If you've ever ridden public transportation, you realize that by not being behind the wheel the need for speed as a passenger is greatly reduced. Similar situation for being a limousine passenger. Pont de l'Alma aside, celebrities for the most part relax while their chauffeurs work to preserve their licenses and future income.
Now, the rich are always seeking competitive advantage; otherwise, they wouldn't be rich, right? I see the rich buying larger less fuel-efficient vehicles that have a full office inside -- or at least what appears to be a full office -- in order to conduct teleconferences during their trips.
Yesterday, CDOT closed US-24, about the fourth most important highway in Colorado, due to ice 100 ft. down that melted for the first time (since a railroad tunnel was constructed a century ago) and created a sinkhole.
For atom-based businesses, the tablet will replace the clipboard and the PC. For bit-based businesses, larger and multiple screens will replace the single-screen PC, but they will still be keyboard/mouse based.
Metro will work just fine on both. Windows, even in this day and age, still has app lock-in. I tried bringing up one of my PowerPoints in Impress on Ubuntu, and my text boxes were all incorrectly word-wrapped because the fonts were different. So annoying. I've also been doing some C++ on Eclipse. Had a linker error but all Eclipse would report is "make failed". I had to hunt down and manually run the make file to find my linker error.
So Gates is wrong in his prognistications of the future, but he can rest assured that Windows will continue to sell nonetheless.
The article is about how much data gets preserved during the upgrade process not about pricing. Since Windows machines should be re-imaged anyway periodically, that is pretty irrelevant. As for the pricing, the relevant issue, yes, XP evidently qualifies for upgrade pricing:
XP-to-Windows 8 upgrades preserve the least amount in a move: User accounts and files only.
John Roberts is evidently the only one with any sense. All along, I thought conservatives and libertarians were just pretending to be offended by the individual mandate as a political means to overturn Obamacare, which is a horrendous tax and system. That the individual mandate was called a "penalty" was just an oversight (resulting from the hurried way it was passed after the election of Scott Brown), for Congress could have just as easily raised taxes on everyone and then offer a tax credit for those who purchase healthcare insurance. No one ever called the solar panel tax credit, the electric car tax credit, or the first-time homebuyer tax credit a "compulsion" to purchase those respective products.
But no, today conservatives and libertarians are rattling on and on about how the government can now "compel" people to purchase whatever products the government wants, that this decision is somehow a landmark decision. And now I think they really believe that.
The government has been "compelling" people to purchase whatever the government thinks is "good" for decades via an ever-growing tax code. The problem is the Sixteenth Amendment, which has effectively given Congress unlimited power. The power to tax is the power to destroy.
John Roberts was just following the Constitution (if we assume, as he had to, that the Sixteenth was properly ratified).
We need to repeal the Sixteenth, have the federal government exist only on import duties, and put the responsibility for human welfare back with the individual, the family, the church, the local government, and the state government, in that order, following the principle of subsidiarity.
When you see an ad on the back of a bus that says "McDonalds", how will you know it's a URL? Currently, it would say "mcdonalds.com" but "#mcdonalds" would be shorter, had Twitter not already laid claim to #.
One character for all domains. No distinction between (com)panies and (org)anizations. As I wrote, I believe that whole hierarchy came from the need to distinguish between government (and especially military) and non-government sites. E.g., even today, when I get an e-mail from.mil, the subject always includes "UNCLASSIFIED". I contend that if the Internet were designed today from a clean slate without government involvement, there would be no top level in domain names.
BTW, one character is shorter than http:/// which itself includes a special character, and one that's easy to confuse on the keyboard!
I think my kids learned more about creative thinking just by picking up sticks and doing things with them
Indeed, one of my favorite lines was "Before we had videogames, we went out played with dirt." Dirt and sticks, however, a hard sell over videogames, even for parents who understand and appreciate the value of tactile interaction. My point was that the majority of children don't even have that benefit of such parents.
