Intelligently encapsulating information is not as easy as you make it sound. That's like saying that how to move a piano is obvious. You should still use a professional mover, even if you think you know how to do it.
Lots of things seem obvious until you get down to doing it and realize the experts have actually worked out something really intelligent that only seems obvious after having seen how they do it.
Diesel engines have always been where hybrid cars should go, its just that in North America, most people avoid diesel and gas stations often don't have it.
Diesel engines afaik have always been more tunable to run very efficiently at specific speeds and are therefore a much better choice for generators in general (and are often used in that capacity). Using a fixed-speed diesel engine to generate electricity for a hybrid vehicle seems obvious, and its been done for both city buses and the military HMMV with great success.
I believe a consumer focus on gasoline has lead to car companies' focus on gasoline-electric hybrids instead of diesel-electric.
Have you looked at the price of maps recently? They've dropped substantially since TomTom bought Navteq. I just paid less than $50 for a year's worth of map updates from TomTom for my 630 for all of North America (any and all map updates they release for 12 months).
Workstations should not need to be accessed over the network so they should not need a friendly name.
Reverse-DNS lookups on incoming connections are very handy for diagnostic purposes.
Accessible PCs are also helpful for local printer situations (like non-workgroup cheque or inkjet proof printers) that are accessed from a third-party database server or such.
The really scary one to me is the possibility of mastermind criminals framing prior criminals whose DNA is on file. Imagine a bio-hacker pedophile who framed people on those handy state lists, leading the authorities directly to the very people they suspect most in the first place.
Since when? The standards only exist as a way of describing what hardware can do. Hardware has often preceded standards in many areas, including 3D gaming.
OpenGL has an extension feature for exactly that reason -- allowing hardware vendors to describe features that aren't standardized yet.
Liberals deny the need for rules and are frequently confused by how to implement them. Conservatives assume the need for rules and are frequently confused by those who wish to usurp them.
My first point I made on the highly scientific basis of my own friends and collegues, and that I know they socialize with more people online for more time a day than they do with most people in real face time.
Is it as good? No. Should face time be valuable to us? Certainly. That's not really the point I was debating, more that banning sites like Facebook should be seen like banning access to the freeway, or theatres or all coffee shops, etc. as it becomes more and more normal for people to do their primary interactions online.
As for the rest well, it just seems obvious doesn't it?
Seriously, Microsoft has been promising a database driven filesystem for its server OS for years without delivering anything substantial to date, and it doesn't seem like they're running anything different internally either.
Don't get us non-Americans inspired about the selectively puritan ways of America.
Just look at the Hot Coffee incident in a certain video game series that features shooting, killing, drug use, and numerous other violent and non-violent crimes (including killing police officers). Don't dare have a silhouette of a sex scene though, that's just unnatural.
Given that the Internet is probably now the most common way for humans to interact, more so than face-to-face meetings in many sub-groups, denying Internet associations is in effect denying regular contact with others in an overly broad sense.
Would I deny a sex offender access to something like barbiesprincesschat.com (hypothetical) Probably. Facebook? No. Should sites like Facebook make an attempt to restrict access of registered sex offenders from certain subsets of the population? Perhaps, depending on the crime, what the judge had to say about it, parole board, etc.
We have a larger problem at hand of people "doing their time" and then being forced to do more time on the outside, effectively giving them lifetime lenient jail terms without coming out and saying it. Either we think (some?) rapists should be cut off from society forever, or we don't. Letting them out of prison, telling them their time is served, and then suddenly wanting to curtail their rights afterward is strange to me. If you want to keep people on a leash forever, get a judgement against them for life in prison or a parole officer.
... and yet contrary to your assumptions, it would seem that professional programmers get this wrong on a regular basis, at least according to the security mailing lists I'm on.
Trusting someone worthy of your trust is much lower stress not to mention lower effort than rolling your own every time you need an application.
Who says he recommends anyone use Vista Business edition? Also, it was fairly clear that he specifies different products to different markets, so your comment is just out of touch.
