This is why so many legal organizations have strict e-mail policies. The law firms I've worked with have typically had rules stating emails cannot be saved for more than 18 days.
The typical full size copier in an office has a computer running on it. The last office I worked in had 2 copiers with Celeron based computers with 512mb RAM and 80gb harddrives in them. I don't know what OS they ran. Perhaps, for that sort of application having a solid OS that runs on cheaper hardware could be a valuable asset.
I would not be surprised if what they bundled was a new version of Microsoft Security Essentials, or something similar. If that were the case, I think you'd be able to do just about whatever you would like with it. And it could mean you don't have to worry about shutting it down. MSE is the least intrusive AV I've ever used. It is the first thing I install on new computers for friends and family. They got it right.
A tablet with a stylus is a very awkward way to take notes in a class. Outside of recording the whole lecture, I don't think anything beats a small laptop or netbook for this task. As long as can touch type fairly quickly, it's the best bet. And then you can use something standard like Word or OneNote or whatever OpenOffice and LibreOffice have. Or maybe use AbiWord and a AbiCollab account. I've used this for group projects and it is extremely helpful.
If you think my ideas for fixing the republic are ridiculous and impractical, you're probably right. If you have better ideas, this would be a good time to share them, because whatever you've been doing until now hasn't been working.
And individual stories like his three year uptime server are worthless. I have a server in a closet running Windows 2000 Server. It is in constant use by hundreds of employees and its uptime is over a thousand days right now. It too has only really had issues with a UPS failure at a bad time. And it hasn't had any drives die since it was installed in 2001.
Does that mean Windows 2000 Server is better than Linux or FreeBSD? No! It means that anecdotes like these aren't helpful at all.
The company that was selling the replicas for $1900 a piece will probably be queuing up lawyers and paid "experts" very soon to give extremely good reason why the government should pass a law making this illegal.
I don't know how they'll justify it, but what difference does that make? They'll find a way to justify it no matter what.
Metro seems like an upgraded version of HTAs. HTAs are applications written in HTML + CSS + Javascript that run as standalone apps with standard application privileges on Windows. They are just HTML files renamed to.HTA that Windows runs with mshta.exe. They started back with IE5.
Metro is clearly an improvement, but it is also clearly not some brand spanking new path down which MS is traveling. It is taking something they've been doing for over a decade and fleshing it out a lot more.
So where's the drama? Is there any? Or is this just standard "OMG THIS NEW THING IS NOTHING LIKE THE OLD NEW THING!"
The problem is that "Windows Phone 7 phone" sounds so stupid that they'd rather say the name of the OS wrong than put that in the headline. Given the way they named the OS, the phones that run it should probably put the name after the phone name when referring to it. The first line of the story probably should have said "Nokia has just launched its first phone running Windows Phone 7."
As a fan of WP7, things like this hurt me. I think the OS itself is quite beautiful and I would love to try it out for a period of time to see if I like it better than Android. But, chances are, before I get a chance to try it, bad marketing decisions will bury it.
The whole debacle about raising the US debt ceiling was a completely manufactured "crisis" caused entirely by the Republicans and the Tea Party, and their idiotic brinksmanship (and complete ignorance about what the debt ceiling even represents... hint, it has nothing to do with authorizing NEW spending) was the entire justification for the recent US Downgrade.
That was ridiculous, entirely political, and had very little to do with our actual economy or its state. It was more about our politics, and how disfunctional they are (with one party purposely making them as disfunctional as possible, and the other party not organized enough or assertive enough to actually fight back effectively).
Don't you wish the debt ceiling was the real crisis? Because the real deep crisis you describe is much much worse.
It sounds similar to what you are familiar with. I would bet the motion kernel is pretty tricky to get right. And, of course, bundling it into a user friendly piece of software and shipping it add to the complexity of making it as well. I wouldn't be surprised if someone made some sort of GIMP add on that did something along the lines of this years ago but that hasn't been developed to the same level Adobe would develop it (if they release it) and that hasn't attained the level of attention since there is no big industry name attached to it.
I can't watch the vid because of an incredibly slow connection, but I was guessing this is only for motion blur and not from, say, the camera being out of focus. Is that correct?
I can imagine people saying its impossible if its about unblurring out of focus pictures, but for motion blur, once the path is extrapolated, it seems like there should be some sort of computer magic that backtracks along the path to build up an impression of what the original image was.
To be fair to RAGE, the Ars Technica guys probably only played it a few minutes and then worked out how to try and get the post linked to. Their video game reviews are bad even compared to the dregs usually found in the video game "media."
When a handful of messages with single corrupted bits can take down S3, how long do you think systems will keep running at the corner of Corrupt-Politician Street and Lowest-Bidder-Construction Boulevard?
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This is why so many legal organizations have strict e-mail policies. The law firms I've worked with have typically had rules stating emails cannot be saved for more than 18 days.
The typical full size copier in an office has a computer running on it. The last office I worked in had 2 copiers with Celeron based computers with 512mb RAM and 80gb harddrives in them. I don't know what OS they ran. Perhaps, for that sort of application having a solid OS that runs on cheaper hardware could be a valuable asset.