I'm the very first to bash public schools, but this time the first thing that popped into my head was "these kids never had to debug a problem with a desktop PC" (swapping parts with a working one, etc). And that, of course, was just the modern variant of working on cars, which in turn was the new version of farming (if I plant seeds in this fashion... or if I train my horse in this fashion...). What all three of these have in common is working with the hands. As Dr. Maria Montessori said, "The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence."
What physical artifacts do kids have these days to learn with? I guess drugs and sex.
Some say appending ".com" denotes that it's a web address. Well, Twitter solved similar problems with just one character rather than four: @ for people, # for tags. If we could rewrite history and didn't need to distinguish between government and non-government sites (due to the Internet having grown out of the government), domain names should have adopted a similar magical special character.
BTW IANAL but I think it's legal to download YouTube video because of the Betamax case. I suspect YouTube-MP3.org may have been targeted because a) they purloined their trademark and b) YouTube-MP3.org acts as a third party "distributing" copyrighted works (not merely Betamaxing it for time-shifting) because they act as an intermediary between YouTube and the end user. It's the low-hanging fruit for YouTube -- if they can succeed against YouTube-MP3.org then probably the next target will be a similar site that doesn't mimic their trademark. Then if they succeed with that maybe they'll even try their luck with going after tool vendors (though probably at first one smaller than real.com), thereby overturning Betamax.
Tell me, how do you use Javascript to write a fast, efficient signal processing application?
These guys show real-time 2-D FFT. Admittedly, the combination of SSE/AVX and multi-threading/multi-core would have provided a 30x speedup, but I've been playing around with real-time 2D graphics in JavaScript and have been amazed at its performance. I was even guilty of premature optimization -- I started out coding for double-buffering the graphics with two Canvases and ended up throwing out the double-buffering because with just one Canvas there was no flicker.
On today's processors, Javascript will be "fast enough" for many applications. E.g., I do scientific software for a living, and I'm partitioning the work into what has to be done natively -- mostly the acquisition and crunching of tens of gigabytes of data at a time -- vs. what can be done cross-platform -- the final post-processing of tens of megabytes of pre-processed data.
Desktops and Tablets are different and need different platforms
I don't see desktops and tablets as further apart from each other as desktop browsers are from smartphone browsers, yet website developers target both of those with HTML.
Business is still going to need (if not in fact demand) native code. I think tablet focuses heavily on consumer, and aiming the OS to be tablet and desktop second is aiming the OS to be consumer.
Why? I see tablet as the new clipboard in business. Any business that involves an actual atoms-based product or service (as opposed to a bit-based cube farm) involves "walking around" where tablets nee clipboards are needed.
I was initially excited about the UI design philosophy of Win8 Metro. But then I realized that HTML5 can do 95% of what Metro can, and also be truly cross-platform.
I see HTML5 as the cross-platform holy grail that developers have been seeking since the WORA days of Java 15 years ago. First it was supposed to be Java, then Microsoft embraced and extinguished it, and besides it had too big of a footprint download (and a clumsy download process to boot). Then Flash was supposed to be the universal small-footprint. It was just about to take off, then Apple extinguished it by not supporting it at all (completely skipping the "embracing" step). Then Microsoft finally decided to stop holding back.NET from web development -- the purpose for which it seemingly was originally designed but never delivered upon until Silverlight. But by then Windows market share was too small for Microsoft to force a Windows-only solution on the web world.
HTML5 is W3C standard. It's not Sun. It's not Adobe. It's not Microsoft. It's W3C.
I'll repeat my point one more time. In a Net Top environment, one has access to AC electricity, but one also desires quiet operation so as to not interfere with the home theatre operation. Quiet means no fan means low heat. Low energy is not relevant to the needs of Net Top. Yes, I understand that low energy = low heat from an engineering standpoint, but try to understand the design requirements. And this difference in design requirements is completely behind why the reviewer ended up with an apples to oranges comparison.
