It's no worse than in Canada where we measure height in feet/inches, distance in KM, people's weight in lbs, deli meat in grams, liquid in liters, dry baking ingredients in cups, indoor temperatures in F, outdoor temperatures in C...
I run Windows 7 on a 15" 1920x1200 screen already - the only program I use that has any trouble with the higher DPI is photoshop elements - their custom chrome doesn't scale - it's all fixed to the individual pixels. Since I use the keyboard and a tablet for that anyway, it's not a problem. Everything else runs fine. I don't imagine going from 150% to 200% would be any harder.
Give it some time - Apple only just released the retina display. The thing is when Lenovo does release a retina diplay for their T/W lines, I'll be able to order the appropriate part and upgrade my current laptop to the latest and greatest, while every mac user who wants the new display will have to buy a whole new machine.
Hands down if you're wanting a technological solution, an XP or Windows 7 convertable tablet (you want a real keyboard, and a proper digitizing pen) with OneNote. Yes it's proprietary and evil, but it's the best new thing that MS has release in 10 years.
You can record the lecture, while taking notes, and the notes get linked to the time durng the lecture. You can search the audio recording!
You can import all sorts of file formats and annotate them as you go. Those you can't directly import you can print into Onenote and then annotate. Imported images are OCR'd behind the scenes so you can search them.
Typing and handwriting work together. You can either convert your handwriting to text, or leave it as is, but still search it.
Note the emphasis on searching - you can in one shot search text, handwriting, audio, and images for a keyword. The last three use fuzzy algorithms - when it OCR's an image, it doesn't OCR it to an exact text, but rather to a set of possible texts, all of which are searched. Likewise for audio and handwriting.
Neil_Brown recently came out with his new #40767049 comment response to Moblaster's comment. In a surpising move, it was available for immediate reading at the time of its announcement. While missing out on some of the features we've come to love about his line of comments, I find it a refreshing level of meta-commenting that hasn't been seen in a while. Whether it's worth refreshing the browser to read responses to his comment has yet to be seen. We'll have to give it some time out in the wild to really get a feel for its general reception, but its +5 funny moderation does suggest that it will be read by many.
All that shit goes right out the window when you have hundreds of millions that believe WWIII will bring back their spiritual leader that will magically lay the enemy to waste and give them control of the planet.
Unfortunately for the world, there is also a good number of batshit crazy Christians who believe the same thing.
As a current parent, I can tell you that with all probability, your parents knew you had the flashlight and were reading at night, and put up just enough of a fight that you'd get the thrill of getting away with something. If my kid is up at night reading, I'm going to have to put up some argument, since they are supposed to be sleeping, but I'm not going to really try and stop them from reading.
For sending internal messages? I would hope so! If my company has it's own internal, monitored, secured, approved, etc.. email set up, and I go and start doing all my work correspondance from a gmail account, I would assume that they would take issue with that. Likewise, if I started using Siri to dictate emails which were then sent over that corporate network.
You're not seriously worried about Windows BSODs in 2012? If there's a hardware error serious enough to cause a Windows BSOD, you can bet that Linux / Android will give you a kernel panic - these really haven't been an issue since 2000 and have gotten better since.
No, it's just a factor of samples/second and the frequency. If you use 44 KHz, you get no sound at 17641, if you use 48KHz, that lets you generate samples up to 19200Hz.
9/11 wouldn't happen today in a world where the assumption is that when a place is hijacked, everyone is going to die. At the time, the standard assumption was that the hijackers just wanted money and would land the plane somewhere, and everyone would go free after the negotiations, provided no one tried to act the hero.
After 9/11, that's no longer the default assumption. When you add in the extra cockpit security, hijacking a plane to crash somewhere is no longer an easy way to do a lot of damage. Putting billions of dollars into protecting against one, very specific and unlikely to succeed, avenue of terror is a misuse of security funds. Given the ease of hundreds of other avenues of terror, we're far better off investing in intellegence.
