There are several answers. One that I have yet not seen posted is that the low-end Windows machine market is still big - and that low-end often has less than 4GB of RAM. Yes, still in 2017.
2GB of RAM is the bare minimum for 64-bit Windows, and all that I have heard about running that way, is that it is not fun. It is not just about how native 64-bit apps use more memory but also about larger overhead in the OS itself. Some slightly better performance for numeric workloads is no benefit if it implies that apps needs to swap more to and from disk.
JPEG-2000 is slow to decode. There exists a somewhat faster algorithm but it is patent-encumbered and proprietary.
The only place where JPEG-2000 has got widespread adoption is in digital cinema (Motion JPEG-2000) and that requires special-purpose hardware where as H.264 at the same quality could be decoded in software on a commodity PC.
That won't always work. Not all hotels use regular TVs but often special-purpose hotel TVs with special hotel functions such as info channel and pay-per-view etc. These often have no ports - only a single fixed cable at the back going into the wall.
Many older hotels are also stuck with standard-definition or 720p TVs. I have even encountered that the TV on a 4.5 star hotel had a broken cable.
And... most hotel TVs are stuck on the wall pretty high, sometimes far from power sockets so you would have to bring long cables and/or Bluetooth peripherals.
It is obvious that the answer should be no. Sentencing decisions should include the reasoning why the decision would be motivated. "Because The Software Says So" is no more valid than "Because I Say So".
I think that if software is being used, not only should the software be Open Source, the sentencing document should include a mathematical explanation of the algorithm that the program uses together with the input parameters about the judged and various statistics that the decisions leans on.
Which society are you talking about again? Maybe there isn't consensus in your little town, but in the global society, there is. The world is bigger than "America" you know.
A few times when travelling for a couple of weeks at a time, I have taken a Windows 10 tablet with me without any type-cover. It was primarily not the keyboard that I missed, but a proper pointing device. Windows 10 still has some programs made for touch and some programs made for mouse and keyboard. For instance, when travelling you need to set up Wifi, and if you ever need to get into the real Wifi settings you do need to get into the classic Control Panel a lot, and that is still not touch-optimized. Neither is Explorer, so you can't move files around without moving files wrong now and then. Another thing is the high DPI screen, which is nice when a program supports it but when using an older program not built for high DPI, the buttons and icons are tiny and you [i]really[/i] need a pointing device. Yes, the on-screen keyboard is clunky and slows you down, but many casual users would not type faster on a real keyboard either.
So, the most important aspect of having the type cover is not the keyboard but the touchpad that is on it.
It seems to me that the reason why MS did not include either, and why they are still offering a 4GB option, is because they want to keep the "Prices from" amount low for advertising. Advertising concerns should not dictate a product's properties - a product's properties should dictate the advertising!
Actually... there have been a couple of research papers that indicate that some species of insects would not be very fond of cell phone towers.
Not that the authors of all of those papers are known to be very trustworthy and are often ridiculed, but I prefer to keep an open mind until the actual facts in the papers have been confirmed or refuted. For instance, look up Olle Johansson and Marie-Claire Cammaerts.
You do know that almost a quarter of the world's population is Muslim, don't you? It is the second largest religion and the fastest growing. There are many denominations. Only a tiny portion of that would be considered radical fundamentalists. Otherwise there would be a constant war between countries with different religions, which there aren't - there are isolated incidents now and then. The most well-known incidents in recent years have been caused by people living in the West who were driven more by dissatisfaction of their position in society and how they had been singled out as Muslims than by any religious fervour.
The platform is "Netflix", the movies available in France only to Netflix' subscribers.
If they are going to be neutral and streamed, then they should be available to anyone to stream for a one-time fee, not just to those who pay a monthly subscription fee.
The point of contention here according to the Cannes Film Festival's official letter is not that it is being distributed on-line but that the movie is available in France only to Netflix's subscribers and not to the general public.
Back in 2009-2010, no movie theatre chain in my country wanted to screen The Blind Side because they thought that nobody over here would want to see it. Then Sandra Bullock went and won an Oscar for acting in it... It was then - before its regular streaming window - made available through on-line streaming, from the company I worked for at the time. But we made it available for everyone who registered and paid for it - we did certainly not limit the movie only to those who had signed up to our monthly subscription service.
