That depends on what you mean by hi-res. The Via boards all have mpeg acceleration in hardware so they handle most divx well. X is pretty snappy through the accelerated driver as well. I've yet to find one that it can't play full screen without frame-drops. Normally it doesn't use much cpu to do it either. Most of the divxs that I've tried it with are HDTV rips (720p), or DVD rips. They all pay fine without a problem, I haven't seen any 1080 content yet so I couldn't say.
Yeah but you have to remember that the US is not exactly at the forefront of mobile technology. The biggest 3g carrier over here is called 3, but they don't offer data-transfer. The other three carriers all offer 384Kb/s which is fairly respectable. The biggest holdup is that all the data-transfer options use pc-card hardware, but if someone is designing a phone to download tunes then 3g support would have to be a must...
I can see your point (especially in the other reply to someone else below) but I still disagree that CS doesn't provide a competitive advantage. The point of learning CS theory is that it can be applied to the other domains that you list. Sure, they all require knowledge of other fields - but for a team to successful in one of those fields, somebody had better be specialised in CS.
'Reusable skills' is quite an overrated phrase IMO, but this is what a CS degree will give you. Not the knowledge of a specific language or problem, but the ability to quickly learn any language or how to write software for any domain. The theory that gets taught is necessary to write good quality software. And in any software job, regardless of the problem set, the skills to write good software are what will make someone successful.
A CS major (slight digression, but we don't have such a major/minor distinction over here, what you say below about a minor in CS in a good point and would work well for most of the jobs you mention) should expect to walk into a new job without any domain knowledge. But they should have the right skillset that they can take apart what is important in the domain and apply the skills that they have been taught to analysing and implementing it.
There is a huge gulf between somebody who is really skilled in software, and those who merely know how to do it. Doing it will get you by, a lot of the time, but there are problems in every domain that will require somebody genuinely skilled in software to solve. Most teams in industry will have one 'guru' type figure who has more experience than everyone else and solves a lot of the meta-problems about how to tackle issues by talking to people. Without people that have these skillsets, most software design is doomed to failure.
Of course, most software projects fail anyway, but it is a marketable skill to be able to walk into a company and regardless of their area tell them that you can improve their software.
This isn't really true at all. Most CS degrees have a mandatory project in the final or penultimate year. Similar to engineering degrees, this project forces the student to specialise in a particular area, and gain experience of a large-scale project by working in a team.
Sure, the definition of large-scale is relative, but if you force 5-6 people to work on something for 3-4 months then they normally construct something much larger than they will have come across before. It also gives them some specific experience for their first job. Most groups tend to write games (as they're more interesting) and the quality that they come up with is suprisingly good.
The areas that come up in CS that the article poster was complaining about; vision, graphics etc are the domain specific areas in CS. In particular they teach students to apply the same core set of maths and programming skills to different areas. I don't think that this approach is that different to engineering. But then, at my uni, the CS department is in the engineering faculty, rather than the maths faculty...
In the article they make a big deal about the use of a hand to manipulate things - but it just sounds like they've redesigned the mouse cursor. If you replace 'hand' with 'arrow' in the article then it sounds like a normal application.
The menu-less aspect is interesting. Context works well in a lot of places (eg file browsers) rather than a global menu. Although having pop-up/drop-down menus rather than obscure gestures would make it more intuitive for me.
Shame they took out the sun moving idea, that did sound pretty cool...
No you don't actually. This is a common misconception. If you use your tv for watching DVDs *exclusively* then you don't need to pay a licence. There is somebody in our office in the same situation who made the TV Licencing people agree. However, if you do watch tv, even just occasionally - then you *should* have to pay a license fee.
How can it be gouging when most of the cost is in tax? The price of petrol is heavily regulated in Europe by the government to reduce demand. It's almost as if we're trying to not destroy the earth...
