Murdoch comes off as someone facing a culture shock and has no interest in trying to adapt. I don't know why Google doesn't just do a preemptive strike and drop them from the search engine. This has the other effect of making people using Google toolbar think the site doesn't exist. They could always point to a DMCA style take down page and then offer alternative news sources.
We could always start putting Murdoch's site in red, using the WOT tool;)
If I don't care about performance I can already write in Perl, Awk, Python, Tcl, or something. Why do I want to put up with Java?
Well maybe what we could use instead in C byte code, or some other form of byte code, and then have on the JIT low-level compilations.
My first reaction to FatELF was that it is a good idea, since it works on the Mac. After listening to the issues people bring up with the large selection of CPU architectures I can understand this issue. On the other hand, why not allow ELF to support multiple architectures and let the 'market' decide if they want it? In a worst case scenario, it is just minor over-head that doesn't really impact anything.
I'm only allowed to use 70% of the bandwidth that I pay for... for less than 15 minutes? Otherwise I can use as much as I want as long as I stay below half?
Now we will be seeing a new settings in P2P applications, called burst mode:
- maximum bandwidth for time period
- time period length, in seconds.
Are you one of those sites which is totally broken with anything but IE? I am joking, but in reality the visitors you get depend on what market you are targeting, or at least attracting, and whether you site works with all the browsers listed.
A few years back there were many sites that weren't usable unless you had IE. If you were using one of the other browsers then either you had to dig out IE, or move on to the next site. Happily I see this less and less.
From a web development point of view IE is a bitch, since each version breaks web specifications in different ways. The number of times I have had to implement IE specific hacks is just not funny.
The Sheeva plug is something I have looked at and I am still tempted to get.
The other solution I have in place is a Mac mini with the Airport Extreme. The interesting thing with this combination is that the computer can sleep when not in use and the Airport Extreme can wake it up when there is traffic for the Mac's IP address. The solution can even be made to work wirelessly. This works with Snow Leopard (MacOS X 10.6), but I would interested to know whether this solution can work with Linux and possibly another router?
I was unaware that listening to the radio in a cubicle was taxable. I was under the impression advertising paid for the radio, and the stations already paid for a license to broadcast.
The real question is whether anyone tried arguing this in court?
I know it was meant as a joke, but moving to colder climates may not be such a bad idea. Moving to a northern country such as Canada or Norway, you would benefit from the colder outside temperature, in the winter, to keep the servers cool and then any heat produced could be funnelled to keeping nearby buildings warm. The real challenge will be keeping any humidity out, but considering how dry the air during the winters can get there it may not be any issue.
All this said and done, trying to work out the sweet spot between not cooling a room to save energy and not having the server fans turn on is important. I would be curious to know if there are any solutions that allow the system temperature monitors to be linked into a central system, which is then linked to the room's climate control system exist?
If companies are keeping eBook prices around the same price as their printed counter part, it is probably because they don't want to risk undercutting the printed media. Also, while people accept to buy eBooks at the price offered, they have have no incentive to lower prices. Generally you you only want to lower prices if the target market is not buying.
From a consumer point of view, the printed version can work out to be cheaper, since you still have the possibility to sell it second hand or exchange it for another book. If you never lend or sell the book, then it probably works out to be the same price as the electronic version.
Given the growing size of TV screens, they are going to outpace CRTs for power consumption, if they haven't already. A few people using such power hungry screens is not an issue, but when everyone does then suddenly out power sources aren't up to the task.
Any restriction is going to have be in the form of a ratio, that can easily be evolved as technology evolves. For example with TV screens (or even monitors) it would be something of the form of Watts/Pixel or Watts/Square Inch and lights it would be Watts/Lumens. I would like to see TV screen specifications specifying both the watts/pixel and the total power usage for an hour. The watts/pixel would represent the total power usage of a pixel for the size of the TV, so that if you added up the number of pixels in the TV they would equals the rated total power usage. The idea here is that for a matching technology both large and small screen should be consistent with power usage per pixel, with only the total wattage changing due to pixel count. Actually maybe it be both watts/pixel and watts/square inch to avoid manufacturers cheating.
Use whatever value of 'n' you wish, but the truth is there is some software that will have a higher piracy rate. If a piece of software is affordable, and useful, then you will have plenty of people buying it. On the other hand if you have to pay $500+ (USD), then expect non-business users to be pirating the software. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if this is that what some of the publishers do, since anyone using the software at home will want to be using it as their job.
