This is my exact problem with Tablets and smartphones. Sure things will get cheaper eventually, and you'll be able to use these mobile devices as your primary computer, but it just isn't there yet. You can get a much more capable laptop that can dual boot a full windows / Linux, desktop, most of them with the power to run Windows and run Linux in a VM for less than the price of most tablets, or even a lot of smart phones on the market. Basically you end up paying quite a bit for something that only does half the job.
Seems to me that they push a variety of open source and commercial apps, with no real distinction between the two. Clicking on their "software directory" and going to "Graphic applications" brings up a list of mostly commercial closed source software. You can only see a list of open source software by clicking on a small drop down box, and selecting open sources software. At that point, I just get a big list, while not being able to see or sort by any kind of rating, and I don't get the ability to filter by platform. Did you even look at the link before posting it? Or did you just do a Google search and post the first thing that came up.
But there's a lot of other file systems that shred doesn't work on, some listed are JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, and possibly EXT3 depend on how they are configured. They also state that if you are using RAID it's not garaunteed to work. Point is, is that regardless of what kind of drive you are using SSD vs. Spinning platters, you shouldn't really trust shred to really shred your data.
My understanding is that shred doesn't work on modern file systems because they don't overwrite a file in place. See the Shred MAN page for information on this. It worked on old file systems like ext2, but on more advanced journaling file systems, this is almost never the case.
Seems unimpressinve when compared to the PCI-E cards that are out there. For instance check out this PCI-E SSD. Sure they're expensive, but they're much faster then you will ever get over SATA. To me, it makes almost no sense to be continuing down the SATA route and touting faster speeds when we already have a much faster way of transferring data.
Maybe I'm not the only one, but while sourceforge/freshmeant/whatever is a good place to find good open source apps, you also have to wade through a pile of garbage to get to them. Maybe open.org could be a place where only the elite apps get shown off, to get across to people that open source software really is amazing, if you ignore all the terrible or half done projects. Sure it's not very "open" but would go a long way to getting the average Joe to using open source software.
Exactly. At then end of the day, the domain name means very little. If you have great plans to build an awesome website, they shouldn't depend on the availability of some domain name.
They can be solved, it just takes a long time. So current algorithms are just too inefficient. There are efficient heuristic algorithms, but they will only give you a good answer, not necessarily the best one, but for many problems, good is often good enough.
I have a question on this. Assuming an algorithm was found for the 3-SAT problem, in polynomial time, and therefore proves that P=NP, how does that actually get us any closer to an actual algorithm for factoring large numbers in polynomial time, which is would be a completely different algorithm. I realize that we might know that such an algorithm is possible, but how does knowing something is possible make the problem any easier to solve? For now, we aren't sure that it's impossible, so we might as well assume it's possible, and therefor try to solve the problem. But the people working on these problem pretty much assume it's possible. So to repeat the question. How is knowing P=NP any different from assuming P=NP when you're trying to find an algorithm for solving these really hard problems? Can all NP problems can be solved with the same algorithm, or a variation thereof?
Yeah, Bones has to have the most blatant advertising. Sometimes it's almost funny. I like how she incessantly talks about the amazing GPS, and adaptive cruise control, At which point they zoom out to a front view of the car so you can see the car maker's logo (Toyota, I think) right on the middle of your screen.
This brings up a good point. If you don't have any work experience upon graduation, you are doing it wrong. My university had a great Co-op program. I had 4 semesters worth of real work experience upon graduation. Not only that, In the final 2 semesters (spread over 12 months with a work semester in between) we did a 6 person project for a real company, which required full planning, documentation, testing, implementation, and all the other steps that go along with doing a real software project. By the time I had graduated, I felt that I was quite ready to work in the real world. It still took me a while to find a good job. Personally, I think all university degress should require as part of graduating some real world work experience. Otherwise, they aren't worth that much.
With the "previous versions" feature, does Windows 7 even require a recycle bin? Seems like it would be almost completely useless. I haven't used the recycle bin in years. I'm quite confident when I delete a file, that I really wan to delete it. I almost always use SHIFT+delete when deleting files.
Meh, I'd rather go back to word perfect 5.1, where all every feature was available with a single modifier + F key press. Sure it took a little longer to learn, but once you learned all the key shortcuts, you could get a lot done quite quickly. Most of the students in my highschool had all the important keys memorized. You never needed to take your hands off the keyboard. It was great. I wish we could go back to something like this. Also we didn't waste time messing with fonts and formatting, since it supported very little.
