The problem with your example is it's healthcare. There is an incentive for healthcare, to no fix the problem, but prolong it. Situations where something is needed, but is a bad business investment, those need to be run by the government.
It really comes down to Health and Infrastructure should entirely be government, as they naturally cause abuse.
A lot of government institutions have the idea of "throw money at it and don't keep track of it", because there is no real reason to. All they need to do is vote in more taxes, which there is little people can seem to do about.
When you create a C# console app, here's what you get
namespace ConsoleApplication1 {
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
}
} }
I'm not sure "Framework Generator" is the correct term. unless declaring Main for you is just too much.
People should learn in the console first anyway, because the GUI has it's own logic flow that adds to the complexity.
Personally, I say C is the best language to start with. I found it very natural to pick-up, which is part of the reason why I got an A in C++ and a C+ in Visual Basic.Net. VB is too English like for me, I stick with Algebraic syntax with C style languages.
I tried BASIC as a kid. Hated it, so I stopped learning to program. A few years later, I stumbled across C++, loved it, so I started to program. I found ASM much more fun than BASIC.
I felt like I was scripting with BASIC, wanted to tell the CPU what to do, not what the scripting engine should do.
Every forum I have ever read and every sales person at any store I have talked to say 1080p needs at least a ~40" to appreciated for movies. Unless you expect people to start having 200" TV's in their houses, 4k is almost entirely wasted on the human eye.
2k will probably be about the useful limit for the human eye in a typical living room setting, and better color depth or sound will add much more to the experience, but those will be very minor increases in bandwidth.
Another thing to remember, is compression seems to become *better* with high resolutions, as there are more repeated colors to compress. I remember watching crappy quality 480p 700MB videos back when you could P2P and not worry. Now a 1GB file is 1080p and looks several times better.
We're almost at the limit of the human perception, bandwidth requirements for media will plateau.
Bandwidth requirements for media is slowing down, while technology is making bandwidth faster and cheaper.
We probably won't see another huge jump in bandwidth requirements until people start treating remote files over the internet like local files, like remote back-ups, true cloud storage, over-the-internet "home groups".
You're comparing yourself against illegal Mexicans. I like to compare the lazy people on welfare and getting food stamps.
The other day I saw a lady with an iPhone using food stamps to purchase party supplies. I will gladly trade her for some hard working Mexicans.
My wife's sister get's food stamps because she has a kid and is a single parent. She hits up the bar every other night, has tons of alcohol at home, smokes a pack a day, gets about $3000 more from her school grants than what it costs to go to school because she's a single mother even though she only goes to school 4hrs/week, trades food stamps for Vicodin, runs her house at 65f from the AC in mid summer while leaving the sliding Patio door open while she smokes, runs the house at 80f during the winter with the door open while she smokes, she leaves her lights and TV on 24/7, she has on average a $300 electric and a $250 gas bill(in a mild climate) which is about 3 times mine, which she gets out of paying because she's a single parent.
My neighbors both have unlimited brand new Androids, purchased globs of ring tones, bought a $1.6k hunting rifle, over 4 months behind on rent, had a notice on their door from water & electric, got $10k back from their taxes because they have two kids, bought a $3k 60" plasma TV, spent the other $7k on random other crap, not a dollar towards their bills, literally spends over $100/month on energy drinks, and go out to eat almost every day, leave their lights on all day, leave their windows open all year, even with heat and AC running. The one goes to work, only to come back 30 minutes later in their work truck, and their work truck sits in the driveway for the next 7 hours, then drives away and they come back in their vehicle 30min later.
yeah... Don't complain about illegal immigrants who are willing to work, when we got people like this who cost the economy much much more.
I'm white, but I love to bring that up any time someone tries to be anti-illegal-immigrant.
I know a lot of lazy people who get school grants, and food stamps, all because they waste so much money, they can't afford anything. I see them buying a pack of cigs every day, always going to bars. But nope, gotta kick out the hard working immigrants.
I read a story about some guy who was up in his years, was a WW2 vet who was part of the Invasion of Normandy. He went to find out why is Social Security stopped coming in and it turned out that he was actually an illegal immigrant from when his mom brought him over at a few months old. He was scheduled to be deported back to Mexico, and only spoke English.. Really.. W..T..F..
There is a guy who makes over $100k/year by reporting people who call him. He purposefully signed up for the do-not-call, but then indirectly gets his names into calling lists. He doesn't request to be solicited, but he knows how certain companies abusively data mine phone numbers and gets his numbers in areas that aren't suppose to be shared, but are.
