My favorite [bad] memory of BG:TOS was the warning that the Cylon fighters were only microns away. I always figured that meant they were burrowing through the hull paint of the Galactica by now.
It pulled me out of my suspension of disbelief every time.
Never destroyed my fantasies about Maren Jensen however.
Good idea. Without Microsoft's support from their tools division, this idea will be dead on arrival..
I never said they couldn't use it afterwards. Only that they should be kept away from the design process so that they cannot warp it to their own ends.
I would hope they would use it aftewards, along with everyone else in the very same way. Their track record with standards is, however dismal by anyone's definition.
XML's verbosity and lack of inherent compression...XML standard calls for information to be stored as text.
Text compresses quite well, especially redundant text like the tags. So why not just leave XML alone and compress it at the transportation level with protocols like sending it as a zip, let v.92 modems do it automatically, or whatever. No need to touch XML itself at all.
In data communications the CRC is a hash guaranteed to be unique over a specific number of bits. A CRC-16 is unique for files up to 2^16 bits in length
This can only be true if the CRC has the same number of bits as the number it's verifying, in which case my hash algorithm is simple:
Imagine taking a photo of a street corner to find out where you are,
Yes, imagine that.
1: Take picture with ultra-modern all-features camera phone of building while lost in city.
2: Submit to search system.
3: Search system queries phone's built-in GPS for position information.
4: Search system sends back retrieved GPS location.
5: Customer is absolutely blown away and immediately sends back picture of self signing virtual 10-year contract at Early Adopter prices.
6: Profit!
If John Doe not only gave Ronald Fitch's name to the ISP as his name when he signed up, but also set up billing so that Fitch was billed (or would be called if Doe failed to pay), then that would count as both fraud and, most likely, identity theft.
And he would been caught the first month Fitch received the bill and checked the Service Address on it. This isn't even hard.
One solution to dealing with the iPod Shuffle's lack of a screen is build them small enough that they can only hold 2 songs. This way you only need an On/Off button and an Other Song button. And that will save case space as well.
If I had that RAM -- and if I'd had paid one cent more for this feature -- the only use I could see for it would be to continually flash SUCKER to remind me of my stupidity in paying for useless features that suck power and do nothing to improve performance.
And I wouldn't let someone else talk me into buying it for them either just because they want to look cool either. Look cool with your own money!
Just because we can do something, doesn't always mean we should.
Secondly, if you are hoping for a noticeable performance gain in regular computing tasks are in for a disappointment. Dual core microprocessors are for those who like to do multitasking or work on multithreaded applications.
I hear this all the time. Dual processors won't help most people because they only do one thing at once.
But your system is doing all kinds of things now. Look at the services Windows is running even when you don't want it too. What about screen refreshes? Those are done outside of the application. Shouldn't dual processors show a lot of improvement on Windows with even a single application, even if it's just cutting down on the context switching?
If it's turning infra-red into electricity, well I live in a hot desert. Not only could I get electricity to run my air conditioner from painting this on the outside walls and roof of my house, but I'd expect to have less of an a/c load to start with if this is turning 30% of the energy into electricity.
And why not, since they seem to have been the deciding factor in the success of the Betamax (and later, VHS) home VCR's and the pre-recorded tape industry.
(Yes, people bought those pricy machines when they found out they could watch porn in the privacy of their own homes.)
What you need is an open environment that looks just like this chip to the software, but has hooks into it you can use to pry open that hood again. I have to believe that the only way to stop this emulation would be through legislation, or Intel filing defensive patents against the way Macrovision does to try and protect they video protection garbage<- <- <- <- <- <- <- <- systems.
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It pulled me out of my suspension of disbelief every time.
Never destroyed my fantasies about Maren Jensen however.
Grammar typo, but great pun!
I never said they couldn't use it afterwards. Only that they should be kept away from the design process so that they cannot warp it to their own ends.
I would hope they would use it aftewards, along with everyone else in the very same way. Their track record with standards is, however dismal by anyone's definition.
Text compresses quite well, especially redundant text like the tags. So why not just leave XML alone and compress it at the transportation level with protocols like sending it as a zip, let v.92 modems do it automatically, or whatever. No need to touch XML itself at all.
For starters, keep Microsoft out of it.
This can only be true if the CRC has the same number of bits as the number it's verifying, in which case my hash algorithm is simple:
CRC = Value
Yes, imagine that.
1: Take picture with ultra-modern all-features camera phone of building while lost in city.
2: Submit to search system.
3: Search system queries phone's built-in GPS for position information.
4: Search system sends back retrieved GPS location.
5: Customer is absolutely blown away and immediately sends back picture of self signing virtual 10-year contract at Early Adopter prices.
6: Profit!
1: Take picture of current date's frontside archtecture.
2: Submit to search.
3: Reply: You can do better than that. Try her older sister.
Of course, this will give rise to the "Imagine a Beowolf cluster of..." posts.
That's about the poorest excuse for a DSL for a Downloads SLowly connection I've ever heard of.
<sound of crashing car>
Oops!
And he would been caught the first month Fitch received the bill and checked the Service Address on it. This isn't even hard.
Sounds more like forgery, than identity theft. Maybe the plantiff should have sued under the CAN-SPAM act instead.
This works fine, until just one of them discovers Napster.
802.11a
Two words: Faraday Cage.
One solution to dealing with the iPod Shuffle's lack of a screen is build them small enough that they can only hold 2 songs. This way you only need an On/Off button and an Other Song button. And that will save case space as well.
And I wouldn't let someone else talk me into buying it for them either just because they want to look cool either. Look cool with your own money!
Just because we can do something, doesn't always mean we should.
Isn't WMP already spyware? It seems to always want to be connecting to the Internet when I play local media on it.
I hear this all the time. Dual processors won't help most people because they only do one thing at once.
But your system is doing all kinds of things now. Look at the services Windows is running even when you don't want it too. What about screen refreshes? Those are done outside of the application. Shouldn't dual processors show a lot of improvement on Windows with even a single application, even if it's just cutting down on the context switching?
If it's turning infra-red into electricity, well I live in a hot desert. Not only could I get electricity to run my air conditioner from painting this on the outside walls and roof of my house, but I'd expect to have less of an a/c load to start with if this is turning 30% of the energy into electricity.
Does it include the first AOL poster? That was the day Usenet hit the skids.
(Yes, people bought those pricy machines when they found out they could watch porn in the privacy of their own homes.)
In Russia, the DRM controls you!
What you need is an open environment that looks just like this chip to the software, but has hooks into it you can use to pry open that hood again. I have to believe that the only way to stop this emulation would be through legislation, or Intel filing defensive patents against the way Macrovision does to try and protect they video protection garbage<- <- <- <- <- <- <- <- systems.