new LED's on the front including "Temp" for those sure to be occurring overheats.
I've looked at the photo. Try as I might, I don't see any such LED. The only LEDs I can see are labeled 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, PWR, and REC. Maybe the little TiVo logo guy lights up when he gets too hot.
Perhaps you meant to complain about some other non-TiVo device that I don't see a picture of.
The story you're referring to is Isaac Asimov's "The Dead Past". Google keywords asimov "dead past" [including quotation marks] for pointers and reviews. Add keyword cigarette for DMCA-violation.
With only 20kbits/sec there isn't much that can be done other th[a]n controlling electronic devices.
The computing world did just fine at or below 19.2Kbits/sec for decades (up until the mid-1990s). A whole lot can be done with that amount of bandwidth; I would have been very pleased to have even 9600bits/sec until around 1994.
That would be the 4th amendment in the Bill of Rights (not the Constitution, per se). It doesn't explicitly designate a right to privacy, only implies something similar:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Mabye I'm naive, but I read the press release as an endorsement of open source, and a prediction that as the code (the development branch of Apache in this case) matures and is subject to peer review, the code quality will improve (by whatever measure Reasoning is using).
Here's why I think that:
Reasoning found that the Apache Open Source server had a similar defect density compared to the average defect density of several commercial equivalents. This finding, when considered alongside an earlier Reasoning study released in February (http://www.reasoning.com/news/pr/02_11_03.html), suggests that as software applications mature, there is a correlation between code inspection/peer review and the resulting defect density. [emphasis mine]
4 people in 1 SUV is better than 4 people in 4 SUVs
...and probably better than 1 person in any sort of vehicle.
If the 4-person SUV gets 10 miles-per-gallon (a Hummer, for instance), and goes, say, 20 miles, then it uses 2 gallons: 1/2 gallon per person. A single commuter in a hybrid getting, say, 70 mpg, uses 2/7 gallon. OK, 2/7 is less than 1/2; however, most SUVs do better than 10 mpg, and most cars do a lot worse than 70 mpg. Change the efficiency numbers to 15 for the SUV and 40 for the car (still at the low-end and high-end, respectively) and it's a 1/2 gallon trip for the single commuter in the fuel-efficient commuter car, and 1/3 gallon per commuter in the 4-person SUV.
The IEEE "Export Control Compliance Form" at the IEEE web site reads "Digital Copyright Millennium Act" (DCMA), and not "Digital Millennium Copyright Act" (DMCA). Is this a clever ruse by the IEEE to confuse dyslexic lawyers?
I'm surprised that there's virtually no mention of the Mac. Seems to me it would be a very workable alternative to Microsoft, if that's the order of the day.
As for the cost of Linux, *BSD, and other free OSes, it's worth considering support costs as well as initial investment. A not-for-profit might be able to afford to "buy" the latest version of a free OS, but installing and maintaining it is another matter. You can buy quite a bit of commercial software for the same as you'd pay a decent Unix sysadmin.
Here's a web page that discusses the Palm Beach County ballot from the standpoint of information design.
It has a graphic showing that it would have been possible to use exactly the same graphic elements at exactly the same size, that they would all fit on one page, and that the result is more legible and usable than the original .
As wave after wave of human test subjects rate the faces on attractiveness, a face evolves that matches most people's conception of beauty.
About five years ago, Time magazine ran a story on ethnic diversity. The photo on the cover was constructed by morphing images of people from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. I don't think Time necessarily intended that the resulting photo should be of an attractive woman, but I expect that fact didn't hurt their circulation that week. To me, she looked a bit like Terry Farrell.
Unfortunately, I don't remember the exact publication date.
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Especially Since Ender's Shadow does something that is almost unprecedented in fiction: it re-tells the events of Ender's Game from the perspective of a relatively minor character in Ender's Game.
Anyone intrigued by this idea -- telling a known story from the point of view of a minor character -- might also enjoy Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
Well before writing the screenplay for last year's Shakespeare in Love, Tom Stoppard wrote Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in which the events in Hamlet are viewed through the eyes of two minor characters (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, go figure).
I confess, I haven't seen the stage play, I've only seen the movie (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0100519). But the movie was pretty good.
