We're just the same here in Australia as in any western country like England or America. I've lived in England, and I've heard we're more similar to America than England.
So some of us don't care about profanity or perverts, and just trust that kids will understand what's appropriate/dangerous by themselves, others are paranoid and scared about this dangerous "internet" thing.
And, just like elsewhere in the world, if you're paranoid then an official easing your fear is a big incentive to vote, if you're not paranoid an official acting paranoid isn't likely to affect your vote, so officials will err on the side of paranoia. (And right now Howard is scrambling to keep his place like never before. God knows what people see in Rudd..)
The easygoing beer and BBQ lifestyle is a quaint stereotype, but realistically we share practically the same culture so it always gets on my nerves a bit to hear what we Aussies should do because we're Aussies, by crockey!
Revoke the key they used to sign drivers with? I expect so, it'd be easy to update the flawed driver and add the key to the revoked list using Windows Update. It's no different than any other security flaw, really. (I guess it's newsworthy, but as per usual it's not as serious as people are making out.)
Seems like this'll only split the bittorrent protocol, there's a fairly wide variety of clients out there and the only thing that held them together was the official protocol. Azureus has been making small breaks even with the official protocol around, so now it'll probably split.
The question is which client will the other ones follow, now that BitTorrent have given up their niche in true XFree86 style.
To be honest we're talking about The Royal Society here, not John Dvorak. Chances are if you think they made a mistake then either you made a mistake or there's a mistake in the summary. (Maybe you're criticizing the submitter, but it's not obvious.)
Because JavaScript is used everywhere, and it's being used more and more. It's easy for you and me who can recognize that if buttons aren't working, or if the menu bars/java applet/flash vid isn't appearing, it's because NoScript is preventing some script from running, but laypeople might not realize, might think it's a broken site, and might not think to right click and enable JavaScript.
NoScript is great, but I wouldn't want to have to add "See the 'S' in the corner, right click it, blah blah,.." to all my JavaScript using site's FAQs.
You still have a translation layer. You still have that decomposition. That's not free, you know. It takes time. It doesn't really take time, it just takes a longer pipeline and more space on the chip. Micro-ops from one instruction can get executed while instructions that are coming up get broken into micro-ops.
The main reason this is actually slower is the ordering of instructions. Intel chips have out-of-order execution that lets them run micro-ops from instructions in a different order that will make things faster and make more use of all the parts of the processor.
If a compiler could do this instead of the processor, by ordering the micro-ops itself, Intel wouldn't need die space for out-of-order execution. The space could be used for more cache or to squeeze more cores in.
Also the compiler would be able to do better optimization because it has the bigger picture of what's coming up, and it has more time to do the optimization because it doesn't do it on the fly.
They generally do the same amount of real work with a fifth of the clockspeed of a CISC/RISC hybrid - so they run cooler and you can pack more into less space. That's a pretty wild exaggeration. (UltraSPARC sure isn't 5x faster than Core 2 Duo, and PPC wasn't 5x faster either, despite what Apple marketing used to want you to think).
Intel make excellent processors even if they do have to do CISC-RISC translation, and they still beat any competing RISC processor hands down (except in specialized applications like supercomputers or Sun benchmarks). This isn't because CISC is better than RISC, it's just because the difference isn't nearly as large as you make out, and Intel has a massive R&D budget that offsets any performance decrease and then some.
If Intel really felt it was necessary to move to a new processor they would. They talked MS into using Itanium for high end apps so I'm sure they could push a transition if they wanted.
They could include a Rosetta style software translator for old x86 binaries, and perhaps include an x86 translator on-die (like Itanium 1 did). The reason they don't is because it wouldn't give such a large boost, and would be relatively expensive, when they can get larger speed boosts for less by going for smaller processes and optimizing micro-ops.
It wouldn't be as big a transition as you make out, and it wouldn't give as big of a performance increase as you make out. It would be better if they had gone with RISC, but not that much better.
My girlfriend pointed out that we've been analyzing for hydrogen based signals, because it's the easiest to produce, and we've found nothing. And then it came out in the conversation that WE'RE not sending out signals because we don't want to be found because we're not advanced enough to protect ourselves from someone who could find us. What?! Hydrogen based signals?! We haven't been producing signals?! If you're using wifi you are producing signals! We don't want to run into extra terrestrial intelligence because we're afraid of them?!
