agreed, debt was clearly intended to cover what is owed for a sales transaction. Simply put, you could force a customer to receive the goods before they may payment, then there is in fact a debt to be paid.
I have switched to lower power computing. I once ran massive computers that were honestly, way overkill for my needs.
I now run atom and zacate based systems. In fact, storage uses more electricity in my house than cpus. This is my next project to tackle as I switch to lower rpm, 2.5" and ssd disks.
I'm not a tree hugger, I don't play Al Gore scare tactics to convince people that the world is ending blah blah blah. what I am doing is measuring my short term cost vs long term electrical savings. I don't but low power just because and I don't drive a prius because they are not less expensive to drive (until the 2012 pluggable prius, 45 miles on electric is about cost parity with my gas car)
I do have a very large media library. I have many TB of ripped content from boxes of dvd videos now happily stored in boxes in the garage. Lots of content pulled from my DVR, web downloads etc and all exposed to my TVs and computers via appletvs cracked for XBMC which is a very low power ARM platform, or the zacate based fileserver/player.
Wrap this all up and switching from my 25W atom/zacate fileservers (3 of them) to ARM setups can save me about $50 per year. Additionally, These file servers themselves can output to the TV eliminating the need for a few appletvs. Right now my zacate fileserver is the only one able to output to TV, the atom's dont have to video capability to playback my videos without added hardware that increases the expense and power consumption.
Then again, most people could realize $50-$100 savings by turning off power strips and cutting out a lot of standby waste.
the flaw in your argument here is that apple's images had icons that were the correct aspect ratio but the shape was wrong. if the image was just squashed, the icons would be squashed as well.
I have a similar situation in the North-Central US. From Montana to Michigan, broadband access is surprisingly hard to come by in the middle of cities. Billings Montana is nearly 150,000 and 7 blocks from the City AND Federal court house there is no broadband! Fargo ND, on main street, No broadband. Wausau Wisconsing, 4 blocks from hotel-row along the interstate, no broadband. In fact, of the 30 locations I service in this area, 1/2 of them are unable to get any broadband at all and must rely on T1 service for hugely inflated rates.
I suspect that all of these companies infringe on some of another companies patents. This is the beginning of patent wars that may lead to an eventual reform of patent law.
Yes you can. Your own prior art doesn't disqualify a patent. You can patent something years after products including the concept are on the market if you produced those items.
from my googling, there really wasnt anything at all. The flip was not unique and had no unique technology in it. it was a standard camera turned sideways with a stylized case. Canon and Nikon had similar features at the time in a very similar form factor except that they had a much lower frame rate on the video.
Maybe the worst thing we can do is to not pursue modern, safe nuclear power and let these older reactors stay in use. Coal is not clean no matter how much politicians and coal companies want you to believe it is. There are no alternatives today except nuclear that can support our cities. Nuclear power is an excellent stop-gap but 'ancient' reactors that are still in service today are a disaster waiting to happen and my point is proven in Japan right now.
The fact is that these reactors are perfectly safe in ideal conditions but clearly cannot deal with multiple failures from a natural disaster (or worse?) a terrorist attack. That makes it very easy to leave them in service. Maybe Japan's current situation can be learned from but hopefully the solution isnt to *just* decommission old facilities but to replace them with modern designs such as Toshiba's 4S http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_4S
I wouldn't disagree with that. I would say that Latin would give a more solid foundation that a piecemeal approach but that learning Latin is certainly not the only way. What may be more appropriate is to split the difference and learn Italian as your first romance language so you get a 'modern' grammar saving all the stress of Latin grammar while getting vocabulary that is as close to the common denominator as possible.
I learned French for a year but never was able to completely keep up in casual conversation. I did a year of Italian after which I was a much better Italian speaker than a French speaker. I went back to French for some refreshing and ended up becoming much more skilled at French as a result of learning just passable Italian. Spanish is the same. Basic Italian gives you about 70% of basic Spanish.
English is a whole other beast. French and German both give a lot of loan words over but Danish/Norwegian feels much more like the big contributor. So much of the Scandinavian languages are hidden in English. I have been learning Danish on and off for a few years, never really dedicating any significant effort but enough to get by, and every time I learn some more I can see how English was influenced by a Scandinavian language.
