I would pay them a dollar or so for service if they offered it on short flights (4 hours) if I can get guaranteed service. The 'state of the art' is very slow, very intermittent service and they'll charge you $15 for the privilege of giving you an access code even if it never works during the whole flight + $0.25/minute when it actually works.
There was a commercial/infomercial for SanDisk I believe that put those memory cards with camera near an explosive to capture it. It survived. Most cell phones will survive a decent stomping (maybe not the screen but you should be able to hook it up to your computer) and if not, the chips will survive and any data recovery company can get to it.
With good design or dumping all your data daily to a platform designed for such data analysis your problems would be solved (of course, given enough money, time and brain resources).
The problem imho is that we collect too much cruft and we're simply unsure what to do with it. The systems for good data queries have been designed be they SQL, NoSQL or some specific BI solution. The problem is that most DBA's don't know how to use the collection of them correctly, there are in many cases no "data architects" on either the dev or database teams and the consultants (which 90% of consultants these days you should actually be calling sales consultants or sales engineers that work for another company) which are rarely hired for these jobs off course push to sell whatever they get the highest commission for.
So we collect data because it's useful in one way but if we want to get it out another way people start scratching their heads and saying they have too much data, while actually no, you have too little experience or knowledge to handle this data. If they hire a consultant or a company to 'help' them they get their data out in that other way but usually strictly designed and limited to the job they asked for so if somebody comes along and wants another type of reporting then they have to go back to the drawing board and design yet another layer to get stuff out.
I have seen well designed data warehouses and they are not at all scary, none of them have too much data and they pull in data from several different sources in different formats and can offer them back into a consistent format. The key is not to just push in all the data at once (big mistake a lot of companies make - we have the solution, dump everything in it overnight the way we have it now) but define data source by data source and define consistent data types and tags for each row/table/xml you pull in while making the system available and listening to people as to how they get and want data out. It took one of the companies 10 years to get about 100 of their major data feeds (each feed containing 100's if not 1000's of tables) defined and into the system and they're still working on it as new data sources are made, in the mean time it was usable and people have been using it since the beginning, the data just gets richer as it goes along and the architects get feedback as to what the users want and what they're missing.
Advanced technology like OS/2, Windows NT, mainframes with UltraWide SCSI disks and 56k modems. You'd be surprised how much ancient stuff banks rely on simply because it's "safe because nobody else uses it" or "it has worked fine for the last decade" or "phone lines are safer (even safer than SSL)".
I used it as a smartphone though using SIP. These days you really don't need a cellular phone system, you just need the data portion, WiMax or one of those 4G-to-WiFi devices.
Taking over any of the following companies would be great: - To gut and throw away Microsoft Nokia RIAA, MPAA IRS, DHS - To take apart piece by piece and get the right things out Sony Oracle (if only here because of Sun and MySQL) - To sack leadership and integrate into the new age Sony/BMG, EMI, Universal, Viacom Disney Time Warner Comcast AT&T
I have tested Lion and it's only for Cocoa applications, not X11 or shell scripts just like KDE's feature only works for QT apps. For their Cocoa apps it's very simple to do, just change the underlying framework that handle the memory allocations and window drawings.
And it's not really a hibernate feature either. Hibernate takes a snapshot of all the system's memory and puts in on the hard drive. Lion actually restarts the kernel fresh as well as most other core services (such as background services) however applications with a user interface get 'hibernated'.
The Nokia N7xx-8xx were really, really nice for a smartphone and plenty hackable and had a large (open source) software repository by the time Apple came up to speed with the App Store. The main reasons those platforms bled to death was because they didn't want to invest even a fraction of time and money in it. The community around it was great however but Nokia euthanized it at the point they needed it the most. It could've beat Android before it even became successful, it has all the same great features of Android but none of the sluggishness.
I think these days you need a valid US mailing address and credit card to activate even the pre-paid devices. And the cost for pre-paid data is $5 for 10 MB, $15 for 100 MB, $25 for 500 MB.
Successful in terms of bringing in large amounts of cash - probably if Apple doesn't surpass them in the next couple of years. Successful in terms of bringing in talent, new ideas, worthwhile products... not so much. Microsoft made it big because others made big mistakes themselves marketing products that were very good, stable and ahead of the curve but for such an immature market (in the '90's) overpriced (WordPerfect, between-Jobs Apple, BeOS, OS/2, Sun, SGI)
What do you mean collapsed? I think 99% of Americans would support this. Oh, you mean support by the few people that make decisions and can easily be bought.
