I'd like to see something like AMD's cHT system become standard.. being able to drop various x86/PPC/Cell CPUs onto the same desktop or server motherboard would be excellent.
As a programmer trained, at least initially, in java.. I kinda agree with this article.. while it's certainly not true that there are no good programmers who code solely in java, the education I got was sorely lacking in some critical fields.. most notably (and obviously) memory management and pointers, and moving from a memory managed language to one with absolutely no automated object destruction or garbage collection was a bit of a stretch..
I've since picked this stuff up, but i'm still not as confident with C++ or C as i am with java. Ok.. maybe that's not their faults..;)
tsk. Random insult slinging from two of my favorite regular commentators. Guys, you're both right, and i could probably cite relevant lawsuits to back up both your claims. Shit, i don't even live in America.
The law is full of contradictions, and different people have different priorities.
also, shit happens.
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.rm is not a workable format. AVI is simply a container, in which variously coded streams sit. rm is a complete audio/video codec package.
regardless,.rm's quality is by far inferior to any of the commonly used standards, and that's after (at least, i lost count..) 10 major software iterations.
Musharraf already destroyed his credibility by repeatedly insisting that Bhutto fell and hit her head, despite multiple video accounts that contradicted him.
I honestly don't think the government needed to do much here tho.. there are enough people who are angry, deluded and vocal enough that Pakistan will be in trouble for a while, regardless of the outcomes of any election.
The US government is willing to pay people to watch more television, but won't spend money on healthcare or infrastructure?
I realize that people need televisions (most common communications method, emergency broadcasts, etc, etc..) but something doesn't sit right with me here...
The only good thing about this particular piece of policy (left by the Howard Govt, but i'm sure Rudd's new group will probably superficially endorse it too..) is that it is completely 100% unimplementable.
The first few times (if ever) this is tried in court will be laughable, and the AFP will just stop trying after a while.
Sad but true, i guess. And yes, monopoly is among the worst reasons. While it's possible to get cable from other providers, only Optus and Telstra have had the licenses and capacity until recently.
i dunno what your political stance is, but personally i'd rather the government was responsible for the infrastructure. At least they're accountable to the public.
Well.. you used to be able to, but the simultaneous deregulation of the telecommunications system and float of the publicly owned infrastructure as a private company made it kinda necessary.. There were some ridiculous things going on, including some clearly monopolistic practices on Telstra's part (e.g making the local loop avaliable, then charging higher wholesale prices than the retail they charged their won customers, etc.. ). Even Howard couldn't make that look like a free market.
Of course, what would really benefit the industry here is if Telstra still didn't own all the publicly paid for infrastructure..
Yeah, the GP got it wrong. Previously BigPond were a mirror, and would allow unmetered downloads (that's right, Australia's largest ISP provides only metered plans.. although they used to have some that were called unlimited, until our equivalent of the FCC told them to stop it.) for their own customers.
I admit, it still doesn't seem like much, but Telstra/BigPond's cheapest and most heavily advertised ADSL2+ product has only 200mb of prepaid bandwidth, with excess @ 15c/Mb and it has a lockin contract.
The ~120mb OOo download will now take up the majority of an uneducated customer's monthly uncharged bandwidth.
Yes, there are much better ISPs in Australia, but many people still unfortunately use BigPond, mostly for bad reasons.
Here in Australia, we have the best of both worlds.. you get to go to a doctor of your choice, and in some cases (e.g Bulk Billing), the government simply pays for it. In some cases, you have to pay in full at the clinic and get a 60-80% refund at Medicare.
Of course, there are some private hospitals that don't deal with the government, but even then our health insurance is comparatively reliable, and our last government (who understood economics oh so well, or so he kept telling us) introduced a bunch of incentives to get people onto private health cover.
The caveat to this system is waiting times for surgery (particularly for non-critical or cosmetic procedures).. but i far prefer it to leaving my whole family in debt for the rest of their lives when i die of a rare disease.
Try a logged GPS in the truck.. seriously.. RFID is totally inappropriate here. For one thing, it raises huge privacy concerns, and the technology is also not (yet, maybe) useful for tracking beyond a 2ft range.
I remember a while back, a guy in Britain (was it Steve Mann? i can't remember..) was advertising an rfid tracking system for kids.. it involved implanting the kid with an RFID tag which could be queried remotely... but it had to be within range of a specific mobile device with built in GPS, or else it was useless.
Despite all the advances we've made, science still isn't magic.
in some ways, I'd really like to have the secret agencies of so many spy movies rather than the massive bureaucratic pile that I know exists in reality
Have you actually paid attention to the collateral damage in your average Bond movie? I think a mass of bureaucrats are a reasonable alternative to that..
Oh for a world where people actually like their employees, respected the jobs they do and don't see them (and consumers, while we're at it) as an obstacle to be navigated in the Quest For More Money.
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:s/probably/possibly - i missed the part about it being a domestic flight before..
Actually.. he probably doesn't. I believe that until quite recently it was possible to fly from Australia to New Zealand without even a passport..
I guess it just depends how high you set the bar. :)
Someone hasn't been paying attention
Why limit this to laptops?
I'd like to see something like AMD's cHT system become standard.. being able to drop various x86/PPC/Cell CPUs onto the same desktop or server motherboard would be excellent.
