a heavy duty MS Access) where it interacted with its own database, (connecting to an external server, other database for a lot of data interaction make coding a lot more difficult, and the code was far more inconsistent) and problems of record locking and data corruption when you scaled beyond 5 people using an app on the same data at the same time.
Although I greatly enjoyed the syntax of the FoxPro Language its underlying architectural design was doomed to failure (although it was a good design at the time, but IT needs have switched)
Microsoft probably kept a few more years into the product where it would have died much earlier. As it would be allowed to survive "The Y2K swap to all Microsoft Products" that a lot of business did in the late 90's, ditching a lot of their old DOS and Unix legacy systems, towards nicer looking Windows Apps.
Having used both rather intensively. SQL Server and PostgreSQL are neither superior to the other. I found PostgreSQL to be Faster, more flexible, then SQL Server. However SQL Server TSQL is far more direct then pgSQL, for stored procedures, and having to hunt and peck for different stored procedure languages in Postgres While seems like a good idea in theory, leads to a bunch of different languages that seem to support different things making it a hunt and peck game to see what can do what and where.
Yes and how many people use the sheep analogy... Humans are Animals. We have traits that are rational, from careful thought and instincts. Humans are social animals, like other social animals we take cues and we actively try to be the rest of the people. You would normally feel silly if you wore a suit and tie to the beach. As well you would feel just as out of place if you went to work in your bathing suit.
We take cues every day, and it models our behavior, if we break out it is often due to a conscious need to do so.
If you think of the US Military alone, with a huge amount of solderer living under the government, these people are under government care 24/7 I am not to surprised that they will have some video games systems purchased for the common areas, I wouldn't be surprised that these things are in federal prisons as well (You need to reward good behavior).
Blackberries and iPhones I could see going to people who are oncall or managers you need to keep in touch. iPads and such as testing new technologies to see if the government can be more efficient.
As for the Zunes. I think someone checked the wrong box on the Microsoft purchase list.
They will probably go with flaws in the testing... Or part of Gods Intelligent Design. The Scientist are just flat out lying. Some would say this is a new phenomena due to environmental effects. That these changes are too small to be passed from generation to generations and our non-mutated cells will be dominate. Never underestimate the ingenuity of backpedaling an argument.
There are very few Scientific fact, but a lot of well supported theories. I kinda wish that scientist wouldn't just ignore crazy theories (Leaving people to think, that they are just making it up) that are popular but come up with tests that can prove or disprove them. And show them the results.
For global warming don't just show us a graph that shows a line shooting up. When we come up with different things show it off, prove to us that is wrong. Science had been lucky in the past, the average Joe took everything face value. But with rapid media, and some big mistakes in "Science" people are more distrusting. It is time for the Science Institution to change and regain peoples trust again.
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Yes it would take longer for scientists to figure out that they are not in the center of the universe. Those cycles would take much more calculations to figure out that they are orbiting a planet that is orbiting the sun. Then when they point their telescopes towards Sol they figure there is no life there as there arn't any hot Gas Giant Planets close enough to the Sun. To create to support a moon that can keep life.
The worst is. I am sorry all lines are busy... Click... Dial tone.
"I can't imagine why more companies don't do this."
1. Phone systems are expensive.
2. Most are not using VOIP yet, so they will have to pay for long distance calls back.
3. Their current system uses "On Hold" as a performance measure.
Luckally we are reaching our biological limit of our bandwidth needs. Lets say 2 80" 1:1 at 1000PPI Display Streaming at 120 FPS 32bit color. with 32 channel stereo 128bit sound, uncompressed per person.
So a 3tbs bandwith per person should be more then enough for anyone, for home use.
There could be a lot more extra factors.
1. Birth Control is far more commonly used now then in the previous generation. Perhaps there are less unwanted kids and more planned children who are better cared for so they don't become criminals.
2. Revival in religion. Yea I know this is Slashdot and a lot of the readers here are Atheists or against religion in one form or an other, but there has been a resurgence in religious people. Which teaches at least to stop people from doing unorganized violence.
3. Greater tolerance. Towards People of difference races, religions, and sexual preferences. I am not saying it is perfect but it is getting better.
