Fortunately in America we have the right to decided whats done with our own intellectual property. The consumer has the right not to buy ANYTHING from microsoft. The American consumers rationality can be debated elsewhere.
Someone gave me a copy of the Windows XP that runs on Macs. I installed it any never used it.
Lets look at this though. Who are the primary people who use this stuff?
The average user? no. I have a word processor, web browsing, chats, media players on my Mac. I can send e-mails just fine, thank you. I'm very happy with my mac.
The gamer? no. Games don't run well under virtualization.
The Mac guy who works for a business who's backwords management team decided to base an enterprise solution on something that only runs on windows? DING DING DING. we have a winner. Microsoft hopes that they will be willing to pay more. Businesses typically have deeper pockets then the average consumer.
"Section 22.925 of the Commission's rules, 47 CFR Part 22, provides that cellular telephones installed in, or carried aboard airplanes, balloons, or any other type of aircraft, must not be operated while the aircraft is off the ground."
It doesn't destiguish between types of aircraft. Furthermore it mentions balloons. I guess you can't use your cell phone unless you're feet are touching the ground.
Your pilot is commiting a crime.
Interestingly enough AirCell, Inc. has been excluded.
Lets PRETEND I'm a pilot. This is all hypothetical. I'm flying in my cessna. My noise canceling radio headset has a plug that conveniently connects to my headset jack on my phone. No ones looking over my shoulder and I'm not bothering anyone.
Who's gonna know.
Wake up FCC. No point in making laws you can't enforce.
The FAA has these things called prohibited areas. They usually exist above military bases. They can close off airspace whenever they want. They just tell the pilots to avoid it and it's causes very little problems. When you're going 180 miles per hour it's not hard to avoid an area a few nautical miles in radius. The air traffic controllers will tell you where you can and can't fly. Every pilot has a map of these zones and GPS devices are pretty standard now. I'm sure that a wind farm such as this would not effect air travel considering they only go 1 km high. The crusing altitude of these jets are higher than the kites will be flying. They can restrict pilots from flying at lower altitudes. It won't effect the commercial aircrafts as long as it's not near any airports.
Yeah. Stripped down Linux doesn't take up that much RAM. Even today most embedded platforms have 64 MB of RAM or less. I've used ones with 16MB and that was more than enough. The resource hogs are the graphics systems. Linux systems can run on about 2MB. X windows takes about 5MB for all the graphics. Clock speed isn't so important. I'm sure Linux runs much better than windows.
See the problem is that a program is only as good as it's programmer. Unfortunately, software test engineers are worse. I think also there is a lack of good programming technique. I've seen people take advanced C classes whos code couldn't even handle the simplest exceptions. I had an instructor who would take off 10 points for not catching extra tokens in a command line. As a result my code is tight.
What I see is in this world who ever gets their product out first is the winner. Thats why public betas are more important. Microsoft and vista is an example of that. At least they patched some of the security holes before they launched.
What I think is programming is an art form. I know people who play metal on guitar. When you ask them what key they're playing in they stare at you blankly as if they don't have a deep understanding of the notes they are playing. I think programming is plagued with the same problems. Programmers no longer have a deep understanding of whats going on in a system. Part of that I think is due to the educational system. Many Universities start teaching Java as a first language. You learn what a class is before you learn what a class REALLY is.
It takes a good understanding of the ENTIRE system to find bugs. Often programmers are completely focused on their little piece of code and aren't held up to standards as long as it works when they test it.
We used to use sun rays at our old school. They cost like $250 bucks a piece and we were able to remote login to a windows server through solaris. I also would be curious to know if anyones ever tried to use some of those mini-itx boards. I think you could probably build a system for under $250 and those things have at least a 1ghz processor. If you ran Linux thats plenty.
How many police officers know how to hack. I'd say your chances of finding one are small at best. I think all computers I have access to require passwords. I'm not saying that there aren't ways to obtain the data, but even during a routine search at a border it's not likely that the officer is going to have the tools to access my data without a password.
If you're really scared about it and you have sensitive data encrypt your sensitive data. That seems pretty simple to me. You can encrypt the e-mails locally stored on your computer. There is technology that will do that for you.
The only way they could find something on my PC is if they're already seized it from me and brought it back to those guys in the CSI lab that know how to ACTUALLY use a computer.
As a general rule of thumb I wouldn't want to have anything on my laptop I would regret falling into the wrong hands in the off chance someone decides to mug me.
With all that said; yeah it's wrong. Is it really that big of an issue?
Does this mean I have to go outside to aquire a satellite each time I use my MacBook? The only alternative I see is trangulation with cell towers, but that seems like an expensive solution.
