inevitably interfere with someone doing their actual job
I can attest to that. I regularly have to work around websense at work to get my job done. Most of the web use I do for work is through a backdoor. I only end up using the company network for things like reading slashdot. Seems kind of backwards. It's a big enough company that getting it turned off or getting proper access is difficult.
Websense and similar products are organizations trying to use technical measures instead of dealing with the actual problem. Employees misbehave, you have to deal with it instead of putting up random roadblocks and pretending it doesn't happen.
It isn't just fear of the future, of the inevitable unknowns in almost any change. It is also letting go of the past, people often end up grieving for what they lose, even if what they gain is greater.
Maybe I didn't make it clear enough. Most of the flying car lanes you see on TV are just the layout from the ground raised up a few hundred feet. Why have the lanes limited in such a way? Why not fly over the building rather than around it? Why pack the lanes so closely together?
We can pick the analogy apart in so many ways, the point was more that by default we don't even consider the alternatives, we try to make the new just like the old.
I feel you missed my point. My point was that your lanes don't have to exist on a 2 dimensional plane, you can develop more efficient and safer pathways rather than just raising the current layout up a few hundred feet.
People don't like dealing with change. Rather than trying to come up with a new system that works well considering the current realities, people try to make the current realities conform to what was previously in place.
Look at movies with flying cars, where so often the flying cars are restricted to 2d multiple lane 'roads' in the air. Seems like a ridiculous restriction to put on flying cars which would lead to almost the exact same set of problems we have with non-flying cars and traffic. It's just how people think (or is that how we don't think?)
It is easy for us on Slashdot to see how stupid this is. But you are talking about a country where a large portion of the population prides themselves in being ignorant and rejecting good science for 'alternative theories'.
Is that the device's lifespawn or the battery's? It is only implied in the article but it looks more like that is the battery's lifespawn. Somehow I doubt the battery costs the full $5000 your using in your calculation, since that is the cost of the bike. I believe your cost per mile calculation is oversimplified and misleading.
I believe if you use similar math on the hummer, a more total cost instead of just the gas price divided by the MPG you get somewhere between $1.50 and $2 a mile. Those numbers however still don't make for a proper comparison since we don't know the real lifespawn of the bike vs lifespawn and cost of the battery.
So really it just comes down to a few questions: Is that lifespawn just the battery? If so, can the battery be replaced, and for how much? What does the electricity to charge it cost?
I was unprepared for higher education by the current system. I had to re-learn howto be creative and independant.
I guess what we really need is a more balanced approach. Something between schooling and "unschooling". Some children raised with 'unschooling' may end up having problems, but hopefully the influence of and knowledge gained from those experiments will help society in general.
A dangerous thing to say, as that not every child will necessarily have the ability to learn the subject matter in a reasonable period of time no matter how you present it. You may not mean it in that way, but easy phrases like that are easy to take out of context or misinterpret.
You may be right, it may be more of a Troll than Flamebait.
An attack without evidence. Several others have already gone into detail on how non-American companies run into similar treatment and it's likely Americans have this view since American media tends to only report on American companies. But that is irrelevant, the post attacks and stirs up controversy without contributing anything.
The point is, this isn't novel, original, or insightful. My examples of how easy it would be to prototype was to illistrate all the parts exist and have probably been put together in that form or nearly that form already.
Take for example all the plugins and applications that give status updates on what music you are playing to any number of communications platforms. Look at all the automatic posts already being made to twitter. Hey, some of the media players that have plugins that post what your listening to play video, and surprise surprise some post what you are watching just as they post what you are listening! Look at all the examples of attempts at integrated and omni devices including tv remotes.
The only place I can see you could really claim is anywhere near innovative is putting it on the remote. But really, when trying to capture data such as what a user is doing, where are the two places you look to hook in? The output and/or related metadata, or the user input and/or related metadata.
I really wish people would stop saying the equivalent of 'oooh oooh read the patent' without ever considering how unoriginal these minor variations being patented are.
The primary reason why the patent shouldn't be granted is it's a minor variation on existing ideas that takes no real effort to dream up or create. A 10 minute brain storming session could come up with dozens of ideas of equivalent value. Also, a prototype of the device could probably be created in minutes using a computer or smartphone with an IR port. Or look at a custom pvr setup.
This is hardly a patent protecting any real R&D. This is like patenting different configurations of three blocks of Lego. Oh yes, my patent is original! The top block is shifted one peg farther to the right! It's a completely new design!