If I were to suggest base lanuages to learn english, Latin wouldn't be on the list. Learn a Scandinavian language, Italian, the German or French. The Latin roots are sitting there in Italian already so why waste effort on a dead language when you can get a living language cheaper right?
surely the vast majority of Harvard applicants would fail this test. Greek and Latin or quite depreciated. Simply replace those languages with equivalent questions in relevant modern languages or subjects.
One strong point of modern college is that language classes have be depreciated for fields they have no bearing. A robotics or CS major will have zero use for latin or greek or really any language other than english.
On the other hand, Latin is an immensely useful language if you are planning a major in any romance language. Latin Italian but knowing Latin gets you Italian at an 80% discount, Spanish at 70% and French at 60% . Its learning 4 languages for the price of 2. Greek is pretty much useless in this regard, not many languages have a Greek base that isn't already covered by greek>latin loan words.
As other people have mentioned, some of the exam was politically driven. It had some ulterior motive built in to exclude those of a lesser social class. Sure, greek and latin had more value in education at that time but not so much that a business degree required such knowledge, especially greek.
book reading and reference material are opposite ends of the spectrum of book use. Thats why I specifically said 'when holding in hand and reading', not while doing research or assignments etc.
to back this thought up, consider how you use books that are spirally bound. When holding in hand and reading, you flip the page all the way around and look at a single sheet.
A single screen, in a portrait layout is just about right. 7"-10" seems to be the best range. ideally about 10-16oz, which is the #1 reason the iPad is not great for reading books, it is just too heavy. #2 being that the screen wears on the eyes after about an 1 hour of reading where eink is comfy for much longer. I have read for 8+ hours in a 16 hour timeframe on my sony reader on an airplane with no eink induced eyestrain whatsoever.
A pixel qi screen on an iPad along with some weight reductions might do the trick. the 'eink' mode should boost battery life nicely as well.
"one of those problems that doesn't *really* need solving"
I would argue that it desperately needs solving. Current computer chips are power hungry monsters that have so many legacy systems that not old eat up die real-estate which adds cost but also eat up power.
Data centers are becoming hot spots for resource usage, sucking in amazing amounts of electricity. One day, data centers will rival high rise office buildings and industrial plants in how much polution they are responsible, and that day is coming quickly.
uh, mac only. Also, this is an app on top of the filesystem.
We need this built into the filesystem. Then be able to produce views to suite the need of a given interface.
I am a database guy so It is easiest for me to explain in those terms.
select * from files where type = 'media' and format in (select * from types where category = 'audio') and bitrate between 128 and 192
present this as a saved query/folder/favorite search. add a "and owner in ('username','public')" and/or "and location in ('local','network')"
this is just a representation in sql, but storing files in such a way and allowing fast searches via indexes or filesystem equivilent within the filesystem via translating traditional search commands would simplify the user interface for files greatly.
This could be implemented in fuse in a hurry (there have been attempts such as mysqlfs and such) but not only is fuse bound to be quite slow, but a full RDB is overkill and has too much overhead.
I feed like there are really two things that are very important to the average home user. 1)fast access to data, which means very fast search results and very fast browsing. 2) large file thoroughput. Small files are typically not handled in very large volumes for the average user, but 1Mb+ files from pictures and docs and videos are.
for desktop users, you could really sacrifice a lot of performance if you could focus on fast searching and browsing and on large files transfers.
when need a smart metadata filesystem. The system needs to be a simple and automatic system which file extensions and file headers are used to create the base level tags. Other tags could be added for items like music and video but the 'bread and butter' of the tag system needs to come from obvious information in the file and filename.
freedom of movement simply doesn't suggest freedom to operate a vehicle in a public place which can be deadly. Freedom of movement doesn't say that you may drive, though it does imply riding in a car or plane with permission of the owner or operator as a right.
Requiring a license is very obviously within states rights. Everything that is not either expressly stated in the constitution is within a states rights. Freedom to operate a vehicle in a public space is not a right that we have, and that is not a matter of opinion it is a matter of fact and is clearly described in the 10th amendment.
So yes, we have freedom of movement but that does not entitle us to drive a car any more than it entitles us to fly a plane.
There are a bunch of things in the constitution that can be left to interpretation because of subtle changes in contemporary language or some vagueness in the wording but these laws are crystal clear with the exception of 'welfare' in the commerce clause but there is no applicable connection to the current argument as the commerce clause doesn't apply to standard driving licenses.
sure. But that is questioning the validity of the law itself and that law shouldn't survive the process.