It's interesting how people don't just sit and think about what they've learned in high school economics. Theres something called supply and demand. It's simple. Starbucks has a bit of responsibility in promoting gourmet coffee. Starbucks has many convenient locations, so people drink more coffee. They create more demand for coffee beans because it's more convenient. More ethiopians start growing coffee to compensate for extra demand. The production grows and provides more jobs to poor ethiopians until coffee prices reach an equiliberiam price. More ethiopians have a meal for the night. I like that.
Just ask yourself a question. Did ethiopians get paid more before starbucks? Probably not.
It's interesting how some Americans despise big corporations. You can simply stop shopping at these places, but the issue isn't about the price starbucks pays for coffee. People just don't like starbucks and will make any excuse to get pissed at them.
I was saying don't teach BAD C. Since the beginning of programming people have written unreadable code. People who don't teach it write just contribute to the problem.
Actually there was one point that my teacher violated some of the "common coding guidelines" of C. You might find this interesting as I don't often find it in code.
for (i = 0, j = 100; i j; i++, j--) commas can be used in for loops to do multiple things. If used in a while loop you only the last expression is checked.
while(printf("Enter:"),fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), stdin),/* fgets checks for buffer size*/
firstarg = strtok(buf, DELIMINATORS),
secondarg = strtok(NULL, DELIMINATORS),
strcmp(firstarg, "exit")&& secondarg != NULL){/* if the user typed exit and there was no second argument exit *//*process options */
}/* it makes it apparent what the loop does without looking into it. All of the key information is in the header. The parts in the loop block is just the processing.
And he'd make us use strtok to parse any user input because strtok is the only safe way to process user input. Most people who took his class knew how to use scanf, but scanf can be foiled pretty easily. For example, scanf doesn't check for buffer overruns when copying strings. If we were getting a integer as one of our tokens we would use strtol to convert it to an integer and he would make us check if the *endptr == '\0'. He wasn't a fan of scanf, but once it was done I couldn't think of a single way to break my code.
He wasn't even happy with his own code, but that makes for clean code i think.
I had a really strict C teacher by the name of John Perry and I loved him. Make sure that you don't let the write sloppy code or they'll never cut it as programmer. If you don't know the difference between sloppy code and good code then you shouldn't be teaching C. Write a thousand lines of code and hand it to a person who has written plenty of C programs in his lifetime and if he said it's clean then you're golden. Structure is very important.
First of course you need to teach the basics.
the main function and modularizing code. The structure of the program.
Operators and variables and stuff.
control statements, loops...ect
All these things can be found in just about any basic C book and just about any tutorial online.
http://www.its.strath.ac.uk/courses/c/
After you teach them the basics and about pointer, design, methodology, ect... then heres an idea...
The best way to get high school students excited about C is to write a game. Unfortunately game programming could be complex for new programmers. A programmer typical is responsible for a small portion of code. So, you write most of the game and have your students write little modules for stuff. For example high score records. Thats pretty easy and only requires someone to know how to edit a text file and sort scores. Describe a function for your students to write in as much detail as possible. After all the modules have been written put it all together. Then when they see they see the game working they have a sense of accomplishment.
I think that most of todays students think they want to go into programming because of games. Why not play on their interests?
The American public hate monopolies. Although, the home OS market in my opinion is a oligopoly(apple and other unix base OSes do compete), Microsoft by far still holds the largest share. Microsoft breaks anti-trust laws. Microsoft has a strangle hold on the system builders. If Dell decides they want to install Linux on some of their boxes they'll have to pay more for a license to Microsoft because Microsoft doesn't want them to do that. It's really the fault of the American consumer. If americans would just educate themselves they could use a free OS like Linux. If I thought I could take a big chunk out of Microsofts market share I'd write a UI for linux that is easier to use than Windows XP. Thats kinda what Apple did only they based it on BSD.
Microsoft writes terrible code and has consistently made bad descisions on critical issues related to the design of it's operating systems which lead to major bugs and lack of security. The only reason why Apple can have those comercials that say it's OS is more secure than a "PC"(They should really market against windows instead of using the term "PC") is because OS X was based of BSD, which has proven itself to be much more secure.
I don't hate Microsoft. I just think they make an inferior product and it costs too much. You can't get many game companies to develope on Linux. Games typically drive the advancements in personal computing hardware. Most other types of software has the Linux equivilent. Things that most people typically use a computer for like Web surfing, word processing and multimedia editing is competely supported by free software that runs on Linux.
I don't think the videos from itunes every caught on as much as they hoped it would.
