Except that drivers already *are* the standardization API. The hardware differs for performance reasons, and takes different commands to operate, but the driver provides a single standard interface to interact with the device without compromising performance(in theory).
In order to avoid drivers, you'd have to develop a hardware interface standard so all hardware was controlled the same way. Which would hamstring hardware developers by narrowing the options for controlling the hardware or force them to put what used to be the driver in the firmware, so the "standard interface" simply got reinterpreted into internal commands on the card instead of the CPU, possibly requiring special purpose hardware to drive the conversion
It's unlikely it would have any serious effect on the heart. It basically encourages the conversion of low endurance to high endurance muscle fiber. Your heart is already composed of high endurance fiber, there's little to change. Also, by and large, high endurance fibers are narrower and denser than low endurance fibers, so the size of your muscles would actually shrink in some cases, even as the total number of fibers remained constant or even increased a little.
Read the article. The guy who created the stuff has already developed a test to detect it in urine and offered it to the World Anti-Doping Agency (which develops the tests for the IOC). The stuff isn't even on the market, but the test is public.
The nature of a Scrabble like game would make computer opponents far too difficult. At an admittedly high memory cost, computers could basically keep the whole dictionary indexed to allow them to always find optimal moves. Granted, there would be some minor quirks in finding places to *put* those words, but optimal is fairly easy to do. And if they didn't go for optimal, you'd win only on the basis of the computer spending more resources to handicap itself. Not exactly an achievement to be proud of.
I think you'd be a lot more embarrassed playing a computer than you would a friend.
Gotta love idiotic rumors. Midori (and Windows 7 as well) both put an emphasis on *enabling* cloud computing, accessing your data anywhere, etc. In neither case is there *any* intent to turn your machine into a dumb terminal or anything like it. Midori+WPF will make for some fairly impressive app remoting, if desired, but don't expect local apps to disappear.
Disclaimer: Former MS Employee, my information is a few months out of date
I think the argument might be that this sort of behavior is common to certain cultures that Caucasians spring from? Then again, the "man as provider" cultural norm is fairly common, so I'm not seeing where it gets narrowed to Caucasians either.
Type 'co' in the Awesome bar. Marvel at how it "awesomely" returns every site in the.com TLD.
If you are the type who remembers the URL of sites you visit, it just means a bunch of false positives.
I've used it once to date, when going back to a walkthrough page on gamefaqs. 99% of the time, I know the address I'm going to, or I have it bookmarked, so the "awesomeness" is wasted on me.
From a commentary link at the bottom of Schneier's article (provided by Schneier, not some random comments post):
The researcher who Bruce Schneier cites who in turn is widely cited in the media as an expert on why Vista DRM is so evil actually admits to never actually even touching Windows Vista. That's the level of "research" he did.
The DRM on Vista applies to DRM-ed sources that you couldn't view at all without it. Whoop-di-doo. I've got HD resolution material on my machine (Vista Ultimate SP1, x64) sans DRM that displays just fine on my HDTV (via component cables, not even HDMI). My general experience has been that games perform maybe 5-10% less efficiently on Vista x64 (with up to date drivers) than on XP x86, and roughly identically to XP x64. I somehow doubt DRM is to blame.
Except the implication is that this is a bug in Java/JavaScript. Both of which have at least one layer of interpretation (compilation) on the *client* machine before they get anywhere near the hardware. Put a patch in that layer and (presumably) the problem can be solved.
Just for context, McCain hasn't voted period for roughly three months. From the Washington Post:
"McCain, campaigning in Pittsburgh, was absent for the vote. The senator from Arizona has now missed three straight months of votes on the Senate floor, his last vote coming on April 8 on an energy amendment."
Not exactly related to my central thesis: That electric cars can already do this. You could get an electric car just as easily, more so, since finding a plug in an emergency would be relatively trivial, if time-consuming to charge. And just because you *usually* don't need the range doesn't mean it will sell to people who buy cars for what they *might* need. Witness the SUV boom of the past decade. What percentage of those people used the vehicle for off-road purposes even once? Now consider the number of people who, semi-regularly, exceed 25 miles of driving in a day. Do you really think people will voluntarily:
Pay more for the car
Pay an extra $4000 up front just to be *able* to fuel the car
For a vehicle with reduced range and increased fill time
On a technology that is only one of several options (potentially ending up the same way HD-DVD and BetaMax customers did)
This device can only provide enough hydrogen for a 25 mile journey with overnight operation. Battery powered cars get better results with the same amount of charge time, and no one is going crazy to buy them. At $4K, this is a pricy way to make a hydrogen car work less efficiently than an electric car.