One piece of software that comes to mind is Photoshop, uh I mean Creative Studio, which includes Photoshop. When you consider that it is more expensive than the average home computer (or at least price compatible), then it is hardly surprising that there is Piracy. Some thing goes for Catia, which would require someone to mortgage their house just for a one year license.
Yes there is piracy, but we should first try to understand why certain software is pirated, and in what context.
Ensuring there is a reasonable limit on the amount of data you can download will ensure that those looking for a free lunch will limit their download. Heck, its not as if they can go elsewhere. People wanting to download more than say 20GB a month should be offered options, such as:
- throttling
- cut off until next billing cycle
- paying extra Being able to choose your penalty should provide the network neutrality option, with an acceptance of your personal limits.
Additionally building more wi-fi access points will help offload data onto infrastructure that was designed for it.
i never quite understood how fees can be hidden... do they sneak into your apartment and take the CA$H hidden by the XYZ fairy under your pillow, or something?
Generally if it wasn't mentioned in the literature provided or it was only in the small print, then its is considered 'hidden' since you had to look for it to find out.
I think IPv6 is going to end up as another VCD (Video CD). That is, a pre-mature solution that won't ever actually see wide-scale adoption, but will merely fill the space until the _real_ solution is invented (out of genuine necessity).. which will probably be widely adopted quite quickly.
It will only be another VCD if another technology comes in and trumps it. In the case of VCD it was trumped by DVD, because which ever way you look at it there was always a need for something better than VHS. In the case of IPv6 it provides solutions to the problems we have today. The problem we have are people trying to implement IPv6 solution using approaches designed for IPv4, such as NAT or DHCPv6, or just aren't waking up and smelling the coffee. Its not happening faster because many people don't want to put the time or effort into it. If you are upgrading hardware, why not make sure that IPv6 is basic functionality that you can activate when your upstream provider provides it.
If you look around implementing IPv6 is not complicated, but it is complicated while important parties are playing their part.
I have been using IPv6 for the past two years and have learnt about it. What I have learnt is that in North America we are dragging out feet big time and the only workaround is using IPv6 tunnels. I have used a mixture of Teredo, SixXS, Freenet6 and the Apple Airport Extreme, depending on where I am. One thing that surprised me is that IPSec was originally an IPv6 technology 'back ported' to IPv4. In France Free.fr already provides IPv6 to its customers and apparently used this technology to make it happen:
I think they probably just have a policy in place, in which if they break your console they take responsibility. This is what I would expect from any company. Now, refusing to repair a console where the software has been modified in an unauthorized way, well that simply depends on their licensing and local laws.
I think the other thing that needs to change, beyond the price to the consumer, is the price and accessibility to the developer. The iPhone makes developing games affordable without knowledge sapping NDAs (yes the iPhone did have it a the start) and without high access costs. Yes there probably is a lot of 'crap' on the iPhone, but at least that crap is affordable and the ratings give you a good idea of the quality. This would help bring more developers into the fold, even if it does break the current business model of focusing on a small number of games developers.
I use a Wii at home, and after using the iPhone I feel the following needs to happen:
- Do away with those stupid friend codes
- Improve the Wii Store experience, even providing a web based UI for purchasing the software
- Improve the UI of the Wii Store, to make it easier to browse the large catalogue
Granted, actually. I'm not even 100% certain that the baby-shaker app was remote-nuked. Regardless, the ability is there.
In certain cases it could be useful and could protect the customers. On the other hand, using it for the wrong reason or at least one that is questionable would be very dangerous and would likely trigger an outside, government led, investigation into the reasons.
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Murdoch comes off as someone facing a culture shock and has no interest in trying to adapt. I don't know why Google doesn't just do a preemptive strike and drop them from the search engine. This has the other effect of making people using Google toolbar think the site doesn't exist. They could always point to a DMCA style take down page and then offer alternative news sources.
We could always start putting Murdoch's site in red, using the WOT tool ;)
If I don't care about performance I can already write in Perl, Awk, Python, Tcl, or something. Why do I want to put up with Java?
Well maybe what we could use instead in C byte code, or some other form of byte code, and then have on the JIT low-level compilations.
