The lower power consumption which improves battery life is persuasive for regular travelers, but for the average user there seems no need to make the change.
Hey, it lowers your electric bills...and make the world better, at least not worse, for your grand children. Don't you want a quieter, cooler computer?
In fact, with the steady increase in browser based applications it might even be possible to argue that prevailing technology is excessive.
I strongly believe browers based applications do less than normal application with same CPU cycles.
Same as Trusted Computing, you either trust your employee and allow highest degree of freedom, or like DRM: don't trust your employee and banned them for everything possible.
Of interest here is also the code marked with (*). It reveals that the string is somehow used if a certain memory location has the value 4. Theory is, this 4 means "4 additional conference members";
Is that possible that by modifying some variables...we can have unlimited number of user in the conference?
Usually it's the Boss's computer heavily infected (No one dare to go into their rooms to clean up the virus), and usually the rule allows all the Boss's computers to access that security cam website.
I have been using Linux for server for more than 7 years. It can't be easier to get LAMP working on Linux, much easier than that on Windows. Most of the script/web software avaiable on the web were developed for *nix. To switch to Windows Server would be a pain ass to me...And It's a killer application to me.
The driver support of Linux for multimedia device is still rather crappy. Like display cards doesn't always work out of box, cheap but common sound card usually need more tweak to get working. By tweak it doesn't mean doing mouse clicks in control panel, or downloading new driver from the web, but have to actually go through google, thousands of mailing list/forum posts, and then text editing the xorg.conf or proc or even recompile the kernel or alike...
I didn't touch Linux Desktop until recently. Why? Because of the game I deadly want to play, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (ET) didn't work with the Windows. The punkbuster (Anti-cheat software) it uses crash with my ATi FireGL card, and there were no workaround, I am using Laptop and driver avaiability is limited, not to mention I can't change the card!... Luckily and surprisingly, it has a Linux version!...However, it still disappoint me, both Teamspeak (Group chat) and ET use old OSS/dev/dsp sound playback technique, and my soundcard doesn't have hardware mixer, and so I can't get both software have sound at the sametime because all sound daemon / dmix or whatever techniques doesn't work. But still, I am forced to use linux when I play that game...just for that game, but my Linux desktop experience is still far from able to recommend my friends to use it.
I know there are a lot of people, especially in Hong Kong and China, are paying this (~USD 4/month) for illegal download to site like itmike and BoxUp. They have a rather complete set of CDs, MTV and so on and attract a lot of people who are too lazy to find seed on whatever P2P network...
If it is made legal, I don't see the point why people would NOT shift to legal download.
Put aside the piracy problem / genuine check problem...Does they count them in? They may be just counting the ratio of genuine copies sold VS SP2 downloaded or installed?
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Why not publish it into.ps or.pdf? A better compatibility with readers is a plus.
I am not a expert of this...But if they are using standard kernel, standard software, everything standard with no hacking done, do they still have to release it? or do they have to tell you which version they are using?
Well. the capital letter i and L and 1 (one), 0 and O...Ascii (or English) also has these problem. Bad guys don't really need IDN to take advantage of this problem.
Afterall, I guess your bank company should have probably told you to type the URL urself instead of clicking the email link.
English has 26 letters. Do you know how many "letters" (character) does Chinese has? Over ten thousands. Plain Ascii (ANSI) code? Can represent someting around hundren letters or so, because there are control letters...well, far less than Chinese/Japanese/Korean need.
To make it even worse, Chinese do still make new character as its language envolved, so does English. However English does it by combining its 26 letters in different way, Chinese does that by making a new charcter.
And that's why we have Unicode, to provide enough space for every language in the world. But anyway, I don't see IDN being used widely in Chinese communication, because in deed many Chinese didn't know how to type Chinese. We need kindof special input method in order to type chinese, (you can imagine it's impossible for a keyboard to have thousands of key)
I have no commented about the RSI~~But I would like to share my changing experience here.
