In previous versions, when you pressed F6 it selected the address bar.
You can still press Control-L (for Location) to select the address bar. Similarly, Control-K selects the search bar.
Yes, I know that F6 selects the location field in IE and the File Explorer on Windows as well, so F6 would be more consistent. I'm just saying that there is still a keyboard shortcut to select the address bar.
I used to work in the HDD industry, and am very familiar with the seek algorithms used. Sorry, but your description of the move algorithm is completely wrong. Modern control implementations collect information about the actual output of the system (such as position) relative to the desired output (the target position) and act on it in real-time.
Modern HDDs (as in, anytime in the last 15+ years) have 'servo tracks' written on the disk. These are radial spokes of distance information encoded on the disk. Today's drives may have as many as 500 or 1000 of these servo spokes. The head is able to read these as it seeks across the disk, so it knows where it is during the seek. There is no 'stopping, checking where you are and making an adjustment.' It's more along the lines of 'checking your position as you move, and adjusting the voice coil voltage to give the optimum velocity and acceleration to land in the right spot as quickly as possible.'
There is an enormous amount of effort that goes into reducing the amount of vibration generated by the drives themselves, as well as minimizing the drives' sensitivity to external vibrations. However, there are specs for what the drives are able to handle, worst-case. By reducing the amount of vibrations they are subjected to, they will naturally perform better.
Being Slashdot, we need a car analogy, right? Cars are made to deal with headwinds and still get acceptable gas mileage, but removing the headwind will increase a car's gas mileage.
So why is deficit spending attractive? For several reasons. Politically, it is easy to sell "lower taxes!" For the political Right, it is also a way to shovel money into the pockets of the wealthy: about 1/3 of the debt is loaned to the government by rich people in the form of verystable investments - T-Bills, bonds, etc - at around 9% interest.
Puh-leez. I'm no supporter of deficit spending, but let's at least get the fact straight. The Right liking deficit spending because they're the ones funding the loans? At 9%?
Let's look at that 9% rate. I have no idea where you get that idea from, but T-bills have a much lower return than that. Yikes, if I could get T-bills at 9%, I'd have a lot of money in them myself. A quick look at this Bloomberg page detailing the current rates for bonds such as T-bills shows that the typical return on them is about 2% for 3- and 6-month T-bills, and 3.6% for 10-year bonds.
This is Slashdot, so I know you didn't read the article. But what about the summary? Bruce is talking to a guy who works for a network security company, not physical security (though that is one layer of proper network security).
I'll second this. I've been using Zenphoto for a few months now, and I'm pretty happy with it. It's much more... minimalist than other web galleries. Some may view this as a weakness, but I like it. Other galleries can be too much of an everything-including-the-kitchen-sink thing. Dammit, I just want to display some pictures!
Hmmm... my bank's website is still quite web 1.0, and I don't have any problem with that. I don't really see where the '2.0' technologies would improve my online banking experience enough to outweigh the potential security holes. I foresee my bank sticking with 1.0.
Yes, for general-purpose, fully-auto-mode pictures, the cameras in *some* phones are getting closer and closer to a medium-quality standalone digital camera. Of course, with an unlocked N95 listed at around $800 on Amazon right now, it better have a pretty good quality camera built-in. It wouldn't surprise me in the next few years to see a lot of people satisfied with simply using their camera phones and not buying a separate camera. Not everyone, but a substantial number of people.
However, it's all about the camera's purpose. People who are satisfied with the features of a basic point-and-shoot might be happy with the coming camera phones. Other people have moved on past the basics and are looking for more advanced features that simply will never show up in a camera phone because of the size of the components involved. You might buy a mid-range digital camera because of the 'better' image quality over a camera phone, but you would definitely consider a camera with a decent optical zoom over a phone without it. You don't buy a dSLR just because of the better image quality. You buy a dSLR because of the vastly increased control it affords you as a photographer and the ability to switch lenses.
Phones won't have interchangeable lenses, the optical zoom on phones will be limites, and phones will continue to have a clunky interface for any 'advanced' settings. People who want a camera for more than mindless point-and-click will rarely be satisfied with a camera phone.
That said, if the masses of really poor snapshots I've seen on sites like Flickr are any indication, the camera phones will be 'good enough' for many, many people. Also, anyone who buys a dSLR and regularly shoots in full-auto (as in the article) bought the wrong camera for their needs.
One would think that it would be more expensive to have a fancy machine build a simple building than it would be to pay people - especially at third world pay rates - to build the same simple buildings.
Put another way, it's not that all buildings in the third world are shack-like hovels. It's that the buildings built for the poor, by the poor, are shack-like hovels. People with actual resources have buildings that are just fine. Something tells me that the poor aren't going to be using these machines anytime soon.
Maybe I'm just a security-clueless Mac FanBoy (TM), but you're basically telling me that a local admin user can change something in the system to give themselves root privileges?
How is this really any different from simply being an admin? AFAIK, they're basically the same thing on an OSX box.
It's about time to find a solution for large storage that doesn't depends on an arm swinging and moving back and forward through a fragmented file system....