No, the article specifically says that they'll let third parties take care of DVD playing. A decent set of codecs will already be installed by default, and apps can also include additional decoders (such as FLAC, MKV, OGG, etc.) in their apps package for use within the apps. Windows media player will still be installed (just not windows media center), and will stil be able to use the codec packs floating around. Also, VLC and other third party software will continue to work as before.
Which is why one-time-pad wouldn't work. But for any of the other "real-life" cryptosystems, manipulating the input to provide another viable decryption key with a chosen output would effectively mean cracking the system anyway.
Factoring is NP, since we can verify the results in polynomial time. It's not NP-complete, so finding a polynomial algorithm for factoring doesn't necesarily mean that there's one for 3-SAT or TSP, but if we find a polynomial algorithm for TSP, then there is one for factoring.
Cryptography relies on problems that are very hard to solve without a key, but when you have the key are easy. NP problems have the property that if you know the solution, it's easy to prove that you have the solution, but finding a solution is otherwise really hard. Take factoring for example, which is an NP problem - take two really big primes, and multiply them. Give the result away to anyone who asks. If the primes are big enough, they won't be able to figure out your original primes, but anyone who has either of the original primes can find the other with ease. RSA is dependant on that property. If I can find those two primes quickly from just public key, I've cracked RSA. If NP=P, then factoring is no longer a hard problem.
C has a qsort in its standard library, so rolling your own bubble sort would be a terrible idea in most every situation. That being said, C++ also has a built in sort algorithm that matches and often significantly outperforms C's qsort implementation thanks to the additional type information that templated functions can use. C's qsort is hamstrung by having to take a void * to the data, and a function pointer to the comparator. A C++ compiler can take the compiled type information and inline the comparator, and run all kinds of other size and type-specific optimizations. You'd be very hard pressed to find a non-templated language that can deal with generic algorithms as quickly as C++ (and any other templated language) can. This doesn't apply to Java's and C#'s generics, since they can't take advantage of the type information in the same way.
I've tried it out on the desktop, and the metro on desktop thing leaves much to be desired, but they at least left the desktop like it was in windows 7. If you never use the metro apps, the goofy start screen just acts like a giant start menu, even with incremental search. Once you've launched a desktop app, it works like always with the taskbar on the bottom (that they've finally stretched over all the monitors). My biggest complaint is that it's basically like working with two computers - one running metro, and one running windows, and switching back and forth is far from seamless.
They did state their price, and their conditions for that price. CBC just found a new way to use what they payed for, and now the companies want to alter the deal.
Brutal? That's a nice winter temperature in northern Canada. Try -45C for a change. -20C will seem quite warm.
... Brutal? That's a nice winter temperature in Antarctica. Try -80C for a change. -45 will seem quite warm.
Temperatures are all relative to what an area is equipped to deal with. When we hit -20C in January, everyone is out toboganning and snow-mobiling with ease, because we have the clothes and acclimitization to handle that kind of cold with ease, and we're enjoying the reprieve from -30 the week before. Our houses are built with triple-pane windows, and have furnaces that can belt out the needed BTUs to keep a house comfortably warm all winter. If you dropped that kind of cold on Florida, the entire economy would shut down, people would be huddled around whatever fires they could find, and there would be deaths from exposure and CO poisoning everywhere.
I think you missed the point of a new kind of copying - they're finally fixing the wild guesstimates, uninformative dialogs, and constant interuptions when copying files using the GUI. It finally lets you queue up copy operations, has a helpful keep/replace dialog that only prompts once at the beginning, and actually maintains a graph of copy performance if you go to the advanced view.
If that was your experience, then you have my sympathies. The guys I went to pretty much does just vasectemies, and does them well enough that I took an advil that evening, and haven't felt any pain since.
It was easy enough for me at 25 in Canada. I walked in for a consultation. Came back a week later, 10 minutes later walked out with no future worries of more children. You just need to be able to convince the doctor that you're serious.