How about roads? Power lines? Police?
Never mind with education and healthcare, children. They don't get to choose, their parents do.
You make it sound so straightforward.
Also its quite obvious the complete deregulation of certain industries doesn't work. Telecommunications for example.
Hmm, strange, here I thought I had read that over twice and going back now there are references. Guess I missed them. I did have trouble finding a reliable 100% 5-year survival rate number that didn't have all sorts of conditions on it though.
By the way, I'm not on either side. I don't care how the democrats are or how the republicans are. Making those generalisations, dividing the argument into "us" and "them", I tend to stop listening as soon as you use those terms. How about arguing based on reason rather than "that's wrong because the bad guys believe that" or "they did it first" crap. These issues are about a societies trying to improve, it isn't two sided, there isn't a good side and a bad side.
Those are fine numbers, but you don't bother to list your sources, methods, etc.
I can make up numbers as well. I can do better even, I can usually find studies to back my made up numbers, just so long as I ignore a few details like methods.
Half would be an increase. Also, it tends to be less expensive in the long run to have better social programs. Beyond a certain point, cutting taxes and social programs only benefits short term greed, in a few years you end up paying for it.
Then I wonder what the/NOEXECUTE=ALWAYS(ON|OFF) and/(NO)PAE switches are for...
Those switches are valid and work, however they don't allow you to use memory above the license limit. The kernel just refuses to use more than the memory limit. With a desktop license the PAE kernel detects all your RAM and is able to address it properly, however during startup it discards all memory above the limit read from the license data. The server editions of windows use the same kernel executables but don't have the licensing limit. Read the article for a clearer more detailed explanation.
They commented, in a nutshell, enabling "bank switching" is the solution to all of the 32bit memory limitation problems. It isn't. For the very reason I stated...
This is also addressed in the article. A single process can only address 4GB of memory. In Windows the upper 1-2GB are reserved for system use leaving 2-3GB for user space depending on your boot flags. However generally in modern use, the memory limitation you are likely to encounter is the overall system limit, not the individual application limit.
Sorry if I come across as overly aggressive with my response, but please read the article before making comments based on assumptions that mislead and misrepresent the topic of said article. I'm tired of people making FUD easier by never bothering to read the topic.
Where I an employee under this program and a fellow employee found me downloading music I myself had created from my own server the correct response would be for them to yell "That's Stealing!" and publicly embarrass me?
Maybe just put a treadmill in front of the keyboard instead of a chair. A slow to moderate walking pace should be easy enough to adapt to for typing and would probably increase blood flow to the brain. I know going for short walks once or twice an hour improves my productivity (and creativity) while working on computers.
Did you read the article? (No, you didn't) It points out most modern Windows systems automatically use PAE because Microsoft has turned on DEP by default where supported. It appears 32bit desktop Windows has a limitation imposed by the licensing code since around XP SP2, not some option you can disable. It also points out most applications don't use anywhere near 4GB of memory (yet at least) and the primary practical use of that much RAM these days IS multiple applications.
At least some use the term "framelag" which, while still somewhat questionable from a technical perspective, does indicate there is a distinction. What always amazes me is the number of "experts" you run into in online games that lecture you incorrectly about the technical details of any issues occuring in game. I wish people would learn enough to know how ignorant they are or are not before making assertions as an "expert".
I agree on the pretty graphics front. If we continue to expect newer and better quality graphics all we do is push the development costs and end-user hardware costs up to the point we get nothing but recycled sequels with no real content while paying rediculous sums of money. I'd rather fun games with old school graphics over super-pretty games that you forget in 2 weeks because they are hollow shells. I don't buy that a game is good because its super pretty, I say its good if people still play it 5 years later.
Sony is such a large company, the left hand probably has no clue what the right hand is doing. Give it time, I'm sure eventually the evil root kit department will catch on. The format supports some DRM, I'm sure using that and creative interpretations of the standards they can break interoperability.
After all, why sell a customer a working product when you can repeatedly sell them replacements for a defective product? I say this as I remember how Sony portable music players went from high quality near-indestructible products to DRM ridden a few years ago.
No, -1 misleading. Seems this is as likely a feature of greed, them wanting to control bad press in order to expand the event and make more money. I am sure organizers can get greedy no matter where on the political spectrum you or they view the event. I know, the world would be so much easier if you could just lump people and viewpoints together like that and label them as wrong.
