No, the real problem as I see it is not the flaws of processor design, but a software industry that can't keep up with it. Rather than getting elegant and refined pieces of software written, we're constantly struggling to keep up with all of the latest features. Once we get to a point where hardware growth has slowed to a crawl, only then will software truly come of age.
And that was bought by your wife? Strange. I've never dated a woman who couldn't give me an extended history of every major choclatier out there. Many of them, like a connesieur of fine wine, can tell a brand on a blind taste. So dude, what's up with your wife?
Microsoft is already lobbying for patent reform. This doesn't stop them from filing thousands of patent apps a year; that's a necessity of the business. However, most of the big software houses would be perfectly happy to do without software patents. Microsoft has been hit repeatedly for hundreads of millions of dollars on patents that were absolute garbage. Frankly, for a matter of only $20 million, Apple could probably pay that cheaper than they can fight it. Given that this case is unlikely to succeed, Apple could probably settle for about 10 cents on the dollar.
You're likely to pay more for cloned meat. Cloning is expensive. And clones aren't used for food, they're used for stud. That being the case, do the bill's sponsors want the offspring of clones to be labled? And for how many generations down the line?
This is in no way, shape, or form, the duty of the federal government to regulate voting machines. While I agree with most of the ideas in the bill, they should be implemented at the state or local level. Federal regulation of voting machines is a recipie for disaster.
Rather glib, but a very important point. The biggest problem is data density. The higher the data density, the less damage it takes to destroy it. The other upside to digital data is the ability to build in fault tolerance. CDs, for example, are fault tolerant. They can accomodate a certain number of scratches and bad blocks and still produce 100% accurate output. On the other hand, this tolerance comes at the expense of (wait for it) data density. The upside to analog data, is that damage distorts without destroying.
Hey, I never said it was a good policy.:) Senators think like managers. They've been sold a bill of goods by a major sector of the US economy that DMCA like laws are needed. As such, good or bad, they see this as boosting the bottom line of the US economy, and so they push it.
The US is a huge net exporter of copyrighted materials. Of course they're going to put the screws to other countries to tighten up copyright laws. Welcome to the real world.
30% of the population (including me!) doesn't feel the need to pay for TV. I get OTA digital, which kicks ass. Most of the time. Mostly, I just don't watch that much OTA programming. Also, a lot of what seems to be on cable or satalite isn't actually HD. It's digital, but it's only provided in 480. On the other hand, to refer back to the OP question, there is very little demand for digital set top boxes. Most of the early HD adopters either bought a box at the time, or get everything via cable/satellite. Also, when you look at it, the set top box costs $250, while you can get a new 27" or larger TV for that price. In short, screw Flanders.
My nemesis has been rogue projects. You all know the one. It doesn't get backed up properly. It makes calls to production apps and breaks when a new version is released (it never gets into the testing regime). And then the user who created it leaves for another job and then no one is maintaining it and everyone calls the help desk when it doesn't work. Yeah, thanks but no thanks.
In your scenario it is entirely proper for the merchant to eat the loss. They are at the point of transaction and are the only one with the possibility to identify the consumer and verify that they are authorized for the account. There are otherwise just far too many avenues to obtain credit card information to otherwise be effective. I'll certainly admit that most merchants do not have adequate tools to identify and validate most customers, nor do most customers care to deal with that level of scrutiny, but security at any other level is doomed to fail.
The basic concern is that "the press" does not want to become an arm of law enforcement. The claim, at least, is that dragging them into legal proceedings hampers their ability to gather news and possibly makes anyone with a camera a target. I think that's a pretty weak argument. On the other hand, it's not nearly as weak as the argument for making this a federal case - that the SFPD may have recieved federal funds for the purchase of cars that were damaged. So I say free Josh, but not for any reasons having to do with his video.
Seems pretty obvious to me. Yahoo has a standard way of doing things. Maintaining an old non-standard alternate way of doing things is a bitch. It can clash with current security protocols. While I'm sure that Yahoo wants to market their other services, I suspect there are more pragmatic reasons for making this change.
Regardless, internet traffic arrangements easily fall under the umbrella of interstate commerce, one of the few enumerated powers of the federal government. On the other hand, I'd prefer a wait and see approach rather than adding more lines that may not be needed to the federal code.
On the other hand, maybe we should just repeal the 17th Amendment and go back to the states appointing their senators instead.
Although, Microsoft has been known to revoke a volume license key and issue a new key to the institution. At which point, you're expected to go and update all of your machines with the new product key lest WGA, Windows Activation, etc. start to fail on you. Happened to me once about 3 years ago. We had to go and install new keys to all of our Windows Server 2003 machines.
