Yes, limited to 2GB, because that's the maximum an SD card can hold.
We do resize the pictures, but not to the frame native resolution because you can zoom a picture to inspect detail. And, we have thousands of pictures to choose from, because the "film" is so cheap. And, even if it wasn't we would have thousands of pictures, because of all the real film I shot and scanned the negatives.
But, don't be so dismissive of the resizing algorithms on smaller devices. My Archos 504 only has a 480x272 resolution, but it plays DVD resolution (720x480) just fine. Although the files are slightly larger, it saves me a lot of time not having to transcode. Since I already have all my DVDs ripped to my hard drive, it's now just a copy operation.
It allows you to create app-specific bindings for any key, and can even record and play back mouse moves if you want. The macros are editable, so you can tweak them after recording.
I use the Northgate Omnikey Ultra, which gives me 12 extra function keys that I can use for macros.
I can't say enough good things about my Omnikey, which has been used pretty much every day of it's 15-year life. It gives me the best feel for everything but games that won't auto-repeat buttons (it's not good for fast, repeated hammering on the same key), and has a full arrow keypad instead of the nasty inverted-T.
The NTP daemon is normally used to interface with GPS clocks and to distribute time around a LAN. It never allows time to just jump. It always slews the clock.
This, of course, is wrong.
First, by default it steps the time on startup, with a default limit of 1000 seconds offset, but you can disable this limit.
Second, after startup, by default it slews the time unless the offset is greater than 128ms, in which case it steps the time. The 128ms value is configurable via the "tinker" command, but it is not recommended that it be changed.
I bought my wife a digital photo frame with no flash memory because it was cheaper.
It did have an SD slot, though, and I had to buy the card, but that still ended up cheaper, and that way it can display as many pictures as she wants...it's just limited to 2GB at a time (no SDHC).
It's also a whole lot easier, as she keeps the frame at work, and every so often swaps SD cards when she wants new (or different) pictures.
A packed EXE is nothing but data, and I don't think that data could really figure out if it was manipulated by program 1 (the anti-virus) or program 2 (the unpacker code in the file).
But, it is possible to use one packer signature that program 1 understands and uses to successfully extract and find no virus, while program 2 runs a slightly different routine that generates the virus.
If the virus scanner were actually monitoring the running of the EXE unpack, it should block everything (like SetWindowsHookEx, among others) that would allow in-process code exploits. Then, when an EXE is written to disk and an auto-run entry of some type (service, login hook, whatever) is created, the AV would detect it through normal means.
One big clue to this is to look at pricing where market share isn't being fought over. Business connections in the US are anywhere 2-4x the prices being charged for home connections. This is not a matter of higher utilization because these business connections are sold on the same terms as home connections with "burstable" bandwidth and maximum transfer caps.
First, why would you think that ISPs aren't fighting for market share with business connections?
Second, the reason business connections cost more is that generally you get a lot more. Although I agree with the amount of the price difference, my bandwidth is 24/7 guaranteed, with no cap on the total amount of data transferred. Sure, I pay about double what a "residential" customer pays, but all that really gets me is 5 static IPs, no blocked ports, and an SLA. In general, business customers don't have any of the limits that residential customers have, and that's why the connection costs more for the same speed, but that's not true with my ISP (Verizon FIOS). Residential customers get the same guaranteed bandwidth and no cap (not even a hidden one).
At my work, we also pay a fixed rate regardless of bytes transferred, have 24/7 guaranteed bandwidth, and have no cap. I don't know what residential customers of that ISP get, though, as I don't know any in the area.
In Windows, you can change the width of scrollbars using the desktop settings panel.
But, I do see what you mean, and adding "scroll window by dragging window contents" to all windows would be a nice option that would improve a touchscreen UI.
I think a 9" touchscreen netbook would bring down the price of GPS units a lot, though. If you can get a usable 9" netbook for
I'm continually surprised to hear that King didn't like Kubrick's adaptation; I thought he did a remarkable job in capturing and reinterpreting the novel, as you accurately describe a director's job to be.
The problem with The Shining was the casting, not the directing.
Like the Michael Keaton Batman movie, casting Jack Nicholson for the part of someone who starts out normal and then turns crazy is a mistake. You know Nicolson is crazy from the start. He has managed to convince people that playing a slightly more extreme version of himself on film is "great acting".
And, the lack of replaceable parts is one other reason why laptop sales are "higher" than desktop sales.
