This might have something to do with this PowerShell thing: ccontrolling the O/S through the use of VB scripts. It's not exactly the Bourne Shell, but it does show promise. As Windows admins look at scripting the boring stuff, they will need to learn VB...
Maybe just because we can then get the satisfaction of shouting: 0wned!
Rooting for the underdog helps you believe that one man (maybe even you) can make ad difference. Rooting against a big corporation (or lawyer) helps you believe that no-one is invincible.
I still hope that someday G W Bush will be impeached...
I actually have a rack of watercooled equipment sitting in a datacenter. air-cooling was not an option because the air-cooling system was maxed-out for that floor, whilst there was plenty of floorspace left. (blame it on the silly cooling requirements of bladeservers)
What new products have come from the US lately?
Hybrid cars? (Honda / Toyota).
Movies? (Have you seen the quality of movies lately)
Innovative cellphones? (Sweden and Japan)
The only innovative brands I know are MS, Intel, AMD and Pfizer&co.
If you want manufacturing perfection, you go German. If you want the latest high-tech anything, you go Japan. What does the US have to offer, except root DNS and porn?
Are you saying the number of available jobs will magically increase as the population grows?
Companies that produce high output will mostly but an extra production plant and hire a few more maintenance engineers. In order for business to grow in a certain place, there needs to be a market (available spending money).
The government is currently puring all its available money in the Iraq war and not in the general population. Furthermore, as the war ends, the war industry (US Army, weapons manufacturers, private defense firms) will slow down, meaning more people on the streets.
So, how much time have you dedicated to 'educating' your fellow denizens of the internet?
Microsoft is a useful company for helping us, elitist bastards identify proficiency with computers. It is our duty, as progenitors of computer knowledge, to identify this proficiency
and usher these people into the open-source community.
The amount of available physical space is no problem. Most of the US population is concentrated in small areas, which means
that those small areas can keep on expanding for quite a while.
The problem about a growing population is that it needs food,
shelter and a job to pay for those two. Where do you suppose the work (and the money) comes from?
A small percentage of jobless people is no problem, because it means
that the people with a job actually want to work
and those without a job aren't really looking for work. As long as there are not many unemployed people,
they can be provided with food and shelter,
which are paid for by various taxes. Everybody is housed, fed and happy.
As your population increases, but the amount of available work does not,
more and more people will want to work,
but there is simply nothing for them to do. In order for those people to be kept at a comfortable level, you have to
either tax the working population to death or start deporting 'migrant workers'
and start doing the dirty work yourself, for low wages,
with no job security and no insurance. Either way, everybody is housed and fed, but nobody is happy
Of course, you can always re-set the economy by outlawing personal property
and having the government redistribute what money people kept for themselves. I think the US is not interested in full-blown communism.
Now, tell me again why you want the US population to grow?
512K? My old Ericsson had 256K. (That was after adding a 128K expansion card). Mind you, that was MS-DOS 3.3.
Those were the days you ran WordPerfect 4.1, because it could be run off a single 5 1/4 (320K) floppy disk. Those were the days you had to split your document into several files, because they either could not fit in the memory or on the disk, depending on how much RAM you had.
I think you're forgetting the point in time old Billy G said his famous mis-quote about 640K.
I think you're confusing "I can't log in as root because the account does not exist" with "I can't log in as root because the install program dit not set a password for it". It was a simple (and very effective) way of keeping users from logging in directly as root, so they would never have to use sudo. I still know professional un*x admins that simply log in as root, because/sbin/ and/usr/sbin/ are not in the default user path
(and they have to spell out sudo/sbin/ifconfig).
That might have something to do with people that do not have in-depth knowledge of HTML. Not everyone sees a copy-pasted URL as a Http REFerence that starts and ends at two Anchor points.
Some people just want to post a link to another site.
Whilst you make a valid point about privacy, what $deity is doing is perfectly legal. The situation is perfectly explained in other posts
You can hardly blame the driver for an automated system that is based om a legal, accepted map. The system will only take pictures on registered (mapped) public roads:
If you leave the road onto a driveway, the system stops taking pictures.
If it maps your driveway, it means the map is wrong, not the driver)
If you don't like it, either blame the map-maker or petition for a major revision in US privacy legislature.
>>>"The camera is automatic, so the surprised driver can't really do anything about it but turn around and go."