No, the move to Vista is forced. Most game developers never develop on old technology, whether their product really takes advantage of the new features or not. In a year, many new games will be requiring DX10. Buy Vista if you want to play them.
Seriously. Nearly every programmer I know over the age of 40 works in a mainframe shop maintaining legacy COBOL programs. These programs never go away - ever. People try to rewrite them, but I've never seen a COBOL conversion actually succeed. COBOL guys, unless grossly incompetent, are untouchable. They all seem to be labeled a Sr. Engineer regardless of what they actually do or what their skill level is.
What I find problematic is that this isn't a black and white issue, but the court is expected to resolve it as one. Both the officer and the state seem to have some legitimate claim to the code. Why can't the court rule that it is owned 70% by the officer and 30% by the state?
But Marx was right about a few things. There are a lot of people making obscene incomes thanks to government protectionist measures. If you lowered the barrier to practicing law by not requiring a law degree or passing the bar, many more people would be practicing law and taking on a lot of the easier cases. Likewise for medicine. There are a lot of problems that could be taken care of without a doctor, but too many medications are by perscription only. Artificial barriers have been erected allowing the few (who were fortunate enough to come from wealthy families and could go to law/medical school) to make disproportionately more than they could in a free market. These are just a couple of the easy examples of why some things cost so much and some people make so much more than others. As for why some CEOs make obscene sums of money, that's a bit more complex. Sometimes, I would argue, they might actually be worth it. Not often, though. What I tend to gather largely from anecdotal evidence is that boards of directors often exert poor oversight and sometimes engage in a bit of backscratching.
Actually, it's been my experiance that if you wait to relese When It's Done, it'll never be done. At some point, you have to hit the ground running and work with what you've got. That's actually how a lot of those old COBOL systems were built. They got to around 95% and found out what all the odd little business rules needed to be by actually using the system. That's what makes legacy projects such a daunting task; the core application isn't too difficult, it's 30 years of business rules that are embedded in the code (and no one knows what they are, where they are, or even why they're there. But when they dissapear, you find out about them fast).
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No, the real problem as I see it is not the flaws of processor design, but a software industry that can't keep up with it. Rather than getting elegant and refined pieces of software written, we're constantly struggling to keep up with all of the latest features. Once we get to a point where hardware growth has slowed to a crawl, only then will software truly come of age.
And that was bought by your wife? Strange. I've never dated a woman who couldn't give me an extended history of every major choclatier out there. Many of them, like a connesieur of fine wine, can tell a brand on a blind taste. So dude, what's up with your wife?
Microsoft is already lobbying for patent reform. This doesn't stop them from filing thousands of patent apps a year; that's a necessity of the business. However, most of the big software houses would be perfectly happy to do without software patents. Microsoft has been hit repeatedly for hundreads of millions of dollars on patents that were absolute garbage. Frankly, for a matter of only $20 million, Apple could probably pay that cheaper than they can fight it. Given that this case is unlikely to succeed, Apple could probably settle for about 10 cents on the dollar.
You're likely to pay more for cloned meat. Cloning is expensive. And clones aren't used for food, they're used for stud. That being the case, do the bill's sponsors want the offspring of clones to be labled? And for how many generations down the line?
Yeah, if you want to do something useful, send the kid a printout of 18 USC section 1983.
This is in no way, shape, or form, the duty of the federal government to regulate voting machines. While I agree with most of the ideas in the bill, they should be implemented at the state or local level. Federal regulation of voting machines is a recipie for disaster.
Rather glib, but a very important point. The biggest problem is data density. The higher the data density, the less damage it takes to destroy it. The other upside to digital data is the ability to build in fault tolerance. CDs, for example, are fault tolerant. They can accomodate a certain number of scratches and bad blocks and still produce 100% accurate output. On the other hand, this tolerance comes at the expense of (wait for it) data density. The upside to analog data, is that damage distorts without destroying.
Hey, I never said it was a good policy. :) Senators think like managers. They've been sold a bill of goods by a major sector of the US economy that DMCA like laws are needed. As such, good or bad, they see this as boosting the bottom line of the US economy, and so they push it.
The US is a huge net exporter of copyrighted materials. Of course they're going to put the screws to other countries to tighten up copyright laws. Welcome to the real world.
30% of the population (including me!) doesn't feel the need to pay for TV. I get OTA digital, which kicks ass. Most of the time. Mostly, I just don't watch that much OTA programming. Also, a lot of what seems to be on cable or satalite isn't actually HD. It's digital, but it's only provided in 480. On the other hand, to refer back to the OP question, there is very little demand for digital set top boxes. Most of the early HD adopters either bought a box at the time, or get everything via cable/satellite. Also, when you look at it, the set top box costs $250, while you can get a new 27" or larger TV for that price. In short, screw Flanders.
