I think that ultimately, we need to get a LOT more aggressive over the misuse of the SSN (social security number) and forever separate the SSN from the credit and banking systems. Which ID is used isn't the problem. The problem is that a simple ID is being used as both an ID and a password.
This was and is a commonplace idea, has been for years. Yes, it has; I'd say probably six or seven years. However, the patent is nine years old.
It might have eventually become obvious when people realized that reasonable MPEG-2 encoding could be done in less time than the length of the clip, and that hard drive sizes were sufficient to handle this sort of application. If anything, though, TiVo was a little premature. Hard drives were too small for the idea to be worthwhile until around 2000.
DirecTV hasn't provided TiVo's to customers for most of this year, they have their own inhouse brand DVR now the R15. They still support their customer with the TiVo's however. They will also still sign you up with a new TiVo, if you find it somewhere else. I bought a new DirecTivo from Weaknees in February, pre-upgraded to 215 hours, and I had no trouble at all.
If restriction this has any effect whatsoever, it's going to be to kill people. War has gotten steadily less destructive as technology has advanced, because fewer people are needed to fight. Lately, this has accelerated as more accurate weapons have cut down on civilian casualties.
This sort of restriction may get you out of being a indirect participant, but it's never going to prevent any combat from occurring.
Learning tablature is not the same as learning to read music. This one is somewhat obvious, but the student's understanding of music in general increases just by learning standard notation. Wouldn't it be better to learn standard notation on an instrument that's better suited to it (fewer practical ways to play the same note)? I sightread standard music notation for violin and mandolin (they're basically the same), but I have no particular desire to do so for guitar.
Besides, if you teach a guitar player to play mandolin (reading music), you'll probably make him or her versatile enough to be able to just pick up a bass guitar and play it with no instruction, too. I know that's how it worked for me (except it was violin and guitar).
Somehow I doubt you have a purchased ticket in hand. Your are just whining in theory. The people who were already in the airport had purchased tickets. And my eight-year-old son is flying back alone from my in-laws (his grandparents) on Sunday; I'm hoping the domestic rules, at least, will have been relaxed a little by then. We can't look for a refund there because he's already on the far end of the trip.
I'd expect DARPA to be paying for bizarre sharks-with-laserbeams and killer android research. When I don't see them doing stuff like that, I think they're forgetting at least part of their mission.
At least a processor core dedicated to compacting garbage collection will make the "Java technology is still really fscking slow" trolls shut the fsck up. A background process might speed up reclaiming RAM for objects that never passed out of a local scope. For the wider scope, though, doesn't the process have to be frozen for a full mark-and-sweep?
No, I was serious. That's more-or-less what I had in mind, but I was thinking more along the lines of the operating system doing it without regard to what application actually owned the memory.
I'd expect that we're going to have to move from a multi-core to a multi-"computer" model, where each set of, say, 4 cores works the way it does now, but each set of 4 gets its own memory and any other relevant pieces. (You can still share the video and audio, though at least initially there will presumably be a priviledged core set that gets set as the owner.)
Ideally, one of those sets should *be* for the UI (and it wouldn't even need to be the same architecture as the rest). The rest of the hardware could just pass off requests to display stuff and to be informed of events. You'd have an MVC separation that was physical and not just conceptual.
I did a PDF library in Java for my senior project, and I hadn't quite decided whether to try to open source it, try to commercialize it, or look through other libraries to see if any of what I did could improve them.
If you have any feedback on what you'd want a PDF library to do, and how you'd want it to behave, I'd be interested to hear it.
They're MPC T-3000's, which are pretty high-end laptops (~$2,000, non-netburst Pentium-M, 80 GB hard drives, 512 MB RAM, ATI graphics), and they're all like that. I've heard there are some seriously stupid things in the ghost images, but I'm a programmer and not confident enough in my PC tech abilities to go digging around too much in mine.
I can see why it would be more important for embedded systems than regular PCs, but I'd still like the feature. It doesn't bother me as much at home or at work, but the laptops my school loans out take about seven minutes to boot.
Is what you described not what what hibernation does? Not quite, and you went on to explain why. I'm talking about loading an image from the end of the boot sequence, not one from a session that's been in use for days on end.
This is vaguely interesting, I suppose, but I'd much rather see an image-based boot sequence. It should be much faster to copy 100 meg or so of stuff to RAM that to actually wait for all the programs to start up. You'd only need to do the real boot process after installing something, and make a new image before handing control to the user.
Functional programming, anyone? The problem with functional programming is that it's really only good for problems where you have a fixed set of input data and you aren't going to need any user input. Historically, that's been a pretty small problem area. Now, though, a lot of web programming fits that mold, so hopefully we'll see a bit more use of functional languages.
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I think that ultimately, we need to get a LOT more aggressive over the misuse of the SSN (social security number) and forever separate the SSN from the credit and banking systems.
Which ID is used isn't the problem. The problem is that a simple ID is being used as both an ID and a password.
AC from parent would it bother you to take that permanent contraceptive?
If it would. Why?
Because it's a fairly significant surgery (more so than a vasectomy, anyway), and there would be no benefit to her.
This was and is a commonplace idea, has been for years.
Yes, it has; I'd say probably six or seven years. However, the patent is nine years old.
