Homegroups: Its a situation that many of us face. We have a domain controlled work laptop. We come home and want to access our personal media (now managed by libraries) and printers. This solves those problems, while keeping company data safe. Default printers change automatically, depenting on what network you connect to.
This is a depreciated and dead feature in Mac OS X. At first I missed it, but then, as the OS became more advanced, I didn't. The OS seems to take care of switching networks, etc, automatically. It connects to the 4 or 5 known wireless networks I use on wakeup, which also connects any media. The OS spools and prints to printers as they become available.
Math Input panel: It seems quite advanced, including input of hand/mouse written algebra and calculus.
This is a missing feature. Mac OS X has had grapher built in for a very long time. It is an indispensable tool. If MS can implement something better, for instance copy and paste to MS Office and Powerpoint. In my experience, creating equations and graphs in powerpoint is unreasonably difficult.
Magnifier: built in application to magnify a specific area of the screen and zoom in. This is similar to the capability enabled in XP or Vista in with Microsoft Mouse software.
The lack of universal access features on MS Windows is one reason that I consider it a toy rather than a serious business tool. It is good that they are now putting resources into taking this seriously. In particular, if such features are well implemented, it could be a significant competitive edge over *nix.
New Backgrounds: Sure, absolutely not important, but an interesting re-take on the current Vista background theme.
Another toy feature like the ability to change the background from a right click on the desktop. This is a clear indication of lack of focus in development, and lack of discipline the ranks. Just because something is simple to do doesn't mean that it should be done.
Improved Disk Defragment status: While it isnâ(TM)t as hypnotizing as watching the blocks move, Win 7 at least shows you defragement progress by section, passes, and percentage; which is a big improvement over Vista.
Why are we still dealing with disk defragmentation in 2009?
Lighter footprint: Netbooks, here comes Windows 7. Demonstrated using a 1ghz, 1 gig of ram. They claim theyâ(TM)re trying to reduce those requirements. Goodbye XP, once and for all.
This will be critical test. MS Vista failed largely because it did not work on hardware even a year old, and did not work on hardware at the expected price point. Add this to the problem that MS is losing the monopoly on laptop, and is not in a position currently to create a monopoly on the netbook. As is said, this will allow the replacement of XP.
Increased Support for multicore CPUs: A fully managed code, that is designed specifically with parallel processing in mind. *rumor*
Unfortunately such really cool features are seldom fully realized. If I were a cynical person, I would think this feature was a last minute addition to compete, at least on the spec sheet, with 'Grand Central'. If this a late addition, I hope that MS will do what it normally does, which is push the development at the expense of the usability and stability of the overall system.
Less Versions, SKUs: Word on the street is that theyre looking to reduce the number of SKUs involved.
We need two, maybe three versions. First, an stripped down OEM version that can be installed on the low price points PCs. A complete OEM/retail version, sold for say $150 retail or upgrade from the base OEM version for maybe $50. If MS still feels that playing games is the best path to success, a third uber version, maybe with third party extensions, can be sold to maintain the illusion that MS Windows is worth $400.
I use OO.org 3.0 and MS Office, not 2007. I am becoming increasingly happy with OO.org and see little need for MS Office.
As far as migration, in many ways OO.org does a better job with file formats than MS Office. In particular, I recently had to open a MS Office 2007 document(docx), and rather than getting the filter into MS Word, I just loaded in into OO.org. To put it plainly, I have no problem opening any files in OO.org.
On one hand, this behavior should be discouraged, though likely not though prosecution. We all know that there is a reasonable chance that when the couple breaks up, the picture will end up on other phones. It is interesting we don't tend to prosecute kids when we catch them having sex, even though in many cases it is statutory rape.
OTOH, these type of overreaction is not uncommon by the prude population, and family albums are not the issue. for instance, in some more uncivilized places in the US, children often unrinate outside rather than going inside. I recall one instance where a this happened, and a brother was helping his little sister with her clothes, the neighbors saw, and they went ballistic.
i hate to think the kids have to grow up in world where everyone is a predator, and security is so paramount, that no one really gets to be a kid. I grew up at a time and place where people would hurt you to get your shoes, but that did not mean we hid indoors or in big card afraid of everyone. No we still took the bus and explored knowing that most people were good, and most people keep an eye to make sure that nothing extremely outrageous is going on.
but given the number of weapons that have been sold in the past few months, and the amount of ammunition, I was under the impression we were talking about large scale para military forces, not the lone gunman.
I understand that gun stores are having fun raking in the profits by citing the end of the world and the end of gun sales, and the danger of having a non white person in an office that over the past few years have been given dictatorial powers, but really it is not that bad. the end of the world will either be here or not, and skills other than defense will likely be needed. while gun sales might be restricted, for instance the practice of selling gun to known criminal might be stopped, and waiting periods extended, guns will be available. While I agree that any registration is no great, and any restrictions not great, the reality is that average american would be a little jittery with thermonuclear devices next door. As far as the dictatorship, the conservatives are already working to correct that mistake made in the drunkenness of power.
An interferometer is a cool device. By splitting a single beam of light into two, we end up with two identical waves which can then be made to interfere to create patterns that can be observed with the unaided eye. The cool thing is that microscopic changes in path length result in macroscopic changes in the pattern.
One of the neatest applications of this is the Michaelson Morely experiment. A the time of this work, theory was going back and forth between light as a wave and light as particle, and at the time light was a classical wave, which meant it needed a medium to travel, like sound needs air or water waves. It was theorized that the universe was saturated with an aether to carry the light. IIRC, it was theorized that as the Earth moved through the aether, there would be differences in the speed of light based on direction the light is going. In this work, a light beam was split, made to travel in perpendicular direction, and the difference in speed measured.
