Probably the single best thing about the current LED bulbs is you can throw them away. All florescent bulbs(CFLs included) contain mercury. Also, CFLs that operate in freezing conditions are very expensive and still don't work that well. LEDs can also be dimmed easily and come in any color you want, or even every color.
Gizmo runs it's service over regular SIP, so there are already plenty of open-source clients that work with it... it's kind of like using AOL's AIM on Linux instead of Pidgin.
The blurb for this is odd... as far as I know there isn't an official iPhone client(although there are several generic SIP iPhone clients).
I'm very confused... I've been using Gizmo for years and there has never been an official iPhone client, and the best thing about Gizmo is that it uses REAL SIP, so it works with any standard SIP client(unlike Skype).
I joined recently to update the page of a candidate running for Ted Kennedy's seat (election will be done and over with by January). I wasn't updating much, adding the candidate's birth date, linking to a book he had written, and adding the part copied from other candidate's wiki pages that links him to the Senate race. After a full day of back in forth with an editor deleting whatever I had just added, the only think that made it through was the link to the book he had written. And I think that just slipped through. Not worth the effort at all trying to update a page with new info. That ends my time working with Wikipedia.
Just pulled the wikipedia articles for the five candidates... they all have their birth-dates and none mention a book.
Yep, look at the Linux Kernel. Early on it was easy to get patches accepted, now you better have everything perfect before thinking about attempting to submit a patch.
The article at http://wikibin.org/articles/symphony-cms.html is completely unverifiable and shouldn't be allowed in wikipedia. Nobody has written anything interesting about Symphony CMS... really anywhere, and the little that is there is in blogs and other unverifiable sources.
I'm pretty sure there is a market for a super efficient netbook that is easy to setup.
Current netbooks aren't any easier to use/maintain than full blown computers and smartphones aren't good for more than light duty web browsing and messaging.
I'm not certain why the first launch of an application on OSX is so slow, but it seems to be primarily hard-drive speed bound. The first time I launch OOo after rebooting it takes ~30 seconds, but re-opening it only takes ~3 seconds. iWorks takes ~45 seconds the first time and ~4 seconds afterward. I know faster hard-disks directly correlate to faster launch times. I'm guessing the app files are cached from launching the first time. I'm guessing reading the applications off the disk is happening much slower than it should on OSX.
Applications on OSX are really folders with lots of files.
Since you never turn them off, they give you instant access to whatever you want. The computers running ChromeOS would have to be turned off between uses. after all, energy-miser components don't come cheap, and if there's one thing we already know about ChromeOS, it's targeted at CHEAP! One of the advantages in almost every article is the cost savings wrt licensing.
If they're going to make it as energy-efficient as a smartphone, it would end up costing as much as an unsubsidized smartphone ($600 and up), because advertisers won't pay for click-thrus from people who are too cheap to spend even $200 on a netbook, so forget about subsidizing it with advertising.
High-end phones probably cost around $250 to make.
Chrome OS is targeting ARM netbooks, which could allow it to have some crazy efficiency. The ARM netbooks are nearly here, what is needed is a good standardized ARM netbook OS. I love my eee900, but the pegatron netbook is half the thickness, should be $199, has an 8hour battery, and is fanless ( http://www.slashgear.com/pegatron-netbook-freescale-cpu-8hr-battery-super-slim-3g-video-0445962/ )
The longest comments I've written are definitions of terminology. If I'm working on a problem that is truly unique, I'll make up terminology for the different parts of the problem so that I can write short simple comments throughout the rest of the code.
I normally put these in the primary header file, but it probably is a better idea to put these in a separate file.
I'd rather see constant updates, then, after a week, see a full write-up on the situation with sources, quotes, facts, etc. Let me know what's going on, as you hear it, but give me the NEWS at some point instead of just a bunch of repeated text.
I guess this would be similar to how Wikipedia operates, but non-communal and with an finish-date.
It's NEVER safer to add an extra point of failure no matter what the application.
