I'd challenge the value of a college degree is still just as high as ever, however the average realized value is not. A college degree is a resource you must know how to use. If you aren't able to network, impress people and secure a job, then it won't do you any good, but if you are able to, it does still open doors that would not otherwise be open. College degrees have become too common and are no longer the only distinguishing factor, but they are still a necessary factor. (Unfortunately in my opinion.)
I think the bigger reason for outrage is that the publishers have an attitude to ask for things like this that fly in the face of what most of us see as a fair copyright system. Similar to how you said you would come of sounding like a litigious dick in your own example.
Honestly, once you know how to find things, it isn't any harder in Windows. The registry is actually fairly easily laid out if apps follow reasonable conventions. The same can be said about linux config files. It just depends which system you know best. Either way is going to be beyond an average user without following documentation.
Your question is more one of.Net vs a JVM..Net is a framework. Code from any language with a.Net compiler is generated in MSIL which is an intermediate language which is then efficiently (hopefully) implemented as a complex instruction set on whatever architecture you want it to run on. This is a completely different approach from that taken with Java, which reduces everything to a super simple instruction set (originally built around a simple single register stack architecture) that can be implemented directly on any hardware architecture and then trying to figure out ways to shortcut complex functions in to the available capabilities of particular hardware architectures.
Both systems have their advantages and disadvantages. The Java approach ends up being very dependent on trying to analyses code to find places you can make shortcuts in an automated fashion and/or adding hints to your code to optimize for a particular architecture (which throws the whole universal cross platform bit out the window)..Net avoids a lot of these issues by using a complex instruction layer that is implemented elegantly for a particular architecture, but it requires that framework to be built before any apps can run on a given architecture, but once it is done once, any.Net application will run on that platform. There are still some situation where performance can be a concern because of the level of abstraction of the instruction set.Net exposes so sometimes unsafe (ie, platform specific machine code) must be used and in this case the same holds true with it breaking the platform independence, but this is far less necessary in.Net than in Java (at least in my experience).
For the highest performance on a particular system, your best option will still be native code compilation designed to utilize a given architecture, but with the diverse range of platforms we see today, that isn't really viable for many development efforts.
As I recall, when the False Reject Rate is adjusted to be comparable, the False Accept Rate also becomes comparable between the two technologies. I'm not sure that this is up to date though.
So what you are saying is that the 9/11 truth movement and moon landing hoax conspiracies were really started by the government so they could get away with real conspiracies without anybody noticing?;)
Yeah, agreed for that. Certainly a lot of courses that are taught as lectures really do not need to be. Personally, I'm not an academic and would prefer something more along the line of apprenticeship for professional fields. I've never liked the whole lecture mentality in favor of hands on and dynamic education. I don't learn well from blanket presentation of material and learn much better from actually doing and I think this is true of many people. So yeah, I agree that general education stuff that doesn't really have a hands on application can be easily taught for effectively free and think that anything beyond that should be more hands on and dynamic. The costs would then be associated with the skill level of the people you are learning from (and therefore the value of the skill you are learning if you have the ability to match the level of skill.)
That may work in some simpler degrees, but many degrees require hands on work and experience as well. This can't be handled through books and podcasts. Do you really want your Doctors, your Engineers and your Nuclear Scientists learning from books on tape before they go out and start operating on you, building your bridges and running your nuclear reactors?
Yes, because you can make it harder to detect the running patterns. My understanding of the article is basically that it encrypts it's own execution path so that the individual sections of code can't be followed until they run. They also avoid actually storing the key in the executable making it difficult to detect the running code as it will not match patterns as easily. It's an old technique being applied to a newer system, but it is interesting since it is a step up in complexity of an already complex system.
Except that I don't know for sure where the files are actually going. Granted I have not played around with Libraries much, but in general I don't like things that obfuscate what my computer is actually doing.
See that is my concern is that they will go with something like the Libraries concept in Windows 7 where instead of actually putting things in folders, when you go to open a document in say, Google Doc's word processor, it will just show you the word processing docs on your system completely indifferent to where they are actually stored. It's actually very limiting if you prefer to actually really organize stuff, but done correctly maybe it could be interesting.
I've personally driven about 250,000 to 300,000 miles and never been in an accident, at fault or no fault. That said, it doesn't invalidate your point that one error in every 100,000 miles is still astounding if accurate, particularly considering that the 1 error doesn't necessarily result in a crash. I would be curious as to how graciously those errors occur though. Is it an error where it plows in to oncoming traffic at 130mph or is it a minor fender bender or an unavoidable crash where it is able to mitigate it as much as possible.
