I don't feel like checking, but OLPC is definitely a charity, and USO is a charity of sorts. It's my understanding that Hulu runs charity ads when it can't find an actual advertiser. Maybe the charities are the ones with banners?
Anywho, I just run popped out or full screen (depending on the power of my computer.) So I don't really see what the fuss is about.
Extrapolating, she should have the mental capacity of an adult by the time she's 85.
Actually, I suspect what has held her back is how underdeveloped her body is. If she had the body of a toddler, I would say there would be nothing preventing her from maturing mentally.
I actually think it's fairly similar, if you count periodicals as books. (Including pornography magazines.)
The difference is, the rubbish is a lot more easily accessible on the Internet, because getting a copy does not rely on physical proximity, which in turn relies on large quantities of each individual item. With books, there are plenty of rubbish books, but most of the rubbish ends up in the rubbish heap, and so you don't see it.
On the Internet, unpopular works are much harder to suppress.
It is very curious that one of the most revered anti-censorship writers hates the Internet for the very mechanism that is making censorship so difficult in the world's totalitarian regimes.
It really doesn't have a lot to do with racism. It's class warfare plain and simple.
But just so we're talking about leveling every abandoned warehouse in Ohio, and not touching homes (regardless of the state of disrepair) I have to agree. The buildings aren't even useful for their original purpose anymore, even if anyone (no one) decided to open a new factory in Ohio.
We need to stop pretending that Gigs/month were a good way to meter this, like it were water.
It's not. It's almost exactly the same as phone traffic. And it has the same rough costs.
1) How long are you on the phone? 2) What time is it when you are on the phone?
#2 is an important factor, and the ISP's need to acknowledge that. I've got a fiber line running by my house, and I could probably draw maximum throughput on my DSL line from 3am-6am without costing my ISP a dime. If I tried that at 5pm on a Friday, there would be massive service degradation.
The summary doesn't do a very good job of explaining the bill.
The point of the bill is to make Internet a utility, and subject to regulation. This means that they would have to justify their prices to regulators, whatever they might be.
Which is good. The ISP's have been riding the train that lets them do whatever they want in the name of letting market forces drive innovation for far too long.
I've never found any Google products I have used to be inferior to their Microsoft counterparts.
I trust Nvidia to a point, but suspect they're just protecting their own interests, since their job would be a lot easier if they didn't have to worry about writing drivers for non-x86 architectures.
Everyone has exactly the same needs - some of them just don't know it.
To clarify, say there's an obscure hardware or spyware issue on a machine, and a tech is hired to come out and fix it. That machine is running Windows 7 Starter. 50% of the time that I've come across an issue on a machine, especially spyware, the 'fix' has involved running a program that is only included in MS's 'professional' version.
This means: a) copying an executable from your trusted Win7 Pro installation. b) downloading a copy from the internet (on a machine that is possibly compromised and selling you bullshit.exes)
Obviously, the informed IT guy will do the former. However, if the user of the machine has an informed IT guy, he wouldn't buy starter to begin with.
I don't have a problem with MS disabling bells and whistles for lower-scale OS's (I don't want to pay for that shit anyway. If I used them, third party shell extensions are superior anyway.) However, when it makes tech support's job harder by removing the ability to dig in deeper to solve problems, this is fundamentally harming the security of the OS, and by extension the entire Internet.
When was the last time you used Ubuntu? Vista/Windows 7 is dog slow, and Ubuntu is fast, works with almost all peripherals I've thrown at it (the one exception is a crappy SD card reader that doesn't even provide Mac support.)
I'll grant that XP is a little faster and more stable, but what Ubuntu lacks in that department it makes up for in basic security, and patches to fix security problems the XP dev team would love to have the time to worry about.
Come Ubuntu 10.04, I'm forcing my parents to switch.
FWIW, 120,000 years is not that long ago from a biological perspective. Some pathogens can pass from pigs, rabbits, or other mammals to humans... it's not like mammals didn't exist 120 millenia years ago.
