Lets be honest people. If a device is capable, someone will write the software to enable it. This shouldn't be surprising or shocking. When 'wearable computers' started getting buzz it was because people were walking around with web-cams attached to their heads seeing everything they could see and slashdot thought it while amazingly geeky, was cool. This isn't that different except there's no soldering required.
To be honest, we haven't even seen the worst of it yet. Considering the deluge of FPGA and EEPROM powered embedded devices out there you'd best be scared of the things that are _hard_ to reprogram, not the ones with complete IDEs and API documentation available.
I'm more concerned about someone snooping on me from my Jura Capresso than I am from my cell phone.
The only real session information that should be broken on your laptop are network settings. You'll lose your TCP sessions (of course) and possibly your DHCP lease..
Literally everything else _should_ remain just the way it is depending on how applications deal with that -- but it should be the same way they'd deal with it if you unplug the ethernet or shutdown the wireless.
If possible try and quietly reconnect, ultimately crap out if you can't.. 99 times out of 100 it should be invisible to the user or at least non-intrusive.
And still, thats not the fault of the OS or a metric of quality, that's a limitation of networking architecture and application design.
When I go home for the day, I unhook my laptop, close the lid, put it in my backpack. When I get in in the morning I put it on my desk, plug it in and open the lid. Done.
Hibernate/Wake-up takes about 5-10 seconds. Well within my comfort-zone.
This is a problem solved by a combination of hardware and software, primarily not the fault of software as depending on how the hw mfg handles the lid closing.
If you're dealing with say, realtime embedded devices for managing air travel or life-support systems, sure.
But who cares how long it takes to boot your desktop or laptop? I reboot my laptop maybe once a week, the rest of the time it's either running or hibernating.
I'd rather have a slow boot up that verifies everything is working correctly than a fast one that skips sanity checks. It's not the OS that causes bootup slowness anyway but rather the 5400RPM honey-encrusted hard-drives that slow things down.
Drop an SSD HDD in and the time is reduced to trivial levels on any operating system.
If your approach to a new career is to find out the bare minimum you need to start... odds are you're not going to excel.
There's not a lot of stories from successful game developers that start with 'When I got in at 8am' and end with 'Then I left at 5pm.'
If you think you've got 'it', do what the guy who did Braid did -- make it. Don't wait for someone to give you a stamp of approval. Sing it loud.
Otherwise, stick with your day job.
If Shia LaBeouf were an internet company..
on
The Twitter Book
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· Score: 1
He'd be twitter.
1) A bland product with demand created out of thin air by skillful marketing
2) Overrated and seemingly pointless
3) Far less interesting than those that came before and will come after
4) Probably driven by nice enough people but backlash or complete disinterest is on the horizon.
SMS aggregation isn't a fad, it's definitely a way of life -- but there isn't any barrier for entry for competition. All it will take is a company that does it slightly better to unseat them and twitter will be the next orcut, tribe.net, friendster, myspace. Take your pick.
Here are some pieces of information that I have no inherent right to:
1. Your real name 2. Your home address 3. Your bank account number 4. Your ATM PIN 5. Your sexual orientation 6. Names of medication you use 7. Names of people whom you have had sex with 8. Your medical history
While some of this information may be publicly available, or amongst your friends and family common knowledge -- I have no right to know any of it.
Would you be upset if wikipedia blocked someone from posting all these pieces of information about you? Or would you be jumping up and down about how great the internet is with it's free flow of information.
1. Apples and oranges. A reporter being held hostage might benefit from having the information suppressed, an oxfam worker might benefit more from having the information broadcast as their position would garner sympathy.
2. You don't have the right to know all indisputable facts. I don't have the right to know your sexual orientation, what medication you may or may not use, who you voted for in the presidential election, where you live, your social security number or your bank account PIN.
Your friends might know these indisputable facts but is it their duty to put it up on wikipedia?
I find it comical that people assume everyone else's business is theirs.. Decry the right to privacy for your personal information, and point fingers at those trying to protect the privacy rights of others.
