Also, exFAT has one critical flaw, compared to earlier FAT versions. It isn't supported everywhere. For instance, MS hasn't released exFAT for XP, even though you can manually copy the dll's and and the appropriate registry-keys.
Once exFAT starts being used by cameras, mediaplayers and such, people running XP or other OS's will have trouble. If you get a camera that uses SDXC and exFAT, it's practically incompatible with most OS's. Even EXT2 and NTFS has more widespread support than exFAT, considering that there exist EXT2-drivers for XP and Vista. Manufacturers should use that instead and simply ship a disc containing EXT2-drivers with their equipment.
And, what have the filesystem to do with anything? The way the abstract is worded, one would get the impression that SDXC requires exFAT, which is ridiculous. You'd be able to utilize the card with any filesystem that can handle drives that big, many of which is free and open, contrary to the two options from MS (exFAT and NTFS).
If they have support for using a Bluetooth or USB mouse, an RTS would be great on the Wii. Same goes for any other console with BT or USB support, though. In my experience with the Wii, the Wiimote isn't really suitable as a mouse-replacement.
Depends. If you use the money on X instead of Y and X create exactly the same amount of jobs as Y, then it simply is a reallocation. If X creates one more job than Y, then more jobs are indeed being created.
It's all about how to most wisely spend what is collected as tax.
Personally, I wouldn't want, say, a camera without tactile buttons for the central functions. Imagine a digital camera with a touch-screen interface for zoom, focus and shutter.
Same goes for other types of devices. A media-player should have real buttons for play, pause, previous and next. A phone, at least for answer and hang-up functions, preferably for dialing too...
But Apple is a hardware-company. They make their income by selling physical products. If they open-sourced their phone-os, or opened their phone-hardware to let people run whatever they wanted on it, they'd still make the same amount of income per phone sold.
The moon is a bad example. We can travel there, take samples of it, etc. The moon is as observable as Earth.
A neighbouring star is about as observable as a black hole, with the difference that we can take direct measurements of a lot broader spectrum of radiation from than what we can from a black hole.
The part about "all you've *proven* is that something is causing those effects" is still true though... In that way of looking at things, we can not prove that Earth exists, just something that has all the properties of our theoretical Earth-construct.
Isn't it an open standard? Then those companies can implement support for their chips too... They just can't influence how the standard looks or works.
If Nvidia or ATI really wants to start pushing their GPU's as plug-in math-coprocessors, they'll probably start designing them to cater for that use too.
Defragmenting RAM was actually useful in some multitasking OS's in the 80's and early 90's. If I'm not remembering incorrectly, which might well be the case since it's been a while, it had to do with the fact that the CPU's didn't have memory mapping units, so there was no virtual memory-space. An application had to fit in a continuous memory block. If there was no block big enough for the application, the OS couldn't load it. Doing a defragmentation of the RAM would give you larger continuous memory blocks. Usually, though, this had to be done via reboot. =P
When people's movements are collected and tracked over long periods, though, patterns emerge, which can be much more titillating than seemingly innoculus movements.
Which is exactly why corporations or governments shouldn't be allowed to do this.
If a government agency, or a corporation, can have full insight in my life, I should be entitled full insight into that organisation so that I can see what they do with the information they have about me. Actually, as a citizen, I should have full insight into the government either way, but that's for other reasons.
The problem is what we are going towards; Privacy only for those that have access to information.
Even if it was possible to resize on all sides of a window, it would still be possible to resize in the lower right corner. The "resize on all sides" could be a "hidden" usability bonus feature, like keyboard shortcuts or a second or third mouse button.
I'll buy that argument as soon as ESPN stops calling NASCAR a sport.
What defines a sport?
Must it be performed by athletes, or are there non-athletic sports? Are there athletic competitions that are not a sport? Must there be a competition involved, or can you have non-competitive sports?
But is playing games cheaper than playing football?
Gaming might be rather expensive, depending on what equipment you need for your particular games. Many sports are also quite expensive due to equipment-cost. Football is one of the cheaper sports, equipment wise. In it's simplest form, all you need is a ball.
