I know that it's DDR3 SODIMM but is there any particular reason they're limiting it to DDR3-1333?
Would there be a performance gain if it could utilize DDR3-1600 like how the AMD fusion processors show decent performance gains using higher speed memory? I'm pretty sure that DDR3-1600 SODIMM's are out there.
Because they don't want memory performance to be comparable with the higher margin Core line. Atom is cheap - and they want to ensure that it's not cheap to the point where it eats into their bread and butter.
And anyhow, DDR3 will be old hat by the time this processor comes out - DDR4 is just coming out.
Steam is supporting games *from* a business perspective. Its very existence is being threatened. In future steam may only exist OS X and Linux. Its mistake was not expecting this sooner, and not supporting Linux earlier. The reality is Windows is going to be overtaken by Android this year...it actually makes sense to produce games for Linux first, and cross platform is a must in today's new world.
I buy a large number of games, most are cross-platform; DRM free and pretty cheap. I don't use steam because of DRM.
No, Steam will exist only on Linux.
First, Steam's existence on Windows is being threatened the same way on OS X - both Windows 8 and OS X have their own built-in walled gardens. Though both are still open platforms, they have a competitive walled garden.
So Valve's only option is to establish their walled garden on the last platform available - Linux. (Yes, Steam is a walled garden - Greenlight just gets you in, you still have to have a bunch of terms to agree to in order to be listed.
Hell, Steam would probably also come to Android.
Linux will never have a platform owner decide to make their own walled garden, so Valve's name is big enough that they can be the Linux App Store. It's also why Steam is expanding beyond games. Probably in 5 years, people will be using Linux and the Steam App Store with plenty of regularity.
In particular, from the perspective whether a crime was committed, a common mistake is someone underestimating their BAC, so they think they are not driving drunk when in fact they are (this is different from subjective impairment). If you thought you had a BAC of 0.07 and it was actually 0.09, that's an error that takes your behavior from legal to illegal in a state where 0.08 is the legal limit.
One way to reduce that particular kind of error is to carry a breathalyzer with you, but that's not very common.
That's still not a mistake.
Just because you blow.07 doesn't mean you're not drunk. It just means you're not legally drunk. The police still can detain you to sober up and then release you (usually overnight), they can't charge you with being under the influence.
And people vary. Some people are basically blacked out at 0.01. Others have been shown to be still relatively sober even at 0.24.
The only reason for 0.08 is because 0 isn't really that possible - people will go out, have dinner and a beer (*A*, as in singular). So they're slightly drunk, but pretty sober still.
Heck, in our jurisdiction, it's 0.05 (and the breathalyzers are calibrated to 0.06). It's just over the limit for the average person and a drink (and well over if you have something to eat with that drink).
You jest, but for a lot of people, data is a lot cheaper than voice minutes. I chose my current low end plan ($20/month) has only a relatively small number of minutes (since I'm not a heavy phone user) but 1.5 GB of data per month. 1.5 GB is LOT of VoIP time. I make Skype or Facetime voice calls from my phone far more often than I make actual phone network calls.
This is Canada. Where $50 gets you a 2GB/month plan unless you buy your phone when the next iPhone is released, where carriers will offer you 3GB for $50. $1/MB afterwards-ish (depending - sometimes you can get lucky and get it $1/10MB or a whopping $1/100MB (==$10/GB - SI units)).
Heck, sometimes there are promos, like $50/month for unlimited North America calling, unlimited texting, and 1GB of data.
Go with the AWS carriers (one of the reasons why the government was forced to take down their wireless carrier comparison tool - the big guys complained because the AWS guys were ALWAYS cheaper no matter what you tried), and it's not too bad. $35/month for unlimited local calls, unlimited Canada text and unlimited data. Make ir $45 and you get unlimited North American calling and global text and unlimited data. Hell, one of them is having it at half-price - $22.50 for all that.
Of course, the problem is coverage is crap... once you step out, you have to pay roaming. It's getting better, but there are still issues. (Though they ask for you to prepay, so you NEVER get startled with a $1K bill - it just stops working when the prepaid amount runs out - definitely plus).
Lamo is just a gutless coward who went for a personal grab for glory all else is a lie. Like your typical narcissist he personally has no real idea of what is appropriate social behaviour and what is not, hence his criminal past and then of course time spent setting up his 'sic' friends (narcissists have no friends everyone is there to be used). So typical self serving selfish disconnect from what is real human social behaviour and the arse hat makes a big grab for notoriety and fame by stabbing a true hero in the back. Let's not forget all the other arse hats at Wired who similarly could not differentiate between a hero and the criminals the hero was exposing, so a piece of shit web site that should be avoided. Even now Lamo focusing is on how traitorous behaviour is affecting him and not how it is affecting Bradely Manning nor and more importantly how it is affecting other whistle blowers.
You missed an important point too - that he's "come forward" now purely because he's been out of the lime light for a little while now and needs to get his name plastered all over the news again.
He's had years to explain his position. Why now? Why not when everyone was asking why?
The only reason is because the media has moved on and back to the "Adrian who?" stage again. So he's come forward now to put his name again - "Adrian Lamo - the guy who turned in Bradley Manning" and if anyone goes "Bradley who?" they just go "Wikileaks!".
The best thing would be for the media to ignore him.
Works great when you can, doesn't work so well when you can't. Like say, housing prices ensure that at best, you can rent some terrible squalid place and you're still paying 3/4th of your paycheque for it (or spend two hours commuting from next town over).
For many, the "GTFO" option is "Start paying rent" (which can be a pretty sweet deal when you figure what's actually included).