I would not be surprised if what they bundled was a new version of Microsoft Security Essentials, or something similar. If that were the case, I think you'd be able to do just about whatever you would like with it. And it could mean you don't have to worry about shutting it down. MSE is the least intrusive AV I've ever used. It is the first thing I install on new computers for friends and family. They got it right.
Is this an exploit of Windows or of UEFI in general?
They demoed it running 1080p video smoothly at a tech show. I don't remember the specs, but, for the price and size, I remember being impressed.
A tablet with a stylus is a very awkward way to take notes in a class. Outside of recording the whole lecture, I don't think anything beats a small laptop or netbook for this task. As long as can touch type fairly quickly, it's the best bet. And then you can use something standard like Word or OneNote or whatever OpenOffice and LibreOffice have. Or maybe use AbiWord and a AbiCollab account. I've used this for group projects and it is extremely helpful.
...for not all-capping their titles. PROGRAMMING CELLS, WITH CELLOS is a very different headline.
I would look for a study of insanity in non-college students, but all studies now solely use college students.
If you think my ideas for fixing the republic are ridiculous and impractical, you're probably right. If you have better ideas, this would be a good time to share them, because whatever you've been doing until now hasn't been working.
College educations and insanity are certainly not mutually exclusive.
Wow, that changes the entire story.
And individual stories like his three year uptime server are worthless. I have a server in a closet running Windows 2000 Server. It is in constant use by hundreds of employees and its uptime is over a thousand days right now. It too has only really had issues with a UPS failure at a bad time. And it hasn't had any drives die since it was installed in 2001.
Does that mean Windows 2000 Server is better than Linux or FreeBSD? No! It means that anecdotes like these aren't helpful at all.
It wouldn't be too shocking if they opted to bundle a different browser that uses the same technology. Silk isn't the first to operate that way.
The company that was selling the replicas for $1900 a piece will probably be queuing up lawyers and paid "experts" very soon to give extremely good reason why the government should pass a law making this illegal.
I don't know how they'll justify it, but what difference does that make? They'll find a way to justify it no matter what.
They saved Apple...
Metro seems like an upgraded version of HTAs. HTAs are applications written in HTML + CSS + Javascript that run as standalone apps with standard application privileges on Windows. They are just HTML files renamed to .HTA that Windows runs with mshta.exe. They started back with IE5.
Metro is clearly an improvement, but it is also clearly not some brand spanking new path down which MS is traveling. It is taking something they've been doing for over a decade and fleshing it out a lot more.
So where's the drama? Is there any? Or is this just standard "OMG THIS NEW THING IS NOTHING LIKE THE OLD NEW THING!"
The problem is that "Windows Phone 7 phone" sounds so stupid that they'd rather say the name of the OS wrong than put that in the headline. Given the way they named the OS, the phones that run it should probably put the name after the phone name when referring to it. The first line of the story probably should have said "Nokia has just launched its first phone running Windows Phone 7."
As a fan of WP7, things like this hurt me. I think the OS itself is quite beautiful and I would love to try it out for a period of time to see if I like it better than Android. But, chances are, before I get a chance to try it, bad marketing decisions will bury it.
The whole debacle about raising the US debt ceiling was a completely manufactured "crisis" caused entirely by the Republicans and the Tea Party, and their idiotic brinksmanship (and complete ignorance about what the debt ceiling even represents... hint, it has nothing to do with authorizing NEW spending) was the entire justification for the recent US Downgrade.
That was ridiculous, entirely political, and had very little to do with our actual economy or its state. It was more about our politics, and how disfunctional they are (with one party purposely making them as disfunctional as possible, and the other party not organized enough or assertive enough to actually fight back effectively).
Don't you wish the debt ceiling was the real crisis? Because the real deep crisis you describe is much much worse.
The summary had the Ballmer quote AND it had the context for the quote. Not bad.
Or it'd be like if the clouds spelled out a forecast for what Meteorologists would be doing around the country.
It sounds similar to what you are familiar with. I would bet the motion kernel is pretty tricky to get right. And, of course, bundling it into a user friendly piece of software and shipping it add to the complexity of making it as well. I wouldn't be surprised if someone made some sort of GIMP add on that did something along the lines of this years ago but that hasn't been developed to the same level Adobe would develop it (if they release it) and that hasn't attained the level of attention since there is no big industry name attached to it.
I can't watch the vid because of an incredibly slow connection, but I was guessing this is only for motion blur and not from, say, the camera being out of focus. Is that correct?
I can imagine people saying its impossible if its about unblurring out of focus pictures, but for motion blur, once the path is extrapolated, it seems like there should be some sort of computer magic that backtracks along the path to build up an impression of what the original image was.
To be fair to RAGE, the Ars Technica guys probably only played it a few minutes and then worked out how to try and get the post linked to. Their video game reviews are bad even compared to the dregs usually found in the video game "media."
I'll be petitioning the local government to rename my street:
Main Street'); DROP TABLE parking_tickets;--
When a handful of messages with single corrupted bits can take down S3, how long do you think systems will keep running at the corner of Corrupt-Politician Street and Lowest-Bidder-Construction Boulevard?