Since I am from Europe that whole netflix and hulu-thing is beyond me. Why do you guys want to pay for this? You have torrents, youtube etc. What's on netflix or hulu that you just have to see? This is just a question from someone not familiar with these products and not intended as a troll or whatever. Just want to make that clear;)
Because unless you do, you run the risk of severe copyright punishments, which can include removing your access to the internet. I know from personal experience the trouble that pirated TV shows can cause. There were several TV shows that had stupid delays on Hulu & I was not able to watch when they aired, so I decided to torrent them. I got a DMCA take down notice sent to my ISP, who promptly disabled my internet connection & refused to turn it back on for over a week while they made sure I knew what was happening(and because they are bonehead idiots who didn't know how to use their new DMCA walled garden). Until copyright laws are relaxed a bit we are stuck using crappy service that we have to be double billed for.
I completely agree. But will add something to your list. Hulu delay times. When Hulu 1st came out most shows had a 24h delay. Which was fine, because usually if you couldn't watch a show when it aired, you probably couldn't watch it the rest of that night anyways. Then they went to the 7d delay, which was annoying, but livable. If I missed the original airing of a show I could watch it just before the next episode, no harm no foul. Now most will have 8d delays, some even have up to a 2 month delay. Add in the fact that you can only watch the past 3-5 episodes of any show, and now you are back to watching it when it airs on TV, recording it or torrenting it(which can remove all ads), buying it when the next season comes out, watching it exclusively on Hulu, or not watching it at all. I know several people who have taken to that last route just because of all the BS that the TV Execs have decided.
Now I would pay for Hulu+ if it meant that I'd get ALL their shows within 24h of the original broadcast and have access to every episode from the current season. Beyond that, I'll stick with Netflix & my DVR+MythTV.
Maybe it is just the tinfoil hat person inside of me, but I wonder if there's more to it than just risk assessment. Consider the fact that each browser maker has a vested interest in preferential treatment by websites. ATM, the most hotly contested treatment has to do with how the website looks in a particular browser(ever wonder why Facebook runs faster in IE?). But as we move towards more standards compliant browsers, that area will be slowing diminishing(especially if IE6 goes the way of the Dodo bird). So what's next? What's going to drive users to use one browser over another, besides being pre-installed on particular OSs & devices? What about having special deals for those that use their browser? This becomes especially true if the browser maker also can control how the user finds a vendor's product like Google & M$ can. All it would take from Google is to put a vendor 1st in a search for a car loan and for the bank to check which browser for someone to get a better rate just for using Chrome.
Wired posted an article about this same subject, but they weren't as nice. They made it clear that the W3C tests catered specifically to the parts of the HTML5 standard that IE9 actually got right(and was coincidentally all part of Silverlight). Now those parts were the most used(video tags & what not), but in the other areas IE9 sucks just as bad as IE6 did at whatever standard was out when it was released. It appears M$ has the W3C in their pocket from the results posted.
I'm going to disagree with your assessment that just because he doesn't have an IT degree he will be unable to contribute to an OSS project. I've known plenty of people who didn't have an IT degree but were still damn good at anything IT related, including coding. He's not looking to contribute to the next Linux kernel or make improvements to the PERL RegEx engine. He's asking how can he contribute to what he knows, Math. And those kinds of libraries are more about the math(go figure) than memory management & code optimization.
What you are purposing is that the only people who would be qualified to work on the libraries he's interested in are those with a PhD in Math & CS, which frankly isn't going to happen. You might also want to check out the degrees that a lot of CS professors have. You might be surprised to find out that they all don't have CS degrees. Some even have liberal arts degrees.
The interesting thing about this article is how they calculated the digits. They broke the problem up into small pieces and had them calculated in parallel. This approach isn't something that's new or all the unique, but what is is applied to is. Most mathematical calculations are done in a near linear fashion, not in parallel. So for them to be able to do this is a big step forward in how we approach these types of problem in the future.
Of course I'm very interested in this since it seems I'll be doing something like it in the near future as part of getting my master's degree.