And really, that's the best option - pay the damn rent. Else no electricity and especially, no internet. (Really, why is the father not unplugging the PC and disconnecting the internet? Both aren't especially skilled solutions - the latter just involves cancelling your internet service).
The problem is it isn't as simple. If we roll back 50 years, it was relatively simple - written works were copyrighted (typically), hardware things were patented.
Software changed all that. All of a sudden you have written works doing hardware things. So do you copyright them, or patent them? Or both?
Let's ignore pure software first, and let's go with say a photocopier. In the past, they were hugely mechanical contraptions where a drum was charged, then a scanning head sent light down some complex optical path to hit the drum and paper was fed.
These days, it's software controlled - instead of mechanical gears timing it out on old "analog" copiers, you have a little microcontroller sequencing stuff. What would its software state be? A patent as part of the whole copier engine? Copyright the software part, patent the hardware (including the use of a microcontroller)? And nowadays, pure digital copiers (basically a scanner and printer in one) have replaced the complex optical path with wires. What happens now?
Or say an engine controller - you come up with a way to save fuel that relies on trickery in software in cooperation with hardware. Do you copyright the software, patent the hardware (which may be just a combination of existing parts, but the software adds the novelty)? Or do you patent the entire thing, including the ECU software (that helps save fuel)?
And what if you invent some new way of making a CPU faster, but do it in an FPGA? Is the RTL only copyrightable? Or patented? After all, it can be hardware (silicon) in the end, or it can remain as software implemented in VHDL or verilog.
Then you take these examples, and slowly extend them to using a general purpose computing platform and you end up right back at the same problem - where do you draw the line?
Modern things are powered by software, but do we rule that anything we invent using software to drive hardware in new and novel ways is unpatentable? What if a better software-controlled mousetrap was invented?
Even better - what if we were to implement something that was done in software in hardware? is THAT now patentable because it's pure hardware?
And therein lies the problem - software is a very different beast than what we had before. It's written, but it is often used to glue together hardware that would otherwise take lots more hardware or be impractically big.
Heck, Steve Wozniak saw this transition - back at Atari, they used to do games with discrete logic - building the entire game logic in hardware (including all the hairy warts of trying to debug the mess). Then the microprocessor came along and simplified a lot of the logic - instead of having to have hundreds of discrete TTL chips, you have just a handful, and the thing that replaces those hundreds of chips is just pure bits.
A shame since I often find myself going back and playing older games from 10+ years ago. Many times the companies who made them are long since gone.
I guess "Retro Gaming" is going to be redefined as playing last years Madden or CoD.
Actually, Sony's already implemented a basic version of this in their Vita - it locks the game to the console. Move it to another console (on a different PSN account) and it'll work, however it won't let you get achievements and such.
It's basic because its effects are limited (so far, just achievements, not sure if they can prevent say, saving games in the future), and you CAN reset the game back to new (Tap and hold the icon until it wobbles, then tap the "..." and select Delete with the card in it and it'll erase the game and reset the internal flash of the game card).
Of course, this could be removed in a later firmware version.
As for retro gaming, the companies know that. You'll still be able to play 10 year old games in the future, what they'll do is make you buy it for the "virtual console" on your current system. Nintendo has done this the most (the laws are in Nintendo's favor since dumping ROMs for anything other than software development is actually a copyright violation and mask work violation).
Sony's already thinking ahead to the PS5 and 6 - they'll be providing PS3 classic games as DLC...
The Apple one is really odd - because if you read Apple's response, it makes no sense. It automatically fixes itself on January 7? WTF? Date/time bugs don't usually have self-expiry dates (though Apple's response is adequate since the bug will auto-fix itself before Apple could fix and test the update). And especially since there's nothing seemingly *special* about January 7...
TL;DR version: The DND bug is because well, to the DNS part of IOS the year is 2012. In fact, it's technically week 53 because of the way Apple chose to code DND.
It's a mismatch between the calendar date and the ISO Week date (at least, the consensus seems to be this since the effect is reproducable and a bit of silliness in NextStep APIs make it a REALLY easy bug).
To elaborate, I would recommend storing dates as seconds (or milliseconds if you need that resolution) since a well defined epoch in UTC (Unix uses 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970, before macs switched to unix, they used January 1, 1904 and January 1, 1601 for Windows). You can go from there and convert to whatever timezone you like.
So let's say I schedule a meeting with you at 10 AM on August 1. If we take brain-dead-simple NA DST rules, your UTC appointment now occurs at 9AM. Ah, but I said 10, so you'd be wasting an hour of your time because your alarm went off an hour earlier.
OK, the opposite situation happens as well - it's July and you want to schedule a meeting in December. Now you'll look silly and be an hour late.
Want even more fun? Try scheduling meetings around the world between April and November- unlike North America with well defined DST rules, many countries have rules that are at the whim of the government as to when they start and stop. Others don't. Others may have well defined times but differ from North American transitions (which is great fun for a weekly meeting when it moves an hour for a few weeks until it syncs up again).
Somehow, I think even Microsoft got it wrong. It's just that Outlook is so widely used that if it's wrong, no one notices because Outlook just reminds them of a meeting And some group of developers at Microsoft is busy trying to replicate it bug-for-bug so calendar alarms line up.
The original entry must be preserved and re-parsed across transitions because the user's intent may simply be "I want this meeting to happen 10AM my time every Friday". "My time" means "regardless of timezones, or DST" - the meeting is at 10AM dammit and will not move to 11AM or 9AM (depending on when it was made and if DST was in effect).
