That's what some of my professors have done. Some also use 'clicker' questions to track class attendance (as well as their main intended use of polling the class)
'clickers' are these little remotes (used to be IR now they're RF) that allow students to respond to multiple choice questions and view the results instantaneously. A timed question at the beginning of class is an effective attendance metric.
Also, if i'm consistently not going to lecture, then that means that either the lecuture is completely worthless to me in any form, or i'm so lazy that i wouldn't bother watching/listening to a podcast anyway.
I had a professor who posted audio recordings only of his lectures online. It didn't affect my decision to attend or not attend lecture but was handy if I had to miss a lecture.
I want to see a 'pointer' device that is a glove with a gyroscope, and it has sensors on each finger as well so you can map complex hand and finger movements to different operations.
For Example:
Grab an icon and crush it to delete
Twist an icon to open it
Flick my finger to minimize the window
Like mouse gestures in mozilla? Try hand gestures
Think two handed manipulation
Possibly integrate keyboard function into them for mobile apps
Think application-specific like photoshop functions, word processing etc.
Think 3d cad manipulation with your hands
Drawback: probably not good for gaming, but as the technology matures who knows?/me runs to USPTO to file.
But not necessarially. Just because there is a lot of music out there doesn't mean people will like it. I don't listen to much classical music or the beatles, and that's the only stuff from before 1985 or so that I am interested in. For stuff made after that, I'm only interested in a few select genres. Exclude country, soft rock, acid-rock/heavy metal, pop music, MTV rock bands (think linkin park, blink), rap.
Of the music I like, I have all of it. I'm sure there are some rock bands out there that would appeal to me, but I don't know of them, and they would be the more modern rock groups. I get my music by word of mouth, online discussions, or in the case of techno - from shoutcast streams. Occasionaly I hear a good band on a local independently-funded radio station.
So I wait for releases from bands I know and like. It's been pretty slow. I'm waiting for the new Weezer Blue comp and their 5th album, and the DVD. That's about it.
Here's a hint: it's not the iPod. This technology is basically a point to point firewire link, and it's obvious that they've used a rather poor chip to handle this process. The iPod, the flash media and the transfer medium( firewire) all have the ability to transfer at higher speeds than this setup is acheiving. The only thing slowing it down is the point to point bridge chip they must be using.
The point of pci-x, while also to bring higher bandwidth, is to eliminate the outdated pci bus. PCI just wasn't intended to handle the data we throw at it. When graphics cards outpaced PCI, we added AGP, and when network cards did (think gig-e), intel added csa to by-pass the pci bus. The biggest thing holding SATA back is the PCI Bus, because any controller not integrated in the southbridge must rely on PCI, which is counter-intuitive when dealing with s-ata. And that's only sata-150, soon to be s-ata300.
Once you have PCI-X in place, why not give the video card plenty of bandwidth? You start out with 16x connectors, it means less design changes when we want to add more bandwidth.
Also, no one is forcing you to upgrade. You can still use PCI or AGP, they're not going away any time soon. The point is that when you want to upgrade, these better technologies will be in place for you to benefit from.
You also rant about the design of the board. What's the big deal? As far as the shroud, who's to say it's not easily removable? Who's to say you need to have it at all. The point of the spec is to define the space as unusable so the boards and cases are compatible. If you want to throw in watercooling, go ahead. It's not like manufactureres are going to put jumpers or dip switches right next to the socket where they are difficult to get to, and why do you assume it will be difficult to change memory?
Lastly, you have to realize why these design changes were made. They allow quieter AND more efficient cooling, something that the average pc user definitely wants. And as I've pointed out, they don't limit the enthusias from being creative with cooling solutions.
Does anyone know what the typical record label contract says about funds mailed to 'the band'. I always thought it was possible that the label might have some rights there, and take a cut... unless you find away of mailing the band without being screened by thier label, which I've never seen a band be like 'mail us at home at 42 sunnydale drive...', it's always 'band', c/o xx record label, ny, ny
I think that a large reason IE is so fast starting up is that it is highly integrated with windows core processes.(type in a web address in windows explorer and there is no delay in initiation the http request) Mozilla/Firebird do not have this advantage, and the developers have decided not to pursue an option to have firebird load on windows startup. On most systems, firebird is nearly as fast as, and sometimes just as fast as IE to startup. That speaks to the effort the developers have put in to make the program sleek and un-bloated. Plus, once it's open it renders pages faster. So you make up the 600ms you lost on startup.