RH support is phenomenal and that's why a lot of businesses use it. If you want it on the cheap, go with what you're comfortable and have your specific calculation packages built in (Debian if you like apt and open source packages, RPM if you use a lot of commercial packages). If you're looking for performance and specific hardware enhancements, go Gentoo or one of it's brethren. Go with something that you can easily re-image if you're looking for lots of changes in software lineups or conflicts.
Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of brains had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.
Funny since your sig alone could be proof enough that you should go to jail for a minor offense. There are many that get convicted to the death penalty and then either before or after their death get exonerated eg. by better DNA processing or a discovery of mistakes being made.
It's not because you did something wrong that you would go to jail. It seems like you're a doctor or a nurse or somebody in the medical field. You could go to jail for giving or by no fault of your own (eg. computer error if you're a programmer) allowing the wrong person to get the wrong prescription. You could go to jail when a homeless guy jumps in front of your car while you're driving. You could go to jail for simply exercising any of your amendment rights if you live 100 miles near a US border.
You can just buy a 16:9 screen and run it at a 4:3 resolution. There is no reason not to have a 16:9 screen on a laptop, it gives room for a full keyboard, it allows for full-screen movie viewing and it's (at appropriate sizes) like having 1.5 displays - I have a document open and place for more stuff besides it.
People that can't code for shit. It's pretty popular in the scientific community simply because it combines the simplicity (and noobicity of the coders) of PHP, Python or Ruby with high-level mathematical constructs.
The thing is that for real coders it's actually harder because you're missing stuff like decent, inline evaluation of variables, loops and if/then/else constructs, evaluation of data types is hard to do, function overloading, regexp, greater-than-or-equal, and even the very basic of text evaluations seem to be missing. Even a simple v =+ 5 fails to evaluate. Most of your data has to be evaluated before entering a function and it just makes everything look messy and bloated.
Another thing is the messy licensing problems associated with MATLAB. MATLAB on a license server for example stops running the program in order to check-in resulting in a periodic ~150-250ms delay which is murder when you have to evaluate millisecond-based responses and beware if the network or the licensing server is down, all MATLAB systems simply stop functioning within 10 minutes. Toolboxes are individually checked out during runtime so if you require a function from eg. the statistics toolbox, it won't check out the license until it actually gets to the line of code that runs the function and THEN it fails instead of checking out the license before the program starts running. So you have to add more code (a couple of lines at the top to initialize a toolbox function) which adds to the bloatiness.
The rest of the licenses are activation based while deactivation doesn't work usually so you have to manually deactivate the license to re-install a computer.
I think they meant 2011b which is not out yet (it's in beta). GPUmat as well as nVIDIA had toolboxes for MATLAB for a while now (although the CUDA toolboxes require manual code edits and compiling to get it to work) but there is only limited function support (eg. FFT on large arrays works wonders on CUDA) and even those had limited support (only single floating point precision for example). There is also the commercial Accelereyes with Jacket.
It's the spending cuts on basic services and the massive increase in military and other unnecessary, non-infrastructure spending that killed the US (it's literally too late now, there is no way the US will get out of it if they continue what they're doing now). If you spend money on infrastructure in your own country, the value of your country goes up and thus it's money value, your people will work and they will spend their money.
If you spend money on blowing stuff up and temporary infrastructure in another country, you're only benefitting those that have the contracts to go out to another country while the people in your own country are jobless.
Strange people can't make a man guilty. I have strange people walking around in the street saying we're all guilty and God is going to kill us all for it. The judge (and sometimes a jury) makes a man guilty but even then they're wrong sometimes. The defendant was being tried on breaking an unconstitutional law in the first place (laws against encryption and/or not disclosing your personal passwords is both an infringement of the first and fifth amendment).
Most likely some affluent middle-eastern or asian countries might have some samples as well. It's not like it's a huge issue but any of those countries (US included) can 'lose' or use a sample. If it does happen as is the case with any sort of biological warfare, many will die before you even get to know what the problem is, what the appropriate response is and the logistics of the response not to even talk about finding out who did it, where it started and why.
I think biological warfare is much more devastating than nuclear warfare however it's (at this point) impossible to target specific areas so most likely it's going to be used only by extremists with a 'higher' calling.