Actually you're not entirely wrong here, I wouldn't trust the wikipedia article completely. It can appear that information is transmitted faster than light in an entangled system, but only if you ignore the setup time. In the wikipedia article they say that useful information can't be transmitted because it is probabilistic, but what you can do is transport some known information (classical bits) between the two points ahead of time. Then when you perform the measurement on the entangled state you can use the extra information to communicate. My memories of the lecture are a bit foggy but I think that it's called 'Quantum Teleportation'. The communication happens instantly -- faster than light -- but the setup + communication remains inside the light cone.
But do you really believe the meat of the article when it contains such gems as 'J. Craig Venter, the entrepreneurial scientist who mapped the human genome'. Dodgy journalism at best, outrageous rewriting of history at worst... Good 'ol MSNBC.
Except they haven't even claimed that they have. Putting issues with the validity of the apple patent to one side (I think the poster below who compares it to a wiresless radio hits the nail on the head). These two patents aren't even vaguely related. There are no overlapping claims between them.
One is patenting a method of generating playlists based on user preferences (eg thumbs up, thumbs down for each track. The generation tries to find similar tracks based on classifications, eg genre.
The other patent is for scrolling up and down by twisting a dial. Seriously, what kind of crack is the patent office smoking?
I assume that you're familiar with the concept of training wheels on a bike? You'll notice that once the child learns to ride the training wheels can be removed and they don't revert to being a non-cyclist. The idea here is similar. Once you teach someone to stop being a douchbag and to stand up for themselves, they shouldn't revert to being a douchbag.
Very true, I'd forgotton these were civil cases. But even so, does a printout from the BPI which claims to show that somebody offered a file count as evidence? After all, I can produce a printout that will claim that anybody is a filesharer. Have these claims been legally tested before?
One question that I haven't seen answered in any of the articles about suits against file sharers is where is the proof?
If the ISP's are merely handing over names and addresses to match IP's then where is the proof that these people downloaded copyrighted material? Is it a session from a computer at the record companies premises? I don't see how this constitues a legal proof, surely it is just an unsubstantiated claim. As TCP/IP is an un-authenticated protocol, how can they show that a computer on the network claiming to be address X and offering copyrighted materials, really is address X? Surely the fact that addresses can be spoofed throws any such claim into doubt, so how can a jury find 'beyond a reasonable doubt'?
Unless there is a packet trace from the ISP's premise I don't see how they can prove a thing.
One way to do this would be to only provide the torrent link, but have the download server seeding it 24/7. In low demand times the few downloaders share the bandwidth of the server, and then in peaks they share each others bandwidth. Nice and easy for the company to set up but it would need widespread support for.torrents in web browsers. Maybe if firefox/ie follow opera's lead?
When the guy throws the bananna into the road he interacts with a road that he cannot see. Pick your metaphor; wireless boning the information 'super-highway' or, just possibly, wireless interacting at a distance.
The parent poster was making the point that the advert is selling the experience, not the product.
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The simplist way seems to be just use the tools. So use the custom icon button in a nautalis properties dialog, and choose an icon.
Obviously this isn't always desirable, I wanted custom jpg icons for each of my album folders and it would have been a bitch to do using a gui. So to get at the config files, do one by hand, and then look in ~/.nautilus/metafiles/
The format is quite straightforward xml and its easy to tweak by script.
One complaint that get levelled at open-source software is that there is no innovation. That it's all just clones of commerical software. But seriously, the big innovations in Vista are 'less reboots', 'translucent windows' (= transparent windows perhaps?) and 'icons that are tiny representations of a document itself'. Sounds familiar...
Your depiction of real-mode as being a bios problem for 5 seconds during bootup isn't strictly true. Interupt servicing requires a kludge into real-mode. This drags down the performance of any application running on an x86 platform.
Not knocking your main point, just nit-picking really. Even given the above the whole thing is rather irrelevant on a modern machine. Most people are working so many layers of abstraction away from the ISA that it just doesn't matter.