Raising prices will just force out the casual user. Right now I can get hosting and domain registration for $35-50 a year. I like having my own domain for personal use, but charging $250 a year for the registration it would make it a really expensive luxury.
For any vaguely competent squatter, ads and possible sale of the domain would still make up for most of even that cost, so they wouldn't suffer at all.
The TLDs, theoretically, categorize content (com for commercial, org for non-profits, etc.). Opening up the creation of new "categories" to anyone with a few thousand dollars will just lead to the.com rush all over again. Even a few thousand is no disincentive to multi-billion dollar companies.
First race: Which of MS, Yahoo or Google will snag ".search" or ".srch" first? It's not a matter of cost, since we know any of them could afford the price. It's just which one manages to phone it in first.
...you dug yourself an even deeper hole by claiming AC has a position that the AC actually did not 'intimate' (did you mean 'insinuate?' 'intimate' means 'very close' or 'familiar'). Check your own knowledge before casting aspersions. I don't particularly care about the rest of the debate, but don't start limiting the language out of ignorance. The definition you cited is for the adjective form of intimate.
For the verb form (from the Free Dictionary):
intimate
Verb
[-mating, -mated] Formal
1. to make (something) known in an indirect way: he has intimated his intention to retire
Actually, most extensions have been updated for FF3, and one of the changes made in the allocator allows for automatic cycle collection. Previously, extensions had to break cycles themselves, making it relatively easy for them to leak memory, but with automatic cycle collection, it's easier to write a leak free extension. See this article on memory improvements
No personal experience, but my coworkers who have tried the Clearwire service in Seattle have been unimpressed. Relatively low speed (1 Mbps, or about 120 KB/s), high latency. Can't speak for San Francisco though.
Because haphazardly hacked together code is usually full of bugs and design limitations, while obfuscated code is simply rearranged good code? Integrating with buggy, poorly written code is not my cup of tea.
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Except that drivers already *are* the standardization API. The hardware differs for performance reasons, and takes different commands to operate, but the driver provides a single standard interface to interact with the device without compromising performance(in theory).
In order to avoid drivers, you'd have to develop a hardware interface standard so all hardware was controlled the same way. Which would hamstring hardware developers by narrowing the options for controlling the hardware or force them to put what used to be the driver in the firmware, so the "standard interface" simply got reinterpreted into internal commands on the card instead of the CPU, possibly requiring special purpose hardware to drive the conversion
*Treated* with diet and exercise, not cured. You can prevent further decline, and eliminate symptoms, but you can't cure it.
It's unlikely it would have any serious effect on the heart. It basically encourages the conversion of low endurance to high endurance muscle fiber. Your heart is already composed of high endurance fiber, there's little to change. Also, by and large, high endurance fibers are narrower and denser than low endurance fibers, so the size of your muscles would actually shrink in some cases, even as the total number of fibers remained constant or even increased a little.
Read the article. The guy who created the stuff has already developed a test to detect it in urine and offered it to the World Anti-Doping Agency (which develops the tests for the IOC). The stuff isn't even on the market, but the test is public.
The nature of a Scrabble like game would make computer opponents far too difficult. At an admittedly high memory cost, computers could basically keep the whole dictionary indexed to allow them to always find optimal moves. Granted, there would be some minor quirks in finding places to *put* those words, but optimal is fairly easy to do. And if they didn't go for optimal, you'd win only on the basis of the computer spending more resources to handicap itself. Not exactly an achievement to be proud of.
I think you'd be a lot more embarrassed playing a computer than you would a friend.
Gotta love idiotic rumors. Midori (and Windows 7 as well) both put an emphasis on *enabling* cloud computing, accessing your data anywhere, etc. In neither case is there *any* intent to turn your machine into a dumb terminal or anything like it. Midori+WPF will make for some fairly impressive app remoting, if desired, but don't expect local apps to disappear.