Just so you guys have the facts on this one, the closest definition of 'censorship that pertains to this subject can be found under 'censor'
2. a.2.a transf. One who exercises official or officious supervision over morals and conduct.
This doesn't fall under that category, or any similar category. The Times wasn't conspiring to hide the information for their benefit, or because of judgement as to it's morality or offensiveness. They did it to protect the reporter.
As a citizen, or NYT subscriber, or Wikipedia contributor, you have no right as to the status of the reporters' personal situation. Just because something has occurred and someone knows doesn't mean wikipedia is on the hook to allow it to be published. This is not a moral, heretical, or an issue of the reporters' conduct.
It's fascinating to me as I read marketing lies how unimaginative and similar they are to 419 scammers. While marketing people aren't crafting their message for critical thinkers you would imagine at some point in a marketing seminar somewhere someone would jump up and say
Instead of making the subject line of the e-mail "You've won the lottery", how about "Dearly beloved?"
To say that Indians are 'better' or that American's are 'worse' is kind of like saying African Americans are better athletes. It's just racist hyperbole.
I've worked in Silicon Valley for about 15 years now, and I've worked with both Americans and Indians from all ranges of the 'super elite' to 'cut and what do I do then? oh yes paste' spectrum of skill levels. Everyone is different, it's not the nation that you grow up in or the quality of your college, its what's in your head and how you use it.
If you're not the alpha dog you've got two choices, subjugate yourself to the alpha dog, or try to take its spot.
Crab all you want about NVIDIA but they got the goods and the business strategy that put them on top.
Until, that is, millions of their mobile GPU chips keel over from heat death due to improper package bump and underfill construction.
That sounds like some wicked conjecture, have any evidence that this is impending?
And their single GPU chips are so big that they're impossible to manufacture cost effectively.
This again seems like conjecture unless you've got NVIDIA's manufacturing balance sheet handy.
And that they need expensive PCB's because 512-bit wide memory is necessary when DDR3 has go up against ATI's more advanced DDR5 boards with half the required memory bus width for near equivalent memory performance.
Don't mistake 'first to market' for 'eternal competitive advantage'. DDR5 isn't ATI's IP, they're just implementing it. NVIDIA can do the same. NVIDIA's DDR3 cards are still beating ATI's DDR5 benchmarks. And while we're at it, do you think DDR5 is increasing or decreasing ATI's costs? Do you think those costs are more or less than NVIDIA's PCB mfg costs?
If my choices are 'increased cost due to bleeding edge technology' vs. 'increased cost due to mfg process', any smart company will stick with mfg process costs unless the competitive advantage of the bleeding edge technology is worth the risk. Since ATI's DDR5 impelementation provides only with buzzword cache.. I'm not so sure you've got a solid point there.
And when two small, cheap, easy to manufacture chips beat out the biggest chip every time.
Except when your drivers suck or your competition can still beat your 0day tech numbers with last years technology.
And when you're trying to get DirectX 11 running for the first time while making a radical architecture shift all while going to a new chip making process against a rival who is already shipping 40nm chips and has essentially had DX11 running in their past three generations of chips.
'essentially had DX11 running'.. thats funny since it was really DX10.1 up until June 3rd. One might add that they have the dubious prize of being the only DX10.1 chip manufacturer. NVIDIA was smart on this one, get your ducks in a row for the major releases, don't just dive for the scraps of the minor release.
Yeah, I'm not sure Nvidia has nearly all the goods right at this moment.
You might want to upgrade your drivers, your video card is clearly glitching if you can't see it.
ATI & AMD is just power-housing the craptitude under one roof.
ATI has and always will be a second rate hardware company, and a fall-flat-on-their-face failure at drivers. Crab all you want about NVIDIA but they got the goods and the business strategy that put them on top.
AMD's most important product to date has simply been the act of competing with Intel. Lying about how great their products were forced Intel to make products better than AMDs marketing BS.
When your competition says 'We're #1 at XYZ' you don't get more customers by putting out full page ads saying 'Our competitors are liars!'.. You either lie harder or make your product better than their hype.
