'What I found may surprise you,' Kennedy writes. 'Not only does Microsoft have a firm grasp of multicore tuning, but its scalability story promises to keep getting better with time....'
Not really, wasn't one of the major complaints about Vista that they were changing the OS architecture to tune multicore processors to the detriment of single core processors?
Some USB flash drives have features that allow them to show up as CD-rom drives as far as Windows is concerned. I've personally never tried to play with this feature to get it to load something other than the manufacturer intended - but I do know that when you plug these drives in on Windows that they do not prompt you before launching their autorun application.
I'm actually pretty sure that I've spotted the results of this in "everyday" use. I've noticed that every once in a long while my hard-drive activity kicks up (it's happened when I'm just scrolling on an already-loaded web page and I'm using absolutely zero swap) and literally everything stops responding for a good 5 seconds. My guess would be that the slocate or "tracker" program spawns off on recently added and removed files, but it's not something I've put a lot of effort into figuring out.
No, there's no law that says you can't pass bad laws.
The US Constitution is considered to be part of the law, so there ARE laws that says you can't pass bad laws - they're mostly the amendments to the constitution but also are things like the prohibition of ex post facto laws (Article I, Section 9). The problem with our constitution is that there are no consequences for violating it. That's right, the most important and difficult to change piece of legislation that we have has no consequences for violating its tenets.
OK, so wasn't Windows 7 supposed to be usable on netbooks? If it's got the same requirements as Vista, then how the hell is that going to work exactly?
Or they could re-define "netbook", "works", or release a special stripped-down version.
Sounds like I'll not be changing my habits much: Windows for Games, Linux for everything else.
Personally, I thought they did a really good job with the campaigns but the multiplayer really sucked. The unit "balancing" makes countering enemy attacks insanely difficult and the pace of the game is just way too fast, it doesn't feel like there's any "strategy" - just constant countering and trying to wipe your enemy out before they counter the units you tried to produce that they don't (currently) have anything capable of stopping.
Not sure how it works in most fields, but in the one I'm in, it's your boss that gets the funding, not you.
Same here, so I'd say the school is taking credit for "resources" that it doesn't own. Everything in the lab that I work in is either owned by my boss (long story) or by the funding agencies that have purchased equipment. All the school owns is the building.
Not accepting the bargain would mean the student in question would be working AT a shoe store, not running a software company for them.
I don't know about where you work, but here (even though grad student pay is "pretty good") the hours mean we're making less than minimum wage. We might not make better yearly than at a shoe store, but our pay per unit time invested is crap.
It's not content being provided to the public. It's content being provided to their private network, which you have the option of joining at no cost.
I would have agreed with you not that long ago, but once they introduced the "public profile" concept I'd say that avenue of protection went out the window. Now that the content is no-longer only shared within the private network I would venture to guess that when the issue arises that FB (and others) will be held liable for the content that they fail to filter.
No, common carrier is very broadly defined - it involves taxis, shipping companies, phone companies, regional transportation districts, wire transfer companies, and the list goes on. Generally, any company that transfers a good or service for the general public is considered a common carrier.
As a private enterprise, they have the right to restrict what they want.
No, they don't. In the US companies that deliver goods or services for the public are generally perceived to be protected from litigation since they are considered to be a "common carrier," but this is only the case if they do not discriminate with what things they traffic. Once a company that delivers goods or services for the public starts discriminating on what it will allow then it becomes liable for any traffic that it carries.
It's hard to blame Microsoft for moving money offshore to avoid taxes, we're the idiots that tax the hell out of our populace and our companies and think no bad could ever come from it.
The US actually has lower taxes than most countries (especially compared to the EU). Our "base" tax rate is higher, but as a result of exceptions for every little thing our citizens (and especially our corporations) pay significantly less than those of other countries.
I was transferring large data sets to the disk, not making a video DVD. I would expect the MPEG-2 error-correction to take care of a minor blemish, raw data files not so much. I bet if you made a mark with a sharpie about half the length of that fingerprint, cleaned it off after recording the disk, and then tried to play it then your player would get completely stuck when it got to that point on the disk.
