The BBC produces some great programming. Mostly their news, but sometimes other stuff is not that bad. That comes at a cost, though: hefty fine on the purchase of any new TV set. This extra tax lets the government keep on producing great news and mediocre telly (that's what they call TV in England) shows.
So if they now want to force an upgrade to support this new DRM system, it makes sense that the taxpayers should foot the bill. After all, creating telly programs that is of high quality and value is something that everyone should support. So calling all Brits! Go do the patriotic thing and buy a new TV set today.
Let's say 30 years ago I gave you one end of an infinitely long piece of yarn and told you to start knitting a sweater. At first, it's not too bad. The yarn has a pretty standard consistency, although it sucks compared to some other yarn on the market. Then I start changing things up. Adding some knots and tangles in the yarn I hand to you. You do your best to accomodate and actually come up with a pretty nice sweater. Then you start re-designing the sweater to take advantage of the knots and tangles, and I just keep putting more and more complex knots in there since you seem to be doing great with the ones I've sent so far. Your sweater grows thick with piles of yarn and by the time 30 years rolls around, you've got yourself a pretty great sweater. Of course, you had some massive screwups like sweater ME and sweater Vista.
Now let's say I ask you to knit the same sweater using a beautifully crafted roll of thread.
General Relativity dictates that nothing can travel faster than light, and that the speed of light is constant in every frame of reference. Therefore, although we measure distance in light years, it doesn't lead to twice the duration if we traveled at half the speed of light. In fact, as we approached relativistic speeds, the duration within our frame of reference would stay the same, but from an external point of view, our speed has not actually reached such a velocity. Therefore, we would perceive the time to travel to a nearby star as shorter than the value arrived at by a simple ratio applied to c. Likewise, the actual time passed on the target planet will have been many times longer by the time we get there such that we cannot assume that millions of years haven't passed since we first set out from our own home planet.
This kind of craziness is why people would rather study QM than GR.
It's almost impossible to tell whether additional software has been installed unless you either 1) diff your HDD (hard and time consuming) or 2) weigh the laptop and see if any data has been added. The government is, for once, correct and providing helpful information.
I've seen many instances of people getting busted for child porn on their hard drives. I've seen many stories of people getting busted for illegally uploading copyrighted material. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
But I ain't never seen nobody get arrested for shenanigans someone else pulled on their network.
The last time there was a truly made-for-the-classroom movie, it was called The Voyage of the Mimi. It not only brought the crisis of dwindling humpback whale populations to elementary school students, it provided survival education lessons on avoiding contaminated foods, creating drinkable water, and building shelter. I'd not be so quick to dismiss edutainment, especially when it is in the pursuit of re-enacting one of the most important non-hard scientific studies of all time.
As an added bonus, you never know which child actor will grow up to become one of Hollywood's most popular and gifted actors.
There isn't likely going to be any fallout whatsoever from this. The technology will go into place, be pretty much invisible, and provide enough benefits for legitimate users that no one will cry except for people who aren't connected in any way to Japan.
This is the way technology works. It gets implemented invisibly and no one ever knows they lost any sort of freedoms. In fact, they gain all sorts of benefits like better quality samples and higher bandwidth to support the increased usage.
In the U.S., it's pretty much the other way around. You can load up your phone with all sorts of pirated music and software, but the tradeoff is that the carriers don't give a damn about bandwidth or quality of service since they didn't plan on the increased traffic in the first place.
Do you take the red pill and live in a gilded cage, or do you take the blue pill and live a free life in squalor?
I'll take the source to both the F22 radar and the Taurus radar.
Thanks.
GPLv2 Section 3b:
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange
I've begun to feel that Intel is lacking focus in their chip lineup. While it makes sense that they have different series for different markets, within those lineups they have too many disparate chips that just cloud the water.
Atom Z vs Atom N is one such case. The Atom is supposed to be their embedded processor series, but they just can't shake off the PC market yoke and focus solely on embedded customers.
They have server CPUs, desktop CPUs, mobile CPUs, and embedded CPUs. But within each segment there are just too many choices that make it difficult to understand the whole picture without true data analysis like this article.