No difference was measured. this implied that no aether existed. this implies that the waves traveled without a medium. This was quite a surprising result, and was the beginning of the end for classical mechanics. 10 years later we had quantized energy, 15 years later we had the photoelectric effect tell us light was a particle, and a few years after that we have matrix and wave mechanics.
electricity is uber expensive (thank you Greenpeace)
i am not sure how greenpeace makes energy expensive. This is supply and demand. If many people choose to move to an area where it is cold or very hot, and then build homes that are large and difficult to keep temperature controlled, then that is no fault except the idiots who do such things. Combine this with the upscale population who does not want power plants in the back yards, or coal or nuclear fuel moving through the area, then electricity is expensive. I don't think that 8 years of republican rule has been at the behest of greenpeace, yet we have no more nuclear reactors..
Something has to give. Either the people who can't afford the electricity should become fiscally conservative and stop buying stuff they can't afford, or allow the government to do what is necessary so that even people who are fiscally irresponsible can consume the huge amounts of energy they demand, subsidized by the fiscally responsible taxpayers.
Most people are very patient with MS. It is the cheap option, and what can one expect when one is buying the low cost option.
That said the issue is that MS has not learned from past mistakes. They released MS and 2000, the later which was no bad, but theyu charged for these even though these were beta for XP. Customers who were stuck with ME were just told to sod off.
Now MS Vista is released, in various incomplete versions, and forced onto innocent consumers just like ME. And, instead of putting out MS Windows 7 as SP3 or SP4, MS is likely to sell it as a new product, likely again in various non functional versions.
Yes, the issue is that Vista would not run on old boxes. It is also that Visa would not fully run on new boxes, at least not boxes pushed as Vista ready. From an IT perspective, all the cool stuff that would differentiate it from Mac OS X and *nix are gone, and all that is left is eye candy and features that are best suited for a toy machine.
to me the issue is not he application, but the data. for instance long ago i used an app names eudora was used for mail, then it began to move to a new license model, and I moved away from it. This was not an issue because the data was on my machine, and it was in a known format. The same goes for my move to OO.org from MS.
Certainly the use of such online applications should be used with the knowledge that that data may not be available. For video uploads, and one off notes, that is not a big deal. These services seem to be for data of minimal importance. But it is another warning to keep track of ones own data.
There are a couple really interesting things here. As mentioned, the assumption is that information is lost to the black hole, then hawking radiation, in which pairs of virtual particles form at the edge of a black hole, and then sometimes one of the pair manages to escape slowly facilitates the evaporation of the black hole. This of course assumes that evaporation rate by the virtual particles is greater than the rate of incoming matter, something that might be true when the universe becomes very large and black holes contain a large percentage of, for example, fermions. Under these condition, since information cannot be destroyed, the surface of a black hold must encode the information, and then release the information back to the universe through this hawkings radiation.
So the answer to the frequency question might be this. Because the information contained on a closed surface must be the same as the information contained in side a closed surface must be the same, this implies that the size of the fundamental unit inside the surface must vary, assuming that we are assuming the plank length to the fundamental unit on the surface. Assume, for instance, that our closed surface is a sphere. Assume further that the radius of the that sphere is r plank length units long. That means that the surface area of the sphere is 4 pi r^2 and the area is 4/3 pi r^3. This means that each square planck unit of the surface encodes r/3 units of volume. If we assume this volume is a cube, then the length of fundamental cube encoded in the closed surface in the a square of plank length the cube root of r, where r is the radius of closed surface, or so it seems.
To me this seems kind of neat because it show that information is compressed in a black hole, as the radius of the black is smaller than the radius of the universe. It also shows that as the universe expands, the amount of information held in a cube also is reduced, but at a much smaller rate. This would imply that the frequency would change in a black hole, and also over time as the universe expanded. This side length must have grown very rapidly in the early universe, and now must be a very small change, which would only be observed when matter is compressed to a black hole.
However, if the universe continues to expand indefinitely, the size fo the smallest volumes outside fo the black hole will be huge compared to those inside of the black hole.
I assume germany has laws that allow return of merchandise. If this is the case, return it. On can say that once a package is unzipped, then the EULA applies, but this has been a worlwide issue with the EULA. How many rights can you sign away just by opening up a package. Do I have to give my first born child to the company just because I install some software?
I suspect that if it was clear on any of the presented pages, I mean in clear large text, not hidden in the small print, that there was a charge, then perhaps there is a duty to pay. Otherwise I would treat it like anything else I buy and see on sale the next day, as long as I can return it in resell condition. Ask for price matching or return the more expensive product and buy the cheaper one.
I don't know how germany works, but if no money is asked for upfront, and it was not clear that money was due, then this is a case of fraud. While credit rating can be damaged by fraud, the victim can often fight back. For instance my bank once fraudulently withdrew money from my account and then fraudulently charged me fees based on overdrafts caused by that first fraud, I was able to force the bank to correct the original fraudulent behavior and keep it off my credit report.
Every ultra fundementatlist wants to control every action of every other person to fit thier own limitations. Everyone has to eat meat, or cannot eat meat. Everyone has to dress in a suit, or not.
What a vague law like this does is two folds. It allows such scumbags to control what is and is not allowed in public. It is ok for the taxpayer to pay for the distribution of the ten commandants so a certain christian beliefs can be forced onto the public, or for the public to pay for teachers to sit there and do nothing while students are forced to pray, but not ok for libraries to carry Harry Potter because it is profane.
Second, it allows scum bags to target people they don't like. You don't like the color of your neighbor, turn him in for exposing your kid to profanity. It is simple enough to do.