In that case, I guess no one is too blame. The driver can't erase photos, and the programmer is probably just dumping them to the central website without noticing he's taken pictures of private property. As simple as it sounds, I have to agree. Sometimes the simplest explanation works best.
You can sue the driver for no noticing your hints. You can sue the map-maker for not clearly marking your road as private property. You can even sue the map-making company for not checking all the (weeks of) footage, before sending it to Google. You can even sue Google for not removing the footage, after you asked them to remove it.
But, NOT ASKING and then spamming for ATTENTION is a waste of everyone's time.
I'm not here to defend Google, but if someone is doing something you don't like, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! Don't just whine about it to other people.
Running in 64-bit color on a 64-bit CPU with a 64-bit O/S means that applications (photoshop filters) can address the pixels in images as raw bytes.
Running 64-bit images on a 32-bit O/S on 32-bit hardware means that the software has to refer to the pixels as a different datatype, or manually sew together its hardware-native 32-bit (doubleword)bytes into 64-bit (quadword) image pixels.
Running 32-bit programs on a 64-bit machine means that the hardware has to constantly convert the software's 32-bit bytes and address space into 64-bit bytes and address space. The reason the impact is not that significant, is that AMD does this in very-fast hardware.
MMX was a prime example of allowing 32 or 64-bit operations, without making the CPU break it up into 8-bit bytes, process it and sew it all back together. This allowed for 32 instead 8 bits of color at no extra cost in CPU power.
2 things: 1/ the filter in your sound card plays havoc on your multiplexed signal
The DAC might work at 44.1 KHz, but a filter makes sure it doesn't sound 'tinny'.
Also, some soundcards are restricted to 'other (48KHz, 192KHz)' sample rates,
Take care when developing your system. 2/ Seeing as people tend to use multi-zone for bathrooms and kitchens,
wouldn't it be easier to have 1 stereo set-up for the living room
and make the other 4 mono zones?
That's the exact point where you're wrong. You can attack with overwhelming force, but still have to fight (Japan) You can win the war, but still forget to check your goals before and after the war (Iraq 1) You can win the war without winning the hearts and minds of the 'freed' first (Iraq 2).
If the US actually showed any interest in helping the local people,
the US would have been received with open arms and the poeple would have turned against the oppressors (WWII). The problem is that the US marched in there and killed anything that moved, just to on the safe side.
This is why there are certain Rules of Engagement and a Geneva Convention. There's no point in winning the war if the people hate your guts afterwards (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq II). Try thinking of the soldiers that came back after Vietnam. They left as heroes, but were 'ill received' after it was over. Nobody likes to feel like they lost. Even if they won.
They military already have plenty of tools to 'persuade' people not to mess with the US. Anyone caught hacking any part of the DoD can expect a visit from uncle Sam (luckily, not yet uncle SAM). Anyone hacking from a foreighn country, friendly to the US, can expect a visit from their local FBI and/or SWAT team. (Anyone remember what happened to that UN weapons inspector in the UK?)
The US has some powerful (one-sided) extradition treaties with foreighn nations. Try looking up kuji99 or Kevin Mitnick.
If they can't find enough evidence against you, you can always be put on some high-ranked 'terror watch list', with a free tocket to housing in the wonderful Guantanamo Bay Area.
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The fault lies not in RFID, but in a lousy security implementation. The same principle applies to cards that use metal contacts. (Did you see the ATM hack in Terminator 2?)
My college has that type of cards, only with direct electrical contacts. It was only slightly harder to analyse (dummy card & card holder to tap the signal),
but the encryption on it was simply impossible.
Don't blame RFID on the things it's (ab)used for. Those radio-gates at stores are based on RFID. Modern (Computer) factories use RFID to track orders, instead of barcodes. RFID is a read-write barcode. As long as it's used in a closed, secure system, it's just fine.
No, some peope are agreeing that some things should not be said in public. Freedom of speech is protected, unless it is used to spread hate.
Geert Wilders (owner of the site/video) is a politician that feeds of anger and fear.
His goal is to get the Netherlands to be just as scared of every muslim as the average american redneck. They will be 'unwanted' in our country, simply for being of a different religion.
If a site spreading hate against homosexuals is taken down, the world rejoices. If a site spreading hate against muslims is taken down, the world is outraged.
Geert Wilders is someone that got this far in politics by feeding on fear and hate. The man is dangerous and should be ignored, not shut down.
