Sadly the only way of implementing this with any confidence is a "trusted computing platform" sort of approach. I much prefer having a better security model inherent in the OS, but eventually it will have to go down that road. I personally don't trust Microsoft to do this correctly (either from a security or a anti-trust standpoint).
Lloyd Alexander is the author. Many people know the series by the second book "The black cauldron", as chunks of the story were made into an animated move by that title.
Um... I assume that you are referring to the myth that Macs are more expensive. I would point you in the direction of reality on two counts:
1. Take a look at price/performance on the dual G5's. Many other people have, and they have been pretty unanimous that the Apple's win. See University of Virginia. The client computers are also competing against mainly SGI boxes... You will have a better time in your comparison of the linux render farm, but then you start to have to look at boxes competing against the XServe, and you will find them also very price competitive against the other server farm boxes they are competing against.
2. In terms of the price of production the hardware is one of the smaller costs. The big price is the people, this is also the place where the difference between a failure and a success will happen. If someone blames hardware for a bad pixar movie, they are simply stupid.
Any lawyer who cannot convince a jury of both of these points is incompetent.
I would agree with you if we were talking about Dynamics (the Engineering course), Thermo-Fluids, Russian History, or LinAlg. There are lots of points that you are going to miss the first time through, and it is nice to go back to them.
But basic Calculus? You are either going to learn it the first time, and keep using it in further classes, or you are going to forget about it as you go through all of your other classes, never using it again in your life. I am not advocating against everyone learning Calculus as a basic concept (even if they never use it again as such)... but if you are going to keep textbooks this is not the one...
If it was on a gridiron, then he was probably just the flight/unit/whatever NROTC calls it standard bearer. I always liked being the 'guide'... 'present arms' is a fun move, and you get to mock-kill the flight if the person in command mistakenly calls it from a inverted formation.
I am a real fan of Mail.app, and use it for all of my email, but it is no where near as compete a solution as Outlook on windows. Even taking Mail.app and iCal together does not meet the functionality that is in Outlook.
That being said, most people use only a small part of the functionality in Outlook... typically people only use the email functionality that is in Mail.app, and the calendaring in iCal, but...
And if you read the article, you would know that it is a little lite on the details... and the parent question is valid. One of the articles implies that this chip is a panacea solution to computing problems.
I think that the article writers don't understand technology well enough, and the 24Ghz is the radio frequency only. I would bet that the processing center is much slower.
It could be a component, but only one piece. The really tough part if creating the software that intelligently drives. There are so many oddball cases you have to deal with in driving that it will be a very long time before this is possible.
Look how much trouble the teams are having putting together vehicles to race each other at 30 MPH on a closed course in the DARPA challenge. Many of them are using radar in conjunction with laser and visual systems in order to put together a world-view, and they are still having major problems running a course without other drivers.
Now add in all the erratic drivers, random animals, and kids running out into streets, and I don't think we are even close to having self-driving cars.
Many states have laws specifically forbidding this. I worked in retail at one time in a state that did, and we had to take large discounts to move the items.
No, the GIMP still is not a Photoshop killer, the CMYK support is still in its infancy, no where near ready for use in pre-press. I am watching it eagerly, as my boss is more concerned about what we spend than the work we get done... *sigh*...
I can use it for web stuff (color precision doesn't matter), but for pre-press we cannot get away from Photoshop... beyond CMYK and ColorSync support, paths, clipping, masking, and RAW support is not up to par.
On Apple platforms Microsoft has a very long history of this. There was another major case in the Apple II era where Apple developer documentation specifically reserved an address space for future expansion. Microsoft ignored this, and the IIe broke a good chunk of their software because of this.
Microsoft has historically had very bad coding practices. From all accounts I have heard this has markedly improved, but it was pretty bad.
There is no complete fossil record yet pieced together that goes step-by-step from homo-sapiens to another member of the primate family. We definitely have some links along the way, but in all probabilty we will never have a complete chain (and this begs the question of how complete the chain has to be).
As a process, evolution has been shown a good theory time and time again (you can do your own lab demonstrations with bacteria inside a week). We can demonstrate that the elements involved in evolution in bacteria are present in humans (eg. genes), and that they work the same way. Proving that humans are subject to evolution would require observing it... but this would require many generations... something that is a bit hard for individual humans to conduct.
Then there is the notion that you can never prove a theory in science. You can contribute support to a theory, but ultimately there are few theories that survive in science. Almost every theory gets overturned eventually: newtonian physics (gravity), atomic theory (supplanted by quantum theory), etc... Many of these theories are still being used in the practical world, as they work for most cases, but are insufficient for current research.
