It would however provide a fascinating sociological experimental setting. Lets say perhaps that big gangs were to form and terrorize, why not have a bunch of players form a vigilante squad? Why not a police force? Why not a Government? Personally I would like to see games with this kind of open ended possibilities.
There are those that will bitch all day about regulation, de-regulation, etc etc, but the fact is that 22% of american households with the internet have broadband. I think that qualifies as the post-early-adopter market. The problem as I see it is that many have fast internet access at work, and dont have any desire to have it at home. Unless you weave your life around the internet, there is not yet a compelling reason to have broadband. What the hell do you do with 100mbps? Seriously? I dont mind waiting 30 seconds for my personal email to download. I dont need to download music or movies, and I dont run my own server.
I'm sure that most people dont agree with you. Lossless compression is an exercise in futility. The way that music comes out of the studio is not of quality much greater than that of a CD player, as that is the distribution media. (unless you are one of those argumentative analog people) The quality of a CD is a fixed rate (44Khz in a defined frequency response range) So lets assume that you generally dont get better quailty than a CD. At the point at which your CD is played you suffer tremendous loss of sound quality. Unless you have a super hi-fi amplifier and speakers, you probabally can't hear the difference between a quality compressed audio file and an uncompressed one. Try if for yourself. Rip a WAV file and MP3 it to 192kbps. I challenge you to distinguish between them. Move the whole contraption to something like an ipod and I guarantee it. So in short, you can get this service when you create it. But dont try charging for it because your bandwidth will be outrageous and you wont find people to pay.
Using magnetic media to back up magnetic media isnt the greatest idea in the world, but it can work. Hard drives fail, and when they do, you want to have the data available so that you can get to it. The IDEAL way to do this is to contract an outside company or manage for yourself a backup server which does incremental backups as often as you need and periodically burns them to a more permanant media like DVD. If you cant afford this or dont like the idea, then you can burn DVDs on your own. A good program will track files for incremental backup and 220 gigs can fit on something like 50 DVDs, with maybe 1 more per session (assuming that not all files are constantly changed) Obviously a lot depends on what you have, how much money you are spending, and what you need.
Is it just me or is this the stupidest thing ever said, in the entire history
of the world, EVER. I mean it must have taken a real outside the box
mind to think of this. Unfortunately the box is reality. What retarded chimp
flinging feces could possibly believe that Microsoft would abandon it's
Billions of dollars of code investments
Generally more advanced technology
client server interoperability and fammiliarity
it's ease of use and configuration
Cash cow licensing
it's entire business strategy for the previous and future decades
I mean seriously, why did this make slashdot, it's not april fools day! This
is raw liquid stupid and it makes me queasy that Reuters would run an article
that is so blatanatly lacking merit or at least a shred of intelligent reasoning.
This is an issue that is clouded by emotion, poorly drawn conclusions, political idealism and misunderstanding of social dynamics. It CAN however be boiled down to a VERY simple decision, the value that you as an individual place on your rights. Firearm ownership is a right, just like the freedom of speech, and even more important. If you are more concerned about saftey and would support the suspension/removal of your rights by the governing body, then you can be pro-gun control. If you value your rights and think that things like the Total information awareness are foothold towards the revocation of your rightsm you probabally want to consider sticking up for yourself and your right to own a firearm. Tendencies toward violence and societal issue relating to a homocide culture are not the same, nor even a related issue. The effectiveness of the regulations on murder rates is not the issue. It really is just this simple. Rights VS security.
It doesn't bother you that a company lies to your site visitors to persuade them to install software on thier machines, so long as you get a couple of cents?
No, it dosent. It dosent bother me a bit.
I agree it should not be up to a private company to press a class action for something that clearly should be investigated by the relevant government authority
What is the british fascination with regulating everything? Seriously? De-regulation breeds innovation and competition. You may find it sleezy, but dammit part of living in a free society is letting people AND COMPANIES be free. They arent doing anything to your computer, you can turn off their ability to pop up ads at all (turn off javascripting) They are being creative. If they didnt do it, somebody else would have.