Is anyone tries to shut him up, it will cause publicity. And we know there's no such thing as bad publicity in politics.
I agree NetSol has very little business in taking down his site, but
I just wish the people would see the man for the windbag he really is.
(a few years ago, we had someone running for government with an agenda slightly like Wilders.
The man got shot (by an 'animal lover', the irony) and they continued the party in his name.
Strangely enough, that empty shell of a party even got into power.
Unfortunately, very few people in that party actually had any knowledge of politics.
Yes, chaos ensued...)
Now, quite some time later, the exact same thing is happening -again-...
Multiple cores, each with their own memory... This sounds exactly like the Cell processor.
This chip has barely hit the consumer shelves an already developers are complaining about transfer speeds between the side-cores and the main memory, whilst this thing has only 9 cores, total.
Once you start giving each CPU its own memory, you're wasting most of the physical memory on cores that need very little, just because a few cores might need a lot of memory.
This problem could be solved by 'dynamic' allocation of RAM and CPU resources, which is already present in certain virtualization technologies (Sun anyone?). The problem with this is, that you now have core-dedicated RAM, but it's not sitting right next to the core.
You could also go the other way by giving each core a lot of cache memory, them all into a blindingly fast bus and hooking the memory straight into the bus. This is what AMD has done with their multi-core CPUs with full crossbar and integrated memory controller on the CPU die.
Now, what technology or trick should vendors try to improve performance? Please note, that cores have not successfully improved that much in raw GHz, the last few years (the P4 was not a success))
I recall an article that explained why multiple cores is the way to go. Mote ALU's on a die makes multi-threading and inter-dependency exponentially more complex. This would need more schedulers, which would fight it out amongst each other. In order to have the software (OS) make sense of all the threads, they should be partitioned. So you're back to sticking is all into separate cores.
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This might have something to do with this PowerShell thing: ccontrolling the O/S through the use of VB scripts.
It's not exactly the Bourne Shell, but it does show promise.
As Windows admins look at scripting the boring stuff, they will need to learn VB...
Maybe just because we can then get the satisfaction of shouting: 0wned!
Rooting for the underdog helps you believe that one man (maybe even you) can make ad difference.
Rooting against a big corporation (or lawyer) helps you believe that no-one is invincible.
I still hope that someday G W Bush will be impeached...
'Raptors have one simple advantage over F1's:
access times.
F1s are great drives for video editing, but Raptors are faster at loading Windows, holding your swapfile and loading games (not to mention databases).
That's why my (games) PC has two raptors (O/S and games) and one F1 (media).
I actually have a rack of watercooled equipment sitting in a datacenter.
air-cooling was not an option because the air-cooling system was maxed-out for that floor, whilst there was plenty of floorspace left.
(blame it on the silly cooling requirements of bladeservers)
What new products have come from the US lately?
Hybrid cars? (Honda / Toyota).
Movies? (Have you seen the quality of movies lately)
Innovative cellphones? (Sweden and Japan)
The only innovative brands I know are MS, Intel, AMD and Pfizer&co.
If you want manufacturing perfection, you go German.
If you want the latest high-tech anything, you go Japan.
What does the US have to offer, except root DNS and porn?
Are you saying the number of available jobs will magically increase as the population grows?
Companies that produce high output will mostly but an extra production plant and hire a few more maintenance engineers.
In order for business to grow in a certain place, there needs to be a market (available spending money).
The government is currently puring all its available money in the Iraq war and not in the general population.
Furthermore, as the war ends, the war industry (US Army, weapons manufacturers, private defense firms) will slow down, meaning more people on the streets.
So, how much time have you dedicated to 'educating' your fellow denizens of the internet?
Microsoft is a useful company for helping us, elitist bastards identify proficiency with computers.
It is our duty, as progenitors of computer knowledge, to identify this proficiency
and usher these people into the open-source community.
The amount of available physical space is no problem.
Most of the US population is concentrated in small areas, which means
that those small areas can keep on expanding for quite a while.
The problem about a growing population is that it needs food,
shelter and a job to pay for those two.
Where do you suppose the work (and the money) comes from?
A small percentage of jobless people is no problem, because it means
that the people with a job actually want to work
and those without a job aren't really looking for work.
As long as there are not many unemployed people,
they can be provided with food and shelter,
which are paid for by various taxes.
