An increase in the exponent is pretty exciting to me! For decades we have been hearing about 3d holographic storage with incredible densities, or 3d processors, and it never appears beyond, say, dual layer DVDs. Granted, Intel Haswell also has 3d lithography, but it is still one layer of transistors, implemented by 2 or 3 layers of material, e.g. each transistor goes across, then up, then over. In contrast Samsung is using 24 cell layers and planning to build up from there. (Probably the heating issues are not far worse with logic gates and dram as opposed to flash).
Calling an API to get the screen size is the easy part; making a good layout is the hard part. There was a time when everybody thought information and presentation should be separated, and layout should be left to algorithms. Well, that idea failed. MS Word dominated TeX; "Write once, run anywhere" Java applications supporting the PC and handhelds with the same interface were duds; "Mobile Web" split off from the original (PC) Web, and "apps" split off from Mobile Web. To suggest the issue is limited to "incompetent" devs at PBS is just silly.
It must happen, since ebay is riddled with scary warnings against completing transactions outside ebay. I guess ebay must do some level of policing against sellers using their website to advertise other websites. But after all, the ability to search in one place and shop under one reasonably consistent set of policies is worth something to customers. There's no way your Backdoor Specials will always beat everybody on ebay, so for people to find them they'll have to search ebay, and your site, and every other one of a thousand companies with the same idea. Personally I'm pretty cheap so I WILL do that, but only for largish purchases.
Maintaining an independent web presence requires a big outlay in advertising, so you have to charge people who shop there enough to pay for the ads that brought them there. Your flea market presence on ebay or amazon doesn't benefit from your brand, and wouldn't be competitive in that market if your margins were enough to sustain an independent brand.
I have always been told the jaggy, sawtooth peaks in glacier areas were caused by the continual cutting action of glaciers sliding downhill. (Then again, maybe that is still true, just 10x slower than being exposed to the elements).
That's why it's a hamburger. The entire point of mechanically pre-chewing cheap meat is to destroy its tough, inedible texture. You can make a somewhat passable simulation of ground beef out of soy beans, for heavens' sake.
What's an ecosystem? Another marketing term to having one company providing you a set of services?
Nope. Every one of these ecosystems is defined by hardware devices as well as services/information. The restrictions on the hardware are integral to defining the boundaries of the "ecosystem."
Low utilization isn't a problem so long as the extra resources don't cost much to make and don't draw significant power unless they are needed. Parallel processing definitely has valid uses on a phone; the only question is whether additional general-purpose cores can beat out more special-purpose units that operate in parallel. The new Moto-X has a "natural language processor", a "contextual computing processor", and it goes without saying that it has a GPU of some sort. So what's better, a mainly-serial CPU and a big bag of co-processors, or several general-purpose cores? It remains to be seen. But the GPU itself has hundreds of more limited "cores", so there's no question the basic, purely sequential processing model is long gone and will not return.
Does Ireland actually have a violent past / present? I think not. It has a persistent a low level of violence that is politically motivated. The murder rate is 1/4 of the US, i.e. 1/37 of Venezuela or 1/76 of Honduras . Between 1000 and 3000 people died in the civil war, a century ago. During the 40 year period of The Troubles, 3500 people died, including combatants, on both sides - under 100 per year on average. Maybe Ireland seems violent because it's in such a quiet neighborhood.
That is really cool. With the advent of 4K TVs, it has occurred to me that it will be awesome to watch video games, sports, or movies on a 70" 4K display with surround sound and a big subwoofer, but that's way too much for watching news, or kids shows, or anything that should be background for at least some of the people nearby. It would dominate the whole living area and waste a lot of power. So it would be nice to just use 1/4 of the area in the middle for a non-upscaled 1080p display.
Downfall? Adroid is a "fragment" of the Linux community that has snowballed into a runaway success that now dwarfs the adoption of Linux on the conventional PC desktop and may yet dwarf the number of Windows installs globally. This would not have happened had google not been allowed to take Linux in a different direction and run with it.
Because it is not cut and dried. You can't just search for "SkyDrive" and then be safe. "Sky" claims it owns anything that starts with "Sky" in the same way that Microsoft claimed "Windows," and Apple claimed the letter "i"! (though they lost in the end... uh, at least in Australia?)
Thanks for the reference to Quest CEO Joseph Nacchio. That is a fascinating and story that deserves deeper treatment, with angles of both corporate malfeasance and the security state. Hero, villain, or both? I wish I could watch a Frontline on it right now.
I'm really surprised so many people are willing to go for a Chomebook, and do without Windows. For years, Linux netbooks didn't really take off... yet the Chromebook is exactly that, with a new UI, and no access to 25 years of free software.