I guess when you report someone, you also get some of the money from the fine, or at least he did in his state.
"Sure, it naturally would stand to reason that the operations (like streaming video) that currently require 100% utilization on today's network"
Not 100% utilization, but utilization 100% of the time. Streaming puts a constant stress on the network, while bursting the whole file puts a temporary strain on the network. Also, skipping around in the stream or re-watching the stream no longer uses the network after the initial transfer, so long as the video is still cached.
Get a local home Netflix "cache" server, a few TB HDs, and that would reduce network strain a lot.
"The problem is, tomorrow we won't be happy with the same old video we used to stream, we are going to want a super high-def version "
Bandwidth is increasing faster than space requirements of media. DvD 11mbit, 10 years later, BlueRay 36mbit. Bandwidth requirements tripled in 10 years. Internet backbone bandwidth increases by 50% per year. In that same 10 years, the internet increased by 15 times. Bandwidth is outpacing media demand by about 5 times. Bandwidth may not be outpacing media growth, but growth will cap as it approaches market saturation.
Time and time again, I read interviews from places like L3 or other large backbone providers and they all say the backbone is just fine and has no issues. Something like 75% of the backbone fiber is dark and technology to push data of a single fiber is outpacing demand, so there's no reason to light the extra fiber. It's all the ISPs not keeping their infrastructure up to date.
I read an interview of L3 where they said when they laid their fiber, for every one conduit full over fiber that they laid, they also laid an additional 11-15 adjacent conduits full of fiber. Most of the extra fiber is still dark due to lack of demand.
IPv6 is finally going to support multi-casting out of the box. They could easily create a "cache" application that would allow you to queue up videos to watch. Then Netflix/Youtube/etc could just do a single multi-cast stream to millions of users for almost no bandwidth. A single 8mbit stream could push 8mbit to an infinite amount of users.
"Opera's great, Chrome too... but why haven't they done a 64-bit port for example?"
All of the plug-ins must be ported to 64bit also as a 64bit app can't link to a 32bit DLL. Adobe is dragging it's feet on Flash-64bit. I'm sure there are others.
I've got the opposite. Chrome doesn't want admin, but FF does. Chrome installs under the local profile because the current user doesn't need admin privs to do so. FF installs to the program directory, so you need admin..
The Linux equivalent is installing to ~/ . Chrome defaults to ~/ and FF defaults to/bin one requires admin, the other doesn't. If you want Chrome to use/bin, then get the MSI and configure it to your liking.
They should just remove versions and use the UTC time stamp when it was compiled.
This is what they're effectively doing, except date compiled is even more annoying. They want to remove the idea of "versions" and just be the "next release". There is no major/minor anymore, just the newest. How you determine if you're running the latest version is up to them. They decided using an incremental number is better than a date as it's more "friendly". Maybe they should just switch to using the repository commit number, maybe that would've made everyone happy.
This makes things more unstable, but it also allows the platform to evolve much faster. A quick succession of semi-major changes allows for more flexibility than being locked down to a "major" version for a long while.
"Many of which are implemented using different browser-specific keywords, especially in the CSS space"
That's because of a lot of those "standards" haven't been ratified yet. Since the standard doesn't formally even exist, they implement their own version of how they expect that feature to eventually work. This allows developers to play around while waiting on the standards committee to finalize the features.
HTML is versionless now as HTML5 is the last version to be released. Everything else from here-on-out is just an addition to HTML5. As long as your support HTML, you should be fine.
I thought you only got in trouble if they could show that you distributed the audio via P2P. Without P2P, there isn't much for them to stand on. ie Having illegal music doesn't get you in trouble, it's the distribution of the music that they're after.
The idea of a "version" doesn't really fit with fast semi-major changes, just the idea of a "release number", which is only used to distinguish which "release" you're using. Allows for better evolutionary changes to the browser instead of huge changes all at once and several months of debugging. Add a new feature, run it through basic testing, release it on the public, fix bugs as the crop up, move on to the next group of features on the to-do list. Kind of "fine grain" versioning instead of "course grain".
Cans can....pun?... have value because they are not money. They are something to be directly used. A Block of aluminum cannot be directly used. It must first be machined, which is a service.
Money is a way to exchange "work effort". The more money you have, the more someone is willing to work for it. As long as others are willing to work for the money, it has value. If someone finds a way to "print off" more of that money, the current money gets devalued and people are less and less likely to do the same amount of work for a said amount of money.
