You see this a lot with kids. Kids who have a dog at home will often refer to all small, furry, 4 legged mammals as dogs, including cats. While those more familiar with cats will call them all cats. Eventually they learn to distinguish between them, but can often get confused with small dogs.
My 20 month old still doesn't say mama. She says Poppa, which is what we call me. I liked it better than Dada. For momma, she says something closer to mmpa. My wife is quite annoyed with all this. She can say at least 50 other words, but still can't get mama right. One thing I've noticed is that the newer words she's learning are better pronounced than the older words. For instance, she can say broccoli almost perfectly, but still has trouble saying mama and other words she learned much younger.
As far as vocalization lagging behind conceptual development, that is very true. However, a lot of people teach their kids basic sign language in order to help them communicate before they can actually vocalize what they want. Look up Baby Signs if you want more info on that. I think it's more that kids don't have the proper motor control to make all the necessary sounds, but can easily make gestures which convey the same message.
So if they can't have encryption, then they probably shouldn't be sending this stuff via email. It's compeltely plain text. There's no way of telling who is going to read the message in transit. Until they have usable encryption by the sender and recipient, they should stick to old fashioned sealed envelopes. Also, it probably wouldn't be that hard to have "EMAIL" for you clients. Just give them an HTTPS login to a server where they can read their messages, and send messages to their lawyer. Sure it wouldn't be delivered to their actual email address, and it wouldn't actually be e-mail in the traditional sense. But it would go a long way to help communication stay more private.
My point is that modern phones (i.e mobiles) are "darn near indestructible" too, or at least the mobile phones which aren't swivel/twist/slide/clamshell jobs
Yeah, that accounts for 0.001% of all available models. OK, it's not quite that low, but it seems like an extremely high percentage of phones available have moving parts you mentioned above, which means they last at maximum 3 years, just in time for your contract to expire.
Oh, I for some reason thought that you couldn't just call yourself a doctor. Maybe that's only for medical doctors. There was a recent case where a guy was arrested for saying he was a dentist, and doing dental work, without actually having the proper qualifications. You can run around calling yourself a plumber or a carpenter, without having any real qualifications. I don't think the same holds true for those in the medical fields. Although you may be right about the PhD type of doctors.
Not only go to university, but also pass a few other exams, and work under another engineer for about 5 years. I graduated from University of Ottawa in Software engineering, so I get to wear the nifty iron ring. Getting experience working under another engineer is currently the hard part. Kind of a chicken and egg problem there. Very hard to find work under another software engineer when there are so few currently.
Canada does have software engineers. The difference is that you can't just decide to call yourself a software engineer without having the proper credentials. Just like you can't call yourself a doctor if you aren't a doctor.
Is it really only doubling the capacity. Let's say you have a piece of memory that can hold 2 bits. Now, if you are using binary storage, and each bit stores 1 of 2 values, then you have the possibilities of: 00,01,10,11. Which is 4 different values. Now if you have 4 states for each bit (which I guess wouldn't, by definition, be a bit anymore), then you have 00,01,02,03,10,11,12,13,20,21,22,23,30,31,32,33. So, you have have squared the amount of information you can store. Unless I'm completely misunderstanding what they are doing here.
It is dangerous to the customer for exactly the reasons you state. Let's take an example. Let's say that Oracle has a patent on some database technology and says that MS is infringing on the technology. Now, some company wants to use SQL server. So the Oracle rep goes and tells them, that it's not a good idea, because who knows, they could be forced to pull their product off the market in a year's time. Sure the company itself probably wouldn't be held liable, but they would have all their data stuck in a program which the vendor can no longer legally support. Better off just going with Oracle so you don't have to worry about these patent issues popping up. In the future. Maybe the company will go with SQL server anyway. But it could mean a few more sales if it makes people think twice about going with SQL Server. It's pure FUD, but since when could customer's purchasing decisions not be influenced by FUD.
The danger with patent infringement accusations isn't with the fact that these patents might exist, or that they may stand up in court, but that they can use the accusations to scare away potential customers of competing products. If somebody was considering Linux, and then read that Linux infringed on patents owned by MS, they may think twice about going to Linux. Companies do this all the time, and not just in the computer industry. My dad works in the chemical industry. Some companies get patents on methods they have been using for 20 years, and then goes to all their clients, and says, don't buy their product, they don't own the technology. They never have any intention of actually testing the patents in court. If they did, they know they'd lose. They just want the patent to tell the consumers, that look, they are infringing on our patents. Who know's what could happen to that company in a while if we decide to go to court.
However, most PC users are quite annoyed with their computer experience. Most of the recent Mac commercials I've seen poke fun at all the problems that PCs usually have, like viruses, ugly computer design, and the fact that they come installed with tons of adware. Mac commercials say, here's a list of all the problems we know you have, and we know you hate. And if you want something more out of your computer, then buy a Mac. I'm typing this on a Windows machine myself, which I don't really have a problem using. However, I think that Windows does a terrible job for the general populous.