It might have eventually become obvious when people realized that reasonable MPEG-2 encoding could be done in less time than the length of the clip, and that hard drive sizes were sufficient to handle this sort of application. If anything, though, TiVo was a little premature. Hard drives were too small for the idea to be worthwhile until around 2000.
DirecTV hasn't provided TiVo's to customers for most of this year, they have their own inhouse brand DVR now the R15. They still support their customer with the TiVo's however.
They will also still sign you up with a new TiVo, if you find it somewhere else. I bought a new DirecTivo from Weaknees in February, pre-upgraded to 215 hours, and I had no trouble at all.
i never understood why videos on the various video channels are censored so heavily... i want to see videos without t-shirts being blurred out
The t-shirts are blurred when they have a corporate logo on them. MTV doesn't want to run product placement advertising without being paid for it.
If restriction this has any effect whatsoever, it's going to be to kill people. War has gotten steadily less destructive as technology has advanced, because fewer people are needed to fight. Lately, this has accelerated as more accurate weapons have cut down on civilian casualties.
This sort of restriction may get you out of being a indirect participant, but it's never going to prevent any combat from occurring.
Learning tablature is not the same as learning to read music. This one is somewhat obvious, but the student's understanding of music in general increases just by learning standard notation.
Wouldn't it be better to learn standard notation on an instrument that's better suited to it (fewer practical ways to play the same note)? I sightread standard music notation for violin and mandolin (they're basically the same), but I have no particular desire to do so for guitar.
Besides, if you teach a guitar player to play mandolin (reading music), you'll probably make him or her versatile enough to be able to just pick up a bass guitar and play it with no instruction, too. I know that's how it worked for me (except it was violin and guitar).
Somehow I doubt you have a purchased ticket in hand. Your are just whining in theory.
The people who were already in the airport had purchased tickets. And my eight-year-old son is flying back alone from my in-laws (his grandparents) on Sunday; I'm hoping the domestic rules, at least, will have been relaxed a little by then. We can't look for a refund there because he's already on the far end of the trip.
There are plenty of other alternatives.
Not once you've already bought your tickets, no. And not really for the trans-Atlantic flights in question.
I'd expect DARPA to be paying for bizarre sharks-with-laserbeams and killer android research. When I don't see them doing stuff like that, I think they're forgetting at least part of their mission.
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At least a processor core dedicated to compacting garbage collection will make the "Java technology is still really fscking slow" trolls shut the fsck up.
A background process might speed up reclaiming RAM for objects that never passed out of a local scope. For the wider scope, though, doesn't the process have to be frozen for a full mark-and-sweep?
No, I was serious. That's more-or-less what I had in mind, but I was thinking more along the lines of the operating system doing it without regard to what application actually owned the memory.
Other things that we haven't even thought of because they're impactical now will also spring up.
Background RAM defragmentation?
I'd expect that we're going to have to move from a multi-core to a multi-"computer" model, where each set of, say, 4 cores works the way it does now, but each set of 4 gets its own memory and any other relevant pieces. (You can still share the video and audio, though at least initially there will presumably be a priviledged core set that gets set as the owner.)
Ideally, one of those sets should *be* for the UI (and it wouldn't even need to be the same architecture as the rest). The rest of the hardware could just pass off requests to display stuff and to be informed of events. You'd have an MVC separation that was physical and not just conceptual.
I did a PDF library in Java for my senior project, and I hadn't quite decided whether to try to open source it, try to commercialize it, or look through other libraries to see if any of what I did could improve them.
If you have any feedback on what you'd want a PDF library to do, and how you'd want it to behave, I'd be interested to hear it.
They're MPC T-3000's, which are pretty high-end laptops (~$2,000, non-netburst Pentium-M, 80 GB hard drives, 512 MB RAM, ATI graphics), and they're all like that. I've heard there are some seriously stupid things in the ghost images, but I'm a programmer and not confident enough in my PC tech abilities to go digging around too much in mine.
I'd never heard of XP Embedded. Cool, thanks.
I can see why it would be more important for embedded systems than regular PCs, but I'd still like the feature. It doesn't bother me as much at home or at work, but the laptops my school loans out take about seven minutes to boot.
Yes, that's what I meant. It seems like they should have the infrastructure basically there, too, because of hibernation.
Is what you described not what what hibernation does?
Not quite, and you went on to explain why. I'm talking about loading an image from the end of the boot sequence, not one from a session that's been in use for days on end.
This is vaguely interesting, I suppose, but I'd much rather see an image-based boot sequence. It should be much faster to copy 100 meg or so of stuff to RAM that to actually wait for all the programs to start up. You'd only need to do the real boot process after installing something, and make a new image before handing control to the user.
Asking for user input is a side effect.
Given the difficulty... of finding a good Algol compiler these days
Forget good. Are there *any* Algol 60 compilers available for a PC?
Functional programming, anyone?
The problem with functional programming is that it's really only good for problems where you have a fixed set of input data and you aren't going to need any user input. Historically, that's been a pretty small problem area. Now, though, a lot of web programming fits that mold, so hopefully we'll see a bit more use of functional languages.
$14,000 and it only has 32 MB of RAM? For crying out loud, why? It could have four GB for no significant change in price!
Wasn't that Senator Ted Stevens?