Now, you can have windows explorer run as a separate process from the windows core, but I'm not sure if this applies to internet explorer, or if it would make any difference. It would be interesting to test.
30k isn't that bad. A lot of the top colleges are 40,000 including tuition room/board travel books/ living expenses etc.
But remember, financial aid is set up so that a family's feasible contribution is calculated and the university does its best to fill in the rest with grants. The slack is taken up by loans and work-study.
BTW I'm looking at oxford's site, and it's 10000# for int. science tutition,1000# per 8 week term for room/board.
So, that's between 14 and 16000# (4 and 6 terms -not sure how that works)a year, which translates to about $25,000 a year, so it is a little bit cheaper.
Remember, these 30,000 and 40,000 figures are for private institutions. Because it costs so much more for int. students at oxford, I assume that a lot of the cost is paid by the government, much like state schools in the states which run ~ 2-4000 a year tuition and another 8 in room/board - comparable to oxford for uk/eu citizens.
That's the speed they quote in the pdf on abit's site. Now, assuming they really mean 1.6 gb/s and not GB/s that's still faster than serial ata, and these are ata133 connectors, and you use one per drive, so it's supposed to be transparent both to software and performance-wise.
According to the PDF on the site, it uses 40-bit DES Encryption. Here is a estimation of how long it would take from 1996:
In January 1996, a group of leading cryptographers calculated the time
and cost to break major encryption codes, using either standard
computers, or faster, custom-designed, code-cracking machines.
CATEGORIES:
(1) A Pedestrian hacker with a tiny budget and a scavenged computer
could hack 40-bit RC4 in 1 week (56-bit DES would be infeasible)
(2) A Small business with a $400 budget and a Field Programmable
Gate Array (FPGA) computer could hack 40-bit RC4 in 5 hours and
56-bit DES in 38 years.
(3) A Small business with a $10,000 budget and a Field Programmable
Gate Array (FPGA) computer could hack 40-bit RC4 in 12 minutes and
56-bit DES in 556 days.
(4) A Corporate department with a $300,000 budget and a Field
Programmable
Gate Array (FPGA) computer could hack 40-bit RC4 in 24 seconds and
56-bit DES in 19 days.
(5) A Corporate department with a $300,000 budget and a computer with
Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) could hack 40-bit RC4 in
18
seconds and 56-bit DES in 3 hours.
(6) A Big company with a $10 million budget and a Field Programmable
Gate Array (FPGA) computer could hack 40-bit RC4 in 7 seconds and
56-bit DES in 13 hours.
(7) A Big company with a $10 million budget and a computer with
Application-
Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) could hack 40-bit RC4 in.005 seconds
and 56-bit DES in 6 minutes.
(8) And finally, an Intelligence Agency with a $300 million budget and a
computer with Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) could hack
40-bit RC4 in.0002 seconds and 56-bit DES in 12 seconds.
I don't think any of these definitions work entirely. It seems that you are 'sharing' by using p2p networks, however it is not the files that you are sharing. You're copying the files. You're sharing the names of the files you have. I'd say definition 3 applies to the listing/search functions of p2p networks, but when files are being transmitted, it's copying.
When you relate something to someone in the traditional sense of the word, it's a lossy communication because that person could not relate it to someone else as well as you could, assuming you are relating a first-person experience. When you digitally transmit a file, it's not a noticably lossy transmission. The copies are for all intensive purposes identical to the source and can be copied by anyone without losing quality.
Now, the supernodes may copy your file availablity from you, I'm not an expert on how file listing works on any p2p network. But for individual users, the listing is relayed to them and they shouldn't cache that information locally for any significant period of time.
My mouse has eight buttons, not counting the scroll wheel, I'm sure others have more. I don't even use all of them. There are two necessary features of a mouse: location specific selection and location specific menu activation. Gee, that would negate any advantage of a virtual mouse button becase it isn't location specific any more than opening a menu from the top of the screen. But maybe I'm missing something here.
