Most TVs, DVD players and other electrical devices use almost as much power when they are "off" as they do when they are on.
Source please? Anyway, if you want a full-off switch, use a power strip. I use one to keep my TV+DVD completely off for about 21 hours a day. It sounds like you're suggesting that each device have a manual switch on it. Or perhaps suggesting that they do away with remote power on, so that people are forced to fully switch them off when not in use (or leave them fully powered).
Some day this might lead to devices that refresh the image several times per day, possibly even per minute or even second, and would last for years. With these we wouldn't even have to print things out! I know, it's somewhat far-fetched.
Chua argued that the memristor was the fourth fundamental circuit element, along with the resistor, capacitor and inductor, and that it had properties that could not be duplicated by any combination of the other three elements.
Imagine the possibilities once our computers can remember information! Oh, wait...
Personally I would be all ok if someone read all my notes, my e-mail, and whatever [after I am dead]. Somehow I would actually be glad if someone took the time to look thru it.
Maybe you could even come up and thank them if you saw them doing that after you were dead. Oh, right, you'd be dead, so you couldn't care one way or another!
Intel convinced Cray to collaborate on what many believe will be the next generation of supercomputers -- CPUs complemented by floating-point acceleration units.
The company said that in its research it had concentrated on the 2000 most popular product queries on Google's product search, words such as iPod, Xbox and Zune.
Actually, it's a tradeoff. Proprietary software creates a monopoly for the company who made it, locking others out of improving it. That is anti-capitalism. GNU GPL ensures that this monopoly is impossible, allowing anyone to improve and provide full support for the software. Those are new opportunities for competition.
I think one point made several times is that you will have multiple servers where taking one down wouldn't interrupt services, just that the cost of taking one down is so great that you'd rather replace the kernel live. You can't solve that by adding even more super-expensive servers either.
And once you're logged in using the public system's web browser, that system can do anything likes with that session, be it make requests you don't see, or at the very least log everything that appears on screen.
Surely there wouldn't be that many encoder combinations people would use. If there are 10000 copies of the same song uploaded, I'd think you'd find several groups of files that were identical, each group corresponding to a different encoder/settings combination. Using acoustic fingerprinting seems like it would bring more legal issues, since that would be closer to redistribution, as the file served back to the user might not match what he sent; in fact, he could upload a lower quality copy (perhaps obtained from a P2P network), then get back a higher quality version.
Then not only are you an old-fashioned developer, you're a lousy old-fashioned developer with no knowledge of the wider world your software is operating within. Security and legal concerns (especially legal concerns) trump the $0.00078 savings, by your estimated storage price, per copy of "Toxic". This is especially true when the architecture you're discussing would cost more time and money to implement than the safer version, what with the necessity of acoustic fingerprinting or some other technology to make sure that User1's "Britney Spears - Toxic.mp3" is the same as User2's "Toxic - Britney Spears (ub3r h0t ch1ck).mp3" is the same as User3's "251 - BS - TOXIC.mp3".
Maybe I'm just a naive developer, but wouldn't they just calculate the hash of each file uploaded, and if it matches that of one already on disk, avoid a second copy?
In three years' time, 20 typical households will receive more traffic than the entire Internet today.'[...] [AT&T is investing $19 billion of taxpayer money it was given years back to maintain our network and upgrade our backbone network like they were supposed to do years ago.
It's funny, because in the past, experienced web designers could produce good sites. Now it's experienced designers who put out unusable crap, and those who just know basic HTML who make usable sites.
NULL is the name of a macro in C. Null is the name of the value which it (and the integral constant 0) put into a pointer; it's a regular noun with no capital letters (except when at the beginning of a sentence, of course).
Don't use clever little graphics and pop-ups for every link, text works much better.
And don't use the word "here" for the anchor. Not only is it non-descriptive of the link, it sounds stupid when read. "You can find out more here and here, and here is another take on the matter discussed here." Uhhh yeah.
I don't need links to "print this page" or "email it to a friend".