Of course I were also an QWERTY user for more than 10 years, and I decided to change to Dvorak two years ago for fun.
Now I can type in both layout, without any speed loss. I dunno if I do type faster in Dvorak or not but I feel that it gives much less loading on my hands.
However, it takes some time to adopt the Copy and Paste shortcut, because the CXV combination were designed for QWERTY, now I prefer using Ctrl/Shift+Ins/Del more than Ctrl+CXV for that.
Some word for Changjie Typist: BTW, I am a Chinese (Cantonese to be exact) speaker living in Hong Kong, and of course I do type Chinese (Traditional) a lot too, using the famous ChangJie IME. At almost the same time, I changed my Chinese IME from ChangJie to http://www.array.com.tw/Array, again for Fun and geeky feeling...However things doesn't happen like QWERTY->Dvorak, I have a long period forgetting/messing up with my ChangJie skill. I would conclude that because the fundemental idea of ChangJie and Array is similar, and we learn Chinese IME by remembering the building blocks but not by key and hence the result.
It takes almost a year for me to be able to type equally fast with ChangJie.
Anyway, I would encourage everyone to change to Dvorak, and in fact three more people have been a Dvorak typist since then:)
I live in Hong Kong and our metro (http://www.mtr.com.hk) has gone into computerized like that for over ten years I believe.
I have never seen a conductor in our train, simpily no such things...But I don't see it's a problem. FYI, our train is 8 cars long, ~200 meters per train I believe. I am not sure about how long is NYC train?
<i>Someone concern about the doors blocking problem</i> First as someone mentioned already, you can hardly held the door open because it's about 1-2 bar air pressure press aginst the doors. Second, the driver (we called them Train Operator because his main jobs is to manage the door, instead of driving) could see the icon flashing indicating exactly which doors is not closed on his 12" LCD panel.. Third, with CCTV and radio transmission, the operator could monitor everyone getting on/off board with his another 12" LCD panel in the driver cab. Of course it's clear enough to see anyone with difficulties in boarding. Forth, ppl will yell at you if you play with the doors...Or at worst the Operator will yell at you on the PA system.
<i>What if emergency happen...</i> First, throughout the cars it's equipped with communication device...You could push the big red button and get contact with the operator. In case of emergency or evacuation, the operator could contact the Control Center and the Station staff. With thousands of passengers on the train, I don't think having one or more conductors would help in the evacuation process...A better evacuation plan / instruction would play an more important role. At last, it's very uncommon for someone to rape a woman on train...Because again someone would just press the red button and then station staff would be waiting for you on the next station~~
AFAIK, for our metro, most of system signal are injected into the rail, instead of transmitting through open air. I dunno if it's the same for the NYC subway.
Afterall, because the speed is computer controlled, the train schedule could be packed might tighter, and more energy saving because the computer could run the train at a "slow speed profile" during non-peak hours (they actually do this in Hong Kong)
Plus, in Singapore, one of their metro line has no Operator on the train at all, all automated...But I havn't heard of any notable news yet. As long as the public get used to it, it would be ok...
I think by the time it comes out and become mature, we might probably have video recording like what we saw in the movie "Minority Report"...and video recording by then probably needs a large storage
> You could download hi-def TV shows and movies faster than you could watch them. Yes it really is. Sometimes I stream watching the DVD from my home harddisk to my dorm~~real time with no delay.
But you see the problems...If it's more comfortable to download priate movie then going to cinema~~And producers are not used to sell movie online yet...you got what I mean?
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I wish there was someone writing a virus exploiting this hole to patch the users with firefox, opera or alike.
The lower power consumption which improves battery life is persuasive for regular travelers, but for the average user there seems no need to make the change.
Hey, it lowers your electric bills...and make the world better, at least not worse, for your grand children. Don't you want a quieter, cooler computer?
In fact, with the steady increase in browser based applications it might even be possible to argue that prevailing technology is excessive.
I strongly believe browers based applications do less than normal application with same CPU cycles.
