Add a digital power scheduling module to the outlet. 10 dollars, and you can automatically power cycle once per week at an innocuous time. The digital scheduling will let you have as little as 5 seconds of downtime on the power line.
I'm going to have to question your assertion of quality management when you talk about people's subordinate asses.
If you think that a windows based team can't move over to linux with minimal hassle, or that windows is only debatably "better" for ATM machines despite the virus outbreak that took down nearly half of the ATM's in the country, then you are exhibiting exactly the behaviors which grandparent poster (inelegantly) decries.
If you've hired a team of MSCE certified "programmers" who only know how to program on Windows, you've screwed up right there. Programmers should be general purpose. Otherwise it's like hiring "architects" who can build track houses, but have no idea how to lay out an office space.
Similarly, Windows exhibits behaviors which are quite inefficient from an engineering standpoint. RAM and system requirements for one, which add thermal issues and introduce more points of failure. System stability is better than before, but succeptability to trojans and various other widely known attack vectors makes it a poor choice for security-conscious applications. Cost of data breaches start in the millions and go up significantly. And similarly, network facing applications should avoid Windows due to the high risk of viral infection. Again, see the country-wide ATM outages not too long ago.
Depending upon the job, a switch can greatly reduce per-unit hardware and software costs, as well as reducing future liabilities. The switch shouldn't be terribly hard on your development team, as C is C and platform-specific hooks can be learned quickly, and it makes them more valuable as employees. All of this is positive for the subordinate asses beneath you.
Why not setup a system that mirror's the house of representative's docket for the following day, allowing people to vote on the issues that matter to them. Break this down by region and district, so that politicians can see their people swinging one way or another on individual issues.
Create a dynamic system where any one user can lend their vote to another user unless they choose to override it. Setup a discussion for each item with moderation, slashdot style.
Basically, make it really easy for a congressman to see how people in their district would vote on a very specific piece of legislation. Don't give generalized mush like "we want a smaller government" so much as "87% of your voters say 'vote yes on the bill coming up at 11 am this morning'"
it's designed to upsell 32 bit processors. Annoyingly enough, it just takes x,y coordinates from a vision system, estimates trajectories, and outputs position data to a robotic arm. Really, you should be able to compile code on the nes to do that. It calculates three rebounds? That seems somehow like an easy task if you're being fed realtime position information.
Color me amused but unimpressed. It is a great ad, but an ad nonetheless.
Isn't the lack of privacy a byproduct of your life, similar to the electromagnetic radiation spewing forth from your television?
I borrow a book from the library. That's the action. The library must keep a record of that transaction, to make sure that they get the book back. That byproduct is a little bit of information about me radiating away.
I don't own this byproduct any more than I own the exhaust that spews forth from my car. We can all make some agreements to help mitigate misusage, but in the grand scheme of things information for better or worse does have a habit of escaping into the atmosphere.
Remember 13375p34k? Used to be everywhere on the net? I realised recently that I'd barely seen any of it in the past couple of years- not since around the time that newspapers started printing guides explaining those strange words your children type.
leetspeak was a way of getting around IRC and board filters about banned topics. By the time newspapers started printing guides, sysadmins were aware of the problem and had either upgraded filters to compensate or just dropped them. Also, non-filtering systems were by and large transferred to for sensitive conversations.
Or, of course, Browser Y takes more memory and caches more of what you're using, whereas Browser X hits your network more often. Browser Y might feel more responsive to your input. Browser Y might also be very efficient at freeing resources as the system needs, so that the actual system footprint is negligible, but unused resources are utilized efficiently.
Of course all of that is speculation. Comparing browser based upon RAM footprint when they're all trying to cache the entire internet seems ridiculous. You might get somewhere if you removed all caching and pre-maxed out the real RAM, such that any and all activities hit the disk. But even then you'd be putting up a metric bereft of real-world performance ramifications.
Opera does the same thing. It takes into account the amount of free RAM when planning memory usage.
It IS good to see that only Safari is eggregiously leaking. But comparing RAM usage in browsers is a lot like comparing bandwidth usage to determine which torrent client is most "efficient." The best clients will use all the available resources, and free dynamically as other applications need.
Instead of starforce-like apps creating instability in the system and fighting for resources, network-based authentication is really the way to go. It doesn't clog up your system, and it doesn't destabalize by hooking into low levels.
Hopefully it actually does function by turning some number of pirates into legitimate customers. Selling 30 copies of a game in a week is a really, really low number. I suspect that torrents will continue to exist (due to the simple fact of hex editing). But we'll see. Hopefully LGP will provide some before and after numbers for us to ponder.
Why even have tld's? Everything worth going to is a.com . Even Icann.com and slashdot.com exists. Just strip the TLD's, assume everything is a.com, forward to that registrar, and let a semantic structure for differentiating names evolve naturally.