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It's no worse than in Canada where we measure height in feet/inches, distance in KM, people's weight in lbs, deli meat in grams, liquid in liters, dry baking ingredients in cups, indoor temperatures in F, outdoor temperatures in C...
I run Windows 7 on a 15" 1920x1200 screen already - the only program I use that has any trouble with the higher DPI is photoshop elements - their custom chrome doesn't scale - it's all fixed to the individual pixels. Since I use the keyboard and a tablet for that anyway, it's not a problem. Everything else runs fine. I don't imagine going from 150% to 200% would be any harder.
Give it some time - Apple only just released the retina display. The thing is when Lenovo does release a retina diplay for their T/W lines, I'll be able to order the appropriate part and upgrade my current laptop to the latest and greatest, while every mac user who wants the new display will have to buy a whole new machine.
Hands down if you're wanting a technological solution, an XP or Windows 7 convertable tablet (you want a real keyboard, and a proper digitizing pen) with OneNote. Yes it's proprietary and evil, but it's the best new thing that MS has release in 10 years.
You can record the lecture, while taking notes, and the notes get linked to the time durng the lecture. You can search the audio recording!
You can import all sorts of file formats and annotate them as you go. Those you can't directly import you can print into Onenote and then annotate. Imported images are OCR'd behind the scenes so you can search them.
Typing and handwriting work together. You can either convert your handwriting to text, or leave it as is, but still search it.
Note the emphasis on searching - you can in one shot search text, handwriting, audio, and images for a keyword. The last three use fuzzy algorithms - when it OCR's an image, it doesn't OCR it to an exact text, but rather to a set of possible texts, all of which are searched. Likewise for audio and handwriting.
Neil_Brown recently came out with his new #40767049 comment response to Moblaster's comment. In a surpising move, it was available for immediate reading at the time of its announcement. While missing out on some of the features we've come to love about his line of comments, I find it a refreshing level of meta-commenting that hasn't been seen in a while. Whether it's worth refreshing the browser to read responses to his comment has yet to be seen. We'll have to give it some time out in the wild to really get a feel for its general reception, but its +5 funny moderation does suggest that it will be read by many.
That still leaves 70,000,000. The order you sort things doesn't change their number.
All that shit goes right out the window when you have hundreds of millions that believe WWIII will bring back their spiritual leader that will magically lay the enemy to waste and give them control of the planet.
Unfortunately for the world, there is also a good number of batshit crazy Christians who believe the same thing.
As a current parent, I can tell you that with all probability, your parents knew you had the flashlight and were reading at night, and put up just enough of a fight that you'd get the thrill of getting away with something. If my kid is up at night reading, I'm going to have to put up some argument, since they are supposed to be sleeping, but I'm not going to really try and stop them from reading.
For sending internal messages? I would hope so! If my company has it's own internal, monitored, secured, approved, etc.. email set up, and I go and start doing all my work correspondance from a gmail account, I would assume that they would take issue with that. Likewise, if I started using Siri to dictate emails which were then sent over that corporate network.
You're not seriously worried about Windows BSODs in 2012? If there's a hardware error serious enough to cause a Windows BSOD, you can bet that Linux / Android will give you a kernel panic - these really haven't been an issue since 2000 and have gotten better since.
No, it's just a factor of samples/second and the frequency. If you use 44 KHz, you get no sound at 17641, if you use 48KHz, that lets you generate samples up to 19200Hz.
9/11 wouldn't happen today in a world where the assumption is that when a place is hijacked, everyone is going to die. At the time, the standard assumption was that the hijackers just wanted money and would land the plane somewhere, and everyone would go free after the negotiations, provided no one tried to act the hero.