I would liken these made-for-Netflix movies to made-for-TV movies that have been made to be shown exclusively on one TV channel. TV movies have never been eligible for a Palm d'Or or an Oscar in the past either.
So I would not call out Cannes just yet. However, if they would disallow streamed movies next year, even if they would be available to all in France, then I would call them hypocrites!
There are still a few directors who still prefer to shoot on film... even though the film will be digitized for post-production later. Christopher Nolan is one of them. Star Wars The Force Awakens was also shot on film, some 35 mm, some 70mm (IMAX).
The article (almost in full in the summary above) is making the argument against lectures that a lecture would just be repeating what the student has read on his own in the textbook.
Well, repetition is not necessarily bad. Facts stick if we can apply them, if we can associate them in new ways. A good lecturer does not simply repeat exactly what you read. If you are a good lecturer then you emphasize those things in the subject matter that are the most important and you do that from a slightly different angle than in the textbook. And you do use pictures, drawings, animations or other appropriate media that are not in the textbook - just as you would when making an educational video.
And if you hold a lecture then you should always devote a few minutes to questions. Getting a question cleared up can be all the difference for someone. If you think lecturing is droning on then you are just a lazy professor.
I need a debit card only because the banks in my country are trying to kill cash. I was doing fine without it for many years.
Bank transfers for paying bills: Internet banking works great. Most of them are automated, under my control. Bank transfers for buying stuff from people on the Internet: works great as well.
I think that most people that would be interested in ReactOS or Wine are not because they would not want to pay for a Windows license but because they have concerns about Microsoft's present and future shenanigans. There could be many reasons: from national security to just wanting to keep the machine safe and stable for what they are running.
That begs the question, what about cracker groups? Are there no cracked versions of Windows 10 out there with telemetry and other back doors switched off, that could only receive screened updates? If that is an option for people, why isn't Microsoft concerned?
The underlying question behind the question is really about what CS students should be exposed to... When I was a beginning CS student I was exposed to a number of different languages, each being an example of a different mindset: machine language, object-oriented, functional, logical. I think that's important to learn not just about a programming language but about concepts. Especially in object-oriented programming there are quite a few concepts that you should have a grasp of to be a good programmer in any object-oriented language. And there are times that you could use lessons learned from functional or logical programming that you could apply also in OO programming.
Once you are proficient enough in one language, and having seen a few different languages, picking up another language is easy enough. (the exception being C++) Then the challenge becomes getting acquainted with the standard library.
Myself, I was somewhat self-taught before college. Started with Basic on the Commodore 64 and then 6510 assembly. Some basic on the Atari ST. 68000 assembly on the Amiga. Then C and C++ on PCs. I would otherwise recommend learning Ruby or Python. Ruby is underappreciated.
Yet another Slashdot headline that was unintelligible until I inserted "with" and read "Tabs Experience" as a noun.
The term "User Experience" term really irks me, because the wording implies an unhealthy mindset towards designing user interfaces. Seriously... if your user interface is an experience then you are doing something wrong. The UI should be functional and get out of the way so that I can get shit done.
Long before touch-screens with capacitative sensing became commonplace there were some touch-screens systems that used a gyroscope as its sensor to sense how much the screen rocked when a user touched it. It was very crude and inaccurate compared to other approaches but it could be mounted to most regular CRT computer monitors.
Unfortunately I have sold off my computer magazines from the early '90s so I can't look up the name of the manufacturer.
As the top of the "Maxwell"-architecture 900-series, NVidia released the "GeForce GTX Titan X" in March 2015. Then in August last year, as the top of the "Pascal"-architecture 10-series, NVidia released a new Titan... this time calling it "Titan X". This new name did not contain the "GeForce GTX" prefix, but who the Elle says the entire long product name every time, right? So several high-profile reviewers started calling it "Titan XP" - with the "P" for "Pascal", to distinguish it from the previous "Titan X" in the Maxwell generation.
And now, NVidia has released a new card with the official name "Titan Xp". I think there is no way that they would not be aware of the older card being called that. Even worse. both cards called "Titan XP" (and the "GeForce GTX 1080 Ti") are the same GPU (NVidia GP102) with different binning - I.e. some units switched off on the cheaper cards.
The GP102 chip is also used in the top of their Quadro line of workstation graphics cards... My guess is that the better-binned chips they had intended for Quadro cards did not sell as well as they had thought and therefore saw an opportunity to sell them at a high price as their new top consumer card.