It's not like the.com register is going to be suddenly any less well-behaved.
Really? It was my impression that a review was one group's opinion of a game. A review can be as simple as "the game sucked. It wouldn't run on my PC. 0 / 10" Without real slander, what would be the basis of a suit?
Now in the grand scheme of things, they should be sure to review final code. But even if they don't, what would be the legal basis for a suit?
The camera still sucks Welcome to camera phones. No matter how many MP you jam on there, you're still relying upon a.5cm lens, which will never gather enough light for clear pictures. Get a camera.
The screen is still glass ($200 repair job) I used to break my Palm Pilot's screens all the time. I've never broken my iPhone. Glass not only has a better tactile feel, it's a hell of a lot stronger and doesn't scratch.
Still no battery door (Which wouldn't bother me all that much if they didn't fall back to "bad battery life" as an excuse for several major failings) Have you ever had to replace your battery?
Still no multitasking for third party apps I waffle on this one, but I like their push-based solution. There isn't much that you really need to do in the background on a communicator, but there is a whole lot that apps can do to slow it down and make it feel like a sewer. See also: any windows installation after about two years of real use.
Still no copy/paste God this drives me nuts.
Still no file manager I've done without a file manager for years now on the Palm Pilot. An intelligent databasing backend should never need a file manager.
Still no bluetooth: keyboard driver, a2dp, file transfer, iSync I'd kill for a keyboard driver.
Still raping users with ringtones It sucks, but which phone manufacturer doesn't do this?
Still raping developers for 30% of revenue You're kidding, right? Do you have any idea of how much of a cut digital distributers like Valve and Microsoft's Live Arcade service take? Let me give you a hint: a hell of a lot more.
Still forcing app signing on end users/developers If the end user needs an app signed, they're in a position to jailbreak.
Cutting their prices in half Oh wait, you didn't say this. How very odd.
As far as I know, a new iPhone purchase will restart a 2 year contract, rather than extend it. If you purchased an iphone in the past month, they'll give you an updated version for free.
Certainly there is need for some standardization of frequencies and protocols, but studies have shown the current system is no longer necessary. Ultrawideband and frequency hopping may even make interference a thing of the past and reduce the need for regulation to general protocol specs, such as apply to phone lines and allow faxes, modems, answering machines, and so many other ubiquitous devices to connect to land lines without heavy handed regulation.
I'd have to question the assertion that regulation is no longer neccessary, seeing the success of unregulated spectrum when draft-N routers decided to shut out all other forms of communication in that band.
Even if Ultrawideband provided the bandwidth and lack-of-interference promised, A: it would still be a not-unlimited resource that would need some degree of oversight and B: it would need to play nice with the billions of legacy devices out there.
And even then you're assuming that UWB devices would be well-behaved. Without regulation, what would prevent a UWB manufacturer from taking up both wide and narrow spectrum? Or from a local facility to decide to use an overpowered transmitter to communicate with all of their stores in an area, thereby blanketing the neighborhood with noise and degrading everyone's use of the spectrum?
Saying that a limited resource like spectrum can be subdivided and used infinitely without oversight is hopelessly idealistic and doesn't help the conversation at all.
It also abandons the innovative software that thousands of volunteers have poured their time into advancing. Instead of getting a super-simple windowing system adapted to the needs of the users and the hardware, they get a bloated OS that doesn't work with the laptop and is customized to keep IT workers rolling in money for years to come.
But most importantly, they just told all of their software developers to shove off. Well done Negroponte. Well done.
For the most part, people just don't care about DRM or trusted computing because it doesn't affect them.
This affects them every time a consumer complains about a slow computer. Every time they wonder why MP3 players are so expensive. Or why they can't just buy a season of a TV show online. Or why a WMV file won't open properly.
Or why DVD recorders are hard to find. Or the custom ringtone feature on their phone doesn't work. Or, for that matter, why their phone doesn't do anything useful.
Other restricted forms of mass speech: Auto phone dialers. Littering floors with fliers. Disturbing the peace. Anything that would leave paper stains. Demonstrations without a permit. Unwanted speech in a private area. Calling to the do-not-call registry. Sending penis enlargement messages to ten year olds. Forging return addresses.
I'm usually a first amendment defender. But in this case, if the spammer wants societal protection from reprisals, they need to behave in a civilized fashion.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't run a tech department.
I don't run a programming unit.
That's actually quite encouraging. Please keep that up.
Add a digital power scheduling module to the outlet. 10 dollars, and you can automatically power cycle once per week at an innocuous time. The digital scheduling will let you have as little as 5 seconds of downtime on the power line.
I'm going to have to question your assertion of quality management when you talk about people's subordinate asses.
If you think that a windows based team can't move over to linux with minimal hassle, or that windows is only debatably "better" for ATM machines despite the virus outbreak that took down nearly half of the ATM's in the country, then you are exhibiting exactly the behaviors which grandparent poster (inelegantly) decries.
