No, the best thing that Microsoft could do is offer Vista users a free upgrade to Windows 7. It's bad enough that early adopters had to deal with shitty driver support, an unpolished security system, and rough edges all around. Now they cant even use new software from the same damn company that wrote the OS. On computers as new as 18 months old. Many people were avoiding Vista like the plague but a few trusted Microsoft (or were oblivious), and now the thanks they get is a big middle finger. If Microsoft is going to treat Window 7 as a mandatory service pack for Vista then they should price it as such.
No kidding. NY shouldn't have gotten one. They are just a stone's throw away from the Smithsonian, and had little to do with the space program. Houston or Huntsville would have been better choices for historic reasons, and Houston or Chicago for most widespread access to the public.
That is the total speedup for SPDY vs HTTP. If you look at the chart where they used SPDY with and without server push or server hint, there is at most a 3% increase from those features. SPDY is an improvement over HTTP. Those two features are not.
I actually bought an HP 35 thinking that and was very disappointed. After being spoiled by the practically infinite stack on the HP 28s and 48g, reverting to the 3-element stack of the "good old days" was very limiting. To me the huge stack is an integral part of what makes RPN so effective.
I should check out what Casio has these days. I used a one all through high school, and it really was a good scientific calculator.
The HP-48 and TI-85 were a good value 15 years ago. Now they are nice, but way overpriced. Seriously, the old HP scientific calculators used to be really expensive. Now you can get a decent scientific calculator for $10-15. Why isn't the same true of graphing calculators?
I appreciate the value of purpose-built devices, and agree that a real calculator is nicer to use than software on a phone. But that is not why those calculators cost so much. They charge that just because they can, because it is a captive market.
Worse, there is no middle ground. I really don't need a graphing calculator; if I am doing graphing it is easier to bust out Matlab. On the other-hand, simple scientific calculators are more limiting than I would like. It'd be nice to have an calculator with a multiline display and plenty of memory for variables/stack, maybe with the ability to program commonly used functions, and preferably with an RPN option. In other words something on par with the HP-28, but in a more standard form factor. There really isn't anything out there like that though.
If the system is designed such that anyone can choose who they are going to trust, then people who can't make that decision on their own can still rely on others, such as the browser vendors, to make good default decisions for them. As it is now, it is unfeasible for either individuals or browser vendors to stop trusting large CAs due to the disruption it would cause.
The client has to initiate the connection with the server, these features just allow the sever to send back more data than was requested. If there was a bug in how the client processed the data then it could be exploited as a security request. However that is already true today of the data the client is requesting. This extra data will be in the same format as if the client directly requested it (except with the X-Associated-Content header added), so the same code should be used to parse it.
Like I mentioned above, I don't think the push features of SPDY improve it enough to be worthwhile, but I don't think they are a security problem.
Yeah, and by their own testing, the push features only resulted in an additional -1% to +3% improvement (yes it made things slightly slower in one case). The additional complexity added by those features is not justified by their benefits. They should just drop them.
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Of course, Iâ(TM)m not totally serious about this particular application, but I wanted to show how you can make your own custom USB human interface device
The actual point was exactly what the summary said; to show how to make simple USB HID devices. The specific example used to demonstrate this was immaterial. In other words, just because "Hello World" is a lame program doesn't mean that tutorials including it are.
Manager B: And why do we make this custom theme for a jailbroken iPhone? Manager A: To promote our Scion line of cars which embrace the idea of user customization. Manager B: And what did it cost us to make it? Manager A: Less than producing a single magazine ad. Manager B: And how exactly do we benefit from this? Manager A: Market research has shown that the demographic who is interested in jailbreaking their iPhone are prime advertising targets for the Scion as they share similar interests. Manager B: So what I want to know is: Who signed off on this nonsense and how can we stop it right now? Manager A: You did. You're call on whether it's worth fighting with Apple over.
Nearly all the other cheap airfare sites on the web use ITA's software (Orbitz, Bing, etc). The main concern with Google acquiring ITA wasn't that they would kill it - they fully intend to support it and integrate it with their other search offerings. Rather people were concerned that Google would cutoff all of ITAs current customers, or make them irrelevant by providing results directly in their search page.
