The #1 prize should go to somebody who actually profited from nonexistent software that was allegedly written by somebody else a long time ago and has no current market value in the first place!
And since TiVos don't work without calling home, I suppose they become scrap metal if the company does under. Maybe that will happen, maybe not, but the thought would certainly cross my mind if I were considering buying one.
Couldn't the OS instruct the drive to perform those speculative reads? If anything, the OS should have more information about whether those next blocks will be needed than the drive itself.
I've had this discussion a few different times, but I've never found any benchmarks where somebody found a way to turn off the drive cache and perform suitable benchmarks. I wonder if there are any drives sold in both 2MB and 8MB cache versions, and how their benchmarks compare.
Come on man! You're not a programmer right now. You're a salesman and a human resource department. Act like it!
And that's where you're wrong. He's not a salesman or a human resource department. That's why he was able to innovate in a substantive way.
True, this means somebody else will profit much more from his innovations than he will. That's how things normally go. But the paypal donations are supporting his family, and his goal is to retire and make 3d puzzles. That's what he likes to do, and I'd say he's right on course.
Government services are better than monopolies. At least with govt. services you get a vote.
The ban on govt. competing with private companies is, at times, a real sham. For instance, why doesn't the IRS just set up an offical website where we can all do our taxes? It would save many millions of taxpayer money, compared to publishing all that paperwork and the manpower to process it. The answer? Because some online tax companies lobby against it every year. What a crock, it's a case of purposeful govt. waste to create a business niche. I guess I could go into business printing my own paper tax forms, then sue the govt. for "competing" with me by sending them out to everybody and handing them out at libraries. Then I'll start issuing driver's licenses and sue the govt for competing with me.
There is no sacred principle at stake here; sometimes it just works better to do things through govt instead of private companies. Freeways, for instance, are an example. Is the "information superhighway" (as they used to call it) an example as well? In areas where big fat lazy companies drag their feet and charge through the nose, I say "yes."
For a good while this was the case with DVDs. I didn't buy one. Unfortunately it didn't seem to bother "them" one bit.
The only reason we can watch DVDs on Linux (and other OSS) today is due to some clever hacking that I'm sure was/would now be illegal under the DMCA. I thought it was purely a matter of recovering keys from a faulty player, but Andreas Bogk explains it was more complicated than that.
Unlike most people here, I think it's entirely possible the HD DVD standard will remain unbroken for a long time, though I hope I'm wrong. The fact that IEEE is having open discussions on how to do it right is unsettling. I'd rather the industry just assigned the job of designing HD DVD security to a couple lackeys and told them to have it done by next monday, that way it would certainly be flawed.
Irrelevant, who says they "have to" support it? Customers are pressuring them to do so because they want the added value, and they can see Palm is being needlessly pigheaded. Palm is well within its rights to refuse, in fact it would be surprising if Palm came through for once, since Palm seems so intent on pursuing its downward spiral.
Once somebody knows where a satellite was at what time, the cat's out of the bag.
The GPS constellation places everywhere on earth within the constant view of, what, 5 to 7 satellites?
Since being in view of only 1 spy satellite poses the threat of being watched, maybe we should just launch enough spy satellites to be within view of one everywhere, at all times.
Mind you, it's obviously infeasible to have enough satellites to actually watch everyplace on earth at once (not even close), but presumably "they" can't tell where the satellite is looking, only where it is positioned.
But you could supplement the income by selling tickets to the greatest ferris wheel ever! Just hook the passengers on at the bottom and remind them to dress warm!
Where would they get uncompressed video to start with in the first place? Did you mean to imply that DV encoded data isn't lossy compressed? I believe it is, fixed 5:1 compression in fact.