Intel probably hasn't got a controller chip for SAS yet. So far, the big market for SSD's are in SATA, and since you can put SATA-drives in a SAS controller, they might not feel compelled to hurry through the development of a SAS flash controller.
Why do you find browsing the file system so much better?
Can't put a finger on it. Guess I'm simply a bit of a conservative oldtimer in regards to media-player interfaces. Most of the media-players I've used has had directory-browser interfaces, so has most portable media-players I've had. When software and players that used meta-data browsers started showing up, I really disliked those interfaces. Nowadays, it's hard to find anything that uses directory-browsers, but I'm still more used to thinking of media-files as files in a directory structure than as a reference in a meta-data database.
Most people prefer good design. But a competent technical user might not have the same criteria for what a "well designed interface" is.
I, for instance, think a well designed media-player interface is one that simply shows me the file system in a directory browser and either let me choose a file to play, a directory structure to play or a playlist to play.
For me, a well designed media-device is one that has tactile control-buttons and has standard connectors.
Obviously people shouldn't buy old computers to avoid DRM; that's inefficient and unsustainable.
It's only inefficient and unsustainable if most people don't buy old computers to avoid DRM. If enough people do it, having DRM in computers will be too expensive since they don't sell, and we will have computers without it again.
Problem is, most people will think "I must have the latest model!" and not care if there's DRM built in or not.
I think he meant "leave it on so that it's already booted when you arrive at work the next day, regardless of any shutdown policy", not "leave it on and logged into the time-clock software and hope you get paid 24 hours per day".
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Also, exFAT has one critical flaw, compared to earlier FAT versions.
It isn't supported everywhere.
For instance, MS hasn't released exFAT for XP, even though you can manually copy the dll's and and the appropriate registry-keys.
Once exFAT starts being used by cameras, mediaplayers and such, people running XP or other OS's will have trouble.
If you get a camera that uses SDXC and exFAT, it's practically incompatible with most OS's.
Even EXT2 and NTFS has more widespread support than exFAT, considering that there exist EXT2-drivers for XP and Vista.
Manufacturers should use that instead and simply ship a disc containing EXT2-drivers with their equipment.
And, what have the filesystem to do with anything?
The way the abstract is worded, one would get the impression that SDXC requires exFAT, which is ridiculous.
You'd be able to utilize the card with any filesystem that can handle drives that big, many of which is free and open, contrary to the two options from MS (exFAT and NTFS).
If they have support for using a Bluetooth or USB mouse, an RTS would be great on the Wii.
Same goes for any other console with BT or USB support, though.
In my experience with the Wii, the Wiimote isn't really suitable as a mouse-replacement.
It doesn't create jobs. It reallocates jobs.
Depends.
If you use the money on X instead of Y and X create exactly the same amount of jobs as Y, then it simply is a reallocation.
If X creates one more job than Y, then more jobs are indeed being created.
It's all about how to most wisely spend what is collected as tax.
Unfortunately, you may be right.
Personally, I wouldn't want, say, a camera without tactile buttons for the central functions.
Imagine a digital camera with a touch-screen interface for zoom, focus and shutter.
Same goes for other types of devices.
A media-player should have real buttons for play, pause, previous and next.
A phone, at least for answer and hang-up functions, preferably for dialing too...
But Apple is a hardware-company. They make their income by selling physical products.
If they open-sourced their phone-os, or opened their phone-hardware to let people run whatever they wanted on it, they'd still make the same amount of income per phone sold.
The moon is a bad example. We can travel there, take samples of it, etc.
The moon is as observable as Earth.
A neighbouring star is about as observable as a black hole, with the difference that we can take direct measurements of a lot broader spectrum of radiation from than what we can from a black hole.
The part about "all you've *proven* is that something is causing those effects" is still true though...
In that way of looking at things, we can not prove that Earth exists, just something that has all the properties of our theoretical Earth-construct.
Isn't it an open standard?
Then those companies can implement support for their chips too...
