Does that mean that there are the occasional intrusive ads, expanding this way and that? Yes, sometimes we have to accept those ads.
No, it doesn't.
The first popup, pop-behind, obnoxious animation (if it's annoying or turns the fan on in my laptop it's obnoxious), or sound of any kind will drive me to block that ad or switch to a news source that doesn't have it. I don't really feel the need to block text or still image ads.
My life is much better since all the people who ask me for technical help got macs. If you can afford it, just buy them one (and require them to surrender the Windows machine in exchange for it).
My mom did manage to delete an app on her mini once, but Time Machine made that reversible.
They pay me to deal with Windows at work. I don't want to do that at home too.
It looks like you included the energy for producing the 17" CRT Williams assumes each desktop computer has. I think we could leave that out for a server.
I saw this on This Old House a while ago. I don't see a way to snarf it out into a spreadsheet automatically, but it brings the data to you wirelessly and logs/aggregates some of it for a while.
GPS isn't that useful in urban areas. The accuracy when you can't get 3 satellites is no better than using cell tower information. And many times you can't even get that. Indoors of course, nothing at all. That's one reason (some) phones use AGPS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGPS). It moves some of the positioning task (satellite tracking, signal path modeling) to the cell towers, and minimizes what the phone has to do. You still need a GPS signal, but they can then get by with a lot less signal strength, fewer observed satellites (maybe 1, I'm not sure),and a lot shorter observation time (brief visibility of one satellite might do it).
This is not the same as triangulating form the cell towers, but one you could certainly fall back to that if the phone couldn't see any satellites at all.
In the last couple of months I've seen a few new ForTwo's driving around the suburbs of Portland, including one in my neighborhood with a dealer plate on it.
Do young people even know that landlines have better signal quality? I can't imagine accepting the quality of a mobile call for everything. The DSP tail and dropouts drive me nuts sometimes. I often "hand off" a mobile call to my home or office landline (via call waiting) to avoid it.
I know my hearing has degraded as I've aged, but you can't hear missing samples no matter how young your ears are.
A bunbch of old farts I know were pontificating that since a lot of kids (people 25) don't know how their technology works, they just accept whatever limitations they get (like dropouts in your calls, or not being able to copy your music to another device). So, technology marches backwards sometimes, and nobody realizes it doesn't have to.
His research interests include cognitive science and evolutionary biology, and sometimes he presents students with a wooden box that he pretends is an African relic. "If you have negative sentiments toward religion," he tells them, "the box will destroy whatever you put inside it." Many of his students say they doubt the existence of God, but in this demonstration they act as if they believe in something. Put your pencil into the magic box, he tells them, and the nonbelievers do so blithely. Put in your driver's license, he says, and most do, but only after significant hesitation. And when he tells them to put in their hands, few will.
If they don't believe in God, what exactly are they afraid of?
Maybe they're afraid of the nutcase with the "magic box"? Maybe they're just reluctant to be made sport of (by reaching into some unpleasant surprise in the box).
This does not prove those people believe in god.
That said, it may be true that we have a bias toward religion. Dawkins has interesting things to say about that, as does Susan Blackmore in "The Meme Machine" (http://tinyurl.com/22jsz3).
At the risk of sounding like a dinosaur, I miss many of the aspects of news when reading web forums, including Slashdot.
Specifically, the notion of "read" status on messages, and the ability to hide (temporarily by collapsing, or semi-permanently by killing) whole subtrees of the discussion. If this read status was communicated back to slashdot.org, we'd have some stats on how many people read or ignored each comment (what nerd wouldn't love more stats?). You'd also be able to hide all the comments you'd already read when you came back to a story. This amounts to storing every slashdot reader's.newsrc, which may not be feasible.
How exactly to do this in the UI I don't know. Introduce a multi-pane mode like a news reader? Stick to the existing layout and add keyboard shortcuts to navigate to comments and mark them read? Just gate the whole discussion to NNTP for people who've already paid to skip the ads and let them pick their own client (clearly there are issues here at least with the moderation mechanism)?
But things like IO bandwidth can't (AFAIK) be dedicated to a VM. A thrashing VM will drive your IO load up, affecting everything else using that storage device directly, and everything on the host indirectly via the OS disk cache. You could isolate the storage queue delays with a separate stoarage device for each VM, but you're consolidating to avoid that kind of thing.
We have to play this game the way the rules are written. It's all well and good to encourage the opposing party to vote for the right guy regardless of party, but unless yours has a large majority you're going to lose doing that. Propping up third party spoilers is a standard technique for undermining the opposition.
Sure this sucks, but until we can get approval voting or some other rational system (not bloody likely, but it could happen) we have to play this game.
See http://www.drm.org/ There's a GNU Radio module for it. Apparently there are no DRM stations in the US, but since it's already digital the bitstream (or stored segments of it) for some sources may be online.