Another problem with.NET/Mono is that Microsoft has historically never committed to a certain programming language and environment for more than a decade. Now it's.NET, before it was VB, they have had their own flavor of C and Java which gives major issues now 10 years later when you try to compile an obscure library with a non-Microsoft compiler or even a newer version of Visual Studio. We still have to purchase Visual C++ 6 to support a crappy library which won't compile in later versions (closed hardware, licensing and FDA validation issues don't allow us to rewrite it either).
Even.NET is at version 4 as if it were a software package that is going to be outdated by version 5 with major backwards and forwards compatibility issues..NET programs just can't be ported to another platform easily either since there is no fully ported.NET version for them except for Linux/Mac and the framework is just too big, interdependent and complicated to even port small portions of it to certain targets (SPARC, Power, ARM).
Microsoft pushed the UMPC as well as Tablets in the early 00's so they could sell Windows licenses. The only reason they are pushing it again is so they can sell Windows licenses. Windows Phone/Mobile has always been a large flop and nobody wants to use it. There are now devices out between 4-8" that do what I want from a computer that size and they're called cell-phones now. There are devices between 7" and 12" that do what I want from a computer that size and they're called tablets now. Anything larger is a (portable) computer and does what I expect from a device that size. I do not WANT to run a desktop UI on a 4-8" screen and I do not WANT to run Office or any other menu-driven software on anything less than 13". If I need to take notes, which I do on a tablet, I don't need Office's UI getting in the way.
Anything less than 13" is not for media creation but consumption and small, frequent inputs. Microsoft and Adobe is in the media creation business and has never gotten a decent hold of the (mobile) media consumption business (whether it be the MSN Network, Flash, Office, Sharepoint or Photoshop).
Any way of 'fixing' the patent system that involves allowing mathematical proofs or (bio)chemical processes to be patented is doomed to fail. The patent system should only allow a monopoly on the production of tangible objects for a limited amount of time. This amount of time should be enough to get investors and a production facility off the ground (~10 years) and expire into the public domain after that.
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I would pay them a dollar or so for service if they offered it on short flights (4 hours) if I can get guaranteed service. The 'state of the art' is very slow, very intermittent service and they'll charge you $15 for the privilege of giving you an access code even if it never works during the whole flight + $0.25/minute when it actually works.
There was a commercial/infomercial for SanDisk I believe that put those memory cards with camera near an explosive to capture it. It survived. Most cell phones will survive a decent stomping (maybe not the screen but you should be able to hook it up to your computer) and if not, the chips will survive and any data recovery company can get to it.
With good design or dumping all your data daily to a platform designed for such data analysis your problems would be solved (of course, given enough money, time and brain resources).
The problem imho is that we collect too much cruft and we're simply unsure what to do with it. The systems for good data queries have been designed be they SQL, NoSQL or some specific BI solution. The problem is that most DBA's don't know how to use the collection of them correctly, there are in many cases no "data architects" on either the dev or database teams and the consultants (which 90% of consultants these days you should actually be calling sales consultants or sales engineers that work for another company) which are rarely hired for these jobs off course push to sell whatever they get the highest commission for.
So we collect data because it's useful in one way but if we want to get it out another way people start scratching their heads and saying they have too much data, while actually no, you have too little experience or knowledge to handle this data. If they hire a consultant or a company to 'help' them they get their data out in that other way but usually strictly designed and limited to the job they asked for so if somebody comes along and wants another type of reporting then they have to go back to the drawing board and design yet another layer to get stuff out.
I have seen well designed data warehouses and they are not at all scary, none of them have too much data and they pull in data from several different sources in different formats and can offer them back into a consistent format. The key is not to just push in all the data at once (big mistake a lot of companies make - we have the solution, dump everything in it overnight the way we have it now) but define data source by data source and define consistent data types and tags for each row/table/xml you pull in while making the system available and listening to people as to how they get and want data out. It took one of the companies 10 years to get about 100 of their major data feeds (each feed containing 100's if not 1000's of tables) defined and into the system and they're still working on it as new data sources are made, in the mean time it was usable and people have been using it since the beginning, the data just gets richer as it goes along and the architects get feedback as to what the users want and what they're missing.
So Windows 7 is for desktops, Windows 2008 is for servers, Windows Phone 7 is for mobile phone devices and Windows 8 is for mobile non-phone devices?
