Do a Google search for MPA University Toolkit. You will see lots of copies and caches of the original page, complete with the original link for doing the download:
...And all that process of uranium mining and refinement runs on sweet dreams and sunshine?
No, but since it has to move about 1/1000th as much mass out of the ground per unit of energy generated, it's down in the noise compared to, say, coal.
... implementations are slow/fast. A language based on a specification can have multiple implementations with vastly different performance characteristics. Consider Common Lisp, which has implementations:
* with a classic interpreter, and dynamic native compliation (Allegro CL) * with a byte-code compiler (CLISP) * with dynamic native compilation only (SBCL, OpenMCL)
The reason "Python is slow" is that it is defined by an interpreter-based implementation - other implementations with different performance curves are judged on bug-for-bug compatibility with CPython.
... I'd be reverse-engineering the visual voicemail protocol, yesterday. That's really the only special carrier support the iPhone needs - everything else it does is done with standard GSM/EDGE/WiFi connectivity.
My wife is a free-lance sign language interpreter, and she has a Sidekick II for her voice phone and email in the field. The Sidekick has a bunch of other smart phone features, but the only one she uses at all is the mobile browser (which occasionally renders pages useably). The rest of its features (camera, address book, calendar, etc.) either don't work or don't sync with her Mac at home.
She would drop the Sidekick for an iPhone in a heartbeat - if she didn't have to switch to AT&T, which bites relative to T-Mobile in the DC metro area (and that's saying something - T-Mobile's coverage in DC is tolerable, barely).
A similar analysis can be applied to the position of the driver's seat in shared automobiles.
Men are typically taller than women, so they want the seat pushed back (so they can enter the car without bruising their kneecaps on the dashboard, or kneeling outside the car to move the seat back).
Women want the seat forward, so they can reach the controls.
Both sexes tend to leave the seat in their preferred position when they leave the car.
The "natural" position for the seat is forward, at least for non-powered seats - typically there are springs that pull the seat there, so it takes effort to push the seat back.
The same sort of social analysis applied to toilet seats leads to the position that women should push the seat back when they leave the car.
The game theory analysis, though, leads to the more common result of women leaving the seat forward, because the cost to them is lower - it is rare for a man to yell at a woman about this enough to make her change her behavior.
You weren't supposed to be able to add software or hardware to the Apple TV, either. It took about a week from release for people to figure out how to replace the hard drive, remotely log in, add new codecs, etc.
Granted, hacking the iPhone will be a little harder. I give it a month, tops, if any of the tools needed leak out of Apple or third party developers.
"This is the most dangerous project that has been launched by the atomic sector in the whole world over the past decade," said Ivan Blokov, campaign director of Greenpeace Russia, Thursday. "It is scary as this is basically going to be a floating atomic bomb."
I bet Mr. Blokov has no idea how brain-damaged that statement is. There are reasons to be concerned about floating nuclear power plants, but calling them "floating atomic bombs" just reveals his personal ignorance.
And labeling them as the most dangerous project in this decade, without thinking about, say, North Korea or Iran... the mind boggles.
The bean-counters know exactly what they're doing. They're extracting more value (your time) from you at no cost.
Skimping on tools or environment spending does have a measurable impact on the bottom line, if it increases the turnover rate. Replacing a knowledge worker costs one to two times their salary (look at some of these search results).
Before praising the bean counters, ask them if they know what the company's turnover rate is for those jobs, and how that compares to the average for their competition. If they don't know those numbers, they aren't counting all the relevant beans.
As usual, if you want lightweight and featureful..
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Can you fit your Perl/Python/Ruby interpreter in 150 kilobytes?
No, but SIOD fits into 75K, has a track record with the Gimp and game extension, and has a use-it-any-way-you-want license. I've used it for web-related stuff and sysadminish things, too.
Get a mac mini you say? Umm, no. There is no redundancy in the disks and the disk IO is slow.
For small business, a mac mini with firewire external disks would handle most of your disk speed problems. It's not SATA, but it's not bad, and the performance boost over the internal (notebook) drive is quite noticeable.
My home desktop is a mini with a firewire drive. I boot and run off the external drive, and only use the internal for backup storage and crash recovery.
I was at Worldcon the year Blade Runner won the Hugo. Ridley Scott was there to accept the award, and he said something to the effect of "apparently you people in this room are the only ones who saw it".
Granted, it came out on the same weekend as "E.T."...
Of course, there's a good support community out there for older Apple devices, but Apple can't take credit for that. Anyone running OSX 10.3 or older wont be getting any updates any time soon.