Well, the math that I used my TI-89 for as an under-grad(it is now an over-powered adding machine) was calculus & algebra. Beyond that, I probably would use something else.
Unfortunately I really doubt that MS will get back any of its market share, or at least not enough to make a noticeable difference. This is still great news. If what the reports say are true, and that IE9 is more standards compliant and supports HTML5, then it will make web developers more willing to use said standards & HTML5. I know a lot of companies won't use new tech unless there is a sizable market share that has access to it. Since IE is the default browser for the largest share of computers and MS will no doubt push IE9 out with an update, this will provide companies with the incentive to start using the newer tech that IE9 supports.
This of course doesn't solve the problem with people who won't or can't upgrade past WinXP & IE6.
This might work for most lower level or non-physics exams, but not for anything above the college sophomore physics class. By the time a student gets to the sophomore level an advanced graphing calculator is all but required. Yes, you can do all the math without one. But the math is so complex there is a high chance that you'll miss a problem on the math and not on the concept being tested. Not only that, the time saving nature of being able to skip or not worry about things that you were taught in another class(sometimes several years prior) greatly helps being able to get through the test with little difficulty.
At the same time, I've yet find any mathematical application that can perform as well or better than my TI-89, or is as easy to use. And it pre-dates SMS.
Well, then it's easy to get around. Just make sure all your IP packets set the 'lawful' bit to true. I'm sure that even if the applications you use forget that they need to do that, there will be ways to alter them as they pass through your router.
Have you tried GnuCash? I use it for my personal finance and I don't see why it wouldn't work for small to medium business finance tracking as well. It does have import procedures that will allow you to import your existing finance files and those you get from your bank.
Actually, I believe it has to do with memory addressing. Applications use a single word for memory addresses. Since each byte is addressable, you are limited by the size of your memory address. And a 32-bit INT has the capacity of addressing roughly 4 billion locations.
32-bit Systems
Actually looking at his wiki page, what he actually 'invented' is a way for wireless devices to have an "always on" email connection via Push Email. Unlike traditional email, in which the email client polls the server to see if there are any new messages, push email works the opposite. Since a smart phone has a steady network address, the email client can send new mail notifications directly to the phone and let the phone decide to download them or not. It was the application of this idea to wireless technology that NTP patented.
The new site is being accused of misrepresenting her views, which is exactly why it shouldn't be completely fair use to present her old site as they did. Then they can be accused of misrepresentation.
That's just it. With the ability to republish her previous website, they then gain the power to change & misrepresent what she said. Heck, I just did it, but unless you look carefully, can you see it?
I think what she is trying to prevent is past comments from being taken out of context or being changed slightly so that their meaning is completely different. Take for example a statement she says(ie "I think we should get rid of Social Security"), and follows up with why she feels that way and what she'd do in its place or how she would change it. Now what she said could be complete BS, or it could be a well thought out explanation/plan of action. All her opponents would have to do is eliminate the rest of her argument, then present it as it was on her original site. Now they have "proof" that she hates whatever they want. That's just the more ethical treatment, if they wanted to get real mean, they obviously could.
And before someone says that Reid wouldn't do that, just remember, this is the guy that wanted to get the health care bill pasted so bad, that he allows a prevision that opted his state(Nevada) out of it.
I had a physics teacher doing a demonstration for a Physical Science(beginner Chem & Physics) class where he'd 1/2 fill a coke bottle with Liquid Nitrogen, put the cap on, and before it exploded, put it under an industrial trash can so that nobody would get hurt by shrapnel. One day he took too long before he capped it off & put it under the trash can, so when it exploded it did so like a rocket. The top of the soda bottle broke through the bottom of the trash can. Needless to say, it was a clear warning that it's not just harmless fun.
This is direct response to that court ruling. The court ruled that the way the FCC had classified ISPs it couldn't enforce the net neutrality rules it wanted. By reclassifying ISPs this way, they can turn around and re-enforce those rules.
That's a bad idea. You want students at one university to learn the same thing as students at another university. And just because the material covered is the same, you'd like to make sure that they learned it pretty much the same way. There is already a large amount of variance in what is taught by different people. But there are also a large number of text books out there that are accepted as the standard for that topic. Every major university uses those books, and it insures that if you'd be able to attend one school for your undergrad, then another for your masters, and finally another for your doctorate.