I know this must sound Xenophobic, but I have gone into the SSL certs list lately and disabled a bunch I would never trust. Turkish, Russian, etc.
Some of them I was frankly surprised that Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Apple etc would trust. There are literally a few hundred in most devices. Who vets them? Also shouldn't there be a better way then for a user to wade through hundreds of certs (some in languages they dont know).
Honestly curious why this is set up this way, it seems so inefficient and insecure.
Well, the question is - what if you're Turkish? Or Russian? Or <other_country>?
Does that mean you have to ask Mozilla to produce a special version of FireFox for Russia with the Russian CAs in it? Ditto everyone else? I'm sure the Turks or the Russians have to use certificates issued by their national CAs.
I suppose it would be handy, to go to the Firefox download page and have to answer 20 questions to figure out what OS you want, what language you want, and what CAs you want to trust, then click Download to get that specific version. (Hell, most people would probably click "Select All" and then Download and be done with it).
Of course, life would be so much simpler if we could just ignore everything except en-us. Dealing with unicode encodings is hard enough, let's just use ASCII and declare everyone else should too...
As long as these online teaching systems cannot eliminate cheating, the earned credits worthless for attesting a basic education (in contrast to extended learning). As a straightforward exploit, one person can register multiple times with different identities and then blindly copy&paste the answers for the questions. While the cheater will still learn more compared to just failing or not taking the course it is questionable whether this method will allow the cheater to learn the required minimum to earn the credit.
Which for something like math is not only trivially avoided, but also easy to do. Just make each person have a different set of numbers to calculate!
One class of mine did it by using a seed based on your student ID, so there's a repeatable way to generate the questions and answers, but everyone's is unique.
Other ways involve different reading material and question pool from each, pulling a few questions from the pool for each person. Doesn't eliminate cheating, but if the questions in the pool are identical despite the reading....
Nope, up here in Canada, gas is still sold in cents/litre. But when they get rid of the penny, they'll round the total. Watch as millions of Canadians pump just the right amount of gas into their tank so that the price is always rounded down.
A quick reprogramming of the pump will fix that to always increment in 5 cent increments.
So the first drop you pump, it would go from $0.00 to $0.05, then where it would've said $0.06-0.09, it would read $0.10. So the pump always magically rounds up.
Of course, if you chose the credit card option, it would use exact cents. But cash? It would start at 5 cents rounded up.
Why is he designing it primarily for 2m and 70cm (better known in amateur radio land as 440)? 2m is kinda crowded around here and 70cm doesn't seem to like the hills and trees around here. Our local ham group (in particular our ARES/RACES subgroup) is thinking about going to 6m.
I'd be more interested in something like this if it went down to 50MHz. But I don't know enough about designing this kind of thing to know if that is feasible.
Probably because the RF power amplifiers needed - just because you can theoretically receive and transmit from DC to daylight, doesn't mean it works in practicality. For receive, you need to amplify the incoming signal, and broadband amplifiers that have the desired characteristics are hard. For transmit, you'd need amplifiers for every band you're interested in - in this case, 3 separate power amps - 6m, 2m, 70cm. You don't want to use a wideband one because their general characteristics suck and you REALLY don't want to accidentally transmit off-band (you're still responsible for all emissions, after all) either accidentally (due to bugs) or intentionally.
There are very few HTs from the big guys that actually do 6m, as well. And consider yourself lucky that the bands are so crowded - it means there's lots of action. A dead band is one ripe for reclamation.
i really REALLY don't get this obsession with linking violent video games to violent behavior.
Well, for starters, exposure to anything desensitizes. It's why the military uses the same games to train soldiers these days - because they know the first kill is hard (many get ill or sick), but by desensitizing them to the violence and reducing the value of life to a mere statistic, when ordered to shoot and kill, they most likely will.
That's the most tenable and demonstratable link to violence in videogames to violence in real life. However, just because one is desensitized does not mean that one cannot be rational and understand the difference between electrons (pixels) and atoms (meat). In fact, studies have generally shown that players on a whole are not more inherently violent (perhaps less so), which could point to other violence - like movies and TV to be a potential source.
The closest link I could conceive would be those who see games like CoD have cool weapons, and who then proceed to purchase said weapons because they're cool (you can tell because they usually also ricer it up with fancy optics and other rail accessories and crap). Of course, those are usually more for show and collection and may never see a bullet other than during production, but then again, easier access to weapons. But unlikely.
The best link would be reverse-correllation - those with violent tendencies would gravitate to violent video games. After all, the ones who abuse stray animals and such aren't likely to find much "relief" in playing Tetris. These are the sort of people deranged enough to be the ones who go to schools to shoot 'em up and the like.
The big problem though? Everyone who does a study has a stake in its results - the environment around it is so politicized that there's no general conclusion that can be drawn. And there are potentially a lot of variables and unknowns that really make doing any sort of conclusive study practically impossible. And in the world of 30 second soundbites, answering the question becomes a binary yes/no answer with no room for a "but...".
TL;DR - it's complicated, it's more politicized science, and there are many things that could form the basis for the belief.
Perhaps it's better to just believe they're this generation's version of comic books, rock music, television, movies, etc, all of which were demonized at one point or another. Yesterday it was the above. Today it's video games. Tomorrow it could be holodecks.
I have found that the cost of one month of cable can pay for one or two seasons of a show a month. We went through M*A*S*H, Star Treks TOS and TNG, a bunch of Doctor Who and Torchwood, Inspector Morse and Lewis, and we're halfway through Farscape, with La Femme Nikita and Babylon 5 to follow.
Hell, it can pay for new content in HD as well.