Just to get an idea if this was the purpose of such laws, or if I was being paraniod,I took a look at the SPLC hate group map. South Carolina has the largest number of hate groups in that area, about one hate group per 100,000 persons. In comparison, the reletively conservative state of Texas has about 1 hate group per 350,000 persons. I am not sure if there is a state with a higher percentage of hate groups.
Really this is likely just another effect of the seating of the soon to be current US president. States like this, and thier white population, has been courted by the republicans for 40 years, rallied by the fear of the person who looks differnt. Times have changed, but the fear mongering has lasting effect.
I don't really know why the broadcasters agreed to this. It was probably short term greed in that they would get more public space for free. Part of the deal for them having the existing analog spectrum was that they were supposed to spend significant time serving the public good. They did not.
I suspect that this will continue to push people away from broadcast. A new HD tv can make a sattilite dish seem practical, or the internet/tv/phone from cable postively reasonable. The reach of HD TV is not as great as analog tv, so many consumers are going to be pushed to other services, maybe stealing shows over an internet connection.
When this began, the world was different and no one could predict what the world would look like now. What the world looks like is the content that the NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, and CW produce is reletively minor compared to what the cable stations produce and what is released direct to DVD. It might be that we could lose these poducers without significant impact. Certainly the cable companies would be happy not having to carry these stations under thier basic cable agreement.
I would say this is dependent on your company culture. In many cases, if the work can actually get done in 40-45 hours a week, and the company is set up to be pretty much closed on those fridays, then this is good. Since many of us work 9-10 hours a day anyway, the extra day off is good. It keep us from working too hard.
I know people who work the half day on friday. For companies that are going to be open everyday, and active, and are not going to respect the full day off, it is a good compromise. Friday afternoon is still a better time to get personal stuff done than saturday.
To be sure, both these are set up to minimize the number of days an employee is absent for personal reasons. If it seems that they will not respect the fridays off, then consider that they are asking you to work a couple extra hundred hours a year for the same pay, if you are on salary. Also consider that having a job is good thing, and we are in a employers market, so this is something you may have to deal with. Unles you firmly believe in the 40 hour work week for technical workers, this seems like a good idea. There is at least one day every two weeks that is supposed to be yours, which is convenient.
I largely agree with this post. There are simple methods to get email. Clearly, the 100 minutes is there to allow students to get and send email once a day. There is unlikely any hope for the kind of constant on connection many students are now used to for the immediate gratification of causal internet browsing. Accept and deal with internet withdrawal. I sympathize. When I go on trips, though everything is fascinating, I miss not being to look up little factoids.
I suspect there will be little happening at sea. Probably the time one might need access is in port. Therefore I think the smartphone suggestion is good. The international plans are 50-200 a month. This would allow you to explore the area while on land, and save you minutes for when you are at sea.
I would state it a bit differently. Some schools, like state schools, have rules that will anyone with even a remote chance of completing school into the program. They charge a minimum amount of money to defer some of the cost of educating the students. Students with significant potential, and those with very limited means, can get scholarships so they can have the opportunity to attain a college education.
Because costs are kept so low, and because there must be a certain personal commitment if one is to complete college, the lecture hall style of classes is used. This is mostly for the freshman course aimed at a general audience, and mostly if the course was to be taught by a professor. Therefore my engineering, history, and english courses were huge. OTOH, my freshman calculus and physics classe has not more than 30 students.
As far as universities just wanting to take students money, that depends. On one hand, students can help a students get grants. But one student is just as good as another for such grants,, and the money from a particular student is not that significant. It is more a matter of the school holding standards very high, and classes very small, which will deny more student the opportunity of an education, or have lower initial standards while maintaining a willingness to expel students who do not rise to the standards over time.
In most cases, it is a simple matter of personal responsibility. If a student was raised with teachers calling home every night to keep the parent informed, even to high school, and the student was never allowed to learn to motivate themselves without the threat from a parent, then that student might have a harder time in college where they must motivate themselves. If a would only do work for teachers they liked, then such a student might have a hard time in college. No matter what is done,smaller classes, more access to teachers, the student has to decide to make the effort, especially something as rigorous as engineering.
That aside, something like this can help marginal students. It is fortunate that MIT has found the money to implement such a program. I am just wondering if we are pushing the day of reckoning for some people from high school, to college, to the workplace. It used to be that High school would indicate those that had minimum skills, and those that did not. Now with community college, and some colleges that provide excessive help tot he students, the college diuploma is not the guarantee it used to be. On really needs a masters. In effect, rather than taking one year of tuition, and telling the student honestly that they need to find other opportunities, colleges take many years of tuition, and student build up huge loans, only to discover in they workplace or the graduate program that they do not meet the standards.
What has apparently happened is that third parties have created iPhone Nano knockoffs in preparation for the Apple launch. This is evidently quite common. If once google iphone nano, there are many claims of phones in Asia that look like small iPhones, complete with the Apple logo.
It is likely that this person has mistaken these knockoffs for the real product, unless of course these are not knockoffs but advance merchandise. As mentioned, however, this would be unprecedented as Apple has never launched a product solely outside the US. It would also be unusual because the Asia market seems to lack gadgets with lots of features, something the iPhone is not. For instance, there is no way to watch tv on the device, other than a limited youtube.
What is interesting is the numbers, which indicate most people can't decide on who is actually in trouble. About 1 out of 4 respondents think Novell is in trouble, which they have been since MS Windows 3.11 for networks made their extremely convoluted product a absolute non player in the SOHO market. How many years ago was that? Almost before we SOHO became everyday market speak. Somehow they survive. Maybe in SCOX is allowed to spend all of Novells money on litigation, they may not be able to recover from that. In other words, 75% of the people thing they will be ok.
