Google's been pretty friendly but we can't pretend it's always going to be.
Also, even if Google remains "friendly" regarding the patents it holds, there's no guarantee Google will be the one continuing to hold them. Patent war chests change hands with various sorts of mergers, splitoffs, lawsuits, stock deals, etc.
This is the reason benevolent dictatorship doesn't really exist: A benevolent leader would not subject his people to a dictatorship, especially as an entrenchment for those who would follow him. Like you say, just because the current state seems benevolent does not mean anything about how that power will be applied in the future.
Regardless, this thing should have died given netboot prior art.
Calculus is pretty much a modeling language when it comes to programming, not an implementation language. When it's appropriate, calculus is generally done outside of the program implementation, its output being the algorithmic shortcuts and validations that you can rely on when writing the actual code.
That *is* the free market. Trust is also a market feature that comes & goes, even though government demands blind trust in its own devices. If the market decides adhering to some standard is necessary (which takes education, marketing, and precedent in some combination), then providers adhere and ideally organize. If the market decides some standard doesn't bring anything of value, it falls out of use.
The issue is that these sorts of security problems are not a deciding factor for individuals or even many businesses, which leaves them vulnerable to these same sorts of attacks. The "invisible hand of the market" moves with stories like this, because it provides said education and precedent that people use to evaluate standard practices.
I never could really understand how this companies-should-self-regulate could work, and up to this day it didn't really prove to work. If companies are let to roam freely, then there's really nothing (good or bad) you can really expect from them, and even if one seems OK, they can change their policies from one second to the next and you're screwed.
I think the intent is that there'd be industry standards, with their own best practices, standards body, and compliance testing. Things like movie ratings and OpenGL compliance are self-regulated.
Every e-commerce company in the world that allows you to store your card info will display the last four digits of your card number, because what other option is there? What other unique determinant could you possibly display in order to allow people to select one card from a set?
User-defined label when entering card details.
Online banking typically does this, so even though you see (some of) your account digits while online, it's really the name you gave it that's meaningful.
I rarely use save states for cheating, but they're incredibly handy for convenience. Something pops up in Skype or whatever, and you can save & quit at any point in the game.
Save states, pause/resume anywhere, fast forward (well, if your machine is fast enough), record video or audio, use almost any controller you want, less hardware, higher render resolution.
I'm assuming your drive system eliminates effectively as much load lag already as a modern HD.
There is a difference of "content" between then and now. The average user is easily creating or distributing textual or photographic content only. They are not creating anything of new complexity or functionality, which used to be the "content" of computing of yesteryear.
There are many things from graphic design to webserver programming and mobile apps that the average user is only a Consumer of, not a producer, because the barrier is not technology but skills. These devices are not intended for creation of these things (though programmers will always try to fill that void, for their own interests if nothing else).
But let's not also forget the "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" flipside of this coin:
At Home: Make your own backups. In Cloud: Included feature, depending on service. (but make your own backups, too!) At Home: Downtime based on home equipment & residential net access. In Cloud: Hot failover of equipment and connectivity.
The first is pretty important, and far too often overlooked. The second is just a non-catastrophic cost vs simplicity tradeoff, but still should be weighed.
Buy congresscritters to ensure your market position. There's no way profit margins would remain anywhere at this level, for this popular of a service, if the artificial barriers to entry for competition weren't continually legislated so high over here. Investors would be jumping over themselves to establish a smaller margin business model and undercut the incumbents.
It has nothing to do with "peak" age of anything. It's all about having tons of time free, and very few interests that are focused such that you'll spend 12 hours a day doing something that you'd not have the time or patience to do nowadays.
Other failure modes include head "crashes", spindle bearing failures, drive motor failures, controller circuitry problems (bad electronic components), and mechanical breakage of connectors, solder joints, etc. These typically are not user repairable.
Spindle/motor failures: Potential workaround with heat/cold Controller circuitry problems: Replace board Solder joints & other cracks: Potential workaround with heat
The coursera videos are really nice in that they have a playback speed option. You can zip through at 2x speed, and slow down when the content becomes more dense or you need to really dig slower into what's being presented.
Also, when videos are shorter (5 minutes or less) and focused on one particular thing, that really helps the ability to jump to desired parts simply via the table of contents. Many videos also have transcribed searchable subtitles. I agree that recordings of regular 45min lectures are really useless for finding particulars.
There have been good textbooks for centuries. Watching a video is not going to improve things much.
