If a qualified person with access to SCO source code looked for copies of that code in Linux and did not find anything, that is fairly conclusive.
They say you can't prove a negative. But in fact there's a huge difference between proving there are no aliens in outer space (hard) vs. proving there's no elephant in this room (easy). The LInux codebase is openly available and rather small, relative to the power of tools available to search it.
I thought those heavy users were all supposed to be pirates?....now they say they are early adopters, does this mean we're all going to turn into pirates?
Another interpretation: when video over Internet was brand new, there were few legal options because the market was tiny and undeveloped. Now it has become more mainstream because legal options became available.
For myself, netflix and amazon streaming have reduced the need/desire to look "elsewhere" by quite a bit.
Sure it uses more cardboard than a basic box. So like most 'green' projects it is a fail
Huh? How much more cardboard does it use? Now compare that to the resources to make a metal case, PLUS a box/foam to put that metal case in! I think it would be a win even if only 1/N boxes are actually used as cases even for rather large values of N.
My HTPC runs in a closet (opposite the TV in my living room, through a hole in the wall) so I would be all over this, though more to save money on a case than to conserve steel or cardboard.
What a bunch of words. You can't file a lawsuit resting on accusations substantiated only by your own inability to falsify them!
IMHO, logical fallicies are usually useless as applied to real world arguments. Would you like to hear all about why I think "no true Scotsman" is being inappropriately applied more often than not? Oh, bummer, I thought sure you would.
The quality of scientific reporting at gizmag and all those tech-tabloids is pretty appalling, though.
I think the fact that fiber optics are so important in information transmission actually muddles things in this case, causing many of us to assume this was supposed to be a competitor to glass fiber optics instead of a way to carry lower frequency energy for cutting.
That's what empathy is. The very same neurons are activated as if you were experiencing it yourself.
Of course, not to the degree that you lose self-awareness. But to that degree, you're not even "one" with your own self of two minutes ago, since you normally distinguish memories from present tense. (Whereas we are not nearly as reliable in differentiating our own memories from things we've been told about that could plausibly have happened to us).
To the extent that sci-fi authors are anticipating a borg-like experience of persistently losing self-awareness, I agree with all the other posts here it's a pretty useless idea, and for the most part not possible. Hooking up to ten brains won't give you ten times the perceptive power, simply because you don't have the cognitive capacity to handle it. It would be more like the experience you get right now listening to 10 different discussions at once - not informative.
Assuming you went to highschool more than 5-10 years ago, the main difference is we're now much of the way there already.
True, the coupling is through monitors and optic nerves, instead of some other slightly more direct route. But how much does that really change things?
Right now, you can sit at your desk, monitor slashdot (or foxnews, whatever), and define your self image and get an emotional rise 20 times per day about issues which (to you) are nothing more than electromagnetic disturbances. You can empathize with loved ones (or rail against politicians) over events that occurred half a world away 5 minutes ago, via twitter, email, or other means.
I don't think we fully appreciate how much of our thoughts are already dictated by the "hive mind" - by events we wouldn't even *know about* by our direct senses alone. The 9/11 terrorist attacks, for example (NYC residents excepted).
Wow, some nice spin by Microsoft PR - the real reason there's no encryption and whatnot on Kinect is far more obvious - the Xbox360's USB 2 isn't that fast.
Yeah, I don't think so. Microsoft's vision seems to be broader than that - they seems to think the Kinect may be a springboard into leading the evolution of user interfaces (since most recent attention has turned from WIMP to multi-touch).
I happen to think they may be right. And unlike touchscreens, Kinect is built on breakthrough hardware that will be hard for others to replicate.
Well, the *sequential* read/write speeds of this new drive also dominate spinning hard drives by a fantastic amount. Just a few years ago I was striping hard drives to hit 50 MB/s for a video capture device; ONE of these does over 300 MB/s, and they fit in a laptop! "SSD's: they're not just for IOPS any more."
OK, in this case a binary send/no-send rule seems to make sense. So next week they'll just trojan some app that *does* need to send the occasional SMS, and abuse the privilege just the same.
I am just uncomfortable with any piece of automation that can generate unlimited costs. I wouldn't want a printer with a 10,000 page paper tray, either. Granted in some cases it is unavoidable, but at least minimize the number of trusted parties involved. Carriers naturally tend not to be aggressive enough about helping people control costs that, to the carrier, are profit.
PS, the existing warning system clearly does not have enough teeth:
Android.Pjapps also has a built-in filter that blocks incoming texts from the user's carrier, a trick it uses to keep victims in the dark about the invisible texting.