Please, not Comcast. The whole point of this would be to roll my (expensive) telephone service into my (also expensive) Comcast Internet bill. I'm sure Comcast would be happy to charge me for both, but it's hard for me to imagine "Comcast" and "cost savings" in the same sentence. Competing in this market would just give Comcast a strong incentive to block VOIP not offered by them; after all, if you can receive incoming calls it must be a "server" of some sort and therefore a violoation to the TOS.
People use webmail, and online calendaring and collaboration software all the time, this is no different.
I used to use webmail - I got my "free lifetime email" from usa.net. Guess what happened to that "lifetime" service after 3 or 4 years?
Sooner or later everybody will have an experience like this, and realize that you lose control when you lose possession.
Are you willing to lose access to every family photo and private document because you are late paying the ASP one month? Do you want them deleting things willy-nilly because of some company's careless DMCA takedown notice?
The reason that consoles don't screw up is because a. their code runs from read-only media and b. the quality control standards that game developers are under are just incredible.
I'm sure those are factors, but I think the #1 thing easing development on consoles is a fixed hardware platform, and limited hardware add-ons. The Mac works smoothly for the same reason (though less than consoles, as there is more hardware).
Which is why I think the article we're all responding to (about the PC dying) is wrong. Granted, it's entirely feasible that word processing and email could be outsourced, but those applications are pretty simple and reliable right now.
Most of the Linux code is devoted to device drivers, and most of the annoyances of running Linux come from flaky or nonexistent support for specific devices. Now how are you going to outsource your scanner, your webcam, and your sound card? You aren't.
Maybe the ASP could lease peripherals to you, but to do so economically, they'd have to standardize (i.e. one or two types of scanner). But like I said, people don't want that - if they did, privately-owned PCs would run much smoother and there would be no need for outsourcing to an ASP.
They mean the psychiatric definition of "socialization"- Where you are taught the norms and mores of a society.
Would you (and the people agreeing with you) please just read the TITLE of the linked article!? "Internet use cutting into TV viewing and socializing." TV and socializing, get it? Two different things, like walking and chewing gum.
If you don't want a Federal ID card for employees/contractors, don't join the Federal government
Oh goody, in your world the government is controlled by market forces and voluntary participation. That means I can choose not to pay taxes or follow the laws if I don't like them.
Sorry, but our government isn't a corporation that can dictate rules on a whim and tell citizens to go away if they don't like it. Not yet.
This might prove as dangerous to our freedom as, say, Military IDs.
Coincidentally, have you noticed that military personnelle have very little freedom? As a friend who was in the infantry put it, it's ironic that to defend freedom you must give up your own. When in the military, you can be involuntarily moved around the world, and you may or may not be able to bring your family. You often cannot choose your own line of work. You have restricted freedom of speech. You can't choose your own clothes. You cannot quit. Once your committment is over, you can be called back to service for a number of years. In other words, you are treated for the most part like a piece of property stamped with a bar code.
I'm not saying there aren't valid reasons for the military to be run this way. But how can use offer that as an example of Big Brother's disinterest in running our lives!?
Perhaps you would use freenet to acquire just the.torrent files themselves. Isn't that what suprnova.org was - just a centralized directory to lots of torrent "tracker" servers?
It's not that clear cut, especially on property that isn't really "privately" owned, but as a business. The Supreme Court has gone back and forth on the issue.
In 1946, the Court considered the issue of the First Amendment's applicability in Chickasaw, Alabama--a company town owned lock, stock, and barrel by Gulf Shipbuilding. A Jehovah's Witness came to Chicasaw and began distributing religious literature on a street corner. She was told to stop her activity. She refused, and was tried and convicted of trespass. The Court reversed her conviction, concluding that Chicasaw was the functional equivalent of a municipality, the residents of Chicasaw citizens of Alabama, and that the First Amendment fully applied to expressive activities on the company-owned sidewalks and streets of the town.
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Several state supreme courts have concluded that the free speech protections of their own state constitutions protect the right of citizens to engage in expressive activities in the public areas of shopping centers.
Because megahertz is not totally where it's at, contrary to Intel's marketing hype.