I'm a software engineer who can't touch type. And I can honestly say that learning wouldn't increase my productivity in any measurable way. I don't spend a majority of my day typing. For every minute spent typing I spend at least 15 thinking, debugging, etc.
Maybe you suck at software engineering. That's a possibility.
There are those of us whose code is pristine and perfect the moment if flows from our brain cells down to our fingers and into the computer. Thinking takes 15 times longer than doing? I hope someone else makes the decision where and what you eat for lunch everyday. Debugging? Maybe you need to spend a little more time thinking if your code still has bugs when you finally type it in to the computer.
In Norway, advertisements directed towards children are banned on TV and radio.
What kind of commercials are shown during Saturday morning cartoons?
And what is the problem with advertising to kids? It's not like they have any money. The final arbiter, at least for what I consider "children" (under 13yo), is usually the parent, so where's the actual harm?
Is it the possible negative feelings that the kid will have when the parents refuse to buy the latest Go-bot reconfigurable robot toy? That's the kind of child-coddling, PC rule that is bringing society to its so-called knees.
There is something very cool about having tailored advertisements. Google's found a way to make it work, and in the AFK world there is evidence of commercial tailoring for sporting events like the SuperBowl. People who watch the SB for the ads (like reading Playboy for the nudes, I suppose) typically enjoy funny and unique commercials. So while it may be many times more expensive to produce and show a commercial during the SB, it is also much more profitable since the viewers are already suggestionable.
Unlike American humor which smashes you over your watermelon-like head like Gallagher's Sledge-o-matic, British humor relies on subtlety and odd juxtaposition to tell a joke.
FTS: Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Elton John, and Damon Albarn
A Fab, a Fag, and now for something completely different.
HILARIOUS! <insert laughtrack>
What is the reasoning behind this kind of tough law? It's one thing to punish filesharers for violating copyrights, but to put them in the poorhouse for it is just reprehensible. Sure, fine them a couple thousand pounds, but it's not a crime worth destroying someone's whole life for.
Typical cloud services are metered at higher rates than typical standard hosting services. The difference is that you get metered on actual usage than arbitrarily-defined usage levels.
It isn't really different than inversely calculating the ROI of a pedometer. The more you walk and use it, the less it costs per measured step. However, if you buy it and put it on the shelf, you have that initial sunk cost and barely any return on your investment.
Clouds are cheap if you have few visitors. They are outrageously expensive if you have massive amounts of traffic.
There must be some functionality that is patented, so I doubt the patent is just "a search box with a couple buttons".
Google creates a lot of IP and for the most part gives it away to users in the form of useful, free products and services. The only way to protect IP is to maintain legal control of it, otherwise you never know when someone may try to sue you.
Much like Microsoft, Google is extending its patent portfolio to preempt litigation, not to come down hard on little guys. I would be a bit hesitant to start screaming about Google at this point because I disagree with their methodology. They have a reason for getting these patents, and for all the patents that they've generated, there are few examples where they've used it as anything but a defensive weapon.
We get so accustomed to bad customer service and lousy throughput and high prices that it doesn't even dawn on us that the problem isn't the usage patterns of iPhone users but rather the consistently half-assed network implementations by American MOs.
As more and more technology floats up into the Cloud, we are going to need more bandwidth to access it from anywhere. If the MOs can't keep up and implement a network that will support the kind of massive usage that is currently envisioned, there will be a massive breakdown akin to what AT&T is experiencing now.
Don't blame the vehicles for bad roads. Blame it on the DOT.
Instead of going with a licensed OS like Windows or VxWorks, they saved tens of dollars. Smart thinking and good use of money in these tough economic times.
It would be nice to see other departments try to realize these types of gains.
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The BBC produces some great programming. Mostly their news, but sometimes other stuff is not that bad. That comes at a cost, though: hefty fine on the purchase of any new TV set. This extra tax lets the government keep on producing great news and mediocre telly (that's what they call TV in England) shows.
So if they now want to force an upgrade to support this new DRM system, it makes sense that the taxpayers should foot the bill. After all, creating telly programs that is of high quality and value is something that everyone should support. So calling all Brits! Go do the patriotic thing and buy a new TV set today.
Yeah, but those of us who drive find using street names and addresses pretty useful compared to you bus riders.
I haven't seen any devices using the Handheld PC user interface since around 2001.
