I bet it would be a considerable challenge to find 12 watches synchronized within 30 seconds of each other. So we're worried about seconds of mismatch between sundials and the only computer on earth that isn't connected to the internet? I agree with the article. Leave UTC time alone and synchronize to GPS time instead. The rest of the world will go on being happy having their watch within a couple minutes of the "official time."
This isn't Political Correctness though. Political Correctness was/is about recognizing diversity and being sensitive and inclusive to the cultural viewpoints of others. If anything Sesame Street was one of the most politically correct children's shows from the very beginning recognizing and respecting a wide depth of character traits. It would be more politically correct to discuss why Oscar is grouchy and why he just doesn't decide to cheer up than to cut him out completely. It would be more politically correct to use Cookie Monster as an analogy for other culture's that have very different diets. Or, perhaps be concerned with the lesson of Cookie Monster isn't mean, has feelings, and doesn't sleep under a bed somewhere. What you are really seeing is a child psychology very rigidly defined and applied to suit the lowest common denominator. It really should be enough to point out that Cookie Monster is a monster and little boys and girls don't eat like monsters.
They seem to be using fluent in the "so far behind they think they're head" mode of thinking. I can drive a car, wash it, change the oil, and fill the tires; does that mean I'm fluent in automobiles? These kids aren't fluent in technology, they're fluent in using technology. I must be fluent in pastry because I get to eat a lot of donuts, cakes, and croissants where I work. Personally, I'd say it's the opposite. Generation Y lacks a fascination for technology and science because they don't know much about it.
The fact is they are trying to give away for free what most people don't really care to pay for yet. There's still a general perception that wireless is not a robust and reliable system. Aside from that the people who are able to take advantage of a municipal internet system are usually the sane ones that can afford a more reliable wired connection anyway. The private sector will be investing in their own open wireless systems to give access to people working in the downtown areas. It just makes more sense to invest that money into providing better public access at libraries, community centers, schools, and local business associations (who want to provide Wi-Fi at their coffee shops etc) than an city wide wi-fi system. WI-FI isn't quite ready for prime time. Today a city wide WI-FI is noble, but it's not a practical investment.
My thought exactly. Anyone can install Linux. Right now the perception is a company without windows is a company that's not compatible with everybody else. For most people the best solution is the most convenient solution that gets the job done. Want to change the dominance of MS? Make it so every kid who graduates from high school is familiar with OSX, Vista, Linux, and any other OS.
Part of making USB ridiculously easy was to have a host connection and device connection since the cable does have a 5V power source built into it which could cause damage if plugged in backwards. USB doesn't actually sex their connectors. They pleasantly refer to them as "plug" and "receptacle" which is great because people were confused enough with the D-SUBs used for RS-232(1). So there's the A or flat-rectangle connector for the host and B squared tapered connector for the device. They then invented the micro-B for things like cell phones and cameras which is the small version of the B. The other small connector I've been seeing looks like the Micro-A. Which seems to mean that my USB phone is a host, or the people who made it put the wrong connector on. It's looking like I have to read the entire datasheet to figure this out. Anyone? Anyone?
1) Anecdotally. I find sourcing D-SUBs the male and female have never been mixed up. But, I've seen males referred to as "pins" and "plugs", and females referred to as "holes" and "sockets" along with the plug and receptacle lingo we see with USB. I don't even want to get into the time I thought it would be smart to get a SCSI connector for a project I was working on (literally had to print out datasheets and verify things mechanically).
The peer-2-peer is the real winner in Firewire along with the CAT-5 implementation (all the nice isolation you get). We built a synchronous Firewire device network with only a serial RS232 connection to the host. USB will always have it's place for being a cheap, simple, and robust next step for serial buses. The fact that it's port powered is another huge bonus. SATA is optimized as a close quarters serial bus. It can be bused down a cable but there's no point when USB already does the job perfectly fine.