If you have ever had to work on a piece of software with any level of complexity you'd understand how difficult it can be to try to include just.1% of the fringe conditions you have to support. I recently worked on a piece of software that was decently complex managing several many to many relationships. The first iteration of what I did was able to handle 95% of all conditions it was expected 100% of the time, and met everyone of its written requirements. But as it was used and those other 5% fringe conditions were presented it choked, and so things had to be redone. Trying to get that last 5% to work easily doubled or tripled its level of complexity. And this has fairly controlled inputs, unlike MS's OSs.
Due to the fact that it is nearly impossible for a beginner programmer today to develop a play worthy game by himself without a lot schooling, time, and patients, why not look at the type of games he's playing and see if there are any in that genre that have the ability to be modded. If he likes playing RPGs, have him take a look at Neverwinter Nights 1 & 2, which come with the same software that the Original and Expansion Campaign authors used. RTS, give him a copy of Warcraft & Starcraft and let him design his own levels and such. Platformers(ie Mario), if he has a PS3 then LittleBigPlanet is a good start there. These are just the 3 genres I am familiar with, but I am sure that there are other genres that have similar games that can be exploited for those that play games and would like to get into game development.
Actually most buildings in Texas are built where the basement is the most structurally sound part of the building. This is because the biggest 'natural' disaster are tornadoes. This is especially true of older buildings(like most government buildings). There's only one state run building I know of that was built any other way. It's one of the state backup centers in West Central Texas. They spent 2-3x the amount of a comparable building so that the top floor could withstand hurricane force winds.
They didn't do it because it was easy or economical, they did it because if you want to remain safe during a major storm, you head to the basement.
The home versions of Windows has NEVER allowed Domain joining. XP Home, Vista Home, and all the versions of 7 Home. This was the 1 major difference between XP Home & XP Pro.
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Since I am from Europe that whole netflix and hulu-thing is beyond me. Why do you guys want to pay for this? You have torrents, youtube etc. What's on netflix or hulu that you just have to see? This is just a question from someone not familiar with these products and not intended as a troll or whatever. Just want to make that clear ;)
Because unless you do, you run the risk of severe copyright punishments, which can include removing your access to the internet. I know from personal experience the trouble that pirated TV shows can cause. There were several TV shows that had stupid delays on Hulu & I was not able to watch when they aired, so I decided to torrent them. I got a DMCA take down notice sent to my ISP, who promptly disabled my internet connection & refused to turn it back on for over a week while they made sure I knew what was happening(and because they are bonehead idiots who didn't know how to use their new DMCA walled garden). Until copyright laws are relaxed a bit we are stuck using crappy service that we have to be double billed for.
I completely agree. But will add something to your list. Hulu delay times. When Hulu 1st came out most shows had a 24h delay. Which was fine, because usually if you couldn't watch a show when it aired, you probably couldn't watch it the rest of that night anyways. Then they went to the 7d delay, which was annoying, but livable. If I missed the original airing of a show I could watch it just before the next episode, no harm no foul. Now most will have 8d delays, some even have up to a 2 month delay. Add in the fact that you can only watch the past 3-5 episodes of any show, and now you are back to watching it when it airs on TV, recording it or torrenting it(which can remove all ads), buying it when the next season comes out, watching it exclusively on Hulu, or not watching it at all. I know several people who have taken to that last route just because of all the BS that the TV Execs have decided.
Now I would pay for Hulu+ if it meant that I'd get ALL their shows within 24h of the original broadcast and have access to every episode from the current season. Beyond that, I'll stick with Netflix & my DVR+MythTV.
