I wasn't using it as a meter of anything. I was saying that there's the potential for AT LEAST that amount, is that acceptable to you? So, since there's enough room for AT LEAST that speed why, when it's going slower than that, can I not get a decent speed from other sources (ie, websites)?
Oh, and my upstream is not maxed out, there's at least 5kB/s up.
Problem is that everyone I know uses webmail (either gmail or *shudder* yahoo). I could imagine gmail putting some kind of PGP feature in, but not Yahoo.
"I don't think that a W3C-like standards body would take more than 5 years to craft a usable standard, and by the time it hit 1.0 there would already be a lot of early implementations."
And you can be sure Microsoft wouldn't be one of them, or, if they did, they'd do it all wrong. And whatever they came up with would be "standard" and they wouldn't change. You'd end up only being able to email people with the same version of the software since they'd somehow screw up and not make it backwards compatable (let alone FORWARDS).So, since everyone's using the same exact software (which everyone else would have to reverse engineer to be compatable), there would be loads of exploits and virii getting into the system. Oh, and they'd probably insert some kind of "feature" allowing for the execution of arbitrary code, which they'd refuse to fix, insisting that it's a feature.
I think what Oracle was getting at is that when you buy a 250GB hard drive the formatted capacity is slightly less, 240GB or so.
What I've found with broadband is the equivelant of buying the 250GB hard drive and getting about 100 gigs, at good times.
Very occasionally, with bittorrent, I'll get as much as 120kB/s and that's really really good, usually it hangs around 80kB/s. So the potential is there for at least 120kB/s but even when it's only going 50kB/s the rest of the network is really REALLY slow( Google taking minutes to load and such). So, if there's a 120kB/s pipe and there's only 50kB/s flowing through it, why can't I use the remaining bandwidth effectively? Even at web page sizes it figuratively (as opposed to literally) takes forever.
A small web page with no images is possibly around 2 or 3 kB, so, in theory and discounting rendering time, it should take a split second to download. Yes, I realize there's all the network overload and such, but why, when I'm only using half my bandwidth, would it take several minutes?
Perhaps the gov't needs to do it with broadband as well...
Side question: If the people on your block got together and bought a T1 line (everyone signing binding contracts to pay, blah-di-blah), and then strung cat6 cable between all the houses. Would that work? Would the speed be comparable? What about the cost (initial and otherwise)?
Of course that wouldn't work, people, in general, are bastards and can't work together (except when in a mob trying to flip a car or burn down a building or something, in that case everyone seems to work toward the common goal...).
It also wouldn't have done enough.Most HDs have a park position when they're off so that they don't damage the patters during transport. Dropping them while they're on, on the otherhand... still wouldn't do enough.
The best way to destroy information on hard drives is to open them up and burn the platters. And even then there might be some residual information they can recover. But, short of atomizing it chemical change (like burning) is the best way to go.
BTW, I recently discovered JUST how small the distance between the read head and the platters are. You know HIV virii? It's smaller than one of those... In otherwords, if you manage to get anything as small as a virus or bacterium in one of those cleanrooms you're screwed...
It's only a network boot device used in offices where they have tens or hundreds or more people who need to use the same few apps and work connected to a central server.
"limited standalone capability" Yeah, no shit, didn't you see the title "Thin Client", that's what a thin client is, no local stuff happening at all except during boot, everything else is done at the server end.
"I'm guessing it's more of a business solution" Yeah: Thin Client
"I can't imagine it in any of the business settings I've experienced." Think of an insurance office, a few thousand people in a ten story building who all need access to the client database. This is an actual set up that I visited a few years back, they weren't using thin clients because in terms of large corporations it actually takes a hellofa long time to adapt to new technology, they were still using some of the same servers and equipment they were using in the late 70s/early 80s (they had a tape system that had to be manually switched, so some guy had to sit there watching a screen to see which one was needed, they also had a newer automatic one). Yeah, they were using standard early 90s desktop PCs to connect to the server, many of them were netboot anyway, so it probably wouldn't have taken much to switch to thin clients. So a few thousand people in this building, a few thousand desktops with potential hardware failures. Thin clients would have been awesome, no sofware needing to be installed (if someone needed something new, they just install it on the server).
Nobody of any real value has ever said that ozone has anything to do with global warming, they're completely different things.