You missed my point. The Net Top included, besides the Atom, other devices such as the hard drive and high-end graphics card, which were power-hungry but did not happen to require a fan.
So I'm asking myself how 12 ARMs equal the power consumption of one Atom. So I have sit through all the page loads. The "Atom" is a complete off-the-hself "Net Top" box designed to maximize performance (spinning hard drive and high-end graphics card) with the sole constraint of being noiseless -- i.e. the Atom was chosen by the NetTop manufacturer for low heat, not for low energy consumption.
OK, then for the comparison with Ivy Bridge, I wasn't surprised. I've been salivating about the low-power versions of Ivy Bridge for several months now. But this comparison wasn't even againt that. They used the highest clock cycle highest power 3770K variant, which is rated at 77W. There is a 45W version for a bit lower clock speed. (BTW, Intel "produces" low-power variants the same way they "produce" high-clock variants -- they test the chips after manufacturing to see which ones draw less power.)
So, basically, the comparison is completely pointless and a waste of time.
Even this eviscerated bill will get emasculated. Can you imagine this provision passing unscathed?
Authority to permit travelers who fail to pass imaging or metal detector screening to choose to be re-screened rather than subjected to an automatic pat-down
I can just hear the neocons now, "we can't micromanage the security and be second-guessing them -- they need to do what they need to do to ensure security."
But there's one thing the emasculated, eviscerated bill will accomplish: it will get some "no" votes recorded that can be used by future liberty candidates to campaign against.
Reforming government is slow and difficult work. After 24 years in Congress, all Ron Paul ever got passed was an emasculated Audit the Fed.
I fear the wheels of tyranny turn faster than the wheels of liberty and that tyranny will win. But it's not certain, and Rand Paul is fighting a good fight. Could you do any better? I couldn't.
It's also something I wouldn't want to spend my time on, and I'm glad someone like Rand Paul is doing it.
Slashdot Mirror
If you've ever ridden public transportation, you realize that by not being behind the wheel the need for speed as a passenger is greatly reduced. Similar situation for being a limousine passenger. Pont de l'Alma aside, celebrities for the most part relax while their chauffeurs work to preserve their licenses and future income.
Now, the rich are always seeking competitive advantage; otherwise, they wouldn't be rich, right? I see the rich buying larger less fuel-efficient vehicles that have a full office inside -- or at least what appears to be a full office -- in order to conduct teleconferences during their trips.
Yesterday, CDOT closed US-24, about the fourth most important highway in Colorado, due to ice 100 ft. down that melted for the first time (since a railroad tunnel was constructed a century ago) and created a sinkhole.
And a thousand Microsoft Access fat clients lose access to their back-end databases.
For atom-based businesses, the tablet will replace the clipboard and the PC. For bit-based businesses, larger and multiple screens will replace the single-screen PC, but they will still be keyboard/mouse based.
Metro will work just fine on both. Windows, even in this day and age, still has app lock-in. I tried bringing up one of my PowerPoints in Impress on Ubuntu, and my text boxes were all incorrectly word-wrapped because the fonts were different. So annoying. I've also been doing some C++ on Eclipse. Had a linker error but all Eclipse would report is "make failed". I had to hunt down and manually run the make file to find my linker error.
So Gates is wrong in his prognistications of the future, but he can rest assured that Windows will continue to sell nonetheless.
The article is about how much data gets preserved during the upgrade process not about pricing. Since Windows machines should be re-imaged anyway periodically, that is pretty irrelevant. As for the pricing, the relevant issue, yes, XP evidently qualifies for upgrade pricing:
You just install FrontPage.