Although businesses most likely purchase pre-built systems that get counted in these sorts of surveys, there are many desktop sales that wouldn't get counted: any machine that is built from parts. No "whitebox" sales from local computer stores would get counted, and obviously people like me (who have purchased a pre-built desktop in 15 years) would also not be represented at all.
Laptops won't have this counting error, as there really aren't any options that allow someone to build their own.
For example, that data (if correctly gathered, is statistically meaningful, etc.) might simply reference the quality of the mathematics education the students received well prior to taking this CS class.
OK, but would people with quality math education be in the "consistent" or "inconsistent" group?
One of the things I ran into in school was that people with very strong math backgrounds simply could not fathom that "a = b" results in both "a" and "b" holding the same value and the value of "a" could change as a result. Many insisted that this just isn't possible, as although variables exist in math, for any given calculation once a variable has been assigned a specific value, it is then treated as a constant, and never changes.
One of the best learning tools (and most fun) was the way my algorithms class taught things. Basically, the prof graded partially by running "time student_code < dataset" and if you didn't use the right algorithm (O(log(N)) instead of O(N)), you would get points off.
He also used pathological datasets, so that a tree would devolve into a linked list, and you had to figure out a way to deal with such issues.
We learned about algorithms while also having fun programming.
I don't know if Linux or Windows has an automatic mechanism to schedule task priority based on processor caches, but the study didn't even mention Windows. Seeing that the scheduling and managing the caches are OS problems this seems kind of important.
I'm not sure why this article isn't tagged "duh".
It's pretty obvious from looking at the CPU graphs of my VMware ESX servers that their code does some optimization to keep processes on the same core, or at the very least on the same CPU.
This data is from a dual-socket quad-core AMD (8 total cores), which means a NUMA architecture, so running the code on the same CPU means you have faster memory access.
So, some commercial code that has been around for nearly 4 years takes advantage of the "discoveries" in an article published this month.
I'm not a fan of universal ID's and the like, but I am a fan of really strong penalties for impersonating some one else.
Yeah, if you're trying to get someone else in trouble with this trick, you're definitely going to run into problems with laws concerning fraud, forgery, etc.
But, if you are generally a good driver, you could use completely random fake plates to avoid speed cameras and not really worry about it otherwise. Unless you are pulled over for something else, cops don't generally go looking for license plate infractions.
Find another excuse to justify breaking the law please. Speeding is speeding, people who were caught speeding and given tickets, whether a policeman has given it out or an automated camera, get no sympathy in my book.
I don't mind that the police give out tickets for speeding...what I mind is the way the enforcement is generally abitrary, and has nothing to do with safety.
You should try driving on I-270 in Maryland sometime, where driving the speed limit is basically unsafe. The posted limit is 55mph, but I've never seen anybody ticketed for less than 65mph, and even 75mph is probably only ticketed a tiny fraction of the time. So, basically everyone is potential revenue, and the police can pick whoever they want. If enforcing the speed limit was about safety, then everyone driving enough over the speed limit that the error of the radar becomes unimportant should be pulled over. That would lead to the eventual slowing down of traffic on the road. And, the posted limit should be increased on all roads so that this is always the case.
This is why speed cameras are a horrible idea...because they aren't about safety, and even the governments admit it. What happens on roads with speed cameras is that the traffic flows at whatever speed people want to drive except right where the speed camera is, because the police ignore that road so that the company that maintains the camera will get enough revenue.
Any project that requires "significant overtime" is a project that was planned with unrealistic ideas of how much work would be required.
This assumes the overtime is free because the workers are on salary. If the overtime gets paid (even as normal hours instead of 1.5x), then it's possible the planning took this into account and was just willing to pay the price to get the job done in fewer calendar days.
Otherwise, it's most likely a company with employees who aren't able to get jobs anywhere else, so they can't push back against the unreasonable demands of management.
Right now, I've got a problem with a software upgrade where it has to convert the Oracle database to the new version. The conversion takes 40 hours on a database with less than 6 million rows because the code starts a transaction, updates one row, then ends the transaction. After seeing the actual SQL being used, it could be replaced by "UPDATE thetable SET field1 = field2 + constant WHERE field3 = anotherconstant".
I literally could not buy hardware fast enough to overcome the stupidity of these programmers, and it would be far better to pay a lot more money for the people instead. Unfortunately, this is not an in-house product, and I don't get to pick the programmers that an outside company is going to hire.
Even a drive with good wear-leveling quickly becomes one with bad wear-leveling in ordinary use.