It has 3G internet connectivity. That alone is normally $30 a month. Don't think of it as a laptop replacement so much as an incredibly cheap (effectively free since the monthly fee is less than the normal cost of data service on most carriers) and cost effective netbook.
In my case, I work with a site that pays for a dedicated server that I get space on for my personal stuff, but even if I didn't, a small fee can get you hosting space on a shared host and a domain name and from there you can setup a lot of your own services. I never understood why someone would give someone else control of their blog if they want to be serious about it, particularly with all the integration you can do. I've got blog, e-mail, website, openID, FTP, IRC, Ventrilo, TeamSpeak (2 and 3) and more (not to mention a public system I can remote desktop in to anytime I need) all of which I am fully in control of and in total I only pay $25 a month to help with the hosting bill and about $30 a year for a few domains. Completely worth it to avoid crap like this.
This sounds like it would be brilliant for the military. Contain the sound of a craft inside but allow the occupants to be aware of what is going on around them. That is pretty much a priceless advantage.
Ok, yeah, I see what you are saying there. Since buying an oversupply is a temporary fix that corrects itself to not being needed until another oversupply, I could see that as being an ok expense under my view that services should seek to solve the problem and make themselves unnecessary. It may be necessary again later but it still serves to fix the issue. So yeah, I think we are in agreement.
Not everything should be run like a business to the extent that government shouldn't be looking for a profit, but rather for the good of society. That said, it is not in societies interest to make elements of society unproductive (consuming more than they produce). The solution to this is for society to enable people who are stuck in an unproductive state to a productive one. There will be situations where that is not possible that society will also have to care for (for example disabled individuals who can not take care of themselves), and a certain base level should be sustained for societies interest. The problem is that should only be a last resort, not the normal mode of operation. The goal should always be for a program to get people to a point where they don't need the program if possible by any means.
I'm not saying they shouldn't get mail service, I'm saying that a closer post office is unnecessary. If they need to travel a few extra miles, that is not huge as long as they still have mail service. Perhaps I should have been more clear on that point. I also understand what you are saying about wanting to keep over-supply, but what does keeping costs low have to do with oversupply. If the cost of food was to raise as a result of expecting farmers to cover more, then taxes in general could go down (provided the philosophy is applied in large). This would allow for people to pay the higher price for food since they would have more money in general. Those who don't have enough would be helped by programs that are designed to end their dependance on the program or in extreme cases, jobs programs to provide services to the community providing the jobs could be done by the government.
Under a system like this, fewer people end up dependent on the government in the long run, farmers have more money in their pocket from the higher prices that they can use for what matters to them instead of what the government decides they need and more control is given back to the local community. I realize that it won't always work perfectly, but I see it as a preferable alternative to building a culture that believes that it must have government services that it can't afford and doesn't bother looking for ways to make things sustainable.
I realize that the post office doesn't get general funds often, if the post office can not at least make back it's costs in keeping a location open that could be serviced by a broader region, then that is an economical fact of life that has to be dealt with. If there is no money to pay for it and the community can't support it, then, well, the community can't support it. As I mentioned in another post, I'm not an urbanite, I will likely never be an urbanite. I don't like living in a city, I live in upstate NY, for those who don't know, that's mostly light suburbs and rural. Where do you draw the line on what should or shouldn't be provided. In the city, fire and ambulance are always very close by because of the population density. Should we ensure that rural places are equally protected with equivalent response times? To do this would require a firehouse at the end of the driveway of some farms. It simply isn't economically feasible. That brings me back to my original point. If a program (or business) will require external funding to do it's job in a particular location indefinitely without any hope of ever being sustainable, then it is just that, not a sustainable program. The program should be altered in a way to make it sustainable in the long term. Otherwise everyone starts wanting their own program that they can't afford and suddenly nobody can afford any of the programs including the ones that really are needed to help people get sustainable again. (Which is exactly what our country is currently facing.) Also, please don't group me in with Tea Partiers. I'm not necessarily in favor of smaller government, just more effective. I would prefer we spend more if necessary to fix problems rather than simply paying to address symptoms.
Also, if you are going to say that people can't change if they wanted to because they lack the resources to do so, then I would point out that I would be fully in support of helping those people as it is then a program that is not maintenance but rather assistance. I just have a problem when people demand permanent entitlement to more than they produce because they feel they deserve it and are unwilling to alter their behavior to support their wants.