TFA is very light on data, so it's hard to say what exactly "interactive" means? Does it just send URLs, or is it a real two-way medium? The Nokia logo on the device is a hint this may just be a layer over a cellular network.
DRM can send data or audio. The data might be video, a transcript of the story, or any other "text". That means it could include URLs, and meet some definitions of "interactive" (using the ISP of your choice).
ISPs without neutrality are not, IMHO ISPs. In the legal world, that's probably not as clear as it is to us in the technical world.
This could be clarified with a brand like those on CDs and DVDs. Ideally we'd legally redefine the term ISP to mean a provider that doesn't do this crap (preferably without throwing out the whole notion of QOS for jitter and delay sensitive flows), but since the term has been in common use for a long time I'm not hopeful about that.
The lack of the brand on the consumer's ISP could be announced prominently (in some unfilterable way) on sites that were being throttled (e.g. "For full functionality, switch from Verizon to Speakeasy (click here)").
This doesn't help the people who are only served by one content-filtering ISP, except to make the situation obvious to them.
It seems that there are several organizations already engaged in monitoring and reporting various aspects of internet performance. These organizations may be well positioned to deploy something like this.
This ignores the cost of the AC to get rid of the monitor's heat. The rule of thumb I've heard used is the AC uses 4 watts for every watt of heat it pumps. This would make the energy savings 5x what you used above.
Many of the monitors in our lab are on 24x7. Not because they need to be, but because nobody turns them off, and the systems they're connected to don't put them to sleep for some reason (either they can't, or because it makes it hard to use the KVM they're connected to).
These factors could make the payback >10x faster, bringing it well within the lifetime of the LCD.
I am very interested in seeing what MS can do to overcome bandwidth concerns at the backbone, ISP and user level (TFA only eludes to it).
If anyone could push wide deployment of IP Multicast, it would be MSFT. Then again that would level the IPTV playing field somewhat, which is not the MSFT way.
3) Sound: There is absolutly no reason that an Ad should have or play sound.
If it gets our attention, then it's accomplished its mission, so actually there is a reason. There's lots of things ads do to get our attention that are annoying (being louder than the containing tv/radio program, and having annoying audio equalization come to mind).
Sound is my top annoyance in internet ads. It's driven me away from web sites (cnn for sure) for months at a time.
Novice web designers often think sound is charming. It's not. It's always annoying. Unless I'm explicitly viewing a media file I never want my browser to make any sound.
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Does that mean that there are the occasional intrusive ads, expanding this way and that? Yes, sometimes we have to accept those ads.
No, it doesn't.
The first popup, pop-behind, obnoxious animation (if it's annoying or turns the fan on in my laptop it's obnoxious), or sound of any kind will drive me to block that ad or switch to a news source that doesn't have it. I don't really feel the need to block text or still image ads.
My life is much better since all the people who ask me for technical help got macs. If you can afford it, just buy them one (and require them to surrender the Windows machine in exchange for it).
My mom did manage to delete an app on her mini once, but Time Machine made that reversible.
They pay me to deal with Windows at work. I don't want to do that at home too.
It looks like you included the energy for producing the 17" CRT Williams assumes each desktop computer has. I think we could leave that out for a server.
http://www.tethers.com/TT.html
I saw Robert L Forward talk about this at a con years ago.
Me either. I rarely have to reboot my Mac, so I don't really care how long it takes.
I saw this on This Old House a while ago. I don't see a way to snarf it out into a spreadsheet automatically, but it brings the data to you wirelessly and logs/aggregates some of it for a while.
The accuracy when you can't get 3 satellites is no better than using cell tower information.
And many times you can't even get that. Indoors of course, nothing at all. That's one reason (some) phones use AGPS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGPS). It moves some of the positioning task (satellite tracking, signal path modeling) to the cell towers, and minimizes what the phone has to do. You still need a GPS signal, but they can then get by with a lot less signal strength, fewer observed satellites (maybe 1, I'm not sure),and a lot shorter observation time (brief visibility of one satellite might do it).
This is not the same as triangulating form the cell towers, but one you could certainly fall back to that if the phone couldn't see any satellites at all.
In the last couple of months I've seen a few new ForTwo's driving around the suburbs of Portland, including one in my neighborhood with a dealer plate on it.
Do young people even know that landlines have better signal quality? I can't imagine accepting the quality of a mobile call for everything. The DSP tail and dropouts drive me nuts sometimes. I often "hand off" a mobile call to my home or office landline (via call waiting) to avoid it.
I know my hearing has degraded as I've aged, but you can't hear missing samples no matter how young your ears are.
