At this age I do not think she will need a computer or many other tech toy alone for herself. Have it available, let her explore her world, and offer alternatives. Let her get her friends involved. If they want to learn how to work with a computer, then let them do it together. I think it is a pity that so many kids just consume games instead of writing them with friends. But, make sure that part of the time is spent on creative tasks, and that the time is limited so that she also spends time on doing other things, like listening to music, taking pictures with a camera, swimming, horses, boys, or simply read a book.
Well, a few things just take a bit longer in the US. Making noise about well known facts is part of the business in the US, even in science. In the rest of the world we keep calm. Unfortunately the BBC writers and editors still have not figured out how the business science works in the US. Therefore we will see in the future more BBC articles beginning with the usual phrase "US researchers found...". BTW the media in the US are worse. If someone in the world outside the US discovers something, then there is a 99% chance that the US media interview some remotely connected person in the US instead of the person who made the discovery, leaving it to the naïve audience to find out what actually happened.
As Star Trek fan you may want to read a bit about a Star Trek product at the official Star Trek web site startrek.com. That is what I tried. Now, if you do not enter startrek.com through the front door, you may find the FAQ for Star Trek Online at startrek.com.
I am wondering how many of these ebooks are going to be readable in, let's say, 20 years? I own far more than one thousand books, some older than 20 years. And all of them are valuable to me. Although I am developing digital solutions since more than 20 years, I have no trust in the industry to produce something digital that lasts for 20 years or more. Good old paper books work just fine.
Take Adobe, for example. They keep changing PDF just to force people to "update" Adobe software. These constant changes and the dependance is troublesome. This is no way to archive documents.
I would also not trust the industry to grant me access to something I bought 20 years ago. With the given DRM schemes they would probably ask me to pay for the information over and over again. The industry has shown that they act no different than criminals by installing malicious software.
Literature is culture and an essential asset for every modern information society. We cannot surrender this value to an inconsiderate industry. Ebooks are not the only attempt of companies to monopolize information. Archives like Google are another kind. Recent examples clearly show how they censor information, and nothing will refrain them from doing the same in the future in the interest of profit.
The worst thing about the entire development is that governments worldwide do almost nothing to secure the basis of our information society. Politicians are apparently blissfully ignorant. How is it possible that lawmakers allow the distribution of media which cannot be traded, exchanged and read worldwide (e.g. DVD region codes), despite all the talk about free trade, WTO etc.? Why is it legal to lock out certain software (e.g. Linux), restrict the owners ability to access their computers (e.g. "trusted computing"), while it is illegal (e.g. EUCD, DMCA) to circumvent unfair barriers (e.g. CSS)?
Back on Earth, after a 5-year mission on board the USS Weberschiff, I found the official Star Trek website startrek.com invested by the Macromedia Flash Virus. They won't let me in unless I install this junk. Apparently the good old idea of interoperability had to surrender corporate ignorance. Or did the transport malfunction again?
I would like to see my tax dollars spent on better schools and higher salaries for better teachers than on a software emulation of a social puppet. You cannot fix a person in the Armed Forces after some 18 years of neglect.
10 years ago, I would have argued that in most countries Harold Hurtt's career as police chief would end after such a statement, and the name of the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building could only be found in history books. But when I see these days what is happening also in the EU, I get the impression that Red China is everywhere. Sorry.
Didn't you notice the inch in the article? Well, you live in a country where people know the little difference between kilo (k), mega (M), giga (G), tera (T) and peta (P). You probably also know that life is much easier with only one metric unit per physical quantity instead of the chaos people love to deal with in the US. The good news is that you belong to the 95% of the people in the world who understand this matter. Sigh.
If that were true, then why bother with OS X, BSD, SCO:-), AIX, Linux, QNX, or any other software product not from Microsoft? Besides, my granny is heating her snuggery with an HP Integrity Superdome Server.