Sure you have to wait a bit, but Season 2 of Game of Thrones will be out soon, and really, one month of cable and HBO will cover both sets as blu-ray. Free and legit, easier to justify than those who torrent it, too.
Now if some channels weren't so anal, so they could let services like iTunes carry it practically the next day. Hell, a good month of cable can pay for many iTunes season passes or the Amazon equivalent. 3-4 months will probably cover everyone's shows for a year. (Legally, with no piracy "I don't wanna pay for it because they charge too much" bullsh*t).
I've had a 7970 since early 2012 and have never had this issue on any of the resolutions I commonly use (1920x1080 and 2560x768 eyefinity). Obviously other people have had these issues, but I've personally never experienced them, and I'm sure I'm not the only Radeon owner who was spared from this bug.
Well, to detect it means you need to really run a bunch of video cards together on the games you play. It was discovered only because a video card was putting out great numbers, but gameplay seemed "less smooth" than a video card putting out lower numbers.
Whether or not you can detect this stuttering is dependent on so many factors - it's hard to tell, Maybe you discount it as a framerate drop. Maybe your eyes don't see it. Or your games are fine. Lots of factors. Just like some people feel games written for 30fps run fine, while others want 120+fps and feel the lag if it runs at 60.
I suspect most people probably won't notice it - it's the only card they see so there's no "smoothness" to compare it too. It's like micro-stuttering on SLI/Crossfire setups - you might see it, you might not. But unless you're playing with a bunch of cards, you probably won't notice unless you upgrade monthly or so and thus have recent enough memory to say "I think this game ran smoother on my old card..."
You're just making excuses. I can review things just fine and I don't need to keep several papers in front of me. It's called a brain and notepad.
And how many screens? Let's take a typical development task - I've seen two independent people come up with requirement specification, of which a third requirement spec has to be generated (the first is what marketing wants a product to do, the second is what engineering wants the product to do, the third is what your little chunk of the entire project is supposed to do).
And from that, distill a test plan which has a requirements matrix that ties back to both original documents and the distilled document (tracability - every feature listed must be testable and tested).
Oh, and the first two documents change. A lot. It may be a numbering change, but that means all the documents need to change to adapt, and ensuring that it all matches up again, so you have to have all 4 documents open at once. Short of having four monitors to view them all simultaneously, it's a alt-tab nightmare.
Toss in a fifth document (say, documentation on your chunk - like how stuff interfaces), and now you have to also ensure your interface headers are up to date as well, AND ensure your requirements doc is still complete to have that document integrated into it (and testable!).
Oh, and that notepad? Paper. So you have to have notepad.exe open as well.
And I have been known to be the assinine QA tester who would chew out a developer if their tests weren't up to snuff. Not because it made me happy, but because I understood the value of ensuring that everything matched up. If you omit a step, I'd call you out because the next person who runs the test may not know that and mark a fail on something that should've passed.
Complete tracability and repeatability - when that software goes out the door, I can say the test plan met the requirements, point out how it matched up, and that if someone else took the same build out of code control and same version of the documents, they can repeat the same tests and have the same results. Because 6 months down the road, someone will ask "did we test this?" and "How did we test this?" and "Customer says it doesn't work". In which case I can either say - "oops, we didn't htink to test it" (new requirement and test case), or "oops, we didn't know the customer wanted it this way" (new requirement), or "yes we did, and here's how ew did it, and I can run it again to double-check". (Maybe customer got an engineering build and it failed because of a regression).
So, I just bought a new 4/8 core I7 Mac. Told Folding@home to use 50% of my cores. It persisted in using 100% of my cores, despite what I told it to do, until I uninstalled it. Is there a distributed project whose client will honor my request to only donate half of my resources? Bonus points for one which lets me say which hours of which days it can run. If none of them can, I'll let ElectricSheep provide the eye candy, I really don't care. But I'd rather help out a cause that behaves as I specify on my hardware. Anyone?
Last I checked the BOINC based ones do. You can join multiple projects and even allocate 1 core to one, 2 to another, etc. And yes, I believe it supports even hourly usage, and even has a "back off" protocol where if it sees the CPU busier than some amount (you specify) it won't even bother starting a task - it will sleep for an hour and try again later.
The only thing google did was simplify things to give potential users the impression they care about your privacy, which, imo, is a bit of a joke.
As Zuckerberg's own sister found out.
I think it's hilarious that something of hers went public.
No, hers was a perfect example of an axiom that old greybeards have long known - if you don't want it known to the world, don't post it online.
The axiom holds through "privacy" controls as well - which Facebook created to encourage people to post online personal stuff. And people believe it - but there is no privacy online. If you post it "friends only" (as she did, mind you), they can easily re-post, re-tweet, whatever to the world (which is what happened - one of her "friends" decided to re-tweet the photo).
"Friends only" is the same as the "world" - because it only takes one person to share it. It's like sharing a secret with your friend in real life. Or Group permissions on Unix(-like) OSes - anyone with access can easily pass it on to someone who doesn't have access.
To do otherwise is asking for DRM, and we know how email DRM and photo DRM has taken off to prevent spreading of emails and photos.
I don't know about other theater chains but Cinemark actually rents out there theaters for all kind of events
Most theatres actually do - at least the smarter ones who realize they have a huge gathering room suitable for 100+ people and a speaker in front with acoustics that are fairly decent and a huge ass projector suitable for showing things to the entire crowd (that's bright - so no squinting at dim over-extended project
You know it because they refer to the theatre as an "auditorium" rather than just a theatre. There's even a little stage and such too for a speaker to use. On the bigger ones, it's big enough for a small play.
