On CBS radio, there was a quick blurb about reaping profit by selling off stock to new departments in your company (they said they could be your 'best customer'). I heard it, and couldn't imagine how insane you'd have to be to think that selling something to yourself caused anything but a shifting of numbers across a spreadsheet.
We used to do that at my school, and from what I remember it involved a 9 foot dish to pick up the signals. We made a decent bit of money getting the signal and bouncing it off a rented satellite transponder so that people could pick it up with 18" dishes, because the 9 footers were such a pain to mount. The weather images are really absurdly detailed though...
You're telling me you don't have a tamper proof torx set?
Unlike RIAA/MPAA DRM, the key is in the hands of those who own it and are qualified to mess with it. Its much like restricted user accounts; some things the average use should not touch.
This is why we have Torx, and for really critical applications, Torx with the little peg in the middle. The more important the component, the more obscure the fastener should be (pozidrive, anyone?)
Well, Rueter's made it sound like no big deal, but I think its a bit of a confidence killer. Looks how issues with a small subset of a product seem to taint it for life: overheating/crushable AMDs, P4s need super-expensive RAM, GeFroceFXs require a leafblower, etc. Release bugs seem to follow computer parts in spirit well after the flaw is corrected.
Also good on nanotube elevators is Kim Stanley Robinson's [red/green/blue] Mars triology. He even addresses a bit of the issue of the thing falling over (though his is substantially heavier than this proposal, and only reaches to geosynch rather than going out past geosynch for balance)
The insulating coating on the large fuel tank is a spray-on system; note how that really didn't work out so well, what with the large air cavities causing big chunks to flake off.
The problem here is that the fossil fuels give up energy by breaking bonds between atoms. If we have to form those bonds in this spiffy manufacturing process, we're really just wasting energy. Don't forget that in addition to cars, our power plants also consume a huge quantity of hydrocarbon fuel. Of course, a battery perfected on the nano-meter scale might make an electric car viable (provided that you adopt some clean-ish source of energy, like nuclear power (clean-ish because there's still waste, its just in a convenient brick rather than cloud of toxic gas), so that the power grid doesn't fall apart when we run out of fossil fuels)
Hardware protection schemes can be broken. Ti-83+ calculators use a system similar to what you describe for DVD firmware to authenticate new OS software when its being flashed. It took more than the couple of weeks that software DRM takes to break, but in the end one guy in his basement was able to logic probe his way around, and eventually came up with a method to flash any OS code you want onto the calculator. The same thing will happen to any firmware-upgradable device.
I agree completely about the amount of windows junk out there. On the network at uni, there is a known issue where the Linksys wireless-B router will just give up an die after about 5 minutes of exposure, do to all of the junk flying about. The joy of several thousand mostly unprotected Windows machines with uneducated users...
I bet on high enough power, you could even interfere with the media's cameras! Disrupt the satellite feeds, format their magnetic media... it their word against yours, and you have a stun cannon!
Great for interface layout, pretty lousy for the part of the software that actually does work. I think that an XML-based dialog layout system might not be all bad, but simply as a way of communicating the layout to a real language, a la the dialog designers in VS.Net.
You'll note that the common word between the expansion of HTTP and HTML is 'text'. That's what the idea behind the web is, text. Current extenstion can give you pretty text. Sometimes, you can even get somewhat interactive text. Its no excuse for a real application, one that is designed to stand alone or at worst use a highly optimized VM that you yourself never have to see. You don't want to say 'I need to use app x, so I'll fire up the browser', you say 'I'll fire up app x'. For the lay user, there's no line between the app and the OS, because they look and operate as a whole. Web applications break this, by simply being enhancement upon enhancement laid upon simple text. Java applets are an exception, but they are pretty much a hole in the text where a real program is allowed to show through.
Think of it as buying roadside assistance for your car. "This car will never break down on you! By the way, would you like to pay us lots of money so that someone will come give you a lift when you break down?"
This issue already happened with Office. The Offive dev team needs a quick OS tweak to get something working, they walk down the hall and ask. The OpenOffice dev team needs an OS tweak... they work around it.
