Have you been living under a rock lately? Danish ISPs are beginning to block thepiratebay.org on DNS level due to a decision in lands retten to uphold the decision from foged retten.
Thats how the rules already are (except for the 21 years thing, however if you do something really bad you can be kept from driving for years), but we simply don't have enough police force to chase every hormone crazed 15 year old.
Here in Denmark the legal age for driving is 18 years old, there is no way in hell putting 14-15 year olds on the real road is a good idea.
When you turn 15 you are allowed to apply for a moped license, which will allow you to drive a moped on the bike lanes, but many kids show that they are by no means qualified to drive anything. Often the moped will be tuned to go a lot faster than the legal 30 km/h, they will be driving where ever the hell they feel like etc. Putting them in a tuned golf cart will only lead to others getting hurt rather than them selves.
Have they made configuration a less pain in the ass than 3.5? I really really REALLY hate the way you have to go hunt for some config. While quite a lot has been put into the control panel, some options are hidden around the interface and can be quite hard to find.
In Denmark we have a fixed grace period, however foreign workers do have a hard time getting a job since there is a minimum required pay for keeping the green card (which in effect puts the foreign worker in the top 50% payment), this severely reduces the gain for companies when hiring foreigners.
On a side note, I thought the US was build on people coming from bad situations to live the American dream, you guys sure have changed your mindset lately.
I would fight _hard_ for my notes, not only are they good for looking something up - but also there is a lot of emotions tied to them. Reading a set of notes can help me remember the time around those notes, the girls, the parties etc.
When you got 380 million (guesstimated EU population) people drawing 100 mW per device on standby (lets say on average we got 3 devices, 1 tv, 1 monitor and 1 computer - yes there are people who got neither, there are people who got multiple..) that's a 100 MW.
I use my books quite a lot, while wikipedia, google etc. has lots of nice information they seldom have the in-depth knowledge I need for my field of work.
Also printed books doesn't change - when I read something I know it is in the book, I can mark it and easily find it again - if it was a web page it would be subject to alterations at the authors will.
Here in Denmark they have (at least on one of the national channels, don't watch the other) switched the blue/green screen with a huge plasma/LCD TV, it works just as well without the hassle of additional processing.
Speaking of TV processing, CNN is using a really cool technology for "3D" interviews: http://gizmodo.com/5076663/how-the-cnn-holographic-interview-system-works . (Note, they call it hologram, but it is by no means holographic, it's just a very cool way of presenting interviews, the guy in the studio can't actually see the person he is interviewing). technology wise it's a pretty amazing feat, having to build and image based on active camera angle real time is by no means trivial.
I think quite a lot of misunderstood what DtecNet does, they are a software provider and can help with technical things during proceedings. They create software for eavesdropping on torrent etc. - the people who is going to use it are very much American.
Actually it's quite common for people with an proper CS degree ( the theoretical kind ) to not want to code. While I do it for a living right now it is definitely not my plan to keep doing that for the rest of my life.
Personally I'm probably going to look into teaching, did a bit during my studies and it was quite fun and rewarding.
The PS3 is downright ridiculous. I looked at mirros edge and thought it looked fantastic, but I gave up after trying the demo, they use all the keys + the 3d gyro thingiemagic. I've been playing games all my life, but that was just too complicated and made the game way too frustrating.
The reason for me not using office is back when I had to make a choice, word couldn't handle large files, office 97 and 2k both would buckle under huge documents, making editing and styling close to impossible without frequent restarts and reloads.
Then I got introduced to LaTeX and there is just no substitute, its fast, I don't have to worry too much about layout and it handles extremely large projects without a problem. Also since its pure text it works with CVS and SVN.
Just like parent I only use word for quick fill ins or excel clone for quick calculations.
Actually it is the job of the programmer to make sure his program is cache friendly, that should work on all architectures.
Also you should in a multi-core/-CPU environment make sure data needed is close to where you are, that means fetching it from whatever storage it is in (ram, hdd, other core) as early as possible and non-blocking if possible so you can complete other tasks while waiting.
While the OS can help you with some tasks, there is no way for the OS to know what data you need next, so if you want high performance you have to program for it, and while you don't always have direct access to memory you can be pretty sure most hardware work in the same way, with the same drawbacks so usage of generalized optimizations for fetching/pushing data, for cache usage etc. should work over the boards.
While I do agree with your claim of them making massive amounts of money, you: a. forget promotion, which to be fair can be quite expensive. b. fail to mention how exactly you handle the massive distribution of music for just $1 million - second hand hardware and free labor?
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Yeah was thinking the same, smartest thing to do is sell it, way too much hassle to try and compete with existing services.
So the price isn't $130,000, but almost $230,000.
So you are saying we should allow child prostitution?
Have you been living under a rock lately?
Danish ISPs are beginning to block thepiratebay.org on DNS level due to a decision in lands retten to uphold the decision from foged retten.
When did Norway join the EU?
Thats how the rules already are (except for the 21 years thing, however if you do something really bad you can be kept from driving for years), but we simply don't have enough police force to chase every hormone crazed 15 year old.
