DOS will still boot really fast. Simply put, it takes longer to boot because you are doing more. Probing buses for hardware, loading the driver and initializing it takes some time. And simply put, there's a hell of a lot more of it now. Firewire, Ethernet, bluetooth, wifi, shock protection, USB and anything you can plug into it, and so on. One advantage Mac has is a very limited set of hardware to check for. The modprobe section of Ubuntu boot would likely be shorter just by having fewer IDs to match against, not even considering the ability to spend more time on fewer drivers.
During the early days of Ubuntu a lot of time was spent beating the crap out of booting. And boot is a priority for the next release. So yes, we can and do look at the system software as well.
For a netboot / tablet, there's also the Ubuntu Netbook Remix which has some interesting (if a bit beta) programs to improve the experience. It's actually quite good on my larger, overpowered tablet.
A savegame is one of the paths to breaking the data / code barrier and running untrusted code. This has two implications: piracy and viruses. We've already seen how easy it was to run untrusted code via a simple savegame. Transfer the save from the Wii to the SD card, load up the save in a hex editor and start looking for meaning. Name strings, for example. If you rewrite the save to use an overly long name, maybe it notices and nothing happens. But maybe they forgot to check the horse's name. All you need is one weak path, and now you can run homebrew emulators that compete with Virtual Console games (you can also run Linux, but there's little point without wifi). You might also be able to
There's another problem however, that affects more than Nintendo's bottom line. Malicious virii. If there was a problem with game names, it could potentially wreck a chain of players. I imagine a game like Brawl does peer to peer multiplayer to reduce latency and bottlenecks, so you can't filter out bad packets. And you can't shut down online play without fiasco. So encrypting the save at least obscures where data that might be transferred over the net is stored.
Well this one in particular made their money by shorting those complex mortgage backed securities. A one time bet against those complex unfathomable instruments, and one timely placed. I'm not sure it really qualifies him as an expert on the subject he chose to write about, but I suppose he gets credit for jumping on the opportunity to write now, while people care about the economic crisis. It's too bad he's a terrible author.
"The Prince" was spectacularly bad advice. Anyone following it would surely disgrace not only themselves in the end, but also their families for generations to come. Families like the Medicci. His advice is basically: arm the citizens, emulate the tyrant son of the Pope, Cesare Borgia, and to appoint people who opposed you as advisors. This is a recipe for failure, amusingly justified throughout the book.
Under no circumstance does "The Prince" advocate keeping the people fat, happy and dumb. He advocates cultivating fear, since no action can be undertaken to be loved. He says it's better to be a miser than give to the people and risk being hated. He doesn't say much about keeping the people dumb, other than to say that deceiving them is okay. The quotes you offer are missing the context that basically, a prince has little control over making things "best" so here's a different method that's good enough. They're also subject to the wishes of translators, who perhaps bring in a small portion of their own bias to the work.
Machiavelli is a guy who wished to see the states of Italy returned to their former Roman republican glory. But the Prince was either a weapon to trick the Princes, or a satire that few people have the experience to recognize. You have no need to cite the least democratic writing to demonstrate his affinity -- he's written a massive volume on republics!
This is research. I don't what planet you're on, but where I come from the point is to push the frontier of what is possible, less than to push the frontier of what's useful. Less so would be "what's useful in Maya." Fixing bugs is not science. It's very boring engineering work and not something we should be allocating our best and brightest researchers for, to the benefit of a private company. Be angry, if you must, but be angry at Maya, not the people who don't own, don't control, and have no access to Maya or it's software.
Computer Science Unplugged is a curriculum out there designed to teach students computing principles, and they recommend a game like that. The game works like this: one person is playing the role of "programmer" and the rest of the class will try to follow their instructions. The goal is to duplicate a drawing that only the programmer can see.
The first game(s) the rules are easy -- the "computer" can ask questions and the class can see what the machine is doing. Then you introduce restrictions. The computer player will be restricted from speaking, for example. At the end you have the programmer obscured from the class, only able to speak to their classmates to describe a picture. As programmers we rarely get the "full picture" so to speak, and have to give precise instructions that both we and the computer understand identically.