My first reaction to FatELF was that it is a good idea, since it works on the Mac. After listening to the issues people bring up with the large selection of CPU architectures I can understand this issue. On the other hand, why not allow ELF to support multiple architectures and let the 'market' decide if they want it? In a worst case scenario, it is just minor over-head that doesn't really impact anything.
I'm only allowed to use 70% of the bandwidth that I pay for... for less than 15 minutes? Otherwise I can use as much as I want as long as I stay below half?
Now we will be seeing a new settings in P2P applications, called burst mode:
- maximum bandwidth for time period
- time period length, in seconds.
Are you one of those sites which is totally broken with anything but IE? I am joking, but in reality the visitors you get depend on what market you are targeting, or at least attracting, and whether you site works with all the browsers listed.
A few years back there were many sites that weren't usable unless you had IE. If you were using one of the other browsers then either you had to dig out IE, or move on to the next site. Happily I see this less and less.
From a web development point of view IE is a bitch, since each version breaks web specifications in different ways. The number of times I have had to implement IE specific hacks is just not funny.
This begs the questions:
- is a letter private?
- does this augment the legitimacy of encrypting your e-mail, even if you having nothing to hide?
Two hours? It's just a CD isn't it? That takes 18 minutes on my slow connection here. Tops.
I was thinking DVD, and was being generous. 2 hours is still an order of magnitude less that 2-4 weeks.
The Sheeva plug is something I have looked at and I am still tempted to get.
The other solution I have in place is a Mac mini with the Airport Extreme. The interesting thing with this combination is that the computer can sleep when not in use and the Airport Extreme can wake it up when there is traffic for the Mac's IP address. The solution can even be made to work wirelessly. This works with Snow Leopard (MacOS X 10.6), but I would interested to know whether this solution can work with Linux and possibly another router?
I just used the torrents. This way I get a disk in under two hours and shared the bandwidth.
This all begs the question, when are we going to send a moon rover to study it more depth?
I was unaware that listening to the radio in a cubicle was taxable. I was under the impression advertising paid for the radio, and the stations already paid for a license to broadcast.
The real question is whether anyone tried arguing this in court?
I know it was meant as a joke, but moving to colder climates may not be such a bad idea. Moving to a northern country such as Canada or Norway, you would benefit from the colder outside temperature, in the winter, to keep the servers cool and then any heat produced could be funnelled to keeping nearby buildings warm. The real challenge will be keeping any humidity out, but considering how dry the air during the winters can get there it may not be any issue.
All this said and done, trying to work out the sweet spot between not cooling a room to save energy and not having the server fans turn on is important. I would be curious to know if there are any solutions that allow the system temperature monitors to be linked into a central system, which is then linked to the room's climate control system exist?
If companies are keeping eBook prices around the same price as their printed counter part, it is probably because they don't want to risk undercutting the printed media. Also, while people accept to buy eBooks at the price offered, they have have no incentive to lower prices. Generally you you only want to lower prices if the target market is not buying.
From a consumer point of view, the printed version can work out to be cheaper, since you still have the possibility to sell it second hand or exchange it for another book. If you never lend or sell the book, then it probably works out to be the same price as the electronic version.
See this page on Ars Technica for an explanation: http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/12
Ars Technica has a great explanation on Grand Central Dispatch (GCD), and how LLVM and OpenCL fits into the grand scheme of things:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars
Note: all links from same article, which is 23 proper pages long (not 5 line jobs).
Given the growing size of TV screens, they are going to outpace CRTs for power consumption, if they haven't already. A few people using such power hungry screens is not an issue, but when everyone does then suddenly out power sources aren't up to the task.
Any restriction is going to have be in the form of a ratio, that can easily be evolved as technology evolves. For example with TV screens (or even monitors) it would be something of the form of Watts/Pixel or Watts/Square Inch and lights it would be Watts/Lumens. I would like to see TV screen specifications specifying both the watts/pixel and the total power usage for an hour. The watts/pixel would represent the total power usage of a pixel for the size of the TV, so that if you added up the number of pixels in the TV they would equals the rated total power usage. The idea here is that for a matching technology both large and small screen should be consistent with power usage per pixel, with only the total wattage changing due to pixel count. Actually maybe it be both watts/pixel and watts/square inch to avoid manufacturers cheating.