Oh yes it does. A conversational description of the material, as opposed to over-edited reference-worthy technical descriptions, can go a very long way in helping understanding. Seeing the interaction of somebody actually working through a problem and pointing things out (including their thought process), instead of a terse list of opaque steps, is huge. Along with the slides and downloads, all the reference material is still represented, but watching another human demonstrate the information is much often a faster and deeper way to communicate the same concepts. Not everybody can learn as well from just reading textbooks, even the good ones. Even if they can, going through a video lecture before reading the text seems to be a great way to make the reading far more meaningful, as familiarity has been bootstrapped.
There is merit to the other facets you describe, but lowering the cost and other barriers to entry to actual training (not just reference materials) is an amazing step forward.
I'm sure they're great, but I've never head an Apple user wax lyrical about the packaging...
...until this thread.
It's weird. Any time there's any discussion about Apple's anything, people crawl out of the woodwork to report the most minor or dubious rationales for everything as the most important key feature of the "experience", no matter the subject.
Sure some kids go for the toy, but the truth is, mcdonald's food is prepared to be very palatable and generically tasty without any strange flavours a simple palate won't recognize.
Translation: Their food is simply flavorless then loaded with sugar to appeal to kids' taste buds. Congratulations on getting your kids hooked on their "flavor".
No, this effectively broadcasts many views of the image through the entire range. Any viewer at any valid angle within the field of view should see a properly tracked perspective.
Exactly. This also shows that in their success, Apple doesn't innovate much. They focus on polish, style, deeply integrating a few very specific things, and all the physical & UI touches that a very focused set of people seem to respond well to. I wouldn't really call that innovation; they do some innovation, but it's these other things that work for strong sales and brand trust.
While I'm not an Apple fan, and every time I tried to use an Apple device I wanted to do something slightly different than what the Great Apple had predestined users to do with them, there are definitely lessons to learn from Apple. None of those lessons are "innovation", though.
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For starters, exclude everybody with a Rep or Dem next to their name.
Google's been pretty friendly but we can't pretend it's always going to be.
Also, even if Google remains "friendly" regarding the patents it holds, there's no guarantee Google will be the one continuing to hold them. Patent war chests change hands with various sorts of mergers, splitoffs, lawsuits, stock deals, etc.
This is the reason benevolent dictatorship doesn't really exist: A benevolent leader would not subject his people to a dictatorship, especially as an entrenchment for those who would follow him. Like you say, just because the current state seems benevolent does not mean anything about how that power will be applied in the future.
Regardless, this thing should have died given netboot prior art.
Calculus is pretty much a modeling language when it comes to programming, not an implementation language. When it's appropriate, calculus is generally done outside of the program implementation, its output being the algorithmic shortcuts and validations that you can rely on when writing the actual code.
That *is* the free market. Trust is also a market feature that comes & goes, even though government demands blind trust in its own devices. If the market decides adhering to some standard is necessary (which takes education, marketing, and precedent in some combination), then providers adhere and ideally organize. If the market decides some standard doesn't bring anything of value, it falls out of use.
The issue is that these sorts of security problems are not a deciding factor for individuals or even many businesses, which leaves them vulnerable to these same sorts of attacks. The "invisible hand of the market" moves with stories like this, because it provides said education and precedent that people use to evaluate standard practices.
I never could really understand how this companies-should-self-regulate could work, and up to this day it didn't really prove to work. If companies are let to roam freely, then there's really nothing (good or bad) you can really expect from them, and even if one seems OK, they can change their policies from one second to the next and you're screwed.
I think the intent is that there'd be industry standards, with their own best practices, standards body, and compliance testing. Things like movie ratings and OpenGL compliance are self-regulated.
Every e-commerce company in the world that allows you to store your card info will display the last four digits of your card number, because what other option is there? What other unique determinant could you possibly display in order to allow people to select one card from a set?
User-defined label when entering card details.
Online banking typically does this, so even though you see (some of) your account digits while online, it's really the name you gave it that's meaningful.
I rarely use save states for cheating, but they're incredibly handy for convenience. Something pops up in Skype or whatever, and you can save & quit at any point in the game.
Save states, pause/resume anywhere, fast forward (well, if your machine is fast enough), record video or audio, use almost any controller you want, less hardware, higher render resolution.
I'm assuming your drive system eliminates effectively as much load lag already as a modern HD.