What would we have to fear from extra terrestrial intelligence that we would probably only be able to communicate with by radio, and would probably be too far away to meet? They're not going to activate a halo and wipe out all life in the galaxy, they're not going to create a blockade of our planet, steal our queen and strangle us with their minds, and they're not going to look like humans with ridges on their head..
If we find extra terrestrial life it'll be a huge scientific discovery, but I wouldn't hold your breath. We probably haven't found them because intelligent life probably extinguishes itself almost as soon as it comes into being.
"The House of Representatives voted 227-183 to update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to allow warrantless wiretapping of telephone and electronic communications."
But the first Sentence of the story you linked to reads
"The House handed President Bush a victory Saturday, voting to expand the government's abilities to eavesdrop without warrants on foreign suspects whose communications pass through the United States."
That last part about "warrants on foreign suspects whose communications pass through the United States" is SOMEWHAT IMPORTANT!!!
You made it read as if the pres got full permission to wiretap anybody without a warrant which is completely wrong. Instead of omitting the parts that you don't like, be honest and include them. What I don't understand is what organized criminal, in this age of easy cryptography, would actually talk about their criminal activities over the phone? Even using Skype you can communicate with someone without real fear of eavesdroppers, and using GPG Osama himself could speak easy.
Are criminals really still communicating over the phone?
And also it seems like solid state storage is a much better way to keep hard disks quiet and cool while getting lots of other good features too, like low power consumption and random access. And it'll mean you won't have to deal with condensation and other issues involved with having water inside of an electrical appliance.
That's the cost on the box; but what about the TCO?
The patent fees, the extra support fees, the fees of having to move back to Windows once Microsoft acts on the 341 patents that Linux violates, and the fees that support communist states? A recent study we commissioned showed that the TCO of Linux was 5000% more than the TCO of Windows Vista.
Freedom isn't free! With Vista Basic, for only $50, you don't have to worry about IP or TCO issues, and for a limited time only you can run up to five processes on your desktop and have five network connections open at a time!
It's fine to say "Hey, look! You might like this type of thing!" But the moment you decide to hire a woman over a man just because she's a woman that is true discrimination, and it's just as bad as hiring a man just because he's a man.
I want to ask why there will be no economic incentive to be violent when there are no police to enforce agreed laws to solve business disputes (that can't be opted out of when convenient), or how many murders are for economic reasons, or how many murders are prevented by having police and courts of law and prisons, but I know that none of that matters when talking about different forms of government.
"Under anarcho-karl-liber-marx-fasco-islamatarianism there would be no incentive for people to commit crimes or not work really hard, because no-one else would commit crimes and everyone else would work really hard, because it's anarcho-karl-liber-marx-fasco-islamatarianism."
I once asked an "anarchist" "Under an anarchy who would make your TV?" She said "I'd just steal one".
Actually no. In reality you get to management by who you know and social skills.
What you know and your IQ actually tend to hurt your chances.
I hate to burst the geek bubble but it's truth.
want proof? WOZ is a rich geek but never was upper management.
Gates was never a geek, he was a poser and the face man. (sorry gate's early code is horrible and first year quality) he had business sense and knew people as well as has social skills in a bizzare way.
Jobs = Face man he is the guy that makes you like him so much you will sell him your stuff at cost or buy his product by standing in a line outside for hours when there is no supply problems.
If you are a geek and high IQ I STRONGLY suggest taking etiquette classes, social interaction classes and do everything in your power to have the knowledge to fake being good at party socializing. You have to be the guy that everyone loves in the first 15 minutes of meeting them. Speak eloquently, be good at faking that you really are interested in how well her pedicure went and how that CEO of that company had a horrifying day because he had to way 30 minutes for road service to show up and fix his flat tire.
Crack the code of socalizing, get that one done and you will become upper management. Sounds like a pretty hollow way to scrape a living to me.
They explicitly said that they designed Surface, in 2001, at MS R&D labs. Quoting http://microsoft.com/surface/:
In 2001, Stevie Bathiche of Microsoft Hardware and Andy Wilson of Microsoft Research began brainstorming concepts for an interactive table. Their vision was to mix the physical and virtual worlds to provide a rich, interactive experience. So are they exaggerating their creative role, or are you exaggerating how much insider info was "stolen"?
Here in Australia Akamai's server was totally bogged down and unusable during the last WWDC. (But I agree that it's not going to go down because of this news.)
Many people don't realise that this is often the real legal deal surrounding some of the political controversies. For example the legal problem for Bill Clinton wasn't that he banged his secretary, it was that he lied under oath about it. The press and the public may have made a big deal out of the sex act, but the legal problems were surrounding the testimony. Depends what the meaning of "lied" is.