If you've hired a team of MSCE certified "programmers" who only know how to program on Windows, you've screwed up right there. Programmers should be general purpose. Otherwise it's like hiring "architects" who can build track houses, but have no idea how to lay out an office space.
Similarly, Windows exhibits behaviors which are quite inefficient from an engineering standpoint. RAM and system requirements for one, which add thermal issues and introduce more points of failure. System stability is better than before, but succeptability to trojans and various other widely known attack vectors makes it a poor choice for security-conscious applications. Cost of data breaches start in the millions and go up significantly. And similarly, network facing applications should avoid Windows due to the high risk of viral infection. Again, see the country-wide ATM outages not too long ago.
Depending upon the job, a switch can greatly reduce per-unit hardware and software costs, as well as reducing future liabilities. The switch shouldn't be terribly hard on your development team, as C is C and platform-specific hooks can be learned quickly, and it makes them more valuable as employees. All of this is positive for the subordinate asses beneath you.
a Voting Machine which will simply vote the way the System ordains. A voting robot - hey, that'll even save them $31K a year!
I'm sure a diebold is more expensive than a representative. Thought at least a Diebold, once hacked, stays hacked.
Why not setup a system that mirror's the house of representative's docket for the following day, allowing people to vote on the issues that matter to them. Break this down by region and district, so that politicians can see their people swinging one way or another on individual issues.
Create a dynamic system where any one user can lend their vote to another user unless they choose to override it. Setup a discussion for each item with moderation, slashdot style.
Basically, make it really easy for a congressman to see how people in their district would vote on a very specific piece of legislation. Don't give generalized mush like "we want a smaller government" so much as "87% of your voters say 'vote yes on the bill coming up at 11 am this morning'"
it's designed to upsell 32 bit processors. Annoyingly enough, it just takes x,y coordinates from a vision system, estimates trajectories, and outputs position data to a robotic arm. Really, you should be able to compile code on the nes to do that. It calculates three rebounds? That seems somehow like an easy task if you're being fed realtime position information.
Color me amused but unimpressed. It is a great ad, but an ad nonetheless.
The explanations were: Reiser is a paranoid loony with zero social skills, or Reiser is a killer. Surprisingly, people wanted to believe the latter.
Ah, you mean Proactiveendoskeletalparadigmshifting.
Isn't the lack of privacy a byproduct of your life, similar to the electromagnetic radiation spewing forth from your television?
I borrow a book from the library. That's the action. The library must keep a record of that transaction, to make sure that they get the book back. That byproduct is a little bit of information about me radiating away.
I don't own this byproduct any more than I own the exhaust that spews forth from my car. We can all make some agreements to help mitigate misusage, but in the grand scheme of things information for better or worse does have a habit of escaping into the atmosphere.
Remember 13375p34k? Used to be everywhere on the net? I realised recently that I'd barely seen any of it in the past couple of years- not since around the time that newspapers started printing guides explaining those strange words your children type.
leetspeak was a way of getting around IRC and board filters about banned topics. By the time newspapers started printing guides, sysadmins were aware of the problem and had either upgraded filters to compensate or just dropped them. Also, non-filtering systems were by and large transferred to for sensitive conversations.
Or, of course, Browser Y takes more memory and caches more of what you're using, whereas Browser X hits your network more often. Browser Y might feel more responsive to your input. Browser Y might also be very efficient at freeing resources as the system needs, so that the actual system footprint is negligible, but unused resources are utilized efficiently.
Of course all of that is speculation. Comparing browser based upon RAM footprint when they're all trying to cache the entire internet seems ridiculous. You might get somewhere if you removed all caching and pre-maxed out the real RAM, such that any and all activities hit the disk. But even then you'd be putting up a metric bereft of real-world performance ramifications.
Opera does the same thing. It takes into account the amount of free RAM when planning memory usage.
It IS good to see that only Safari is eggregiously leaking. But comparing RAM usage in browsers is a lot like comparing bandwidth usage to determine which torrent client is most "efficient." The best clients will use all the available resources, and free dynamically as other applications need.
Instead of starforce-like apps creating instability in the system and fighting for resources, network-based authentication is really the way to go. It doesn't clog up your system, and it doesn't destabalize by hooking into low levels.
Hopefully it actually does function by turning some number of pirates into legitimate customers. Selling 30 copies of a game in a week is a really, really low number. I suspect that torrents will continue to exist (due to the simple fact of hex editing). But we'll see. Hopefully LGP will provide some before and after numbers for us to ponder.
Why even have tld's? Everything worth going to is a .com . Even Icann.com and slashdot.com exists. Just strip the TLD's, assume everything is a .com, forward to that registrar, and let a semantic structure for differentiating names evolve naturally.