So, the Software Update patches I've been getting for 10.3 are not being sent out by Apple? Clearly this is evidence of a serious security breach.;-)
And then there are the countless times I've been unable to run applications because they were coded for a more recent version of OSX than I was running.
This was indeed a problem until recently, when Apple finally froze OS X's ABI as of 10.4. They claim now that if it's coded for 10.4, it should work for the foreseeable future (OS XI, maybe?).
... but I can see several wireless access points from my living room, most of them completely open.
Apparently securing an access point is beyond the computer skills of most middle-class internet users. It's likely that securing their Wii is also beyond them, too.
All of the examples of natural (non-human-driven) change you mentioned happened on time scales that are vastly different from the apparent time scale of global warming, deforestation, and the current rate of species loss.
There are no doubt environmentalists who want to preserve everything, and some of what they want is written into US law (Endangered Species Act). However, on the human time scale, there is little difference between preserving everything and the natural rate of change.
Consider that one of the long-allowed copyright exceptions is "short excerpts for review purposes".
One thousand "reviewers" each legally excerpt a different portion of, say, Peter Jackson's new release of "The Silmarillion". Each of them legally posts their review with their excerpt. These reviews are not required to have any DRM on them, because they do not individually infringe on the copyright of the movie.
I can now find their reviews, paste together their excerpts, and recreate an illegal copy of the movie.
No DRM scheme can distinguish between me creating this illegal copy, and me just reading those thousand reviews, at least not without becoming incredibly intrusive.
... install the OS on it and run from that, and use the internal drive as backup. Lots less intrusive on your not-really-meant-to-be-opened Mac Mini, and gets you almost as much performance boost as installing an expensive fast notebook drive.
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Do a Google search for MPA University Toolkit. You will see lots of copies and caches of the original page, complete with the original link for doing the download:
... which still works.
http://universitytoolkit.org/tkagree.php
...And all that process of uranium mining and refinement runs on sweet dreams and sunshine?
No, but since it has to move about 1/1000th as much mass out of the ground per unit of energy generated, it's down in the noise compared to, say, coal.
Comcast high-speed internet (without CableTV): $61
Comcast mini-basic CableTV ($15) + high-speed internet: $60
Until a few months ago, I was getting Comcast minimum TV + internet for a bit under $60 (Washington DC area).
I called them up and told them I was considering switching to FIOS, which had just come through my neighborhood.
They instantly reduced my internet charges to $30 (total bill now $45).
Competition can be a wonderful thing - use it!
... implementations are slow/fast. A language based on a specification can have multiple implementations with vastly different performance characteristics. Consider Common Lisp, which has implementations:
* with a classic interpreter, and dynamic native compliation (Allegro CL)
* with a byte-code compiler (CLISP)
* with dynamic native compilation only (SBCL, OpenMCL)
The reason "Python is slow" is that it is defined by an interpreter-based implementation - other implementations with different performance curves are judged on bug-for-bug compatibility with CPython.
... I'd be reverse-engineering the visual voicemail protocol, yesterday. That's really the only special carrier support the iPhone needs - everything else it does is done with standard GSM/EDGE/WiFi connectivity.
My wife is a free-lance sign language interpreter, and she has a Sidekick II for her voice phone and email in the field. The Sidekick has a bunch of other smart phone features, but the only one she uses at all is the mobile browser (which occasionally renders pages useably). The rest of its features (camera, address book, calendar, etc.) either don't work or don't sync with her Mac at home.
She would drop the Sidekick for an iPhone in a heartbeat - if she didn't have to switch to AT&T, which bites relative to T-Mobile in the DC metro area (and that's saying something - T-Mobile's coverage in DC is tolerable, barely).
301-844-1212 is still the time number here. Before we went to 10-digit numbers everywhere, it was 844-****
... that your posted analysis probably saved the bad guys a lot of time and effort.
With Gmail, I know who's reading my mail. Google is - they told me so.
With packet inspection, anyone on the internet backbone between me and Google could be reading my email - my local ISP, plus anyone they peer with.
Granted, this is also true of standard unencrypted email...
Why do Apple programs "break" the usual look and feel of Windows programs?
Just curious - what is the usual look and feel of Windows programs?
The only user interface option they all have in common is Ctrl-Alt-Del/End Task, in my experience.
... when I hear it's been replicated at a few dozen labs.
A similar analysis can be applied to the position of the driver's seat in shared automobiles.
Men are typically taller than women, so they want the seat pushed back (so they can enter the car without bruising their kneecaps on the dashboard, or kneeling outside the car to move the seat back).
Women want the seat forward, so they can reach the controls.
Both sexes tend to leave the seat in their preferred position when they leave the car.
The "natural" position for the seat is forward, at least for non-powered seats - typically there are springs that pull the seat there, so it takes effort to push the seat back.