Queue the proxies
John Roberts is evidently the only one with any sense. All along, I thought conservatives and libertarians were just pretending to be offended by the individual mandate as a political means to overturn Obamacare, which is a horrendous tax and system. That the individual mandate was called a "penalty" was just an oversight (resulting from the hurried way it was passed after the election of Scott Brown), for Congress could have just as easily raised taxes on everyone and then offer a tax credit for those who purchase healthcare insurance. No one ever called the solar panel tax credit, the electric car tax credit, or the first-time homebuyer tax credit a "compulsion" to purchase those respective products.
But no, today conservatives and libertarians are rattling on and on about how the government can now "compel" people to purchase whatever products the government wants, that this decision is somehow a landmark decision. And now I think they really believe that.
The government has been "compelling" people to purchase whatever the government thinks is "good" for decades via an ever-growing tax code. The problem is the Sixteenth Amendment, which has effectively given Congress unlimited power. The power to tax is the power to destroy.
John Roberts was just following the Constitution (if we assume, as he had to, that the Sixteenth was properly ratified).
We need to repeal the Sixteenth, have the federal government exist only on import duties, and put the responsibility for human welfare back with the individual, the family, the church, the local government, and the state government, in that order, following the principle of subsidiarity.
IANAL, but the shooters probably face civil liability if any structures are damaged, and possibly even if an asthmatic suffers from just the smoke.
That's because if you took the stats out of baseball, there'd be nothing left.
More like practicing comedy without a license.
When you see an ad on the back of a bus that says "McDonalds", how will you know it's a URL? Currently, it would say "mcdonalds.com" but "#mcdonalds" would be shorter, had Twitter not already laid claim to #.
One character for all domains. No distinction between (com)panies and (org)anizations. As I wrote, I believe that whole hierarchy came from the need to distinguish between government (and especially military) and non-government sites. E.g., even today, when I get an e-mail from .mil, the subject always includes "UNCLASSIFIED". I contend that if the Internet were designed today from a clean slate without government involvement, there would be no top level in domain names.
BTW, one character is shorter than http:/// which itself includes a special character, and one that's easy to confuse on the keyboard!
Indeed, one of my favorite lines was "Before we had videogames, we went out played with dirt." Dirt and sticks, however, a hard sell over videogames, even for parents who understand and appreciate the value of tactile interaction. My point was that the majority of children don't even have that benefit of such parents.
I'm the very first to bash public schools, but this time the first thing that popped into my head was "these kids never had to debug a problem with a desktop PC" (swapping parts with a working one, etc). And that, of course, was just the modern variant of working on cars, which in turn was the new version of farming (if I plant seeds in this fashion... or if I train my horse in this fashion...). What all three of these have in common is working with the hands. As Dr. Maria Montessori said, "The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence."
What physical artifacts do kids have these days to learn with? I guess drugs and sex.
It's relevant because it demonstrates how new technology can be used to expose misdeeds from the past.
Some say appending ".com" denotes that it's a web address. Well, Twitter solved similar problems with just one character rather than four: @ for people, # for tags. If we could rewrite history and didn't need to distinguish between government and non-government sites (due to the Internet having grown out of the government), domain names should have adopted a similar magical special character.
Will youtube.com sue real.com next?
BTW IANAL but I think it's legal to download YouTube video because of the Betamax case. I suspect YouTube-MP3.org may have been targeted because a) they purloined their trademark and b) YouTube-MP3.org acts as a third party "distributing" copyrighted works (not merely Betamaxing it for time-shifting) because they act as an intermediary between YouTube and the end user. It's the low-hanging fruit for YouTube -- if they can succeed against YouTube-MP3.org then probably the next target will be a similar site that doesn't mimic their trademark. Then if they succeed with that maybe they'll even try their luck with going after tool vendors (though probably at first one smaller than real.com), thereby overturning Betamax.
Microsoft has released the Banana Jr. 6000.
These guys show real-time 2-D FFT. Admittedly, the combination of SSE/AVX and multi-threading/multi-core would have provided a 30x speedup, but I've been playing around with real-time 2D graphics in JavaScript and have been amazed at its performance. I was even guilty of premature optimization -- I started out coding for double-buffering the graphics with two Canvases and ended up throwing out the double-buffering because with just one Canvas there was no flicker.
