They don't need no stinking arm! (link to video over here. On a serious note... just think what future AIs could come up with, whole new methods of moving chessmen that we've never even begun to thought of.
Photographers. Seriously. I can easly burn throught 1-2gb per event. And that's if I use fine jpeg compression. Using RAW format that baloons to 10-20gb... and then once you start Photoshopping with layers (ouch).
This is insane. My company rolled out 802.11 a while ago, and they had a few statistics they sent out to address safety concerns.
Stuff like, "Since these run at low transmit power (.03 Watts), it's 1/10-1/20 the power of a cell phone." and "You'd have to hold a body part within 2cm of the antena for 30 minutes while the radio operated continuously at 100% capacity for that time."
Just look at IEEE C95.1 1991, which details the maximum safe exposure for any EM radiation.
Or, gosh, here's a thought... what about OSHA?! They've got a bazillion links on the research involved.
I hope this gets thrown out of the courts faster than you can blink. The last thing students need is to be shoved back into the backwaters of technology.
Hit the nail on the head. I've got three monitors (two 22" and a 19") as a programmer/writer, and it helps to have the source code in one to the right, the out-of-date specification to the left, and the whitepaper in the middle. I can reference everything at a glance, and don't need to tab between windows to do copy-paste.
Of course, my machine bogs down more often (at any given time I'll now have 30-50 windows open, vs. 10-20 before), and a screen shot of the desktop is almost 17MB. But a small price to pay for improved performance.
I can't stand virtual desktops, because every single one that I've tried has ended up loosing an application. It's still running, but you just can't get to it to save what you were working on.
Microsoft has, for a long time, allowed users to be prompted before anything potentially malicious executes. Just dealing with ActiveX controls, you can be prompted (with the apropriate allow/deny behaviour, not just "ok") when trying to:
Download signed ActiveX controls
Download unsigned ActiveX controls
Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe
Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins
Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting
And then, you can even be prompted when you:
Access data sources across domains
Display mixed content
Drag and drop or copy and paste files
Installation of desktop items
Launching programs and files in an IFRAME
Submit nonencrypted form data
Userdata persistence
In this case, at least, Microsoft did the right thing a long time ago. Maybe not long enough ago to make you happy, but I doubt anything would.
I went to a fascinating presentation by DavidDalrymple, a 10 year old in college, that was discussing a protocol he had developed regarding this very concept.
And we all know reciever technology doesn't improve. Nope! Were's stuck where we are. Interferometry? We don't need no stinking technology.
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Well, let's look at the benchmarks. Using TPC-C, which asks manufacturers to submit their best database/hardware combinations, you'll find that Sun only has one entry on the list. It's at the bottom of unclustered performance, and doesn't even make the list on price/performance as it is TWELVE TIMES as expensive per transaction on the best system (4x/transaction comparing only unclustered).
Granted, they do better in TPC-H, but that's understandable when there is only 4 other system submitted for the category.:)
No added value? You remember Clair? The guy that sent an email to his buddies about a night out, only to have it forwarded around the world? Yeah, well... every day people send confidential or embarasing email/documents. Heck, there's a couple times I wished that I could restrict who could read what I sent.
There's definitely added value here. Unless you're waiting for the next halloween document leak from Microsoft.
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Must be more secure, then!
You can't use Print Screen to grab a DRM message in Outlook.
The first one has a 40% faster average seek time, which was what i was referring to.
I have yet to see a color laser printer approaching the quality of most inkjets.
I have yet to see an LCD monitor with a high refresh rate, essential for a quality gaming experience.
As with almost everything on this list... the best tool for the job...
And, he comes to the conclusion that the drive that's physically faster by 40% and has 2x the buffer is (wow) faster!
Maybe if he compared drives that were closer together, it would be conclusive... but this is pretty pathetic.
Actually, everything after Photoshop 5 has built-in spy ware.
Why not use Piezoelectrics? :)
They don't need no stinking arm! (link to video over here. On a serious note... just think what future AIs could come up with, whole new methods of moving chessmen that we've never even begun to thought of.