I read the beginning of it, and it looks like the book will be divided into sections by subject (so I guess you can think of it as a set of books?). The style at the moment reads more like lecture notes than an instructional text (in fact, the formatting and writing style is almost exactly like lecture notes from the CS department at school...). From reading the section on elementary algebra, I strongly doubt that I could have picked up how to do stuff simply by reading (I guess that's where your educational professional comes in). Its got a bit of a way to go before I would compare it to textbooks I've actually used for those topics.
Which is kind of commendable...it's nice to know if I'm not burning a CD, it's not loaded into memory. Or that if I didn't use my iPod, I could turn off iPod support.
The problem is, that it *is* loaded into memory when you're not burning a CD. And, if you don't set up the CD burning service to start with the system, you can't start it up later. You have to edit the startup list and reboot. I don't even own an iPod, and I have to leave that part running. The modularity is an interesting idea, its just done really poorly.
Worthwhile when your music program wants to use 60+ meg.
Weren't we just commenting on the "terrible" 20MB footprint of Nero?
Did you just use 'resource hungry' to describe a media player? Time to get a new media player, methinks... its a background task, to amuse you while you do real work, kind of like the little clock display...
Those services are the most irritating thing ever. If I plan on burning a CD this session, I have to leave the service running, sucking down resources, from boot until I'm done with the CD. Something crashed and I killed the service? Got to reboot to burn a CD! What kind of system is that? If you're going to abuse services because you can't handle multithreading, at least start and stop the services around the times they're needed.
I'm not even sure why they need to worry so much about keeping the music playing going... I'm not sure about Macs, but PCs are capable of playing music files in the background in pretty much any kind of operating conditions.
As for the stability of Win98, it works fine for me. All of my systems except my new laptop run it; they stay running for weeks at a time handling everything from office tasks to 3D and Photoshop to web serving. 2K/XP also run fine, but there's no real reason to upgrade if you've got something that works (particularly on older hardware)
Apple users have been shown to be better educated,
wealthier and more artistic creatures than PC users.
Well, they'd kind of have to be to be Mac users, wouldn't they? Particularly given the price quotes above for Macs in the UK (its as if someone just changed the dollar sign out for pounds and called it a conversion!)
It would really bit to get your cell number blacklisted off of various other networks because it got made into a zombie (in the manner of your host being blacklisted off of other people's email servers)... might start up a market in less annoying phones, though.
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On CBS radio, there was a quick blurb about reaping profit by selling off stock to new departments in your company (they said they could be your 'best customer'). I heard it, and couldn't imagine how insane you'd have to be to think that selling something to yourself caused anything but a shifting of numbers across a spreadsheet.
We used to do that at my school, and from what I remember it involved a 9 foot dish to pick up the signals. We made a decent bit of money getting the signal and bouncing it off a rented satellite transponder so that people could pick it up with 18" dishes, because the 9 footers were such a pain to mount. The weather images are really absurdly detailed though ...
You're telling me you don't have a tamper proof torx set?
Unlike RIAA/MPAA DRM, the key is in the hands of those who own it and are qualified to mess with it. Its much like restricted user accounts; some things the average use should not touch.
This is why we have Torx, and for really critical applications, Torx with the little peg in the middle. The more important the component, the more obscure the fastener should be (pozidrive, anyone?)
Well, Rueter's made it sound like no big deal, but I think its a bit of a confidence killer. Looks how issues with a small subset of a product seem to taint it for life: overheating/crushable AMDs, P4s need super-expensive RAM, GeFroceFXs require a leafblower, etc. Release bugs seem to follow computer parts in spirit well after the flaw is corrected.
So, we're bringing TiVO to spy/weather/research satellites. Now to bring spy/weather/research satellite feeds to television ...
Also good on nanotube elevators is Kim Stanley Robinson's [red/green/blue] Mars triology. He even addresses a bit of the issue of the thing falling over (though his is substantially heavier than this proposal, and only reaches to geosynch rather than going out past geosynch for balance)
I think you missed the bit about 'geek drive' ...
The insulating coating on the large fuel tank is a spray-on system; note how that really didn't work out so well, what with the large air cavities causing big chunks to flake off.