The most important challenge to this as a teacher is selecting appropriate examples. They have a few, but I'd also add: a formula, with exponents, parenthesis, variables and subscripts. A pixel art smilely face ala CSS testing. A curve. A full binary tree with 4 levels. A small section of text, with bold, underline, paragraphs and bulletpoints. These are harder, but high school students can do it and it illustrates both rendering techniques and the need for language. For highschool students, I'd suggest spending a class on this, and then asking them to either write a paper (1 page tops) on the significance, or if the class is fast and small enough, hold a discussion.
Vista's handwriting was the first Windows to accept training. I'd wager one reason is that there's no way the average user would know something's gone wrong or what a bad sample looked like. But the tablet offered another improvement: intelligent scratch out. As an XP user, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. There's a specific pattern to erase.
Of course, mileage varies, so you can't compare recognition rates between people effectively. Even less perceived recognition rates as stated on Internet forums. Personally, I find that Window's tool recognizes cursive better than print. I don't normally write in cursive so this is a bit annoying.
How much RAM do you have and use? How much disk do you have? What sort of usage profile is it?
The last is the most general. There's three categories: server, desktop and laptop.
Server: If you can afford it, buy enough RAM that what you need will never exceed what you have. Using swap kills performance and if your swap ever has significant churn, it's probably worth the investment to add more RAM.
Desktop: Desktop RAM has taken off far beyond what you'll ever use. You could probably dispense with swap as well, but for one thing: hibernation. More and more desktops are supporting the technology, and for the cost of 1:1 swap:RAM you can hibernate. If you honestly hate hibernate, then it all comes down to expecting to use more RAM than you have. Possible, but unlikely.
Laptop: Certainly never go below 1:1 for the hibernation need. Going higher depends on how RAM starved you are versus how much disk you have. Lots of laptops have tons of RAM, but those cheap netbooks are pushing it lower. 1.5:1 is probably a good upper bound.
100 percent of the people who didn't finish reading Moby Dick don't think about fate and destiny versus chance. They haven't read the ending to care. At every point in the book, you as a reader have the choice to stop reading. At every point in the game, you as the player have the choice to stop playing. Failure in a game creates struggle where none would otherwise exist; only art critics choose to ignore the obvious intent of the designer. Your death in Shadow of the Colossus is not some statement about the implausible odds of success. By adding that challenge, it serves to place you in the lead character's role. You are a warrior, who's risked death in combat against beings of colossal scale, and you innately understand the gravity of it all.
A set of rules does not define or exclude art, there's no human element. But two people playing by a set of rules introduces humanity, and the actions they take may say something about themselves or ourselves. Portal is basically super duper excellent, and art. Despite you being the only human in the game, there is engaging dialog that serves to manipulate your own emotions, and that power comes from the struggle you undertook.
Of course, the ethics of video games is so overwhelmingly violent and the plot so irrelevant that people just skip the plot entirely.
Oracle was created by Ellison and two other guys, not by the person who fixed some bugs in 2004.
Which leads to the fundamental theorem of attribution: Programmer fame is directly correlated to the number of names attributed to the project. Ergo, Larry Ellison wrote Oracle!
How do you prevent Skype? The same way you enforce SIM locking. The system is open, but you and I can only target the Dalvik engine. Modification at lower levels requires an open platform, and nobody wants to subsidize the price of a phone that you can unlock yourself and take to the cheapest competitor. You don't buy computers from your cable company, stop buying phones from your carrier. Hell, most of the carriers have sold off their networks to third parties to operate on their behalf. It shouldn't be long before Wal-Mart becomes frustrated enough with the carrier cartel and launches their own prepaid phones leasing access from these networks.
That said, I think the source the "no Skype" thing seems to be based on a question about whether Skype was available or not. It could be that Skype is welcome to write such an app but hasn't.
There's a small inconvenience factor in having a proprietary headphone connector(you can usually find an adapter, and most of us use Bluetooth anyway).
The reports I'm reading suggest the G1 does not support AADP. I don't know if this is something that the chipset needs to support of if it's a matter software patches can resolve.
This goes back to a seemingly random post by Matt Zimmerman, CTO of Canonical. At the time I thought it was idle speculation about Launchpad, but perhaps it was really about that anti-phishing service.
Would you run an anti-phishing service without a EULA or disclaimer?
Fundamentally, college administration and policy is one of the agents of involuntary change, and I don't think it's a role they want to play but circumstance forces it upon them. People do try to enroll in college without sacrificing a lifestyle, but within the sphere of engineering at least, it's not tenable. You'll just drink yourself into a business degree or worse.