If you're upset that your music isn't as popular as mainstream music -- cop their style. Mainstream music satisfies the listening requirements for the largest base audience that it can -- that's how it becomes 'popular'.
If you run an indie label that releases edgy new artists with unique sounds.. count on your hand how many edgy new artists you see on MTV per year and if you're close to that number you're on the right track.
Otherwise, don't use MTV or TPB as your metric. The sad truth is there are many talented artists who toil in obscurity till the day they die. It's the lucky ones who can rise to the top to get any notoriety. For every awesome band you signed there's going to be 100 Rednexx cover-bands line before them to get some of the spotlight.
And, to be honest -- it's not that the lack of pirate availability of your material is your problem -- sounds like it was marketing. If there's demand, there's demand.
To recap:
If you are #1 downloaded band on TPB and you have no sales, that's unlikely.
If you are #10,000 band on TPB and you have no sales, you might have greater expectations for demand than there will realistically be.
If you tried to keep track of every indie record label that surfaces, releases a few records and is never heard from again you'd be a busy person indeed.. TPB didn't do this to you -- being an independent label sucked for a long time before torrents were around.
Guys just trying to scrape a paycheck together take whatever work they can get.
The economy is adversely affecting our sci-fi writers as well. Just wait for Corey Doctrow's new tome out on Wiley titled "I was kidding about all that free stuff!"
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Lets be honest people. If a device is capable, someone will write the software to enable it. This shouldn't be surprising or shocking. When 'wearable computers' started getting buzz it was because people were walking around with web-cams attached to their heads seeing everything they could see and slashdot thought it while amazingly geeky, was cool. This isn't that different except there's no soldering required.
To be honest, we haven't even seen the worst of it yet. Considering the deluge of FPGA and EEPROM powered embedded devices out there you'd best be scared of the things that are _hard_ to reprogram, not the ones with complete IDEs and API documentation available.
I'm more concerned about someone snooping on me from my Jura Capresso than I am from my cell phone.
It's COM^H^H^HCRAPTASTIC!
The only real session information that should be broken on your laptop are network settings. You'll lose your TCP sessions (of course) and possibly your DHCP lease..
Literally everything else _should_ remain just the way it is depending on how applications deal with that -- but it should be the same way they'd deal with it if you unplug the ethernet or shutdown the wireless.
If possible try and quietly reconnect, ultimately crap out if you can't.. 99 times out of 100 it should be invisible to the user or at least non-intrusive.
And still, thats not the fault of the OS or a metric of quality, that's a limitation of networking architecture and application design.
When I go home for the day, I unhook my laptop, close the lid, put it in my backpack. When I get in in the morning I put it on my desk, plug it in and open the lid. Done.
Hibernate/Wake-up takes about 5-10 seconds. Well within my comfort-zone.
This is a problem solved by a combination of hardware and software, primarily not the fault of software as depending on how the hw mfg handles the lid closing.
If you're dealing with say, realtime embedded devices for managing air travel or life-support systems, sure.
But who cares how long it takes to boot your desktop or laptop? I reboot my laptop maybe once a week, the rest of the time it's either running or hibernating.
I'd rather have a slow boot up that verifies everything is working correctly than a fast one that skips sanity checks. It's not the OS that causes bootup slowness anyway but rather the 5400RPM honey-encrusted hard-drives that slow things down.
Drop an SSD HDD in and the time is reduced to trivial levels on any operating system.
inconceivable!
It was funnier as 'more' as it indicated that some but not all of your daughters recognized you.. but, made less sense of course.
I personally take pride in my 74.3% recognition rate in the daughter demographic.
If they send the bill in triplicate, I think we know what to get our favorite Vogans for christmas this year.
If your approach to a new career is to find out the bare minimum you need to start... odds are you're not going to excel.
There's not a lot of stories from successful game developers that start with 'When I got in at 8am' and end with 'Then I left at 5pm.'
If you think you've got 'it', do what the guy who did Braid did -- make it. Don't wait for someone to give you a stamp of approval. Sing it loud.
Otherwise, stick with your day job.
He'd be twitter.
