Not so much "could we", but "would we". Defense is a great motivator. It also motivates in a certain direction, and to an extent, a desperate abandon, we wouldn't see elsewhere. The desperate abandon is the interesting point - gets us to try things we wouldn't have considered before.
I doubt anyone can say which is better, just that the different methods are... different.
Get real, the world runs on whatever the fuck it needs to run. That means Linux, Windows, BSD, HPUX, what-the-hell gets the job done (or, does approximately so, and makes the business-goons-who-make decisions happy).
Leave your fantasy idealism world and look at reality some time.
I think you missed part of the point. Removing the need to send lost packets is only part of the issue. It looks like it also increases the data stored in each packet.
So, not only do you remove the 5% packet loss, but you also, for the same amount of data, remove 90% of the remaining packets.
Of course, like any compression algorithm, there is probably variability, so it is possible that there will be some variability, but the data in TFS, that 90% is probably an average, not a peak.
Not to mention a 3 year old can use an easy bake oven. There's a reason they don't replace the cookware in a professional kitchen with easy bake ovens.
Not to mention, Qualcomm tends to produce some of the lower performing ARM chips for their clock, in my observations.
I think the Tegra3 chips provide a nice option. No, they don't have the horsepower of an x86 by Intel or AMD, but if AMD goes down, I can see nVidia picking up the slack. Also, you could probably get some way of managing the Tegras in parallel, since most audio/video processing is rather parallel friendly.
That being said, I hope AMD doesn't drop out. I hate their GPUs, but they usually have at least one segment of the market where their CPUs are the better choice. They may not rock Intel's world, but they at least help keep them on their toes.
Yes there is. In the cases I've seen, it's been both. They have said, if you don't enjoy it, do something else, because you keep doing it, even after you are a grad student.
Assuming they don't trash things from WiMo7, I think the surface will have potential... Once it has been out for a while, and MS has worked out the kinks. The problem is, they will be at a major disadvantage for apps, and that will be hard to make up. Can't see every buying a Zune... blech. Then again, I hate most portable music players on the market today.
In general, if you get such an issue, it will happen early on in the life of the drives (one coworker had what he called the 30-day thrash rule - he would plan ahead and get a huge number of drives - the cheapest available meeting requirements, including avoiding manufacturers we had issues with previously, take a handleful, and thrash 'em for 30 days. If nothing bad happend, he'd either keep up 30 day thrashes on sets of hard drives, pulling out the duds, or just return the whole lot.
Not sure about that. It doesn't seem like a whole lot new.
All matter already has a 'perpetual motion' setup anyway. It's often called 'zero point energy'. I believe it's related to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, but can be ound without assuming the HUP. At the lowest possible vibrational state, an object still has vibrational energy - meaning it is still vibrating. Even if the direction is random, this is perpetual motion.
Well, it could lead to us getting a better understanding of the chemical nature of spider silk, and artificially creating it. It wouldn't be the first interesting natural thing we've found and decided artificial creation for larger scale output, and more consistent product quality, was a good idea.
I'm not forced to buy or use MS products any more than Apple products.
Actually, given all the peripherals made for Apple mobile products (with their different-from-everyone-else connectors), and not for their competitors, I feel more pressure towards buying Apple than towards buying MS.
I'm guessing the signing key would have to match or work with some checksum on the boot loader.
That means that changing the boot loader would cause the existing key to stop working.
Then again, malware authors/vendors have no problems with using stolen credit cards to get keys from legitimate vendors... So this whole thing is kindof nuts unless the cost for a bootloader key is absurdly high (on the 10s of thousands of dollars, at least).
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Not so much "could we", but "would we". Defense is a great motivator. It also motivates in a certain direction, and to an extent, a desperate abandon, we wouldn't see elsewhere. The desperate abandon is the interesting point - gets us to try things we wouldn't have considered before.
I doubt anyone can say which is better, just that the different methods are... different.
Or KDE 3.x, XFCE, or Gnome 2.x
You don't need to have the latest and best, as long as it does what you need.
Get real, the world runs on whatever the fuck it needs to run. That means Linux, Windows, BSD, HPUX, what-the-hell gets the job done (or, does approximately so, and makes the business-goons-who-make decisions happy).
Leave your fantasy idealism world and look at reality some time.
I think you missed part of the point. Removing the need to send lost packets is only part of the issue. It looks like it also increases the data stored in each packet.
