Actually, an accent is by definition "a manner of pronunciation peculiar to a particular individual, location, or nation." (Wikipedia) "Accentless" speech would be speech which is pure to the definition of the language (dictionary pronunciation for example) without localized inflections and such. My brief understanding of RP (hadn't heard of it before today) is that it attempts to follow strict definition of words and pronunciation to prevent the distinguishing characteristics that deviate from standard pronunciation.
What you are talking about isn't a problem with the technology but a problem with personal responsibility that nobody wants to teach their kids anymore. As a perfect example, my elementary, middle and high schools had a very similar philosophy when it came to the school computers and had then locked down a bunch to "prevent distraction." You know what, it had a severe negative effect on my ability to get what I needed to do done, so I, as a responsible student, bypassed the security measures they had put in place to do what I needed. I never once got in trouble for it (I got talked to once when they were concerned about a part of the network I was looking at to see what permissions I had, but never in trouble) because I never abused the power I had gotten for myself and used it for what I needed and only used it to kill time when I didn't have anything else I needed to do.
Obviously what technology is available when is a personal issue that needs to be evaluated based on the individual. I don't think having a cellphone in the classroom is a right or having a smartphone at all is a right, but I do think they can be beneficial devices even for a fairly young child if used properly. I know I got a lot of additional education out of being able to look things up on computers at school and having a constantly available connection to things like Wikipedia and Google to be able to do further research from my desk in the classroom would have been a phenomenal tool that I would have benefited greatly from.
While I do enjoy Rift, if Rift's graphics are your idea of "kick ass" then you have been missing quite a lot lately in the gaming industry. Also, 30 years is way off. 10 years tops for browsers to have that graphics, simply look at the past. We can run games in the browser that were actually released 10 years ago. That said, what we have outside of the browser 10 years from now will make today's graphics seem silly.
In other news, AJH16 predicts the death of Illyriad Games for failing to understand user trends and targeting a platform that won't be competitive with installs for some time [my money is on never] (at least outside the market currently filled by flash, which didn't require installation of individual games either.) I'm not sure how someone with any kind of understanding of the industry can make the harebrained claim that HTML5 will replace installed games unless the expect the death of complex video games entirely. The fact is that installed games simply have more direct access to their data and hardware as they can be given more permissions. I don't want (and fear to think) what would happen if I gave my browser the same access to my hardware that I would trust a video game with. An app cache isn't a good way to manage what games are installed. It's a solution in search of a problem.
Installed games are already used primarily by geeky types that prefer an install. Those who don't understand computers at that level tend to get games for consoles, not PCs. They are completely ignoring both the console market and the demographic of the PC market that actually uses installed games and are quite frankly talking out their ass as soon as they move away from talking about flash based games (which yes, HTML5 is an obvious threat to since it directly fills the same need). Basically they stated the obvious and then departed well off in to left field.
I run 2 Linksys 600n routers in my house and they work great. They have up to 5 usable gigabit ports, a 2.4 and a 5ghz n capable radios and USB support. I'm running DD-WRT on both with no issues. The only down side is they are not JTAG-able, so you have to be careful when flashing, but they make for a decent setup.
I'm not saying we shouldn't do both. I'm just saying that we should put as much or more focus on figuring out how to mitigate against the changes that are happening. I'm not saying that we aren't currently, just that I am not sure they are properly balanced (or more accurately that the goal many people are pushing for may not be balanced.)
Climate change aside, we still need improved energy efficiency as energy demands are only going to go up with time, but carbon sequestering and such doesn't necessarily do us a lot of good, at least not as a primary focus.
One major flaw in your argument. The idea that the solution science proposes will work is based on the assumption that we caused the change. If we didn't cause the change, then our actions thus far don't have an impact and it is likely just as beyond us to reverse it as it is for us to stop a hurricane in its tracks. Yes, we adapt, but we aren't miracle workers. It is foolish to assume we can change the temperature of the entire planet if the current rise isn't caused by us. That said, we have other ways of adapting for it. I think that is my main concern with current climate research and the fixation on carbon and human causes. If we turn out to be wrong, we are wasting a lot of time that we could be spending figuring out how to deal with temperatures rising.