The we get to AMD, Sun, Citrix, Symantec, where about 1 out of every 6 people think these companies will fail. Certainly these companies have problems, but each has products that could keep or gain marketshare. Some mght be in trouble, again, those that align themselves with MS, such as AMD and Symantec, are at the whim of MS, which can be dangerous, but, OTOH, about 85% of the respondents believe that these companies will be ok.
Then there is VMWare, in which a whopping 89% predict stability. They might be in trouble if a traditional OS continues to be utilized as a base OS, rather than relegated to guest status. On wonder why one would want MS Windows eating up resources with IE and Media Player and all the other stuff that gets loaded in, when one could run a custom version of *nix and VMWare, and then run MS Windows as a guest OS only when needed. I am sure for many with enterprise licenses to MS Windows, running it might virtual windows might make sense, but 90% of the respondants indicate that VMware has the better idea.
One of the cool things that software can do is enforce policy. This is the one way that the software pays for itself. For instance, in accounting the software can be programmed to keep audit trails and prevents records from being erased, thus reducing the dependence on accountants Likewise, email software is often programmed, at least at the enterprise level, to automatically set appointments and set confirmation emails.
It is interesting to me how the computer is used less and less to enforce policies to help users that might make an occasional mistake, or discourage users that might want to commit intentional fraud, and more more to make jobs simply enough so that incompetent people can be hired to do a job.
The fact is that if a email comes from a send only address, then the server with that address should simply ignore all emails to that address. If a user is not supposed to be able to reply all, then the enterprise client software should not allow that functionality for those messages. Policy enforcement is nothing new. It is why enterprises pays for software. If employees are using reply all and crashing the system, that is management issue.
In any case, this is mostly a case of untrained managers who thinks everything is a nail so always uses a hammer. It reminds me when managers used to use spreadsheets to write letters. There are many ways to distribute information, and email is only on of the tools. Managers could, for instance, use instant messaging.
It is this way any time someone waves huge amounts of money at a job people think anyone can do. It is likely that some spammers make huge amounts of money, so why not me?
For instance, some football players make a lot of money, so families, schools, colleges spend huge amounts of money to get people a position where they can make this money. In fact, even if one only considers colleges that are regularly recruited, the expectation value of income for these players are minimum wage. Of course, they can make money if they have others degress or skills, but the expectation if the rely on the game is very small.
As mentioned, many people prefer a small income with criminal activity rather than an honest, if perhaps uncomfortable job. People also prefer jobs they think they can have fun with to jobs where they actually have to put a honest days work.
We see this with the Madoff case, where it is better to be rich and work at a dishonorable profession than honorable and not so well off. Why would Madoff, or his criminal kids, be more respected than a person who is on time and does a good job at McDonalds?
Of, if this is true, what does it matter? PR firms, lawyers, etc are not by definition bad. The lone crusader fighting evil is not necessarily good. OSS is not a battle of the little guy against the big corporation, where the little guy is triumphant. It is about the big guy pushing new technology in an effort to solidify it's dominance. The little guy was trying to use what it thought was good copyright law to fight the big guy. We fought the law and the law won.
This is also a classic case of history being written by the victor, so nothing changes there. It is a case of old tech losing value, and some old tech companies trying to maintain the value through any means necessary. Look at the car companies with their 100 year old internal combustion engine, complaining that those new fangled hybrid engines are cheating them out of their god given profits.
So as ambiguous as this case is, what is the problem with a little more ambiguity. Sometimes the big guys fight, and the little guy manage to end up with a small victory as well. Cynical would be wondering if giving IBM such power, and MS even more incentive to assimilate, modify, and destroy, is such a good thing, no matter how the outcome might have come about.
The idealism that groklaw would only be valid if it was the result of a lone crusader is no cynicism, but disgusting romanticism and melodrama. And the need to uncover the mystery, unmask those who vanquished, 'who is that masked women', is more of the same. Those of us who are cynical and jaded don't care.
Combine that with DRM on the video port and I say no big deal. Amazon already sells most of the selection of itunes with much less fuss. Not on the iPhone, but how many people really buy music on the phone? It is just a marketing thing.
This change is being made because Apple is likely loosing business to other online retailers, so they caved on the $.99 issue to get rid on DRM. Good for them, as I said a non issue for me. Given the availability of streaming on netflix, it seems hardly worthwhile to buy a movie off iTunes that may or may not be playable next year with current kit.
These functions that are only used once in great while are the devil to test. I think anyone who has programmed in any complex situation will have to admit to one of these silly bugs, and maybe even the bug going to production.
What I see here is a really convoluted piece of code to perform a really simple task. There are a lot of constants that are written as constants. If there a #define orginyear, the why not #define daysperyear and #define daysperleapyear. The first is used only once, while the rest are used twice.
In any case, the fundamental problem is not encapsulating data. This is quite a common error is code architecture. In this case, this function knows a lot of things it does not need to know. It know about leap years, number of days, and all this confuses the reader. They layout of the function already has the overhead of a fuction call, so why do we not let this overhead work for us by not returning the proxy leap year boolean, but what we actually want, which is the number of days in this year.
int daysperyear; for(;;) { daysperyear=howmaydaysthisyear(year); if(days>daysperyear) { days -= daysperyear; year++; } else { break; } };
In this case all days per year information and leap year information is encapsulated in a single function, and the top function does not need to know about either. This, I think, is writing quality into code, and not depending on QA to catch mistakes common to novice programmers. No guarantee this will work as is, it is just psuedo code, not even checking the logic completely.
The show was static, but the Tardis as a character certainly did not exist in the early Dr. Who. It was merely a plot device. In the first serial, I think we spent some time in the tardis in the second episode, with some exposition of how it worked, and a plot point with radiation.