You ignored the next part of my statement. Options are available and removal of a government office is not going to prevent it. If you need to be there for your living, then there are options available. Not the same options as in a city or in suburbs perhaps, but options. (Note the same could be said about the other way around as well.) For full disclosure, I'm not an urbanite as you seem to have assumed. I grew up in upstate NY in a suburban setting with many farms near by. Many areas with farms have options beyond what the poster described. If there are really so few options available, then I would speculate that they are living in an area that values being away from civilization on its own. It's a balance. You can be rugged and independent or you can be with other people and have more common resources to provide social services.
It's a lifestyle choice and both have relative merits. Even farmers can choose to live in areas that are less rural and have options available and sufficient population density to provide the services they are looking for. Just because someone farms and chooses that lifestyle doesn't mean my income should go to support their wants. If they feel that they need those services, charge more for their products so they can afford to support them. If the market doesn't allow it, then there isn't enough interest among their community and perhaps they are working in the wrong field.
While I understand that, you'll still have your country store and if you really want social contact, then perhaps living in the middle of nowhere isn't ideal (or you can just hang out at the country store.) Putting more resources in a community than the community can or will eventually be able to sustain is not good for the country. If the long term goal of a government system is to provide more resources to a group than the group puts out, then something needs to be reconsidered about that program. I'm not saying that in short runs, programs can't provide for groups or people that can't support the program, but the end goal should always be to re-establish self-reliance or you end up with trillions of dollars of debt to provide services to everyone that nobody can pay for.
Interesting that it can support a touch screen, though I guess it would just be another USB device. Does seem kind of like a cop-out that it depends on an external hub for much of it's hardware (like networking) but still a pretty cool overall design. Hope they include a wifi/bluetooth chip in the final version. Aren't there ARM designs that include those built in?
Right, if I have someone accusing me of A, B, C and D and I have defenses for A, B and C. Then if A, B and C are thrown out, my defenses can be too because they are no longer relevant to the case because I no longer need to defend myself. At least that is my understanding, the judge is just shrinking the body of what needs to be reviewed because he found that a number of claims had no merit and that removing those claims made some of the prior art examples unnecessary.
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I'd challenge the value of a college degree is still just as high as ever, however the average realized value is not. A college degree is a resource you must know how to use. If you aren't able to network, impress people and secure a job, then it won't do you any good, but if you are able to, it does still open doors that would not otherwise be open. College degrees have become too common and are no longer the only distinguishing factor, but they are still a necessary factor. (Unfortunately in my opinion.)
I think the bigger reason for outrage is that the publishers have an attitude to ask for things like this that fly in the face of what most of us see as a fair copyright system. Similar to how you said you would come of sounding like a litigious dick in your own example.
Honestly, once you know how to find things, it isn't any harder in Windows. The registry is actually fairly easily laid out if apps follow reasonable conventions. The same can be said about linux config files. It just depends which system you know best. Either way is going to be beyond an average user without following documentation.
Your question is more one of .Net vs a JVM. .Net is a framework. Code from any language with a .Net compiler is generated in MSIL which is an intermediate language which is then efficiently (hopefully) implemented as a complex instruction set on whatever architecture you want it to run on. This is a completely different approach from that taken with Java, which reduces everything to a super simple instruction set (originally built around a simple single register stack architecture) that can be implemented directly on any hardware architecture and then trying to figure out ways to shortcut complex functions in to the available capabilities of particular hardware architectures.
Both systems have their advantages and disadvantages. The Java approach ends up being very dependent on trying to analyses code to find places you can make shortcuts in an automated fashion and/or adding hints to your code to optimize for a particular architecture (which throws the whole universal cross platform bit out the window). .Net avoids a lot of these issues by using a complex instruction layer that is implemented elegantly for a particular architecture, but it requires that framework to be built before any apps can run on a given architecture, but once it is done once, any .Net application will run on that platform. There are still some situation where performance can be a concern because of the level of abstraction of the instruction set .Net exposes so sometimes unsafe (ie, platform specific machine code) must be used and in this case the same holds true with it breaking the platform independence, but this is far less necessary in .Net than in Java (at least in my experience).
For the highest performance on a particular system, your best option will still be native code compilation designed to utilize a given architecture, but with the diverse range of platforms we see today, that isn't really viable for many development efforts.
As I recall, when the False Reject Rate is adjusted to be comparable, the False Accept Rate also becomes comparable between the two technologies. I'm not sure that this is up to date though.