It's worth the wait, dude, trust me. If you like what you see in Tokyo or Bangkok, just wait until you see the freaky shit out of Mars.
My nemesis has been rogue projects. You all know the one. It doesn't get backed up properly. It makes calls to production apps and breaks when a new version is released (it never gets into the testing regime). And then the user who created it leaves for another job and then no one is maintaining it and everyone calls the help desk when it doesn't work. Yeah, thanks but no thanks.
In your scenario it is entirely proper for the merchant to eat the loss. They are at the point of transaction and are the only one with the possibility to identify the consumer and verify that they are authorized for the account. There are otherwise just far too many avenues to obtain credit card information to otherwise be effective. I'll certainly admit that most merchants do not have adequate tools to identify and validate most customers, nor do most customers care to deal with that level of scrutiny, but security at any other level is doomed to fail.
No, it'll fail because I can't read it on an airplane or in the bathroom. Sheesh, where do you read magazines?
The basic concern is that "the press" does not want to become an arm of law enforcement. The claim, at least, is that dragging them into legal proceedings hampers their ability to gather news and possibly makes anyone with a camera a target. I think that's a pretty weak argument. On the other hand, it's not nearly as weak as the argument for making this a federal case - that the SFPD may have recieved federal funds for the purchase of cars that were damaged. So I say free Josh, but not for any reasons having to do with his video.
Wait, I'm confused. Was Intel bribing Dell, or was Dell extorting Intel?
Wow, like my horoscope this morning totally said like the exact same thing. Are you a Taurus?
Seems pretty obvious to me. Yahoo has a standard way of doing things. Maintaining an old non-standard alternate way of doing things is a bitch. It can clash with current security protocols. While I'm sure that Yahoo wants to market their other services, I suspect there are more pragmatic reasons for making this change.
Regardless, internet traffic arrangements easily fall under the umbrella of interstate commerce, one of the few enumerated powers of the federal government. On the other hand, I'd prefer a wait and see approach rather than adding more lines that may not be needed to the federal code.
On the other hand, maybe we should just repeal the 17th Amendment and go back to the states appointing their senators instead.
Although, Microsoft has been known to revoke a volume license key and issue a new key to the institution. At which point, you're expected to go and update all of your machines with the new product key lest WGA, Windows Activation, etc. start to fail on you. Happened to me once about 3 years ago. We had to go and install new keys to all of our Windows Server 2003 machines.
No, the move to Vista is forced. Most game developers never develop on old technology, whether their product really takes advantage of the new features or not. In a year, many new games will be requiring DX10. Buy Vista if you want to play them.
Seriously. Nearly every programmer I know over the age of 40 works in a mainframe shop maintaining legacy COBOL programs. These programs never go away - ever. People try to rewrite them, but I've never seen a COBOL conversion actually succeed. COBOL guys, unless grossly incompetent, are untouchable. They all seem to be labeled a Sr. Engineer regardless of what they actually do or what their skill level is.
What I find problematic is that this isn't a black and white issue, but the court is expected to resolve it as one. Both the officer and the state seem to have some legitimate claim to the code. Why can't the court rule that it is owned 70% by the officer and 30% by the state?
But Marx was right about a few things. There are a lot of people making obscene incomes thanks to government protectionist measures. If you lowered the barrier to practicing law by not requiring a law degree or passing the bar, many more people would be practicing law and taking on a lot of the easier cases. Likewise for medicine. There are a lot of problems that could be taken care of without a doctor, but too many medications are by perscription only. Artificial barriers have been erected allowing the few (who were fortunate enough to come from wealthy families and could go to law/medical school) to make disproportionately more than they could in a free market. These are just a couple of the easy examples of why some things cost so much and some people make so much more than others. As for why some CEOs make obscene sums of money, that's a bit more complex. Sometimes, I would argue, they might actually be worth it. Not often, though. What I tend to gather largely from anecdotal evidence is that boards of directors often exert poor oversight and sometimes engage in a bit of backscratching.
Actually, it's been my experiance that if you wait to relese When It's Done, it'll never be done. At some point, you have to hit the ground running and work with what you've got. That's actually how a lot of those old COBOL systems were built. They got to around 95% and found out what all the odd little business rules needed to be by actually using the system. That's what makes legacy projects such a daunting task; the core application isn't too difficult, it's 30 years of business rules that are embedded in the code (and no one knows what they are, where they are, or even why they're there. But when they dissapear, you find out about them fast).