"It monitors inbound SMS texts, and blocks alerts telling you that you've already exceeded your quota," Thakur said. Smartphone owners then wouldn't be aware of the charges they've racked up texting premium services until they receive their next statement.
At some point, it is reasonable to require a phonecall to the carrier to add or remove a self-imposed quota.
A binary rule is not good enough. There is nothing odd or strange about an app sending an SMS here or there. But sending enough to run up a huge bill is clearly a different thing, at least to a human being. That common sense should be built into the system to avoid unwanted surprises.
Android apps should operate within a jail that limits anomalous behavior like this - that is, the OS itself should have a form of common sense, and they should make it easy to install useful apps without giving them enough access to overwrite that part of the OS.
If not within the OS itself, cellphone accounts should come with voluntary (user-adjustable) quotas to mitigate such things. It might be just as useful for parents to control runaway texting teenagers.
I guess, but it's a mere pittance compared to what (the estate of) Hugh Hefner will end up paying for fake companionship. Loneliness is apparently a very powerful force.
One widely held, and completely wrong, belief about P != NP is that if a poly solution exists for currently non-poly problems, it'll be a simple click of a mouse to instantly solve all poly problems, which is pretty ignorant. What if the poly time solution has a constant C factor that is a multiple of the age of the universe?
One strange thing is that nobody seems to know of any useful polynomial algorithms where the exponent is very large. There are lots of n^2 algorithms, some n^3 ones. What about n^1000, or even n^6? Are we just too dumb to recognize these problems, or do they not exist?
I don't think that contradicts your point anyways, since sure P != NP in the first place.
The bulk of Internet traffic in the US these days is streaming video. For that you need big bandwidth and big buffers, not low latency.
That said, I wish we could settle on an Internet-wide QOS implementation and get both. Some packets have a legitimate need to cut in line. It would be workable if ISPs advertized both 'total' bandwidth and a smaller amount of 'turbo' bandwidth, or whatever stupid name they want to use for it, which is the fraction of your bandwidth that is not over-subscribed. By setting the QOS bits you could prioritize part of your traffic.
Really most users today do not do much with there PCs but run a browser and email.
"not much but a browser" is an outdated statement, since that now includes watching video and playing games - even news sites' main pages weigh in the megabytes. The Linux Flash player sucks up a lot of CPU for some reason.
I have an old 800 MHz computer that really isn't useful for browsing the web any more, although it used to be fine.
So the linux + atom 330 combo supports hardware-accelerated video decoding? I just got a new video card supporting vdpau and finally the video is acceptably smooth. CPU alone won't do it, even if the CPU load is only 20%.
All of which makes the FCC's response completely appropriate: "The agency wants Verizon to investigate the extent of the problem across its network, he said. " Sounds like they are starting at step 1: assess the situation. A voluntary self-assessment, for that matter.
They would be dumb to discontinue it suddenly (angering people) when they could accomplish the same thing over time simply by adding fewer and fewer new items to the free service (like solving the national debt through inflation).
So I think that escape clause is to avoid giving content providers more leverage over them - "pay whatever we demand, since you're contractually obliged to deliver it! Ha ha ha!" or something like that. Now they have the option of the "nuclear option" - simply discontinuing content distribution for a few days until negotiations are settled, as happens with cable companies from time to time.
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They say you can't prove a negative. But in fact there's a huge difference between proving there are no aliens in outer space (hard) vs. proving there's no elephant in this room (easy). The LInux codebase is openly available and rather small, relative to the power of tools available to search it.
Another interpretation: when video over Internet was brand new, there were few legal options because the market was tiny and undeveloped. Now it has become more mainstream because legal options became available.
For myself, netflix and amazon streaming have reduced the need/desire to look "elsewhere" by quite a bit.
Huh? How much more cardboard does it use? Now compare that to the resources to make a metal case, PLUS a box/foam to put that metal case in! I think it would be a win even if only 1/N boxes are actually used as cases even for rather large values of N.
My HTPC runs in a closet (opposite the TV in my living room, through a hole in the wall) so I would be all over this, though more to save money on a case than to conserve steel or cardboard.
IMHO, logical fallicies are usually useless as applied to real world arguments. Would you like to hear all about why I think "no true Scotsman" is being inappropriately applied more often than not? Oh, bummer, I thought sure you would.
One word: zits. Sometimes the subject *is* the problem.
I think the fact that fiber optics are so important in information transmission actually muddles things in this case, causing many of us to assume this was supposed to be a competitor to glass fiber optics instead of a way to carry lower frequency energy for cutting.
Of course, not to the degree that you lose self-awareness. But to that degree, you're not even "one" with your own self of two minutes ago, since you normally distinguish memories from present tense. (Whereas we are not nearly as reliable in differentiating our own memories from things we've been told about that could plausibly have happened to us).
