Good call. This could definitely replace a 30-second UPS for convenience, assuming it ever becomes fast/dense enough.
Flash would seem to do this already -- do you know if Vista's flash memory extension allow it to simply suspend to flash?
My personal experiences booting from flash vs. hdd with uClinux is a little different than this demonstration, but who knows.
On a sort-of related note, the stock windows XP SP3 install takes about 45 seconds to boot in VMware vs. the IE "Test" image from Microsoft which takes about 5 seconds to boot. I guess in particular, XP seems quite vulnerable to speeding up the boot sequence.:)
Isn't that called Suspend-To-RAM? I admit that power savings is power savings, so I'm all for it, but let us not pretend this is some new breakthrough for the PC or anything that can generate a TV output for more than a few minutes (i.e. non battery devices). This is really all about embedded/notebook battery longevity, no?
Now if only disk IO was actually the major delay in the boot process. You might consider driver initialization, software initialization, network delays, waiting for user interaction, etc.
If the FCC tells you what you can or can't do on the Internet, people are up in arms. When Comcast does it, people only grudgingly admit it might be a good idea for the FCC to tell them "don't do that". The mind boggles...
You seem to fail to differentiate between the government which has the genuine threat of force (aka coercion), and the company which does not. Why do you think the Constitution exists?
Agreed. Technology-of-the-Week, almost by definition, is frequently unripe and thus simple to learn. We seem to agree that well-established technologies are precisely the opposite.
particularly since the latter may well be bluffing
It's interesting that merit doesn't seem to have come up much in this discussion. Having worked in distance education at a University, I've seen many methods for examining learners (or in this case, candidates), and no doubt some of them could be applied to differentiate the true Candidate from the False One.
#1. If they're taking 6 months, you've got the wrong person. Anyone who is decently qualified would be able to pick up the new tool in less than a month.
I can't even imagine how to learn (to the level required of a professional developer) any large subset of, for example, the java, python, C++ standard libraries in less than a month, and I'm already at least passingly familiar with all of them. I will stick with my gardening for a career path, I guess. While I have no doubt any high-schooler could learn the basic language syntax of the above examples in less than a day, the libraries are typically the real value in any application development language.
#2. You'd have to be a damn good project manager to be able to spec out the requirements sufficiently that you could hire a contractor like that.
Or have started already... or have decided on the tools... or have the tools decided for you already by the existing environment... etc etc.
Which is why you want to hire people who can learn new approaches quickly. And the goods ones can. They know the technology, not the tool
See my response to #1, above. Off to my garden now...:D
I'm sure this would work well if you are Google, trying to hire candidates in their 20's for a decade or so before they are used up.
On the other hand, if you are a project manager looking for contractors, you really do need someone who is not going to spend 6 months learning the tools (not syntax, but the libraries)
While problem solving skills are important in any programming candidate, they are terribly insufficient to choose an employee for any type of job, other than perhaps Winston the Wolf.
A good tech can always and easily adapt to new and different ways to do things.
This appears to be the "infinite monkeys" argument. Most companies can't afford (relatively) unlimited development resources, and adaptation takes the most scarce resource in technology development: time.
On one move, 2.5% of the people voted for a move that was completely ILLEGAL. In that particular game, the world did manage to play a good game, but arguably only because a few very good players managed to take charge and guide the hoards through it all. In general the message boards degenerated into a lot of flaming....
So, you're saying direct representation works? i.e. Opinion leaders function quite effectively in that environment? And furthermore, while most discourse wasn't particularly high quality, you suggest that this was not entirely the case. What is it you don't like about it?
After a brief spin at a grocery store in the health department, I have to agree that many types of theft should not be prosecuted. These include (eg) stealing baby formula for your starving infant.
I typically direct unenlightened folks such as the GP to Kohlberg's stages of moral development.
I'm guessing we're experiencing the intermediate stage -- without high-bitrate content (eg) videos, 500GB is beyond any reasonable needs for software on a single system. Until everyone starts using their computers for digital video storage/editing or something else similarly high-bitrate, such as 3-D models + textures + sounds + scripts = virtual world, the larger hard drives won't see mass adoption. Of course, the new lower prices on TB hard drives will continue to encourage wider adoption of the new media.