The only ads I ever got on Pandora before paying were those "cheap vacations for students" ads over and over and over again. Nothing localized/individualized at all.
Over the years that I have been in school there have been a ton of things that we learned that couldn't be determined by a simple test. No amount of short essays will tell you how good a student is at structuring a long research paper or defended argument. No amount of short word problems will show you if a student is capable of applying what he learned the way a math or science design project will.
I've taken qualifying exams and the such, and they aren't any better to teach against than crappy exams. They are harder, because there is a lot more information you have to cram into your head and spit back out with no spare time to think, but it still doesn't represent an accurate assessment of how well you really understand and are able to apply the subject.
I've had teachers that taught against the test, and their classes were worthless. No improvements to the test will make them teach any better, but as long a test grades are what schools are judged on, teachers like that will be safe in their jobs.
It is useful to let you know that your information has been compromised so you can take any appropriate action. The apology is just extra words, not the purpose of the communication.
Yeah, the one's I've seen in the past were based on strobing at a specific frequency that made you very disoriented and nauseous. Probably more dangerous for epileptics but they also wore off more quickly. I'd be worried about permanent damage from something that takes 20 minutes to regain your vision.
I looked at the Wildfire and my first thought was "that doesn't look bad; basically the same as the Magic" which is pretty responsive with the latest cyanogen, then I saw it was still running Eclair. WTF, why would they be selling a low-end phone with a slower version of the OS?
Quarter after quarter, the only Android phones I see being introduced have faster processors, bigger displays, worse battery life and higher price. Which phones do you consider to be low end?
All the folks I knew that had Blackberries for work still have them. But I know a ton more people who bought Android/iPhone for personal use who never had a Blackberry/Palm/Windows phone in the past. That is why the market share is slipping; RIMs gross numbers are still increasing quarter after quarter, but not as quickly as the other phones.
With physical media you'd think it's "cut and dry", but if your house gets broken into and your entire CD collection gets stolen? Are the FLAC rips you made and stored "in the cloud" for safety now suddenly illegal? If not, what's stopping me from asserting I owned a CD, created a rip, and the CD got lost. Having to save slips / proof-of-purchase tabs? They can get stolen too or more likely, get lost.
You are innocent until proven guilty, thus unless there is evidence that the digital files were obtained illegally, they are assumed to be legal. This is how property law works as well; you can't go around assuming that everything that people own is stolen unless they they have receipts. The modifications that I suggested wouldn't change this aspect of the law at all.
No, they are not fair use. Remixes require permission from the original author to create, and distribute, and require royalties be paid to be performed live, just like covers. Here are articles by people who agree and disagree with the idea that remixes should be made fair use, but they both confirm that they are not fair use now.
Forcing consumers and media device manufacturers to rely on subjective judgments of what qualifies as fair use, and thus never having any certainty about whether even the simplest and most harmless of tasks are legal or not is ridiculous.
Copyright law grants creators of works several exclusive rights over their works including: * Reproducing the work. * Creating derivative works. * Distributing the work (including giving it away, selling it, renting it, etc). * Performing or displaying the work publicly.
These basic fundamentals of copyright law were written when copying was expensive and difficult, and performing personal backups, format-shifting, time-shifting, and incidental copies were unheard of. These days any use of digital media requires some copying just to use the media. If you think about it, if you are copying(ie reproducing) a work but not doing any of the other things, then it is by definition for personal use, and should be covered under fair use. We should clarify the law and just eliminate copying as one of the exclusive rights altogether.
Fair use would still be needed to determine things like how much of an article can you quote before it is too much. But those are inherently fuzzy issues, so having a fuzzy law to handle them isn't a bad thing. What a consumer can do with his goods should be cut and dry.