Good music doesn't come out fast enough. People buy all the songs they like and they slow down on purchases. I think that makes sense and should have been forcasted. I personally don't think there has been much good music released since the 1980's and I already have most of the songs that I like. I guess that could be just me.
Why don't we just implant chips into sex offenders brains and shock them every time they have a dirty thought. As long as we're taking away privacy away from sex offenders, why don't we require EVERYONE to register all their screen names and e-mail addresses. My list would be a MILE long. Then they can have an excuse to tap everyones phone line and read everyones e-mails. OH WAIT THEY ALREADY HAVE THAT. Lets just give what the politicians want; More control.
Personally I don't care what sex offenders do on the internet. It's a bit difficult to rape someone without actually meeting them. If you are worried that sex offenders are going to stalk little kids they see on myspace just stick GPS devices on all sex offenders. Cops will be on the offender as soon as he/she leaves the house.
It amazes me that the american public allows the laws regarding the "internets" be made by people who don't even have a basic understanding of how it works or what it is capable of.
Boottime is dependent on your hardware and which programs start at bootup.
Disable any program that is set to start at bootup that you don't use.
Look at the benchmarks of your hard drives. Keep in mind that having a slow hard drive and a fast hard drive on the same ribbon(which is often the case when you have more than one hard drive) it can slow it down.
RAM speed and the amount of RAM. If your severily low on RAM often the system will have to do a lot of swapping out of memory to the hard disk.
Processor speed determines how fast OS, drivers and software loads.
Hibernation is kind of like a dumb bootup. Take everything from RAM and put it on the hard disk. Shut off the computer. Hard drive speed is the key factor for this. When you turn it back on take everything from the harddisk and put it into RAM. Device manufacturers must write their drivers to be able to handle what I like to call the "dumb" boot. A lot of devices can prevent the system from going into hibernation.
The trick is to figure out where your bottle neck is. The easiest bottleneck to fix is put more RAM in your computer because many computers ship from the manufacturer without enough RAM in my opinion.
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Fortunately in America we have the right to decided whats done with our own intellectual property. The consumer has the right not to buy ANYTHING from microsoft. The American consumers rationality can be debated elsewhere.
Someone gave me a copy of the Windows XP that runs on Macs. I installed it any never used it.
Lets look at this though. Who are the primary people who use this stuff?
The average user? no. I have a word processor, web browsing, chats, media players on my Mac. I can send e-mails just fine, thank you. I'm very happy with my mac.
The gamer? no. Games don't run well under virtualization.
The Mac guy who works for a business who's backwords management team decided to base an enterprise solution on something that only runs on windows? DING DING DING. we have a winner. Microsoft hopes that they will be willing to pay more. Businesses typically have deeper pockets then the average consumer.
I went to the FCC website.
e rations_1&id=cellular
"Section 22.925 of the Commission's rules, 47 CFR Part 22, provides that cellular telephones installed in, or carried aboard airplanes, balloons, or any other type of aircraft, must not be operated while the aircraft is off the ground."
It doesn't destiguish between types of aircraft. Furthermore it mentions balloons. I guess you can't use your cell phone unless you're feet are touching the ground.
Your pilot is commiting a crime.
Interestingly enough AirCell, Inc. has been excluded.
http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/index.htm?job=op
Lets PRETEND I'm a pilot. This is all hypothetical. I'm flying in my cessna. My noise canceling radio headset has a plug that conveniently connects to my headset jack on my phone. No ones looking over my shoulder and I'm not bothering anyone.
Who's gonna know.
Wake up FCC. No point in making laws you can't enforce.
The FAA has these things called prohibited areas. They usually exist above military bases. They can close off airspace whenever they want. They just tell the pilots to avoid it and it's causes very little problems. When you're going 180 miles per hour it's not hard to avoid an area a few nautical miles in radius. The air traffic controllers will tell you where you can and can't fly. Every pilot has a map of these zones and GPS devices are pretty standard now. I'm sure that a wind farm such as this would not effect air travel considering they only go 1 km high. The crusing altitude of these jets are higher than the kites will be flying. They can restrict pilots from flying at lower altitudes. It won't effect the commercial aircrafts as long as it's not near any airports.
Yeah. Stripped down Linux doesn't take up that much RAM. Even today most embedded platforms have 64 MB of RAM or less. I've used ones with 16MB and that was more than enough. The resource hogs are the graphics systems. Linux systems can run on about 2MB. X windows takes about 5MB for all the graphics. Clock speed isn't so important. I'm sure Linux runs much better than windows.