Even if the carriers can legally share their "their" data (about you) without a warrant, nothing says they have to, unless there is a warrant. It seems a provider would have nothing to lose, and could gain, by promising confidentiality unless there is a warrant. Do any of them have any meaningful sort of privacy policy about this?
Well, yes and no. I have run ssh, web, and email servers on my comcast connection for over a decade. When inbound email was blocked recently, I called to complain and they unblocked it.
Or, you can also get a virtual private server from some cheap server farm for about $7/mo and create a VPN to it, which is much cheaper than a business class upgrade to the home.
Still I do hope they will eventually give up on the restrictions. There was a time when connecting a switch to your home Internet and connecting multiple devices was iffy, since they wanted $5 per device. They gave up on that, and maybe will give up on "server" prohibitions also.
Yeah, it's a dumb article. Who's to say today's routing protocols aren't "autonomic"? I say they are. Anyways, the Internet is far too mature for fuzzy analogies to have anything useful to say about it. If you are serious, allow us to benchmark your implementation and then we will see whether it is a good idea.
So states the linked response by Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman. Lately there has also been a lot of sympathy expressed for people who committed suicide after being bullied, gay-bashed, or slut-shamed. This could have bad effects. I think we should heap shame on those who did wrong (the bullies/bashers/shamers), rather than pity on those who killed themselves, since doing so makes suicide a very real and potentially attractive lever of power for young people. Suicide is contagious.
Why are you assuming this issue is worse within medicare than in private insurance or cash-for-services? Everything I've read is that people who pay cash, without an army of bureaucrats fighting on their side against the medical establishment, get reamed the hardest. And why wouldn't they? It's medicine. The customer doesn't know what they need, doesn't know how much it will cost, and doesn't know how much it would cost elsewhere. It's a guaranteed recipe for financial disaster.
"A physician was hired in Roswell, a family physician, straight out of residency at a salary of $230,000 a year, which is sort of unheard of," said Montano.
That's Roswell, NM, where a nice 3-br home is $150K. Being a doctor seems to be the last "sure thing" in making big bucks, IF you get in. I think we need to focus on allowing/enabling more people to become doctors.
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An increase in the exponent is pretty exciting to me! For decades we have been hearing about 3d holographic storage with incredible densities, or 3d processors, and it never appears beyond, say, dual layer DVDs. Granted, Intel Haswell also has 3d lithography, but it is still one layer of transistors, implemented by 2 or 3 layers of material, e.g. each transistor goes across, then up, then over. In contrast Samsung is using 24 cell layers and planning to build up from there. (Probably the heating issues are not far worse with logic gates and dram as opposed to flash).
Seriously, how did you happen to know about that?
Calling an API to get the screen size is the easy part; making a good layout is the hard part. There was a time when everybody thought information and presentation should be separated, and layout should be left to algorithms. Well, that idea failed. MS Word dominated TeX; "Write once, run anywhere" Java applications supporting the PC and handhelds with the same interface were duds; "Mobile Web" split off from the original (PC) Web, and "apps" split off from Mobile Web. To suggest the issue is limited to "incompetent" devs at PBS is just silly.
It must happen, since ebay is riddled with scary warnings against completing transactions outside ebay. I guess ebay must do some level of policing against sellers using their website to advertise other websites. But after all, the ability to search in one place and shop under one reasonably consistent set of policies is worth something to customers. There's no way your Backdoor Specials will always beat everybody on ebay, so for people to find them they'll have to search ebay, and your site, and every other one of a thousand companies with the same idea. Personally I'm pretty cheap so I WILL do that, but only for largish purchases.
Maintaining an independent web presence requires a big outlay in advertising, so you have to charge people who shop there enough to pay for the ads that brought them there. Your flea market presence on ebay or amazon doesn't benefit from your brand, and wouldn't be competitive in that market if your margins were enough to sustain an independent brand.
I have always been told the jaggy, sawtooth peaks in glacier areas were caused by the continual cutting action of glaciers sliding downhill. (Then again, maybe that is still true, just 10x slower than being exposed to the elements).
That's why it's a hamburger. The entire point of mechanically pre-chewing cheap meat is to destroy its tough, inedible texture. You can make a somewhat passable simulation of ground beef out of soy beans, for heavens' sake.
Nope. Every one of these ecosystems is defined by hardware devices as well as services/information. The restrictions on the hardware are integral to defining the boundaries of the "ecosystem."