After 9/11, that's no longer the default assumption. When you add in the extra cockpit security, hijacking a plane to crash somewhere is no longer an easy way to do a lot of damage. Putting billions of dollars into protecting against one, very specific and unlikely to succeed, avenue of terror is a misuse of security funds. Given the ease of hundreds of other avenues of terror, we're far better off investing in intellegence.
No, the article specifically says that they'll let third parties take care of DVD playing. A decent set of codecs will already be installed by default, and apps can also include additional decoders (such as FLAC, MKV, OGG, etc.) in their apps package for use within the apps. Windows media player will still be installed (just not windows media center), and will stil be able to use the codec packs floating around. Also, VLC and other third party software will continue to work as before.
This would *require* someone to change it, to work.
Which is why one-time-pad wouldn't work. But for any of the other "real-life" cryptosystems, manipulating the input to provide another viable decryption key with a chosen output would effectively mean cracking the system anyway.
Factoring is NP, since we can verify the results in polynomial time. It's not NP-complete, so finding a polynomial algorithm for factoring doesn't necesarily mean that there's one for 3-SAT or TSP, but if we find a polynomial algorithm for TSP, then there is one for factoring.
Cryptography relies on problems that are very hard to solve without a key, but when you have the key are easy. NP problems have the property that if you know the solution, it's easy to prove that you have the solution, but finding a solution is otherwise really hard. Take factoring for example, which is an NP problem - take two really big primes, and multiply them. Give the result away to anyone who asks. If the primes are big enough, they won't be able to figure out your original primes, but anyone who has either of the original primes can find the other with ease. RSA is dependant on that property. If I can find those two primes quickly from just public key, I've cracked RSA. If NP=P, then factoring is no longer a hard problem.
C has a qsort in its standard library, so rolling your own bubble sort would be a terrible idea in most every situation. That being said, C++ also has a built in sort algorithm that matches and often significantly outperforms C's qsort implementation thanks to the additional type information that templated functions can use. C's qsort is hamstrung by having to take a void * to the data, and a function pointer to the comparator. A C++ compiler can take the compiled type information and inline the comparator, and run all kinds of other size and type-specific optimizations. You'd be very hard pressed to find a non-templated language that can deal with generic algorithms as quickly as C++ (and any other templated language) can. This doesn't apply to Java's and C#'s generics, since they can't take advantage of the type information in the same way.
I've tried it out on the desktop, and the metro on desktop thing leaves much to be desired, but they at least left the desktop like it was in windows 7. If you never use the metro apps, the goofy start screen just acts like a giant start menu, even with incremental search. Once you've launched a desktop app, it works like always with the taskbar on the bottom (that they've finally stretched over all the monitors). My biggest complaint is that it's basically like working with two computers - one running metro, and one running windows, and switching back and forth is far from seamless.
They did state their price, and their conditions for that price. CBC just found a new way to use what they payed for, and now the companies want to alter the deal.
Yay! Now I can make noisy, out-of-focus, lo-res photos even worse and share them with everyone on facebook from my Android and my iPhone!
Brutal? That's a nice winter temperature in northern Canada. Try -45C for a change. -20C will seem quite warm.
Temperatures are all relative to what an area is equipped to deal with. When we hit -20C in January, everyone is out toboganning and snow-mobiling with ease, because we have the clothes and acclimitization to handle that kind of cold with ease, and we're enjoying the reprieve from -30 the week before. Our houses are built with triple-pane windows, and have furnaces that can belt out the needed BTUs to keep a house comfortably warm all winter. If you dropped that kind of cold on Florida, the entire economy would shut down, people would be huddled around whatever fires they could find, and there would be deaths from exposure and CO poisoning everywhere.
The cloud thing is a whole different issue.
If that was your experience, then you have my sympathies. The guys I went to pretty much does just vasectemies, and does them well enough that I took an advil that evening, and haven't felt any pain since.
It was easy enough for me at 25 in Canada. I walked in for a consultation. Came back a week later, 10 minutes later walked out with no future worries of more children. You just need to be able to convince the doctor that you're serious.