Yeah right.
Here in Denmark the legal age for driving is 18 years old, there is no way in hell putting 14-15 year olds on the real road is a good idea.
When you turn 15 you are allowed to apply for a moped license, which will allow you to drive a moped on the bike lanes, but many kids show that they are by no means qualified to drive anything. Often the moped will be tuned to go a lot faster than the legal 30 km/h, they will be driving where ever the hell they feel like etc. Putting them in a tuned golf cart will only lead to others getting hurt rather than them selves.
Depends on the machine I guess, some can be pretty quick, but it still is quite a lot.
But whats with the $500 marker? Around here max is 9900 DKR = $2000 per transaction. Then we are talking 1 transaction a minute..
Have they made configuration a less pain in the ass than 3.5? I really really REALLY hate the way you have to go hunt for some config. While quite a lot has been put into the control panel, some options are hidden around the interface and can be quite hard to find.
city living boy, but when did goats start laying eggs?
Fun fact, a lot of home growers gets caught due to the sudden massive increase in electricity usage.
In Denmark we have a fixed grace period, however foreign workers do have a hard time getting a job since there is a minimum required pay for keeping the green card (which in effect puts the foreign worker in the top 50% payment), this severely reduces the gain for companies when hiring foreigners.
On a side note, I thought the US was build on people coming from bad situations to live the American dream, you guys sure have changed your mindset lately.
Well, I don't know about that. Sure as hell don't hope too many people relate to the Joker in the last Batman movie.
I would fight _hard_ for my notes, not only are they good for looking something up - but also there is a lot of emotions tied to them. Reading a set of notes can help me remember the time around those notes, the girls, the parties etc.
No, everything counts.
When you got 380 million (guesstimated EU population) people drawing 100 mW per device on standby (lets say on average we got 3 devices, 1 tv, 1 monitor and 1 computer - yes there are people who got neither, there are people who got multiple..) that's a 100 MW.
Always remember aggregate costs.
There will be a market for the printed word.
I use my books quite a lot, while wikipedia, google etc. has lots of nice information they seldom have the in-depth knowledge I need for my field of work.
Also printed books doesn't change - when I read something I know it is in the book, I can mark it and easily find it again - if it was a web page it would be subject to alterations at the authors will.
Care to explain why public transportation doesn't work in rural/suburbs?
Seems to do just fine here in Europe...
Here in Denmark they have (at least on one of the national channels, don't watch the other) switched the blue/green screen with a huge plasma/LCD TV, it works just as well without the hassle of additional processing.
Speaking of TV processing, CNN is using a really cool technology for "3D" interviews: http://gizmodo.com/5076663/how-the-cnn-holographic-interview-system-works . (Note, they call it hologram, but it is by no means holographic, it's just a very cool way of presenting interviews, the guy in the studio can't actually see the person he is interviewing). technology wise it's a pretty amazing feat, having to build and image based on active camera angle real time is by no means trivial.
I think quite a lot of misunderstood what DtecNet does, they are a software provider and can help with technical things during proceedings. They create software for eavesdropping on torrent etc. - the people who is going to use it are very much American.
Actually it's quite common for people with an proper CS degree ( the theoretical kind ) to not want to code. While I do it for a living right now it is definitely not my plan to keep doing that for the rest of my life.
Personally I'm probably going to look into teaching, did a bit during my studies and it was quite fun and rewarding.
The PS3 is downright ridiculous. I looked at mirros edge and thought it looked fantastic, but I gave up after trying the demo, they use all the keys + the 3d gyro thingiemagic. I've been playing games all my life, but that was just too complicated and made the game way too frustrating.
The reason for me not using office is back when I had to make a choice, word couldn't handle large files, office 97 and 2k both would buckle under huge documents, making editing and styling close to impossible without frequent restarts and reloads.
Then I got introduced to LaTeX and there is just no substitute, its fast, I don't have to worry too much about layout and it handles extremely large projects without a problem. Also since its pure text it works with CVS and SVN.
Just like parent I only use word for quick fill ins or excel clone for quick calculations.
I would fear the "well they did me wrong, so everything they say is false" mentality would swamp the defense lawyers in bogus information.
Actually it is the job of the programmer to make sure his program is cache friendly, that should work on all architectures.
Also you should in a multi-core/-CPU environment make sure data needed is close to where you are, that means fetching it from whatever storage it is in (ram, hdd, other core) as early as possible and non-blocking if possible so you can complete other tasks while waiting.
While the OS can help you with some tasks, there is no way for the OS to know what data you need next, so if you want high performance you have to program for it, and while you don't always have direct access to memory you can be pretty sure most hardware work in the same way, with the same drawbacks so usage of generalized optimizations for fetching/pushing data, for cache usage etc. should work over the boards.
While I do agree with your claim of them making massive amounts of money, you:
a. forget promotion, which to be fair can be quite expensive.
b. fail to mention how exactly you handle the massive distribution of music for just $1 million - second hand hardware and free labor?