Having not seen much of the first series, except in the excerpts that remain, and listening to the commentary, I believe the only serial that was an 'elevator episode' was the one that preceded marco polo, and that was because Marco Polo was going to cost so much money they needed a cheap serial.
Otherewise, it is my recolection, where they were entire series where we see little of the Tardis. In fact it has been remarked by Sladen that the tardis is much more pivotal in the newer episodes, and a much grander set than in her day. We can certainly see that it is much more intricate.
Which is the way it should be. As mentioned elsewhere, much of the show was quite static, shot and acted as a stage play, but with more locations. The power of tv was to get out into the world and make it look different. This is what they did. At least in the middle serials, they seemed to have a pretty good location budget.
MS does know how to fix an OS. The question is after 20 years why haven't they learned to put out an OS that works in the first place. I mean for the first several years of windows, fine, But after Windows 3.11 for workgroups and Windows NT, which were pretty good, why do they insist on breaking things and putting out crap? I mean what was the purpose of MS WIndows 98 and ME. To punish users who were unfortunate enough to buy computers during that time period. Was there some reason with 15 years of GUI development and 25 years of OS development that they still needed to provide customers with crap? And with five years to develop Vista, and all the experience with fixing Windows XP, why are they only now releasing in beta the product they should have released a year ago? And what with all the people who bought a Vista computer? Why is MS not releasing this MS Windows 7 as MS Vista SP 3. Is Vista so fundamentally flawed that they need to charge users $200 to upgrade? I mean, where are all the people that complain that Apple charges $100 for point upgrades?
And speaking of Apple, why can they, with a fraction of the development budget, deliver an OS that typically works. I know that they do not need to support as much hardware, but again, they also don't get a cut of every PC sold. It seriously has been years, like 1998-2001, since they have shipped a crappy OS. What was amazing is that after that, the OS actually ran fasted on older hardware than the older OS. I run everything 10.4 or 10.5 because it runs faster than 10.1-10.3. And all this was done while MS was trying to make Vista run at all.
When they release Windows 7, that will the time to buy a PC. If history tells us anything, it will work, the service packs will come out to make it even better. Users who wait too long though will be stuck buying some piece of junk. This if from the experience of a person who just missed MS Windows 2000 and was stuck with MS Windows ME.
I think they did the pretty boy with Peter Davidson. The companions, fortunately, have been more focused on interesting features rather than just pretty, though for the girls there is often a focus on cleavage and legs. Ah, recall Sladen in the gratuitous swimming costume on one of her early episodes. I think Baker was only definitive because she was by his side.
In terms of doctors, look at some of the original William Hartnell stuff. It was a different show, more classically inspired, more logical, less magical thinking and gadgets. It was interesting. The show changes as new people get involves, not only actors by also writers. For instance, the decision to destroy K-9 and get back to more thinking show, what if this happened, who would we react?
Clearly in the new incarnation, Dr. Who is falling dangerous close to the romantic dramedy formula. For some reason we are now given a tortured Doctor. Not sure why. But this casting may indicate that we may be in for even more teen and young adult angst, something that was previously reserved for the companions, and even then it did not work out wonderfully. How man of us loved Turlough? Or it may just be that they want someone who will stay awhile, and not be so expensive. The danger is he may not be any good, and may never want to leave. As wonderful as Tom Baker was, I think he stayed too long, and damaged the ability of the show to rejuvenate when another doctor replaced him.
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This is a depreciated and dead feature in Mac OS X. At first I missed it, but then, as the OS became more advanced, I didn't. The OS seems to take care of switching networks, etc, automatically. It connects to the 4 or 5 known wireless networks I use on wakeup, which also connects any media. The OS spools and prints to printers as they become available.
Math Input panel: It seems quite advanced, including input of hand/mouse written algebra and calculus.
This is a missing feature. Mac OS X has had grapher built in for a very long time. It is an indispensable tool. If MS can implement something better, for instance copy and paste to MS Office and Powerpoint. In my experience, creating equations and graphs in powerpoint is unreasonably difficult.
Magnifier: built in application to magnify a specific area of the screen and zoom in. This is similar to the capability enabled in XP or Vista in with Microsoft Mouse software.
The lack of universal access features on MS Windows is one reason that I consider it a toy rather than a serious business tool. It is good that they are now putting resources into taking this seriously. In particular, if such features are well implemented, it could be a significant competitive edge over *nix.
New Backgrounds: Sure, absolutely not important, but an interesting re-take on the current Vista background theme.
Another toy feature like the ability to change the background from a right click on the desktop. This is a clear indication of lack of focus in development, and lack of discipline the ranks. Just because something is simple to do doesn't mean that it should be done.
Improved Disk Defragment status: While it isnâ(TM)t as hypnotizing as watching the blocks move, Win 7 at least shows you defragement progress by section, passes, and percentage; which is a big improvement over Vista.
Why are we still dealing with disk defragmentation in 2009?
Lighter footprint: Netbooks, here comes Windows 7. Demonstrated using a 1ghz, 1 gig of ram. They claim theyâ(TM)re trying to reduce those requirements. Goodbye XP, once and for all.
This will be critical test. MS Vista failed largely because it did not work on hardware even a year old, and did not work on hardware at the expected price point. Add this to the problem that MS is losing the monopoly on laptop, and is not in a position currently to create a monopoly on the netbook. As is said, this will allow the replacement of XP.
Increased Support for multicore CPUs: A fully managed code, that is designed specifically with parallel processing in mind. *rumor*
Unfortunately such really cool features are seldom fully realized. If I were a cynical person, I would think this feature was a last minute addition to compete, at least on the spec sheet, with 'Grand Central'. If this a late addition, I hope that MS will do what it normally does, which is push the development at the expense of the usability and stability of the overall system.