Couldn't that be because there's usually only 1 kicker on the team who actually plays? Of course there's probably a back-up for when he is injured or whatever, but really there's only 1 kicker on each team. Contrast that with the fact that there are many different players on each team who could run the ball in, or catch it in the endzone.
Which brings up a whole new argument. Do you mean American Football, Association Football, Australian rules Football, Canadian Football, Gaelic football, or Rugby football?
I never understood the whole speed of counting argument either. Up here in Canada, we use hand counted ballots, and the counting was done so fast we had to pass a law stating that results could not be release until all polling stations across the country had closed, because they thought the results from the east coast influenced the results in the west coast. Mind you, Canada's a special case, being one of the few countries that spans 5.5 time zones. However, the results are usually finalized by the end of the night.
This coming from the same guy who complained that only 1 in 5 people who downloaded Saul William's album, which he produced, chose to pay for it. I find that to be a pretty good ratio considering they didn't even offer a way to sample the album without downloading the entire thing.
Meh. Less people driving would probably be an equally good solution. More people carpooling or using public transportation would work a lot better. A good public transit system can get rid of a lot of cars on the road, and clear up a lot of traffic. The problem with most US cities, is that their public transportation services are atrocious.
How can you oversell and still have the customer be able to use what you sell them? It only works right now, because you have thousands of grannies with high speep internet who only use the internet for checking email and getting brownie recipies. Once you have everybody downloading a couple movies every week, things will start to get a lot worse.
Yes, because screens look just as good as new once you slap a fresh coat of pain on them, or alternatively, cover them in masking tape. A pen knife could do quite a bit of damage to most screens also.
That last bit about playing the audio slower is kind of a good idea. The problem with most radio these days, is that you'd have to play it at half speed in order to skip all the commercials. It would probably work nice, and you wouldn't even notice it, if there was only 5-10 minutes per hour of commercials
The difference is, is that you don't have to do any special tricks to get this working anymore. It's 2007. Hard disks and processors are a lot faster than they used to be in the 90's. MPEG encoder and decoder chips can be bought at extremely low prices. This makes it so that no special implementation details are necessary to accomplish recording and playing video at the same time. My TV Tuner can encode video at up to 12 Mb/s without even touching the processor. The hard disk can easily write that fast while still writing another data stream of the same bitrate. Also, 12 Mb/s is hardly necessary. SDTV looks just fine at around 3 Mb/s.
Is that a new feature on VMWare? I've never seen 3D support working on it. Does it support running Linux with Compiz under Windows? Maybe it's time for an upgrade. Also, can it play videos at full frame rate?
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You see this a lot with kids. Kids who have a dog at home will often refer to all small, furry, 4 legged mammals as dogs, including cats. While those more familiar with cats will call them all cats. Eventually they learn to distinguish between them, but can often get confused with small dogs.
My 20 month old still doesn't say mama. She says Poppa, which is what we call me. I liked it better than Dada. For momma, she says something closer to mmpa. My wife is quite annoyed with all this. She can say at least 50 other words, but still can't get mama right. One thing I've noticed is that the newer words she's learning are better pronounced than the older words. For instance, she can say broccoli almost perfectly, but still has trouble saying mama and other words she learned much younger.
As far as vocalization lagging behind conceptual development, that is very true. However, a lot of people teach their kids basic sign language in order to help them communicate before they can actually vocalize what they want. Look up Baby Signs if you want more info on that. I think it's more that kids don't have the proper motor control to make all the necessary sounds, but can easily make gestures which convey the same message.
So if they can't have encryption, then they probably shouldn't be sending this stuff via email. It's compeltely plain text. There's no way of telling who is going to read the message in transit. Until they have usable encryption by the sender and recipient, they should stick to old fashioned sealed envelopes. Also, it probably wouldn't be that hard to have "EMAIL" for you clients. Just give them an HTTPS login to a server where they can read their messages, and send messages to their lawyer. Sure it wouldn't be delivered to their actual email address, and it wouldn't actually be e-mail in the traditional sense. But it would go a long way to help communication stay more private.
Yeah, the analog sticks on the N64 where somewhat weak. Although they lasted 10 times as long as the third party controllers.
Oh, I for some reason thought that you couldn't just call yourself a doctor. Maybe that's only for medical doctors. There was a recent case where a guy was arrested for saying he was a dentist, and doing dental work, without actually having the proper qualifications. You can run around calling yourself a plumber or a carpenter, without having any real qualifications. I don't think the same holds true for those in the medical fields. Although you may be right about the PhD type of doctors.
All the better. I'd rather not have a ring that's susceptible to rust.
Not only go to university, but also pass a few other exams, and work under another engineer for about 5 years. I graduated from University of Ottawa in Software engineering, so I get to wear the nifty iron ring. Getting experience working under another engineer is currently the hard part. Kind of a chicken and egg problem there. Very hard to find work under another software engineer when there are so few currently.
Canada does have software engineers. The difference is that you can't just decide to call yourself a software engineer without having the proper credentials. Just like you can't call yourself a doctor if you aren't a doctor.