Really? I would say it's an eternity. The Flu changes sufficiently to render itself impervious to our vaccines on a monthly and in some cases daily basis. Multiply that by 120,000 years, and I think we would have seen this bacteria before if it had any staying power as a mammalian pathogen.
Whatever problems people have regarding h.264 licensing - thinking that somehow Theora support should be tantamount while h.264 support is "nice as an extra"?
I generally try to avoid commenting on grammar issues, but I think you have the word tantamount confused with paramount.
Paramount - on the mountain - says, as I think this construction intends, that most people think Theora support should be the primary goal.
Tantamount - the same amount - says, as I don't think you intended, that Theora support would be about the same thing as h.264. It's possible you understand this and this was just a Freudian slip, since the debate is whether or not the codecs' abilities are the same.
No, that would make proprietary software the equivalent of fundamentalist churches. Intelligent design itself is not in competition with the scientific method.
Any authors who want people to read their papers post them on their websites for all to view. Doing CS research last term, only a handful of the researchers directed people to a journal to read their work. Most are concerned with their own prestige, not with the journal.
He said can't, and he acknowledged that he hadn't put in the work. He was just saying that it required more training than the training required to become a scientist.
I've taken roughly the same class, and as part of the quarter that didn't slack off as much, I was pretty satisfied with the experience. The fact is, I don't think that those who slacked off would ever do that well on a proper programming team, and that class very quickly separated those who cared about their craft from those that didn't.
The point isn't to create a working project. The point is to get experience of what creating such a project feels like.
It's called Keynesian economics. When the economy is in a slump, you should employ people doing whatever work that you can think of. Especially random, somewhat questionable research. Most of the major breakthroughs have been the result of random, somewhat questionable research.
Furthermore, people need to quit whining about 'pork' in the stimulus bill. A stimulus bill is by definition pork. If there wasn't pork in it, it wouldn't be a stimulus bill. It would be an energy spending initiative, or a bank bailout, or something like that. If you are against pork, you are categorically against stimulus bills. That's fine, but just say that any stimulus is a bad idea, don't nitpick out the parts you think aren't worthwhile.
GPS might not be considered non-essential, however, as it could help emergency workers find the caller - quite useful in case the caller, say, breaks his leg hiking in a remote area./blockquote
For example, you could do what my prof did, and spend a couple weeks on the basics (stacks, queues, etc.) then present your students with an NP-complete problem and tell them to solve it with any resources they have at their disposal.
They probably won't (who knows, though I sure didn't) but on the other hand, they'll definitely learn their way around the STL pretty quickly.
That's the point. A lot of the 'ecology BS' is just about spurring people to use good engineering, as opposed to the bullshit 5-year lifespans people are willing to put up with on most appliances. It doesn't make sense from a financial standpoint.
'Ecology BS' is just a question of looking into the far long term (be that a decade, a few decades, or a century) and deciding what the result of a given action will be. Some of them (global warming) remain a little questionable. However, looking at a city like L.A., the pollution reduction benefits of such a car would easily pay themselves back in medical bills.
Assuming, of course, the population didn't double in response to the relieved pressure, which is probably a pie-in-the-sky assumption.
You misunderstand. Silverlight doesn't allow you to store your data more securely. It allows the developers to store their data more securely on your computer. That is, so you can't access it without their permission.
I hate to feed a troll, but obviously no one is suggesting Adobe should open source their dev tools.
Just the flash interpreter. They give it away for free anyway (those commie bastards), why not let other people deal with fixing it? Then they can proceed to rake in tons of profits from people who want to build apps that they now can rest assured will run on the coming generations of Flash-enabled smartphones.
And Linux users are techies, who almost by definition have high income.
Most businesses considering Silverlight or Flash want to sell ad revenue, and ad revenue for the demographic not using Windows is categorically higher than that for Windows.
Furthermore, smartphones will not be running x86 any time soon, so making once-off code that cannot easily be ported to a variety of OS's and architectures will only ensure that you're locked out of the young professional demographic, as well as the emerging generation of teenagers who have been using cell phones since the second grade.