Others, have died from simple things such as car accidents or plane crashes during simulations. You mean if you crash a plane in a flight simulator you die?! I own a copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004!
If the school plans on upgrading, why not tell the parents they should get the latest? Yeah, it sucks that they are going to a non-free option where the cheapest version is about $150 USD, but guess what - that is what the kids will see in the corporate world by the time they graduate from college.
By the way, Batavia, IL isn't exactly a poor area. I bet most of the families in that Chicago suburb could afford the $150 expense. Microsoft give education discounts. I got Office 2007 Ultimate for $70AUD (~ $50USD), where for a non-student it would cost a completely absurd $1500AUD.
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TV will be delivered over the internet in the next decade or two, so this problem will sort itself out in due course.
We're just the same here in Australia as in any western country like England or America. I've lived in England, and I've heard we're more similar to America than England.
So some of us don't care about profanity or perverts, and just trust that kids will understand what's appropriate/dangerous by themselves, others are paranoid and scared about this dangerous "internet" thing.
And, just like elsewhere in the world, if you're paranoid then an official easing your fear is a big incentive to vote, if you're not paranoid an official acting paranoid isn't likely to affect your vote, so officials will err on the side of paranoia. (And right now Howard is scrambling to keep his place like never before. God knows what people see in Rudd..)
The easygoing beer and BBQ lifestyle is a quaint stereotype, but realistically we share practically the same culture so it always gets on my nerves a bit to hear what we Aussies should do because we're Aussies, by crockey!
Let me guess: One is full of sexy pictures, trash, lies and people manipulating the truth, the other is myspace? Eeee... Bad guess.
Seems like this'll only split the bittorrent protocol, there's a fairly wide variety of clients out there and the only thing that held them together was the official protocol. Azureus has been making small breaks even with the official protocol around, so now it'll probably split. The question is which client will the other ones follow, now that BitTorrent have given up their niche in true XFree86 style.
To be honest we're talking about The Royal Society here, not John Dvorak. Chances are if you think they made a mistake then either you made a mistake or there's a mistake in the summary. (Maybe you're criticizing the submitter, but it's not obvious.)
Because JavaScript is used everywhere, and it's being used more and more. It's easy for you and me who can recognize that if buttons aren't working, or if the menu bars/java applet/flash vid isn't appearing, it's because NoScript is preventing some script from running, but laypeople might not realize, might think it's a broken site, and might not think to right click and enable JavaScript.
.." to all my JavaScript using site's FAQs.
NoScript is great, but I wouldn't want to have to add "See the 'S' in the corner, right click it, blah blah,
The main reason this is actually slower is the ordering of instructions. Intel chips have out-of-order execution that lets them run micro-ops from instructions in a different order that will make things faster and make more use of all the parts of the processor.
If a compiler could do this instead of the processor, by ordering the micro-ops itself, Intel wouldn't need die space for out-of-order execution. The space could be used for more cache or to squeeze more cores in.
Also the compiler would be able to do better optimization because it has the bigger picture of what's coming up, and it has more time to do the optimization because it doesn't do it on the fly. They generally do the same amount of real work with a fifth of the clockspeed of a CISC/RISC hybrid - so they run cooler and you can pack more into less space. That's a pretty wild exaggeration. (UltraSPARC sure isn't 5x faster than Core 2 Duo, and PPC wasn't 5x faster either, despite what Apple marketing used to want you to think).
Intel make excellent processors even if they do have to do CISC-RISC translation, and they still beat any competing RISC processor hands down (except in specialized applications like supercomputers or Sun benchmarks). This isn't because CISC is better than RISC, it's just because the difference isn't nearly as large as you make out, and Intel has a massive R&D budget that offsets any performance decrease and then some.
If Intel really felt it was necessary to move to a new processor they would. They talked MS into using Itanium for high end apps so I'm sure they could push a transition if they wanted.
They could include a Rosetta style software translator for old x86 binaries, and perhaps include an x86 translator on-die (like Itanium 1 did). The reason they don't is because it wouldn't give such a large boost, and would be relatively expensive, when they can get larger speed boosts for less by going for smaller processes and optimizing micro-ops.
It wouldn't be as big a transition as you make out, and it wouldn't give as big of a performance increase as you make out. It would be better if they had gone with RISC, but not that much better.