Somewhat true, but historically most cpu improvement was due to clock speed increases, which have slowed way down.
CPUs just aren't getting faster like they used to. We've hit something of a wall. It would be interesting to seem Tom's benchmark charts plotted against release dates.
The move to multiple cores is a white flag waving. Two cpus aren't in any was as good as one that's twice as fast.
You can't blame something like this on algorithmic complexity. Finding an optimal solution make require an impractical amount of time, but a workable solution within a few percent of optimal is normally much easier. In the long run, a few percent may mean the difference between life and death for an airline, but you must retain the ability to cope with short-term emergencies, even if it means a lot of scrambling around and some wasted money in the short term. Most businesses can't afford many complete meltdowns like this Comair scheduling disaster.
I'm not sure if such a thing would out perform google for a general purpose search engine.
The short answer is no, because traditional information retrieval methods like LSI are easily fooled by spammer tricks like keyword stuffing.
The genius being google's success was paying *less* attention to the content of a page when categorizing it, and relying on links *to* the page instead. Why? Because of spammers.
Think about hiring for a job. You don't limit yourself to interviews with candidates, because the're highly motivated to decieve you. So you look for references. Certification is an example of this - somebody besides the person himself who will vouch for his competence. An even better reference is somebody you know and trust who thinks highly of the individual (which is why personal networking is so important to getting hired).
Google's PageRank is analogous. Instead of looking at the content of a page, you rely heavily on links to the page, especially links from more trusted sources. This helps defeat spammers, who use all manner of tricks to make their crap look good to search engine spiders.
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The #1 prize should go to somebody who actually profited from nonexistent software that was allegedly written by somebody else a long time ago and has no current market value in the first place!
um, not "does under," but "goes under," i.e. out of business.
And since TiVos don't work without calling home, I suppose they become scrap metal if the company does under. Maybe that will happen, maybe not, but the thought would certainly cross my mind if I were considering buying one.
I've had this discussion a few different times, but I've never found any benchmarks where somebody found a way to turn off the drive cache and perform suitable benchmarks. I wonder if there are any drives sold in both 2MB and 8MB cache versions, and how their benchmarks compare.
True, this means somebody else will profit much more from his innovations than he will. That's how things normally go. But the paypal donations are supporting his family, and his goal is to retire and make 3d puzzles. That's what he likes to do, and I'd say he's right on course.
The ban on govt. competing with private companies is, at times, a real sham. For instance, why doesn't the IRS just set up an offical website where we can all do our taxes? It would save many millions of taxpayer money, compared to publishing all that paperwork and the manpower to process it. The answer? Because some online tax companies lobby against it every year. What a crock, it's a case of purposeful govt. waste to create a business niche. I guess I could go into business printing my own paper tax forms, then sue the govt. for "competing" with me by sending them out to everybody and handing them out at libraries. Then I'll start issuing driver's licenses and sue the govt for competing with me.
There is no sacred principle at stake here; sometimes it just works better to do things through govt instead of private companies. Freeways, for instance, are an example. Is the "information superhighway" (as they used to call it) an example as well? In areas where big fat lazy companies drag their feet and charge through the nose, I say "yes."
The only reason we can watch DVDs on Linux (and other OSS) today is due to some clever hacking that I'm sure was/would now be illegal under the DMCA. I thought it was purely a matter of recovering keys from a faulty player, but Andreas Bogk explains it was more complicated than that.
Unlike most people here, I think it's entirely possible the HD DVD standard will remain unbroken for a long time, though I hope I'm wrong. The fact that IEEE is having open discussions on how to do it right is unsettling. I'd rather the industry just assigned the job of designing HD DVD security to a couple lackeys and told them to have it done by next monday, that way it would certainly be flawed.