Acceleration is a serial network... I have no idea what the real numbers are, but if the dangerous failure rates were:
Mechanical pedal = 10hr MTBF
Accelerator wire = 5hr MTBF
Butterfly valve = 10hr MTBF
and
Electronic pedal = 10hr MTBF
Software = 20hr MTBF
Electronic hardware = 20hr MTBF
Electronic valve = 20hr MTBF
Which would give manual acceleration a 1.5hr MTBF, and electronic acceleration a 4hr MTBF. Adding failure points into a system can make it much more reliable if they are less likely to happen.
I know it's technically possible. Actually, some cards could support separate channels. It's unlikely that this will ever work reliably though.
Apple has only used 4 wifi chipsets and officially supports the feature, so they can actually support features like this reliably. If you look at the list of "supported" cards for Connectify, you see you have to have certain revisions of firmware for the card to be supported... it's likely this is going to break between driver releases.
Is that similar to the Internet Connection Sharing that Windows has had since (at least) Windows 95?
Yes and no, Windows ICS is only DHCP/NAT software. OSX Internet Sharing also allows you to configure your Wifi card into access point mode. Connectify is promising to allow you to run Windows wifi cards in access-point mode WHILE using it in regular structured mode... which seems like a dubious claim. The makers of Connectify haven't yet listed which cards they are going to support.
In short
Windows ICS is just a simple DHCP and NAT server
OSX IS is a simple DHCP and NAT server, plus access-point mode supporting WEP
Connectify claims to be a DHCP and NAT server, plus access-point mode supporting WPA, plus structured mode
While this ended in a non-incident there should still be some sort of repercussion for those actions. These men chose to let themselves become distracted.
This very much reminds me of Swartzenager's wife. I do think we are generally too soft on people who do stupid crap like this and are lucky enough not to kill people.
There seems to be a lot of confusion going on here. The summary is really bad.
Drugs have to be approved by the FDA before they can be sold, which is where this new law comes in. Follow-on/generic drugs don't have to go through the HUGE amount of work to be approved by the FDA if they can prove their drugs are "identical in dose, strength, route of administration, safety, efficacy, and intended use."
You get a patent for 20 years, but drug patents usually have a 5-10 year of useful life after developing them and getting approval to sell them. Usually the patent is on some formulation of known existing chemicals and not on the active ingredient. Because it's usually so much easier/cheaper to make the follow-on/generic drugs, the FDA grants a 5 year monopoly to the first company that gets a drug to market where generics don't just have to prove they are identical to a current drug.
I'm pretty sure you are mistaken. Each model of playback device has a unique decryption key, but the individual devices of the same type use the same decryption key in both the AACS and BD+ schemes.
AnyDVD HD plays/cracks everything currently out. The only difficult part is properly emulating the weird virtual machine that BD+ uses.
It's no more legal in the US for you to personally make or buy a device that uses a patent without a license than if you made a company that sells the same device. The one exception is for "philosophical inquiry, curiosity, or amusement", which has been construed VERY narrowly by the courts. This applies to university/school settings as well.
If Apple doesn't indemnify their users, Nokia could sue all iPhone users. A famous example of this situation is Microsoft SQL Server 7.0. Microsoft was infringing on a patent in 7.0, and ended the disputer by licensing the patent... but only for future versions. Anyone running 7.0, or selling products that use 7.0, are infringing on the patent. I don't believe anyone but Microsoft was sued over this though... http://www.gahtan.com/alan/articles/200306%20Patent%20Infringement.htm
DRM would fail in a truly free market because all producers can do is revoke keys. First, when a bluray key for a player becomes known, they can revoke that key, but that also disables all the legit players with that key. A second bigger problem for bluray and other HD DRM is the weak link of HDCP. HDCP keys are trivial to acquire from devices, so their is no way to revoke enough keys to stop the pirates.
DRM would be practically worthless in a truly free market. Key revoking is really only used as a threat, it can't really be invoked; at least not to an extant that would actually stop pirates. Pirates who would no longer be pirates, but just sellers with clearly superior versions of the same product.