Creationism generally is not approached as a theory, its advocates bring to the table a fully fleshed out explanation and then demand that it is the truth, to totally without any evidence or debate on the reasoning behind it. It is also not a testable tool. You can't go into a lab and use creationism to make predictions about what will happen in an experiment.
On the other hand, there is a lot of testable material in Darwinism: You can go into a lab and demonstrate evolution at work in a petri dish. So portions of Darwinism are provable (within scientific standards... that is you can never prove a theory, just demonstrate that it is the best one for the job at the moment...).
Now there are corollaries that are not provable (primal genertor being one of the more controversial), but there is a solid body of reasoning, and a lot active thinking going about this. The same cannot be said for Creationism.
Actually, this is not really a thermodynamics issue (not as you are starting it). After all, this is not a closed system. The sun is providing energy into the system all the time.
You do have a point, and my present methods it takes more than a gallon of fossil fuels to produce a gallon of ethanol (that has less energy content). The problem is in the method of production, not fundamentally in ethanol.
From the limited amount of information in the article, it appears that there is no fossil fuels used in the manufacture of the fuel, and so this would be a step in the right direction. The article does not actually say that this method could be energy efficient, and thus a viable alternative t fossil fuels. We will have to wait until someone actually goes to make it commercially.
I would agree with you to some degree but then you have to consider that importing GM products are no more dangerous than importing non-native species to any ecosystem. Things have not evolved into a balance with the rest of the environment yet, and we might not like the balance they will eventually find.
My view is that Europe is over-cautious on the subject of GM products. After all, you can't even import irradiated GM corn. Stuff that will never-ever have any impact on the ecosystem.
Your statement is true, but ignores the fact that Americans (not our government) the biggest givers to charity out there (both in raw numbers and proportionally). We just don't do it as a country.
Having toured an aluminum fly casting plant, I saw the gigantic magneto-constrictor melting pots that they use, and was told specifically that they relied on Wisconsin Electric for their power.
What they do is to have a bunch of huge electromagnets and pulse them rapidly. This causes the electrons in the container to jitter producing the heat needed. It was all very interesting, and molten aluminum is one of the most beautiful thins I have aver seen.
Just to pipe in, AppleTalk did fill a role that was open when it came out. Remeber this is before NetBUI (which could be called a copy of AppleTalk... but a poor one), even before Novell's IPX. It allowed computers to form ad-hoc file networks, printer sharing, and even remote access. When you added a number of macs without adding AppleTalk routers it did get a bit chatty. With routers that were properly configured it was a very nice manageable protocol.
AppleTalk was only problematic if you didn't know how to route it, however many network admins did not bother learning how to route it. Even then it was never as problematic as Win95 was when it came out and killed several large networks I was working with... and Microsoft tech support did not know how to correct it (add NT systems to be Domain Controllers) for a couple of weeks. Not fun.
In you example the case of the word is only because proper nouns are capitalized in German by convention. The capitalization does not actually help you differentiate between the verb "to fly" and the plural of the insect "a fly" any more than it would in English. What really sets them apart is their position in the sentence.
Your example actually points out how pointless it is to have case sensitivity.
No... the leading theory on both BSE and CJD are that a protein gets folded in the wrong way, and becomes a catalyst for folding other proteins in the same (wrong) way. This is called a prion. The only association with genetic structure (other than the protein modeling tools used to study both) is that there might be a genetic pre-disposition for a lack of mechanism that helps prevent the bad folding for happening in the first place.
I will stress that this is all theory, and there are lots of scientists out there with other theories.
MacOS X's kernel is not BSD. The kernel is mach, and is has FreeBSD services wrapped around it (some of which are normally found in the BSD kernel). The difference, while subtle, is important.
And this is opposed to Windows users that rely "heavily on Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, Go live, et al) and Microsoft (Office, Outlook, Messenger, Media player, el al)"? I think you over-estimate the diversity of applications on any platform. Most people don't go much further than the software that is already installed on their system for most uses (games being the biggest exception).
Of the applications currently running on my doc I have 3 from OmniGroup (Web, Outliner, and Graffle), 4 Apple apps (the Finder, Mail.app, Terminal.app, and TextEdit), and 4 other applications from other companies (a tn5250 emulator, Comcastic, Chicken of the VNC, and NetNewsWire Lite).
And I think you need to do some research before saying "profound cost of owning an Apple". Make sure you know what you are talking about before you say that again.
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Sadly the only way of implementing this with any confidence is a "trusted computing platform" sort of approach. I much prefer having a better security model inherent in the OS, but eventually it will have to go down that road. I personally don't trust Microsoft to do this correctly (either from a security or a anti-trust standpoint).
