I use a Google Nexus, almost equivalent to the Desire, and I can recognize the battery drain. However, after a few weeks, the phone easily holds a day - probably because "moderate; use" is really "let's see what this device can do; use".
Also, some apps are written badly and consume a lot of power when in the background. If you are experimenting a lot with your phone, chances are big that you have installed one of these. There are two solutions:
1) Uninstall the bad apps.
2) Use a tool, like task killer, which can kill the bad apps when the screen turns off.
Additionally, if you are always online, and have enabled wifi, it will consume power. Quick solution: put a wifi on/off widget on your front screen, and keep wifi off under normal use.
Currently, the situation is, that ODF and OOXML must both be accepted, but there are several examples where only Microsoft dataformats are received. Therefore, it can not be expected, that this new decision will have full effect quickly.
This slashdot story has the same headline as many Danish stories, but the decision did not exclude OOXML, and did not specifically pick ODF. However, the criterias that were decided upon, currently only fits ODF in the minds of most people, but Jasper Bojsen fra Microsoft also thinks that Microsoft OOXML complies with the criterias.
Most office workers use more apps than e-mail and websurfing, and if 100% compatibility with Excel macros is required, you're going to run Microsoft Excel, no matter what. The same principle can be applied to most other apps in an office.
Ubuntu is still far behind Microsoft Windows, when it comes to Windows compatibility.
Usability research has shown, that variation in waiting time is actually a bigger irritation for users than waiting time itself.
I have seen several projects, where user interface response time problems have been "improved" by making adding a minimum response time. The average response time increases, but variation decreases, and the user often reports the program as having become faster... the logic to this seems to be, that the user wants the user interface to have a predictable response.
I think the reference for this is Søren Lauesens books about usability programming, but I cannot remember for sure right now.
As more and more people stop caring about what office suite they use, MS Office will lose market share. The question is not if, but when, and to whom. Will OpenOffice.org take over, or will people skip it and switch directly to the next generation: Online office suites?
My bank has worked with my mobile for a long time
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The Danish bank http://www.jyskenetbank.dk/ easily works with Mobile Phones, and has done so for some time, at least a year, and probably for several years. Their official list of supported operating systems include Macintosh, Linux and Windows 3.1, and the homebanking system features all the usual stuff.
I can even use my mobile phone to design a new picture for the front side of my next Visa card, in case I don't like any of the standard visa credit card looks, that the bank provides.
And why does it work? They use standards-compliant HTML code, an OS independent authentication system and use few bytes per page view.
If you have 100 questions, and 20 right ones and 20 wrong ones, it leaves 60 unanswered questions.
That's why the articles talks about only counting right ones. In order to avoid guessing, there should be a difference between picking a wrong answer and not picking an answer at all.
I haven't had many exams with multiple choice, but my university statistics course was one of them.
Each question had 5 options, and only one was correct. A correct answer gave 5 points, an incorrect answer gave -1 point.
Now, as the smart reader can guess, 4 x -1 + 5 = 1, so guessing still pays off... especially if one or more of the questions are very unlikely to be correct.
Did the teacher design this test incorrectly, since guessing was rewarded? Well, actually, the only test of real-life application of statistical knowledge was to understand this, so those who started to guess, basically demonstrated their statistical knowledge, and I guess that should be rewarded.
One of the questions was about the outcome of a distribution, where the value should be looked up in a distribution table that was used by the course. Only one of the 5 options was in the table as a result value. That made this one easy:-)
What is the difference between a PDF file on an FTP server and a HTML file on a HTTP server, in the eyes of a judge? He really doesn't care. It is not the choice of file format and transmission protocol that makes the criminal act, it is the act of spreading and handling information.
If you cannot explain it without using the words "website" or "forum", then you should not be a lawyer.