I'd like to know how to overcome Pareto's 80-20 law. It states that 20% of ones time will be spent accomplishing 80% of a goal, and the rest to fill in the remaining 20% If I can cut out 80% of my development time by eliminating unneeded features like accessibility (hear me out) Im going to. I say that accessibility is unneeded, but I mean that there is a good quantity of information available that may be narrated, but would not convey the same information as a visual counterpart. Is there a need to make the Guggenheim museum narrate that that "starry night" is a picture of a nighttime sky and skyline in an impressionist style." What is a disabled user going to take away from that? While I whole heartedly agree that online taxpayer funded services should be accessible, I cant see any need for a photo album to include alt tags, or a movie to be narrated, or a flash animation to include audio cues. For the most part however I think that the money spent on these items would be far better spent on curing blindness. I have no doubt in my mind that that will happen before half the web is accessible.
Nobody in their right mind could POSSIBLY think that mozilla or Open Office is superior to it's microsoft counterpart. It's not even an ISSUE. The only reasons to use them are ideological and financial, not Technical.
I like Sci-fi that forces charchters to deal with problems and take them through to conclusion. The Deus ex Machina supertechnology that that pervades most crappy sci-fi is a divorce from what it is to be human. I like dark, I like emotion, I like feeling the anger, the hatred, the lust, the good the bad and I like feeling that It could actually happen. (some day) That's why Ender's Game is my favorite. If you havent read it, you're missing a great read.
"By putting new technologies into consumers' hands in an easy-to-use form, the new handsets seem to be succeeding where the PC has failed" Or perhaps it's the fact that the handsets are free or REALLY cheap, and the pocket PCs are REALLY expensive
This is of course redundant, but your webserver having 99.999% uptime is GREAT. A hospital having 99.999% uptime is a disaster. The ONLY way to responsibly manage a network like this is to build a redundant system. Fix what's broken of course, but have the backup. You do your best to make sure your company's database works all the time, but you still make back-ups, dont you?
I dont know why nobody is willing to say that their content at best was a retread of "politically incorrect" and at worst smart people saying the same thing over and over. I read the site for some time, then I realized that I had already read everything. They have a wonderful collection of writers, but they all say the same thing, OVER AND OVER. Salon would have been better as a book. Bush Bashing and whining about being a wimp is only interesting for so long.
Comparing the mind to a beowulf cluster is a dangerous proposition. The processing paths of decision making and cognition are perhaps more comparable to Intel's Hyperthreading, or more appropriately a Decision tree matrix. The Neural Network model of cognition is still an essentially linear model, in that it has a start, a direction, and a finish. While there is an infinite number of directions, nothing I have read as of yet has determined any ability to paralell process in the mind. (although I dont doubt it)
Cmon guys. You can argue back and forth all day, but the ONLY way that spam will ever stop is if it become UNPROFITABLE. You can sue them, but ten more will take their place, or you can educate the users of your mail system so that they dont respond to it. They only stay in business because people are buying stuff from them. It's the same for telemarketers. NEVER BUY ANYTHING from them, and chastize those that do. if nobody buys, nobody sends.
as a side note, after using cloudmark, I have yet to recieve a single piece of spam.
You said that the stuff they do worked just fine on windows 98, so why not just put that back on there. You dont have to upgrade because there is something new out. Best of all, it's free for you because you already own the required software. Everything works just fine and you can re-image from a backup in like 20 minutes in case of a catastrophic failure.
I think not. There is a HUGE difference between a witch-hunt and finding spies. Spies exist, and they are dangerous. The russians themselves said that Mccarthy was a bit overzealous, but not wrong. Spies need to be watched, that's the FBI's Job. You say that we railroad people, but it only seems that way because this is the only country that is free enough to allow these people to operate in the first place.
This is all great and all, but I have worked with corona imagery (after 1996) and it's REALLY hard to use.