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inevitably interfere with someone doing their actual job
I can attest to that. I regularly have to work around websense at work to get my job done. Most of the web use I do for work is through a backdoor. I only end up using the company network for things like reading slashdot. Seems kind of backwards. It's a big enough company that getting it turned off or getting proper access is difficult.
Websense and similar products are organizations trying to use technical measures instead of dealing with the actual problem. Employees misbehave, you have to deal with it instead of putting up random roadblocks and pretending it doesn't happen.
It isn't just fear of the future, of the inevitable unknowns in almost any change. It is also letting go of the past, people often end up grieving for what they lose, even if what they gain is greater.
Maybe I didn't make it clear enough. Most of the flying car lanes you see on TV are just the layout from the ground raised up a few hundred feet. Why have the lanes limited in such a way? Why not fly over the building rather than around it? Why pack the lanes so closely together?
We can pick the analogy apart in so many ways, the point was more that by default we don't even consider the alternatives, we try to make the new just like the old.
I feel you missed my point. My point was that your lanes don't have to exist on a 2 dimensional plane, you can develop more efficient and safer pathways rather than just raising the current layout up a few hundred feet.
People don't like dealing with change. Rather than trying to come up with a new system that works well considering the current realities, people try to make the current realities conform to what was previously in place.
Look at movies with flying cars, where so often the flying cars are restricted to 2d multiple lane 'roads' in the air. Seems like a ridiculous restriction to put on flying cars which would lead to almost the exact same set of problems we have with non-flying cars and traffic. It's just how people think (or is that how we don't think?)
It is easy for us on Slashdot to see how stupid this is. But you are talking about a country where a large portion of the population prides themselves in being ignorant and rejecting good science for 'alternative theories'.
Nope, a typo.
Although, since English came from England, not America wouldn't the American be the derivation?
Is that the device's lifespawn or the battery's? It is only implied in the article but it looks more like that is the battery's lifespawn. Somehow I doubt the battery costs the full $5000 your using in your calculation, since that is the cost of the bike. I believe your cost per mile calculation is oversimplified and misleading.
I believe if you use similar math on the hummer, a more total cost instead of just the gas price divided by the MPG you get somewhere between $1.50 and $2 a mile. Those numbers however still don't make for a proper comparison since we don't know the real lifespawn of the bike vs lifespawn and cost of the battery.
So really it just comes down to a few questions:
Is that lifespawn just the battery?
If so, can the battery be replaced, and for how much?
What does the electricity to charge it cost?
I was unprepared for higher education by the current system. I had to re-learn howto be creative and independant.
I guess what we really need is a more balanced approach. Something between schooling and "unschooling". Some children raised with 'unschooling' may end up having problems, but hopefully the influence of and knowledge gained from those experiments will help society in general.
No child fails, the teacher fails the child
A dangerous thing to say, as that not every child will necessarily have the ability to learn the subject matter in a reasonable period of time no matter how you present it. You may not mean it in that way, but easy phrases like that are easy to take out of context or misinterpret.
You may be right, it may be more of a Troll than Flamebait.
An attack without evidence. Several others have already gone into detail on how non-American companies run into similar treatment and it's likely Americans have this view since American media tends to only report on American companies. But that is irrelevant, the post attacks and stirs up controversy without contributing anything.
The point is, this isn't novel, original, or insightful. My examples of how easy it would be to prototype was to illistrate all the parts exist and have probably been put together in that form or nearly that form already.
Take for example all the plugins and applications that give status updates on what music you are playing to any number of communications platforms. Look at all the automatic posts already being made to twitter. Hey, some of the media players that have plugins that post what your listening to play video, and surprise surprise some post what you are watching just as they post what you are listening! Look at all the examples of attempts at integrated and omni devices including tv remotes.
The only place I can see you could really claim is anywhere near innovative is putting it on the remote. But really, when trying to capture data such as what a user is doing, where are the two places you look to hook in? The output and/or related metadata, or the user input and/or related metadata.
I really wish people would stop saying the equivalent of 'oooh oooh read the patent' without ever considering how unoriginal these minor variations being patented are.
The primary reason why the patent shouldn't be granted is it's a minor variation on existing ideas that takes no real effort to dream up or create. A 10 minute brain storming session could come up with dozens of ideas of equivalent value. Also, a prototype of the device could probably be created in minutes using a computer or smartphone with an IR port. Or look at a custom pvr setup.
This is hardly a patent protecting any real R&D. This is like patenting different configurations of three blocks of Lego. Oh yes, my patent is original! The top block is shifted one peg farther to the right! It's a completely new design!