So what you are saying is that the 9/11 truth movement and moon landing hoax conspiracies were really started by the government so they could get away with real conspiracies without anybody noticing? ;)
Yeah, agreed for that. Certainly a lot of courses that are taught as lectures really do not need to be. Personally, I'm not an academic and would prefer something more along the line of apprenticeship for professional fields. I've never liked the whole lecture mentality in favor of hands on and dynamic education. I don't learn well from blanket presentation of material and learn much better from actually doing and I think this is true of many people. So yeah, I agree that general education stuff that doesn't really have a hands on application can be easily taught for effectively free and think that anything beyond that should be more hands on and dynamic. The costs would then be associated with the skill level of the people you are learning from (and therefore the value of the skill you are learning if you have the ability to match the level of skill.)
That may work in some simpler degrees, but many degrees require hands on work and experience as well. This can't be handled through books and podcasts. Do you really want your Doctors, your Engineers and your Nuclear Scientists learning from books on tape before they go out and start operating on you, building your bridges and running your nuclear reactors?
Yes, because you can make it harder to detect the running patterns. My understanding of the article is basically that it encrypts it's own execution path so that the individual sections of code can't be followed until they run. They also avoid actually storing the key in the executable making it difficult to detect the running code as it will not match patterns as easily. It's an old technique being applied to a newer system, but it is interesting since it is a step up in complexity of an already complex system.
Except that I don't know for sure where the files are actually going. Granted I have not played around with Libraries much, but in general I don't like things that obfuscate what my computer is actually doing.
See that is my concern is that they will go with something like the Libraries concept in Windows 7 where instead of actually putting things in folders, when you go to open a document in say, Google Doc's word processor, it will just show you the word processing docs on your system completely indifferent to where they are actually stored. It's actually very limiting if you prefer to actually really organize stuff, but done correctly maybe it could be interesting.
I've personally driven about 250,000 to 300,000 miles and never been in an accident, at fault or no fault. That said, it doesn't invalidate your point that one error in every 100,000 miles is still astounding if accurate, particularly considering that the 1 error doesn't necessarily result in a crash. I would be curious as to how graciously those errors occur though. Is it an error where it plows in to oncoming traffic at 130mph or is it a minor fender bender or an unavoidable crash where it is able to mitigate it as much as possible.
It has 3G internet connectivity. That alone is normally $30 a month. Don't think of it as a laptop replacement so much as an incredibly cheap (effectively free since the monthly fee is less than the normal cost of data service on most carriers) and cost effective netbook.
In my case, I work with a site that pays for a dedicated server that I get space on for my personal stuff, but even if I didn't, a small fee can get you hosting space on a shared host and a domain name and from there you can setup a lot of your own services. I never understood why someone would give someone else control of their blog if they want to be serious about it, particularly with all the integration you can do. I've got blog, e-mail, website, openID, FTP, IRC, Ventrilo, TeamSpeak (2 and 3) and more (not to mention a public system I can remote desktop in to anytime I need) all of which I am fully in control of and in total I only pay $25 a month to help with the hosting bill and about $30 a year for a few domains. Completely worth it to avoid crap like this.
This sounds like it would be brilliant for the military. Contain the sound of a craft inside but allow the occupants to be aware of what is going on around them. That is pretty much a priceless advantage.
Ok, yeah, I see what you are saying there. Since buying an oversupply is a temporary fix that corrects itself to not being needed until another oversupply, I could see that as being an ok expense under my view that services should seek to solve the problem and make themselves unnecessary. It may be necessary again later but it still serves to fix the issue. So yeah, I think we are in agreement.
Not everything should be run like a business to the extent that government shouldn't be looking for a profit, but rather for the good of society. That said, it is not in societies interest to make elements of society unproductive (consuming more than they produce). The solution to this is for society to enable people who are stuck in an unproductive state to a productive one. There will be situations where that is not possible that society will also have to care for (for example disabled individuals who can not take care of themselves), and a certain base level should be sustained for societies interest. The problem is that should only be a last resort, not the normal mode of operation. The goal should always be for a program to get people to a point where they don't need the program if possible by any means.
