The fragility of the human form is in no way a limiting factor. The factors are: * The vehicles are designed to carry people * They therefore have certain performance characteristics * The computer was not as good as the person at pushing to the limits of those characteristics
Police are allowed in some circumstances to install hidden surveillance cameras on private property without obtaining a search warrant, a federal judge said yesterday.
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My interpretation of this is that they think they can set up video cameras on public property to record activity on your personal property. Still not a great thing to have happen but not as bad as them installing something on your property without you knowing. Can anyone find where they explain further if the devices themselves were installed on the defendant's property?
Naw. I think that it also means they can use my field (with my permission) to set up surveillance on your field.
So they can set it up on private property. Just not [necessarily] the target's property.
... For all the non alphabetical writing systems the virtual keyboard is so superior to the usual imput methods that the use of a "real" keyboard is a hindrance.
That is fascinating, and something I would have never thought of. Thanks for sharing.
I use iPad for everything including writing papers....works just fine for what it is intended, and that is subjective to the user...
I'm an old guy. I could not stand to write much without having a real keyboard - so I'm curious about you (and all the young 'uns): Those papers you're writing - do you use a bluetooth keyboard, or do you just use the 'virtual' keybard on the pad?
And to the GP AC: Believe it or not, folks actually used to write papers without computers at all! I know - it's hard to imagine that an iPad could outperform a manual typewriter...
I agree - though it'll be interesting to see what the iPad mini brings, next week. With the touch at $200 and the pad at $400, it seems like $300 for the mini is a pretty solid guess.
While there are plenty of reasons for *me* to prefer a chromebook, the truth is that I have a laptop already. The rest of my family would probably be much better off with a tablet, and the iDevices pretty much have that nailed down.
If every single one of the development teams for every single one of the dozens of different programmes in use have the same attitude ("Who cares if it's hogging RAM and churning CPU cycles, they're both cheap these days!"). then every single one of them runs more poorly than it might, forcing us to either upgrade the hardware unnecessarily at great expense, or accept a god awful user experience. That's not a good situation just because each developing company wants to cut corners and shave a few quid off the costs.
Twice the RAM on your current systems. And that's just the bottom of the line, now. I think it isn't reasonable for you to complain about brand new software performance on a poorly stocked system -- and your systems are poorly stocked. Hell, you are *at* the minimum for running windows 7 (or 8).
Your alternative is to insist on performance from each of your dozens of software providers, which will certainly cost a great deal, too.
OK, tell us the rest of the math. How many of those laptops are using the software you mentioned? How much is the license for? Per year? How many other programs do those laptops run? Are you willing to pay software money to improve all of them?
How many programmer hours do you suppose it'd take to optimise the software you're running? Those hours aren't free, and *in general* highly optimized code is more work to maintain - which will keep software costs up.
If you care about performance, invest in performance.
Thank you! I see you are also https://joindiaspora.com/u/charles_fox and that googling for Charles Fox (your address)@joindiaspora.com fails to find you on the first page of the results.
In Jr. High (81-83), I learned some BASIC programming on Apple II+'s. I had a good time with it. Happened to be a private school.
High School (-86), I seem to remember having had a computer class, but I don't remember a damn thing about it. Did we do PASCAL? I don't remember for sure. I'm pretty sure we had PC's. We had an Apple IIe at home, and I hacked BASIC on that.
So I learned a little bit about variables, flow control... And I guess that's about it. Unless there was PASCAL - in which case I guess I also learned a bit about calling functions. I feel like we must have - because I'm pretty sure I knew about functions when I went to college.
I'd love to see a follow-up on this subject: "What did you learn about programming in college..."
If not just to the target of the slashdotting, then to the entire/. readership.
Hey, look! An interesting story (for a change)! Oh, no - it's just a pile of smouldering router/cpu. No, we couldn't bother to set up a mirror first and then refer to it when the site went down.
I mean, come on. In 15 years they could not write a failover mechanism that monitors the target site and when it goes down adds a note to the story with a pointer at a mirror?
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The fragility of the human form is in no way a limiting factor. The factors are:
* The vehicles are designed to carry people
* They therefore have certain performance characteristics
* The computer was not as good as the person at pushing to the limits of those characteristics
...
Police are allowed in some circumstances to install hidden surveillance cameras on private property without obtaining a search warrant, a federal judge said yesterday.
...
My interpretation of this is that they think they can set up video cameras on public property to record activity on your personal property. Still not a great thing to have happen but not as bad as them installing something on your property without you knowing. Can anyone find where they explain further if the devices themselves were installed on the defendant's property?
Naw. I think that it also means they can use my field (with my permission) to set up surveillance on your field.
So they can set it up on private property. Just not [necessarily] the target's property.
At least that's my hope.
I just happened to read this counter-example, yesterday:
http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook-for-an-ipad
I'm not ready for that, but it is an interesting read.
Oops! off by 1-2 orders... Sorry about that.
... Your now at 202kW, or 271HP. That's probably around 10% of the cruising HP of an actual jetliner...