No currency has real value. If you want to trade real value, you need to use a barter system, not a currency system. Bartering is a huge hassle and you can't have debt and you can't invest.
People who value BitCoin for its USD exchange rate may not find it useful, but people who are willing to exchange services like web-hosting, storage, or other easy to provide services, may still continue to trade in BitCoin.
Maybe someone will make an OpenSource project for Distributed Computing where you can request BitCoin payment for exchange of running some distributed client. As long as I can make more BitCoins doing that, then mining for them it would be worth it.
BitCoin has potential, but it needs to be accepted, just like how the USD had to be accepted as you cannot trade USD for gold. USD is backed by potential services, not gold/etc.
A 15 char pass phrase is much more secure than an 8 char password. All it takes is a nonsensical pass-phrase and a light peppering of special chars and no one could break it without having a few dedicated power plants to supply electricity to their GPU cluster.
An i7 quad is about twice as fast as a Core2Quad. SandyBridge i7 is about 30% faster per core than the original i7 and has 50% more cores, the Ivy bridge coming out next year is about 20% faster than the SandyBridge per core and has another 50% more cores.
Assuming you use a Core2Quad(about 4 years old), current CPUs are about 2*1.3*1.5 = 3.9 times faster, and that's not including the new AVX instructions that are about twice as fast as SSE. Add in AVX and you're talking about very large performance differences. Ivy bridge next year will be about 7 times faster.
These are low estimates. I've seen server benchmarks where an Nahalem-i7-quad was about 4-8 times faster than a Core2Quad because of extra cache and better prefeching+memory-subsystem.
Most applications/games don't make use of the extra threads yet, but there are several games coming out in the next year that will scale well.
Slashdot Mirror
Firefox has a MSI version which can be pushed out via MS Active Directory.
The electric bill is in Watt-Hours, so less converting if you just assume watt-hours from the get-go.
They need a way to fine the auditor to the point of bankrupting them for effectively "lying"
The problem with your example is it's healthcare. There is an incentive for healthcare, to no fix the problem, but prolong it. Situations where something is needed, but is a bad business investment, those need to be run by the government.
It really comes down to Health and Infrastructure should entirely be government, as they naturally cause abuse.
A lot of government institutions have the idea of "throw money at it and don't keep track of it", because there is no real reason to. All they need to do is vote in more taxes, which there is little people can seem to do about.
When you create a C# console app, here's what you get
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
}
}
}
I'm not sure "Framework Generator" is the correct term. unless declaring Main for you is just too much.
People should learn in the console first anyway, because the GUI has it's own logic flow that adds to the complexity.
Personally, I say C is the best language to start with. I found it very natural to pick-up, which is part of the reason why I got an A in C++ and a C+ in Visual Basic .Net. VB is too English like for me, I stick with Algebraic syntax with C style languages.
sentences are delimited by punctuation, not white space.
I tried BASIC as a kid. Hated it, so I stopped learning to program. A few years later, I stumbled across C++, loved it, so I started to program. I found ASM much more fun than BASIC.
I felt like I was scripting with BASIC, wanted to tell the CPU what to do, not what the scripting engine should do.
Every forum I have ever read and every sales person at any store I have talked to say 1080p needs at least a ~40" to appreciated for movies. Unless you expect people to start having 200" TV's in their houses, 4k is almost entirely wasted on the human eye.
2k will probably be about the useful limit for the human eye in a typical living room setting, and better color depth or sound will add much more to the experience, but those will be very minor increases in bandwidth.
Another thing to remember, is compression seems to become *better* with high resolutions, as there are more repeated colors to compress. I remember watching crappy quality 480p 700MB videos back when you could P2P and not worry. Now a 1GB file is 1080p and looks several times better.
We're almost at the limit of the human perception, bandwidth requirements for media will plateau.
Bandwidth requirements for media is slowing down, while technology is making bandwidth faster and cheaper.
We probably won't see another huge jump in bandwidth requirements until people start treating remote files over the internet like local files, like remote back-ups, true cloud storage, over-the-internet "home groups".
You're comparing yourself against illegal Mexicans. I like to compare the lazy people on welfare and getting food stamps.
The other day I saw a lady with an iPhone using food stamps to purchase party supplies. I will gladly trade her for some hard working Mexicans.