I would point out that most states allow a felony conviction to be used in a discriminatory way for employment, credit, and housing, regardless of the nature of the conviction. This says to me that a law forbidding felons from driving is not as unlikely as it should be. I think it is quite a stretch to associate a felony for money laundering with suspicion on not paying rent or damaging the property but that is a functionally valid train of thought today.
Thought Experiment: The length of time one can succeed hitchhiking or riding a bike along an interstate highway before encountering law enforcement.
Public roadways are controlled by state law, and may restrict use. If a roadway is purposed of auto-travel, then a police officer may certainly act upon your miss-use. This is just the same as being surrounded on 4 sides by private land which had no-trespassing signs. I'm not sure how you got there but its not the land owners fault you cant leave.
Thought Experiment: The government says you have no right so one must pay a corporation (bus driver) for the right of movement. Sounds like a fun country to be in.
The government certainly doesn't say that. Roads are for cars and is under the authority of the state government. You can take the sidewalk or ride a bike or get a license to drive a car. If you don't like the laws, get involved and work for a change. We vote the people to make (and remove/replace/revise) the laws. Compliance and complaint is YOUR problem (I am as guilty as you) and not the governments fault.
We (Americans) CERTAINLY do not have the right to drive a car on public roadways which are under the authority of the government we elect. We certainly do have the right to drive a car in a private environment such as a private racetrack or farmland etc etc.
This is why we can be required to gain a license to use roads and highways. As a result we can be forced to comply with the laws set forth by the local and state governments.
That said, the vehicle we use to drive in is most definitely personal property and our 4th amendment rights apply. What is in the car is private and can only be forcible revealed with legitimate probable cause. This is the same principal that makes looking under a persons clothes or opening a briefcase a violation of the 4th amendment.
The danger in allowing these pull-over and no-cause searches is that it erodes the 4th amendment, and each erosion makes the next one easier because parallels can usually be drawn between the first law and the proposed law.
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Is this a serious thing? IANAL but this could be attacked from a number of angles. Invasion of privacy. Regulation of currency beyond state's rights.
agreed, debt was clearly intended to cover what is owed for a sales transaction. Simply put, you could force a customer to receive the goods before they may payment, then there is in fact a debt to be paid.
I have switched to lower power computing. I once ran massive computers that were honestly, way overkill for my needs.
I now run atom and zacate based systems. In fact, storage uses more electricity in my house than cpus. This is my next project to tackle as I switch to lower rpm, 2.5" and ssd disks.
I'm not a tree hugger, I don't play Al Gore scare tactics to convince people that the world is ending blah blah blah. what I am doing is measuring my short term cost vs long term electrical savings. I don't but low power just because and I don't drive a prius because they are not less expensive to drive (until the 2012 pluggable prius, 45 miles on electric is about cost parity with my gas car)
I do have a very large media library. I have many TB of ripped content from boxes of dvd videos now happily stored in boxes in the garage. Lots of content pulled from my DVR, web downloads etc and all exposed to my TVs and computers via appletvs cracked for XBMC which is a very low power ARM platform, or the zacate based fileserver/player.
Wrap this all up and switching from my 25W atom/zacate fileservers (3 of them) to ARM setups can save me about $50 per year. Additionally, These file servers themselves can output to the TV eliminating the need for a few appletvs. Right now my zacate fileserver is the only one able to output to TV, the atom's dont have to video capability to playback my videos without added hardware that increases the expense and power consumption.
Then again, most people could realize $50-$100 savings by turning off power strips and cutting out a lot of standby waste.
the flaw in your argument here is that apple's images had icons that were the correct aspect ratio but the shape was wrong. if the image was just squashed, the icons would be squashed as well.
I have a similar situation in the North-Central US. From Montana to Michigan, broadband access is surprisingly hard to come by in the middle of cities. Billings Montana is nearly 150,000 and 7 blocks from the City AND Federal court house there is no broadband! Fargo ND, on main street, No broadband. Wausau Wisconsing, 4 blocks from hotel-row along the interstate, no broadband. In fact, of the 30 locations I service in this area, 1/2 of them are unable to get any broadband at all and must rely on T1 service for hugely inflated rates.
I suspect that all of these companies infringe on some of another companies patents. This is the beginning of patent wars that may lead to an eventual reform of patent law.
Yes you can. Your own prior art doesn't disqualify a patent. You can patent something years after products including the concept are on the market if you produced those items.
RHEL/CentOS and ubuntu make very good servers and clients.