First of all, the imagery is not vertical, it's panoramic. Great for intel agencies, not so great for mapping. It's almost impossible to orthographically rectify, and hence use for anything useful. The resolution of the film is very good. It's something like 150 lp/mm, and the stereo is very good, but it's a pain in the butt to do panoramic stereo without special equipment.
second, geo-referencing was accomplished in a brilliant, if arcane way. A second camera was involved that took pictures of the stars 180 away from the image. To find out what the picture is of, you need starcharts and a lot of math to figure out what stars you are looking at, where the satellite was, and what the picture is of. The equipment to do this in a useful environment is VERY expensive.
third, it's panchromatic and not IR sensitive. You can see some ground features, but nothing environmental, and not all that much of historical significance. Consequently, the imagery has not been used for as much as had been hoped.
You sound like you've been around a while and done a lot of things. Do you WANT to keep up with the cutting edge? There are still a LOT of older systems that desperately need qualified people to maintain them. If you want to go cutting edge, that's your choice, but dont assume that newer will benefit your career more. Hiring people want young people to do new things. It's a shame, but thats how it works.
What it says is that anything you do while under university supervision or on the university's dime is their property. If they are funding your research, they get a cut. If an undergrad develops a better mousetrap on their own time, the university has no claim to it.
I mean really, did anybody here expect pay radio to be the next big thing? Most people live in places that have acceptable radio coverage. The thing was a joke from the start.
It takes a while
on
Tackling AGP 8X
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· Score: 2, Insightful
There wasnt really a noticable improvement from PCI to AGP, or AGP 1x to 2x. What you see is cards getting faster, and assume it's the silicon. The fact is that the faster bus is required to support the faster cards. The bus itself wont do squat for you, but a Geforce 9 aint running on AGP 4x.
I'm not going to tell you that you're stupid, just that you misunderstand the technology. 802.11B wireless ethernet is designed for high reliability at high transfer rates over a short distance. The speed isnt really an issue. (hence why 802.11A and g (54 Mbps) have yet to make any kind of showing) The 19Mbps cell phone networking they are speaking of has teh hurdle of distance to overcome, as you may be several miles from a tower, inside a building, in the rain or whatever. To get the range and penetration, a different frequency is used (900MHz I think). At these lower frequencies, only a limited quantity of data can be sent by conventional means. This technology allows simultaneous usage of multiple channels to achieve a higher bandwidth. (somebody correct me if I'm talking out of my ass)
In theory, the technology (MIMO) COULD be used for something like WLAN, but there isnt the same need. It takes a LOT to saturate an 802.11B network.
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It would however provide a fascinating sociological experimental setting. Lets say perhaps that big gangs were to form and terrorize, why not have a bunch of players form a vigilante squad? Why not a police force? Why not a Government? Personally I would like to see games with this kind of open ended possibilities.
There are those that will bitch all day about regulation, de-regulation, etc etc, but the fact is that 22% of american households with the internet have broadband. I think that qualifies as the post-early-adopter market. The problem as I see it is that many have fast internet access at work, and dont have any desire to have it at home. Unless you weave your life around the internet, there is not yet a compelling reason to have broadband. What the hell do you do with 100mbps? Seriously? I dont mind waiting 30 seconds for my personal email to download. I dont need to download music or movies, and I dont run my own server.
I'm sure that most people dont agree with you. Lossless compression is an exercise in futility. The way that music comes out of the studio is not of quality much greater than that of a CD player, as that is the distribution media. (unless you are one of those argumentative analog people) The quality of a CD is a fixed rate (44Khz in a defined frequency response range) So lets assume that you generally dont get better quailty than a CD. At the point at which your CD is played you suffer tremendous loss of sound quality. Unless you have a super hi-fi amplifier and speakers, you probabally can't hear the difference between a quality compressed audio file and an uncompressed one. Try if for yourself. Rip a WAV file and MP3 it to 192kbps. I challenge you to distinguish between them. Move the whole contraption to something like an ipod and I guarantee it. So in short, you can get this service when you create it. But dont try charging for it because your bandwidth will be outrageous and you wont find people to pay.