I know a surgeon who brought his wife to the hospital for treatment and the doctors told him their plan and asked what he thought. He responded that he was not a doctor that day, and I'm impressed he knew when to recuse himself.
Very few of the anti-human-caused-climate-change crowd is pushing for more CO2 emissions. What they're saying is that the numbers don't add up, the science isn't very good and the same people have gotten wrong enough times but were just as sure of themselves with their last predictions that listening again is just silly.
There's only so many times a boy can cry wolf, after all.
There's evidence for sun-spots causing global warming, there's evidence that CO2 levels will cause catastrophic climate change, there's evidence that emissions will cause a new ice age, and there's evidence that nothing we do will have any measurable effect on the ecosystem anyway.
Which one John Q Public believes has a lot to do with which celebrities sign onto which belief system, and nothing more.
No, its a prevention of the scientific method's effect instead.
The scientific method of retesting works fine, but those on the outside analyzing the results have their analysis abilities severely crippled when false results are crept into sufficient data samples.
You want a defence to DRM? These stupid "someone stole my photos on Facebook" stories that pop up every now and then.
If our computers actually understood rights management in a real, legal way, then we could share pictures and files with each other that said "no, you can't give this to anyone else" and spare yourself the resulting abuse or indignity.
Unfortunately as it stands now, DRM only exists for big powerhouses and not to protect the rights of individuals at all, and in that form I think it should die.
I can't stand on my tip-toes while seated on my bike because I expect full leg-extension at the lower reach of my pedals. Dismounting is done by sliding forward off the seat or swinging a leg off to the rear. If I put both my feat down while seated, I can tip the bike back and forth about five or ten degrees from one foot to the other while neither touches in the middle.
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Intelligently encapsulating information is not as easy as you make it sound. That's like saying that how to move a piano is obvious. You should still use a professional mover, even if you think you know how to do it.
Lots of things seem obvious until you get down to doing it and realize the experts have actually worked out something really intelligent that only seems obvious after having seen how they do it.
Diesel engines have always been where hybrid cars should go, its just that in North America, most people avoid diesel and gas stations often don't have it.
Diesel engines afaik have always been more tunable to run very efficiently at specific speeds and are therefore a much better choice for generators in general (and are often used in that capacity). Using a fixed-speed diesel engine to generate electricity for a hybrid vehicle seems obvious, and its been done for both city buses and the military HMMV with great success.
I believe a consumer focus on gasoline has lead to car companies' focus on gasoline-electric hybrids instead of diesel-electric.
Have you looked at the price of maps recently? They've dropped substantially since TomTom bought Navteq. I just paid less than $50 for a year's worth of map updates from TomTom for my 630 for all of North America (any and all map updates they release for 12 months).
Reverse-DNS lookups on incoming connections are very handy for diagnostic purposes.
Accessible PCs are also helpful for local printer situations (like non-workgroup cheque or inkjet proof printers) that are accessed from a third-party database server or such.
First off, you totally missed that (as someone else pointed out), but secondly what broken DNS stack are you using that actually looks up localhost?
The really scary one to me is the possibility of mastermind criminals framing prior criminals whose DNA is on file. Imagine a bio-hacker pedophile who framed people on those handy state lists, leading the authorities directly to the very people they suspect most in the first place.
Since when? The standards only exist as a way of describing what hardware can do. Hardware has often preceded standards in many areas, including 3D gaming.
OpenGL has an extension feature for exactly that reason -- allowing hardware vendors to describe features that aren't standardized yet.
My latest system is an AMD PhenomII with an NVidia card, so how's that for unbiased? :-)
Or the way I describe it is often:
Liberals deny the need for rules and are frequently confused by how to implement them.
Conservatives assume the need for rules and are frequently confused by those who wish to usurp them.
My first point I made on the highly scientific basis of my own friends and collegues, and that I know they socialize with more people online for more time a day than they do with most people in real face time.
Is it as good? No. Should face time be valuable to us? Certainly. That's not really the point I was debating, more that banning sites like Facebook should be seen like banning access to the freeway, or theatres or all coffee shops, etc. as it becomes more and more normal for people to do their primary interactions online.