I myself prefer debian on servers over ubuntu. RHEL/CentOS is about on par with debian for me also.
from my googling, there really wasnt anything at all. The flip was not unique and had no unique technology in it. it was a standard camera turned sideways with a stylized case. Canon and Nikon had similar features at the time in a very similar form factor except that they had a much lower frame rate on the video.
1/2 Billion is a LOT of router and switch sales to make up.
Maybe the worst thing we can do is to not pursue modern, safe nuclear power and let these older reactors stay in use. Coal is not clean no matter how much politicians and coal companies want you to believe it is. There are no alternatives today except nuclear that can support our cities. Nuclear power is an excellent stop-gap but 'ancient' reactors that are still in service today are a disaster waiting to happen and my point is proven in Japan right now.
The fact is that these reactors are perfectly safe in ideal conditions but clearly cannot deal with multiple failures from a natural disaster (or worse?) a terrorist attack. That makes it very easy to leave them in service. Maybe Japan's current situation can be learned from but hopefully the solution isnt to *just* decommission old facilities but to replace them with modern designs such as Toshiba's 4S http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_4S
I wouldn't disagree with that. I would say that Latin would give a more solid foundation that a piecemeal approach but that learning Latin is certainly not the only way. What may be more appropriate is to split the difference and learn Italian as your first romance language so you get a 'modern' grammar saving all the stress of Latin grammar while getting vocabulary that is as close to the common denominator as possible.
I learned French for a year but never was able to completely keep up in casual conversation. I did a year of Italian after which I was a much better Italian speaker than a French speaker. I went back to French for some refreshing and ended up becoming much more skilled at French as a result of learning just passable Italian. Spanish is the same. Basic Italian gives you about 70% of basic Spanish.
English is a whole other beast. French and German both give a lot of loan words over but Danish/Norwegian feels much more like the big contributor. So much of the Scandinavian languages are hidden in English. I have been learning Danish on and off for a few years, never really dedicating any significant effort but enough to get by, and every time I learn some more I can see how English was influenced by a Scandinavian language.
If I were to suggest base lanuages to learn english, Latin wouldn't be on the list. Learn a Scandinavian language, Italian, the German or French. The Latin roots are sitting there in Italian already so why waste effort on a dead language when you can get a living language cheaper right?
surely the vast majority of Harvard applicants would fail this test. Greek and Latin or quite depreciated. Simply replace those languages with equivalent questions in relevant modern languages or subjects.
One strong point of modern college is that language classes have be depreciated for fields they have no bearing. A robotics or CS major will have zero use for latin or greek or really any language other than english.
On the other hand, Latin is an immensely useful language if you are planning a major in any romance language. Latin Italian but knowing Latin gets you Italian at an 80% discount, Spanish at 70% and French at 60% . Its learning 4 languages for the price of 2. Greek is pretty much useless in this regard, not many languages have a Greek base that isn't already covered by greek>latin loan words.
As other people have mentioned, some of the exam was politically driven. It had some ulterior motive built in to exclude those of a lesser social class. Sure, greek and latin had more value in education at that time but not so much that a business degree required such knowledge, especially greek.
book reading and reference material are opposite ends of the spectrum of book use. Thats why I specifically said 'when holding in hand and reading', not while doing research or assignments etc.
to back this thought up, consider how you use books that are spirally bound. When holding in hand and reading, you flip the page all the way around and look at a single sheet.
A single screen, in a portrait layout is just about right. 7"-10" seems to be the best range. ideally about 10-16oz, which is the #1 reason the iPad is not great for reading books, it is just too heavy. #2 being that the screen wears on the eyes after about an 1 hour of reading where eink is comfy for much longer. I have read for 8+ hours in a 16 hour timeframe on my sony reader on an airplane with no eink induced eyestrain whatsoever.
A pixel qi screen on an iPad along with some weight reductions might do the trick. the 'eink' mode should boost battery life nicely as well.
"one of those problems that doesn't *really* need solving"
I would argue that it desperately needs solving. Current computer chips are power hungry monsters that have so many legacy systems that not old eat up die real-estate which adds cost but also eat up power.
Data centers are becoming hot spots for resource usage, sucking in amazing amounts of electricity. One day, data centers will rival high rise office buildings and industrial plants in how much polution they are responsible, and that day is coming quickly.
uh, virtual consoles anyone? a login as a regular user and a login as root.
sudo is redundant, if you prepend each comment with sudo, you can save many keystrokes with 'sudu su -' once. hardcore *nix admins are lazy, remember
uh, mac only. Also, this is an app on top of the filesystem.