Emedded systems are more challenging, but nobody uses x86 seriously for embedded apps. Handcoded assembly tends to be on really lowend DSP's. As soon as you move up to a more RISC-like processor you may as well let the compiler take the strain.
In what way is jihadwatch a reliable source for you to quote? Do you really think that it makes your tenuous claim any stronger?
For a start who are 'The Islamists'? This sounds like a whole people that you are stereotyping under one label. Then we have the claim that 'they' will not stop fighting jihad until the whole world lives under Muslim rule. Is this supposed to mean that all Muslims will fight until the world is Muslim? That doesn't sound like any Muslims that I know. Even the material that you cite has comments on the blog doubting its authenticity as it's been quoted from a source who knows a source...
Finally you finish off with some scaremongering about relative birthrates and how this means that we'll end up under Muslim domination. 'brood mares'? You sound like a fully paid up member of the BNP (that's the kkk if you're a yank).
The editors are not employed by the publisher, they tend to be the people who organise the conference. I agree with you that the whole point of publications is that they filter out the crap through editors and peers. My point was that the publisher takes the money (and copyright) without performing this task.
Although the room names don't imply that something illicit is going on
From TFA:
9-17-Year-Olds Wantin' Sex
Younger Girls 4 Older Guys
Girls 13 And Under For Older Guys
Girls 13 And Up For Much Older Man
Girls 8 to 13 Watch Boys (In A Particular Sex Act)
In what way do the room names not imply something illicit is going on? Or do you think that pedos grooming children for sex is acceptable? Are the freedom of speech zealots crying wolf when old men are stopped from trying to have sex with young child?
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That depends on what you mean by hi-res. The Via boards all have mpeg acceleration in hardware so they handle most divx well. X is pretty snappy through the accelerated driver as well. I've yet to find one that it can't play full screen without frame-drops. Normally it doesn't use much cpu to do it either. Most of the divxs that I've tried it with are HDTV rips (720p), or DVD rips. They all pay fine without a problem, I haven't seen any 1080 content yet so I couldn't say.
So who is it useful for, or rather, who is on the 'shortlist that is being drawn up' of candidates?
I'm guessing..
- The Rich
- The Criminally Insane
- The Rich & Criminally Insane
- The Rich & Criminally Insane with long criminal records and a need to disappear
Great for their needs thoughs. You transplant a face from person A to person B and the success (cough, survival) rate is 50%...
Yeah but you have to remember that the US is not exactly at the forefront of mobile technology. The biggest 3g carrier over here is called 3, but they don't offer data-transfer. The other three carriers all offer 384Kb/s which is fairly respectable. The biggest holdup is that all the data-transfer options use pc-card hardware, but if someone is designing a phone to download tunes then 3g support would have to be a must...
I can see your point (especially in the other reply to someone else below) but I still disagree that CS doesn't provide a competitive advantage. The point of learning CS theory is that it can be applied to the other domains that you list. Sure, they all require knowledge of other fields - but for a team to successful in one of those fields, somebody had better be specialised in CS.
'Reusable skills' is quite an overrated phrase IMO, but this is what a CS degree will give you. Not the knowledge of a specific language or problem, but the ability to quickly learn any language or how to write software for any domain. The theory that gets taught is necessary to write good quality software. And in any software job, regardless of the problem set, the skills to write good software are what will make someone successful.
A CS major (slight digression, but we don't have such a major/minor distinction over here, what you say below about a minor in CS in a good point and would work well for most of the jobs you mention) should expect to walk into a new job without any domain knowledge. But they should have the right skillset that they can take apart what is important in the domain and apply the skills that they have been taught to analysing and implementing it.
There is a huge gulf between somebody who is really skilled in software, and those who merely know how to do it. Doing it will get you by, a lot of the time, but there are problems in every domain that will require somebody genuinely skilled in software to solve. Most teams in industry will have one 'guru' type figure who has more experience than everyone else and solves a lot of the meta-problems about how to tackle issues by talking to people. Without people that have these skillsets, most software design is doomed to failure.