1) A bland product with demand created out of thin air by skillful marketing
2) Overrated and seemingly pointless
3) Far less interesting than those that came before and will come after
4) Probably driven by nice enough people but backlash or complete disinterest is on the horizon.
SMS aggregation isn't a fad, it's definitely a way of life -- but there isn't any barrier for entry for competition. All it will take is a company that does it slightly better to unseat them and twitter will be the next orcut, tribe.net, friendster, myspace. Take your pick.
OED > OAD
What's your point again?
Here are some pieces of information that I have no inherent right to:
1. Your real name
2. Your home address
3. Your bank account number
4. Your ATM PIN
5. Your sexual orientation
6. Names of medication you use
7. Names of people whom you have had sex with
8. Your medical history
While some of this information may be publicly available, or amongst your friends and family common knowledge -- I have no right to know any of it.
Would you be upset if wikipedia blocked someone from posting all these pieces of information about you? Or would you be jumping up and down about how great the internet is with it's free flow of information.
1. Apples and oranges. A reporter being held hostage might benefit from having the information suppressed, an oxfam worker might benefit more from having the information broadcast as their position would garner sympathy.
2. You don't have the right to know all indisputable facts. I don't have the right to know your sexual orientation, what medication you may or may not use, who you voted for in the presidential election, where you live, your social security number or your bank account PIN.
Your friends might know these indisputable facts but is it their duty to put it up on wikipedia?
I find it comical that people assume everyone else's business is theirs.. Decry the right to privacy for your personal information, and point fingers at those trying to protect the privacy rights of others.
Just so you guys have the facts on this one, the closest definition of 'censorship that pertains to this subject can be found under 'censor'
2. a.2.a transf. One who exercises official or officious supervision over morals and conduct.
This doesn't fall under that category, or any similar category. The Times wasn't conspiring to hide the information for their benefit, or because of judgement as to it's morality or offensiveness. They did it to protect the reporter.
As a citizen, or NYT subscriber, or Wikipedia contributor, you have no right as to the status of the reporters' personal situation. Just because something has occurred and someone knows doesn't mean wikipedia is on the hook to allow it to be published. This is not a moral, heretical, or an issue of the reporters' conduct.
I'll say it slowly:
absolutely.
not.
censorship.
"independent and trusted firm"
It's fascinating to me as I read marketing lies how unimaginative and similar they are to 419 scammers. While marketing people aren't crafting their message for critical thinkers you would imagine at some point in a marketing seminar somewhere someone would jump up and say
Instead of making the subject line of the e-mail "You've won the lottery", how about "Dearly beloved?"
To say that Indians are 'better' or that American's are 'worse' is kind of like saying African Americans are better athletes. It's just racist hyperbole.
I've worked in Silicon Valley for about 15 years now, and I've worked with both Americans and Indians from all ranges of the 'super elite' to 'cut and what do I do then? oh yes paste' spectrum of skill levels. Everyone is different, it's not the nation that you grow up in or the quality of your college, its what's in your head and how you use it.
If you're not the alpha dog you've got two choices, subjugate yourself to the alpha dog, or try to take its spot.
Until, that is, millions of their mobile GPU chips keel over from heat death due to improper package bump and underfill construction.
That sounds like some wicked conjecture, have any evidence that this is impending?
And their single GPU chips are so big that they're impossible to manufacture cost effectively.
This again seems like conjecture unless you've got NVIDIA's manufacturing balance sheet handy.
And that they need expensive PCB's because 512-bit wide memory is necessary when DDR3 has go up against ATI's more advanced DDR5 boards with half the required memory bus width for near equivalent memory performance.
Don't mistake 'first to market' for 'eternal competitive advantage'. DDR5 isn't ATI's IP, they're just implementing it. NVIDIA can do the same. NVIDIA's DDR3 cards are still beating ATI's DDR5 benchmarks. And while we're at it, do you think DDR5 is increasing or decreasing ATI's costs? Do you think those costs are more or less than NVIDIA's PCB mfg costs?