You may have had that problem with dusty media, but the explanation sounds suspect. The laser beam is focused to a point inside the disc, not at the surface; at the surface, it's wide and dust simply reduces its intensity at the focused point (diagram [geekspeak.org]). Looks like BD discs have much less tolerance of dust, due to the data layer being so close to the surface.
I'll grant that "etches" is an inappropriate description, "blocks the beam, slightly toasts the dust, and prevents data from being written to the disk" would be more accurate but is also much more verbose. "Wide" is relative, the dust on the disk was much larger than the beam waist. I'm not saying this happened with a tiny speck of dust - more like a big fat sharpie-stroke of dust.
I noticed after burning the disk that there was dust on the bottom (a lot of it concentrated in one spot). So, I blew it off and the part where the dust used to be was distinctly the "not burned" color. For shits and giggles I tried the disk anyway and there were a bunch of inaccessible files. Since I noticed it right away I just chucked the disk and made a new one (I was working with data on a PC). This happened quite a while ago, but if you're curious I could attempt to intentionally reproduce it.
Almost sounds like a DVD that wasn't finalized in a direct-to-dvd camcorder.
I don't know about that, but I've run into this problem when there's dust on the disk when it's recorded. The laser etches the dust rather than the media, resulting in a disk that's got a small blank section.
People tried this with networking, even on a fully gigabit network it's waaaay too slow to transfer everything to do with your "desktop" between instances of you logging in. For the foreseeable future there's no way to do what you talk about without having a physical medium where your files are directly stored and retrieved as needed (which is how many people use their flash drives now).
We have a levy on blank CDs, but nothing on iPods or internet service. I imagine many of us view the levy on CDs as a loophole of sorts that allows us to share as many songs as we want without any legal repercussions.
What about those that purchase CDs for other legitimate means? I haven't burned music to a CD in years (on the order of a decade). Why should I have to pay a music tax on blank CDs that I'm only ever going to be using to distribute Linux?
If they yank your EA account, online functions of Spore will cease, but you can still play the game.
Lets say you buy a car and one of the features is a fancy stereo and you get caught playing unauthorized music. Is it acceptable for the manufacturer to disable your stereo because you broke the rules?
he limiting factor for your free Unix is not CPU - a few hundred MHz will do fine - but memory. I also have a P-II 450MHz desktop running FreeBSD with KDE, and it works marvellously because it's got 704MB RAM.
Personally, that's why I'd recommend NOT using KDE or GNOME (and I use these bloated suckers on every box I own). If you're on a limited memory box (like a netbook) then I'd recommend using Xfce. For the Ubuntu fans you can load Xubuntu for the Xfce version.
We have a really old LeCroy we use for gigahertz analysis (our dinky scopes top out around 300 MHz) and that thing is frickin' sweet (except for the one knob that fell off so you have to use a screwdriver on it).
People say there aren't enough skilled workers, but from what I can, there are too many people in the IT field. We posted for an opening and we had 40+ candidates in under a couple of hours. Many had little to no skills, but who's to say that I would get a better candidate from another country?
I'd say part of that is that we're in an economic downturn and people need to look like they're looking for work to continue receiving welfare. Personally, I welcome the return of the WPA to replace the welfare system.
Besides, if u keep hiring candidates from outside, then how will the non-experienced people that are in the US get the experience they need? We can't support the whole world by saying, come on down. I will get you a job because I don't want to pay the American worker so much money. Well, guess what, you can pay me 15K/yr, or 100K/yr. I still have to pay the same price for everday items that I NEED, forget what I WANT. So, how do I live on the poverty scale, when I went to school in hopes of making more money in the first place?
Hmm, looks like you've been on both sides of the isle. As someone currently watching people go through school, I can tell you that there are a large number of people who do not work at their education hard enough to earn compensation for their efforts (most people do their best to learn nothing with their parents money). Also, extraordinary pay comes with extraordinary experience --- provided that you work in an industry that compensates you for experience. In academia you get to go through school and rack up debt so that you can make LESS than you would have otherwise. Trust me, I worked an industry job so that I could pay for school so that I could take a cut in pay and be in academia.
You might want to check the accuracy of that statement. It has most certainly not been proved to be wrong. It has been proven to be extremely slightly inaccurate in a few cases.
