Forum posts -- public. It's not a big deal if ads change based on the content of your posts on a forum. You've already released them to the world.
Phone calls, though, are private, so everyone here on/. is up that this is some unscrupulous NSA-wannabe phone company that'll use your private communications for their own benefit without your consent. That's the main argument against this idea, but Gmail serves up ads based on your email, a private communication. So does Hotmail, and Yahoo mail. What's the big difference between phone calls and email, that you'd tolerate having email recorded and looked at by an advertiser but wouldn't if a phone company did it?
Another issue is the proliferation of broadband connections. Europe has a lot more of these than the US, and they are generally faster. A 10 mbps connection in the US is pretty much unheard of -- my Comcast 4.5 mbps connection is considered excellent -- while 10 mbps is commonplace in Sweden and other European countries.
A Windows 'Lite' (as in low resource usage, not crippled) would be perfect for many corporate environments where most users do not need or want the feature bloat present in normal versions of Windows. If this product helps companies get another couple of years out of their current workstations then I imagine this could be pretty popular.
At this point, the issue isn't even getting a couple more years out of their workstations; it's making the current workstations usable. I'm still running a 366 MHz laptop as a backup system/test subject, and even this was noticeably faster than my workstation at the place I worked last summer. When a company runs 40 processes on all machines, all the time, they a gig of RAM to run, and mine unfortunately had about 128 megs. I was surprised at the amount of waiting that people did because their machines were so bogged down -- not with spyware, but with standard stuff that you couldn't terminate.
Only the design guys and the top level managers had decent machines. If a company was able to make everybody's machines fast enough using software that fit into its current IT mentality and didn't totally kill its budget, I'm sure that productivity would go up somewhat, and it would be a lot more pleasant place to work.
Now, I know that it's provably hard to attack a good encryption scheme. However, if this one is easier to implement in hardware -- if the cipher can be hardware accelerated more easily -- does that mean that an attack on this scheme could also be hardware accelerated more easily?
Seeing as I can slap a Knoppix disk into any Linux machine to which I have physical access, reboot into Knoppix, and have access to all the files on the system, I don't see how the last part is relevant.
Unless the file system is using some form of encryption, it's going to be accessible from any other OS.
Right now, the answer is pretty simple. If you want a game to use multiple processors at the same time, you need to include more than one execution thread--the programmer has to divide the work in such a way that two or more processors can do it. It's quite hard to build a multithreaded game; there was some SMP support in Quake III, but it wasn't very stable and didn't provide a huge performance boost.
With a multithreaded application, you have to guard against strange bugs that are very, very hard to fix. If your multithreaded application runs into a deadlock every hundred thousand frames or so, it will be next to impossible to isolate, and production will end up being slower than it already is. While I'm sure that writing multithreaded games will happen in the near future, I don't think it will catch on very quickly.
Does motion picture mean TV programs as well? They weren't clear enough for me.
H.R. 2391 states that certain words and phrases -- ``motion picture'' among them, are defined in Section 101, Title 17 of the United States Code. So yes, motion picture does mean TV as well; that section states: ''Motion pictures'' are audiovisual works consisting of a series of related images which, when shown in succession, impart an impression of motion, together with accompanying sounds, if any.
The fee, a minimum charge of $100, has enraged some dentists.
That's exhorbitant! While I assume that the article (off a Canadian site) gives the figure in Canadian dollars, that figure translates to $76 USD at current exchange rates. Dentists and others are not making money off of playing the music -- no, it's just background sound to make patients more comfortable. I could understand the charges if dentists somehow profited directly from playing music in their offices, but this is just a money grab.
These guys will never learn -- faced with decreasing revenue and a fouled reputation, what do they do? The logical thing of course, alienate themselves further from the general public and anyone else.
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XeTeX (and XeLaTeX) uses unicode, Open Type and AAT fonts -- so the miracle is already present. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XeTeX and http://scripts.sil.org/xetex .