Everybody is housed, fed and happy.
As your population increases, but the amount of available work does not,
more and more people will want to work,
but there is simply nothing for them to do.
In order for those people to be kept at a comfortable level, you have to
either tax the working population to death or start deporting 'migrant workers'
and start doing the dirty work yourself, for low wages,
with no job security and no insurance.
Either way, everybody is housed and fed, but nobody is happy
Of course, you can always re-set the economy by outlawing personal property
and having the government redistribute what money people kept for themselves.
I think the US is not interested in full-blown communism.
Now, tell me again why you want the US population to grow?
512K?
My old Ericsson had 256K. (That was after adding a 128K expansion card).
Mind you, that was MS-DOS 3.3.
Those were the days you ran WordPerfect 4.1, because it could be run off a single 5 1/4 (320K) floppy disk.
Those were the days you had to split your document into several files, because they either could not fit in the memory or on the disk, depending on how much RAM you had.
I think you're forgetting the point in time old Billy G said his famous mis-quote about 640K.
I think you're confusing "I can't log in as root because the account does not exist" with "I can't log in as root because the install program dit not set a password for it". /sbin/ and /usr/sbin/ are not in the default user path /sbin/ifconfig).
It was a simple (and very effective) way of keeping users from logging in directly as root, so they would never have to use sudo.
I still know professional un*x admins that simply log in as root, because
(and they have to spell out sudo
That might have something to do with people that do not have in-depth knowledge of HTML.
Not everyone sees a copy-pasted URL as a Http REFerence that starts and ends at two Anchor points.
Some people just want to post a link to another site.
Whilst you make a valid point about privacy, what $deity is doing is perfectly legal.
The situation is perfectly explained in other posts
You can hardly blame the driver for an automated system that is based om a legal, accepted map.
The system will only take pictures on registered (mapped) public roads:
If you leave the road onto a driveway, the system stops taking pictures.
If it maps your driveway, it means the map is wrong, not the driver)
If you don't like it, either blame the map-maker or petition for a major revision in US privacy legislature.
The system is fully automated, so it will only record what it is supposed to record.
this si explained in another post
So, when did they ask the driver to stop?
In that case, I guess no one is too blame. The driver can't erase photos, and the programmer is probably just dumping them to the central website without noticing he's taken pictures of private property. As simple as it sounds, I have to agree.
Sometimes the simplest explanation works best.
You can sue the driver for no noticing your hints.
You can sue the map-maker for not clearly marking your road as private property.
You can even sue the map-making company for not checking all the (weeks of) footage, before sending it to Google.
You can even sue Google for not removing the footage, after you asked them to remove it.
But, NOT ASKING and then spamming for ATTENTION is a waste of everyone's time.
I'm not here to defend Google, but if someone is doing something you don't like, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
Don't just whine about it to other people.
Not entirely.
Running in 64-bit color on a 64-bit CPU with a 64-bit O/S means that applications (photoshop filters) can address the pixels in images as raw bytes.
Running 64-bit images on a 32-bit O/S on 32-bit hardware means that the software has to refer to the pixels as a different datatype, or manually sew together its hardware-native 32-bit (doubleword)bytes into 64-bit (quadword) image pixels.
Running 32-bit programs on a 64-bit machine means that the hardware has to constantly convert the software's 32-bit bytes and address space into 64-bit bytes and address space. The reason the impact is not that significant, is that AMD does this in very-fast hardware.
MMX was a prime example of allowing 32 or 64-bit operations, without making the CPU break it up into 8-bit bytes, process it and sew it all back together. This allowed for 32 instead 8 bits of color at no extra cost in CPU power.
2 things:
1/ the filter in your sound card plays havoc on your multiplexed signal
The DAC might work at 44.1 KHz, but a filter makes sure it doesn't sound 'tinny'.
Also, some soundcards are restricted to 'other (48KHz, 192KHz)' sample rates,
Take care when developing your system.
2/ Seeing as people tend to use multi-zone for bathrooms and kitchens,
wouldn't it be easier to have 1 stereo set-up for the living room
and make the other 4 mono zones?
The only rule of war is 'win'.
That's the exact point where you're wrong.
You can attack with overwhelming force, but still have to fight (Japan)
You can win the war, but still forget to check your goals before and after the war (Iraq 1)
You can win the war without winning the hearts and minds of the 'freed' first (Iraq 2).