I probably shouldn't comment further without learning more about it, since all I do know is from Braveheart :)
Low utilization isn't a problem so long as the extra resources don't cost much to make and don't draw significant power unless they are needed. Parallel processing definitely has valid uses on a phone; the only question is whether additional general-purpose cores can beat out more special-purpose units that operate in parallel. The new Moto-X has a "natural language processor", a "contextual computing processor", and it goes without saying that it has a GPU of some sort. So what's better, a mainly-serial CPU and a big bag of co-processors, or several general-purpose cores? It remains to be seen. But the GPU itself has hundreds of more limited "cores", so there's no question the basic, purely sequential processing model is long gone and will not return.
Does Ireland actually have a violent past / present? I think not. It has a persistent a low level of violence that is politically motivated. The murder rate is 1/4 of the US, i.e. 1/37 of Venezuela or 1/76 of Honduras . Between 1000 and 3000 people died in the civil war, a century ago. During the 40 year period of The Troubles, 3500 people died, including combatants, on both sides - under 100 per year on average. Maybe Ireland seems violent because it's in such a quiet neighborhood.
That is really cool. With the advent of 4K TVs, it has occurred to me that it will be awesome to watch video games, sports, or movies on a 70" 4K display with surround sound and a big subwoofer, but that's way too much for watching news, or kids shows, or anything that should be background for at least some of the people nearby. It would dominate the whole living area and waste a lot of power. So it would be nice to just use 1/4 of the area in the middle for a non-upscaled 1080p display.
Don't worry, I don't think anybody bought the 'metadata' distinction: "See, it's data about other data, so that makes it not data at all!"
Downfall? Adroid is a "fragment" of the Linux community that has snowballed into a runaway success that now dwarfs the adoption of Linux on the conventional PC desktop and may yet dwarf the number of Windows installs globally. This would not have happened had google not been allowed to take Linux in a different direction and run with it.
Because it is not cut and dried. You can't just search for "SkyDrive" and then be safe. "Sky" claims it owns anything that starts with "Sky" in the same way that Microsoft claimed "Windows," and Apple claimed the letter "i"! (though they lost in the end... uh, at least in Australia?)
Thanks for the reference to Quest CEO Joseph Nacchio. That is a fascinating and story that deserves deeper treatment, with angles of both corporate malfeasance and the security state. Hero, villain, or both? I wish I could watch a Frontline on it right now.
I'm really surprised so many people are willing to go for a Chomebook, and do without Windows. For years, Linux netbooks didn't really take off... yet the Chromebook is exactly that, with a new UI, and no access to 25 years of free software.
Even if the carriers can legally share their "their" data (about you) without a warrant, nothing says they have to, unless there is a warrant. It seems a provider would have nothing to lose, and could gain, by promising confidentiality unless there is a warrant. Do any of them have any meaningful sort of privacy policy about this?
Or, you can also get a virtual private server from some cheap server farm for about $7/mo and create a VPN to it, which is much cheaper than a business class upgrade to the home.
Still I do hope they will eventually give up on the restrictions. There was a time when connecting a switch to your home Internet and connecting multiple devices was iffy, since they wanted $5 per device. They gave up on that, and maybe will give up on "server" prohibitions also.
I think the fact they don't do that is an indication that depression is the main cause, rather than the abuse per se. Not that I'm an expert.
Yeah, it's a dumb article. Who's to say today's routing protocols aren't "autonomic"? I say they are. Anyways, the Internet is far too mature for fuzzy analogies to have anything useful to say about it. If you are serious, allow us to benchmark your implementation and then we will see whether it is a good idea.
Put another way, "It's 2013, damnit, how can it be I'm sitting here without toilet paper!"
So states the linked response by Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman. Lately there has also been a lot of sympathy expressed for people who committed suicide after being bullied, gay-bashed, or slut-shamed. This could have bad effects. I think we should heap shame on those who did wrong (the bullies/bashers/shamers), rather than pity on those who killed themselves, since doing so makes suicide a very real and potentially attractive lever of power for young people. Suicide is contagious.
Why are you assuming this issue is worse within medicare than in private insurance or cash-for-services? Everything I've read is that people who pay cash, without an army of bureaucrats fighting on their side against the medical establishment, get reamed the hardest. And why wouldn't they? It's medicine. The customer doesn't know what they need, doesn't know how much it will cost, and doesn't know how much it would cost elsewhere. It's a guaranteed recipe for financial disaster.
Saw this on the local news a couple nights ago:
That's Roswell, NM, where a nice 3-br home is $150K. Being a doctor seems to be the last "sure thing" in making big bucks, IF you get in. I think we need to focus on allowing/enabling more people to become doctors.