Or to put it a third way, is there any situation where swapping is helpful, anymore?
In laptops! There's actually some work being done to use flash as a hard drive cache. If it works, keeping system memory small and using more flash (with paging) could potentialy increase battery life.
Also, remember that 2GB of RAM in a laptop can be very, very, very costly.
After I switched to these bulbs my electric bill dropped by $10 / month. They've already paid for themselves. There's no need to subsidize these bulbs.
Actually, this sounds a bit more like what happened to Night Rider. About a year ago I saw a few episodes where they scanned the negative in 16x9 high-def and cleaned up the opening sequence and cut scenes. Overall, it was a great transfer.
Actually, what you describe is what's happening in India. The country has many local languages, yet English is used in business, government, and commerce. Most Indians that I meet have an accent that is easier to understand then a thick southern drawl.
What bothers me is when the company spends 10 minutes playing back a silly recording telling me to visit their website.
What was worse was the last time I switched my dentist, I called my insurance company, and the recording gave me a URL to visit. I visited the URL, and found a dentist, but then the system wouldn't let me switch unless I called them! Again, I called back, and listened to 10 minutes worth of recordings telling me to use the web!
When I call a company, I really need to speak to someone. Nothing pisses me off more then listening to a useless 10 minute recording.
I cut my teeth on GWBasic. It's been awhile since I used a learning language, but I would stick with something that doesn't require a lot of boilerplate. Specifically, in languages like GWBasic, (and its successor, QBasic,) the programmer didn't have to worry about references, compiling, "include" and "using" statements, ect, ect.
A friend of mine wrote, (and taught with) ZLogo. What's important is that the kids don't have to do a lot of prep work that we take for granted. Every piece that they put into the program causes a change on-screen.
It sounds like, if they can't sell the cloned beef, they will use the clones for breeding. Say, for example, they made two clones of a steer, but one clone had its Y removed and its X duplicated. The pair could then be mated using traditional means to boost male births, thus resulting in natural born cows that are genetically the same as clones.
Plus they fell into the cardinal sin of computer science. Never.. Ever.. ask somebody to write answers on a white board. It is not natural.
Not true! In almost every collaberative design I've been in, we've had to use the whiteboard with psuedocode. Whiteboard code works best with high-psuedocode. In an interview situation, I deliberatly leave room for me to go back and add things. I will also put in things like "Check [some argument]" and say to the interviewer, "I don't think you need me to write out the argument checking."
It's not a red flag, yet. Now is the perfect time to invest! When everyone else buys in, (and your money doubles, triples, ect,) you sell.
... After all, that's what most of the VCs who got rich off of the internet bubble did. They invested in any "internet" startup they could find, took it public, and sold all their stock before the company crashed.
I can tell the difference between 96kbps and 128kbps on $20 headphones and $50 Cambridge Soundworks speakers. My friends didn't believe me until they started blindfolding me. Heck, when my cable provider changed from 36khz to 48khz for Comedy Central, I was tipped off because "S"es sounded natural.
I appreciate the difference because I actually listen to my music. When music is played at a low volume, for ambience, at a party, ect, then lower bitrates are fine. Likewise, if you have a fan, refrigerator, car, children, ect where you're listening, it'll drown out the nuances that higher bitrates preserve.
For this download, the real point is that the myspace version is only 22khz, which is half of the resolution of CD. Yes, I really don't care about quality when it comes to Weird Al, but 22khz really just isn't good enough for any music, including Weird Al.
I'm not a lawyer, but I've read Title 9. (US Copyright law.) Really, when it comes to recordings, the only thing that can be owned is the right to copy or a "phonorecord". Essentially, a CD is considered, by law, a "phonorecord". If you physically own a "phonorecord", you the law allows you to lend and sell the physical "phonorecord". You may also make copies that can only be used by you. If you sell the "phonorecord", you must destroy all copies.
As far as I know, you only violate US Copyright law when you make a copy of a recording that you do not have a right to copy. For example, if you own a pirated recording, you are not at fault, but the person who did the pirating is. If you owned a CD ("phonorecord"), made a copy, and then lost the original in a fire, you would not be liable for copyright violation unless the copyright owner can prove that you sold the original. (Or, to put it in a different context: If you have a binder full of CDRs that are copies of commercial CDs, the only way that you can be liable is if all of the copyright owners can prove that you copied CDs that you don't own. This is difficult, because you can claim that you found them on a mountaintop, downloaded them, gifts, ect.)