Of course, most software projects fail anyway, but it is a marketable skill to be able to walk into a company and regardless of their area tell them that you can improve their software.
This isn't really true at all. Most CS degrees have a mandatory project in the final or penultimate year. Similar to engineering degrees, this project forces the student to specialise in a particular area, and gain experience of a large-scale project by working in a team.
Sure, the definition of large-scale is relative, but if you force 5-6 people to work on something for 3-4 months then they normally construct something much larger than they will have come across before. It also gives them some specific experience for their first job. Most groups tend to write games (as they're more interesting) and the quality that they come up with is suprisingly good.
The areas that come up in CS that the article poster was complaining about; vision, graphics etc are the domain specific areas in CS. In particular they teach students to apply the same core set of maths and programming skills to different areas. I don't think that this approach is that different to engineering. But then, at my uni, the CS department is in the engineering faculty, rather than the maths faculty...
In the article they make a big deal about the use of a hand to manipulate things - but it just sounds like they've redesigned the mouse cursor. If you replace 'hand' with 'arrow' in the article then it sounds like a normal application.
The menu-less aspect is interesting. Context works well in a lot of places (eg file browsers) rather than a global menu. Although having pop-up/drop-down menus rather than obscure gestures would make it more intuitive for me.
Shame they took out the sun moving idea, that did sound pretty cool...
No you don't actually. This is a common misconception. If you use your tv for watching DVDs *exclusively* then you don't need to pay a licence. There is somebody in our office in the same situation who made the TV Licencing people agree. However, if you do watch tv, even just occasionally - then you *should* have to pay a license fee.
How can it be gouging when most of the cost is in tax? The price of petrol is heavily regulated in Europe by the government to reduce demand. It's almost as if we're trying to not destroy the earth...
Actually you're not entirely wrong here, I wouldn't trust the wikipedia article completely. It can appear that information is transmitted faster than light in an entangled system, but only if you ignore the setup time. In the wikipedia article they say that useful information can't be transmitted because it is probabilistic, but what you can do is transport some known information (classical bits) between the two points ahead of time. Then when you perform the measurement on the entangled state you can use the extra information to communicate. My memories of the lecture are a bit foggy but I think that it's called 'Quantum Teleportation'. The communication happens instantly -- faster than light -- but the setup + communication remains inside the light cone.
Anything that can speed that up would be much appreciated.
What about really deep holes?
But do you really believe the meat of the article when it contains such gems as 'J. Craig Venter, the entrepreneurial scientist who mapped the human genome'. Dodgy journalism at best, outrageous rewriting of history at worst... Good 'ol MSNBC.
Except they haven't even claimed that they have. Putting issues with the validity of the apple patent to one side (I think the poster below who compares it to a wiresless radio hits the nail on the head). These two patents aren't even vaguely related. There are no overlapping claims between them.
One is patenting a method of generating playlists based on user preferences (eg thumbs up, thumbs down for each track. The generation tries to find similar tracks based on classifications, eg genre.
The other patent is for scrolling up and down by twisting a dial. Seriously, what kind of crack is the patent office smoking?
I assume that you're familiar with the concept of training wheels on a bike? You'll notice that once the child learns to ride the training wheels can be removed and they don't revert to being a non-cyclist. The idea here is similar. Once you teach someone to stop being a douchbag and to stand up for themselves, they shouldn't revert to being a douchbag.
Very true, I'd forgotton these were civil cases. But even so, does a printout from the BPI which claims to show that somebody offered a file count as evidence? After all, I can produce a printout that will claim that anybody is a filesharer. Have these claims been legally tested before?
One question that I haven't seen answered in any of the articles about suits against file sharers is where is the proof?
