So maybe they could raise diesel too by $10/gallon. That way, shipping trucks would have to charge a lot more and everything we buy would get more expensive. That way, we could slow down the U.S. economy by a huge factor and give other countries a chance.
Or we could just make SUV's illegal because certain political parties think they are bad and evil.
Can you cite a source for this? I noticed it shows "precipitation" in one of the pictures from his tour. Unless this is some kind of simulation of nuclear fallout, then I don't think you are correct. From what I remember Japan doesn't do nuclear weapons research or posess nuclear weapons. Given what happened after WWII, they probably wouldn't want to have any nuclear weapons in there country anyway.
What about this scenerio: What if a University is putting off the purchase of an OC1 line to replace aging T1's because they assume that most of the bandwidth is just used by filesharing anyway, so they don't think the cost is justified.
It's not just bandwidth that's an issue but latency. How long does it take people to load websites? A PDF? A small executable? With a large amount of bandwidth available you can dowload things faster even if on average you are not using all of it. With P2P it saturates that extra bandwidth that could make useful tasks faster.
It shouldn't be too difficult to backwards engineer there protocols. I'm sure that's how they were able to detect filesharing in the first place. If you can understand the data in the packets kazaa clients send, you can emulate it.
All they need is software that emulates kazza or other P2P software and attempts to make connections to user's computers. Unless you do filesharing with people you trust, there is no way you can hide what kind of traffic is being sent. On the client side, the person not sharing files, I guess you could use encryption, but then you know what that will lead to in universities? A ban on high-bandwidth encrypted connections. As long as it's a problem I think the technology to detect P2P will keep up with the P2P software itself.
Besides, if I went to that university, I wouldn't want my research slowed down because some freshmen was trying to download Friends episodes.
How about a non-volatile layer of memory between the RAM and the Hard drive. This wouldn't cache data the same way RAM would, but could be used to cache files used most often on a day-to-day basis. That way, when you first boot up your computer, or load a program it could start up much faster. I guess this would only be useful if you actually turn your computer off.
Hmm... I wonder if that extra $4 is a licencing fee to Sony? What makes proprietary memory that only works in one brand so compelling? Is it that it encourages one to have to buy more Sony products so they don't have to buy new memory?
And we are not using typewriters anymore, so the only reason this layout still exists is mostly an emotional factor instead of a true analysis of the advantage of either layout. The same reason people still want floppy disk drives in their computer.
You know, exit polls are not very accurate. If I've just voted and I came out of a polling place and someone approaches me asking me who I voted for, I'm not going to tell them. Who's to say the people coming out of the polling place will be honest anyway? It's ridiculus. Exit polls are very misleading especially if they are only taken in certain districts that are known to be generally from one party.
Muscle memory, or more importantly consistentcy in short-cut keys is very important to the average user. They assume that the system should be rock-solid stable to begin with. Who wants to memorize new keyboard commands? It's one reason I still don't use vim or emacs. I just don't have the time to memorize anything more than the save and exit commands.
disabling virtual memory isn't a good idea. The reason that windows swaps things into the page file is because it hasn't been accessed in awhile. It's just trying to free up memory so that when you do need a great deal of memory it will be there in the system ahead of time.
Yes it would still be worth $45/month for me, although probably not for most people. I save at least $20 in time by being able to get to things quickly.
I also occasionally download Linux ISO's so being able to download one in an hour is kind of nice too.
I don't use P2P software and I rarely play games, yet I have a broadband connection because it's actually a better deal than POTS. Why? Because I would have to pay $25/month for the actually phone line (I only use cellphone right now), and then another $20/month for services from a decent local ISP. Right now I'm paying $45/month for about 1.8mbps connection through cable modem.
Yes, I want webpages to load faster because I actually do research and I don't want to waste time for pages to load. I also need to download PDF documents often and I don't have time to wait 5 minutes every time I want to just skim through a document. I also download the occasional movie trailer or software download and that help.
p2p isn't broadband's killer app, it's the app that's killing broadband for people who actually have legitimate uses for it.
Okay obvious question. What happens if this 'do not e-mail' registry gets into the hands of spamers? I wouldn't want my e-mail sitting in some giant database waiting to be hacked into. I think better enforcement would be more efficient in dealing with the problem.
Does that really work? Is there a way you could make it pop-up a message that says "Your system has a virus" or something like that? That's usually the cause.
Actually I'm pretty sure this from a NIMBDA virus or some other variant. I was really paranoid at first when I set up my apache server because lines like that were pretty much the only thing I saw in the access logs. Now that I know what it is I'm not too worried. I wish ISP's would do more to inform their customers that they have viruses on their systems, but imagine how that would go?