Your tires being flat have nothing to do with your lack of washer fluid.
Ozone reflects UV rays (UVC I believe, or possibly UVA, I don't remember which), Ultra Violet is in no way responsible for the warming of anything. Pollutants and greenhouse gasses are what cause global warming (which, ironically could plunge us into another ice age), in greenhouse gasses do not do anything to ozone.
Chlorine is a catalyst in the breakdown of O3 (Ozone) into O2 + O (Oxygen molecule and single oxygen atom), being a catalyst means that it isn't affected in the chemical process (think about it as a traffic light, it lets the ozone break down, but the ozone has no effect on the chlorine).
In fact, I believe ozone, itself, is a greenhouse gas, so, were it the ozone hole the only thing to worry about, the planet would actually be getting colder. This is not to say that we should get rid of ozone because it's causing global warming, that's just being moronic. Ozone has a purpose, the purpose has nothing to do with heat.
The point is not that you can switch but that you can start wherever you want, which creates a whole variety of setups around the 'net. If someone targets mySQL/PHP/Linux then the people using Postgre/perl/Solaris are fine. The general idea is similar to genetics: if everyone in a group has the same vulnerability then eventually there will be something that takes advantage of that vulnerability and the whole group is wiped out, however, if there are many varients within the group, and each has it's own different vulnerability then there is less of a chance of something coming about to take advantage of any culnerabilities, and when one does it doesn't wipe the entire group out, only some.
Being able to transcribe or copy text should not be part of the test. This is something I don't do very fast (hence my extremely low typing rate for most typing tests), however I can type much faster if it's something I'm making up on the spot. In the typing tests we were given the idea was that you type each letter as you see it, don't try and read what you're reading (if that makes sense). This is something I can't do, when I read I digest the information, reform it (as the same thing) and type it, this takes time. Also, I was always 100% correct but slightly slower than the minimum, while the requirement was 30wpm with 5 errors (I was often 28wpm with 0 errors).
The requirement should be the ability to understand computer concepts (what 'print', 'save', 'save as', etc. mean) no matter what program you're in, the general placement of frequently used items ("file -> save", etc.), frequently used keyboard commands ("ctrl/command-s").
Teaching a combination of Mac and Windows should also be in the curriculum, with an option of *nix (both command line and X). Teaching how to be able to distinguish spam and phising from real email should be a no-briner, kinda like sex-ed (which, in my opinion should be a no-brainer, but for some odd reason people don't like it). Simple computer administration should be part (not knowing how to install your printer is about as computer literate as being able to only read dick and jane style books is literate), as is simple security (opening random email attachments is to computer literacy as driving headlong into a pole is being a competent driver).
Personally I think everyone should have at least a basic idea of how things work in order to own/use them. Knowing the basics of an internal combustion engine is not a huge thing to ask (fuel gets inserted, spark goes off, fuel goes boom, shoves cylinder away which turns shaft). Thus knowing a little bit about the internal workings of a computer should also be not too much to ask (this chip has lots of tiny on-off switches which represent zeros and ones, which, in turn, represent data, only one operation can be done by the chip at one time, the operating system does some magic stuff that regulates what's going on and when, etc.).
Now I'm not saying that everyone should be able to put together a computer from spare parts and install an OS from CD (not that it wouldn't hurt), but just the basics should be easy enough.
People should be taught enough (and perhaps JUST enough) to be able to figure the rest out on their own. If people CAN'T figure things out on their own they probably shouldn't be allowed to breed...
Syntax highlighting and paren/bracket/brace matching are a must. It shows when you've screwed up and where. To me this is the most useful part of an IDE. The only other part of an IDE that I generally use is any function reference it may have.
So, basically what I'm saying is that you should use syntax highlighting, brace matching and a function reference. The compilation and project management should be done via command line.
Now that I think of it, though, code completion (like methods popping up when you type "object.", with the parameter types available) is useful and generally won't hurt a student's learning.
I don't get that... why would someone want to *strive* to eliminate potential customers? Who cares if your page doesn't have some odd pointless feature if 100% of the people who arrive at your page can get most of the information? Personally I find websites that rely on way too much javascript to be annoying (except in (wait for it) AJAX applications, such as google maps. I don't want my computer spending too many cycles on having snowflakes fall down your page.