I disagree. I've got ALL of those things and i'm still not a very good programmer ;)
As a programmer trained, at least initially, in java.. I kinda agree with this article.. while it's certainly not true that there are no good programmers who code solely in java, the education I got was sorely lacking in some critical fields.. most notably (and obviously) memory management and pointers, and moving from a memory managed language to one with absolutely no automated object destruction or garbage collection was a bit of a stretch..
;)
I've since picked this stuff up, but i'm still not as confident with C++ or C as i am with java. Ok.. maybe that's not their faults..
Yes, but Germany is in Europe. ;)
tsk. Random insult slinging from two of my favorite regular commentators. Guys, you're both right, and i could probably cite relevant lawsuits to back up both your claims. Shit, i don't even live in America.
The law is full of contradictions, and different people have different priorities.
also, shit happens.
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.rm is not a workable format. AVI is simply a container, in which variously coded streams sit. rm is a complete audio/video codec package.
.rm's quality is by far inferior to any of the commonly used standards, and that's after (at least, i lost count..) 10 major software iterations.
regardless,
Musharraf already destroyed his credibility by repeatedly insisting that Bhutto fell and hit her head, despite multiple video accounts that contradicted him.
I honestly don't think the government needed to do much here tho.. there are enough people who are angry, deluded and vocal enough that Pakistan will be in trouble for a while, regardless of the outcomes of any election.
In before trollfarm, etc..
The US government is willing to pay people to watch more television, but won't spend money on healthcare or infrastructure?
I realize that people need televisions (most common communications method, emergency broadcasts, etc, etc..) but something doesn't sit right with me here...
The only good thing about this particular piece of policy (left by the Howard Govt, but i'm sure Rudd's new group will probably superficially endorse it too..) is that it is completely 100% unimplementable.
The first few times (if ever) this is tried in court will be laughable, and the AFP will just stop trying after a while.
Or a standards shill.. no wait.. people can actually want interoperability?
Dammit Janet! what a great idea.. now if only i wasn't on the wrong side of the planet..
Something tells me that the OOo crowd are more upset by this than Telstra subscribers..
Sad but true, i guess. And yes, monopoly is among the worst reasons. While it's possible to get cable from other providers, only Optus and Telstra have had the licenses and capacity until recently.
i dunno what your political stance is, but personally i'd rather the government was responsible for the infrastructure. At least they're accountable to the public.
Well.. you used to be able to, but the simultaneous deregulation of the telecommunications system and float of the publicly owned infrastructure as a private company made it kinda necessary.. There were some ridiculous things going on, including some clearly monopolistic practices on Telstra's part (e.g making the local loop avaliable, then charging higher wholesale prices than the retail they charged their won customers, etc.. ). Even Howard couldn't make that look like a free market.
Of course, what would really benefit the industry here is if Telstra still didn't own all the publicly paid for infrastructure..
Aaah, if only metered downloads were the actual problem.
Yeah, the GP got it wrong. Previously BigPond were a mirror, and would allow unmetered downloads (that's right, Australia's largest ISP provides only metered plans.. although they used to have some that were called unlimited, until our equivalent of the FCC told them to stop it.) for their own customers.
I admit, it still doesn't seem like much, but Telstra/BigPond's cheapest and most heavily advertised ADSL2+ product has only 200mb of prepaid bandwidth, with excess @ 15c/Mb and it has a lockin contract.
The ~120mb OOo download will now take up the majority of an uneducated customer's monthly uncharged bandwidth.
Yes, there are much better ISPs in Australia, but many people still unfortunately use BigPond, mostly for bad reasons.
I imagine it'd be much easier if you were used to Telstra's corporate policy. There's a lot of bad karma there.
actually...
Here in Australia, we have the best of both worlds.. you get to go to a doctor of your choice, and in some cases (e.g Bulk Billing), the government simply pays for it. In some cases, you have to pay in full at the clinic and get a 60-80% refund at Medicare.
Of course, there are some private hospitals that don't deal with the government, but even then our health insurance is comparatively reliable, and our last government (who understood economics oh so well, or so he kept telling us) introduced a bunch of incentives to get people onto private health cover.
The caveat to this system is waiting times for surgery (particularly for non-critical or cosmetic procedures).. but i far prefer it to leaving my whole family in debt for the rest of their lives when i die of a rare disease.
Try a logged GPS in the truck.. seriously.. RFID is totally inappropriate here. For one thing, it raises huge privacy concerns, and the technology is also not (yet, maybe) useful for tracking beyond a 2ft range.
I remember a while back, a guy in Britain (was it Steve Mann? i can't remember..) was advertising an rfid tracking system for kids.. it involved implanting the kid with an RFID tag which could be queried remotely... but it had to be within range of a specific mobile device with built in GPS, or else it was useless.
Despite all the advances we've made, science still isn't magic.
in some ways, I'd really like to have the secret agencies of so many spy movies rather than the massive bureaucratic pile that I know exists in reality
Have you actually paid attention to the collateral damage in your average Bond movie? I think a mass of bureaucrats are a reasonable alternative to that..
Oh for a world where people actually like their employees, respected the jobs they do and don't see them (and consumers, while we're at it) as an obstacle to be navigated in the Quest For More Money.