Imagine a 32GB drive with a normal OS plus application install of around 15GB, then add in 5GB for mostly static user data (music they want to carry around, etc.). That means that you now only have 12GB left for wear-leveled writes.
The only way around this is to move into the "insanely smart" wear-leveling that will actually move data when the drive is otherwise idle to re-balance the sector write counts. You wouldn't want to do this during actual write requests, as it would slow them down even more than they are now. AFAIK, no SSD does this.
You can't drink water or juice? You're actually claiming that you are forced to drink regular soda. You somehow suffer without it. Seriously?
Yes, seriously.
Pick something that you consume a lot more of than the majority of the population (high-speed internet...we'll tax you on each byte transferred, etc.), and replace that with "regular soda" in your argument.
Once enough people stop drinking sugared beverages, then the government will have to put a tax on the "diet" ones to make up for the tax shortfall. Taxing non-diet soda is just another "what 'for the good of the children/fat people/whatever' reason can we use to get more tax money?" plan.
Basically, you try to convince all the people who "won't be impacted by the tax" to vote for it (or to vote for the representatives who implemented it). Then, you can get all the people impacted by this tax to vote for the "diet soda tax", because it will even things out.
These same shops charge Customers $90-$120.00 an hour for IT work, and then pay the IT guy $19.00 an hour POCKETING The huge profits.
Although I'm sure that some companies have this much disparity between their billing rate and the employee pay, it's got to be the execption rather than the rule.
My company bills me out for between $100-120/hour, and my salary is about $50/hour. Add in the benefits they pay (between $10-15/hour), my share of rent and utilities for the building, the hardware they provide for me to do the work, etc., and although they certainly are making a profit, it's not nearly as much as you might think.
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I don't think SRAM can remain active long enough unless you are the Flash, but battery-backed RAM can do this with no problem.
Whether there is OS support for it would also be up in the air.
So, how would you handle "_____x_____" (where the underscores represent spaces)?
What error message would you display that didn't result in a response of "but I did type at least 8 characters"?
I use Outlook in "plain text only" mode, so this won't work for me, but:
Create new e-mail. Flip to what you need to snap. Hit Alt-PrintScreen. Flip to Outlook. Paste. Repeat as necessary. Send.
This is exactly the same amount of work, but results in an e-mail with attached BMP files.
Yes, limited to 2GB, because that's the maximum an SD card can hold.
We do resize the pictures, but not to the frame native resolution because you can zoom a picture to inspect detail. And, we have thousands of pictures to choose from, because the "film" is so cheap. And, even if it wasn't we would have thousands of pictures, because of all the real film I shot and scanned the negatives.
But, don't be so dismissive of the resizing algorithms on smaller devices. My Archos 504 only has a 480x272 resolution, but it plays DVD resolution (720x480) just fine. Although the files are slightly larger, it saves me a lot of time not having to transcode. Since I already have all my DVDs ripped to my hard drive, it's now just a copy operation.
I use Hot Keyboard Pro to create macros.
It allows you to create app-specific bindings for any key, and can even record and play back mouse moves if you want. The macros are editable, so you can tweak them after recording.
I use the Northgate Omnikey Ultra, which gives me 12 extra function keys that I can use for macros.
I can't say enough good things about my Omnikey, which has been used pretty much every day of it's 15-year life. It gives me the best feel for everything but games that won't auto-repeat buttons (it's not good for fast, repeated hammering on the same key), and has a full arrow keypad instead of the nasty inverted-T.
The NTP daemon is normally used to interface with GPS clocks and to distribute time around a LAN. It never allows time to just jump. It always slews the clock.
This, of course, is wrong.
First, by default it steps the time on startup, with a default limit of 1000 seconds offset, but you can disable this limit.
Second, after startup, by default it slews the time unless the offset is greater than 128ms, in which case it steps the time. The 128ms value is configurable via the "tinker" command, but it is not recommended that it be changed.
I bought my wife a digital photo frame with no flash memory because it was cheaper.
It did have an SD slot, though, and I had to buy the card, but that still ended up cheaper, and that way it can display as many pictures as she wants...it's just limited to 2GB at a time (no SDHC).
It's also a whole lot easier, as she keeps the frame at work, and every so often swaps SD cards when she wants new (or different) pictures.
A packed EXE is nothing but data, and I don't think that data could really figure out if it was manipulated by program 1 (the anti-virus) or program 2 (the unpacker code in the file).
But, it is possible to use one packer signature that program 1 understands and uses to successfully extract and find no virus, while program 2 runs a slightly different routine that generates the virus.
