Surely I'm not the only one who looks at the supercomputer in her pocket which is capable of speaker independent voice recognition, and often wonders whether encrypted text versions of *all* the conversations she's been having in its proximity are getting squirted off somewhere s33kr1t in the middle of the night, when no-one would notice a stray packet or two...
I can't help but wonder why it's always straight, white, rich men who always proclaim the end of privacy? The total lack of empathy that comes with being abjectly devoid of anything approaching discrimination or prejudice is a wonder to behold.:)
I've been recently been wiring my drumkit for recording and have been finding that actions that I consciously perform -- flams in particular -- are timed in the 2-10ms range. Hell, 150ms is rolling through four fingers on a surface less than twice a second. Pretty much everyone can do better than that.
Sure, the OP's figures above might apply to single-shot actions, as opposed to repeated or sequential actions, but 150ms is still a damn long time.
Does the use of Zip+4 strike anyone as a little odd? After all, it allows for 1E+09 entities, and the population of the US is only around 3E+08. Sounds like a serial number to me.
what's the point of giving uber-hard math, where kids just drop off and don't give a shit anymore, and doesn't stop them from getting their diploma in the end anyway? I went to maybe 3 math classes in my last year, and still got my diploma with flying colours. It's not about making it easier, it's about making it useful.
Perhaps some of the point is, for once in the cess-pool that is the modern, utility and mediocrity obsessed tertiary education system, to attempt to provide broad-ranging bases of abstract knowledge to the students who actually want to learn, and are capable of doing so. That way we'll at least get some people who can work at the coal face of knowledge creation as opposed to just another batch of clueless, money-grabbing code monkeys?
The sort of useful you're talking about is concerned with places where all the interesting, hard problems have already been solved. Sounds dull as dishwater if you've got a brain in your head.
I wrote a novel during Nanowrimo this year, and I've been using OpenOffice Writer to format the text into a nice looking book layout. I've previously been a Word 2003 user for about five years, and I have to say that I really don't find anything problematic with the transition.
I've got Writer on an Eee 1005HA-V with 2GB of RAM and it seems to load acceptibly quickly, and whilst the interface is a little different to Word 2003, there's nothing particularly missing or broken that I've encountered as yet: some features are actually better (multipage zoom out, for instance). Doing nice looking book layout is about the same level of hassle that it is in Word, and it seems to perform around about as fast for the task. When I run Writer on my quad-core desktop it screams along doubleplusfine.
On the basis of my experience, I'm really left kinda skeptical at the level of bad experience other people report with Writer. I previously tried OO version 2.x and discovered it sucked rather radically, but version 3+ seems a perfectly useable tool. Perhaps when I get to writing a technical document or textbook in Writer, I'll bump into problems, but I just don't see it for now.
I messed around with versions of Word past 2003 a few times in various workplaces, but none of them ever provided any functionality I really needed, and just shuffled the other stuff around in the interface to irritating effect.
Given these thoughts, I think Microsoft should certainly be worried: I'll probably never install Word again.
In a lot of the above comments, the primary source of dissatisfaction seems to be the firmware. Given that Amazon is doing firmware updates over the air, writing custom firmware should be possible without even having to crack the device. Anyone have any data in this regard? What does the Amazon EULA have to say?
I was starting to encounter similar problems a year or three ago, and I'm also pretty introverted. More than that, I got sick of the wasted hour spent getting to the gym, back again, and getting changed before and after.
So I hired myself a stationary exercise bike -- I go pretty hard (HR 160) for 40 minutes, 3 times a week, generally in the mornings (apparently makes it easier to get into fat-burning time). I was doing 5 times a week when I was wanting to actively lose weight. I'm guessing that 3 times a week will do for maintenance.
Beyond helping my weight and self-esteem and suchlike things, it means I actually feel healthier, get sick less, recover from nights of drinking better, and sleep better. Highly recommended.
I hire the bike I've got, as I tend to sweat a lot, and salt's pretty corrosive in the long term. After I wear this bike out, I'll just get the rental people to replace it. You could just buy one, but which ever way you go, make sure you physically try it out first -- don't just buy online.
So, this is a completely stripped back to the bare bones version of Windows. And it eats 40MB (IIRC?) of runtime memory. What I want to know is, what, exactly *is* included in this 40MB of running binary footprint?
Seems like a lot for a "minimal windows footprint", especially compared with, say, QNX...
And thus you illustrate the entire problem that vexes libertarians throughout the western world, albeit in miniture: a scary enough threat will make people *want* to give up crazy degrees of liberty. Use your brain for thinking, not just your heart.
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Surely I'm not the only one who looks at the supercomputer in her pocket which is capable of speaker independent voice recognition, and often wonders whether encrypted text versions of *all* the conversations she's been having in its proximity are getting squirted off somewhere s33kr1t in the middle of the night, when no-one would notice a stray packet or two...
It is just me, or does this story sound like a question from a discrete maths exam?
In other shock news today the American military-industrial complex suggested that the world become more paranoid and adversarial.
I can't help but wonder why it's always straight, white, rich men who always proclaim the end of privacy? The total lack of empathy that comes with being abjectly devoid of anything approaching discrimination or prejudice is a wonder to behold. :)
I call bullshit.