See the problem is that a program is only as good as it's programmer. Unfortunately, software test engineers are worse. I think also there is a lack of good programming technique. I've seen people take advanced C classes whos code couldn't even handle the simplest exceptions. I had an instructor who would take off 10 points for not catching extra tokens in a command line. As a result my code is tight.
What I see is in this world who ever gets their product out first is the winner. Thats why public betas are more important. Microsoft and vista is an example of that. At least they patched some of the security holes before they launched.
What I think is programming is an art form. I know people who play metal on guitar. When you ask them what key they're playing in they stare at you blankly as if they don't have a deep understanding of the notes they are playing. I think programming is plagued with the same problems. Programmers no longer have a deep understanding of whats going on in a system. Part of that I think is due to the educational system. Many Universities start teaching Java as a first language. You learn what a class is before you learn what a class REALLY is.
It takes a good understanding of the ENTIRE system to find bugs. Often programmers are completely focused on their little piece of code and aren't held up to standards as long as it works when they test it.
We used to use sun rays at our old school. They cost like $250 bucks a piece and we were able to remote login to a windows server through solaris. I also would be curious to know if anyones ever tried to use some of those mini-itx boards. I think you could probably build a system for under $250 and those things have at least a 1ghz processor. If you ran Linux thats plenty.
How many police officers know how to hack. I'd say your chances of finding one are small at best. I think all computers I have access to require passwords. I'm not saying that there aren't ways to obtain the data, but even during a routine search at a border it's not likely that the officer is going to have the tools to access my data without a password.
If you're really scared about it and you have sensitive data encrypt your sensitive data. That seems pretty simple to me. You can encrypt the e-mails locally stored on your computer. There is technology that will do that for you.
The only way they could find something on my PC is if they're already seized it from me and brought it back to those guys in the CSI lab that know how to ACTUALLY use a computer.
As a general rule of thumb I wouldn't want to have anything on my laptop I would regret falling into the wrong hands in the off chance someone decides to mug me.
With all that said; yeah it's wrong. Is it really that big of an issue?
Does this mean I have to go outside to aquire a satellite each time I use my MacBook? The only alternative I see is trangulation with cell towers, but that seems like an expensive solution.
It's interesting how people don't just sit and think about what they've learned in high school economics. Theres something called supply and demand. It's simple. Starbucks has a bit of responsibility in promoting gourmet coffee. Starbucks has many convenient locations, so people drink more coffee. They create more demand for coffee beans because it's more convenient. More ethiopians start growing coffee to compensate for extra demand. The production grows and provides more jobs to poor ethiopians until coffee prices reach an equiliberiam price. More ethiopians have a meal for the night. I like that.
Just ask yourself a question. Did ethiopians get paid more before starbucks? Probably not.
It's interesting how some Americans despise big corporations. You can simply stop shopping at these places, but the issue isn't about the price starbucks pays for coffee. People just don't like starbucks and will make any excuse to get pissed at them.
I was saying don't teach BAD C. Since the beginning of programming people have written unreadable code. People who don't teach it write just contribute to the problem.
/* fgets checks for buffer size*/ /* if the user typed exit and there was no second argument exit */ /*process options */
/* it makes it apparent what the loop does without looking into it. All of the key information is in the header. The parts in the loop block is just the processing.
Actually there was one point that my teacher violated some of the "common coding guidelines" of C. You might find this interesting as I don't often find it in code.
for (i = 0, j = 100; i j; i++, j--)
commas can be used in for loops to do multiple things.
If used in a while loop you only the last expression is checked.
while(printf("Enter:"),fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), stdin),
firstarg = strtok(buf, DELIMINATORS),
secondarg = strtok(NULL, DELIMINATORS),
strcmp(firstarg, "exit")&& secondarg != NULL){
}
And he'd make us use strtok to parse any user input because strtok is the only safe way to process user input. Most people who took his class knew how to use scanf, but scanf can be foiled pretty easily. For example, scanf doesn't check for buffer overruns when copying strings. If we were getting a integer as one of our tokens we would use strtol to convert it to an integer and he would make us check if the *endptr == '\0'. He wasn't a fan of scanf, but once it was done I couldn't think of a single way to break my code.
He wasn't even happy with his own code, but that makes for clean code i think.
Things never change.
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/tss_home.shtml
they are already porting the rsx driver.
He did write his own book. It's not that hard these days, but at least he went through the effort of doing it.
e -John-Perry/dp/0534951406/sr=8-1/qid=1166185131/re f=sr_1_1/103-8230721-4280618?ie=UTF8&s=books
Unfortunately it's a bit pricey off amazon, but read the reviews.