Maybe it is just the tinfoil hat person inside of me, but I wonder if there's more to it than just risk assessment. Consider the fact that each browser maker has a vested interest in preferential treatment by websites. ATM, the most hotly contested treatment has to do with how the website looks in a particular browser(ever wonder why Facebook runs faster in IE?). But as we move towards more standards compliant browsers, that area will be slowing diminishing(especially if IE6 goes the way of the Dodo bird). So what's next? What's going to drive users to use one browser over another, besides being pre-installed on particular OSs & devices? What about having special deals for those that use their browser? This becomes especially true if the browser maker also can control how the user finds a vendor's product like Google & M$ can. All it would take from Google is to put a vendor 1st in a search for a car loan and for the bank to check which browser for someone to get a better rate just for using Chrome.
Wired posted an article about this same subject, but they weren't as nice. They made it clear that the W3C tests catered specifically to the parts of the HTML5 standard that IE9 actually got right(and was coincidentally all part of Silverlight). Now those parts were the most used(video tags & what not), but in the other areas IE9 sucks just as bad as IE6 did at whatever standard was out when it was released. It appears M$ has the W3C in their pocket from the results posted.
So the government is just doing what every other person does.
I'm going to disagree with your assessment that just because he doesn't have an IT degree he will be unable to contribute to an OSS project. I've known plenty of people who didn't have an IT degree but were still damn good at anything IT related, including coding. He's not looking to contribute to the next Linux kernel or make improvements to the PERL RegEx engine. He's asking how can he contribute to what he knows, Math. And those kinds of libraries are more about the math(go figure) than memory management & code optimization.
What you are purposing is that the only people who would be qualified to work on the libraries he's interested in are those with a PhD in Math & CS, which frankly isn't going to happen. You might also want to check out the degrees that a lot of CS professors have. You might be surprised to find out that they all don't have CS degrees. Some even have liberal arts degrees.
The interesting thing about this article is how they calculated the digits. They broke the problem up into small pieces and had them calculated in parallel. This approach isn't something that's new or all the unique, but what is is applied to is. Most mathematical calculations are done in a near linear fashion, not in parallel. So for them to be able to do this is a big step forward in how we approach these types of problem in the future.
Of course I'm very interested in this since it seems I'll be doing something like it in the near future as part of getting my master's degree.
Well, the math that I used my TI-89 for as an under-grad(it is now an over-powered adding machine) was calculus & algebra. Beyond that, I probably would use something else.
Unfortunately I really doubt that MS will get back any of its market share, or at least not enough to make a noticeable difference. This is still great news. If what the reports say are true, and that IE9 is more standards compliant and supports HTML5, then it will make web developers more willing to use said standards & HTML5. I know a lot of companies won't use new tech unless there is a sizable market share that has access to it. Since IE is the default browser for the largest share of computers and MS will no doubt push IE9 out with an update, this will provide companies with the incentive to start using the newer tech that IE9 supports.
This of course doesn't solve the problem with people who won't or can't upgrade past WinXP & IE6.
This might work for most lower level or non-physics exams, but not for anything above the college sophomore physics class. By the time a student gets to the sophomore level an advanced graphing calculator is all but required. Yes, you can do all the math without one. But the math is so complex there is a high chance that you'll miss a problem on the math and not on the concept being tested. Not only that, the time saving nature of being able to skip or not worry about things that you were taught in another class(sometimes several years prior) greatly helps being able to get through the test with little difficulty.
At the same time, I've yet find any mathematical application that can perform as well or better than my TI-89, or is as easy to use. And it pre-dates SMS.
Maybe they should hire Terry Childs, at least he won't let their network go down for something like this.
Well, then it's easy to get around. Just make sure all your IP packets set the 'lawful' bit to true. I'm sure that even if the applications you use forget that they need to do that, there will be ways to alter them as they pass through your router.
Have you tried GnuCash? I use it for my personal finance and I don't see why it wouldn't work for small to medium business finance tracking as well. It does have import procedures that will allow you to import your existing finance files and those you get from your bank.
I thought there was supposed to be honor among thieves?
Actually, I believe it has to do with memory addressing. Applications use a single word for memory addresses. Since each byte is addressable, you are limited by the size of your memory address. And a 32-bit INT has the capacity of addressing roughly 4 billion locations. 32-bit Systems
Actually looking at his wiki page, what he actually 'invented' is a way for wireless devices to have an "always on" email connection via Push Email. Unlike traditional email, in which the email client polls the server to see if there are any new messages, push email works the opposite. Since a smart phone has a steady network address, the email client can send new mail notifications directly to the phone and let the phone decide to download them or not. It was the application of this idea to wireless technology that NTP patented.