They just can't influence how the standard looks or works.
I'm more interested in when Matlab or the rendering-engines for applications like Maya and Pro-Engineer will add support for OpenCL. =)
If Nvidia or ATI really wants to start pushing their GPU's as plug-in math-coprocessors, they'll probably start designing them to cater for that use too.
Defragmenting RAM was actually useful in some multitasking OS's in the 80's and early 90's.
If I'm not remembering incorrectly, which might well be the case since it's been a while, it had to do with the fact that the CPU's didn't have memory mapping units, so there was no virtual memory-space.
An application had to fit in a continuous memory block. If there was no block big enough for the application, the OS couldn't load it. Doing a defragmentation of the RAM would give you larger continuous memory blocks.
Usually, though, this had to be done via reboot. =P
When people's movements are collected and tracked over long periods, though, patterns emerge, which can be much more titillating than seemingly innoculus movements.
Which is exactly why corporations or governments shouldn't be allowed to do this.
If a government agency, or a corporation, can have full insight in my life, I should be entitled full insight into that organisation so that I can see what they do with the information they have about me.
Actually, as a citizen, I should have full insight into the government either way, but that's for other reasons.
The problem is what we are going towards; Privacy only for those that have access to information.
Even if it was possible to resize on all sides of a window, it would still be possible to resize in the lower right corner.
The "resize on all sides" could be a "hidden" usability bonus feature, like keyboard shortcuts or a second or third mouse button.
I'll buy that argument as soon as ESPN stops calling NASCAR a sport.
What defines a sport?
Must it be performed by athletes, or are there non-athletic sports?
Are there athletic competitions that are not a sport?
Must there be a competition involved, or can you have non-competitive sports?
But is playing games cheaper than playing football?
Gaming might be rather expensive, depending on what equipment you need for your particular games.
Many sports are also quite expensive due to equipment-cost.
Football is one of the cheaper sports, equipment wise. In it's simplest form, all you need is a ball.
Unless they mean that playing hockey or football is less popular than playing games.
Otherwise, it's a rather pointless comparison.
Intel probably hasn't got a controller chip for SAS yet.
So far, the big market for SSD's are in SATA, and since you can put SATA-drives in a SAS controller, they might not feel compelled to hurry through the development of a SAS flash controller.
You mean limits should be lower, since modern traffic is full of bad drivers driving huge cars while fiddling with all their in-car gadgets? =)
Why do you find browsing the file system so much better?
Can't put a finger on it.
Guess I'm simply a bit of a conservative oldtimer in regards to media-player interfaces.
Most of the media-players I've used has had directory-browser interfaces, so has most portable media-players I've had.
When software and players that used meta-data browsers started showing up, I really disliked those interfaces.
Nowadays, it's hard to find anything that uses directory-browsers, but I'm still more used to thinking of media-files as files in a directory structure than as a reference in a meta-data database.
Most people prefer good design.
But a competent technical user might not have the same criteria for what a "well designed interface" is.
I, for instance, think a well designed media-player interface is one that simply shows me the file system in a directory browser and either let me choose a file to play, a directory structure to play or a playlist to play.
For me, a well designed media-device is one that has tactile control-buttons and has standard connectors.
Obviously people shouldn't buy old computers to avoid DRM; that's inefficient and unsustainable.
It's only inefficient and unsustainable if most people don't buy old computers to avoid DRM.
If enough people do it, having DRM in computers will be too expensive since they don't sell, and we will have computers without it again.
Problem is, most people will think "I must have the latest model!" and not care if there's DRM built in or not.
Nope.
It's still a very bad idea. Almost as bad as religion.
I think he meant "leave it on so that it's already booted when you arrive at work the next day, regardless of any shutdown policy", not "leave it on and logged into the time-clock software and hope you get paid 24 hours per day".
If they must be logged in to "punch" in or out, and the employer won't add the extra time spent on booting/shutting down, there's two easy solutions.
1. Don't turn off the computer. Simply log out and leave it running.
2. Set an auto-start time in the BIOS. Most computers have this ability today.