If the virus scanner were actually monitoring the running of the EXE unpack, it should block everything (like SetWindowsHookEx, among others) that would allow in-process code exploits. Then, when an EXE is written to disk and an auto-run entry of some type (service, login hook, whatever) is created, the AV would detect it through normal means.
One big clue to this is to look at pricing where market share isn't being fought over. Business connections in the US are anywhere 2-4x the prices being charged for home connections. This is not a matter of higher utilization because these business connections are sold on the same terms as home connections with "burstable" bandwidth and maximum transfer caps.
First, why would you think that ISPs aren't fighting for market share with business connections?
Second, the reason business connections cost more is that generally you get a lot more. Although I agree with the amount of the price difference, my bandwidth is 24/7 guaranteed, with no cap on the total amount of data transferred. Sure, I pay about double what a "residential" customer pays, but all that really gets me is 5 static IPs, no blocked ports, and an SLA. In general, business customers don't have any of the limits that residential customers have, and that's why the connection costs more for the same speed, but that's not true with my ISP (Verizon FIOS). Residential customers get the same guaranteed bandwidth and no cap (not even a hidden one).
At my work, we also pay a fixed rate regardless of bytes transferred, have 24/7 guaranteed bandwidth, and have no cap. I don't know what residential customers of that ISP get, though, as I don't know any in the area.
In Windows, you can change the width of scrollbars using the desktop settings panel.
But, I do see what you mean, and adding "scroll window by dragging window contents" to all windows would be a nice option that would improve a touchscreen UI.
I think a 9" touchscreen netbook would bring down the price of GPS units a lot, though. If you can get a usable 9" netbook for
I'm continually surprised to hear that King didn't like Kubrick's adaptation; I thought he did a remarkable job in capturing and reinterpreting the novel, as you accurately describe a director's job to be.
The problem with The Shining was the casting, not the directing.
Like the Michael Keaton Batman movie, casting Jack Nicholson for the part of someone who starts out normal and then turns crazy is a mistake. You know Nicolson is crazy from the start. He has managed to convince people that playing a slightly more extreme version of himself on film is "great acting".
And, the lack of replaceable parts is one other reason why laptop sales are "higher" than desktop sales.
Although businesses most likely purchase pre-built systems that get counted in these sorts of surveys, there are many desktop sales that wouldn't get counted: any machine that is built from parts. No "whitebox" sales from local computer stores would get counted, and obviously people like me (who have purchased a pre-built desktop in 15 years) would also not be represented at all.
Laptops won't have this counting error, as there really aren't any options that allow someone to build their own.
For example, that data (if correctly gathered, is statistically meaningful, etc.) might simply reference the quality of the mathematics education the students received well prior to taking this CS class.
OK, but would people with quality math education be in the "consistent" or "inconsistent" group?
One of the things I ran into in school was that people with very strong math backgrounds simply could not fathom that "a = b" results in both "a" and "b" holding the same value and the value of "a" could change as a result. Many insisted that this just isn't possible, as although variables exist in math, for any given calculation once a variable has been assigned a specific value, it is then treated as a constant, and never changes.
Mod parent up.
One of the best learning tools (and most fun) was the way my algorithms class taught things. Basically, the prof graded partially by running "time student_code < dataset" and if you didn't use the right algorithm (O(log(N)) instead of O(N)), you would get points off.
He also used pathological datasets, so that a tree would devolve into a linked list, and you had to figure out a way to deal with such issues.
We learned about algorithms while also having fun programming.
I don't know if Linux or Windows has an automatic mechanism to schedule task priority based on processor caches, but the study didn't even mention Windows. Seeing that the scheduling and managing the caches are OS problems this seems kind of important.
I'm not sure why this article isn't tagged "duh".
It's pretty obvious from looking at the CPU graphs of my VMware ESX servers that their code does some optimization to keep processes on the same core, or at the very least on the same CPU.
This data is from a dual-socket quad-core AMD (8 total cores), which means a NUMA architecture, so running the code on the same CPU means you have faster memory access.
So, some commercial code that has been around for nearly 4 years takes advantage of the "discoveries" in an article published this month.
No, the en-dash is a legitimate character and isn't a Microsoft creation.
Although only modern browser support it, there are HTML entities that should work with most of the "Microsoft" characters:
For more information, see this page.
I'm not a fan of universal ID's and the like, but I am a fan of really strong penalties for impersonating some one else.
