That may be true, but as has been demonstrated more than once, elected people also exhibit bad judgment. The question is whether this works better than the current norm, and I think it is worth the experiment. If it doesn't work, vote for a regular senator again.
Last I heard the rate at which flash memory prices are falling is 70% a year. You can find 32GB 2,5 inch solid state disks for about $320 at the moment, so $10 per GB, and $40000 for 4TB. So:
I agree. There also seems to be no info on whether they used the 3d-desktop stuff. I would imagine that that would have a much greater impact on the power consumption, and it would be interesting to see some data on that.
Well, it's not going to work as a camera, because the light would be far too scattered for it to get any image. It only works if the thing to be scanned is right next to the display.
Still you could probably secretly scan some documents or something.
As opposed to the rest of the web, which is factual and unbiased.
Sarcasm aside, I just want to point out that you can add one of those little "citation needed" tags if something is stated as a fact but without any references. I find that those immediately indicate that what was stated needn't necessarily be true. Of course, if there is a reference, it still needn't be true, but at least that way it isn't just the opinion of whoever happened to write that.
It will happen. Being behind a router is only acceptable with a fixed internet connection. When widespread adoption of WiMAX or HSDPA or something similar happens, being behind a router would artificially limit your freedom to move around. Add to that permanently wirelessly connected PDAs, UMPCs, iPods, maybe even cars, gps devices and a bunch of other things, and you'll have to come up with something quickly.
Precisely. I live in Germany, where for reasons beyond me they a movie is sometimes released 3 months after the US. For example, Saw III still isn't out here. A perfect DVD quality rip has been floating about for a long time now. This is what breeds piracy.
Well, there would be some people who currently pirate the software who would then be presented with a barrier for getting the new software, which might make them reconsider their options when otherwise they are just too comfortable with what they have.
It's expensive, has a steep learning curve...
It also had a surprisingly low learning curve for me... Sorry, but this is kind of a pet peeve of mine: A low learning curve means that even after a long time you haven't learnt much at all. A steep curve is actually a desirable one. I guess everyone imagines riding a bike up the learning curve or something.
Bias in favor of being careful with the environment is good, but bias in favor of being careful exclusively about global warming is in my opinion a mistake. There are many other factors that play a role in our environment and our survival in it that we must have rational, dispassionate debate about these things to ensure that we take the best path.
Sorry, but this bothers me. Kilo, Mega, Giga and so on are and clearly defined as factors of 1000. Why should this be any different for computers? And then only for sizes, but not for instance for bandwidth? I personally would like to see these binary versions of Kilo, Mega etc. go away completely for the sake of clarity and standards.
Boycotts don't "work" because people don't know or don't understand why they should give the stuff up. Rootkits just won't do it. Unless you have videos of sony managers setting fire to bunnies, most people probably won't care enough.
But as long as even one person is taking part in the boycott, it works. It may not do much, but that's like expecting the $5 you donated to some third world village to turn it into a bustling metropolis. Every little bit helps.
I see things differently. Sure, low level code is more efficient than high level code if you put a lot of effort into the code, which you probably do in the important core routines of an application where the graphics need to be smooth.
But in most other applications and in most of the code of even that application, performance isn't as critical, and what is usually much more important is clean, maintainable and readable code.
I contend that a lot of software sucks because people don't write maintainable code, which leads to more bugs, and high level languages with integrated bounds checking and garbage collection tend to reduce the number of bugs.
And on the topic of performance, just out of interest, I'm looking forward to seeing how fast applications will run once more and more software is optimized for multi core systems, since high level languages like Java have very neat thread safety features integrated into the language.
I just don't see the problem. I have Eclipse, IntelliJ, Zend Studio and Azureus running on a regular basis, and I have no problems at all. I agree that the Java VM takes quite a bit of memory, but in all other aspects they run perfectly.
I agree with IntelliJ IDEA being the most productive IDE. It has features like code flow analysis, saying things like "if statement is always true" or "value assigned to variable is never used". This may sound like a small thing, but it actually constantly prevents bugs, because most of the time I get some warning like that, it is because I used the wrong variable or something. And IntelliJ has hundreds of these inspections, and hundreds of little details that make it the best IDE.
Slashdot Mirror
Try Reprap. That still has a way to go though.
huh?
http://btjunkie.org/search?q=Olivia+Newton+John
That may be true, but as has been demonstrated more than once, elected people also exhibit bad judgment. The question is whether this works better than the current norm, and I think it is worth the experiment. If it doesn't work, vote for a regular senator again.
