At least in the US, it's the law that you have to use well-known and available methods to allow handicapped people into your place of business. For example, you don't have to provide access for someone in a ventilator, because that would be impractical, but you do have to provide access for someone in a wheelchair, because it's really not all that hard. The EXACT same principle should apply to the web. Providing access to the blind on the web is probably a lot easier than providing wheelchair access in a bricks-and-mortar store.
Between the network cable and the drive cable. USB subsumed many old-technology interconnects, perhaps 10 Gb Ethernet can replace SATA and continue the trend of decreasing the number of interfaces required on a computer.
Nobody is being duped but you, the rest of us learned about the area of rectangles a long time ago.
You can get widescreen displays that will do 1200 pixels vertically, which is enough height for just about everyone.
Guess what, 4:3 video is an artifact of celluloid movies and has no particular intrinsic goodness. Widescreen is a much closer approximation to the viewing angle of the normal two-eyed human (sorry, Leela).
I am too broke for a fancy widescreen display, but I simulate one with two monitors. The virtual screen is not even rectangular because the two monitors are not the same size. EVERYTHING works great. VNC, VMWARE, browsers, DVD player.
Widescreen rules for development. I edit code on one side of the screen, and I put documentation on the other side. I'll never go back.
The consensus so far seems to be that glossy is better if you have control over the lighting, say in your own home office (to avoid glare), and matte is better in environments where one has no control over the lighting.
Perhaps in California or Florida your argument might make sense, but this is Vermont we are talking about here. I grew up in that part of the country. There is an enormous sense of community spirit that cuts across town and even state (why isn't Hanover in on this?) boundaries. These are very small communities we are talking about here, so this basically IS a cooperative. You can see it in the way they share school systems, mutual aid for fire and ambulance support, snow removal, and the like. The towns already own their own infrastructure for water and sewer, and in some cases they own their own electrical power infrastructure. They do things for themselves and they don't need the feds or Verizon to tell them what to do. Owning and running their own computer network is not a stretch at all.
Imagine the car situation: you review Corvettes and Jaguars, and then you have to review a tiny urban car. You have to adopt a whole new set of expectations. The reviewers have not seen this breed of machine before. I think we should pay attention to reviews from people who don't work with high-end gaming machines and server hardware.
The kernel is just one part of Linux, and that's all this report covers. One might as well divine the direction of the automotive industry by dissecting a transmission.
This should be a homework problem in an early chapter of a good database book.
A few years ago I wrote up a little text-mode Java program in an hour or two that reads the barcode from a cuecat, and looks up the book using amazon web services. If there's no barcode or ISBN you can punch it in the title, etc. by hand. Then you punch in the condition of the book and where it's located, just a few keystrokes. If you just hit return it defaults to the previous answer to the question. All the data just gets stuffed into a SQL table. It's a very ugly little program, but it works great. I cataloged about 30 U-Haul boxes full of books in a few hours. To view or modify the data, just bring up the table in webmin or whatever query browser you prefer.
Stuff like this is trivial in SQL, and most of the tools are already written. Why work harder than you have to?
If the owner of a record store left it unattended while going to the bathroom, he should be liable for ever possible for each person who could have come in and duplicated all the records (using a super secret instant duplicator) while he was taking a pee.
30 miles north of here, GSM (AT&T!) phones won't work. No coverage at all. If you have car troubles, start walking. With no pay phones, you're gonna walk a LONG way. This is New Hampshire I'm talking about, not some remote jungle.
You can call pay phones dead when there is universal cell phone coverage. Check out the cell coverage maps available on the Internet and you will see that large parts of the populated earth have no coverage at all.
That's because the phone company has decided to give up on them. The phone company used to be pretty good about fixing broken phones, not any more. When they stop maintaining enough pay phones, they can manipulate people like you into thinking that we don't need them any more.
Good luck with your GSM phone in Northern New England.
None of what you say should matter in the slightest bit. He was asked this question and had to answer truthfully under oath. By your argument, all you have to do is ask the question and they lose their right to be anonymous, which is unconstitutional.
Our aging telephony infrastructure is a pain in the ass to Verizon, so they are pulling some crazy crap to totally destroy it, selling our vital infrastructure to debt-ridden yahoos who have no idea how to string wires in the cold and snow. We will be lucky if we even have dial-up service left by the time they are done screwing with us.
What are the security changes, in some sort of detail? The ChangeLog is completely vague. I know I can diff the code, but an explanation would be a lot better.
That would require our politicians to be about 100x smarter than they currently are.
How you gonna run all the extra power lines required? The NIMBY folks have their act figured out pretty good. Maybe we can string them over your house.
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You say "such a law" as if the ADA did not exist already. Why don't you read it before showing your ignorance.
At least in the US, it's the law that you have to use well-known and available methods to allow handicapped people into your place of business. For example, you don't have to provide access for someone in a ventilator, because that would be impractical, but you do have to provide access for someone in a wheelchair, because it's really not all that hard. The EXACT same principle should apply to the web. Providing access to the blind on the web is probably a lot easier than providing wheelchair access in a bricks-and-mortar store.
Between the network cable and the drive cable. USB subsumed many old-technology interconnects, perhaps 10 Gb Ethernet can replace SATA and continue the trend of decreasing the number of interfaces required on a computer.
