Yup, I've made good use of tagging in both iTunes and iPhoto. Pity it hasn't been so easy to tag my other files. I've also just adopted tagging for bookmarks too. It makes an amazing difference to your ability to find old bookmarks. The crucial thing is being able to use multiple tags for each item. Far better than the extremely limited system of organizing things in folders. It's astonishing how long it has taken people to figure out these simple things.
Google is more of an after the fact fix for something that's already broken. Even with good searching it's hard to find stuff because exact words often won't do. I'm sure that good organization in the first place would help.
Like other people I have all this information (emails, ebooks, papers, photos, mp3s, whatever) but there really aren't any good applications out there for organising it. In fact, the best applications out there are probably file systems but they aren't exactly smart. It's incredible that the organization software we have is so bad that people are finding that their email clients are serving this purpose even though their ability to do this is basically a side effect. Only now have companies like MS and Apple finally realised that searching though data is something important. Why has it taken this long?
aren't patents supposed to allow the holder to profit by them by disclosing them to the public for the benefit of all?
Maybe in the dark ages that's what they did. Now a patent serves the opposite purpose. If you use an idea, but it turns out that it's covered by a patent, then you may end up in court and have to pay a fine. But if it can be proved that you used the idea knowing that it was patented the fines are increased (tripled I think). So lawyers in many companies will tell you never to look at patents.
So in practice a patent is actually a way of burying an idea. Patents simply don't work.
As soon as i try to number crunch anything on mine for more than about 10 minutes it flashes a blue scren and hard reboots
You do realise that millions of people all over the world use Windows for number crunching without any problems whatsoever? I and my colleagues used to use a farm of ~2000 Windows PCs for 100 hour computations with almost 100% reliability. You need to either fix your PC, install decent drivers, fix your power supply, or stop lying.
Compare copyright:22,600, copywrite:220 and copywright:47. Looks like only a small percentage of/. users are getting it wrong. Note by the way that these figures are better than they look. Google is finding web pages with at least one occurrence of the misspelled versions. So the actual relative frequency of the misspelled words must actually be quite low. Somehow I don't actually believe it...
Are you kidding! I have no time for Christian fundamentalism and have little doubt that the authors of the Bible were mostly writing figuratively. But Ezekiel 1 is just about the one part of the Bible that actually reads like a literal description of something. It's pretty coherent and you can draw a detailed pictured based on it. With its wheels within wheels it's pretty obvious the author was struggling to adapt his ancient Hebrew language to describe something he or she didn't recognise. Given a choice between interpreting this as a visitation by an alien and believing that Genesis 1 literally describes the creation of the universe I'd settle for the former hypothesis any day. "not a literal physical interaction" indeed.
...an asteroid has increased since we started looking for potential collisions. I suggest we stop looking. That strategy seems to have worked well for the human race for the last few tens of thousands of years.
...and the error message was "Warning! This Song Was Created By A Newer Defender Version". Curious. I guess the Apple internal name for GarageBand was Defender.
Those Microsoft people are really clever
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The icon for a Word document, for example, is a tiny iteration of the first page of the file
So my PhD thesis will look like a little white rectangle with tiny black lines across it, while my Xmas list will instead look like a little white rectangle with black lines across it. Never again will I accidentally send Xmas cards to the Riemann theta function.
...is one of the most insidious ideas to come from political philosphers.
Quite simply: a social contract is a 'contract' that people are assumed to be bound by even if they didn't actually 'sign'. They are bound merely because of where they happen to live. It's a truly evil concept. Without having signed a document anyone is at liberty to claim that I am party to any number of imaginary contract. "You enter into a contract to read ads when you go to a web site" or "by publishing your web page you enter into a contract allowing viewers to choose how much of it they wish to read". The whole notion of a social contract is merely a way of saying what you think people should do, dressed up as a 'contract' because in the liberal democratic world contracts are a popular concept. In what way does talking about 'contracts' help us to differentiate between the above web page examples? I don't think the concept adds anything useful to the discussion. And the only theory I've read about how we should choose the form of our social contracts depends on trying to figure out what imaginary (and impossible to exist) people would decide (ie. the Rawlsian social contract).
Contracts are things we assent to through a symbolic act such as signing our name or pressing an 'accept' button. A 'social contract' is something other people use to bully you into doing what they want regardless of what you want.
(4) You're in a car with noise from engines, wheels and other sources inevitable when traveling on roads at speed, and with the inside of the car forming a cavity of such irregular shape it's a nightmare for any audio engineer to get something even vaguely like the original.
As for (3) - I can't hear much beyond 16KHz which I think is typical for my age. It cuts down what I need to spend on audio equipment:-)
I love it when people convince themselves that the difference between the CD audio and the mp3 audio is greater than the sound coming from the fact that their car while driving. It's even funnier when they say the difference is painful.
can/will = can but you used the 'will' to somehow make your statement seem stronger than it is. In other words I'm accusing you of trying to mislead. I've run many miles with an iPod and it's spun up the drive many times during those runs. I won't argue with the 'can' but the 'will' is pure BS.
Actually, I think the article is confused about Moore's law! It seems to equate transistor density wth device complexity. These are related but not directly tied. For one thing, it never used to be the case that a home PC could consume almost a kW of power. (Dual CPU PC with two nVIDIA cards connected by SLI.) Because there is now a demand for 3D, and 3D is easy to parallelise, we're now seeing devices that are literally bigger and more power hungry. Even with constant transistor density they can do more, faster.