I've been recently been wiring my drumkit for recording and have been finding that actions that I consciously perform -- flams in particular -- are timed in the 2-10ms range. Hell, 150ms is rolling through four fingers on a surface less than twice a second. Pretty much everyone can do better than that.
Sure, the OP's figures above might apply to single-shot actions, as opposed to repeated or sequential actions, but 150ms is still a damn long time.
Let me google that for you. Or repost the link from a couple of posts back.
Does the use of Zip+4 strike anyone as a little odd? After all, it allows for 1E+09 entities, and the population of the US is only around 3E+08. Sounds like a serial number to me.
Oh? Please show working.
what's the point of giving uber-hard math, where kids just drop off and don't give a shit anymore, and doesn't stop them from getting their diploma in the end anyway? I went to maybe 3 math classes in my last year, and still got my diploma with flying colours. It's not about making it easier, it's about making it useful.
Perhaps some of the point is, for once in the cess-pool that is the modern, utility and mediocrity obsessed tertiary education system, to attempt to provide broad-ranging bases of abstract knowledge to the students who actually want to learn, and are capable of doing so. That way we'll at least get some people who can work at the coal face of knowledge creation as opposed to just another batch of clueless, money-grabbing code monkeys?
The sort of useful you're talking about is concerned with places where all the interesting, hard problems have already been solved. Sounds dull as dishwater if you've got a brain in your head.
Up next, dogs and cats living together.
I wrote a novel during Nanowrimo this year, and I've been using OpenOffice Writer to format the text into a nice looking book layout. I've previously been a Word 2003 user for about five years, and I have to say that I really don't find anything problematic with the transition.
I've got Writer on an Eee 1005HA-V with 2GB of RAM and it seems to load acceptibly quickly, and whilst the interface is a little different to Word 2003, there's nothing particularly missing or broken that I've encountered as yet: some features are actually better (multipage zoom out, for instance). Doing nice looking book layout is about the same level of hassle that it is in Word, and it seems to perform around about as fast for the task. When I run Writer on my quad-core desktop it screams along doubleplusfine.
On the basis of my experience, I'm really left kinda skeptical at the level of bad experience other people report with Writer. I previously tried OO version 2.x and discovered it sucked rather radically, but version 3+ seems a perfectly useable tool. Perhaps when I get to writing a technical document or textbook in Writer, I'll bump into problems, but I just don't see it for now.
I messed around with versions of Word past 2003 a few times in various workplaces, but none of them ever provided any functionality I really needed, and just shuffled the other stuff around in the interface to irritating effect.
Given these thoughts, I think Microsoft should certainly be worried: I'll probably never install Word again.
"I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die."
Wow! Nice stealth misogyny, dude!
In a lot of the above comments, the primary source of dissatisfaction seems to be the firmware. Given that Amazon is doing firmware updates over the air, writing custom firmware should be possible without even having to crack the device. Anyone have any data in this regard? What does the Amazon EULA have to say?
I was starting to encounter similar problems a year or three ago, and I'm also pretty introverted. More than that, I got sick of the wasted hour spent getting to the gym, back again, and getting changed before and after.
So I hired myself a stationary exercise bike -- I go pretty hard (HR 160) for 40 minutes, 3 times a week, generally in the mornings (apparently makes it easier to get into fat-burning time). I was doing 5 times a week when I was wanting to actively lose weight. I'm guessing that 3 times a week will do for maintenance.
Beyond helping my weight and self-esteem and suchlike things, it means I actually feel healthier, get sick less, recover from nights of drinking better, and sleep better. Highly recommended.
I hire the bike I've got, as I tend to sweat a lot, and salt's pretty corrosive in the long term. After I wear this bike out, I'll just get the rental people to replace it. You could just buy one, but which ever way you go, make sure you physically try it out first -- don't just buy online.
You damn shrimp get off my lawn... :)
... wives that read \. too. What's with the backslash? Trying to escape a period? Whoa! Menstrual cycle humour?! On Slashdot?!Up next, dogs and cats living together...
So, this is a completely stripped back to the bare bones version of Windows. And it eats 40MB (IIRC?) of runtime memory. What I want to know is, what, exactly *is* included in this 40MB of running binary footprint?
Seems like a lot for a "minimal windows footprint", especially compared with, say, QNX...
Erm, the pertinent point is that we *remember* this one: the alternative versions of you equally remember the histories appropriate to them.
"...and have no spine to stand up against the real bullies."
:)
News flash: you *are* the real bullies.
The prosecution rests. :)
The prosecution presents Exhibit Q, which clearly indicates that it is a failure of attitude that keeps Linux from the hands of the common user.
Okay illiterate drone: put down the language and step away.
Surely the word "encapsulation" could be pushed into service here? What is wrong with these people?
I suspect it's another case of "blurt out the first thing that comes into your head" disease. Retards.
And thus you illustrate the entire problem that vexes libertarians throughout the western world, albeit in miniture: a scary enough threat will make people *want* to give up crazy degrees of liberty. Use your brain for thinking, not just your heart.
Just remember that if you get the job, the words "My daleks are supreme" are your cue to pull the plug.
If you're going to quote The Young Ones, get it right:
"This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence."