How long until the market stops demanding more from their computers. I know people are just going to say that I'm being short sighted, but I think that in about 10-20 years, the computer will be fast enough that there won't be any demand from most people for them to be any faster. Sure there will still be industrial uses to have ever increasing speed and storage sizes, but as far as the home computer goes, I think it is coming close to hitting a plateau. Once you can edit HD video without the computer taking a hit, and have enough storage space for that, I can't imagine most people could find much else that would consume more resources. People aren't going to be running physics simulations to find the origins of the galaxy in their basement.
That's just the data they want the aliens to decode. I Think your parent poster was actually talking about the computer programs that the actual voyager spacecraft is running.
Why would you need to run it through a card sorting machine. Just read them into the computer and have the computer sort the data. This might not work for the old computers that actually used punch cards as the memory wouldn't be large enough to contain all the cards (or was it?), but for new machines, it would be trivial to have the computer sort them.
That's what I was thinking. From what I remember, the PowerGlove was a glove with buttons on it, and some crude motion tracking, but nowhere close to the level that can be done with the wiimote.
Just because Nintendo hasn't created a product for the mass market doesn't mean that nobody at Nintendo has thought of it yet. Here's some other ideas for the Wii. A hard drive, or a keyboard for the browser. Those are the first things I thought of when I first got my Wii. From what I understand, you can use a USB keyboard on the Wii menu now, and they are in talks with a USB driver maker to get USB hard drives working. However at release, they didn't have any of this. Did we all think we where geniuses for thinking of this stuff? Granted I think the stuff he's doing pretty cool, but just don't assume that just because Nintendo doesn't have a product, that they haven't already thought of this.
Is there a good solution for filtering out unwanted torrents, like pirated movies, software and games, while still allowing wanted torrents like Linux distros and other open source programs? Something that didn't work on a whitelist/blacklist would be pretty nice. Although I guess such a solution doesn't exist. The problem with bittorrent, is that the illegitimate uses far outweigh the legitimate ones, which is why most places of work will block bittorrent.
Oh, possibly, but I don't have the energy to set one up. I just download my Linux distros via FTP, and throttle those to 3/4 of my max speed with the FTP program, and everything works fine. I just checked my ISPs home page (Rogers Ottawa) and they are now offering 18mbit/1mbit connections for $99.99 a month. If my cable/internet/cellphone bill wasn't already through the roof, I might consider upgrading. Funny how they can put out such a fast service, and not even have their customers know about it.
I use Mandriva, and although I have seen a push to try to get people to use torrents, I still find that there is quite a large number of FTP mirrors available, and thanks to more people using bittorrent, they are a lot faster than they used to me. I use FTP to download my Linux ISOs, because I only have a 1 mbit/125 kbit connection. That low upload speed means that I have a very hard time getting really good torrent speeds. Meanwhile, with FTP, I can usually max out my connection. Even when I do max out my connection with bittorrent, it means that the my internet is unusable while it downloads, because my upload is being saturated, and I can't send ACK packets fast enough. At least that'S what I think is going on. I have noticed that it's a teeny bit harder to find the FTP links, but every distro I've downloaded in the past year has FTP mirrors. And that includes Fedora, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE, and probably a couple others. What distros do you know of that don't have FTP mirrors?
Intel Celeron. I just bought a Celeron laptop a few months ago. It has 512 MB of RAM. Since RAM is so cheap right now, I probably should upgrade, before the price skyrockets again. Anyway, I'm running Mandriva with KDE3 and compiz, and I use it for mostly web browsing + php development, and I don't think I could need it to be any faster. I don't really notice any slowdowns. If windows wasn't such a hog of an OS, we wouldn't need laptops with 4 gigs of RAM, and 512 MB video cards. I have about I'm only using about 350 MB of RAM right now, with the remaining 150 MB going to buffers. My 900 MB of swap is sitting mostly unused (160 kb). That's running Firefox3 Beta2, KDevelop, RapidSVN, and Kopete, plus backgound apps. The desktop has more eyecandy than Vista maxed out, and I haven't tweaked the system at all to try to cut the resource usage. This is just a standard install. I don't see why the average user, who only runs 1 or 2 programs at once, would need 4 GB of memory. Other than games that is.
I was thinking more along the lines of having the data contained within the exectuable, or at least stored in a separate file that is obfuscated to the degree necessary such that you can't just open it up in access to edit it. I seem to remember FileMaker Pro having a similar feature in when I used it back in highschool. It would be a nice alternative to building a multi-tier database system, when you just want to send a database out to someone to fill in with some data. Usually what we do when we need somebody to send us data is ask for a CSV file, with certain columns. But some companies seem to be unable to follow specifications properly, so it would be nice if you could just give them a nice point and click interface to enter their data in, and then they could just send the file back to you.