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No, the best thing that Microsoft could do is offer Vista users a free upgrade to Windows 7. It's bad enough that early adopters had to deal with shitty driver support, an unpolished security system, and rough edges all around. Now they cant even use new software from the same damn company that wrote the OS. On computers as new as 18 months old. Many people were avoiding Vista like the plague but a few trusted Microsoft (or were oblivious), and now the thanks they get is a big middle finger. If Microsoft is going to treat Window 7 as a mandatory service pack for Vista then they should price it as such.
what happens if clock skew carries signals across folds?
I assumed that data was registered between fold switches.
No kidding. NY shouldn't have gotten one. They are just a stone's throw away from the Smithsonian, and had little to do with the space program. Houston or Huntsville would have been better choices for historic reasons, and Houston or Chicago for most widespread access to the public.
To be clear, I don't think the HP-35 is a rip-off, it just wasn't what I expected/hoped for.
That is the total speedup for SPDY vs HTTP. If you look at the chart where they used SPDY with and without server push or server hint, there is at most a 3% increase from those features. SPDY is an improvement over HTTP. Those two features are not.
I actually bought an HP 35 thinking that and was very disappointed. After being spoiled by the practically infinite stack on the HP 28s and 48g, reverting to the 3-element stack of the "good old days" was very limiting. To me the huge stack is an integral part of what makes RPN so effective.
I should check out what Casio has these days. I used a one all through high school, and it really was a good scientific calculator.
The HP-48 and TI-85 were a good value 15 years ago. Now they are nice, but way overpriced. Seriously, the old HP scientific calculators used to be really expensive. Now you can get a decent scientific calculator for $10-15. Why isn't the same true of graphing calculators?
I appreciate the value of purpose-built devices, and agree that a real calculator is nicer to use than software on a phone. But that is not why those calculators cost so much. They charge that just because they can, because it is a captive market.
Worse, there is no middle ground. I really don't need a graphing calculator; if I am doing graphing it is easier to bust out Matlab. On the other-hand, simple scientific calculators are more limiting than I would like. It'd be nice to have an calculator with a multiline display and plenty of memory for variables/stack, maybe with the ability to program commonly used functions, and preferably with an RPN option. In other words something on par with the HP-28, but in a more standard form factor. There really isn't anything out there like that though.
If the system is designed such that anyone can choose who they are going to trust, then people who can't make that decision on their own can still rely on others, such as the browser vendors, to make good default decisions for them. As it is now, it is unfeasible for either individuals or browser vendors to stop trusting large CAs due to the disruption it would cause.
The client has to initiate the connection with the server, these features just allow the sever to send back more data than was requested. If there was a bug in how the client processed the data then it could be exploited as a security request. However that is already true today of the data the client is requesting. This extra data will be in the same format as if the client directly requested it (except with the X-Associated-Content header added), so the same code should be used to parse it.
Like I mentioned above, I don't think the push features of SPDY improve it enough to be worthwhile, but I don't think they are a security problem.
Yeah, and by their own testing, the push features only resulted in an additional -1% to +3% improvement (yes it made things slightly slower in one case). The additional complexity added by those features is not justified by their benefits. They should just drop them.
Of course, Iâ(TM)m not totally serious about this particular application, but I wanted to show how you can make your own custom USB human interface device
The actual point was exactly what the summary said; to show how to make simple USB HID devices. The specific example used to demonstrate this was immaterial. In other words, just because "Hello World" is a lame program doesn't mean that tutorials including it are.
Manager B: And why do we make this custom theme for a jailbroken iPhone?
Manager A: To promote our Scion line of cars which embrace the idea of user customization.
Manager B: And what did it cost us to make it?
Manager A: Less than producing a single magazine ad.
Manager B: And how exactly do we benefit from this?
Manager A: Market research has shown that the demographic who is interested in jailbreaking their iPhone are prime advertising targets for the Scion as they share similar interests.
Manager B: So what I want to know is: Who signed off on this nonsense and how can we stop it right now?
Manager A: You did. You're call on whether it's worth fighting with Apple over.
Nearly all the other cheap airfare sites on the web use ITA's software (Orbitz, Bing, etc). The main concern with Google acquiring ITA wasn't that they would kill it - they fully intend to support it and integrate it with their other search offerings. Rather people were concerned that Google would cutoff all of ITAs current customers, or make them irrelevant by providing results directly in their search page.