Plus, $200 is only a very tiny amount of money to pay out for software development. The Playbook you need to buy to test the thing out on would cost much more. I'm assuming they have an emulator, but that's not sufficient for full testing. You need the real deal if you want to test your app under real world conditions. $200 is less than a day's salary for most developers. Sure it's more than the other guys charge, but it's still quite acceptable. They probably do want to prevent fart apps. I wish the other smart phone platforms would do this as well.
If you want to get really specific, even reading a single copy of a book on your computer hard drive requires it to be copied. It has to get copied from the hard drive into RAM. If you want to get even more pedantic, it then gets copied into the registers of your CPU, and then the CPU eventually creates a copy you can see on your computer screen. Oh, and if you downloaded the eBook in the first place, it probably got copied 6 or 7 times as it travelled over the internet.
Same could be said about HIV. You only get the virus through your own actions. Such is the meaning of the A in AIDS. Acquired means that you have to do something active to get it. It doesn't just get passed around in the air. Does the fact that something doesn't replication without human intervention make it not a virus? The wallpaper file itself is not a virus, but the whole infrastructure set up around the file enticing people to download and install the file, could indeed be characterized as a virus. Is an EXE not a virus if you have to click on the EXE in the first place to infect your computer? Unless we are talking about worms, which actually infiltrate the system without any user action at all, most viruses require user interaction of some sort.
I live in Canada, so maybe things work different for Amazon here, but basically it's always been 2 day shipping here. Even if you get the free super saver shipping on orders over $39 it still only takes 2 days for the item to be delivered. It's not guaranteed 2 days, but it's effectively 2 days. Many times it's even 1 day. As long as they have the item in stock, and you live in a major city, you are going to get the item within maximum 3 days, Usually 2 days, and often 1 day. You could pay extra if you really want guaranteed 2 day shipping, but most of the time you are just paying for something you would get anyway.
It really depends what your data is worth to you. If you don't think that kind of protection is worth $150 per computer to you, then don't buy it. But for many industries, its almost completely negligible, especially in the medical field.
My thoughts exactly. Unless it's too cold, and then, it's only necessary that they put snowpants on. They are kids. Let them have fun. Took my three kids to the grocery store today. Only the baby had a proper outfit on. The other two were in pyjamas. Let them have fun. There's no reason they should have to wear "proper" clothes if they don't want to, as long as they are appropriately covered.
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This is my exact problem with Tablets and smartphones. Sure things will get cheaper eventually, and you'll be able to use these mobile devices as your primary computer, but it just isn't there yet. You can get a much more capable laptop that can dual boot a full windows / Linux, desktop, most of them with the power to run Windows and run Linux in a VM for less than the price of most tablets, or even a lot of smart phones on the market. Basically you end up paying quite a bit for something that only does half the job.
Seems to me that they push a variety of open source and commercial apps, with no real distinction between the two. Clicking on their "software directory" and going to "Graphic applications" brings up a list of mostly commercial closed source software. You can only see a list of open source software by clicking on a small drop down box, and selecting open sources software. At that point, I just get a big list, while not being able to see or sort by any kind of rating, and I don't get the ability to filter by platform. Did you even look at the link before posting it? Or did you just do a Google search and post the first thing that came up.
But there's a lot of other file systems that shred doesn't work on, some listed are JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, and possibly EXT3 depend on how they are configured. They also state that if you are using RAID it's not garaunteed to work. Point is, is that regardless of what kind of drive you are using SSD vs. Spinning platters, you shouldn't really trust shred to really shred your data.
There is cheaper stuff out there, with less performance, although it still blows SATA out of the water.
My understanding is that shred doesn't work on modern file systems because they don't overwrite a file in place. See the Shred MAN page for information on this. It worked on old file systems like ext2, but on more advanced journaling file systems, this is almost never the case.
Seems unimpressinve when compared to the PCI-E cards that are out there. For instance check out this PCI-E SSD. Sure they're expensive, but they're much faster then you will ever get over SATA. To me, it makes almost no sense to be continuing down the SATA route and touting faster speeds when we already have a much faster way of transferring data.
IBM still has research labs. Hence the recent computer that showed up on Jeopardy. But you are right. There aren't a lot of places doing CS research.
Maybe I'm not the only one, but while sourceforge/freshmeant/whatever is a good place to find good open source apps, you also have to wade through a pile of garbage to get to them. Maybe open.org could be a place where only the elite apps get shown off, to get across to people that open source software really is amazing, if you ignore all the terrible or half done projects. Sure it's not very "open" but would go a long way to getting the average Joe to using open source software.
Exactly. At then end of the day, the domain name means very little. If you have great plans to build an awesome website, they shouldn't depend on the availability of some domain name.
They can be solved, it just takes a long time. So current algorithms are just too inefficient. There are efficient heuristic algorithms, but they will only give you a good answer, not necessarily the best one, but for many problems, good is often good enough.