I'd say it's unlikely since there's not enough room in a standard USB cable to accommodate a POF cable. That's not considering the fibre optic transceiver at either end, and the termination. It just wouldn't make sense to make it that complicated when they already have 3 different device end connections. Especially when the key advantage to expanding USB to fiber is keeping the electronics 90% the same, and the the software 99% the same.
My experience with USB is that it has lousy thru-put do to the way the drivers manage data on the host side. We did some heuristic timing tests on USB to serial devices and found that most of them actually degraded the thru-put (time send and receive a packet) of an RS232 connection. We found that devices with Silicon labs ICs could get the desired thru-put, but it seemed they would take up an entire USB channel to do so.
It's likely established at connection. I would imagine that the Optical fiber is a separate connection much the same way that Firewire's CAT-5 and POF options are separate connections (of course their 800MBit stuff has a separate connection as well). There's still a huge benefit to keeping everything but the physical layer exactly the same. It definitely means you won't require separate USB2 and USB3 devices inside your computer.
Nothing was Interscope's compromise to Trent after they bought out TVT Records. Nothing was still very much a child of Interscope which is child Universal. Reznor was still subject to a lot of the BS involved in the major label business. He still had to answer to a major label whenever he wanted to release material.
They're releasing the new album independently through Ryko in the States, and Potomak/Indigo in Europe. The first supporter's album was released as Perpetuum Mobile through Mute as a means of funding a world tour. The reason the album is different is Mute wouldn't allow them to re-release the same record they had already released to the public. EN is a very different beast from most bands. Since EN incorporates so many different instruments, items, and sounds into their music there is a fascinating process by which to fill in the webcasts. Another point about the instant live DVDs they've been doing is Clear Channel took a Royalty of about 40% on everything. In case you're ever wondering why a T-Shirt costs $40.
I hear Soldworks is increasing the rate at which the software verifies itself against the dongle. Which means you absolutely cannot use the software over a VPN. Well, you can now if you have a morbidly patient.
There's a simple answer to that. Software has an extremely high rate of depreciation. Basically, something you pay $10,000 for today might not be worth anything at all in 10 years or even 5. So instead you focus on the return on investment. A good way of doing that is to buy a license and pay an annual maintenance fee which keeps work stations up to date, with a valuable source of technical support to help you keep it working in your environment. Are copies of Windows2000 or Windows98 worth much more than cruddy beer coasters today?
If only those terms could be so eloquently applied in real life. But, in the real world they are often politicized. In fact the text you quoted uses quote marks around the words terrorist and freedom fighter to imply that it's merely what's said. Dictators will always run propaganda campaigns against rebels labeling them terrorists. Freedom fighters will always be left to achieving their goals through unconventional tactics that will more often than not be labeled "terrorist" tactics. Insurgent armies seeking to take over a country and install their own dictators will often be called "freedom fighters" by the people who back them. I agree that the terms should used with some analysis and discipline. Which is why you take any person or group being labeled as "terrorist" or "freedom fighter" with a good dose of skepticism.
"Now we return to those who have a genuine interest. Such people tend to tinker with new things at home, on their own time, for fun, and this helps them keep up to date and get/keep the jobs they want. I was dumbfounded many years ago when a coworker (fortunately on a different team) was hoping to be assigned to a particular project because he wanted to learn C++, the language that was to be used. He thought I was crazy when I suggested he get a compiler and learn the language on his own rather than wait for such an event."
There's a disappointing number of people that simply work to schedule. There's also a lot of people that can put C/C++, Java, Assembler, etc on their resume. Not a lot that can claim to be good problem solvers, or able to work independently. By independent I don't mean being able to work unsupervised. I mean being able to solve problems discretely, knowing which resources to pull when you need help, picking a path forward when there's no direction, and knowing how to manage your time. Being able to write code, Duh.. you are after all applying for a programming position.