As an open source developer on an embedded media platform, I've found a major reason for vendors not disclosing working implementations of patented operations even for outdated products is due to (eg) liability issues for facilitating infringement. In media players particularly, the litigation-happy Macrovision will sue basically anyone who implements AGC toggling even as part of another product.
Now, consider that the phone call passes through a switch in the U.S. and cannot be reasonably intercepted anywhere else. The targets still fit the USSID 18 criteria, but the necessity of collection occurring inside the U.S. creates an ambiguity.
No ambiguity is created... it's illegal, yes? Just because the NSA can't do your job within the confines of the law, doesn't automatically extend the law to their desired extent. If the NSA is not authorized to conduct "SIGINT" within the US borders, that's really the end of the ambiguity (which never existed). I'm sure you appreciate that the law RESTRICTS what they are allowed to do, and that their charter defines their mission, but nothing in their mission magically overrides the restrictions in the law.
The internet is a pretty clear analog of the postal system, from both a practical and legal standpoint. You're telling me that the NSA never understood the difference between national and international postal delivery, or that whatever constituted illegal spying could be different for each? The last 20 years have added wires to the "ambiguity", nothing else.
In Canada, you can make illegal recordings of illegal acts (eg. crack deal in a bathroom stall), and the recordings automatically become 'legal' for the purposes of admissibility as evidence.
I'd like to congratulate the genius who chose to shoot fast-action footage on an unmounted low-quality camera. It reminds me of some UFO footage I've seen.
Slashdot Mirror
Believe it or not, the adjectives you left out are the important part.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Doh!!
Don't feel bad. "Space" does in fact modify "Laboratory" not "Nanotechnology".
The Slash-roots marketing is getting to be a bit much. I have to admit that my personal favourite slashroots efforts are from google and amazon.
power outage
Good call. This could definitely replace a 30-second UPS for convenience, assuming it ever becomes fast/dense enough. Flash would seem to do this already -- do you know if Vista's flash memory extension allow it to simply suspend to flash?
Fortunately, I'm the only person capable of coming up with such bullshit.
You seem to have yourself confused with this guy.
Well, I can hardly argue with YouTube. :(
My personal experiences booting from flash vs. hdd with uClinux is a little different than this demonstration, but who knows.
On a sort-of related note, the stock windows XP SP3 install takes about 45 seconds to boot in VMware vs. the IE "Test" image from Microsoft which takes about 5 seconds to boot. I guess in particular, XP seems quite vulnerable to speeding up the boot sequence. :)
Isn't that called Suspend-To-RAM? I admit that power savings is power savings, so I'm all for it, but let us not pretend this is some new breakthrough for the PC or anything that can generate a TV output for more than a few minutes (i.e. non battery devices). This is really all about embedded/notebook battery longevity, no?
near-instant-on effect
Now if only disk IO was actually the major delay in the boot process. You might consider driver initialization, software initialization, network delays, waiting for user interaction, etc.
If the FCC tells you what you can or can't do on the Internet, people are up in arms. When Comcast does it, people only grudgingly admit it might be a good idea for the FCC to tell them "don't do that". The mind boggles...
You seem to fail to differentiate between the government which has the genuine threat of force (aka coercion), and the company which does not. Why do you think the Constitution exists?
getting up to speed on the technology-of-the-week
Agreed. Technology-of-the-Week, almost by definition, is frequently unripe and thus simple to learn. We seem to agree that well-established technologies are precisely the opposite.
particularly since the latter may well be bluffing
It's interesting that merit doesn't seem to have come up much in this discussion. Having worked in distance education at a University, I've seen many methods for examining learners (or in this case, candidates), and no doubt some of them could be applied to differentiate the true Candidate from the False One.
#1. If they're taking 6 months, you've got the wrong person. Anyone who is decently qualified would be able to pick up the new tool in less than a month.
I can't even imagine how to learn (to the level required of a professional developer) any large subset of, for example, the java, python, C++ standard libraries in less than a month, and I'm already at least passingly familiar with all of them. I will stick with my gardening for a career path, I guess. While I have no doubt any high-schooler could learn the basic language syntax of the above examples in less than a day, the libraries are typically the real value in any application development language.
