The concept of any computer being "easy to use" was thrown out of the window (no pun intended) a long, long time ago.
Now I think the aim is "possible to use given enough sweat and blood".
Unfortunately even this is unattainable in many cases...
Maybe as OSes get smarter and hardware gets more standardised the problems will ease, but if the focus stays on "cool features"/"fast games"/"cheap+fast hardware"... it may take a while.
Doesn't say whether the test was done on in-sample or out-of-sample data. That is, did they test using the same data that was used during development?
If so, the results are worthless. You can make a "system" that says anything you want given enough tweaking. (This is often the problem with apparently successful computer trading models).
BT is not "an ISP". British Telecom was for a very long time monopoly holder on telephone lines in the UK and still the gatekeeper for all ADSL access there. They have a market cap of 35 billion and their revenue just about puts them in the top ten telecoms companies in the world.
In my personal experience their service has been bad enough that they're almost as bad as their competitors. Given their history, it's not surprising if they've overstepped their bounds... they're used to being in charge, after all.
No idea, but here's one tip: mplayer will play the videos.
Visit the youtube page with a broken flash implementation and it may still download the file to your browser's cache. (It does in opera). Drop to command line, launch mplayer... yeah, okay, it sucks. But there ya go.
...refers to electron mobility, a concept I hadn't previously encountered. But it's easy enough to understand: if I apply a unit electric field to a material, how fast does it make the electrons drift? This is the mobility.
Apparently graphene (also new to me... a single-atom layer of carbon) is exciting because it has much higher electron mobility than silicon. Which leads to faster switching times, although they don't explain that part.
All this seems to be theoretical at the moment, due to insufficiently pure graphene. Still, 100th the switching delay is not a bad target to be aiming at... 100Ghz processing!
On the off-chance someone was going to RTFA, here is the FA, since it doesn't seem to have made it into the story.
The following line probably tells most people what they want to know:
Also missing are features that those familiar with Flash Professional or Adobe Captivate might expect, such as drawing tools, a scripting language, and support for sound and video.
So what does it do? Well, slideshows. Handy, but not hugely exciting.
You could replace the word "Google" in that sentence with the name of any other company. You can't just randomly give out personal data to anyone if you're following UK law.
If it's part of doing business and done properly, you can do it. It's standard that when the recipient is an American company there is a "safe harbour" agreement that requires they follow the provisions of the Data Protection Act.
The question is, do crazy US laws make it impossible for US companies to respect the privacy of their customers?
As TFA mentions (at the very end!) this is explained here.
Summary: cross-site security means that if you move the test off the original domain, the test changes. In fact IE8 does the wrong (nonstandard) thing in these cases, but according to them it's more secure (it fails earlier). They're considering making it more standards compliant once they're convinced it's secure enough.
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"Good and evil need no explanation" ... if you've figured out what's good and what's evil in this crazy world, please share!
And this one goes on to mention that Microsoft will now proceed to sue Alcatel-Lucent over nine patents.
That's going to hurt. Patent lawsuits are not a good game to get into if you actually produce something.
This one has a little more info. Does anyone have a link for the actual patents?
The concept of any computer being "easy to use" was thrown out of the window (no pun intended) a long, long time ago.
Now I think the aim is "possible to use given enough sweat and blood".
Unfortunately even this is unattainable in many cases...
Maybe as OSes get smarter and hardware gets more standardised the problems will ease, but if the focus stays on "cool features"/"fast games"/"cheap+fast hardware" ... it may take a while.
Doesn't say whether the test was done on in-sample or out-of-sample data. That is, did they test using the same data that was used during development?
If so, the results are worthless. You can make a "system" that says anything you want given enough tweaking. (This is often the problem with apparently successful computer trading models).
Er. Actually it's about three bottles of beer and a couple of glasses of wine, just now. Traditional, effective and legal!
That's why I said:
BT is not "an ISP".
As opposed to:
BT is not an ISP.
The latter disagrees with the fact, the former disagrees with the phrasing.
BT is not "an ISP". British Telecom was for a very long time monopoly holder on telephone lines in the UK and still the gatekeeper for all ADSL access there. They have a market cap of 35 billion and their revenue just about puts them in the top ten telecoms companies in the world.
In my personal experience their service has been bad enough that they're almost as bad as their competitors. Given their history, it's not surprising if they've overstepped their bounds ... they're used to being in charge, after all.
So he sounds like a reasonable guy, and from what he says he was allowed to be honest and make his own decisions.
Unfortunately it's one of the laws of PR that a dishonest PR person can claim to be honest just as easily as an honest one.
Ah well. I have faith in humanity! I believe him.
No idea, but here's one tip: mplayer will play the videos.
Visit the youtube page with a broken flash implementation and it may still download the file to your browser's cache. (It does in opera). Drop to command line, launch mplayer ... yeah, okay, it sucks. But there ya go.
I think you mean silicone.
The "e" is very important. (As the raver said to the priest).
...refers to electron mobility, a concept I hadn't previously encountered. But it's easy enough to understand: if I apply a unit electric field to a material, how fast does it make the electrons drift? This is the mobility.
Apparently graphene (also new to me ... a single-atom layer of carbon) is exciting because it has much higher electron mobility than silicon. Which leads to faster switching times, although they don't explain that part.
All this seems to be theoretical at the moment, due to insufficiently pure graphene. Still, 100th the switching delay is not a bad target to be aiming at... 100Ghz processing!
To be fair, the hype comes from Slashdot, the linux.com article is quite restrained...
That is a matter of opinion, I think.
On the off-chance someone was going to RTFA, here is the FA, since it doesn't seem to have made it into the story.
The following line probably tells most people what they want to know:
Also missing are features that those familiar with Flash Professional or Adobe Captivate might expect, such as drawing tools, a scripting language, and support for sound and video.
So what does it do? Well, slideshows. Handy, but not hugely exciting.
That would be when nasty laws that allow law enforcement to demand cryptographic keys come into play.
These days encryption just makes you a target. Clearly the way forward is steganography :)
You could replace the word "Google" in that sentence with the name of any other company. You can't just randomly give out personal data to anyone if you're following UK law.
If it's part of doing business and done properly, you can do it. It's standard that when the recipient is an American company there is a "safe harbour" agreement that requires they follow the provisions of the Data Protection Act.
The question is, do crazy US laws make it impossible for US companies to respect the privacy of their customers?
Probably. Ho hum.
May I suggest trying it on other sites as well?
In a word, no.
Next anti-Microsoft flame, please?
As TFA mentions (at the very end!) this is explained here.
Summary: cross-site security means that if you move the test off the original domain, the test changes. In fact IE8 does the wrong (nonstandard) thing in these cases, but according to them it's more secure (it fails earlier). They're considering making it more standards compliant once they're convinced it's secure enough.
Nothing much interesting but if you follow one of the 'see also' links there's an old video interview where he talks about his views on Islam.
Pfft. Kick an operating system when it's down...
Actually that's called rebooting, isn't it?
Isn't that the standard advice for any major upgrade on any operating system ever?...
If quantum computers can't solve problems in NP quickly, then presumably it follows that normal computers can't either.
This would prove P != NP, which hasn't been done. Ergo, it can't have been proven that quantum computers can't solve problems in NP quickly.