The article link goes to an ad-plastered blog that tells you nothing more than the summary.
Honda made some thing that uses GPS to figure out when you're going to meet another vehicle, and then uses technology from the Intelligent Car Initiative (European Commission) to wirelessly transfer info between vehicles in the 5.9GHz range. It appears to use ad-hoc and repeater-type infrastructure, although the stuff I found is a little unclear on the ad-hoc.
The car driver gets some kind of warning, although it's unclear exactly what. The motorcycle driver is wearing a HUD that gives him a visual and audio warning. It's clever, but I find the whole CAR 2 CAR project (which this is part of) to be much more interesting.
I'm not a Real Kernel Hackerâ (or even a Pretend Oneâ), but it sounds like refactoring it would require a very detailed Functional Mapâ of the Codeâ, since no Realâ person can go through that much. Does such a thing exist?
(I wonder how many more Trademarksâ I can fit in here...What? Stupid Slashdotâ encoding...)
Read the article. Once you get into the 2TB and higher range, RAID5 won't protect much against hardware failures. As a previous poster noted, expecting even savvy home users or SMBs to keep offsite tape backups of a 7-disk array is expensive and unrealistic.
I enjoy dead-tree reading, thank you very much. Trees are a renewable resource. You should be happy I'm reading that instead of using an overpriced Kindle which takes all kinds of industrial nasties to manufacture.
I think you're wrong. Most home computers I deal with these days are behind a cheap router which includes a thick-headed (you can't do anything besides web/email/IM without turning it completely off) firewall. The problem is that people actually click and download those zillion-billion packs of lame smilies, animated cursors, screensavers or, even worse, 'porn viewers'. A firewall won't solve bad user habits.
They wouldn't be automatically deleted, they'd just be put into a bin where you could delete them when you wanted space. As I mentioned above, I imagined the file still appearing in both the original dir and the pseudotrash. That way you could find it or purge it.
I'd want a lot of things to be deleted, not just downloads. For instance, I'll often install some widget or other that falls into disuse. I eventually uninstall it, but it almost always leaves a few settings or cache files around.
My idea is that the file in pseudotrash will still be there in a dir listing (hence why it's 'pseudo'trash). That way you can still find it, but it's easy to delete when you want to clean.
What I'd like are files with expiration dates. When I make up some twiddly chart or download some funny video, I keep it because I'll probably want it tomorrow or next week, but then I tend to forget to delete it later. It would be really cool if creating a user data file prompted you with a simple dialog specifying how long you want it. Common options like 1 Week, 1 Month, 6 Months, 2 Years, Forever would do most of the time, and an option to choose a custom date would cover the rest. When a file expired, it would be placed in some kind of psudo-Trash Bin that could be reviewed and emptied when you want more space.
I'd also love something tag-based instead of hierarchy-based. For example, I store photos by Year > Month > Event, but sometimes I want to make another category for photos of a specific person. This means I either make duplicates or have to dig around to find things. If I could tag them with dates (that should actually be auto-generated from the EXIF), event, place, and people I could then just browse for files with a particular tag.
Come to think of it, these ideas are both somewhat akin to how a human brain stores stuff.
We ought to have a poll to see how many of us have read that. Some time ago I found a small, yellow paperback copy tucked away in my library and read it, and then I find out that it's practically required reading in geek-land.
The pharmaceutical problem is easy to solve. Put the FDA's job back where it was originally: determine if drugs are safe, not safe and effective. Doctors used to have a marvelous habit of finding out what worked and what didn't. (Disclaimer: this is all paraphrased from a 1970's Reagan radio broadcast.)
Hmm, that's funny. I have a friend who was born in Pakistan, and he said he always breezes through security with no problems. (If they were to bother him they would be profiling.)
I'm not irate or anything close to it, but I do find three things about the change annoying:
1. Clicking 'Inbox' on Gmail now loads this half-baked version instead of the full thing. I have to remember to click the header link instead. A half-baked email client isn't very useful. 2. It doesn't have my old columns layout. 3. It broke my theme.