How about roads? Power lines? Police? Never mind with education and healthcare, children. They don't get to choose, their parents do. You make it sound so straightforward. Also its quite obvious the complete deregulation of certain industries doesn't work. Telecommunications for example.
Hmm, strange, here I thought I had read that over twice and going back now there are references. Guess I missed them. I did have trouble finding a reliable 100% 5-year survival rate number that didn't have all sorts of conditions on it though.
By the way, I'm not on either side. I don't care how the democrats are or how the republicans are. Making those generalisations, dividing the argument into "us" and "them", I tend to stop listening as soon as you use those terms. How about arguing based on reason rather than "that's wrong because the bad guys believe that" or "they did it first" crap. These issues are about a societies trying to improve, it isn't two sided, there isn't a good side and a bad side.
Those are fine numbers, but you don't bother to list your sources, methods, etc.
I can make up numbers as well. I can do better even, I can usually find studies to back my made up numbers, just so long as I ignore a few details like methods.
Half would be an increase. Also, it tends to be less expensive in the long run to have better social programs. Beyond a certain point, cutting taxes and social programs only benefits short term greed, in a few years you end up paying for it.
Then I wonder what the /NOEXECUTE=ALWAYS(ON|OFF) and /(NO)PAE switches are for...
Those switches are valid and work, however they don't allow you to use memory above the license limit. The kernel just refuses to use more than the memory limit. With a desktop license the PAE kernel detects all your RAM and is able to address it properly, however during startup it discards all memory above the limit read from the license data. The server editions of windows use the same kernel executables but don't have the licensing limit. Read the article for a clearer more detailed explanation.
They commented, in a nutshell, enabling "bank switching" is the solution to all of the 32bit memory limitation problems. It isn't. For the very reason I stated...
This is also addressed in the article. A single process can only address 4GB of memory. In Windows the upper 1-2GB are reserved for system use leaving 2-3GB for user space depending on your boot flags. However generally in modern use, the memory limitation you are likely to encounter is the overall system limit, not the individual application limit.
Sorry if I come across as overly aggressive with my response, but please read the article before making comments based on assumptions that mislead and misrepresent the topic of said article. I'm tired of people making FUD easier by never bothering to read the topic.
Where I an employee under this program and a fellow employee found me downloading music I myself had created from my own server the correct response would be for them to yell "That's Stealing!" and publicly embarrass me?
Would it then be correct for me to say "lawsuit"?
Maybe just put a treadmill in front of the keyboard instead of a chair. A slow to moderate walking pace should be easy enough to adapt to for typing and would probably increase blood flow to the brain. I know going for short walks once or twice an hour improves my productivity (and creativity) while working on computers.
Did you read the article? (No, you didn't) It points out most modern Windows systems automatically use PAE because Microsoft has turned on DEP by default where supported. It appears 32bit desktop Windows has a limitation imposed by the licensing code since around XP SP2, not some option you can disable. It also points out most applications don't use anywhere near 4GB of memory (yet at least) and the primary practical use of that much RAM these days IS multiple applications.
At least some use the term "framelag" which, while still somewhat questionable from a technical perspective, does indicate there is a distinction. What always amazes me is the number of "experts" you run into in online games that lecture you incorrectly about the technical details of any issues occuring in game. I wish people would learn enough to know how ignorant they are or are not before making assertions as an "expert".
I agree on the pretty graphics front. If we continue to expect newer and better quality graphics all we do is push the development costs and end-user hardware costs up to the point we get nothing but recycled sequels with no real content while paying rediculous sums of money. I'd rather fun games with old school graphics over super-pretty games that you forget in 2 weeks because they are hollow shells. I don't buy that a game is good because its super pretty, I say its good if people still play it 5 years later.
Sony is such a large company, the left hand probably has no clue what the right hand is doing. Give it time, I'm sure eventually the evil root kit department will catch on. The format supports some DRM, I'm sure using that and creative interpretations of the standards they can break interoperability.
After all, why sell a customer a working product when you can repeatedly sell them replacements for a defective product? I say this as I remember how Sony portable music players went from high quality near-indestructible products to DRM ridden a few years ago.
No, -1 misleading. Seems this is as likely a feature of greed, them wanting to control bad press in order to expand the event and make more money. I am sure organizers can get greedy no matter where on the political spectrum you or they view the event. I know, the world would be so much easier if you could just lump people and viewpoints together like that and label them as wrong.