We need this built into the filesystem. Then be able to produce views to suite the need of a given interface.
I am a database guy so It is easiest for me to explain in those terms.
select * from files where type = 'media' and format in (select * from types where category = 'audio') and bitrate between 128 and 192
present this as a saved query/folder/favorite search. add a "and owner in ('username','public')" and/or "and location in ('local','network')"
this is just a representation in sql, but storing files in such a way and allowing fast searches via indexes or filesystem equivilent within the filesystem via translating traditional search commands would simplify the user interface for files greatly.
This could be implemented in fuse in a hurry (there have been attempts such as mysqlfs and such) but not only is fuse bound to be quite slow, but a full RDB is overkill and has too much overhead.
I feed like there are really two things that are very important to the average home user. 1)fast access to data, which means very fast search results and very fast browsing. 2) large file thoroughput. Small files are typically not handled in very large volumes for the average user, but 1Mb+ files from pictures and docs and videos are.
for desktop users, you could really sacrifice a lot of performance if you could focus on fast searching and browsing and on large files transfers.
when need a smart metadata filesystem. The system needs to be a simple and automatic system which file extensions and file headers are used to create the base level tags. Other tags could be added for items like music and video but the 'bread and butter' of the tag system needs to come from obvious information in the file and filename.
in this case capitalization emphasized a true statement based on the 10th amendment, "States Rights"
freedom of movement simply doesn't suggest freedom to operate a vehicle in a public place which can be deadly. Freedom of movement doesn't say that you may drive, though it does imply riding in a car or plane with permission of the owner or operator as a right.
Requiring a license is very obviously within states rights. Everything that is not either expressly stated in the constitution is within a states rights. Freedom to operate a vehicle in a public space is not a right that we have, and that is not a matter of opinion it is a matter of fact and is clearly described in the 10th amendment.
So yes, we have freedom of movement but that does not entitle us to drive a car any more than it entitles us to fly a plane.
There are a bunch of things in the constitution that can be left to interpretation because of subtle changes in contemporary language or some vagueness in the wording but these laws are crystal clear with the exception of 'welfare' in the commerce clause but there is no applicable connection to the current argument as the commerce clause doesn't apply to standard driving licenses.
sure. But that is questioning the validity of the law itself and that law shouldn't survive the process.
I would point out that most states allow a felony conviction to be used in a discriminatory way for employment, credit, and housing, regardless of the nature of the conviction. This says to me that a law forbidding felons from driving is not as unlikely as it should be. I think it is quite a stretch to associate a felony for money laundering with suspicion on not paying rent or damaging the property but that is a functionally valid train of thought today.
Thought Experiment: The length of time one can succeed hitchhiking or riding a bike along an interstate highway before encountering law enforcement.
Public roadways are controlled by state law, and may restrict use. If a roadway is purposed of auto-travel, then a police officer may certainly act upon your miss-use. This is just the same as being surrounded on 4 sides by private land which had no-trespassing signs. I'm not sure how you got there but its not the land owners fault you cant leave.
Thought Experiment: The government says you have no right so one must pay a corporation (bus driver) for the right of movement. Sounds like a fun country to be in.
The government certainly doesn't say that. Roads are for cars and is under the authority of the state government. You can take the sidewalk or ride a bike or get a license to drive a car. If you don't like the laws, get involved and work for a change. We vote the people to make (and remove/replace/revise) the laws. Compliance and complaint is YOUR problem (I am as guilty as you) and not the governments fault.
We (Americans) CERTAINLY do not have the right to drive a car on public roadways which are under the authority of the government we elect. We certainly do have the right to drive a car in a private environment such as a private racetrack or farmland etc etc.
This is why we can be required to gain a license to use roads and highways. As a result we can be forced to comply with the laws set forth by the local and state governments.
That said, the vehicle we use to drive in is most definitely personal property and our 4th amendment rights apply. What is in the car is private and can only be forcible revealed with legitimate probable cause. This is the same principal that makes looking under a persons clothes or opening a briefcase a violation of the 4th amendment.
The danger in allowing these pull-over and no-cause searches is that it erodes the 4th amendment, and each erosion makes the next one easier because parallels can usually be drawn between the first law and the proposed law.