#2. You'd have to be a damn good project manager to be able to spec out the requirements sufficiently that you could hire a contractor like that.
Or have started already... or have decided on the tools... or have the tools decided for you already by the existing environment... etc etc.
Which is why you want to hire people who can learn new approaches quickly. And the goods ones can. They know the technology, not the tool
See my response to #1, above. Off to my garden now... :D
On the other hand, if you are a project manager looking for contractors, you really do need someone who is not going to spend 6 months learning the tools (not syntax, but the libraries)
While problem solving skills are important in any programming candidate, they are terribly insufficient to choose an employee for any type of job, other than perhaps Winston the Wolf.
A good tech can always and easily adapt to new and different ways to do things.
This appears to be the "infinite monkeys" argument. Most companies can't afford (relatively) unlimited development resources, and adaptation takes the most scarce resource in technology development: time.
"Never mistake Success for Activity" -- you
I think more importantly than just on the board of directors, "Jobs is currently the Walt Disney Company's largest individual shareholder".
On one move, 2.5% of the people voted for a move that was completely ILLEGAL. In that particular game, the world did manage to play a good game, but arguably only because a few very good players managed to take charge and guide the hoards through it all. In general the message boards degenerated into a lot of flaming....
So, you're saying direct representation works? i.e. Opinion leaders function quite effectively in that environment? And furthermore, while most discourse wasn't particularly high quality, you suggest that this was not entirely the case. What is it you don't like about it?
Liberacy
pianist
it's really hard
Ok, maybe not that last one. From Wikipedia:
known as "Lee" to his friends
Also
it's really hard to use the original terms for this sort of political party
Political parties blur the names of the politics, no?
After a brief spin at a grocery store in the health department, I have to agree that many types of theft should not be prosecuted. These include (eg) stealing baby formula for your starving infant. I typically direct unenlightened folks such as the GP to Kohlberg's stages of moral development.
I'm guessing we're experiencing the intermediate stage -- without high-bitrate content (eg) videos, 500GB is beyond any reasonable needs for software on a single system. Until everyone starts using their computers for digital video storage/editing or something else similarly high-bitrate, such as 3-D models + textures + sounds + scripts = virtual world, the larger hard drives won't see mass adoption. Of course, the new lower prices on TB hard drives will continue to encourage wider adoption of the new media.
As an open source developer on an embedded media platform, I've found a major reason for vendors not disclosing working implementations of patented operations even for outdated products is due to (eg) liability issues for facilitating infringement. In media players particularly, the litigation-happy Macrovision will sue basically anyone who implements AGC toggling even as part of another product.
Now, consider that the phone call passes through a switch in the U.S. and cannot be reasonably intercepted anywhere else. The targets still fit the USSID 18 criteria, but the necessity of collection occurring inside the U.S. creates an ambiguity. No ambiguity is created... it's illegal, yes? Just because the NSA can't do your job within the confines of the law, doesn't automatically extend the law to their desired extent. If the NSA is not authorized to conduct "SIGINT" within the US borders, that's really the end of the ambiguity (which never existed). I'm sure you appreciate that the law RESTRICTS what they are allowed to do, and that their charter defines their mission, but nothing in their mission magically overrides the restrictions in the law.
The internet is a pretty clear analog of the postal system, from both a practical and legal standpoint. You're telling me that the NSA never understood the difference between national and international postal delivery, or that whatever constituted illegal spying could be different for each? The last 20 years have added wires to the "ambiguity", nothing else.
In Canada, you can make illegal recordings of illegal acts (eg. crack deal in a bathroom stall), and the recordings automatically become 'legal' for the purposes of admissibility as evidence.
I'd like to congratulate the genius who chose to shoot fast-action footage on an unmounted low-quality camera. It reminds me of some UFO footage I've seen.
You're 12 years off.
The C-based emulator in question wasn't written for a few more years, I guarantee it.
we could have infinite amounts of computing power!
So, you're saying it's browsers all the way down?