There is a difference of "content" between then and now. The average user is easily creating or distributing textual or photographic content only. They are not creating anything of new complexity or functionality, which used to be the "content" of computing of yesteryear.
There are many things from graphic design to webserver programming and mobile apps that the average user is only a Consumer of, not a producer, because the barrier is not technology but skills. These devices are not intended for creation of these things (though programmers will always try to fill that void, for their own interests if nothing else).
But let's not also forget the "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" flipside of this coin:
At Home: Make your own backups. In Cloud: Included feature, depending on service. (but make your own backups, too!)
At Home: Downtime based on home equipment & residential net access. In Cloud: Hot failover of equipment and connectivity.
The first is pretty important, and far too often overlooked. The second is just a non-catastrophic cost vs simplicity tradeoff, but still should be weighed.
Buy congresscritters to ensure your market position. There's no way profit margins would remain anywhere at this level, for this popular of a service, if the artificial barriers to entry for competition weren't continually legislated so high over here. Investors would be jumping over themselves to establish a smaller margin business model and undercut the incumbents.
Or Sectoids and Mutons. Clearly this is an X-Com motion scanner.
It appears that real name policies actually do improve the S/N ratio significantly
No it doesn't, according to recent studies:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/07/29/1848211/will-real-name-policies-improve-comments
It has nothing to do with "peak" age of anything. It's all about having tons of time free, and very few interests that are focused such that you'll spend 12 hours a day doing something that you'd not have the time or patience to do nowadays.
Other failure modes include head "crashes", spindle bearing failures, drive motor failures, controller circuitry problems (bad electronic components), and mechanical breakage of connectors, solder joints, etc. These typically are not user repairable.
Spindle/motor failures: Potential workaround with heat/cold
Controller circuitry problems: Replace board
Solder joints & other cracks: Potential workaround with heat
I'd be shocked if there weren't also a ship-interior cover for the hatch.
The coursera videos are really nice in that they have a playback speed option. You can zip through at 2x speed, and slow down when the content becomes more dense or you need to really dig slower into what's being presented.
Also, when videos are shorter (5 minutes or less) and focused on one particular thing, that really helps the ability to jump to desired parts simply via the table of contents. Many videos also have transcribed searchable subtitles. I agree that recordings of regular 45min lectures are really useless for finding particulars.
There have been good textbooks for centuries. Watching a video is not going to improve things much.
Oh yes it does. A conversational description of the material, as opposed to over-edited reference-worthy technical descriptions, can go a very long way in helping understanding. Seeing the interaction of somebody actually working through a problem and pointing things out (including their thought process), instead of a terse list of opaque steps, is huge. Along with the slides and downloads, all the reference material is still represented, but watching another human demonstrate the information is much often a faster and deeper way to communicate the same concepts. Not everybody can learn as well from just reading textbooks, even the good ones. Even if they can, going through a video lecture before reading the text seems to be a great way to make the reading far more meaningful, as familiarity has been bootstrapped.
There is merit to the other facets you describe, but lowering the cost and other barriers to entry to actual training (not just reference materials) is an amazing step forward.
I'm sure they're great, but I've never head an Apple user wax lyrical about the packaging...
...until this thread.
It's weird. Any time there's any discussion about Apple's anything, people crawl out of the woodwork to report the most minor or dubious rationales for everything as the most important key feature of the "experience", no matter the subject.
Sure some kids go for the toy, but the truth is, mcdonald's food is prepared to be very palatable and generically tasty without any strange flavours a simple palate won't recognize.
Translation: Their food is simply flavorless then loaded with sugar to appeal to kids' taste buds. Congratulations on getting your kids hooked on their "flavor".
But it all runs on The Cloud!
No, this effectively broadcasts many views of the image through the entire range. Any viewer at any valid angle within the field of view should see a properly tracked perspective.
Exactly. This also shows that in their success, Apple doesn't innovate much. They focus on polish, style, deeply integrating a few very specific things, and all the physical & UI touches that a very focused set of people seem to respond well to. I wouldn't really call that innovation; they do some innovation, but it's these other things that work for strong sales and brand trust.
While I'm not an Apple fan, and every time I tried to use an Apple device I wanted to do something slightly different than what the Great Apple had predestined users to do with them, there are definitely lessons to learn from Apple. None of those lessons are "innovation", though.
Will a bird adapt to floating without wind?
From a bird's perspective, the world is their toilet. I can't see that adapting to microgravity very well.
MIT hit a lot faster than a measly 36.7 million fps.
http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/trillionfps/