I attended the Telecom 95 exhibition in Genève, and I still remember how the news went around, that the finnish telephone backbone would be expanded using IP-capable equipment, to carry both internet traffic and telephone calls. This seemed very logical at that time, for those who knew about TCP/IP. I cannot believe that such huge investments in using the IP protocol for telephone traffic was made, unless the decision makers had seen internet telephony work. This means, that there is prior art somewhere.
I suggest that you look into the PR messages released at the Telecom 95 exhibition, and then do some research on those that cover telephony over TCP/IP.
I'm employed in a company that switched to Google Apps for Domains, and it works great. But it replaces our old e-mail service.
The calendar part is getting better and better, especially the arrival of syncmycal has improved integration with MS Outlook, but it surely doesn't replace it, yet, because Google Calendar cannot sync with everything, yet.
We're looking forward to use docs and spreadsheets, but it's still just an add-on to our existing in-house software.
I don't know too much about the inner details of postgresql, but a good database does not use write caching. Committing a transaction should always mean that the data is server crash safe, i.e. that it has been physically written to the harddisk.
Falcon will physically write data to the disk that is being comitted, while not writing any data from concurrent, uncommitted transactions to disk.
A transaction that has not been committed, will be rolled back in case of a system crash. When the client does a commit, it can be sure that the data is physically written to the disk when the commit has been done. Committed data will survive a system crash.
As you see, from the client side, there's no difference between Falcon and other databases.
I've read through all comments with 2 or more in rating, and it seems that people really underestimate what Jim is doing here.
We're talking in-memory MVCC here. This means you can add 1000 records, do a rollback, and the harddisk hasn't been accessed. Even if you commit, performance will eventually be magnificent compared with on-disk MVCC systems. You can run larger systems on one server with this, than you would be able to run on a cluster with other database systems.
This system has been designed to provide very good performance improvements for those who do know how to create SQL statements, but probably even better performance improvements for those who don't. And we don't have a tradeoff between performance and transactions any more - transactions and better performance are both included.
Also, please note that this technology will make MySQL a trustworthy data storage for many commercial applications out there, giving added value to their apps and their businesses. It will also enable small but very skilled development teams able to use MySQL as a trustworthy database for specialized applications - previously only Firebird and Postgresql were able to provide this for free, and even though Firebird has a very high deployment in USA's top 500 companies, postgresql seems to be very much *nix only in deployment statistics.
I have been programming database applications for more than 20 years, and have been programming Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, postgresql, Firebird, dBase, Paradox, Access and other databases. I see Jim's contributions to MySQL as extremely important for the database market. Instead of having "just" a transaction layer on top of a storage layer, MySQL now provides mechanisms that give this design an advantage over those database systems where the transactions are stored on disk (like Firebird, Postgresql).
And - by the way - this has NOTHING to do with "optimizing for web applications". Web applications are just as diverse as GUI applications and other systems, and GUI applications will benefit from this as much as web applications.
I think I'd better explain better where the two farms actually are: The "Ferry farm" (Danish: Færgegården) was in the northern part of the town Sårup. The Boat farm (Danish: bådsgård) is located in Nytorp.
Ræhr and Nytorp are both located on the former island of Hanstholm.
Sårup was once another island.
This lake is just between those two, and is the remainder of the North Atlantic Ocean's presence here:
The small island of "Jordsand" was inhabited in the 17th and 18th centuries. However, rising water has since then made the island vanish entirely. I visited the island in the 1980s before it vanished entirely. More info here:
Plate tectonics means that some part of continents are rising, and some are falling. In Denmark, the northern part is rising, and the southern part is going down. Jordsand was located in the area that is going down. This means, that measured relatively to the ground, the water is "rising" in south Denmark and "falling" in north Denmark.
Here is a picture of the remains of the "Ferry farm" in Ræhr, Denmark:
From this place, there was once a ferry going to "Boat farm" in Hanstholm. Today, you drive this distance by car instead. Both farms are located in the middle of this map:
Standby energy consumption is just extra heating for your house, reducing your expenses on heating your house using other means. It is only a real problem in areas, where the outdoor temperature is high.