Use whatever value of 'n' you wish, but the truth is there is some software that will have a higher piracy rate. If a piece of software is affordable, and useful, then you will have plenty of people buying it. On the other hand if you have to pay $500+ (USD), then expect non-business users to be pirating the software. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if this is that what some of the publishers do, since anyone using the software at home will want to be using it as their job.
One piece of software that comes to mind is Photoshop, uh I mean Creative Studio, which includes Photoshop. When you consider that it is more expensive than the average home computer (or at least price compatible), then it is hardly surprising that there is Piracy. Some thing goes for Catia, which would require someone to mortgage their house just for a one year license.
Yes there is piracy, but we should first try to understand why certain software is pirated, and in what context.
Ensuring there is a reasonable limit on the amount of data you can download will ensure that those looking for a free lunch will limit their download. Heck, its not as if they can go elsewhere. People wanting to download more than say 20GB a month should be offered options, such as:
- throttling
- cut off until next billing cycle
- paying extra
Being able to choose your penalty should provide the network neutrality option, with an acceptance of your personal limits.
Additionally building more wi-fi access points will help offload data onto infrastructure that was designed for it.
Wouldn't the circular version of the periodic table be better represented as a spiral to reflect continuity in sizes?
i never quite understood how fees can be hidden... do they sneak into your apartment and take the CA$H hidden by the XYZ fairy under your pillow, or something?
Generally if it wasn't mentioned in the literature provided or it was only in the small print, then its is considered 'hidden' since you had to look for it to find out.
I think IPv6 is going to end up as another VCD (Video CD). That is, a pre-mature solution that won't ever actually see wide-scale adoption, but will merely fill the space until the _real_ solution is invented (out of genuine necessity).. which will probably be widely adopted quite quickly.
It will only be another VCD if another technology comes in and trumps it. In the case of VCD it was trumped by DVD, because which ever way you look at it there was always a need for something better than VHS. In the case of IPv6 it provides solutions to the problems we have today. The problem we have are people trying to implement IPv6 solution using approaches designed for IPv4, such as NAT or DHCPv6, or just aren't waking up and smelling the coffee. Its not happening faster because many people don't want to put the time or effort into it. If you are upgrading hardware, why not make sure that IPv6 is basic functionality that you can activate when your upstream provider provides it.
If you look around implementing IPv6 is not complicated, but it is complicated while important parties are playing their part.
I have been using IPv6 for the past two years and have learnt about it. What I have learnt is that in North America we are dragging out feet big time and the only workaround is using IPv6 tunnels. I have used a mixture of Teredo, SixXS, Freenet6 and the Apple Airport Extreme, depending on where I am. One thing that surprised me is that IPSec was originally an IPv6 technology 'back ported' to IPv4. In France Free.fr already provides IPv6 to its customers and apparently used this technology to make it happen:
http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-despres-sam-03.txt
I think they probably just have a policy in place, in which if they break your console they take responsibility. This is what I would expect from any company. Now, refusing to repair a console where the software has been modified in an unauthorized way, well that simply depends on their licensing and local laws.
I think the other thing that needs to change, beyond the price to the consumer, is the price and accessibility to the developer. The iPhone makes developing games affordable without knowledge sapping NDAs (yes the iPhone did have it a the start) and without high access costs. Yes there probably is a lot of 'crap' on the iPhone, but at least that crap is affordable and the ratings give you a good idea of the quality. This would help bring more developers into the fold, even if it does break the current business model of focusing on a small number of games developers.
I use a Wii at home, and after using the iPhone I feel the following needs to happen:
- Do away with those stupid friend codes
- Improve the Wii Store experience, even providing a web based UI for purchasing the software
- Improve the UI of the Wii Store, to make it easier to browse the large catalogue
Granted, actually. I'm not even 100% certain that the baby-shaker app was remote-nuked. Regardless, the ability is there.
In certain cases it could be useful and could protect the customers. On the other hand, using it for the wrong reason or at least one that is questionable would be very dangerous and would likely trigger an outside, government led, investigation into the reasons.
Can't they just make it illegal to operate an electric car between 1 mph and 12 mph?
So you are suggest we should enforce the speed equivalent of subduction? Hmm, very interesting, just imagine the possibilities...
BTW anyone want to buy a Windows 95 laptop? It's harmless (mostly).
Bah, I am holding out for a Windows 3.1 laptop.