...cannot work without trusted employee.
Same as Trusted Computing, you either trust your employee and allow highest degree of freedom, or like DRM: don't trust your employee and banned them for everything possible.
Of interest here is also the code marked with (*). It reveals that the string is somehow used if a certain memory location has the value 4. Theory is, this 4 means "4 additional conference members";
Is that possible that by modifying some variables...we can have unlimited number of user in the conference?
Usually it's the Boss's computer heavily infected (No one dare to go into their rooms to clean up the virus), and usually the rule allows all the Boss's computers to access that security cam website.
Totally agree, we need some killer application...
/dev/dsp sound playback technique, and my soundcard doesn't have hardware mixer, and so I can't get both software have sound at the sametime because all sound daemon / dmix or whatever techniques doesn't work. But still, I am forced to use linux when I play that game...just for that game, but my Linux desktop experience is still far from able to recommend my friends to use it.
I have been using Linux for server for more than 7 years. It can't be easier to get LAMP working on Linux, much easier than that on Windows. Most of the script/web software avaiable on the web were developed for *nix. To switch to Windows Server would be a pain ass to me...And It's a killer application to me.
The driver support of Linux for multimedia device is still rather crappy. Like display cards doesn't always work out of box, cheap but common sound card usually need more tweak to get working. By tweak it doesn't mean doing mouse clicks in control panel, or downloading new driver from the web, but have to actually go through google, thousands of mailing list/forum posts, and then text editing the xorg.conf or proc or even recompile the kernel or alike...
I didn't touch Linux Desktop until recently. Why? Because of the game I deadly want to play, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (ET) didn't work with the Windows. The punkbuster (Anti-cheat software) it uses crash with my ATi FireGL card, and there were no workaround, I am using Laptop and driver avaiability is limited, not to mention I can't change the card!... Luckily and surprisingly, it has a Linux version!...However, it still disappoint me, both Teamspeak (Group chat) and ET use old OSS
There is antitrust action against Linux bundling GNU software...oh well.
I wonder if that's today dollar or dollar in 4-5 years later.
I know there are a lot of people, especially in Hong Kong and China, are paying this (~USD 4/month) for illegal download to site like itmike and BoxUp. They have a rather complete set of CDs, MTV and so on and attract a lot of people who are too lazy to find seed on whatever P2P network...
If it is made legal, I don't see the point why people would NOT shift to legal download.
Machine-room less? OTIS has made it for sometime already, the Gen2 Elevator [otis.com]
...is to submerge your computer gears into it, measure how long does it take to get the shortcut.
but they don't expect to actually sell any number of them greater than 5.
Did I hear IBM commenting there would be no more than ten computers around the world?
Put aside the piracy problem / genuine check problem...Does they count them in? They may be just counting the ratio of genuine copies sold VS SP2 downloaded or installed?
Why not publish it into .ps or .pdf? A better compatibility with readers is a plus.
I am not a expert of this...But if they are using standard kernel, standard software, everything standard with no hacking done, do they still have to release it? or do they have to tell you which version they are using?
Then you can offically blame Microsoft for your bug. =P
it should count the number of bugs multiply time for the fix to be avaiable since disclosure/found.
Well. the capital letter i and L and 1 (one), 0 and O...Ascii (or English) also has these problem. Bad guys don't really need IDN to take advantage of this problem.
Afterall, I guess your bank company should have probably told you to type the URL urself instead of clicking the email link.
English has 26 letters. Do you know how many "letters" (character) does Chinese has? Over ten thousands. Plain Ascii (ANSI) code? Can represent someting around hundren letters or so, because there are control letters...well, far less than Chinese/Japanese/Korean need.
To make it even worse, Chinese do still make new character as its language envolved, so does English. However English does it by combining its 26 letters in different way, Chinese does that by making a new charcter.