For all-company meetings, it's far more economical to rent the theatre than to have to build an equivalent that does exactly that. Plus the larger ones often have private catered food services available.
I think people happily pay more for water than gas in the US. I mean, they'll happy pay what, $1.50 for a 500mL bottle of water? (that's $3/L, or around $10-11 for a gallon). Of course, they could get it semi-free out of the tap, and if you buy in bulk of gallons you can probably buy a gallon jug for $1 or so.
Still, people happily pay $1.50 for a half-litre of water.
But I see from your website that you do not write art music, but rather scores for foreign lowbrow cinema and the like. If you have chosen to forsake public funding and work in a corporate milieu, than filesharing should be the least of your worries about exploitation, as your creative energies are already entirely at the manipulation of corporations.
And that sort of music is actually fairly movie-specific. It's not like you can film another movie and "lift" the score from another to use it - it's completely wrong and generates the wrong mood, etc.
Scores are very source-specific and are designed to fit the theme, mood and action in the movie. Sometimes a movie trailer will use another movie's score (I think the very early Robocop promo trailers used the Terminator score), but that's just a 30 second clip.
At best, a composer will use a score written by someone else for inspiration for a sequel - but that's because the themes are identifiable to that series.
People who are into soundtracks use them as a way to:relive" sequences of the film - a score by a good composer will evoke the same feelings that happened in the movie. In fact, a score is often the primary emotion manipulator in a movie - take it away and the movie will feel lacking. But take away the pictures and the impact of the movie will still be there.
The only worry as a score composer? The current era of Hollywood remakes where they take 15+ year old films and remake them, at which point the new composer will draw inspiration from the old score.
But netbooks were never good as a PC. They were just "ok", and were only ever good at being really small and really cheap. Actual notebooks have always outclassed netbooks, and now the iPad has beat it on portability, while smaller tablets like the Kindle Fire and Nexus 7 have beat it on price.
So where does that leave the netbook? It's inferior in all three of its most prominent attributes. It has nothing compelling about it for the end user. Even if you gave them away, people would still be more likely to just use their iPad away from home, and their PC at home. Even the more geeky among us would tend to rather use an Android tablet on the go, and a Linux box at home.
Netbooks were always iffy - they cost too low for much of a profit ($300 for a BOM that was pretty close to that. One tech support call blows the budget).
Manufacturers don't really want to make netbooks - that's why they're tossing in bigger screens and such to make them cost more - $300 was just too hard to make a profit on.
Everyone went tablets because the profit is bigger - a $300 tablet can be made with $150 worth of parts. Even a Nexus 7 still probably make more money than a netbook did.
And netbooks costing $400 or $500 was seriously getting into regular laptop territory
Not too far off considering that this concept is only worthwhile when bodies are generating excess heat that is unwanted in a space.
Not really a new concept - the Mall of American actually has no heating system - no boilers or other heating mechanism. It does have chillers and A/C (and sometimes it runs in the middle of winter).
It uses body heat (of the shoppers) and solar heating (sunroofs) to keep the entire place warm (70F) in those chilly 10F Minnesotan winters.
Certain offices are also dense enough that people and equipment contribute plenty of heating during the winter - so much so that the A/C runs in the winter to keep the office from getting uncomfortably warm.
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Because they don't want memory performance to be comparable with the higher margin Core line. Atom is cheap - and they want to ensure that it's not cheap to the point where it eats into their bread and butter.
And anyhow, DDR3 will be old hat by the time this processor comes out - DDR4 is just coming out.
No, Steam will exist only on Linux.
First, Steam's existence on Windows is being threatened the same way on OS X - both Windows 8 and OS X have their own built-in walled gardens. Though both are still open platforms, they have a competitive walled garden.
So Valve's only option is to establish their walled garden on the last platform available - Linux. (Yes, Steam is a walled garden - Greenlight just gets you in, you still have to have a bunch of terms to agree to in order to be listed.
Hell, Steam would probably also come to Android.
Linux will never have a platform owner decide to make their own walled garden, so Valve's name is big enough that they can be the Linux App Store. It's also why Steam is expanding beyond games. Probably in 5 years, people will be using Linux and the Steam App Store with plenty of regularity.
That's still not a mistake.
Just because you blow .07 doesn't mean you're not drunk. It just means you're not legally drunk. The police still can detain you to sober up and then release you (usually overnight), they can't charge you with being under the influence.
And people vary. Some people are basically blacked out at 0.01. Others have been shown to be still relatively sober even at 0.24.
The only reason for 0.08 is because 0 isn't really that possible - people will go out, have dinner and a beer (*A*, as in singular). So they're slightly drunk, but pretty sober still.
Heck, in our jurisdiction, it's 0.05 (and the breathalyzers are calibrated to 0.06). It's just over the limit for the average person and a drink (and well over if you have something to eat with that drink).
This is Canada. Where $50 gets you a 2GB/month plan unless you buy your phone when the next iPhone is released, where carriers will offer you 3GB for $50. $1/MB afterwards-ish (depending - sometimes you can get lucky and get it $1/10MB or a whopping $1/100MB (==$10/GB - SI units)).
Heck, sometimes there are promos, like $50/month for unlimited North America calling, unlimited texting, and 1GB of data.
Go with the AWS carriers (one of the reasons why the government was forced to take down their wireless carrier comparison tool - the big guys complained because the AWS guys were ALWAYS cheaper no matter what you tried), and it's not too bad. $35/month for unlimited local calls, unlimited Canada text and unlimited data. Make ir $45 and you get unlimited North American calling and global text and unlimited data. Hell, one of them is having it at half-price - $22.50 for all that.