My wife's sister get's food stamps because she has a kid and is a single parent. She hits up the bar every other night, has tons of alcohol at home, smokes a pack a day, gets about $3000 more from her school grants than what it costs to go to school because she's a single mother even though she only goes to school 4hrs/week, trades food stamps for Vicodin, runs her house at 65f from the AC in mid summer while leaving the sliding Patio door open while she smokes, runs the house at 80f during the winter with the door open while she smokes, she leaves her lights and TV on 24/7, she has on average a $300 electric and a $250 gas bill(in a mild climate) which is about 3 times mine, which she gets out of paying because she's a single parent.
My neighbors both have unlimited brand new Androids, purchased globs of ring tones, bought a $1.6k hunting rifle, over 4 months behind on rent, had a notice on their door from water & electric, got $10k back from their taxes because they have two kids, bought a $3k 60" plasma TV, spent the other $7k on random other crap, not a dollar towards their bills, literally spends over $100/month on energy drinks, and go out to eat almost every day, leave their lights on all day, leave their windows open all year, even with heat and AC running. The one goes to work, only to come back 30 minutes later in their work truck, and their work truck sits in the driveway for the next 7 hours, then drives away and they come back in their vehicle 30min later.
yeah... Don't complain about illegal immigrants who are willing to work, when we got people like this who cost the economy much much more.
I'm white, but I love to bring that up any time someone tries to be anti-illegal-immigrant.
I know a lot of lazy people who get school grants, and food stamps, all because they waste so much money, they can't afford anything. I see them buying a pack of cigs every day, always going to bars. But nope, gotta kick out the hard working immigrants.
I read a story about some guy who was up in his years, was a WW2 vet who was part of the Invasion of Normandy. He went to find out why is Social Security stopped coming in and it turned out that he was actually an illegal immigrant from when his mom brought him over at a few months old. He was scheduled to be deported back to Mexico, and only spoke English.. Really.. W..T..F..
There is a guy who makes over $100k/year by reporting people who call him. He purposefully signed up for the do-not-call, but then indirectly gets his names into calling lists. He doesn't request to be solicited, but he knows how certain companies abusively data mine phone numbers and gets his numbers in areas that aren't suppose to be shared, but are.
I guess when you report someone, you also get some of the money from the fine, or at least he did in his state.
Coming up as just a number or with an "unknown" name is one thing, pretending to be someone you are not, is fraud.
Think of it like this. I go to a bank and say "hi, I'm some random person". The Bank can just reject me because they don't know who I am.
Or I can go to the bank and same "Hi, I'm John Doe" and the Bank says "Hi John Doe, here's you balance", even though I'm not John Doe.
That's the difference between fraud and just remaining anonymous.
"Sure, it naturally would stand to reason that the operations (like streaming video) that currently require 100% utilization on today's network"
Not 100% utilization, but utilization 100% of the time. Streaming puts a constant stress on the network, while bursting the whole file puts a temporary strain on the network. Also, skipping around in the stream or re-watching the stream no longer uses the network after the initial transfer, so long as the video is still cached.
Get a local home Netflix "cache" server, a few TB HDs, and that would reduce network strain a lot.
"The problem is, tomorrow we won't be happy with the same old video we used to stream, we are going to want a super high-def version "
Bandwidth is increasing faster than space requirements of media. DvD 11mbit, 10 years later, BlueRay 36mbit. Bandwidth requirements tripled in 10 years. Internet backbone bandwidth increases by 50% per year. In that same 10 years, the internet increased by 15 times. Bandwidth is outpacing media demand by about 5 times. Bandwidth may not be outpacing media growth, but growth will cap as it approaches market saturation.
Time and time again, I read interviews from places like L3 or other large backbone providers and they all say the backbone is just fine and has no issues. Something like 75% of the backbone fiber is dark and technology to push data of a single fiber is outpacing demand, so there's no reason to light the extra fiber. It's all the ISPs not keeping their infrastructure up to date.
I read an interview of L3 where they said when they laid their fiber, for every one conduit full over fiber that they laid, they also laid an additional 11-15 adjacent conduits full of fiber. Most of the extra fiber is still dark due to lack of demand.
IPv6 is finally going to support multi-casting out of the box. They could easily create a "cache" application that would allow you to queue up videos to watch. Then Netflix/Youtube/etc could just do a single multi-cast stream to millions of users for almost no bandwidth. A single 8mbit stream could push 8mbit to an infinite amount of users.
"Opera's great, Chrome too... but why haven't they done a 64-bit port for example?"