If admissions can recognize people on a trajectory, why should they risk having to sound the wake up call and waste their time and the students?
Remember the context: college admissions to prestigious schools. We're talking about two entirely different levels of failure. You've homed in on personal failure at life, while the subject is supposed to be academic failure. I've seen plenty of freshman fail out just due to video games, let alone underage drinking. I'm sure they'll get their shit together some day, but they're also not Ivy League material, in my esteem.
Getting kicked out of college for shitty grades is the kind of wake up call that works. Even the people in your anecdotes got their asses kicked by reality, an unvoluntary change. By 19 or 20, you should be halfway through a college degree if admitted, not a "complete fuckup." But having to kick people out is the sort of thing that admissions is supposed to prevent.
Anyways, the value of facebook was marginal at best, and completely ruined by opening it to non-students.
At 16 about 84% of our teens have drunk alcohol (legal age 18)
The beauty of legalization is that you can have a beer with your parents. A better comparison, however, would be the percentage of 16-year-olds who've gone drinking in private without any adults present. The atmosphere is entirely different, and good judgement is entirely absent. This is the atmosphere that leads to keg stands and binge drinking, drunk driving and death by alcohol poisoning. It's already something of a scourge on campus nationwide.
In the absence of legalization, it's also the only atmosphere that will exist with undergraduates, and I have to agree with recruiters that the poor judgment to participate in that at 16, 17 or 18 probably won't change course before something dramatic happens like a good friend's death, being kicked out for poor grades or worse.
So I guess, no we don't agree, but perhaps because the culture you're in serves to protect the young and the culture I'm in serves to fuel rebellion against common sense.
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Given that the Wii has an SD slot, wouldn't they already have the SD consortium patent licenses needed for SDHC?
DOS will still boot really fast. Simply put, it takes longer to boot because you are doing more. Probing buses for hardware, loading the driver and initializing it takes some time. And simply put, there's a hell of a lot more of it now. Firewire, Ethernet, bluetooth, wifi, shock protection, USB and anything you can plug into it, and so on. One advantage Mac has is a very limited set of hardware to check for. The modprobe section of Ubuntu boot would likely be shorter just by having fewer IDs to match against, not even considering the ability to spend more time on fewer drivers.
During the early days of Ubuntu a lot of time was spent beating the crap out of booting. And boot is a priority for the next release. So yes, we can and do look at the system software as well.
For a netboot / tablet, there's also the Ubuntu Netbook Remix which has some interesting (if a bit beta) programs to improve the experience. It's actually quite good on my larger, overpowered tablet.
A savegame is one of the paths to breaking the data / code barrier and running untrusted code. This has two implications: piracy and viruses. We've already seen how easy it was to run untrusted code via a simple savegame. Transfer the save from the Wii to the SD card, load up the save in a hex editor and start looking for meaning. Name strings, for example. If you rewrite the save to use an overly long name, maybe it notices and nothing happens. But maybe they forgot to check the horse's name. All you need is one weak path, and now you can run homebrew emulators that compete with Virtual Console games (you can also run Linux, but there's little point without wifi). You might also be able to
There's another problem however, that affects more than Nintendo's bottom line. Malicious virii. If there was a problem with game names, it could potentially wreck a chain of players. I imagine a game like Brawl does peer to peer multiplayer to reduce latency and bottlenecks, so you can't filter out bad packets. And you can't shut down online play without fiasco. So encrypting the save at least obscures where data that might be transferred over the net is stored.
Well this one in particular made their money by shorting those complex mortgage backed securities. A one time bet against those complex unfathomable instruments, and one timely placed. I'm not sure it really qualifies him as an expert on the subject he chose to write about, but I suppose he gets credit for jumping on the opportunity to write now, while people care about the economic crisis. It's too bad he's a terrible author.
"The Prince" was spectacularly bad advice. Anyone following it would surely disgrace not only themselves in the end, but also their families for generations to come. Families like the Medicci. His advice is basically: arm the citizens, emulate the tyrant son of the Pope, Cesare Borgia, and to appoint people who opposed you as advisors. This is a recipe for failure, amusingly justified throughout the book.