I have no doubt we will be ok at adapting either to deal with higher temperatures or to lower them if we caused the increase, but I don't think we should put our eggs in one basket. The Earth has had far larger temperature swings in the past and we will adapt even as the ecology changes around us.
It is also worth pointing out that comparing a desktop operating system and something like Android or iOS is apples to oranges (sorry for the bad play on words:) ). Android and iOS are designed to be light weight, low power, mobile operating systems. They are not really full featured and have a lot of serious limitations. They are great for what they are intended for, but I would never want to run Android on desktop hardware. (At least, not for day to day use, doing it just to do it might be entertaining for a bit).
Multitasking, networking and platform adaptability are probably two of the biggest areas. Android does it a whole lot better than iOS, but even still, compared to a modern desktop, the capabilities are a joke (but quite impressive for the hardware they run on.) Networking services that are built in to modern desktop OSes require third party software and are fairly hit and miss from my experience on mobile platforms. The driver support is perhaps the largest issue. The amount of tweaking that goes in to getting Android to run on different hardware platforms is fairly extensive compared to the desktop world. I can throw just about any components together and get Windows running on it in less than an hour most of the time. The same can't be said for Android and iOS only deals with about a dozen hardware platforms specifically designed for it.
It is worth noting that Android takes a fair bit of time to boot up itself. My phone takes about 30 seconds to a minute to boot fully and my tablet is around 30 to 45 seconds, even with a dual core teggra2 in it. This is only initial boot since the "instant" performance that people like to talk about simply comes from the fact the device is rarely "off" but rather just has better standby features in the hardware. Software and the OS has very little to do with it.
Yes, but when you get down to it, the IRS is actually your best friend. Tax law is incomprehensible and they are nice enough to work very hard to simplify the process as much as possible. IRS doesn't make the taxes, they just try to help with collecting them. As much as people like to make jokes about IRS audits and such, the IRS is one of the better government agencies. I do have to say that the military is pretty PR savvy though too, but they have to be for recruiting purposes.
I don't think everyone agreed they were acceptable, just that it was the least unacceptable. Similar to how democracy is actually the least productive, most wasteful form of government ever known to man, it is however, also the least susceptible to completely abusing the governed, so it becomes the ideal, even if not perfect by any means.
In an ideal world (which we don't and never will have), a benevolent dictatorship with a pure communist economy free of the hindrance of bureaucracy and waste of competition would be the best you could get. Unfortunately we don't live in a perfect world, people abuse power and largely don't work if they aren't rewarded for it, so democracy and capitalism are the necessary systems to motivate people to produce and to try to limit corruption.
Sure, in close, some amount of light is deflected by dust in the atmosphere and illuminated, but the point of those lasers is to be visible and they are the most visible when going through lots of particles. If it is an unknown frequency of light, a narrow beam transmission from a source with no particulate to deflect the beam in an unknown direction at great distance, then good luck finding it. It is not impossible per se, but you are talking a very complex problem. The bigger issues is having the satellite track accurately in a narrow band, but in some cases, other mobile points can be used that are also unknown point sources. As I understand it, it is rather difficult to scan the entire sky looking for a line of unknown color that is not very big around.
Agreed, what people fail to realize when comparing backlit LCD to e-Ink is that e-Ink is simply more comfortable to read on for extended times. I don't really care if my book can play animations. If I want video I have a phone, tablet, laptop, desktop and television for that. I don't need my book to do that too. I need my book to do one thing, let me read books and not have to worry about it.