Does Access let you compile an executable to send out to clients? It seems like it would be the final step to Access being a full application platform. Just make the entire application and self contained in the executable. That way, you could develop everything in access, and the users would just be presented with the interface you give them. Which would make it much easier to limit what they can do with the data, or order to have some level of data integrity. I wouldn't stop a determined hacker, but it would stop the casual user from going into a table and start changing tables and editing records by hand.
I am pretty sure that I saw Access on Hacking Democracy. At least it looked a lot like Access. I don't remember seeing the Access Icon or splash screen though.
The data set is not a program, but the program required to interpret the dataset is. If the data files are in some binary proprietary format, there may not be an easy way to interpret what's in the data files without also having access to the program.
What I want to know is, what makes the hack so specific to HP/Compaq laptops? Couldn't the ActiveXploit be used on just about any computer to render it unbootable?
How do you tell the age of a computer generated character? I mean, if it was a computer model of a 10 year old, it would be easy to tell. However, how could own differentiate between a computer model of a 16 year old, and that of an 18 year old? If the computer model has a tattoo, then they must be 18, because kids can't get tattoos.
Yeah, good thing electronic devices never wear out. I mean, drop a book off your desk, that's it, you're toast. But a laptop, you could throw it across the room, and it would still work just fine.
It's funny that even with the misconfiguration of Acid2, that IE was reported as passing the test? When did they say they tested it. It seems to me like the test was impossible to pass, because the test was wrong. If IE is passing on this version of the test, perhaps they just put a bunch of kludges in the code to pass the test, without actually addressing any of the real problems with standards support in IE.
But like they mention on the IE8 blog, the Acid 2 test doesn't test for adherence to any standards per say. Having a browser that passes the Acid2 test means that you're browser should render most things correctly, provided you haven't added specific hacks just to pass the test. I've found that Safari actually has more rendering bugs than Firefox, even though Safari passes Acid2 and Firefox does not. You could probably pretty quickly write a program that rendered Acid2 correctly. It wouldn't know how to render any other page, but it would pass the Acid2 test. As a web developer, and based on real world experience, I find that Firefox has the fewest rendering problems. Or maybe it just seems that way because the web developer extension makes them so easy to resolve.
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Yes, because no roll of film has ever burst into flames simply by running it through the projector it was meant to be played on.
See, we don't need to archive the old ones, we can just make a new version of the old movies.
How long until the market stops demanding more from their computers. I know people are just going to say that I'm being short sighted, but I think that in about 10-20 years, the computer will be fast enough that there won't be any demand from most people for them to be any faster. Sure there will still be industrial uses to have ever increasing speed and storage sizes, but as far as the home computer goes, I think it is coming close to hitting a plateau. Once you can edit HD video without the computer taking a hit, and have enough storage space for that, I can't imagine most people could find much else that would consume more resources. People aren't going to be running physics simulations to find the origins of the galaxy in their basement.
That's just the data they want the aliens to decode. I Think your parent poster was actually talking about the computer programs that the actual voyager spacecraft is running.
Why would you need to run it through a card sorting machine. Just read them into the computer and have the computer sort the data. This might not work for the old computers that actually used punch cards as the memory wouldn't be large enough to contain all the cards (or was it?), but for new machines, it would be trivial to have the computer sort them.
That's what I was thinking. From what I remember, the PowerGlove was a glove with buttons on it, and some crude motion tracking, but nowhere close to the level that can be done with the wiimote.
Why not just use 2 wiimotes, so they can see in 3D, just like people do.
Just because Nintendo hasn't created a product for the mass market doesn't mean that nobody at Nintendo has thought of it yet. Here's some other ideas for the Wii. A hard drive, or a keyboard for the browser. Those are the first things I thought of when I first got my Wii. From what I understand, you can use a USB keyboard on the Wii menu now, and they are in talks with a USB driver maker to get USB hard drives working. However at release, they didn't have any of this. Did we all think we where geniuses for thinking of this stuff? Granted I think the stuff he's doing pretty cool, but just don't assume that just because Nintendo doesn't have a product, that they haven't already thought of this.
Is there a good solution for filtering out unwanted torrents, like pirated movies, software and games, while still allowing wanted torrents like Linux distros and other open source programs? Something that didn't work on a whitelist/blacklist would be pretty nice. Although I guess such a solution doesn't exist. The problem with bittorrent, is that the illegitimate uses far outweigh the legitimate ones, which is why most places of work will block bittorrent.
Oh, possibly, but I don't have the energy to set one up. I just download my Linux distros via FTP, and throttle those to 3/4 of my max speed with the FTP program, and everything works fine. I just checked my ISPs home page (Rogers Ottawa) and they are now offering 18mbit/1mbit connections for $99.99 a month. If my cable/internet/cellphone bill wasn't already through the roof, I might consider upgrading. Funny how they can put out such a fast service, and not even have their customers know about it.