If the US actually showed any interest in helping the local people,
the US would have been received with open arms and the poeple would have turned against the oppressors (WWII).
The problem is that the US marched in there and killed anything that moved, just to on the safe side.
This is why there are certain Rules of Engagement and a Geneva Convention.
There's no point in winning the war if the people hate your guts afterwards (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq II).
Try thinking of the soldiers that came back after Vietnam.
They left as heroes, but were 'ill received' after it was over.
Nobody likes to feel like they lost.
Even if they won.
They military already have plenty of tools to 'persuade' people not to mess with the US.
Anyone caught hacking any part of the DoD can expect a visit from uncle Sam (luckily, not yet uncle SAM).
Anyone hacking from a foreighn country, friendly to the US, can expect a visit from their local FBI and/or SWAT team.
(Anyone remember what happened to that UN weapons inspector in the UK?)
The US has some powerful (one-sided) extradition treaties with foreighn nations.
Try looking up kuji99 or Kevin Mitnick.
If they can't find enough evidence against you, you can always be put on some high-ranked 'terror watch list', with a free tocket to housing in the wonderful Guantanamo Bay Area.
The fault lies not in RFID, but in a lousy security implementation.
The same principle applies to cards that use metal contacts.
(Did you see the ATM hack in Terminator 2?)
My college has that type of cards, only with direct electrical contacts.
It was only slightly harder to analyse (dummy card & card holder to tap the signal),
but the encryption on it was simply impossible.
Don't blame RFID on the things it's (ab)used for.
Those radio-gates at stores are based on RFID.
Modern (Computer) factories use RFID to track orders, instead of barcodes.
RFID is a read-write barcode. As long as it's used in a closed, secure system, it's just fine.
It means free public transportation in the Netherlands and quite a few other places.
The mifare RFID card is used as 'electronic ticket/cash card'
No, some peope are agreeing that some things should not be said in public.
Freedom of speech is protected, unless it is used to spread hate.
Geert Wilders (owner of the site/video) is a politician that feeds of anger and fear.
His goal is to get the Netherlands to be just as scared of every muslim as the average american redneck.
They will be 'unwanted' in our country, simply for being of a different religion.
If a site spreading hate against homosexuals is taken down, the world rejoices.
If a site spreading hate against muslims is taken down, the world is outraged.
Has fascism won already?
Geert Wilders is someone that got this far in politics by feeding on fear and hate.
The man is dangerous and should be ignored, not shut down.
Is anyone tries to shut him up, it will cause publicity.
And we know there's no such thing as bad publicity in politics.
I agree NetSol has very little business in taking down his site, but
I just wish the people would see the man for the windbag he really is.
(a few years ago, we had someone running for government with an agenda slightly like Wilders.
The man got shot (by an 'animal lover', the irony) and they continued the party in his name.
Strangely enough, that empty shell of a party even got into power.
Unfortunately, very few people in that party actually had any knowledge of politics.
Yes, chaos ensued...)
Now, quite some time later, the exact same thing is happening -again-...
I second (or 42nd) that remark!
Multiple cores, each with their own memory...
This sounds exactly like the Cell processor.
This chip has barely hit the consumer shelves an already developers are complaining about transfer speeds between the side-cores and the main memory, whilst this thing has only 9 cores, total.
Once you start giving each CPU its own memory, you're wasting most of the physical memory on cores that need very little, just because a few cores might need a lot of memory.
This problem could be solved by 'dynamic' allocation of RAM and CPU resources, which is already present in certain virtualization technologies (Sun anyone?).
The problem with this is, that you now have core-dedicated RAM, but it's not sitting right next to the core.
You could also go the other way by giving each core a lot of cache memory, them all into a blindingly fast bus and hooking the memory straight into the bus.
This is what AMD has done with their multi-core CPUs with full crossbar and integrated memory controller on the CPU die.
Now, what technology or trick should vendors try to improve performance?
Please note, that cores have not successfully improved that much in raw GHz, the last few years (the P4 was not a success))
I recall an article that explained why multiple cores is the way to go.
Mote ALU's on a die makes multi-threading and inter-dependency exponentially more complex.
This would need more schedulers, which would fight it out amongst each other.
In order to have the software (OS) make sense of all the threads, they should be partitioned.
So you're back to sticking is all into separate cores.