Of course, the problem is coverage is crap... once you step out, you have to pay roaming. It's getting better, but there are still issues. (Though they ask for you to prepay, so you NEVER get startled with a $1K bill - it just stops working when the prepaid amount runs out - definitely plus).
You missed an important point too - that he's "come forward" now purely because he's been out of the lime light for a little while now and needs to get his name plastered all over the news again.
He's had years to explain his position. Why now? Why not when everyone was asking why?
The only reason is because the media has moved on and back to the "Adrian who?" stage again. So he's come forward now to put his name again - "Adrian Lamo - the guy who turned in Bradley Manning" and if anyone goes "Bradley who?" they just go "Wikileaks!".
The best thing would be for the media to ignore him.
The problem is it isn't as simple. If we roll back 50 years, it was relatively simple - written works were copyrighted (typically), hardware things were patented.
Software changed all that. All of a sudden you have written works doing hardware things. So do you copyright them, or patent them? Or both?
Let's ignore pure software first, and let's go with say a photocopier. In the past, they were hugely mechanical contraptions where a drum was charged, then a scanning head sent light down some complex optical path to hit the drum and paper was fed.
These days, it's software controlled - instead of mechanical gears timing it out on old "analog" copiers, you have a little microcontroller sequencing stuff. What would its software state be? A patent as part of the whole copier engine? Copyright the software part, patent the hardware (including the use of a microcontroller)? And nowadays, pure digital copiers (basically a scanner and printer in one) have replaced the complex optical path with wires. What happens now?
Or say an engine controller - you come up with a way to save fuel that relies on trickery in software in cooperation with hardware. Do you copyright the software, patent the hardware (which may be just a combination of existing parts, but the software adds the novelty)? Or do you patent the entire thing, including the ECU software (that helps save fuel)?
And what if you invent some new way of making a CPU faster, but do it in an FPGA? Is the RTL only copyrightable? Or patented? After all, it can be hardware (silicon) in the end, or it can remain as software implemented in VHDL or verilog.
Then you take these examples, and slowly extend them to using a general purpose computing platform and you end up right back at the same problem - where do you draw the line?
Modern things are powered by software, but do we rule that anything we invent using software to drive hardware in new and novel ways is unpatentable? What if a better software-controlled mousetrap was invented?
Even better - what if we were to implement something that was done in software in hardware? is THAT now patentable because it's pure hardware?
And therein lies the problem - software is a very different beast than what we had before. It's written, but it is often used to glue together hardware that would otherwise take lots more hardware or be impractically big.
Heck, Steve Wozniak saw this transition - back at Atari, they used to do games with discrete logic - building the entire game logic in hardware (including all the hairy warts of trying to debug the mess). Then the microprocessor came along and simplified a lot of the logic - instead of having to have hundreds of discrete TTL chips, you have just a handful, and the thing that replaces those hundreds of chips is just pure bits.
Actually, Sony's already implemented a basic version of this in their Vita - it locks the game to the console. Move it to another console (on a different PSN account) and it'll work, however it won't let you get achievements and such.
It's basic because its effects are limited (so far, just achievements, not sure if they can prevent say, saving games in the future), and you CAN reset the game back to new (Tap and hold the icon until it wobbles, then tap the "..." and select Delete with the card in it and it'll erase the game and reset the internal flash of the game card).
Of course, this could be removed in a later firmware version.
As for retro gaming, the companies know that. You'll still be able to play 10 year old games in the future, what they'll do is make you buy it for the "virtual console" on your current system. Nintendo has done this the most (the laws are in Nintendo's favor since dumping ROMs for anything other than software development is actually a copyright violation and mask work violation).
Sony's already thinking ahead to the PS5 and 6 - they'll be providing PS3 classic games as DLC...
The Apple one is really odd - because if you read Apple's response, it makes no sense. It automatically fixes itself on January 7? WTF? Date/time bugs don't usually have self-expiry dates (though Apple's response is adequate since the bug will auto-fix itself before Apple could fix and test the update). And especially since there's nothing seemingly *special* about January 7...
Ars has a nice write up about it - http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/01/ask-ars-why-will-apples-do-not-disturb-bug-fix-itself-next-week/
TL;DR version: The DND bug is because well, to the DNS part of IOS the year is 2012. In fact, it's technically week 53 because of the way Apple chose to code DND.
It's a mismatch between the calendar date and the ISO Week date (at least, the consensus seems to be this since the effect is reproducable and a bit of silliness in NextStep APIs make it a REALLY easy bug).
There's even code that repros the bug.
So let's say I schedule a meeting with you at 10 AM on August 1. If we take brain-dead-simple NA DST rules, your UTC appointment now occurs at 9AM. Ah, but I said 10, so you'd be wasting an hour of your time because your alarm went off an hour earlier.
OK, the opposite situation happens as well - it's July and you want to schedule a meeting in December. Now you'll look silly and be an hour late.
Want even more fun? Try scheduling meetings around the world between April and November- unlike North America with well defined DST rules, many countries have rules that are at the whim of the government as to when they start and stop. Others don't. Others may have well defined times but differ from North American transitions (which is great fun for a weekly meeting when it moves an hour for a few weeks until it syncs up again).
Somehow, I think even Microsoft got it wrong. It's just that Outlook is so widely used that if it's wrong, no one notices because Outlook just reminds them of a meeting And some group of developers at Microsoft is busy trying to replicate it bug-for-bug so calendar alarms line up.