If my choices are 'increased cost due to bleeding edge technology' vs. 'increased cost due to mfg process', any smart company will stick with mfg process costs unless the competitive advantage of the bleeding edge technology is worth the risk. Since ATI's DDR5 impelementation provides only with buzzword cache.. I'm not so sure you've got a solid point there.
And when two small, cheap, easy to manufacture chips beat out the biggest chip every time.
Except when your drivers suck or your competition can still beat your 0day tech numbers with last years technology.
And when you're trying to get DirectX 11 running for the first time while making a radical architecture shift all while going to a new chip making process against a rival who is already shipping 40nm chips and has essentially had DX11 running in their past three generations of chips.
'essentially had DX11 running'.. thats funny since it was really DX10.1 up until June 3rd. One might add that they have the dubious prize of being the only DX10.1 chip manufacturer. NVIDIA was smart on this one, get your ducks in a row for the major releases, don't just dive for the scraps of the minor release.
Yeah, I'm not sure Nvidia has nearly all the goods right at this moment.
You might want to upgrade your drivers, your video card is clearly glitching if you can't see it.
ATI & AMD is just power-housing the craptitude under one roof.
ATI has and always will be a second rate hardware company, and a fall-flat-on-their-face failure at drivers. Crab all you want about NVIDIA but they got the goods and the business strategy that put them on top.
AMD's most important product to date has simply been the act of competing with Intel. Lying about how great their products were forced Intel to make products better than AMDs marketing BS.
When your competition says 'We're #1 at XYZ' you don't get more customers by putting out full page ads saying 'Our competitors are liars!'.. You either lie harder or make your product better than their hype.
>> Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria.
I'm missing where 'China' is in that list.
Name one innovative handset developed by carriers such as Sprint, AT&T, et all.
Nokia, RIM, Apple and (previously) Motorola have developed all the 'innovative handsets'.
What'd sprint give us?
Rebranded, OEM, disposable turds
Around 4:35 I think.. Imagine this:
hello?
hello?
whatt-tttttttsu-uuuuuuu-uuuup
whaaaaaaa-aaaaa-aaaaaatuuuuuu uuu-uuuu-uuuuu-up
WHUZZZZZZAA-AAAAAAA-AAAA-A ... watchin' the game, drinkin a bud
Three Zen Buddhist monks standing on a hill on a breezy day observe a prayer flag flapping in the wind.
The first monk says "Flag is moving."
The second monk says "Wind is moving."
The third monks cell-phone plays the crazy-frog ring-tone as he gets spam SMS'd by his provider.
All three monks fail to achieve enlightenment.
If you're upset that your music isn't as popular as mainstream music -- cop their style. Mainstream music satisfies the listening requirements for the largest base audience that it can -- that's how it becomes 'popular'.
If you run an indie label that releases edgy new artists with unique sounds.. count on your hand how many edgy new artists you see on MTV per year and if you're close to that number you're on the right track.
Otherwise, don't use MTV or TPB as your metric. The sad truth is there are many talented artists who toil in obscurity till the day they die. It's the lucky ones who can rise to the top to get any notoriety. For every awesome band you signed there's going to be 100 Rednexx cover-bands line before them to get some of the spotlight.
And, to be honest -- it's not that the lack of pirate availability of your material is your problem -- sounds like it was marketing. If there's demand, there's demand.
To recap:
If you are #1 downloaded band on TPB and you have no sales, that's unlikely.
If you are #10,000 band on TPB and you have no sales, you might have greater expectations for demand than there will realistically be.
If you tried to keep track of every indie record label that surfaces, releases a few records and is never heard from again you'd be a busy person indeed.. TPB didn't do this to you -- being an independent label sucked for a long time before torrents were around.
For the record, I'd like to provider a short list of things that aren't cogent political arguments:
1) Television catch phrases
2) Proper nouns
3) Noises
5) Movie titles
Talent borrows, genius steals.
Guys just trying to scrape a paycheck together take whatever work they can get.
The economy is adversely affecting our sci-fi writers as well. Just wait for Corey Doctrow's new tome out on Wiley titled "I was kidding about all that free stuff!"