The new site is being accused of misrepresenting her views, which is exactly why it shouldn't be completely fair use to present her old site as they did. Then they can be accused of misrepresentation.
That's just it. With the ability to republish her previous website, they then gain the power to change & misrepresent what she said. Heck, I just did it, but unless you look carefully, can you see it?
I think what she is trying to prevent is past comments from being taken out of context or being changed slightly so that their meaning is completely different. Take for example a statement she says(ie "I think we should get rid of Social Security"), and follows up with why she feels that way and what she'd do in its place or how she would change it. Now what she said could be complete BS, or it could be a well thought out explanation/plan of action. All her opponents would have to do is eliminate the rest of her argument, then present it as it was on her original site. Now they have "proof" that she hates whatever they want. That's just the more ethical treatment, if they wanted to get real mean, they obviously could. And before someone says that Reid wouldn't do that, just remember, this is the guy that wanted to get the health care bill pasted so bad, that he allows a prevision that opted his state(Nevada) out of it.
I had a physics teacher doing a demonstration for a Physical Science(beginner Chem & Physics) class where he'd 1/2 fill a coke bottle with Liquid Nitrogen, put the cap on, and before it exploded, put it under an industrial trash can so that nobody would get hurt by shrapnel. One day he took too long before he capped it off & put it under the trash can, so when it exploded it did so like a rocket. The top of the soda bottle broke through the bottom of the trash can. Needless to say, it was a clear warning that it's not just harmless fun.
This is direct response to that court ruling. The court ruled that the way the FCC had classified ISPs it couldn't enforce the net neutrality rules it wanted. By reclassifying ISPs this way, they can turn around and re-enforce those rules.
That's a bad idea. You want students at one university to learn the same thing as students at another university. And just because the material covered is the same, you'd like to make sure that they learned it pretty much the same way. There is already a large amount of variance in what is taught by different people. But there are also a large number of text books out there that are accepted as the standard for that topic. Every major university uses those books, and it insures that if you'd be able to attend one school for your undergrad, then another for your masters, and finally another for your doctorate.
If you have ever had to work on a piece of software with any level of complexity you'd understand how difficult it can be to try to include just .1% of the fringe conditions you have to support. I recently worked on a piece of software that was decently complex managing several many to many relationships. The first iteration of what I did was able to handle 95% of all conditions it was expected 100% of the time, and met everyone of its written requirements. But as it was used and those other 5% fringe conditions were presented it choked, and so things had to be redone. Trying to get that last 5% to work easily doubled or tripled its level of complexity. And this has fairly controlled inputs, unlike MS's OSs.
Due to the fact that it is nearly impossible for a beginner programmer today to develop a play worthy game by himself without a lot schooling, time, and patients, why not look at the type of games he's playing and see if there are any in that genre that have the ability to be modded. If he likes playing RPGs, have him take a look at Neverwinter Nights 1 & 2, which come with the same software that the Original and Expansion Campaign authors used. RTS, give him a copy of Warcraft & Starcraft and let him design his own levels and such. Platformers(ie Mario), if he has a PS3 then LittleBigPlanet is a good start there. These are just the 3 genres I am familiar with, but I am sure that there are other genres that have similar games that can be exploited for those that play games and would like to get into game development.
Actually most buildings in Texas are built where the basement is the most structurally sound part of the building. This is because the biggest 'natural' disaster are tornadoes. This is especially true of older buildings(like most government buildings). There's only one state run building I know of that was built any other way. It's one of the state backup centers in West Central Texas. They spent 2-3x the amount of a comparable building so that the top floor could withstand hurricane force winds. They didn't do it because it was easy or economical, they did it because if you want to remain safe during a major storm, you head to the basement.
The home versions of Windows has NEVER allowed Domain joining. XP Home, Vista Home, and all the versions of 7 Home. This was the 1 major difference between XP Home & XP Pro.