Any other mouse functions (scroll wheels, forward/back buttons) are placed on the mouse just to take advantage of your idle fingers, or create an easier way of doing a location specific task (ie. double click or access a specific menu command)that can already be done in a two button model. MS Windows won't ever have this feature; it just isn't necessary given the hardware/software available to windows users. Nowadays, you couldn't sell a pc user a two-button mouse, they expect a scroll button at least. Yet it remains 'expensive' for apple users to 'upgrade' to this 'new' feature. Apple can get as many patents for this as they want. No one will care. Don't get me wrong, Apple does a lot of things better than PC/Microsoft, this is not one of them.
Yep, everyone can run around with their wifi cards on a pda or their 3g cell phones, and you can all have 7 days of batter power, but you'll still be behind pc. Right now you can have 1gb ethernet with low pings ~1 or 2 ms, and in some cases 10gb ethernet. The fastest wifi is like 50mb/s and extended in some cases to about 80mb/s and lets' not even compare pings. Until wireless advances significantly, a pc will always have the advantage. Now, if that pc is atx/itx or some new smaller form factor is debatable.
I'm sorry everyone, but global warming is caused by my Nvidia FX card.
Ah ha! But those stupid Republicans an their thermodynamics.... conservation of energy my ass. If that were true how can the earth be getting hotter? huh? huh?
Since this sounds like something that well-managed corporate networks should be doing already (maybe not individal audits, but blocking p2p), this may just be a symbolic act so that later they can say, "Hey, we even sent out letters to all these companies......blah blah" and make up some case for themselves in court.
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Cheaper? Than an ipod touch sure but the D2 and other players from cowon aren't cheaper than most players, they just have more features...
That's what some of my professors have done.
Some also use 'clicker' questions to track class attendance (as well as their main intended use of polling the class)
'clickers' are these little remotes (used to be IR now they're RF) that allow students to respond to multiple choice questions and view the results instantaneously. A timed question at the beginning of class is an effective attendance metric.
Also, if i'm consistently not going to lecture, then that means that either the lecuture is completely worthless to me in any form, or i'm so lazy that i wouldn't bother watching/listening to a podcast anyway.
I had a professor who posted audio recordings only of his lectures online. It didn't affect my decision to attend or not attend lecture but was handy if I had to miss a lecture.
using a little bit of google and the filter in about:config
to get external apps to open new tabs, follow these directions:
Click Here
(granted it should be an on/off option but we're still pre-1.0)
to get links to open in a new tab even if they should open in a new window:
set: browser.tabs.opentabfor.linkclick = 'true'
you don't even have to be a bio major, it's something we learned for the AP exam.
For Example:
That device just uses magnetic induction to transfer power, just like those powered tooth brushes.
There was a story here a little while back about true wireless power, using a highly focused microwave beam. Find it here
But not necessarially. Just because there is a lot of music out there doesn't mean people will like it. I don't listen to much classical music or the beatles, and that's the only stuff from before 1985 or so that I am interested in. For stuff made after that, I'm only interested in a few select genres. Exclude country, soft rock, acid-rock/heavy metal, pop music, MTV rock bands (think linkin park, blink), rap.
Of the music I like, I have all of it. I'm sure there are some rock bands out there that would appeal to me, but I don't know of them, and they would be the more modern rock groups. I get my music by word of mouth, online discussions, or in the case of techno - from shoutcast streams. Occasionaly I hear a good band on a local independently-funded radio station.
So I wait for releases from bands I know and like. It's been pretty slow. I'm waiting for the new Weezer Blue comp and their 5th album, and the DVD.
That's about it.
Here's a hint: it's not the iPod. This technology is basically a point to point firewire link, and it's obvious that they've used a rather poor chip to handle this process. The iPod, the flash media and the transfer medium( firewire) all have the ability to transfer at higher speeds than this setup is acheiving. The only thing slowing it down is the point to point bridge chip they must be using.
I thought AVI was just a container for audio/video formats and that a divx avi is really just divx video and (mp3,aac, etc) audio inside.
someone correct me if I'm wrong.