Lloyd Alexander is the author. Many people know the series by the second book "The black cauldron", as chunks of the story were made into an animated move by that title.
Um... I assume that you are referring to the myth that Macs are more expensive. I would point you in the direction of reality on two counts:
1. Take a look at price/performance on the dual G5's. Many other people have, and they have been pretty unanimous that the Apple's win. See University of Virginia. The client computers are also competing against mainly SGI boxes... You will have a better time in your comparison of the linux render farm, but then you start to have to look at boxes competing against the XServe, and you will find them also very price competitive against the other server farm boxes they are competing against.
2. In terms of the price of production the hardware is one of the smaller costs. The big price is the people, this is also the place where the difference between a failure and a success will happen. If someone blames hardware for a bad pixar movie, they are simply stupid.
Any lawyer who cannot convince a jury of both of these points is incompetent.
I would agree with you if we were talking about Dynamics (the Engineering course), Thermo-Fluids, Russian History, or LinAlg. There are lots of points that you are going to miss the first time through, and it is nice to go back to them.
But basic Calculus? You are either going to learn it the first time, and keep using it in further classes, or you are going to forget about it as you go through all of your other classes, never using it again in your life. I am not advocating against everyone learning Calculus as a basic concept (even if they never use it again as such)... but if you are going to keep textbooks this is not the one...
Ah... one step closer to "sorry I'm late.. my alarm clock crashed"...
If it was on a gridiron, then he was probably just the flight/unit/whatever NROTC calls it standard bearer. I always liked being the 'guide'... 'present arms' is a fun move, and you get to mock-kill the flight if the person in command mistakenly calls it from a inverted formation.
I am a real fan of Mail.app, and use it for all of my email, but it is no where near as compete a solution as Outlook on windows. Even taking Mail.app and iCal together does not meet the functionality that is in Outlook.
That being said, most people use only a small part of the functionality in Outlook... typically people only use the email functionality that is in Mail.app, and the calendaring in iCal, but...
And if you read the article, you would know that it is a little lite on the details... and the parent question is valid. One of the articles implies that this chip is a panacea solution to computing problems.
I think that the article writers don't understand technology well enough, and the 24Ghz is the radio frequency only. I would bet that the processing center is much slower.
It could be a component, but only one piece. The really tough part if creating the software that intelligently drives. There are so many oddball cases you have to deal with in driving that it will be a very long time before this is possible.
Look how much trouble the teams are having putting together vehicles to race each other at 30 MPH on a closed course in the DARPA challenge. Many of them are using radar in conjunction with laser and visual systems in order to put together a world-view, and they are still having major problems running a course without other drivers.
Now add in all the erratic drivers, random animals, and kids running out into streets, and I don't think we are even close to having self-driving cars.
Many states have laws specifically forbidding this. I worked in retail at one time in a state that did, and we had to take large discounts to move the items.
No, the GIMP still is not a Photoshop killer, the CMYK support is still in its infancy, no where near ready for use in pre-press. I am watching it eagerly, as my boss is more concerned about what we spend than the work we get done... *sigh*...
I can use it for web stuff (color precision doesn't matter), but for pre-press we cannot get away from Photoshop... beyond CMYK and ColorSync support, paths, clipping, masking, and RAW support is not up to par.
On Apple platforms Microsoft has a very long history of this. There was another major case in the Apple II era where Apple developer documentation specifically reserved an address space for future expansion. Microsoft ignored this, and the IIe broke a good chunk of their software because of this.
Microsoft has historically had very bad coding practices. From all accounts I have heard this has markedly improved, but it was pretty bad.
I just got done netflixing season 2! Very funny!
You are sort of both right.
There is no complete fossil record yet pieced together that goes step-by-step from homo-sapiens to another member of the primate family. We definitely have some links along the way, but in all probabilty we will never have a complete chain (and this begs the question of how complete the chain has to be).
As a process, evolution has been shown a good theory time and time again (you can do your own lab demonstrations with bacteria inside a week). We can demonstrate that the elements involved in evolution in bacteria are present in humans (eg. genes), and that they work the same way. Proving that humans are subject to evolution would require observing it... but this would require many generations... something that is a bit hard for individual humans to conduct.
Then there is the notion that you can never prove a theory in science. You can contribute support to a theory, but ultimately there are few theories that survive in science. Almost every theory gets overturned eventually: newtonian physics (gravity), atomic theory (supplanted by quantum theory), etc... Many of these theories are still being used in the practical world, as they work for most cases, but are insufficient for current research.