4. Improved conditions for the poor. Sure the gap between the rich and the poor is growing however the poor now have a better standard of life then they did in the past.
5. Internet, A wealth of stuff to keep you pacified for long periods of time.
6. Stranger Danger. We as a culture has grew up in fear of everyone outside your house, there is a lot less talking and gossiping with neighbors, thus less violence as everyone is so afraid of everyone else that they will dare not to do anything to shake the cage.
7. Aging population. A good part of the population is getting too old to beat the crap out of each other.
8. 9/11 changed everything. Knowing or at least reconfirming that there are "outsiders" who are after us keep us united.
9. Gang awareness and prevention programs, including suburban towns.
10. To many camera, Every (well nearly every) one has a phone with a camera, any crime can have someone taking a picture or a hd movie of it.
With Google g-mail and many other "Cloud" based email servers Spam isn't nearly as much of a problem as it was back in 2004. Sure they are still spammer but the stuff really gets filtered away into the Spam bucket very well now. The biggest Spam gettters are people who think they should host their own email server because they figure they can do it much better then Google.
Men are easy, you just need to have these three letters and add letters to the end BOO,
M
BS
TY
MERANG...
Or if you live a hundred miles north for that money you can probably find yourself a 1500+ square foot 3 bedroom house with land, in a decent location and a Car. For us Upstaters you are talking a quality of life that someone on welfare lives like.
No Data saved the day. Wesley just avoided the game long enough for find Data disabled and Turned him back on.
Yet services like shazam can take music from a radio over the air into the tiny iPhone microphone go to a server and it knows what song it is?
By clearing out the MetaData all you did was raise a Red Flag.
That might have worked 10 years ago... Today voice/sound recognition has gotten much better.
Stage 1. Find all Songs with meta data not belonging to it owner or with blank or empty meta data.
Stage 2. Sound analysis of the music to see how well it matches copy-written songs on the list.
Stage 3. Sue person.
Stage 4. Profit.
Sounds like doomed either way?
Most corporations don't need Silverlight anyways even with HTML 4 and ASP.NET you were able to make apps that needs to get done on a corporate level.
AJAX killed ActiveX, To bad those Old guys at IT in those corporations don't know that.
It is probably from a Linux user who thinks the Desktop still has a bright future too. Being that the desktop is the only Market where Microsoft Dominates, (Other markets Microsoft may lead, but with competition close behind where they can just run away with it), but in the rest of the industry Microsoft while a major player isn't as big as it use to be, and cannot survive with the Embrace, Extend, Extinguish anymore, they kinda need to play by the standards and do what the standards say.
Silverlight "developers" never really got a good market mindset, and I think only Netflix is the major app that used it. Sorry for the people who expected it to be the next big thing, life sucks bet get over it. HTML 5 seems to be the winner here, As you can code for different platforms.
Not really... What are most of the applications that we use today? Forms that fill out do some processing and give us back an answer. That is a perfect fit of HTML 5 (Heck HTML 4). And is HTML really that far off then the syntax that is needed to send windows forms controls to the OS to display... No not really.
It is a dumb idea to you because you are too much of an old fart to realize that it is probably a better way of doing things.
An OS level parsing of HTML can make the speed quite fast. Programs can be accessed to other OS's and browsers, it really makes things better.
The real reason Firefox isn't making an OS is because there is more to an OS then the Interface Layer. You are still going to need to access hardware, Windows 8 is still doing that, you can still run platform binaries off the OS, for those things that need real processing power.
But right now Bandwidth is cheap, and processing is expensive. You are better off having a remote server that processes data and send it over the network. This will change, then change back and change again.... It is the way things are.
I wish they would stop with these yellow journalism stupid heading that are just wrong.
No they didn't go to prison because they made a case for the iPad, They went to prison for stealing IP secrets.
Here is a better headline "3 Chinese sentence 18 months for stealing iPad specs before released"
I am glad that C++ is still evolving. That last major improvement I remember was the addition of the string class. Then shortly after that my professional focus moved away from C and C++ and towards higher level languages (.NET, PHP, Python, Java, etc...). I just recently started my own personal project so I decided to relearn C++ again, and I noticed there is a fair amount of new stuff that wasn't there before (or I was never taught)
Change = Cripple when you don't have a solid plan, or expect 300 million to change there ways very quickly.