Less Versions, SKUs: Word on the street is that theyre looking to reduce the number of SKUs involved.
We need two, maybe three versions. First, an stripped down OEM version that can be installed on the low price points PCs. A complete OEM/retail version, sold for say $150 retail or upgrade from the base OEM version for maybe $50. If MS still feels that playing games is the best path to success, a third uber version, maybe with third party extensions, can be sold to maintain the illusion that MS Windows is worth $400.
As far as migration, in many ways OO.org does a better job with file formats than MS Office. In particular, I recently had to open a MS Office 2007 document(docx), and rather than getting the filter into MS Word, I just loaded in into OO.org. To put it plainly, I have no problem opening any files in OO.org.
OTOH, these type of overreaction is not uncommon by the prude population, and family albums are not the issue. for instance, in some more uncivilized places in the US, children often unrinate outside rather than going inside. I recall one instance where a this happened, and a brother was helping his little sister with her clothes, the neighbors saw, and they went ballistic.
i hate to think the kids have to grow up in world where everyone is a predator, and security is so paramount, that no one really gets to be a kid. I grew up at a time and place where people would hurt you to get your shoes, but that did not mean we hid indoors or in big card afraid of everyone. No we still took the bus and explored knowing that most people were good, and most people keep an eye to make sure that nothing extremely outrageous is going on.
I understand that gun stores are having fun raking in the profits by citing the end of the world and the end of gun sales, and the danger of having a non white person in an office that over the past few years have been given dictatorial powers, but really it is not that bad. the end of the world will either be here or not, and skills other than defense will likely be needed. while gun sales might be restricted, for instance the practice of selling gun to known criminal might be stopped, and waiting periods extended, guns will be available. While I agree that any registration is no great, and any restrictions not great, the reality is that average american would be a little jittery with thermonuclear devices next door. As far as the dictatorship, the conservatives are already working to correct that mistake made in the drunkenness of power.
One of the neatest applications of this is the Michaelson Morely experiment. A the time of this work, theory was going back and forth between light as a wave and light as particle, and at the time light was a classical wave, which meant it needed a medium to travel, like sound needs air or water waves. It was theorized that the universe was saturated with an aether to carry the light. IIRC, it was theorized that as the Earth moved through the aether, there would be differences in the speed of light based on direction the light is going. In this work, a light beam was split, made to travel in perpendicular direction, and the difference in speed measured.
No difference was measured. this implied that no aether existed. this implies that the waves traveled without a medium. This was quite a surprising result, and was the beginning of the end for classical mechanics. 10 years later we had quantized energy, 15 years later we had the photoelectric effect tell us light was a particle, and a few years after that we have matrix and wave mechanics.
i am not sure how greenpeace makes energy expensive. This is supply and demand. If many people choose to move to an area where it is cold or very hot, and then build homes that are large and difficult to keep temperature controlled, then that is no fault except the idiots who do such things. Combine this with the upscale population who does not want power plants in the back yards, or coal or nuclear fuel moving through the area, then electricity is expensive. I don't think that 8 years of republican rule has been at the behest of greenpeace, yet we have no more nuclear reactors..
Something has to give. Either the people who can't afford the electricity should become fiscally conservative and stop buying stuff they can't afford, or allow the government to do what is necessary so that even people who are fiscally irresponsible can consume the huge amounts of energy they demand, subsidized by the fiscally responsible taxpayers.
That said the issue is that MS has not learned from past mistakes. They released MS and 2000, the later which was no bad, but theyu charged for these even though these were beta for XP. Customers who were stuck with ME were just told to sod off.
Now MS Vista is released, in various incomplete versions, and forced onto innocent consumers just like ME. And, instead of putting out MS Windows 7 as SP3 or SP4, MS is likely to sell it as a new product, likely again in various non functional versions.
Yes, the issue is that Vista would not run on old boxes. It is also that Visa would not fully run on new boxes, at least not boxes pushed as Vista ready. From an IT perspective, all the cool stuff that would differentiate it from Mac OS X and *nix are gone, and all that is left is eye candy and features that are best suited for a toy machine.
Certainly the use of such online applications should be used with the knowledge that that data may not be available. For video uploads, and one off notes, that is not a big deal. These services seem to be for data of minimal importance. But it is another warning to keep track of ones own data.
So the answer to the frequency question might be this. Because the information contained on a closed surface must be the same as the information contained in side a closed surface must be the same, this implies that the size of the fundamental unit inside the surface must vary, assuming that we are assuming the plank length to the fundamental unit on the surface. Assume, for instance, that our closed surface is a sphere. Assume further that the radius of the that sphere is r plank length units long. That means that the surface area of the sphere is 4 pi r^2 and the area is 4/3 pi r^3. This means that each square planck unit of the surface encodes r/3 units of volume. If we assume this volume is a cube, then the length of fundamental cube encoded in the closed surface in the a square of plank length the cube root of r, where r is the radius of closed surface, or so it seems.
To me this seems kind of neat because it show that information is compressed in a black hole, as the radius of the black is smaller than the radius of the universe. It also shows that as the universe expands, the amount of information held in a cube also is reduced, but at a much smaller rate. This would imply that the frequency would change in a black hole, and also over time as the universe expanded. This side length must have grown very rapidly in the early universe, and now must be a very small change, which would only be observed when matter is compressed to a black hole.
However, if the universe continues to expand indefinitely, the size fo the smallest volumes outside fo the black hole will be huge compared to those inside of the black hole.
I suspect that if it was clear on any of the presented pages, I mean in clear large text, not hidden in the small print, that there was a charge, then perhaps there is a duty to pay. Otherwise I would treat it like anything else I buy and see on sale the next day, as long as I can return it in resell condition. Ask for price matching or return the more expensive product and buy the cheaper one.