Please keep the "printer friendly" AKA "reader friendly" AKA "no fucking ads" options. Please!
Person: Hi, please add me to your "do not track list"
Computer: OK
Person: Can I verify that I've been added to the list?
Computer: I'm sorry, you are not on our list.
Person: Well, please add me again.
Computer: OK
Person: I'm on the list now, right?
Computer: No. You keep asking to NOT be tracked, so we can't keep you on any list.
Slashdot Mirror
Source please? Anyway, if you want a full-off switch, use a power strip. I use one to keep my TV+DVD completely off for about 21 hours a day. It sounds like you're suggesting that each device have a manual switch on it. Or perhaps suggesting that they do away with remote power on, so that people are forced to fully switch them off when not in use (or leave them fully powered).
What's this about his behind?
Sure was a long summary... wait... you bastards, you tricked me into reading the article!
What's death throwing? A dictionary?
Increasing the rise time, actually.
They're very much alive, actually (8 MB PDF).
Some day this might lead to devices that refresh the image several times per day, possibly even per minute or even second, and would last for years. With these we wouldn't even have to print things out! I know, it's somewhat far-fetched.
Imagine the possibilities once our computers can remember information! Oh, wait...
Maybe you could even come up and thank them if you saw them doing that after you were dead. Oh, right, you'd be dead, so you couldn't care one way or another!
Let me guess, it's going to be called the 8087.
iPod: look for lots of shiny white
Zune: look for lots of brown
Xbox 360: look for red dots in a ring
Actually, it's a tradeoff. Proprietary software creates a monopoly for the company who made it, locking others out of improving it. That is anti-capitalism. GNU GPL ensures that this monopoly is impossible, allowing anyone to improve and provide full support for the software. Those are new opportunities for competition.
I think one point made several times is that you will have multiple servers where taking one down wouldn't interrupt services, just that the cost of taking one down is so great that you'd rather replace the kernel live. You can't solve that by adding even more super-expensive servers either.
And once you're logged in using the public system's web browser, that system can do anything likes with that session, be it make requests you don't see, or at the very least log everything that appears on screen.
Surely there wouldn't be that many encoder combinations people would use. If there are 10000 copies of the same song uploaded, I'd think you'd find several groups of files that were identical, each group corresponding to a different encoder/settings combination. Using acoustic fingerprinting seems like it would bring more legal issues, since that would be closer to redistribution, as the file served back to the user might not match what he sent; in fact, he could upload a lower quality copy (perhaps obtained from a P2P network), then get back a higher quality version.
Maybe I'm just a naive developer, but wouldn't they just calculate the hash of each file uploaded, and if it matches that of one already on disk, avoid a second copy?
The answer is "Slashdotting", but where do I type it? I can't figure this CAPTCHA out...
It's especially impressive considering the pictures were taken on Earth. *ducks*
Including the time machine used to bring these back from tens or hundreds of years in the future?
There, fixed that for you
It's funny, because in the past, experienced web designers could produce good sites. Now it's experienced designers who put out unusable crap, and those who just know basic HTML who make usable sites.
NULL is the name of a macro in C. Null is the name of the value which it (and the integral constant 0) put into a pointer; it's a regular noun with no capital letters (except when at the beginning of a sentence, of course).
And don't use the word "here" for the anchor. Not only is it non-descriptive of the link, it sounds stupid when read. "You can find out more here and here, and here is another take on the matter discussed here." Uhhh yeah.
Please keep the "printer friendly" AKA "reader friendly" AKA "no fucking ads" options. Please!
On the plus side, it reports all your browsing activity to AT&T.
AT&T
Your world delivered
(to us)
So in other words,
Person: Hi, please add me to your "do not track list"
Computer: OK
Person: Can I verify that I've been added to the list?
Computer: I'm sorry, you are not on our list.
Person: Well, please add me again.
Computer: OK
Person: I'm on the list now, right?
Computer: No. You keep asking to NOT be tracked, so we can't keep you on any list.
Hmm, so is it kind of like Windows, where Google is the most popular so most targeted?