IRC has channels with resources, fserves, etc linking to Mp3s. It used to be the primary place to go to get pirated software and music before P2P started up. Sorry if I used "sites" as a generic term for "places". Where you can't be absolutely sure, you can get enough proof to cover your ass. If you're running an Mp3 service or you're sending your friend Mp3's you're basically distributing which is beyond your rights as a copyright holder. But the whole backup thing is an age old argument that I've never been sold on. You're setting up something that looks, smells, and works like an illegal file service and saying you're not responsible if people use it that way. Buying a CD doesn't give you the right to host the files on your website in anyway. I think that alone violates the personal use clause.
Wow, you actually buy into that idiotic disclaimer they used to put on IRC sharing sites? You are responsible for making copies of the music available publicly. You are responsible for checking the validity of their personal right to the back-up. Just like you'd be responsible for checking someone's ID when they are buying cigarettes. Besides, the last time you could actually find someone with a computer lacking the resources to make MP3s was in the Napster days.
You should be able to patent business models and concepts that give you a competitive advantage. The patent should include the mechanics of how the concept is implemented, and how it will be used. This would help eliminated patents being issues on abstract ideas, and limit them to companies and individuals that have a marketable idea that requires some protection.
It absolutely doesn't. According to this open letter http://www.oreilly.com/news/amazon_patents.html it's more of a stepping stone towards a larger crusade of reforming software and business model patents. I agree with some of the points he is making in the open letter. I for one would love to see a patent law that eliminates trolling. Patents should be limited to those making the real investment to bring an invention to market.
I think what Mattel is doing right now is "adequate" QA. They've identified the problem and they're replacing the defective products. The lead paint is a matter of a vendor circumventing their quality assurance program and using unapproved suppliers. I agree that Mattel could do better testing when the product returns from the manufacturer. But, saying Mattel as a company is responsible, and Mattel's engineers are dumb for designing products with poisonous materials is two very different things.
It's all about size, weight, and the abusive charge cycle that laptops and cellphones are required to go through. From what I've read, the thing that really stands out for lithium batteries is the lack of cell memory. Here's a link comparing 4 battery types: http://batteryuniversity.com/partone-21.htm
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I bet it would be a considerable challenge to find 12 watches synchronized within 30 seconds of each other. So we're worried about seconds of mismatch between sundials and the only computer on earth that isn't connected to the internet? I agree with the article. Leave UTC time alone and synchronize to GPS time instead. The rest of the world will go on being happy having their watch within a couple minutes of the "official time."
This isn't Political Correctness though. Political Correctness was/is about recognizing diversity and being sensitive and inclusive to the cultural viewpoints of others. If anything Sesame Street was one of the most politically correct children's shows from the very beginning recognizing and respecting a wide depth of character traits. It would be more politically correct to discuss why Oscar is grouchy and why he just doesn't decide to cheer up than to cut him out completely. It would be more politically correct to use Cookie Monster as an analogy for other culture's that have very different diets. Or, perhaps be concerned with the lesson of Cookie Monster isn't mean, has feelings, and doesn't sleep under a bed somewhere. What you are really seeing is a child psychology very rigidly defined and applied to suit the lowest common denominator. It really should be enough to point out that Cookie Monster is a monster and little boys and girls don't eat like monsters.
They seem to be using fluent in the "so far behind they think they're head" mode of thinking. I can drive a car, wash it, change the oil, and fill the tires; does that mean I'm fluent in automobiles? These kids aren't fluent in technology, they're fluent in using technology. I must be fluent in pastry because I get to eat a lot of donuts, cakes, and croissants where I work. Personally, I'd say it's the opposite. Generation Y lacks a fascination for technology and science because they don't know much about it.
The fact is they are trying to give away for free what most people don't really care to pay for yet. There's still a general perception that wireless is not a robust and reliable system. Aside from that the people who are able to take advantage of a municipal internet system are usually the sane ones that can afford a more reliable wired connection anyway. The private sector will be investing in their own open wireless systems to give access to people working in the downtown areas. It just makes more sense to invest that money into providing better public access at libraries, community centers, schools, and local business associations (who want to provide Wi-Fi at their coffee shops etc) than an city wide wi-fi system. WI-FI isn't quite ready for prime time. Today a city wide WI-FI is noble, but it's not a practical investment.