Yeah, and it's about time to find a cure for cancer, too. I suspect people have been working diligently on both of these issues for quite some time now. It's not a matter of someone just going out and doing it.
There are alternatives to using HDDs for mass storage. They just all happen to be slower or much more expensive per GB. HDDs have stuck around for a reason.
Once doctors are using guided electric fields to assist healing, how will corporations which spill uncontrolled electric fields among people deny that their fields affect human tissue?
Easy. They'll cite the mounds and mounds of research that has already been done on the topic and shown no effect. Just because researchers are able to produce an effect with specially crafted fields doesn't mean that all fields will have an effect.
Since it's slashdotted, you can check it out at MirrorDot.
But I'll save you the hassle and summarize it for you: he takes a 12cm case fan from an old watercooling rig (just uses the fan, not the water cooling bits) and powers it from the 12V pin of the power supply of an Icy Box hard drive enclosure.
Wow.
Lest you think that the Icy Box is actually doing any cooling, it's not. It's just providing power.
I assume the local memory is not going to be used much for 'reading' and only main memory is going to be used.
Well then what point does it serve? "Write-only memory" has long been a joke in intro Comp. Engineering courses. What's the point of writing really really fast to memory, when you aren't going to read from it very much?
While I can see how Adobe might not be happy with all new copies of Word being able to produce PDFs at will, this is a standard feature for all OSX apps that have the ability to print. Any program in OSX that can print can make a PDF - it's built right into the printing API of the OS. Word for OSX supports this, for instance.
So, this leads me to believe that it's not "we don't want you to make PDFs!" that's driving the potential lawsuit, but rather that MS wants to put things into their PDFs that wouldn't be compatible (embrace and extend, anyone?).
It's a question of getting the most units possible to the 3rd world. I don't know what sort of manufacturing scale they're going for, but if they are capacity-limited (i.e., demand outstrips supply) then it doesn't matter if we rich 1st-world citizens are willing to pay $250 apiece to subsidize the project. If supply is outpacing 3rd-world demand, every laptop sold to a 1st worlder is a laptop not sent to the developing world.
Maybe they could implement a system where a limited number of them get sold to developers without restrictions on location. I can definitely see waiting lists for these.
Granted, if they can make them much faster than they can sell them in the 3rd world, then of course it makes sense to sell them to rich(er) people at a higher price, and use those profits to subsidize further distribution in the 3rd world.
When I read the article title, I thought that the device would only store 1GB of data, not realizing that 'Gigabyte' was the manufacturer.
After reading TFA, I see that it's got four memory slots that the users fills with his memory of choice. Each slot supports up to 1GB, for a total of 4GB.
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In previous versions, when you pressed F6 it selected the address bar.
You can still press Control-L (for Location) to select the address bar. Similarly, Control-K selects the search bar.
Yes, I know that F6 selects the location field in IE and the File Explorer on Windows as well, so F6 would be more consistent. I'm just saying that there is still a keyboard shortcut to select the address bar.
I used to work in the HDD industry, and am very familiar with the seek algorithms used. Sorry, but your description of the move algorithm is completely wrong. Modern control implementations collect information about the actual output of the system (such as position) relative to the desired output (the target position) and act on it in real-time.
Modern HDDs (as in, anytime in the last 15+ years) have 'servo tracks' written on the disk. These are radial spokes of distance information encoded on the disk. Today's drives may have as many as 500 or 1000 of these servo spokes. The head is able to read these as it seeks across the disk, so it knows where it is during the seek. There is no 'stopping, checking where you are and making an adjustment.' It's more along the lines of 'checking your position as you move, and adjusting the voice coil voltage to give the optimum velocity and acceleration to land in the right spot as quickly as possible.'
There is an enormous amount of effort that goes into reducing the amount of vibration generated by the drives themselves, as well as minimizing the drives' sensitivity to external vibrations. However, there are specs for what the drives are able to handle, worst-case. By reducing the amount of vibrations they are subjected to, they will naturally perform better.
Being Slashdot, we need a car analogy, right? Cars are made to deal with headwinds and still get acceptable gas mileage, but removing the headwind will increase a car's gas mileage.
Informative? You've got to be kidding me.
This is a small very high-performance computer. In a notebook format, you're looking at maybe 20 minute battery life.
Meanwhile, the netbook segment is aimed at even lower power (and performance) numbers. Clearly, these two markets don't overlap.
Puh-leez. I'm no supporter of deficit spending, but let's at least get the fact straight. The Right liking deficit spending because they're the ones funding the loans? At 9%?
Let's look at that 9% rate. I have no idea where you get that idea from, but T-bills have a much lower return than that. Yikes, if I could get T-bills at 9%, I'd have a lot of money in them myself. A quick look at this Bloomberg page detailing the current rates for bonds such as T-bills shows that the typical return on them is about 2% for 3- and 6-month T-bills, and 3.6% for 10-year bonds.
This is Slashdot, so I know you didn't read the article. But what about the summary? Bruce is talking to a guy who works for a network security company, not physical security (though that is one layer of proper network security).
Used CD stores.