The same sort of social analysis applied to toilet seats leads to the position that women should push the seat back when they leave the car.
The game theory analysis, though, leads to the more common result of women leaving the seat forward, because the cost to them is lower - it is rare for a man to yell at a woman about this enough to make her change her behavior.
You weren't supposed to be able to add software or hardware to the Apple TV, either. It took about a week from release for people to figure out how to replace the hard drive, remotely log in, add new codecs, etc.
Granted, hacking the iPhone will be a little harder. I give it a month, tops, if any of the tools needed leak out of Apple or third party developers.
The year 2009 will be the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing.
It will also be the 37th anniversary of the last moon landing.
Dammit.
If everything goes according to current NASA plans, they'll be back in 2019.
2019!
From the fine article:
"This is the most dangerous project that has been launched by the atomic sector in the whole world over the past decade," said Ivan Blokov, campaign director of Greenpeace Russia, Thursday. "It is scary as this is basically going to be a floating atomic bomb."
I bet Mr. Blokov has no idea how brain-damaged that statement is. There are reasons to be concerned about floating nuclear power plants, but calling them "floating atomic bombs" just reveals his personal ignorance.
And labeling them as the most dangerous project in this decade, without thinking about, say, North Korea or Iran... the mind boggles.
The bean-counters know exactly what they're doing. They're extracting more value (your time) from you at no cost.
Skimping on tools or environment spending does have a measurable impact on the bottom line, if it increases the turnover rate. Replacing a knowledge worker costs one to two times their salary (look at some of these search results).
Before praising the bean counters, ask them if they know what the company's turnover rate is for those jobs, and how that compares to the average for their competition. If they don't know those numbers, they aren't counting all the relevant beans.
Can you fit your Perl/Python/Ruby interpreter in 150 kilobytes?
No, but SIOD fits into 75K, has a track record with the Gimp and game extension, and has a use-it-any-way-you-want license. I've used it for web-related stuff and sysadminish things, too.
Get a mac mini you say? Umm, no. There is no redundancy in the disks and the disk IO is slow.
For small business, a mac mini with firewire external disks would handle most of your disk speed problems. It's not SATA, but it's not bad, and the performance boost over the internal (notebook) drive is quite noticeable.
My home desktop is a mini with a firewire drive. I boot and run off the external drive, and only use the internal for backup storage and crash recovery.
I was at Worldcon the year Blade Runner won the Hugo. Ridley Scott was there to accept the award, and he said something to the effect of "apparently you people in this room are the only ones who saw it".
...
Granted, it came out on the same weekend as "E.T."
Of course, there's a good support community out there for older Apple devices, but Apple can't take credit for that. Anyone running OSX 10.3 or older wont be getting any updates any time soon.
;-)
So, the Software Update patches I've been getting for 10.3 are not being sent out by Apple? Clearly this is evidence of a serious security breach.
And then there are the countless times I've been unable to run applications because they were coded for a more recent version of OSX than I was running.
This was indeed a problem until recently, when Apple finally froze OS X's ABI as of 10.4. They claim now that if it's coded for 10.4, it should work for the foreseeable future (OS XI, maybe?).
...rogue?
The precursor to hack, which added at least a year to my sentence^Wstay at the University of Maryland in the 1980's?
The game referenced in the classic AI paper ROG-O-MATIC: A Belligerent Expert System?
... but I can see several wireless access points from my living room, most of them completely open.
Apparently securing an access point is beyond the computer skills of most middle-class internet users. It's likely that securing their Wii is also beyond them, too.
All of the examples of natural (non-human-driven) change you mentioned happened on time scales that are vastly different from the apparent time scale of global warming, deforestation, and the current rate of species loss.
There are no doubt environmentalists who want to preserve everything, and some of what they want is written into US law (Endangered Species Act). However, on the human time scale, there is little difference between preserving everything and the natural rate of change.
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Consider that one of the long-allowed copyright exceptions is "short excerpts for review purposes".
One thousand "reviewers" each legally excerpt a different portion of, say, Peter Jackson's new release of "The Silmarillion". Each of them legally posts their review with their excerpt. These reviews are not required to have any DRM on them, because they do not individually infringe on the copyright of the movie.
I can now find their reviews, paste together their excerpts, and recreate an illegal copy of the movie.
No DRM scheme can distinguish between me creating this illegal copy, and me just reading those thousand reviews, at least not without becoming incredibly intrusive.
... install the OS on it and run from that, and use the internal drive as backup. Lots less intrusive on your not-really-meant-to-be-opened Mac Mini, and gets you almost as much performance boost as installing an expensive fast notebook drive.