The original entry must be preserved and re-parsed across transitions because the user's intent may simply be "I want this meeting to happen 10AM my time every Friday". "My time" means "regardless of timezones, or DST" - the meeting is at 10AM dammit and will not move to 11AM or 9AM (depending on when it was made and if DST was in effect).
Well, the question is - what if you're Turkish? Or Russian? Or <other_country>?
Does that mean you have to ask Mozilla to produce a special version of FireFox for Russia with the Russian CAs in it? Ditto everyone else? I'm sure the Turks or the Russians have to use certificates issued by their national CAs.
I suppose it would be handy, to go to the Firefox download page and have to answer 20 questions to figure out what OS you want, what language you want, and what CAs you want to trust, then click Download to get that specific version. (Hell, most people would probably click "Select All" and then Download and be done with it).
Of course, life would be so much simpler if we could just ignore everything except en-us. Dealing with unicode encodings is hard enough, let's just use ASCII and declare everyone else should too...
Which for something like math is not only trivially avoided, but also easy to do. Just make each person have a different set of numbers to calculate!
One class of mine did it by using a seed based on your student ID, so there's a repeatable way to generate the questions and answers, but everyone's is unique.
Other ways involve different reading material and question pool from each, pulling a few questions from the pool for each person. Doesn't eliminate cheating, but if the questions in the pool are identical despite the reading....
A quick reprogramming of the pump will fix that to always increment in 5 cent increments.
So the first drop you pump, it would go from $0.00 to $0.05, then where it would've said $0.06-0.09, it would read $0.10. So the pump always magically rounds up.
Of course, if you chose the credit card option, it would use exact cents. But cash? It would start at 5 cents rounded up.
Probably because the RF power amplifiers needed - just because you can theoretically receive and transmit from DC to daylight, doesn't mean it works in practicality. For receive, you need to amplify the incoming signal, and broadband amplifiers that have the desired characteristics are hard. For transmit, you'd need amplifiers for every band you're interested in - in this case, 3 separate power amps - 6m, 2m, 70cm. You don't want to use a wideband one because their general characteristics suck and you REALLY don't want to accidentally transmit off-band (you're still responsible for all emissions, after all) either accidentally (due to bugs) or intentionally.
There are very few HTs from the big guys that actually do 6m, as well. And consider yourself lucky that the bands are so crowded - it means there's lots of action. A dead band is one ripe for reclamation.
Well, for starters, exposure to anything desensitizes. It's why the military uses the same games to train soldiers these days - because they know the first kill is hard (many get ill or sick), but by desensitizing them to the violence and reducing the value of life to a mere statistic, when ordered to shoot and kill, they most likely will.
That's the most tenable and demonstratable link to violence in videogames to violence in real life. However, just because one is desensitized does not mean that one cannot be rational and understand the difference between electrons (pixels) and atoms (meat). In fact, studies have generally shown that players on a whole are not more inherently violent (perhaps less so), which could point to other violence - like movies and TV to be a potential source.
The closest link I could conceive would be those who see games like CoD have cool weapons, and who then proceed to purchase said weapons because they're cool (you can tell because they usually also ricer it up with fancy optics and other rail accessories and crap). Of course, those are usually more for show and collection and may never see a bullet other than during production, but then again, easier access to weapons. But unlikely.
The best link would be reverse-correllation - those with violent tendencies would gravitate to violent video games. After all, the ones who abuse stray animals and such aren't likely to find much "relief" in playing Tetris. These are the sort of people deranged enough to be the ones who go to schools to shoot 'em up and the like.
The big problem though? Everyone who does a study has a stake in its results - the environment around it is so politicized that there's no general conclusion that can be drawn. And there are potentially a lot of variables and unknowns that really make doing any sort of conclusive study practically impossible. And in the world of 30 second soundbites, answering the question becomes a binary yes/no answer with no room for a "but...".
TL;DR - it's complicated, it's more politicized science, and there are many things that could form the basis for the belief.
Perhaps it's better to just believe they're this generation's version of comic books, rock music, television, movies, etc, all of which were demonized at one point or another. Yesterday it was the above. Today it's video games. Tomorrow it could be holodecks.
Hell, it can pay for new content in HD as well.
Sure you have to wait a bit, but Season 2 of Game of Thrones will be out soon, and really, one month of cable and HBO will cover both sets as blu-ray. Free and legit, easier to justify than those who torrent it, too.
Now if some channels weren't so anal, so they could let services like iTunes carry it practically the next day. Hell, a good month of cable can pay for many iTunes season passes or the Amazon equivalent. 3-4 months will probably cover everyone's shows for a year. (Legally, with no piracy "I don't wanna pay for it because they charge too much" bullsh*t).
Well, to detect it means you need to really run a bunch of video cards together on the games you play. It was discovered only because a video card was putting out great numbers, but gameplay seemed "less smooth" than a video card putting out lower numbers.
Whether or not you can detect this stuttering is dependent on so many factors - it's hard to tell, Maybe you discount it as a framerate drop. Maybe your eyes don't see it. Or your games are fine. Lots of factors. Just like some people feel games written for 30fps run fine, while others want 120+fps and feel the lag if it runs at 60.
I suspect most people probably won't notice it - it's the only card they see so there's no "smoothness" to compare it too. It's like micro-stuttering on SLI/Crossfire setups - you might see it, you might not. But unless you're playing with a bunch of cards, you probably won't notice unless you upgrade monthly or so and thus have recent enough memory to say "I think this game ran smoother on my old card..."
