But only users in the administrators group can write to %ProgramFiles%. So should installers write a separate copy of the program to each user's Documents and Settings? Well, what do you suggest? That non-administrators should be able to write and update executables that are shared by all users?
You can configure to be like that with group policy. The official reason for the current default was that no ordinary process should be able to interfere with user input or fake the UI (i.e. showing some other always-on-top window with a different text that moves away just before the click etc etc). If you can accept that, just turn UAC into "same-desktop" mode, while not turning it off completely.
Yes, but it also meant that address calculations were relatively expensive when you wanted to do free addressing over those 16 bits. A relative offset of less than 256 bytes was cheaper, by far. The data bus was also only 8 bits. The "bitness" of a CPU is no simple issue, the original Pentium could address more than 32 bits, and used a 64-bit data bus, but few people would choose to call it 64-bit. When all general purpose and address registers support a certain width, it makes sense to actually say that it "is" that number of bits.
For image processing, I think the story is generally quite simple. You don't have too complex data structures (i.e. not a lot of overhead due to pointers changing size, this is different from much of general business/application programming), relative to the amount of data being crunched. You do benefit from a clean and huge virtual address space, you do benefit from a larger register file (which you get with x64), you can certainly benefit from 64-bit integer arithmetics in some cases where you might otherwise resort to floating point. Future SIMD extensions tend to be x64 only, or at least do better in that mode.
Photoshop is simply the typical consumer app that can and will benefit, in addition to some games.
On top of this, if you have a VOIP/GSM phone, you probably have email. Why not just send encrypted email? Why jump through hoops trying to send stenographic data through the phone system.
(More) deniability.
They've already gone after TeliaSonera for the same matter (the magenta tone in their logos). It seems more like genuine legal dementia than a publicity stunt.
You still don't have data locality. A reflection can, and will, take you anywhere in the scene. Each core needs fast acces to the complete scene. As you scale this up, you have a memory bottleneck. You don't need inter-core communication, but you still need to access the same memory. Parallel reads are easier to handle than reads/writes, but really good parallelism also implies that the data distributed is limited. As memory bandwidth is a very real limitation in GPUs, that's not true here.
If you can check a single solution in polynomial time (i.e. the problem is NP-complete), and have a computing device performing the equivalent of testing all (the exponential number of) combinations at the same time, then you can solve an NP-complete problem. It is "just" a matter of encoding the process of checking an individual solution in a manner that is compatible with the quantum realization used.
What makes OLED's 'green' is that they don't require back lighting like LCD displays. Which means you can generate images for a fraction of the electrical draw.
In addition to no mercury in the backlight (which is of course also true of LED-backlighted LCDs and a few other techniques).
Threads are the source of so much pain[....]a shared memory model for multiprocessing seems like it would be practical and very fast. I know about such a model - threading.
The main reason for this is wear and tear on fans. Bringing a DC motor to a total stop and starting it again is expensive. Heck, too many systems are delivered in a preconfigured case with no fan-speed adjustment at all. If the temperature is too low to drive the fan, it should not be needed. If that's not true, it's just as much of a problem at full speed as at idle.
The point of the grandparent was that thermodynamics defines the maximum theoretical efficiency of a Stirling engine (or any design), when the "low-temperature" side is at room temperature. When close to absolute zero, the maximum efficiency can be quite a bit higher with a low temperature difference, assuming you ignore the exotic cooling needed to get there in the first place.
Quite simple, while the EP is involved in the process, it has very limited power to enact new laws, but they are part of the process to ratifice ones proposed by other parties. As the summary of this/. post mentions, the Council (which is basically a fancy names for the leaders of the national governments) also has to pass it. The European Parliament only wields direct power when the Commision or the Council wants something badly and are ready to bargain. It should also be mentioned that, for now, many kinds of decisions are handled in the Council with a formal right to veto for every country.
When and if the new treaty is fully ratified, both the power of the EP and the number of issues handled by majority vote (with a somewhat skewed definition of majority) in the Council will increase, but this is not the case now. Even after that, the EP will be very far from able to enact laws within arbitrary fields, or even laws that fall within the competence of the union, in a way that would be comparable to what one might think by the use of the term parliament.
The GP is right. The EP has no power, for the very reason that while the European G8 countries might find common interests, they do so as national governments and possibly by earlier consultation with the commission and the other national governments, NOT the EP.
I would think that there are quite a few desktop users in helpdesk settings, or some of them just curious, that use virtualization with the specific purpose of checking out possibly malicious software. As others have noted, some of them might even have turn networking off, with the intent of stopping phone-home or explicit attacks from the VM.
We are already working on a second "Internet" its called "Freenet" and it aims to eliminate many of the current problems with the Internet such as censorship and accountability.
Freedom of speech did originally, in the 18th century or so, frequently also entail that you did specify an actual author publisher that could be brought to court for the possible crimes. The most important aspect of freedom of speech is that you cannot be stopped before you distribute something to the public. Then, the interesting issues are if we can create sets of authorized personas, so you can still keep privacy, by only showing one of your "faces", for example.
Why is accountability for your own actions ever a problem?
Yes if you practice freedom of speech!
~Dan Freedom of speech did originally, in the 18th century or so, frequently also entail that you did specify an actual author publisher that could be brought to court for the possible crimes. The most important aspect of freedom of speech is that you cannot be stopped before you distribute something to the public. Then, the interesting issues are if we can create sets of authorized personas, so you can still keep privacy, by only showing one of your "faces", for example.