The problem here is that the fossil fuels give up energy by breaking bonds between atoms. If we have to form those bonds in this spiffy manufacturing process, we're really just wasting energy. Don't forget that in addition to cars, our power plants also consume a huge quantity of hydrocarbon fuel. Of course, a battery perfected on the nano-meter scale might make an electric car viable (provided that you adopt some clean-ish source of energy, like nuclear power (clean-ish because there's still waste, its just in a convenient brick rather than cloud of toxic gas), so that the power grid doesn't fall apart when we run out of fossil fuels)
Hardware protection schemes can be broken. Ti-83+ calculators use a system similar to what you describe for DVD firmware to authenticate new OS software when its being flashed. It took more than the couple of weeks that software DRM takes to break, but in the end one guy in his basement was able to logic probe his way around, and eventually came up with a method to flash any OS code you want onto the calculator. The same thing will happen to any firmware-upgradable device.
I agree completely about the amount of windows junk out there. On the network at uni, there is a known issue where the Linksys wireless-B router will just give up an die after about 5 minutes of exposure, do to all of the junk flying about. The joy of several thousand mostly unprotected Windows machines with uneducated users ...
I bet on high enough power, you could even interfere with the media's cameras! Disrupt the satellite feeds, format their magnetic media ... it their word against yours, and you have a stun cannon!
Great for interface layout, pretty lousy for the part of the software that actually does work. I think that an XML-based dialog layout system might not be all bad, but simply as a way of communicating the layout to a real language, a la the dialog designers in VS.Net.
You'll note that the common word between the expansion of HTTP and HTML is 'text'. That's what the idea behind the web is, text. Current extenstion can give you pretty text. Sometimes, you can even get somewhat interactive text. Its no excuse for a real application, one that is designed to stand alone or at worst use a highly optimized VM that you yourself never have to see. You don't want to say 'I need to use app x, so I'll fire up the browser', you say 'I'll fire up app x'. For the lay user, there's no line between the app and the OS, because they look and operate as a whole. Web applications break this, by simply being enhancement upon enhancement laid upon simple text. Java applets are an exception, but they are pretty much a hole in the text where a real program is allowed to show through.
Think of it as buying roadside assistance for your car. "This car will never break down on you! By the way, would you like to pay us lots of money so that someone will come give you a lift when you break down?"
This issue already happened with Office. The Offive dev team needs a quick OS tweak to get something working, they walk down the hall and ask. The OpenOffice dev team needs an OS tweak ... they work around it.
I read the beginning of it, and it looks like the book will be divided into sections by subject (so I guess you can think of it as a set of books?). The style at the moment reads more like lecture notes than an instructional text (in fact, the formatting and writing style is almost exactly like lecture notes from the CS department at school ...). From reading the section on elementary algebra, I strongly doubt that I could have picked up how to do stuff simply by reading (I guess that's where your educational professional comes in). Its got a bit of a way to go before I would compare it to textbooks I've actually used for those topics.
Did you just use 'resource hungry' to describe a media player? Time to get a new media player, methinks ... its a background task, to amuse you while you do real work, kind of like the little clock display ...
Those services are the most irritating thing ever. If I plan on burning a CD this session, I have to leave the service running, sucking down resources, from boot until I'm done with the CD. Something crashed and I killed the service? Got to reboot to burn a CD! What kind of system is that? If you're going to abuse services because you can't handle multithreading, at least start and stop the services around the times they're needed.
... I'm not sure about Macs, but PCs are capable of playing music files in the background in pretty much any kind of operating conditions.
I'm not even sure why they need to worry so much about keeping the music playing going
As for the stability of Win98, it works fine for me. All of my systems except my new laptop run it; they stay running for weeks at a time handling everything from office tasks to 3D and Photoshop to web serving. 2K/XP also run fine, but there's no real reason to upgrade if you've got something that works (particularly on older hardware)
Well, they'd kind of have to be to be Mac users, wouldn't they? Particularly given the price quotes above for Macs in the UK (its as if someone just changed the dollar sign out for pounds and called it a conversion!)
It would really bit to get your cell number blacklisted off of various other networks because it got made into a zombie (in the manner of your host being blacklisted off of other people's email servers) ... might start up a market in less annoying phones, though.
The key then is obviously to come up with some kind of pentrator to make SATA and power connections without disturbing the seal ...
In fact, it was the Voyager probe that we lost contact with ... Pioneer 10 got shot to hell by the Klingons at the beginning of Star Trek VI.