My Athlon XP ran happily at 2.7GHz but that's the joy of Phase Change Cooling:)
These days I subscribe to the low noise/default clocks school of thought.
Not sure how you're going to fit the batteries inside your head to power the laser beams though.
I'm sure there's plenty of space for batteries in his head.
Actually the traditional definition of CPU was indeed the system unit that contained what was then called the MPU (microprocessor unit, what is now called the CPU), primary storage, and possibly some other stuff I can no longer remember. Basically the rest of the computer consisted of peripherals (i.e. things that were peripheral to the CPU).
So your colleagues are correct as far as the original definition of the term. Unfortunately modern usage says they are no longer correct. Try Googling and you will struggle to find the old definition but look in a computer architecture text book from the 1980s and you will find the definition that they are using.
...How on earth are you going to prove that it cannot be broken? The only way to possibly prove this in any absolute sense would be to test it with every possible input (i.e. class) and see if it behaved as expected. As this is practically impossible you must target your testing. The problem with targeting testing is that different testers have different ideas of what may break the system so you need to have a decent sized population of testers in order to get any confidence in the results.
The brute force method that you seam to be suggesting doesn't work, however neither does the opposite extreme of a small team of testers. Wider Beta style testing is necessary.
The other type of proof method is to prove that the program is logically equivalent to it's spec however this just transfers the burden of accuracy from program to spec and the question becomes "could this spec be broken". It is usually easier to test a program than a spec though.
Messaging doesn't have to be text, it can be the sending of any communication. In UK Law "messages" refers to all telecommunications for example.
The 1913 Webster edition uses this definition:
Message \Mes"sage\ (?; 48), n. [F., fr. LL. missaticum, fr. L.
mittere, missum, to send. See Mission, and cf.
Messenger.]
1. Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal,
sent from one person to another.
Moreover a number of people seam to be running very old versions of GAIM because GAIM does use UPNP to open ports on firewalls for filetransfers etc. I have no problems at all with GAIM file transfers but do think that the UI is hardly fantastic and at times miss the ease of initiating a voice conversation with a friend to talk him through setting a program up for example.
Linux on the Desktop has a number of challenges and the inconsistent and often poorly designed UIs are often at the heart of the usability issues. It makes a great server OS and a passable desktop. However many, but not all, people want the latest in Messageing (and other) application features and Linux isn't the place to get it (sadly as I cut my teeth programming for HP and have a warm place in my heart for UNIX derivatives).
"Among its efforts, the government has worked to shield private U.S. companies from demands by the United Nations and other countries for multilateral control of the Net."
I see no evidence of this been a charitable act by the US Government or in the interests of American business. The US Government is clearly acting in this colonial manner in order to retain its power. It is acting in its interests which are not necessarily the same as the interests of US citizens, US business, or the people of the Free World (tm).
The rest of the world is concerned that the internet could be used as a tool of US foreign policy (in addition to current military, economic, and diplomatic tools). In addition US domestic policy on matters as diverse as (but not limited to) Intellectual Property, Digital Rights, and sexual morality may influence decisions.
I'm not sure how the Google story is linked to propoganda on the "US Government versus World over the Internet" story.
Personally I think the American people may benefit from the Internet becoming less of a political football and more of a shared global resource.
I think you are falling for the "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" magic already. C# is still an open standard, it's just one that Microsoft will doubtless Extend and Extinguish:)
Couple of points... this is the local government (City Council) not a UK Govenment scheme. In addition Scotland has a seperate education system to England and Wales so the this has nothing to do with the UK government.
Glasgow is the least healthy city in Europe. It also has many of the poorest areas in Europe. This scheme is working very well, and if it works does anything else matter.
PE is compulsary in Scottish state schools. After the age of 16 some allow an opt out.
Perhaps these adverts would help...
http://www.rudefood.org/
...hey lets stop exchanging commodities coz sometimes I would rather not carry a cow home just coz I sold you a load of wheat. How about I give you give me some bits of paper guaranteed by the authorities and I will get something I want later.
Hey wait a minute, are you happy with not having a physical cow now?
Sure.
The CD is a comfort blanket dudes. The only benefits are:
1. no DRM
2. it can act as a backup
The demise of the physical medium is inevitable. The question is what format will replace it and when. The challenge the internet gives (especially as it gets faster) is that with no controls piracy could become a genuine problem (it isn't IMHO today).
We are all uncomfortable with this change as we foresee a world where we get WMA protection (and lossy compression) replacing the flexibility and fidelity of CDs.
Personally I think Fairyplay shows that there is a workable happy medium. Decent fidelity and reasonable rights limitations. Although even AAC needs to be higher bandwidth than 128kbps before I would be comfortable saying goodbye to CDDA for full albums.
I can tell the difference all too easily when listening through my Hi Fi.
As for proof of purchase. When did someone last demand you prove that you didn't steal your music?