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Probably the single best thing about the current LED bulbs is you can throw them away. All florescent bulbs(CFLs included) contain mercury. Also, CFLs that operate in freezing conditions are very expensive and still don't work that well. LEDs can also be dimmed easily and come in any color you want, or even every color.
LED technology is still progressing rapidly, so hopefully we will see LED bulbs that trounce CFL efficiency pretty soon.
Gizmo runs it's service over regular SIP, so there are already plenty of open-source clients that work with it... it's kind of like using AOL's AIM on Linux instead of Pidgin.
The blurb for this is odd... as far as I know there isn't an official iPhone client(although there are several generic SIP iPhone clients).
I'm very confused... I've been using Gizmo for years and there has never been an official iPhone client, and the best thing about Gizmo is that it uses REAL SIP, so it works with any standard SIP client(unlike Skype).
I joined recently to update the page of a candidate running for Ted Kennedy's seat (election will be done and over with by January). I wasn't updating much, adding the candidate's birth date, linking to a book he had written, and adding the part copied from other candidate's wiki pages that links him to the Senate race. After a full day of back in forth with an editor deleting whatever I had just added, the only think that made it through was the link to the book he had written. And I think that just slipped through. Not worth the effort at all trying to update a page with new info. That ends my time working with Wikipedia.
Just pulled the wikipedia articles for the five candidates... they all have their birth-dates and none mention a book.
Who were you talking about? If they weren't really a candidate or Ted Kennedy's seat then your work should have been deleted.
Yep, look at the Linux Kernel. Early on it was easy to get patches accepted, now you better have everything perfect before thinking about attempting to submit a patch.
Honestly, I can understand deleting that.
The article at http://wikibin.org/articles/symphony-cms.html is completely unverifiable and shouldn't be allowed in wikipedia. Nobody has written anything interesting about Symphony CMS... really anywhere, and the little that is there is in blogs and other unverifiable sources.
I'm pretty sure there is a market for a super efficient netbook that is easy to setup.
Current netbooks aren't any easier to use/maintain than full blown computers and smartphones aren't good for more than light duty web browsing and messaging.
Applications on OSX are really folders with lots of files.
Since you never turn them off, they give you instant access to whatever you want. The computers running ChromeOS would have to be turned off between uses. after all, energy-miser components don't come cheap, and if there's one thing we already know about ChromeOS, it's targeted at CHEAP! One of the advantages in almost every article is the cost savings wrt licensing.
If they're going to make it as energy-efficient as a smartphone, it would end up costing as much as an unsubsidized smartphone ($600 and up), because advertisers won't pay for click-thrus from people who are too cheap to spend even $200 on a netbook, so forget about subsidizing it with advertising.
High-end phones probably cost around $250 to make.
Chrome OS is targeting ARM netbooks, which could allow it to have some crazy efficiency. The ARM netbooks are nearly here, what is needed is a good standardized ARM netbook OS. I love my eee900, but the pegatron netbook is half the thickness, should be $199, has an 8hour battery, and is fanless ( http://www.slashgear.com/pegatron-netbook-freescale-cpu-8hr-battery-super-slim-3g-video-0445962/ )
The longest comments I've written are definitions of terminology. If I'm working on a problem that is truly unique, I'll make up terminology for the different parts of the problem so that I can write short simple comments throughout the rest of the code.
I normally put these in the primary header file, but it probably is a better idea to put these in a separate file.
I'd rather see constant updates, then, after a week, see a full write-up on the situation with sources, quotes, facts, etc. Let me know what's going on, as you hear it, but give me the NEWS at some point instead of just a bunch of repeated text.
I guess this would be similar to how Wikipedia operates, but non-communal and with an finish-date.
It's a modern "Not Necessarily The News".
Not really, the modern "Not Necessarily The News" is The Onion News Network.
Craig Ferguson seems like a better source of news than most "news" shows...
It's NEVER safer to add an extra point of failure no matter what the application.