But then again, why would you? WinCE is designed to allow for fully custom shells.
That said, I would love to see a device like the old Vadem Clio that had wifi (or even 3G GPRS) and could RDP into my home PC.
No, but NVidia has gone ahead and integrated ARM.
Let's say 30 years ago I gave you one end of an infinitely long piece of yarn and told you to start knitting a sweater. At first, it's not too bad. The yarn has a pretty standard consistency, although it sucks compared to some other yarn on the market. Then I start changing things up. Adding some knots and tangles in the yarn I hand to you. You do your best to accomodate and actually come up with a pretty nice sweater. Then you start re-designing the sweater to take advantage of the knots and tangles, and I just keep putting more and more complex knots in there since you seem to be doing great with the ones I've sent so far. Your sweater grows thick with piles of yarn and by the time 30 years rolls around, you've got yourself a pretty great sweater. Of course, you had some massive screwups like sweater ME and sweater Vista.
Now let's say I ask you to knit the same sweater using a beautifully crafted roll of thread.
I think you can see how hard that would be.
I suppose Ubuntu Linux is just chopped liver.
C'mon people. Wake up! There are tons of operating systems out there. Some are even better than Windows! *gasp*
General Relativity dictates that nothing can travel faster than light, and that the speed of light is constant in every frame of reference. Therefore, although we measure distance in light years, it doesn't lead to twice the duration if we traveled at half the speed of light. In fact, as we approached relativistic speeds, the duration within our frame of reference would stay the same, but from an external point of view, our speed has not actually reached such a velocity. Therefore, we would perceive the time to travel to a nearby star as shorter than the value arrived at by a simple ratio applied to c. Likewise, the actual time passed on the target planet will have been many times longer by the time we get there such that we cannot assume that millions of years haven't passed since we first set out from our own home planet.
This kind of craziness is why people would rather study QM than GR.
He may be a little Italian fighter, but I don't think you can really compare him to the Italian Stallion.
It's almost impossible to tell whether additional software has been installed unless you either 1) diff your HDD (hard and time consuming) or 2) weigh the laptop and see if any data has been added. The government is, for once, correct and providing helpful information.
More on this topic at this old Slashdot story.
I've seen many instances of people getting busted for child porn on their hard drives. I've seen many stories of people getting busted for illegally uploading copyrighted material. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
But I ain't never seen nobody get arrested for shenanigans someone else pulled on their network.
The last time there was a truly made-for-the-classroom movie, it was called The Voyage of the Mimi. It not only brought the crisis of dwindling humpback whale populations to elementary school students, it provided survival education lessons on avoiding contaminated foods, creating drinkable water, and building shelter. I'd not be so quick to dismiss edutainment, especially when it is in the pursuit of re-enacting one of the most important non-hard scientific studies of all time.
As an added bonus, you never know which child actor will grow up to become one of Hollywood's most popular and gifted actors.
There isn't likely going to be any fallout whatsoever from this. The technology will go into place, be pretty much invisible, and provide enough benefits for legitimate users that no one will cry except for people who aren't connected in any way to Japan.
This is the way technology works. It gets implemented invisibly and no one ever knows they lost any sort of freedoms. In fact, they gain all sorts of benefits like better quality samples and higher bandwidth to support the increased usage.
In the U.S., it's pretty much the other way around. You can load up your phone with all sorts of pirated music and software, but the tradeoff is that the carriers don't give a damn about bandwidth or quality of service since they didn't plan on the increased traffic in the first place.
Do you take the red pill and live in a gilded cage, or do you take the blue pill and live a free life in squalor?
I'll take the source to both the F22 radar and the Taurus radar.
Thanks.
GPLv2 Section 3b:
I've begun to feel that Intel is lacking focus in their chip lineup. While it makes sense that they have different series for different markets, within those lineups they have too many disparate chips that just cloud the water.
Atom Z vs Atom N is one such case. The Atom is supposed to be their embedded processor series, but they just can't shake off the PC market yoke and focus solely on embedded customers.
They have server CPUs, desktop CPUs, mobile CPUs, and embedded CPUs. But within each segment there are just too many choices that make it difficult to understand the whole picture without true data analysis like this article.