It is at least currently a technical limitation. Basically e-Ink displays act like an electronic etch-a-sketch. Partially inked particles are brought (normally rotated) to the surface by electric fields in the device. The flash is basically the equivalent of shaking the etch-a-sketch. It brings every pixel to the full dark and then the full light to ensure they are all properly placed prior to starting the render of the next page. It is possible to skip the step, however it results in a cumulative ghosting effect where the pixels didn't fully reset. Over time this gets worse until you do the full on/off reset flash you described. There has been some experimentation done skipping the process to do animations and then flashing them after. In fact, many of the Sony e-Readers actually do this on their rotating loading animation. Ideally, with sufficient control of the fields, we could reset it perfectly without the flash, but the power to control that precisely might actually be more power consuming than a simple on/off flash.
As I understand it, at least some of the UAVs are made of stealthy materials (hard to find on radar) and capable of using laser based communications (hard to track by emissions and near impossible to jam. Some of our cheaper UAVs might not be useful, but that isn't to say that we don't have UAVs that should still be fairly effective against a modern air force. (Though obviously not as effective, just like anything else wouldn't be effective with the technology gap closed substantially.)
Saying that a user disabling security makes it ineffective isn't really a fair critique of a technology as the same is true of any security.
As for the range issue, it is possible to overcome this outside of an extremely powerful attacker AP by encoding the response in such a way that it will be able to ecc at a substantially longer range than most wifi data transmissions. I'm not saying that this technique necessarily does it, but it could be done to greatly increase the additional range that a MiTM would need to have. The other issue it doesn't address though is true rogue APs that are free standing and claim to be part of a network that is not located near by, but that people will connect to anyway.
That all said, the ideal is probably something that involves getting a CA for hotspots that can give an authenticated handshake, but we don't have the infrastructure for that set up yet.
On the Android front, the same Photoshop Express application that you mentioned on iPad is also available for Android (similar feature set). VidTrim can do some basic trimming of video. ArcSoft's PowerMobia is also ok for very basic stuff. If you are looking at Android devices, particularly in the tablet form factor, I'd recommend either the Asus Transformer or the new Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet. The ASUS has a 1st party keyboard dock that turns it in to an effective netbook (with over 16 hours battery life) and the Thinkpad Tablet has the ability to use an actual digitizer pen using conventional digitizer tech (including pressure sensitivity) in addition to the capacitive touch screen).
I do have a little experience on other people's iPads, but in general I haven't followed them too much as I don't really like the way that iOS behaves, so I've never really been interested in getting an iPad myself so I just follow it enough to keep up with tech trends.
Ok, I can see how you read my post that way, but what I meant is that I specifically like the fact that many people I know play console games rather than PC games and having the ability to interact with them (even if only through chat, though some do cross platform) and make use of both the Live and Steam features would be ideal. I actually want to be able to access both networks at the same time since they have different people that are members of each.
Honestly, I like Steam for delivery, but I really like the Games for Windows Live client built in to games for the shared achievements and such. Would personally love to see Steamworks and Live get along.
For photo stuff, the mobile version of Photoshop is my favorite one that I have found so far. Most of the other ones I've seen have been more for goofy things like adding clip art and such, not really much use for real touchup stuff. There are also a few decent apps for processing raw files, though I'm not sure if the ones I use have iPad versions (I'm an Android fan personally). On the video side, I didn't find anything beyond trimming a clip and laying them in an order, maybe with a simple dissolve transition and then primarily only played back in the application or transferred it to a PC or the cloud for encoding. I didn't even bother remembering what they were called and deleted them all off my system. (I did this months ago, at some point I should probably make another pass, but really the CPUs can't handle video editing beyond the simplest things.)
Yeah, so you take over jane in Customer Service who then sends an infected e-mail to Bill in the testing unit about a problem with a product once you have the outer network access to elevate to the inside.
It isn't heavy handed law enforcement and they won't be able to tell the difference at the time of seizure. They confiscate the equipment not because they even necessarily expect you of a crime, but rather because evidence of a crime may exist on it. If they don't find anything, they can return it. Running separate hardware is a good way to make sure you can get your personal stuff back faster if anything useful to the investigation is actually found on the public hardware.