A bunbch of old farts I know were pontificating that since a lot of kids (people 25) don't know how their technology works, they just accept whatever limitations they get (like dropouts in your calls, or not being able to copy your music to another device). So, technology marches backwards sometimes, and nobody realizes it doesn't have to.
On OSX, I use gpsphotolinker
Maybe they're afraid of the nutcase with the "magic box"? Maybe they're just reluctant to be made sport of (by reaching into some unpleasant surprise in the box).
This does not prove those people believe in god.
That said, it may be true that we have a bias toward religion. Dawkins has interesting things to say about that, as does Susan Blackmore in "The Meme Machine" (http://tinyurl.com/22jsz3).
Most IT workers I know are pretty unimpressed with the Bush administration.
At the risk of sounding like a dinosaur, I miss many of the aspects of news when reading web forums, including Slashdot.
.newsrc, which may not be feasible.
Specifically, the notion of "read" status on messages, and the ability to hide (temporarily by collapsing, or semi-permanently by killing) whole subtrees of the discussion. If this read status was communicated back to slashdot.org, we'd have some stats on how many people read or ignored each comment (what nerd wouldn't love more stats?). You'd also be able to hide all the comments you'd already read when you came back to a story. This amounts to storing every slashdot reader's
How exactly to do this in the UI I don't know. Introduce a multi-pane mode like a news reader? Stick to the existing layout and add keyboard shortcuts to navigate to comments and mark them read? Just gate the whole discussion to NNTP for people who've already paid to skip the ads and let them pick their own client (clearly there are issues here at least with the moderation mechanism)?
See http://del.icio.us/tag/biodiesel+algae
But things like IO bandwidth can't (AFAIK) be dedicated to a VM. A thrashing VM will drive your IO load up, affecting everything else using that storage device directly, and everything on the host indirectly via the OS disk cache. You could isolate the storage queue delays with a separate stoarage device for each VM, but you're consolidating to avoid that kind of thing.
No ISP cooperation necessary. This has been tested experimentally a couple of times.
See http://del.icio.us/tag/p2p+locality
We have to play this game the way the rules are written. It's all well and good to encourage the opposing party to vote for the right guy regardless of party, but unless yours has a large majority you're going to lose doing that. Propping up third party spoilers is a standard technique for undermining the opposition.
Sure this sucks, but until we can get approval voting or some other rational system (not bloody likely, but it could happen) we have to play this game.
See http://www.drm.org/ There's a GNU Radio module for it. Apparently there are no DRM stations in the US, but since it's already digital the bitstream (or stored segments of it) for some sources may be online.
TFA is very light on data, so it's hard to say what exactly "interactive" means? Does it just send URLs, or is it a real two-way medium? The Nokia logo on the device is a hint this may just be a layer over a cellular network.
DRM can send data or audio. The data might be video, a transcript of the story, or any other "text". That means it could include URLs, and meet some definitions of "interactive" (using the ISP of your choice).
Links? Please add them to: http://del.icio.us/tag/bob+carter
ISPs without neutrality are not, IMHO ISPs. In the legal world, that's probably not as clear as it is to us in the technical world.
This could be clarified with a brand like those on CDs and DVDs. Ideally we'd legally redefine the term ISP to mean a provider that doesn't do this crap (preferably without throwing out the whole notion of QOS for jitter and delay sensitive flows), but since the term has been in common use for a long time I'm not hopeful about that.
The lack of the brand on the consumer's ISP could be announced prominently (in some unfilterable way) on sites that were being throttled (e.g. "For full functionality, switch from Verizon to Speakeasy (click here)").
This doesn't help the people who are only served by one content-filtering ISP, except to make the situation obvious to them.
It seems that there are several organizations already engaged in monitoring and reporting various aspects of internet performance. These organizations may be well positioned to deploy something like this.
For a detailed analysis of exactly how, see Should Internet Service Providers Fear Peer-Assisted Content Distribution? (PDF Related papers can be found at http://del.icio.us/tag/locality+p2p
This ignores the cost of the AC to get rid of the monitor's heat. The rule of thumb I've heard used is the AC uses 4 watts for every watt of heat it pumps. This would make the energy savings 5x what you used above.
Many of the monitors in our lab are on 24x7. Not because they need to be, but because nobody turns them off, and the systems they're connected to don't put them to sleep for some reason (either they can't, or because it makes it hard to use the KVM they're connected to).
These factors could make the payback >10x faster, bringing it well within the lifetime of the LCD.
If it gets our attention, then it's accomplished its mission, so actually there is a reason. There's lots of things ads do to get our attention that are annoying (being louder than the containing tv/radio program, and having annoying audio equalization come to mind).
Sound is my top annoyance in internet ads. It's driven me away from web sites (cnn for sure) for months at a time.
Novice web designers often think sound is charming. It's not. It's always annoying. Unless I'm explicitly viewing a media file I never want my browser to make any sound.