If iDefense (Verisign) can come up with $10K per critical Microsoft Windows flaw, why can't HP (or any other party interested in a secure environment) come up with money to support the development of applications for their own, very secure operating system: HP OpenVMS? Why does this industry focus so much on Microsoft Windows and totally ignore alternatives?
Nikon encodes the white balance in their camera RAW format. That's their option. Don't like it? Don't use the format or don't use Nikon. That's your choice.
This is exactly why I brought this up. People can make a better decision if they know all facts.
Sure, this is just the usual proprietary file format game and an attempt to monopolize the market. This why it is important to name the manufacturers who do encrypt data or do not disclose the file format.
Personally I would not count on Adobe. Adobe's stupid PDF update sagas serve exactly the same purpose as encrypting parts of the camera's raw data. You may also contact the makers of xpdf and gs. They certainly can tell a few stories about Adobe.
There is an open raw format. OpenRAW gives more details about this issue. I think it is important that people know how well manufacturers support customers (or not for that matter).
One of the topics listed in the book is the raw file format. Why do camera manufacturer encrypt our pictures? Our pictures belong to us. We are the copyright holders of our pictures, not the manufacturers of cameras. There is probably no acceptable answer. So, let's just list the culprits. I start with one of them: Nikon.
The honor of the first stored-program digitial computer should probably go to Konrad Zuse for his Z3 machine. It was electro-mechanical, but has been proven to be Turing complete.
Indeed. The whole discussion about about "electronic" vs. "electro-mechanical" serves only one purpose, namely to give all credit to the ENIAC team and no credit to Konrad Zuse. It really does not matter whether a computer is based on relays, tubes, TTL transistors or field effect transistors. In all those implementations we find a timed gate controlling a current, the basic idea of a binary operation. Besides, all those components are typically found in an electronics catalog these days.
There is actually a good reason to use relays instead of tubes. Tubes had a very short lifetime. One bad tube can ruin your day. Having to deal with 18,000 tubes is a nightmare.
ENIAC was a great team effort. However, Konrad Zuse not only built the first electronic computer, Z1, he did it alone at age of 28 without support by any university, company and government. Konrad Zuse was a true genius and he deserves the credit for building the first electronic computer.
Those awards are an asset to the researchers' CV. And that is what they need when they apply for a grant (real money).
How about CPU Idle instead of mobile processors
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The author assumed that a notebook CPU runs with 100% load. I have two applications for a notebook: office stuff like writing a message or reading a document, or playing games. Even the latter hardly requires 100% CPU load all the time. For these applications I find a cheap notebook with a software solution like CPU Idle quite adequate. Why spend more money on "mobile" processors? CPU Idle also works fine for desktop PCs.
A Unicode URL hack is just one of many options for a phishing attack. You should study the published cases of the past years. Every time a new phishing method was developed, HTML-enabled software had to be fixed to address the new HTML-based e-mail scams. The same is true for worm and Trojan horse attacks. Software makers like Microsoft try to catch up, but they will never be able to address the basic issue. In fact they are part of the problem, because they constantly add new features without paying any attention to security. Selling new software is their business, not protecting your money. People who send HTML-based messages without thinking just make matters worse. This will not change until we go back to a simple ASCII-based solution, without any encoding scheme. Phishing attacks became popular with the introduction of HTML-encoded mail messages. Back in the old days when people had to copy URL's they actually paid a bit more attention. Sometimes it is good to go back to reliable solutions, even if they look a bit outdated.
I can only second your comment on DNS and authentication.
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At this age I do not think she will need a computer or many other tech toy alone for herself. Have it available, let her explore her world, and offer alternatives. Let her get her friends involved. If they want to learn how to work with a computer, then let them do it together. I think it is a pity that so many kids just consume games instead of writing them with friends. But, make sure that part of the time is spent on creative tasks, and that the time is limited so that she also spends time on doing other things, like listening to music, taking pictures with a camera, swimming, horses, boys, or simply read a book.