On today's processors, Javascript will be "fast enough" for many applications. E.g., I do scientific software for a living, and I'm partitioning the work into what has to be done natively -- mostly the acquisition and crunching of tens of gigabytes of data at a time -- vs. what can be done cross-platform -- the final post-processing of tens of megabytes of pre-processed data.
WebGL
Now, from the GP:
I don't see desktops and tablets as further apart from each other as desktop browsers are from smartphone browsers, yet website developers target both of those with HTML.
Why? I see tablet as the new clipboard in business. Any business that involves an actual atoms-based product or service (as opposed to a bit-based cube farm) involves "walking around" where tablets nee clipboards are needed.
I was initially excited about the UI design philosophy of Win8 Metro. But then I realized that HTML5 can do 95% of what Metro can, and also be truly cross-platform.
I see HTML5 as the cross-platform holy grail that developers have been seeking since the WORA days of Java 15 years ago. First it was supposed to be Java, then Microsoft embraced and extinguished it, and besides it had too big of a footprint download (and a clumsy download process to boot). Then Flash was supposed to be the universal small-footprint. It was just about to take off, then Apple extinguished it by not supporting it at all (completely skipping the "embracing" step). Then Microsoft finally decided to stop holding back .NET from web development -- the purpose for which it seemingly was originally designed but never delivered upon until Silverlight. But by then Windows market share was too small for Microsoft to force a Windows-only solution on the web world.
HTML5 is W3C standard. It's not Sun. It's not Adobe. It's not Microsoft. It's W3C.
HTML5 is the holy grail.
I'll repeat my point one more time. In a Net Top environment, one has access to AC electricity, but one also desires quiet operation so as to not interfere with the home theatre operation. Quiet means no fan means low heat. Low energy is not relevant to the needs of Net Top. Yes, I understand that low energy = low heat from an engineering standpoint, but try to understand the design requirements. And this difference in design requirements is completely behind why the reviewer ended up with an apples to oranges comparison.
You missed my point. The Net Top included, besides the Atom, other devices such as the hard drive and high-end graphics card, which were power-hungry but did not happen to require a fan.
So I'm asking myself how 12 ARMs equal the power consumption of one Atom. So I have sit through all the page loads. The "Atom" is a complete off-the-hself "Net Top" box designed to maximize performance (spinning hard drive and high-end graphics card) with the sole constraint of being noiseless -- i.e. the Atom was chosen by the NetTop manufacturer for low heat, not for low energy consumption.
OK, then for the comparison with Ivy Bridge, I wasn't surprised. I've been salivating about the low-power versions of Ivy Bridge for several months now. But this comparison wasn't even againt that. They used the highest clock cycle highest power 3770K variant, which is rated at 77W. There is a 45W version for a bit lower clock speed. (BTW, Intel "produces" low-power variants the same way they "produce" high-clock variants -- they test the chips after manufacturing to see which ones draw less power.)
So, basically, the comparison is completely pointless and a waste of time.
Even this eviscerated bill will get emasculated. Can you imagine this provision passing unscathed?
I can just hear the neocons now, "we can't micromanage the security and be second-guessing them -- they need to do what they need to do to ensure security."
But there's one thing the emasculated, eviscerated bill will accomplish: it will get some "no" votes recorded that can be used by future liberty candidates to campaign against.
Reforming government is slow and difficult work. After 24 years in Congress, all Ron Paul ever got passed was an emasculated Audit the Fed.
I fear the wheels of tyranny turn faster than the wheels of liberty and that tyranny will win. But it's not certain, and Rand Paul is fighting a good fight. Could you do any better? I couldn't.
It's also something I wouldn't want to spend my time on, and I'm glad someone like Rand Paul is doing it.
10 years is immature?