Yeah, if you're trying to get someone else in trouble with this trick, you're definitely going to run into problems with laws concerning fraud, forgery, etc.
But, if you are generally a good driver, you could use completely random fake plates to avoid speed cameras and not really worry about it otherwise. Unless you are pulled over for something else, cops don't generally go looking for license plate infractions.
Find another excuse to justify breaking the law please. Speeding is speeding, people who were caught speeding and given tickets, whether a policeman has given it out or an automated camera, get no sympathy in my book.
I don't mind that the police give out tickets for speeding...what I mind is the way the enforcement is generally abitrary, and has nothing to do with safety.
You should try driving on I-270 in Maryland sometime, where driving the speed limit is basically unsafe. The posted limit is 55mph, but I've never seen anybody ticketed for less than 65mph, and even 75mph is probably only ticketed a tiny fraction of the time. So, basically everyone is potential revenue, and the police can pick whoever they want. If enforcing the speed limit was about safety, then everyone driving enough over the speed limit that the error of the radar becomes unimportant should be pulled over. That would lead to the eventual slowing down of traffic on the road. And, the posted limit should be increased on all roads so that this is always the case.
This is why speed cameras are a horrible idea...because they aren't about safety, and even the governments admit it. What happens on roads with speed cameras is that the traffic flows at whatever speed people want to drive except right where the speed camera is, because the police ignore that road so that the company that maintains the camera will get enough revenue.
Any project that requires "significant overtime" is a project that was planned with unrealistic ideas of how much work would be required.
This assumes the overtime is free because the workers are on salary. If the overtime gets paid (even as normal hours instead of 1.5x), then it's possible the planning took this into account and was just willing to pay the price to get the job done in fewer calendar days.
Otherwise, it's most likely a company with employees who aren't able to get jobs anywhere else, so they can't push back against the unreasonable demands of management.
Big deal.
Right now, I've got a problem with a software upgrade where it has to convert the Oracle database to the new version. The conversion takes 40 hours on a database with less than 6 million rows because the code starts a transaction, updates one row, then ends the transaction. After seeing the actual SQL being used, it could be replaced by "UPDATE thetable SET field1 = field2 + constant WHERE field3 = anotherconstant".
I literally could not buy hardware fast enough to overcome the stupidity of these programmers, and it would be far better to pay a lot more money for the people instead. Unfortunately, this is not an in-house product, and I don't get to pick the programmers that an outside company is going to hire.
Even a drive with good wear-leveling quickly becomes one with bad wear-leveling in ordinary use.
Imagine a 32GB drive with a normal OS plus application install of around 15GB, then add in 5GB for mostly static user data (music they want to carry around, etc.). That means that you now only have 12GB left for wear-leveled writes.
The only way around this is to move into the "insanely smart" wear-leveling that will actually move data when the drive is otherwise idle to re-balance the sector write counts. You wouldn't want to do this during actual write requests, as it would slow them down even more than they are now. AFAIK, no SSD does this.
As an example, 150GB solid state hard drives are selling around the $7-800.00 US range on Newegg.com
I think you mean that 250GB SSDs are in the $700-800 range.
128GB (the closest I can find to 150GB) are around $250-350.
I can see it now...the new "rich white trash" with space shuttles sitting on concrete blocks in the front yard.
You can't drink water or juice? You're actually claiming that you are forced to drink regular soda. You somehow suffer without it. Seriously?
Yes, seriously.
Pick something that you consume a lot more of than the majority of the population (high-speed internet...we'll tax you on each byte transferred, etc.), and replace that with "regular soda" in your argument.
Once enough people stop drinking sugared beverages, then the government will have to put a tax on the "diet" ones to make up for the tax shortfall. Taxing non-diet soda is just another "what 'for the good of the children/fat people/whatever' reason can we use to get more tax money?" plan.
Basically, you try to convince all the people who "won't be impacted by the tax" to vote for it (or to vote for the representatives who implemented it). Then, you can get all the people impacted by this tax to vote for the "diet soda tax", because it will even things out.
These same shops charge Customers $90-$120.00 an hour for IT work, and then pay the IT guy $19.00 an hour POCKETING The huge profits.
Although I'm sure that some companies have this much disparity between their billing rate and the employee pay, it's got to be the execption rather than the rule.
My company bills me out for between $100-120/hour, and my salary is about $50/hour. Add in the benefits they pay (between $10-15/hour), my share of rent and utilities for the building, the hardware they provide for me to do the work, etc., and although they certainly are making a profit, it's not nearly as much as you might think.