It was much cheaper in the college bookstore.
http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Programming-Exampl
I had a really strict C teacher by the name of John Perry and I loved him. Make sure that you don't let the write sloppy code or they'll never cut it as programmer. If you don't know the difference between sloppy code and good code then you shouldn't be teaching C. Write a thousand lines of code and hand it to a person who has written plenty of C programs in his lifetime and if he said it's clean then you're golden. Structure is very important. First of course you need to teach the basics. the main function and modularizing code. The structure of the program. Operators and variables and stuff. control statements, loops...ect All these things can be found in just about any basic C book and just about any tutorial online. http://www.its.strath.ac.uk/courses/c/ After you teach them the basics and about pointer, design, methodology, ect... then heres an idea... The best way to get high school students excited about C is to write a game. Unfortunately game programming could be complex for new programmers. A programmer typical is responsible for a small portion of code. So, you write most of the game and have your students write little modules for stuff. For example high score records. Thats pretty easy and only requires someone to know how to edit a text file and sort scores. Describe a function for your students to write in as much detail as possible. After all the modules have been written put it all together. Then when they see they see the game working they have a sense of accomplishment. I think that most of todays students think they want to go into programming because of games. Why not play on their interests?
The American public hate monopolies. Although, the home OS market in my opinion is a oligopoly(apple and other unix base OSes do compete), Microsoft by far still holds the largest share. Microsoft breaks anti-trust laws. Microsoft has a strangle hold on the system builders. If Dell decides they want to install Linux on some of their boxes they'll have to pay more for a license to Microsoft because Microsoft doesn't want them to do that. It's really the fault of the American consumer. If americans would just educate themselves they could use a free OS like Linux. If I thought I could take a big chunk out of Microsofts market share I'd write a UI for linux that is easier to use than Windows XP. Thats kinda what Apple did only they based it on BSD. Microsoft writes terrible code and has consistently made bad descisions on critical issues related to the design of it's operating systems which lead to major bugs and lack of security. The only reason why Apple can have those comercials that say it's OS is more secure than a "PC"(They should really market against windows instead of using the term "PC") is because OS X was based of BSD, which has proven itself to be much more secure. I don't hate Microsoft. I just think they make an inferior product and it costs too much. You can't get many game companies to develope on Linux. Games typically drive the advancements in personal computing hardware. Most other types of software has the Linux equivilent. Things that most people typically use a computer for like Web surfing, word processing and multimedia editing is competely supported by free software that runs on Linux.
So what happends when I umm...."stumble" on your password and start using your personal "net access"?
I don't think the videos from itunes every caught on as much as they hoped it would. Good music doesn't come out fast enough. People buy all the songs they like and they slow down on purchases. I think that makes sense and should have been forcasted. I personally don't think there has been much good music released since the 1980's and I already have most of the songs that I like. I guess that could be just me.
Why don't we just implant chips into sex offenders brains and shock them every time they have a dirty thought. As long as we're taking away privacy away from sex offenders, why don't we require EVERYONE to register all their screen names and e-mail addresses. My list would be a MILE long. Then they can have an excuse to tap everyones phone line and read everyones e-mails. OH WAIT THEY ALREADY HAVE THAT. Lets just give what the politicians want; More control. Personally I don't care what sex offenders do on the internet. It's a bit difficult to rape someone without actually meeting them. If you are worried that sex offenders are going to stalk little kids they see on myspace just stick GPS devices on all sex offenders. Cops will be on the offender as soon as he/she leaves the house. It amazes me that the american public allows the laws regarding the "internets" be made by people who don't even have a basic understanding of how it works or what it is capable of.
Boottime is dependent on your hardware and which programs start at bootup. Disable any program that is set to start at bootup that you don't use. Look at the benchmarks of your hard drives. Keep in mind that having a slow hard drive and a fast hard drive on the same ribbon(which is often the case when you have more than one hard drive) it can slow it down. RAM speed and the amount of RAM. If your severily low on RAM often the system will have to do a lot of swapping out of memory to the hard disk. Processor speed determines how fast OS, drivers and software loads. Hibernation is kind of like a dumb bootup. Take everything from RAM and put it on the hard disk. Shut off the computer. Hard drive speed is the key factor for this. When you turn it back on take everything from the harddisk and put it into RAM. Device manufacturers must write their drivers to be able to handle what I like to call the "dumb" boot. A lot of devices can prevent the system from going into hibernation. The trick is to figure out where your bottle neck is. The easiest bottleneck to fix is put more RAM in your computer because many computers ship from the manufacturer without enough RAM in my opinion.