They did get one thing right though: you can now archive or delete an email directly from the portal.
2) I saw the black and white TV as color! Meaning, I had no idea that it was black and white until my parents told me many years later.
I'm a bit younger than you, and I experienced almost the exact same thing. My parents got a color TV later than most other people. I was still in my early childhood when we got the color TV, and I refused to believe that I had been watching Tigger in B&W until I saw the old set after viewing the new one. Also interesting was that the new set revealed that some of my old 'colors' were wrong (Rabbit was something other than light yellow, IIRC).
Do games later. For now, let's see some really small, low-power, low-heat video chips with enough power for HD video and basic 3D acceleration. If they do that and release documentation for Linux, they can pwn the netbook market. Guess what S3 appears to be aiming at?
n 1: civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army [syn: {reserves}] 2: the entire body of physically fit civilians eligible by law for military service; "their troops were untrained militia"; "Congress shall have power to provide for calling forth the militia"--United States Constitution
And so we get to a elect a new administration. One choice will trample our freedom from unauthorized search, the other will trample our freedom to own guns. Pick the lesser of two evils.
Perhaps I should state it this way: NAT is a hack and no excuse for a real firewall.
Yes, NAT is like a one-way funnel, and you can make a real firewall do that too, but one cannot say that NAT is needed because can perform some functions of a real firewall. Car analogy: 'we should keep making old cars because they go slow, and new cars can go slow too.'
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Personally, I'd be far more concerned with ID fraud than attacks on the encryption scheme. How do they determine who's using the 'hardened laptop'?
The article link goes to an ad-plastered blog that tells you nothing more than the summary.
Honda made some thing that uses GPS to figure out when you're going to meet another vehicle, and then uses technology from the Intelligent Car Initiative (European Commission) to wirelessly transfer info between vehicles in the 5.9GHz range. It appears to use ad-hoc and repeater-type infrastructure, although the stuff I found is a little unclear on the ad-hoc.
The car driver gets some kind of warning, although it's unclear exactly what. The motorcycle driver is wearing a HUD that gives him a visual and audio warning. It's clever, but I find the whole CAR 2 CAR project (which this is part of) to be much more interesting.
Some real links:
http://www.hondanews.eu/en/index.pmode/modul|detail|0|1010,DEFAULT|21|text|1/index.pmode
http://www.car-to-car.org/fileadmin/gfx/inhalte/IP-08-1240_EN.pdf
I'm not a Real Kernel Hackerâ (or even a Pretend Oneâ), but it sounds like refactoring it would require a very detailed Functional Mapâ of the Codeâ, since no Realâ person can go through that much. Does such a thing exist?
(I wonder how many more Trademarksâ I can fit in here...What? Stupid Slashdotâ encoding...)
Ohloh has a COCOMO calculator, which spits out ~$181M if you pay coders $55,000 a year.
http://www.ohloh.net/projects/linux
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COCOMO
Read the article. Once you get into the 2TB and higher range, RAID5 won't protect much against hardware failures. As a previous poster noted, expecting even savvy home users or SMBs to keep offsite tape backups of a 7-disk array is expensive and unrealistic.
If you're having troubles using more than 4GB of RAM, you've probably got a 32-bit bottleneck somewhere.
I enjoy dead-tree reading, thank you very much. Trees are a renewable resource. You should be happy I'm reading that instead of using an overpriced Kindle which takes all kinds of industrial nasties to manufacture.
I think you're wrong. Most home computers I deal with these days are behind a cheap router which includes a thick-headed (you can't do anything besides web/email/IM without turning it completely off) firewall. The problem is that people actually click and download those zillion-billion packs of lame smilies, animated cursors, screensavers or, even worse, 'porn viewers'. A firewall won't solve bad user habits.
They wouldn't be automatically deleted, they'd just be put into a bin where you could delete them when you wanted space. As I mentioned above, I imagined the file still appearing in both the original dir and the pseudotrash. That way you could find it or purge it.