Using magnetic media to back up magnetic media isnt the greatest idea in the world, but it can work. Hard drives fail, and when they do, you want to have the data available so that you can get to it. The IDEAL way to do this is to contract an outside company or manage for yourself a backup server which does incremental backups as often as you need and periodically burns them to a more permanant media like DVD. If you cant afford this or dont like the idea, then you can burn DVDs on your own. A good program will track files for incremental backup and 220 gigs can fit on something like 50 DVDs, with maybe 1 more per session (assuming that not all files are constantly changed) Obviously a lot depends on what you have, how much money you are spending, and what you need.
Is it just me or is this the stupidest thing ever said, in the entire history of the world, EVER. I mean it must have taken a real outside the box mind to think of this. Unfortunately the box is reality. What retarded chimp flinging feces could possibly believe that Microsoft would abandon it's
I mean seriously, why did this make slashdot, it's not april fools day! This is raw liquid stupid and it makes me queasy that Reuters would run an article that is so blatanatly lacking merit or at least a shred of intelligent reasoning.
This is an issue that is clouded by emotion, poorly drawn conclusions, political idealism and misunderstanding of social dynamics. It CAN however be boiled down to a VERY simple decision, the value that you as an individual place on your rights. Firearm ownership is a right, just like the freedom of speech, and even more important. If you are more concerned about saftey and would support the suspension/removal of your rights by the governing body, then you can be pro-gun control. If you value your rights and think that things like the Total information awareness are foothold towards the revocation of your rightsm you probabally want to consider sticking up for yourself and your right to own a firearm. Tendencies toward violence and societal issue relating to a homocide culture are not the same, nor even a related issue. The effectiveness of the regulations on murder rates is not the issue. It really is just this simple. Rights VS security.
It doesn't bother you that a company lies to your site visitors to persuade them to install software on thier machines, so long as you get a couple of cents? No, it dosent. It dosent bother me a bit. I agree it should not be up to a private company to press a class action for something that clearly should be investigated by the relevant government authority What is the british fascination with regulating everything? Seriously? De-regulation breeds innovation and competition. You may find it sleezy, but dammit part of living in a free society is letting people AND COMPANIES be free. They arent doing anything to your computer, you can turn off their ability to pop up ads at all (turn off javascripting) They are being creative. If they didnt do it, somebody else would have.
$50 for a year parking permit??? I paid over $480 at UCSB!!!
I'd like to know how to overcome Pareto's 80-20 law. It states that 20% of ones time will be spent accomplishing 80% of a goal, and the rest to fill in the remaining 20% If I can cut out 80% of my development time by eliminating unneeded features like accessibility (hear me out) Im going to. I say that accessibility is unneeded, but I mean that there is a good quantity of information available that may be narrated, but would not convey the same information as a visual counterpart. Is there a need to make the Guggenheim museum narrate that that "starry night" is a picture of a nighttime sky and skyline in an impressionist style." What is a disabled user going to take away from that? While I whole heartedly agree that online taxpayer funded services should be accessible, I cant see any need for a photo album to include alt tags, or a movie to be narrated, or a flash animation to include audio cues. For the most part however I think that the money spent on these items would be far better spent on curing blindness. I have no doubt in my mind that that will happen before half the web is accessible.
Nobody in their right mind could POSSIBLY think that mozilla or Open Office is superior to it's microsoft counterpart. It's not even an ISSUE. The only reasons to use them are ideological and financial, not Technical.
I wonder why it's so hard to run an Ad supported website these days? This kind of litigation makes me sick.
I like Sci-fi that forces charchters to deal with problems and take them through to conclusion. The Deus ex Machina supertechnology that that pervades most crappy sci-fi is a divorce from what it is to be human. I like dark, I like emotion, I like feeling the anger, the hatred, the lust, the good the bad and I like feeling that It could actually happen. (some day) That's why Ender's Game is my favorite. If you havent read it, you're missing a great read.
"By putting new technologies into consumers' hands in an easy-to-use form, the new handsets seem to be succeeding where the PC has failed" Or perhaps it's the fact that the handsets are free or REALLY cheap, and the pocket PCs are REALLY expensive
This is of course redundant, but your webserver having 99.999% uptime is GREAT. A hospital having 99.999% uptime is a disaster. The ONLY way to responsibly manage a network like this is to build a redundant system. Fix what's broken of course, but have the backup. You do your best to make sure your company's database works all the time, but you still make back-ups, dont you?