I don't know how germany works, but if no money is asked for upfront, and it was not clear that money was due, then this is a case of fraud. While credit rating can be damaged by fraud, the victim can often fight back. For instance my bank once fraudulently withdrew money from my account and then fraudulently charged me fees based on overdrafts caused by that first fraud, I was able to force the bank to correct the original fraudulent behavior and keep it off my credit report.
What a vague law like this does is two folds. It allows such scumbags to control what is and is not allowed in public. It is ok for the taxpayer to pay for the distribution of the ten commandants so a certain christian beliefs can be forced onto the public, or for the public to pay for teachers to sit there and do nothing while students are forced to pray, but not ok for libraries to carry Harry Potter because it is profane.
Second, it allows scum bags to target people they don't like. You don't like the color of your neighbor, turn him in for exposing your kid to profanity. It is simple enough to do.
Just to get an idea if this was the purpose of such laws, or if I was being paraniod,I took a look at the SPLC hate group map. South Carolina has the largest number of hate groups in that area, about one hate group per 100,000 persons. In comparison, the reletively conservative state of Texas has about 1 hate group per 350,000 persons. I am not sure if there is a state with a higher percentage of hate groups.
Really this is likely just another effect of the seating of the soon to be current US president. States like this, and thier white population, has been courted by the republicans for 40 years, rallied by the fear of the person who looks differnt. Times have changed, but the fear mongering has lasting effect.
I suspect that this will continue to push people away from broadcast. A new HD tv can make a sattilite dish seem practical, or the internet/tv/phone from cable postively reasonable. The reach of HD TV is not as great as analog tv, so many consumers are going to be pushed to other services, maybe stealing shows over an internet connection.
When this began, the world was different and no one could predict what the world would look like now. What the world looks like is the content that the NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, and CW produce is reletively minor compared to what the cable stations produce and what is released direct to DVD. It might be that we could lose these poducers without significant impact. Certainly the cable companies would be happy not having to carry these stations under thier basic cable agreement.
I know people who work the half day on friday. For companies that are going to be open everyday, and active, and are not going to respect the full day off, it is a good compromise. Friday afternoon is still a better time to get personal stuff done than saturday.
To be sure, both these are set up to minimize the number of days an employee is absent for personal reasons. If it seems that they will not respect the fridays off, then consider that they are asking you to work a couple extra hundred hours a year for the same pay, if you are on salary. Also consider that having a job is good thing, and we are in a employers market, so this is something you may have to deal with. Unles you firmly believe in the 40 hour work week for technical workers, this seems like a good idea. There is at least one day every two weeks that is supposed to be yours, which is convenient.
I suspect there will be little happening at sea. Probably the time one might need access is in port. Therefore I think the smartphone suggestion is good. The international plans are 50-200 a month. This would allow you to explore the area while on land, and save you minutes for when you are at sea.
Because costs are kept so low, and because there must be a certain personal commitment if one is to complete college, the lecture hall style of classes is used. This is mostly for the freshman course aimed at a general audience, and mostly if the course was to be taught by a professor. Therefore my engineering, history, and english courses were huge. OTOH, my freshman calculus and physics classe has not more than 30 students.
As far as universities just wanting to take students money, that depends. On one hand, students can help a students get grants. But one student is just as good as another for such grants,, and the money from a particular student is not that significant. It is more a matter of the school holding standards very high, and classes very small, which will deny more student the opportunity of an education, or have lower initial standards while maintaining a willingness to expel students who do not rise to the standards over time.
In most cases, it is a simple matter of personal responsibility. If a student was raised with teachers calling home every night to keep the parent informed, even to high school, and the student was never allowed to learn to motivate themselves without the threat from a parent, then that student might have a harder time in college where they must motivate themselves. If a would only do work for teachers they liked, then such a student might have a hard time in college. No matter what is done,smaller classes, more access to teachers, the student has to decide to make the effort, especially something as rigorous as engineering.
That aside, something like this can help marginal students. It is fortunate that MIT has found the money to implement such a program. I am just wondering if we are pushing the day of reckoning for some people from high school, to college, to the workplace. It used to be that High school would indicate those that had minimum skills, and those that did not. Now with community college, and some colleges that provide excessive help tot he students, the college diuploma is not the guarantee it used to be. On really needs a masters. In effect, rather than taking one year of tuition, and telling the student honestly that they need to find other opportunities, colleges take many years of tuition, and student build up huge loans, only to discover in they workplace or the graduate program that they do not meet the standards.
It is likely that this person has mistaken these knockoffs for the real product, unless of course these are not knockoffs but advance merchandise. As mentioned, however, this would be unprecedented as Apple has never launched a product solely outside the US. It would also be unusual because the Asia market seems to lack gadgets with lots of features, something the iPhone is not. For instance, there is no way to watch tv on the device, other than a limited youtube.
The we get to AMD, Sun, Citrix, Symantec, where about 1 out of every 6 people think these companies will fail. Certainly these companies have problems, but each has products that could keep or gain marketshare. Some mght be in trouble, again, those that align themselves with MS, such as AMD and Symantec, are at the whim of MS, which can be dangerous, but, OTOH, about 85% of the respondents believe that these companies will be ok.
Then there is VMWare, in which a whopping 89% predict stability. They might be in trouble if a traditional OS continues to be utilized as a base OS, rather than relegated to guest status. On wonder why one would want MS Windows eating up resources with IE and Media Player and all the other stuff that gets loaded in, when one could run a custom version of *nix and VMWare, and then run MS Windows as a guest OS only when needed. I am sure for many with enterprise licenses to MS Windows, running it might virtual windows might make sense, but 90% of the respondants indicate that VMware has the better idea.