"Oh I am sorry you need to leave you house now because it is too far of a commute for you, we want you to move to a crowded, noisy and full of crime city. I don't care if you own the house, that makes it worse that means you are rich and therefore must give up more, I don't care how much harder you worked to get the money you must all live like us"
If you want Green you will need to come up with ways that would not cause people to change their way of life that they worked hard to obtain.
No you shouldn't applaud their effort!
This could have a huge damage,and hurting the good people more then the bad ones. OK fine the backs should have better security, most of them have an upgrade scheduled and budgeted. All you did was force it up the pipeline and make the job more expensive... And who will pay for it, the average consumer. Companies may not like to pass the cost savings down to the consumer, but they are quick on passing on the expense.
And how is going to stop bribery and backroom deals? Do you think they are going to be written down as such... No, Unless you know what exactly you are looking for, you are not going to find it by looking at the data. So you just made everyone's lives miserable. Without coming up with any really exciting information.
Heck those Wiki-leaks wan't really that useful information anyways too.
Is that SIMD or MIMD?
It could be argued that Microsoft Kept it alive longer then it would have lasted...
I am thinking of systems like Powerbuilder, and Borland Development languages.
FoxPro was one of those "Database Driven" Languages (Think of a heavy duty MS Access) where it interacted with its own database, (connecting to an external server, other database for a lot of data interaction make coding a lot more difficult, and the code was far more inconsistent) and problems of record locking and data corruption when you scaled beyond 5 people using an app on the same data at the same time.
Although I greatly enjoyed the syntax of the FoxPro Language its underlying architectural design was doomed to failure (although it was a good design at the time, but IT needs have switched)
Microsoft probably kept a few more years into the product where it would have died much earlier. As it would be allowed to survive "The Y2K swap to all Microsoft Products" that a lot of business did in the late 90's, ditching a lot of their old DOS and Unix legacy systems, towards nicer looking Windows Apps.
Having used both rather intensively. SQL Server and PostgreSQL are neither superior to the other. I found PostgreSQL to be Faster, more flexible, then SQL Server. However SQL Server TSQL is far more direct then pgSQL, for stored procedures, and having to hunt and peck for different stored procedure languages in Postgres While seems like a good idea in theory, leads to a bunch of different languages that seem to support different things making it a hunt and peck game to see what can do what and where.
Yes and how many people use the sheep analogy...
Humans are Animals. We have traits that are rational, from careful thought and instincts. Humans are social animals, like other social animals we take cues and we actively try to be the rest of the people. You would normally feel silly if you wore a suit and tie to the beach. As well you would feel just as out of place if you went to work in your bathing suit.
We take cues every day, and it models our behavior, if we break out it is often due to a conscious need to do so.
If you think of the US Military alone, with a huge amount of solderer living under the government, these people are under government care 24/7 I am not to surprised that they will have some video games systems purchased for the common areas, I wouldn't be surprised that these things are in federal prisons as well (You need to reward good behavior).
Blackberries and iPhones I could see going to people who are oncall or managers you need to keep in touch. iPads and such as testing new technologies to see if the government can be more efficient.
As for the Zunes. I think someone checked the wrong box on the Microsoft purchase list.
That is why Intelligent Design is popular. It allows for science to show its numbers add up without having to doubt your faith.
They will probably go with flaws in the testing... Or part of Gods Intelligent Design. The Scientist are just flat out lying. Some would say this is a new phenomena due to environmental effects. That these changes are too small to be passed from generation to generations and our non-mutated cells will be dominate.
Never underestimate the ingenuity of backpedaling an argument.
There are very few Scientific fact, but a lot of well supported theories. I kinda wish that scientist wouldn't just ignore crazy theories (Leaving people to think, that they are just making it up) that are popular but come up with tests that can prove or disprove them. And show them the results.
For global warming don't just show us a graph that shows a line shooting up. When we come up with different things show it off, prove to us that is wrong. Science had been lucky in the past, the average Joe took everything face value. But with rapid media, and some big mistakes in "Science" people are more distrusting. It is time for the Science Institution to change and regain peoples trust again.