Not really true of real innovations, such as the fractal compression technologies that are just now becoming public.
As for this patent... sure, it's obvious now, but this patent was filed seven years ago. Was it a common practice back then?
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Photographers. Seriously. I can easly burn throught 1-2gb per event. And that's if I use fine jpeg compression. Using RAW format that baloons to 10-20gb... and then once you start Photoshopping with layers (ouch).
This is insane. My company rolled out 802.11 a while ago, and they had a few statistics they sent out to address safety concerns.
Stuff like, "Since these run at low transmit power (.03 Watts), it's 1/10-1/20 the power of a cell phone." and "You'd have to hold a body part within 2cm of the antena for 30 minutes while the radio operated continuously at 100% capacity for that time."
Just look at IEEE C95.1 1991, which details the maximum safe exposure for any EM radiation.
Or, gosh, here's a thought... what about OSHA?! They've got a bazillion links on the research involved.
I hope this gets thrown out of the courts faster than you can blink. The last thing students need is to be shoved back into the backwaters of technology.
Hit the nail on the head. I've got three monitors (two 22" and a 19") as a programmer/writer, and it helps to have the source code in one to the right, the out-of-date specification to the left, and the whitepaper in the middle. I can reference everything at a glance, and don't need to tab between windows to do copy-paste.
Of course, my machine bogs down more often (at any given time I'll now have 30-50 windows open, vs. 10-20 before), and a screen shot of the desktop is almost 17MB. But a small price to pay for improved performance.
I can't stand virtual desktops, because every single one that I've tried has ended up loosing an application. It's still running, but you just can't get to it to save what you were working on.
I've always used Pause to, err, pause the BIOS output.
Didn't the computer industry take over watts yet? Shouldn't that be 1024 watts?
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Insisitive clods! They should say 3412 BTUs!
Microsoft has, for a long time, allowed users to be prompted before anything potentially malicious executes. Just dealing with ActiveX controls, you can be prompted (with the apropriate allow/deny behaviour, not just "ok") when trying to:
Download signed ActiveX controls
Download unsigned ActiveX controls
Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe
Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins
Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting
And then, you can even be prompted when you:
Access data sources across domains
Display mixed content
Drag and drop or copy and paste files
Installation of desktop items
Launching programs and files in an IFRAME
Submit nonencrypted form data
Userdata persistence
In this case, at least, Microsoft did the right thing a long time ago. Maybe not long enough ago to make you happy, but I doubt anything would.
If you could walk into any bar, and say... "Give me the usual." Of course, encroachments of any privacy start with apparently useful compromises.
I went to a fascinating presentation by David Dalrymple, a 10 year old in college, that was discussing a protocol he had developed regarding this very concept.
And we all know reciever technology doesn't improve. Nope! Were's stuck where we are. Interferometry? We don't need no stinking technology.
Well, let's look at the benchmarks. Using TPC-C, which asks manufacturers to submit their best database/hardware combinations, you'll find that Sun only has one entry on the list. It's at the bottom of unclustered performance, and doesn't even make the list on price/performance as it is TWELVE TIMES as expensive per transaction on the best system (4x/transaction comparing only unclustered).
:)
Granted, they do better in TPC-H, but that's understandable when there is only 4 other system submitted for the category.
All numbers from http://www.tpc.org
Hardly any gas station takes checks anymore. I nearly ran out of gas one day because I didn't have cash, and my credit cards were at home.
Checks are being phased out.
No added value? You remember Clair? The guy that sent an email to his buddies about a night out, only to have it forwarded around the world? Yeah, well... every day people send confidential or embarasing email/documents. Heck, there's a couple times I wished that I could restrict who could read what I sent.
There's definitely added value here. Unless you're waiting for the next halloween document leak from Microsoft.
Just put that up, did you? :)
Sheer brilliance! Look for articles that say you need rare XYZ, and post a reply saying "Hey, I just happened to find XYZ on EBay... here you go!"
Bidders, start your refreshes!
Who said WYSIWYG was easy?