Your statement here is dishonest, depending on the sensitivity and nature of an experiment then Newtonian Mechanics is completely and utterly bogus. In order to apply Newton's Laws you MUST have an inertial reference frame. Since inertial reference frames do not exist in reality, Newton's Laws are ALWAYS an approximation. So, depending on how poor that approximation is then your answer using Newton's Laws will be more wrong. This problem is not just in "fringe" cases of physics, every day phenomena do not follow Newton's laws. A simple example of this problem is the Coriolis Effect (the deflection of objects due to a rotating reference frame), which causes projectiles fired from gunships to be deflected and miss their intended target (unless the gunner compensates for this effect).
(you might say that the old dogma is a 99,99999999999999% correct simplification of the new dogma)
You are misusing the term "dogma", dogma applies to a belief in the purest sense (without proof). Unfortunately, in English we do not have a separate word for "belief with proof" so instead we normally say that we "know this to be true with a high degree of certainty." If we were German we would use the word "kennen", which has the appropriate meaning but is normally translated to English simply as "to know."
The problem is, the same goes for moral laws.
Go take some philosophy classes, especially those that concentrate on ethics. Ethical systems derived from scientific principles are VERY different from ethical systems derived from dogmatic beliefs.
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Not really, wasn't one of the major complaints about Vista that they were changing the OS architecture to tune multicore processors to the detriment of single core processors?
Some USB flash drives have features that allow them to show up as CD-rom drives as far as Windows is concerned. I've personally never tried to play with this feature to get it to load something other than the manufacturer intended - but I do know that when you plug these drives in on Windows that they do not prompt you before launching their autorun application.
I'm actually pretty sure that I've spotted the results of this in "everyday" use. I've noticed that every once in a long while my hard-drive activity kicks up (it's happened when I'm just scrolling on an already-loaded web page and I'm using absolutely zero swap) and literally everything stops responding for a good 5 seconds. My guess would be that the slocate or "tracker" program spawns off on recently added and removed files, but it's not something I've put a lot of effort into figuring out.
The US Constitution is considered to be part of the law, so there ARE laws that says you can't pass bad laws - they're mostly the amendments to the constitution but also are things like the prohibition of ex post facto laws (Article I, Section 9). The problem with our constitution is that there are no consequences for violating it. That's right, the most important and difficult to change piece of legislation that we have has no consequences for violating its tenets.
Or they could re-define "netbook", "works", or release a special stripped-down version.
Wine...
Personally, I thought they did a really good job with the campaigns but the multiplayer really sucked. The unit "balancing" makes countering enemy attacks insanely difficult and the pace of the game is just way too fast, it doesn't feel like there's any "strategy" - just constant countering and trying to wipe your enemy out before they counter the units you tried to produce that they don't (currently) have anything capable of stopping.
Same here, so I'd say the school is taking credit for "resources" that it doesn't own. Everything in the lab that I work in is either owned by my boss (long story) or by the funding agencies that have purchased equipment. All the school owns is the building.
I don't know about where you work, but here (even though grad student pay is "pretty good") the hours mean we're making less than minimum wage. We might not make better yearly than at a shoe store, but our pay per unit time invested is crap.
Wal-Mart does not move goods for the general public, you cannot ask Wal-Mart to ship something for you to another location.
I would have agreed with you not that long ago, but once they introduced the "public profile" concept I'd say that avenue of protection went out the window. Now that the content is no-longer only shared within the private network I would venture to guess that when the issue arises that FB (and others) will be held liable for the content that they fail to filter.
No, common carrier is very broadly defined - it involves taxis, shipping companies, phone companies, regional transportation districts, wire transfer companies, and the list goes on. Generally, any company that transfers a good or service for the general public is considered a common carrier.
No, they don't. In the US companies that deliver goods or services for the public are generally perceived to be protected from litigation since they are considered to be a "common carrier," but this is only the case if they do not discriminate with what things they traffic. Once a company that delivers goods or services for the public starts discriminating on what it will allow then it becomes liable for any traffic that it carries.
The US actually has lower taxes than most countries (especially compared to the EU). Our "base" tax rate is higher, but as a result of exceptions for every little thing our citizens (and especially our corporations) pay significantly less than those of other countries.