With Apple Fairplay: You can burn the same playlist up to 7 times. You can burn a track as many times as you like. The only real downside is that it's lossy compression. However it is a lot better quality than WMA, where Microsoft seams to have managed to create possibly the worst sounding CODEC known to man at 128kbps.
As for the iPod battery thing. In 3 years time I will either send the iPod in to get the battery replaced or (more likely) upgrade. In truth, many of us will just upgrade. That's why it rarely makes sense to pay top dollar for the top of the range model.
Now what has got me annoyed this weekend is the music I've bought from MSN Music turns out to have varying terms (unlike Apples). Some of my tracks can only be played a couple more times. All of them expire in 2099 (kinda presumptious). One of them wont copy to my WMA DRM compliant flash player. And all of them have very limited numbers of transfers to portable devices. I have about 6 tracks with one transfer left!
So I decided that I wouldn't upgrade my Napster subscription to NTG and that I'd buy a second iPod (the Shuffle) instead:-)
So hmmm let me see I can buy beautiful clear uncompressed CDDA without DRM or I can buy sweet sounding AAC (not bad for single tracks) or I can rent fart in a bath lo fi sounding WMA? Which will I choose? Well clearly as I am getting old WMA will remind me of the old days of Long Wave Radio. No thanks Microshaft.
Napster is actually quite a nice application. However WMA sucks and the UK prices are a rip off!
yeah but this tool will be used in corporate environments where some (l)users wont have a clue what remote control software is running. We run adaware at work at the moment (company has 2500 desk/lap-top users).
Also, it detects some harmless registry entrants as spyware. Go to www.wilderssecurity.com and see what testers there are saying. I think I'll go look now;-)
I hope MS get rid of the false positives, coz then not only will I use the tool, but naive users wont be put off by the tool "crying wolf to often".
Another worry is this gives MS the chance to label competitors products as "spyware".
I know some tools currently label GameSpy Arcade because it delivers ads and collects summary stats (none are attributable to individual users). This to me sounds rather unreasonable. After all, is MSN Messenger spyware coz it contains banner ads?
http://www.jabber.com/index.cgi?CONTENT_ID=460
I reckon this is Jabber Incs technology which they licenced recently to USJFCOM. If it's not well I'll be wrong!
Fairy
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Flash performance on Linux and Mac are equally awful (in terms of FPS) although the Mac versions seams less buggy. Further reading for those interested in this topic... http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2008/10/benchmarking-flash-player-10.ars
The Intel C compiler is better still.
But it's not that big a deal, it doesn't make you a woman or anything.
I thought it would be a lot cheaper and less painful than surgery
but if it doesn't make me a woman then I'm cancelling my preorder.
My Athlon XP ran happily at 2.7GHz but that's the joy of Phase Change Cooling :)
These days I subscribe to the low noise/default clocks school of thought.
Not sure how you're going to fit the batteries inside your head to power the laser beams though. I'm sure there's plenty of space for batteries in his head.
Actually the traditional definition of CPU was indeed the system unit that contained what was then called the MPU (microprocessor unit, what is now called the CPU), primary storage, and possibly some other stuff I can no longer remember. Basically the rest of the computer consisted of peripherals (i.e. things that were peripheral to the CPU). So your colleagues are correct as far as the original definition of the term. Unfortunately modern usage says they are no longer correct. Try Googling and you will struggle to find the old definition but look in a computer architecture text book from the 1980s and you will find the definition that they are using.
...How on earth are you going to prove that it cannot be broken? The only way to possibly prove this in any absolute sense would be to test it with every possible input (i.e. class) and see if it behaved as expected. As this is practically impossible you must target your testing. The problem with targeting testing is that different testers have different ideas of what may break the system so you need to have a decent sized population of testers in order to get any confidence in the results.
The brute force method that you seam to be suggesting doesn't work, however neither does the opposite extreme of a small team of testers. Wider Beta style testing is necessary.
The other type of proof method is to prove that the program is logically equivalent to it's spec however this just transfers the burden of accuracy from program to spec and the question becomes "could this spec be broken". It is usually easier to test a program than a spec though.
Messaging doesn't have to be text, it can be the sending of any communication. In UK Law "messages" refers to all telecommunications for example. The 1913 Webster edition uses this definition: Message \Mes"sage\ (?; 48), n. [F., fr. LL. missaticum, fr. L. mittere, missum, to send. See Mission, and cf. Messenger.] 1. Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another. Moreover a number of people seam to be running very old versions of GAIM because GAIM does use UPNP to open ports on firewalls for filetransfers etc. I have no problems at all with GAIM file transfers but do think that the UI is hardly fantastic and at times miss the ease of initiating a voice conversation with a friend to talk him through setting a program up for example. Linux on the Desktop has a number of challenges and the inconsistent and often poorly designed UIs are often at the heart of the usability issues. It makes a great server OS and a passable desktop. However many, but not all, people want the latest in Messageing (and other) application features and Linux isn't the place to get it (sadly as I cut my teeth programming for HP and have a warm place in my heart for UNIX derivatives).