And how many screens? Let's take a typical development task - I've seen two independent people come up with requirement specification, of which a third requirement spec has to be generated (the first is what marketing wants a product to do, the second is what engineering wants the product to do, the third is what your little chunk of the entire project is supposed to do).
And from that, distill a test plan which has a requirements matrix that ties back to both original documents and the distilled document (tracability - every feature listed must be testable and tested).
Oh, and the first two documents change. A lot. It may be a numbering change, but that means all the documents need to change to adapt, and ensuring that it all matches up again, so you have to have all 4 documents open at once. Short of having four monitors to view them all simultaneously, it's a alt-tab nightmare.
Toss in a fifth document (say, documentation on your chunk - like how stuff interfaces), and now you have to also ensure your interface headers are up to date as well, AND ensure your requirements doc is still complete to have that document integrated into it (and testable!).
Oh, and that notepad? Paper. So you have to have notepad.exe open as well.
And I have been known to be the assinine QA tester who would chew out a developer if their tests weren't up to snuff. Not because it made me happy, but because I understood the value of ensuring that everything matched up. If you omit a step, I'd call you out because the next person who runs the test may not know that and mark a fail on something that should've passed.
Complete tracability and repeatability - when that software goes out the door, I can say the test plan met the requirements, point out how it matched up, and that if someone else took the same build out of code control and same version of the documents, they can repeat the same tests and have the same results. Because 6 months down the road, someone will ask "did we test this?" and "How did we test this?" and "Customer says it doesn't work". In which case I can either say - "oops, we didn't htink to test it" (new requirement and test case), or "oops, we didn't know the customer wanted it this way" (new requirement), or "yes we did, and here's how ew did it, and I can run it again to double-check". (Maybe customer got an engineering build and it failed because of a regression).
Last I checked the BOINC based ones do. You can join multiple projects and even allocate 1 core to one, 2 to another, etc. And yes, I believe it supports even hourly usage, and even has a "back off" protocol where if it sees the CPU busier than some amount (you specify) it won't even bother starting a task - it will sleep for an hour and try again later.
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Preferences
Many projects use BOINC... including Einstein@home.
No, hers was a perfect example of an axiom that old greybeards have long known - if you don't want it known to the world, don't post it online.
The axiom holds through "privacy" controls as well - which Facebook created to encourage people to post online personal stuff. And people believe it - but there is no privacy online. If you post it "friends only" (as she did, mind you), they can easily re-post, re-tweet, whatever to the world (which is what happened - one of her "friends" decided to re-tweet the photo).
"Friends only" is the same as the "world" - because it only takes one person to share it. It's like sharing a secret with your friend in real life. Or Group permissions on Unix(-like) OSes - anyone with access can easily pass it on to someone who doesn't have access.
To do otherwise is asking for DRM, and we know how email DRM and photo DRM has taken off to prevent spreading of emails and photos.
Most theatres actually do - at least the smarter ones who realize they have a huge gathering room suitable for 100+ people and a speaker in front with acoustics that are fairly decent and a huge ass projector suitable for showing things to the entire crowd (that's bright - so no squinting at dim over-extended project
You know it because they refer to the theatre as an "auditorium" rather than just a theatre. There's even a little stage and such too for a speaker to use. On the bigger ones, it's big enough for a small play.
For all-company meetings, it's far more economical to rent the theatre than to have to build an equivalent that does exactly that. Plus the larger ones often have private catered food services available.
I think people happily pay more for water than gas in the US. I mean, they'll happy pay what, $1.50 for a 500mL bottle of water? (that's $3/L, or around $10-11 for a gallon). Of course, they could get it semi-free out of the tap, and if you buy in bulk of gallons you can probably buy a gallon jug for $1 or so.
Still, people happily pay $1.50 for a half-litre of water.
And drinking gas? bleh.
And that sort of music is actually fairly movie-specific. It's not like you can film another movie and "lift" the score from another to use it - it's completely wrong and generates the wrong mood, etc.
Scores are very source-specific and are designed to fit the theme, mood and action in the movie. Sometimes a movie trailer will use another movie's score (I think the very early Robocop promo trailers used the Terminator score), but that's just a 30 second clip.
At best, a composer will use a score written by someone else for inspiration for a sequel - but that's because the themes are identifiable to that series.
People who are into soundtracks use them as a way to :relive" sequences of the film - a score by a good composer will evoke the same feelings that happened in the movie. In fact, a score is often the primary emotion manipulator in a movie - take it away and the movie will feel lacking. But take away the pictures and the impact of the movie will still be there.
The only worry as a score composer? The current era of Hollywood remakes where they take 15+ year old films and remake them, at which point the new composer will draw inspiration from the old score.
Netbooks were always iffy - they cost too low for much of a profit ($300 for a BOM that was pretty close to that. One tech support call blows the budget).
Manufacturers don't really want to make netbooks - that's why they're tossing in bigger screens and such to make them cost more - $300 was just too hard to make a profit on.
Everyone went tablets because the profit is bigger - a $300 tablet can be made with $150 worth of parts. Even a Nexus 7 still probably make more money than a netbook did.
And netbooks costing $400 or $500 was seriously getting into regular laptop territory
Not really a new concept - the Mall of American actually has no heating system - no boilers or other heating mechanism. It does have chillers and A/C (and sometimes it runs in the middle of winter).
It uses body heat (of the shoppers) and solar heating (sunroofs) to keep the entire place warm (70F) in those chilly 10F Minnesotan winters.
Certain offices are also dense enough that people and equipment contribute plenty of heating during the winter - so much so that the A/C runs in the winter to keep the office from getting uncomfortably warm.