Under no circumstance does "The Prince" advocate keeping the people fat, happy and dumb. He advocates cultivating fear, since no action can be undertaken to be loved. He says it's better to be a miser than give to the people and risk being hated. He doesn't say much about keeping the people dumb, other than to say that deceiving them is okay. The quotes you offer are missing the context that basically, a prince has little control over making things "best" so here's a different method that's good enough. They're also subject to the wishes of translators, who perhaps bring in a small portion of their own bias to the work.
Machiavelli is a guy who wished to see the states of Italy returned to their former Roman republican glory. But the Prince was either a weapon to trick the Princes, or a satire that few people have the experience to recognize. You have no need to cite the least democratic writing to demonstrate his affinity -- he's written a massive volume on republics!
Then which Debian release is for desktops?
This is research. I don't what planet you're on, but where I come from the point is to push the frontier of what is possible, less than to push the frontier of what's useful. Less so would be "what's useful in Maya." Fixing bugs is not science. It's very boring engineering work and not something we should be allocating our best and brightest researchers for, to the benefit of a private company. Be angry, if you must, but be angry at Maya, not the people who don't own, don't control, and have no access to Maya or it's software.
Computer Science Unplugged is a curriculum out there designed to teach students computing principles, and they recommend a game like that. The game works like this: one person is playing the role of "programmer" and the rest of the class will try to follow their instructions. The goal is to duplicate a drawing that only the programmer can see.
The first game(s) the rules are easy -- the "computer" can ask questions and the class can see what the machine is doing. Then you introduce restrictions. The computer player will be restricted from speaking, for example. At the end you have the programmer obscured from the class, only able to speak to their classmates to describe a picture. As programmers we rarely get the "full picture" so to speak, and have to give precise instructions that both we and the computer understand identically.
The most important challenge to this as a teacher is selecting appropriate examples. They have a few, but I'd also add: a formula, with exponents, parenthesis, variables and subscripts. A pixel art smilely face ala CSS testing. A curve. A full binary tree with 4 levels. A small section of text, with bold, underline, paragraphs and bulletpoints. These are harder, but high school students can do it and it illustrates both rendering techniques and the need for language. For highschool students, I'd suggest spending a class on this, and then asking them to either write a paper (1 page tops) on the significance, or if the class is fast and small enough, hold a discussion.
So if I use a normal curve instead of a sine, we're no longer violating the patent?
Or more amusingly, a cosine instead of sine, shifted pi/2?
Vista's handwriting was the first Windows to accept training. I'd wager one reason is that there's no way the average user would know something's gone wrong or what a bad sample looked like. But the tablet offered another improvement: intelligent scratch out. As an XP user, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. There's a specific pattern to erase.
Of course, mileage varies, so you can't compare recognition rates between people effectively. Even less perceived recognition rates as stated on Internet forums. Personally, I find that Window's tool recognizes cursive better than print. I don't normally write in cursive so this is a bit annoying.
How much RAM do you have and use?
How much disk do you have?
What sort of usage profile is it?
The last is the most general. There's three categories: server, desktop and laptop.
Server:
If you can afford it, buy enough RAM that what you need will never exceed what you have. Using swap kills performance and if your swap ever has significant churn, it's probably worth the investment to add more RAM.
Desktop:
Desktop RAM has taken off far beyond what you'll ever use. You could probably dispense with swap as well, but for one thing: hibernation. More and more desktops are supporting the technology, and for the cost of 1:1 swap:RAM you can hibernate. If you honestly hate hibernate, then it all comes down to expecting to use more RAM than you have. Possible, but unlikely.
Laptop:
Certainly never go below 1:1 for the hibernation need. Going higher depends on how RAM starved you are versus how much disk you have. Lots of laptops have tons of RAM, but those cheap netbooks are pushing it lower. 1.5:1 is probably a good upper bound.
Exaggeration of course, being the fundamental tool of humor.
100 percent of the people who didn't finish reading Moby Dick don't think about fate and destiny versus chance. They haven't read the ending to care. At every point in the book, you as a reader have the choice to stop reading. At every point in the game, you as the player have the choice to stop playing. Failure in a game creates struggle where none would otherwise exist; only art critics choose to ignore the obvious intent of the designer. Your death in Shadow of the Colossus is not some statement about the implausible odds of success. By adding that challenge, it serves to place you in the lead character's role. You are a warrior, who's risked death in combat against beings of colossal scale, and you innately understand the gravity of it all.