Is it really only doubling the capacity. Let's say you have a piece of memory that can hold 2 bits. Now, if you are using binary storage, and each bit stores 1 of 2 values, then you have the possibilities of: 00,01,10,11. Which is 4 different values. Now if you have 4 states for each bit (which I guess wouldn't, by definition, be a bit anymore), then you have 00,01,02,03,10,11,12,13,20,21,22,23,30,31,32,33. So, you have have squared the amount of information you can store. Unless I'm completely misunderstanding what they are doing here.
It is dangerous to the customer for exactly the reasons you state. Let's take an example. Let's say that Oracle has a patent on some database technology and says that MS is infringing on the technology. Now, some company wants to use SQL server. So the Oracle rep goes and tells them, that it's not a good idea, because who knows, they could be forced to pull their product off the market in a year's time. Sure the company itself probably wouldn't be held liable, but they would have all their data stuck in a program which the vendor can no longer legally support. Better off just going with Oracle so you don't have to worry about these patent issues popping up. In the future. Maybe the company will go with SQL server anyway. But it could mean a few more sales if it makes people think twice about going with SQL Server. It's pure FUD, but since when could customer's purchasing decisions not be influenced by FUD.
The danger with patent infringement accusations isn't with the fact that these patents might exist, or that they may stand up in court, but that they can use the accusations to scare away potential customers of competing products. If somebody was considering Linux, and then read that Linux infringed on patents owned by MS, they may think twice about going to Linux. Companies do this all the time, and not just in the computer industry. My dad works in the chemical industry. Some companies get patents on methods they have been using for 20 years, and then goes to all their clients, and says, don't buy their product, they don't own the technology. They never have any intention of actually testing the patents in court. If they did, they know they'd lose. They just want the patent to tell the consumers, that look, they are infringing on our patents. Who know's what could happen to that company in a while if we decide to go to court.
However, most PC users are quite annoyed with their computer experience. Most of the recent Mac commercials I've seen poke fun at all the problems that PCs usually have, like viruses, ugly computer design, and the fact that they come installed with tons of adware. Mac commercials say, here's a list of all the problems we know you have, and we know you hate. And if you want something more out of your computer, then buy a Mac. I'm typing this on a Windows machine myself, which I don't really have a problem using. However, I think that Windows does a terrible job for the general populous.
Couldn't that be because there's usually only 1 kicker on the team who actually plays? Of course there's probably a back-up for when he is injured or whatever, but really there's only 1 kicker on each team. Contrast that with the fact that there are many different players on each team who could run the ball in, or catch it in the endzone.
Which brings up a whole new argument. Do you mean American Football, Association Football, Australian rules Football, Canadian Football, Gaelic football, or Rugby football?
I never understood the whole speed of counting argument either. Up here in Canada, we use hand counted ballots, and the counting was done so fast we had to pass a law stating that results could not be release until all polling stations across the country had closed, because they thought the results from the east coast influenced the results in the west coast. Mind you, Canada's a special case, being one of the few countries that spans 5.5 time zones. However, the results are usually finalized by the end of the night.
This coming from the same guy who complained that only 1 in 5 people who downloaded Saul William's album, which he produced, chose to pay for it. I find that to be a pretty good ratio considering they didn't even offer a way to sample the album without downloading the entire thing.
Meh. Less people driving would probably be an equally good solution. More people carpooling or using public transportation would work a lot better. A good public transit system can get rid of a lot of cars on the road, and clear up a lot of traffic. The problem with most US cities, is that their public transportation services are atrocious.
How can you oversell and still have the customer be able to use what you sell them? It only works right now, because you have thousands of grannies with high speep internet who only use the internet for checking email and getting brownie recipies. Once you have everybody downloading a couple movies every week, things will start to get a lot worse.
Yes, because screens look just as good as new once you slap a fresh coat of pain on them, or alternatively, cover them in masking tape. A pen knife could do quite a bit of damage to most screens also.
That last bit about playing the audio slower is kind of a good idea. The problem with most radio these days, is that you'd have to play it at half speed in order to skip all the commercials. It would probably work nice, and you wouldn't even notice it, if there was only 5-10 minutes per hour of commercials
The difference is, is that you don't have to do any special tricks to get this working anymore. It's 2007. Hard disks and processors are a lot faster than they used to be in the 90's. MPEG encoder and decoder chips can be bought at extremely low prices. This makes it so that no special implementation details are necessary to accomplish recording and playing video at the same time. My TV Tuner can encode video at up to 12 Mb/s without even touching the processor. The hard disk can easily write that fast while still writing another data stream of the same bitrate. Also, 12 Mb/s is hardly necessary. SDTV looks just fine at around 3 Mb/s.
Was Tivo the first one to think of this though? It seems to me like a pretty old idea.
Is that a new feature on VMWare? I've never seen 3D support working on it. Does it support running Linux with Compiz under Windows? Maybe it's time for an upgrade. Also, can it play videos at full frame rate?