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Actually, an accent is by definition "a manner of pronunciation peculiar to a particular individual, location, or nation." (Wikipedia) "Accentless" speech would be speech which is pure to the definition of the language (dictionary pronunciation for example) without localized inflections and such. My brief understanding of RP (hadn't heard of it before today) is that it attempts to follow strict definition of words and pronunciation to prevent the distinguishing characteristics that deviate from standard pronunciation.
What you are talking about isn't a problem with the technology but a problem with personal responsibility that nobody wants to teach their kids anymore. As a perfect example, my elementary, middle and high schools had a very similar philosophy when it came to the school computers and had then locked down a bunch to "prevent distraction." You know what, it had a severe negative effect on my ability to get what I needed to do done, so I, as a responsible student, bypassed the security measures they had put in place to do what I needed. I never once got in trouble for it (I got talked to once when they were concerned about a part of the network I was looking at to see what permissions I had, but never in trouble) because I never abused the power I had gotten for myself and used it for what I needed and only used it to kill time when I didn't have anything else I needed to do.
Obviously what technology is available when is a personal issue that needs to be evaluated based on the individual. I don't think having a cellphone in the classroom is a right or having a smartphone at all is a right, but I do think they can be beneficial devices even for a fairly young child if used properly. I know I got a lot of additional education out of being able to look things up on computers at school and having a constantly available connection to things like Wikipedia and Google to be able to do further research from my desk in the classroom would have been a phenomenal tool that I would have benefited greatly from.
While I do enjoy Rift, if Rift's graphics are your idea of "kick ass" then you have been missing quite a lot lately in the gaming industry. Also, 30 years is way off. 10 years tops for browsers to have that graphics, simply look at the past. We can run games in the browser that were actually released 10 years ago. That said, what we have outside of the browser 10 years from now will make today's graphics seem silly.
In other news, AJH16 predicts the death of Illyriad Games for failing to understand user trends and targeting a platform that won't be competitive with installs for some time [my money is on never] (at least outside the market currently filled by flash, which didn't require installation of individual games either.) I'm not sure how someone with any kind of understanding of the industry can make the harebrained claim that HTML5 will replace installed games unless the expect the death of complex video games entirely. The fact is that installed games simply have more direct access to their data and hardware as they can be given more permissions. I don't want (and fear to think) what would happen if I gave my browser the same access to my hardware that I would trust a video game with. An app cache isn't a good way to manage what games are installed. It's a solution in search of a problem.
Installed games are already used primarily by geeky types that prefer an install. Those who don't understand computers at that level tend to get games for consoles, not PCs. They are completely ignoring both the console market and the demographic of the PC market that actually uses installed games and are quite frankly talking out their ass as soon as they move away from talking about flash based games (which yes, HTML5 is an obvious threat to since it directly fills the same need). Basically they stated the obvious and then departed well off in to left field.
I run 2 Linksys 600n routers in my house and they work great. They have up to 5 usable gigabit ports, a 2.4 and a 5ghz n capable radios and USB support. I'm running DD-WRT on both with no issues. The only down side is they are not JTAG-able, so you have to be careful when flashing, but they make for a decent setup.
I'm not saying we shouldn't do both. I'm just saying that we should put as much or more focus on figuring out how to mitigate against the changes that are happening. I'm not saying that we aren't currently, just that I am not sure they are properly balanced (or more accurately that the goal many people are pushing for may not be balanced.)
Climate change aside, we still need improved energy efficiency as energy demands are only going to go up with time, but carbon sequestering and such doesn't necessarily do us a lot of good, at least not as a primary focus.
One major flaw in your argument. The idea that the solution science proposes will work is based on the assumption that we caused the change. If we didn't cause the change, then our actions thus far don't have an impact and it is likely just as beyond us to reverse it as it is for us to stop a hurricane in its tracks. Yes, we adapt, but we aren't miracle workers. It is foolish to assume we can change the temperature of the entire planet if the current rise isn't caused by us. That said, we have other ways of adapting for it. I think that is my main concern with current climate research and the fixation on carbon and human causes. If we turn out to be wrong, we are wasting a lot of time that we could be spending figuring out how to deal with temperatures rising.