A good indicator, of how fast the best genes spread, is the story of Gengis Khan. According to a recent investigation in 2003, Djengis Khan's Y-chromosome is now carried by 16 million males in asia. Since these chromosomes are only given by fathers to sons, this 16 million multiplication of his genes in 800 years is quite remarkable. If he had superior genes then, he wouldn't have it as much today.
Skype is to internet telephony as Netscape was to web browsing.
Once the old telephony companies introduce SIP based telephony, people will remember skype as the old age. I already use SIP telephony, and: - It's cheaper than skype, because I don't need to pay to call 100 million phone numbers, and other tariffs are the same. - It's much easier than skype, because I just use my normal phone and dial a number, no matter what. - Sound quality is better, because SIP uses A-law (or mu-law) codecs. - It's more compatible with tools like asterisk.org and other telephony related technologies.
And the most important: - The marketing budgets of the world's telephone companies are much bigger than skypes and will eventually make skype history.
The only people that benefit from Skype are the terrorists, because skype calls are virtually untraceable.
Static electricity only appears in materials that cannot move electrons well, so even a high voltage (much energy per electron) does not mean a lot of energy that can be released.
Also, the energy in rubbing can never exceed the force multiplied by the distance in the direction of the force. The amount of continuous heat that can be generated by static electricity from rubbing, is at the same level of the heat produced by walking in other types of clothes.
In Denmark, we already have a system that works almost the same way. Everybody is registered centrally, and all the data from the article is present, and even if we don't have a "flag system", we do have so much cooperation between responsible data managers, that the effect is the same: troubled children are spotted quickly.
However, finances make it hard to take proper care of all the children that really need care, and therefore we still see tragedies.
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I use a Google Nexus, almost equivalent to the Desire, and I can recognize the battery drain. However, after a few weeks, the phone easily holds a day - probably because "moderate; use" is really "let's see what this device can do; use".
Also, some apps are written badly and consume a lot of power when in the background. If you are experimenting a lot with your phone, chances are big that you have installed one of these. There are two solutions:
1) Uninstall the bad apps.
2) Use a tool, like task killer, which can kill the bad apps when the screen turns off.
Additionally, if you are always online, and have enabled wifi, it will consume power. Quick solution: put a wifi on/off widget on your front screen, and keep wifi off under normal use.
Currently, the situation is, that ODF and OOXML must both be accepted, but there are several examples where only Microsoft dataformats are received. Therefore, it can not be expected, that this new decision will have full effect quickly.
This slashdot story has the same headline as many Danish stories, but the decision did not exclude OOXML, and did not specifically pick ODF. However, the criterias that were decided upon, currently only fits ODF in the minds of most people, but Jasper Bojsen fra Microsoft also thinks that Microsoft OOXML complies with the criterias.
So basically, ODF is in, OOXML may be in, too.
Most office workers use more apps than e-mail and websurfing, and if 100% compatibility with Excel macros is required, you're going to run Microsoft Excel, no matter what. The same principle can be applied to most other apps in an office.
Ubuntu is still far behind Microsoft Windows, when it comes to Windows compatibility.
It seems Ubuntu is capturing all attention right now:
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http://google.com/trends?q=suse%2Cfedora%2Cubuntu
Usability research has shown, that variation in waiting time is actually a bigger irritation for users than waiting time itself.
I have seen several projects, where user interface response time problems have been "improved" by making adding a minimum response time. The average response time increases, but variation decreases, and the user often reports the program as having become faster... the logic to this seems to be, that the user wants the user interface to have a predictable response.
I think the reference for this is Søren Lauesens books about usability programming, but I cannot remember for sure right now.
As more and more people stop caring about what office suite they use, MS Office will lose market share. The question is not if, but when, and to whom. Will OpenOffice.org take over, or will people skip it and switch directly to the next generation: Online office suites?