I do not (repeat do NOT) use the "home keys"
I can understand getting away with not using the ';', but this post itself contains all the home keys.
You must be some kind of savant.
I'm a software engineer who can't touch type. And I can honestly say that learning wouldn't increase my productivity in any measurable way. I don't spend a majority of my day typing. For every minute spent typing I spend at least 15 thinking, debugging, etc.
Maybe you suck at software engineering. That's a possibility.
There are those of us whose code is pristine and perfect the moment if flows from our brain cells down to our fingers and into the computer. Thinking takes 15 times longer than doing? I hope someone else makes the decision where and what you eat for lunch everyday. Debugging? Maybe you need to spend a little more time thinking if your code still has bugs when you finally type it in to the computer.
http://www.score.org/index.html
Seriously, get some help. Asking "techies" is, as you probably are quickly finding out, the absolute wrong way to get good business advice.
In Norway, advertisements directed towards children are banned on TV and radio.
What kind of commercials are shown during Saturday morning cartoons?
And what is the problem with advertising to kids? It's not like they have any money. The final arbiter, at least for what I consider "children" (under 13yo), is usually the parent, so where's the actual harm?
Is it the possible negative feelings that the kid will have when the parents refuse to buy the latest Go-bot reconfigurable robot toy? That's the kind of child-coddling, PC rule that is bringing society to its so-called knees.
http://www.tetrapak.com/us/packaging/food_categories/wine/pages/default.aspx
http://www.slashfood.com/2008/05/17/would-you-drink-wine-from-a-juice-box/
I'll wait here while you hide your kids.
There is something very cool about having tailored advertisements. Google's found a way to make it work, and in the AFK world there is evidence of commercial tailoring for sporting events like the SuperBowl. People who watch the SB for the ads (like reading Playboy for the nudes, I suppose) typically enjoy funny and unique commercials. So while it may be many times more expensive to produce and show a commercial during the SB, it is also much more profitable since the viewers are already suggestionable.
Unlike American humor which smashes you over your watermelon-like head like Gallagher's Sledge-o-matic, British humor relies on subtlety and odd juxtaposition to tell a joke.
FTS: Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Elton John, and Damon Albarn
A Fab, a Fag, and now for something completely different.
HILARIOUS! <insert laughtrack>
What is the reasoning behind this kind of tough law? It's one thing to punish filesharers for violating copyrights, but to put them in the poorhouse for it is just reprehensible. Sure, fine them a couple thousand pounds, but it's not a crime worth destroying someone's whole life for.
Typical cloud services are metered at higher rates than typical standard hosting services. The difference is that you get metered on actual usage than arbitrarily-defined usage levels.
It isn't really different than inversely calculating the ROI of a pedometer. The more you walk and use it, the less it costs per measured step. However, if you buy it and put it on the shelf, you have that initial sunk cost and barely any return on your investment.
Clouds are cheap if you have few visitors. They are outrageously expensive if you have massive amounts of traffic.
Most of those things aren't software-related at all.
How would Open Source help?
There must be some functionality that is patented, so I doubt the patent is just "a search box with a couple buttons".
Google creates a lot of IP and for the most part gives it away to users in the form of useful, free products and services. The only way to protect IP is to maintain legal control of it, otherwise you never know when someone may try to sue you.
Much like Microsoft, Google is extending its patent portfolio to preempt litigation, not to come down hard on little guys. I would be a bit hesitant to start screaming about Google at this point because I disagree with their methodology. They have a reason for getting these patents, and for all the patents that they've generated, there are few examples where they've used it as anything but a defensive weapon.
We get so accustomed to bad customer service and lousy throughput and high prices that it doesn't even dawn on us that the problem isn't the usage patterns of iPhone users but rather the consistently half-assed network implementations by American MOs.
As more and more technology floats up into the Cloud, we are going to need more bandwidth to access it from anywhere. If the MOs can't keep up and implement a network that will support the kind of massive usage that is currently envisioned, there will be a massive breakdown akin to what AT&T is experiencing now.
Don't blame the vehicles for bad roads. Blame it on the DOT.
Instead of going with a licensed OS like Windows or VxWorks, they saved tens of dollars. Smart thinking and good use of money in these tough economic times.
It would be nice to see other departments try to realize these types of gains.