The point of pci-x, while also to bring higher bandwidth, is to eliminate the outdated pci bus. PCI just wasn't intended to handle the data we throw at it. When graphics cards outpaced PCI, we added AGP, and when network cards did (think gig-e), intel added csa to by-pass the pci bus. The biggest thing holding SATA back is the PCI Bus, because any controller not integrated in the southbridge must rely on PCI, which is counter-intuitive when dealing with s-ata. And that's only sata-150, soon to be s-ata300.
Once you have PCI-X in place, why not give the video card plenty of bandwidth? You start out with 16x connectors, it means less design changes when we want to add more bandwidth.
Also, no one is forcing you to upgrade. You can still use PCI or AGP, they're not going away any time soon. The point is that when you want to upgrade, these better technologies will be in place for you to benefit from.
You also rant about the design of the board. What's the big deal? As far as the shroud, who's to say it's not easily removable? Who's to say you need to have it at all. The point of the spec is to define the space as unusable so the boards and cases are compatible. If you want to throw in watercooling, go ahead. It's not like manufactureres are going to put jumpers or dip switches right next to the socket where they are difficult to get to, and why do you assume it will be difficult to change memory?
Lastly, you have to realize why these design changes were made. They allow quieter AND more efficient cooling, something that the average pc user definitely wants. And as I've pointed out, they don't limit the enthusias from being creative with cooling solutions.
Does anyone know what the typical record label contract says about funds mailed to 'the band'. I always thought it was possible that the label might have some rights there, and take a cut... unless you find away of mailing the band without being screened by thier label, which I've never seen a band be like 'mail us at home at 42 sunnydale drive...', it's always 'band', c/o xx record label, ny, ny
I think that a large reason IE is so fast starting up is that it is highly integrated with windows core processes.(type in a web address in windows explorer and there is no delay in initiation the http request) Mozilla/Firebird do not have this advantage, and the developers have decided not to pursue an option to have firebird load on windows startup. On most systems, firebird is nearly as fast as, and sometimes just as fast as IE to startup. That speaks to the effort the developers have put in to make the program sleek and un-bloated. Plus, once it's open it renders pages faster. So you make up the 600ms you lost on startup.
Now, you can have windows explorer run as a separate process from the windows core, but I'm not sure if this applies to internet explorer, or if it would make any difference. It would be interesting to test.
30k isn't that bad. A lot of the top colleges are 40,000 including tuition room/board travel books/ living expenses etc.
But remember, financial aid is set up so that a family's feasible contribution is calculated and the university does its best to fill in the rest with grants. The slack is taken up by loans and work-study.
BTW I'm looking at oxford's site, and it's 10000# for int. science tutition,1000# per 8 week term for room/board.
So, that's between 14 and 16000# (4 and 6 terms -not sure how that works)a year, which translates to about $25,000 a year, so it is a little bit cheaper.
Remember, these 30,000 and 40,000 figures are for private institutions. Because it costs so much more for int. students at oxford, I assume that a lot of the cost is paid by the government, much like state schools in the states which run ~ 2-4000 a year tuition and another 8 in room/board - comparable to oxford for uk/eu citizens.
That's the speed they quote in the pdf on abit's site. Now, assuming they really mean 1.6 gb/s and not GB/s that's still faster than serial ata, and these are ata133 connectors, and you use one per drive, so it's supposed to be transparent both to software and performance-wise.
According to the PDF on the site, it uses 40-bit DES Encryption. Here is a estimation of how long it would take from 1996:
.005 seconds
and 56-bit DES in 6 minutes.
.0002 seconds and 56-bit DES in 12 seconds.
In January 1996, a group of leading cryptographers calculated the time and cost to break major encryption codes, using either standard computers, or faster, custom-designed, code-cracking machines.
CATEGORIES:
(1) A Pedestrian hacker with a tiny budget and a scavenged computer could hack 40-bit RC4 in 1 week (56-bit DES would be infeasible)
(2) A Small business with a $400 budget and a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) computer could hack 40-bit RC4 in 5 hours and 56-bit DES in 38 years.