I have a question on this. Assuming an algorithm was found for the 3-SAT problem, in polynomial time, and therefore proves that P=NP, how does that actually get us any closer to an actual algorithm for factoring large numbers in polynomial time, which is would be a completely different algorithm. I realize that we might know that such an algorithm is possible, but how does knowing something is possible make the problem any easier to solve? For now, we aren't sure that it's impossible, so we might as well assume it's possible, and therefor try to solve the problem. But the people working on these problem pretty much assume it's possible. So to repeat the question. How is knowing P=NP any different from assuming P=NP when you're trying to find an algorithm for solving these really hard problems? Can all NP problems can be solved with the same algorithm, or a variation thereof?
Yeah, Bones has to have the most blatant advertising. Sometimes it's almost funny. I like how she incessantly talks about the amazing GPS, and adaptive cruise control, At which point they zoom out to a front view of the car so you can see the car maker's logo (Toyota, I think) right on the middle of your screen.
This brings up a good point. If you don't have any work experience upon graduation, you are doing it wrong. My university had a great Co-op program. I had 4 semesters worth of real work experience upon graduation. Not only that, In the final 2 semesters (spread over 12 months with a work semester in between) we did a 6 person project for a real company, which required full planning, documentation, testing, implementation, and all the other steps that go along with doing a real software project. By the time I had graduated, I felt that I was quite ready to work in the real world. It still took me a while to find a good job. Personally, I think all university degress should require as part of graduating some real world work experience. Otherwise, they aren't worth that much.
With the "previous versions" feature, does Windows 7 even require a recycle bin? Seems like it would be almost completely useless. I haven't used the recycle bin in years. I'm quite confident when I delete a file, that I really wan to delete it. I almost always use SHIFT+delete when deleting files.
Meh, I'd rather go back to word perfect 5.1, where all every feature was available with a single modifier + F key press. Sure it took a little longer to learn, but once you learned all the key shortcuts, you could get a lot done quite quickly. Most of the students in my highschool had all the important keys memorized. You never needed to take your hands off the keyboard. It was great. I wish we could go back to something like this. Also we didn't waste time messing with fonts and formatting, since it supported very little.
Plus, $200 is only a very tiny amount of money to pay out for software development. The Playbook you need to buy to test the thing out on would cost much more. I'm assuming they have an emulator, but that's not sufficient for full testing. You need the real deal if you want to test your app under real world conditions. $200 is less than a day's salary for most developers. Sure it's more than the other guys charge, but it's still quite acceptable. They probably do want to prevent fart apps. I wish the other smart phone platforms would do this as well.
If you want to get really specific, even reading a single copy of a book on your computer hard drive requires it to be copied. It has to get copied from the hard drive into RAM. If you want to get even more pedantic, it then gets copied into the registers of your CPU, and then the CPU eventually creates a copy you can see on your computer screen. Oh, and if you downloaded the eBook in the first place, it probably got copied 6 or 7 times as it travelled over the internet.
I live in Canada, and I don't run the heat 9 months a year.
Same could be said about HIV. You only get the virus through your own actions. Such is the meaning of the A in AIDS. Acquired means that you have to do something active to get it. It doesn't just get passed around in the air. Does the fact that something doesn't replication without human intervention make it not a virus? The wallpaper file itself is not a virus, but the whole infrastructure set up around the file enticing people to download and install the file, could indeed be characterized as a virus. Is an EXE not a virus if you have to click on the EXE in the first place to infect your computer? Unless we are talking about worms, which actually infiltrate the system without any user action at all, most viruses require user interaction of some sort.
I live in Canada, so maybe things work different for Amazon here, but basically it's always been 2 day shipping here. Even if you get the free super saver shipping on orders over $39 it still only takes 2 days for the item to be delivered. It's not guaranteed 2 days, but it's effectively 2 days. Many times it's even 1 day. As long as they have the item in stock, and you live in a major city, you are going to get the item within maximum 3 days, Usually 2 days, and often 1 day. You could pay extra if you really want guaranteed 2 day shipping, but most of the time you are just paying for something you would get anyway.
It really depends what your data is worth to you. If you don't think that kind of protection is worth $150 per computer to you, then don't buy it. But for many industries, its almost completely negligible, especially in the medical field.
Everybody knows the proper time for living out a zombie infestation is 28 weeks.
My thoughts exactly. Unless it's too cold, and then, it's only necessary that they put snowpants on. They are kids. Let them have fun. Took my three kids to the grocery store today. Only the baby had a proper outfit on. The other two were in pyjamas. Let them have fun. There's no reason they should have to wear "proper" clothes if they don't want to, as long as they are appropriately covered.
Like the one on this page.
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