I use Mandriva, and although I have seen a push to try to get people to use torrents, I still find that there is quite a large number of FTP mirrors available, and thanks to more people using bittorrent, they are a lot faster than they used to me. I use FTP to download my Linux ISOs, because I only have a 1 mbit/125 kbit connection. That low upload speed means that I have a very hard time getting really good torrent speeds. Meanwhile, with FTP, I can usually max out my connection. Even when I do max out my connection with bittorrent, it means that the my internet is unusable while it downloads, because my upload is being saturated, and I can't send ACK packets fast enough. At least that'S what I think is going on. I have noticed that it's a teeny bit harder to find the FTP links, but every distro I've downloaded in the past year has FTP mirrors. And that includes Fedora, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE, and probably a couple others. What distros do you know of that don't have FTP mirrors?
Intel Celeron. I just bought a Celeron laptop a few months ago. It has 512 MB of RAM. Since RAM is so cheap right now, I probably should upgrade, before the price skyrockets again. Anyway, I'm running Mandriva with KDE3 and compiz, and I use it for mostly web browsing + php development, and I don't think I could need it to be any faster. I don't really notice any slowdowns. If windows wasn't such a hog of an OS, we wouldn't need laptops with 4 gigs of RAM, and 512 MB video cards. I have about I'm only using about 350 MB of RAM right now, with the remaining 150 MB going to buffers. My 900 MB of swap is sitting mostly unused (160 kb). That's running Firefox3 Beta2, KDevelop, RapidSVN, and Kopete, plus backgound apps. The desktop has more eyecandy than Vista maxed out, and I haven't tweaked the system at all to try to cut the resource usage. This is just a standard install. I don't see why the average user, who only runs 1 or 2 programs at once, would need 4 GB of memory. Other than games that is.
I was thinking more along the lines of having the data contained within the exectuable, or at least stored in a separate file that is obfuscated to the degree necessary such that you can't just open it up in access to edit it. I seem to remember FileMaker Pro having a similar feature in when I used it back in highschool. It would be a nice alternative to building a multi-tier database system, when you just want to send a database out to someone to fill in with some data. Usually what we do when we need somebody to send us data is ask for a CSV file, with certain columns. But some companies seem to be unable to follow specifications properly, so it would be nice if you could just give them a nice point and click interface to enter their data in, and then they could just send the file back to you.
Does Access let you compile an executable to send out to clients? It seems like it would be the final step to Access being a full application platform. Just make the entire application and self contained in the executable. That way, you could develop everything in access, and the users would just be presented with the interface you give them. Which would make it much easier to limit what they can do with the data, or order to have some level of data integrity. I wouldn't stop a determined hacker, but it would stop the casual user from going into a table and start changing tables and editing records by hand.
I am pretty sure that I saw Access on Hacking Democracy. At least it looked a lot like Access. I don't remember seeing the Access Icon or splash screen though.
The data set is not a program, but the program required to interpret the dataset is. If the data files are in some binary proprietary format, there may not be an easy way to interpret what's in the data files without also having access to the program.
If Microsoft keeps on going the way they are going, we might actually arrive back at text-only email at some time in the near future.
What I want to know is, what makes the hack so specific to HP/Compaq laptops? Couldn't the ActiveXploit be used on just about any computer to render it unbootable?
A real geek would have used Alt+Charcode to type the capital letters.
How do you tell the age of a computer generated character? I mean, if it was a computer model of a 10 year old, it would be easy to tell. However, how could own differentiate between a computer model of a 16 year old, and that of an 18 year old? If the computer model has a tattoo, then they must be 18, because kids can't get tattoos.
Would it be any different if he brought his car in to get repaired, and they found photos in his glove box?
Yeah, good thing electronic devices never wear out. I mean, drop a book off your desk, that's it, you're toast. But a laptop, you could throw it across the room, and it would still work just fine.
It's funny that even with the misconfiguration of Acid2, that IE was reported as passing the test? When did they say they tested it. It seems to me like the test was impossible to pass, because the test was wrong. If IE is passing on this version of the test, perhaps they just put a bunch of kludges in the code to pass the test, without actually addressing any of the real problems with standards support in IE.
I would use Opera, if it wasn't for the plethora of extensions available for Firefox.
But like they mention on the IE8 blog, the Acid 2 test doesn't test for adherence to any standards per say. Having a browser that passes the Acid2 test means that you're browser should render most things correctly, provided you haven't added specific hacks just to pass the test. I've found that Safari actually has more rendering bugs than Firefox, even though Safari passes Acid2 and Firefox does not. You could probably pretty quickly write a program that rendered Acid2 correctly. It wouldn't know how to render any other page, but it would pass the Acid2 test. As a web developer, and based on real world experience, I find that Firefox has the fewest rendering problems. Or maybe it just seems that way because the web developer extension makes them so easy to resolve.