The big issue for adoption is... what other things will it bond to in the user's pocket?
According to TFA, this is a very flexible material. I have seen cell phone cases made of flexible silicone - they attract lint and dust as if the phone had been covered with double-sided tape.
How about making ports like the infamous "USB Kill Stick" but in reverse? Any unauthorized device connected to the port would get fried. The attacker would probably not find out what happened until afterwards when they try to get the data from the attacking device.
But yeah, if we knew what kind of attack they used to gain access one could provide another set of files: a honey pot, or just innocuous data.
Christopher Nolan is IMHO one of the few filmmakers who still makes movies the proper way - with film, in regular old 2D cinemascope and uses the whole image, with good cinematrography. Each movie I have seen of Nolan's has been both a visual treat, an immersion into a very special world and sometimes thought-provoking. They have made me think about the movie experience for days afterwards.
But most of the movies these days are cookie-cutter action/comedy "popcorn" movies, and always with 3D glasses that provide worse image quality than even a regular DVD on a 27" TV.
You already had me, Nolan. But you can't persuade me to go to the theatre to see something else than your own.
According to "Barnacules Nerdgasm" on Youtube, who previously worked on Windows at Microsoft, people he know who are still inside have told him that "telemetry" (I.e. spying) will get harder to disable in future updates. Whether all of these will be in this next update or in a future one is hard to say.
I've been talking to a few 'insiders' at Microsoft that are also saying that many of the things like App Store and Telemetry are now being hard coded into key services like explorer.exe and critical system services that if stopped will crash the box immediately. The reason for this is obviously to prevent programs like anti-beacon from disabling these services. It's pretty obvious at this point that Microsoft wants the data at any cost and their cover story is bullshit. I'll update you guys when I know more or when the Windows releases are public that contain these changes and we'll do a video on how to create a network bridge between your system and the internet to prevent telemetry from working even with all the services on the box trying to make contact.ï
Sweden is being derailed into becoming a cashless society.
It is a change pushed by banks and related tech companies, so that they can make a little bit more money. Nobody else wants it.
Leading politicians on a national level are not very interested in the issue - spending more time and energy on squabbling between themselves, pointing finger at each other's small mistakes than willing to take on real responsibility themselves.
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There are several answers. One that I have yet not seen posted is that the low-end Windows machine market is still big - and that low-end often has less than 4GB of RAM. Yes, still in 2017.
2GB of RAM is the bare minimum for 64-bit Windows, and all that I have heard about running that way, is that it is not fun.
It is not just about how native 64-bit apps use more memory but also about larger overhead in the OS itself.
Some slightly better performance for numeric workloads is no benefit if it implies that apps needs to swap more to and from disk.
JPEG-2000 is slow to decode. There exists a somewhat faster algorithm but it is patent-encumbered and proprietary.
The only place where JPEG-2000 has got widespread adoption is in digital cinema (Motion JPEG-2000) and that requires special-purpose hardware where as H.264 at the same quality could be decoded in software on a commodity PC.
That won't always work. Not all hotels use regular TVs but often special-purpose hotel TVs with special hotel functions such as info channel and pay-per-view etc. These often have no ports - only a single fixed cable at the back going into the wall.
Many older hotels are also stuck with standard-definition or 720p TVs. I have even encountered that the TV on a 4.5 star hotel had a broken cable.
And ... most hotel TVs are stuck on the wall pretty high, sometimes far from power sockets so you would have to bring long cables and/or Bluetooth peripherals.
It is obvious that the answer should be no.
Sentencing decisions should include the reasoning why the decision would be motivated.
"Because The Software Says So" is no more valid than "Because I Say So".
I think that if software is being used, not only should the software be Open Source, the sentencing document should include a mathematical explanation of the algorithm that the program uses together with the input parameters about the judged and various statistics that the decisions leans on.
Which society are you talking about again?
Maybe there isn't consensus in your little town, but in the global society, there is. The world is bigger than "America" you know.
A few times when travelling for a couple of weeks at a time, I have taken a Windows 10 tablet with me without any type-cover.
It was primarily not the keyboard that I missed, but a proper pointing device.