Advanced technology like OS/2, Windows NT, mainframes with UltraWide SCSI disks and 56k modems. You'd be surprised how much ancient stuff banks rely on simply because it's "safe because nobody else uses it" or "it has worked fine for the last decade" or "phone lines are safer (even safer than SSL)".
I used it as a smartphone though using SIP. These days you really don't need a cellular phone system, you just need the data portion, WiMax or one of those 4G-to-WiFi devices.
Taking over any of the following companies would be great:
- To gut and throw away
Microsoft
Nokia
RIAA, MPAA
IRS, DHS
- To take apart piece by piece and get the right things out
Sony
Oracle (if only here because of Sun and MySQL)
- To sack leadership and integrate into the new age
Sony/BMG, EMI, Universal, Viacom
Disney
Time Warner
Comcast
AT&T
I have tested Lion and it's only for Cocoa applications, not X11 or shell scripts just like KDE's feature only works for QT apps. For their Cocoa apps it's very simple to do, just change the underlying framework that handle the memory allocations and window drawings.
And it's not really a hibernate feature either. Hibernate takes a snapshot of all the system's memory and puts in on the hard drive. Lion actually restarts the kernel fresh as well as most other core services (such as background services) however applications with a user interface get 'hibernated'.
The Nokia N7xx-8xx were really, really nice for a smartphone and plenty hackable and had a large (open source) software repository by the time Apple came up to speed with the App Store. The main reasons those platforms bled to death was because they didn't want to invest even a fraction of time and money in it. The community around it was great however but Nokia euthanized it at the point they needed it the most. It could've beat Android before it even became successful, it has all the same great features of Android but none of the sluggishness.
I think these days you need a valid US mailing address and credit card to activate even the pre-paid devices. And the cost for pre-paid data is $5 for 10 MB, $15 for 100 MB, $25 for 500 MB.
Successful in terms of bringing in large amounts of cash - probably if Apple doesn't surpass them in the next couple of years. Successful in terms of bringing in talent, new ideas, worthwhile products... not so much. Microsoft made it big because others made big mistakes themselves marketing products that were very good, stable and ahead of the curve but for such an immature market (in the '90's) overpriced (WordPerfect, between-Jobs Apple, BeOS, OS/2, Sun, SGI)
What do you mean collapsed? I think 99% of Americans would support this. Oh, you mean support by the few people that make decisions and can easily be bought.
RH support is phenomenal and that's why a lot of businesses use it. If you want it on the cheap, go with what you're comfortable and have your specific calculation packages built in (Debian if you like apt and open source packages, RPM if you use a lot of commercial packages). If you're looking for performance and specific hardware enhancements, go Gentoo or one of it's brethren. Go with something that you can easily re-image if you're looking for lots of changes in software lineups or conflicts.
Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of brains had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now.
Funny since your sig alone could be proof enough that you should go to jail for a minor offense. There are many that get convicted to the death penalty and then either before or after their death get exonerated eg. by better DNA processing or a discovery of mistakes being made.
It's not because you did something wrong that you would go to jail. It seems like you're a doctor or a nurse or somebody in the medical field. You could go to jail for giving or by no fault of your own (eg. computer error if you're a programmer) allowing the wrong person to get the wrong prescription. You could go to jail when a homeless guy jumps in front of your car while you're driving. You could go to jail for simply exercising any of your amendment rights if you live 100 miles near a US border.
You can just buy a 16:9 screen and run it at a 4:3 resolution. There is no reason not to have a 16:9 screen on a laptop, it gives room for a full keyboard, it allows for full-screen movie viewing and it's (at appropriate sizes) like having 1.5 displays - I have a document open and place for more stuff besides it.
People that can't code for shit. It's pretty popular in the scientific community simply because it combines the simplicity (and noobicity of the coders) of PHP, Python or Ruby with high-level mathematical constructs.
The thing is that for real coders it's actually harder because you're missing stuff like decent, inline evaluation of variables, loops and if/then/else constructs, evaluation of data types is hard to do, function overloading, regexp, greater-than-or-equal, and even the very basic of text evaluations seem to be missing. Even a simple v =+ 5 fails to evaluate. Most of your data has to be evaluated before entering a function and it just makes everything look messy and bloated.