My employer uses Thinkpads with docking stations as standard issue. For those of us who need more power, we just use Terminal Server (or another remote access program for non-Windows computers.) We use Connected Backup to backup the laptops on a daily basis over the network.
While I personally would prefer a more powerful laptop, (as I do serious development,) I'd rather use a laptop then a generic workstation. I can telecommute with it anywhere in the world, and I can use it in meetings with a projector. This is more difficult with generic workstations.
Funny Anectdote: A few weeks ago I was standing in line for Space Mountain at Disney Land. Behind me were two teenagers, brother and sister. Their phone rang, and it was their parents "just checking in." The ensuing conversation indicated how annoyed the kids were that they couldn't get a few hours of freedom away from their parents.
It made me realize that children with cell phones never get to be completly free of their parents. Who remembers, as a child, being able to get away from over-protective parents by simply walking away from a phone? Now, as children get cell phones, over-protective parents will flip out whenever the "battery dies".
I think it's a given that both Intel and AMD will continue to add cores to a single piece of silicon.
In brief, AMD is putting together 4 cores on a single die, like their current dual core design. Intel just got to the 2 cores per die stage. Their 4 core design is 2 dual cores slapped together.
The real question here is what's a better approach: Being first to have X number of cores on a piece of silicon, or being first to "slap together" two (x/2) core pieces of silicon?
Some people mistakenly say that MPEG encodes in 30fps. This is not true. It only encodes in interlaced mode; specifically, it encodes 60 fields per second, but each field only has half of the scan lines on-screen. There are situations where the DVD player has to "fill in the blanks" and convert the 60 fields per second into a true 60fps. They are as follows:
When playing an anamorphic (widescreen) DVD on a 4:3 TV
When playing a DVD on a progressive scan TV. (Old TVs draw even lines on one frame, and odd lines on the next. New "progressive scan" TVs draw all lines on each frame and operate at a true 60fps.)
Artifacts like you describe occur when the DVD doesn't give proper hints at how to "fill in the blanks" and convert 60 fields per second into 60 frames per second. If the DVD player uses the wrong algorithm, the video will look pixelated. The three basic algorithms are as follows:
Inverse Telecine (Film, Movie): The source of the DVD was 24fps film. The DVD player pieces back together the original 24fps and converts it to 60fps. This is the norm on all movie DVDs.
Weave (Progressive): The source of the DVD was a 30fps source. The DVD player can piece together the odd lines of one field and the even lines of another field to make a frame.
Other: The source of the DVD was 60fps, or interlaced video. The DVD player is free to use whatever algorithm it can to approximate the missing lines. You movie is most likely interlaced.
If you instruct the DVD player to use Inverse Telecine, Film, Movie, Weave, Progressive, ect, on an interlaced source, like a camcorder, you will get artifacts.
I graduated with a BS in Computer Science in 2003 from one of the "better" (the term "better" is subjective here) schools. When I started looking at master's programs in Computer Science, one of the things that struck me is that, with the exception of top-teir schools, almost all master's programs assume that you have little formal experience in your field of study.
It seems that, in these cases, the true difference between a Bachelor's academic program and a Master's is that the Master's is geared towards people who have any degree, even film. It's more a matter of motivation; Bachelor's is for people who are there because they are supposed to be; Master's is for people who want to be there.
The problem is that simply legalizing dangerous drugs in a complex society is fraught with lots of other problems. Yes, tiny little countries in Europe have experimented with legalization and government control of some very powerful, addicting drugs - I am not sure that this model would translate well in the US. I am also not sure of what mix of regulation and prohibition of drugs would be appropriate in the US, but I am sure the answers are neither simplistic nor easily attained.
Who says that the U.S. has to legalize drugs across the entire country? When the ban on alcohol was lifted at a federal level, each state was free to set their own laws. Liquor laws still, to this day, differ from state to state. Why not allow each state to set its own drug laws? Certainly, if a relaxed attitude towards drugs works in a "tiny" country like the Netherlands, the same attitude might work in "tiny" states like California and Massachusettes.