Irrelevant, who says they "have to" support it? Customers are pressuring them to do so because they want the added value, and they can see Palm is being needlessly pigheaded. Palm is well within its rights to refuse, in fact it would be surprising if Palm came through for once, since Palm seems so intent on pursuing its downward spiral.
Since being in view of only 1 spy satellite poses the threat of being watched, maybe we should just launch enough spy satellites to be within view of one everywhere, at all times.
Mind you, it's obviously infeasible to have enough satellites to actually watch everyplace on earth at once (not even close), but presumably "they" can't tell where the satellite is looking, only where it is positioned.
Fine then, let's work on teleportation instead, it's even harder.
But you could supplement the income by selling tickets to the greatest ferris wheel ever! Just hook the passengers on at the bottom and remind them to dress warm!
Where would they get uncompressed video to start with in the first place? Did you mean to imply that DV encoded data isn't lossy compressed? I believe it is, fixed 5:1 compression in fact.
Please, not Comcast. The whole point of this would be to roll my (expensive) telephone service into my (also expensive) Comcast Internet bill. I'm sure Comcast would be happy to charge me for both, but it's hard for me to imagine "Comcast" and "cost savings" in the same sentence. Competing in this market would just give Comcast a strong incentive to block VOIP not offered by them; after all, if you can receive incoming calls it must be a "server" of some sort and therefore a violoation to the TOS.
Sooner or later everybody will have an experience like this, and realize that you lose control when you lose possession.
Are you willing to lose access to every family photo and private document because you are late paying the ASP one month? Do you want them deleting things willy-nilly because of some company's careless DMCA takedown notice?
Which is why I think the article we're all responding to (about the PC dying) is wrong. Granted, it's entirely feasible that word processing and email could be outsourced, but those applications are pretty simple and reliable right now.
Most of the Linux code is devoted to device drivers, and most of the annoyances of running Linux come from flaky or nonexistent support for specific devices. Now how are you going to outsource your scanner, your webcam, and your sound card? You aren't.
Maybe the ASP could lease peripherals to you, but to do so economically, they'd have to standardize (i.e. one or two types of scanner). But like I said, people don't want that - if they did, privately-owned PCs would run much smoother and there would be no need for outsourcing to an ASP.
Sorry, but our government isn't a corporation that can dictate rules on a whim and tell citizens to go away if they don't like it. Not yet.
I'm not saying there aren't valid reasons for the military to be run this way. But how can use offer that as an example of Big Brother's disinterest in running our lives!?
Perhaps you would use freenet to acquire just the .torrent files themselves. Isn't that what suprnova.org was - just a centralized directory to lots of torrent "tracker" servers?
CPUs just aren't getting faster like they used to. We've hit something of a wall. It would be interesting to seem Tom's benchmark charts plotted against release dates.
The move to multiple cores is a white flag waving. Two cpus aren't in any was as good as one that's twice as fast.
You can't blame something like this on algorithmic complexity. Finding an optimal solution make require an impractical amount of time, but a workable solution within a few percent of optimal is normally much easier. In the long run, a few percent may mean the difference between life and death for an airline, but you must retain the ability to cope with short-term emergencies, even if it means a lot of scrambling around and some wasted money in the short term. Most businesses can't afford many complete meltdowns like this Comair scheduling disaster.
The genius being google's success was paying *less* attention to the content of a page when categorizing it, and relying on links *to* the page instead. Why? Because of spammers.
Think about hiring for a job. You don't limit yourself to interviews with candidates, because the're highly motivated to decieve you. So you look for references. Certification is an example of this - somebody besides the person himself who will vouch for his competence. An even better reference is somebody you know and trust who thinks highly of the individual (which is why personal networking is so important to getting hired).
Google's PageRank is analogous. Instead of looking at the content of a page, you rely heavily on links to the page, especially links from more trusted sources. This helps defeat spammers, who use all manner of tricks to make their crap look good to search engine spiders.
That graph of "Torrents Deleted Due To Legal Threats" is hilarious.