All of the plug-ins must be ported to 64bit also as a 64bit app can't link to a 32bit DLL. Adobe is dragging it's feet on Flash-64bit. I'm sure there are others.
I've got the opposite. Chrome doesn't want admin, but FF does. Chrome installs under the local profile because the current user doesn't need admin privs to do so. FF installs to the program directory, so you need admin..
The Linux equivalent is installing to ~/ . Chrome defaults to ~/ and FF defaults to /bin one requires admin, the other doesn't. If you want Chrome to use /bin, then get the MSI and configure it to your liking.
They should just remove versions and use the UTC time stamp when it was compiled.
This is what they're effectively doing, except date compiled is even more annoying. They want to remove the idea of "versions" and just be the "next release". There is no major/minor anymore, just the newest. How you determine if you're running the latest version is up to them. They decided using an incremental number is better than a date as it's more "friendly". Maybe they should just switch to using the repository commit number, maybe that would've made everyone happy.
This makes things more unstable, but it also allows the platform to evolve much faster. A quick succession of semi-major changes allows for more flexibility than being locked down to a "major" version for a long while.
"Many of which are implemented using different browser-specific keywords, especially in the CSS space"
That's because of a lot of those "standards" haven't been ratified yet. Since the standard doesn't formally even exist, they implement their own version of how they expect that feature to eventually work. This allows developers to play around while waiting on the standards committee to finalize the features.
HTML is versionless now as HTML5 is the last version to be released. Everything else from here-on-out is just an addition to HTML5. As long as your support HTML, you should be fine.
I thought you only got in trouble if they could show that you distributed the audio via P2P. Without P2P, there isn't much for them to stand on. ie Having illegal music doesn't get you in trouble, it's the distribution of the music that they're after.
At least that was my understanding.
The idea of a "version" doesn't really fit with fast semi-major changes, just the idea of a "release number", which is only used to distinguish which "release" you're using. Allows for better evolutionary changes to the browser instead of huge changes all at once and several months of debugging. Add a new feature, run it through basic testing, release it on the public, fix bugs as the crop up, move on to the next group of features on the to-do list. Kind of "fine grain" versioning instead of "course grain".
Cans can....pun?... have value because they are not money. They are something to be directly used. A Block of aluminum cannot be directly used. It must first be machined, which is a service.
Money is a way to exchange "work effort". The more money you have, the more someone is willing to work for it. As long as others are willing to work for the money, it has value. If someone finds a way to "print off" more of that money, the current money gets devalued and people are less and less likely to do the same amount of work for a said amount of money.
No currency has real value. If you want to trade real value, you need to use a barter system, not a currency system. Bartering is a huge hassle and you can't have debt and you can't invest.
People who value BitCoin for its USD exchange rate may not find it useful, but people who are willing to exchange services like web-hosting, storage, or other easy to provide services, may still continue to trade in BitCoin.
Maybe someone will make an OpenSource project for Distributed Computing where you can request BitCoin payment for exchange of running some distributed client. As long as I can make more BitCoins doing that, then mining for them it would be worth it.
BitCoin has potential, but it needs to be accepted, just like how the USD had to be accepted as you cannot trade USD for gold. USD is backed by potential services, not gold/etc.
Facebook is very useful for stuff like organizing a Family event.. Aunts, Uncles, Grand Parents, etc.
I don't use FB, but my wife does.
Get one of those injunction things that blocks them from selling those units until the case is straitened out.
A 15 char pass phrase is much more secure than an 8 char password. All it takes is a nonsensical pass-phrase and a light peppering of special chars and no one could break it without having a few dedicated power plants to supply electricity to their GPU cluster.
$5 wrench would work better.
An i7 quad is about twice as fast as a Core2Quad. SandyBridge i7 is about 30% faster per core than the original i7 and has 50% more cores, the Ivy bridge coming out next year is about 20% faster than the SandyBridge per core and has another 50% more cores.
Assuming you use a Core2Quad(about 4 years old), current CPUs are about 2*1.3*1.5 = 3.9 times faster, and that's not including the new AVX instructions that are about twice as fast as SSE. Add in AVX and you're talking about very large performance differences. Ivy bridge next year will be about 7 times faster.
These are low estimates. I've seen server benchmarks where an Nahalem-i7-quad was about 4-8 times faster than a Core2Quad because of extra cache and better prefeching+memory-subsystem.
Most applications/games don't make use of the extra threads yet, but there are several games coming out in the next year that will scale well.