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I don't feel like checking, but OLPC is definitely a charity, and USO is a charity of sorts. It's my understanding that Hulu runs charity ads when it can't find an actual advertiser. Maybe the charities are the ones with banners?
Anywho, I just run popped out or full screen (depending on the power of my computer.) So I don't really see what the fuss is about.
No.
1) Satellite communications are physically impossible without, well, satellites.
2) There are a variety of experiments that are impossible this close to a gravitational field like the Earth's. You must move at least to low orbit.
Extrapolating, she should have the mental capacity of an adult by the time she's 85.
Actually, I suspect what has held her back is how underdeveloped her body is. If she had the body of a toddler, I would say there would be nothing preventing her from maturing mentally.
But then, I'm no neuroscientist.
I actually think it's fairly similar, if you count periodicals as books. (Including pornography magazines.)
The difference is, the rubbish is a lot more easily accessible on the Internet, because getting a copy does not rely on physical proximity, which in turn relies on large quantities of each individual item. With books, there are plenty of rubbish books, but most of the rubbish ends up in the rubbish heap, and so you don't see it.
On the Internet, unpopular works are much harder to suppress.
It is very curious that one of the most revered anti-censorship writers hates the Internet for the very mechanism that is making censorship so difficult in the world's totalitarian regimes.
It really doesn't have a lot to do with racism. It's class warfare plain and simple.
But just so we're talking about leveling every abandoned warehouse in Ohio, and not touching homes (regardless of the state of disrepair) I have to agree. The buildings aren't even useful for their original purpose anymore, even if anyone (no one) decided to open a new factory in Ohio.
We need to stop pretending that Gigs/month were a good way to meter this, like it were water.
It's not. It's almost exactly the same as phone traffic. And it has the same rough costs.
1) How long are you on the phone?
2) What time is it when you are on the phone?
#2 is an important factor, and the ISP's need to acknowledge that. I've got a fiber line running by my house, and I could probably draw maximum throughput on my DSL line from 3am-6am without costing my ISP a dime. If I tried that at 5pm on a Friday, there would be massive service degradation.
The summary doesn't do a very good job of explaining the bill.
The point of the bill is to make Internet a utility, and subject to regulation. This means that they would have to justify their prices to regulators, whatever they might be.
Which is good. The ISP's have been riding the train that lets them do whatever they want in the name of letting market forces drive innovation for far too long.
I've never found any Google products I have used to be inferior to their Microsoft counterparts.
I trust Nvidia to a point, but suspect they're just protecting their own interests, since their job would be a lot easier if they didn't have to worry about writing drivers for non-x86 architectures.
Everyone has exactly the same needs - some of them just don't know it.
To clarify, say there's an obscure hardware or spyware issue on a machine, and a tech is hired to come out and fix it. That machine is running Windows 7 Starter. 50% of the time that I've come across an issue on a machine, especially spyware, the 'fix' has involved running a program that is only included in MS's 'professional' version.
This means: .exes)
a) copying an executable from your trusted Win7 Pro installation.
b) downloading a copy from the internet (on a machine that is possibly compromised and selling you bullshit
Obviously, the informed IT guy will do the former. However, if the user of the machine has an informed IT guy, he wouldn't buy starter to begin with.
I don't have a problem with MS disabling bells and whistles for lower-scale OS's (I don't want to pay for that shit anyway. If I used them, third party shell extensions are superior anyway.) However, when it makes tech support's job harder by removing the ability to dig in deeper to solve problems, this is fundamentally harming the security of the OS, and by extension the entire Internet.
When was the last time you used Ubuntu? Vista/Windows 7 is dog slow, and Ubuntu is fast, works with almost all peripherals I've thrown at it (the one exception is a crappy SD card reader that doesn't even provide Mac support.)
I'll grant that XP is a little faster and more stable, but what Ubuntu lacks in that department it makes up for in basic security, and patches to fix security problems the XP dev team would love to have the time to worry about.
Come Ubuntu 10.04, I'm forcing my parents to switch.