Another thing is the messy licensing problems associated with MATLAB. MATLAB on a license server for example stops running the program in order to check-in resulting in a periodic ~150-250ms delay which is murder when you have to evaluate millisecond-based responses and beware if the network or the licensing server is down, all MATLAB systems simply stop functioning within 10 minutes. Toolboxes are individually checked out during runtime so if you require a function from eg. the statistics toolbox, it won't check out the license until it actually gets to the line of code that runs the function and THEN it fails instead of checking out the license before the program starts running. So you have to add more code (a couple of lines at the top to initialize a toolbox function) which adds to the bloatiness.
The rest of the licenses are activation based while deactivation doesn't work usually so you have to manually deactivate the license to re-install a computer.
I think they meant 2011b which is not out yet (it's in beta). GPUmat as well as nVIDIA had toolboxes for MATLAB for a while now (although the CUDA toolboxes require manual code edits and compiling to get it to work) but there is only limited function support (eg. FFT on large arrays works wonders on CUDA) and even those had limited support (only single floating point precision for example). There is also the commercial Accelereyes with Jacket.
It's the spending cuts on basic services and the massive increase in military and other unnecessary, non-infrastructure spending that killed the US (it's literally too late now, there is no way the US will get out of it if they continue what they're doing now). If you spend money on infrastructure in your own country, the value of your country goes up and thus it's money value, your people will work and they will spend their money.
If you spend money on blowing stuff up and temporary infrastructure in another country, you're only benefitting those that have the contracts to go out to another country while the people in your own country are jobless.
Strange people can't make a man guilty. I have strange people walking around in the street saying we're all guilty and God is going to kill us all for it. The judge (and sometimes a jury) makes a man guilty but even then they're wrong sometimes. The defendant was being tried on breaking an unconstitutional law in the first place (laws against encryption and/or not disclosing your personal passwords is both an infringement of the first and fifth amendment).
Most likely some affluent middle-eastern or asian countries might have some samples as well. It's not like it's a huge issue but any of those countries (US included) can 'lose' or use a sample. If it does happen as is the case with any sort of biological warfare, many will die before you even get to know what the problem is, what the appropriate response is and the logistics of the response not to even talk about finding out who did it, where it started and why.
I think biological warfare is much more devastating than nuclear warfare however it's (at this point) impossible to target specific areas so most likely it's going to be used only by extremists with a 'higher' calling.
Another problem with .NET/Mono is that Microsoft has historically never committed to a certain programming language and environment for more than a decade. Now it's .NET, before it was VB, they have had their own flavor of C and Java which gives major issues now 10 years later when you try to compile an obscure library with a non-Microsoft compiler or even a newer version of Visual Studio. We still have to purchase Visual C++ 6 to support a crappy library which won't compile in later versions (closed hardware, licensing and FDA validation issues don't allow us to rewrite it either).
Even .NET is at version 4 as if it were a software package that is going to be outdated by version 5 with major backwards and forwards compatibility issues. .NET programs just can't be ported to another platform easily either since there is no fully ported .NET version for them except for Linux/Mac and the framework is just too big, interdependent and complicated to even port small portions of it to certain targets (SPARC, Power, ARM).
And David Bowie's nipples.
Microsoft pushed the UMPC as well as Tablets in the early 00's so they could sell Windows licenses. The only reason they are pushing it again is so they can sell Windows licenses. Windows Phone/Mobile has always been a large flop and nobody wants to use it. There are now devices out between 4-8" that do what I want from a computer that size and they're called cell-phones now. There are devices between 7" and 12" that do what I want from a computer that size and they're called tablets now. Anything larger is a (portable) computer and does what I expect from a device that size. I do not WANT to run a desktop UI on a 4-8" screen and I do not WANT to run Office or any other menu-driven software on anything less than 13". If I need to take notes, which I do on a tablet, I don't need Office's UI getting in the way.
Anything less than 13" is not for media creation but consumption and small, frequent inputs. Microsoft and Adobe is in the media creation business and has never gotten a decent hold of the (mobile) media consumption business (whether it be the MSN Network, Flash, Office, Sharepoint or Photoshop).
Any way of 'fixing' the patent system that involves allowing mathematical proofs or (bio)chemical processes to be patented is doomed to fail. The patent system should only allow a monopoly on the production of tangible objects for a limited amount of time. This amount of time should be enough to get investors and a production facility off the ground (~10 years) and expire into the public domain after that.