The only ads I ever got on Pandora before paying were those "cheap vacations for students" ads over and over and over again. Nothing localized/individualized at all.
They should have said "Crap, we screwed up. We'll fix it right away."
But it's impossible to fix. Software isn't cable of discerning "truth", so no algorithm can tell you if something is libel or not.
Over the years that I have been in school there have been a ton of things that we learned that couldn't be determined by a simple test. No amount of short essays will tell you how good a student is at structuring a long research paper or defended argument. No amount of short word problems will show you if a student is capable of applying what he learned the way a math or science design project will.
I've taken qualifying exams and the such, and they aren't any better to teach against than crappy exams. They are harder, because there is a lot more information you have to cram into your head and spit back out with no spare time to think, but it still doesn't represent an accurate assessment of how well you really understand and are able to apply the subject.
I've had teachers that taught against the test, and their classes were worthless. No improvements to the test will make them teach any better, but as long a test grades are what schools are judged on, teachers like that will be safe in their jobs.
It is useful to let you know that your information has been compromised so you can take any appropriate action. The apology is just extra words, not the purpose of the communication.
Yeah, the one's I've seen in the past were based on strobing at a specific frequency that made you very disoriented and nauseous. Probably more dangerous for epileptics but they also wore off more quickly. I'd be worried about permanent damage from something that takes 20 minutes to regain your vision.
I looked at the Wildfire and my first thought was "that doesn't look bad; basically the same as the Magic" which is pretty responsive with the latest cyanogen, then I saw it was still running Eclair. WTF, why would they be selling a low-end phone with a slower version of the OS?
Quarter after quarter, the only Android phones I see being introduced have faster processors, bigger displays, worse battery life and higher price. Which phones do you consider to be low end?
All the folks I knew that had Blackberries for work still have them. But I know a ton more people who bought Android/iPhone for personal use who never had a Blackberry/Palm/Windows phone in the past. That is why the market share is slipping; RIMs gross numbers are still increasing quarter after quarter, but not as quickly as the other phones.
With physical media you'd think it's "cut and dry", but if your house gets broken into and your entire CD collection gets stolen? Are the FLAC rips you made and stored "in the cloud" for safety now suddenly illegal? If not, what's stopping me from asserting I owned a CD, created a rip, and the CD got lost. Having to save slips / proof-of-purchase tabs? They can get stolen too or more likely, get lost.
You are innocent until proven guilty, thus unless there is evidence that the digital files were obtained illegally, they are assumed to be legal. This is how property law works as well; you can't go around assuming that everything that people own is stolen unless they they have receipts. The modifications that I suggested wouldn't change this aspect of the law at all.
No, they are not fair use. Remixes require permission from the original author to create, and distribute, and require royalties be paid to be performed live, just like covers. Here are articles by people who agree and disagree with the idea that remixes should be made fair use, but they both confirm that they are not fair use now.
Forcing consumers and media device manufacturers to rely on subjective judgments of what qualifies as fair use, and thus never having any certainty about whether even the simplest and most harmless of tasks are legal or not is ridiculous.
Copyright law grants creators of works several exclusive rights over their works including:
* Reproducing the work.
* Creating derivative works.
* Distributing the work (including giving it away, selling it, renting it, etc).
* Performing or displaying the work publicly.
These basic fundamentals of copyright law were written when copying was expensive and difficult, and performing personal backups, format-shifting, time-shifting, and incidental copies were unheard of. These days any use of digital media requires some copying just to use the media. If you think about it, if you are copying(ie reproducing) a work but not doing any of the other things, then it is by definition for personal use, and should be covered under fair use. We should clarify the law and just eliminate copying as one of the exclusive rights altogether.
Fair use would still be needed to determine things like how much of an article can you quote before it is too much. But those are inherently fuzzy issues, so having a fuzzy law to handle them isn't a bad thing. What a consumer can do with his goods should be cut and dry.
Was US industry harmed when Japan started taking research seriously, and applying it to their products? Absolutely.