I dont know why nobody is willing to say that their content at best was a retread of "politically incorrect" and at worst smart people saying the same thing over and over. I read the site for some time, then I realized that I had already read everything. They have a wonderful collection of writers, but they all say the same thing, OVER AND OVER. Salon would have been better as a book. Bush Bashing and whining about being a wimp is only interesting for so long.
Comparing the mind to a beowulf cluster is a dangerous proposition. The processing paths of decision making and cognition are perhaps more comparable to Intel's Hyperthreading, or more appropriately a Decision tree matrix. The Neural Network model of cognition is still an essentially linear model, in that it has a start, a direction, and a finish. While there is an infinite number of directions, nothing I have read as of yet has determined any ability to paralell process in the mind. (although I dont doubt it)
as a side note, after using cloudmark, I have yet to recieve a single piece of spam.
You said that the stuff they do worked just fine on windows 98, so why not just put that back on there. You dont have to upgrade because there is something new out. Best of all, it's free for you because you already own the required software. Everything works just fine and you can re-image from a backup in like 20 minutes in case of a catastrophic failure.
I think not. There is a HUGE difference between a witch-hunt and finding spies. Spies exist, and they are dangerous. The russians themselves said that Mccarthy was a bit overzealous, but not wrong. Spies need to be watched, that's the FBI's Job. You say that we railroad people, but it only seems that way because this is the only country that is free enough to allow these people to operate in the first place.
First of all, the imagery is not vertical, it's panoramic. Great for intel agencies, not so great for mapping. It's almost impossible to orthographically rectify, and hence use for anything useful. The resolution of the film is very good. It's something like 150 lp/mm, and the stereo is very good, but it's a pain in the butt to do panoramic stereo without special equipment.
second, geo-referencing was accomplished in a brilliant, if arcane way. A second camera was involved that took pictures of the stars 180 away from the image. To find out what the picture is of, you need starcharts and a lot of math to figure out what stars you are looking at, where the satellite was, and what the picture is of. The equipment to do this in a useful environment is VERY expensive.
third, it's panchromatic and not IR sensitive. You can see some ground features, but nothing environmental, and not all that much of historical significance. Consequently, the imagery has not been used for as much as had been hoped.
You sound like you've been around a while and done a lot of things. Do you WANT to keep up with the cutting edge? There are still a LOT of older systems that desperately need qualified people to maintain them. If you want to go cutting edge, that's your choice, but dont assume that newer will benefit your career more. Hiring people want young people to do new things. It's a shame, but thats how it works.
What it says is that anything you do while under university supervision or on the university's dime is their property. If they are funding your research, they get a cut. If an undergrad develops a better mousetrap on their own time, the university has no claim to it.
I mean really, did anybody here expect pay radio to be the next big thing? Most people live in places that have acceptable radio coverage. The thing was a joke from the start.
There wasnt really a noticable improvement from PCI to AGP, or AGP 1x to 2x. What you see is cards getting faster, and assume it's the silicon. The fact is that the faster bus is required to support the faster cards. The bus itself wont do squat for you, but a Geforce 9 aint running on AGP 4x.
I'm not going to tell you that you're stupid, just that you misunderstand the technology. 802.11B wireless ethernet is designed for high reliability at high transfer rates over a short distance. The speed isnt really an issue. (hence why 802.11A and g (54 Mbps) have yet to make any kind of showing) The 19Mbps cell phone networking they are speaking of has teh hurdle of distance to overcome, as you may be several miles from a tower, inside a building, in the rain or whatever. To get the range and penetration, a different frequency is used (900MHz I think). At these lower frequencies, only a limited quantity of data can be sent by conventional means. This technology allows simultaneous usage of multiple channels to achieve a higher bandwidth. (somebody correct me if I'm talking out of my ass) In theory, the technology (MIMO) COULD be used for something like WLAN, but there isnt the same need. It takes a LOT to saturate an 802.11B network.