I'm not saying they shouldn't get mail service, I'm saying that a closer post office is unnecessary. If they need to travel a few extra miles, that is not huge as long as they still have mail service. Perhaps I should have been more clear on that point. I also understand what you are saying about wanting to keep over-supply, but what does keeping costs low have to do with oversupply. If the cost of food was to raise as a result of expecting farmers to cover more, then taxes in general could go down (provided the philosophy is applied in large). This would allow for people to pay the higher price for food since they would have more money in general. Those who don't have enough would be helped by programs that are designed to end their dependance on the program or in extreme cases, jobs programs to provide services to the community providing the jobs could be done by the government.
Under a system like this, fewer people end up dependent on the government in the long run, farmers have more money in their pocket from the higher prices that they can use for what matters to them instead of what the government decides they need and more control is given back to the local community. I realize that it won't always work perfectly, but I see it as a preferable alternative to building a culture that believes that it must have government services that it can't afford and doesn't bother looking for ways to make things sustainable.
But how many miles per library of congress did the trucks get?
I realize that the post office doesn't get general funds often, if the post office can not at least make back it's costs in keeping a location open that could be serviced by a broader region, then that is an economical fact of life that has to be dealt with. If there is no money to pay for it and the community can't support it, then, well, the community can't support it. As I mentioned in another post, I'm not an urbanite, I will likely never be an urbanite. I don't like living in a city, I live in upstate NY, for those who don't know, that's mostly light suburbs and rural. Where do you draw the line on what should or shouldn't be provided. In the city, fire and ambulance are always very close by because of the population density. Should we ensure that rural places are equally protected with equivalent response times? To do this would require a firehouse at the end of the driveway of some farms. It simply isn't economically feasible. That brings me back to my original point. If a program (or business) will require external funding to do it's job in a particular location indefinitely without any hope of ever being sustainable, then it is just that, not a sustainable program. The program should be altered in a way to make it sustainable in the long term. Otherwise everyone starts wanting their own program that they can't afford and suddenly nobody can afford any of the programs including the ones that really are needed to help people get sustainable again. (Which is exactly what our country is currently facing.) Also, please don't group me in with Tea Partiers. I'm not necessarily in favor of smaller government, just more effective. I would prefer we spend more if necessary to fix problems rather than simply paying to address symptoms.
Also, if you are going to say that people can't change if they wanted to because they lack the resources to do so, then I would point out that I would be fully in support of helping those people as it is then a program that is not maintenance but rather assistance. I just have a problem when people demand permanent entitlement to more than they produce because they feel they deserve it and are unwilling to alter their behavior to support their wants.
You ignored the next part of my statement. Options are available and removal of a government office is not going to prevent it. If you need to be there for your living, then there are options available. Not the same options as in a city or in suburbs perhaps, but options. (Note the same could be said about the other way around as well.) For full disclosure, I'm not an urbanite as you seem to have assumed. I grew up in upstate NY in a suburban setting with many farms near by. Many areas with farms have options beyond what the poster described. If there are really so few options available, then I would speculate that they are living in an area that values being away from civilization on its own. It's a balance. You can be rugged and independent or you can be with other people and have more common resources to provide social services.
It's a lifestyle choice and both have relative merits. Even farmers can choose to live in areas that are less rural and have options available and sufficient population density to provide the services they are looking for. Just because someone farms and chooses that lifestyle doesn't mean my income should go to support their wants. If they feel that they need those services, charge more for their products so they can afford to support them. If the market doesn't allow it, then there isn't enough interest among their community and perhaps they are working in the wrong field.
While I understand that, you'll still have your country store and if you really want social contact, then perhaps living in the middle of nowhere isn't ideal (or you can just hang out at the country store.) Putting more resources in a community than the community can or will eventually be able to sustain is not good for the country. If the long term goal of a government system is to provide more resources to a group than the group puts out, then something needs to be reconsidered about that program. I'm not saying that in short runs, programs can't provide for groups or people that can't support the program, but the end goal should always be to re-establish self-reliance or you end up with trillions of dollars of debt to provide services to everyone that nobody can pay for.
Interesting that it can support a touch screen, though I guess it would just be another USB device. Does seem kind of like a cop-out that it depends on an external hub for much of it's hardware (like networking) but still a pretty cool overall design. Hope they include a wifi/bluetooth chip in the final version. Aren't there ARM designs that include those built in?
Right, if I have someone accusing me of A, B, C and D and I have defenses for A, B and C. Then if A, B and C are thrown out, my defenses can be too because they are no longer relevant to the case because I no longer need to defend myself. At least that is my understanding, the judge is just shrinking the body of what needs to be reviewed because he found that a number of claims had no merit and that removing those claims made some of the prior art examples unnecessary.