Drives that last 5-7 years? Most drives are lucky to last even 3 years now. The question is, if data density doesn't increase will we have any reason to buy new harddrives before they fail? Someday we may just buy replacement drives of the same capacity regularly as old ones fail. Oh well.
So maybe it's safer to just throw some computer equipment out instead of trying to recycle it. If it ends up in China, all the useless stuff is just going to end up in piles and dumps hurting their environment. Their processes for extracting useful materials from the components are crude and harful to the people doing to the work. At least in the U.S. if something is thrown in a dump the surrounding enivornment is closely monitored. Who's to say we can't go back to computer waste dumps in the future and recycle when the technology improves to do so.
I read the legal PDF on the website. It seems like the only problem they have is with the PCI logo. Maybe the author just needs a disclaimer on his website stating that he is in no way affiliated with the PCI organization and that the information provided is as-is and doesn't represent the PCI-SIG.
I don't understand why companies can't just be reasonable or at least give reasonable answers instead of just throwing legal documents into people's mail boxes. I can understand the logo thing, but not disallowing the website from posting the numbers.
Does this make the linux source suspect to similar lawsuits then since it contains PCI vendor ID's? What about USB devices?
Those t-shirts were a terrible idea. They just ended up changing color around your arm pits when you got warm. Not a very good look. I would really like to see electronically controlled color changing car paint though.
No, such equipment would not be bulky at all. In fact, it would probably rather inconspicuous and it could be located in public places. The 'smell sensor' itself would most likely be some type of fabricated microchip. They have already developed such smell sensing chips that can for example, detect the difference between fresh and rotten fish. If it is possible for an animal to be able to track scents, then it is just as possible to develop some sort of automated software to do that.
It is possible to switch to dvorak and still retain your ability to use QWERTY. Just don't try switching between the two often while you are learning.
BTW, the article you posted is often cited as a reason why dvorak is not better. However, I believe that more substantial research needs to be carried out, as this article is mostly opinion.
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So maybe they could raise diesel too by $10/gallon. That way, shipping trucks would have to charge a lot more and everything we buy would get more expensive. That way, we could slow down the U.S. economy by a huge factor and give other countries a chance.
Or we could just make SUV's illegal because certain political parties think they are bad and evil.
Can you cite a source for this? I noticed it shows "precipitation" in one of the pictures from his tour. Unless this is some kind of simulation of nuclear fallout, then I don't think you are correct. From what I remember Japan doesn't do nuclear weapons research or posess nuclear weapons. Given what happened after WWII, they probably wouldn't want to have any nuclear weapons in there country anyway.
What about this scenerio: What if a University is putting off the purchase of an OC1 line to replace aging T1's because they assume that most of the bandwidth is just used by filesharing anyway, so they don't think the cost is justified.
It's not just bandwidth that's an issue but latency. How long does it take people to load websites? A PDF? A small executable? With a large amount of bandwidth available you can dowload things faster even if on average you are not using all of it. With P2P it saturates that extra bandwidth that could make useful tasks faster.
It shouldn't be too difficult to backwards engineer there protocols. I'm sure that's how they were able to detect filesharing in the first place. If you can understand the data in the packets kazaa clients send, you can emulate it.
yes but can companies like HP or Cannon use memorystick technology in there products without paying licencing fees?
All they need is software that emulates kazza or other P2P software and attempts to make connections to user's computers. Unless you do filesharing with people you trust, there is no way you can hide what kind of traffic is being sent. On the client side, the person not sharing files, I guess you could use encryption, but then you know what that will lead to in universities? A ban on high-bandwidth encrypted connections. As long as it's a problem I think the technology to detect P2P will keep up with the P2P software itself.
Besides, if I went to that university, I wouldn't want my research slowed down because some freshmen was trying to download Friends episodes.
How about a non-volatile layer of memory between the RAM and the Hard drive. This wouldn't cache data the same way RAM would, but could be used to cache files used most often on a day-to-day basis. That way, when you first boot up your computer, or load a program it could start up much faster. I guess this would only be useful if you actually turn your computer off.
Hmm... I wonder if that extra $4 is a licencing fee to Sony? What makes proprietary memory that only works in one brand so compelling? Is it that it encourages one to have to buy more Sony products so they don't have to buy new memory?
Check out multimedia cards. They are much smaller than memory sticks and they are becoming more popular in digital cameras and PPC's.