If the ISP's are merely handing over names and addresses to match IP's then where is the proof that these people downloaded copyrighted material? Is it a session from a computer at the record companies premises? I don't see how this constitues a legal proof, surely it is just an unsubstantiated claim. As TCP/IP is an un-authenticated protocol, how can they show that a computer on the network claiming to be address X and offering copyrighted materials, really is address X? Surely the fact that addresses can be spoofed throws any such claim into doubt, so how can a jury find 'beyond a reasonable doubt'?
Unless there is a packet trace from the ISP's premise I don't see how they can prove a thing.
One way to do this would be to only provide the torrent link, but have the download server seeding it 24/7. In low demand times the few downloaders share the bandwidth of the server, and then in peaks they share each others bandwidth. Nice and easy for the company to set up but it would need widespread support for .torrents in web browsers. Maybe if firefox/ie follow opera's lead?
When the guy throws the bananna into the road he interacts with a road that he cannot see. Pick your metaphor; wireless boning the information 'super-highway' or, just possibly, wireless interacting at a distance. The parent poster was making the point that the advert is selling the experience, not the product.
The simplist way seems to be just use the tools. So use the custom icon button in a nautalis properties dialog, and choose an icon.
Obviously this isn't always desirable, I wanted custom jpg icons for each of my album folders and it would have been a bitch to do using a gui. So to get at the config files, do one by hand, and then look in ~/.nautilus/metafiles/
The format is quite straightforward xml and its easy to tweak by script.
One complaint that get levelled at open-source software is that there is no innovation. That it's all just clones of commerical software. But seriously, the big innovations in Vista are 'less reboots', 'translucent windows' (= transparent windows perhaps?) and 'icons that are tiny representations of a document itself'. Sounds familiar...
Wow! Gnome has made it onto the windows desktop?
Your depiction of real-mode as being a bios problem for 5 seconds during bootup isn't strictly true. Interupt servicing requires a kludge into real-mode. This drags down the performance of any application running on an x86 platform.
Not knocking your main point, just nit-picking really. Even given the above the whole thing is rather irrelevant on a modern machine. Most people are working so many layers of abstraction away from the ISA that it just doesn't matter.
Emedded systems are more challenging, but nobody uses x86 seriously for embedded apps. Handcoded assembly tends to be on really lowend DSP's. As soon as you move up to a more RISC-like processor you may as well let the compiler take the strain.
In what way is jihadwatch a reliable source for you to quote? Do you really think that it makes your tenuous claim any stronger?
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For a start who are 'The Islamists'? This sounds like a whole people that you are stereotyping under one label. Then we have the claim that 'they' will not stop fighting jihad until the whole world lives under Muslim rule. Is this supposed to mean that all Muslims will fight until the world is Muslim? That doesn't sound like any Muslims that I know. Even the material that you cite has comments on the blog doubting its authenticity as it's been quoted from a source who knows a source
Finally you finish off with some scaremongering about relative birthrates and how this means that we'll end up under Muslim domination. 'brood mares'? You sound like a fully paid up member of the BNP (that's the kkk if you're a yank).
So what makes you think that you need a turing complete machine to parse all possible urls?
... or not. Why must the language that they are the inputs for be a turing-complete language?
The editors are not employed by the publisher, they tend to be the people who organise the conference. I agree with you that the whole point of publications is that they filter out the crap through editors and peers. My point was that the publisher takes the money (and copyright) without performing this task.
Although the room names don't imply that something illicit is going on
From TFA:
9-17-Year-Olds Wantin' Sex
Younger Girls 4 Older Guys
Girls 13 And Under For Older Guys
Girls 13 And Up For Much Older Man
Girls 8 to 13 Watch Boys (In A Particular Sex Act)
In what way do the room names not imply something illicit is going on? Or do you think that pedos grooming children for sex is acceptable? Are the freedom of speech zealots crying wolf when old men are stopped from trying to have sex with young child?