So, not only do you remove the 5% packet loss, but you also, for the same amount of data, remove 90% of the remaining packets.
Of course, like any compression algorithm, there is probably variability, so it is possible that there will be some variability, but the data in TFS, that 90% is probably an average, not a peak.
Yeah.
Not to mention a 3 year old can use an easy bake oven. There's a reason they don't replace the cookware in a professional kitchen with easy bake ovens.
Not to mention, Qualcomm tends to produce some of the lower performing ARM chips for their clock, in my observations.
I think the Tegra3 chips provide a nice option. No, they don't have the horsepower of an x86 by Intel or AMD, but if AMD goes down, I can see nVidia picking up the slack. Also, you could probably get some way of managing the Tegras in parallel, since most audio/video processing is rather parallel friendly.
That being said, I hope AMD doesn't drop out. I hate their GPUs, but they usually have at least one segment of the market where their CPUs are the better choice. They may not rock Intel's world, but they at least help keep them on their toes.
It's a triangular shaped topiary.
It's funny they don't see search engines as a form of advertising.
Or maybe they are clever and thinking "Hey! Let's have our advertisers pay us!"
Honestly, let the papers do this. Those who don't will get more business and those that do can fuck off out of business, which seems win-win to me.
Yes there is. In the cases I've seen, it's been both. They have said, if you don't enjoy it, do something else, because you keep doing it, even after you are a grad student.
They actually have some 3rd party tablets listed on Newegg already.
I've known enough grad students (and Ph.D'ed people) to know that's how they enjoy their time.
With the amount of energy that thing will release? I'd say this step is weather control...
Eh. I'd rather have a Toshiba Thrive or Excite. Thanks. Or one of the nicer ASUS Androids.
Assuming they don't trash things from WiMo7, I think the surface will have potential... Once it has been out for a while, and MS has worked out the kinks. The problem is, they will be at a major disadvantage for apps, and that will be hard to make up.
Can't see every buying a Zune... blech. Then again, I hate most portable music players on the market today.
I think the only useful question remaining then is...
Will it blend?
If they are keeping the Tegra3 and 2GB of memory, which I've read of before, the MS tablets have some advantages over the iPad3.
But yeah, reliability. as with any version of Windows, I'm waiting for SP1 or 2... If I even bother.
They do everything %$#@ing weird in Texas.
I've had a few friends here who went to baptist schools. No evolution there - if they tried, the parents would lynch the teachers and administration.
Doesn't someone here have something about being a citizen of Texas, on their sig?
In general, if you get such an issue, it will happen early on in the life of the drives (one coworker had what he called the 30-day thrash rule - he would plan ahead and get a huge number of drives - the cheapest available meeting requirements, including avoiding manufacturers we had issues with previously, take a handleful, and thrash 'em for 30 days. If nothing bad happend, he'd either keep up 30 day thrashes on sets of hard drives, pulling out the duds, or just return the whole lot.
I have a job and a choice. I use Microsoft where it's appropriate, Linux where appropriate, and I could, if I wanted to, add BSD or Apple in there.
Not sure about that. It doesn't seem like a whole lot new.
All matter already has a 'perpetual motion' setup anyway. It's often called 'zero point energy'. I believe it's related to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, but can be ound without assuming the HUP. At the lowest possible vibrational state, an object still has vibrational energy - meaning it is still vibrating. Even if the direction is random, this is perpetual motion.
Well, it could lead to us getting a better understanding of the chemical nature of spider silk, and artificially creating it. It wouldn't be the first interesting natural thing we've found and decided artificial creation for larger scale output, and more consistent product quality, was a good idea.
I'm not forced to buy or use MS products any more than Apple products.
Actually, given all the peripherals made for Apple mobile products (with their different-from-everyone-else connectors), and not for their competitors, I feel more pressure towards buying Apple than towards buying MS.
I'm guessing the signing key would have to match or work with some checksum on the boot loader.
That means that changing the boot loader would cause the existing key to stop working.
Then again, malware authors/vendors have no problems with using stolen credit cards to get keys from legitimate vendors... So this whole thing is kindof nuts unless the cost for a bootloader key is absurdly high (on the 10s of thousands of dollars, at least).
OK. I could have been mistaken in thinking they were jokes. They could well have been life (or even previous weekend stories).