Last I heard the rate at which flash memory prices are falling is 70% a year. You can find 32GB 2,5 inch solid state disks for about $320 at the moment, so $10 per GB, and $40000 for 4TB. So:
2007: $40000
2008: $12000
2009: $3600
2010: $1080
2011: $324
If this works out, 2011 might be about the time solid state disks overtake hard disks.
I agree. There also seems to be no info on whether they used the 3d-desktop stuff. I would imagine that that would have a much greater impact on the power consumption, and it would be interesting to see some data on that.
Well, it's not going to work as a camera, because the light would be far too scattered for it to get any image. It only works if the thing to be scanned is right next to the display.
Still you could probably secretly scan some documents or something.
As opposed to the rest of the web, which is factual and unbiased.
Sarcasm aside, I just want to point out that you can add one of those little "citation needed" tags if something is stated as a fact but without any references. I find that those immediately indicate that what was stated needn't necessarily be true. Of course, if there is a reference, it still needn't be true, but at least that way it isn't just the opinion of whoever happened to write that.
I know, but he was challenging the concept of altruism as something selfless, so I wanted to avoid the word.
"we do altruistic acts for ourselves"
Muahahaha! I just gave some homeless guy a dollar, and now I feel good about myself! Muahahhaha!
Seriously, just because one feels good about being altruistic, that doesn't make one's acts any less generous.
It will happen. Being behind a router is only acceptable with a fixed internet connection. When widespread adoption of WiMAX or HSDPA or something similar happens, being behind a router would artificially limit your freedom to move around. Add to that permanently wirelessly connected PDAs, UMPCs, iPods, maybe even cars, gps devices and a bunch of other things, and you'll have to come up with something quickly.
Precisely. I live in Germany, where for reasons beyond me they a movie is sometimes released 3 months after the US. For example, Saw III still isn't out here. A perfect DVD quality rip has been floating about for a long time now. This is what breeds piracy.
Well, there would be some people who currently pirate the software who would then be presented with a barrier for getting the new software, which might make them reconsider their options when otherwise they are just too comfortable with what they have.
The parent was quoting the Slashdot story on the original iPod:
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http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23
Unless the car is a better driver than the driver.
Bias in favor of being careful with the environment is good, but bias in favor of being careful exclusively about global warming is in my opinion a mistake. There are many other factors that play a role in our environment and our survival in it that we must have rational, dispassionate debate about these things to ensure that we take the best path.
Sorry, but this bothers me. Kilo, Mega, Giga and so on are and clearly defined as factors of 1000. Why should this be any different for computers? And then only for sizes, but not for instance for bandwidth? I personally would like to see these binary versions of Kilo, Mega etc. go away completely for the sake of clarity and standards.
Boycotts don't "work" because people don't know or don't understand why they should give the stuff up. Rootkits just won't do it. Unless you have videos of sony managers setting fire to bunnies, most people probably won't care enough. But as long as even one person is taking part in the boycott, it works. It may not do much, but that's like expecting the $5 you donated to some third world village to turn it into a bustling metropolis. Every little bit helps.
2B or not 2B = -1
I see things differently. Sure, low level code is more efficient than high level code if you put a lot of effort into the code, which you probably do in the important core routines of an application where the graphics need to be smooth. But in most other applications and in most of the code of even that application, performance isn't as critical, and what is usually much more important is clean, maintainable and readable code. I contend that a lot of software sucks because people don't write maintainable code, which leads to more bugs, and high level languages with integrated bounds checking and garbage collection tend to reduce the number of bugs. And on the topic of performance, just out of interest, I'm looking forward to seeing how fast applications will run once more and more software is optimized for multi core systems, since high level languages like Java have very neat thread safety features integrated into the language.
I just don't see the problem. I have Eclipse, IntelliJ, Zend Studio and Azureus running on a regular basis, and I have no problems at all. I agree that the Java VM takes quite a bit of memory, but in all other aspects they run perfectly.
Here's the link. I loved that one.
That crazy God!
TANSTAAFL
I agree with IntelliJ IDEA being the most productive IDE. It has features like code flow analysis, saying things like "if statement is always true" or "value assigned to variable is never used". This may sound like a small thing, but it actually constantly prevents bugs, because most of the time I get some warning like that, it is because I used the wrong variable or something. And IntelliJ has hundreds of these inspections, and hundreds of little details that make it the best IDE.