Acceleration is a serial network... I have no idea what the real numbers are, but if the dangerous failure rates were:
and
Which would give manual acceleration a 1.5hr MTBF, and electronic acceleration a 4hr MTBF. Adding failure points into a system can make it much more reliable if they are less likely to happen.
I know it's technically possible. Actually, some cards could support separate channels. It's unlikely that this will ever work reliably though.
Apple has only used 4 wifi chipsets and officially supports the feature, so they can actually support features like this reliably. If you look at the list of "supported" cards for Connectify, you see you have to have certain revisions of firmware for the card to be supported... it's likely this is going to break between driver releases.
Never mind, they list the cards they are trying to support
http://connectify.me/docs/
Is that similar to the Internet Connection Sharing that Windows has had since (at least) Windows 95?
Yes and no, Windows ICS is only DHCP/NAT software. OSX Internet Sharing also allows you to configure your Wifi card into access point mode. Connectify is promising to allow you to run Windows wifi cards in access-point mode WHILE using it in regular structured mode... which seems like a dubious claim. The makers of Connectify haven't yet listed which cards they are going to support.
In short
While this ended in a non-incident there should still be some sort of repercussion for those actions. These men chose to let themselves become distracted.
This very much reminds me of Swartzenager's wife. I do think we are generally too soft on people who do stupid crap like this and are lucky enough not to kill people.
There seems to be a lot of confusion going on here. The summary is really bad.
Drugs have to be approved by the FDA before they can be sold, which is where this new law comes in. Follow-on/generic drugs don't have to go through the HUGE amount of work to be approved by the FDA if they can prove their drugs are "identical in dose, strength, route of administration, safety, efficacy, and intended use."
You get a patent for 20 years, but drug patents usually have a 5-10 year of useful life after developing them and getting approval to sell them. Usually the patent is on some formulation of known existing chemicals and not on the active ingredient. Because it's usually so much easier/cheaper to make the follow-on/generic drugs, the FDA grants a 5 year monopoly to the first company that gets a drug to market where generics don't just have to prove they are identical to a current drug.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_drug
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Price_Competition_and_Patent_Term_Restoration_Act
I'm pretty sure you are mistaken. Each model of playback device has a unique decryption key, but the individual devices of the same type use the same decryption key in both the AACS and BD+ schemes.
AnyDVD HD plays/cracks everything currently out. The only difficult part is properly emulating the weird virtual machine that BD+ uses.
All the easier to crack... if we only need to find one key this becomes trivial. The key to decode any DRM is in the hardware or software of the product somewhere... with $10K 40000X scanning electron microscopes, it's just a matter of time before any important key is found. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2008/03/gallery_nanotech?slide=7&slideView=9
If any company could legally take a found key and produce hardware/software for it, then DRM becomes futile.
It's no more legal in the US for you to personally make or buy a device that uses a patent without a license than if you made a company that sells the same device. The one exception is for "philosophical inquiry, curiosity, or amusement", which has been construed VERY narrowly by the courts. This applies to university/school settings as well.
If Apple doesn't indemnify their users, Nokia could sue all iPhone users. A famous example of this situation is Microsoft SQL Server 7.0. Microsoft was infringing on a patent in 7.0, and ended the disputer by licensing the patent... but only for future versions. Anyone running 7.0, or selling products that use 7.0, are infringing on the patent. I don't believe anyone but Microsoft was sued over this though... http://www.gahtan.com/alan/articles/200306%20Patent%20Infringement.htm
DRM would fail in a truly free market because all producers can do is revoke keys. First, when a bluray key for a player becomes known, they can revoke that key, but that also disables all the legit players with that key. A second bigger problem for bluray and other HD DRM is the weak link of HDCP. HDCP keys are trivial to acquire from devices, so their is no way to revoke enough keys to stop the pirates.
DRM would be practically worthless in a truly free market. Key revoking is really only used as a threat, it can't really be invoked; at least not to an extant that would actually stop pirates. Pirates who would no longer be pirates, but just sellers with clearly superior versions of the same product.
doubtful, maybe 3% by October 21st.
The drop won't register because the day after the RCs expire, the retail copies will be released.