My thought exactly. Anyone can install Linux. Right now the perception is a company without windows is a company that's not compatible with everybody else. For most people the best solution is the most convenient solution that gets the job done. Want to change the dominance of MS? Make it so every kid who graduates from high school is familiar with OSX, Vista, Linux, and any other OS.
It's the "dump your pen friend" that's derogatory. The ad's suggesting you get rid of your weird-o pen-pal.
Part of making USB ridiculously easy was to have a host connection and device connection since the cable does have a 5V power source built into it which could cause damage if plugged in backwards. USB doesn't actually sex their connectors. They pleasantly refer to them as "plug" and "receptacle" which is great because people were confused enough with the D-SUBs used for RS-232(1). So there's the A or flat-rectangle connector for the host and B squared tapered connector for the device. They then invented the micro-B for things like cell phones and cameras which is the small version of the B. The other small connector I've been seeing looks like the Micro-A. Which seems to mean that my USB phone is a host, or the people who made it put the wrong connector on. It's looking like I have to read the entire datasheet to figure this out. Anyone? Anyone? 1) Anecdotally. I find sourcing D-SUBs the male and female have never been mixed up. But, I've seen males referred to as "pins" and "plugs", and females referred to as "holes" and "sockets" along with the plug and receptacle lingo we see with USB. I don't even want to get into the time I thought it would be smart to get a SCSI connector for a project I was working on (literally had to print out datasheets and verify things mechanically).
The peer-2-peer is the real winner in Firewire along with the CAT-5 implementation (all the nice isolation you get). We built a synchronous Firewire device network with only a serial RS232 connection to the host. USB will always have it's place for being a cheap, simple, and robust next step for serial buses. The fact that it's port powered is another huge bonus. SATA is optimized as a close quarters serial bus. It can be bused down a cable but there's no point when USB already does the job perfectly fine.
I'd say it's unlikely since there's not enough room in a standard USB cable to accommodate a POF cable. That's not considering the fibre optic transceiver at either end, and the termination. It just wouldn't make sense to make it that complicated when they already have 3 different device end connections. Especially when the key advantage to expanding USB to fiber is keeping the electronics 90% the same, and the the software 99% the same.
My experience with USB is that it has lousy thru-put do to the way the drivers manage data on the host side. We did some heuristic timing tests on USB to serial devices and found that most of them actually degraded the thru-put (time send and receive a packet) of an RS232 connection. We found that devices with Silicon labs ICs could get the desired thru-put, but it seemed they would take up an entire USB channel to do so.
It's likely established at connection. I would imagine that the Optical fiber is a separate connection much the same way that Firewire's CAT-5 and POF options are separate connections (of course their 800MBit stuff has a separate connection as well). There's still a huge benefit to keeping everything but the physical layer exactly the same. It definitely means you won't require separate USB2 and USB3 devices inside your computer.
There's already at least 3 different kinds of USB cables when you only consider connector types.
Nothing was Interscope's compromise to Trent after they bought out TVT Records. Nothing was still very much a child of Interscope which is child Universal. Reznor was still subject to a lot of the BS involved in the major label business. He still had to answer to a major label whenever he wanted to release material.
They're releasing the new album independently through Ryko in the States, and Potomak/Indigo in Europe. The first supporter's album was released as Perpetuum Mobile through Mute as a means of funding a world tour. The reason the album is different is Mute wouldn't allow them to re-release the same record they had already released to the public. EN is a very different beast from most bands. Since EN incorporates so many different instruments, items, and sounds into their music there is a fascinating process by which to fill in the webcasts. Another point about the instant live DVDs they've been doing is Clear Channel took a Royalty of about 40% on everything. In case you're ever wondering why a T-Shirt costs $40.
I hear Soldworks is increasing the rate at which the software verifies itself against the dongle. Which means you absolutely cannot use the software over a VPN. Well, you can now if you have a morbidly patient.
