Yes, there should be many automotive grade ARM devices.
Many automotive grade parts can go up to 120C.
Heck, you can even use an Android car stereo and write your own app
It is not just foreign transfer.
In Malaysia, online banking transfer cost MYR2.00 per transaction.
With checks, the entire 50 pieces checkbook only cost MYR8.00, that's RM0.16 per piece. There is no additional charges for cashing local checks.
I would have thought that with all the manual work required to process checks, it should be more expensive but somehow electronics transfer is about 12.5x more expensive than checks.
And these days with their improved check processing facilities, money is transfer on the same working day but some how it sometimes take more than 1 day when it is only via online transfer.
Go figure that out...
Modern Linux kernel 2.6.17 and later has TCP auto tuning, so it can better adapt to the network and saturate it. http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/tcptune/#Linux
Windows XP default TCP window size is too small and needs registry tuning for it to be optimized high speed broadband connections. Just google for WinXP TCP tuning.
Or try comparing with Vista as it has better TCP/IP stack.
The real problem with C++ is that it keeps changing all the time.
Keep changing? How about comparing with Java or C#, those languages controlled by single company keep changing every year!
Changes in C++ takes so long that I doubt C++ 0x is every gonna happen until 201x
The vast majority of users, in fact, do not pay these fees on anything but an irregular basis, and the fees they do pay, which are rolled into OEM machines, are so low when spread across the time involved that Microsoft's 'raping license fees' work out for your average user somewhere between $20-$30 per year, I would imagine.
Is free cheaper? Certainly! But it's patently obvious that Microsoft hardly rapes their customer base with license fees. This is especially true in developing countries where copyright infringement runs entirely rampant. Huge numbers of people would rather pirate Windows in the developing world than run Linux, and I think that says something about Microsoft's sustainability strategy.
US$20-30 may not be much to you but it could be the entire month's household income for families in the 3rd world countries and that's just for the OS, how about the MS Office suite and all the other software. That's why copyright infringement is rampant. Would you pay 3 months of your paycheck for software?
These days, with so much email spam, the SNR for your actual emails will be pretty low anyway, so you don't really need to worry much about your privacy as they will have to sieve through tonnes of spam to locate your actual emails.:-)
While working on a.NET project previously, I have done some exploring on InfoCard or Windows CardSpace which is one of the WinFX technologies.
It has an interesting concept like our typical wallet membership card. When we signup for a website, the site gives us a signed InfoCard. When every we need to logon, we just choose the card stored in the machines cardstore to be presented to the site. I believe this is an intereting concept but the problem is that is is a closed Microsoft thing which kinda kills off any widespead adoption.
sad, but true.... i see many ATM, cash and check deposit machines showing windows BSOD.
imagine how much licensing is paid to M$ for these embedded devices when they could used a real RTOS. even if they need TCP/IP networking, i believe an embedded linux is still better choice that XP. heck, even WinCE is probably better than a full desktop XP. we don't need minesweeper on an ATM machine..
If the hardware compatibility is good with linux, just download and install a light-weight linux distro and viola, it's back running faster than a brand new Vista laptop!
ok, you may still need to replace the battery unless you don't mind carry the power brick with you all the time.
I have a list of tens of software house and their contact info, for writing to software developers. Please, if you use wine, at least write to the application developers and let them know that there is demand for their products on Linux. Whether the apps work in wine or not. Is microsoft on that contact list?
While their recent OSes isn't great, they do make pretty Microsoft Office (in terms of usability and features) although I don't really agree with OOXML.
in Vista, logging in as admin does not automatically gives all the scripts and programs that you execute with the admin privilege, you will need to explicitly run your programs with elevated permissions. try right-click on the program and run-as admin or in command prompt use runas command
I don't see why this is really big news. In fact, this really has got _nothing_ to do with DRM per se. For those who can't see the forest for the trees:
* Company X makes product Y and sells to the public
* Company X does not make enough profit selling product Y and decides to discontinue selling it
* Company X decides to stop supporting product Y (e.g. by making spare parts etc)
How is this any different than, say, Ford discontinuing its Aerostar minivan line? No, it is not about M$. It is about DRM.
For most cars, even after the manufacturer discontinued the car, we can still repair the car and keep it going for years even with 3rd party or 2nd grade spare parts.
But with DRM it is more like, after Ford discontinuing its Aerostar minivan line, the car engine will never start again after another driver tries to drive it.
as i know, it is possible to download the emails using POP access and the mails remain as unread.
so then the next question: is POP or IMAP access enabled for that account?
Ethics and morality is subjective. Some believe in law and intellectual properties that were created to benefit a few. I guess they now believe in Utilitarianism where the right thing to do is the thing that benefits the majority. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism
ha.. tell that to the entire generation of brain dead programmers who still thinks that VB6 is awesome.
In my experience, I have witnessed many programmers who spent more time organizing the readability of their code than analyzing the actual effectiveness of it: i.e. whitespace use vs algorithm optimization (be it processor method + instruction or i/o improvement). The end result: bloaty-pooh. I have worked with several senior engineers (probably taking home more than 2x of my paycheck) that only provides such feedbacks during code reviews. They are still stuck with VB6 and has absolutely no idea about multi-threading, OO design, security, etc.
looking at the codes, i would say this is also not really "good" encryption.
real security experts don't recommend using home-brew encryption functions like those.
even a simple TEA or older algorithms like RC4 or DES are probably much better.
yes, total agree with every that Moore's law has nothing to do with performance.
as we can put more transistors on the silicon, more components can be integrated into the processor. the chipsets, graphics, sound, WiFi, etc may be integrated on a single IC, making them even cheaper for the mass, lower power consumption, and more reliable single chip solution.