Well, a few things just take a bit longer in the US. Making noise about well known facts is part of the business in the US, even in science. In the rest of the world we keep calm. Unfortunately the BBC writers and editors still have not figured out how the business science works in the US. Therefore we will see in the future more BBC articles beginning with the usual phrase "US researchers found...". BTW the media in the US are worse. If someone in the world outside the US discovers something, then there is a 99% chance that the US media interview some remotely connected person in the US instead of the person who made the discovery, leaving it to the naïve audience to find out what actually happened.
As Star Trek fan you may want to read a bit about a Star Trek product at the official Star Trek web site startrek.com. That is what I tried. Now, if you do not enter startrek.com through the front door, you may find the FAQ for Star Trek Online at startrek.com.
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http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/gaming/onli
I am wondering how many of these ebooks are going to be readable in, let's say, 20 years? I own far more than one thousand books, some older than 20 years. And all of them are valuable to me. Although I am developing digital solutions since more than 20 years, I have no trust in the industry to produce something digital that lasts for 20 years or more. Good old paper books work just fine.
Take Adobe, for example. They keep changing PDF just to force people to "update" Adobe software. These constant changes and the dependance is troublesome. This is no way to archive documents.
I would also not trust the industry to grant me access to something I bought 20 years ago. With the given DRM schemes they would probably ask me to pay for the information over and over again. The industry has shown that they act no different than criminals by installing malicious software.
Literature is culture and an essential asset for every modern information society. We cannot surrender this value to an inconsiderate industry. Ebooks are not the only attempt of companies to monopolize information. Archives like Google are another kind. Recent examples clearly show how they censor information, and nothing will refrain them from doing the same in the future in the interest of profit.
The worst thing about the entire development is that governments worldwide do almost nothing to secure the basis of our information society. Politicians are apparently blissfully ignorant. How is it possible that lawmakers allow the distribution of media which cannot be traded, exchanged and read worldwide (e.g. DVD region codes), despite all the talk about free trade, WTO etc.? Why is it legal to lock out certain software (e.g. Linux), restrict the owners ability to access their computers (e.g. "trusted computing"), while it is illegal (e.g. EUCD, DMCA) to circumvent unfair barriers (e.g. CSS)?
I say let them eat their ebooks.
The interior looks good, but the uniforms look like sewn side gusseted sacks. And were are the dresses and skirts. That's not my Enterprise.
Rege? Reginald Barclay, is that you?
Back on Earth, after a 5-year mission on board the USS Weberschiff, I found the official Star Trek website startrek.com invested by the Macromedia Flash Virus. They won't let me in unless I install this junk. Apparently the good old idea of interoperability had to surrender corporate ignorance. Or did the transport malfunction again?
Space tourism, human trafficking and slavery - and oil, of course - the modern UAE. What an explosive mixture. Where else do we get that. http://gvnet.com/humantrafficking/UnitedArabEmirat es.htm
I would like to see my tax dollars spent on better schools and higher salaries for better teachers than on a software emulation of a social puppet. You cannot fix a person in the Armed Forces after some 18 years of neglect.
10 years ago, I would have argued that in most countries Harold Hurtt's career as police chief would end after such a statement, and the name of the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building could only be found in history books. But when I see these days what is happening also in the EU, I get the impression that Red China is everywhere. Sorry.
What, the aliens in the National Enquirer are not real? How about the inch in the article, isn't that what scientists use worldwide?
Didn't you notice the inch in the article? Well, you live in a country where people know the little difference between kilo (k), mega (M), giga (G), tera (T) and peta (P). You probably also know that life is much easier with only one metric unit per physical quantity instead of the chaos people love to deal with in the US. The good news is that you belong to the 95% of the people in the world who understand this matter. Sigh.
please ASAP.
A Media Center PC with fans, like those on the Zalman heatsink, the Antec power supply or the case? Not for me!