I have no doubt we will be ok at adapting either to deal with higher temperatures or to lower them if we caused the increase, but I don't think we should put our eggs in one basket. The Earth has had far larger temperature swings in the past and we will adapt even as the ecology changes around us.
How is this the first carnivore they did this with? Is this old news? I read about this with a dog several months ago.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/27/us-korea-dog-idUSTRE76Q1MK20110727
It is also worth pointing out that comparing a desktop operating system and something like Android or iOS is apples to oranges (sorry for the bad play on words :) ). Android and iOS are designed to be light weight, low power, mobile operating systems. They are not really full featured and have a lot of serious limitations. They are great for what they are intended for, but I would never want to run Android on desktop hardware. (At least, not for day to day use, doing it just to do it might be entertaining for a bit).
Multitasking, networking and platform adaptability are probably two of the biggest areas. Android does it a whole lot better than iOS, but even still, compared to a modern desktop, the capabilities are a joke (but quite impressive for the hardware they run on.) Networking services that are built in to modern desktop OSes require third party software and are fairly hit and miss from my experience on mobile platforms. The driver support is perhaps the largest issue. The amount of tweaking that goes in to getting Android to run on different hardware platforms is fairly extensive compared to the desktop world. I can throw just about any components together and get Windows running on it in less than an hour most of the time. The same can't be said for Android and iOS only deals with about a dozen hardware platforms specifically designed for it.
It is worth noting that Android takes a fair bit of time to boot up itself. My phone takes about 30 seconds to a minute to boot fully and my tablet is around 30 to 45 seconds, even with a dual core teggra2 in it. This is only initial boot since the "instant" performance that people like to talk about simply comes from the fact the device is rarely "off" but rather just has better standby features in the hardware. Software and the OS has very little to do with it.
Yes, but when you get down to it, the IRS is actually your best friend. Tax law is incomprehensible and they are nice enough to work very hard to simplify the process as much as possible. IRS doesn't make the taxes, they just try to help with collecting them. As much as people like to make jokes about IRS audits and such, the IRS is one of the better government agencies. I do have to say that the military is pretty PR savvy though too, but they have to be for recruiting purposes.
I don't think everyone agreed they were acceptable, just that it was the least unacceptable. Similar to how democracy is actually the least productive, most wasteful form of government ever known to man, it is however, also the least susceptible to completely abusing the governed, so it becomes the ideal, even if not perfect by any means.
In an ideal world (which we don't and never will have), a benevolent dictatorship with a pure communist economy free of the hindrance of bureaucracy and waste of competition would be the best you could get. Unfortunately we don't live in a perfect world, people abuse power and largely don't work if they aren't rewarded for it, so democracy and capitalism are the necessary systems to motivate people to produce and to try to limit corruption.
Sure, in close, some amount of light is deflected by dust in the atmosphere and illuminated, but the point of those lasers is to be visible and they are the most visible when going through lots of particles. If it is an unknown frequency of light, a narrow beam transmission from a source with no particulate to deflect the beam in an unknown direction at great distance, then good luck finding it. It is not impossible per se, but you are talking a very complex problem. The bigger issues is having the satellite track accurately in a narrow band, but in some cases, other mobile points can be used that are also unknown point sources. As I understand it, it is rather difficult to scan the entire sky looking for a line of unknown color that is not very big around.
Agreed, what people fail to realize when comparing backlit LCD to e-Ink is that e-Ink is simply more comfortable to read on for extended times. I don't really care if my book can play animations. If I want video I have a phone, tablet, laptop, desktop and television for that. I don't need my book to do that too. I need my book to do one thing, let me read books and not have to worry about it.
It is at least currently a technical limitation. Basically e-Ink displays act like an electronic etch-a-sketch. Partially inked particles are brought (normally rotated) to the surface by electric fields in the device. The flash is basically the equivalent of shaking the etch-a-sketch. It brings every pixel to the full dark and then the full light to ensure they are all properly placed prior to starting the render of the next page. It is possible to skip the step, however it results in a cumulative ghosting effect where the pixels didn't fully reset. Over time this gets worse until you do the full on/off reset flash you described. There has been some experimentation done skipping the process to do animations and then flashing them after. In fact, many of the Sony e-Readers actually do this on their rotating loading animation. Ideally, with sufficient control of the fields, we could reset it perfectly without the flash, but the power to control that precisely might actually be more power consuming than a simple on/off flash.