I was transferring large data sets to the disk, not making a video DVD. I would expect the MPEG-2 error-correction to take care of a minor blemish, raw data files not so much. I bet if you made a mark with a sharpie about half the length of that fingerprint, cleaned it off after recording the disk, and then tried to play it then your player would get completely stuck when it got to that point on the disk.
I'll grant that "etches" is an inappropriate description, "blocks the beam, slightly toasts the dust, and prevents data from being written to the disk" would be more accurate but is also much more verbose. "Wide" is relative, the dust on the disk was much larger than the beam waist. I'm not saying this happened with a tiny speck of dust - more like a big fat sharpie-stroke of dust.
I noticed after burning the disk that there was dust on the bottom (a lot of it concentrated in one spot). So, I blew it off and the part where the dust used to be was distinctly the "not burned" color. For shits and giggles I tried the disk anyway and there were a bunch of inaccessible files. Since I noticed it right away I just chucked the disk and made a new one (I was working with data on a PC). This happened quite a while ago, but if you're curious I could attempt to intentionally reproduce it.
I don't know about that, but I've run into this problem when there's dust on the disk when it's recorded. The laser etches the dust rather than the media, resulting in a disk that's got a small blank section.
Yeah, but I think NYCL is saying that they can sue them for (commercial gain)*(instances) and for file sharing "commercial gain" == 0.
People tried this with networking, even on a fully gigabit network it's waaaay too slow to transfer everything to do with your "desktop" between instances of you logging in. For the foreseeable future there's no way to do what you talk about without having a physical medium where your files are directly stored and retrieved as needed (which is how many people use their flash drives now).
What about those that purchase CDs for other legitimate means? I haven't burned music to a CD in years (on the order of a decade). Why should I have to pay a music tax on blank CDs that I'm only ever going to be using to distribute Linux?
Lets say you buy a car and one of the features is a fancy stereo and you get caught playing unauthorized music. Is it acceptable for the manufacturer to disable your stereo because you broke the rules?
Personally, that's why I'd recommend NOT using KDE or GNOME (and I use these bloated suckers on every box I own). If you're on a limited memory box (like a netbook) then I'd recommend using Xfce. For the Ubuntu fans you can load Xubuntu for the Xfce version.
We have a really old LeCroy we use for gigahertz analysis (our dinky scopes top out around 300 MHz) and that thing is frickin' sweet (except for the one knob that fell off so you have to use a screwdriver on it).
I'd say part of that is that we're in an economic downturn and people need to look like they're looking for work to continue receiving welfare. Personally, I welcome the return of the WPA to replace the welfare system.
Hmm, looks like you've been on both sides of the isle. As someone currently watching people go through school, I can tell you that there are a large number of people who do not work at their education hard enough to earn compensation for their efforts (most people do their best to learn nothing with their parents money). Also, extraordinary pay comes with extraordinary experience --- provided that you work in an industry that compensates you for experience. In academia you get to go through school and rack up debt so that you can make LESS than you would have otherwise. Trust me, I worked an industry job so that I could pay for school so that I could take a cut in pay and be in academia.
Well, for the "document sharing" and "editing rights" part you could use Dropbox.
Your statement here is dishonest, depending on the sensitivity and nature of an experiment then Newtonian Mechanics is completely and utterly bogus. In order to apply Newton's Laws you MUST have an inertial reference frame. Since inertial reference frames do not exist in reality, Newton's Laws are ALWAYS an approximation. So, depending on how poor that approximation is then your answer using Newton's Laws will be more wrong. This problem is not just in "fringe" cases of physics, every day phenomena do not follow Newton's laws. A simple example of this problem is the Coriolis Effect (the deflection of objects due to a rotating reference frame), which causes projectiles fired from gunships to be deflected and miss their intended target (unless the gunner compensates for this effect).
You are misusing the term "dogma", dogma applies to a belief in the purest sense (without proof). Unfortunately, in English we do not have a separate word for "belief with proof" so instead we normally say that we "know this to be true with a high degree of certainty." If we were German we would use the word "kennen", which has the appropriate meaning but is normally translated to English simply as "to know."
Go take some philosophy classes, especially those that concentrate on ethics. Ethical systems derived from scientific principles are VERY different from ethical systems derived from dogmatic beliefs.