On a related note, anyone who uses Flash for much more than animations and self-contained applications should be shot. I once discovered a news site that used flash for everything. It's a NEWS site, where you read TEXT and click buttons. The only reason I could see for doing it that way is that they had some odd animated shadow moving around behind everything. I could probably have designed that exact page in XHTML, Javascript, and CSS in less time than it took them to write the flash file. The only thing I'd be missing would be audio (clicks and such), and really, who the hell cares?
Anyway, I suppose I am not the average consumer, I find simplicity to be quite nice, my site is XHTML 1.1 and CSS compliant (last time I checked, a few weeks ago). The only images are ones which are the subject (no image buttons, no background image, no spacing images, no border images), mostly photos.
Oh? And here I can think of one example where the opposite is true. Life on Mars. Can you ever truly disprove its existance? No, but it's easy enough to prove it's existance, find some.
At the same time if you have a can of paint that says it's blue, it's equally easy to prove that it is or isn't blue.
I think perhaps the problem here is arrangement. "Drops" is supposed to be the action. "Cell phones" needs to be singular and before "signal". It's telling you what kind of singal it is ("Rain drops signal" is a perfectly good sentance, but it doesn't give you enough info). As it stands now it seems like "Rain Drops" are "signal" -ing the "cell phones", instead of "Rain" "drop" -ping the "cell phone" "signal".
Or perhaps "Rain Drops Cell Signal" would be better...
Forgive my ignorance but what does HOV stand for? I presume it means carpool, but I can't figure out what it stands for...
Though my pronounciation of it makes me think of most of the lanes on the highway being jamed packed but there's the one lane specifically for hovercars that's almost completely clear...
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I wasn't using it as a meter of anything. I was saying that there's the potential for AT LEAST that amount, is that acceptable to you? So, since there's enough room for AT LEAST that speed why, when it's going slower than that, can I not get a decent speed from other sources (ie, websites)?
Oh, and my upstream is not maxed out, there's at least 5kB/s up.
Oh, and if they did put the feature in, would you want to store such a sensitive thing on their server?
Problem is that everyone I know uses webmail (either gmail or *shudder* yahoo). I could imagine gmail putting some kind of PGP feature in, but not Yahoo.
"I don't think that a W3C-like standards body would take more than 5 years to craft a usable standard, and by the time it hit 1.0 there would already be a lot of early implementations."
And you can be sure Microsoft wouldn't be one of them, or, if they did, they'd do it all wrong. And whatever they came up with would be "standard" and they wouldn't change. You'd end up only being able to email people with the same version of the software since they'd somehow screw up and not make it backwards compatable (let alone FORWARDS).So, since everyone's using the same exact software (which everyone else would have to reverse engineer to be compatable), there would be loads of exploits and virii getting into the system. Oh, and they'd probably insert some kind of "feature" allowing for the execution of arbitrary code, which they'd refuse to fix, insisting that it's a feature.
I think what Oracle was getting at is that when you buy a 250GB hard drive the formatted capacity is slightly less, 240GB or so.
What I've found with broadband is the equivelant of buying the 250GB hard drive and getting about 100 gigs, at good times.
Very occasionally, with bittorrent, I'll get as much as 120kB/s and that's really really good, usually it hangs around 80kB/s. So the potential is there for at least 120kB/s but even when it's only going 50kB/s the rest of the network is really REALLY slow( Google taking minutes to load and such). So, if there's a 120kB/s pipe and there's only 50kB/s flowing through it, why can't I use the remaining bandwidth effectively? Even at web page sizes it figuratively (as opposed to literally) takes forever.
A small web page with no images is possibly around 2 or 3 kB, so, in theory and discounting rendering time, it should take a split second to download. Yes, I realize there's all the network overload and such, but why, when I'm only using half my bandwidth, would it take several minutes?
Perhaps the gov't needs to do it with broadband as well...
Side question: If the people on your block got together and bought a T1 line (everyone signing binding contracts to pay, blah-di-blah), and then strung cat6 cable between all the houses. Would that work? Would the speed be comparable? What about the cost (initial and otherwise)?
Of course that wouldn't work, people, in general, are bastards and can't work together (except when in a mob trying to flip a car or burn down a building or something, in that case everyone seems to work toward the common goal...).