It is interesting to me how the computer is used less and less to enforce policies to help users that might make an occasional mistake, or discourage users that might want to commit intentional fraud, and more more to make jobs simply enough so that incompetent people can be hired to do a job.
The fact is that if a email comes from a send only address, then the server with that address should simply ignore all emails to that address. If a user is not supposed to be able to reply all, then the enterprise client software should not allow that functionality for those messages. Policy enforcement is nothing new. It is why enterprises pays for software. If employees are using reply all and crashing the system, that is management issue.
In any case, this is mostly a case of untrained managers who thinks everything is a nail so always uses a hammer. It reminds me when managers used to use spreadsheets to write letters. There are many ways to distribute information, and email is only on of the tools. Managers could, for instance, use instant messaging.
For instance, some football players make a lot of money, so families, schools, colleges spend huge amounts of money to get people a position where they can make this money. In fact, even if one only considers colleges that are regularly recruited, the expectation value of income for these players are minimum wage. Of course, they can make money if they have others degress or skills, but the expectation if the rely on the game is very small.
As mentioned, many people prefer a small income with criminal activity rather than an honest, if perhaps uncomfortable job. People also prefer jobs they think they can have fun with to jobs where they actually have to put a honest days work.
We see this with the Madoff case, where it is better to be rich and work at a dishonorable profession than honorable and not so well off. Why would Madoff, or his criminal kids, be more respected than a person who is on time and does a good job at McDonalds?
This is also a classic case of history being written by the victor, so nothing changes there. It is a case of old tech losing value, and some old tech companies trying to maintain the value through any means necessary. Look at the car companies with their 100 year old internal combustion engine, complaining that those new fangled hybrid engines are cheating them out of their god given profits.
So as ambiguous as this case is, what is the problem with a little more ambiguity. Sometimes the big guys fight, and the little guy manage to end up with a small victory as well. Cynical would be wondering if giving IBM such power, and MS even more incentive to assimilate, modify, and destroy, is such a good thing, no matter how the outcome might have come about.
The idealism that groklaw would only be valid if it was the result of a lone crusader is no cynicism, but disgusting romanticism and melodrama. And the need to uncover the mystery, unmask those who vanquished, 'who is that masked women', is more of the same. Those of us who are cynical and jaded don't care.
This change is being made because Apple is likely loosing business to other online retailers, so they caved on the $.99 issue to get rid on DRM. Good for them, as I said a non issue for me. Given the availability of streaming on netflix, it seems hardly worthwhile to buy a movie off iTunes that may or may not be playable next year with current kit.
What I see here is a really convoluted piece of code to perform a really simple task. There are a lot of constants that are written as constants. If there a #define orginyear, the why not #define daysperyear and #define daysperleapyear. The first is used only once, while the rest are used twice.
In any case, the fundamental problem is not encapsulating data. This is quite a common error is code architecture. In this case, this function knows a lot of things it does not need to know. It know about leap years, number of days, and all this confuses the reader. They layout of the function already has the overhead of a fuction call, so why do we not let this overhead work for us by not returning the proxy leap year boolean, but what we actually want, which is the number of days in this year.
In this case all days per year information and leap year information is encapsulated in a single function, and the top function does not need to know about either. This, I think, is writing quality into code, and not depending on QA to catch mistakes common to novice programmers. No guarantee this will work as is, it is just psuedo code, not even checking the logic completely.
Having not seen much of the first series, except in the excerpts that remain, and listening to the commentary, I believe the only serial that was an 'elevator episode' was the one that preceded marco polo, and that was because Marco Polo was going to cost so much money they needed a cheap serial.
Otherewise, it is my recolection, where they were entire series where we see little of the Tardis. In fact it has been remarked by Sladen that the tardis is much more pivotal in the newer episodes, and a much grander set than in her day. We can certainly see that it is much more intricate.
Which is the way it should be. As mentioned elsewhere, much of the show was quite static, shot and acted as a stage play, but with more locations. The power of tv was to get out into the world and make it look different. This is what they did. At least in the middle serials, they seemed to have a pretty good location budget.
And speaking of Apple, why can they, with a fraction of the development budget, deliver an OS that typically works. I know that they do not need to support as much hardware, but again, they also don't get a cut of every PC sold. It seriously has been years, like 1998-2001, since they have shipped a crappy OS. What was amazing is that after that, the OS actually ran fasted on older hardware than the older OS. I run everything 10.4 or 10.5 because it runs faster than 10.1-10.3. And all this was done while MS was trying to make Vista run at all.
When they release Windows 7, that will the time to buy a PC. If history tells us anything, it will work, the service packs will come out to make it even better. Users who wait too long though will be stuck buying some piece of junk. This if from the experience of a person who just missed MS Windows 2000 and was stuck with MS Windows ME.
In terms of doctors, look at some of the original William Hartnell stuff. It was a different show, more classically inspired, more logical, less magical thinking and gadgets. It was interesting. The show changes as new people get involves, not only actors by also writers. For instance, the decision to destroy K-9 and get back to more thinking show, what if this happened, who would we react?
Clearly in the new incarnation, Dr. Who is falling dangerous close to the romantic dramedy formula. For some reason we are now given a tortured Doctor. Not sure why. But this casting may indicate that we may be in for even more teen and young adult angst, something that was previously reserved for the companions, and even then it did not work out wonderfully. How man of us loved Turlough? Or it may just be that they want someone who will stay awhile, and not be so expensive. The danger is he may not be any good, and may never want to leave. As wonderful as Tom Baker was, I think he stayed too long, and damaged the ability of the show to rejuvenate when another doctor replaced him.