And that's why we have Unicode, to provide enough space for every language in the world. But anyway, I don't see IDN being used widely in Chinese communication, because in deed many Chinese didn't know how to type Chinese. We need kindof special input method in order to type chinese, (you can imagine it's impossible for a keyboard to have thousands of key)
How about a fourth year CS (or third?) to write a virtual display driver to re-route the video signal?
Opps, or Microsoft would play DRM protected content to Signed driver only? I hate that...
I have no commented about the RSI~~But I would like to share my changing experience here.
:)
Of course I were also an QWERTY user for more than 10 years, and I decided to change to Dvorak two years ago for fun. Now I can type in both layout, without any speed loss. I dunno if I do type faster in Dvorak or not but I feel that it gives much less loading on my hands. However, it takes some time to adopt the Copy and Paste shortcut, because the CXV combination were designed for QWERTY, now I prefer using Ctrl/Shift+Ins/Del more than Ctrl+CXV for that.
Some word for Changjie Typist: BTW, I am a Chinese (Cantonese to be exact) speaker living in Hong Kong, and of course I do type Chinese (Traditional) a lot too, using the famous ChangJie IME. At almost the same time, I changed my Chinese IME from ChangJie to http://www.array.com.tw/Array, again for Fun and geeky feeling...However things doesn't happen like QWERTY->Dvorak, I have a long period forgetting/messing up with my ChangJie skill. I would conclude that because the fundemental idea of ChangJie and Array is similar, and we learn Chinese IME by remembering the building blocks but not by key and hence the result. It takes almost a year for me to be able to type equally fast with ChangJie.
Anyway, I would encourage everyone to change to Dvorak, and in fact three more people have been a Dvorak typist since then
I live in Hong Kong and our metro (http://www.mtr.com.hk) has gone into computerized like that for over ten years I believe.
I have never seen a conductor in our train, simpily no such things...But I don't see it's a problem. FYI, our train is 8 cars long, ~200 meters per train I believe. I am not sure about how long is NYC train?
<i>Someone concern about the doors blocking problem</i>
First as someone mentioned already, you can hardly held the door open because it's about 1-2 bar air pressure press aginst the doors.
Second, the driver (we called them Train Operator because his main jobs is to manage the door, instead of driving) could see the icon flashing indicating exactly which doors is not closed on his 12" LCD panel..
Third, with CCTV and radio transmission, the operator could monitor everyone getting on/off board with his another 12" LCD panel in the driver cab. Of course it's clear enough to see anyone with difficulties in boarding.
Forth, ppl will yell at you if you play with the doors...Or at worst the Operator will yell at you on the PA system.
<i>What if emergency happen...</i>
First, throughout the cars it's equipped with communication device...You could push the big red button and get contact with the operator.
In case of emergency or evacuation, the operator could contact the Control Center and the Station staff. With thousands of passengers on the train, I don't think having one or more conductors would help in the evacuation process...A better evacuation plan / instruction would play an more important role.
At last, it's very uncommon for someone to rape a woman on train...Because again someone would just press the red button and then station staff would be waiting for you on the next station~~
AFAIK, for our metro, most of system signal are injected into the rail, instead of transmitting through open air. I dunno if it's the same for the NYC subway.
Afterall, because the speed is computer controlled, the train schedule could be packed might tighter, and more energy saving because the computer could run the train at a "slow speed profile" during non-peak hours (they actually do this in Hong Kong)
Plus, in Singapore, one of their metro line has no Operator on the train at all, all automated...But I havn't heard of any notable news yet. As long as the public get used to it, it would be ok...
I think by the time it comes out and become mature, we might probably have video recording like what we saw in the movie "Minority Report"...and video recording by then probably needs a large storage
Will it have Dvorak as the default keyboard layout? I would love to see this happening :)
> You could download hi-def TV shows and movies faster than you could watch them.
Yes it really is. Sometimes I stream watching the DVD from my home harddisk to my dorm~~real time with no delay.
But you see the problems...If it's more comfortable to download priate movie then going to cinema~~And producers are not used to sell movie online yet...you got what I mean?