To the extent that sci-fi authors are anticipating a borg-like experience of persistently losing self-awareness, I agree with all the other posts here it's a pretty useless idea, and for the most part not possible. Hooking up to ten brains won't give you ten times the perceptive power, simply because you don't have the cognitive capacity to handle it. It would be more like the experience you get right now listening to 10 different discussions at once - not informative.
True, the coupling is through monitors and optic nerves, instead of some other slightly more direct route. But how much does that really change things?
Right now, you can sit at your desk, monitor slashdot (or foxnews, whatever), and define your self image and get an emotional rise 20 times per day about issues which (to you) are nothing more than electromagnetic disturbances. You can empathize with loved ones (or rail against politicians) over events that occurred half a world away 5 minutes ago, via twitter, email, or other means.
I don't think we fully appreciate how much of our thoughts are already dictated by the "hive mind" - by events we wouldn't even *know about* by our direct senses alone. The 9/11 terrorist attacks, for example (NYC residents excepted).
Yeah, I don't think so. Microsoft's vision seems to be broader than that - they seems to think the Kinect may be a springboard into leading the evolution of user interfaces (since most recent attention has turned from WIMP to multi-touch).
I happen to think they may be right. And unlike touchscreens, Kinect is built on breakthrough hardware that will be hard for others to replicate.
Well, the *sequential* read/write speeds of this new drive also dominate spinning hard drives by a fantastic amount. Just a few years ago I was striping hard drives to hit 50 MB/s for a video capture device; ONE of these does over 300 MB/s, and they fit in a laptop! "SSD's: they're not just for IOPS any more."
I am just uncomfortable with any piece of automation that can generate unlimited costs. I wouldn't want a printer with a 10,000 page paper tray, either. Granted in some cases it is unavoidable, but at least minimize the number of trusted parties involved. Carriers naturally tend not to be aggressive enough about helping people control costs that, to the carrier, are profit.
At some point, it is reasonable to require a phonecall to the carrier to add or remove a self-imposed quota.
A binary rule is not good enough. There is nothing odd or strange about an app sending an SMS here or there. But sending enough to run up a huge bill is clearly a different thing, at least to a human being. That common sense should be built into the system to avoid unwanted surprises.
If not within the OS itself, cellphone accounts should come with voluntary (user-adjustable) quotas to mitigate such things. It might be just as useful for parents to control runaway texting teenagers.
But a bad apple will spoil the whole barrel!
Not really. I'm just very, very jealous of your impeccable timing in using that figure of speech in this context.
I guess, but it's a mere pittance compared to what (the estate of) Hugh Hefner will end up paying for fake companionship. Loneliness is apparently a very powerful force.
One strange thing is that nobody seems to know of any useful polynomial algorithms where the exponent is very large. There are lots of n^2 algorithms, some n^3 ones. What about n^1000, or even n^6? Are we just too dumb to recognize these problems, or do they not exist?
I don't think that contradicts your point anyways, since sure P != NP in the first place.
China has more Internet users than any other nation (420 million), so being down at number 18 for spam seems quite good.
That said, I wish we could settle on an Internet-wide QOS implementation and get both. Some packets have a legitimate need to cut in line. It would be workable if ISPs advertized both 'total' bandwidth and a smaller amount of 'turbo' bandwidth, or whatever stupid name they want to use for it, which is the fraction of your bandwidth that is not over-subscribed. By setting the QOS bits you could prioritize part of your traffic.
"not much but a browser" is an outdated statement, since that now includes watching video and playing games - even news sites' main pages weigh in the megabytes. The Linux Flash player sucks up a lot of CPU for some reason.
I have an old 800 MHz computer that really isn't useful for browsing the web any more, although it used to be fine.
So the linux + atom 330 combo supports hardware-accelerated video decoding? I just got a new video card supporting vdpau and finally the video is acceptably smooth. CPU alone won't do it, even if the CPU load is only 20%.
Dude, you are flirting with disaster, I heard Hugh Hefner reads slashdot religiously and he does not date in his own age bracket.
All of which makes the FCC's response completely appropriate: "The agency wants Verizon to investigate the extent of the problem across its network, he said. " Sounds like they are starting at step 1: assess the situation. A voluntary self-assessment, for that matter.
So I think that escape clause is to avoid giving content providers more leverage over them - "pay whatever we demand, since you're contractually obliged to deliver it! Ha ha ha!" or something like that. Now they have the option of the "nuclear option" - simply discontinuing content distribution for a few days until negotiations are settled, as happens with cable companies from time to time.
But Cable Internet service alone (to watch your netflix streaming movies) is about $45 / month anyways.