I'll second this. I've been using Zenphoto for a few months now, and I'm pretty happy with it. It's much more... minimalist than other web galleries. Some may view this as a weakness, but I like it. Other galleries can be too much of an everything-including-the-kitchen-sink thing. Dammit, I just want to display some pictures!
Hmmm... my bank's website is still quite web 1.0, and I don't have any problem with that. I don't really see where the '2.0' technologies would improve my online banking experience enough to outweigh the potential security holes. I foresee my bank sticking with 1.0.
Why is this even being considered?
Yes, for general-purpose, fully-auto-mode pictures, the cameras in *some* phones are getting closer and closer to a medium-quality standalone digital camera. Of course, with an unlocked N95 listed at around $800 on Amazon right now, it better have a pretty good quality camera built-in. It wouldn't surprise me in the next few years to see a lot of people satisfied with simply using their camera phones and not buying a separate camera. Not everyone, but a substantial number of people.
However, it's all about the camera's purpose. People who are satisfied with the features of a basic point-and-shoot might be happy with the coming camera phones. Other people have moved on past the basics and are looking for more advanced features that simply will never show up in a camera phone because of the size of the components involved. You might buy a mid-range digital camera because of the 'better' image quality over a camera phone, but you would definitely consider a camera with a decent optical zoom over a phone without it. You don't buy a dSLR just because of the better image quality. You buy a dSLR because of the vastly increased control it affords you as a photographer and the ability to switch lenses.
Phones won't have interchangeable lenses, the optical zoom on phones will be limites, and phones will continue to have a clunky interface for any 'advanced' settings. People who want a camera for more than mindless point-and-click will rarely be satisfied with a camera phone.
That said, if the masses of really poor snapshots I've seen on sites like Flickr are any indication, the camera phones will be 'good enough' for many, many people. Also, anyone who buys a dSLR and regularly shoots in full-auto (as in the article) bought the wrong camera for their needs.
One would think that it would be more expensive to have a fancy machine build a simple building than it would be to pay people - especially at third world pay rates - to build the same simple buildings.
Put another way, it's not that all buildings in the third world are shack-like hovels. It's that the buildings built for the poor, by the poor, are shack-like hovels. People with actual resources have buildings that are just fine. Something tells me that the poor aren't going to be using these machines anytime soon.
Maybe I'm just a security-clueless Mac FanBoy (TM), but you're basically telling me that a local admin user can change something in the system to give themselves root privileges?
How is this really any different from simply being an admin? AFAIK, they're basically the same thing on an OSX box.
Please, enlighten me if I'm wrong here.
Was I the only one who did a double-take at that?
Yes, yes, I know that light travels at different speeds through different materials.
Yeah, and it's about time to find a cure for cancer, too. I suspect people have been working diligently on both of these issues for quite some time now. It's not a matter of someone just going out and doing it.
There are alternatives to using HDDs for mass storage. They just all happen to be slower or much more expensive per GB. HDDs have stuck around for a reason.
Because you don't get iLife with OSX - you get it with a new Mac. When you buy a new version of OSX, you don't get a new version of iLife.
I may not be an expert on this, but I would say that generating images typically takes less computing power than analyzing them.
Easy. They'll cite the mounds and mounds of research that has already been done on the topic and shown no effect. Just because researchers are able to produce an effect with specially crafted fields doesn't mean that all fields will have an effect.
There is nothing about the above that requires any research. It could have been implemented years ago, but it hasn't happened.
You can do that, today. I know that this is implemented in Apple's Mail.app, and I'm pretty sure that Thunderbird does it, too.
First off, we needed a study to tell us this? Second, these were physicists? Pardon me if I'm not seeing the physics in online auctions.
If this story were on Fark.com, I think it would merit the 'still no cure for cancer' tagline.
Since it's slashdotted, you can check it out at MirrorDot.
But I'll save you the hassle and summarize it for you: he takes a 12cm case fan from an old watercooling rig (just uses the fan, not the water cooling bits) and powers it from the 12V pin of the power supply of an Icy Box hard drive enclosure.
Wow.
Lest you think that the Icy Box is actually doing any cooling, it's not. It's just providing power.
Now why did this make the front page of /.?
Well then what point does it serve? "Write-only memory" has long been a joke in intro Comp. Engineering courses. What's the point of writing really really fast to memory, when you aren't going to read from it very much?
So, this leads me to believe that it's not "we don't want you to make PDFs!" that's driving the potential lawsuit, but rather that MS wants to put things into their PDFs that wouldn't be compatible (embrace and extend, anyone?).
In the winning design, you can collapse the sections on the left by clicking on the arrows.
Reminds me of The Phantom Edit. Meesa *hate* Jar-Jar.
Maybe they could implement a system where a limited number of them get sold to developers without restrictions on location. I can definitely see waiting lists for these.
Granted, if they can make them much faster than they can sell them in the 3rd world, then of course it makes sense to sell them to rich(er) people at a higher price, and use those profits to subsidize further distribution in the 3rd world.
After reading TFA, I see that it's got four memory slots that the users fills with his memory of choice. Each slot supports up to 1GB, for a total of 4GB.