As for the rest well, it just seems obvious doesn't it?
You tried to sound smart by trying to imply to yourself that all crimes need to have victims to be criminal?
Google has competitors?
Seriously, Microsoft has been promising a database driven filesystem for its server OS for years without delivering anything substantial to date, and it doesn't seem like they're running anything different internally either.
But mj users seem very likely to re-offend too ...
Don't get us non-Americans inspired about the selectively puritan ways of America.
Just look at the Hot Coffee incident in a certain video game series that features shooting, killing, drug use, and numerous other violent and non-violent crimes (including killing police officers). Don't dare have a silhouette of a sex scene though, that's just unnatural.
Given that the Internet is probably now the most common way for humans to interact, more so than face-to-face meetings in many sub-groups, denying Internet associations is in effect denying regular contact with others in an overly broad sense.
Would I deny a sex offender access to something like barbiesprincesschat.com (hypothetical) Probably. Facebook? No. Should sites like Facebook make an attempt to restrict access of registered sex offenders from certain subsets of the population? Perhaps, depending on the crime, what the judge had to say about it, parole board, etc.
We have a larger problem at hand of people "doing their time" and then being forced to do more time on the outside, effectively giving them lifetime lenient jail terms without coming out and saying it. Either we think (some?) rapists should be cut off from society forever, or we don't. Letting them out of prison, telling them their time is served, and then suddenly wanting to curtail their rights afterward is strange to me. If you want to keep people on a leash forever, get a judgement against them for life in prison or a parole officer.
... and yet contrary to your assumptions, it would seem that professional programmers get this wrong on a regular basis, at least according to the security mailing lists I'm on.
Trusting someone worthy of your trust is much lower stress not to mention lower effort than rolling your own every time you need an application.
Who says he recommends anyone use Vista Business edition? Also, it was fairly clear that he specifies different products to different markets, so your comment is just out of touch.
Disk encryption is included with Linux. I use it all the time. You'll find its even a setup option when configuring your system.
Encryption is also included in NTFS with Windows, and users can opt to "protect" their document directories which enables this option.
You'd be looking for this very professional looking website.
The hoax-checking site Snopes has their $0.02 here fyi.
I know a surgeon who brought his wife to the hospital for treatment and the doctors told him their plan and asked what he thought. He responded that he was not a doctor that day, and I'm impressed he knew when to recuse himself.
Very few of the anti-human-caused-climate-change crowd is pushing for more CO2 emissions. What they're saying is that the numbers don't add up, the science isn't very good and the same people have gotten wrong enough times but were just as sure of themselves with their last predictions that listening again is just silly.
There's only so many times a boy can cry wolf, after all.
There's evidence for sun-spots causing global warming, there's evidence that CO2 levels will cause catastrophic climate change, there's evidence that emissions will cause a new ice age, and there's evidence that nothing we do will have any measurable effect on the ecosystem anyway.
Which one John Q Public believes has a lot to do with which celebrities sign onto which belief system, and nothing more.
No, its a prevention of the scientific method's effect instead.
The scientific method of retesting works fine, but those on the outside analyzing the results have their analysis abilities severely crippled when false results are crept into sufficient data samples.
You want a defence to DRM? These stupid "someone stole my photos on Facebook" stories that pop up every now and then.
If our computers actually understood rights management in a real, legal way, then we could share pictures and files with each other that said "no, you can't give this to anyone else" and spare yourself the resulting abuse or indignity.
Unfortunately as it stands now, DRM only exists for big powerhouses and not to protect the rights of individuals at all, and in that form I think it should die.
What on earth does a GUI have to do with a language? A GUI belongs in the C++ specification about as much as Java belongs in the kernel.
Each has its place and is used when necessary and shouldn't be forced into a place it doesn't belong for convenience.
I can't stand on my tip-toes while seated on my bike because I expect full leg-extension at the lower reach of my pedals. Dismounting is done by sliding forward off the seat or swinging a leg off to the rear. If I put both my feat down while seated, I can tip the bike back and forth about five or ten degrees from one foot to the other while neither touches in the middle.
I'm also 6'6" tall.