A set of rules does not define or exclude art, there's no human element. But two people playing by a set of rules introduces humanity, and the actions they take may say something about themselves or ourselves. Portal is basically super duper excellent, and art. Despite you being the only human in the game, there is engaging dialog that serves to manipulate your own emotions, and that power comes from the struggle you undertook.
Of course, the ethics of video games is so overwhelmingly violent and the plot so irrelevant that people just skip the plot entirely.
Which leads to the fundamental theorem of attribution: Programmer fame is directly correlated to the number of names attributed to the project. Ergo, Larry Ellison wrote Oracle!
I didn't realize access to unlocked phones was a political asylum worthy cause.
Or maybe Atwood and I read the same Nielsen web readability articles.
How do you prevent Skype? The same way you enforce SIM locking. The system is open, but you and I can only target the Dalvik engine. Modification at lower levels requires an open platform, and nobody wants to subsidize the price of a phone that you can unlock yourself and take to the cheapest competitor. You don't buy computers from your cable company, stop buying phones from your carrier. Hell, most of the carriers have sold off their networks to third parties to operate on their behalf. It shouldn't be long before Wal-Mart becomes frustrated enough with the carrier cartel and launches their own prepaid phones leasing access from these networks.
That said, I think the source the "no Skype" thing seems to be based on a question about whether Skype was available or not. It could be that Skype is welcome to write such an app but hasn't.
The reports I'm reading suggest the G1 does not support AADP. I don't know if this is something that the chipset needs to support of if it's a matter software patches can resolve.
jldugger@jldugger:~ $ lsb_release -a
LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.2-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-noarch:cxx-2.0-ia32:cxx-3.0-ia32:cxx-3.1-ia32:cxx-3.2-ia32:cxx-2.0-noarch:cxx-3.0-noarch:cxx-3.1-noarch:cxx-3.2-noarch:desktop-3.1-ia32:desktop-3.2-ia32:desktop-3.1-noarch:desktop-3.2-noarch:graphics-2.0-ia32:graphics-3.0-ia32:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.2-ia32:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.0-noarch:graphics-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.2-noarch:languages-3.2-ia32:languages-3.2-noarch:multimedia-3.2-ia32:multimedia-3.2-noarch:printing-3.2-ia32:printing-3.2-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
Codename: hardy
Perhaps it's not as simple as you'd think.
This goes back to a seemingly random post by Matt Zimmerman, CTO of Canonical. At the time I thought it was idle speculation about Launchpad, but perhaps it was really about that anti-phishing service.
Would you run an anti-phishing service without a EULA or disclaimer?
Fundamentally, college administration and policy is one of the agents of involuntary change, and I don't think it's a role they want to play but circumstance forces it upon them. People do try to enroll in college without sacrificing a lifestyle, but within the sphere of engineering at least, it's not tenable. You'll just drink yourself into a business degree or worse.
If admissions can recognize people on a trajectory, why should they risk having to sound the wake up call and waste their time and the students?
Remember the context: college admissions to prestigious schools. We're talking about two entirely different levels of failure. You've homed in on personal failure at life, while the subject is supposed to be academic failure. I've seen plenty of freshman fail out just due to video games, let alone underage drinking. I'm sure they'll get their shit together some day, but they're also not Ivy League material, in my esteem.
Getting kicked out of college for shitty grades is the kind of wake up call that works. Even the people in your anecdotes got their asses kicked by reality, an unvoluntary change. By 19 or 20, you should be halfway through a college degree if admitted, not a "complete fuckup." But having to kick people out is the sort of thing that admissions is supposed to prevent.
Anyways, the value of facebook was marginal at best, and completely ruined by opening it to non-students.
And in some cases, drunk cycling!
One quibble:
The beauty of legalization is that you can have a beer with your parents. A better comparison, however, would be the percentage of 16-year-olds who've gone drinking in private without any adults present. The atmosphere is entirely different, and good judgement is entirely absent. This is the atmosphere that leads to keg stands and binge drinking, drunk driving and death by alcohol poisoning. It's already something of a scourge on campus nationwide.
In the absence of legalization, it's also the only atmosphere that will exist with undergraduates, and I have to agree with recruiters that the poor judgment to participate in that at 16, 17 or 18 probably won't change course before something dramatic happens like a good friend's death, being kicked out for poor grades or worse.
So I guess, no we don't agree, but perhaps because the culture you're in serves to protect the young and the culture I'm in serves to fuel rebellion against common sense.