The Danish bank http://www.jyskenetbank.dk/ easily works with Mobile Phones, and has done so for some time, at least a year, and probably for several years. Their official list of supported operating systems include Macintosh, Linux and Windows 3.1, and the homebanking system features all the usual stuff.
I can even use my mobile phone to design a new picture for the front side of my next Visa card, in case I don't like any of the standard visa credit card looks, that the bank provides.
And why does it work? They use standards-compliant HTML code, an OS independent authentication system and use few bytes per page view.
If you have 100 questions, and 20 right ones and 20 wrong ones, it leaves 60 unanswered questions.
That's why the articles talks about only counting right ones. In order to avoid guessing, there should be a difference between picking a wrong answer and not picking an answer at all.
I haven't had many exams with multiple choice, but my university statistics course was one of them.
:-)
Each question had 5 options, and only one was correct. A correct answer gave 5 points, an incorrect answer gave -1 point.
Now, as the smart reader can guess, 4 x -1 + 5 = 1, so guessing still pays off... especially if one or more of the questions are very unlikely to be correct.
Did the teacher design this test incorrectly, since guessing was rewarded? Well, actually, the only test of real-life application of statistical knowledge was to understand this, so those who started to guess, basically demonstrated their statistical knowledge, and I guess that should be rewarded.
One of the questions was about the outcome of a distribution, where the value should be looked up in a distribution table that was used by the course. Only one of the 5 options was in the table as a result value. That made this one easy
What is the difference between a PDF file on an FTP server and a HTML file on a HTTP server, in the eyes of a judge? He really doesn't care. It is not the choice of file format and transmission protocol that makes the criminal act, it is the act of spreading and handling information.
If you cannot explain it without using the words "website" or "forum", then you should not be a lawyer.
I attended the Telecom 95 exhibition in Genève, and I still remember how the news went around, that the finnish telephone backbone would be expanded using IP-capable equipment, to carry both internet traffic and telephone calls. This seemed very logical at that time, for those who knew about TCP/IP. I cannot believe that such huge investments in using the IP protocol for telephone traffic was made, unless the decision makers had seen internet telephony work. This means, that there is prior art somewhere.
I suggest that you look into the PR messages released at the Telecom 95 exhibition, and then do some research on those that cover telephony over TCP/IP.
I'm employed in a company that switched to Google Apps for Domains, and it works great. But it replaces our old e-mail service.
The calendar part is getting better and better, especially the arrival of syncmycal has improved integration with MS Outlook, but it surely doesn't replace it, yet, because Google Calendar cannot sync with everything, yet.
We're looking forward to use docs and spreadsheets, but it's still just an add-on to our existing in-house software.
I don't know too much about the inner details of postgresql, but a good database does not use write caching. Committing a transaction should always mean that the data is server crash safe, i.e. that it has been physically written to the harddisk.
Falcon will physically write data to the disk that is being comitted, while not writing any data from concurrent, uncommitted transactions to disk.
No. All database systems share this:
A transaction that has not been committed, will be rolled back in case of a system crash.
When the client does a commit, it can be sure that the data is physically written to the disk when the commit has been done. Committed data will survive a system crash.
As you see, from the client side, there's no difference between Falcon and other databases.
I've read through all comments with 2 or more in rating, and it seems that people really underestimate what Jim is doing here.
We're talking in-memory MVCC here. This means you can add 1000 records, do a rollback, and the harddisk hasn't been accessed. Even if you commit, performance will eventually be magnificent compared with on-disk MVCC systems. You can run larger systems on one server with this, than you would be able to run on a cluster with other database systems.
This system has been designed to provide very good performance improvements for those who do know how to create SQL statements, but probably even better performance improvements for those who don't. And we don't have a tradeoff between performance and transactions any more - transactions and better performance are both included.
Also, please note that this technology will make MySQL a trustworthy data storage for many commercial applications out there, giving added value to their apps and their businesses. It will also enable small but very skilled development teams able to use MySQL as a trustworthy database for specialized applications - previously only Firebird and Postgresql were able to provide this for free, and even though Firebird has a very high deployment in USA's top 500 companies, postgresql seems to be very much *nix only in deployment statistics.