"Among its efforts, the government has worked to shield private U.S. companies from demands by the United Nations and other countries for multilateral control of the Net." I see no evidence of this been a charitable act by the US Government or in the interests of American business. The US Government is clearly acting in this colonial manner in order to retain its power. It is acting in its interests which are not necessarily the same as the interests of US citizens, US business, or the people of the Free World (tm). The rest of the world is concerned that the internet could be used as a tool of US foreign policy (in addition to current military, economic, and diplomatic tools). In addition US domestic policy on matters as diverse as (but not limited to) Intellectual Property, Digital Rights, and sexual morality may influence decisions. I'm not sure how the Google story is linked to propoganda on the "US Government versus World over the Internet" story. Personally I think the American people may benefit from the Internet becoming less of a political football and more of a shared global resource.
I think you are falling for the "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" magic already. C# is still an open standard, it's just one that Microsoft will doubtless Extend and Extinguish :)
Couple of points... this is the local government (City Council) not a UK Govenment scheme. In addition Scotland has a seperate education system to England and Wales so the this has nothing to do with the UK government. Glasgow is the least healthy city in Europe. It also has many of the poorest areas in Europe. This scheme is working very well, and if it works does anything else matter. PE is compulsary in Scottish state schools. After the age of 16 some allow an opt out. Perhaps these adverts would help... http://www.rudefood.org/
...hey lets stop exchanging commodities coz sometimes I would rather not carry a cow home just coz I sold you a load of wheat. How about I give you give me some bits of paper guaranteed by the authorities and I will get something I want later. Hey wait a minute, are you happy with not having a physical cow now? Sure. The CD is a comfort blanket dudes. The only benefits are: 1. no DRM 2. it can act as a backup The demise of the physical medium is inevitable. The question is what format will replace it and when. The challenge the internet gives (especially as it gets faster) is that with no controls piracy could become a genuine problem (it isn't IMHO today). We are all uncomfortable with this change as we foresee a world where we get WMA protection (and lossy compression) replacing the flexibility and fidelity of CDs. Personally I think Fairyplay shows that there is a workable happy medium. Decent fidelity and reasonable rights limitations. Although even AAC needs to be higher bandwidth than 128kbps before I would be comfortable saying goodbye to CDDA for full albums. I can tell the difference all too easily when listening through my Hi Fi. As for proof of purchase. When did someone last demand you prove that you didn't steal your music?
With Apple Fairplay: You can burn the same playlist up to 7 times. You can burn a track as many times as you like. The only real downside is that it's lossy compression. However it is a lot better quality than WMA, where Microsoft seams to have managed to create possibly the worst sounding CODEC known to man at 128kbps. As for the iPod battery thing. In 3 years time I will either send the iPod in to get the battery replaced or (more likely) upgrade. In truth, many of us will just upgrade. That's why it rarely makes sense to pay top dollar for the top of the range model. Now what has got me annoyed this weekend is the music I've bought from MSN Music turns out to have varying terms (unlike Apples). Some of my tracks can only be played a couple more times. All of them expire in 2099 (kinda presumptious). One of them wont copy to my WMA DRM compliant flash player. And all of them have very limited numbers of transfers to portable devices. I have about 6 tracks with one transfer left! So I decided that I wouldn't upgrade my Napster subscription to NTG and that I'd buy a second iPod (the Shuffle) instead :-)
So hmmm let me see I can buy beautiful clear uncompressed CDDA without DRM or I can buy sweet sounding AAC (not bad for single tracks) or I can rent fart in a bath lo fi sounding WMA? Which will I choose? Well clearly as I am getting old WMA will remind me of the old days of Long Wave Radio. No thanks Microshaft. Napster is actually quite a nice application. However WMA sucks and the UK prices are a rip off!
yeah but this tool will be used in corporate environments where some (l)users wont have a clue what remote control software is running. We run adaware at work at the moment (company has 2500 desk/lap-top users). Also, it detects some harmless registry entrants as spyware. Go to www.wilderssecurity.com and see what testers there are saying. I think I'll go look now ;-)
I hope MS get rid of the false positives, coz then not only will I use the tool, but naive users wont be put off by the tool "crying wolf to often".
Another worry is this gives MS the chance to label competitors products as "spyware".
I know some tools currently label GameSpy Arcade because it delivers ads and collects summary stats (none are attributable to individual users). This to me sounds rather unreasonable. After all, is MSN Messenger spyware coz it contains banner ads?
Yeah so the MS Product gets the most false positives! This methodology sucks. Don't get me wrong I hope they get it right! Windows needs defences!
Sorry formatting http://www.jabber.com/index.cgi?CONTENT_ID=460 It's not Skype it's Jabber
http://www.jabber.com/index.cgi?CONTENT_ID=460 I reckon this is Jabber Incs technology which they licenced recently to USJFCOM. If it's not well I'll be wrong! Fairy