How high can Apple's marketshare of the laptop market soar? A jump from 6 to 12 percent in such a short period of time is nothing to sneeze at, and with creative professionals on the verge of buying new Macs for a variety of reasons, Apple will hopefully be poised to make some serious gains in the hardware market very soon. Will it be enough to balance out the impending popping of the iPod bubble that is constantly being predicted as of late?
I am not a layer, but my understanding is that if you are paid to develop something, the payer owns the copyright. (This is why the record companies own the copyrights.) If you pay someone to develop [big custom machine controlled by software], you should (in theory) own the source code, unless that someone makes it very clear upfront that they own the software and can resell it with similar [big custom machines controlled by software].
Personally, if my car was trapped in the garage, I'd just go rent a car and sue the garage in small claims court for the rental fee. I'd also report the car as stolen by the garage.
It seems that the gaming industry has the same problem as the CD industry: They're selling overpriced crap to a young audience that doesn't have much disposable income.
Translation: Kids won't spend their allowances on games (that suck) when they can download (or copy) them for free.
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In laptops! There's actually some work being done to use flash as a hard drive cache. If it works, keeping system memory small and using more flash (with paging) could potentialy increase battery life.
Also, remember that 2GB of RAM in a laptop can be very, very, very costly.
After I switched to these bulbs my electric bill dropped by $10 / month. They've already paid for themselves. There's no need to subsidize these bulbs.
Actually, this sounds a bit more like what happened to Night Rider. About a year ago I saw a few episodes where they scanned the negative in 16x9 high-def and cleaned up the opening sequence and cut scenes. Overall, it was a great transfer.
Actually, what you describe is what's happening in India. The country has many local languages, yet English is used in business, government, and commerce. Most Indians that I meet have an accent that is easier to understand then a thick southern drawl.
I keep my SSID and WEP keys on my thumbdrive. It makes it very easy for my guests to get on my network, because all they have to do is cut & paste.
What bothers me is when the company spends 10 minutes playing back a silly recording telling me to visit their website.
What was worse was the last time I switched my dentist, I called my insurance company, and the recording gave me a URL to visit. I visited the URL, and found a dentist, but then the system wouldn't let me switch unless I called them! Again, I called back, and listened to 10 minutes worth of recordings telling me to use the web!
When I call a company, I really need to speak to someone. Nothing pisses me off more then listening to a useless 10 minute recording.
I cut my teeth on GWBasic. It's been awhile since I used a learning language, but I would stick with something that doesn't require a lot of boilerplate. Specifically, in languages like GWBasic, (and its successor, QBasic,) the programmer didn't have to worry about references, compiling, "include" and "using" statements, ect, ect.
A friend of mine wrote, (and taught with) ZLogo. What's important is that the kids don't have to do a lot of prep work that we take for granted. Every piece that they put into the program causes a change on-screen.
I love Penny Arcade, I really do... But so far this is only hype.
Also, I hope that the rumors about being able to play as the Cardboard Tube Samuri in one of the episodes is true!
Heck, if it's really simple, just hire an employee's teen-aged son or daughter.
It sounds like, if they can't sell the cloned beef, they will use the clones for breeding. Say, for example, they made two clones of a steer, but one clone had its Y removed and its X duplicated. The pair could then be mated using traditional means to boost male births, thus resulting in natural born cows that are genetically the same as clones.
Not true! In almost every collaberative design I've been in, we've had to use the whiteboard with psuedocode. Whiteboard code works best with high-psuedocode. In an interview situation, I deliberatly leave room for me to go back and add things. I will also put in things like "Check [some argument]" and say to the interviewer, "I don't think you need me to write out the argument checking."
It's not a red flag, yet. Now is the perfect time to invest! When everyone else buys in, (and your money doubles, triples, ect,) you sell.
... After all, that's what most of the VCs who got rich off of the internet bubble did. They invested in any "internet" startup they could find, took it public, and sold all their stock before the company crashed.