Unless we can say, observe objects that are measured to be closer than these sheets, but farther away than you hypothetical brown dwarfs, that are not affected. (hint: I would find this quite likely)
Considering that the wheel motors are a power hog (relatively speaking) , the clutch would absolutely be needed. I'm far from convinced that the compressed air method would be any safer, simpler or more efficient than a brush. It's quite possible that the choice not to have a cleaning device was wise, even consdiering the current lifetime.
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Try running Vista as a real standard user, and you'll see it asks you to authenticate as an admin, with password.
You can configure to be like that with group policy. The official reason for the current default was that no ordinary process should be able to interfere with user input or fake the UI (i.e. showing some other always-on-top window with a different text that moves away just before the click etc etc). If you can accept that, just turn UAC into "same-desktop" mode, while not turning it off completely.
Because Australia is a huge net exporter of uranium? The nuclear power is (mostly) not intended for local, or domestic, use.
Yes, but it also meant that address calculations were relatively expensive when you wanted to do free addressing over those 16 bits. A relative offset of less than 256 bytes was cheaper, by far. The data bus was also only 8 bits. The "bitness" of a CPU is no simple issue, the original Pentium could address more than 32 bits, and used a 64-bit data bus, but few people would choose to call it 64-bit. When all general purpose and address registers support a certain width, it makes sense to actually say that it "is" that number of bits.
Photoshop is simply the typical consumer app that can and will benefit, in addition to some games.
(More) deniability.
They've already gone after TeliaSonera for the same matter (the magenta tone in their logos). It seems more like genuine legal dementia than a publicity stunt.
You still don't have data locality. A reflection can, and will, take you anywhere in the scene. Each core needs fast acces to the complete scene. As you scale this up, you have a memory bottleneck. You don't need inter-core communication, but you still need to access the same memory. Parallel reads are easier to handle than reads/writes, but really good parallelism also implies that the data distributed is limited. As memory bandwidth is a very real limitation in GPUs, that's not true here.
If you can check a single solution in polynomial time (i.e. the problem is NP-complete), and have a computing device performing the equivalent of testing all (the exponential number of) combinations at the same time, then you can solve an NP-complete problem. It is "just" a matter of encoding the process of checking an individual solution in a manner that is compatible with the quantum realization used.
They were massproduced in 1999, but the sweetspot for a new stick was around 128 MB, at about 8 times today's cost.
Did you eject the ion pod before going to read alert? Is Finney still hiding within the heatsink?
In addition to no mercury in the backlight (which is of course also true of LED-backlighted LCDs and a few other techniques).
There's something fundamentally wrong with using a prime base...
I know about such a model - threading.
Who said anything about chemistry? pV = nRT. No phase change is involved.
The main reason for this is wear and tear on fans. Bringing a DC motor to a total stop and starting it again is expensive. Heck, too many systems are delivered in a preconfigured case with no fan-speed adjustment at all. If the temperature is too low to drive the fan, it should not be needed. If that's not true, it's just as much of a problem at full speed as at idle.
The point of the grandparent was that thermodynamics defines the maximum theoretical efficiency of a Stirling engine (or any design), when the "low-temperature" side is at room temperature. When close to absolute zero, the maximum efficiency can be quite a bit higher with a low temperature difference, assuming you ignore the exotic cooling needed to get there in the first place.
When and if the new treaty is fully ratified, both the power of the EP and the number of issues handled by majority vote (with a somewhat skewed definition of majority) in the Council will increase, but this is not the case now. Even after that, the EP will be very far from able to enact laws within arbitrary fields, or even laws that fall within the competence of the union, in a way that would be comparable to what one might think by the use of the term parliament.
The GP is right. The EP has no power, for the very reason that while the European G8 countries might find common interests, they do so as national governments and possibly by earlier consultation with the commission and the other national governments, NOT the EP.
I would think that there are quite a few desktop users in helpdesk settings, or some of them just curious, that use virtualization with the specific purpose of checking out possibly malicious software. As others have noted, some of them might even have turn networking off, with the intent of stopping phone-home or explicit attacks from the VM.
We are already working on a second "Internet" its called "Freenet" and it aims to eliminate many of the current problems with the Internet such as censorship and accountability.
Freedom of speech did originally, in the 18th century or so, frequently also entail that you did specify an actual author publisher that could be brought to court for the possible crimes. The most important aspect of freedom of speech is that you cannot be stopped before you distribute something to the public. Then, the interesting issues are if we can create sets of authorized personas, so you can still keep privacy, by only showing one of your "faces", for example.Why is accountability for your own actions ever a problem?
Yes if you practice freedom of speech!~Dan
Freedom of speech did originally, in the 18th century or so, frequently also entail that you did specify an actual author publisher that could be brought to court for the possible crimes. The most important aspect of freedom of speech is that you cannot be stopped before you distribute something to the public. Then, the interesting issues are if we can create sets of authorized personas, so you can still keep privacy, by only showing one of your "faces", for example.
Unless we can say, observe objects that are measured to be closer than these sheets, but farther away than you hypothetical brown dwarfs, that are not affected. (hint: I would find this quite likely)
Hands up everyone who believe they just chose asin 0.5, but used float and shitty rounding when converting from radians...
Considering that the wheel motors are a power hog (relatively speaking) , the clutch would absolutely be needed. I'm far from convinced that the compressed air method would be any safer, simpler or more efficient than a brush. It's quite possible that the choice not to have a cleaning device was wise, even consdiering the current lifetime.