It's not like the .com register is going to be suddenly any less well-behaved.
Really? It was my impression that a review was one group's opinion of a game. A review can be as simple as "the game sucked. It wouldn't run on my PC. 0 / 10" Without real slander, what would be the basis of a suit?
Now in the grand scheme of things, they should be sure to review final code. But even if they don't, what would be the legal basis for a suit?
Instead these high-tech sort of solutions will cost $$$ and not give results.
Don't forget the low-tech solutions which cost $$$ and don't give results.
Hey, they obviously left out cars and trains here. A way to disable all cars on all LA freeways might have same use.
If you've ever driven on the LA freeways, you'll know they're way ahead of you.
The camera still sucks .5cm lens, which will never gather enough light for clear pictures. Get a camera.
Welcome to camera phones. No matter how many MP you jam on there, you're still relying upon a
The screen is still glass ($200 repair job)
I used to break my Palm Pilot's screens all the time. I've never broken my iPhone. Glass not only has a better tactile feel, it's a hell of a lot stronger and doesn't scratch.
Still no battery door (Which wouldn't bother me all that much if they didn't fall back to "bad battery life" as an excuse for several major failings)
Have you ever had to replace your battery?
Still no multitasking for third party apps
I waffle on this one, but I like their push-based solution. There isn't much that you really need to do in the background on a communicator, but there is a whole lot that apps can do to slow it down and make it feel like a sewer. See also: any windows installation after about two years of real use.
Still no copy/paste
God this drives me nuts.
Still no file manager
I've done without a file manager for years now on the Palm Pilot. An intelligent databasing backend should never need a file manager.
Still no bluetooth: keyboard driver, a2dp, file transfer, iSync
I'd kill for a keyboard driver.
Still raping users with ringtones
It sucks, but which phone manufacturer doesn't do this?
Still raping developers for 30% of revenue
You're kidding, right? Do you have any idea of how much of a cut digital distributers like Valve and Microsoft's Live Arcade service take? Let me give you a hint: a hell of a lot more.
Still forcing app signing on end users/developers
If the end user needs an app signed, they're in a position to jailbreak.
Cutting their prices in half
Oh wait, you didn't say this. How very odd.
As far as I know, a new iPhone purchase will restart a 2 year contract, rather than extend it. If you purchased an iphone in the past month, they'll give you an updated version for free.
if your science is correct 100% of the time and unchanging, you're doing it wrong.
Certainly there is need for some standardization of frequencies and protocols, but studies have shown the current system is no longer necessary. Ultrawideband and frequency hopping may even make interference a thing of the past and reduce the need for regulation to general protocol specs, such as apply to phone lines and allow faxes, modems, answering machines, and so many other ubiquitous devices to connect to land lines without heavy handed regulation.
I'd have to question the assertion that regulation is no longer neccessary, seeing the success of unregulated spectrum when draft-N routers decided to shut out all other forms of communication in that band.
Even if Ultrawideband provided the bandwidth and lack-of-interference promised, A: it would still be a not-unlimited resource that would need some degree of oversight and B: it would need to play nice with the billions of legacy devices out there.
And even then you're assuming that UWB devices would be well-behaved. Without regulation, what would prevent a UWB manufacturer from taking up both wide and narrow spectrum? Or from a local facility to decide to use an overpowered transmitter to communicate with all of their stores in an area, thereby blanketing the neighborhood with noise and degrading everyone's use of the spectrum?
Saying that a limited resource like spectrum can be subdivided and used infinitely without oversight is hopelessly idealistic and doesn't help the conversation at all.
It also abandons the innovative software that thousands of volunteers have poured their time into advancing. Instead of getting a super-simple windowing system adapted to the needs of the users and the hardware, they get a bloated OS that doesn't work with the laptop and is customized to keep IT workers rolling in money for years to come.
But most importantly, they just told all of their software developers to shove off. Well done Negroponte. Well done.
If there is no news, there is no news. Don't post stupid news to ruin the reputation of the site.
You must be new here.
For the most part, people just don't care about DRM or trusted computing because it doesn't affect them.
This affects them every time a consumer complains about a slow computer. Every time they wonder why MP3 players are so expensive. Or why they can't just buy a season of a TV show online. Or why a WMV file won't open properly.
Or why DVD recorders are hard to find. Or the custom ringtone feature on their phone doesn't work. Or, for that matter, why their phone doesn't do anything useful.
Other restricted forms of mass speech: Auto phone dialers. Littering floors with fliers. Disturbing the peace. Anything that would leave paper stains. Demonstrations without a permit. Unwanted speech in a private area. Calling to the do-not-call registry. Sending penis enlargement messages to ten year olds. Forging return addresses.
I'm usually a first amendment defender. But in this case, if the spammer wants societal protection from reprisals, they need to behave in a civilized fashion.