Looks like you're off by 2-3 orders of magnitude:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_horsepower_of_one_engine_in_a_Boeing_747
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080124191508AAxnhMi
And NASA's numbers for cruise speed:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/pao/History/SP-468/ch10-2.htm
So 60K-160K HP, depending on who's counting what.
... For all the non alphabetical writing systems the virtual keyboard is so superior to the usual imput methods that the use of a "real" keyboard is a hindrance.
That is fascinating, and something I would have never thought of. Thanks for sharing.
...
I use iPad for everything including writing papers....works just fine for what it is intended, and that is subjective to the user...
I'm an old guy. I could not stand to write much without having a real keyboard - so I'm curious about you (and all the young 'uns):
Those papers you're writing - do you use a bluetooth keyboard, or do you just use the 'virtual' keybard on the pad?
And to the GP AC:
Believe it or not, folks actually used to write papers without computers at all! I know - it's hard to imagine that an iPad could outperform a manual typewriter...
Yeah. My first thought was "doesn't everyone know this already?"
Here's a site with data sources in 1990 that explain this:
http://www.dolphinear.com/data/dolphins.htm
"news"
Yeah.
I agree - though it'll be interesting to see what the iPad mini brings, next week. With the touch at $200 and the pad at $400, it seems like $300 for the mini is a pretty solid guess.
While there are plenty of reasons for *me* to prefer a chromebook, the truth is that I have a laptop already. The rest of my family would probably be much better off with a tablet, and the iDevices pretty much have that nailed down.
...
If every single one of the development teams for every single one of the dozens of different programmes in use have the same attitude ("Who cares if it's hogging RAM and churning CPU cycles, they're both cheap these days!"). then every single one of them runs more poorly than it might, forcing us to either upgrade the hardware unnecessarily at great expense, or accept a god awful user experience. That's not a good situation just because each developing company wants to cut corners and shave a few quid off the costs.
But it's totally reasonable. The bottom of the line DELL ships with 2G of RAM:
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=svctbpd1&model_id=vostro-260&c=us&l=en&s=soho&cs=ussoho1&
Twice the RAM on your current systems. And that's just the bottom of the line, now. I think it isn't reasonable for you to complain about brand new software performance on a poorly stocked system -- and your systems are poorly stocked. Hell, you are *at* the minimum for running windows 7 (or 8).
Your alternative is to insist on performance from each of your dozens of software providers, which will certainly cost a great deal, too.
Sure, it's an excellent project and there are a lot of winners. Hard to think of a bad angle on the whole thing.
But I'm curious about the myopic notion of the most successful project.
I wonder what's the best/most successful project to come out of summer of code...
Seriously. This is news?
Maybe I've been using computers longer than you, or maybe not. But your experience has been the opposite of mine (over the past 30 years).
Computers are getting ridiculously faster, cheaper, smaller. Software has failed to keep up since somewhere around 2000, in my experience.
OK, tell us the rest of the math. How many of those laptops are using the software you mentioned? How much is the license for? Per year? How many other programs do those laptops run? Are you willing to pay software money to improve all of them?
Or would the #400K be a bargain?
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Which seems insane for a social networking site to do.
Dude (or dudette). I have mod points, but I'm split between Insightful, Funny, and Flame bait.
You had me with the first paragraph. There was no need for the second.
So the apps run and you're complaining. When you could buy 4G of RAM for about $60.
Guh. Make that 8G for $30.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104339
How many programmer hours do you suppose it'd take to optimise the software you're running? Those hours aren't free, and *in general* highly optimized code is more work to maintain - which will keep software costs up.
If you care about performance, invest in performance.
OK...
Then maybe internet access is just an aspect of speech, and we leave it at that?
Thank you! I see you are also https://joindiaspora.com/u/charles_fox
and that googling for
Charles Fox (your address)@joindiaspora.com
fails to find you on the first page of the results.
All of that is interesting to me.
Really? Not one, simple, concrete example? That's all I'm looking for. Just one.
I know what a facebook page looks like. I know what a G+ page looks like. I know what a myspace page looks like.
What does a diaspora page look like?
Do I have to create an account to see one?
I really am asking for something that simple. I'd like to see the public portion of a diaspora page. That's it.
In Jr. High (81-83), I learned some BASIC programming on Apple II+'s. I had a good time with it. Happened to be a private school.
High School (-86), I seem to remember having had a computer class, but I don't remember a damn thing about it. Did we do PASCAL? I don't remember for sure. I'm pretty sure we had PC's. We had an Apple IIe at home, and I hacked BASIC on that.
So I learned a little bit about variables, flow control... And I guess that's about it. Unless there was PASCAL - in which case I guess I also learned a bit about calling functions. I feel like we must have - because I'm pretty sure I knew about functions when I went to college.
I'd love to see a follow-up on this subject: "What did you learn about programming in college..."
If not just to the target of the slashdotting, then to the entire /. readership.
Hey, look! An interesting story (for a change)! Oh, no - it's just a pile of smouldering router/cpu. No, we couldn't bother to set up a mirror first and then refer to it when the site went down.
I mean, come on. In 15 years they could not write a failover mechanism that monitors the target site and when it goes down adds a note to the story with a pointer at a mirror?
Congratulations, /., on 15 years of being inconsiderate.