I use esdf (or .oeu in dvorak) for games. This gives me a, q, and z to use for other game functions. I think it's a better layout.
And we are not using typewriters anymore, so the only reason this layout still exists is mostly an emotional factor instead of a true analysis of the advantage of either layout. The same reason people still want floppy disk drives in their computer.
You know, exit polls are not very accurate. If I've just voted and I came out of a polling place and someone approaches me asking me who I voted for, I'm not going to tell them. Who's to say the people coming out of the polling place will be honest anyway? It's ridiculus. Exit polls are very misleading especially if they are only taken in certain districts that are known to be generally from one party.
Muscle memory, or more importantly consistentcy in short-cut keys is very important to the average user. They assume that the system should be rock-solid stable to begin with. Who wants to memorize new keyboard commands? It's one reason I still don't use vim or emacs. I just don't have the time to memorize anything more than the save and exit commands.
disabling virtual memory isn't a good idea. The reason that windows swaps things into the page file is because it hasn't been accessed in awhile. It's just trying to free up memory so that when you do need a great deal of memory it will be there in the system ahead of time.
Yes it would still be worth $45/month for me, although probably not for most people. I save at least $20 in time by being able to get to things quickly.
I also occasionally download Linux ISO's so being able to download one in an hour is kind of nice too.
I don't use P2P software and I rarely play games, yet I have a broadband connection because it's actually a better deal than POTS. Why? Because I would have to pay $25/month for the actually phone line (I only use cellphone right now), and then another $20/month for services from a decent local ISP. Right now I'm paying $45/month for about 1.8mbps connection through cable modem.
Yes, I want webpages to load faster because I actually do research and I don't want to waste time for pages to load. I also need to download PDF documents often and I don't have time to wait 5 minutes every time I want to just skim through a document. I also download the occasional movie trailer or software download and that help.
p2p isn't broadband's killer app, it's the app that's killing broadband for people who actually have legitimate uses for it.
Okay obvious question. What happens if this 'do not e-mail' registry gets into the hands of spamers? I wouldn't want my e-mail sitting in some giant database waiting to be hacked into. I think better enforcement would be more efficient in dealing with the problem.
Does that really work? Is there a way you could make it pop-up a message that says "Your system has a virus" or something like that? That's usually the cause.
Actually I'm pretty sure this from a NIMBDA virus or some other variant. I was really paranoid at first when I set up my apache server because lines like that were pretty much the only thing I saw in the access logs. Now that I know what it is I'm not too worried. I wish ISP's would do more to inform their customers that they have viruses on their systems, but imagine how that would go?
Drives that last 5-7 years? Most drives are lucky to last even 3 years now. The question is, if data density doesn't increase will we have any reason to buy new harddrives before they fail? Someday we may just buy replacement drives of the same capacity regularly as old ones fail. Oh well.
So maybe it's safer to just throw some computer equipment out instead of trying to recycle it. If it ends up in China, all the useless stuff is just going to end up in piles and dumps hurting their environment. Their processes for extracting useful materials from the components are crude and harful to the people doing to the work. At least in the U.S. if something is thrown in a dump the surrounding enivornment is closely monitored. Who's to say we can't go back to computer waste dumps in the future and recycle when the technology improves to do so.
I read the legal PDF on the website. It seems like the only problem they have is with the PCI logo. Maybe the author just needs a disclaimer on his website stating that he is in no way affiliated with the PCI organization and that the information provided is as-is and doesn't represent the PCI-SIG.
I don't understand why companies can't just be reasonable or at least give reasonable answers instead of just throwing legal documents into people's mail boxes. I can understand the logo thing, but not disallowing the website from posting the numbers.
Does this make the linux source suspect to similar lawsuits then since it contains PCI vendor ID's? What about USB devices?
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Those t-shirts were a terrible idea. They just ended up changing color around your arm pits when you got warm. Not a very good look. I would really like to see electronically controlled color changing car paint though.
No, such equipment would not be bulky at all. In fact, it would probably rather inconspicuous and it could be located in public places. The 'smell sensor' itself would most likely be some type of fabricated microchip. They have already developed such smell sensing chips that can for example, detect the difference between fresh and rotten fish. If it is possible for an animal to be able to track scents, then it is just as possible to develop some sort of automated software to do that.
It is possible to switch to dvorak and still retain your ability to use QWERTY. Just don't try switching between the two often while you are learning.
BTW, the article you posted is often cited as a reason why dvorak is not better. However, I believe that more substantial research needs to be carried out, as this article is mostly opinion.