Doesn’t matter which one is “easier” to decode on the CPU, the biggest draw of battery power on the iPod is the hard drive. The smaller the file, the more of them will fit into the RAM cache, the less the HDD needs to be accesses, the longer the battery life. Complexity doesn’t enter into it.
I doubt it. People in general today are just far more ego-centric and driven to do dumb and/or unsafe things simply for their own convenience and/or lack of forethought. It just happens to correspond to advances in safety features. There are simply more people on the road, and proportionally more morons on the road.
University of Calgary's Mini University program was a day camp my sister and I did back in like 1984. I am happy it's still around to be honest:)
As a day camp, you got to go learn about different faculties in the university. Predictably, the math and science sections got filled up first, but I ended up learning about Linguistics, raquetball, and silk screen printing instead (even made our own bootleg "Ghostbusters" t-shirts!:D). I was disappointed at first when I didn't get the uber-geek section, but was quite happy at the end of the couple of weeks with the new stuff I learned. Ended up taking an Intro to Linguistics course when I did go to university years later.
The "safety net problem" is far bigger than that, indeed. Mostly, it's due to parents who would love to pack their kids in cotton boxes 'til they turn 18. Oddly, the same parents then kick their kids out as soon as they're 18, unprepared and unfit to survive in a world they have never seen.
Nope, it's worse: they still don't let them go, accompanying them to job interviews and trying to make sure their university profs are assigning them homework. Do a search on "helicopter parents" to read the true horror of what these morons are doing to their poor kids.
I can't stand the new plastic playground equipment. Back in the day, it was all metal, wood, and tires. Those were the best, because the tire "fort" could become anything we wanted: a fort, a ship, even the damn Battlestar Galactica if we were in a TV mood. Tire swings became spaceships.
I haven't used the optical drives in my MBP and Mini in years. I have used a FireWire external optical, since it's far faster and more reliable than either of the ones in the computers I hook it up to.
I heard some tinfoil hat types suggesting that lulzsec was actually fascist law enforcement types providing cover for legislation giving them more power to combat "cyberterrorism". They might be temporarily surprised, though they'll quickly rationalize that law enforcement just needed some fall guys.
Every Anon/LulzSec story on Ars Technica has had posts claiming there's a "false flag" operation at work, and this was the work of the FBI/NSA/your fave TLA. I seriously doubt it. But it's just the kind of water muddying that gets the consiparacy nutters going.
"Aaron Swartz, a 24-year-old researcher in Harvard University's Center for Ethics, broke into a locked computer-wiring closet in an MIT basement and used a switch there to gain unauthorized access the college's network,"
How ethical.
"Members of Demand Progress, a nonprofit political action group Swartz founded, criticized the indictment."
It was. Netscape up to version 3 had menu items that would turn JavaScript on and off, and images on and off. For NS4 those were buried in the settings dialog, and were therefore not easily switched on the fly.
I dunno about that. The first few times I saw goo.gl addresses, I assumed they were for phishing. I still second guess them because it's easy to poison the URL.
They are a good thing in a good number of circumstances. The beef I have is that now sites are using custom URL shorteners on links back to their own site! Hell, I saw one yesterday that's a WordPress plug-in, providing short links to other entires on the same friggin' blog. WTF is the point? A competent blogger/writer is going to put the link on the related words and not just dump a URL.
The National Post has natpo.st, Ars Technica has (IIRC) arst.ch (not even with an 'e'). Now THAT is a solution without a problem.
Motorbikes are perfectly safe on highways with big rigs, the rider just has to give a wider berth when passing to not get caught in the dirty air. My 31 year old 400cc Honda keeps up fine on the highways up to 120km/h, it's right in the power band.
But as with cars, it's the unsafe morons who make it hell for everyone around them.
A bicyclist running a stop light, (which technically he can't even trigger because he doesn't give off a large enough magnetic field to trigger the light,) isn't likely to kill someone, even if he causes an accident..
Granted, 100% of my cycling these days is within city limits, but I’ve yet to come across an actual stop light that didn’t have a pedestrian crossing button as well. Roll over, push the walk button, light changes sooner, go across.
I think it's a lot of things, some big, some small, that just make it harder. Start with plain ol' brain drain: the best and brightest are magnets for recruitment from the US and elsewhere, so we already lose a bunch right off the top. The ones that stay face overwhelming competition, primarily from the US, so it's hard to get a toe-hold in their own country simply because the market is so much smaller. I'm not sure what the VC scene is here, so I have no ideas about that particular area. I'm sure there's a lot of red tape and regulations that make it harder for small shops to thrive, so that hardly helps the entrepreneurs of the Great White North.
I know more from the music side of things.You could make a living being a working & touring musician in Canada, but unless you really broke into the US (with ~10x the market size), you'd never really make it "big."
As for Nortel, they screwed the pooch buying Bay Networks. Too much debt and no profit will kill any company, regardless of the location.
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Hell, "Avatar" had subtitles for when the Naboo were on screen talking in their native tongue. Of course, using a crappy font didn't help either.
Doesn’t matter which one is “easier” to decode on the CPU, the biggest draw of battery power on the iPod is the hard drive. The smaller the file, the more of them will fit into the RAM cache, the less the HDD needs to be accesses, the longer the battery life. Complexity doesn’t enter into it.