One of the common themes I see is that they all seem to have recurred at least once...
"high-quality stuff"
Yeah, like McDonalds signs...
It also wouldn't have done enough.Most HDs have a park position when they're off so that they don't damage the patters during transport. Dropping them while they're on, on the otherhand... still wouldn't do enough.
The best way to destroy information on hard drives is to open them up and burn the platters. And even then there might be some residual information they can recover. But, short of atomizing it chemical change (like burning) is the best way to go.
BTW, I recently discovered JUST how small the distance between the read head and the platters are. You know HIV virii? It's smaller than one of those... In otherwords, if you manage to get anything as small as a virus or bacterium in one of those cleanrooms you're screwed...
It's only a network boot device used in offices where they have tens or hundreds or more people who need to use the same few apps and work connected to a central server.
"limited standalone capability"
Yeah, no shit, didn't you see the title "Thin Client", that's what a thin client is, no local stuff happening at all except during boot, everything else is done at the server end.
"I'm guessing it's more of a business solution"
Yeah: Thin Client
"I can't imagine it in any of the business settings I've experienced."
Think of an insurance office, a few thousand people in a ten story building who all need access to the client database. This is an actual set up that I visited a few years back, they weren't using thin clients because in terms of large corporations it actually takes a hellofa long time to adapt to new technology, they were still using some of the same servers and equipment they were using in the late 70s/early 80s (they had a tape system that had to be manually switched, so some guy had to sit there watching a screen to see which one was needed, they also had a newer automatic one). Yeah, they were using standard early 90s desktop PCs to connect to the server, many of them were netboot anyway, so it probably wouldn't have taken much to switch to thin clients. So a few thousand people in this building, a few thousand desktops with potential hardware failures. Thin clients would have been awesome, no sofware needing to be installed (if someone needed something new, they just install it on the server).
Crap... and now I'm almost late for work.
Nobody of any real value has ever said that ozone has anything to do with global warming, they're completely different things.
Your tires being flat have nothing to do with your lack of washer fluid.
Ozone reflects UV rays (UVC I believe, or possibly UVA, I don't remember which), Ultra Violet is in no way responsible for the warming of anything. Pollutants and greenhouse gasses are what cause global warming (which, ironically could plunge us into another ice age), in greenhouse gasses do not do anything to ozone.
Chlorine is a catalyst in the breakdown of O3 (Ozone) into O2 + O (Oxygen molecule and single oxygen atom), being a catalyst means that it isn't affected in the chemical process (think about it as a traffic light, it lets the ozone break down, but the ozone has no effect on the chlorine).
In fact, I believe ozone, itself, is a greenhouse gas, so, were it the ozone hole the only thing to worry about, the planet would actually be getting colder. This is not to say that we should get rid of ozone because it's causing global warming, that's just being moronic. Ozone has a purpose, the purpose has nothing to do with heat.
It never ends!
It never ends that way too!
I know! Let's name it Steve.
The point is not that you can switch but that you can start wherever you want, which creates a whole variety of setups around the 'net. If someone targets mySQL/PHP/Linux then the people using Postgre/perl/Solaris are fine. The general idea is similar to genetics: if everyone in a group has the same vulnerability then eventually there will be something that takes advantage of that vulnerability and the whole group is wiped out, however, if there are many varients within the group, and each has it's own different vulnerability then there is less of a chance of something coming about to take advantage of any culnerabilities, and when one does it doesn't wipe the entire group out, only some.
And that was a long run-on sentance...
or at least it shouldn't.
Being able to transcribe or copy text should not be part of the test. This is something I don't do very fast (hence my extremely low typing rate for most typing tests), however I can type much faster if it's something I'm making up on the spot. In the typing tests we were given the idea was that you type each letter as you see it, don't try and read what you're reading (if that makes sense). This is something I can't do, when I read I digest the information, reform it (as the same thing) and type it, this takes time. Also, I was always 100% correct but slightly slower than the minimum, while the requirement was 30wpm with 5 errors (I was often 28wpm with 0 errors).
The requirement should be the ability to understand computer concepts (what 'print', 'save', 'save as', etc. mean) no matter what program you're in, the general placement of frequently used items ("file -> save", etc.), frequently used keyboard commands ("ctrl/command-s").