I'd want a lot of things to be deleted, not just downloads. For instance, I'll often install some widget or other that falls into disuse. I eventually uninstall it, but it almost always leaves a few settings or cache files around.
My idea is that the file in pseudotrash will still be there in a dir listing (hence why it's 'pseudo'trash). That way you can still find it, but it's easy to delete when you want to clean.
Ok, so let's all tag this 'hogwash' and move on.
That leads to space-bloat.
What I'd like are files with expiration dates. When I make up some twiddly chart or download some funny video, I keep it because I'll probably want it tomorrow or next week, but then I tend to forget to delete it later. It would be really cool if creating a user data file prompted you with a simple dialog specifying how long you want it. Common options like 1 Week, 1 Month, 6 Months, 2 Years, Forever would do most of the time, and an option to choose a custom date would cover the rest. When a file expired, it would be placed in some kind of psudo-Trash Bin that could be reviewed and emptied when you want more space.
I'd also love something tag-based instead of hierarchy-based. For example, I store photos by Year > Month > Event, but sometimes I want to make another category for photos of a specific person. This means I either make duplicates or have to dig around to find things. If I could tag them with dates (that should actually be auto-generated from the EXIF), event, place, and people I could then just browse for files with a particular tag.
Come to think of it, these ideas are both somewhat akin to how a human brain stores stuff.
We ought to have a poll to see how many of us have read that. Some time ago I found a small, yellow paperback copy tucked away in my library and read it, and then I find out that it's practically required reading in geek-land.
The pharmaceutical problem is easy to solve. Put the FDA's job back where it was originally: determine if drugs are safe, not safe and effective. Doctors used to have a marvelous habit of finding out what worked and what didn't.
(Disclaimer: this is all paraphrased from a 1970's Reagan radio broadcast.)
Hmm, that's funny. I have a friend who was born in Pakistan, and he said he always breezes through security with no problems. (If they were to bother him they would be profiling.)
The mood was basically that if the bombings changed the way we lived, the IRA would be winning.
Hmmm, sounds like 'ol Winston. We could use someone like him about now.
I'm not irate or anything close to it, but I do find three things about the change annoying:
1. Clicking 'Inbox' on Gmail now loads this half-baked version instead of the full thing. I have to remember to click the header link instead. A half-baked email client isn't very useful.
2. It doesn't have my old columns layout.
3. It broke my theme.
They did get one thing right though: you can now archive or delete an email directly from the portal.
Yes, we know eBay is trying to boost it's stock value and xlmpp.com wants more traffic.
Tag it what it is an move on. There's not much real info here.
2) I saw the black and white TV as color! Meaning, I had no idea that it was black and white until my parents told me many years later.
I'm a bit younger than you, and I experienced almost the exact same thing. My parents got a color TV later than most other people. I was still in my early childhood when we got the color TV, and I refused to believe that I had been watching Tigger in B&W until I saw the old set after viewing the new one. Also interesting was that the new set revealed that some of my old 'colors' were wrong (Rabbit was something other than light yellow, IIRC).
Yeah, I think we all did.
Do games later.
For now, let's see some really small, low-power, low-heat video chips with enough power for HD video and basic 3D acceleration. If they do that and release documentation for Linux, they can pwn the netbook market. Guess what S3 appears to be aiming at?
Definition of Militia:
militia
n 1: civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army [syn: {reserves}]
2: the entire body of physically fit civilians eligible by law for military service; "their troops were untrained militia"; "Congress shall have power to provide for calling forth the militia"--United States Constitution
And so we get to a elect a new administration. One choice will trample our freedom from unauthorized search, the other will trample our freedom to own guns. Pick the lesser of two evils.
Perhaps I should state it this way: NAT is a hack and no excuse for a real firewall.
Yes, NAT is like a one-way funnel, and you can make a real firewall do that too, but one cannot say that NAT is needed because can perform some functions of a real firewall. Car analogy: 'we should keep making old cars because they go slow, and new cars can go slow too.'
sux0r looks neat, but it's horribly ugly. True, serious webmasters can make their own skin, but you need a good default if you want to get anywhere.