I can tell the difference between 96kbps and 128kbps on $20 headphones and $50 Cambridge Soundworks speakers. My friends didn't believe me until they started blindfolding me. Heck, when my cable provider changed from 36khz to 48khz for Comedy Central, I was tipped off because "S"es sounded natural.
I appreciate the difference because I actually listen to my music. When music is played at a low volume, for ambience, at a party, ect, then lower bitrates are fine. Likewise, if you have a fan, refrigerator, car, children, ect where you're listening, it'll drown out the nuances that higher bitrates preserve.
For this download, the real point is that the myspace version is only 22khz, which is half of the resolution of CD. Yes, I really don't care about quality when it comes to Weird Al, but 22khz really just isn't good enough for any music, including Weird Al.
Lesson learned: From now on you should start adding GPS in the laptop too. When the laptop phones home, it'll tell you exactly where it is. :)
I'm not a lawyer, but I've read Title 9. (US Copyright law.) Really, when it comes to recordings, the only thing that can be owned is the right to copy or a "phonorecord". Essentially, a CD is considered, by law, a "phonorecord". If you physically own a "phonorecord", you the law allows you to lend and sell the physical "phonorecord". You may also make copies that can only be used by you. If you sell the "phonorecord", you must destroy all copies.
As far as I know, you only violate US Copyright law when you make a copy of a recording that you do not have a right to copy. For example, if you own a pirated recording, you are not at fault, but the person who did the pirating is. If you owned a CD ("phonorecord"), made a copy, and then lost the original in a fire, you would not be liable for copyright violation unless the copyright owner can prove that you sold the original. (Or, to put it in a different context: If you have a binder full of CDRs that are copies of commercial CDs, the only way that you can be liable is if all of the copyright owners can prove that you copied CDs that you don't own. This is difficult, because you can claim that you found them on a mountaintop, downloaded them, gifts, ect.)
My employer uses Thinkpads with docking stations as standard issue. For those of us who need more power, we just use Terminal Server (or another remote access program for non-Windows computers.) We use Connected Backup to backup the laptops on a daily basis over the network.
While I personally would prefer a more powerful laptop, (as I do serious development,) I'd rather use a laptop then a generic workstation. I can telecommute with it anywhere in the world, and I can use it in meetings with a projector. This is more difficult with generic workstations.
It made me realize that children with cell phones never get to be completly free of their parents. Who remembers, as a child, being able to get away from over-protective parents by simply walking away from a phone? Now, as children get cell phones, over-protective parents will flip out whenever the "battery dies".
Intel's 4-core is supposed to be out before AMD's 4-core. What will be interesting is to see what happens when Intel gets 4 cores on a single piece of silicon. Will they release an 8-core that's two 4-cores "slapped together"?
The real question here is what's a better approach: Being first to have X number of cores on a piece of silicon, or being first to "slap together" two (x/2) core pieces of silicon?
Artifacts like you describe occur when the DVD doesn't give proper hints at how to "fill in the blanks" and convert 60 fields per second into 60 frames per second. If the DVD player uses the wrong algorithm, the video will look pixelated. The three basic algorithms are as follows:
If you instruct the DVD player to use Inverse Telecine, Film, Movie, Weave, Progressive, ect, on an interlaced source, like a camcorder, you will get artifacts.
If you keep waiting, you'll never buy anything!
It seems that, in these cases, the true difference between a Bachelor's academic program and a Master's is that the Master's is geared towards people who have any degree, even film. It's more a matter of motivation; Bachelor's is for people who are there because they are supposed to be; Master's is for people who want to be there.
Who says that the U.S. has to legalize drugs across the entire country? When the ban on alcohol was lifted at a federal level, each state was free to set their own laws. Liquor laws still, to this day, differ from state to state. Why not allow each state to set its own drug laws? Certainly, if a relaxed attitude towards drugs works in a "tiny" country like the Netherlands, the same attitude might work in "tiny" states like California and Massachusettes.
So who's right? CNet or Ars Technica?
Personally, if my car was trapped in the garage, I'd just go rent a car and sue the garage in small claims court for the rental fee. I'd also report the car as stolen by the garage.
Translation: Kids won't spend their allowances on games (that suck) when they can download (or copy) them for free.