Windows 10 still has some programs made for touch and some programs made for mouse and keyboard. For instance, when travelling you need to set up Wifi, and if you ever need to get into the real Wifi settings you do need to get into the classic Control Panel a lot, and that is still not touch-optimized. Neither is Explorer, so you can't move files around without moving files wrong now and then.
Another thing is the high DPI screen, which is nice when a program supports it but when using an older program not built for high DPI, the buttons and icons are tiny and you [i]really[/i] need a pointing device.
Yes, the on-screen keyboard is clunky and slows you down, but many casual users would not type faster on a real keyboard either.
So, the most important aspect of having the type cover is not the keyboard but the touchpad that is on it.
It seems to me that the reason why MS did not include either, and why they are still offering a 4GB option, is because they want to keep the "Prices from" amount low for advertising. Advertising concerns should not dictate a product's properties - a product's properties should dictate the advertising!
Actually ... there have been a couple of research papers that indicate that some species of insects would not be very fond of cell phone towers.
Not that the authors of all of those papers are known to be very trustworthy and are often ridiculed, but I prefer to keep an open mind until the actual facts in the papers have been confirmed or refuted.
For instance, look up Olle Johansson and Marie-Claire Cammaerts.
You do know that almost a quarter of the world's population is Muslim, don't you? It is the second largest religion and the fastest growing. There are many denominations.
Only a tiny portion of that would be considered radical fundamentalists. Otherwise there would be a constant war between countries with different religions, which there aren't - there are isolated incidents now and then.
The most well-known incidents in recent years have been caused by people living in the West who were driven more by dissatisfaction of their position in society and how they had been singled out as Muslims than by any religious fervour.
The platform is "Netflix", the movies available in France only to Netflix' subscribers.
If they are going to be neutral and streamed, then they should be available to anyone to stream for a one-time fee, not just to those who pay a monthly subscription fee.
The point of contention here according to the Cannes Film Festival's official letter is not that it is being distributed on-line but that the movie is available in France only to Netflix's subscribers and not to the general public.
Back in 2009-2010, no movie theatre chain in my country wanted to screen The Blind Side because they thought that nobody over here would want to see it. Then Sandra Bullock went and won an Oscar for acting in it ...
It was then - before its regular streaming window - made available through on-line streaming, from the company I worked for at the time. But we made it available for everyone who registered and paid for it - we did certainly not limit the movie only to those who had signed up to our monthly subscription service.
I would liken these made-for-Netflix movies to made-for-TV movies that have been made to be shown exclusively on one TV channel. TV movies have never been eligible for a Palm d'Or or an Oscar in the past either.
So I would not call out Cannes just yet. However, if they would disallow streamed movies next year, even if they would be available to all in France, then I would call them hypocrites!
There are still a few directors who still prefer to shoot on film ... even though the film will be digitized for post-production later.
Christopher Nolan is one of them.
Star Wars The Force Awakens was also shot on film, some 35 mm, some 70mm (IMAX).
The article (almost in full in the summary above) is making the argument against lectures that a lecture would just be repeating what the student has read on his own in the textbook.
Well, repetition is not necessarily bad. Facts stick if we can apply them, if we can associate them in new ways. A good lecturer does not simply repeat exactly what you read. If you are a good lecturer then you emphasize those things in the subject matter that are the most important and you do that from a slightly different angle than in the textbook. And you do use pictures, drawings, animations or other appropriate media that are not in the textbook - just as you would when making an educational video.
And if you hold a lecture then you should always devote a few minutes to questions. Getting a question cleared up can be all the difference for someone.
If you think lecturing is droning on then you are just a lazy professor.
I need a debit card only because the banks in my country are trying to kill cash.
I was doing fine without it for many years.
Bank transfers for paying bills: Internet banking works great. Most of them are automated, under my control.
Bank transfers for buying stuff from people on the Internet: works great as well.
I think that most people that would be interested in ReactOS or Wine are not because they would not want to pay for a Windows license but because they have concerns about Microsoft's present and future shenanigans. There could be many reasons: from national security to just wanting to keep the machine safe and stable for what they are running.
That begs the question, what about cracker groups? Are there no cracked versions of Windows 10 out there with telemetry and other back doors switched off, that could only receive screened updates?
If that is an option for people, why isn't Microsoft concerned?
The underlying question behind the question is really about what CS students should be exposed to...
When I was a beginning CS student I was exposed to a number of different languages, each being an example of a different mindset: machine language, object-oriented, functional, logical.