(3) A Small business with a $10,000 budget and a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) computer could hack 40-bit RC4 in 12 minutes and 56-bit DES in 556 days.
(4) A Corporate department with a $300,000 budget and a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) computer could hack 40-bit RC4 in 24 seconds and 56-bit DES in 19 days.
(5) A Corporate department with a $300,000 budget and a computer with Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) could hack 40-bit RC4 in 18 seconds and 56-bit DES in 3 hours.
(6) A Big company with a $10 million budget and a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) computer could hack 40-bit RC4 in 7 seconds and 56-bit DES in 13 hours.
(7) A Big company with a $10 million budget and a computer with Application- Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) could hack 40-bit RC4 in
(8) And finally, an Intelligence Agency with a $300 million budget and a computer with Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) could hack 40-bit RC4 in
Source: MINIMAL KEY LENGTHS FOR SYMMETRIC CIPHERS
http://www.fitug.de/debate/9707/msg00053.html
I don't think any of these definitions work entirely. It seems that you are 'sharing' by using p2p networks, however it is not the files that you are sharing. You're copying the files. You're sharing the names of the files you have. I'd say definition 3 applies to the listing/search functions of p2p networks, but when files are being transmitted, it's copying.
When you relate something to someone in the traditional sense of the word, it's a lossy communication because that person could not relate it to someone else as well as you could, assuming you are relating a first-person experience. When you digitally transmit a file, it's not a noticably lossy transmission. The copies are for all intensive purposes identical to the source and can be copied by anyone without losing quality.
Now, the supernodes may copy your file availablity from you, I'm not an expert on how file listing works on any p2p network. But for individual users, the listing is relayed to them and they shouldn't cache that information locally for any significant period of time.
My mouse has eight buttons, not counting the scroll wheel, I'm sure others have more. I don't even use all of them. There are two necessary features of a mouse: location specific selection and location specific menu activation. Gee, that would negate any advantage of a virtual mouse button becase it isn't location specific any more than opening a menu from the top of the screen. But maybe I'm missing something here.
Any other mouse functions (scroll wheels, forward/back buttons) are placed on the mouse just to take advantage of your idle fingers, or create an easier way of doing a location specific task (ie. double click or access a specific menu command)that can already be done in a two button model. MS Windows won't ever have this feature; it just isn't necessary given the hardware/software available to windows users. Nowadays, you couldn't sell a pc user a two-button mouse, they expect a scroll button at least. Yet it remains 'expensive' for apple users to 'upgrade' to this 'new' feature. Apple can get as many patents for this as they want. No one will care. Don't get me wrong, Apple does a lot of things better than PC/Microsoft, this is not one of them.
So, right now I use both Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird, and I see the little Mozilla offsprings dethroning parent Mozilla very soon.
The Developers have stated this will happen
... In the first movie.
Wait, then I would have no reason to come back for the sequel. Damn, there goes my movie writing career.
Yep, everyone can run around with their wifi cards on a pda or their 3g cell phones, and you can all have 7 days of batter power, but you'll still be behind pc. Right now you can have 1gb ethernet with low pings ~1 or 2 ms, and in some cases 10gb ethernet. The fastest wifi is like 50mb/s and extended in some cases to about 80mb/s and lets' not even compare pings. Until wireless advances significantly, a pc will always have the advantage. Now, if that pc is atx/itx or some new smaller form factor is debatable.
I'm sorry everyone, but global warming is caused by my Nvidia FX card.
Ah ha! But those stupid Republicans an their thermodynamics.... conservation of energy my ass. If that were true how can the earth be getting hotter? huh? huh?
WOOT yes man that would rock. Any programs that would allow you to do this????
Since this sounds like something that well-managed corporate networks should be doing already (maybe not individal audits, but blocking p2p), this may just be a symbolic act so that later they can say, "Hey, we even sent out letters to all these companies......blah blah" and make up some case for themselves in court.
How so? They are well formed xml documents, have their own xml namespace and begin with the line
?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?
So while all xml is not rdf, all rdf is xml.
I remember like 4 or 5 years ago talking to my friend's dad, who works at kodak, and he would fill an entire 2gb jazz drive with one picture.