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I've looked at the photo. Try as I might, I don't see any such LED. The only LEDs I can see are labeled 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, PWR, and REC. Maybe the little TiVo logo guy lights up when he gets too hot.
Perhaps you meant to complain about some other non-TiVo device that I don't see a picture of.
The story you're referring to is Isaac Asimov's "The Dead Past". Google keywords asimov "dead past" [including quotation marks] for pointers and reviews. Add keyword cigarette for DMCA-violation.
With only 20kbits/sec there isn't much that can be done other th[a]n controlling electronic devices.
The computing world did just fine at or below 19.2Kbits/sec for decades (up until the mid-1990s). A whole lot can be done with that amount of bandwidth; I would have been very pleased to have even 9600bits/sec until around 1994.
That would be the 4th amendment in the Bill of Rights (not the Constitution, per se). It doesn't explicitly designate a right to privacy, only implies something similar:
Mabye I'm naive, but I read the press release as an endorsement of open source, and a prediction that as the code (the development branch of Apache in this case) matures and is subject to peer review, the code quality will improve (by whatever measure Reasoning is using).
Here's why I think that:
Actually, Outlook Express is SSL-enabled. Googled "outlook express ssl" and found this: How to configure Outlook Express 5.X and 6.X to use SSL (Windows)
...and probably better than 1 person in any sort of vehicle.
If the 4-person SUV gets 10 miles-per-gallon (a Hummer, for instance), and goes, say, 20 miles, then it uses 2 gallons: 1/2 gallon per person. A single commuter in a hybrid getting, say, 70 mpg, uses 2/7 gallon. OK, 2/7 is less than 1/2; however, most SUVs do better than 10 mpg, and most cars do a lot worse than 70 mpg. Change the efficiency numbers to 15 for the SUV and 40 for the car (still at the low-end and high-end, respectively) and it's a 1/2 gallon trip for the single commuter in the fuel-efficient commuter car, and 1/3 gallon per commuter in the 4-person SUV.
The IEEE "Export Control Compliance Form" at the IEEE web site reads "Digital Copyright Millennium Act" (DCMA), and not "Digital Millennium Copyright Act" (DMCA). Is this a clever ruse by the IEEE to confuse dyslexic lawyers?
The vision that comes to mind is Michael Jackson's head in a glass jar.
Rather than a glass jar, wouldn't a bottle of beer be more appropriate?
Oh, my mistake -- wrong Michael Jackson.
I'm surprised that there's virtually no mention of the Mac. Seems to me it would be a very workable alternative to Microsoft, if that's the order of the day.
As for the cost of Linux, *BSD, and other free OSes, it's worth considering support costs as well as initial investment. A not-for-profit might be able to afford to "buy" the latest version of a free OS, but installing and maintaining it is another matter. You can buy quite a bit of commercial software for the same as you'd pay a decent Unix sysadmin.
Here's a web page that discusses the Palm Beach County ballot from the standpoint of information design.
It has a graphic showing that it would have been possible to use exactly the same graphic elements at exactly the same size, that they would all fit on one page, and that the result is more legible and usable than the original .
So why the "butterfly ballot" in the first place?
As wave after wave of human test subjects rate the faces on attractiveness, a face evolves that matches most people's conception of beauty.
About five years ago, Time magazine ran a story on ethnic diversity. The photo on the cover was constructed by morphing images of people from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. I don't think Time necessarily intended that the resulting photo should be of an attractive woman, but I expect that fact didn't hurt their circulation that week. To me, she looked a bit like Terry Farrell.
Unfortunately, I don't remember the exact publication date.
Especially Since Ender's Shadow does something that is almost unprecedented in fiction: it re-tells the events of Ender's Game from the perspective of a relatively minor character in Ender's Game.
Anyone intrigued by this idea -- telling a known story from the point of view of a minor character -- might also enjoy Tom Stoppard's play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
Well before writing the screenplay for last year's Shakespeare in Love, Tom Stoppard wrote Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in which the events in Hamlet are viewed through the eyes of two minor characters (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, go figure).
I confess, I haven't seen the stage play, I've only seen the movie (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0100519). But the movie was pretty good.