Really? I would say it's an eternity. The Flu changes sufficiently to render itself impervious to our vaccines on a monthly and in some cases daily basis. Multiply that by 120,000 years, and I think we would have seen this bacteria before if it had any staying power as a mammalian pathogen.
For over a year I've been wondering where I could buy a split keyboard with two pieces I could place anywhere.
Your solution is so much more elegant, and probably cheaper.
I generally try to avoid commenting on grammar issues, but I think you have the word tantamount confused with paramount.
Paramount - on the mountain - says, as I think this construction intends, that most people think Theora support should be the primary goal.
Tantamount - the same amount - says, as I don't think you intended, that Theora support would be about the same thing as h.264. It's possible you understand this and this was just a Freudian slip, since the debate is whether or not the codecs' abilities are the same.
No, that would make proprietary software the equivalent of fundamentalist churches. Intelligent design itself is not in competition with the scientific method.
Any authors who want people to read their papers post them on their websites for all to view. Doing CS research last term, only a handful of the researchers directed people to a journal to read their work. Most are concerned with their own prestige, not with the journal.
He said can't, and he acknowledged that he hadn't put in the work. He was just saying that it required more training than the training required to become a scientist.
I've taken roughly the same class, and as part of the quarter that didn't slack off as much, I was pretty satisfied with the experience. The fact is, I don't think that those who slacked off would ever do that well on a proper programming team, and that class very quickly separated those who cared about their craft from those that didn't.
The point isn't to create a working project. The point is to get experience of what creating such a project feels like.
It's called Keynesian economics. When the economy is in a slump, you should employ people doing whatever work that you can think of. Especially random, somewhat questionable research. Most of the major breakthroughs have been the result of random, somewhat questionable research.
Furthermore, people need to quit whining about 'pork' in the stimulus bill. A stimulus bill is by definition pork. If there wasn't pork in it, it wouldn't be a stimulus bill. It would be an energy spending initiative, or a bank bailout, or something like that. If you are against pork, you are categorically against stimulus bills. That's fine, but just say that any stimulus is a bad idea, don't nitpick out the parts you think aren't worthwhile.
FTA:
For example, you could do what my prof did, and spend a couple weeks on the basics (stacks, queues, etc.) then present your students with an NP-complete problem and tell them to solve it with any resources they have at their disposal.
They probably won't (who knows, though I sure didn't) but on the other hand, they'll definitely learn their way around the STL pretty quickly.
That's the point. A lot of the 'ecology BS' is just about spurring people to use good engineering, as opposed to the bullshit 5-year lifespans people are willing to put up with on most appliances. It doesn't make sense from a financial standpoint.
'Ecology BS' is just a question of looking into the far long term (be that a decade, a few decades, or a century) and deciding what the result of a given action will be. Some of them (global warming) remain a little questionable. However, looking at a city like L.A., the pollution reduction benefits of such a car would easily pay themselves back in medical bills.
Assuming, of course, the population didn't double in response to the relieved pressure, which is probably a pie-in-the-sky assumption.
You misunderstand. Silverlight doesn't allow you to store your data more securely. It allows the developers to store their data more securely on your computer. That is, so you can't access it without their permission.
I hate to feed a troll, but obviously no one is suggesting Adobe should open source their dev tools.
Just the flash interpreter. They give it away for free anyway (those commie bastards), why not let other people deal with fixing it? Then they can proceed to rake in tons of profits from people who want to build apps that they now can rest assured will run on the coming generations of Flash-enabled smartphones.
But the users with highest income use Macs.
And Linux users are techies, who almost by definition have high income.
Most businesses considering Silverlight or Flash want to sell ad revenue, and ad revenue for the demographic not using Windows is categorically higher than that for Windows.
Furthermore, smartphones will not be running x86 any time soon, so making once-off code that cannot easily be ported to a variety of OS's and architectures will only ensure that you're locked out of the young professional demographic, as well as the emerging generation of teenagers who have been using cell phones since the second grade.
It will matter if, in 6 months, Linux ARM laptops are shipping with USB 3.0 enabled.