GPU costs aren't too bad for the simple reason that there is widespread demand - especially with these devices going into games consoles.
The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year... Certainly over the short term this rate can be expected to continue, if not to increase. Over the longer term, the rate of increase is a bit more uncertain, although there is no reason to believe it will not remain nearly constant for at least 10 years. That means by 1975, the number of components per integrated circuit for minimum cost will be 65,000. I believe that such a large circuit can be built on a single wafer.
It's about transistors per device. GPUs will continue the trend of increasing this number. Why shouldn't I bring this up?
For one thing we're seeing GPUs take over from CPUs. The power on GPUs is currently growing by (Moore's Law)^3 with power doubling every 6 months. And there's tons of room for further expansion with GPUs as they are inherently scalable unlike CPUs. Check out the books "GPU Gems 1 & 2" for many examples of non-graphics applications of GPUs raging from options pricing to molecular simulation.
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Yup, I've made good use of tagging in both iTunes and iPhoto. Pity it hasn't been so easy to tag my other files. I've also just adopted tagging for bookmarks too. It makes an amazing difference to your ability to find old bookmarks. The crucial thing is being able to use multiple tags for each item. Far better than the extremely limited system of organizing things in folders. It's astonishing how long it has taken people to figure out these simple things.
Google is more of an after the fact fix for something that's already broken. Even with good searching it's hard to find stuff because exact words often won't do. I'm sure that good organization in the first place would help.
Now I know there are more in the cheaper brands I know which I'll be buying in the future.
Like other people I have all this information (emails, ebooks, papers, photos, mp3s, whatever) but there really aren't any good applications out there for organising it. In fact, the best applications out there are probably file systems but they aren't exactly smart. It's incredible that the organization software we have is so bad that people are finding that their email clients are serving this purpose even though their ability to do this is basically a side effect. Only now have companies like MS and Apple finally realised that searching though data is something important. Why has it taken this long?
So in practice a patent is actually a way of burying an idea. Patents simply don't work.
This will bring tears of joy to your eyes then!
I think 'mathemetic' was a reference to how the poster felt while studying mathematics.
Compare copyright:22,600, copywrite:220 and copywright:47. Looks like only a small percentage of /. users are getting it wrong. Note by the way that these figures are better than they look. Google is finding web pages with at least one occurrence of the misspelled versions. So the actual relative frequency of the misspelled words must actually be quite low. Somehow I don't actually believe it...
Are you kidding! I have no time for Christian fundamentalism and have little doubt that the authors of the Bible were mostly writing figuratively. But Ezekiel 1 is just about the one part of the Bible that actually reads like a literal description of something. It's pretty coherent and you can draw a detailed pictured based on it. With its wheels within wheels it's pretty obvious the author was struggling to adapt his ancient Hebrew language to describe something he or she didn't recognise. Given a choice between interpreting this as a visitation by an alien and believing that Genesis 1 literally describes the creation of the universe I'd settle for the former hypothesis any day. "not a literal physical interaction" indeed.
...an asteroid has increased since we started looking for potential collisions. I suggest we stop looking. That strategy seems to have worked well for the human race for the last few tens of thousands of years.
...and the error message was "Warning! This Song Was Created By A Newer Defender Version". Curious. I guess the Apple internal name for GarageBand was Defender.
Quite simply: a social contract is a 'contract' that people are assumed to be bound by even if they didn't actually 'sign'. They are bound merely because of where they happen to live. It's a truly evil concept. Without having signed a document anyone is at liberty to claim that I am party to any number of imaginary contract. "You enter into a contract to read ads when you go to a web site" or "by publishing your web page you enter into a contract allowing viewers to choose how much of it they wish to read". The whole notion of a social contract is merely a way of saying what you think people should do, dressed up as a 'contract' because in the liberal democratic world contracts are a popular concept. In what way does talking about 'contracts' help us to differentiate between the above web page examples? I don't think the concept adds anything useful to the discussion. And the only theory I've read about how we should choose the form of our social contracts depends on trying to figure out what imaginary (and impossible to exist) people would decide (ie. the Rawlsian social contract).
Contracts are things we assent to through a symbolic act such as signing our name or pressing an 'accept' button. A 'social contract' is something other people use to bully you into doing what they want regardless of what you want.
(4) You're in a car with noise from engines, wheels and other sources inevitable when traveling on roads at speed, and with the inside of the car forming a cavity of such irregular shape it's a nightmare for any audio engineer to get something even vaguely like the original.
As for (3) - I can't hear much beyond 16KHz which I think is typical for my age. It cuts down what I need to spend on audio equipment :-)
I love it when people convince themselves that the difference between the CD audio and the mp3 audio is greater than the sound coming from the fact that their car while driving. It's even funnier when they say the difference is painful.
can/will = can but you used the 'will' to somehow make your statement seem stronger than it is. In other words I'm accusing you of trying to mislead. I've run many miles with an iPod and it's spun up the drive many times during those runs. I won't argue with the 'can' but the 'will' is pure BS.
So til dey pubLish a off,ishul standad deesyded bai cummiti 4 inglish mai ritin wil luk laik dis
GPU costs aren't too bad for the simple reason that there is widespread demand - especially with these devices going into games consoles.
For one thing we're seeing GPUs take over from CPUs. The power on GPUs is currently growing by (Moore's Law)^3 with power doubling every 6 months. And there's tons of room for further expansion with GPUs as they are inherently scalable unlike CPUs. Check out the books "GPU Gems 1 & 2" for many examples of non-graphics applications of GPUs raging from options pricing to molecular simulation.