Teaching a combination of Mac and Windows should also be in the curriculum, with an option of *nix (both command line and X). Teaching how to be able to distinguish spam and phising from real email should be a no-briner, kinda like sex-ed (which, in my opinion should be a no-brainer, but for some odd reason people don't like it). Simple computer administration should be part (not knowing how to install your printer is about as computer literate as being able to only read dick and jane style books is literate), as is simple security (opening random email attachments is to computer literacy as driving headlong into a pole is being a competent driver).
Personally I think everyone should have at least a basic idea of how things work in order to own/use them. Knowing the basics of an internal combustion engine is not a huge thing to ask (fuel gets inserted, spark goes off, fuel goes boom, shoves cylinder away which turns shaft). Thus knowing a little bit about the internal workings of a computer should also be not too much to ask (this chip has lots of tiny on-off switches which represent zeros and ones, which, in turn, represent data, only one operation can be done by the chip at one time, the operating system does some magic stuff that regulates what's going on and when, etc.).
Now I'm not saying that everyone should be able to put together a computer from spare parts and install an OS from CD (not that it wouldn't hurt), but just the basics should be easy enough.
People should be taught enough (and perhaps JUST enough) to be able to figure the rest out on their own. If people CAN'T figure things out on their own they probably shouldn't be allowed to breed...
Syntax highlighting and paren/bracket/brace matching are a must. It shows when you've screwed up and where. To me this is the most useful part of an IDE. The only other part of an IDE that I generally use is any function reference it may have.
So, basically what I'm saying is that you should use syntax highlighting, brace matching and a function reference. The compilation and project management should be done via command line.
Now that I think of it, though, code completion (like methods popping up when you type "object.", with the parameter types available) is useful and generally won't hurt a student's learning.
Or perhaps it starts a loop of "Help, I've fallen and I don't posess any limbs with which to get up!"
And you're an expert on the subject?
I don't get that... why would someone want to *strive* to eliminate potential customers? Who cares if your page doesn't have some odd pointless feature if 100% of the people who arrive at your page can get most of the information? Personally I find websites that rely on way too much javascript to be annoying (except in (wait for it) AJAX applications, such as google maps. I don't want my computer spending too many cycles on having snowflakes fall down your page.
On a related note, anyone who uses Flash for much more than animations and self-contained applications should be shot. I once discovered a news site that used flash for everything. It's a NEWS site, where you read TEXT and click buttons. The only reason I could see for doing it that way is that they had some odd animated shadow moving around behind everything. I could probably have designed that exact page in XHTML, Javascript, and CSS in less time than it took them to write the flash file. The only thing I'd be missing would be audio (clicks and such), and really, who the hell cares?
Anyway, I suppose I am not the average consumer, I find simplicity to be quite nice, my site is XHTML 1.1 and CSS compliant (last time I checked, a few weeks ago). The only images are ones which are the subject (no image buttons, no background image, no spacing images, no border images), mostly photos.
I just hope you don't have goatse's traffic cones...
Apostrophes are for posessive or contractions, NOT plurals.
In the case of your sentance the 'to' belongs to your 'ad', which, obviously, makes no sense. This is one of the simpler ideas of grammar...
Oh? And here I can think of one example where the opposite is true. Life on Mars. Can you ever truly disprove its existance? No, but it's easy enough to prove it's existance, find some.
At the same time if you have a can of paint that says it's blue, it's equally easy to prove that it is or isn't blue.
I think perhaps the problem here is arrangement. "Drops" is supposed to be the action. "Cell phones" needs to be singular and before "signal". It's telling you what kind of singal it is ("Rain drops signal" is a perfectly good sentance, but it doesn't give you enough info). As it stands now it seems like "Rain Drops" are "signal" -ing the "cell phones", instead of "Rain" "drop" -ping the "cell phone" "signal".
Or perhaps "Rain Drops Cell Signal" would be better...
I wish I had mod points...
Forgive my ignorance but what does HOV stand for? I presume it means carpool, but I can't figure out what it stands for...
Though my pronounciation of it makes me think of most of the lanes on the highway being jamed packed but there's the one lane specifically for hovercars that's almost completely clear...
Hey... isn't activex a microsoft "technology"? Why not just fix activex?