Disclaimer: Former MS Employee, my information is a few months out of date
I think the argument might be that this sort of behavior is common to certain cultures that Caucasians spring from? Then again, the "man as provider" cultural norm is fairly common, so I'm not seeing where it gets narrowed to Caucasians either.
I've used it once to date, when going back to a walkthrough page on gamefaqs. 99% of the time, I know the address I'm going to, or I have it bookmarked, so the "awesomeness" is wasted on me.
The researcher who Bruce Schneier cites who in turn is widely cited in the media as an expert on why Vista DRM is so evil actually admits to never actually even touching Windows Vista. That's the level of "research" he did.
The DRM on Vista applies to DRM-ed sources that you couldn't view at all without it. Whoop-di-doo. I've got HD resolution material on my machine (Vista Ultimate SP1, x64) sans DRM that displays just fine on my HDTV (via component cables, not even HDMI). My general experience has been that games perform maybe 5-10% less efficiently on Vista x64 (with up to date drivers) than on XP x86, and roughly identically to XP x64. I somehow doubt DRM is to blame.
Except the implication is that this is a bug in Java/JavaScript. Both of which have at least one layer of interpretation (compilation) on the *client* machine before they get anywhere near the hardware. Put a patch in that layer and (presumably) the problem can be solved.
Better: crack natural gas for the hydrogen in something like this.
Honda already thought of that: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/19/1749259
Though I haven't heard anything about it since.
You could get an electric car just as easily, more so, since finding a plug in an emergency would be relatively trivial, if time-consuming to charge. And just because you *usually* don't need the range doesn't mean it will sell to people who buy cars for what they *might* need. Witness the SUV boom of the past decade. What percentage of those people used the vehicle for off-road purposes even once? Now consider the number of people who, semi-regularly, exceed 25 miles of driving in a day. Do you really think people will voluntarily:
I'll bet you four thousand dollars they won't. :-)
This device can only provide enough hydrogen for a 25 mile journey with overnight operation. Battery powered cars get better results with the same amount of charge time, and no one is going crazy to buy them. At $4K, this is a pricy way to make a hydrogen car work less efficiently than an electric car.
Corrected link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_space_shuttle
I'm having nostalgia for when our space program was a national priority. This, despite having no memory of any time pre-Challenger.
How did this get an insightful mod? It was obviously going for funny.
Raising prices will just force out the casual user. Right now I can get hosting and domain registration for $35-50 a year. I like having my own domain for personal use, but charging $250 a year for the registration it would make it a really expensive luxury.
For any vaguely competent squatter, ads and possible sale of the domain would still make up for most of even that cost, so they wouldn't suffer at all.
And of course, will the owner of .search allow anyone else to register on it?
The TLDs, theoretically, categorize content (com for commercial, org for non-profits, etc.). Opening up the creation of new "categories" to anyone with a few thousand dollars will just lead to the .com rush all over again. Even a few thousand is no disincentive to multi-billion dollar companies.
First race: Which of MS, Yahoo or Google will snag ".search" or ".srch" first? It's not a matter of cost, since we know any of them could afford the price. It's just which one manages to phone it in first.
...you dug yourself an even deeper hole by claiming AC has a position that the AC actually did not 'intimate' (did you mean 'insinuate?' 'intimate' means 'very close' or 'familiar'). Check your own knowledge before casting aspersions. I don't particularly care about the rest of the debate, but don't start limiting the language out of ignorance. The definition you cited is for the adjective form of intimate.For the verb form (from the Free Dictionary):
intimate
Verb
[-mating, -mated] Formal
1. to make (something) known in an indirect way: he has intimated his intention to retire
Actually, most extensions have been updated for FF3, and one of the changes made in the allocator allows for automatic cycle collection. Previously, extensions had to break cycles themselves, making it relatively easy for them to leak memory, but with automatic cycle collection, it's easier to write a leak free extension. See this article on memory improvements
No personal experience, but my coworkers who have tried the Clearwire service in Seattle have been unimpressed. Relatively low speed (1 Mbps, or about 120 KB/s), high latency. Can't speak for San Francisco though.
Hey, wrong article. You meant to comment on the preceding Jack Thompson article I assume?
Because haphazardly hacked together code is usually full of bugs and design limitations, while obfuscated code is simply rearranged good code? Integrating with buggy, poorly written code is not my cup of tea.