What would we have to fear from extra terrestrial intelligence that we would probably only be able to communicate with by radio, and would probably be too far away to meet? They're not going to activate a halo and wipe out all life in the galaxy, they're not going to create a blockade of our planet, steal our queen and strangle us with their minds, and they're not going to look like humans with ridges on their head..
If we find extra terrestrial life it'll be a huge scientific discovery, but I wouldn't hold your breath. We probably haven't found them because intelligent life probably extinguishes itself almost as soon as it comes into being.
"The House of Representatives voted 227-183 to update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to allow warrantless wiretapping of telephone and electronic communications."
But the first Sentence of the story you linked to reads
"The House handed President Bush a victory Saturday, voting to expand the government's abilities to eavesdrop without warrants on foreign suspects whose communications pass through the United States."
That last part about "warrants on foreign suspects whose communications pass through the United States" is SOMEWHAT IMPORTANT!!!
You made it read as if the pres got full permission to wiretap anybody without a warrant which is completely wrong. Instead of omitting the parts that you don't like, be honest and include them. What I don't understand is what organized criminal, in this age of easy cryptography, would actually talk about their criminal activities over the phone? Even using Skype you can communicate with someone without real fear of eavesdroppers, and using GPG Osama himself could speak easy.
Are criminals really still communicating over the phone?
And also it seems like solid state storage is a much better way to keep hard disks quiet and cool while getting lots of other good features too, like low power consumption and random access. And it'll mean you won't have to deal with condensation and other issues involved with having water inside of an electrical appliance.
That's the cost on the box; but what about the TCO?
The patent fees, the extra support fees, the fees of having to move back to Windows once Microsoft acts on the 341 patents that Linux violates, and the fees that support communist states? A recent study we commissioned showed that the TCO of Linux was 5000% more than the TCO of Windows Vista.
Freedom isn't free! With Vista Basic, for only $50, you don't have to worry about IP or TCO issues, and for a limited time only you can run up to five processes on your desktop and have five network connections open at a time!
It's fine to say "Hey, look! You might like this type of thing!" But the moment you decide to hire a woman over a man just because she's a woman that is true discrimination, and it's just as bad as hiring a man just because he's a man.
Agreed. Who cares if anyone on your network can run code on your computer? As long as there aren't enough Macs to sustain a worm Macs are secure.
What a coincidence, I'm watching this for the first time right now..
I want to ask why there will be no economic incentive to be violent when there are no police to enforce agreed laws to solve business disputes (that can't be opted out of when convenient), or how many murders are for economic reasons, or how many murders are prevented by having police and courts of law and prisons, but I know that none of that matters when talking about different forms of government.
"Under anarcho-karl-liber-marx-fasco-islamatarianism there would be no incentive for people to commit crimes or not work really hard, because no-one else would commit crimes and everyone else would work really hard, because it's anarcho-karl-liber-marx-fasco-islamatarianism."
I once asked an "anarchist" "Under an anarchy who would make your TV?" She said "I'd just steal one".
Probably a stupid question; what do financial institutions need the processing power for?
What you know and your IQ actually tend to hurt your chances.
I hate to burst the geek bubble but it's truth.
want proof? WOZ is a rich geek but never was upper management.
Gates was never a geek, he was a poser and the face man. (sorry gate's early code is horrible and first year quality) he had business sense and knew people as well as has social skills in a bizzare way.
Jobs = Face man he is the guy that makes you like him so much you will sell him your stuff at cost or buy his product by standing in a line outside for hours when there is no supply problems.
If you are a geek and high IQ I STRONGLY suggest taking etiquette classes, social interaction classes and do everything in your power to have the knowledge to fake being good at party socializing. You have to be the guy that everyone loves in the first 15 minutes of meeting them. Speak eloquently, be good at faking that you really are interested in how well her pedicure went and how that CEO of that company had a horrifying day because he had to way 30 minutes for road service to show up and fix his flat tire.
Crack the code of socalizing, get that one done and you will become upper management. Sounds like a pretty hollow way to scrape a living to me.
Here in Australia Akamai's server was totally bogged down and unusable during the last WWDC. (But I agree that it's not going to go down because of this news.)
I meet spies on IRC all the time, it's no big deal. Most of them are huge manga buffs too
By the way, Batavia, IL isn't exactly a poor area. I bet most of the families in that Chicago suburb could afford the $150 expense. Microsoft give education discounts. I got Office 2007 Ultimate for $70AUD (~ $50USD), where for a non-student it would cost a completely absurd $1500AUD.
We actually learned how to use Excel Macros as part of a physics course, for analyzing experiments. (This is uni, not high school though.)