Terrible post.
Nobody is being duped but you, the rest of us learned about the area of rectangles a long time ago.
You can get widescreen displays that will do 1200 pixels vertically, which is enough height for just about everyone.
Guess what, 4:3 video is an artifact of celluloid movies and has no particular intrinsic goodness. Widescreen is a much closer approximation to the viewing angle of the normal two-eyed human (sorry, Leela).
I am too broke for a fancy widescreen display, but I simulate one with two monitors. The virtual screen is not even rectangular because the two monitors are not the same size. EVERYTHING works great. VNC, VMWARE, browsers, DVD player.
Widescreen rules for development. I edit code on one side of the screen, and I put documentation on the other side. I'll never go back.
The consensus so far seems to be that glossy is better if you have control over the lighting, say in your own home office (to avoid glare), and matte is better in environments where one has no control over the lighting.
Perhaps in California or Florida your argument might make sense, but this is Vermont we are talking about here. I grew up in that part of the country. There is an enormous sense of community spirit that cuts across town and even state (why isn't Hanover in on this?) boundaries. These are very small communities we are talking about here, so this basically IS a cooperative. You can see it in the way they share school systems, mutual aid for fire and ambulance support, snow removal, and the like. The towns already own their own infrastructure for water and sewer, and in some cases they own their own electrical power infrastructure. They do things for themselves and they don't need the feds or Verizon to tell them what to do. Owning and running their own computer network is not a stretch at all.
Your argument holds no water at all. Sales transactions have been conducted remotely via the mails since before the founding of our country.
Imagine the car situation: you review Corvettes and Jaguars, and then you have to review a tiny urban car. You have to adopt a whole new set of expectations. The reviewers have not seen this breed of machine before. I think we should pay attention to reviews from people who don't work with high-end gaming machines and server hardware.
The kernel is just one part of Linux, and that's all this report covers. One might as well divine the direction of the automotive industry by dissecting a transmission.
The x86 architecture
The QWERTY keyboard
SATA (yes, folks, a serial version of the old IBM AT bus!)
Drive letters, DOS devices
Does anyone actually use the tar program for its original purpose anymore?
Use one of the new Hitachi 7200 rpm TravelStar notebook drives. Desktop-like performance, and only TWO watts average consumption.
The iPhone SDK contractual agreement say this:
Distribution of Applications created with the SDK is not permitted absent a separate agreement with Apple.
This was possible on a 7 MHz 68000 back in the day of the original mac. At 3 GHz he should be able to raytrace in Excel.
This should be a homework problem in an early chapter of a good database book.
A few years ago I wrote up a little text-mode Java program in an hour or two that reads the barcode from a cuecat, and looks up the book using amazon web services. If there's no barcode or ISBN you can punch it in the title, etc. by hand. Then you punch in the condition of the book and where it's located, just a few keystrokes. If you just hit return it defaults to the previous answer to the question. All the data just gets stuffed into a SQL table. It's a very ugly little program, but it works great. I cataloged about 30 U-Haul boxes full of books in a few hours. To view or modify the data, just bring up the table in webmin or whatever query browser you prefer.
Stuff like this is trivial in SQL, and most of the tools are already written. Why work harder than you have to?
Did you watch the movie? The dude made millions designing tamper-proof checks for the folks that he ripped off for small change when he was a crook.
it's better to earn a living as a security expert than as a computer criminal
Watch "Catch Me If You Can", this was obvious a long time ago.
If the owner of a record store left it unattended while going to the bathroom, he should be liable for ever possible for each person who could have come in and duplicated all the records (using a super secret instant duplicator) while he was taking a pee.
30 miles north of here, GSM (AT&T!) phones won't work. No coverage at all. If you have car troubles, start walking. With no pay phones, you're gonna walk a LONG way. This is New Hampshire I'm talking about, not some remote jungle.
You can call pay phones dead when there is universal cell phone coverage. Check out the cell coverage maps available on the Internet and you will see that large parts of the populated earth have no coverage at all.
That's because the phone company has decided to give up on them. The phone company used to be pretty good about fixing broken phones, not any more. When they stop maintaining enough pay phones, they can manipulate people like you into thinking that we don't need them any more.
Good luck with your GSM phone in Northern New England.
None of what you say should matter in the slightest bit. He was asked this question and had to answer truthfully under oath. By your argument, all you have to do is ask the question and they lose their right to be anonymous, which is unconstitutional.
Our aging telephony infrastructure is a pain in the ass to Verizon, so they are pulling some crazy crap to totally destroy it, selling our vital infrastructure to debt-ridden yahoos who have no idea how to string wires in the cold and snow. We will be lucky if we even have dial-up service left by the time they are done screwing with us.
What are the security changes, in some sort of detail? The ChangeLog is completely vague. I know I can diff the code, but an explanation would be a lot better.
That would require our politicians to be about 100x smarter than they currently are.
How you gonna run all the extra power lines required? The NIMBY folks have their act figured out pretty good. Maybe we can string them over your house.
It might also help if you learn to spell.
This is how OPEC will feel, if ever we get off our asses and start making commercially viable electric cars.
How's your perpetual motion machine coming? How you gonna charge those batteries? I hope you have a lot of hamsters.
Who's going to have the $$$ to spend on music when health insurance and energy costs consume your entire paycheck?