If that were true, then why bother with OS X, BSD, SCO :-), AIX, Linux, QNX, or any other software product not from Microsoft? Besides, my granny is heating her snuggery with an HP Integrity Superdome Server.
If iDefense (Verisign) can come up with $10K per critical Microsoft Windows flaw, why can't HP (or any other party interested in a secure environment) come up with money to support the development of applications for their own, very secure operating system: HP OpenVMS? Why does this industry focus so much on Microsoft Windows and totally ignore alternatives?
I say we should adapt education, not an e-mail whitelist. Some of us try that model for everything else in life.
Compression is one thing. But encrypting data and not disclosing the file format is another.
Nikon encodes the white balance in their camera RAW format. That's their option. Don't like it? Don't use the format or don't use Nikon. That's your choice.
This is exactly why I brought this up. People can make a better decision if they know all facts.
Sure, this is just the usual proprietary file format game and an attempt to monopolize the market. This why it is important to name the manufacturers who do encrypt data or do not disclose the file format.
Personally I would not count on Adobe. Adobe's stupid PDF update sagas serve exactly the same purpose as encrypting parts of the camera's raw data. You may also contact the makers of xpdf and gs. They certainly can tell a few stories about Adobe.
There is an open raw format. OpenRAW gives more details about this issue. I think it is important that people know how well manufacturers support customers (or not for that matter).
One of the topics listed in the book is the raw file format. Why do camera manufacturer encrypt our pictures? Our pictures belong to us. We are the copyright holders of our pictures, not the manufacturers of cameras. There is probably no acceptable answer. So, let's just list the culprits. I start with one of them:
Nikon.
The honor of the first stored-program digitial computer should probably go to Konrad Zuse for his Z3 machine. It was electro-mechanical, but has been proven to be Turing complete.
Indeed. The whole discussion about about "electronic" vs. "electro-mechanical" serves only one purpose, namely to give all credit to the ENIAC team and no credit to Konrad Zuse. It really does not matter whether a computer is based on relays, tubes, TTL transistors or field effect transistors. In all those implementations we find a timed gate controlling a current, the basic idea of a binary operation. Besides, all those components are typically found in an electronics catalog these days.
There is actually a good reason to use relays instead of tubes. Tubes had a very short lifetime. One bad tube can ruin your day. Having to deal with 18,000 tubes is a nightmare.
ENIAC was a great team effort. However, Konrad Zuse not only built the first electronic computer, Z1, he did it alone at age of 28 without support by any university, company and government. Konrad Zuse was a true genius and he deserves the credit for building the first electronic computer.
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Sad.
Those awards are an asset to the researchers' CV. And that is what they need when they apply for a grant (real money).
The author assumed that a notebook CPU runs with 100% load. I have two applications for a notebook: office stuff like writing a message or reading a document, or playing games. Even the latter hardly requires 100% CPU load all the time. For these applications I find a cheap notebook with a software solution like CPU Idle quite adequate. Why spend more money on "mobile" processors? CPU Idle also works fine for desktop PCs.
A Unicode URL hack is just one of many options for a phishing attack. You should study the published cases of the past years. Every time a new phishing method was developed, HTML-enabled software had to be fixed to address the new HTML-based e-mail scams. The same is true for worm and Trojan horse attacks. Software makers like Microsoft try to catch up, but they will never be able to address the basic issue. In fact they are part of the problem, because they constantly add new features without paying any attention to security. Selling new software is their business, not protecting your money. People who send HTML-based messages without thinking just make matters worse. This will not change until we go back to a simple ASCII-based solution, without any encoding scheme. Phishing attacks became popular with the introduction of HTML-encoded mail messages. Back in the old days when people had to copy URL's they actually paid a bit more attention. Sometimes it is good to go back to reliable solutions, even if they look a bit outdated.
I can only second your comment on DNS and authentication.