I think that's important to learn not just about a programming language but about concepts. Especially in object-oriented programming there are quite a few concepts that you should have a grasp of to be a good programmer in any object-oriented language. And there are times that you could use lessons learned from functional or logical programming that you could apply also in OO programming.
Once you are proficient enough in one language, and having seen a few different languages, picking up another language is easy enough. (the exception being C++) Then the challenge becomes getting acquainted with the standard library.
Myself, I was somewhat self-taught before college. Started with Basic on the Commodore 64 and then 6510 assembly. Some basic on the Atari ST. 68000 assembly on the Amiga. Then C and C++ on PCs.
I would otherwise recommend learning Ruby or Python. Ruby is underappreciated.
Yet another Slashdot headline that was unintelligible until I inserted "with" and read "Tabs Experience" as a noun.
The term "User Experience" term really irks me, because the wording implies an unhealthy mindset towards designing user interfaces. ... if your user interface is an experience then you are doing something wrong. The UI should be functional and get out of the way so that I can get shit done.
Seriously
Long before touch-screens with capacitative sensing became commonplace there were some touch-screens systems that used a gyroscope as its sensor to sense how much the screen rocked when a user touched it.
It was very crude and inaccurate compared to other approaches but it could be mounted to most regular CRT computer monitors.
Unfortunately I have sold off my computer magazines from the early '90s so I can't look up the name of the manufacturer.
This is getting weirder and more confusing now ...
As the top of the "Maxwell"-architecture 900-series, NVidia released the "GeForce GTX Titan X" in March 2015. ... this time calling it "Titan X".
Then in August last year, as the top of the "Pascal"-architecture 10-series, NVidia released a new Titan
This new name did not contain the "GeForce GTX" prefix, but who the Elle says the entire long product name every time, right?
So several high-profile reviewers started calling it "Titan XP" - with the "P" for "Pascal", to distinguish it from the previous "Titan X" in the Maxwell generation.
And now, NVidia has released a new card with the official name "Titan Xp". I think there is no way that they would not be aware of the older card being called that.
Even worse. both cards called "Titan XP" (and the "GeForce GTX 1080 Ti") are the same GPU (NVidia GP102) with different binning - I.e. some units switched off on the cheaper cards.
The GP102 chip is also used in the top of their Quadro line of workstation graphics cards ... My guess is that the better-binned chips they had intended for Quadro cards did not sell as well as they had thought and therefore saw an opportunity to sell them at a high price as their new top consumer card.
The big issue for adoption is... what other things will it bond to in the user's pocket?
According to TFA, this is a very flexible material. I have seen cell phone cases made of flexible silicone - they attract lint and dust as if the phone had been covered with double-sided tape.
I wrote that as a joke. I'm sorry if that did not come across.
Federighi did not use the word in the same was as I did in my comment.
So the trash-can Mac Pro is "vintage" now?
How about making ports like the infamous "USB Kill Stick" but in reverse? Any unauthorized device connected to the port would get fried.
The attacker would probably not find out what happened until afterwards when they try to get the data from the attacking device.
But yeah, if we knew what kind of attack they used to gain access one could provide another set of files: a honey pot, or just innocuous data.
Christopher Nolan is IMHO one of the few filmmakers who still makes movies the proper way - with film, in regular old 2D cinemascope and uses the whole image, with good cinematrography. Each movie I have seen of Nolan's has been both a visual treat, an immersion into a very special world and sometimes thought-provoking. They have made me think about the movie experience for days afterwards.
But most of the movies these days are cookie-cutter action/comedy "popcorn" movies, and always with 3D glasses that provide worse image quality than even a regular DVD on a 27" TV.
You already had me, Nolan. But you can't persuade me to go to the theatre to see something else than your own.
According to "Barnacules Nerdgasm" on Youtube, who previously worked on Windows at Microsoft, people he know who are still inside have told him that "telemetry" (I.e. spying) will get harder to disable in future updates. Whether all of these will be in this next update or in a future one is hard to say.
He commented to his own video with this:
Sweden is being derailed into becoming a cashless society.
It is a change pushed by banks and related tech companies, so that they can make a little bit more money. Nobody else wants it.
Leading politicians on a national level are not very interested in the issue - spending more time and energy on squabbling between themselves, pointing finger at each other's small mistakes than willing to take on real responsibility themselves.