Forum posts -- public. It's not a big deal if ads change based on the content of your posts on a forum. You've already released them to the world.
Phone calls, though, are private, so everyone here on /. is up that this is some unscrupulous NSA-wannabe phone company that'll use your private communications for their own benefit without your consent. That's the main argument against this idea, but Gmail serves up ads based on your email, a private communication. So does Hotmail, and Yahoo mail. What's the big difference between phone calls and email, that you'd tolerate having email recorded and looked at by an advertiser but wouldn't if a phone company did it?
Another issue is the proliferation of broadband connections. Europe has a lot more of these than the US, and they are generally faster. A 10 mbps connection in the US is pretty much unheard of -- my Comcast 4.5 mbps connection is considered excellent -- while 10 mbps is commonplace in Sweden and other European countries.
It's modded +5 funny, but this is my professor we're talking about. They already did this. See http://www.ee.princeton.edu/CAP/CAP2005/speaker_pr ofiles.html
A Windows 'Lite' (as in low resource usage, not crippled) would be perfect for many corporate environments where most users do not need or want the feature bloat present in normal versions of Windows. If this product helps companies get another couple of years out of their current workstations then I imagine this could be pretty popular.
At this point, the issue isn't even getting a couple more years out of their workstations; it's making the current workstations usable. I'm still running a 366 MHz laptop as a backup system/test subject, and even this was noticeably faster than my workstation at the place I worked last summer. When a company runs 40 processes on all machines, all the time, they a gig of RAM to run, and mine unfortunately had about 128 megs. I was surprised at the amount of waiting that people did because their machines were so bogged down -- not with spyware, but with standard stuff that you couldn't terminate.
Only the design guys and the top level managers had decent machines. If a company was able to make everybody's machines fast enough using software that fit into its current IT mentality and didn't totally kill its budget, I'm sure that productivity would go up somewhat, and it would be a lot more pleasant place to work.
HP and Compaq can combine and Dell still outperforms them.
I'm fairly sure they already have.
Now, I know that it's provably hard to attack a good encryption scheme. However, if this one is easier to implement in hardware -- if the cipher can be hardware accelerated more easily -- does that mean that an attack on this scheme could also be hardware accelerated more easily?
That was a while back, actually.
Seeing as I can slap a Knoppix disk into any Linux machine to which I have physical access, reboot into Knoppix, and have access to all the files on the system, I don't see how the last part is relevant.
Unless the file system is using some form of encryption, it's going to be accessible from any other OS.
Right now, the answer is pretty simple. If you want a game to use multiple processors at the same time, you need to include more than one execution thread--the programmer has to divide the work in such a way that two or more processors can do it. It's quite hard to build a multithreaded game; there was some SMP support in Quake III, but it wasn't very stable and didn't provide a huge performance boost.
With a multithreaded application, you have to guard against strange bugs that are very, very hard to fix. If your multithreaded application runs into a deadlock every hundred thousand frames or so, it will be next to impossible to isolate, and production will end up being slower than it already is. While I'm sure that writing multithreaded games will happen in the near future, I don't think it will catch on very quickly.
Does motion picture mean TV programs as well? They weren't clear enough for me.
H.R. 2391 states that certain words and phrases -- ``motion picture'' among them, are defined in Section 101, Title 17 of the United States Code. So yes, motion picture does mean TV as well; that section states: ''Motion pictures'' are audiovisual works consisting of a series of related images which, when shown in succession, impart an impression of motion, together with accompanying sounds, if any.
The fee, a minimum charge of $100, has enraged some dentists.
That's exhorbitant! While I assume that the article (off a Canadian site) gives the figure in Canadian dollars, that figure translates to $76 USD at current exchange rates. Dentists and others are not making money off of playing the music -- no, it's just background sound to make patients more comfortable. I could understand the charges if dentists somehow profited directly from playing music in their offices, but this is just a money grab.
These guys will never learn -- faced with decreasing revenue and a fouled reputation, what do they do? The logical thing of course, alienate themselves further from the general public and anyone else.