As I understand it, at least some of the UAVs are made of stealthy materials (hard to find on radar) and capable of using laser based communications (hard to track by emissions and near impossible to jam. Some of our cheaper UAVs might not be useful, but that isn't to say that we don't have UAVs that should still be fairly effective against a modern air force. (Though obviously not as effective, just like anything else wouldn't be effective with the technology gap closed substantially.)
HP already has a very nice offering in the virtual PC terminal arena which is probably going to be the future direction for a lot of corporate IT.
Saying that a user disabling security makes it ineffective isn't really a fair critique of a technology as the same is true of any security.
As for the range issue, it is possible to overcome this outside of an extremely powerful attacker AP by encoding the response in such a way that it will be able to ecc at a substantially longer range than most wifi data transmissions. I'm not saying that this technique necessarily does it, but it could be done to greatly increase the additional range that a MiTM would need to have. The other issue it doesn't address though is true rogue APs that are free standing and claim to be part of a network that is not located near by, but that people will connect to anyway.
That all said, the ideal is probably something that involves getting a CA for hotspots that can give an authenticated handshake, but we don't have the infrastructure for that set up yet.
On the Android front, the same Photoshop Express application that you mentioned on iPad is also available for Android (similar feature set). VidTrim can do some basic trimming of video. ArcSoft's PowerMobia is also ok for very basic stuff. If you are looking at Android devices, particularly in the tablet form factor, I'd recommend either the Asus Transformer or the new Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet. The ASUS has a 1st party keyboard dock that turns it in to an effective netbook (with over 16 hours battery life) and the Thinkpad Tablet has the ability to use an actual digitizer pen using conventional digitizer tech (including pressure sensitivity) in addition to the capacitive touch screen).
I do have a little experience on other people's iPads, but in general I haven't followed them too much as I don't really like the way that iOS behaves, so I've never really been interested in getting an iPad myself so I just follow it enough to keep up with tech trends.
Ok, I can see how you read my post that way, but what I meant is that I specifically like the fact that many people I know play console games rather than PC games and having the ability to interact with them (even if only through chat, though some do cross platform) and make use of both the Live and Steam features would be ideal. I actually want to be able to access both networks at the same time since they have different people that are members of each.
Honestly, I like Steam for delivery, but I really like the Games for Windows Live client built in to games for the shared achievements and such. Would personally love to see Steamworks and Live get along.
For photo stuff, the mobile version of Photoshop is my favorite one that I have found so far. Most of the other ones I've seen have been more for goofy things like adding clip art and such, not really much use for real touchup stuff. There are also a few decent apps for processing raw files, though I'm not sure if the ones I use have iPad versions (I'm an Android fan personally). On the video side, I didn't find anything beyond trimming a clip and laying them in an order, maybe with a simple dissolve transition and then primarily only played back in the application or transferred it to a PC or the cloud for encoding. I didn't even bother remembering what they were called and deleted them all off my system. (I did this months ago, at some point I should probably make another pass, but really the CPUs can't handle video editing beyond the simplest things.)
Could be a 4 and a half day buffer of raw data from the LHC (ok, unlikely). The data rate that thing generates blows my mind.
Yeah, so you take over jane in Customer Service who then sends an infected e-mail to Bill in the testing unit about a problem with a product once you have the outer network access to elevate to the inside.
It isn't heavy handed law enforcement and they won't be able to tell the difference at the time of seizure. They confiscate the equipment not because they even necessarily expect you of a crime, but rather because evidence of a crime may exist on it. If they don't find anything, they can return it. Running separate hardware is a good way to make sure you can get your personal stuff back faster if anything useful to the investigation is actually found on the public hardware.