I have been programming database applications for more than 20 years, and have been programming Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, postgresql, Firebird, dBase, Paradox, Access and other databases. I see Jim's contributions to MySQL as extremely important for the database market. Instead of having "just" a transaction layer on top of a storage layer, MySQL now provides mechanisms that give this design an advantage over those database systems where the transactions are stored on disk (like Firebird, Postgresql).
And - by the way - this has NOTHING to do with "optimizing for web applications". Web applications are just as diverse as GUI applications and other systems, and GUI applications will benefit from this as much as web applications.
I think I'd better explain better where the two farms actually are: The "Ferry farm" (Danish: Færgegården) was in the northern part of the town Sårup. The Boat farm (Danish: bådsgård) is located in Nytorp.
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Ræhr and Nytorp are both located on the former island of Hanstholm.
Sårup was once another island.
This lake is just between those two, and is the remainder of the North Atlantic Ocean's presence here:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=14&ll=57.088282
The small island of "Jordsand" was inhabited in the 17th and 18th centuries. However, rising water has since then made the island vanish entirely. I visited the island in the 1980s before it vanished entirely. More info here:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordsand
Plate tectonics means that some part of continents are rising, and some are falling. In Denmark, the northern part is rising, and the southern part is going down. Jordsand was located in the area that is going down. This means, that measured relatively to the ground, the water is "rising" in south Denmark and "falling" in north Denmark.
Here is a picture of the remains of the "Ferry farm" in Ræhr, Denmark:
http://www.saarup.dk/saarup2/johannespedersen.htm
From this place, there was once a ferry going to "Boat farm" in Hanstholm. Today, you drive this distance by car instead. Both farms are located in the middle of this map:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hanstholmen-ma
What has once been a collection of islands, is today countryside with a few lakes. More information about the former island of Hanstholm is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanstholm
How do I install antivirus on this OS?
Standby energy consumption is just extra heating for your house, reducing your expenses on heating your house using other means. It is only a real problem in areas, where the outdoor temperature is high.
A good indicator, of how fast the best genes spread, is the story of Gengis Khan. According to a recent investigation in 2003, Djengis Khan's Y-chromosome is now carried by 16 million males in asia. Since these chromosomes are only given by fathers to sons, this 16 million multiplication of his genes in 800 years is quite remarkable. If he had superior genes then, he wouldn't have it as much today.
Superconductivity is much older. Check your facts before posting things like that.
Skype is to internet telephony as Netscape was to web browsing.
Once the old telephony companies introduce SIP based telephony, people will remember skype as the old age. I already use SIP telephony, and:
- It's cheaper than skype, because I don't need to pay to call 100 million phone numbers, and other tariffs are the same.
- It's much easier than skype, because I just use my normal phone and dial a number, no matter what.
- Sound quality is better, because SIP uses A-law (or mu-law) codecs.
- It's more compatible with tools like asterisk.org and other telephony related technologies.
And the most important:
- The marketing budgets of the world's telephone companies are much bigger than skypes and will eventually make skype history.
The only people that benefit from Skype are the terrorists, because skype calls are virtually untraceable.
Static electricity only appears in materials that cannot move electrons well, so even a high voltage (much energy per electron) does not mean a lot of energy that can be released.
Also, the energy in rubbing can never exceed the force multiplied by the distance in the direction of the force. The amount of continuous heat that can be generated by static electricity from rubbing, is at the same level of the heat produced by walking in other types of clothes.
In Denmark, we already have a system that works almost the same way. Everybody is registered centrally, and all the data from the article is present, and even if we don't have a "flag system", we do have so much cooperation between responsible data managers, that the effect is the same: troubled children are spotted quickly.
However, finances make it hard to take proper care of all the children that really need care, and therefore we still see tragedies.