I doubt it. People in general today are just far more ego-centric and driven to do dumb and/or unsafe things simply for their own convenience and/or lack of forethought. It just happens to correspond to advances in safety features. There are simply more people on the road, and proportionally more morons on the road.
University of Calgary's Mini University program was a day camp my sister and I did back in like 1984. I am happy it's still around to be honest :)
As a day camp, you got to go learn about different faculties in the university. Predictably, the math and science sections got filled up first, but I ended up learning about Linguistics, raquetball, and silk screen printing instead (even made our own bootleg "Ghostbusters" t-shirts! :D). I was disappointed at first when I didn't get the uber-geek section, but was quite happy at the end of the couple of weeks with the new stuff I learned. Ended up taking an Intro to Linguistics course when I did go to university years later.
The "safety net problem" is far bigger than that, indeed. Mostly, it's due to parents who would love to pack their kids in cotton boxes 'til they turn 18. Oddly, the same parents then kick their kids out as soon as they're 18, unprepared and unfit to survive in a world they have never seen.
Nope, it's worse: they still don't let them go, accompanying them to job interviews and trying to make sure their university profs are assigning them homework. Do a search on "helicopter parents" to read the true horror of what these morons are doing to their poor kids.
I can't stand the new plastic playground equipment. Back in the day, it was all metal, wood, and tires. Those were the best, because the tire "fort" could become anything we wanted: a fort, a ship, even the damn Battlestar Galactica if we were in a TV mood. Tire swings became spaceships.
FireWire and Bluetooth address two completely different use cases. I don't think anyone's clamouring for a Bluetooth hard drive.
I haven't used the optical drives in my MBP and Mini in years. I have used a FireWire external optical, since it's far faster and more reliable than either of the ones in the computers I hook it up to.
Great. Now define "fun."
The igloo is a lie.
I heard some tinfoil hat types suggesting that lulzsec was actually fascist law enforcement types providing cover for legislation giving them more power to combat "cyberterrorism". They might be temporarily surprised, though they'll quickly rationalize that law enforcement just needed some fall guys.
Every Anon/LulzSec story on Ars Technica has had posts claiming there's a "false flag" operation at work, and this was the work of the FBI/NSA/your fave TLA. I seriously doubt it. But it's just the kind of water muddying that gets the consiparacy nutters going.
"Aaron Swartz, a 24-year-old researcher in Harvard University's Center for Ethics, broke into a locked computer-wiring closet in an MIT basement and used a switch there to gain unauthorized access the college's network,"
How ethical.
"Members of Demand Progress, a nonprofit political action group Swartz founded, criticized the indictment."
Oh, really? No conflict of interest there.
It was. Netscape up to version 3 had menu items that would turn JavaScript on and off, and images on and off. For NS4 those were buried in the settings dialog, and were therefore not easily switched on the fly.
slsh.dt, the only URL shortener you will ever need.
I dunno about that. The first few times I saw goo.gl addresses, I assumed they were for phishing. I still second guess them because it's easy to poison the URL.
They are a good thing in a good number of circumstances. The beef I have is that now sites are using custom URL shorteners on links back to their own site! Hell, I saw one yesterday that's a WordPress plug-in, providing short links to other entires on the same friggin' blog. WTF is the point? A competent blogger/writer is going to put the link on the related words and not just dump a URL.
The National Post has natpo.st, Ars Technica has (IIRC) arst.ch (not even with an 'e'). Now THAT is a solution without a problem.
I hope Gatorade breaks out the lawyers soon.
The next step is to transition the slow learners to cooking, sewing and shop class.
Clearly. Knowing how to cook your own food, mend your own clothes, and repair your car or house is so declasse.
Yep, do both: blacklist the "bad" passwords, and add a strength requirement. Hell, all online services should have been doing this for YEARS already.
The Netflix services in question are US-only, Why would they need a "global perspective" on anything?
Motorbikes are perfectly safe on highways with big rigs, the rider just has to give a wider berth when passing to not get caught in the dirty air. My 31 year old 400cc Honda keeps up fine on the highways up to 120km/h, it's right in the power band. But as with cars, it's the unsafe morons who make it hell for everyone around them.
A bicyclist running a stop light, (which technically he can't even trigger because he doesn't give off a large enough magnetic field to trigger the light,) isn't likely to kill someone, even if he causes an accident. .
Granted, 100% of my cycling these days is within city limits, but I’ve yet to come across an actual stop light that didn’t have a pedestrian crossing button as well. Roll over, push the walk button, light changes sooner, go across.
We're Earthlings, we should blow up Earth things!
I think it's a lot of things, some big, some small, that just make it harder. Start with plain ol' brain drain: the best and brightest are magnets for recruitment from the US and elsewhere, so we already lose a bunch right off the top. The ones that stay face overwhelming competition, primarily from the US, so it's hard to get a toe-hold in their own country simply because the market is so much smaller. I'm not sure what the VC scene is here, so I have no ideas about that particular area. I'm sure there's a lot of red tape and regulations that make it harder for small shops to thrive, so that hardly helps the entrepreneurs of the Great White North. I know more from the music side of things.You could make a living being a working & touring musician in Canada, but unless you really broke into the US (with ~10x the market size), you'd never really make it "big." As for Nortel, they screwed the pooch buying Bay Networks. Too much debt and no profit will kill any company, regardless of the location.
No, but it's great for mining BitCoins!