In Malaysia, many urban families are starting to have PC at home and it is generally known that most uses illegal versions Windows and Office. But it will continue as the government adopts MS softwares in gov offices and teaches them in schools. So to many school kids, computer = MS Windows + Office. And yes, illegal copies are much more easily available and preinstalled in most new PCs compared to originals
The problem is not really about the driving/navigation algorithm. You are right that computers are pretty good at following rules and navigation.
If you have any experience with robotics, you will know that the hardest part of the software to analyze the data from the sensors. GTA AI drivers live in a simple simulated environment and it knows all the details of its environment well. It is totally different for real robots, the software needs to perform tonnes of DSP to process the data from sensors to extract the real information from garbage/noise. We are still far from the day when computer vision can recognize and analyze images as good as human.
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Yes, there should be many automotive grade ARM devices. Many automotive grade parts can go up to 120C. Heck, you can even use an Android car stereo and write your own app
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It is not just foreign transfer. In Malaysia, online banking transfer cost MYR2.00 per transaction. With checks, the entire 50 pieces checkbook only cost MYR8.00, that's RM0.16 per piece. There is no additional charges for cashing local checks. I would have thought that with all the manual work required to process checks, it should be more expensive but somehow electronics transfer is about 12.5x more expensive than checks. And these days with their improved check processing facilities, money is transfer on the same working day but some how it sometimes take more than 1 day when it is only via online transfer. Go figure that out...
How difficult is it for them to get a special made BlackBerry with custom security enhanced firmware?
Modern Linux kernel 2.6.17 and later has TCP auto tuning, so it can better adapt to the network and saturate it. http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/tcptune/#Linux Windows XP default TCP window size is too small and needs registry tuning for it to be optimized high speed broadband connections. Just google for WinXP TCP tuning. Or try comparing with Vista as it has better TCP/IP stack.
The real problem with C++ is that it keeps changing all the time.
Keep changing? How about comparing with Java or C#, those languages controlled by single company keep changing every year! Changes in C++ takes so long that I doubt C++ 0x is every gonna happen until 201x
The vast majority of users, in fact, do not pay these fees on anything but an irregular basis, and the fees they do pay, which are rolled into OEM machines, are so low when spread across the time involved that Microsoft's 'raping license fees' work out for your average user somewhere between $20-$30 per year, I would imagine.
Is free cheaper? Certainly! But it's patently obvious that Microsoft hardly rapes their customer base with license fees. This is especially true in developing countries where copyright infringement runs entirely rampant. Huge numbers of people would rather pirate Windows in the developing world than run Linux, and I think that says something about Microsoft's sustainability strategy.
US$20-30 may not be much to you but it could be the entire month's household income for families in the 3rd world countries and that's just for the OS, how about the MS Office suite and all the other software. That's why copyright infringement is rampant. Would you pay 3 months of your paycheck for software?
These days, with so much email spam, the SNR for your actual emails will be pretty low anyway, so you don't really need to worry much about your privacy as they will have to sieve through tonnes of spam to locate your actual emails. :-)
While working on a .NET project previously, I have done some exploring on InfoCard or Windows CardSpace which is one of the WinFX technologies.
It has an interesting concept like our typical wallet membership card. When we signup for a website, the site gives us a signed InfoCard. When every we need to logon, we just choose the card stored in the machines cardstore to be presented to the site. I believe this is an intereting concept but the problem is that is is a closed Microsoft thing which kinda kills off any widespead adoption.
sad, but true.... i see many ATM, cash and check deposit machines showing windows BSOD. imagine how much licensing is paid to M$ for these embedded devices when they could used a real RTOS. even if they need TCP/IP networking, i believe an embedded linux is still better choice that XP. heck, even WinCE is probably better than a full desktop XP. we don't need minesweeper on an ATM machine..
If the hardware compatibility is good with linux, just download and install a light-weight linux distro and viola, it's back running faster than a brand new Vista laptop! ok, you may still need to replace the battery unless you don't mind carry the power brick with you all the time.
yeah.. IPv6!
in Vista, logging in as admin does not automatically gives all the scripts and programs that you execute with the admin privilege, you will need to explicitly run your programs with elevated permissions. try right-click on the program and run-as admin or in command prompt use runas command
as i know, it is possible to download the emails using POP access and the mails remain as unread. so then the next question: is POP or IMAP access enabled for that account?
Ethics and morality is subjective. Some believe in law and intellectual properties that were created to benefit a few. I guess they now believe in Utilitarianism where the right thing to do is the thing that benefits the majority. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism
looking at the codes, i would say this is also not really "good" encryption. real security experts don't recommend using home-brew encryption functions like those. even a simple TEA or older algorithms like RC4 or DES are probably much better.
just wait till bluray or hd-dvd...
yes, total agree with every that Moore's law has nothing to do with performance. as we can put more transistors on the silicon, more components can be integrated into the processor. the chipsets, graphics, sound, WiFi, etc may be integrated on a single IC, making them even cheaper for the mass, lower power consumption, and more reliable single chip solution.
I don't see any pop-up with Kubuntu + Konqueror....
In Malaysia, many urban families are starting to have PC at home and it is generally known that most uses illegal versions Windows and Office. But it will continue as the government adopts MS softwares in gov offices and teaches them in schools. So to many school kids, computer = MS Windows + Office. And yes, illegal copies are much more easily available and preinstalled in most new PCs compared to originals
The problem is not really about the driving/navigation algorithm. You are right that computers are pretty good at following rules and navigation. If you have any experience with robotics, you will know that the hardest part of the software to analyze the data from the sensors. GTA AI drivers live in a simple simulated environment and it knows all the details of its environment well. It is totally different for real robots, the software needs to perform tonnes of DSP to process the data from sensors to extract the real information from garbage/noise. We are still far from the day when computer vision can recognize and analyze images as good as human.