Creationism generally is not approached as a theory, its advocates bring to the table a fully fleshed out explanation and then demand that it is the truth, to totally without any evidence or debate on the reasoning behind it. It is also not a testable tool. You can't go into a lab and use creationism to make predictions about what will happen in an experiment.
On the other hand, there is a lot of testable material in Darwinism: You can go into a lab and demonstrate evolution at work in a petri dish. So portions of Darwinism are provable (within scientific standards... that is you can never prove a theory, just demonstrate that it is the best one for the job at the moment...).
Now there are corollaries that are not provable (primal genertor being one of the more controversial), but there is a solid body of reasoning, and a lot active thinking going about this. The same cannot be said for Creationism.
Actually, this is not really a thermodynamics issue (not as you are starting it). After all, this is not a closed system. The sun is providing energy into the system all the time.
You do have a point, and my present methods it takes more than a gallon of fossil fuels to produce a gallon of ethanol (that has less energy content). The problem is in the method of production, not fundamentally in ethanol.
From the limited amount of information in the article, it appears that there is no fossil fuels used in the manufacture of the fuel, and so this would be a step in the right direction. The article does not actually say that this method could be energy efficient, and thus a viable alternative t fossil fuels. We will have to wait until someone actually goes to make it commercially.
I would agree with you to some degree but then you have to consider that importing GM products are no more dangerous than importing non-native species to any ecosystem. Things have not evolved into a balance with the rest of the environment yet, and we might not like the balance they will eventually find.
My view is that Europe is over-cautious on the subject of GM products. After all, you can't even import irradiated GM corn. Stuff that will never-ever have any impact on the ecosystem.
Your statement is true, but ignores the fact that Americans (not our government) the biggest givers to charity out there (both in raw numbers and proportionally). We just don't do it as a country.
Having toured an aluminum fly casting plant, I saw the gigantic magneto-constrictor melting pots that they use, and was told specifically that they relied on Wisconsin Electric for their power.
What they do is to have a bunch of huge electromagnets and pulse them rapidly. This causes the electrons in the container to jitter producing the heat needed. It was all very interesting, and molten aluminum is one of the most beautiful thins I have aver seen.
Just to pipe in, AppleTalk did fill a role that was open when it came out. Remeber this is before NetBUI (which could be called a copy of AppleTalk... but a poor one), even before Novell's IPX. It allowed computers to form ad-hoc file networks, printer sharing, and even remote access. When you added a number of macs without adding AppleTalk routers it did get a bit chatty. With routers that were properly configured it was a very nice manageable protocol.
AppleTalk was only problematic if you didn't know how to route it, however many network admins did not bother learning how to route it. Even then it was never as problematic as Win95 was when it came out and killed several large networks I was working with... and Microsoft tech support did not know how to correct it (add NT systems to be Domain Controllers) for a couple of weeks. Not fun.
In you example the case of the word is only because proper nouns are capitalized in German by convention. The capitalization does not actually help you differentiate between the verb "to fly" and the plural of the insect "a fly" any more than it would in English. What really sets them apart is their position in the sentence.
Your example actually points out how pointless it is to have case sensitivity.
No... the leading theory on both BSE and CJD are that a protein gets folded in the wrong way, and becomes a catalyst for folding other proteins in the same (wrong) way. This is called a prion. The only association with genetic structure (other than the protein modeling tools used to study both) is that there might be a genetic pre-disposition for a lack of mechanism that helps prevent the bad folding for happening in the first place.
I will stress that this is all theory, and there are lots of scientists out there with other theories.
No, it had a non-rechargeable battery. Not to be confused with regular rechargeable battery that like all of it's kind eventually wears out.
PS.. I didn't think you were funny.
MacOS X's kernel is not BSD. The kernel is mach, and is has FreeBSD services wrapped around it (some of which are normally found in the BSD kernel). The difference, while subtle, is important.
And this is opposed to Windows users that rely "heavily on Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, Go live, et al) and Microsoft (Office, Outlook, Messenger, Media player, el al)"? I think you over-estimate the diversity of applications on any platform. Most people don't go much further than the software that is already installed on their system for most uses (games being the biggest exception).
Of the applications currently running on my doc I have 3 from OmniGroup (Web, Outliner, and Graffle), 4 Apple apps (the Finder, Mail.app, Terminal.app, and TextEdit), and 4 other applications from other companies (a tn5250 emulator, Comcastic, Chicken of the VNC, and NetNewsWire Lite).
And I think you need to do some research before saying "profound cost of owning an Apple". Make sure you know what you are talking about before you say that again.