There's a simple answer to that. Software has an extremely high rate of depreciation. Basically, something you pay $10,000 for today might not be worth anything at all in 10 years or even 5. So instead you focus on the return on investment. A good way of doing that is to buy a license and pay an annual maintenance fee which keeps work stations up to date, with a valuable source of technical support to help you keep it working in your environment. Are copies of Windows2000 or Windows98 worth much more than cruddy beer coasters today?
If only those terms could be so eloquently applied in real life. But, in the real world they are often politicized. In fact the text you quoted uses quote marks around the words terrorist and freedom fighter to imply that it's merely what's said. Dictators will always run propaganda campaigns against rebels labeling them terrorists. Freedom fighters will always be left to achieving their goals through unconventional tactics that will more often than not be labeled "terrorist" tactics. Insurgent armies seeking to take over a country and install their own dictators will often be called "freedom fighters" by the people who back them. I agree that the terms should used with some analysis and discipline. Which is why you take any person or group being labeled as "terrorist" or "freedom fighter" with a good dose of skepticism.
"Now we return to those who have a genuine interest. Such people tend to tinker with new things at home, on their own time, for fun, and this helps them keep up to date and get/keep the jobs they want. I was dumbfounded many years ago when a coworker (fortunately on a different team) was hoping to be assigned to a particular project because he wanted to learn C++, the language that was to be used. He thought I was crazy when I suggested he get a compiler and learn the language on his own rather than wait for such an event." There's a disappointing number of people that simply work to schedule. There's also a lot of people that can put C/C++, Java, Assembler, etc on their resume. Not a lot that can claim to be good problem solvers, or able to work independently. By independent I don't mean being able to work unsupervised. I mean being able to solve problems discretely, knowing which resources to pull when you need help, picking a path forward when there's no direction, and knowing how to manage your time. Being able to write code, Duh.. you are after all applying for a programming position.
IRC has channels with resources, fserves, etc linking to Mp3s. It used to be the primary place to go to get pirated software and music before P2P started up. Sorry if I used "sites" as a generic term for "places". Where you can't be absolutely sure, you can get enough proof to cover your ass. If you're running an Mp3 service or you're sending your friend Mp3's you're basically distributing which is beyond your rights as a copyright holder. But the whole backup thing is an age old argument that I've never been sold on. You're setting up something that looks, smells, and works like an illegal file service and saying you're not responsible if people use it that way. Buying a CD doesn't give you the right to host the files on your website in anyway. I think that alone violates the personal use clause.
Wow, you actually buy into that idiotic disclaimer they used to put on IRC sharing sites? You are responsible for making copies of the music available publicly. You are responsible for checking the validity of their personal right to the back-up. Just like you'd be responsible for checking someone's ID when they are buying cigarettes. Besides, the last time you could actually find someone with a computer lacking the resources to make MP3s was in the Napster days.
You should be able to patent business models and concepts that give you a competitive advantage. The patent should include the mechanics of how the concept is implemented, and how it will be used. This would help eliminated patents being issues on abstract ideas, and limit them to companies and individuals that have a marketable idea that requires some protection.
It absolutely doesn't. According to this open letter http://www.oreilly.com/news/amazon_patents.html it's more of a stepping stone towards a larger crusade of reforming software and business model patents. I agree with some of the points he is making in the open letter. I for one would love to see a patent law that eliminates trolling. Patents should be limited to those making the real investment to bring an invention to market.
I think what Mattel is doing right now is "adequate" QA. They've identified the problem and they're replacing the defective products. The lead paint is a matter of a vendor circumventing their quality assurance program and using unapproved suppliers. I agree that Mattel could do better testing when the product returns from the manufacturer. But, saying Mattel as a company is responsible, and Mattel's engineers are dumb for designing products with poisonous materials is two very different things.
It's all about size, weight, and the abusive charge cycle that laptops and cellphones are required to go through. From what I've read, the thing that really stands out for lithium batteries is the lack of cell memory. Here's a link comparing 4 battery types: http://batteryuniversity.com/partone-21.htm
The lead in the Mattel toys is a result of nefarious manufacturing practices.